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GEORGIA WEEKLY OPINION
THE WEEKLY OPINION,
BT W. I. SOBUOflS AND I. b. pcmblb,
TUESDAY iitiiiimii'BBW***** 4
VECLARATlOTf OF PIIINCXPI.ES
OF TO*
ONION republican party of oeoroia,
ADOPTED BY IDE STATE OOP7EET10N,
Atlanta, Jvir 4th, 1807.
W*IERKA«. We, humbly acknowledging our do-
itcndence upon an overruling Providence, who
Ihnpet Ibe detiinie* ot men nnu nation*. thank M-
mighty God for bavin*, through agencies and In-
KtrunientaliUe# in ill* wi«dom selected, preserve*!
Government when Its deepest foundations
b being shaken by the mighty upheaving* of
our Government
were being shake..
the recent rebellion. And
Wuckkas, The loyal men of Georgia desire the
earliest practicable settlement oT the disturbed
condition of the country! and whereas, wo bellero
tliattho establishment of Justice is essential to on-
luring peace, that patriotism should be exalted
as a virtue, and it Is the duty of the Htttc to eher-
tshallits people; and whereas, those who assert
these principles aro called Republicans, through
out the l/uIon. Therefore,
Resol red, 1st. That we adopt the name of the Union
liopubllcan party ot Georgia, and declare our
selves in Alliance with tho National Republican
party of the Union, and for tho unconditional supd
port of tho Union of these States.
Resolved, 3. That wo pledge our hearty support
to the reconstruction measures of tho Congress ol
the United States. , , . ■
Resolved. 8. That It is the duty ot the btato to
educate all her children, and to that end, wo re
commend the establishment of n general system
of free school*. . ■
Resolesd. A. That the Union Republican Party is
identHied in its history and by lU essent ul Prin
ciples with tho right*, tho IntercsU and tho digni
ty of labor, and is in sympathy with the toiling
masse* of society, and that tho working men or
Goorgla will receive at its hand* every encourage
ment and assistance that may bo necessary to pro
tect their full rights; ami, that in the lniiinten-
nnco of tho position taken nml tho principle*
we havo this day avowed, wo cordially invito the
co-opcrntionor»ll citisens, wiUioutrcgard to their
political antecedents.
Res,Iced, 5. Tliattho Union Ilepublicnn Party
of the mate of Georgia pledges itself to maintain
the free and legal rights of all men, and to
abide by the prescribed tonus ot rostorailon. in
electing to ofltco those men only who can comply,
in all respects, with tho requirements of the Acts of
Congress, and who prefer tho'Government of the
United States to any other that could bo framed.
View
We invitee
m flic Situation.
est attention to tlic original
article published on our first page, review
ing tho situation. The writer is one of tho
leading legal minds of Southwestern Gcor-
gla—one who did the State good service in
the Confederate ranks, but who honorably
accept* the condition of things as deter
mined by the war. We regret that tho use
of his name was not allowed in this pub
lication. but can assure our friends that he
will be heard from soon and frequently, in
a manner that will iucrcase the convic
tions of the people in favor of correct
principles.
OilDllll NO. 41).
••General Order No. 41) ” has caused a
fluttering among our cotcmporaries. Some
of them arc more hitter in their opposition
-<j Reconstruction under tho Congressional
plan. These can claim credit fur being
somewhat consistent, though unwise*—
Others have suddenly become converted,
and the tcrtfj'jliint of these is amusing to
the observer. J.lke all new converts they
arc especially zealous. They not only are,
but have been, without sin. They arc eligi
ble to any patronage that Is afloat. They
are perfectly willing to gobble up any
crumbs that may he thrown to them, and
iuive no fear of Indigestion. They are
ready to swear they are, and always have
been, reconstructionists, or to use the lan
guage of the order that has affected them so
powerfully, that they HAVE NOT OP
POSED and do not now oppose Recon
struction under the acts of Congress. And
further, they aro now willing to solemnly
asseverate that they sever will!
