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HDffhli) J&telligrncrr. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, January <Q, 1866. ■(galatlou *r ike Vnadafeea’s Bureau for fiMrgla. A few days ago we published the Regulations of the Freedmeu’s Bureau for this State, to which reference is made in the following extract from an article in the Nashville Ditpaieh, and to which we now call the special attention of our readers: Gen. Tilson, the Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for the State of Georgia, has recently issued a very important order upon this subject. He gives to freed people who are so situated that they can support themselves and families without work, the privilege to make contracts or not, as they please. He also gives to those who have got work the privilege of cbosing their own employer. But there is another ground he lakes, which we trust will be carried out to the letter. He announces to the freed people who have no visible means of support, that un less they make contracts before January 10, 1860, the officers and agents of the Bureau will make contracts for them; and what is of great impor tance with whom the contract is made, will com pel the freedmen to carry out any bargain which mav be arranged for them. Gen. Tilson gives good reason for pursuing this course. He truly states that “it is imperatively necessary that contracts be made to ensure u supply of food and escape starvation the coming year,” and that it is also necessary “ that contracts be made in time to prepare for raising crops the ensuing season.” Another good thing Is contained in this order.— All persons arc forbidden to tamper with the colored laborers, or entice them away from their employers, before the expiration of their contracts, “cither by offering them higher wages or other inducements;” and the officers and agents of the Bureau arc instructed to punish by fine or other wise, any person convicted^of such an offense.— The order concludes with this sensible remark The public interest requires that labor bo made reliable and profitable, and so long os the freed laborer is well paid and kindly treated, this Bu reau will not tolerate any interference with the rights and interest of employers.” The wages paid by the planters of Georgia are twclvo to fif teen dollars per month, with board and lodging to full male, and eight to twelve dollars to full female bauds, the laborers to furnish bis own clothing and medicines. The freedmen will find their safety in labor. Born in tho South, they will probably live and die among t^o people with whom they have been reared. They will learn, if they have not al ready learned, that the Southern people are their l»cst friends, and that while they honestly labor to support themselves, they will never lack for frieuus. Let them go to work, and conscicn tiously discharge Tic duties that devolve upon them, and they will be better off at the close of the present year. The policy which Gen. Till- son has marked out for the government of the freedmen of Georgia will be pursued in all the Southern States, aud tho freedman taught by militaiy force, if necessary, that they must be come self-sustaining. They have their all at stake in the solution of the great problem now tieing worked out in the Southern States, and the sooner they comprehend this fact the better will it be for them. In a few days the period will expire when those freedmen aud freedwomen who li&vo no visible means of support will be permitted to remain in that condition, os, after the 10th instant, the offi cers and agents of the bureau will make con tracts for them which they will be forced to carry out. We call the attention of all such to this order. The time will soon pass by when idling and loafing about the streets will be tolerated by tho authorities who have charge of this matter, and it would be well for all such totalize at once their condition, that they may seek homes and go to work. Tho Dispatch, too, is right when ii says that “another good thing is contained in this order” of Gen. Tillson, to-wit: that “ail persons are for bidden to tamper with the colored laborers, or entice them away from their employers before the expiration of their contracts.” Too much of this has been done already, and we trust that in every case of the kind that may occur hereaf ter, heavy penalties will be inflicted upon the offending parties by the officers of the bureau in this State. Persons who make contracts with freedmen or freedwomen will hazard a great deal if they do not receivo the approval of, or have them rati fied, by an officer of the Freedman’s Bureau. Let no one be negligent enough to omit doing so, and that prior to the 10th instant! An Important Report. The Milledgeville Federal Union announces that tho Report of the Commissioners appointed by the State Convention to propose a System of Laws to carry into effect tho fifth clause of the fifth section of the second article, and latter part of the third clause of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the State, has been made and printed. It makes, says that paper, a pamphlet of thirty-nine pages, and is t he work of Judge Starnes, W. Hope Hull, Esq., L. E. Bleckley, Esq., and Samuel Barnett, Esq. The report is prepared into an orderly ar rangement of articles and sections, with the pro per divisions and titles of subjects, and is accom panied with the draft of a short adopting bill. In prefacing their labors, the Commission re marks : “We are sensible that, in presenting this sys tem of laws, we may be subjected to the imputa tion of having done at once too little anil too much—too little for those who are expecting an instant and speedy remedy for all the ills which the present crisis has brought upon us; too much for those whose prejudices have not yet yielded to the necessities of our situation. The mischiefs to be remedied are enormous, and there is more or less of an indefinite hope aud expectation that legislation will afi'ord nt once, and with all certainty, the proper remedy. It is impossible that thi9 hope can l>c gratified, this expectation realized. The results which are to ensue from such legislation present a problem that can only lie wrought out by experience. A prominent factor in tbe solution must therefore bo time. We cannot expect that for this, our distressed people will patiently wait, aud more or less of disappointment must issue. Prepared to accept this result, we shall not be mortified by intimations of feebleness, or imputations of fail ure, and shall lie satisfied with the humble meed of having honestly endeavored to do our part, and thereby contribute aid to those who are charged with the difficult duty of guarding the State ami the persons ot color in our midst from the evils of sudden emancipation.” New EncUud Scheming Again. It is stated in several of our exchanges that New England has a scheme to alter the Federal Con stitution so that export duties may be levied, the object beiug to secure cotton ten or twenty cents per pound cheaper than foreign nations can buy it and pay the export duty to that, or any amount that may l*e levied. The New England States being in the Union, they would,of course, receive it, cr any other product of the soil South or West, free, that an export duty ma_v be levied upon. Succeeding in this, the South and West, as consumers, would be forced to pay such prices as the New England manufacturers would de mand for their goods. The only way to trump this trick of the New England manufacturers, would be for the South and West to manufacture, their supplies at least, for themselves. By the way, has it ever entered the minds of the “Fenian Brotherhood” that in AW England they have an enemy more to be feared in the future than Old England f An enemy with all the world and “the rest of mankind ?”