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THE TELEGRAPH.
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TlLIGtirH iCILDIHO, COEXXU srcoxD * cbkbrt STS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 27, 1869.
OntMidc Content*.
Fibut Page.—ID. Forney in Virginia: What
a Radical can aee if be wanta to—Indnstrial
Development of the Sonth—Georgia Legislature:
Proceeding of Monday—Gen. Grant and the
Negro Delegation—Mnle Trade in Middle Geor
gia.
A Radical Organ on the Proposed Outrages
FoobthPaoe.—TheNegroEligibility Test-Case
upon Georgia—Cotton Cultivation—Misplaced
Confidence—How a Wicked Fraud was put upon
Mark Twain in Virginia—A Fish Story—Items.
Bibb t'onnty Taxable*.
We learn from a statement by the Receiver
of Tax Returns that his books close np with a
total return of taxablca values amounting in
gross to about $6,038,281
The last returns footed up 7,448,220
iM mat returns iooteu up..............
lowing aloss in valuations $1,409,939
nearly 20 per cent This is a heavy decline
d will impose the necessity of a salty rate of
taxation.
The Board of Mehool Commissioner*
Mot at the Ordinary’s office at 3 o'clock, p. m.,
yesterday. The following additional appoint
ments of school teachers for indigent children
were made:
Mis. C. Jj. Evans, Rutland District; Win.
G. Kilpatrick, EUis's old mill;. 8. H. Everett,
East Macon; William Ryder, Echaconnee Acad
emy; Lewis S. Smith (colored,) southwestern
part of Macon, to teach colored poor children.
The Board adjourned to meet Saturday, Gth
February, 1869, at 3 o’clock, r. v.
Tribune on the South.
An article copied from the Tribune of the 23d
will attract the attention of the intelligent reader,
in connection with Mr. Fomey’s Virginia letter.
Both are on the same line. Both patting the
South on the shoulder, instead of cutting her
across the eyes, in the fashion of three months
ago. Of conrso, we shall not bo understood as
endorsing the Tribune’s review of the Southern
situation any more than Mr. Forney’s account of
Virginia. We print both merely for the purpose
of showing the material fact that both these
radical powers have entirely changed their line
in relation to the Sonth. The Tribune can now
see that the great bulk of the Southern peoplo
are devoted to pcaco and the maintenance of
law and order, while the “ outrages,” which a
few weeks ago were hold to illustrate the tom per
of the Southern manses, are merely exceptional
outbreaks to be dealt with as crime is disposed
of in every community.
fileorgiu University.
Wo regret to lenm that Hon. A. H. Stephons
finds that the state of his health will not pennit
him to accept the Chair of History, to which he
was recently oleoted by the Board of. Trustees
of the Georgia University; and ho is further
moved to decline by a desire to finish his work
upon “A Constitutional View of the Late War."
This is a serious disappointment to the friends
of the University; but we are gratified to hear
that the institution enters upon the year with
extraordinary prospects of increased influence
and usefulness. It numbers already about two
hundrod undergraduates and we hope will reach
four or five hundred before the year has passed.
The Negro-Eligibility Teat Caw.
We have copied from the Savannah Morning
News n full report of proceedings in the case of
Richard W. White, which will bring the eligibil
ity of negroes to office under the Constitution
and laws of Georgia to the final test of a judicial
decision. The case came up for argument in. the
Superior Court of Chatham county last Tuesday,
and will thence be carried to the Supremo Court
of Georgia, now in session. It is understood
that a judicial settlement of .the point in contro
versy will be accepted os satisfactory by the
controlling influences in Congress at the present
time.
Tragedy at a Negro Church Fair-Two
Negroes Killed.
The Albany Nows of the 2Cth has the follow
ing : At a fair given by the colored people, on
Saturday night lost, for the benefit of A. M.
E. Church of this city, u dispute arose over the
raffling for a cake. A blacksmith bythonome
of McAlpin abused and kicked Jim White, who
drew ana fired upon him three times—each shot
taking effect and killing Mo very dead. Jim
started to ran, and being pursued by Cornelius
Shelton, another blacksmith, turned upon him',
fired and fled—Shelton fell and expired in a few
inomonts. . •
All three were Democrats, so the affair affords
no food for the Radical maw. Whisky, igno-
ranoe and excessive freedom were the gravamin
of the quarrel.
Comptroller General’* Report.
We have the report in pamphlet form of
Comptroller General Madison Bell, from August
11, 1868, to January 1, 18C9. It is full of sta
tistical information which will be of service
to ns.
A Goon Bui.—The Albany News of yester
day says: In the Georgia Senate, on the 18th,
Mr. Gignilliat introduced "a bill declaring the
violation of a contract by employer or employe
engaged in agricultural pursuits, a misde
meanor."
This is the sort of legislation most needed in
Georgia, and if Mr. G. succeeds in getting his
bill through he will deserve the thanks of every
planter, and every honest latyirer in the State.
The absence of a penal statute to enforce con
tracts. is the source of one of our chiefest diffi
culties, and we hope the Legislature will effect
ually remedy the evil before it adjourns.
A Nos-Sbquiteo.—A Georgia correspondent
of the New York Times, (Rad.,) testifies that
the negroes in this State are better off, materi
ally, than any laboring class in the world.
Wherefore, says the Constitutionalist, it is
proposed to reconstruct the whites and make it
impossible for anybody to be happy or pros
perous.
The Americas Jocksal of Mxdical Sciences,
edited by Isaac Hays, M. D., and publiahed by
Henry C. Lea, 706 and 708 Sansom Street, Phil
adelphia. Price $5 00 a year. We have the
January issue of this valuable work.
The American Agriculturist for February
was received yesterday, and is a splendid num
ber, covered with reading matter and magnifi
cent illustrations.
