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J '«.T f ta&sa t*®* =e The Greoraia 'W'e^ekl’y Teleaci’sbpii /aiicl Journal <$£ Messenger. TeJ^raph and Messenger CON. M>&CH|22 IS70. y%W Messrs. Havens &. Brown; send ns this firhny Dntchman’s (Charles G. Leland's) last effusion called “Dana Breitman in Church.” It is the third series of the Breitman Ballads, and folly sustains the high reputation won by the author in the same held of poetry. The I’iegan Massacre. On the 13tbinstantLieutenant-General Sheri' dan issued a General Order at Chicago, in which ho “takes pleasure” in announcing “the com plete success” of the expedition against the Pieg.ms. Ho says ono hundred and seventy- three Indians were killed, and the World says of this number ninety were squaws and fifty children. That left thirty-three warriors. But there was no fighting. Not an American sol dier was hurt. It was simple butchery—just such work ns we should suppose the “hero of the Shenandoah” would “take pleasure” in an nouncing and doing. The village was sur prised—its inhabitants deliberately shot down, bayoneted and brained—their lodges fired and the debris of half-roasted and blaekened corpses left behind as the result of a very short job in the way of “vindicating the authority of the Government.” We did not think there were that number of grown white men in the United States who could be employed, on any terms, in the butchery of women and children, however defenceless and degraded. The Government troops, as we are informed, have heretofore, in some cases, refused quarter to warriors, but spared the women and children, and turned them over to neighboring tribes. This is the first case where universal murder has been mado the rale. Atlanta Medical College.—The advertise ment of the Thirteenth Annual Conrso of Lec tures of this institution will be found in our columns to-day. This Is emphatically one of ihe institutions of Atlanta. It has stood the vicissitudes of peaco and of war, of prosperity and adversity, and still stands as a monument of tho perseverance of its originators and true friends and patrons. It still has the same able and efficient facility which, for several years, has been “dispensing light and knowledge, the way of medical science, to a largo number of young men of this and other States. We hope and believe that the class for the ensuing session may be a large one, and that the Col lege may go on “prospering and to prosper. What Georgia Negroes Went to Wash ington. Forney’s paper names the Georgia negro dele gation at present in that city as follows “Simeon Beard, chairman, ex-member of the Constitntional Convention, at present' clerk in the State Library of Georgia; Bomnlns Moore, Abraham Smith, T. J. Campbell, Jr., W. H. Harrison, Abraham Colby, Thomas Allen and John D. Costin, all members of the Georgia Legislature.” Reaction in Cotton. There was a pretty strong reaction in favor of cotton in all the markets yesteaday. This is what wo expected and predicted a fow days ago, when the cotton market was terribly sick. We imagine that cotton will creep up daring the summer to somewhere about twenty-five cents. Business will start its wheels again be fore long, and gold rise to abont 120. This so- called specie-paying spirit is all premature. Got the Right of It. Tho Boston Post dispatch, of the 14th, upon Trumbull's speech, says: He gave a lengthy history of the Georgia case, and held that under the act of Congress of last December, all that Gov. Bullock had to do was to call together, by proclamation, the mem bers of the Legislature recognized by General Meade. He severely criticised Gov. Bullock for placing his clerk (Harris) in charge of the Leg. islatnre, and characterized the proceeding as an outrage not nnlike the Kansas Lecompton Con stitution, 'whore, ho alleged, the minority at tempted to rule the majority. Mr. Trumbull intimated that the lying telegrams published in the morning papers of this city, purporting to come from Georgia, and intended to affect Con gress in favor of the Bullock party, were manu factured here or sent to this place in answer to calls from Bollock, who is here manipulating for the defeat of the Bingham amend ment ; that these so-called telegrams were got up to order in tho Chronicle to perpetnate Bol lock and his creatures in office, and that the latter were seeking to prevent Senator-elect Hill, a consistent Union man, from taking his seat in the Senate, and to put in his place Whitely, who had fonght with the Confederates to overthrow the Federal Government. This part of Senator TrambnU’s speech produced a stir, and Bullock, who sat upon a sofa near by, winced perceptibly under the expose. Stewart, of Nevada, followed in opposition to the amend ment, and shortly afterwards the Senate went into Executive session. The vote will probably be a close one, but there is hope of. a complete ront of the Bullock pack. The Rrnnswlck and Albany Railroad .. ... Mass. The Constitution has been sifting this matter, and states its conclusions, as follows: It seems that when Col.Holbert was appoint ed Superintendent of the road, he ousted a man named F. A. Babcock, who had been en joying a good thing of it. Hulbert was pnt in through Wm. L. Avery’s influence. To seenre the oompletionof the SO miles by the 18, in order to get furthur State