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FRIDAY MORNING, May 20.
ABOUT AUGUSTA.
We spent part, of las.; week in Augusta.
We have never been more surprised in
' the appearance of a city in our life. We
do not nesitate to pronounce it tlie hand
somest city in the State, and as tar as our
knowledge goes the handsomest in the
South. It is surprising to see how far
ahead of Atlanta it is.
Living under the shadow of that latter
place, we had really, imagined that there
was no city in the State but Atlanta-—but
had it not been for dim rumors of one town
called New York, we should have con
cluded that Atlanta was the only cor-
forated city beyond Kingston. A few
hour, ride through Augusta dissipated this
dream. There iuan air of sturdy comfort and
well—assured elegance, that bids strong
ly for the good’opinicn of a stranger. It
is a vigorous, well-built, staunch, growing
city, tree alike from the frothy fuss and
bluster that characterizes Atlanta, and thg
mouldy stiffness that marks the anei ut aud
emeneufly respectable city of Macon.
There is probably as much capital aggre
gated in Augusta as in any city in the State
The difficulty about it is, that too much of
this capital is tied ap in stocks, railroad
bonds, &e , and the city does not reap the
same benefit that she would from half the
amouut of active floating capital. Had
this city a little ofthe uerve aud dash of
Atlanta, there is no telliug to what fu
ture her capitalists might lead her. She
would happily become (as she will become
in time,) the most important manufacturing
point in State. As a distributing depot for
a very largo and fertile section of country,
they support some of the best merchants
and largest dealers that we know of.
But the chief charm about Augusta, is
that easy quiet well-bred manner in which
she dces]business; it is really a pleasure to
walk through her streets, and contrast tho
courtesy and grace of her merchants with
the general habits of the latter-day traders.
In a word Augusta is au aristocratic city
whose people can well afford to live on the
interest of their-bonds and stocks, and are
yet awake to the high destiny to which their
surroundings call them. Hence the appa
rently careless yet really earnest way in
which things are carriod on in the Forest
City.
We were much struck with a remark
made by an Augustan with whom we were
talking. We said “why is it that you have
no better restaurants in Augusta? The
Atlanta restaurants, are ten to one better
than your’s.” ‘ ‘Because” says he “we have
better homes in Augnsta than in Atlanta
In that place three fourths of the people
board at a restaurant, and spend their
nights in a sleeping ear—here the people
have comfortable homes and ihcy onjoy
them. The people who live at restaurants,"
says my fi-iond, “are the uuhappicst people
in the world; we don’t want restaurants.”
There are some very handsome private
residences in Augusta, and Green Street is
with the exception of oue or two streets in
New Orleans the handsomest street we have
ever seen. HarriscnviHo Wobdlawn and
Sand Hills are beautiful little suburban
villages, where the princes of the cicy have
charming residences. During our stay iu
Augusta, the ..orticultural Fair given
under the auspices of the cotton States
Fair As ojiation.jand,the convention of the
Stock holders of the Ga., Railroad, were
ja progress. In honor of these festivit es
the city had dccned her holiday clothes,
and given herself up to joy aod feasting.
The holiday of a rich uiau is a great occa
sion to his friends; the gala day of a rich
eity is a high old time for hi r visitors. We
have never spent a more pleasant weGk
than the one from whose mellowing effects
we art- even now recovering. To many of
the Augustaos we are indebted for hospi-
fa ! ities tendered, and to none more so than
to our brother editors of the Chronicle and
•Constitutionalist. We return acknowledge
ments aud hope that their success may
be commensurate with that of the beauti
ful city in which they have cast their
lots.
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THE McMAKLAND TRIAL.
This trial is now over. We have not
published the details as they appeared in
tlie New York papers because they were
too tedious r.nd too filthy The gist of the
matter is this. Mr. McFailand had a
wife who wrote for the papers, was -an ac
tress aud didn’t love her husband. She itn
agiued that shed had “au affinity” (what
ever that is) fsr one man Richardson. Ho
very naturally encouraged the budding of
this “affinity,” until Mr. McFarland dis
covered him in some questionable yrcdica-
moots with bis wife. McFarland immediately
honey-combed the skull of Mr. Richardson
with some pistol ballets. Mr. McFarland
was arrested and after a long trial acquit
ted—the jury haviug decided that any man
who steps between man and wile, may be
shot with impunity. The trial was lumin
Oils with startling developments one of the
most prominent of-which was that Horace
Greely, that mildewy old relic of the Tri
bune,had been having“affiinities”for several
ladies of the city of Gotham. A-Jack-a-day !
wliat are we coming too ?
An Expensive Relic.—That incorrigi
ble besgar, Mrs. Lincoln is again begging
the government for money. The immaeu-
ulate Abraham, her virtuous spouse, made
§75,000 by his services as 'President—the
government then gave her 825,000 and:
pensioned her for lPc- She went to Ger
many : —spent the money in carousals with
the fun-loving Germans, and now asks the
United States for more. Verily she’s a ra
pacious old rip'
“Census.”—The Rev. A. W Caldwell
has been appointed United States Deputy
Marshall to take the census of' this county,
and will doubtless enter upon the discharge
of his duties about the 1st of June.
What 4 * the Difference.—The Con
stitution shows that Bullock’s expenditures
for the simple matter of clerk hire, was four
teen thousand-one hundred aud fjur dol
lars above the gxpenscs of Jenkins for the
same thing. Bullock’s friends claim that
though his expenses were thus much lar
ger than Jenkin’s, yet he made no crimi
nal use of the funds. We would ask, Is it
not criminal to thus expend 814,000 of
the people’s money above what experience
had shown to be sufficient ? But the ques
tion of criminality is a slight one. The
money has, been squandered. The people
suffer, and as they clap their hands on their
pockets emptied by Bullock and his satel
lites, they do not care to know whether
Bullock is simply an idiot, spendthrift or a
crafty scoundrel. Qnc thing is patent and
will be remembered by the people—that
fourteen thousand dollars of their hard-earn
ed money has been : squandered, and that
Rufus'B. Bullock','Esq. is responsible for
HOBSON’S CHOICE.
