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~ r . Y ■■ I The Greoracia "W'eeikly Tele2;ra/pli and. Journal & IVT'essenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, FEBRUARY 22, 1870. Thanks—To the Washington Literary Society of Washington College, Virginia, for an invita tion to attend their anniversary celebration on Tuesday the 22nd inst., and to the committee of the Demosthenian Society of Franklin Col lege at Athens, for a similar invitation on the 19th inst. . It would afford us much pleasure to be present at both, but other engagements forbid. Memorial of Hon. Howell Cobb. This is tho little of a very elegant volume from the pross of Lippincott, at Philadelphia, that has been laid on our desk by its editor, the Bev. S. Boykin. It embraces a bographical sketch, written by Gen. Wm. Browne; the proceedings of meet ings of citizens and members of the Bar at Ath ens and elsewhere; the action of the Supreme Court of the State, and of the United States Dis trict Court, with letters from Wm. Hope Hull, Dr. J. L. M. Curry, Judges Warner and Harris and ethers, and the funeral addresses of Drs. Key and Bentley, and Rev. Mr. Flynn. As a tribute to the great Georgian, it will, we are sure, be eagerly and gratefully accepted by the people of a State with whose history his own is so inseparably connected. It deserves, and W6 hope will have, a place in every Georgian’s household. The editor, Mr. Boykin, has done his work most faithfully, and deserves the highest credit for his labors. As a memento of one whose memory will be fragrant in the recollection of thousands of friends and admirers all over tho land so long as their life lasts, wo welcome it as Friendship’s offering. As a book, with the simple truth for its basis, and telling its story with all the elo quence of truth, we claim for it an honored place in the literature of the day. The Graphic. We have, from Messrs. Havens & Brown, a copy of this superb English illustrated weekly paper. It is, by all odds, the most admirable in every respect of all the illustrated papers published in London. As for those of this country, they are not even worth naming in con nection with it Printed upon smooth, thick, cream tinted paper, in type that it is a real lux ury to read, and with the very finest cuts we have ever seen, it must soon supersede all oth ers with refined, cultivated people. We notice that the New York illustrated papers regularly copy from two to four of its engravings every week. Graceful to Macon Compliment Lady. The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Saturday, pub lishes Mrs. Castlen’s poem, “Glorious Things are Spoken of Thee, O City of God,” which first appeared in the Telegraph and Messenger, with the following just and beautiful tribute to her genius, as a preface: “Chiquita” is the nom deplume of the gifted and accomplished Sirs. Castlen, of Macon, Geor gia, who belongs to one of the best families of that city, and who is a lady of great personal charms and of superior social graces. She is quite a young authoress, and for several years her poetic gems have adorned the pages of our popular literature, and have won golden opin ions from the lovers of the true, the beautif ul and good. That she has been endowed with shining talents, and fine poetic sensibilities, none can doubt; and it is equally evident that time and application must place her among the brightest stars in the American constellation of female poets. We believe, if her life is spared, that she is destined to be crowned with the splendid honors of the poet laureate of the Em pire State, and perhaps of the whole South. The following poem from her vigorous and polished pen abounds in the beautiful inspirations of po etic genius and pious sentiment, and is the sure presage of still more brilliant laurels to be plucked from the peerless heights of Parnassus. The Agency. Our special from Atlanta contains one piece of information that will please everybody—that relating to adjournment. If the time could be extended indefinitely, the public gratification would rise in proportion. For once in our lives we find ourselves agree ing with Turner and Bradley in preferring mili tary rule, to any such organisation and restora tion to the Union as the crowd at Atlanta will give us* They seem to fear the negro won’t have his “rights” under admission now. We are sure white men won’t, and therefore we say territory, too. Anyhow, an adjournment seems probable. It may be sad news to the Atlanta “hasheries,” but those who foot the bills will welcome the respite. Query.—The Atlanta New Era ’sums up tho oomplexion of the Georgia press as K. K. Dem ocrat and Bryant-Demoerat. To the Macor. Telegragh and Messenger it gives no designs tion at all. How i3 that ?—Constitutionalist. Because the Telegraph and Messenger is nei ther. Strange that so simple a solution of tbs mystery should not have occurred to you before asking the question.—Telegraph and Messen ger. How now, brother! Neither fish, fowl nor devil ? If the Telegraph and Messenger is nei ther Ku-KIux, Democratic or Bryant-Democrat ic, then pray solve tho mystery, and tell us what manner of thing it is. Democratic, we had hoped and believed.—Rome Courier. Et tu, Grady? Can’t you understand that the Telegraph and Messenger only denied that it was either K. K. or Bryant-Demoerat? And don’t its editorial columns tell you what it is ? Wake up! We make bold to say that the Rad ical rapers and raiders of Georgia will give yon any number of certificates that it is not -very Radical. “Ridicnlosity A mongrel word probably, derived from “Ri- diculity” by the superficial readers of tho “Con- 1 fessions of J. J. Rosseau”—tide volume 1, Ros- seau’s Confessions. T. P. L. Montezuma, February 13th. Sumnzb told a World correspondent who in terviewed him the other day, that in May last he was authorized by General Prim to sell Cuba ' to the Cnban Junta, but that the latter was un willing to pay the price demanded for the island. The Junta named one hundred millions of dol lars as the largest sum which the Cubans would be willing to-pay for their independence. “No State can be successfully governed, if at all, from the base of Washington” says Father Greeley, referring to Georgia. Exactly, just what all honest men down here say, but what Mr. Greeley’s friends all deny, and have estab lished. Jessie Benton Fremont speaks in this cruel j j way of one of the brothers-in-law of the admin istration : “Mr. Corbin, if he is a rather elder ly person named Abel Rathbone Corbin, was often at CoL Benton’s house, not as an amanu ensis, but, as Mr. Benton himself said to some one who objected to his Uriah Heep style of manner, “Every public man must have a ferret, and Corbin is mine.’" •eft Horrid.