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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 22.
Not Literary.—The removal of Ogle
thorpe College to Atlanta, hang* fire, be
came the Gate City people prefer opera
house*, beer garden*, etc, to science and
the bails of learning.—Cuthbert Appeal.
Hold up. brother Jones. Go it mildly.
The money is raised to bring the College
here. You are wasting ammunition.
Tit© Indian Massacre.
The Northern papers are scoring Sheri
dan heavily for the Regan massacre. The
details of the affair show the brutal des
truction of ninety women and fifty chil
dren. The history of aaTagc warfare
shows no more striking example of inhu'
man barbarity.
tlT Whittemope has gone back to Caro
lina to stump his district for re-election to
Congress. lie has met cold comfort- At
Sumter !>« was denied the privilege of
speaking iu the Court Ilousc, one fellow de
claring that - If he is not fit to speak in the
halls of Congress he is not fit to speak in
the Court House.”
He made a short speech to a small crowd
In the open air. and created little enthu
siasm.
What Is tlic Matter?
The Washington correspondent of Brick
Pomeroy's paper, tells the following about
a Senator. What is the matter ?
‘•It has been said that Senator Saulsbury.
of Delaware, lias not occupied his seat
since the negro was admmitted. Such is
extensihly the fact, as Mr.S. Invariably oc
cupies a sofa except when addressing the
Senate. lie is not the least disturbed by
the presence of the black man—In fact,
wanted him to sit with the Democrat!.”
A Matter of Taste.
Senator Morton thinks that the Senate
lit* gained by getting Revels, tho negro.
In the place of Jefferson Davis, the white
statesman and patriot.
Well, it is simply a matter of taste. Tho
buzzard prizes carrion above the sweetest
tll-blt that a healthy and human appetite
could crave. W’e have no quarrel with
him. He can’t help it, nor can the buz
zard.
Georgia.
The iollowlng Is a special from Washing
ton to the Courier-Journal:
“There is no prospect of a vote on the
Georgia tdli in the Senate this week. In
the meantime the conservative Republicans
•re making some headway in correcting
the misrepresentations made against them
by outside parties. It was shown to-day
that the telegrams sent from Georgia pre
tending to give the views of the Conserva
tive press of that State has been garbled
and distorted so as to reverso their com
ments on tho pending bill. The State
Treasurer of Georgia lias returned here, and
corrects many misstatements that have
been matin to Inllucncc the Senate.”
Mr. Conant’s Better.
Wo call special attention this morning,
to the letter of Mr. J. Edwin Conant, the
leading contractor of the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad, and the associate of Judge
Avery; Mr. Conant is a Democrat.
It will ho remembered that we explained
the cause of the railroad tronble to be the
conspiracy of one Mr. F, A. Babcock, who
bad lost his position as Superintendent,
and who had Epurred the malcontent labor
ers to yelling “Radical” at the road ad
ministration. These laborers were violent
and gave cause of alarm to Judge Avery,
Mr. Conant and the others with them.
The affair really had no politics in It,
and Judge Avery’s dispatch did the people
injustice.
In response to our editorial, Mr. Conant
wrote ns the letter alluded to. Ho says
that Judge Avery’s dispatch was garbled,
that it was not intended to the State gener
ally, nor to interfere with Georgia politics,
but was eont.merely to protect him from
violence by the laborers of the road.
Mr. Conant regrets that the thing oc
curred at the time it did, as be sees that
politicians are using it to our disadvantage.
He pays the following tribute to the State:
“ The great State of Georgia presents a
splendid field for enterprises of every de
scription—the people, as a general thing,
are warm-hearted, hospitable and gener
ous.”
Mr. Conantfurther states that Judge Av
ery Is absent from the city, or “ I would
have him join me in this statement.”
This letter certainly explains tho whole
matter to the exoneration of the people of
Georgia.
We have other testimony iiom other
sources, corroborating this. We have a
communication from a gentleman of
Brunswick, who was present during the
whole trouble, which we will give in our
evening edition. It was crowded ont this
morning.
Those men who have thus perilled the
interests of the State at this critical junc
ture, for their personal purposes, deserve
severely at our hands. While Governor
Bullock, in garbling the dispatch, shows
his unscrupulons readiness to use any
means to succeed in hU schemes.
on the eligibility of certain white mem
bers of that body. The point was raieed
that no member whose eligibility was
questioned by the committee, and which
question was involved in the report, was
entitled to vote thereon.”
Speaker decided that they i cere not
entitled to vote,-’ and on an appeal from his
decision he was sustained by the House.
(See Jour. H. E. pp 40,41.)
This Is the ruling which, as I have re
peatedly affirmed, fed to the expulsion of
the colored members, and the Governor has
tried to make the impression that the state-
m ent wa3 inconsistent with my own vote,
which was In favor of sustaining the ruling
of the Speaker. It is proper, therefore, to
explain why I voted as I did. When that
question was nnder deliberation by Repub
licans, sometime before the vote was taken,
Governor Bullock was the first to suggest,
and the most earnest in urging that none
whose eligibility was questioned should
be allowed to vote; and he wanted the eli
gibility of every one questioned who had
ever held office and afterwards participa
ted in the rebellion, whether the participa
tion therein was voluntarily or in volunta
rily.
On tills last point he knows that I disa
greed with him. On the other, however
—the above named decision—I had my
doubts, not knowing the parliamentary
practice in such cases. It being a question
entirely new to me. I therefore gave the
benefit of the donbt to my own party.
On the 26th of August, the eligibility of
the colored members was questioned, the
same point of order was raised, decided in
the same way and sustained, as before, by
the House on an appeal from the decision.
I voted as I did before.
Bat the Speaker, who first made the de-
THE RECOIL.
Is it any wonder that some of the mo3t
ardent supporters of reconstruction should
recoil from the excesses into which the
Governor, using the party lash and subsi
dizing the negrophollsm of the times, has
driven the Repnblican'party, in order to
promote his personal schemes? Because
they oppose him in his mad and ruinons
career, he turns upon them all the vindic
tiveness and fierceness of bis wrath And de
nounces them as enemies of the reconstruc
tion policy and represents them as sup
porters of Democratic doctrines and meas
ures. Yet they have shown themselves the
truest friends of reconstruction, have never
attacked or voted against their party, but
have steadily opposed every reactionary
tendency except that which the Governor
bimseif inaugurated. Desiring the estab
lishment of a permanent civil government,
they labored for reconstruction as the only
means of attaining it; and when they saw
the Governor endeavoring to rip up its
foundations they opposed him, and because
they did he hates them more than any other
class of men.
MR. CONANT’S LETTER.
REPLY TO GOV. BULLOCK,
By J. II. Caldwell.
The “ speech ” of Governor Bullock be
fore theJudiclary Committee of the United
States Senate on the 2d instant, seems to
have been devoted almost entirely to a re
view of my brief statement before the
Committee in reply to Judge Gibson, on
the 12th February. “ The truth of histo
ry ” demands that some of the statements
of His Excellency should be corrected.
His speech was published, after being read
to the Committee, in the Washington
Morning Chronicle and two Atlanta pa
pers— the Era and Intelligencer. His own
official position the extraordinary nature
of his mission to Washington ard the high
character of the Committee before whom
he appeared, is my excuse for correcting
the errors which he thus caused to be ex
tensively circulated.
HE REPUDIATES HIS COUNSEL.
