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Newspaper Page TextOLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVIII. ffl/groraclc £ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY, One month-...- —— - $ 1 00 Three month* 2 30 One year 10 00 TKI-WEEKLY. One year 9 • W Six month* 3 60 Three month - - 2 00 W EEKLY. Three month* 9 1 00 . Six month* - 1 60 One year -3 00 WIBNBBBAT MOBXJIG, JITh 14. HOW TO AVOIR KF KLII OI'TKAGES. The New York Time*, Philadelphia Pre*», and one or two Red month, Free speech, Radical organ* of leaser note, hare become greatly alarmed and cry out lusti ly because of ex President Davis’ speech es at Augasta and Atlanta. The Preu sees the Ku-Klux arising from every grave yard iu the South at Jeff. Davis’ call,and demanding water! water 1 water I! or Blood 111 A reporter for Bennett’s ve racious Herald telegraphs that Jeff. Davis is making a tour of the Southern States, and under his inspiration “the South is awtftkcuifJji aut] ltl6 t f ~LUi cot Ij Mr. Davis is President of the Carolina Rife Insurance Company, and under this inspiration should immediately invade the North, “ spoak to excited crowds at every important place” aod awakening “ a tempest” against the miserable Life As surance Companies of the North—insure the lives of Grant, Akerman, Morton aod tho administration --the Preu, and the Time* and the Herald— Forney and old Bennett-.-every man, woman and child of the Republican party for One Hundred Years, especially including and accepting Ku-Klux war risks. Now is the golden opportunity for the Carolina Life In surance Company, Jefferson Davis, President. If the Time* and the Pret* aod tho Radical party would escape Ku-Klux outrages let them insure promptly in the Carolina Life Insurance Company. Tho security of the company is ample, tho pre miums moderate, and losses will be paid promptly by efficient, responsible agents, North and tooutb. If any of our South ern editors aro disposed to join in this hue and cry against Mr. Duvis, and are se riously alarmed about tho future of tho Democratic party, wo beg them also to take out,immediately, policies in the Caro lina Life Insurance Company, Jefferson President, whoso headquarters aro at Memphis, Tennessee, with Ku-Klux branch offices in every important town in the South. TllK CANDIDATES. Thus far l here has been announced only three candidates from the Republican party for the office of Chief Magistrate of the United States. Morton and Radioal Con gressional leaders in Congress, forestalling the action of the National Republican Convention, so-oalied, announced at Wash ington General Grant, our Prosident- Goneral, as the nominee of tho Washing ton caucus. The announcement to the public was clear, distinct and authorita tive. It was made in tho name of the party leaders, and by tho consent and in tho presence of tbo President-General him self, and made so decided as to leave but little room to doubt but that our Presi dent General had determined to fight it out on that line. Neither was the platform concealed. Abandoning tho “Lot us have poaoe ” policy of the last campaign, a re turn to war influences was sought, and a Ku Klux platform was announced and eagerly arranged by party manipulation in both halls of Congross. It does not seem, howover, that this proceeding was the spontaneous aotiou even of the Radi cals in Congress When Butler brought in his Ku-Klnx bill, sud urged its passage with a string of impudent fictions, no body scrupled to call him a liar. The Speaker of the House left his clmir, and in his place as a mem ber offered-a resolution that a committee ho sent to tho South, to inquire into the truth of the stories, and report at the next session of Congress. The House passed this resolution, and laid Butler's bill on the shelf. Then he and the party wire-workers determined to make it a party measure. The administration was then totteriug the public odium of tho San Domingo job. Even Forney had cried “ Halt ” to that, after hearing from New Hampshire. They put forth their new platform in a message signed by Grant. It asked for the passage of a bill to make war, not only on tbo South, but on the ballot-box in all parts of the United States. To the Senate anti Home of Representa tives : . . A condition of affairs now exists in some of the States of the Union render ing life and property insecure, and the carrying of the mads, and collection of the revenue, dangerous. Tbo proof that - uoh a condition of things exists in some localities is now before the Senate. That the power to oorrect these evils is beyond the control ot the State authorities, I do not doubt. That tho powers of tho Ex ecutive of the United States, acting with in the limits of existing laws, is sufficient for the prosent emergencies, is not o,ear. Therefore, I urgently recommend such legislation as, in the judgment of Con gress, shall effectually secure life, liberty and property. in P* rts of the United States. It may be expedient to provide that such laws as shall be passssed in pur suance of this recommendation shall ex pire at the end of the session ol Con gress. There is no other subject on which l would recommond legislation during the present session. Washington, 1\ C„ March 23, 1871. In urgently asking his party to vote fo# this, Grant mado his retreat from the San P.mingo job. “Thero is no other subject on which I would recommend legis lation during tho present session." This is the way the Ku-Klux bill was got through Congress, and tho opposition to it id the party checked. Nor ha* the Ku-Klux platform and the Ku Klux nomination met with much ta vor, to say nothing of enthusiasm outside ot Washington. Independent Republicans are growing restive under the repeated •dictation and imperial rule of Ku-Klux caucuses at Washington'. Thad. Stevens no longer lives to l»*h the refractory into subjection. Butler, whipped time and again bv his rivals— Blaine, Bingham and Farnaworth-is not recHtnised as a leader hardly honest enough to be a Radical, is lukewarm, and Sumner, impaled on the Kan Domingo question, is impotent. Morton alone of all the prominent Radi cals is left as a Lieutenant to direct and execute the Ku-lClux campaign, with only a modicum of the lore* »nd talent of the party to be relied up on for active service. Outside of Wash- ington independent men refuse to be kept silent by the political machinery of Washington. Gen. Sherman, not skilled in political strategy, with the openness, and boldness, and frankness of a soldier, gave at New Orleans an indignant denial to the Ku-Klux charges trumped up for party exigencies against the South. lie bad h'mself traversed the South, and was in daily receipt of official reports from every part of it. All the officers of the army whose testi mony was given to the Senate, flatly con tradicted the competent false witnesses who were brought up to Washington by golden, of North Carolina, and his coadju tors whose libels on that State were printed by the Senate with the title, “ Report on Southern Outrage. ” The whole business was a dirty piece of political clap-trap, by which all crimes, aquaults and offenses | committed at the South, as they are at the | North, and everywhere in the world, ! were represented as a combined hostility ] to the Government of the United States. This bold frankness of Sherman touched tbo popular chord, and found a quick re sponsive throb both North and South, and led to putting in nomination his powerful name. It load in that direction which satis fied the popular mind—to the promise held out by the captivatiug prayer of GemGraut, the Presidential aspirant, but ignored by General Grant as President-General, under the guidance of Chief Marshal in the field, Senator Morton, of Indiana. Again : there comes a voice from Kan. sae —yes, even from Kansas—going a step | farther, nomioatiog Horace Greeley, Jeff. Davis’s bondsman, and the persistent ad vocate of universal amnesty. Greejcy, in utter oontempt of the Ku-Klux allega tions, traverses the South to Texas. Texas is considered to hold the same relation to the South that Kansas holds to the North, aod yet Horaoo Greeley proclaims pub licly, “ I can testify that life and property are safe iu Texas;” and he might have truthfully added, safer than iu New York, or Chicago, or Boston, or Philadelphia, or in any of the larger cities of tho populous North- • D~L-r- .t j ” • - * who would be fairer exponents of public opinion amoDg the masses of the North, who have hitherto acted with the Repub lican party, than Grant, Sherman and Greeley; and the most astute politician of all these—the quickest to discern the bent of popular mind—is Horace Greeley. These three are at present the foremost in the eye of Northern Republicans as candi dates for the nomination for the Presiden tial office. In the meanwhile, the great Democratic party busies itaelfa little in tinkering with platforms, but quietly awaits the proper hour to name the proper man to redeem the country, by cementing all sections, by the restoration of the Constitution, and in the establishment of peace on the firm and lasting foundation of constitutional lib erty. , • MOUBNKBHAT