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MACON, FEBRUARY 15, 1870.
Southern Farm and Home.
*We have the February number of this excel
lent agricultural monthly. It opens ■with an
■editorial upon Farm Work for the Month. Fol
lowing this is another editorial article upon En
couragements for the Hour, in which the writer
offsets the political misfortunes of the condition
t>y an encouraging review of the material situa
tion. W. Y. Young, Esq., has a good article
upon JProfit and Loss from Planting, in which
his conclusions are all in favor of liberal cul
ture. Mr. 8. I. Gustin has one of his strong
Bird sensible papors upon Deep Culture. Wil
liam Fontaine’s Prize Essay upon the Labor
Question and the Agricultural Resources of the
South, is continued from the January number.
Mr. Steadman’s Prize Essay is also continued.
L. 0. Waite’s article on Bee-keeping is con
cluded. Put your House in Order, is a plea for
a Bounder Farm Economy, by CoL Lane, of
Sparta. The next article is the third of a series
upon the manure heap. L., in a paper upon
the Cotton supply, begs farmers not to neglect
com and meat, because the Southern Cotton
Product is destined to diminish. We think L.
is mistaken in his vaticinations about a dimin
ishing crop. Let him think over the crop his
tory since the war. Major J. G. Barnwell
writes a good paper upon Fish Ponds. Irish
Potatoes, in their best varieties, are considered
in an illustrated article. Mrs. Wm. N. White,
in the Household Department, furnishes some
useful instructions upon Pastry. The horticul
tural department editorializes upon the vegeta
ble and flower garden and orchard, and contains
the conclusion of a paper from the late Wm. N.
White upon laying out the flower garden. Ran
dom thoughts on fruit progress in the South, is
an interesting article by Mr. Thurmond, of
Madison, Georgia. The editor concludes with
six pages of interesting discourse on various
topics. This number is handsomely illustrated,
and the frontispiece is a picture of the whole
Chester Boar.
This rapid review of the contents of Febru
ary number of the Farm and Home, will satisfy
the reader better than any mere editorial assur
ances that it contains a large amount of valua
ble agricultural matter. Published by J. W.
Burke & Co., Macon, at $2 00 per annum.
A Blunder.—The Atlanta slander mill tele
graphs ns that they made a blunder in that dis
patch about the Atlanta Intelligencer. It was
designed as a special dispatch to the Radical
organs North, and not as a press dispatch. Well,
it is well enough for us to know what rascality
the mill circulates without having to wait the
slow course of the mail. If the mill and Bullock
had it in their hearts to bo gentlemen, what a
splendid chance they have got! God Almighty
never gives a human being but one such chance,
and if he don’t improve it, ho topples down, and
never recovers.
Truth from a Strange Quarter.—The At
lanta Era tells the truth in declaring that “all
men in Georgia who represent the industrial
and material interests of the State, want some
basis—civil law, order, government — upon
which capital may venture operations and in
vestment; and have no interest in common
with, or sympathy for, the knot of desperadoes
and adventurers who seek to keep the State in
commotion and strife,” though wo hardly ex
pected so sharp an arraignment of its masters
from their organ. Wherefore doe3 the rickety,
wheezy concern grind such a strange tune, we
wonder ? »
Speaking of recent divisions and dissensions
in the Republican party, the New York Times,
(Rad.,) thinks “there is no doubt that a feeling
more or less deep-seated prevails that the work
of the Republican party, properly so-called,
ends with the adoption of the Fifteenth Amend
ment” The Cincinnati Times (Rad.) also re
marks that it is “evident to the most casual ob
server that the work of disintegration has com
menced, and that between the questions of
reconstruction, the finances and the tariff, tbo
Republican party is likely to fall to the ground.”
The Cobb Memorial.—From Mr. Boykin’s adver
tisement it will bo seen that he will soon be in re
ceipt of bis unique and interesting Memorial Vol
ume in honor of Gen. Cobb, and that he solicits
orders for it. This lias been a labor of love on the
part of the editor, and we hope that he will be re
warded for his effort to honor one of the most dis
tinguished sons of Georgia.
Hand him your names and receive one of tlio
books, which will be worthy a place on every centre
table in the State.
The prieo for doth gilt tgp is S3. Half Turkey
marble edge, £-150. English Turkey binding, very
handsome, £6.
Railway Blockade.—It will bo seen that tho
Nashville and Chattanooga Railway dispatch
that they are now receiving no freights at Nash
ville for points below Chattanooga, on account
of the blockade at Chattanooga, occasioned by
tho failure of tho State Road to take away
freight from that point. The fact is, Blodgett,
Harris, and tho whole concern, are bo heavily
engaged in tho political reconstruction of
Georgia, that they seem to havo no timo to be
stow on that small railroad affair.
Prolific Corn.—Mr. J. C. Roper, of Kings
ton, Georgia, writes that ho sends us a peck
of his prolific corn, which he daim3 will ma
ture so as to be fit to gather by 15th August,
and is besides exceedingly productive. Mr. L.
Tumlin, of Cartersville, says ho counted twenty-
three ears of corn produced from three grains.
The New York Tribune declares that for tho
first nine months of the present administration,
the national debt was reduced at the rate of a
little over three dollars per second. If General
Grant is anxious to pay the national debt at
once, let him stop the stealage of his party for
two hours and a half.—Courier-Journal.
Too Many Governments.—The people of the
District of Columbia have been holding meet
ings praying to be consolidated under one gov
ernment. Since the nigger has taken them in
hand, they want as few governments as possible,
Enough is as good as a feast.
The Postmaster General reports that in the
months of January there was sent from the
Washington post office over two hundred and
thirty-seven thousand franked letters, at a oost
of about $15,000, and one hundred and fifty
tons of printed matter, at a cost of $38,000.
Female Brokers.—New York is agape with a
new sensation—the opening of a broker’s and
stock jobbing establishment at 44 Broad street
by some ladies, doing business under the firm
name and style of Woodholl, Claflin «fc Co.—
pretty women and up to business.
In Peril.—The peach trees in and about
Macon are in bud and blossom, and their chance
. o escape such a nip from the Frost King as
trill be fatal to the peach crop strikes ns as
very small.
