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$ •& ' ■■ $P : -y. .; ? ^J s'* 9: as ft /:. -r-S 01 3U r | Telegraph and Messenger. 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* iB . :■ u