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The Greorgia, "W"eekly Telegraph and. Journal & Mlessenger-
Telegrapli and Messenger.
MACON, FEBRUARY.'22, :870.
JBm> as a Rose is She.—There are hundreds
of admirers of thoso very clever books—in a
certain style—“Cometh up as a Flower, and
“Not wisely but too Well,” who will hear with
great satisfation that a third, with the above ti
tle by the same author, has been issued. We
have not read it yet, but contemplate that pleas
ure very soon. If it at all compares with the oth
ers, it certainly will have great popularity. Ha
vens & Brown have it for sale.
Ford’s Dramatic Troupe.
Wo are gratified to learn there is a probability
that this star troupe will commence a week s
engagement here on Monday night next. ©
phnil be able to speak positively on the subject
on Friday. This Company is an admirable
one, and has played very successful engage
ments in Charleston, Savannah, Augusta and
Other cities this winter. If it comes, we shall
have something to say of the material compos
ing it, which we know to be of rare dramatic
excellence.
The Senators Elect—So Called.
A private telegram in advance of our own
special from Atlanta, reports, as we are inform
ed, the election, by the Atlanta Agency, of R.
H. Whiteley, as Senator for the term ending
March 4,1871: Attoney-General Farrow, for the
term ending March 4, 1873, and Foster Blodgett
for the term ending March 4, 1877. The Sen
atorial caucus Monday night was characterized
by extraordinary comicalities, and an African
rebellion, which was extinguished with some
difficulty. The report is that the Agency would
adjourn for a month, to wait upon the action of
Congress. Our telegrams will, however, give
US the facts before going to press.
The Doing!! of Ki.sh.
We have not hoard a word about the Kish
family since the last time we read about King
Saul; bnt it appears from the subjoined para
graph, which we cut from the New Haven Reg
ister, that the race of Kish is still alive and
kicking:
The firm of Kish A Co. has met with the most
gratifying success. Their revenue coupon book,
which was adopted by Mr. Delano, and forced
upon the liquor dealers at $4 50 per copy. The
profit on each copy of the book sold, could not
have been less than three dollars. Well, the
books were used just two days, and then Delano
suspended his previous order. In the mean
time, not less than 15,000 copies had been sold,
and the firm of Kish & Co. have, in two days,
made the nice little sum of $450,000. This has
been a very nioe operation for Kish & Co., but
how do the liquor dealers like it ? This, by the
way, is not the first swindle that has been per
petrated on the liquor dealers. The government
seems to tax the ingenuity of its subordinates,
to persecute and rob these dealers, and the ef
forts have, thus far, been attended with remark
able success. All sorts of petty and vexatious
regulations are issued, the simple object of
which, is to enable a corrupt and thieving set
of officials to swindle the men with whom they
deal.
This was the most adroit operation in the
blank book trade ever attempted or achieved.
Kish & Co. print a form book and the Internal
Rovenue men scare every liquor dealer into bny-
ing it at four times its value. Countless num
bers are sold in forty-eight hours and then de
clared valueless. When the books are returned
it is a private speculation of Kish A Co., and
the government has nothing to do with it. Let
Delano and Kish & Co. explain this operation.
How did they divide ?
Aid fob Washington College.—The St. Louis
Republican states that a number of gentlemen
in Missouri have subscribed over ten thousand
dollars to raise a fund for the endowment of a
ohair in Washington College to be called the
Missouri Professorship of Applied Chemistry.
Best of all, Brevet Major-General William S.
Harney, United States army, St. Louis, Mo.,
has subscribed $1,000 for the endowment of the
presidential chair (Gen. R. E. Lee’s) of Wash-
ton College.
Inventions in the Southern States.—The
Commissioner of Patents, in his last annual re
port, says that during the past year 40 patents
were granted to citizens of Alabama, 11 to those
of Arkansas, five to Florida, 08 to Georgia, 80
to Louisiana, 53 to Mississippi, 44 to North
Carolina, 24 to South Carolina, G9 to Tennessee,
44 to Texas, 80 to Virginia, and 37 to West Vir
ginia.
In the class of agriculture, the examiner re
ports that “in 1859 the number of applications
from the South, as compared with those from
the North, was less than two and a half per cent,
of the whole number. In 1809 the number of
applications from the South was increased to
over 23 per cent of all the cases in my class.”
The Depth or Meanness.—Hear, O ye heav
ens, and listen ye children of men—somebody
has been counterfeiting the five cent nickles1
A Western press dispatch from New York says,
seventy-one ontof every one hundred nickel five
cent pieces presented at the Sab-Treasury in
that city are connterfeit.
We had no adequate conception of the capac
ity of man in respect to meanness nntil wo read
this dispatch. After this, one may not be aston
ished to read that somebody has counterfeited
the brass buttons on old Grimes’ bine coat,
which he nsed to wear all buttoned down before.
Befobe the Judiciary Committee.—Our
Washington correspondent in a letter of the
11th, printed in this edition, gives a very inter
esting sketch of the examination of the hostile
Bollock and Bryant delegations from Georgia
before the Senate Judiciary Committee and a
lively picture of the scene—the committee room
and the personnel of the committee.
Inspection and Manufacture of Fer
tilizers.
Planter and commission merchant, in a com
munication printed in this edition, drops some
very sensible suggestions in relation to the in
spection of fertilizers, and anticipates his own
request of us to call attention to the subject,
and suggest amendments and modifications of
the present law. This he does with the benefit
of experience in the trads of which we have
The enormous proportions which this trade
in fertilizers, is assuming in Georgia ought to
arrest the attention of our people. An article
in the local column of the Telegbaph and
Messengeb, a few days since, stated that six
teen millions of ponnds had been brought over
the Central Road since the 15th day of last No
vember, eight millions of which were left to find
a market at this point. Some considerable
amounts had also been received over other
roads, and the receipts were averaging now
abont two hundred tons per day.
The Macon trade alone, in fertilizers, at this
rate, would doubtless largely exceed a million
dollars, and this is only one point, though an
important center for distribution. What will it
amount to in the great Georgia aggregate ?
