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Newspaper Page TextSOUTHERN HERALD, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BT p. IW. Martin Cb 00., l rsTATWI BASK*’* BfllWiW. €WT WU. -T. Kafot off Subscription. One copy ore yenr f-I Oft One copy nil month, 2 00 One copv three months 1 00 <if Jt;is for JOII WORK and ADYERTIS IXG respectfully solicited, and promptly attended NEWS, FACTS, &C W. H. Russell, correspondent of the Lon don Time/: with the Austrian army, receives a salary of 8500 a month and his expenses. Mr. llosea, correspondent of the same jour nal at Prussian headquarters, has 8400 a month and expenses. What does this Mean? —The Rich mond Whig says : “ We have recently heard front several sources, that Northern men have approached late holders of slaves with the offer of five dollars for each slave lost by emancipation.” Two hundred and fifty-eight cases of sun stroke have been reported during the sum mer in New York city, of which one hun dred and thirty-five proved fatal. Gen. Webster, formerly Chief-of-Staff to Gen. Sherman, has purchased an interest in a large iron manufacturing establishment in Alabama. Federal General Ruell has been beaten for Vice-President of the Southern Tele graph Company by Confederate Gen. Buok ner. The PortJasfd people aire debating what to do with the‘contributions for the relief of the sufferer: by the late fire, which have now become sufficiently large to more than cover the present necessities. Gen. Sickles Ess declined the mission to the Prague, and Gen. Dix has been nomi nated for the position. lion. Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky, has been confirmed by the Senate as Governor of the Territory of Montana. Paring the best days of the Roman Re public it was cause of death or banishment for a candidate for a public office to refer to the scenes and men of the Roman civil wars, because it tended to keep up hatred and troubles which were greatly injurious to that happy peace so important to the pros perity oi the State. General Sheridan has formally published his order forbidding the erection ol monu ments in commemoration of the Confederacy, Ac. The Italians in Richmond are holding meetings to aid their countrymen in the pending contest with the double headed eagle of Austria. An ludiana schoolmaster was about to punish a female scholar after the style in Cambridge, Mass., when a chivalrous boy drew a revolver and threatened to shoot the master. The master then drew a revolver and shot at the boy, wounded him, and was the next moment himself wounded by a pis tol ball. , The cannon that fired the first shot in the war at the steamer Star of the 'Vest, at the entrance of Charleston harbor, January U, 1861, passed through Cairo, 111., en route to Washington, recently, in charge of four sol diers of the Fifteenth Regulars. Buy Them — The professors of the Uni versity ot Virginia have prepared t -et of school books, widen are in course of puiili cation file Mei/to it ' -.t\s i. l)r. I'laveft. the author oftne nook aimut •)' 8 Davis’s im prisonment, is a Methodist lay mail, and a member of the > entrai . letliodisi Kpiscopal Church, of Newark, New Jersey. A negro, formerly a servant of the Wash ington family, died in Suffolk, \ a., and was buried on the Ith. He lived on the edge of the Dismal Swamp, and helped to cut what is known as the Washington ditch. Among his acquirements, during il l y ears of life, was twenty-one wives, six ot whom are left to mourn his death. The Secretary of the Interior recently re ceived from London, Kngland, a specimen of the fibre and twine manufactured from native Now Zealand grass. The writer be lieved that the grass would flourish ‘in our Middle and Southern States, and stated that by anew and original process cloth or rope ot great strength and durability is now being manufactured to a limited extent.- llouk —A heathenish Tennesseean, with the above heathenish name, declared, one •day recently, in a public speech, that, “ the brave soldiers from the Federal army would greatly prefer to go to the polls with a negro : to vote, than to go with a rebel; that it was a disgrace for the negro to be put on a level with the rebels ; that the present laws of Tennessee put him there, and he was in favor of raising him up higher, and setting j him over the rebels to rule them.” To this ! infamous utterance a great crowd of negroes cheered long and loud, and Brownlow and Maynard grinned ghastly approval. Mrs. Sarah 11. Cobb, the mother of Gen. Howell Cobb, died in Atlanta, on the' 21st of July, in the 74th year of her age. The President, having signed a bill revi ving the grade of General in the U. S. Army, nominated Lieut. Gen Grant for the same, and also, vice Admiral Farragut as Admiral under the recent law. These nom inations, and that of A. W. Randall as Post Master General, were confirmed. Disgraceful Conduct