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THE TELEGRAPH.
BY CI.I8BY & REID.
TXLXGKAPH BUILDIXG, CORXEE 8ECOXD A CHIKKT STB.
FRIDAY HORNING, MARCH 5, 1869.
Ontwide Content*.
Fiest Fine.—Letter from Atlanta—Letter
from Texas—“An Infamous Practice”—Consti
tutional Amendments—The Troup County Ne
groes.
Foubth Page.—General Assembly of Geor
gia—Improved Railroad Switch.
The Reign of Burglary.
The presiding deity of Macon and parts adja
cent, just now, is one mercurius or mercury—
the god of thieves. His worshippers make
themselves familiar with nearly every house in
town. Every morning there is a new list of
smoke-houses, pantries, gardens, and fowl-
houses cleaned out. Some of our friends have
been robbed three times in about as many
weeks, and at least a dozen cases of burglary
have been reported to us in the course of a
week—all supposed to be the handiwork of the
sons of bam. And yet the sons of ham are
less numerous in Macon, by several hundred,
thsn they have been at any time previous since
the close of the war. There ought to be some
police tactics by which this Burglar’s Ring can
be broken up. A little adroit management, it
seems to us, would get at the bottom of these
transactions. _____
The Land We Love.
The March and last number of the Land We
Love came yesterday. It announces that in or
der to enjoy the facilities of a more central
point of publication, it will be removed to Bal
timore, united with the New Eclectic, and pub
lished under the title of the “Land We Love
and the New Eclectic.” It will be one-third
larger, and each number will be illustrated with
a steel plate engraving. All orders most be ad
dressed to 64 Lexington street, Baltimore.
In the last number of the Land We Love
Gov. Vance contributes a paper, under the title
of “All About it.” Ex-Gov. Perry has a paper
upon John 0. Calhoun.
Closed.—With yesterday closed the political
career of a good many prominent politicians.
Seward heads the list Then comes Wade,
Welles, Doolittle, and many others of leas no
toriety. The two first have been very promi
nent before the American people for the last
quarter of a century, and now retire without
much regret They have lived to see their lead
ing idea—the abolition of slavery—consummat
ed, and the negro well-nigh clothed with the
elective franchise, and guaranteed all the polit
ical rights enjoyed by the white man. Seward
is a man of undoubted ability and Wade is not
The former will live in history, and the latter
soon be forgotten.
Gen. Grant's Inaugural is evidently hit
own. It is without rhetorical pretensions, and
is probably the homeliest speech which ever fell
from the lips of an American President Bat
Gen. Grant prides himself upon his incapacity
to make a speech. The gift of oratory is, in
his judgment the least desirable of human
endowments, and wo do not suppose he made the
least effort to polish or round 1 his periods. What
he says, however, is sometimes shrewd and al
ways sensible, and the spirit of his address is
excellent _
The Futubx or Wheat.—The Chicago Tribune
assigns good reasons for arguing that the price
of wheat will be much lower during the coining
year. It oondndes its article by saying: “The
beat thing that holders can do is to prepare to
look their losses in the face as gracefully as
may be, and decide to let go, lest the chance of
selling be denied in toto. The supply is too
abundant to admit of a scarcity, and sellers to
the great world of consumers are too numerous
to admit of the holders being able to dictate in
the matter of prices.”
The Jacksonville Bow.—The Jacksonville
(Floridia) News, of Saturday, says that private
Linehan, Co. I, 7th Infantry, who was shot
through the body on Monday night of laat week,
in the row between the soldiers and the negroes,
died of his wound on Wednesday. Captain
Rawn and Lieutenant Logan were tried before
the Mayor for bringing the troops into town
unnecessarily, when the former was fined fifty
dollars, and the latter aoquitted.
Senator Yates.—A Washington dispatch to a
Philadelphia paper aays Senator Yates recently
“appeared suddenly, a few evenings since, be
fore the ladies in the parlor of the St- James
Hotel, in his favorite dishabille costume, and
flourished a revolver in a very careless manner.
He was attired in nothing but a single article of
raiment, and was, of course, intoxicated at the
time. The sensation produced, however, was
startling.” This was his second appearance
upon those boards in that costume.
A banker in New York has insured his life
for $200,OM). It costs him $8,964 46 per year,
or a total in ten years of $89,644 GO. After the
lapse of ten years his premiums will decrease.
There is a citizen of Macon who has $50,000
on his life, and another with $45,000, and a
great many have $35,000.
Cotton Crop op South Carolina.—This crop
for 1868, is now ascertained to be about 250,000
bales, which, at $100 per bale, will be $25,000-
000. It hasxnere money Talne than any other
ever produced, although falling short 60,000
A Fight.— The Hawkinsville dispatch says
some twenty-five taegroes on the plantation of
Mr. James Bohannon, about six miles from
Hawkinsville, bad a frolic which ended in a fight
with pistols, knives and bludgeons. Ten or
twelve were severely wounded, and one killed.
The Louisiana House of Representatives has
passed a Civil Rights bill, which prohibits com
mon carriers and licensed hotel-keepers from
making any distinction on account of race or
color in the treatment of their passengers or
The number of office-seekers in Washington
is reported to be 45,596, and more “coming
in.”
A battalion of 150 left Indianapolis by a sin
gle train.
All of them are very hungry.
The Memphis Avalanche does not enjoy a
hearty friendship for General Sehenck. The
editor says that the “whole expression of his
face is a combination of the repulsive features
of the spotted toad and the sharper outline of
the serpent.”
Opera House in Augusta.—Harry Watkins
has bantered the Augusta people to build an
Opera House, with a proffer of $500 subscrip
tion.
Texas Reconstruction.—-The new Constitu
tion of Texas, including a proposition to divide
the State, will be voted upon in July. The
Democratic press of the State speak as if it did
not stand the ghost of a chance of being rat
ified.
The Americas Trt-Weeklt Courier.—The
first number of this journal came to hand last
night. It is a neat, well-filled paper, and we wish
it great success.
Planters’ Supplies on Time.—We ask atten
tion to the advertisement of Johnson, Campbell
& Co. •- *
Gen. Grant’s Inaugural.
