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Th.e Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph and. Journal
Telegraph and Messenger.
jnCON, MARCH 181870.
Wi frequently receive poetical contribution*
tmaooompanied by the name of the author, and
in one or two cases hare published them. Here
after responsible names most accompany all
contributions to insure their being considered
atalL |r
Another Slanderer in the Field.
We do not know who the W. L. Avery is,
that sends the dispatch to “two Senators,"
found in our telegram column, but we do know
that he has perpetrated a most infamous slan
der upon the people of Georgia. He claims to
have taken no part in politics heretofore. Cer
tainly his first venture shows him to be ad
mirably fitted for the business of Badical poli
tics. We advise him to quit railroading and
run for Congress. To utilize and reward such
capacity for atrocious falsehood, Bullock and
the Georgia Radicals would spend the last
cent of the people’s money. We denounce
Avery as a graceless, shamelees, deliberate
calumniator, and bis dispatch an unutterably
mean and malignant effort to prejudice the
Senate against the Bingham amendment.
We commend his dispatch to our ootempo
raries of Savannah. If we are not mistaken,
their opposition to that amendment is as vio
lent as his. Let extreme* set touchent.
meningitis.
Ghijtik, Ga., March 14, 1870.
Messrs. Editors: That dire affection, cerebro
spinal meningitis, haviDg become prevalent in
our country, anything that can possibly throw
light on its nature and treatment, in onr mind,
should be made known to the profession. Hav
ing seen numerous accounts of its prevalence
in the lower parts of this State, we have taken
this method of giving our treatment in this dis
ease, which has proven uniformly successful.
We know that communications through the
newspapers of the land are not considered in
strict accordance with true medical ethics, so we
beg the indnlgence of the medical profession in
this urgent necessity of the times.
The treatment adopted by ns in the epidemics
of 18G2 and 18G4, was as follows: We in the
first place give from five grains to thirty grains
of calomel, according to the age of the patient,
to be repeated, if necessary, until the bowels
act; apply a flannel well saturated with spirits
turpentine along the whole course of the spine,
run over this a smoothing iron moderately
heated; keep this up until the parts are blistered.
Give from ten to fifty grains of bromide of po
tassium, according to the age of the patient,
every three hours; after getting the patient
fully under the influence of the bromide, com
mence and give large and heroic doses of the
sulphate of quinine. This treatment should be
carried out by some intelligent physician, as
they alone could adapt the treatment to differ
ent cases, and appreciate the actions of the dif
ferent remedies. We regard the disease as a
miasmatic affection making a profound impres
sion on the nervous centres. Hoping that this
communication will prove of some benefit we
remain,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. J. Knott, M. D.
A Candid Confession.
The Washington Republican, a Radical pa
per, says in its issue of Monday:
Gen. Littlefield has jnst arrived in town from
North Carolina bearing an official requisition
from - Gov. Holden upon the President for
troops to be used in Alamance county of that
State, which has been declared by the Govern
or’s proclamation to be in insurrection. - The
communication' will be laid before the President
to-day. It is said Gov. Holden threatened to de
clare several other conntiea in a state of insur
rection, unless the condition of things should
change. The programme it to throw out the
votes of the insurrectionary counties at the next
State election, thus insuring a Jladical Humph.
If an honest confession is really good for the
soul,the Republican editor ought to feel immense
ly better, now, than he has in a long time. We
judge from his expose, that North Carolina Rad
icalism is in great straits, and requires desper
ate measures to rescue it Failing to get the
Bntler bill in all its straight oat wickedness
passed, we suggest to Bollock to imitate Hol
den’s little game. He can pack and perpetuate
the Agency this way, just about as handily as
any other. -
An Editor .Wardered.
While CoL John Wilder, editor and proprietor
of the Journal of Commerce of Kansas city,
Missouri, was conversing .with Mr. Hndson,
City Clerk, near the entrance of the court-house,
about 11 o’clock Thursday morning, Jas. A.
Hutchinson, a butcher, approached with drawn
revolver and said to Wilder, “Prepare to de
fend yoturself,” and at the same moment fired,
the ball entering Wilder’s left breast, passing
through both lungs, and lodged near the shoul
der joint Wilder died in abont twenty min
utes. Hutchinson was immediately arrested.
Wilder was a native of Boston, and one of the
most active, prominent men of the place.
Hntchinson had circulated slanderous reports
about a young lady whom Wilder was engaged
to marry, and had been horse-whipped therefor
by the young woman’s brother. He attributed
it all to Wilder, and took this bloody revenge.
If the people of Kansas City have not lost the
trick, they may yet spare the law any trouble
abont Hntchinson. If there ever is any excuse
for a compulsory view through a rope window,
this amiable individual's case seems to famish
it __
Phlebotomy lor Meningitis.
We have received the following letter from
Baltimore, and publish it for what it is worth:
Baltzuobz, March 10,1870.
Messrs. Editors : I notice in your valuable
paper, from time to time, mention of that ter
rible disease, meningitis. During the war. I
had on Mr. L. M. Witey’s plantations, in Ala
bama, about 125 oases of it, and some forty
deaths in about six weeks. All that the best of
medical skill could do was tried, but nothing
seemed to do any good.. On my own responsi
bility, I -experimented with the lancet, and
found that in nearly every case, by seemingly
bleeding the patients to death, I saved their
lives. I am so satisfied that it is the best rem
edy known, that were any of my loved ones, or
even myself, attacked with it, in spite of all pro
fessional remonstrance, I would use the lanoet
and let the blood flow as longas it Beerned pos
sible for the patient to stand it.
Bespeotfully yours, R. T. MoCat.
, Avery, Again.
The Hon. Milton A. Candler, Senator from
the DeKalb district, in a letter to the Constitu
tion makes hash of the above named shameless
slanderer’s rocent dispatch to two Senators at
Washington. Mr. Candler writes under date
of the 15th, and proves pretty conclusively that
Avery was not in Savannah when he sent that
dispatch. He says:
To-day he (Avery,) sits in the offioe of the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company, in
Kimball’s Opera House, in the city of Atlanta
and is not in the city of Savannah. He may
have been in Savannah on the 14th, running
from the cry of .“damned Republican," but to
day he ia in Atlanta in his office.
