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The Greoirgia "Weekly Telegraph and. Journal <fc JVIessenger.
MACON, MARCH 18 1870.
The Income Tax taw Repealed.
There is, says the New York'Herald of Wed
nesday, a sorions misapprehension in the pnb-
lio mind in relation to the income tax. Peti
tions are being sent to Washington for the re
peal of the law. It should be distinctly under
stood that the Income Tax law was repealed by
limitation the SIsfc day of December, 18G9.
The tax now being assessed is for the year 1869.
After it is paid no other income tax can be col- ^
looted or assessed wiihont the enactment of an heads of all the people, and that the most vital
Gen. Breckinridge on the Ka-KInx.
"We are glad to see this distinguished gentle
man brand these masked marauders and assas
sins as they deserve. He oould hot have said
one superfluous word in denunciation of their
midnight deeds of darkness. The vast majori
ty of the people of tho South who, to-day, suf
fer nnder oppressions and exactions only too
gladly imposed by Congress nnder the pretext
of complicity with these desperadoes and out
laws, will echo and endorse all that he or any
other honest man may say of them. We hope
his words will go far to reach and care the eviL
It is a shame and an infamy that the deviltry
of a few desperate men, should react upon the
entirely new law, which is not likely to he
brought about. The repeal of the old law is
final and unconditional. It takes effect as soon
as the tax for 1869 is paid. A bill passed the
House nnder the previous question gag rule a
few days ago, providing for the assessment and
collection of an income tax for ono year only,
(1870) but it is not likely that Congress will put
such 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 ns have
no more income tax laws.
Casting Grant’s Political Horoscope.
The New York Sun (Sep.) tells Grant’s for
tune as follows. HI natnred people do say,
however, that if Grant had crossed Dana’s palm
with a fat office that ho much desired, the proph
ecy would not have been so mnch in the Cas
sandra vein. But the world is so uncharitable.
Says the Sun;
That Gen. Grant will bo utterly disappointed
in his personal aspirations, it needs no prophet
to predict. That ho may succeed in ruining the
party which trusted him is quite possible. That
he will be ablo to advance even in sight of the
point whore Clinton and Jackson failed, is to
the last degree improbable. That ho will be dis
missed from tho White House on the 4th of
March, 1873, with the same 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 fare. That Kadical of
ficial who must bo a curious compound of knave
and ass, answered as follows:
“ItAXEron, N. C., March 2,1870.
W. J. McGaugh: Wo aro opposed to taking
our citizens out of tho State; you must pay full
faro. Wo need them in tho next election and I
wonld not be sustained if I connived at anything
which wonld defeat our party. W. A. Smith.
President.
The Suez Canal.
The business of tho 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 np to the 31st of January last,
amounted to 5C7,872f.06c, accruing from three
sources—1. Tolls on vessels. 2. Transit of
merchandise and passengers. 3. Bent on land
ed property and houses. The last item figures
only for the sum of 48,869f.3lc., but so soon as
the question of judicial reform in Egypt has
been finally decided, enabling the company’s
lands to be legally sold, I entertain no doubt
that the income derived from that source 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 np to tho present time. Between
the dates of the 21st of November and 31st of
January, twenty-six vessels, or cqnal to one
every three days, passed through it, and from
the 1st to the 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 bis ad
ministration, particularly on tho 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 specio payments, which ended in tho
general disposition among the members of the
Cabinet to let the future prosperity of tho coun
try regulate that action as it has been regulated
by the peaceful condition of events for the
past two years.”
The Boston Traveller says that those en
gaged in the boot and shoe trade have not
found the sales of the season thus far quite up
to their expectations. There are more houses
in tho 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 Cheeky Lot.”
Says the Louisville Commercial, the new Rad
ical organ of Kentucky: ’
To the mind of the Tennessee and Georgia
factionists it i3 incomprehensible that, having
the po ver to do it, Congress should hesitato to
restore them to places which their contumacious
rebel constituencies failed to vote them into.
The Whittemoros, Callises, Bullocks, Black
burns, Deweeses and Butlers aro a cheeky lot.
Insulting the ex-Co mederates. •
Tho Missouri Legislature has passed a Con
stitutional Amendment enfranchising “rebels”
and negroes. Not many of those who thus in
sult the best men of that State by putting them
on a level with negroes, we hazard the guess,
did very much towards subduing these “rebels’
when they had arms in their hands:
The Weiohtest Untbuth Yet Discovered, or
vnlgo, the biggest lie now out, is the telegram of
the Legislative Niggers that they represented
ninety thousand votes in Georgia. There are
not half of the colored population of Georgia
who endorse these transparent hnmbngs, and
not one of them will ever be re-elected to the
Legislature.
