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•WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MOD EH AT I ON.'
rt0ME
XXIV
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH ll, 1870.
NEW SERIES-NO 28.
iMmt Courier.
I ij f,. editor aud Proprietor,
II D "i W CB*» V » A«ocUteEdltor.
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Texta for the Noted Georgians,
Mr. Editor—I desire space in your
paper to request the followiatr named gen
tlemeuto discourse the public upon the
texts following each of their names :
Foster Blodgett.
“Swear not at all.”—Mathew 5 and 34
Joshua Bill.
“Behold, 1 stand at the door and knock’
—Rev. 3 and 20.
H. P. Farrow
“And he took him a Pot sherd to scrape
himself withal and I • sat dov.n among the
vsH-es.”—lob 2 and 8.
Benjamin Conley,
“I have seen the wicked in great pow
er.” —Psalms 37 and 35.
Senator Fain (and all tbe other Democrats
who voted for Blodgett for Senator.)
“God be merciful to me a sinner.’
Luke 18 and 13.
Joseph E Brown.
“Blessed are the pure in heart.”—Math
ew 5 and 8.
ft B Bullock.
“When the wioked beareth role, the peo
pie mourn ”—Prov. 29 and 2.
It L McWhorter.
“Forgive us our debts."—Matthew 6 and
12.
Dr. Angler.
“A certain man weut down from Jeru
salcm to Jericho, and fell among thieves.”
—Luke 10 and 30.
More anon. Clarke.
Saturday morning, Mar. 5.
| .(AS SOUTHERN MEN LIVE IN
GEORGIA !«
I IVe frequently receive well-spelled and
^written letters from Northern men.
5 if a gentleman from that section
I the country can live safe in Georgia.—
e always surprised when we get such
riJences of the innocence of our friends
Lyond the border, as *o our true senti
ent! and social status.
| IVe Lave this ignorance explained par-
ially bv the fact that such papers as
lnjie's continually teem with slanderous
ports cmcerning our people. In the last
pse of the American Union we find the
t assertion that Northern men could
live with safety in Georgia. What
ssible reason Swayze can have for thus
jelybs the State that he has chosen for
Ks home, we cannot imagine. There is no
daw of tru h in the statement. Some
f our very best citizens are from Ohio,
uni .Yew York. We can glance around
l« circle of our friends and find many
bare who arc from the North,
if a man is respectal le and honest, qui
ll ud well behaved, he will receivo the
■i treatment that he would receive from
a frieads at home. We say to every hon-
hiun. whether he be in Rhode Island or
Pm, that if he wants a home unequaled
5iaJan earth, aud society aud friends,
P3 are almost matchless, that Georgia is
c place to get it.
I Re idea of a Northern man not being
pe in Georgia is perfectly absurd. Has
f t Rufus Bullock insulted and injured us
most beyond endurance, and does he not
pve unprotected in perfect security
rough the streets of our Capital. Has
* Charles H. Prince arrayed the negroes
aiast us, and stirred him up to the com-
ftta: of murders and rapes innumerable,
^ oc s he not roam over the State in
»lutc safety ? Has not J. Clarke Swayze
|‘fflinated the basest possible slanders on
r people, an i declared openly that he
j us, and will work till death to ruin us,
does lie not Jive to-day j n glorious refu-
" i of bis lying assertion that a North
man is not safe in Georgia ?
1 men the North, as long as Bul-
d ® nd * 1*^ pollute onr soil with their
, as long as Swayze diffuses his fil-
I ,^f' 15 l° n o as the miserable
* hu °P r .v. thieving carpet-baggers,
Vr oar State, draw pap from the
A Few of tbe Legislature Milage Over
drawers,
The following c; rd furnishes a few mem
bers who have overdrawn their mileage,
according to Mr. William’s statement:
Atlanta, Feb. 18,1870.
Editor Constitution.—I sec in the
evening edition that the name oi members
who have overdrawn their milage arc called
for. Not having time now to give you a
list, I will do so from homo (Madison)—
However, there are a few cases before me
at once. T G Campbell and his son, from
Darien, report themselves 870 and 900
miles. The distance from here to Macon is
103; and Macon to Bruuswick is 185 miles,
and from Brunsw’ck to Darien 20 miles
Vergil Hillyer, of Caiupden, St. Marys re
port, 1.030 miles, oniy 40 miles from
Brunswick.
Prospects of Georgia.
The accounts from Washington arc rath
er conflicting, and we must say that we at
tach but little importance to the predic
tions oi special correspondents. We have
seen no reason for the belief t b at the deci
sion ot Congress in our case will differ
from its uniform policy in following in the
path marked cut fur it by the most ultra
of the Radicals. However, members may
differ from the views of this wing of the
party, they appear to possess no free will
to oppose them with their votes.
The indications are that Georgia will be
voted back into the Uuiou on the terms
dictated by Butler and his Reconstruction
Committee, and the most we cau hope for
•s a refusal to acquiesce in some of the
most outrageous demands of Bullock-
such as the extension of his office and that
of the Legislature, and the nullification of
all laws passed at previous sessions. We
think it pretty certain thit Terry’s ururpa-
tions will be sustained, though directly in
the teeth of tho act of December, and an
outrage upon the people of Georgia, who
have been denied the privilesre of choosing
their own Representatives. The work of a
military satrap has uever yet been repudi
ated by the Radical party, and we have no
reason to expect such a result in our case.
We shall be fortunate if we succeed in
throwing off the iniquities oT our appoint
ed legislators at the close ot their constitu
tional term.—Sac. Republican.
