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L. CLAYLAND,] [J- B. DUMBLE,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 4, 1885.
To the Voters of Bibb County.
I am not a candidate for the State conven
tion. C. A. THARP.
TRAVELLING AGENT.
Mr. A. E. Marshall, is the authorized
travelling agent of the Macon Telegraph,
and will visit different sections of the State
within the next few weeks. Contracts for
subscriptions and advertising, made by him,
will be filled without delay.
THE STATE ROAD.
Col. R. L. Mott, one of the commissioners
appointed on the part of the State to receive
this road from the military authorities of the
United States, gives the Columbus Enquirer
a gratifying statement of the particulars of
the transfer. The road was turned over to
the State on the 25th ult. The United States
very liberally proposed to furnish running
stock, machinery, tools, &c. The commission
ers took seven locomotives, two stationary
engines, one hundred box cars, and could
have obtained more had they asked for them.
The car shops and all necessary machinery
were also secured. This stock is an advance
made to the road by the government, at prices
exceedingly liberal. A
The commissioners let out contracts tor
building fourteen bridges on the road, to be
completed by the 15th of December. These
contracts were all given to Georgians.
The government makes no charge for the
repairs made by it, where the road was tom up
by its military authority, but charges for re
pairs of any destruction committed by the
Confederate forces.
All the nett receipts of the road, obtained
by the United States during its administra
tion of its affairs, are*to be accounted for to
the State.
The commissioners found Gen. Howard,
the military officer in command, liberal and
accommodating in his dealings with them,
and his instructions from the War Depart
ment equally satisfactory.
The commissions have made application to
the President of the United States for pro-
' visions for the hands employed on the road.
The country is a complete waste for twenty
or thirty miles on each side of the road, and
cannot possibly furnish provisions.
23P” During the war John Ross, the Chero
kee chief, was on both sides. He went to
Washington and made Mr. Lincoln believe
that he was a friend of the Union; while at
Richmond he was believed to be a friend of
the Confederacy. Now at last he is found
out, deprived of his chieftancy, and every
way repudiated. Upon this fact the Chicago
Republican remarks: “What a social and po
litical disturbance there would be, if all the
chiefs of the whites, commercial and demo
cratic, who were on both sides during the
war, should likewise be found out, exposed
and degraded to the ranks.
|giP 1 * A late Washington letter says a good
many of the collectors of customs and of in
ternal revenue in the South, have filed their
bonds and gone to work, discharging their
official dnties, in hope that congress will
make provision, by a deficiency bill, for their
payment Most of the appointees have been
unable to take the stringent oath prepared
by congress. In its stead they have sworn to
bear true and faithful allegiance to the gov
ernment now.
Texas.—Governor Hamilton has sasued a
proclamation prescribing rates for the govern
ment of affairs pending the restoration of the
State government. All former laws relating
fo slavery are abrogated, and colored people
are declared equal with white men in the eye
of the laws. District courts may exercise
jurisdiction in criminal or other cases, and
repeal laws in relation to negros under State
laws, except when they conflict with acts of
congress.
Mutilated Notes.—It may interest some of
our readers to know that United States notes
used as currency after being too much worn
or defaced for circulation, arc redeemable on
ly by the Treasurer of the United States, from
whom rules for redemption on sums of three
dollars or more, may be sent to the treasur
er by mail without prepayment of postage,
and its value will be returned by the treasur-
Stf” The Clarksville (Texas) Standard says
the frontier is in'an unpleasant state. There is
trouble with the bushwhackers, who lately
hanged Capt. Hayden, of Montague, and with
the Indians, who have taken horses in and
around Decatur, and killed others, and who
lately killed a white boy near Prairie Point.
The State department has authorized
all claims of American citizens, which have
been incurred by the depredations of the Al
abama and Shenandoah, and the Canadian
raids, to be presented to a commission, which
has been authorized to settle all claims be
tween the United States and Great Britain.
'ZW A Washington dispatch to the Cin
cinnati Gazette says that prominent demo
cratic politicians, who are engaged in figuring
upon the character of the next congress, say
that there will be a majority of ten in favor
■'of admitting the Southern members who come
prepared to take the test oath.
53F"TLe mails south from Washington
are increasing so rapidly in quantity that the
post office department was compelled, a few
days ago, to order one additional daily trip
from Washington to Richmond, over the
Orange and Alexandria railroad.
The Hon. W. T. Oldham, late senator
from Texas to the Confederate congress,
writes from Monterey to San Antonia, con
firming the statement that Maximilian had
ordered all Confederate refugees to San Luis
Potoei
yg* Work on the treasury department ex
tension, at Washington, has been discontin
ued—the appropriation having been ex
hausted.
23^ The Tennessee legislature will assem
ble to-day.
REVOLUTION IN IRELAND.
The British public appears to be greatly
agitated just now, because of some revolu
tionary demonstrations in Ireland. Our rea
ders are aware, that the seed of this rebellion
was planted in the Northern States by a num
ber of Irishmen, who style themselves “Fe-
nians,” with the avowed'object of liberating
the “gem of the seas” from “British tyranny.”
Large meetings have been held, some money
raised, armrpurchased, and a number of offi
cers (mustered out of the federal service) dis
patched to Ireland to command the insurg
ents. At one of these meetings the Irish ban
ner was displayed, with the inscription:
“Let them say what they will, her banner fears no
storm,
The deeds old Ireland once has done, she yet can
do again.”
