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COLUMBUS:
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 4.
Gbau’s Opbba Troupe Comes to
Grief.— The Savannah Advertiser says
all the property, wardrobes, stage prop
erty, etc., belonging to Grau’s Opera
Troupe, was attached on Monday last,
to satisfy claims against Grau, amount
ing to fI,OOO. The Advertiser says it is
reported to be the determination of the
members of the Troupe to contest the
matter on the ground that the property
did not in any way belong to Mr. Grau
and could not be held for his debts.
The Owen TBomab Will Case.—
We heard it stated by both parties that
the decision of the Supreme Court in
the widely talked of Owen Thomas will
case, as published yesterday, settles on
ly the law points. The decision of the
lower Court in regard to them was re
versed. The cbse may again be brought,
and doubtless will be, before the Supe
rior Court on questions of evidence.
To be Covered with Slate. —The
roof of the Court House is to be slated.
Preparatory work was going on yester
day. McGovern & Cos., have the con
tract. We are told the cost will be
about $2,000.
Eufaula Municipal Election. —At
the election for municipal officers, held
in Eufaula on Monday last, G. A.
Roberts was elected Mayor; A. A.
Walker, Treasurer; T. L. Hardman,
Clerk ; T. D. Patterson, Marshal; and
M. B. Wellborn, W. J. Bray, J. M. Bu
ford, W. E. Stammers, J. M. McElroy,
J. T. Kendall, whites, and Washington
Burke, and Malvin Patterson, negroes,
Aldermen. The News says the ne
groes were elected by small majorities,
and it is believed their election was ac
complished by fraudulent voting. The
polls are to be purjed. They represent
the fourth ward.
Tiie Mississippi Disaster. The
latest accounts from the recent terrible
railroad disaster ne&r Oxford gives the
following names of the killed : J. C.
McDonald, of Brandon ; Col. Spears,
planter, near Jackson, who was return
ing from Chicago with thirty laborers;
S. C. Morehouse, of Elkhart; A. S. Mc-
Conico and son Samuel 8., Conductor
Adams, and Mrs. Duncan K. Farrell,
just returning from Scotland. Col. Sam
Tate, President of the road, had a leg
broke. Many of the killed were Nor
wegians on their way to fill engage
ments as laborers in Mississippi.
A most disastrous fire occurred in the
village of Marion, S. C., Tuesday last,
(March Ist), which consumed nearly
half the public square. Thirteen build
ings were destroyed. Loss estimated
at $40,000. The Crescent newspaper
office was destroyed* Most of the suf
ferers were partially insured. Mr. I.
Iseman, one of the oldest citizens, per
ished in the flames. The firo originated
in a large new store and dwelling own
ed by Knox & Gill, of Baltimore, and
occupied by Henry Clark and G. Rich
ards, merchants.
The Case of Col. Ybroke.—A
Western press dispatch from Jackson,
Miss., says tnat Col. E. M. Yerger who
has been in military confinement since
June last, on the charge of killing Col.
Crane, was transferred Sunday to the
custody of the Sheriff of Hinds county
by an order from the Adjutant General
United States Army. Lieut. Wood,
Adjt. General of the fourth military dis
trict recently made affidavit before
Judge COban Charging him -with the
murder of Col. Crane. The counsel for
defense waived hn examination and
Yerger was committed without bail.
The Chinese Comino. —The Savan
nah Republican vouches for the relia
bility of the writer of the following note:
Savannah, March Ist, 1870.
Editor Savannah Republican :
Sir :—I learn from a friend in Hong
Kong, under date of the 11th January,
that two Southern gentlemen, Messrs.
Gift and Williams, were then there
making arrangements to send one thous
and (1,000) Chinese laborers to Savan
nah and New Orleans.
My correspondent adds that these
gentlemen found no difficulty in engag
ing the Chinese. He does not, howev
er, specify the terms of their contracts.
Yours, faithfully, Devon.
The residence, and all the outhouses,
except a stable belonging to Mr. W. W.
Montgomery, of Summerville, in a sub
urb of Augusta, were burned»Sunday
morning. Some wearing apparel,
trunks, and a box of silver, were the
only articles saved. Loss $0000; in
sured for #3OOO.
Among tho graduates of the Medical
College of Georgia, at Augusta, which
closed the exercises of its late session
on Tuesday last, we see the names of
Isaac Perkins Cheney and Isaac Cheney
McCoy, of Columbus.
The citizens of Opelika met in town
meeting on Monday last and nominated
the following municipal ticket for the
ensuing year: For Mayor, Wilson
Williams ; for Couucilmcu, N. Tucker,
R. M. Greene, J. K. Edwards, and John
W. Deloach.
After recording four deaths in and
around Union Springs recently, the
Times says “at this time there is a great
deal of sickness in and around Union
Springs. Measels reported in many
instances.”
Dogmatic. —Somebody has written a
new song called “ Shoo, Purp ,” and
dedicates it, with the highest respect,
to Ulysses I.
On Saturday last, one hundred and
forty young doctors, representing twen
ty-four States, were graduated from the
Bellevue Hospital Medical College New
York city.
Mrs. General Simpson, daughter of
the late Commodore Chaplin, of United
States Navy, died on Wednesday.
Her father was hurried that day, and
she was struck down by paralysis after
returning home from the cemetery.
The Eufaula News says an ox in that
city, owned by Mr. Elliot Thomas,
weighs 1600 pounds, and although now
very fat, the owner is going to stall feed
him a month or six weeks longer in or
der that he may hold the beam out as
far as possible.
The Cartersville Express says it has
never known such extensive prepara
tions made to sow clover and the grasses
in that section as are being perfected
this season.
Mr. F. A. Huson, for a number of
years, the landlord of the Milledgeville
Hotel, died at his residence in Kings
ton, Ga., last week-
Weston (Missouri) people have lately
hung an innocent man for horse-steal
ing, and are now raising money to get
him a grave stone.
The Sandersville Georgian learns j
that one planter in that county wiil use
600 tons of guano this year.
Mr. James Neely, an old and respect
ed citiaen of Huntsville, Ala., died in
tint city on Sunday last.
Mortou’a Life of Paine.
We understand that a prominent
point in ex-Judge Morton’s forthcom
ing work, entitled “The Life and Com
plete Writings of Thomas Paine,” is to
demonstrate and prove by the manu
scripts of Mr. Paine, in possession of
the Mortons, that the usually received
and expressed opinion of the world,
that “Tom Paine was an atheist,” is
an error. The work is written in the
interest of religion. We have been
permitted to scan a considerable por
tion of Mr. Morton’s manuscript, and
select as of interest the following items
from Mr. Paine’s will:
“The last will and testament of me,
Thomas Paine, reposing confidence in
my Creator God, and in no other being,
for I know of no other, nor believe in
any other, I, Thomas Paine, of the
State of New York, author of the work
entitled ‘Common Sense,’ written in
Philadelphia in 1775, and published in
that city the beginning of January,
1776, which awaked America to a De
claration of Independence on the fourth
of July following, which was as fast as
the work could spread through such an
extensive country; author also of" &c.,
&c.
Here follows the names of the various
works written by Mr. Paine. With
the exception of three special legacies—
to Walter Morton and Thomas Addis
Emmett, his executors, and to Mrs.
Palmer, widow of an old friend of
Paine’s, he left his entire estate to Clio
Rickman, of High on Upper Maryla
bone street, London, and to Margaret
Brazier Bonneville, and her children,
of Paris. Towards the conclusion of
the will we find the following:
“Thus placing confidence in their
friendship (his executors), I herewith
take my final leave of them and of the
world. I have lived an honest and
useful life to mankind; my time has
been spent in doing good; and I die in
! perfect composure and resignation to
the will of my Creator God.”