—A dispatch of the 10th, to the Nash- — 'Yille Banner, dated at Springfield, Tennessee, VMlJilff wf JGMjj’fcil'hT , At about five o clock this evening, our town was thrown into great excitement, caused by the accidental shooting and killing of Mrs. Ii. H. Bibb, by her cousin, Thomas Hockersmith, a lad of about fourteen. The boy is now a rav- ' ing maniac. Ho ran up the street from the Jspot, screaming and tearing his clothes from Situations In Georgia. We have an illustration of the business stag nation in the North and East, and the want of employment by men willing and anxious to la bor in the number of letters of inquiry about Georgia, which reach us from those sections. We have four before us this morning asking as many questions, nearly, as they contain lines,and most of them going to show that the writers con template merchandising on a small scale, or have an eye to some speculative operations— enterprises which we have no desire to encour age or multiply in the Southern country. There are abundance of shops, big and little, scattered all over the South and engaged in vend ing groceries and drygoods, and nothing will be gained by increasing their number. Generally, in our larger towns, there is, we suppose, an adequate supply of mechanics in all the ordi nary handicrafts. We often hear of tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, blacksmiths, and so on, needed in the smaller towns, and probably in most of them active, enterprising and accom plished tradesmen might do welL Scattered aronnd in the country itself, at or near the cross roads, there are, no donbt, many advantageous positions for millers, blacksmiths and wheel wrights, where they might improve their condi tions and lead comfortable and comparatively easy lives, especially by connecting with their operations thj tillage of a small tract of land. The fact is, there is scarcely any point in the South where an industrious mechanic and labor ing man could not realize a comfortable sub sistence from his labor, and do a good deal bet ter with the exercise of an ordinary amount of that energy, shiftiness and thrift which charac terize the American workingmen as a class. Bnt it is not to mechanics, clerks and small traders with little or no capital, that the South now offers many and good situations and ad vantages. The places for these classes must multiply, increase and improve under a natural and steady development of wealth and progress. The Southern farmer mnst first produce a sur plus capital from the soil, which, seeking an in vestment in domestic manufactures and trade shall furnish employment and salaries to accom plished clerks and mechanics of all kinds. The people will naturally devote their surplus earn ings to the production of those manufactured articles which will enjoy a double bounty from the saving of freight both ways. For example: if it is not clear, it ought to be, that a sensible people, with money in their hands, will not long ship timber North and have it made np into tubs, buckets, wagons and plantation utensils generally, and then shipped again Sontb, and sold to them wilh the expense of two costly freights added to the cost of manufacture. But all this and other classes of manufactures are yet to be the naturiil outgrowth of a sound economy from a condition of pecuniary ease yet to bo developed by a gainful agriculture. The South offers no “situations” worth talk ing about outside of her agricultural fields. In these,' if any man will work with energy and sagacity, he may glean a crop worth from fifty to two hundred dollars to the acre, from land which cost him five dollars or less to the acre. If any young man of pluck can rent or buy a hundred acres of these'lands, a mule and plough, and subsist himself while growing a crop, he should be able with his own labor to produce with ease a market crop worth five to seven hundred dollars, and breadstuffs id abun dance for his own necessities. His road to pe cuniary ease and independence is straight and open with such an acquisition, and just here is where Georgia offers innumerable “first-class situations.” Now, as to the prices of land, climate, pro ductions, etc., about which inquiries are made, let those who ask these questions take a map and look at Georgia—extending from latitude 35 down South 300 miles, and embracing fifty- seven thousand square miles of territory. Here is almost every variety of climate, soil, produc tion and temperature. You may have anything you want; and as to the price of lands the whole bulk of them aro cheaper on an average than government land at §1 23 per acre, if you count clearing and improvements at anything like their actual value. The Wars or tlie Amazons. It seems the wars of the Amazons are to be revived in a fight over the Sixteenth Amend ment of the Constitution of the United States. Lucy Stone, Sweet Lucy Stone, has just scintil lated a lightning flash of eloquence at Chicago, demanding a Sixteenth Amendment of the Con stitution, extending the right of suffrage to women. Electrified by her eloquence the Con vention roso as one woman, and unanimously demanded the Amendment. Meanwhile, Mrs. Gen. Sherman, like a good lady whose domesticity smacks of the unrelent ing sternness of the thirty-nine articles of war, has taken up the gauntlet and boldly confronts our dear Lucy upon tho main question. Mrs. Sherman says the women do not want, and will not accept the suffrage, and it is now high time for them to say so and put a stop to Lucy’s nonsense. Lucy’s eyes flash fire at the insinuation, and wo have read her remonstrance with tears in our eyes. Mrs. Livermore, too, makes some adroit allusions to the cunning craftiness of the men, who dress up political authority in feminine ha biliments—who make Liberty herself a woman, and monnt her upon tho dome of the Capitol— a fair specimen of a likely negro wench—who stamp her on the coins when there are any about, and speak of the State and National governments as “she,” and yet basely deny the first function of political authority to women. Just like the deceitful creatures. But thank God, says the lovely Livermore tho men have still this much of grace left—that when they stamp these base rag representatives of coin called treasury notes or shinplasters, they dare not put a figure of a woman upon them. They print them with Lincoln's head—or some thing of the sort. The women they reserve for coin and solid metaL Ah, Livermore, they have put the figure head of a cross, ugly, old witch even on the new ten cent, shinplasters, and this insult to the sex made us a woman’s right advocate at once. The sex has never yet received such a blow, since nigger suffrage, as when they put the old witch’s head on the ten cent, shinplaster and called her the Goddess of Liberty. On the whole, signs aro alarming. We shall await the onslaught anxiously. his person. This is the mostshockiiig1tccnr-.fi rence that- has over happened in our town. A Cinc'nnati man, with a wholesome horror of trichina-, whenever he slaughters pork sends a piece to a neighbor. He then watches the re sult, and if the neighbor survives, revels there after in fatness. A Big Railroad Swindle in Florida.