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Northern Immigration.
The Augusta Chronicle say*: “Not many
days since we received a visit from two well in
formed gentleman, natives of the State of Con*
necticnt and men of means, who had come to
on a prospecting expedition.
From Cuba*
Havana, Ay 4.—A Revolutionary Congress com
posed of thirty delegates from all parts of the Is
land assembled at Sibarino. and adopted unani
mously a declaration that the patriots are fighting
for independence from Spain and annexation to the
United States.
The Cuba Journals announce that the Insurgents
have appeared in the jurisdiction of CineovOle. and
many large plantations and estates have been
seized under a confiscation decree. -
■■fcttT a ftZCOXD STS.
• { i «g MACON, GA., :
TttSffSS'oPSffSRW BDY AND SKLL kx-
ISSSSSiS® 0 * SILVEK - Stock,. Bonds nod
OOLLEOTIOK8 MADE OH ALL ACCESSIBLE
POINTS.
*TOfflco open at Ml hour, of the day. ' '"
Georgia recently _ __
They informed ns that seeing an advertisement
in the Chronicle and Sentinel of a laige planta
tion for sale in Bnrke connty, they had visited
the place and, being pleased with it, had pur
chased the whole property. The plantation was
the property of George "W. Lamar, of Savannah,
and the price paid for it was fire thousand dol
lars. It is situated on Buckhead Creek, in
Burke connty, and contains fourteen hundred
acres of land, of which nine hundred are under
cultivation.
.u Th. “SCHWAB" PROPERTY, cornor New and
Oak streets. Tho entire Lot or a portion ef it.
A valuable MILL PROPERTY, near Fort Valley.
Floor and Grist MUI.-fiaw Mill and line site fora
^TWOBRirK STORES .in East Macon, nest to D.
The BOND or NELSON HOUSE and theFINDLAY
HOUSE
Several DWELLINGS and BUILDING LOTS in
and near Maeon.
PLANTATIONS and WILD LANDS. '. ■
AGENTS FOR:
THE MUTAL LIFE INSURANCE Company of
New York.
THE MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE COM
PANY of New York.
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SEND YOUR ORDERS TO
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General News.
Chicago, May L—Advices from the Indian coun
try have been received at Gen. Sheridan's headquar
ters, which say that everything that has been dene
to make peace with the Sioux thus far, is an entire
failure. The Indians are just as far from peace to;
day as they were two years ago.
New York, May 4.—A number of spirit photogra
phist have been discharged.
Aijxanurll, Va., May 4.—General Lee was re
ceived by citizens at the Mansion House to-night.
A large number of ladies and gentlemen called.
Thero was no formal demonstration. He leaves for
B. F. WHITMAN.
The purchasers have'determined
to divide the whole property into small tracts of
forty or fifty acres each, which they will farm
out to Connecticut immigrants whom they will
bring to this State as soon as possible. The
gentlemen have already returned to their New
England home, and we may expect them to ar
rive here in a few days with fifteen or twenty
thrifty farmers from die “Nutmeg State.’ ”
The same paper says: “We learn from
friends of the parties that two or three large
manufacturers of Philadelphia propose visiting
our city during the ensuing week for the pur
pose of “taking a look” at our canal and water
power afforded by the Palls of the Savannah.
Boston, Providence and New York have been
taking private ‘looks,’ and now the city of
THE BURLESQUE OPERA
CINDERELLA J
ADMISSION 1100: Koaervcd Scats $1 SI—to he
had at HAVENS .V BROWN'S. Gallery 50 cents.
Doors opon at 7 o’clock: commence at 8. inat-ot
Brotherly Love has been roused from tho soli
tude of its own magnificence. There is in our
own community nothing of the spirit nf the
fabled Bog in the Mangei; We say, therefore,
come on gentlemen. There is power enough
for all, never-failing. Take in tho whole river,
whose volume is that of a stream more th»n n
quarter of a mile wide, having a fall that can be
made available of thirty feet and over, and our
climate is salubrious, and every condition for
manufacturing cotton fabrics favorable—the
raw material (ootton) at our doors.
Tl»e Firemen’s Tournament—A Grand
Gala Day.
From the Atlanta flew £raj .
mm
And Color Works,
ST. LOUIS.
