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Tlie Greorgia ‘W'eekly Telegraph, and. Journal <te Messenger.
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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MARCH 15 1870.
The Income Tax Law Repealed.
There is, says the New York Herald of "Wed
nesday, a serious misapprehension in the pub-
ho mind in relation to the income tax. Peti
tions are being sent to Washington for the re
peal of the law. It ahonld be distinctly under
stood that the Income Tax law was repealed by
limitation the 31st day of December, 1869.
The tax now being assessed is for the year I8G9.
After it is paid no other income tax can be col
lected cr assessed without the enactment of an
entirely new law, which is not likely to be
brought about The repeal of the old law is
final and unconditional. It takes effect as soon
es the tax for I860 is paid. A bill passed the
House under the previous question gag rule a
few days ago, providing for the assessment and
collection of -an income tax for one year only,
’(1870) but it is not likely that Congress will put
«xoh a needless burden upon the people again
in face of the unanimous protest of the entire
press of the country. The occasion that called
for it has passed away forever. Let us have
no more income tax laws.
Casting Grant’s Political Horoscope.
The New York Son (Rep.) tells Grant’s for
tune as follows. HI natured people do say,
however, that if Grant had crossed Dana’s palm
With a fat office that he much desired, the proph
ecy would not have been so much in the Cas
sandra vein. But the world is so uncharitable.
Says the Sun:
That Gen. Grant will be ntterly disappointed
in his personal aspirations, it needs no prophet
to ,predict That he may succeed in ruining the
party which trusted him is quite possible. That
he will be able to advance even in sight of the
.point where Clinton and Jackson failed, is to
-the last degree improbable. That he will be dis
missed from the White House on the 4th of
.March, 1873, with the armo indifference, not to
• say contempt, that followed the departure of
•John Tyler and Andrew Johnson, history will
doubtless record.
Railroad Radicalism.
Two gentlemen of Montgomery, Alabama, re
cently went to North Carolina to hire farm
hands. They succeeded in getting about fifty,
and wishing to lighten expenses as much as
possible, telegraphed from Greensboro to the
President of the North Carolina railroad ask
ing a redaction in the faro. That Radical of
ficial who must be a curious compound of knave
and ass, answered as follows:
“Raleioh, N. G., March 2, 1870.
W. J. HcGaugk : Wo are opposed to taking
our citizens out of the State; you must pay full
fare. We need them in the next election and I
would not be sustained if I connived at anything
which would defeat our party. W. A. Smith.
President.'
Tlie Suez Canal.
The business of the Suez Canal is reported
by its Director, Mr. Lange, as follows:
According to official returns, the receipts of
the Suez Canal Company, since the opening,
and made up to the 31st of January last,
amounted to 567,872f.06e, accruing from three
sources—1. Tolls on vessels. 2. Transit of
merchandise and passengers. 3. Rent on land
ed property and houses. The last item figures
only for the sum of 48,8G0f.31c., but so soon as
the question of 'judicial reform in Egypt has
been finally decided, enabling the company’s
lands to bo legally sold, I entertain no doubt
that the income -derived from that souroe will
alone prove Of considerable value. Although
the navigation Of the Suez Canal is still in its
infancy, it may be interesting to trace its de
velopments up to the present time. Between
the dates of the 21st of November and 31st of
■'January, twenty-six vessels, or equal to one
■ every three days, passed through it, and from
■ the 1st to tbo 17th of February, nineteen ves
sels, or a little over one vessel per day, went
• through.
A Washington dispatch of the 4th instant
•says: “ The President was congratulated by
all the members of the Cabinet, at the meeting
•to-day, on the result of the first year of his ad
ministration, particularly on the information
brought in by Secretary Boutwell that gold had
fallen to thirteen and three-eights. This had
the effect of producing a conversation concern
ing the probabilities of the very early resump
tion of specie payments, which ended in the
general disposition among the members of the
Cabinet to let the future prosperity of the coun
try regulate that action as it has been regalatcd
by the peaceful condition of events for the
past two years.”
The Boston Traveller says that those en
gaged, in the hoot and shoe trade have not
found the sales of the season thus far quite up
to their expectations. There are more houses
in the trade than heretofore, and the demand
for goods has not increased so fast as the fa
cilities for supplying them. Sales have been
made at small profits to the manufacturers,
and with the competition as sharp as at pres
ent the business must be conducted with pru
dence, to prevent a positive loss.
“A Cbeeky Lot.”
Says the Louisville Commercial, the new Rad
ical organ of Kentucky:
To the mind of the Tennessee and Georgia
factionists it is incomprehensible that, having
the power to do it, Congress shonld hesitate to
restore them to places which their contumacious
rebel constituencies failed to vote them into.
The Whittemores, Callises, Bullocks, Black
burns, Deweeses and Butlers are a cheeky lot.
Insulting tlie ex-Conffedcrates.
.The Missouri Legislature has passed a Con
stitutional Amendment enfranchising “rebels”
. and negroes. Not many of those who thus in
sult the beBt men of that State by putting them
on a level with negroes, wo hazard the guess,
did very much towards subduing these “rebels’
when they had arms in their hands.
The Weightest Untbuth Yet Discoveeed, or
vulgo, the biggest lie now out, is the telegram of
the Legislative Niggers that they represented
ninety thousand votes in Georgis. There are
not half of the colored population of Georgia
who endorse these transparent hnmbugs, and
not one of them will ever be re-elected to the
Legislature.
The Berlin correspondent of the New York
Handelszeitnng says that Louisiana levee bonds,
Brunswick and Albany Railroad bonds, guaran
teed by the State of Georgia, and other Ameri
can railroad bonds have been thrown upon the
money market at Berlin, and that Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad bonds meet with a rapid
sale there, and are advancing.
Neab Nashville, last week, one Murphy shot
and killed one Vivratt; not, however, before
Vivrelt had shot and mortally wonnded Murphy.
“A singular fate appears to follow the Vivrett
family, as already two or three of the brothers,
as well as the father, have been shot and
killed.”
“Ouida."—A lady friend of ours is almost
crazy to know tho meaning of this word. If
she don’t have her curiosity gratified in a week,
say, somebody will have a rough time. Pity
the poor fellow and let her know.
Col. Gindrat, of Montgomery, having pro
cured from England, a number of experienced
potters, will soon commence making a superior
article of pottery and crockery, similar to the
best English ware.
Gen. Breckinridge on the Kn-Klni.
