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MILLEDO-E VILL.E
TUESDAY, MAY 16, 187L
The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer has
discontinued its publication; It was for
many years a leading paper in Georgia
We regret its loss.
The Pre:s Convention was in session
in Augusta during the Fair. No busi
ness of importance transacted. Princi
pally a social reunion, and a pleasure
excursion.
The Horticultural Ball at the Fair
grounds in Augusta, Thursday night, is
represented as being quite a brilliant
affair. It was well attended, in Bpite ot
the disagreeable weather.
We give in another column the report
of the President of the Macon and An
gus Railroad. We hope all lovers of
railroad progress will read it and be en
couraged. We are truly glad to know
that this road is in such a prosperous
condition. It is our especial pet and
protege-, its interests being to a great ex
tent identical with those of this Section
of country. Its connections are the
very best that could desired; and as to
its condition no road in our know Ic dge
runs smoother than does this between
Camak and Millcdgeville. Some por
tions of the Georgia Road, and most of
the Central are as fine, but none are
better. There can be no doubt that this
road will soon be one of the leading lines
of the State; and a source of consider!
ble revenue to the Stockholders.
Magna Charta.
We had the pleasure of bearing Geo.
Robt. Toombs’ lecture in Angusta
last Wednesday evening; and as high as
our expectations were raised they were
not disappointed. With the principle
as the groundwork of his discourse, that
‘‘no subject is worthy of the hnman
intellect but the well government of the
human race,” he proceeded in a logical
and masterly manner to demonstrate his
proposition. To be able to appreciate
fully a speech of Gen. Toombs, he must
be seen, as well as heard. No descrip
tion or attempted outline can do him
justice. At times his eye would blaze,
and his form seem to rise to a fuller hight,
as a thunderbolt of eloquence fell from
his lips. Seldom have we listened to a
discourse that was equal to this; never,
to its superior. Frequently was the
speaker interrupted by bursts of ap
plause, hearty and prolonged. His
audience would gladly have listened an
hour longer.
His concluding sentence was charac
teristic of the “unrepentant rebel.” With
his body bent slightly forward, his eye
blazing, bis hand raised aloft, grasping
a copy of “Magna Charta,” lie exclaim
ed. “When you can tear the live thun
der from its home in the bur ling ether;
and bind it a captive at the footstool of
tyranny, then, and not till l.hen, will I
accept the situation.” v
The Horticultural Fair was we regret
to say a comparative failure, when yve
consider the amount of noise made about
it. The display both of vegetables and
flowers was exceedingly Bioall, many
private residences in Augusta being
able to show quite as gicat a variety iu
their flower aod vegetable gardens as
was seen on the Fair grounds. The
Constitutionalist of Thursday repri
mands the city quite severely for its
want of energy and public spirit in al
lowing visitors to be so badly disappoint
ed in this exhibition.
The deficiency in these particulars was
more than compensated by the presence
of other things far more necessary. “The
purely agricultural horse races” monopo
lized the attention of most visitors, as
they were all sensible enough to know
that a floral exhibition was a misnomer
without a race borse mixed up with it.
Besides the building that contained the
flowers &c., and the track and hippo
drome where were to be seen the “agri
cultural” appliances of the Fair, there was
an edifice surmounted by a flag on which
was the word "‘Industry.” Inside were
no flowers or vegetables, but an exhibi
tion of “Horticultural Roller Skating.”
Tbis was largely attended by the far
mers from the country, whe were desir
ous of learning all tire late improve
ments in the time-honored art of enlti-
vating the soil. Several from the ex
treme back-woods could not see the con
nection between cabbages, roller skates,
boquets, and race horses: their ignoranee
was truly pitiable.
The city of Augusta is able to do
something in the way of a horticultural
Fair; and the next time we wish them
better sacceai.
The Georgia Railroad Convention.
Trie Convention was largely attended
this year by the stockholders, more th&u
29,000 shares being represented—the
largest amount since the war.
Considerable iuterest was manifested
in this session, on account of the impor
tant questions to be brought up.
