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"WISDOM, JUSTICE AN D M O DER A T T O N.”
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SATURDAY MORNING, Mar. 26.
Wc shall remark upon tin editorial from
|tVs paper, headed ‘-The Point of Resist-
The hist of the Editorial is taken from
I the fotlorring extracts front the Day Book
I ud the Baltimore Gazette :
“To the Democratic press we must, look
fur that lively party leaven which cau alone
trio;; back the success and triumphs of for
mer days. There is no hope for any par
ty which occupies a defensive position —
I Ut the Democratic press at once unite in
puihitij on a fiery assanlt upon the whole
hue of a negro party, and it will not be si-
wnlhs before its now blatant and deflaDt
-egions are oa the retreat But the resur-
tectian of t! e dead will come to pass bc-
hrethe least impressiou is made upon them
ty the present solt policy of of the Demo-
«tie pres.”—Day Bool:. *
‘ II rcaistasee to the course jyhich the
feferal Congress is and has been pnrsu-
^ he not the privilege—nay, the duty of
me people—then the teachings of all his-
t3r J are wholly false, and the principles for
which our fathers fought were bat so much
dap-trap. They became but perjured trait
ors by taking up arms against the succes
sor of the l'laotagencts and Tudors, if
Americans are to be accounted culpable
should they reluse to-day further submis
sion to the decrees of the sham Congress
which now claims to he the real and legal
representative of the people of the United
'tates. The South is helpless. Maryland
q , aa > ;i,1 'i on the verge of deadly
■cnl, as did the prophet upon the edge of
. 2 P a n I raviog lions. Bui the Democrat-
v P 1 ' 1 } fl 'll exists. The majority of the
- ortheru people cannot but deplore the
■ in which is being wrought, and despise
Y\ a c'lators who recognise now no law but
:ir Wli interests. Tnc timid subserviency,
" bijktik it plainly ill this great crisis, the
awofofc nj (he Democratic leaders of the
^Thorthen States has made the Radi-
,r au'T ldlal ** : ' s ' Kor years they cow-
,. ca “ c - ore military insolence and the
rents or arbitrary power. They not on
y maintained silence when it most became
m to speak out manfully, but littered
loath J'me thoughts which they
dp-;.„,’, an y,. !lcC5 F te <l doctrines which they
passed awa S ?!, ee i.* 10 rod cloud of war has
bated «ea*ed to speak with
bS, ’ a " d r “tier defiant words;
"nirci'ir„ t "%^ >e ,oncst instincts and nolle
finiicni/ri ms K ^° mca * lt lic signal to
went it, ’k'ty «nd constitutional govern-
which i -"t" 6 da,lyiD S themes by
ofi ts n 0 e,t a hold, insolent faction out
whiclf i,’ m’ or . see k>agthe channel through
hack the • Y ^ most ‘ ex pe<Mcat’ to filch
S tk nS r tSan ' ! ' reedom whioh hsTe
patriots nf,i[ r0m v U5 '. IIow ,on S ‘ho true
Joke of -, *^ e ^ ort “ propose to bear the
gres, ,.„ n untra mmelled and despotic Con-
antend in canuot hnow. How long they
‘taught to TiT^Y 0 a surre “der of all they
a "Uarmi s h e ° d Pr 11 u* P rioe,eS3 > we ma »
a °» now. ‘l But 13 the nanw of a Slat0
«h tt i£’ e “ e f> protest against this
tion. path U this quiescent degrada-
Mnd of the intclli■
p , eo ? u °f ,his land «
the detr-fn.f" “ u “ auaumie in
t r< *olutb n Jm 10 def ? nd th emselves,
kas ever h* a ^ e °f Uc than which none
-Bah. cl* m0re blwdless aQ d peaceful.”
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.•THE CONSTITUTIONALIST” A
democracy.
Ihe Augusta Constitutionalist with it
pa,t. clear, silver-toned Democracy cbal-
| tei the affectionate sympathy of every
s msu in the State. It is one of the few
| piper! that has never, by the slightest ex-
I pression, shown departure from the prime
I principles of the party. To-day it lies
I baffled, but deSmt upon the very platform
I that Seymour stood upon, and flaunts the
fie that flew over the Democracy of‘68.
But while we admire the superb devo-
| lino to principle, and the chivalrous loyal
ij to Democratic tenets that has character
ized its course, and while we love the teu-
ler passionate strength with which itstrench-
I ini blows for Dixie are dealt, our judge'
rant does not chime with our affection.
present* 1 * 11 ,! 111 ^ Upon t * lese article*—which
tri Be , a an S M ously fascinating doe-
South,‘ e sonad3 a clarion call to the
Aoenl m Pr f Pare f” “‘“tonee to the XVth
n and its negro suffrage accom-
“Let the people ot the North', ther>,aban-
don the suck-egg dug method and try. the
effect of a little resistance.to tyr.nny. We
venture to say that they will be astonished
to find how easy a bladder to prick Radical
ism is, and they will be eovered with shame
to know that Sumner’s scare-crow had al
most frightened them into dissolution.
“When tbe-Demoefncy of the land rid
themselves of traitors and cawards, a new
epoch will begin, glorious for the U. States
and honorable to that grand organization
which is now like the strong man bound
with - ropes, and blind beside; or like a
demi-god in the deadly-hng of serpents.
Whenever there is one honest, or even ap
parently honest effort for the restoration of
liberty, the people are electrified every
where Remember how Radical Mr Sprague
stirred them, some months ago, and remem
ber how he deceived them.' 0.olj qc few
since, Radical. Mr.. Dawes: wns;the_ hero of
the hour; but he too wasa humbug. It
simulated honesty and b'cddbess have so
aroused the masses, ichat an vphcavel might
wc not c-cpcct if a Democrat, worthy of the
name and ' with a regenerated party at his
lack, icotdd come before the people as their
true champion, and make himself a veritable
leader of men, icho are ready to strilee for
freedom, but need direction and command.’'’
