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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST- [From the Montgomery Advertiser. Order Reigns in Warsaw. The dispatch of bloody old Suwarrow to the Empress Catharine, of Russia, has ac quired a world-wide fame because of its de testible significance. It indicated, in its sardonic words, the desolate tranquility of a people subjected to his sword, and the success of Polish “ Military Reconstruc tion.” But it has been the ill-fortune of an officer in the army of the United States to send a dispatch, recently, to his sover eign. whose intrinsic atrocity surpasses the memorable communication of the Cos sack warrior. General Canby, commanding the district numbered two of the five military allot ments, into which the Southern States have been partitioned by the Radical Congress, has conveyed official information to the Headquarters of'the Army at Washington, that the State of South Carolina—one of the original thirteen—the land of the Pinckneys and Rutledge, of Legare and Petigru, of Lowndes, McDuffie and Calhoun —no longer exists as a five white Commonwealth —but that, obeying the Congressional rescript, he has de livered up the State into the absolute possession of its future negro masters. When General Canby thus announced that he had caused the white race of one of the States of the American Union to pass under the degrad ing yoke of helpless captivity to their late emancipated slaves—when he announced his, perhaps, unwilling agency in consum mating the most infamous act that modern civilization has witnessed in three centu ries—we can imagine the red blush of shame that mantled his cheek's and the sombre frown upon his forehead. We pity him from the bottom of our heart, and only feel surprised that he did not prefer suicide it self io the performance of his base and coward ly office. Ail that we need say further is this, and we say it seriously and conscientiously, that we had rather be the bound and iinpover ished “ rebel" that we are to-day, than to be the General in command of the army of the United States, or any District Commander of them all, were we compelled, in virtue of our office, to execute the military Re construction Acts. If the Radical politi cians in Congress desired, for their selfish purposes, to carve so much political power out of the very hearts, as it were, of the Southern people, they should find some one else to do that work for them. If they wished, vindictively to punish and insult the men and women of the South—our fellow-countrymen and country-women— we would indignantly decline to be their agent in such a business if it cost us our commission. For suppose Military Recon struction to be in all the Southern States, as in South Carolina, a perfect success, and these wretched States to be thus placed in the unchecked control of negroes and ad venturers where would be the triumph ? and where the consolation? Tell us Gen. Meade. [From the Baltimore Gazette. General Meade's Partiality. A negro named Bradley, and hailing from Massachusetts, has taken up his abode in Savannah since the close of the war and has just been elected to the State Senate of Georgia by negro votes. He has been liv ing at the house of an abandoned negress, and he and his followers have conducted themselves in so turbulent a manner as to keep the citizens ol Savannah in constant apprehension of some disastrous and bloody tumult. He has attended mass meetings with a body guard of negroes, armed with clubs and many of them with pistols, and has been diligently organizing the blacks throughout the country around Savannah, the most of whom are possessed of and constantly carry muskets. This man has been delivering the most incen diary harangues, and very lately caused a hand-bill to be issued, in which he called on the “ loyal leaguers ” to follow up any white man who might strike a blow at a negro, and burn over his head the house in which he might take refuge. All this dusky demagogue’s proceedings General Meade seems to have tolerated. But this Radical General is horrified at what he calls incendiary publications in newspapers.— As far as we have seen—and we have looked somewhat closely into the matter—the Sa vannah journals have done nothing more than protest vigorously against the right of Congress to govern them despotically, and urge the people to organize and resist by every lawful and peaceful mode the suc cessful inauguration of the project to place them under negro domination. Neverthe less, General Meade has thought proper to fulminate an edict in which he warns one of these journals that if it persists in its course its office will be closed. Under the General’s regime the negroes have carried the elections in Savannah, and the recon struction business will in all probability be carried out in the manner in -which it has been begun. To what a ruinous and fear ful end affairs in the South are thus tending it requires no gift of prophecy to foresee. Radical Destruction of Commerce.— Radical government, or rather migovern ment, has destroyed, or nearly destroyed, three of the great interests of this country. Ist—Sugar. Before the war the census showed that, man to man, Louisiana pro duced more values than even Vermont, the next highest State in the scale of produc tion. History records few examples of so stupendous and rapid a destruction of a great branch of national industry as has befallen the sugar interest of the United States. The crop of 1861-62 was one of the largest ever made. The number of su gar estates returned as in operation forthat year was 1,292, and the product 459,410 hogsheads of sugar, and 36,752,800 gallons of molasses—now the crop is little or no thing. 2d—Cotton. The United .States crop in 1859- 60 was 4,657,770 bales; in 1860-61, 3,656,086 bales. The crop in 1867 was im mensely diminished, and is likely to be di minished more and more every year. The labor on cotton is scarcely one-half what it was, and the planters are so discouraged that they are turning their energies into cereals. 