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ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 6, 1870.
NEW SERIES—No 36.
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H 0 r‘ « CUADY, Associate Editor.
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M. DWINELL,
Proprietor.
A DRA&ETWITH a bloody bill,
There is. a Drake in the Senate that
with a very gory bill is dabbling in the Re
construction mud puddle. Like a fabfled
monster of ancient davs,he had at one time
many bills (all of them crimson,) one
which quacked about the suspension of the
writ unity of habeas oorpus —another that
quacked of further disfranchisement^nd an
other which qnacked of eternal military
rale.
All of these bills have been whacked
off and only one remains. We give it U» our
leaders:
LEfi AL ADVERTISEMENTS,
r I and by Adnvcistratori, Electors or
Silesof L»“ reomred by law to be held on
Jjurdi» a5 - are ft eaCfl mo nth, between the
Ihe first T“«f a Yte' orenoon and three in the
Imb ft tcn J he ^ oar t House in the county in
p‘ S fe" d i.e given in. pub-
.VOUM, 01
pSoital property mnsl J
5? t,rt3 ;n f S* manner, through a public gas- in
e given
, like manner,'
aulc^itSs of an estate,
i * No ! ,c€ 40 days.
— . '..onidications will be made to the
Soiicc thePCT fo . leaTe to sell land must be
M&l
I'onrt of Ordinary
l.ablishcd for two mnn Adminiftritioni Gnar-
1 c ‘ u,l0 “^ must be published 3b day-for
, Administration, three months—
'mtss'ioi^from Guardianship, 40 days.
n i .clr the fureclosenre of Mortgages must
Ra'es lor the,lore_ m onths-for os-
'3
I
S-forcom^Ui’ng titles trom Executors or
-..raters where bond has been given by
d“ea-et for tl.e full space o! three months.
, „;n always he continued accord-
thcse! the legal requirements, unless oth-
ordcred. at the Mowing
RATES.
. ir 0,1a, per levy often lines or less $3 00
£f. Mort?.*e fiffit. sales, per levy, 5
Collector's sales, per levy..™ ™
'Rations for letters of Administration 3 00
'itations for letters o! Guardianship... 3 00
'otice cl application for dismission from
Administration ■ 1
jf application for dismission from
lianship, * ®®
,tion to sell land — — * ®®
to Debtors and Creditors,- ~ ... 5 00
i'al'e of band, pcrsquarc... 2 ®®
,| eo f perishable property, 10 days 4 00
Jtrar Notices, 00 day 4 00
'oreciesnrc of Mortgage, per square......... 4 00
adrertising his wife, (m advance) 10 00
On tLe 18th, Senator Drake of Missou
ri, introduced a joint resolution proposing
the following Amendment to the Constitu
tion •
Sec. 1. That the United States shall
protect each State against domestic violence
wheueTer it shall be shown to the Presi
dent, in such manner as the Congress may
by law prescribe, that such violence exists
in such State.
“Sec. 2. The Congress shall have pow
er so enforce this article by appropriate leg
islation.
Let us translate this bill for the peopli
It gives the Radicals an excuse for keep
ing a standing army. It gives them an ex
cuse for invading a State at any time and
fretting her people under military rule.—
It places a reward on Radicalism and chain,
on the Democracy. In short and in Mo
is the last paving-stone on the highway to
military despotism.
Fellow citizens suppose it is laid 1—what
then ?
Retire f .
[ Guardianship,
kppiicatioi
The end op Bradley.—Bradley is very
sore. He has been set down on “a point
order,” so after that it is doubtful w'.eth
er he will ever again “take his seat” in the
Senate. This is a stern troth, bat
the less true.
SATURDAY MORNING, April 23.
the legislature.
Bullock has taken the Legislature in
nod, and is running it tr suit himself.
Re sends in a message in which he asks
a committee of investigation into the
larges made against him in regard to the
Illegal use ol State funds.The eom. will get
fcjaie Urge mops, and whitewash him till he
t as luminous as a lily. They will then he
kortd away as retainers until the Qover-
r has soiled l is pretty white coat agaio.
L similar committee will bo appointed to
[investigate matters on the State Road.—
Blodgett will be slopped over with lime
tnd water. A committee will also be ap-
jiialed to investigate the doings of Mr.
|Augier.
The main issues seem to be an appropri
lieu act that Bullock wants passed to give
jhim a lull string at the Treasury, and as to
[whether or not the Legi-lature is provision-
ltl, and what legislating powers it posset
Afraid op “Uncle Sam.”—The Mor
mons have backed down. They meet their
Governor with cringing plaudits. He tells
them that he is going to wipe out Mor-
monism. They express themselves ready
to submit. Thus vanishes the lust speck of
red cloud that hovered on onr horizon.
Now let the army he disbanded and the tax
es reduced.
“Can the Leopard Change His
Spots?”—Certainly he can, if he can get
the Legislature to appoint a white-washinj
Committee. They can mop him till he is
as white as a dove; in the event of which
sighed-for transformation, the worldi will
laugh and jeer, and whisper, of “whited
sepulchres.”
[THIS LITTLE THINK OF SYMPATHY.
Human nature is terribly slandered. It
a true th-t onr estimable ancestress, Mad-
lim Ere, did open her kindly heart so wide
■tbit she took in a little sin, but that sin did
luoi drive out all the good. The little drop
lof wine that she sapped in a hasty pas
i not give a sin-smack to the whole life
■ system. Neither is the present generation
|-her sons and daughters—altogether bad.
I Cynics may snarl as much as they please,
I and virtuous scribblers may denounce man
an unfeeling and orael creature, but
I'Tcts cjmc to us every day proclaiming the
|'uperb beauty and goodness of man’s men-
| ■ and emotional system.
-Man is like the ocean.
