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MACON, MARCH 18 l$70.
“How Crops Feed.”
Is a book for ■which we are indebted to
Orange, Judd A Co., 245 Broadway, publishers
of this and numerous other agricultural books,
and alspipf that sterling paper, the Aasriwa
Agriculturist. Thisboo^c is. written by Professor
Samuel - W. Johnson, of Yale College, and is a
scientific trcatiso upon the origin, character and
composition of soils, and the whole - theory and
process of vegetable nutrition and development.
When a man has studied and digested this book,'
he will be able to mature his own theories upon
the treatment of his lands and crops and need
not blindly follow -the example of others, which
may, in fact, be “wholly inapplicable to his own
condition. -He will understand the character of
his soil—the demands of his crops—the manner
in which they dorive nutrition, and can, there*
fore* intelligently adapt means to ends. He
need not be told whether he should plough
deeply or ahallowly, or keep his soil loose and
friable or just scrape the surface, during the
progress of his growing drops.
The Supreme Court Legal Tender
Decision.
The Philadelphia Press says Mr, J. W. Wal
lace, United States Supreme Court Reporter,
has reoenlly written a letter which,' althongh
private and non-official, mnst be credited with
considerable weight. Mr. Wallace does not
think that the recent decision of the Court on
the legal tender question will be repealed, and
giving tho reason of tho faith that is in him, al
leges that “the whole history of the Supreme
Court of the United States records no successful
effortnt such an attempt.” Moreover, ha states
that there is no case on the docket now which
involves the question, and that it would take
two or three years to bring a new one into shape
for a decision in tho present crowded state of
the list, ‘Mr. Wallace asserts positively that the
decision applies to interest as well as to princi-
Pri.
TherjI are various rumors concerning the fn
tare of the bold Butler. One is, that the ne
groes are gorng to run him for the next Presi
dent on a colored ticket of their own. The
other is, that be is to find a competitor for his
seat in Congress in one Ben Poore, a newspaper
correspondent of democratic proclivities. Of
coarse, Butler is at liberty to tako bis choice,
just as he has been at liberty for some time
past to take whatever he could get his hands on
and carry off.
Very good for the Chicago Times, but it
hasn’t got Poore rightly classified- He- is just
about a3 much of a Democrat, as Butler is of an
honeBt man. He ought to beat Butler, though,
anywhere in Massachusetts, for when Butler
was a fierce Democrat he (Poore) was showing
his “proclivities” for Radicalism by giving a
mulatto ball in tho town of Athens, in this State.
If Poore .runs as well for Congress as he did
from the nauseated, indignant citizens of that
place, ha’ll beat the Beast all hollow.
Tux Reconstructed New Era. Should. Con
trol Itself.—It has a right perhaps to be a
little exuberant, bnt on the whole it is better to
be quiet and composed. The Era, in the ex
cess of it A friskiness says Bryant denounces the
Telegraph and Messenger as a paper “subsid
ized by Bollock.” Let the New Era give us the
accusation.in form—when and where charged
by Bryant—and then we will think over the
superfluous work of noticing it.
Watson, the poetical city editor of the New
Era shares in the general friskiness of that es
tablishment. He is ont bragging that Atlanta
will outdo Augusta in the show of pretty women.
But the troth is Watson can’t tell a pretty wo
man when he sees her. • —
The Virginia Legislature has passed th6
homestead bill exempting ten thousand dollars
of property from execution.
That if trno, is really an important exemp
tion. It will do away with the farce of collect
ing debts by law, which interferes with the right
kind of credit and bothers people who wish to
attend their own business with sitting on juries.
Another Thick.—The pretended caucus of
colored legislators at Atlanta, a few days ago,
was small—two-thirds of them being at their
homes. Soma of Gov.Ballbck’s friends got up
the protest against the Georgia Bill, which was
telegraphed to Bevels, and signed colored men’s
names to it without their knowledge or consent.
. A New York letter writer says strong influ
ences are at work to prevent the trial of MoFar-
land, who killed Richardson. It is thonght he
will be admitted to bail and vanish. The in-
ves ligation, it is feared, will result in some un
savory developments, from the .philosophers,
male and female, of the higher law and higher
love school. ‘ •. ‘ -■-...
An election for Intendent and Wardens of the
town of Edgefield, South Carolina, took place
on Monday.' There was ho contest, as both
parties had previously agreed upon the same
ticket, Among the Wardens are a Confederate
.captain, the editor of the Advertiser, a “rebel
newspaper, "and a negro member of tbe Agency
over there. Whew
Virginia Colored Emigrants.—A Charleston
Courier correspondent 'says the blacks are en
couraged to emigrato from Virginia by offers of
'twenty-two dollars a month and transportation
paid, and that ov tr the East Tennessee Bailroad
five - thousand negroes,all from Virginia, have
passed i£ (he last two months.
a nice young man in New Orleans ran away
and married the daughter of. a highly respecta
ble lady, .and came back for the lady’a blessing,
which was. freely given, together with the in
formation that the girl was not her daughter,
bnt a quadroon servant girl. He said it
was a swindle, and'went away so rapidly that
they couldn’t see his back for the dost.
San Domingo.—The Senate Committee -on.
Foreign Delations have agreed to report against
tbe Treaty of annexation by five to two. What
became of the two or three hundred thousand
dollars in gold advanced by Gen. Grant to Baez ?
Who -irillmake reclamation? t
“Utteb Silence Grant” is the last spelling
ont of. the President’s initials, by tho New York
Son! The'Sun, in its anxiety to make A point,
does violence to troth, Grant talks a great deal
and very glibly on the important subjects of
trotters and.terrier pupa. Let.the Sun do him
justice.
The’Cqnadians are shipping back thqir'Atnei«
lean silver to the United States. It has pester
ed them a good deal, being debased about eight
per cent. - below standard coin; but it has been
usefal in the smuggling business.
i
The paralytic husband , in Paris who saw his
wife murdered before his -eyes finds 'it not an
ntier calamity, since tho shock restored him to
health. -i - .
Gale in Charleston.—The News says there
was a' heavy gale in Charleston last Friday
night, winch' blew down trees and did some nn-
r oofing. -'
A Delawars woman is getting a divorce, be
cause her husband jumped on the back side of
the bed at an alarm of burglars.
3; “ Avery’s Little Game.
We published, yesterday, a telegram address
ed to two Senators at Washington, sod signed
by one W. L. Avery, which contained a most
Kicked and infamous slander upon the people
cf-tti»6tata .
Avery declared, in that dispatch, that the
passage of the Bingham amendment had ‘ net
the worst elementa.in somety wild, and now, the
cry of a damned Republican hurled after a
man is as terifio as ever the cry of a damned
Abolitionist was, before the war.”