Wo have always regretted that there was
a single opponent of Reconstruction under
the plan presented by Congress In the
State. If Wisdom, instead of Prejudice,
had dictated action, there would have been
no opposition. But a bitter, vindictive and
persistent light has marked the political
agitation throughout the State. In tills
originated the order— the Commanding
General, who was sent here to accomplish
a certain work, wisely concluding that tl»e
mildest way to silence those who were
hindering his efforts, would bo to act upon
the Jacksonian idea— 44 to the victors be
long the spoils.” The application of the
rulelm* been effectual, and the result Is ap
parent.
Wo greet these new converts with kind
ness, and at tho same time would suggest
that it was the Republican party that saved
the country In tho hour of her greatest
peril; that It is the only party that Is seek
ing to restore tho Union; that It is the only
party that can preserve the Union. Re
storation is not tho only aim of Republi
cans. Preservation Is another thing. To
restore upon a basis that would not result
in permanency, is not the object of the Re
publican organization. It will, sooner or
later, accomplish both Reconstruction and
Stability. There it nothing more certain
than this, and nothing that should be more
earnestly desired.
Wc repeat, we welcome our new allies,
as far as they go. But thoy should not
halt In their advance. To advocate Con
ventlonand Reconstruction, after oppos
ing both, may bo Politic; but we want to
see both advocated, bccanso they will bo
the result of the establishment of a great
principle. Wo dcslro co-operation hi the
strongest sense. No half-way, milk and
•water advocates will do. The day of tlme-
. servers has pawed. He that Is not for us,
without reservation, Is against us. Come
up higher. Assume a more decided stand
point. Discard all political prejudices.
Accept the situation—raise the Republican
Banner, and thus help swell tho rsnks of
the party that teiU accomplish the work In
which all aro so deeply Interested. When
%th!s is done, credit for sincerity will be
awarded; if left undone* doubts may bo
entertained. We want help, and deeire the
fellowship of sincere workers. There can
not bo too many of them, nor too few
dodging hypocrite!^
|9~Santa Anna thinks he can buy him
self off. Not If the Mexicans estimate him
.at his own valuation.
General Pape’s letter*
The letter recently addressed by Genon
Pope to General Grant, it Is asserted b;
the Wasbingtsu Star, is serving to op$i
the eyes of thousands of the supporters ojf
the Union cause during tho war, who, un
til recently, havo opposed the Reconstruc
tion policy of Congress.
This It true, also, In the South. For, ns
tho Journal named remarks—that letter
makes it plain that there can bo no Re
construction except on the basis of the en
tire return of the affairs of the South into
the hands of the bitterest traitors who
managed the rebellion, unless the purpose
of Cougres* to make them give place to
those who regard and proclaim the rebel
lion to have been the great crime of mod
ern times, shall triumph. As General Pope
explains with great force, there remains
no half way ground for men to occupy.—
The struggle Is between the purpose of
deifying the rebellion and restoring its au
thors to entire and unquestioned control
of public affairs; and that of Insuring that
Uulon sentiments ami Unionists at heart
slial], hereafter, guide und direct the .South
ern popular mind, us in the Northern,
Western and Middle States. There can
now bo no greater possibility of mistaking
the issue than there was In mistaking that
of 1801, *62, 'G3 and '04.
Without distinction of party the North'
ern masses came manfully to the work of
sustaining the Union cause lu that peril-
m* crisis. At the North, chronic polltl-
Ians almost alone opposed their country’s
ausc, in their indisposition to surrender
place and power, which the country judged
them unfit to hold at such a time. They
aised the hue and cry that the Govern
ment. in Us efforts to save tho Nation's
life, overstepped tho hounds of its Consti
tutional powers, und on that ground de
fended their own infamous treachery
each subsequent election, the people of the
loyal States have Indignautly repudiated
all their pleas and positions; branding
their course according to Us deserts,'and
deciding that the Government did right in
resorting to any means at hand to put
down the rebellion.