aid, a man of great enrgy, like Halbert, was needed; and it seems he has been pushing the affair, without sparing hands. Without entering into the merits of the matter, which wo shall ilo hereafter, it seems that iiab- eock, who is a Badical, has been intriguing to get Halbert out, and himself in. And Babcock has worked on tho bands and dissatisfied them. ,- The thing then simply resolves itself into a personal squabble for a good fat job among certain subordinates, without a particle of poli tics in it. Of conrse, Babcock has patnphis squad to yelling “Badical,” against Avery and Hul- . bert; but from all we can learn the political cry was confined to these malcontents, and did not include the citizens of Brunswick. k v The Economy Question. We admire the squabble among the Itadioal members of Congress upon the question, whether the administration of Johnson or Gen. .Grant were the more extravagant and profligate in the waste of the public ritoney.; as if it were qnestion between a Democratic and a Badical administration. As the same party controlled the expenditures of both/ it is, in fact, a simple qnestion whether it was more or less corrupt at one time than another—all agreeing that cor ruption, extravagance and waste havo marked its history. Nor is there a single period of time, since the party took the reins, whioh will fur nish any criteria or rule of judgment for meas uring any other point of time, and judging by that standard the extent of the waste and pro fligacy beyond the honest requirements of gov ernment. H we shonldgo back to a Democratic administration, with its sixty and seventy mil-, lions of expenditures, and contrast it with what some of them maintain to be the economy of Gen. Grant, we see his economy has quadrupled the public expenses. But the Radicals erect their own standard of comparison from the very excess of their own maladministration, and boast of economy, because they have .curbed their own extravagancies to a small extent. They are like a hard drinker vaunting his own tem perance because he has cut down his allowance at dinner from four to three bottles. Old Solon Robinson Kills a Negro. The Jacksonville Union of the 10 th, says “The dead body of a colored man shot through the bowels was seen in the woods north of this city on Sunday last, by a colored woman named Caroline Sumpter. On Monday two colored children were around begging subscrip tions to bury a man who, they reported, had died suddenly on Sunday. No trace of the col ored man has yet been found, but it is supposed that the myterious deceased is the visitor, who Mr. Solon Bobinsou greeted with a charge of buck-shot while boring through his front door on Saturday night.” Another “Kn-Klnx outrage,” eh? We’ll wager it goes to Washington in that gnise, anyhow, It may help Bollock and the Tennessee Bads on general principles. To think, though, that old Solon Robinson, of all men, should have done the deed. He, that sensitive old plant, whoso delicate nerves were so shocked at the non-appearance at the State Fair of “the old flag,” and who has been wasting so many years in investing the African race with all the cardinal virtues—that he should shoot one of this favored race—how very, very sad! How will he sleep quietly o’nights any more ? How rest under the damning disoovery that the glistening, glorious “loyal black” will steal? Solon's shot has not only torn a man and brother to pieces, but also one of the old buffer’s most petted theories as to the superi ority of Coffee over his white “rebel” brother in the matter of honesty. Two such blows at bis time of life are terrible. We hope he may survive them. Reminiscences of a Well-Spent Life. Under this head the Chattanooga Times of the 17th says: We had the pleasure of meeting, yesterday, Mr. John Bishop, an old veteran of the war of 1812, who stated as follows: That he is 01 years of ago, and was now living with his fourth wife. That he had raised 21 children ont of ‘JT. That he had 15 boys, six of whom fonght in theFed- ■ oral army,-and nine in the Confederate army. He also said that he had never taken a drop of medicine in his life, and consequently, felt in perfect health, and able to cat and split one hundred rails any day. He said his grandmoth er lived to tho extraordinary age of 137 years, and bis father lived to bo 118 years old. This extraordinary man was one of General Jackson's best bowers, and was in the battles of Horse Shoe and New Orleans under Old Hick ory.; General Jackson assisted him to scale the walls of Pensacola and he was the second :aau y**; /v' 1 .'.r. ?.>.?!