“Mack" says: “Alexander H. Stephens told
me that he considered Jefferson’s first inaugural
aid Lincoln’s first inaugural the - two finest
pioes of composition of the in the oonntry.
He meant, of oourse, as to their literary merit
The Oeonla Bill lm the Seaalr.
It appears that the fate of the Geergia Mil in
the Senate is doubtful, unless the Georgia Dem
ocrats shall signify some desire for it pawflft
and thus enoourage Democratic Senators to
"‘SKESv* authorized to speak for ^ Demo
cratic party of Georgia, and do trot P»*bh*h *
party journal; but we have *n op*** 10 **
Georgians, no Democrat of the State ahooM
give the slightest aid oreountenanoeto the
jEHnESSi Stt^SSitSS&S
SS^^^itff^^that i
quite as much as they can expect of ns. A rec
ognition of the outrage as legal—the right of
Congress to upset at will the government of a
sovereign State and substitute its own creatures
in place of lawful rulers—is so monstrous a de
mand that we hope no citizen of the State who
respects either her fair fame or himself, will
ever give this side the scaffold.
Go on mid peas your law if you will; wewiau
submit and be thankful to those friends of right
who succeed in mitigating its wrongs and hard
ships ; but approve, or lend any aid or coun
tenance to its passage, never, nxvxb !—Savan
nah Republican, 13th.
The Savannah Republican, (let ns say,) is
sued in Court for forty thousand dollars. He
denies the justice of the suit and the jurisdic
tion of the Court; but he knows the cause will
be tried and the judgment enforced. Will be
put himself on his dignity and make no effort
to save his money or to save half of it, if he
can ? Not he 1 Or ha is robbed, bnt can com
promise on one-half of the plunder—will he
fail to do it?
In thi« case, is a bill which is bound to 'pass
Congress in one of two shapes—1. Either, (as
Bollock and Butler desire,) with a provision
creating a regency of Gov. Bollock and his
tools for two to four years ahead, and empow
ering them to work their will unhindered upon
Georgia for that length of time—or (2.) with
an amendment, which limits them to their con
stitutional terms—brings on an appeal to the
people next fall—and hedges in the Destruc
tives, meanwhile, with all the restraints of law;
and yet the Republican virtually calls upon the
Democrats in Congress to interpose no effort to
save us from the greater wrong and to make our
burdens less intolerable—simply because the
whole bill is wrong.
“A choice of evils,” where evils are inevita-
cle, used to be allowed to mankind by all sound
ethical principles—bnt here is a man who re-
fnses the choice, and insists that no choice shall
be made for him by his friends, well knowing
that his course practically amounts to a choice
of the greater evil instead of the lest.
If a Tn«n be in the hanfla of Ms enemies to
be fined or hung, as he may elect, and obstin
ately refuses a choice, throws the choice upon
his enemies, and they elect to hang him, has he
not committed suicide ? And in vain does he
set up in self defence, that he could justly be
subjected to neither penalty. This was no
question, so far aa he was oonoemed, and he re
fused to settle in his own favor the only ques
tion he was allowed to entertain.
Now it is no question with us, whether the
Georgia bill shall pass or not It is bound to
pass. The only question is substantially whether
it is going to create a Bollock Regency with su
preme power over the property of the State
and the people—and c-ver all the officers of the
State so as to reduce them to the most igno
minious subjection to the Regency and practi
cally abolish all popular representation—or
whether we shall have something like a repre
sentative government and legal responsibility
left The Republican declines to say which—
forbids its friends to say which, and aa a matter
inevitable ranges himself along side of Bollock
In choosing the worst alternative.
We say this is a oourse of conduct no nun
adopts in his private affairs, and any nun who
proposed to work upon it wbuld be considered
a fooL The simple and sound rule which all
men adopt in their private affairs ie to work out
the best practicable results under all circum
stances ; and why any man Bhould adopt a dif
ferent rue in politics is inconceivable.
Is it not time to qnit this impraetioable and
stilted folly ? Has not Georgia suffered enough
from it? Has it not, since the first dawning of
reconstruction, turned us over successively to
the wont plots of the most ultra Radicals?
What it will do in this case, is only what it has
ever done.
We know not whether our beet efforts can se.
cure the Bingham amendment, but if it fails—
if Georgia ie turned over purse and power to
the Bollock Regency, let it not be because we
practically choose that result, under the guise of
lordly indifference. It is time to quit playing
“noble savage,” roesting before a slow fire,
with a back fall of lightwood splinters.
The Democratic Senators and the
Georgia Bill.
The press telegrams from Washington of the
12th, published in our last edition, contained the
following:
. The Democrats of the Senate are in aooord
with neither the Bollock or Bryant party, and
their action on the Bingham amendment is
somewhat doubtful, unless Georgia Democrats,
who they say have kept aloof, take some action.
The fate of the amendment is doubtful unless
the Democratic Senators vote for the bill as it
came from the House. It will be remembered
that the Democrats of the House voted for the
amendment, bnt they, tn masse, voted against
the Georgia bill as amended, and the Democrats
of the Senate seem inclined to vote 'the same
way unless supported by some positive demon
station from the Georgia Democrats.
. "We understand and sympathize with the in
disposition of Democrats to mix themselves np
in legislation of this character. It is abhorrent
to all Democratic ideas of ihs rights of the States
and the character and functions of Congress
and the Federal Government
The House Democrats voted for the amend
ment in order to make the bill, if it passed, less
exceptionable, and then voted against the bill on
the general ground of opposition to all such leg
islation. In the Senate, as we understand, tne
vote of Democratic membersbothfor the amend
ment and for the bill will be required to protect
the people of Georgia from the mischiefs con
templated by Butler’s bill in its original shape.
The oocasion is one which we think urgently de
mands suoh action on the part of Democratic Sen
ators. Surely it cannot be misinterpreted, and
if there were any possibility of suoh misinter
pretation, they have the right in the way of pro
test to put on record their reason for sustaining
the bilL The Democratic Senators should not,
and we trust, will not, abandon Georgia to the
horrors and iniquities of this Bullock and Bntler
Regency bill until they have exhausted all con
stitutional means to prevent it, in the moat
available form in which a remedy is presented.
