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V L / “ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson. VOLUME XVIII. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22,1866. NUMBER 33. IDcrklt) intelligencer. PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY JARED IRWIN WHITAKER, Proprietor. ATLANTA. GEOSGIA, Wednesday,‘August 22, 1866. t'oniil) ffoxdM and (lie Inferior Court. We have upon several occasions called the at tention of the Inferior Court, who, it is under stood, has the necessary authority in the prem ises, to the unsafe condition of the bridge over Reach-Tree Creek, op the Roswell road, and to the had condition of the count}’ roads generally. The grand juries for the three last Superior Courts asked attention to this matter, hut so far we are unadvised of any effort on the part of the Inferior Court to remedy the evil complained of. This we regret, and earnestly hope their honors at the very next term will give this cause ol just complaint their prompt attention. This is due our merchants and businessmen, whose interests we have reason to know will he greatly preju diced by further neglect of this matter, as well as our neighbors from the country who desire to dispose of their produce in this market, and carry return freight of supplies apd merchandise to their homes. We arc credibly informed that one of the large mining companies in Lumpkin county have re cently shipped three, hundred tons of freight by way of Athens fin account of these bail roads.— Another company has shipped from this place at great risk and extra expense, over the roads and bridge, one hundred and thirty tons, but have determined to ship in future by other routes, un less these roads and bridges are made safe.— Five hundred tons of freight will be sent to Nort h Georgia by the 1st ol January, and all would go lroiu this place if the condition of the roads woidd authorize it. Surely, when there is so great an interest at slake the Inferior Court will awaken to a proper sense of its importance. By the way, why not. have the hundreds of vagrants and criminals who are idling around anil sent oil for minor ofjeuses, organized to work on the county roads? It strikes us that this would be a very proper disposition to make of this class. At any rate, we earnestly insist on the roads be ing worked at all hazards. ’■'lieu unit Non. In July, 1804, Horace Greeley, in a letter ad dressed to President Lincoln, ventured “ to sug gest the following plan of adjustment”—entreat- /iiy AIr. Lincoln not to “ fail to make the South ern people comprehend that you (Mr. L.) and all of us (the black republicans) are anxious for /inter, amiprt )>arett to grant liberal terma “1. The Union is restored and declared per petual. ‘‘2. Slavery is utterly and forever abolished throughout the same. “ 2. A complete amnesty for all political offen ses, with a restoration ol all the inhabitants of each State to all the privileges of citizens of the United States. “ 4. The Union to pay four hundred million dollars ($-100,000,000) in live per cent. United States stock to the late slave States, loyal and secession alike, to lie apportioned pro rata, ac cording to their slave population respectively by the census ol I860, in compensation for the losses of their loyal citizens by the abolition ot slavery. “5. Tbe said States to be entitled henceforth to representation in the House on the basis of their total, instead of their federal population, the whole being now free. “ <i. A National Convention, to be assembled as soon as may be, to ratify the adjustment and make such changes in the Constitution as may lie deemed advisable." * * * * Then, Mr. Greely, and “all of ax” (his po litical associates) were “ anxious lor peace were for granting “ complete amnesty for all political otlenses;" were even willing to pay the South ern people, “loyal and secession alike" (or their slaves; were lor allowing the Southern States representation in Congress; and would doubtless have granted them still more favorable terms than those proposed, or than Mr. Lincoln would then have granted, or President Johnson now proposes in his plan of Southern recon struction. Now, what “a change has come over the spirit ol their dreams?” Success lias made this Mr. Greeley and the other leaders of his party intolerant, arrogant, cruel. For restoration and peace there is uo longer any desire; amnesty lor political otlenses is now denounced as a crime in the President; payment for the freed slave is hooted at ; representation in the national coun cils is denied ; the Southern State* would be mere produce*> but for Andy Johnson,and him they would impeach and depose did they dare, tor only attempting to carry out the policy urged upon his predecessor and approved tin n by the party to which Mr. Greeley belongs. Then, that policy was correct; now it is odious and denounced its treasonable. Who can toll what a day may bring forth ? ” ’('lie lMilluilolpIiiu Convention. Up to the hour at which we write, the reports from the Philadelphia Convention indicate good feeling and entire harmony. This is cheering, and we trust that its entire proceedings will dem onstrate unity of sentiment and of action, on the part of the delegates from every section ot the I'nited States. Mr. Vai.landiguam has acted patriotically and wisely in declining to take his seat in the Convention. All honor to him for it. Mr. Feknando Wood, of New York, has done tin" same. The following letter addressed ov him to Mr. Doolittle explains his position. " Philadelphia, August 12,18(i0. lion. J. It. Doolittle : Dk.vk Su; : 1 am earnestly desirous for the en tire success of the movement proposed to be ini tiated by the Convention of to-morrow. If suc cessful, the results to the country will lie of the most salutary character, tint it cannot lie success ful it iis proceedings shall be disturbed by any cause whatever. I am informed that a serious disagreement is likely to arise in eousequeuee of an attempt to be made to exclude some delegates, myself included, because our political record is distasteful to tbe Radicals and their sympathizers. Now, although 1 feel confident that such an outrage would not ho perpetrated in niv case by the Convention, and though 1 have nothing to re gret or take back as to my course during the war —and I do not admit the right of auv oue to raise that question in the Convention under the call— yet 1 am too much devoted to the accomplish ment of the high and patriotic object in view to permit my presence there to be made the means of disturbing its deliberations, or an excuse for assault by its enemies outside. Therefore 1 shall not attend the Convention as a delegate. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Feknando Wood. M e notice a statement in some of our ex changes to tbe effect that though Mr. A. II. Ste phens will he in Philadelphia, and will do all in his power to promote the objects of the Conven tion. but will not take a scat as a delegate. Con nected with this piece of information, we see that our fellow-citizen, one of the delegates from this Congressional district, the llou. R. F. Lyon, has been appointed Chairman of the Georgia delega tion. The Washington Star says there is not a word of truth iu the statement telegraphed from that city that a delegation representing the commer cial men in New York and Philadelphia have b ’i*n there, urging the President to appoint a successor to Secretary McCulloch. No such delegations have called upon him ; and no man or set ol men ever urged the President to ap point a successor to Mr. McCulloch. The K«w Era. This is indeed a new era, anil a new era in journalism, if we take note of what the Atlanta Keu> Era occasionally dishes up for the edifica- | tion of its readers. Its yesterday’s leader on the Intelligencer is a rare specimen of what it is capable ; the wonderful agility with which it can dodge an issue; the brazen impudence with which it am make an unfounded assertion; and the readiness with which, like a hypocrite, it can cry ” A men.'” for a purpose. Not long since, the Atlanta New Era, as the public will remember, veDtured out on negro soifraye—the venture did not pay—it was an unfortunate venture, one that the people of Georgia did not sympathize with much, for the reason, simply, that it yielded more than they were willing to the demands of what is known in the South as Northern Radicalism. But this is a new era, and the Atlanta Xnr Era was only speculating upon it, that’s all, and as the speculation did not appear likely to prove profitable, its attention was turned to something else. The Convention question then camejto its relief, and, upon'this, its positions and course are too well understood in this*community lor it to attempt now to deceive any one in regard to it. Its course in this respect has mainly been one of opposition to the movement; constant and ear nest in its efforts, when it took ground against it, to keep the South from participating in it; exer cising what influence it could to impair the confi dence of our people in the movement. Even in its yesterday’s issue—after having ventured to pro nounce the charges we brought against it, “worthless,” “idle,” and so forth—it still doubts “most xerioux/y whether even in” the event the Convention may meet and pass off harmoniously “it had not hern better that Southern men had stood aloof.” This then has been the Atlanta New Era's position since it took ground, as we ob served before, against the Convention. In a pre vious article we stated, if we mistook not, that that journal at first advocated the Convention movement. We believe so still, but have no file of its daily issues to which we can refer to sat isfy us on that point, and indeed if we had we would hardly take the trouble, so little do we care for its position pro or eon. in relation to the mat ter, to hunt up the record it has made. Passing from the issue presented by our notice of the course of the Augusta Constitutionalist and itself, the Atlanta Kern Era, with the utmost ef frontery, asserts that the compliment paid this journal by a cotemporary was our “own lan guage.” This is a fair specimen of its fairness, of its regard to propriety and the rules that gov ern gentlemen in political discussions. It plainly exhibits, too, the envy ot an antagonist who can not hope for a similar compliment. The assertion is unfounded and untrue. We were not speak ing or writing of ourself, when we copied the article of an esteemed cotemporary. No more were we guilty of this self-laudation, than the Atlanta New Era would be ot self-abuse, if we were to write ot it, that “ it was a sorry sheet, poorly edited, and of no account,” and the Ed itors were to transfer the same to their columns. We would not be guilt}’ of this discourtesy, but some other journal might, and if the Era were to copy it, we would not say it “ was speaking of itself” and cry Amen! Amen! to it, what ever we might think. We do not know whether to attribute the assertions ot tlic Atlanta New Era, that the Intelligencer, when it copied the complimentary article referred to, used “ its ownlanguage,” and was “speaking of itself,” to stupidity or recklessness. Either is equally to be condemned in a journalist. The Editor of the Intelligencer, to whom special reference is made by the Atlanta New Era, made no insinuations, and his course has never been a doubtful one. He was an open ad vocate for secession and did all he could for the Southern cause, lie has no apologies to make for his course. Might prevailed, and in accept ing the amnesty tendered, he did what the best men of the South have also done. When he made up his mind to swear allegiance to the Constitution of the United States, to obey the laws thereof, and to support the Union, he did what duty prompted him to do, with no men tal reservation. He views the doctrine of Secession as an issue of the past—a dead is sue, a buried issue. In this, too, lie does not stand alone. Illustrious examples are before him, encouraging and cheering to him in the course he has pursued. He has not, since he took that oath of amnesty, been engaged in whining, and growling, and stirring up discontent among.the people, but 1 lias zealously labored for the pub lic good, for his own native South, and for its early restoration to her rights under the Consti tution. As, during the war, he was not a sus pected man, so lie shall not be now, nor shall the Intelligencer under his editorial direction, nor will it be on the part of its present Proprie tor. The Atlanta New Era auinot, by its insin uations, its ridiculous animadversions, or its false assertions, impair the record of the Intelligen ces Who was the “ dashing cavalry officer,” we ask it, that “ did the work for the Intelli gencer in advance of the surrender of the Con federate armies?” Where did he come from, what forces did he command ? The editor of the Atlanta New Era has either been grossly duped, (he was not here in Atlanta when it was surren dered) or he has written a paragraph having no warrant for his tacts, save in his own imagina tion. He should be more careful, or the New Era will suffer through his folly. The Confeder ate armies had been disbanded sometime before the surrender of Atlanta. The insinuation that the Intelligencer succumbed to tlie Federal forces in a manner unworthy a Southern man, we, the Editor of the Intelligencer, pro nounce most scandalous aud false, lie who dis charged his whole duty to the South in the late struggle for independence will not now be lonnd a laggard in his efforts to restore to her women and children, to her suffering population, some what ot tlicir former privileges. The Press especially should be atire to this great, this noble work. Wherever it is deficient in this, carping ever, and prophesying evil continually, under a misii nth rope- view of the “ situation,” it can only be the medium ot mischief Such is the posi tion we feel warranted in assigning to the At lanta New Era, under its editorial conduct. It has heretofore benetnted by our silence, it shall uow have in its political course, if it pleases, open war. ’• Lay on AtcDuff.’ Geueral Beauregard a Prince. A Paris correspondent thus refers to the above distinguished Confederate, aud it the statement be true, a gallant Knight was never more wor thily honored : “He is still with us. or rather he is in Paris, having been called thither again, as I understand it, to consider his refusal of the offer ot the su preme military command from the AIoldo-AVal- lachia Government. It is given out that tbe French Emperor, who is all-powerful with tbe Romans, is no longer adverse to the General’s ac ceptance of the position. “As to the General's own way of thinking or intentions concerning the matter—wait and see. Certain it is, the Romans are most anxious to have him, aud iu their eagerness have made him veiy tempting offers—the title of Prince, to rank next to the Hospodar, the sum of $200,000 down in hard cash, a princely salary, and the supreme, absolute command of all the military forces and retinue ot the ten principalities. If the General should accept, his late companions in arms could, aud doubtless will, furnish a body of officers that would prove invaluable to the "Romans in the event of war. Mighty events are impending all along the Danube. Spirit of the New York Press. REPORT OK THE FKEF.DMEX's BUREAU. The Worldcomments oil the late report of Gen erals Stcedman and FuIliTton, and remembering that their statements relative to the general con duct of tlie freedmen are highly encouraging, says that it appears from this report that many of the officers, agents, and employees of tlie Freedmen’s Bureau are a scandalous set of knaves. Cases are described in the report of offieeis of the Bureau who collected heavy fines and accounted for only a small fraction of them, and trumped up lame excuses for the embezzle ment after the fraud was discovered ; other cases of clergymen attached to the Bureau drivin dishonest and oppressive business in marriage fees; of slave pens kept by other officers from which freedmen were sold to planters for five dollars per month ; of self-convicted lying on the part of others in accounts of maltreatment of freedmen hv planters; and a great catalogue of other iniquities which the reader will find set forth with every mark of authenticity iu the re port. DELEGATES TO PHILADELPHIA. The World's Washington correspondent of tlie Otli, writes that at the principal hotels in that city, were a number of delegates from tbe South en route to the Philadelphia Convention, and ac cessions to their number arrive by eveiy train. Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, arrived this evening, and is at Willard’s. All are iu the best spirits, and anticipate the most beneficent re sults from the Convention, which they are fully confident will mark an era in the history of the nation. PRINCIPLES AND MEN. The Timex says that it has from time to time published many of t he resolutions of tlie various State Conventions and public bodies which have made the appointment of delegates to the Na tional Convention at Philadelphia. They have all been marked by a high patriotism, a trusty loyalty, a national spirit and a conciliatory dis position. But one purpose lias been evident in them all—to re-establish the Union, fully and completely, on the basis of the Constitution. If the principles maintained and promulgated by tbe National Convention be equally unassailable and national, there will be nothing lor virulent Radicalism but misrepresentation, falsehood and personal calumny. MEXICO. The Washington correspondent of the News writes that there is a certain part of Mexico which is of no more use to Mexico than if it was in tlie clouds or under the waters of the gulf.— It is composed of the three States of Sonora, Chihuahua, and Lower California. It is a terri tory extending fully (100 miles from East to West, and 200 miles from North to South. The whole of Mexico, including these three States, occupies an area more than twice as large as France. Without these three States, Mexico would still be nearly twice as large as France.— It would occupy an area of about 700 by -800 miles, while the area of France is only about 400 by 500 miles. It is the opinion of the wisest and most saga cious statesmen who compose what may be called tbe Cabinet of Maximilian, that the inter ests of Mexico will be advanced materially by lopping off and getting rid of tlie three Northern States mentioned above. If diplomatic relations existed between Mexico and the United States,I have no doubt but that the Mexican Government would offer to sell to ns these three States on very reasonable terms. Under existing circum stances, their possession by Maximilian is a source of positive weakness to his government. One reason why it is of no use to Mexico is on account of its distance from tlie capital and the difficulty of keeping up communication with it; and another reason is on account of the nature of the country itself. AMERICAN NAVAL ARCntTECTCRE. A Paris letter to the World says that there is great jealousy of our superiority in armaments of all sorts, which shows itself on all occasions. Lc Constitutionncl had an article headed “The Miantonomali,” a few days ago, setting forth in elaborate fashion its detects and sliort-comings, asserting it to be infinitely inferior to the French iron-clads, and especially inferior to the Taurcau, a formidable ram, launched about six months ago at Toulon, but which lias never left that port. The naval action between the Austrians and Italians serves also as an occasion to depreciate American naval architecture, the Re d’ltalia having been sunk by the Austrians. From what ever cause, tlie wooden fleet has withstood the attack of the iron-clads, armed according to tlie new system, and has most assuredly (?) held out against them. Will the American monitors, therefore, be retained as the type for vessels of war?” A letter from Italy ascribes the partial success of the Austrians io the lact that a num ber of ex-Confederate officers had entered the service of Kaiser Francis Joseph, and that the fleet was maneuvred under their orders. HON. S. S. COX ON THE LATE CONGRESS. Hon. S. S. Cox spoke on the 9th, iu New York, before the Johnson Union Club of the 0th dis trict. In the course of his speech Mr. C. said that by the law of the 4lli of March, 1802, it was declared that alter tlie 3d of March, 1862,. “the number of members of the House ot Represen tatives ot the Congress of the United States should be 241.” Could this law, passed’since the war, be carried out after peace came ? Why not ?— It was as much of a law as that which gave to the clerk of the House, the right to iguore States, in making his roll. It remained unrepealed.— The 241 members never all took their seats. Only a fraction secured them. Hence it is called a Rump. To make up this number of 241, Vir ginia was allowed 8 ; Tennessee, 8; Georgia, 7; North Carolina, 7; South Carolina, 4; Arkansas, 5; Louisiana, 5; Mississippi, 5; Alabama, 0; Florida. 