PRODUCTS of thi* Establishment guaranteed
equal in quality to the best manufactured in tho
’“"‘J?'. _? ur
Why, to select from the fine and choice stock of
GKO. BUltDICK.
E. L. BURDICK.
ta Fire Department, and a notable day in its
history. Never since the city has had a Fire
Department has there been such a fine display
of engines and companies. AU had on their
best looks. The machines were all in splendid
order, and the men in fine trim, handsomely
uniformed and ready to enter with heart and
soul into the exercises of the day.
There were Beven visiting companies present,
as fallows: ..
Clinch No. 2, of Augusta, second class steam
er. A. Levy, President; M. Mahoney, Cap.
tain.
Vigilant No. 8, of Augusta, third class steam
er. M. F. Nelson, Foreman; G. ,T. Lamback,
Assistant Foreman. Seventy men present.
Augusta No. 5, Hand Engine; Pat Walsh,
President; John Kennilly, Captain. Seventy-
six men present.
Fillmore No. 4, of Augusta, third-class Clapp
& Jones’ steamer; Philip L. Cohen, Captain;
J. F. McGrath, 1st Lieutenant Fifty men
present
Palmetto Steam Fire Company, Charleston:
Hugh Ferguson, President; J. Roddick, Vice
President Fifty men present
Defiance Fire Company, of Macon, hand en
gine, Geo. W. Barr, Foreman; A. J. King, As-
BURDICK BROTHERS.
From Virginia. .»*.
Ricuvnxp, May 4.—Gov. Wells is out in a letter
sajing that he has never been satisfied that tbe dia-
franchisment clanae would accomplish the object
for which Jt was framed, and if a majority of the
people vote against it all ought to aasent to the de
cision, and adds: ‘‘I believothat whichever sec
tions of tbe Constitution the President prefers to
have stricken ont he wiil submit them separately,
and the probabilities are that the weight of his name
will be such that the propositions submitted sepa
rately wQl be defeated."
The tobacco factory of Pilkinion A Co. waa burnt
this morning. Loss (50,000; insured for (20,000.
No. 63 Third Streets
BiACON.
DEALERS IN
BACON, CORN, HAY,
Foreign News.
Sr. PrrxRSBrmo, May 4.—Admiral Prince Alt
dcr Henschikeff, of the RnreUn navy, is dead.
Meal, Lard, Salt.
Gen. Lee at the White House.
A special Washington telegram, dated the 1st
instant, to the LonisviUe Courier-Journal, says
General Robert E. Lee arrived in the city last
evening and proceeded to the residence of a rel
ative in Georgetown. This morning at 11 o'clock,
in accordance with previous arrangements, he
called at the Executive Mansion, in company
with two friends from Baltimore, and on hand
ing his card to General Dent, was immediaacly
ushered into the presenoe of the President.
Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, the Minister to
Italy, with other very prominent personages,
were just about to have an interview, but the
President begged them to retire, as he had ar
ranged beforehand to have Gen. Lee called on
him at this time. Those gentlemen, with the
others retired, bat some of them, remarked that
it was an outrage to be orowded aside by the
greatest rebel in the country, .in / i :t .».•» r.o
The interview was brief, not lasting but twen
ty minutes: and was confined to personal mat
ters and a word or two about Virginia. Both
were warm, however, in wishing the other health
MrFcrrin, Armxironx k Co.’* Celebrated
MAGNOLIA HAMS.
•t in this market,
lenten will reeeire our
. oaj5 2m
Recosnixcd as the
Orders from Dealers sad
nil careful attention.
HICKS’ PREPARED FOOD
I N offering this excellent Bird Food to the public,
the underlined, after several years' experience In
raisins soft-bill Birds, Moeklnc Birds especially, een
safely aseert that it is in every way better thaD Ecx
and Potatoes—the Bird Food that is xenerally used.
It is cheaper and more easily prepared, and all who
have used it will testify that it renders Birds healthy
and lively, their plumage hricht, and in fact possesses
all the adrantaxesclaimed for it. .
