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THE INDEPENDENT. er~ ... . -.-■ * ' H4vruD.iv, jiM iat is, is? 4. J. C. GALLAHER, Editor and Proprietor. ME LEGISLATIVE is in notion; u bat will it do ? I# there Buy mlhUou actually .nooeasaryf '‘Wheth er or n >t there ought to be a Gpostitu tioual Jo vention” will be a question, the clisou#*: ion of which will consume tnueb time i*t a great cost to the State. If Uie pro** < f (h* Stnto i* correctly* reported, and if it Mho true oxjwwent of popular nontiiuerit.thc iwlVdCAteM of the (Jonrwition if largely iu the majority. Although there wan a meeting held in Quitman on the (i*h for fc. to aarcrtnin the sentiment of the people on the subject of a Convention, and although the expression of that meet ing w.m in favor of a Convention, wo, uev ei*ttieb*H, believe that the popular senti ment, if it could Ve fully obtained, ih over whelmingly against it. As we stated in our bwfc issue, those favoring it took an active interest in the meeting, while those opposing it manifested no interest, what ever. if the Legislature will submit the question to the )i*opie—"Convention or no Convention” -and at the same time rote I**r the candidates that they wish to rep* r -nt them in the Convention, should the quant lon be carried, we firmly believe the i . j,de would vote “No Convention.” And it in n rt t done on account of expenses, but from the fact that they do not believe there is nu immediate necessity. We think the fair way to submit the question, an l the only possible way to correctly get the popular sentiment, is to let the people toU? for or against the Convention. It is a matter in which we feel as little con cern personally, and perhaps have as little personal interest in the insue as any man in the State; and if it wal alone for the gratification of our own personal wishes, we would not write a line for or against it. Hut the people's interest ought to he subserved, and the people's will and wis hes ought to he consulted, and it is that alone that we advocate, and that alone in luces im h> mnnifrftt the interest we do. Wo hope the Legislature will not act so precipitately in this matter as to force a Convention upon the people without a svnro correct Idea of the popular senti ment. If the question is properly submit ted to the people the very day that de cides the people’s choice of candidates til the Convention will determine the popu lar sentiment in favor of, or in opposition to, a Convention, After writing the above article we re ceived a communication from Hon. E. It. Hrmbm,giving his views upon the subject, which corresponds, wo think, precisely with ours. We think the Judge’s views liiive undergone a change since the mend ing on the first Tuesday, then, we under stand, (for we were not present), that he, in Liis speech,was unconditionally in favor of n Convention. But the Judge is on the ri.'fht truck now, and we are glad of it. FABROW TO BE REMOVED! Getting rid of acurso is os great, and sometimes a greater blessing than tho re alization of a special benefit. When the body is diseased we can think of no greater b! ‘ssing than the removal of the disorder. It it if the disease is only checked and suspended, simply to change its character Bud location, the blessing is only tempor ary, nr and in its changed form the disease may be more alarming. This may be the case w hen applied to the body politic. None know better than the citizens of Georgia how tho body politic has been and umybe ai'dict 'd. We lud a Bullock, a Blodgett, nud others that,likeeankern,cut to the very vitals of the State; but the gnngreen, by skilful and cauterizing,has h -err removed and suppuration hits ceased, aid the body, so fur as the State is con cerned. is in good health. But the great b idy politic known as the United States is still as corrupt utid gungreetions as the God-forsaken, lu 11-deserving Radical vil lains in power can make it, and as an evi delict bf that fact the highest ami most responsible, and slumld be the most hon orable. positions tire filled by tho most 1 ifvthsmun, contemptible, pusillunimons, unscrupulous, avaricious, mercenary, licen tious, demagogical, pettifogging, political heretics, black-mailers, Credit Mobiliers, lii salary grabbers, murderers, plunder •rs, robbers and thieves; the most unmiti gated, unrelenting, .unremitting, iueorrigi- I e and inexorable villains that the God of tho nuiverso ever permitted to infest a Christian country or laud of civilization. One of these festering sores on the body politic was, and is, H. P. Farrow, whose eontemptibihty and pusillanimity has en tided him to, and kept him in, high posi tions. He has been weighed in the Iml t'tipes Slid found to exceed in corruption Mid villainy even the demands of the cor rupt administration, and for his excess of corruption he is to be removed from the p tsitioti of United States Attorney for the district of Georgia, This, we think, will piove n blessing to our State, and will en btle Grant to some little consideration and • speet from the people, for We know the t irse in his appointment to tho successor to Farrow- which, of course, w ill be the next meanest mau he can find will not (\jtial the blessing realised by the people in the removal of him. His only giomuls for his efforts to re move old man Dunning from the Post Of- Sce in Atlanta, and Major Smyth from the position of United States Marshal, was that they were free from his taint* aud cor rup*ing influences. Iu the case of Dunning tie succeeded Before lie himself became so oouoxious to the President. Our readers are familiar with Furrow's official corrup tions. for wo have made them known, snd there iu no necessity for further specifica tions. *> Fifteen Hex man > Bills. —Thus far this session of Congress there br.s been introduced in the House of Representa tives 1,045 bills, and five hundred in tho Ben&U — enough woik to keep busy all the Stab- Legislatures of the seVoini .S;a;o of the Union. DEMOCRACY SICK. The election for Ordinary in Thomas county, to fill till) Vacancy occasioned by i the death of Judge Tooko, on Tuesday last, found Democracy sick abed—-couldn’t j