Such talk as this is wrODg—it is danger-
ons—it is unwisIt is like taking a sick
man who is famishing for watei, an] pour
ing rich old wine down his throat until he
he is crazed with the -subtle, pusou. We
beg our contemporary to cease winniag the
people to a fury and a passion, that must
Waste itself in fretful grumblings and re-
Carteusville & Van Wert R Ik-
On’ last Tuesday, being at Cartersville,
we took a short ride on the above named
Road. . The track is laid for about one
mile.. They aie patting down the Fish Bar
rail, add it is to be in every way a first
class railroad. Col. White, the Chief Engi
neer, informed ns'that he was very confi
dent Uiat the Road would be completed to
Van Wert before the Bret of July next.—
The bridge across the Etowah -is to be a
single span of 200 feet. The wood work is
nearly ’completed, and the 'track for abut
mentsis being brought from Chicamauga.
As soon as the rock is laid to the river the
bridge will be pat up in the- shortest possi
ble time. We congratulate our Polk county
friends on their prospect of haring, at a
xeryjeariy.day.^flwadAnlitiax- -La
Pike,
pirnngs. ^
We tell the people and we tell the Con
stitutionalist, that there is going to be no
revolution—no resistance. The XVth
Amendment an i negro suffrage, have be
came law, and in all the laud we will find
no man who will rebel against them.
The people are tired of war aed wrang
ling—they are sick of strife.
Let the Constitutionalist bond its energies
to rather taming down the spirit of the
people, so that they can endure the Ms
that are upon them. Does he not know
that two" Ru-KIux outrages in Georgia to
day, would fasten the military upon us for
four years to come.
With negro suffrage an accomplished
fact, we have mnch yet to fight for. ri r e
are going to crusade against the accursed
centralism of political, financial, and com
mercial power that has paralyzed,the land;
we hre going to champion the rights of the
States. Let our contempary join us. While
he is delivering his splendid laments over
the past glory of Democracy, and waking
the land with his slogan, the despoilers are
marching upon temples, that are yet sacred
and,unsullied. Let him come to the front of
the-enemy.-
LITTLE STORMS IN FRANCE.
The volatile Frenchmen are the greatest
fellows in the world to get up little revo
lutions.
They raise mobs, chant the Marsellaise,
down the King in unexceptionable French,
craze themselves withjiassion, and swear
to overthrow the Empire, oud live happy
in the enjoyment of a blood-baptized Re
public.
Up to this point—i.e, as far as boasting
goes—they are the fiercest folk on the
earth. But as soon as the tread of advauc
ing troops, they scatter, and like rats, take
to their boles, Not because they are cow
ardly, bnt because they lack union of ef
fort, and concentration of effort. There is
enough power in the gutters of Paris to
bring Napoleon’s haughty head to the gal
lows in ten days, but there is nothing that
can give this power definite direction. In
the late insnrrecticn, there was enough raw
material yelling around the corpse of Vic
tor Noir to have choked any King in Eu
rope from his throne. Bnt these hosts
were scattered without accomplishing any
thing.
Yet, tin ugh they were disorganized and
scattered, they are still defiant, and their
rage has taken the direction in which it
will prove most disastrous to France. They
have formed clubs of ten and twenty for the
purpose of waging war upon the friends of
the Empire.
The club of fifty, who have sworn to kill
Pierre Bonaparte may be taken as typical
of these “ku-kluxy” organizations. As a
coDseqnence, duels are of every day occur
rence. From every corner of Paris comes
the account of these affairs of honor, and
the dark alleys of the city are lit with
sparks from the swords of raging combat
ants. There is no silent stiletto work—
that is left, for the Spaniards—bnt open,
fair and famous duels—regular knightly
tilts. Rochefort, the journalist, has fought
sir ty-feur duels, and is just getting “in a
weaving way.” Lately a Prince Royal fell
beneath the anger of a Red Prince Henri
de Bourbon, was killed by Montpensier, Bat
the richest thing in the way of clubs is the
formation, by the aristocrats of the city,
what is called, the “Club of the Cudgel.’*
The members of this Club propose to
drill themselves in the nse of the cudgel,
and the next time tb.e Reds appear on the
street in insurrection, notto wait for the
military, but to take up their sticks, go out
to -neet them, and whack their,, refractory
noddles. When tht se two forces meet, then
will come the tug ef tsar,
The skill and science of the arisiogjrats
igjinst the brawny strength of the men ol
the gutter. O'AT opinion ;is that the former
will stand little obance against the latter.
I0E GBEAT AMERICAN RAILROAD
SWITCH.
We were gratified, a few days since with
an examination of the above named prac
tical and very important invention, of Col.
G. W. Lee. It does away with the “frog”
is excaodwgty simple, and by it a train is
transferred from onotre.ck to another with
as mnch safety and no more break Jn the
trade* than there is ordinarily between bars
on a curve. The State Road has purchased
the right to nse this switch at §1,400.—
Railroad Superintendents will find it to
their interest to examine this useful inven
tion, Address Col. A. L. Harris. Atlanta,
A Bloody Coward.—One J- S
a prominent writer for the Tribune, writes
that “Georgia ought not to be re-admitted
at all until Robt. Toombs and all his Con
federate rebels in that State are safely un
der ground.”—Ex.
So that’s the schedule, is it ? Until by
insult yon have broken the spirit, or by the
iope yon have broken the neck of these
“rebel giants” we are to be kept under mil
itary rule. Was there ever such cowardice ?