To a superficial observer the ocean seems
I 1 ’ k a vicious, angry, passion-toesed body
■—always in tempests, ever lashing its mad
■crests in scorn and fury. He who looks
Ideeper will find a calm and limpid world ot
j'ater which gives richness to the whole
|taith, and in which the tiniest fish oan
*tm and sport, with safety. So with man.
i who looks beyoad the passions and °' ng
I which seethe on the surface, will find.en il-
| miuble sea of sympathy which gives a
t-uder tone to the whole system, and in
* tiniest little seittimeot can live
1 k <*p green.
; Tt « facts that have brought forth the
I* ore ren *arks arc those brought on by the
| te >-!,iaph concerning the Richmond disas-
Saroabtio.—One of our citizens yester
day who had been sipping the rosy till he
was a little lively, was talking about the
“Flush Times of Alabama." He was dwel
ling with rapture on the meetings that the
“old oocka” headed by the talented Jere
Clemens used to have in the-Rialto. The
memory of the glorious conversation—the
brlliant toasts—the rich old wine the gen
erous viands and the general heavenly jum
ble of elegance and eatables, had worked
him into an ec3tacy, when some asked :—
“Who isthis a Smith, the present Governor
of Alibama ?” The old Alabamian curled
his lips scornfully, his eye blazed with dis
dain and he haughtily replied. “Him ! I
never heard of him. Hcs a darn'd netc
nttituiion\"
Let na Enow.—We desire'to know at what
time the Committee appointed for iovesti
gating the management of the State Road.
Aside from having an innocent desire to be
present on this memorabb occasion,-—just
the nncient rustics flocked around one Her
coles, when he was cleaning the.- Augean
statbies—we have some few remarks to'
make. We might present some statistics in
regard to the running off of trains, an d the
missing of connections that would interest
the folks.
I'"- -Vo
•toonei was the tidings received in
I the neighboring cities than alfthe business
s were closed, and movements set on
| loot to
«>se funds for the benefit of the snf
““Holenee and rab-
Itele 11 v ld A 0ne mero1lant in New York
^phedtoGev.Wrikertodrawonhia
:::r loEiaid ^ - * —
laud^ llica * differences are swept away,
I in pjf!, 003 * re nnit! “g with the whites
I one of th t b .i‘o t0 th ® dead ' The wife of
I of th a t. 1 ed d ‘ ed at onoe n P° n hearing
We n h e3th0 , fherhn8b “ d ' » S
O eart ed woman has overturned by
Internal Revenue.—A late dispatch
to the Western Associated Press announc
es that a radical change in onr internal rev
enue system is contemplated by some! par-
ties in Congress. It says :
Gen. Butler proposes to offer in the Douse
a bill abolishing. the income, and instead
thereof assessing five per cent, of interest
paid on all invested capital, including Na
tional and, State bonds, on all loans run
ning longer than one, dividends of banks,
insurance companies, railroads, etc., and
on mortgages, leases and rents; one cent,
on successions, letrncies and deeds of gift
or other than for charitable purposes, when
property falls to one next ii blood not of
collateral branch ; three per cent, when of
collateral branch ; five, per cent when a
stranger or corporation, etc. All. these
collections to be made by stamps. He also
proposes to tax the manufacture and sale
of spirituous and fermented liquors; to
abolish the ofiioes, of assessors and assistant
assessors of internal revenue and establish
snob other offices for the collection' of tax
on whisky and tobacco aa may be necessa
ry, and to repeal all other internal taxa
tion. .
Communicated.
“So-Called.”
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Your paper this morning queries as to the
■ “wnevoted death i "v?' J origin of "so-called.’’ Mr. Wm. H. Scw-
I historv nf Hole cynical system, ard did not originate, fhe term itordidArto-
■ l * 'every pnblio calamity feaa mus Ward,of : Bill Arp,nordidB.nlwer. How
“P b Y ‘He same divine' syth- long before I know not, but it was in use
characterized this one. Any over eighteen hundred yesurs ago. I refer
I His tnotivea will if* * ° f ““ * nd
"S will become an apologist for his
“stead of a critic of his virtues.
I WoT t tlanta Constitu -
N'lfelve
yon to St Fanis writings in the New Tes
tament—1 Timothy, chap. 6, verse 20.'
Asbdby Sunday School Boy.
Sunday, April 24th 1870.
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f - eleven
. n, on Whitehall
LCV 11 '! Petro 0iI De P®‘- THe
«royed Th \ 8t0re a “ d baUdiD S 8 wera ds "
and wI f„n 0USe WM J ° Wnedbj R Gar -
Uartinaa i f 1 We leafn - ' Mr.
i«,«nd , ab ° at$1 - 500 a H>®t of grocer-
na insured for about 8600.
Thefi ° f tbe dre ““Hoown.
I ^in.r Cn ( u de8erVeCredit for «vingthe
lt ° 0ne,t her aide, so close to the one
*, -. Cotton.
The receiptsfof cotton at all the. ports
for the week ending Friday evening, are
reported by telegraph at 40,665 bales
against 44,575, for the week ending April
1C, 44,940 for the. wrek ending April 9,
and 52,354 for the week ending April 2.
The toUlreceiptB adt all ‘He ports to Friday
evening foot up 2,529.462 bales. Tbe ex-
portsof the week amount to 59,142 bales
against 49,051. the previous week. The
stock in hand was 362,391 bales.
Bat little of last years’ crop now remain
in the hands'of the cotton growers. What
little there is ought to command bettor
than the recent, or current, prevailing
prices. ' .. '
[From the Lexh-gton, Missouri, Caucus ion.
Allall of Genuine Agony—Melaneholly
Pictnre of National Degradation and Dis
honor—XnsDy Nowhere.