by a Federal Officer. —The Shreveport „Yc ns says that Capt. Haskill, U. S. A., celebrated the fourth by taking five or six negro women out riding. After passing through several streets the crowd became excited, and stones »nd brickbats were administered to the gal lant Captain, to the extent of smashing up the wagon and spilling out the contents. — Haskill was indignant and called out the Colored troops to arrest all who were sus pected belligerents. The Mayor appealed to the General in command, who withdrew the troops, and arrested the Captain for his adventure. The overflow of the Alabama river is said to have cost the planters three thousand bales ol cotton. The Alabama Penitentiary. —Gov. • atton has leased the State Penitentiary, for the term of six years, to Messrs. Sani’l Tate, ~ m - Smith, A. K. Shepard and Peters. I • T. Rarnum is troubled with Congees* 'Kinal aspirations. ” , SOUTHERN HERALD. BY D, X. UARTIX 4 CO. £ o u t |f mi $ trail). (■riflin, Georgia, August 2, IKGO. Propliesiers. Among all the multitude, in this world of pretenders, there is no more suspicious and unreliable a character than that of t’.e self-sufficient, self-obtrusive, and oracular prophet. Start any project, however just or praise-worthy, some crooked-minded man, generally of oblique morals, will be sure to oppose it, and generally will have no argu ment to sustain him in his opposition. If he be a wicked man, l-.c will be clamorous to “ back his judgment”—to use Ins own card-table phrase—by betting that what he says in opposition, to any particular measure, is so, cr will happen just as he says. Rut it is the ever-rightcous, the far-seeing, the un commonly-sagacious, that prophesy that this thing or that thing is bound to fail. Outside of the holy prophets,—men of God, whose lips were touched with the fire of inspiration—save us, we would pray, from these prophesying gentlemen! Nineteen times in twenty, according to our observa tion, the uninspired prophet, when he pre dicts anything, absolutely desires that very thing to come to pass. “ They would rattier the Dean should die, Than that their prophecy should lie!"’ How many men every day are letting it get out, either through themselves or their friends, that they prophesied the Southern Confederacy would be a failure- If as many men did thus prophecy, as is now claimed, we arc not all disappointed that the glorious cause did go dewu. Our own observation, sustained by the best deductive reasoning, is that those men who prophesied that the .Southern Confeder acy would fail, and kept prophesying to that effect all through the war, and now delight to recur to their vaticinations on all occa sions, made very poor fighters, very poor legislators, and very poor any things, save, perhaps, incumbents of bomb-proof positions. We do not say that these men did not fight well, or legislate well. A few of them, vve know, did their duty. But the question comes up,—if they did well under the de moralizing incubus of their own unfavorable prophesyings, what would they have done had they been sustained by a hope that ever predicted the best ? It is a little remarkable that every Southern Radical you talk with, will tell you that lie pruph.-eied precisely what did take ]<*aee, and no one doubts that bey not. only prcphecied it, but that they desired it, prayed for it, and even worked to bring it about We are now satisfied that the Confederate Government did itself injustice to employ any man in its service, either as soldier or leg islator, who prophesied its downfall. Wc are afraid of these propliesiers ; —in the first place, a little .afraid that the wish is father to the prophecy, and in the second, that true as they may be, they cannot tight or legis late half as well as they could, not under the dominion of unfavorable prophesyings. Macon ConVENJION. — Delegates from the several counties composing the Fourth Congressional Ifistrict of this State, met at Macon, on July 25tli, and appointed the following, as suitable persons to represent the 4th District in the Philadelphia Con vention : Thos. Hardeman, of Bibb, and P. W. Alexander, of Upson, as principals, ar.d Dr. Ira E. Dupree, of Twiggs, and T. G- Lawson, of Putnam, as alternates. A. 11. Stephens, of Taliaferro, 11. V. Johnson, of Richmond, A. 11. Chappell, of Muscogee, and lion. I). A. Walker, of Whitfield, as principals, and David Irwin, of Cobb, W. Hope Hull, ot Clarke, William Law, of Chatham, and C. B Cole, of Bibb, as alternates, were appointed to represent tho State at large in said Convention—the other District Conventions being recom mended to confirm these nominations as such representatives ®aF* It is stated that thirteen of the glo rious name cf Lamar, perished in the late war. They were secessionists, all of them, and proved their principles by their deeds. In the face of many such cases as this all through the South you will