—a ruthless, persecuting, enemy, whom no law, human nor divine, has ever yet restrained in her greed after gain and in her intolerance and fanaticism f If this “Order” to which we refer has not thought of this, it is time it should do so, for if we be not deceived, the time is rapidly approaching when it will find in Few England a foe as relentless and persecut ing as ever Old England has been to the kith and kin of the members of that “brotherhood” in the “Land of Erin.” They manage things funnily in California— military funeral, for instance. After burying the deceased, the band comes back and serenades the widow. Aktbody can tell you about the daily rate of gold, but who, now that the Evening Exchange jg dosed, can tell about the nitrate of silver Y Thk most difficult operations in the practice of surgery is said to be “taking the jaw out of a woman-” The fellow who said that must be an old bachelor, of the large blue sort. | [ COMMUNICATED.] Wextern & Atlantic Railroad, > Atlanta, January 5,1865. j Editor of Intelligencer : Qexts—Allow me, through the columns of your valuable paper, to correct a mis-statement of facts contained in an article in the Louisville Journal, of the 28th December ult. In that ar ticle it is stated “that there were no less than 190 car loads of freight at Chattanooga, intended to go over the Western & Atlantic Railroad; that freight sometimes remains for several weeks at that place without any attention; and that the Superintendent of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad proposed to the officers of the Western & Atlantic Railroad to run his freight cars through-to Atlanta, for a small compensation, until their road would be relieved of most of this accumulated freight,” <fec. In reply to the above, permit me to say that the accumulation ot freight at Chattanooga was not owing to any neglect of the road or employees, but was the result of the inability of the Macon & Western Railroad, and the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, to receive the freight at Atlanta when ready to be deliv ered to them. The Western & Atlantic Railroad, at the time complained of, had from sixty to eighty cars loaded with cotton at Dalton, which it could not transfer to the East* Tennessee & Georgia Railroad, for want of capacity in the latter Road to receive. And at the same time, the Western & Atlantic railroad bad from thirty to forty cars at Atlanta, loaded with freight which the Macon & Western and the Atlanta & West Point roads could not transfer and receive for the want of cars. In ad dition to this, we had the track and side-tracks so crowded with cars, containing and delivering freight, as to have no capacity to receive the loaded cars on the road, but had to detain them on their way untiljlhc press could be removed. Further, it is not true that we refused to allow the Nashville and Chattanooga cars to come over our road, but consented for them to send as many as they possibly could, loaded to Macon, and the road availed itself of the offer; and had been, and was, at the time of the damage to our bridge*, sending its cars loaded with freight to Macon, and it now has a large number of cars this side of the Chattahoochee river unable to return. And further, that so far from requiring them to do it for a small compensation, we allowed them more than any other road, over which they run their cars, as can be vouched for by Captain White, President of the Macon & Western road We have continued to transport passengers and baggage, and expect next week to begin to transport the accumulated freight at Chattanoo ga ami other points, as we are now arranging to do so, till the bridges are completed. I hope the above state of facts may be sufficient to satisfy the public of tbe gross injustice that lias been done to this road and its officers. *' Robert Baugh, Sup’t. Louisville Journal and other papers circulating tbe charges will please correct the same by pub lishing the above. At the funeral obsequies of fourteen of the members of the Savannah Volunteer Guard Bat talion whose remains were recently brought on to be interred in “Laurel Grove Cemetery,” near that city, the venerable Bishop Elliott is re ported to have thus addressed the audience who were present at the place of interment: “The bodies of these gallant dead have been brought here from the field of their glory to mingle their dust with their native soil. We cannot now speak of them in such terms as we could desire. We cannot pronounce over their remains such a eulogy as would be agreeable to us, and just to their memories. We cannot now write their epi taphs, but the day will come, as sure as there is a God of justice above us, when not only we, but the people of this whole united country, will unite in raising a monument whose top shall pierce the skies, and upon which shall be in scribed this sentence—‘The noble rfrmy of mar tyrs praise Thee, Oh, God.’ ” President Johnson is still very reticent upon (lie subject of appointnients. He declines abso lutely to appoint any person to office upon the recommendation of a Congressman or Senator who does not support his policy. He is fixed also in his determination to pursue his reconstruction policy to the end. Congress may do as it pleases; he is determined that, so far as in him lies, the Southern States shall be regarded as States. He will let them perform all their local functions and elect their own rulers, and the only drawback they will have is a want of representation in Congreas. If the present Congress does not grant them this, President Johnson is sure that an ap peal to the people will elect a representative body that will admit the Southern Congressmen. At the recent American thanksgiving din ner in Paris, Hon. John Jay, of New ^rk, offer ed as a regular toast: “His Majesty, the Emperor of the French.” As no response had been made to the toast of the President, it was intended that none should be made to this, but that it should be received with cheers. The assembly was about giving them, when an excited Ameri can leaped from his seat, and, jumping into the middle of the aisle, cried out: “No American can drink that toast while a single French sol dier remains in Mexico.” The guests generally, however, seemed to consider that, under ail the circumstances, any demonstration of ill-feeling was out of place, and so drank and cheered his Majesty, although neither very deeply nor heart- ilv. _ The distinguished Southern author, Wm. Gilmore Simms, of the South Carolinian, pro poses to collect and publish a volume which shall comprise all the poems of merit, put forth in the several States of the Confederacy during the pro gress of the war of secession, and relating to, or suggested by its events and incidents. He re quests that copies of all such be sent him by their several writers, at the earliest possible pe riod. He could wish that each piece should be accompanied by the name of the periodical or paper in which it originally appeared. The date should l*e given when this is practicable. Secretary Seward, with his daughter, Miss Fanny Seward, and his son Frederick and his wife, left Washington, December 29th, in a steamer for the West Indies. He goes first to Santa Cruz, and will be absent three or four weeks. His object is mainly relaxation and the more complete restoration of his health. Mr. Hunter will be acting Secretaiy during his ab sence. ‘ usual, rumor has attributed all sorts of objects to tbe trip, even to the landing of the honorable Secretary upon Mexican soil, in search of Juarez and his Government, but positively it has no other object than the one stated. Notwithstanding the many predictions, says a Washington correspondent, that hqve been made of a lively time at the National Capital this winter, I doubt if Washington has ever present ed a more dull and uninteresting aspect, socially or politically, than at present, and the prospect is rather against than in favor Bf an improve ment. It was expected that the people of the South would be here in full force, knocking for admission to the doors of Congress, and throng ing the lobbies as in day9 of yore; yet there is very little of exaggeration in the statement, that it is almost as hard to find a South Carolinian or an Alaltamian here now, as it was a year