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SATURDAY MORNING, April 23.
THE FORCE OF GOOD EXAMPLE.
No one can imagine bow much good
such farmers as Lewis Tomlin and David
Dickson do the county in which they live
merely by the force of example.
These two gentlemen may be taken as
model farmers; and the farmers surround
ing them are filly per cent better than the
farmers in those counties where there ere
not such shining examples. Hancock and
Bartow comties are two of the very best
in the State, and we donbt not bnt that
mnch of the prosperity is dne to the fact
that the farmers have had their ambitions
aroused, and their ideas educated by the in.
telligent and successful methods of plant
ing and managing adopted by Messrs. Tom
lin and Dickson.
A. gentleman lately traveling through
Mississippi was struck by tho evidences of
P ub T superior thrift and extraordinary well-to-do
condition that cne particular section evinc
ed over all the other he had seen. Haying
asked the reason of this, he was told that
it was because “old Dr. Phillips (an educa
ted farmer) used to farm in a few miles of
them.” Will not oar farmers, who possess
the means, make themselves each farmers
as these men, and thus place the planting
maat interests of their county on a prosperous
basis.
The Emperor of France has scattered all
through his Empire, wbat he calls “model
farms.” They are run by the Government.
Everything upon them is done in the most
approved style. In faet they are kept np
tor the purpose of giving the peasants of
that country a sound, practical and compre
hensive fanners edneation.
| A TRAMP OVER THE BATTLE FIELD
It is over—the booming of tho last gnu
I has died any and all is quiet, in the walls
| if the National Senate.
The Georgia question has been settled—
I Drake’i malignancy has bean curbed—Sum-
I a>r's hate has been baffled—Brownlow
I quivers in impotent anger and the carpet-
| bag Senators having damned themselves to
oo purpose are chewing the end of disap-
I [ointment. Let ns look over the battle
hell, ami aee what wo have lost, and wbat
| ve hare won.
In the first place wo will have an eleo
I'lim for the members of the House and half
| the Senators in November—this election
merer will be he'd under the auspices
I of the Military and if there is snch gery-
I manleriug of the ballots as there was at the
I Bulloch Gordon election, the result is very
doubtful. We Jare,confident that.there
| are net ten counties in the State that by 'a
I fiirau.i square vote, would return to the
Rouse their present Radical Represen ta-
The Democrats should carefully
I ttrive to prevent any extensive fraud at the
billot box. Resides the advantage that the
^scrupulous Radical will have, in con
trolling the ballot box returns and the
handling of the votes, the Democrats will
j go into the election, with 45.000 of the
lot men disfranchised. The President has
[ thrown his amnesty proclamation into the
frc. and we will Dot smell amnesty for many
jet Still if we can get anything
Lk* an iccorate return of the votes cast
[ the Democrats will have a ringing tnajori-
*f in me next, h ouse.
In the next place the law fofoiding the
tjtgaaintion and arming .of the S.ate Mili
I •“hasbeen repealed Thei Radioals are
THE IKON WORKS IN ROME.
Unless a person occasionally visits the
extensive Machine Shops and Found.y of
Messrs. Nobles & McCullough, and the ad
jacent Rolling Mill and Nail Factory, he
will have no adequate idea of the extent to
which iron is manofactnred in oar city.
There are eleven steam engines in con
stant operation, two of which are 70 and
65 horse power, and the remainder of
less capacity, bnt all employed in rnnning
.he various kinds of first class machinery,
belonging to the establishment,: and the
buzzing, whizzing and olattering of all these
make a noise that is rather confusing to
persons unaccustomed ti> such sounds. Tho
Steam Trip Hammer is sire to attract the
visitor’s attention, as it forges railroad axles
with as much facility os a man with a-ham
mer would manipnlato ah lack lod. The
Turning Lathe tarns iron fifteen inches in
diameter, and the Shears, that weigh 24-,
000 pounds, out off a cold bar of Railroad
iron with as mnch apparent ease as a lady
clips a tape string with 'her scissors. Bat
we do not propose to describe, or even mem
tion at this time the many objects of ad
miration there, but merely to advise persons
who feel an interest in fine machinery to
visit these Works, and she for themselves.
They are now turning .ont about 50 car
wheels, and 20 axles a day, and have de
mands for more than they.can supply.—
Next week they will put in operation a large
**g> into militia companies and- arm them
j rith the “Wiachester Rifle” that the
doughty, Qov.Scott of Carolina so ardeot
f "Skfl foi/It ia highly improbable how-
I «wr tiut the militia will be organized—we
have j list'been informed by a gentleman
1 fton Atlanta,-tfcjifo many; of .the leading
^<uh..hij>reisW thenuhives;opoosed to
1 ,1:1 >»ttep-arnong others Bob MoWhor-
to , ‘Mpmter of the jjlpuso. -
h : ? tWrd place the president has the
Puerto stition troops at.any point in the
**** *^ {re the Governor deems their pres-
“wessary—the citizens upon whom
e J are quartered to support them—and
■a ( he ca«e of loss of life or property, th3'