The Governor spurns the idea that Judge
Gibson represented him before the Com
mittee. On the 9th of February, His Ex
cellency was present, and listened atten
tively to the charges brought against him
by Col. Bryant and myself. He was offered
the privilege of replying at once.. He de
clined doing so, but promised to reply,
cither in person or by a printed address, at
the next meeting of the Committee. The
following Saturday, the day appointed,
came, but His Excellency did not appear
in person. A pamphlet, containing a very
imperfect account of the speeches of Col.
Bryant and myself, which the Governor
caused to be reported for his own purposes,
and a statement purporting to be a reply
thereto, was laid on the table.
This did not seem to meet with the ex
pectations of the Committee, and the Chalr-
A Radical View. j man wished to know if there was any per-
I son present to represent Governor Bullock.
Tho Loulsvillo Commercial (Radical) j [„ response to this inquiry Judge Gibson
thu* emphatically states about its endorse- j stood up, and read a printed document,
-««*•««>“ Amendment: jJSJ*iffiSJSl.'S'BSSUSS
“If some of our more radical readers because lie thus responded to the inquiry
should object to our views on the Virginia
ami Georgia bills, and on the proposed
Congressional interference In Tennessee as
being too timid or conservative, we wish
to assure them that nearly every Republican
daily among our exchanges, no matter liow
much they may differ on questions of free
trade and protection,expansion orcontrac-
oi the Chairman that I called him “ Gover
nor Bullock’s counsel.” But the Governor
repudiates him in that capacity, and the
learned Judge, it seems, entered the arena
uiisought end unseat. He may eettlo that
matter between himself and his patrons.
WAS TIIK FIRST LEGISLATURE REPUBLICAN?
This is in itself a very small question; it
is not worth disputing about. 1 bad stated
the affirmative at the first Interview with
lion, Cuba or the Fenians, arc in full accord j the Committee, and the use 1 made of it, as
matter c-f bringing reconstruction to an
end. and or keeping it there.”
Forney Enraptured.
tion to matters involved in the controver-
| sy. At the next meeting, while I was re-
1 affirming with additional evidence. Senator
' Carpenter, forgetting the use made of the
i fac t at the former interview, was about to
i object—perhaps did object. But tbe Chair-
: man saw at a glance the importance of that
Col. Forney, of tho Washington Chroni-. , tttement> an(1 , n8litcd on - roy proceeding,
cle, keeps pegging away in Bullock s inter-. The fact that t hc Legislature was Repnbli-
est. He. however, has received the last i can at the time that both houses voted that
dram of intoxicating rapture from Revels' i all their members were eligible, I had stat-
speech. lie grows melo-dramatic over it. / iC( j f lten charged, to a disloyal temper on
For a week or so, he has not only been; the part of a majority of eitherHouse.” This
running “ roy two papers, both daily,” but j striking fact had a damaging effect upon
he has about filled up the Radical organ.'the whole scheme of the Governor, and
And we shall probably continue to h«vc! ^^endeavored to break Its force b,
Forney inflicted on us in extensive doses j Hot be did not deny tbe iact so far as the
In the columns of the organ nntil the Ucor-! Senate was concerned, which bad a Rcpub-
settled i lican majority of at least twelve when they
gla question is aettlcu. vote d tho five members who have been ex-
Forney thinks that tiie school boys will. c]Kded trom that body eligible. The Tact,
In after ages, spout Revels’ rhetoric for . then, with its irresistable teaching, stands
their exhibition-). lie Indulgesjn a long; in all its force. For more than a year, it
, ,i ...... ntn fflVhma 1 has been the constant aim of the Governor
prophecy that thc scene will BCBomo »“ s - > some others to make Congress believe
torie. i that tho Legislature of 1S6S was from the
Thc crowning compliment, however, is j start overborne by a dominant rebel in-
Ihc following, which shows that Forney fluence; that It was composed of “ usurp-
“.w«!«3.'ssys saga? sysffs
comprehend the sublime mysteries anti t j iem were “perjured” enemies of the Uni-
gorgeous iniquities of reconstruction: ted States Government,and that they were
But the speech of Senator Revels was j in active sympathy with “Ku-Klux Klan,”
the touchstone of youth Itself ns applied ! countenancing ail manner of lawlessness
to the whole philosophy of reconstruction, and outrage.
aa<l it will not fail to carry with it Its de
served success.
A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.
His Excellency has discovered a remark-
. able piece of inconsistency in me. and
thinks that “ the truth of history ” de-
I mauds its exposure. He lias discovered
si.mw Mill still works It kcen« that 1 was absent when the vote was taken
The Slander Mill still worus. “ I to exclude the colored members, and that
J-ornev s Chronicle well snpplied. Ainon„ ; somc days after that, I recorded my tote
Tlio Slander Mill.
clsion when it operated only on white mem
bers, was not in the chair to re-afflrm it
when it could operate only on colored mem
bers, but gave place to tbe Speaker, pro
tem n Mr. i'rice. The Governor’s statement
throws the responsibility entirely on the
latter, and by Implication inroires his fa
vorite Speaker in the attitude of favoring
a rule when it operates against a white
member, and abandoning it when it ope
rates against a colored member. This is
easing him off with a vengeance I
But it was Mr. McWhorter’s ruling, nev.
ertheless, that decided thc fete of the col
ored members, aDd Governor Bollock, in
effect, admits it, when he quotes the ruling
of Mr. Price, and says it practically ex
pelled themegroes.” So it did, but it was
McWhorter’s ruling that Price based his
upon, as the precedent, and so, I think, be
stated at tbe time.
GOVEBXOB BULLOCK RESPONSIBLE POR THE
RULING.
The Governor says that the decision,
when made by “ Mr. Price, a Democrat,
practically expelled) the negroes.” (See his
speech.) I have 9bown that Mr. Price’s de
cision was based on Mr. McWhorter's, as
tbe precedent, and that some time before it
was made, Governor Bullock himself sug
gested and urged it. In fact, I heard him
urge it very emphatically. I could tell him
the time, place and circumstances when he
did so. I wonder if he would like to see a
full narration of the particulars in print?
I believe, then, that he is responsible for
the ruling. I believe more—that he saw
the possibility of its being used at some fu
ture time against the colored members. I
think this had been strongly intimated by
a Democratic member.
At a certain time the leading Republi
cans were in council, deliberating as to the
method by which we might consistently
get out of thc difficulty in which tbe Speak
er’s decision had involved the party on the
negro question. Only one method seemed
to promise relief. Tbe question of eligi
bility to seats in the Honse had been dis
posed of by the adoption of a resolution
offered by Mr. Harper, of Terrell, in the
B reamble to which it was declared that thc
buse had “ found all persons occupying
seats eligible thereto.” It was justly held
by the Republicans that the “all persons
occupying seat9” included the colored
members, and that there was no way to get
ont of it hut to quibble ont. The Speaker
could decide that their eligibility had been
settled by a vote of tbe House, and that it
could not come up again according to the
Constitution (art. IIL sec. IV, par. VI)
without a vote of two-thirds.
It was agreed in caucus that this point of
order should be raised, and it was raised.
(See Jour. H. R. p. 222.) Here was an op
portunity for the Speaker to have saved the
colored members from expulsion. Here
was a fit occasion, alegitimatc question and
a constitutional provision. He could now
rule consistently, without showing partial
ity to one race or thc other; but wbat does
he do?
“ 1 he Speaker decided the point not well
taken!! !”
That was the fatal blow that struck the
negro down, and Governor Bullock knows
it. Now, I ask him if it was not, like the
first ruling of the Speake-, at his own sug
gestion? Was not the blow directed by
bis own hand ? Were there not certain re
sults which be desired to reach by appeal
ing to Congress, and did he not aim this se
cret, invisible blow at the negro in order
to be provided with suitable arguments?