P®c hi
frthern
fou may be sure that any
0 man of any party, will be per-
f‘7 -‘ife in Georgia.
r puipose is to treat these infamous
t '**' 1 cHvalric disdain, and not to use
t ’f 1551118 19 a <5ure f° r an y iU.—
are forced to slay them, we
lotiu^ t 'f etUll ^ out * an d then decapitate
E rill *• 1 d° mest ic traitors
eStatpT r jt ^ °Q the vitals of
Is anti 1 yon hear the mellow voice of
eLih h ° f kl,h °“' arl homeof Bullock, and
ft : of h S ^. and learn that
fc, tf • . h‘* re gone down to their
Bs ^ aCe ' Y ou nee d not fear to
rC ‘ ' n l ^ e k'rett country that
F<ls ever shone on.
8 ^oktinoIce to the
(o » the -t- r ” 0rleans Piea J une “p:
rer ea ,,..‘? e of time brin S 3 around
w . tcr “ore than forty years
.^»fNew Orleans have been im-
- on eir SBpp,l<a 0f “ 8 from the Nurih -
br ft,! 503 D0W “““iftustores its own
ntn, aud recently the Louisiana
^ Paaj receiTB dan order from Phila-
r % tons of ioe. We shall be
ton next.”
^ o llin r Twion 1s Bdblxo.—The Chi-
e ,f E , 1JS '^ C0St of tuition in the
a.SjV’f*- Loais is 815 51 per
’‘Perwp a ' eWCent3 lssa th »“ *
‘'Wejj'f 11 Ch ' cag0 - and » About
The New Tariff on the State Road.
The Chattanooga Times gives the follow
ing comparison of the freight tariff on the
State Road with the old, and the increase
The ta-iff was arranged by A.Pope, Gener
al Freight Agent. We append it, also,the
comments oi that paper, showing the ef
fect of the new tariff.
Old Rates. New Rates. Increase.
Corn (bushel) 10 II 01
Wheat “ 12 11
Oats “ 07 08 01
Flour (barrel) 22 68 46
Potatoes “ 35 48 13
Hay (car load)25 00 48 00 23 00
Pig Iron “ 15 00 16 56 1 56
Bar Iron “ 20 00 35 00 15 00
Coal « 15 00 18 00 3 00
Stock “ 40 00 60 00 300
Bacon (1001ns) 42 52* 10}
The rates, when compared with the pres
ent through rates from other cities, show a
very marked discrimination against East
Tennessee, in favor of the West. For in
stance, the tariff on hay is prohibitory And
shipments have ceased. The increase ou
bar iron, cuts off the Vulcan Works from
the Southern markets, and give Louisville
at d Cincinnati the control. The tariff on
stock is pruhibitory, because it is shipped
from Nashville or any point ou the Nash
ville and Chattanooga road,at 37 00, which
is 23 00 less per ear load than from Chatta-
nooga. .
The income on coal does not affect bust
ness so much, because people must have
coal at any price,aod their only source of
supply is East Tennessee.
In corn the advanced rates of freights
compel'the redaction here of the market
price tol 08@1 09, at which price our
merchants can barely compete with the
West. We cannot complain at this, for we
do not ask discrimination in our behalf, but
only a fair field and no favor.
In flour, the advance injures our mills,
and also those at Ringgold,for it shuts them
outofthe Southern market.
The evil effects of the advance cn bacon
have not yet began to be felt, but the pack
ers and farmers will begin to realize them
when they begin to bring their bacon in. _
The great cause of complaint, how-ver is
the refusal of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad to make a through tariff from tbi
point to Augusta Macon and other cities.
The only through rates thoy are now giving
are to New York, via Charleston and Sa-
vannah-*The merchants here areas much
entitied'jo through rates to Macon or Au
gusta, as those of Nashville are to n
through tariff to Atlanta. We are-certain
that our friends prefer to have East Tennes
see flour, corn and bacon, whose quality
they know and prizeAml wo hope they will
join in protesting against the unjuet' dis
crimination by which they are compelled to
purchase elsewhere. We do not expect to
pro-rate with St. Lunisfreights bnt we ex
pect some ^concessions ever local rates on
shipments beyond Atiapta, and we think'
we are entitled to them, Furtbermo-e, we
believe that Georgia is as much interested
in obtaining these concessions as we are.
Clover In Middle Georgia.
R. W. Bonner, of Clinton, Jones coun
ty, Ga., writes as follows to the Talbotton
Standard :
In the fall of 1866.1 selected about an
acre of grey land with a heavy clay sob-
soil, and sowed it in wheat; strewed broad
east fifty bushels <f green cotton seed, and
plowed them in with the - wheat; then on
the fresh plowed land sowed six quits of
red clover seed, and left the ground with
out brushing or harrowing, obtained a fair
stand.- The next summer I reaped twenty-
seven and a half bushels of wheat from the
piece of ground. Suffered rothiog to glean,
or graze it that year, 1867. In February,
1868, I harrowed of the old wheat stubble
and wood8,which disclosed a beautiful sward
of young groen clover two inches high.—
I commenced mowing the clover in May,
and for six weeks I filled my racks each
night for six head of u-ules—saving many
bushels of corn and several hundred pounds
of fodder.
I believe it to be most profitable crop I
ever grew on an acre of land, of creals:—
The second crop of that year, or aftermath,
as it is called, grew knee high, and load
ed itself with blooms. This. I let calves,
sheep and goats eat.as it is this growth that
acts so powerfully on the salivary glands of
horses. Not being exactly satisfied with
the stand of clover, I again in tbe fall of
1868 seeded if to wheat and clover, with
the same application of cotton see-. . I
reaped twenty-three and a half bushels of
wheat in 1869; kept off the stock; harrow
ed off the old stuoblc and woods this week,
and the young clovor is now 3 to 5 incies
high, owing somewhat to the warm winter
f r its size.