— A Washington special to the Herald says the car pet-bag legislators of Florida have just passed a bill to aid a railroad in that State in the shape of an eight per cent. State bond to the amount of about five million dollars. Nearly all the bonds are to be delivered before any expendi tures are made on the road in way of construct ing it. It is stated that ’the parties having this railroad project in charge obtained in tho same manner some six million dollars in bonds from the State of North Carolina, with the promise that they would build a road in that State, thus far the promise has not been redeemed. A clergyman in Grundy county, Iowa, objects to the-practice prevalent among his flock of- holding meetings and charging a quarter to kiss the girls, to raise the money to pay his salary. There are some grumblers who are never satis- • • Warranted to Bnn Five Tears. Ames, the bayonet-elected Senator from the so-called State of Mississippi, assured the Presi dent that he had so swindled and bullied the people, and manipulated the officers of the State, that she would be Radical at least five years. He had wound up the clock, was his boast, and it was bound to tick Radical for that period. This is Ames’ calculation. We have heard of bet ter laid plans of “mice and men” getting upset, and we are not without hope that this one will be smashed in much less than five years. But the important point in the statement is Ames’ frank confession of his lack of faith in the negro’s sticking to the Radical party longer than that time. His party organs are much exer cised over it. They were hugging the belief that Radicalism was to rule, and riot, and fatten for ever on Southern spoils,by the aid of negro votes —that Coffee was glued to the party for good and all, and that nothing more was necessary down here than to enter in and enjoy their re ward. To these Ames’ statement is like the apples of Sodom. They spit it ont with • all manner of grimace and disgust. Let them howl. Sweeter musio could not be sounded for Southern ears. When the day comes that we send an unbroken delegation of hon est men from the Sonth who shall hate and loathe radicalism and all its works and ways, then the cap stone of oar trinmph will have been firmly laid, indeed. If Ames lives five years, we think he will find events rapidly crys- talizing his rather doleful prediction into a glorious and retributive reality. Commenting upon Ames’ statement, the St. Louis Democrat (Radical,) evidently disgusted and disheartened, says: Truly, if that is the only security for her loy alty, wo may as well call reconstruction a farce. We do not know whether members of Congress who voted for negro suffrage had any clear idea what they were trying to do or not. But we know that we advocated that policy of recon struction, because we-badfaith tbatif the whole people were admitted to vote in the long run the rights of the whole people would be better protected, and the States would grow up more rapidly into genuine loyalty than could be ex pected under any other policy. We have some lingering notion of that sort still, and are a little amazed to see that so many Republicans in Congress have apparently concluded that the negro suffrage policy was a failure and a blun der, and cannot be relied upon for any good re sult. Mississippi will come in, and Revels (colored) will sit in the seat of J. Davis. But if General Ames is right, and if General Butler is right, all the conditions in the world will not accom plish that change which Congress expected to accomplish by the simple enfranchisement of the loyal blacks. RIcketly Legislatures in the Sonth. The reconstructed Legislatures in the South are not a source of pride to tho Republican party. Ben Butler himself conld not look upon them and say truly in his benevolent way, “Bless ye, my children.” Greeley no doubt execrates and curses them in his heart of hearts, while Sumner alone, whose heart de lights in war and strife, may be able to look on with inward satisfaction. The Louisiana Legis lature is engaged, it would seem, in a general game of grab. The Governor, from bis own statement, seems to be tho only honest public official in the State, and he i3 so unexceptionally honest that he refused one hundred thousand dollars in bribes merely for signing bills. The dusky members, besides, have licensed all sorts of Sunday games, of which Southern darkies are so fond, until it is reported that the princi- pal streets of New Orleans are luminous wilh signs of “Faro, Keno, &o., Played Here.” In the Florida Legislature the little game of impeachment has been played again, the Gov ernor being the party on trial. He was acquitted but he telegraphed immediately to his represen tative in Congress to say that all the federal Radical office-holders worked solidly against him. The Alabama Legislature, with a heavy carpet-bag majority, has been quarrelling with the Governor over the proper mode of spelling; the North Carolina Legislature anti her Gov ernor an Auditor, between them, have placed the credit of the State in danger ; Mississippi threatens to put the Senatorial Radicals in a dilemma by sending a colored member to the United States Senate; the Arkansas Legisla ture and Governor Clayton had to carry on a guerilla warfare for months before they could secure their positions, and Georgia—well, when we speak of Georgia even Philosopher Greeley’s capacity for swearing fails to do justice to the subject. This is a very poor showing for four years of reconstruction. The system pursued by the rad icals aimed especially at bringing the States back so thoroughly republican that they would never give us any more democratic trouble. But even this has not succeeded. The States are only re publican for the moment. The present Legis latures are enough to blot out all the republican ism in the South, and the radical leaders in Con gress seem to know it, for they have tried to patch Virginia together so as to be sure of her, and are still trying to patch Mississippi in the same way. In fact, the whole reconstruction system has resulted in a thing of shreds and patches that the radicals cannot trust. They fear that Reed, of Florida, is a broken reed; that the radicalism of Smith, of Alabama, is mythical; that Holden, of North Carolina, does not feel much beholden to the party; that Bul lock, of Georgia, is likely to gore his own friends, and that Warmoutb, of Louisiana, like Dawes, is talking too much out of school.—JV. Y. llerald. ^ Diet-Eating on a Big Scale.