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Lessenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MARCH 8, 1870.
Personal-
We sincerely regret to hear that Mrs. Mary
Hemphill, wife of W. A. Hemphill, Esq., of the
Atlanta Constitution, and daughter of J. H.
Anderson, Esq., of t^s city, died in Atlanta
yesterday. Our sympathy is tendered to all
whose hearts are stricken by this sad affliction.
Magazines tbom Lippikcott.—We have from
the press of J. B. Lippincott & Co. March num
bers of the following: Sunday Magazine, edited
by Dr. Guthrie. Good Words, edited by Dr.
Norman McLeod. Good Words for the Young,
edited by George MacDonald. These are all
pictorial magazines of a high character, and
full of interesting matter for all classes.
Thx Nineteenth Centubt, for March, con
tinues Cleveland’s story of the “ Storm and the.
Sunset," and Ex-Gor. Perry’s Bemnisceneies of
Public Men. Also, the essay of A. F. S.—Will vs.
Power. Edward Mayes reviews DuChtillu’s ex
plorations. Oliver Dyer’s article upon the bucket
shops of New York is reprinted, with the illus
tration as frontispiece. Charleston: published
by the Nineteenth Century Company at $3 50
per annum.
Tint gale of seats for the Brignoli-McCulloch
Opera, Thursday and Friday nights, will com
mence to-morrow (Monday) morning, at nine
o’clock, at Havens & Brown’s news and book
store.
Ah old lady who is 74 years of age, and has
lived in Nashville for 42 years, took her first
railroad ride last Friday.
Mb. A. M. Speights, late of the Griffin Star,
is announced as ‘‘Superintendent of the news,
Job, bindery, and press departments” of the
Atlanta Intelligencer.
The Minnessota Legislature has passed a
woman suffrage bill, and the Governor has ap
proved it. Next fall, it will bo submitted for
ratification to all the adult citizens and citizen-
esses of Ilia State.
By the burning of the Nepouset dye-works,
on Wednesday, six of the white slaves of “glo
rious ” Massachusetts were burned to death.
Their families will be kindly cared for at that
paradise, county poor-hoose.
A Boston lobby-man—Stanton, son of the
President of the Alabama and Chattanooga rail
road—swears that the Alabama Legislature is
the cheapest one he ever dealt with. Stanton
has not struck the Agency yet.
Ex-Chief Justice Thos. Ruffian, of Notrh
Carolina, is dangerously ill. He is 90 years old,
and last month he and his wife celebrated the
sixtieth anniversary of their wedding day, with
all their children living and present.
Negro Kn-Kliix.
The Jacksonville (Ala.) Republican an
nounces that a party of men in Ku-Klux dis
guise, who had severely beaton a negro man,
near Alexandria, Calhoun county, and outraged
his wife, were caught during the commission of
the crime and stripped of their paraphernalia,
and lo and behold they were live negroes.
Mechanical Arithmetic.
One of the life innrance companies in Hart
ford have in their office an arithmometer, a cal
culating machine recently obtained in Europe,
and the only ono in use in this country. It is
comparatively a small affair, about twenty inches
in length, and looks, when closed, very much
like a German music box. The wheels, gear
ings and dials are of steel and brass, and it is so
contrived as to perform the operations of addi
tion, subtraction, multiplication and division
with a speed unattainable by mental process,
and an accuracy absolute, though mechanical.
The Workings of a Central Govern
ment.
The Costly Case of Verbal Diarrhoea.
The New York, Newfoundland and London
Telegraph Company brought suit on Monday in
the Court of Claims, against the United States,
for pay for sending five dispatches in “code, or
cipher,” from Hon W. H. Seward, Secretary of
State, to the British and French ministers from
the United States as follows:
Nov. 24, I860, Seward to Bigelow 819,540 50
“ 29, “ “ to Adams 1,400 00
“ 80, “ “ to Bigelow 3,995 25
Hay 15, 18G7, “ to Adams 2.975 00
“ 23, “ '
to Adams 4.339 00
Total in gold 832,240 75
Whtttemobe tjp Ton Re-election.—A dispatch
from Columbia to the Charleston News says it
is now certain that Whittemore will seek a re-
election to Congress. He has written to sev
eral prominent officials in this city, thanking
Governor Scott for his prompt action in accept
ing his resignation, whereby he was saved from
disgraceful expulsion. He also declares that be
will go before the people as a candidate for re-
election. The friends of Whittemoro say that
bis colored constituents can be easily duped
into voting for him, and are confident that he
will bo treated as a martyr in the cause. There
is some talk of running an honest colored man
against Whittemore.
The Savannah and Charleston Railboad
Company.—The aimouncement of the entire
completion of this popular route to Savannah,
Southwestern Georgia, Florida and Alabama
has had the effect of advancing the price of its
stock. At the public Bale yesterday, shares
were tnkcu at $28.37. The debt of the compa
ny is stated at $1,200,000, and the stock at $30
per share would give, as a total figure for the
whole road in good running order $1,500,000,
less than 15,000 per mile for 104 miles of as
good as new road, with valuable connections al
ready in existence and the “Yemassee and Mil
ieu” branen soon to be developed, which will
give to this new and short route via Charleston
the passenger travel to and from Macon, Co
lumbus, Montgomery, Selma, Vicksburg and
New Organs, and the great centres North.
With such a prospectus, we would suggest to
stockholders quietly to bold on to their property
and not sell for $20 to $30, what is really worth
$100.—Charleston News.
Mexico.—Wo are charmed with the pros
pects in Mexico. There are three or four rev
olutions going on there at this time, and the
guerrillas, or highway robbers, are in posses
sion of all the roads, and have started business
universally on their own account — levying
a system of taxation equal to the internal
revenue or “ protection to American industry.
Mexico has gone up. Having shot to death the
only deoent ruler a good Providence had sent
them since independence, there’s nothing left
out of which to construct a respectable govern
ment. Their cause is done—done—done until
the United States will have to interfere to
abate a nuisance, or fight somebody else for
interfering.
