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ledgeville, two noolh of Eatonton, and » 0 f the Telegraph, turned up his nose at
TUESDAY, MAY 30, 187L
New Books.
We have received from D. Appleton
A Go., Publishers, 549, Broadway, N. Y.,
through the politeness of J. M. Cooper
& Co.. Savannah, some very interesting
and instructive books.
“The Descant of Alan and selection in
relation to Sex,’’ by Charles Darwin, with
illustrations, in two volumes. It is a
work that is creating quite a sensation
among all classes, hut especially those
fond of scientific investigations. Part I.
treats of the Descent or Origiu of Man.
Part II. of Sexual Selection. The beads
of a few chapters will give the reader an
idea of the work. Chapter 1, argues
the evidence of Man from some lower
form. Chapter 2, Comparison of the
mental powers of Man and the lower an
imals. Chapter 4, Manner and develop
ment from a lower form. Chapter 5.
The cares of Men. Mr. Darwin holds
that man is a development upon the mon
key ; or that there is a general and
gradual development going on in nature,
The whole field of natural history is
laid before the reader, and the facts con-
tuned therein are wonderful, interesting
and astonishing. He concludes by say
ing—‘‘The main conclusion arrived at in
this work, namely, that man is descend
ed from some lowly organized form, will
be highly distasteful to many persons.
Doubtless they think man may be excus
ed for feeling some pride at having ris-
en, though not through bis own exer
tions, to the very summit of the organic
scale; and the fact of his having thus
risen, instead of having been aborigin
ally placed there, may give him high
Hopes for a still higher destiny in the
distant future."
“The Genesis of Species," by St.
George Mivart, with illustrations. The
work is a review of the Darwinian theory
of development, and is as fully interests
ing as the work it replies to. Full of ins
foresting facts in natural history.
Both works should be read, if the read
er desires to be posted in regard to the
great scientific question of the day. Mr.
Mivart closes bis work as follows—“My
aim has been to support the doctrine that
these species have been evolved by or
dinary natural laws—for the most part
unknown—controlled by the subordinate
aetion of “Natural Selection," and at the
same time to remind some that there is
and actually can be absolutely nothing
in physical scienco which forbids them
Co regard those natural laws as acting
with the Divine concurrence, and in obe
dience to a creative fiat originally im-
on the primeval Cosmos, “in the
Inning," by its Creator.
Macon was last week much exercised
by the arrival of two Healhan Chinese
in that city. It is said that Shropshire
•even north of Moaticello. By deflect
ing the riad so as to touch these points,
on tf ufcout/ re seilcs more of track
would be necessary, and the increased
subscriptions would more than compen
sate for the additional outlay. These
facts will no doubt be taken into consid
eration when the actual building of the
road is initiated. We understand that
the Central road will take stuck in the
company, by giving the use of their line
from this place to Eatonton.a fine track
of twenty-two miles. Monticello needs
a railroad, and the interests of Jasper
county should not be entirely overlooked.
Let the citizens along the proposed route
subscribe liberally, and then they can
have matters to suit themselves.
Since the abova was written the Cen*»
tral road has leased the Macon Sc West
ern ; which is a death blow to the Ten-
uille and Atlanta road. We take the
following from the Savannah Republican
of a later date.
The TenniUe & Atlanta
It has now been deeided that neither
the bonds of the city nor an endorse
ment of the railroad company's bonds
will be granted to this enterprise. It
has been evident in tbe discussions that
have arisen in relation to it that there
existed a kindly feeling on the part of
our citizens. We woold all like shorter
roads in the same sense that we all de
sire longer purses. These two very de
sirable things find their beginnings and
endings in tbe expression of a wish.
But Savannah has attained in*reality
what beuefit was proposed by the Ten-
nilie and Atlanta Road. Tbe amalga
mation of tbe Central with tbe Maoon
and Western secures to us all that the
direct Atlanta road could ever have
achieved.
Several shorter routes, or short cuts,
have recently been built. By the light
of their experience we may learn what
would probably have been the fate of the
Tennille and Atlanta had it been built.
