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mV w •• \ ✓ .i-j Tlie Greorgia WeeMyTelegraph and Journal «fe Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, JANUARY 4, 1870. nig* fob Reconstruction.—Young men who ffapj honest Pomp or Ceesar to the Daily Tele graph office to bay a whistle or a jewsharp, bead reconstruction. They are in error. And those unrighteous scamps who misdirect the tmwearyAfrican up two flights of stairs, among the compositors, to examine the printers’ stock of tobaoco, jacknives, tin buckets, store shirts, Addles, drums, psalm books, Turkey red, snuff, powder and shot, and so on, should consider their ways. They are not the ways that Moses trod, by considerable; nor the king’s highway of holiness, either. We call upon them to re pent. See the recent act of the City Council *of Macon against street dramming. Tes Alaska ftp—.—The wonder-mon gers of Alaska are now engaged with the fishe- riee. According to their tales, the whole ocean, from the Tongasin the South to Behring’s Straits in the West, so swarms with fish that they al most impede navigation. One company, em ploying twenty men, fished at Gzersky this year from March to October. They had nets wholly unsuitable for the catch, and so they put up only one thousand barrels of salmon. Four men at Casson last year “put up,” in splendid order, seven hundred barrels of salmon, and then had to stop because they had no more barrels. Along came a sea captain, and taking the seines, ho loaded two boats to the guards with salmon in fifteen minutes. An Improved Cotton Chopper.—Tho Colum bus Inquirer says Mr. Corcoran, of Girard, has just invented an improved machine for chop ping cotton which he is satisfied will work like a charm. The choppers are attached to an or dinary set of cart wheels, and so arranged as to thin out twelve feet of rows at every turn of the wheels. Two rows can bo chopped at a time, and it is estimated that an ordinary horso hitched to the revolving machine con chop out twenty acres daily. The animal walks in tho water furrow and the machine carries rows on right and left. The contrivance is very ingeni ous, and if perfected will provo a great labor- saver. The South Carolina Bonos.—A new piece of rascality on the part of the South Carolina Legislature (says the New York World) has come to light. A year ago the bills of the State Bank, then selling at twenty cents on the dol lar, were bought up by tho Radical ring which controlled the Legislature, one of them from Ohio owning as much as two hundred thousand dollars. An act was passed to fund these bills at their face, ana interest stipulated in lawful money. This was a good speculation for the party, but recently the Legislature have pro vided that the interest on these bonds shall be paid in gold instead of lawful money, thus causing the bonds to go up to seventy-five. Commebce op Savannah.—There were, says the Republican, in tho port of Savannah on Fri day last, four steamships, with a tonnage of 4,435; thirty ships, of which fifteen were under foreign colors, with an aggregate tonnage of -30,053; nineteen barks, of which nine were for eign, with an aggregate tonnage of 11,G77; ten brigs, of which two were foreign, with an aggre gate tonnage of 2,24G; twenty-six schooners,with an aggregate tonnago of G,530. Total eighty- nine vessels, 54,950 tons. Tho above will afford some idea of the busi ness appearance of our wharves and tho general prosperity and progress of our city. Rkpoets from the engineering parties now lo cating the Faoifio Division of the Memphis-El Faso Railroad are of the most favorable charac ter, showing grades of not exceeding eighty feet to the mile ia crossing the Sierra Nevada Moon- tains. Tho work of grading has boon com menced at the crossing of the Colorado nt the mouth of tho Gila River at Fort Yuma, where the river passes between two bluffs full sixty feet above high water, and forming the natural abutments for a bridge of four hundred feet Bpan. The work is also advancing rapidly in Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, and California. Invalids in East Florida.—The Savannah News says it is wonderful to witness the amount of travel to this State. Every steamer and train from the North brings hundreds of persons, all bound for somo point in Florida. People seek ing pleasure, consumptives and those sneezing with catarrh, some on cratches, and others with a “Saratoga,” old and young, nurses and chil dren, are all journeying toward what they call this “promise land.” The Lizzie Baker yester day was literally packed with human freight as she left our wharf for Jacksonville. Railway Accident.—The Chronicle and Sen tinel of Wednesday was informed by passengers on the South Garolinia Railroad that on Friday evening an accident occurred at Aiken, South Carolina, by which a colored man was mortally wounded. As the train was moving off tho in jured man endeavored to jump from tho plat form. He fell on the track, nnder the cars, and while endeavoring to crawl out was ran over.— TTia left arm and leg were completely severed from the body, and no hope was entertained for his life. Mutual Repugnance.—The New York papers and preachers are down heavily upon the prophet Brigham Young, and Brigham Young is down upon the Now York papers and preach ers. Each party is very severo upon the do mestic habits and morals of the other, and it is donbtful which would get the better in the fight At least it would be doubtful, but as the New Yorkers will work through Congress, they may get the advantage of Young. Mace says Drake, of Missouri, is, by ail odds, the most intolerable nuisance ever inflicted on a deliberative body. The Senate had hardly been rapped to order when he commenced bobbing np and down like a two-penny jaok-in-tbe-box to introduce a bill to abolish the Supreme Court And as if this wasn't enough, ho threatened the Senate with the pestilence of a speech on the subject at some near fntnre time. The Elberton (Ga.) Gazette says that a gen tleman of that county has invented a machine which will make any sort of calculation in addi tion, multiplication, division and substraction. All that is nessary for the operator to do, is to set the machine to the required rule, turn a crank, and grind out resultsJ The Findlay Works.—"VVe are glad to read from an advertisement in this number that tho extensive works of the late Robert Findlay are now in operation, in charge of his sons. There is scarcely any kind of machine or foundry work which thU establishment has not tho ca pacity to do. The Now York Journal of Commerce, speak ing of the President, says: “He has so readily dropped into the subordinate position which Congress has assigned him v that it would bo too much to expect him to do otherwise than to humbly obey their commands.” “ Marriage in High Lite.”