The Berlin correspondent of the New York
Handelszeitungsays that Louisiana levee bonds,
Brunswick and Albany Railroad bonds, guaran
teed by tho 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.
Nsab Nashville, last week, one Morphy shot
and killed ono Vivrett; not, however, before
Vivrett had shot and mortally wonndedMntphy.
“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.” -
“Outoa.”—A lady friend of ours is almost
crazy to know tho meaning of this word. If
ahe don't have her curiosity gratified in a week,
aay, somebody will have a rough time. Pity
the poor fellow and let her know.
Con. 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
beat English ware. _j, •
It is laid that Fcilds, Osgood & Co. have con-
- eluded to drop the North American Review,
preferring to let it die rather than selL It long
ejaoe dropped out of popular attention.
Wo are very much gratified to learn that ex-
president Davis is doing so well in the insur
ance business. In three days recently, at
HanteviUe, Ala., ho took five hundred appplica-
tiooB for policies.
interests of a whole section should be jeopard
ized and rained in order that a few outlaws may
oompass schemes of personal vengeance. 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 as -a dying man
wonld upon a draught to prolong his fast-ebbing
life. We have no sort of donbt that this Ku-
Klux business has damaged the South more than
anything elso 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 tho South. They are all credited
to tbe“rebel Democracy,” and to got 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. The best and only 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 foil development that tolerates
it. There are occasions when tho enormity of
a crime arouses and maddens an entire com
munity to take the law into its own band and
wreak a bloody vengeance upon the criminal,
but these cases are few, nor are thyy to be
classed with tho midnight doings of the Ku-
Klux. The former aro 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 the silenco and
mystery of a Venetian Council of Ten. We have
regret for the one, but swift and indignant re
probation for tho other.
Of course we do not credit the existence of
any well organized league or army with ramifi
cations all through the Sontb, as the Radicals
charge. Their falsehoods on this point have
been so often exposed as to moke further refu
tation ridiculous. Nor do wo put to tho credit
of Democrats half the outrages upon negroes,
and “loyal” men, charged to bo committed by
Radical hirelings upon the stump and in the
press. These creatures are paid to lie this way,
and if they didn’t earn their wages wonld loso
their places. Wo do not believe there is any
such thing as a regular Ku-klax organization in
Georgia, although there have been outrages
committed and laid to its charge. We have
never seen a Ku-klux, 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 eonld bo manufactured, if
heeded 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 Kn-KIuxism, as wo understand it, our
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 elso that keeps
open old wonnds, breeds bad blood, and retards
the peace and prosperity of a country sadly
lacking both. It is wrong in itself and ruinous
in its effects. It most bo put down some day,
and the sooner tho better. Gen. Breckinridge
should speak out again and again, and make
Kentucky, at least, too hot to hold any such
monster. When the blessings of stable, legiti
mate, honest government ore 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.
Griflln ami North Alabama Railway.
This great enterprise is moving along, nnder
tho direction of CoL White, of the Macon and
Western Railroad, smoothly and rapidly. Tho
track is all laid to tho Flint river, abont ten
miles from Griffin, and we aro 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 tho work shall bo done
in tho most thorough and durable manner.
The bridge across the Flint, and the connecting
trestle-work, aro well advanced, and the line to
Newnan, thirty-five miles from GrifliD, will be
completed by tho first of Jane next. It will
then be ran in connection with the Macon and
Western—probably nnder 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
tribatary to it. Inexhaustible supplies of coal,
iron, lime, marble, Ac., will here enter into the
freights of the road, and this region will receive
over this line all its supplies of fnol for 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 terminus, 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 tho 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 Decatnr.
It is 180 miles from Griffin to Decatur, and
hero 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 Decatnr, thence to Griffin, Macon and Bruns
wick, it will be seen to be almost an air lineknd
so mnch the best and shortest line between the
Mississippi River and tho Atlanlio Ocean that
any other is hardly worth talking abont 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 country extraordinarily productive
of trade and business by reason of its uncom
mon agricnltnral 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 he one of the most important
and profitable thoroughfares in the whole South
ern country. It will be tho grand avenue
through which (ho produce of the great Mis
sissippi Valley will reach Georgia, nnd by which
much of it will reach the Atlantia seaboard. It
will be a road of great importance to Macon, and
make her the best distributing centre in the
State.
Tbe Bank Circulation we Have,
AED
What we are Entitled to.
The editor of the Bucyrns, Ohio, Journal,
who was formerly a clerk in the Treasury De
partment, sends us 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 issue and distribution of 800 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 compared it with what it
has received. The table consolidating all these
calculations is a valuable ono, and we copy it
as follows:
Apportion
ment accord- Existing
ing to estimate, apportion
ment.
