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Tb.© Greox*a'ia ‘Weekly Teles^ranli and Journal &c Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MAOON, JANUARY 25. 1870.
(Tngeemlf,
There is so accounting for tastes, of course
but we really think those Virginians who are
borrowing artillery from the United States to
fire salutes when Virginia gets back into the
Union, are making themselves very ridiculous.
The prospect is, that she will go back after an
amount of dirt-eating, and cringing, and crawl
ing, and boot-licking—of very dirty boots, too
—that ought to make people of any sensibility
glad to keep very quiet about it. When a man
gets admission into a house where he has a clear
right of domicile, through a back entrance only,
after waiting at the door, hat in hand, and go
ing through all sorts of genuflexions and grim
aces at the command of those inside, his final
entrance would hardly be an occasion, it seems
to ns, for demonstrations of victory.
But, as we said before, there is no accounting
for tastes.
About Barrels.
The New Vork Herald lately had an editorial
on this subject, which certainly deserves atten
tion. We people down here who buy so much
sugar and flour, from the North and West, cer
tainly have am interest in it.
The Herald says most of these articles come
in old barrels that have been made new outside,
collected from all quarters and without any re
ference to what they have had inside, previously.
These old barrels don’t cost much and are there
fore eagerly bought up. Some of them may have
been in the holds of vessels infected with con
tagions diseases, or filled with decayed eggs, or
fruit, or used for various purposes other than
cleanly, about hospitals, and in cellars and jails.
The Herald charges that such barrels are very
frequently bought and used without any cleans
ing at all of the inside. Of course they are rob
bed up outside to make them look all right. We
don’t desire to turn anybody’s stomach, bnt it
does jiftem to ns snch outrages upon cleanliness,
health and decency ought to be ventilated. If
there are no laws on this subject, there certainly
ought to be.
Proposals to Build a Court-House.
The Bibb County Court-House Committee ad
vertise to-day for propositions to build a Sanc
tuary of Justice for this county. Onr own opin
ion is, that it should be built in the rural style
of architecture—of logs well chincked with clay
so as to make it tight and comfortable. Let it
be donble-penned, with the roof well covered
with splits, and this will do for the next decade
while Georgia is undergoing the process of re
construction. Adapt the shop to the business
and the tenants. Let ns see what kind of jus
tice we are going to have before we build a
magnificent temple for a set of scaly priests. If
we adopt this policy five hundred dollars will
build the Conrt-House, and not a bond need be
issued.
Flobida Finances.—The report of the Florida
State Comptroller shows revenue from all
Bonrees during the year ending December 31st,
1869, (includingS 1,38/040 93 on bond account,)
§347,097 1^'Warrants on the Treasury issued
for the same time, §374,973 23. Warrants and
Treasurer’s certificates outstanding January 1,
18G9, §75,846 03. Total bonded and floating
debt, §805,870 40. The Comptroller says the
civil list expenses increased last year 300 per
cent, on any previous year. There is no money
in the Treasury and the State scrip is far below
par. The only remedy is to reduce expenses,
by reducing exorbitant salaries, dispensing with
needless officials and correcting abuses. Flor
ida is endeavoring to pay higher salaries than
any other State of the Union, bnt she cannot
do it. The salaries have to be paid in State
scrip, which is shaved at a very low per centum,
so that the only result is to plnnge the State
hopelessly in debt, while the officers practically
receive inadequate and diminishing compen
sation. ___
•JicLAPsiKci to Savagery.—The Mariana Cou
rier taya there are not less than three hundred
negrots in Jackson county, West Florida who
have moved on public lands and ceased to labor
on the 'plantations, except when the pinch of
hunger compels them. A majority of them are
*thout visible means of support, and have,
it brought, lived to a great extent on the live
stock, ^tuch has bee* on the decrease for the
last threv y ears> This class furnishes the most
of the crim na j 8 f or the penitentiary, and is a
great draw bar- on the mc^e thrifty and indus
trious of their cu or .
Dividko our sfe ** Swag. ”-vSwayze writes
B'letterirom Atlanta to-.(a paper\ erei which in
the event that Bullock carr« 8 his~p>int, doubt
less foreshadows what will be a divis^ n 0 f the
plunder. He says the Radicals ire a - 0 jt f or
Blodgett for their first man, bnt have not\j;t ed
upon any man for the second. Cotting wih. j_,e
retained as Secretary of State; Madison Bei y
IVlien will Reconstruction be Done
With?
A review of the discussion upon the Virginia
Bill in the United States Senate on the 17th
throws some light on this topio—not from Sum
ner, Drake and that class of firebrands, bnt from
two magnates of the moderate wing. We qnote
from’ Messrs. Morton and Morrell:
THE VIRGINIA BIEL.
Upon the expiration of the morning hour the
Virginia bill came up in order.
Mr. Morton said he felt constrained to .vote
for the admission of Virginia for two reasons
first, because she has complied with the condi
tions prescribed, and, therefore, we are in hon
or bonnd to admit her; and in the next place,
because he wanted to secure her vote for the
Fifteenth Amendment, which he deemed indis
pensable for the safety of the whole system of
reconstruction; but he sbonld vote with great
apprehension of what would be the result of her
admission at this time. If the people of Vir
ginia should behave as the people of Georgia
and Tennessee have, in six months from this
time Senators will encounter a storm of indig
nation for their action here. If Virginia is ad
mitted it should be on the distinct understand
ing that the power to reconstruct implies the
power to protect the reconstruction, and that
that power wonld continue as long as protection
should be required. That if Congress simply
has the power to set up State governments, and
then the rebels may knock them down, recon
struction is idle; that if the rebel States are
admitted npon certain conditions that are vital,
then the violation of these conditions after the
States come in will be a fraud, and Congress
has the power to redress the wrong ? but the
circumstances at the time will point ont the
measnre and the character of the redress. The
protection of the civil and political rights of all
classes in the South was the grand object to be
attained, and if that fails reconstruction is a
failure. That Congress must follow ont tho doc
trines of. reconstruction to their legitimate con
sequences, and having undertaken the work
must not cease until equal rights and substan
tial justice and protection are secured to all
classes.
Mr. Stewart (rep.), of Nevada, suggested the
propriety of substituting the House bill for the
pending measnre.