—Under this head the Atlanta Constitution announces the mar riage, last Thursday night, of S. K. Johnson, Superintendent of the Georgia Railroad, and Miss Sophia Carter, of Augusta. Now we know Vrhat a “ marriage in high life” means. Needless Concern. The New York Tribune and other Radical prints are protesting that the Southern States should be acoorded.one representative on the Supreme Bench, and the nomination of Hoar, of Massachusetts, to succeed Wayne, of Geor gia, was rightfully rejected by the Senate, be cause tha appointment would have completed the exclusion of the Southern States, and seo- tionalized the Court. This concern Is quite groundless. The South would far prefer to see that Bench exclusively occupied by Northern men, than to see any such bastard son of the Sonth put on the Bench in her name as the President would be likely to nominate, or the Senate approve. The so-call ed representatives of the South in Congress are impostures and eyesores even to the Radicals themselves. They may, if they please, put just such a representative of the Sonth upon the Supreme Bench; but let them do it upon their own responsibility, and not upon ours. The Senate wants no such representative upon that bench as she could now get. A representa tive man from the Sonth would sit alone—the solitary champion of the supremacy of the Con stitution, and not of Congress. To a true rep resentative of the Sonth the clear constitutional rights of the humblest citizen would override the boldest act of Executive or Congressional usurpation. The representative of the South would consid er himself a member of the co-ordinate branch of the federal government—supreme and inde pendent within his constitutional sphere—and bound by the most solemn obligation to defend it at. all hazards from lawless usurpation, de signed to paralyze the energy of the Court for the protection of the public and private liberties of the people. A true representative of the Sonth would tear off his ermine' and put his foot upon it, before bo would delay justice in order to invite an un scrupulous Congress to curtail his jurisdiction by bogus and unconstitutional statutes so as to forestall and prevent a conflict with tyranny and usurpation. In a word, a true son of the South would be the fearless champion of law and liberty, but not that counterfeit, bogus liberty which seeks its professed end over the prostrate and ruined muniments of civil freedom. What Radical would accept such a representative of the South as that ? Of what use could such a representa tive be on such a bench, except to show that the race of honest, fearless nnd independent judges was not quite extinct, and to sting his associates with a sense of conscious degrada tion. A Grand Catastrophe Threatened. According to an eminent scientist contribut ing to the Now York World-of the 2Gth, we are threatened with a universal catastrophe, which will require more than the powers of a supreme Congress, outside the Constitution, to repair by any process of reconstruction. This catas trophe is neither more nor less than the np- setment of the great globe itself, which will topple the waters of the seas over the dryland, giving all the inhabitants such a dreadful cold bath as will finally extinguish their taste for water, and everything else, for all time to come. In a word, a catastrophe as complete as Noah’s deluge is coming—but not immediately—no. The article begins with this statement: Tho world is to be overwhelmed by water six thousand two hundred years from now; at least so says an eminent mathematician, Mr. Adhemar. The centre of gravity, which once coincided with the centre of sphericity of our globe, has now arrived at a point which is three hundred and eighty-two leagues from the centre of sphe ricity, and this distance is rapidly increasing, and not many years hence—years are but sec onds on the dial of eternity—will arrive atsnoh a position that the earth will topple over and the waters accumulated in the north will rash upon and utterly overwhelm the other portions of the enrth. In proof of this many facts of a religious and scientific nature are urged which must bring conviction to every rational mind. Then follows an accnmnlntion of scientific testimony, proving the gradual loss of its equi librium by tins doomed world, and the conse quent increasing refrigeration of the Northern latitntes by which tho polar regions are steadily becoming heavier with vast aggregations of ice, until, as the writer says, tho time will come when the centre of gravity of the globe has reached a point so far north that the earth will suddenly turn and the north pole will face the sun. This will necessarily occasion a sudden redistribution of the oceans, and then an im mense wave will rush to the north and over whelm the earth. It repeats this process every ten or eleven thousand years. Noah’s flood took placo, according to tho modern Hebrew text of the Scriptures, in the year 2340 before the Christian era, bnt, according to the Samari tan text, the Septuagint, and Josephus, took place 2926 years B. C., and came from the south. We must invoke Captain Silas Bent to come once more to our relief with bis consoling theo ry of the circulation of the seas—the grand pro vision of nature for tho equalization of temper ature, and to prevent these very accumulations of polar ice which he himself says, if not coun teracted, would result in tho very catastrophe predicted by the savant of the World. Consequently, tho Gulf stream in the Atlantic and the Enro-Siwo and other ocean currents in the Pacific are moving all the time, steady and strong, to the poles, carrying in that direction vast and incalculable contributions of water which has been warmed by tho torrid rays of the tropical sun; while actual experiment has dem onstrated that these streams rest upon vastcoun- ter-currents from the polar regions, as cold as ice itself. These grand currents of tho ocean not only prevent undue and dangerous accumu lations of ice at the North Pole, but they even maintain an opon Polar Sea in that vast solitude of tho Frost King—a sea which Dr. Kane saw with his own eyes and describes in thrilling lan guage in his report of the Grinnell-Franklin Ex pedition. Following these great currents of the sea (in stead of hogging tho land inside of them), Capt. Kent stoutly maintains the practicability of using this open Polar Sea as a shorter route to the Eastern world and vice versa, for all tho purposes of commerce; and there has been a good deal of talk of late about fitting np an ex pedition to test the soundness of this theory, On the whole, we shall maintain our com posure and put Capt. Bent against the New York World, Arago, Agassiz and M. Adhemar, until we get more light on the subject. If the world is going to be again destroyed by a flood, it will be done within a shorter time than six thousand years. At the rate the Radicals are pushing ahead in wickedness, it may be well doubted whether such a divine purpose would bo postponed so long. GEORGIA. Extensive Emigration West—Character of the Emigrants—Why They go and What They Expect—The Tear’s Work of the Planters—Prospects for the Coming Tear —Plantation Hands. Correspondence of the Neve York Times.J Atlanta, Ga., Monday, Dee. 20, 1869. I had no idea of the extent of the emigration from the northern part of this State, from Sonth and North Carolina, and from a portion of Vir ginia, to Arkansas, Texas and Missouri, which is now taking place every day, until I came here and saw it. Train after train, each day of each week, comes in loaded with able-bodied yoemen accompanied by their families, and car rying with them the most movable of their honsehold effects, all of whom are going West to buy cheap lands and establish new homes.