hear sneaking slanderers constantly asseverating that the hot secession men all played out, and few, or none of them, did any fighting. The Senate has confirmed Sherman as Lieutenant General, vice General Grant who has been made full General. These two Generals were already so rotten with their elevation, that they fairly stunk; now, that they are promoted, they will be totally unbearable. General Toombs arrived in Paris about the 6tWof July, having gone thither for the purpose of remaining until cured of a bronchial affection from which he was suff ering. JteS" The Senate on the 24th ultimo, passed the bill appointing a million and a half dollars for repairing the levees of the MN'ds-dppi river “Ttir Pen i» Hithttrr than (he Sword.** r,nim\, mi, 11, Timwm imimvi;, u gist ■>. ixwt. Decomting I lie Capitol Druid, the Washington correspondent of the New York .Yews, gives the following graphic description of anew work of art, (that is in use,) which if denied a niche in the rotunda of the Capitol, will find one in the heart of every hater of persecution and every lover of freedom, throughout The realms of civilization and Christianity, to the latest generations. Nor is it recorded that yet such a painting shall not find a niche in the nation’s temple, among the proudest and highest. ANOTHER HISTORICAL I'AINTI.NO. A cclcbra'cd painter in a city not more than a thousand miles from here, has begun and is now engaged upon a historical paint ing, which he designs to offer for one of the vacant panels in the Rotunda of the Capitol, to be side by side with the “ Landing of the Pilgrims" and “ The Signing of the Decla ration of Independence.” The subject is “The Shackling of Jefferson Davis in Prison ;” and as the outline of the figures is already traced upon canvass, I will append a brief description of the work, as it will ap pear when finished : There are twelve principal figures in the painting, namely, Jefferson Davis, Captain Titlow, a sergeant of the United States Array, four soldiers with their muskets and bayonets, the blacksmith, and the four sol diers without arms, who acted as the black-, smith’s assistants. These figures arc of the same size as the figures in the other large paintings on the walls of the Rotunda, and as the picture is of the same site as those men tioned above, there is room for all. 'flic' moment selected is that when the tierce struggle is taking place betweon the weak and sick old man and his seven assail ants. After a sleepless night, feverish and enfeebled, Mr. Davis had started from his rude bed at the entrance into his cell of the heroic Capt. Titlow, his blacksmith, his rat- I llitig shackles and his four liveried “ assist ants.” lie could not believe that so much j baseness existed oven at Washington, as to 1 order that a gentleman of refinement, a gal j laut officer of the army, distinguished for ! his services in the field in the Mexican war, i a former Senator, a former .Secretary of War, Ia sick and feeble old man, should he ironed I anti manacled like a common felon. His I earnest and dignified remonstrance had been | made, and had fallen upon cold and stony j hearts. Capt. Titlow announces his inflexi | bio purpose to fasten the manacles, then and there, upon the honored limbs of the illus | trious captive. The scargeant and the “four soldiers in reserve” are ordered in.— Stung to madness by the insult, the lion- I hearted prisoner declares that such a foul j wrong to his person shall never be done, | while lie has the strength to prevent it; and ; when the incautious blacksmith advances, . with the open shackle in his hand, “ to fast j on it upon the ankle” of Mr. Davis, the lat ; ter, with that superhuman strength which is | given to men in extremity, hurls the brawny : son of Vulcan to the floor, and stands erect, j defying his foes 1 This is the moment, or the moment suc ceeding this, that the artist has chosen.— “On to him, my men !” cries the gallant captain ; and the four “ assistants” precipi tate themselves upon the Head of the Con federacy. It was a daring charge, and so ! the artist has represented it. The eounte ; nances of the four soldiers express mingled | shame and dismay at the nature of the bat tle in which they are engaged, and at the formidable and unexpected resistance they | are meeting with. Mr. Davis keeps .them ! all at bay. Rut he is being forced baek i wards toward the bed ; and it is evident that | in a few moments more the unequal strug- I gle will be over. The countenance of Mr. J Davis is as the countenance of a man in bat j tie; but the particular expression to be ! given to it cannot be decided at this early ; stage of the work. THE GROUPING'OF TIIF. FIGURES. The other figures in the painting are grouped as follows : The blacksmith is rising from the ground, and has got upon his hands and knees. Ilis hammer and the shackles are lying on the ground before him ready for use. The four “ reserves ” are standing in a line before the door, in the attitude of “ charge bayonets.” Captain Titlow is pointing to the door as if directing them to take up that position, so that the prisoner cannot escape ! The captain is standing at the embrasure. He has not drawn his sword. 