We understand that an agent of a
prominent Northern publishing house
was in Columbus on Monday, endeav
oring to make arrangements with Mr.
Morton for the purchase of the copy
right of his work. He prefers, howev
er, to have it brought out at the South.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special to the Telegraph and Messenger.
Washington, March 2. —Bullock
read a printed pamphlet before the Ju
diciary Committee, principally devoted
to the abuse of Caluwell, though rebels,
traitors, ku klux and anti-Buliockites
generally are characteristically denounc
ed. Bullock Bays he holds the Gover
norship at great pecuniary sacrifice to
himself, ana is ready to resign, if by so
doing he can further the formation of
Republican government in Georgia, but
will not resign because of rebel fault
finding and abuse.
IVo remarks tram the Bryant delega
tion, or important verbal statement.
The Judiciary Committee reported to
the Senate. The report details the
manner of organization of the Provis
ional State Government, and states the
circumstances attending the organiza
tion of the House and the part taken by
Harris. A statement has been made of
the action of General Terry, in direct
ing the exclusion of certain persons
from the Legislature until their cases
should be favorably reported upon by
the Military Commission he organized.
Three members elect were thus exclud
ed and the admission of other persons
delayed until they should be relieved
from their political disabilities. Upon
this history the Committee is constrain
ed to say that, in its opinion, the before
mentioned action of the military author
ities are not authorized by law. The
Legislature elected in Georgia was in
tended by Congress to take the place of
the Provisional Government as a perma
nent one ; this seems perfectly clear,
and the same view was taken by the
General of the Army, in his order to
Gen. Meade of March 2, 1868.
The corrffctnefla of any misapprehen
sion of the act of Congress could be
made by Congress but not by the mili
tary. The action of the House in after
wards admitting persons who had been
candidates against persons so excluded,
but received only a minority of the
votes cast, is considered by the commit
tee as unwarranted by law, and persons
then admitted were not lawfully entitled
to seats in the Legislature. Committee
therefore, report that in the following
reports of the organization of said Leg
islature has not been warranted by law:
first, in control and direction of its pro
ceedings by Harris, second in exclusion
from taking oaths, and from seats of
their members elect, who offered to
swear in; third, reseating of persons
not having a majority of votes of the
election. In conclusion, the committee
stated that they felt justified in omitting
to recommend further legislation on the
subject. It is thought this report vitiates
the election of Blodgett, Whiteiy oud
Farrow. The Georgia Bill will not
come up in the House till the Indian
appropriation bill is disposed of.
A lllsatlrons Nm»sli-np on Ihe South
western Railroad,
An accident of rather huge dimen
sions occurred yesterday morning about
6 o’clock, on the Southwestern Rail
road, in tho Tobesolkee swamp, some
four or five miles south of this city, in
which no lesß than three freight trains
were involved and a number of cars
literally demolished. It appears that
the Columbus freight train, the first
that leaves here in the morning on this
road, ran off the track when about four
miles from the city, caused either by a
defective rail or rotten stringer, and
after running some distance on the
crossties and road bed, the engine and
several of the cars upset, leaving five or
sis cars standing on the road. In a few
minutes alter this train left the ireight
depot, the Eufaula freight train started
out, and, knowing nothing ofthe acci
dent that had occurred to the Columbus
train, it ran full drive into the cars left
standing on the road, bursting them
wide open and smashing them to flin
ders. So here was two trains off the
track and a number of cars demolished.
And, as if to cap the climax on all the
railroad smash-ups that have occurred in
Georgia ior the last decade, the Albany
freight train followed close in the wake
of the Eufaula train, and, on reaching
the point where the first train flew the
track, it, too, went off and about ball of
it upset. So here were three heavily
freighted trains all off the track at the
same point, a number of cars knocked
into a cocked hat, freight scattered and
bursted, and, strange to say, nobody
hurt.
' All three trains leave early in the
morning and within a lew moments of
each other, and the accident to the first
occurring so near town, and at a point
| on the road where but a short distance
ahead can be seen, it wasnexttoiinpos
Bible to avoid the accident which befell
the second or third trains.
As soon as those persons aboard these
trains saw what had happened, some of
them started back to town on foot, and
got here before the regular mail and
i passenges trains forEulaulaand Colum
bus started out, or they too would have
j probably shared the same fate of the
freight trains. When Superintendent
Powers heard what had occurred, he,
Mr. H. P. Smith, Master of Transporta
i tion, and several other railroad men
1 went down on the regular Eufaula pas
senger train to the scene of the wreck,
and took along the mail and passengers
bound South, all of which were turned
over to the Eufaula night freight and
accomodation train, due here at 9:10 a.
m., and which arrived just beyond the
wreck in a few moments after the offi
cials and passengers went down. So
soon as this transfer of passengers and
mail was made, the Eufaula night train
was returned to that city on schedule
time and hence passengers and mails
went through on time.— Macon Tele
graph, March 3d.
The Macon Telegraph is responsible
for the following:
Ann Suck Aigs.— An old negro wo
man down in Houston was listening to
a defence of the radical politicians in
Georgia from a colored fugleman, who
was forced to admit that “sum of’em
was mity mean,” but, says he, “sum on
’em is as good as you ken find any
whar." “I never seed no difference,”
says the old lady. “Thar’s nary one j
on ’em but’ll suck aigs.”
! Vindication of the Memory of a Dead
ii«UtieiDAQ.
The Editor of the Radical organ of
Montgomery Am., having interlarded
uis eulogy on Burlingame, with an as
! sault on .he memory of Preston Brooks-
General Clanton retort 6 as follows :
To the Editor of tne Mail.
i'he slate J uiual ol >esterday re
publishes ttuui ine Mew York Tribune
a biographical oke-icu of the late Anson
Burlingame, in which disparaging ref
erence is made to ihe caning of Sumner
by Brocks in the Senate Chamber at
Washington—applying to the latter the
epithets “bully,” “poltroon,”&c.
Where that gallant spirit is personal
ly known, living or dead, he needs no
Oeteuse. I was one of those who disap
proved of the place and weapon which
he selected to administer a merited cas
tigation to the physical giant from Mas
sachusetts for hi i insulting abuse of the
| ladies ot the Sooth. The street, and a
| cowhide, wuu.d have been more appro
priate.
It was my good tortuue to he born
! within a few miles of the birth place of
Preston Brooks, and to have been well
acquainted with his personal history.
His grandfather was a revolutionary
: soldier ; his father a model citiz. n and
gentleman. When a young man he ac
! cepted a challenge *'rom Hon. Louis
; Wigfall. He did not, like Burlingame,
select the Clifton House, Canada, as the
i place of meeting ; but a little islaud in
j the Savannah river, only ten or twelve
miles distant from his place of residence.
In that combat both parties were wound
ed. When the Btate of South Carolina
was called on for volunteers for the
Mexican war, Preston Brooks was one
1 of the first to respond, and commanded
j a company in the gallant Palmetto
Regiment, under his maternal uncle,
1 Col. Butler, who fell at Cherubusco
leading a charge upon the enemy’s
breastworks.
An incident which occurred just out
side the walls of the city of Mexico in
May 1847, will illustriate the impetu
ous character of our hero. Being officer
of the guard he found it necessary to
punish a couple of delinquent sentinels
belonging to a Northern regiment,
which was encamped in a convent be
tween the “guard quarters” and the
Palmetto regiment. Capt. B. being re
lieved and these fellows released from
confinement, as he passed the convent,
they had preceeded him, and with a
large number of others, had taken posi
tion on top of the building and behind
the parapet wall, and as he passed, at
tempted to pelt him with “rotten eggs.”
