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RECORDER.
I Old “Southern Recorder” and “Federal Union’
consolidated.]
MTT.T.Tm aHVlLLB. OA:
Wednesday, June 11, 1873.
The President.
Under this caption, an article from
the New York Sun, will be found in
this paper giving a picture of Gen.
Grant’s habits and character. This
description of Gen. Grant is no doubt
correct but it seems to us the people
of the north have been a long time in
finding him out. In our letters writ
ten from Long Branch nearly four
years ago, we gave lam the Same char
t.hfl same words.
He has such a supreme contempt for
the people, that he takes no pains to
be popular. He depends entirely up
on the power which he exerts in the
general government to keep himself in
office, and hitherto he has been success
ful. He has no conception of, and no
regard for the duties and responsibili
ties of the office of President. He be
lieves it was conferred on him as a
reward for his military services and
he is determined to use it for the ex
clusive benefit of himself and his
friends. In his appointments to office
the only fitness he requires is devo
tion, oi as it is now fashionable to call
it, Loyalty to himself personally. This
supreme selfishness has already aliena
ted some of his strongest supporters
but they have already made him so
powerful they are afraid to turn
against him. The President has not
got one element of personal populari
ty about him, and the only hold he has
upon the politicians is the hope of re
ward or the fear of punishment, He
has very few qualifications for a good
President, but very many for a power
ful tyrant.
The Capital Question- Macon the
Place.
As the Capital of Georgia is only
regarded as temporarily located at
Atlanta, and as there seems to be a
great deal of hard feeling existing be
tween that town and Milledgeville,
our proposition to the Legislature is
to settle the whole matter in dispute
by permanently moving the Capital
to Macon.
Geographically it should be here, and
located ontopof Troup Hill. Milledge
ville is too much of a country town,
too slow to accommodate the Legisla
ture properly. Atlanta is out of the
wav—and besides they have too much
job work to do up there by the Legis
lature.
To compromise the whole matter
and settle the question to the entire
satisfaction of all parties, it had bet
ter be moved here. We have the
finest site in our Troup Hill for the
Capital in the State of Georgia. The
city of Macon would no doubt present
the State of Georgia with fifteen or
twenty acres of ground up there for
that purpose.
The above from the Macon Entei-
prise contains some facts and several
mistakes. The people of Georgia re
gard the Capital as only temporarily
located in Atlanta, but thev want it
restored to Milledgeville where it was
fixed by law, and from whence it was
taken by carpet-baggers and scala
wags. Macon, no doubt, would be a
far better place for it than at Atlanta.
Macon is not as near the geographical
center as Milledgeville. Macon had
the Legislature one session and the
members did not think they were any
better accommodated than they had
been in Milledgeville. The public
buildings in Milledgeville are already
built and ready for use. But we are
willing to leave the whole question to
the people. Let them decide. And
we hope our Macon friends will assist
us to bring the question before the
people.
Correspondence of the New York San.
THE PBIS1BBRT.
Hi* l*cr«wi*| N»|l«l
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Hina.
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tally Habit with
Getrgia News*
£yMr. James Jackson, an old and
respected citizen of Wilkinson county,
died suddenly on the 1st instant. He
was 69 years of age and had been a
member of the Baptist church for forty j dent is off again, this time for Harris
burg, for a little refreshment with the
Cameron tribe, who flatter his vanity,
Washington, May 27.—The Presi-
The Atlanta ZZerald and Ourselves.
The Herald and the Sun takes turn
about in their attacks upon us. Both
papers are very averse to discussing
the capital question, but both seem
perfectly willing to abuse us. In
stating the facts connected with the
removal of the capital we necessarily
have to relate something not very
complimentary to some of the leading
men of Atlanta; but we have never
intended to do them any injustice. If
they received strict, stern justice we
believe many of them would like Cain
exclaim, “My punishment is greater
than I can bear.’’
We have no doubt there are many
honest, industrious men, and many
good and virtuous women in Atlanta
against menr. it ra-imr lvvvy rings;
the cliques, and the men who ever
since the advent of Bullock and Kim
ball have combined to plunder the peo
ple and to manipulate every legisla
ture so that they may control legisla
tion—that we attack. Our descrip
tion of Meade’s fandango was taken
substantially and almost literally from
the reports of some of the Atlanta pa
pers of that date, and a gentleman
who wasa looker-on informed us that
some of the orgies there resembled
w’hat the French call the cancan much
more than the German. We acknowl
edge we know but little about danc
ing and may not have been happy in
our nomenclature; but if the secret
history of the Meade dance house should
ever be revealed it will be seen that
all of the truth has not yet been told.