THE ALTAR. • We are credibly informed that “ Gov ernor ” Bullock, Hi Kimball, and others of the Ku-Klux Republican party, have taken out a policy for ten thousand dollars oaoh in the Carolina Life Insurance Com pany—Jefferson Davis, President. Bul lock, Kimball & Cos. are now sale from Ku-Klux outrages. Tho signature of Jeff Davis is omnipotent to make the spirit of any Ku-Klux down-baok to the dark, unseemly depths whence he sprang. It is tuoro potent than holy water to disperse the rebellious spirits of the deop. Bul luck, Kimball & Cos. are now safe, and, what is more, possess safe, reliablo poli cies in the sound, honestly administered Carolina Life Insurance Company—Jeffer son Davis, President. The good work has oommonoed. The unfortunate squad of Republieans of tho South, we have do doubt, will all follow tho course of their illustrious leader, and, by insuring their livos in the Carolina Life Insuranoe Company, protect themselves against all Ku-Klux outrages. But while this Republican advance toward Uni versal Poaco and Universal Amnesty, at tho South, is gratifying, promising per fect immunity to that unfortunate squad of so-called Southern Republicans from the villanions Ku-Klux, who have beset them for more than six years ; this is not all that is either desirable or requisite for the good of the country. Mr. Davis has been the instrument for war. Let him become tho instrument of peace. Let him at once proceed North and East under “ this inspiration. ” First of all let him insure io the Carolina Life Insurance Com pany, Ulysses S. Grant, President-General of these United States and his Administra tration, and while reverently reciting the powerful exhortation, “Let us have peace,” receive their premiums for life policies in the Carolina Life Insurance Company; and afterwards making the tour of Boston, Providenoe, New Haven, Springfield, and the important towns of the East and of New York, and Philadelphia, and Chicago, Cincinnati and Dulnth in the West, bind in one common bond of interest and brotherhood the assured and insuring of the nation. flllC NhW ELEMENTS IN 01!ft STATE RAILWAY SYSTEM. Large combinations of credit and capital, contending for the oontrol of through travel and freights at low rates between great oentres, cou constituto tho chief features in Northern railway economy at this time. The principle which underlies these features first took its rise in the rivalry of great Northwestern lines leading out of New York city. New York contributed, as a matter of profit, with great liberality to the support and construction of lines to this end, and has been recompensed by the wonderful increase in the tide of travel aDd traffic to it, and in the con sequent immense tonnage of merchandise from it, as the commercial metropolis. of tho country. The Erie Canal first dis posed tho great benefit of cheap freights, and led to the inauguration of a like policy in railway management. To insure uniformity in rates and coodomy in man agement led to the consolidations by purohase of connecting roads. The effect ol New York enterprise stimulated effort, and provoked like combinations at other great centres. Prominent among these are the Pennsylvania Central and the Baltimore and Ohio Roads, which two mammoth corporations are now contend ing lor the oontrol ot the trade of the South Atlantio coast. The objective point of these rival corporations is New Or leans and the cotton belt. The Pennsyl vania Central has already secured one line to the Southwest, and is now rapidly pushing forward another —through Geor gia—constructing the Atlantic and Rich mond Air Line, which it proposes to ex tend through Atlanta toward Oxford, or to some point on the Chattanooga and Meridian Road in that line of direction. The Pennsylvania Central, disdaining State aid, buying up all the bonds of the Air Line* Road, which had been issued bearing yhe Slate's endorsement, and re turning them to tho Comptroller, thus bold ly attacks the whole of the existing rail road system of Georgia. It is under this state of affairs—under the assurance of friendly aid connection, that an opportu nity is offered to the Baltimore ami Ohio to connect with the railway system of Georgia at Augusta. Commenting upon : this offer, the Baltimore GatetU says : The important connections of the Shen- ■ andoab Valley, beyond Salem, have been . lost to us by the indifference of the Balti more and Ohio Road. It assures the peo ple of Virginia now, that it they will sub scribe more liberally, it will complete the , road. Even if it does, it cannot, how ever, secure and control the route to Memphis and New Orleans, as it might have done three years ago. Now another opportunity offers equally important. A company bas been formed to build a road from Statesville to Danville. The road will be 100 miles long. 14 wiU coeL ' witll equipment, $2,000,000. From Statesville to Charlotte a road will soon be in opera tion. Up to this point the gauge is 4 feet 8* inches. At Charlotte the gauge changes to 5 feet, but the road to Augnsta is owned by the parties who control the entire route. 841 miles, from Danville to Augus sta. To-day the Baltimore and Ohio Road is offered;the control of these roads if it will subscribe for SIOO,OOO of the stock of the new link and take half a million of its bonds. It is useless to go into a detailed discussion of the great advantages of this line, which would prove a continuous one, passing through the heart of Virginia and North and South Carolina, crowing most of the important roads of these States and connecting with Georgia roads, which would necessarily become feeders to it, and also making, by lines completed, or soon to be built, very favorable connec tions with Memphis and Mobile. Already the Charjotte, Columbia and Augusta Road is in a condition to pay fair divi dends, and with the Statesville link com pleted, the through trade it would com mand would add largely to the business of the entire line, which passes along a fer tile and comparatively populous route, and takes, in its way to the Gulf of Mexi co, many of the important inland towns of the South! What a field for moderate enterprise! "What an opportunity for our Baltimore road! When we reflect upon the modest sum asked for to accomplish a work which would at once fill our wharves, load our steamers, command return freights, and bring to our city the floating population which gives life and activity to our retail trade, aod fills our hotels and theatres, and which is, in every way, valuable both to Baltimore aod the Baltimore and Ohio Road, it would seem, indeed, astODishirg, if that corporation were to hesitate for a moment. To it, the sum asked for is a trifle. _ Any one famiiiar with its financial operations can understand how it could be provided, without even temporary annoy ance. The very credit it would give to the bonds, by its subscription to them, would enable it, within a few mouths, to dispose Bad of tfca TcYnd Yu She case of its subscription to tho bonds of the Ohio aod Mississippi Road. It rests, however, with the Baltimore and Ohio Road to de cide upon its own policy. It does seem to us that instead of preparing to build a road oosting $12,000,000 to Chicago, and another costing $20,000,000 to New York, where it only obtains competing routes, it would accomplish much greater results by spending a few hundred thousands in the South, and securing controlling ones. If Baltimore and tho South look to the Baltimore and Ohio Railrpad much longer in vain, they will finally turn elsewhere. Successful as that corporation has been, it may bury its talent once too often. Al ready the attention of many is attracted by the enterprise of the Pennsylvania Central, and the day may yet come when Baltimore and the South will tender to a Northern corporation privileges wbioh were offered in vain to a Southern road. THE NEW DEPABTUBE. The New York Herald inclines “ strong ly to the opinion that this new departure of the Democracy North will have a two fold operation South. First, the cotton State Democrats of the Confederacy school, who have been hoping and work ing for the overthrow of these new amend ments in 18/2, in conjunction with the Northern Democracy, will now become indifferent as between tho two great par ties. Next, from this indifference, these Ku-Klux proceedings against the negroes and the carpet-baggers as Radicals will cease, for the overthrow of negro suffrage, their great impelling object of carrying the South for the Democracy, the Ku- Klux will see is gone in this new North ern Democratic movement. Thus, in the cotton States, the Administration party, with its negro voters, will be allowed quietly to go their own way, and the op position, if they do not form a third party, indifferent as to the results, will bo apt to let most of the cotton States go for Gen eral Grant by default. Ho goes for these amendments and the Democratic candi date will go for them ; and so the unre constructed fire-eater will retire in d'sgnst. This, no doubt, will be the course and the advice of Jeff Davis.” This is the dead reckoning of the Herald. But the Herald forgets that we have be 1 