He halted when the first egg was
thrown, deliberately drew his pistol,
popped a cap at the head of the first man
who threw, and drawing a second all
heads had diappeared.
If the vandals who burnt Columbia
did not steal or destroy the “Cast monu
ment,” erected by the Legislature of
South Carolina to the survivors of that
regiment, the name of Preston Brooks
may be found inscribed in letters of iron
on that roll of fame.
The assertion that Burlingame ever
intended fighting Brooks, is ridiculous.
If he had, he would have crossed the
Potomac to a spot near at hand, where
brave men from every section without
moiootminn from the civil authorities,
had fought and fell. He prererrod being
followed for a thousand miles through
the Northern States, where Radical
mobs, he knew full well, would take
good care of his gallant adversary. It
was regarded at the time, by all fair
minded men from everywhere, as a
cowardly subterfuge, on Burlingame’s
pait. The editor of the State Journal
who re-publishes this slanderous arti
cle, knew that there was not one word
of truth in it, so far as Preston Brooks
was concerned. Until very recently
bought up, he boasted that although
born in New York, he had not one
drop of Yankee blood in bis veins;
that he was a Calhoun Democrat, and
served four years in the Confederate
army. It may be treason, Mr. Editor,
to make war upon the United States
Government, but it is not treason to de
fend the reputation of our fallen com
rades through the press, and if made
necessary, on the street and on the field.
When I fail to do it, may my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth , and my
right hand forget her cunning.
In Paste, Your friend,
J. H. Clanton.
Noah on Ham.— ln that racy series
of papers, “Down Among #he Dead
Men,” in the Old Guard, for March, we
find the following about the veteran
journalists, Major Noah:
“The Major,” as he was always call
ed by his friends, though always stand
ing up stoutly for the honor of his race,
was not very strict in the observance of
the Hebrew religion. Someone, net
tled at something he had said, spoke of
him as “a pork-eating Jew.” He laugh
ed when told of it. “I don’t admire
pork,” he said, “but I plead guilty to a
weakness for its hind leg, when all the
Christian has been taken out of it by
salt and smoke and—hanging. I know
that the first Noah cursed Ham, but he
was recovering from a bad drunk at the
tinio. Thoro uo igbduu tt Uj. lU6 last
Noah should do it without any provo
cation—especially if the ham be juicy,
and the Noah hungry.”
“But Moses, Major.”
“Oh, Moses was perfectly right, un
der the circumstances. I don’t suppose
that there was a man in all Palestine
who understood how to cure a ham.
Moses tells us we mustn’t mar the cor
ners of our beards, and yet ninety-nine
hundredths of the Jews shave their chins
as close as I do.”
And so the Major ate his ham, and
took the responsibility.
The elevated railway in Greenwich
street, New York, is now completed for
its entire length, from the Battery to
Thirtieth street. The motive power on
this road is stationary and consists of
seven engines, each with two oscillat
ing cylinders nine inches in diameter
and fourteen-inches stroke, and of thir
ty-torse power. These engines are situ
ated in vaults under the sidewalk, and
are placed at intervals along the line.
The engine for each division turns a
driving wheel, which propels an endless
rope passing round a cylinder at the
other extremity of the section. Attach
ed to this rope at disiances of 150 feet,
are small trucks with diminutive wheels,
which run on a wooden track under
neath and between the main track.
These trucks are armed with a small
slot, to and from which the passenger
cars can be attached and detached by a
lever in front, under the control of the
conductor. The passeDger cars run on
eight wheels, and are built on a frame
work, protected by elliptic springs from
the sudden jar of the rope when the con
nection is made with the truck. The
wheels of the car are of wood, with iron
tyres, and the motion is nearly noise
less. When it is desired to start the
car, tbd 1 conductor moves the lever,
which is caught by the first truck, and
the car is carried along until the lever is
again detached, and the break applied
to the axles.— Philadelphia Ledger.
Meningitis in Coffee County, Ga.
—The following letter was received in
Savannah on Tuesday night. It tells
a sad tale for the people of Coffee county:
Tuomasville, Ga., Feb. 28, 1870.
Dear Sir l have just returned from
Coffee county, where the disease known
as meningitis is raging most fearfully.
One hundred and fifteen persons have j
already died, and the number of those
now suffering is fearful. Out of a family
of nine persons, eight have died. Can
you not send us some assistance from
the number of physicians in your city ?
There were two physicians in the conn- i
ty, and they have both left. We need
help, and must have it. The people
look upon it as an epidemic, and many
families are leaving.
Yours, A. N.
The dwelling—a largs two story ;
building—on what is known asihe Cal-1
houn farm, in the suburbs of Huntsville,
Alabama, -was burned last Sunday •
morning. Most of the furniture of the
occupant, a Mr. Street, was lost. In j
the upper story, was stored in boxes j
many valuable household articles be-!
longing to the Calhoun family, among
them a splendid set of china, every
piece representing a different scene
from the others, handsome candela- j
bras, chandeliers, &c., all of which were j
lost.
Calhoun is not of the South Carolina
family, but an eccentric Frenchman
who married the only daughter of ex-
Gov. William Smith of South Carolina
From the Rome (Ga.) Courier.
OUR FRIENDS IN THE WEST.
We have found “the sickest roan.”
He is one of those misguided individu
als who left the fertile valleys of Chero
kee, and went to the rolling prairies of
the Great West. His name is Lloyd.
Many of our readers know him to be a
man of reliability, and we take the lib
erty of quoting from a letter which his
brother has kindly furnished us. We
have seen many letters from these emi
grants, and we have not seen a single
one that contained praises ofthe fancied
El Dorado. We have kept quiet about
them, but now that there is some dan
ger of anew outbreak of this deplorable
madness, we enter this document as a
remedy.
After lugubrious dissertation on pri
vate topics, and some very interesting
items that we cannot publish for want
of space, the sick man thus goes for the
country with a grim sarcasm, that is
very refreshing to us who didn’t emi
grate :
“If you want a cheap home, this is
the place to get it. If you want a home
that nobody else would have, il they
could help themselves, this is the place.
If you want an ill-convenient place,
every way, this is your place ; it you
want to go 20 miles to a postoffice, and
forty to mill, this is the place ; if you
want a country where the bull frogs
shake with the ague, the White River
; bottoms is the country ; if you want a
good rich bottom farm, where the mus
quitoes grow so large that they are fre
quently seen two feet high and with a
bill long and sharp enough to bite a man
I through three saddle blankets and an
inch plank, the Arkansas River bottoms
are very near the place ; if you want a
high mountainous country, where it
sometimes tabes four yoke of cattle to
i pull an empty wagon up some of the
1 hills, and where a man cannot hold his
tobacco in bis mouth and drive his team,
! Crawford, Washington, Benton, Car
roll and Madison counties will fill the
bill. I have been traveling around ever
since I have been here, but we have to
; travel very slow, owing to the bad roads.
“Asa man was traveling below here,
he came up with a man standing on a
i large rock, popping his whip, and hol
i lowing at the top of his voice, “gee up
here.”
“He accosted him thus “hallo stran
ger, what is the matter here ?” “By
God, sir, I have a wagon and team un
der here, bear around, sir," and he left
him popping his whip ! I have not heard
from him since.
“If you want to see any of the nine
coreered rocks, just go up into Benton,
the ground is literally covered with
them in many places, for miles; they
are nearly as white as snow; they have
nine sharp corners with eight ot them
pointing right at you. This county is
rockey enough for me. When I step
out of my cabin I am on a rock, I blun
der over them twenty or thirty steps
and I am in the bottom, and knee deep
in mud; I step out on the other side of
the cabin, and I stumble over rocks
from the size of a foil grown mule to
mat of a Railroad Decot. for fifty or one
j hundred yards, and then I run my head
up against an impenetrable cliff, in
many places one hundred feet high, and
so straight that they are like the Indian’s
tree; but this is considered a smooth
country to what some is.”