— I suppose that the average number of these emigrants, who come through this city daily, is not less than two hundred and fifty. It is often much greater. On last Friday morning the train from Augusta, due here at 7 A. h., did not arrive until noon in consequence of the extra ordinary length of the train and the weight of A Section Master and a Negro Killed, Thomas Collins, an Irishman employed as sec tion master on the Montgomery and West Point Railroad, was killed Saturday morning at Short er’s Depot, 28 miles from Montgomery, by a negro. The negro was fussily drank. Collins threatened to put him out, when the freedman fired through the partition and killed him. The two were occupying adjoining rooms in a way- side shanty. The remains of Collins were brought to this city and interred Saturday. On the same day, near the depot, a negro was killed by a white man.—Columbus Sun. Hoke Defalcation.— 1 The Merchant’s Exchange Bank of New York was reported on Tuesday to be minos through one of its officials to the ex tent of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. the emigrants’ luggage. WHY THE PEOPLE EMIGRATE. I have recently conversed with a number of these “outwandereis," as the Germans call them. They are mostly of the class which is usually designated as “poor white folks,” who owned little worn-out farms and just made enough from year to year to keep body and soul together. Unwilling to descend to a competi tion with the negroes as laborers where they are known, nnable to purchase more land and the appliances to work it, and finding that every year they were becoming poorer, they deter mined to soil out what little they own in the country, where they were “bom and raised,” and go where they can buy good land cheap and make something to support their families.— Many of them are lamentably ignorant of the country whither they are going, and trust blind- Iy to luck in the selection of their new homes. Their journey will exhaust a large portion of their means. They have no friends or kindred where they propose to migrate, and acknowl edge that if they do not succeed in their venture they will be unable to return. But they seem satisfied that anything is better than remaining at home, and they ran all the risks, with cheer ful reliance that they will “better themselves anyhow.” Somo few who have relations in Texas or Arkansas, have made their purchases and know exactly what they are going to do, or think they do. THE year’s WORE OP THE PLANTERS. During the past week I have met some of the most extensive planters in Georgia, who are now actively engaged in winding up their year’s op erations, paying their laborers, engaging their hands for the coming year, purchasing fertil izers, etc., and making {heir arrangements for 1870. They all represent the negroes as per fectly contented, having received ample com pensation for their twelve months’ work, satis fied with their employers and anxious to rear range to make another crop. The average wages earned this year by a full hand, after paying for his food, clothing, etc., has been from a bale to a bale and a half of cotton, or from $100 to $150 in cash, where he has been working for a share in the crop, and about $100 in clear money where he has worked for month ly wages. These sums, it must be understood, are over and above all expenses for food and clothing, house rent, fuel, etc., and if those who earn them would only save their money and act providently,- it is easy to see how, in a very few years they could purchase farms of their own, and become thoroughly independent HOW THE NEGROES - MONEY GOES. i Not long ago I saw a negro who had just been paid off by bis employer, spend $40 for a mu sical box, and I saw another purchase a huge netted chignon for $10. During this week, when the plantation hands generally will be paid off, the village storekeepers in the vicinity of the plantations will carry off every cent the laborers receive. The storekeepers, especially those of the Hebrew race, watch for the advent of the proprietor with his satchel full of green backs, and when they learn that the hands have been paid, and have been allowed to take the wagons and go to town, they send out runners four or five miles out of town to meet the wag ons and allure the negroes to their stores, and in return for gaudy dresses, hoop-skirts, feath ered hats, resplendent shawls, gift candy, jewel ry, banjos, etc., become possessed of all the money. I know of one store which last Christ mas week sold over $10,000 worth of goods to the negroes alone. « THE PLANTING PROSPECTS. Thus for, as I have already stated, the indi cations are that the good, just and kind employ ers will have no difficulty in obtaining their la boring force for the coming year, that is, re engaging that which they had in 18G9. It would be hardly possible for anybody to increase his force very much or extend his planting opera tions on account of the scarcity of hands, and the absence of any means to supply the deficien cy. The town negroes would rather starve in and about the cities and towns than live com fortably on a plantation, and the “up country” hands, though they do not and cannot earn as much os those on the rich lands of Southern Georgia, cannot be induced to go there, from a belief, (not ill-founded, by tho way,) that the climate is not healthy, and that smaller pay with health is preferable to riches with chills, fever and long doctor’s bills. It is very diffi cult to form any opinion yet concerning the planting prospects of 18G9; but so far as I have been well able to judge I should say that the planters will make an effort to plant about the same area in cotton this a3 they did last year, plant about the same amount of com, and sow much more extensively of oats and small grain, so as to leave the com for bread and feed the stock principally with oats. From the present state of the market for fertilizers, the activity of the manufacturers of those odor ous compounds, and the rapidity with which theyincrease, multiply and replenish the earth,” it is to be snpposod that as great efforts will be made in this direction to “raise a big crop” as were made this year. I have already seen eight different bottlefuls of gray looking stuff as pun- gently malodorous as ammonia can make them, which are severally said to be infinitely “tho best manure for cotton which has ever been in vented.” THE PLANTER’S DEBTS. Immense sums were spent this year on these mixtures. In most cases they were purchased on time—that is, paid for by a draft on tho planter’s factor. This year, owing to the high price of cotton, even though the crop was short, these drafts were met with very creditable punctuality. I have heard of very few cases where the drawers failed to pay or asked for a renewal. Bnt had tho crop proved an utter failure, or had the