The accounts of these proceedings publish
ed in the Northern papers a few weeks ago,
were treated with derision, and contempt by
the English press. By the last advices, how
ever, received per steamer Cuba, those journ
als have somewhat changed their tone. They
no longer assert that the midnight drills in
Ireland, and plain daylight demonstrations
in this country, are purely imaginary, and
composed of “menin buckram.” The gov
ernment appears to be thoroughly alarmed,
if we may judge by the magnitude of the
precautions taken. The Irish magistrates are
meeting with closed doors, and have forward
ed memorials requesting an increase of the
police and military; orders have been sent to
the constabulary stations and barracks, for
the men to be prepared for sudden emergen
cies ; police agents are stationed at every tel
egraph office to intercept messages involving
Fenianism; a large fleet is coasting along the
Irish shore. The most significant of all these
measures, is the suspension of the Dublin
newspaper, the Irish People. This is a high
handed affair, and in times gone by, only re
sorted to, in the last extremity.
The last great “uprising of the people” in
Ireland, took place in 1848, and turned out
an absurd failure, a sorry farce. The insur
rection was quelled by the police, and the
leader Smith O’Brien nabbed in a cabbage
garden. Not a company,of the fifty thousand
regular troops stationed in Ireland, was call
ed on, and not a dyop of blood spilled. Ever
after, Mr. O’Brien was dubbed tlie'hero of the
cabbage garden.” He was an honest, sincere
man, though of very limited understanding,
and died peacably in his lied, a year or two
ago, in Ireland. Revolutions always have
failed, and always must fail in Ireland. The
gentry, the protestant population and the
clergy, are strong supporters of the govern
ment. Indeed,the better classes,are more loy
al, more devotedly attached to the .crown,
than the English themselves. These classes
although a minority of the Irish people, form
the real strength of the nation. The lewer
classes of catholics, (the aboriginal celts) al
though strong in numbers, are not drilled,
possess no arms or money, no organization,
no leaders, not one of the elements that might
warrant the slightest chance of success. They
are the only disaffected class in the communi
ty, and easily swayed from one extreme to
another. For these reasons we cannot under
stand, why the English government should
Jake such rigid precautions.
Our firm conviction is, that all this turmoil
is gotten up by schemers in the North and in
Ireland, who under the guise of patriotism,
(which old Dr. Johnson defines as the last
refuge of a scoundrel) are instigating the
wretched celts to rebellion, and in the mean
time collect subscriptions, to help on the
cause. "When all the money likely to be
raised, has been safely cribbed, they will di
vide the spoils, and leave their deluded fol
lowers to shift for themselves, as best they
may. : i. ■ . ;
55F” A Southern clergymen, writing to a
Northern one, in 1860, said:
“Dissolve this union, you infamous villains,
and we shall make this proposition at once
to Louis Napoleon, a most sagacious mon
arch, and he would quarter at New Orleans
200,000 Frenchmen, and at Chesapeake 200,-
000. more; wc would then command the Mis
sissippi valley, whip the nortli-westem States
into our Southern Confederacy, and we
would then turn upon the.,New England
States, and cause the hurricane of civil war
to rage, and sweep from Mason and Dixon’s
line to the codfisherics of Maine, until we
would extinguish the last abolition foot-hold
on the continent of America !”**■*
“If the response is not satisfactory, call a
prayer-meeting, and have Wendell Phillips,
Beecher, Cheever, and all the long-faced hypo
crites who insult God, and mock religion by
calling upon him for mercy—pray old John
Brown and Confederates out of hell, where
the whole hatch of you are going with light
ning speed 1 Ask God to forgive you for
your wickedness—pray morning, evening and
noon, with your faces towards Harper's Fer
ry ! Ask him to wash your filthy garments
from the stain of blood of your Kansas and
Virginia murders, and importune him until
you get your answer ; ‘go and sin no more’—
sin no longer against conscience and your
country’s laws and constitution.”
Lc style e'est L'homme (style indicates the
man) said the celebrated Button. To judge
by that criterion, it is evident that the above
choice epistle was penned, (could only have
been conceived) by Parson Brownlow
present governor of Tennessee. No other
man living (always. excepting the editor of
Ned Bcntline’s Own, New York),
have concentrated so much vituperation in so
few lines. It is also very clear that the Rev.
gentleman is an adept in the art of throwing
“political summersaults.”
What Gen. Lee Advises.—.A Washing
ton special to the Cincinnati Oasette says:
“ The Christian gentleman, Gen. R. E. Lee,
in a letter to a friend at Petersburg, gives
the following advice to his fellow citizens:
It should be the object of ail to avoid con
troversy, to allay passion, give free scope to
reason and every friendly feeling. By doing
this, and encouraging our citizens to engage in
the duties of life with all their heart and
mind, and with a determination not to be
turned aside by thoughts of the past, or fears
of ftie future, our country will not only be
advanced in science, but in virtue and in reli
gion.”
We see it stated that the National In
telligencer, of Washington city, is to be the
“organ” of the present administration. If
Andy Johnson needs an exponent in this
way, he cannot do better than select the jour
nal named. It is eminently conservative and
dignified in tone, has never bowed to the
demon fanaticism; and its management is,
in addition, characterized by an ability not
excelled by that of any journal in the country;
WHO ARE QUALIFIED TO VOTE.