Nor should tho circumstances of the re
bellion at the South be foegotten, by the
people of either section. Tho rebellion
was the result of a tremendous conspiracy,
to destroy the nation's life. It sought to
obliterate civil liberty throughout the
South—to reduce the Southern white la
borer to the condition of the free negro,
and the free negro to slavery; tore-open
the African slave trade, and to establish
over the South the desi»otlsm of an oligar
chy founded alone on slavery, and the In
terests and ambition of those Interested In
slave property, llow cruel and remorse
less Us career was—how little It respected
individual rights uiul the common laws of
liumauity when they stood lu the way of
Its remorseless schemes—should be fresh In
tho memory of nil. Nevertheless, the gen
erous sentiments of pity for the condition
of its victims—1 he Southern masses—led
thousands of the people of the North to
mistake the wise action of Congress in the
latter's efforts to reorganize the nflairs of
the Southern States on the basis of honio-
gcnlty with those of the North, for un
necessary harshness. They could not com
prehend a few most Important truths.
1st. That with the rebellion's leaders and
their most active supporters again In
power, even so slightly as they were up to
the possngeof the first Reconstruction law, 1
neither the negro nor the white Unionists
of the South had any rights ofllfe or prop-
rty which any Southern State court could
or would protect.
2d. That entire anarchy would soon have
prevailed throughout the South had that
state of things been permitted to con
tinue.
fid. Thutrin thisanarchy the South would
soon have been utterly lost to civilization
itself; the Inter-rebellion despotism of the
oligarchy being perpetuated under the
auspices and authority of the United States
Government.
4th. That to rescue tlic South from this
imminent danger, It was necessary to place
that section under immediate and thorough
military government,
3th. That the powers granted to the sev
eral Military Governors have in no in
stance been abused to the Injury of any
portion of the Southern people. Though
necessarily arbitrary, those powers have
been exerted only for the protection of the
rights of Individuals, and to the advantage
of the several Southern communities. True,
the oligarchy and their sympathizers there
and here, complain against the eheck-reln
the Military Commanders hold over them.
But In so doing they simply inveigh
against the interposition of any efficient
power between the renewed license they
crave and those who were to have been
the victims of their coveted immunity
These are alt facts that must and will
havo due weight In the minds of all true
Union men, whether friends or opponents
of tho reconstruction policy of Congress.
The President's evident determination to
make open and unrelenting war on that
policy will recall tlieso truths to tho minds
of all, compelling all to elect between sup
porting tho policy of rcstorlug tho rebel
lion to power over the South, In the per
sons of Itsgctlvc managers, and In the su
premacy of their vlows of public affidrs,
or that of tho restoration of ihe Southern
States to the. Union under tho auspices of
Union men. necessarily supported by tho
suffrage of all, without distinction of race,
who hold that the preservation of Ameri
can liberties and American privileges, as
enjoyed by all In the loyal States, was
worth the Union’s sacrifices of tho war.
Gen. B. E. Lee, It Is said, is to be appoin
ted President of tho Covington & Ohio
Railroad of Virginia, and his son Custls Is
to be chief engineer.
Items from Washington*
The Star of 34th says that Use United
States steamer Oceoln, Commander James
P* Foster, arrived In Hampton Roads at
eight o’clock on the 21st of August.—
Passed Assistant Paymaster L. A. Fraley
has been ordered to special duty at the
Navy Yard at Washington. Mate .77 W.
Baxter has been ordered to the Ascutncy.
Mate J. A. Belcher has been detached
from the Peoria, and placed on leave for
discharge. Acting Second Assistant En
gineer Edward Jvoehel has been detached
from the Yantic, and ordered to proceed
to his residence and report.
Tho resignation of Mate C. II. Venable,
of the Ascutney, has been received and ac
cepted.
Acting Ensign A. K. Brown has boon
discharged from the service.
The Situation.
Editor* of tho Opinion: It appears to mo
that tho advocates of Reconstruction in
Georgia give a great advantage to their op
ponents In yleliUng the question of the
Constitutionality of the Reconstruction
Acts. It Is very difficult to Justify the sup
port of. or even acquiescence in a measure
admitted to lie In violation of what one is
bound to support.
