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ROME, GA., FRIDAY MINING. JANUARY 7. 1870.
CUBA CONQUERED.
By to-day’s telegram* we learn that the'
“rebels," (God bless the old word) have
laid down their arms and given up the
fight. The Spaniards will now take oon-:
trol of this devoted ‘aland and afflict it with
some “infamous amendments,” and give it
some “situations'* to aoeeptf’—-in short, we
suppose it will be regularly reconstructed.
God help the poor thing, say we The Cu-
A “CREEK UN” BROUGHT TO TIME.
It often happens that when a man achieves
one success that such a hungei is developed
for future triumph as wOT lead him a trifle
too far.
We are called upon to record a melan-
cholly instance of this kind.
A certain man, named John A. Wimpy,
an illiterate fellow, living in Lnmpkin conn-
ty, of this State, by certain gerrymander-
the full Vpa« »f three months
‘ .:u .iw.vi be continued accord-
i S^Z^ule. oUt-
rvi«e ordered, at the Mowing
RATES.
Sheris'- Sale* per leTy of ten lines or less $3
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TUESDAY) MORNING Jan, 4.
TEE COTTON OWNERS.
The Memphis Avalr.nehe has an editori
al advising planters to merket their cotton
a', ones, believing that the present prices
are ‘.he climactic figure:; of the season.
The Cocric- has ct .idily adviced plan
ter! to bid their cotton, and ~e stiil give
them th-.t uarLj.
When ?X tne opening of tho won e ot
tos lommoncjd ^ailopicg downrerd from
the rrh :;-dc oa the merket we atreaonaly
invited them to held. Cotton ptill contin
ue;! to fall aud many frightened by t'lr.sol'
their cotton. The market thus being git
ton.tho prico is no:. at very low Cgsres.
Lai most of the cotton that wa’ n-rued
bj firmer* trim t.ers oblige’ to ssll, has
already been rttrilced, and rro confidently
e'aect hroyauey in tho market, and ? con-
eiderabie rite i;: prices. Wo do rob base
this preuietioc upen tr*o present favorable
rsriatior-s in th - cer.ee, because that nay
bs caused by extra p -rchases made to meet
dtatiry eViireFy contracts, and c“. soon S3
this sputa is over, coi-on cay, by r:-aetion,
bsernre flit agair.. Rat we confidently pre
dins rite, because tl-ongh there is a large
smtm; of cotton raised this year, tho in-
creise of demand is :s great as the increase
r f production, because the proportion of
ibe crop soil before January is much lar-
pstthuyear than ever before, thereby in
Rtia;»greater dearth in market during
th: coming aorths—bcoanse this yfear lias
demonstrated that India and Egyptian cot-
t,a esnnoi seppiant [Southern cotton, and
btejuso the records of the past years show
13 «t s dreiy skip upward is inevitable in
*bc cotton market of every year just after
dannrjr.
|b 1S63 on Jaiuary 4th, cotton was at 9
>> 1- cents-by March it was at 24 cents.
In 1869, January 3d, cotton was 22}.-
10 “' J d M‘ brought 27, :nd was marketed
•‘-Jou after rt higher prices than this.
Tl,E LlrfL “ ROY THE CALF RAN
OVER.
tl Uav® no editori
ton- .*’ CC3USe wa have nothing
Blessed u tho ‘ ‘
““thing to say, with nothing.—At.
man who, when he
The ab
,re *** be seen is taken from
llt E» of the 31st
•Met. ‘
and is full of signifi-
F tol:e eui«g lUngDulfoek
of tie fait“fn!‘V iId u h * TOe “ th ® rMk *
vhhVi. Drunk even to maudlinej,
.access in CongreM he h„
etE - . , hln S “*4Ij his imperial baton on
■ Jl e ~ cr >PpHng, decapitating, and
,r °wd S h!l. fl,Eht theKad **» t clustered
S'dittTl * ad ® lo ? gettldw "* d -
udSsnv... ” d Harru promoted—
hnu bnckd v‘ Utt 1 paper in At-
•df in .l. , !>m<1 "ubseribed him-
J],^ 31 ^ 84 DEV SAY8 NO.”
ttioifested ^ 6eD cons,< lerable interest
'“bid order !!i 0 , Biether0r “ 0t Bu,lock
UtUedU ( , a ' cttons to fill vacanoics
Uttsisliture * 3nd 0tk<:r acoidonta in tho
00 He stH, Snn4 * l ^ eWS “ * ketn “diwrial
‘ppr,,d,r Shows that Butler is
the ‘ f °y ~vi.-fiir.ng with
aj d th ae « n T ° CCUpied b J Radicals,
!tf0cti °b train n,, 1 * ranQ ing the Recon-
ffaa tk « sch l . U C>Ck daros not d ®part
vortby. ftedale mi PP“d out by that
rfiSSSi ‘u" “ t0 S et freely to
brio! a- U0W8 0Ter A® Beit’s
iliU ^cud g o 1 mt0t(!rmSb J ,he ^ of
rea, bobcre<n eT JI “' CaRi '*R who will b*
^ty last Ju d n re !, 3 - b ] 0f0re tbe Masonic
21«tuh, dledlnC,Uh0U00ntb *
bans have made a gallautfightand deserved ingsand perjuries, caused himself to be
proclaimed the lawfully elected Congress
man of his district—having ran upon tbe
Radical ticket, and been beaten only about
two thousand votes by Col. Christy, his op
ponent.