Some days since we published a statement
received from a source deemed entirely, relia
ble, that parties falling within the thirteenth
section of the amnesty proclamation, bet
ter known as tile twenty thousand dollar
clause, wlie Ave application for par
don^ and jeceivai endorsement of Gov.
Johnson wert>CMBdered entitled to the
privilege of voting at the election to-day.—
Yesterday a report to the contrary was circu
lated in the city. But wC learn that' Gen.
Croxton, commanding the district, on being
■pplied to by a gentleman who was anxious
to obtain infojj^htion on the question, coin"
«ded with our original statement, the
General was, we are informed, frank in the
saying that he had no wish to interfere in the
election. Yet he seemed positive that all ap-'
plicants for pardon, who had filed th^ir peti
tion, endorsed by the Governor,' ought to be
allowed to vote.
In reference to this point, we find the fol
lowing correspondence in the Constitutional
ist of the 1st inst:
Covington, Ga., Sept. 12,1865.
Dear Sir : Although personally unacquaint
ed with you, I venture to address a note of
inquiry in reference to a point of considera
ble importance, affecting, as it may, the
character and material of our State conven
tion.
It i3 a generally received opinion through
out the State, and accepted by yourself, as
appears from your recent instructive letter to
Colonel Fulton, that no person belonging to
the excepted classes can vote or is eligible
as a member of the convention until he re -
ceivcs a special pardon. It is respectfully
asked, what are the grounds for such opinion?
It is not authorized by the express language
of the president’s proclamation appointing
our provisional governor nor does it flow
therefrom by inference. In that proclama
tion it is declared that “in any elec
tion that may be hereafter held for
choosing delegates to any State convention,
as aforesaid, no person shall be qualified as an
elector, or shall be eligible as a member of
such convention, unless lie shall have previ
ously taken the oath of amnesty, as set forth
in the president’s proclamation of May 29th,
1865, and is a voter qualified as prescribed
by the constitution and laws of the State
of Georgia, in force immediately before the
19th of January, 1861.” It is.also direct
ed that the convention shall be “composed
ot delegates to be chosen by that portion
of the people of said State who are loyal
to the United States, and no others.”—
Such are the conditions imposed, and such
only. Nor has the provisional governor
added whatever to' them in his proclama
tion concerning the Convention. In this
matter he but repeats the language of tho
President. And these are the two decisive
sources of authority. What is there in these
to exclude any excepted person, who evinces
a spirit of loyalty by taking the oatli and filing
an application for pardon, from voting, or
from a seat in the convention ? Is he ’held
to be disloyal until pardoned? It-will be
seen by reference to ithe proclamation of Gov
ernor Perry, of South Carolina, that ali with
in the excepted classes who take the oatli ttfitl
apply for pardon are entitled to vote, or be-;
come members of the convention in that State;
and it cannot be presumed that the President
means to be less liberal to Georgia. I have
offered this point, not for the mere purpose
of special pleading, but because it concerns
the practical interests of the State. In my
county, and, I doubt not, in many others,
some of the best citizens, men eminently fit
for seats in the convention, and whose politi
cal antecedents are not offensive to the gov
ernment, but who fall under tho thirteenth
exception, are likely to be excluded from the
convention by the popular opinion that they
arc ineligible. I request that you review the
points, and permit me to publish an opinion
which will carry so much of confidence that
I have ventured with diffidence to differ from
the one already expressed.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
J. M. Pace.
Hon. E. Starnes, Augusta, Ga.
Augusta, Sept. 14th, 1865.
Mr Dear Sib : Your very intelligent let
ter'of 12th inst., was received by me this
morning.
I agree with you in the suggestions which
you make as to the qualifications of voters
under the proclamations of the president, and
the provisional governor—especially 'if the
construction confine tself to the language of
these documents. But a different view of the
subject had been generally entertained in our
State, and is entertained by the military au
thorities of the United States now among us.
And it was in deference to this opinion that
I made the assumption to which you refer in
my letter to Col Fulton.
The commanding general here argues thus:
“The person applying for special pardon,
though he takes the oath is iumislied with
no copy of it. and is not considered in pos
session of it. He can use it in no way, ex
cept to have it sent on to the president with
liis application, as evidence of his desire to be
restored to his rights'of citizenship. If he
undertake to vote, and that vote be chalenged,
he can furnish no evidence of his being with
in the amnesty, or his having taken the oath.
From all which.it is inferred that though the
language of the proclamations seems to en
courage the idea that he is entitled to vote,
or serve in the convention after having taken
the oath in any way yet this was not intend
ed by the president.
Upon talking, the matter over with the
general, after the receipt of your letter this
morning, (which I showed to him) Gen.
Stcedman agreed that as the matter did ad
mit of doubt we should endeavor to have
that donbt removed, and that he would im
mediately telegraph the president on the
subject. I am, by his direction, about to
prepare alelegraph to Be submitted by him
to President .Johnson. If this be answered
you will probably hear from, me on the sub
ject again in a few days.
Very respectfully, &c.,
E. Starnbs.
J. M. Pace,-Esq., Covington, Ga.
Augusta, Ga., Sept 27th, 18C5..