These acts are not unconstitutional on
the theory that Secession was Illegal, and
ns we have no right to expect that the
conqueror will settle the great queitton of
Reconstruction on the basis that the de
feated party was In the right, and as the
whoJo machinery of National and State
Governments must necessarily now go on
the basis that Secession was illegal, I am
of opinion that the friends of Reconstruct
The Commissioner of the General Land tion should take higher ground, and con'
Office Is in receipt of the application of tend that the laws they agree to submit to,
John T. McLean for patent for the g'4d‘ f ere laws which Congress has the Constltn-
quartz mine known as the Pcnon Blanco 1 tional right to pass. The mere statement
Claim, situated in the Shoekton district. ] of the facts, as they aro understood by the
California. Tho application is accompanied conqueror, will, It seems to me, make very
by the diagram, affidavits, and evidence, in clear tho power of Congress to pass these
view of the act of Congress, approved 20t/i j acts,
of July, 18G0, giving authority for vesting In 1801, the legal government of Georgia
titles to mines and lodes on applicant-* J was subverted and overturned by a rebel-
complying with Its provisions. This claim! lion, and a new and illegal organization
Ifi tlie first filing received under the act I Inaugurated In Its stead. This new organ-
above mentioned. izatlon repudiated the United States. Tho
Hon. E. A. Rollir.s, Commissioner of In-! United .States made war with it, and in
tern«U Revenue, has returned from a short! April, 1863,overturned and annihilated Re
visit to his home In New Hampshire, much Imprisoned Its Governor, ordered Its legis-
improved 111 health. ! Inters not to meet, and took military coti-
Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, and Bishop j trol of the State, ignoring altogether the
Kerfoot. of Pittsburg, arc among the pass- whole of the governmental machinery
gers by the steamer Russia, which sailed
from New York on Wednesday. Tho lat
ter goes to attend the Pail-Anglican Coun
cil nt Lambeth.
Baron Gerolt, tho Prussian Minister. Mr.
then iu existence. The President of the
United States, conceiving that the State
wa< wholly without any government, took
it upon himself to exercise the power
granted by Art. 4. See. 4, of the Constitu
Ford, of the French Legation, Judge Ah-, tion of the United States, that is. to guar-
bott, of Boston, Viscount dc Valcoui . ofjantee to the State a Republican form of
Parle, Maj. Gen. llciiitzelmaii, U. S. A.*
Commodore Ridglcy, of U. 8. N
New York.
B. F. Camp. Esq„ of New York, Maj. B.
M. Healey, of New Orleans, and Lieut. J
K. IIollls, of tho U. S. N«are at the Metro
politan.
Col. Geo. N. Bachelor, of Boston, A.
Hitchcock, of New York, and (Jen. A. K.
King, of Baltimore, are at the National.
The amount of Fractional Currency re
vived at the Treasury Department from
the printers during the week ending the
‘iltli, was $483,000. The amount of cur
rency forwarded during the same period,
as follows: To the United States De
pository at Chicago, $50,000; U. S. Depos
itory at Buffalo. $37,000; U. S. Depository
it Baltimore, $100,000; Assistant Treasurer
at New York, $100,000;» A**taui.£ Treas
urer at Philadelphia, $l(XMxfr; Assistant
Treasurer at St. Louis, $25.1^0; Xatk L.fi
Banks undothers, $142,410.00j total $$5t,-
401.00.
The amount of securities held by the
Treasurer of the United Statesln trust for
National Banks, reported, same date, were;
For circulating notes, $310.004,500; for de
posits of public moneys, $38,537,050; total,
$370,202,450.
Tiie amount of national bank currency
issued during the week was $75,000; mak-
tho total amount issued up to date
$.’103,728,470. From tills to be deducted the
currency returned. Including worn out
notes, amounting to $1,083,115; leaving in
actual circulation at this date $200,040,301.
Tkrkirlk Tragedy.—Tho Mobile jour
nals contain accounts of a heart-rending
asualty which occurred on Friday night
in that city, by which n venerable lady lost
her life at the hands of her own son. The
occurrence took place In tho family of Dr.
Jesse Carter. It appears that young Car
ter had been unwell for several days, and
that Ills mother had placed a bed for him
in i\ chamber adjoining her own. The
physician attending the young man had on
Friday evening administered a preparation
containing opium. During tho night Mrs.
Carter was alarmed by some noise down
stairs, and went into her son's room to
awaken him. Starting from Ills lethargy,
half stupefied by the opium, the son drew
a pistol from under his pillow, ami tired
twice at his mother, under ‘lie belief that
she was a burglar. One of the balls divi
ded the carotid artery, and tho unfortunate
lady soon bled to death. She exclaimed:
Son, son, you did not mean it 1 God bless
you.” Crazed by tho deed, the unhappy
son rushed out of the house, and has not
since been seen.