This statement, as every honest man in Geor
gia knows, is an atrocious falsehood, manufact
ured for a special purpose, and that purpose
the defeat, by the Senate, of the amendment in
question. Bnt Avery has another end in view
also, in sending this dispatch. . He is largely in-
terested in the construction of the Brunswick
acd Albany railroad, which baa the State's en
dorsement of its bonds to the amonnt of $15,-
000, in [fold, per mile. The passage of that bill
by the Legislature, and the strong suspicion
entertained and expressed at the time of the
very questionable means used to secure a. fa
vorable result, are well remembered by all. One
of the conditions of this aid was that fifty miles
of the road should be finished by (we believe)
the 18th of this month. CoL Halbert was put
in charge, and has been pushing it forward with
his usual zeal and energy. But the condition is
about to fail, and now oomes Avery’s lying dis
patch. The cry of persecution is raised in or
der to save the company from the penalty of
‘non-fulfillment of their contract If Bullock
succeeds in his plans, why Avery A Co., will
oome before the Agency with this story of per
secution, force, etc., and at Bullock’s nod, who
is said to be largely interested in the specula
tion, Avery & Co., have their time extended,
and perhaps make a good thing ont of it, besides,
in the way Of damages. This is the little game,
the first card in wbioh was played by Avery’s
dispateh. It works two way, politically and
financially. It helps to kill tho Bingham amend
ment, and by so doing secures a long lease of
power in hands that will not exact of Avery &
Co., the lawful penalties for non-fulfillment of
contract. Isn’t it a neatly put up job ?
As to the change made in the Badical paper
at Atlanta a day or two since, that interested
parties were interfering with, and intimidating
the employes of this road, and to oorrect which
Tony had been called on for troops; we now ex
actly understand it. Avery & Co., have hot
paid their laborers, acd the laborers have quit
work. They have been receiving the Company’s
promises to pay, and have been forced to hawk
them about the streets of Brunswick in order to
get money to live upon. In no case, as we are
informed, bas this sorip realized them more than
50 cents on the dollar. So for a dollar’s worth of
work they have been paid half a dollar.
This is all the foundation there is for the
huge lie about persecution, intimidation, eto.
The whole game of Avery is exposed. He and
his carpet-bag associates have failed or refused
to pay their hands; the hands have very natur
ally quit work; the $15,000 in gold per mile
guaranteed by the State is about to be forfeit
ed; and to save themselves, financially, as
well as forward the political schemes of their
good friend and co-partner, Bullock, they call
on Terry for troops, and send forward to Wash
ington a howl of “loyal" anguish to influence
the vote of Badical Senators on a measure that
digs the political grave of Bollock & Co.
This is the milk in Avery’s cocoa nut conclu
sively accounted for. The demonstration proves
that he is neither to be relied upon as a rail
road man, nor as anything else than a malig
nant, mendacious Badioal emissary. If. any
body knows of a more characteristio attempt,
even, on tbe part of any other member of his
class, to cover np his own shortcomings as a bus
iness man, and at the same time to stab and ruin
the'people among whom he is living, in order
to gratify partisan hate—we shall be glad to
have the particulars thereof. We are sorry the
Brunswick and Albany Bailroad bas fallen into
such bands. - ■ ■ ■ ■■
P. S. Since writing the above, we have
learned some additional facts about Avery that
may throw more light upon his little game. He
is from Vermont, and is known about Atlanta
as “Judge” Avery. He has an office in the
Opera House, and it is believed is largely in
terested in tbe sale of that concern to the State.
He was very prominent in the passage of the
Brunswick and Albany railroad bill throngh the
Legislature, and was charged with being the
party who drew the checks on Geo. Qpdykis &
Co., New York bankers, that exercised such a
marvellous influence in changing the opinions
of certain members. Of course be is a very
'loyal”- man. When Bollock was in Washing
ton in December getting his Georgia bill throngh,
Avery was one of his bosom friends and allies,
and is understood to have materially aided in
the passage of the bill.
With snch antecedents how could Avery send
on to Washington anything else than a real
whopper.” Next time he need not sign his
name. We assure him. people will not be liablo
to saddle upon anybody else tho magnificent
creations of his own mendacity.
KIck It Out.
The Clarke (Va )£ f .“'-icr calls attention to
the fact that J. E. Ltppiucott's new Biography
teal Dictionary Contains complimentary notices
of such creatures aa.that old horse-thief and
murderer John Brown, and Beast Butler. To
show that we do not do this work injnstioe, we
quoterits words-about old Brown.:
‘•‘Brown',^j(John,) orQs8awatt6mie, a disiih-
guished champion.of; liberty,” etc. His birth
Mid Ufe, and the murderous Harper’s Ferry
'raid are referred to at’ length,' without even a
hint of disapproval of- any of-the many deeds
of blood and violence that characterized .bis
whole career.
Of the Beast it say- :
■“BotJerj.CBenjaminFranklipD-.. * * *
A great outcry was made against Mm.for his
order ‘that any female who should insult an
officer oi soldier should bo regirded and lic-’.d
liable to’be treated as a woman of the' -town,
plying iier avocation,”' which, according to.
Parton, “had a salutary effect.” It will be seen
that this candidate for Southern pttroaago ap
proves what it puts-“«ccordin“ to-Parton.’”
Again: “At New Orleans" siys r.irton, “ho
was magnificat!’’/ right, both in tbqoiy snd
practice.” ; . - .
These specimens will'suffice to giro Southern
readers' an idea of vib'at they aro bujing, when
they invest i$,qne of “Lippincott’a Biographi
cal Dictionaries." When suoh characters as
Brown' and-’ Butler are apotheosized in a kook
that seeks patronage' among those who would
not be human' did they not -loathe the ■ veTy
names of such bitter, relentless enemies, .it is
bnr dnty, as we conceive it, to let the public
know it Old 'John BroWh was simply a horse
and negro thief and m'mdererj and 'was tried,
convicted, and hnng. by an. honest. j ary upon
unimpeachable evidence thereof. Beast Butler
is hot only our implacable' enemy, politically,
but stands convicted, to day, in the estimation
of all honorable men, everywhere, of crimes
that anywhere outside the Radical party of the
United States, would banish bini from decent
society. . .., 3 , , , , ... . ; .. - .
; “Judge” Avery.
Editor~S Telegrdpti and Messenger—While in
Atlanta during the Into session of the Legisla
ture, a man, .who had rendered himself conspic
uous as a Tobby member, was pointed ont to the
writer as Judge Avery, a'Northern man, repre
senting some railroad in the lower part of the
State—the Brunswick and Albany road, if I am
not mistaken—and his object was said to be to
procure some additional legislation granting
material aid by the State to the road which he
represents. He. was seen constantly in com-
pany with'some of the prominent lobbyists of
Atlanta. This is tho axo which he has to griud,
and as ho looks, to the Congressional Agency at
Atlanta for aid, it accounts for his slanderous
telegram to two Senators at Washington. Lot
him be recollected when he goes before the
Legislature with his project to get State aid to
“enable him to spend millions of Northern
money in building railroads in Georgia.”
