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Tli© Greoraria Weekly Teleaya/bli and Journal <Sc Messenger,
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MARCH 1C !S70.
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^Pb* Legislative - Niggers ix the Field. The
telegrams say the Legislative niggers of Geor
gia have protested against the Bingham amend
ment Wo don’t wonder. It I s n °t often that
Legislative niggers, or any other sort of niggers,
oan get nine dollars a day, and the Bingham
amondment, which cnts them off of two or
Ihree years of employment in legislating at that
sate of wages, is worse than, musty hoo-cakes.
We don't blame them for spitting in the face
a- Bingham amendment and protesting
telegraph.
But, then, those niggers know, just as well
we do, that their services as legislators are not
worth half a dime per thousand years. Turner
is the only one of them who has spelled beyond
t a ba—except Alpeora, who got as high
a-a-B-c-a-l—rascal—a mean fellow—a rogue—a
triekisb, dishonest fellow—particularly applied
jo men and boys guilty of the baser crimes, and
jBggera who rob henroosts and “suck aigs.
Affairs in Cuba.
Jt seems impossible to get reliable accounts
teom Cuba. A private letter in the New York
Stent doted Havana, 26th February, says:
Bren the Spaniards and officials here hnvo
wme to admit that in the late battle the Span
iards lost thirteen hundred of their twenty-three
kondred; and to save their honor, while they
admit their defeat, they insist that the insur
gents were sis thousand strong. One thing is
certain : tho insurgents in arms are from twenty
to thirty thousand, and if they had muskets and
ammunition they would number 100,000.
Now while such statements as the foregoing
aome from Cuba, Mr. Sumner, in bis recent
avowal of friendliness for Cuba, claimed in
■nbetance that tho war there did not amount to
am emeute. Wo get, however, rumors by tele
gram that some extraordinary development is
Skely to be made in a few days which will put
aaev complexion on Cuban affairs.
A Barlxceper Flanks the Negro
Bights Bill.
A Columbia correspondent of the Charleston
Obcrier, tells a good stoiy of a very sharp bar
keeper of that city. The negroes, much elated
by the passage of the Civil Bights bill, were
going around drinking at various saloons, to
pot it in force.
One hotel keeper was asked for a drink by a
party of negroes, and it was refused. They
asked for a reason. He said, “I don’t like you.
X sell liquor to whom I please. I don’t like
yocr clothes; I don’t like your action; I don’t
teke your talk; you don't behave like gen
tlemen ; but mind yon, I don't object to you on
account of your race, color, or previous condi
tion.”
The income tax will certainly bo reduced as
proposed. The pressure toward that end is
aaid to be enormous.—Buffalo Commercial Ad
vertiser.
Those who know, say and have sworn to it,
that measures pass or fail in Congress, accord
ing to the quality of pressure used. E. G.:
If tho pressure takes the shape of a greenback
bill of $500 denomination, or a check therefor,
it is generally found to be irresistible. We say
*500, as that seems about the figure for an
average Kadical Congressman. TPe think it de
cidedly too high, but that's the lookout of the
bstyer.
Thebe are now twenty-two negro clerks in
Government employ at Washington.
The Washington Republican, of Wednesday,
aaya the Committee on Banking and Currency,
im obedience to the resolution of the House of
Sepresentatives, has considered the proposition
U> increase the curroncy to fifty millions of dol-
tete, and will report a bill making the increase
at greenbacks. The only question with the
aocamitteo was whether the new issue should be
ia National Bank currency or greenbacks.
Tint San says Great Britain is strengthening
bte naval armaments, and it is not denied in
the Foreign Office that the threats of Gen. Grant
+Tia bottom of BiKMliHnMr* mono.
Tho object of parading the English iron-clad
at Annapolis was to favorably dispose Congress
toward the construction of similar vessels for
tho United States navy; and it is argued that
ike increase of the British maritime power
i an analogous increase obligatory upon
i American Government.
Good.
On Monday the House of Representatives, by
a very decided vote, refused to authorize fur
ther inquiry by the Postal Committee into the
sabject of telegraphing. This is just as it should
ho. We trust that this ridiculous movement has
bad all the little life there was in it effectually
knocked out. Let it never be resurrected.
ZrxcE the story has been told of how Judge
Breckinridge married a girl whom he saw
jamp over a rail fence with a pail on her head,
al the girls in Orange county, N. Y., are said
fla spend their time in watching the road, and
whenever they see a carriage approaching with
a man in it they seize their pails and go for a
fence.
Georgia Patents.
The following patents were granted to Geor
gia inventors up to March 5th: Abner White,
Xseon; Hook for Harness. John D. Dunn,
Griffin; Combined Cotton Chopper and Culti-
vtki. E. P. Cook, Cartersville; Head Rest.
X7.‘. Mnlkey, Walton’s Ford; Ointment for
Jboises and Bums.
Several prominent druggists of New York
•ty were served with processes Wednesday,
fenn the United States Court, under an indict-
aaant for violation of the Internal Revenue
fern, by failing to affix stamps to bottles of im
ported perfumery. A fine of fifty dollars is at
•ached to each offense.
Gxx. 0. A. Battik and Major D. S. Chilton,
agents of an insurance company—the Life As-
aariation of the South- after a canvass of six
weeks in five counties of West'Alabama, reach
ed Montgomery a day or two since with policies
•[insurance amounting to $800,000. This is
tte champion canvass, so far as we have heard.
A rich max died in Maine recently, and his
Bttt words to his heirs were: “Plant me as
■eon as I am cold, and don’t cart me around for
•ado show. Remember Peabody." He was
baried aooording to his request, and he is now
enjoying himself.
Dl Jbim W. Leftwich, ex-Mayor of Mem-
D*, and for one term since the war a Congress*
Eton from Tennessee, died in Lynchbnrg on
Sfenday.
The Nashville Banner says mules are begin
ning to oome back in that direction from the
Seath. A earload arrived there Monday, and
teromore Wednesday.
Jt Washington telegram to the Baltimore Son
any* fee general bill for removing all political
feaaknilifs is under consideration in committee,
amd there is searoely a doubt of its passage.
Aoeemmo to fee eminent French physician,
BK.' Levy, the average duration of life among
fee Jews in-36 years, while among Gentiles it is
«aly 2$ yean.