The silence is at last broken, and we have in
Gen. Grant's Inaugural a sensible, plain and
well conceived speech, with no startling points
in it at all. '—s
Indeed, with the single exception of the re
commendation to the States to pass the fifteenth
amendment, and settle forever the vexed ques
tion of mixed suffrage, there is nothing in the
speech which might not have come from any
Democrat in favor of paying the public debt
with gold.
The whole of it is as conciliatory and. unsec
tional in its tone as it well could be; and reads
to us &3 the language of a Chief Magistrate who
takes a comprehensive view of his official obU
gations to the whole people and the whole coun
try, and is disposed to recognize no party claims
upon him in conflict with these general obliga
tions.
We look in vain through it for anything re
sponsive to the stereotyped Radical cant of the
times, end suppose it will, in this particular, in
crease the manifest and growing distrust of the
aggressives in regard to the character and ten
dency of the new administration.
On the whole, we may safely congratulate the
reader upon the re-assuring character of this
speech. The South will breathe easier and look
forward to the political future with more confi
dence, in the hope that General Grant means
well for this section.
All our people will heartily respond to an
fair and liberal policy for the restoration o
maintenance of order, security and freedom in
the South. We may not be able to support the
15th amendment, but practically we have the
15th amendment already in force, and our ob
jections to it are doctrinal and make no conflict
with the general ends which General Grant pro
poses to accomplish through it
We desire liberity, security, tranquility, or
der and repose as ardently as General Grant de
sires it for us; and devoutly hope to see the
realization of his expectations in speedily emer
ging “from the effects of the war into greater
prosperity than ever.” General Grant will find
no cental support in the ranks of the Southern
Democracy, and he will likewise encounter no
factious opposition. He has much to win from
the intelligent citizens of the South, and all that
they will ask from him is good gotemment.
Give ns an intelligent, unbiased exercise of
the Federal power and influence in the South.
Let the authority of the Government here find
expression through fair, honorable and intelli
gent men, and deliver us from carpet-bag ap
pointments, who will make it the vehicle of their
own malice, ignorance and bigotry. By this
course. General Grant will be able to gain the
confidence and cooperation of the Southern peo
ple and to command what elsewhere it may
be difficult to find—a support based upon pure,
unselfish and patriotic considerations.
Reconstruction Needed in California.
The New Yoric Commercial Advertiser says
the burning of General Henry M. Naglus’s dis
tillery, in California, is attributed to incendiar
ism on account of the employment of Chinese
laborers. The Methodist Church was burned
in the same town (San Jose) recently, after the
pastor had received a letter threatening it, be
cause he taught Chinese with a view to their
conversion.
Now what have the Congressional reconstruc-
tionist* to say to that t Has John Chinaman
any “manhood” rights at all? Is property to
be destroyed for the crime of furnishing him
employment? Are churches to be burned for
the sin of giving him religious and literary in
struction?
Let Sumner and Philips show us whether their
vaunted clamor for the rights of “man as man,”
is anything more than a mawkish and hideous
sentimentalism about the negro, or is indeed o
broad and genial philanthropy for tho whole
human race. The Chinese in California are
underworking the white laborer and the compe
tition has come to blows. The question
whether this controversy is to be abandoned to
the decision of lawless force, or is it to be re
mitted to the operation of those general laws of
trade and competition which usually decide such
controversies.
Here we see the beginning of what wo fore
shadowed in an article last Sunday. Here is the
result of the first wave of labor immigration from
China, which is bound to be followed by an “ir
repressible” torrent. No amount of mob vio
lence can tarn back the tide, or seriously hinder
the progress of the patient, long-suffering and
facile Chinaman. He is coming, and when he
comes, he will put the “long-haired barbarian"
to his wits ends, leaving the woolly Ethiopian
no chance at all.
Florida Items.
The Floridian.—On account, as we are sorry
to see, of declining health, Mr. Sparhawk re
tires from this journal, and it will hereafter be
conducted and published by C. E. Dyke & Son.
Mr. Dyke, Senior, has been the responsible rep
resentative of the Floridian for twenty-five years
and is one of the most vigorous writers and in
telligent public men in this section.
Troops Ordered Awat.—The Seventh Regi
ment, U. S. Infantry which has been on duty in
Florida since 1865, has been ordered to Dako-
tah Territory.
The State Agricultural Soctett of Florida
met in Lake City on the the third, with every
prospect of a large attendance. The Floridians
are paying great attention to Agricultural Asso
ciations and discussions, and have already pro
duced through them some of the fineRt papers
upon Southern Agriculture and Horticulture we
have seen.
Without a Governor.—The Governor and
Lieutenant Governor of Florida were both “off”
to attend the inauguration, and get whatever
was lying a round loose. In this perilous condi
tion of affairs, things were moving on as usual.
Assassination.—Dr. John L. Finlayson, Clerk
of tho Jackson County Circuit Court, was Bhot
from behind a tree by an unknown —in last
Friday and killed instantly. Major J. W. Pur-
men,-who was walking with Doctor Finlayson,
at the time, was also badly wounded, and lies
in a critical condition.
BY TELEGRAPH,
The Philadelphia Press has an insufferably
dull fellow who edits its foreign department.
He has an article upon “Trouble in Paris,” in
which he says: “None so blind as those who will
not see. None so stupid as those who decline
to profit by experience. The Emperor of the
French is afflicted with this moral blindness, and
this governmental stupidity.” If there ever
was a who profited by experience he is the
present Emperor of the French. Almost the
very first words he uttered after ascending the
throne were, “My reign does not commence
with 1814,” meaning that he would not seek to
avenge the wrongs of his illustrious uncle ; nor
has he. But taking advantage of his great
kinsman’s mistakes he has attained a degree of
success really wonderful. In France there, is a set
of sore-headed, blood thirsty politicians known
as Red Republicans, very similar to the rad
icals of this country. These are all (Arcades
Ambo) bitterly opposed to bis government—
which is by long odds the best France ever had.
Mum. XT.pr-g Awat.—About the most ridicu
lous reading of the time is the marching orders
of Brownlow’s “melish,” in the Tennessee pa
pers, and the best evidence of submission to
law by the Tennessee people is that these raga
muffins and loafers can quarter themselves upon
the people, and still not be 1 *f ound missing. ’
An Albany man has invented a velocipede to
run on railroad tracks, with which he proposes
to make a trip to San Francisco in 60 hours.