Rochester Knoceings.—The telegrams an
nounce that the Rochester Knockers have re
sumed specie payments, clear away in advance
of the rest of mankind. This, we presume, is
in consequence of advices from tho Spirit-land,
which aro not to be depended upon in matters
of figures and banking. If there’s anything
tolerably well established, it is that the great
matter of cash balances which trouble people so
much in this lower sphere is held in contempt
in the better land. Tho Apostles tell us that
we brought nothing into this world, and it is
certain we can carry nothing out of it. The
treasures of heaven are of no gross or material
character. Therefore, wo make no account of
the resumption of Bpeoie payments in Roches
ter. If they have got any revelations there
npon the subject, they are bogus and not wor
thy of attention.
Our confrere of the Tallahassee Floridian
reports that the radical functionaries of that
State, with the prominent politicians of the
same stripe, were all r T for Washington as
soon as the State Legislature had closed doors.
Ditto in Atlanta, where they have lately ordered
two adjournments for that very purpose, and
hurry off before the sun sets on one more of
their frequent missions to the great centre of
political power. Ditto in the Carolines. Ditto
in Alabama. Ditto in Mississippi. Ditto in
Texas.
These apostles and missionaries tn partibus
infidelium to the centre of radical light and
life, don't obey the injunction to take with
them neither purse nor scrip; but they go with
pockets well lined—purses and strong boxes
well stuffed—and they scatter the gifts of For-
tuna and Mercury around them in the Federal
city with a prodigality scarcely rivalled in the
old days of Roman Imperial corruption, In
that era of Roman degeneracy the proconsuls,
the farmers and procurators from different de'
pendencies made annual visits to the Capital of
the world to condone for their crimes and pur
chase new leases of power and plunder by dis
tributing a portiou of their spoils in the forum.
The same practice is now inaugurated in the
American government, and a mission to Wash
ington from the capitals and other parts of the
Reconstructed States for similar purposes con
cludes every movement in these dependencies.
The emissaries and functionaries of the central
system work these dependencies in their own
interests under tho supervision of Congress,
their principal. The point is to harmonise
views as perfectly as possible, and this is a
matter for intrigue, electioneering, much com
parison of notes, and no doubt considerable
and timely shaking of bags and purses.
This constant appeal to Congress or the lead
ers of the majority is the modem substitute for
that “frequent recurrence to fundamental
principles," so often mentioned in American
Constitutions and by American political writers.
The “fundamental principle" is, in both cases,
the actual source of political power. In the
first case it was the people, who, under the old
system wore the source of all political power.
In the second case, it has become Congress,
which is in fact, the only source of political
power in the South. “Recurrence” in tho one
case was mado by the ballot, so as to ascertain
the opinions of the people in every stage of
tho political progress. In the second case the
“recurrence” is to the radical party leaders in
Congress, and it is made by all the arts of
conciliation which can harmonise the views and
interests of these leaders, with the views and
interests of these their agents and functionaries
in distant dependencies, who hold and exerciso
power in defiance of tho pcoplo.
The system now implanted into American
politics, is one which will require a moral earth
quake to shake off. It holds out too gigantic
achievements in the way of power and emolu
ment, to be easily abandoned. It puts the en
tire control of the revenues and political power
and patronage belonging to eight millions of
people in the hands of a few Congressional
leaders; for it is obvious that the miserable sub
ordinates employed to work these so-called State
governments, as Congress may direct, are noth
ing but creatures and satellites of the roen who
control the verdict of Congress in respect to
them. A few leaders control the Committee-—
the Committee control Congress in this matter
Congress owns its agents and runners in
these States, and therefore, os to. the fact of
ownership, the intervening links in the chain
might be dispensed with.
The system is, in truth, one which holds out such
extraordinary temptations to abuse and corrup
tion, that it could hardly fail to ruin the purest
American Congress ever elected; and what it is
doing with this one the radicals themselves will
disclose in time. It either is, or will be, a mass
of reeking corruption.
And the evil grows. We see it extending to
tho unreconstructed States. We see proposi
tions rifo to grasp Kentucky, Missouri, Tennes
see, Maryland and Delaware that they may be
sifted and divided. We see the system gradu
ally ramifying out into all the States, and it can
have no other possible end than in a general
tide of corrupting gold and power, from the
circumference in all its parts, to the great cen
tre—the transmutation of the whole American
system into one vast scheme of central intrigue
and bribery, and the loss of all power for self-
protection by the mass of the people.
Georgia
News from San Domingo and Hayti.
The World has news from San Domingo, Feb.
20tb, via Havana March 1st, that the Dominican
Republic has formally declared in favor of an
nexation to the United States. At a popular
election npon the question, officially proposed
by the government, the vote shows an -over
whelming majority for annexation. The Coun
cil of Ministers also declare that the debt of
San Domingo is less than a million and a half.
Dates from Port an Prince, Feb. 18th, an
nounce the arrival there of Rear Admiral Por
ter, with tho flag-ship Severn and iron-clad
Dictator. In an interview with the provisional
government of Hayti, he announced that he was
instructed to declare that negotiations were
pending between the United States and San
Domingo, and any aid extended to Cabral in his
expedition against Baez and the Dominican
government, under the Haytien or any other
flag, would bo considered an net of hostility to
wards tho United States, and would provoke
hostilities in return; and that be bad been sent
to those waters to carry ont that determination
of the U. S. government.
This menace had given great offence to the
Haytiens, as there was no evidence that any aid
had been or would be extended to Cabral under
the Haytien flag; but a vessel bearing tho Eng
lish flag had left Jamaica with arms and ammu
nition for Cabral, and the menace was consid
ered a hit at John Bull over the shoulders of
Hayti. Upon hearing this menace the English
Admiral, then at Jamaica, immediately returned
to Cape HaytieD, and was presented to the Hay
tien authorities, and his courteous expressions
were said to contrast strongly with the blunt
menaces of the American Admiral.
and the Senate Jadlciay
Canunlttee.
According to our special advices from Wash
ington, the Senate Judiciary Committee made
their report on Wednesday, a synopsis of which
was forwarded by telegraph and appeared in
yesterday’s edition. The Senate Judiciary Com
mittee declare the Bollock and Terry reorgani-
tion illegal in four particulars:
1. In the employment of Harris, an ontsider,
to organize the House. That business devolved
upon, the Legislature itself under the act of Con
gress.
