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The Greoraia "Weekly TeleeyaiDh and. Jonrnal && Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, FEBRUARY 15, 1870.
No mistake.
Our com freight statement of yesterday was
oompiled from the original freight bills of a most
respectable grain and provision house in Macon,
by the writer, and he knows there was no mis
take about it It may be an exceptional case,
though we cannot well comprehend how it can
be so—but we know that with that house it
stands precisely as stated. We write this para
graph because the city editor tells us other
com houses assure him there has been no varia
tion in their freight. If so we are glad of it;
but we can only speak for the particular house
which submitted its file of bills to tho writer for
inspection, and he noted the charges from these
bills just as stated yesterday.
Writhing.
The Atlanta Intelligencer foams, and howls,
and gnashes its teeth—or rather gams—at the
press dispatch repudiating it as a Democratic
paper, which was sent from this point on Mon
day night
The truth never hurts honest people. That
dispatch was truth crystalized in a few crisp
sentences, and we challenge the Intelligencer
to deny, upon honor, its disbelief that the dis
patch represents the sentiment of nine out of
every ten men in Georgia opposed to Radical
rape and robbery.
We have beard but one opinion expressed
among Democrats as to the truth and propriety
of the charges contained in the dispatch. Prob
ably among those misshapen mongrels about
Atlanta who are called “ Bullock's Democrats”
there may be heard an echo to the Intelligen
cer's groans and curses; but, thank Heaven,
none of that class live down this way. If there
are any, they are known and classed Radicals.
We are promised in to-day’s Intelligencer an
editorial broadside that will blow the Telegraph
and Messenger clear ont of water. So we sup
pose the part of discretion is to get ready for it.
Therefore we drop the subject now. If any of
the Telegraph and Messenger is left after this
■awful broadside, we may resume it again.
Ominous.
The organ at Atlanta had no special dispatch
es from Washington yesterday. That look’s
squally for Bnllock & Co., it seems to ns. If
they were working the wires as successfully
now as they did in December, the organ would
have had one or more specials. Has Grant
gone back on them, or was that reported con
versation of his with Bullock & Co., wherein
the Radical goose was exalted so high, a—mis
take?
Lord I how “fur and hard” the busy B.
would fall if Grant and the Congress should de
cide against them. It would almost pay the
people of Georgia for all they have suffered in
the past to hear the sweet chorus of groans and
blasphemy and gnashing of teeth that would
rise up from those bafiled conspirators. Defeat
is death, and death is “damnification.” They
know it Look out for another $5000 dinner,
about Saturday, to Radical Congressmen.
Goon Advice.—The Mobile Register, in urg
ing npon the planters to pay more attention to
the raising of com, says: “It is an old error of
our planters to suppose that when they make
an immense crop of cotton they have made so
much clear gain; to forget that when they are
without grain they must rob cotton Peter to pay
com Paul. And yet this old foe puts on a new
face this year, and we hear of immense prepar
ations for cotton and very slim ones for com.
This will not do. Com is independence—it is
life. With heavier grain crops this present
year we could have held back cotton, if need
ful, as it would not have been, and kept the
price to any figure we pleased. With heavier
grain crops next year we can do the same, thus
making a smaller cotton crop equally valuable
in money. If foreign buyers feel that planters
can hold, they will not wait to bny, and the de
mand will come. If, on the other hand, they
know we most sell to bny food, foreign buyers
will wait till necessity forces the cotton upon
the market Vaulting ambition to produce im
mense crops 'overleaps itself; and prices are
made to tumble by the very means the planter
uses to enhance the money valne of hie pro
duction.”
Oce friend Lochtane, Attorney for the Mitch
ell claim, sends ns a pamphlet headed: “In
the Matter of the Heirs of Samuel Mitchell,
claimants of certain lands ceded to the State of
Georgia,” which we may read some rainy day
when onr exchanges are less newsy than nsnal.
We snpposo he means that a perusal of it should
set us right in our ideas as to the value of that
claim. We set it down at a cool million—and
we will, therefore, post ourselves.
If the Agency is not purged by Congress, and
stands as at present organized, the “Attorney
for the Mitchell claim” is not half so sharp as
we take him to be if he does not double his bet
and call for two millions. If he don’t get the
other million somebody else will. Its bonnd
to go—of that we have no sort of doubt.
The Southern Cultivator for February is,
as nsnal, replete with good agricultural matter,
embracing some sixty articles: Work for the
Month; Sugar and Syrup from Sorghum and
the Tropical Canes; Rust in Wheat; Which is
the best breed of Hogs; Com and Oats; various
articles upon Experiments with Fertilizers;
Grape Culture, and many others, are articles of
much value and interest. $2 00 a year. Pub
lished by Messrs. Wm. & W. L. Jones, Editors
.and Proprietors, Athens, Ga.
The TarrifF Question in Congress.
Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal. J
Washington, February 7.—The leading fea
ture of Congress to-day, was a pretty square
and important vote on the tariff question, which
'has dealt the pending bill, in an indirect way, a
serious blow, and presented an almost united
Western front against a high tariff. The mat
ter came np for consideration withont debate,
in the shape of some resolutions offered on
Monday last by Judge Marshall, of Illinois,
which, in effect proposed that the House should
declare that the tariff should be adjusted sub
stantially to a revenue standard.
The friends of tho tariff moved to table theso
declarratory resolutions, and finally, after four
or five votes, carried their motion, in a full
house, by only thirteen majority. During the
struggle, the result was at one time against the
tariff. The House was divided by tellers, and
stood CL to 61, and the Speaker was about to
give his casting vote, when Julian, of Indiana,
came np and voted against a high tariff, thus
making the result Cl to 02. But the protec
tionists got the ayes and nays ordered, rallied
their forces, and carried tho day by the major
ity already named. But the result has created
a feeling of despondency among the Pennsyl
vanians, who openly acknowledge that the new
tariff bill stands a very slim chance of passage
in the House.
Ebesczer IE. Hoar's Bad Manners.
Washington, Feb. 0.—At Secretary Fish's
reception on Friday evening Attorney General
Hoar met Senator Sawyer, of South Carolina,
in the throng. The latter offered him his hand
and accosted him in a friendly manner, when
Hoar sharply and insolently replied: “Well, I
see South Carolina and Massachusetts havo re
sumed their old relation of hostility.’’ The
persons standing by ceased talking, and looked
for » row, but Mr. Sawyer, desirous of avoid
ing a scene, turned and left him, very mnch in
censed at the conduct of Mr. Hoar.