FBOS ATLANTA.
Special to the Telegraph.]
Atlanta, March 4—night.
The Senate passed the House bill to encourgage
immigration. ^The bill provides that both Houses
elect two oommisaionerB to bo commissioned by the
Governor. The domestic commissioner to bold offico
two years with a salary of $2000, and the foreign
commissioner with a salary of $3000. The bill ap
propriates $10,000.
A committee of three were appointed, consisting
of E. Hulburt, C. Wallace and M. A. Cooper to look
after the interest of the Western and Atlantic rail
road, so far as connecting branches affect the same
relative to the dividing of freights and passengers.
The Committee on the State of the Republic in
their report fix on the third Wednesday in April for
the election of members of Congress.
By general consent and with the usual courtesy
the Senate will hold no session to-morrow, in def
erence to the Republican Convention.
The tax bill passed. It is substantially the same
as the one passed by the House.
House—In the House the tall to aid the North
Georgia railroad was, on reconsideration, lost.
A new imbroglio occurred this morning between
Bryant and Fitzpatrick, originating from an accusa
tion of the latter as to his abandonment of the Re
publican party. Bryant rose to make a personal
explanation, as his character had been assailed, and
then prooeeded to discuss the merits of the case.
In the meantime Chambers said, as there would be
a Republican meeting to-morrow, the question
could be discussed there. Bryant openly proclaimed
he was a Republican. Being called to order, the
Speaker decided that that was not the proper place
to discuss which wing of the Republican party
was in the right track. [Applause.] Then followed
a motion by Mr. Duncan to lay the Republican par
ty on the table.
On an appeal from the decision of the Chair, the
Chair was sustained.
When Bryant continued to make his personal ex
planation, alluding to his connection with tbs State
printing, he took occasion to call his traducers liars,
drunkards, etc., and that they desired to be elevated
to the highest office in the gift of the State and for
Obngress. (This allusion is supposed to be a refer-
enoe to Blodgett and Fitzpatrick being urgod on by
Swayze.) Be was in favor of reconstraction and
was even on the electoral ticket On that line the
State was reconstructed. He was consistent; but
because he opposed certain parties who wished to
tear down the State Government, he was accused of
a want of fidelity to his party. If be was a traitor
for this, he waa proud of it Bryant was cheered
several times.
Fitzpatrick roes to reply. He said he could sub
stantiate every charge. Swayze waa to have six
hundred dollars if he drew out of the contest for
Public Printer; only three hundred dollars of this
had been paid—a note for the balance bad never
been paid. Bryant had done more injury to Georgia
than any other person—had oven organized midnight
leagues. He (Fitzpatrick) had always took broad
daylight to urge his measures; he had lived twenty
years in the State, and defied any man to say any
thing against his integrity. He was responsible for
what he said in or out of the House; Bryant knew
him and he knew Bryant, and was perfectly willing
to answer him at any time or place desired.
Much confusion existed during tlis discussion.
The mstter was disposed of by calling up the appro
priation bill, which was dlcuased to adjournment.
In the evening session Fitzpatrick introduced a
resolution to appoint a committee to investigate the
eligibility of Bryant to his seat in the Legislature.
Not taken up.
The bill to create a Board of Commissioners of
Roads and Revenue was passed over the veto of the
Governor by a vote of yeas 100—nays 20.
The indications are that the Convention to-mor
row will not be largely attended. W.
GENERAL GRANT’S INAUGURAL.
Washington, March 4.—General Grant said:
Your suffrage' having elevated mo to the office of
President of the United States, I have, in conformi
ty with the Constitution of our country, taken the
oath of office prescribed therein. I have taken this
oath without mental reservation and with a determi
nation, to tho best of my ability, to do all that it re
quires of me. The responsibilities of the position I
feel; but accept them without fear. The office has
corns to me unsought.
I commence its duties untrammelled. I bring to it
a conscious desire and determination to fin it to the
best of my ability and to the satisfaction of the peo
ple. ~On all leading questions agitating the public
mind, I will always express my views to Congress,
and urge them according to my judgment; and,
when I think it advisable, will exerciso the constitu
tional privilege of interposing a veto to defeat
measures which I oppose; but all laws will be faith
fully executed, whether they meet my approval or
not.
I shall, on all subjects, have a policy to recom
mend, but none to enforce against the will of the
people. Laws are to govern all—alike those op
posed to, as well as those who favor them. I know
no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious
laws so effective as their stringent execution.
A great debt has been contracted in seeming to
ns and our posterity the Union. The payment of
this, principal and interest, as well as the return to
a specie basis as soon as it can be accomplished,
without material detriment to the debtor class or
to the country at large, must be provided for. To
profit the national honor every dollar of Govern
ment indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless
otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. Let
it be understood that no repudiation of one farthing
of our public debt will be trusted In public place,
and it will go far towards strengthening a credit
which ouffflt to be the best in the world, and will ul
timately enable it to replace the debt with bonds
bearing less interest than we now pay.
The oountry having just emerged from a great
rebellion, many questions will come before it for
settlement, in the next four years, which preced
ing administrations have never had to deal with
In meeting these it is desirable that they should be
approached calmly, without prejudice, hate or sec
tional pride—remembering that the greatest good
to the greatest number is the object to be attained.
This requires security of person, property and for
religious and political opinion in every part of our
common country, without regard to local prejudice.
All laws to secure these ends will receive my best
efforts for their enforcement.
To this should be added a faithful collection of
the revenue, a strict accountability to the Treasury
for every dollar collected, and the greatest practica
ble retrenchment in expenditures in every depart
ment of the Government. When we compare the
paying capacity of the country now, with ten States
still in poverty from the effects of war, but soon to
emerge, I trust, into greater prosperity than ever
before, with its paying capacity twenty-five years
ago, and calculate what it probably will be twenty-
five years hence, who can doubt the feasibility of
paying every dollar then with more ease than we
now pay for useless luxuries ?
Why, it looks as though Providence had bestowed
upon us a strong box of the precious metals, locked
up in the sterile mountains of tho far West, which
we are now forging the key to unlock to meet the
very contingency that is now npon us. Ultimately
it may be necessary to increase the facilities to reach
these riches, and it may be necessary also, that the
General Government should give its aid to secure
this access. But that should only be when a dollar
of obligation to pay secures precisely the same sort
of dollar to use now, and not before. Whilst the
question of specie payments is in abeyance, the pru
dent business man is careful about contracting debts
payable in the distant future.