Which docs Georgia prefer ? A military
government or a provisional government; a
Terry or a Bullock ?
This is a question which the Democrats
in Congress are anxiously propounding to
tbe'r brother Democrats in Georgia. Hold
ing the balance of power in this matter,
they do not wish to act until they have tho
express wishes of the people most concern-'
ed.
We, for one, distain to express any pre
ference at all. We denounce as unjust aud
iniquitous the whole scheme of reconstruc
tion, yet acknowledge that we are partially
to blame for its perpetuation. By a spirit
of compromise wo have given it a show of
sanction. And this apparent sanction has
been the prime force that clamped the re-
construction acts upon U3. Had the State
endured in silence all the annoyances di
rectly consequent upon the termination of
the war, the political pot would have ceas
ed its bubhlings long ago. And now that
we can see a - shimmering of light upon
our horizon, we prefer to wait in patience
for the full bursting forth of the propitious
sunshino, rather than attempt to forestall
its coming, by ineffectual and dangerous
tip toe-ings and peeptngs.
Messieurs.-Suaset, Oox & Co, we polite
]y request you to hoe your own row.—
While we cannot conceive of a government
more oppressive than our present one, or a
ruler more odious than the delectable Bul
lock, yet we feel that it would be a grand
blunder to sanction, by a free choice the
establishment of a military government
and the reduction of Georgia to thj condi-
tion ot' “a province to the Empire." Were
we to do this we would sacrifice our right
to battle against despotism, because, by our
voluntary choice, we would justify its most
abominable outrage. Hence we prefer to
suffer and be silent, trusting in God and
ourselves.
As for you, Messrs. Butler and Sumner,
we beg you, in the name of your loved
New England, to give us the best terms
you can. Wo will accept them with thank
fulness, and our gratitude will be yours—
until we have a voice in the National Halls
—and then—oh land of the ligneous nut
meg and deceptive sausage, we will balance
accounts with yon.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
Napoleon is at last firmly saddled upon
the 1 reach people. Do lately submitted
to them what he called a “plebiscitum.”—
The gist, of this plebiscitum was that no
chanuc could be made in'the Constitution
of France unless it was first proposed by
the Emperor. The plebiscitum was de
clared law by a majority of five millions of
votes. So thus Napoleon e'joys his Aus-
litz, end has uo fears of a Waterloo.
Susan Anthony swears by the breeches
of Mary Walker, that she will never go to
Heaven till she is blesse with the privi
leges of the ballot. A very important mat
ter for Susan to look into is as to whether
or not she will go to Heaven even then.
Schenck, in the halls of Congress called
Logan a “pismire.” Being informed th>t
this epithet was unparliamentary, he modi
fied it to “grasshopper.”
The Constitution informs us that one of
Bullock’s Secretaries was trying to sell his
pay warrant on the Treasurer. He said
that he could’nt get anything from Angler
because the latter declared that the Treas-
irry icas empty. And yet these are men who,
in the face of this fact pretend tj believe
that Bullock is an honest man,
Miss Phoebe Cousens, a charming lecturer
on woman’s rights, attempted to prove from
the Bible that man’s proper sphere is wip
ing dishes. She quotes the following from
2nd Kings 21:13—“I will wipe Jerusalem
as a man wipetha dish—wiping and turn
ing it upside down ”
The grasshoppers are very ruinous to tljo
crops in Utah. Perfect swarms of them
infect the territory, and render it almost
impossible for a farmer to preserve his
crops.
“Giu and milk” is demoralising the
Northern clergy. One Mr. Smyth (not
JSmith) has come to grief on account of this
seductive mixture. Ho lately preached a
very fervid sermon, and upon its conclu
sion, invited some of his congregation to
join him in a sip of the above mentioned
luscious combination. He captured and
stored away so much of the adulterated lac
teal that his perambulations were not mark
ed by that adherence to a strict “bee line”
which is so becoming to meu of bis profes
sion. In short, he got drunk and he wab
bled His congregation tried and convict
ed him, apd cautioned him not to get drunk
any more in the day tithe.
Newn in Paper Mills.—A lew weeks
since we received from Mr. J. M. Moyers
one of the proprietors, a bundle of paper
made at the above named mills. The tex
ture and uniform thickness of the paper are
excellent,, and it is in every lespect, a first
rate article except in color. That sent
did hoc possess that perfect whiteness which
is desirable, but this fault can be easily rem
edied, and we are informed it has been.—
We arc assured that the very best machi
uery is used at those millB, and we have no
doubt they will soon be successful compe
titors with the best in the country. We
would commend these mills to publishers
and job printers. Address Paper Mil!:
Newnan, Ga.
Bullock has drawn this mouth, (so the
Constitution says) five thousand and odd
dollars in favor of the Atlanta New Era.—
With this bonus, it is possible that (evcD
witk the stupid and childish personalities
of Mr. Seruggy) it may eke its miserable
existence for a few months longer, then
will die, and “what will poor Scraggy do
.then '?
Interesting to Farmers.—There has
been sold in this city in the last 5 months
about 39,000 bushels of Northern corn,
say 81 45 per bushel, and. 400 tons of
Northern hay at 840 per ton. Thus car.
rying from our section about 860,000. Ba
con, flour, and other natural products of
this section would swell the toe figures to
over 8100,000. But don’t mind this—eon
tinue to plant cotton, live poor, and curse
somebody or something for had luck
The Ep.scopal GonVention—The State
Convention of the Protestant. Episcopal
Chu.eh of Georgia, that, has recently been
an session Albany, adjourned on Friday,
»hc Gtb, to oaeet in this city next May.
Jim Fisk, jr., is emphatically the sen
sation of the age. The "following is bis la
test freak :
Jas Fisk, jr, will appear behind a six-
in-hand at Long Branch this summer. The
first, or wheel span will be composed of a
‘‘nigh” black horse and a white “ofF’
horse; the middle span will he a nigh white
and a black off, and vice versa for the lead
ers, thus making the most noted and bean
tiful team in tbs States The carriage, now
being finished, will ha tho most imposing,
according to the Home Journal, ever built
in this country, or in Europe—the whole
equipment, with London harness, .costs
835,000.