Erbor.—On the 4th page an article head—
Negro Equality should read Negro Eligibility.
Death of Reuben S. Williams.—We have the
painful duty of chronicling the death of this
highly esteemed and nseful citizen. After a few
days of illness he expired at his residence, a few
mues below this city, on Friday last, and was
buried in our city cemetery on Saturday after
noon.
Mr. Williams was a man of extraordinary en
ergy and strength of mind and will. His friend
ships and attachments were fervent and endura
ble, and his natural aversion to meanness and
mean people was as proverbial, as were his so
cial and hospitable virtues.—Albany New*.
A $5,000 monument is to be erected over Sam
Houston’s now nameless grave, at Huntsville,
■Texas.
Mr. Forney tn Virginia.
Some months ago, during the pendency of the
Presidential election, when Georgia and the
whole South were tottering under a weight of
malediction which fairly took sway our breath,
we looked anxiously forward to the time when it
• rould cease to be the interest of the press and
politicians of the dominant Northern party to
vilify ns. We told our readers it was vain to
hope for relief until these people would consent
to let ns get up. They had us down, and were
rubbing sand in our eyes end pommeling our
noses—doubling teams on us, as the school boys
do upon any unfortunate urchin who has a bad
name. We could boast not a friend in the ring,
and the plea of not guilty could not even be
heard amid the terrible clamor of universal
malediction. Our case was a deal worse than
that of the innocent man in court, overwhelmed
into doubts of his own integrity by the scathing
denunciations of master District Attorney. They
had jndge, jury, witnesses, attorneys and all
against ns, all packed, and a noisy pack it was.
Well, it sec-ms the good time ha* come at last.
In to-day’s issue, we are able to present even
Mr. John W. Forney, of the Washington Chron
icle and Philadelphia Press, discovering that the
Virginians and North Carolinians are, after all,
a very clever, well-meant people—anxious to do
the fair thing, and willing even to take lessons
from the superior civilization, wisdom and worth
of the Northern people. Everything is rose-col
ored in his eyes. All is peace and promise, and
not even the security of arms, numbers and mil
itary organization are necessaiy to the safety of
the Northern immigrant. The Sonth is the
country for his person and his money, and let
him come on—take possession and reap a har
vest of gain and comfort.
What a change a few months has wrought!
Last November all was disorder, violence, blood
shed, intolerance and proscription. No North
ern man was safe a minute unless he spoke with
bated breath, or joined the crowd of Demo
cratic persecutors and man-slayers. Mr. Forney
sees a great change in the Southern people, and
to the Southern people it is a sufficient expla
nation that the motive for hounding on the
work of vituperation and slander has ceased;
and besides all that, Mr. Forney is understood
to have become pecuniarily into lasted in the sale
of Virginia lands.
But, be the case as it may, wo congratulate
our readers that the energies of the Northern
Radical press no longer groan with the labor
of poisoning the outside world against the
Southern people. Against that influence it was
impossible to make head. It met us at every
turn. It not only prevented Northern and West
ern, but foreign immigration. It affected disas
trously the credit of tho South. It prevented
investments of Northern capital and rendored it
next to impossible to obtain loans from that sec
tion. No man can tell how much it cost the
Sontb, and when wo sco such papers as tho
Tribune and Press, whose staple contents three
months ago were misrepresentations of the
Sonth and Southern people, now changing tone
so much, we believe we shall soon feel the re
sult beneficially upon the material fortunes of
this soction. So mote it be.
The Corn anil Meat Question.
Movements and talk among the Western meat
dealers forewarn us to look out for a rise in
meats. Indeed, prices are steadily going up in
all tho markets, and operations ore extraordin
arily heavy in anticipation of farther advances.
The Macon and Western Railroad reported yes
terday 817,721 pounds of bacon brought to this
market during the fortnight ending 23d instant;
and a glance at tho report from tho Western
markets in tho Teleobath of yesterday, shows
everywhere an active demand at advancing
prices. Tho Western provision dealers, as shown
in previous numbers, are complaining of short
hog supplies and increasing scarcity, and these
complaints would make a scarcity if nothing else
did. There is too much money seeking profit
able investment not to be able to create an art
ificial scarcity, when the attention of speculators
is directed to any particular channel of employ
ment. Indeed, in a somewhat protracted ob
servation, wo have hardly ever failed to notice
that bacon, like negroes and mules, always went
np with cotton.
We hold it to be of vast importance to the
prosperity of Georgia that some plan should be
devised by which onr planters can raise their
own meat. The insecurity of stock of all kinds,
since the abolition of slaveiy, has been almost
a fatal bar to the domestic production of meat,
under tho old system; and it is bard work to in
duce the planter to try any other.
Northern and Western hog-raisors insist, In
their agricultural journals, that hogs penned
and fed from tho start will produce cheaper pork
than hogs allowed to range abont even in those
Countries where range Is better than ours. They
claim to have satisfied themselves by actual tests
that tho increased production, by good feeding
and penning, over hogs which have been suf
fered to pick up a scanty living while getting
their growth and then fattened afterwards for
slaughter, more than compensates the additional
com consumed in the process.
Added to this, the manure from the pens,
wh(ch' should be amply supplied with leaves
from the oak forests, which, containing as they
do agooddeal of mast, furnish alsofood enough to
pay for transportation, is a splendid addition to
the the fertilizing resources of the farmer. Wa
would invite the attention of the planters to ibis
matter; and in connection with it, also, to the
importance, at the same time, of introducing
the improved breeds of swine, such as the White
Chester and Berkshire—swine of fine shape,
winch take on fat far more readily than onr na
tive stock, and maintain a thriving condition on
less food.