Tell “Yonng Planter,” of Pleaoant Hill
if he has land with a clay subsoil, even if
it is saody, not to be discouraged. Manure
heavily, aud wbsn once the clover roots
get down into tbe subsoil, it will stand the
summer well and yield h'tn an abundance
of forage. Many advocate sowing in Feb
ruary or early in March with oats. This
certainly will avoid the winter freezing,
which sometimes injures tbe stand of fall-
sowed clover.
Wendell Phillips is out in favor of giv
ing the Indians political rights equivalent
to those recently accorded the negro. Phil
lips is to be commended for his constancy
if not for his wisdom. Why leave poor
Lo” out in the cold? Perhaps if we give
him the ballot he will sheathe his scalping
knif bury bis tomahawk. Once in politics
he will have little time or taste for any
other sort of excitement, or, shall we say
depredations?
A Great Struggle for one Southern Man nf
Office.
There » still great doubt as to the result
of the nominations to the'Supremo Court
bench. A great struggle is pending to secure
at least oue Southern man— Washington
Dispatch in yesterday's Enquirer.
The italics in the above extract are onro.
Our correspondent was merely sending ns
an item of news,and evidently did not mean
to express any surprise at the remarkable
fact involved in his statement.
There is a great straggle pending to
get one Southern man on the Supreme Court
bench.
The North has tbe President; tbe North
has the Senate; the North has the Honse
of Reresentatives ; the North has the Su
preme Court—and all the foreign embassa
dors and consuls, etc, etc.
§The North not only has congress, bnt
neatly every member of Congress, for tbe
Representatives from the South are chiefly
Northern men—not merely men born iu the
No-th, but men with Northern sympa
thies— they are all iron clad men. So is
the Sonth presented in Congress Sh6 has
neither the President nor (he Vice Presi
dent, or a single representative in the Cabi
net.
And then we have a Northern man as
Governor oi South Carolina ; a Northern
n an as Governor of Florida ; a Northern
man as Goveror of Georgia ; a Northern
man as Governor of Louisiana; a North
ern man as Governor of Arkansas; a North
ern man for Governor of Virginia.
And the great stinggle now is to get one
Southern man on the bench of the Supreme
Court -only one.
Who will dare impugn the “magnanimi
ty” of the North ? Its liberal and gener
ous deportment toward tbe South 7—
Who will dare, with the facts before him,
to harbor one dark snspicion.that the Notth
is intensely grasping in selfishness? Who will
say that the Sooth has not been treated in
the most gentle manner.
We might speak of the appropriations of
land and money for Northern railroads,and
oi the distribution of the currency; bnt
what rigi t had we to expect to get any
thing.
We know we do not deserve it; we have
the most vivid sense of onr desperate wick
edness ; bnt we do hope Congress will give
ng one judge—one iron clsd judge from the
South on tbe Supreme Bench. Good peo
pie have a little mercy.—Richmond En
quirer and Examiner.
Democracy
Commenting upjn an article in the New
Yotk World on tbe “Democracy,” portions
of which it pronounces “sound Democrat
ic doctrine,” the Louisville Cour-Jour. says
“it is the duty of a thoroughly independent
honest and useful newspaper, to look to the
people, and not to the politicians,”4>r often
it is the interest of a party to alter its lea
ders; and it is never dangerous, bnt always
pioper, fbr the press to criticise freely and
fearlessly, yet justly, the official conduct of
its party leaden.”
True, every word, and it is now a great
misfortune to Gecr^a that its Democratic
press looks more to politicians than it does
to the people, whose' interests suffer, and
who have to bear the brunt of a procrasti
nation of that which will -come-—-we mean
the reconstruction of the State according
to the Congressional plan. In this respect
a change of Democratic leaden, which pur
Louisville cotemporary says “is often the
interest of a party” to make, is unw abso
lutely necessary in Georgia. The people
are ready, we believe, to make, the change.
, , r
The Cuban Humbug.—The New York
Express, a thoroughly reliab'e journal in
news matters,thus sums up the Cuban ques
tion : _
“From a review of the entire situation
—:n the light of the latest adview front all
sources—we come to the conclusion that if
this Government ever intended (which we
donht) to help the Oabatjs. by recognizing
them as belligerents, tbe time is going, if
not quite gone by when the thing can be
dopp, to advantage. It is too late. The
revelation is practically Tht an end* and,
lor tbe present at least,8p»in is master of the
situation.” -
• It 18 said that Brigham Young intends
soon to send “beautiful female preachers to
thp E*»t,”
A Chinaman Bays a Wife.
The Grass Valley Union has “interview
ed” Fi Kee, a prominent Chinaman of that
town, with the following result:
Fi Kec, of Chinatown, has purchased a
new woman. She co it him, in San Fran
cisco, the sum of 8550 in gold coin, and
the negotiations that took place before the
purchase concluded cost about850. Fi Kee
s-ys that all told, bis new woman cost him
about 8615 He is growly about the
state of the wnnan market and the Bay,
and he thinks if there were not so many
partners in the selling business, women
conld be purchased at a figure low enough
to enable a purchaser to g‘t his money
back in a year or two. Fi Kee is an econ
omist. He says that money b so scarce,
interest so high, and a Chinawoman’s fife,
and health, when she is pnt at her tonal
business, so precarious, that one woman b
not woith over 8200. In spite of the war.
therefore, in spite of proclamations and bill
of rights in conssitutions, the heathen
among os have slaves - bay and sell women
for the purpose of prostitution, and worse
than all, have American partners in their
horrible businrss.
New Paper in Macon.
There will soon be a new daily and week
ly paper, called tho Macon Journal. I*
to be owned and published by Messrs. Ne
ville, Harr son & Ricks, all of whom are
practical primers. They have onr best
wbhes.