nnictpiJiii e5 ht which such losses occur
f 1 ! the damages. This is a very dan-
Ptoos provision. The Governor oan im-
PWeroh Any locality he may take a dislike
I, ' llte begets hate these localities
r °. frequent) by squatting a crowd
sheriff 5 ? ’° 14lers n P° n it- If the loyal
avairnt h*** c< ” lnty ’ e# g en Aers an anger
can by loyal whin-
tion! te COnsent of- ‘be Governor to sta
troops in that county. Henceforth a
ujjj •. CUIzeQ is piqued with a coih-
J can impoverish that commanity.—
!° 19 . kl!Ied in a <%. his friends can
the Jr- ^ Te 4 political complexion to
«• for an, amount of dmha-
^•heytn,, ehooBo. If* Radioal is kill-
rit,*- n , ‘ 0%n sue for damages and the
«£5 * TO t0 P 1 ? ‘bo®- This is a pretty
**°f affairs truly.
I, 60 v! MW Uogbktureis elected,,
- OnfeB V? that we ’ U get into to the
G t a.Terr! n ( . meaa tim8 We belong to
0f «o»rse this bill with its
wU1 b»ve to go to the House
'• Viutr 6006 - bf the House concurs
fereuce Ka committee otcou-
aehem- „r b ° appo ' nted and oome othar
reconstruction agreed upon.
•»u^?^r^«.-Thc flea that
iuKj o "‘oagett’s ear by thein-
UioEh,n, tl i t0r8 be tried to bribe oh the
- Ia * Ma,i ,N thr Iron Mask.”—The
^-Atlanta New
Railroad spikes per day.
These lion Works are doing more to
wards building np the snbstMtial interests
of Rome than half of all the other cap'
employed in the city, and we rejoice to le
that the investment is a profitable one.
The JEtna Iron Works, near Pryor’s Sta
tion, will soon be put iu operation with a
cash capital of 350,000, and a capacity to
make 50 tons of pig iron per week. This
is aboutthe amount the Cornwall Works
now turn oat. We hope iron works will
rapidly increase in this section until Rome
becomes what it ought to be—the Pittsburg
ol the South.
A Hulbebt to tbsBkscub.—In view
of the coming fell elections in this State,
Halbert has openedasoboolfor the iustrus-
tion of Radical Registration Clerks. Prof,
halbert will teach the scheme of arithmet
ical computations practiced by him with so
much success at the lata Gubernatorial
election. Radical candidates for the I*g
islatnre are urged to send their registry
clerks to the Professor at once. Charges
for instruction are moderate. Victory war
ranted in every case. Reference—Gen.
John B. Gordon.
[Communicated.
STATE AID TO RAILROADS.
Thei several actB of the present Legisla
ture, loaning the States’ credit to railroad
compMies, will bo found,' on examination
apparently not violative of the. provision of
the Constitution on the subject ot State
aid;uditwiU.be a matter of regret to know
that measures supported generally by tha
Democratic members, while apparently in
accordance with the fundamental law, are
realty in violation of it. All these acts re
quire the company to hnild and eqnip a cer
tain length of road, and to give the State a
mortgage or deed of trust upon the portion
Eo built, as well as the entire property and
purchase of the company before the States’
aid is granted- ’ And this aid when granted
is not money loaned by the State to the com-
puy, nor tho issuing of bonds of the State
to the company, bwt an endorsement by the
State of bonds issued by the company—
that is, the State becomes security for the
payment of the bonds by the company. The
State endonsed the bonds of" the Wills Val
ley Road to the amount of 38,000 per mile
for that portion of the Road lying in Geor
gia, but not until that portion of the TOad
had been u fuJfy completed, finished and
equipped." ^
The Brunswick and Albany Road about
which so much has been said, had 60 miles
built and equipped before the wai. The
State took up the iron during the war and
part of it is now on the State Road. But,
with 60 miles graded, the act giving to it
State aid requires twenty miles to he built
and in “good running and working order,”
before the State’s endorsement is to b« had,
and then for only half the estimated test of
that 20 miles, secured by the ostial deed of
trust to the entire property of the company;
and as each succeeding ten miles are com
pleted, bonds to a similar amount are en
domed. Betides, the company relinquishes
a pretended claim against the State ot three
million fonr hundred thousand dollara. Let
us give the devil his due. While the State
may have bocn defrauded in the procure
ment of this act, and the Constitution vio
lated, still the act has the appearance of de
cency, and in my opinion the State isseenre
from loss unless there be corruption by State
officials .in the future. I will not examine
the other acts in detaiL
I agree with “Civis ” in the Commensal
that ne are entitled to State aid to bnild our
roaa West, and that it is the interest of the
State' to give us aid; and if it can be had up
on the conditions he suggests, very well.
But let us not base our plans upon obtain
ingfrom the Legislature what it has not
heretofore granted, and what it clearly has
no right to grant—the States’ credit to
railroad company which has neither prop
erty nor stock subscribed. A consolidation
with the Rome Road will give the former
and enable it to obtain the latter.
Why they do It.—The Radicals op
pose the removal of the capital to MOledge-
ville. We don’t blame them. The luna
tic Asylum and Penitentiary are located
there.
Minister first unto the Liv no—The
Atlanta New Era devotes a good deal of
ink to the wiping out of the charge of infi
delity that has been lately preferred against
the late lamented Lincoln. We wonld sug
gest to the Era that it might more profita
bly employ its time by taking care of the
character of some of its living apostles. A
few explanatory remarks about the alleged
peijory of Mr. Blidgett wonld bo better ap
preciated than luminous denials of the
infidelity of Mr. Lioooln.
The Worth of the Radical Dynasty that now
Boles Georgia and her Million*.
We have deemed that it wonli not be
an uninteresting contribution to the politi
cal history of this boasted era of Radical re
construction, to furnish a statement of the
pecuniary worth of the Radical dynasty
that now roles the great State of Georgia,
her hundre is of thousands of titixens, and
illions of wealth.