We are glad to see tins distinguished gentle
man brand these masked marauders and assas
sins as they deserve. . He could not have said
one superfluous word in denunciation of them
midnight deeds of darkness. The vast majori
ty of tho people of tho South who, to-day, suf
fer under oppressions and exactions only too
gladly imposed by Congress under the pretext
of complicity with these desperadoes and out
laws, will echo and endorso all that he or any
other honest man may say of them. We hope
his words will go far to reach and core the evil.
It is a shame and an infamy that the deviltry
of a few desperate men, should reaot upon the
heads of all the people, and that the most vital
interests of a whole section shonld be jeopard
ized and ruined in order that a few outlaws may
compass schemes of personal vengeanoe. Every
deed of violence that is perpetrated by these
maskers in their ghostly habiliments, is eagerly
welcomed by the Radicals, as so much fresh
capital. They seize upon it aa a dying man
would upon a draught to prolong his fast-ebbing
life. We have no sort of doubt that this Ku-
Klnx business has damaged the South more than
anything else that could possibly have been con
trived.
It makes no sort of difference whether or not
these outrages are committed by one or the
other party at the South. They are all credited
to the “rebel Democracy,” and to get the major
ity of the Northern people to believe that the
Democrats are not always responsible for them,
would be about as impossible as to get a joke
into some people’s heads without a surgical op
eration. lie beet and orgy plan is to put down,
summarily all such lawlessness whether com
mitted by Democrats or Radicals. No country,
no matter what its natural advangtages are, can
prosper to its full development that tolerates
it. There are occasions when the enormity of
a crime arouses and maddens an entire com
munity to take the law into its own hand and
wreak a bloody vengeance upon the criminal,
bat these cases are few, nor are they to be
classed with the midnight doings of the Ku-
Klnr. The former are always open and above
board,committed generally in the broad light of
day. The latter are perpetrated while law abid
ing people sleep, and with all tho silence and
mystery of a Venetian Council of Ten. We have
regret for the one, but swift and indignant re
probation for the other.
Of course we do not credit the existence of
any well organized league or army with ramifi
cations all through the South, as the Radicals
charge. Their falsehoods on this point have
been so often exposed as to make farther refu
tation ridiculous. Nor do we put to the credit
of Democrats half the outrages upon negroes,
and “loyal” men, charged to be committed by
Radical hirelings upon the stnmp and in the
press. These creatures are paid to lie this way,
and if they didn’t earn their wages would lose
their places. We do not believe there is any
such thing as a regular Ku-klnx organization in
Georgia, although there have been outrages
committed and laid to its charge. We have
never seen a Ku-klnx, nor seen anybody who
had. There are certainly none in this section,
though we haven’t a doubt that a hundred affi
davits that there are could be manufactured, if
needed at Washington, at an hour’s notice,
Yet, occasionally, bad people, white and black,
are dealt with very summarily when their
neighbors can’t stand their wickedness any
longer, and the law won’t act.
For Ku-KInxism, as we understand it, onr
people can have no sympathy whatever. They
abhor any and every such disgrace to civiliza
tion, and enemy to peace and order. We de
nounce it as we do everything, else that keeps
open old wounds, breeds bad blood, and retards
the peace and prosperity of a country sadly
lacking beth. It is wrong in itself and ruinous
in its effects. It must be put down some day,
and the sooner the better. Geu. Breckinridge
should speak ont again and again, and make
Kentucky, at least, too hot to hold any such
monster. When the blessings of stable, legiti
mate, honest government are vouchsafed to us
further South, we are very sure that neither
Georgia nor any other Southern State, will fur
nish a resting place for its foot. Until that time,
let all wise men set their faces and raise their
voices against its evil deeds.
It is said that Feilds, Osgood & Co. have con
cluded to drop the North American Review,
preferring to let it die rather than sell. It long
since dropped out of popular attention.
We are very much gratified to Ieam that ex-
President Davis is doing so well in the insur
ance business. In three days recently, at
Huntsville, Ala., be took five hundred appplica-
**'“iforpQliflie«t
Gridin and North Alabama Railway.
This great enterprise is moving along, under
the direction of CoL White, of the Macon and
Western Railroad, smoothly and rapidly. The
track is all laid to the Flint river, about ten
miles from Griffin, and we are assured a pret
tier or more substantial piece of railway con
struction is not to be found in the South. Col.
White is determined that the work shall be done
in the most thorough and durable manner.
The bridge across the Flint, and the connecting
trestle-work, are well advanced, and tho line to
Newnan, thirty-five miles from Griffin, will be
completed by the first of June next. It will
then be run in connection with the Macon and
Western—probably under a lease by that com.
pany, which will return to stockholders a com
fortable interest upon their Investment
About fifty miles beyond Newnan the road
will intersect the line of the Selma, Rome and
Dalton Road, and at this point the great miner
al regions of Alabama and Georgia will become
tributary to it Inexhaustible supplies of coal
iron, lime, marble, &e., will here enter into the
freights of the road, and this region will receive
over this line all its supplies of fuel fox house
hold and manufacturing purposes.
At this intersection, too,the line will receive its
first freight contributions of Western produce,*
and begin a trade which, when the road reach
es its terminns, will take gigantic proportions.
The distance between Newnan and the Selma.
Rome and Dalton Road will probably be con
structed in two sections, each of which, when
completed, will be incorporated into the lease
with the Macon and Western Railroad, and be
put in operation and made to pay dividends
to stockholders at once. This system will be
pushed throughout the entire line of the road
to Decatur.
It is 180 miles from Griffin to Decatur, and
here the road connects with the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad—with the Tennessee River
and with the whole system of Western river
railroad and lake communication. Taking a
map and tracing this line of Road from
Memphis by the Memphis and Charleston Road
to Decatur, thence to Griffin, Maoon and Bruns
wick, it will be seen to be almost an air lineand
so mnch the best and shortest line between the
Mississippi River and the Atlantio Ocean that
any other is hardly worth talking about in com
parison ; and the railway intersections of this
line with great trank lines penetrating all the
most important producing regions of the coun
try and carrying traffic and travel to and from
the great commercial marts and centres are such
as appertain to no other road in the Southern
country.
Independently of these facts, every foot of
this Griffin and North Alabama road will be in
a region of conntry extraordinarily productive
of trade and business by reason of its uncom
mon agricultural and mineral wealth, and what
is more, a country without a convenient outlet
and to which this road is an imperative neces
sity.