' Observer.
Gxxott P>M8y|0 hrakemen smash lanterns over
tbe heads at paaMagen who insist upon taking
bajppfe brio the aan.
The Georgia Bill. -
The Richmond Dispatch, of Saturday, has this
telegram from Washington. It tells ns some
thing we had not heard before with reference
to the canse of not holding a second Senatorial
caucus:
The proposed caucus of Republican Senators
that was to have been held this morning to set
tle the Georgia controversy,, and determine
whether or not the Bingham amendment to the
House bill should be sustained was abandoned.
- It was discovered that a number of Senators
would .not consent that .their aotion should be
controlled by a decision of the caucus.
Father Greeley, in the Tribune, of Saturday,
thus bewails the non-action of' the Senate on
the bill. It would seem that the old man thinks
it vastly more impertant that the Connecticut
darkies sbonld vote, than that Bollock should
carry hiis point. We are glad, to know that the
white men of Connecticut are to have one more
fair opportunity of redeeming their State from
Radicalism. ... ..’..'.f , 1
Congress has, for weeks, been entreated to
close the work of reconstruction, so as to ena
ble the fifteen hundred colored men now dis
franchised in Conneetioot to vote at onr next
election. This is the last day on which they
could be admitted to suffrage by the laws of that
State ; and still the President is debarred from
issuing the long-expected Proclamation; by'.the
delay of the Senate to oonour in tbe action of
the House respecting Georgia. Those who have
precluded suoh concurrence have invoked a fea-
ful responsibility.
Gold and Price*. ': i
. The Cincinnati Gazette contrasts prices July
8, 1852, when gold was at 1.11 J, with prices
March 8, 1870, with gold at 1.10$. They are
Cincinnati quotations, and we append a few in
the order of dates: Superfine flour, 3.80® 3.90,
4.50® 4.75; white whe^t, 80®4.07; corn, 35®
75; pig iron, 25.00®28.00, 45.00®50.00; bar
iron, 2$®3$, 3$®4$; N. O. molasses, 48®4 7,
75®60; coffee, 20®22, 18®24; Cheese, 5,16;
mess pork, 9.00® 10.00, 28.00; bulk sides, 4J® ■
5, 13; lard, 71,13$; sugar cured bama, 8®8$,
17@ 18; N. O. sugar, 8}®9j, 10$®I3. There
is a heavy difference in favor of western prodace
and iron, and particularly on western meats,
which bear almoet three- prices. Why should
the West make such a poor showing in trade and
paying debts? She is getting comparatively
higher prices for her produce than this, cotton
planters. Cotton in ante bellum times was
worth ten cents, and is now worth twenty; bnt
pork was worth nine to ten dollars, and is now
worth twentj-aiz.
Move Radical Opinion oi' [hitler's
Georgia Biii.
We published yesterday what ibe Chicago
Tribune, the leading Badical pnperof the North
west thonght of Butler’s bill Wo publish, tie-
low .what tho St. Louis Democrat, another R wi-
cal paper of great weight and ability has to
say of it : J: """
The object was to continue in power a set of
men who were not willing to go before (he peo
ple for re-election, and tho fact that those men
are Republicans ought not to prevent anybody
from realizing that the measure was one of
purely partisan legislation. If Georgia is fit
for self-government at all, then no man or party
has any business to hold power there unless by
votes of the people under the Laws of tho State,
and if CoiJgress does' not deem it Bafe to give to
Georgia self-government in its broadest sense,
it bag no other decent remedy except to put «he
community under'military power and keep it
there. The fact that General Butler and hia
committee have never proposed the latter
course Shows that they know it will be impossi
ble to sustain before the country the claim that
Georgia is not fit for self-government. The
successive measures of reconstruction devised
for that State have all been shaped in some de
gree to (jive the power to certain men or a cer
tain party, instead of flatly denying tho fitness of
the State to govern itself, and have been fo Tar
in violation of the principles which we think
ought to govern all such legislation. The Re
publican party cannot afford to use its national
power to legislate its. friends into office in any
State. ^
The Democrat .also analyzes the voto on the
Bingham Amendment, end shows that from the
“Northern States only 48 members voted
sgainst the amendment, of whom 24 were from
Pennsylvania,. Massachusetts and Wisconsin.
But 50 Republicans from Northern States voted
for the amendment. From States formerly
slave holding, only 7 Republicans voted for the
amendment, while 28 voted Against it. Thus
52 of the 11 votes-for Butler’s bill came from
the Southern States, Pennsylvania, Massachus
etts and 11 Wisconsin, while a clear majority of
all the Republicans from the North went against.
We do not think the meaning of these figures
can be mistaken. 2hey mean that thevicas-
: urea \cftish Republicans from, tho South demand
are not supported by a majority of the Republi
cans at the North, White they are opposed by all
the'Democrats." '. 1
It also dewlaps that' the heavy Pennsylvania
and, Massachusetts vote .against the Bingham
amendment, was the result of a tariff trade
with the carpet-buggers, who, for this opposi
tion. to the amendment, pledged'their votes to
just such a tariff as Pennsylvania and Massa
chusetts wished. ■ . ..
Convention of S. 'Carolina Editor.*!.
To-day the Sonth Carolina anti-Radical Edi
tors hold a meeting in -Colombia, to take the
political 'situalidn into consideration. If- they
see any light, we hope they 'will.point it out and
let os see. too. But we are much like tliejoM
Dutchman," Who had gathered his vrow and
family at midnight, up into the dark garret, in
a fearful thunderstorm. After a while, old Jacob
called to his son—“Hanna, you looks.out der
schuttle andBee what you sees-!’’ -b*Saw vader,"
says Hans—“I sees notin bnt der daik—and der
doonder and der blixen!”
- In a few minutes old'Jacob Rpoke again,
“Hauns,- yon iooks our der schuttle and sees vat
you sees.” “Yaw, vader,” and looking bnt'
Hans spied from .behind the , chimney the fiery
orb3 of a big black Thomas cat b]azing into his
face throngh tho Cimmerian darkness. Shut
ting down the scuttle in trembling haste, Hans
cries “Vader,-I' sees der. tnjvel--dat'» vat I
sees.” “Veil, Hauns, youaots dawn and.looks
no more,” said the old man. •' . ; .
We-fear the speerings of th3 South Carolina
anti-Radioal Editorial Convention will bo at
tended- with so better result. They will see
darkness “doonder und blixen,” and, we fear,
“der tnyvel,” too—bnt_if their better, optics
can discern a streak- of daylight, please let as
know early—in-time to prepare for it.
