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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 -