Wogan & Co., a firm who famish coun
terfeit bills to those wh> wish to circulate
them, seeing that Wimpy had been electe
by the Radicals to Congress, deemed him a
fit agent to subserve their rascally pur
poses.
They addressed and ofiered to furnish
him the bills to impose upon his constitu
ents with, and the bait took. Having
tricked himself into Congress, what villainy
coold his infinite sagaeity and enteness not
compass ? Bat ere his schemes were eon-
suoiated he was unearthed, and the public
was regaled with a sight of his little prac
tical joke.
The poor fool squirmed and twisted un
der tbe torture of this exposure, and finally
sheltered himself behind the flimsy excuse
that he was employed by the government.
A day or two ago the Constitution publish
ed proof positive that he had never been
connected with the detective force of the
government, so that he now stands convict
ed of s heinous crime, and may hence look
for speedy promotion by the Radicals.—
When can we get justice in this justice-
forsaken country ? When will punishment
be dealt impartially to all criminals, irre
spective of party or creed 7
liberty.
The blow that crashed them was the
cowardly inaction advocated in the Presi
dent's message, and the departure of the
Spanish gunboats from New York by sanc
tion ot this government
The action of the Republic towards Cu
ba is a burning shame, and stamps it a nar-
row-bcarted, selfish and oowardly power.
We hope that the non-action policy and
Grant’s message will not he put in the ar
chives of the nation. If they are, we hope
that all allusion to the aid we received from
ehivalrte France, when we were straggling
for life and liberty, will be stricken off.—
These two articles would nt look well in
the same archives.
Vt bo is the Interpolater.
In a speech delivered in tho House of
Representatives, last week, Bingham (rad
ical); of Ohio, said:—
“I happen to know, and therefore say,
that there is a single line in the President’
message which he never intended to be
there, and which he does not stand by to
day. That is the line which refers to the
imposition of the oath enjoined in the re
construction acts on members of the Legis
lature."
But it is; and the President has not for
mally recalled it; and Congress his acted
upon it. dow many other lines which the
President did not intend to be there, are in
the m usage? Who put this line in the mes
cage. What manner of President is this,who
seads important recommendations ta Con
gress, knowing nothing of them, and not
approving them when his attention is called
to them.
THE FUN-LOVING GERMAN,
There is no elass of people in the world
that enjoy life with half as mnch jest and
gusto as do the elass alluded to in our cap
tion.
They have more festivals and feasts—
more sociable end more sociability—more
lindly geniality and genial gatherings
than all the rorii besides. Scaroely a day
pspeshut what those who live in the large
citiec hs~o come great banquet at which the.
greatest aim is to be oonfortablo, and have
a roy'l, good lime.
TI1C7 have social dramatic, dancing, read
ing tail musical olubs'orgaaized, by means
of ~hich they keep thesaselves whirling in
a perfect round of pleasures.
Let one of them get into trouble, and
the intonsest and is sympathy manifested in
hiB behnlf, and his extrication, is the sig
nal for a big kick np.
Thus they live—working like Trojans
while at work, and living like princes when
not at work—driving a hard bargain when
at business, and liberal enough when at
sport,and all the time having more fun in
a week than an American community will
in a year.
The truth of the matter is, they are not
so bound np by those shoddy laws of aristo
cratic schedule as are the Americans—they
have freer and more liberal tenets of so
ciety system, and know nothing of the
mwlnwa heraldries that emasculate the Ut
ter impulses of the young Americans of
‘the present day.
Mian and Niggardly.—Those of our
merchants who when directly applied to
refused to help the firemen by baying a
one dollar ticket, cannot be too loudly con
demned. We will not call tbe names of
these men because we pity them. But we
tell them that their names passed from oie
end of the hall to the other on Saturday
night, and load and deep abases wore heap
ed upon them. We hope and believe that
it will be many a day before a fireman or a
fireman’s friond.parchasesone dime’s worth
from one of these men.
The firemen will risk everything, even
life itself to save the property of the citi
zens, and those who do not befriend the
firemen in their time of need, are devoid of
certain qualities that enter into the compo
sition of a gentleman.
Th* New Order or Things.—I*
government of the city passed into the
hands of the new Mayor and Council on
yesterday afternoon- We wish the incom
ing administration a happy and prosperous
year, and tender our compliments and kind
regards to the outgoing, fbr the many good
movements they have inaugurated and con
summated during their term of office.
Should be Enoodraobd.—We notieed
three sunny-faced little fellows, about seven
years of age, standing beside some boxes
on Broadway, a day or two ago. Upon ex
amination we found that they hac. piled np
on these boxes about two dollars worth of
candies, goobers, etc., which they offered to
the public at small profits. They told ns
that “three colored boys bought them out”
the day before, but that they reinvested gt ;
once. We suppose that this spell of br.l
weather has caused them to shut up the
Bhop, but they will return with the annshino
They should be encouraged. Many mil-
lionares commenced in just this way.
The new Mayor and Council met yesterday
evening, and eiected the following oEcers:
Clerk of Council, Edward Shropshire.
Treasurer, R. T. Hargrove.
Marshal. Thoa. O. Watters.
Deputy Marshal, — Mathis.
Policemen, N. Wimpee, T. Cooper, and
Hardwicke.