, New York Cotton Estimates —A New York
dispatch to the Western Press, dated the 12ih,
says : “The movements of co'.ton are watched
with great interest. Tbe tctnl receipts at all
tbe ports since the 1st of September, reach
2,258,825 bales, an increase of 518,781 over ti.e
corresponding period last year. Tbe crop i9
estimated at 3,000,000. Tbe weekly receipts
will soon begin to fall off and a larger stock is
likely to be carried over than last year, as hold
ere generally are opposed to selling at present
quotations. Exports to date, 1,805,253 bales,
against 904,118 last year. * Stock, 553,894 bales,
or in exoesa of last year by 152,000. A consid
erable portion thereof ia awaiting shipment,
and the biilA agaiast it are held in this market”
From across the water comes the news that
Queen Victoria had dent -for Charles Dickens,
and that the result of the interview will be a
change of the plain Mr. Dickens into Sir Charles
Dickens.
The-Georgla PressR;
Augusta is. doing very well in the divoroe
business. The following couples have j'ist had
leave to quit. Tallulah J. Sheer va. G. W.
Sheer. Catharine A. Sherwood v*. Abram
Sherwood- AL Alice Crumpton v*. John B,
Crumpton.
The Air-Line Railroad —The i Gainesville
E .gW of Saturday says : “Woikhan commenced
at this end c-f the second section of this road—
tbe ball having been opened by Mr. W. P.
Woodall on Monday last. Several Companies
are making preparations to commence work
next week. The E?gle says, that with fevf ex
ceptions, people iu that county are - promptly
paying their stock assessments* m.**
We quote, os follows, from the.ConalitutiDnf.
-•< Gamzesville, Ga., JIarch-12,1870- .
Editor Constitution : Dear Sir—I believe the
Radicals deny paying off the State Koad hands
-with subscriptions to tbe New Era. - The etf
closed slip of paper was put'in the envelope of
Mr. Thomas Hilton, a day.laborer on the.track,
of the road> fromCartersyille to Casa,Station,
last pay dav, in R t u of .the amount mentioned
on the face of it. • Air. Thomas Hiltoh is' the
son of Ed. 1 Hilton, both day laborers on the road,
who live near Cass Staton. They are poor peo
ples ignorant, but honest, and who protest
against huving the subscription of a newspaper'
tnKeu from their wages, which they never read,
and iu this case has neve; been sent to them.
Ed. Hilton banded this paper to me. just now,,
and desired to know if suit could not be main
tained for what the road justly owes his son,
who ip a minor.' He has qUittheroftd incon
sequence. Youreliuly,—mff i.
i. ' $5, ium :i
half year’s subscription to l?ew Era. / „ 3 ;„,
The Constitution says: - ‘V- •« 1
United States District Court or thk
Northern District.of Georgia.—The regular
March (Spring). Term, of the United States
District Court commenced yesterday' morning.
Hon. John Erskine, Judge] presided,' alihough
suffering from rhouui'atism,' attd signified his
determination to continue to preside asTongas
his health would admit. The Grand Jury was
organized, tlie Oonrt appointing John Silvey,
Esq.,-Foreman. -Judge Erskine then ‘charged
them in an able and elaborate manner. T. C.
Jackson, Esq., was appointed Foreman of the
Petit «fiiry.
Robert L. Richards, John E. Toole, J. B. S.
Davis were admitted as attorneys and counsel
lors of the Court.' There was a fnll attendance
of the local bar, and quite a number from oth
er cities and towns.
There are 107 cases on the criminal docket.
A number of cases’ on the civil and criminal
dockers were disposed of, not of gpneral in
terest. In the case of the United States vs. G.
W. H. Anderson, the defendant confessed
judgment for $19,703, nnd $108.85, interest.
The indictment against David A. Walker; for
robbing the mail, was dismissed on motion of
District Attorney Amos T. Akerman, in aecord-
with a 1 idler of instruction from Postmaster
General Cress well.
A young tuan named Stover, living near Stone
Mountain, bled to death on Monday. The
bleedingwasfrom hisno.se: •
The “Liquor Dealers’ Association,” is the
name of a new organization in Atlanta.
Treasurer Augier got back to Atlanta, Mon
day, from Washiogton-and left again that night
for the latter place.
Tho people of Marion connty have had a
rousing railroad meeting. They want connec
tions with Columbus and Isabella.
A conductor on tho Georgia railroad telLs tho
local of the.Intelligencer’that the Oconee river
was higher on Monday night than he ever saw
it. Some of the telegraph poles were almost
entirely under water.
The Intelligencer has this item:
One of the minor excitements of the Capitol,
is the presence of three or four jnfelligent
young Chinamen, who were in charge of a white
guide, on a tour of sight-seeing aronnd the
building. What is particular^ noteworthy in
reference to them, is that tt have come here
for the purpose of entering Hu ward University
(negro) and going throngh a oouree of study,
after which they will return to China.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says: ••• -
The Ordinary of Richmond connty .reports in
tl:e Free School tor 18091 First quarter, 1,107
children, 17 teachers; second quarter, 1,141
children, 21 teachers; third quarter, 1.214 chil
dren, 22 teachers; fourth quarter, 1,580 chil
dren, 22 teachers. Besides the above number
of teachers' thoro are about eight assistant teach
ers. No teacher is permitted to teach more
than sixty (00) without employing assistants.
The pauper expenses of the city were $10,000,
outside of the city $5,000. Tho connty will re
quire $43,000 this year.
A. S. Abel, of the Baltimore Sun, v.a< in Say*
annah Satnrdny. H«TWas returning from Flo
rid:.
The Rome city fathers are n most accommo
dating lot The Courier says:
The old Market Honso was considered an eye
sore, and was whisked away as if by magic,—
The streets needed lighting, and a row of lamps
twinkled on Broadway. The streets and stores
needed numbering, and they are numbered.—
The city needed Water Works, and a contract
for $28,000 was instantly rnnde. The floor in
the City Hall was not deemed a good one, snd
to-day hammers are nailing down a new one.
The Madison Farm Journal hRs commenced
publication again. ’ ' < * ’
Mayor Obear is reported among the arrivals
in Atlanta, Monday by yesterday’s papers. , ;J .
We clip the following from the Federal Union
of Tuesday:
A Fmhlt-The Weather —On Friday night
and nearly all day Saturday the windows of
Heaven were open, and tbb rain descended in
torrents, causing the streams to overflow their
banks and flood tho country. On yesterday the
Oconee was impassnblo at the bridge,'and our
friends on the east side of tho river could not
get to town. We learn that the river is in'its
banks this morning, and the wood wagons will
bo in. s
Wo received no jnail from Atlanta or Augusla
on yesterday, 1 Wo learn the recent heavy rains
have washod away a bridge on tho Macon and
Augusta railroad, near Mayfield, and that it will
probably tako saveral days to repair damage.