That about running bis bead against
the impenetrable cliff is decidedly rich.
He says they work for something to
eat, “for as to clothing, there aint no
use to think about getting any of that
in this country. ’ That is bad. He
acknowledges that it is a good country
for a man that has’nt got anything, and
don’t want anything, and then describes
his house as follows:* 1
“I am in a little cabin, 11 by 13 feet,
which is the size of the cabins in this
country. It stands catter-cornered with
the world, on a bench of the mountain,
surrounded with briers and big rocks,
twenty steps from the road, where the
catamounts carry off all the chickens
and young pigo, and whore the panthers
are frequently beard squalling around
the bouse—l have not heard but one
yet. This is my only chance fora shel
ter, unlesß I take shelter under the big
hanging rock, which is close by, and
nearly as good.”
He then discourses tbusly about the
opinions that all the other people have
of that country:
“I am on a very public road, where I
can see from 50 to 100 wagons a day,
going in every direction, of discontent
ed persons; tney are going and coming
from Texas; going and coming from
Missouri and California; they are flock
ing in here powerfully from Tennessee
and North Carolina. They all appear
to be sadly disappointed in their expec
tations. I find a great many moving
about here from one county to another
—some rolling out from the river to the
"'''untains. to get away from the ague
and musquities—sumo s »i. s out. of the
mountains to get rid of the rocks, anu
to where they can raise cotton.”
Rotation of Crops.— The Southern
Cultivator thus presents its ideas of ro
tation of crops;
As regards habits of growth, cultiva
ted plants may be divided into two
classes : Ist. Those with long tap roots,
as peas, clover, cotton, etc.; 2d Those
with numerous fine fibrous roots, as
com, wheat, barley, rye, and the gasses
proper. The former send a large por
tion of their roots deep into the soil and
subsoil, and draw their food largely
from these lower depths; the roots of
the latter are chiefly confined to the up
per layers of soil, from which they take
their supplies. One can readily see,
therefore, that while several crops of
small grain might exhaust the upper
soil too much for another crop of the
same kind to succeed well after them,
the deeper layers of soil and the subsoil
may still be rich enough to sustain a
good crop of peas etc. In every rota
tion, therefore, some fibrous-rooted and
some tap-rooted plants should enter.
Woman Suffrage in Utah.—The
following is the brief law just enacted
in Utah to confer suffrage on Mormon
women:
“Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gov
! ernor and Legislative Assembly of the
Territory of Utah, That every woman
of the age of twenty-one years, who has
resided in the territory six months next
preceding any general or special elec
tion, born or naturalized in the United
States, or who is the wife, widow or
the daughter of a native born or natu
ralized citizen of the United States,
shall be entitled to vote at any election
in this territory.
Sec. 2. All laws or parts of laws con
flicting with this act are hereby repeal
ed.
“Approved Feb. 12,1870.”
This law was passed by Mormon Leg
islature and has been approved by a
“Gentile” acting Governor. The latter
doubt3 its wisdom, but signs it, he says,
in deference to the unanimous vote of the
Legislature, and the opinion ofj many
other persons whom he respects.
True to the Letter.— The Atlanta
correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial—Radical—writing on the 17th
ult , truly says :
The Republican party in Georgia
owes its very life to the negroes. Should
they withdraw from it it would “go up”
Ike a mist over a mill pond on a hot
day. They compose two-thirds of its
voting strength, and to their votes is
due the strength which the party has
derived from the ex-rebels. It is not
human nature for a man to desert
friends, kindred and party, and go into
an organization that is considered odi
ous, unless that party has the strength
to reward him for the sacrifice. There
was not one man in ten who suddenly
transformed himself from a rebel to a
Radical, but who either got, or thought
be was going to get a reward for it. If
there is a man in Georgia who suddenly
turned from a soldier in the army of the
Lost Cause to a worker in the ranks of
Radicalism, and who is not now in
office, or who has not held office Bince
the date of his transformation, I have
not seen him.
Cotton at Macon.— Week’s receipts
016 bales; total receipts 71,852; stock
Wednesday, March 2d, 16,208. Sales
of the week 982. The above statement
does not include the 2,485 bales re
ceived since Sept. Ist in East Macon.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Paris, March 3. The magistrate
whom Prince Murat struck has with
drawn the complaint.
Specie in Bank of France 12,000,000f.
greater than corresponding time last
week.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte has been no
tified to appear before the High Court,
to answer in the Victor Noir homicide.
The sessions of the (Ecumenical
Council will be resumed next week.
The Pope is confident of the success of
the doctrine of infallibility.
From Washington.
Washington, March 3d, 1870.
House.—The St. James and Little Rock
Railroad recommitted to the Public
Lands Committee. The Committee are
now considering the air-line road hence
to New York.
Senate considering Judiciary bill
and amendment requiring associates to
reside within their respective circuits.
Election Committee vote (7 to 5) ad
versely to seating Segar, as representa
tive at large from Virginia.
Stevenson and Burdcll report in fa
vor of continuing Sheldon in his seat.
Kerr reports in favor of ousting Shel
don and seating Hunt.
These reports go direct to the House
without manipulation by the whole
Committee.
Delegates from the Tobacco Associa
tion are here seeking an opportunity to
argue before the Ways and Means
Committee in favor of the resolutions
adopted by the recent Convention at
Cincinnati.
The Government now holds one hun
dred million in bonds subject to the
sinking fund and wishes of Congress.
House.—Committee on Ways and
Means were directed to enquire into
the expediency of exempting brickma
kers from manufacturer’s tax, and ex
empting from revenue persons quarry
ing bluestone.
Resolution offered favoring a heavy
reduction on fruit brandy.
The air-line railroad to New York,
after a struggle, was postponed.
Butler offered the Georgia bill as a
priviliged question.
Farnesworth said Butler was unau
thorized by the Reconstruction Com
mittee to make a report.
The Speaker said the difference be
tween the gentlemen was a point of ve
racity and not in order.
Butler said, “I am responsible.”
The Speaker said he must recognize
the Chairman.
Butler refused to be catechised by his
colleague.
Pending the squabble, the House ad
journed.
Judge Busteed departs to-morrow to
open the rc-gular term of his Oouit.
The Territorial Committee reported
unanimously in favor of the confirma
tion of Dr. Bard for the Governorship
of Idaho.
Senate.—A bill was introduced ena
bling the Leavenworth, Lawrence UDd
Galveston Railroad to extend a branch
of their road.
Bill changing United States Supreme
Court Circuits was considered.
Willy offered an amendment to dis
pense with tlierequiremenUhata Judge
shall be resident of the circuit for which
appointed. He urged that the Presi
dent should be allowed to make his se
lections from the nation at large, and
not be limited to localities, where, as
in Southern circuits, it might be diffi
cult to find a man whose loyalty was
of a character to warrant his elevation
to the Supreme Bench.
Davis denied the right of Congress to
interfere.
No action.
Resolution calling for the names of
States that ratified 15th amendment,
adopted.
Washington, March 4.—Committees
done nothing.
House.—Pensions.
Georgia comes up after the morning
hour.
The Senate refused to consider the
bill extending civil rights to Chinese.
Bill changing Judicial Circuits re
sumed.
Disabilities still hang fire on Sum
ner’s motion to reconsider.