Last year, when the trade in guano closed np
in the spring, some of onr planting correspond
ents took a panic at its magnitude and wrote ns
gloomy prognostications abont the future. They
feared that the people had seriously crippled
themselves by these purchases, and the expe
rience of the year wonld cure them of the folly
of buying guanoes at a very injurious cost of
tuition. Bat whatever was expended last year,
we have little doubt, will be doubled this year,
and quite as little, that these enormous outlays
will go on increasing from year to year, as ex
perience demonstrates the sound economy of
what is called high culture.
In this view of the future onr ideas dwell not
so mnch npon the necessity of the inspection of
these imported fertilizers, as upon the wretched
impolicy and want of enterprise and economy
npon the part of our people, which almost with
out an effort, surrenders the enormous profits
of this business to strangers. Which consents
to ponr fortunes into the laps of outside people
and communities, without a serious effort to
win them for themselves.
And not only this; but still worse! while
we are wasting great values of onr production
which ought to be saved in the very process of
supplying ourselves with fertilizers. For exam,
pie,we are losing every year the oil of our cotton
seed which chemists say is of no value as a fer
tilizer, bnt which we see is valuable enough to
allow planters thirty to forty cents for the hun
dred ponnds of seed, and give them back the
residue in cotton seed meal worth more than
com for feed, or in the shape of an important
constitnent of a valuable fertilizer worth as
much as guano.
With extensive works for the mannfactnre of
acid from onr own iron pyrites which abonnd in
Georgia—of oil and manure or meal from onr
cotton seed, and the compounding of chemicals
and the Carolina and raw bone phosphates, we
should not only produce manures perfectly re
liable in quality, but also arrest and retain this
enormous outflow of money and add it to the
wealth of Georgia" for the more rapid develop
ment of every material interest of the State.
These are the thoughts which oppress us in
connection with Fertilizers—in brief, why,when
a business of millions and a yearly growing
business is offered to ns, we shonld idly throw
it away.
Georgia to tlie Fnitecl states Senate.
The United States Senate is evidently on the
high road to glory, and Georgia, in the hands
of Bullock and Company, is cagor to give her
another boost. Think of a Whiteley—a Far
row—and a Blodgett illustrating Georgia and
conferring lustre on the Senate of the United
States! Let poets sing and pigs squeel over
the inspiring spectacle. The Georgia Radicals
could, if they wonld, have sent men to tho
Senate possessing something like a mental com
petency for the position. They had Hill, a man
who had a respectable position in Congress.
They bad Ackerman, Erskine, McKay, and
Brown, who, whatever else might he said of
them, mast be conceded no inconsiderable in
tellectual ability—why, then, need they elect
Blodgett and Whiteley, except it may be not.to
outstrip onr Southern reconstructed sisters in
the Senate, bnt let all the Southern States stand
on a common level of inanity and incapacity;
to illustrate their own appreciation of the Rad
ical reconstruction policy of Congress, and pro
duce a result in that body corresponding with
the process—to show offspring befitting the
parent. Let Reconstruction wave her hands
over the heads of these misrepresentatives of
the South, and say, with the old Roman matron,
“These are my jewels.” Blodgett, if he gets
into the Senate, will be a jewel indeed.
Geant’s Estimate of His Southebn Fbiends.
The World’s Washington special of Saturday
says the President told a Senator the other day
that there was not a Radical in the entire South
who was qualified to be placed on the Snprome
Bench, and that everybody else there who was
qualified by education and ability for snch a
position, was disqualified in other respects for
such appointment.
Should Think Not.—Dr. Taggart, Collector
of Internal Revenne for Utah, has been before
the House Committee on Territories, in relation
to the collection of the tax there. He gave his
opinion, among other things, that the amount
assessed on the property derived from the late
Heber C. Kimball, by his forty-two children
•odd not be collected without the aid of the
military. *
.tlAntio Coast Line Nobth-—We see by a
idbill from Sol. Haas, General Southern
>nt, that the Great Iron Railway Bridge
oes the Cape Fear river at Wilmington, has
in completed and passengers go through to
idon without change of ears. Passengers
re Macon at C:25 p. u. and reach New York
6:06 a. v. fifty-nine hoars and forty-one
antes thereafter. Through checks and through
One Hundred and Twelve Thousand and
Fite Hundred Dollars fob Mules !—Since tho
first of November about five hundred mules
have been sold in this market, at an average of
two hnndred and twenty-five dollars per head,
whioh aggregates one hnndred and twelve thou
sand dollars.
And this is only an item as compared with the
amount paid for Western provisions.
Think of it! O, ye planters! think of it!
~ if you cannot raise mules, then in the
of common sense raise provisions to feed
year laborers, and yourselves.—Albany
XMK
Tlie Whisky ami Tobacco Tax.
A special Washington dispatch of the 12 th, to
the Herald says tho Commissioner of Internal
Revenne was in consultation with the Ways and
Means Committee that day on the revision of
the Internal Revenue law. The committee was
anxious to hear his views and get the result of
his experience of the working of the present law
before setting about to change it. The Com
missioner recommended several changes which,
if carried out, will simplify the machinery for
collecting the revenue and materially lessen the
enormous army of officials connected with the
Internal Revenne bureau. He suggested that
the various taxes on tobacco be concentrated as
far as possible into one, so that it can be col
lected more conveniently, with less annoyance
to the dealer and less expense to the govern
ment. With regard to tho consolidation of the
numerous taxes on whisky into one, to be col
lected at the distillery or place of manufacture,
tho Commissioner believes it would be a good
thing, if honest officials could be had. The pres
ent manner of collecting the tax, while expen
sive, affords a system of checks and balances
whereby dishonesty in the officials can be more
readily detected.
A. Blast Against the C. B.’s
The following ia an extract from a late letter
purporting to have been written from Washing
ton City to the Atlanta Era. The italics are
ours:
The next important step for the Legislature to
take is to select the right kind of men for Sena
tors. This matter I opine is of more importance
than is generally considered. It is of vital im
portance that tine Republicans and not “dis-
organizers” are elected. The Jtepublicansin the
Senate are not as well disposed toward carpet
baggers as they were once. They want true rep
resentative men who know the wants and are
folly identified with the interests of the State.