or two ago. A delegation of four chiefs and braves of tbe Shawnee Indian tribe have arrived in the city of Washington to express to their Great Father the hope that he will make them some Christmas presents, and use his influence with the Indian Bureau to have their Kansas reserva tion exchanged for another located further South. Scarcely a month goes by without the airival of some of these “lords of the plains,” to pay their respects at the White House. They usually man age to beg a few hundred dollars’ worth of pres ents, and, after a “big drank,” clear oat for home, leaving the Government to pay their board bills. The President** Policy In the Free States. Under the foregoing heading, the Washington Chronicle, edited by J. W. Forney, says: “No statesman in his lookout upon the stage of Amer ican Continental politics, can deny the impres sion produced by the manner in which Presi dent Johnson’s plan of restoration is received and sustained. However brought about, (and no one can say that the verdict has been attained either by combination or corruption,) the fact is one that deserves and will demand respect. While it may be alleged that the acquiescence of the South is the result of necessity, none can success fully establish tbe charge that the feeling there has not become at last a roost sincreand gratejEul emotion. We now see the Southern people en dorsing and preparing to put into practical effect suggestions and projects which not many months ago, were classed among the most hideous radi calisms. That cannot be simulation or falsehood whieh discloses a whole section, lately the utter slaves of the worst prejudices and passions of sla very, deliberately and cordially setting themselves to the task of elevating, and educating, and other wise enfranchising the freedom. The state of popular sentiment in the free States is still more difficult to characterize as unsound or unreal.— It may be chaiged that the President’s plan is sustained by the aid of his patronage. Doubt less this has its effect upon many who have ta ken place at his hands, and upon others who ex pect his favors. But surely we cannot trace the very general support of his restoration measures by the Democratic party to any Buch hopes. At this point it is compensating to pause over a manifestation that proves a conversion as marked as that in the South itself Taking them at their word, and seeing in their course not only a high common sense that ought long ago to have shown itself, but a deference to results from which there is no logical escape, the Demooratic voters of the United States are now sincere supporters of the great anti-slaveiy measures by which the re bellion was chiefly crushed. The wise publicist can no more refuse to take account of such signs as those than the merchant can close Ids eyes to the changes of the money market, or the mariner to the unerring indications of the mag netic needle. But let us suppose, for a moment that the Southern people are not sincere, and that the politicians of both the Northern parties are controlled by the possession or the hope of office; no such suggestion can be justly indulged as to the motives of the great journalists and other leaders of opinion in the free States. These influences are happily and singularly independ ent of power. The most of them are men of fortune, earned after years of hard and coura geous struggling. There is not one of them whose life is not a lesson of the difficulty, yet also the nobility, of a contest with prejudice and power. It weighs enormously ou the side of the President’s plan of restoration that very many of these authorities are earnestly enlisted in its support. Chiefly in the interest and the organi zation of the Republicans, they speak for and mould the opinions of those w’ho always believed and followed them. There are, of course, oppo nents to this plan, but even among these we no tice little of the dogmatism and rancor of merely political conflicts. The questions are too new and too vast for mere controversy. They appeal to our best intellects, and to our religious patri otism. They should not be discussed, much less disposed of, in any but tbe noblest toleration. If we can maintain this tone, and hold together in the faith that united and strengthened and gave victory to our armies and navies, the freedom of our dear country will be founded on a new aud perdurable basis.” We have published the foregoing in order that our readers may form some idea of the daily ad vancing popularity in the Free States of the President’s restoration policy. Whatever we in the South may think of Forney, it is undoubtedly true that, personally, and through bis paper, he exercises much influence over the Northern mind; and sustaining now, as he does, the Pres ident’s policy, it may be reasonably supposed that those who have hitherto recognized him as their leader, will likewise do so. We have already called attention to the cor respondence between General Weitzel and Gen eral Mejia. The strong language held in one of the published letters of the Federal officer will have attracted the attention of our readers; and so also will the fact that the letter was returned— the usual form of intimation that it was of a character unfit to lie received. The correspond ence alleged certain grave breaches of neutrality on the part of our authorities on the Rio Grande; and admitted, under the hand of our command ing general there, that guns of the Mexican Re public bad been repaired on this side of the river with the knowledge of one of our officers. We recite these facts now to illustrate the significance of the news which announces, by way of New Orleans, that Marshal Bazaine, Louis Napoleon’s chief in Mexico, has sent an official dispatch to General Mejia, in which he states, for the benefit of all whom it may concern, that “the Northern frontier” of Mexico, the line of the Rio Grande, “ is under the double protection of the Emperor of Mexico, and the Emperor of the French.” This is an unmistakable menace; and is intend ed clearly to warn our authorities that, in viola ting, by accident or otherwise, their neutrality on the line of the Rio Grande, they will be brought to account by the potentate who wields the thun ders of the French nation. Threats of this grave character seldom take form between nations nn- til their diplomatic relations have made very ail- vadeed progress toward open rupture. The Emperor of Brazil has made himself very popular by going to the field of war. Let ters from Rio in the Providence Journal, state thSf every preparation is making to render his return one of the most brilliant events in the brief history of this people. Immense arches are span ning the streets, bearing inscriptions and trans parencies of the most flattering character. Im mortelles are seen everywhere, and words of praise and welcome will bum from thousands of gas jets on the night of his return. It was report ed some time since that an elaborately wrought- sword, costing, with its diamond settings, over $500,000, was to be presented to him. A new and undefined tom has been given to this feature of the welcome by the action of a certain Count ess residing there in Rio, who contributes largely herself, and calls upon eveiy lady in Rio to send a diamond with which to embellish the sword in question. There 19 scarcely any fabulous sum nameable that the cost of this sword may not reach under these circumstances.” The English papers are praising President Johnson and his policy. The London Times thinks that his confidence in the South and the bold liberality of his policy, are not likely to be in vain. The News characterizes his administra tion as sagacious and prudent The Telegraph says it affords both a crushing rebuke to the be lievers in an outworn diplomacy and a splendid encouragement to those who believe in tLe ca pacity of a free people to select fit rulers, when one sees that this self-taught tailor of Tennessee, bv virtue of his direct sincerity of purpose and his homely mother wit, bids fair to succeed in a task which might have sorely tried the statecraft of a Richelieu. The toiy Herald says that the President has agreeably disappointed at least one-half of the world by a wise and statesman like policy that will give him a high place in the pantheon of American worthies. The Boston Trarder says that the people in that city, not finding tenements, have gone into News •ftheBtf. ... The population of Chattanooga foots up 8.200, independent of tbe troops, who number 3,300— showing a very handsome increase since 1860, when the population was 4,500. A Washington dispatch to the Cincinnati Com mercial says: The intimation that an understand ing had been effected between the United States and France, in regard to Mexican mattere, is wholly unfounded. Tbe last phase of affaire was the proposition of the French Emperor to our Government to recognize Maximilian’s Govern ment as de facto. Secretary Seward’s reply, which the President indorsed, flatly refused such a recognition, and gave the reasons therefor.