In this emergency they can do nothing more or
better than secure the Bingham amendment, and
we believe ninety-nine out of a hundred of in
telligent Georgians would unite with ns in ask
ing this coarse at their hands.
Many of the leading Democrats in Haoon,
1 joking at this dispatch as an invitation to ex
press their views and wishes on this point, uni
ted yesterday in a telegram to the Democratic
8 jnators, expressing the hope that they would
sustain the bill with Bidgbam’s amendment.
log Boston Journal says: “General But
1 :r has appointed to the oadetsbip of the Es
sex District of West Point, vacated by deser
tion, a young mm named Charles Sumner
Wilson, of Salem, the son of Thomas C-
Wilson, a private soldier, who died in the ser
vice of rim United States. His widowed moth
er rerides in Salem, where she has given him
an excellent education in the public schools,
and he is said to be well qualified for the ap
pointment. It will be observed that he bean
the names of the two Senators from Massa
chusetts, and his complexion is the same as
that of the Senator from Miariarippi.”
. Fate sf the Blngliam Amendment.
The probable fate of the Bingham amend
ment in the Senate i* „ ^object of lively interest
and speculation among the people of Georgia.
It is a question of the annihilation of pnblio
liberty and representative government in the
State of Georgia for two or more years, and the
taming over of the State into the hands of a
wicked faction, contemptible in numbers and
altogether unprincipled in character, who will
prey like a horse leech upon the people, and in
all human probability, by their depravity,
bring many a blush to the faces of some of
their present supporters in Congress who are
opposing this'amendment in the opinion that
they are doing something which will ennore to
the benefit of the Badical party. Bat if official
eharacter and pnblio decorum be worth any
thing, and the lack of them bring3 odium upon
any party, then such a regency as they threaten
to establish by act of Congress in Georgia for
an indefinite period will be a scandal and rock
of offence to every honest mind in the country.
The opinions of the press as to the probable
fate of the Bingham amendment in the Senate,
are very conflicting. Our readers know that
the Republican Senators cancussed, upon the
matter last Thursday. This, it appears, was
done at the request of the President, who went
personally to the Capitol .to promote harmony
of action in relation to the bilL We do not un
derstand the President as taking sides for or
against the amendment. He simply desires
the bill passed in some shape, in order that the
proclamation announcing the ratification of the
Fifteenth Amendment may issue at once, so
that the negroes in Connecticut may be entitled
to vote at the State election, which takes place
on the 1st Monday in April next The Connec
ticut registry of voters, preparatory to the elec
tion, commences next Thursday, and there is
no time to be lost Gov. Jewell, of Connecti
on!, was in Washington on the day of the can
ons, urging prompt action on the bill, so that
Georgia might be admitted—her vote on the
Fifteenth Amendment counted, and the procla
mation issne immediately. The negro vote of
Connecticut is abont 2000 strong, and is consid
ered by Jewell sufficient to defeat the Demo
crats in that closely balanced State.
Bat notwithstanding all this partisan urgency,
the caucus was widely divided upon the amend
ment. It stood, according to all testimony,
about half and half, and the issue was so broad,
strong and determined in its character that, by
common consent, the caucus adjourned sine die
without coming to a vote, which wonld have dis
closed something like a party rupture.
In this attitude of affairs the correspondents
of the New York Tribune, Herald, Philadelphia
Press, New York Commercial Advertiser, World,
and others, indolge in various prognostications
in relation to the final result. The Tribune
thinks a protracted discussion will follow in the
Senate, and the result, although in great donbt,
seems to point to the defeat of Bingham's
amendment. The Press says the indications are
that the Senate will strike ont the amendment.
The Herald says that “unless there be further
action in caucus the emendment will be adopt-
edby at least ten majority in the Senate." The
World thinks the chances favor the amendment,
bnt it will probably pass the ordeal of a long
debate. The result is evidently very donbtfnl.
Georgia In Bonds.
From the Chicago Tribune, Radical.J
The bill proposed by General Bntler to pro
long the oontrol of the State of Georgia in the
bands of Governor Bollock and the present
Legislature, will not meet the approval of the
oonntry, and we can hardly account for the de
gree of support it seems to find at the hands of
Republicans in the House. We look to the Senate
to defeat it without doubt, whatever the action
of the House may be. It will be remembered
that the Honse hss already been called upon to
take a questionable and unprecedented course
in expelling the delegation from Georgia, af
ter an act had been passed readmitting that
State, and after a portion of its delegation had
taken their seats in the House. Such action
tion was excused by the course of the Legisla
ture of Georgia in' expelling its colored mem
bers. Bnt it, at least, showed precipitancy and
want of dne consideration in the House that it
should be obliged in this manner to retrace its
own action and remand a -State to its Provis
ional Government whose Representatives had
in part, already been sworn in as Mem
bers of Congress. Such precedents are dan-
gerous, and, as far as possible, sbonld Be
avoided.
After once remanding the State to its pro
visional form—after seeing the old Legislature
reassembled, the oolored members restored to
seats in that body, the members who could not
take the test oath expelled, it is now proposed
by General Bntler to ride the State over the
next election nnder its present officers, so as to
secure two years more of so-called Republican
ascendancy. On behalf of the. Republican
party, we object to any each dirty proceeding.
If toe people of Georgia want Repnblioan offi
cers, let them elect them. If they want Demo
crat* or alligators in their State offices, let them
elect them. ’ We have now arrived at a stage in
the work of reconstruction where the past is
absolutely irreversible. The Fifteenth Amend
ment will be proclaimed as soon as the pro
visional governments voting for it—Georgia
and Texas—are readmitted.
Not only is liberty secure, bnt nniversal suf
frage Will be thereby made secure. This ob-'
tained, the warrant for holding any Southern
State in shackles ends, and the farther enslave
ment of these States by Congress becomes a
wrong and an outrage, as promptly to be re
sented and guarded against by the whole power
of the oonntry as the farther enslavement of
the African portion of their citizens. Individual
rights being secure, and the sovereignty of the
nation being undisputed. Stale rights must now
come in for their proper share of protection.