Correction.—Mr. Robeits informs ns that
wo were misinformed as to the sentence of
the negroes who stole a bale of cotton from
the gin house of R. Bryant. Joe Howard
was fined $15, and cost of prone cation, and
four months in tho chain gang; or, failing
to pay the fine, then 6 months in the chain
gang. Chas. Green, the other cotton tnief,
was fined $15, and oosts, and 3 months in
the chain gang; or failing to pay the fine,
then five months in the chain gang.
We give the above correction cheerfully,
bat mast still repeat what we intimated on
a former oceasion, that the punishment is
mneh too light for the crime committed.—
In this case the penalty was just about
equivalent to the value of the goods stolen.
If thieving is to be stopped, there must
be such punishment fixed on the crime as
will tend to deter evil-doers. We think
two years imprisonment would not have
been excessive .punishment in tho above
case.
Blood; Work in Colombia Count;.
We learn from the Chronicle k Sentinel
that on tbe 27th nit, at Dearing. two men
were killed and another severely wounded.
A. N. Hodo was shot to death by Ellis
and Kinchen, and Adams and SUis were
afterwards killed by Mr. Lambert who was
a clerk for Mr. Hodo. Mr. Hodo’s broth
er was also shot through the body, bnt not
fatally wounded. The Adamses were in
toxicated, and there was and old difficulty
between the parties. They were all Demo
crats, and politics had nothing to do with
the sad affair.
On the same day, in another part of that
county, Lewis Adkin, a medical student,
who had gone home for the Holidiys, was
shot and mortally wounded at a chicken
fight, in an altercation in which he had
become involved.
Cheap fob CAsn —By reference to onr
advertising columns, it w,U be seen that
Messrs. Jones k Harper (propose to inau
gurate from date a cash system, and ran
their machine on that schedule. As they arc
determined to stick to this plan, (and we
are betting that they will) they can be able
to defy competition from any qnsrter. They
are reliable merchants, and we believe none
can offer better inducements to the baying
public. Try them.
An Excellent Fertilizer.—Berrys
k Co., are sole Agents, for the,oelehrmted
Patapsco Gnano Companies Anmoniated
Soldable Phosphate. Over 5000 £Tons of
this Fertilizer were used in the Sooth last
year giving great satisfaction to the pnr-
chascrs. It is believed to be tne of the
very best fertiliser offered to the pnbfic.
See Adv.
Hiring Laborers.—We understand
that thare is some trouble experienced by
planters, in hiring negroes for .the coming
year oa account of the great number that
have flocked to the railroads to get work.
c everal hundred able bodied negroes
believe are working on the Selma Rome and
Dalton Road.
THE FRAGRANT AARON.
Tba sharp-cut and craft; Load of Aaron
Alpeoria Bradley, again heaves above the
political horizon. With the same satirical
grin, andsoowl sublime that characterized
this bold, bad man in the days gone by, he
oomes with redden defiance to the eonvo
cation of tbe Legislature. Poor Aaron!
Yon have the villainy of your copartners,
without the craftiness with whieh they
avoid their dnerred retributions. Yon
have their infinite disregard : of in tegrity,
without the trickery by which they prevent
convictions and yon have their reckless
love ot wickedness, without the caution by
which they escape annihilation.
Aaron should remember that being a
first-class scoundrel, ready to dabble in any
nastiness that is presented, is bnt half the
edneation needed to make an acceptable,
bitter ender Radical—he must he able tP
lie glibly, to toady and lick-spittle greedily,
to back oat of a position rearward, to apolo
gise and beg pardon like a dog, to bend
his neck to the yoke and kiu the hand that
slapped him like a coward, tj change color
like a chameleon,to tumble from one policy to
another like a harlequin, and betray like an
Iscariot.
We confess to a kind of pity for
this prince of mnlatoes. And we hated him
less while he was insanely batting open his
shall against the Democratic wall than we
did that obese mass of stupidity and cor
ruption, McWhorter who like a coward
sat sniveling in silence, unhurt because
contemptible, untouched .because unno
ticed.
Tbe Macon 7 degraph reports less negroes
upon the streets this Christmas holiday
than during any former Christmas week
since the war ; that the negroes are becom
ing more settled —are improving little res
idences and lots of their own on the plan
tations on which they work, acquiring poul
try, bogs, Ac. Prices contracted for next
year—$150 for No. 1 men, $120 for No.
2, $90 for women, and in that proportion
for boys. In contracts upon shares
one-third of the crop is given to the freed-
men.
Fireman’s Suiter.—This afiair passed
off with much eclat on last Saturday
night.
It was largely attended, and the fan was
unbounded—the8upj>erfioe and substantial,
and the music beyond comparison—at the
close of the evening a stay dance was insti
tuted, through whioh very many of the
company sfaygered with success. Altogeher
it was a jolly affair, and such a one as we
would like to see repeated.
The Weather.—Since our last issue
we have had rain, sleet, and snow. The
hardest snow storm that we have ever seen
in Georgia, whitened the streets of the
eternal city on Saturday night, and Sunday
night, (so the grandfather of the oldest in
habitant told us) was the coldest that
Rome has had for many a year.