Nashville Union says the peach crop
has gone twining d la Jim Fiak’s
NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
The Democracy!'
Small by degrees, and beautifully less, is the
New Hampshire Radical majority. In 1865,
G,071; 1866, 4,C5G; 18G7, 8,146 ; 1868, 2,523
I860. 1,607; 1870, according to latest dispatches,
about500. Never was the descending scale more
handsomely illustrated. The labor reform and
temperance candidates made but a small diver
sion—tho former getting about 4,000 votes and
tho latter less than a thousand—a result which
must egregiously disappoint them—surprise the
public, and particularly astonish the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of that State.
This Committee actually undertook to take
down tho Democratic ticket and recommend tho
Democrats of New Hampshire to go for the La
bor Union ticket. Not improbably, bnt for
this silly movement on the heels of the election,
which must have confused and unsettled the
Democrats, Bedell tho Democratic candidate,
would have been elected.
Some of the politicians seem to be bewildered
in their judgment of tho people by the stale
and continuous cry of the Radicals that tho
Democratic party is dead. If that bo not the
case, how happens it that so many are appa
rently coquetting with new political organiza
tions or looking for deliverance from oppres'
sion to so ne new combinations independent of,
or more or less antagonistic to, Democratic tra
ditions, policy and principles ?
It is the common fashion of tho wiseacres—
the men who can see through a millstone with
out spectacles, to talk about the Democratic
“Bourbons,” and to say they can never see or
reason—can never learn nor unlearn.
Now it is precisely such men as these who
are blind to the most wonderful and yet most
patont fact in American politics, and cannot
learn the alphabet of the present or the future.
The great fact of American politics—that
which overshadows all others in its grandeur
and prophetic potency, is that the Democratic
party, midst all our horrid civil convulsions—
bereft of nearly all patronage and power—weak
ened by the most extraordinary defections—as
sailed and persecuted with a virulence resembling
to some extent, the achievements of religious
bigotry in darker ages—holding out no promise
of pelf or gain to its supporters—and resting
solely upon the sober political convictions of
the American masses, stands, at this day, really
and truly a majority of the American people.
And all the frauds of the opposition in the
way of counting, disqualification, vote manufac
turing, and so on, and all the wealth of the five
or seven hnndred millions of. annual public
plunder, and nil tho influence of tho trained le
gion of office-holders and the untold millions of
moneyed capital wielded in support of Radical
ism—and the systematic proscription of Demo
crats by the Federal and State governments—
the tremendous preponderance in the issues of
tho newspaper and periodical press—and nil the
religious denominational and clerical influence
which has been brought to bear against it, have
proved utterly unavailing to impair tho stamina
of that organization in tho hearts and judgments
of the sober, reflecting people of the country.
As the Democrats did in New Hampshire this
week, so do they everywhere, all over the con
tinent—go to the polls and show the same erect
and undaunted front—generally a little stronger
than tho last time, and in the grand total of the
popular vote a mere trifle less than the paajority
of tho whole number, even under the most un
favorable circnmstances for comparison and
computation.
This we call the grandest and most significant
political fact now in existence. After nearly a
century of life—the most of it spent in govern
ing the country—at the close of a decade of
civil ruin, the party stands to-day the most
sturdy and harmonious party in existence on
the continent, and bound, in tho judgment of
most candid men, to reassumeits sway over the
American empire so soon as the foul offspring
of civil war and fratricidal strife shall have lost
a little of their poisonous vitality.
And why is this ? We answer, because the
aeiuoo.atic theories of the character and tradi
tions of the RepubUo are. after all -
vepieu views oi tne people. These views
have been, to some extent, obscored and sup
planted temporarily by the passions and preju
dices of sectional war, but are bound to reas
sert themselves, because they are sustained by
history, reason, practicability, and consistency
with all the instincts of the American heart. So
surely, in a short time, the wandering sheep
will be regathered in tho old fold, and again di
rect the onward progress of tho country in the
career of publio and private liberty, toleration
and constitutional law—local independence and
self government—Federal accountability—tho
independence of the co-ordinato departments—
equality of rights and equality of burdens—in
dividual freedom and official responsibility to
the people.
Now when tho politicians can bend this gigan
tic and venerable institution to the uses of their
little plots and bargains for new parties, we
shall expect to see onr adolescent fops using the
big Georgia live oaks for supple-jacks. But tho
men who are blind to the wonderful fact of tho
stubborn immortality of the Democratic party,
consider everybody Bouibons and old fogies
who donbt that they can use the Democratic
party of tho United-States in some new politi
cal compound just as a cook would use salt in a
dish of porridge.
Tbe Capstone of “Cheek.”
We have read, in onr day, a good many out
givings of pure, unadulterated “cheek.” but
never anything at all approaching, in sublimity,
the following from Forney’s Press. We shall
attempt no comment apon it, for, as in the case
of the man who lost the ashes, justice can’t be
done the subject. For the benefit of Radical
neophytes in the business here in Georgia, we
publish it as a modeL The italics are ours.
Now that the great national questions which
we have inherited from the time of slavery, and
which were protracted for years after the war
by the criminal misconduct of the Johnson Ad
ministration, have been substantially settled, it
is time that the mutual independence of all
sections of our common country should be
cheerfully acknowledged. It is time that the
Southern States, thick uere the chief sufferers
in the admitted anomalies and incongruities of
a “reconstruction” which they alone had rend
ered necessary, should bear their part in the
restoration of good feeling between'North and
South. The South admits its urgent need of
Northern capital and industiy, and calls loudly
for both. The North is more than willing to
do its part, and it will be conceded by candid
Southerners that the great mass of those “ Yan
kees" who hate taken up their abode in the un
reconstructed States are animated by the most
cordial good will toward their former foes, but
present neighbours and friends.
According to the latest statistics, Englishmen
are about two inches taller and more than seven
pounds tighter than Americans of the same age
and similar pursuits.
Cheap Horses.—A Los Angeles, California,
paper says that one thousand horses were lately
sold in that place at five dollars a head.
In Montreal, the policemen go round and com
pel householders to remove the enormous icicles
pendant from the eaves.
Miss Emwa Jones has been elected a professor
in the new University of the Paeifio at Ban
Francisco.