3d—The Shipping of the North. Our foreign commerce is not altogether, but nearly annihilated —and but for the monop oly we have in our coasting trade, the American flag would almost cease to float upon the ocean. From having been the first shipping nation in the world, we are running into the fifth and sixth rate pow ers in foreign shipping. When a nation thus ceases to raise and nurse seamen for its ocean defense, it puts itself and its com merce in a fairway to be the prey of better governed States.—TV. Y. Express. A poor woman in the Prussian province of Posen, being about to die, sent for a priest, and confessed to him that thirty years ago, havin rr been delivered of a boy, she exchanged him for the child of a Countess, in whose employ she was, and was undetected. Her own son was educated as a Count, and married the daughter 01 a very proud nobleman. The real Count grew up in poverty, went out to service, mar ried, and is now living not far from his own princely estate of Komorink. The case is be ing investigated. [Front the N. O. Picayune Providence Smiles on Us. We are glad to record that the news from every quarter continues to betoken the ''eaping of large crops during the year 1868. Cotton is always so precarious, and beset with so many dangers, from the seed to the reception of the cash balances, that it is hard to predict anything respecting it;. but corn, and such fruits as we have plant ed and in bearing, will, .this year, yield bountifully, beyond anything we have en joyed for years. We could wish to hear of more diversified farming, of more attention to wheat and barley, live stock and all the multitude of things which make home desirable, and which tend to prevent emigration, which store up a man’s wealth and gains upon his homestead, inducements to rear there his children, and thence bury his dead, and to learn him to regard it almost like sacri lege to permit it to pass into other hands. This, perhaps, will soon come in due time. As men learn to confine their efforts to smaller tracts of ground, they will also learn to make each foot of ground more productive, and to plant on it such things as are either perennial in their yield, or which will the more continually minister to their sustenance and gratification. Mobile has lately tried the experiment of sending early vegetables ahd fruits to Northern cities. We can all, who are ad jacent to water communication or railroads, do the same. All we want is system and proper managel's to be statione'd at all points of transfer and sale. On the Illi nois Central Railroad there are fruit trains which run through, witiiout break or trans fer, to the farthest cities of the North and East. We can have the same on our railroads, and our steamboats can at Vicksburg, Memphis and Cairo, connect with roads so as to cause very little detention at such points. There is no reason why Louisiana's peas, potatoes, and other early spring vege tables, should not be placed on the markets of New York from two to three months earlier than they can get them from their own neighborhood. Providence smiles on us. Let us go to work under such encouragement, and make ourselves first, independent, then rich, with in the precints of our own home, and then of our abundance feed the ice bound North for half a year, bearing home with us the tribute we were wont to pay into its trea sury. The Slumbering Volcano. Cob John Forsyth thus writes to the Mo bile Register : Political assassinations can never be jus tified in the code of morals, but they are an inseparable accompaniment of revolution and the tyrannical use of irreponsible pow er in certain of their stages. Men hopeless ly pressed to the earth, without the power of organized resistance, have in all times obeyed the instinct of the worm, and turn ed upon the heel of the oppressor. That was not such an era when Booth struck his blow, as he thought, ,l for the good of Rome.” He was not a man made desper ate by a felt tyranny, but an enthusiast, whose brain was turned by his country’s woes. But the normal period of assassina tion may yet be reached in the history of this revolution. I speak not now of the South, but the whole country, and I can as sure you of my belief that the unsated pas sions of the North are nearer to it than those in the South, which have been chastened by adversity and endurance, and their fever cooled by a copious flow of blood. But I hold nothing to be more certain than this —that if Radicalism persists in its mad designs to the end, there will be civil war in the North, sooner or later. Some man, or some unforeseen spark, will be develop ed, to “ fire the Northern heart and precipi tite a revolution.” Somewhere or some- I how the coal of fire will be found to scorch I to the quick through the popular turtle’s i back. And when I think of the race and ! traditions of the people upon whom this i Radical Congress is trying its experiments i of despotism, I wonder at the hardihood j and daring of the experimenters. Blood j will tell, and be sure that, sooner or later, the commingling streams of the fighting races of the earth which meet in American veins, will assert themselves and the right of such men to be free. Not Generally Known.—Martin Van Buren is the only man who held the offices of President, Vice-President, Minister to England, Governor of his own State, and member of both Houses of Congress. Thomas H. Benton is the only man who held a seat in the United State Senate for thirty consecutive years. The only instance of father and son in the United States Sen ate at the same time, is that of Hon. Henry Dodge, Senator from Wisconsin, and his son, Augustus C. Dodge, Senator from lowa. General James Shields is the only man who ever represented two States in the United States Senate. At one time he was Senator from Illinois and subsequently from Minnesota. John Quincy Adams held positions under the Government during every administration from that of Washing ton to that of Polk, during which he died. He had been Minister to England, member of both Houses of Congress, Secretary of State, and President of the United States. He died while a member of the House of Representatives. ——♦ —I Mr. Nelson’s Alarm.