The Herald will observe that we said
that Meade invited the elite of the city
to his party (we believe these were the
words used by the Atlanta press). We
did not say they all went; we know
that some of them did not. We mere
ly referred to the orgies kept up at
Meade’s dance house, in answer to
the Sun's boast of Atlanta's proud re
cord, and as the Herald repeats the
same boast, we will mention another
portion of that record. Perhaps the
editor of the Herald cau remember
when a large number of the citizens
of Atlanta were put in jail on strong
suspicion of stealing from the State
Road. One morning when the jailor
was at breakfast and the guard were
removed, the door of the prison was
opened and the prisoners were allowed
to escape. We can assure the Herald
and the Sun that portion of Atlanta’s
record has lead to strong suspicions in-
the minds of the people of the State
that many more of the people of At
lanta were deeply concerned in the
plunder of the State Road, and there
fore they wanted the prisoners to es
cape lest on their trial many more
would be implicated.
But peihaps the Atlanta papers
may ask what these records have to
do with the Capital question. We
answer much every way. We believe
almost any prudent man would con
clude that a place where such things
occur is not a safe place for legisla
tion, and the history of legislation in
Atlanta will prove that such a con
clusion is correct.
The editor of the Herald says he
does not propose to help us in our
discussion of the Capital question.
We have never asked any help from
that quarter. We are perfectly wil
ling that he should continue to defend
the record of Atlanta. But if his
knowledge was commensurate with
his zeal he would see that was a task
beyond his ability. There are some
subjects that the more light is let in
upon them the darker they appear.
We think that will prove to be the
case with Atlanta’s record. Atlanta
has not been fortunate in any of her
champions thus far, and perhaps si
lence in their case is the better part
of valor. But the people of Georgia
are interested in this discussion, and
we intend to “ fight it out on this
JJoe if it takes all the summer.”
The Atlanta B. X. Kimball Bouse.
The following communication on
the subject of the crack Hotel of At
lanta appeared in the Sumter Republi
can of the 6th inst. We have heard
similar and even much heavier com
plaints made by a gentleman a resident
in Nashville, Tennessee. We believe
that a large number of those who
have lately been guests of the Hi
Kimball Hotel, and who have read
the gushing eulogies on that Hotel by
some of the Atlanta newspapers, will
agree with us that those papers do an
immense amount of bragging on a
very small capital.
Communicated.
Mr. Editor :—A correspondent of
the Mobile Register was ip Atlanta at
the Governor’s Convention, and in his
report has something to say of the H.
I. Kimball House. The writer of this
was also at the Governor’s Conven
tion, and like the Mobile Register man,
stopped at the Kimball House. My
experience there agrees so well with
his, that I will ask you to publish an
“Atlanta’s great Hotel iS?’paiauai in
its proportions, rivaling in this respect
the great hotels of Northern cities,
but the table of the “H. I. Kimball
House” would disgrace the meanest
hashery in the land. The bill of fare
is laden with French dishes, all equal
ly uneatable and unrecognizable when
set before you. For example, a ‘fillet
of beef with mushrooms’ proved to
be a boot-strap swimming in black
gravy, and one had ample grounds for
complaint against the coffee. And so
one might go through the whole carte
on paper, I mean.
To this I will add a word that will
illustrate more fully the spirit that
controls the management of this Ho
tel. I will use a word more expres
sive than elegant. It is a spirit of
‘gouge.’ In proof will submit the
following:
Their advertised rates of board are
$4 00 per day, $3 00 on fourth floor,
and $2 50 above fourth floor. My
room was above the fourth floor, in
fact about as far above the fourth floor
as the elevator could carry me. I was
charged S4 00 per day. Upon citing
them to their advertised rates, was in
formed that those rates had been sus
pended during the Convention.
I felt as I imagine the Soldier did,
who, feeling aggrieved because he
thought the Commissary had inten
tionally wronged him by cutting down
his ration of meat, went to the Cap
tain with his complaint; after stating
the case he added : Captain, it is not
loss of the meat that I object to, for if
he had taken it all,it is too small a mat
ter to complaip of, but it is the prin
ciple of the thing that I condemn.
• B
years. *
The Atlanta druggist, Geo. S. Jones,
whose carelessness caused, or is al
leged to have caused the death of Dr.
Craig, of that city, a few weeks since,
was tried on the charge of involunta
ry manslaughter in Fulton Superior
Court; Thursday, and acquitted. In
the same court, on Friday, Wallace
Haskell, charged with being connect
ed with the Force-Townsend duel, was
also acquitted.