Wejhope Congress will reoognize this by admit
ting Georgia promptly without limitations. No
paltry shackles they can impose upon the action
of her people will serve the cause of equal rights
at all, especially when they wonld thereby delay
toe admission of toe State and the proclamation
of universal suffrage, which will be' made as
soon as Georgia and Texas are admitted, and
not before.
The above, from the ablest and most influen
tial Radical paper of toe West, is very gratify
ing, indeed. It shows that the tidal wave of
oppression and outrage is on the ebb, outside
Congress, at least, and that even the fanatical
and bitter constituencies whom Congress re
presents, and for whom the Tribune speaks, are
at last becoming nauseated by thifir debauch of
hate and revenge. Bullock's bill may pass
minus the Bingham amendment, bnt the signs
are thickening everywhere, that it holds in its
brutal villainy, the germs of a conflict that must
eventually bear hitter fruit to the extremists.
Sorrows of Sparling.
The Nashville Banner deplores the sorrows of
Sparling, a Federal Tax Collector, iu this style:
Sparling has recently been to Washington,
and nas fooled into a visit to New York, so they
oonld get a “pop" at him. He arrived there
the night of the 21st and laid in jail the 22d,
ont of respect, I presume, for the Father of bis
Country. He begged, cried and pleaded for
meroy. Finally he was let go npon bis signing
papers to settle up within a certain time, etc.,
and my informant writes me that be will be put
through by a requisition from the Governor of
New York, if all matters don't come right. He
forfeited his word to the Sheriff, but he has
signed papers that will knock h—ll out of him if
he don't pay np. My informant also writes me
that his head will soon gooff. God grant ft
may. I forgot to say that he did not reguter as
F. W. Sparling. He changed it, but the trap
was set for him and he walked into it 'When
the Sheriff first nabbed him be denied his name,
but to* Sheriff was posted and had a Nashville
man to “spot" Mid follow him. I do not know
that any one has heard of it in Nashville as yet,
but what I have written to yon are facts. When
you see him ask him how he spent Washington’s
birthday?
Me. Tmxnjft Oassidt—Ku-Klnx, of coarse—
threatened Grant and his son while walking on
Pennsylvania Avenue, on Friday. He was ar
rested, but wee pronounoed insane, and sent to
an insane asylum.
Death of an Aged Man.
One more of the geod men of our State is
gone. John Trippe—Father Trippe, as he was
generally called,—died in Estonton, on the
morning of the 10th inst. He was abont 95
years of age. Settling in Putnam county when
it was first acquired from the Indians, near
ihree-fonriha of a century did he live there, lov
ed and honored by all who knew him. He had
a family of six sons and six daughters. He lived
to see 'his daughters bloom into womanhood,
become mothers of large families, and die.
Only two of his sons survive him. His good
wife he lost more than thirty years ago.
Many of hie grandohildron preceded him to
toe gravo.
It will thus be seen that his life had been fall
of sorrows 'and ‘trials, the lot of humanity.
Yet, amidst all, having for more than half
century been a devoted Christian, a zealous
member of the Methodist Episcopal Ghnrch
his piety and faith and confidence that all that
Ms Maker ordered was right, strengthened
him, and his trials, were borne with a true
Christian spirit. He was uncomplaining, even-
tempered as far as the writer knows in all his
life, never evinced any unpleasantness of tem
per, and never had an enemy. Debarred from
the privilege of activity, being qnito a large
man, his habits were sedentary, and tons he be
came a great reader. He was thoroughly post
ed in all of the political and prominent events
in his country's history—having watched, with
great interest, the progress of the Republic from
the day of its formation. To the day of his
death his mind was active, with no weakening,
reading his daily paper with far more interest
than many of the younger people.
He had been declining in health for some
months from having received a fall by which
leg was broken. Since confining him to his
room.
He died peacefully and easily—his sun setting
as we wonld have supposed that of so good
man wonld. We had hoped to see him reach his
hundredth year, bnt the God who made him
knew best, and we have not a donbt bnt that he
is now enjoying that great rest to which he so
hopefully looked. How beautiful a thought—a
man lived ninety-five years without an enemy
and beloved by all who knew him, and will be
mourned by all of his acquaintances.
[communicated.]
Poems l*y Cbiqnito.
It is expected that wc are soon to have an ac
ceptable addition to onr present literature, by
the publication of a volume of poems from the
pen of the gifted Mrs. Eppie Bowdre Castlon,
of Macon, Ga., whoso poetic genius has already
won the highest encomiums from the press and
pnblio. Her powerB of description are very
chaste and striking, while she displays refined
vigor and power of diction to an eminent de
gree. Her specimens have proved that she
possesses n true poetical genins, and she may
well be considered as more endued with the
brilliant qualities of the poet than most writers
of poetry that might be named among the wide
rapge of contributors who serve to fill np trashy
reading, and which is to be regretted fill the
parlor tables and shelves of those of a ruder
taste. Her merit is not confined to mere num
bers and elegance of dictior ; bnt more generally
displays the features of creative fancy enlivened
by expressions of a refined taste, and glowing
with all the animated coloring of nature’s
sublime and unerring pencil.
Her sketches possess a spirit of taste which
need nothing bnt continued cultivation to be
raised to the highest degree of excellence. A!
ready she has proved herself a "brilliantset in
pearl." But while in her pleasant rambles in the
fields of poetry, it is to be fondly hoped that she
will not entirely sacrifice herself to the muse, in
neglect of the more severe stndies of literature
and art. These will continue tc soothe her stndies
and give additional dignity to her conceptions,
and animate her forcible pencil.
And sbonld fortune at anytime throw a gloom
over the bright prospects of her genius
“Then, notunmindfulof her zeal, the muse
Shall Ktiil some comfort in her cup infuse.”
Her writings are pure and unembellished with
gaudy trappings, or superfluous ornament, which
serve to vitiate the public taste. Hence the
work will be honorable, and will be an accepta
ble addition to the rising literature of the
South.
As a Georgian she should be encouraged by
Georgians: as a fixed starsho should be admired
by her surrounding satelites. Temple.
Albany, March 7, 1870.