The giving of Geoigia Railroad stock
as security for the lessees of the State
Road, was disapproved by many of the
stockholders, while others were in its fa
vor. It was generally understood before
hand that Hon. Benj. Hill and Geoeral
Toombs would collide on this quest ou ;
and the excitement on this account was
considerable.
The first day was spent in organizing
the body for business and in examining
proxies. On the second, they proceeded
to basiness.
The question of the State Road lease
was brought up. Geo. Toombs and Hon.
Linton Stephens opposing, Hon. B. H.
Hill in its favor. It was a contest of
giants, and the pigmies in crowds stood
aloof and listened. IV a have not space
to give a sketch of the speeches of these
gentlemen, or we would gladly do no.
The matter was finally decided by the
refusal of the stockholders to ondorse the
action of their officers in this affair.
We are pleased to be able to state
that the road was never in a more flour
ishing condition than at present; there
being more than two million dollars sur
plus above the stock liabilities.
From the report of the Geueral Super
intendent we extract the following par
ticulars that will be of interest:
Gross receipts, $ 1.500,098 57
Expenses, 832,549 27
Incidental, 205,440 01
Net income, 462,099 29
Hon. John P. Kiug who, for thirty
years has served the Georgia road in
the capacity of President, was re-elect
ed. The other officers of the road were,
we believe, generally retained.
All visitors to Augusta this season
expressed themselves much pleased with
what they saw and heard. Altogether,
we have seldom spent a more pleasant
week than last, at the Fair and Con
vention.
Upon the appearance of “Letter from
Nemesis, No. 4.” we expressed an unfa
vorable opinion of it, compared with its
predecessors; characterizing it as rather
a “low” production. The Savannah News
sees fit, for some unaccountable reason,
to differ with ns, offering to treat ns to a
new “tile,” if we will point out a sentence
or expression that is either “filthy,” or
“disgusting,” or that might not be read
with propriety in the presence of the
most fastidious lady of taste.
We did not say that the letter-contain
ed anything filthy or disgusting; those
were not our words in that connection ;
wc said that it was low aud vulgar iu some
passages; and that though the subject was
filthy, See., it did uot justify the writer in
attempting to be equally low. In the
attempt he failed, as a matter of course.
It was not our intention to convey the
idea that the letter was altogether on a
par with its subject.
At the request of oar friend, wo wil
lingly point out that which, iu our opin
ion, offends against good taste; and cl'im
that we are entitled to the tile. Ju6t
imagine, brother T., what sort of a figure
you would cat, seated beside a most fas
tidious lady of taste, whispering in her
ear, in sweet and winning accents, the
following elegant lines:
For from the stillitory of thy face excelling.
Comes breath perfumed, that breedeth love by
smelling.”
or this chaste couplet: *
“The baboon kissed the monkey’s sister—
He kissed so hard be raised a blister.”
we fear the fastidious lady would con
sider yon decidedly vulgar. The News
dffers his heartfelt sympathies to us in
oar ‘desperate retchings;' and kindly
explains the cause of our illness. We
are under lasting obligations to our broth
er; we know of no one better qualified
to “weep with those that weep” than he-
“Yon know how it is yourself.” While
we are in the last stages of nauseated
existence from the Bovine effusions of
‘Nemesis,” we truly feel that we have
met a brotner in adversity, whose expe
rience in suffering under the tuition of
Dr. Psamuel, the Idahotic minstrel, ren
ders him the very best of advisers and
sympathizers.
Re Elected General Superintend
ent.—At a meeting of the new Board of
Directors of the Georgia Railroad Com
pany yesterday, Col. E. W. Cole was
unanimously re-elected General Super
intendent of the road. The unanimity
with which Col. Cole has been retained
in the office which he has filled for a
number of years with so much faithful
ness and advantage to the interests of
this great corporation is but another
testimonial to his universally acknowl
edged skill and ability in railroad mat
ter!.
Mr. 8. K. Johnson, the cocrteons, able
and energeting Superintendent of the
road, to whose high business qualifica
tions in the control and management of
the details of its line of road is to be at
tributed much of the recent gratifying
exhibit of earnings of the road, is retain
ed in his position.