* aid ’*■ The New York Herald says there is jl :flasb of gold in New Yo:k, in all the banks. There is a great feeling of insecurity among the heavy wholesale dealers. Tho dry goods trade is asleep. Cotton brokers have felt the gold de cline severely. Everybody thinks gold will IteaMiMtpKri wra isiaiobet j Eob’t D. Holmes, P. G, W ,M. of tho Grand Lodge of F. and A. Masons, died in New York eity Saturday evening, fifty-three years of age. He was for many years one of the most promi nent members of the Masonic fraternity in the United State*. Henry H. Leeds, a prominent New York auctioneer, also died Saturday. Ore hundred and four soldier* left New York Tuesday, at 0 o’clock, for Georgia. Welcome, ye braves. Cheerful Reading—The Western Rad icals and the Tariff. The New York Times’ Washington correspon dent writes on the 14th, that the present status of the tariff bill, in Congress, is “pregnant with danger to the Republican partywhich is very cheerful reading, indeed, to ns. The correspondent says the monopolists don’t wish it to come np this session at all, knowing that if it does, some of its most odious features will be stricken ont. The apprehension that it will be postponed, is troubling the Western Badicals very much. They say if it is not modified the party will lose heavily in the fall elections in that section. “One Western member of Con gress, whose majority at the last election was over six thousand, remarked, a day or two since, that unless the tariff was revised and relief given to the people by such action, he did not believe a Bepnblican candidate could carry his district next fall. There are others who do not hesitate to predict the loss to tho Republicans of the next House of Representatives unless action is taken on the tariff question which shall satisfy, in some degree, the publio senti ment which has been aroused on the subject." All the scalawags and carpet-baggers from the South vote with the high tariff monopolists, so it remains to see what tho party will do between the devil and the deep sea of this dilemma. Will it pay to lose the West in order to save the so-called Sonthem votes? If the Democrats should carry both West and South, what will be come of these gorged plutocrats? .We don’t see much light reconstructionwards, but there’s broad streak breaking out of this tariff basi- j, Fisli an<l Cuba. The Herald, of Tuesday, says Mr. Secretary of State, Fish, was interviewed the day before by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The interview lasted one and a half hours. He was principally interrogated as to the real con dition of the Cnban revolution, independently of the way it appeared in the published diplo matic correspondence, and also as to whether there was any late and important correspon dence with the Spanish government on the gen eral subject. As to the first branch, Mr. Fish’s statement showed no variance as to the status of the Cuban revolution between tho published and unpublished correspondence. He contend ed that the information received, both from of ficial agents and unofficial correspondents, en titled to credit, showed that the Cabans had not attained that advanced condition as belligerents to entitle them to solemn recognition by any for eign government; that in fact, though they kept up a state of armed opposition to the Span ish authority on the island, it was not an oppo sition that could be digDified with a title much higher than that of a guerilla warfare, wliich might continue for many years. He had re ceived late dispatches from Consul Biddle and also a statement of the Prussian Consul General, which confirmed him m these views. He pro duced late correspondence from different parts of Cuba, all of which tend to show that his opin ion as to the real condition of affairs was cor rect. The committee heard Mr. Fish’s state ment with profound attention, but it is under stood that no member fouLd anything in it which changed his views in the slightest degree. The committee, with the exception of Willard, of Vermont, is in favor of taking some action in favor of the Cubans, and it is not improbable that a suitable resolution will soon be reported to the boose. Swepson, Forever! .George W. Swepson, of North Carolina, of Florida, or Georgia, or any other reconstructed Stale, where bonds are -come-at-able, is a most magnificent financier. If Avery don’t know him he should fly on the wings of fond desire, and make his acquaintance at once. We do not know Swepson’s capacity as a concocter of false dis patches, but he certainly beats Avery on bonds, At least as far as Avery, has developed. Let I j y jr j The North Carolina Agency granted aid, last year, to the Western North Carolina Bail- road, in the shape of State endorsed bonds.' Of these there were issued 6,367 through Swepson Swepson sold and hypothecated 5,056 of them, and of their proceeds turned over to the President of the road the sum of $136,278.63 -Ho. expended $275,383.31 on contraots, let the Treasurer of the company have $27,311.41, in vested $900,533.29 in the bonds of the Pensa cola and Georgia Railroad of Florida, and leaves a balance unaccounted for of say, in , round numbers, $640,000! - Where that balance has gone, we can’t say, of course, but no doubt Swepson could tell Avery for a consideration; Now, isn't Swepson a “stunner?” And oughtn’t Avery to know him ? After sitting reasonable time at the feet of such a Gamaliel, we\pven’t a doubt but that Bullock & Co., af ter a few more years’ reign in Georgia, would be found devoutly thanking Mercury “for what these two have been to each other.” The Attacks upon Mr. Davis. The constant flow of abuse, obloquy, insults and jeers upon ex-President Davis from the Northern press end politicians, and on the floor of Congress, aTe, under the circumstances, not complimentary to American manhood. It never noble to strike where no resistance is of fered and no blow is returned. Mr. Davis, ev er since the extinction of the Sonthem Con federacy, has sedulously sought obscurity. He has maintained so qniet, modest and