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VOLUME XXIII gl,c gome Cjraitr; ^ Prop’r. ■—ToiuiiSriviRY fhidat! BATES OE -WEEKLY. ^ ## Onevear i 75 Sis Mouths „1 00 ™" >* *^^0,1 $s §# One jear...~ * o 56 Six Months ...125 T!,rM To clubs of Five or more eu. copy ^ be nr “■'cVcfrfStn Begs wonted in esehenge for the paper at three cents per . ^ D wlNELL, Proprietor. ^ss^** * * -**^ e 4otJx « f « eatate ' ■uat be published 40 dajs. ^1 ^ mad(j to th . Court (^f Ordinary for leave to Bell land must be puUiehfd f,,at ’[“ t “ 0n of Administration, Guar- ^nthS-forTsmission from Guardianship, 40 ''Tales for th. f.rceloseure of Mortgagesinatut b . ;ubli.hed monthly for fot^mentha-fo^^- tablishing lost l*apcrH, or ^Executors or l “r ,lh T lT n where g bond h^een given by Administrators, wherenon ^ ^ m<mth3 . '"publications will alway^.be continued ac C ord ; i„ S to these, the legal requirement,,, nn.es. o crwise ordered, at the f jllowinfj Tax Collector’s sales, per levy M .~~. Citations for letters of Administration S #0 Citations for letters of Guardianship.... * 00 Vote ', application for tomus.tm from # ^ sidee 1 ”’replication for dismission from ^ ^ A “r^&Tap;.="rrr..*» Notice to Debtorsand Creditors - f 00 Sale of hand, per^ua™,................ - «? Pale of perishable property, 1* days 2 00 Foreclosure of Mortgage. per u 0 'n jan advertising his wife, (in advance! m u SATURDAY MOUSING. Feb. <i. Bolling MiH and Wall Factory. We arc glad to learn that the work of rebuilding the Rolling Mill and making a Nail Factory in this city will commence in a few days. The new Company has purchased the old Rolling Mill property, and also the land lying between that and the river, and it is expected to work on a large scale. The en terprise is one of great importance to, this town and surrounding country, and will, in all probability, he the fore-runner of other manufactories of iron. The officers or the new Company are : II M Anderson, President. Jas. Noble, Sr., Treisurer. G W Neff, Secretary. John Neff I John Hughes, r Directors. Samuel Noble, ) A Beautiful Drug Store. Col. J. G. Yciser and Thos. H. Cuyler have formed a copartnership and gone into the drug business in this city They have had one of the stores in the Shorter Block fitted up expressly for the business, and we are sure that we speak within the bounds of truth when we state that it is one of the prettiest drug stores in the Slate. Their furniture is all new, their drugs and medicines entirely fresh, and with Col. Yeiser’s long experience in the business, and extensive acquaintance if they do not do a large business, it will be “ a cu rious thing to Jonas.” Mr. Cuyler has also been in the business liuco the war, at Tuskegee, Ala., :s an adept in the trade, and an accomplished gentle- man. Wo would advise our friends, and especially the ladies, if they wish to see a beautiful etore. or to purchase fancy or sta ple articles in the drug line, to give them a A Good Speech We publish to-day the exoelleut speech of Maj. J.T. Burns, Senator from this Dis trict, in opposition to the payment of the l’eufield claim. We notice the Major has acquired the soubriquet of “the Patrick Ileury of the Senate.” We hope he may equal the father of American oratory, in his powers of eloquence in the cause of truth and justice. Cotton Market. The market was considerably excited yes- terday, prices ranging from 27 to 28 cts. Corn is in demand at 90 to 95 cents. Wheat $2 00 to 82 10. Surely these are flush times for planters. Edwin Batei & Co., Charleston. Most of our old merchants are acquainted with Edwin Bates who did a wholesale clothing trade before the war. His firm now deal in Dry Goods and clothing. It is a No. 1 House and we cheerfully recom mend them to parties trading at Charleston. See Adv. Family Groceris.—11. C. Pendleton of has just received a large fresh supply Family Groceries. Sueli at Sugar, Coffee, Spices, Dried Fruts, Pickles, Rice, Homony’ &c-&c. Give him a call two Doors above tta Bunk. OllABGEC WITII MURDEH. J. E. CiUTIB ■-Charged with having murdered a man ay the name of Kipkennou, in Paulding Co. last August, was arrested a few days since iu Selma, brought hero Tuesday . SK and left this city Friday Morning m Charge of the Sheriff of Paulding Co. of *®" A new perfume yclept “Loyal balm oi a thousand niggers,” is advertised in an sage. The inventor claimsthat it wat aautactured expressly for parties desiring ^removal of their political disabilities. “ Posing boots, by steam, twenty boot*’ ° r tW ° hundred and forty pairs ot Hotlki'n ^ USU! d day’s work. 0»e man in ei-htv l$°“> Massachusetts, has pegged H°e one? ***** ^ 982 *>onte in two days round in ’S? fort J e! ght boots, twice hoot, in a rri i t'” milrat *“; “nd did one a trial of speed) ia fchirtcon Arrived at her wharf on the 4th, bring ing the following : PASSENGERS. Mr. Okeef, W T J Woodward, Col. W 5 Cothran, Mrs. Walden, Miss Bradford, T F J Jeffries, Jesse Bryant, W Wattermire, C P Morton, 7 sterage passengers. CONSIGNEES. Maguire, Cothran & Co., Berrys & Co., W S Cothran, Son & Co , Hopkins, Dwight 6 Trowbridge, W Wadsworth, Williams & Co.i JM Elliott & Co., Fishel & Bras JH Duke, R T Hargrove, S N Noble. FREIGHT. 140 bales'of cotton, 150 bushels of wheat, 25 sacks of fruit,4700 feet of lumber, 50 sacks of cotton seed. Through Ticket Office. On the first instant, J. W - Stillwell Agent Borne Kail Boad, commenced selling though tickets to the following places: Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, . Augusta, Charleston, Collumbia, Wilmington, Dal tor, Knoxville, Bristol, Lynchburg, Bichmoud, Washing, ton, Batilmore, Philadelphia, New York, Chattanooga, Nashville, Louisville and Cin- cinatti. Such an office has long been needed in our city, and we are glad that Col. Cothran has succeeded in making this arrangement. —Commercial. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. SENATE. Wednesday, Feb. 3,1869. A House bill to pay the members three- fourths the money due them, passed. The discussion of the bill to pay Penfield for arms, was resumed and after considera ble discussion, was lost. Those voting to pay the claim of Mr. Penfield were: Messrs. Griffin, Hunger- ford, Jordan, McWhorter, Nuunally, Sher man, Smith, of the 7th, Smith of the 39th, Speer, and Mr. President —10. Those voting against paying the claim were: Messrs. Adkins, Anderson, Bowers, Brock, Burns, Candler, Corbott, Dickey, Fain, Gignilliatt, Graham, Harris, Holcombe, Jones, Lester, McArthur, McCutchen, Moore, Nosbett, Wellborn, and Winn—21. The Governor returned a bill for drawing jury in Chatham county, with his veto. Senate adjourned. HOUSE OF BEPBESENTATIVE3. An effort was made to reconsider the vote to prohibit hunting on the lands of another but failed. Most of the day was spent dis daining the resolution for the appointment of a committee to visit Washington. The Democratic side of the House generally op pose it. Without coming to a vote, the House adjourned. Thubsday, Feb. 4th The action in the Penfield claim was re considered, and the bill laid on the table for the present. An attempt to pass the Chatham county bill for drawing juries over the Governor’s veto, failed. Mr. Welbom’s resolution to send a com mittee to Washington, was withdrawn. A resolution was referred to finance com mittee, instructing the Governor to have a medal of Georgia gold prepared for George Peabody for his donations for education in the State. Bills read first and second time : A bill to incorporate Georgia Male and Female Life Insurance Company. Bead third time and passed. Senate adjourned. The discussion of the question of the eligibility of negroes was resumed, and Price’s resolutions, referring the question to the courts, adopted. Without further im- portaut action, the House adjourned. Little Things in Farming. The whole success of a farmer hinges up on timely attention to little things. Thus mainly makes the difference between thrift and poverty. The philosophy of success is expressed in the old adage: “For want of a nail a shoe was lostj for want of a shoe a horse was lost; for want of a horse a man was lost.” It is a little thing to keep ac counts of the pecuniary transactions on ths farm. A half hour Saturday evening would enable farmers to know just how they stand with the world. Yet we suspect half the men who cultivate the soil never make an entry in a book; and for want of this ac counts ran up fearfully at the store, and many articles of luxury are purchased, for which they are unable to pay at the close of the year. Debts accumulate, the .farm is mortagSd, and finally lost for the want of a little paper and ink. It is a little thing to put up a tool in its place, when r ot in use, yet many have no tool house, or place of shelter for any ■ implement or vehicle.—. Things are left where they were last used—: the'plow in the field, the cart in the. yard, the ohains in the stable, the harness in the wood house, the axe at the wood pile, and the rakes at the corn crib. Many do not even house the expensive implements they have bought; and reapers and threshers are treated like old plows and harrows. The parts made of steel and iron gr ow rusty, and the wood decays. A machine that is good for thirty years, with proper care, is used .up in five by abuse. It is a very little thing to turn a nut that is loo6e, yet for the want of the tightening the nut if lost, the bolt comes out, and loaded wagon breaks down on the way to market, and a whole day for man and team is lost. It-is a little thing to koep a horse properly groomed, yet for want ol clean fetlocks, the skin cracks and the horse is lame, and the owner loses the, use of him for weeks or months. ^Ventilation is a small affair, yet for the want of it the health of stock in' stables suffers severely, and disease sets. in.. It is a small affair to provide good seed at the beginning of the year, hut the whole success of the seasons depends upon it. It is an easy thing to deal fairly with your neighbors, and make a- name that is better than precious ointment. - Many cheat on small occasions, do not get what they sell, and get a reputation for meaner* that stands in the way of their success. From the Atlanta Constitution. SPEECH MAJOR J. T. BURNS On motion to adopt the Report of . . Committee on Claim of — Committee G. H. Penfield. Delivered Iu Senate, February 1st. Mr. BURNS had hoped that his motion to lay the report on the table till the House acted would prevail, and auy debate ou the subject be cut off. He thought it was not legitimately before the Senate, therefore he made the motion he did. But the friends of the measure had forced this discussion, and he proposed to meet it fairly. He op posed adopting the report of the committee on three grounds, lit. Because the Con vention of 1864, under tl.e duress, of gov ernmental jmwer, had repudiated- alF claims for material furuished or intended to aid the rebellion. 2d. Because the Conven tion of 1867-8 had ratified the repudiation by solemn ordinance. 3d. Because the courts of the United States, in all their de cisions. have sustained this repudiation. He had taken a solemn oath to support the Constitution of the State of Georgia and wishing to maintain that aath invio late, he could not vote to adopt the report the committee. Before the Corfven.