—Under Butler’s bill, providing for a general removal of political disabilities, “repentant rebels” have to got down very flat npon their bellies, and eat most vora ciously of dirt. First, they must tell where they live and all about themselves, and what particular “crime” they were guilty of as rebels, winding up with a most piteous asseveration that they never will do so again. Then they are required to “pray” to be restored to all their rights, and all they have lost by their “wrongful conduct.” Then a notice must be published in tho papers that on such a day they will be heard on their peti tion, and have their own donbtfnl veracity bol- stored by witnesses, if they have any. Then, if they moke out their case and prove -them selves worthy of Radical mercy, publication of the fact is made, and they stand forth “re deemed, regenerated, disenthralled” and free— to vote the Radical ticket Does the picture please those who are hungering and thirsting af ter a lick at the Radical spoils pot ? We know a simpler road to grace than this. Let them prove themselves ready to wallow in moral and political filth withont a wink or a heave, and they will need no petition or pnblio whitewashing. They will have then shown them selves imbued with the genuine spirit and wor thy the highest honors of Radicalism. In'many parts of Illinois the winter wheat is represented to be almost entirely killed ont py tho alternate freezing and thawing which have characterized the winter. Undeb the will of the late Gen. Wool, of the Federal army, Gen. Hardee gets $2000. Mb. Hudson, of Napoleon, Ohio, has delivered two lectures in that place on “Bugs,” and ‘Hash.” Of’the lecture on “Bugs” the local paper says: “It was commendable in matter, full of love to God and man, and was calculated to make those who heard it better Christians and better citizens. Sumner on Cuba. A World correspondent has an interview with Senator Sumner, and obtains hi3 views on the topic of the recognition of Cuban beligerency. The Senator is strongly opposed to the recogni tion as the case now stands, and gives as one reason, that it would instantly involve ns in a war with Spain, and as a consequence, n finan cial 'crisis would ensue that would shake the pillars of the government to their very founda tion ; besides he is not sure as to which would come ont first best in the event of a contest be tween, the United States and Spain.. Mr. Sum ner believes, however, that both Cuba and Can ada will'be peaceably annexed to the Union within ten years, and that we shall also absorb Mexico, the West Indies and the whole North American continent. ' We have the moral right not only to this continent, but to the whole of this hemisphere, and shall acquire both. A Hit—A Palpable Hit.—All of the Senators, except two, from the reconstructed States voted for-the rejection of President Grant's appointment of Judge Hoar as one of the Justices of the U nited States. Proceedings or tbe Executive Com mittee of the State Agricultural So ciety. - From the Constitution, 12tft.) Atlanta, February 10^ 1870. Agreeably to the call of the President of the Georgia State Agricultural Society, the follow ing members of the Executive Committee met in the City Hall: Hon. B. O. Yancey, Presi dent of the Society and ex-officio Chairman of the Executive Committee; "Vice-Presidents, O. W. Howard, Schley, Capers, Barrow; ex-officio members of the committee from first district, Dr. J. T. Chappal; second district, J. B. Burke and A. H. Colquitt; third district, James H. Fannin; fourth district, George S. Obear, E. Steadman, L. J. Lovington; fifth district, B. H. True, T. J. Smith: sixth district, James S. Hamilton, John N. Montgomery; seventh dis trict, E. E. Rawson, John H. Fitten. On motion of Mr. C. W. Howard a commit tee consisting of Messrs. Howard, Colquitt and Schley, were appointed by the President to con fer with tho City Council of Atlanta in relation to arrangements for tho Fair of 1870. On motion of CoL Capers, a committee was appointed to audit accounts of the Secretaiy and Treasurer for last year and to tho present timo, and also to audit all claims against the Society. Messrs. Capers, Obear, Rawson, Col quitt and Steadman are the committee. On motion of Mr. Howard, all essays on re claimed land not reported upon at the fair were referred to the Committee on essays appointed at the fair for report, General Crown and Mr. Howard. On motion of Dr. Hamilton, a communication from the Rot. Mr. Quig, in relation to an essay on the policy planters should adopt to protect themselves against the combination of specula tors and capitalists, was referred to a committee consisting of Messrs. Colquitt, Livingston and Chappel. The President read a letter from Dr. O. H. Culver, in relation to claims of Dent & Co. for services in procuring the use of the laboratory buildings for holding the fair of 13C9. It was referredto the following committee: Mr. Brown, Chairmm; True, Livingston, Barrow, and Schley. The following gentlemen were appointed a committee to revise tho premium list: Fitten, Chairman; Farmer, Howard, Steadman and Montgomery. The report of the committee to confer with the Mayor and Council made a report, which was received and laid over till 7 o’clock to-night. The committee then adjourned to visit the gronnd purchased for holdingthe fail;, two milas from the city, on the Stat#Road. The committee adjourned to inspect the fair ground, and reassembled at the City Hall, at 7 o’clock, p. ic. > v In the absence of Secretary Lewis, Major B. H. True was elected Secretary, pro tem. The following resolutions were adopted: 1. That the Local or City Committee are re quired to provide suitable grounds, the number of acres to be decided upon hereafter by the Executive Committee. 2. To provide two hundred stalls for horses, eight by twelve feet, and the stalls to be pro vided with mangers and doors with hasps and staples. 3. To provide one hundred cattle stalls, 8 by 10 feet, with racks and troughs—all the stalls for horses and cattle Jo be covered and num bered with large figures. 4. To provide fifty sheep pens, C by 10 feet, covered and provided with racks and troughs. To provide seventy-five pens for hogs, 10 by 10 feet, covered with troughs. G. To provide an ample supply of water for stock and machinery, with pumps. 7. To provide a half mile track. 8. To provide a fine art hall, 30 by 125 feet; a fruit, floral and vegetable hall, 30 by 125 feet; a mechanical hall, two stories high, 40 by 120 feet 9. To provide a treasurer's office on tho grounds near the main entrances, on the line of fence, 40 by 20 feet. 10. To provide a secretary’s office within the grounds, 20 by 40 feet, with shingle roof, good floor, doors and windows, with proper fasten ings, furnished with desks, chairs, tables, etc., and so arranged that a part thereof may be oc cupied by the Executive committee for the transaction of business; also an audience hall, 40 by 120 feet, in which to make the pnnual ad dresses, hold the meetings of the society, award the premian>3, and for such other business as may be designated by tho committee. 11. To provide a judge’s stand after a plan to be submitted—an octagon, not less than feet in diameter, and two stories high. 12. To provide an amphitheatre capable of seating 5,000 people, and to be covered^ 13. To provide a ladies’ saloon 1C by 40 feet, furnished with combs, towels, brushes, soap, wash-bowls, mirrors, tables and chairs, and have in attendance a female. 14. To provide a gentleman’s saloon, IGby 40 feet. 15. To provide stout railing aronnd the track, and on both sides of the carriage-way. 1C. The buildings and fences to be white washed inside nnd out, and all tho walks and buildings not floored, to be covered with saw dust; the officer’s and ladies’ saloon to be fur nished with stores, and, if necessary, keep and preserve the track in good order. 