These, penned in safe contiguity to the stable
or bam yard, and regularly supplied with food,
water, leaves, straw and trash adapted to ma
norial purposes, will, we believe, in the oonrse
of their rearing, add quite enough of fertilizing
material to tho farm to pay for the extra food
and trouble.
But unquestionably the attention of our law
makers should be earnestly directed to the bet
ter security of the farmer in his premises and
exposed property—not by multiplying penalties;
but by increasing the facilities for their prompt
enforcement. The insecurity of stock at large—
crops in the field, and the constant exposure to
trespass and depredation to which onr Georgia
landholders are subjected, are a scandal, a
shame and a reproach to the State, as well as a
prolific source of vexation and impoverishment
Cotton King Again.
The Turf, Field and Farm talks sense, as fol
lows :
We are told that the crop just gathered will
command for the country as irmcb foreign ex
exchange as any planted since Whitney invented
the cotton-gin. The fact is, cotton is still the
agricultural and financial king of this continent
He was temporarily dethroned by his own sub
jects, bnt his golden sceptre will, in the end,
triumph over all obstacles, and assert his royal
prerogatives on all the marts of the world. Had
the Confederate authorities, at the commence
ment of the late deplorable civil war, taken all
the cotton then at the South, for which the
planters would have been willing to accept eight
cents!per pound in Confederate bonds, and
shipped it to Europe, the issue of that war
might have been indefinitely postponed, if mot
entirely changed. Be thin as it may, the cotton
fields of the South are your true "Eldorado,"
and now tho objection of slavery is removed, it
is southward the tfde of emigrant on must now
take its way,
“ Cuttino off a coupon from the marriage
bond is the ornamental synonym for having a
The Condition or the Sonth.
From the T>rw Tori Tribnne,23d infant.]
The casual reader may imbibe very erroneous
impressions of the state of the South from what
he sees in the newspapers. H a Kn-Klux out
rage is perpetuated in Tennessee or Texas, it is
at once flashed over the whole country; and so
of a negro riot or resistance to legal process,
growing out of a quarrel with a planter or plant
ers as to the division of crops grown on shares or
the payment of wages. Few stop to consider
that the South covers a million of square miles,
inhabited by twelve millions of people, and that,
every collision among these twelve mil
lions has a quasi-partisan character, the widely
reported and trumpeted crimes of violence bear
an unprecedented proportion to those which
attract only local attention. For instance:
there are ten or twelve counties in Middle and
West Tennessee where the rebel spirit is still
rampant, and in some of which Ku-Klnx out
rages are fitfully committed: these we are cer
tain to bear from; bnt the forty or fifty coun
ties which are as quiet as any part of New
England incite no telegrams and rarely attract
public attention. From Virginia and the two
Carolinas, we have heard of but one collision
for weeks, and that was an evidently magnified
report of a resistance to civil process by a few
negroes near Norfolk. From Georgia, we have
only the Ogeechee troubles, which were swollen
out of all proportion by mutual misconceptions
and a palpable effort to drive the blacks into re
bellion and subject them to extermination. From
Alabama, we hear of but one recent outrage—
tho murder of a Union officer by Ku-Klux near
Huntsville. Mississippi is very quiet; Louisiana
almost uniformly so since she beard of Grant's
election. In Florida, only the Kilkenny feud
among the State officers voxes the general calm.
Arkansas has been seriously convulsed and agita
ted ; and there have been wild doings by implaca
ble rebels on the ono side and by Gov. Clayton’s
Black militia on tho other; bnt, In spite of the
desperate efforts of the rebel journals of Mem
phis and Little Rock, it is plain that order, has
generally been restored on the basis of submis
sion to law. Texas is so vast and so remote
from the seat of Government that a great many
of the turbulent and implacable have taken re
fuge in her vast solitudes and there to do with
impunity deeds that wonld provoke repression
elsewhere; bnt, even there, matters have great
ly improved since Gen. Grant’s election, and are
still improving.
The fair crops and good prioea just realized
have had a very soothing inflnenoe. Twenty-
five hundred thousand bales of cotton, selling
for an average of $I00per bale, yields two hun
dred and fif ty millions of dollars to the planters;
and, though several former crops were much
larger in amount, wo doubt that any one of
them ever sold at the gin houses for more
money. Then tho sugar and rice crops of 1868
are mnch larger than those of 1867, sad STS
bringing good prices. Add to this that the
Sonin grow more Indian com, and wo presume
more wheat also, in 1868 than in any former
year, and we may fairly congratulate her on the
torn in the tide of her fortunes.
The experiment of free labor at the Sonth was
commenced under the least promising auspices
ever known. The planters were conquered, sul
len, despondent, and intensely prejudiced
against ‘Tree niggers,” Having all their lives
had labor without wages, tho requirement of pay
for the work of their blacks seemed to them a
glaring extortion, enforced by tho bayonets of
their Yankee masters. But, had they been ever
so willing to pay, the means were utterly want
ing. The war had stripped them to their bare
acres; and even these were in no condition to
prodneo when, a month too late, they began
feebly to plant in 1865. Short of implements,
animals, and food, their crops wonld have been
poor even hod they not been shortened by
drouth; bnt this cut them down nearly half.
They did a little better in 1866, bnt on a con
stantly, rapidly falling market; and when their
next crop wa3 ready for said, cotton had fallen
so low that half of them could hardly pay their
labor. The year just dosed was the first since
I860 in which a fair yield has commanded a
good price; and, though many are still straggling
nnder a mountain of debt, tens of thousands
have been set on their feet by the crop just
marketed.