- tion of 1865 attempted to sully the fair name of Georgia, she, on almost bended knee, supplicated the Government not to force repudiaion upon her. In October, 1865, Piovisional Govenor James John son telegraphed Seward in the following language: “We are pressed on the war debt; what should the Convention do?” He al so sent the following to President John- aon:“ We need some aid to reject the war debt; send me some word on the subject; what shonld the Convention do?” ' Secretary Seward replied, October 29th, 1865, as follows; “The President of the United States cannot recoguize the people of any State as having resumed the rela tions of loyalty to the Union that admits as legal obligations, contracts or debts, created on them to promote the war of the rebellion.” President Johnson replied under the same date: “The people of Georgia should not hesitate one single mo ment repudiating every single dollar of debt created for the purpose of aiding the rebellion against the government of the United States. It will not do to levy and collect taxes from a State and people that are loyal and in the Union to pay a debt that was created to aid in taking them out, thereby subverting the Constitution of the United States. * *' * * It should at once be made known at home or abroad that, no debt contracted for the pur pose of dissolving the'Union of the States, can or will be paid by taxes levied on the people for such purposes,” By ordinance of the Convention of 1865, it was declared “That all State securities and liabilities of indebtedness, of what evercharacter, that may have been created by the State to aid in the prosecution, di rectly or indirectly, of the war against the United States of America, be and the same are hereby declared null and void.” Smith (7th.) Does this affect the legis lation of 1860 ? It does. On page 135, of the journal of that Convention, the ordinance declares that “the Legislature is hereby forever prohibi ted from in any way acknowledging or pay ing said debt, or any part thereof, or for passing any. law for that purpose, or to se cure or ; provide for the said debts there of, by, any appropriation of money, proper ty, stocks, funds or assetts of any kind for t'-at purposcL’’' The ■ honorable Senator from the 7tbj‘says that if-Georgia now re pudiates this claim, her fame will be soiled forever. 'Sir when the “warrior’s flag took its flight to greet the warrior’s soul” and we surrendered onr arms, her honor as a sov ereign State had forever fled, and she bow ed to the behests of a higher power by re pudiating all claims given in aid of the re bellion. Mr. B. here read from- the Con stitntion of 1867-68, page 17 and 37, sus taining the acts of Convention of 1865 in repudiation. I am no advocate of repudiation, bnt it has been done. I am no respector of per- sons; but while I am debarred by law from paying the just claims of widows and or phans who hold war bonds of Georgia, I shall not, because a man who lives North holds similar claims, vote to pay him. It is urgod that the claimant should be paid. I cannot see.any difference as to persons un der the law. The law makes no difference as to who is the party. I am, however, inclined to believe that shonld-a man born on southern soil, and who sympathized , with the rebellion, bring » claim for guns manufactured in 1860, and should this Senate vote to pay him, there would be such a howl raised North, and in our National Legislature, as would cause a packing of carpet-bags by this Senate as has not been seen since the Israelites left Egypt. Oh, loyalty, what a jewell! You make guns for the rebels to fire upon the Stars and Stripes, to shoot to death the gal lant defenders of the Union, and now be cause’you are loyal, claim pay for the' guns with which the bloody rebels did their work ol' death. “This will make treason and re- hellion odious.” The Shylock who makes his money . from the warm blood of the soldiers in gray and blue, who cares nothing for who fall- by the deadly discharge of his guns; who in his thirst for money, forgets his flag, and fur nishes arms alike to friend and foe, makes p poor snow in my judgment in claiming this'blood-money, because he ialoyall The. war has passed with its blood and.its hor rors Let the claims of him who placed guns in the hands of both parties, regard less of friend and, foes, die too. [I forgot all such claims are dead, if we respect the law.] I cannot give my consent to this outrage. The widow and. the orphan who held claims, much jmore equitable, would, with aching hearts and streaming. eyes, breathe a curse more fatal than ever fill from .the prophet’s old- Let this claim, like : the rest, given in aid of. the Lost - Cause,” Temrin as a monument of tho cause for which it is given, and let it find its res ting place in- the same grave. Hair Grafting.—One Innis, a. negro barber in Jersey City, has made the treat ment of premature bald heads » a special study, and after a series of experiments has demonstrated, it is said, the fact that hair may be grafted into such a head and made to grow. He takes hair from the head of anothe# person, and examines it with a mi croscope to racer tain if it-is perfect and healthy. This ' hair he inserts into the cavities of the scalp, and -secures it to its ■place by bancages which are allowed to re main a few Mays until the hair takes root. , A writer in the A,it-Slavery Standard says he has seen the barber perform this operation successfully. From the Southern Cultivator. Improving Land with Peas. Sparta,Ga., April 4th, 1868. You wish my experience in growing peas, and turning thorn under whilst green. The benefits -of growing grass crops,-|nd burying them in the soil for the benefit of Future crops, are too well understood to be questioned by any one; but it has opened a question In agricultural economy that has not been settled so satisfactorily. The English farmers formerly used a half ton of groundhones per acre, to grow a single epop, but they have found by dissolving two hundred pounds of hones iu acid, at a cost of filly per cent ou the price of the hones, (making the whole cost equal to that of three hundred lbs. of bones,) that it will produce the sag) 6 effect at _an outlay of only thirty-per cent on. that of the for^ mer mode—the latter, rnethbl giving them the means of returning-thq same amount of manure to the land next yesr. as the for- nier did, to producing the same amount of hay, turnips and other fqrage .to feed stock. Now, admitting that it will pay to'grow peas and clover, to be turned under as fer tilizers, the following questions arise: At- what time should they be turned un der, to insure the greatest benefit ? Would it pay better to feed them off the land than to cover them with a