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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. FRIDAY ' RATES OF WEEKLY. . ^ ^ Crates FOR tri weekly. ^ oo .. -•*—*- 9 50 :====r*» [drtius. Jt. DWINELL, Proprietor. I ,rrAL ADVERTISEMENTS. I * ;Adtt^istratoro. Exactor, or I sd* » f I ' ,nd r eouired by law to be held ? n |u.-iiaa5-»” ^ ca month, between the I, Jot orcnoon and three m the E,r> of «» |J e C „ort Home in the county in S iTtn * F ub ' |p»d«{'Kl’/of personal property must I Retire’ of manner, through a public gaa- pVV’Drtwnaad &eiUtora of an estate, -«*-«*£ will be made to the P ,ir f r wSy f“ leave to adl laud must be E* ^/rTetter^of Administration. Guar- ICiutiono R"le‘“ be publishod 3b days—for i»* 1 !Pmu Admiuirtratioa. three montha- ,r ° u r ", m Guardianship.« ,8 F 8 * - i,! 7 lhe forccloseure of Mortgagee must Riles for the f four months—for cs- MUished monthly 0 f three Jhisgl't P 1 F c , r .>X,UomExecutor8 or 1*» S-en by C25. <« :r^conUru«d“a°c~rd- oth. ^c%d. «t the f.llowing RATES. rifles per lery of ten.line, orllea; *3 00 mTs Mortgage fi- * a,efl ’ P J QO . rnUfctot’s isles* per levy..... ;*Pms for letters ofAdmimstration 3 00 • I Lleitcrsot Guardianship 6 00 Ice nt .ppli-tir.n for dis.ni«»ior. from # ## front g ## uardianship,- -—— “ 3 00 ilicstion to sell land......; .. iteto Debtorsand^Creditors, , 00 ! °[ jterishsbie property, 10 days * “0 Votires, todays are of Mortgage, per square ....* ™ drertising his wife, (in advance) 10 0U Fnr the Rome Courier 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.' that’s