Was there not in the hidden councils of
the Executive chamber a secret influence,
a concoction of far reaching plans, that
took in this schemo of expelling the negro
—of stripping him of all support and leav
ing him to his fate—a3 the trump card in
the political game which he then began to
piny ? Reader, turn to the Journals of the
two Houses, and see how few of the friends
of bis Excellency stood up to the negro in
that crisis? See now, how he even abuses,
misrepresents and calumniates the very
men who bore tbe shock of the battle in de-
fcndingtbenegro. Whatdoes itallmean?
Think of that invisible subtle mechan
ism by which he ba3 moulded the great
mass of the party, and so fashioned it as to
make it a fit instrument to work out the
decrees of his own will in spite of all op
position. nc never'could have done this
bad he not appealed to Congress, and
brought the bayonet to his support, and he
made the expulsion of the negro the osten
sible ground of his appeal to Congress. It
may not bo shown by the same methods
and processes by which facts are estab
lished before courts and juries, but I think
it can be shown by sucb facts and circum
stances as will produce a moral conviction
that he secretly plotted to hare the negroes
expelled in order to secure other ends by
this means. After he has used the negro
till his purpose is accomplished, he will
then leave him as bis friends left him to
his fate, and thus demonstrated that he
is a sham negropholist, and I ask the colored
people to mark the prediction.
POLITICAL CONSISTENCY.
His Excellency isfond or arraigning the
consistency of other people. It may be
well to glance at his own. He has con
fessed that his own complicity with the re
bellion precluded him from taking the test
oath; yet he asked Congress to pass a law
requiring that oath to be taken by mem
bers of the Legislature, who had been more
loyal than himself. As an agent of thc ex
press company, it is probable he rendered
more efficient aid to the Confederate Gov
ernment than ten quartermasters or the
commander of a brigade; yet he wanted
road commissioners excluded from the
Legislature, as it working tho road was an
He Says the Brunswick and Albany
Railroad Emente was a Local
Trouble and mighthave Occurred
in any State.
He Regrets that the Politicians are
Using It, and Says It was not to
Interfere in Georgia Politics.
Judge Avery’s Dispatch was Gar
bled.
other thing*, we notice that it telegraphsj against itl Strange discovery! a piece of! act of rebellion against the Government.
garbled extracts from the Democratic pa- history that had been printed on the jour-
* _ downfall of Radi-! nal of the Bouse for more than a year,
pers. that crow oyer the oowniaii oi warn j Ap(! , nus . not the members 0 f the Senate
ealism. committee have seen in it a marvelous
Now. if our contemporaries will just proof of inconsistency ?
drop prophrey.and confine their comments Was this the argument that was so lauded
. ' L . „„ f in special telegrams and eulogistic corres-
<o present aff.iir*. they will furniJi C"’ „ on jenee from Washington? WastbUtbe
material for the slanderers to distort. resistless logic that completely captivated
It will be observed that thc Radical or-; the Committee, and even made a conquest
-fan. since Its inception lias had a column of.the astute Chairman? But why did not
a “, ... V. ... r-! the Governor pnsh bis researches into his-
whicb it calls tho Spirit of the Georgia t { a jj tt j e farther, and see, on page 340 of
rress,” in which it daily culls extracts from ^ journal, the cause of my absence—
the Democratic papers for use Id Washing- j sickness in my familyt There were some
ton. It keeps up a ruuuingflrcofcom-
ment upon them,tho object of which seems j jg^ itnade the only speech against the
to be to give a political meaning to the' expulsion of tho colored members that was
nassaces that wii answer the purpose of made by any white member of the Douse,
pnUrw'L In AVashinsTton except the one made by Col. Bryant. He
Bullock in « asmngwn. ! k J;. t w L immediately after making
Anything that squints at intolerance, | speech* a*ked and obtained leave of ab-
jo/ over tbe Bingham amendment, or any- senco to go to the bedside of my child, con-
thinC cl*e that can be perverted to parti-j fined for weeks with typhoid fever. He
collated into shape for ready use. 1 Strickland, and afterwards Mr. Strickland
To give an I usance of bow matters are j and I both recorded oar votes-ho for and
tssrsssi srs sszj [£= ^assr-vs. sw
negroes bad been badly treti^d by tbeir. \vnat did His Excellency mean by garb-
Badlcal friend*, in all tbe. Senatorial places j ling history to make a point before a com-
In the Convention be voted to disfran
chise white men. for a time (see.Jourual of
Convention pp. 299,300.) and now profess
es to favor universal amnesty. He favor
ed and urged the ruling which “ practical
ly expelled the colored members,” and se
cretly aided in their expulsion; yet he ap
pealed to Congress, on pretense of restor-
a bill to invest himself
being monopolized by the whitw. 'j J enane»b^lb« “Httlo unpleasantness”
The organ aext morning coolly stated, occurred between him and certain
that TBe Atlanta Constitution favored 0 f that committee about the 9th
a negro for Senator, and If we remember J ult., on a question of fact? His printed
mittee composed of grave Senators? Dora
!*a Tprrw*niht*r fliA ‘Oitflft UnnloasantDCBo
rightly, that wc favored Bradley. j nM Ste bts-
<* for correction, that is out of the ques- j •
pamphlet shows the facility with which
Uou. The Slander M ill has an heroic rule—
it never corrects,
SrEAEEX St’WHOUTER*8 RULING.
The Governor, as is usually thecase wheti
he wishes to make an erroneous Impres-
Tho weather has been very windy and Blon. has omitted some important fkotscon-
■oold for the last few days. It is thought; nccted with Speaker McWhorter’s ruling,
that almost the entire peach crop has been 1 On thellih Jdy,lS6S, a vote was about to
ing them, to pass
with supremo power in the State. (Remem
ber the Sumner and Butler Bills.) He re
commended some who had been violently
opposed to reconstruction for relief from
disabilities, because he knew he could make
them his tools; yet refused to recommend
some of tbe warm friends of reconstruction,
because be was afraid he could not use them
as he pleased. Heopenly opposed tbe 15th
Amendment in March 1S6S. and then used
his influence secretly to defeat it; openly
proclaiming tbe right of the Legislature to
adopt it, and secretly denying that right.
Ho denies positively in his snrech that be
seeks an extension of his official term; and
yet has worked incessantly to defeat the
“ Bingham Amendment ” which denies him
that right.
He denonneed the Democratic members
of the Legislature for voting themselves
elegible, as “rebels,” “usurpers,” and
“perjurer!,” while be claims as good Re
publicans, some wbo not only voted that
“all persons holding seats were elegible,”
but afterwards helped to expel the negroes.
Onoofhis “ friends ” eay* be voted to ex
pel them in order that Congress might In
terfere, and the Governor excuses him be
cause the “pressure” was upon him; vet
Mr. Lawrence, his advocate in tbe House,
calls it a “crime against God and human
ity." His whole career is a standing ad
vertisement to all men not to look for con
sistency in thc Executive of Georgia. His
©deration to that high office has so inflated
him, that as hi; great course! In Congress
can proclaim himself independent of the
newspapers, ht can proclaim himself inde
pendent of consistency, and show to the
Atlanta, Ga„ March 18,1870.
Editor Constitution—Dear Sib: My at
tention has been called to the article in
yonr issue of this morning in reference to
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad mat
ter, and I must say it is tbe fairest state'
ment of the case that has been made by
any paper.