New York Journalistic Amenities
Windnst, tbe well known restanran
keeper of this city, who saved the distin
guished philosopher, Mr. Greeley, from the
fnry of the mob daring the Jury riots, by
covering a friendly table over that humble
iuilividual.was caught in a snow drift a few
days ago on l^rog Island, while attempting
to go to his home at Bayvilb, and would
have perished had not a yonng lady eonte
to his rescue with a shovel. And so even
AVindust had bis reward.— World
Comments by the Tribune.—The
author of the aboTe assertion that we have
placed in italics b a liar—a graceless .shame
less villainons detestable liar. The World
we most hope, uttered the above by inad-
vertentanee, not with malicious intent to
defame. Bnt the editor thereof will make
him responsible for the fie if ho does not
retrajt it. It concerns hb own reputation
solely that he does thb or does it not. The
lie was promptly exposed, and no passible
excuse for its revival has since exbted. It
had never a shadow of foundation.
Shameful.—If any one would like to
get au idea of bow tbe treasury b plunder
ed by the Bullock faction we refer him to
the Executive proclamations as publbhed in
the two official papers at Atlanta. They
are made to occupy ju t double the space
required aud charged for accordingly.—
Sav. Rep.
Wo notice that other papers in the State
are doing the same thing.
A Model Factory.
The cotton factory at Angnsta, Ga., b
one of the best managed factories in the
country. Its aggregate net earnings since
the war have exceeded 8800.000 ont of
which 8540,000 have been paid to stock
holders. Tbe stock b now valued at 8160
per share, and none for sale. It organized
with a capital of8200,000, which has since
been increased ont of earnings to 8600,000.
The whole capacity of the factory at pres
ent comprises 15,000 spindles, 598 looms,
consnming 130 baits ot cotton per week
Tbe product on tbe average b 52} yards ot
fabric to every lot m per day -sav 25.000
yards per day, and over 8,000,000 yards
per annum.
A Plague ot Mice.
We are familiar, in thb country, with
thepiague of grasshoppers, army worms
and other noxtons animals, bnt have happi
ly been spared from the devastations caused
by mice iu large bodies, snch as have not
unfreqnentiy ravished portions of Europe.
Quite recently certain parts of Hungary
have been terrib y afflicted in thb manner,
to so great an extent, indeed, that in a tin
gle district the entire crop of aixty thous
and acres of Grain was completely con
sumed. In another dbtrict ten thousand
acres were destroyed in two weeks, not a
grain nor blade of straw nor root being
left—entire fields having been cleared ac
cording to the statement, “are bare as a
floor.” •
Every attempt made to rednee the hordes
of these animals failed. Ditches were dog
and filled with water; but they soon became
choked up with dead bodies, the number
destroyed being counted by hundreds of
thousands, and yet without any appreobble
impression being made upon the snpply —
Tne ccuLtry was filled with immense num
bers of hawks, eagles, owls and other pre
dations birds, together with foxes, wearies,
wildcats, etc.; bnt the devastation still con
tinues, and there is no telling where it will
end.
The Flax aud the Frail—An Editor Cow-
hided by Blondes—The Cause of the As
sault.
On Wednesday the Telegraph informed
us that W. F. Storey, proprietor of the
Chicago Times, was publicly cowhided by
Lydia Thompson, and Paulane Markham,
the well known burlesquers. The follow
ing article, which appeared in the Times
the day before, offended the blondes, and
tints the assault:
The “Blondes” in a Nutshell.—If
there b any subject entirely repulsive totbe
public it must be that which forms the re
frain of this article, and if further refer
ence b made to it, it is done in the same
manner and for the same reason that gam
bling and prostitution are discussed in the
columns (if thb newspapor— that the evil
may be properly shown up and effectually
cured.
Michigan has abolbhed tenantcy by cour
tesy, leaving intact tbe widow’s right of
dower, and under tbe intestate law of that
State a husband now has no share in hb
wife’s estate. All hb right to any proper
ty ofhb wife most accrue by will. Tbe
Western States are gradually wheeling into
line, and will yet compel their slower mov
ing Eastern neighbors to concede the just
demands of the women
The woman who undertook to scour the
woods has abandoned the job, owing to tbe
high price, of soap. The lari that was beard
of her she was skimming the sea.
Lore Letters of Eggs,
We *re told of* yonng grocery clerk,who
loved fondly but not wisely, for the father
was bitterly opnosed to tbe match. The
yonng lady returned the attachment. The
father was a patron of the store. The lov
ers arranged a sy-tem of correspondence
and the gentleman qrrote hb love messages
on the eggs which the daddy ef hb be?
trotbed bought. Practical certainly. He
was “setting" for her as the Yankees say.—
Col. Sun.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
A TRUE STORY THAT IS STRAN-
\ GER THAN FICTION.
Singular Hiitorjrof a Tennessee Family.
One night, about the first, of January
ast, two young men, living in North Ala
bama, were murdered in a shocking and
mysterious manner. They were brotbeis
aud oue of them was married. The latter
was tested at hu own fireside,reading, when
several men,wearing masks, rode up to the
house and called turn to the door. ' He
came, and was shot and severly wounded,
and going into the room where he by in
bed ridled him with bullets. Tbe next
He succeeded in getting away, however,
and went to the huuae of a neighbor,where
the assassins found him very soon after,
day the younger bro.her was found dead
in a sink-hole some two miles from kb
hose.