We take the above from the Consti
tutionalist of Saturday, and heartily en
dorse every word of it. Long may they
live to enjoy the honors they so riehly
merit.
A PHILOLOGICAL KONSTER TO BE HUNG.
That man may be very learned, and
at the same time very bad, is conclu
sively shown ia the ease of Edward H.
Rulloff, a condemned murderer, who is
soon to be hang at Bingampton. New
York. He has been for years a profess
ional robber and burglar, and in desper
ate villainy hardly lias an equal among
the criminalsof the Empire State. Pro
fessor Mather, of Amherst College, Mas
sachusetts, lately had an interview with
him in his ceil,and thus reports him:
He complained that he bad been
laughed at by the public as a superficial
scholar, and wanted me to satisfy my
self on that, and then hear what he had
to say about the formation of language.
I replied that, as we had uo text books,
I could not examine him, to which he
rejuined that many of the classical au
thors he knew by heart, and wonld try
and repeat portions if I would suggest
where he shonld begin. Thinking that
something from the Mimorabilia might
be appropriate to his present needs, I
suggested the third chapter, first book,
where the sentiments of Socrates with
reference to God and duty in their puri
ty and exaltation approaching so nearly
to Biblical revel tion; and be at once
gave me the Greek. Other parts of the
same work, as well as the Iliad of Ho*
mer, and some of the plays of Sojho*
cles, he showed great familiarity with.
Then, in order to show his thoroughness,
he criticised the common rendering of
certain passages, and he did it with such
subtlety and discrimination and elegance
as to show that bis critical study of these
nicer points was more remarkable than
his powers of memory; in fact, I should
say that subtlety of analysis and reason
ing was the maiked characteristic of this
mind. On one or two passages of Ho
mer, in particular, he showed great
acuteness of criticism, and a most thor
ough appreciation of the grandeur of tho
sentiment. One or two renderings of
President Felton he opposed most vigor
ously, and when I supported the com
Dion version he quoted from a vast range
of classics to confirm his view.
Important Decision— The Governor
has no Right to Pardon Before Concic
tion—James IV. Hancock, of the county
of Upsou, was indicted for an assault
with intent to murder. He gave bail
and absconded, and the court permitted
a forfeiture ni si of his bond. Before
the next term of tbe court, which was
held last week, Gov. Bullock issued to
Hancock a pardon, and the securities
pleaded the pardon iu bar of the right
of the State to a forfeiture absolute.
Judge Green being interested, did not
preside. The State demurred to the
plea on these grounds:
1st. Because the Governor has no au
thority to pardon a criminal before con
viction.
2d. Because the Governor has no
right to interfere with the powers con
fided to tho Jndiciary.
3d. Because the securities had no
right to plead the pardon, as that right
was a personal privilege.
After an elaborate and thorough ar
gument by Hon. J. M. Smith and So
licitor General Anderson for the State,
and Col. L. T. Doyal and John I. Hall
for the securities, tho Judge sustained
the demurrer to the plea, and the case
goes to the Supreme Court.
Middle Georgian.
A Washington man has won five ban
dred dollars by eating a partridge every
day, between 9 and 10 A. M., for a
month. According to the terms of the
wager, he could eat any thing else he
liked.
The Western States are, oce after
tbe other, abolishing the old rule of pay
ing women school-teachers less than
men for the same services. This is
simple justice.
It is said that out of twenty-one mil
lions of Italians, seventeen millions are
still unable to read or watt.
A man Darned Jenkins, a faim labor
er, has died in Herefordshire, aged 107,
leaving a daughter aged 85. He had
his wits to the last, and was a great
smoker, some people will be happy to
hear. There is no knowing how leng
he wonld have lived if he hadn’t smoked.
There was a golden wedding in Ken
tucky lately, at which were present
treaty guests who witnessed the mar
riage ceremony fifty years ago. The
average age of these twenty persons was
seventy-one years and six months. They
included the gentleman and lady who
acted as groomsman and bridesmaid.