It is learned at the Treasury Depart
ment that Bechtel, Gormley, and the
two Herwigs win bo remuveU from Hie
New Orleans custom house. It will
take stronger papers than are now be
fore the Department to move Casey.
Sumner having withdrawn his objec
tion to the disability bill, it now goes
to the President who will sign it.
Revenue to day over half a million.
Col. Charles Blount of the Engineer
Corps has been sentenced to suspen
sion of back pay for three months and
to be reprimanded in general orders.
N. Mason, colored, has been nomi
nated Consul General to Liberia.
The bill reported by Robertson of
the Disabilities Committee does not re
lieve persons affected by the 14th
amendment.
House-After unimportant business
the Georgia bill was taken up. It will
be voted on to-morrow. Butler in ar
guing the bill said, Georgia for the first
time presented herself in the proper
guise for admission. He added that if
the judment of the House went with
his own, he proposed to exhibit to
Tennessee the power of Congress
against wrong, rapine and murder.
Farnesworth, opposing the bill, said
he understood very well the object of
the bill was got up on the theory that
the admission of the Georgia members
to the 40th Congress went for nothing,
like Rip Van Winkle’s dream, and that
they were to come back and be sworn
in for the 41st Congress. It was to
prolong the tenure-of-offlee of certain
gentlemen in Georgia, and the bill
might as well be entitled that as any
thing else.
Senate—Committee on Disabilities re
ported a bill abolishing the iron clad
oath.
Resolution of the Mississippi Legisla
ture for the removal of the disabilities of
citizens of that State was presented.
Bill to refer all claims for quartermas
ter and commissary stores furnished to
or taken by the U. S., by loyal persons
in the South during the war, was con
sidered. Amendments to limit the bill
to a mere examination of claims and to
refer all claims over five hundred dol.
lars to the Court of Claims with power
to diminish but not to increase the
amount, were proposed. No action was
taken.
Adjourned to Monday.
From West Virginia.
Wheeling, March 4.—The Legisla
ture has adjourned.
The seat of Government will hereaf
ter be at Charleston.
Front Montgomery.
Montgomery, March 4.—After pass
ing two hundred and ninety bills, most
ly legalizing marriages,making divorces
and loaning the Slate’s credit to rail
roads, the Legislature adjourned.
Front New Orleans.
New Orleans, March 4.— Auditor
Wickliffe has been unanimously im- 1
peached.
New Orleans, March 4 — Governor
Warmoth has convened the Legislature
in extra session, commencing on Mon
day March 7tb.
SATURDAY NORMSti, If ARCH 5.
Charles O’Conner, the eminent law
yer, is reported to be dangerously ill
with small pox, at his residence at
Washington Heights near New York.
The Plcayune;says the statement in
some German papers that the Viceroy
of Egypt has offered the command of
his army to Gen. Beauregard, will be
news to him.
The North Carolina papers make
mention of a man in that State who has
reached his 143d year, has survived
seven wives, and is now courting the
eighth, a lady who.is 123 years his jun
ior.
The general abstract of the National
Banks in the United States khows the
amount of specie held by the banks to
be forty-eight and a half millions dol
lars.
The New York Sun pronounces a
“forgery” the alleged proclamation of
the Captain General of Cuba, decreeing
the manumission of “two thousand
slaves, prisoners of war.”
When the War Ended.— The Su
preme Court of the United States has
decided that the war ended on the 20th
of August, 1866, the date of the Presi
dent’s proclamation declaring the “sup
pression of the rebellion.”
A silver mine of unparalleled richness
is reported in Grayson county, Ken
tucky. The ore is said to contain a
larger per cent, of silver than any here
tofore discovered.
The Methodists have made an appro
priation for a mission to Utah. The
success of the Episcopalians in com
mencing a mission there, ought to en
courage other denominations to occupy
that field.
M. and E. Railroad —The Alabama
Legislature has passed the bill endors
ing the second mortgage bonds of the
Montgomery and Eufaula railroad to
the amount of three hundred thousand
dollars.
The Atlauta Constitution says there
are but few mules arriving in that city
now, and prices are on the decline. It
says 175 car loads, or about 3,500 head,
were received in the month of February.
We learn from the Athens Watchman
that Gen. J. A. Clark, of Social Circle,
was thrown to the ground by the vio
lent upsetting of t the vehicle iu which
be was riding last week, and the wheels
passing over-hint, dreadfti'ly mangled
one of his thighs.
The Cincinnati Commercial (Radi
cal) thinks the investigation into the
conduct of members of Congress SUS'
pected of selling cadetships, should be
stopped, for the reason that it is driving
off honorable members on account of
small pecuniary transactions.
The St. Louis Railroad Bridge.
The work of Sinking the Eastern pier
of the bridge to the bed of rock, ninety
feet below the surface of the river, was
accomplished on the 28th ult. The
workmen celebrated the event by firing
a salute.
University of the South. —The
University of the South, says the Nash
ville Banner, began the Lent term, at
University Place, on 24th ult., and has
already as many students as can be ac
commodated. The Vice Chancellor de
sires us to remind parents to communi
cate with the authorities before sending
their sons.
Salting Cabbage Plants.—A New
Jersey farmer, a few days after setting
out his plants, immediately after a rain,
or when they are damp, sprinkles a
pinch of salt on the centre leaves of each
plant. When they begin to grow, the
salting is repeated, and when heading
it is repeated for the last time. It is
claimed that salting makes the cabbage
more crisp, and to keep better.
Bird Hunt. —The Marshall (Texas)
Flag contains an elaborate description
of a match bunt which came off at
Jonesville on the 4th ult. The hunt
lasted five and a half hours. There were
four gentlemen on a side, and the fol
lowing is the result:
Johu Winston, 01 ; Wm. Winston,
ao ; 8. F. Perry, 34; W. A. Elliot, 38 ;
total, 163. Opposing party Chas.
Woodson, 40; Wm. Powell, so ; jno
Hearne, 18; 8. E. Waskom, 32; total,
120.
Population of Opelika. Good
| judges estimate the population of Ope
| lika at about three thousand, though
j there has been no recent census taken.
The population has increased very rap
idly since the last census was taken,
and will doubtless continue to increase
in the same ratio for many years to
come. In January, 1866, the popula
tion was estimated at about 800. In
January, 1870, it is nearly four times as
much. In 1874, we may reasonably
calculate on a population of ten or
twelve thousand, if the place contiues
to grow in the same ratio as it has in
the past. There is every reason why it
should grow faster.-- Opelika Era.
The Gold Gambling Business.—
Gen. Garfield has submitted his report
on the investigation es the New York
gold speculation and panic to the House
Committee on Banking and Currency.
; As we have expected, it entirely exon-
I erates the President and the members
of his household, and also the Secretary
of the Treasury from all blame. The
democrats, on the other hand, are pre
paring a minority report, which cen
| sures President Grant and several of his
household.
| His Head is Level. —The Griffin
Star says there is a boy attending the
Male Institute in that city, who works
of nights and Saturdays, and in this
way pays his board and tuition. He
always has his lessons perfectly. He
uses neither whisky, tobacco, cards or
profane language. His manners are
those of a gentleman, quiet and unob
trusive. This hoy will make a man of
] himself! _
| Connecticut Democracy. The
Democratic State Convention, on the
22d ult., was the largest and most en
thusiastic gathering ever held in that
State. Gov. English was nominated
without a dissenting voice, and tried
and unexceptionable men were named
for the other offices. The Connecticut
Democrats “mean business.” The New
Haven Register says:
The Republicans regard the nomina
tion of this ticket as a notice for them
to prepare for defeat. The Democracy
never had a better opportunity.