These yonng men were born and raised
in Tennessee, and and a gentleman from
Alabama, wbo was himself formerly a rear
dent of Tenneseee, gives u« the history of
their famiiy, which b quite romantic
enough for a first class noveL The story,
as told to thb reporter, runs briefly
thus :
Twenty years ago the town of Blank, in
Middle Tennessee, was one of the fastest
and most fashionable p aces of its size in
the South. Of course tbe name of the
town was not Blank, which was merely
borrowed for the occasion. Every other
name which appears in this, except tuat ot
Loubville, will be borrowed for the same
purpose. But one real name will be giv
en. One of the finest plantations in tha
neighborhood was that of Mr. Brown.—
Hb residence was one of the most elegant
and one of the most costly in the county.—
Bat Mr. brown took less pride m hb splen
did farm and beautiful home than in hb
beautifnl daughter, at tnat time a yonng
girl not more than sixteen, and the reign
ing belle ot the whole ntighborhood-—
He lavished upon her all that wealth could
bny. In the Grecian beauty ot her face,
iu tbe exqubite grace of her slender form,
in tbe richness of her toilettes, in the ele
gance of her equippage, and all else that
goes to constitute a queen of society, she
was without a rival. Lovers and admir
ers flocked to her shrine from every quar
ter. Some of these were rich and lew or
more were poor. Bat their wooing was all
in vain. They eamejmd wooed, and went,
riill leaving hrr in maiden meditations
fancy free. Thb, however, conld not last
always. In about the third or fourth
reign as an unmarried belle, she m:t a gay
and handsome yonng lawyer of Louisville,
named Smith. They fint met, it b be
ared, at a watering place in the interior
ol thbSta e. In a short time they were
engaged to be married, and the day was
a; pointed for the event to take pbee- Bnt
it would seem that the appointment was
made without the consent of Mr. Brown,
tor, when young Smith reached Blank, for
thepnpose of tuUfilfinghb engagement,lie
found that the old gentleman had pbced
hb daughter iu a carriage and quietly car
ried her beyond the limits of tne State.—
Yonng Smith returned to Kentucky, and
nothing was heard of him in Blank for tix
or eight years.
Not w great while after the above inci
dent, the heart and hand of Mbs Brown
were sought by a wealthy and most worthy
young gentleman, named Jones, who liv
ed in a distant part of the State- Hb salt
met the hearty^approval of all her friends,
tor he was rich, handsome, and a thorough
gentleman, and in a short time they were
married. But the marriage was an unhap
py one. Mr. Jones had a plantation in
one of the cotton Stales, and hb business
interests required that he should spend the
most of bb time there, and thb he b said
to have done, leaving bis'wife at her fath
er’s where she preferred to stay, in the en
joyment of that society and those comforts
which were not to be found among the
co 1 ton plantations of tbe South. Thus mat
ters went on for several years, when there
came a divorce suit, at the instance of the
lady, though upon what grounds our in
formant never knew. The divorce was
gran ed, and Mrs. Jones, resumed her
maiden name. It was beliveC that hus
band nor wife was much to blame in tho
natter, that they were more sinned against
than tinning
A year or two passed and young Smith,
who bad nevei forgotten kb love for the
beantitnl Tenneseean, retained and renew
ed hb suit—thb time with much better
success than before, for there was no for
midable opposition, if any at mil, and be
and Miss Brown were married.
And then tbe war come on. Yonng
Smith was among the first to eapouie tbe
canso of tbe Sooth and join tbe army for
her defense. He became an’, officer in a
cavalry regiment; and continued in active
service until the close of the stn 1
He then returned to bb wife at
where he soon after began the practice of
hb profession. He retaraed to find that
bb lather ieUm* w*» a bankrupt—that the
war had involved him it utter ruin —
Very soon Mr. Brown's magnificent home'
was sold, and he removed to Bbnk with
hb family, eontisting ot thoee of his wife
and two ,-ons—the two young men who
were recently killed in North 'Alabama.—
Soon after hb removal to Blank from hb
old home, five miles distant. Mr. Brown
died, leaving hb a ifeahriostor quite pen
niless. About the same time the two boys
removed to Alabama, and Mis. Brown was
left alone with Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
they lived in *n elegant : twocatotyLUoti
tags in the suburbs of: Blank. Early one
morning,in the summer of .1867,Mr. Smith
was found lying ah hb front door quite
dead. The weather was exceedingly warm
at the time, and it was supposed that he
had seated himself at the window ofhb
room in the upper story, that he had gone
to sleep while netted there, and had .'fallen
totbe ground, breaking hb neck.'
Another period of two ^years went the
way of til other years .tf the file of thb
yonng widow, , still as beautiful as ever,
though saddened and subdued by the
clouds which has swept across her path,
way.
And then the moat singular event in thb
singular story eome to pass. Mr. ' Jones,
the first husband, who nad never ceased to
love the woman from whom he had been
separated by a decree of the law, returned
to Bbnk and proposed a second marruge.
The proposition eras accepted, and some
time last spring the marriage took place,
tbe divorced husband and wife re-uttering
with wanner hearts and firmer faith these
vows of Jove apd conqtapey which pnep he?
fopp they had nitered, and uttered iaTain.
[From ths New York Tribune.
BUYING A FARM.
The Eiperfeace aad Observations of
I am not a believer that “Five Acres”
or “Ten Acres” suffice for a farm. I know
where money b made on even fewer than
five acres; bnt they who do it are few, and
men of exceptional capacity and dilligence.
Their achievements are necessarily con
fined to the vicinage of cities or manufac
turing villages. The great majority of all
who live by agriculture, want room to turn
upon—want to grow grass and keep stock
—and for sueb no mere garden or potato
patch will answer. They want genuine
forms. ;
Yet, gu where you may in thb country,
you will hear a iarmsr saying of hb neigh
bor, “He has too much land,” even where
the criticism might be justly reciprocated.
We cannot all be mistaken on this head.