The reader who will take a map and exam
ine this project in all its bearings, will see that
it is bound to be one of the most important
and profitable thoroughfares in the whole South
ern country. It will be the grand avenue
through which the produce of the great Mis
sissippi Valley will reach Georgia/fcnd by which
much of it will reach the Atlantio seaboard. It
will be a road of great importance to Macon, and
make her the best distributing centre in the
State.
The Ranh Circulation we Have,
ASD
What we are Entitled to.
The editor of the Bueyrns, Ohio, Journal,
who was formerly * clerk in the Treasury De
partment, Bends ns an extra of his paper, con
taining a long and -elaborate article upon the
apportionment of the ’ “National Currency” un
der section 17th of the Currency bill, providing
for the issne and distribution of 300 millions of
National Bank Notes. In this article the editor
has computed the proportion of this Banking
capital to which each State and Territory of the
Union is entitled, and oompared it with what it
has received. The table consolidating all these
calcinations is a valuable one, and we copy it
as follows:
Apportion
ment accord- Existing Excess Defi-
ing to estimate, apportion- circnla- ciency cir-
ment. tion. eolation.
Ala 7,425,000 353.025 7,071,975
Ark. . 2,724.000 180,250 2,513.800
Col 3,003.000 3,003,000
Con 7,222,500 18,215,115 10,992,615
1,090,500 1,244,725 154,225
955,500
Del.
Florida... 955,500
Geo 9,420,500 1,239,900
Ill 11,838,000 10,815,835
Ind 9,615,000 11,391,095 1,776,695
Iowa.... 4,408,500 3,436.135
Kansas.. 646,500 371,400
Ky 10,500,000 2,428,470
La 10,681.000 1.251,120
Maine.... 5,415,000 7,682,256 2.267.256
Md 7,137,000 9,436,780 2,299.780
Mass 21,795.000 65.104,670 43,309,670
Mich 5,200,500 3,957,555
Minn 1,050,000 1,604.100 554,100
Miss. ... 5,265,000 C6.000
Mo 9,411,000 4,419,170
N. H 3,312,000 4,394,395 1,082,395
N.J. 6,690.000 9.736,245 3.016,245
N. X 53,483,500 76,067,510 22,584,010
N. C 7,546,500 384,700
Ohio 17.C23.500 19,076,260 1,452,760
Oregon... 370,500 88,500
Penn ....26,527,500 40,769,220 14,241.720
R.L 4,794,000 12,940,850 8,146,850
8. 0 7,566,000 192,500
Tenn 8.766,000 1,291,170
Texas,.. 3,961,000 429.535
Verm’t,. 2,989,500 5,916,800 2,927,300
Virginia, 13,519,500 2,177,580
W. Virg, 2,068:950
Wiscon., 6,211,500 2.626,750
~ ' 658,500 1,339,500
27,000
18i;500
480,000
237,000
82,500
193,500
43,000
8,180,600
1,522,165
972,365
972,365
8,071.530
9,229,880
1,242,945
5,199,000
4,991,830
7,161,800
282,000
7,373,500
7,474,830
3,531,460
Dis. Col,
Dakota,
Neb
N.Mex..
Utah...,
Wash...
Colorado
Nevada,.
Montana
Idaho...
671,000
9.272,070
3,584,750
171.500
135.500
62,200
83,700
27,000
10,000
486,000
101.500
82,500
255.700
131.700
36,000
63,500
A few figures will forcibly illustrate the gross
inequality practiced in the administration of
this law. For example: Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vir
ginia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Kentucky—
thirteen Southern States—are entitled to $97,-
641,000 of the 300,000,000 of banking capital.
What they have so far received, is $14,419,370!
or $83,221,630 short of their rateable propor
tion.
Ten Northern States, to-wit: Connecticut,
Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island and Vermont, are entitled to $139,852,500
of this capital, and have received $259903,321
of it—or an excess of $120,050,821.
Surely nothing more is needed to show the
propriety of a redistribution of the currency.
We have no partiality for the scheme of nation
al banks; but, on the contrary, believe when
they have been fairly submitted to the test of
maintaining specie payments, the plan will be
found very defective, and important changes
must be made. But as these are the only banks
of issne, the partiality in the distribution not
only works great injustice and inconvenience to
the South, but, we believe, by crippling this sec
tion, reacts injuriously on the North herself.
When we remember that the whole banking
capital of the thirteen Southern States is now
only two millions in excess of what Charleston
alone possessed before tho war, it is a wonder
we are able to get along at all, even at the rate
of 21 a month for money, as a permanent ar
rangement.
Tlie Georgia Bill in the Senate.
What the Senate will do with the Georgia bill
remains to be seen. We have heretofore sup
posed that the only chanco (and a small one).of
choking off Bntler, lay in the Senate, but since
he was so unexpectedly put down in tho House
we have ceased to anticipate events, and will
quietly wait upon them. Evidently Butler and
Bullock are in straits, and doing their best in
the way of canvassing in the Senate. The At
lanta New Era says that the passage of the
Georgia bill in the House is regarded as an en
dorsement of Bullock, but Bntler and Bullock
are straining their sinews to prevent a similar
endorsement from passing the Senate. It is a
kind of endorsement they don’t desire, and they
were canvassing, lobbying, fretting and faming
all day yesterday, to prevent it, if possible. Ac
cording to onr dispatches they appear to have
met with a degree of success. The Radical
Senators cancussedonthe Georgia question and
appeared to be about equally divided upon Mr.
Bingham’s amendment, Morton, Drake, Thay
er and Cameron, speaking against it, and Tram-
bull, Edmunds and Ferry, in favor of it Wo
are disposed to think the bill, as it passed the
House, will go through the Senate.
The Effect of Negro Role.
The city sheriff of Charleston will advertise
lor sale, at pnblio auction, in a few days, four
hundred pieces of real estate, to recover taxes
from the owners. Unless the taxes, aggregating
between fifty and sixty thousand dollars, be paid
before the first of April, the property will be
sold.
The Charleston negroes and their white allies
who rule that city, cut it so fat, and live so lux
uriously, that the poor white trash who own
the property can’t pay the heavy taxes rendered
neceBsaiy to support all this high living. We
are really sorry for them; but we suppose they
have no business to be white, or to own any
property.
If Bollock succeeds in his last plot, we shall
hear and read of just such a condition of affairs
in the cities of Georgia. We hardly think,
however, that the people of this State will stand
from Bullock & Co. what the South Carolina
folks submit to from Scott and his gang. We
are for law to the letter, bnt such wholesale
robbery as is perpetrated on the people of South
Carolina is an outrage upon all law, and absolves
any people from obedience thereto.