Don’t be Partial, Governor.—The
Mr. Bullock, who fills the Gnbernhtoiial
Chair of this State, is suing the Constitu
tion }n Atlanta for libel. The New York
Herald has g’.vej) Mr. B. precisely the same
ground for a libel suit that the Constitu
tion has. So, Governor, why don’t you
sue t^-it paper also ? I t is wrong to ad
vertise on® journal,. and leave another- in
obscurity when their actions have been ex
actly similar.
Late Dispatches.
Memphis, May 17.—uonlerenoe indefi
nitely postponed the question of itinerancy
—thus leaving the law as before.
New 1 ork, May 17—Passenger car
and freight cur with fifteen tous of pi:
iron tell from an elevated track. None se-
rioiisly hurt. Accident caused by a flaw
in oue of the connecting rods. Cars badly
wrecked and an entire span of track over
Houston street dost toyed.
Charleston, May 17.—One of the Jar
gest mass meetings ever held iu this city
took place last night, nnder call for citizens
ol all classes, colors and political parties, to
inaugurate a movement for retrenching and
reform in the State government. This was
the first occasion on which there has been
cordial political commingling of white and
colored citizens. Officers of the meeting, us
well as speakers, were both white and col
ored mixed. Delegates were appointed to
represent Charleston in the State Reform
Convention to be held in Colnuibia July
15th, to which the other coantiesare invi
ted to send delegates. Great enthusiasm
prevailed.
Grant continues to u ake decent provis
ion fur his family He has appoiuced G.
W; Dent, a brother-in-law, Appraiser at
San Francisco.
What Immigration Does.
The New York Herald says: “The
deaths in New York city last weok were
424 ; the stillborn 45—total bill of mortal
ity, 469 The births for the week were
276 Excess of deaths over births 193.—
The average weekly excess of mortality for
the year over the births we may set down
at 20t>, and be within tho mark. At this
rate the city, without any accession from
the outside world, would, in tho coarse of
a single year, be reduced iu its population
over 10,000, and the same ratio of loss ap
plied to the population of the United .States
would reduce it in one year to the exteut
of over 400,000. What a lesson for the po
litical economist is here 1”
A Singular Statement. -The editor
of the Freeman’s Journal, alluding to the
recent terrible hail storm in Philadelphia
says:
“A friend, long resident in Buenos
Ayres, where all kind of furious convul
sions arc iu order, assures us of two facts
One is that the old Cathedral bell, that
echoes all over the city is rung at every ap
proach of a storm. The other fact is,that
while there are enough of tempests
around, the city of Buenos Ayres is exempt
from disasters of the kind. The service as
it stands, attributes this power to blessed
bells over the spirits of the air.
We believe ’he service for blessing bells
are true. Wedo Dot like to live out of bearin':
of a consecrated bell. It grieves us tbat,so
often, after their baptism, they are left
as dumb dogs, when they ought to speak.”
Who can doubt the benefit of advertising
after reading the following:
A family in Florida lost their little bo'
and they advertised lor him in the daily
paper. That very afternoon an alligator
crawled up cut ot the swamp and died on
the front doorstep. In his stomach were
found a baneful of red hair, some bone
buttons, a glass alley, a brass-barrelled pis
tol, a Sunday school book, and a pair of
check pants. The advertisement did it.”
New England gives Tone to the Union.
Is this fo? If Paris is France, Boston
is New Eiglad- And we accept the dec
laration as that the pieseht most unfortu
nate political and moral tone of the country
at large is due to that section.
Wo have for the past quarter of a cen
tnry heard constantly announced from the
rostrum and the pnlpit, that “New England
gives tone to the Union;” and it is hardly
worth while to dispute it,when the national
demoralization acccords so well with the
foul moral stench of Boston, the very
heart of the Pilgrim section. From au
thority, that even New England itself wiU
not dispute, that of Wendell Phillips, we
learn the following concerning Boston, tho*
chief city of the Puritan quarter of the
country.
Boston is a city in which every tenth
persou is a criminal and every seventh a
pauper. Three-quarters of onr farms are
mortgaged for drin*-', two-thirds of the pul-
aits are fillrd with drunkards, and the
Dench of justice is nearly vacant because
one-half of the judges have "died drunk
ards.”
That being the case, is it at all extraordi
nary that there should roll over the land
such a sea of politioal and social poison as
New England has poured forth ip the
past quarter of a century.
Napoleon Ahead ot the Holy
Father.—Napoleon with his plebiscite.
which is a sort of imperial dogma of infal
libility, is ahead of the Pope wifb his dog
ma. But as they say that the Pope, through
the Church, came into France to the rescue
of the Emperor, the Emperor should now
interpose for the rescue of the Pope, and
perhaps he will. And why not? Surely one
good turn deserves another.
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The ffioce of Presiding Elder"will not J>e
abolished iu the M. E. GJiurch (South), and
a proposition is before-the Oonterence to
strike out tho word •’South” from the title
of the Church.
Tbe Methodist Re-Union.
Memphis, May 15-—The fourth resolu
tion proposed by the committee to whom
was referred the proposal for re-union with
the Northern Methodists, says : It is the
Judgment of this Conference that the true
interests of the Church of Christ require
and demand the 'Jnaintaiuance of a sepa
rate and distinct organization. The reso
lutions were adopted,
Brick Pomerojismy.
From Pomeroy’s New Democrat we cull
the foilowing paragraphs:
A woman in Cleveland poured some ker
osene on some horning shavings at 4 o’clcck
m tbe afternoon, and at 8 o’clock thesamo
evening a man was making arrangements
for the funeral. That’s the soonest yet.
A Louisville bar-keeper is in jail for
murder. He says that while chasing a man
with a carving knife, he was was taken
with a fit of temporary insanity, and the
maa died
We are prepared to believe almost any
thing we come in contact with iu the pa
pers, but that story about a keg of butter
being put into a well, in Pennsylvania, to
cool, thirty yeais ago, and just having been
taken out last week as sweet as when it was
patio, is a little to> rank for us. And Pen-
syPania butter, too I
- A Wisconsin paper tried to mention fa
vorably a color-bearer of the First Regi
ment, and the compositor made it read
“colored barber” of tbe regiment. A duel
was prevented by an apology.