Send here as one Senator the Hon. Foster Blod
gett—match him if you can!—and another as
mnch alike him as possible, and they will be
admitted to their seats promptly, and thus your
difficulties will be speedily ended. On the other
hand if you send quasi Republicans or Repub
lican disorganizes or carpet-baggers they may
seek in vain for admission during the present
session of Congress.
Considering that the Era is reputed to be the
property of a carpet-bagger who, at the time
this letter was written, was playing a strong hand
for the Senatorship, we must say this corres
pondent is either very unkind, or very “cheeky,”
or both. How does Mr. John Rice like snch
slams in his own paper, we wonder 7
Can this be the first mutterings of the con
flict between the carpet-baggers and their na
tive allies here in Georgia 7 What a lively fight
it will be 1 We welcome it, as we welcomed
the appearance of the negro and carpet-bag
split in North Carolina the other day. Out of
its stench and filth there will finally spring
up a breeze that shall purify the atmosphere.
When the strife is over, and the carcasses re
moved, the real people of Georgia will occupy
and possess the battlefield and its spoils. Let
the combat deepen, then.
ButBlodgett and that proud defiance—“match
him who can”—what shall we say to that?
Alas! nothing. He is unique, unapproachable,
beyond comparison. The people of Georgia
have long since yielded that point. They accept
the fact with resignation, bnt they comfoit
themselves with the reflection that they are no
more unfortunate than many of their neighbors
Massachusetts, for instance. Astbere can be
at one time bnt one Ben. Butler, so there can
be bnt one Blodgett. From the depths of the
hearts of the people of this State they thank
Heaven that Blodgett cannot be “matched.”
Who Was He?
J. H. Penland, representative in the Agency
from Union county, prints a protest and affida
vit in tho Constitution of Taesday, setting forth
the following facts: That ho appeared at At
lanta on the 10th of January, under Bullock’s
proclamation, as the member elect from said
county, for the purpose of qualifying, feeling
that he could conscientiously take the oath re
quired, and that he was about to do so when he
was approached by one of Bollock’s Secretaries,
who told him that if he did, he would certain
ly be prosecuted for perjury. The same party
told him, at the same time, that if he would
omit the taking of the oath and sign an applica
tion for pardon already drawn np in blank, ask
ing Congress to remove his disabilities, that he
wonld be relieved in from five to ten days, and
permitted to take his seat as a member. Under
the influence of fright and anxiety to avoid the
annoyance of a criminal prosecution, although
perfectly satisfied that he had no disabilities
under the law, and feeling that he conld fully
and freely take the oath, he nevertheless signed
said application.
Tho sequel is shownin the proceedings of the
Agency on Monday, when Rogers, the man who
received the next highest vote to Penland, was
sworn in, and Penland left out in the cold, the
Radicals even refusing to record his protest on
the House journal.
See what a nice little game these loyal bullies
and conspirators play ! They approach an un
sophisticated old man in the gains of official
position, with threats and menaces, and scare
him into applying for relief for disabilities that
he is sure do not exist, and then sugar the pill
with a promise that his disabilities shall be re
moved andhe admitted to his seat. The old man,
terrified and bewildered, consents, and the next
act in the drama is tho seating of the candidate
he had fairly defeated, on the plea that he, the
legally elected member, is ineligible because
he had applied to be relieved from his disabili
ties ! .
Was there ever a more infamous proceeding?
We denounce it as an act of meanness, even be
neath tho level of the series of iniquitous,
ways and means whereby Bollock has throttled
tho liberties of the people, and besmirched the
honor, dignity and the fair fame of the State.
Now let Mr. Penland inform the public who
that Secretary was. We want to know and
mark him. He has deliberately and shame
fully violated that section of the last Georgia
bill which makes it a felony to hinder or pre
vent any member of the Legislatnre from taking
the oath prescribed, and his seat. Let Mr.
Penland have him indicted therefor, and at
once, and let the question be tested whether or
not this law was made for the punishment of
only Democratic violators of its provisions. In
any event, we want the name of the official who
did violate it
Important Insurance Decision.
The New York Commercial Advertiser calls
attention to an important decision jnst rendered
at St Louis, which is of general interest Two
individuals effected a considerable insurance on
tho St Lonis Museum and Opera and Fine Art
Gallery in the Mississippi Volley Company.
Subsequently the collection of curiosities was re
moved and the policies transferred so as to cov
er the furniture and building after it was con
verted into a theatre. The building being de
stroyed by fire, tho company refosod to pay
the insurance, on the ground that the transfer
was made by a clerk who had no authority to
make it, and that the business afterward carried
on made the risk far more hazardous, there be.
ing a bar, and liquids being supplied to the au
dience. The parties thereupon brought suit
for the whole amount, and Judge Smith decides
in their favor. Neither does the fact that spir
its were kept in the bar for doily consumption
invalidate the policy, nor can an insurance com
pany avoid the responsibility for a clerk’s ac
tions. Whatever business an individual trans
acts over the counter of an insurance office, be
he a genuine or a bogus clerk, most be accepted
as the business of the company. If irresponsi
ble clerks are retained in their employ, or if
persons are allowed such access to their office
as to be able to successfully pass themselves off
as clerks, tho companies are responsible for
their acts.
The Papal authorities have permitted the
lestoralion of horse-racing in Rome.
The Georgia Press.
A pickpocket was picked np, at the car shed
in Atlanta, Saturday evening, just as he had
“weeded” a passenger’s pocket. How abont
those at the Opera House who are “weeding”
the people’s pockets everyday?
The Constitution says tho body of an orphan
girl, Marina Underwood, fifteen years old, was
found Sunday out on Peachtree street. She
had been killed with a club.
The Hancock Times & Planter says the Geor
gia Railroad, for the past week, has been
crowded to overflowing with freights.
The following letter in the Constitution, of
Monday, explains the “great increase” in the
subscription list of one of the organs at At
lanta :
Ringgold, Ga., February 12, 187
Editor Constitution: Sm—Please find en
closed a slip, bearing the following words,_“$5,
Half Subscription to New Era,” which slip of
paper was delivered to numbers of the track
hands along the line of the Western and Atlan-
ticRailroad, under the following circumstances:
The apt Supervisor of the Road demanded of
the hands that they shonld subscribe for the
Era at 80 cents per month, as their wages had
been raised to §1.25 per day. Some of tho
hands refused to subscribe. On Friday last the
hands were paid off as usual with sealed envel
opes, and they receipted for the amount en
dorsed thereon; and upon opening their envel
opes, lo and behold! the slip from the Era was
deducted from their wages and those not sub
scribing received only the one dollar per day.