17. To erect on the grounds two suitable eat ing houses provided with necessary arrange ments for eating. 18. To erect a forage house, 40 by 20 feet, with 15 feet posts; also, to erect a proper cov ered shed, 40 by CO feet, for the display of car riages. 19. To furnish $3,000 in cash, on or before the 1st day of August next, to be appropriated for tho premium list. On motion of Col. Capers— Resolved, That the committee to audit claims be instructed to inquire and recommend what compensation or salary shall be allowed our Treasurer. Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to inform all persons exhibitors at the fair of 1870, whose articles are left in the care of the Secre tary, withont the payment of freight, that un less the expenses of freight and storage be paid within sixty days after notice, that the articles be sold to defray the charges aforesaid. Resolved, That the Treasurer be required to give bond with two securities, in the sum of §10,000; and that a committee be appointed to devise a system of checks by which it may at all times be ascertained what amount of money has passed into his hands. Messrs. Capers, Smith and Rawson were appointed the commit tee. Messrs. True, Obear and Chappel were ap pointed to report new business for tho action of the Executive Committee. On motion. Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to have diplomas prepared to be distributed to persons to whom the same were awarded; also medals in bronze. On motion of Mr. True. Resolved, That the next fair be held in or near this city, opening on Wednesday, the 19th October, and continuing until Wednesday, the 27th. On motion of Mr. Livingstone, Resolved, That the city be required to have the buildings and grounds ready by the 1st day of October, to be delivered to the society. Resolved, That the regulations of manage ment of the next fair be referred to the com' mittee on the revision of the premium list. Adjourned to meet in their hall after the in spection of fair gronnd to-morrow. The Tbeasury Cotton Cases—When did the Wab Close ?—A number of these cases from the Court of Claims are now on argument be fore the United States Supreme Court, among which is that of the United States vs. Henry Grossmeyer, which was the first case tried be fore the Court of Claims, and raises tho most important questions. The Court of Claims found Grossmeyer to have been loyal during the war, and to have been entitled to forty-eight bales of cotton in payment of a debt due before the war, and which had been stored for his use at Savannah, Ga. The cotton was seized by General Sherman's army, and was sent to Now York and sold, and the proceeds, about §8,000, were paid into the Treasury. Suit was brought to recover the amount, and the main question was whether the suit had been brought within two years after the close of the war. This question rendered it necessary to determine when the war closed. The Court of .Claims held that the determination of that ques tion belonged to the political department of the government, and that its decision was conclu sive upon the courts. It also found that by the decision of this department it closed on .the 20th of August, 18GG, upon the President’s pro- dajnation to that effoct, and that Congress had recognized that fact by the act of March 2,1867-- From: this judgment in favor bf tho claimant appeal was taken to this court.— Washington Republican. An Indian girl, attending a private paity, excused herself when asked to sing, Baying: “You must excuse me, for I never attempt to sing, except to warble a few wild notes for pa at eventide.” Tbe Conservative Georgia Republi cans at Washington. Bollock Charged with Falsehood and Fraud—Interviews with Grant and Sher man. Special to the Ricltmond Dispatch.] Washington, February 9, 1870. geobqia—governor bullock charged with HAVING MTCT.ro CONGRESS. A delegation of Georgians, olaiming to be Republicans, but opposed to Governor Bullock’s policy, were for a long time before the Senate Judiciary Committee to-day. Governor Bul lock and the delegation were also present. Hon. J. H. Caldwell and Colonel Biyant made state ments setting forth that they were not there as partisans, bnt came to make an appeal in be half of the people of Georgia and trust to Con gress for the remedy. That Georgia had in good faith carried ont the Reconstruction Acts up to the time the negro members were ex pelled. That prior to that time no question as to the legality of the Legislature or of any of its acts had been raised, bnt, on the contrary, its validity had been acknowledged by General Meade, Governor Bollock, General Grant, and even Congress in the admission of representa tives to seats. That during this time nearly all the officers of bothHouses elected were Republi cans. That the election of Mr. Miller for the short term in the Senate was a clear majority, even counting off all who voted for him and have since been declared ineligible. That they (the gentlemen here) had deprecated the expul sion of the negro members, andhad pronounced the act unconstitutional and unjust That many of Governor Bollock’s party had voted for the expulsion of the negroes; nevertheless, Gov. Bullock had made this the occasion for an ap peal to Congress in order to confer npon himl self unusual powers, and failing to get such au thority as he sought, he assumed additiona- powers and had now come to get those powers confirmed by Congress. That Bullock assnred the United States Senators and State officers and judiciary that they should all be re-elected and reappointed. That official terms were to be extended two years longer than was intended at the election in April, 18G8. That the Gover nor’s party had used this act as an inducement among members of the Legislature, who are paid nine dollars per diem, in order to get them to support his policy. The delegation recited seventeen alleged flagrant violations of the late act of Congress. After tiffs statement had been made, Gov. Bullock was searchingly examined by the com mittee, especially by Messrs. Conkling and Ed munds who charged Gov. Bullock with having deceived and misled Congress when here last upon material points. Bullock at first denied that he had made the representations charged upon him, bnt the mem bers of the committee insisted that he did make the representations which had reference to un seating the negro members and filling their places. Gov. Bullock and his delegation are to be heard at the next meeting of the committee. THE GEORGIA DELEGATION VISIT THE PRESIDENT. Mr. Hill, Senator elect from Georgia, and a delegation of the Georgia Legislature had an interview with the President to-day. Messrs, J. B. Caldwell, A. J. Williams, C. K. Osgood, and J. E. Bryant (of the Legislature), N. S. An- S er (State Treasurer), and Colonel John Bowles colonel of a colored regiment during tho war), were the