• •••••
Our $500,000 are now saved to the
city. If it he expended in sewerage
and paving, we shall at least have some
thing for our money. Sewers and scav
engers press upon our immediate atten
tion. We cannot read the account of
the awful desolation of Buenos Ayres
without connecting it with our own par
allel condition. The yellow fever, which
has utterly destroyed tbe population of
100,000, either by death or flight, is
reasonably attributed to the innumerable
cess-pools in the city. The whole area
on which the city stands is represented
to be honey combed underground by
these receptacles of filth, so much so that
good foundations cannot be had for new
buildings. Our city, to be sure, is but
little more than one-third of tbe age of
Buenos Ayres, but let us turn that ad
vantage to sanitary regulations and pre
cautions.
them, but we don't believe it.
The Rome Courier is guilty of the
following: “We wish Atlanta all ma
terial success and prosperity, but we do
think that the Capital ought to be moved
back to Milledgeville, and it will be.”
On last Friday the Air Line Road
sect out an excursion train to Gaines
ville carrying tbe Stockholders, Knights
Templar, Mayor, Press, &c. This is
tba first train through to Gainesville from
Atlanta.
Horaee Greely ought to visit Tbom-
aiville while on Lis Southern tour, to
learn some new things about Irish pota-
toe trees. A tree of that kind down
there bears frait on its limbs as well as
on its roots.
The Central Railroad company has
leased for ninety-nine years the Macon
A Western Road from Macon to Atlan
ta. That knocks up all prospects of
Savannah’s co-operation in building the
Savannah A Atlanta Railroad.
The Covington Examiner says that a
Baptist minister, DeCbamps, was mur
dered in cold blood while in his pulpit,
in Newton Co. The murderer Hendley
shot him twice, and mounted his horse
and fled. No politics involved.
Maeon will soon boast
sonic temple:
of a fine Ma<
Savannah is still enjoying frequent
raids from burglars. They steal cigars,
and bacon.
Athens is waking up to the impor
tance of building the railroad from that
place to Clayton.
Thomas county is bragging over
stalk of cotton two feet high, that ha 1
ten forms and a blossom.
The Knights Templar held their
tenth annual conclave in Atlanta on
Wednesday. Quite a number of Knights
from various parts of the country joined
the encampment. They live in regular
soldier fashion, in tents; wear military
cloths, hats, swords, Ac. Wonder if tbe
B. will not issue a proclamation agaiuct
them for being in a state of armed iu-
surrection.
Jefferson Davis, the Great Chieftain,
was in Augusta on Thursday and Fri
day. Ad enthusiastic crowd of citizens
met him at the car shed, conducted him to
the Planters’; aad everything was done
to let him feel that he was still the Presi
dent of the Southern Confederacy, in
the hearts of our people. He was re
ceived with a speech from Hon. H. W.
Hilliard to which he responded briefly.
Like Breckeuridge, he does not wish to
be again involved in politics—not fo r
his own, but his country’s sake.
Rufus Behemoth Beelzebub, the Bul
lock has issued a column proclamation
offering five thousand dollars reward for
some twenty Ku Klux organizations who
have been butchering negroes by the
wholesale. Tbe Bullock can beat all
the editors and reporters in the State
combined in collecting news; frequently
informing a community that half a doz
en murders had been committed in their
midst of which the good people
never heard before.
We would like to hear the explana
tion given by the Radicals of the fact,
that notwithstanding the thousands of
negroes butchered in cold blood month
ly in the South, the census shows an
increase of several hundred thousand
since 1860.
The Atlanta & Savannah Railroad.
The people of Savannah, we are glad
to see, are moving in the direction of the
Atlanta A Savannah Air-Line Railroad.
There is some opposition to the freight
line amongn Savanah people, but so far
as we arc able to judge from the papers,
and from frequent conference with Sa
vannah gentlemen, the people of the
Forest City favor the road with a singu
lar unanimity. A meeting was held on
the 18th, and the Mayor and Council
were authorized <o call an election to de
cide whether or not tbe city ef Savan-
nan shall subscribe ball a million of dol
lars to tbe road. Tbe action of this meet
ing is sufficient testimony that the op
position to the movement is not very
strong.
It is not easy to form an exact esti
mate of the great importance of this
road. It is true we have seveial lines
from tbe mountains to the seaboard;
but here is a new one suggested, which
will shorten the distance from Atlanta to
Savannah over fifty miles, which is a
matter of the utmost importance to com
merce, as well as to the agricultural in
terests of the country.