—Mr. Nelson, the counsel for the President, is as uneasy in regard to Butler as Senator Sumner is; but 1 his uneasiness is of another sort. Sumner smells gunpowder, but Nelson has his thoughts on spoons. Sumner sees the fierce and bloody-minded Butler leading up his powder ship to the great concussion and ; says to himself, “ What will this man not do ?” Nelson sees Butler as the hero of New Orleans ; he hears injured housekeepers crying out for missing silver on Butler’s departure, and he muses, “ What will this man not take and keep?” Thus the figure I of Butler, as conjured up in the mind of Nelson, is quite dissimilar from that con jured up in the timid soul of Sumner; and Nelson, in refusing to trust his “ original papers” in Butler’s hands without calling public notice to the circumstance, proves that he best understands the hero of all the battles of the war.— Herald. Killed by False Teeth.-—Enos Mote, of West Milton, Maine county, Ohio, died twelve years ago. He was subject to epileptic fits and had one on the night of August 20, 1855. Next morning a plate of false teeth which he had in his mouth at the time of retiring was missed, and never could be found. He com plained of a severe obstruction in his left lung, as if some hard substance had lodged there, but the physicians and others thought it im possible this could be the missing teeth. From this till the time of his death he had severe tits of coughing, ahd spat blood freely, and at the end of a year died. No postmortem examina tion was made. Recently the relatives con cluded to solve the mystery. They exhumed the remains and found the teeth on the left side of the spinal column, about where the left bronchial tube branched out into the left lung. The plate is gold, with clasps at each I end, contains three teeth and weighs three i dwts. At the time it was lost the medical men expressed the opinion that it was impossible | lor a foreign substance of such size to have entered the traebte or windpipe; yet the sequel • proved the opinion erroneous. [From the Columbia (8. C.) Phoenix. The Remarks of Gov- Orr. During the recent meeting of the stock holders of the Greenville and Columbia Rail road, a political passage at arms occurred between Colonel Aiken, of Abbeville, and Gov ernor Orr, which we desire to notice. Gover nor Orr having speculated somewhat in rela tion to the probable action of the incoming Legislature upon the fortunes of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, Colonel Aiken chose to allude in unmeasured terms to the character and pretensions of that body. Iu reply, the Governor, we regret to say, after discussing the business point involved, put himself forward somewhat as the defender and apologist of that Legislature soon to misrepresent this State. His language was bold, and if our comments partake of the same spirit, it will be acknowl edged that we have not provoked the issue. The Governor said, in effect, that the gentleman from Abbeville might join in the current de nunciation of the Radical convention—might sneer at “ the great ringed-streaked-striped and-speckled,” and all of that, but he would tell the gentleman from Abbeville, that the acts of this convention were the law of the land, and would remain so for three, yea, perhaps for ten years—that the gentleman might scorn to obey, but that the convention had the power, and he and all would have to obey—tnat there were some things in that constitution that he did not approve ; but that there were others that he did approve ; and in conclusion, that it was for the gentleman from Abbeville to consider whether his course was calculated to remove the fetters from off our limbs. In his opinion, opposition and denunciation would serve but to rivet them the more timely—and hence, as we presume, bis Excellencj’ would suggest to the gentleman that it becomes him and us to be as gentle as doves and as mild as lambs. Upon these remarks of Governor Orr, as a public journalist, as a sentinel on the watch tower, humble as we may be, we intend to make our commcuts. We shall not impugn the motives of his Excellency. We concede to him the same purity of motive that we claim for ourselves. But we ao contend that it ill became the Governor of the State to utter the sentiments that he, with so much feeling, put forth on the occasion referred to. It ill became him to proclaim the power of an ille gal body and to announce the years of its swaj’, and to taunt the high-minded gentlemen of the State with the fact that, nolens volens, willing or unwilling, they' would have to obey what was the law of the land. You will have to pass under the yoke, says the Governor, and he seemed almost to exult in the thought. At least his air, as he announced this, was proud and menacing. Nor do we think that his Excellency should suggest to his people that they must make up their minds to endure their badge of servitude for three, and perhaps for ten long years. We would, with becoming deference, suggest to his Excellency that a moment is too long for us to wear the yoke; that whilst we shall have to bear it, the spirit of opposition should be kept up, its illegality and outrageous character con stantly proclaimed, and the resolution repeated and repeated, that in all peaceful ways, in all methods, under the constitution and laws, we will oppose this negro-Radical rule, until we regain the heritage which is ours. Nor has the Governor, we submit, any right to assume that this will last three or ten years. We hope to shake it off earlier—at least, we intend