Dr. McMillen, of Martinsville, Indiana,
successfully removed the undeijaw of a la
dy a few days since. He can get all the
practice he wants th-re now, some men
coming as far as fifty miles to get him to
so and amputate their wives’ jaws. Any
number ot them will be jawless.
The teport that Collector Bailey has com-
initted suicide is altogether too thin. Rad
icaF with two hundred thousand dollars in
their trousers, made in a few months by
strict attention to business, are not in the
habit of severing their jugular, or blowing
trap doors in their heads. No, we rather
hold to the opinion that he has “gone
where the woodbine twiaeth.” ’
Grant is going to visit his farm near St.
Louis soon. There is a mau there that owes
him seven dollars for wood which Ulysses
sold him, taking a part of the pay in whis
ky. The man insists that Grant dra k it
all oat, and the President says he will have
the money, if he has to call out the troops
to enforce his elaim. We sincerely hope
this may be settled without bloodshed.
The Cotton Crop. — Commissioner
Caprou estimates the cotton of 1869 as fol
lows, in comparison with that of1868 :
Product compared Yield
North Carolina,
with that of 1S6S,
Per cent.
95
per acre;
Pounds.
145
South Carolina,
85
133
Georgia,
85
150
Florida,
107
153
Alabama,
. 108
176
Mississippi,
115
201
Louisiana,
112
263
Texas,
125
275
Arkansas,
110
251
Tennessee,
85
160
Tbe aggregate product, in Accordance
with leturns made at the Agricultural Bu-
rea, is little more than ten per cent, above
the yield of 1868, or about 2,700,000 com
mercial bales.
Early Wheat.—We copy tbe following
items from the Opelika (Ala.) Recorder,
of Thursday last ;
Captain Wilson, of Loachapoka, has ex
hibited to us a specimen cf his “early va
riety” of wheat, which was cut on the 26th
of April, in full bloom. This wheat was
put in on the 23d of December ast, is re
markably fine, full grown, being just four
months growth.- Captain Wilsin raised of
this variety last year tweuty-two oushels
per acre, weighing 64 pounds per bushel.
Again—Our friend W. A. Ambrose, of
Salem, exhibits a Sue specimen of wheat.
It was sown on the 3d of December, and
is well headed and is five fei t in height.
Ambrose matches Captain Wilson well, but
there is a difference ot twenty days in age,
which is in favor of the Wilson variety.
A Nice Juryman.—A Quincey cor
respondent of the Tallahassee Floridan re
lates the following incident as having oc
curred in Court there recently ;
“A negro juror was asked by the acting
States Attorney if he bad taken an oath in
any secret organization when acting as a
juror not to bring in a verdict against any
one of tns own color where a white man was
interested. He replied that he had. The
Judge immediately ordered his name to be
stricken from the list of jurors.”
•A Vicious Cat.—A cat nearly caused
the death of a child in Perry conoty, Ohio,
a few days ago. Onr informant states that
Mrs. Jeremiah Hall left her child, aged
about oine months, in the roam playing
with the cat wMle she was engaged in an
other part of tbe house. After seme time
she went to see about the child, when she
saw the cat sitting on its breast with its
nose inserted in the child’s month and its
pans clasped around its neck. Mrs. Hall
ran and threw the cat from the chili, which
was almost lifeless, bat the cat immediate
ly sprang back on the child, placing its
nose in tbe child’s mouth and clasping it
around the neck as before. A second lime
the animal was thrown back, and then,
greatly enraged, it sprang forward and
caught the child by the throat. After re
leasing the child, the cat was taken out and
immediately killed. The child recovered
in a few days. But for the timely re
turn ofthe mother to see the child, it soon
would have been placed beyond the hope of
recovery.
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 ho nor
of one who don’t .disfigure herself with tbe
current vile wad. No one is deceived by
these monstrous tnmors into bclieviog any
other thing than by their assumption is in
dicated a wonderful lack of that longhair
which is the glory of woman, in the person
wearing them. They defile collars, they
exhale graveyard savors, and do away with
one of the pleasantest parts of a woman’s
head, next to her face—the round, shapely
coddle to wit, of beanty unadorned. Evsn
the close shorn “poll” of a bruiser is pref
erable, in a judicious eye, to the back brain
of a pretty womon foaled ap with a mass of
horse hair, sea moss and dead folk's tresses.
Away with it, then good ladies. The snm-
mer is nigh, and its heat may reveal those
taints of the chignon which the cold of the
winter has kept nnder check.”
Important Legal Decision.—Last
week in onr sister State, Little Rhody, two
children entered- an office to sell some sas
safras baric whereupon an energetio ganr-
diao of tbe law questioned them veiy close
ly concerning their license. The children
were somewhat frightened, and, not exact
ly comprehending the subject, tbe boy an
swered—‘I’ve got a dog, he’s licensed.’—
The case was immediately decided by a gen
tleman piesent, who relieved the minds of
the children by saying : ‘Go along, yon ’re
all right, if yon have got a dog, and he’s
licensedyou have a right to peddle as mneb
bprJc as yon like.’—New Bedford (Mass.)
Standard.
[Special Cor. Constitution
BILL ARP BREAKS SILENCE,
One member ofthe Massachusetts Sen
ate resolutely refused to be presented to
United States Senator Revels when he visi
ted tbe Legislature.
JSF’The House Committee on Recon
struction has proposed in lien of the Sen
ate amendmtnt to re-introduce the original
Georgia hill with the addition of the em
ployment of militia omiting Bingham’s
amendment. They propose leaving the
terms of office to judical decision. The
matter comes before the house fo day.
A Racy Description of the Augusta Rail,
road Convention—A Chapter on Ax Grind-
Augusty, May 12 1870.
Editor Constitution—I don’t see you
this lovely city^ You ought to have come.