turn out. Wo have some warm personal attachment for the people of Thomas county. But, as a whole,we have less faith in their political energy and Democratic steadfastness t han any county in the White. We think, with a few honorable exceptions, that three-fttrtttn of the Democrats of Thomas county arc at least fifty per cent. Republican —just ready to go either way with the slightest hope of profit. In the recent race for Ordinary there was two Republican candidates and one Democrat, who is un honorable gentleman and true to the party; and if the sick, weak-kneed, watery-jointed Democracy bad discharged its duty he would have been elected by a large plurality ) but the polls on election days in Thomas county is the wrong place to find Democrats. Wo lmve this to say, and we now have the proof eonelitsivo that there arc more inefficient, slack-twisted Demo crats in Thomas county than any other | county in tin* State, and yet there isn’t a ! pogitioti, District or Circuit, that she ! doesn’t claim the right to fill; and if any of the true, ironsided, unflinching Demo | erutie counties furnishes) un applicant she j rends the air with bowlings of her superi ority and right to preferment, and an unre ! liable Governor hears her cry, and in pity, j answers with the appointment. We want it distinctly understood that we have no objections to the appointees, or the elects of Thomas county. As men they urc all right; but one or two things is demonstra ted in tuo recent election, viz: They are inefficient and wanting iu eneigy, or they are unpopular and unable to wield an in fluence with the Democratic parly. With the energy of Brooks county Democrats, Thomas county would have been converted and saved from un bleating social equality supremacy long ago. Hut Democracy is too small a thing for the people of Thomas county to devote their time and energies to advance; but, at the proper time, they use it as a convenient vehicle on which to rid© into lucrative positions, and un informed and pliable Governors furnishes it to thorn already greased and varnished. We think that the Democrats of Thomas county would do well to come down to Brooks mid take lessons in genuine Dem ocratic tactics. We are informed that Mer rill is a tnu* Democrat. We arc unable to decide from the Thomusvillo paper* who is who, or what is what-don’t know whether they were for Smith, Reward, Merrill, or any other man. We wish they would raise their flag and keep it up so we : may know whether they arc for or against the mill dam. Wo understand that Col. V. T. Mcln tyre took his position at the polls on the morning of the election, and commenced working enthusiastically for the Demo cratic candidate, but so great was the. har vest and so few the laborers that he too retired in disgust. (From tlir Leeds Mercury.) Dogs in Coi’.ncil. It is a curious question whether animals take notice of the events which are pass- i ing around them, but which, nevertheless, urn apparently outside of the sphere of their instinct. M. Theophile Gautier, the j well known Franeli journalist ami writer, bus raised this question in regard to the ; animals which were in Paris during the : siege, and ho brings forward several fuels which he says fell under his own observa tion, to prove that they not only took no- i tice of passing events, but regulated tlieir movements accordingly. He observes that the dogs took notice, from the very first! day, of tin' abnormal condition of Paris. The unusual movements of the inhabitants, the almost universal change from civil to military costume, the exeroising of the mo biles anil the national guards on the pub lic parades, the continual sounding of the j trumpet and boating of drums kept them constantly excited and uneasy, ands, ; ! them to reflecting. Some of them, refu gees from the suburbs, with tlieir masters, | visibly lost their power of finding tlieir way about. They hesitated in Hie choice ' of streets, wore uncertain of the traces, scouted their path and ut every corner con - ■ suited some other dog that lived in the neighborhood. The surhurlmn dogs were scared at the noise of passing vehicles, and ran from them, while the city dogs scarce lv took the trouble to get out of the way of the wheels. “Every morning," says M. Gautier, "there assembled before our door what appeared to be a council of dugs, presided over by a broad-hacked, bandy legged, lirown and yellow terrier. The other dogs paid him grout deference and j listened to him attentively. It was evi dent that he spoke to them, not after the I manner of men, in an articulate language, but by short barks, varied mutterings, pursing of the lips, movements of the tail, and expressive play of the physiognomy. Every now and then anew comer seemed to tiring news, and the council eommen- i ted on it, and after a while dispersed." This went on during the first mouth or two of the siege, when bread was plentiful, the stock of beef was still considerable, nml i the dearness of forage rendered horse i meat aliund mt. The animals did not : suffer then, but soon things began to j change, and their rations diminished a< those of the men did. The poor cveatun could not understand it, and gazed at their owners with wondering eyes when their meagre pittance was placed before them. Tin y seemed to ask w hat they had done to tie so punished. Many masters abandon ed their dogs, not having the courage to \ kill them; and these animals were to he setui at night wandering like shadows near the walls, and trying to induce kind look ing persons to have pity on them. M j Gautier says lie was continually followed by them, they uttering faint cries all t-he while, and sometimes venturing to put their noses to his hand. Soon they began to perceive that people looked at thorn in ' a strange manner, and, under pretence of j caressing them, felt tlieir flesh, us a butch- ! er would, to ascertain if they were in good condition. The eats perceived this soon er than the dogs did, and became exceed ingly cautious ss to whom they allowed to touch them; on the least quick movement they fled to the roof or cellar; but at length the dogs “smelt n rat." and ran