come “Southern men with Northern prin ciples,” and that if “Jeff Davis and his followers” should form a party in the South “ after tho fashion of South Caro lina and somo other Southern States as in 1836”—we have no “chivalry” to fall back upon—nothing but trade, and may be moved, “ not to retire in disgust,” but to be aotivo in making something. How docs this view suit the Herald and its can didate, Wm. Teoumsoh Sherman? NARROW lIAUbK RAILROADS. We commence with this issue a scries of articles from tl e pen ol an English cor respondent of the Philadelphia Press, in whioh the relative merits of tho Narrow and Broad Gauge Railways are thoroughly disoussod. The question touching narro * gauge railways is to us, at this time, one of the groateast importance. The result of the Confederate war left Southern railway companies very greatly impover ished, and onriohed Northern railway and some Northern companies enormously. Many of our old ideas respecting tho carrying capacities of railroads, and tho currents of trade, have been completely overturned. Now, it is a reccguiaed fact that trade follows the money ohannels, and is not determined by what we used to style "natural causes." Formerly it was an acoepted axiom that “produce sought the shortest practicable route to the sea.” Now produce is car ried at rates so low as to foreshadow the annihilation of coastwise shipping trade over long lines ot railways to the great money centres. Cotton is transported in large quantities from the Valley of the Mississippi, from ns Southern!, a point as Vicksburg, by way of Louisville and Cincinnati to New York, from Memphis and North Alabama through Norfolk to New York, and from Vicksburg, Selma and Mobile through SavaDnah to New York- This matter, of what is technically termed “through business,” has beoomo the overshadowing business of railroads without bringing corresponding benefits “in local rates,” and is effecting a complete change in Southern trade and Southern trade centres. It is in this view of the “ situation” that narrow gaugo roads, if effecting all that is claimed for them, be comes of the highest importance to us as the means of mitigating some of the evils wiih which we are threatened, and challenge close attention and oareful in vestigation. Jeff Davis 1 Speeches.—Tnc press of the North continue to ring the charges upon Mr. JeflersoD Davis’ speeches. The Democratic press is particularly bitter. The conversion of \ allandigham was supposed to carry with it the conviction and conversion of “Jeff Davis and his followers.” The Round Table (Dem.) gays that “ Jefferson Davis, with that good sense for which he was always emi nently conspicuous, is making speeches in favor of the re-election of President Grant.” A Kenebec paper asserts that “Jeff Davis is ocly in the interest of Horace Greeley, his bailsman, and that every word that he utters justifies Horace s sagacity in preserving the life of Jeff Davis for the benefit of the Tribune s wing of Republicanism. ’’ Ouc (Democrat) journal laments that the “ sour apple tree” was not brQUght into requisition to “ohoko him off,” and another (Radical) foreoasts a coalition “between Jeff Davis and Grant.” The only way to "choke off” Jeff Davis, or to prevent the Gree ley-Da vis coalition, is to insure in the Carolina Life Insurance Company, Jeffer son Davis, President. II Mr. Davis will only go North and East he will fire the Norfhern heart until it melts into one grand National Life Assurance Company, which will know no North, no South, nd Blast, no West, and form a Union which shall be one and inseparable, now and for ever, so long as time shall last Rev. C. W. Thomas has resigned the Rectorship of St. Philip’s Church, Atlan ta. Oa dit up there, that St, Philip’s Parish will build a $70,000 cathedral, and that Bishop Beckwith will then make At lanta his home. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1871. A JOI RNKT THKOIGH NEW ENGLAND. NEW HAMPSHIRE TO MAINE. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE k SENTINEL.] Portland, Maine, May 28,1871. In my letter of last week I promised “ more anon,” and this quiet Sabbath day, with the deep aod always,.to me, mournful peal of the morning church bells echoing sadly in my ears, I sit me down to write. Mournful to me for a thousand weary reasons. Mournful because they remind me of a far-off childhood time, when young life seemed ail a fairy dream— when the very passing. breeze breathed upon the untutored soul a balmy prayer of happiness. Os a distant childhood time—the old school-bouso on the sloping green, half-hiddeD amongst a wealth of murmuring foliage—the silvery brook let at the foot of the hill, where we children were wont to bathe our naked feet 1 And now nearly all are gone who then gave life to the happy scene. And the sounds of these weird-toned bells are like those of the olden hours, when life was un clouded with a pain, or the soul made heavy with a thought of “loved ones” gone “over the river.” 0, what a world of tears, abd pangs, and death, burns across the biain as we think of the Now and the Then ! The path of life has been 6?eM in ßU\f4s, ftn ‘}u^P m ruined homes, that one cannot well see all the dreary, tearlul way back without feel ing a wearisome woe burdening his grieved heart. Is it wrong to indulge in these melancholy thoughts ? Do they not make us all better, holier ? But I must quit them here. From Keem, N. H., where my last was written, I passed on to Fitchburg, Mass., a beautiful city, lying iu a narrow valley thirty miles west of Lowell. It has but one street of consequence. The town lies along tho gently inclined hills on either side, the wide street resting between, begirt with rows of full-leaved trees along each broad pavement. Here is the beginning of the great cloth manufacturing region, in which female operatives find employ ment. Lowell is the next city of promi nence, and that is the greatest of all the manufacturing towns in New England. Here you see thousands of bales of cotton, raised far away in your own “ sunny South,” transported here for the purpose of being made into domestic fabrics. Thu famous Merrimao river runs through this city—and no better water power can be found in tho world than here. It winds in every conceivable manner and direction through the city—and one can best de scribe the place by saying the streets and stores and dwellings are wherever the river lis not. But notwithstanding the streets and avenues are so crooked and shapeless, Lowell is a beautiful oity. The stores aro rich with their wealth of goods, and imposing with their iron and granite i'rODts. The residences of the more wealthy classes are all that taste eould well suggest and gold accomplish. Bat the operatives are of course not so well provided for. They live in c ose, poorlyjventilated rooms, in long, low, brick, tenement houses. These fifteen thousand girl-hands are crowded together in one fifteenth that number of rooms, and each one must, of course, provide for herself and pay for her lodging. What would our own Southern eirls think of this sys tem of labor ? Even in the printing offices through New Ecgland, four out of every five compositors are women. They pick up the little type with their nimble fingers as rapidly as any male printer— and, in a race, I doubt not, the male com positors would got the worst of it. Fe male fingers, small and symmetrical as they sometimes are, look very much as if they were specially made to “ stick type.” Look well to your laurels yo “ knights of the stick.” From Lowell to Nashua, N. H., a dis tance of only fourteen miles, to Manches ter, eighteen miles furthor, is only an hour’s ride, and all the way wr go along the meandering Merrimac, seeing hundreds of those factories run almost entirely by ■ female labor. Manchester, forty-three miles east of Lowell, is, after tho latter place, the largest manufacturing oity of cotton goods in New England. Out ot a population of thirty thousand, I am in formed nineteon thousand are women. Lawrence, Mass., is the third town, nine miles from Lowell, with a class of fe male operatives eight thousand strong. Next is Dover and Rochester, N. H., all yielding immense quantities of manufac tured cotton goods. Writers have com pared the mode of slavery as it exists in this region with African servitude South, and glaringly showed that the. latter was preferable to the lormer as the system used to be. I will not hero justify the one nor disparage the other; but I will say, and the record substantiates the fact, that the plan upon which labor is oarried on here is slavery of the most abject sort. If one wants proof of if, let him remember the scanty wages which these women re ceive for their ten hours of hard work eaeh day ; let him stand upon some prominent street corner, and watch the thousands of worn, haggard and weary faces, as they pass to and from their place of endless, hopeless toil. Let him behold the ragged, scanty garments that cover their tired forms. Let him inquire the guilty num bers that, fleeing from honest and poorly requieted labor to infamy, seek the lowest brothels in these and other cities. Even Puritan New England, with