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Tli© Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph and. Johrnal Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, FEBRUARY 22, 1870.
The Cold Snap.—A Ithon 8 h there was more
jhow of ice Saturday morning than wo have ob-
orved from ono night’s freeze at any time da
ting the present winter, yet the mercury main
tained an unexpected altitude. The writer ex
amined the thermometer, hanging out doors in
a fair position, at half-past four o’clock Satur
day morning, and found it indicated twenty-six
plus. The ground was congealed to tho depth
of half an inch. Vegetables of all kinds were
frozen stiff. The green peas, which aro gen
erally now about six inches high in this region,
were stark and stiff, but whether they aro hope
lessly destroyed is a question among the gar
deners. We have not .examined the peach
trees, which are generally in full blossom, but
probably the peach question may be considered
settled.
A Lammas Schedule.—From the way we
receive the mails reaching this office, from At
lanta and points beyond, we judge a lightning
schedule is being run in that office. Atlanta
papers published one day, do not reach nntil
tho next afternoon, very frequently. We never
knew such general complaint as is now heard
from every quarter of postal mismanagement.
The chorus rises and deepens every day.
Wo hope, now tho Agency has adjourned,
that tho Atlanta postmaster will be able to give
some of his “loyal” time to attending to tho
duties of that office. We know it is a pretty
Steep job to run tho Radical party and the pos
tal department at the same time, but a better
showing can surely bo made than tho present
ono.
The Coal Question.—Shivering mortals in
Macon sneer at ns about our wood stove, and
ask why don't you use coal ? For the same rea
son that you shiver—because coal is out and no
chance to keep a supply on hand. And speak
ing of coal we submit this enigma illustrating
brevity in correspondence. It is old and good.
A cool merchant in Philadelphia addresses his
correspondent at the mines in tho oddest and
briefest possible fashion. Omitting dates, sub
scriptions and superscription the whole corres
pondence is appended, and we submit it to the
reader as follows: —;: We wish the railroads
would be as prompt.
Commendable Caution. — The Philadelphia
Press specials from Washington, tho 18th say :
Georgians in this city are very well satisfied
with the nominations for United States Senator
made in the Republican caucus at Atlanta last
night. Ail tho nominees aro regarded as stand
ard Republicans, of whose political status there
can not be the slightest doubt, and as men emi
nently qualified for the high position for which
they are nominated.
This displays an extraordinary degree of cau
tion upon the part of Mr. Forney. No doubt
some so-called “Georgians” in Washington city
express that opinion, but the Press was quite
right confining it to them.
Carrying out tlio Decision.
At the special term of tho Supreme Court,
held in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday, by
Judge Pratt, the recent decision of Chief Justice
Chase, holding that the principal and interest
of all contracts entered into prior to the passage
of the legal tender act of July 11, 18C2, availa
ble in gold was practically applied in the case of
Johnson Leak vs. Altered Doubleday and others.
The plaintiff sued to foreclose a mortgage for
$4,000, dated July 1st, 1857. Judge Prattgave
judgment in favor of the plaintiff, for principal
and interest to be paid in gold or tho equivalent
of gold in greenbacks, acting under the United
States Supreme Court decision above referred
to.
Apropos to this subject, we see it stated that
Northern bankers, brokers, insurance compan
ies, and business men generally, have been
sending word South that they will not take ad
vantage of this decision.
Another Raid on the Tbeasuby.—A Wash
ington correspondent of the Era, after predict
ing that all sorts of prosperity will follow the
success of Bullock & Co., makes this pass at the
Treasury:
_ To bring about that time as speedily as pos
sible, the Governor of Georgia should forthwith
‘appoint a State agent, to be stationed at this
point. The cost of such an agency would bo as
nothing compared with the immense benefit to
be derived. Nearly all of the reconstructed
States have tried the plan successfully.
The fellow evidently has an eye on the job
himself, but he is green to say anything at all
about it in this public manner. We certainly
see tho immense benefit for him, but nobody
.else—certainly not those who will pay his sal
ary. As to the plan having been tried hereto-
•fore “successfully,” we haven’t a doubt, but it
was for the raider, not the raided.
Bible in the Ohio Common Schools.—Tlio
.higher Courts of Ohio have decided that Chris
tianity is part of tho common law, and that ex-
• elusion of the Bible from the public schools is
violative of such law.
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A Woman’s Thoughts About (a Rival?) Wo
man.—A lady correspondent at New York, who
appears to use vinegar instead of ink, has this
to say of a well known writer and Sorosister :
“Jennie June is anacidulous humbug. Fourteen
.old maids boiled down and bottled up in one
frightful scragginess couldn’t bo compared to
her. She says that if a lady don’t wear gloves
with two buttons she isn’t a lady Brilliant
idea! That sweet essence of ladyhood, the
gentle dignity, purity and courtesy of a noble
woman, is to be measured by the number of
•buttons aho wears on her gloves 1 Oh bah! That
•high priestess of fashion, J. J., is proverbially
the worst dressed woman in New York. She
wears white bonnets to the morning lunches of
Sorosis, and careers wildly through fabrics and
oolors to the total defiance of taste. She makes
her own ‘tin’ by writing the Veni Yidi papers
for the World. Some of them are clever, some
are exceedingly stupid.” .
A Model Office Holder.—A man named
Platt Madison assumes to represent Lincoln
county in the Atlanta Agency. He has not been
in that county since the 4th of July, 1868, and
probably never spent’a month there altogether
in his life. While the Agency is in session he
draws his $0 per day, and when it adjourns he
goes back to a $1200 per annum place on the
State Road. Of course “loyalty” has no mote
burning, shining light, no more ardent cham
pion in all the land than Madison. The tears
stream down his cheeks, and he fairly howls with
anguish, whenever any body insinuates that Bul
lock, Blodgett & Co. are plundering and raining
the State, and that alt such raiders as Madison
ought to be caught and punished.
The Nashville Banner says “the negroes ore
emigrating from Virginia, Kentucky and Ten
nessee to the Gulf States in hordes. Car loads
of them are daily transported over our roads
South. A very large number have gone from
Rutherford and Williamson counties. It is be
lieved that the negroes will leave the three States
named to auoh an extent as to seriously compli
cate the labor question and whittle down Radi
cal meetings in Tennessee to the small end of
nothing.”