price of cotton declined con siderably, and the planter been unable to meet his liabilities, the factors would have been lia ble, and would have been compelled as accept ors to pay the “guano dealers” or break. And so also with the venders of all other sorts of planters’ snyplies. The planter gives his note to the merchant, indorsedby the factor, and if the former fails, the latter is made to pay. The fac tors therefore think the risk is unevenly divided, and that the provision dealer and the fertilizer manufacturer should to some extent share it with them, so that the consequences of a failure of a crop may not fall exclusively upon one class. As the factors charge their customers two and a half per cent, for the acceptance, have the cus tody and sale of the cotton, together with com missions, etc., itmay be that the other merchants may decline to run a risk which can only inure to the benefit of the factors, and who are gene rally right well paid for what they do. A move ment is on foot to induce merchants and cotton factors to agree upon some plan “to divide the risk,” bnt unless the factors agree to divide their profits also, it is very donbtful whether the mer chants will make any concessions. THE NEXT STATE FAIR. It is said to be settled that the next State Fair will be held here, not in Macon. Hotels of mammoth proportions are to be bnilt. A fair ground of unrivaled beauty and commodious ness is to be laid out This city is to offer the richest inducements to exhibitors, and the State Agricultural Society is to be munificently en dowed. Macon did well, wonderfully well this year, and was as liberal, as hospitable and un selfish as could be expected. The Fair much exceeded expectations in size, and hence the in- sufficenoy of the arrangements. RAILROAD MATTERS. The recent completion of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad (it will be regularly open for travel in a few days) is causing a consider able movemsBt from Middle Georgia towards Brunswick, which is expected to be a “big place” in a very short time. It is growing very rapidly. Real estate is appreciating very much, and many men of business, of brains and means, are going to settle there. The Railroad Company had a hard fight against heavy odds; but they have won the victory, and are entitled to.ali the glory. Quondam. For several months this year the carriage manufactures of New Haven sold over five hun dred carriages per month. BT TELEaRAPH. FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, December 30.—A proclamation by the President is preparing, forbidding expeditions into Prince Rupert’s Land. The Merchants’ Exchange Bank of New York loses but $50,000 by Oakley’s defalcation. The atory is reiterated that the President will re fer the alleged irregularities in the Texas election to Congress. A circular from the Comptroller’s office suggests, as a matter of safety, the refusal of all fifties and hundreds of the First National Bank of Jorsey City. Revenue to-day $673,000. Mr. Boutwell returns on Saturday. Customs for the week ending 24tb, nearly two millions. FROM ALABAMA. Montgomery, December SO.—A case involving State and Federal jurisdiction has arisen here. The State law levies a tax upon the Southern Express Company. The Company applied to Jndge Busteed, of the United States Court, for an injunction, which was granted. The State Auditor has issued a circu lar to the Tax Collectors, ordering them to collect the tax in spite of the injunction. Tho case prom ises to he one of great interest to the State and Company. Both have eminent counsel to fight it through the Courts. FROM VIRGINIA. Richmond, December 80.—Charles Doherty and David Childress, fought a prize fight this morning, for a purse of $109. After eleven rounds the fight was awarded to Drhcrly on account of a foul blow. Signor Borra’s Plan for tlie Introduc tion of European Immigration into Georgia. Signor Joseph Borra, in connection with the Italian Consul in New York, and his brother in Italy, is engaged in conducting Italian immigra tion, and desires to inform tho people of the South who are interested in the matter, that whenever the necessary arrangements for their reception shall be perfected, he will bring over a large number of agriculturists. Signor Borra was himself an extensive planter in Virginia for the ten years preceding the war, and may be presumed to be familiar with the wants of tho South. He has already engaged a company of French hatters, and proposes to establish a hat manufac tory, either in Savannah or some interior city— Savannah is preferred, if the necessary lands can be secured for tho estt.blishment of the houses and workshops, on terms that will render it possible for him to undertake die project. To enable him to undertake the introduction of immigrants on an extensive scale, it is abso lutely necessary that he have a plantation or island, of from five to ten thousand acres in ex tent, near the city and easily accessible there from, to bo used as a lauding place and depot for the immigrants, and where they can be as sured a means of making a living until such time as employment with planters shall be found for them. The Committee of the Atlantic Convention, having the subject of immigration in charge, are invited to confer with Signor Borra, and aid him in securing the end desired. He pro poses as follows to that Oommittee : 1st. That they procure an Island upon the salts for an immigrant landing place and depot, and sell the same to him upon the following terms: Payment for it to be made in three equal in stalments : the first payable in 1871, the second in 1874, and the third and last in 1875. 2d. That they furnish to the colony from twenty-five to fifty moles; stock and agricultural implements sufficient to work the land to advan tage, and provisions sufficient to last one year. All these things to be paid for at the end of the first year. 3d. That said committee furnish immediate ly from ten to fifty acres of land upon the river for the establishment of a hat factory, tannery, dyeing works and other manufactories requiring fresh water; to bo paid for at snch time as shall be agreed upon. It is expected that the colony so established will remain a grand centre, into which European labor will be gathered, and from which it may be diffnsed throughout the State. By this plan the immigrants will be assured a means of livelihood until employment can be obtained for them, and planters nnd capitalists will always have a reliable stock of labor to draw npon, as thoy may require it. It is believed that the plan proposed will be found very beneficial to the State at largo, and all persons feeling an interest in the matter are cordially invited to confer with Signor Borra nnd compare views with him. In particular, he de sires to meet the Convention Committee before referred to, for an interchange of views, and will be pleased to receive any suggestions or recom mendations that their wisdom may offer. I gazed on each chubby, plump, sick little elf. And groaned, when he said so, in spite of myself; But a wink of his eye, when he physicked our Fred, Soon gave mo to know I had