all its tall spired ohurches, loud sounding organs, Birict systems of education, and famous temperance regulations, cannot save them. They flee from the oppression of ill-paid toil to the worse slavery of debasing pas sion—and they, poor, deluded creatures, think themselves justified in taking the fatal step which leads them to shame and eternal death. And yet these people boast of the purify of their echoolp, socie ties and institutions—while in every beau tiful, well ordered city you may see hun dreds of these simul, wretched outcasts, “Hiding along tbecold street, From every face they meet— Oh, how pitiful I A whole city full— Who cares?” But the world goes on all the same— the dnll hum of machinery greets the ear, the mills grind away, and the sick, pale faced women work mechanically on, making cloths for the people ot the whole nation to wear. Can it not be truly" said of them that they are the real philan thropists of boasting Now England ? But, here I am in Portland, a thrifty seaport city, with a population of sixty thousand, and the finest harbor to he found along the Atlantic shores. Out in front of the city, which stands on high table land, the broad Atlautic extends in ravishing beauty farther than the eye can reach, while in the rear the gradually as cending hills loom up in brightest green, not leas grand than the murmuring, voiceless sea. All evidence of the destructive fire, which occurred here July 4th,- four years ago, has disappeared; and Portland is busv as ever with her great shipping interests, her white pine lumber and famous potato trade. En passant , I most not forget me of an excellent story told me in Manchester, which occurred to the editor of the Daily Eagle , of that city. It clearly illustrates that the noted characteristics of Ben. Butler are not forgotten or overlooked, even in this country. The editor in ques tion was the city marshal of Manchester a year since, and during his term of office a man was arrested and convicted for steal ing a large amount of silver ware. The silver ware was not found, although the fact clearly proven that he had stolen it. In a short time after the theif was sent to prison he was taken suddenly ill. and fending for the editor-marshal, disclosed the place it was hid, which was in the vicinity of Lowell. The officer rigged up a one-horse team, and going to the place indicated, found a large hag well rilled with silver ware. He drove into Lowell, and halting on a principle street was accosted by a tradesman with—- *• Hello., what ye got for sale? ” " Potatoes, ’ was the instant reply, more for a/want of something else to say than 1 otherwise. “ What kind ? ” ■ “ Early Rose! ” i The dealer immediately went around I the wagon, and lifting up the sack run his hands inside, and with Consternation, , pulling out a handful of forks and spoons, I cried : “I never seed you before, hut you can t fool me. You’r Ben. Botler!” A good Democratic editor has went bv the name of ** Spoon Butler, Jr., ” ever since. • Au reeoir. Dceasd. One of the proprietors of the Savannah Advertiser won a S6OO set of furniture at a raffle in his town on Saturday night, and is, of course, highly elated. The commencement exercises of the Ma sonic Female College, of Covißgton, will opea on Sunday, the IStb instant, with the sermon by Dr. Wilis, of Atlanta. [COMMtNICATID. ] Got.bert, May 6, 1871. Sib— Enclosed, Ihand yon correspon dence between myelf and Hon. 0. K. Osgood, which yonwill do me the justice to publish at once The absence of Mr. Osgood from hoim caused considerable delay in his answer :o my demands. My absence since has alo delayed me in for warding to you th< enclosed correspon dence. Respectfully askiig and relying upon yon to do me fall justice in the premises, I am your obedient lervaut, W. M. TCM LIN. To Gen. A. R 'Wrigit, Augusta, Ga. CtTiHBERT, Ga-, February 22,-1871. Hon. G. K. Osgood, Savannah : Sir— In the Savaroah Morning News, of the 20th. I find the following article personal to myself: Suppressed History,—The {well-in formed Washington correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle, alluding to tho re cent nomination of C K. Osgood for post master at this place, says : “This man Oegocd tavs that he cgn prove that Blodgett and Bullock instigated William Tumlinto move for the expulsion of the negroes from the General Assembly in 1868. Bullock and his perjurer saw that thers,.gnis upon the Dart abiding spirit, and Tdfhfifi' 1 "'Da'S'itie tool selected to be the author of the choice outrage of expelling the colored members, which they knew well would bring about Congressional interference., Tumlin, like the illustrious Iscariot, reoeived tor his betrayal of party the pieces of silver. Lst Osgood make good these charges, and he will make William Tumlin more infamous thaD he has yet been.” I ask of you to state, in writing, whether you ever made the statement above re ferred to, or any charge of the kind. If so I demand the proof. Respectfully, your ob’t servant, W. M. Tumlin. Post Office, \ Savannah, Ga., March 27,1871. j Hon. W. M. Tumlin, Cuthbert, Ga.: Sir —On my return from Washington last week, I found a letter here from you, enclosing an article from the Morning News, requesting me to “state, in writmg, whether or not I ever made the statement referred to, or any charge of the kind.” In reply, I have to state that the corres pondent of the Augusta Chronicle must have misunderstood me. I did not state to him that I could prove that you were instigated by any one tu move for pulsion of the colored members from the General Assembly. I did not oast any re flection upon you for it. I believe you were honest in your convictions, although • I differed with you and voted against yonr resolution. I hfcve never charged you with dishonest motives; but I havo said, and will not deny it now, that I believed that prominent Republicans assisted iu the ex pulsion of the negroes; but I do Dot see any reason that any blame should attach to you for if. My relations with you in the Legislature were always of the most friendly character; and I have never sta ted behind your back what I did not say to your face, and I do not believe you think so. Very respectfully, Tour ob’t serv’t, C. K. Osgood. P. S. —Should you have occasion to come to Savannah, give me a call. Will be pleased to hear from you in reply.' 0. K. 0. From Willies and Lincoln Coun ties. On the Wing, June 2, 1871. Editors Chronicle A Sentinel: The crop prospects between Elberton and Washington aro vory fine—far better than any I have seen. The wheat fields are numerous and no appearance of lust; the stand’ is good, the stalk tall, with heads large, full and heavy, and, with a favorablo time for harvesting, the yield will be abundant. Oats, corn and cotton all look well. Some of the planters talk about squares on the latter, which, I suppose, are not very- common. The productive qualities of the land along tho route are equal, if not superior, to any in northeast Georgia. The poople are intelligent, enterprising and industrious, as may bo observed from the’ good order and ta9te displayed on their farms and about their homes. My sojourn with Judge Andrews and family, in Washington, was, indeed, pleasant and refreshing, and I shall be happy, when ocoasiou offers, to accept thi ir kind invitation to visit them again. This is one of the most delightful and attractive homes in the town, and every way worthy of the most venerable judiciary officer of the State. A night of rest, which none but the weary can ap preciate, and the morning cqmes, and tho Judge and myself are soon in the “buggy and on our way to Lincoloton, distance about twenty miles. The read was rough and rather heavy from the recent rains, but the trip was was made in short order, and the time passed pleasantly, as I was well entertain ed with narratives and scenes from the Judge, that reached far back into che earl ier history ot the country. The Judge is a perfect volume of anecdotes and tales, many of them quite humorous and inter esting. We reached Lincolnton and opened the court about two o’clock ; and went upon tho principle that “a short horse is soon curried,” and closed out the business by night. One or two calls of the Sheriff next morning and the scene was over, and soon the buggies were rattling over the hills, and farmers were baofc to their homes and at work again. Linoolnton is a [small town,with two or three siores, and about a dozen residences. The corporation imposes a tax of five hun dred dollars on the retail o c liquors, and consequently there are no bar rooms in the place. I learned that brandy peaches and Georgia bitters were in good demand on public occasions, but the latter was regu lar “burst-head,” when taken to excess. Wheat and oats, corn aed cotton, all seemed in a flourishing condition, and far mers hopeful of an abundant reward for j labors of the present year. Traveler. [communicated J The Laoor Question. Editors Chronicle <Sr Sentinel: As the question of labor is the al! im portant one with our planters, I trust a few remarks on this subject will not be wholly uppreciated by many of your read ers. . We propose to show