A great hue and cry is made against
Judge Avery, on account of bis dispatch to
some Senators in Washington, which arises
from a misunderstanding of the facts. If
the whole of Jndge Avery’s dispatch liad
been published, it would have been seen
that it applied solely to Brunswick, and as
far as that section was concerned, it was
virtually tree, as the cry of a “ damned Re
publican” was raised agaiDSt him there, and
itdiddeprive him of any sympathy and pro
tection from tbe authorities. It was not
Intended to apply to the State generally,
nor to interfere with Georgia politics. I
had telegraphed to Gov. Bullock for pro
tection for Col. Halbert and our employees,
and Judge Avery merely telegraphed his
Senators to use their influence with tbe
Governor for our protection. Had this oc
curred at any other time except when tbe
Georgia bill was pending before Congress,
nothing would have been said about it;
bnt nnder the present excited state of po
litical affairs here, everything is turned for
or agaiDSt tho question at issue—iu which
neither Judge Avery nor myself-are per
sonally interested. We only want fo be
protected in onr right to manage our busi
ness here in our own way, without inter
ference of mobs or citizens.
The papers are teeming with gross mis
statements of the facts concerning the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad, and are
doing more by such a course to discourage
Northern enterprise in this State than any
troubles caused by strikes or local prejudi
ces can do. Judge Avery, myself and as
sociates are building another railroad Id
the Northern part of this State, and if wo
receive proper encouragement from the
citizens and press of Georgia, we shall have
more railroads nod other enterprises under
way this year in this State, more laborers
employed, more money spent, and the State
moro benefitted by our operations than by
any and all of the other new public works
combined.
It seems, therefore, iu had taste, to say
tbe least, for the press of Georgia to raise
a hue and cry against a quiet, peaceful
gentleman, who never maligns nor harms
anyone—upon a garbled dispatch, sent
merely to protect himself from violence by
the laborers of onr road.
I regret that this affair occurred at the
time it did, as 1 see that politicians arc
using it to onr disadvantage. Thc trouble
was merely local, and thc authorities at
Brunswick should have quelled it without
compelling me to call upon the Governor.
The great State of Georgia presents a
splendid field for enterprises ol every de
scription—tbe people as a general thing,
are warm-hearted, hospitable and gener
ous. The disturbance at Brunswick was
nothing moro than than wbat might have
occurred in any other State. The civil au
thorities of Brunswick could and should
have quelled it, and thus saved thc scandal
of having troops sent to do their simple,
plain police duty.
Judge Avery is absent from the city, or
I would have him join me in this state
ment. The people of Georgia should un
derstand that I am no politician, but sim
ply a railroad builder and manager. My
interests are far greater in the West than at
tbe South.
The people here seem to bo under the
impression that the State’s guaranty to
the railroad bonds takes so. much money
from tbe State treasury and makes the
taxes heavier, and this erroneous idea is
fostered and encouraged bv some journals
who ought to be ashamed to deceive the
people so. They boldly affirm what they
know not to be true—that the roads aye
built by tke’gold out of the State treasury.
The guaranty only helps sell the bonds, so
that the roads may be built quickly. The
road mast bo a very poor one indeed, that
will not pay the interest on tho bonds, and
the principal at maturity, so that the
State takes really no risk, and is not im
poverished one penny; on the contrary, it
encourages the commerce and business of
the State, enhances the value of property,
and increases the State’s income by rapid
strides. 1 hi3 will appear from tho State
Engineer’s report, shortly to be published.
In the West we seldom put less than $20,-
000 per mile bonded debt upon a road, and
make them 7 per cent, gold bonds, tho cit
izens or counties along the line come for
ward and subscribe to the stock of the road
to the extent of from $6,000 to 510,000 |>er
mile, and the road i3 rapidly built. The
bonds of such a road Eell for about 95 cur
rency. The guaranteed bonds of the road
here are for only 5X2500 or $15,000 per
mile, bring not over 90 or 92, and these are
the only securities that can be sold until
the road is finished and paying dividends.
It is easy, therefore, to see that capitalists
have to lay out of more, money in con
structing roads here than in the West, and
instead of receiving opposition they should
beeneouraged by every true friend of Geor
gia. The Brunswick and Albany Railroad
has encountered more difficulties than any
road in the State, and yet. when it is com
pleted, no other road will benefit thc State
more.
Injunctions have been obtained against it
by rival and jealous interests, its credit as
sailed in Wail street and Europe, and it is
a wonder that it has succeeded at all and
secured the fifty miles in the lime fixed by
law.
Wc ask, therefore, the friends of Georgia
to cease the publication of slanders re
specting this great enterprise and those
connected with it. Tbe road is being
rapidly built. We bad spent over $000,000
upon it before we got any bonds, and to
day we have more road built than we have
received bonds for, as is shown by the State
Engineer’s certificate on file. These bonds
hare to be sold. They come in competition
witb tbe Alabama 8 per ct. gold guaranteed
bonds, issued for railroad purposes, and it
is no easy matter, with all the other securi
ties offering, to placo them. The State
guaranty of principal and interest helps
tbe sale but very little. I would much
prefer to sell an issue of 520,000 per mile
7 per cent, gold bonds, based upon the in
trinsic merits of the enterprise, as we do in
the Wcat. Very truly, yours,
J. Edwin Conant,
HIGH AND LOW.
BT OLIVER ■VTAKDZLL HOLM£3.
Ob l sho was a maid of laughing cvc«
-And she lived in a garret cold ana high:
And he was a threadbare, whiskerd beau,
And be lived in a cellar damp and low.
But the rosy boy of the cherub wing
Has many a shaft in his slender string.
And the youth below and the maid above
Were touched with the flashing darts of love.
And she would wake from her troubled sleep.
O’er his tender billet-doux to ween:
his tender billet-doux to weep:
Or stand like a statute bright and fair,
Ight red bair.
And gaze on a lock of bis £
And be who was so tall and proud,
With hisistep so firm andhts laugh so loud,'
HIs beard grew long and hU face grew thin,
And he pined In solitude over his gin.
But one soft night in tbe month or Jane.
As sbe Uy tn thc light or n cloudless moon,
A to ice came floating toft and clear
To the maiden’s listening ear.
Oh l then ftom her creaking couch she sprung.
And her tangled tTesses back she flung. °
She looked from the window far below.
And he stood beneath, her whiskered bean,
She did not start sl'kafoolish frown,
Bnt pecked her trunk nnd scampered down.
And there wss her lover tall *n5true.
In his threadbare coat of the brightest bine.
The star that rose in the eTcningsb&do
“ oi
Respectfully Dedicated to the Author of the Second
Edition of
U SOMETMING NEW.”
BT OBACE PLOUGH CHUTES.
Tor The Constitution j
Tes. “what is new to this wise race ?’•
It’s well to ask that now;
I’ll tell yon what would bo, Sir Fred.
A novelty, I trow;
If all mankind so dignified,
_ So proud, because so human.
Would pause, and try to find the faulu
OI tdfss well as woman.
Why Editors, Contributors,
Reporters too, you see.
Could never crowd it all in print
In a whole century.
Tou’reright. I think Idid conclude
Once, in my “weaker” brain.
That Adam rocked the baby, sure
That’s why they called him Chin.
And yet they s ay poor Eve’s to blame
For all that fearful fall;
Why could hope for sinlessnrss
When man was there at all 1
1 know I asked for "awful” woes.
When pleading "something new.”
Bat pray, don't lor ono moment think
I ever wanted you.
Yon with n name that’s only "Tred.”