Ala...... 7,425,000 353,025
Ark..*... 2,724,000' 180,250
Cal 3,003,000
Oon_.... 7,222,500 18,215,115 10,992,615
Del.....;. 1,090,600 1,244,725 154,225
Florida... 955,600 955.500
Geo 9,420,500 1,239,900 8,180,GOO
HI 11,838,000 10,815,835 1,522,1G5
Ind...... 9,615,000 11,391,695 1,776,C95
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.... 6,415,000 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,G70
Mich..... 5,200,500 3,957,555
Minn 1,050,000 1,604,100 554,100
Miss. ... 5,265,000 66.000
Mo 9,411,000 4,419,170
N. H 8,312,000 4,394,395 1,082,395
N.J. 6,690,000 9.736,245 3,016,245
N. X 53,483,500 76,067.010 22,584,010
N. C 7,546,600 384,700
Ohio 17,623.500 19,076,260 1,452,760
Oregon... 370,500 88,600
Penn ....26,527,500 40,769,220 14,241.720
R.I. 4,794,000 12,940,850 8,146,850
8. O. 7,566,000 193.500
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
Excess Defi-
circula- ciency cir-
tion. eolation.
7,071,975
2,513.800
3,003,000
972.365
972.365
8,071.530
9,229,880
1,242,943
5,199,000
4,991,830
W. Yirg,
Wiscon.,
Dis. Col,
Dakota,
Neb
NMex..
Utah..
Wash...
Colorado
Nevada,.
Montana
Idaho...
6,211,500
658.500
27,000
181.500
486,000
237,000
82.500
193.500
48,000
2,068,950
2.626,750
1,339,500
171.500
135.500
671,000
7,161,800
282,000
7,373,500
7,474,830
3,531,460
9.272,070
3,534,750
27,000
10,000
486,000
101.500
82,500
255.700 62,200
131.700 83,700
36,000
63,500
A few fignres will forcibly illustrate tho 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,-
G4I,000 of the 300,000,000 of banking capifnl.
What they have so far received, is $14,419,370!
or $83,221,630 short of thoir rateable propor
tion.
Ten Northern States, to-wit; Connecticut,
Maino, 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 $120,050,821
Surely nothing more is needed to show tbe
propriety of a redistribution of the currency.
We have no partiality for the scheme of nation
al banks; bnt, on tho contrary, believe when
they have been fairly submitted to tho test of
maintaining specie payments, the plan will be
found very defective, and important changes
must be made. But os these are the only banks
of issue, tho partiality in tho distribntion not
only works great injustice and inconvenience to
the Sonth, bnt, we believe, by crippling this sec
tion, reacts injuriously on the North herself.
When we remember that tho whole banking
capital of the thirteen Southern States is now
only two millions in excess of what Charleston
alone possessed before the war, it is a wonder
wo are able to get along at all, even at the rate
of 2$ a month for money, as a permanent ar
rangement.
The 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 Butler, lay in the Senate, but since
he was so unexpectedly put down in tho House
we bavo ceased to anticipate events, nnd will
quietly wait upon them. Evidently Butler and
Bollock are in straits, and doing their best in
tho way of canvassing in the Senate. The At
lanta New Era says that tbe passage of the
Georgia bill in the Home is regarded as an en
dorsement of Bullock, but Butler and Bullock
are straining their sinews to prevent a similar
endorsement from passing the Senate. It is a
kind of endorsement thoy don’t desire, and they
were canvassing, lobbying, fretting and faming
all day yesterday, to prevent it, if possible. Ac
cording to onr dispatches thoy appear to have
met with a degree of success. The Radical
Senators caucussedonthe Georgia question and
appeared to be about equally divided upon Mr.
Bingham’s amendment, Morton, Drake, Thay
er and Cameron, speaking against it, and Trum
bull, Edmunds and Ferry, in favor of it. Wo
are disposed to think tho bill, as it passed tho
House, will go through tho Senate.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Bollock, Bailor A Co.—Hard nit by tbe
Blnffham Amendment-Probabilities or
Its Passage la tbe Senate—Grant and
American Commerce—Bevels, nnd the
ingion Darkeys— Miscellaneous.
Washington, March 8, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger (
Bullock, Blodgett, el al., were put out- of
Court yesterday. Butler lost their case, as he
did the case of his client, Whittemore. Doubt
less he secured his fee in both cases; but he
does not relish being so ignominiously beaten.
He sank back in his seat yesterday, after tho
adoption of Mr. Bingham's amendment, over- be 8atisfie a b a Legislative
come with rage and disappointment, Bullock whole world n * leaa it
wait tern
was ghastly pale and trembling nervously. - - -
The Effect or Negro Rule.
The city sheriff of Charleston will advertise
lor sale, at public 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 rale that city, ent it so fat, and live so lux
uriously, that the poor white trash who own
the property can’t pay the heavy taxes rendered
necessary to support all this high living. • Wo
are really sorry for them; but we suppose thoy
have no business to be white, or to own any
properly.