It has been one of the cardinal roles of
onr civilized republic, that taxation and
representation run together in the scheme
of government. How far Radicalism con
forms to the canons of mdvMced civiliza
tion, we cm now see.
The tax digests of 1869 show some very
instructive facts. The summary we give
may not be minutely accurate, but it is a
dose approximation.
We include in the dynasty the Executive
and his State House, State Road and Leg
islative supporters. These about constitute
our rulers and law makers.
His Excellency, R. B. Bullock, who
-draws thousMds of dollars on the National
Bank, returns no property, and Is a default
er for his poll tax for 1869.
Captain-Snperintendant-Senator Foster
Blrdgett return* no property in Fnlton or
Richmond counties, Md is likewise a de
faulter, according to the Digests.
Should we or the digests do injustice to
•lither of these pre-eminently distinguished
iudividusls, we shill take great pleasure in
correcting it.
Upwards of forty-five of the Governor’s
legislative supporters are in the same im
pecunious predicament, returning no p:
erty, and playing the honorable role of poll-
tax defaulter.
That Radical Brobdignag, Supervisor
and Terry-tonal Parliamentarian, A. L.
Harris,returns nothing in Chatham or Ful
ton counties.
State Road Treasurer, S. P. Harris re
turns 31,050.
The Washington Chronicle states that
Speaker McWhorter is the largest land
owner and planter in his county.' The
* gives in his magnificent i
sions, of all kinds, at seven thousand dol
lars.
Forney also ssya, that Ephraim T
retired from business on ample mesas. Hu
ample means are ten thousand four hun
dred dollars. This is about the biggest
plnm in tho Radical Dio*
Mr. Presideot Cooley returns 36,500,
Forney praises him very much as a Radi
cal RepublicM. This laudation of course
covers Conley's rote against the Fifteenth
Amendment, which killed it in Georgia.
The Chairman of the FinMce Commit-
tee, selected of oours». for mometary abili
ty, returns no property, and pays one dollar
poll tax.
All of Bollock's supporters, as aforesaid
aggregate about ons buo4nd Ml twenty-
five thonsMd dollar*, all told. And this
petty amount of property furnishes the
government for onr great State.
And this body of men has recently been
in session over thirty days exhausted the
treasury of more than as much money as
they were all worth, without eoaotlng s
single bill, and only passing resolntions, one
to pay themselves for two weeks’ adjourn
ment, Md Mother to prevent anybody else
from being paid.
We give these statements as just to the
teople, and as an ofibet to a grandiloquent
ilow in Forney’s Ctironicle about our Rad*
cal Legislature. Will the Chronicle eopy?
—At. Carat.
Political.
There are already signs of a row between
radical negroes and radical whites in Phila
delphia. The latter tell thn former that-
as a matter of policy, thev should keep in
the baek-grontid for the present, bnt the
new voters don’t see it in that light, Md
propose to have a share of offices or bus!
the machine.
Colored men voted at the annual school
meeting at Portland, on the 4th inst, for
the first time in Oregon.
Schofield to Succeed Thomas.—The
pnblisbed rumor that .Brigadier-General
Pope, now commanding the department of
the Lakes, is to succeed General Thomas
in the Comnumd of the militaiy Division
of the Pacific is nntrne.
Major General Schofield, commanding
the Department of the Mia-onri, will more
than likely be assigned to the post, in ae-
cordance with his express wishes to that ef
fect as-far back as when he was Secretary
of War, he applied to be sent to California,
hot General Thomas WMting the place at
the nme time, General Schofield was oblig
ed to coptent himself with the promise
he should have the refusal of it in case of a
case of a vacancy.— World Car.
The House Territorial Committee will re-
port a bill for the admission of New Mexi
co as a State.
In Charleston, the custom boose employ
ees have passed a resolution, legretting the
snspicinna against Whittemore.
Mr. Physick, a Radical legislator from
Galveston, is thus represented os adminis
tering himself, in the late canvass, to bis
constituents:
i toll you niggers how it is—yon mnst
go back to Africa; yon are iocompatible
with os in color, organization and smell.
Africa is the country of yonr forefathers—
the simoon and the typhoon are the zeph
yrs of that glorion* fatherland.
There is plenty to eat and oo work; the
beantifu anaconda, the lion,and the tiger
and the hippotamus roam in sweet" oom
man ion through the lovely jangles.
It is understood at St. Paul that Gener
al Hancock conmanding the Department
of Dacota, will be soon transferred to eitbt
er St. Lonis or San Francisco, having been
offered his choice of those locations since
the death of Gen. Thomas, and it is be
lieved that he will pro er St. Lonis.
PofX will go down to history as the only
General that McClellan ever defeated.—
Jacobin concern.
But McClellan will eerteinly not go down
in history as the only General who ever de
feated Pope. So many Generals defeated
Pope, Md defeated him so frequently that it
will require several pages of history to re
cord their names.—Chicago Timet.
A young lady who was induced to go to
Utah with some of her infatuated rela
tives, thus writes to a friend in Boston, N.
Y. :
Aunt C. is in m awful hurry to have D.
and I get married, so as to keep us here.—
I suppose she would like to have us many
some M >rmon with three or four wives, bat
she can’t come it, yon can bet! I have
seen and heard enough.alreadyabou' poly
gamy. They say that if we go back to the
States we’ll all go to hell, hot I don t think
we shall get in a much worse place than it
is here if we do.
Through and Columbus Cotton.—
Since September 1st to Sstnrdsjr lest, the
Montgomery sod West Poiut Railroad hss
brought from Montgomery, en route for
Savannah, 30,694 bales, from 3,862 for
Coiambus warehouses, from My stations,
total, 35,546.
“WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.”
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 29, 1870.
The Griffiu Empire State sayn
We learn from different parts of the
county that the peach crop is damaged very
much by the late colds. Perhaps three-
fourths off* and the cherry about half, but
the apple and pear is fall. Vegetation
generally is late. Cora is scarcely up, and
great complaint of bad stands. Wheat is
not fine.
Statistics of the Confederate Army.
A meeting of the Confederate Belief
Md Historical Society was held at Mem-
>hts, on the 30th ultimo. Governor Harris
n the Chair. Dr. Avant read a communi
cation on the Confederate army, while con
tained the following statistics:
Year. Killed. Wounded
1861,
1862,
1863.
1864,
1865
■,}
1315
18.582
11.876
22,000
4 044
51.313
70,000
Prisoners.
2,772
48.300
71.211
80,000
G.-j-gta Legislature.
^ SXWAT*.
Monday, April 20. ’70.
Senate called to ordet hy President Con-
Prayer by Rev. Weriey Prettyman.
Candler, of DeKalb, offered a reso ution
that the Senate adjourn at 1 o’clock
die. IodefinUely postponed.
The Senatdthen adjourned until Mon
day next, 12
hours of betresektatites.
Wednesday, April 20,1870.
The House iras coded to order at 12 M.
by Speaker McWhorter:
Prayer by Rev. W. Fuller, Pastor of the
ved to adjourn until Mon
Totals 52,673
194,029 202,183
If the deaths from disease be added, the
sum total will present the entire loss. The
returns of the field and general hospitals
ire known for 1871-62, nnd if it. be fair to
a8snme the total mortality of 1863 and
1864 was frilly equal to that of 2862 then
the total deaths in the Confederate army
in 1861 2 were at least 161*,000, exclusive
of the deaths in the Northern prisons,
which would swell the number to nearly
185,000; and if the deaths among the dis
charged for wounds amd disease, and among
the sick and wounded on fnriough, be add
ed, the grand total of deathsio the Confed
erate army during the entire war did not
foil far short of 200,000.
Aceording to this calculation the de-ths
from diseases were about three times as an-
meroas as those resulting from the casnali-
ties of war.
The available Confederate force capable
of active service did not, daring the entire
’, exceed 600.000 men. Ot this number
not more than 400,000 were enrolled at
My t.ne time, apd the Confederate States
never had in the field more than 200,000
men capable of bearing arms at anyone
time, exclusive of rick, wounded Md disa
bled.
The other business transacted at this
meeting was introduction by General Pillcw
of m amendv ent to the constitution, ye
ported as follows:
Any Confederate soldier may be eligible
to membership iq the association when his
record as a soldier is blameless, Provided
That where the applicant left the service be
fore the end of the war he shall have been
honorably discharged, and after leaving
his conduct mnst have been snch as to
IgS-vp no doubt of his continued devotion to
the Confederate oaqeo qqtil the end of the
w»r.
4 Brainless Congress.
Under this head, Don Piatt, in q lata
letter to the Cincinnati Commercial pays
the followiog compliment to the represen
tatives of the Sooth as they were before
the war. He shows the avenge Yankee
ignorance about those he calls the “poor
whites” but his statement on the other
points ore indisputable.
"The South for a long term of years en
joyed a higher order of legislative talent
rom the limited condition of suffrage The
legroes did not vote uor did the paor whites
save as their masters dictated. It was not
Democratic, bnt it was decent.
We broke up that system, and excluding
the brain by law. admitted the skulls. No
mM questions the result. Instead of gen
tlemen we have low fellows; and in place
ot a pride that lifted tee representatives
above theft, we have rqgnes openly in the
market.”
New Jersey Election*
The Herald of Wednesday says:
The township elections in Nev Jersey,
which took plice on Monday, resulted in
considerable Democratic gains.
In Morristown, hitherto “intensely Radi
cal,” the Democrats swept thn board,though
sixty or more negroes voted solid for the
Radical ticket Other towns show a like
result.
The 15>h amendment cuts two ways—it
cuts its way to the ballot box for the ne
groes to vote the Radical ticket, but it also
cuts loose frem that party a great many
white men who don’t re.ish such enforced
political equality with the negro.
Athens 8kati.no Rink.—A Skating
Rina, under the efficient management of
Henry Bcnsee, assisted by that courteous
gentleman, Joseph Orr, was opened in
Athens last Thursday niglit. Captain
Jackson, Messrs. Angier. Magill, Edwards,
the rink on Saturday night.
A member
day week.
Williams, of; Morgan, moved to adjourn
fur two weeks.
O'Neal, of Lowndes, offered as a substi
tute that wjien/^be Legislature adjourns, it
adjourn until the first Monday in Jnl;
next, subject to be called together by Pro
visional Governor Bullock before that time
member* and officers in the
drawing no mileage or per diem.
O’Neal said that Gen. Terry was averse
to any legislation while the Georgia bill
was pending before Congress. Ht was op
posed to hoidiog a session until Congress
acted.
Costin (colored) of Talbot, inquired “if
ary legislation was necessary ?”
O’Neal did not think the question
main, and therefore refased to answer.,
thought enough money bad been paid mem
hers of the present Legislature during re-
coi.struetioo to satisfy them—for the pret
ent.
Scott, of Floyd, offered as n substitute
that, the Senate concurring, the General
Assembly do now adjourn tine die.
Lee, of Newton, enquired if the reso'u-
tion wonld prevent tke Governor fram call
ing the Legislature together.