And any be with a wife
Wbo wants to rid herself ol you
And live n peaceful life.
Long time sgo blest charity
Began at borne, you see,
So don’t bo hasty to libel
My magnanimity
For everything that’s in my iiower.
J’m sure I’d gladly do
George Wilkes Caned.—An extraordi
nary scene took place in Broadway this after
noon,when George Wilkes, editor of the Spir-
it of thc Times, was publicly caned by Mr.
Warren Leland, proprietor of the Claren
don Hotel at Saratoga. Mr. Leland has
been stopping for some weeks past with his
brother, who is proprietor of the Metro
politan, in Broadway. Tho Spirit of the
times, it appears, contained a filthy and
scandalous allusion to Mr. Lcland’s char
acter, for which an apology was demand
ed, but refused, several days since. This
afternoon Leland was on tho lookout for
tho libeller. He saw Wilkes coming,
and, walking up to him, said, “ Why did
you call mo a d—d coward in yonr paper.”
Wilkes sheared off and said, “Don’t
you touch me, sir,” at tho samo time mak
ing a movement with his hands as if feel
ing for a pistol.
Leland, without further parley, struck
him a tremendous blow on tho head and
shoulders, breaking tho cano to pieces. A
;rcat crowd now gathered around the com
batants, tho weather being fine, and Broad
way full of promcnaders. Wilkes tried to
make his way out of the crowd, and as he
did so, Leland gavo him somo parting blows
on the back, exclaiming to tho crowd,
“ there goes the fighting editor of the Wilkes’
Spirit oijtho Times.”
Strength of the Masonic Order.
Tho strength of tho Masonic Order in the
United States and British Provinces, as set
forth in tlio following statement; are said to
he correct as can bo obtained from the
most authentic sources : Alabama, 10,428;
Arkansas, 7,676; British Columbia, 148 ;
California, 8,106; Canada, 2,022; Colorado,
582 ; Connecticut, 12,784; Delaware, 722;
District of Columbia, 783; Florida, 1,783;
Georgia, 13,167 ; Idaho, 225; Illinois, 30,-
229; Indiana, 21,205; Iowa, 11,462; Kan
sas, 2,645; Kentucky, 18,929 ; Louisiana,
6,099; Maine, 14,130; Maryland, 4,791;
Massachusetts, 28.3GG; Michigan, f 18,010 ;
Minnesota, 5,000; Mississippi, 12,308; Mis
souri, 14,872; Montana, 255 ; Nobraska,
986; Nevada, 921; New Brunswick, 1,-
312; New Hampshire, 6,032; Now Jersey,
7,730; Now York, 74,079 ; North Carolina,
11,184; Nova Scotia, 880; Ohio, 20,225;
Oregon, 2,203; Pennsylvania, 29,840;
Rhode Island, 4,253; South Carolina, (esti
mated), 14,000; Tennessee, 16,969 ; Texas,
10,516 ; Vermont 7,025; Virginia, 8,000;
Washington, 848; West Virginia, 1,590;
Wisconsin, 7,713. Total, 468,455.
The Ku-Klux Klan—What it Was, why
Organized, and why Disbanded.—A word
about Ku-Klux. Those who claim to rep
resent it are simply bandits. The genuine
Ku-Klux never existed outside of Tennes
see, and existed there only to a limited ex
tent and for a brief period. The Govern
ment had withdrawn its protection from the
pcoplo. Brownlow had organized a troop
of roving militia, composed chiefly of ne
groes, and officered by convicts whom he
had pardoned ont of the State prison for
the purpose. Women and children wero
being murdered every day and night in cold
blood. No home was secure. No life was
safe. Tho courts were closed against the
people. The few laws that were allowed
to remain on the statute-books were denied
them. The middle portion of tho State was
in complete anarchy, and self-protection
was the only'security within reach of citi
zens. Tho Ku-Klnx Klan was a pnrely
defensive organization. It numbered the
oldest, best and most peaceable men. Its
spirit wa3 judicial, its acts were orderly,
and its purpose was self-preservation.
Through its brief but benign influence or
der was restored, legal redress was granted,
the official robbers and assassins dispersed,
and society settled into its normal state.
Then the Ku-Klux Klan vanished as mys
teriously and noiselessly as it appeared, and
we pray God it may never again become
indispcnsablo to the peace of any neigh
borhood in any part of the Union.—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
THE BRUNSWICK AND AT—
BANYR. R. EMEUTE.
The Statement of an Eye Witness
—Itvras Nothing: but a Squabble
Between Railroad Men.
Editor Constitution: As the Brunswick
difficulty is being made a political hobby
to influence the votes of Senators, on the
Bingham amendment, it may be well to
give a correct-version of the affair by an
eye witness.
I arrived In Brunswick, where my fami
ly reside, tho same evening that W. S. Av
ery, J. Edwin Conant and party reached
there, and remained in Brunswick during
their stay in that place.
The recently appointed Superintendent,
Col. Halbert, had removed from office a Mr.
Babcock, the Superintendent of the con
tractor of tho Railroad, for want of effi
ciency in prosecuting bis work of laying
iron, It being of vital importance to the in
terest of the Railroad company that fifty
miles of their road should be completed by
the 18th of March.
Mr. Babcock having hired the men who
were at work laying iron, induced them to
strike and leave the work, thus hoping to
compel Colonel Hulbert or the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad Company to rein
state him in his office as Superintendent.
Colonel Hulbert is not a man to be caught
napping, therefore he procured a corps of
men which he held in reserve to meet any
contingency that might arise, therefore
when tbe strike of Mr. Babcock’s men oc
curred, Colonel Hulbert moved his reserve
corps of men on the work, and passed the
fifty mile poston tbe 15th instant, thus se
curing to the company the State aid
granted by the Legislature, which under
Mr. Babcock’s management must have cer
tainly failed.
In thc meantime, the strikers came to
Brunswick and were promptly paid off,
but, as usual with such men. were noisy
and boisterous, and threatened destruction
to property, and acted as such people al
ways do when excited by liquor and influ
enced by their discharged employer.
While this disturbance was going on,
Mr. Babcock worked upon the fears of
Messrs. Avery and Conant, in order to
compel them to reinstate him in office, and
by representing that they wero in great
personal danger and tbeir property liable
to momentary destruction, so effectually
frightened those gentlemen that they
dared not show tbeir faces on the street,
and finally left, as stated by Mr. Conant, in
the middle of the night by stealth.
It was a big scare to those two gentle
men no doubt, but nobody else In the
place was much alarmed except Mr. Avery
and Mr. Conant.
Judge Avery mast have penned his tele
gram trom Savannah while still laboring
under bis fears, but it must be admitted
that there was method in his excitement in
giving it a political turn to aid his friend.
Governor Bullock.
As to the Bingham amendment, there
was not one of all the crowd that over
heard of it, nor was there anything politi
cal in.the threatened riot, only a personal
squabble for a fat place on the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad.
Troops are now at Brunswick to prevent
any outbreak, but without them, 1 do not
think there was any real danger to persons
or property, in which opinion. I am sus
tained by Mr. Coleman, the Radical State
Senator, who lives iu Brunswick, and was
there during the threatened disturbance.
Respectfully,
V. Sfaulding.
Georgia News.
M.P. O’Conner, of Charleston, delivered
the St. Patrick’s Day lectnre in Angusta.
[Augusta Chronicle.
Gen. Wm. McRea lias taken the Superin'
tendency of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad.