Tlie Bose for Temiesseee.
A Washington special to the Louisville
Courier-Journal, of Tuesday, says that It is
not intended by the Radicals in Congress
to set up a provisional government in Tennes
see, or to interfere with the present regime just
now, bnt a bill is to be prepared to secure a
now registration of the voters in accordance
with the present constitution of the State, and
that after the registration is completed an elec
tion is to be held for a Governor and Legisla
ture, which, when they are elected, are to take
the place of the present administration. The
justification for this is said to be found in tho
right of Congress to seenre to each State a re
publican form of government; that the present
one is illegal, and totally inadequate to protect
the people in their pursuit of life, liberty and
happiness.
A Washington letter says: “SanDomingo
will be admitted os a State of this Union before
the end of the present session of Congress. The
‘acquisition’ will add to the public debt four
times the amount the Secretary of the Treasury
pretends he has reduced it Besides, the gov
ernment will have made an addition to the na
tional burden of an entire nation of paupers.
I verily believe the annexation of Central
Africa, from the rise to the month of the Quar-
rie River, would find advocates among the ne
gro lovers of this Congress.”
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Bullock, Bntler A Co.—Hwi* Hit by tbe
Bingham Amendment—BrobabUitlea of
Its Passage In tbe Senate—Grant and
American Commerce—Bevels, and the
lngton Darkeys—Miscellaneous.
Washington, March 8, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger :
Buliock, Blodgett, cl al., were put out of
Court yesterday. Butler lost their case, as he
did the case of his elient, Whittemore. Doubt
less he secured his fee in both cases; but he
does not relish being so ignominiously beaten.
He sank back in bis seat yesterday, after the
adoption of Mr. Bingham's amendment, over
come with rage asd disappointment, Bullock
was ghastly pale and trembling nervously.
He stood far back on the floor of tbe House,
clutching the back of a chair. Blodgett rose
from tbe sofa on which be had been luxuri
ously reclining, and made his exit, with the
flag of defeat flying in his face. Bryant, An-
gier and others of the and-Bullock delegation,
were in the gallery,_ exultant and triumphant
They had learned in the. morning that the
passage of the bill was inevitable, and bad
turned their attention to securing the adop
tion of Mr. Bingham’s amendment, with what
success has been seen. They regard the re
sult of yesterday’s contest as highly favorable
to Messrs Hill and Miller. It squelches
Blodgett at all events, and that is something
to rejoice at. Still, it must be remembered
that the Senatorial question is for the Senate
to decide; and not the House. From present
indications, however, this need cause no un
easiness. The report of the Judiciary Com
mittee is favorable; and Georgia is understood
to have gained many friends in the Senate
since the “horror.”
Forney’s Chronicle of this morning has a
lengthy and lugubrious editorial on the action
of the House yesterday; but does not give up
the ship. It appeals to the Senate to save
Bullock and the carpet-bag crow.
Bullock was early on the floor this morn
ing, accompanied by Blodgett and Farrow.
Beast Butler left his seat in the House,
and came over to assist Butler in lobbying
against Bingham’s amendment These two
worthies whispered to and button-holed every
Senator present, and did not cease their la
bors until late in tho day. Butler declares he
will accomplish his ♦bject, and he has quite a
string of Radical Senators in tow. But on
the other hand, Serptor Stewart and others
are anxious to have Georgia admitted at once,
so that the Fifteenth Amendment proclama
tion may be issued, ind enable the negroes to
be registered in time for the spring emotions.
The result in New Hampshire has frightend
the Radicals a little; and they want to bring
the negro vote into the field for the election in
Connecticut next month. These facts strength
en the odds against Bullock, Butler, Blodgett
& Co.
“How I obtained a Commission; or one
phase of the Lobby,” is the title ot a farce,
written here, and which contains more truth
than poetry. The following is a synopsis of
the plot:
The central character around which events
revolve, is a United States Senator, who is
anxious to get into the good graces of a charm
ing young lady, whom he has met at a recep
tion. The lady, however, has a younger lover
to whom she is much attached, but he cannot
make enough money at his profession, the law,
to enable him to venture on matrimony. The
Senator, finding how the land lays, gets the
young gentleman a commission as an officer in
a colored regiment, intending to have the regi
ment ordered to Alaska, and thus get his
hated rival out of the way. While the young
man is attending to Ms new duties the Sena
tor attempts to improve the opportunity; but
his love-making is continually interrupted by
a colored man, servant to the family, who is
in lergue with the banished lover. The Sen
ator gets him a warrant as corporal in the
same regiment, and thinks he has now re
moved all obstacles to his success; but his
most interesting tete-a-tetes are again inter
rupted by a colored sweetheart of the newly-
mado corporal, who is also a servant in the
house, and one of the conspirators against the
peace of the Senator, and is always turning
up just when she isn’t wanted. She is finally
bought off by giving her a coveted position as
“boss scrubber” at the Treasury, and the
Senator, congratulating himself on his diplo
macy in overcoming all the difficulties which
stood m his way, seeks another interview with
his charmer, and is getting along very well,
when he is again interrupted by the “boss
scruboer” who brings unexpected and unwel
come intelligence. “Some one had blundered, "
aud the regiment supposed to be m route for
Alaska, had been ordered to Washington, and
was even then coming up the Avenue to the
tune of “Johnny Comes Marching Home.”
Getting desperate, the Senator declares his
passion, hut, while on his knees before the
adored one, is surprised by the gay lieutenant,
and the young lady confesses that she has
been all the time engaged to the latter. Mak
ing the best of his defeat, the Senator gives
the lovers his blessing—or words to that effect
—and retires, and the curtain falls upon two
happy couples—the lieutenant and his prom
ised wife, and the faithful corporal and his
“boss scrubber.”