The Wilmington and South Carolina
Railroad charter, the introduction of
which into the South Carolina Legisla
ture, we noticed last week, passed that
body and has been signed by the Gov
ernor. This charter extends the line of
road now running from Wilmington to
Manchester, across the State in a west
direction from Manchester, S. C., to
Millen, Ga.
Rape and Murder.—A negro girl j
about thirteen years old was raped by a
hellish negro villian in this county yes- j
terday. This girl, we are informed, i
died from the injuries inflicted by the j
brute. We think a little hemp is need- |
ed in this case.— Mont. Mail,
THE OEOBHIA HUDDLE AGAIN.
The report of the Judiciary Commit
tee of the Senate upon the Georgia case,
as telegraphed to the Press, seems to
make a muddle of the whole affair.
How anything clear, satisfactory and
decided is to begotten outof the chaotic
mass of corruption and confusion, does
not as yet appear. The Committee find
that Bullock’s action was fraudulent
and illegal—in fact, an outrage, as the
Press of the State charged at the time.
Yet Bullock was backed up by Terry,
and he in turn by Grant and Sherman.
They find that Harris had no right or
authority to organize the Legislature.
Yet Harris did organize it in a stjde as
tyrannical as it was unprecedented.
They find that the Legislature was
wrong in seating members not entitled
to seats, and that Terry violated the
law in unseating members; five of them
in place of three, as is stated by the
Committee.
Yet, in the face of all these outrages
and corruptions, the Committee can
find no legislation to cure the evil. And
from their report it would seem that
Georgia is to be admitted, without a
correction of the wrongs perpetrated.
In fact, the reconstruction of Georgia
is again to be brought before both
branches of Congress. What the: ulti
mate decision will be, no man can say.
But there are other aspects of this re
port ofthe Judiciary Committee not fa
vorable to Bullock and his conspirators.
The Committee undertook to decide, so
far as their report can do it, that Bul
lock and the Legislature cannot com
mence their official lives from the as
sembling of the late Legislature. Fur
ther, that Bullock cannot remove the
officials of high and low degree already
appointed and installed. If the decision
of the Congress, shall ruu with that of
the Committee, the power and strength
of the Bullock faction is gone. A State
election will be held in November next.
By that time the people will be enabled
to send a different set of representatives
to Atlanta. It is but fair to presume
and assert, that under anew and fair
election, no Legislature can again be
chosen that will waste the treasures of
the people, that will disregard public
opinion, and that could so disgrace and
degrade Georgia, as to elect Blodgett
and Farrow, United States Senators.
As at first stated, the report of the
Committee again muddles Georgia af
fairs, but it is not beyond the range of
probabilities, that the delays and extra
ordinary means taken to reconstruct
Georgia, may in the end work out to
the best interest of the State.
N. Y. Special to the Cincinnati
The. Pope me leulaoi.
The followers af O'Neil, O'Mahoney
and Stephens Denied the Sacraments
and Christian Burial.
An unexpected blast has just come
from the Holy City. It is intended to
sweep to the dust the whole fabric of
Fenianism in Ireland and America.
His Holiness has just signed a decree
embracing an anathema against the
Fenians, and classifying them among
the carbonari and other enemies of the
church. Under the decree the disciples
of Gen. O’Neil, John O’Mahoney and
James Stephens are cut off from the
church, denied the sacraments and the
ordinary right of Christian burial.
They cannot be buried in consecrated
ground, and any clergyman, priest or
bishop who undertakes to absolve them
of their sins while they are connected
with the organizations not under the
Papal bar, does so at his peril. Annex
ed is a translation of the decree:
“Since it baa been iloutaLeil Ity snmp.
whether the association ofthe Feniauß
is deemed to be included among the
associations which have been condemn
ed in the pontifical constitutions, our
most Holy Lord, Pius IX, by Divine
Providence Pope, having first taken
the opinion of their eminences, the
Cardinals Inquisitor General, against
heretical wickedness in all Christendom,
and being careful lest the hearts of the
faithful, and especially of simple men,
should, to the evident danger oi souls,
be led astray, adhering, moreover, to
the decrees issued elsewhere in similar
matters, by the Sacred Congregation of
the Universal Inquisition, and especial
ly to the decree of Wednesday, July 5,
1865, has decreed and declared that the
American or Irish association called
that of the Fenianß is included among
the association which have been forbid
den and condemned in the constitutions
of the Supreme Pontiff, especially in
the very recent constitution of his same
Holiness, published on the 14th of Octo
ber, 3 869, and beginning with the words
‘Apostiloca eecZae ,’ in the fourth para
graph, whereof the excommunication
‘ lata sentential' reserved to the Koiuan
Pontiff is declared against those who
are adherents of the sects of Freema
sons, or Carbonari , or any other sects
of the same kind, which either openly
or clandestinely contrives schemes
against the Church or against lawful
powers, and also against those who show
any favor to the said sects, and for so
long as they shall fail to denounce them
against those who do not denounce the
secret ringleaders and chiefs of these
sects. And his Holiness has ordered
this answei to be given to any bishop
who make the inquiry.
[l. s. ]
“For D. Angelo Argenti, the Notary
ofthe Roman Universal Inquisition.
“Giacomo Voraooini, Substitute.
“Wednesday, Jan. 221870.”
Apprehended Marine Disasters.
—A New York special of the 25th ult.,
to the Courier-Journal, states that con
siderable apprehension was felt con
cerning the steamer Srnidt, which left
Bremen for this port on January 20th,
and has now been thirty seven days out
without having been spoken. The
Smidt is under command of Captain
Bheers, and had on board, when she
left Bremen, 298 steerage passengers
and none in the cabin. The agents say
they feel no great alarm at present;
that the Bmidt is a notoriously slow ves
sel and has been thirty days making the
passage once before. They explain t'he
delay on the probable hypothesis that
her supply of coal became exhausted
and she has been obliged to depend on
canvas alone. The Smidt is an iron
steamer, less than two yeas old, and
was built at Bremen. Nothing has been
heard from the City of Boston, now
thirty-two days out from this port to
Liverpool, and fears regarding her safe
ty are daily becoming strengthened.
It is hoped that she may have run for a
reef, or Fayal, or the Azores, and that
she may now be there in safety.
The Rabun Gap Pass.— The most
serious obstacle to the progress of the
Charleston and Knoxville Railroad
known as the Blue Ridge Road—has
been overcome by a slight change oi the
route at Rabun Gap, as appears from
the following, which we find in the
Walhalla Courier. That paper says :
It is now well understood that a bet
ter route can be found for this road
than the old one. The new route com
mences near the depot, at this place,
and intersects with the original line
eighteen mileß west of this point. By
this arrangement, the Stumphouse tun
nel and the two intermediate ones can
be avoided. Two miles in distance can
be saved by the change, and the cost of
the new route over the completion of
the old one is about the same. W e re
joice is being able to make this state
ment by authority. It will destroy the
prejudice engendered against this enter
prise on account of the assumed im- j
practicability of boring through the j
Stumphouse tunnel. Besides, we have I
assurances from more quarters than i
one, that the road will be completed at J
an early day Locally, the proposed
change of route will throw the track in
or near town, and with it a change of \
depot.” *
Alabama Legislature—Tuesday
Night and Wednesday.— The Senate
passed bills explanatory of the corpora
tion laws of Alabama; a joint memorial
to Congress asking lor increased postal
facilities iu Alabama; to authorize and
require the present county superintend
ents to receive and disburse the school
monies for the years 1866, 1867, and
1868, and up to July 12th, 1869; to pro
vide tor the appointment of Receivers
in Chancery; to amend section 1755 of
the Revised Code; for the relief of the
Solicitor of Macon county; to amend
section 2131 of the Revised Code; for
the tax assessors of Montgomery and
Barbour counties; to repeal an act to
fill vacancies of school officers, approved
Dec. 2d, 1869; to remove the estate oi
M. A. Baldwin, deceased, from Mont
gomery to Bullock county. Bill to lend
the credit of the State to the Montgom
ery and Eufaula Railroad Cos. to expe
dite the construction of its railroad, was
made the special order for Thursday, 1
p. m. Bill providing that $25,000 shall
be applied to the construction of a rail
road bridge for the Selma and Gulf
Railroad, over the Alabama river, was
laid over. A bill to enable the Gover
nor of Alabama to make a final settle
ment with MeClung & Jacques, for the
claim they have for salt furnished upon
the faith and credit of the State, was
laid on the table. Bill to provide for
disposal of the swamp and overflowed
lands donated by the United States to
Alabama, was read twice and referred
to a select committee. A bill to autho
rize the Governor to receive the stock
of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Rail
road Cos. for the balance due from the
Alabama and Tennessee Rivers Rail
road Cos., was laid on the table. Senate
adjourned to 7p. m. House passed bill
creating ilie 13th Judicial Circuit, and
concurred in umeudmmis •>! tv n.te to
several House bills. The removal ol
the penitentiary was discussed and re
ferred to a committee of five. The Sen
ate bill to aid the North and South
Railroad was under discussion when
the House adjourned to 7 p. m.