to try, and it is our bounden duty to try, and to try by every legitimate method that God and the laws permit. Nor think we that this course serves but to rivet our fetters, as his Excellen cy supposes. If you want a man to shake off his shackles, would you put him to sleep with a narcotic ? If Sampson is to husband his strength and recover his power, would you lay his head in Delilah’s lap, and let him be shorn of his locks ? We reply, no; and we say that the policy suggested by the Government is a policy that plays into the hands of Radicalism, and would bind this State, hand and foot, to the car of that Juggernaut of negro rule which is driving over the mangled limbs of all that is left us of constitution al liberty and of white men’s rights. It is our duty to say to the Governor, with no personal ill-will whatever —but rather with feelings of genuine sadness and regret—that his course, in our opinion, does not reflect the sen timents and opinion of those who elevated him to the Governor’s chair. When Gen. Canby stretched forth his hands to seize the public funds he aid not, like the noble Jenkins, of Georgia, Metellus like, resist it, and protect the Treasury of the State. He has not, as we con ceive, vindicated the high prerogative of his office—though the vindication referred to, we admit, may have had a moral effect only. He may have meant well, but he has not always done well. His political thoughts and views are of the earth earthy. In his course as a poli tician he will hover about the table land of expediency, whilst he might, as the exponent of the people, who put him in office and gave him their confidence, rise to the elevated heights of principle. The Governor is our senior in our years of political experience, but not our superior in devotion to State and country. We would recommend him to ascend in his poli tical role to the mountain heights of an elevated and elevating line of action ; and we would suggest that he seek to escape the noxious vapors that spring from the weedy low lands of a shifting policy. The Amendatory Bankruptcy Bill. A bill iu amendment to an act entitled An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March 2, 1867. Be it enacted, Stc., That the provisions of the second clause of the 33d section of said act shall not apply to the cases of proceedings in bankruptcy commenced prior to the first day of January, 1869, and time, during which the operation of the provisions of said clause is postponed, shall be extended until the said first day of January, 1869, and said clause is hereby so amended as to read as follows: In all proceedings in bankruptcy commenced after the first day of June, 1869, no discharge shall be granted to a debtor whose assest shall not be equal to fifty per centum of the claims proved against his estate, upon which he shall be liable as the principal debtor, unless the assent in writing of a majority in number and value of his creditors to whom he shall have be come liable as principal debtor, and who shall have proved their claims, be filed in the case at or before the time of hearing of the application for discharge. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said act be further amended, as follows: The phrase “ presented or defended,” in the 14th section of said act, shall read “ prosecuted or defend ed ;” the phrase “ nor resident debtors,” in line five, section 22 of the act as printed in the statutes at large, shall read “no resident credit ors ;” that the word “ or,” in the next to the last line of the 39th section of the act shall read “ and ;” that the phrase “ section 13,” in the 42d section shall read “section 11;” and the phrase “or spends any part thereof in gaming,” in the 44th section said act shall read “ or shall spend any part thereof in gaming.” And that the words, “ with the senior register, or,” and the phrase “to be delivered to the register,” in the 47th section of said act be stricken out. Sec. 3. And be it f urther enacted, That the ' Registers in Bankruptcy shall have power to administer oaths in all eases, and in relation to all matters in which oaths may be administered Commissioners of the Circuit Courts of the United States, and such Commissioners may take proof of debts in bankruptcy in all cases, subject to the revision of such proofs by the Register, and by the Court, according to the provisions of said act. Butler and “Mack.”—Butler and “Mack,” of the Commercial, have had a spicy corres pondence. Butler found his match. A Wash ington letter says that B. F. B. boasted of his purpose to give the aforesaid “ Mack,” who is one of the President’s witnesses, a severe rasp ing on cross-examination. “Mack” respond ed that he should provide himself with a spoon tied to a handkerchief, and if made to blush, should use the handkerchief at the risk of showing the spoon. Butler declared that such conduct would be insulting to himself and an expression of contempt for the Senate. “Mack” rejoined that Butler had avowed his intention to offer the first insult. Butler promptly dis avowed any such purpose, and expressed his exalted esteem for the pugnacious correspond ent, and “ Mack ” agreed to dispense with the spoon. Beast was tamed and “ Mack ” satis-1 tied.