Developing Resources.—The Savannah
Repunllcan of Friday says: The first train
load, (twelvo cars) containing 51,000 feet
of pitch pine lumber, arrived yesterday
from Emanncl county by tho Central Road.
The lumber was sawed at Messrs. M. & D.
Wadley’s mill, three miles west from Sta
tion No. 0. The immense seetton of pine
timber lying west of tho Ogeechee river is
thus brought to a market in consequence
of a road to their mill having recently
been built by Messrs. Wadley, Jones & Co.,
qt their own expense. When all the neces
sary arrangements are completed, Messrs.
M. & D. Wadley confidently anticipate
sending at least 150,000 feet of lumber per
week to Savannah for shipment.
CT*Tbe “Livingston Messenger” is tho
title of a thorough Republican paper, the
publication of which was recently com
menced at Livingston, Ala. Tho editor,
Mr. T. B. Mason, makes a valnible sheet,
and is an able exponent of the principles
which ore destined to govern tho country.
QTTho East Alabama Monitor, pub
lished at Opelika, by Mr. J. W. Phillips,
has made Its appearance. In politics It Is
thoroughly Republican in tone, and we
greet it os a co-worker in the great strug
gle now progressing.
ment. To this end he appointed i\
are in J Provisional Governor, called a Convention,
and generally took stejw to enable the peo-
ple to erect and inaugurate n new Repub
lican civil government. That Convention
met and formed a Constitution. .Subse
quently, under its provisions, a Governor
and legislature were elected. The legisla
ture elected Senators, and the people Rep
resentatives. and the new government pre
sented itself to tiie Congress as the true,
legal, legitimate government of the State
of Georgia, erected and set upon the ruins
of the late illegal and rebellious organiza
tion.
Congress, after long debate, at length de
clared that this new government was not a
legal government; that the State, was
till without any legal government, and,
In fact, that affairs were still just as they
were in May, 1805; that the military au
thorities were still the only government,
aud would continue so until civil govern
ment—overturned by the rebellion—was
again legally set tip.
Now, there nre two propositions grow
ing out of this statement of facts, about
which It is vain to dispute. The logic of
events has Irrevocably settled them. These
are: that the organization set up hy the
Secession Convention was illegal, and that
the organization set up In 1803 was ret
up, not under any laws, or previous Con
stitution of Georgia, but under tho au
thority of tho United States, hy virtue of
Art. 1, Sec. 4. The first pr.qax-ltiou U . i-i-
tled by the war. The last is a simple fact,
undcnlcd and undeniable. The President
of the United States, on tho theory that
the State liad no government; that civilly
It was iu a condition of anarchy; took
military possession of it; exercised mili
tary law lu it, ami as commandcr-ln-chief
of tho army, issued his predomination
calling a convention of the people; fixing
the day for the election; the number of Its
members and tliclr qualifications, and the
qualifications of Its voters; excluding from
that privilege all unpardoned rebels, and
all men of black complexion.
This convention was not called by any
power of tho State, hut by the President
of the United States, under that clause of
the Constitution making It the duty of tho
United States to guarantee to each State «
Republican Government.
The legality of thegovernment Inaugura
ted In 1865 Is dependent altogether on the
authority of the President to call the con
vention; to fix the qualifications of Its
memlwr* and of those who should vote at
the elections—in other words, the present
government Is founded, on tho power of
the United States to interfere and to cause
to be set up in a State a new government.
It Is estopped by Its very origin from de
nying the power. If no such power ex
ists, Governor Brown is now the legal Gov
ernor of Georgia, and Governor Jenkins Is
a usurper. It Is altogether vain, in tiie ac
tual state of affairs, to suy that this action
Of the President was itself Illegal; that the
old government of 1861 should have been
reinstated on the annihilation of the Seces
sion Government. The quarrel is be
tween the government Inaugurated un
der the orders of the President, and
the Government proposed to be Inau
gurated under the acts of Congress. The
Constitution gives this power to tbo Uni
ted States—not to the President—and it
belongs to the law-making powen—the
President and Congress, under the forms
and respective powers fixed by the Consti
tution for those two departments—to exer
cise their functions. ■ - x:
Perhaps the truth of thfteise Is that it
makes very llttlo difference how a Conven
tion is called, or how a new Government is
inaugurated, if Jt is In accordance with tho
will of the people; if it Is republican in
form; and ir it Is hot in antagonism, but
In harmony with tho United States; if it
will fulfill the conditions of a Government
that It is the duty of the United States to
guarantee.
