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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**