. Supreme Court Report.—The Atlanta New
.pa t &», from which: we naoally take oar report of
Supreme Court, having
r afternoon, we are
t.of what wm done on Friday.
Migj?*.,
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A Gleam of Sense.
The New York Times, in a late editorial, says:
“The policy of the future is to heal the war-
wounds. Since sooner or later evory State will
be in full enjoyment of itsrights and privileges,
the sooner the better for ns all. The true move
for Congress is the forward move—not to wait
to dole out its concessions, but to give them
freely. To higgle out possibilities, to contrive
hypothetical cases requiring future action, is
unworthy and unstatesmanlike.”
That is an important discovery, although the
Times is slow in making it, and since the death
of Mr. Raymond, seems to have been running
generally npon the canstie and aquafortis plan.
There is not a reasonable donbt that if the
Radical party had adopted “a healing policy”
immediately after the surrender, they would
have secured permanent political mastery in
the South—but then that would have been the
policy of statesmen, and not of the wild
schemers, theorists, fiibbertigibets, and vindic
tive and venal partisans, which make up so
large a portion of the Radical party.
But although it is now too late for that party
ever to obtain a bold npon the confidence and
good opinion of the Southern people—a“healing
policy” may better* their reputation in other
sections of the Union, which are getting tired of
proscription and conceiving a lively alarm over
what may be the ultimate designs of the Radi
cal party upon the liberties of the people.
Moreover—if that were a consideration likely
to havo any weight with the Radicals—a “heal
ing policy” is imperatively demanded by every
substantial interest of the country. The anxie
ty of the Radical Congress and politicians to
force six or eight millions of the people into an
attitude of disaffection and quasi rebellion
against the government—their resolnte refusal
for five years to accept the submission and obe
dience of the South—their persistent endeavors
to establish a great gulf of division between the
Southern people and the other people of the
conntiy, and to enlarge and widen and deepen
it, from time to time, and to stop all crossing
by their pitiful test oaths and disability acts—
and to keep up through the press, public dis
cussion and legislation a constant stigmatiohowl
of “rebels, rebels, rebels,"—to allow no man to
be at peace with them unless he will lick their
partizan boots—and, in one word—in every
shape and form of speech, writing and legisla
tion, to keep in vigorous life tho memories of
the war, as party capital, out of which to draw
and divide the spoils of the public plunder—
confound all considerations of the publio wel
fare.
Obviously every interest of the country and
the people demand the speediest restoration of
harmonious relations. A Family Quarrel is the
worst of all quarrels, and is in its worst shape
when it becomes chronic.
The misfortune, however, in this case is that
although peace may be essential to the country,
sectional war is essential to the Radical pajty.
It drew first breath in that atmosphere and can
not live in any other. Hence all the industrious
efforts of the Radicals to keep up the war, and
hence it can never adopt the policy of “healing
the war wounds.” As long as the Radical party
lives it must necessarily employ itself in domi
nating over, oppressing, reconstructing and
scourging the Southern people, and when not
employed in that must go to pieces.
Political Disabilities.
"Washington, February 8.—The Reconstruc
tion Committee, at their meeting to-day, blocked
ont some new and important legislation by de
ciding on a general bill to remove the political
disabilities of all persons disfranchised by the
Fourteenth Amendment, except such as have
served in Congress or in the army or navy. It
provides that all except the classes named may
have their disabilities removed on application
to a U. S. District Court. This application is
to remain on file thirty days, and then, if no
valid objection be made, tho court can issue an
order relieving the applicant. If there be ob
jection, it must show good aud sufficient cause
why the amnesty should not be granted. When
it is granted, tho applicant is to make an oath
that he will remain loyal to the Government
This oath is similar to that now taken by natu
ralized citizens.—Dispatch to Courier-JournaL
And this is “universal amnesty,” eh ? It is
a wicked, insulting mockery that will be spum
ed by those to whom it is offered. It is by no
such grudging, hateful dole of magnanimity,
that the faction nowin power can conciliate the
proscribed virtue, intelligence and worth of the
South. It is characteristic, however. We did
not expect any better from the venomous,
oowardly spirit that rules at Washington.
Even if this nmnesly was offered in good
faith, it wonld still defeat its object. Jost so
long as there aro persons at the South—not
more “guilty” than their fellows—excepted from
its operations, there will be great bitterness of
feeling. The men who are excepted are among
the very best of the citizens of the South. They
are generally wealthy, talented, of high per
sonal character and great influence. Do theso
malignant bunglers at Washington suppose
their neighbors and friends will not resent their
exclusionfrom the benefits of an act professedly
designed to bury in the grave of forgetfulness
and conciliation, all the rankliDg memories of
the war? They ought to know the South and
her people better than that, by this time.
The truth of the matter is probably this: The
Radicals in Congress are satisfied that some
concession must be made to the spirit of the age,
and the temper even of their constituents on
thispoiut,ondso go just farenoughto satisfy, as
they hope, thatdemand. it isnotdoneinaspirit
orsenso of justice and reawakened fraternal
feeling, nor at the bidding of a wise statesman
ship. It is a forced concession, and like all
forced concessions is grudging, ungracious and
therefore impolitic, and sure to defeat the end
sought for. This is one reason for their action.
Another is fear of the men thus excluded. The
pigmies, quacks and knaves, who fill the Gapi
tal dread the return, to those halls, of the men
who, towering above them like Anaks, made
their dwarfishness of mind and political rotten
ness and hypocrisy stand out in each loath
some relief." Wilson, Sumner, Howard and
Butler and Company dare not meet in debate
again, and npon equal terms, the Hunters,
Toombs, Clays and Breckinridges, whose hands
were as free from the taint of jobs and roguery
of every description, as their tongues were
ready to lash the knaves whose hands were not.