A1I who wish this excellent Food for Birds, caa ob
tain it in any quantity, by applying to
E. H. HICKS.
may5-2t Brown’s Hotel.
and success in life, and General Lee added:
“I pray,. Mr. President, that your administra
tion may redound to tho honor and glory of the
country.” The pending reconstruction of Vir
ginia waa alluded to, and General Lee intimated
that he stfll adhered to his letter of last August
to General Boseerans, wherein he claimed that
where reconstruction was accepted the full res
toration of the State to the Union should follow,
and the development of tho mineral and agricul
tural reaouroes of Virginia set forth. 'When
General Lee left the Executive Mansion he was
followed by the scrutinizing eyes of all in the
vicinity. He appeared in excellent health, and
looked about as he did three years ago when he
Jewelry, Silver-Ware,
SEWING MACHINES, Etc.,
ZS&LBSe 1 "
, E.J. JOHNSTON.
97 Mulberry it.
Tux Mobdeb or Area.—A Jefferson county
correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel, says: The murder of Dr. Ayer is still
the “nine day’s wonder” of our community, and
the general sentiment is, that as he has been
killed, Providence or the Devil .(which ever
made the selection) conld hot have made a more
fortunate choice for the community than the
negro Wilson, who did the deed. I have known
Wilson since he was a child, and never knew a
more abandoned villain for his age. His former
master has often said he would be hung, and
the prospect is very fair now of his prophecy
being soon fulfilled. Since his commitment, it
has been discovered that he tried to get tiro
other negroes, who lived on tho same place with
him, to join him in killing and robbing a horse
drover, who was this spring with his (Wilson’s)
employer, telling them the drover had money,
and that was a much easier way to get it than
woridhg in the cotton field.
, . J PIANOS.
7 and 7Octave Ro.ewood Piano?, standard makers
and warranted attlOO. under manufacturers’ prices,
for sale by E. J. JOHNSTON.
* Corner Second and Mulberry ets.
Mechanic Steam Fire Company No. 2. Atlanta.
MUSIC.
Tallulah Fire Company No. S, Atlanta.
The procession thus formed passed through
all the principal streets of the city, returning to
the cistenj near the State House at about half
past twelve o’clock, where the competition for
the prizes came off.
The wind, during almost the entire time occu
pied by the trial of the engines, was adverse,
consequently none of the machines reached
heiuung’s champion fire-proop
• ! fr I SAFES.
Famished to order, at abort notice and smalt com
mission. Call and examine Catalogue ol styles,
prices and performances, at
B. J. JOHNSTON’S.
Near tbe Lanier ilonsc.
RAZORS,
ited the best in the world, and to (ire en
action. for rale by
EJ. JOHNSTON.
97 Mulberry ft.
their average capacity. But the contest was
spirited, and those who won prizes did so against
a fair and cioso competition.
The following are tho distances thrown by
the different companies: •
Tallulah No. 3 (Atlanta), hand engine, second
class, 221 feet
Defiance (Macon), hand engine, first class 209
feet.
Augusta (Augusta)4)iand engine, first class,
215 feet.
Filmoro No. 4, third class steamer, (Augusta)
229.4 feet.
Vigilant, third class steamer, (Augusta) 222.9
feet.
Mechanics No. 2, third class steamer, (Atlan
ta) 246.5 feet
Atlanta No. 1, second class steamer, (Atlanta)
278.2 feet
Clinch (Augusta) 221.8 feet
Palmetto, second class (Charleston) 279 feet
Rainbow. Wo failed to get a report of thin
steamer. Night closed before it got up steam,
hence we have no record of its capacity.
It is due to Ftimore to say that the steamer
was badly damaged in being unloaded from the
cars, and was merely entered by the company
to fill up the programme.
Tallulah also broke off six feet of her brakes
hence, did not quite reach her real capacity.
Incidents and other matters. connected with
the parade we have to defer until after this is
sue. *
The Atlanta Cossrrrmos.-I. W. Avery,
Esq. .succeeds Major Barrick as editor-in-chief of
the Atlanta Constitution. Mr. Avery has held
the position some weeks during Major B s. til-
ness, and is an accomplished writer. We wel
come him to the-fratemity.
About Cuba.—The arrival of a special agent
of the Government, sent some time since to Cu
ba, to ascertain the condition of affairs in the
island, is daily looked for. The action of the
Government, it is said, will depend, to some ex
tent, upon the report made by the agent, who is
a gentleman in whom the Administration places
implicit confidence. The report is looked for
with considerable interest.
PLASTER—CALCINED FOR FIXSHING
AND LAND PLASTERS.
Ibsw accepted the Ax racy for oue of the best
'Mills in the United States, and will take orders at a
small eomniMiOD. „ B. J. JOHNSTON.