nothing to dread; He didn’t prescribe, but went straightway to work And closed all the rest—gave his trowsers a jerk, And adding directions while blowing his noao, He bnttoned his coat, from his chair he arose, Then jumped in his gig, gave old Jalap a whistle, And Jalap jumped off as if pricked by a thistle; And the doctor exclaimed, ere he drove out of sight, “They’ll be well to-morrow; good night, Jones, good night.” Meeting of the Georgia Rental Society This Society held its annual meeting yester day, in the Hall of the Georgia Historical Soci ety. The following are the officers : President—Dr. W. H. Burr, of Madison. Recording Secretary—Dr. A. O. Ford, of At lanta. CorrespondingSecretary—Dr. J. P. H. Brown, of Augusta. Tho attendance was not so large as could have been desired, bnt from the interest felt at this meeting it was plainly evident that the Society would prove most successful. Wo noticed the following Dentists present on yesterday: Dr. H. A. Lorrance, of Athens; Dr. E. M. Allen, of Marietta; Dr. F. G. Clark, of Savannah ; Dr. E. Parsons, of Savannah; Dr. W. Johnson, of Savannah; Dr. Poston, of Savannah; Dr. Royal, of Savannah'; Dr. C. A. Harley, of Or angeburg, S. O.; and Dr. Samuel Hope, of At lanta. All of the officers were present. Tho records of tie last meeting, which was held in Atlanta, were then read and approved, after which the question on the adoption of the Constitution and By-laws was considered. Dr. Brown, of Auguste, stated that tho committee to whom this subject was referred had carefully examined the different constitutions of kindred societies in other States, and from them based their report, which he here presented. After the report was read Dr. Parsons, of Savannah, made some very appropriate re marks, in which ho said there was no reason why should Georgia not have as flourishing a Society as there is in the country. In conclu sion, he presented to the Society some records of the old Dental Society of Georgia. Dr. Clark, of Savannah, then made a motion that the articles of tho Constitution be taken up separately for adoption. The Constitution and By-Laws were discussed at length, and finally adopted. Among the prominent features of the same was the article on the membership of tho Society. It finally resulted that there should be three classes, viz: active, correspondent, and honorary. The first will be composed of regular practicing dentists of the State of Georgia. The second, reg ular practicing dentists ont of the State, and the third class, those persons of the profession who have been regular practicing dentists. Another fcaturd of tho Constitution is that a person shall have been actively employed in his profession for five years before ho can be come a member of the Sooiety. According to the Constitution no dentist belonging to the So ciety shall reserve a student for a less period than two years. In the afternoon, carriages were provided, and the gentlemen present enjoyed a fine ride to Thunderbolt, and also around onr beautiful city. All expressed themselves delighted with their ride, and each one passed flattering re marks upon the growth and prosperity of Sa vannah. At half past 7 o’clock p. m. , the members re convened when an election for officers for the ensuing year took place, with the following re sult: President—Dr. F. Y. Clark, of Savannah. Vice Presidents—Dr. E. M. Allen, of Mariet ta ; Dr. H. A. Lorrance, Of Athens. CorrespondingSecretary—Dr. J. P. IL Brown, of Augusta. Recording Secretary—Dr. A. O. Ford, of At lanta. Treasurer—Dr. W. Johnson, of Savannah. The evening session was more fully attended than in the morning, and it was only regretted that other portions of the State was not repre sented at the meeting. The members of the so ciety from our own city did their utmost to make the visit of their brother dentists, who reside elsewhere, most pleasant and agreeable. To-day the members of the society who are in the city, will take an excursion down the river by invitation of the city authorities. Distin guished guests will acconjpany them, and a full report of their trip will be given in the News. —Savannah News. The Night After Christmas. Twas the night after Christmas,'when all through the house, •'«&* ' j Every soul was in bed, and as still as a mouse; Those stockings, so lately St. Nicholas’ care, Were emptied of all that was eatable there; The darlings had duly been tucked in their beds, With very fall stomachs and pain in their heads. I was dozing away in my new cotton cap, And Fancy was rather far gone in a nap, When out in the nursery arose snch a clatter, I sprang from my Bleep', crying, “ What is the mat ter?” c I flew to each bedside, still half in a doze, Tore open tho curtains and threw off the clothes, While the light of the taper served clearly to show The piteous plight of th090 objects below; But what to the fond father’s eyes should appear But the little pale face of each sick little dear; For each pet had crammed herself full as a tick— I knew in a moment they felt like old Nick. Their pulses were rapid, their breathings the same; What their stomachs rejected Fll mention by name, Now turkey, now stuffing, plum pudding of course; And custards, and crullers, and cranberry sauce, Before outraged nature, all went to the wall; Yes—lolly pops, flapdoodle, dinner and all; Like pellets, that urchins from pop guns let fly, Went figs, nuts and raisins, jam. jelly and pie, Till each error of diet was brought to my view— To the shame of mamma, and of Santa'Claua, too. I turned from the sight, to my bed-room stepped back, And brought out a phial marked “Pulv. Ipecac,” When my Nancy exclaimed, for their sufferings shocked her, 1 Don’t yon think you had better, love, run for the doctor?” * ran—and was scarcely back under my roof. When I heard the sharp clatter of old Jalap’s hoof; I might say that I had hardly turned myself round, When the doctor came into the room with a bound. Ho was covered with mud fromhis head to his foot, And tho suit he had on was his very worst suit • He had hardly had time to put that on his back, And he looked like a Falstaff half muddled with sack; His eyes, how they twinkled! Had the doctor got merry? His cheeks looked like port, and his breath smelt of sheny; He hadn’t been shaved for a fortnight or so, And his short chin wasn’t as white as the snow. Butt**Bgecting their tongues in despite of their And drawing his watch from his waistcoat beneath, He felt of each pulse, saying, “ Each little belly Must get rid”—herethey laughed—“of the rest of that jelly.” Bloody Affray in Rearing. The Constitutionalist reports the following bloody occurrence at Dearing, on the Georgia Railroad, in Columbia, on Monday afternoon last: About half-past two o’clock Monday afternoon, at tho store of A. N. Hodo, connected with which was his brother, Dyer Hodo, and J. B. Lambert, a difficulty, the cause of winch was not stated, arose between Lambert and Ellis Adams. The latter drew his knife, which was followed by the former also drawing his knife nnd warning Adams not to approach him. At this juncture Adams drew his pistol, when Lambert walked into tho store and gathered