Down! Down!! Down!!! Daring the
whole nine years of Radical rale! The
proudest, freest, most enlightened, prosper
ous and happy nation on the globe, in 1860
The lowest, basest, poorest, most utterly
brutalized and enslaved, in 1870! Cotton
field negroes legislating for the descendants
of the Washingtons, the Randolphs, Hamp
tons and Lees 1 A Pennsylvania nigger
befooling the seat of Pickens and Pinck
ney, on the Supreme bench of South Caro
lina.- A negro barber scrawling his bror-
ish X mark on tho legislative enactments
of Louisiana, as Lieutenant Governor and
President of the State Senate ! A nigger
cabbin boy signing the commissions of Con
gressmen, sheriffs and eirenit judges,
Secretary of the State of Mississippi! And
a thievish nigger preacher grinning and
combing his ionsy wool, in the place once
filled by the hero, statesman and patriot,
Jefferson Davis, in tho United States Sen-
aj.e. so-called. Whilst a leprous, nicer eat
en Senator and ex-Governcr congratulates
his associate blackguards, and the country
on the change 1
God of the rained and the desolate Was
ever a people so fallen before ? Men of the
North! Men of the South! Americans!
Countrymen! Fellow slaves! Awake
Arise! shake off yonr lethargy, and face
the truth 1 Give the hellions who’ve
wrought tho horrid change a little longer
lease of power, and no Gabriel in all the
wide universe, though he shonld* split his
mighty tootcr, cau ever sound a blast pow
erful enough to resurrect ns from the ten
fold political death and damnation to which
we’re doomed 1 Cease yonr dastardly truck
ling and yielding to the death deserving
conspirators who have usurped the govern
mentl Cease yonr infamous temporizing,
yonr cringing and yonr fawning! Set your
face like stubborn steel, against them and
all their accursed schemes!
Remember that they are yonr enemies—
the enemies of the Republic—enemies of
the Constitution—sworn foes of liberty—
foes of God, and of common humanity !—
Encouraging them, ‘conciliating them is
tampering with your own destruction 1—
They must be overthrown, annihilated, or
you, we and our country are eternally on
done 1
Doling out Pirdons.—It is c insid-
erably over five years since the Southern
armies surrendered, and Congress is still
doling ont pardons in seperale bilb to the
fow, instead of granting general amnesty
as it might do, or as the President might
do, if he would, to the many. ■ What is done
at all is done grudgingly, and with a spe
cial display of malice towards those who, ii
a mistaken hoar, took np arms against the
Governmert. Even after putting a ballot
and a musket into the hands of every male
negro above twenty one,over 250,000 white
men—thousands of them three or four score
years old—are not permitted to vote, even
or a constable, or a road-master. Where is
hat sense of manly generosity which ought,
to rise above party and scorn injustice
which usually governs men of real patrot
ism and true refinement of character ? Meo
who pray Heaven daily to pardon their own
sins and crimes, are not willing to do for
a white man what they have done for the
negro.
Wendell Philliys appeared here last week,
and last night at Boston, exhorting the ne
gro with all his heated eloquence never to
forget the old master or those who oppos
ed the mingling of races in the government
of a great republic And all this in the
name of “Almighty God.” We can foigive
Phillips; for hatred, malice, and nncharita-
bleness is his second nature—but for states
men,Christains and American citizens, who
look to the- future, and for all who pray
God for mercy, to persist in these animosi
ties, is almost beyond human comprchcn
Even tho negroes of the Sonthj left
to their own unbiassed good nature, wonld
grant amnesty to the whites among them
—but Congress doles^out its pardons score
by score, and one by one, os a miser doles
ont his ducats; If ever power and despot
ism were made to appear contemptible, it
is when, more than five years after peace
ani complete surrender,we see the twofold
injustice of not only discriminating against
one’s own blood and race, bat rejoicing in
tbe punishment which power can inflict—
N. Y. Express.
The State Road Already Sold.—
Toe Columbus San, allnding to the report
ed contemplated sale of the State Road,
says the sale has already been made to the
Express Company, and the action of Con
gress is only waited for so that the illegal
and revolutionary may confirm the bargain.
A well posted gentleman gave the Son the
terms some months since. The Express
Company takes np tbe outstanding bonds
of the Road tq the amount of six millions
of dollars in : lien of which it issues its own
bonds to a like amount. The State endorses
the last, and the Express Company takes
the Road.
Disastrous Fire In Cartersville.
The fire originated in the store of Cojen
Gladden. All of the nortbside of tbe
square, with the exception of Stokelv and
Williams’ corner, is burnt. All the build
ings on the Bqnare on the west side of the
Depot are totally destroyed. The fireoo
enrred about 12 o’clock on the night of the
16th inst.
The proprietor of the building in which
the firo originated left the premises between
10 and 11 o’clock.
The bnilding was certainly set on fire,
bnt no clue to the incendiary has yet been
round.
The building in which the fire broke ont
was’insnred,' and there was also some insur
ance on tbe property owned by Judge Par
rott and Mr. Tomlin, bnt the amonnt of the
insurance has not beep ascertained. There
was no insurance on Mr. Campbell’s build
ing, or on-his stock, and his loss is 84,000.
The total loss, os far as ascertained, is
over 810,000, upon which there is insur
ance to the amonnt of 82,400.—At Consti
tution.
Bullock & Co—The Defeat op the
Bingham Amenmdznt.—The proceed
ings in the Senate upon the Georgia bill
were terribly disheartening to Bnllock^lod
£ett & Co. These worthies had hopes of
not only defeating the Bingham amend
ment, but they expected to shape a bill to
suit themselves. They faave spent a great
deal of money in getting np so-called spe
cial dispatches from .Georgia and publish
ing them in the Chronicle to intimidate and
affect the action of Congressmen, but the
money has been simply thiown away, and
Bullock and his confederates are complete-
routed. Their only hope now is in
throwing the case intoa committee of con
ference, where they have had the hardi
hood to assert they can ‘'fix things,” which
interpreted to mean they can bay np the
committee.—Special Telegram to RicJi-
mmd Dirpaleh 21s/.
Dreadful Accident on the. Brunswick
Railroad.
We regret to learn, ftom the dispatches
received here last night from Jessup, that a
serious accident occurred yesterday to an
excursion train on the Macon & Brunswick
Railroad, by which fonr or five persons
were killed outright, and a number more or
less seriously injured.