2. la the exclusion by military order of per
sons offering to qualify, and their being held to
answer before a military commission—a pro
ceeding not authorised by the law.
3. In the seating, in place of members de
clared disqualified under the law, of persons
not elected by the people as members of the
Legislature.
4. In the assumption that this re-organiza
tion constituted the first legal organization of
the State Legislature, whereas a legal organiza
tion had been effected, and recognized by Gen.
Meade, acting in behalf of the U. S. Govern
ment. in 1868.
It will thus be seen that the Senate Judiciary
Committee has substantially affirmed all that
we have contended in respect to the proceed
ings of Bullock and Terry under the Act to pro
mote reconstruction in Georgia. They take a
fair and liberal view of the scope and design of
that act; which were, in brief, simply to reseat
the expelled negro members, and apply the
purge to the Legislature under the existing or
ganization of that body, and the general super
vision of the military commandant, subject to a
special jurisdiction of the U. S. District Court
for the enforcement of the terms and condi
tions of the act.
If Congress will sustain the positions of this
report we ask no more. This will defeat all
tho schemes of the destructives for a new lease
of power dating all through from next Novem
ber. It will fill the vacated seats in the General
Assembly with members specially -elected for
that purpose, and whether they be Radicals or
Democrats, no man will except to the voice of
the people. This election will give the people
the chance to pass npon the revolutinary de
signs of the destructives, and if these can be
accomplished in the face of the election, so be
it. The Senatorial question it remits to the
single point of the sufficiency of the vote and
the legality of the certificates of Messrs.—
Hill and Miller, and here let it rest. We are
well satisfied with the report, and it increases
our respect for the justice and honor of the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
But it is said the report will be overslaughed
both in the Senate and House. It is declared
that Bullock has assurances of Its prompt defeat
in both bodies from Sumner and Butler. That
result, if it comes, will only display the unscru
pulous character of the majority in those bodies.
Not a Democrat from Georgia has been heard
before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The
case has been argued on both sides by Georgia
Republicans. The Committee itself has but
one Democrat, (Mr. Thurman,) upon it, and in
giving their decision, they have simply affirmed
the law regardless of partisan bias. The people
will know precisely what a reversal of this de
cision means.
Appointment of Census Takers.
“We are authorized to state that applicants for
appointments to take the census of the several
counties, will be required to make and file their
application, made in their own hand-writing,
stating how long they have resided in the coun
ty for which they make the application, their
present and previous occupations, whether they
can take the oath required by law for all officers
of the United States, (the iron-clad oath,) and
snch other facts as may enable the Marshal to
form a judgment of tho applicant’s fitness for
the census service.”
“We fear there is much misapprehension
abroad in the community as to the value of
these appointments. There is only a fair com
pensation provided for the work if fully and
faithfully performed. And this, we understand,
willl be rigidly required by the Marshal before
any payments aro made. In all cases, it will
be necessary for the census taker to perform
the work required personally, and in no case
can tho position be sub-let, or the service be
performed by a cubstituto. Active work will
not commence before the first of June next."
“Applications addressed to Major William
H. Smyth, United States Marshal, can be filed
with his deputy, in this city, Mr. Chamberlain.”
—Atlanta Era, 3rd.
This is the latest for brides: A plain gold
bracelet which fastens with a lock and gold key,
and which the husband places on her arm at the
altar, locking it, and placing tho key on his
watch chain. The bracelet “cannot be removed
without the husband's assistance, and thus both
are constantly reminded of each other.”
IIow It Works in England.
The Tribune introduces a letter from its Lon
don correspondent, givinga detail of the manner
in which governmental control of the telegraph
lines in Great Britain is working, with some
words that convey our ideas of a similar scheme
in this country. Says the Tribune:
It is most fortunate for ns, that just at the
time when Congress is again entreated to take
possession of a vast and complicated private
business, extending from ocean to ocean and
from Alaska to Florida, in order, apparently, that
persons who derm no profit from it may have
the satisfaction of seeing that others in like
manner derive none, we can see the result of
the experiment to which they are exhorted as
already tried in the more densely populated,
and, therefore, more favorable field of Great
Britain. The system of government telegraph
ing has been on trial in England, Scotland and
Ireland for three weeks. Tho details from oar
own correspondent, which fill other columns,
sufficiently attest the utter failure of the sys
tern. We commend to gentlemen who believe
our government has not enough to do now, and
think it ought to undertake the private business
of managing all the telegraph wires and tele
graph offices in the conntry, the results of ex
perience. Messages are sent by trains; carrier-
pigeons are invoked; the newspapers are in
quarrel with the Postmaster-General because
he undertakes to tell them how much matter
they ought to transmit; the public fill columns
with their protests; Boards of Trade complain
that they can get no news; in short, the Gov.
ernment effort has thus far proved a complete
failure.
The following is an extract from the letter in
question.
London, February 27, 1870.—Three weeks
ago the Postoffice took possession of the tele
graphs throughout England, Ireland, and Scot
land. As that department postponed the trans
fer till its arrangements were deemed complete,
we have had time to estimate the advantages of
the transfer. There can be but one opinion—
tnat the experiment thus far has proved a disas
trous failure. Heretofore, the English telegraph
system has been one of the best in Europe
now, certainly, it is the worst. Its service is
now characterized by continual delays and in
credible mistakes, prompt delivery being the
exception. The local London charges have
been doubled for the sake of pedantic uniformity,
and for double charge inferior service is given.
The total collapse of the provincial system has
repeatedly occurred, and London journals are
filled with protests, editorial and individual
The country journals are forced to go to press
morning after morning without telegrams, or
with few. The House of Commons resounds
with complaints; business suffers; the great
mercantile communities remonstrate and peti
tion vainly. Probably never was a period since
telegraphing began when the public was so
ill served.
Characteristic.
The Radickb in the West Virginia Legislature
have passed a joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the State Constitution, enfran
chising negroes and ex-Confederates. It has to
be passed by another Legislature, and then rat
ified by the people at the next State election in
October, 1871; so that, if adopted, these two
classes will not vote until October, 1872.