that negro labor is better adapted to our cotton growing State?, and mmtsuoceed better, thau aDy other element that can be introduced. In the first place, the negro is naturally better adapted to our almost tropical cli mate than acyotherraco on ekrth, Why? Because he is of a hardier and more ro bust constitution, and has been aocustomed to this kind of work for generations past. The thick and woolly covering of his cra nium seems to have been destined by. Providence to fit him for the mid-summer rays of our almost tropical stin, and rt fa an established fact that he hi less subject to the diseases which are so often produced by exposure to the sun, than any other rsce on earth- None can denyjhat he was all sufficient as a d*ve. The question then is, can they be made as efficient as former ly? Negro labor, we know, is very much demoralized ; but we contend that this is a matter which may be reguhfred by the planters theirselvc*. But howl’ Simply by adopting the same plan that Ether peo ple have adopted with freed laborers. Let planters throughout the’ South or ganize into societies, and pasp suitable resolutions, and the end is accomplished. Lot each mao bind himself to; fcbide by these rales, and les the society restore it at thehauds of all. Let the employer* resolve not to employ, or furnish any provisions to any laborer, that comes without a free dismissal and reoommendation from bis former employer. ; This is only jdktioe to all parties, and will work good by forcing the laboring population to look te their own interest, by attending strict)*’ to their dutie?. The negro must live, and lie can not uotefig he is advanced a support by the capitalists who employ him. If be will work, it is the white man’s interest to em ploy him, and he void do it. Let this plan he universally adopted, and free labor will work on in a smooth channel and mush more agreeably than heretofore. Do this, and plaat within the bounds of reason, farmers, and you will succeed and prosper once more. Very respectfully, AO&ICOLA. [communicated.] Savannah, June 3, 1871. General A. R. Wright : Mr Dear General—l have read a let ter published in the Chronicle & Senti nel, of the Ist inst, which the writer, who signs himself “H. H., reporting from At lanta, charges “duplicity, ” “fraud,” and all suoh deviltry against the projectors of the Atlanta and Savannah Railroad, and makes a direct reference to me—“ Major C , the active agent, ” &c. I have been informed of these charges from sever al sources, and beg to enclose herewith to yon a letter from this morning’s Savannah News, and to request, as a matter of jus tice, that it be published in the Chronicle & SBKTiNKL,for the benefit of all concerned. I will thank you to publish the whole correspondence, as my letter to the editor of the News is, in my judgment, a sufficient reason why I should publish a letter to Col. Humber of the 25th of May. Veey truly, H. D. Capers. THE RECENT RAILROAD MOVEMENTS EX PLAINED. Savannah, Ga., Juno 2, 1871. Editor Morning News ; Having been informed by my friends in the interior of Georgia that there is preva lent in that section a report that the re- wUKffittSfi through some collusion of the Central Railroad with the gentlemen interested in the construction of the Atlanta and Sa vannah Railroad, and having had my attention called to a newspaper artiole, in which it was intimated that I had, as a “junior attorney,’’ been a party to this matter, I consider it but just to the Cen tral Railroad, to the interests of the Sa vannah and Atlanta Road, of which I am Director, and to myself, that a statement of facts should be made. Ia my corre spondence with Ci 1. Robert C. Humber, of Putnam county, I find a letter of the 25th of May, which presents these facts, and I prefer to present them to the publio by the publication of this letter, lather than by a statement made subsequent to the events which seem to have disturbed the equanimity of some persons. Very respeotfully yours, H. 1). Capers. Savannah, Ga., May 25, 1871. Robert C. Humber , Esq., Eatonton : My Dear Sir— Your letter of the 23d inst. has been anticipated by me, and hence my communication of the same date, giving my conjectures as to the no tion of the City Council of Savannah on the resolutions adopted at the citizens' meeting on the 16th, a copy of whioh I have forwarded to you. The claims of the Atlanta and Savannah Railroad have been presented to the people of Savannah, as we detired that it should be presented solely on its merits, as an enterprise in which they are intorosted as representa tives of the interests of Georgia’s oommer oial emporium. As far as my part in this matter is con cerned, whether well performed or not, I have certainly labored under great embar rassments, just such as you know how to appreciate, from our extendod conversa tions and correspondence. You are, therefore, fully prepared to appreciate the remarkable action of the Council last night, a copy of which I enclose, taken from this morning’s papers. From tho information I have received, I am satisfied that some good has already come to Atlanta and Savannah, the ter mini of our road, even though our friends along the line ma 7 be for the present dis appointed. lam assured that a lease of the Macon and Western Railroad has been, or is about to be, consummated by the Central. This is a result, at least, of the agitation of the questions involved in the construction of tho Atlanta and Savannah, aad an incident in the pro gress of our work which will require con sideration. I would invite vour thought ful attention to it now, as I will make it the principal subject of this letter, and it must become a subject of grave delibera tion among the friends of the Atlanta and Savannah Railroad. You are famiiiar with the circumstances connected with the inception of our enter prise and the obtainment of its oharter from the Legislature. Pray, pardon me, if I should weary you by repeating them, and be assured, my dear sir, I only do so to preserve against every future contin gency the record of a work which has to this date been preserved in its spirit, and moved onward in the full recognition of every principle of equity or of law—reoog nized by men of character in the civil walks of .life. Our charter, as you are aware, was obtained from the Legislature by myself, representing the wants of the people in your section of Middle Georgia, and their great commercial friend, the Central Railroad. Mr. George W. Wylly, a sagacious business man and public-spirited citizen of Savannah, acting at the time as the Presi dent of the Central Railroad, during the absence of Mr. Wadley, approved it, in advance of its being submitted to the Leg islature, and has, to this day, officially de clared his hearty endorsement of tho en terprise as one in' the interests cf the people along its projected line, the cities of Atlanta and Savannah and of the Cen tral Railroad- Aoting under his advice, I presented the charter to the Legislature in the form of an act of incorporation. This lmd not been done long before I discovered in the oppositioa arraigned against it the inter est it was to ’ affect on the State. Not withstanding that we asked for none of the “aid!” which was being lavishly be stowed npon the multitude of railroads chartered at this session, our enterprise was met with an opposition in the Legis lature, the" organization and openly de clared purpose of which evidenced the fact that rival corporations were at least afraid of its power. This opposition was by persistent effort overcome, and the charter granted by a very small majority vote in both branches of the “ develop ing” General Assembly. As soon as I returned to Savannah and could do so, I presented the charter to the Board of Di rectors of the Central Railroad in session, believing that it was, from the circum stances of my relations, the property of this corporation. It was then, for the first time, that I heard directly the views of Mr. Wadley, the President of the Central Railroad, ex pressed upon this subject, as it had been associated with tho interests of his road. Mr. Wadley, in the franknoss and delib eration characteristic of the gentleman, stated to me, that under the circumstan ces then existing, the Central Railroad could not aid in the construction of the Atlanta and Savannah Railroad, either as a branch of the Central, or as an indepen dent lino of railway, and that as far as tbe interests of his road were concerned, he did not appreciate the necessity for its construction. The action of the Board of Directors was in harmony with Mr. Wad ley’s views, as expressed to me, and thus terminated all connection whatever of the Central Railroad with our enterprise Up to this time I considered that I had been acting as an attorney for the Central Railroad, with the interest of an attorney in tbe work which had been completed by him, and as a citizen of Georgia, with the interests of a citizen in the results to ac crue to this seaport, the city of Atlanta and the people along the line of the* pro jected road from Tennille to Atlanta. Since then, by no word, spoken, written, or in any manner whatever