The Republican of this city, says: “Presi
dent Grant has carefully perused the report
of the special committee on the decline of
American commerce and ship-building, and
has expressed his hearty approval of all its
recommendations. He will probably shortly
send in a special message recommending im
mediate action upon the subject. He thinks
that with our extended coast line, it is a
shame that all our commerce must be done
in vessels of nations, whose friendly feeling
toward the United States may be questioned;
and that Congress should without delay take
m asures to remedy the eviL”
Here is richness. Here is sarcasm—sharp,
biting, severe. Imagine Grant “carefully pe
rusing” a report, on the decline of American
commerce. Imagine him “expressing his hearty
approval of all its recommendations.” Im
agine him expressing an opinion on the subject,
either one way or tho other. But this would be
asking too much of even the mast fertile im
agination. For my part, I can imagine noth
ing of the kind. It is too absurd. Why,
Grant don’t know a canal boat from a line of
battle ship. He has no more ideas about
commerce and navigation than a hen has
about moral philosophy. Tho only naviga
tion Grant does know anything about is the
navigating of an ox-eart with a load of wood
into St Louis; and the navigating homeward
with the value of the wood expended in a
load of whisky, not for the cart, but for the
driver. What ideas of the briny deep, and
of those who go down to tho sea in ships, he
may have derived from stirring hides in
Galena vats, it is of course impossible to say;
but it may be fairly questioned whether they
would prove of any value. Grant “carefully
perusing” a report on the decline of American
commerce! Ha! ha! Shiver my topsails,
but that’s a jolly yam.
It is stated as a reason why the new negro
Senator from Mississippi refuses to have any
cards brought to him while in the Senate
chamber, is, that ho desires to he rid of the
annoyance of being called out to confer with
al l the darkey element congregated in this city.
Since his arrival here, every contraband in
the District and surrounding counties has been
to sec him to eDjoy the novelty of personal
consultation with “our Senator,” and the
thing becomes a nuisance to the Mississippi
quadroon, who likes not to bo button-holed by
darkies. Of course few, very few, white men
are likely to desire interviews with the dusky
Mississippiau, and his clients all being negroes,
it ill suits his new surroundings and Senato
rial associations, to be running out into the lob
bies at the back of the odoriferous rabble who
haunt his footsteps. This question of caste is
a. most fearfal thing to contemplate in the Af
rican race. The moment a smattering of
white blood gets mixed up in the sluggish
veins of the black-a-moor, that moment he
rets up a superiority over his blacker breth
ren, and in proportion as the white blood
prevails, in that proportion ho becomes ele
vated above the common herd. The distinc
tion is universally acquiesced in by the negro
race.
Some days ago, while the House was in the
Committee of the whole, Mr. Johnson, of Cal
ifornia, obtained permission to print a speech
on the removal of the Capital. It is a highly
humorous and clear prodnotion—a oapital bur-
Logan and other 'Western members. Mr. John
son shows the advantages of “Bed Dog,” “Yon
Bet,” “Yuba Dam,” and Jack-ass Guleh,” in
California as appropriate sites for the future
Capital of the United States; bnt in one pass
age he drops the mask of the jester, to give ut
terance to these truthful words: “A long time
ago Washington City was a name that could not
be pronounced without kindling emotions of
patriotism. It could not be uttered without
carrying to the mind the image of the Father of
his Country, and reviewing memories of the
noble deeds of the illustrious founders of the
Repnblio. But how different now 2 The word
now carries, whenever spoken, a great ragged
picture of negro processions, election riots,
and a lobby of white speculators who could not
be satisfied by a Legislative donation of the
whole world nnless it was tendered with a vote
of thanks.
The Ku-Klux are in Washington. At least
Gov. Bullock has received a letter signed “Bru
tus,” in which ho is advised to call off his dogs
from Goorgia and mind Ms own business; and
his carpet-bag excellency retorts through the
Chronicle that he is not afraid of the Ku-Klux.
Nor need to be. The Ku-Klux don’t meddle
with dead dogs.
Daring the debate on the Georgia bill the oth
er day a yellow colored nigger occupied tho seat
of “Mack,” of thd CincinnattiEnquirer. His
intellectual countenance indicated tbe greatest
interest in the proceedings; but he didn’t ap
pear to cotton mnch to Ballook, which is not
surprising, after alL A respectable nigger is
head and shoulders above the carpet-bag Gov
ernor of Georgia.
Bullock has been lobying in the Senate ' all
day to-day. Blodgett and Farrow accompanied
Mm.
Dr. ‘Bard is not yet confirmed as Governor of
Idaho, and is getting very nervous about it.
Dalton.
“Ccrebro Spinal Meningitis.’’
Eatonton, March 8, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger • Meningi
tis (so-called) is prevalent in this county. This is
the second severs visitation wo have had.
Daring the war I published the opinion in your
paper, that Meningitis and Malignant Typhus
Fever were identical. Tho Meningitis is mere
ly a symptom (perhaps a new symptom) of an
old disease. I have seen nothing in this epi
demic to change my opinion. “A positive as
sertion is a dangerous thing in our art”—but to
be in donbt is still more dangerous. I publish
this opinion to draw the attention of brother
physicians. I cannot at present bring forward
the proof, bnt will endeavor to do so when more
at leisure. Respectfully yours,
R. H. Nisbex.
Accompanying the foregoing note was a pri
vate letter to the senior editor endorsed “ not
for publication /’’but the vast importance of the
subject, and the fact that the private letter elabor
ates and sustains Dr. Nisbet’s theory enunciated
above, induces ns to take the responsibility of
putting the whole before the public. We shall
be sorry if this course shall involve any injus
tice to tho Doctor, and must take all the blame.
His letter is written in all the unreserve of
private confidence, and proceeds as follows :
Meningitis (so-called) is now" endemic in
Putnam county. It becomes the guardians of
the public health—physicians—if possible, to
know this new disease. What is the case ?
What is the cause ? What is the cure ? These
are the leading questions to be answered. In
onr profession ono way to arrive at the truth is
“by sifting the summary of individual observa
tion.” I propose to give the result of observa
tion,argl study of the two very severe visitations
of this disease which we have had within the
last seven years, in this county, also of the pre
sent visitation.
I assert, to tho best of my knowledge and
belief, that “meningetis” is malignant typhus
fever. I contend that inflammanion of the
membranes which cover tho upper portion of
the spinal marrow and the lower portion of the
brain, (to-wit, meningetis), is merely a new
symptom of an old disease. This typhus is con
gestive in type and character.
Now for the proof of the identity of malignant
typhus: In typhus the brain is the organ which
receives the shock of the poison. In typhus
the cases occur among damp, badly fed, ill ven
tilated, crowded people, as in jails, ships. and
cellars. In typhus, where isolated cases occur
among the better classes, it is from the vicinity
of those individuals to such a locality. In ty
phus the disease begins, in bad cases, with, a
severe shock, wMch, if the patient survives,
runs on into a low type of fever. In typhus, if
you see one case in a hovel, you will see two.