Hallelulah Ton Idaho!—The Washington
correspondent of Pomeroy’s Democrat thus
writes on the 18th: “ The nomination of Sam
uel Bard ss Governor of Idaho appears to hang
fire in the Senate, with chanoes of rejection.”
A Road Bill for Bibb County.
The Grand Jury of Bibb county, during their
recent session, which terminated yesterday, had
tho subject of tho county roads under serious
consideration. The roads are in wretched con
dition generally, and getting no better very fast.
The great difficulty of compelling labor upon
them from the freedmen, and the manifest and
acknowledged inequity of the existing system,
which imposes a uniform tax with no respect
either to property or tho relative use of the
highways—the manifest want of true economy
in the plan of working tho roads at stated sea
sons by a general requisition upon tho labor of
the neighborhood, leaving the roads to go to
wash and ruin in the long intervals during which
great damage is incurred for want of timely at
tention—tho patent fact that every year tho
county roads were sinking farther and farther
below our own standard of civilization, and by
that wretched condition imposing a much heav
ier fax upon tho people than the cost of keeping
them in order—all these and many other con
siderations determined tho Jury to attempt a
total revolution in tho whole road system.
They therefore instructed their Road Com
mittee, of whom Dr. M. S. Thomson was chair
man, to bring in a bill for that purpose, which,
after numerous readings—very careful consid
eration and some few amendments,wai adopted
with great unanimity and ordered to bo printed
with the presentments and recommended to take
tho form of law. See the presentments in this
edition. The plan of the bill is very simple.
It proposes to establish Road Districts—appoint
commissioners and put repairs and improve
ments for specifio periods under contract to the
lowest bidder, under direction of tho commis
sioners, and the general supervision of tho Or
dinary. To defray the expense, it levies a gen
eral capitation tax not exceeding three dollars,
and a tax upon each horse, mule, yoko of oxen
and vehicle not exceeding the same amount, and
it provides for tho assessment and collection of
this tax. The capitation tax can bo worked out
by the tax payers, if they choose to do so; and
convicts can bo employed in labor upon the
roads.
Under tho scheme contemplated by this bill
every public road in the county will be under
tho charge of a contractor to put and keep it
constantly in order. The total prospective ob
ligations of the county under these contractshav
ing been ascertained, the Ordinary of tho coun
ty can fix the capitation tax and tho tax on stock
and vehicles at such a rate as shall cover the
expense, but is forbidden to exceed the sum of
three dollars each.
Wo recommend this bill to the careful con
sideration of tho people—not only of Bibb—but
also of all the counties, for the following rea
sons : • ,
1. Bad roads cost the people in ruined stock
and vehicles, light loads, lost time and vexation
generally, about a hundred times more than it
costs to keep roads in order.
2. Every man uses the roads to some extent,
and all aro interested in keeping them in or
der. Therefore every man should contribute
something towards tho expense, but those should
contribute most who use them the most; and
this is effected as near as maybe by tho tax on
polls and tho tax on stock and vehicles.
3. No roads can be kept in order by working
them once or twice a year. They need to bo
worked as they require it, and a little timely
working saves great damage. A storm immedi
ately after a general working may make them
worse than before, and where the damage is left
unrepaired for months, it may, and often does,
become incurable. A little wash will sometimes
ako tho dimensions of a huge galley.
Where a roadbecomesimpassable, difficult,dan-,
gerous or rough, we need somebody upon whom
to fix the responsibility and require a remedy,
and this the bill provides for. We have no space
or time for further considerations, but hope the
people will think over the matter and press the
adoption of the new system.
To make it perfect, all road contracts should
bo given out and executed under a competent
county engineer of the public roads, but that
proposition will be in time when we have ad
vanced a good deal beyond the present stage of
civilization in the matter of roads.
Which Dlu.st IVc BclicTC ?
In Blodgett's letter to Bullock, the following
paragraph occurs:
“Upon the election in the Legislature, I re
ceived every Republican vote, without excep
tion, while many among the Democrats, believ
ing that I had been persecuted without a cause,
also voted for me.”
The Democrats who voted for Blodgett wero:
Fain, McArthur, and Wellborn in the Senate,
and Gober, Hall, of 3ullock, Parks, of Gwin
nett, Perkins, of Cherokee, and Welchell, of tho
House.
The Constitution says that most of these men
give as a reason for deserting their party, and
inflicting such a shame andevil upon their State,
that they did so “to save certain good officers
from being removed, who would otherwise lose
office.”
Now, who tells the truth—Blodgett, or these
bargain makers? However that may be settled,
though, we bold, and do declare, that they have
not deserved well of their constituents or the
State. They have deceived and deserted the
one, and dealt a deep and undeserved stab at
the other. They were pot sent to Atlanta for
any such mission, and we shall be greatly sur
prised if those whom they have so shamefully
misrepresented, do not settle the account with
them in a manner that shall condemn them to
private life the rest of their days.
No man has a right, let personal considera
tions be as pressing and weighty as possible, to
allow them to determine his course when prin
ciples are at stake. Still less has he a right to
heed them, when the issue is such an one as
was presented in the Blodgett election. Upon
the line of opposition to him as the most grossly
unfit of any man, even in his own party, to rep
resent the State at Washington, all the real
friends of Georgia were a unit. His election
was not only the triumph of the wicked and
devilish thing called Radicalism, but it was the
apotheosis of personal and political corruption.
It was the endorsement of a man who stands
charged, on the most impregnable testimony,
with one of the most shameful and heinous
crimes known to the penal code, and upon whose
guilt the jury of public opinion has long since
pronounced a damnatory verdict.
This is what a vote for Blodgett meant. Was
it worth any Democrat or Conservative’s while
to keep friends in office at such a sacrifice ?. Do
men go to the Legislature to represent their
constituents after any such fashion ? Will that
constituency acoept such a poor, pitiful plea in
bar of swift, indignant condemnation? We
sincerely hope not. If they do, they deserve
just such representatives the remainder of their
lives.