The nation should follow the same rule; a pros
trate commerce is to be rebuilt, and all industries
encouraged. The young men of the country—those
who from their ages must be its rulers twenty-five
years hence, have a peculiar interest in maintain
ing the national honor. A moment’s reflection as
to what will be our commanding influence among
the nations of the earth in that day, if they are only
true to themselves, should inspire them with nation
al pride. All divisions, geographical, political and
religious, can join in the common sentiment.
How the public debt is to be paid, or specie pay
ments resumed, is not so important as that a plan
should be adopted and acquiesced in- A united de
termination to do is worth more than divided coun
cils upon the method of doing. Legislation open
this subject may not be necessary now, nor even
advisable; but it will be when the civil law is more
fully restored in all parts of the oountry and trade
resumes its wonted channels.
It will be my endeavor to execute all laws in good
faith—to collect all revenues assessed, and to have
them properly accounted for and economically dis
bursed. I will, to the beet of my ability, appoint to
office thoee only who will carry out this design.
In regard to foreign policy, I would deal with- na
tions as equitable law. requires individuals to deal
with each other. I would protect the law-abiding
citizen, whether of native or of foreign birth, where-
ever his rights are jeopardized or the llag of our
country floats. I would respect the rights of all na
tions—demanding equal respect for our own. H
others depart from this rule, in their dealings with
us, we may be compelled to follow their precedent.
The proper treatment of the original occupants of
the land, the Indians, is one deserving of careful
Btudy. I will favor any coarse towards them which
tends to their civilization, Christianization and ulti
mate citizenship. -'-i
The question of suffrage is one which is likely to
agitate tho public so long as a portion of the citi
zens of the nation are excluded from its privileges
in any State. It seems to me very desirable that
this question should be settled now. and I entertain
the hope and express the desire that it may be by
the ratification of the fifteenth article of amend
ment to the Constitution.
In conclusion I ask patient forbearance one to
wards another throughout the land, and s determin
ed effort on the part of every citizen to do his share
towards cementing a happy union: and I ask the
prayers of the nation to Almighty God in behalf of
this
From Washington.
Wahhixotox, March 4.—The thieves early this
morning attempted to plunder the street cars. Af
ter a severe fight the police dispersed them, captur
ing several.
At 11 o'clock tho rain ceased. The procession was
s grand success.
President Johnson did not occupy the place re
served for him in the inauguration ceremonies, but
remained at the White House signing bills.
Among the spectators on the floor of the Senate,
to-day, were s negro, * Bishop Campbell, and the
woman's rights’ defender, Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker.
Tho President pocketed the following bills: Re
organize the Judiciary; reducing the Navy and
Marine Corps; the further securing of equal rights
in the District of Columbia; strengthening the
pohlie credit
The Indian Appropriation bill failed to reach the
President.
President Johnson remained at the White House
till noon.
Gen. Grant went from the Capitol to the White
House.
The delegation from Alabama was the only South
ern organization in the procession.
Gen. Grant's father fell down the steps of the
Capitol to-day. He was considerably injured.
The utmost of good humor prevailed daring the
day. On reaching the White House Grant received
the following;
“Berlin, March 4th.
“My congratulations in the solemnity,
f Signed | BcotARTK.”
Congressional.
Washington, Much 4.—House.—The dosing ac
tion of the House was on the bill requiring National
Banka to report monthly and the Army Appropria
tions, wbidh passed.
The Conference Committeo on the removal of po
litical disabilities disagreed.
The Deficiency Appropriation bill passed.
The bill extending tho time for the completion of
the first twenty miles of the Cairo and Fulton Rail
road passed.
The Judiciary Committee preeented tho evidence
in the Buatced case, without recommendation, and,
were discharged, and the 40th Congress adjourned.
The Judiciary Committee, in the case of Judge
Bub teed, of Alabama, accused of corruption and ig
norance, reported that they had considered the case
fully and recommended that the testimony should
not be printed, and ask to be discharged. Ibis ends
Bus teed's case.
In the Forty-first Congress, in ths House, the fol
lowing States are not represented: New Hampshire,
Connecticut, Louisiana, Virginia, Georgia and Texas.
The excitement over the proceedings connected
with this exclusion is intense.
The caucus nominations were ratified, and Blain
elected Speaker by a vote of 136, against Kerr, who
received 57 votee. Dswea and Kerr conducted Blain
to the chair.
House adjourned.
Senate.—Closing action. Tho committee ap
pointed to investigate the corruption connected
with impeachment, reported that they had no evi
dence of it.
On motion, the act on the Mis. Lincoln's allow
ance failed—23 to 27. Also, the repeal of the
Tenure-of-office failed—14 to 25.
At 12 o’clock Grant and Colfax entered the cham
ber. Colfax spoke briefly, confining himself to the
duties of his office. Colfax took his seat and new
Senators were qualified.
Without action the Senate adjourned to noon to
morrow.
From Charleston.
Charleston, March 4.—The inauguaration day
was celebrated to-day by a parade and target firing
of the colored military companies.
A resolution has already been introduced and re
ceived its first reading in the Legislature for the
ratification of the 15th article.
The contest for the Mayoralty, between Clark,
the Republican incumbent, and Fillsbuiy, the Re
publican claimant, is near culmination. Pillsbury
bad Clark arrested to-day an a charge of misde
meanor in retaining possession of his office contrary
to law. Clark gave bail.
From New Orleans. *
New Orleans, March 5.—The stem-wheel steam
er Agnes, from New Orleans for White River, struck
a sunken obstruction at Warrenton, Mississippi, at
daylight yesterday morning and immediately so
The boat and cargo are a total loss-The passengers,
crew, books and money were saved.
The day was celebrated by the annual parade of
the New Orleans Fire Department. The display
waa very fine. The entire department was in the
procession.
It has tamed cold and rainy.
General News.
Ixdiaxapous, March 4.—The Democratic mem
bers of both Houses adjourned to avoid voting on
the fifteenth amendment.
Augusta. Me., March 4.—The lower House, by a
vote of 95 to 45, refused to abolish capital punish-
Foreign News.