Mr. Sumner objected to any reading of the
House bill to-day which Would require a snspen.
sion of the rules.
Mr. Morrill (rep.), of Vermont, said the mo
tion opened np the whole question at issue. He
desired to know npon what inducement the Re
publican party proposed, by adopting the
House bill, to commit suicide.
Mr. Davis (dem.)of Kentucky, interjected a
remark that the Republican party’s inclination
to commit suicide was because it felt it ought to
be hung.
Mr. Morrill continued, declaring that upon
financial and other questions affecting the pub
lic welfare, he would not trust lat6 rebels any
sooner than he would Northern Democracy. He
said the Senate proposed in hot haste to admit
a State which, whenever opportunity offered,
had sought to trample on the Fourteenth
Amendment The action of Congress in regard
to Virginia coincided with that of tho girl who
married a notorious reprobate as the means of
getting rid of him. He hoped no Republican
Senator wonld vote for unconditional admission
of Virginia, in view of the report of General
Canby concerning the rejection by the people
of the most essential features of tho Constitu-
tntion of that State.
This, we suppose, ought to be considered as
settling the Senate’s view of the matter. The
power and duty to reconstruct the Southern
States are concurrent with the Senate’s notions
of what are “substantial justice and protection
to all classes.” ’Whenever the Senate doubts
the existence of this “substantial justice and
protection,” the duty to turn the Slate out of
the Union and reorganize her again, revives.
In a word, there will never be a time when these
States will be remitted to self-government, and
to their own ideas of substantial justice and
protection to their own citizens. State govern
ment, so far as these States are concerned, is
gone forever, according to Morton, and he is
one of the more moderate Senators.
Next comes Senator Morrill, another moder
ate Senator, and lets us into the rnle of judg
ment which will control the Senate in deciding
whether or no a case has arisen for another re
construction. He says on all questions affecting
the public welfare, “he wonld not trust late
rebels any sooner than he wouldNorthem Dem
ocracy.” In other words, Mr. Morrell thinks
that the two are to be classed together as
wholly untrustworthy.
This completes the case, and makes it very
clear. Whenever the reconstructed States of
the South vote with the Northern Democracy,
they thereby prove that they are no longer to be
trusted by the Senate, and it will become neces
sary to move them ont of the Union again, ac
cording to the Morton schedule. So, we see,
that when Conley declared, the other day in
the Georgia Senate, (so-called,) that Congress
had determined that Democrats should no
longer have any political power in this country,
bnt that it should forever be ruled by the Rad
icals, he spoke by the card. That doctrine,
we see, is also authoritatively proclaimed in the
United States Senate.
A Warning to New England. ’
The New York Commercial Advertiser, a Re
publican paper, shrewdly watching the current
of National politics, says “its conrse shows that
the bigoted rule of men of narrow ideas is
coming to an end, and that so far as the Repub-
as Comptroller General; Farrow _ as Attotuey^jjaan party shows a new liberality, and breaks
General, and James O. Freeman—now a cleik |Vray from the strong gyves set npon its limbs
for Cotting—will succeed Angier as Treasurer. f ew fanatical Radicals, it derives ibis new
Swayze announces himself a candidate for State
Printer.
Fine Pictures.—We may do some of our
readers a favor by stating that they can obtain
most admirable pictures, in the highest style o£
the art, by sending a photograph to Mrs. Jose
phine Home, 122 Waverley Place, New York.
Mrs. Home, a Georgia lady, well known to
many of onr readers, is a very fine artist, and
in that eapaoity connected with some of the
leading daguenean establishments in New York.
Persons who .desire to procure fine pictures of
deceased friends, can gratify their tastes fully
by corresponding with Mrs. Home, as above.
At.t. In.—Leo, of tho Charleston Courier,
says the admission of Virginia will be followed
by the restoration of all the excluded States, as
early as the 4th of March next. This is as good
as a game of hide and go seek. They will be
in by the 4th of March, and ont again by the
4th of July. This is tho great game of “Now
you see me, and now yon don’t,” adapted to
sovereign States of the Union by the ingenious
masters Snmner, Drake, and Butler, and de
signed for the amusement and instruction of
pfflftll Radical children.
The New York Sun mentions that Hon. Geo.
G. Wrigfct, of Iowa, who is to take the place of
Mr. Grimes in the United States Senate, is a
brother of the lata Governor Wright, of Indi
ana, well known throughout the West for his
suggestion that hydraulio rams should be tried
with the view of improving the breed of sheep.
That method of improving that kind of stock is
certainly new to this country. Watering bull
and bear stock has been practised, with some
degree of success, however—for the waterers,
“Notes on the Railway Situation.”—The
author of this able series writes ns that he has
reached a point in the discussion where he wish
es to have the ear of the Georgia Legislature;
but as this is impracticable daring the present
excitement and disorganization in Atlanta, he
will withhold his next articles for some days, or
until the confusion subsides and the Legislature
is likely to proceed in regular course of busi
An aggravating female resident of a town in
Tennessee, very appropriately called “New
Ruin,” recently presented her husband with a
twenty-second little responsibility.
e r0 m the influence of men who have
scorned restrictions and intolerance that
characten/. Qm6 onr Eastern public men.”
It declares tl\«( t ] 1 g r g jg g row i n g np an antago
nism between Lj^ag Q f jt 0W England and of
the West, wmch v^ on jy ^ reconc ii ed by the
lowering of the pr^ sions preferr g a by
former. Sumner, ^ Wilson will not
rule tho party. They\ lv heed ^ Iagh of
Wendell Phillips, bnt that
ngry sound will be
beyond the
disregarded in Ohio, Illinol
Mississippi. The banner nndb^ ch . udic
bigotry, sectionalism, and susjS: tav0 Tlnr _
bored must go down, and instead v e be
a policy of liberality, and generosity; ,
deuce. If the New England leaders do
prehend this, they will go to the re
South is coming back to the Union, audit
with a dislike of New England as inveterate
it was before the war, for in the process of re^
construction it has found only hesitation and
doubt and obstacles, and a desire for vengeance
from the people it never had mnch occasion to
like. The South sees an ally in the West. It
finds there a broader tolerance and a more hope
ful faith, and it can the more readily attach it
self to the States which evince magnanimity in
the hour of defeat and suffering. Over and over
again we have read in Southern papers appeals
for this alliance, and there are now fresh signs
that it may be made soon and firm.”