We learn'that a difficulty occurred at Mrs.
Roberson’s plantation near this city on yester
day, between Pen Roberson and. McCoy .on one
side, and a young man by tho name of Brickett,
who was ovorseeing for Mrs. Roberson, on the
other. Mr. Brickett was shot, and is reported
mortally wounded; and Sirs. Roberson was shot
in the foot. . We liave not hoard the particvlars,
The case will probably be investigated by the
proper authorities io-day.
Since writing the above, we learn that Mr.
Brickett is (leak.
A. letter for Miss Ida Blanchard, Macon, is
held for postage in the Savannah postoffice.
The Colnnsbns Sun reports a rumor current,
“in high circles,” that a gentleman and his sis
ter, both of that city, bad-received notification
that a distant relative, recently deceased in
England, had lcft them four millions of dollars.
The Sun complains of the presence of a num
ber of pickpockets in Cojumbns.
The Constitutionalist gives tho following ac
count of tho freshet in tho Savannah river at
that point:
The ‘Freshet Damaok—Tiie Danger Over.—
The heavy rise in the Savannnh river from, the
terrific rain storm of Friday and ^Saturday,
thanks to a merciful Providence, did not result
in tho general overflow ot tho city and destruc
tion of property threatened Rt. half-past 10
o’olockon Saturday night, when, as reported in
the Constitutionalist of Sunday, the water had
risen at the city bridge to the height of 28.feet.
Daring Saturday night and Sunday morning
the river continued, to. swellin volume, until at
2, r. m., on Sunday, its greatest height was at
tained, at 30 feet 8 inches, the highest point
reached since 1885. Although three or four
feet short of thj height required to flood Broad
street and deluge cellars and private residences
in .exposed portions of the oityy the backwater,
from the canal was forced into several other
streets, in sufficient quantity to answer tho de
mands of batteau navigation. Oa upper Jones
street, a considerable .number of. these light
draft vessels were employed lor purposes of
convenience to water-bound residents. Forcing
itself throngh the sewer from the third level ot
the oanal, the water oovered Fenwick street for
two squares, from Jackson street east, to the.
depth of three or four feet, to the damage of.
several bridges and crossings, and the threaten
ing of the residents and property holders with a
perfect delage from the canal The impending
danger to this locality was averted by some of
tbe citizens, who, apprehensive of the destrno
tionof their property and the endangering of
life, repaired to the flobd gates near Urquhart’s
mill, the only available outlet to the canal, which
they hoisted, allowing the water to seek its level
through the South Boundary and outside drains
of the city. This water, as discharged from the
gates, we regret to learn, flooded a portion of
the briok yard of Messrs. Denning A Hallahan,
inflicting some considerable damage to their
material.
- The hydrants of the Turknett Springs witter
throughout the city had an injunction served
on them Sunday, in consequence of the train
logs being disrupted by the high water in tte
oanal at this upper end of Broad .street, bnt were
all right yesterday.
The greatest damage reported within the city
limits resulted in the washing of tbe crossings
anlthe loosening of bridges, to repair which
will require a considerabia. oost for labor and
material. .... —
Outside of the city we have failed to learn of
any considerable damage. Hamburg was threat
ened and some portions of the town partial'y
overflowed,'but;we have beard of no losses of.
property resuitttrgiw'i'-thu^ir * i»«o» v-.U' v. «
Some of tbe planters along the river, on either
aide, for several mites down, were more or has
submerged, and in some instances this will er-
tail BUolher preparation of tbe land for the
planting season,-some of the planters having al
ready prepared their land for the seed previous
to the freshet. We have board of no loeees of
. oattle or stock onHKe river.lj; - * ■
Tho Chronicle su'd Sentinel sare:
Railroad Accid'e.nts —It seems that the re
cent heavy rains hive been general throughout
the oountry, and their effects felt elsewhere
than in this city. The railroads have been tbe
principal sufferers;'and two mishaps to them
have l>een reported. •
At a late honronlast Sunday night; Superin-'
tendenl.S. K Johnson,'of the Georgia Railroad,
received a dispatch from Milledgeville, stating
th'at.irr Consequence of 1 severs! land slides on
tbe line of the Macon and Angtistn Railroad,'
and the sinking of the benches of two of the
bridges,' that no 'trains could' run through to
Camak until the damages had been repaired.
On yesterday morning s force of labarers nn-
Uoftd-Master Printop were -sent 'from this city
to the scene of -action; and Supervisor Shipley
bas also been dispatched to the Macon road. It
is supposed that the road will be in rnnning or
der within two orithree-days, but nutil the re- :
pairs are finished; no freight will bereceivedtor
shipment to points on this railway.
On' the' Charlotte, Columbia nnd Augusta
Railroad'a portion of the trestle near Pine
House 'was' washed away, nnd a land slide oc
curred also On the same road on last evening.
The train'' from-’Charlotte, which was dne here
on Saturday night at half past nine o’clock, did
hot reach'the depot nntil Snnday morning at
three o’clock.' The train left ns usual on Sun
day and yesterday mornings.
From the Monroe Advertiser, of yesterday,
vre get llie* following items:
Bridges.—-The results of the flood last week
seeiii to-have been disastrous... We learn that
the middle tier of the Wilson bridge on the In
dian Spring road has been washed away, render
ing it unsafe for travel. 'Active stops will he at
once taken to repair the injury, apd it is proba
ble that iu a very short time the condition of
t tbu bridge will once moro.besuch as to warrant
j general travel.
We also learn that the new Lamar bridge has
gone “the way Ward’s ducks went”—to-wit :
down-the river. .....
Cotfek and the Newspapers —The colored
brethren have become great newspaper readers
of late, and a very large mail, composed mostly
of Bryant’s Georgia Republican, the New Era,
and Swayza’s incendiary paper, now comes to
them, through the postoffloe here. One old moke
was discovered the other day busily engaged in
reading a Radical paper upside down. He says
he can read just as easy that way as any other.
It's all in being need to it.
Serious Accident.—Mr. Ben. Zeliner, son of
John Zgliner, Esq., was dangeiously wounded
in the leg some weeks ago, by the accidental
discharge of his gun while taking it down from
the rack over the door. The limb was amputa
ted l>y Drs. Rudisill and Boddey last week. It
was feared that inflammation had taken place
before amputation, but we arc glad to learn that
ho was doing tolerably well yesterday.
Coen.—TJhose of onr fanners who had plant
ed corn previous to the rains on last Friday nnd
Saturday, will probably have their, work to do
over again. The recently ploughed lands in
many portions of the.country are terribly wash
ed, we learn, and much damage done to fann
ing operations in various ways. .