The Rival of Bonaparte Slain.—
Mr. Cohen and his friends, and Mr. Co-
henB’ hog, Bonaparte, and the friends of this
hog will rejoice in the knowledge that
“Sam,” the Chester white hog, belonging
to Mr. J. E. Loyd, has been roUed into
eternity. This redoubtable hog was only
26 months old, and weighed 650 pounds
dressed, and had he been allowed to live
would have outgrown our more ancient
friend Boney.
But he has gone “to that bourne from
whioh no traveUer (especially a fat hog)
ever returns. So that Mr. Cohon and his
inappropriately named hog can now go to
fairs without the least fear of discomfeiture
We hope that Mr. Loyd won’t think of ns
ted send ns some of the spare ribs and
back bones of this poor piggy, as we are
afraid Mr. Cordell would’nt scud us any
coffee to wash them down with.
Look Oct for Incendiaries.—On
Saturday night last a house owned by Cel.
A. Jones, situated near his dwelling honae
was destroyed by fire. The Colonel a
os that this was the work of an incediary.
A reward of $100 is offered for 'the incen
diary.
It is announced from Washington that
the December report of the Department
of Agr culture will place the past season’s
cotton crop at a little more than ten per
cent, above the yield of 1668. about 2.
600,000 commercial bales, or fully 3000,
000 bales of 400 pounds each.
MISSISSIPPI..
M emphis, Dec. 31.—The Avalanche has
information from Missismppi that General
Alcorn, Governor elect, positively refuses to
accept the Provisional Governorship ten
dered him by General Ames.
The Postmaster General has ordered that
all letters directed to “Gift Enterprise”
swindlers be sent to the Dead Letter of
fice at Washington and stopped then.—
Good !
Texas Election.—The latest returns
from Texas show that the Conservatives
have probably earned the Legislature,
the Senate, tho Conservatives have fifteen
the Radicals fourteen, and one district to
hear from. In the House, tbe Conserva
tives have forty .five, the Radicals thirty-six
and nine counties to hear from.
Tho Naxhet Democrat speaks of a ham
mer invented and made by George Stock-
well, of that city, which, without being
made at all cumbersome,combines the-qual
ities of a hammer, claw-tool, rale, compass,
screw-driver, guage, gimlet, chisel, car-
opener, cutting-guage, rivet hammer, and
square and scribe.
A bell-boy at a Cincinnati hotel found
a wallet in the hall containing over six
thousand dollars. He gave it to the dark,
who retained it to the owner. The man
coolly pnt it in his pocket whithont saying
■ word or oven kicking the boy.
Our Last Acquisition.
The town and bay of Santana, ceded by
the Government of Saa Domingo to the
United States, wore formally taken posses
sion of the 6th inst fiamana Bay u situ
ated on tbe northeast coast of San Comm
and is abont forty-three miles in length
n east to west by eight mike broad, and
at its west end receives tha Yana, the
_est river in the Dominican Bepnblic.
It forms one of the finest harbors in the
world, and may be regarded as a most im
portant maratime position in reference to
the trade of the Golf of Mexico and that
the inter-oceanic routes across Central
America, both in a commercial and milita
ry point sf view. On tho north shore is
tiie small town of Santa Barbara, which
lies in a land-locked bay and has natural
facilities for repairing vessels, a dilapi ~
Roman Catholio church, a neat Wesleyan
jel, and a custom house. The peninsu
la of Samana is thirty-two miles long: Its
highest peak, Sugar Loaf HOI, is 1,936
feet, and Deni’s Hill is 1,309 feet, above
leveL The soil is extremely fenile^uid
to a great extent is covered with timber,
d both for sbip-bnilding and cabinet
work. It also contains gold, copper, and
bituminous coal. The population at the
last census was 1,721.—Selma Angus.
STANTON.
Hard by the place that marks the graves
of Mrs. Surratt and poor Wirtx, now rests
all that is left of Stanton, the worst man
who has left a name in the history of this
country. We learn by telegraph that he
died oa the 24th. We are not inseisible
to the maxim which exhorts charify for the
dead, bnt as he never in life exercised char
ity or mercy for the living, we can find no
good to say of him.
Possessed of fine talents and energy
with.no manly conrage to guide either, one
a hjenaish ferocity to stimulate both, his
was the task to organize victory over hec
atombs of tbe slaughtered, and to perpetu
ate the polioy of vengeance towards the
weak and defenseless.
As nothing can take from history the
part that this man played in the terrible
tragedy that has sickened the world; so
can notbingobliterate from tho Hearts and
minds of the Southern people the fearful
sccnmolation of sorrows and oppressions
that cere devised lor them by us brain
and executed by his command.
There is something fearfully startling in
his death. The blow did not come from the
hand of one of the many victims of his
tyranny—it did not fell from the atnrd-
arm iff tbe pnblie executioner in pursuance
ot the mandate of outra. ed law and human
ity; but suddenly, without time for a pray
er or confession, the stroke came from the
judge of the quick and the dead. Driven
in disgrace from one administration, the
claws of the tiger hsA been drawn and his
jaws were parched for blood.
^Tke necessities of a party again de
manded his brains and malignity, and he
was abont to tit in judgment where he
might warp into the lemblance of law tbe
usurpations of fanaticism and the work of
the sword. Bnt before the white ermine
of Justice had fallen upon his bloody shoul
ders, Stanton was called to a bar not hedg-
ed about by by bayonets.