Robert Toombs is in a quiet little village,
chained down by.disfranchisement, and qni-
etly attending to his private business; yet
these bullies are afraid to trust ns in the
Union, till this shorn Samson lies beneath
the sod.
We remember how the senile Bonrbons
had a paralell fear of the gieat Napoleon
when he was imprisoned upon Elba; and we
remember, too—now don’t get frightened
Pike 1”—that when he burst irom his
shackles and entered France, that thous
ands flocked to his standard, and that bnt
for an accident at Waterloo, he would have
—well, Pike, your fears may be just ones.
How the Slanderer takes Revenge.
—It will be remembered that Maj.Leland
cowhided the foul-mouthed George Wilkes
some days ago. A few nights since 3Iaj.
Leland was attacked by an armed Ruffian,
who attempted to take his life.' Thus it is
that the chivalrous slanderer of Southern
chivalry takes his revenge jpon an honest
foe. We won ler if he will ever have the
impudence to write the word chivalry again?
The.State Agbicdltural Society.—
From a report made by Mr. B. H. True,
wc learn that the State Agricultnral Socie
ty is able to meet all its outstanding claims
—that the articles, left over from the Fair
will be stored in Atlanta to await the or
ders of their own«»r, and that the medals
and diplomas have not yet been received,
hut are looked for daily.
Furthermore, we learn that an agricultu
ral convention will be held in Atlanta dar
ing April. The Railroads .will pass three
delegates from each county free both ways.
We would urge upon the counties in Cher
okee Georgia the necessity of sending good
delegates to this convention. Let ns have
such a meeting of the bone and sinew of
the land as Georgia never saw before.
No More Marriages in Vermont.—
The Legislature of Vermont has decided
that no parties shall marry unless they have
known each other for two yean or more.
This about bills the thing. A mao who
can worry through i two years courtship;
man who can wed himself to the woman
whose faults he bas a two years’ acquain
tance with; a man who can marry a wo
man in the winter time of his love, can do
anything.
Farewell to romantic elo cements!—
Adieu, delicious “love at first sight.” No
more bridal days of young love. No more
con3nmation of budding, tender, stripling
passions. No more marriages in the delir
ions hey-day of the first love-flash. All cold
frosty, deliberate, malicious, matter-of-fact
alliances. Alas 1 alas 1 Upon what days
have we fallen !
IVRAT THEY OWE US.
We append the following taken ^om the
New York Express to show the graceless in
gratitude of the Northern people when they
vote to keep ns of the Soath in servitude.
The. peculiar product of our elime, cotton
has twice saved the country from finan
cial ruin. Wo hope to,soon see the time
when oar Southern ports can open lines Of
steamships direct to Europe and thns give
us within onr own borders as good markets
lor onr cotton as New York. Read the
articlecarefnlly.
King Cotton the Savior of the land.
Last year’s cotton orop is estimated by
intelligert and caiefol statisticians tc be
three millions bales. At twenty-five cents
per pound. it is equal to a crop of six mil
lion bales before the war. Its entire val- -
ue, allowing fonr hundred and sixty pounds
to the bah, is §345,000,000.. All this i«
hard cash, earned by the single product of
a single section in a single season. On
such a basis,. with even a fair series of
good seasons, that .section wonld outstrip
every other in the rapid accumulation of
wealth. Of these 3,000,000 bales, it is al
lowed that 2,100,000 are for export, yield
ing the sqm of §141,500,000 in gold.—
Half of this bas been shipped abroad be
tween the last of Septembet and last of Feb
ruary, learing the other half, whioh is eqnal
in money to over §121,000,000, to.he ex
ported between this and September- That
is to say, cetton will supply ns in oar for
eign trade, fbr the next six month*, that
amount of coin with whioh to rogqlste onr
balance. It is - considered preferable to
coin, because it is a -leading staple of the
world’s commerce.
- We touch bottom again; in matters of
trade and finance, as soon as we come to a
foil crop of cotton. That has twice proved
itself onr pomnjerpiaJ snppqrt apd savior.
Intelligent merebants’ana’ the more com
prehensive minds among onr public men so
understand it. Strange as it appears to
dispassionate eyes, the Cougress that has
been doing its best to cripple, confuse and
obstruct all healthy financial operations, by
its jargon phrases, its medely of schemes,
and its plots of personal and partisan profit,
is the very same Congress that has been re
vengefully bent on keeping the cotton-pro
ducing States in a condition of servile deg-
radation.on repressing every attempt of their
well-regulated industrial system, and on
driving away capital from their valuable
fields by destroying the growth of confidence
and trust. The. objecr was nothing less
than the absolute degradation of the people
that give those States all the character and
importance which they ever enjoyed. Mr.
Sntnner publicly announced that thirty
years, the term of a generation, wm none
too long to keep.them suppliants, depend
ants and servants outside the Union. Hi s
statesmanship mnst have borrowed, the eyes
of the mole when it inspired such an anath
ema on an entire section of the country. It
did not reckon on the vast productive ca
pacity of their favored soil snd climate, and
the great staple.which they alone can sup
ply fir tho resuscitation .of our commerce,
It forgot to allow for those pressing necessi
ties in the national, finances, for whose in
stant allevat ion we should be compelled to
torn to the Suuth as we had. done beforu.
THE WAYS OF THE WICKED
Some of cf the Rascalities of New York
Giand July Presentments or Chattooga
County.
We, the Grand Jnry, chosen and sworn
for the March term of the Superior Court
of Chattooga county, beg leave to make the
following Presentments.