conveyed, has Mr. Wadley or any official of tho Cen tral Railroad intimated to me, or to any one connected with onr enterprise, that! am aware of, that he desired the construc tion at the Atlanta and Savannah Rail road. or that ho or his Board of Directors would eooourage any more in that direc tion. This, as a fa**, you are aware of. All that has been done towards the con struction of our road has been acoomplish ed through the advice and counsel of our President aod Board of Directors and as independent of tho advice or of any col lusion with the Central Railroad as we are to-day of the railroads iq Great Britain. Tbe lease, therefore, ot the Macon and Western Railroad by the Central, if indeed it be really accomplished, is but inciden tal to the active manner in which we have prosecuted onr work. Mr. Wadley, with <be sagacity of an able executive officer, has watched the progress of the fight, and having placed himself in position, has ac complished an end which he would have achieved at some day by a slower but by an equally sure process. Had he done less than this, he would not have been acting up to his past record as a discreet and skillful officer.' I think Atlanta and Savannah should be j congratulated on the result, and give us, ; at least, the credit of having hastened the j completion of a through line between I these important commercial points. ! There yet remains mnch merit in onr j enterprise, and I am rather indisposed to : leave the field when my judgment is con ( vinced that there is a remaining chacoe j for success. Let us bury the dead, send 1 the wounded to the rear, get tbe old wo men and the croakers out of danger, and call another oounoil of war. I have great confidence in our General, and at the same time that the great Cen tral barnot expressed anvopeu friendship, we have no-reason tu believe there is any enmity existing towards us. The country lietween Tennille and At lanta is as fertile tc-dav as it was last week, and if the p«ople along the line really feel the necessity for the road, they must oome forward and evidence this by subscribing stook. Atlanta is a progressive place, abounding in energy, ana desires to reach the trade of this fine oountry. This is manifest in the subscription made to the road by that city, and in the manner in which it was done. The increasing commercial importance of Savannah, as a seaport, will at no dis tant day stimulate merchants of enterprise to establish a wholesale business here, which must be maintained to make our oity more than a depot, and who knows but that the day will soon oome when the people .of this oity can canvass all ques tions of publio improvement, and express their judgment in the good old fashioned way of freemen. In the prosecution of our work, however, we must fully appre ciate one fact connected with our reoord. We are clear of “State aid," the great eurse inflicted on our people in these days of affliotioo. Let us keep the record pre set ved. If our people want a railroad, io the name of common honesty let them build it with their own money, or with means secured in some other pride, and their own self-respect. It rail roads cannot be built in this way, in my opinion they are not worth tho time I have taken in writing this letter. * * * * • Very truly yours, H. D. Capers. [communicated. J Northern Periodical Literature—bhau We Patronise It? Editors Chronicle Sentinel: We often hear it remarked around our own fireside that the Southern people are more easily duped than any other raoe upon the faco of the globe. Whether this be strictly tiue or not, I do not undertake to say. But that we are amiable, and always ready subjects for “tricks that are vain,” no ono oan deDy. Humbugs innu merable are thrust upon u°. Nostrums ot of every description flood the oountry. Frauds and swindles of every conceivable eharaetcr are daily praotioed upon our credulous and unsuspecting people ; and yet, upon the discovery of each cunningly devised trick, we are ready to bo imposed upon again with some new deception- Experience is said to be “the best teacher,” and doubtless be is. But what shall be said of those who refuse to profit from his tutelage ? We of the South have, for generations, been subjected to his harsh discipline. Yet have we derived any perceptible bonefit from it ? Is there anything in the past or present to warrant the hopo that his rude lessons will not oootiuue to be unheoded in the future ? Will we ever loam that implicit faith caunot be acoorded to everything that emanates from New Englaud ? (Jan we ever bo convinced that some things at the South are almost as good as things ot the same class and quality at the North ? Can we ever bo made to feel that a superior article of home produotion is entitled to as much consideration as an interior artiole produced beyond Mason and Dixon’s line? But, Messrs. Editors, you may ask wbat has all this to do with Northern Periodical Literatuie 1 I confess, sir, I have wan dered somewhat from my text, but hope, if you will bear with me, to traoo some connection betweon what has preceded and what is to follow. If the South has been subjected to an inundation of humbugs, poured in upon her through the ordinary channels of trade, she has not eseaped a destructive deluge of a different character, through the medium of the printing press. I allude to the vast flood of periodical irash—misoalled literature—that has rolled down upon us from the North. The war happily rid us for years of this objectionable literature. During it? pro-' gress these periodicals joined in the cru sade against us with a bitterness and ma lignity unparalleled. Ingenuity was taxed to invent stories of “horrible rebel atroci ties.” Their tremendous power of illus tration was employed to misrepresent us, and to inflame the minds of the unreading masses against us.. Suoh wastbeir course during the war. But does any one urge that all this was done undor great exoite ment —was tho uaturaTloonsequcnce of tho heat engendered by the strife, and should, therefore,' be exousod? It might be enough to answer that cal umnies and malicious attaoks upon our character as a people should not be forgot ten or pardoned, at least, until they show some signs of repentance. But how have they acted since the war? Have they abated their abuse and vilifioatiou ? Have they discontinued their system of misrep resentation aud slander? When the “President-General,” from the profound depths of his pacific soul, uttered those lamb-like words, ‘‘Let us have peace,” the literary press of tho North vied with the politioal journal* in echoing the tender sentiment- “Let us have peace” was sung in our ears until the Southern people, with a obild-like faith, beautiful to behold, began to have bright visions of a rapidly approaching millemal era; bod the prospect of a bliss ful future was only marred by the fear of suffocation from the loving embraoes ot our Northern brethren. But have those alluring dreams been realized? Let the bitter denunciations of the South iu the halls of Congress, and the malignant, dis criminating legislation against her, of which we daily read, answer. And what are the .literary periodicals of the North doing? Arc they still extending to us the olive branch, aooompanied with words of kindness and sympathy in opr distressed condition? or does their oonduct show that their loud peans to peace were but empty sounds, intended to please tbe ear for the passing moment ? Have they been laboring to instill into their readers those principles of justice aod forbearance which they claim, with so much ostentation, guide them in all their actions? or have they not, following the example of their great President-General, cried peace! peace! and at tho same time enoouraged a spirit ot unrelenting hostility towards our peo ple ? Let thosp who soek an answer to these questions tnrn over tbe pages of al most any one of those periodicals and read it there. Malignity, bitter animosity, un dying hate toward the South, will be found to characterize them, almost without ex ception. Messrs. Editors, in bringing this already too lengthy article to a close, I would ask, shall wo patronize these period icals? Shall we foolishly cast fuel into the flame that is burning the house down over our heads? or shall we not rather bnild up our own more congenial home literature? Let interest and self-respeot decide. Southerner. Railroad Meeting. In pursuance of a call previously issued, a number of citizens of Clarke, Madison sod Banks counties, met at Harmony Grove, on Friday, May 26th, in the inter est of the Northeastern Railroad, The meeting was called to order by Dr. W- B. J. Hardeman. Rev. Wm. R. Goss was called to the chair, acd J. K. P. Douglass requested to tot as secretary. Mr. Goss, in a few appropriate remarks, explained the object of tha meeting, after which he introduced Mr. A. S. Erwin, of Athens, to tbe audience, who, in a forcible style, narrated the past history of the Northeastern Railroad, and portrayed the advantages whieh would accrue to this section of country by the construction of this road, placing us, as it would, in easy and quick access to the markets of our