In the three days that Jefferson Davis was at
Huntsville, Ala., he took over COO life insoranoe
policies.
A majority of fee shares of the Thomaston
National Bank, in Maine, are owned by women.
A Cotton Bureau.
The New Orleans papers are complaining of
the virtual oontrol which New York City has as
sumed over the cotton markets of this country,
and of the mfluenoe which she is enabled to ex
ert even over foreign markets, owing to the faot
that she has become the centre of telegraphio
information from all points in tho cotton grow
ing region. They maintain, with good reason,
that the interests of tho North as a consumer,
and that of the South as a producer, must ne
cessarily bo adverse. The one desires to buy
as cheaply, and tho otjier to sell as dearly, as
possible. With a view, therefore, of counter-
teracting, as for as may be tho existing North
ern control over tho price of our great staple,
they nrgo the establishment in one of tho load
ing Southern seaports of a cotton bureau, the
proposed organization of which is thus sketched
in tho Picaynno :
A superintendent and a sufficient cumber of
clerks are to be employed, who are to keep tip a
regular correspondence with tho most reliable
and well informed parties throughout the entire
South. The country will be dividod into dis
tricts, and from the first planting of the seed,
throughout tho season, minute information will
he obtained from each as to the acreage, tbe
stand, tho weather, tho appearance of tho worm
or any other enemy, the yield, tho character of
the labor, and, in 'short, every item calculated
to affect the crop. Weekly bulletins of the in
formation thus obtained, generalized yet sup
ported by proofs, are to be published and sent
abroad. In addition to the above, correspon
dence is to bo kept up with all the great con
suming centres, as well as with India, Egypt,
Brazil, eto., with a view to obtaining early and
trustworthy information as to the crops of other
counties and the prospect for consumption; and
an elaborate yearly statement of tho crop and
consumption of tho United States is to be pub
lished at the earliest possible time after the 1st
of September.
The suggestion is an eminently proper one,
say the Charleston News, and we candidly con
cur in the opinion; but we cannot help thinking
that tho South already possesses, if her people
will but use it, the power of regulating the price
of tho staple throughout the world, by a process
far more direct, simple and certain than the
machinery of such a bureau as that proposed.
Let our planters but resolve to act upon the
principle that the cotton is to be henceforth
merely the money crop of the Southern States
—let them take care, in the first place, to pro-
duco on their own soil enough grain and provis
ions of all kinds to make living cheap and food
plentiful among ns. If their efforts for the
growth of cotton be strictly limited to the sur
plus land and labor that may be available after
the first result is provided for, there need he
no fear that the staple will at any time hereaf
ter fail to pay us a handsome profit.
Tlie Negro Cadet.
Tho Mobile Register pities that negro boy tho
Beast has nominated to West Point, and thinks
he will have an awful rough time of it as a
“Pleb.” We hope so, sincerely-
But let this black dose be vigorously admin
istered, nevertheless. May be the white stom
ach will heave at it after a while. Then poor
Coffee will bo cast out os the political Jonah of
the century, upon very dry land—so very dry
that he will just dry up, unless his old master,
the Southern “rebel,’* helps him. The man
who lives ten years will, in our judgment, enjoy
the immensely pleasing spectacle, of seeing
Cuff and his wife and children, going for his
present carpet-bag owners with a most delight
ful vim. Itwilltak9 just about that many years
to get the idea into his head that tho C. B’shave
been squeezing him like an orange for their own
peculiar use and benefit But when he does,
mind your eye, C. B.
tbe
Bontxrell, on a Reduction
Taxes.
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Tho Washington Republican, of Wednesday,
says that a leading member of the House of
Representatives, from Ohio, with several of his
constituents, called on Secretary Boutwell on
Monday, and, in conversation with him, said
they hoped he would shortly recommend a re
duction of taxation; that they desired particu
larly that the odious income tax should be re
pealed. The Secretary replied that he dis-
0 ....— .mm ui regard to mat tax; he was
not only opposed to its repeal, but even to its
reduction, believing it to bo the most just and
equitable of all the systems of taxation; that
out of 40,000,000 of people there were only
about 250,000 who wero affected by this tax.
He had no objection to repealing tho tax on
transportation, which amounted to about §8,-
000,000, and on licenses, making about $8,000,-
000 more, but was opposed to interfering with
income tax. A reduction of that tax to threo
per cent, would amount to about $8,000,000,
and he hoped it would not be done.
Buried in Roses.—Our confrere of the Au
gusta Constitutionalist promises to reward a
paragraph in this paper upon the Augusta Fair,
as follows:
If our gallant brother should visit us in No
vember next, we promise that the incompara
ble ladies of this region will present him with a
boquet ns big ss the “mammoth ox,” and a
thousand times moro precious.
We expect to be there, and if unable to sus
tain such a weight of beauty and fragrnneo
as a boquet as big as the mammoth ox,” we
could certainly never “go down” under more
gratifying circumstances. To sink into insensi
bility and oblivion in such a sea of womanly
and floral beauty would be a rare exit. In fact
wo have read nothing like it Mythology tells
us of a youth who died of his own loveliness,
but we should evanish a martyr to the beauty
of the Augusta belles^ We read, too, of the
swan who breathes away his life in his own
melody, bnt that is not a case in point The
unfortunate Clarence, who expired in a
butt of Malmely comes nearer to a precedent,
bnt who shall compare the belle3 and their flow
ers to vulgar wine! Not we.
‘Woman is Coming."—Miss Anna Dicken
son’s time is up. Good bye Nancy to Cady
Stanton, Mrs. Bose, Lucretia Mott, Susan B.
Anthony, and all the other tights in tho celes
tial firmament of woman’s rights and female
eloquence. All these arelost in dark eclipse by
the apotheosis of Miss Lillian S. Edgarton, of
tho Hnb, who is now lecturing on “woman is
coming,” with a point, power and beauty which
floats the souls of the Bostonians on an atmos
phere of bewildering and dazzling glory. Miss
Lillian is only twenty-two, a commanding beau
ty, with the voice aqd manner of a Siddons or
a Kemble. Boston has gone mad, and is ready
to swear woman instead of "coming" has only
just come, and this is no oompliment to wives
and sweethearts who got there some time ago.