They dread the pure lives, the moral spotless
ness, the strong common sense, the crystal-clear
logic, tho stainless integrity and blazing elo
quence of tho statesmen of the South, in con
trast with their own shameful deficiencies in all
these qualities. Well, we can scarcely blame
them. 'Tis human nature to dread the instru
ment of our discomfiture, and therefore we will
not quarrel with these timorous gentry. Let
them go before the country with the real reason
for their policy though. Let them say, like
men, we dare not meet the representative men
of the South in debate. We dare not expose to
their searching analysis the sins, and outrages,
and blunders that have illustrated our rule aud
so nearly ruined tho country.
Astonishing tho West.
Our ingenious and poetical friend of the An-
gusta Constitutionalist developes a scheme to
bring the West to reason, under the head of
** The Great West—Howto Astonish Her.” The
plan is for the South to stop buying meet for
thirty days, and meanwhile practice economy
and kill and eat our live stock. This policy,
gentleman just from the West, assures him
would effect a tumble on hams and sides, to fif
teen cents, and would save to the South by thir
ty days’ abstinence six millions of dollars. The
moral effect npon the West, he thinks, would
be equally signal and beneficial. It would bring
our Western persecutor^ to their reason and
tonishment.
We think there wonld be two parties aston
ished. The policy suggested reminds ns of
flight of fancy in a comio newspaper. Two
Irish haymakers had come npon a snake, which,
with head erect, eyed them in venomons de
fiance, while one of the haymakers with nerv
ous arm was bringing his scythe-blade round
with a sweep which wonld certainly make a
double decapitation, and exclaimed, “wait a
bit, Teddy, and I’ll take that varmint’s head off
in a manner that’ll astonish ye.” Teddy’s
head and the snake’s would roll off simultane
ously, and there was bonnd to be a double as
tonishment
In like manner, we fancy the South would
sympathize with the Western astonishment at
the effect of suddenly stopping the' broad cur
rent of food supplies from that quarter ; and
the effort to bring the freedmen to a subsistence
on the bur-tailed runts of catlle which pick up
a precarious existence in the old fields of mid
dle Georgia would bring in Sambo as a lively
party in the general astonishment.
The truth is, we donbt the whole radical poli
cy of forcing people into becoming your friends.
We never yet heard of anybody being whipped
and tortnred into affection, except it may be a
Spaniel dog, and we doubt tho efficacy of the
process even with a Spaniel dog. No, let ns
make friends by showing ourselves friendly ac
cording to the good old Scripture method.
We should go heart and hand in any sound
method to diminish the consumption of Western
bread and meat—not to hurt the West, but to
save ourselves. There is bnt one rational way
to do it, and that is to make them at home.
Raise hogs and raise corn. Aim at sectional
independence, which is to be achieved mainly
by agricultural independence. A farming
country which does not produce its own food is
in a miserable case, even though it may not re>
alize the fact. It will never get rich. We shall
divide our cotton crops annually between out
siders and tho railroads, steamboats and bank
ers, and show an empty purse every year in dog-
days.
Contradictory.
A delegation of Georgians, composed of Con
ley, President of the State Senate, and Speaker
■pro tem. Tweedy, Judges Gibson, Parrott, and
Harrall, of the Superior Court; Representative
Clift, Mr. John Rico and others, called on Presi
dent Grant this morning. The interview was
of an hour’s duration. They discussed the po
litical situation fully.
The President stated that although his first
impressions were that the action of the Legis
lature previous to the expulsion of the colored
members was legal and binding, and the elec
tion of Senators was to hold good, he was satis
fied, after more mature reflection, that the pre
sent legislative organization was the first, and
that all action should be commenced therefrom.
He inquired who the Republicans would elect
Senators, to which the delegation responded
that no nominations had yet been made, but
would probably be on Monday, and an election
held on Tuesday. No doubt they would be loy
al Republicans.— Washington Press telegrams
of the 20th.
In an interview with the President to-day,
Grant expressly denied the false telegrams got
off by Bullock through the Associated Press,
and the statement he caused to be published in
papers here, that the President favored a new
election of Senators by a purified Legislature.
The President and Gen. Sherman are known
to be in accord with a majority of the Judiciary
Committee on the question of tho admission of
Miller and HilL—Special Dispatch of the 0th to
the Telegraph and Messenger.
That’s an instance of pointblank contradiction
which it is difficult to explain. Although onr
special telegraphic correspondent at Washington
does not say so, we have no donbt he received
his information directly from Mr. Hill, and the
so-called Bryant delegation,and we do not doubt
that the facts of their interview with Gen. Grant
on tho 9th are correctly reported. But there’s
foul dealing somewhere, aud time will show
with whom it lies.
How a Bad Arrangement Works.—Wo com
mend to those persons who are advocating gov
ernmental monopoly of tho telegraph in this
country, the following cable dispatch from Lon
don dated February 5th. It will be remembered
that the government took possession of the wires
in England on the 1st of January:
Extraordinary scenes are occurring at the tel
egraph offices throughout England. Tho dis
satisfaction is general, and complaints of delay
and errors have been greatly multiplied since
the new arrangement went into effect, in this
oity particularly. Crowds of people surronnd
the offices, and there is the utmost confusion.
Radical Robbery, Jobbery and Gene
ral Villainy in South Carolina.
A Columbia correspondent of the Augusta
Constitutionalist writes a very interesting letter
to that paper concerning tho situation in that
State, and what a lively tune tho tax-payers
have to dance to. We make the following ex
tracts. The Judge Willard referred to is
carpet-bagger and seems to have a weaker
stomach than Ms associates. He had better get
over it:
ROBBER? AND PILLAGE.
Yon can have no idea of what is going on
here, how the State is pillaged and openly
robbed by those carpet-baggers and negroes.
Yes, yon can, too; for yon have been to At
lanta and know Bollock, Blodgett & Co. To
give you an ides, I was told that Mr. Speaker
Moses, the son of the GMef Justice, a degener
ate son of a degenerate sire, received a thou
sand dollars for a single ruling on a railroad
bill, and that his weekly deposit in the bank is
fifteen hundred dollars. He can afford to keep
fast horses and make Mmself agreeable to fast
women. Governor Scott was very indignant
with the Charleston News, for some strictures
made by that paper on his earnings ont of the
State bonds, bank notes, Blue Ridge Railroad,
eto. “Why, it is a lie,” said he, “I have made
only one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars
since I have been in office and in legitimate
transactions.” A pretty good only. Senator
Leslie, Land Commissioner, keeps open house
and bnys a good many acres. He is said to be
doing so well that some of the Senators and
Representatives wish to stop his supplies and
have an investigation; bnt the Senator seems
to defy them. The stealing is so general that
he feels the door for investigation will not be
opened.