Scott replied that a Governor has the
right, at any time when an emergency de
mands to call the Legislature together.
Lee, of Newton, then repeated the same
question as to a Protidonal Governor, to
which Capt. Scott made the same reply.
Scett, of Floyd, was glad to see that
O’Neal, of Lowndes, bad become, converted
At the last ses*i< n, is a speech upon a mo
tion not to take 39 per diem daring the re-
cess, he said his ride had better sense than
not to take it. He opposed the idea of ad
journing from day to day .without transact
ing basin ess. If lqpsUrion is necessarv,
let ns transact it. if there is none so
journ and go home. Do not exhaust the
resources of Georgia in idlness at the Cap
itol.
Seott renewed his motion. The yeas and
nays were called, and the following is the
result:
Yeas 48; nays 68. ‘ Lost.
O’Neal’s resolution was taken op.
Costin moved to lay it oo the table.
Carried Yeas 67; nays 45.
The use of the Hall of the Honse of
Representatives was tendered to the labor
ing men of Atlanta oo Saturday night, to
hear an address by Jonathan Sorerots, on
“Labor Md CapitaL”
Becbnne’s motion to adjourn until Mon
day next, at twelve M n was adopted
Bfding a Hone Fifty Miles in two Honrs.
The evet-ing News, cf Gold Hil', Neva
da, contains tke subjoined account of a
great race against time, on the Canon City
Coarse, by J<-hony Faylor, for a stake of
81,000, or 85.C *0 that he could ride fifty
miles iu two boon:
At just 12 o’clock Faylor made his ap
pearance, mounted, Md ready for the
fray.
He is a light built, dark-complexioned
young man, and weighs 118 pounds. Af
ter a few minutes’ preliminary arranging of
details, away he dashed on the first heat
We have never seen a bet er rider. Per
fectly erect Md steady, he rode firmly in
his stirrups, and seemed no’ impeding
weight for a h. ne to carry, bnt on the con
trary. light, lively, and anything hot a dead
weight.
Johnny knows just how to ride a horse,
that's certain. We did not time all the
heats eeparately. as that wonld be too lengthy
a matter for publishment, but tne shortest
was made in two minutes and two seconds;
the average was about two minutes Md
eight seconds.
Some of <he horses he rode twice round,
at a single keat, and one three times, most
of them, however, he rode only once round.
At the father ride ot the track, in the vi-
cinity of the half mil* pol*. he had fresh
horses also waiting, and had to change at
that point on two or three occasions.
When coming in on the home stretch, if the
horse be rode was observe! to he failing, a
fre-h was taken ont to meet him and ex
changed; this was done also two or three
times.
Ooe very interesting feature to notice
was the extreme rapidity aad facility with
liich be changed horses at the stand- A
fresh readily saddled Md bridled was held
there, Md when he rode two or three men
seized bis hone and assisted him to leap
down and into the saddle of (he other horse
these changes thus occupying for less time
than it takes for ns to write about them.
Indeed, the last dozen heats he was not
allowed to touch the ground at all. hut was
simply picked off one saddle Md placed in
the other, with a slap Oeitowed upon hi*
horse in order to start him off in a hurry.
It was a little the liveliest horse navigation
most people ever saw. Abont the twenty
third mile ronnd blood was observed coming
from Baylor’s month and one ear, being
subject to bleeding at the longs on snch oc
casions, under the featfully severe exercise,
but as he kept a ‘(stiff upper lip,” Md
about that time also shouted for someone to
got his watch and bat that on the race,, we
felt assured that be would live through it—
Md he did.
About 2 o’clock p. m. he finished the race;
time, one hour, fifty-eight minutes Md thir
ty-three seconds—within the two hours.
As he rode in fr <m that ronoluding heat,
looking still quite vigorous, and Mything
hut exhausted, he Was taken from the sad
dle amid loud shout* Md cheers of triumph
and hilariously carried ou the shoulders of
his friends to the front of the judges’stand,
from which the Tesult was announced im
mediately.
Faylor being called upon for a speech, re
plied thanking his friends .for their efforts
o his behalf, and expressing the hope that
he would be ss successful in the great race
he is to run of 200 miles in ten hours at
Jerome Park, New York, in May next.
Faylor had procured fifteen horses for his
race of yesterday, bnt he had to nse three
more on account of some of them getting
lame.
The police of Jackson, ; Misaiiqippi, went
for a faro hank tbs other night, which
they captured with its ‘‘chips,” and tools
d and fifteen persons, who were vigorously
and other gentlemen "from this city, visited “fighting the tiger,’’ the most of them
Fen aad ftclasor*.
A Nevada Judge has fined himself five
dollars for tardiness.
An Indians suitor burned down tiro
barn ol a widow who refused his hand. ,
The Western States have contributed ten
dollars to the Stafitua fund.
A Mississippi negro dog ug Some 8890.-
000 of De Soto’s buried treasure aeon -
April 1.
A boy ten years < Id was - frightened to
death at Weatboro, Massachusetts, on San-,
day night, hy Mother boy wearing a ntack
Rhode Islan-l, whieh is a Radical State,
has a law whieh requires every voter to
pay a “registry tax” before they are allow
ed to vote.
Three negroes, McCann,' White and
Hardwick e, were elected Aldermen at the
receut town election in Talladega, Ala.
