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■hmmmmwmmHB5 ► 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 The Income Tax taw Repealed.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 It should be distinctly under stood that the Income Tax law was repealed by limitation the SIsfc day of December, 18G9.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."