TEAMS OP THE NEGRO REPRESENTATIVES.
Elliott, a negro Representative, dimes the
finest team in town. WMpper, DeLa^je aud
several other negro Representatives sport fine
horses and buggies, all on six dollars a day and
mileage.
ALL TO RE PAID FOB.
Every bill to incorporate a company, restore
a lost bond, or other evidence of debt, has to
be paid for, and in this way these sable states- 0 f
men may eke out a small pittance to feed their
horses.
NO NEGROES AT JUDGE WTLLAHd’8,
While I am gossiping, I may a3 well tell yon
an anecdote that was told to-day. A sheriff from
one of the middle counties came to Columbia to
have his account passed; the Solicitor of Ms
circuit asked him to go with Mm to one of Judge
Willard’s receptions. He went, and the next
morning expressed Ms surprise that he did not
see a single negro, male or female, in the rooms.
The next night the same Solicitor asked Mm to
go to the Governor's reception. He went, and
on his return he said: “I met negro men
lounging on the Governor’s sofas, smoking Ms
cigars and drinking Ms liquor, negro women
dancing the round dances with the Governor
and other white men, but I did not see a single
wMto woman.” I am informed that Judge Wil
lard has never allowed a negro man or woman
to cross his threshold as a guest.
THE GOVERNOR, SPEAKER, AND THEIR DAMSELS.
The Governor and Speaker of the House, the
latter especially, are said to be quite favorites
with the dusky dames and damsels of the' Capi
tal. Speaker Moses is a perfeot danoing der
vish, and willwMrl one of these saddle-colored
women, until the aroma from Ms partner per
vades the whole apartment: i
The Georgia Press.
The Savannah Republican says that Mr. Au
gust Tritsohler, one of the most esteemed Ger
man citizens of that city, was drowned near
Palatka, Florida, on the 2d instant
The local of the Republican has seen an in
sane woman without shoes and stockings, wading
through the mud and water, on one of the
streets of that city.
In the case of the Execntor of Seaton Grant-
land, versus the Exeontor of Ben Bethune,
wMch was a suit in Muscogee Court on a note
for $10,000 given by defendant’s testator, it was
pleaded that sufficient property in slaves had
been reserved to pay the debt, and therefore
that the Executor was not liable in his individ
ual capacity, the property in slaves having been
destroyed by ope»tion of law. A statute pass
ed since the war was quoted relieving him.
The Court, held, fa substance, as follows: That
where an executor, administrator or trustee, had
acted “in good faith,” and had so discharged
his obligations that he would have aeted like
wise if acting fee Mmself, he was entitled to re
lief under the shtute. The jury found for the
executor.
Augusta and Hartwell Railroad. — The
Conntitutionalis says:
Meetings of tie Directors of the Augusta and
Hartwell and Btmwell railroad companies were
held in tMs city yesterday.
From the reprts made to the several Boards,
the early compbtion of these roads can be safe
ly expected. ’
The surveyiig of the route of the Augusta
and Hartwell proceeds, (notwithstanding the
>’ have had,) with energy, an
bad weather w> have had,) with energy, and as present.
soon as the sane is completed, the road will be The schooner Oliver Cromwell was in the port
The Grand Jury adjourned yesterday till
Monday in order to give time for the prepara
tion of business.
lypit under contract. The parties
interested in this enterprise are determined
and pushing nen of means.
The Columlns Sun says:
Feehlizees—Their sale is now much larger
than at the tame time last year. One day,
over 100 tonswere sold. The business is daily
increasing. About 2,500 tons were sold last
season, and iais year’s sales will largely exceed
that amount.
The Americns Courier says that the indica
tions are the guano trade will be heavier in
that section this year than last, notwithstanding
the fact hat labor is scarcer than any former
year since freedom. The planters all seem to
be making extensive preparations.
Several fatal cases of meningitis are reported
in Newnan,all among negroes, however.
An Atlanta drayman pioked np a sick negro
in the street, on Wednesday, and started to carry
him home onhifadray, but the negro died in a
few minutes.
A fire on Ra:e Track street, Atlanta, Wednes
day night, destroyed a dwelling house belong
ing to Mr. B. H Tumipseed, causing a loss of
SI,500.
Dr. Red wine; who was shot by Westmoreland,
in Atlanta, some weeks since, has almost en
tirely recoveredhis health.
A Dalton comspondent of the Atlanta Con
stitution gives tie following particulars of the
hanging of a ntgro ravisher in that town on
Monday night:
During Christnas week, Albert Wilkey, col
ored, made an attempt to commit a rape on a
colored girl, the cteughter of a respectable col
ored man named Earlin. The cries of the child
were heard by several persons, some of whom
ran in the directioi of the cries, and Wilkey,
fearing detection, nade good his escape. For
some cause the mater was not talked of much,
and soon died out., Wilkey, however, thought
it best to change Us location, at least for a
time, and went to Tennessee.
But from some caase unknown to the writer,
he returned to this, Whitfield county, about ten
days ago. Rumor siys he had to leave Tennes
see for a similar offense to the one that drove
Mm from Georgia. |
WitMn a day or two after his return to this
country, ho was at YamoH’s Station, on a cer
tain day last week, and wMlo there, a Miss Neal,
daughter of Wash Ned, went to the Station on
hoiseback, to do somt trading, and when she
had accomplished her errand, started home.
On the route she was accosted by Wilkey,
dragged from her horse and carried into tho
woods; but before the fiend coold accomplish
his hellish purposes, he was again driven from
Ms prey by the presence of another whito lady
and her small daughter, not known until ho had
choked Miss Neal to prevent her cries, until the
marks of his fingers were to be seen on her
neck for days.
That the negro was taken from jail by force,
and by a body of disguised men, was also proven
before tho jury of inquest.
Many of the colored people approve the not
of Wilkoy’s execution, and three of tho party
who arrested himand brought him to jail, were
colored men—nut of them, Peter Harlin, tho
father of the littfe girl he attempted to rape
during Christmas week.