Larkin R. Parker, of Wilkinson
county, was killed by being run over
by a train of cars on Sunday morning,
1st inst., just after it had passed No
14, on the Central railroad.
Tlie Thomasville Fair has transpired,
and was a decided success. The rep
resentation from the adjoining coun
ties was large. A genial shower wound
up the Terpsichorean enjoyments.
Judge H. C. Tucker of Colquitt is
now living with his third wife, and has
had born unto him thirty children, 18
w- 12 girls; twenty-four of
whom are Hviog. xuv,
ing eight months old. He has had
the same residence since 1S25. He
tells of killing, skinning and ■hanging
up ten deer in one forenoon.
The latest fashionable marriage in
Columbus took place on Wednesday,
the contracting parties thereto being
Miss Mary Ingram, daughter of Por
ter Ingram, Esq., and W. W. Barnes,
of Opelika, Superintendent of the
East Alabama and Cincinnati railway.
The Southern Mutual Insurance
Company of Athens, held its annual
meeting on Wednesday, and declared
a dividend of forty per cent, on the
business of the past twelve months.
Mr. Wm. M. Roberts, an old citi
zen of Macon, after a long illness, died
at half past ten o’clock on Thursday
night, 5th instant, aged 66 years.—
Mr. Roberts went to Macon in 1S40,
when the city was in its infancy, and
has resided there ever since.
The average young blood, in Co
lumbus, makes a nuisance of himself
at picnics with whiskey and pistols.
J. I. Griffin, one of the Georgia
Commissioners to Vienna, has been
married in Columbus and gone on his
way rejoicing.
Cartersville has discovered more
iron ore.
Mr. J. B. Shipp, chief mailing
pander to his infirmities, and sympa
thize with his refined tastes. Con
gress adjourned something more than
two months ago, and this is the fourth
absence for mere personal gratification.
During that time the whole country
has been kept anxious about the dis
turbed condition of Louisiana, and
the guerilla warfare of the Modocs, in
which some of the best and bravest of
our soldiers have fallen. But neither
of these causes affected the President.
He turned his back upon them as an
noying cares, which should be thrust
aside for individual pleasure. Io fact,
General Grant cannot be brought to
take any interest in, or feel the least
concern for the stern duties of his
great office. He has never yet rea
lized, even approximately, the nature
of the trusts which he holds, and will
never learn to appreciate them, be
cause he has neither the capacity nor
the inclination which is indispensable.
The Presidency, to his view, is an
honor and a pension for military ser
vices. He treats it in that sense,tim
ing to convert the place into the most
profit, and to use the power in person
al rewards.
Daily duty, thoughtful attention,
careful scrutiny and supervising vigi
lance are all distasteful to his ordinary
mind and to the habits of an indolent
life which he has cultivated since com
ing to the White House. With limit
ed knowledge of public affairs, no
taste for study, aversion for books,
and dislike of the society of superior
men, it is wholly impossible that he
can have any just idea of his responsi
bilities. As a necessary consequence,
the great business of the Government
falls into the hands of a Cabinet who
are all, without exception, the mere
instrument of his will. He selected
mediocrity that he might not be over
topped, and would be obeyed.) And he
has not yet been disappointed. From
Hamilton Fish, up or down, there is
not a man in the concern with the
slightest elevation of character, with
any breadth of intelligence, with a par
ticle of true American feeling, or with
out a stain on the office which he oc
cupies. The foreign policy of this
country is really directed by Bancroft
| Davis and Caleb Cushing, one of
more 1 w ' 10ru stands branded as a bribetaker,
and the other is advertised, like the
. , i ships of a former time, as always
c for Cowes and a market.” rri, ° M
would as cheerfully certify him once
more, though knowing that be has
broken pledge after pledge, is confirm
ed in the habits oi periodical intoxi
cation, and is last running into the
ruts of a daily drunkard. This is hard
to say of the Chief Magistrate, bat it is
the naked truth, and the American
people ought to know it.—They have
been deceived too long.
oro:
‘up
The recent
at the Savannah post office, lias been t p roc ] ama tion in regard to Louisiana is
‘shipped.’ No cause assigned. . properly countersigned by J. C. B. Da-
A terrible calamity has befallen the. v j s> tj je bribe taker as acting Secretary
family of Col. H. D. Capers, at Ox- i 0 j state. He put together the auda-
ford. A little son of his, five years c j 0ll8 falsehoods of which that official
old, while handling a pistol, on Wed-j document is composed, and it was fit
nesday last, was almost instantly kill- j that a roan should attest it whose re
ed by its explosion. It seems that he;g ar( j fo^truth is only measured by the
had the pistol pointed toward his face price which that article will fetch in
when the fatal discharge took place. 1 0 p en market.