This coupling of negroes and “rebels” to
gether may be considered a very fine stroke of
policy in West Virginia and Missouri, where a
similar proposition is pending; but all men of
honor, everywhere, will stigmatize it as a first-
class exhibition of Radical meanness. They see
very plainly that the day has passed for ex
cluding the best citizens of both those States
from the ballot, and so yield the point with
characteristic bad grace. They start out
with an insult to the white man, by
putting him on a level with the negro, and force
all who favor white enfranchisement on princi
ple, to swallow negro suffrage, which they
abhor, to secure the triumph of that principle.
Was there ever a party, before, that thus dealt
with grave questions of public polioy ?
What the Democrats of these States have got
to do, now, is to go to work and revolutionize
public sentiment by forcing new issues ou the
enemy, by which they will be divided and con
quered. When they get possession of the gov
ernment they will know quite well how to take
vengeance on their oppressors. If there are
ary men living whose memories are not apt to
play them false it is the disfranchised white
men of Missouri and West Virginia.
The First Year oi Groat's Adminis
tration.
The first year of Grant’s administration
closed on Friday—day before yesterday. A
brief retrospect of what it has done, and failed
to do, in that time, may not be inappropriate.
Grant went into office with the most splendid
opportanities for good of any Executive since
Washington. The work of restoring s broken
Union and cementing ties rudely severed and
bleeding from the sharp, deep wounds of war,
was ready at his hand and pleading to bo fin
ished. He had bat to use a tithe of his powers
under the Constitution, and with only a tolera
bly decent regard for the obligation* of his
oath of office, to make the Union stronger than
ever, and its people more harmonious and hope
ful than they had been in a decade. He could
have been the foremost man, the wisest ruler,
judged by results, of the age. The country
prayed for peace—that peace to whiob he had
pledged himself in entering npon bis canvass
for President, and it was in his power, fully and
entirely to have answered that prayer. The
people groaned under the meroiless exactions
of the tax gatherer and the tariff-robber. A
mountain load of debt galled their shoulders
and fettered their energies. They toiled but
did not prosper, and were denied even the poor
compensation of feeling that their labors were
lightening the hardens of .their children. They
saw their hard earnings going, not to diminish
the debt that enrsed and paralyzed them, bnt
to bloat the coffers, and still farther distend
the filthy pookets of petted monopolists, and
official thieves. They saw liberty a mockery in
one section of the Union, and by the bayonet,
the naloral rulers and owners of a vast domain,
crushed beneath the feet of their former slaves.
This was the outlook when Grant entered the
White House. These were the demands of the
hour—these the opportunities that thrust them
selves npon his attention.
How has he used them? The answer is
ready. It speaks in thunder tones. The Union
is further from restoration than ever. Peace
and harmony are farther from the hearts of the
people thin they were then. The laborer gets
less money and works harder. He pays, more
for what te eats and wears, and sees less hope
for the ft tore. By some juggling of figures
the mountain of debt is made to appear as di
minishing, bnt no man, not a partisan or
office-holder believes it Its burdens are felt
more sensiHy than ever, and the country sees
still the shameful spectacle of the many work
ing for the benefit of the few—the rich growing
richer, and the poor poorer—the monopolists
still petted rad gorged by the government, and
thieves in dfioe still robbing both the people
and public treasury. Trade languishes, and
business o]erations are palsied. The West
teems with products but is almost dying of in
anition. Tl» South is staggering along, scarcely
able to keep upon her feet. Even in favored
New Englaid the poor are poorer and more
hopeless—oily the rag-barons and spindle-lords,
the capitalists and aristocrats of bonds and
government-protected manufacturers, are pros
pering. To-3ay there is less light along the
horizon everywhere, than at any time since the
war. Upon trade, finance and politics, a cloud
darker than ever before lowers with sullen
gloom. The conntry is sick, very sick. It has
lost money, hope, life and nerve, in a greater
degree\han daring any twelve months of peace
in its history. Dare any man not hired to trade
on falsehood for party’s sake, deny all this ?
We have touched very lightly upon the politi
cal retrogression that has marked Grant’s first
year of office, but the record is very full. He
has given ready assistance and aid to the vilest
and most venomous assaults upon the rights of
the people, and especially the Southern people.
He has approved, without question, every out
rage perpetrated by his masters of the Radical
party upon law, reason, justice and common
sense. He has assisted at every fresh degrada
tion put upon principles and policies founded
in a wise statesmanship, and approved by the
men who made the Government and vitalized
the Constitution. He has struck down every
harrier that stopped the march of tho blood-
drunk and power-crazed mob, towards perfect
and unquestioned sway. He has been their
tool—not their master—their executioner, and
not the defender of the people. He has been
the chief of a party, and not tho President of
the United States.
All these things, and many more, has Grant
done in one short year. The promise for those
to follow is even worse. We have little hope of
the future, so far as ho can control it. We be
lieve despotic power is the goal he and his are
marching for. If the people consent,he will reach
it long before his term expires. Onr faith is
weakening in the power of the elements that
stand in his way, bnt we shall not lose hope and
heart till the deed is fully done—the victim dead,
dead, dead, and the earth packed over its grave,
Until then we shall fight the good fight, let who
will faint by the wayside, or stretch forth their
greedy hands for the accursed thing that damned
the base Judean. We put on record here, and
now, what Radical rule has done and what it
means. We point to it as proof why all men who
love their country shonld swear to battle with it
to the end, and if defeated to go down with “no
surrender” upon their banners and in their
hearts.
God save the Republic!
John Quincy Adams.
They have a “Constitutional Club in Boston,
and on the 22d of February the Club listened to
an address from this gentleman. He made a
magnificent speech, and in the course of his
remarks charged that the Radicals had abased
their power to vitalize and perpetuate a party,
and had leagued together to destroy the Consti
tution :
“I mean to say,” said Mr. Adams, “and I say
it with a sense of responsibility, that to-day
there is nothing of the old Constitution of onr
fathers left to us except what was always un
derstood and believed by them to be a mere in
cident of constitutional power, and that is this
war power.” * * * “The old con
stitutional edifice of the fathers was built of the
white marble of the States, which they brought
together voluntarily as a work of love, and
piled up there one by one each in pride and de,
light, adding stone after stone to the beantifnl
and symmetrical edifice under which we all live,
[Applause.] Rut what is this thing which we see
there in Washington? Is that built of those
stones? Is that put together by any such hands
as those which cemented the old oapitol ? Why,
gentlemen, it is built of the volcanic lava, hot
yet from the results of the outpouring of the
mount [applause,] and it is clamped together
by great bands of black, rusted, iron fetters.