But Is not this essentially. In the case be
fore us, a question of foot? There ha*
been, as Is admitted on all hands, an illegal
Government; one that the United States
refused to recognize, and one that did not
recognize the United States. A new Gov
ernment presents itself. Is it not in the
power, is It not tho imperative duty of thje
Congress, before it does recognize and
agree by that to guarantee its existence,
to inquire Into its history; learn If it l* tiie
will of the people; if Jt Is repubJJean in
form; and to test its accordance with the
laws and Constitution of the United
State*:
Surely such a power must exist some
where. There must be some arbiter to de
cide when the conditions are fulfiulled,
when the new Government is entitled to
the guarantee which the United States Is
bound to furnish.
That arbiter is Congress. More than
twenty years ago that very question was
before tho Supreme Court of the United
States, and thuthigh tribunal unanimously
decided that It was the prerogative of Con
gress to decide it, and that the Supreme
Court would not nml could not even in
quire If Congress decided rightly. It was
a legislative question, and could not be re
viewed by the Judiciary.
In the exercise of this high power, Con
gress lias examined the history of tiie Gar
ment represented by Governor Jenkins,
and has declared It to tie Illegal, and has
refused to give it that solemn guarantee it
is bound to give to every State Govern
ment It recognizes.
The argument does not require us to
show that Congress acted wisely or kindly
In this decision. It is enough that the de-
ision is made under the power given l*y
the Constitution, and there is no ap]>oa!
from it except to the ballot box.
There are several serious errors afloat in
the use of terms on this discussion. Men
talk as if the State and the Government of
the State were the same tiling, and gravely
contend that as Congress has detcrmln* d
the State tube without a legal government,
that It has therefore determined the State
to be out of tiie Union. But the Constitu
tion of the United State* expressly draws
i distinction between a State and the gov-
rnment of a State, it provides that the
United States shall guarantee to each State
Repuhliean Government. Here is the
State and the government in the same sen
tence used in opposition, and It is contem
plated that the government of a State may
become illegal, moimreldeal, aristoerleal. or
auarchal. During the war. Georgia was a
State, entitled to all the rights of a State
and hound to the responsibilities of a State,
know to our sorrow, by being hound
for the. land tax laid for the special pur
of overturning the illegal organiza
tion theu existing hi the State.
Georgia is a State now, and entitled to
representation; but, to exercise the right,
it is necessary that she shall have a legal
and legitimate government—the machinery
absolutely necessary for exercising her
rights.
If there is no legal government In Geor
gia, the other provisions of the Military
BUI lire easily defended. In a State of an
archy there can be no conflict between the
military ami civil power, because there is
no civil power. The military power re
mains until the civil government can be
re-inaugurated; and if tho i'resident In
1805, anu the Congress now, finds In opera
tion a civil organization willing to net,
though Illegal in fact. It is an act of kind
ness to make sueli use of It as it can to
mitigate the unpleasantness of pure mill'
tury rule. As a matter of course, each of
tho points I havo presented will hear much
amplification; but you have, as briefly usl
can give It, the general line of argument
that has occurred to me.
Yours truly, * * * *
Ravaoes op the Cholera in Europe.—
The latest foreign ndvices bring frightful
statistics of the ravages of the cholera in
Italy. From January to July of the pres
ent year, there have been no less than 63,-
376 cases of this disease, 32,074 of which
were fatal. The Sicilian provinces seem
to have suffered most; but not one of the
forty-nine provinces of Italy hat escaped,
and tho figures show that more than one-
half of the cases resulted In death. At
the latest accounts, the deaths in Palermo
had reached 100 dally; but in Florence
there had been but two cases, and some of
the othor cities were exempt from the
scourgo entirely.