A Memphis dispatch account es the
death on the 4th inst, of Gen.- Albert-
Pike, of Arkansas. He was a memb -r of
the Confederate Congress, Md a General
in the Confederate army. -
Thq total currency of the United States
is represented as follows : Gold 8150,000
000; gold notes, 840,000,000; greenbacks,
8356,600,600; National Bank notes 8300.-
000,006; fractional currency, 840,000,000;
total, leaving out the gold, 3736.000.000.
A young lady in Newark, whan her jeal
ous admirer sent back her letters with a re
quest that she should return bis, answered
that she regretted that she could not com
ply immediately, as she had lent them to
a young gentleman to read.
The Montgomery Advertiser announce*
with regret, on the strength of private dis
patcher, that Byland Randolph, of Tnsca-
oosa. has had to submit to the amputation
of the leg wounded in the late rencounter
with Smith.
Butler is to be his own devil in that
newspaper he is going to start, and the
came of it is to be the Evening Teaspoon
One dollar in silver or plate most he forked
•ver in advance as subscription per year;
aeoond band sugar tones taken from “ho ad
ders and she adder-” in part payment. To
clnbaof carpet-baggers known to be loyal,
the paper will be sent free
The new fifty cent notes will be issued
from the Treasury Department on Tuesday
next for general circulation. .The plates
have been engraved with mnch care, Md
it is expected that the character of the en-
-raving combined with the difficulty of
mitatiog the. peculiar paper used, will pre
vent successful counterfeiting.
The Enfaula Times says there is a tum
ble state of affairs in West Alabama, a
young war has been waging there for some
time. There is an organized bred of des
peradoes, negroes and whites, who have de
dared their purpose to drive every rebel
and Democrat out of that section, or kill
everv male, eld Md yonog, Md outrage
every woman. Cocsiderable excitement
prevails.
The Courier-Journal relates the follow
ing ; “A big burly negro, with denpated
ideas of the force of the I5th amendment,
walked into a 6th Street car yesterday with
cigar in his mouth, Md squeeze-’ himself
down between two ladies. The driver first
told him to stop smoking. The negro made
some taunting retort, when the driver wal-
1> ped him over the head With the bnt-end
of his whip. The negro got ont.” A little
moral snarion of this character goes a long
ways with onr tractable oo'oted citizens.
An Indian Trick.
The following extract is from a letter
from a soldier on the Plains to a friend in
Milwaukee, is printed in the Evening IWs-
cousm of that city.
“We are after the Indians hot blast, and
tell you man who picks these fellows np
for dogaos finds himself woefully deceived
A part of onr troop had been on the trail
of a small band of Sionx^od they had dodg
ed ns, and bothered ns, and beat ha, until
we determined to have them, Md it ap
peared, so suddenly, two, that there was
no chance for them to escape. Each man
seated himself squarely in his saddle, and
with revolver in hand we dashed rn. There
squat each identical Sioux on his pony just
as though we were miles away Md as stoi
cully indifferent as though they did' not
care a continental.
As we, at a foil gallop drew near, the
officer in commapd felt that we were rid
ing into some trap, but it was too late to
so rod * retreat, and op we went.
-I think the distance between ns and the
Sionx Md their ponies was jnst twelve feet
befote a single red-skin had moved a mus
cle; then, quicker titan you could ny ‘scat,’
off From the shoulders of etch identical
Sioux came the fiery red blanket he wore,
Md up Md down it was shaken vigorously
io the very faces of our horses.
We had boasted a heap over those hors,
es, and thev would 4“ anything we wanted
them to do—that is to say. they would
drive through a prairrie fire, alongside a
big ballbuffalo, through a prairie dog vill
age, Md ovei dead Indians; bnt I tell you,
you ought to have seep them, to a horse,
turn tail and run from those Uaokets. We
w>.re getting along so nicriy, and each
trooper was so eager to make a dead sore
thing of h.s red-kin, that we let the horses
have torch their owp way, and we repent
ed of It. Jost as frightened as they could
be, and away they went in every direction.
Troops were sprawling on the gronod,
and others were clinging to horses' manes,
with both feet not only out of the stirrups
but piontiog up in the air. It was the worst
stampede I ever saw, and I have looked at
-some’ io my day. If the Sioox had fol
lowed up they might' ave nude a few scalps
bnt they seemed so well pleased with the
result of the trick, that those who were un
horsed near them, say they disappeared as
if they had gone down' through the earth.
When our troops assembled, we, ono and
all, declared that the thing was the best of
the kind ever heard of, betaetermioed that
we would pay tl em back for it one of these
days, and we will.”
Repwrlwl. for Ike Tri-Weekljr Conner.
Washing**, April 22.—The Rhode Island
politicians here gave currency to the follow-
ing : ^jit.thc recent elections in Rhode Is
land five counties failed to elect members of
the Legislature—no candidate having receiv*.
ed a majority. At the recent election the
Democrats carried those counties, This re
sult, it is said, will secure the election of Mr.
Bradley. Chief Justice of that State, to suc
ceed Anthony. : :*»> r. isC-ift: e e&i
.In the House regular order called.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, Reservation under
consideratiou.
The Committee on Wajs and Mean* meets
to-morrow evening for final action on thv
Funding bill.
Ev'nrts closed the argument before the Ju
diciary on the McGarrahan case. Paachal
concludes the argument on Monday.
Baltixobs, April 22.—A woman named
Marsh, cut the throats of her four children,
and her mother, with whom she lived. The
tragedy occurred in the center of the city.
The first act of the mother was to call her
son—aged 8 years, from school, and cut his
throat in the school yard; then going home,
treated the two younger children, who were
playing in the yard in frontof the house, and
a bedriden mother in the same manner.