We quote as follovs from tho Savannah Re
publican, of Wedneslay :
Atlanta IntelugIcebb.—While we have
deeply regretted the ricent course of this jour
nal on the political afftirs of Georgia, we havo
never arraigned its patriotism or impugned its
motives, believing, as ws do, in the liberty of
the Press in its largest sense. Bnt when the
Intelligencer, despite its present political affili
ations, and open championship of the very
worst men of the Radical party and their mea
sures, assumes to represent tho Democratic, or
any other conservative element in Georgia, wo
feel constrained to speak oit and characterize
it as a fraud aud imposition on the public. The
Intelligencer has been openly laboring for the
Bullock faction for months past—let it be hon
est and manly enough to accept the responsi
bility of its position
By a vote of 12 top, the Augusta lawyers de
cided Wednesday to jsk tho presiding Judge of
that circuit to adjonn court untill the first Mon-
eay in March, on acctunt of the unsettled con
dition of publio affairi.
The stockholders of the Georgia Railroad at
their annual meeting in May, will vote npon the
proposition of leasing the Augusta and Port
Royal Railroad, when the latter is finished.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch learns “that Mr.
Trawick has written a letter to ex-Senator Col
lier, in wMch he sajs he will vote right, and
that if Mr. G.’s disnblities are removed, he will
resign his seat in Ms favor.”
Mr. Trawick was seated in Collier’s place.—
Now we want to know what Trawick means by
itigp “right.”
Tne good people of Athens are in a stew
over municipal taxation. Tho slow coaches are
down on an increase thereof, but the progres
sives are equally as zealous the other way. The
former,at a recent meeting, were strong enough
to pass resolutions condemning any increase.
Atlantic and Gulp Railroad.—The fifteenth
annual meeting of the Atlantic and Gnlf Rail
road was held in Savannah on Wednesday. Col.
John Screven, as President, and the old Board
Directors, were unanimously re-elected.
The following resolution was also unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That it is expedient and proper
that the Atlantio and Gnlf Railroad should be
extended at as early a day as is practical, and
that the President and Board of Directors be
and they are hereby instructed to extend the
road so soon as the financial condition of the
company will admit of the same, and that the
State be asked to grant such aid as is granted to
other roads.
From the Republican we get the following
synopsis of President Screven’s report:
The annual report of the President and Di
rectors of the Atlantio and Gnlf Railroad Com
pany, for the year ending January 1, 1870, was
submitted to the Stockholders at their meeting
yesterday, from wMch it appears that the gross
earnings of the Company for the year 1869
amounted to $784,329.75
Actual operating expenses 509,797.19
island, and 49,766 bales of upland—total 56,166
bales, being an increase of 1,173 over 1868.
The passage earnings were $188,681.56, an
increase of $31,275.16, equal to 19 per oent.
over 1868.
The total amount of freight earnings for 1869
was $569,831.93, an increase of $186,527.04, or
81 per cent over 1868.
While the gross earnings have increased 30
per cent, the operating expenses have inoreased
but 14 per cent.
The fertilizers forwarded from Savannah
amounted to 4,429,691 pounds, being an in
crease of 3,361,208 pounds over the year 1868.
This very able report contains tabular state
ments of the operations of every department of
the Company during the past year, showing
that while the nett comings of the road are be
ing rapidly increased the machinery and rolling
stock are also being inoreased.
The Savannah News says that at the conclusion
of on9 of Mrs. Oates’ favorite songs, at the The
atre on Wednesday night, Mr. E. T. Pritchard,
of Augnsta, testified Ms admiration of her tal
ents as an artiste by throwing at her feet, not
bonqnet of flowers, but a handsome set of furs,
wMch he had, an hour before, purchased for the
express purpose.
The News announces that the United States
District Oonrt for the Southern District has ad
journed over until Monday, the 4 th day of April
next. The District Court for the Northern Dis
trict convenes at Atlanta on Monday, 15th in-
slant.
The Circuit Court of the United States for the
Southern Distriot, for the April term, sits on the
second Monday in April. Judge Woods, the
lately appointed Circuit Judge, is expected to be
of Savannah the other day, with a crew whose
muted ages summed up 265 years. They were
Captain Delano, aged seventy-two years; mate,
Mr. Mendall, aged sixty years; second mate,
Jabez Delano, aged sixty-seven years; cook,
Frank Washington, (colored,) aged sixty.six
years.
A fire in Parnell’s warehouse, at Thomasville,
on Wednesday, seriously jeopardized that build
ing and its contents. The iron ties on the cot
ton baleB saved them from destruction.
In the case of John Peabody, bill-holder, vs.
a Colnmbns Bank stockholder, tried in Mnsco-
gee Court m Wednesday, the jnry found for
the bill-holder.
The Atlanta Intelligencer says:
“Fair Ground.—It is generally known to the
reading publio that an arrangement has been
made with the Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety that the next Annual Fair of that institu
tion is to be held in Atlanta. In anticipation of
this event, the City Council have purchased
forty acres of land near the State Road, a mile
and a half from tho city, with the design of
having the Fair at that location.
The Constitution of Thursday afternoon, says
that Jndge N. L. Hutchins, of Gwinnett county,
was suddenly prostrated on Wednesday night,
at Social Circle, by an attack of pleurisy. Dr.
Logan, of Atlanta, who was sent for by tele
graph, reported Mm better Thursday.
Of the meeting of the Executive Committee
of the State Agricultural Society, the Constitu
tion says:
The Executive Committee of the State Agri
cultural Society met at the City Hall tMs mold
ing, about twenty members present. Messrs.
O. W. Howard, W. ScMey, and Gen. A. H.
Colquitt were appointed a committee to confer
with the municipal authorities of the city of At
lanta with reference to the Fair Ground.
Messrs. H. D. Capers, Geo. S. Obear, E. E.
Rawson, and E. Steadman, were appointed to
audit outstanding claims against the Society.
The Committee on Claims will meet to-night
at the United States Hotel.
The Committee were in session when we left,
exhibiting an earnest desire to investigate the
condition of affairs relative to the late Fair. In
the morning we hope to be able to give the re
sult of their deliberations.
The Dalton Citizen says:
Railroad Matters.—The State Road is chock
full of business. The freight yard here is
crowded all tho time—so at Chattanooga. The
Louisville and Nashville road is getting impa
tient at it, and complains that the local freight
is crowding off the through freight—says its
cars aro all down in Georgia and they can’t get
them back, and have refused to let any more
come this side of Chattanooga till the others are
returned. The fault may be that Blodgett is in
Washington instead of Ms office at Atlanta. The
passenger trains occasionally arrive on time.