— Until a rejoinder from the _J?renph Government is received there will be nothing done by our Government bevond fitting out Mr. Campbell as -Minister to the Republic. The Madison (Wis.,) Jouffud says that, within the last five years, six children belonging to three families in Waterloo," in the before-mentioned State, have mysteriously sickened and died.— Their disease manifested itself in spasms, but its nature was not understood until recently, when a cow died with all the symptoms of hydropho bia. It was then recollected that the cow had been bitten by a mad dog six or seven years ago, and all the children had siriEe been drinking her milk. * B. F. Salkeld, a boy leas 'than eighteen years old, has been arrested as thS“ perpetrator of the attempt to throw a train on the Louisville & New Albany Railroad off the track. The New Al bany Register says Salkeld pleads guilty, and gives as his reason for the diabolical act, that, on the 14th ult., a conductor put him oft his train be cause he would not pay his fare. He said, also, that he was advised to the commission of the act by one G. W. Sbaw. Major General G. H. Thomas, after having made a tour through the States lately in rebellion, telegraphed to Major General O. O. Howard that, after careful investigation, he is perfectly satisfied that General Fisk, Assistant Commissioner for Tennessee and Kentucky, Gen. Tillson, Assistant Commissioner for Georgia, Gen. Swayne, Assis tant Commissioner for Alabama, and Colonel Tnomas, Assistant Commissioner for Mississippi, have administered their offices with fairness and impartiality to whites and blacks, and have been eminently succesful in securing a sense ofju9tice toward the negro, from tbe civil authorities of the States; and, if possible, they should be retained in their present positions- as long as they are wil ling to act. Mrs. Anna Cowell, the leading actress at Me Vicker’s theatre, Chicago, delivered another lec ture Sunday evening in detense of the theatre in response to the sermons preached by Rev. Dr Hatfield and other clergymen, who have lately preached against the immoip* tendencies of the drama as now put upon the stage. The press pronounce her effort a failure. It produced an opposite effect from that it was intended to con vey. A considerable portion was devoted to a fierce attack on tbe piety, honesty and morality of tbe clergy as a body; asserting that more of fenses against tbe majesty of the law; against public morals and the decencies of social life are committed by false priests and pious pretenders, than by any other professional or professing class in modern communities. The debate may now be said to be closed. In the United States District Court held at Ex eter, N. H., the information filed against John F. Cutter, of Hollis, in that State, who lett Hollis in 1863 and joined the Rebel army in Kentucky, for the confiscation of bis property, was dismissed on tbe ground that tbe property was in tbe hands of the trustees, and the pardon of the President relieved it from liability to confiscation. FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia, Jan. 2.—A fire occurred to day at noon. The bnildings destroyed were of brown stone, live stories high. Loss about $100,- 000. They were the most ornamental on Chest nut street. All the money packages from Herndon’s Ex press safe and tire greater part of the freight in the building was removed, and the now supposed loss will be a quarter of a million dollars; but the amount of insurance is large and will proba bly cover the loss. „ The firemen worked manfully to subdue the flames, and at one time were throwing fifty-six steams of water in the rear end of the buildings. The site of the buildings was formerly occu pied by tbe old Chestnut street Theatre, Rock Hill & Wilson’s. Loss $50,000, Greater part of the stock removed. The building was insured. Perry & Co.’s loss $60,000. They were insured $45,000. FROM BALTIMORE. Baltimore, Jan. 2.—Rain has been falling here all day, but the temperature is mild for the season. The colored people assembled en masse this morning, at the Frst Africa&GjMMch, to celebrate their deliverance from slavrtp.Several addresses were made. At the opening of the new billiard house to night, Phelan and M. Carme played a match game of 500 points; Carme victor, running in one score 20 points. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. Leavenworth, Jan. 2.—A safe containing $30,000 was stolen last night from the office of Major Ellis, paymaster. Two orderlies who are missing are supposed to lie the guilty parties.— $23,000 of the amount belonged to the Govern uient, and the remainder was private property. Major Ellis offered $1000 reward for the thieves. THK FENIAN CONGRESS. New York, Jan. 2.—The Fenian Congress a&scmbled to-day, a guard being in the door from the 99th regiment refused admission to all not provided with credentials from the State Centre. The body was then called to order, and Major Kelly, of Indiana, was appointed Chairman.— Resolutions sustaining O’Mahony were adopted, and Congress proceeded to the transaction of other business, notice of which has not yet transpired. There were two plenipotentiaries from Ireland present, and it is stated they have brought letters from Stephens who is said to l>e in France previous to the opening of Congress. Messrs. Mority, Sinnolt and Mullen, of the Fe nian Senate, met in Senate Headquarters in pur suance of regular adjournment of November 7tli, but there being no quorum present, adjourned. Report says two English detectives were exposed and refused admission to Congress. The Fall of Columbus.—The Columbus En gnirer says: It wilkbe seen that Gen. Wilson states the number of troops that accompanied him in this expedition to have been seventeen thousand men. His report of operations at Columbus is short, but it contains information of interest. He con firms the statement that his troops held the bridge, in the rear of our defense, when they broke through the Confederate lines. He says that they gained this position by passing around the inside of the Confederate lines, under cover of darkness. Thi9 fact, with a statement of the nature of the Confederate defenses, will serve to show how it was, as stated, that only a few hun dred men were engaged in tbe assault that broke the line. The Confederate line extended from the upper bridge, around Dr. Ingersoll’s place, on the Summerville heights, so as to include a fortification on those hills, and the railroad bridge. It was a single line, of perhaps a mile and a half in length, over ground much broken by hills and ditches. This attenuated line, guarded by twenty-five hundred or three thousand men, hastily collected from the workshops, the militia reserves of old men and boys, and other mostly undisciplined troops with arms as hastily col lected and various in character, was con fronted and threatened at every point by General Wilson’s superior numbers of trained troops. They had reached the rear of our line, and held the bridge, the only avenne of commu nication with headquarters in