country, and developing the resources of this portion of our glorious old “Empire State of the South.” He was followed by Mr. J. J. Turnbull, of Homer, who advocated the claims of this road on our people, stated the supe rior advantages of the route by Harmony Grove and Homer oyer any other—de monstrating this to be the most practi cable, cheapest and shortest one, and our ability to build it a narrow-guage, if we cannot construct it broad-guage. At the conclusion of the remarks of the gentleman, proposals were made for stock, and two hundred shares were subscribed. On motion, the Athens Watchman and Banner were requested to publish the pro ceedings of this meeting, and Macon, Au gusta and Savannah papers to please copy. On motion, the meeting adjonrned. W, R. Goss, Chairman. J. K. P. Douglass, Secretary. McLaughlin, the levanting P. O. Money Order Clerk, at Atlanta, who has been trying to find $4,000 bail for anew trial before Judge Erskine, dodged his atten dant bailiff Monday afternoon, and is again on the rampage. At last accounts the ba liff was hesitating between kerosene and chloral to sooth his grief- NEW SERIES, VOL. XXIV. NO. 24. [communicated.] French Emigration. Editors Chronicle A Sentinel: In a-lato issue of your valuable journal, I read about a proposition made by South Carolinians to raise funds to promote this object. Ido not approve of the plan pro posed by the South Carolinians, but I heartily approve of the objeet, Frenoh emigration. An emigration from the best portions of Franoe will add largely to the wealth and r( v " roes of the South and be particularly of immense benefit to Geor gia, where tho olimato and soil and tbo variety of produotions will permit the emigrant to utilize, at onoe, a large part of the knowledge and skill wbioh ho has hitherto acquired in Franoe, Lis native and. Lately I have sent to the Franco-Ameri cain, a French organ in New York, some statements of the resources of Georgia, atd, so far as I was able, showu, truth fully, some of the inducements wbioh should attract tho French emigrant to oome and settle in Georgia- Since then T have received several letters making in quiries about the resources of our State. Those, of course, I have answered prompt ly ; but the result of my correspondence leads uie to believe that if we will or ganize a society of respectable, active men, to be called, say, the Frzueo-Ameri m, S «t o \«rfhe‘ Agent and agenoies, a large accession of valuable citizens from tho best of all classes of Fronoh citizens—the well to do, middle,, working class—all of whom would oome with some means, and very many of whom will lake stoek in tbe Society. I propose, in a seoond letter, to submit to tbe publio my plan for organiza tion. f. A. Maugb. The fflassacre of the Archbishop of Paris aud His Comrades. The last days of the asoendanoy of tho Communo in Paris rival, iu the horror and atrocity of their deeds, the worst excesses of the frightful time* of tho old Revolu tion of 1792-3-4. The murder of Arch bishop Darboy, of ton hostages and fifty priests, who had been thrown into prison by the Communo authorities, is a orime cxaotly similar to tho oclebrated Septem ber massacre in tho prisons of 1792. Pre vious to that eveDt there had been domi ciliary visits to every house in Paris, and about ten thousand arrests made ot per sons supposed to be disaffeotod toward the Revolution. A gang of three hundred out throats was then organized, and pro ceeded to the prison* and onterod upon their work of blood. Wo presumo the late massuore was done in a similar man ner. The Archbishop was a noble and saintly character, and his tragio fate, to gether with his unfortunate comrades, is a terrible blot upon the escutcheon of the Revolutionists. The predecessor of Aroh bishop Darboy (Affrey) lost his life in the Revolution of 1848. It was in Juje, in the memorable insurrection of that year, which was suppressed with such sternness and rigor by General Cavaignao. At the close of the first day’s fight, when it was evident that the insurgents were certaiu to be overcome, the good Arohbishop, animated solely by his desire to save tbe further effusion of blood, offer ed to go as a mediator to them, behind their barricades. He knew bis danger from the frenzied and desperate inen who were in revolt, and considered the great probability that he would never return alive from his errand of mercy. But, ar raying himself in his full canonicals, put ting on his bishop’s robe, aud with a cruci fix in one hand and a flag of truce in the other, supported by several priests, be ad vanced toward the barricades. The firing Ceased, and lie reached the works, had a brief parley, Only to be drawn in by hooks and barbarously murdered in cold blood. There was never a nobler mission under taken or more heroically executed than that of this gallant prelate. Archbishop Darboy was a man imbued with the same noble impulses, and lie was admired and reverenced by thousands who were most bitterly opposed to his religious faith. The bones of the victim of the Revolution of 1848 repose in the.Oliuroh of Notre Dame, one of tho most beautiful structures in Paris, which, strange to say, the In surgents have not disturbed. But where will the bones, of Archbishop Darboy re pose?— Cincinnati Enquirer. From an exohange, we clip tbe following in relation to the personal history of tbe Archbishop: The deceased prelate was ono of the most eminent divines in the Cathode Church. He was born iu 1813. In 1859 he was appointed Bishop of Nanny, and in 1863 he was transferred to the Arohie pisoopal See ot Paris. He was a man of moderate views in matters of Churoh dis cipline and dogmas, and was in conse quence uot in much favor among the Ul tramontane*, who successfully resisted his elevation to the position of Cardinal. Du ring the current troubles in Baris, uamoly, on April sth, he was arrested by the Com munists and lodged in a cell in the Mazas prison, where he was kept as a hostage. ’ In personal appearance, as desoribed by Minister Washbume, who vi.itod him iu his oell, he was slenderly built, his form somewhat bent, his beard long, aod Bis face haggard with ill health. Massachusetts, Firing' the Northern Heart —Kilpatrick's Response to Jefferson Davis—The Heart less Onslaught of a Heartless Hero. Springfield, Mass., May 31.—A sol diors’ monument in brooze was dedicated at West Point to-day. General Kilpatriok was the orator of the occasion. He strongly denounood Jeff. Davis for his re oent speeches in Georgia, and was vocif erously applauded. The General said the papers of yester day were fall of the shouts of approba tion from the disloyal people of Augusta at the words pronouooed by tho traitor Davis. lam willing, for one, to forget the past, when the rebels cease to remind me, but not before, Comrades, the time may come when an ungrateful people may forget the bloody acts of war, when the traitor may be pardoned, his crimes for gotten, when Libby and Belle Island and Andersonville may be mentioned without a single passing thought, when no dis tinction will be made between the traitor and the patriot who fought to preserve his oountry, when towerrag monuments will rear aloft from Capital Hquare at Wash ington, ereoted by Southern pride to per petuate the memory of her false-hearted sons, when Breokonridge, ot Kentucky, the bitterest rebel, will be allowed to re turn to the United (jtales Capitol from whence he w|g driven by tho terrible de nunciations of Baker, when Davis, the aroh-traitor, who long since should passed from the sosffold to the unhallowed grave [applause] may possibly pollute oaee again with his foul presenoe the halls of Con gress, there to make laws for you and me, while the immortal Lincoln sleeps in his tomb. Comrades of this may come with time, but by (he eternal God, not if we oan prevert it. [Great cheering.] _ norro* And Her <l Christian" Missionaries The Gospel According to John Brown. Boston, May 81.—The American Mis sion Association held its anniversary to day. The annual reporfshows 288 teach ers now employed principally in the in struction of freednien with schools. The attendance numbers over 1,500. Hr. Kirk, President, made an address, in which he claimed that the President and Congress had fulled in their duty of protecting the citizens of the South. If necessary one-half million of men should have been used to do it. Tliere was a gigantic conspiracy ou foot, and its cul mination would be seen at the polls/in November, 1872. If the Democratic par ty did not favor the Ku-Klux it should say so. If it did favor them, we should know where it stood and act accordingly. The war was not over. It was still being con ducted at the South in detail and the ulti mate purpose of the rebels ripened fast. The Express Agent at Home.