a gun, one barrel of which was said to have been loaded with small shot. As Lambert was returning with the gun, he was intercepted by A. N. Hodo, who induced him to give up the gun. In the meantime the report of a pistol was heard outside, and Dyer Hodo, a one-legged man, clerk in the store of his brother, exclaimed that he was shot. With this, A. N. Hodo stepped to the door with tho gun, before which Ellis andKinchen Adams was standing, when Ellis Adams fired npon him with out effect. Hodo then fired his gun,with what ef fect is not known, when another shot was fired by one or the other of the Adams brothers, tho ball taking effect just above the left nipple of Hodo, when he fell and expired instantly. Seeing his friend and business associate thus shot down, Lambert immediately left the store and preceded to the house of Mr. James Har ris, whore he procured a gun and returned to the scene of conflict. As he advanced upon the brothers Adams, they were each firing, a shot by one of them wounding him in the lip. Lambert continued to advance, when the brothers be coming separated, he followed Ellis Adams, whom he fired upon a few hundred yards from the store, and it is supposed shot him down, as a party who went in the direction a few minutes after the discharge of his gun, found Adams wounded and stretched upon the ground, in an apparently dying condition. In the excitement of the occasion, Adams was left in the condi tion in which he was found. A short time after, he was visited again, when it was found that some unknown person, to hasten the work of death, had plunged a dagger several tiroes into his throat, and that he was quite dead. His body was then taken up and sent to his resi dence, about a mile from Dearing, no inquest having been held. The whereabouts of Kinchen Adams have not yet been developed, and it is presumed that he has left the neighborhood. The young man, A. N. Hodo, who met such a tragio death, is represented as having been of excellent character, and moat highly esteemed for his sobriety and kindred virtues, which had endeared him to a large circle of friends both in Columbia county and this city. No arrests are reported. The wound of Lam bert is not regarded serious. Dyer Hodo was severely wounded in the side, and while his injuries are not regarded as nec essarily fatal, he is lying in quite a critical con dition. Capture of a Wonderful Seven-feet Bird. from the Stanford (Ny.~) Despatch.] Mr. James Pepples, living two and a half miles from Stanford, on the Dudderar’s mill road, is surrounded by a party of neighboring boys who are fond of the sport of night hunt ing. Over a week ago these boys were engaged in their favorite pastime, and, while absorbed in the excitement of a fox-chase, were suddenly startled by what they called an unearthly scream from some of the tree tops. Some declared it was a panther, some a catamount, and others believed the voico that of a female in distress. They agreed to approach as near tho spot whence the screams came as possible, and took up tho line of march toward tho place. At each step tho screams were repeated, to the amazement of tho boys, and, if the truth must be told, there was a perceptible tremor in each one’s voice, and daylight would have ex hibited very pale faces. Guided still nearer by the strange noise, thoy directly heard the clank of chains, irons qnd padlocks. This was too much for youthful temerity to endure. They wore brave boys, but demoniac yells from tho tree-tops, accompanied by rattling music of the devil at the dreary hour of midnight, when ghosts, hobgoblins and blue devils stalk abroad, were fraught with too mnch impending danger to bo relished even by stouter hearts and stronger nerves. They retreated, and reported to the neighbors, tho strange and wonderful sounds which had greeted their ears. Mr. Pepples laughed at the alarm of the boys, bnt was still on the lookout for strange sights. On last Saturday his curiosity was somewhat re lieved by seeing a monster bird, something like the condor of Sin bad the sailor, alight on his barn. It gave a few of the screams which had so disturbed the boys, and Mr. P. was satisfied he had found tho ghost. He took down his rifle, and without precaution to put in a silver bullet, drew a bead on the bird, and it fell. On approaching it ho found that only one wing had been broken, which he amputated. Now come the secret of the chains. One foot had hanging to it a steel trap weighing about four pounds, which bad been evidently set for varmint. It had been there ferr some time, as the flesh had rotted off, the trap only hanging by a leader. On measurement the bird seemed to bo seven feet from tip to tip. It was of a black color, and both similiar and dissimilar, in many respects, to an eagle. Its feet and the feathers of its legs, which hang about six inches in length, were those of an eagle, but the jet- black color indicated another species. At last accounts it was doing well, and eating raw flesh with a voracious appetite. Sows French restaurants offer meals st a fab ulously low price. For instance, a bowl of soup, a plate of meat and vegetables^dessert, haK a bottle of wine, and bread ad libitum, all for about 15 cents. How the keepers of these eat ing houses make them pay is a mystery which those who patronize them do not care about solving. It appeals that there ace a class of men who get their living by going round to tha swell mansions and buying up the leavings. These gentlemen are called “jewelers,” and the leavings go by the general name of “jewels”— a piece of fowl being a “pearl,” a plate of game a “diamond,”, beef. a “juby,” and so on. If Pintos gives a banquet*to-night, the “jeweler” comes down to-morrow morning, and carts off the leavings from his lordship’s plate to some cheap restaurant, where they are speedily trans formed into most tempting-looking dishes with high-sounding names. The richest “jeweler” is he who possesses the monopoly of the Tuil- leries, from whence, it is said, a van load of odds and ends is packed every day. CHBtsntas the heater deaeatvteMMrfdir lobe in the Christa. 