Amadeus, the new King of Spain,
has found the climate of Madrid so try
ing to his usually robust health that he
thinks he must spend the wiuter further
south. His physicians have recommeud-
ed Malagar. The Spanish Republicans
advise his return to Italy if be has any
desire to live long.
An aged colored man made applica
tion at Washington for food, claiming it
as a constitutional privilege. “Why,”
said he, “I understan’ dar’s provisions
in de Constitution for de colored folks,
an I haven’t had de fust crumb.”
The fifty horses of the Emperor Na
poleon, which were captured after the
capitulation of Sedan, have been distrib
uted among the sovereigns of the vari
ous German States.
Among the princesses of Europe, the
Empress of Russia, and the Princess
Frederick Charles, are tbe best painters,
the Princess of Wales the best performer
on the piano, the Queen of Holland the
best poet and author, the Crown Pric
cess of Prussia the best manage! of
fairs and public festivities, the Empress
of Germany the best conversationalist,
the Empress of Austria the heat looking
lady, and the Queen of Denmark the
beat housewife. So says Madame Rat-
tazzi in one of her recent novels,
» ♦ ♦ —
The Queen of Prussia noticed last
year that a good deal of her valuable
jewelry disappeared in a mysterious
manner, and all efforts to discover the
thief proved fruitless. It was finally
ascertained that one of her little grand
children bad taken the diamond rings
and bracelets and concealed them among
its toys in order to play with them. It
ia believed in Berlin that this affair had
something to do with the suicide of the
queen’s master of ceremonies, who shot
himself some time ago at Berlin, and
for wlpse suicide no satisfactory reasons
bare as yet been given.
MACON * AUGUSTA RAIL
ROAD CONTENTION.
Report (tf the President, G. H. Hazlc-
hurst.
Macon and Augusta R. R., I
Augusta, May ll, 1871. |
To the Stockholders of the Macon and
Angusta Railroad:
Gentlemen:—TfThis not being the
time appointed fijf the annual meeting,
no general reporfwill be presented.
Your attendance was solicited here for
the main purpose of preserving the
good-fellowship existing between the
Georgia Railroad stockholders and your
selves, tbe social intercourse promoted
by the mingling of the two Conventions
serving to keep alive the spirit of mu
tual interest, which must redound io
their mutual advantage.
The ulterior purpose of your atten
dance was also to have the sittiugs of the
two Conventions at the same time and
place, in order that yon might be pre
pared to consider and accept auy prop
ositions looking to a still closer connec
tion between the two roads.
It affords ns pleasure to announce the
completion of our line to Macon on the
19th December last, and the successful
working of the same since that period,
the trains having been run with extreme
regularity, with but two detentions of a
few hours, since ita opening.
A alow schedule was adopted for the
new line from Milledgeville to Macon
owing to the track being uneven and in
indifferent order from the haste of con-
strnction, and the heavy slides in the
deep cuts on the new road. The work
on this section, as you are aware, is of
an extremely heavy character involving
deep enttings and high embankments,
a roadway always difficult to keep in or
der for the first twelve months.
In three long cuttings, where the con
tractors were unable to complete their
work in time, a resort to a grade of
about three feet in the hundred for
distance of two hundred and fifty yards
was resorted to, in order to open the
line for business. These grades will be
reduced by the contractors to the prop
er grades so soon as the dry weather in
the summer will permit, and at their own
expense. Trains qf ten loaded cars are
carried over these grades, so that they
have not been obstructions to|business;
and the adoption of such grades w»; con
sidcred preferable to delaying the open-
ingfof the road.
The track, with the advent of dry
weather, has commenced to show such
decided improvement that a reduction
of a half hour in the schedule is already
arranged between Macon and Milledge
ville. This portion is laid with the im
proved fish-bar rail, and having the ad
vantage of good material for its road
bed and freedom from curvature, will
soon cause it to be acknowledged tho
best section cf the road.
EARNINGS.
The earnings and expenditures, as
presented in the recent report of the
General Superintendent ot the Georgia
Road, require 6ome explanations to
correct what would appear an unsatis
factory exhibit of this company.
