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TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 21).
Characteristic. General Chilton
made a speech at the Memphis Conven
tion,in which he said “that he had fought
tour years and a half in the Confede
rate army, and at the end was ready to
tight forty years more, but that, having
accepted the situation in good faith , there
was no man more desirous and deter
■mined than himself to uphold the Govern
m ent" Northern newspapers, true to
their instincts, leave out entirely that
portion of the sentence which is in ital
:cs. _
11 M. Turner, the newly appointed
negro postmaster at Macon, arrived in
tint city Irom Washington, on Saturday
last, with ids commission. lie will take
possession of the office on Thursday
nexl July Ist. This appointment, made
against the protests of the entire respect
able white community of Macon, with
nut distinction ol parly, plainly shows
what Giant meant, when iie said in his
acceptance of the nomination — “ Let us
have peace.” We learn from the Mes
senger, that Turner brought on with
him a Boston mulatto, as principal
clerk. _ a
On! Ladies, With. You Marry?—j
If yea, then here is your chance—a j
young gentleman desirous of making |
an eligible match. lie is young and
handsome (says so himself); has a tal- j
ent for disbursing money; parts his hair j
in the middle; can dance the “Lancers”
South, West and crooked; is “plum
peart” at base ball; can ride a veloci
pede “to Bollinbrack;” can pick the
guitar, and oulsing the Boston Peace
luhilce. Thu lady must be a ‘ self
supporter,” with sufficient additional
funds for him to spend the Summer at
the Springs.
N. B.—lie will not insist on her go
ing, if she docs not wish to go.
Rather Ambiguous. —Among the
“news items” of the Boston Post wc
find the following:
Mr. James Fisk, Jr., has presented
Judge Barnard with two enormous
white owls. The President’s leave
taking was unaccompanied by ccremo
uy.
Now, has this any significance in con
nection with the recent association of
President Grant with J. F., Jr. ? Who
makes game of the President ? Did
the President leave incontinently and
unceremoniously because “Jeems”gave
away the “owls V” Did he want them
himself, or was “deems” less interest
ing than the silent birds?
On the temple of Minerva there was
placed an owl, an emblem of silent wis
dom. lie looked wise, but said noth
ing. Now, in truth, his silence was not
the result of deep thought or profound
wisdom, lie said nothing, simply be
cause he had nothing to say. If any
man knows of a parallel more modern,
he need not wrife to the President
about it.
The Florida Railroad Rill. —We
learn from the Floridian that the Legis
lature has compromised on anew bill
for the encouragement of railroads in
Florida,and have already passed it thro’
the Senate. The bill contains two dis
tinct features. First, that the State
shall issue bonds to the amount of $14,-
000 per mile to aid in extending the
Pensacola and Georgia road from Quin
cy westward, in the direction of Mobile,
the whole amount of bonds to be issued
in one batch : second, the State to en
dorse the bonds of any company under
taking to construct a road from Gaines
ville to Tampa to the same extent
per mile, the endorsement to be
made only in sections of ten and five
miles, as the work progresses and
as the iron is within the jurisdiction of
the Slate. As it passed the Senate,
gives the right to make a connection
at Apalachicola, a road from Mariana
to St. Andrew’s Ray, and a branch from
the main line to Ship Yard Point,
Chocktawhatchie Ray. The company
ars to complete the road to Apalachicola
river by the first of January, and the
whole line is to bo finished in three
yeara. _
Two young men, Poe and Robinson,
convicted o! the murder of Mr. Ely and
yol. Ward, near Henderson, Texas, in
April, 1868, were hung at the Fair
Frouuds, near Henderson, on the 11th
instant. Roth conlessed tlieir guilt,and
acknowledged the justice of the punish
ment the were about to suffer.
R,ise ball again revivetliattlie North.
The “ Red Stockings” Club from Cin
cinnali have been malting a triumphant
tour through the country. They have
thus far won nineteen victories, never
having lost one, ami have beaten the j
best clubs iu Pittsburg, New York, |
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
tun.
Georgia Railroad Extension. —
t he Athens Watchman, of Wednesday,
says that Mr. Grant, the engineer iu j
charge of the survey of the Georgia
Railroad extension from that place to
to Clayton or the ltabun Gap, has arri
ved in Athens, and will enter upon the
work. _
Army Worm. Greensboro (Ala) |
Beacon says a plantler residing in the
southern part of that (Hale) county, j
near Macon Station, in the canebrake
belt, iuforms the editor.that the army
worm has been seen on some planta- j
tions in that neighborhood. They had j
only been seen in small numbers, but
tlieir appearance had excited some ap
prehensions.
The Eufaula News says the veritable
Jim Long, who escaped from Clayton
(Ala.) jail ami was recaptured in Ma
con, Ga., passed through Eufaula iu
charge of an officer a few days ago.
The Jefferson Trials. The
Shreveport Southwestern, oi the lGib
instant, says : “We learn from private
sources, that the testimony for the pros
ecution has closed, and the examina
tion of witnesses for the defence enter
ed upon.
A City in a Bad Way. —Certain tax
payers of Nashville have applied for a
receiver to take charge of that corpora
tion. The case is being argued before
the Court at Gallatin.
A Southern paper is opposed to the
education of women as surgeons. It
says that, suppose one were put under
the influence of chloroform by such a
doctor, ‘what is to prevent the woman
from kissing you.’
Red RivcTwas in a condition for
first class boats to Shreveport, on the
16th instant. _
Sacramento papers give long accounts
of the funeral of John C. Heenan, the
“Benicia Boy.”
VOL. XI.
The ScnuMPERT Bridge. —In com
pany with Judge Duer, Mr. Goetchius,
Judge Ragland and the builder, the wri
ter of this made a visit on Saturday
last, to the “Schumpert Bridge” for the
purpose of examining the new struc
ture just completed by Horace King.
We found the new bridge completed and
open to travel. It is a lattice-covered
bridge, and spans the entire stream.
Die length ot the span, we believe, is
Ida ieet. It is, in the opinion of compe
tent judges, strong enough to pass
the heaviest railroad trains. Being built
of the best heart pine and covered in,
we can see no reason why it will not
stand for thirty or forty years with lit,
lie more repairs than reflooring.
1 his style of bridge, adopted by Judge
Uuer, it is true is a ltttle more costly,
hut when the strength and durability is
taken into account, it is decided econ
omy to the county, and he should have
the thanks of the tax payers for his ac
tion in the premises. The county has
now two bridges—the Schumpert, and
the Hull Greek bridge—on the Lumpkin
road that may be counted to stand for
at least thirty years.
This bridge was built at a cost to the
county of thirty-five hundred dollars.
After the examination, the party, by
invitation, repaired to the residence of
Mr. George W. Jones, popularly known
as "Paradise," a few miles beyond the
Upatoie, on Spring Creek, where they
partook ot the hospitalities of this prince
of good follows till a late hour in the
afternoon, and returned home in the
evening.
Arrested on Various Oiiargks.—
Yesterday a young man, of handsome
appearance, was arrested in Columbus,
charged with forgery and general impo
sition, by officer Ferrcl, of Macon. The
arrested party’s real name is said to he
Reese Davis, a discarded son of Mr. .T.