WnEAT.—The condition of wheat in this see
(ion,'from all the information we can gather on
the subject, still contipnfS to be very promising!
We are told hy those who ought to know that if
the seasons are at all favorable, the crop will
be something more than an average one.
Fruit.—Notwithstanding tbe freeze last week,
we still think, the fruit prospect very good.
Soma of it is killed, without a doubt, but if no
disaster befalls .tbat-. wbioh remains, there will
be enough for “home consumption.”
“Rip Van Winkle” Jefferson passed through
Atlaiita, Sunday, going North.
The Atlanta Constitution says the Stone
Mountain Granite Company has received ah or
der fora block of marble over thirty feet long,
and woighing.some 42,000 pounds, fora monu
ment m Augusta. It will require three ears to
transport it.
- It is rumored in Atlanta, that Senator Post
master Dunning will resign when the Agency
meetsagain. •
A Greensboro correspondent of the Constitu
tion, under date of tbe 14th, writes as follows:
Yesterday, the 13th instant, occurred a fatal
rencontre between Mossrs. A. II. Evans and
.Jesse Nunn, of Taliaferro - connty, in- which
Evans, with a rifle gnn, shot Nunn throngh the
thigh, cutting a large artery therein,'and killed
him within a lew hours. The homicide occurred
.at ot near Evans’ house, abont four miles from
Crawfordville. Evans is- still at large. P\
., Georgia .Gold liliNre,—Under this head,'the
Atlanta Era says :
Somewhere in Cherokee comity, ne-ir the
Etowah river, is .one of those mines that has
for years been regarded ns one of tho richest in
the whole region. It is called the Pasco mine,
after the name of the man who first owned and
dug there for gold. He realized well from his
labor. He died soon, and it is related of a truth
tbat his widow herself dug ont eighty thousand
dulUrs of gold in a few years. It then became
too great a thing even for anindustrions widow.
It went into tho hands of a cumpnny which
failed just as they liad placed "in position ade
quate machinery to work it. Then came law
suits and doubtful titles, and first' and second
mortgages, until the thing got to wherb anybody
was at raid to touch it. It was sold, a short time
since, under the sheriff’s hammer, snd Cspt.
Reinhardt and Maj. H. J. Spray berry, of this
city, were.the'fortunate purchasers. There are
seven veins ruuniiig the whole length of the
property, varying iu width from two to twenty
feet. A shrewd, capitalist of this city has
bought a third interest iii this mine, and it may
be expected that specimens of this ore will lie
taken from all these deposits at a very early
day. ’.
The suit of Mrs. Patterson, against the Equi
table Life - Assuranoe Company to-recover a
$10,000 policy held by his husband in that
company at tbe time of her death, resulted in a
verdict for the plaintiff, in Chatham Superior
Court on Saturday. -
The Columbaa Sau gives tbe following par
ticulars of a horrible murder committed on Sun
day, in Harris connty:
Mr. Wm. A. Boswell lives near Waverly Hall,
in Harris connty, nineteen miles from Colum
bus. ^fe had.a littie.boy about thirteen years
of age. When John Robinson's circus was go
ing from here to Hamilton, a'negro about nine
teen years of age, by careless driving, broke
one of the wheels of a wagon, which bore a por
tion of the apimala, for which be was severely
whipped: and discharged from the company.
This happened near Mr. Boswell’s place. Need
ing hands, he.employed the negro on the 17th
of February. The colored man had behaved
himself very well since as a laborer.
On Sunday, Mx B., with hia family, went vis
iting after dinner, aud, left behind his little boy
and this negro. All returned about 3 r. m.,
when, they found the house ransacked from one
end to the other. The ohfld was discovered ly
ing dead, on the floor of the ben house, with a
hole made by a pistol ball through hia head.
The weapon had been fired so dose that his hat
wiis ringed by the burndngpowder. The negro
whs gone. There was no money or valuable
portshles in the house to move, but a pistol had
been stolen. The supposition woa that tbe ne
gro had robbed the house and been-cUsoovsred
by the boy, whom he had killed \o prevent hia
telling, .. ..
The negro waa caught, Monday morning,
near Elieralie, Harris county, but the Sab did
not learn what disposition had been made of
him.
The Sun glinka the Georgia negroed who
memorialized Congress per Revels, are hard to
pleaan. They say they are not allowed to vote
freely, when some of them-Voted ten ora dozen
times at the last election, and would have voted
oftener it the day had been longer.
Tha, Savannah Republican wants to hear from
the February business of the State road, and
asks, waft it all required to electioneer with at
'Washington ? We gave 'Bro. Sneed, credit for
more wisdom than asking such a question would
seem to imply.
Tfie Sandersville Georgian reports very heavy
rains in that aecton. Bain commenced falling
Friday afternoon about five o’clock, and contin
ued till Saturday night at 12 o'clock, almost
without intermission. Water courses were very
much swollen and some damage done to mills.
About sixty feet of Dr. Parson’s milt-dam was
carried away and the.mill-house.came near go-
i»g- ti sM
The Georgian, stales that Mr. W. M. Moses,
late of Columbus, has bought a farm in. Wash
ington county for the purpose of raining frnif,
pcaobes principally.
The Georgian Bays r _ . ,
Mr. George H. Brantley, of tbis county, has
laid-npon our table an.eagle’a foot measuring
about eight inches from point to point. Mr.
Brantley tells .ns that these monster birds have
become very .destructive to sboep and pigs iu
the lower part of the county. He has killed
four of them, .one of which measured nine feet
from tip to tip of wing.
‘ ‘ The Sparta Times and Planter says those who
have examined the peach tree3 of that section
report the fruit materially injured, if not total-
ly destroyed, by late frosts.
'Three cases of meningitis are reported in
Hancock county, one of which proved fatal.
Mold, Prices, mid Ws*e*.
There is a great daal at apprehension at ^
time among mechanics, laborers, and wotkia,
men of all kinds, concerning tbe prospect op'
stilt farther redaction of wages than such a* m,*
have taken place during die past year. The!
is wide-spread talk about lower prices for even
thing. There is a loud demand for a deoreiL
* ’ I frtf a /1iniinnti/vn in a . ™
; TheProsprets of the Year.
From the Xav York Mercantile Journal. 1
It is rarely, indeed, that the history of com
mercial nations presents such singular anoma
lies as may be noted in the bnsiness position of
the United States, at this moment. After a
year of great agricultural success, of heavy im
migration from abroad, and rapid Settlement
Ihronghout the West; with the South swiftly
recuperating, and th'e first grand link between
tbe Atlantic and Pacific seaboards completed iu
the Pacific Railroad, we find trade dull, in all
directions.