Berlin. Mlldl 4.—Kmg William, on opening the
North German Parliament, said: “The first duty
of the North German Confederation is to maintain
pesos and friendly relations with all other powers
on earth-”
Taken the Roes.
The New York Tribune, surveying the polit
ical and moral condition of the country, has
taken the Hues! Says he:
“ From primary meetings to national elections
is one unbroken chain of bargains, buying and
selling votes, and selling of Legislatures. Laws
are made not for the public welfare, but merely
to subserve private interests, and are bought by
the purchase of members of the Legislatures at
so much a head in money or office.
“Office is sought and accepted, whether Leg
islative or Executive, not with any putp .,f
faithfully discharging its duties at a fixed emol
ument, but for what can be made out of it by
wholesale theft and plundering the public.”
“Never before in this country ha3 there been
such destitution of public morality, or any such
well grounded reason for fearing that we may
not be able to get back to a healthy state with
out serious convulsions.”
The Tribune has stated the case precisely.
That is the condition of political morrals to
which the country has been reduced by Radical
ism.
The name of an illustrious citizen President,
in other, better and purer days, are called np
in reading the signature to the following little
paragraph, which is oopied from a Tennessee
paper :
One hundred dollars is wagered that Mao C.
Campbell, of Carter’s Creek, can kill more par
tridges within one day than any man in Maury
or Davidson counties. Address me at Qarter’s
Creek postoffioe. Jas. X. Polk, Jb.
reconstruction at the South, ho had no hesita
tion ill saying that in his opinion tho States of
North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama were the
three best practically reconstructed of the entire
ten. There was more observance of law and
order and a better disposition existing between
the black and white races and between tho po-
litical parties in tliesu States than in any other.
This, he declared, he knew from extensive and
reliable information, and he had no doubt what
ever, if political incendiarism was pat at rest
the other seven States would very soon settle
down to a model condition of civil order and
harmony.
Ho said it was the South, and almost the South
alone, that filled his thoughts when he made use
of the expression in his letter, “Let us have
peace.” If tho disorder and agitation in that
section could only be at once and forever dis
posed of, there were no fears to be apprehended
for the rest of the country- The South had al
ways been a source of anxiety to the nation;
but there was every prospect now that it would
soon become os tranquil and prosperous as any
other section of the Union. ‘‘When that name
arrives,” exclaimed the General, “the United
States will be the strongest and happiest country
on the globe.”—Washington Correspondence2f.
T. Herald. ^
Washington Political News, •
Washtnoton, March 2.—President Johnson's
farewell reception was the largest for a long
time, embracing every class and condition of
society. The Democratic members of Congress
called, and there were more Republican mem
bers present than on any previous occasion for
two years. Tho President was in good spirits
and constantly engaged in shaking hands.
The Republican members of the Forty-first
Congress, in canons to-night, nominated Joseph
G. Blaine, of Maine, Speaker; Edward McPher
son, of Pennsylvania, Clerk; Col W. J. Ord-
way, Sergeant-at-arms. Tho Democrats nomi
nated Vf. C. Kerr, of Pennsylvania, Speaker,
and C. W. Corrigan, Clerk; for Sergeant-at-
arms, Owen Thom, of "Washington; for Door
keeper, David Wagner, ol Illinois, and for Post
master, W. Miner, of Now York.
Secretary Seward and family will leave here
Friday for Auburn.
President Johnson will vacate the Executive
mansion Thursday morning.
Secretary Welles will retain his present resi-i
deuce until May. Edgar Welles, Chief Clerk of
the Navy Department, will resign to-morrow.
WaW ADVERTISEMENTS.
President Johnson’s Views.
HIS EAST COURSE. AND PROORAMME FOB THE FU
TURE—WHAT HE THINKS OF CONGRESS THE TEN
URE-OF-OFFICE BILL.
The New York World has a long dispatch from
Washington, giving an account of several inter
views of the correspondent with President
Johnson, in the course of which the latter ex
pressed his views and opinions about matters and
things at some length, and freely spoke of his past
course and fnture intentions. In answer to a
question as to the programme laid out for him
in Tennessee, on his retirement from tho Presi
dency, Mr. Johnson said:
“I have no disposition, indeed my tempera
ment, physical strength, and habits, almost for
bid me to sink into idleness at the close of my
term, and there is much to be done in the coun
try, and much to be done in Tennessee especial
ly, to enlist my solicitude and my efforts. I
have no plans personal to myself for the future.
I can truly say that no I have ambitions to re
alize, and' I certainly have no desire to retaliate
on any tho slights or tho burdens which have
been imposed on me. I will undoubtedly exert
mvself to restore the sway of the constitution
over the country, and particnllary over my
State; but as to any special line on which I may
work, that will bo wholly controlled by circum
stances. As to going to Europe, too, that is en
tirely in doubt. After I retire from this place,
private business will detain me in Washington
for a few days; then my family and self will go
to Tennessee, and it depends jnst on them
whether we visit Europe or not Nothing is de
termined, and we will be governed by circum-
stances.
“ As to returning to the Senate, I am free to
say that I think there is great need there and
large opportunity there for any man governed
solely by principle. A Senator should have pro
found convictions of his own, and unbending
moral and physical courage, too, to maintain
them. For such men there is a crying necessity
in tho Senate, and such men could not only in
time bring back tho sway of the Constitution,
but would make their mark as benefactors of
the country upon tho history of the future.
In many respects I think that a Senator of
tho United States has tho highest opportuni
ties of any officer in our government. While
in a senso ho represents a State, in a larger
and better sense he represents tho country
as a whole. By his longer tenure of office ho
survives tho petty, stormy issues which bien
nially change tho' House to a degree, and by
his more expanded representation ho can
and should rise to tho plane of statesman
ship and tolerance. When I remember my
first entrance into Congress, I recall as contem
poraries, Clay, Webster, Wright, Calhoun, Ben
ton, Douglas'Clayton and Hayne, and such men
as being yet above oven the’ nverago of their
times, yet raised by attraction that average to a
near level with themselves. I think that it is
more than a coincidence that evils which afflict
this country have dated from and have con
tinued along with the deterioration of tho char
acter of Congress, individually and collectively
considered. Small men brought on great evils,
and great evils have continued small men. Tho
dawn of better times will bo signalized by the
advent of better men.”