■a-Joamal mud Messenger copy It. may5 St
May 2,1869.;
Bdtton Telegraph; A murder was com
mitted in this county, last night, by John
Brooks, (colored). It seems that one Sam Gib
son, a negro, had plighted faith with Martha
Wilder, (colored; and the parties were soon to
be married. Unfortunately John Brooks was
also “desperately in lub wid de same cullud
gal,” end learning her intention to marry bis
rival, Sam, conceived tho fiendish purpose of
preventing the wedding by murder. Accord
ingly he discharged the contents of a loaded gun
through Martha’s head, killing her instantly.—
A coroner’s inquest held over the body returned
the verdict of murder by John Brooks, and that
the crime was instigated by jealousy.
Brooks, however, pleads accidental shooting,
just as Hunnecnt did in the Church murder
some time ago. He was committed to jail this
evening at' 6 o’clock, and His ' Honor, Judge
Cole, will soon have an opportunity to investi
gate the facts, as Court sets to-morrow. Let us
have peace, ye darkies, and quit shooting. S.
1S0 DOZEN HURLEY’S, WORM CANDY-tho
beet article of kind made.
For sale low by
HARRIS. CLAY A CO..
Wholesale Drogrists.
«ay5-tf Macon, Go.
~ * NOTICE.
HE Superior Court, for the county of WHkinson,
stands adjourned until Tuesday, tenth day of
gust next, at 9 o’clock, a. w. Jurors, suitors and
nesses are required to bo in attendance at that
T he firm of burdick brothers a co„
was dissolved on the 3d instant, by mutnal con
cent, Mr. Turpia retiring therefrom.
The business will be continued at the old stand. No.
63 Third Street, by the undersigned, who are alone
authorized to settle alt business pertaining to thelate
Thankful to our friends for their patronage in the
past, we hope to merit a continnanee of the same.
Very respectfully,
„ „ BURDICK BROTHERS.
Macon. May a, Is.#,—3t
Massachusetts not only reduces the number
of her children from native-born parents com
pared with the olden time, two-thirds—but is
increasing the number of her divorces quite
two-thirds. Matrimonial infelicities lead to
matrimonial infidelities, and these naturally
enough to divorce. A single term of the court
now sees one hundred applicants for divorce.
gyj PROGRESS CLUB.
A SPECIAL MEETING of the members of this
Club is called for Wednesday Evening, at eight
o’clock. May 5,1&3, at the Club Rooms. Every mem
ber is expected to be present, as important business
will be transacted. y rxrr *•
By order of the President.
m*y4-2t J. DANNBNBERG, Sec’y.
IF YOU WANT
CORK AID BACON,
SEND YOUR ORDERS TO
A. HUFF,
Chattanooga, Teiui.
Direct Trade with
J.II. ASHBUIDGE,
Of New Orleans.
Europe-
J o«
' J. H. ASHBRIDGE & CO.,
Commission Merchants
GENERAL PURCHASING AGENTS,
LIVERPOOL.
A8UBR1DOS, SmTIIA CO., New Orleans.
Consignments Solicited.
n~ Particular attention siren to tbe sale of South
ern Lands to European Capitalists and intending Im-
SKibliffi” foT1?Or 'l5 O a,«:fa^‘^0 On
To Purchasers of City Lots.
" isrtlea now owing the oitr for Lots must come
rard and make settlement, as the names of
10 fall will bo placed before Council for action
ALLP
Hi forw„...
hoeo who fail I
it next meeting
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CHAS. J. WILLIAMSON,
Clerk snd Treasurer.
FRESH ARRIVALS
AT TUX .......
66 WHITE COMER.”
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BUTTER. HAY ’ :
.25 boxes choice FACTORY CHEESE.
100 boxes SMOKED HERRINGS,
iro cafes COVE OYSTERS,
1 109 boxes FRESH CRACKERS-Lemon, Milk,
Cream. Soda, Butter, Farinna and Ginger Schn&ppi.
Call and Me ns.
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J and Chcrr;
Corner Third i
errysts.
Six Second-Hand Hilliard Tables
FOR SALE,
TTUVE foll-sixo four-pocket Tables complete, and
A one six-pocket Tabio complete, for rale at a
bargain, to make room for other improvement.-.
Apply to, or address .