Truer words were never spoken, and a proph
esy with a surer future of fulfillment was hardly
ever uttered. The South will return to the
Union with a heart and memory filled with scars
of undeserved and most villainous treatment at
the hands of New England. She will go back
too, with a power, that if warily and wisely
handled, will enable her legitimately, not only to
right her wrongs, but at the same time subserve
the material interests of the country at large.—
When the South and West strike hands and take
possession of the Government, New England is
at their mercy. In aiding the West to demolish
the power and profits of the gorged manufac
tures and capitalists of that section, the Sonth
will bo taking full revenge for the past and
present. The citadel of the Puritan pocket will
certainly be stormed. Gan language paint a
more terrible punishment for its owners? Three
cheers, then, for a Western alliance with this
objective point! .
Bishop Chase, of New Hampshire, is now
lying at the point of death. His disease is soft
ening of the brain.
Attention Planters—Hold Tour Cot
ton and Get Thirty Cents.
The report from every town in the South is
the same—“very light stocks of cotton offer
ing and demand great.” Orders have been sent
ont to purchase every bale offered. These or
ders are flowing in from the North, and from
Liverpool and Havre. Northern speculators
have engaged to deliver near half a million
bales, during the months of January, February,
March and April. Very little spot cotton can
be purchased in New York City, where these
deliveries are to be made.
Easton & Co., in their Circular of the 7th of
January, say that, we do not know a point in
the South from which cotton can be brought
here, to pay ont, even without commissions.
They further say, that what cotton there is in
New York is of a low grade—not above good
ordinary. “Much of it,” they say, “is stained
and dnsty.” Spinners as well as speculators,
must therefore look to the Southern markets
for supplies to run their mills, and fill contracts
for future deliveries.
The latest news from Liverpool is encourag
ing. It shows that the East India crop for 1869,
will fall far short of 18G8. The shipments from
Bombay daring the month of De6ember, were
25,000 bales less than for the corresponding
month in 1868. In the last Circular of W. O.
Watts & Co., of Liverpool, the stock of cotton
in Bombay and on ship-board there, is estima
ted at 125,000 bales less than same time a year
ago. What do all these facts signify? Plainly
and unmistakably that every man in the South
who owns a bale of cotton, should hold it at
all hazards; and thus corner the market and get
thirty cents a pound for it within the next nine
ty days. Cotton goes up every spring anyway;
but if planters will now take onr advice, (for
which we do not charge a cent) and hold firmly,
they will not have to wait long before realizing
thirty cents for their cotton. Therefore, we say
again, hold your cotton, planters. The game
in your own hands, and if yon fail to win now,
you deserve to get nothing and to receive no
sympathy from disinterested parties who are
watching the game between the Northern specu
lators and spinners, and Southern planters.
Our attention having been called to the fore
going in the Eufanla News, of the 18th, we copy
it merely to say that we have very grave doubts
about the soundness of tho advice it gives to
planters- A groat many have held so far at
loss, measured by absolute quotations, and if
warehouse expenses, loss in weight, eto., are
added, the loss upon what might have been real
ized at the opening of the market this season is
considerable.
On the first day of November, cotton tfas
quoted in Macon at 23 to 23£ cents, and yester
day it was quoted at 23. This fact displays an
unusual steadiness in the market, and the fail
ure so far of the anticipated rise after the holi
days, is no donbt due to the increasing evidence
of the magnitude of last year’s crop. The re
ceipts in Macon, for illustration, are likely to
aggregate over twenty thousand bales more than
those of last year. They were 57,000 bales last
year, and they are now already 64,000, with
seven months to ran. Colnmbns and Mont
gomery, and most other interior markets, will
showabont an equal excess. In the face of
snch gains, as well as the general conrse of the
market since first September, we cannot advise
any man to hold with the expectation of realiz
ing thirty cents. "We don’t believe he is going
to get it
It is quite possible the market may stiffen
and advance a little under pressure of the de
mand to fill contracts for ‘‘future delivery”
sales; but that is the best we look for, and be
lieve any cornering operation will break down
nnder the influence of heavy receipts and the
general depression of business throughont the
world.
If this is not good advice, it is the best we
know; and, after all, the wisest are often floor
ed in prognostications abont cotton. He who
owes debts due should sell and pay up. That is
a point of honor and dnty. Nobody shonld
speculate at the risk and expense of his credit
ors. He who owes nothing, may hold at his
own risk and take the chances; and 'then,
whether he wins or loses, it is only a question of
the size of his surplus, which is not half so im
portant a question as most people suppose.
The Prosecution for Perjnry Sham.
We judge from the following from the nltra
Radical organ at this place, that the scare-crow
of prosecuting for perjury those Democrats in
the Legislature who took the oath, is about to
be hauled down. It didn’t scare worth a cent,
and so there is no need of keeping it hoisted on
the pole of Radical reconstruction. From the
language of the organ we may safely infer that
the conspirators who put it up are very much
disgusted at its failure to achieve its mission.
It has always seemed very curious to us though,
that a gang so utterly fearless of the substance
of perjury and its penalties, could have imag
ined the shadow thereof would havo any terrors
for honest men. Says the organ:
In the failure of the government to prosecute
vigorously, any man in either branch of the
General Assembly, who may have taken falsely,
the oath prescribed by the Georgia Bill, we can
see an error pregnant with the most terrible
consequences, both to the social and political
order of the country.
The Labor Dearth.
From almost all sections of the State we hear
complaints of a scarcity of labor. Some plant
ers have as much as they need, bnt their cases
are exceptional. Various reasons are given for
this dearth, and among them that planters are
preparing to cultivate a great deal more land
than last year. This may be true in some few
localities, but in the country at large, south and
southwest of this point, we do not think so.
Speaking on this point a day or two since to one
of the most intelligent and progressive young
planters in Southwest Georgia, he said it cer
tainly was not true in his ease. He said he
would be obliged to cultivate from 160 to 200
acres less this year than last, on acoonnt of not
being able to get hands. In his section the
dearth was partly accounted for by the negroes
setting np for themselves on small patches of
poor rented land, where they wonld abont make
half a living, eking ont the balance by “contri
butions” from their white neighbors.