The Hudson River, after being open through
nearly all the month of January, was closed up
with ioe again on Saturday. The meroury was
five above zero.
Billiards are just now a popular amusement
in Washington. President Grant has had the
passage way in the White House oonverted into
a billiard room. General Butler is having a
billiard room fitted up in his house, Secretary
.Ftehbas ah excellent table, and Secretary Bout-
trau plays at one of tho tables of the German
Southern Wealth and Independence
In our daily edition for Tuesday we reprinted
from the Nineteenth Century a paper from
Professor Edward Mayes, of the University of
Mississippi, well calculated to elicit both reflec
tion upon the present condition of tho South
and inspiring hope for the future. It displayed,
in a somewhat striking and original manner the
economic results upon the Southern condition
which must inevitably follow the liberation of
that vast amount of capitil formerly locked up
in human frames and sinews under the old
slave system, and which was commonly reckon
ed in money at not less than two thousand mil
lions of dollars.
That capital, it is true, was annihilated in tho
process of liberation, as so much money, and
yet its creative power, to a great extent, re
mained, and has been actually wielded with
larger pecuniary results than before. True,
owing mainly to a cramped pecuniary condition,
the Southern people failed in a great degree to
secure the benefit of these returns, but that
does not affect the material fact that this lost
labor capital did bring a much heavier return
in money after it had ceased to exist, as capital,
than in any previous corresponding time of its
existence as so much money value.
True, the crops were much smaller, but they
sold for more, and could the Southern people
have availed themselves of the highest prices,
no three years of planting under the slave system
would have shown so good results, as a whole,
as tho three years of freed labor from 18C7 to
1869, inclusive.
Thus we see that so far the loss of capital in
vested in slaves did not involve the loss of the
income on that capital; and the Inference is
irresistible that the capital in slaves, although
the most convertible of any capital known at
the time of its existence, yet really was of no
practical value at all to the Southern commu
nity as an unit.
This fact being conceded as a conclusion in
evitable from the premises, we come at once
upon the reason why the Southern States lagged
in tho race of material progress, notwithstand
ing their vast and peculiar advantages. It was
simply this: That every year their surplus
earnings were invested to a great extent in cap
ital which was not capital—in property which
was not property. 2hat is not capital which
brings yon no additional incomo. That is not
property, by the possession of which you are no
richer from year to year than if you did not
own it; both of which have been shown to have
been the case with slavo property and slave
capital, by practical results since their annihi
lation as property or capital.
Therefore, tho fact that people invested their
crop products in slaves, was as certainly a waste
of the proceeds of their labor and capital as if
the people had burned them or thrown them
into the sea. They added nothing to the in
come and financial power of the South, consid
ered as an unit—nothing which did not exist be
fore tho purchase, -and which does not now ex
ist, although tho entire property in slaves has
been destroyed.
"When, therefore, the opportunity to invest
earnings in this false property and capital was
forever removed by the abolition of slavery,
then, for the first time, were we placed upon a
basis of healthy and solid prosperity. We find
that our income, as an unit, from the earnings
of what was once capitalized labor, is not dimin
ished, but is, by the force of circumstances, in
creased, while we shall be compelled to invest
our surplus earnings in a manner which adds to
the solid wealth of the community as well as
our own individual wealth. Outside of im
proving our fams and homesteads, we must in
vest in improvements which benefit and enrich
the people as well as ourselves—in various en
terprises of industry and public and private ac
comodation, by which we seek our own benefit
in contributing to the public convenience, en
joyment and advantage.
In the foregoing remarks we have presented
the argument of Prof. Mayes in an original
form, as drawn from, and applicable to, the
totality of the Southern condition. He founds
upon it an earnest appeal for investment and
progress in Southern manufacturing and all the
appliances of an industrial independence. This
is right. We should, and we doubtless shall go
into Southern manufacturing. But as prelim
inary to any important step in industrial inde
pendence, we must first aim at agricultural in
dependence. Agriculture is our grand pur
suit, and it ought to show the earliest and most
important progress.
We need not say that an agriculture which
must draw its food supplies from distant re
gions is fatally defective. It may, perhaps,
achieve temporary triumphs, but defeat and
disaster must overtake it at last. In the hey-
dey of good cotton prices, our profits aro even
now all going abroad for corn, mules, bacon,
fertilizers, and plantation supplies generally.
He alone is wise for himself and tho commu
nity who is bent on an agricultural independ
ence as complete and entire as tho resources of
tho soil and climate will possibly admit.
Agricultural independence is tho step-stone
to all other independence, and the grand key to
Southern wealth and progress.
CnlTeo rind the Carpet-Baggers——A
Kilkenny Cat Flgbt in Prospect.
Wo do not often read that “trooly loil” sheet,
the Wilmington (N. O.) Post. It is not of that
journalistic pattern, the sight and study of which
hath many charms to a plain man of unrecon
structed tendencies, like the writer hereof.
Such pure, and holy, and altogether superfine
devotion to “great moral ideas”—plunder and
office included—has been rather too strong diet
for our weak stomach. In fact, and in short,
we have rather played the Priest and the Le-
vito on tho Post. But even the Post has its
uses, as we have just discovered. Even its loyal
columns can set forth a feast that honest men
everywhere may partake of with great unction.
In witness whereof, we quote from its issue of
the 3d insb these cheerful averments:
Danders.—The dangers to the Republican
party are to be considered seriously by every
friend of the Union and of the Government in
this State. We have less real strength as a
party than anywhere else in the Sontb.
We are to-day upon the brink of political
ruin, and but a step forward and we are gone.
Without rudder or helmsman, the Republican
party is drifting to destruction in this State.
When party rewards are bestowed upon those
who have done the least work for the party; not
upon those who have the most ability, but upon
the man who can show the darkest face or the
blackest heart—the negro or the demagogue.
When this becomes generally the case, as it ap
pears to be now in Wilmington, it is about time
for the sober ones among ns to look about for
our own safety, lest we go down with the mob
now having the run of the quarter deck and the
captain’s cabin.
It is a sad commentary on the times to con
fess that voters in tike South do not distinguish
between the man whose claims for considera
tion are the honorable scars carried upon his
breast in defending his flag, and the man whose
scars are those received on his back' for crimes
without a name.
