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The Greorgia, "Weekly Telegraph, and. v 4 ' - • • • • 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