Letter From Washington.
Washington, January 15, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger •—Vir
ginia is half way into tho Union. Last even
ing the House adopted Mr. Bingham’s sub
stitute for the bill reported from the Reconstruc
tion Committee, which admits tho State without
conditions. The question comes before the
Senate Monday, and it is confidently anticipated
that the bill passed by the House will go through,
This delay in admitting Virginia has had a very
weakening and demoralizing effect on the Rad
icals in both Houses of Congress, and through
out the country. They see their mistake now,
and are disposed to rectify it. Sumner and
Drake, of tho ultras, are almost entirely unsup
ported in the Senate; while in the House But
ler’s absence has given those he has been in the
habit of brow-beating an opportunity to speak
their minifa without fear of feeling the sting of
the party lash which he swings so vigorously.
Altogether the developments of the past week
have been rather cheering to the Conservatives,
although it is evident that, had there not been
so many Democratic members absent on Mon
day, we should have been spared a week’s de
bate and the Virginia members would have been
in their seats ere tbiB. It is certainly a great
dereliction of duty on the part of these gentle
men to absent themselves without a good and
sufficient excuse, and especially when such im
portant questions as those of Georgia and Vir
ginia are before Congresi. If they do not do
better in future, the names of the absentees
will be carefully noted and published for the in
formation of their constifuents.
Borie’s naval nomencliture has at last come
before Congress. On tUs day a resolution was
adopted by the Senate, enquiring if certain
changes have been mide in the names of onr
naval vessels, and if so, by what authority.
Borie is no longer here, and perhaps fortunate
ly for him. Of coarse, Secretary Robeson can
reply that he had nothiag to do with the ridicn-
lous, and, in many <ases, whimsical and un
meaning changes, by which our men-of-war
have been re-baptized into a conglomeration of
Scripturo, Pagan, mythological, Barbaric, im
perial, anti-republican titleB.
Messrs. M. Marean and W. H. Clark, late
chief operator of the Western Union Telegraph
Company in this city, have been appointed
Electricians to the Darien surveying expedition,
which sails from New York about the 20th inst.
Their many friends here, and especially the
Bohemians, to whom they were always cour
teous and obliging, will miss them muoh. Best
wishes follow them in their new career.
Judge Churchill has submitted his report in
the Pennsylvania contested election case of Co-
vode vs. Harber to the Election Committee. As
was to be expected, he decides that Covode was
elected by a majority of over two hundred. The
Committee have examined five witnesses in the
contested case of Van Wyche vs. Greene. The
South Carolina case of Wallace vs. Simpson
will be the first submitted to the House. These
contested election cases, as a rale, are great
farces and great swindles.
Jenkins gives a most extraordinary account
of Grant’s recent State dinner, in Forney’s
Chronicle. He places two massive warriors that
adorn the walls, at each end of the state dining
^room, npon the ends of the table itself; while,
Now’s the Day.
M. Pellorce will offer for the next ten days,
at the honse of B. B. Clayton, a splendid assort-
ent of frait and flower trees, bulbous roots,
, imported from France. Monsier Pellorce
with him the highest testimonials of
He is a member of the Royal Hor-
So«iety of Franco and in possession
. Sme&al of honor from the late Paris
±.xpositlorK.^ni-veraeJJe. 1110 Eelection which
he brings i
earnestly hop 1
Macon and vicimv_s„ . .. „
.. , .\will condescend to call upon
him and exammh. • .
horticultural trophies.
the most honorable
selections prove un-
the highest character, and he
that the honorable ladies of
They may be assure
dealing, and shonld
satisfactory tho money f
be refunded.
President of
Lee, and
e funeral
Massa-
from
Mb. Peabody’s Funeral.
Washington College, Virginia?
three of the Trustees, will atte:
obsequies of Mr. Peabody, at Peal
chusetts, in pursuance of an invital
the committee. How the New Engl
eye askant the great leader of the rebels.
A Solemn Protest.—The World says Sena?
Snmner, on Tuesday last, was exhibiting with"
great pomp the protest of “six colored barbers
of Boston” against the unconditional admis
sion of Virginia, which he had just received
from the Hub by special telegram. Sumner was
in a perfect lather about this manifesto, and in
sisted it should be spread upon the minutes with
the best shaving cream which could be found in
the Capital.
They are doing the female suffrage business
effectually in Wyoming Territory. Women can
vote at 18, men have to wait till 21.
mSk' : -• V
with true Jenkinsonian fidelity, he bows down
and does homage to the characteristic style of
reigning monarchy by giving an elaborate de
scription of two boxes of prunes which formed
a portion of this most recherche repast, and
which were a present from the wife of ex-Secre-
tary Borie.
There is nothing new to report from here in
relation to Georgia. Virginia jost now monopo
lises publio attention to the exolusion of every
thing else. When her representatives have been
admitted, we are to have a a demonstration in
favor of Cuba, an attack on the Secretary of the
Treasury, and lively times generally—so “they
say.”
The pugilists, Collyer, and Edwards, have got
up a match, to occur on the 2d of March. The
“fancy” of this city were in hopes they would
fight in Virginia, bnt by the terms of the match
they must fight 400 miles West of New York.
The telegrapher’s strike is virtually at an end,
so far as this city is concerned. Some of the
strikers have gone back to their former positions,
but some of the best men will not go back at alL
The New Orleans Custom House troubles are
not yet over; and Collector Casey, who was en
route for the Crescent City, has been recalled to
Washington to answer farther serious charges of
retaining Democrats in office.
Representative Wells, of Missouri, has pre
pared a bill, which provides that all manuscripts
and correspondence to and from authors to
newspapers and periodicals, shall be transported
through the mails at the same rates of postage
as printed matter.
■ The first number of a weekly negro organ,
called the New Era, and edited by J. Sella Mar
tin, was issued to-day. Dalton.
Letter from Jefferson County.
High Water—Tremendona Demand for
Fertilisers—What lias become of tbc Sons
of Middling?— Aggregation of Lands—
Farmers won’t raise Corn.