Is this honest ? Is it right ?
Who owns this Era ? Are the poor laborers
on tho road compelled to keep it np with all its
lying and slander ? Wobking Man.
Copy of Document:
To Stop Western Importations.
The Constitutionalist, of Tuesday, pours a
heavy broadside into the Telegbaph & Messen
ger in behalf of its own plan to stop the impor
tation of Western supplies for thirty days, with
a view to bring that people to their marrow
bones. We would take np the cudgels in de
fence of what we had to say npon that proposi
tion, bnt the fact is, the question has not yet
taken a debateable shape. It has not yet met
with a second. The Constitutionalist is work
ing its battery solas, and its a fine sight to see
the gallant fellow handling his guns all alone.
We will not return fire nntil somebody reinforces
him, and the Southern people set abont doing
without Western supplies in dead earnest
And, on second thought, we will make no
fight even then ; for if the people can get along
without ectem meat, that is the very thing w
want them to do—not alone for thirty days bnt
for thirty times thirty and to the end of time.
On the other hand, if they shall find the project
visionary and impracticable in the present con
dition of affairs, then their very stomachs will
plead against the Constitutionalist's proposition
so clamoronsly that there will be no occasion to
address their heads npon the subject. The
motion will be found by the people addressed
literally against the “stomach of their sense,
Wo can therefore see no occasion to trouble
ourselves about the matter in any shape it may
take. Let the Constitutionalist go ahead and
begin by stopping tho transit of Western sup
plies on the Georgia road. We will note pro
gress and report. If he finds the people in his
bailiwick can stand it for thirty days, then we
can consider the Bnbject down here in the light
of their experience.
In September last Mrs. Myra Bradwell, of
Chicago, applied to the Supremo Court of Illi
nois for a license to practice law, and her ap
plication was denied solely on the ground that
the disabilities of her married condition ren
dered it impossible that she shonld be bound
by her obligations as an attorney. Mrs. Brad-
well afterwards submitted a printed argument
to the court, which is represented as being very
able, and the court reconsidered her application,
bnt last week again denied it In denying the
application Mr. Jnsttoe Lawrence delivered a
very elaborate opinion, deciding that no woman
can be admitted to practice law in Illinois.
The indications are that the Senate will pass
the House bill abolishing the franking abuse
without any amendment
Half subscription to New Era.
With regard to the next State Fair, the In
telligencer, says:
The City Council of Atlanta has entered into
an agreement with the Executive Committee of
the Georgia State Agricultural Society by which
it is agreed that the city of Atlanta will under
take all tho work and expense of building and
fitting up the Fair Grounds and such other ar
rangements as are deemed necessary for the
proper administration of a snecessf ul Fair, to be
held in this city in the year 1870. and in con
sideration of all this the city is to control the
whole proceeds resulting from the enterprise.
Snow fell to the depth of fou- inches in
Gainesvile on Monday—the heaviest effort of
the season.
The Air Line Eagle says Mb 1 . Garner, general
agent of the Air Line Railroad, is in Gainesville
collecting the first installment of 10 per cent,
on the stock of that road. There are now over
one thousand hands at work on the road.
A planter, in writing to the Thomaston Herald,
bears this emphatic testimony to the value of
fertilizers:
‘ ‘I had on my plantation last year thirty hands,
and produced one hunndred and fifteen bales of
cotton. I have only twenty hands this year, but
by the use of good fertilizers, intend to increase
the yieldof cotton to one hundred and fifty bales.
In this way I expect to supply the deficiency in
labor. This can be done very easily, and our
planters should give it their attention.”
Master Pope Hangham, of Griffin, fell off
and was run over by a loaded wagon on Satur
day, receiving severe injuries, his collar bone
being broken. He was otherwise crushed and
his recovery is considered doubtful.
Tho Monroe Advertiser still hears of farmers
pledging their prospective crop for means to
carry on their farming operations tho present
year.
From the Advertiser we get these additional
items.
Cobn."—From what we can gather from vari
ous sources, we infer that the planters of Mon
roe have prepared a large extent of land for
corn—larger, if anything, than last year. We
hope it is true; for in the language of one of
the most practical of onr exchanges, it is an old
error of our planters to suppose that when they
make an immense crop of cotton they have
made so much clear gain; to forget that when
they are without grain they must rob cotton
Peter to pay corn Paul. Corn ia independence
—it is life.
Retubned.—Mr. King, who has been for some
time in Virginia, endeavoring to make contracts
with the freedmen, returned last week with
twenty-three hands for persons in and around
Bamesville. The many reports in the papers
to the effect that there are thousands of negroes
at the railroad stations in Virginia waiting op
portunities to come Sontb, is exaggerated.
There are a great many who wish to come South,
but they will not make contracts except through
agents who have offices for that purpose.
A Suggestion.—We are of the opinion that a
steam saw and grist mill in Forsyth would add
much to the convenience of the town, besides
beiDg a paying investment for capital. There
is a demand for lumber, not only in Forsyth,
but along tho whole line of the Macon & West
ern railroad, and the saw mill wonld amply re
pay its owners. As for the grist mill, there is
hardly a doubt that it would pay. The provi
sion dealers are sometimes without meal for a
month at a time, and our citizens are frequently
troubled to get bread to eat.
Idle Neoboes.—Notwithstanding tho great
demand for labor in the agricultural districts,
there are apparently a great many negroes about
town with nothing to do. They manage to eke
out a precarious livelihood by picking up stray
jobs, and appear to bo well pleased with the
situation of affairs. We are of the opinion that
all snch should be indicted as vagrants, and
compelled to earn a legitimate living.