“Champagne Charley.”—A correspondent
of the World thus describes the vulgarity which
has been substituted for “plantation manners”
in Washington society:
“A scene at the late reception, at the house
of no ultra fast political people either, was as
follows, or sufficiently near to it: Wife of a
moneyed committeeman, in a blissful state, en
ters the punch room on her husband’s arm. A
Radical politician passing, she greets him:
‘Say, Charley, won’t yon drink some champagne
in my shoe.’ Radical politician blushes dan
gerously. Husband, appealingly: ‘My dear,
I think the carriage mnst be ready by this time.*
Snob things happen in New York at the Bal (T
Artistes ; here they are Incidents of ‘Washing
ton society.’ ”
The town of Lost Trail, Mountain, has only
one woman within its limits, and the husband
can’t sleep nights because so many men stand
around the gate and grate their teeth.
The Georgia Frews.
Robinson’s circus, according to the Sun, had
a lively time in Colnmbus. One negro knocked
another down during the performance, the
door-keeper dittoed a white man, and the prop
erty of the circus was attached for the sum of
$10,000 by the father of a boy who was fatally
injured by the falling of a ball on his head.
The ball was being tossed up and caught by one
of the performers on hi3 feet, and it fell on
the boy’s head, who was was seated too near
the ring.
The Savannah News notes the arrival there
of the Schooner Nettie Doe, from Philadelphia,
with a very large boiler for the Athens paper
mill, as a part of her cargo.
The Constitution says that rumor has it that
John L. Hopkins, who did most of Farrow’s
work for him, will succeed that worthy as At
torney General, and that a man named George
S. Thomas will get the Judgship of the Atlanta
Circuit.
The following appears in the Constitution:
Emigration Scheme.—The undersigned makes
to the land owners in Georgia the following
proposition:
He will proceed at once to New York, Phila
delphia and Baltimore, and induce honest and
industrious Germans of means to come to Geor
gia for the purpose of buying and cultivating
the vacant lands of the land owners interested
in such a scheme, paying therefor the usual
market prices, in such installments and at such
times as the parties may agree upon.
In consideration of his services as aforesaid,
tho land owners who may accept this proposi
tion aro to pay the undersigned whatever ex
penses he may incur, in carrying out honestly
and industriously the above plan.
Geo. H. Stueckrath,
Late co-editor of DeBow’s Review.
The Constitution says that a Federal officer
appeared in a magistrate’s court in that city,
Thursday, where a habeas corpus case was just
going to be tried to settle the question of tho pos
session of two negro boys, who had been regu
larly indentured to a white man, and forcibly
took them from tho civil officer who had them
in charge.
The Warrenton Clipper says that two citizens
of that place wero attacked in the street on the
night of tho 11th, by a party ofsoldiers, knocked
down, and one of them severely beat about the
head with a pistol. Believing him dead, they
returned to camp. We have not learned of any
arrests being made.
The Constitution prints a letter from Judge
Lochrane saying he was no candidate for Sena
tor before the late Radical caucus, although
voted for, and declaring that he feels injured,
“not so much at the mention as the association
of my name, with the black and white candi
dates mentioned, appearing in a false position
among men generally so utterly unfit for the
position."
He also says:
I have never been in favor of putting negroes
in the lead in office. I can’t get away from the
conviction that, while every right should bo
given consistent with the public welfare to this
class, that their weal depends upon the modesty
of their claims. Revolutions of thought are fre
quently as potent and as irresistible as revolu
tions of arms, and rights soon maybe lost. With
these views, the idea of my being voted for in a
nomination with them for the office of United
States Senator is inconsistent with my personal
feelings, as well as wholly unauthorized.
The postoffico at Bear Creek, Henry county,
has been discontinued, and the Griffin Postmas
ter ordered to take charge of all mail matter and
government property belonging to that office.
The Radicals Cry fob Vengeance.—Upon
the resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Scott,
in the House, for the Governor to order elec
tions to fill the vacancies in the Legislature,
Representative O'Neal, the Radical leader in
the House, made a speech against it, in which
he cried out with furious vehemence, in reply
to Mr. Scott’s remarks, that he was for peace;
“ talk of peace, when the blood of Adkins and
Ayer cries out for vengeance 1”
This will do very well for the faction that
yells so fierceiy about Democratic turbulence.
[Constitution, 17 th.
We quote as follows from the Albany News,
of yesterday:
The Pair that Went to Eufaula to Get
Married.—The bridegroom was and is the hus
band of an elderly lady, who was a widow and
the mother of a very pretty daughter of seven
teen or eighteen. The youth and beauty of the
step-daughter charmed the lust of the mother’s
husband, and she fell a victim to his seductive
wiles. Fearing the law, he abandoned both, but
was pursued and brought back, when some kind
of reconciliation was brought about; since which
time, it apppears, he has been so faithless to
the new compact, that all parties agreed to the
double marriage; and we understand the wife-
mother, sou-husband, sister-mother, husband-
father, and all the rest of the three aro living
together aa man and wife;
Blodgett informs Bullock that he has paid
$20,000 into the State Treasury as the earnings
of the State Road for January. Where are the
earnipgs for October, November and Decern'
ber? And how was this $20,000 made? By
raising the freight tariff on tho road over 100
per cent ? Lot us know.
The Constitution says:
The Radicals before the adjournment of the
Legislature passed a resolution paying members
$0 per day up to adjournment yesterday. This
includes a twelve day’s recess, when they were
at home. Tliis is down-right robbery. No
service was performed, the legislators wero off
duty, and to draw pay for such holiday is simply
swindling the people of Georgia.
The Constitution has fished up, to show
Blodgett’s appreciation of “Confederate patri
otic spirit,” the following little speech, delivered
by that worthy just before the “Blodgett Vol
unteers” left Augusta for Virginia. Mr. Met
calf had equipped the company:
Mb. Metcalf—The Blodgett Volunteers ap
pear equipped before yon to return to you, in
the most expressive manner in their power,
their thanks for your generosity, and to evince
to yon their appreciation of the patriotic spirit
yon have manifested. It is the desire of the
company that this public acknowledgement
8honld be made, and I assure you that the duty
of making it could devolve upon no person who
would perform it with higher gratification than
myselK Allow me to read you the resolution
in reference to yourself, unanimously passed by
the corps.
The Dalton Citizen says the negroes on the
State Road are forced to take the Atlanta Era
“under penalty of losing their situations.”