Decline or the Bar.
The New Orleans Picayune, noting the scarci
ty of really eminent lawyers, attributes the de
cline to the slovenly scanner of turning out
young fledgelings for the Bar. We should say
that these strictures are applicable to all other
professions. The Constitutionalist points a
moral in this case with a little anecdote. A
student is np for examination. Quoth the Pro
fessor to the candidate: “ Quid est ereare f”
To him the student answers: “Oreare est fa-
cere aliquid ex nihUo.” “Ergo," retorts the
Professor, “ereamus te doctorem /’’
That’s not Ciceronean, perhaps, but there is
a strong leaven of truth in it
Thn death of James Robinson, the champion
circus rider of America, is announced in our
Western exchanges. He is reported to have
died at Cincinnati, very suddenly, of hemor
rhage of the lungs. This is about the tenth
time James has been killed by fee types.
The Georgia Press.
The Cartersville Express says :
During tl&e past month we have been called
upon to chroniole the death of several of the
most prominent and esteemed citizens of this
county, among whom were Jesse Baker, Dr. ■ J.
W. Curry, and F. A. Huson. Wo are again.re
quired to add to that li«t Madison McMuriy
and Nail in Howard, vko havo died within tho
last week. The former was, for ninny years
beforo the war, a citizen and merchant of Cass-
ville, in this county. The latter was one of,
if not the very first, citizen who fettled in Car
tersville. * u T ;. " ' t "
From the Savannah Nows wo quote as follows.
The Republican puts tho number , pf jijalesqf
cotton burned at five hundred. d--..rj .t-.tA'
’ Cotton Fire.—Just beforo wo wore gem;;; to
press the exchange bell struqk tho alarm of,fire,. ^
for tho Third Firo District. • Hastening t° tho
point indicated, wo found the flame's proceeding
from tho warehouse, formerly Guilmartin’s,‘now
owned by Wilcox, Gibbes & Co., Situated on the
north side of Bay streot, between Bull' and
Whitaker. - • 1 *•'
In the building was stored between one hup-,
dred and fifty and two hundred bales of upland
nnd Sea Island cotton, owned by L. J. G ml mar
tin A Co. -j. . r- j.
The tire originated on the second floor, front
ing rivGr street, and when first discovered by
the policeman, tho flames wore seen issuing ont
of tho window on tho second floor. The delay
occasioned by a confusion in the alarm given,
gave headway to the conflagration, which soon
consumed the building and the cotton stored
therein. We understand that tho cotton was
insured and the fact that a box of matches were
found on tho steps near the pointof origin leads
to the conclusion that the fire was the work of
an incendiary. As we go to press the fire is
still burning, though under control of the Firo
Department.
The Republican has the following:
A Stricken Firm.—Death has made sad havoc
in the commercial house of Adams, Washburn
& Co., of this city, within tho last few days.
They had two book keepers, Mr. N. L. Hub-
hard and W. Caper Adams, both excellent young
men, twenty-two years of age each, devoted
friends, laboring together during tho day and
occupying the same bed at night. Last week
Hubbard was taken ill with acute inflamation
of tbe bowels, and Saturday breathed his last.
While ill, his friend Adams was taken down with
erysipelas, resulting in fever, which terminated
fatally yesterday morning. Both were young
men of excellent character, and highly esteemed
by their employers and all who knew them.
Mr. Hubbard was a native of St. John’s, New
Brunswick, and came to this city abont two
years ago.
Mr. Adams was the son of R. D. Adams, ofEa-
tonton. His father arrived just in time to see
his dear boy breathe his last, and take, his re
mains, which were escorted to tho depot by a
number of friends, back to his home in Putnam.
The Rome Courier contains the names of
sixty-two persons in Polk county, Ga., who
hkve /availed themselves of the homestead ex-
The Era says small loads of soggy oak wood
sell for $1 50 each in Atlanta. As it takes two
loads of lightwood at $1 25 each to bum one
load of such wood, wo fail to see tho economy
of the business.
After the 13 th inBt through trains for Louis
ville will leave Atlanta at 7:30 f. m., and make
the trip in twenty-six and a half hours.
The Era lets the cat out of the bag about
those neckties. It says that “young men labor
ing under the tangle-ating influence of nitro-
glycerinous extracts have adopted the luminous
neckties now in vogue, because they serve as
balance-poles, and enable them to keep their
feet, upon the same principle that a rope-walker
keeps to his perch.”
A'bumptious XVth Amendment down at Sa
vannah tried to murder another Amendment
and rape tho Amendment’s wife, on Wednes
day.
The Columbus Enquirer says:
There was a hard freeze yesterday (Wednes
day) morning, and the forenoon of the day was
unusually cold for March. The fruit crop and
early vegetables, we fear, are destined to stand
a poor showing this spring. We heard a col
ored weather-prophet assert that the season will
be cold, late, end backward, because the course
of the moon is so far north.
The Romo Southerner says that the Oosta-
naula River is booming from the late rains,
and that farmers along its banks fear for the
safety of their wheat crops.
The Columbus Sun says 300,000 pounds of
hides are sold annually in that city. At 7 cents
a pound they represent a business of $21,000.
Thero is a freight blockade on tbe Montgom-
a us umcers tele-
r>.!«» uautuau.
graph to Louisville, not to give through bills of
lading beyond West Point.'
The Summerville (Emanuel county) Academy
was burned’a few days since, as wo learn from
the Chronicle and Sentinel. The books and
furniture, even, were not saved.
We got the following items from the Chron
icle and Sentinel, of the same date :
Election in Burke County.—Some weeks
since the Clerk of the Superior Court of Burke
county died, and the Ordinary of the county or
dered a new election to be held. The election
took place daring the latter part of last week,
and though there were several candidates in the
field, the contest seems to have been principally
between two of the aspirants—Messrs. Scalesand
Williams. Tho polls were not opened at several
of tho precincts in the county, and a very tight
vote was cast, Mr. Williams being elected by a
small majority.
The Police Force.—On yesterday we were
informed tbat the police force of Augusta is to
be, or bas already been, reduced to thirty men,
exclusive of officers, and that those who have
been rotainedhave had their measures taken for
uniforms.