If Bnllook 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 Bnllook & Co. what the South Carolina
folks snbmit 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.
The Dose for Tennesscce.
A Washington special to the Louisville
Courier-Journal, of Tuesday, says that It is
hot intended by tbe Badioals in Congress
to set np a provisional government in Tennes
see, or to interfere with the presentregime just
now, bnt a bill is to be prepared to secure a
new 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 plaoe of the present administration. The
justification for this is said to be found in the
right of Congress to secure 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: “San Domingo
will be admitted as 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 hare made an addition to the na
tional bnrden'of ah entire nation of paupers.
I verily believe the annexation of Central
Africa, from the rise to tbe mouth of the Qnar-
rie River, would find advocates among the no-
gro lovers of this Congress.”
He stood far back on the floor of tbe House,
clutching the back of a chair. Blodgett rose
from the 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 anti-Bullock delegation,
were in the gallery, exultant and triumphant.
They had learned' in the morning that the
passage of the bill was inevitable, and had
turned their attention to scouring the adop
tion of Mr. BiDgham’s amendment, withwhat
success has been seeD. They regard the re
sult of yesterday’s conte.-t as highly favorable
to Messrs. Hill' and Miller. It squelches
Blodgett at all events, and that is something
to rejoice at. Sail,’it must be remembered
that the Senatorial question is for the Senate
to decide; and uot the House. From present
indications, however, this need cause no un
easiness. The report of the Judiciary Com
mittee is lUvor;' b!o; and Georgia is understood
to have gained many fiiends iu 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 sate
Bullock and the carpet-bag crew.
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 the day. Butler declares he
will accomplish his object, and he has quite a
string of Radical Senators’in tow. But, on
the other hand. Senator Stewart and others
are anxious to have Georgia admitted at once,
so that the Fifteen h Amendment proclama
tion may be i-sued, and enable the negroes to
be registered in time for the spring elections.
The result in New Hampshire has frightend
the Radicals a little; and they want to bring
the negro vote into the field lor the election in
Conineticut 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 of a farce,
written litre, and which contains more truth
titan poetry. Tne 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 char m
ing young lady, whom he has met at a recep
tion. The lady, however, has a younger lover
to whom she is mnch 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 tho way. While the young
man is a’tending to his new duties the Sena
tor ait.mpti to improve the opportunity; but
his love-making is continually interrupted by
a colon d manservant to the family, who is
in lergue with the banished lover. The Sen
ator ge shim a warrant as corporal in the
same r, giment, aud thinks he has now re
moved at otstacles to his success; but his
most interesting tete-a-tetes ate again inter
rupted by a colored sweetheart of the newly-
mtdc corporal, who is also a servant in the
house, and one of the conspirators against the
Logon and other Western members. Mr. John-
sou shows tho advantages of “Red Dog,” “You
Bet,”’“Yaba Dam,” and Jack-ass Gnlch,” in
California as appropriate sites for the future
Capital of the United States; bnt in one pass
age he drops the mask of tho jester, to give ut
terance to these trathfnl words: “ Along time
ago Washington City was a name that eonld not
be pronounoed without kindling emotions of
patriotism. It eonld not be ottered 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
Ropublio. Bnt how different now ! The word
now carries, whenever spoken, a great ragged
picture of negro processions, election riots,
and a lobby of white speculators who could not
■■MjAH donation of fhe
tendered with a vote
of thanks.
The Ku-Klnx are in Washington. At least
Gov. Bollock has received a lettersigned “Bra
tus,” in which he is advised to call off his dogs
from Georgia and mind his own bminoss; nnd
his carpet-bag exoellency retorts through the.
Chronicle that he is not afraid of the Ku-Klux.
Nor need to be. The Kn Klux don't meddle
with dead dogs.
During the debate on the Georgia bill the oth
er day a yellow colored nigger occupied the seat
of “Mack,” of the Cincinnati! Enquirer. His
intellectual countenance indicated the greatest
interest in the proceedings; bnt he didn’t ap
pear to cotton much to Bollock, 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
him. .; -
Dr; Bard is not yet confirmed a3 Governor of
Idaho, and is getting very nervous about it
Dalton.
peace of tho Senator, and is always turning
up just wf.ea the isn’t wanted. She is finally
bought off by giving her a coveted position as
“boss scrubber” at _ the _ Treasury, and the
Seaator, congratulating himself on his diplo
macy in overcoming all the difficulties which
stood in his way, seeks another interview with
his charmer, and is getting along very well,
when he is again interrupted by the “boss
scrubaer” who brings unexpected and unwel
come intelligence- ‘ Some one had blundered,”
and the regiment supposed to be cn route for
Alaska, had been ordered to Washington, and
was even then coming up the Avenue to tho
tunc of “Johnny Comes Marching Home.”'