The Sububbs.—The suburbs of Forsyth are
being gradually occupied with negro cabins, and
on two sides of town, we have two quite exten
sive and important settlements of the colored
variety—one on the southern portion of the in
corporate limits named Trappville in honor of
the colored registrar of this district, who was
the pioneer in that vicinity, and one on the
northern edge of town called Clowerville in hon
or of the festive enss who sits in the Legislature
and grins for the county for nine dollars a day
The Republican has these additional items:
A Giant Alligatob.—A party of negroes yes
terday captured, down the Savannah river, an
alligator seventeen feet three inches in length,
with fifteen • ug ones, measuring from twelve
to fifteen inc.-a et ~h.
Shameful.—The remains of a man have been
lying on the southwest point of a small island
to the northeast of the obstructions, for a num
ber of days past Birds have picked the flesh
off, laying bare the bones. A pair of boots are
on the* feet, and the dress is a shirt and pants.
Mrs. Ellen Anderson, wife of R. A. Anderson,
late agent of the Macon & Western Railroad at
Atlanta, and daughter of Mayor Ezzard, died in
that city on Sunday.
The Columbus Enquirer says:
Fibe in Utah.—A store, blacksmith shop and
two or three adjoining sleeping rooms, opposite
the striped bouse and adjoining the old rope-
works lot in Utah, were consumed by fire about
five o’olook yesterday. The store was oeenpied
by Mr. James Parr, who had a $800 stock of
groceries, all of which was a total loss. He lost
also, we learn, his clothing and $2C5 in money.
This is ihe fourth time a store has been burnt
on this spot. There was a can of powder in tho
store, and its explosion sent things adrift in
every direction, and waked np the neighbors
generally. There was also a barrel of kerosene
oil in the store, which gave a fearful impetus to
the flames. Mr. Parr barely escaped with his
life. He thinks his loss in stock, accounts and
money is at least $1200.
The Athens Banner says a recent survey of
Barnett Shoals on the Oconee River eight miles
from Athenf, shows enough power witliin less
than a mile to run every mill in Georgia:
The river above the shoals is seventy yards
wide, and ten feet deep, and within a distance
of a few hnndred yards there is a fall of sixty
feet. The entire volume of the river may be
applied to machinery by the construction of a
canal—or rather, by tho enlargement of an old
one, on which a grist mill was formerly located.
By constructing a second level, the water may
be nsed twice.
The location has every natural advantage.
The canal can be constructed at moderate cost,
to a site secure against every flood known to the
present generation the river never rising more
than four feet under the heaviest freshets.
Building rock of superior quality is dose at
hand, and connected with the property is a
wood lot of several hnndred acres of virgin
forest.
The vicinity of the shoals is remaikably salu
brious. They are Bnrrounded by fine ootton
lands (being directly in the cotton belt), and op
erative labor is abundant and cheap.
Irish potatoes are selling at Eatonton at nine
dollars a barrel. “ *
The exports of cotton from Savannah, foreign
and coastwise, on Monday, foot np 6,2lG bales.
Tho South Georgia and Florida Railroad has
been completed to Camilla. The cars will ran
to that point to-day.
The Savannah Republican says:
Large numbers of blackbirds, very fat, are
now brought into our market. Many are taken
to Macon, where they go off like hot cakes as
rice birds, which are now ont of season.
That’s because wo haven’t “administrative
minds,” yon know, to tell the difference. Says
the Americas Republican:
Miscegenation.—We have received the par
ticulars of a most revolting case which wo pub
lish, that onr citizens may know that even in
our own beautiful little city there are those who
are fallen so low as to bo classed below the
brnte creation. The facts are as follows:
One Martin Cox, who was once owned by Dr.
Hardwicke, carried a four days old baby to the
house of a negro woman living in the southern
part of the city, and left it in her care. This
child is said to be the offspring of a young white
woman and the negro Cox, and at its birth there
was no one present bnt the mother of the girl
who bore it. She told her mother who was the
father and she immediately sent for the negro
Cox, wrapped np the child, placed it in a box,
handed it to the father and told him to carry it
off or she would kill it The negro woman says
they are respectable people and in good circum
stances.
A Grand Jury in Limbo.
We stated yesterday that the Grand Jury of
Glynn county had been fined by tho Jndge of
the Brunswick Circuit, twenty-five dollars for
contempt of Court in their General Present
ment, or in default of payment, sentenced to
twenty-five days’ imprisonment. They had
chosen the latter, and there being no jail in
Brunswick the sheriff had incarcerated them in
the jail at Savannah, where they intended to
sue ont a writ of habeas corpus before Judge
Schley, of the Eastern Circuit.
As this ease is likely to attract some attention
we append the facts more in detail, as gleaned
from the Brunswick Appeal, of the 11th instant.
The following was the Grand Jury Present
ment :
Gband Jubv Room, Glvnn County,)
February 8, 1870. f
We, the Grand Jury of the adjourned Febru
ary term, make these, onr general present
ments :
While we congratulate our citizens that every
convicted colored offender found guilty by a
legal jury has been sentenced by the Court, and
they are now undergoing the penalty due their
crimes, and are prevented for a time at least
the opportunity of repeating or renewing their
offences, we regret that a white criminal found
guilty by the same jury of a far more henious
offence than any alleged to have been committed
by those who are now paying the penalty of their
misdeeds, should, under the administration of
onr laws or the interpretation of them, be per
mitted to go at large; and while we are placed
without our seeking, in a position that requires
us to diligently inquire into, and true present
ments make, of all offences, we feel we are en
gaged in a solemn farce, and mockery of law
and we-have no encouragement to offer onr
people that the present enforcement of law af
fords them any adequate protection against the
commission of crime.
We are painfully alive to the fact how futile
all our efforts for the establishment of law and
order have been rendered by the action of the
Court in admitting to bail one convicted of as
sault with intent to murder, against whom an
indictment is standing for mnrder in the first
degree. We have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Hamilton A. Kendrick, Chm’n.
Francis E. Kemp, Alex. B. Forrester,
Edward L. Harvey, William A. Conper,
L. H. DuBignon, Benjamin M. Cargyle,
Joseph Dangaix, Joseph W. Roberts,
Horace B. Robinson, Horace Dart,
Alex. Peters, John B. Habersham,
James T. Blain, Sylvester C. Littlefield,
J. C. Goodbread, Geo. W. Aymar,
Burr Winton, Roland B. Hall.