“Th e m an whose scars are those received on his
back for crimes without a name.” That is heavy
on the Post’s party. He means the plantation ne
groes—the “loyal blacks,” or those sweet sprigs
of Radicalism with white skins who have gradu
ated from Northern prisons, and now teach the
poor, ignorant Southrons civilization, by holding
all their offices. We have not read a more sting
ing bill of attainder against Radicalism’s chief-
egt and chosen exponents in many days. The
Post man’s conscience is evidently aroused. Or
perhaps he is about to lose s fat office by the
will and act of these men whose loyal backs sire
“ aoarred for crimes without a name. The tiro
motives aro sometimes synonoruons in their ef-
fact.
But the worst is hot yet told. Growing bolder,
the Post deliberately goes back on the negroes
by name. He charges them with these crimes:
When men not able to write their names are
permitted to control county committees, and to
declare “cdored men have been ruled long
enough, we will now rule the whiteswhen
men just able to read, think themselves fully
capable of representing the State in the Con
gress of the United States, and others totally il
literate are supported with ardor for Sheriff,
Judges and Clerks of Court; it is high time for
the Post to post ail the people on our common
danger.
In the first, second and third districts there
are colored candidates for Congress declaring
themselves on account of color. In this city
of Wilmington there are three colored candi
dates for Sheriff; beside any number of appli
cants for city Judge—should ho be elective—as
well as all minor offices.
The great party of the Union saved the Re
public, but not for this. We venture to say that
three-fourths of our soldiers would have'flung
down their muskets in disgust had they any
comprehension of “these things coming to
pass.”
Ah! that is music, indeed. The black drop
has bubbled up at last in the sweet cup of car
pet bag office holding and plunder gobbling by
the aid of negro votes. We are beginning to
see the way for our brethren in North Carolina
to get a sip, at least, of the draught of venge
ance. We congratulate them. May they live
to drain it to the dregs! But what will the
negro allies of the Post say to this insolence?
Will they brook it? Will those colored aspi
rants for Congressional honors come down—
will the men and brethren who think “colored
men have been ruled long enough,” and who,
as sheriffs and judges wish to.“rule the whites,”
stand aside once more for their sweet, their dear
friend, tho Hon. Ichabod Carpet Bagger, or the
thrice Honorable Stryped Shyrto Scallywagge?
Will they be cozened again with tho stale, flavor
less lies and leers and humbugs of the post ?
Will they take the “mule and forty acre” prom
ise just one more time, instead of tho pleasant
and easily attained reality of a fat office paid
for out of the Southern whito man’s pocket ?
Wo hope not.
Let the combat deepen. We live in the hope
that it will spread over all tho South. Speak
ing for ourself, we will not hesitate now or
hereafter to give our sympathy in such a fight
to Cuffee, as against the carpet-bagper or his
white Southern ally. Wa would rather havo an
honest black man in office any time, than a
white wretch plastered all over with crimes
against every command of the Decalogue. In
the Kilkenny cat fight that we see so plainly to
be brewing, we side with the black man. When
the battle is over and he has won the victory,
the true men of the South will come to the
front and reap all its fruits.
“A Very Pretty Quarrel.”
The Memphis editors have been having a
lively time lately—something like a quadrangu
lar duel. The Sun of that city, aroused by
certain statements in tho Avalanch?, of local
significance only, felt called upon to speak of
its editor in the following strong way:
We denounce his conduct as a wanton outrage
on tho profession into which he has sneaked,and
its author as a pusillanimous, dastardly assassin,
who only differs with Combs in this, that, where
as, the latter would filch people’s money, this
editor would rob us of our good namo and de
fame our fair reputation.
This paragraph caused tho denounced editor,
Col. Galloway, to attack Mr. Bingham, the edi
tor of the Sun, and give him a beating, upon
which No. 3 appears in the person of J. W.
Ringham, the son of the beaten man, and pub
lishes a card setting forth that he is the author
of the offensive paragraph, that his father is a
feeble invalid, as the coward who assaulted him
well knew, and the only course which could save
Col. Galloway from infamy would Ke to direct
his attack against him (Bingham, jr.,) which he
dared him to do. This brirgs ont a No. 4, CoL
Galloway’s brother, L. T. Galloway, who uses
tho following rather pointed language, over his
name, in Sunday’s Avalanche:
James W. Bingham—a young man—comes to
the defense of his father by slandering and
abusing CoL Galloway, knowing that their great
disparity in years would shield him from pun
ishment. Of course, CoL Galloway can take
no notice of this youth; but I am a young man,
and can meet him on terms of equality. To
prove that he is an arrant coward, seeking to
win a cheap reputation r.s a bully, by abusing a
gentleman 30 years his senior, I here pronounce
the said James W. Bingham a liar, scoundrel
and a poltroon.”
Negro Suffrage.
Tho memorial against negro suffrage, pre
sented by Mr. Saulsbnry in the Senate, quotes
the following interesting opinion of eminent
statesmen of all parties, Abraham Lincoln in
cluded, on the question of negro equality: John
Adams said :
I havo never read reasoning more absurd,
sophistry more gross, than the subtle labors of
Helvetius and ltosseau to demonstrate tho na
tural equality of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson said:
Nothing i3 more certainly written in tho
book of fate than that these people (the ne
groes) are to be free, nor is i| less certain that
tho two races equally free, cannot live under
tho same government. ,
Daniel Webster said:
If any gentleman from the South shall pro
pose a scheme, to be carried on by this govern
ment upon a large scale, for the transportation
of tho colored people to any colony or any placo
in the world, I should be quite disposed to in-
car almost any degree of expense to accomplish
that object.
Henry Clay said:
Of the utility of a total separation of the two
incongruous races of our population, supposing
it to bo practical, none have ever doubted; the
mode of accomplishing that desirable object
has alone divided public opinion.
Stephen A. Douglas said:
I believe this government was made by white
men for the benefit of white men and their pos
terity forever; and I am in favor of confining
citizenship to white men of European birth
and descent, instead of conferring It upon
Negroes, Indians, and other inferior races.