plow, and why do they lose by drying before being turned under? Here again the question of solu ble and insoluble manures is involved, have always taken the side of soluble man ures as being the most economical. Dry peavines and clover will soon become solu— * I will give yon my practice. It is one that will nay, although I will not say that that will pay, although it is the best First keep your land in good heart; let the field that you intend to sow peas on remain fallow, until you lay by your corn—say from the 1st to the 20th of July. Yon will then have a large growth of green weeds to turn under. Start your teams with good torn ploughs, running off the land as nearly level as you can, and go round and round until the land or cat is finished. Start the pea dropper after every third plough, and the hand with the mat ure after the pea dropper. Drop the man ure within four inches of the peas. If you find the peas will make from seven to fifteen bushels per acre, turn stock in upon them, placing salt in places over the field, to cause the most of the manure to be drop ped on the field. Then invest all the pro fit arising from feeding stock on the field in bone3 and Peruvian guano for the next erop r and you will find this system will pay. I have adopted it with both wheatand cotton, with good success. If the peas fail to fruit, turn them under whilst green.- Second Plan—Plant peas the first of April, same as above: turn under before the stems become very woody, and plant manure a second crop at the same time that you are turning under the first crop of vines, and treat the second crop as you did the first. The true policy is to secure the greatest amount of soluble vegetable mold you can accumulate with the least cost. Ycry truly yours, -David Diokoow. - N. B.—I prefer peas planted and culti vated on a level, both for the land and crop, find for a sowing of small grain after the pea crop. MURDERED. Another Victim of Clayton’s Blood -hounds, From the Memphis Appeal, Jan. 29th. The crowing deed has heen done. An other heart-sickening crime has been added to the long and bloody list already charg ed to the account of the infamous and de testable scoundrel and murderer that we apathecally have allowed to march around onr streets, with all the insolence bravado of royally, when he ought to have been in ohains. We have already made onr readers fa- milliar with the sickening details of the murderer of Harney, McAllister and Ticer- They were taken out without even a sem blance of a trial, law 01 right, and morder dered. Two other prisoners were repre sented as being held in the jail at Marion— Wafford and Crump. After having held and tortured these two until no more cold be extorted from them, either in money, gift or otherwise, it was a day or two ago determined that Wafford, against whom nothing coaid be foand, but who would, it turned loose, be a witness against them, must die. In order that a semblance of law might be had as an excase for the bloody deed, a “court-martial,” or military commission was summond from among the - orowd, who were to be at oace jndges, accusers, witnesses, all. They were negroes, all of- them—or lower in the scale- of humanity—and most of them had. engaged in every robbery, rape and murder that had been committed in the county. Few or. none of them could read, and all had the death of the victim nearest their heart, as a measure ne cessary to their own personal safely. God knows what for, or by. what _sem= blanceof trial, but failing in obtaining- their demands, they .determined that Waf ford should die, and they executed the sen tence; as we stated was the rumor yesterday, on Wednesday. Now that the prisoners, or at least- Waf ford, is beyond reach of harm from them, we assert that a proposal was made, to gen tlemen in this city, by the officers command ing at-Marion, to release Wafford on pay ment of two thousand dollars. . . . This finishes the drams for the present, but justso sure as God exists, we live to see this villain and suborner of villains hunted down and punished for these infamies.— The corse of blood is upon him and them, and will surely work its own vengeance. While this scoundrel was in the oily he was surrounded. by an army of police and detectives, kindly furnished him at the in stigation of a few hypocritical. knaves who affected to believe that an attempt would be made on his life. We know that no such attempt was contemplated, and so did those who affected otherwise. He was visited, we are told, by his organ in the city, by “loyalists,” who went out of frend- ship and admiration, and “Kuklnx” and rebels, who -went oat of fear and cring ing. As on illustration of his moral character, and to show how thoroughly he was identi fied with the Plymouth, we Bock hypocrit ical Puritanism, we are told that on Sun day, while his parson, or the chaplain of his staff, as he is grandileqncntly called, was praying in his loudest and most unc tions manner—literaily wresting with the Lord—to punish the d—d rebels and bless and malce fici\ hit chosen servant Clayton that worthy.wa3 playing, pocket, in the ne groes’ cabin of thoDesare. ' 40"Mr. Cliarlos Wingfield, a highly re spected citizen of Wilkes county, died near Washington, last week. Washington, Feb. 4.—In the Supreme Court yesterday, the City of New Orleans vs. New York Mail Steamship Company was continued to next term. The President has taken no steps in re gard toDr. Mudd’s pardon, beyond direct ing the Attorney General to hasten his re» port on the case. Mudd’s early release how ever, is regarded certain. Senate.—A number of hills were intro duced,including the grant of alternate sen- tions of land to the New Orleans and Selma BaiIroad,and rebewing'land grants to Ala bama. House.—The Bcconstructisn Committee has postponed its report on Missis sippi until -the arrival of ex-Governor Brown.'- The sub-committce reported one hundred and fifty names for removal of political dis abilities, not including any Judges or district attorneys. The report on the Louisiana election con- tostisnotyetready._„ - • . NSSffiLLE, Feb. 4.