Upon the conclusion of the reading of the
presentments, the Jndge rebuked and discharg
ed the Jury. He then ordered the Clerk not to
spread the presentments upon the records of
the Court. After discharging the Jury, he is
sued the annexed order:
It is ordered and adjudged that each of said
Grand Jurors, having used such disrespectful
and contemptuous language in regard to the ac
tion of this Court, be and he is herely adjudged
in contempt of the Court in the premises, and
that they and each of them pay a fine for such
contempt in the sum of twenty-five dollars
each, or in default thereof be confined in the
county jail of said county, or m such other jail
as the Ordinary of said county of Glynn may
direct, for the full term and period of twenty-
five days; and it is further ordered, that the
sheriff of said county be and is hereby com
manded and directed to execute this order.
W. M. Sessioxs, J. S. O. B. C.
The Appeal declines to express an opinion
abont tho affair. The presentment is evidently
i n contempt, but we are qnable to say how much
or how little it might have been merited by the
Court.
Dishonest merchants.
“Macaulay,” the New York correspondent of
the Rochester Demoera;, makes very serious
charges against some of our New York mer
chants. “Macaulay,” for thirty years and more,
was engaged in the mercantile business in this
city:
THIEVING AMONG MERCHANTS.
The business men of this city are very dis
honest. This I know from close experience.
They have certain “tricks of trade,” as they are
called, which are nothing less than absolute
stealing. Boxes of Castile soap and similar
goods are sold to country customers, who little
think that they pay for box and all at full price.
The cheating on tare is outrageous.
Tea in chests is estimated at 90 ponnds tare,
which is always allowed by the importer, bnt a
country dealer seldom get more than 18 pounds.
On half chests 12 ponnds are allowed, while at
tho same time the dealer marks it np a pound
or two. This marking np of weight corresponds
to the marking down of tares. Casks of sugar
which few country merchants can weigh, are
often marked np 20 ponnds, ard sometimes 50
pounds. They tell a good story of old H
H , a well known grocer on the north side,
who was notorious for his boldness in this line.
The old man became at one timo somewhat
pious, and when in snch a frame was asked by
a clerk, who had sold a cask of sugar, if he
“should go it 20 pounds?” “No, Johhny,”
was the reply, “don’t go over ten, for I’m un
der concern of mind.”
Molasses, spirits, turpentine, and other li
quors are ganged up, which is very easily done.
An original gang©‘mark Of say 31 gallons, can
be easily altered into 34, by using a ganger’s
“sonbe" in a neat manner. If that is not
enough, a turn of the senbo can change the 31
into 35. As a general rale with many dealers,
from one to three gallons are made in each
cask. Provision dealers steal in a different
manner. Barrels of mackerel are opened in the
bottom head, and from twenty to thirty ponnds
are removed, and the space filled np with salt.
When the retailer opens the barrel he always
takes the top head, and here all looks right, bnt
when he get to the bottom he finds a half bushel
more of salt than he expected.
Pork and beef are also thns stolen, and hence
onr Government supplies are often short, and
men suffer severely in consequence. I have
referred to bnt a few of the different branches
of robbery perpetrated among what are called
honorable men, for a complete statement wonld
fill a volume. One farther instance may be
cited, and this is the essential oils. It is next
to impossible for any country druggist to buy a
pure article of oil lemon, oil bergamot, oil or-
gonum, or any similar oils. The reason of this
is that spirits of turpentine mixes so naturally
with these articles that detection is almost im
possible. In these oils our wholesale druggists
make enormous profits.
Carrying ont this idea, a bold druggist con
trived not only to cheat countiy customers, bnt
also to fleece the trade at large. To do this he
employed a machinist to imitate the metalic
seals whioh the manufacturers put npon the
cans. These cans he wonld unsolder, and then
steal about one-tenth of the oil, and fill it np
with spirits of turpentine, and then apply the
connterfeit seal. These cans would then go into
the hands of a drag broker, andvwould be sold
to the trade as pure from the distiller’s hands.
This operator I know well He is nothing but
a thief, and yet in sooiety he is a “gentleman.”
He has a fine honse and lives in style, bnt retri
bution may yet reach him, and though alow, it
may be ante.
Letter from Barbonr County.
Clayton, February 12th, 1870.
Messrs. Editors : To-day, has been decided,
the fate of the Vicksburg and Brunswick Rail
road, so far as Barbonr county is concerned.
The citizens of this portion of tho county assem
bled here and cast their votes, and partook of a
barbecue” prepared by the citizens of u the
place. There was scarcely a word of opposition,
and the vote stood 593 for the road, and 29 against
it. This may be taken as a fair average of the
voting all over the county—which will be nearly
unanimous in favor of the road. Abont one
hnndred thousand dollars worth of stock has
been taken hero and in Enfaula, and with the
three hnndred thousand dollars worth of bonds
which this vote secures, (even shonld there be
no State aid) the road is sure to be built.* The
Directors meet on the 28th, to decide npon
which route they will select between Clayton
and Enfaula, and to accept bids for tho con
struction of the road to this place, the work to
be completed within twelve months from its
commencement. The present route is from
Clayton to Brunswick, via Enfanla and Albany,
and the cars expected to ran over the entire
distance within fifteen months. The building
of the road from this place on to Meridian, via
Greenville, will then be commenced and carried
forward to completion as fast as funds are
secured.
The question of the removal of the Courfc-
Honse to Enfanla, which was considerably agi
tated before the meeting of the Legislatnre, has
been settled by the creating of a City Court at
Enfanla, having jurisdiction, at the pleasure of
parties interested, over the whole county. The
election for a jndge of this court takes place on
the first of the coming month, and will no
doubt result in the almost unanimous selection
of Major Henry R. Shorter, of Enfanla. The
Major is certainly capable of adorning the
bench by Ms fine presence and genial manners.
His reception in onr midst, to-day, indicates
that he will poll a heavy vote in this section of
tho county, and of course his own town will do
him equal honor. May he so wear his expected
judicial honors that he shall rise—in a longer
or shorter period—to a position on a bench hav
ing room for several incumbents.