1; aud Texas, 4! Here were 58 mem bers ready to sit in the federal legislature. Two Senators were ready, or soon would have been, to represent each of the eleven States. On tlie call of the roll fifty-eight members, and twenty- two Senators, from States full of all revolution ary and fraternal memories and anxious to be imbound again in the same destiny, were debar red. If these eleven States were in the Union on the 4th of March, 1802, when the republicans passed the law fixing the number of members— why were they not in on the 4th of December, 1805, when, sitting under the painted escutcheons ot the States in our capitol halls, twenty-four usurped the rights of thirty-five ? GOVERNMENT GOLD. The Express of Friday says that there is some anxiety among bankers and importers to know whether the Secretary ot the Treasury will sell any more gold. We are not authorized to speak for any one upon the subject, but presume, from what we hear, that no more gold will be sold until after the interest upon the ten-forties, Jail ing due upon the 1st of September, is paid off, nor before the middle of September, and it then sold, tlie result arrived at will depend very much upon tlie amount of gold on hand. In the face of past experience resulting in considerable losses to tlie Treasury, and no benefit to the pub lic, no more gold will be sold, except tbe surplus above fifty millions, and the amount of what this surplus will be, depends upon too many con tingencies to make any calculations reliable. ARE THE ACTS OP CONGRESS OVER TilE VETO, * LAWS? AVe find in the Express a letter from Hie Hon. Thomas Ewing, an old line Whig, tlie cotempo rary of Clay and Webster, and Secretary of the Treasury underGeneral Harrison. The Express says that it statfs these facts in order to enforce by such high authority in the Republican ranks the law laid down by Mr. Ewing, respecting three of the great acts of Congress—the Freed men’s Bureau ESI, the Civil-Rights Bill, and the Amendment to'the Constitution. Mr. Ewing reasons, and shows, that a Rump Congress of twenty-five States only, cannot legally take pos session of the government and enact laws over the Executive veto, and that the courts are not bound to respect.such acts of such a Congress. Mr. Ewing holds all these three important enact ments of Congress void, in the.absence of an Executive approval. THREE MONTHS OF CRIME IN NEW YORK. Tlie Times savs the periodical returns of ar rests for the various offenses committed against the law in any community must always be im portant, as indicating the progress of that com munity in good or evil ways. In this city this is especially the case, for we possess among us elements ot disorder which are found in no oth er upon the American-continent. New York is, in fact, not so much American as cosmopolitan, and we have to endure the imported vices of all the world beside. During the firstthree months of the year there were 16,593 arrests; in the sec ond quarter, 21,020. There is, therefore, an ex cess of 5,037 arrests during the latter over the former. These figures do not, however, imply an increase in the graver crimes. SANTA ANNA. The AVasbmgtou correspondent of the Times states that Mr. Romero, the Mexican Minister, re ceived to-day official dispatches from his Gov ernment, dated at Chihuahua, up to the 0th ult. Tlie Alsxican Government had taken in conside ration the tender of-General Santa Anna’s ser vices, made to President Juarez, and concluded not to accept them, assigning the following rea sons : “ Because Santa Anna, being one of the originators and promoters of the plan to take foreign intervention to Mexico, liis sincerity can not be depended upon now ; because the Mexi can people have lost all confidence in him, and cannot, therefore, place any reliance on him.— His presence in Mexico would only excite dis trust and fears, and would only he an element of discoid anil weakness.” Tlie Express, however, of Tuesday, in addition to the news received this morning from Mexico, referring to the Santa Anna movement in the city of Mexico, we have been shown a letter from a prominent Mexican to the effect that the insurrection is much more general throughout that country than lias been represented. The letter states that General Carlos Oronos, u’ho-is in command of a considerable army in the State of San Luis Potosi, aifd General Rosas Landa have both pronounced in favor of Santa Anna, and proclaimed him General-in-Chief ot the Re publican armies of Mexico. Regales and his army have declared for .General Santa Anna.— The conspiracy, which was discovered in the city of Mexico T-.^Sts ramifications all over the country. This stirring intelligence opens a new chapter in Mexican affairs, and seems to place Santa Anna’s star in the ascendant. THE EMPRESS CARLOTTA AS A DIPLOMATIST. The AVasliington correspondent of the News says in regard to the visit of the Empress Car- lotta, of Mexico, to Europe, that her mission is a purely diplomatic one; that her absence from Mexico will be very brief; aud that if she fails in accomplishing the object of her mission, it will be the first time in her life that she has fail ed in anything she has undertaken. REMOVAL OF GEN. BAIRD. The correspondent of the World writes that General Baird lias been removed from his com mand at New Orleans, and General Stoneman appointed in his place. The fact excites much indignation in Radical circles. Result of the “Air-Ltue Railroad” meet, lug in New York. Air. E. M. Johnson, one of the Directors of the Air-Line Railroad, has just returned from the meeting of officers of the above road, held in New York. From him we have been able to gather the following facts. The first business before the body was*to elect officers. This was dispatched wit hout delay. Then a committee was appointed to prepare by-laws, which being done, they were brought before tlie meeting for adoption, first xinglg, then as a whole. One ot the resolu tions adopted, was to this effect: “That this road shall run from Atlanta to Gainesville.” AVlien it reaches Gainesville, two surveys are to be made from that poit. One route fo run to Chester via Anderson C. II. The other to Charlotte or Salisbury, N. C. via Old Pendleton. The Engi neer elected, Mr. Sage, was to proceed immedia tely to the surveying of these lines, and be pre pared to report at their next meeting, which w’as to be held iu Atlanta upon the 4th Monday in September. Air. Johnson speaks very sanguinely, and thinks the building of this road is a foregone certainly. Great inducements were of course held out to bring the road through here. Our immense mineral wealth and mining operations are sufficient guarantees that this road will pay, besides it was a very slight deviation from an Air-Line, and was the only practicable route to bring it. There are many persons who are entirely ignorant ot this proposed road. It is believed liy many that it is only intended to run from At lanta to Anderson court house. This old line, about which there was some excitement a few years ago, is to be a grand link in one of the greatest^roads in the United States. The “ Air- Line” Road proper is to run from New Orleans to New York iu as near a direct line as M ill be prrciicable. They propose to traverse this dis tance in titty hours. They know they can do it, and they feel confident that it must be the most desirable line for transportation, tor the very sensible reason that it will be the most economi cal and expeditious. These facts induce capita lists to invest—they care not one fig for the road from Atlanta to Anderson only as a connecting link in this proposed line. Congress lias incorporated a company to be termed the “Air-Line Company” to build this road, and appropriated one million dollars to wards the building of it. True this amount is not to be reckoned as dollars and cents, and is but a drop in the bucket, but the name means nothing, and the mere fact that some action was taken upon it by that body proves that the road is not considered impracticable, but is destined to be a national benefit. We have sketched the proposed line so that our people may readily see the incalculable ad vantages to this whole country, which are to be derived from the running of this line. They may well rejoice at the prospect of the road being built, for it will be the road, in every sense, on this continent.