11c merely direct the movements of the others. The sergeant, who brought in the four armed men, has drawn his sword, but has dropped the paint to the ground. He averts his face from the horrible scene. His eye is moist. He bites his lips with shame and rage. That man has a heart. SPECTATORS OF THE SCF.NE. All the accessories of the scene are faith fully! represented. The grated windows; the mean and squalid bed; the rusty tin plate, the crust of mouldy bread, and the broken water jug, overturned on the floor— nothing is wanting. Peering through the grate appears the well-known face of Gener al Sir Hudson Lowe Miles, with a sardonic grin of satisfaction at the success of hi3 short and easy method of taming refractory rebels. But what face is that glaring over the shoul der of Sir Hudson Miles ? Surely wo re cognize those spectacles, those bushy whis kers, and that mild and gentle countenaucc lias the Divine head of the War Depart ment deemed it necessary to come in person, to assure himself that his infamous orders were duly executed ? Really, this head is so shadowy that we eannot determine. official report of the outrage One more feature cf the picture remains to be noticed. Outside of, and beyond the grated window, is plainly seen the telegraph wires and poles. It does not require much stretch of the imagination for the reader to fancy the following message ftaehintr along th(i-T ’riff" ■ Fortress Mosroe, May 23, 1 'Go—lo a. m. lint. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of Bar, If ashtnyto n ; Sir : I have the pleasure to report that, in obedience to your orders, I have ironed and sha-keled Jefferson Davis, although not without a desperate struggle on his part He made a most unexpected and determined resistance, and his imprecations were fright lul. lie even dared to speak in a disre spectful manner of me, Sir, and of you, Sir ! Captain Titlow behaved in the bravest man ner, and was not at all afraid of him I hereby recommend him for promotion for his gallantry on the trying occasion. The soldiers, four in action, and four held in re serve, behaved with great steadiness and courage. I have ordered them an extra glass of grog. Sergeant Smith, I regret to say, behaved badly, and manifested a great utiwillinguess for the work. I think he is a copperhead. Respectfully yours, HUDSON LOWK MILKS. Brevet Brigadier General. I*. S. —A Lieutenant and 30 men were held in reserve outside, hut were not needed. 11. L. MILKS, B. B. G. P. S. 2—l hope my action in the affair will meet with the approval cf the Depart ment. 11. L. M . B. B. G. THE GRANDEST AcIIIEVMEST OF THE WAR. It will take some months before this fine painting is entirely finished, but when it is done, and placed on exhibition in the Ro tunda, there can be no doubt that Congress will make a liberal appropriation for its pur chase. If Congress haggles about the price, Massachusetts will at once step in and be come the purchaser, in honor of her worthy son, Sir Hudson Miles. Rut Congress will never consent that the work shall leave the Capitol when it has once entered it. For this paintingvv ill commemorate the grandest achievement of the war against the South. The action which this event commemorates throws far into the shade Grant’s “ victo ries ” —even those at the Wilderness, at Spotsylvania, at Cold Harbor, and at the Petersburg mine. No, no ; the nation can not afford to let this painting leave the Cap itol. It must he handed down to all future generations as the crowning victory of the war. Taking it all Hack. Sherman, everybody recollects, at first stoutly denied that Columbia, S. C , was burned at his instance, or by his orders, — meanly trying to throw the whole odium of that fiendish deed upon Gen. Hampton.— \ Now, that Sherman has fuund-out that Pres ident Johnson Las stated that such things were all right during war, and that that is the Northern sentiment generally, he (Sher man) takes it all back, and brags, in a drunken speech, about his mighty achieve ments as an arch-inccndiary. That he is proud of his ldazing reputation, and that he expects to warm the Presidential seat, some of these days, get you a torch, and read wlia 1 he luminously said in “ words that hunt,” at Salem, Illinois, on the 4th of July, before a' Radical M ass Meeting at which thirty thousand were present—echoing and ap- plauding. “ We did not like to see bloodshed, but we were determined to produce results, and now what was those results!' To make every man, woman and child in the South | feel that if they dared rebel against the flag ' of their country they must die or submit.