In malignant typhus tbe treatment at the outset
is aotive. In typhus sudden atmospheric vi
cissitudes aggravate the poison. In typhus the
convalescence is slow and lingering, etc., etc.
Now, all these facts are true of meningitis, so
far as it has come under my knowledge. I have
not timo for details. I will state a few facts.
Nine out of ten of the fitst cases I saw were
negroes. All of these nine occurred in tcell
marked typhus localities. Amoug negroes I
always had more thanonecasoin the samo cabin,
or on the same plantation. All the cases which
survived the first shock got well after lingering
convalescence, etc., eto. I have not time to
write at length. Daring the war, I published
this same opinion in your paper. I havo not
since had occasion to change. I write now
simply to call attention of brother physioian3to
the above fads. “A positive assertion is a
dangerous thing in onr art,” therefore I make
the above statements only after mature reflec
tion, and close observation. I am ready to re
tract all, if convinced of error. I have no pet
notion to sustain.
P. S. In a rotten shanty in a hotel yard, with
a large hog-pen at one end, and all the drainage
of the wash tubs and back-yard at tho other—a
regular typhus nidus—four children, all in the
house, are lying very ill of meningitis. Those
who passed tho first shock (congestion) upon
the brain safely, are now presenting all the
symptoms of European typhus.
The above is the story of almost all the oases
in this county. Mrs. Schaub’s vicinity to the
locality and the predisposing causes in her case,
account for her haviDg the disease. If I am
not mistaken, Mr. Joseph Wells’ family live in
a low, damp locality.
Decisions of tbe Supreme Court.
Tuesday, March 8, 1870.
The following judgments ware rendered:
The Rome Railroad Company, plaintiff in er
ror, vs. Andrew M. Sloan, defendant in error—
Case, motion for new trial from Floyd. Judg
ment of the Court below affirmed.
John Baber and wife, caveators, vs. John
Woods, Administrator—caveat to return of ad
ministrator and appeal from Court of Ordinary
of Catoosa connty. Judgment of the Court ba-
low reversed on the ground that the judgment
of the Court of Ordinary disallowing the return
of the Administrator so far as the Confederate
currency was concerned, was the judgment of a
court of competent jurisdiction, and as no ap
peal was taken from it, is final and conclusive
between the parties, and the administrator bad
no right to include the same item in the subse
quent return, which he was ordered by the
j adgment of the Court of Ordinary to make.
Nancy Martin, plaintiff in error vs. Campbell
Wallace, Superintendent Western and Atlantio
railroad, defendent in error—case'from Fulton.
Judgment affirmed.
The Mayor and Council of Atlanta, plaintiffs
in error, vs. the Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company, defendant in error—injunction from
Fulton. Judgment affirmed.
D. S. Printnp, et aL, vs. Wm. A. Fort defend
ant in error—equity and demurrer to bill from
Floyd. Judgment affirmed.
Noah Kite, plaintiff in error, vs. Joseph H.
Lumpkin,{defendant in error—rule against sher
iff from Floyd. Judgment reversed on the
ground that the court erred in not making the
rule absolute, under the facts, as set forth in
the record, bnt this court directs that, upon this
being done,the conrt below ought to pass an or
der giving the deputy sheriff the control of the
judgment $nd fi. fa. against Ayer, the defendant
to reimburse himself.
James Perry, plaintiff in error, vs. William
Honsely, administrator, defendant in error—
equity, verdict and motion for new trial from
Murray. Judgment affirmed.
George M. Thomas, plaintiff in error, vs.
the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company,
defendant in error. Judgment affirmed.
Willis P. Chisholm, plaintiff in error, vs.
Wade Cothran and Asahei R. Smith, defendants
in error. Award and demurrer to objections
from Floyd. Judgment reversed, on the ground
that the conrt erred in not sustaining the de
murrer to the objections filed to the award, tho
the same not being under oath.
Timothy D. Lynes, plaintiff in error, vs. John
M. Reed, defendant in error. Attachment from
Fulton. Judgment affirmed.
William H. Hatfield, et al., plaintiffs in error,
vs. William D. McWhorter, defendant in error.
Equity from Walker. Judgment affirmed.
John P. King, plaintiff in error, vs. Franklin
and Thos. B. Morris, Executors, defendants in
error. Bill to marshal assets from Whitfield.
Judgment reversed, on the ground that the
Court erred in deciding that the judgment was
not entitled to be paid out of the assets of the
estate as a judgment existing at the time of the
testator'8 death.; but must be classed among
dormant judgments, promissory notes, eto., in
the distribution of said assets.
James F. Dover, plaintiff in error, vs. War
ren Akin, Assignee, defendantin error. Illegal
ity from Polk. Judgment affirmed.
Bbown, O. J., dissenting.—Argument In No.
4 Cherokee Circnit—John Ardis, Trustee, vs.
Joseph J. Printnp, Administrator, and John A.
Smith—was resumed; and pending this argn
ment, the Court adjourned.
Cotton States* Mechanic*} ^
cultural Fnta* Aswoclau^
It is gratifying to know that progr^,,
rapidly made in the affairs of this Am^I
The plan for laying out the grounds^
hands of a first-class civil engineer '
walks, track, drives, planting, etc. ^5
ranged with the ntmost core and ici e .o
curacy. It was at first decided to oS
Fair on November 1st, but subsequent
induced the board of management to orJ
week earlier—October 25th. The T
continue five days, and from the aa!!
premiums offered, over $11,000, a vast
; be manifestos *
Tlie Dawn or the Millennium—.V
Grand Jury of Women Sworn—A
Lady RallilT Attends Them.
Laramie City, W. T., March 7.—The judi
ciary of Wyoming sustains the right of women
to serve as grand jurors. All the ladies
drawn as grand jurors were present at 11
o’clock. A motion to quash the panel was not
sustained. At 11:55 a. m. the first panel of lady
grand jurors in the world was sworn. None
asked to be excused. A lady bailiff was ap
pointed for the grand jurors. A splendid ad
dress was delivered by Chief Justice Howe.
Laramie, W. T., March 7.—In impanneling
and charging the grand jury, Judga Howe said:
“‘Ladies and gentlemen of the Grand Jnry—It
is a novelty to see, as we do to-day, ladies sum
moned to serve as jurors. The extension of
political rights and franchises to woman is*a
subject that is agitating the whole country. I
have never taken an active part in discussions,
bnt have long seen that woman was a victim to
the vices, crimes, and immorality of man, with
no power*to protect and defend herself from
these evils. I have long felt that such powers
of protection should be conferred upon woman,
and it has fallen to our lot here to act as the
pioneer in tMs movement, and to test the
question.