—Air-Line Eagle. A Little Romance.—The grand-lather of Gen. Robert E. Lee was a rival of Gen. Wash ington in a love affair. The object of their affection was a beautiful Miss Grimes, the first love of Washington, and whom he celebrated as “the lowland beauty.” Lee was successful and bore off the prize. The son of this marriage, “Light Horse” Harry Lee. was always held in great friendship by Washington, and Irying, in his biography, suggest this tendernes tor the mother was not without its influence in connec tion with the son. The friendship continued between them until the death of “the father of his country.” Alajor General Harry Lee was a gallant officer, the autlier of “Alemoirs of the War in the South ;” Governor of Virginia in 1791 ; an advocate of j the Federal Constitution in the Virginia Con- i vention ; a member of Congress when AVash- j ington died ; appointed by Congress to deliver j the eulogy, originated the classic words : “First j in war, "first in peace, and first in the hearts of i his countrymen.—Montgomery Mail. | European New*. From our English files to the 28tli ultimo, re ceived per the Java, we lcaru that the armistice in Germany had been prlongeil to the 2d inst., and that a four wekes trnce, from that date, had also been concluded. This really looks like peace. But the terms of this peace appear to be too one-sided to be a lasting one. In a word, Austria has actually accepted the position of a second, if not actually a third-class power, while her great rival Prussia, lias sprung at once to the front rank of the first-clss powers of Europe. Italy has thus far lost battles, but gained the coveted territory for which she went to war, provided she be Milling to accept Yenetia to gether with its debt of £20,000,000. Austria is to retire from the Germanic Confederation, and be allowed only to form a new league M’ith the States south of the Alain, to pay an indemnity to her adversary for accomplishing her own humiliation, and to hold as a fit subject for dis cussion the status of the Italian Tyrol. This is certainly humiliation enough for the luxury of one month’s war, and must be a bitter pill for the old House ot flapsburg to su’allow. Prussia seems self-M’illed and arrogant u’itli all this success. It is announced that “the future position ot those Princes who have been forced by recent events to quit their dominions, must he reserved for special arrangement betM’een them and the King of Prussia, and for the ap proval of the German Parliament”—over which Prussia will of course rule supreme. King “Wilhelm’s” first acts sliou’ pretty clearly what may be expected of him in the future. Here is a specimen of his style:—“Whereas I am desi rous ot opening the Diet in person, I hereby postpone the opening fixed for the 30tli inst., reserving to myself to determine the precise date on M’hicli the Chambers shall meet.” His demand upon Frankfort for contributions to the extent of 25,000,000 fl., shows no mercy tor (hose Mho oppose his rule. The ambitious Napoleon III., who Punch aptly illustrates in “a card” as a commission Agent, will now find a rival who will be ready also to tender his ad vice and assistance gratis “the Kings and Em perors in need of it,” thoughout Europe, and to furnish “Kings arid Emperors to order,” on the shortest notice, and will be certainly well pre pared, having a good supply of superseded Kings on hand. From England M’e have little to record worth persual, and that little had better never have been recorded, for iu fact the disgraceful riots in London forms the chief feature of the week’s news. We hope both the mob and the Alinistry M ill learn wisdom, and endeavour hereafter to settle their questions in a more moderate aud sensible way than either have yet attempted. We feav neither of the two extremes of old England will show themselves fit to rule the nation, and the result will be that the more moderate men u’ill soon again resume the reius of government. We are sorry to observe that tlie cholera has broken out in East London very severely, and that the deaths for the M eek reached 346. Fi nancially, the Bank of England rate remains the same, with a slight gain iu gold coin is their last report.—New York Albion, 11 th vlt. From the Southern Journal of the Medical Sciences. Case of Vesical Calculus*. Operation by Dr. F, A. Stanford, Columbus, Geor gia—Reported by Dr. M. J. M. There is little of interest, in an intrinsic point of view, to be furnished by a report of a series of cases of stone in the bladder, the history and symptoms of nearly every case being found alike, and the operation performed exhibiting little besides the taste ot the surgeon iu charge of the particular case. Thanks to the energy and labors of our teach ers, this, last has been made so practical and simple by the aid of iugenious instruments, that the dangers to be apprehended from an ope ration-arc materially diminished. The case here reported is offered more for the purpose of placing it upon record, than lor the 'chance ot its affording any instruction to the age of the calculus*, in proportion to the age of the subject, being the most remarkable feature in the case. Joel Watson, aged ten years, a native of Ma rion county, iu the State of Georgia, and of robust physical development, M’as brought to Columbus by his parents for treatment. He was suffering from severe symptoms of vesical cal culus, M’hicli had been noticed almost at birth.