The Worthy Master of the State) It is supposed that common decen-
Grange has appointed Messrs. J. P.; cy, in the absence of a higher motive,
Stevens, of Leesburg, Lee „county, j would have prompted the President,
Third Districts; G. W. Adams, of, manifest, at least in the external forms,
Forsyth, Monroe county, for the 4th, j some little regard for his public du-
5th, and 6th Districts; and C. W. I ties. The contrary effect has been
Howard, of Kingston, Bartow county, j produced. He is more negligent, in-
Deputy for the 7th, Sth and 9th Dis- different and defiant of public opinion
The Responsibility for the Vien
na Disgrace.—The Vienna Corres
pondent of the' New York Tribune,
whose initials indicate identity with
that loyal and advanced Republican,
Mr. Bayard Taylor, thus writes of the
burning shame which mantles every
American face that is to be seen in the
Austrian metropolis. Mr. Hulsemann
is effectually avenged. We bow our
heads before the Hapsburgs:
“ The root of the evil lies behiud
the ‘irregularities’ of this or that com
missioner. It is the system of reward
ing party services by office—of put
ting any man in any place—which
they must accuse. The New York
and Erie rings and the Credit Mobi-
lier exposure have already sufficiently
damaged our national name abroad.
But they were domestic matters
and not understood here, or only
in a very confused way. This is a
black smutch, thrust directly before
the eyes of all nations, on an occasion
when our escutcheon should have been
newly burnished and proudly held.
Every honest and upright American at
home, no matter what his party, will
understand our shame; those who
make politics a trade and office a bar
gain will not and cannot.
Now, we ask who is responsible for
this ? Every appointment was made
by President Grant, and the commis
sions of each are countersigned by Sec
retary Fish,—Baltimore Gazette.
tricts.
The District Meeting of the M. E.
Church, will commence in Barnesville
on the 18th day of June.
Mr. Bliss has been appointed post
master at Columbus.
There is 4,971 white children in
Cobb county between the ages of six
and eight years.
Mr. C. R. Pringle, of Washington
county, is prominently mentioned in
connection with the vacancy in the
House of Representatives occasioned
by the death of Dr. W. G. McBride.
The Augusta and Savannah Rail
road have declared a dividend of three
dollars and a half per share.
Efforts are being made in Rome to
organize a Bee-keepers’ Association.
About nine thousand dollars worth
of lots were sold in the new “ City of
Tocoa,” situated a mile and a half
from Tocoa Falls, last week.
The last Republican newspaper in
Georgia has suspended.
Mrs. Mary Freyer, a widow lady of
Augusta, died a few days ago. The
deceased gives S 10,000 to the trustees
of St. John’s (M. E.) church, on con
dition that the lot of the deceased in
the city cemetery shall always be kept
in good order.
Georgia was so called in 1732 in
honor of King George the Second.—
First settled at Savannah in 1733 by
Oglethorpe. Chartered June 9,1732.
Formed a Constitution 1777, a second
in 1785, a third May 30, 1798; and
amended in 1839. Ratified the Con
stitution of the United States January
2, 1788. Area, 58,000 square miles;
population in 1870, 1,185,109, of
which 545,142 were colored and 40
Indians.
Says the Covington Enterprise :—
Young men who contemplate matri
mony with the expectation of “living
with the old man,” had better steer
clear of this county. A worthy farmer
who has several lovely daughters was
asked by one of these “home hunters,”
if “Miss Mary marries will she still
live at your home to make your life
bright and happy ?” He skinned one
eye and replied, “No,sir! When one
of my gals swarms, she must hunt her
own hive.”
WHY?
Why is a mean grocer like a high
way rubber ? Because be lies in wait.
Why is chloroform like Mendelsohn?
Because it is one of the greatest com
posers of modern times.
Why are umbrellas like pancakes ?
Because they are seldom seen after
Lent.
Why are teeth like verbs? Because
they are regular, irregular and defec
tive.