B. Davis, of the Washington Iron
Works, at Louisville, Ky,, a man reput
ed to be worth considerable money.—
Young Davis registered at the Perry
House as J. A. Hughes. In Macon lie
went by the name of Austen and im
posed on Mr. Schofield to the extent of
|75, which money was afterwards re
covered. Here, he attempted nothing Os
the kind. He is now arrested on a re
quisition from the Governor of Tennes
see, and is charged with forgeries by
which he obtained money from the
Second National Bank, and Wood &
Simpson and others, of Nashville.—
This requisition being sent to Macon,
officer Ferrel shrewdly surmised Davis'
or Austen, had traveled in this direction’
followed, made the arrest and departed
yesterday with his prisoner. Davis had
no baggage, and a small hotel bill was
left unsettled. His age is somewhere
between twenty and twenty five. This
is the report of policemen.
A Singular History of a Watch.
—We were yesterday told the following,
which we briefly repeat: Three years
ago, Col. 11. L. Mott had a gold watch
and chain taken from his residence. A
short time after, the time-piece was
found among some other property that
had been captured from a negro. The
chain was still missing. Not many
weeks elapsed before the watch was
stolen again. For over two years no
trace of it could be discovered, and all
hopes of its recovery were abandoned.
Sheriff Ivey has iu a quiet way, iu which
he has no superior, been looking for
some jail birds that escaped from their
cages some time ago. Among them was
a negro, Andrew Jourdan, a notorious
thief, who appropriated jewelry and
bacon so extensively during the nights
of last summer. We believe, at the
time lie escaped, he was under sentence
of several year’s confinement iu the
penitentiary. Anyhow, it was found
that Andrew was in a house downtown
Sunday night, and Sheriff Ivey, aided
perhaps by a policeman, made a dash
for him. Notwithstanding quiet, An
drew heard his pursuers and darted
from bed undressed, snatched his pants,
jumped from a window, missed several
pistol balls aud escaped. In his hurry,
however, he dropped the pants. In one
corner of them, nicely wadded in cot
ton, was tho watch of Col. Mott. So
after a long absence the watch and chain
and owner see each other. About five
hundred dollars worth of other stolen
property was recovered by the raid.
An Independent Man. —Samuel 11.
Jones, near AVhite’s Station, presented
us a sample of his wheat which he calls
the “Broughton” wheat and which we
would call Rig While. Friend Jones is
entirely reconstructed and says he can
show bigger cabbage, bigger beets, and
bigger everything else that is raised in
the South. He has his own fed meat
now in the smoke house; his own grown
corn in the crib ; his own flour, ground
from his own wheat, his own krout
from his own cabbage, and his own
preserves, raised in his own orchard
in a word, on his own land he raises all
he wants and plenty over for any of his
friends who may call.— Memphis Ava
lanche.
What a prosperous country the cotton
States would soon become if all the
plantations were run on the Jones
schedule.
Crops in Texas.— A letter from Fort
Rend county, Texas, dated June 20th,
says: “Crops are excellent, and in fine .
condition. Rut unless the rain ceases j
before long, the caterpillar will clean us |
out before July. In this part of the |
State we have bad entirely too much
rain and the persistency with which
the Brazos has kept up during the sum
mer, it is certain that they have had too
much rain higher up the country. God
help the country if the cotton fails this
year. In that event, with the excep- j
l,on of a few stockmen, we will be the
poorest people on the continent.”
The Crops.— A friend, who had the
good luck to have the leisure, and a
kind invitation into the country, has
recently returned from a visit up the
rivf as high as Hurricane Bluffs.—
1 luring his absence lie bad time to visit
amt inspect several plantations, and he
reports that the crops arc not only very
backward, for the season, iu consequence
of the late rains, but that they are gen
erallv very foul. We presume, this is
tno general condition of the river farms,
as we happen to know it is the condi
tion of all the hill farms. The tact is,
our entire spring season lias been so
backward, in consequence of rainy and
cold weather, the crops are at least two
weeks behind the season ot last year
How the present condition will attect
future production and prices, depends
on so many accidents, or Providences,
that we will not venture an opinion.
It is however, safe to estimate no ma
teria’l reduction in the priee of our great
staple. Shreveport Southwestern , 1 Qth,
On Thursday nigut last all the prison
ers with one exception, confined in the
jail at Opelika, succeeded in making
their escape.
Cotton at Shreveport.— Receipts
from September Ist, 1868, to June 16,
1869, 78,150 bale 9; stock cn hand at
latter date, 344 bales.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
From WasUngtoD.
Washington, June 28.— The Cubans
have further encouraging advices.
The prevalence of cholera and fever
in the Spanish army is confirmed.
Reinforcements sent from Cainguay
to Cince Villas, attacked the Cubans
and were defeated, losing 300. Cuban
loss, 100.
The Cubans captured Pahnidas.
The expedition which landed at Neu
vas Grandes and joined the insurgents
numbered 600, all in good health and
spirits.
The health of the Cuban army is
comparatively good. They occupy
healthful positions, some distance from
the coast.
Dr. Chaa. A. Foster has been appoint
ed Collector of Customs at Vicksburg,
Miss.; Hamilton Taylor, Shieldsboro,
Miss. The wife of the late incumbent,
recommended by Senators Harris and
Kellogg, failed; Boutwell declaring wo
men ineligible.
Revenue to day over $1,000,000.
President received no visitors.
Edw’d M. Sandy appointed Collector
of Customs at Tappahannock, Va.
Gold iu Treasury about $60,000,000;
$23,000,000 interest due July 1.
lloff reports Havana exceedingly
quiet since the excitement attending
Dulce’s abdication.
Gen. Ames, commanding Mississippi,
has been ordered here July Ist on pub
lic business.
C. J. French appointed Superintend
ent of Railway Mails, headquarters at
Atlanta.
From New Orleans. *>
New Orleans, .Tune 28.—The Com
mittees from the Chamber of Commerce
and Academy of Science, with the New
Orleans Custom officer, newspaper men
and pilots, on hoard the revenue cutter
Wilderness, made the tour of the passes
at the mouth of the Mississippi river,
and report a foot and a halt more water
at Pass A L’Outre than at Southwest
Pass. The ship Lizzie Moses, drawing
eighteen feet three inches, went out at
Pass A L’Outre Friday.
The Board of Flour Inspectors ap
pointed by the Governor under the act
of the late Legislature, having enjoined
the old inspectors, were tested as to
qualifications on Friday by a committee
of the Chamber of Commerce. In the
test of an inspection of sixty barrels,
the lowest number of errors was twenty
five, the highest thirty-nine, which re
sulted in the old board being immedi
ately reappointed and the new one dis
charged.
Front New YorU.
New York, June 28.—The First
New York Regiment of Cuban Volun
teers, 800 strong, commanded by Col.
Ryan, put to sea Saturday. The Qua
ker City is awaiting them outside the
Narrows with steamers.
The safe of the Ocean Bank was rob
bed of $2,000,000.
The Ocean Bank loses $20,000 and an
immense amount of securities deposited
by the bank’s customers stolen.
Dr. Dorsel, of Richmond, was with
Saturday’s Cuban expedition as Medi
cal Director. *
From Virginia.
Richmond, June 38.— Gen. Cauby
writes a reply letter to B. W. Gillis, of
the State Journal, containing an argu
ment to sustain his position in requiring
members of the Legislature to take the
iron-clad oath. He contends that re
construction acts require it, and that
he is acting in conformity with all pre
cedents in enforcing it.