The cholera has found a royal victim at
Rome In the person of Queen Maria The
resa, of Naples. Her Majesty was the
daughter of the Archduke Charles, the cel
ebrated leader of the Austrian army du
ring the wars of the French Revolution
and of Bonaparte. 8he married Ferdinand
II. of Naples in 1837, became a widow In
I860, but continued to reside with her step
son till the ex-king was displaced by Gar
ibaldi. One of the daughters of the Queen
Is the second wife of tho present Arch
duke Charles of Austria, brother to the
Emperor: another daughterU married to
the Archduke Charles of Tuscany.
The cholera is said to be making alarm
ing progress at Warsaw, As many us 300
cases a day occur In a population of 300,*
000. Since the 2d of June, When the epi
demic appeared, about 4,000 persons have
been attacked, and more tuan half th§
coses have terminated fatally.
Naturalized Citizens.—Tho Mont
gomery Sentinel says that Naturalised
citizens who registered without naming
the date and place where they wore natur
alized should go at onco to tho Board of
Registers and furnish the desired Informa
tion ; otherwise, tbclr names will bo strick
en off. 11 this rule is observed In Geor-
gl»—as wo suppose it will bc-^ur friends
who have becomo citizens by naturaliza
tion should not disregard It. 4 ’ •>
tSTBcllo Boyd, now Mrs. Hard Inge, is in
Baltimore. She has left her husband, and
will settle In 6t. Louis.
A correspondent of the London Star ob
serves: “We have had such looseness of
quotation among literary men lately—
Wordsworth for Keats In (lie Times, Kem
ble for Moore lu the Atheneum, etc. That
tho Lord Mayor U to l>e executed for quo
ting os the words of Edward Everett tho
finest sentence ever uttered by that great
orator, Daniel Webster.
John McCarty, who murdered Ruth
Langford, In Baltimore, on the Fourth of
July, has been arrested In Kt. Louis, and
will beheld until un officer arrives from
Uultlmore to take him In custody.
Tho veteran T. W. says of Jesse D.
Bright: “When, fifty year* ago, we he'd
a bright hoy upon our knee, if it hud been
predicted that he would grow up an enemy
to the Government and Union, we should
have simply said that It was prepostcrcu*.
Ills father, David G. Bright, Clerk of the
county of Chenango, was at that t!m.> a
Repuhliean. aud a* devoted in his patriot
ism as any living man.”
Street venders of photographs In Purls
are now selling for tho trifling sum of one-
half penny each tho carte* de rigUc of
Maximilian aud Lopez. That of Maximil
ian Is considered a very good likeness; but
It has been found out at the Prefecture 5 of
Police that the one sold as being the pho
tograph of Lopez is nothing euo hut the
portrait of Leak, the great Hungarian cit
izen—Deak. the personification of honor
and patriotism.
Mr. Frederick Thornton fives in Buffalo,
and has the misfortune to talk In hi* sleep.
Buffalo has a mysterious murder sensation
which so far has defil’d the detective. Not
long ago Mr. Thornton lay down on a
lounge to indulge in an afternoon iiHpt and
ids landlady heard him mutter, “ Why the
d—1 didn't they put her head on the
bench.” This frightful remark was carried
m>11cc, and Mr. Frederick Thornton
soon found liltuseif in jail on charge of
killing Georgia Cnrkrllf. Thirteen dajs
after. Tie was honorably discharged.
Hon. Erastus D. BeaOli, a prominent cit
izen and for several years Democratic can
didate for Governor of Massachusetts, died,
iu Springfield yesterday.
An old resident of Cedar Valley. Iowa,
named Butler, living near Cedar Falls,
shot hU son last Saturday, inflicting a
probably fatal wound. Some of the old
man’s money was in the son’s hands, ami
he refused to deliver It while his Hither was
drunk. Mntler was taken to jail, and died
next day of delirium tremens.
Block ley, the assistant of Mr. Stanbury.
was not allowed to take part in the Cabinet
council yesterday. .The same ride. It
is said, will hereafter he applied to all As
sistant Secretaries, when temporarily in
charge of their departments.