There is a run off some where on the road near
ly every day. Tho track must bo in a bad con
dition. Tho passenger train Sunday morning
ran off in sight of the depot at this place and
was detained about four hours. Two cars were
ro badly injured as to have been left off here.
The condition of the track was the cause of the
accident.
CoL Crawford, President of the Cartersville
and Van Wert Railroad, informs the editor of
the Constitution that the work on that road is
progressing finely. Four miles have been fully
graded, and soon nine miles will be completed.
Tho company has ample funds to build the en
tire road. The expectation is that the road will
be running its full length by Ootober. Captain
Slayton, one of the most efficient contractors
on the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad, has
obtained a large contract on the Cartersville and
Van Wert Railroad. The Captain is after put
ting that slate on the market abounding in such
inexhaustible quantities at Van Wert.
We find the following letter in the Constitu
tion, of Friday. Onr Democratic and Conser
vative friends np abont Griffin will doubtless be
somewhat interested in the latter portion of it:
Washington, D. G., February 8, 1870.
Editor Constitution—While CoL Bryant, Os
good and myself were at dinner yesterday, at
one table, Mr. Blodgett headed the Republican
delegation at the next table to ns, the party
□g of Mr. Blodgett, Ms son, E. Tweedy,
, Brown, (who appears in the city papers
Mart ■ >«, -
Net earnings $274,532.56
Being an increase of $181,270.75, as compared
the year 1S6S.
The receipts of lumber at Savannah, by the
road during the year, amounted to 22,823,500
feet, paying the Company $77,403, being an in
crease of 8,747,672 feet, as compared with
1868. . ; " ! .
The receipts of cotton at Savannah by the
road for the year, have been 6,400 bales sea
delegalio
consistin
one Mr.
as Judge Brown of Georgia,) Mr. Parrott, and
Mr. , the Senator from GriffiD, Georgia.
While we are called Domocrats by such men, al
though we refused to aid in the late war or re
bellion, in any shape or form, and have always
been for accepting the first terms offered by the
UnitedStatesCongress, the supreme power of the
land, it appears that it is all important that we
should be bom again, or converted by falling in
with, and asking to be embraced by, Mr. Blodgett
—then we will be true Republicans, and all will
be well with ns. Their records are all right.
The leader of the delegation was a Captain in
tbo Confederate service, one a Lieutenant un
der Mm, one a Quartermaster, one unknown in
Georgia as Judge Brown, or Brown, as far as I
can learn. And the Senator from Griffin, how
was he ? I only know that the Democrats of
Griffin were proud of Mm last year, and would
like to know if it is their wish that he should
drink to Mr. Blodgett, hoping thathe (Blodgett;
might be the next Senator from Georgia—while
at dinner yesterday at the National Hotel here.
Yours most respectfully, W.
The Albany News says:
• The? Walk about the “Sink Holes” Un
awed nr Q Kluxes.—For the benefit of the
Grant-Bullock organ at Atlanta, that never tells
a lie or perpetrates a slander, we mention the
fact that Hon. F. O. Welch, of Minnesota, who
was recently assigned to duty in the Georgia
State Senate, as representative of tMs Senatori
al distriot, is now on a visit to Ms delighted
and admiring constituents, and that he peram
bulates onr streets, in the day time and night
time, undisguised, without a body-guard, and
without a hope of molestation. There are no
Q Kluxes in tMs “department” of dens so lost
to self-respect as even to shock his nerves by
blowing a signal whistle within Ms hearing.
Swayze Mmself might prowl around our suburbs
for an “outrage” a week or two, without find
ing a dog mean enough to bark at him.
The B. &. A. R. R. Survey.—We yesterday
had a verbal message from Mr. Evans. The
surveying party were still stalled among the Mils
seven or eight miles southeast of Isabella, but
finally found a line and are probably now mak
ing good time eastward.
Mrs. Mary Hunt, wife of Bev. W. H. Hunt,
died in Atlanta a day or two since.
Mrs. M. S. Ollivier, an unsexed specimen of
the Cincinnati “Sorosis," will lecture at Atlanta
on Monday night, on “Female Suffrage,”
The Constitution thus notices a most gifted
and ever welcome contributor to our “Poet’s
Corner• ,
A Macon Poetess.—Maoonhas a native young
poetess of very considerable merit She has
published some excellent poems in the Macon
Telegraph and Messenger. She is Eppie
dra Castien, and proposes soon to publish a vol-
nwfl,
Mr. Albert Blotmt, Clerk of Burke Superior
Court, died on Wednesday. J. D. Munnerlyn
succeeds him.
The Columbus Enquirer says the robin crop
is large over there. Boys sell them for fifty
oents a dozen. According to the Enquirer, fish
ermen are not doing so well, however, only
few “suckers” having been’caught* this season.
We get these from the Sun, same date:
Mules and Horses.—Ellis & Spenoer sold
some thirty mules yesterday, at prioes ranging
between $125 and $185, and horses at $150 to
$200. The animals were young, but smalL
One pair mules brought $365.
Death op B. H. Matthews.—This gentle
man, called by his friends Britt Matthews, was
buried at Buena Vista, Marion oounty, Ga., on
Wednesday. He died the day before, after a
brief illness, on his farm, near that town. His
age, we presume, was abonfe thirty years. He
was well known in this city, and extremely pop
ular with alL He resided here for Borne time.
In the beginning of the war he will be remem
bered as the Quartermaster Sergeant of the
Second Georgia regiment He was a high-
toned gentleman.
We quote as follows fromjthe Savannah News:
In California.—We find among a list of
names of Los Angeles, California, in the Daily
News of that city, the following Georgians
whose names are familar to some of onr read
ers, and who, at the close of the war, left the
old State to better their fortunes in the far, far
West: H. S. Orme and Columbus Hughes.
These gentlemen are both in business in their
new home and are doing welL
A Singular Accident—A Horse Killed.—
Yesterday afternoon, as a gentleman and lady
were out driving on the Thunderbolt road, their
horse stepped on a stick of wood lying in the
road, wMch flew np and struck Mm in the stom
ach, inflicting a wound from wMch the animal
bled to death in a short time.