Abraham Lincoln said:
I am not, and never have been, in favor of
making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of
qualifying them to hold office, nor to inter
marry with whites; and I will say farther, in
addition to this, that there is a physical differ
ence between the white and black races, which
I believe will forever forbid tho two races living
on terms of social and political equality.
Justice to the President.—The New York
Sun defends the President from the canine as
saults of the press upon him for refusing to ac
cept the Cleaveland dog when the express
charge of ten dollars had not been paid. Hie
Sun cites the following note, in the President’s
own handwriting, to show with what courtesy,
system and minuteness he acknowledges these
little courtesies of official life:
Executive Mansion, \
Washington, D. O., Nov. 27, 1869.)
Sir:—The “Jolly Smoker” which you so
kindly sent me some time ago was received in
due time. I was under the impression that Us
reoeipt had been acknowledged before. It has
afforded me considerable pleasure, and at this
late date thank you for it, and ask to be excused
for not answering sooner. Very respectfully,
U. S. Grant.
H. L. Breetobt, Esq., 55 Nassau si, N. Y.
Ups and Downs or Stocks.—About ten days
ago a gentleman of this city bought some South
Carolina Railroad stock from a friend at 38, who
urged the purchase, and said it would be an ac
commodation for him if he would take it at
that figure. The buyer went out of the city,
and returning on Saturday, when whom should
ho meet on Broad street but his friend who sold
him the stock; and what was his surprise to
receive a proposal to buy the stock back at 45;
and the original owner finally came into repos
session at 45. Later on Saturday 46 was
offered for this security, but still higher prioes
are looked for.
The Georgia Pn|s. fFinrTi
Tho Constitution says the City Council of At
lanta is rigidly enforcing the tax of 25 cents
per head on every horse and mule sold by any
parties except-stable keepers and city dealers.
We find the following items in the local col
umn of the Constitution:
How Subscriptions are Obtained.—One of
. the Radical organs in this city announced, a
few days ago, with a great flourish of trumpet**,
a large increase to their subscription lists from
the State road. That subscription, wo are in-
formed was obtained under circumstances like
these: An employe would be approached, and
the idea suggested that as the paper belonged
to Messrs. Bullock, Blodgett & Co., they ought
to take it. They would subscribe 50 cents or
$1. When pay-day comes round, their wages
are short $5, a receipt for six months’ subscrip
tion taking its place. Verily! yea, verily!
Ross House, Madison.—We are informed
that the “Ross House,” at Madison, has been
sold by Judge Reynolds to Mr. Elisha Morgan,
of Connecticut, for $5,500; and by Mr. Ross,
the furniture to the same purchaser, for $3,000.
We learn that Mr. Morgan intends putting the
hotel in excellent order at once.
There are quite a number of cases of small
pox among tho negroes in Atlanta.
The Era says General Terry left Atlanta on
Monday night for Washington City.
Gen. Terry has removed Enoch Grambling,
Sheriff of Cherokee county, and appointed John
B. Garrison in bis stead.
Good medium mules sell for $200, and fine
ones for $300, in Rome!
The Constitution makes this neat “carom:”
Law and order may be interchangeable terms
in Georgia, but it may be no harm to say that
it was intended to speak yesterday of General
Terry’s recent order, and not “General Terry’s
recent law.”—N. 7. Times.
The Times needn’t correct itself. The first
phrase was right. There is no law in Georgia
but Gen. Terry’s.
Tho Constitution, of yesterday, says “rumors
were current yesterday afternoon that Gov.
Bullock had telegraphed that all was well; that
tbore would be an election for State-house offi
cers as well as Senators; Blodgett and Aker-
man are to bo tho Senators; that the office of
Surveyor General of tho State must bo re
established, and a negro elected to fill it."
The Savannah News, of Monday, says that
Lieut. General Charles Windham, Knight Com
mander of the Bath, and commander of the Eng.
lish troops in Canada, died on Wednesday, at
Jacksonville, Florida, where he had gone to re
cuperate his health. His wife arrived from
Canada just in season to say good-bye, and seo
him breathe his last.
Dispatches of condolence were received by the
widow from Prince Arthur, and also from sev
eral high officials in the provinces.
His remains were brought to Savannah on
Saturday morning and placed aboard the steam
ship San Jacinto, by which they will be con
veyed to New York, and from thenco to Eng
land.
The Southern Witness say3 some 600 acres of
Walton county lands were sold en sale day
(Tuesday) which brought from $4 to $6 an
acre. About 2700 acres of wild lands lying in
different parts of the State sold for $700. A
tan yard with all its appurtenances, etc., in the
town of Monroe, brought only $980.
The Gainesville Eagle of the 4th says:
The Engineer Corpse of the Air-Lino Railroad,
in charge of Captain Ira Y. Sage, the Assistant
Engineer, left here on Saturday last for the
eastern end of the line. We learn that they go
to survey the line from Greenville to Charlotte.
What a lively corpse, to be sure.—[Eds. Tel.
and Mess.
The Eagle gives us these items of local news:
Painful Accident.—One day last week while
Mr. Kimsey Staton, who lives in the upper part
of this county, was driving his wagons, the mules
attached became frightened and unmanageable,
and ran off with tho wagon, from which Mr. S.
was throwD, and dangerously, if not fatally, in-
tjnred.
We learn that at a public sale in Banks coun
ty, a few days since, a row occurred, during the
progress of whioh rocks, sticks, and knives
were freely used. In the melee Gunter
was seriously, and Thomas Sheridan danger
ously stabbed.
.We learn that parties aro making preliminary
preparations for commencing work on fkis end
of the second section of the Air-Line Railroad.
Tho Putnam County Fair Company is making
arrangements to extend its operations into the
surrounding counties. As soon as the Secretary
can prepare tho books, they will be sent to
Greene, Morgan, Jasper, Jones, Baldwin, Han
cock and Newton.
We quote as follows from tho Monroe Adver
tiser, of yesterday:
Competition.—We understand that a lot of
farmers, twenty in all, in and around Forsyth,
have agreed among themselves to offer a pre
mium worth one hundrod dollars for tho largest
crop of cotton mado by any one of them on one
acre. It is desired that all those who intend
competing for the premium, should deposit five
dollars with Messrs. Merritt & Tqpier at once,
so that there bo no delay or mistake about the
matter.