By proper committees, we have examined
the public buildings, and find them (con
sidering that they have been occupied by
the Federal g&rrison) in good condition
for which we tender onr thanks to the offi
cer3 and men for the care and pro'ecticn
of the same. And we farther take this oc
casion to express onr thanks to the officers
and men for the good order they have ob
served, and kindness and courtesy they have
shown towards the citizens of this connty,
and hope that so long as the Federal au
thorities think proper to keep a garrison in
this connty, the present garrison will be
permitted to remain.
The public records arc neatly and cor
rectly kept.
In examining the report of the connty
Treasurer, we find §299 34 in the Treasu
rer’s bands, with the probability of thir
teen hundred dollars or more to be paid to
him by the Tax Collector soon, and we re
commend that so soon as the bridge across
Chattooga river is finished according to
contract, that he pay the balance due upon
the same
We recommend the Ordinary to levy
tax of three per cent on the State tax for
panpers, and ten per cent for jail purposes,
and twenty-seven per cent for county snr-
poses—making forty per cent in all on the
State tax for this year.
We recommend the Ordinary to pay
three hundred dollars to J. T. Hamilton,
towards the erection of a bridge across the
Big Armuchee Creek, above high water
mark, at or near Beaty’s, so soon as the
bridge is completed.
The pnblic roads we find in as good or
der as they are generally at this season of
the year, and we recommend the Road
Commissioners to have thorn pnt in good
order.
We recommend tho Court to hold the
prisoners now in jail, supposed to be guilty
of stealing horses, and adjonm this Court
until the 3d Monday in this month.
In regard to secret, or disguised organ!
zations, His Hon. Judge Kirby, gave us,
in special charge, onr doty in relation to
them, and endeavored to impress the minds
of the Jmy with the importance of pat
ting a stop to all lawlessness, and ferret ont
the guilty parties if possible, should there
be any in the county, and bring them to
jnstiee. We have made every effort in em
power, by the examination of many wit
nesses to ferret ont the guilty parties, and
can find no evidence against any except two
—against whom trne bilb have been found
On investigation, we find that fabe re
ports have gone abroad in relation to some
colored ministers haring been severely
whipped for preaching the Gospel to their
own race—all of which we find utterly fabe
There has never been bnt one colored
Northern Methodist preacher in thb conn
ly, so far as wo can learn, and he denies
ever having been mistreated; and we feel
safe in expressing the opinion that the civ
il authorities can enforce the laws of the
State with as much ease and as quietly as
wc have ever been able to do at any former
period. We are sorry to say that there has
been several cases of what is known as kn-
klux outrages in the connty, all of whioh
meets with onr dbapprobation, and we be
lieve that all good citizens heartily disap
prove of the same—especially the killing
of Bass, theviolenee at Benjatniu Taylor’s
and the" release of Akeridge from military
arrest, and, at the same time and night, the
disturbance of hb Honor, Jndge Kirby and
family.
We, the Grand Jury, condemn in the
strongest terms, the practice of some per
sons interfering with persons employed by
others, and endeavoring to make them vio
late their contracts by offering them higher
wages, or otherwbe.
We, the Grand Jury, recommend the
Ordinary pay one hundred dollars to the
parties who pnrsned and captured the horse
thief, Stephens. Also, to pay twenty dol
lars to John G. Harbour and John G Price
for capturing the' two horse thieves, calling
themselves Walker.
We recommend bb Honor, Jndge Kirby
to have all three of the prisoners, if found
guilty of horse stea'ing, chained together,
and seat to Milledgeville immediately.
In taking leave of Hb Hon. Judge Kir
by, we beg leave to retnrn onr thanks for
the able manner in which he has presided
at thb term of the Court Also, to Col.
Forsyth, the Solicitor, for the attention and
courtesy he has extended to ns daring thb
term of thp Court.
. \7e rejqmrpetjd fbaf the foppgoiqg Pre
sentments be published- 4U of which b
respectfully snbmitttd.
J. T Hamilton, Foreman.
It b ordered by the Conrt that the gen
eral Presentments of the Grand Jnry for
thb, tbe March term, be published in ac
cordance with the reqncstof that body.
F. A. Kirby, J- S. C, B. C.
A true extract from the Minutes of
Court, March term, 187C.
H. D. C. Edmondson, Dp’t. Cl’k.
A New York correspondent, who was
himself for thirty yem engaged in mere.m
tile operations in. that city, writes :
The business men of New York are very
dbhooest. Thb I know from close expe
rience. -They, have certain “tricts of trade,”
as they are called, which are nothing less
than" absolute stealing. Boxes rf Castile
soap and similar goods are sold to country
customers, who littic think that they pay
for box and all at full price. Tne cheat
ing on tarn is outrageous. Tea in chests is
estimated at twenty pounds tare which is
always allowed by the importer, but a ccun-
try dealer seldom gets more than eighteen
p>onds. -On half chests, twelve pounds is
allowed: while at the same time the dealer
mirks the chests up a pound or two. Thb
masking up of weight corresponds to tbe
marking down of tares. Casks of sugar,
which few country merchants cm weigh,
are often marked np twenty pounds and
sometimes fifty pounds. They tell a good
story of old H——H——, a well known
grocer on the north side, who was notori
ous lor hb boldness in thb line.
The old man became at one time some
what pions, and when in snch a-frame was
asked by a clerk who had sold a cask of su
gar if he “shonld go it twenty pounds ?”
‘No Johnnie,’ was the reply, ‘don’t go over
ten pounds, for I am under concern of
mind.’