Yon don’t know what yon have mi=sed.
love Augnsty; I love her beautiful streets;
her venerable building and the time-bon
ored names that overhang their doors; 1
love her evergreens and flowers; I love her
Planter’s Hotel and Mr. Goldstein; I love
her Fair Grounds and fair sex, her matrons
and her maidens (that last love is an ex
tract from Mr. Howard's speech, yon can
keep it out of the copy you send to my
house); I love her street cars at 10 cents
a ride; her noble firemen; he; beautiful
fire engines and Big Steve. I love every
thing in Angusty, and especially her many
conventions to wMch everybody and his
wife goes free. ' Bat Mr. editor, I deem "
my duty to tell Atlanty her impending dan
ger. Yon have’nt got any May Convention
Ycn’ve got'no long railroad with 1,300
stockholders. I tell yon it’s a whale.
Think of a corporation 175 miles long
(besides three or four branches) and with
1,300 stockholders, all barn in Augnsty.—
The power of that Convention is tremen
dous. There sat old John F., looking lit
a King. There was Athens, Madison and
Covington and Washington. There was all
the Baptist Colleges and Methodist Socie
ties with their stock in their pockets. There
was delegates lroui cross roads and moan
tain gaps and river landings and slate quar
ries, all come to build up and sustain Au
gusta. Everybody for the Georgia Rail
road, and all wanted to put their shoulders
to the wheel, and “do something.” 1 net
er saw such an undyin affection tor any one
town.
The King had hardly got npon his
throne before a time-honored and familiar
voice said," Mr. President I am a friend
to Angosty. I have always been a friend
to this beautiful city. I am a friend to the
Georgy Road. I take d slight in her pros,
perity and to ensure this prosperity and pat
it beyond at> peradveutnre, I will state that
we are building a railroa 1 from Carters-
villa to Van Wert, and with your friendly
aid ws propose to go on) and on, until we
tapthe Mississippi river aod bring her last
catfish to the city of Angusty. Since the
bnman mind cannot foresee tbe benefits that
the speedy extention of the road will bring
to the Georgy Road and the city of Anrus
ta. Many more pertinent remarks were
made. About this time I heard a Rabun
Gap man inquire “wheteabouts is tbe place
they call Van Dirt ?”
The next address was delivered by
Griffin gentleman, fall of fire and fedin for
Gri—no—Angusty. It, said he, the Geor
gy Road would would only build a road
across from Griffin to Covington, her pros
perity and progress would be greatly en
Lanced Only 37 miles would cat off the
triangle Griffin was in love with Augnsty
She had no love for Macon or Savannah,
was over forty miles oat of the way to go
ar mnd by Atlanty; and there was the rich
county of Henry, that was now covered
ap and hemmed in by two great lines
railroads. The citizens of Demy did’i
know wnether to trade with Griffin or At 5
lanty, or Covington, bat if this railroad was
built they would all go to Augnsty.
A distinguished gentleman from Coving
ton next arose, and jnly wanted to add
word in beh..lf of tMs great enterprise.—
He said, Mr. President: “Born, sir, in
land of Augnsty, with every pulse in my
right arm throbbing to her success, I hope,
sir, that this road will oe built.” He said
several more similar words.
Abont this time arose a member from
Garner’s Landing, one of Carlisle’s earnest
men who says he is 5 feet (i and a half
inches high, with great emphasis on tbe
half I don’t mean that Le said this in his
speech, but be did say that, in his judge
ment, it would greatly conduce to the inter
est of the Georgy Road and Angusty, if they
would help his people build a road from Gun
t-rsville to Gadsden, and then from Gads
den to Atlauty. But it was to be under
stood that the Guntersrille end was to be
built first, and the other end could float
around loose for awhile.
The next proposition came from Clark
county or thereabouts in which the distin
guished speaker said that 40 or 400 years
ago (I dident distinctly understand which)
it was decided that t. e true line of the
Gorgy Road was through Athens and Ra-
barn Gap to the Mississippi Time bad
strengthened and developed the troth of
this route. It ought to be done now. It
was for the interest of the road an 1 Au ns
ty to do it It is ruinous to delay. Look
at Atlanty with her Air Line. She is go
ing to sap the very foundations of North
East Gorgy. There is bnt one ridge in all
that country that a railroad can be built
on. That is Ghattahooche ridge. We most
git that ridge first and holdit. Atlanty is
making for it. Let os get ahead of her
and then her Air Line will dry up. Mr.
Christy says the Air Line is going to Char
lotte, and that Charlotte has nothing to trade
on bat Chinkapins, and Atlanty hasn’t got
nothin of its own, bnt Ch nkapints and he
never knew anything made a swappin
Chinkapins. Bnt sir, I tell yon, Mr. Pres-
dent, Mr. Christy is mistaken ; that Air-
Line is going to ruin to Ath—no Angus-
ty.
A gentleman from Wilkes rose forward
twice and said, “that if they wanted a road
to Rabnro Gap, the tine line was to extend
the Washington Branch, and he would tug-
gest the takin np the road from Union Point
to Athens and lap it on to the Washing,
ton Branch,and it would mighty nigh reach
tht Gap. He said his people would help;
that he knew several met. who had kid np
a little sarplas money that they was goin
to pat into Gewonno next year, and he
woifid advise ’em to pat it in the railroad;
he knew ono man who had three handretl
dollars.
The next project proposed was a branch
road from the oityof Rutledge to Big Shan
ty, which would shorten the line Jrom Au
gusta to Chattanooga 24 miles, and get all
tbe cotton yarns from Roswell factory.
I felt like I should have been better off
if 1 had staid at home, for you see, 91r. Ed
itor, I had an ax to grind myself, aid the
grindstone was wore ont before my torn
come.' Nevertheless, I male a highpothe-
nose toward the Kiqg,' and sez I, “Mr.
King, this road has got a heap of Chilians,
some of ’em legitimate, and some of ’em un
der bond, but I fear yon have forgotten a
step-child ol yonrs np abont Rome, that s
been working hard for its step-daddy these
20 odd years. I’ll say this much for the
poor cast off thing. It’s only 20 miles long,
bnt it has made four times as cinch money
for yon as the Athens branch of 40 miles
or any other branch. I think if yon will
run it ont to Wills Valley, (about 44 mi‘e3
further,) that it will do more than Raburn
Gap, or any other gap. Besides this, Mr.