In the County Court yesterday, Julia
Gibbs and Ellen Woodson,both coloredi
jealousy being the cause, had a regular
duel with clubs; seconds being present.
Ellen was so badly injured that she died
on the field.
Chief Justice Chase left for White Sul
phur Springs this morning.
The Conservative State Central Com
mittee has determined not to allow
Gen. Canby to influence the course of
the party. The present candidates, all
of whom are eligible under 14th amend
ment, will be kept in the field. They
say tho iron clad oath will never be
presented in a practical form. Chief
Justice Chase, while here, expressed
the opinion that there was no authority
in the laws ot Congress to exact the
iron dad of members of the Legislature.
Steam Plowing. —The introduction
of the steam plow promises a great rev
olution in farm tillage, iu process of
time, when the questions of moderating
the cost of the implement, simplifying
the details of its construction have been
determined by the inventive and prac
tical labor-saving ideas of mechanical
genius of the country. A correspondent
of the New York World gives an ac
count of the trial of an English steam
plow recent]v near Woodford, New Jer
sey. The field was a sandy loam soil,
tolerably level, but uneven, having
I been in corn last year. The engines
i were each fourteen horse power, an on
the locomotive plan. The speed was at
the rate of five and a half miles per
hour, and the rate of twenty four acres
per day of ten hours. The universal
opinion of all present was, that steam
plowing was a marked success. Uis
only a question of capital and detail, to
be settled by experiment, which there
is reason to believe will eventuate in
placing these plows within the range of
general use and appreciation. The.re
is one very important fact, which is,
that Radical fanaticism will hardly in
sist upon clothing them with the right
of suffrage, aud to that extent detract
from their value as reliable farming
auxiliaries.
Gen. Sherman’s March —Experi-
ence Better than Books—Practice
vs. Theory.— l have oftentimes been
asked by my friends, familiar with Xent
ophon, Ilume and Jomini, in which of
these books I bad learned the secret of
leading armies on long and difficul
marclies, and they seemed surprised
when I answered that I was not aware
that I had been influenced by any of
them. I told them what I now tell you
in all simplicity and truth, that when I
was a young lieutenant of artillery, 1
had often hunted deer iu the swamps of
Edisto the Cowpens and the Santee,
and had seen with my own eyes that
they could be passed with wagons ; that
iu the spring of 1844 I had ridden on
horseback from Marietta, Georgia, to
the Valley of Tennessee, back to Au
gusta, passing in my course over the
very fields of Alatoona, of Kennesaw
and Atlanta, where it afterward fell to
my share to command armies, and to
utilize knowledge thus gained. Again,
in 1848 and 1850 I was in California,
and saw arrive, across that wide belt of
two thousand miles of uninhabited
country the caravans of emigrants com
i posed of men, women and children,
i who reached their destination in health
! and strength, and when we used to start
! on a journey of a thousand miles with
a single blanket as a covering, and a
sack of parched cornmeal as food. With
this knowledge, fairly acquired in actu
al experience, was there any need for
me to look back to Alexander the Great,
to Marlborough or Napoleon for exam
ple?
So Borie goes out and Robeson comes
in! What has he been giving Grant ?
COLUMBTJS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1869
DECISIONS
OF THE
SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA,
Delivered at Atlanta , June 2dlh.
[Reported Expressly for the Constitution, by
N. J. Hammond, Supreme Court Reporter.)
Saturday, June 20.
The Court heard arguments in the
following cases, on the Southwestern
Circuit:
27. —Benj. Green and Philip West,
claimants, plaintiffs in error vs. R. F.
Cock and Jno. Thompson, Administra
tors, defendants in error. Motion lor
new trial, from Lee.
Fred. A. West, represented by the
Reporter, for plaintiffs in error.
W. A. Hawkins, R. F. Lyon, for de
fendants in error.
28. —Nathan Emanuel, plaintiff in
error, vs. Smith & Richmond, defend
ants in error. Certiorari, from Sumter.
N. A. Smith, Hawkins & Burke, for
plaintiff in error.
Goode & Carter, S. 11. Hawkins, for
defendants in error.
29. —Stephen H. Mitchell, plaintiff in
error, vs. Moses Spear, County Treasu
rer. Mandamus, from Sumter.
Hawkins Burke, for plaintiff in er
ror.
S. H. Hawkins, for defendant in error.
30. —Lucinda Taylor, plaintiff' iu er
ror, vs. Mayor and Council of Amcricus,
defendants in error.
N. A. Smith, for plaintiff in error.
Jack Brown represented by S. 11.
Hawkins, for defendants in error.
The opening argument was made in
this last case, and then the Court ad
journed until 3 o’clock this evening.
Argument was resumed and conclu
ded in No. 30. Taylor vs. M. & A., of
Americas. Certiorari, from Sumter.
No. 31.—Nicholas Wiley, plaintiff in
error, vs. Nancy Whitely, et. al., Rule
Nisi, from Sumter, was argued. Geo.
W. Warwick, Vasou A Davis, for plain
tiff in error. W. A. Hawkins, S. 11.
Hawkins, for defendants in error.
In No. 32, Jas. W. Wilkinson, plain
tiff in error, vs. N. G. Christy, defend
ant in error. Motion for new trial from
Lee. There was an argument that ori
ginal interrogatories might be used here,
and they did not come up by copy, or
otherwise. The Court dismissed the
case. F. ii. West, by D. A. Vason,for
plaintiff in error. C. B. Wooten, R.
F. Lyon, for defendants iu error.
W. A. Hawkins moved to affirm the
judgment below in the cause of Jas. 11.
Wilson, plaintiff' in error, vs. W. S.
Reese, for use of W. A. &. S. H. Haw
kins, from Sumter, because, after one
bill of exceptions had been filed, it was
withdrawn, and anew one was filed,
and it was sent up so late as to be dock
eted for the next term, and because it
is a bill of exceptions, in a cause, whicli
this Court has finally decided. N. A.
Smith, representing Colonel Goode, re
sisted this motion.
The Court dismissed the case upon
the ground that, when !.’ >S ’first bill of
exceptions had been iiltfd in the Clerk’s
office, no new T bill could be filed, etc.
The Court then went back to No. 22,
Pataula Circuit, which had been placed
to the heel of the Southwestern Circuit,
because of Judge Lyon’s illness. It is
Sharp & Brown, plaintiffs in error, vs.
E. B. Loyless, defendant in error. Ar
bitralion, from Terrell. L. C. Hoyal,
Lyon & deGraffenreid, for plaintiff in
error. F. M. Harper, N. J. Parker, W.
A. Hawkins, for defendant in error.
Pending the opening argument, by
Judge Lyon, the Court adjourned till 10
o’clock, Tuesday morning. Monday is
consultation day as usual.
There are yet two causes on the
Southwestern Circuit to be argued, and
the Court has notice of motion to dis
miss two other causes, which came up
too late this term, and have the judg
ment below affirmed.
The two to bo argued, are A. W.
Green vs. The Southern Express Com
paiiy, and the Bamo parties vice vc)'B(i i
being Nos. 4 and 15, which bad also
been passed, because of Judge Lyon’s
illness. They will, in all probability,
be argued together.