Mortality Among tue Blacks.—The negroes
in this section appear to be dying very rapidly.
They do not receive the attention that was be
stowed upon them by their masters “before
freedom came out,” and the consequence is,
they do not often survive any sorious illness.
Freedmen.—A letter has been received from
Mr. King, who is in Virginia, endeavoring to
procure laborers, in which ho gives a very un
promising account of his efforts thas far. Ho
finds largo numbers without work, and willing
to contract, but no sooner are they furnished
with a meal, than they leave without warning,
and with a total disregard of the terms of their
contract.
Good.—We aro informed that a Mr. Dunbar,
of New York, has bought four hundred acres of
laud in this county, adjoining Jadgo Bankston,
with the intention of engaging in cotton plant
ing.
The revenue officers have been scouring the
counties of Henry, Clayton, Coweta, Merriwe-
ther, Carroll, Haralson, Campbell, Paulding,
and Cobb, and they are now canvassing Chero
kee. As far as heard from they have encoun
tered and destroyed nineteen distilleries, and
have the immediate prospect of destroying
many more.
The Albany News, of yesterday, says:
B. & A. R. R. Survey.—A brief note from
Mr. Evans, ono of the Engineers, dated Satur
day, the 5th, states that the party had reached
a point a little east and a few miles.soQth of Is
abella. They were delayed by tho search for a
line among the hills, in that neighborhood, but
would make a start for Waresboro this morn
ing.
From Messrs Finney and Lewis, whose ar
rival we noted in our last, we had the gratifying
intelligence that the work on the section be
tween Brunswick and the junction at No. 9, A.
& G. R. R., is progressing with satisfactory
speed. The bridge over the Satilla was com
pleted, and the cars were carrying iron and
other material across. Eighteen miles of traok-
laying will complete the road to the junction,
and that can easily be done by the first of
March.
Iron for the entire line to Enfanla has been
purchased, and will Be delivered as fast as Su
perintendent Hnlbert can possibly lay it
Another corps of Engineers will be here in a
few days, to locate the line from this point to
Enfanla.
All along the line the greatest activity pre
vails, and all shadows of doubt and misgivings
of uncertainty as to the vigorous prosecution
and early completion of the work have been
dispelled.
Affairs in Florida.—From all accounts,
some portions of Florida ate suffering terribly
from the rule of the oarpet-baggers and ne
groes. Gov. Reed and his wife indulge social
equality, and their;receptions are only attended
by fifteenth amendmenters and a few white-
skinned candidates for knavery.
Labor is fearfully demoralized, and many of
the beat planters are transferring their interests
to other States. i -'
We had a call from Colonel J. H. Alston
yesterday, who has just abandoned planting
near Tallahassee, and rented lands near this
city. He thinks Georgia, even as matters now
stand, a better plaoe than Florida, and brings
j his family to ahare. onr fortunes.
' ; We clip the appended items from the Savan-
auMni: " , .. *
A Narrow' Escape.—On Friday night last the
down train on the Augusta branch of the Central
Railroad was thrown from the track near Millen
by the spreading of the rails. The train ran on
the stringers for a quarter of a mile, but fortu
nately it was stopped before any damage was
done.
Election.—The stockholders of the Marine
Bank met yesterday at their building and elect
ed the following gentlemen to serve as Directors
for the ensuing year: Edward Padelfard, C. F.
Mills, A. Champion, G. B. Camming, N. B.
Knapp, J. (jt. Mills, T. J. HcNish.
i Enterprise.—We visited the machine shops
cif the Central Railroad yesterday, and there
saw in a rapid state of completion the sixth lo
comotive made-by this Company. Tho work
upon this machine is os good as can be done in
the North.
Under the head of “Our True Policy,” the
Federal Uni in says:
■ “If Hill and Miller should again be rejected
from tho Senate, and Bullock and Terry be
called upon to olect men moro congenial to the
Radicals in Congress, it will be onr policy to
elect two of the meanest and strongest negroes
that can bo found in tho State. If they aro takon
out of tho chain-gang they will bo all the moro
popular in Washington with tho leading Radi
cals.”
Judge John W. D. Daniel, an old and highly
respected citizen of Milledgeville, died at Ameri
cas on the 1st inst.
From tho last issue of the Christian Index
and Baptist, We learn that Rev. J. J. D. Ren
fros, of Talladega, Ala., has becomo associated
withRav. S. HendersoD, D. D., as corresponding
editor of that paper.
The Chronicle & Sentinel says that on last
Sunday night the Federal soldiers at Burnett,
on tho Gqvrgia Railroad, thought that the Ku-
klux were upon them. It appears that about
eleven o’olock on Sunday night, the sentinel on
duty at the camp, awakened, wo suppose, from
a stolen nap by a night-more, or else confused
by a too liberal indulgence in the juice of the
grain, fancied that ho heard a squad of cavalry
manceuvering in the woods not far from him,
and becoming frightened, rushed into camp
with the cry that the Ku-klnx were coming. Of
course general alarm succeeded this startling
announcement. The officers, who were still
awake, rushed from their quarters and had the
alarm sounded. Tho soldiers came forth from
their beds and wore hastily formed and pre
pared to meet the enemy. With the officers in
the van, the boys in blue wont forth to meet
the midaight cavalrymen, but, after a good deal
of marching and countermarching through the
woods, the Ku-klux were discovered to be non
est inventus?
Says the Savannah Republican :
Decline in the Price of Murderers.—We
observe in the official organ at Atlanta, a procla
mation offering two hundred and fifty dollars re
ward for the apprehension of John Perser,
charged with tho murder of Elbert Oglesby, in
Bartow county. A thousand to five thousand
has been tho figure of some time past. Has
the Governor fallen upon an economical sched
ule, or is the deceased in this case only a white
man that the arrest of his murderer should be
worth no more to the cause of justice ?
The Governor has now but two official pa
pers, but from the way they are spreading ont
his documents and charging double, they will
cost tho treasury as much as four would with
honest limitations as to space.