away when any one called or whispered to them. The ; . canine council, before mentioned, dimin- ! i ished daily, and there soon remained no ! one of its members but tiro dreaming tm - j rier, who, however, was only dreaming in appearance : for in reality he was always ' on the guard, scenting danger afar off, and ; showing his heels at tin; approach of any j ' one xt ail *nsptcujr.9. GEORGIA KEWS. Bullock (fatuity boiiHtM of a young Indy twohty tbro year* of age, who can split two hundred rails a day. Tin* Legislative Committed appointed to in vestigate the indehtcdncHM of Font or Blodgett to the State is now in ncfftion in Atlanta. It is thought in Washington that I'otanh Far row will noon ho removed from-the position of United States District Attorney. Mrs. Maria J. Westmoreland has lw*en engaged for a lecture before the Young Men’s library Association of Atlanta at an early day. Mr. Johnnie Brock, of Columbus, aged seven teen, and Mbs Mary Ogietree, of Brownville, aged sixteen, were married on the 6th inwt. It ia midu food that, the? lessees of the State Hoad are in debt $250,000, and the surrender of the lease is looked imon ns very probable. Bussell county, for tin year 1873. lias received into her treasury over 12,000 for license, almost the entire amount being for liceuso to sell whisky. Way cross, at the junction of the Atlantic and fhilf and Brunswick and Albany railroads, Is eighteen months old, and contains two hundred inhabitants. Mr. Louis Wall, an employe of the Southwest ern railroad, fit Columbus, nno of bis legs amputated on Saturday last, An old wound re ceived during the war rendered it necessary. Mr. J. Tt. Graves, the clover and efficient tele graph operator at Bain bridge, who heroically stood bv his post all through the recent terrible ! plague, has been presented by his friends withs I handsome gold-beaded cane. | Mr. L. L. Harrell, of Pulaski county, made In it | year one hundred and fifty bushels of corn and j five Imh s uf cotton, averaging five hundred and | twenty-seven pounds to the bale, upon twelve ! acres of land. i A Washington county mah who runs atw - , horse farm killed ten hogs recently that netted | him twenty-six hundred pound# of meat. Be- I sides this he has an abundance of corn and ten | bales of cotton stored away for better prices. The death of Mr. James Knight, of Macon, is announced. Mr. Knight came to Georgia ninety | years ago. His youngest child died recently ag< <1 ; eighty, and be has grandchildren fifty years old, lie was one hundred and ten years of ago at the time of hi?! deftth. Mr. M. i: Thornton, of Atlanta, has rttovelin press in Philadelphia entitled ‘’Hylvester Lester." I Now, Mr. Thornton has a fellow-fUWn named I Hylvt ster Lester, h young printer. Hearing of (lie novel and its name, Mr. Sylve#t< r Lester im mediately addressed ft note to Mr. Thornton re questing him to change the name of his novel, informing him if ho did not comply he ft lit; genuine Sylvester Lester) would make it uncom monly warm for the author of the mythical Syl vester Lester. Mr. Thornton replies declining to .change the name of Iris novel, announcing that it was named iu lmnor of a friend who has paid him well for the compliment. Augusta ('hriml 'l*': We have little doubt that the organization known ns the ‘ Bond Bing*’ will bring up their bill (during the iu xt session of the Legislature! for the recognition of the fraud ulent bonds ignored by the Legislature of 1871-72, and that a decisive vote will be forced upon the measure. The amount involved is very large, ami the King can w* 11 afford to spend it# room y liberally in order to insure the success of their scheme. With Wall street to furnish tin sinews of war, and an active corps of lobbyist# to dis tribute them, we may expect a long and severe campaign. It is to be expected that no mean# will he left untried to corrupt public sediment and debauch the Legislature, for the stake is large and Hie ring not over scrupulous. But w believe that the scheme will be defeated as #i.g --! i ally and us completely as a* the lust session. ; \\V have yet an abiding confidence in the honor and integrity of the Legislature, nml we do not believe that it can be either intimidated or corrupted. FLORIDA NEWS. I The Gainesville L'm (Bail.) ray* the liiatary of the Florida Legislature, simv reconstruction, in ; *li#rejmtalle. ; Forgurtoft of betworn two aml tbr*** ' dollar# have boon *li*eoui\tl ia the i#wic uf #urij? | in Yladiua. j Tlu* roof of the iu w court hon*r at Live Oak I ha# been put on, aiul the interior work i# b* i: [ prosecuted. A little negro bar deliberately #< t fire to n pib | of cotton in the Htorr* of BotHdauJer A Uo., | .jv* | Oak, on Monday lust, ami the building w> I- a* lv saved. The Hon. Liberty Billing# was on Fridav re | ducted President pro tern, of the Florida S* nut* by ft two third# vote, including all the Ikqc.il>> I beans. On Wednesday night an attempt was ma le t / burn down tho store occupied by Mr. ('. A. Fairchilds, back *>f Itced’s new block on Ba\ street, Jacksonville. Captain Chas. F. Smith, (\ F., of Jacksonville, hn# been employed to locate the boundary line between (toorgia and Florida, and will commune* the work at u early day. The Commissioner of tho General Land Oftir< nt Washington says then* is no objection to bona fair holders of homestcade availing themselves of , tho timber on their lauds for the production uf j turpentine. It is reported that n hill has been prepare*! and , will be brought forward early in this session of • the Legislature, providing for th** election of i Governor in the event of a vacancy occurring by ' ; death or otlierwise. | It i# rumored that the President lias pardoned i | ex-Cullertor Jenkins, now rusticating at a rural! ! retreat, near Montieello, tho guest of Captain j ! Johnson. It i# at least true that the Attorney j General Ims recommended it. It is reported that a lull has been prepared ami will be introduced during the present session v f tin Legislature, allowing circuit judges a docket fee in civil eases, ns the present salaries arc deemed insufficiently remunerative. St. Augustine I Wee: Mr. Frank Bonet cap tured with his hand# (done-yesterday, something ■ of tin fish kind that is different from anything! vet “dreamed of in our philosophy.” It may be j briefly described a# a body like a pin- cushion. ! with retractile and projectile months. From this extended limbs, like rattlesnakes, in color i aijd appearance. The beast look# more like the j hundred headed Hydra that Hercules slow, than anything in nature. Tho Tamp?. Cnardirin of the 3d inst. tells the! f bowing boar story: “Henry Stevenson, of An- j Goto, and a young gentleman named Stevens. 