Fanny Kemble is exacted to visit this
country to read, either the coming winter
or next spring.
The Vicksburg Tlmea. of the 18tli, con
tains an account of the death of seven, and
the serious illness of twelvo, guests of Mrs.
Col. Hebron.of Bovina, Mississippi. Their
svmptoins resembled cholera, but the phy
sicians decided them to be tho effects of
poison. Five servants who accompanied
the guests alsti died, while none of Mrs.
Hebron's turnouts wore affected. A Miss
Hebron, daughter of the hostess, is among
the dead.
Alexander MeCauslnnd, the builder of
the first steam fire engine ever made In
Philadelphia,.died at that <*ty Saturday.
He was a chief engineer in the navy dur
ing the war, ^.ud one of tiie host machinists
and inventors in the country.
The chair of tho Greek Language nml
Literature in Miami University has Jtmt
been tilled by tho uppoiutiuent of the Rev.
Sirauel II. McMullln, of Philadelphia.
Prof. McMiUlin is a brother-in-law of Dr.
Moffat. Professor In the Theological Semi
nary, Princeton. New Jersey* and also of
Hon. Stanley Matthews.
Itltscellaneona*
Tho Chicago Times says of Hon. John
Wentworth, who was thrown out of a
buggy lately: “It is now announced that
the Injury which Mr. Wentworth sustained
was 4 a fracture of the surgical neck of fe
mur. and stellated fracture of acetabulum.'
which seems to carry the Idea that Mr.
Wentworth may previously have been os
culating a tumbfemm infusented by un
infusionum of juniperberriuin.”
Tho Sultan, while nt London, had a lamb
brought to the palace every morning,
which was slaughtered there hy his butch
er, after a certain ceremony hud l»cen per
formed over It. Fowls were also killed In
the same fashion. Tho Sultan always dined
alone; there was a special dinner prepared
for Ids son, who also dined ulono*as did his
two nephews.
The erratic Gov. II. 8. Foote got wrathy
In the Nashville Police Court, on Tuesday,
and accused the Judge of tyranny. lie
was timid ten dollars for contempt, and, for
further spirited remarks, ten more, and
finally u third ten. coupled with a sentenco
to twenty days’ imprisonment. Tho Judge
subsequently relented and remitted the
fines and sentence.
Kx-Rebel General Magnifier, going down
the Hudson on a steamer the other day,
asked a gentleman for a light from his
cigar, but Instead got in reply, “You’ll
have to excuse me; I lost two sons by
your infernal rebellion, and lmvo sworn to
have no friendly Intercourse with any roan
who took willing lot or part in your trea
son.”
Accompanying the new Turkish Minister
to the United States are his wife, two secre
taries and purely oriental servants (Nubi
ans,) the dress, features and manners of
the latter carrying one back to the land of
the orient. Ills first wife was a daughter
of Dr. Valentine Mott, of New York, and
his present one is a French lady.
Blind Tom secs his way clear to a fortune
In England.—Boston Post.
Guess not; Blind Tom’s old master sticks
to him with touching aflbctlon, aud kindly
absorbs all the receipts.
Remedy von Hydrophobia.— 44 S.” In the
London Times, give a remedy for hydro
phobia which. It Is stated, was habitually
used by the lute Mr. Youatt, a well-known
veterinary surgeon, who was bitten by
nmd dogs eight times. Tho remedy was to
allow tiie common nitrate of sliver, easily
procurable, filter in the wound. It de
composes the saliva, and In doing this de
stroys tho virtu. Sir Benjamin Brodio and
tho writer acted upon this in a case where
n mad dog had licked the inside of a child's
mouth, with comploto success. The best
inodo of application of the nitrate of silver
Is by introducing itsoltdly into the wound.
Bonnets.—Tho most novel and stylish
bonnet of tbo season which boa yet ap-
pcaredsays Domorest, consists of a sort of
round Fanchon, the foundation of which
Is stiff laco, bound with purple satin. Tills
foundation is covered with a largo purplp
velvet dahlia, which spreads out from ft
center rdund and fnn-Ilke, and extends t
the edge of the satin binding. Two
grasshopper* or bees on quo side, and pi
Ce'fe!"*'’ COn,pkte