Only fifty-four yean of age, in the very
prime and vigor of manhood, crowned with
new honors, surrounded by those who hat
ed But feared him; upon the verge of a
festival whieh was to light up tbe Capital
of a nation; just as triumph seemed secure;
earthly honors, hates and aspirations per
ished in a moment, and tbe hand lilted for
wrong dropped pnlsclesaly forever. “Ven
geance is mine saith the Lord.” And tru
ly and teiribly has a saying that awakens
human awe been made good. We can af
ford to leave Stanton with an outraged God,
with n hope that the leason of hia life an
death may not be lost on those of bis com
peers and companions left behind live
years age Sherman sent • Christmas pres
ent to the Chief Magistrate of the country.
From our seaboard city he telegraphed that
from the mountains to the sea, he had hud
waste to a fair land, that he bad burned
the shelter of the widow and the bread of
the orphan, and had twenty-tix thousand
bales of stolen cotton as a Christmas offer
ing to his Chief.
Time brings its revenge and retributions.
And in fire years it is flashed from Wash*
ington that the stiff and nnshriren corpse
of Stanton is the Christmas offering to
Sherman and hia party.—Columbia Sin.
Tbe Dead Stanton.
A bad man has gone to his long ac
count. Stanton has shuffled off this mor
tal ooil. A despot has kicked off the buck
et. There was great rejoicing in Pande
tnooium yesterday. Since that eventful
day when Adam and Eve manufactured
clothes out of fig leaves, there has been
many large gatherings in hell and on earth.
But the cavalcade that tamed out in the in
fernal regions to greet E. M. Stanton, who
died on the 24th nit., was, in all probabili
ty, the largest that ever paid tribute to a
congenial spirit. Stevens had been award
ed the premium for being the biggest tin
ner in all purgatory, and he is no donht
now jealous of Staoton, who he knows will
pnt in for the medel, with a good prospect
ol winning it.
That mawkish sentimentality that would
throw the mantle of oblivion over the mi;-
deeds of dead rascals, eannot be observed
in ehronielting the death of E. M. Stan
ton. The most exquisite tortures served
Stanton enjoyment. Tbe tyranny of Tibe
rias Was forpotten in bis enormities. He
reveled for several yean in tormenting all
over whom be bad cower; bnt when he of
fended heaven and earth by hanging an
innocent women like a dog, God visited him
with his righteous anger, and since the con-
sumation of this atrocious deed Stanton’s
ihytical system commenced decaying and
making np; and without a single tie on
earth, destitute of all belief in tiie Chris
tian religion, he died, and a little aonl,
steeped in tin, went to the devil.
In nature he was revengeful and malig.
nant, and so stubborn in opinion that he
‘ Bis views or relinquished a
'e was as remorseless and cruel
in as a Camanche Indian; and
joyously, and without a shudder would-have
turned the Southern people over to massa
cre, and their homes to desolation. He was
serene, not from philoeophy, bnt from tem
perament and torpor. He be!
nently to tbe animals known as cold bloods.
No impulses ever stirred the feeble and
currents of his moral or mental
nature. To call him a brute would be a 11
bel upon the dog. Of humanity he was
destitute. He was servile; he was eoward
The manner of his death shows the
of retribution.
e hungered for blood, for a
that would enable him to bedevil a
leas people. A President as mean and ma
lignant as himself, appointed him United
8utes Supreme Court Judge. This
caused the fiend to bunt into wild,
i But that God who would not
permit the builders to occupy the impious
tower on the plnins of Shinab, smote tbe
nnetious scoundrel so that he died
The demand for cotton in indicated by
the constantly increasing supply and the
high prices. Brazil now produces 650,000
bales annually, whereas, prior to our sec
tional war, tbe annual production was 100,-
000 bales. For five years ptevious to the
war the annual production of Indin was
500,000 bales; last year it was nearly 1,-
500,000. The production in Egypt has
aao greatly increased—has doubled since
the war.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
Let the Radicals Beware How They Oust
the Democrats from the Legislature.
“That if any person shall by force, vio
lence or fraud, willfully hinder or interrupt
any person elected from taking either of
the oaths or affirmstions prescribed, or from
participating in the Senate or House of
Representatives, after having taken one of
said oaths or affirmations and otherwise
complied with this act, he 6hall be deemed
guilty of felony, which may be tried there
for by the Circuit or District Court of tbe
United States for the District of Georgia in
which the offenso is committed, and shall
be punished by imprisonment at hard la
bor for not less than two, nor more than
ten years, and the jurisdiction shall be sole
and exclusive.”
[Section 5th of Georgia. BUL
The above section was pnt into the Geor
gia bill in the abundance of cantion and
plentitude of venom to prevent tbe Demo
crats from excluding the negroes from the
Legislature. It was the excessive out-crop-
ing of Radical hostility.
Bnt hate is always short sighted. A re
lentless Congress over-reached itself. The
above sections applies as well to Radicals
who would displace legal Democratic mem
hers as to Democrats.
Let Governor Bollock and his creatures
beware how they seek by force, violence or
fraud to wilfollyy hinder or interrupt Dem
ocrats from taking the prescribed oaths, or
participating in the legislative proceedings,
or an indictment for felony in Jndge Er
skine’s court will be the rcsulL
. Let them watch well their proscriptive
tendencies. Let oar Democrats feel that
this section of an odious bill foraishes them
unexpectedly and unintentionally thestrou
gest sort of protection against Radical ma
chinations.