Molasses, spirits, turpentine and other
liquids are ganged np, which is very easily
done. An original gauge mark of say thir
ty-one gallons, can be easily altered into
thirty-four, by using a ganger’s “senbe” in
a neat manner. If that b not enough, a
tarn of the scube can change the thirty-one
into thirty five. As a general rule, with
many dealers, from one to three gallons are
made in each cask. Provbion dealers steal
in a different manner. Barrcb of mack-
era! are opened in tho bottom head, and
from twenty to thirty pounds arc removed,
and the space filled np with salt. When
retailer opens the barrel he always take the
top head, and here all looks right, bnt when
he gets to tbe bottom be finds a half bush
el more of salt that he expected. Pork and
beef are also thus stolen, and hence our gov
ernment supplies are often short.raod men
stffer severely in consequence.
I have referred to but a few of tbe dif
ferent branches of robbery perpetrated
among what are called honorable men, for
a complete statement wonld 511 a volume.
One farther instance may be cited, and thb
b tbe fraud in essential oils. It b next
to impossible for any country druggist to
bay a pare aitiele of oil lemon, oil berga
mot, oil organnm, or any similar oib. Tbe
reason of thb is that spirits of turpentine
mixes so naturally with these articles that
detection b almost impossible. In these
oib onr wholesale droggbts make enor
mous profit*. Carrying out thb idea, a
bold drnggbt contrived not only to cheat
country customers, bnt also to fleece the
trade at large. To do thb he employed a
machinist to imitate the metalie seals which
the manufacturers pnt upon the cans. These
cans he wonld unsolder, and then steal
about one tenth of tbe oil, and then fill it
np with spirits of turpentine, and then ap
ply the counterfeit seal. These cans wonld
then go -into tho hands of a drag broker
and wonld be sold to the trade as pare from
the dbtiller’s hands. Thb operator I know
well. He b nothing bnt a thief, and yet
in sooiety he b a “gentleman.” He bas
a fine house and lives in style, but retri
bution may yet reach him, and though slow,
it may be sttre.
Preaching and Practice.
. “Bnt arter all is said and done ” writes
Abijah (Yilkerson. *'a farmer to get a ong,
must have a head'on him. If he don’
know two sides of a beef creuiur,’ and cao’i
tell the difference between sweet smell and
musty one in s mow of hay, all the preich-
in’ yon can fetch on won't make a farmer ot
him.
I don’t mean yen shonld stop preachin'
if yon know h.w; bnt don’t get it into yoni
heads that because yon preach straight
and folks read your preaebio,’ that they
are ail goin’ to make . money a-farmin.’
There’s a long gap between Icin’ welt
preached to, and livin’ np to it. Yon ask
the parsons about that. I wish with all my
heart that it was as easy to make a crop of
cabbages with bug dung as it b to tell how,
and when yon come to sell I * ish it was as
easy to gotten dollars i hundred as itb to
set tho fi ares down on paper. Bnt when
you come to take into account club-root,
and maggots, and lice, and dry seasons, and
Brindle a breakin’ in (arter a pesky batch
er-bny who left tbe gate open), and Irish
women at the factory knockin’ three cents
off the price, and the storekeeper not want
in’’em except he pays in Turk’s Island
silt or New Orleans molasses at a thunder
in’ price—it makes a sight a’ differeocn.
Now, when a man comes back from snch
store trip, with a wagon-body full o’ flabby
cabbage-heads left over, your tall figures
don’t make the cheerfollest rcadin’ in the
wrrld. And I have seen the time when
I’ve felt a little bine and angnbh, that
should like to have sot one o’ your preach
ers down on my cart heap, and pounded
his head a little, so’s to give him some idee
of th! awk’ardside o’the business. Bnt
then I’ve nothing to say ag’in preachin.
I haven’t a doubt that them that does i,
makes mere money by it than they wool
bv farmin’.”
The Bine Ridge was covered with stow
on the 18th.
Col. J. W. Avery, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, has accepted an invitation to
deliver tbe Commencement Address
BowdcnUoIlegiate Institute, on Wednesday
after the first Sunday in July next.
By this statement it will be discovered
that the crop of Wilke* connty, for 18S9
was tbe largest made since the war, though
the seasons were by no means favorable.
TMs result b mainly owing to the nse of
fertilizers; lor the number of hands em
ployed last year was by no means equal to
that of proceeding years.
Personal.
We were pleased to see in onr office on
Tuesday last, Brothers DwineU.of the Rome
Conner, and Whidby, of the Atlanta Con
stitution. Both gentlemen showed eviden
ces of thrift in their good looks and cheer
ful spirits, and give a good account of thei-
respective valuable jonrnrb, whereof we
are rejoiced.— Carts. Ex.
iU Luckless Satrap.—General Ames
has resigned from the army, and cow the
Senate Jndiciary Committee nnanimonsly
report against hb demand for a Mississippi
Senator. Incase of Ames’ rejection by
the Senate, we hope Revels will have a
pore-blooded negro colleague. That wonld
be something like a “special Providence/'
He has kept among ns, in time rt peace
standing armies, without the consent of car
Legislatures.”—Declaration of Indepen
dence.
It was the King of Great Britain who
did l;hat. So George Washington and hb
fellow patriots went to war with him to
stop it.
Grant is now sending the standing army
to Tennessee, to break, np the State gov
ernment, or to prepare for that inti resting
job.
Where b yonr free government, men of
the United States ? Where are yonr State
governments ? Under the heel of the ar
my ?
The work does not bring confidence and
ace. It bdistnrbingaad ratoons. No
wonder that business b stagnant—that
merchants aud manufacturers are losing
money, and that laborers feel it—Hartford
Times
Southern News*
Rev. Jas. Hogue, for the past twelve
years a missionary iu China, has returned
to Americas,Ga.
The Franklin Bank of Baltimore, has
commenced to to redeem its' outstanding
circulation.
Gov. Alcorn, of Mississippi, offers a re
ward of one thousand dollars for the ap
prehension of Yerger.