—Speaker Bichards has vacated the Chair pending the investi gations charging him with corruption in connection with the missing school funds. London, Feb. 4.—A dispatch from Ath ens gives unexpected intelligence. The Greek ministers refused to sign the protocol, and have tendered their- -resigna- tian to the King. Paris, Feb. 4.—The insurrection among the wild tribes of Algeria lias been suppress ed. - ' Memphis, Feb. 4.—Befogees from Crit tenden county, Arkansas,report that the militia had hung a planter,and were com mitting all kinds of vandalism. A planter was killedaud robbed six miles from Little Bock. Telegraphic Markets. New York, Feb. 4.—Stocks steady, Money easy at 7. Exchange 9}. Gold 1 351. Wheat doll and heavy. Corn doll and lc lower. Pork dull;new mess 32 25. Steam lard lieavy;b arrels 20}a20}. Cotton firmer at 301- Turpentine 56}a57. Bonn dull at 2 55a2 60. Freights quiet. Liverpool, Feb. 4. afternoon.—Cotton active; uplands, spot 12}d, afloat same; Or leans 12 fd. HUMORS OF ADVERTISING. The Stamford (Conn.) Advocate is the medium through which the faithful Sarah exposes the vices of her faithless swain, in the following words: - To the Public.—Whereas, my hniband, Edward H. Jones, has falsely advertised that I have left his bed and beard, and that he will pay no debts of my contracting, ic., this is to inform the public that the afore said Edward H. Jones has neither bed nor board for me to leave, he having been liv ing at the expense of my father. Underpre tence of procuring money to pay his way to Birmingham, Conn., he borrowed a dol lar of my father, and with that paid for this lying advertisement against me, and even after that dastardly act, he took all the money I had, and borrowed every cent in my mothers -possession and left the town. For the past three months he has been kept-from nakedness and starvation by the exertions of myself and relatives: ha squan dered in dissipation all the money his born laziness would allow him to earn. The scamp need not have advertised that he would pay no debts of my contract ing, for the public well know that he wonld not pay even his own. He is a lazy, ungrateful, loafing scoun drel—not content with living at the ex pense of my relatives and borrowing their money, he publishes an outrageous lie. His bed and board! indeed—if left to himself, his bed would be nothing but a board, and I should not be much surprised if the bed he dies in were made of boards with strong cross-beam overhead. Sarah A. Jones. As Good aa Acquitted. Atlanta, February 2.—-The Finance Committee, composed of two Democrats and one Bepnblican, appointed to investi- gate the charges of the State Treasurer against Governor Bollock, of unlawful use of State fnnds, issue the followed card: “To the Public.—We, the undersign ed. Sub-Committee of the Finance Com mittee, appointed to investigate the charge made to the Treasurer against the Got. ernor, hope that you will not form your opinions hastily. We are investigating the whole matter thoroughly. We do not doubt, from evidence now before us, that Governor Bullock has acted with the stric test integrity. The only question is as to his discretion, which is being folly investi gated. We are induced to make this re quest because of the hasty oourse of the Treasurer in making public certain com munications. [Signed] “H. Morgan, “W. B. Bell, “C. C. (/LEGHORN, A Baloon Voyaoz to Europe.—The notion of an serial voyage to Europe has been revived by M. Chevalier, a celebrated French coronaut.who has jost arrived in New York: He proposes starting from New York next April or May. M. Cheva lier, we are told, once made the journey from Paris to the Bossian frontier, a dis tance of over seven hundred miles, in less than five hours. Upon another occasion, he crossed St. George’s Channel from Dub lin, and has accomplished, without injury, several ascensions in France and England. The airship m which the experiment is to be attempted is called. L’Esperance. Its height is ninety-five feet, its diameter one hnndred and fifty feet, and it requires ona hundred end twenty thousand cubic feet of gas to iefiate it Attached to the ship is an enclosed car capable of carrying abeut fifty persons, with provisions for a ten days’ voy age. M. Chevalier contemplates extending invitations to several members of the press to accompany him. At a late meeting of the Democrat editorial corps, it was resolv ed, with remarkable unanimity, that this paper will not be represented on the voy age.—Louisville Dan. •9*1110 Hearth & None is the new weekly started by Fettengill, Bates Jc Co., 33 Park Bow, N. Y. Editors—Donald G. Mitehell (Iko Marvel,) and Harriet Beecher Stowe —names so well known as to leave no donbt that the new enterprise must prove eenc- cess. It is gotten up somewhat after the fashion of Harper’s Weekly, hut in ell es sential particulars it is superior to that widely-known publication. Price 94 n year.—Exchange. i$£.A Minister in Minneeotn has been presented with a watch guard composed of hair, every lady in the congregation having plucked ont one hair as a contribu tion. Come,boys, I have something to tell you: . Come near,I would whisper it low: You are thinking of leaving the homestead, Don’t be in a hurry to go. The city has many attractions, Bnt think ofthevicesand sins; _ . - When once in the vortex of fashion, How soon the course -downward begins. You talk of the mines of Australia— They’ve wealth in gold without doubt; But, ah! there is golden the -farm,boys, If only you’ll shovel it out; The mercantile life is a hazard, The goods are first high and - then low; Better risk the old-farm awl" Don’t be in a hurry to go. The great,busy West has inducements,’ And so has the busiest mart; But wealth is not made In a. dayboys— Don’t be-in a hurrry to start! The hankers and brokers are wealthy; They take iu their thousands or so! Ah, think of the frauds and deceptions!