Mv Dear Sir :—The president has not yet
returned an answer to the telegram. And,
considering this fact, and ■ seeing that in
South Carolina, public notice has been giv
en by the governor, without {interference
from the president, that persons who have
applied for special pardons, should be al
lowed seats in the convention, if elected,
and the right to vote, General Steedmanhas
authorized me to say, that he thinks that
the same rule should apply to Georgia,
and the question of right left to the con
vention, if any one chooses to'make it there.
This decision may be acted on safely, : I
think, for I have no idea the convention will
decide differently, should it be deemed nec
essary to raise the question there.’ And I
• presume the President does not mean to inter
fere, or he would before now have* replied to
General Steedman’s message, as he has an
swered others forwarded since this was sent.
Very respectfully, yours, &c.
E. Starnes.
J. M. Pace, Esq., Covington, Ga.
Mr. Don. Carlos Buell, once a military man,
is now president of a company which has
leased R. A. Alexander’s extensive iron works
in Green river, Kentucky, and contemplates
making Kentucky his future home.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Central Pacific Railroad has been for
several months surveying the ground at the
summit of Sierra Nevada, preparatory to a
final location of the route across the moun
tains.
AS incendiary fire at Portland, Oregon, on
the 27th, destroyed property valued at- twen
ty thousand dollars.
All the second New York heavy artillery
lliav'e' been mustered out and have left 'for
New York. The sentence of Lieut. Jas.
Burke; 4th N. Y. heavy artillery, cashiered
for. conduct unbecoming an officer and a gen
tleman, has been approved by general Au-
ger. ^
It is estimated that there are fully eight
thousand negros in the city Of Alexandria,
Va., all of whom are self-supporting, and
who contribute to the maintenance of a con
siderable number of schools for the Colored*
people.
Owing to the lack of funds in the work on
the capital extension, the work pill be dis
continued till Congress makes further appro
priations.'
The London Times makes the following
not very creditable admission, when it says
“drinking has becomaao interwoven with the
life and soul of every English occasion of im
portance, that the idea of closing grog shops
on election day, is inadmissible.”
A fatal boiler exploit occurred at Buffa
lo, oiFthe 28th, in the^JYatt and company’s
rolling mill, killing two men and wounding
about a dozen others. A section of the boil
er, weighing about half a ton, was hurled,
through the building a distance of three hun
dred feet.
The circuit court of the United States for
"Wisconsin, entered a decree of foreclosure,and
sale against the La Cross and Milwaukee rail
road on the 27th.
The high bridge on the South Side rail
road, near Lynchburg, Virginia, has been
completod, and there is now no interruption
on the route between Petersburg and Robin
son’s Mill, six miles below Lynchburg, It is
expected that the bridges between that city
and Robinson’s Mil will be finished in two
weeks, when the cars will go through' without
any detention.
The' San Francisco Courier says that the
Shenandoah was not long since successfully
furnished with a ship load of supplies from
that city, by a vessel thatwns quietly cleared
for Victoria, and which has not yet turned
up at that port.
Father Siels, a Catholic priest, has been
sent to prison in Franklin county, Missouri,
for solemnizing the rites of matrimony with
out taking the test oath.
The Kentucky delegation headed by Gov.
Bramlette, are still in Washington, and have
long conferences with the president and heads
of departments. They ask the removal of
General Palmer from command, the with
drawal of negro troops from different parts
of the State and a greater concentration of
troops that now exists on the border.
, Both white and colored people will have
nothing to do have been ordered to leave At
lanta.
Electioneering Fracas in Ohio.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.]
Eds. Com:—The State sovereignty demo
crats held a meeting, and Mr. Long addressed
it for over an bout, without being interrupt
ed, or perceiving any sign of ill-will among
the audience. He left the ground a few min
ifies with a friend.
Mr. Maginnis, the candidate of the State
sovereignty party for lieutenant governor,
followed in a cool argument on the origin
and nature of the Federal system. He had
only proceeded fifteen minutes without inter
ference, or marks of dissent, when suddenly
Corporal Pike, late of the army, broke in
upon the speaker with a question:
“Do you say a State has the right to se
cede ?”