— Wheeling Register. Death of Mrs. George D. Prentice. Died, between 1 and 2 o’clock, a. m., April 27, Mrs. Harriette Benham Prentice, wife of the editor of the Louisville Journal. The wife of the poet-editor is dead. But a few days ago we saw her upon the streets of Louisville full to overflowing of mature and beneficent life. To-day she sleeps beside her eldest born in the quiet Cave Hill Cemetery, to which, since Courtland's death, she has made so many, many sad pilgrimages. Personally we did not know her, but one near to us, and who was near to her through affection and ad miration, has discoursed to us so glowingly .of her wonderful charms of person, mind and heart, that, in her passing from earth, we too feel we have lost a friend. Mrs. Prentice was the daughter of Colonel Joseph Benham, a distinguished lawyer, whom many of the older members of the Indiana bar recollect with pleasure. More than thirty years ago she married that most gifted of all South ern editors, George D. Prentice, and lived to see him exercise more influence in Kentucky than any other living man, not excepting even Henry Clay himself. Possessing a fine educa tion, and endowed with the rarest personal charms, her fondness for society made her its Queen. She never had but one approximate rival in her sphere of fashion and elegance, Mrs. Robert J. Ward. But as royal as was Mrs. Prentice’s sway in the most gorgeous and dashing society in America, she kept her heart ever warm towards suffering humanity. Her true womanly graces and sympathies were the substrata of her eventful life, and were never broken or defaced by the vicissitudes which billowed above them. A little incident is told us at this moment, by one who knew her and loved her, which reveals her noble nature. Mrs. P. was some years ago seated in the well-filled parlor of a fashionable watering-place, when, in the midst of a most exciting pastime, she heard the casual remark of a person near by that an old acquaintance was dead. She immediately burst into tears, re gardless of the gay throng. Her charities were almost boundless, and dispensed with Chris tian quietness and unostentation. Born, we believe, iu Kentucky, her warm na ture sympathized with the Southern cause, md she sealed her devotion to it by the gift of her oldest and splendidly gifted son, who was kill ed at Augusta, Kentucky, during the war. Her joys in life were many, and so were her sor rows. But she has gone through the opening in the mystic curtain to the home of the blest, leaving sorrowing but hoping friends behind, who will soon, very soon, go too. As she was the sweetest singer of the city of her adoption, may her songs ring out loud and clear in the choirs of the Golden City which has adopted her. To our old friend, who has so often cheered us with his warm words of eneburage ment, and to his bereft children, we extend our most earnest condolence. Death is the crown of life. \La Fayette {lnd.) Journal. Scientific Wonder. ANATOMICAL PRESERVATIONS BY M. MARINI, THE GREAT ITALIAN EXPERIMENTALIST. Translated from the French, for the Louisville Jour nal, by Mons. Auguste d’Ouville, Professor of the French Language. A few words have already been said in the series of the Journal the Wolds, of the 21st of November, 1864, vol. VI., page 505, about the admirable anatomical preparations of Mr. Ephysio Marini, of Cayhari, Sardinia. The in comparable embalmer has made an immense discovery, of which he yet keeps the secret; but which he will reveal when the moment shall have come. He preserves, momifies or perti fies at bis will the bodies or portions of bodies, and all the solids or the liquids of the living organism, the flesh, the blood, thejwhole brains, the bile, &c., &e.; beside, so long as the desic cation is not absolute, he restores at will to the bodies or the momified members their volume and their natural forms, outside or inside, in such away that an arm, for instance, the flesh, the muscles, the tendons, the nerves, the arteries, the veins, resume entirely the aspect and the transparency which they had in a sound body a few hours before death. Since his departure from Paris, Mr. Marini has so admirably perfected his incomparable art that they saw him at Cayhari, iu February, 1865, preserve so perfectly the body of a cele brated historian, Mr. Pierre Martini, that four months after his death, thanks to the revivify ing liquid whose action is so extraordinary, they had been able to restore to his members all their supleness, to dress him, to seat him in his arm-chair and take his photograph, which we have under our eyes in writing this, and which would be thought to be of a living man. On his return to Paris, at the beginning of last December, our friend asked of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, an audience, which was granted to him last Saturday, and which overwhelmed him with joy. His Majesty has for a long time considered and admired the mar vels of the new art. A fragment of the arm oi an Egyptian mummy, to which Mr. Marini has restored, after five thousand years, perhaps, if not its color, at least its suppleness and its ap pearance of a human member; an arm which the Dr. Sapey had sealed with his own seal in 1864, and which a hundred times had been dried, and a hundred times softened, keeps all the appearances of a living arm ; the whole body of a dried up rabbit, but which, through its substance, has remained transparent, lets visible, the most intimate details of its organi zation ; in short, a table of a lugubrious aspect, but a true prodigy, which will soon be the most precious ornament of one of our mu seums, a strange mosaic, formed of brains, blood, and petrified bile, in which are encased four human ears, and upon which the foot of a young woman arises with a complete preserva tion of its color and transparency. Science and art here put nature in so new and so pure a light that all feeling of horror had disappear ed in order to give place in the highly elevated mind of Napoleon 111. to admiration only.— That admiration must have been exempt from all after-thought, for, after having left the palace of the Tuilteries, about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Mr. Marini was recalled at 9 o’clock in the evening, in order to render her Majesty the Empress a witness of the half-triumph which he had conquered over death. F. Moigno. K. K. K.—The Richmond Dispatch is respon sible for the following: . The Ku-Klux-Klan are kalled upon to kus tigate or kill any kullered kusses who may ap prove the konstitution being koncocted by the kontemptible karpetbaggers at the kapitol.