1 SchooU. Whlledll were good, yet.thos^^W fire* were of amearthly nature,in which expected; more of sensual ejoyntent w h T’~ one (at Second Baptist- Church) was a Ji'? soul and spirit; the soufcin the very to^ “The Little Penitent,” being mado to feel depths of sin, and then with joy receive ft,' news of a dying Savior’s pardoning l 0T( Y with a tableaux-like scene, in which the Ijj tent kneeled and implored forgiveness, at? which *11 eang the pretty little song, * The New York World’s Advice. The Now York World counsels Georgia as follows: Now, do the Conservatives of Georgia want to know how to pull the teeth out of this last act remanding their commonwealth to military rale ? Let less than a quorum of the Legislature convene on the 10th proximo. Let that less than a quorum adjourn over from day to day, as they would have power to do, and as they shonld do, until January 16th, the regular time for the ses sion to begin nnder the laws of the State. Then let the Conservative members—who are in a majority, even counting in the old negro mem bers—proceed to reseat those latter, in accord ance with the reoent decision of the Supreme Court of the State declaring the original expul sion of the black brigade unconstitutional. The strongest requirement of the last law will then have been met, but under State auspices and in concurrence with what has long been the inten tion of the Legislature itself; not nnder ramp duress, as the bill contemplates. Such a course, too, while saving the pride of the State, will so favorably affect the returning legislators them selves as very possibly to win them over to the impeachment, conviction, and deposition of Bullock at the proper season—a result which that carpet-bagger too prematurely thought he had rendered ont of the question by Congressional tinkering in his behalf. Impracticable, and would win nothing could it be followed. A New Labor Movement South. TheN. Y. World, of the 2Gth,has the following: An important labor movement is at present on trial in the South, which, if as successful as it promises, will render the planters practically in dependent of colored labor. The unsatisfactory character of the negro workers has already com pelled the Southern farmers to devise numerous expedients by which this labor can be supple mented or dispensed with. The latest of these is an attempt to employ the laborers of the WeBt in the Southern cotton and sugar fields. The harvest iD the West is over about the time the cotton picking begins, and long before the time of cane-cutting. Therefore, by importing during the fall and winter to the South, the la borers who had garnered the crops of Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, eta, employment is furnished at a time when it is scarce in the West, and most valuable assistance is obtained in the South. Thousands of workmen have for this purpose been transferred this season from Illi nois to Louisiana, and elsewhere in the South. The railroad and steamboat companies make reasonable reductions, the passage from Chicago to New Orleans, costing bnt $12. One advan; tage which seems certain, is that, by the trans lation of these workers, the attention of an ex cellent class of immigrants will be called to the rioh South. Now, the suggestion which this scheme makes in its very statement, is: Why cannot the laborers, of our Eastern cities be translated in the same way, during the winter, to the Sonth. The Lynchburg Virginian is informed that within the last few weeks, lands to the amount of a million and a half of dollars have been sold to Northern capitalists along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. It is the pur pose of these gentlemen to build at least three large iron furnaces, one of which is to be located at Clifton Forge—the point at which it is pro posed to intercept the great trunk line road. Good Cotton Seed.—Mr. W. S. Brantley ad vertises some cotton seed from his own crop of a valuable variety.' We saw samples of his cotton and can recommend the seed with con fidence. Distress in New York.—Tho Star says there is great distress among tho cigar makers of that city. Other trades and business are suffering in like proportion, owing to the unsettled condi tion of the gold market. Wholesale clothing firms, whoso employes are numbered by tens of thousands, have almost entirely closed man ufacturing goods for future sales. Tho same i3 true of carpenters, bricklayers, laborers, coop ers, and others. Thousands of workmen are obliged to leave the city in quest of work in other localities. Negroes and Whisky.—The Sun says it has been a noticeable fact daring the present holi days that the negroes have indulged in whisky to a greater extent than usual. Whether this was the result of the damp weather, a plethora of money, or exultation at the condition of Georgia, we do not pretend to decide. Brick Pomeroy offers a reward of $500 for the name of the St. Lonis Republican’s New York correspondent who wrote a few days ago that Pomeroy’s Democrat was about suspending, and that tho printers had not been paid for two weeks. A petition is circulating in Cincinnati asking the Board of Education to pay female teachers as much as males. Filibustering on a Grand Scale.—The New York Sun, of the 28th, says an annexation league has been formed on a grand scale which con templates the acquisition of the whole conti nent, and is to begin with a heavy armed expe dition for the assistance of the lied River rebels. Four bodies of men have already been started. Since writing the foregoing we see by press telegrams that a proclamation is to bo issued forbidding this expedition. Meeting of.the Stockholders of the Gum Swamp Navigation Company.—Macon, Dec. 28.— At a meeting of the stockholders of the “Gam Swamp Navigation Company,” agreeable to the char ter granted them by the State, there were one hun dred and seventy-seven shares represented. The meeting was organized by electing a full Board of Directors as specified in the charter. On the votes being counted tho following named gen tlemen wero declared elected, to servo during tho fiscal year ending, 28th December, 1870; Stephen Collins, Norman McDuffie, W. T. McArthur, Perry Browning and W. W. Collins. It was resolved by the Board to elect tho Presi dent and Treasurer by acclamation. Mr. S. Collins being then nominated by N. McDuffie, and the nom ination having roceived a second, when put to the house ho was unanimously elected. W. W. Collins was then nominated for Treasurer, and elected. On motion, the By-Laws and Begulations for the management of the Company, as drawn by Mr. S. Collins, wero unanimously adopted. Upon several calls by the stockholders tho Presi dent, in a brief maimer, explained the object of the Company, its progress, advancement, etc. He re ported that contracts had been made for the clear ing of Sugar Creek, one of tho tributaries of Gum Swamp, and that tho same had been completed for a space of eleven, miles, and paid for. Also, that contracts had been closed with Mr. P. Browning for the cleaning out of the main ran, and from reports from tho works, they were progressing rapidly. The advantages to the people of Georgia by opening and clearing out these streams are great, as it will throw into market the moat valuablo timber land in the State. On motion, the Board adjourned subject to tho call of ■ the President. W. W. Collins, Treasurer. Receipts of Cotton.