— [lmmense enthusiasm.] That was the problem which he had to ! solve. As long as they met us nnn to man and face to face, we went at them directly in front. [Laughter ] Hut when they tried ; to play the game of drawing us on further | and farther, and compelling us to leave gar j risons here and guards there, absorbing our i main strength, intending to whip tho re ! mainder, it became necessary for us by in tellect to defeat this scheme of theirs. We j therefore, had to make them believe that wc j were going to do one thing and go and do j another. [Laughter.] | Now, you all may remember that when we had taken Atlanta fairly and openly, it ! looked as though our army would be strung j out out on a line of six or seven hundred miles, and the head of a column would be but, a few divisions and brigades We were s'rung out from Nashville clear down to At | lanta. Ilad I then gone on stringing out i our forces, what danger would there not have been of their attacking the little head lof the column and of crushing it ? You, ; soldiers, are Generals enough to see that.— j Therefore, I resolved in a moment to stop ! the game of guarding their cities, and to de- J stroy their cities, [t'ensation.] Now, my friends, I know that all the I world over, there are parties that denounce |me as being inhuman. [“ That’s so”— | “ Can’t see it.”] I appeal to you to say it j I have not always been kind and considerate to you. f“ That’s so.”] I care not what i they say, [“ That’s right,”] hut I say that it i ceased to he our duty to guard their cities any longer, and had I gone on stringing out our column, little by little, little by little, some of your Illinois regiments would have nevet got back home, and you would have been crushed. Therefore I let go the whole country; took one army myself and gave my friend George 11. Thomas one, and We whaled them both. [Great applause j Therefore, if Atlanta were destroyed, and i Columbia and Savannah, and all the ejties ,of the South had been destroyed, I say it i would he right, because it was necessary to produce the results in view. It did produce the result; and now, ladies you see your young friends returned to you, wives see their husbands, and all are re united here in this handsome grove in Illinois, and God knows I hope you will never go forth again ; i but if you are called forth I know you will respond quicker than you did before, if pos sible [Cheers.]” \nl. 1. Ml. «. Clieap Meat. In a recent aecouut of the extract of beef prepared in South America by Liebig's pro cess, we alluded to the successful experi ments in the rame direction made by Mr. Gail Borden. We learn that Mr. Borden bas now perfected his invention, and will soon establish a large factory in Texas, where beef can be procured at cheaper prices than at the North, ilia establishment in Illinois is capable of preparing two thousand pounds of beef daily, but it is believed that Texas is a better field for operations. Mr. Borden’s experiments were begun in lb4!>, and in 1851 his “ meat biscuit ” was introduced into the market. That invention consisted of an improved process for pre serving the nutritious properties of meat by combining a concentrated extract of beef with the finest flour, and thoroughly desicca ting the mixture; but further investigation proved that it was practicable to preserve the juices without the admixture of other ingredients. The extract, as at present made, is a soft, elastic, solid, of a nut brown color, unsalted, soluble in hot water, and possessing the flavor of delicately roasted meat. It is extensively used for broths for the sick, and forms a palatable dish for the tab e. The impo:taDt points in its man ufacture arc : Ist. A careful selection of the best beef. 2d. Great promptness in commencing the treatment after slaughter, fid. Immediate and thorough exhaustion of the nutritive el ements from the meat. By the use of the vacuum pan, the liquids are evaporated at a very low temperature, and the osinazoine or flavoring principle of the beef is fully pre served. This substance is now used by travellers, and in many private families in our cities, in preference to meat, for making soups gra vies, beef tea, Ac.; but when it shall he more largely made, it is believed it will be an important article of food, and being within the reach of all, in a cheap and healthy form, the nutritive and strength-giving ele ments of the best beef. The advantage of buying beef cheaply in the large grazing districts of Texas, will, it, is hoped, enable the manufacturers to put an excellent article in the market at a reduced rate. — .V. V. Etc. Rust. A Federal General’s Estimate of the Courage and Character of the South. —Gen. F. P. lilair, in a conservative Union speech at St. Louis, a few days ago, paid the following compliment to the Southern States : They have evinced courage and endur ance : by their gallantry and by their long suffering4ft thbr entme, so mistaken, and so erroneous, and so criminal, they have shown themselves to be the equals of an equal num ber of any men upon God Almighty’s globo. [Applause.] Those who have contended against them are those who are readiest to uilmit that they have shown themselves to be the equals of any other people in the world. [Applause ] Not only have they shown themselves ready to admit that these men are their equals, but they have shown themselves the readiest to overlook the past, and t'agct whut there is need of forgetting ; and to receive these men back into the Gov ernment, with a'l flit rights and dn/nity oj their rtspcriite Slates unimpaired, simply requiring from, them, uponThc pledge which they will give, that they will renew their al legiance to the Government of the United States. [Applause.] Cannot wc trust that pledge il these men will give it to us? Have wc not reason to believe that they are men of sincerity ? Can -we not confide in these brave men ? I say that we can. [Ap plause.] I say that this is the only way in which they can be brought back into the Government and bound to it by links of gratitude, stronger than any links of steel that can be wrought. [Applause J And now I will ask, what foreign nation is there on earth that would not be proud and happy to receive these people and give them all the rights of citizenship enjoyed by any of their citizenss ? [Applause.] Would not France he eager to do it ? Would Great Britain not be too proud to extend her do minion over that proud country, sharing her Government with those gallant, noble men who have vindicated their right to manhood in this contest unparalleled in the history of war ? Would not any foreign nation upon the face of the earth be willing to re ceive this people ? Not receive them on de grading terms, but receive them with open arms upon an equality with her other citi zens. The Needle Gun. —The Paris corres pondent of the Macon Journal and Mcsst ti ger says : The success of the Prussians must be main ly attributed to the breach loading needle t gun, which was invented by a Frenchman, ! Monsieur Duconteorier, formerly a pupil at the Kcole polythenique—lt was submitted to almost all the European powers and gen erally condemned ; it is capable of firing six shots in a minute, which generally strike! the legs or the chest. In the recent engage ments between the Austrians and Prussians, the former were shot down at a distance of a thousand yards from the latter. It appears that this weapon is still more formidable than the rifle gun which did such execution in 1850. Wiiat is an Editor? —Why he’s an in dividual who reads newspapers, writes at ti \ cles on any subject, sets type, reads proof, folds and mails, runs on errands, saws wood, works in the garden, talks to all who call, receives Maine for a hundred things that’s no one’s business but his own, works from 5 a. m. to Di p m , helps people get into office j(who forget all about it afterward;, and fre quently gets cheated out of half his earnings. Who wouldn’t be an editor?— Ex. '.-if” The Tennessee Penitentiary has been leased, for four years, to parties who contract to pay at the rate of forty three cents per day for the labor of each convict. They intend to manufacture agricultural im plements, thus making even the crimes of the community beneficial for its chief inter cut- SOi n/KK.V HERM.O. MTi»hf »' PD Xl*\ gs y«tr —l* * copy month* . .* .. |»)l Out CD|jj, liiTaU 1 t;J IvtIABLI IS ADVAMff zsr ah p*p«v It<«wl it (to th-S ot the li*» |aJ tor ilnut rctcucj. A.lvertiwment* inarrtol at thr ~f Or,* IMlar and fifty Out* |.<-r nuareof Tea Lint*, for tlie fir»t in»-rtinn, »• .1 S«T*n«j five C*t,l* La Mtb •iiti«-<jiii-ht insertion —pav»l>l* in a-lrano*. 1-iLeral deduction* made on contracts tor . '.••-men'* running thre* month) and longer. Gen. Sheridan on National Affairs. — A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com mercial, who ha* had an interview with Gen eral Sheridan, reports that the latter ex pressed himself as follows: “ He *»id there was an undoubted change for the worse iu the attitude ol the South within the last six months, and bad symptoms appeared to be increasing. It now looked as if these infatuated people were about once more to precipitate their own miafortunc. Nothing could have been more considerate than the disposition of the nation toward its defeated foes, even in the heat of passion and flush of victor)’; and had the rebels only man ifested a temper correspondingly reasonable, as, indeed, was very natural to be expect ed after such chastisement, there could hare been no further difficulty. The South evi dently had no statesmen, else so plain a problem would not continue to he so bun gled ; for i* should be clear that no class, once ret freo, can long remain disfranchised ; and as tLcy ought to