No. 11, Central Railroad, Jan. 17,1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I know
that it should not be a matter of surprise that
things change as well as men, but these changes
come in such quick succession—being whirled
from one into another with such rapidity, that
we are forced to an actual examination whether
we be in the flesh or out of it; whether the
drama of events which pass before our bewil
dered eyes are realities, or the mere vagaries of
a disordered brain. To-day we read of events the
most startling, but to-morrow’s mail will flood
ns with transactions so diabolical in character
that the wonder of yesterday seems exceedingly
tame. Thus toBsed upon the billows wo are
drifting on, on, amid the angry waves of fanati
cism and passion to a certain and inevitable
destination. How long, O Lord, how long?
Since my last we have had alternate cold and
rainy weather. Now all the streams in the conn-
are swollen to overflowing, and the river is
rising rapidly. Many seem to apprehend a flood
equal to the freshet of April, 1868. The roads
are almost impassable.
Never hap there been snch a demand for fer
tilizers as there is now all throngh the country.
In this county alone there will be almost double
the quantity used this year that was employed
last year. Great quantities have already arrived
along the line of railroads. The Soluble Pacifio,
Mapea’ Superphosphate and Phoenix manures
are more largely represented, although almost
all varieties are to be found in our depots. As
the railroad company refuses to furnish shelter
for the guanos, there has been sustained a great
loss by purchasers during the heavy rains of the
past week.
■What has become of tho negro? is a question
often asked. In traveling from one extreme of
the county to the other, and after much in
quiry, I am safe in saying that there is not one-
third of the planters in Jefferson county who
have their complement of laborers. Many are
riding to and fro in search of hands daily. Tbo
general demand is for two, or three, or four to
make up the deficiency, but on one plantation
there was a demand for forty. The larger plan
tations are generally better supplied than the
medium or smaller ones. They love to “hud
dle” together in large numbers. From the
meagre information that I can gather, there will
be at least one-sixth less negroes in the field this
year than were engaged last year within the
limits of this county. "Where are they gone ?
The colored population will form an interest
ing, and I am almost certain a melancholy fea
ture in the census of 1370. They are disap
pearing from our midst, and no one can account
for the fearful fatality among them. The in
crease of the race is nothing in comparison with
what it was under tho reign of slavery. Those
vaunting philanthropists who have bartered this
race for the benefits of. offioo, .will havo a fear
ful account to meet in a coming day.
“It is well that all men ate not of the same
d,” as the good Baptist brother said from
ulpit, “or everybody wonld want my Nan-
Thus while yon newspaper editors are
’ 'or emigration and a denser population,
♦MnViAfgity to prosperity, I find in the more
cravings} 6 ^ portions of tho country .men
out to thX elbOTr room * Many are selling
wider rangeVs hbor8 8113 hurrying away to
merous. InstX 6 popoktion is not so nu-
small fame iospf the division of lands into
ourwis^crofimSe 8 * 810 * n P° n b J
the other extreme sS£?!?’ Molding the war,
Men of means who »3iP™v t6 preaohaqafa.
who are acQnmnWi> g ^ rac ^ a °* hujd and
other property in >i}jioh uL ^ ear ’, oail no
r * “^can invest their
V
surplus money with greater security than in add
ing to their landed estate. The theory of di
vision is false. For every country where this
division and sub-division has obtained the as
cendancy, as in France and Italy, the system
has proved a failure, and every writer on polit
ical economy reports against it It is ruinous
to the prosperity of the country and unjust deal
ing with energy and enterprise; Capital and
energy will control in spite of all the theories
of politics.
Notwithstanding the scarcity of hands and the
heavy rains, there has been a great deal of
ploughing done in the past two weeks. I fear,
from present information, that the proportion
of cotton this year will exceed that of last It
seems-one of the most difficult things in the
world to accomplish, that of convincing a plan
ter of the necessity of planting corn. Many will
answer you, that there was a time when it could
be profitably raised. If we could make our own
bacon, as in former days, we would plant corn,
but we are oompelled to purchase our meat, and
it requires cotton to do it Therefore it is but
little trouble to cultivate more and buy our
corn. They have an argument to meet every
reason that you may assign. More anon.
LeReve.
Tlie Georgia Press.
From the Columbus Sun of Thursday we get
the following:' •
4-11-44—Lotteey Gone Up.—After a hard and
desultory struggle for life, the branch of the
Georgia State lottery in this place has suc
cumbed for want of stamps. 1 On yesterday af
ternoon the Sheriff was taking off the big wheel
and all the little paraphernalia, by the aid of
which a little boy with a shade over his eyes
was accustomed to draw out large prizes for nu
merous lucky holders of tickets—in a horn.
Officers of the Eagle and Phenix Manu
facturing Company.—The meeting of the stock
holders of this establishment held yesterday,
was the largest and most enthusiastic which
has ever met The following Board of Direc
tors was re-elected: N. J. Bussey, W. H. Young,
W. L. Parramore, Charles Rogers, S. B. War-
nock.
At a subsequent meeting, Dr. N. J. Bussey
was re-elected President, and G. Gnnby Jordan
Secretary and Treasurer.
The Directors delared, from the earnings of
1869, a cash dividend of §62,500, being five per
cent, on the entire capital stock, payable, as will
be seen by notice, on and after the first of Feb
ruary. They passed to the credit of the Re
served Fund the remaining §34,000 of the profits
on the year. Daring the twelve months their
net profits liave amounted to nearly 8 per cent.
We believe the number of shares amount to
125,000—each representing §100. *
A correspondent of the Chroniole and Senti
nel gives a gloomy acoonnt of matters in War
ren county since the return of the Radical sher
iff, Norris, with Foderal soldiers to back him. He
has arrested two citizens already, and attempted
to arrest Capt. Hartley, one of the editors of
the Warronton Clipper, who made his escape,
The citizens arrested are in jail at Warrenton.
Norris is said to be getting warrants ready for
tho arrest of one hnndred and fifty other citi
zens, charged with complicity in the killing of
that old lechre, Adkins, and of the murder of
Darden. Norris has a guard around his office
all day, goes to his meals guarded by soldiers
and has a guard around his honse all night. He
has asked for cavalry to make arrests and the
Federal officer in command having no cavalry
is impressing horses to mount his infantry. A
great many people are leaving the comity, leav
ing their families and property entirely unpro
tected.
Bullock and Blodgett are folly justifying the
Atlanta Intelligencer’s nauseating puff of their
management of the State Road. There was
another smash-up on the road Wednesday.