Getting desperate, the Senator declares his
passion, but, 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 tho fatter. Mak
ing tho 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 tho faithful corporal and his
boss scrubber.”
The Republican of this city, says: ‘‘Presi
dent Grant lias card ally perused tho 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 iu a special message recommending im
mediate action upon the subject- He thinks
that with our extended coast line, it is
shame that all our commerce must be done
iu vessels of nations, whoso friendly feeling
toward t*’c 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 tho decline of American
commerce. Imaginehim “expressingliishearty
approval of all its recommendations.” Im
agine him expressing an opinion oa the subject,
either ono way or tho other. But this wouldbo
asking too much of even the most 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. Ho has no more ideas about
eimmerce and navigation than a hen has
about moral philosophy. The only naviga
tion Grant does know anything about is the
navigating of an ox-cart with a load of wood
into St. Louis; and the navigating homeward
with tho value of tho 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 the 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 yarn.
It is stated a3 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 be rid of the
annoyance of being called out to confer with
all the darkey element congregated inthis city.
Siaca his arrival here, every contraband in
the District and surrounding counties has been
to see him to enjoy the novelty of personal
consultation with “our Senator,” and the
thing becomes a nuisance to the Mississippi
quadroon, who likes not to be button-holed by
darkies. Of course few, very few, white men
are likely to desire interviews with the dusky
Mississippian, andhisclientsall being negroes,
it ill suits his new surroundings ana Senato
rial associations, to be running out into the lob
bies at the back of the odoriferous rabble who
haunt his footstep* This question of caste is
a most fearful thing to contemplate in the Af
rican race. The moment a smattering^ of
white blood gets mixed up in the sluggish
vein , of tho hlack-a moor, that moment he
sets up a superiority over his blacker breth
ren, and in proportion as the white blood
prevails, iu that proportion he 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 OapitaL It is a highly
humorous and clear production—a capital bur
lesque on the effervescent oratory of General
“Cercbro Spinal Meningitis.”
Eatokxon, March 8, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Meningi
tis (so-called) is prevalent in this county. This is
the second severe visitation we have had.—
Daring the war I published the opinion in your
paper, that Meningitis and Malignant Typhus
Fever were identical. The 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 doubt 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. Respeotfully yours,
R. H. Nisbet.
Accompanying the foregoing note was a pri
vate letter to the senior editor endorsed “ not
for publication /•” but the vast importance of the
subject, andthefaetthat the private letter elabor
ates and sustains Dr. Nisbet’s theory enunciated
above, induces ns to take the responsibility of
putting tho whole before the public. We shall
be sorry if this course shall involve any injus
tico to the Doctor, and must take all the blame.
His letter is written in all tho unreserve of
private confidence, and proceeds as follows :
Meningitis (so-oalled) is now endemic in
Pntnarn 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 bo answered. In
our profession ono way to arrive at tho truth is
“.by sifting the summary of individual observa-,
tion.” I propose to give the result of observa
tion,and study of tho two very severe visitations
of this disease which we have hnd within the
last seven years, in this county, also of tho pre
sent visitation.
I assert, to tho best of my knowledge and
belief, that “meningetis” is malignant typhus
fever. I contend that inflammanion of tho
membranes which cover the upper portion of
the spinal marrow and tho lower portion of tho
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 tho 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 tho 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, which, if (he 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 the treatment at tho outset
is active. In typhus sudden atmospheric vi
cissitudes aggravate tho poison. In typhus the
convalescence is slow and lingering, etc., etc.
Now, all these fteis are trite of meningitis, so
far as it has come nnder my knowledge. I havo
not time for details. I will state a few facts.
Nine out of ton of tho first cases I saw were
negroes. A U of these nine occurred in well
marked typhns localities. Among negroes I
always had more than one case in the same cabin,
or on the same plantation. All the cases which
survived tho first shock got well after lingering
convalescence, oto., eto. I havo not time to
write at length. Daring the war, I published
this same opinion in your paper. I have not
since had occasion to change. I write now
simply to call attention of brother physicians to
tho above facts. “A positive assertion is a
dangerous thing in our 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 havo 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 tbe wash tabs and back-yard at the other—a
regular typhus nidus—four children, aU iu 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 Btory of almost all the cases
in this county. Mrs. Sohaub’s vicinity to tbe
locality and the predisposing causes in her case,
account for her having the disease. • If I am
not mistaken, Mr. Joseph Wells’ family live in
a low, damp locality.
Decisions of the Supreme Court.
Tuesday. March 8, 1870.