[Applause.] It’s no such edifice at all, and
now we have in the Presidential chair a man
who, when he swears to protect and defend and
preserve the Constitution, seems to think that
this is the Constitution which he swears to pre
serve.”
Alluding to a proposition which was made in
the Massachusetts Legislature, a few days be
fore, to fire a hundred guns on Boston com,
mon in honor of the passage of the Fifteenth
Amendment, Mr. Adams said: “I was only
sorry that I was not in. tho Legislature to pro
pose, as an amenement to it, that the United
Statos be humbly solicited to allow the State of
Massachusetts to fire that salute from Fort War
ren, and that the guns might be shotted, in or
der to show the process by which the amend
ment had been carried.”
A qtjeee case is now before the Kingston
(N. Y.) Conrt i. A lady who aided another lady
in seouring a hnsband worth $10,000 sues the
now marri-jd lady for $3,000, the amonnt she
agreed to pay the former, in case a “match”
was made. The complainant got up parties,
picknics, moonlight meetings, rowing on the
placid bosom of the noble Hudson, eta, eta,
and before he knew it the poor fellow Was done
for and the knot tied, when the newly married
lady refused to keep her promise.
The Georgia Freaa.
The Central railroad steamers on the Chatta
hoochee river, are carrying freight and passen
gers for half prioe.
Thomasville was lighted by street lamps, for
the first time, on Monday night
F. O. Welch, of Minnesota, who claims to rep
resent Dougherty county in the Atlanta Agency,
was robbed of $225 at Atlanta, Monday night
Now he will get a place on the State road.
A merchant informs the local of the Atlanta
Constitution “that it ia almost impossible to get
goods from local stations on the Western and
Atlantic railroad. Wc hope the matter will
soon be remedied. We can get goods from New
York much quicker, after placing them in the
depot, than from Dalton or Acworth, Ga., or al
most any atation on the road.”
A sleeping oar that will run through without
change, from Atlanta to Louisville, has just
been put on the line. Arrangements are being
made to ran them from Atlanta to New York
with bnt one change.
The Atlanta Era says:
It is expected that the summer campaign on
the Air-Line railroad will be productive of the
most satisfactory results. Everything is vigor
ous now, and will continue so until the ends
meet.
It was Jacob Lalor, aged seventy-three, and
emigrating from North Carolina to Tennessee,
who fell off the train on the Georgia Railroad
Wednesday last. He had $150 in gold on his
person. Nothing heard from him yet
Mr. Fryer, agent for Patti, was mistaken for
Bollock on the Georgia Railroad Monday night,
and somebody sarcastically enquired if he was
not in danger from the Ku-Klux ? The next day
the Atlanta slander mill had it that the K. K.’s
had searched that train for Bullock.
The Constitutionalist says:
Encouragement of Cotton and Woolen Man
ufactures.—A bill to aid and encourage cotton
and woolen manufactures iu the State, of South
Carolina, has passed both houses of the Legis
lature. This bill owes its passage, in a great
measure, to the exertions of tho friends of the
Langley Manufacturing Company, now organ
izing in this city, who spent a few days last
week in Columbia, where they were warmly re
ceived by Governor Scott and other officials,
and by whom the object of their visit was warm
ly approved. The main feature in the bill is
the refunding to individuals, firms, and compaj
nies all State, county and mnnicipal taxes for
four years after their mills shall be in full oper
ation.
The Augusta policemen are to be put into a
new uniform—coats of cadet gray, sky blue
pants, black felt hats, white gloves’ and black
belts.
Jack Anderson was shot in the leg by Ned
McDearman at Columbns, on Thursday. Both
were employes of Nunnally’s tobacco factory.
Three thousand, five hundred mules arrived
at Atlanta, during the month of February.
A negro robbed Mr. Doggett, of Harris coun
ty, of $500, at Columbus, Wednesday night.
The Enquirer says:
Determined to Go Ahead.—The Directors of
the Columbus Industrial Association held a meet
ing Thursday, and resolved to go ahead in the
work of fixing np the Fair Grounds. A" com
mittee was appointed to report on plans and
specifications at an early day, and another to
arrange for & premium list. Some $12,000 was
reported as subscribed, which sum it is hoped
to swell to at least $15,000, by the time the
money is needed. Another meeting of tho Di
rectors takes place next Saturday.
Thomasville has a rather notable darkey. The
Enterprise gives us a short sketch of his life
and adventures. He was bora at Kouka, the
capital of Boruou, Eastern Soudan, Africa, and
his father was commander-in-chief of the glis
tening and grerjy army of that country. He
was stolen and made a slave of at an early age
by another tribe, finally passing into the hands
of Prince Mentchikoff, Minister Plenipotentia
ry of Russia at Constantinople. Prince Mentch
ikoff earned him to St. Petersburg, where he
was not only liberated but educated, residing
two years in the family of the Prince. Nicho
las now attached himself to the family of Prince
Nicholas Troubetzkoy, who taught mm the
French language and with whom he traveled
over Europe in the capacity of valet de
chambre. Their tour, which lasted seven
years, brought them finally to England,
where Said concluded to retnrn to his own
country, but being persuaded by Count"
Rochusseu of Holland to visit America, he ac
companied tho Count to Amsterdam, from
whence they embarked for the United States
and landed at Portland, Maine, in 1864. Re
maining in Portland but a very few days Count
Rochussen had occasion to visit the West India
Islands and taking Said with him they set sail
visiting the Bahamas, Hayti, Jamaica, St
Thomas and other Islands, and were absent
about one year when they returned to the Uni
ted States, landing in New York in 1865. They
now visited Niagara Falls, crossed into Canada
and after visiting several of the principle towns
parted company at the town of Aylmer in Can
ada West. Our-Africo European and American
traveler now made his way into the Southern
States and took up his residence in Charleston,
S. O., where he engaged in school teaching
far about two years. Removing from that
city he passed through Savannah and located in
Thomasville, and has for several months con
tinued his occupation. Recently however, he
conceived the idea of delivering a course of
lectures, or rather a series of addresses to the
colored people and for that purpose will shortly
start out on a tour through the Southern States.