1 from Sumter, while* riding in the pinv woods near ! Lake Butler, discovered a bear of large size, am! gave chase. After t iding their horses over tin bear three times, the bear caught Stevenson's j horse at the fetlock, ami while holding on with ; this grip of hi# teeth, Stevenson jumped to the ground and plunged his knife into the heart of ! Bruin, killing him instantly. The weight of the • bear is probably some two hundred and iifty j pounds. Comptroller Oowgill, of Florida, gives the to- 1 (al debt of the State at $1,620,809 27. He also | says: The receipts for the year ending December I 31. from the collection of taxes and licenses i applicable to general State expenses, were $320,- ! 830 66, and the expenditures, excluding bor- ; rowed money and interest on 1871 bonds, were $314,817 11. Of this $246,711 Gf> were fir tile j regular expenses of 1873, ami $68,105 46 were used in payment of expenses incurred previous to j 1873, including debt due Lunatic Asylum, to Bank 1 Note Company, etc. Thus, then, it appears that the bonded and floating debt of the State is nearly i $250,000 less than it was supposed to be a year I ago, and that for the first time since reconstruc tion the revenue the tttatv lm* excaeded it# j expeaditur#. hti:piir.\m in conuuksh. “Weak Truth n-lcuning on her crutch. War-wasted Jtoutb, at her utmost need, Thy kingly intellect shall feed/’ tTssnra&o*. It wa# a striking scene; The frail old non —so long u stranger there — With furrowe 1 features, and with whitened hair, And putieiit-stHck'Mi mien, I Using, upon his crutches, once again. Wiiat lie deems truth and right and wisdom to maintain. In clarion Voice.and clear— Broken with pa tuid tremulous with age lie dared once more forensic war to wage, As when, by friend and peer, And partisan surrounded and upheld. Now ovor t strange crowd thy silvery music swelled I And silence, such a# fall# Hcldom o'er that tumuifuon# multitude, Chained all who hoard. The gentle and the rude, That thronged those marble balls, Alike were swayed by the mesmeric spoil That breathed such power about the ancient oracle. The cap Jo stretched h or wing Once more above him ns in days bvgonc, And like a vision vanishing with dawn, . Long v# ,ir of -n.'t ring Passed with the shadows. To the bright new day Ho held Ids dying hands and pointed out tho way. To those who after him Shall come to fill those hulls, with larger life. Experience, won from straggle and from strife, From War and famine grim But iu whose liemoms smoulder still tho fire# Of love of (onnoon cause bequeathed them by their sire*. Thus to the rescue came, ! Mwnthod in the cerements of his bed of pain, With his rhivalrie soul and inighty brain And eloquence of tbnia. " Chatham to ward the wrong and find the right. I When our young country that Was snuggling into night. Never will those forget, Who siw tl* old Confederate fiu-bly rie ! With bi ‘thin limiting hair and piercing eyes So dark and deeply set I The pall-like velvet resting on his head— ! Tim hour when seemed the past to yield its buried dead. I Mind over matter then Asserted that supremacy and claim Which, like ,;n arrow, certain of its aim, Cleaves to the ht art# of men. And beyond spot.* a word or written scroll, i Flashes conviction that the clav but <T>g# the immortal soul. [ ,\7c* York Post 6THSMARY OF LATE NEWS. ! The Hetrnto passed a bill to remove the politi cal disabilities of Win. Hteci, of Texas. 1 be Mabry Bill, an passed by the Kenate, passed | the House - 226 to 25. It njvv goes to toe Pri A id nt. * The Spanish frigate Arapile* ran ashore nJ the [ foot of Bridge street, Brooklyn, on the morning i of the 11 ill inst. Mr. (.’ashing request# the withdrawal of his [ name ns Minister to 8} min, and the Bros ulent | complies. Dndley White, colored, accused ~f murder, in ; Mceklen'luu’g county, Ky.. was take.i from the Jail ; and hanged by tlio peopie. ! Htejs ns boldly announced that had he b- n i present yesterday, (13fh i,#t.,) he rmld hav* , v..tfd against the repeal of tin salary bill. At Lnner. Mi b., or Cne-day nigiit, the bouse of Jacob M Mautgftl wa* burned, and the entire • family, consisting of husband, wife and child, perished in the dames. ! A dispatch from Baltimore nay#: In tb National : Brieklayi rs' Union, a motion n admit negro* s to ! i iembership waa defeat*--fl. The eight-hour i question was re-; nit ted to the local union#. The remain# of the late Emperor Napoleon 111. ; wi v- trunafirred on tin Dili inst. to a wireonhagas nn a* ntod to Eug* rd ‘by Queen Victoria. A Hum i her <*f loading Ibmaj.-Hrtiwt# attend.--1 the etro ! mony, liiit I*iific< Nn i H'lt*>o waaabsent. The presentation ,j an illumined memorial | album t<> the family of Horace (K , j y, a# a gift of the city of N’ev. York, took place on the 14th I tout., at the resident * of Jno. '\\ (Teveland, j wh* re Orceh•>'# dnght* r# are residing. I The officer# of tit— Spanish war #team r Ara i piles, have t*eco enf*— tae* *i at a dim** r at lb !• luonico'#. N* w York, by the Spanish r* * idc:it >f this city, it is said the actn-n -if Admiral Boh* was denounced in the jw#t-prandial spteclie#. '* Tlie ('iilifornia la gisl itur** ha# jiassed a bill authorizing the Governor to -uh-r a reward *f 1 ils,(Kd fi*r the capture of the m*b-n*;i# handit Yos*;u s n!:d his baud. It is report* *! that V#- i ques is in Sun Frwnciwoo at the prcs.