There are men who can each manage
thousands of acres cf tillage, just as there
are these who can skillfully wield an army
of a hundred thousand men. Napoleon
said there were two of thb class in tbe Eu
rope ofhb day There are others who can
not handle* hundred acres so that nothing
b last through neglect or oversight. Rales
must be adopted to average capacities and
circumstances. He who expects to live by
cattle rearing needs many more acres than
he who b intent on grain growing; while he
who contemplates vegetable, root and fruit!
culture, needs fewer acres still. As to the. j
directing of bb efforts, each will be a law 1 !
unto himself.
If I were asked by a young man
on farming to indicate the proper
him, I would say : Buy just so
farm as half vour means will pay Tor. In
other words, if you are worth 820,000,
invest half of it iu land, the residue in
stock, toob, etc.; and observe the same rale
of proportion, whether yon be worth 81,-
O00.0U0 or $1,000. If you are worth just
nothing at all, I would invest in bud tbe
half of tiist, and no more. In other words
I would either wait to earn $500 or over,
or push Westward until I found hnd that
cost practically nothing.
Thb then, I take to be tbe gist of tbe
popular criticism au onr farmers as having
unduly enlarged tbeir borders. They have
more land than they have capital to stoek
and fill to tbe best advantage. He who
has bat fifty acres has too much if he lets
part of hb land stand idle and unproduc
tive for lack of teem or Uands to till it effi
ciently; while he who ha»_ a thousand acres
has none too much if be has the means and
talents wherewith to make the best of it
all.-
The Dee’iae In GoU
The daily telegraphic reports of the pres
ent week have ad*bed the reader of the
steady decline that Las teen going on in the
price of gold, as rated by the greenback
Stanford.- It b now considerably lo 1
than it has been at any time since our
Southern people bare been handling the
national currency. An’important qnertion
Is, will the decline continne, or be main
tained ? On thb point the New York
Bannil Chronicle, of the 25th of Feb
ruary. says:
Will Gold Advance ?—The future of
cotton in a ine si’re depends upon the
eonrseof gold daring the next three months
consequently the inquiry as to the turn the
premium b likely to take b impcrtanL We
do not propose to solve the problem, but a
few facts may help our readers to form an
opinion for themselves.
1. Tbe supply on the market is now ex-
tremely larger, sty about70,000,000, hence
not outy can no interest be obtained for it,
bnt owners are compelled to pay a consid
erable per centage for baring it carried.—
If thb state of things continues, any up
ward movement does not appear probable.
2. Last year, on account of tbe very small
export of tbe precious metals, the country
increased its stock of gold somewhere about
835,060,660. That the specie movement
the present year will show a similar result
is for the following reasons not unlikely.
(A) Tie unfavorable condition of busi ess
not encourage large importations; and
^ ^.^jrtera after their late losses are in a
poor condition to ran any great risk. (B)
' Onr exports promize during the coming . 3
months at hast to be in excess of last years
movement. We have on hand, for instance
150,000 bales more of^ cotton than at thb
time a yearago, and onr receipts are like
ly to increase thb excess. ’ (0)- The move
ment of onr bonds to Europe will probably
be fully as large, if not larger, than, dur
ing 1869, as onr increased credit will in-
erease the number of investors even at tbe
advanced priee now edrrent
For these reasons the retaining of a large
portion of onr gold production thb year,
and thus increasing onr supply b not im
probable.
3. Tbe government will undoubtedly
pay ont and sell about as much as it receives
for duties, so that its operations or necessi
ties will not interfere with t' /
movement. Without, then, ,*ny luge, de
mand for gold, and with the supply oh tbe
market increasing, b any decided reaction
from the present rate probable daring - the
next three months ? Of coarse a specula
tive movement might force gold up in the
face of these facts.
will,there’s a way,” and honest men always
have-the will to work —[Aberdeen Exam-
, - ,
On tbs 26th ult. tbe proprietor of the
Chicago Times was publicly_ cowhidcd by
Lydia Thompsor and Panline Markham.
On the same day Rev. Mrs. Phqbe Qanpa-
ford received and acqep^dq^caU^o t je^ai-
Haven, and on the same day also, but rath-
Six oi ei"ht months afterthisrameYbe er ia “ 0 PP“! te - lotion, the Working-
tnurdM of the UdyVriro brotb-ra b, an- menV Protective Union of Boston nn.m-
known assassins,, thus end S Stq:y, t'«R That we w ; 1(lIot become par,
which very few in real life are more ro. t !e f^ v ! atlempWd , ncr0 a C hiLeuU 0 n the
mantic or more pqnoaa -Louazilk Oour, g t ^‘Y 8 ^“TmInTduties^nd,th.r^
wsadiWiK? fore, we respectfully, but firmly, remon
strate aga : nst Igebiation in 'favor of suf
frage, for Women,
So we are to have a new moon, it seems,
and not of the Rev. Mr. Hale’s brick ones,
either! A German savant (what a vague
awe attache* to the title!) has announced
the important discovery that the zodiacal
light proceeds from'* gaseous ring encire-
iug the earth at the dbtanee of a few tbon
baud miles more or less, which has beer
burning for a long time,bnt b now cooling
down, soon to bust and collect into an
•foggregafe,” which Will be the new moon
in question, lie adds that thb will be a
good deal nearer tons than tbe othe'. That
it can possibly be dearer we deny, in the
name of the lovers, pods and other luna
tics that have ever lived since Adam talk-
od moonshine to Mbs'Eve.
Charlxsbon and Savannah Rail
road.—The reconstruction of thb road b
now complete. The construction, train ran
through yesterday from city to city, and
we shall probably announce to-morrow a
resumption of the regular passenger trains.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Mr. Beecher cn Cannibalism.