The Reminiscences of an Old Georgia
Lawyer.—Some dayB since, in noticing an
article contributed to the Scientific American,
from the pen of “Elzey Hay”—who is suppos
ed to be a daughter of Judge Garnett Andrews,
of this State—the Chronicle and Sentinel sugges
ted the propriety of the latter’s writing a book
of his own. A few days since we received a
letter from Judge Andrews, stating that he has
in press, “Tho Reminisences of an Old Geor
gia Lawyer.” It will be pamphlet volume of
abont ono hundred pages, made up : of profes
sional reminiscences and anecdotes; and, the
author says, is intended more to “collect from
his profession material for a book than pretend
ing to be one itself.”
The Langley Manufacturing Company.—
On yesterday we were informed that two hun
dred and forty thousand dollars of the capital
stook of this company had been taken, leaving
only sixty thousand moro to be subscribed.
The Constitution says Thos. Ford, a olerk at
government headquarters at Atlanta, died very
suddenly, of heart disease, Thursday morning.
The supply of fruit at Atlanta is exhausted.
During the past season, one merchant shipped
over one hundred thousand pounds to Chicago.
The Albany News says:
The B. & A. R. R.—We are pleased to report
satisfactory progress with this great enterprise.
Hulbert is now laying a mile a day, and will
be in time to the junotion to meet the require
ments of the State Aid bilL
There is an efficient corps of engineers on the
section between Waresboro and the Alapaha,
another between the Alapaha and this city, and
still another on the line between this place and
F.ufaula.
The corps on the section between this city
and the Alapaha have had a hard time of it
among the hills of Worth, and after running
about one hundred and thirty miles, have suc
ceeded in finding a maximum grade of thirty
feet to the mile. The last heard from them,
they were up to their arm-pits in Little River,
They were all well and fattening on it.
The Cuthbert Appeal learns that one day last
week a deliberate attempt was made to throw
from the track the train on the Fort GaineB
branch of the Southwestern Railroad.
A number of cross-ties and pieces of timber
were placed upon the rails, but fortunately dis
covered in time to prevent the catastrophe.
One negro who has been arrested confesses
the deed and implicates others.
The Era says In all the three coal yards of
Atlanta, there was no ootl on Thursday.
T. J. Murphy, a printer, attempted to oom-
mit suicide in Atlanta, Thursday night, by stab
bing himself in fee left breast and head.
Drunk.
Several members of the Agency, in addition
to the twenty or more who reside there, were
in Atlanta Friday.
emption.
, Tho Columbus Enquirer says :
Heavy Frost.—One of the largest of the win
ter occurred yesterday morning. Ice was also
plentiful. Another frost may bo expected this
morning. The winter begins at the leaving off
ph.ee this year.
The Sun says Columbus cotton speculators
havo lost $300,000 this season.
The Sun calls attention to the oheap freight
tariff on the Chattahoochee river, brought about
by competition. It says :
It takes about $3 50 to carry a bale of cot
ton weighing 500 pounds to New York; One
lino of boats advertise to carry a bale to New
Orleans for 50 cents. The steamers also take
freight at ten and five cents per barrel, and
carry passengers to Eufaula, ninety miles, and
give two. meals for 50ots and $1, and Apalachi
cola, Borne four hundred miles, famishing all
meals, for $3 50 and $1 75. The rates are due
to competition, and may be made still lower.
The Constitutionalist says that Professor
King made a successful balloon ascension in
that city, Thursday. The balloon went up a
mile (?)
The Newnan Herald publishes the following
letter:
Bowdon, Ga., March 8, 1870.
Dear Herald—On the 19th February Mr.
Robert Pesnel, of Calhoun county was shot dead
off of his horse while riding along the road in
company with his wife. Mrs. Pesnel was also
shot through the body, but is not yet dead. It is
thought she will recover. No clue as to who did
the horrible deed. I have also learned that a
gentleman was murdered some where near Ed-
wardsville, in the same county—did not get his
name. It is supposed that he was killed for
his money, as he was seen that day with a small
purse of specie, and when found the money was
missing. No clue to the perpetrator of this deed
either. Respectfully, N. S.
Tho Savannah Republican gives these addi
tional particulars of the fire there Thursday
night:
The bnilding destroyed was of brick, four
stores and au attic, and contained two hundred
bales of upland and three hundred bags of sea
island cotton belonging to Messrs. L. J. Guil
in arlin & Co., all of which was insured for
sixty thousand dollars in various companies.
The bnilding was owned by Messrs. Wilcox,
Gibbs & Co., and was insured. The building
adjoining on tho west caught fire, but was
saved through the exertions of the firemen,
who worked with a zeal that never flagged,
many of whom had narrow escapes from injury.
The fire is supposed to be the work of an in
cendiary.
The Newnan Herald says Judge Bigby, of
the Coweta Circuit, “docs not recognize the re
lief (Brock’s) resolution, recently adopted, as
of any effect, and will proceed with the busi
ness of the Conrt, as if it had not been adopt
ed. It is understood that Gen. Terry has posi
tively refused the order to enforce it” Bigby
had better not let Bollock catch him at any such
independent administration of the law. He
wasn’t put on the bench for that purpose.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says a negro wom
an named Jerry Ford was burned to death in
Hamburg Thursday morning.
Whitley.—It is now said that “Senator’
Whitely made his debut at tho Augusta and not
at the Athens factory.
Whereas tho editor of the Watchman says :—
This is no disgrace to him. Tho disgrace con
sists in the fact that an immediate secessionist
should turn Radical. We are aware that many
have done so, bnt it is none the less disgrace
fuL
The truth is he behaved whitely during the war,
but blacJdy after it.—Constitutionalist.
According to the “Weekly Young America,"
a new venture of Talbotton, that place has eight
Ministers of the Gospel; eight lawyers, eight
Doctors; eight Publio Officers; eight Dry Goods
Stores; eight Groceries; eighty Private Resi
dences; three Hotels; three Newspapers; four
Churches; two Colleges; one Steam Mill; one
Manufacturing Establishment; twenty Mer
chants; twenty Salesmen; tenMechanics; a Hook
and Ladder Co.; a Brass Band; and an eminent
divine once said “More morality, and less reli
gion, than any other town in Georgia.