The blacks emerged from slavery and the war
under circumstances most unfavorable to so
briety, and diligence on their part. They were
sharers in tho national triumph; they were its
most palpable beneficiaries; their old masters
were the vanquished party; and mistaken if not
bad men had led the freedmen to expect a dis
tribution of their masters’ forfeited lands among
them as “spoils of victory.” And, had they
been ever so docile and reasonable, their late
masters were at once disinclined and unable to
psy them. Doubtless, too many of them crowded
into the cities; but they were told to c]ear out
from their old homes, and thoy had no choice
bnt to oliey. That there are idle, worthless,
rascally blacks, who wonld rather beg than work,
and rather steal than either, is quite true ; but,
had all been willing to work, tho work was no-
whero to be had.
Throughout the last three or four years, we
have repeatedly asked Southern whites this
question. “Haro yon ever known an instance
whero an employer able and willing to pay for
black labor was tillable to obtain it?” And no
man has answered in the affirmative. And we
cannot remember that one has told that he had
any difficulty in retaining his former slaves if ho
chose to'do so. “O, I can’t get along with my
niggers—they all want to stay with mo on my
own terms,” is the general response. Very few
planters will say that they have been deserted
by blacks whom they cared to retain.
Still, the position of the two races was one
of more or less open antagonism after the close
of tho war; but it has gradually changed for
tho better, until at present it is oommon for
planters to say, “We have become used to free
labor and understand it—we shall get on rory
well with our blacks henceforth.” They have
learned that they can make more money by
hiring labor than by buying it, though those
who inherited a gang of slaves may have found
them very convenient. We doubt that those
who bought their laborers ever did so well as
those who hired them have done in the year
just terminated.
On the whole the Sonth is looking np. There
is a fraction of her people who still choose to
pnt on masks and ride about at midnight to as
sault Unionists, white or black, and burn negro
school-houses: but these are not half so assaty
as they were, and their number is still decreas
ing. With Grant in the White House, cotton
ruling high, and lands rising in value, we shall
be surprised if they are not reduced to a few
isolated gangs of ten to thirty within the next
two years. Let the friends of peace and union
unite upon the basis of universal amnesty with
impartial suffrage, and they will soon have van
ished altogether.
Hems from the Monroe Advertiser.
Field Hands.—We learn that the farmers of
this county have not been able, as yet. to get as
many hands as are necessary to cultivate their
farms the present year. Some, we understand,
have no laborers, and unless they can get them,
will cultivate but few acres of their land. The
negroes seem to decrease every year, and our
people will have to procure white labor to keep
their farms in operation. Like the Indian, the
negro race will soon pass away, and be remem
bered only as the cause of the subversion of the
American Republic.
Col. John Pixckabd, the oldest citizen of this
town, and father of CoL James S. Pinckard,
died at the residence of the latter, here, last
Friday morning. Col. Pinckard was, for many
yearn before tlje war, one of the most promi
nent and opulent citizens of this county.
Judge Speek.—Our esteemed felloe-citizen,
Judge Alex. M. Speer, removed to Griffin year
terday. We are sorry to lose such a good man
and citizen from the community. Onr loss,
however, hag been the gain of the good people
of Griffin. May good fortune attend the Judge
in his new home, and may his fellow-citizens
of Spalding county appreciate the worth of a
courteous gentleman anij erudite jurist.
Judge Monroe Glower, new member eject
to the Legislature from this county, was sworn
in and took his seat last Wednesday. Jndge
Zeliner was in attendance at the opening of the
Legislature.
We have a good representation from Monroe
county in these gentlemen. The former occn-
E ies the seat of W. A. Ballard, deceased, and the
ittek that of the expelled colored member from
this county, George H. Clower, formerly the
property of Jndge Clower. And although the
Clowers seem to be popular in this county, we
are glad that the top rail has been placed on top
again.
In a French town a man was lately tried for
manslaughter, having smothered his wife by
hugging her too rapturously. The event gives
an opposition paper a chance to liken it to the
love certain governments show for liberty.
On Thursday night last, Mary Etta, eldest
daughter of William F. Moore, Esq., of Bristol,
came rory near being burned up. Her clothes
took fire while standing near the fire place. At
last' accounts her situation was very critical—
Lynehbvrg Virginian: —-ti t
BY TELEGRAPH.
' FROM ATLANTA.
Macon and Brunswick Road Gain* the
*• i Senate by 26 to 10.
Mr. Bryant Predleta Harah Treatment
from Congress*.
Aaron Alpeoria Clamors for His Seat.
The Belief Law Declared Constitu
tional.
Special to the Macon Daily Tclcpraph.1
Atlanta, January 2G—Night.
Senate.—In the Senate, Mr. Wooten having the
floor, resinned his argument upon the resolution of
the Joint Committee to investigate the sale of the
bonds of the Macjn and Brunswick Ttailmafl Com
pany.
Mr. Welbouroe made an able speech in opposition
to the motion of Mr. Wooten to re-commit the res
olution- ■ -
The question being taken, the motion to re-com
mit was lost, and the report of the Committee
adopted by twenty-six yeas, to ten nays.
A bill was introduced amendatory of, and explan
atory to, the act to prevent the sale of lottery
tickets.
House.—Mr. Lane's resolution asking Congress
to remove the disabilities of all Georgians, elided
much discussion. Ho proposed to refer it to a spe
cial committee of one from each Congressional Dis
trict.
Mr. Bryant intimated that delays were dangerous.
He had information that action should bo held at
once, or otherwise it wonld be too late. Congress
would act soon and harshly.
Mr. Bryant also favored the resolution with some
amendments.
On motion of Mr. Price the whole matter was
indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Crawford’s resolution, to appoint a committee
to visit Washington, was not taken np.
Mr. Price moved a resolution to appoint a com
mittee to visit the counties of Warren and Talliafero
and report what action is necessaiy to prevent out
rages by lawless persons.
Mr. Barclay opposed including his county in this
investigation. McIntosh was tho only oounty. he
knew of, where the law was violated with impunity,
and that was done by negroes.