In reference to Senator Wilson’s remarks in
caucus about tho tcuure-of-offico bill, tho Presi
dent said:
“Neither ho nor any one else need fcarl would
send in anything but my name at the bottom of
a bill repealing tho tenure-of-offico law. I ve
toed that bill; of course I would approve its re
peal to bo consistent, as I have been consistent
all through. Nevertheless, if, instead of a re
peal, Congress send me a bill modifying tlia civil
tenure law, or oven mitigating it I would not
approvo of it, as I am against the whole princi
ple of tho act believing it to bo unconstitutional.
* * * It is tho ono thing which pre
vents a President from being a President except
in name. All the corruption of tho service is
owing to tho existcnco of this law. It would be
useless to suspend men and havo their friends
and supporters in tho Senate pass npon their
cases. Besides, corrupt officials so cover up
their tracks as to make it impossible directly to
S rove their guilt in evidence, however strong
10 moral convictions or suspicions you enter
tain of their guilt. My experience here has
convinced mo of this, that no President can ad
minister this government as it ought to bo ad
ministered wtth such a law upon him. My very
liberal complianco with it has demonstrated .its
inefficiency. No man who comes after mo can
get along with it.
“General Grant’s demand for its repeal shows
that ho understands this, and tho exertions
which his friends make for its repeal, show that
they understand it. They vindicate my veto of
tho law and my protests against it, and they ac.
knowledge their mistake in passing it. For my
part, I would bo glad to seo that mistako recti
fied. To bo sure tho repeal of tho law would
do mo no good now, but as a patriotic man, de
sirous of having an honest civil service, I would
be glad to see tho law wiped out of tho statute
book. Neither General Grant nor any other
man can administer this Government with such
a law. No man can administer it properly
either who has not a plan, or policy, if yon will,
of his own, founded upon a clear conviction of
what the Constitution teaches and means. Gen. H
tors to write orders and have them obeyed, andi m
it is quite another to wish to institute measures
and action, and find yourself hampered as no
other President ever was before, and to have
your executive functions shorn from you and
yourself blamed for tho bnngiing and corrup
tion of others whom you cannot reach. Presi
dential recommendations will not amount to
general orders by any means.
“ If General Grant develops an intelligent un
derstanding of onr system, and demands a firm
respect of his rights, ho may in timo get back
the powers to tlio executivo offico which havo
been taken from it. To do this he must surround
himself in his counsels with politicians or states
men who aro familiar with administration and
with laws, and to whom can be safely committed
tho trusts and powers of government. If a Pres
ident wants a cabinet of clerks ho can get them,
bat he will find the whole load of government
too much for his time and his mind.' ’ * ’
Tho President has duly notified General Grant
that ho will bo happy to await his desires in tho
usual matter of accompanying him to tho place
of inauguration. The fact that no reply has yot
been received may not be significant, if a reply
should come at any time before Wednesday; but
in either event President Johnson has complied
with the conventionalties, and that, too, in a
sincere spirit.
Gen. Grant on Reconstruction.
Senator Pool, as well as other gentlemen who
accompanied him to army bead quarters on
Wednesday, discovered that Gen. Grant was
admirably willing to hear advice and informa
tion on every subject, but indisposed, except in
one or two matters, to furnish his own news
NSW ADVERTISEMENTS
QZO. B. TURBIN.
J. KOXROK OODZX.
TXmPXKr «*> OGDEN,
] COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
return/ On the general subject, however, of BEAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENTS,
MAOOlf, OA„
At LIFE INSUI
NY, of New York; Cash Assets over $32,000,000;
THE MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE COM
PANY of New Y’ork: Assets over $5,000,000.
OFFER FOR SALE: -
Tho elegant residence known as the BOND or
NELSON HOUSE.
THE FINDLAY HOUSE.
Also, several smaller Dwellings.Building Lots and
Plantations. * feb2S-tf
RALSTON’S HALL.
RETURN OF THE VETERANS,
SKIFF &liAYLORD’S
MINSTRELS
-AND-
BRASS BAND,
VILL Jl?P*AR
Thursday and Friday, March 4 and 5.
Grand Tripple’Clog Dance. Yht Wonderful Pan-
thcoptipionica description of tho following beautiful
E »: City of Bethlehem; Birth-place of Christ:
at Calvary and the Crucifixion: Burial Placeof
Byron; Napoleon Reviewing his Army .- Napo-
lcouau Exile at St. Helena; Soldier's Dream of Home:
Ship at Sea, Storm Arises. Thunder. Lightning and
tho Wreck. ForniingTWOGREATsHOWSIN ONE
Barque it and Dress Clrele —$1 59
Gallery - -
Colored £0
LOW GAYLORD. Manager.
.To* Ga ylokp. General Agent.
- raar2-4t
FOR SALE,
AT GRIER & MASTERSON’S. ono Car Load of
large broke MULES, low for cash.
miri-St* J OBtER & MASTERSON.
White Lead, Oils, Paints, etc.
^^GENCY for SU Louis strlotly Pure White Lead
warranted equal to any, and on« cent per "pound
DRESS-MAKING
MRS. M. B. DANIELS.
L ADIES desiring a perfect fit. neat work and slyl-
i-h outfits, will do well to civs me a call. My
arrangements for receiving the latest New York de
signs will be such as to afford, always, a choice from
the freshest and most elegant stylss.
Rooms at therssideuee of Mr. 11. T. Johnson, near
corner of Second and Plum streets, opposite Mr.
Obear’s. - mr6-2w
PLASTERS' SUPPLIES ON TIME
supplies—ON TIME—at reasonable rates, for ap
proved paper.
Johnson, Campbell & Co.,
Comer Fourth and Poplar st>.
SWoumil and Messenger copy. [marS-lmo]
cheaper.
mar4-tf
L. W. HUNT A CO.,
f. Druggists
LINSEED OIL.
CASES PRIME LINSEED OIL,
Bought low and to bo sold low.
L. W. HUNT A CO..
mar4-tf . Druggists.
FOUND,
^ COW WITH YOUNG CALF. The owner can
get the same by proof of property and paying expenses
and for advertising. Apply to
a. McKenna,
mar8-t Corner Fourth and Hawthorne Sts.