The Middle Circuit is next in order,
and its Bar should be here by Tuesday
morning. _
From the Augusta Chronicle.
The Supreme Court Decision—Letter
from Fleming.
Savannah, June22d, 1869.
A. It. Wright, Esg.:
Mv Dear Sir — Yours of the 31st inst.,
requesting me to give for publication in
the. Chronicle and Sentinel, my opinion
upon the effect of the decision lately
made by the Supreme Court of Georgia,
upon the status of the expelled negro
members of the present Legislature, is
rGCcivciir
I have no idea that my opinion will
have, or indeed ought to have, auy
weight in “moulding public opinion,
but as you desire it, and cmly because
you desire it, I will give it. I can see
no reason why this decision should
have an effect different from other de
cisions. The decision of a Court de
cides the case in which the decision is
made, and of course becomes a precedent
for the decision of other cases in which
the same question arrises. But who
ever heard that the decision of any one
case decided every case involving the
same question. There must be a sepa
rate decision in every case as it comes
up. The case decided by the Supreme
Court settles the question that White,
although a negro, may hold the office
of Clerk. It can have no other effect
beyond the retaining of White in office,
except as authority to control the deci--
3ion of other cases as they arise involv
ing the same question. But the decision
will have to be made in every case. It
cannot possibly have the effect to put
in or out of office others who are stran
gers to the judgment. Is it not a well
settled principle that a judgment binds
only the parties to it? There are some
cases in this county (Chatham,) where
white persons have been installed into
office by the Ordinary, who, I think,
very properly felt it his duty to do so,
under the decision of Judge Schley. Can
it be that the effect of the decision in the
case of White is to put them out and put
negroes in? Could a judgment of ouster
be entered up against them on the judg
ment of the Supreme Court in favor of
White ? Can these negroes be put into
office except by proceedings regularly
instituted for the purpose ? I think not.
The same, I suppose is true of the no
croes who wore elected to the Legisla
ture. The decision in the case of White
cannot put them in, or the white men
out, and for the simple reason they
were not parties to that act.
And now comes the question, can the
negroes elected to the Legislature make
a case before the judicial tribunals of
the State ? I have no difficulty in say
ing they cannot. There is hut one tri
bunal with jurisdiction to decide this
question, and irom the decisions of that
tribunal there is no appeal, it is fiual
and conclusive, there being no other
tribunal before which the decision can
be reviewed or reversed. That tribunal
is the Legislature itself. “Each nouse
shall be the judge of the election returns
and qualifications of its members, &c.
Constitution, Article 3, Section 4.
Respectfully, &c.,
W. B. Fleming.
Col. Whitley, chief detective in the j
I service of the United States treasury,
assisted by John Clover, his principal j
attachee, has made arrests in Pennsyl
-1 vania, Maryland, New York and sever
' al Western States of counterfeiters and
| counterfeit money plates and other ma
| rerials. About one dozen men altogeth- J
j er have been arrested in the last six
i weeks.
1 Heavy Life Insurance. —A man in
Chicago by the name oi Drake, a baker,
; had for some months had a presentment
I that he was going to die, and that lie
I must abandon the baking business it lie
! would live. He came home one day
aad laid himself down upon the sofa !
aad died. His life was insured for
| nearly $150,000. Among companies
i known to be concerned are the Charter
Oak SIO,OOO, iEtna Life SIO,OOO, Con
necticut Mutual 18,000—all of Hariford,
Connecticut; and the Equitable $40,000,
and Northwestern $30,000.
Ualtroad Consolidation.
We alluded briefly yesterday to cer
tain negotiations that were progressing
for the purchase of the Southwenteru
railroad and branches by the Central
Railroad Company. The bargain and
transfer have been perfected, the entire
interest of the Southwestern road having
passed into the possession of the Cen
tral Company on Thursday last, the 24th
instant.
The articles of agreement between the
two companies are voluminous and em
brace details deemed necessary for the
protection of the parties. The chief fea
tures of the transaction, though, are the
following:
The Southwestern Company lease
their road, with rolling stock, work
shops, and property and franchises of
every sort appertaining thereto, to the
Central Company, to be held and en
joyed by the latter during the existence
of the Southwestern charter, which is
without limitation ; in other words, the
Central Company takes a permanent
lease of the road.
In consideration of this transfer, the
Central Company agrees to pay the
stockholders of the Southwestern Com
pany, at stated and regular periods,
dividends to the ratio of eight percent.
Southwestern to ten per cent. Contral;
in other words, whenever the Central
declares a dividend to its stockholders
often per cent., it will at the same time
declare a dividend of eight per cent, to
the Southwestern stockholders, and in
the same proportion whatever may be
the profits of the Central Company.
The latter also guarantees that under no
circumstances shall the amount to be
paid fall below seven per cent. The
dividend in all cases to be paid clear of
all taxes and other expenses.
Stock dividends, and all other accum
ulation of the Central Company are to
be divided with the Southwestern stock
holders in the same ratio.
While the entire management, control
and property of every description pass
into the hands of the Central Company,
the Southwestern Company is to main
tain its organization, with officers of
their choice, in order to preserve their
charter, receive and distribute dividends
and generally protect the rights and in
terests of the stockholders under the
new order of things.
Such are the principal features of this
large transaction, and wc cannot see
why it should not prove an advantage
ous one for all concerned. The two
roads, thus united, will be able to pro
tect themselves more effectually against
ruinous competition from institutions
unwisely spoken into existence by the
Legislature of Georgia at the public ex
pense, and owned by non-resident spec
ulators. The stockholders of the South
western have a perpetual guarantee
of lawful interest on their stock with
the chances of sharing the prosperity of
the largest, best managed and most
prospereous road in the Stale, indeed,
in the South.
We arc assured, by those who have
authority to speak, that the Central
Company, by this arrangement, con
templates no war upon auy interest of
the people along the lines of its roads,
or of the citities with which they con
nect. It is not desired to make any
change in the present status of these in
terests, and none need be apprehended.
—Savannah Republican.
Oar State University—Liberal Action
of l)>e Trustees.
From a circular received from Prof.
Waddell, Corresponding Secretary of
ihe Faculty of the University of Geor
gia, at Athens, we learn that the Trus
tees ot the University have authorized
the Faculty to admit, without payment
of tuition fees, meritorious young men of
limited means, they propose to increase
the number of beneficiaries to filly.—
There are now, as such, iu attendance
at the University, under appointment
of the Faculty, twenty-seven students.
These appointments are intended to be
limited to residents of the State, who
are not themselves, and whose parents
are not, in a situation to incur the ex
pense of their education at the Univer
ty, without aid.
Students thus appointed stand, in all
respects, except expense, as others, en
joying equal privileges and subjected
to the same laws. Asa remuneration
to the State, they will uxpected to en
gage in teaching in a public or a private
school, in Georgia, for a term of years
equal to the time they may have enjoy
ed the advantages of instruction at the
University. The term of the appoint
ment expires at the close ol" the yollegi
ate year, with those who fail to exhibit
due diligence, but who those give evi
dence of capieity and industry will be
permitted to remain until the regular
course is completed.
The applicant for an appointment
should forward testimonials of good
moral character, and of capacity to
profit by the instruction at the Univer
sity; stating his age (which must be at
least sixteen) and residence, with a full
report of the subjects which have been
studied by him. It must also be shown
that neither he nor his parents are able,
without aid, to incur the expense of his
education.