We find this communication in the Atlanta
Constitution of yesterday:
Mr. Editors : The state of political affairs is
ominous of evil, and only evil. It must grieve
the heart of any man, no matter what his politi
cal opinions or predilections may be—whether
he be old line Democrat or Whig, Republican or
Secessionist—to see and know tho demoralized
condition of our State Government in all its de
partments, and the ntter lethargy that pervades
the masses. Chaos is the watchword of party;
trouble and poverty its sequence. Can anything
be done to restore order, give confidence and
seonrity to the laboring, suffering tax payers of
the State ? Can the evil be reached by a con
vention of the people ? Let the effort bo made
before the re-assembling of the Legislature. Let
us forget party differences and party ascendan
cy for once, invite all men, regardless of party,
who have the interest of the country at heart,
to meet in Atlanta, and if possible unite on one
policy, one platform. Liberty without lawless
ness, and the administration of law without the
intervention of the sword, should be the patri
otic desire of every truly loyal Georgian. In
augurate the movement, the people will respond.
Too late, D. Besides, tho contest has been
transferred to Washington, where it must be
settled.
A little boy in Augusta, named John Cotton,
who was run over on tho Georgia Railroad, on
Saturday evening, died on Sunday.
Tho Chronicle and Sentinel suggests Judge
Warner to Grant, as a suitable guccessor, on tbo
Supreme Bench, to Judge Wayne, nice Hoar, so
contemptuously rejected by tho Senate.
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Anti-BuIIocfa Delegation Before
tlie Senate Jmllclary Committee.
Majority of Committee Favor Admit*
ting Hill and Miller.
The President and General Sherman
Accord with Them.
The establishment of an asylum for insane -
people to recommended. He also auggests^
excellent changes in the administration of < *"
law in the State.
Whzeuxo, -February 9 —The Legislate
passed a bill abolishing the lawyers and tea
test oath.
Moderate Radicals Down on Bulloch.
Ilow the Supreme Court Legal Ten*
der Decision was Received in New
York.
New York, February 7.—The Supremo Court
decision, on tho legal tender question, was the
great subject of discussion in financial circles
this afternoon. The decision, as understood in
Wall street is, that the legal tender act wa3 jus
tified by tho war, but that Congress had no
power to issuo any more legal tendor notes, and
and that all contracts made before 1862 are to
be paid in coin. In this shape the decision is
certainly a very important ono, but its influence
on the streets was remarkably slight Tho de
cision makes some hundred millions of railroad
bonds, and an immense aggregate of State and
city bonds payable in coin, both principal and
interest, the interest of which, for eight years,
has been paid in greenbacks. The payments
of interest or principal since 1862 having been
accepted by creditors will not be effected by the
decision, except where money has been accepted
under protest, accompanied with a demand for
gold, which cases are, of course, very excep
tional. It is, porhaps, not improbable that
some of the poorer States, with heavy debts, as
North Carolina and Tennessee, being unable to
provide for their debt, even on a currency basis,
may be driven by this decision into open repu
diation, pleading this action of the Supreme
Court as imposing on them obligations which
they conld not honor.
The price of gold advanced this morning, on
private telegrams from Washingtentq the effect
that the decision would be in favor of all con
tracts made before 1862 being payable in coin,
bat when the other part of the decision was
known this afternoon, the price of gold declined
from the fact that Congress, under the decision,
cannot issng any more legal tenders.
t Western Press Dispatch. .
Shooting or Americans in Cuba.
Havana, February 7.—Yesterday morning
about 11 o’clock, four Americans, Isaao Green-
wall, Henry K. Foster, Hugh Johnson and Gard
ner Wells, of New York, were on their way to
visit a photograph gallery, where they intended
to have their pictures taken, and all wore bine
neckties. Near the 'Bacon Theatre they were
stopped by a man, who pointed to their neck
ties and addressed the men in an excited man
ner, in Spanish. None of the party understood
the language, and no answer was returned to
the unknown man. He then lookout a revol
ver and fired upon them. Greenwall was shot
and killed, Foster and Johnson were severely
wounded, and are in. a precarious condition.
Wells was unhurt, and ran for his life, a
number of people following, who raised the cry
of “Stop him 1” bnt he escaped. The wounded
men were badly treated by the crowd which
gathered around them. The man who fired the
shots disappeared immediately afterward, and
it is not known whether he was a volunteer
or not.
De Rodas declares he will have the perpetra
tors of the outrage executed two hours after
arrest. — Western Press Dispatch.
Samuel Mitchell, M. D., says in the Country
Gentleman, that ioe water may be drank so as
to be very injurious to health, and even danger
ous to life; or it may bd drunk in a manner to
be a healthful and very refreshing beverage.
Ioe water should always be drunk slowly. The
warmer and more thirsty the drinker, the slower
he should drink. The swallows should be taken
at sufficient intervals to allow the stomach to
gradually accommodate itself to the great change
of temperature.
Special to Telegraph and Messenger.]
Washington, February 9—Night,
Tho Anti-Bullock Delegation was before the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee to-day.
The Bullock-Blodgett party will b£ heard to-mor
row.
A majority of the committee favor admitting Hill
and Milder, unless good evidence is given to warrant
a different conclusion, and will so report.
Moderate Bepublicans are much encouraged, and
the proceedings before the committee to-day are
said to have been very lively.
1 Three Radical members of tho Committee bori
down very heavy on Bullock, charging him with will
ful deception, and treated liis pretentious with con
tempt.
In an interview with the President to-day, Grant
expressly denied tho false telegrams got off by Bul
lock through the Associated Press, and the state
ment he caused to be published in papers here, that
the President favored a new election of Senators by
a purified Legislature.
Tho President and Gen. Sherman are known to
be in accord with a majority of the Judiciary Com
mittee on the question of the admission of Miller
and Hill.
Washington, February 8.—Nothing was done in
relation to Georgia to-day.
• Bullock and others go before the Senate Judiciary
Committee to-morrow.
Butlor and Farnsworth, of tho House Reconstruc
tion Committee, consider that the Georgia bill pro
vides for the admission of the State when the mem
bers present themselvos They do not deem a new
bill necessary, and say tlio Senate must be tho
judge of the status of Senators Hill and Miller,
j It is evidently tho intention on the part of tho
extremists to secure the election of new Senators.