The earnings of the road for 1S71 are
placed at 867,382 46, as follows:
Earnings.
From Freigh.. $4f»,178 40
Passago 22,204 06—867,38* 40
Expenses.
For Maintenanca of Cars.. ......$2,917 63
For Maintenance of Way ..$31.444 70
For Motive Power.... $36,706 95
For Conducting
Transportrtion...... 15,970 62—$78,030 90
Excess of Expenses....—.....$16,957 44
The previous report (1870) show
Earnings.
Frem Freight $40,043 73
From Passage.... - — $21,921 97
From Miul §*,350 00—$64,315 70
Expenses.
For Maintenance ’of Cars.... ......$1,035 82
For Maintenance of Way...... ....25,363 55
For Motive Powers..... ....13,963 72
For Conducting
Transportation...... $7,608 31—$47,970 40
Net income. ............ $16,346 30
Reference to these statements shows
an over-charge of shoot $20,000, for
motive power, and $8,000 which the
Auditor and General Superintendent nd
mit as occurring from a confusion in their
aceonnts-
Witb this correction, the net income
would have been near that of the pre
vious year. The General Superinten
dent of the Georgia Road will appear in
person and explain the above discrepan
cy.
The statement of earnings for the
forthcoming year will show far different
results, as will appear from earnings for
the three months subsequent to the
opening of the road, viz:
January, 1871 11,353 92
February 9,896 14
March 7,163 29
will tend to develop full resources of oar
property. /
G. H. HAZLEHURST.
By Mr. Moore:
Resolved, That the Pre*f$aai and
Directors be and are hereby authorized
to merge the stock of this company with
the slock of the Georgia Railroad Com
pany, upon fair and equitable terms.
Resolved, That the Directors in eaaa
of failure to make satisfactory teims
with other roads for operating the Macon
Sc Augusta Railroad, be and are hereby
authorized to issue the bonds of the com
pany to the amouLt of 6200,000, for the
purchase of rolling stock, and farther be
Authorized to arrange for the immediate
construction of a line of road from War-
rrnton to Augusta, to issue tbe requisite
bonds therefor, and to receive subscrip
tions therefor. Adopted without a dis
senting voice.
There being no further business the
Convention adjoorned.
A man in Berlin, who made a great
deal of money last year by selling what
purported to be autograph letters of tbe
prominent statesmen and generals of
Germany, France, and Eueland, has
been sentenced to six months’ imprison
ment, it having turned out that he him
self wrote most of the letters.
Justus von Liebig has ssked tbe King
of Bavaria to grant tbe sum of three
hundred thousand florins for the con-
construction of a new chemical labora
tory iu Munich, and the king has consen
ted. This new laboratory will be the
largest of its kind in Enrope.
It is believed on the Continent that
the fashionable watering-places in Ger
many will be crowded this season as
never before. At Carsbad, Baden-Ba
den, Kissengen, Hombnrg, and Ems, it
is even now difficult to secure eligible
quarters.
Young women should set good exam
ples, for the young men are always fol
lowing them.
There is no use of praising the pres
entstyle of ladies’ dresses, for they are
puffod enough.
The reason why editors have their
manners spoiled, is because they receive
so many evil communications.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps says
there is no use quarreling with a woman,
the press, a railroad company or the tel
egraph.
MACON ADVERTISEMENTS—FINDLAY’S COLUMNS.
There is an editor in New Jersey
who, in addition to his oditorial labors,
runs a bauk, an insurance office and a
graveyard.
Germany has at present thirty-two hu
morous papers, with an aggregate circa
lation of two hundred and eighty-five
thousand copies.
AGENTS WANTED.
For “Mortimer’s Acme Liaen
Marker,”
for marking all kinds of boushold Linen,
AND
“Mortimer’s Card Printer and
Business Stamp!”
for Priuting Cards, Envelopes &e. Both
these little Machines arc articles of prac
tical utility. Send for Sample. Liber
al Terms to Agents.
Address with Stamp,
H. W. J. HAM,
Gcn’l. State Agent.
Louisville, Ga.