Next session there will be forty va
cancies, which the Faculty will fill, by
appointment, on the 6th of August.—
Only one will be appointed from a coun
ty. There aro no vacancies in the fol
lowing counties : Bibb, Clarke, Cobb,
Fulton, Jefferson, Monroe, Rabnu,
Richmond, Union.
Applications should be addressed to
the Corresponding Secretary, and for
warded prior to August oth.
Young men who design to enter the
ministry, oi any denomination whatso
ever, are admitted to the University
without the payment of tuition fees,
upon presenting proper letters from the
authorities of the church to which they
are attached; provided they are in need
of this aid to complete their education.
Bachelors anil Flirts.
BY JOSH BILLINGS.
Some old bachelors git after a flirt,
and don’t travel as fast as she doz, and
then conclude awl the female group are
hard to ketch, and good for nothing
when they are ketched.
A flirt is a rough thing to overhaul
unless the right dog gets after her, and
then they arc the easiest of awl to
ketch, and often make the very best of
wives.
When a flirt is really in love she is as
powerless as a mown daisy.
Her impudence then changes into
modesty, her cunning into fear, her
spurs into a halter, and her pruning
hook into a cradle.
The best way to catch a flirt is tew
travel the other way from which they
are going, or sit down on the ground
and whistle some lively tune till the
flirt comes round.
Old bachelors make the flirts, and
then the flirts get more even, by making
the old bachelors.
A majority of flirts get married final
ly, for they huv a great quantity of the
most dainty titbits of woman’s nature
and ahvus have shrewd ness to back up
their sweetness.
Flirts don’t deal in poetry and water
grewel; they hev got to liev brains, or
else somebody would trade them out of
their capital at first sweep.
Disappointed luv must uv course be
all on one side; this ain’t any more ex
i cuse fur being an old bachelor than itiz
fur a man to quit all kinds of manual
labor, jist out uv spite, and jine a poor
bouse bekase he kan’t lift a tun at a pop.
An old bachelor will brag about biz
freedom to you, his relief from axiety,
hiz indipendence. This iz a dead beat
past resurrection, for everybody knows
there ain’t a more anxious dupe than he
iz. All his dreams are charcoal sketches
of hoarding school misses; he dresses,
greases hiz hair, paints hiz grizzly mus
tache, cultivates bunyons and corns,
; tew please hiz captains, the wimmen,
and only gets laffed at fur his pains.
I tried being an old bachelor till I wuz
about twenty years old, .and came very
near dieing a dozen times. I had more
sharp pain in one year than I hev had
since, put it all in a heap. I was in a
I lively fever all the time.
WEDNESDAY MORNINK, JUNE SO.
ScßArs from Prentice. —The poor
old National Intelligencer is dead. It
was a power in its day and generation.
Alas, poor ghost!
Gov. Reed, of Florida, has issued his
proclamation ordering an election on
the second day of November, to take
the sense of the people of West Flor
ida, on the question of annexing that
portion of the State to Alabama.
The Bainbridge Sun says that since
the survey of the Bainbridge, Cuthbert
and Columbus Railroad, was entered
upon, quite an accession of subscrip
tions have been made to the stock, and
several thousand dollars put down by
responsible parties.
Rawlins. The Clerk that Grant
keeps in the War Department, seems
to be a worthy successor .of the infa
mous Stantou. It was he who in
fluenced the appointment of Turner,
and his latest meanness is the discharge
of the gentleman from the War Depart
ment who married Miss Anna Surratt.
Tiie Survey.— A business letter re
ceived yesterday from Col. Harkie,
Chief Engineer of the Bainbridge,
Cuthbert and Columbus Railroad, dated
“In Camp, Miller county, June 19th,
18G9,” says, “The Survey has progress
ed twenty lour miles from Bainbridge
on an exact air line so far, and if noth
ing unexpected occurs, I shall continue
this air line to the Southern boundary
of Randolph county. The country is
lino for railroading—smooth surface and
well timbered. I began tho survey at
noon on Monday last.” Col. llarkie
expects to reach this city—nothing oc
curring to prevent it—by the 10th or
15th of August,
A letter from a gentleman of Mr. Sto
phens’ household, to a friend in Augus
ta, on Saturday, says the health of this
great statesman for the previous four or
five days, has been quite bad. The let
ter says a severe bilious disorder lias
induceit a return of the painful symp
toms from which he has suffered so
much lately, growing out of the injury
sustained by the falling upon him of a
heavy gate.
The Confederate Dead at Get
tysburg.—The New York Times says:
If it be true that the hones of the Con
federates who fell at Gettysburg are, in
certain places, sticking out of the
ground, the matter ought to be attend
ed to. We don’t think the Government
itself would do anything wrong in see
ing that they are interred.
The people of the South will do a
great wrong if they permit the bones of
their sons and brothers to bleach on the
plains of Pennsylvania.
Death of a well known Merchant.
—A press of other matter made us for
get to mention that Mr. L. B. Duck,
before the war a member of the exten
sively known firm of Hull, Duck & Cos.,
and since connected with Rosette &
Lawhon, died suddenly Sunday after
noon in the forty-ninth year of his age.
The attack was an appoplectic one, and
very sudden. lie had a wide circle of
friends, and had been many years in
business in Columbus.
Taxes on Printing Offices to re
Suspended. —The proprietors of the
several printing offices in Atlanta united
in a memorial to Bullock, complaining
of the taxes levied on Printing presses,
material, &c. Bullock endorsed and
forwarded the same to Madison Bull,
Comptroller General, who replied that
the law demanded the collection of the
tax, though in his opinion the tax was
unjust and recommended the suspension
of its collection until the meeting of the
Legislature. Thereupon Bullock pro
claims that the collection of the tax is
suspended.
Wno Robinson Is.—The Western
Associated Press telegrams inform us
that Mr. Geo. M. Robinson, the suc
cessor in the Navy Department of the
late vicarious but greatly lamented
Borie, “is the son of Judge W. P. Rob
inson, of Warren county, New Jersey,
formerly a prominent Whig. Upon the
election of Freelinghuysen as Senator,
in 1867, Mr. Robinson was appointed
by Governor Ward, Attorney Genera),
which position lie resigns for new du
ties. He is about 41 years of age, aud
justly holds a high rank in his profes
sion. He is a strong and decided Re
publican.”
Negligence of the Mail Agent on
the Southwestern Railroad. A
subscriber at Butler, Taylor county,
informed us a few days since, that the
copies of the “Sun” mailed to our sub
scribers at that point, do not reach
them until tho day after publication,
and then by train from Macon. This
is the result of design, for the most cul
pable ignorance, or negligence, and we
desire that the matter shall he remedied
before Turner gets into the Macon Post
Office, for that mulatto incendinry would
not permit any copies ot our journal to
pass through his office with his knowl
edge or consent.
Radical Notabilities in the As
signation Business. —In the personal
column of a late number of the New
York Herald we find some items that
squint at a laxity of morals on the part
of Anna Dickinson, TecumseU Sherman j
and Ben. Butler. We give them in the j
order in which they appear :
Anna’D-k-s-n will please corumuni- j
cate by addressing Howard, Herald |
office.