Dalton.
Washington, February 8.—Senate—Iowa’s rat
ification of tho Fifteenth Amendment was reported
to-day.
A resolution of the Massachusetts Legislature in
favor of tho payment of the French spoliations,
was presented.
A resolution for considering tho Indian treaties in
open session passed. '
The Senate bill No. 436 passed.
Tho census was taken up and the Senate ad
journed.
House.—Tho franking privilege and contingent
questions were discussed at great length. The pro
ceedings are unimportant.
Washington, February 8.—The Election Com
mittee havo considered the case of Segar, Con
gressman at large for Virginia, and will vote on
Friday.
Contested elections have been postponed until
the House acts on tho new system of trying by a
jury drawn from the House by ballot.
Tho Reconstruction Committee has reported a
bill for a general relief from disabilities by appli
cation through the Courts, and another relieving
somo three thousand persons. The Committee did
not consider the Georgia case to-day.
Revenue to-day £250,000.
The Ways and Means Committee favor three per
cent, on incomes and the exemption of two thou
sand dollar salaries.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs report in favor
of Sickle’s confirmation to Spain.
A number of Treasury cotton cases, from the
Court of Claims, were taken up for argument in tho
Supreme Court this afternoon. These cases were
brought under the captured and abandoned proper
ty act of 1863, and involve various questions, which
affect besides tho qnestion of the date of tho close
of the rebellion.
The opposition to Bradley is strong. The oppo
sition want a Judge from the South.
Washington, February 9.—The New England
Senators will join tho Southern Senators against
Bradley’s confirmation, and in favor of a judge
from the South.
The Judiciary Committee to-day heard fifteen
Georgians. The Conservatives took the ground that
tho present Legislature was illegally constituted, on
account of tho admittance of minority candidates,
and demanded a reorganization.
Bullock and others spoke briefly in opposition.
Senators Carpenter, Edmunds and Conl.iin remem
bered that at the former hearing Gov. Bullock said
tho expulsion of the negro members and seating
of minority candidates in their steal, was sheer
usurpation. The Committee will hear Georgia again
on Saturday, when Bullock wiil bo allowed to ex
plain his apparently contradictory positions.
Other Committees doing nothing.
Revenue to-day, £247,000.
No Southern nominations to-day.
Tho Retrenchment Committee will report in favor
of placing tho educational portion or the Freed-
men’a Bureau in tho hands of the Commissioners
of Education.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, February 8.—Tho Legislature met at
noon. Tho Hooso adopted a resolution asking
Congress to remove political disabilities from the
people of Virginia, by a vote of 109 to 10. The
colored members voted for it, and tho negative be
ing whito members of the Porter extreme faction.
A message from the Governor was received. It
congratulates tho Legislature that they aro tho law
fully constituted General Assembly of the sovereign
State of Virginia—a State that, notwithstanding tho
fundamental conditions as futile as unnecessary, is
co-equal in all her rights and prerogatives with any
and every State in the American Union. Yon and I
have qualified by taking the same oath of office; we
hare solemnly pledged ourselves before Heaven to
support and maintain as well tho Constitution and
laws of the United States as of the State of Virginia;
that we recognize and accept the civil and political
equality of all men before tho law; and ’that wo
will faithfully perform our official duties to tlie best
of our ability. A strict and conscientious observ
ance of this solemn obligation will redound to the
peace and prosperity of the State, and the vindica
tion of tho jnst expectations of the people and our
friends everywhere. It is your duty to make the
laws, mine to execute them. Fulfill your duty and
I pledgo you a faithful and fearless execution of
mine.. Ol the State Constitution, ho says: That
its provisions shall have fair and impartial trial, and
when, if ever, experience shall demonrtrate inutility
or impracticability of any of them, we will proceed
to make such modifications as necessities may de
mand. Tho manifestation of punio faith by others
affords no justification for departure from the path
of right by us. The ancient and proverbial reputa
tion of the people of this Commonwealth, for honor
and integrity, will be maintained regardless of the
selfish and fanatical vituperation of our enemies at
horns or abroad.
The Governor advocates the encouragement of
immigration into the State, and. says any attempt
to reopen the sores of the war for party purposes
should be frowned down, and concludes: “Always
a firm and consistent Unionist, I expect to live end
die one. Beyond this, the chief tenets of my polit
ical faith are the maintenance of the public faith,
State and national, untarnished; honesty and econ
omy in the administration of public affairs; the
equalization and reduction of tariffs and taxation
to the lowest degree consistent with the mainten
ance of the public credit; free education for all; a
fostering care, encouragement and elevation of
labor; and until fully, finally and permanently ac
complished, universal amnesty. These are the
principles in my political creed, and it matters not
what you call them, whether Republican, Democrat
or Liberal, so far as applicable, this will be faith
fully adhered to in my administration of the affairs
of the State. Those who agree with them will nat
urally sustain anc) uphold the administration, while
those who disagree with them may oppose it.”
FOREIGN NEWS.
Paris, February 7—r. m. — Henry iw ,
editor of the Marseiilaiso, was arrested »tIn
in the eastern part of the city, at au citIvl
this evening. His friends and partisans
sembiing in great crowds in that quarter. ‘
Serious trouble is expected.
Paris, February 8—2 A. at —The streets Wet
with shouting people, and barricading hjj .
menced. A detachment of Imperial troops i
in the vicinity at 11 o’clock.
Paris, February 8,3 a. M—Barricades b 1Tl! v
erected in Bnedu Fauburg, Rue du Templet
St. Mar, Rue Grange, Aux Belles, and othersn
in the vicinity of Belleville. The scene of
turbance is near the Northern and Strasbourg
road stations. At half-past 11 an additional £
ment of troops arrived, bnt up to this liourr
arms have been used. The troops in the ca.
of the city have received orders to hold then,,
in readiness to marcl^at a moment’s notice,
are the precautions taken by the police and m
that it is believed a riit will not be attended
any serious consequences.
7 a. m.—The troubles at Belleville
night and have extended northward to L»
the extreme northwest arrondissement witw
fortifications. Troops havo not yet resorieVto
use of fire arms. The police are setire and n *
arrests have been made. Beyond the eicite
naturally incident to such an occasion, th e Ies .
the city is tranquil. The government still cant w
precautionary measures to prevent outbreaks -
where.