— Each Klan is kommanded by a karniverous kernel who koliects his komrades with kare and kaution kommensurate with the magni tude of the kause. Whenever konvened, they must korreetly give four kountersigns. These are: Kill the kullered Russ; klean out the karpet-baggers ; krush the konvention ; karry konservatism ; konfusion to konsrress ; kon federates will konquer. Os kourse the Klan kreates konsiderable konsternation among the Kongos and their kunning konduetors, who kalkulate that their kareer may be kut short bv katastrophies. Kowardly kurs, they kan’t komplain. Dr. E. H. F. Peters writes to the Utlea Herald that a new planet belonging to the group of the asteroids, and the ninety-eighth of them, was discovered at the Litchfield Observatory of Hamilton College, on Saturday night last, in eleven hours, seventeen minutes, fifty-one sec onds of right ascension, one degree, thirty eight minutes, thirteen seconds of Southern de e.ination. It has the brightness of a star of the twelfth magnitude, with a slow retrogade mo tion about twenty seconds of time per day in right ascension, and a motion of six minutes towards the South. r The great scandal case involving the name of , L ° r< w-H mbc y . :un of the t i' leen of England, Lord Willoughby, and Madame d’Alteyrae, his reputed wife, was submitted to au arbitrator appointed by the Lord Chief Justice of Eng land, and has been decided. It provides that », orc * Chamberlain shall pay to the Comtesse d Alteyrae £5,000, and an annuity of £1,200 for the term of her life. And thus ends this dis graceful scandal concerning an official so near the throne of England. The award is doubtless just, so tar as it goes ; but it does not recognize the woman as wife, and iu this respect does not right her most grievous wrongs. [From the Hindsboro (Mia.?.) Democrat. Another Outrage by a Negro’- A FEDERAL GENERAL’S DAUGHTER THE VICTIM. WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE NEGRO ? We are reliably informed that a most horrible affair transpired on Ship Island in the early part of this month. It appears, so far as we can learn, that a young negro soldier gained access to the sleeping apartment of General Mower’s daughter, a beautiful and accomplished girl, about sixteen years of age. What was accom plished we know not, and can only surmise from the subsequent results. It appears that a younger child called her father, and he and the officer of the day, who, upon arriving at the spot, found the negro in possession of the guard, which was stationed in the vicinity of the Gen eral’s quarters. It appears that a court martial was at once organized and the negro soldier sentenced to be executed by hanging. But the General interfered and the sentence was sus pended, but it is currently reported that the negro was killed inside the fort, put into a sack and thrown into the gulf. While bloody knives and other weapons, bearing the signs of being used, were seen on the Island, and the under officers spoke freely ot his aispatch and his well deserved death, yet the negro soldiers on the Island were still led to believe that the dead negro was sent to Mobile on a vessel leaving about that time for Mobile. While we look with horror upon transactions of this kind, and believe that the brute who would attempt the chastity of a white lady could not be visited with too severe a punish ment, or one that could be considered cruel, under any circumstances, yet we might be ex cused for thus thinking for we have always deemed the negro as property, as., our fathers did before us, and we fought to tile best of our poor ability to keep them as property—the place that God and nature designed them to keep—but Gen. Mower et id omne genus sought their freedom, and by might of numbers, suc ceeded, and taught Sambo that he was as good as anybody, and a little better ; he made coun cilmen, policemen, and other civil officers of -them, and thereby inculcated the idea that the negro was, socially, the equal of the white man. And now, Gen. Mower, after doing more than perhaps any other officer of his class to instil this idea into the negro’s head, has, with a ven geance, felt the application of his doctrine. His lovely daughter, just blooming into l wo manhood, clad in the white, loose, tasty habili ments of night, with her hair loosed to the winds of the Gulf, reclines upon the couch, and there in that position, is desecrated as to her person, by the embrace, clawing and feel ing of a disgusting negro. No wonder he com plains. No wonder the negro is missing. But had it been some Southern born lady, who had lost a princely fortune by the craft, legislation and social teaching of Gen. Mower and his fol lowers, it would have all been well, and had the negro been troubled, as in this instance, the party or parties, even suspected of breaking the law, would be held to strict account, and so we wish to hold Gen. Mower. We again ask, where is the negro that com mitted this outrage upon the daughter of Gen. Mower ? Judge Underwood’s Court and the Davis Trial.—The United States Court, Judge Underwood, met Saturday morning, at eleven o’clock, but the room was a doleful looking place, as even the soupeating vagrants seemed to avoid it. Evarts wasn’t there, O’Conor wasn’t there, Davis wasn’t there, and, in fact, nobody that anybody cares hearing mentioned was there. We wanted a drum and fife sent round just for appearance sake to drum up a crowd. General Lee and Governor Letcher are in the city as witnesses. The form was gone through with requiring bail for the appearance, of Mr. Davis to-day, but he is not expected. The recognizance of Mr. Davis was renewed, and the Judge stated from the bench that as soon as the impeachment trial at Washington closes Chief Justice Chase, after taking a recess of a day, will come to Richmond and proceed with the trial of the Confederate Executive. The Judge further gave it as the opinion of Judge Chase that Mr. Johnson’s trial will close this week. What an eventful judicial experi ence will be that of Judge Cliase if he presides at the trial of both Andrew Johnson and Jef ferson Davis—one a persecuted unionist and the other a badly-treated disunionist. The recognizances of a number of parties indicted lor violating the revenue laws were declared forfeited, unless they appear this week and renew them. Sundry parties from Fred ericksburg and other prominent towns are in cluded in the number. The grand jury adjourned at 4, p. m., after finding a number ot presentments which have not yet been made public.