A. PATTERSON A OO..
■ ! Proprietors Georgia Saloons.
Macon. Ga.. May 4-lw
Pure Turkey Opium,
POWERS A WEIGHTMAN’S . 1.
. . '. QUININEand MORPHINE, ;
At ELLIS’ DRUG STORE.
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R ESPECTFULLY offers hie service* to citizen* of
Macon and vicinity. Special attention given to
Surgical cases.
••^Office in E. J. Johnston’* Building, corner of
Mulberry and Second streets. Office hours: 11 to
Pi *. mar30-tf
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Wednesday & Thursday,May 5 dt 6.
Introducing tho great Prim a Dona
MISS JENNIE KIMBALL
And tbe Child Wonder
La Petite Corrinne.
A N exeellant FAMILY HORSE, gentle both In
harness and under the saddle—sold for no fault.
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J,Jj.'afotos.
MedonandWestern Railroad.
TAX RETURNS.
TJARTIES owqicg or having charge of Seal or
S. Personal Eztato in (hoetty, April 1.1800,and thojo
subject to Poll end Road Tax. will como. forward,
dnt jriMIs^ being doubled taxed, in acoor^uco
* -Jl. B “°*’0HA8. J. WILLIAMSON.,’ .
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THE WONDERFUL BLUE.
TXIR WASHERWOMEN.
JC A speck of it Colon deeply a Pint ot Water.
And answer* its end admirably.
At hLLIS D RUG STORK.
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1,000 HATS AND BONNETS.
kBCEIVBD TII18 DAY. AT
L Mrs. S. DB-SAim No. 68 Molbemr St.
tEGRAPHd
Ontside Contents.
Fibst Page.—Emigration to the South ; Nor.
3 and 4—From Quitman Co., Ga.—The Skel
eton Hand; the Horrible Press of Bony Fingers
—Cuban Rebellion—TTie Pacific Railroad
Hnmbng—Miscellany.
Fonrra Page.—A New Cotton Factory in Co
lumbus—The Folly of Farmers—Southern Emi
gration—The Manhattan Company—Free Trade
in the West—Items.
FfcOKT. —A Crawforl connty correspondent
eeyx there -was frost yesterday morning in his
vicinity. .... w j., r ■. v.
Gold Going np and War-Talk.
Gold has been rising pretty steadily within
the past week, having advanced upwards of two
cents. Whether this is due to Sumner s speech
and the Alabama bugaboo wo are quite unable
to may; but no other cause seems to be apparent.
If so, the scare has not yet assumed a very se
rious complexion. When they take it in earn
est, and war stares greenbacks fairly in the face
we shall expect them to torn bine { - Five or
cents* decline in twenty-four hours will be the
least honor they will l>e likely to pxy the oce<;
non. — -
But just now there seems to be, in the Hear!;!
and one or two other New York prints, a disposi
tion to be very flippant and bluff. The former,
of the 1st instant, in what the printers call a
double-leader, reviews the articles of the leading
British newspapers upon Snmner’s speech and
> the rejection of the treaty, and sums np os fol
lows : » • 1 (• ; ■ ' " 1
It win thus be seen, both from our complete
report by cable telegram and new advices, the
Alabama claims difficulty must soon come to air
issue--'/n issue either by peace/ul a rbitration and
the footing vp and prompt payment of our bill
of damages, or war. To England we tender the
choice. Which will she accept? Oar people
are aggrieved, but prepared to settle the dispute
either way.
All this, wo take it, is braggadocio. Never, in
a mere financial point of view, was a country in
a worse position for war, and especially a war
with Great Britain. The sensible business men
of New York would be compelled to look upon
such a catastrophe as a death-blow to the whole
financial fabric of the country. Probably the
Herald tbinVa, with Sumner and Chandler, that
a little display of belligerency may frighten
John Bull into measures. But the fact that there
is not a dissentient voice in Great Britain as to
tho duty and propriety of refusing all further
concessions, makes such experiments dangerous.
Governments are more in terror of popular opin
ion at homo than of a foreign war. i.
Prospects of the Caban ItcvoIuUou.