Maginnis replied, he was coming to that
presently. Pike repeated the question. Ma
ginnis then said that such was the drift of
wliat he had said, and he expected to demon
strate it. “Then,” cried Pike in a loud voice,
“ wc soldiers that foughtjho South all through,
the war, are a set of murderers, in your opin
ion.” Maginnis replied mildly that he , had
not said so. To which Pike rejoined, very
excitedly, “You are a damned secessionist,
and wc will not allow any such talk here.—
You must come down,” he said, drawing out
a navy revolver and flourishing it. He com
manded him to come down several times,
and as Maginnis stood still, he fired his re
volver, but with bad aim, and pulled a heavy
table off the platform to the ground, smash
ing the pitchers and tumblers, and upset
ting with it Maginnis’ hat and cane, which
were afterwards stolen. Finding Ma-
ginis could not be scared by these outrages,
Pike scrambled upon the platform himself,
pistol in hand, where the President and sev
eral others were standing on their feet and
endeavoring to get away. When he got up,
he found Maginnis confronting him, and as
he approached, the latter drew his pistol and
fired close to Pike’s head, when an old man,
endeavoring to leave, struck Maginnis’ elbow
and threw up the pistol, so that the ball hit
above the brow, and only cut the scalp for a
couple of inches. Maginnis seized Pike’s
pistol then with his left hand to divert his
aim, and Pike fired at his body and struck
Maginnis just below the stomach, and made
a flesh wound of small size, but in a most
dangerous place—so near the bowels.—
Maginnis could not cock his pistol, but
after Pike fired, he used the barrel
of it on liis bead, cutting several gashes,
which bled profusely, and stunned Pike, who
fired another ineffectual shot between Magin
nis’legs, and fill to the platform, bleeding
and overpowered, and Maginnis hurried him
off to the ground, about three feet, where he
lay till liis friends took him up. Maginnis
never left the platform, and fought it out till
his adversary went grass for good. The
weapons were very unequal, Maginnis had a
small one, but Pike’s was a large size, and he
had boasted of its execution. The friends of
both parties seem to have left them to fight it
out, and nobody attemtped to stop it. Some
soldiers encouraged Pike to kill the speaker
■on the platform, and seemed to enjoy the ag
gression upon liis rights and safety. The mass
of people were indignant,and expressed them
selves freely afterward. Theparties were both
arrested, but not bound over; Maginnis saying
that if.he could not protect himself on a plat
form in a public meeting from one man, be
would be unwilling to prosecute him, and
that at any rate Pike had got the worst of it,
and he was not vindictive. Mr. Maginnis’
conduct is as much admired as Pike’s is con
demned, and rudeness and ruffianism have
met with a timely check, for which wc all
thank the bravery and coolness of Mr. Ma
ginnis. He speaks this evening at the State
Sovereignty lieadquarters, Democratic Ex
change. Both parties are Democrats, Magin-
VAKIETY.
A Rochester paper says: A man who resides
in Chili, New.. York, declares that he has dis
covered the cause of the prevailing drought-.
He attributes it to the large number of light
ening rods lately put up about that region of
country. He says these rods take the electri
city from the Clouds, and scatter^t without
affording rain.
A correspondent who has seen her, describes
Miss Brandon, the English writer, as a “red
haired, stout, rather vulgar looking cockney
woman of thirty odd, and says she is an itin
erant actress, and known great destitution.—
The combined sale of her books in England
has been six hundred thousand copies, in
America, two hundred and fifty thousand, in
France and Germany, one hundred thousand.
She has made in the last four years about
forty thousand pounds, and funded half of
it. ' ...
John Hanks is showing about the country,
the log cabin built by himself and Abraham
Lincoln in Macon county, Illinois, in 1830.—
He has had it in Boston common, and has
just brought it to Bamum’s museum, in New
York. Mr. Hanks accompanies the show
with reminiscences of his acquaintance with
Mr, Lincoln. Half the proceeds of the exhi
bition are to be devoted to the erection of a
monument to Thomas Lincoln, the late Presi
dent’s father.
The citizens of New Orleans have been
made happy by the arrival of two cargoes of
claret. The Pic. says, we don’t want a* nicer
drink of a hot summer day, than claret with
a lump of ice in it, and a half-tumbler full of
seltzer water poured in; and we sympathize,
therefore, in the bacchanalian feelings of
those who have so long been deprived of
their Bordeaux, their Latour, their Margaux,
and now find them abundant again.”
A communication from Toulon states that
so violent a sirocco has been blowing over
that town, thousands of swallows were weath
er bound there, waiting for the south winds
to cease to cross the Mediterrean.—English
Paper.
A soldier named King was recently hung
in Ireland for the murder of his officer. A
comrade who officiated .as hangman per
formed the duty so bungling that the mur
derer suffered for fifteen minutes and died in
horrible agony.
, , The Albany Journal says every candidate
on the republican ticket has bled for his coun
try. Candidates of all parties are generally
made to bleed pretty freely.
An escaped slave who absquatulated ten
years ago from Louisiana, came North, made
a fortune of a million of dollars, and is now
helping his old mistress, made n beggar by
the war.
Augusta Beach said she was sorry she shot
her husband in the Chicago theatre, and as
lieis recovering she was admitted to a bail
in' 13000.
Shoddy is, reported in full rig in Paris,
wearing diamonds, smoking cigars, and
spending no end of money,
In France last year out of 900,000 railway
passengers only one was wounded.
German astronomers have discovered a
planet. All Germans are star gazers.
Norfolk has raised $800,000 for a line of
steamships to France.
A hangor man stole $400 lately and his
conscience troubled him so that he had to re
turn it.
The Sewing women of Chicago have formed
a protective union.
A German club-house in Baltimore will
cost $200,000.
Lady L. Duncan was an heiress; and Sir W.
Duncan washer physician during a severe
illness. One day she told him she had made
up her mint! to marry, and upon his asking
the name of the fortunate chosen one, she
bade him go home and open his Bible, giv
ing him chapter and verse, and he would find
it out. He did so, and read what Nathan
said unto David, “Thou art the man!”
We observe that there is to be a hotel built
at Bull Run. The New York Mercury says
that “heretofore it hasn’t been much of a
place to stop at.” ')
“There’s a difference in time, you know
between this country and Europe,” said a
gentleman in New York to a newly arrived
Irishman. “For instance, your friends in
Cork are in bed and fast asleep by this time,
while we are enjoying ourselves in the early
evening.” “That’s always the way,” exclaim
ed Pat, “Ireland niver got justice yit.”