The following judgments were 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, oaveators, vs. John
Woods, Administrator—caveat to return of ad
ministrator and appeal from Court of Ordinary
of Catoosa county. Judgment of the Court be
low reversed on the ground that the judgment
of the Conrt of Ordinary disallowing the return
of the Administrator so far as the Confederate
currency was concerned, was the judgment of a
conrt of competent jurisdiction, and as no ap
peal was taken from it, is final and conclusive
between the partios, and the administrator had
no right to include the same item in the snbse
qnent return, which he was ordered by the
judgment of the Court of Ordinary to make.
Nanoy Martin, plaintiff in error vs. Campbell
Wallace, Superintendent Western and Atlantic
railroad, defendant in error—case from Folton.
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
gronnd that the court erred in not making the
role absolute, nnder the facts, as set forth in
the record, but 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 and 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.
tho Georgia Railroad and Banking Company,
defendant in error. Judgment affirmed.
Willis P. Chisholm, plaintiff in error, vs.
Wade Cothran and Asahel R. Smith, defendants
in error. Award and demnrrer to objections
from Floyd. Judgment reversed, on the ground
that the court erred in not sustaining the de
murrer to the objections filed to the award, the
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, A 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's death.; but most be classed among
dormant judgments, promissory notes, eto., in
the distribution of said assets.
James F. Dever, plaintiff in error, vs. War
ren Akin, Assignee, defendantin error. Illegal
ity from Polk. Judgment affirmed.
Bbown, C. J., dissenting.—Argument in No.
4 Cherokee Circuit—John Ardis, Trustee, vs.
Joseph J. Printnp, Administrator, and John A.
Smith—was resumed; and pending this argu
ment, the Conrt adjourned.
Tbe Wild Lands—Important Corrcs
pondcnce Concerning Advertising
the Same.
From the Atlanta New Era.)
COMPXEOLUEB GeNEBAl’s OFFICE,)
Atlanta, March 1, 1870. j
To His Excellency, Bufur B. Bullock, Governor
os Georgia :
Bib : The list of unreturned Iand3 for forty
counties has been completed and turned over to
me by tho clerk appointed to do that work. The
list is a very large one, embracing abont two
million sixty-eight thousand acres of nnretumed
wild lands in tho forty counties. Section 874
of the Code requires this office, when the list is
completed,to advertise the same for sixty days
in one nowspaper in each Congressional
District. The list being so large, I have
deemed it my duty to seek information as to
the probable cost of publication, and upon
inquiry, I Isarn, from an old and experienced
printer, tkatjt trill cost from twelve to fifteen
hundred dollars 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, will
not be less than ten thousand dollars. Consider
ing the great expense to the State, thus likely
to bo incurred, and tho comparatively small
amount of revenue that will be derived from
the tax upon these lands (they being unim
proved, and tho averago price so little) I
havo deemed it proper to request your Ex.
cellency to suspend the collection of the tax
upon thc-se unreturned wild lands for 1868 until
the meeting of the Legislature, when I pro
pose to lay the subject before that body with
tho view of exhibiting the great ex; ease 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, of eliciting some other plan for
bringing these lands into market with less ex
pense to the State. In my judgment, to carry
out the present law, would cost the State sev
eral thousand dollars more than the tax would
amount to when collected.
Very respectfully,
Madison Bell,
Comptroller GcneraL
The Dawn of the Mlllenninm—A
Grand Jnry or Women Sworn—A
Lady Bailiff Attends Them.
Lianna City, W. T.,‘ March 7.—The judi
ciary of Wyoming sustains the right of women
to servo as grand jurors. All tho 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.
Tmbamik, W. T., March 7.—In impanneling
and charging the grand jury, Judge Howe said:
“Ladies and gentlemen of the Grand Jury—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,
but 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 loug 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 this movement, and to test the
question.
The eyes of the world are to-day fixed dpon
Albany county. There is not the slightest im
propriety in any lady occupying the position,
and I assure yon that the fullest protection of
the touxt shall be accorded to you. It wonld be
a most ^phomefol scandal upon onr temple of
justice and courts of law if anything should be
permitted which tho most sensitive lady might
not hear with propriety and witness ; and here,
let me add, it will be a sorry day for any man
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 yon 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 sit upon grand juries,
which will give them the best possible oppor
tunity to aid in suppressing dens of infamy
which 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 the contrary, I 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
which any jurors make for being excused.”
Senator Hill.—We hear that Senator Hill
has received a dispatch from Washington to
come on there as affairs are lighting up. We
Bhall be glad if Mr. Hill finds it sunrise when
be gets there.
Executive Department,)
Atlanta, Ga., March 4, 1S70. j
By virtue of the authority vested in me by
section 70 of tbe Code of Georgia, tho tax
upon 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.