May 2, 1S71. 17 3m.
$28,413 35
Being near $10,000 per month against
$5,600 per month of previous year, aud
there can be no doubt in the mind of
any one acquainted with the resources
of the country traversed by yonr road,
that the earnings will average $12,500
per month for the coming twelve months
with a certaiuty of a gradual increase
of earnings with any year of subsequent
life of tho road. * We but express out
own belief that the earnings of the 7S
miles of the Macon Sc Augusta Railroad
will work up to $20,000 per month da
ring the coarse of the next five years.
We command the shortest route that
can ever be made between the flourishing
cities of Colombia. Augusta, Macon,
Colnmbos and Montgomery, to say
nothing of the through business which
will naturally pass over this line.
Propositions looking to the lease of
the road have been made by the Sooth
Carolina Railroad. Another, it is be
lieved, will be received by the Georgia
Railroad Company and other roads. In
the absence of any rolling stock and the
necessity of securing the strong aid
which these roads wonld bring to our as
sistance, as well as the identity of inter
est, it was thought advisable by the road
to receive snch propositions ere attempt*
iug to supply the rolling stock or go into
any farther outlay looking to working the
road on our own account. Should these
proposals not be acceptable, we mast
then proceed to supply the necessary ma
chinery nod take snch other means as
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Are respectfully solicited for the erection of a
MONUMENT
TO THE
Confederate Dead of Georgia,
And those Soldiers from other Confederate
States who were killed or died in this State.
THE MONUMENT TO COST $50,000.
The Corner Stone it is proposed shall be
laid on the 4th ot July, or so soon thereafter as
the receipts will permit.
For every Five Dollars subscribed, there will
be given a certificate of Life Membership to
the Monumental Association. Tbis certificate
will entitle the owner thereof to an equal inter
est in the following property, to be distributed
as soon as requisite number of shares are sold,
to-wit:
First. Nine Hundred and One
Acres of Land in Lincoln
county, Georgia, on which are
the well-known Magmder
Gold and Copper Mines, val
ued at $150,000
Aud to Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Fonr
Shares in One Hundred Thousand Dollars of
United States Currency; to-wit:
1 s-hare of
1
2
-10
10
20
100
200
400
1000
$10,000
5.000
2,500
2.000
1,000
500
100
50
25
10
$10,000
5,000
5,000
20.000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
$100 poo
The value of the separate interest to which
the holder of each Certificate will be entitled,
will be determined by the Commissioners, who
will announce to the public the manner, the
time and place of distribution.
The following gentlemen have consented to
act as Commissioners, and will either by a
Committee from their own body, or by Special
Trustees, appointed by themselves, receive and
take proper charge of the money for the Mon
ument, as well as the Beal Estate and the U.
S. Currency offered as inducements for sub
scription, and will determine npon tbe plan for
the Monument, the inserption thereon, the site
therefor, select an orator for the occasion, and
regulate the ceremonies to be observed when
the corner-stone is laid, to-wit:
Generals L. McLawg, A. B. Wright, M. A.
Stovall, W. M. Gardner, Goode Bryan, Colo-
onels C Snead, Wm. P. Crawford, Majors
Jos. B. Cumming, George T. Jackson, Joseph
Ganahl, I. P. Girardey, Hon. B. H. May, Adam
Johnston, Jonathan M. Miller, W. H. Good
rich, J, D. Butt, Henry Moore, Dr. W. E. Dear,
ing.
The Agents in the respective counties will
retain the money received for the sale of
Tickets until the subscription Books are clos
ed. Ia order that the several amounts may
be returned to the Shareholders, in case the
number of subscriptions will not warrant any
further procedure the Agents will repeat to
this office weekiy, the result of their sales.
When a sufficient number of the shares are
sold, the Agents will receive notice. They
will then forward to this office the amounts
received.
L & A. H. McLAWS, Gen. Ag’ts.
No. 3 Old P. O. Range, McIntosh sts.
W. C. D. BOBEBTS, Agent at Sparta, Ga.
L. W.HUhiT &-CO , Agents Milledgeville
Georgia.
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