this city. The darkness and the nature of the ground wonld have prevented any rapid concentration of the Confederate troops to defend an assailed portion of the line, even if the disposition of the United States forces had not been such as to prevent it. Under these circumstances, it can he easily un derstood how three hundred men assailed the line at any point, with comrades of theirs in its rear, holding the only passage by which rein forcements could be sent to the Confederates, could break through it And this statement of the progress of the fight shows how easy was the capture of the city after the line had been bro ken. Gen. Wilson’s troops, by their possession of the bridge, effectually cut off from the city al most the entire force collected to defend it, and separated them from the officers in chief com mand. Indeed the order last sent from head quarters in the city had been intercepted before the line was broken. It is plain that if the Con federate dispositions had been different, a much more stubborn and bloody defense might have been made. But as the fall of the city, when at tacked by such an army as Gen. Wilson’s, was. inevitable, it is no doubt best that events took such a turn as to involve such little loss of life. The Griffin Star says: Lt. Col. Springer left us on yesterday, for his new field of duty in Atlanta, where he takes command of the two Sub-Districts, now consoli dated. We regret to part with so estimable a gentleman and hope our loss may be his ‘‘eternal —” We congratulate the citizens of Atlanta The Fenian Fend. The New York Tribune ot Saturday furnishes some additional items on the Fenian question. It says: The dissensions in the Fenian councils, which have come to be sensationally designated as the “Fenian Feud,” the “Fenian Fight,” etc., still continue to furnish considerable interesting reading for the general public. Notwithstanding the facts that the Senatorial faction affect to treat with contempt the approaching O’Mahony “Con vention,” the assembling of that body will un doubtedly be the most important development which thjgjntestipp. uBubles -of Fenians have as yet given nse to. But it must not be hastily.con- cluded that a struggle is about to occur in which the cause of the Senate will have the poorest show of success. At the Jones House headquar ters, indeed, there is every appearance ot hard and zealous work in the common Fenian cause, and in opposing the designs of O’Mahony and his adherents. To one who has been at the redezvous of both factions, a lively. CONTRAST BETWEEN THE TWO HEADQUARTERS is constantly presented; which certainly, so far as republican simplicity and hard work are con cerned, is in favor of the Senatorial party. The interior of the W liite Ho#*} on Seventeen th street, presents a numher of office^ filled with empty desks and idle clerks; the hall is filled with a number of lazy lackeys; the handsome chande liers are covered with a dust which betrays negli gence on the part of the employed of tile estab lishment; and everywhere is observable an empty pretension of pomp, combined with none of the bustling activity which speaks of a real, genuine zeal in the formation of a new Govern inent. . At tne plain rooms occupied by President Roberts and his associates, however, there in an entire absence of this unmeaning show—whieh may, it is true, dazzle' for a moment the more unreasoning visitor from the circles of the rural districts, but which can inspire the thinking, well- wishing observer with nothing less than supreme contempt. No ceremony is required to effect an entrance into the rooms. The interior always presents a quiet but busy scene—the few tables being mostly occupied by several secretaries, en gaged in copying import ant documents or writing in books, while the worthy President confines himself almost entirely to the responsibilities with which his position is burdened, and may hourey be seen conversing with some person on import ant business, or otherwise engaged. Altogether, everything seems to indicate zeal and labor, anil assuredly, if hard work can accomplish every thing, the Senate will be victorious in the coming contest. THE CONVENTION will duly assemble at Clinton Hall on the 2d of January. According to the O’Mahonyite repre sentations, 800 delegates will be present. The friends of the Senate contend tliat the attendance will fall far short of that number—that the O’Ma hony party would have to take more than one- halt of all its Manhattan Circles to fill the hall to that extent Be that as it may, the Convention and its action will unquestionably mark an im portant period in the Fenian imbroglio; and much of the indifference manifested by the Sena torial party is more pretended than genuine. The Convention and its action will constitute O’Mahony’s last card for power, and it may be depended upon that he will play it to the best advantage. RUMORS REGARDING STEPHENS continue to be prevalent, but it is difficult to ad vise the public as tc^fre correctness or incorrect ness of any of theniT It is still the common im pression that Stephens will soon arrive in this countiy, and this impression is shared by some of the more enthusiastic leaders; but the higher authorities appear to have little expectation of the arrival of the Head Centre here. At last ac counts—which were of course meagre and ob scure—he was in France. It is supposed that he has decided Europe to be his most useful field, and will not visit America at all. We can only wait for the coming Convention, and for the na tural developments of “broadening time.” An Eloquent Peroration.—Wc stated on Saturday that the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, cencluded the argument befor the United States Supreme Court, in support of the application of Mr. Garland, of Arkansas, to be admitted to practice before that tribunal without being required to take the oath prescribed by act of Congress. In conclusion, Mr. Johnson spoke as follows, whilst the most impressive silence was preserved. “Will the Court indulge me with a word or two more? Every right-minded man—every man who has within his bosotn a heart capable of hu man sympathy—who is not dead to all the kinder anti nobler feelings of our nature—who.is not the slave to his own dishonor—of low, degraded passion, of hatred to liis countrymen, or ot poli tical partisanship solely bent on its own wretched triumph—reckless of the nation’s welfare, but must make it the subject of his daily thoughts and of his prayers to God, that the hour may come, at once,'when all the States shall be again within the protecting embrace and shelter of the Union, enjoying alike its benefits, (and greater were never Vouchsafed to man,) contented and happy and prosperous, sharing in its duties, de voted to its principles, and participating in its renown, And when the people throughout our almost boundless domain ma} 7 be seen coining together as brothers, with one love of countiy 7 and one hope of a common destiny of safety, welfare, and national glory—with one determination to achieve it by united efforts—inspired and strength ened by an equally pure and ardent patriotism, former differences forgotten, and nothing remem bered but their ancient concord and the equal title they have to share in the glories of the past and to labor together for the even greater glories of the future. And may I not, with truth, assure your Honors that this result will be expedited by the bringing within these temples of justice, the Courts of the United States—a class of men now excluded who, by education, character, and pro fession, are especially qualified l>j 7 their example to influence the public sentiment of their respec tive States, and to bring these States, if any doubt yet exists, to the conviction which, it is believed, they unanimously entertain—that to support anil defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Government constituted by it, in all its right ful authority, is not only essential to their people’s happiness and freedom, but is a solemn duty to their country and