When water freezes why is it like
equity T Because it’s just-ice.
now than at any previous time. It
would seem that he takes pains to
publish his contempt of all propriety
by willful disregard of every just ex
pectation and juncketing journeys
that have been attended with disgrace
ful scandal wherever he has gone. The
accounts furnished the Sun, from va
rious points in the West, where the
President was seen iti a deplorable
condition, are strictly true, as is well
known here. It is sad to say, but
there is no use of disguising a fact
which is notorious, that the habit of
intemperance which compelled Cap
tain Grant to retire from the army,
and which clung to him long after
wards, and which, to his credit be it
said, he partially conquered at one
time, has returned upon him with all
the force of a revived passion. He is
drinking hard, constantly, and in the
worst way, so as to excite the gravest
fears oflus family and friends. While
Gen. Dent was at the White House
he was always vigilant to prevent ex
posures of this vice. Close family
ties were super-added to personal de
votion in concealing it from general
observation. But recently no such
friendly guardianship has been exer
cised, all restraint appears to have
been thrown off, and hundreds of peo
ple have been unwilling witnesses ol
General Grant’s degredation in public
places. His frequent absences from
the Capital are explained chiefly by a
desire for this gross indulgence among
boon companions, freed from some of
the checks that still exist here, and
removed from eyes that are saddened
by such distressing exhibitions. His
own household and his immediate
friends are naturally most concerned
about the result of a habit which he
apparently lacks the moral courage
to resist. He belongs to that unfor
tunate class of drinkers who are mad
dened with inordinate thirst for the
first taste, and never stop until sunk
in disgusting stupor. By nature stolid
and obstinate, this passion overcomes
any sense of self-respect, so that offi
cial dignity is cast aside for a morbid
indulgence, which takes no noteof time
or place.
This infirmity has long been well
known to many of Gen. Grant’s chief
supporters. He had made it visible
on one Sabbath especially to various
congregations leaving their places of
worship in this city; and others were
only too familiar with repeated proofs
of. his weakness. The facts could not
be hidden, so the Christian statesmen
and temperance leaders of the Wilson
and Colfax school, who assumed charge
of all the moral ideas, got together and
put him * on probation. They then
certified that he was the victim of
calumny, while some of them io pri
vate admitted what everybody knew,
but thought it too late to retreat. Aud
if the Credit Mobilier had not blasted
the reputation of these canting knaves,
who made bypocricy a trade, they
The weather favors crops in Eng
land.
The Holly Springs South says that
at no time in the history of North Mis
sissippi has the caterpillar been so
numerous, at no time so destructive.
The crop prospect in Monroe coun
ty is very good. Corn crops in Stew
art are looking well.
It is stated by a Griffin paper, upon
the authority of a sensible farmer,
that Spalding county will not make
enough wheat to feed her people one
week.
The Columbus Sun calculates that
the yield of cotton in Muscogee coun
ty this year will not be less than 3,S00
bales.
Crops in Burke county are in the
grass. The wet weather operates
against the planters.
Corn, cotton and oats are looking
:—"Wet weather is giv
ing the grass a footing.
The best stands of cotton ever
known are reported in Franklin coun
ty. Oats are promising, and corn
looks well. Wheat is below the usual
average, both in quantity and quality.
Corn crop of Dougherty the best
since the war. Cotton is small, and in
many places grassy, but good stands
have been generally obtained. Oats
are remarkably good, and are now
ready for the cradle.
The caterpillar has made its appear
ance in Alabama.
Caterpillar in West Florida.—
The Mariana Courier says : “ There is
no doubt that the destroyer of the
cotton plant is already on the cotton
in this county in sufficient quantities
to arouse the apprehension of the
planters, but hopes are entertained
that unfavorable seasons for their pro
pagation will prevent any serious
damage to the crops.”
The battle is now waging fiercely be
tween our farmers andrthe grass. The
recent rains have given our people
much hard work, and'eotton in many
instances will, we fear, be injured. The
crop this year will not be large.
[Gainsville (Fla.) Era.
Rain, rain ! Grass, grass ! Such is
the cry all through Middle Georgia.
The hay crop promises well. Most
other crops are in peril for the satne
reason—excess of rain.
[Madison' Home Journal.
So much rain has fallen during the
past week, that the farmers have not
been able to work their crops. Better
weather for allowing the grass to get
ahead of the crops was never known
Blessed are they whose crops were
clean ten days ago.
[La Grange Reporter, Oth
Personal.
A private letter from Europe states
that the Hon. J. P. Benjamin, former
Confederate Secretary of State, has
attained a front rank at the English
bar, and is in receipt of a large pro
fessional income.
James B. Clay, grandson of Henry
Clay, has forwarded to Regent Bow
man, for the museum at Ashland,
Kentucky, the coat which the states
man wore at the Treaty of Gheijt, in
1S14. It is elegantly wrought and
trimmed with silk and braid.
Hon. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio,
arrived at New York on the Cuba on
Wednesday, 2Sth ult., after a long
tour of Europe.
Gen. John C. Breckinridge is to be
the orator at the annual meeting of
the Association of the Army of North
ern Virginia in Richmond. The right
man in the right place.