-ut time. ‘ Negroes on Bay<ut# TANARUS che and Lifonrclie. La.. : am-on a #trik*‘Oii a**e*ntttt *>f a reduetinnof wages. A larg** un mb* r of nuumt* *1 men ride from place j (opiate, allowing none to work. Kellogg, in r*>- -p-'U -* to appUeatiou# fi r aid, r< pin •# that a force would probiinlv be sent to-iuorrow. The engic *r# >u the New Jersey Southern 1 Ihiilroad quit work m the l‘Jtl iunt. Then- is no distttrbiun**, but the nti'ik* rs #* etn-d *leter ; mined to hold out. Tin re are ’. trii-is running on the road. The strik* has ext* lab and to tb< train and track hands. The locomotive# are all |in the shops, but ore partly disconnected and cannot la* tub. ;i out. The track is also torn iup in different piacos. No iL.- ? urbance is re iHirtcd. A -li .pateli fn-ic Ford* nt* wn, N. J.. on the 9th inst. n.r. s: ('ousiderablc * x* it.-mmt exists h re 1 caused by tlit* discovt rv of tin* Ijodv of a young woman on tin whore of In la ware riv* r ye#tT<l ay. The (ba'cased was about * i rhti a year# of age, ui.d m* and iiiht v r-- beau!ifiil when living. Par i ti*s eu.me from Fusion and.r< M *c*gnized the de ceased a# t lie daughter of aw* Uthv family. The unities had offer* and a r< ward of five hundred dol tar# for her recovery, d*;;dr alive. The b.ulv had no clothing, except a chemise, shot# and (stocking#. Hon. Edward Salmon. ex-Gpvernor of Wis consin, appeared in the Supreme (’■ mt in New York on the ih'li inst., in behalf of Baron Yon Bhoden, of Berlin, find nmd argument on motion prelimioai'v to asking the court to net asi the drcree *.f divorce obtained by his wifi*, popularly known as Madame B. uline Lucca. Tie case i# nmde complicated owing to the fact th.v >l;:Umt Lucca was marrivil to one Voti Walhoffen #(Kn after she obtained the decree of divorce from Baron Von Kh<*den. Th*- Baron #a\# h* 1 and hi# wife lived happily together until Von WulhoflTon was wound***! about the same time as himself in the Fcauco-Brussian war, and came to his home. Tobacco and Tobacco Smoking in Spain IVrlmps Ly iulv*'rtising ti roweni fort-lie discovery, it might be possible to find ii man in Spain who does not smoko. Yet, strange to suv, the culture of tobacco in-Spain is forbidden by law. The soil and climate are favor ible % and it# cultiva tion has been a great success. But that kind of legislation or decree peculiar, to Spain, and constantly reminding one of the C’liiimso, the mother country, Spain, is prohibited from raising tobacco in order that the daughter, Cuba, may have the monopoly. The right of importation is sold to contractors, who make a great bus iness of it. In the middle of the fifteenth century the Sjianiards began to get tobac co from America, and have been getting more and more of it ever since. In INGO they smoked seven millions of cigars, and cigars are not the thing they usually smoke. They have their tobacco rolled up in little bits of paper, and these they carry iu their pockets, with matches. Often they carry Ihe tobacco and the paper separately, and make a cigarette when they want it. mak ing one while smoking another. These interesting manufactures are not peculiar to Spain; they are common in our own country, but not so general. The weed is used only for smoking and snuffing in Spain. I can not learn that it is chewed at all. Children smoke at an earlier age in Spain than in other countries. It is not uncommon for them to begin at six. or even five years of age. And they never leave it off till they die. Ladies smoke. Not often do we see them with a cigarette iu their pretty mouths on the street or in the cars, but In the cafe and the drawing room they enjoy it, as well ns in the bou doir and the hath. l>y cool fountains, iu a marble-paved patio; among the orange trees, or lolling at noon on their silkeu hung couches, they live to smoke, and their lords have spoiled tlieir own breaths arid taste too effectually to make any ob jection. Where both cat garlic it amounts U) the same thing. lOofTcajKitidonee of the Ckmrler-Jonmal.] The Murder of Mrs Surratt. The recent accusatory, exculpatory and explanatory curds of ex-Pfeid#*t Johnson and Judge Advocate General Holt upon the subject of Mrs. Surutt’a execution, are suggestive of thrt retributive justice,* winch sooner or 1 uter overtake* the cruel and law less man. Iu times of high excitement and licentious power, the rights of indi viduals may be disregarded, nod innocent blood may flow; but, when reason resumes her sway, the loftiest traugroHsor shrink*, or his misdeeds pass under tho calm scrutiny as her searching eye, and the in nocent blood will cry out from the ground. The hand that wrote the appeal of Holt —the hand that penned the reply of John* son—both have blood upon them the blo*>*l of a helpless woman, who died amidst the execrations of a mob. Mary K. Surratt has been in her grave for more than eight long years, but her “sriirit walks abroad.” Eroin the tomb of sup posed infamy into which her lifeless hotly was hissed by a maddened populace, u voice proceeds which will not let her taur d'-rers rest. Ami has this poor, unfriended woman, who fwung into eternity with ft f< 1 n’s halter about her nock, power, even in her dishonored grve, to arraign be fore the bar of public opinion the two most conspicuous actors* in the disgraceful and illegal proceedings that culminated in her execution ? ’Tin even so. Her spec tral finger points to these two central figures in the conscience-smitten group, and the muse of luUtory him so adjusted her photographic h nn as to transfer their pictures to the plate forever. They may quarrel as to the part each took in tin* horrible work, and the one endeavor to fthift from his own to the shoulders of the other “the deep damnation of her taking off.” But they are jmitners in the trial, partners in the execution, part ners in her blood, and juatners in that undying sentence of condemnation which the solemn voice of posterity will pro nounce against the deed. This is a part worship which cannot be dissolved—either by mutual consent, the d< oreoH of courts or the death of parties. They .arc wanting their time in eudeavoring to fix tlmir re flective liabilities now. Let them not an ticipate the verdict of hi dory. The point thev are discussing now is an immaterial ona collateral issue, compared with the more solemn aspect# of the case. Holt affirms that he laid before Johnson the petition for the pardon of Mrs. Surratt. The position of Holt, if sustained by proof, (and he does sustain it) falls infinitely be low the charge he w iil lx* called Upon to meet at the h ..