The Dalton Citizen wants to know why Or
ganizer Harris isn’t on the road attending to his
business. It says there is scarcely a day but
that some train is delayed on the State road of
late. The track mast be in either a bad condi
tion or something else is wrong. The down pas
senger train Saturday night missed connection.
The up passenger train Tnesday night, due here
at two o'clock, arrived at 10 o’clock Wednesday
morning, drawn by a freight engine, the pas
senger engine being left in a ditch near Adairs-
ville.
The Citizen says the roads in that section are
almost impassable, and it is feared the high
waters will seriously damage small grain crops
on bottom lands.
The Atlanta Constitution says Judge Brown
and Gen. Terry are spoken of as tho “coming
men” for United States Senators.
The Atlanta and West Point Railroad enjoys
the distinction of not having missed a connec
tion in four years.
The Savannah Republican says that Mr. J.
W. Gregory, of the Farmer’s Club of New York,
has just arrived in that city with a party of
capitalists, who propose to locate a large colony
on the coast of Georgia or in Florida. Their
more immediate objective point is the neigh
borhood of Medway river, in Liberty county,
which, with other places, they will visit and ex
amine daring the present week, and then, per
haps, extend their journey into Florida. Their
colony consists of farmers and machinists chief
ly from abroad, and they propose to make their
settlement as soon as the lands can be secured.
The Republican also has this paragraph, which
will be fully understood by newspaper propri
etors, and all others whom the cap may fit:
A Word in Season.—We wonld inform certain
so-called prominent Democrats of the up-coun
try, who are working at Atlanta in the interest
of Bullock, and with the hope of reward, but
ostensibly for the “honor and consistency of the
Democratic party,” that their game is fully un
derstood by the people, and the sooner they
qnit the disreputable business the better it will
be for them. The servants of Bullock will be
set down as Bullock’s.
The Thomasville Enterprise of Wednesday
says:
South Georgia and Florida Railroad.—We
are gratified to be able to state that the work on
this road is progressing favorably and the con
struction trains now ran to Camilla in Mitchell
county, a distance of thirty-three miles from
Thomasville and twenty-six from Albany. Fif
teen miles of the road between Camilla and
Albany have also been graded. I The third sec
tion of the road is now ready for inspection and
the passenger train will therefore soon run to
Camilla.
Harvard Wilson, a very likely Fifteenth
Amendment, was Ku-Kluxed by two of his
brothers-in-law in Thomasville, on Thursday,
for beating bis wife.
The Valdosta Times says there is a general
complaint among fanners in that section on ac
count of the scarcity of hands. Nearly all of
the “Ca’lina niggers,” are gone, or trying to go
back, and large numbers of the Georgia darlties
are off working on the railroads.
The mongrel town authorities of Valdosta had
a mixed police, half white and half black, to
keep ordor when the ciroua was there recently.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says a private let
ter to J. J. Sparrow, Ordinary, gives the sad
news of the accidental killing of his father-in-
law, Mr. J. C. Do Lamar, formerly of Pulaski
county, at Dresden, Texas, on December 25th.
Mr. Alfred Taylor, an employee at MoGriff’s
mill, near Cochran, was killed there one day
last week. He was caught in the wheel and
beaten to death before the engine coaid bo
stopped.
The Chronicle and Sentinel’s latest advices
from Warren county represent that the reign of
terror inaugurated in that county, has extended
into Taliaferro and Glascock, Two men named
Meadows, in tye first named county have been
arrested. A good many horses for the nse of
Terry’s infantry have been impressed at and
aroond Barnett’s Station, on the Georgia Rail
road. Messrs. Hill and Ivy were to hpve been
examined Friday, on the charge of being aooes-
sory to the killing of the assassin, Darden. Gen.
Terry has refused to admit to bail any persons
arrested on a capital charge. The Chronicle
says it has been decided to remove Judge An
drews from office and appoint Boyd, of Lincoln
county, a farmer by profession and eon-in-law
of James H. McWhorter. The counties nnder
martial law are all in Judge Andrews’ circuit.
The Chroniole gives ns some information
about the reorganization of the Judiciary, that
may be of interest. It says Brown and Warner
will be removed, and that McCay will succeed
Brovm, and Jas. Johnson take McOay’a place.
Farrow, Pope, Dawson Walker, Parrott, Big-
ham, and Hopkins are said to be reaching after
Warner’s place. Of the Superior Court Judges,
Andrews, Alexander, Cole, Schley, Robinson,
and Clarke are said to be spotted for the guillo
tine.
The Colnmbns Sun of Friday gives ns the fol
lowing items:
Meeting of Stockholders Georgia Home
Insurance Company.—At the annual meeting of
the Stockholders of the Georgia Home Insur
ance Company, the following Board of Directors
was eledftfl: James F. Bozeman, Wm. H.
Young, J. Rhodes Browne, John King, Josiah
Morris, of Montgomery, Ala., L. T. Downing,
W. J. McAllister, Jas. Ennis, Charles Wise, W.
H. Hughes, D. F. Wilcox. It is the old Board,
except two or three changes made necessary by
removals and other causes.
At a meeting of the Directory, James F. Boze
man was re-elected President, and D. F. Wil
cox, Secretary.
The Board declared a cash dividend of $10
per share and a “Scrip Dividend" to holders of
“Participating Policies” of 25 per cent.
The Election Yesterday.—It passed off with
considerable excitement and noise, bnt there
was only one fight.
Large negro vote polled. No politics in
volved.
The total number of votes polled was 1358,
divided as follows:
tor sheriff :
J. J. Bradford...—
P. A. Clayton.—
945
410
FOB TREASURER i
John Johnson.——
826
TT, p, Everett
508
FOB CliEBK SUPERIOR COURT :
Roswell Ellis
646
Mm. S. Xiloyd «...
G9C
BOB CORONER.
J. P. Floyd
R. A. Wood
86
570
D. F. deGraffenried
591
Scattering
6
Tho precincts—Edwards’, Nance’s and Upa-
toie, are yet to be heard from.
“Markham’s Block,” onPeachtree street, At
lanta, was sold Thursday. The three stores
brought §10,000, §6,950, and §6,950, respect
ively.
There were, in the port of Savannah, on
Thursday, thirty-four ships, twenty barks, three
brigs and thirty-eight schooners. Total num
ber of sail, ninety-five.