If I were to take yon to my honse, and
say that I had an exquisitely fat man, and
wbhed yon to join me in rating him, onr
indignation conld be restrained by nothing
Yon would pronounce me to be crazy —
There b not in New York a man so mean
that he would not put down a man who
should propose to have a banquet off from
a fellow man catting steaks ont of him
and earing them. And that b nothing bnt
feasting on the human body; white they all
sit down and take a man's soul, a yd look
for tie tenderloins, and invite their neigh
bors it to partake of these little tit bits.—
They will take a man’s honor and name,
and broil them over the coals of there in
dignation, and fill the whole room with the
aroma thereof, and give their neighbor a
piece, and watch him, and wink as he tastes
it. Yon all eat' men np, and yon are canni
bals every r.ne of yon—and worse. Yon
will be dad to get off at God’* judgment
seat with the plea; “I only ate tbe outside’’
Yon ate the eon's,' the finest elements of
man. You are more tnan glad it yon can
whisper a word that b derogatory to a neigh
bor, or hb wife, or bb daughter.
Tbe 15th Amendment-
Washington, Feb. 20.—The President
expects to issue hb proclamation by the
middle of thb week, announcing the rati
fication of the 15th Amendment. Nebras
ka ratified it on Tbusday, and as soon as
Mississippi b admitted, which will be by
tbe middle of the present week, the requi
site number of States has been obtained
without counting New York. Georgia or
Texas. It is understood, also, that a joint
resolution wQl be introduced in Congress
declaring that tbe amendment has been
duly ratified by tireee*fourths of all the
States.
If thb b done, it wifi first be necessary
to obtain an official statement of the date
of the ratification by each State from tbe
State department. Republican members
say that bfib will be at once introduced by
virtue of the power confeired on Congress
by tbe second section of tbe amendment
to enforce tbe provisions of the first. New
Hampshire will be the first to hold an elec
tion under the amendment, but in Con
necticut it will have a more practical illus
tration, as the members from that State
estimate that it will add over 1,000 Totes
at tbe April election.
The Regent Immigrants.—We have
conversed during tbe past week with many
farmers in thb county and Cichkasaw, in
relation to their immigrant laborers, and all
press the . most perfect satisfaction aud
_Jight. V hether used to field work or
not, they go at it with the stubborn deter-
lion to succeed, that characterizes the
an and,tbe Scandinavian in every walk
t. One planter, who b working ten
. an, and has' had them in thejield for
about two months, informs us that one'b «
tailor, and other.a. baker by trade, but that
both of these men set to work with « vim
to master there new tradn-and now make
as good pl&w’lfends'as^iddre M found any
where.
From another man we have heard of a
German butcher,who'alter one week’s prac
tice became a superb plowman, and seeqts
perfectly delighted with hb chosen occupa
tion- .
On a certain plantation in thb county,
two English piano uakers, who never spent
a day in the fielas before they come Soatb,
and who know as much about driving a mule
as they did about trapping i n elephant, are
rapidly learning the mysteries incidqqMo , .... .. _
bedding fond for cotton. “Where there’s a 40th 'Congress’ went fbr nothing like Van
Reported tor the Tri-Weefcly Owner.
WisHiKGTOx—Rome, March 5.—The Pope
is confident of earring infallibility.
Washington, March 5.—Committees noth
ing- '■
House.—Georgia comes np after the morn
ing hour.
The Senate refused io consider the bfil ex
tending civil rights to Chinese.
The hill changing Judiciary ■ Circcits was
resumed. . r . ... •• . ... .
The disability bill still hangs under . Sum
ner’s motion to reconsider.
It b reported at the Treasury, that Bychtet
Gonneljr and the tw6 Seringa) will be re'
moved from -the Nevr Orleans Custbr* Honse.
It will require'stronger papers than now be
fore the department to move Casey.
Nxw Osuans, March 5.—Auditor Wyck-
liffe was unanimously impeached.
MoxTcoKxar. Mirch 5.—After'passing two
hundred and nineteen bills, the Legislature
was mostly derated to bills legalizing mar
riage, making divorces, and loaning the State
credit to Railroads. '
Washington, March A—Sumner has with
drawn hb objection to .the disability hill. It
now nndonbtedly goes to the President, who
will sign it.
Revenue over half a million. ,
CoL Chas. Blunt, of the Engineer Corps,
sentenced to suspension and pay for 3 months,
and reprimanded in General Orders.
Jas. N. Mason, of Arkansas, (colored)
nominated Consul General to Liberia.
The bill reported by Robertson from the
Disabilities Committee, does not relieve per
sons affected by the 14th Amendment.
In the House, after important business, the
Georgia bill was taken np, and will be voted
ori to-morrow.'' '
Butler, in arguing the Georgia bill, said
Georgia, for the fust time, presented herself
in the proper guise for admission. Butler
added if the judgment of the House went
with Jus own, he proposed to exhibit to Ten
nessee the power of Congress against wrong,
rapine and murder.
Farnsworth, in opposing the hill, said he
understood very well the object of the bill —
It was gotten up upon the theory that tbe
admission of the Georgia members to the
In Minnesota they Ctll a harness-maker
a “horse nuliner.”
Washington, March 6.—Gov. Stpvcnson,
of Kentucky, in declining Galladays resigna
tion, says Galladay owes it to hb State con
stituents and hb own honor, to have a full
investigation before the House, the only tri
bunal having jurisdiction in the matter.
San Fkancisco, March 6.—Tho white la
borers drove the Chinese laborers from the
Pacific Railroad at Nevada, destroying their
tents and buildings.
Several counties, by order of the Legisla
ture, will vote whether bonds shall issue in
aid of the ion them Railroads Southward
from Gilroy.
