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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. *'-'■ rt.i f luevn B