Cotton States’ Mechanical aiiT
cultural Fair Associ« Uo ^ -
It is gratifying to know that pro*™,,,,
rapidly made in the affairs of this a»
The plan for laying out the grounds ,
hands of a first-class civil engineer
walks, track, drives, planting, etc.
ranged with the utmost care and LIj-H
curacy. It was at first decided to .
Fair on November 1st, but subsequent *
induced the board of management to r-
week earlier—October 25th. The
continue five dajB, and from the a
premiums offered, over $11,000, a vajT
of interest will no doubt be manifested *
Among the premiums for field cm D . i,
be well to mention some for which ini *
preparation would be necessary in otl W ?
able planters to compete. The folW’r>
be offered on cotton and corn: "2\
For the best and largest crop of Co‘Ia
dneed upon ton or more acres upland
statement of the mode of cnltivatio, *
amount and kind of manure used the n. ■ *
planting, the number of times ’plonSr
hoed, and the variety of cotton—the “
measured and th8 cotton weighed in th
ence of three reliable and disinterested^!-,
es, with their affidavit—the original faSH
the soil to be taken into consideration—,
of not less than 450 lbs. to be exhibit 6
average sample, $200. a **
For the largest and best crop of colu,
dneed upon one or more acres of uoIabji 1
same requirements as above, s*50 r a ’’
For the largest crop of corn grown wj
acres of upland—not less than sevifr!
bushels to tho acre; same requirements ' 5 'l
cotton—two bushels to be exhibited
$100.
For the largest crop of corn grown n MjK
acres of lowland—not less than one hn->
bnshels per acre; same requirements
land com, $100.
For the largest orop of sweet potatossn
per acre—one-eighth of an acre to be d„
certificate of yield to be famished by three
mterested persons with two bushels as sa®.
For the largest crop of Irish potatoes,
requirements as for sweet potatoes, W
For the largest crop of Indian corn, ero-.J
any white boy under sixteen years of see tr
one acre of land, thojralea in relation to l
orops to be complied with, silver patent
watch, worth $25. 1 *
For the largest quantity of cotton profc
by any white boy under sixteen years of L
upon one acre of land, requirements as *Jj
silver patent lever watch, worth $25.
For the best twenty bales common an]
cotton, $100. • ^
^ For the best ten bales common upland <
For tbe best five bales common upland t
ton, $25.
For tne best one bale common upland i
ton, $10.
^For the best one bale upland cotton, long*
For tbe best five bales Sea Island cotton *
For the best bale (400 pounds) Sea Island!
black seed cotton, raised on npland, $25." ]
Extracts from rules governing exhibitors:
“No article will be received for compete
unless it is the bona fide production or masd
tore of the exhibitor.”
The premiums on other field crops, i
fact on every article of Southern prods
will be equally liberal and judicious, and c
fail to excite active competition.—ChToiu^
Sent., 101A “
The Woman’s Right Movement, we see, is
about to be embarrassed by the unmanly con
duct of its advocates.
The male oitizens of Zanesville, Ohio, have
petitioned that women may be invested with all
tlie 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 famiiv, a divorce shall be
granted, awarding alimony to the hnsband.
And in tho new militia bill of Wyoming Ter
ritory, where they have just conferred suffrage
upon women, they have made them liable to
militia duty. Oh shame, where is thy blush.
Who is to hold down tho ladies’ veils—hold on
thoir shawls, lift their skirts, and carry their
fans while they tramp abont carrying a musket
and go through the trnmnal ?
Mrs. Oady Stanton, speak to this point with
proper indignation!
Women ix Gebmanx.—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 public 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 the dab or museum, the coffee
house or.beer house, instead of being society
for them and making home attractive. It is per*
fecily proper for a yonng lady to go home
alone through the streets in the evening-rit
weald be highly improper for a young gentle
man to accompany her—Letter from Qettengen.
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 17tb, when
she sailed for Caledonia Bay to land the party
of engineers detailed to survey the route of the
canal across the Isthmus of Darien. The delays
attendant upon this enterprise seem to be innu
merable. The Nipsic had not been absent from
Aspinwall for twenty-four hours when she re
tained, having only proceeded eighteen miles
on hsr course. The cause of the return was
the failure to obtain laborers at Porto Bello, in
consequence of the fears excited by probable
attacks from the Indians on the Isthmus.
Mb. James C. Southall, one of the most vig
orous writers in the editorial corps of Virginia,
has retired from the Richmond Enquirer, on
account of a difference of opinion with the pro
prietors on the subject of the settlement of pri
vate debts:
TSIE LAST PERFORMANCE OF Tfl
FLORIDA ROGUES.