It appears that an excursion 'party was
made np at Qnitman, Valdosta and other
places on the line of the road for a visit to
Quitman yesterday morning and proceeded
on its way without accident until it reached
a point abont sixteen miles from Brans-
wick, when, in crossing a trestle, the crib
bing gave way and precipitated the cars
containing the exenrsionis’s a considerable
distance to the swamp below.
A telegram states that fonr or five per
sons were killed ontiight, and seveial oth
ers serionsiy wounded. No names or for-
ther particulars are given. A special train,
with medical and other aid, was dispatched
from this city to the scene of disaster late
lost night, and we shall probably receive
fall particulars of the unfortunate affair by
this morning’s train. It is understood ma
ny ladies were on board the excursion
train —Savannah Republican, 23.
Can Women Fight ?— The annuals of
the middle ages are foil of the noble deeds
of women. When Ed.rard III. was en
gaged in his Scottish War, the Countess of
Madri defended Dnnbar, with uncommon
courage and obstinacy against Montague and
English army. And contemporaneous with
her, Jane, Countess of Montford, shut her
self np in the fortress of Heonebnrn, and
defiled the whole power of Charles of Blois.
Clad in complete armor she stood formost
in the breach, sustained the most violent
assaults, and displayed a skill that wonld
havo done honor to the most experienced
generals. And Mania, of the illustrious
family of the Maldimi, sustained, honora
bly a siege against the papal troops at Ces-
ena, ten times more numerous than her
own.
Jane Hatchott repulsed, in person, a bo
dy of Burgundians when they besieged tbe
town of Beauvais. In tho chivalrous ages
women not only attacked and defended for
tifications, but even commanded armies and
obtained victories. Joan of Arc, a simple
and nneondneted shepherdess, was the in
strument of that sudden revolution in the
affairs of France which terminated in toe
establishment of Charles VII. on the throne.
Agues Sou] moused this king to deeds of
glory when sunk in enervating pleasure.—
Altrude, Countess of Bertenora, advanced
in person with an army to the relief of
Ancona. Bona Lombardi, at the head of
her brave troops, liberated her I.nsband
from captivity and imprisonmen-
Isabella of Lorraine, when her husband
was taken prisoner rallied an army for his
rescue. Margaret of Anjon was the life of
the Lancasteran party in the wars of the
Roses, and defeated, herself, the Dnke of
York at Wakefield. The Conntess Matil
da sostaired sieges against Henry IV., the
great Franconian emperor.
Severe, But Just.—The New York
World says :
There is a lady in Washington who
wears her own hair, without a chignon,
which fact deserves mention, in honor of
one who don’t disfigure herself with the car
rent vile wad. No one is deceived by these
monstrous tumors into believing any other
thing than by their assumption is indica
ted a wouderfnl lack of that long hair,
which is the glory of women, in the person
wearing them. They defile ecllais, they
exhale graveyard savors, and do away with
one of the pleasantest parts of a woman’s
head, next to her face—tbe round, shape
ly noddle, to-wit, of heanty unadorned.—
Even the close shorn ‘poll* of a bruiser is
- deferable, in a judicious eye, to the hack
irain of a pretty woman fouled np with
a mass oi horse hair, sea moss and dead
folks’ tresses. Away with it, then pood
ladies. The summer is nigh, and its heat
may reveal those taints of the ehignon which
the cold of the winter has kept under
check.”
Agriealtanl Truthi.
1. All land on which clover or the grass
es are grown, most either have lime in them
naturally, or that mineral most be artificial
ly supplied. It matters bnt little whether
it be supplied in the form of sotone lime,
oyster lime, or marl.
2. All permanent improvement of lands
most look to time as its basis.
5 Lands which have been long in col-
tore will be benefited by the application of
phosphate of lime, and it is unimportant
whether the deficiency be supplied in the
form of bonedust, guano, native phosphate,
oyster shell and lime or marl—if the lands
need lime alone.
4. No lands can be preserved in a high
state of fertility, unless clover ana the grass-
es are cultivated in the course of rota
tion.
5. Mold is indispensable in every foil,
and a healthy supply can alone be preserved
through the cultivation of clover, and the
grasses, the turning in of green crops, or
by Ah: application of composts rich in the
elements of tbe mold.
6. All highly concentrated animal ma
nures are increased in value, rod their
benefits prolonged by a mixture with plas
ter, salt, or with pulverized charcoal.
7. Deep plowing greatly imorovea the-
prodnetive powers of every variety of soil
that is not wet.
8. Snbsoiling sound land, that is, land
that is not wet, is also eminently conduc
tive to increased production.
9. All wet land shonld be drained.
10. AU grain crops should be har
vested before the grain is thoroughly
ripe.
11. Clover, as well as the grasses intend
ed for hay, shonld be mowed when in
bloom.
12. SandyTlands can be most effectually
imoroved by'clay. When snch lands re
quire liming or marling, tho lime or marl,
is most beneficially supplied when made in
to compost with clay. In slaking lime, salt
lime is better than water.
13. Tbe chopping or grinding of grain
to be fed to stock, operates as a raving of
at least twenty-five per cent.
14. Draining of wet land and marshes,
adds to their value, by makingthem to pro
duce more, and by improving the health
of neighborhoods.
15. To manure or lime /ruY'htnd*,
is to throw manure, lime and - labor away.
16. Shallow plowing operates to impover
ish the soil wh3e it decreases produc
tion. . ■
17. By stabling and shedding stock
through the winter, a saving of one fourth
oi the iood may be effected.
W. H. M. Little Prairie. Wis.
— Western Rural.
BULLOCK NOT GO Y^RNOR OF GEOR
filA.