— His case M as an aggravated oue, all the usual in dications of stone being greatly intensified. Exploration of the bladder by sounds revealed the existence of an unusually large calculus, al most entirely filling the viscus, and satisfactorily accounting lor the aggravated symptoms. Dr. S. determined upon an operation, and on the 24i.h of September, 1865, assisted by Dr. James F. Bozeman of this place, and a few other gentlemen, by whose concurrence the operation M’as determined, the stone u’as removed. The extraordinary dimensions of the stone prevented its extraction en masse, and Dr. S. was obliged to destroy its continuity, and take it away piece-meal. Dnpuytren’s bi-lateral opera tion was performed, tlie crushed stone was re moved through tlie perineum, and the debris washed out by injection. The collected broken mass weighed seven ounces and tivo drachms, and the debris uncol lected from the injection u’as estimated at nearly a drachm more. Tlie stone belonged to no spe cial class, being of very complex character, as evidenced by the chemical analysis accompany ing this report. It might be called a phosphatic stone, tlie phosphates in a small degree predomi nating. The calculus consisted of three or four separately distinct calculii, encased in their con centric layers of friable, chalky material, the whole enclosed in a common envelope of the same character. Each stone, or as may be safely said, each nu cleus of the common mass, retained its individu ality intact; each having its own nucleus, its own concentric development, and its own incrus tations of chalky material; these facts evidenc ing that their origin and developments M’ere en tirely distinct, and their aggregation simultane ous, as the external envelope was continuous and perfect. It may be proper to state that the case improv ed steadily and rapidly from the day of opera tion, the secretion from the wound being at all times healthy, and the urine passing through the natural channel on the fourth of October, ten days from the day on which tlie stone was re moved ; and three days after the care ol the child M as deputed to Ills parents, there being no further use for the surgeon’s attention. Analysis of Calculus furnished by Mr. W. J. Land, Chemist, Columbus, Georgia. Nucleus consisted of oxalate ot lime, with traces of urate of ammonia. First layer of deposit—Urate of Ammonia. Second layer of deposit—Triple Phosphates. Third layer of deposit—Urate of Ammonia. Fourtli layer ot deposit*—Triple Phosphates. Fifth layer of deposit)—Triple Phosphates. *The fourth layer was intermixed with urate of ammo nia, owing to the difficulty of separating it accurately from No. .'J. its neighbor. +The fifth layer was the involucrum, and contained traces or organic matter. The “Marble Chair” and “Woolsack.” —The rumor that Sir Hugh Cairus would he the next occupant of tlie Alarble Chair—a seat, by the way, that has long ceased to exist save in the poetic imaginations of legal biographers— occasioned some public remark on the “compar ative youth ” of tlie conservative attorney-gene ral, and some erroneous inferences concerning the average age of chancellors on first receiving the seals. Born in 1819, Sir Hugh is still in his forty-eighth year; but had he verified the report by becoming Lord Derby’s chancellor, he Mrould not have been remarkable in history as a singu larly youthful holder of the Great Seal. Lord Keeper Guildford, Lord Jeffreys, Lord Somers, Lord Cowper, Lord Hardwicke, and Lord Tliur- Iom’, held the seals before they had reached our present attorney-general’s age. Of tM’enty-eight holders of the seal who have flourished since Sir Orlando Bridgeman’s reign, ten were under fifty years of age on entering office; and only nine had reached fifty-five years of age on being sum moned to preside over chancery. In these later years, while the number of competitors for the Great Seal has been rapidly increasing, financial reform has shorn the prize of so many golden charms that the candidates are seldom M’illing to accept the desired office until they have gained from practice at the bar that requisite measure ot wealth M’hich can no longer be acquired from the emoluments of the chancellors place. He Voted “No!”—The New York Tribune's correspondent ot Friday says: Air. Leftwicb, one of the Tennessee delegates who M as to-day sworn into office, had scarcely finished shading hands M’ith the Speaker, when his name was called to vote on the bill to indemnify loyal citizens of Tennessee for property destroyed during the rebellion, and he voted “No.” It caused much comment among Union members. Tiieke is a very tender and sad feeling in this little poetic M’aif: Awakening. Lost Youth! for thee I may not grieve. Though vainly spent: Nor would I idly ask reprieve For years that failed m high intent; Hope's vervain mingleth dying scent with passion’s roses, drooping pale ; Wilt thou, unpityiug Time, relent so In ' For things so frail ? gift Somewhat I mourn the early . I learned to wrong, Ttiat made the hours of silence drift Less sadly by, on tides of song; I might have gained tlie currents strong That move to thought's profoundest streams, But that on lotus-isles too long I dreamed vain dreams. Well, let it go; not much the loss Of sad refrains When all the world is sweet across By airs from master-singer's strains ; A feebler song my soul disdains, It craves a voice of subtler key Than that which filled the smooth domains Of Fantasie. Daniel Bryan’s Oath. Daniel Bryan had been a lauwcr ot eminence, but had fallen, through intoxication, to beggary and a dying condition. Bryan had married iu his better days the sister of Aloses Felton. At length all hopes were given up. Week af ter week Mould the lallen min lie drunk on the floor, and not a day of real sobriety marked his course. I doubt if such another case Mas knoMU. He M’as too low tor convivality, for those whom he M’ould have associated M’ith M’ould not drink with him. All alone in his office aud chamber, he still continued to drink, and even his very life seem ed the offspring of his jug. In early spring Aloses Felton had a call to go to Ohio. Before he set out he visited his sister. He offered to take her with him, but she would not go. “But why stay here ? ” urged the brother.— “You are lading away, and disease is upon you. AVliy should you live M’ith such a brute ? ” “Hush, Aloses, speak not so.” answered the wife, keeping back her tears. “I will not leave him noM’, but he will soon leave me. lie cannot live much longer.” At that moment Daniel entered the apartment. He looked like a wanderer from the tomb, He had his hat on and his jug iu his hand. “Ah, Moses, how are ye ? ” he gasped, for he could not speak plainly. The visitor looked at him a few moments in silence. Then, as his features assumed a cold, stern expression, he said in a strongly emphasised tone: “Daniel Bryan, I have been your best friend but one. Aly sister is an angel though matched M’ith a demon. I have loved you, Daniel, as I never loved man before; you u’ere generous, noble and kind ; but I hate you noM’, lor you are a perfect devil incarnate. Look at that woman. She is my sister—she now might live with me in comfort, only that she will not do it while you are alive; when you die she will come, to me, Thus do I pray that God will soon give her joys to my keeping. Non’, Daniel, I do sincerely hope that the first intelligence that reaches me from my native place afterl shall have reached my new home may be—that—you— ark dead!” “Stop, Aloses ; I can reform yet.” “You cannot. It is beyond your power. You have had inducements enough to have reformed half the sinners of creation, and you arc lower than ever before. Go and die, sir, as soon as you can, for the moment that sees you thus will not find me among the mourners.” Bryan’s eyes flashed, and he drew himself proudly up. “ Go,” lie said, in the tone ot the old sarcasm. “ Go to Ohio, and I’ll sen'd you news. Go, sir, and M’atcli the post. I will yet make you take hack yonr words.” “ Never, Daniel Bryan, never.” “ You shall, I swear it.” With tliese M'ords Daniel Bryan hurled the jug into the fire-place, and while yet a thousand fragments were flying over the floor lie strode from the house. Mary shrank fainting on the floor. Moses bore her to the bed, and, then, having called in a neighbor, lie hurried away, for the stage was M’aiting. For a month Daniel hovered over the brink of the grave, but he did not die. “ One gill of brandy will save you,” said the doctor, who saw that the abrupt removal of stim ulants from the system, that for long years had almost subsisted on nothing else, was nearly sure to prove fatal. “ You can surely take a gill and not take any more.” ” Aye,” gasped the poor man, “ take a gill and break my oath. Aloses Felton shall never hear that brandy and rum killed me. If the want of it can kill me, then let me die ; but I M'on’t die I’ll live till Aloses Felton shall eat his M’ords.” He did live. An iron will conquered the mes senger death sent—Daniel Bryan lived. For one month ho could not even walk without help. Alary helped him. A year passed away, and Moses Felton return ed to Vermont. He entered the court house at Burlington, and Daniel Bryan was on the floor pleading for a young man who had been indict ed for forgery. Felton started in surprise.— Never before Had such torrents of eloquence poured from his lips. The case was given to the jury, and the youth was acquitted. The success ful counsel turned from the court room aud met Moses Felton. They shook hands but did not speak. AVhen they reached a spot where none others could hear them Bryan stopped. “ Aloses,” he said, “do you remember the words you spoke to me a year ago ?” “ I do, Daniel.” “ Will you now take them back—unsay them now and forever?” “ Yes, M’ith all my heart.” “ Then I am in part repaid.” “ And what must be the remainder of pay ment?” asked Aloses. “ I must die an honest, unperjured man ! The oath that lias bound me thus far was made for life.” That evening Alary Bryan was among the hap piest of tlie happy.—Christian Witness. A Column ol’ Go«*ip tor tlieilentlemcn, on Subject** in which the Ladle** take no In terest. If you M’isli to knoM’ how quick you can run a mile, tell a red-headed u’oman her baby squints. . AVomen earn eleven cents per day in New York, making skirts. The definition of love is—“ A prodigal desire on the part of a young man to pay for some young M’oman’s board.” Why is a fashionable lady like a sportsman ? Because she bags the hare. The combination of black and white still re mains very fashionable. Black passmenterie, dotted thickly M’ith small M’hite beads is in great vogue for trimming black silk dresses and black paletots. Some Frenchman of a statistical tura of mind, who evidently, has but little to do, publishes in a Havre paper some curious statistics of the aver age talk of men .and women. He has discover ed that an ordinary middle aged man spends three hours per day in conversation, calculating at the rate ot one hundred words per minute, or twen ty-nine octavo pages per hour, M’hich would amount to 600 pages per M'eek, or fiity-two big volumes per year. Having ascertained these facts as regards the masculine portion of the hu man race, the statistician applied his best ener gies to ascertain the amount ot words uttered by an ordinary and middle aged female per minute, and the amount of time spent on the average by that sex in general conversation. After the most patient investigation and abstruse calculation, this able arithmetician M’as compelled to give up the question, aud confess the magnitude of the figures, produced even at the outset of the inquiry, baffled all human calculation. They rather out-do us in England in regard to matrimonial advertisements, judging from the following: “ Ada Emily Jenny, just nineteen, fair blue eyes, and luindsome. M ould like to be married as early as possible. “ Rosebud, who is seventeen, and pretty, hav ing rich golden hair, wishes to marry a tall young man, about tu-enty-four years of age. “ violet Mauts to be married to a tall man. She is tall and very good looking. “ Lala Rookli would dearly like to be married. She moves in first-class society, and has £500 a a year. She i3 eighteen, tall, and strikingly handsome.” Some of the applicants put the matter rather upon the ground ot duty and destiny: “Alary G., who has good looks, but does not M’ish to speak of them, wants to be married. She has read her Bible, and knows that marriage is the destiny and honor of women. She is twen ty-three. “ Catherine E. B., who has dark brown hair, and soft brown eyes, with, pretty features and nice figure, wishes to fulfill her woman’s mission, and marry. {She will have money.” From the Philadelphia Ledger. Real Life—more Impressive than Ro mance. On Thursday last, a M'edding party set out from Baltimore* to this city, on tlicir way to Eu rope, for an extended M'edding tour. Both bride aud groom, to all appearance, seemed possessed of everything conducive to earthly happiness— health, youth, good looks, innocent hearts, and plenty of this world’s wealth. Yet the moment that little party, with a future of apparently bouudless happiness before them, set foot in this city, they M’ere thrOM-n into the deepest distress by the arrest of the youthful groom for a dis graceful crime. Although he had that moruing led to the altar an innocent, young girl, M’lio trusted her whole future to his good faith and honor, lie was just fresh from the commission of a series of forgeries that a few years ago in ot her countries M’ould have taken him to tlie gallon's, and that will almost certainly consign him to many long years of imprisonment here. That same night he spent in Aloyamensing prison, and every night since; liis poor bride, now infin itely worse off than if she had been left a widow having been sent back in mourning, aud perhaps M’ith a broken heart, to her friends. The case habits lessons more impressive than those of ro- mS*e, anil it is more fearful in its reality than the pictured distresses of a M’hole library of fictions. The young man is W. R. Cooper, formerly of this city, where he M’as engaged as a clerk in a well-kuoM’n house on Chesnut street, but more recently ot AVasliington and of the navy, where he was employed in several capacities in the Navy Department and on vessels ot u - ar, and is the same man M’ho recently defrauded the gov ernment out of $50,000, by procuring a draft on a forged requisition. Cooper is quite young, and even more youthful iu appearance than he is in fact. He is prepossessing in person, and, as we saw him in court on Saturday, without a particle of the swindler in his appearance, or of the forger and confidence-nmn in his manner. In fact, his aspect in court M’as only such as to ex cite deep commiseration. But iu addition to his good looks he has sever al qualities of great value to an honest business man. It is clear from liis success in his crimes that he has extraordinary tact, a gift of speech by which he was able