The reports from Cuba are very conflicting,
bnt it Is not to be denied that a cloud seems to
be settling upon tho prospects of the Heroin-
Uonista. A paragraph upon tho outsido from
the World's Washington correspondent declares
that the Spanish legation in Washington regard
the struggle as substantially at an end. This is
not reliable testimony, bnt it has been confirmed
by information from officers of the American
Gulf Squadron, and ft is, to say the least, a
a great disappointment that the known facts do
not put such boasts to silence. We fear there
is too much truth in these reports and that the'
Cuban Hevolutionists will again miscarry.
This is the seventh attempt of Cuba to revolt
from the domlniop of Spain. There was an
outbreak as early as 1823—another in 1826—
another in 1828—again, in 1848, in 1850 and in
1851, under Lopez, who, in this last effort, was
esptnred, after two or three gallant fights, and
garroted in Havana on the first of September.
The Cabans never have been content under
the dominion of Spain, simply because they have
been yearly bled ahnost to extremity for the
benefit of the so-called mother country. An
island containing, say about 84,000 square miles,
and population probably amounting, about this
time, to eighteen hundred thousand of all condi
tions, has beeq made to contribute a revenue
averaging in the neighborhood of fifteen millions
per annum, ont of a grand total of products not
exceeding sixty millions. This is twenty-fire
per cent regular taxation according to returns;
but to these must be added a mass of official ex
tortion and plunder such as has seldom been
known except in that country, and the United
Blstas in ree&tjtoribda of our history.
It is a chance if the Cabans are not annually
fleeced for the benefit of the Spanish, of about
forty per cent, of their earnings, and their dis
content is not, therefore, at all surprising.
Whether they would do any better as a depend
ency of the United States is questionable; but
they think so, and are certainly entitled to a
change if thojr desire it 't tim
» It may be questioned, however, whether the
day for winning liberty and independence by tho
firelock in the way of a contest of the weak
against the strong, is not gone by. Tho im
proved weapons of modern warfare magnify
the disparity of force so much, and pnt the
weaker and porrer party at such disadvantage
that the contest is hopeless. The repeating
rifle had just begun to be extensively used, as
the war of the States was drawing to a dose ;
and it seems to us no intelligent man can doubt
that, even if the South oonld have doubled her
force in tho field and maintained her army rap-
plies, the introduction of tho Spencer Rifle into
the Federal army most have been fatal to the
Confederates in no great length of time. There
waa no standing with an Enfield gnn against a
man who had eight balls at his disposal as fast
as he conld draw trigger.
Now it is true the Spanish troops are by no
means well provided with arms ; and yet, after
all, are at greater advantage over the Cubans in
that respect than the Federate held over the
Confederates. The worst description of mod
em arms are so far beyond shot guns and the
other weapons of the self-armed revolutionists,
that the latter stand no chance in the struggle.
These great modem mechanical contrivances
for rapid locomotion and wholesale slaughter
have put an entirely different phase upon the
4 ‘last argument” in politics, and it is going to
tnm hereafter not so mnch upon the largest
party as the best guns—and the best manner of
using them to advantage. The party in Amer
ica which can storefup securely in the national
armories a heavy supply of repeating rifles and
ammunition, and seize and hold possession of
them will be able to maintain itself effectually
even against large popular unarmed majorities.
To return from this digression, the failure of
the Cuban revolt, if it fails, will, on the whole,
we think, be favorable to our Southern- States.
It will help to avert danger of foreign war and
it will prevent a diversion of immigration and
capital which would, no doubt, seriously retard
progress in these States.
Swiss in Tennessee. —A. correspondent of the
McMinnville New Era says the immigrants, and
more particularly the Swiss, are pouring intp
Grundy county like bees entering a hive, and
they out-work all creation. The Swiss are erect
ing a great many romantic cottages in the vi
cinity of the colony lands. They seem well
pleased with their new homes among the moun
tains of America ; and it may now be said, in a
donble sense, that we have a Switzerland in
America—the mountains and the people. They
have gone to work in the comparative wilderness
to hew them ont a home, and right valiantly they
are putting their shoulders to the wheel
STRAW GOODS)
RIBBONS, SASHES, FLOWERS,
FANCY GOODS* Etc*,
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TO IX FODMD AT
MRS. HENDRIX 6c CO.’S,
No. 14 Goiwnc Avenue.
Ladles who with to participate in the
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May-Day- Festival,
Should tee, at wnee, their usortment of
STRAW HATS,
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Suitable for the occasion. They are pretty and very
cheap. Call and judge for yourselves. apr20-tf
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