The Atlanta Era, of yesterday says :
At a late hour last night reports reached here
that a serious difficulty had occurred on the line
of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad. It is
generally known that, by terms of the law grant-
inff St&te trt iMiilpaaJa, EVOil 13 V-UHiptHSCl
to complete fifty miles of its track by the 18th
day of the present month. Some 80 or 100 of
the employees of the road, knowing this, and
led on and instigated by designing men, think
ing that thoy might, by unreasonable and ruin
ous terms, extort from the company large ad
vances, banded together by force to prevent the
completion of the work. They have left tho
road themselves and now threaten to prevent, by
force and intimidation, any laborers from doing
the work necessary to complete the road within
the time required by law.
The officers have telegraphed to General
Terry to send troops sufficient to quell any dis
turbances which might arise. It is stated that
General Terry has ordered troops in Charleston
to proceed to the scene of the disturbance at
once. They will probably reach there to day,
and then tho disturbances will be quelled and
the work be allowed to proceed uninterrupt
edly.
The United States District Conrt commences
its session, at Atlanta, to-morrow (Monday) at
10 o’clock, A. M.
Dr. Nathan Tucker, an old and prominent
citizen of Laurens county, died on Saturday,
the 5th inst.
Both Covington and Atlanta have the mea
sles among their infantry.
The Covington Enterprise says William
Owe-as, a citizen of Newton county, who never
went in debt in his life, died last woek, aged 92
years.
A clear case of cause and effect.
The Thomaston Herald says there have been
only nine deaths in Upson county from menin
gitis during the last month.
Governor Balloek.
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, last evening
reaeived a letter signed “B^itus," in which the
writer stated that he was in possession of cer
tain papers containing statements injurious to
Bollock’s reputation, and that the same would
be made public unless Bollock at once departed
for Georgia. Bollock will publish a card in one
of the morning papers, to the effect that he
does not need this silly threat; that he is not
afraid of any charges that oan be brought
against him, and that he is determined to stay
here and attend to the interests of his State as
long as his services are requisite.
The above is thought of sufficient impor
tance by Forney to telegraph as a special to his
/Philadelphia organ, the Press, of the 9th.
“Brutus” no doubt is none other than Bollock
himself, or some of his sattelites, and bis letter
doubtless a part of the scheme to inflame Con
gress up to the point of passing Butler’s bill
Dense.
The bill recites in the preamble that tt
pie of Georgia have framed and adopted *1
stitntion of State government, whioh is- 4 “
lican ; that the Legislature of Georril
under said constitution bu ratified ih, ,
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments toth f
stitutio-i of tbe United States, and that
formance of these several acts in -
a condition precedent to the repr^ent/.^"
the State in Congress. 14101
The bill, therefore, declares that the
Georgia is entitled to representation in th 1
grass of the United States, provided that?
any member of the Legislature of g»y
shall take or resume his seat, or any
said State shall enter upon the duties ofhf
flee, he shall take and subscribe, and file ;
office of the Secretary of State of Geor.
permanent preservation, an oath or
in the following form:
I> — , do solemnly swear (or
gia.1
without Bingham’s amendment. We have no that I have never taken an oath as a
lintf. rlranTvf /tnvcelf 4V\nf fViIa ia ttia AAvro/'f. ba. DollP7PSS. OF Rfl an ni)i<vow . ■»
sort of doubt ourself that this is the correct so
lution of the matter.
What statements more damaging to Bullock’s
character than have already been made could be
produced now, we are at a loss to guess. If every
honest man in Congress has not already been
abundantly convinced on this head, by Bryant,
Caldwell and Angier’s expose, we are sure any
additional facts would be superfluous. It would
be “carrying coals to New Castle,” sure enough.
Bullock’s declaration of his intention to stay
in Washington in the interests of “his State,”
is the most insolent piece of cool hypocrisy we
have ever known, even from him. It will
hardly impose even on those who are aiding his
unholy plot against the peace and safety of
the people of Georgia. They know, very well,
that to give him what he asks will produce a
condition of affairs here that will sorely result
most disastrously to onr every material interest,
and stir np strife and bad blood to the boiling
point. They know that he and his are after
plunder and revenge against the white people,
and nothing else. But then it will be made to
serve the purposes jof Radicalism'elsewhere,
and that is sufficient.
We repeat our belief that “Brutus” is one of
the busy B.s, bnt if we are mistaken, and some
hot-headed blunderer has thus put his foot in it,
we hopb he will come home right away. Such
threats are the food upon which Georgia Radi
calism thrives. Thoy have done ns immense
disservice already, and at this particular junc
ture are especially hurtful. We hope to hear
no more of them under any circumstances.
Let our fight against this wicked conspiracy
and its concoctors be made openly and above
board. Let ns show them that what we think
and say oi|their deviltry, is superior to conceal
ment. We have nothing to be ashamed of.
We havo fonght Bullock and his stipendiaries in
the broad tight of day, and in an open field.
Let ns not go to guerrillaring and bushwhack
ing, now. We expect to crash ont, at the bal
lot box, the whole concern this year, if the
Bingham amendment passes—two years hence,
if it does not. Let our triumph not be marred
by the recollection that it has been won by
practices that have pilloried in eternal shame
the leaders of the Radical party of Georgia.
Congress, or as an officer of the United
or as a member of any State Legislature^ 1 !,
an executive or judicial officer of \u V StatTI
support the Constitution of the United SuiJ
and afterward engaged in insurrection o-rSj
lion against the same, or given aid or comflnJ
the enemies thereof; so help me Gcd ”orn “
tho pains and penalties of perjury, (i s
affirmation: I, , do solemnly s**!
(or affirm) that I have, by act of
the United States, been reheved from th9* (< l
bilities imposed upon me by the Fourth I
Amendment of the Constitution of the rr* j
States; so help me God, or under the p&in?^!
penolties of perjury, (as the case
which oaths or i
and certified by any officer laVrftByanU^I
to administer oaths. And anv Demon I
deemed guilty ot perjury, and shall be nnniA,
therefor by imprisonment not leas
a .i tuJ, u oa
A Klacori “Kebel” Mixed up with the
Georgia Bill.