Tennessee Negroes “Interview” Grant
A lot of negro loafers from around Nashville
and Memphis, led by two or three rascally
preachers, so-called, and escorted by Horace
Maynard, who is one grade lower even than
the meanest one of them all, called on Grant
Thursday. Such a string of lies as they told,
we have hardly known equalled even by the
negro Radical loafers, and politicians and
preachers of this State. They declared that
negro men, women and children were being
daily shot, hung, drowned, skinned and burned
alive, craoified, and otherwise put to death all
over Tennessee by the Democrats and Ku-Klux,
and the law gave' them no protection. Grant
replied as follows: * *
“I regret very much the condition of the
state of things in Tennessee. * I will do my best
to check these outrages. Tennessee is a State
in the Union, and I have no right to tako pos
session of her territory with troops. I will take
the whole matter in consideration. We have
troops to spare, and I will see if cannot send
them throughout the State, so as to have'a mor
al effect at least, and also to aid the United
States Marshal and his deputies in carrying ont
the laws of the General Government and the
decrees of the United States Courts. As to the
Fifteenth Amendment, I am sure its provisions
will be carried ont in every State, as Congress
is now engaged in preparing a law for that pur
pose. I will Certainly give this matter due at
tention. I will consult with the Secretary of
War and see what can be done. ”
Tub Cincinnati Soutiiebn Road.—The i’-
liberul conduct of the-Kentucky Legislature, in
refusing right of ; way through that State to the
Cincinnati, Southern Road, is waking up the
people.of Kentucky, and a fierce denunciation
of Lpnjsville is to lie met within many of the
Kentucky papers, The; Lexington Statesman
cal's for pubbo meetings throughout Central
Kentucky to pledge the. people not to-.bijy goods
in Louisville; The: Statesman sayst ,ri
! -This .whole r portion of Kentucky are deeply
feeling-tire great .outrage that tbe Legislature
has done it, in ordes Ho satisfy the" selfish de
mands of ionisvilUiand that most infamous of
corpor/itions,-th*-Ltmisril)e and Nashville Rail
road. It iswaoullesa, selfislr company—tyran
nical in its power' - flijd grinding in. its exercise.
Itis hated frouAOhe endbf it to the other, and
all along its brafiehos. * ~ ^ v ' mj
r Tmsis thu iftto^ffory-frcmrParis: An at
tache of the Austmti Legation Ira's so unfor
tunate as ip break-a Urn. Its owner, a most'
charming and exceedingly.pretty iroinap, the
Countess J., was furious, and spoke her mind
quite freely about' it. 'Xhe culprit'uiahifcsted
exceeding contrition, and offered to have the
fan mended, or supply its plade. Increased
anger on tho part of the lady, who demanded
a piece* of. paper in which to wrap the frag
ments., The youthful diplomatist opened hi3
portmonnaie, find, without'tho least imperti
nent intention in the world, took out a thou-
sand franc note, haying, as he tore it in half,
“I have only this, madanre.” This capped the
climax, and the excitement of the lady readied
f-o high a point that a fashionable sculptor
who was present requested permission to take
her as a model for the statue of an angry
Juno, which he had just commenced.
Queen Victoria is sick a-bed in eonseqnenoe
of toe Prince of Wales being mixed np in the
Jfordaunt scandal.
An OM HlWi»ts4s Burner.
A Charleston? 8. O., correspondent of tho
Cincinnati Commercial writes: “Captain Fenn
Peck is an old andsuceessfol blockade miner,
and converses freely on his exploits daring the
war. He is sixty-four years old, hale and
hearty, although touched with paralysis, and
believes that he will live to see many young
men buried. He was opposed to secession,
but when South Carolina went out he fell
into line with the rest of his fellow-citizens of
Charleston, and turning his nautical knowl
edge to account, became a blockade runner.
“Whenever I found how things were going,”
said he, to three or four of the Cincinnatians
seated in his cabin, ripping otard of water,
this morning, as the City Point spread over
the sparkling crest of the Atlantic, “I made
up my mind. 1 bade my folks good-bye. and
told them I was going to Kentucky and Ten
nessee to. buy cattle, (and tbe jolly old salt
laughed at the conceit,) bat I was going fur
ther. I took an old carpet-sack, some old
clothes, four pounds of plug tobacco and a
bottle of whisky, and headed for Louisville,
where I spent one night. My next stopping
place was at Niagara Falls, where people's
baggage was examined by the revenue officers.
“What have you there, old gentleman?”
asked a smart fellow with a gold band on his
cap.,
‘“A few old clothes, some tobacco and a
bottle - of whisky,’ I answered. ‘Won’t you
have some?’
, V 'No, thank you; not now,’ says he. ‘Pass
along/
“ You better believe I felt relieved, for I
had sterling exchange for the amount of$500,-
000 sewed in the collar of an old coat in my
carpet-sack, and I’de have felt cheap going
back to Charleston without it
“Well, ! went to England. That was in
June, 1861,and I returned in the December
following with a ship load of arms and muni
tions of war, wbicn were safely landed in
Charleston.”
“How much money did you make, Cap
tain?” , • .
/’Well, sir, I made $15,000 in gold on that
trip; paid $9,000 that I owed in Charleston,
made my family comfortable, and took a few
thousand back to England for aafe-keepintr.
I had $360,000 in Confederate bonds when the
war closed, and I have it yet.”
“Do you ever expect to realize anything
from them?”
“No, sir; not atbiDg. I had some' notion
of papering my sitting-room at home with
them last year. No, sir; all the money I made
out of the war just paid that debt, kept my
family in comfort, and left me $7,000 in gold
on deposit in England.
“How long did you run the blockade?”
“All through the war.”
“Were you never caught ?”
“No, sir, never, but came near being cap
tured by the Rhode Island, off Nassau. 1 was
in command of the Margaret and Jessie, with
a cargo of cotton for England. The Rhode
Island spied her and made right for us. They
fired two hundred and odd shots; several
struck us, but only one done any damage. It
tore a four foot hole in our "boiler, and 1 run
the vossel into the shoa's at Nassau. Tbe
crew escaped; wreckers came down and saved
the vessel ana claimed salvage.”
