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I "WISDOM, JUSTICE AN D M O DER A T T O N.” •or,oik xxiv. T ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL i„ 1870. NEW SERIES-NO 31. fume fllonrie:. (IBS 1 aiSiEpVg? fkidav. bates OF WEEKLY. I iw y eAr ;“' I « x M0B» s v IMonths- bates'for'tki-weeki.y^ $3 00 ...1 75 ...1 01 ..$5 00 j j'j'uooliis.; 1 21 AOVANGE To flab! of F' r? or more one copy will I cratis- M. DWINELL, Proprietor. , \L ADVERTISEMENTS. ■ , t,v Aaln'U-istrators,Electors or I Silt! la ““ ' L ire ,l by law to be hold on I jaardUni aro 9 eaM " month, between the I lb! £r f! Tl ‘ in'the' orenoon and three in the I Man of lo" Cua ,t House in ihe county m ■ .(inn."'". j_; 5 situated. | ,l,ieh.the P r I - les must be given in a pub- io ,lav« previous. Ii,:5 " ! f tbe'oale of personal property must Sofeesoi i manneri through a public gax- eeciven ms to sale day. Debtors and Creditors of an estate, s'iit be 1J?^psppiications will be made to the for 'r c to sel1 la " d mnst b0 , B Hi«bed fu ;T - r f of Aduynistration. Guar- CiutionsI for :«« fcc bl £h 0 d 3b days-for iiausb'pt"” AJmini5 tration, three months— ‘“f.yli from Guardianship, 40 Jays. v th » foreclosure of Mortgages must B “ uuLdmonUdv for four months—for cs- « r" b " s ., uaoers for the full space of three i--fOT Compelling titles Irom Executors or ? h ;-lritor* where bond has been given by iimmiatMtor., ^ r ,, three months. tbefuH spa"*'"! three months ^tionswi.Ud w^ tinned accmd- n ; Mt :. ins w iii always oe romiuuw ***«»'•- 'Hhe^e the legal requirements, unless oth- rdered. ot the Wlowimr RATES. .Sales per levy or ten lines or less S3 00 Mortgage fi. fa. sales, per levy, o 00 ,Hector’s sales, per levy,.... ™ far letters of Administration •> 00 n = for letters ol Guardianship. » 3 00 nt application for dismission from ^ ^ of application for dismission from muunship,. ——------ cation to sell lanu» ••• f to Debtors and Creditors, )f Land, persquare .... ,f perishable property, 1ft days v Notices, 00 days, iosure of Mortgage, per square i advertising his wife, (in advance) G 00' ?. 00 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.” . 00 00 4 00 4 00 . 4 00 10 00 .•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.