Ogaretta.—Meet me at 8 o’clock this
evening where I saw you last.
Tecumseh. J
Picayune Butler cannot come till i
Tuesday, same time and place. Write !
as usual if this is agreeable.
Farming to Profit. —A friend of
ours, residing three miles from Sanders
ville, ran four plows Inst year, working
two hands to the plow. From the labor
of the eight hands and four plows
he produced a crop worth $0,350. llis
expenses for hire of hand, provisions,
guano, &c., amounted to $3,000 —leav-
ing a clear profit of $3,350. This is no
guess work, but an accurate statement
made us in person by Mr. , who
did not know that we intended publish
ing it. To this account could be added
hundreds ofbushelsof peas which could
not be gathered for want of time to pick
them, but which will come up iu the
Fall in the pork account.
Mr. ’s land is no better, except as
he has made it so, than thousands of
acres in the country. But he plants
what he cultivates and cultivates what
jhe plants. His corn crib is not located
\ in Nashville, his smoke house in Cin
cinnati or his hay loft in Pennsylvania,
nis horses are able to work and they do
it. If anybody has done better we
should like to See the figures.—Sanders
ville Georgian.
Two rich men have lately died in
Boston and left no legacies to Harvard
University. It is supposed that Har
• yard ■will try to break the wills.
IMPEACHMENT.
The wild and extravagant rumor that
Governor Bullock will be impeached by
the Georgia Legislature is nothing but
a slander upon the Democratic party of
Georgia, and upon the Governor him
self.
There is no ground whatever for an
impeachment, and no one will be silly
enough to attempt it.— At. Intelligencer.
We have not laid any stress upon the
rumor somewhat rife of late to the effect
that active preparations were on foot
for the impeachment of Bullock at tho
next session of the Legislature. Not
withstanding; the folly and corruption
which has characterized the majority
of that body irrespective of past or
present political distinctions, we have
ever allowed, the Democrats the credit
of having more sense than to attempt
any such thing before the Senate as that
body is at present constituted. That
Bullock courts such action, and that it
would result iu ignominious failure we
have never doubted. So far then as
the rumor of an immediate attempt to
impeach is concerned, it may possibly
be correctly characterized by the Intel
ligencer as a "slander" upon the Demo
cratic Party.
But in view of the last sentence
which we have quoted from the Intelli
gencer,we are at a loss to know by what
authority it now speaks for the Demo
cratic Party. The report has been prev
alent for some time that Bullock had
succeeded in making that old and
honored expouent of Democracy the
special organ and mouthpeice lor him
and the infamous crew by which
he is supported. Tho very remark
able course of the Intelligencer for
months past lias given strength and
color to a report which we have
been pained to hear and slow to accept;
but the distinct assertion upon its part
that “no ground whatever for an ini
peachment, of Bullock exists,” wheu
every child within the borders of the
State, knows that his whole official
career has been marked by a violation
of his oath of office, a disregard for
law, and an outrageous and unwarrant
ed usurpation and use of power, to say
nothing of his peculations and oppres
sions of tho people of the State, leaves
us no room to doubt but that the Intel
ligencer has gathered up its garments
and gone into the camp of the enemies
of Truth, Justice and Constitutional
Government.
Letter front Alexander 11. Nlo|>hens
lon Erlentlln New Yorh
His Opinion of the Political Situation—
The Work to which the remainder of
Ms Life is to be devoted.
Liberty Hall, 1
Crawfordsvillk, Ga., June 13. j
My Dear Sir : Your very kind nnd
highly appreciated favor of the 6tli inst.
was reoceived yesterday. Allow me to
return my thanks for it. lam improv
ing slowly, very slowly, however, from
my hurt some lour months or more ago.
I can now sit up part of the day, but can
neither stand nor walk yet without aid
oi some sort. I have, notwithstanding
this allliction, resumed work on the
second volume of the “Constitutional
View of the Late War between the
States.” I agree with you in styling it
the worst and most culpable that ever
took place on earth. I greatly fear, too,
that it will, in its ultimate consequences,
prove to be the most disastrous one that
ever occurred to the principles of con
stitutional liberty. Our Constitution,
as made by the fathers, was one of the
most wonderful political achievements
ever attained by genius and patriotism.
Had its principles been adhered to, this
late terrible war never would have oc
curred, and the only hope now for the
present and future of the country is to
bring back the Federal administration
to the true principles of the Constitu
tion. This can only be done by a vir
tuous, intelligent and patriotic people.
When bad men conspire to impose
their usurpations “outside” the Consti
tution, good men everywhere must
combine to keep all such men out of
power. This can oniy be done by the
publication of truths and by awakening
in the minds of the people the sense of
the dangers which threaten them, and
arousing them to future action before it
is too late. The only proper remedy
for all existing evils and the greater
ones which appear in the future is at the
ballot-box.
The great object with me in the rem
nant of my days is to do all in my pow
er toward the inculcation of such truths
and principles as are essential for the
maintenance of our institutions as hand
ed down from the fathers. To this j
course the future of my life is devoted. J
And notwithstanding all that is and has !
been said about the rebellion and the
disloyalty of the rebels, etc., I know of
but one test of true loyalty in this coun
try, and that is loyalty to the principles
of the Constitution of the United States.
In this, and in unswerving devotion to
them, I yield to no man that ever breath
ed the vital air of Heaven.
I can say no more now, but repeat
my thanks for your letter, and send you
my kindest regard and best wishes.
Yours truly,
Alexander 11. Stephens
Alaliaiiia i'onuty Ofiiccrs-Attentlon!
As the Sun has a large circulation iu
many of the counties in Alabama, we j
copy into our columns the following |
important election law. The Congres I
sional election in that State, we believe, I
comes off early in August. Has the |
provisions of this enactment been corn i
plied with ?
Section 23. Be it further enacted, !
That tho Judge of Probate, Sheriff',
Clerk of the Circuit Court, or any two
of them, must, at least thirty days be- j
lore the holding of any election iu their
county, appoint three inspectors lor i
each ballot box, to act at the places of j
holding elections in each precinct, and
one returning officer for each election
precinct; and it shall be the duty of the
Sheriff to notify such inspectors and
returning officers of their appointment
within ten days after such appoin aent.
Any Judge of Probate, Clerk of tho
Circuit Court, or Sheriff failing to com
ply with the provisions of this section,
is guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction, must be fined not less than
one hundred dollars.”
Sec. 23. “Be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the inspectors i
and returning officers appointed, to
meet at the places of holding elections
in the several precincts for which they
have been appointed, by seven o’clock
of the morning of the day of election,
and open the several [silling places as
designated.”
Sec 27. "Be it tuiila r enacted, That
before opening the polls the inspectors
and clerks must take an oath to per
form their dutieß at such election ac
cording to law, to the best of their
judgment, and the inspectors must also
swear that they will not themselves, or
knowingly allow any other person to
compare the number ot ballots with the
number of votes enrolled, which oath
may be administered by the inspectors
to each other, or by the returning offi
cer or a justice of the peace.”
Sec. 28. “Be it further enacted, That
the polls must he opened at each place
of voting in each precinct, between the
hours of seven and eight in the morn
ing, and kept open without intermis
sion or adjournment until the hour of
six in the afternoon and no longer.”