.te trill i
than
, xj*^ uj . j-TT perpetuated
another year. The President, however, ex
pressed himself yesterday io members of Con
gress against the Senate hill in such strong
terms that there is no possibility that, if it
were enacted into a law, he would veto it,—
He said that the Senate bill postponed recon
struction, which ho was anxious to see closed
up by the admission of Georgia to representa
tion in Congress. While he indicated no spe
cial plan, his views seemed to meet those pro
posed in the Ingersoll bill, which admits the
'kata to representation now and provides fox
the election of a new "Legislature in Novem
her next, in Georgia.
The British man-of-war. La
Jordan, with six companion \ at X
route for Xcw York.
Less reliafdc advices report Jordan still in
Cuba.
The insurgents have reappeared in the juris
diction of Holquin.
Ex-Confederates Thomas Rhett, ot Charles
ton, and Geo. Pickett, of Virginia, are in
New York, enronto for the Egpptian service.
Rhett was sworn in as Brigadier General, by
Pasbaw, recruiting officer. Confederate Gen
eral Loring nnd Sibley are already there.—
Federal General Stone, who was unfortu
nate at Ball’s Bluff, was also one of Pashaw’s
members of the Legislature..
Extraordinary Suicide —On jester-
the quietude of tho Barrac" s were disturb
ed by the sudden death of a re-enlisted sol
dier named DeLeron.Mdhis wife, by their
own act and deed. It is said that they
each took an ounce of arsenic, and retired
to the wood* to die together, but under the
pMgs of the poison they returned to the
Barracks Md died.--t ASotP <J; £et '■ ,
DeLeron was a French Canadian, twen
ty-eight years of age. His wife was twenty-
two years of age, and said to be the daught
er of John Anderson, a miner near Dahlooe-
ga. »iY iq*. : 1
She Stated before she died that her hus
band persuaded her to take the poison be
cause he could not get employment any
other way than by re enlisting in the army.
—Atlanta Constitution 11 th.
The Radicals hope to redeem New Jer
sey with its 6,000 negro vote.
Choalzston, April 22.—Some excitement
prevails among the city officials and. holder-
of city securities, by a movement of certain
owners of overdue city stock, to levy upon
the city property and satisfy their judgements
The judgement creditors haTe attached the
personal assets and cash in the bank belong^
ing to the city, but the other creditors have
obtained an injunction restraining farther
proceftiings until Wednesday, when the case
will be heard before Judge Carpenter.
There is some talk.of placing she city as
sets in the hands of a Receiver.
Washington April 22.—Revenue to-day
418.000. - - I
Gen Wilson appointed special post office
agentfor Texas.
Judge Humphries, of Alabama, was nom
inated for Supremo Court Judge, District of
Columbia.
It is understood that the Pennsylvania
members of the House are dissatisfied with
the progress on the tariff bill. Md will vote
solidly to table the pending bilk
The committee oh public land agreed to
report a bill extending the time for the com
pletion of the first twenty miles of the Cairn
and Fulton Railroad.
Persons applying for passports to the State
Department, are requested to register letter,
or remit by postal order for fee, whieh is five
In the"Senate a bill passed.to perfect title,
and jurisdiction of the United States to No
tional Cemeteries hy legislative action of the
States. Also,'the Invalid Pension Appropri
ation bill, appropriating about thirty mil
lions of dollars.
The bill to pay Internal Revenue’ officials.'
appointed in.the South at the close of the wai
and unable .to take the oath prescribed by
Congress, was objected to by Edmunds, as he
intended to make a speech on it. Sumnci
thought the parties ought to' go to Andrew
Johnson tcir pay. ‘ • •
Sawyer’s bill, prescribing the oath of office
for participants.in rebellion, not disqualified
by the 14th Amendment,. passed. The. oath
is the same as taken hy Congressmen whose
disabilities have been removed. The
bill will practically relieve half a million ot
people, and enable a majority of the South
ern people to hold-federal offices. Adjourned
till Monday.
In the Honse after acting on a number
of private bills,' a contest arose as to prece
dcnce among contestants Was Butler with
his general disability , hill entitled to prece
deuce! The tariff bill finally won the tLo
and the House proceeded to the discussion, of
scrap Iron.
It appeared from the discussion that Hot
Springs. Ark., reservation is worth one mill'
ion dollara)
Kelly had no doubt the House would re
verse the decission of the House on Pig Iron.
House is in sesion to-night
Montreal, April 22.—Four men from the
United States arrested, charged with Fenian-
Cannadians continue strengthening the
frontier.
St. Louis, April 22.—Official advices from
Fort Sell indicate fhat the Camanches, Keow-
as and affiliated tribes are Mxious for peace.
Boston, April 22.—James R. Wheeler Con
sul at Jamaica is dead.
Paris, April 22.—The French'army will
participate in plebescitum election.
London, April 22.—Fenians uDnsnally ac
tive. Arms and other war materials seized
yesterday at Manchester and New Castle.
Nt.v fiic. April 24.—The Fenian. Con
gress has adjourned. - Oneil was-reelected
President. The session was of the utmost se
crocy, but it is understood a "war policy was
determined upon.
WxsuixcTON, April 24.—The War Depart
ment hat very threatening advices from the
Indian country.
Cincinnati, April 24.—The Board ofTrade
today recommends certain amendments to
Sherman.
The Cincinnati and Chattanooga Railroad
bill will, if adopted (in the estimation of the
Board) enable the Trustees appointed to build
the Cincinnat i Southern Road, under ten
million loan, to enter upon the construction
of the Road under a National charter.