This proposition may startle the Radi
cab, bnt is true so far as judicial decision
can make it so—a decision rendered in open
court, and by a Republican Judge. The
ease will be found reported in foil in onr lo-
eal columns this morning It appears that
a writ ot habeas corpus was sued ont in onr
Court of Ordinary, in behalf of a party
who had been arrested and lodged in jaU
on a warrant purporting to have been issued
by “Bnfns B. Bollock, Governor rf Geor
gia,” on a requisition made in dne fora by
the Governor of Kentucky. The
came np for a hearing on yerterday, before
Ordinary Wrtmore. Among the grounds
argued by the prisoner’s counsel for his
discharge,was this: That Rufus B Bol
lock was not “Governor of Georgia,”
leged in the warrant and, consequently,
that the paper purporting to be snch, was
illegal and void. This ground was sustain
ed by tbe Conrt^nd the prisoner discharg
ed. There were other exceptions taken,
'tis true, bnt this one was specifiaily held to
be good by the Court and a just ground for
the release of the prisoner.
Bollock of Governor of Georgia! Well,
that is good. We agree that he ought not
to be, but then the State, or Territory, or
District or whatever it may be, shonld
have somebody torepresent her and through
whom her people may conduct their rela
tions with and perform their constitutional
obligations towards the remainder of tho
Union. The Ordinary, it appears, did not
overlook the point, and held that General
Terry was the Chief Executive power of
the State, and all negotiations of a legal na
ture most be conducted through him. What
does General Teny say to this? And how
does BnUoek feel in having his Executive
plumage thus plucked?
While Congress is looking after Georgia
wonld it not be well to give os a Governor,
whoa the jadioial authorities of tbe conn,
try can recognize as snch? Oil, the beau-
ties of Reconstruction!
Satisfactory Evidence.—Mehemet
Ali, making a tour of his provinces once, in
great state and with a cavalry guard, was
stopped by an old woman who threw her
self at his feet. “Yonr Highness,” said
she “one of yonr soldiers has bought some
milk of me for six paras, and won’t pay me.’
Why won’t yon pay her ?’ demanded Me
hemet Ali. ‘Master,’ said he ‘this woman
lies; she has sold me no milk, and I owe her
nothing.’ ‘Yon swear by Allah that yon
speak the troth ?’ said the Pasha then to
the woman. ‘Yes I swear it.' ‘And yon
as well ?’ said ha to the soldier. ‘Yes, I
swear it’ ‘Very well,’ said the Pasha.—
Then turning to his guard, he added, with
perfect composure, “Take this man and
open his stomach.’ The Pasha’s order was
obeyed, and the milk was fonnd. Tbe sol
dier had jnst drank it. ‘The woman is right,’
said„Mehemet Ali, remounting bis horse ;
‘let her have the six paras that are dne her.’
And he continued his journey.
“Garden Sass ’’-The Augusta Constitu
tionalist is very severe on the huckster, and
growers and venders of vegetables, &o., in
the market oi that city. It closes with the
following:
We have been much amused, when hot
indignant at the method displayed to keep
eggs at 30 or 50 cents per dozen. Before
Lent, the weather was at fault. It was
too soon for hets to commence laying.—
Daring Lent, oar Catholio friends were ac
cused of monopolizing the market and
crowding the demand to a point mnch great
er than the supply. Since Lent, the chick
en cholera of last year is revamped for an
excuse. Pending Grant’s general amnesty,
who will reform the vegetable scbednle of
the market house? We shall be inclined
to nominate the illustrious individual for
the next Presidency, if he can possibly be
found. -
If onr Pur people wonld offer a premi
um fora number one gardener, instead of
for “garden sass,” they would, in case of
successful finding, be entitled to the ever
lasting gratitude of a large class of their
fellow-citizens who would never cease to re
member them in their prayers and at the
ballot box.
. . The Census of isrik
The assistants of theU. 8. District Mar
shals in taking the Census are paid as fol
lows:
Two cents for every name taken, 10
cents for every farm, 15 cents for every
iroductive establishment of industry^ cents
: or every deceased person, and 2, per cent
of tho gross amount for names enumerate-
for social statistics, and 10 cents per mill
for travel. The enumeration most he com
jleted and the returns all sent in to the
Secretary of the interior by the 1st of Nov.
next. Tho Snperitendent of the Cen3ns is
Francis A. Walker, late of the Bureau of
Statiatics, ani Assistant Special Commiuon-
of Revenue.
Osage Orange—Yalne of Timber.
Bead before the Madison County Farmer
Club No. 1, by Y. P. Richmond :
As the time oi planting hedges draws
near I wish to present yon some other
advantages of Usage Orange than hedging.
Yon have doubtless heard that the wood
does not shrink and can be worked into
wagons, etc., from the tree. I have donht
ed the fact, hot hers is a mallet, sawed in
the present shape abonta year ago ; a limb,
ent at the rune time, is the handle; a wedg-
of tho 6ame, made and driven in at the
same time. It has taken the weather aa in
eamo, and has beat mortices to an addi
turn to my barn of 28x60 feet. The han
die was a little loose once.but never enough
so to come ont.
Here are some sections of limbs cot and
thrown into a shallow ditch in 1863. "’hey
have all been in a good situation to decay.
Have we any timber that will be as sound
after ten years exposure ?
No matter how many hedges we have, we
shall want some fences, and nothing in my
opinion can be grown quicker, or will last
better than Osage Orange. Nothing trill
make better fire wood. It makes bean
poles and tomato stakes that will last for
years. I have tried it in all the ways that
coaid be so far, and am so well satisfied that
I shall begin a grove this spring. I have
ordered the plants I
4 Magnificent Iron Siractare.
Commodore Vanderbilt is turning his at
tention to the erection of a magnificent
structure of iron and glass on Fourth Ave
nue, New York, for tbe use of the ears of
his several lines of railway. The edifice,
when completed, will be the largest, most
costly and imposing bnilding oi the kind
on this continent. The weight of iron to
be used with over 9,00 .',000 pounds. It
requires 100,000 square feet of glass in
the roof alone, and 90,000 square feet of
ga’vanized and corrugated iron to cover the
roof. The roof over the car boose will ex
tend over an area limited South and West
by the office buildings, East by the Fourth
Avenue, and North by a line 30 feet 6
inches South of Forty-fifth street. The en
tire length of thi roof will be 652 feet, and
it will be 199 feet two. inches in width be
tween the walls, and supported by 32 arch
trasses, placed20 feet 4 inches apart. These
greai arches will set upon the foundation,
whose upper face is 2 feet below the sur
face of the ground, rising to an elevation
of 94 feet from the springing tins to the ex
tradoe of the arch. This depot is intended
to acoommodate the trains of the Harlem,
Hudson River and New York Central Bail-
roads. The ear house will have accommo
dations for twelre single trains, while, if it
be necessary, doable or even treble that
number can be accommodated. It is ex
pected to be open to the pnblio by January
1871.