Col. E. Y. Clarke, of the Atlanta
Constitution, has been elected 1st
Vice President of the Young Men’s
Library Association of that city.
Father Ryan, the poet priest, has
returned from hi3 visit to Italy, and re
sumed the editorial chair of the New
Orleans Morning Star.
Ex-Gov. Jewell sails July 3d for
the Russian mission.
Rough Rice, an eccentric newspa
per man of Atlanta a year or two
since, is now publishing a paper in
Iuka, Mississippi.
Wm. H. Barnes, of New York, has
been delivering his lecture entitled
“Entertaining an Audience”, at vari
ous points in Georgia, with marked
approbation and success.
Hon. J. L. Davidson, of Augusta,
will deliver the Annual Literary Ad
dress before the Southern Female Col
lege, at Madison, Ga., on the 25th inst.
Gen. Thomas G. Rhett, formerly
General Joe Johnston’s Chief of Staff,
but now in the service of the Khedive
of Egypt, is in Paris on sick leave.
Woman.
Mrs. South worth has written forty-
two novels, and yet she is not happy.
—Chicago ladies who cannot enter
the street cars, owing to the size of
their feet, are kindly permitted to
stand upon the platform with the dri
ver.
—The “ India-rubber bustle ” is
again heard from. This time it was
a Brooklyn young lady who was
thrown from her carriage coming
down the hill from Prospect Park.
She made ninety-seven and a half
bounces in all, and was finally rescu
ed, by a hook and ladder company,
from the top of a telegraph pole,
where she had stuck in attempting to
complete the ninety-eighth bounce.
—Babies in Henderson talk fluently
at the age of thirteen; that is, the
girl babies do.
Sixteen American female journalists
have gone over to write up tho ex
position.
Women in Florida make from $18
to 993 a week braiding pnliwotto hale
She Invasion of Mexico.
AN INDIAN BAND ROUTED.
A despatch dated San Antonia, Tex
as, May 22, gives an account of a late
raid iuto Mexican territory by United
States troops.
The Lipan and. Kickapoo Indians,
who shelter themselves in the Mexi
can mountains, fifty or a hundred
miles from the Texas border, have
made frequent raids into Texas, com
mitting murders, and carrying off a
great deal of property. The account
says:
Notwithstanding the vigilance on
the part of Gen. McKenzie and the
troops under his command, at Fort
Clark, a band of fifty warriors succeed
ed in evading the troops, crossed the
Neuces river, and, as usual, divided
themselves into small raiding parties,
the better to enable them to evade pur
suit, and prey upou the stock and
other property of the people of the
lower counties, whose ranches are, to
a great extent, devoid of protection
Under these exasperations and other
circumstances of a more aggravated
character, as well as the great pressure
of popular feeling and excitement,
Gen. McKenzie was influenced to re
solve at any risk, cost or consequence,
to break up this nest of savages by
attacking them on their camping
ground, near the Santa Rosa moun-
... there, if not to
totally destroy them, at least .to
cripple them as to render them una
ble for some time to carry on their
murderous forays and cruel expedi
tions upon the frontier inhabitants of
Texas. Accordingly on the morning
of Saturday last, the 17th inst., all the
available cavalry force of the garrison
was ordered to be equipped and in
readiness at notice, for important duty
on the Rio Grande. Couriers were
despatched from headquarters to the
several companiefttationed on the va
rious creeks and crossings, with simi
lar orders, which were strictly com
plied with, and all the available force
of the Fourth cavalry, numbering some
600 men, assembled at the call of
their commander and proceeded under
the guidance of the half-breed scout
Van Green and other guides, crossed
the Rio Grande, and by a forced march
of eighty miles into the interior of
Mexico, reached the camp of theKick-
apoos at early dawn, having been for
ty-eight hours in the saddle and twen
ty-four hours without food or water
being compelled ou the march to
throw away and dispense with every
utensil, accoutrement, or requisite
whatever that could in any manner
retard their march. The charge was
made at dawn. The Indians, who
were not ready for the attack, made
but slight resistance, the greater por
tion of them attempting to flee to the
neighboring counties for shelter. In
the encounter nineteen warriors were
killed and about an equal number
wounded. Forty squaws were cap
tured and one hundred horses and
other property stolen by Indians were
recovered. The troops lost three men,
one killed and two others mortally
wounded. Couriers arrived at the
post last night with orders for 2,000
rations, the food of the troops having
been thrown awav. The couriers «>■
pr,rf that Cteneral McKenzie and his
command safely recrossed the Rio
Grande with the captives and the re
covered property, camping that night
at \ au Green’s ranch. Six wagons
laden with provisions have been sent
to their relief. They will probably
arrive here to-morrow—Wednesday.