— Don’t be inTt hurry to go! The farm is the safest and surest, The orchards are loaded to-day; You’re free as the air of the mountains,' And monarch of all you snrvey. Better stay on the farm a while longer; Though profit comes in rather slow; Remember, you’ve nothing to' risk,hoys; Don’t be in a hurry to go! A NEW DODGE. Fifty Thousand Dollars for Furaiture. A correspondent of the Jonrnal & Mes senger says, the tax-payers wiil not have to pay for buildingthe house,but only- for the furniture, which costs less than $56,000. There are several very serious ebjections to this new dodge. The city of Atlanta promised to the Convention and to the Leg- islatarethatnnder . no circumstances was the State to be at any expense for a Capitol for ten years; and now they ask for fifty thousand dollars for furniture. Secondly, they have moved all the furniture from the Capitol in Millidgcville to Atlanta;therefore they did not need any new furniture; and, thirdly, have never ordered any new for- niture. If the people of Atlanta or Gov. Bnllock have ordered it without any au thority, let them pay for it. By looking at the Comptroller’s report the tax-payers will see several considerable sums drawn for moving tha furniture from Milledgeville to Atlanta. This furniture was thought good enough for the State when it was much richer than it is -now,and it is still good enough for honest people. We hope the Legislature will not permit the peop e of Atlanta to bay further at discre tion, and draw on the State to foot the bills. A Baker County Hole Trader Swindled Oat of Five Hundred and Fifty Dollars: A man from Newton,Baker county, was swindled out f $500 by a very common “little game,” on Saturday afternoon. It ‘“iTTrem that Mr. Thrasher, the victim, had come to Macon with the amount above named for the purpose of buying males,and falling in with a very plausable, smooth spoken person, a stranger like himself, the two were around a good deal during the day seeing the rights. About 6 p. m. tho sharper came to him in a great hurry, with a check on the National Bank of Macon for $1,850, and saying he was in pressing need of the money just then—asked Mr. T. to lat him have $500 on it until he could See same of the bank officials^nd make arrange ments to have it cashed, proposing to leave it,meanwhile,in Mr. T-’s hands. To this Mr. T. assented,and the rogue hurried off to see about gstting into the bank. Of course that was the last of him, and of course the check was worthless, and Mr. T. lost bis money. It is supposed the thief left on the Savannah train at 6:20.— Macon Mess. How to Retain Youth. It is a matter of no little concern, says an Exchange among men—and women,too —to preserve the bloom and freshness of their youth. Cosmetics, - plumpers, and the whole offspring of artifice and deception are resorted to, in the effort to stay the fur rowing ploughshare of time. External appliances cannot reach or rejuvinate the decaying spirits of the man or woman who willfully amd maliciously perpetrated a glar ing wrong on a fellow creature. Something must he done to quicken the vitality of the “inner man,” If you would preserve the ruddy glow of health and' rotnnd form of youth. An easy conscience is the alt po tent remedy for that -elasticity of spirit which give color and beauty to the human face,and activity and energy to the physi cal body. Hear an old man sing: They tell me I am handsome yet, And all the ladies say “Do look at him! the dear old man Grows younger avery day.” And when each friend asks, Atyonr How came yon free from ills?” Iajways answer “In my yonth I paid my printer’sbill.”s Aot Wisely if You Would Do Well.—“Once upon a time” a certain man was granted all he might be able to cany across the seain-^great ship.. lie employed laborers and loaded his ship with costly merchandise to its- utmost capacity. He set sail with fond anticipations'. .of the great wealth he was about to possess. Be fore tho voyage was ended he realized his folly.—Hunger came and would not be ap peased with hope of future feasting, or heaps of riohes. Fortunately,a provision ladsa Tessel was met, and onr avaricious man was but too glad , to exchange half his wealth for ship stores. This' still left him half, after all the pangs of hanger and trouble of loading and unloading. But,hold. He was only entitled to what he. carried across, and of coarse had to render an ac count of what betook away, and did not carry aeross^o this took the other half he had left. Moral.—-Plant all cotton^tarve and stint through the .working season and then give your cotton crop to pay for the corn you nave used and wiU need until you make-another crop.—Columbus Sun. *S-The Bev. Mr. Murray, a young man recently settled over the park street Church ill Boston, startled his staid parishioners the other Sunday by inserting a petition in prayer that the lord would also “bless those middle-aged females whose youthful hopes had been disappointed.” •a-Mr. Mantou Marble has bought out all the other owners of the FVorM news paper, and is now its sole proprietor. The prica $100,000, exclusive of any real estate. Washington City^D. C, 1 Tuesday,Feb. 2nd 1869. f Washington is really dull; and every body dyand everything has^ind seems to wear a& air of mehmcholly. The excitement of the war,and the late Presidential elections have, from titclaws of gravitation, subsided into a staled serenity. The “truly loyal” say that the ‘-Nation m safe” provided, meral Grant does not go hade on them. It may be, that the melancholic sx- pression of things about Washington results from a lurking reflection that - General Grant, as the Chief Executive of the Be- public, will not -prove as Badical as the party which nominated him. Such, however, is the depression here from seme cause, that every effort to get -up even a grand national inauguration ball has failed mo$t signally. The city is hy no means as fall of transient Visitors add office hunters 1 as might he ex pected.. Visitors from the “Beconstructed South,” are few and transitory; and office seekers meet with no encouragement from GeneraTGrint.