Postponed Sale of Valuablo City
Property.
fond—and twelvo Frame Buildings. Bale to com
mence, on the ground, at 10, a. m. Terms made
known on the day of sale.
HARRIS.
TURPIN.
nfuBv
■ io Pr
feb2S-tdi
Committee on l’ublio Property.
Oglethorpe
in
Botanical Lecture*,
Midway.
The lectures of Prof. Lane on botany are
weekly intensifying in interest. Intended prin
cipally forthe botanical class of Oglethorpe Col
lege, Prof. Lane has generously thrown the
door open to the public. On every afternoon at
8 o’clock, a large throng of intelligent ladies
and gentlemen of *hi« city, and the neighoring
village of Midway, gather to reap instruction
and amusement from the discourse and experi
ments of the accomplished lecturer.
A captivating feature of these lectures is the
practical analysis of flowers, and their examina
tion tinder the microscope. Mr. Lane has on
his table three different microscopes of large
magnifying power. Under their magio influ
ence the finest filament of a flower assumes the
apparent thickness of one’s finger; and the
structure of vegetable organization yields np its
secrets to the curious eye.
In Mr. Lane’s lecture, of last Friday, a most
curious and newly discovered method of leaf
arrangement, was fully explained by the learned
lecturer.
We are pleased to learn that the number of
College students is already rapidly increasing
under the reorganization of the institution,
having doubled within the present year.
[Federal Union.
Texas Beef.—The Houston Times says a
gentleman in New Orleans writes to a prominent
citizen of Houston a confidential letter, from
which the following extract is taken;
I have just learned of a new project in the
Texas beef business, that is to be carried into
effect very soon, that exceeds any project we
had conceived of. A steamship has been pur
chased, and is fitting np an immense refrigera
tor, to sail soon for Texas, to bring here a fresh
supply of beef. The expectations of the par
ties are that paying for the hides, bones and tal
low, they will be able to get the beef for noth
ing. The refrigerating part of the ship is to be
acted on by currents of cold air, generated by
extensive machinery, to cost $30,000.”
The editor of the times says the enterprise is
in the hands of responsible parties and will be
carried out
ASSIGNEE’S SALE.
Bank of Columbns, etc.
By D. P.A R. ELLIS.... auctionkees.
I N nurtusnee of an order of the Uon. Edmund II.
Worrill, preiding in Equity in the county ofMus
cogec, and in accordance with the deed of Assign
ment, I shall offer for tale, at public auction, in front
ofthe store of D. P. A R. Klhs, between the
hoars of sale, oa the first Tuesdsy in May next,
Tbe feot on which Hands the iron Sront Building
of three stories and basement, erected by the Bank of
Columbns, on the south side of Lot No 16*. in the
city of Columbus, and occupied as a Bank, fronting
on Broad and bt. Clair afreets, comprised within the
following boundaries: Commencing at the south*
east corner of said streets, running thence along St.
Clair street one hundred and forty-seven feet ten
inches; thence south twenty-eight feet twoinobes;
thence weet one bundled and forty-seven feet ten
inebet to Broad street: thence north twenty-eight
feet two inches, to the point o! beginning, being 147
feet 10 inches from east to west, and 28 feet 2 inches
from north to south, and also a piece of ground re
served for an alley from tbo rear or east end ofthe
adjoining part of s$id l.ot 1(36, on whlefa the store
rdery now
f 21 feet
two inch.* from north to suuth.
Al.o, 67 Mobil. A Girard Railroad Bondi.
17. Noe. I to 17. JS»n<ti K. *500. *8.500
•binds C.- 500. 4.540
Bondi C, 500, 1,500
Bondi B, 600. 2,000
Bond. B,
«; noi.
3. Nor.
4. Not.
34. Not 06 to 100
81 to 8V.
95 to 98.
55 to 58.
66 to 98. j.
lit), 17,000
*33,500
AI,o. Bond, of (he State! of Alabama.
No 46 dated Mar I. 1862 *10,000
46 dated May 1.1862 10.(00
141 to 147.1 Bond’. *5x0 each 20,000
Coupons (0 May. 1864 0.400 *46,400
. BOXDS Of the state of 01(1101 a.
No. 1101 to 1200,100 Bonds. *500 each.
Fob. L 1*62. 60.000
No. 751 to 784,34 Bunds, *1000 34.000
Coipom to Nov. 1,1864....— 8.925 *92,925
BOZDS OF THE COXFZDZEATX STATES.
7-30 Note* .... *330.000
15 Million Loan, 60Bonds, SlOOOeac* 60,060
15 Million Loan, 1 Rond. *1000. No.
56-8 —
Loan 19th Auk. 1861-2. No. 849 to 561.
*1000
Loan 16th Auk- 1861.3 Bonds, No.
3161 to 3163, *1000.
Loan 19tb Auk. 1861,9 Ronds. No. 3.66
to 3174. *1OTI -
Loan 19th Any. 1861. 4 Bonds, No.
3176(0 3176, *10C«
Loan 19th Auk. 1861,2Bonds, No.3135
to 3137, SIU0U
Loan 19th Auk. 1861,2 Bonds, No. 3121
to 3123. *1009.
Six per cent. 0100 000,000 Loan, 3
Bunds, No. 3147 to 3Ui. *10(0_.......
Six per rent. *100.000.000 Loan. S
Bonds, No. 3129 to 3133. $1000
Six per cent. *100.600.001 Loan, 2
1.000
2.000
■ 3,000
9.060
4.000
2,000
2.000
10,009
3.000
5.000
2.000
per
—OMHfl
Cotton Loan, 20
6156. *1000 : ------ 20.000
Loan 19 th Auk. 1861. 30 Bonds, No. 750
to 779. *500 each 1.500
Loan 19th Auk. 1861. 13 Bonds. No.
1868-9-70-71. 23)6,1917-18-19 20,312,
914,2272 and 3,5*500..... : 6.500
Loan 19th Aus. 1861, 6 Bonds. No.
2642. 8668, 80, 2344, 23(3. 498. *100
800 s
160
1.200
300 472.450
6,150
33^385
10L323
Loin 19th Auk. 1801.3Bondr, No. 39i.
398 and 200. *50 each .............
Loan 20:h Feb 1363.1 Bond. No. 16,-
976.8500; 7 do. 5496 to 8502, *100 each
15 Million Loan, 3 Bonds, No. 2468.
2509, 2510, 3100 each
Brgisiercd Stock Confederate Loan.