Let the Radicals remember also that an
error in construing the law of disability
will not save them. The very act of wrong
ful exclusion means prima fade force or
fraud. And ten years’ labor in the peni
tentiary don’t compensate for tbe luxury
of Illegally triggering a Democrat oot of the
Legislature]
Cotton Seed Meal as Food.
The Mobile Register says a gentleman
of that eity sends them the following memo-
random of his experience:
“I bought fifty ponnds of cotton seed
meal last week, whieh I have fed to a
small pineywood cow, for which I paid
twenty dollars two and a half years ago
She has been milked regularly over since,
until she fell off to a quart a day, whieh
quantity she had given for a long time. In
less than six days after I had commenced
with the cotton seed meal, the inert
whs almost a gallon morning and night,
feed with one quart of cotton seed meal,
and one bicket of bran, and the slops made
in the kitchen.”
interview with Col. Tilt, gives a
hope that all is not lost, and we earnestly
appeal tothe Press and tool] true men of
till
lTSey
to observe “masteily inactivity”
. hear more from the sources of in
formation. AH is not gold that glitters,
and it may be that vaulting ambition has
o’er leaped itself, and fallen o’ the other
tide.—Albany Newt.
Pardoned.—The Sandersville Georgian
fays Richard Nelson, convicted of murder
at the last term of Wilkinson Superior Court
and sentenced to the Penitentiary for life,
has been pardoned by the Governor. Also
Washington McDaniel, of the same country,
sentenced to be hung on the first Friday in
Deeember, has been reprieved until Janua-
Th* Champion Wife Murderer.—
PottedBe, Pa., Dec. 23A—John Hickman
who murdered his wife a few days agogiear
ChandlervQfe, HI., and had previously to
this killed a former wi.e, near the tame
m, was formerly a resident of Pottstowo.
ife living in this vicinity he was twice
married, and murdered both his wives,
was declared insane and then removed to
the West where he has just killed his
fourth wife.
Will Bullock be Senator.—This is
the conundrum now passing through the
Georgia Press. Some contend that the
“moral opposition” of Joe Brown, Dr. Mil
ler, JossnaBill and other Republicans
will stand in the way. In answering the
eonnmdram, it is well to pet “moral
flnenoe” among the minorities, and it is of
immense importance to recollect that Bol
lock has control of the State revenue, and
how to spend it among those who love eaeh
better than holy water.
Resolutions.
The following resolutions were unanimous
ly passed by the congregation of the M. E.
Church Sonth, at Marietta, on the 19th of
December, 1869 :
Wheras, by the decision of the con
stituted authorities of tbe Church, tbe
agreeable relations thst have snbsisted be
tween this congregation and the Bev. Wm
F. Cook, as Pastor and the Bev. George
W. Yarbrough, as Presiding Elder, aro
now to be dissolved; and whilst as true
Methodists, we cannot do otherwise than
cheerfully aeqniesee in that decision, yet
we may be allowed to testify onr gratefol
appreciation of tho faithful and efficient
labors of tluse brethren amongst us, and
our regret that we are to be separated
from them.
We therefore, resolve.
1st. That the active and faithful dis
charge of ministerial duty on the part of
Brother Cook as our Pastor, for three
years, and Brother Yarbrough, as Presid
ing Elder of this District, demands onr
approval and inspires us with grati
tude.
2d. That we commend these devoted
servants of (he Chffrch to the favorable re
gard, the brotherly kindness, and Christ
ian hospitality of tbe Church and peo
ple in the new fields of labor 'assigned to
them.
3d. That tbe good wishes and prayers
of this Church will follow Brothers Cook
and Yarbrough wherever they go, and we
sincerely trust that success may crown their
misistry, and that health, prosperity and
happiness may attend them and their fami
lies.
Political,
Garfield, one of Ohio’s noblest states
men, has been thrifty enongh in the pa
triotism business to buy a twelve thousand
dollar boose.
Negroes are moving South from Virgin
ia, and Northern farmers settling in the
State, all of which, according to the Rich
mond Whig, is clear Democratic gain
■ Aaron Alpeoria Bradley will be oa hand
promptly, it is said, on the 10th of Janu-
«ty-
It is said that Mr. Grant’s reason for fa
voring the removal of the seat of govern
ment is that he expects to be obliged to
leave Washington at the end of his pres
ent term, and wonld like to take th: capi
tal with him.
Carl Schurz has a Civil Service Reform
bill, which he will soon introduce in the
Senate. He proposes to run the govern
ment on the European plan—that is the
Prussian bureaucratic system.
Mayor Hall, of New York, V us sets
forth the advantages of the eity he pre
sides over: “Here you enjoy extensive
freedom in newspaper abuse, freedom to
gamble in Wall street, freedom in maa>
riage, freedom in divorce, free fights, free
voting, free love.
Jndge Strong, of Pennsylvania, is men
tioned as the probable successor of Mr.
Stanton on the Sapreme Bench
Gen. Ames has ordered the Mississippi
Legislature to convene on the 11th of Jan-
nary.
Item* for the Ladies.
An Orange county paper notices the act
that “the ladies are get ting more and more
dangeroosly beautiful.”
“If people knew beforehand all the mis
ery it bring;,” says a Japanese poet, there
wonld be less going oat with yonng ladies
to look at the flowers at night.”