A fire in Savannah, on Tuesday night, de
stroyed a block of wooden buildings on Broad
street, extending from Pine street to the ware
house of the Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany. Loss, §1000. The Southern Mutual, at
Athens, had a policy on the property de
stroyed.
The editor of the Greensboro Herald while
passing np the Georgia Railroad, a few days
since, was gratified to see everywhere evidences
of life and activity. Fertilizers, in large quan
tities are seen and smelt too, at every depot
whilst old fields are turning up their fallow soil,
preparatory to showing what they can do in
spite of Radical rale. The freedmen, we were
pleased to learn, were generally quiet, indus
trious and cheerful.
Tho Herald also says that the real estate mar
ket for the past month, has been unusually
brisk, and we are pleased to welcome several
Northern families, who have permanently set
tled in onr community. They have invested
their capital, cast their fortunes with ns, and
have gone to work like Trojans, ignoring poli
tics altogether.
The Constitution says it is rumored that Gus-
killis acting Assistant Superintendent of the
State Road.
The Ordinary of Troup county has purchased
a farm of 200 acres, just outside LaGrange for
county panper farm. The price paid was
$4000. ^
Tlic Chattooga Foss.
The Rome Courier has the following addi
tional: .
It is with mixed feelings that we give an
opinion concerning the affair* in Chattooga.
“ The Courier has always been loud in con
demning any lawlessness. We heartily con
demn any secret political organization, and es
pecially do we condemn the actions uf the Ku-
KlnxKlan.
•‘ We condemn the action of the men in Chat
tooga. But there are many exculpating circum
stances. According to onr information, Abridge
was not suspected of any complicity in the mur
der of Bass. The only charge against him was
that he was in the party that went to Taylor’s
house, and the only proof that he was with that
crowd is, that when his name was called an
answer was made to the or 1L
A party of military came to the town and ar
rested him without any civil authority, and
wonld let no ono see him. Frightened for his
wellfare, some men applied to Judge Kirby to
get his influenoe applied for his release. They
did not threaten the life of Judge Kirby, nor
did they at any time proceed to violent meas
ures, nor did they at any time threaten personal
violence. We can see no essential crime or in
justice in the action of these men, but we con
demn it as unfortunate. It was an impolitic
step, and it was turning np a tramp card for
Bullock. Every evidence of the existence of
the Kn-Klux Klan is a strong help to the Radi
cals. The K. K. K. is the high horse with
which they ride down the conquered Southrons.
Let us starve this horse and then we can meet
them on fairer terms. Oar people would bear
in proud silence the wrongs that are thrust upon
them. There is a glory in stoical fortitude as
well as in active resistance. Though we have
oppressions to bear that wonld stir a fever in
the blood of age, yet let us bide our time. The
day will come when every evil we have borne
wiU be a badge of honor.
“It is a significant fact that the most violent
abuse that has been heaped npon these dis
guised men, comeB from men who are known to
have been members of the Union League.
“For our part, we can see no more sin in be
longing to the Ku-Klux Klan than to the Union
League. Both are political, secret organizations,
and both are advocates of extreme policy. The
only difference is that the K. K. K. has com
mitted some violence. This is due not to any
difference in the principle upon which they are
built, but because the K. K. K. are members of
tho oppressed party. We think it a sweet trav
esty on honesty, that a member of the Union
League should whine and cant about the sin
of him who has joined the K. K. K. Besides
all this, we do not believe that they were Chat
tooga men who committed this deed.
“We have information from a most absolute
ly reliable gentleman that forty or- fifty mount
ed men passed through Cherokee county, Ala.,
on Saturday evening, going towards Summer
ville, and on Sunday morning this gentleman
heard ^a large body of mounted men clatter
past his honse, going from the direction of
Summerville. This man is strictly reliable,
and we are confident that his information is
true.
“Judge Kirby has no sure ground for the
opinion that they were Chattooga men, as he
did not know any of them save one. We be
lieve that the men who did this tiling came
from Alabama. Hadn’t the military better go
there after them ? Too much prominence, it
appears to us, has been given Chattooga affairs
already, and we believe that the e citizens of
that county can take care of themselves with
out the aid of the military.”
Emigration to Texas.—The Memphis Ava
lanche says that the tide of white emigration
from Georgia, East Tennessee, Virginia and
North Carolina continues on as large a scale as
ever. It plaoea the arrivals there, by the Mem
phis and Charleston Railroad, from November
7th to December Sist, at 8175, of whom 410
were destined for Galveston and vicinity. The
great bulk were passing on to the Red River
oountry and Arkansas. They are represented
as being, for the most part, of the poorer class
es of fanning people, bat possessed of some
little means which they design .investing in
the cheap lands of the Southwest They spoke
of ihousaads more who will folio w in their wake.
Letter from General Lee on IttunfoT
Mon.
Lexington, Va., December 80,'
My Dkae Sir : The question of supphiZ'i. 1
bor to the South is one of vital importance £
which all classes are concerned, and parties!,
ly the agriculturist, inasmuch as regular
constant work is more necessary to bis prosnei?
ty than in moat of the other industrial pursuit
I believe this can only be secured by the im.„ I
duction of a respectable class of laborers |
Europe, for although temporary benefit mioS I
be derived from importation of the Chinese iS '
Japanese, it would result, I fear, in eventual r
jury to the country and her institutions, w.
not only want reliable laborers, but good i
zens, whose interests and feelings would 1*^ i
unison with our own. 0813 1
State immigration societies, coi
prompted by the patriotio motive w oenenttia. i
the country, would accomplish this object ben
than by any other mode. By introducing tZ,
thy immigrants, providing for their comfort !
and security on arrival, and assisting then
when necessary, io their new homes, a sufficient
supply of honest, steady, willing men vonia
soon be secured. uia
. I believe experience has proved that the nr>i>
tice of employing entire families produces men*
contentment and permanency among them anS
where a number are collected into a commuah,
npon neighboring farms they are betters*^
fled and give greater satisfaction.