Mr. Bice opposed sending any committee, espe
cially to the county of Columbia—his county.
The resolution was finally withdrawn.
There is a small embroglio between tho Executive
and State Treasurer Angier in reference to the sale
of State bonds, for amounts not paid into the State
Treasury. A full development baa not yet been
made.
A letter lias been received by a Senator, from
Aaron A[peoria Bradley, calling upon the Senate to
reconsider their action. Bradley wants his seat.
The letter lias not yet been made public.
The Supreme Court decided toylay that the Relief
Law is constitutional—Judgo Warner dissenting.
W.
From Atlanta.
Atlanta. January 26 The Supreme Court to-day
held that the relief law was constitutional. Brown
and McCsy assenting and Warner dissenting.
The report of the Treasurer of Georgia to tho
Legislature shows the amount of State bonds placed
to the credit of the State in Now Y’ork city. Also,
states that thirty-five thousand dollars have been
drawn from the Fourth National Park Bank, of Now
York city, on tho credit of tho State by Gov. Bul
lock, for which no account has been rendered.
A resolution in tho House memorializing Congress
to remove disabilities imposed on citizens of this
State by the Fourteenth Amendment was postponed
indefinitely.
Fropi Washington-
WabiunqtqS, January 2C-—Tho Supremo Court
decides the New York pilot laws constitutional, and
that inward and outward bound vessels mnst have
pilots.
A full Cabinet to-day.
The District Supremo Court obeyed a mandamus
from the Supreme Court under protest, but adopted
a rale which effectually excludes Bradley from prac
tice, except on appeals.
Gen. Sheridan reports the destruction of sixty
Indian lodges at tho junction qf Salt Fork aqd Elm
creek. Three soldiers were wounded; true mortally.
The number of Indiana killed is unknown.
A special to tho New York Tribnno Bays : Gen.
Grant is strongly opposed to the pending Alabama
claims treaty. The following is Ills position, nearly
in his own words: The treaty is unjust to the
United States, because it assumes to measure in
jury inflicted upon this country by money-valuo of
ships actually destroyed; whereas tho chief dam
age to onr commerce was in our ships being driven
from the seas by anglo-rekel pirates. In addition
to this tho sympathy extended by tho English Gov-
etnment to the Sonth prolonged the war at least a
year, and fqr all Uvea lost and money expended, for
this time, England is directly responsible. The
treaty propose® to settle aU these things by the pay
ment of the paltry value of a few ships.
Col. Christy, who was elected from the Sixth
Georgia District, addressed the Reconstruction Com
mittee to-day. His case wiU probably come np to-
merrow.
The Reconstruction Committee devotes khmor-i
row to Virginia matters. Gen. Schofield’s evidenco
is expected.
Sheridan assures Sherman that no farther depre
dations from Indians in the neighborhood of his
operations need bo apprehended.
Congressional.
Washington, January 26 Senate—Thp Senate
is engaged on the construction of a Joint Civil Ser
vice Committee.
The argument on tho Louisiana election case has
concluded.
The Reconstruction Co&mitiee is hearing the
Virginia Judges opposed to the enforcement of the
Fourteenth Amendment in that State.
House.—The House is engaged on private bills.
Senate—Afternoon Session.—The Finance Com
mittee reported back a biU reorganizing the Treasury
debt, with a report tliatjno bill could be matured to
meet the various views regarding the civil service of
tho government
A resolution was passed favoring a Specia] Joint
Committee, three from the Senate and five from the
House, to which the whole matter was referred.
A protest of the Winchester. Virginia, Union
League against removing Judge Parker’s disabilities
was presented. Sumner classed Parker among the
atrocious Judges.
A bill incorporating the Southern Express Com
pany was introduced.
The Pacific Central Railroad branch bill was re
sumed.
Mr. Kellogg introduced a bill for a railroad and
telegraph from New Orleans to the Bio Grande, in
the direction of San Bias, on the Pacific and branch
line. He guarantees interests on Company's bonds
for thirty years, for twenty-five thousand dollars
per mile, and a grant of eight sections of land per
mile, to be selected from Louisiana, Texas, Missis
sippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia and Florida—
and landless laborers on the road shall have forty
acres at a dollar and a quarter ai) sere. Adjourned.
House.—Heaton introduced a bill to amend thq
eighth section of an act to provide increased reve
nue from ports, Ac., by suspending and abating tho
collection of uncollected direct tax in the States of
North Carolina, Sonth Carolina, Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Referred to the
Committee on Ways sad Means.
Pensions were resnmed but postponed.
The Finance bill was discussed to adjournment,
Florida Legislature.
Tallahassee, January 26 The committee ap
pointed to investigate the charges against Governor
Reed reported to-day. The majority report of five
submitted the evidence taken, but offered no advice
or opinion. The evidence taken and submitted
shows some irregularities, which the friends of the
Governor say he can and will satisfactorily explain.
The minority report of two states that the evidence
does not warrant impeachment-
A resolution was passed authorizing the Governor
to appoint three commissioners to visit Montgomery
to negotiate for the transfer of the portion of the
State west of the Choctahatchie .river to Alabama.
Also, a resolution ordering an election in that por
tion of the State on the question.
Hie Alabama Commissioners left for home this
evening. . y ~ H
General Hews.
New Yore, January 26. — The tug Hercules,
ran down a boat in the harbor, containing Captain
Osborn, of tho ship Plymouth, with his wife, and
wife’s sister. The latter was drowned.
The American Consol at San Domingo, protests
against the sale of Ala Vela and has sent for an
America war vessel.
San Francisco, January 26.—The ship Viceroy,
from Liverpool, for San Francisco, is reported to
have been homed off the coast of Sonth America.