— Richmond Whig, 4th. Circular.—ln reply to the resolutions adopted at the meeting of the Democratic party of Edgefield District, the undersigned Executive Committee deem it expedient to state that they do not think it wise or proper to invite any other convention of the people of the State at this time. The convention recently assembled represented, we believe, the sentiment of the State, and any other line ot policy now would be disastrous to the unit}' and harmony so ne cessary to success. The resolution adopted by that convention was based upon the right of each State to regulate for itself the question of franchise, and in giving an expression of what they believed to be the opinions of our people, the convention acted deliberately, calmly, and, under the circumstances, wisely. The action of the convention meets with ap proval everywhere in the ranks of the Demo cratic party, and we are disposed to abide by the action of the convention as politic, prudent, and just. As the organ of that body our duty is to uphold its action and lay it before the country and the State, accompanied, neverthe less, with our solemn protest against the in strument called a constitution, which is about to be forced upon us by Radical rule and mili tary dictation. Wade Hampton, J. I’. Thomas, F. W. McMaster, Joseph D. Pope. For Central Executive Committee. [Charleston Mercury. A New Trade.—The shipment of a car load ot early vegetables from Mobile to Chica go, that was made a few days ago, over the Mo bile and Ohio Railroad, marks thebeginning of a new era of what may become a very import ant branch of trade between the Gulf coast and the shores of the great Lakes. The freight that went away in this pioneer ear consisted, as was stated in our issue of Wednesday evening, of green peas, turnips, cu cumbers, radishes, snap beans, carrots, beets, celery, dew berries, parsley, thyme, etc., etc. We hear that the starting of this one car for Chicago has raised the price of vegetables in our market, not because it has reduced the supply ou hand below the demand, but be cause the enterprise has demonstrated the fact that there is a market for all the early veg etables that can be raised in this vicinity. In future, four-legsred hogs will get fewer vegetables than used to fall to their share. We hope to see, at no distant day, cosy farm houses and richly-cultivated farms, where now there is only the dreary monotony of the pine barren, the abode of gophers, rattle-snakes, and “light-wood” niggers.— Mobile Tribune. Disastrous Floods in Echols County.— A correspondent writes us from Statenville, that in eonseqv >nce of the high waters that pre vailed during < setion, many voters were pre vented from attending. The oldest citizens states that the Alapaha river has not been as lull in thirty years. Great damage has been done by the drowning of stock, sweeping away of fences, and washing up of corn and cotton in the river bottoms. Captain J. W. Staten lost a fine flock of sheep and some cattle, besides having his river lands damaged. The plantation of Colonel Jesse P. Prescott was completely submerged, and his tenants compelled to fly to the hills for safety. Many were cut oft from retreat during the night, and had to be rescued with the aid of boats. The flood will prove very disastrous to the crops of many of our largest planters in that section.— Savannah Republican, 4th. “ We’re in a pickle now,” said a man in a crowd. “ A regular jam,” said another. “Heaven preserve us I” mourued au old lady. The “Pani These are the latest n hooped skirts have been f . bustles to wear under them, sists simply of a gathering of the T Su ,? h away as t 0 allow tllcm MI skM upon tUe lower of the absurd i ar r ran^.emetlt simple as it is absurd, but it requires to be done correctly or it is supremely ridiculous, and not a few vo’uhir ladies have attracted the attention of a crowd by their effort to effect amateur panzers, and the groteequeness of their appearance when thev ventured courageously into the streets. J i ” a ?. l er ? a short dress are effected bv lengthening the upper skirt somewhat at tha back, and running a drawing string from one side to the other, through the centre of the back breadth is inserted plain, and of the prop er length, the junction at the sides being con cealed by rosettes, bows and ends, sashes, or some other ornaments. I would not advise any one to attempt a pan lers on their own account, without first having seen a correct model. _ln full dress, however, many ladies impro vise them very respectably by tying up the train with a wide sash, and arranging the folds over the .toumure, for I am ashamed to say the old fashioned bustle is revived—sometimes in stiff* haircloth, sometimes in springs, which are shaped to form the bustle at the back of the hooped skirt. The latest styles of hooped skirts are horri ble. In addition to the enormous bustle, or wide shelf, which sometimes extends to the sides, as well as across the back, there is a broad train, which destroys the beauty and elegance of the trailing dress. Fullness at the back, stretching off into a long, narrow queue, is the effect required; but hooped skirt manufactur ers, in endeavoring to make the trail, have broadened the skirt so that the length of the dress is taken up unnecessarily, and the pecu liar grace of the style wholly lost. There are