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
DISPATCHES TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
New York, Sept. 30.—Gold stronger. The
exports of specie to-day is larger than was
anticipated, amounting to nearly one million
dollars, which produces a stronger tone
among dealers. The expected large payments
last week, on account of 50,20 coupons, click
the upward tendency. Quotations this after
noon ranged from 144 to 1441-4. The pay
ment on 5-20 coupons from Monday to last
evening, were about $135,000.
* The theatrical managers in this city have
held a meeting and resolved to withdraw
their advertisements from the Herald.
From Washington.
Washington, Sept. SO—The New York
Herald's special says there was a rumor to-day
that Gen. Meigs was to be superceded in the
quartermaster's department. His succession
is probably to devolve upon some of the se
nior officers of that department, such as Col.
Crosby or Col. Vinton.
The western branch of the United States
sanitary commission suspended general busi
ness to-day, and all surplus stock, office fix
tures, etc., will be disposed of by sale. The
claim agency business, to which the commis
sion has lately devoted much attention, which
has been very successful in their hands, will
be continued. It is understood the commis-
sibil has a fund of about $400,000 on hand.
The Wirz Trial.
Washington, Sept. 30.—The Wirz com
mission re-assembled to-day. Capt. Wright,
ex-quartermaster at Andersonville, was re
called for the defense. He testified that when
he succeeded R. B. Winder at that post, ten
of his regiment were taken for use of hospital.
He says he tried, but failed, to obtain more
for that purpose. As to lumber, he was
equally unsuccessful, owners not having been
paid for what they had previously furnished.
An injunction was served on him and others
to pay them for cutting timber. He had nev
er seen Wirz search prisoners.
Mr. Baker. Did you hear Capt. Wirz cqm-
plain of the bad condition of affairs.
Judge Advocate Chipman objected to the
declaration of the prisoner.
Mr. Baker said he did not ask for Wire’s
declaration but his acts.
Col. Chipman remarked that Mr. Baker
asked about complaints.
Mr. B. said it was competent, according to
the rules of law, to show the kindly disposi
tion of the accused in order to refuse the al
legations that he wilfully and maliciously
murdered oi maltreated the prisoners.
The court remarked that they had over
and over again overruled such questions.
Mr. B. said he designated to show that
Captain Wirz accompanied his complaints by
acts to ameliorate the condition of the pris
oners.
Mr. Baker withdrew the question and pre
pared another viz: Do you know of any acts,
on the part of Wirz to ameliorate the con
dition of the prisoners ?
Witness replied that he could not think of
any. Witness never heard that any soldiers
received furloughs for shooting Union pris
oners. He had frequently carried vegetables
into the stockade for the relief of prisoners,
after showing Wirz what he had for them.
Wirz permitted Masonic honors to be paid
to deceased prisoners. Lieut. Davis was in
charge when Capt. Wirz was sick.
Cross examined by Col. Chipman—Wit
ness had no personal knowledge of Wirz did
not in the stockade, but outside of it he knew
the accused put prisoners in the stocks and
chain gang.
W. D. Hancock, of the Confederate army,;
testified that he never saw any of his men
shoot prisoners, but bad seen them after they
were shot. Wirz never to his knowledge,
promised furloughs for shooting prisoners.—
No orders were issued to take from Stone-
man’s raiders anything more than money,
knives and forkSj and such other articles as
they had stolen from the people of the coun
try through which they passed. Confederate
soldiers were punished just the same as Union
prisoners.
i New Xork Money Market.
New York, Sept. 30.—There was rather
more demand for money early in the day, but it
was freely met at 5 per cent, and at the close
brokers could not lend their balance at this
rate. There is a good supply of commercial
paper offering, with a peceptible increase in
cotton bills. At the close some names were
Funeral Notice.
The friends and acquaintances of Mr. and Mrs-
P. T. Bartkum, are requested to attend the funer
al of their son Horace Theodore from his res:,
dence on Bond street, at 10)4 o’clock A. m., this
morning. *
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ALLISONS & EIRKMAN,
Cotton Factors
AND
General Commission Merchants,
Nos. 29, 31 & 33, So. Market St.,
— - Nashville, Tenn.
Refer To—J. B. Ross & Son, Macon, Ga.; J.
H. Anderson & Son, Macon, Ga.; Fleming &
Whcless, Augusta, Ga.: W. Heya Warren, Au
gusta, Ga.; R. J. Lowry & Co., Atlanta, Ga.; J.
Rhodes Brown, Columbus, Ga.; W. H. Smith,
Montgomery, Ala. oct4-2m*
gf Atlanta Intelligencer, Lagrange Reporter
and Eufaula Spirit copy 2m and send bill.
FOR 3A£i£,
AT THE WHITE STORE,
Corner Third and Cherry Streets,
10 barrels Cincinnati Cream Ale.
10 “ Eureka Smoking Tobacco.
80 “ Bourbon Whisky.
10 “ Monongahela Whisky.
5 “ Peach Brandy.
2 “ Grape Brandy.
1 “ Bay Rum.
Smoking and Chewing Tobacco.
Candles, Starch, Cigars, Cheese.
Crackers, Sugar, Coffee.
Mackerel, Claret.