—His Bovinity gave a-grand reception Thnrsday night. The New Era states that among those present were the following : Hon. Coiambus Delano, Hon. Simon Cameron, Gen. Uoraee Porter, Hon. Tho*. A- Soott, Hon. B. H. Hill, Hon. W. B. Johnson, Hon.. C, A. Nutting, CoL A. J. White, Gen. Ruger, Col. E. W. Cole, Col. H. B. Plant, Hon, Jno. Harris, Hon. Joseph E. Brown, Geo. Duff. Green, Col. Robb, Col. James BrowD, and Judge Erskine. Among the ladies we observed Mrs. Gen. Lewis, Mrs. Judge Erskine, Miss Ruby Erskine, Mrs. Senator Blodgett, Mr?. Lewis Soofield, Mr*. Wreno, Miss Wrenn, Miss Lizzie Thompson, and Mrs. Johnaon. TMK RABTH<tUARK IN CHINA. Minister Low has furnished tho Stato Department with a brief aooount, dorived from official sources, of a series of earth quakes whioh prevailed tor several days, oominenoing April Ist, at Bathang, in the provinoe of Sohuen, China, causing the destruction of eight temples and 2,421 dwalings, and destroying the lives of near ly three thousand persons. Tho shocks were very severe, covering an area of over four hundred miles, continuing, with short intermissions, until the 11th. The follow ing are tho statements of Minister Low: 1 have ascertained that Bathang, lying on a very elevated spot beyond the bor ders of the provinoe, about 260 miles west from Li-tang, and more than thirty post stations from the distriot town of Ta-tsien. on the high road to Tibet, has suffered severely by au earthquake. About 11 o’olook A. m. on tho 4th ot Ap.'il, 1870, the earth trembled so violently that tho government offioes, temples, granaries, stone and storehouses and fortifications, with all tho common dwellings and tho templo of Ting-lin, wero at onoo over thrown and ruined. The only excep tion was the hall in the temple grounds, called Ta-ohao, whioh stood unharmed in its isolation. A few of tho troops and people escaped, but most of the inmates were orushed apd killed under the falling timber and stone. Flames aisu suuueaiy ourst out in four plaoes, whioh strong winds drove about until the heavens were darkened with smoke, and thoir roaring was mingled with tho lamen tations of the distressed people. On the 16th the flamos wore beaten down, but the rumbling noises'wUre still heard under ground like distant thunder, and tho earth rooked and roiled like a ship in a storm at the mercy of the waves. The multiplied miseries of the afflicted inhabitants wore increased by a thousand fears ; but in about ten days mattors began to grow quiet and the motion to cease. Tho grain tax oolleotor at Bathang says that for sev eral days before the earthquake tho water had overflowed .the dyke, and after it the earth oraoked in many places, and blaok, fetid water spurted out iu a furious man ner. If one poked it the spurting instantly followed, just as is tho oase with the%alt wells and fire wells in tho eastern part of the proyinco, and this explains how it happened that fire followed the earth quake in Bathang. As nearly us is ascer tained there wero destroyed two large temples, the offioes of tho oolleotor of grain tax, tho local magistrate, and tho colonel, the Tiuglin temple, and nearly seven hundred fathoms of wall around it, and 351 rooms in all inside ; six smaller temples numbering 221 rooms, besides 1,849 rooms and houses of the common people. The number of people, soldiers, and lamas killed by the crash was 2,298, among whom were the looal magistrate and his seoond in offioe. Tho oarthquake extended from Bathang eastward to Pang Ohahe-mup, westward to Nan-tun, on the south to Lin-tsah-shih, and on the north to the dalt wells of A-tuntsz, a circuit of over 400 miles. It occurred simultaneously over the whole of this region. In some plaoes steep hills split and sunk into deep pits; in others hills on level spots beoame preoipitious cliffs, and tho roadti and high ways wero rendered impassable by ob structions. Tho people were scattered and beggared like autumn loavos, and this calamity to tbe people ol Bathang and vioinity was really one of tbe most dis tressing and dostruotivo that has happenod- Thu Governor-General twieo memorialized the Emperor respecting it, who granted aid to rclieve the misery, re-open the roads between the post-houses, and rebuilt or repair tho offices and uwollinga as they were needed. Many are now rosuming their occupations, and the roads are everywhere passable. Greeley on Cotton. Mr. Greeley, in his late address at the Houston Agricultural Fair, says : I am not young, as you see ; yet I can not remember a time when tho South did not affirm and deplore an exosssivo addic tion of her peoplo to cotton. That emi nent soholar and statesman. Huge 8. Legare, alluded to it as a venerable griev ance, thirty odd yoars ago. Before as well as since, every ono remonstrated with every one against the fatuity whioh im pelled Southrons to plant so muoh ootton, exhorted all to retronoh and reform, and then s'id away to plant a few mote acres than ever before. For generations, it was reiterated as an axiom that cotton culture depended on slavery ; yet slavery is dead, *nd wo produood nearly one million tuns of ootton in 1870—-mo/e than any former year, with tho txoeption of 1859 and 1860. Yet, in this year of graoe, 1871, we havo tho old ory from millions of throats “Plaot loss ootton I”—and I presume with the old result. Tho army worm, tho boll worm, msy diminish the ootton orop ; expostulation, I judge, will not. I know no more striking illustration of what St. Paul ( terms “ the foolishness of proaoh ing ” than this inoesßant yet fruitless olamor against growing so ranch ootton. Doubtless the remonstrants are right, as remonstrants are apt to be. But, after two generations of inoossant deprecation, the passion for ootton planting seems as intense and pervading as ever. Tho own* er ofa thousand arable acres, after hear ing all that is to be said against it, plants almost exclusively ootton. Tho poorest negro, who owns and rents a dozen aoros, puts in his field of ootton, and takes his ohanoe for bread. He has endured less preaching on tho subject than his old master ; but, had be been lectured from infancy on tho madness of ootton planting, he weuld havo planted all the same. And this for a most obvious reason. Cotton 'is money, and money is power. Cotton is of such moderate bulk in propor tion to its value that it bears transporta tion far hotter than wheat, corn, or fruit, or vegetables, It endures tropic suns and arotiq frosts without injury; it neither molds* »or rots, nor rusts, nor putrifies. He who has ootton to sell does not quake at the footstops of tho tax-gathorer, and oan generally look the sheriff square in the face. Terrible Effotb of Civil War.— A special despatch from Paris, dated May 31, says: Tho most revolting sight I ever beheld ooourred this morniDg, on the Pla za in front of tho Hotel do Villc. Thirty three Communists, among whom wore seven women, were shot in a body by a company of soldiers. Around three sides of the squaro, troops to the nnmber of 1,- 500 were drawn up under oommand of Col. Guizot. At eight o’clock the prison ers, who had been confined in ooal cellars in the Hotel dc Ville, were brought out, their hands tied behind their backs, and then marched out by tbo main gateway through a double file of soldiers, and hav ing reached the centre of the wide area in front of the Hotel and« Ville, they were ranged in a row and made to kneel down close together. • There waa nothing ou the whole plaza but three empty scavanger carts, whioh stood in a line at the rear of the prisoners. When tbe oompany was iu line aud ready to fire, CoL Guizot stepped forward and told the prisoners in a sow words that they were to suffer death for having been caught in the aet of setting fire to buildings and dwellings. At this moment tho women uttered piercing shrieks and began to sway themselves back and forth. An offioer r,d vanoed and made them keep still with the flat of his sword. A few momenta after wards a volley was fired, and when the smoke cleared away a most horrible sight was presented. Three of the women who were in tbe middle of the row between tbe men were still living and writhing in awful agony. A second volley «u fired, and a third, and not until the sixth did all the prisoners oeaso to live. Tbe bodies were then flung in threo soavenger oarts and carried away to be buried. There were few peoplo at the scene. New United States Court Holds in Columbia.— The Fhcenix gives the fol lowing description of this edifioo that is to be: The building will be a handsome two story one, of brick or granite. The first story will oontain the poet offioe, the rove aue officers’ rooms, distriot attorney’s and United States oommiseioner’s rooms. The second story will oontain the United States oourt room, wich marshal’s office, clerk of oourt’s offioe and jury apart ments. In connection will bo found all modern improvements and conveniences. The floors will be tiled, aad the entire building finished in tbe latest style. Tbe whole edifice will be orowned with a ou* pola containing a olook. It will undoubt edly preeent a handsome appearance, and be an ornament to the oity. Its oentral location will make tbe budding convenient and accessible. _ It is expeoted that ground will be broken in about twenty or thirty days. $75,000 has been already appro priated for this edifice. We are informed that the Secretary of tho Treasury has indicated his intention to press bis work to an early completion. The supervising architect is the Government official, A. B. Mellett, Esq., of Waahiugton.