From the following extract from the publish
ed report of the debate in the Honse on the
Georgia bill, we see that a Maconian was deoor-
ated with the censure of the Beast. We sup
pose he referred to our clever young friend of
the legal profession, A. O. Bacon, Esq. We
beg to offer onr congratulations :
Mr. Woodward (Detn., Fa.,) concurred in the
views expressed in opposition to the bilL He
did not rise, however, to discuss it, bnt to have
read at the Clerk's desk a letter which he had
received from a highly respectable gentleman
in Macon, Ga., correcting statements by the
gentlemen from Massachusetts (Butler). The
letter having been read,
Mr. Butler, (Mass.) rose to close the debate,
and proceeded to defend and advocate the bill.
He remarked that the person whose letter Mr.
Woodward had read by the clerk was a pretty
person to undertake to advise or lecture fee
House. He was a rebel named Bacon, a mem
ber of the Agricultural State Fair Committee,
held reoently in Macon, which had refused to
permit fee United States flag to be raised over
the Fair bnilding, although the building itself
belonged to fee United States,
Mr. Woodward asked Mr. Butler to whom he
referred ?
Mr. Butler—To the writer of that letter, Mr.
Bacon, is he not fee same man ?
Mr. Woodward—I do not know feat he is fee
same man at all, and I desire to say—
Mr. Butler (interruptingly) I did not yield for
fee gentleman to state
WHAT HE DOES NOT ENOW, .
that would take too long. [Laughter.]
Mr. Woodward—X want to a cc
as to that flag matter.
Passage or the Georgia Bill in the
llouse.
The New York Herald's special report of the
Georgia Bill throoghfee Honse last Tuesday
reads as follows:—
Washington, March 8, 1870.
Another Triumph of Conservatism—Butler
and Bullock—Iniquitous Georgia Recon
struction Bill Defeated.
General Butler and Governor Bullock,
of Georgia, met wife a crashing defeat
in the House to-day by fee adoption of
Bingham’s amendment to the Georgia bill. All
of Bullock’s lobbying for fee last three months
here, together with his dining and wining of
Congressmen with a view to get snch a bill
passed as would give hima perpetual lease upon
the Gubernatorial office in Georgia, goes for
nothing.
Should the Senate endorse fee action of the
House, Bullock will be compelled to retire from
office wben bis term expires, like any other gov-
emor. The trrpmf u»o Gourgia billy aa
reported from the lie construction Committee by
Butler, - vr-d to keep Bullock in office and to
secure the election of his confederates to fee
House and Senate of the United States, as well
as feeir retention in the State offices. But
Bingham has upset these calcnlations, and fee
whole combination bas oome to grief. Bing
ham’s amendment provides that none of the
offices now filled in the State of Georgia, wheth
er by appointment or election, shall be vacated
by fee act, nor shall it be construed to extend
fee official term of any offioer of fee State be
yond fee term limited by the constitution of the
State.
This is a fatal shot to the Bullock faction. It
puts Mr. Bullock out of office two years hence,
instead of four, rs he had contemplated. That
part of the amendment which provides that the
people of Georgia shall not be deprived of their
right under their constitution to elect Senators
and Representatives in fee year 1870, bnt that
such election shall be held in fee. year 1870,
either on the day named in fee constitution of
Georgia or such other day as the present Legis
lature may designate by law, disposes of Blodg
ett and the remainder of the Bullock party, and
gives the people a chance for a new deal.
Bingham’s speech in fee Honse yesterday had
a marked effect upon the fortunes of Bollock,
as well as upon fee fate of Butler’s bilL Butler
tried to offset it to-day by one of his best ef
forts, but it did not take. In vain did he pa
rade the usual array of murders and other out
rages said to have been committed in Georgia.
'While Butler was speaking, Bullock and his
satellites were busy among the members lobby
ing for votes.
The question was taken first oa Bingham’,i
amendment Butler, seeing defeat inevitable,
thought he would delay it a little by calling fee
yeas and nays. In the meantime Bullock plyed
his vocation, bnt when fee vote was announced
it stood—yeas, 114; nays, 71. The bill, as
amended, was finally passed by a vote of 125 to
55. Bingham, of course, was jubilant. Butler
got bis ooat and went home, and Bollock retired,
reflecting upon fee uncertainty of human
events. Butler threatens to get Bingham’s
amendment defeated in fee Senate.
year, and not more than ten years, and -1
be fined not less than $1000, and not’ninn>
$10,000. And in all trials for any riolm;™ ^1
this act the certificate of the taking of either nil
said oaths or affirmations, with proof of thll
signature of the party accused, shall be uS!
and held as conclusive evidence that such o^l
or affirmation was regularly and lawfaUv^il
ministered by competent authority. E T enl
suoh person who shall neglect for the period 21
thirty days next after tho passage of this act £ I
take, subscribe and filo such oath or affirmatim I
as aforesaid, iB to be deemed and taken, to hi I
intents and purposes, to have vacated his' offi« I
It is furthur declared that the State of gU
gia is admitted to representation in Conpe* 1
as one of the States of the Union upon the fi I
lowing fundamental conditions: first, that th I
Constitution of Georgia shall never be *1
amended or changed as to deprive any citim I
or class of citizens of the United States of th
right to vote who are entitled to vote by tit |
constitution herein recognized, except as apta-1
ishment for snch crimes as are now felonies it 1
common law, whereof they shall have been dah I
convicted under laws equally applicable to all I
the inhabitants of said States; provided, Hat I
any alteration of said constitution, prospectm 1
in its effectB, may be made in regard to the I
time and place, of residence of voters. Sm.1
ond, feat it shali never be lawful for the Stab ]
to deprive any citizen of the United States®I
account of his race, color, or previous condi. |
tion of servitude, of the right to hold office to. I
der fee Constitution and laws of said State,®
upon any such ground to require of him 1.7
other qualifications for office than such as m
required of all other citizens. Third, that th
Constitution of Georgia shall never be» j
ardended or changed as to deprive any citizen
or class of citizens of the Untied States of the
school rights and privileges secured by the Con
stitution of said State. j
“Provided, That no Bection in this act con
tained shall be construed to vacate any office
now filled in the State of Georgia, either by |
election of the people or by appointment of the
Governor, thereby and with advice and consent j
of fee Senate of fee State; neither shall this he
construed to extend the official tenure of any
offioer of Baid State beyond the term limited by
the Constitution thereof, dating from the elec
tion or appointment of snch officer, nor to de
prive the people of Georgia of the right unde:
their Constitution to elect Senators and Repre
sentatives of the State of Georgia, in the year,
1870, or in the day named in fee Constitntiou
of such State, or such other day as fee present
Legislature may designate by law.
correction
On Thursday last, about noon, three men in
a buggy drove np to the Farmers’ and Mechan
ics’ Bank in Birmingham, Pa. Two of the
men entered the bank, one of whom knocked
down the Cashier, who was the only employe of
fee bank present, while the other went behind
the counter and seized all the money on fee
desk, amounting to some $20,000, placed fee
money in a basket and ran off. A crowd col
lected and panned, catching two of fee men
and scouring fee money.