their God. “May it please your Honors, (lepeud upon it, that in that event they will be seen gathering around the altar of the Union resolved to support it under every exigency and at all hazards, as one man, and with one voice lie heard invokin the blessing of Heaven for its maintenance and preservation till time itsell shalf be no more,” An old man in his seventy-seventh 3 7 ear lately hanged himself in a Paris garret. The authori ties found among his effects a document entitled ‘Mysteries of my Life,” which had the following strange preface: I belong to a very good family. I was well brought up. Fatally lor myself, I adopted as my device the Italian maxiiii, “Chi at. piano va sano.” 1 know now that on the contrary, no man should leave for to-morrow what he can do to-daj\ For my part, I believed that before do ing anything, it was necessary to deliberate long anil maturely; and the consequence was that all I took part in turned out unsuccessful. Bj 7 this mania of postponement and this dilatoriousness of execution I injured my fortune. I forfeited an important sitnation, and I missed ten marriages. Iihave broken jvith all my friends, because I never could return a visit in proper time, pay back an act of politeness, nor keep an appointment, an d I was always an hour too late. I hail excellent servants, but I never was well served, because I never was ready to he served. I thought myself extremely prudent, and always found myself in a false, or a difficult position. After long and pro found reflection, I am now convinced that my constant liabit of putting off everything was but a pretext, that my real character was one of self ishness and sloth ; and that I sought to hide or to cover that double vice with a fictitious virtue. I w r as deterred by the fear of fatigue, by my dis gust of bodily and mental exertion, by the indul gence of continuous and lethargic repose. Such is the true cause of the vexation which I have constantly experienced. I believe the judgment I now pass upon myself to be correct. At my age I am on the brink of the grave. The thought of self-mm der is come upon me, and as for once in my life I mean to take an energetic resolution, and not to postpone it, I hang myself. Fromth* Richmond (Va.CTime?. A XUeb Article oa Gca. Bntlcr-Hta Char acter Portrayed. BUTLER RESIGNED. A terrible calamity has plunged the whole land in tbe blackest depths of grief and despair. The nation is reeling from the effects of a fearful loss. Massachusetts, with streaming eyes, is clothing herself with sackcloth and preparing to sprinkle ashes over her same habiliments of inconsolable woe. Benjamin, treasonably called Beast, but surnamed Butler, her well-be-loved and greatest warrior, has shot like a meteoric stone from the military firmament of lesser suns, planets and fixed stars, and has ceased to be a Major General. He tendered his resignation the other day, and as republics are proverbially ungrateful, the Pres ident, forgetful ot the blitzing -glories of “Big -Bethel,” of the immortal houors of “the Gap, and of the flaming renown of the “fire fchip,” ac cepted the mighty warrior’s resignation. The newspapers with malignant emphasis assert that it was promptly accepted, and one Godless jour nal viciously hints that the proffered retirement of the mighty Boabdil was “snapped at by the war-office authorities.” <& Profound as will be the grief of the civilized world at the retirement of this honored and hou- est hero, Virginia is almost desolated at the na tional bereavement involved in his Ibss. We shall always recollect that many of this great man’s most famous and wondrous achievements were upon our soil. His'first essay at a pitched battle was at “Big Bethel.” It was here he dug his immortal “ditch,” and from the waters of Virginia the great fire ship sailed and exploded with such terrific and harmless splendor a few miles from Fort Fisher, after which exploit- the General, with characteristic modesty, withdrew his forces from before that place and permitted a younger New England General to gather all the laurels. Two Virginia cities “near the sea” will ever hold in grateful remembrance the humanity, unselfishness"and splendid integrity with which he discharged his official trusts. At the very moment when the heart-rending intelligence of his resignation reached us, a mem ber of the Virginia Legislature, anticipating liis appointment to the command of this military division, had introduced a resolution redolent of pleasant reminiscences of the great warrior’s deeds of valor in Norfolk and Portsmouth. It was a toucuing and eloquent tribute to the late Major General, lor it recommended, in anticipa tion of his advent, a “distribution of all the money in the State Treasury among the widows and orphans of the deceased soldiers,” and also provided for the appointment of swift-footed “couriers” to convey the glad tidings of his arri val through the land, and to urge all prudent housewives to conceal their silver spoons and forks. It was an amusing peculiarity, we be lieve, of the great departed, that he was fond of plate, and had an exquisite taste iu jewelry, mu sical instruments, household furniture anil gold anil silver coin. The people of N ew Orleans de light to keep fresh the memory of liis remarkable taste in the line arts. At the moment when Benjamin, the well-be loved of Massachusetts, is taking leave of a weep ing country, anil when Columbia, with a well moistened mourning handkerchief at each eye, seems to say, ‘■‘■don't go, Ben,” it is to be regretted that General Grant should liaye alluded in his re port to the hero of Big Bethel in such significant and sarcastic terms as to show that he greatly contemns aud despises his pretensions to military skill. All of us remember that in the spring of 1864 General Butler, at the head of a vast army steam ed up James river and landed on the south side of that stream. As discretion always entered very largely into the valor of this great chieftain, he lailed to advance ou Richmond for some eight days, and for two or three of those critical days the Confederates always chuckled at the thought of having kept so valorous a man quiet with, we think, about sixty cavalry anil nine hundred iti- fautiy. To this especial part of General Butler’s military career Grant refers with an amount of grim derision whieh is ver^divertiug. He charges the General with being responsible for the fail ure of the first grand attack upon this city from the south of the James in May, 1864. It will be remembered that on the 14th of May, 1864, having then, as we lrave said, wasted eight priceless days, Butler telegraphed from Bermuda Hundreds to Washington that he had put him self across pretty much everything, anil added, “General Grant will not be troubled with any further reinforcements to Lee from Beauregard!” At that moment Beauregard, as Gen. Grant in forms us, thanks to the time wasted by Butler, had dra wn in all his “loose forces in North and South Carolina,,’ and was “bringing them to the defense of Petersburg and Richmond.” Two days afterward, on the 16th of May, he fell upon But- ler,and “forced him back between the forks ot the James and the Appomattox,” where, as Gen. Grant with sorrtewliat unhistorical, but by no means disagreeable malice, observes, “liis army, though in a position of great security, was as completely shutoff from future operations against Richmond as if he had been in a bottle, strongly corked.” General Grant’s quaint picture of General But ler “corked up in a bottle,” will live in history, anil furnish a splendid theine for the painter and the poet. With liis characteristic pertinacity, General Grant having hermetically bottled But ler, deems it not unailvisable to shake him up a little, as if lie was a sort of prescription, which required sucli treatment before disposing of him altogether. He pounces down upon him for liis famous “Fort Fisher” fiasco, and asserts that But ler went there with the army and fleet which was sent to reduce that place without permis sion. He pokes an infinite amount of