Later.—The police attempted to carry the bi-
cade in the Bue du Faubourg du Temple and i
repulsed, with one killed and one wounded
ricades are elsewhere erected, but not defer
The troops are out in force, but have not used
At this time all is quiet. Many have been at
mostly boys, under the influence of liquor.
London, February 8.—Tho Queen opened ]
ment in a highly conservative speech.
Havana, February 9.—Senor Oveido, of i
marriage notoriety, is dead.
Official reports from Puerto Principe say He j
surgents are extending their line of devastation, v
the incendiaries approach so near the walla thu ;
ders from tho burning houses fall in the stteeii
Paris, February 9.—The disorders were i
at midnight in tho vicinity of former di=tu
Several additional barricades were erected innam'
streets. The troops still reserve fire. The;
made several charges, killing some. The ; u
Gustave Flowers, is still at large.
3 o’clock, p. m.—The police and military hive j
riot under control. City tranquil.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, February 9.—House.—The ]
is considering the Covode contest, with a pros^J
for a long diecussion.
Mr. COvode was seated to-day, by a strict j
vote.
Tho Legislation and Judicial Appropriation 1
were discussed without final action.
Tho President was requested to furnish infora!
tion concerning tho recent murder of American:[
Havana. . •
Senate.—In tho Senate a bill was introdneelij
creasing the number of supreme judges and <
courts. .
Tho Judiciary Committeq were directed toinqc
whether tho Georgia Legislature is reconstr
accordance with the reconstruction acts.
Morton discussed neutrality.
Resolutions were introduced directing the }i
ciary Committee to inquire whether there has b
any violation of the reconstruction law by f
Georgia Legislature.
Mr. Morton spoke on his bill, and said it was;
prevent military aid in time of war to revolted ri
jecta of a foreign power.
Tho Census bill was laid on the tablo.
FROM ALABAMA.
Montgomery, February 8.—The Alabama
Chattanooga Railroad Bill has finally passcdto|
houees by a large majority, loaning tho credit o?4
State to the amount of two .millions. Adit
from President Stanton thanks the Legislature,!
says the road shall soon be built, and makes f
promises that Alabama shall be tho beneficiary,ij
stead of tho loser.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, February 9.—'The Registration^
passed the Senato—yeas 15, nays 12.
The Impeachment trial of Wickliff, State Audi
commences to-morrow.
This morning’s Bulletin publishes a state
from Judge Cooley, charging the State Tre,
Dabndet, with defrauding the creditors of theS
by discounting their warrants and using tho fc
of the State therefor.
t«, *u „ t-aii
»t for the .Uctton of Suh, AnilM,, Tr^rarer, S t”*
next
Secretary, etc.
Richmond, February 9.—Gov. Walker sent in a
supplementary message, in relation chiefly to the
routine of State matters, and referring to the diffi
culty of finding judges not disqualified by the Four
teenth Amendment He recommend* that Concrete
be petitioned for a general removal of disshiSHce.
. GENERAL NEWS.
Galveston, February 8.—Leroy Cotton Mi >
day convicted for the murder of Major'
re last April, and sentenced- to. bp kneg-onu
8th of April next. *
Tho Legislature convened at Austin -tfri?|
Much interest was manifested to tlio result o? 8
Senatorial election. Hamilton - and. Reynolds. c
believed to be the strongest.candjdates.
Mobile, February Si—The Grand' Lodge of.
O. O. F. of Alabama, met,last -qvdnihg. A f
attendance, especially from abroad, .will bo-u i
tendaneo during tho two weeks. ..It will bo. a 1
interesting and imposing session;-' A ballwffl-
given at the , Battle House tornxnrrow night kyi
Odd FeUotre.; .’ V* ^ f
Nashville, February 8.—No freights for |
boyond Chattanooga are received by the Nad^
and Chattanooga Boad, owing to tho block*!*
Chattanooga.
Trenton, N. J., February 8.—Tho Senate of >'
Jersey rejected tho Fifteenth Amendment by a* 1
of 13 to 8.
Trenton, N. J., February 8—Tho Legist
adopted a resolution requesting tho Congress
Delegation to urge the recognition of Cuba.
St. Louis, February 8.—Mrs. Amelia Hobbsk
been elected a Justice of the Peace to Jersoy w»ij
Illinois.
A Man who Eats Bullets.—The Oincia
Enquirer has this xeport of an interview o
tween the Superintendent of the Cincin
Police Telegraph and a blonde reporter:
Mr. Saunders grew still more furious,
damned energetically, and he informed
young man that he believed he would
The blonde reporter only intimated that!
had every reason to believe, judging from3*
physical disparity existing between them,
Mr Saunders could do that job if he set ah
it, and concluded by very calmly expressing »
belief that Mr. Saunders was an exoee- , "’' J
bad man.
“I am a bad man,” said Mr. Saunders, "
d—d bad man, and I’ll whip anybody who l
such d—d stuff about me. ’
“I guess I’ll have to publish this as aniri*
view,” said the complacent and self-posses*
ink slinger. .
“If you do, d—nyou,” said the fanout •
perintendent, “I’ll come down and thrash!
out of you.”
“In that event I very much fear, Mr. <
dera, we’ll have to shoot you,” rejoined* 1
self-possessed and irritating reporter.
‘ •Ob, I’m not afraid of your shooting, bo*>
the electrieal Saunders; ‘ by G—d, I jug]
them things—-just eat bullets, air; I’mnott
of your shooting.” N ,' ”
After an interchange of some more
sentiments the parties separated. It bid
suggested that Mr. Bounders might, with ]
to mmself, leava off the unremuneratire
ness of burnishing and oiling telegraphic ®
meats, and travel through the country »* .
Great Bullet Masticator. He might, too,
constant application, be able to swallow *
non ball in duq course of time.
yesterday. On the day I
thirty-eight wen received.—Era, 9th.
Meaning.that that number of county <
and their kin have demonstrated their «
for the guillotine? Or perhaps they **
Boad employes ? The grammar of U*
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