An old negro woman, living in Harnett
connty, North Carolina, has grand children
eighty years old. She herself b 114.
Opelika, Ala., is sixty feet higher than
any other point in the recent sarvey of tbe
Memphb and Savancuh Railroad.
_ A box of silver, belonging to It. L. Pa
ris, of Savannah, that was taken by Sher
man’s men, was foand in a negro cabin
among a pile of rnbbbh.
Troops all along the Texas frontier have
been ordered on a twenty days’ scooting ex
pedition against the'Indians.
Some of the Memphb merchants are re
fusing advances to farmers who will not
agree to plaqt corn tho coming season.
Considerable sales of land have been
made in the vicinity of Corsicana, Texas,
lately at the rate of §2 for timbered to §10
for improved land.
J. T. Hart has purchased thb season, at
Shelbina, Mo., 100,000 pounds of tobaoco
at a fraction over 7 cents per pound.
The colored people of Harrisburg, Ya.,
occnpied the body of a church at a recent
celebration there, the whites filling the
galleries..
Northwest Missouri bcballeuged to beat
three head of cattle recently sold by Robt.
Sccarce, of Clinton eoiinty, of the follow
ing ages and weights : One four year old,
2,640 lbs; 12 year old 1,820 lbs.
The Louisiana Legblatnre has finally ad
journed. The appropriations foot np §13-
OOOjOOO; made by a gang of loafers and
worse who don’t pay taxes on §13,000
A nursery firm at Columbia, Missouri,
has just grafted over 22,000 apple trees,
and several thousand plum and pear trees,
all of which are expected to bear fruit in
less than fonr years.
In Bell county, Texas, recently, a tract
of seven hundred aores, a portion of it val
uable, sold for seventy cents per acre, cash.
Another tract of prairie land was knocked
off at 60 cents, 12 months credit.
“Doctor, what do you think is the matter
with my little boy ?” “Why, its only a
corrnstified exegesb antispadmodically em
anating from the germ of the animal re
frigerator producing a prolific source of ir-
ritabiliry in the pericranial epidermb of
the mental profundity.” “Ah, that’s what
I told Betsy, hat she Towed it was wur-
rums”
Hayti b the paradise of negroes. Its
population is said to be 600,000, and less
than five hundred of thb number are
whites. Bnt, small as the number of whites
b, they are not allowed the right of saf-
frage. Nor can they own real estate, nor
hold mortgages for longer than nine yeais.
Thb is Republicanism in Hayti the boasted
paradise of free negrobm. How b it that
these darling black champions of liberty
thus trample down “the great principle of
equality before the law.” and universal suf
frage ?
Political Movements.—Gen. Bailee
b aspiring to the Presidency, and it b not
qni.c clear th-t General Grant can bottle
him on that, as General Lee uid when be
held the keys of Richmond. The sere
nade movement here, Saturday night, was
the first movement thereof.—Wash. Tele
gram.
From the Plantation, Atlanta, Ga.
Bringing the Chmcha Islands Home.
One of the editors of this paper, for the
year 1868, give the subject of home-made
goano a careful study, and he gives the
mode adopted in making the experiment,
and its results : The hen-house was a sim
ple affair—only a shed 18 by 10,' opening
on the South into, a yard about 25 feet long
and 10 wide, with palings 8 feet high. An
entrance under the gate, not too largo to ad
mit dogs or other interlopers, was made, and
thb rude affair was nil t&e outlay, except
100 head of poultry that we carefully col
lected every evening in tho yard. A soon
as tbe fools were np and abroad, the floor
under the roosts was carefully swept, and
the gnaoo thrown into a barrel kept land
ing by for that purpose. As soon as swept
the floor was sprinkled with the fine char
ooal obtained from a railroad station or
with some ether good absorbent. Mixing
the droppings of the ponltiy with aboat
one-half foreign matter, snch as charcoal or
good wcods mould, a barrel oi about 250
pounds weight was saved every week of
thb home-made goano, which was applied
to onr wheat crop.
Broadside with thb manure was it plat
of ground manured with Peruvian goano,
plaster aqd salt, at the rate of two handred
pounds per acre. We never saw apy- ma
terial difference in the looks or yield of the
two patches, nnless the hen-honse manure,
during the early spring, gave a deeper tint
to the yonng grain.
We omitted to state that the honse slops
were carefully added to the sweepings of
the henery tU each barrel was filled and
moved aside.
As a matter of farm economy, wc give
it as onr opinion that 100 hens coaid be
kept in this tyay profitably for the manure
alone. We fed onr hens on screenings
from the floor mill, which cost ns 25 cents
a bnsbel; one peck of these screenings feed
ing the stock tor one. We found onr c'ose-1
cohered shed q nuisance of coqrso, as we
have always done and fear always will. We
believe a oedar or pice tree to be the best
hen-honse in the South, but it will uot do
to let tbe poultiy scatter everywhere about
the prembes if our object is to save ma
nure.
We palliated the nuisance of the mite
and hen louse, which bred under the close
shed, .by feeding sulphur in dough about
three times a week, and so arranging the
shingles on the roof as to tare much of the
rain inside of the house.
How the Goreanment at tVa*hingtoa Ran*
Itself. j
For a time tbe all-absorbing questions
*ere who runs the administration 7 who is
C rant’s confidential adviser ? Tbe conun
drum died out for lack of interest, fur it
w.is discovered that Grunt kau nothing to
do with the administration- The King
smoked and said K)th : ng, and the govern-;
rnent run itself.
“If tl is matter belonged to Cox’s depart
ment,” said an influential gentleman tomej
one day, -%e could accomplish something,
bnt it pertains to tbe State Department.”
.“But can't we get some influence to bear
upon Grant ?”