dry fun at him when he says in his report., “I rather formed the idea that General Butler was [in go ing to North Carolina) actuated by a desire to witness the effects of the explosion of his powder ship. Phew! we call that a cruel hit. Anil General Grant renews the roar of inextinguisha ble laughter which followed the explosion of that remarkable ship, by sa}ing, with the most delightful maliciousness, that “the aforesaid ship blew up so harmlessly that nobody in the Con federate States hail the remotest idea what the explosion meant until tlic Northern papers ex plained the mystery.” In this opinion ‘General Grant is strictly correct, lor we really thought that a frightful disaster had befallen an “iron clad" until we were all convulsed with mere nient at the result of the ingenious Butler’s plan for blowing up Fort Fisher. In this, as in many other instances, Gen. But ler was singularly sparing of Confederate lives The care which, as a prudent, thoughtful warrior, lie invariably took of liis own precious life rnude him unwilling to shed human blood. Confisca tion was his strong point, and when lie moved with liis confiscating cohorts in the rear of “fighting General,” fie was really grand. But. alas! alas! this great and good man—this incom parable military Governor and most predacious and prudent warrior—this hero,- whose fame is familiar as a household word in three continents, whose deeds are at once the admiration of the brigands of Greece and the pirates of the Chi nese seas ; and whom Verres and Hastings might have envied as the upright Governor of conquer ed provinces, has gone from our midst, and no longer illuminates with liis splendid and incom parable reputation an honorable profession. We still hope that a very lofty anil well-merited ex imitation awaits him, although tardy justice aud the ingratitude of man may postpone it to his vert' last moments. Nemesis is sometimes appa rently inattentive to her favorites, but she rarely fails, in the long run, to mete out to them a mea sure of reward fully commensurate to their ef forts. year ago besieged the adjacent countiy in search of them, but that j U po n their new acquisition. We are still veiy in most cases they were doomed to disappoint ment. It adds that there are not within a range of twenty miles of Boston more than fifty houses for sale or rent, and to obtain even these it would lie necessaiy to pay a large advance upon former prices. This scarcity will, by the next spring, become so severe as to require the erection of a large number of dwellings even in the present high cost of building should continue to prevail fortunate in having in theplaeeof Col. Springer, Major Prickett, who assumes command of this Post, and we can say from personal acquaint- • once, lie is a number one man, and will try his liest to do justice to everybody. “Well, 1 can’t say that I’ve seen him drunk exactly, but I once saw him sitting in the middle of the "floor, making grabs in the air, and saying he’d be hanged if he didn’t catch the hed the next time it ran around him.” Effect ot Early Rising on Longevttt.— The Southern Journal says: We have seen lhe story, hut cannot vouch for the truth of it, that while a census was being ta ken in Germany some years since tbe habits of every centenarian were* carefully inquired into. Some of the veterans, it was found, had been consistent vegetarians; others had indulged in meats; seme had, and others bad not used to bacco and spirits, but all had been early risers. . As we have said, we do not know whether the i census above mentioned was a reality or a myth, bnt we have noticed in all the accounts of very aged people which have fallen under our notice that their subjects rose early. James McCormick, a native of Ireland, who died cn the Illh of No vember, at Newburg, New York, aged 114 ydare and three months, was no exception to tbe rnle. He often went to work before daybreak. When young be was a great walker, having once traveled on toot "a distance of fifty-two miles in thirteen hoars. He married at the age of forty- five, and had fourteen children, nine of whom lived to emigrate with him to this country in 1846. Under Which King, Bezonian, Speak or Die.—Lt. Gen. Grant and Maj. Gen. Schurz have made their reports upon the temper and condi tion of the Southern people. They were sent by the President for the purpose of learning and re porting the facts. They saw the facts from differ ent stand points, and of course differ materially in the conclusions at which they arrived. The former thinks the Government has ample reason to Ik- satisfied with the disposition of the people of the Southern States towards the Government, and that there exists no sufficient cause why they should not be admitted to participation in the functions of Government. The latter thinks an indefinite period of probation is necessary, in order to give time for trying certain governmental experiments, which radical reformers have set their hearts on. Does it take a sensible man long to decide which is the more capable to give a sound opinion in the matter ? Gen. Grant is, and was for a year before the termination of the war, the comman der in chief of tbe armies of the nation. He was elevated to that position for brilliant successes which had attended his career in subordinate capacities. He is marked for his common sense and general knowledge of men and things. He is distinguished for calm, clear, and moderate views. His course as a public man lias thus far been a success—the experience of the world presents few instances so complete. To • the sword, in Ills hand, the Southern people succum bed. It now holds extended the olive branch of reconciliation and peace. Gen. Schurz is that sort of soldier in whose hands “the pen is mightier than the sword.” Made, we lielieve, a Major General in the first year of the war, if he ever attained even medio crity 7 the chroniclers have failed to note it. A ripe scholar, he is versed doubtless in all the metaphysical \oxp peculiar almost to the German mind; and with capacity to evolve from its mists and mysteries a new scheme of Utopian govern ment every alternate day in the year; but want ing in actual, and practical, every-day ability, and lacking breadth and comprehension of views. Political causes made him a general, and party necessities and his natural inclinations constrain him to the course he is now pursuing. He never was, nor can be a success.—NashtiUe American. From the Louisville Journal. The Old Tejr; A vision of wonders was the old year. What heart-throbs and intense yearnings there were a i-day! What contradictory petitions c throne of heaven! Tramp, tramp, tramp was heard as far as the ear coulu hear, aud wherever the eve looked, there w ere long columns of bristling steel and prancing steeds and nodding plumes. Boom, boom, were the echoes. Huge forts frowned menacingly and de fiantly upon assaulting hosts. I p and down all our streams went the floating arsenals of destruc tion. From the Mississippi to the sea had just rolled a burning tide of desolation and death. Savannah’s mountain and valley were covered with tents and warriors mid ordnance, and the paraphernalia of slaughter. Men sank down, ex hausted at night from the terrible carnage of tbe day and slept‘sweetly in the awful husli, aud dreamed of wife, child, mother, sister, all un mindful of what thev bail done, or what they were to ilo on the morrow. The beautiful stars came out and shed down their gentle influences to soothe the weary sleepers. The morning came, and with it the reveille of ghastly death, the horrors of renewed encounters, “ And there were figured Strife and Tumult wild, And deadly Fate who in her ir»t grasp ’’ held the embattled hosts. Who should be the victors and who the vanquished? Men and maidens, and wives and mothers and lathers bowed their heads a year ago, and prayed more earnestly than for their soul’s salvation for vic tory, for success. See the long anaconilian folds .rath’er slowly but surely around the beleaguered city. The earth fairly trembles beneath