The road will pass through a section
of the State which is not now penetrat
ed by any road, and which is noted as
being one of the most thickly settled
and fertile sections of Georgia. The
people are intelligent, enterprising, in
dustrious and economical, ana know the
value of ready intercourse with the out-
aide world. They are all eager for the
road to be built, and in each coonty they
are ready to do wbat they can to help it
along. On the whole, we regard the
prospect of building this road as very
flattering, and we believe that tbe time
is cot far distant when tbe Atlanta and
Savannah Air-Line will be added to the
network of railroads that is being rapid
ly spread over Georgia.—Atlanta Sun.
The subject of the above road is again
on tbe tapis in this section, and the anx
iety of the people to have the road built
|a increased. There has been a rumor
afloat that Savannah and Atlanta intends
to subscribe only on condition that the
load is as far as possible an air-line, thus
leaving out every town of any 6izo be
tween Tennille end Atlanta. AH the
eitizens between these two points would
in this event strenuously oppose it,'if
fheir interests also were not consulted in
Warrentou has been heard from. She
don’t know whether it was au earth
quake or a chill that she enjoyed.
Hon. B. H. Hill has written another
letter on “Tbe Situation"—of the Geor
gia Railro ad, and yet he is not happy.
Augusta leads off with a barrel of flour
ground from wheat of this season—ship
ped on the 21st. So says tbe Sav. News.
Templeton’s Opera Troupe was last
week performing in Brunswick. These
little salt-water hamlets are holding np
their heads.
McLaughlin, the Atlanta Poet-office
embezzler, after conviction has been
granted a new trial before the ftfli Dis
trict Court.
The Central and Southwestarn Rail
roads will pass for one fare visitors at
tending tbe Regatta at Savannah on the
31st, and 1st of June.
A snake was recently discovered on
tbe principal street of Columbus, mak
ing for a drug s*ure. He was doubtless
hunting up a srpply of poison.
Hon. Henry S. Fitch, formerly U. S.
District Attorney for Georgia, and since
the war a citizen of Savannah, died at
Dea Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday last.
By way of variety we torn to Savan
nah thieves. They tunnelled into tbe
Poor House, stole 50 chickens, and 4
turkeys. What will become of that lit-
aeasport town t i
Covington thinks she can now stand
a money order office. Several other wa
ter stations of no more importance than
herself stand them without the quiver
ing of a muscle.
Atlanta is troubled about the Mariet
ta and North Georgia Railroad. She
thinks it is in tbe hands of a clique that
intends to eontrol it in the interests ef
the State Road, and onder pretence of
building it, actually prevent its construc
tion. Atlanta certainly has a mania for
railroads.
The Pestilence in South America.—
A letter from Buenos Ayres says: “The
yellow fever is taking the people off at
the rate of 250 a day. The fright a-
mong -the people is somewhat awful.
No nurses can be had at any price. If
a servant is taken sick, tbe whole family
clears oat; and in some instances, the
closest family ties are entirely disre
garded. Whole squares in the south
ern part of the city are abandoned, and
every little town within forty miles is
overflowing with fugitives. The few
Americans here stick by each other, and
nurae their sick well. We have lost
bat one yet. and we buried him last
night. Strange to say, the harbor and
shore are entirely free of disease. It is
only tbe air of the city which seemB to
be poisoned; and this comes of its crow
ded population and overflowing, neglec
ted waterclosets and cesspools. The
eity is a white-washed sepulchre."
Heavy Verdicts.—In the United
States Circuit Court at Savannah, on
Saturday, the following heavy decree
waa rendered:
W N Marsh, el. al., vs, W H Bur
roughs, el aL Decree for complain
ants in the aggregate sum of $444,505-
46, less $9,500 heretofore paid, to be
collected from tbe stockholders, who
are parties defendant iu tbe above cause,
from the 1 amount they have in their
bands of the unpaid capital stock of tbe
Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank. The
amounts of unpaid stocks are as follows,
to-wit: W H Burroughs, $5,000; W N
Habersham, surviving copaitner, $9,765;
R. Stafford, $30,000; J W Nevitt.
$2,500; N B Knapp, $9,000; J V Con
sent, $41000; GeorgeS Nichols, $2,000;
John Screven, 913,114; Thomas P
Screven, $13,193; II D Weed, $4,500;
George B Camming, $40.000,. Hiram
Roberta, $360,000; John Cooper, $9,130;
Edward Lovell, $2,950; the estate ot
E Molyneanx, $96,4S0; the estate of
Seaton Graotland, $25,000; the estate
of Isaac W Morrell, $9,000; which
sums are decreed to the trust funds for
tbe payments of the debts of the hank.
