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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