The Columbus Female Academy bnild
ing burned. Col. Wui. S. Morton, an old
citizen of Columbus, died in New Orleans.
[Akoattiur.
The Farming interests backward on the
Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad. Fruit
in full bloom. Preparations for cotton
planting more extensive than ever before.
Fruit Chop.—People from all quarters
re P or t the peach and plum blossoms frozen
and dead, and the early crop, in conse-
quencc. already ent off about three-fourths.
[Col. Sun.
A divorce granted a colored couple. We
think most of the peaches are killed and
other fruits and vegetables injured. The
spring is very backward. The side wails of
tho Presbyterian church blown down.
[ Greensboro Herald.
Tribute to Judge Hutchins.
After tl.e organization of the court on
Monday last, J. A. Glenn announced the
death of the Hon. Nathan L. Hutchins,
and moved the appointment oi a commit
tee to report appropriate resolutions rela
tive to said deceased.
Tbe following members of the bar were
appointed as such committee: non. John
J. Floyd, Colonel James P. Simmons Colo
nel William W. Clark, Captain William L.
Marier, and Colonel J. N. Glenn, who, on
this day made the following report:
In paying the last sad tribute of respect
to a departed brother, your committee beg
leave to make the following report:
Whereas, Deatli again lias invaded our
professional ranks end removed from our
midst the Hon. Nathan I^wis Ilutcbins,
who has been a member of the Western
Circuit near a half century. He was one
of its highest lights and over esteemed an
able lawyer and profound jurist.
This popular verdict was sustained by
his success before the bench, vindicated by
bis bold advance to tho highest honors,
when giants contested the field, and con
firmed by the quiet dignity with which he
wore the ermine when statesmen were tho
critics and judges tho reviowers of ids
rulings.
Possessing an indomitable energy, never
swerving from his purpose, ho presents us
one of the clearest example*, that “man is
tho architect of his fortune,” and no child
of circumstances except by adoption ;wlien
lie started in life few smiles of fortune
lighted his path. Yet, witli nocapital but
bis talents he amassed a large fortune; few
teachers except nature and himself, be rose
to tbe bead or a most learned profession,
and sat among Rabbi and teacliersof men;
witb tbe instincts of genius lie turned to
wards success, and
“ Heinz np ami ever doing
With a heart for any fate.
Still nchlering, still pnrsnlng.
Learned t j labor and to wait.”
His perceptions were quick and pene
trating; his memory ready and tenacious;
hts mind was broad and comprehensive,
not only stored with the civil, but richly
endowed willi the physical and moral
laws.
He eschewed politics, though elected sev
eral times to the State Legislature, yet
young he then boro himself with great
credit.
He delighted in the profession, and stud
ied it not only as a source of income, but
for its ethics, Us science, and beauty. Be
ing possessed of such endowments, his long
practice, his ability a3 a Judge of his Cir
cuit, over which he presided for a great
while, justly won to himself tbe enviable
appellation: “ Tho Father of the Western
Bar.”
To the young practitioner, he was an or
acle, ever easily approached, and ready to
give connscl and encouragement.
He was a man of great urbanity of man
ner, social in bis nature, genial and com
municative, a fast iriend, affectionate hus
band, a fond and Indulgent father, humane
master, and a good citizen. Having lived
out his three score years and ten, he is now
gone, and the great Leveler has again
startled ns into consciousness of exposure,
and reminds us“ that there is no discharge
in that war;” no station exempts, no po
sition protects! That
“ Time is fleeting.
And onr hearts, though strong and brave.
Still like muffled drums ore beating
Funeral marches to tho grave.”
Few such are now left to fill his place;
therefore,
Resolved, That in the death of the Hon.
V. L. Hutchins, our profession has sustain
ed a great loss, which we sincerely deplore,
nd we hereby tender our heartfelt sympa-
The weather is again freezing, and the
prospects for a peach crop are almost en
tirely destroyed. Grim winter seems loth
to depart, and literally “lingers in the lap
of spring.”— Covington Examiner.
Twenty Cents for Cotton.—Tho Albany
News says that Major Bacon, of that place,
has confidence in cotton, lie is selling fer
tilizers to planters, to be paid for in cotton
at twenty cents per pound next fall.
Henry A. Wrench has withdrawn from
tbe Dalton citizen. Henry Whitman Is an
nounced as associate editor, and opens with
a sprightly inaugural. Tho measles has
bad a great run amongthe Infantry of Dal
ton. Earnest delivered h1s lectnre on
“Bine Lights” in Dalton.—Dalton Citizen.
Week after next is the regular timo for
farmers to commence planting cotton nnd
corn, and they are now expensively pur
chasing fertilizers for that purpose. It is
said that wheat is looking very flue, an ex
cellent and abundant crop is promised,
[Marietta Journal.
Gemes Monro on tbe Situation.
Editor Constitution: Which is it that’s
the best Govermint thc world ever seed ?
Georgy ought to have found out, by this
time, having run some fourteen or more,
since Dixie went up—1st. Territory; 2d.
Pervisionnl; 3d. No Govermint; (ji=t
sloshin’ ’round loose, like a stray dorg)
4th. Military; 5th. Civil and Military, mix
ed; Cth. In tho United States one-fourth;
7th. Plum out, etc., otc., down to the 14tb,
which started out tryin’ ter run a sorter
doule barril llxln’; that is, civil when it
suits, military when it don’t, and it suits
and it don’ts about every new moon. John
Downing be dreamed that his daddy wer’
dead, and bis deddy be dreamed that John
Downing wer’dead; perlitikal quill dri
vers air’nt yet koncludcd which ono de
mised. So, In the year of our degradation,
1870, Bullock he dreamed that Terry wer’
dead, and Tony be Jay awake and dreamed
that Bullock wer’ dead. Mr. Editor, is one
or both dead ? Pitty Kongress han’t take
one of ’em to its bosom, and let the other
have fall sweep over Georgy. These here
counter-checks and balances are a terrible
bothcrashlon to a mail of big cxpecta-
shions and accumulatin’disposition. Don’t
make any difference which rules, they ain’t
nothin’ fur us, nohow. Seems to me Georgy
has been playin’ “club fist” with Bullock
fur some time, and we have been “ takin'
off,” and been “ nocked off,”, plum down
to bis fist, and now we want our “ bread
and cheese,” and Bullock says tbe “ kats
have got it and gone in the woods, that tbe
latter had been burnt, and water squinebed
and drank and butchered and hung; that
is tu say, gone glimmerin’ worse’n a skool
boy’s tail, or main, either, and if ycr open
yer mouth, laff, cry, grin, a horribly
gastly grin, or any other sort, you'll be
“ boxed” with bayonitts and hung out In
sight, er Dayman, er any other felic.
These trying times havo developed a
heap or club feet and weak knees, and some
few te the mannor born have taken a trip
for their birth right, and gone with the
multitude that bow to A. ©> P.-Brnd)ey.