King, sir, I desire you to understand that
I think the extension of the Rome Road
will help Rome.’ Mr. King bowed gra
ciously to me, and 1 think be will do sum-
thin.
The whole was wound up by Mr. Wyman,
who rose and sed : Mr. King, Mr, King,
I Fay, Mr- King—I am a poor mm, and
a very humble man, and haint got no stock
in the road, and wasn’t born in An"”*’*" •
bat I’ve invented a balloon that Vi
the trouble ol building all the roads, and 1
think will help Augnsty.
Whereupon Mr. Cohen politely informed
the gentleman that he had better £■■ out to
the far ground with his balloon, he beg
ged pardon and retired.
Mr. Peters didn’t say a word out loud
•your Mr. Peters, I mean—but I set just
behind him and I heard him soliloquize,
thus i
“Tell me, ye winged winds, do ye not know
some spot,
Where oar Atlanty is, and Augusty is
’ . -
About this time Mr. Foster of Madison,
was going around try in; to sell - his stock.
I axed him what was the matter, and he
said if they was going to build roads from
Nova Skoshy to Van Dirt and every little
seaport on theTenne-see river, there would
be assessments instead of dividends, and he
was going to sell ont, or poll out, or kick
out, or renig.. He said Augnsty had too
many friends for a Madison man.
Yours in haste,
Bill Arp.
PS.
Tell Mr. Peters and Mr.'Hillyer to.
hurry up the Air-Line—make for the Chat
tahoochee Ridge early, but see to it tha*
George don’t go by Athens. . He was born
there, and they voted Tor him, and human
nature is mity weak. B. A.
Startling, bat Tine.
The number of deaths in the United
States ending last June, resulting from the
Intemperate use of ardent spirits, is given
below, as.welt as *he number of men, wo
men and children sent to poor houses, in
sane and inebriate asylums and State peni
tentiaries for offences committed while un
der the influence of liquor, as compared
with the number of those whose crimes
were induced by other canses: Deaths
62,000; suicides from intemperance 409;
suicides from other causes -37; in poor
houses, insane and inebriate asylums, 130
000; per cent of crime caused by intern
perance 65. •
The above is a most startling exhibit,
and shows the great evil of indulging in
the wine cup. It is a most frightful com
mentary npon the morals of the people of
the United States, and suggests the ques
tion whether or not the cause of all this
crime and misery could not be removed.
The South Carolina' Legislature is com
posed of 50 negroes and 13 white men,
Of these State legislators(!)bnt 8 are able
to read and write intelligently, and but 22
oun read and write at all. Only 19 pays
any taxes. And this is the legislature forc
ed upon the people by Congress! If tbe
white Republicans of Connecticut have no
regard for themselves, they onghtat least
to assist in wiping ont the ignorant and bar
barian government which their representa
tives helpless people. So great an ontrage
will sorely militate against the party by
which it was perpetrated, and, prudence
therefore, as well as decency, calls prompt
and thorough, redress of the injury.—
Bridgeport Farmer.
Ladies will find that an ostrich feather
from which tne carl has departed, can be
made almost a? beantifal-as a new one by
holding it belore tbe fire.
State News.
The Cuthbert Appeal has the following
about weather and crops in that section :
Tbe weather has been veiy dry and an
seasonably cool for the past week.
Planters are chopping ont their cotton
crops, bnt cannot take them down to a stand
while the season continnes so unpropitions.
Tfie young cotton is looking badly and
needs warm nights and gentle showers.
We are pained to note the heavy de
mand which prevails tor corn, even at the
present exorbitant prices. .
Farmers tell the Bt inbridge Son that
tbe dry weather and reoent cold nights
make cotton look very sickly.
Corn and oats are looking remarkably
well, considering the late spring. Gardens
are quite backward; very few vegetables
have made their appearance in onr market
Tbe peach crop is almost a failure in
this section.
The price of corn has jumped from
$1 40 to SI 80 a bnshol within the past
week, in Newnan.
Mr. Norman Bradley, an old and re
spected citizen of Newnan, died on Wednes
day last. Sir. B, was a soldier in the war
of 1812.
The editor of the Thomaston Herald, on
a recent trip through Bntts and Spalding
counties, noticed great fields of cotton and
but very little corn, or other grain. He
was told that such was generally the case
throughout the country.
How the Wood Goes.—The present
consumption of wood in the United States
is eDiirmous. One hundred and fifty thous
and acres of the bes* timber is cut every-
year to snppjrt the demand for railway
sleepers alone. For railroad buildings, re
pairs and cars, the annnal expenditures of
wood i? 838,500.000. Iu a single year tho
United States consume 850,000,000 worth
of wood. There arc in the whole coantry
more than 400,000 artisans in wood, and if
the value of their labor is SI,000 a year,
the wood industry of the country represents
an amouut of nearly 8-100,000,00(1 per an
mini.
Crops in Florida:—The Eastern (Pal.
atka) Herald, of the 4t’a, inst, says;
The rains soxbuch needed have come.
For several days the people have been sett
ing out potato vines and other-plants. A
better season for transplanting *va have
seldom seen. Up to this time bat lew veg
etables have been shipped this season,-ow-
isg probably to the discouragement wet
with last year.
The people on the river are turning their
attention to the orange and. tfie culture'll;
cane, which we think will turn out to be a
most profitable crop ontbc St. John’s river.
How Bullock Squanders the People’s Mon
ey.
We clip the following from the At ! anta
Constitution of the 17th:
Comptroller Burn's report for 1866
shows that notwiths.anding in 1864 SGer
man's men had destroyed all , Are: Hanks
necessary in the Governor’s office, yet Gov.
Jenkins had all tbe blanks famished for
8669.
On the other hand, Governor Bullock,
accotding to ComptroFer Bell's report of
January 12, 1869, not only ordered from
the State Printer 8653 worth of similar
blanks, but also ordered, within about two
months from his own printing office.the Au
gusta Press about 86,000 worth of other
job printing— more printing, we reckon,
than wan done in ten years before for the
Execntive office.