Trenton, N. J., January 26.—Stockston has been
elected Senator.
From Cuba.
Havana, January 25.—In all quarters of the city,
inside and outside there is quiet. Nothing occurred
to-night to disturb the tranqnility. Soldiers are
patrolling the streets. Volunteers will only leave
their homes when twelve signal guns are fired.
The American Consul demanded the body of an
American photographer who was killed by the volun
teers; he also asked Dnlce, if able, to protect
American citizens; otherwise the United States will
be compelled to protect them. Dolce, answering,
regretted that blood was shed and requested the
Consul to furnish a list of Americans.
Last night passed quietly.
Foreign News.
London, January 26.—The steamer Pereire, which
left Havre on the 15th, hound for New York re
turned badly damaged, and six persons killed. The
nature of tho damage is unknown. A son of Dr. N.
Green, of Louisville, Ky., was aboard, bnt unhurt.
Paris, January 26.—Paraguayan advices deny
their total defeat at Valleta.
Marine Disaster.
» New Orleans, January 27.—Tho steamer Aloe,
struck a wreck last night, six miles below the dty,
and sunk, with a partial cargo of sugar, molasses,
rice, oranges, and about fifty passengers. All the
passengers, books and papers were saved. The
boat will probably bo raised.
Marine Hews,
Savannah, January 26.—Arrived, steamers Wyo
ming, Philadelphia; Fannie, Baltimore; brigClias.
Miller, Boston; schooners Chas. Dennis, Boston;
Clara W. Elwell, Portland; J. H. French, Baltimore.
Sailed, Bark Albert, Dumloo, Scotland ; steamer,
Leo, New York; schooner E. G. Irwin, Jacksonville.
The weather is mild. Wind southwest.
Andy Johnson.
A TRIBUTE TO THE RETOUNQ PRESIDENT—THE TEN.
* NE8SEE GUBERNATORIAL RACE.
“ Mack” writes as follows in bis last letter to
tho Cincinanti Enquirer:
Few of our Presidents have over retired from
tho White House with less of real regret than
will accompany Mr. Johnson’s farewell on the 4th
of March. And with equal truth it may be said
that few, in retiring, have over better deserved,
tho tliaiiksniid good wishes of tho American peiv
plo for sincerity qf purpose and on honest desire
to administer tho office for tho best interests of
tho country. In saying which I do not mean
to be understood as expressing the belief that
the United States never had a better President
—but that, judged by tho purity of his mo
tives and his unselfish intentions to do his
wholo dnty, he far surpasses any of our
recent Executives. That he has commit-
tod great errors, ho himself will, I sup
pose, not bo disposed to deny. It could hardly
havo been otherwise with a man surrounded by
the adverso circumstances that havo beset him
since tho beginning of his administration. For
some of these be is responsible, as, for what
may be called tho father of them all, whioh was
the failure to surround himself with a Cabinet
pt (strong, vigorous men, in hearty accord with
him, instead of retaining the evil counsellors of
Ms predeoeasaT. Bnt it It easier to oritieise
now than it would have been to act then.
Judging his administration as a whole, the con
servative peoplo of tho country mnst endorse it
and thank him for it
In a former letter I intimated that it was the
intention of tho Conservative party in Tennessee
tonominate Mr. Johnson next fall for Governor.
This I understand now to bo folly determined
upon. Little donbt is oqtortained of his election.
At any rate, he has always been extremely pop
ular in Tennessee. Ho knows the peoplo there,
and they know him, and believe him to be sin
cerely and honestly devoted to their interests.
I do not know who will bo his competitor in the
race, bnt probably some carpet-bag scrub from
Massachusetts, or some Radical convert of tho
Stoves pattern, who wanted him hung in 1861 for
being a Union man. If elected Governor, ho
will undoubtedly bo chosen to the Senate in the
place of Fowler, whoso term expires in 1871;
and then wo may look for lively times in that
Chamber of gilt-edged imbecility and loyal gam
mon. It will bo worth whiles to go to some
trouble to elect A. J. to tho Senate, just
to give him a chance to vindicate himself
and his administration, which I understand
to bo his solo object in remaining in pnb-
lic life after the 4th of March. Hu natural
combativencss, not always in place when ex
hibited from the Presidential Mansion, will have
full vent in tho Senate debates, and I know
enough of what is in his power to expose to
promise rich developments in his “bouts” with
some of the leading Radicals. Ho will exhibit
some of tho recent inner workings of the Rad
ical party, to the intense delight of all but the
Radicals. So lot every conservative man in
Tennessee and elsewhere pnt his shoulder to
the wheel and give A. J. all the help he can to
get him into the Senate. If ho do not pnll the
mask of patriotism from some of the hypocrites
in that body, “then am I a soused gurnet"
Exit Wade.
No man will retire from a public life on the
4th of March with a worse grace than sturdy old
Ben. Three defeats in one short year aro al
most too mnch for him—first for the Senator-
ship; then for the Presidency in the Court of
Impeachment, and then for the Vice-Presidency
ut Chicago. To these may now be added a fourth,
in his failuro to get into Grant’s Cabinet Ho
is ill-tempered oyer his disappointments, and
suggests in his manner and disposition toward
all who approach him the familiar idea- of a
bear with a sore frontispiece. If he were as
familiar with Hnme as he is with Mother
Goose, lie would quote the dying words of
Woolsey, altered to suit his purpose, and la
ment that if he had served his God, as faithfully
as he has served his party, he would not de
sert bin; ip hie deolinjng dayg. JJnt pqlitieaj
partiesare even more ungrateful than Republics,
and do not hesitate to kick sturdy old Beii aside
after his eighteen years of service, consisting,
for the mo6t part, in holding office. Aleck
Sands has been here for some time trying to
manufacture a place of some kind for sturdy old
Ben, but he finds none this side of the solitude
and seclusion of Ashtabula. All of which is had
for Wade, bnt worse for Sands. Poor old Ben 1
He must pack up his trunk pretty soon, and bid
adieu to official life and its cares and vexations.