“Did you run the same vessel all through
the war?" •
“No, sir; I commanded several—the Ber
muda, the Cecil, the Kate, the Margaret and
Jessie, and the Leopard, afterwards called the
Stonewall Jackson. The Cecil, Kate and
Stonewall were lost; the rest came out all
right. I made thirteen trips in all, and never
was caught. Look here now, now, you musn’t
tell this; I see you are takin’ notes.”
“Oh! no, no; wouldn’t tell it to anybody for
the world. Oh, no.”
“All right, gentlemen, let us take another
drop of that brandy.”
“Where did you run principally, Cap
tain?” - . ^
“Well, sir, some times into Charleston, but
mostly into Wilmington.”
“Were you not afraid of the torpedoes in
the Charleston harbor?"
“No, sir.” I had a chart of the harbor,
prepared by the Confederate engineers and
torpedo corps, showing where tbe things were
stink, and simply steered clear of them. The
main ship channel never was obstructed dur
ing the war, and any ship could have come in,
but it seems they were afraid.”
“Well, some of them did come in, in spite
of the torpedoes.”
“Yes, sir, the Ironsides passed right over
a torpedo made out of a thirty-foot boiler,
charged with 4,000 pounds of powder, and
sunk only a mile from Fort Sumter, but it
seems as though Providence ordered it other
wise. The thiDg did not explode as the ves
sel touched, and then they tried the galvanic
battery on the shore, for the torpedo corps
were ashore, expecting to see her blown into
-the air, but the battery would not explode it
either. I always bel'eved that the fellow who
fastened the wires fixed them so they would
not work, and a great many others were of
my opinion.
The Colton Crop and the Southern
States.
The Boston Post contrasts the commercial
and pecuniary value of the South to toe Union,
with the treatment she receives in toe Federal
family. It is toe old story of Cinderilla in a
new shape. We copy the two .paragraphs ap
pended, from the Poet’s article:
‘‘Last year’s cotton crop is estimated by in
telligent and careful statisticians to be three
million bales. At twenty-five cents per pound,
it is equal to a crop of six million bales before
the war. Its entire value, allowing four hun
dred and sixty pounds to the bale, is three hun
dred and forty-five millions of dollars. All this
is hard cash, earned by the single product of a
single section in a single season. On snob a
basis, with even a fair series of good seasons,
that section would outstrip every other in the
rapid accumulation of wealth. Of these three
million bales, it is allowed that two millions one
hundred thousand are for export, yielding the
sum of $241,500,000 in gold. Half of this has
been shipped abroad between the last of Sep
tember and the last of February, leaving tbe
other half, which is equal in money to over one
hundred and twenty-one millions of dollars, to
be exported between this and September. That
is to say, cotton will supply ns in onr foreign
trade, for the next six months, that amount of
coin with which to regulate our balances. It is
considered preferable to coin, because it is a
leading staple of the world's commerce.”
“We touch bottom again, in matters of trade
and finance, as soon as we come to a fall crop
of cotton. That has twice proved itself onr
commercial support and savior. Intelligent
merchants and the more comprehensive minds
among odr public men so understand it. Strange
as it appears to dispassionate eyes, the Congress
that has been doing its best to cripple, confuse
and obstruct all healthy financial operations, by
its jargon of phrases, its medley of schemes,
and its plots of personal and partisan profit, is
the very same Congress that has been revenge
fully bent on keeping the cotton-producing
States in a condition of servile degradation, on
repressing every attempt of their property-
holding citizens to establish order and a well-
regnlated industrial system, and on driving
away capital from their valuable fields by de
stroying the growth of confidence and trust
The object was nothing less than toe absolute
degradation of the people that give those States
all the oharaoter ana importance which they evor
enjoyed.. Mr. Bumner publicly announced that
thirty years, the term of a generation, was none
too long to keep them suppliants, dependants
and senrants outside the Union. Hia states
manship moat have borrowed the eyes of the
mole when it inspired suoh an anathema bn an
entire section of the country. It did not reckon
on the vast productive oapacity of their favored
soil and climate, and the great staple which they
alone oan supply for the resuscitation of onr
commerce. It forgot to allow for those press
ing necessities in the national finances, for
whose instant alleviation we should be oompelled
to turn to the South aa we had done before."
A Very Unfortunate Question.
It is related in Harrisburg, (Pa.) that Govern
or Major General John W. Geary was reoently
invited to address the ohildrea of a pnblio
school, and in alluding to Washington’s birth
day, put the following question: “Now, boja,
why should we celebrate Washington’s birthday
anymore than mine?" In toe midst of the
profound silenos a littlo fellow at toe foot of the
olasa rose and replied: “Because he never told
lie."
. :
Importing Soil for Manure.
_ ' t Err aula, Ala., March 23, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
I found by experience while living in western
Texas that the black, sticky soil in certain lo
calities there was equal, if not superior, to sta
ble or cow manure upon the poor sandy ridges.
I am not chemist enough to classify the differ
ent properties of this soil but I know it contains
everything necessary to produce the most produc
tive crops in the shortest possible time. 1 wonld
like to have you give this matter some little
consideration. I think there is money in it,
especially in these days of manufacturing fer
tilizers and importing guanos. If it pays to
import sea fowl guano from the Pacific and to
ereot large and expensive establishment to man
ufacturing manure, why ahonld it not pay to
ship the rich soil already made from Texas ?
This may seem to yon a novel idea, bnt I can
not see the difference between buying phos
phates or guano for the purpose of mixing it
with the poor soil to make it rich and produc
tive, and buying the mixture already prepared.
I know that cowpening upon this black sticky
soil does not increase it productiveness. It is
certainly the most fertile matter in the world,
and wonld make Western Texas the garden-
spot of the world were it only seasonable. I
have known fields there to not make the seed
planted for three years in succession, and the
fourth befog seasonable, make one hundred
bushels of corn per acre. This soil oan be ob
tained within four or fire miles of Victoria,
which is thirty miles from the coast Wherever
the musqnit timber and nrasqnit grass is found,
this rich productive mnsquit soil is certain to
be found. This soil could be dug up, pulveriz
ed, and bagged in the dry season, at which time
it contains bnt little moisture and is as fine as
floor. In wet weather it is as sticky as tar,
and unmanageable.'