: Sec. 31. “Be it further enacted, That
the ballot must be a white paper ticket,
on which must be written or printed or
partly written and printed, the names
of the persons for whom the elector
intends to vote, and must designate the
office for which each person so named
i.s intended by him to be chosen.”
NO. 17
The Month and North Roxl.
There being much interest felt in the
progress of arrangements for completing
the South and North Alabama Railroad,
we have taken the pains to call on
Major Campbell Wallace to whom has
been committed the entire management
of the works, and have learned from
him and M. B. Prichard, the Engineer
for the contractors,that they have placed
a large portion of the lino iu the hands
of sub-contractors who are men of ex
tensive means and life time experience
in Railroad building. Tlio work not
sub-let will be held for penitentiary
labor. Contracts have been made for
the bridge over the Alabama River,four
miles above the city, and a heavy force
is now at work at that point. The piers
will be commenced not later than the
15th of July and grading from this
point about the same time. The fifty
two miles connecting Blount Springs
with Decatur has been sub let to Messrs.
Deninead and Robertson, of Georgia,
agin well known throughout the coun
try as energetic and reliable Railroad
builders. The first 20 miles South from
Decatur is to be complete for the loco
motive to pass over ou the 31st of De
cember, 1869. All the heavy work be
tween Montgomery and Limekiln has
been placed in the hands of good and
efficient contractors, who are now con
centrating their working material and
forces.
Two of the firm of Sam Tate and as
sociates are at this time in the city of
New York, negotiating for rails and
fastenings. It is expected that they
will succeed iu getting rails delivered at
Mobile and New Orleans in September,
so that track laying can commence at
Limekiln, Decatur and Montgomery,
not later than the Ist of October.
The parlies to this contract, with the
President and directors of the South
and North Alabama Railroad Cos. are
Sam Tate, Campbell Wallace, W. J.
Sloss, M. B. Prichard, Win. and T.
Smith, M. J. Wicks, W. B. Greenlow
and A. M. West. These gentlemen iu
their organization elected Maj. Wallace
General Manager, and M. B. Pritchard
Cltief Engineer, and have voluntarily
made themselves individually liable for
every debt they contract in their asso
ciated capacity
Iu electing Major Wallace general
manager the contractors have secured
the immediate personal services of one
of the best practical mindß in the coun
try, an untiring man of business aud a
gentleman thoroughly known and re
spected for his personal probity. He
has given proof of his unswerving devo
tion to principal in advißing, as he Ims
done in this instance, (his associates
readily acquiescing) that the parties
named shalll he individually responsi
ble for any debt he may create iu their
associate character. As President and
Superintendent of important railroad
linos ho haH been eminently successful.
Mr. Prichard is an engineer of the first
class and our people may depend on
everything being energetically pushed
forward under his management. It is
unnecessary to add that the contracting
parties named are alt men of wealth,
and sterling business aud personal qual
ities.—Mont. Adv.
Ntateuicut of Edmund NpniiKlur.
Washington, June 23. Edmund
Spangler, one of the alleged conspira
tors in the plot to assassinate President
Lincoln, who was sentenced by the
Military Commission in 1865, to six
years imprisonment at the Dry Tortu
gas, and pardoned by President John
son in March last, lias made a full state
ment under oath of his trial and im
prisonment, in which he asserts his
entire innocence. This will he publish
ed here to-morrow. Sprangler, it will
be remembered, was a carpenter or
scene shifter at Ford’s Theatre, and was
on the stage when Booth jumped from
tho box after shooting the President. —
He also took care of his horse and
brought the latter to the theatre on the
afternoon, a few hours previous to the
assassination. The evidence was cir
cumstantial against Spangler, one wit
ness intimating that he attempted to
obstruct the pursuit of Booth across the
stage. The military commission seem
ed to have some doubt of Spangler’s
guilt, as he was sentenced to six years’
imprisonment, while Mudd, O’Laugh
tin, and Arnold were sentencee for life.
In the opening of his statement Span
gler says that he heard Payne, Harold
and Atzerot, who were executed, impli
cate the famous witness, Weiclnnan, in
that part of the plot to abduct the Presi
dent. Weichman’s evidence caused the
conviction of Mrs. Surratt. Spangler
opens his statement as follows. He
says:
I have deemed it due to truth to pre
pare for publication the following state
ment, at a time when 1 hope the temper
of the people will give me a patient
hearing, of my arrest, trial, aud im
prisonment for alleged complicity in the
plot to assassinate President Lincoln.
I have suffered much, but I solemnly
assert now, as I always have since It
was arraigned for trial at the Washing
ton Arsenal,that T am entirely innocent
of any fore or after knowledge of the
crime which John Wilkes Booth com
mitted save what I knew in common
with everybody after it took place; and
I further solemnly assert that John
Wilkes Booth nor any other person
never mentioned to me auy plot or any
intimation of auy plot for the abduction
or assassiuation of President Liucoln ;
that I did not know when Booth leaped
down to the stage Irom the box at the
theatre; that he shot Mr. Lincoln ; and
that 1 did not iu any way, so help me
God, assist in his escape; and further J
declare that I am entirely innocent of
any and all charges made against me in
that connection. I never knew either
Payne, Surratt, Atzerot, Arnold, Harold
or auy of the so called conspirators, nor
did I ever see any of them until they
appeared in custody. While imprison
ed with Atzerot, Payne and Harold,
and after the trial was over, I was al
lowed a few minutes’ exercise in the
prison yard. I heard the three unite in
asserting Mrs.Surratt’s entire innocence
and acknowledged their own guilt, cun
fining their crime as they did entirely
to themselves, but implicating the wit
ness Weichman in the knowledge of the
original plot to abduct, and with furn
ishing information from the office of tho
Commissary General of prisoners,where
he was a clerk.
Spangler then goes on to detail his
imprisonment; how he was arrested,
released, and re arrested ; the suffering
heendured from the padded hook drawn
over his head during his incarceration,
and the punishment inflicted on prison
ers at the Dry Tortugas. He mentions
that punishment was to load a prisoner
with irons, then tie a rope around his
body and throw him into the water and
let him sink, but before drowning to
draw him out again. He gives names
and dates to support his assertions.
Georgia mining operations are said to
be in a more healthy condition than
ever before. The Hamilton mill is
crushing about 75 tons of ore daily,
with 24 stamps at a cost of 22 2-5 cents
per ton. The Yahoota Company are
building a stupendous aqueduct at Dah
lonega, and expect to raise aud mill ore
at 15 cents per ton. Anew mill is go
ing np on the Etowah, below Auralia,
and all tbe mills aro doing well.
The Journal of Commerce asserts that
the last statement of the public debt was
fallacious and deceptive,and that instead
of the debt having been reduced as
claimed, during the month of May, by
the sum of $13,384,000, the actual and
bona fide reduction amounts to only $3,
651,000, a difference of $9,733,000.
Tho Journal gives figures and an ex
tended statement and fully explains how
the Secretary makes the apparent re
duction so much in excess of the actual
amount. This matter is one which con
cerns the financial interests of the coun
try and Government should not misrep
resent the condition of the debt.
Crops in Alabama.— The Troy Mes
senger says : During the past week we
have had abundance of rain. Corn
looks lively, and the farmers are smil
ing over it. A severe hail storm, we
learn, passed a few miles below here
one day last week, doing much damage.