The prisoners are mostly squaws of
the Indians who crossed the Nueces
last moon forty strong, and who are
now depredating in the lower coun
ties. .
Since the affair I have learned that
intense excitement prevails on the
other side, and it is said the Mexican
frontier authorities are excited to the
highest degree, and have assumed i
very hostile attitude towards us. Re
ports of this kind were in circulation
here some weeks since. A gentleman
of high standing on this frontier,
thoroughly conversant with Mexican
frontier affairs, having practiced law in
the leading towns of Coahuila, Mexi
co, informed me shortly after your
departure that influential men of San
ta Rosa, Monclara, Saragossa, Nova
Morelis and San Fernando are appre
hensive of hostilities arising between
the two countries, believing the diffi
culties that have arisen between the
inhabitants of both banks of the Rio
Grande can only be settled by the ar
bitration of the sword, and in evidence
of the truth of this statement the state
of Coahuila has just levied on her cit
izens such an extraordinary tax as is
only done in cases of great revolutions
or threatening war. Great excite
ment exists among the Mexicans, and
Gen. McKenzie’s command was fired
upon as they were re-crossing the Rio
Grande.
They have no courage, and never did
have, to fight themselves, bat thev
want another war to make a dollar. T
would not be afraid but that if a con.
vention of the active fighting men of
the north and south were held,
•hould shake one another’s hands a «
brothers, and weep ovei our folli es
like big schoolboys.”
I will add that I have since had sim
ilar sentiments expressed to me, and I
have not traced the bitter hatred and
malice that I had been led to expect
had I placed every dependence up oa
the Washington Chronicle and New
York Times. Indeed many ex-Confed-
erate officers have urged me to take a
true story home, if that were possible
and they stated that they had been so
foully mis-represented by the Northern
press that they did not blame the
Northerners for believing them such
wretched bad citizens.
V
According to Agricultural Congress
statistics there are now ten thousand
farmer’s associations and granges, with
an aggregate membership of four hun
dred thousand. These figures will b<
more than doubled by this time n*t
year.
Pleasant memory in old age is like
a bird singing on a withered bough.
The small pox is in Twiggs county.
To Kansas A Colorado!
isniiuK —\n iire Missouri
Pacific Railroad will sell Exclusion Tickets from St
Louis to Denver and return, at very low rates of fare*
and a rare opportunity is thereby offered, for loversof
nature to view the beauties of Colored > and enj iy rh,
delightful scenery and health-inspiring climate of tlm
Parks of the Rooky Mountains.
Kansas, with its broad and fertile plains, is directly
on the route, and together with all the other Western
States and Territories, is reached by the Missouri Paci
fic Railroad and its connections.
The Texas connection of this road is now com
pleted, and passengers are offered a first clari
ail-rail route from St- Louis to Texas, either overthe
Missouri, Kansas Sc Texas K. R., rvi Sedulia, or over
the Atlantic Sc Pacific R. R„ ria Vinita. For maps
time table, information as to rates, routes, &c., we re!
fer our readers to J. F. Thompson. Southern Passen
ger Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn.. or E. A. Ford, General
Passenger Agent. St. Louis, Mo. (Questions will be
cheerfully and promptly answered.
EMIGRATION TURNING!
Cheap Farms in South west Missanri!
The Atlantic Sc Pacific Railroad Campany offers
1,200,000 acres of land in Central and Southwest Mis
souri, at fiom $3 to $12 per acre, on seven years’
time, with free transportation from St. Louis to all pur
chasers. Climate, soil, timber, miueral wealth, sc bools
churches and law abiding society invite emigrants
from all points to t]^ s land of fruits aud flowers.
For particulars address A. luck. Land Commissioner
St. Louis. Mo.
June 10,18711. 38 ly.J
medicinal Poison, on the Wear
The patriarchs took no mercury, m bismuth, no io
dine, no bromide of potassium, no stryehoria, no qui
nine. Happy old gentlemen ! they did not even know
of the existence of these ‘specifics,’ and yet
they lived unfil it seemed as if Death had forgotten
them. Their medicines were beibs and roots. They
have left this fact on record, and the world seems to be
now taking note of it and returning to the first piinci-
pies of indi cation. Hoste’ter’s Stomach Bitters, the
purest and moet efficacious vegetable restorative ot
the day, is also the most popular. Thousands of per
sons who only a few yeais ago believed implicitly in
ail the poisons which figure in the pharmaccepia.noir
pronounce this paltable tonic and alterative au all-
sufficient remedy for dyspepsia, nervous debility, con
stipation, bilious complaints, headache, intermittent
fevers, and all the oidinary dis’urbances of the stom
ach, the liver, the discharging organs and the brain.