It is an open question, and a free thing for
everyone to test that will go to a little trouble
and expense to make the experiment. I have
triedit. I am satisfied that there is nothing
manufactured in Georgia, Carolina, or Mary
land equal to it as a fertilizer.
A very small sum—say two thousand dollars
—wonld be sufficient to test and establish it as
a fertilizer. Two thousand wonld hire hands,
provision, pay expenses of hauling, bagging
and shipping of one hundred tons to the differ
ent points npon the Chattahoochee river. I want
to raise this amount by subscription, and ship
OD6 hundred tons to the subscribers. I am
willing to deposit a sufficient amount to indem
nify the parties in case I fail to pat ap and ship
the first one hundred tons by a certain time
through anynegleot or mismanagement upon
my part.
TPiW you assist me in forming a company,
and raising the amountt
Yours very respectfully, D. H. Tcckeb,
10 miles below Eufanla, Ala.
Remakes.—The soil our correspondent speaks
of is probably nothing more than vegetable
mould, accumulated by the decomposition of
successive crops of mnsquit grass and foliage.
A careful analysis wonld determine its precise
value as a fertilizer, and settle the question
whether it wonld bear the cost of preparation
and transportation, which he estimates at $20
per ton; and whether it is infaot superior to
other accumulations of xnonld which may be
found in greater or less quantities in almost
every planter’s immediate neighborhood, if he
will look for it. Until Mr. Tucker has procured
such an analysis we wonld not advise him to
spend money in bringing soil from such a dis
tance.
A farmer who will devote a mule and cart or
wagon daily daring' the year to the accumula
tion of manures, and their judicious prepara
tion for his land, need not go far off his planta
tion, or vex himself mnch abont the parity and
price of guanoes and superphosphates. With
his stock yard properly arranged so as not to
wash, let him deposit therein, day after day,
all the leaves and debris from his woodlands and
cattle, any quantity of swamp monld, stable
droppings, ashes, the scrapings from under his
wood-pile and fence comers, and, in a word,
everything which can be converted into fertil
izing matter by decomposition. Let his swine
root through these deposits daily, as they will
do in search of the acorns and mast he has
brought from the woods among the leaves—let
him pile up this accumulation in the fall mixed
with his cotton seed (if he is so situated that he
oan use them no better) and, if he can cheaply
do so, incorporate a good amount of lime and
some salt in the mass, and he will have a pile
of manure which will make him feel quite in
dependent of commercial fertilizers. Then,
daring the winter, break np his land and bed
toe manure in a deep farrow, split open and
plant in the spring and we think he will be
pretty near right, and his crops will agree with
ns.—Enrrons T. & M.
Klorr State Dinners are Com'
nnder Gen. Grant.
From the Press. |
It is the evening of the President’
dinner. The guests are uot only foS 1 * i
expected to be punctual in their ato^iM
7 o’clock p. M. President and Mrs.f* 1
already in the Red Room awaitine y
pany. The ladies have disrobed tW*
of outer wrappings, and, like graceful^
they sail slowly into the presence*
Grant is in foil evening dress—i eBP i
and all the et ceteras to match, if
guests are attired as handsomely as i
and the gentlemen are expected to wJJ
swallow-tail coats and white neck ties. 3t
President Grant leads the wav
wile of the oldest Senator present on v
-not the oldest Senator in year.? ImS
who has enjoyed the longest term /
The President is followed by the mU
while Mrs. Grant, assisted by the lm i
the woman who honors the President
exclusive attention, brings up the
rear I
Got. Bullock's Brutus Card.
» nun
Willabd's Hotel, >
Washington, D. O., March 8, 1870.)
The following note was left at my hotel this
evening:
Washington, D. C., March 8, f870.
Sib : I have in my possession six affidavits,
of respectable citizens of Springfield, Mass., in
regard to yonr career with Mrs. Levitt and the
infamous treatment of her husband, causing,
as they believe, his untimely death.
Now, sir, I propose to have these documents
published and plaoed in the hands of every
Senator and Representative in Congress, re
ferring them to a gentleman of high standing
in this city who knows something of the facts
in the case himself, and into whose hands I in
tend placing the original papers.
Yonr infamy shall be known throughout the
land, and the Ghost of poor Levitt, whom yon
worse than murdered, shall rise up in accusa
tion whithersoever you go.
I write for the purpose of attaching one con
dition, viz: that yon call off yonr Mood-hounds
and let ns have peace in Georgia! Go fume
and attend honestly and faithfully to yonr do
ties as Governor, give np this unworthy idea or
scheme of perpetuating yourself and friends in
office, and Ipromise toplnee the papers at your
disposal as soon as you have complied with the
above condition. Meantime I II not show them
to mortal man.
I shall await yonr action for one day only af-
ter receipt of this. Think well and decide your
fate. Bbutub.
To R. B. Bollock, Governor of Georgia.
“Brains” is respectfully informed that I have
no “idea or scheme of perpetuating myself or
friends in offioe” beyond the constitutional term,
and that I am “honestly and faithfally” endeav
oring to secure the admission of Georgia into
the Union with a reliable republican State gov
ernment.
My efforts in that direction will not be sus
pended in deference to the latest effort of; the
In-KInx-Klan, and “Bratns” need not withhold,
even for one day, whatever new batch of lies
this Klan may have accumulated.
My efforts, cither pnblio or private, daring
my whole life are open to inspection and criti
cism.
It has been my for tone, either for good or ill,
to be placed in a position that secures for me
the intense hatred of an unscrupulous partisan
organization, and, althongh it is disagreeable to
bear, I shall not shrink from tho support of po
litical principles to avoid the flood of infamous
slander and abase which has heretofore, and
will be hereafter, poured npon me.
Rufus B. Bullock.
Glorious!
The news that that bad man and bitter hater
of the South, Geo. Wilkes, of the Spirit of the
Times, was well cowhided, yesterday, by Major
Leland, is as weloome as flowers in May.