- of posterity. He was the Judge Advocate General, and, hh such, was charged by the miliiary law with the duty of giving to the military tnbuu.il, that tried Mrs. Surratt, his legal opinion upon nil point#. If the tribunal undertook to try any individual of whom it had not jiirisdictn-u, it was his solemn duty ho to inform them. Such a tribunal had uo jurisdiction of Mrs. Surratt’s case. The Constitution of tin* United States up*n this point i# too plain ami emphatic for any man who ever mid its provisions to doubt about it. Was Judge Holt ignorant of the fact that she was a e.vilmn, and a# Hitch could not he tried by h military court ? Was he ignorant of tie fact that she was a citizen, and had the right to a trial by jury ? He is too aide a Layer to plead In# ignorance on these points, if. in d*ed, he should desire to avail himself of this defense. The court* of the District of C’olumbift were open, m J he knew it. She could have been indicted by a grand jury, and he knew it. She could have been tried by a jury of her peers, and ac cording to tlm forma <f law. and he knew it. The Constitution <f her country gmo antced to her such a trial, and h knew it, lie* was the law office rof the military tri btinal b* fore which she was arr*Jgn**d, and as such it was u part of his official duty to give the court hi* opinion in writing if he saw them assuming a jurisdiction which the law did not give them. Judge If dr take# the p ins, in hi# nq*ly to Mr. Johnson, to #ay that he b li. ■. # the evidence was sutfieietit to convict Mrs. Surratt. His opinion ns to her guilt or innocence is wholly immaterial. It was the opinion of a jury of her peers that she was entitled to under tin- ( institution of her country. Will Judge Holt stake his reputation as a lawyer by announcing to the American people that in his opinion that military tribunal hud the consiiti tiomd right to try Mrs. Surratt V And, if not. why did the Judge Advocate General fail to so inform the court ? It was as ranch his duty to protect the rights of Mr#. Surratt as it was to prosecute her. Why was he silent wheu he saw this military tribunal matching over the barriers of the (•<institution to shed th** blood of t!b defenceless old woman ? Had he done his simple duty here, he would have saved (lie escutcheon of his country from a foul blot ami lmve passed into history with a fame to which he can now have no hope* of ever reaching. But it is said some al lowance must be made on account of the excitement of the hour. The mob that clamored for her blood may t;:k** shelter b*‘himl this plea, but no rnnn who occu pied the position of either Holt or John son eau he allowed to put it forth even in extenuation of his action. The sentinel who deserts his post in the hour of danger must l>e shot. The high public function ary who from moral cowardice joins the the multitude to do evil, and shouts with the mob that he fears to face, must accept the infamy that legitimately attaches to his conduct. In the case of ex part** Milligan (4 Wall, the Supreme Court of th** United States quote with approbation from a debate in the Knglish Parliament, Hurticiputcd in by Lord Brougham nml Sir James Mclntosh*, in which the doctrine is announced- that “Where the laws can act. erery other mode of punishing supposed crimes is it*e:f on enormous tr//*.” Let Judge Holt, as the our ajfivr of that military tribunal Hint convened within the shadow of the Capi tol, with the doors of every civil tribunal iu the district w ide open for the trial of offenses, hike his part of the “enormous crime” of suffering without u protest, aye, of giving his active aid to the trial of Airs. Surratt by a military commission. And when he next rises to explain to the “loy al public,” will he let them hear from him oil this point ? And suppose Andrew Johnson should succeed in convincing the country which he Luis not done) that Judge Holt withhold from him the petition for Mrs. Snmdt’s pardon—what follows ? Ho may succeed, ly establishing this fact, iu showing the cold-blooded malignity and perfidy of Holt, lmt not in washing from his .skirts a single drop of Mrs. Surratt’s blood. It matters not whether Johnson saw the petition for pardon or not, so far as the inculpatory considerations that attach to his part of the transaction are concerned. He might have pardoned Iter or not, w ith or w ithout a sight of that petition, and in the exer cise of his high discretion in the premises, have stood justified at the bar of posterity and his own conscience. The charge that cornea crashing and hissing through the flimsy side issues that Mr. Johnson has piled around him to deceive the populace, is this : After Mrs. Surratt was convicted by an illegal military court, Judge Wylie, to bis honor l>e it ever spoken, had the moku courage, on the application ol‘ her counsel to grant her the w rit of habeas corpus, bv which she would have been so ■—m - cured a fajr and impartial trial in a civil j court. Mr. Johnson ansi>end**d this writ of habeas coqms and ordered the ex**cit tiwn to proceed He stepped between this woman’s life and her right to a constitu tional trial. He had nothing to do but to stand still and let the law take its course. Had he done this, flic laws of Infer country would have saved her life, without culling in the aid of the pardoning power. But he stepped forward and paralyzed the arm of the law that was raised to shield and save her. The attempt on the part of Mr. Johnson to have the people infer that if he lmd seen the petition he would have par doned Mrs. Surratt, is, in view of his ac tion in the premises, the most bare-faced attempt to perpetrate u fraud upon the p* pl* that ha# ever been essayed by a mau that has occupied his exhnltod posi tion. That he does mean that such an in ferenco shall be drawn is patent. Tn no other view' li;t# this controversy w ith Judge Holt any point or sign iff eenee. For, if he would have refosi**! to pardon after seeing the