—Our warehousemen the great bulk of ■ the staple hag already k eeived.. It is thought we will not get over more bales, making the grand total receipts point 75,000 bales. A conviction has pr among a large number of planters that price, rale higher after December, and, not being n for money they have held on to a large per cc of their crop. We hope their expectations t, realized, hut there is no telling anything abc- future of that or anything else. The New Central Depot. — The engineers and architects are now drawing the plans and specifica tions, surveying and marking out the grounds for the new Central Depot, on the old Court-house lot and adjacent grounds. All the private houses lying between the old track and Bridge street, with the exception of the residence of Dr. Klinkscales, have been purchased, paid for, and the houses partially demolished. The work of demolition will embrace about all of them. Orders have been received to go forward as rapidly as possible. All freight is now delivered and received at a temporary depot below tho old Court-house. We heard it intimated yesterday, that the entire freight bueiness of the Central and Southwestern would bo eventually concentrated at that point. It is far more convenient than the old depots. If there is any intention of changing tho passenger depot, it ia kept a profound secret. of -o ***“ AUUfi HOCg \rhon I Read that 8weet Story of Old.” e spirit is soared aloft and feels itself u a — AXJWAO UBGaI L tering into that beautiful world above as‘l trophe of Heaven" is so entrancinglv rex' The exercises throughout were most intaw soul-stirring, and the children looking 7 beautiful; no disappointed conn tenant-' Christmas trees when they do not get surtJ *“ they wanted. Master Robert Stroberg, a tiny little U much with his child-like and humorous s r * A matter of fact recitation between s.-? about money, closing by presenting their, tlia audience for the real greenbacks to si ‘ chasing a new library for their school, gar . Ihe wholo was a success. The conductor berg, after the benediction, was as blithe, young man, seeming repaid for his labor, pastor. Rev. Mr. Boykin, was so delighted thought they might have such heart-felt enii frequently. And so does the writer, to whot also a d, , On the Streets. — Under tho rays of spring-like Bun the streets were dried of nm terday, and once more brought forth a thr people. We noticed many ladies in their hat turnouts. Speaking of these, the uninitia; be interested in the statement that one of «. ern phaetons cost $700 or $800, with liors harness $300 more—making from $1000 to There are horses and carriages in Macon ufc. $3000, however, but there are not many of It costs a gentleman $500 to ride out ini buggy. We don't object—for what is having money without enjoying it ? Wo noticed few people from the connttyij They are busy hiring hands and ® aking prej» for next year’s crop. Henco customers i class wero f6w in our stores, and mcrclnr, complaining of stagnation in business. Ts days will Boon bo over, when all things w£; baric to their old channels. The Winter -It has been predicted of well as any other winter back indefinite!;, would be a “hard one.” These predictions t ally at fault, and, so far, especially this t the weather has been mild and very agree: the exception of a few cold rains. It woull many such days as yesterday to maker; sprout out. • -> Our Senior Editor says the winters of ti are gradually growing colder. That as ft can forest trees are cut away the winds of ti are given a freer sweep into our country, quite perceptible in the orange groves Son whioli are now often blighted by frost. : The New Bask.—We are glad to knor Bank is about to be started here. There i of room for it. We are told it will have as $200,000. That is a round sum of moor million could find employment at a livinr interest. Ihe capital in tho Banks throne United States is not near enough to sup;' mand8 of commerce. We need fifteen a times as much as wo have to develop tlie tural and mineral and manufacturing ins Georgia. Hiring Hands toe 1870—It is romarkei one-tenth the number of field hands are « the streets this Christmas as were any fore the war. They are far less roving, They J ting more settled, and finding out the changes from one plantation to another pay. Thousands of them are becoming luil upon a small scale—that is, proprietors«' each head of a family two or three acres of upon which they have erected a house, fe and are cultivating gardens, raising pouli eta All such have no sort of disposition! and hunt other places. By this wise p planters are obtaining leases upon which future calculations, are attaching the fj their possessions. This is the plan worl for a thousand years in England. It is isj here, but will eventually take that coarse. The prices paid for hands are $150 f: one-men; $120 for number two, $90 far| and in that proportion for half grorn contracts npon shares, one-third of thoerrj to tho freedmen. In this connection it may be remarked general rule, men who deal justly with i little trouble obtaining a full supply, ble hand in Georgia is in requisition. Yi obtained without the least difficulty free men who will comply faithfully with all tie] tions Second Baptist Church.—The CiiristeiJ tion of the Sabbath School of this chord ] on Tuesday night. A large audience toil to enjoy the songs, speeches, dialogues.: f and scenery gotten np for the occasion. -1 together it was a complete success, and th| siou was vety Sue.. Where all did well, distinctions migl invidious; and yet, one may bs excused fi some things were more pleasing than otha instance: The address to Heaven, by Miss I while she kneeled beneath a beautiful star-l canopy, with folded hands and face turncl towards the throne on high, and with sweet i emphasis described the bliss of tlie “bentf She spoke with such holy enthusiasm like one who, gazing upon the happy oocel tlie upper sanctuary, had caught inspwtf the heavenly vision. Tho “Penitent,” acted by the little berg, was touching and beautiful. Eveiy I tlie scene and every sentiment from tii£> 14*' ed the sympathy of the audienco. 12 The two speeches by Master Robert' n quickened tbe spirit of merriment, and f® 16 pleasing variety to the exercises of tbe evt £ Many other speeches and dialogues Cl i- tho congregation. Indeed, the wholo exhil- ; as well conoeived, and the performance high g itable to the conductor, teachers and schola 14 singing, under the guidance of Mr. O. J. £ P* was very good, and creditable to his tact in ing the yonng. We understand that the School of the Second Baptist Church is fc ’k isbing condition, and one of the most int M in the city. It numbers nearly one hundre f 1 and teachers, who attend school with come \ regularity. _ a P fa ih Anthracitk Coal.—The scarcity of ffi and North Georgia coal has brought a greY the Anthracite into this market. It costs: , ^ dollars per ton, bnt dealers claim that it twice as long as the bituminous, and is cheaper. Most people prefer tho other at lars. In this matter, the railroads bring a’ third the amount we want. Many hoc. knocked out their grates and gone back t : fashioned wood fires. We are promised b plies in future—that is, when more coal instructed. In this, as well as in other our railroads are not keeping pace with thi of the country. The Mule Market.—Drovers say tlia: mand for mules ia far lighter this year i While this ia a fact, the supply is greater > equally as high. ,We visited the mart of A Ballard yesterday and obtained the folic tations: Inferior, or third class, $159: $200 to $225; first, $250 to $275 per bead ticed some splendid specimens of r IwltaL at this yard. The proprietors were comp. . trade b ding dull, btii wero eonfi^ 611 ^ boaiccw the two Months. Louisville bow claim a population _*and a wonderful growth in the P Mt ivv .-'/.Vila ifcLti : * - ' : / - .» . . . *■ S- . . - • ^ ■HSfBSBHfinHnttlHiBiHH