The defendants in said case severally
appeal each for himself from the entire
decree, to tbe Supreme Court of the Un
ited States, and it is allowed that a
transcript of tbe record, proceedings
and evidence in said cause, may be
sant np.
A special to the Atlanta Sun, says it
is rumored and believed in Washington
that Williams, of Oregon, will succeed
Akerman as Attorney-General,
The Present State of Palestine.—M r.
Cook, the excursion manager, writes to
tbe London Times, giving a very favor
able account of the state of Palestine
now as compared with laat year:—“The
land smiles in the beauty of green ver
dare and promising crops. The appear-
aneo of the corn fields is such as would
gladden tbe heart of an English farmer,
while the fruit trees of Damascus pre
sent one blaze of floral promise. Every
where we found the people hopeful and
cheerful as it is possihle for the Arab
race to he cheerful. Tbe valleys and
plains of Sharou, Esdraelon, Jericho,
Samaria, and the Lebanon are covered
with tbe finest crops of wheat and bar.
ley, in some places ready to burst into
ear, so that if no more rain should fall
the crops are secure."
It is estimated that there are two
thousand Chinese laborers employed on
sugar plantations in Louisiana, obtaiu-
ed chiefly from California; and a num
ber of agents have been sent recently
to California, China, and the West In
dies to secure a larger supply of them.
The majority of the planters who have
tried them prefer them to negroes.—
They are extremely exacting in regard
to a precise fulfilment of tbe conditions
of their contracts on the part of their
employers, but tbe higher wages paid
for job work sometimes lead them to
break their own obligations. They arc
slow at their tasks, but sure and nice.
Their weakest point is in ploughing, as
they cannot manage mules. In this the
colored laborers have a great advantage
over them, for no one can handle a mule
so well as a negro. Bat tbe Chinaman
cannot understand the mule, end the
mule is quite as much puzzled by the
Chinaman.—Sun.
Excitement in Constantinople.—The
following piece of intelligence is taken
from a Constantinople letter published
in one of the daily papers:—“There was
once a Greek Patriarch, Gregory, who
was hanged in Constantinople during
the Greek war of independence. He
hung in a public place three days, and
his body was then given to the Jews,
who dragged it about the streets for two
days more; finally, what was left of it
was thrown into the Golden Horn. The
Greeks profess to believe that it after
ward floated, and was picked up by a
devoted fisbermau, and smuggled away
by night to Odessa. There Jt was re
ceived with great honors, and buried in
the cathedral by the Russian authorities.
The Greek Government has just had the
boldness to demand of the Porte that a
Greek man-of-war be allowed to pass
Constantinople to go to Odessa and con
vey tbe remains of this martyr to Greece,
where there is to be a great national fu
neral over his remains, and he is to be
enshrined as a saint. The Turks very
naturally refused, but have finally agreed
to allow the remains to be taken by a
Greek merchant steamer, on condition
that tbe passage of the Bosphorus be
made in the night so as to prevent any
unpleasant demonstrations on the part of
the Greek population here. The whole
city has been iua state of excitement
over this affair, and it may yet make se
rious trouble, if the time of the steamer’s
passage should become generally known.”
The agent of the Associated Press
has written from Loudon to the manager
of the Ocean Cable Telegraph, char
ging the grossest favoritism upon the
London office, and, wbat is worse, its
corrupt use. Thus he states that a pri
vate commercial despatch was preferred
to one previously offered for the press,
and the latter was held back seventeen
hours. It is easy to see that dealers who
can thus get information in advance of
the public may iu a few hours make vast
sums of money, and they are willing to
pay largely in the way of bribery to get
such advantage. It was hoped that
there was one public institution, an in
ternational one, an ocean telegraph,
that might be above the reach of such
corruption; and if these statements of
Mr. Simonton are substantiated, it will
go far to destroy all confidence in human
nature, and coufirms the Walpolean re
mark that “Every man has his price.”
N. Y. Observer.
Change of Schedule on the New York
and New Orleans Line.—The Macon
Telegraph says: A convention of par
ties representing this line, met here
Thursday, aud made a complete revision
of the schedule going North from the
latter point. The schedule, as it now
stands, is about as follows: Leave New
Orleans at 11 A. m , Mobile at 6 r. m.,
Montgomery at 7 a. m., Columbus at 12
m., aud Macon at 6:15 r. m., arriving at
Augusta at 3:30‘A. m. next day, where
passengers will be detained until 8 a. m.—
four and a half hours. The schedule, it
will be observed, greatly lengthens the
time between New Orleans and New
York via the intermediate points named
above, and if we are correctly iuformed,
was adopted solely to accommodate local
interests, it being found impossible to
compete with the fast schedule made
since tbe opening of tbe Alabama and
Chattanooga road, over which route the
time between the two cities is only 70
hours, against about 90 hours over this
route under the schedule just adopted.