We are daily told that the national debt bas
been decreased by nearly $100,000,000, and
tbat gold haB been forced down from 1.45 to
1.11 ; that we have nearly, if not quite, got
possession of San Domingo, and that our for
eign relations are as amioable and pleasant as
ntir domestic affairs are calm and conciliatory.
In a word, we are assured from official qnarters
that all's well, and that if anything seems to ns
wrong, the trouble resides only in ohr imagina
tion. 'yiere ii no difficulty—we only think
there is.
So reasoned tha German saeant with his
neighbor at tho dinner-table:—“My dear sir,
>-aid he, “we do not really exist; we only think
that .we exist!"
At that very inslant, a blundering waiter
f-pilled a plateful of Bcalding soup down the sa
vant’s back, whereupon the learned man uttered
some very genuine groans and imprecations.
“My dear sir,” now retorted the neighbor,
be calm 1 be calm! you are'not hurt,—not
scalded,—you only think that you A1”
It would be quite a job, we imagine, to make
our tradesmen believe that all their pangs aud
pinching are mere fancy work. They Bee, not
a gain of one hundred millions in tho traffic of
the nation, but tbe sheer loss of many hundred
millions. Even the i-udden downward rush of
gold has inflicted ncinging deficits npon some of
them, and in ihe prei-ent shilly-shally policy of
tho powers that be. ihcy find no consolation.—
Even onr foreigu affairs are in snch shape as let
ting them take care >.f tiicinselvva usually brings
abont; and all the nations of the earth will ab
stain from making war npon onr cringing fee
bleness so long as we know our subordinate
place and hnmbly keep it. San Domingo may,
indeed, be a stupendous fraud, bnt, like the
Alabama claims, (so styled,) it serves to amuse
the groundlings.
And why is all this ? _ The hand of Providence
has showered plenty on oar fields; no pestilence
has ranged onr populous cities ; our race is as
robust, energetic, and enterprising as ever; the
spaces open to our cultivation have widened,
aud onr numbers have increased. What ails ns,
then ? Wnat blight has fallen upon our facul
ties ? A grave question, requiring a serious
answer!
If the reader will, without losing sight of the
query thus propounded to him, cast his gaze
tor a moment beyond tho Atlantic, he will see
that the very first effort of each country that
had recently stepped into the ranks of progress
iH to de-centralize power, or, in other words, to
emancipate the various provinces and interests
of each land from the deAtfa-grip of tbe capital
city. Austria, under the wise Yan Beast min
istry, is rapidly doing this. Italy, under Victor
Emanuel, has, for three or four years, been
straggling toward the same goal, and now,
France is openly calling for the like action on
the part of her rnlers.
On this side of the Ocean, the impulse,
strange to Bay, is in the opposite direction.
The movement here is, decidedly, toward the
concentration of all control in the hands of the
Central Government. This reaotion against
our free municipal forms began amid the exi
gencies of a terrible intestine war; bnt, instead
of ceasing with that war, has gathered force in
some directions, since its close. Alarmed for
our National autonomy, onr people learned, be
tween 18C1 and 1SC5, to look to Washington
City as the. citadel of safety, and to bow to
every decree that issued thence, and the habit
has remained now that conflict is over. Thus,
too, even the grand trade centre of New York
has pinned its financial faith to the general gov-
erninent’a financiers, and has fluctuated, dan
gled, vibrated, shivered, and trembled with
every puff of rumor from the Treasury and
Congress. Within a few months we have Been
the whole monetary surface shaken here, as by
an earthquake, in consequence of whisperings,
real or pretended, from the vicinity of the White
Honse, also; and, since then, business has hung
suspended, bnt withont animation, on the prom
ise of this or that financial measure from the
Capitol.
Herein is the line secret of our trade stagna
tion—the growing dependence on Washington,
and the concentration of money influences
there. The nation is paralyzed, iu order that a
few cfficiala may be enabled to make a delusive
show of good management, and of prosperity
that don’t exist—of ready payments to foreign
creditors, while home' industry and trade are
goipg to the dogs—of that return to specie pay
ments (in sums Jess than one dollar!) which, to
our starving mechanics and onr rained mer
chants, is the very insult of deception fl muted
before their eyes, like a glittering toy before
the gaze of thoughtless children, while they are
decoyed from the real and substantial benefits
to which they are entitled.
If our trading classes will be oontent with
this delusion', then the prospeots of the year are
more than donbtfnl; since, once again, they
torn from the solid land of sound legislation and
well directed effort to the mirago of artificial
liquidation of the debt, and make-believe re
sumption of speete payments.
Gold is the Will o’ the Wisp that haunts and
misleads the many, still; and things look as
though business would go dancing and skipping
after it, until it lands in the financial mire.
of rents, for a diminution in the oost of tl
necessaries of life, and for cheaper goods, white
of course there is also a demand on the part !
employers for a decrease in the cost of labor
In the meantime, it is urged on behalf of thi
industrial, operative, or laboring people tbn
they cannot live and “make both ends meet '
with any reduelion of the present rate of wao«
while at the same time it is nrged by the bmL
ness, mercantile, and manufacturing classes ■<
well as by the property hold.ru, that it is
possible to bring prices to anything like fonn»,‘
terms as long as wages are so much aW.
old-time rates. Ta
Within the last twelvemonth, there hasten,
a decrease of wages in many departments of
labor, and a diminution of prices in *ome kind,
of goods and supplies. Houses can now h.
erected at rates more than thirty per cent to
low. what they cost a year ago* and the redne
tion in the wages of labor during the je.r i«
over twenty per cent. Even the bricklant,
and plasterers, who two orthree years‘.Jo
struck for and obtained higher wages than were
ever paid for any nort- of mechanical labor
this or any other country, have been forced to
consent to a reduction of from twenty to twee
ty-five per cent. In many other trades there
has been a great redaction of pay within a re.
cent period ; and the Rime may be said of thei
vast body of men in the city who are clas&ia-,!'
as laborers.
The diminution in the price of provision
and the various necessaries of life haa been ir
regular. Floor is bnt half the price it was fiy*
years ago, and can be'bought at about ante-wn
rates. Beef and other meats are as high ta
they were when nt their highest. Sugar hu
fallen to one-third its war price; coffee and
butter have fallen considerably; so have pota
toes ; coal has fallen largely; while cotton goods
have latterly been approaching peace rales
Though-the wages of many kinds of mechanics
and laborers have been reduced within the' Ui-t
few months, or daring the past year, wages gi e
yet, on an average, twice as high, nomim,lly
as before the war. Since the heavy f„li in
gold, employers have been very generally (n .
gaged in discussing the necessity of attempt
ing to bring the rates of wages somewhat
nearer the peace standard than they have bem
at any time for the last eight or ten yecis. It
is not unnatural, therefore, that the wages-tWi
should display some apprehension in view of
the present state of affairs. They vigorously
protest against the threatened reduction of wa
ges, and demand its postponement at least nntil
there is a general and established decrease in
rents and prices. Tn regard to rents especially
the complaints are loud and wide-spread; for
the rents of the cheaper order of houses hart
thus far been kept up at the highest war-rates,
which pro more than double the rates that were
prevalent before the rebellion.