Bad News.
The Cheapest One Yet.—A Boston lobby-
man—Stanton, son of fee President of fee Al
abama and Chattanooga railroad—swears fee
Alabama Legislature is the cheapest one he
ever dealt with. Stanton has not struck fee
Agency yet.—Macon Telegraph.
Look ont 1 Stanton will be along in Georgia
next Almost twenty-five miles of this road
runs across fee corner of fee Agency. It is
true Alabama has indorsed for these twenty-
five miles equally with the other miles lying in
the State, and has also shingled it with a second
mortgage to cover fee pro rata part of fee two
millions extra, bnt that will not prevent Stan
ton from coming in under fee Georgia-aid law
also, and taking on another mortgage at fee
rate of $12,000 per mile. The Telegraph may
rest assured that fee Agency will be struck vet.
CMontgomery Mail
This is bad sews. We were in hopes feat all
fee swindling and plundering of Georgia tax
payers would be confined to fee “inride ring” at
Atlanta. But here is a prospect of a heavy
raid by outriders. Mayhaps Bullock & Go. may
object to letting Stanton in. In any event,
though, we stick to our original proposition,
that Stanton can bay fee purchasable part of
the Agency dog cheap.
Texas Crops in 1869.
The Galveston News says the crop of wheat
for the past year, in that State, averaged 11.1
bushels per acre; average prioe per bushel on
the 1st January, 1870, $1 70. Bye yielded 17.3
bushel per acre; prioe, $110. Bailey yielded
26.6 bushels; price, $104. Oats, 28.4 bushels;
prioe, 70a Com, 32.5 bushels; prioe, 73c. No
returns of buckwheat. Potatoes, Irish, 182
bushels per acre; price, $1 80 per bushel
Sweet potatoes, 180 bushels; prioe, 69a To
bacco, no returns. Hay, 1.69 tons per acre;
prioe, $14 18 per ton. Sorghum molasses, 98
gallons per sere; prioe, 80a per gallon.
Tbe Law of Homicide.
As defined in the Code of Georgia : and as ap
plied by the Supreme Court. Prepared 1«
fee younger members of the Bar, and for stu
dent at law. Composed by Wm. M. Reesi,
of Washington, Georgia.
This is fee title of a pamphlet of sixty pages
just issued from the press of J W. Burke & Co.
from tho pen of the late Judge of the Northern
Circuit of Georgia, who has won a distinguished
reputation both as a lawyer and a judge. The
Law of Homicide is practically more unsettled
than any other branch of commercial jurispru
dence; and very naturally so,because fee animus,
and the circnmstances attending the homiside
wholly constitute the legal character of fee act:
and these are most commonly investigated and
determined under more or less bias of the judg
ment It is not to be denied feat there is a
growing latitnde everywhere in the int irpretation
and administration of fee law on this point, and
that fee area of so-called “justifiable homioide,”
whatever it may bo in theory, is, in fact, con
stantly enlarging—much to the hazard of that
sacred inviolability of human life which it is the
most important office of civil government to
protect and maintain. We believe Judge Reese
has done the State a service in preparing this
elaborate and enlightened exposition of the lav
upon tins important subject. It i3 a brief work,
but remarkably well arranged and clear, and the
result of much studious and patient investiga
tion.
The Bingham Amendment to the
Butler Bill.
In fee adoption by the House of the Bing
ham amendment to tho Butler bill, for the ad
mission of Georgia into the Union, we see man
ifested, for the first time since the close of the
war, a disposition on fee part of that branch of
Congress to heed fee calls of onr people for
even-handed justice, and to save fee State from
that extended Republican rule, which, in the
absence of that timely, and we may add, saving
amendment, would certainly be fastened upon
her—not two more years only of that party’s
domination in the State, bnt wife that, who can
tell how much longer its power might be ex
tended, or what other political disasters might
not follow these two more years of power?
From this, fee Bingham amendment, for we be
hove it will pass the Senate, has saved the State.
Upon this we congratulate the Democracy of
Georgia. From ont of darkness there now comes
light. They will now soon have fee opportu
nity given them, whioh otherwise they would
not have, of electing a new Legislature—one of
different political complexion to that whioh
now exists a blight upon our once grand old
Commonwealth.—Atlanta Intelligencer, lltA.
Lost fee printing, as sore as you’re bom!!
Woman Suffrage.
Punch hits the cacklers for woman suffrage this
hard lick:
The rights of woman who demand,
Those women are but few;
The greater part had rather stand
Exactly aa they do.
Beauty has claims, for which she fights
At ease wife winning anna;
The women who want woman’s rights
Want, mostly, woman's charms.
Nettie Chase, a daughter of Chief Jus
tice Chase, is about to publish a book on the
nursery song* of several lands, each one with
an original illustration of her own. The lady
is said to be an unusually fine artist
Left with a Blessing.—The Ocala East Flor
ida Banner, a Radical paper, left feat party Is*
Saturday with its hi mating is the following
words:
After eelm and sober thoughts tad thorosgh
investigation we have arrived atfeiaoocoln*k»
That ‘The Great Repabltoea Party of Flori
da,” as it is penegyrioslly termed by stump or
ators and weli-known “httie lodges, ” is ft*
most corrupt, disgraceful tad degrading party
ever known in fee polittoti history of anyBtste
” r^fam-t disytoe to ty jygs «d
w® t prctontfWi oUulfiu uOCtns® ®^
rights to all,” t “tomxiing brats tad ttoBW
cymbal.”
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