Let us hope that in the midst of his retirement
he will be consoled with a few lines from Hs
favorite classic, which assure him that
‘■While he lived he lived in clover,
And when he died he died all over."
Exit sturdy old Ben ! Mack.
Governor Seymour on thcene.
Hon. Horatio Seymour, late candidate for the
first office in the United States, has recently
been elected President of the American Dairy
men's Association, and a short time ago delivered
an addressed upon the subject of cheese. Mr.'
Seymour asserted that “cheese ought to be more
generally used for food in this country. The
American people have lost the cheese-eating
propensities of their forefathers. Cheese is the
cheapest of all articles of food that can be used.
Compared with meat, there are very important
economies connected vith it. ft requires no
fuel to prepare it. It is more nutricions. and
we must look upon it as a substantial article of
food. It was not a ‘cheap luxury,’ it is a cheap
necessity. He hoped steps would be taken to
present cheese as an article of common food to
the favorable consideration of the poor people
of our cities. The attention of our government
should be called to the value of cheese as food
for our armies. There is no article so cheap
for soldiers’ rations, no article so nutritious, no
article bo easy of transportation."
If Governor Seymour lived South he would
see there was no great necessity tiFpersuade the
people to eat cheese., *
Wanted—A Practical Farmer,
T O undertake the cultivation of 12 acres in Cotton
which I propose to fertilise with 500 pounds Croas-
dale's Phosphate to the acre, and give half the crop.
Apply to
j»®27-2t J. H. ZEILIN.
PLANTING POTATOES.
GOODRICH.
In store and for sale low, by
JONES. BAXTER * DAY.
jan2T-3t* Cotton Avenue.
FLOUR, FLOUR.
JUST RECEIVED. ON CONSIGNMENT.
84,000 LBS. FLOUR.
iU.OQO LB3 ’ MILL 4’e nt uc k r."
16,000 lbs. LEBANON MILLS-”Tennes*ee.”
8,000 lbs. 0KAL0N0 MILLS-“Tennessee.”
10.000 lbs. RICHMOND MILLS.
6,000 lbs. HARVEST QUEEN MILLS,
4.000 lbs. BELL FOUNTAIN MILLS.
4.000 lbs. JASPER MILLS—"East Tennessee.”
20,000 lbs. AU grades FLOUR, in sacks of ICQ,
50 and 25 pound?,
50 half boxes of TOBACCO in store,
OATS—Two Car Loads SEED OATS.
CORN—Ten Car Loads to arrive.
Call on .
LLOYDS & FOSTER,
Hollingsworth’s Block.
Journal and Messenger oopy it jan27-St
LUMBER WANTED.
A FIRST CLASS MACHINIST, ENGINEER and
: Sawyer, wishes a situation, and is willing to take
half his salary in Lumber. Refer* to David Lock
hart, Howard, Ga., or Foster and Armstrong, Dawson,
Ga. Address JOHN H. GRIMSLBY.
jan27 2t* Byron, Ga.
Valuable Lot For Sale.
W ILL be sold before the Court House, on Tues
day, 2d day of February next, at publio out
cry, apart of lot known as "Macon & Western Rail
road Old Shop Lot," and known in the subdivision as
Lot Number Five, fronting on Chestnut street, in the
western portion of the city.
Terms made known on day of sale.
By order of-the hoard.
WHITE. )
Committee.
jan 27-tda
4 . J. WHITE. )
. G. HOLT, k
W. 0. REDDING. J
N OTICE.—Lucy Ann Yiokeraonhas applied for ex
emption of personalty, and I will pass upon the
same atlO o’cleck, on the4thda7 oi February next,
at my office. Given nnder my hand officially. This
25 th day of January, 18G9.
O. T. WARD.
Jan27-d2twlt Ordinary,
NEW ARRIVALS.
2Q HDDS. “NEW CROP” CUBA MOLASSES.
300 barrels "Early Goodrloh” and "Pink-Eye”
POTATOES.
1 Car Load Water-ground white CORN MEAL.
200 barrels FLOUR—all grades,
350 sacks FLOUR—all grades.
Jnst received and for sale, by
. „ „ GKO. T. ROGERS A SONS.
jan26.-2(
DISSOLUTION.
rpiIE Copartnership of Crockott A Reynolds is dls-
A solved by mutual consent. Parties haring bills
against the Southern Iron Works will present them to
K. Crockott for payment, and those owing come up
and settle.
R. CROCKETT.
„ _ . A ' REYNOLDS.
Mason. Ga.. January 24, I860,
The SOUTHERN IRON WORKS aro for sale or to
rent. Also, other valuable propertv on Fourth street
for sale. E. CROCKETT.
jan2C St.
PEELER COTTON.
200 SEED of the above variety of Cot
ton, now on tho way from New Orleans, and expected
daily. These Seed we warrant to be gennine.
Price, 66 per barbel. A ininple of tho Cotton can
be seen at onr ofilre.
, , W RIULEY A KNOTT.
jan24-lmo
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY & CO.
QFFKRfor8ale at I/)WEST FIGURES
300 Barrels FLOUR,
300 Sacks FLOUR,
10 Bale* BAGGING,
50 Barrels WHISKY.
300 Barrels SEED POTATOES.
1 Car Load SEED OATS.
150 Barrels SUGAR—all grades,
400 Boxes TOBACCO—all grades.
BACON! BACON!
200 Hhds, in 8TQRE and to ARRIVE at
i*"21 tf THE WHITE CORNER.