better shapes to be had, however, and I advise ladies to search for them. Don’t take a large, ugly, ungraceful hooped skirt because some one tells you it is the “ latest style.” Large hoop skirts are not worn yet, and when next they are, it will be the signal for their entire over throw. Such an outrage upon decency and good sense will not long be permitted. If hooped skirt manufacturers wish to perpetuate the in stitution, let them adhere to a small, graceful shape, covered—not made like a cage—such a one as will be advantageous to health, and save a superabundance of weighty underskirts. Ah exaggeration like the “ tilting ” skirt, for ex ample, may be successful for a little while, but it came very near abolishing hooped skirts altogether. Ladies have fashions in their own hands, and can control them just as well as be controlled by them. Not unfrequently they say, with a start of fright and astonishment on the appear ance of a new and eccentric mode, “ Good gracious! is that what we are coming to ?” Yes, it is what we come to if we choose; but it is not what we come to if we don’t choose. Women of the highest intelligence, and many of those belonging to the very first class of society, pay no attention to the eccentricities and caprices of fashion, simply because they are interested in questions of much greater im portance. Women of mere fashion are pitiable, because it shows what a sad emptiness of heart or brain must have existed before they could be content to fill the void with such husks as these. Fashion is simply a question of supply and demand. As longjas the majority are content to take the result‘of a whim or an accident, and shape their own bodies and souls to it, so long shall we be at the mercy of “ caprices” in fashion. — Jennie June. —— » Who Wouldn’t Be an Editor ?—Editing a paper, says the Church Union, is a pleasant business. If it contains too much reading matter, peo ple won’t take it. If the type is too large, it don’t contain enough reading matter. If the type is too small, people-<won’t read it. If we publish telegraph reports, people say they are all lies. If we omit them, people say we have no en terprise, or suppress them for political effect. It we have a few jokes, the people say we are a rattle-head. It we omit them, they say we are old fossils. If we publish original matter, they condemn us for not giving selections. If we give a man a complimentary notice, then they censure us for being partial. If we publish selections, they say we are lazy for not writing more, and giving them what they have read in some other paper. If we remain in the office and attend to busi ness, folks say we are too proud to mingle with our fellows. If we do not, they say we never attend to business. If we publish poetry, We affect sentimental ism. If we do not, we have no literary polish or taste. In Bankruptcy.—Petitions in bankruptcy have been filed by the following named per sons : James W. Covington, Columbus; attorney per se. Robert Irwin and Charles S. Hardee, Savan nah —involuntary. Petition filed by Stovall & Edmondston, Au gusta, Ga. John M. Guerard, attorney. Dexter B. Thompson, Columbus. Thornton & Williams, attorneys. Julius G. Tucker, Augusta—involuntary. Petition filed by E. S. Jaffray & Co., New York. John T. Shewmake, Augusta, and T. E. Lloyd, Savannah, attorneys. John J. Sparrow, Hawkinsville. Ely War ren, Perry, attorney. John H. Lee, same place and attorney. John G. White, Houston county. Ely War ren, attorney. Warren E. Saunders, Dooly county. C. C. Duncan, Perry, attorney. Wm. A. Ferguson, Hawkinsville. Ely War ren, attorney. *A Georgia Buzzard Arrives in South Carolina. —The Wilmington Star says : A gentleman living near Kingsville, South ' Carolina, observing a bright and shining piece of metal of some sort, attached to a buzzard flying over his house, was induced to shoot the bird, and an examination showed him, fastened to its neek by a small wire, a piece of tin rudely fashioned into a shape resembling a shield, measuring probably two by four inches. L T pon the tin was scratched, in distinct letters, “ Geo. S. Smith, Monroe county, Georgia, August 4, 1866.” We have often heard of “ belling the buzzard,” but this is the first practical exem plification of the saying which has ever come under our immediate observation. The tin is in our possession, and to save the curious the trouble ot coming to our office to see it, we will carry it in our pocket for two days for ex hibition. N. B. No one allowed to ask more than three questions concerning it, under penalty of a treat to soda-water. The Loudon Owl furnishes the following late naval intelligence: "The Ark was built in Messrs. Shem & Japhet’s yard, the foremost shipbuilders of the period. At her launch, thotio-h from her size and build, it must have been'clear that she was destined for rough ser vice, and not for mere coasting, which was then the only trade, no remonstrance seems to have been addressed to those in authority. She was a three-decker and copperplated. She was fully provisioned; evidences were ample that she had no intention of putting into any port, but that her mission was to keep the seas for au indefinite period. At the end of her cruise nothing besides herself was left on the surface of the ocean. She held undisputed sway. Yet her owners were never called to account for these results. There is a tradition that one of the firm on board, named Ham, wanted to hoist the black flag, but was speedily rebuked by his commanding officer.” The candy essences, so nice to the taste, are the most remarkable examples of the power of chemistry to transform very repugnant mate rials into' delicacies. Fusel oil is the base of the pear essence, and pine apple essence is ob tained by diluting ether with alcohol. The chemist, in his laboratory, with great cunning, manufactures scores of these essences, which are supposed to be the veritable product ot delicate fruits.