The following record ol warrants will
pbow a few particulars of this grab game
They can be found in Bell’s report of Jan
uary 12,1860:
Sept. 2, E."H. Pnghe, for Printing,
Binding, etc. 82,407
Oct. 2, E. H. Pnghe, for printing
Commissions, warrants, etc. 1,511
Oct. 2, Pnghe. for binding ledger,
warrant book, etc. 105
Nov. 12, E. H. Pnghe, for job print
ing advertising, books for Execn
tive Department, etc. 2,135
Total, 86,168.
recapitulation.
Gov. Jenkins’ printing for tea
months. 8 1,070
Gov. Bullock s printing for five
months, 14,204,46
Again we ask, is there uc ground for cen
snre in the most wanton expenditure of
the people’s money by an official who pays
not a dodar into the treasury, and wl en
the expenditure is ten times as much as
needed?
trust mr *ife {- ar ° I
tract with her on A ’
cy has left my h uU „, wi , h h ° f “7
oat mv consunt. Wlt hout cao , e ?■}I
mayiotw-wlt ' 1> il
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A DEEP BAT FILLY , Y ’
This animal strayed from it. - , ■
raises, six miles flora F
A suitable reward will be naht'r 1 tl “ I'-’''
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WHOLESALE
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Rome,
Greo:
I'Sia,
la addition to onr revalar h»rS-_ . ■
wffl^be able,this sossoa^o famish ourJS
“CLIPPER” MOWER 4 REAPER,
JONES’ UNIVERSAL FAS MILL,
“ “WALKING” CULTIVATOR,
SOUTHERN Jl’FG. CO.’S CAM MACHB J
BURDICKS NATIONAL HAT STnor
FODDER CUTTER, ’
PORTER 4 SMITHS’ SELF-FEEDnfo T J
ER HAY CUTTER,
THE BEST THRESHING MACHI!* m
HORSE POWERS, ,U! I
d -™ E CKLEBaAT:E LUMPKIN GBAKcJ
COTTON GINS, COTTON PRE3SES,IC.
In every ease where a Machine rtd A-
does not doits work as represented, Z
fair trial, the money paid fir same mUUnl
funded.
We have also a fall Btoelr ot GUM
all sizes, from which we will msko
count to the trade.
We are fully prepared !o meet
tion in any article we sell,
may Hit iv 6 m
BELIE:
liberal L
Burned to Death.—Miss Mary San
ford of Oartersville seventeen years of age,
was so severely burned on Sal nrday night
last that she died in consequence. She
had filled a lamp, aud in filling it. some of
the oil ran over on the side of the lamp,unno
ticed by her.' When the lamp wa? lighted,
the flame commnoicated to the oil on the
side of the lamp. Miss Sanford dropped
the lamp, when breaking by tbe fall, tbe
contents ignited and commnoicated to her
dress'.—At. Const.
The Courier Journal makes a good hit
when it says the reason why some of the
reconsrtuctionists want to receive the an
nexation of St. Domingo in the United
States, is that a “Perfect Beign of Terror”
is understood to prevail there, and they
want to secure it for reconstruction purpos
es at the South.
The Talbotton Young American has very
flattering reports from the wheat crop of
that county. Stands of corn aod cotton
are good. The planters of that connty, it
is sorry to say, have cotton fields and corn
patches. It knows a few farmers, ho.vev
er, not twenty miles from Talbotton, wbo
have not bought a bushel of corn in twen
ty year?.
The Atlanta Era says Mr. Geo. Sharpe,-
a jeweler of Atlanta, has offered the follow
ing premiumjfor the Jane exhibition of the
Cohb connty Agricultural Society :
Silver pitchsr, waiter and goblets, val
ued at 850, to the plainest and neatest
dressed lady, introducing a style for Geor
gia, ignoring present fashions. Said pro
minm to be awarded on the 1st day of the
annnal Fair of Cobb connty. Mr. Sharpe
offered this special preminoi believing that
jresent fashions do not conduce to the
realth, style or beanty of those we ' love
most.
The Colqmbus polioe are to -have new
uniforms of doable-breasted gray cloth
coats, with gilt bnttons and wide-brimmed
straw hats. Just the thing for 'some men;
bat want they need pantaloons in winter ?
Tbe Latest News.
Frequent outrages on foreigners are re
ported in Japan.
Congress has increased tho salaries of
civil officers.
Itis proposed to increase the salary of la
dy clerks in the Departments at Washing
ton.
District Attorney Pierrepont, of New
York, has resigned.
The total receipts of the United States
Treasury for tho qnarter ending March 31,
have been 896,374,005, The total expen
ditures for the same time, 8106,005,029.
J. M. Talbot has been elected Superin
tendent of PnblieTnstrnction for the State
of Texas.
A negro named J. H. Harris has been
nominated for Congress : in the 4th Con
gressional District of North Carolina.
4 new woman’s rights weekly has been
started in New York city.
The tariff bill will stand no chance in
the Senate this session.
Indian outrages in Texas are again be
ginning to be frequent
The San Domingo treaty will certainly
not be ratified.
McFarland threatens to shoot Brick
Pomeroy.
It is probable tbat 82,500 income will
be exempt b; the new inepme tax bill be
fore Congress.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stanton, the great Wo
man Suffragist, Bays “she will not go to
Aeavcn disfranchised.”
The Future Price of Cotton.
The time bets on cotton for next Octo
ber are abont nineteen cents, showing a
strong conviction on the part of the specu
lators that cotton will rule for the next
crop below twenty cents. The day for a
close economy, therefore, has come. The
planter who goes on the big figure, is the
way of corn am} meat baying next year,
will make a short trip of it.
. - What they Do.
The Columbus (Ga.) Sun says: “The
Eagle and Phoenix Manufactory now con
sumes seven hale; ol cotton per day. Soon
it will work up an average of eleven bales.
Over ten thousand dollars per month are
paid to the employees. Let such establi-h-
meats be increased from thirty spindles
(what the three manufactories in and near
Columbus will seen work,) to one hundred
thousand and over; and the pay to the oper
atives, forty thousand dollars per month,
will alone support a respectable: city. It
most be remembered, too. that the cotton
is grown at onr vety d.io s, and that there
will always be a heavy planters’ trade fur
Columbus. Who would not live in a South
ern Manufacturing city?’’