CUBBEDGE & HAZLE HURST,
BANKERS & BROKERS,
MACON, GA.,
TYECRIVK DEPOSITS, BUY AND SELL EX
it CHANGE GOLD, SILVER. Stocks. Bonds wd
Uncurrent Funds.
00LLE0TI0NS MADE ON ALL ACCESSIBLE
POINTS.
WOffiee open at all boars of the day.
’ ! fsepti-lyrl
PLANTERS,
Loot io Yonr Interest!
BOY NO DOUBTFUL FERTILIZERS!
MIX & KIRTLAND,
Boot to n a v enu k, ^
MAOORT, GhA.
W E would respectfully call the attention of the
public to the va$t and varied assortment of
BOOTS, SHOES,
LEATHER and FINDINGS,
which we have in store, and are offering low for cash.
Our supply of
COXSIGIKKR M. * W. RAILROAD
Maoow, January 26,1869.
R M B Merritt; 8eymour. T A Co: Lloyds A F; A L
Maxwell; 8 R C«io; Burdick B ACo: W A Huff; W R
Phillips; Jones, BAD; PorterAH; D Good A Son: J
H Anderson; H L Jewett; L WHunt A Co; Toole
Cooper A Co.
Gents’ Fine Boots, Congress Gaiters,
Jersey Ties, Etc.. Etc.,
Can not be surpassed in any market. North or South.
And ag for
Ladies’, Misses’ & Children’s Cools,
We have an endless variety. All that we desire is an
examination of cur Stock, as we arc eon6dent that
tho most fastidious will not go sway displeased.
Our Goods are made of the best materials that osn
be found, therefore we do not hesitate to affirm that
they will, in most instances, give entire satisfaction
to the purchaser.
Country Merchants
Will find it to their interest to call and see ns, as we
ere selling by the wholesale at astonishingly low
figures.
W ALL WORK WARRANTED,
ianas-til! marj MIX * P*TDAND,
JONES, BAXTER & DAY,
Cotton Avenue, Macon, Ga.,
ARK NOW RECEIVING
700 Bags No. 1 Peruvian Guano,
Direct from tho Government Agent, every bag guar
anteed genuine; 150 Barrels beat
Nova Scotia Land Plaster;
75 BBLS. MARIETTA MILLS
POWDER OF RAWBONE,
The most honest and beat product of the kind
over put up in this country;
CHESAPEAKE GUANO,
400 BARRELS IN STORE.
T HI3 article needs no recommendation when it has
been used. The following letter from oneof the most
respected ciiiicns of Monroe oounty, tells tho wholo
story. We have other letters and can givo the names
of many who will not do without It if it is to bo had.
but we%refor to give a lottor from a man who is well
and favorably known by almost everybody in Bibb
and Monroe counties. Such a man is Dr. LEROY
HOLT:
Monrob County Ga., December25,18fiR.
MESSRS. JONE8, BAXTER & DAY.
Gkntlkmkx ; In reply to yonr inquiry. I take pleas
ure in saying my experience with the CHESAPEAKE
PHOSPHATE. I bought of you last spring, has been
very favorable. I used (200) two hundred pounds
upon OO three-fourths of an acre, third year’s now
ground, applying it in the drill, rowalthroe feet apart,
sixteen inches in the drill, on whioh J had 6vo thou
sand seven hundred stalks of cotton. >rwn this, I
gathered (1824) eighteen hundred and twenty-four
pounds of cotton. The last of August, the worm com
mitted great ravages in it, destroying all of tho lata
crop. Had it not been fyr tho worm I should have
made at least one-third more on the land. loan cheer
fully recommend it to Planters as a Fertiliser for oot-
top. r Respectfully,
(Signed 1 J* HOLT.
WE HAVE ALSO RECEIVED BAGS AND
BARRELS
BAUGH’S RAW-BONE PHOSPHATE.
Thti article hu been before the publio for thirteen
years, anti there are now over 10,000 tons sold annually.
Read the following letter from a well known cilixen
of Monroe county:
Monaog Colsty, Ga., Jan. 4, 1
Mr. Geo. Duiflale, Dallimore. Md. :
Dka* big—I made an experiment upon Cotton the
pa?t season with Baugh's Haw-Bone Phosphate. 1
used it ut the rate of on|yOne Hundred Pounds Per
Acre, applying it in the row with the seed, and tho
jield of cotton from land to which the Phosphate was
applied, was One Hundred Per Cent, greater than
from land on which no fcrtiliier was used: the differ
ence being so great that I could se,. to the very to*
where I stopped dropping the Pho?pJ;at(t.
I can, with confidence, recommend Baugh's Haw-
Bone Phosphate as being a reliable and satisfactory
article.
Very truly your?,
[Signed] HIRAM PHINEZEE.
jJBi-tuUprl
HARRIS. CLAV & CO.
QEORQIt, DOOLY COUNTY.-Whereas. Isaac
VX Dunn has applied for exemption and setting
apart and valuation of homestead, and I will pan
upon the same on the 1st day of February next, at 10
o clock, at my office, at Vienna. This 22d day of Jan
uary, 1869.
5an2S-d2twlt
WM. H. DAVIES,
Ordinary.
(Succceeort to Mauenburg, Son dk Harrie.)
ALWAYS ON HAND A FULL SUPPLY
PORE DRUGS,
CHEMICALS and MEDICINES.
TOILET ARTICLES,
PERFUMERY,
LANDRETH’S GARDEN 8REDS- Crop
of 1868,
WINDOW GLASS.
PUTTY. OIL8,
PAINTS, DYE-STUFFS,
And everything usually kept in a first-class Drug
Store.
♦^-PRESCRIPTIONS filled day and night.
♦9-KEROSENB OIL—tested before gold,
Jan26-tf