We clip the following narrative of theiaj
performance by the Radical governmeai
Florida from the Floridian, oi the 8th inis|
Forgery of a Statute l
The Forgery of a Statute!!! Yes, re^J
the Forgery of a Statute. It may astoiiai
you, though it does uot us. You have hesis
of the forgery of notes, and bonds, and lri|
bills, and land warrants, and receipts,
but you havo never conceived it possible tbi
a statute could be forged. If any one m-kj
to satisfy his mind that a statute can beforgdi
we invite him to go to the office of the colors! j
;entleman who fills tho office of Secretary c
! rate in Florida, and there he will sec a/wjiiS
statute—a forged act of the Florida Legiii
ture. This iorged act is entitled “an Acts!
authorize the Governor to ask for and receT>|
tho Agricultural Land Scrip from the 1
States.” This forged act of the Legisluturen\
regularly filed by the Governor in tbe office a
the Secretary of State as law. It is rcgulail
signed by the Governor, Lieut. Governor, Set J
rotary of tho Senate, Speaker and Clerk of thi|
House, and yet never teas introduced, or
or voted on in either branch of the Lryidatsnl
as is show»by the journals of both hocMj
and as every member of both houses wortdl
be obliged to swear if called into court. It i|
pure forgery. It is in the hand writing of 11
Air. Campbell, whom the Governor a ppointd I
to the important office of Harbor Alaster a I
Pensacola. Mr. Campbell says he wrotetkil
Iorged act at the request of a Senator when-1
joices in being State Senator and United Statal
Marshal for Florida. This Senator had rej
cently offended Gov. Reed by favoring his ins-[
peachment and it was necessary to assist Red I
in regard to this statute in order to keep ReedI
from having him removed from the office of E
Alarshal. This forged act authorises G v. Red I
to “ask for and receive from the government of I
the United States tho Agricultural Land Scrip j
to which this State may be entitled undents
by virtue of the act of Congress of July I
IS62, providing for Agricultural Colleges it j
the roveral States.” I
_ This Land Scrip is thought to be, ja£ I
eiously invested, of the value of several I®1
dred thou-and dollars. What will become cl
it if Gov. Reed gets poossession of it we mT
not say, but judging from the fate of the thirty j
thousand dollars of State Bonds that he took I
to New York, and the sad fate of the I
he received from Judge Westcott in current,
and the still sadder fate of tho $1140 he if
ceived in currency from the Florida Railrod ]
Company, to say nothing of the compovrA I
twelve thousand five hundred dollar oporatiot
with Mr. Swepson, and the unparalleled for I
gery of the law under which he will recent
this Land Scrip, if he receives it at all, * [
should say, Farewell Agricultural Land Sen?
—farewell College! You have gone to that
pocket from whose bourne no money has ever
yet returned.
We do not know whether Gov. Reed riu
succeed in getting this Scrip or not. v e
know that he and the Senator who superu-
tended the drawing up of the so-called statute, I
and Lt. Governor Gleason and Air. Speaker J
Stearns who signed it with Gov. Reed, are w I
now in Washington. But we know
that Mr. Chase, the Superintendent cil
Schools for this State, has gone on to try til
head them off, being armed with the opimoa I
of Attorney General Meek that said forged I
statute has not the force of law, and with tee I
Journals and affidavits of members to snow
that said forged statute was never introduced,
or read, or voted on mujh less passed
either branch of the Legislature. We trus*
that Mr. Chase may overhaul the Govern?
aud his party before they have seized then |
prey- ■
Mack Dogs Dent.—“Mack," of the Cincin
nati Enquirer, concerning the dog which Grari
refused, revileth Brigadier Doorkeeper Dent, ** j
follows:
“I have fallen under the deep displeasure o'
Dent, because of that faithful narrative where 3 |
I pictured the illustrious brother-in-law leading j
the Cleveland pointer to a meat shop. In ftot.
Dent enters solemn denial of the statement',
says he had nothing whatever to do with tB* j
dog, except to refuse to receive him, and m 13 )
he did in tho name of his high mightiness
Ulysses. He says, furthermore, that la®*
slanderer of the President, aud he wishes
were a law to banish me beyond the sac®* j
limits of Washington. Bo do I. For in ®
language of the ancient and illustrious Catalyse,
“Whats banished, but set free from the dw
contact with the things I loathe. ” He
threatens me with the vengeance of den»“
oourtesy at the White House, and swears
roualy whenever ruy name is mentioned, .b
he ever read thf modem translation ofw
beatitudes. “BJ jssed are ye when Den* ? ^
revile you and p roseeute yon, for Dent »
fraud on the Areerioan people." But if I
offended you Dent in this matter, in h<1*® g
greater measure have I offended the d°B-
Dent was mriigned in being pictured »»
the dog to the meat shop, how much gr®»^
was the humiliation heaped upon tbe dog
being sent through the streets in such co-op*".
It I owe an apology anywhere it is ^
and not to Dent, and if Towser will forgiv
I shall not offend again."