The Telegraph and Messenger is becoming
a marvel of Southern journalism, and shows
what can be done—North or South—when ener
gy, brains and capital are properly combined
and wielded for the public good. Only wake np
that “ sleepy printer” who has not only murder
ed the copy of tho editor-in-cMef, “ye local,
and yonr humble correspondent, bnt who plays
tricks with printed matter—and yonr paper will
be nneqnaled in every respect. It ought to
have, at least, fifteen thousand subscribers.
Although I am a correspondent and constant
reader of all Harper Brother’s publications I am
thoroughly disgusted with the manner in which
the 11 Weekly” continually speaks of Gen. Robt
E. Lee. In the last number, the editor is “still
harping on my daughter,” and repeats for the
thousandth time, the base slander which is here
quoted: “A man who remained in the military
family of the General-in-Chief of Ms country’s
armies nntil he had learned all Ms commander’s
secrets, and then resigned Ms commission, etc.”
Now, while this charge has been repeatedly
made, and aa often disclaimed by the friends of
Gen. Lee, there still seems to be a desire on the
part of snch Radicals as Geo. Wm. Curtis, the
editor of the “ Weekly,” to keep the ball in mo
tion. They know, or ought to know, that the
charge is false in every respect. I had the honor
to receive the first staff appointment given by
the War Department to a civilian, at the com
mencement of the war, and was one of the first
officers on duty in WasMngton. And, while I
have not changed my views in regard to the
folly of Gen. Lee’s course, I qan speak from
official knowledge, when I say that the above
charge—lot it come from where it may—is a
foul Kbel upon one who has ever proved himself
as honorable as he w is brave. When Ms native
State asked for ius services, he gave them to
her, and not before. And it is in this act alone
tha this enemies seem to find a flaw in Ms noble
ness of character. TMs accounts for their con
stant reference to it The editor of the “ Weekly”
bases his whole attack npon tMs charge, which
he repeats in a varied form in Ms second para
graph of an article on the Peabody Funeral—
Nothing better than this can be expected from
men who land snch heroes (?) and “distinguished
men” (?) as Butler, Logan, Terry and Grant
Yours fraternally, Sydney Herbert.
A DETHRONED LEADER.
Hoiv Snmner Got Worsted in the Scnnte.
Washington Dispatch to the -V. Y. IForM.]
Mr. Sumner was again to-day terribly snub
bed and worsted in the Senate. His advocacy
of the House Census Bill had previously been
marked by such absurdities and self-contradic
tions that nearly all the members of the Cham
ber were thoroughly tired of Mm and Ms twad
dle. Oa Monday, for instance, the Massachu
setts Senator capped the climax of conceit by
exclaiming, in the coarse of Ms remarks in re-
r ird to some statistics relating to the bill, “but
desire the Senate to understand that unless
these figures err, os I do not see how they can
err, for I have gone over them myself,” etc.,
ad nauseam.
At tMs juncture another Republican Senator
remarked to a friend in an undertone: “Do
yo.n suppose if Sumner knew what a horribjo
spectacle he was making of Mmself ho wonld
go on ?” So when tho census bill came np tMs
afternoon for renewed debate, and Mr. Sumner
again let loose a stumbling argument in its fa
vor, the Senate's patience was quite exhausted.
Mr. Bayard, in a speech full of facts and con
vincing logic, overthrew the burly would-be
despot of the Chamber from his position, and
left him almost a defenceless target for Mr.
Conkling, who closed the discussion. The
last named Senator is not noted for amiability
at any time, and Ms irksomeness under tha
crack of Mr. Sumner’s wMp has frequently been
manifested of late. On this occasion ho han
dled the bill and its big defender without gloves,
devoting a great part of his speech to the expo
sure of Mr. Sumner’s “impracticable and muddy
theories”
He demonstrated how futile wore Sumner’s
high-sounding senttence3 against the census
law of 1850, and npon what a quagmire of a
foundation they were based, and tore that Sen
ator’s arguments into smaller tatters with a
wMrlwind of sarcasm and ridicule. In winding
up, he referred to the fact that the low of 1850,
temporarily suspend! 4 nntil the 1st of Februa
ry, was now in operation again, and that the
Secretary of the Interior could proceed under
it to organize the census of 1870. To the sense
of the Senate as to whether it was willing to
accept that law, he moved to lay the Honse bill
on the table, wMchproceeding would carry with
it all the pending amendments. The motion
was carried by 46 yeas to 9 nays. This trium
phant vote laid Mr. Snmner sprawling.
| For the Telegraph and .
Cleopatra to Antony.
“I am dying, Egypt, dying.
Ebbs the crimeon life-tide fast
And the dark Plutonian shadows’
Gather on the evening blast.”
LLyllU's Antony and Cl M -
Oh! Antony, husband, lover!
Tarry on the dark Plutonian shore:
Let thy bold spirit, gone before,
In the mystic regions hover,
Till thy Cleopatra's launches out,
To join thy shadow on the rente,
To Aidera.
Octavius’ conquering eagles wave
Not their wings in triumph o'er my head
Vultures only—they but find tho dead—
I leave them but my grave.
One stem-brow'd Caesar in the strife,
Was quite enough for my poor life,
On earth.
Thy serpent of old Nile, tj
Uncoils for thee tho glittering, golden c ' I
Whilo giant sentries, faithful to the soil *
Pyramids in solemn file—
Standing ever on watch in Egypt’s heart, iil
Stand and wait to see their Queen deri-'
Forever! 1
Twas well! * ’Tia well for me
To die as fits a royal, loyal Queen,
As now, the subtle Aspic, growing "rep.
Hastes to end thisfmajeaty.
Yet grieved old weeping Nile will co Ter
My dark, unhappy realms all over
In sorrow.
Haste Iras! Charmian, haste!
Put Pharaoh’s crown upon my brow!
Fold the regal purplo round me now—
Star-eyed Egypt looks her last.
No mortal fear of death appalls h«
Far a proud Roman spirit calls her '
Over all.
Now! now, the hazo ia riven,
A grand and vasty spirit fills my sight,
Whose dyes, as suns, do bum to light'
His Eastern Star to heaven.
He calls, and points beyond the StyginJ
And tells me love is love forever,
Over there.
I come now, husband! lover!