This is something new under the sun:
The inmates of the jail in Pittsylvania Co.
Va., have formed themselves into a moral
ciatioD. Among ths articles In their
creed is one against profane swearing, the
penalty for violating which is stripes. It
was enforced on one ofthe members last
week.
At a trial in an Alabama town, not long
since, one of the witnesses, an old lady oi
some eighty years, was eloeely questioned
by the onpomng counsel relative to the
clearness of her eyesight. •Can yon see me?’
said he. ‘Yes/ was answered. ‘Hsw well
can yon see P persisted the lawyer. ‘Well
enough,' responded the lady, ‘to see that
yonr’e neither a negro, an Indian, nor a
j jentleman.’ The answer brought down the
I loose and silenced the counsel.
It seems to us some one was inquiring no
long since, abont John Smith. We have
1 fonnd him. He is sentenced to he hmng ate
LonisviUeonthe3dofJnne, for tbe mnr-
der cf George Off. lie took George Off,
bathe can't get off himself, until the plat,
orm drops.
Illinois has now 6,COO miles of Bailroad
of which 5,000 are open for bnmnera) east
ing, with their equipment 8120,000,000.
The Mobile Register suggested some
time since the snnexatioa s£ that city to
Mississippi. The Legislator* of Mimisaip-
pi looks upon the proposition with favor.-
Western News,
Aratterrier do; in Chicago killed forty
foil grown rats in nine and one-half min
utes last week.
Cure, Illinois, has 450 colored voters;
Qaincy 350; Springfield, 250.
The erection of a. 850,000 Catholic
Church has commenced-at Aurora, Illinois.
The.eKafch is 126 feet long, and will have
Worshipping room for 1,500 persons.
The next Wisconsin editorial convection
will meet at Paairie, da Chien, Jane 15.
It is understood the association will take
trip to Omaha, and perhaps to Salt Lake.
A prominent Indian politician declares
that Mr. Julian's rejection by the people of
the district was partially oaring to his au
thorship of the 16th amendment, providing
for. woman suffrage.
R. H. McBride, editor of the Eldon
(III.) Ledger, has been arrested and held to
bail in the ram of 81,500 to answer to
charges ot forging eonrty and pension pa
pers, and defranding soldiers and their rel
atives, while acting as claim agent.
A meteor has visited Bloomiogton, Illi
nois. It was in tne shape of a large ball of
fire, and was observed moving slowly along
just above the surface of the earth, in a
horizontal direction. It moved so slowly
that no trouble was experienced in obtain
ing a foil view of it, and it appeared to be
abont the size of a half bushel measure.—
When this ball of firo struck a small pnt-
builuing it exploded with a load noise, tear-
ing the boilding to atoms.
White Slavery lathe North—A White Bar
lept la Slavery oa a Repuhlicaa Farm.
A strange story is related by the Charles
ton News, of the 19th : ‘“A youth named
Geo. Siller arrived here day before yester
day, and yesterday left for Campden. He
stated that in Apnl, 1865, when the Fed
eral cavalry passed through Campden, they
took him prisoner, he then being eleven
yean of age, and carried himeffto a North
ern prison. After the conclusion of hos
tilities, a captain of the army carried him
to his farm in Pennsylvania, and made him
work as a common farm hand, until a week
ago he managed to escape.
George did not know when here what
had become of his family, as he had not
heard from them since his capture.” If
this indeed be true, it completely throws
him into the shade the story that’s been cir
culated quite extensively in tbe Northern
Radical papers, of negroes in the interior
of Alabama still held in slavery by their
Hasten, and kept in igno'rance of the
emancipation proclamation.
Dubuque fnrn’sheg us a tale with a mor-
al; it is a man who left his wife and six
small children for the purpose of spending
a year Booth on business. He was a de
ceiver, and intended to go to Indiana and
get a divorce, and marry a younger and pret
tier woman than his wife. He went, bnt
retribution overtook him in the state of di
vorce with chills and fever, and shook him
into a repentant mind. He went back again
to .his home, was forgiven, and everything
was lovely once more.
In the local column of the Columbus,
Ga. Ban, we find the following:
Not Anxious to Sey JIim.—The ne
-roes were having a revival last week.—
; Some of the sisterhood became very happy,
shouted all church time and all the way
j ping home. A few of them stopped at
Goetchin’s shop to shout. The bell rope
had broken, and a man was in the steeple
fixing it, jnst as tbe shooters arrived. Tba
hoar was late. Tbe women were yelling,
“I’m so happy 11 want to see Jesus I—
I want to bso him bad! Come Jesns right
now!” Jnst then a voice come from the
belfry, ‘Send that woman np—I want her.’
The darkles heard the voice, as though it
was something not of earth, stopped shout
ing and darted.
“I went to the Legislature last year, said
a Georgian. Welt I went to Angnsta and
took dinner at a tavern. Right behind me
rata member from one of the black towns,
who had never before taken dinner at a
tavern. Before hia plate was a dish of
leppere, and he kept looking at them.—
<'ioally, as the waiter was very slow in
bringing on things, he np with a fork and
in leas than no time soused one into his
month. As he brought down his grind
ers the tears came into his eyes. At last
spitting the pepper into his hand, he laid
it down by the side of his plate, and with
a voice that set the whole table in a roar,
exclaimed, “jnst lay thar now and cool.”