Bullock, Blodgit, and the State Road—that
is to say, pride went np with properlty.
and they sold ont to thc Devil for a dime,
and are now the loudest mouthed denun
ciators of Southern Rights. These arc ti:ey
who tinder the cant and hipperkriticul
whim of reconstruction, are stealing tbe
wool from governmental fabric and substi
tuting threads of discord—floundering in
the filthy slime of toadaiem, down iu thc
loathsome sewers draining a rotten mass
of radical corruption, led on by a few
crumbs that’s thrown from their master’s
tabic, just as you can lead a hog along,
with a few slops to thc slaughter pcu.
denying their native heath, they swear
worae’n Peter of old, (when he smote thc
high priest’s servant’s ear) that they never
saw a confed captain. They cry “let ns
have peace,” and let slip thc bloody
hounds—cry retrenchment while plunder
ing the sweat of the masses—sing pcans to
plenty, and multiply assessors—open
courts of justice, bah ! with habeas corpus
bleeding, and bound down at Butler’s be-,
hest—Hooper. I’ll be dad rnbbed if some
day these chickens don’t all go borne to
roost, and then, well I won’t say wbat—
hut there is a deadly weapon called
Boomerang—kinder k rooked slick—so
Urooked it won’t lay still. Thrown from
the hand of an expert, it bounces here and
there, and nocks down a feller full fifty
' ' * ’ rck
ST, PATRICE!8 BIRTH DAT.
WLy^IandCo^cdGeo’mike©.i^^-^^ mble and reso _
From 'Wilkes’ paper, tho New York I lutions be spread upon tbe minutes of this
5pWl .Mb. ^ w.|v s ^g. i |ss«j r ‘g;siss?”'»-
learn tho cause of that righteous cowhid- j
ing that he received, Wednesday, from !
Major Leland. It is contained in the fol-'
lowing extract from an editorial in the pa-;
per of that date :
Jdlled.—Newnan Herald.
be taken in the House of Representative! world that he was born to be an autocrat,
J©" Generals Loring, Mott, and Sibley
have arrived in Cairo, and reported to the
Khedive of Egypt for duty.
A New Jersey grocer, when com
plained to about selling bad oggs, says :
“ At this time of year hens are sick, and
often lay bad eggs.”
Mencngitls has come with its baneful in'
fluence amongst ns. Fonr cases have come
to our knowledge. Two of these died in
less than forty-eight hours after the firs);
symptoms oi the disease.—Hancock Jour
nal.
The Monroe Advertiser enters upon a new
year. A negro boy diedof menengltis, the
only case. Plowed lands badly washed.
Wheat promising. Frait prospect good.
The opening of the Barnesville andTbom-
aston Railroad is dlscnssed.—Forsyth Ad
vertiser.
same to the family
J. N. Glknn, Chairman.
John J. Floyd,
Jab. P. SnuiONS,
Wm. W. Clark,
WM. L.MAELER.
A true extract from the minutes of the
.... . . .. . ; superior Court of Gwinnett county, Ga.,
“ It is but too true that Major Wm. W. 7 1870 . w. L. Vaughan,
Leland would recollect anything that he; Clerk,
might he required to do," for a five dollar' ■* *o» —
note. He, Major Wm. W. Leland, is a no- : Hard to Satisfy.—Eugenie says that
torions swindler and scoundrel, whoso in- j , r hen sho first became Empress, she intend-
faxny is as_common as tho air. He would, to giro a fresh impulse to luxury and
not be believed, on oath, by any jury in, .--.mmerce by surrounding the Court by a
New York, and adding beastly cowardice • ..ryetige of elegance and amiability; at that
and bratishness to his dishonesty, is dis-. (: nlB B he was called frivolous. Sho was
countenanced even by his own brothers for ! hereupon desirous of becoming more sc-
his frequent cruel beatings and kickings of; nems, and to take an interest in the man-
a wifo who, in addition to being adorned : augment of pnblic affairs, in consequence
with every womanly virtue, has borne him 0 f -which she was called ambitions,
several children.” * ....
yards or more, and then bounces on bad
to tbe band of aforesaid expert—if he aint
an expert, however, he’s mighty apt to get
his own trampers nocked up. Seems to me
tho United States tbrowed a Boomerang
down South—it’s nocked tho “shackles off
of slavery” sky high, but broke tbe nig
gers back. Civil and State rights have
gone ter “kingdom come,” and now it’s
made a rickershay movement, and is
bouncin back home.
Its done bruised habeas corpuB konsidcr-
bly, punched the Supreme Kourt under the
filth rib, and curtailed the Executive robes
up to a high-water shirt in shortness; that
is to say, it is tapping Unkle Sam, < i.e., big
U. Sy 1 am,) jest back cr the naik, on tbe
upper end of the curebral kolium, and
kicking tho lower portion of same, and you
couldn’t spin a short decade from the bracb
of time afore that same Samuel will demise,
and then—oh, yes! and then when Georgy.
Mississippy, and tbe glorious old galaxy of
“ wayward sisters * are summoned on the
inquest; the verdict will bo “died ef a
morgUh appetite in knosumming other
folke’s things, together, by the inexpert use
of a boomerang, thusly kommitting a low
case of suicide.”
Then, Mr. Editor, speaking after tbe
manner of men, “Thou canst not say that
I did it.” Metaphorikully speaking, “ Oh.
who’s goln ter weep? ’! Don’t hand me
S our bandkercher. My lacramose fountain
i as dry as a lime basklt. Jest baud me
my faithful old goosc-quill, and I’ll add the
phinls—“*io jacit mortuas annas selah,”
etc.
Now, sir, if you, or any of your folks,
want national onors, just steal a few thou
sand, join the Rads, cry Ku-Klux and per-
sicushion, raise a riot er two, and then ran
for the Legislature—whether elected or not
go on and claim somebody’s seat—salute
the military and sup witli his Xcellency—
thusly, without many epondulics, you mr
ordered to take a seat—first chance, nomi
nate ycrself for Kongress; mark yer bag
gage fur Washington, care of Ben Beast,
and foller on; cry Ku-Klux, and kiss Ben’s
. Tho following humorous vertes, from the
pen of a popular Irish novelist, explain
how tho differences as to tho birth day of
Ireland’s patron saint were finally afl.
justed: 1
’twas on tho alghth of March, as soma paopia
Bet w|x’t midnight and moro. Patriot lntsawtha
IVhllc'some would contend on the ninth ha wm
And^hwai ell a mistako betwixt midnight and
Someth, for thc aighth, for the ninth tom*
And who wouldn’t see right got a shockingblaok
Atlcncth thecontintlon so nositlTO xrow '
That atch kept a birth day, and 3k Patrick had
t WO,
Til sins lhCr McCanIcJ » who shovred thim their
^W^’Xoman can havo two birth days ’cept ha
b ® r ° r alftht or for nino—
Doi j!*n{* always dividin’, but someilmss kirn-
FJ?'W “ Inc - skvxntxxn li tbe msrk,
eU?k “ blrth Amen,” ssys tea
®° a' 1 got blind drank, wbith completed their
A^cywe kcpt 1110 practice from thstday to
Georgia Nows.
Fort Gaines very prosperous. — Port
Games Mirror.
The Augusta arsenal Is to be used ag an
arsenal of construction.
. *H eno „ ^ tho go in Balnbridge.—Bain-
bridge Sun.
ArroiNTED.—Major C. T. Watson. A:-
sessor First District Georgia, has appointed
F. M. Gould, Assistant Assessor.
Wheat crop fino and a heavy crop ex
pected. Corn gone up to 5140 lrom
wagon.—Mountain Sigal.
A negro man named Isaac Kent was
crushed to death in this city on yesterday
by the falling of ail embankment.—Rome
Southerner.
Tho gardens have gone up, as also th$
c °rn nnd Irish potatoo crop. Everybody
will bo kept busy replanting for a week or
two.—Early County Neics.
New Fafer.—Mr. J. R. Christian, of the
Americus Courier, and J. P. Clisby will
commence the publication of a paper in
the town of Lumpkin, about the 1st of
April, to bo called the Lumpkin Telegraph.
The corps of engineers and Col. J. A.