How is that for loto f
A. J. Williams, a member of the Agency from
Morgan county, writes to the Constitution that
he is prepared to prove that before the adjourn
ment “members of the Georgia Legislature re
ported from 10 to 370 miles of travel more than
the law allows them.” He also says that T. M.
Allen, a negro from Jasper couniy. drew mile
age for 360 miles from Mitchell to Atlanta,
when, via Madison, it is only 186 miles. He
said “man in the Senate” told him to do it.
The powder works and 220 acres of land at
Augusta, formerly the property of the Confed
erate States, will be sold on the 15th of March.
A negro thief was shot at in Savannah on
Thursday night by a policeman, but the ball
glanced and inflicted quite a painful wound on
a little girl standing in the street
The Savannah Republican says another
steamship has been added to the Savannah
and Baltimore line, making four now on the
line.
Having published the paragraph referred to
below, wo new publish its correction by the
Savannah News:
Personal.—We published, a few days since
a paragraph stating that a Mr. E. T. Pritchard,
of Augusta, had thrown upon the stage to Mrs.
Oates a suit of furs. The facte were furn
ished us by an individual representing himself
to be E. T. Pritchard, an entire stranger to
ns. We are now informed by a member of the
Pritchard family in Augusta that the individ
ual who assumed the name of E. T. Pritch
ard was an imposter, and that he is no con
nection of the Pritchard family, in justioe to
whom we make this statement. The Pritchard
who threw the fan upon oar stage is said to
reside at McBean, twenty miles from Augusta.
The News learns that the Glynn county grand
jury will not honor the Savannah jail with their
presence. It is not stated, however, how they
have settled their difficulty with so-called Judge
Sessions.
It is stated th*t Mr. Enoch Steadman, of New
ton county, is about to erect a mill in that
county for the manufacture of raw bone super
phosphate.
Mennegitis has made its appearanco in Bakst
oonnty. Mr. Rob’t Allen, an old citizen of the
county, has died from it.
The News says the value of real estate in
Savannah has been assessed at $14,639,564,
being an increase of $2,420,420 over last year’s
assessment.
The local of tho Columbus Sun says that sev
eral commission merchants think Columbus will
receive 70,000 bales of cotton this seasAi. The
planters in that section are complaining bitterly
of lack of hands.
The Intelligencer says several State Road em
ployees presented John H. Flynn, late master
Machinist on the State Road, with a $100 cane
on Thursday.
Sneak theives are on rho rampage in Augusta.
Two dwellings were robbed last week.
The Greensboro Herald is “pleased to see in
that place the Hon. Horace Warner, of Roches
ter, New York, and his son. We are glad to
see such men among us, and are pleased to
learn that he and his son hare purchased the
Early place, some two miles from town, for
$20,00(X This is a valuable place, containing
some 2,300 acres, and would make a capital
stock form.”
Mr. Ben Jordan, of Upson county, who was
shot a few days ago by Elbert Denham, a ne
gro. is recovering. Denham is in jail.
The Savannah Advertiser says the store
house and stook of goods belonging to Mossrs.
M. G. Wilcox & Co., near Wilcox’s Lake, Tel
fair county, was broken open and destroyed
by fire on Tuesday night last. Loss, about
$50C0; no insurance. Up to the present time
no due has been discovered to indicate who
the guilty parties aro.
John W. Hoskins, of Whitfield county, was
drowned in the Tennessee river on Thursday,
by the upsetting of a boat.
The Romans are to have their business
houses numbered, and the names of the streets
placed on the comers.
The Courier says it is rumored on the streets
(hat the Rome Railroad has been sold to the
State.
The Marietta Journal says that the wheat in
that section is looking finely.
The Dalton Citizen has the following items :
We have heard that tho I. O. O. F. Lodgo, in
this city, intend to erect a three-story building
on South Hamilton street this year. The upper
story will be used as a hall, while the others
will be for rent.
A negro woman and a boy about tea years
old wero poisoned on Saturday last, near tho
city, by eating some sort of bulbus roots, mis
taking tho same for wild onions.
We learn that the gentleman who leased the
marble quarry, recently discovered by Mr. Biv-
ings, on his place near Dalton, has contracted
to furnish $11,000 worth of it to parties in
Charleston, S. C., for the purpose of building a
soldier’s monument. The marble is more beau
tiful and plentiful as they progress. The vein
is, probably, over a mile in length.
We understand that the State Road will ship
the manufactured articles of the Cherokee Man
ufacturing Company at a reduced rate.
Atlanta News and Gossip.
“Shoo Fly” buzzes as follows from Atlanta to
4&e Savannah Republican, under date of Feb
ruary 15th:
Dear Republican: I’ve been “swinging
round” the Legislative “circles” since my last
writing, and find that our menagerie is about as
well supplied with wild beasts as either Ala
bama or South Carolina. In the latter State
the ebony dominates tho white, and the carpet
bagger occupies his natural position subservient
to the negro. Alabama will be swept clean be
fore the robbers get through with their schemes
of plunder. I found quite a number of North
ern gentlemen about Montgomery deeply inter
ested in measuresfor developing the South which
means, as Mr. Toombs pithily remarked,
“stealin.”
In the event that Bullock shall succeed, the
State Road will bo sold or leased. The State
stock in tho Atlantic aud Gulf Railroad will bo
sold at any sacrifice, and all other available
property of tho State disposed of under the pre
text of raising a fund for educational pur
poses.
To carry out their rascally schemes the Judi
ciary will be so moulded and shaped as to offer
no obstacles to their final triumph.
In the election of Senators I hear that the
carpet-bag element was overthrown on a sug
gestion that they wanted no more of that
“breed of dogs” at Washington—that the
Northern and Western Republicans wore dis
gusted with the samples they had received up
to date, and would refuse admission to any of
that class.
From what I can learn, the Bullockites are
not hopeful, and rumor hath it that Blodgett
took the term commencing in 1871 for the rea
son that he was satisfied that Hill aud Miller
would get their seats.
There is a nioc little scheme of plunder which
is being fixed up here by certain well-known
lobbyists, not yet perfected in all its plans.
