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I 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. a uaj edt a .lb t 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.”