Grant, surveying the Augusta and Hart
well Railroad, had a perilous time, and
nearly starred in the mountains.—Augusta
Chronicle.
Silver Change.—We hear that some of
onr bar-rooms are dispensing silver change
to customers. A man was seen with a
handful.yesterday. Stated ho had nearly
made himself “ tight ” In his ‘effort to ob
tain solid currency.—Colani&u* Enquirer.
Libcrton seems to be on rising ground,
so far as Improvements arc concerned. Sev
eral large buildings are now nearly com
pleted, and wo learn that more are to be
commenced In a short time.—Elbcrton Ga-
Officers of the Savannah and
Charleston It. R. Co.-Presidcnt—Mr.
Alexander Isaacs. Directors—Messrs. Al-
exander Isaacs, J. R. Boylston, James H.
Taylor, W. S. Hustle, James H. Campbell,
and David Jennings.—Augusta Constitu
tionalist.
B. T. Castcllaw, late editor of the West
Georgia Gazette dead. Mr. Shaw, near
Pleasant Hill, lost two children by menin
gitis. Mr. Owen lost one. Quito has been
changed to Huntville, alter Mr. T. J. Hunt.
Farmers are going to raise more corn and
less cotton.—Talbotton Standard.
The Railroad Difficulty.—We pub
lish elsewhere a statement from TheAt-
lanta Constitution, with reference to the
much talked of difllcnltlcs on tbe Bruns
wick and Albany Railroad. We have re
ceived a lengthy communication from a
citizen of Brunswick, detailing substan
tially tlio same state of facts,which, we feel
convinced, are correct. Tho whole strife
was the result of selfish spite. In our opin
ion. That It was made the basis of a polit
ical argument In Washington is thc fault
of the political jugglers who have congre
gated there to plot agalust tbe interests of
our people. -Drowning men seize at
straws.” I ho truth of the proverb has
been, in this instance, most forcibly Illus
trated by Butler, Bullock and Blodgett.
[Macon Journal.
Attorney General Hoar on South
ern Carpet-Hag Scctlonalitlcs.
There is another phase of the question
more serious; it is the dangerous fashion
the new Senators and Representatives from
the South have of holding sectional cau-
cusscs; meeting as southern men in a south
ern caucus to pass upon nominations. This
is the worst form of State sovereignty and
sectional rights, so-called, revived sifter the
downfall of sectional pretensions. I ad
vised tho President to nominate a supremo
judge from tho southern district, but ho
was unable to setllo upon a suitablo man.
You observe that he has to-day nominated
a gentleman from New Jersey.
Price of Copper.
Twenty-eight million pounds of Ameri
can copper arrived in the New York mar
ket during I860, and there is a prospect of
this supply being nearly doubled during
the present year. The impetus given by
tho tariff to American copper mining is
also demonstrated by the fact that the
present price of copper in London is only
£70 per ton. Consumers are thus benefit
ed in'any event, so that tho outcry against
high prices from tariff legislation is less
effective than ever before.—Chicago Repub
lican.
Dawes and Forney Make Up.
I observed the other night that Dawes
and Forney, who had fallen out over Dawes’
League Island speech, were obliged to shake
hands at ono of those receptions. Colonel
Forney had tho punch ladle nnd Dawes
wanted a drink. It was a question between
a dry throat and coming to tho scratch.
Like a wise man, Dawes advanced, and it
was all done directly. It is hard to speak to
a man pleasantly to-night when yesterday
there was an exchange of fish-hooks be
tween you. It is not so hard as itis awkward,
and the average man had rather he wrong
than awkward.
big toe; gin Ulyssus a small fice dorg, and
sleep with ReTels the first night; receive
and read a few throating letters from
Georgy. Don’t forett the spondulicks
aforesaid—a long pole gits thc persimons—
a long one, tho’ you have ter sell a few
Banks Corporashion, etc.; ono railroad
can’t always git a feller in—jest crowd the
Beast with spoons, and yoa’II git in; then
keep yer scat, kount yer vote, worth fifty
thousand, and never endorse a bill for less;
remember poor Whittemore undersold tbe
Congressional cadet markitt and got ruled
out of tho gold ring. When Butler brays,
say “ Selah.” If be sneezes, blow yer nose.
Should be appeal to Heaven, with upturned
eyes and hand on bosom, jest gently
recross your laigs, slowly draw ydur rag
A Denial ff.oji Mr. Fechter.—To the
Editors of the] Boston Daily Advertiser:
I read in somo “bit” of paper sent me
without a name from Boston, that they per
sist in calling Miss Lcclercq my wife. Will
you kindly and emphatically let them know
tBat my wife and children are impatiently
awaiting my return in Paris, where tho ed
ucation of both my girl and son require the
mother’s presence ?
This false statement might mar tho rep
utation of Miss Lcclercq, whose honor I
value as If sho wero indeed my sister in
blood, as she is in heart. Very truly yours,
Cn. Fecuter.
258 North Ninth st, Philadelphia, 9th
March, 1870.
I£3~ An old gentleman of eighty-four
having taken to tho altar a damsel of about
sixteen, the clergyman said to him, “ Tho
font is at tho other end of thc church.”
“ What do I want of the font ?” said tha
old gentleman.
“ Oh 1 I beg your pardon,” Eaid thc cler
ical wit, “ I thought you had brought the
child to be christened.”
Senator Candler’s Card.—Although
Mr. Candler’s card was brought forth osten
sibly, on account of Avery’s sensation dis
patch to Washington, yet really a close ob
server will discover that tbe great railroad
monopoly of which Col. Wadley is the
President and presiding genius, has been
operating upon tho fruitful imagination of
our friend Candler.—Griffin Star.
We are able to inform our contempoTary
that he is wrong. Mr. Candler’s card was
brought forth solely by Jndge Avery’s dis
patch.
S£3~ It is calculated byJCharics Francis
Adams, in an article in the Atlantic Month
ly, that if thogovcramentconiinucthe pol
icy of land and money subsidy, it will find
itself involved, by the year 1890, in the af
fairs of railroad corporations, two-thirds
j©* Lost-cuss Pollard is explaining who
killed the Confederacy, just as if everybody
didn't know it was for the want of such
able-bodied fellows as tho historian in the
ranks, who shirked out, preferring to write
rather than fight.
j®* Don Piatt sayB the conclusions of
the Committee on Birnks and Banking, in
regard to Grant’s connection with the gold
swindle of September last, remind ono of
the verdict of the Scotch Jury, “ guilty, but
not proven."
SrcVSK with a grinning, nasal $
snuffle: Embrace old Brownlow, and then i of $600,000,000.
count on a heavy bounty so long as Kon- j —— ‘ '
grew rales or tbe Devil hath dominion, O no hundred and forty women ins
GE1IE3 Monroe, of Georgy. ! remonstrance against woman suffrage to the
lt m \ Ohio Legislature, express their willingDets
.... „ , j to allow tho male members of society to
her of tho Charleston (S. C.) Council, re'
ccntly remarked:
“ The colored man is by nature a Demo
crat; his sympathies are with the white
laboring masses; and when the lapse of
timo shall have consigned to partial obliv
ion tho animosities engendered by the war,
the black race will bo found shoulder to
ehouldor in the Democratic ranks.”
Ntw Railroad.—Wc learn that the Stone
Mountain Granite Company eonterapIatebulldlBX
a road around the base of the mountain, with tho
design or casilr traciportlng granito from the
quarries, and allow excursion ptrtlct to make the
circuit. They havo recently erected seme Of the
duett derricks In the South.