Two or three well-known Bullock Democrots
are in the ring. I know all the parties, and
when the bill is brought in yon shall hear from
mo in full, for I intend to ventilate it fnlly.
A Strange Story Concerning Sir. Mud
Ison*
In one of these conversations he (Governor
Middleton) told me that he then had in his pos
session a manuscript of his father, which con
tained a speech of Mr. Madison, taken down in
short hand, and advocating a treaty with Great
Britain on the condition that she would acknowl
edge the independence of all the colonies north
of the Carolinas. The Oaroiinas and Georgia
wero to remain British provinces. Tho res
olution embodying this propositisn was intro
duced in the old Congress by Mr. Madison him
self.
Many years afterwards, whilst Governor Mid
dleton was a member of Congress, he mentioned
the subject of this speech to Mr. Madison, aud
expressed his great surprise at it. Mr. Madison
acknowledged having introduced tho resolution
and made the speech. He justified himself on
the ground that the Carolinas and Georgia were
at that time conquered provinces, the country
was overran with British troops, and the royal
governmentrestored. These colonies were con
sidered entirely lost after Gates’ defeat at Cam.
den, and all reasonable hope of recovering them
was gone forever. An address had been pre
sented to Lord Cornwallis, signed by many of
the most prominent citizens of Charleston, con
gratulating him on his victory and the final sub
jugation of the province.
I do not remember to have seen this remark-
ablo fact mentioned in the history of our coun
try. The address to Lord Cornwallis I had
heard of many years before, bnt not the speech
and resolution of Mr. Madison. Congress sat
at that time with closed doors, and their seoret
proceedings were not known to the country.—
Ex-Gov. Perry's “Reminiscences of Public
Men.”—XIX Century Jor February.
There was a trial of some Sons of Bt Crispin
in Worcester, Mass., the other day, when it ap
peared that the oath takeD by members pledges
secrecy, not to teach any new hand any part of
the trade without consent of the lodgo, to en
force that obligation against any violator, to re-
f use to take the place of any member discharged
on account of refusingto teach a new hand, and
to be governed by the lodge. None of the offi
cials had a reliable memory about any particu
lars, but constantly referred to matters as “on
the record.” The record was ordered to be pro
duced, when it appeared that it had been spir
ited away.—N. 7. Commercial Advertiser.
The Fertilizer-Inspection Law—Ke-
ply to “Planters and Coihmisslon
Merchants.”
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : A writer
who styles himself a “Planter and Commission
Merchant,” attempts to criticize the law passed
daring the session of the General Assembly of
Georgia, in 1868, and amended daring the ses
sion in 1869, to protect planters in this State
from imposition in the sale of fertilizers. As
it appears to me this writer very much misap
prehends the law, if he has ever attentively read
it. The law requires all fertilizers coming into
any port of entry in this State to be inspected
and analyzed at the port of entry in which the
same may be received, or if manufactured in
any county in tho State, it shall be inspected
and analyzed before being shipped and offered
for sale; and any person violating this law is
subject to be fined aud imprisoned at the discre
tion of the Court. The law also declares that
the Inspector shall be allowed a fee of 50 cents
per ton. when inspected and analyzed in quan
tities of fifty tons or more, and a fee of $25 for
inspecting and analyzing quantities less than
fifty tons, to be paid by parties procuring the
inspection. The law is full and plain on these
points.
The friends of the measure, knowing that a
large portion of the fertilizers used in Georgia,
come through the port of Savannah, seenred the
appointment of Dr. A. Means, at that point
without any solictation on his part, believing
him to be one of the best practical chemists in
the State, and in whom all have the most un
bounded confidence. Ho is at his post doing all
he can to benefit tho planters of Georgia, and
has already saved them many thousands of dol
lars. 1 have Heard of one cargo of guano bp J ”s
brought to Savannah, and the owner finding
that it would have to be inspected and analyzed
beforebeing offered for sale, resused to land it,
and shipped it to some other State. Donbtless
there have been many more cargoes of spurious
guanos kept out of Georgia for the same rea
son.
In order that the planters may be benefited
by the law, they should never purchase any fer
tilizers withont requiring the merchant, who
proposes to sell to them, to furnislj them Dr.
Means’ or some other competent chemist’s anal
ysis of the same.
The principal objections made to this law
come from some manufacturers and merchants,
who deal in guanos. They say that the law in
terferes with their trade. They endeavor io
prejudice the planters against the law, saying
it is no protection, and an expense for no equiv
alent ; hoping to create a pnblio opinion against
it, and finally to have it repealed. In my opin
ion the law ought not to be repealed. It is a
a step in the right direction. The law can be
improved upon, and donbtless it will be im
proved, and the question arises, what addition
al legislation is necessary? It is an important
question.
It is contended by some that there should he
a standard for manufacturers of fertilizers, re
quiring a certain quantity of soluble phosphate,
ammonia, etc., so that any fertilizer offered
for sale, and by analysis above this standard,
may bring a higher price, and if it falls below,
may be at a less price, and if it falls below still
another standard, to be rejected.
But it is evident there are difficulties connec
ted with this proposed arrangement, ono of
which is, that fertilizers well adapted to one
kind of soil are unfit for others. Perhaps, how
ever, the aid of science and practical wisdom
will ultimately devise an efficient plan. With
the permission of the editors, the writer may
pursue th3 subject further in future communi
cations.
We need more scientific planters in Georgia.
All thinking men must favor the establishment
of Agricultural Colleges where our sons can be
educated to becomo scientific planters. Wo trust
that this subject also will be properly considered
and discussed, until the desired result shall be
attained. A Planter and Merchant.
Seventeen years ago when Napoleon III vis
ited Bordeaux, he was received by the prefet of
the department, a very tall, powerful built man
of winning manners, beside whom the Emperor
was a dwarf. Side by side they drove through
the city. “Prefet,” said Napoleon, “the citizens
seem to regard their Prefet, and forget their
Emperor." “Sire,” was the oourtly reply,
“when a regiment is marching, the crowd is al
ways struok with the drum-major, bnt it is not
to be concluded they forget the general in com
mand.” The Prefet afterwards became Baron
AN AMERICAN TKAUPMANN.
One of tbc Most Horrible Mnrilcrs on Rec-
onl-Sl:iKUlnr Discovery of the Ruteber —
Ills Execution Yesterday—A Wonderful
Case of Circumstantial Evidence.