Cotton.—By reference to our statement pub
lished to-day, it will be seen that the stock of
ootton on hand and on sMpboard not cleared,
including upland and sea island, amounts to
75,681 bales, being an increase of 14,070 bales
over the same time last year.
Building Association.—At the regular meet
ing of the Forest City Building and Loan Asso
ciation, held on last Wednesday evening, sales
were made at the following rates: $2,000 at
45, $1,000 at 46, $1,000 at 49, and $1,000 at 50.
The Early County News says that a decision
was recently made in that county in the case of
the State vs. Converse Averett, for hiring a ne
gro who was in another man’s employ. The
jury verdict was gnilty, and the court fined the
prisoner $50.
The Rev. Jas. Stoney, Rector of St. Stephens
Chapel, Savannah, died in that city Thursday.
Thw Rome Southerner reports measles raging
in Cave Spring. Three hundred and twenty-
five cases, bnt only one death.
The Federal soldiers in ChatfUbga comity
have made no arrests as yet.
The Newnan Herald says the cultivators of
town “patches” have dropped wheat, and are
going for cotton vigorously.
The Herald, we notice, is still pnhlisMng
Bollock’s proclamations.
(For the Telegraph and Messenger.
Agricultural Meeting in Crawford
County, Ga.
Pursuant to notice, a number of farmers and
others present interested in the improvementof
agriculture in Crawford county, met at Hebron,
on Saturday, 29th of January, to take into con
sideration the subject of forming an agricul
tural society.
Mr. E. M. Robinson arose and addressed the
body, explaining the object of the meeting, and
on Ms motion the following officers were elect
ed : Pearce L. Lewis, President; A. F. Wil
liams, Vice-President; Ben. Sanford, Secreta
ry ; E. M. Robinson, Treasurer.
On motion, the President was invited to ad
dress the body. He thereupon responded to
the call, and proceeded to deliver an address,
which met with universal approbation, and af
ter holding, (spell-bound.) as it were, the entire
audience with a short, though pointed speech,
and one that was characterized by sound sense,
he resumed his seat amid shouts and acclama
tions of profound satisfaction. After the speech
by the President, Professor J. B. Chevis was
called npon, and, as usual, ever ready and will
ing to promote the interest and well being of
his country, arose and addressed tho Society,
and in Ms thundering eloquence proclaimed the
rights and duties so long neglected by a demor
alized people, and censured them for such a
course of conduct, telling them that it wonld
inevitably redound to their great horror and
ruin, and closed his well guided remarks by im
ploring them to lay aside old forms, and adopt
modem improvements, wMch the change of
circumstances brought abont by the great na
tional convulsion (the war) will compel them to
seek recourse therein in self-defence. Amid
applause and grateful smiles he vacated the
floor for tho Vice-President, who arose and de
livered a short bnt practical speech, and zeal
ously endorsed the ideas maintained by the pro
ceeding speakers, and closed with counsel and
advice to Ms fellow-citizens to no longer per
sist in their blind course, but to listen and ad
here strictly to reason.
On motion of Professor Chevis, the meeting
was then adjourned to the first Saturday in
March, at which time by-laws and a constitution
will be adopted. Respectfully,
Ben. Sanford, Sect’y.
Female Stock Brokers.
It has been said that there is nothing new
under the sun. This, however, is not alto
gether true, at least so far as New York is
concerned. _ One of the late developments in
Wall street is the existence of a feminine firm
of stock brokers—not Messrs., but Madames
Woodhull, Claflin & Co. These ladies have,
for some time past, done a regular business in
Wall street, but have an office at the Hoff
man House.
Mrs. Claflin is about twenty-four years of
age, having been married, however, for eight
ears. During business hours dresses plain-
and though rather pretty, presents, as is
natural to suppose, the appearance of a
thorough business woman, keen, shrewd } and
withal, somewhat masculine. Her sister,
Mrs. Woodhull, is five years older, has a
bright eye, is of a sanguine, nervous tempera
ment These decidedly strong-minded ladies
are, it appears, doing well, having made about
seven hundred thousand dollars, and held
their own in the financial panic of September
last.
One of the projects which they have in
hand is the incorporation of a silver ledge
company in Nevada, from which they expect
large profits; and they have, also, it seems,
been much interested in the establishment of
the Arcade Bailwav. It is said that these
adies are strongly backed, supported and ad
vised by Vanderbilt and Peter Cooper, a cir
cumstance which may to some degree account
for their success, though, doubtless, they are
rifted with a good share of native shrewdness.
As we have stated above, their office is at
present at the Hoffman House, but they in
tend shortly to establish one on "Wall street,
or in the immediate vicinity. During the
panic, Mrs. Woodhull sat in her carriage, day
after day, from morning tilll night, operating
heavily, and in the end not orny came out
winner, hut assisted more than one of her
friends to regain their own after their fortunes
were nearly swept away.
The firm look contented and happy, and are
certainly doing well, though they say that
profits amount to little, when it costs them
$2,500 a month to live.—New York Corres
pondence of the Constitutionalist.
Planter*’ Policy—No, *,
Editors Telegraph and Messenger; j
ised in my *eoond article to set forth ^
time the reasons why farmers would not fa J
ten year* hence to give a share in the et I
hands. I did not enumerate all of the ^
tions to “ share labor” in my last; but ^
are such as are held in common with »n J
era, I shall not consume time and space ijj
article by stating them. 19!
The plan of farming on shares is sure], J
cative of a low state of agriculture; "
our planters been left, at the close of the i
with stock, farming implements, an<f me *f
the purposes of the plantation, doubts *
suicidal policy, would not have been i
Bnt aB many adopted the plan, and L.
kept it in operation, because, perhaps, twi
still unable to pursue any other, it now | *
a serious question how to lay aside
and adopt one more satisfactory to the p t |
ive farmer,.and wMch will secure for i
period the services of the negro.