petition, it can make no difference, so frr aft Mrs. Surratt is concerned, whether le saw it or not; ami does he suppose that he can make any man, with s**ns*“ enough to comprehend the simplest facts, believe that he, who was so eager to shed blood that he In itnt and not to strike down the law when it was interjwised to shield his victim, would have listened to a petition f*>r pardon. Me trampled the writ of ha beas corpus bent at h liis feet to shed the blood of Mrs. Surratt. In doing this he violated w hat ho was sworn to uphold. The petition for pardon was addressed iner :y to ilia d)Wr**tion—he could disre gard it or not. Shull h* who broke through the constitutional harrier of the great writ of right to compass the death of this wo man b* heard to say that he a anted to i\ *' her life, and if Holt had not conceal ed the petition be would have followed the promptings of bis ow n heart and par don od her ? There i# oce thing that Judgb Holt did riot conceal from Mr. Johnson, aud that was the Constitution <>f his country, which he hud HWtiru to support and which guar anteed to Mrs. Surratt a trial by jury and w hich provided that she should not be tried •*t nil tivih-ss upon presentment or indict ment. There is another thing which Judge Holt did not conceal from Mr. Johnson and that was the writ of habeas corpus, which sought to pluck the body of Mrs. Surratt from the jaw** of death aud place her heneuth the regia of the consti tution. 11 n( he ton* her from the rery arms rtf the (donut it of ion ond threic her t[nirrfin<j form to the Mood hound* of mu it-try justice, Olid the dm/* (let oft red her. This is Mr- Johnson’s part of the “enor mous crime.” Holt arraigns Johnson for hurrying the poor prisoners into etemitv in two short day# after they were tried. The Judge Advocate General is fearful they wore not prepared to die. Hear him. He says lie “could not have thought for a moment of hurrying them into the eter nal world, us cattle ure driven to the shin, ht r pm, without a care for their fu ture.” Now these be sweet and pious worda from the pen of the Chief of the Bureau of Military Jus ire. Doubt test* the future welfare of tl-ene poor creatures weighed heavily upon his pious soul, and if he could have been followed to hi closet, he would have been found on his knees in prayer for poor Mrs. Surratt’s sir,l. But the Judge Advocate General makes an admission in this connection rather against the presence of his pious solicitude, lie says he made no sugges tion to Johnson as to time; that Johnson told him to writ** down “two days,” and he w rote it down thus and made n< remark at nil. Why not? The only reason he give* is that ho wan not the President’s constitutional adviser. Too thin ! Judge Holt was on terms with Mr. J -bnson at that tiim ; that would have fully warren F 1 him iu ranking any suggestion he might desire in the premises; and if lie had f It then the pious solicitude which he affects now, for the souls of th** condemned hi* ro dd have suggest* and a longer time. The ciiemn dances are all s:r;iii.t Mr. Holt >u this point, and leave but little doubt tlint h was falS in accord with the Presi dent in driving “the cattle to the slaugh ter-pen. ’ Ah. that HLArfIHtER-i*£K ! Think of the Chief of the Bureau of Military Jus lice compering the spot when* the con dor rn *l met their fab- to a ulanghter-pen and speaking of them as cattle driven thither by ex-President Johnson. Verily, the hand of retributive justice is becoming visible. It would have been better for both John son nml Holt if they,had imitated the ex ample of Attorney General Speed and have r* niuiiied silent in regard to this worst of all homicides —a judicial murder. The blood of that slaughter-pen will defy the clear sing powers of all the water in all our rivers and even time’s effacing fingers to remove it. R. G. CT-akksvtllb, Tfnn., Dec. 24. Cheap Tnwsi* >;trvrn>N. A dispatch from Washington on January Ifftli sevs : The Senate Committee on Transporta tion expect to report about the 10th of February. They have taken a very large amount of testimony, and have procured, besides, a great deal of statistical data rel ative to the fliibject before them. They have, however, found out little co-relative data covering the entire scope of their in quiries, aud lmve therefore been obliged to enter upon tedious ami elaborate sta tistical compilations, requiting much time, and hen.ee they have been prevented from r< porting nt as early a day as they wished. There was a meeting to-night in the rooms of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of the Georgia delegation in Congress, to discuss the interest of the State on the subject of cheap transportation. Judge Whitt of Alabama, was present, and took nn active part in the proceedings. Hon. J. H. Blunt explained the object of the meeting. Hon. P. Delley, Hon. H. R. Har ris, Hon. P. M. 13. Young, Gen. Thomas and Col. Frobel, of Atlanta. t*xdv part in the discussion. The importance of the Atlantic and Great Western Canal to the interest.# of the country was shown, and great unanimity of feeling and purpose was manifested. It was resolved to call a meeting of the delegations of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, to meet on Thurs day night next, for the purpose of hearing Col. I’roebei on the merits of this work. Bismaiw k Afraid op the Press. —lt is not a pleasant thing to be editor of a Ger man paper under Bismarck’s regime just now. Even the Cologne (duetto, one of the so-culled official organs of the new German Empire, has had its edition con taining the Pope’s last encyclical sup pi eased, and is now quite at a loss to know what it is allowed to print and what not. The editor of a Koenigsberg paper was comdemned to three months’ imprison ment because he admitted into the col umns of his paper nn official dispatch of Lord Russell's. Several other newspapers have been confiscated because they pub lished til* l answer of the Pope to Arch bishop Ledocliowski’s letter. Other pa pers were confiscated and tlieir editors punished because they published the Pope’s letter to Emperor William, while government official journals were not only allowed but instructed to publish it. The German editor is, therefore, considerably nonplussed just at present as to what is official news w hich he is allowed to publish and what official news i considered c ntraband. - Poet. Caleb Cushing. Wasif TN ( * ton , January 13.