Wilkes has been instant, in season and oat of
season, in his blackguard abuse and villification
of toe Southern people. For every lash laid
on his ruffian shoulders, we cry bravo ! “Here’s
a health to thee,” Bill Leland, and more power
to yonr elbow should yon ever have oocasion to
“do the trick” again!
The Citt or Boston.—Yesterday morning we
delighted ourselves with telling onr friends, on
the authority of a private dispatch, that the
steamship City of Boston was safe in port, bnt
the noon dispatches announced the telegram a
“cruel hoax." One who oan perpetrate anoh a
hoax is beyond man’s help.
One of .the popular doctors of Louisville is
named Grass—sued onp in Lowell named
Gravea. Thor patients go to—them.
alter slight confusion the guests are <y
bly seated. When nopercoi is
Divine blessing is omitted, unl«*
Quaker thankfulness—the' silence''
heart. Iu the beginning of the W
flowers and sweetmeats grace the'
while bread and butter only given'
simplicity to the “first oonrse." ri^A.
posed of a French vegetable soup, aid
ing to those who have tasted it, no ra l
eign or domestic, has ever been i/"
equal it. It is said to be ulittlesn
than peacock’s brains, hut not quit.'
quisitely flavored as a dish of uicL'
tongues.
The ambrosial soap is followed by > r*.
croquet of meat. Four admirably iruirl-J
vants rentove thc plates between each*/
and their motions are as perfect as, doe>
These servants are clad in gannettsofi
less cut, which serve to heighten to 4
degree their sable complexions. Wh
gloves add the finishing touch to this t,
the entertainment. The third “cour t; 11
dinner is composed of beef, flanked oil
side by potatoes tbe size of a walra]
plenty of mushrooms to keep than
The next course is a dainty in thofjJ
Jt is made up entirely of the
partridges, and 1 aptized by a Frecck
entirely beyond my comprehension. ! ; |
be readily seen that a fu 1 description
twenty-nine courses wonld be altoge/t-
much, so we pass to the desert, not ®
to say that the meridian or nooncfth(&
marked by the guests being served boa
with frozen punch. As a general rule, r
served about every third course. SliJ
glasses of different sizes, and a boquetr
era, are placed before each guest at |
ginning.
The desert is inaugurated by the del
of a lice pudding, but not the ” '
prompted the little boy to run
North Pole lx cause his mother “wofjl
rice pudding lor dinner.” It is not tV|
dish which our Chinese brethren swai
the aid of cloqi-i-ucks, but it is such*
as would make our great grandma
their hands in juy. This Prcsidenul
cannot bo described except by tbe pa;
niu*, therefore it ca l only lie added j
plebeian pies, or otl ;r pastry are a!
keep it company. After the rice ]
canned peaches, pt its and quinces aicJ
Then follow confectionery, nuts, ice]
coffee, and chocolate, and with these j
soothing diinks, the Presidential tuj
merit comes to an end, ilm ho-t aulH-1
repair to the Red Room, and afrerSf- j
utes spent in conversation, the actors:: J
dinner rapidly disappear.
Brevities and Levities
Taking people—thieves.
Late habits—night-gowns.
High-toned man—tenor singer.
A fruitful vehicle—a sloe coach
Nature’s weapons—blades of grass.
The mo.it fashionable of flower;-
delion.
Unlawful pharmacy—com pour, died
A questioning ghost—the shade ofil
Pleading at the bar—begging fonj
Woman’s (natural) protective uni.t
riage.
The mast difficu’t thing to relucm’s
poor.
Isa man with a red fact necov-arilyij
ian?
cjlkctions—pruc
Chronological
dates.
A well-balanced man—one with a!
account.
The cup that cheers but not inebnas
butter-cup.
The only organ without stops is s
tongue.
Bed-ridden—those who travel by
sleeping cars.
High living that docs not piodns'
•living in a garret
Every bird pleases us with its lay
the hen.
‘What ails your eye, Joe ?” “I
he lied,” replied Joe.
Men of regular habits—those who?
every morning before breakfast.
To take spots out of linen—u-cavi
knife or pair of scissors.
Making light of misfoi tun—thio
poet’s verses iuto the Gre.
“Suffering from wet groceries,”
name for drunk in Chicago.
The story of the “Lost Heir”
turn upon a dropped chignon.
.The man who attempted to loo'
future had the door slammed in his
Could frogs have chosen a log,
ercign, with Mich love as they have!
king? t
“Died from the effect, of mixed c*
is tho way they get)he delirium H
Cheyenne.
It is estimated that fifty million 3 ^
and government bonds has been sF'
rope this year.
Sentimental youth—“Dear Mot
share my lot for life?” Practical f
many acres in your lot, sir?"
“It is a sad moment iu life,’
“when you find that love, glory.»
are, altogether, not worth ii good tjj
iaa sadder moment still,” rcpli/ 1 *
‘tfhen you find that the cigar It* 1 ]
“Do you believe iu second love,
QuadoV” ‘’Do I believe in so
Hump I If a min buys a pun
isn’t it swate? and when its «a
want another pound? and i<nt
too? Troth, Murphy. Idobeievi
love.”
The wife of a Boston man ran t*
ver about two months ago, and tb*
telegraphed her husband to send 1
for ner to come home with. 1:
“Don't cut you r visit short on
and she is in Denver yet
As several ueighbora of a ratb-'t
man who kept a turner’s shop wert
his wonderful skill in ki3 art, ooe*
marked that, as skillful as he
one thing he couldn’t “turn,
that?” was the general inquiry-
penny," was the sati-factory reply
In Iowa a merchant sent sdiW]
to a man, who replied by return
say you arc holding to my note «-
all right—perfectly right. J 1 }' 5 *”
on to it, and if you find your ban'
spit on them anl try again.
ately.” _
Th@ Louisiana Snlpl* 01 '
The New Orleans Picayune say 3
tore of that State has appropriated
aid in the full development of tb* 3
entitle men say there is enough
mim to supply the com me rt*
and that within a few month* th* ‘
be ready to deliver four hundred t»» J
This is the only bed of virgin
and it readily commands B
city.
l«n
A soon stock hotel on the
S*'
to be started in New (Mean*.
Mwsat at color or r»oe w**