John H. James, the Atlanta banker’
is building a palatial residence, whichi
when finished and furnished, will cost a-
bout $60,000.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Are respectfully solicited for the erection of a
■DXUIEXf
J?
TP 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 aooft thereafter as
the receipts will permit.
For every Five Dollars subscribed, there will
be given a certificate of Life Membership to
the Monumental Association. This certificate
will entitle the owner thereof to an equal inter
est in tbe following property, to be distributed
as soou 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 Magruder
Gold and Copper Mines, val
ued at-......-- -.............. ..$150,000
Aud to Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four
Shares in One Hundred Thousand Dollars of
1 chare of
$10,000
$10,000
1 “
5,000
5,000
2 “
2,500
5,000
10 “
2,000
20.000
10 “
1,000
10,000
20 “
500
10,I'M)
100 “
100
10,000
200 “
50
10,000
400 “
25
10,000
1000 “
10
10,000
$100,000
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 aud 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 tbe money for the Mon
ument, as well as the Real Estate and the U
S. Currency offered as inducements for sub
scription, and will determine upon tbe plan for
the Monument, tbe inseiption thereon, the site
therefor, select au orator for tbe occasion, and
regulate the ceremonies to be observed when
the corner-stone is laid to-wit:
Generals L. McLaws, A. R. Wright, M. A.
Stovall, W. M. Gardner, Goode Bryan, Colo-
onels C Snead, Wm. P. Crawford, Majors
Jos. B. Gumming, George T. Jackson, Joseph
Ganahl, I. P. Girardey, Hon. R. H. May, Adam
Johnstou , Jonathan M. Miller, W, H. Good
rich, J, D. Butt, Henry Moore, Dr. W. E. Hear
ing
The Agents in the respective counties will
retain the money received for the sale oi
Tickets until the subscription Books are clos
ed. In order that the several amounts may
be returned to the Shareholders, in case the
number of subscriptions will not warrant any
further procedure tb& Agents will report 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.
Augusta, Ga.
W, C.D. ROBERTS, Agent at Sparta, Ga.
L. W. HUNT & CO., Agents Milledgeville
Georgia.
r p & n May, 2, 1671. 6m.
CHARLESTON HOTEL.
E. H. JACKSON,
Proprietor.
CHARLESTON, S. C,
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THEY NEVER FAIL!
BELL & HULL’S LETTER.
Savannah, Ga., February 24,1871.
Messrs Herring, Farrel & Sherman, 251
Broadway, New York:
Gents.—The large and destructive fire of
February 22nd, consumed the building occu
pied by us. We were using one of your Her
ring’s Patent Champion Safes, made sixteen
years ago. It contained Seven Hundred Dol
lars in money, our books and valuable papers.
We were unable to get the safe open until
eighteen hours after the fire. We found the
contents in excellent condition; the only injury
was the binding of the books, drawn by the
steam. This test of the fire-praof quality of
your safes was a severe one, as all can testify
who saw the fire. The amount of combusti
ble materials of the building itself, added to the
cotton and other goods stored in it, made as
hot a fire as often occurs.
Respectfully yours;
BELL & HULL.
W. M. DAVIDSON’S LETTER.
Savannah, Ga., February 24, 1871.
Messrs. Herring, Farrel Sc Sherman, 251
Broadway, New York:
Gents.—I had one of your Herring’s Patent
Champion Safes in the fire of Wednesday
night. February 22d. It remained in the rums
thirty-six hours before it could be opened. My
stock of goods (being a wholesale liquor mer
chant) made a very hot fire, thoroughly testing
the quality of the safe. It contained some
money, my books and papers two gold watches
two silver goblets, and other valuables All of
them are preserved in fine order. The covers
of the books are drawn by the steam. It was
a genuine test, aud your Champion Safe has
done me excellent service. The fire was one
of the hottest that ever took place in this city.
Truly yours,
W. M. DAVIDSON,
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r May 9,1871. 18 3m.
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