Nicholas Said is only about 32 years of age,
was tattooed in his early youth as was the cus
tom of his tribe, and still bears the broad
marks of the ruling class in his nation. He has
been well educated, and speaks and writes flu
ently the English, French and Italian languages,
while he also still delights in his mother tongue.
Tho Americus Republican says:
Fxbe asd Loss or Life.—On Monday last
fire broke out ia one of the cabins on the plan
tation of Mr. Wm. Usry, seven miles West of
Americus. A negro woman about eighteen
years of age, the only person in the house at
the time, kindled a fire to warm herself, and
stooping over it, her clothes caught from the
flames, which were communicated to a portion
of the building. The screams of the girl brought
to her assistance her mother, who was at work
in a field near by. She immediately ran in the
house and barred the door. A number of hands
who were working the road, on discovering the
house in flames repaired to the scene, and forc
ing the door open, discovered the two women
inside, the girl literally burned to death. Had
it not been for their timely arrival both women
would have perished in the flames. The fire
was communicated to another building near by,
and both were consumed together with their
contents.
The Pulaski Manufacturing Company has
commenced spinning yarns.
Fifty-seven person died in Atlanta during the
month of Febrnary.
The Greensboro Herald says:
Pbaisbwobthy.—We are glad to observe that
the people of Macon are talking of erecting a
monument to the memory of Mr. Simri Rose,
for nearly half a century one of the editors and
proprietors of the Georgia Journal and Messen
ger, and founder of the Rose Hill Cemetery.
This is both appropriate and praiseworthy, for
never did a city have a faster friend or more
publio spirited citizen, one whose heart beat
more responsive to the calls of charity, or whose
hand moved more readily to the performance
of kindly and generous deeds. Let the monu
ment go np, by all means, and there are many
outside of j the beautiful Central City who will
gladly contribute their mite to adorn his favor
ite retreat with a suitable memorial of his own
enterprise and worth.
s Mr. Archibald Belcher, an old and respected
citizen of Newton county,' died last Friday of
apoplexy.
The stables of Mr. W. S. Montgomery, living
in Newton county, were fired by an incendiary
one night last week, and burned to the ground,
together with about 300 bushels of oats and
several thousand pounds of fodder. Loss $1100.
One hundred and ninety aores of land at Mil,
ner, Pike county, sold last Tuesday for $1912.
The Carters ville Express is pleased to note
the fact that “our farmers are sowing largely of
to urge upon our country friends the import
ance of raising tobacoo as a crop in this section.
It ia very profitable. We learn that an old gen
tleman of this county, with a young son, and
only one horse, cleared eight hundred dollars
last year off of his tobacoo, after making corn,
wheat, eta, to do him. That beats cotton
planting all to pieces. Won’t somebody tell us
how to cultivate tobacco ?
Chops.—Many fear that the peach crop has
falready been cut short by freezing in the bud.
We don’t believe it. Wheat prospects are flat
tering so far. Large crops of oats are antici
pated. The grasses and olover are receiving
due attention. Farmers have commenced in
good earnest.
Lynch Law.—It is rumored on ocr streets
that a negro man was hung in Calhoun on Mon
day night, last. We have heard no particulars,
farther than that he attempted an outrage npon
a white woman.
After to-morrow night, the night train on the
Athens branch of the Georgia Railroad will be
discontinued.
The Constitution has heard of two tickets for
President and Vice-President in 1872—Butler,
and Blodgett, and Revels and Turner. If com
pelled to choose between them, we take the lat
ter, unhesitatingly.
Grain receipts are very heavy at Chattanooga,
bnt in consequence of the prohibitory freight
tariff on the State Road, it is being stored in
the warehouses there.
The New Era says the wheat orop around At
lanta is doing as weft as could be expected.
The Rev. William Cunningham, a leading
minister of the Presbyterian Church ’[of Geor
gia, and pastor of the chnroh at LaGrange,
died there Thursday.
Replying to the Era’s denial that State Road
employees are forced to subscribe to that paper,
the Constitution administers the following set
tler :
houses; two drug stores; one bakery atV
manufactory; three ban-z«oms; troT
establishments; one furniture house- two
and harness shops; two hotel*; two flmL
schools; one livery stable; one grist
carnage manufactory; one watch
tablishmeat; three churches; one
S*i\
establishment; carpenters, blacksmiths
rights, brick-masons, shoe-makers, one’<
any quantity of doctors, lawyers, loafer.”
with a population of about fifteen handted*
and we challenge the world to produce nr.
or more intelligent women, more clever L
as handsome children—and the latter » 8 „
in abundance, though at as late a period as
a baby was a curiosity in Quitman. *
The latter item will not, it seems to
commend Quitman as a place for poor raenl
limited incomes to pitch their tents.
The editor of this paper saw, this morning,
a negro who was in the employ of the State
Road, though he is not now, who alleges that
he can not read, that he never subscribed to
that paper, but that he received, as part of his
wages, a receipt dated in January, for five dol
lars for six months's subscription to the Era.
The writer saw the receipt and read it. The
negro said that he knew four other colored em
ployees of the road who cannot read, were also
made subscribers to that paper in the same way.
The negro also said that in the last few days the
road authorities had offered to refund him his
money.
The people of Taliaferro county are reported
by a Constitution correspondent as' well np in
their business. The prospects for grain crops
are unfavorable in the main, however. Labor
is in great demand, but scarce in many locali
ties.
Of the ravages of meningetis in Upson county,
a Thomas ton correspondent writes as follows to
the Constitution, nnder date of March 2d:
Meningetis has been creating quite a panic
here for the last week; only two deaths of
whites as yet. Several others that have been
considered as hopelessly ill for the past two
days, are somewhat revived. The mortality
among the blacks in this vicinity has been fear
ful for the past two or three weeks. On Mon
day last at noon, I called in a cabinet shop.