A child wrs born a few weeks ago in Ho
boken, whose father is its step-father. The
man had married a widow in Hoboken, and
tbe sudden appearance of his first wile
drove him to a hasty retreat, leaving the
widow and daughter without provirions for
their support.
There is but little donbt that trained
dresses will be discarded for hall dress, and
the half-long adopted instead—a fashion
more graceful and convenient for dancing.
Two young ladies nased Curtiss, exhi-
ted the premium bole of cotton at the fair
in Brenham, Texas. It was not worn about
their persona.
An Ohio woman married eight years ago
at the age of thirteen, and now h-ts seven
children.
The last fashionable New York bride
has a $150 tight dress, and says she is pre
pared for a fire daring the night.
“The once gentler sex,”, is the contemp
tuous expression of an ati-woman’s right
mao.
Many fashionable yonng ladies are safe
fering with abscesses and ulcers on the
feet, caused and produced by
French heels on their boots.
Gibbon is considered by some to be a
rash author, bnt Bacon certainly was a
rather.
“Say, Jack, can you tell us what’s the
best thing to hold two pieces of rope to
gether 7” “I guess knot-”
There are reports of more fighting in
Cabs. The reports, come from Havana,
and arc favorable to the Spaniards.
Two yonng Tennesseeans recently took
out license to many the same girt.
Hiram Power’s statue of “Eve,’
nearly finished, is Eaid to equal his “Greek
Slave.”
Shawls for gentlemen are going to be
fashionable again. % ■
New York has a store for the sale of eats
of a fancy breed.
A new Mississippi steamboat has been
christened “Big Son Flower.” Is she ex
pected to nod in the breeze ?
The Mormons have thirteen thousand
militiamen.
Lilia and Zoe two handsome yonng gym
nasts, according to the Macon Tele)
are drawing biz houses in that eity.
troupe is favorably mentioned by the press.
The Citizen says Fenton has not yet fin
ished climbing the tree of honor. If he
gets any higher it will be by moans of*
rope with a noose in it—N. T. Commercial
Advertiser.
NEW SERIES-NO 19.
Facts.
Beady-made clothing of all kinds in New
York is now marked down to prices lower
than it has been retailed for since before
the war.
The season just passed was disastrous for
the Fishermen of Gloucester, Maas. Six
teen vessels, valued at $84,000, were wreck
ed, and fifty-six fishermen were drowned.
Altogether, 148,586 Chinese have reach
ed California. These are thus accounted
for by tbe companies: Returned 37,323;
dead 10^26; remaining in the State, 41
000. and the rest have gone into other
States.
The Massachusetts constables have stopp
ed the sale of cigars on Sunday.
Bonfanti is to get five hundred dollars a
week in gold for daocing in San Francisco.
amuel Zion has been arrested in Sl
Louis as a bigam st, embezzler and forger.
A nice young man.
A movement is being made in New York
against the nse of the Bible in the pnblie
schools of that city.
A German astronomer says that wo are
soon to have another moon, and that it wiU
be nearer the earth than onr present sate-
lite.
"Tiere are at the present time five hun
dred and fifkv American etndents at Ger
man Universities, and upward of one thou
sand American boys and girls are at Ger
man schools and seminaries.
Going Up—Tha Cuban-patriots are in
a bad way. The latest advices from Ha
vana says: “The news from the interior is
unfavorable to the insurgents. Many are
soliciting pardon; and where they contiane
to resist, the troops are slowly bnt surely
driving them hack.. A battallion of Cat
alan volunteers arrived to-day from Spain.
Notable Notes.
The Savannah Advertiser reports tha
a firm is advertising by trotting a dog
aronnd enfolded in a blanket with an ad
vertisement on it.
A curious method of celebrating the ae-
couchment of the Princess Margaret, was
adopted in Naples. Everything pawned
for a less sum than fire francs was redeem
ed and presented to tbe original ownen.
On Wednesday last, Samuel Whitely of
Henderson county, Tenn., while laboring
under a fit of insanity, threw two of his
children Into a well, and then juai
also. The children weie drowned, White
ly-was rescued, hut is not expected to sur
vive.
The banks of the Dead Sea are said to
present a enrious sight to the traveler.
The whole surface of the earth glistens
like diamonds as the horse’s feet break the
rock salt which covers the ground, and a
strong smell of bitumen and sulphur fills
th eair.
Dots For the Farmer.
Eastern chestnuts aro sold at seven-
ty-five cents per pound in San Eran-
SCO.
The first record of sugar planting which
we know fe when Adam and Ere are spok
en of as having raised Cain.
Tho heaviest hog of the season thus far
weighed 1,100 and was raised in Wiscon
sin.
Two young ladies named Cartis8,exhibit-
ed the premium hale of cotton at the lair
in Brenham, Texas. It was not worn
abont their persons
Mules are high in Kentncky. C. Neale
bought one lot of 40 lead, in Paris, the
other day; for Georgia, at $210 eaeh, whieh
is the only sale reported in the Kentuckian
of last week.
Up to the 24tb, 337,564 hogs had been
slaughtered in Chicago.
Mules arc high in'Kentueky. C. Neal
bou:ht one lot of forty head, in Paris, the
ether day, for Georgia, at $210 eaeh, whieh
the only tale reported in tbe True Ken
tuckian of last week.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Reported for the Tri-Weekl; Crener.