delegation. All these gentlemen claim to be thorough Republicans, and as such paid their respects to the President. Messrs. Hill nnd Caldwell stated that false and erroneous impressions in relation to the state of affairs in Georgia had been given to the Executive and Congress by designing per sons, and that they had come to correct some of these statements. Mr. Hill said he was a Re publican, had voted for General Grant, and yet he had been represented as a rebel. Mr. Cald well said that Mr. Bryant and himself had made statements of the entire case of Georgia before the Judiciary Committee this morning, and asked the President if he would be pleased to read them when published in pamphlet form, as they would be in a day or two. The President answered the remarks of the gentlemen in a random conversational way, say ing he had not expressed any opinion on the senatorial question in Georgia, and that he did not intend to interfere in the matter. He thought Congress was able to attend to that matter. It was thsir especial business, and not that of the President. He again denied the newspaper statement sent off by Bollock night before last, that he had given his opinion that the Senators should be elected over again. He invited the gentlemen to come and see him again before they returned to Georgia ; and turning to Mr. Hill, said laughingly, “I expect to seo you very often,” which is understood to mean that he expected Hill to be seated. THEY VISIT GENERAL SHERMAN. The delegation withdrew and paid a visit to Gen. Sherman at his headquarters. The Gen eral received them warmly, and expressed de light when informed of their interview with the President and what he said. Gen. Sherman reiterated tho opinion which he gave some weeks since, that the present elected Senators shonld be admitted; and when told that Senator Conkling, in the Judiciary Committee this morning, gave Gov. Bullock au open rebuke, saying to him, “Yon have deceived us in refer ence to some of the affairs in Georgia,” Gen. Sherman laughed very heartily. It is proposed to elect Senators next Tuesday. If such be tho case, Messrs. Hill and Miller, the present Senators elect, announce their intention of contesting the matter before the United States Senate. Supreme Court Proceedings. Friday, February 11, 1870. Argument in No. 15, Flint Circuit, Ruff, Sim mons & Co., et al., vs. Wm. M. Johnston, Trus tee, homestead and appeal, from the Court of Ordinary, Monroe county, was resumed and concluded. Messrs. A. D. Hammond and Jas. S. Pinck- ard, for plaintiff in error, and CoL R. P. Trippe, for defendant in error. rending argument in No. 16, Flint Circuit, Rhodes vs. Gallandet, et al., Equity from Mon roe, the Court adjourned. Saturday, February 12, 1870. Argument in No. 16, Flint Circuit, Rhodes vs. Gallaudett, et. aL, Equity from Monroe, was resumed and concluded. Messrs. A. D. Ham mond and James S. Pinkard for plaintiff in er ror, and Messrs. Cabaniss and Peeples for de fendants in error. No. 17, Flint Circuit, Steadman vs. Simmons, complaint from Newton, was argued for plain tiff in error by CoL W. W. Clark, and for de fendant in error by Col. James R. Simmons. No. 18, Flint Circuit, Horton vs. Clark, exe cutor, illegality, from Newton, was argued for plaintiff Jn error by CoL R. L. Mynatt. CoL W. W. Clark, without argument, asked the Court in behalf of defendant in error to award dam ages in this case. Pending argument in No. 1, Tallapoosa Cir cuit, the Court adjourned till Tuesday next [Era, 13th. New York Parsons Fighting the Devil On his own Ground. A New York special of the 9th, to the Courier- Journal says: •. This has been a great day among the city missonaries. At two o’clock this after-noon the first prayer meeting was held in Kit Bums’ rat pit, on Water street, in the presence of a large number ol fallen women, pickpockets, thieves, and sailors, with a sprinkling of honest and pious people. The place was dedicated by Bishop Jones, in the front room, which was formerly occupied as a bar, where poisonous liquors were dispensed for years to thousands of hardened criminals, and where Burns kept his favorite dogs. The deoanters and casks have given place to neat settees and tables, nnd the pictures of noted prize-fighters and fighting dogs, whioh once adorned the walls, have been removed, leaving nothing bnt its reputation to designate the previous character of the place. The entire place has been changed into a home for fallen women, and already six girls who promise to reform occupy rooms in the es tablishment. Daily prayer meetings are to be held at noon. Kit Burns says he will let these people stay there just so long as they pay the rent. If they don’t,. Ijie’ll put the whole erew out in less than so time. . He still rnns a liquor saloon next door, and in order to reach the plat form the ministers and others were obliged to pass through his place much to the edification of his assembled guests. Here the most blas phemous language was indulged. in; and it is quite possible that Kit’s conversion is as far off AMratakneKaifT— pi *- trv ,."... f a Salt Lake papers contain letters from Mor mon missionaries “laboring” in Massachusetts. One of them says lie has converted a large num ber, and will bring them to Utah in the spring. The World quotes cadetships in West Point from the Sonth at two to fonr thousand dollar^ and rising. Demand is improving. The Virginia and Tennessee Air-Line It is asserted on good authority that arrange ments are about being perfected by which through freight cars wilt run regularly from At lanta to Norfolk, thus offering inducements to merchants and shippers, which no other line ean offer. Thus cars will run over what is known as the great freight line via the Tennessee and Vir ginia route, and it inclndes, as one important link, the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which is the property of the people of Georgia and from which the State derives an immense annual rev enue, greatly lessening the taxes upon the people. Hence it is natural that the Era should support any movement that promises to increase the business of this road.