The price of labor is at present cheaper
it will be ten years hence, and it wij ; '
what it now is in less than ten years ittt e
system of labor is kept np. This is wl
dent to the mind of any man who will a? j
advancement of agricultural interests. *
Progress in fanning is as necessaryt 0Nu I
success, as in any other branch of indasirTA
the man who farms to-day with the sail’• *
and opinions of agrionltnre entertsi-,^
years ago will, ten years hence, be pooj
he is at present. Negroes were once
pal capital employed in the agricaltumliJ
of onr Southern States; but to-d&Tta
substitute for that capital, and ingets].
brains have to be employed in place of fo,
blows. Now, the experimental fanning
who havo devoted a little time and j Q
good cultivation and Mgh manuring, has
the fact that an acre of land in the S
Georgia will produce a crop of more
value than any acre in the States where
is not grown. Two bales of cotton, at ten
per pound, are worth as much as the con
dneed from an acre of rich alluvial botJ
river land. TMs experimental farming,
surely be followed by the wide extend*;
planting, on the same plan and with tt>
results, as Fulton’s little boat, which pi
alone the Hudson, was afterwards, and is,
succeeded by the monster steamers which
tho mighty ocean.
"What has been done once can be done
and what one man has done in the simp;
cation of farming all men can do. \Vho
the fact that in ten years from this dr.
most of lands will be producing double
they last year produced? Where the
does not possess Tasi tracts of land to be
treated with plow and hoe and turned
soon as worn ont, land will be benefit]*;
each year’s cultivation. Then we see
negro is working for a share in the cr
succeeding year, under good cultivai
with favorable seasons, his wages
increase, while perhaps his expenses of
and clothing will diminish. The prob
that ten years from to-day every day a
will be cheaper than'at present; but
expect to see ootton cheapen very a
though wo make a bale to the acre,
it be just to the land owner and just
gro also (for justice is simply justice and:
laborer gets what is not Ms it will be ■
for Mm, the negro, to get one-third or cc
the crop when one-fifth of it wonld ampV:
nerate him for Ms services ? It does not
to me like establishing a system of
laying the joists of our frame work
mud-sills ought to be to give to the labts
portion of the crop which he primm
tained after there has been mnch e*
and money expended on the land by tb
and not by the laborer.
Now, I said ten years hence, in lSStXr,
not be able to give the negro a si:
crop; by tills I mean not the same
shares which he now receives. Thereare
reasons why we will not be able. I p:
land will be worth two or three times u
as at present. The taxes on said
produce a bale of cotton to the acre,
much higher than at present. If a a
200 acres of land, and cultivates one-fxf
he likely wishes to know what amoutoi!
tal he has invested in farming with stp«|
shares. Say 100 acres of land product H
ty-five bales of cotton, or fifty bales of.’ll
and 500 bushels of corn; the crop, at: jj
for cotton, is worth nearly $6,000. !
half'of his land in cultivation yields
worth nearly $6,000 a year, what is
hundred acres of land worth? Surely is
say $10 per acral I would say $50 p
Then he has invested in faming: 'Land,
three mules, $600; feed for same, $151
ing implements of all kinds, including
$150 to $200; manure for cotton, $W
$6,250.
Now we will see what five negroes, t
this land on shares, have invested in fi
for mind, they are one-third partners,
and board of five hands (very good living
$250 each—total, $1,250. This is their
and I mean it does not wear or waste
land which requires $500 every year tc
np to a good state of cultivation—vhij
per acre. Now the negro has invests:
crop $1,250 and the employer $6,250,
by the laws of just copartnership, the
to get a tMrd interest, should havo ft
vested. We will say one-fifth of this
come pretty near paying them for
vices. Let ns see. The crop i3 worti
$6,000. The planter has invested to:
$6,250, the negroes $1,230. The pist
il early $4,000, and the negroes near
The planter gains (for we are only coun
one year) $2,250 less than Ms invested
the negroes gain nearly $750 more til
investment. We conntthis fairly, acds
who will look at the matter rightly,’
there is no justice in share labor. Off :
the crop, at ten bales, and one hundred j
of corn to the hand, would be a good sha.' 1
to hands, when they have so little at saj
we expect to keep them as laborers]
have to do away with share labor and ail
money wages. It will be very diffiCH
this even now, for I think in some serf]
laborer has got the upper hand; but i: j
our own, and act in concert, we will H
establish the money system in a y«H
more. I think we will be able to give 3
good wages on the farms as they can P 1
cities or on the railroads.
The farmer must risk something to?
thing, and the more he risks the more,»
being equal, he will gain. I shall sg
to puraue tMs subject much further, i-
is one wMch admits of lengthy disc®
varied argnment. The planter will
from observation than from reading *
I hope the few experiments of practice-;
be sufficient to enlist the mass of ocr;
people in the worthy enterprise of ;S
and enricMng their lands that they ms’ 1
fited thereby, yet I fear some are toe
donbt and disbelieve the facts estah
Agriculture.
Hoping that they may all be persuac
sue the course wMch wUl secure to alM
ings of plenty, and bequeath to posted]
well deserving the name of “Eldorrt
leave the subjeotfor the present, and]
if it would be of utility, at some futures
an article or two on Negroes’ Policy, j
Go«1
In Monroe, MicMgan, recently, a woman of
fifty-seven summers sued a youth of twenty for
breach of promise, he having agreed to marry
her if she wonld buy Mm a suit of clothes.
They were married by the Justice before whom
the case was brought, the bride excusing her
importunities by saying she wanted some one
to saw her wood.
The Guillotine—l»oes it Kill l) J
tint Instantly.
The recent exeention in Paris revi’1
question whether death instantaneof l
npon the severance of the head from J
In a letter to the Ganlois, Dr. Pinel
decapitation does not immediately F
brain. The blood which flows after t-W
comes from the large vessels of the *
there is hardly any call upon the
the cranium. The brain remains int*j
ing itself with the blood retained by^I
of the air. "When the blood renis®"
head at the moment of separation ®
there commences a state, not of
inertia, wMch lasts up to the momC'J
organ, no longer fed, ceases to
Dr. Pinel estimates that the b»^l
ishment in the residuary blood 11
hour after decapitation. The P erl ^J
would last about two hours, and <
wonld not ensue till after the sp
hours altogether. If, he adds, a
indicates by no movement the h^j
nation, it is because it is physic^-j
that it should do so, all the nerv« *
for the transmission of orders fn’“
the trunk being severed. But» j
nerves of hewing, of smell, and oi
Ter Missouri Legislature has
position to pay gbld interest a®
after Jnly 1st
ants