have forestalled their foes in giving freedom to that cla-s in war, so after wards common seme ought to have prompt ed at least the latter prudence of making allies of those in peace with whom they are bound henceforth to live, instead, however, it appeared that certain rebels had learned nothing from experience, utid would, in fact, drive their only chance into unfriendly hands. The safety of the public peace and of the private righto of Luion men in tho South still require the mediation of a suffi cient military force, and if called upon to give his testimony it should be ; the United States troops ought not yet to be removed from the Louth.” Sijeridan’s Order —The Menip.hu Av alanche says, Gen l’hil. Sheridan is winning for liiinselt a reputation which posterity will not pronounce “enviable.” lie -ccrua to have gone a bow-shot beyond any one yet, save Beast Butler. He forbids the erection of any monument to the Confederate dead in his “ department.” How contemptible 1 Does tho man dream of stilling tho pulsations of the Southern heart ? When the wholo civilized world pays homage to the memory of Stonewall Jackson, this military dictator is so weak as to suppose his radical, fanati cal, liberty-hating “ orders,” will prevent tho erection ot a monument to such a pure and illustrious hero. When the good God, who made him, shall think propicr to call Gen Lee to his final home, does this man, Sheridan, fancy that he can prevent millions ot brave, but sail hearts - sorrowing men, women, ami children, of a stricken nation— from erecting a “ monument’” to his memo ry ? We had not thought fanaticism would dare push its hideous front so fur. We had not thought that hate for the Southern pco pie would thus trench upon the sanctuary of mourning hearts. But for his name, wo should concludo Gen. .Sheridan is a regular I’lymouth lio.’k, Mayflower Yankee. His “ order ” disgraces the sword he wears and the Government ho serves. No, no, wo arc wrong. It disgraces none but himself. The memory of the gallant, glorious dead, and our beatiful Houthern land, will live in his tory, and in the heart of our people, long, loug after Sheridan and his puny hate shall have jjasstd away as trifles too unworthy to be recorded or recalled. Picture of Beast Butler. —Wc clip the following from the Norfolk (Va.) eot r.spondcncc of the Richmond Examiner : Before 1 left Richmond 1 saw a portrait of the honored (?) General Butler, painted by Mr. William E. Trahern. It is about SO by 37 inches, and will be exhibited for rale at the fair to be held at Trinity Church, in Richmond, on Monday evening next.— Beast Butler is easily recognized, in regi mentals, upon horseback, leaving a sacked city with the door-plate of “ IL Y'eadon ” suspended from his neck, 8 basket on each arm, filled with silver plate, goblets, pitch ers, knives and forks, dishes and spoons, and front, upon the horse, a lady’s outer and inner dress. At the request of Mr. Tra hern, I attached to tho picture the following titular card • TO THK DEVIL'S CHIEF lilTI-EK lit a roevo covrEDi'.RATC. Behold, the ''conquering hero comeat” From Bloodless fields and Southern homes— Where, “ humming around'’ for " rebel” poltroons. He stole all the silver ,date, dishes and spooos, And robbed the young ladies of jewels ana drawee, Hosted by their curses and the Devil's caresses. This apropos painting should be purchased for preservation, as a faithful and compact history of the honorable life and service of a nation’s military hero - . Mr. Sale, the blind inventor of the method of making powder incombustible, has now invented a gun said to be more sim ple and rapid than any previous breach load er. Instead of revolvers, he uaetf slides, each to hold a certain number of cartridges —say ten each; ten slides will hold a hun dred, and these may be fired in a minute. With a boy to fill the slides, a man could fire 6,000 shots in an hour, and by taking good atm put that number of the enemy hors <fu combat. Ten men, with as many smart boys, would thus bt> equal to an army of 60,000, and a hundred might kill off the whole French army, if they would only stand still a proper distance, and not fire Sack or otherwise interrupt the proceedings. Mr. Sale proposes to adapt his slides to artillery, and by firing a series of shots with rapidity, he hopes to tatter the strongest monitor into small hits with bolts of very moderate dimenr sions. Letters from the city of Mexieo as sert that Maximiilian has signed a treaty with M. Duno, the French minister, which agree? that twenty thousand French troops will re main in Mexico for live years, serving under the Mexican flag. Napoleon agrees to furn ish Maximilian with five hundred thousand dollars a month for live years, receiving as security for this and other claims, the rail road from Vera Crux to the city of Mexico. The revenues are to be collected by French ''fficia’v.