Washington, March 7.—The Honse Com
mittce on Territories were instructed to con
sider the propriety of abrogating the tribal
character of tne Indians between Kansas and
Texas, and the erection of a Terri toria. Got-
eminent.
A resolution authorizing the Specie Tele
graph Committee to examine the whole sub
ject of telegraphing in the United States,
with power to send for persons and papers,
foiled.
Regular call progressing
In the Senate several disability bilb were
reported. « .
Abo, a resolution for the protection of
coal interests.
Washington, March 7.—The Venesuela
Minister died suddenly. His Secretary, on
return, found him dead.
The following occurred between Orth,
member of the-Honse Committee, and Stun
ner, Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs:
Orth—“We had Cuba up to day, .but came
to no conclusion.”
' Stunner—“Well, in a few days there will
be no necessity for action, regarding Cuba.”
Here a colloquy interrupted.
Customs $588,000.
The House Committee ou Railroads and
canals agreed to report favorably on a bill
authorizing the road from Norfolk to St
Lonb via Cincinnatti.
b The President nominated G. F. Marler, jr.,
Postmaster of Selma; Wm. Leapy Assessor
8th Virginia DistrictrC 8 Winstead, Collec
tor 5th Nqrth Carolina Dbtrict
It is stated that the Ways and Means Com
mittee agreed to abolish income tax.
. In the United States vs Grossmer, it was
held by the United States Supreme Court to
day that after the. commencement of tha war
a creditor of the North conld not authorize a
debtor at the South to invest tho amount of
the indebtedness in cotton for the benefit of
the creditor, and if snch a purchase was made
at the request of the creditor, through an
no title was thereby vested in the
credit^ ahd he could not claim the proceeds
of the ration, it having been seized and sold
under captured and abandoned property act.
In the Senate Harlan presented a joint
resolution from the Legislature in favor of
the removal of the Capital, and against ap
propriations fbr public buildings.
Morton presented a lull declaring Texas
entitled to representation. Refeered to the
Judiciary.
The Funding bill was resumed.
Tbe Senate still in session.
In the House a resolution of the Mississip
pi Legislature, was presented, asking the re
moval of political disabilities.
Wells introduced a bill to reclaim the
swamp lands of the Mississippi Valley, and
to promote the commerce of the Northwest
The President was interrogated regarding
the action of the British government exclud
ing Americans from Canadian fisheries.
The House refused to allow Galladay, of
Kentucky, to withdraw hb resignation, not
withstanding the Governor’s refusal to ac
cept it.
The Georgia bill was resumed, and after
seconding the previous question, the House
adjourned. It will vote to-morrow.
Chakliston, March 7.—The steamer Fal
con reports the steamer Eagle, from New
York, for Havanan, aground on Body Island
Attempts to communicate with her failed on
account of the heavy sea.
Tho Falcons officers think the crew and
passengers in no danger, bnt fear the total
loss of the steamer and cargo.
Augusta, March 7.—J. W. Shnonton; Gen
eral Agent of the New York Associated
Press, was met here to-day by A. R. Lamar,
Esq., President oi the Southern Press Asso
ciation, Capt. F. N. Dawson and W. W.
Screws, Esq., members of the Executive Com
mittee.
After a full-and free conference on affairs
connected with the Press sendee, the parties
separated mutually satisfied.
The result of the Conference will be laid
before the Southern Press Convention at its
next session.'
Shall Wo Acquiesce in the Treason }
The Hartford, Connecticut Times, one
of ihe ablest Democratic journals of New
England,’says of the last outrage of the
Republican party:
“If that amendment b to stand, thegov
ernment itself b no longer the simple and
wise Republican government founded by
tbe Fathers, a government of State rights,
but its foun atioa principal is reversed.—
Tbe government b changed to a central
ized government. No longer has Connecti
cut, under that amendment, tbe possession
of her ancient and cherished right to make
her own laws. Her boast, that hers was
the first written Constitution, and her peo
ple the freest people, living nnder the sgb
of their embodied form and declaration of
and animated today by the spirit
which snatched their ancient charter from
King Charles’ minions, can no longer he
uttered with truth, after the proclamation
of thb change. Congress, the ereatnre of
the States, has under Radical rale more
than once lifted tbe usurpers band to throt
tle the States who created it. Nor b thb
so-called- 15th amendment essentially, any
less an act of usurpation because it b cloth-
ed with the forms of a Constitutional
amendment.
•
t-UitS ' Cuba* Affair. *
Matters in Cuba are assuming thit ton-1 >
' ion as to require the intervention
cfiiiiaed, in the cause of. humanity...
Spanish authorities seem to have in
augurated a war of diabolical savage^,' in : '
which every element of Christain civiliza
tion b dbcared entirely.
The Cabans are canght and murdered,
indberiminately, iu cold blood, without tri
al or shrift. They are treated as sav-
qnartennaster and commissary stores famish
ed to, or taken by U. S., by loy^rentms in
the south daring the war, wartftsidered.
Amendments to limit the hill to a mere ex
examination of claims, and to refer all claims
OTer 500 dollars to court of claims, with pow
er to diminbh, bnt not increare the
were proposed, but no action wa
Adjourned to Monday.
Winkle’s dream, and that they were to con*
back and be sworn in for the 41st
Nwas to prolong the tenure of ed
tain gentlemen in Georgia, and the bi
as well be entitled that at anything el*
Senate,—The committee an disabiliti
i-orted ft Mil ftholbhing iron clad oath t
Mississippi Legislature, for the removal of
disabilities of citizens of that Statei- ' — _ „
A hill was presented to refer all claims for age beats, opt of the pale of humanity.
The Cuban enuse b unconquered, and i
does seem that the nations of C
ought to interfere to stop th
and barbarous butchery.—Atlanta
futitm.
triage.'
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