San Francisco, April 24.—Blossom Rock,
the most dangerous obstruction in the harbor,
was blown up to-day at 1 o'clock. Twenty-
three tons of powder were used.
When this immense quantity of powder
was touched off, the water, apparently a hun
dred feet in diameter, was thrown to the
height . of about one hundred feet—the cen
ter being filled with smoke and stones, the
latter going far above the water. Between
five and six thousand people witnessed the
explosion. The explosion was scarcely per-
ceptable in the city. Only a deep founder
accompanied the blast
Washington, April 26.—A re pert comes
via Constantinople, that foe Grecian brigands
have killed their prisoners, captured near
Marathon.
Napoleons’* proclamation concludes as fol
lows: “To foe call which I make on you. to
ratify foe liberal refosme realised during the
last ten years, reply “yes.” As tee mysslf,
faithful to my origin, I shall continue pene
trated by your thought and fortified by your
will; and, confiding in Providence to work
without cessation for foe prosperity and gran
dear o France.’.’ M ^
(Signed) N arouse*.
A special to th* Baltimore Sun says : “Let
ters and telegrams have been received here
.• Injhe nousc a resolution indefinitely post
poning the .pending tariff bill was defeated
by.a large majority.
Ways and Means Committee considered the
the Funding bill. No result reached.
•Yasuingios, April 25.—Revenue to-day
nearly a million.
After Court in Richmond Jndgc Chnse will
go to Europe in search of health.
The church (roubles bill, which passed the
House, giving the Sisters of Mercy, Charles
ton. twenty thousand dollars to rebuild their
Asylnm, was reported to the Senate without
amendment
Tho Paris Journal, (official) contains the
following circular to the officers of the civil
service, signed by all the Ministers r
“The Emperor addressed a solemn appeal
to the nation in 18G2, he asked, however, to
assnre order in 1870, tho power to establish
liberty. Confident of the little which is his
"by reason of the right of 8,000,000 suffrages,
he docs not surrender the Empire to discus
sion. - , - ‘
He submits to a vote only its liberal trans
formation, To vote yes, is to vote for liberty.
The revolutionary party is secretly attacking
the national sovereignty, and misrepresent
ing the respect which the Emperor pays to
that sovereignty in consulting the people.—
They are not true friends of liberty, but in
spite of these, the masses will march in onr
ranks. Can they ignore the fact, that to ab
stain from voting, or to vote “No,” will be
to strengthen those who only combat the
transformation of the empire in order that
they may destroy it, aod with it, the politi
cal and social orgaizations to which France
owes her greatness. In the name of public
peace and ’ liberty, in 'the name of the Em
peror, we demand of yon all, our devoted co-
laborcre, to unite yonr efforts with ours. It
is to the citizens we address ourselves, not as
ordering, not os offering patriotic counsel; our
object is to assure to,our country a tranquil
future, to the end, that on the throne, as in
the humblest dwelling, the son may succeed
the father in peace and quiet.”
London, April 25.—It is stated that a slip
of board a yard long, paintid blue, drifted
ashore, inscribed, City of Boston is sinking
February 11 tb.
Washington, April 25.—Among the hills
introduced was one granting the right of way
to the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad to
the Pacific, and granting lands to the Selma
and Ferqpndinaypad.
Dockery offered a resolution declaring that
the honor and good faith of the government
is pledged to the payment of all claims
loyal people in the South, who had property
taken by the army, or navy, or government
daring the war. Objection was made and the
resolution was not entertained.
In the House, Bnrdell from the election
committee reported in the election case from
the 5 th dist of Louisiana, that Michael Ryan
is not elected to the seat, anil that Newham is.
Kerr made an opposite report.
In tho Senate a petition was presented
from tho Cincinnati board of aldermen, for
the enlargement of the Louisville canal. The
Judiciary committee reported as a substitute
for all propositions on the subject, a bill to
enforce the 15th amendment setting forth
that all citizens of the United States, other
wise qualified by law to vote in any State,
territory, district, etc., shall he entitled to
vote at all such elections without distinction
of race, color or previous condition of servi
tude, any law, custom, usage or regulation'of
any State orjtcrritory to the contrary not
withstanding.
Charleston, April 25.—Gen. Lon arrived
here from Savannah this p. li. At his urgent
request, there was no public reception.
Savannah, April 25.—The Convention o
the southern and State Press Association
met to-day. Representatives were present
from North and South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama.
Executive Committee reported resolutions
of tho Gmferonce held at Augusta on March
6th, with J. W. Linton, of tho New York
Association. The Press favore the continu
ance of the present new service as the best
that can he done under existing circumstanc-
The citizens tendered an excursion to the
Press gang, which was accepted and enjoy
ed by the members of both Associations.
Evcty courtesy was extended by the Press
and people of Savannah to visitors.
A M. Lamar, of Colnmbus, President of
the Southern Association and J. Clisby, of
Macon, President of the State Press.
Members will remain until Thursday.
Wav ?— Senator Pomeroy gave as his
reason for offering his amendment that has
passed the Senate, that the first question
to be determined was whether or not
they were to admit Georgia: Thi= would
nettle that question. Ho then thought that
sc maoy irregularities had beeu committed
in the Georgia Government, and there
Were so many Senatorial claimants, that the
oeople of Georgia should have a chance to
pass upon the whole matter again under full
protection and under the previous legis
lation of Congress.
Under this explanation, the action ot the
Senate is the declaration that Georgia is net
to be admitted to the Union.
The dead bodies of three men wet*
found floating in Chicago river on Mon
day.
