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gjrgfcjr : ^V"J| fit ^Tw. , — HgSTOqggpife&g? >;,•■£&.•• ,4v. -&-S • jrffr/’.'' • v > • . }tf '■-, • >• •• -o' a. .»'*• •*-• — • ■ £§ Kg. •' *,.- ; - :. ..-■ .• ,. nifiiTrirmiMiin — — — _ Tlie Greorgia ‘W'eekly Telegraph, and. Journal <te Messenger. v 'tt 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 The Income Tax Law Repealed.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 It ahonld be distinctly under stood that the Income Tax law was repealed by limitation the 31st day of December, 1869.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