There was at that hour, for that day, orders in
for six coffins. I learned subsequently there
was two more ordered in the afternoon, making
eight
One of the victims was one of the loveliest
and most promising young ladies in town; an
other of the same class is now hovering over
the grave, apparently just ready to fall. The
young ladies, so far, are the greatest sufferers.
Is there no remedy for that terrible disease ?
Miss T., on last Monday morning, was consid
ered beyond the reach of human aid. Doctor
Flewellen, (whom you may remember as having
been General Bragg’s Chief Medical Officer,)
informed the mother that in his opinion there
was but one remody, and that was bleeding. I
learn that other physioians differed from him,
but his counsel prevailed, and the young lady
was copiously bled. In a very short time she
was better, and is to-day reported better.
The Era says that both Trinity and Wesley
Chapel, (Methodist) of that city, will build new
and very handsome churches this summer.
The Quitman *
We learn that on last Monday, Mr. Abraham
Strickland, Tax Receiver for Brooks county,
suddenly dropped dead whilst in his field. The
cause is supposed to have been heart disease.
He was an old, hard-working, honest, and re
spected citizen.
The Bainbridge Sna says the streets of that
place and the backyards of the stores, are “reek
ing with filth.” The Spring fights opened in
Bainbridge on Saturday, with great eclat. No
blood, however.
The Newnan Herald announces the death, on
Monday night, of Lewis Redwine, one of the
best citizens of Coweta county.
The agent of a Northern publishing house was
in Columbus Monday, endeavoring to make ar
rangements with ex-Judge Morton, of that city,
to purchase a copyright of his forthcoming life
of Thomas Paine.
Tho Sun say3;
Levied on a Whale.—Barney Casey has the
reputation of a bulily efficient constable, bat
yesterday he capped the climax by levying on a
stuffed whale, an owl and a hand oVatn and oth
er fixings that have been on exhibition in this
city for several days. Tho owner could not
pony up to the tune of $30 incurred to a negro
and white mac. in Macon, for rent and board,
and Barney has the property in charge.
The Savannah News has the following items:
Cotton foe Livebfool and Havre.—Messrs.
Wilder & Fullarton yesterday cleared tho fino
ship Clara Wheeler,[Captain Wilmouth, for Liv
erpool, with a cargo of cotton, 4,000 bales (in
cluding 49 bales sea island; cotton, weighing
1,817,606 pounds, and valued at $451,399 15.
Tha above firm also cleared the North Ger
man bark Atlanta, Captain Hogeman, for Havre,
with 1,585 bales upland cotton, weighing 741,-
190 pounds, and valuedjat $174,719 OS.
Fell oyer thb Bluff.—At ten and a half
o’clock Wednesday night the steward of the
steamer Lizzie Baker fell over the bluff, near
the light on Bay street, breaking hi3 elbow.—
About an hour after night watchman Feddis, of
tho Customs, fell over about the same place and
broke his arm and leg.
Says the Republican:
Disgusting.—A Yankee school-marm, who
has been engaged in teaching a colored school
in this city for several months, was arrested
yesterday upon a warrant issued by a Justice of
Peace, charging her with seducing a colored
man, the husband of the colored woman at
whose instance the warrant was issued. The
testimony tended to prove that the parties were
found in the same bed at the same time. The
school-marm appealed to the magnanimity of
the colored lady, with many tears, and promised
her that in case she would withdraw the prose
cution she (the school-marm) would never se
duce the cullud gentleman again, whereupon
the cullud lady relented, and the case was am
icably settled.
The school-marm is fair, fat and forty, and
the cullud gentleman, who was seduced by her
charms, is between fifty and sixty years of age.
Incendiaby Fibe.—We learn that on Wednes
day, afternoon tho dwelling house, stables and
other outhouses on the place known as “Ingle
wood,” on the Louisville road, seven miles from
the city, the property of Mr. James O. Blance,
were destroyed by fire. Tho loss is about twelve
hundred dollars, and no insurance. As there
was no person residing on the premises, the fire
was unquestionably the work of an incendiary.
The La Grange Reporter says negro Mormon-
ism has broken out there. There are three
negro Republicans living just without the limits
of La Grange enjoying a multiplicity of wives.
Two of them have two wives each, and the
third one has three—each man keeping his wives
in the same cabin.
The Quitman Banner thus glorifies over the
progress of that town. It certainly has grown
most astonishingly, all things considered.
As late as the commencement of the year
1859, the present site of the town of Quitman
was a pine foreBt.
We now claim to have one of the prettiest,
most prosperous, desirable and bealthly towns in
Southern Georgia—covering an area of country
about one mile square—built up with tastety
cottages, stately residences, magnificent churcb-
Water on the Plains.
The Inland Empire, of January 29 ]
following remarkable statement co’ n
the process of change going on all overt
great inland desert between California
Missouri. It says:
For some time past there has been a n»
tion before the people of this basin and o? i
plains east of the Rocky Mountains, that 1
as yet failed to be satisfactorily answered,
is—Why are the streams carrying more
than in former years? The great plainTSl
fast losing their and nature, and through tWl
are running streams in places wheie twTl
years ago there was not a drop of water .SI
where at that time there were small stream I
they are now very much enlarged, w®* *
cases this change has been of great
it has given to the trawler a supply of*,. 1
that had previously been denied.
When the first emigrants crossed the pV
to California, the great objection urged to t
trip was the scarcity of water on the
part of the route. Within a few years (Vj
has been all changed, and in the beds 0 fV|
streams that were dry when first found th»l
is now water for all the purposes required J
The Laramie plains are not now destituted!
water, whereas some years ago there was nojt j
and travelers had to carry water on pasa«,|
over them. There can be no doubt thatfl
the last ten years there has been a eonticjJ
increase of water throughout the whole dewl
country between the Missouri anil the Sieml
Nevada. The Arkansas was dry in 1852 ft®|
the Pawnee Fork to the Cimaron email, j
and previous to tha. time the PecoswasijJJ
up so that at many places the inhabitants a 1
obliged to dig for water. And the More
ley and plains were at that time almost 1
tute of vegetation. Now the vegetation;
luxurious, and it is one of the very best wbi
growing sections.