The eyeB of the world are to-day fixed upon
Albany county. There is not the slightest im
propriety in any lady occupying the position,
and I assure you that the fullest protection of
the court shall be accorded to you. It would be
a most shameful scandal upon our temple of
justice and courts of law if anything shonld be
permitted whioh the most sensitive lady might
not hear with propriety and witness; and here,
let me add, it will be a sorry day for any
who shall so far forget the courtesies due and
paid by every American gentleman to every
American lady, as to even by a word or act en
deavor to deter you from the exercise of those
rights with which the laws have invested you.
“I will conclude with the remark that this is
a question for you to decide for yourself; no
man has any right to interfere. It seems to be
proper for womon to Bit upon grand juries,
which will give them tho best possible oppor
tunity to aid in suppressing dens of infamy
whioh curse the country. I shall be glad of
your assistance in the accomplishment of this
object. I do not make these remarks from any
distrust of gentlemen; on tbe contrary, 11 am
exceedingly pleased and gratified with the indi
cations of intelligence, love of law, and good
order, and gentlemanly deportment which I see
manifested. I will now listen to any reason
wMch any jurors make for being excused.”
lesque on the effervescent oratory of General he gets there.
Senator Hill.—We hear that Senator Hill
has received a dispatch from Washington to
come on there aa affairs are lighting up. We
shall be glad if Mr. Hill finds it sunrise when
The Wild Lands—Important Corres
pondence Concerning Advertising
the Same.
From the Atlanta Veu> Era. |
Comptroller General’s Office; )
Atlanta, March 1, 1870. )
To His Excellency, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor
os Georgia :
Sir : The list of unretumed lands for forty
counties has been completed aud turned over to
me by the clerk appointed to do that work. The
list is a very large one, embracing abont two
million sixty-eight thousand acres of unretnrned
wild lands in the forty counties. Section 874
of the Code requires this office, when the list is
completed,to advertise the same for sixty days
in one newspaper in each Congressional
District. The list being so large, I have
deemed it my duty to keek information as to
the probable cost of pnblication, and npon
inquiry, I learn, from an old and experienced
printer, Uiat it will cost from twelve to fifteen
hundre(Mollars to advertise it in one paper as
the law requires, and that the entire cost of ad
vertising it in seven papers, for sixty days, wiil
not be less than ten thousand dollars. Consider
ing tho great expense to the State, thus likely
to be incurred, and the comparatively small
amount of revenue that will be derived from
the tax upon these lands (they being unim
proved, and the average price so little) I
have deemed it proper to request your Ex
cellency to suspend the collection of the tax
upon these unretnrned wild lands for 1868 until
the meeting of the Legislature, when I pro
pose to lay the subject before that body with
the view of exhibiting the great expense like
ly to be incurred by complying with the re
quirements of the present law in regard to
advertising these lands, and for the purpose,
if practicable, cf eliciting some other plan for
bringing these lands into market with less ex
pense to .the State. In my judgment, to. carry
out tho present law, would cost the State sev
eral thousand dollars more than the tax would
amount to when collected.
Very respectfully,
Madison Bell,
Comptroller General.
of interest will no donbt be manifest^.'
Among the premiums for fiald crone i,
A Wrtl 1 Ia fnantinn nnma 1 1 . **
be well to mention some for which
Executive Department,)
Atlanta, Ga., March 4, 1870. j
By virtue of the authority vested in me by
section 70 of the Code of Georgia, the tax
npon the wild or unimproved lands that were
not returned for taxation for the year 1868, is
hereby suspended until the next meeting of the
General Assembly of this State, and the Comp
troller General will, for the reasons given in his
communification of the 1st instant, desist from
advertising the list of said lands, with a view
to their being sold, until the time mentioned.
Rufus B. Bullock, Governor.
The Woman’s Right Movement, we see, is
about to be embarrassed by the unmanly con
duct of its advocates.
The male citizens of Zanesville, Ohio, have
petitioned that women may be invested with all
the rights of citizenship, and also with all its
duties, namely, that they be liable .to military,
jury and road duty; liability for their own and
their husbands’ debts; and that if a woman re
fuse or neglect to provide for the support of
her husband and family, a divorce shall be
granted, awarding alimony to the husband.
And in the new militia bill of Wyoming Ter
ritory, where they have jnat conferred suffrage
npon women, they have made them liable to
militia duty. Oh shame, where is thy blush.
a Who is to hold down the ladies’ veils—hold on
their shawls, lift their skirts, and carry their
fans while they tramp abont oarrying a musket
and go through the manual ?
Mrs. Cady Stanton, speak to this point with
proper indignation 1
Women in Germany.—Ladies here are sur
prised at woman’s position In America, ’and
quite shocked at the modern idea of woman’s
rights. That a gentleman should give up to a
lady his seat in a crowded house or pnblio con
veyance, is an astonishment to them; they nev
er heard of such a thing in Germany. Wives
carry garments and packages for their hus
bands, and not husbands for their wives. Mar
ried women expect their husbands to spend
their evenings at toe club or museum, the coffee
house or beer house, instead of being society
for them and making home attractive. It is per*
fectly proper for a young lady to go home
alone through the streets in the evening—it
would bo highly improper for a young gentle*
man to acoompany her—Letter from Gettengen.
The latest advices from Aspinwall report that
the United States steamer Nipsic had arrived at
that port on February 9tb, and remained there
repairing machinery until February 17th, when
she sailed for Caledonia Bay to land the party
of engineers detailed to Burvey the route of the
canal across the Isthmus of Darien. The delays
attendant npon this enterprise seem to be innu
merable. The Nipsic had not been absent from
Aspinwall for twenty-four hours when she re
turned, having only proceeded eighteen miles
on hsr course. The cause of the return was
the failure to obtain laborers at Porto Bello, in
conseqaenoe of the fears excited by probable
attacks from the Indians on the Isthmus.