We do not believe that wages can at ibiu time
be reduced to the anti-war standard because
gold has fallen to tbe present low quotation.
There will doubtless be a further adjustment of
wages and prices, of production and labor, cf
rents and property values, ss well as of gold
and currency, daring the present year. Bnt the
fact that they are nil related to each other, and
are all of common and mutoal interest, cannot
possibly be disregarded in the regulation that
must necessarily take place. We have no donbt
that the industrial and laboring classes will be
quite as ready in preparing themselves to ac
cept the facts of tbe situation as the businee*
classes and property boldais. It is recognized
op all hands that the inflated prices of the test
eight or ten years cannot be upheld forever. If
labor is cheapened, production mnst cheapened;
if wages are lowered, so also must be the cot
of living. We hope the adjustment will be ef
fected withont the prevalence of those wide
spread and destructive strikes which were
tb6 agency of securing the necessary rise oi
wages some years ago. We hope it will be ef
fected without causing renewed derangement of
business and industry. We have had a number
of strikes in the city and its vioinity within tbe
last few months—none of them, we believe, to
obtain an advance of wageH, bnt all of them to
prevent the diminution of the wages-rate by em
ployers. We do not think that any one of these
strikes has been^successful The present are as
suredly times in which there is a load call upon
bnsiness men to> act with caution, npon work
ingmen to move wi:h intelligence, snd npon nil
sorts of men to live economically and prudently.
There will be better times for the whole people
after business and industry have returned to
thetr legitimate basis, aud when values and pri
ces are established with something like assur
ance and permanence.—New York Tribune.
Mr.
Georgia-—The Protest Against
Bingham’* Amendment.
The following was laid before the Senate yes
terday by Senator Revels:
Atlanta, Ga., March 10, 1870.
Jinn. Hiram Ji. Herds, United States Senator
from Mississippi, United States Senate Cham
ber
The undersigned Senators and Represent
atives in the General Assembly of the State of
Georgia, desire you to present this protest to
tho Senate of the United States when the Geor
gia bill comeB np for discussion, as yon are tbe
only representative of onr race and cilor in
that body. We urge you to do all in your post
er to prevent the adoption of Mr. BingbamV
amendment to the Georgia bill, the result of
which will be to deliver na bound hand and foot
into the hands of our most hitter and relentlew
enemies. We ask your aid and influence. Shall
we ask in vain ?
Atlanta, Ga , March 10, 1870.
To the honorable the Senate of the Uni td
States : We, as colored men and members of
the Senate and House of Representatives of
the General Assembly of Georgia, representing
over UO.OOO voters of the State, desire earn
estly and solemnly to protest against the adop
tion by your honorable body of the bill for ib«
admission of Georgia as amended in the Boose
by Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, and we do so bccansa
that to give protection and the enjoyment of
equal rights to all classes of our citizens, it te
necessary that snch legislation shall be had o»
will secure the passage of such jury laws >3
will insure justice to the colored men, of a bill
for the promotion of eduo.tion among nil ciasstP,
and also snch amendment of the election law 8
as will give a fair, free expression of e ch citi
zen’s political views.
If elections take place this fall the passage of
snch bills which are necessary for our salv. ioa
will engender the most bitter strife and hostiliiy
on the part of the white citizens against oaf
race and color. Yiolence and bloodshed wifi
mark the course of such elections, and a f” ,r
expression of the will of the people cannot he
had. We shall be driven from (he polls, as in
the Presidential election, by armed and organ
ized bands of rebels, and our State given ovef
to tbe guidance and control of the most extreme
men of tbe Democratic party. Wo respectfully
ask yonr honorable body that the bill passed
December 22.may be given full effect
Signed by three Senators' and sixteen mem
bers of the House of'Representatives of Geor
gia.
Coin iu the United-Slates.
The New York Financial Chronicle, of tbe
I2ib, has the following:
The official returns of the banks for the year
I SCO show that at the close of that year there
was $83,000,000 of specie in the banks. To
this mnst be added the amount of gold and sil
ver in general use outside of the banks, which,
if estimated at only $2 per head of population,
would amount to $65,000,000. It is perhaps
reasonable, therefore, to estimate the supply of
coin in the oountry, ten years ago, at about
$150,000,000. If these estimates are approxi
mately accurate, we reach the conclusion that
the stock of coin in the country is hot-materi
ally jn excess of the stock of 1860.
A ScccecSob fob Whiitemose.—The Ches-
tetfield (S. C.) Democrat advises the white peo
ple of tbat District to join hands with the re
spectable negroes and elect a colored tu«u to
Congress in the place of the lamented Whitt*-
more. The editor is opposed to swindling car
pet-baggers, scalawags and Yankee free negrot?'
He goes for a South Carolina negro, and says:
We are ante there are nnmbers of decent ne
groes who hold the conduct of WhitR-more i«
contempt, and would Nke to have the opportu
nity to vindicate themselves from tho snspicioa
of endorsing such a mam
Let a decent intelligent negro be put np >°
nomination at once rather than a low, dirtl-
tricky, dishonest white man, who Las no iatei-
eat in tbe country, no attachment for the p*°'
pie, no idea of justice, no regard for truth. n°
respect for himself or anybody else.
Nxw York Dry Goods Market.—The Finan
cial Chronicle of Saturday says ?
The excitement which prevailed in - the dry
goods market during the two- weeks preceding
the date of oar last report was too great to last
a long time, and we have now to reporta com
paratively quiet market for the last seven days.
The large offerings of important lines of goods
at a material reduction from current rates, as-
Hated by the simultaneous decline in gold acd
oottou, haa natorally had the effect of breaking
the whole dry goods market, end baa also un
settled the purposes of buyers and nrerwuled
the nr from laying in any considerable stocks, un
less they could purchase at such price as they
considered to be a decided bargain.
WmiTEMORE Forbvkr 1 —A letter 0#*
Darlington, South Carolina, says Bro. Wliit ie
more was insults d in the cars on hi.- 5 tr 51 !
Darlington at several place*, and lias !** n
burned iu iffigy in nearly every, town in ^
District, but bis friends are active, and rt‘f ,,li
his return to bi-» seat in the house as <vi!* !n ;
An enthusiastic uia<s meeting bad Uen
in Uariingtou, in which Kbits and black
took part, and Whittemorc-’s statement “f
ease was received, with great applause.
Duarxo the month of February, aboe^J
hundred laborers were forwarded to
by the German Society of Chicago. A* v
migrants write word bock that they arc go
pleased with their new homes.
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