“It w uld not do any good. He would
turn it over to Fish at once, and that would
be au end of it.”
“But are not grave questions like the
discussed in Cabiuet, where Cox ar.d Bel
knap can have aq influence !"
“Well yes. when the heads of Depart
ment see Gt to introduce it But each mem
her leek that he isi running Its own ma
chine. and there is au understanding not.
to interfere with each other.”
On further investigation I found thb to
be the feet: We have seven Presidents;
Fisk coutrob the State Department, with
out reference to any one; Bontwell is lord
of the Treasury; Cox conducts the Inferior
and Belknap the War Department, .and s
throughout. The President b a solemo, s
lent, smoking figure head with abundance,
o' time to put on a white choker and swal
low tail, and attend every entertainment to
which any one may invite him. I meet him
frequently upon the streets, mooning alou
with cigar iu month, and ungloved hands
behind hb back.
When we come to look farther we 'find
that the State Department b worked by that
learned old muff, Caleb Cashing.
We all know that when the morose Fbh
finds himscli in trouble, ho calb on Caleb
Caleb waked up a friend of mine to read
him that famous Alabama dispatch, and
tried also to wake up tbe venerable Sardine
for the same purpose, but failed. We can
not be said to have any foreign policy, bnt
we have Caleb, and that b quite rs good.
If the resurrected statesman of the State
Department could only be induced to call
oc that other old case of pigeon-holes,
called Gov. Bkck, and add the erudite
Sumner, they would fetch the Department
to within about a ccntuiy of the present
time.
The breezy Porter b master of the na-
vy, while an absnrd law andan unjust rank
makes Gen. Tecnmseh obnoxious' to the
War Department; and he would be master
there, bat for Belknap, who stands very ob
stinately on hb own heeb.
For the first time, I say, iu onr hbtoiy,
we make an approach to the bureaucracy of
France under the monarchy. Such a gov
ernment means routine at home and drift
ing abroad. In our foreign affairs to have
no policy, and at Lome, Hb Serene High
ness fires another cigar, and says : “Bet
ter meve on witheut change,” for another
year, althongh the people are hardened to
death with heavy taxation and hard times.
We have had a yearof thb sort of thin
with the grim prospect of having, in anot
er, the Democratic party intervene; and
when it does, onr excellent President will
quietly swing over, and smoko silently on
the other side.—Cincinnati Commercial.
T3LE&RAPHIC.
Reported for tbe Tri-Weekly Cobrier.
Washington, March 25.—House.—Row
land moved, as a privileged question, that
Bailey, from the 3d Louisiana District, he
seated. Paine objected, as Bailey ms before
the Election Committee. Blaine sustained
the objection. No action. Committees noth
ing.
Bone, March 25.—It is rc-asserted that the
American Bishops refuse to assent to infalli
bility.
Clipper ship Patriarch made Sydney, from
London in 67 days. The quickest recorded.
Salt Lake, March 25.—The News com
menting on the passage of the anti Mormon
bill is quite defiant, saying “the most valua
ble experience we possess to day we gained
through persecution.
Baltimore, March 25.—The city voted to
subsreibe a million dollars to the Valley Rail
road of Virginia.
Havana, March 25.—Fifteen thousand
Spaniards and many Cabans met and passed
resolations protesting against the transfer of
Cuba to the United States.
Washington, March 25.—Revenue to-day
300,000.
Next payment of coin interest, 25,500,000,
occurs May first.
New Mexico asks admission as a State.
Col. Allen Rutherford, bureau functionary
in North Carolina, nominated 3rd Anditer.
Thurman ft-day opposed San Domingo.
Its failure regarded as certain.
Rail Road lobby strong-to-day.
The following gentlemen were on the floor
of the House to-day: many of them in viola
tion of the rales: Ex-Gov. Fletcher, Genl’s
Terry, Crary, Dodge, Cols. Goss, Abell,
Messrs. Ames Coates, and Ex-Secretary Cp-
sher.
Senate.—Wilson introduced a bill to re
duce the effieers and men of the army, and
fix their pay.
A Joint resolution for the disposal of the
pnblic lands in Florida, Alabam, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Arkansas, under homestead
laws, discussed to one o’clock, when the Sen
ate resumed executive session on San Do
mingo. Adjourned to Monday.
London, Mar. 25.—Times discussing the
Darien Ship Canal, doubts whether Talue
will cover cost.
Liverpool merchants protest against hav
ing their American messages sent via. Lon
don.
The Ship Germania lately from the Hay-
ticn port for Hamburg, totally lost off the
Kentish coast.
Richmond, March 25.—The House passed
resolution authorizing Gov. Walker to call
on the Prctident for troops to suppress resis
tance to the law by the colored band of squat
ters near Hompton.
Injunction of Cahoon against Ellison is
still being heard by Judge Underwood. Got.
Wise speaks for Cahoon to-morrow.
House.—The Judiciary Committee was di
rected to inquire into the expedoney of allow
ing writs of error in criminal oases to the
United States Courts, and allowing defend
ants to testify in their own behalf.
A number of private bills were reported,
among them one adverse for property destroy
ed at Gain’s Mill, Va.
Tariff resumed. Shenck gavo notice that
he would press the vote Monday. Adjourned.
Washington, Mareh 27.—Boutwell directs
the sale of two million dollars in gold, and the
purchase of two million dollars worth cf
bonds on account of the sinking fund, and
two million lx-nds on account of the special
fund, making a total in the Treasury trans
actions for April sale of §2,000.000 in gold
and the purchase of four million bond--.
Three caueusses to-day regarding Nan Do
mingo—one at the White House ami cr.e at
Morton's room-*, and another not located—
the latter in opposition.
Washington, March 27.—Butler has been
notified that his yellow nominee to West
Point is too young.