1000 bushels Malt Barley.
oct4-2t WITHERS & LOUD.
done at 6 l-2a7 per cent, and others at 7 1-2
A gentleman from the country, of the high- alO per cent. The supply of cotton bills is
est respectability, recently shipped equal
amounts of the same sugar, the produce of
his plantation, to St. Louis and to this city.
The shipment to St. Louis netted him 100 per
cent more than the shipment to New Or
leans.
An extraordinary pedestrian feat is to be
performed at the St. Charles Opera, New Or
leans. Mr. W. N. Harris, a pedestrian of ce
lebrity, will undertake, and he promises to
increasing, rates ranging from 9 to 10 per cent.
Bankers’ bills are offered more freely the rates
being 6 l-2a7 per cent. There is also a
perceptible increase in tlie offerings of pro
duce commission paper, at 7 a 8 per cent.—
Banks are discounting jobbers’ paper quite
freely. Gold is stronger. The export of spe
cie to-day was larger than was anticipated,
amounting to $1,000,000, which produces a
stronger tone among sellers. The expected
accomplish, the feat of ’walking for 100 con- j lar g c payments next week on account of 5-20
secutive hours on a plank 22 inches wide and ! coupons checks the upward tendency. The
22 feet long i payments on account of 6-20 coupons from
Th, Savaniinh^pnpere ofj SSSSZKSRSS
according as opportunity offers.
writing
Mississippi at an early day. . I to the New York Tribune, gives the following
The New York Tribune of Thursday says: j in regard to affairs Florida:
“ An important meeting of the College of; Those correspondents are mistaken who
Surgeons was held on the 27th at the New j suppose a beligerent disposition is to be found
York University, and important papers read j anywhere in Florida,
on the cholera and yellow fever, and one of j * * *
the medical gentlemen declaring the metrop- j The collector says no property has been
olis could not, by any possibility, escape the t libelled for confiscation; and he has made no
former scourge which would be upon us in j attempt to distribute it in small lots to the
three weeks.” j negros, as he knows it would meet with
We are glad to see that the Cincinnati Oa- | strong opposition from all parties. It would
icttc favors a general amnesty as far prefer- j require a hero to execute it, military force to
able to the present pardon system, and for protect the freedmen during the term of the
the further consideration that it would release
the property of the South from the uncertain
ty that must prevent enterprise, and would
hasten the reconstruction of its industry.
Tho Washington Star says that two colored
womeii and colored men were in attendance a
few days ago at the president’s, to ask par
don for their former master, a man named
Williams, who is, or was at the breaking out
of the war, a wealthy citizen of Virginia,
and at one time owned a number of slaves.—
It appears from the statement of these color
ed people, that Williams made 'application
for pardon some time ago, and as the appli
cation has not been acted upon as yet, they
went there to intercede for their old master,
The Lynchburg Virginian says it has been
requested by Gen. Curtiss to state that the
meeting, which was proposed to be held in
that city for the purpose of getting up a pe
tition in behalf of Air, Davis, will not be al
lowed.
The United States district court of Alexan-
ria, Virginia, has ordered that all suits for
property under the .confiscation 1 law, be dis
continued until the party lias been pardoned
by the president.
Miss Rebecca Adams, an attachee of Mc-
Vicker’s theatre, Chicago, died suddenly on
Monday, in an apoplectic fit. On Saturday
afternoon she appeared as Widow Melnotte
in the play of the Lady of Lyons.
23?" A dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer
from Washington says:
It is evident that the popular current is
settling strongly in favor of the administra
tion policy, and it is thought that its oppo
nents will not be able to raise a corporal’s
I guard in the next Congress. Sumner in the
nis belonging to the Long wing and Pike to Senate, and Thad. Stevens in the House, will
the short. I be left almost alone.
lease. “If,” he adds, “ the militia is organ
ized, a3 foreshadowed by Governor Sharkey,
and indorsed by the president, he has no idea
the freedmen will remain laborers in the cot
ton fields. They are excited and partially
armed. There is hope of organizing the la
bor of the State in such way that freedmen
will return to the field and recruit agricultu
ral wealth, as few laborers seem to vanish
with promulgation of the militaiy order.
In conclusion, he says lie beard of but lit
tle trouble between freedman and other em
ployees.
Nearly all the plantations have been con
traded with, and employees made contract
ors for the year 1866, for fear of the labor at
the beginning of the season.
A gentleman largely connected with the
oil speculation, and connected with a dozen
or more oil companies, rolled up a fortune, it
is said, of half a million in a few months.
He made a splendid speculation in the pur
chase of a splendid building down town, for
which he was offered fifty thousand dollars
above what he gave for it the day after he
bought it He held on to his oil stocks until
he lost all he made and failed. His building
was sold for eighty thousand dollai* less than
lie gave for it, and is bankrupt—a specimen
of the sudden rise and sudden fall of men
and iortunes in this city.—N. Y, Corres. Jour
nal.
. ^l 1 ? who committed suicide by shoot
ing himself a few nights since in an eastward
bound car on the Great Western (Canada)
railroad, turns out to have been John L. Har-
vey, Esq., a prominent lawer of Dubuque.—
Insanity is hereditary in his family, and he
had lately been suffering from great mental
depression. He was on liis way East to visit
relatives near Boston.