One last word on earth for thee—
One last prayer to heaven for me—
The Queenly pang is over!
Isis and Osiris! bold well thy faith,
And yield to him my happy wraith,
Exulting!
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the Postal Telegraph.
A special "Washington dispatch to the Rich
mond Dispatoh of the 12th says:
The Western Union Telegraph Company is
here represented by one of its principal officers,
complaining that the company has not been
fairly dealt with in Congress. The claim is that*
the company should be heard and permitted to
show the alleged impracticability of the postal
telegraph system.
"When this subject was np once before, some
three years ago, tho "Western Union Company
Company crashed it In committee by ex parte
testimony. Snch a result cannot be expected
now, for members are better informed npon the
subject, and it is probable that the impractica
ble measures for postal telegraph, snch as pur
chase of wire by Government, etc., will all be
abandoned, and if any bill pass it will be one
looking to letting out the contraot for transmit
ting postal telegraph messages at low rates to
the company that shall make the lowest bid, af-
the manner of contracting for carrying the
mails. Congressmen are disposed to wait a
short time to see the result of experiments with
the new automatio wires, for whioh much is
promised by the oompany erecting them.
The Senatorial Fight at "U’sahioji
The Constitution of Tuesday afternos: j
lishes tho following private dispatch:
To C. K. Osgood, A. J. Williams, J. F.l
and Others, Members of the Georgia J
ture:
Washington, February 14.—The Was
correspondent of the Tribune, telegraph!
the Judiciary Committee of the Senate rlj
port in favor of seating Hill and Miller,
mation from a reliable source confirms i
night. We hear that their commissios-1
catted for by the Committee. Mr.
here, and defends Hill’s and Miller’s i
seats. J. Bowles,
J. H. Caidu
Bowles is a son-in-law of Hon. Josh-jj
We only hope all of it may be true, but*
serious doubts of Akorman’s good ftitij
certainly was in full feather with Bulloch]
a few days ago. If Messrs. Hill and l
take onr advice, they will watch Akermsi j
is more than suspected of having it
tongue, and of being “sly, devilish slj,i|
The Radical Senatorial Cants
From the Constitution we copy the fol
account of the proceedings of the Radiol)]
torial Caucus:
The Radical canons met at Schofield! |
last night The colored men were bre
with the promise of having ono of the Sd
There was sparring among them, hosreve!
Foster Blodgett received 80 votes, onti|
ballot for tho long term—2 scattering.
Henry P. Farrow roeoived CO votes frcl
oooond long term—16 scattering.
John Rice, Esq, withdrew in favoro!|
Farrow.
For the short term, (to fill n vacancy II
Simms, Wallace, Beard and Turner, (at |
WMtely, Mott, Griffin, Blount and
were put in nomination. The ballot:
in 18 for Wallace, 16 for Mott, 28 for T'.J
1 for Lochrane and the balance divided c
other candidates.
Forty-three being necessary to a eld
was declared no nomination, by the vlj
(Tweedy.)
Mr. Mott and Dr. Blonnt were withdraij
O’Neal, of Lowndes, nominated.
The ballot was annotmeed 25 for W-"j
for WMtely, balance scattering. R. H. 7|
declared tho nominee. *
The colored carpet-bagger, Campbell, a
long-winded barrangue in favor of
Whitely’s nomination unanimous.
Geo. Wallace said the culoredmenwoi]
a meeting at S o'clock on Taesday, and hi
do whatever they said; now ho would Rj
Conley said the colored men 1: ": ; I
trick on their white friends. [The hwl
dying the stream.] Wallace retorted if tbfl
played a trick, it was one taught them 1.1
white Republicans. f
Tho vole on Campbell’s motion show!I
not unanimous. It was a cate trick r
colored men.
On motion, ‘he candidates, Blodgett.
WMtely and Gov. Bullock, were invited'-1
into the meeting. j
They were all big with speeches, si J
safely delivered.
Bntler’s Disability Bill-
Tho hill is precisely such a one as aM
been expected from a creature so mail
omous as Butler. It is intended to b-'l
humiliate the people of the South, and ,-1
to expense, and cause them vexation is l"
ing their restoration to the privileges I
zensMp. The bill is discreditable to
mittee, and the House was simply dccKJ
committing it. What the reasons were f<|
ing it back are not stated, bnt we m?J
that it was to change the provisions r
th# form of petition.
Of what possible benefit is it to #1
snch men as Alex. H. Stephens, a--!
Hampton, and Robert E. Lee, andolksg
in the Confederacy, a statement that
make war against tho government, girkij
ticular description of the acts done by f
’ Suppose General Lee shonld j
describe what he did in the war.
country again wish to be informed!
generalsMp wMch shut up General 1
with sixty thousand men under h’-1
tight as a fly in a bottle ?” Do we wish]
again of the terrible havoc made by
army of the Potomac when it was
cat’s-tail strategist ? McClellan, and 3
McDowell, and Burnside, and Joseph^
altogether, did not lose as many men ■
campaigns against Lee as were left *
gory by Grant when “fighting it out oaf
he started on in Ms last campaign, *"
compelled to abandon.
We do not want Jubal Early now J]
ia court and make oath that, with sbq
thousand half-starved, half-armed,
rebels, he kept Sheridan, with am*:]
army of forty thousand men, at bay kj
in the Shenandoah Valley, and occ^o 1 ”®
Mm in battle.
No other oath should be required t
Confederates than is required fromo>
zens. When they swear to perform u
as dtizens and obey the ConstituWJ
United States, and of the States ia **
live, they give all the security that oof
demanded. They were as honest
against the Union as the North in m**]
for its preservation, and will not nov 1 *
to oome forward and express contri& 0, |
part taken by them in the war.
TMs is the view taken by the ablest*^
prominent Republican newspapers in “3
try, and they demand that amnest;
granted immediately, and shall bef®
Congress mistakes the temper of th» ®1
the Republican party if it imagm^yj
wish any such conditions attached *vl
moral of political disabilities as thoe* 1
Batter’s bill—Chicago Times. j
The Committee on Banking
will render their report on the &«”• '
panic towards the dose of r .ext wee*'
The shore end of the India tele#*]
taken out by the Great Eastern has
at Bombay.
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