I am glad to find that this important subiert
is claiming your attention, and I hope that tin
Virginia immigration Society may be ablat„
adopt a plan for procuring for the State
such others as may co-operate with her a nZ
alar supply of hearty, healthy immigrants
Your plan of providing a depot within onr
borders where they can be received on landinj
upon our shores, and where their necessai?
wants can be supplied, is eminently wise aai
in my opinion necessary; and I should rejoin
to see a plan in successful operation calculated
to develop the wealth and to promote tho nr™
perity of the Sonth. p
I have been and still am an advocate of Eum.
pean immigration, but do not see in what other
way I can aid it.
With mnch regard, your obedient servant,
R. E. Ln
Col. Thomas H. Ellis, President of the 'Hr.
ginia Immigration Society, Richmond, Va.
Taking the Oath.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial gives the following picture of
“Taking the Oath,” by the niggers and seals,
wags:
Since the war, the human intellect has been
racked.in attempting to make oaths that would :
make loyalty to bloom and blossom in the sa
vannas and swamps of the South; that wonld
cause a man to fall down and worship the flag
that he hates, and kiss the hand that smite*
him.
Bnt of all the oaths yet manufactured sent
down here, the tightest one is that which accom.
panted the Georgia bill, and which each mem
ber of the Legislature most swallow before he
can take his seat Ben Butler and Bullock are
said to have spent many a weary hour in its
manufacture, and to have rejoiced with exceed
ing great joy when they contemplated the thing
after all its finishing touohes bad been put on.
In addition to other matters too numerous to
mention, a man must swear that he never held
any sort of office under the State government
while Georgia was out of the Union. With one
sweeping clause, it includes all officers, from
Governor down to a freight car brakesman on
the State Road.
I went up this morning to the room of Major
Williams, at the Capitol, who is engaged in ad
ministering the iron clad frog to all members
wbo have the nerve to take it.
One of the Solons was present, looking at the
thing through his spectacles, and occasionally
stopping to clear up his throat. It was evident
that he contemplated making way for it to go
down. After reading it two or three times, he
made the observation that “she was pretty
tight” Nevertheless, he took it, and his name
was duly recorded with a great deal of solemni
ty, in a half dozen books, whero it will be handy
for the Radical smelling committee and their
omnibus load of lawyers, whom they have em
ployed to prosecute all cases of perjury under
the act
“How many have taken it?” I inquired of
Major Williams.
“Only about thirty, and some of them ne
groes.”
“Do the negroes take it without mnch diffi
culty?”
Oh, yes; they will take anything. There
can’t be no oath fixed up that they won’t take, if
you give them a chance. They love to swear.”
From the room where the frog is administered
to the Governor’s reception apartment (be route
is easy, bnt one door being between. In fact,
the only way to reach the frog is to go throngh
the reception room. Here were collected a
miscellaneous throng, without distinction of
race, color or previous condition. A bevy of
clerks, with their heads nicely combed, their
clothes nicely brushed and their boots nicely
blacked, were dodging about, making a great
bristle, and not accomplishing anything particu
lar.
Two burly negroes, with no white blood of
consequence in them, were seated at a table,
each with a mammoth pen and holder behind
his ear, after the manner of a fashionable hotc-i
cierk. One was reading the morning papers,
and the other was writing, taking care, however,
not to use the pen behind his ear, but another
one, that behind the ear probably being exclu
sively for ornament as an honorable distinction.
Presently a small swarm of colored members
came in—fall fifteen thousand dollars’ worth,
if we were back in good old Democratic times.
Among them was Senator Bradley, from Savan
nah, who has the reputation among the Demo
crats of being a “mean nigger.” The Senator
was well dressed, wore a plug hat, sported eye
glasses, carried a cane, and had bis bands closed
in kid gloves. He certainly has the address and
manne'rs of a gentleman.
The retained prodigals—not exactly prodigals •
either—were in the jolliest humor. “Didn't I
tell you we'd meet again. Ah, I know’d it,” to
which another replied by wondering what the
*‘ Democrats think now.” After a great deal of
hand shaking and general jollification, they ad
journed into the frog room to swallow that ani
mal. Bradley was sworn first, and seemed to
take down the thing with a relish that a Demo
crat would have envied. He signed his name in
a bold hand, in a manner indicating that he was
accustomed to the use of a pen. It was much
better than Horace Greeley oonld have done.
Terrible Tragedy ln Montgomery.
The Montgomery Advertiser gives the follow
ing account of a terrible tragedy which occurred
in that city on Tuesday afternoon:
About five o'clock yesterday evening the sharp
crack of a pistol was heard on Commerce street
Mr. W. H. Hogan, clerk in the grocery establish
ment of Tatum & Wilkinson, had been shot by
Mr. E. J. Belser. Surrounded by numerous
friends and relatives, Mr. Hogan expired about
htdf-past six in the counting room of tho store.
Drs. Blount Weatherly, Wilson, Douglas and
Hill were with him during his last moments,
and offered every remedy that professional skill
could devise.
Mr. Hogan did not speak after he was shot
if we are correctly informed. The shooting
occurred at a time when there were but few
persons passing, and no one saw the shooting
except a little son of Mr. Berry Tatum. Mr.
Edward J. Belser, who is well known in this
city, as a son of the late James E. Belser, im
mediately proceeded to the residence of Gen.
James H. Clanton, and as we are informed,
gave to him his reasons for the act an d asked
him to go with him to the authorities to give
himself up. He said he killed Hogan for se-
duoing his daughter, and that he knew nothing
of the seduction until last night.
Mr. Hogan had been married but a week, to
a daughter of Dr. Hill, of this city. He was a
fine business man and bad many friends. The
whole community regret the tragic affair. As
it will undergo a jadicial investigation, we for
bear comment Mr. Belser, accompanied by
Gen. Clanton, gave himself up to the authori-
ities last night.
Arrangements for the consolidation of the
ocean cables between America and Europe have
been concluded in London, and only require the
sanction of the directors. The companies will
cast all receipts into a common purse and then
share proportionately; and should the land kne
connecting with one cable be down, tha dis
patches will be sent by the other without regard
to the company which may have reoeived them-
. A new explosive, of asserted groat power, *
announced by English journals, under then* 0 **
of ammonia powder. Analysis shows merely *
substitution of nitrate of ammonium for nitr*“
of potash in ordinary gunpowder, the chang*
adding immensely to tho explosive force. TP* j
salt being quite delinquescent, the old
keep your powder dry” would lose its
into get -