1ST IE W FIRM*
SINGLETON, HUNT & CO.,
OPPOSITE LANIER HOUSE,
MACON, GEORGIA,
N OW have in store, and for sale, the largest and
Best assorted stock of BOOTS, SHOES, AND
HATS, in the South. Those wishing to buy, to
sell again, will here find facilities not surpassed by
any house south of Cincinnati, as the entire stock
has been purchased, FOR CASH, from the manu
facturers in the cities of New York and Boston.
A good supply ot TRUNKS AND UMBRELLAS
Will also be kept on hand.
1 The firm hopes, by constantly replenishing, and
by strict attention to business, to merit a liberal
portion of public patronage.
W. R. SINGLETON,
W. C. SINGLETON,
oct4-3m Y. J. HUNT.
Journal & Messenger copy.
Attention Ocmulgee Fire Co. No. 3.
C ALL meeting Thursday evening the 5th inst.
Important business to be transacted, every
member is particularly requested to be present
H. P. WESCOTT,
E. Einstein, Sec’ry. Foreman.
oct4-2t*
G EORGIA, Jones codnty.—Whereas Wm. H.
J. Wood and Jackson Wood applies to me for
Administration upon the estate of William Wood,
late of said county deceased.
These are to cite and admonish all persons con
cerned to be and appear and file their objection if
any they have to the contrary, in this office on or
by the first Monday in November next.
Given nnder mv hand officially Sept. 30,1865.
ROLAND T. ROSS,
oct4-5wlaw* Ordinary.
New and Splendid Stock of Goods.
I SHALL open on the first of October without
fail at the stand known before the war, as B. F.
Ross’ furniture store, next door to J. B. Ross <fc
Sons, on Cherry street, one of the best selected
stock of goods of all kinds that has been offered
in any market in the South at any time, and I would
most respectfully say to all merchants and to the
buying public, that a call upon me will do them no
harm. I have taken great pains in buying my
goods—selecting just such articles as would meet
the wants of the people, and I feel assured that I
can offer such bargains as will insure me the pa
tronage of all those who honor me with a call.
A. P. G. HARRIS,
Of old firm of
DUNLAP & HARRIS,
afterwards
HARRIS & DENSE.
oct4-9t*
For Sale or Kent,
A VALUABLE cotton plantation, 10 miles from
the city, containing 2,000 acres, 500 acres
open land. A good dwelling and all necessary out
buildings on the place. Provisions and stock with
it, if desired. For further particulars, apply to
Jas. Dean, on the place, or J. E. Jones, at Macon
& W. Railroad. octl-ot*
Macon Typographical Union.
T HE members of this body are requested to at
tend a called meeting, thi6 evening at 1 o’clock.
By order JAS. H. SMITH,
oct4-lt Secretary..
Private Board.
T WO families and a few single gentlemen can be
accommodated with board in a very pleasant
part of the city, if application is made within the
next three days. For particulars inquire at this
office, of ELAM CHRISTIAN.
oct4-3t*
Store to Rent.
I N an eligible position in one of the best business
blocks in the city of Macon. Address Box 105,
P. O. oct4-4t
Z3P Atlanta Intelligencer please copy 4 time*
and send bill to this office.
/"I EORGIA—Jones County.—Ordinary’s Of-
VX fice, said county, September 37, 1865.—
Whereas, Mrs. SarahR. Lane applies tome for
administration on the estate of wm. A. Lane
deceased.
These are to cite and admonish all parsons con
cerned to file their objections, if any they have, in
my office, on or before the first Monday in No
vember next. Witness mv hand officially.
ROLAND T. ROSS,
oct 4-law5w* Ordinary.
For Rent.
T WO dwelling houses and a store near the busi
ness part of town. Apply to Macon Intelli
gence office.
oct4-3t F. R. & B. L. GAULDING.
/X EORGIA, Bibb County.—Whereas, Mre. Fran-
VJ cea Brinn, applies to the undersigned for let
ters of Administration upon the estate of Richard
Brinn, late of said county, dec’d.
rhy letters should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my hand and official signature.
sep2-w5t WM. M. RILEY, Ord'y.
/X EORGLA, Jones County, Ordinary’s Office
VX said county.—Whereas Charles L. Danic, ap
plies to me for letters of administration upon the-
estate of William Coulter, deceased.
These are to cite and admonish all persons con
cerned, to file their objections, if any they have, in
this office by the first Monday in October next.
Given under mv hand officially, Aug. 80, 1865.
ROLAND T. ROSS,
aep l-w5t Ordinary.
(~1 EORGIA, Decatur County.—On the first
VX Monday in October next, B. F. Benton will
apply to the Court of Ordinary of said county, for
letters of Administration on the estate of J. P.
Genlden, dcc’d.
eep2 w30d
H. M. BEACH,
Ordinary.
NOTICE.
ons indebted to the estate of Alber
A LL person
L. Rose, late of Bibb county deceased, are re
quired to make immediate payment, and those
having claims to render them in terms of the law
to the undersigned.
aopl4-w40d JULIA B. COLLINS, Admt’r.
EORGIA, Putnam County.—Application will
VX be made to the Court of Ordinary of said
county at the first regular term after the expiration
of two months from tills notice, for leave to sell
the lands belonging to the estate of Andrew Reid,
dec’d, late of said county, for the benefit of the
heirs and creditors of said deceased.
WM. A. REID,
ALEX’R. S. REID, Jr.
Admr’a, Ac., Andrew Reid, dcc’d.
sep6w60d