—Atlanta Era, ] 3th. “Immense annual revenue, greatly lessening the taxes of the people!” Here’s “richness” indeed. Has the man who penned that para graph been reading A. Ward’s books lately ? Such “sarkasm” would have delighted that la mented joker. The declaration in the last sen tence of the paragraph we are persuaded is not “sarkasm,” however. That’s meant, every word of it. The road and the organ are very useful, not exactly to each other, bnt the first to the latter. “Hence it is natural" that the latter shonld rejoice to see the first make money. But no more of that “immense annual revenue lessening the taxes of the people,” if you please. Such jokes are too good to be told often. They lose flavor by repetition. If the organ represented anybody but the wicked, greedy faction that is ruining and plun dering the State, we would ask where this ‘im mense annual revenue” has been hiding ever since September last ? What taxes have been “lessened” for the months of October, Novem ber, December and January—four of the heav iest business months of the year ? The Republican Storm Which is Brewing. From the New York Sun, 10th. Three events have just occurred in Wash ington which show how thoroughly the admin istration is demoralized, and how widely the Republicans in Congress are divided on impor tant questions. Wc refer to the decision of the Supreme Court on tho Legal Tender act, the feeling in the Senate on Gen. Grant’s nomination of Judge Strong and Mr. Bradley to fill the vacancies in that Court, and the vote in the House on Mr. Marshall’s resolu tions against a protective tariff. Of the seven Judges who pronounced upon the Legal Tender act, five were appointed by Mr. Lincoln, and when they were elevated to the bench they were believed to be thorough Republicans, and fully in accord with that party on all the financial measures arising out of the war, prominent among which stood the act now called in question. But when this measure is brought to the bar of the Court, two of these Judges take one view of its fun damental and vital provisions, and three take another and totally different view. And we have no doubt that their discordant opinions reflect the sentiments which the Republicans entertain on the same subject. They differ as widely as the five Judges. The nomination by the President of Messrs. Strong and Bradley has brought out, and will probably yet develop in a more marked de gree, the hostile feeling which exists between Gen. Grant and the Senate. This hostility is largely due to the refusal of the Senate to unite with the House in the repeal of the Tenure-of-Office act,.a measure upon which Gen. Grant had set his heart ere he took the Presidential oath. The Senate will seize every opportunity afforded by unfortunate nominations, like those of Messrs. Strong and Bradley, to prove to Gen. Grant that they in tend to keep the check upon him which the Tenure act has put in their hands. Of course, he will grow restive under this; but it will avail nothing except to intensify the hostility between the Executive and Senate. Perhaps, however, the vote of the House on Mr. Marshall’s resolutions brings more prominently into view the wide differences of opinion in the Republican ranks on the issues of the future than either of the other matters we have mentioned. The resolutions aimed a blow at the long-cherished tariff policy of the party. This is one of the main issues on which sanguine members of the party were relying to rally its forces, now that the great contro versies growing out of the war are passing away. And yet, on the question of tabling these resolutions, thirty Republicans from the West voted with forty-seven Democrats against this indirect and evasive mode of dis posing of this vital matter; and among these thirty were such leading names as Allison, Judd, Lawrence, Julian, Benjamin, and In- gersoll, who doubtless truly reflect the opin ions of the Western Republicans on 'he sub ject of protection. The resolutions were sent to the table by only twelve majority. J f a di rect vote could have been obtained, at least ten more Republicans would have taken sides with the Democrats, and Mr. Marshall's reso lutions in favor of a purely revenue tariff would have been adopted. These gales are forerunners of the storm which is sure to shipwreck the Republican party ere the next Presidential eltc'ion, unless it promptly drives from the helm the incom petent and inexperienced pilots who now un dertake to direct its affabrs. Dry Goods. The transactions of the last week have not yet been on a large scale in domestic fabrics; but prices have been well maintained, and the tendency has been toward higher rates in standard cottons, greatly to the relief of some purchasers who had laid in a heavy stock in anticipation of a rise. In bleached sheetings and shirtings the business has improved moderately, and stan dard makes have advanced about one-half cent a yard, and are firmly held at the advance. Bleached shirtings and sheetings are less active than brown goods; prices are barely steady, but an advance is looked for as the sea son opens. New York Mills aro selling at 22£cents; Manvilll00at20; NewmarketW, 17 cents; do. C. 14}; Howe Man. Col5£ less 5 per cent. Denims and cottonades are rather more ac tive, and prices may he quoted at an advance on last week’s sales at about 1 cent a yard. Amoskeag denims are held by manufactu rers’ agents at 29 cents; New York Mills at 30 cents; Lewiston brown do. 2S cents; Oak- lank brown B, 17. _ Printing cloths in the gray are compara tively inactive, sales being confined chiefly to the requirements of printers for immediate use. Eight cents is about tho top of the mar ket for 64 standard quality. The demand for ginghams has been more spirited, and the early sales have pretty well cleaned out the supply from first hands. Lan casters are quoted at 17 cents, Everetts at 17 cents, Glasgow 16 cents, Caledonians, 14 cents. Printed lawns and percales are in good sup ply, but the season is rather too early for a good demand. The new styles are generally satisfactory, but the sales are too small yet to establish prices firmly. There is an increasing demand for muslin de laines, and the new spring styles attract much attention, Seasonable woolens are doing better, and there is an increased demand tor black cloths for the spring trade. _ Cassimeres and satinets are in moderate de mand only. Fancy cassimeres and fine grades are selling fairly, and the market is dull for the lower grades. Kentucky jeans are dull, and prices afe merely nominal. Richmond jeans are quoted at 324 cents. . ; - Flannels are- without change, the demand being confined to orders to keep up assort ments. 1» H -.inoq -(lift j 0l , Jjnictffi j e American linens are steady. Stock Com- lany’s unbleached crash is quoted at 15 cents or 16-ineh and 17 cents for 20-inch. United States Flax Company’s crash is held at 11 and 12 cents; 4.months, for narrow ;'and 12, 13 for wide brown and bleached. The transactions in foreign dry goods are thus far on a limited scale. _ The market is very abundantly supplied, and importers are antic ipating a lively spriug business; but jobbers purchase sparingly and mth great caution, tothnaMa od am O' {Al Y. Independent.; Jesse Young, while at work in a stone quarfy in Hanover, Michigan, a few days ago, was crushed flat by a stone weighing 'three tons. This happened just after he had said “there was no danger.” The Effect or the Supreme Court, dslon. The following is a statement of the t ing obligations of the several States, conu prior to the operations of the Legal Tended and which, therefore, came under the * zance of the conclusions of the Court: OUTSTANDING DEBTS, CONTRACTED PRIOR jq j- Pengylvania * New York (lees sinking fund) about. 14 'wj Louisiana (exclusive of Consolidated Bank and Citizens’ Bank loans).. .*.. -i«. : Massachusetts . .rAL North Carolina W". .. Vermont ..." *•*? 6211. 10.1$! 