the tread of more than a million of men. Measure if you can the wild tumults and passionate long ings of a single heart, anil multiply the result by hundreds and thousands upon thousands. Doom sits above the beautiful city, riot and conflagra tion are written in characters ot blood beneath the stars that nightly twinkle down upon her, but she knows it not. Her heroic defenders are as confident as they are brave, and if their com mander doubts lie keeps them to liimscli. Ah ! how men are directed from a source behind and above all their own genius or sagacity or powers or virtue. The Invisible guides or controls or uses their actions for purposes foreign to tlieir intentions. Through the clouds anil smoke that envelop them they 7 see not until they pass away. But hark, what "sounds of terrible import are those tlint,.come. “Striding the blast, or heaven’s charioteer, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air,” from the Federal city V * They are the peans of the assassins of triumph. It is the night of the 14th of April. But well might the conspiratois soliloquize, “We bnt teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague tho inventor. This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. Speedily indeed did even-hauiled justice over take them. Look again and see how tire dread phantom of war, of battles and sieges, of camps and squad rons have vanished. All our streams roll on again as quietly as of old. There is not a ripple on the surface so lately swept by the fierce tem pests of conflict. The white tents have disap peared. The mailed legions have subsided as if by enchantment. If you want to find them you must go to the quiet farms of the West, to the bus} 7 workshops and manufactories of the East, to the plantations of the South. More than a million of warriors brave as those of Alexander, impetuous as those of Napoleon or Cromwell, have become on the instant, as it were, peaceful citizens. Appears it not like some horrid dream from which one awakens in the morning only to find the rays of the bright sun pouring in upon hint the evidence that all is well ? Throughout a country larger than half of Eu rope where a year ago hostile camps confronted each other thick as the trees of the forest, over whose immense area rolled a tide of incessant war whose flames darkened the heavens, there is now no sound heard but the music that arises from innumerable hearts like grateful incense to heaven in thankfulness that the work of mutual slaughter is over, and the dark spirits of hatred and revenge are fled. Deep indeed are the wounds which the great struggle has made. Vacant anil desolate is many a home to-day. But time is a wonderful Nepen the, and peace and plenty, the sunlight and star light of sympathy, the hum of society, the cease less surges of the w'orld, new hopes, anticipations and aspirations will assuage the poignancy of the grief which stricken hearts only know, anil upon which we may not intrude. “What pang is permanent With man ? From the highest as from the Vilest thing of every day he lenrna to wean himself. For the strong hours conquer him.” From enmity comes amity; and from calami ties arise blessings. The storm refreshes, revivi fies, and rebeautifies. Haughty ambition, which o’erleaps itself, lias been chastened. If the night was black and the tempest fearful, how brightly breaks the morning! The bow of mere} 7 spans the horizon. Tbe exigency of the mighty crisis developed a suitable agent, and the God of our fathers was and is with us still. A j 7 ear ago, the chief of mighty armies felt se cure amid his bristling fastnesses. To-day he is helpless as a child. An institution which had grown with the centuries, which had served its purpose and was really for extinction evaporates with the smoke of a hundred battle fields. Was there no design there ? Get we no glimpse of the intent of the mighty game ? See we not liow events shaped themselves to produce the accom plished results? So the olil year with its history, its blood aud desolation, its realized and its crushed hopes spell away. Let tbe hatreds and the strife which it engendered go and perish with it. The period is to us always a sad one, anil we feel something of the melancholy which came over the great bard of antiquity when he com pared the race of men to leaves. “Tbe race of man is as tbe race of leaves; Ofleaves, one generation by the wind Is scattered on the earth; another soon In spring’s luxuriant vendure bursts to light, So with onr race; these flourish, those decay.” May the new year be one of peace and joy to all our readers. Greely in a Goon Humor.—The New York Tribune has a Christmas article congratulating the country upon the peaceful manner in whieh the heroes of the war (on either side) have be taken themselves to the ordinary pursuits of life. The allusions to the Southern soldiers speak w 7 ell forMr. Greely’s liberality of feeling. Here are some of them: “ Look at that vast multitude of routed, beat en, discomfitted men, whose valor has almost atoned for the sins of rebellion /” “ Our gallant gray brothers are even now clamoring around Washington,” &c. “ So with the Generals of the Rebellion. The greatest of them all is now a teacher of mathematics in a university. Sher man’s great antagonists are in the express anil railroad business. The once-dreaileil Beaure gard will sell you a ticket from New Orleans to Jackson ; and, if 3-011 want to send a couple of liams to a friend in Richmond, Joe Jolmstou. once commander of great armies, will carry them.— The man whose works Grant moved upon at Donelson edits an indifferent newspaper in New Orleans, while the Commander of the Rebel Cav alry at Corinth is liis local reporter. Marshall practises law in New Orleans; Forrest is running a saw-mill; Dick Taylor is now having a good time in New York; Roger A. Pryor is a daily practitioner at our courts; and so with the rest of this bold, vindictive and ambitious race of men.” An Aeerican Lady in Difficulty—Who is She?—An American lady, who represented herself to be the wife of a United States Consul appeared on the 13tli ult. at the Marlborough street Police Court, London, to take out a sum mons against Madame Rachel, the famous enam- eler, for the recovery of a diamond ring worth about a hundred and fifty dollars, given in con sideration of the obliteration of the marks left upon her face by the small pox. Tbe American lady, having full confidence in Madame Rachel’s advertisement to that effect, seems to have cross- ed the Atlantic for no other purpose than to av ®|* berself of the London enameler’s alleged skill; bnt under the conviction that she had been swindled, she claimed the return of the diamond nng. ThU being refused, she took out the sum mons which was granted. Madame Rachel’s defense is that the American lady was to have paid her £100, but had only paid £20 on account; that she hail attended her for eight days, and that the lady had also taken three or four “Arabian” baths at Madame Ra chel s house. The magistrate remarked that sometimes veiy large sums were obtained from persons who put themselves in the hands of ad vertisers. A sum of £800 had been obtained he believed, in one instance. He had no control over the press, and lie thought it would be bet ter to avoid discussion until the summons was beard. The Richmond Examiner calls for radical legislation in reference to the payment of debts, as follows: However redundant the currency may be else where, we all know that it is not so in the rum districts of Virginia. The people have had little uf n ? to st ‘N> ant l money was as plenty as blackberries elsewhere, it would be scarce where there was nothing as yet for sale. If the judg ments and executions are enforced, much of tlie rural population of Virginia will tie sold out, few honest, industrious country people can bo purchasers. With the large amount of property that will be forced into market, and the small amount ofmone}- in the hands of the rural popu lation, a complete change of countiy property- holders will be effected.