Washington, Jan. 3.—Heavy snow storms
North.
Cincinnati, Jan. 3.—Hamilton county
neutrals hold themselves aloof from party
caucuses. The organization of the Legis
lature depends upon them.
The tobicco merchants in this city have
sold seven millions worth of leaf this year—
an increase of half million over last year.
Washington, Jan. 3.—Hoar returned.
McClellan gone.
Cuban partizans here deny that the Junta
urged tho patriots to abandon the struggle.
It is understood that the President favors
the ratification treaty for the purchase of St.
Thomas and Samana.
Debt statement shows a decrease of the
debt nearly five millions. Coin in the
Treasury; one hundred and nine millions, se
curities sixty-five millions, sinking fend
twenty-two and a half millions.
Neatly all the telegraphs northward pros
trated.
Delano ordered over a million blanks for
income returns—weight of paper over seven
teen tons. It is regarded as unfavorable to
the hope of on early repeal of the income
tax. Revenue to day nearly a million and a
half dollars.
Philadelphia, Jan. 3.—The Supreme
Court will hear the Schocffo case in error, the
first Monday in Pebiuary.
Madrid, Jan. 3.—There have been sever
al important conferences between Prim and
Olosoago. It is rumored that ministerial
changes are likely to result therefrom, in view
of the promulgation of tho provisional gov
ernment.
Atlanta, Jan. 3.—Gen. Terry to-day is
sued his order assuming command of this
State as a district, under tho reconstruction
acts.
New Orleans, Jan. 3.—Both branches of
the Legislature met to-day.
Mobile, Jan. 3.—Destrncti re fire last night.
Loss very heavy.
TELEGRAPHIC MARKETS.
Baltikoix, Jan. 3.—Cotton firm. Offer
ings light at 25a25}; pork 31 00a32 00;
shoulders 15: lard 18J; whisky scarce atOSa
99; Virginia’s old 41}; North Carolina old 41.
Cincinnati, Jan. 3.—Whisky firm at 94s
95; provisions dull; little or no demand; pork
29 00; lard, kettle, 17}.
Net- Yoke, Jan. 3.—Money very active at
7; currency to gold discounts ten to twelve.—
Gold heavy at 16}al9f; cotton quiet; sales
700 bales at 25|; pork heavy; new 29 50a
80; lord drooping; kettle 18al8|; groceries
dull.
New Orleans, Jan. 3.—Cotton active and
firm at 24}a24f.
Si. Louis, Jan. 3.—Pork doll; mess 30 00;
bacon dull at 14}al8}; lard, tierce 18; 20; su
gar-cured hams 25; sugar dull at 12}al2};
prime 17|al7}; gold 90.
Mobile, Jan. 3.—Cotton—Limited demand,
closed quiet; middling 23]a24.
Auccsta, Jan. 3.—Cotton market qniet
•nri unchanged; middling 23|a23);
| Charleston, Jan. 3.—Cotton qniet and firm
middling 24.
Savannah. Jan. 3.—Cotton—middling
24}.
A. J. Hamilton,op Texas, Dud.—
A Galveston paper of the 18th inst., re
ports the probable death of the great Tex
as Republican, A. J. Hamilton. It says
that Mr Hamilton started in a stage coach
for Austin, on tbe 11th inst, that the coach
was attacked by robbers, and that in tho
melee Hamilton was killed.
best!
Wit and Humor.
Why is a hen immortal ? Because her
son never sets.
Bnlwer is writings comedy.
“Say Jack, canyon tell us what’s the
to hold two pieces of rope to-
“I guess not”
•Mr. Swipes, I have jnst kicked yoar
son William oat of my store.” “Well,
Mr. Swingle, it’s the first hill you’va foot
ed this many a day.
A would-be-wit asked his old uncle if
the tolling of a hell did not pat him in
mind of bis latter end ? “No, sir, he re
plied; bnt the rope pots me in mind of
yours.”
“Were yon ever at Cork, Mr. Foote?”
said an Irahman to the comedian. “No
I never was at Cork,” replied the wit, “but
I haveaeen a great many drawings of it"
Going.—It is computed that the num
ber of negroes in Louisiana is one-third
lass at tbe present time than prior to the
:
Eastern chesnuts are sold at seventy-five
cents per pound in San Francisco.
The Iowa Homestead estimates the aver
age cost of producing a hnshel of wheat in
Iowa, at not less thaa eighty oents.
A frosted wedding, autumn’s union with
winter,
There are five hundred fortuno tellers in
New York.
'1 he precursor of marriage—ringing the
belle.
The shadows of life—standing in *nr
light
Tbe worst feature of specie currency, its
scarcity.
Taken on probation, brides and grooms
in Chicago.
Pinching, the riyronio bunion on Har
riet Beeches’ toe.
An expensive creature, a fashionable and
happy bride.
The hone that causes the most conten
tion, the jaw-hone.
Gossip, doing nothing and somebody tel
ling all about it.
Fictitious Ida founded on stem realities,
•'Grecian Bends.”
Life Insurance, a game which you most
forfeit yonr life to win.
The only woman mentioned in the Bibfe
before Eve—Jenny Sis.
Rocked to sleep, Stephen, the martyr.
Railroad accidents, trains arriv
time.
Tho way to deal with a cob
Epidemic in Wall street, th
ver.
Incongruities, br