Denver was built on the banks of an t_
creek, which it was supposed would tea
dry, but after the settlement, to the as
ment of the people, it became quite a i
and is now crossed by bridges. The HueiL
the Roya Pecos, and others that werel
during the summer months, ten years ago,;
now constantly running in fair streams. ”
are satisfied that along the whole line o
Union Pacific llailroad there is much
moisture in the earth than there was only j
few years since. Again, Salt Lake is stvs|
feet higher than it was ten years ago, aud*
constantly rising, and it has been urged!;
those who have paid attention to tie subjea
that the rise of water there would produce J
solution of the Momion question before CtrJ
gress would act upon it. When the Saltlil
shall rise a few feet higher weshall lookf:
iu overflow to reach the Shell Creek range,i,
evidently at one time wafer did cover whatij
now only an arid 1 valley, not' direct in»
course, but cut up with ranges, still the <»
tinued valley can be traced. This great i>
crease of water will work a great revolutk
in the opinion of the people as to the eipaor
of the great plains for agricultural purposes, j
The onlv reason why the great plains at
not bo made into good fruit farms is the lxtjj
of writer and limber, as the land in riches
has no superior. 'TTnc'increase of water i
which we have spoken will do away with c
objection, and the discovery of coal over ad
tauce east of Salt Lake for over 600 miles s
obviate the other. The man who travels ore j
the Union Pacific Road twenty-five years frotrj
this time will find V—d"
given way to crops of all kinw s> growing in tit
greatest luxuriance, and that t- .w. sturdy fan:
ers with happy homes have the placij
Mr own ex 1
of the wandering fed men. In <
this increase of moisture hasbeenk noticed, ai]
the old settlers do not 'hesitate say that:
many places the streams have due
than one-fourth in size durirre i‘
years, and in some places where ti
water then there is n?w small Imr
running streams*
teased ns
|'.e past!
here i
An Interview witii Geiicrs
David McCrae is furnishing thd
(Scotland) Herald with a ■ series of
sketches of Americanmen and women.l
scribed his first interview with Gehenl
follows:
“When I got back to tho hoteM foafa^i
Lee, who was aware of my coming, had K#|
(with the courtesy so conspicuous anion oh j
class Americans) sent his servant to ir.qdf.’t2i|
had arrived, and to say that he would line tose |
me at the college. rr . r " ’’’ ~ j
“On going there after'breakfast I was tab: j
up stairs and shown into the room set aside fe j
the use of tho ccliege president.
“A noble-looking man, dressed in gray iw-l
tary coat, who had been writing at a table to’j
the window, rose as I entered. He was ail
straight and soldier-like, with crisp hair turustl
white; short trimmod beard, pointed at taj
chin, and dark imperial looking eyes, re;I
keen and searching. It was Robert E. I^j
tho old Confederate commander. .
“As tho first words of greeting passed
tween us there was a hidden sadnebs inhisU ;
which impressed me painfully. He was sni
ing from ill-health at the time ; but it was a*
a look of physical pain. Perhaps it was od;
my own feeling, but it seemed as if the shade*
of the past was over him—as if you could to
behind the vigilance of his dark eyes the fate*;
the South and of the myriad who lay sleephjj
on the silent battle-fields.
“When I was seated ha began to
where I had been in tho South, and about SJ
journey up—smiling at tho somewhat doW»|
account I had to give him of my experisnwu
the stage from Goshen. Ha said there was s>
other road I might have taken—tbo one ft®
Staunton; ‘but they say whichever road;«•
take yon wish by that you had taken the otb«-
He hnd been twice by the Goshen road w |
horseback. The scenery was very grand.
“He began to speak about Scotland, and
‘You will meet with many of ■ your country®
here. The Valley of Virginia is peopled ^
Scotch-Irish—people who have coma from Srti
land by way of Ireland. They- are a fine rac*
They have tho courage and determination #
the Scotch, with the Irish dash and intrepidit;
They make fine soldiers.’ _ . . ,
“He said it was an old wish of his to visittb 1
country; but it would never be realized now.”
Stonewall Jackson had been in Scotland bafW!
the war. He had heard him speak of it
"‘When some reference was made to the od®
against which the South had fought, and
want there was of accurate statistics, I told Id*
it was understood he was preparing a history*
the war himself.
“ ‘I have had that in view,’ he said; ‘but ft*
time is not come for an impartial history. If®
truth were told just now, it would not be end
ited.
“Whenlhe books that had already appea®
were spoken of, and I mentioned one, ®
proof-sheets of which, it was asserted, had be* 8
submitted to General Grant and himself fori*
vision, ho said: ‘It is a mistake. I have nert
read a history of the war, nor the biography ®
any man engaged in it. My own life has to*
written, but I have not looked into it’ H«»®t
ed, after a pause, ‘I do not wish to aw*®*
memories of the past.’
“He spoke highly of Sherman's abilities
said Sherman had always been a good soldi#;
“ He seemed much gratified when I told
of the estimation in which he and Stone***
Jackson had been held from the first by t**
British people, irrespective altogether of htou
ern or Southern sympathies. He said, aft*T ■
pause, 4 Jackson lies in tho Presbyterian Wv
ing-ground at the other extremity of Les 8 *
ton.’”
oats, and never has as much elover been sown ® B » an d splendid brick stores. Onr eourt-house
as Is, and will be, this spring ” 1 88 0De of the most handsome and commodious
u. , .1 ■ ! in the State; ou* Jail neat and substantial; eta
The Dalton Otiizen has the foUowrag items. ] Academy building commodious and elegant
Tobacco as a Crop.—We have bees requested * We have some eighteen or twenty
Whittemobe committed two blunders ins*^ j
of one crime. First he took too paltry » 611 , J
and second he was found out In Gong” 8 .
etealing the safe, maxim ia don't look at» I
thing under five hundred dollars, •wlto* u 'j
and cover up your tracks.
JohnC, Bceckinrid
rial charge of cue of J
papers.
.j about to take
i Lexington (Ky.) **
mas