A Voice front Africa.
Advice to the Colored People of the South.
Monrovia, Liheria, Jan. 3, 1869.
I have lived now in this home of the
African nearly twenty years; but 1 have
not forgotten the old scenes in Virginia,
nor tho kindness of many white friends
in former days. I wish it was iu my
power to return lor a time, that my
voice might be heard by my colored
brethren of the Southren States.
lam anxious for their fate. As 1 sit
here, on the shores of this continent
filled with a native black population,
and look across the great waters over
your continent filled with white men, 1
cannot but be fearful in regard to the
future of the few millions ol people oi
my own blood in the South, now left to
their own resources. 1 see a tide of
white men pouring over those fields
which have heretofore fed them; a tide
coming Irom the overflowing population
ol the Northern States and Europe. 1
remember how that tide, when slow and
feeble, swept off’ the native Indians; and
now, as it rushes iuits might, what is to
shield the transplanted African from its
waves ? I can think of but one hope for
him.
If, as a body, the colored people of
the South shall identity themselves with
the white people who now occupy aud
hold the soil, gain their affection and
confidence, and become useful members
of their communities, they may float
above the torrent and still dwell iu peace
among the associations of tho past; oth
erwise they must, in the lapse of years,
bo buried beneath it, or washed, like
drift wood,into the burning zone around
the Equator. And yet the occasional
letters aud papers we receive hero from
the United States tell us that political
demagogues from the North, peddling
polities lor their own profit, are exciting
our race to hostility towards the whites.
If they shall become the dupes of such
emissaries their fate is sealed. The scat
tered white men on this continent of
Africa might as well array themselves
against the native tribes ot black men,
with the expectation of meeting any
thing but destruction in the pursuit of
such lolly. 1 feel some confidence that
the more intelligent portion of the peo
ple of color will not he led astray by
adventurers who will use them while
they reap auy personal profit from pro
tended friendship, and desert them when
they please. But tho mass have not
had time to learn lessons of political
wisdom, and the prospect fills me with
sadness. If I could but mako them hear
me, 1 would appeal to them to make
common cause with tho white people of
their own land, to take advice and
counsel from such men as have been
known to them through their lives for
their high character aud honesty and
intelligence, to seek tho welfare of tho
people on whom they must depend
through all time for their own prosperi
ty, to do no act which shall give to tho
white population just cause lor enmity,
aud thus indemnifying themselves with
the communities iu which they dwell,
obtain for themselves the most powerful
of allies in the struggle against those
forces which threaten their very exist
ence. Bay this much to them Cor me.
_ 8. W. W.
From the Atlanta (Jonutltutlon
Folio u.
The last year’s crop was 2,430,893
bales, worth $350,000,000. Three acres
average a hale. In this ratio this crop
was raised on 7,000,000 acres, worth
$72,000,000, hut before tho war worth
$300,000,000.
The ter cotton States—the Carolines,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Ten
nessee, embrace 426,305,440 acres. Parts
of Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri
raise cotton. Bay that 250,000,000 acres
san be used to raise cotton. This could
produce 85,000,000 bales, worth $9,000,*
000,000, twice the public debt. Last
year’s yield therefore, was one thirty
sixth ot our grand cotton capacity.
Six bales to the hand is a fair average.
This rule would give 405,148 laborers
for last year. Allowing one fourth
white, this would leave 303,861 blacks
to 101.287 whites.
Before the war, in the Cotton States,
there were 3,030,241 slaves, half of
whom made cotton. Black cotton la
borers are thus reduced from 1,500,000
to 300,000.
During the war cotton raising went
up in foreign countries ; since, it has
declined. India produced 1,840,658
bales in 1865 to 1,420,570 in 1868. Egypt
fell from 404,311 bales in 1865 to 193,-
035 in 1868. In both conntries in the
best cotton years a million of people
died from starvation, the result of neg
lecting grain to raise cotton.
In Brazil, Peru and the West Indies,
the yield of cotton steadily increases.
But Tennessee alone beats all South
America and the West Indies, by 374,-
860 bales to 242,207 baloß.
Smyrna cut down her fruit trees in
1864, to grow cotton, but has abandon
ed it.
These facts encourage and instruct
us. They tell us:
First, That for some time the cotton
crop of the world will fall short of what
it used to be, and hence prices must
stay up.
Second, That, there is no danger to
the South from foreign rivalry, and
therefore, our cotton will yet give us
power.
Third, That our only way to raise the
cotton in the quantity we wish, will bo
to import labor, and encourage immi
gration.
Fourth, That it isour duty to ourselves
to take steps to redeem our immenso
area of unused cotton territory from ne
glct and thus add to our commercial
anil political power.
The Chicago Republican thus cogent
ly and frankly speaks of this important
matter :
In fact the promotion of the number
of the laboring population in the South
becomes almost if not quite a national
question.. Now, we are largely export
ing either bonds or gold, to pay for the
balance of trade, which is against us.—
Cotton is the same as cash, wherewith
to make these payments. A cotton crop
equal to that of 1860, might have turned
in our favor European exchanges and
forced in our bauds the great advantages
to be derived from having tho balance
of trade in our favor.
Railroad Companies Mubt Provide
Seats for Pasbknoers. —Railroad com
panies must find seats for every passen
ger, or pay damages. So, at lca9t, the
Supreme Court of New York on Tues
day morning decided (on appeal from a
lower court) in the case of Walker vs.
the Long Island Railroad Company.—
Plaintiff sued to recover damages for
negligence, that caused the death of his
father, while traveling on the road about
a yt-ar ago. The deceased was standing
on the platform, and was knocked off,
therefore defendants contended that, as
it was in violation of the printed rules
bung up in the cars, plaintiff bad no
claim. Rut it being proved that deceas
ed had gone through the cars and looked
in vain.for a seat, the court gave judg
ment for plaintiff, affirming the decision
of the court below.
A Radical Senator from ono of the
mountain districts of Tennessee, on bis
arrival at Nashville to take his seat, put
up at a first class hotel, when the fol
lowing occurred on taking bis seat at
the table: Senator to servant —“What
is your victuals ?” Servant—“ What
will you have, sir, tea or coffee ?” Sen
ator—“ Tea.” Servant—“ What kind
of tea?” Senator —“Storetea, by ;
do you suppose I come here to drink
sassafrax?”
Ice in June.—At Marquette, Michi
! gan, last week, there was a remarkable
! right. With the thermometer at 85 de
grees in the shade, tho hay and harbor
were so full of ice that it was with diffl
i culty vessels could make their way
through it. At night tho wind changed
to the West and moved the large body
of ice out into the lake. Tho bergs are
still so solid that it is dangerous for a
vessel to strike them when underhead
-1 way.
Wendell Phillips and Mr. Lo.—
Theßostou Post contains the following:
' Dear Phillips,— Scalping knives
! received in good orderj; have tried sev
eral of them on the heads of travelers
| over the railroad; they give perfect sat
isfaction to all but the travelers,
j Your friend, Spotted Tail.
A Good Specimen.—A carpet hag
member of the Legislature from Dallas
county, nameil Emmons, is accused in
the New York Herald of selling bogus
Revenue stamps for toh§cc°» a *
dega. But he is “trooly toil."-*"*
, Mail.