Shooting Cases in Macon—Mr. John
Broughton was shot . and . seriously
wounded in Macon, on Saturday afternoon,
by Mi. Henry G. Boss. The shooting was
occasioned by some family fend. .Henry
W. Shaw, an ex-policeman, also shot on
the same day John Cooper, a policeman,
daring a general row in a bar room.
JHucb Ado abont a Bunghole.
Washington dispatch to Cincinnati Commercial.
The revenue law says that barrels con
taining ale, bear and other malt liqnors,
mu=t not have more than one banghole.
The brewers have overlooked this, and have
placed large quantities of malt liqnors in
barrels with two bungbole3. The Collec
tors thronghont the country have notified
the brewers that they would seize tbe liquor
if it was sent ont for sale in these barrels.
The brewers have appealed to the Bnrean,
and to-day a delegation of them from Pitts
burgh were before acting Commissioner
Donglass, who decided that tbe one bang
principle mast hold good antil Comissinoer
Delano retaros'and settles the question. In
the meantime all the malt liqnor bar
rels with two bangs mast remain nnsold.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
W HEREAS Sarah Pyles makes tppliaiv
to me for letters ot Administration n.
the estate of Lewis Pyles, deceased, .
These are therefore to cite and admoniii f
and singular those concerned, to be and i;*;
at my office within the time prescribed hr hr
to shew cause, if any they have, wbjaidR
ters shooid not be granted.
Given under my hand this May 10, ISA
may 14-SOd JAS. B. HILL, Ori,.
GEORGIA,
Polk Connty.
| BffigfiBhrrfi
) Jane E. Bradshaw, j
Polk Superior Court.
I Tappenricg to the Court that June E.lot
sham resides out of the State, it is oried
that said Jane E. Bradshaw do ppesr it4,
next term of this court and defend tbs dm
stated ease, and that a ropy of this rale be ar
lished in the Rome Weekly ConnV snai
re.nth for four months pterions to the neitta
of this Court.
Open Court, February 14th, 1879.
F. A. KIRBY, J.S C.B.C.
A trneextract from the minutes of PrikSnr
rior Court. WM. J. HOWARD, :
may 10w-oam4m DeptClk-AC
Administrators Notice.
GEORGIA, Floyd Co.inty ^
S IXTY days after date, application will k
made to tho Ordinary of said county, fir
leave to 3ell the Real Estate, wh ch, at tfie tks
of his death, belonged to Tamer A. Clara,
late of said county, deceased; the saw beer
necessary for the purpose of paying debts, id
for distribution.
MARY A. CLEVES/
may 10*70 Adminiitratrix.
Floyd Sheriff Sales for Jnne.
W I-LIj be sold before the Court How4*
in Rome, within the legal hours of ok,*
the 1st Tuesday in June next, the following prej-
erty to wit:
The half of city lot Xo. 142, in the Cooafe
visipn of the city of Rome, lying on tho corar
of Coart street and Maiden Lane opparite fo
Presbytorian Church; levied on by nrtaerfi
fi fa from Floyd Superior court. ra&TorolL'
D Burwell, vs. Nobles Brother. & Co; lends
as the property of Samuel Noble. Property pois
ed out by plaintifi* attorney.
Also at the same time and place, one Pto
Forte; levied on by yirtue of a distress wuaat
tor rents, in favor of Geo. P. Barnett, tiH®
Smith. Property pointed cut by PlaintiffiiAt
torney.
may7 J. H. LUMPKIN, D.5kl,
Floyd Postponed sale for 3m
VST ILL he sold below the Court HouieJ*»
W Rome, on the first Tuesday in Jom ^
within the legal hours of sale, the following Ff'
erty to wit:
Also, one dark mare mule; levied °n by
of a mortgage fi fa, by order ol Judge of Supra
court, as the property of John R Moore »
Martha E Moore, in favor of J. B'/kwart
J. H. LUMPKIN, D. SH
maTwtd.
Loxgstreet is in lack. Waruioath, the
sareptitious Governor of Lonisinna. has
just made him Adjutant General of the ne
gro militia of .that State This, with the
office Grant gave him in the Custom Boose
for turning Radical, quite loads him down
with honors. This last office was won by
riding in a carriage at the head of a 15 th
amendment negro mob. B as'nt Longstreet
“fell fnr and iell heavy,” sure enough.—
Macon TeL
A big greasy mulatto, named Galloway,
who is the Radical Senator from Wilming
ton, in the North Carolina LegiYatnre,
said in-the recent Radical Convention, at
Raleigh, that if Holden was ever killed,
“he (Galloway) would mark with chalk the
house of the biggest Conservative of New
Hanover, and they wonld bnrn it down, in
mates and all.”
Which trnly representative-and most
approved Radical speech, was endorsed by
tremendous applause.
A Caban Expedition.
New York May 15.—An expedition of
300 men, all Cabans, except five American
Captains—left hero early Saturday morn
ing, as passengers on a steamer bound to
San Domingo. They carried 7,000 rifles—
six large guns, uniforms, equipments, pow
der, elc,
The Danbnry (Conn.) News has a way
of saying things that cannot be particu
larly agreeable to all its readers. It says:
“Sunday being a balmy day ; tbe styles
were brought ont. The most beautiful and
richly dressed lady re saw is the wife
of a man who has owed this office thir.
teen dollars for three yeats. He says he
cannot raise the money, and we believe
h im.”
GEORGIA Floyd County. .
W HEREAS Charles H. Smith btw*f J,
plied to be appointed Guardiia
property of Julia O. and Minnie C. I
held on the lirst Monday in Jane next,»^f
cause, if any th*y can, why said Cb*ne* *
Smith should not be entrusted witb theu^^
anship of the Property of Julia
C. Iverson.
Witness my official signature, May 5JM»
- ma> 7 ±i. J. JOHNSON.
GEORGIA, Floyd County. . . ...
W HEREAS Green Baker, »PPl ,e ?
empeion of personalty and
and valuation of Homestead, I will V&VZ
the same on the 16th day of May» •*
office in Rome, Ga.
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