Mb. James 0. Southall, one of the mast vig
orous writers in the editorial corps of Virginia,
has retired from tho Riohmond Enquirer, on
preparation would be necessary i n otd *
able planters to compete. The follovL
be offered on cotton and corn: '
For the best and largest crop of Cotton
duced upon ten or more acres uptinrf
statement of the mode of cultivate
amount and kind of manure used, the
planting, the number of times ’pl on K"’
hoed, and the variety of cotton—the uG
measured and the cotton weighed in th
ence of three reliable and disinterested*,
cb, with their affidavit—the original w
the soil to be taken into consideration—T
of not less than 450 lbs. to be exhibite? 3 *
average sample, $200. ^ 1
For the largest and best crop 0 f cohos
duced upon one or more acres of npW’
same requirements us above, $50 * a ’
For the largest crop of corn grown a*
acres of upland—not less than seww!
bushels to the acre; same requirement -
cotton—two bushels to be exhibited
$100. ^
For the largest crop of corn grown
ires of lowland—not less than
bushels per aore; same requirements alfo
land oorn, $100.
For the largest crop of sweet potatoes,,
per acre—one-eighth of an acre to be j
certificate of yield to be furnished bv tk-»
interested persons with twqbushels as 2
$25. “
For the largest crop of Irish potatoes
requirements as for sweet potatoes $20
For the largest crop of Indian corr/p,,
any white boy under sixteen rears ci’aw,
one acre of land, the rules in relation^,
crops to be complied with, silver tmte-v!
watch, worth $25.
For the largest quantity of cotton prjj
by any white boy under sixteen years c[
upon one acre of land, requirements as y
silver patent lfiver watch, worth $25.
For the best twenty bales common ti
cotton, $100.
For the best ten bales common upland 3
$o0.
For the best five bales common upl»i
ton, $25.
For toe best one bale common uok;
tOD, $10.
For the best one bale upland cotton, la
pie, $10. ^
For the best five bales Sea Island colUt
For the best bade (400 pounds) Sea Isjj
black seed cotton, raised on upland, f 2.1.
Extracts from rules governing exhifeoj
“‘No article will be received for camps
unless it is the bona fide production orri
tare of the exhibitor.”
The premiums on other field ciop^t
fact on every article of. Southern prods
will be equally liberal and judicious, aria
fail to excite active competition.—£fc
Sent., 1 Oth.
THE LAST PERFORMANCE OH
FLORIDA ROGUES.
Wcdip the following narrative oi &
performance by the Radical governs
Florida from the Floridian, ot theSiia
Forgery of a Statute!
The Forgery of a Statute!!! Yes,2
the Forgery' of a Statute. It itiayaa
you, though it does not us. You hate)
of the forgery of notes, and bonds, and
bills, and land warrants, and rcceipu
but you have never conceived it possiw
a statute could be forged. If any onet
to satisfy his mind that astatute can bej>.
we invite him to go to the offiee of the a
gentleman who fills the offiee of Secrea
State in Florida, and there he will see a.i
statute—a forged act of the Florida Is
tore. This forged act is entitled “asi
authorize the Governor to ask for andn
the Agricultural Land Scrip from tfce!i
States.’ ’ This forged act of the Legisleli\
regularly filed by the Governor in the o£
the Secretary of State as law. It is rr
signed by the Governor, Lieut G overt:
retaryof the Senate, Speaker aud Citui
House, and yet never teas introduced, a
or voted on in either branch of the Lq&
as is shown by the journals of both t
and as every member of both house'
be obliged to swear if called into com*
a pure forgery. It is in the hand wiiiht
Mr. Campbell, whom the Governors”;'!
to the important office of Harbor JIss
Pensacola, Mr. Campbell says he vrs
forged act at the request of a Senator d
joicesin being State Senatorand United
Marshal for Florida. This Senator b
cently offended Gov. Reed by favorin:h
peachment and it was necessary to
m regard to this statute in order to ke«
from having him removed from the of
Marshal. This forged act authorises Git
to ‘ ‘ask for and receive from the govcrtE
the United States the Agricultural Ina4 :
to which this State may be entitled unis
by virtue of the act of Congress of J-
IS62, providing for Agricultural Co'-v
the several States.”
This Land Scrip is thought to k
ciously invested, of the value of sevett.
dred thousand dollars. What will betf
it if Gov. Reed gets jooossession of it«,
not say, but judging from thefateoftfeJ
thousand dollars'of State Bonds that»
to iNew York, and the sad fate of the ji
be received from Judge Westeott in cl" 1
and the still sadder fate of the $1G|*
ceived in currency from the Florida
Company, to say nothing of the «*¥
twelve thousand five hundred dollar opfj
with Mr. Swepson, and the unparallel
geiy of the law under which he will *
this Land Scrip, if he receives it at ^
should say, Farewell Agricultural Lana
—farewell College! You have gone ^
pocket from whose bourne no money t**
yet returned. ,
We do not know whether Gov. B** 5
succeed in getting this Scrip or not
know that he and the Senator who si
tended the drawing up of the so-called®
and Lt Governor Gleason and Mr. 5
Stearns who signed it with Gov. Reea.
now in Washington. But we kec*
that Mr. Chase, the Superintend^
Schools for this State, has gone on to;
head them off. being armed with the
of Attorney General Meek that sai<U
statute has not the force of law, and tff
Journals and affidavits of members B
that said forged statute was never intro*
or read, or voted on mu;h less
either branch of the Legislature.
that Mr. Chase may overhaul the Gs 5
and his party before they have seized
prey.
Mack Dons Dent.—“Mack,” of the
nati Enquirer, concerning the dog wb®b_
refused, revileth Brigadier Doorkeeper™
follows: .
“I have fallen under the deep dispk*®
Dent, because of that faithful narrative*'
I pictured the illustrious brother-in-U*^
the Cleveland pointer to a meat shop- **
Dent enters solemn denial of the stw^
says he had nothing whatever to do
dog, except to refuse to receive
he did in the name of his high
Ulysses. He says, furthermore, thw*
slanderer of the President, and he wiw*
were a law to banish me beyond tat ^
limits of Washington. So do I.
language of the ancient and illastrion*tr
“Whafs banished, but set free fw®^
oontact with the things I loathe. j
threatens me with toe vengeaa
courtesy at the White House, and
roualy whenever my name is rneuti^v,
he ever read the modem tranairi**.
beatitudes. “Blessed ore ye when
revile yon and prosecute you, A*.
fraud on. the American people. >
offended yon Dent iq this matter
greater measure have I offended-?'j
Dent was maligned in being
the dog to the meat shop, how ^
was the humiliation heaped
account of a difference of opinion with the pro- i* tP
prietors on the subject of the settlement of pri- j potto Dent, and if Towaer wiH