- Society in Washington is only the sample of the people—the politics andthepartyit represents.'; - . The society of Wasbingten',Philadelphia, New-York, and Boston, improvedhy mod em habits at d customs—renders the condi tion of things in these rides not unlike Paris just proceeding the Freneh Devolu tion. ’Old things hare passed away, and all things have been changed to suit the Pu ritan idea of morality, religion and govern ment. The charge of disloyality Earing more than once been made, I am Admon ished to desist from farther comment on this line.: The ease of Geoigia is vet on the Badi cal gridiron. I do not believe that Congress ever intended to interfere with the present State Government ofGcorgia. An indi vidual hy the mrate of Bullock who is in the habit of drawing drafts for large sums of money—and signing himself “ Covemor" of Georgia—is really the cause of all the trouble and annoyance Inflicted on the peo ple of Georgia at this time. This fellow Bul lock came to Washington at the meeting of Congress in December 1868, and haring several hnndred thousand dollars of Geoigia bonds in his possessiin, which were negotia ble at any time) in conjunction with his friend Foster Bloggett,-who is still here; he soon arranged for the introduction of sever al bonds before Congress, each, looking to the disruption •• of the present State Gov ernment of Georgia. The whole object was then to alarm the people and the Legisla ture of Georgia, and force the' Legislate# to reseat the- negro ’ members; that done, that is the negroes reseated, Congress wonld then pay simply a resolution' requir ing the test oath taken by each member of the Legislature; and Messrs. Hill and Mil- ler r haring already been rejected by there- port of the Senate Judiciary Committee,the Legislature thusywryfwfby the test oath the election of Senators wonld take place, resulting of course in the election of Foster Blodgett and Joseph E. Brown. With Blodgett and Brown in the U. S. Sen and Bullock backed and sustained by a lest oath Legislature, the carpet-baggers and scalawags really anticipated a- gdbd time. But unfortunately the blnnderbnss of the State Treasurer, has knocked np the Bol- loek^md his friends in Washington say— that he is now a dead cock, as well as a bullock. Diamond Cut Diamond.—The Presi dent is importuned to pardon one Blake, of New Jersey,’sentenced to ten years’impris onment for having sold a ten-dollar conn* forfeit United States note to another man. Blake was a detective; the man he sold the ' ' also a detective. Each sus- Such men os Fessenden and Trhmhnff of the Senate, Bingham and Poland of- the House say of Bnlloek’s financial -operation with the fourth national bank of New York —what Sir Walter Scott said of the leading character in the'jday of Macbeth; that he is Like Banque's murderer; there is blood on his face; as well as upon the rowels of his spurs; and the rides of his over ridden horse.” Your correspondent may be mis taken in his conjectures, but he is firmly of the opinion that Congress never seriously contemplated any farther legislation rela tive to the state of Georgia. It is a well known fact that Gen. Grant is most em phatically opposed to interferring with Georgia in any way. Gen. Grant is mnch stronger than his party and his simple Irish or opinion in any matter of State polity is more potent with Congress than all the Bollock’s that ever drew a draft or carried a carpet-bag. It is also a well known fact— that to “Reconstruct Reconstruction” in Georgia—would be a confession to the world that “reconstruction’’ was a - failure. This wonld be an acknowledgment that the pride of party will not tolerate. If Con gress therefore, realy intended to pass eith er of the four -Georgia bills already .intro duced, the time has been ample and the pretexts more than sufficient; consequently we argne, that everything that has been said and done by Bollock’s retainers in Con gress, was designed simply to alarm and in timidate the Georgia Legislature. A resolu tion was offered a few. days ago by Mr. Payne of the House, enquireing by what authority the state of Georgia was represt- cd on that flour. This resolution produc ed quite a flutter amongst the Georgia dele gation, and forthwith—letters and telegrams were started for the Georgia Legislators to do something. It is to be hoped how ever that the Legislature will pay' no further attention to Congress—and address them selves to the care of the funds of the State,- and depletion of all Bullocks, threatened with greenback apoplexy, and other carpet- hay disorders. General P. M. B. Young—the represen tation-of tho 7th distriot of Georgia, is aot only the best looking man in Congress, bat Lam satisfied that he is the best Southern man, by large odds in either branch of the Federal Legislature. General Young is proverbial for his attention to business,andis ever watchful of every interest of Georgia, His great energy and; cealeis ■ attention to his duties, nnited with his popularity and urbanity of manner; of necessity, makes him a most cfficcnt member of Congress. No Geergiau or other citizen of the South visiting Washington, will blush to see Gen. P.’S. B. Young representing a white constituency of a Southern State. He served the people of Georgia most faith fully and gallantly for four years, wh;n confronted day hy day with the missiles of death, is he not competent to fill the post he now occnpies ? We ansiror most un questionably. The weather for the last twenty days has been almost like May in a Southern clime. But alas,alas, this goodly city, Washington, is indeed “a sterile promontory, and. this brave o’erhanging firmament, the air, this majestical root, fretted with golden fire, a foul and pestilent congregation of vapoore; whom man delighteh not nor” woman nei ther. Banquo. note to v™ —™ -. . pected the other. thougli neither thought the other was a detective. Blake sold the note in order to pat up a job ou the mau who bought it, in