St. John, N. B., February 15.—John A. Mon
roe was hanged this morning for the murder of
Catharine Vail, his mistress, and their child, in
September last. He left a written confession
of his crime.
The youth was of high social position, and
his victim a beautiful woman. The history of
the crimo is as follows:
Last September, as some negroes wero gath
ering berries in a thicket situated about one
hundred yards from the Black River road, ten
miles from St. John, they came upon some hu
man remains.
It was a lonely spot by a nearly unfrequented
road, no houses wero near, except a farm house
and a tavern. Search in the thicket brought to
light the skull, ribs and thigh bones of an adult
and the skull of an infant, which fell in pieces
on being taken from the ground.
In addition to these, a roll of hair, portions
'of a woman’s dress, a woolen jacket and piece
of underclothing were found, which probably—
certainly, as the jury afterwards said—had once
belonged to her whose body was so decayed
that it was utterly unrecognizable. At come
distance from these was discovered a baby’s
foot in a little stocking, and a piece of lead, flat
and about the size of a silver half dollar.
Limb3 had been tom from the surrounding
trees and placed upon the corpses to conceal
them; and moss had also been gathered and
scattered above them, evidently with the design
of hiding all evidence of the crime.
Reading this, a cabman named Worden re
membered that last October he had taken in his
carriage to the neighborhood where the bodies
had been found, a woman and a child, accom
panied by a man. Worden said that the man
was John A. Monroe, a well-known architect of
this city, and a young married man of whose
integrity there had not hitherto been a doubt.
Monroe was then arrested.
A few years ago Munroe became acquainted
with a girl in Carleton named Snsan Margaret
Vail, and had seduced her,'and she had borne a
child. In last October she sold a hoese which
had been left to her by her father, bnt disap
peared from Carleton, and sinoe that time had
not been heard frpm.
In the latter part of October, a woman giving
her name as Mrs. Clarke, and having a child
with her, came to the Brunswick, House in St
John, and a day or two afterward had been
visited by Monroe, who had hired Worden to
take them all in his carriage along the Blaok
River road Mo a place near that in which the
bodies were afterward found.
When near this spot they left the carriage,
and, telling Worden to await them at Banker’s
tavern, they walked away, bnt returned again
shortly afterward, and drove back to town.
Some days afterward they repeated the same
thing, but this time Munroe returned to the
tavern alone, saying that the woman had seen a
friend with whom she intended to remain. He
was excited and in haste to return to the city;
he was so anxious to get away, that he paid for
Worden’s dinner before it was fully eaten.
It now remained for the Coroner to prove
that the remains of the dead woman and child
were those of Miss Vail, who was supposed to
be also Mrs. Clarke. Miss Vail’s sisters were
summoned before the Coroner, and recognized
the hair of the person fonnd in the thicket—it
was their sister’s. They recognized also the
teeth and dress, and the flattened piece of lead
was identified as one which had been used as a
truss for Miss Vail’s child.
A clerk in the hardware store swore: that in
Ootober Munroe had bought of him a revolver,
and the doctors swore that the jagged edges of
the skull of the murdered woman were such as
wonld be made by a bullet of such a weapon.
Thus was formed the last link in the chain of
evldenoe, and Munroe- was convicted. At the
last he professed himself penitent.
Th* Murderer Caught at Last.—The Henry
county Alabama Register learns that Calvin
Rogers, the leader of the negro outlaws, who
murdered Miss McLellen, wounded her father, for answer.
(OoL McLellan) and committed other high ‘
crimes and misdemeanors about Marianna, Fla.,
in September last, was seen on the streets of
that place, (Marianna) not long since, and was
followed by several citizens to his place of con
cealment in that neighborhood and stain,
•‘A Plagiarist Exposed.”
Under this head an article appeared in the
Telegraph and Messenger of the 9th instant
which makes a serious charge against one of two
distinguished literary persons, both of whom
aro too far removed to know anything about the
charge, much less to say a word in their own
defence. For my friend, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
I can speak emphatically, and can deny any
charge of plagiarism which may be brought
against her. “Owen Meredith” is an English
poet, the son of Lord Lytton, (Hon. Edward
Robert Bnlwer LyttoD) better known in this
country as Bulwer the Novelist, and possesses a
genius sufficiently prolific to enable him to add
to his already extended and substantial literary
reputation, without resorting to the use of
Mrs. Howe’s productions.
Mrs. Howe is a sister of tho celebrated Sam
Ward, of Washington, who was conspicuous in
the impeachment trial, and who is a gentleman
of wealth and poetic culture; of Dr. Ward, of
New York City, whoso wealth and mental taste
have given to New Yorksome of the finest musi
cal entertainments ever known; and the wife of
Dr. S. G. Howe, of Boston, eminent as a writer
of ability, and a philanthropist of world-wide
fame. His co-operation with movements in aid
of the Greeks, is well known to many of the
readers of the Telegraph and Messenger. With
such connections, and with a rank second to
none among the gifted women of the land, sure
ly the charge of plagiarism falls harmless at her.
feet, in the presence of all who know her genius
and her worth. Of her political and religious
views, I need not speak; as I have no sympathy
with either. They are her own, however, and
She has a perfect right to entertain them unmo
lested.
But how does her name become attached to
one of “Owen Meredith’s” poems? Very easily
indeed. Is it not a rare occurrence of poems to
travel about over the country—for years even—
bearing the name of some person other than the
author. The beautiful poem, “The Little Boy
That Died”—had no less than three different
names thus attached during several yeais. My
own literary bantlings—poor as they are—have
been honored in a similar way. The charge of
plagiarism is easily made, but hard to be sus
tained. Longfellow, Poe, Chas. Reade, and
other eminent writers have been charged with
it, but falsely. Sydney Herbert.
A New Source of Wealth to the South.
Under our old system of farming, the “fleecy
staple” was considered the chief source of rev
enue, the cotton seed being held as compara
tively valueless. These seed aro becoming more
useful as a fertilizer, and quite recently their
value in this respect is being increased and oth
er valuable properties are being developed. .By
chemical analysis it is found that the kernel,
when separated from tho hull, contains over
eighty per cent, of nutritive matter, and that
the hull contains seventy-five per cent, of phos
phate and other valuable fertilizing properties.