A sermon recently delivered in Beading,
Pa^ was from a text which the preacher
found in Job, which runs as foUoas : -
Though after my skin, worms destroy this
body, yet in my flesh I shall see God.”—
This wra divided into three parts as follows:
Fust, Skin worms; 2d, What they done;
and 3dr What tbe man seen after he was
eat up.”
A Singular Remedy.—Whenever
Burke fonnd himself indisposed, he order
ed a kettle of water to be kept boUtng, of
which he drank largo quantities, sometimes
so mnch as fonr, or even five quarts in the
even five quarts in tbe morning, without
any mixture or infusion, acd as hot as he
coold bear. His manner was to pour about
a pint at a time in a basin, and to drink it
with a spoon as if it had been soap. Warm
water he said wonld relax and nauseate,
but :ot water was the finest stimnlent and
most powerful restorative in the world. He
certainly thought it a sovereign care for
every complaint, and not on'y took it him-
sell, bnt prescribed it, with the confidence
of a Sangrado, to every patient that came
in his way.—Dujlin University Magazine
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South. The General Conference of the
MethodL-t Episcopal Church South, which
convenes in Memphis, Tennessee, early in
May, will be, for several reasons, one of
the most important sessions of that body
which has ever been held. The General
Conference, for the first time since its exis
tone;, will be composed ot an equal num
ber of lay and clerical delegates, and be
sides this there seems to be not only a gen
eral desire on the part of the laity, hut an
increased desire on the part of the clergy
for a restoration of what is known as tbe
old two year rale—the last General Con
ference having extended the term to fonr
years. This change has never been popu
lar with a large number of the laity, who
now desire its repeal This and ether im
portant matters will, perhaps, be acted up
on.
German Emigration to California.
—Dr. Klinworth, President of an associa
tion called the Algemine Colonization Ges-
selshaft, is in California to select an elligi-
ble location for a large nnmber of colonists
whom bis association is preparing to send
to the Pacific. He has already arranged for
tbe transportation of three hundred- head
of families, who will go to California over
the Pacific Bailroad in May. These are to
be an advance guard of a thousand addi
tional families who will foliew. The fare
over the Railroad is to be 840 each for
grown persons; children under five yeus of
age free, and those between five and twelve
820.
Wholesai eI Plundering.—Bat few
have an idea of the. _ quantity of pnblic
lands that have been squandered'in bnild
ing thb Western Railroads. On the ' occa
sion of the final passage by the Senate, of
the joint resolution authorizing the North
ern Pacific Bailroad company to issue its
bonds for the construction of the road and
to secure the same 0y JIortgage.it was shown
in debate that the lands already granted by
Congress to the varions Pacific Bailr ads
exceeded the combined area of Great Brit
ain and France, and it was hinted ontaide
that the pending bill was one ot the great
est lobby schemes now before Congress.
The Income Tax.—The Philadelphia
Press says: *
It is encouraging to know that there is
strong feeling in the Ways and Means
Committee to report in favor of two and
half per cent tax cp incomes instead of
five, with an exemption of two thonsajd
dollars. Had snch a bill been reported and
promptly passed at tbe opening of the ses
sion, before the retaros for the year were
made ont, it wonld have, we think, very
materially increased their amount.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Reported tor the Trt-Weekly Coaner.
Washington, April 29^-This mornings’
Republican says that a telegram was receiv
ed yesterday at the navy department from
Havana stating that the VaHamtears had
rebelled, and assumed charge of affairs.
The Aspinwall steamer had been detained
by the Yalnmtiers, and the impression pre
vailed that they wonld take charge of tbe Is
land.
Havanna, April 29.—The Spanish author
ities delivered tbe steamer Lloyd at Aspin-
walL The Captain refused to accept the
steamer, churning on indemnity of tjiree hun
dred dollars for every days’s detention. The
Consol General of the United States at last
accepted the steamer for the government, and
hoisted tho American flag on hoard.
Paeis, April 29.—Political
throughout the country. On the breaking np
of a turbulent meeting in this city there were
boisterous cries, “Viva La Ropubliquo,” N.
violence.
Nothing in the House but private bills.
In the Senate a bill was introduced for the
settlement of accounts between Railroad cor
porations and the United States government.
Richkond, Ya. April 29.—The Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia decided this
morning at 10 o’clock that the enabling act
passed by the Legislature, was constitutional,
and that Henry K. Ellison, and not George
Gaboon, is the lawful Mayor of this city, and
that all acts of Mr. Ellison, with the State
laws, are legal and binding. Mr. Cahoon,
under his formal agreement, will retire trom
the field, and Mr. Ellison remains Mayor o
the city.
Thd opinion is voluminous,covering overy
point raised.
Paris, April 29.—The medical students are
expected to make farther demonstration on
opening the college next Monday.
The Pope still persists in withholding M.
Danis’ note from the Ecumenical Council,
notwithstanding the concurrence of the great
powers expressed therein.
Abont three hundred refugees, who had
been compromised in the late troubles in
Spain, arrived in France yesterday.
Washington, April 29.—Sheridan tele
graphs here that he goes westward, owing to
the growing seriousness of Indian affairs.—
Tho steamer Michigan, mounting 12 guns,
was sent to Detroit to watch the English ex
pedition to Red River.
There have been no official reports receiv
ed, bnt unofficial statements show that the
volunteers are in rebellion against Spain.
In the Senate a hill passed to provide for
the building of a postoffica, United States
Revenue, and q^her offices* in Montgomery,
Ala. * - - • - -
The committee on balking and currency
reported a bill to increase Banking facilities
London, April 29.—The project for a ship
canal from Liverpool to Manchester is re
vived.
The Arch.Bishop ot CanttrVrry bra re
ceived a letter confirming the rumored assas
sination of the American Consul at Jeddo
has had a depressing effect on the Japan
esc loan.
Paris, April IB.—Indications of tuzbnlsaoo
plebecite meeting increasing.
Madrid, April 29.—Thcjournals diny Ser
ranos’ intention to resign in favor of a Regen
cy composed of three persons.