Alabama Legislature, Thursday.
—ln the Senate the Judiciary Commit
tee made a long report regarding the
misapplication of the Mobile school
fund, reflecting severely against Dr. N.
B. Cloud, State Superintendent, and G.
L. Putnam, County Superintendent of
Education. A motion of Mr. Worthy
that the Governor institute legal pro
eeedings to recover the misapplied
funds of them, was tabled by a vote of
ayes 10, nays 16. Resolution was cut
oil'by reports of committees. A reso
lution of Pennington that the two
Houses adjourn sine die at 12 midnight
Saturday was tabled. Senate passed
bills to aid the Montgomery and Eufau
la Railroad with $300,000 of State en
endorsement; to improve the naviga
tion of the Coosa river, concurring with
the House amendments which left out
all but the Ist section. Bills for dispo
sal of swamplands ; requiring uniform
ity of charges by railroads for frieghts ;
and providing for a geological survey of
the State, were tabled. Senate adjourn
ed to 7 p. m.
House Dassed bills to regula*® ogen
cies of ininmnee companies; adversely
to giving additional aid to the North
and South Railroad ; to authorize Super
intendents to receive and disburse
school monies for the year 1866 7-8; to
regulate the appointments of receivers
in chancery; to improve the navigation
of Coosa river; to establish revenue laws;
for the relief of solicitors of Munroe and
Macon counties; for the relief of Law
rance Speed and others; a resolution
that the House adjourn at midnight; to
amend the act amendatory oi the act to
divide the State into twelve judicial
circuits and fix the time for holding
courts in the same. Bills aiding Uni
versity of Alabama and the medical
college at Mobile were lost.
.Supreme Court Decision.
Wm. Allen, vs. Jas. O. Harris. Ila
beas corpus from Fulton.
Warner, J.—When a colored woman
made an affidavit before a Justice of the
Peace, charging the defendant with be
ing the father of her bastard child, as
provided by the 4664th section of the
Code, and he was arrested by a warrant
issued by the Justice, and afterwards
applied to the Judge of the Superior
Court for a writ of habeas corpus, alleg
ing that lie was illegally arrested and
aeprivcu or ms liberty, on me ground
that a colored woman could not swear
a bastard child jto its putative father
under the laws of this State, and the
Judge on the hearing of the habeas cor
pus, refused to discharge the defendant
from custody.
Held : That, under the present exist
ing laws of this State, and especially
under the provisions of the 1662d and
1664th sections of the Code, that a color
ed woman may swear a bastard child to
its putative father in the same manner
as a free white woman may do; and
that the same proceedings should be
1 had in the one case as in the other under
| the law in such cases made and provid
ed ; and that there was no error in the
refusal of the Judge to discharge the
defendant from his arrest under the
proceedings had against him.
Judgment affirmed.
Geo. S. Thomas, for plaintiffin error.
E. P. Howell, Solicitor General, for
defendant.
Excitement at Stevenson —Sol-
diers, Ku-klux and Darkies.— From
passengers on the Chattanooga train
yesterday we learn that serious disturb
ances anu great excitement prevailed at
Stevenson, Ala. We are not in pos
session of the full details, but will give
what information we have in regard to
the matter. It appears that considera
ble disturbances have for some time ex
isted iu that locality among the ne
groes. On Monday a negro man was
arrested in the vicinity for some aggra
vated offense, and was placed in custo
dy. About 11 o’clock twenty-five men
on horseback, disguised as Ku klux,
rode up to the town, and forcibly taking
him from custody, took the negro a
short distance and left him for dead.
The horsemen then departed. The ne
gro is so badly beaten that it is thought
that he cannot live. Immediately after
the transaction, the negroes in the vi
cinity armed themselves with guns,
pistols, knives, and whatever weapons
they could procure, and created the
greatest consternation and disorder. In
response to the emergency, a detail of
soldiers was dispatched from Chatta
nooga to Stevenson to quell the out
break. Great excitement still in that
vicinity when the passenger train, No.
1, passed there yesterday, and further
information will be looked for from that
locality with much interest.— Nashville
Union §• American, 2d.
Frozen to Death. —We learn hatt
Dick Pearson, a son of Mrs. Sam.
Pearson, aged 8 years, went to Boyce’s
Mill in the Western part of this county,
on the 17th inst., and a snow storm set
in about dark, and he and a boy, named
Barker Lewis, about 15 years old, set
out for home, 3 miles distant, and both
of them became very cold, and little
Dick, overcome with cold, fell from his
horse. Young Lewis hastened, on
horseback, to the nearest house, Mr.
Mitchell Hilliard’s, for help, and was
so benumbed that, for some time, he
could not tell about little Dick. When
he was thawed sufficiently to tell, Mr.
Hilliard went in search of Dick, and, on
account of the darkness, was unable to
find him for a long time. When found,
he was barely alive and lived only a
short time.— Huntsville Democrat.
Excessive Mileage — Ed. Constitu
tion.—The discussion in your paper ior
I an excess of mileage brings to mind an
incident which happened nearly twenty
i years ago. When the Electoral Col
-1 lege of 1852, assembled at Milledgeville,
Ex Gov. Wm. Schley, of Richmond
county, made one of the number. The
different members were making out
their estimates for mileage, and some of
them seemed very large, because they
adopted the distance by rail instead of
the real distance. After some discus
sion of the propriety of such estimates,
Gov. Schley said : “Gentlemen, many
years ago when I first traveled from
Augusta to Milledgeville, the distance
was ninety miles, and neither of the
places since have changed positions,”
The old gentleman bad traveled from
Augusta to Milledgeville by tho way of
Atlanta, Macon and Gordon, and could,
at the time, go do other way by rail
road.
This is noted to make the more appar
ent, the difference between the men of
the past and present generation. We
need now a little more of that scarce
commodity called common honesty, such
as was acted out in the incident related;
and in the entire lives of such men of
the elden times as Ex-Gov. Schley.
For the Sun and Times.
THE MUSIC THUCUHT.
BY J. p. g.
Tke ™ B ° Un<lS far^reoter fkan ever were
From the touoli of minstrel hand,
I Or over have ruffled the throat of a bird
Or ever the Summer sea hath hea d ’
, r^ 1 , 1 , 011 12? b ' U 0 WRveß k,ss the strand.