—-It was sup posed yesterday afternoon, when Senator Edmunds moved that the Senate go into Executive Mission, that it was with the intention of acting on the nomination of Caleb Cushing b> be Chief Justice of the United States, Senator Edmunds, who is chairman of the Committee on the Ju diciary, having reported fuvombly on the nomination the same day it was made. A motion for adjournment, made by Sena tor Sargent, and carried, was regarded a# unfavorable to the nomination. Some of the Senators, however, voted for nn ad journment on account of the lateness of the hour it being half past four o’clock, while the larger number did not care for mally to enter upon the consideration of the subject until time should be afforded for further individual examination into the entire question. A caucus of Repub lican Senators th in morning was called, es pecially to exchange view# relative to the nomination, when it was discovered that the opposition was much greater than was supposed even by those who had made up tlieir minds to vote in the negative on the question of confirmation. The meeting of the Semite at noon in terrupted further proceeding* of the cau cus, but after an early adjournment the session of the caucus was resumed, when Senators Edmunds, Conkling and Bout well advocated the confirmation of Gush ing. These were his principal advocates, but those w ho spoke on the other side were fur more numerous, and before the dis cussion ended, it was discovered that the 1 nominee’s frnoids were in the minority. Finally the gentlemen whose names are above mentioned seemed to yield to the views of the majority. As the Iw st indication of the views of the Senators, it cun be positively stated that the members of the Committee on Judiciary were requested to wait on tho President in reference to the nomination, and although they were not unfavorably instructed, it was the general understand ing that-they should represent to him the feeling and views of 4lie Republican Sena tors upon the subject as adverse to the nomination. The opinion therefore pre vails among them that the President, on hearing the statement, will withdraw the nomination. Tin* objections urged to Caleb Gushing did not affect his legal qualifications for the position, but were based principally on his political principles heretofore de clare.! in his ottici J acts, which were con sidered as not being in accord with those entertained by the Republican party. The Senators expressed their views with much animation, and with a positivenesa which showed a deep seated opposition to the nomination. —♦♦♦■- ■■ (From tlr* St. Louis Ht publican, Jan. B.] Presidential Promotion. Tlie yesterday contains the fol lowing suggestive extract: “Lust witit* r. when I rr-1 Grant was sent out to Chicago to displace the gallant Gin. Forsythe on Sheridan's staff, the Lieutenant General felt constrained to ex ph.in in r. general order that voting Grant’s title of Lieutenant Colonel was only a lo cal rank, to he dropped whenever he re , tired from the stuff. General Sheridan, ut the time he issued the order containing the above information, probuhlv believed what he wrote, and expected that the prom ise would be fulfilled; but a recent event goes to show that, while he may propose, the President disposes. This is not un unusual way for the Chief Magistrate to treat his subordinates in matters (-oncom ing the welfare of a member of his own family. In the face of Hheridau's order he has ordered Fred to Washington, and hits appointed him mastering ana disburs ing * tiicoj- with the rank and pay he en joyed whiles member of the Lieutensut Gem ral’s military family. The only duty expected of the young man is to draw his salary, the details of his office being per formed bv u competent officer holding a lower rank and draw ing small pay. This action of thi President is of a piece with the withholding of Geu. Porter's resigna tion. Not satisfied with having his own salary doubled, he has taken advantage of bis high office to jump his sou from Bre i t Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant Col on I. with corresponding increase of pny.” How an administration organ pir excel l-mv could let its journalistic foot slip so j tiros to permit sneh a sharp stab at the Executive as tho above to find a place in its columns w>-of course cannot explain; hut the public will doubtless appreciate the information more highly because of the Globular endorsement. When young Grant, was elevated from the disagreeable inferiority of a brevet sec ond Lieutenancy to the elegant and re !i:u and sinecure of a staff appointment with j rank and pity of a lieutenant-colonel of i cavalry, we predicted that such h remark able exhibition of presidential and paternal partiality was destined to be permanent— . not temporary, as certain party mouth pieces then claimed. Our prediction wax htusi tl upon the simple argument that, if the President of the United Htutes conld so fur forget duty and decency as to pro mote his son over the heads of officer* grown gray in the service of the country, the same forgetfulness would induce him ' to keep that son in his ill-gotten position. If Justice, common sense, well recog nized and long-established precedent amount to anything. Brevet Seeond-Lien tenant Frederick Grant has no more right to he lieutenant colonel of cavalry than ho bus to l*e comma ruler-in-chief of the army. : His original appointment was nn insult to the moral sense of the nation, and his transfer to Washington iu the same capac ity, only intensities the significance of the act which hits never had a counterpart in the military history of the land, aud which furnishes a delightful commentary upon the happy times in which we live. THIS SPACE BELONGS TO I?rlrrr<s, Jolks Ac Cos. Valuable Land for Sale. 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