Considerable excitement aboat the seizure
of the books of the National Nofe Deposit
Company by Butler, to see what bonds news
paper correspondents have there, i*3 order to
prove corruption.
A large number of unimportant hills were-
introduced in both II mses.
Irr tlie-Scnate Drake inquired Hie reas.m of
the delay of the -Judiciary Committee in rc-
jsirting the Texas hilh Trumbull, replied it
would be useless .while the Georgia ami
Amc's question was still undisposed of, be
sides there were provisions in the Texas Con
stitution and iii the House bill requiring eare
fa! consideration.
New York, March 27.—An unfinished
house was blown down yesterday, crushing
an adjoining tenement, and killing Benjamin
Donnally, wire and four children.
■ Tocas, March 27.—Princo Napoleon was
acquitted, hat .held to custody on civil suit
for marde- in 100,000 francs damages.
SSalt Lake: March 27.—A large meeting of
merchants and agricultnral men and a memo
rial prepared against certain past patriarchal
relations- Interest on the subject is intense.
.The enforcement of the bill, as it passed the
House will make Utah a desert.
Washington, March 28.—In the ease of
Bigelow vs Deforrcst, to obtain possesion of
land sold under confiscation. The present
suit was brought by the heirs of the former
owners. Tbe case comes from Virginia on
application to remove from tbe State to the
Federal Court. The Sburcme C urt decides
that the law ot 1863 provides only for person
al property, not for real estate cases, baton
tbe merits of the case, says the sale nnder
confiscation, affects the title only during the
life of the owner, at whose death the title de
scends os thongh there had been no confisca-
tian sale:
The Conrt decided in a case from Ken-
tacky that States may tax shares in Nation
al Banks as distinct from the Banks’ capital,
and that tax levied by States on shareholders
may be collected from Banks by garnishee.
Chase dissented.
In a case from Louisiana the Court decided
that the Legislature may, by’act, alienate
property of minors.
Revenue to-day nearly three-jpurths of a
million.
Bontwell recommends that the Treasury
buildings this year should not exceed five—
none of winch are in the South.
Shura spoke against San Domingo to-day
—probably vote to-morrow—prospects of fa
vorable action slim.
Resolutions from the S. C,Legislature sym
pathizing with Cnha, were presented.
Revels introduced a hill granting rights of
way to the New Orleans nnd North Eastern
Railway Company.
Executive session on San Domingo. No
vojp. Adjourned.
Hoese.—Bills were introduced to improve
the habor at the month of Cape Fear river.
Also, provides against the collection of ille
gal fees from passengers through the States.
Also, by McKenzie, incorporating and grant
ing lands to the trans Continental Railroad
Co. Also, granting lands to Alabama for the
construction of the Selma and Gulf Railroad.
The House refused to sccoud the bill taxing
interest on Federal* bonds. Also, a resolu
tion declaring in favor of reading the Bible
in schools. Tariff discussed until reeess,
Session to-night for speeches.
Baleicu, Mar. 28.—General Assembly ad
journed sine die. The conservative members
are oat in an address to tho people, aUudmg
to the Governor’s declaring Alamance connty
in insurrection, and asking for the suspension
of Habeas Corpus. The address recites—
“The Chief Magistrate of this State, tho head
and front of Radicalism, has seen fit to de
clare one of onr counties in a state of insur
rection. and to call upon Congress to suspend
the writ of Habeas Corpus throughout the
State. We declare there is no sufficient cause
for this extraordinary action of Gov. Holden
There lias been no armed resistance, no op
pression of the people, no outbreaks to dis
turb or hinder the foil administration of the
civil law. We assert that there is not a eonn-
ty in the State in which any Sheriff or other
peace officer may not go, unattended, ami
with perfect safety, and execute any process
upon any citizen of the State. It is true that
murders and other outrages have been com
mitted, but they havo not been confined to
any particular locality, or any political party,
and when Gov. Holden represents to tho Pre
sident and Congress that these acts are evi
dences of disloyalty, he is guilty of a wilful
libel upao a people whose interests he has
sworn to protect.”
New Orleans, March 28.—The Steamboat
Jefferson, from Red River, with 834 bales of
cotton, was burned yesterday at the mouth
of Black River. Boat ami cargo a total loss.
No lives lost. ~ .
Judge Cooly of tho Gth district court de
cides the acl of the last legislature, creating
the 8th district conrt, unconstitutional.
The vast number of idle negroes hang
ing about our city, and indeed about towns
generally, wonld be sufficient to give rise to
apprehensions that the planting powers of
the State are badly crippled. We have no
idea, however, that Cnffee’s idleness will
work the amonnt of damage many antici
pate, except to himself. Many planters
are supplying themselves with labor-saving
machinery that will enable them to dispense
with ebony and mule power to an extent
great enough to make up for the deficiency
of laborers. This is evidenced by the large
amount of plantation machinery sold at the
several houses engaged in that branch of
bnsisnes in that city.—.Macon Journo!.
A Novel DrovE—Yesterday afternoon
drove containing 485 turkeys was driven
through Fayette street. They trudged it
all the way from the State of Ohio, and
are intended for the tobacco plantntions-of
Connecticut. The turkeys traveled mncli
faster than either swine or liorntd cattle—
making twenty-five miles a day with case
after stopping several times for iced. This
is the second drove of turkeys that has
passed through the city during tho past
few weoks. They were mostly young—of
last year’s hatching, and some of the hen’s
have already commenced dropping their
eges on the route.—Baltimore Sun.
Major Gen. Ransom, in Savannah, Col.
C. J. Jones, and R. J. Larcouib, read pa
pers to the Historical Society.—SnraimaTs
Reyvblicmt.