These kernels are valuable for the production
of oil, which being expressed, a “meal cake”
is left exceedingly valuable as food for stock.
In the January number of tho Southern Cultiva
tor is a very interesting article on this subject.
The writer experimented with the meal from
the Memphis Oil Company as feed, and found
that horses, hogs, mules and cows eat it wet
or dry, mixed with bran, and that a pair of
mules fed on it with almost no corn, for two
weeks, thrived and worked hard.” In the same
article is on extract from tho report of the
United States Commissioner of agriculture for
1865, in which it is stated from repeated exper
iments, that for the production of milk it is
worth about double of corn meal, and for mak
ing all kinds of animals fat and glossy it far ex
ceeds all other kinds of food. But to appropri
ate this new found value of our cotton seed has
been tho trouble, the oil factories beiDg too in
convenient to be serviceable to the planters.
This difficulty is now overcome by tho inven
tion of “Shaw’s cotton seed hnller,” which can
be pnt np on the plantation at an inconsidera
ble expense, and which takes the seed as they
come from the gin and hulls them, delivering
tho unbroken kernel at one spent and the hulls
at another. It is claimed that on a farm pro
ducing fifty bales of cotton, one of these ma
chines will pay for itself and clear from six to
eight hundred dollars in a single season. If
then we can get all the fertilizing properties of
the seed in these hulls, and can substitute our
grain crops wholly or in part, by the kernels as
food for our stock, what a vast treasure-house
is opened at our very doors.
In view of these facts, American cotton seed
aro now quoted in London at froiu $15 to $50
per ton in gold, which does not approximate
their value if these experiments, which aro ex
tensive, shall stand the test of the future. The
successful establishment of the foregoing will
place the invention of this machine ‘tecond in
importance only to that of the cotton gin, and
will give almost as great an impetus to the ma
terial prosperity of this country.—Eufaula
Times.
Affairs In Falmettodom.
A travelling New Yorker in Columbia sends
a bird’s eye view of matters in Son:h Carolina
to the New York World of tho 15th i.-.xt., from
which we take the following :
The Legislature of this State is now sitting in
Columbia, having in it seventy-five negroes,
being two-thirds of the whole number; the
other third is made np of adventurers from New
England, carpet-baggers, as they are called
here—put down as white in the catalogue, bnt
if their deeds are to mark their true color, they
are as black as the blackest.
You can well imagine how it chafes the citi
zen of the once proud State of South Carolina
to see seventy-five negroes, field hands, many
of them so ignorant they can neither write nor
read, making laws, under dictation of the Radi
cal party to govern their former master, and,
horribile dictu, occupying the same seats that
I have seen in other days, filled by Calhoun,
Lowndes, Pinckney, McDuffie, Harper, Preston,
Legare, Hayne, Hamilton, Chores, Butler,
Hammond, Fetigru, Earl, O’Neill, Ion, Deas,
and many others of well-remembered fame.
I must give you some idea of the dignified
maimer in which business is now occasionally
done in onr Legislature. The other day a cir
cus company visited Columbia. As is usual in
other places, it paraded through the streets on
the morning of the night fixed for the first per
formance. As the cavalcade approached the
State House, where “the assembled wisdom of
the State” were deliberating on the destiny of
tfcb Republic, one of the grave and reverend
seigniors, one of our noble and approved good
masters, hearing “the shrill tramp, the spirit-
stirring dram, the ear piercing fife,” oould not
restrain himself, so rising in us place, address
ed the Speaker thus (as a reporter states :)
“I say, de show is a coming. I moves dis
here resolution—dat dis honorable body moves
to the uinder to see de show pass.”
The motion was carried, of course, nemine
contradicente, aud the members of the Legisla
ture of the proud State of South Carolina, with
one oonsent, immediately moved to the windows
“to see de show pass!” Such a burlesque on
tho name of government as may daily be wit
nessed at this time in our State, the history of
the world can produce no parallel to.
Important Decision.
The Supreme Court at 'Washington has just
made a decision of interest to Southern post
masters who held office at the commencement
of the war. It is reported as follows:
United States vs. Keeler et aL, certificate of
division from the Circuit Court, for the district
of North Carolina. In this ease Keeler was
postmaster at Salem, North Corolina. On the
breaking oat of the war, and under Confeder
ate States authority, he paid over to one Clem
mons the moneys of the United States in his
possession, in payment of a claim due Clem
mons from the United States for postal servioe.
It being undisputed that the. Confederate au
thorities directed* his - aot as to moneys in the
hands of postmasters belonging to the United
States, and the Confederate Government had
sufficient power to enforce the law, the question
arose whether on his official bond the principal
and sureties were liable for the sum so paid to
Clemmons. On this qaestion the oourt below
was divided, and it was certified to this oourt
for answer. . Justice Miller-delivered the ogfo*
ion of the court on Monday, holding the defense
of irresistible foroe, compulsion, etc., relied
upon by the defendants, as not sound, because
such a consideration was not within the condi
tion of the bond, and that the defendants are
liable for the amount »
Thrilling Scene on a Tight R, T
An .English paper thus details a th* *
affair which occurred during one of Bln^ x
recent exhibitions: on *il
After he had crossed in a sack, stood
chair, and had done some minor feats j, I
found that the rope, which was a w'
had slackened so considerably that it A
be necessary to tighten it, in order to ajiT
his performing his new and extraordinamf
of crossing it on a bicycle, and he wastp
fore compelled to appeal to tho audiec^j
time to tighten the rope. Half an hour
asked for and cheerfully granted; but
the guy ropes had beeii loosened aA
rope tightened up, some difficulty was fl
in refixiug the pole to which the J
were attached, iu consequence of the *
sion of the rope having dragged *
forcibly out of the ground. Quite three.,-»
ters of an hour elapsed before this was i■’i
and then Blondinappeared again, andst.. ‘
from the west end of the building carrie?’
assistant over on his back. It was eT n ;
srom the lowering of some ballast bags oe f
guy poles, that during this passage A
the rope slackened a great deal, but B; •
either did not observe this or did not t]
important, for, after a short interval <
which he changed his dress, he an tlfM
on his bicycle, and amid the cheers ofi
spectators started on what seemed an
perilous journey. He had not gone
it became apparent from the decline cf^
rope that it had slackened very
people who understood the nature ofS
and the potability of propelling them r i
began to calculate the probabilities of ji,
ting np the incline he must inevitabl; E .' ‘
the other end of the rope, but Blonde-! \.
extremely cool and confident, and no il-',
his safety seemed to be entertained till a.
stopping cleverly about midway, he heal
traverse tho inclino. It then became u]
rent, from the gradual slacking cl - Lis.
that he was doing some hard work, and
murs began to rise from the audience.