5a jyl Ohio Maryland New Hampshire Indiana, about. Georgia..... Iowa New Jersey Missouri Illinois ,'j Yii Bhode Island .. Michigan (including school fund)5 Connecticut " Tennessee Railroad §20,153,666 State proper 3,343,000 Kentucky 777TTTT ’ Kansas " ^ Virginia "' South Carolina (about) ' f’?™' Alabama l '' *1*0,1 Total. We append the remarks of the Commercial Advertiser upon the foreeoim,. v o&before-the-war debt: *** tal < “It will then be seen that §185 000 Wo State obligations, the interest on which s 1 1862, has been paid almost exclusively in, rency (except the suspended States,) novp' come payable, both interest and princiDaL coin. With gold at its present price ft;, equivalent to an addition of about 20 peril' to the debt of the States, as hitherto estimi- The decision of the court appears to convert’ conclusion that no issues of legal-tendcrs v' state of peace, are constitutional, which A courages any speculative hopes of a furthe< flatten of the greenback circulation. It ^ * to question whether the decision may not a* the constitutionality of the proposed furthe-t I sues of bank circulation. National bank tn ■ are now a legal tender to the banks, bet»» ; the banks, and (with certain limitations) tciJ from the government It would seem thy. new issues of national currency can pi these partial legal-tender functions; the ... ence being based npon the same grounds hibit the issue of any addition absolute lu tender notes by the government Goods manufactured in Georgia are sent;:* * our (New York city) warehouses to that $a i for consumption.—Harper's Weekly. ’ This brief statement is fall of signifies^ No fact conld more plainly tell the tale 0!; subjection of our industry and resources tii controlling capital and established coE-.rr power of the North. The goods from onr:3 tories go first to Northern cities for wholesa because there is not commercial capital e_. at home to take them in the quantities and^j the times suited to the needs of the mia2 tnrers. They afterwards come back tody retail and consumption, burdened with thepA its charged by the Northern jobbers. Andij is part of the tribute money constantly ptH’t tho South to the North. We do not propose now to undertake the t of showing how this eccentric movement f commerce conld be made to take its moredl pie, economical nnd natural course. IVeh'l tried to do so in former articles, and we behafl that our people generally perceive the mohg by which it could be accomplished, but are is ’ couraged by the formidable character of ip obstacles to be encountered, and delayed bri lack of anything like concert of action ana themselves. Let us hope that we are every ;s becoming more able to grapple with the form 1 and gradually overcoming the latter of tho j difficulties. Our chief object, at present, in directing 1 tention to the comprehensive truth copied the head of this article, is to make a suggest:: to Southern merchants. Is it not too plain proposition to require argument, that they a juy their goods cheaper from the SouthemW s > ufacturere direct than from the Northern jd ; bers, to whom those manufacturers sell or c .. sign their goods in the first instance. Can ti ^ our manufacturers or our commerce flouriat they should,so long as home-made goods area a thousand milts away and then brought! to the locality of their manufacture, pauj considerable freight charges both ways, as 1 as a profit to the distant jobber? '“Carry coals to Newcastle” is not considered a wise: profitable commercial operation elsewhere, tS if our “reconstruction” has made it so for3 Yankee cupidity has overreached itself fort first time. Let Southern merchants estaK closer commercial relations with Southern 1 nfacturers—especially the manufacturers i Southern commodities—and they will I not only enable themselves to sell manyg cheaper, bnt they will do much to proiuoul healthier condition of trade, industry and ew| prise at the South.—Columbus Enquirer, 1 THE OLDEST CITIZEN. Visitor a Veteran to tbe President amt f gross. Among the visitors at the White House j<i terday was John Kitts, of Baltimore, a soldi-A the Revolution, accompained by Miss KihQ Simpson, a relative of Mr. Kitts, who calls 1 ] pay their respects to the President. The vet* with bnt little assistance walked up the 1 flight of stairs leading to the President’s c£ and although 10S years of age did not comp' of fatigue. The President received Ms aged visitor* the profoundest respect, and listened to his e versation with the deepest interest He* laded to the fact that he had met eveiyl dent of the United States; that he witce® the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktce nnd that he could not hope to survive an Presidential campaign, and while his served Mm he had called to pay Ms farewell' gards to the CMef Magistrate of the nation,* the independence of which he had fought,® whose glory remained undimmed. Subsequently he met the father-in-law of s President, Mr. Frederick Dent, who is also* aged man, and Mr. Kitts conversed with * about his fathe-% Mr. D., and his uncle, bo’-*; whom served in the army with Mr. Kitts. ** visit was one that will long be remembered' all present. Leaving the Exeoutive mansion he proc^* to the Capitol, where Gen. Banks met hifl u escorted him to the upper floor of the Hon* 1 Representatives, and upon the motion of G® Banks the privileges Df the floor were exteo* 1 the old veteran.- Daring Ms visit there a l* : ! number of the Representatives gathered * gether about about him to pay their rest*" and for a time the business of the House suspended.— Washington Republican 10th. Accident.—Yesterday, the torses attacti to the wagon of Mr. Green, of Hall counl ran away on Peachtree street, and threw Green and his son out on the ground, bre* ing an arm of each of them. Dr. \\. T. Go smith rendered them surgical aid. Evaporation of Ammonia is said to be 1 best method of producing artificial ice, and j German machine has been constructed cap of turning out by tMs means, with the aid 1 three men and a horse power engine, a thou pounds of ice an hour. The Cincinnati Chronicle (Radical)in coming disgusted. It says : “There are (5 tory symptoms in the Senate, m regard tofl abolition of the franking privilege. Entlfl asm over it is subsiding, and reaction in*.' 1 ] expected.” loot A Green Line correspondent writes of L following colloquy between a Cincinnati e* sionist and a Goobergrabler at Marietta, “What a queer way you have of b your houses down here, my friend," sal's < cinnati delegate to one of the Marietta Ion' “You build the chimneys first, sod then 1 houses up afterwards, it seems.” ■ “Hell, no,” replied the lounger. . low Sherman came near getting d— licked over there st Kenesaw, so he and came over here and burned the That’s what made them chimneys way.” "Tbtl* look 1 A Liberty (Ind.) school Mtsxveta t correct a youth pitched in "and dragged her round iW room by the hair and otherwise malfrs* 5 A lot of “ big boys” sai still and enjoy > fun. On the matter being brought befow director of the school he said that sac got half enough.