order to confirm his be lief that he was a counterfeiter, instead of which the man arrested Blake. .On Blake’s person was found a rebel pass, which so in- censed the truly loyal heart of Judge Field, of New Jersey, that, though Blake pleaded guilty, he gave him ten years. It turns out that Blake was adetective of Stanton, a Union' spy commissioned to enter Bich- mond, and for that purpose got the pass in question. The jury which was to have tried him, had he not pleaded guilty, all re quest.his pardon. ■ Blake pleaded guilty on the recommendation of a counsel who took all his money and promised to get him off easy; but the unexplained rebel pass settled the business with Judge Field, and he was sentenced ten years for selling a detective a bad bill in order, to trap him and getting trapsd himself. He has served four and a half years of the term already.:—W. 7. World. GONE OVER. A Distinguished Convert, to the Catholic _ Church. The London correspondent of New York Times writes as follows: . I am inclined to think that the real sen sation of the week has been the news that the Marqnis of Bute has tnrned Papist — This. youDg man, just come of age, with three hnndred. thousand pounds a year and a peerage, has gone over to Borne. Forty years ago there was one Catholic priest in England who had been a clergy man in the Established Cnureb—the Hon. and Rev 1 . .George Spencer. Now there are forty such priests in ®this archdiocese of of Westminister, and about two hundred in the - country. Lay converts are probably in proportion. The returns the last year in the metropolis are2,200, and the con—or per—-verts are mostly from the upper or middle ranks of society. . GoosaBiver.—The appropriation made by the Legislature S3,333,33 is not for a resurvey of the Coosa river bnt for the sur vey and location of a canal from the Stair case falls above Wethmpka on said river,to a point somewhere below Wetnmpka. The proposed canal, it is said, will be 15 or 17 miles in length, .and if the practicability of the. enterprise should be demonstrated, the series of falls just above Wetumpka,which offer the most formidable obstacles in the navigation of said stream,can. be success fully avoided by the construction of a ca nal across the low country,through which thesurvey will‘he made. The. effective damming and locking of the falls referred to present the most serious difficulties in the way of rendering the Coosa navigable and could a canal be made that .would cir cumvent these difficulties^ that loag and continuously flowing river, with its fine wa ter power, would be rendered snbservent to the wants and necessities of the. people of the region through which it passes.—Jfont. JW-. The Chain GaNO Tie the Overseer ABB Eicafk.—The entire chain griig yes terday escaped and at last accounts are at liberty. They were working on tho road to the Chattahoochee Race Course, between the double branches. The manner of escape m told, one negro first jumped on Cook, the others then pitched in, took his revolver away, led Cook to the woods, tied his hands behind him with his pistol beltand left him on the ground face downward. Cook by rolling managed to get pu and went to a blacksmith’s shop, where he was untied. There were five negroes not nine, on the gang. The names of the prisoners escaped were Henry Walton, Joseph Barfield, Ar thur Peterson, William amd Henry Bed ding.— Columbus Sun 30 th. Another Eutaw Affair. “Loll” of the Laws. From tha Gadsden Times. We hear it stated that the “loti” Circuit Clerk of Calhoun Connty, has had seven or eight respectable young men from about Alexandria arrested and held over in bonds of $1,000 each to answer at the next term of the Circuit Conrt of that Connty, on a charge of assauL and battery, with intent to kill. From all we can learn, the Circuit Clerk. was charged with en couraging negroes to bring suits against white men, and that for this ho was visited hy unknown persons and-warned to discon tinue such practice. That he is alive to day, is evidence that they, did not intend to kill him. The high ‘ character of the young men charged in the indictment, is guarantee of their entire innocence. HcW Radical “Petitions” are ManoAe> tured. The Augusta Chronicle it- Seniinel pub lishes the names of all the twenty-eight hundred so-called citizens of Augusta, who petitioned Congress to put Georgia hack under military government, and whose peti tion Mr. Summer lately presented to the Senate. Nearly all the names were signed with a X, and tho list did not contain the names of tho prominent white Radicals of Angnsto. Very few of the petitioners were known; the Chronicle exp resses the opinion that less than two hundred of the twenty-six or twenty-seven hundred ne groes, whose names appear on the petition, are residents of Augusta, or known there. The whole thing appears to have heen a fraud of the most infamous character— such a one as only the “Little Perjurer” could have conceived and carried out— -Vacon Mess. frirCol. H. T. McDowell, of Savannah, his been appointed Commissioner of the United States Court of Claims. ■o.w to Kill a Town. A late number-of tho Dubuque Herald has the following excellent suggestions: It you wish to kill off a town, put up no more buildings than you are obliged to occupy yourself. If you should acciden tally have arr empty building, and any one should want to rent it, ask about three times its actual value. Look at every new comer with a scowl. Turn a cold shoulder to every business man and mechanic who seeks a home among you. Go abroad for wares rather than purchase of your own merchants and manufacturers at the lame prices. Refuse to advertise, so that -per- sons at a distance will not know that inj business is being done in yonr eity. a prompt and close observance of these rules will ruin any town in two years. S«5“Gran! will teuder his resignation M General of the army, to President Johneoa, the day after the electoral vote is so anted and declared. •9*The New Y« that the Tribune / ' the life of Mr. Or —