to persuade experienced men to overlook the usual precautions of busi ness, great perseverance in pursuing his object, considerable skill as a penman, and a strong courage that enabled him to do things that were really daring, considering the risks of Jetec'ion by which he was all the time surrounded. Had he applied his talents and his natural qualities and advantages to some honest business M’ith the same spirit, energy, tact, and zeal with which he employed them in the commission of crime, he could not have failed to be successful, and ul timately to have become much wealthier than he was during the few hours when he was possessed of his ill-gotten fifty thousand dollars. lie chose another course, however—and why ? Is not his crime and destruction clearly traceable to the depraved passions so prevalent in these days for getting rich at a single stroke, no matter by what means or at what cost of present char acter and future welfare ? He M as, or had been, in good employment; he had in AVashiugton a free entree to what is called “good societyhe did not lack means to maintain a respectable po sition ; he had won the love of a good young girl; and yet he swung loose from every tie that should have bound him to a life of honesty and honor—and why ? Not from necessity, but from a morbid desire to indulge in fashionable dissipa tion, to luxuriate among the expensive follies that am only be purchased by money. There fore, he must be rich, and rich at once, even by crime; and, throwing for that stake, he has lost all—character, liberty, friends, home— everything. A mountain of gold.could not pur chase back M’hat he has thrown away. His poqr jwite maywfiiR^Sag to him, bat cijuijL ^worus earn paint the abyj&T of agony into . wMich he has plunged that trusting but now heart-stricken M’o- man, or the long years of shame and anguish that lie before her, to be ended only by the grave! Hers is one of the wounds that even time cannot effectually heal. And this is one of the mourn ful but inevitable results of all such crimes—that it is not alone the convicted and sentenced crim inal that suffers, but the M’ives, mothers, lathers, and children, of the culprits who suffer in mind and soul more—intensely more—than can be in flicted by any human punishment. AVe have thought it best to make these obser vations, because many of our readers might otherwise have passed over the court report of this young man’s case, as given in our local col umns this morning, without special notice. But they should observe it, for it is one of those where truth is stranger and stronger than fiction. Young Cooper, on Thursday morning a husband of but a few hours, and believing himself rich and beyond detection, and with all the bright anticipation of a luxurious bridal tour before him, and yet at that moment destined to be the occupant of a felon’s cell before evening, with the earthly happiness ot his innocent and trust ing young bride in the meantime utterly destroy ed, certainly presents a lesson from real life far beyond the power of any romance. Luxurious Debauchery—La Traviata iu Court. AVhen Roman civilization tottered to its over throw, the most pregnant signs of its decay was found in the immorality and licentiousness of its upper classes. AVhen Senators invited Aspasias to their banquets, virtue fled, carrying with it honor, self-respect, and liberty. The chains of wanton licentiousness first bound the limbs that were shackled in the thongs of despotism. And the trite adage that “history repeats itself,” rings its warning as loudly over this fall of Ro man virtue and Roman manhood now as ever; and when in our country and times the scions of would-be-aristocracy, of the one sex voluntarily descend to that depth of degradation suggested by the name “ bawdand of the other sex fall so much lower as to share receipts of a female’s life of sin and shame, it is high time that that warning fell upon ears not deaf to its lessons. These reflections grow out of a scene occuring in the Filth AVard Justice’s court yesterday, in which an inmate of the Callahan mansion—one with her aquiline features; slender form, and wealth of wavy brown hair graced the commis sioner’s banquet—brought a suit against the son of a wealthy banker for the money loaned him to purchase a suit of clothes. The scene in the court room was one rarely witnessed, and the history of the parties is suggestive of a lack of morality and decency utterly appalling. The plaintiff in the case is the daughter of a well known and wealthy Eastern merchant, M’bose early girlhood in the Alonumental city Mas sur rounded with all the luxuries that a full purse and refined taste could contribute. The idol of her parents, the first masters imparted to her the secrets of knowledge and the refinement of so cial culture, and life bloomed before her M ith all the fragrance of happy blissful youth. How she fell, it matters not; but fall she did, and the fact coming to the kuoMiedge of her family, she was hastily removed from the city of her birth, and placed in a convent at Louisville. The stern amenities of a religious life, lioM-ever, had no at tractions for Alice, and her year spent there M as a succession of plots to effect her escape, the last of M’hich proving successful, she fled to this city, and finding the doors of the Callahan man sion open, she entered upon a career of dissipa tion and shame, which she enlivened with more of wit and intelligence than falls to the lot of the ordinary victims of man’s lust. Here she be came acquainted, on the first day of her entree, with the banker’s son, who, from thenceforth, was her chosen companion. For him she treas ured her gains—for him she displayed her rarest charms and most genial smiles; and to her this false scion of a respected family repaired for his pleasure and his profit. Her diamond rings M’ere paM’ned to secure him a M’edding suit, and her purse furnished forth the munitions of his ca rouses with boon friends; and yet this youth is the husband of a fair young lady, M’hose worth and beauty Mould outM'eigh the M’hole of his father’s hoarded wealth. This spring the youth, tired of a paramour so cheaply won, so continu ally duped, resolved to seek other fields of pleas ure, and, as a crowning work ot infamy, bor rowed from his mistress the money for which this suit M'as bought. The scene in the Justice’s Court M’as rich be yond description. The plaintiff, escorted by two of her female companions, drew up to the door in a carriage, and in all the splendor of length ened trails of silk, glittering jewelry, and poM - - dered faces, SM’ept into the court room, M’here, upon one side, stood the defendant, surrounded by a half dozen Alain and Second street clerks, summoned to impeach the testimony of the plain tiff by testifying to the character of the house in which she lived. The counsel for the defense attempted to throw the suit out of court as not being brought in the proper name of the plaintiff, but this failing, the case M’as submitted to the jury, who promptly returned a verdict for the frail plaintiff to the full amount claimed and costs.—St. Louis Dispatch. “A