205 Bills ofthe*State ol Ga_
207 Confederate Treasury Notes—
203 Bills ofthe State of Va„... _ _
209 Bills of the Macon Savincs Bank 500
311 Confederate 8 per cent. Bonds in
tbe hand* of Frazer, Xrenbolm A
Co., Liverpool, England 150.000 320,813
Sundry Bank notes — 3,740
Also, sundry individual notes Md accounts, some
of which have been reduced to judgnraa*.'
Terms of sale Crab, in United States currently.—
Sale positive. Sale being made under an order of
Court, all purchases not settled foron tbedayofsale
will bo advertised and resold onacconntof the former
purchaser on the second Tuesday in May.
. , - „ D. F. WILLCOX.
maro-law-td Assignee.
In Bankruptcy.
Is the District Cocet of thk Ukitkd States, fox
THE SOCTHZEH DlSTKICT OK GZOSGIA.
In the matter of 1 r „ ,
KNOCK C.JAKRELL, Bankrupt! 111 Bankruptcy.
C REDITORS of said Bankruptwill take notice that
the third and .a.t me-tiug of creditors will b e
held in Americas, Ga.. on ihe 12th of March, 1869 be
fore Frank S. Hesseltine, Esq., Register.
J. M. GILL.
Assignee.
Ten Dollars Reward.
T OST. between Southwestern Freight Depot and
XJ Byingtnn’s Hotel, n DIRK. The blade is nbont
8 Inches long, the handle about 4 inches—ivory or
horn handle, silver mounted. The above reword will
be given to any one who will leave it at
TH--
febZT-tf
rHIS OFFICE.
RISON’S TOBACCO ANTIDOTE,
rpOGETHER with all the popular Patent Medioinea
advertised and otherwise. Sold at
fcb23-tf ELLIS’ DB,ya STORE.
1 manufactured, at low fi^ur
marj-tf *
W. BUNT A CO..
Druggists.
S. P. SMITH’S VARNISHES,
/*YVBR two years old, warranted tho best in the
\J market, and as cheap. For anything In the Drug
or Paint line, send your orders to
, . L.WaHUNTAOO.,
mar4-tf 82 and 84 Cherry it.
EORGIA. BIBB COUNTY.—Peyton Reynolds
V-4 has applied for exemption of personalty and
setting apart and valuation of homestead, and I
will pass upon the same at 10 r/clock a. h., on tho
18th day of March nett, at myoffioo. .
4 _ 0. T. WARD,
mar4-2t Ordinary.
Rheumatism Cured,
A S AN Y number of letters will testify from every
Southern State. Tbe price will be reduced to *2
per Package, for tho next three months, which en
close to the address of the umierrigeed, and prompt
attention will be given.
J. O. GIBSON,
Eatonton, Ga.
kbi.cui.iim win Lr
f.bafdAWSmo
LOW PRICED BACON.
OBBAF OATS,
psB&sa cozTonr shed,
CORN and
ran ax,
*3-CALL AT THE
GUANO.
guano emporium.
LAWTON A LAWTON. ’
ARTIFICIAL LEGS ASS ARMS,
O F every make and style, repaired with neatness
■Mdupatch.
Also, Rubber Webbing for supporting Artificial
Limbs. Apply to
„ „ GEO. P. NBL80N.
, ., >o. 48 Mulberry St.. Floyd House Block,
febll-lm -
SIX OAKS COTTON SEED.
A LS0, MOINA. HUNT. BRAZIL, etc..sold and
information furnished, by 1 -
fetat-ur ,, THKO. W. ELLI6-
mar5-2t
Release of Lieut Ilraine.
New Yoke, March 2.—A nolle pros., in the
case of John C. Braine, the Chesapeake priva
teer, was ordered in the United States Circuit
Court in Brooklyn yesterdey, under directions
from Attorney General Evarts. Braine was
then discharged and left the court in a hack,
saying that he would go to Savannah, where his
relations reside.
QEOmHAJASPER COUNTY.-AI1 persons eon-
M ecmed. are hereby notified that John H. Eiell
exemption of personalty and set-
°f homestead, and I will
cello, at 10 o'clock, a. it.,
.—. —: —At at my office.
..!.?M“-?' r ™Jn hand a! ‘d official Signature this let
M. H. HUTCHISON,
Ordinary.
has applied fo:
ting apart and valual
pats npon Ihesatne at Mo: _
on the 12th day of March, 1669. at'my office
Given undermy?—* - * ...
day of March. 1S69.
maro-2t
(3.EORGIA, DOOLY COUNTY.-Whereaa, John H.
V 1 4 e 5Vt ■Adminmtrator de bonis non, upon tbe
estate of Henry^ W, Fenn, deceased, applies to me for
setters of Dismission from haid estate,
Ihe«e are, therelore, to cite and admonish all con
cerned to be and appear at my office on or before the
first Monday in September next, then and thereto
ahow cause, if any they have, why said letters should
not be granted. ‘J
Qiven under my hand and official signature, this 1st
day March, lS6'j.
WM- II- DAVIES,
mar5-m6xo Ordinary.
FISH! FISH!!
JUST ARRIVING.
Qfl BARRELS No. 1,2 and 3
MACKEREL.
50 half barrels No. 1, 2 and 3
MACKEREL.
SEYMOUR. TINSLEY Jt OO.
POTATOES for PLWTIVG.
100 Barrels PLANTING POTATOES,
Genuine PINK-EYE*
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY ACO.
feb21-tf * •
FOR SALE, 7”
UOME 30 or 40 bushels Six Oaks Cotton Seed, rrotre
O from seed obtained from J. V. Jones, of Bur^e
county, last spring, 18b8. Any person wanting I
have to sell can have them at $3 per bushel, delivered
in Albany or Bainbridge. or less quantity at tbessme
price at my plantation, in Baker county. Thesupo-
rior quality of this cotton will fpeak for itself.
Address CHAS. J. MALONE.*
feb27 &t Americas, Ga-
Dr. Sam. S. fllte’s Tooth Sfffi
"|>ECOMMENDED BY THE PROFESSION-
XV Sold at
feb23-tf ELLIS’ DRUG STORE.