I r'l sl a Thought, so twltt it flies,
In a flash it cirolos tho earth and shies
j And dies in the realms beyond.
, I have listened to sounds where waters flow
With their wild, weird ceaseless song,
To the musical murmuring, faint and lo, T
Ofthe waves as they glide and eddy and fl o .
Ere they swept to the sea aloDg.
When the forest grieves her dying leaves
And her woes to the pitying nlght’wino
breathes,
And sighs through the wholo night long.
And the music Is grand when ocean swells,
Where the Storm-King rides the blast •
In Its angry tone a warning dwolls
Os the terrible wrath to come, that tells
When the things of earth have passed,
When the sun and moon shall forever go down
And the stars from the shaken sky are thrown'
And Time no more shall last.
Oh, Spirit of Sound ! forever I hear
In my brain your wonderful tone,
Now deep and grand as the storm you gr „„
And now assolt as the murmur low ’
On tho evening breezo that’s borne;
But never is granted to mortal iar
A harmony so divine to hoar—
You speak to the heart alone.
WHOM FIRST WE LOVE.
BY OWB» MKRKDITH.
Whom first wo love, you know, we seldom w ed ■
Time rules us all. Ami llle indeed, Is not
The thing weplanned ltout ere hope wasdead-
And thou we women can not choose our lot. '
•Much must be borno which is hard to bear,
.Uuch given away which It wore sweet tokeon.
(J-od help us all! who need, Indeed, His care;
And yet I know the Shepherd loves his sheep.
My little boy begins to babble now
Upon my knee his earliest Infant prayer:
He has his father's eager eyes 1 know,
And they say too, his mother’s Bunny hair.
But wher. he sleeps and smiles upon my knee,
And I can feel his light breath come and go,
I think of one—Heaven help and pity me!
Who loved me, and whom I loved long ago.
Who might have been—ah, what I dare not
think,
Who are all changed. God judges for us best.
God help us do our duty, and not shrink,
And trust In Leaven for the rest.
But blame us women not, If some appear
Too cold at times and some too gay and light;
some griefs gnaw deep, some woes are hard to
bear,
Who knows the pastl And who oan judge ua
right!
Ah, were we judged by what we might have
been,
And not by what we are—too apt to fall I
My little child he Bleeps and smlloß between
These thoughts and me. In Heaven we shall
know all. _
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
Poem by William Morris
We cannot refrain from quoting tho
following magnificent passage where
the tender-hearted lover of Uudruu
mourns over the body of his prouder
rival who has fallen by his hand, al
though we know that very much of its
force will be lost by being transferred
from its proper place in the narrative:
Fair Is the night and fair the day.
Now April Is forgot of May,
Now Into June May falls away ;
Fair day, lair night, O give me oack
The tide that all fair things did lack
Exoept my love, except my sweet!
Blow hack, O wind ! thou are not kind,
Though thou art sweet; thou hast no mind
Her hair about my sweet to wind :
O flowery sward though thou art bright,
I praise thee not for thy delight,
Thou hast not kissed her silver feot.
Thou know’st hor not, O rustling tree,
What dost thou then to shadow me,
Whose shade her breast did never see !
O flowers, In vain ye bow adown !
Ye have not felt her odorous gown
Brush past your head my lips to meet.
Flow on, great river—thou may'st deem
That far away, a summer stream,
Thou sawest hor limbs amidst the gleam,
And kissed her foot and kissed hor knee,
Yet got thee swift unto the sea I
With naught of true thou wilt me greet.
And thou that men call by my namo,
Oh helpless one hast thou no shame
That thou mußt oven look the same
As while agono, as while agono,
When thou and sho were loft alone,
And hands, and lips, and toars did meet!
Grow weak and pine, lie down to die,
O body in thy misery,
Because short time and Bwcet goes by ;
O foolish heart, how woak thou art!
Break, break, because thou needs must part
From ttiiuo uwu love, rrorn ttiluo own
West Point Loyalty Statistics.
The Washington correspondent ofthe
Louisville Courier-Jcurnal Bays:
Recent tabular statements compiled
from papers in the War Department
give the following information : Os the
whole number of living graduates, both
in and-out of the army when the rebell
ion commenced, sixty-seven per cent,
had been appointed from the free Slates,
and thirty-three per cent, from the slave
States ; and of these, seventy-eight per
cent, remained loyal, and twenty-two
per cent, joined tho rebellion.
Os the whole number of officers in the
army when the rebellion commenced,
seventy-four per cent remained loyal
and twenty-six per cent, joined the re
hellion. Oi the graduates, seventy-six
per cent, remained loyal and twenty
four per cent, joined the rebels ; while
of those appointed from civil life to tho
army, seventy per cent, remained loyal
and thirty per cent, were disloyal
Ofthe graduates in the army from the
rebel States, twenty-eight per cent, re
mained loyal and seventy-two per cent,
joined the rebellion; ofthe non grady
ates in the army from the rebel States,
twenty-six per cent, remained loyal and
seventy-four per cent, joined there bell
ion.
Os the graduates in the army from tho
toy al border States, seventy one per
cent, remained loyal and twenty-nine
per cent, were disloyal-, of the non
graduates, sixty per cent, were loyal
and forty per cent, disloyal.
Os the graduates in the army from the
free States, ninety-seven per cent, re
mained loyal and three per cent, joined
the rebels ; of the non-graduates from
the free States the record is the same.
Os the graduates in the army from the
District of Columbia, seventy-eight per
cent, were loyal and twenty two per
cent, joined the rebellion; of tho non
graduates from tho District, ninety -one
per cent, were loyal and nine per cent,
disloyal.
Os the graduates who fought against
the rebellion, thirty-three per cent, were
wounded and twenty per cent, were
killed, or died of wounds or disease con
tracted in service.
From the last issue of the Merceriau,
published at Penfleld by the students ol
Mercer University, we get the follow
ing:
The Stewart County HSrolite.—
Prof. Willet has in his possession, the
above mentioned stone. It is about
three inches long by two and a half
inches wide, one edge about ljj inches
thick, while the other is about one inch.
The corners are all rounded, except
where the stone has been broken. Its
surface was originally covered with a
thin film of a metallic substance, very
much like other meteoric iron. Where
the covering is broken so as to show the
inner structure ofthe terolito, it presents
very much the appearance t)f the Gran
ite of Gneiss of Middle Georgia. There
are visible on the surface of tho inner
structure, minute crystal of Iron Pyr
ites. The stone weighs now about
twelve ounces.
This extraordinary little visitor fell in
the yard of Mr. , of Stewart coun
ty, in the broad light of day, on tho 6th
of October last, and a few minutes after
it fell, it was dug up from the hard
ground of the yard, into which it bad
; buried itself to a distance of ten inches,
j The explosion which accompanied tho
advent of the wonderful visitor, was
heard over a large section of Southwes
tern Georgia.
Prof. Willet was able to procure this
specimen through the kindness of Hon.
J. T. Clark, of Uuthbert, Ga., (class
’53.) Wo are glad to be able to an
nounce, that there will be a notice of this
phenomenon from the pen of Prof. Wil
let before long.
That Smash-Up. —We heard a gen
tleman who had returned from the scene
of the great treble freight train smash
up on the Southwestern railroad, on
Wednesday morning, giving the result
of the accident to a few friends yester
day. He said twelve box cars were
smashed and their contents scattere
and damaged to a considerable extent,
while several other box cars received
more or less injury. Tho damag
mated at about -Macon Tel.
Meningitis has made its .“PP<* ™ nc °
in the village of Cave Spring Floyd
countv and a son of r - Tr . out > ° r
died of the fatal disease.