Richmond, April 29.—Twelve funerals of
the vic tims of the recent disaster, took ploco
to-day, including E. JL Sahoffield, tho city
assessor, and brother of Hnj. GenL Schofield,
which wa3 attended by nearly 2000 people.
The collector of city taxes, J alius -A Hobson,
and the chief of the fire department, Wm. A.
Charters, were the last being attended by
an immense crowd; the bodies being conveyed
on an engine, and all the engines of the de
partment were decorated with evergreens.
j£A letter has been written to Gen. Canby by
Gov. Walker, thanking him for his kindness
in furnishing surgeons, and other kindnesses
to the wounded in the late disaster.
A telegram was received by the Secretary
of the State to-day from Mayor Cox, of Phil
adelphia, stating that subscriptions were be
ing raised in that city for the sufferers’ and
that Mr. Childs, of the Public Ledger, head
ed a list with one thousand dollars. A mer
chant of Chicago has also advised the com
mittee to draw on him for necessary funds.—
A delegation of citizens of Petersburg ar
rived this morning to attend the obsequies of
the victims.
At 6 o’clock this afternoon all the city prop
erty in his possession was surrendered by
Mayor Cahoon to Mayor Ellison, in accord
ance with the decision of the Supreme Court
of Appeals.
No farther deaths has occurred to day.
Atlanta, April 29.—In the house to-day,
the only important action, was the effort to
seat six members claiming to have been elect
ed under authority of the old organization.
A resolution to that effect was adopted, yeas
66. nays 59. Many absentees. Notice given
for reconsideration to-morrow.
A resolution expressing the sympathy of
the Legislature of Ga. with the sufferecs, by
the late accident at the capital of Ya., was
adopted by both booses. In tbe Senate, a
resolution was adopted continuing the appro
priation act of 1869 fortius year; yeas 29,
nays 7. A resolution continuing the tax act of
1869 adopted by the same vote. A resolution
authorizing the Governor to provide for the
pnblic interest and princpal of public debt
accruing prior to the first of June, 1870, in
accordance with the Code; adopted, yeas 18,
nays 15. A resolution was adopted appoint
ing a committee of 3 in the Senate a 5 in the
House, to Investigate the ^affairs of the W. A
Railroad, requested-by the Gov.; also to visit
the Penitentiary- A resolution was adopted
ontinning in force the relief act of last snm-
Washikgton, May 2.—The Supreme Court
of the United States has decided in the case
of the United States vs Edward Hadelford—
appeal from the Court of Chums. The ap
peal w as brought before the Coart as a claim
under the captured and abandoned property
act of March 12th, 1863, for half the pro
ceeds paid into the Treasury of 1293 bales of
cotton, captured at Savannah, and turned
over to a Treasury agent, and sold under that
act.
The Conrt says, in conclusion : “If follow
ing that, at the time of the seizure of the pe
titioner’s property, he was purged of what
ever offence against the laws of the United
States he had committed by the act mention
ed in the findings, and relieved from any pen
alty which he might have incurred. It fol
lows farther that if the property hod been
seized before the oath was taken, the faith.of
the government was pledged to its restoration
upon the taking of the oath in good faith.—
We cannot donbt that the petitioner’s right
to the property in question at the time of the
seizure was perfect, except as against the
acts of military commanders, and that it is
mode absolutely perfect by pardon, notwith
standing the seizure. But it has been sug
gested that the property was captured in fact,
if not lawfully, and that the proceeds having
been paid into the Treasury of the United
States; the petitioner is withont remedy in
the Court of Claims, unless proof is made
that be gave no aid or comfort to the rebel
lion. The suggestion is nngenious, hntwc
do not think it sound. The sufficient answer
s this, after the pardon; no offense connect
ed with the rebellion can bo imputed to him.
If, in other respects, .the petitioners made the
proof which, nnder the act, entitled him to
decree for the proceeds of his property, the
law makes tbe proof of of pardon a -com
plete substitute for the proof that be gave no
aid or comfort to the rebellion. A different
cons traction wonld, as it seems to us, defeat
the manifest intent of the proclamation, and
of the act of Congress which authorized it
Under the proclamation, and nnder the act
tho government became a trustee, holding the
proceeds ot the petitioner’s property. This
benefit having been folly reimbursed for all
expenses incurred in that character, loses
nothing by the judgement which simply
awards to the petitioner what is his own.—
These views require the affirmance of the
judgment of the Court of Claims, and it is
accordingly affirmed.
Washington, May 2.—Canby has issued
on order relinquishing the command of the
Department ot Virginia, and orders his sub
ordinates to report to Gen, McDowell, com
manding the Department of the East.
The District Attorney Generalship of Vir
ginia is at the disposal of Ex-Govemor.Wells.
San Domingo votes 15,000for, and 110,000
against annexation.
At the October term of the Supreme Court
the case of Knox vs Lee. will come up for re
argument. It is a question of sequestration
nnder the Confederate law, and in the deci
sion of Judge Davis, he charged tho jury
that payment can ho made in legal tender
notes of the United States. The difficulty
was upon the instruction, and the argument
has been ordered because it opens np the
whole question of the constitutionality of the
legal tender acts of Congress
The Pnblic Debt statement for April shows
the total debt to he, §654.193,484 72,
Amount in tho Treasury §233,329,150 37.—
Debt less amount in the Treasury §2.520,-
864,334 35. Decrease ofthe public debt dur
ing the month'll,697,793 39.
In the Honse a hill was offered to umcml
the act declaring the Railroad bridges of the
New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Rail
road Company a post load.
The hill allowing three thousand dollars a
year to the widow of President Lincoln, pass-
Yeas72;nays 51.
A resolution declaring
the American people ths
tion should be made
destroyed by the Ala
the President to press t
immediate settlement,
mittee on foreign affairs.
A joint resolution was r
30th of May a perpeti
be observed by the
States in decorating the f
soldie rs.
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ed.