When about twenty yards from the 1
stage he came to a dead stop and appemjl
rest, balancing himself cautiously with ar
pole he carried. He then made anoiher d
and got a few yards further, when he
again. It then became apparent
could not get further, as, although to fin
ger of disturbing his equilibrium, he ti
jerk the machine forward, it refused to-
The scene that then ensued was most ei"
People left their scats; ladies, withL
ened faces, made for the doors, andthfji
eral mass of the people at the east end of]
building made a rush to the west end, k
dreds jumping into the arena. Whgl
rush and noise had subsided, a martcl
stillness succeeded. The crowds on th?
beneath the rope and in the galleries a
the spot seemed to be hushed in eager J
tation of something unpleasant, gazing
with horror-stricken faces, on the peila
who sat motionless as a statue on theu
about six yards from the landing place.*
his assistant leaned over the stage a:'
peared to be speaking to him, but 1
hopeless in the emergency. After them
of two or three minutes, which searil
age, the assistant, evidently by Blondin'?}
rections, procured a rope, and this Le i
out cautiously. It fell on the perfc
shoulders, and he, with some difficult; h
tained tho pole with one hand, while mil
other he tied the rope round his wrist
assistant then gently pulled him in. li
move of the wheels was watched by theij
ence in silent horror till the machine nil
the landing stage, when the suppr&a.|
eitement culminated in one great shout al
succeeded by the wildest demonstration j
“Alkakangie.”
Washington Correspondent Chicago Trihvv I
Here is an instance of the wisdom el
right noble committee (Ways and Jleaiij
For several years there has appeared c
tariff list an article called alkakangic,:
tho name it was supposed to be some |
ful drug, and to it was uniformly atta
high duty. Many times when the pn
committee reached the word, it wassuci
to reduce the duty, but straightway the l r
tariff committeemen rose to tbeir feet ax j
nounced any attempt to interfere wi -
protection ot the valuable article.
“lledeucethe duty cn alkakangiefj
Mr. Kelly, “and is it thus that the wc:;
the Amo er-ek-e-an leaybereur are to hi
cueed? Is an inde-e-eus-te-re-y to be]
ruthlessly exposed to foreign ce-omped
I oppose the ame-end-ment of this dut. ]
ceafi eupon me beretheren of the kemc
[jeoin me.” I
Up rises Horace Maynard:
“1 move to raise the duties on alkal
from sixty to six hundred per cent!”
“Och! smithereens 1 bedadl huleh
eries Dionysius Dennis O’McCarthy, of:]
cu e, speaking the nicest Portuguese
“is me heart’s delight and the perride I
kenntry, alkakangie, to receive noprote-J
Shades of Blaimey and Onondaga fortiij
“I am compelled,” says Schenck, “tc|
against any reduction of the time-hod
duty on alkakangie. At this time, in partf
it requires our most delicate nurturing.'
Mr. Hooper puts his hand in his r "
coat-taii pocket, and says he:
“Alkakangie was regarded by Jame.'l
Samuel Adams, Cotton Mather, anUf
Ames as worthy of the fostering care c|
nation. Duty and tradition compel men
for its retention, but at this special ju»
do not feel called upon to say that it
more protection."
“Tho lumber forests of Michigan,
Austin Blair, “murmur through theiraj
cesses: protect our tenderest sister, tier
of our solitude, alkakangie 1" , !
Now a few months ago some obstioi-J
trader, coming to the name “alkar
erie.1 aloud:
“ W hat in the devil is alkakangie anv-
Deoes the genteilman neot kneow'-' I
Kelley.
“Here’s freshness 1’ says Austin Bk
“Bludanouns 1" cries McCarthy,” *
iver hear sich ignerince ?” ,|
“Alkakangie?” says Maynard, “neco*
ask the friends of our industry to <lescr.:j
But this implacable free trader sent ■-|
unabridged dictionary, and looking
through, he found no such w ord as aftff
He got no more instruction from a cjp!
He asked in vain of Dr. Ure’s dictio’J
Science and Arts. The faces of the
tee grew very long. Some one suggest*
any druggist’s apprentice could telL
So they sent to New York for a brs|
chemist and paid him mileage and pet c
and said he:
“It’s my belief that there s no such t
all the length and breadth of pharmacotl
Here the high tariff folks exhibited j
tions of collapse. : * } I
At last they raked oat of the gulf <
Government printing office an ancient I
reader, and asked nun to account ftfj
kangie. s I
He put on three pairs of spectacles]
green shade over his eyes, and took t
printed list
“Well 1” stud he, “this beats n*
Gineral Jackson, in whose administf
was appinted. Gentlemen, nineteen j
ago, a lot of quods, quoins, leads and o*|
that we used to ballast the tariff tbrtfj
riz up onexpected through the fat
the tariff list, and they aooidently sp
the word alkakangie. I a’pose that I
bin laying big duties on aUiakanp- j
since!” iJ
The old proofreader put his hand-1
hips, took off his spectates and laid
the floor of the Ways and Means Cg»1
and laughed and rotted for the space c-1
quarters of an hour. By the time he f
Kelljr had been round to the
printing office and got him discharge 0 - i
Prince Pierre Bonaparte has sot yet e
a lawyer to defend him. He is in * ,
ing mood, and looks forward to a*?
seclusion. His objection to the Supre*^]
of Justioe lies in the notion that theT
be composed of large land owners d
the empire, who wul sacrifloe him u
cousin, the Emperor.”
The New York Sun (Rad.) **7*
of the Republican party, to avert
its defeat in 1872, but its early <
and final ruin, is an entirely '
and a fresh set of leaden.”