The time is not far dstant when most of the powerful
and venomous drugs now so recklessly administered
by practitioners of the “heroic" sclio< I, in cases that
might easily be controlled by milder treatment will be
utterly discarded by all philosophical physicians As
it is, the thinking public, who are generally ahead of
the professionals, have already put the dangerous pre
paration aside and adopted HostetterV Bittdsin their
stead as a safe aud excellent household medicine,
adapted to almost every ailment except the organic
and deadly contagious diseases- For more than twen
ty years this famous restorative and preventative has
been annually .strengthening its hold upon the pubho
confidence, aud it now takes the lead of every adver
tised medicine manufactured iu this country. 15 lm.
Jov to the World! Woman is Free!—Among
the man v modern discoveries looking to the happiness
ouu amelioration oi tlie human race, none is entitled
to higher consideration than the renowned remedy—
Dr. J. Bradtield's Female Regulator, Woman's Beat
Friend. By it woman is emancipated from number
less ills peculiar to her sex. Before its rnagic power
all irregularities of the womb vanish. It cures sup
pression ol the menses. It removes uteiiue obstruc
tions. It cures constipation and strengthens the sys
tem. It braces the nerves aud purities the blood. It
never fails, as thousands of women will testily. It
cures whites. This valuable medicine is prepared and
sold by L- H. Bradfield, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga.
Price $1 50 per bottle. All respectable drug men
keep it.
Tuskegee, Ala., 1868.
Mr. L. H. Bradfield—Sir:. Please forward us,
immediately, another supply of Bradfield’s Fe
male Regulator. We find it to be all that is claim
ed for it, aud we have witnessed the must decided and
happy effects produced by it.
Very respectfully,
Hunter Sc Alexahder.
We the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure in
commending to the trade, Dr. J. Bradfield’s Fe
male Regulator—believing it to be a good and re
liable remedy for tlie diseases for which lie recom
mends it. .
VV. A. Landsell. Atlanta, Ga.
Pemberton, Wilson, Taylor & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Redwine & Fox, Atlanta, Ga.
W. C. Lawshe, Atlanta, Ga.
W- Root & Son, Marietta, Ga.
STATE OF GEORGIA-Trolp County.
This is to certify that 1 have examined the recipe of
DR. J. BRADFIELD, of this county, and as a medi
cal man pronounce it to be a combination ot medi
cines of great met it in the treatment ot all the dis
eases of females for which he recommends it. Tnii
December 21, 1868.
WM. P. BEASELEY, M.D.
For sale in Milledgeville by
JOHN M. CLARK aud B. R. IIERTY, Druggists.
May 14,1873. 42 ly
The Impression Made Upon a Bos
ton Editor by a Flying Trip South.
Mr. Radcliffe, editor of the Boston
Journal of Commerce, while on his way
to attend the Atlanta Convention, fell
in with an ex-Confederate officer at
Alexandria, who became his traveling
companion on that portion of his route
leading through the beautiful Roan-
oake valley. In his sketch of his jour
ney he says:
My Virginia friend proved himself a
most valuable acquisition. He had
been through the war—in the cavalry
—and his principal fighting gftund had
been his native State. There was a
stockade which the Federals held
against every charge of the reckless
and gallant Virginians; there, the Con
federates had sprung upon the“Yanks”
right into their camp, and they had
found shelter in yonder white house,
from whose windows they poured a
continuous fire. And so every few
miles brought out some scene connect-
with the late civil conflict. But I
take this opportunity to testify to the
pleasant, generous disposition with
which such scenes were depicted. “We
have had enough of this North and
South sentiment,” said my compaction.
“The war has long been over, and I
never want to see another. You tell
them at the North that the noisy
braggarts who are constantly striving
to stir up ill-feeling, do not represent
the men who fougfit against the North.
Stivers of Impure Blood Flow
and vibrate through the system of those tainted with
Scrofula. Salt Rheum, Barber’s Itch, Syphilis, Erup’
tions or Pimples on the face, Roughness or Redness of
the skin.
('•nipouad Extract »f Ktillingia
cleanses and drives out all impurities and effects M
immediate and permanent cure.
If you wish a complexion fresh and spotless, use tha
('•uipsuad Exlrnrl of Htillingia
which will soon render the whole system and com
plexion as tree from poison and blemish as a cloudiest
sky.
For sale by all Druggist=.
The genuine is only prepared by J. 8. PEMBER
TON Sc CO , Chemists, Atlanta, Ga.
May 20,1873. 43 lm.
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