inoffen sive a demeanor that not a hard saying against his most violent enemies and traducers can be traced to him. But the most unobtrusive priva cy fails to shield him from insult, and the Sen ate of the United States cannot welcome a ne gro from Kansas of dishonest record to a seat in that body from Mississippi, without an at tack upon Mr. Davis, and thanking God for the exchange. The taste of these felicitations in every aspect will not be questioned. There is no donbt about it It is unsurpassed by that of Northern New Orleans correspondent who can not bear the sight of Mr. Davis eating straw berries, and makes the fact the occasion for discharge of bis galL A Compromise! The Atlanta New Era of yesterday has the following: The news from Washington discloses little bejond the fact that the discussion in the Sen ate over the Bingham amendment has assumed a wider range, and that it will probably be continued through the present week, perhaps longer. The position of Senator Sawyer, of South Carolina, is certainly a remarkable one— remarkable no loss for its utter inconsistency with that gentleman’s former position, than for its well known antagonism to the expressed will of his constitnents in the Virginia ease, Why South Carolina Republicans shonld seek to impose restrictions upon the admission of Virginia, and yet manifest a willingness to ad mit Georgia in- a manner that wonld practically defeat the new Constitution and the enforce ment of the XVth Amendment in this State, is something beyond the comprehension of those who would feign believe Mr. Sawyer an accred ited exponent of South Carolina Republican ism! It is not probable, however, that the amendment will get through the Senate. The indications are, that before the discussion is dosed, a substitute will be offered—one that will combine the Iiepublican strength of both Houses, and thus save Georgia from a repetition of 1868. To which we have to say, that as we cannot conceive of a compromise which will give the Bullock Regency a now lease of power for another term, we shall be glad for so much. Bat we hope the Bingham amendment will pass. The Era's concession of the probability of a substitute is in the nature of a compromise. They can’t carry the original Butler bill through the Senate. They most be content with something less than a four year’s Regency. In short, Bul lock is whipped down from what he demanded, to a question of what he can get. Silver Change.—A noticeable instance of the tendency towards specie resumption took place attheHoliday-streetTheatrc [Mr. Ford’s] on Saturday night, when a large proportion of the audience received silver half dollars and quarters in change at the box office. The j ayment of silver under the circumstance.-, was a surprise, and it was very amusing to tee how the recipients took it. Every ono had some thing to say about specie payments, and it is needless to add that all who got the bright coin were pleased. .Some took tip the m<eo j eagerly, as though they feared the cashier would repent his rashness before they could do so j some opened their eyes and stared with surprise, and seemed, to apprehend that there might be a mistake; some, prpbably pleased to bear the almost forgotten music of the past, rang the metal on the board to reassure the ear oftbe genuineness of the tone, while oth ers, amidst the laughter of the lookers on, vigorously applied the test of the teeth to as certain whether the metal was fully as hard as silver used to be. In every instance, it is be lieved, the various tests gave entire satisfac tion.—Baltimore Sun, on Monday. Boon London.—We are sorry for London. The Tribune eaye Mr. Motley does not mingle much in London society. We are sorry Mr. Motley has out London. Ah? The Atlanta Era assumes the congenial role of defending Monsieur Munchauson Avery. Among its averments concerning his posses sion of all the cardinal virtues, we read the following: In New York he ranked among the foremost lawyers and business men of that old Common wealth. In Georgia he is simply a “Carpet bagger!” Those who know Avery well, and who knew him in New York, described him to ns not two days since as a “busted insuranoe agent”—we quote their exact words. If such unfortunates rank where the Era says they do, why, the standard in New York is a great deal lower than we supposed—that is all. What he is in Georgia, he, himself, has demonstrated. He has exhausted the alphabet of personal dispraise over his own sign manual. ,- The Macon and Knoxville Railroad La when CETn.i.E, G/l, March 16, 1870. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: To-day our people met, pursuant to adjournment of railroad meeting on last Wednesday. The pro ceedings of the previous meeting were read— the meeting was then addressed by Col. W. W. Clark, Col. S. J. Winn, and a few remarks by your humble servant, in which I suggested the propriety of appointing a committee to meet with similar committees from the counties, either here, Atlanta, or elsewhere, for the pur pose of consulting as to location, route, and other preliminary matters appertaining to the construction of a railroad from your city, by this place, through Northeast Georgia to Knox ville, Tenn. 1 Accordingly Burton Cloud, Sam. J. Winn, A J. Shnfier, J. S. McLevaney and J. W. WilsoD, wc-ro appointed, and Mr. B. D. Winn, Chair man of the meeting, was added. We felt the road must and will be built, and will use our utmost exertion for its completion, and invite counties, and, in fact, everybody friendly to the road, to meet us in consultations on the subject.’ — **•/ - * We snggest Atlanta as the place, and 20th April next, as the time.. - .... .77 ... Please publish above suggestions, making what comments yon wish, and oblige, yours, B. M. Pabks. There is something mysterious going on at the navy department. A secret expedition has gone forth on the high.-cas, but it.-, destination or its business has not yet transpired. The line-of-battle-ship Jamestown, and one of our best sailing sloops-of-war left the New York navy-yard on Saturday, and upon the same day the iron clads Monitor and Terror, accom panied by the United States steam-tug Leyden, left Boston harbor, and it is said here to-day that duplicate orders were issued to the com manders of these vessels, and that they are bound for the same port, etc. • > As all of our .people wish to save money, the planters will be interested in the card of Mr. P. C. Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer is prepared to'repair gins ai the Dixie Works, in this oliy, and make them as. good as new. This most prove a great convenience to our planting riends. Txiv Uud IxQaS&iffH tftnv 'stffxy}.-. Gov. Stevenson, of Kentucky, has ordered an'eleotion on the 25th of April, to fill the va cancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. J. I The Georgia Press. Tho negro boy whtf murdered young Boswell in Harris county, Sunday,"is in jail at Talbot* ton. * ; The Sun reports a hard ireezo at Columbus, Thursday morning. Garden^ vegetables not much hurt, but peach and plum blossoms frozen dead. The Sun says : Female Academy Building or the Public Schools Bulked—Loss About §5,000—-Insu rance $2,500.—The alarm of fire was again giv en at 3 p. m. yesterday. In a few minutes the entire roof of the large two story wooden [wild ing, occupied by School No. 3, the Female De partment of the Publio Schools of Columbus, was wrapped in flames. The wind was blowing a perfect hurricane. Cisterns were far off and the eugines had to form lines four hundred yards long. They had awful difficulties to con tend against—a heavy wind fanning the flames into fury, the dry pine of the building burning like tinder, and water difficult to be procured. The shell of the house was saved, the roof and a portion of the walls being consumed. Never was a fire so bravely fonght. The new one-story building adjoining, also belonging to the school, was saved entirely. All the desks and school furniture were removed from the buildings—some in a damaged condition. The burned building was insured in the Geor gia Home for $2500. It was valued at $4000. It belonged to the city, for the use of public schools. There were some 275' girls who at tended there. The school had closed about an hour previous to the alarm. The children had all gone home. Mrs. Wingfield and the princi pal, and several of the lady teachers, were in the building and gave the first alarm. Another fire also occurred the same day in ths roof of the Howard'factory boarding house, belonging to the Eagle & Phoenix Company; bnt it was put out v«ry readily with little damage. A Mr. Stranse was severely injured by jumping from tbe roof to a platform below. CoL W. S. Morton, for many years a resident of Columbus, died in New Orleans, on the I4th inst. Savannah Exports.—We get the following from the Savannah News: Timber eor Hartlepool. England.—Messrs. W. H. Boss & Co., cleared the Russian bark Albion for the above named port, with 366 piec es pitch pine timber, measuring 307,702 feet, valued at $4,307.82; 71 pieces pitch pine beam fillings and stowage, measuring 21,380 feet val ued at $213.80, and 313 pieces pitch pine plank, measuring 17,638 feet, and valued at $352.76. Total measure, 346,720: total value, $4,874.38. Cotton for Liverpool.—On yesterday Messrs. A Low <fc Co. cleared the British bark Kentvilie for the port named above, with 2,175 bales up land cotton, weighing 1,009,257 pounds, valued at $280,760, and 100 bales sea island cotton, weighing 29,926 pounds, and valued at $10,233. Total weight, 1,039,183 ponnds; total value, $240,933. Timber and Lumber for St. Jonhs, N. B.— On yesterday Messrs. F. W. Sims & Co. cleared the bark Alfred for the above named port, which consisted of 141 pieces sawed lumber, measuring 19,560 feet, valued at $430, and 335 pieces hewed timber, measuring 298,266 feot, and valued at $2,772 25. Total measure, 317,- 826; total value, $5,202 25. The News says: General Wm. McRae, of North Carolina, and recently Superintendent of the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, passed through this city a few days since en route for Brunswick, to accept the position of Superintendent of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. General McRae, as a railroad man, has risen from the position of a locomotive en gineer to that of chief exececutive officer of a road, and as a military man, from a private to a Major General in the late C. S. A, in which position he made for himself a name that will long be remembered by the members of the army of "Virginia. A negro named George Manning shot himself badly in Savannah on Tuesday, while attempt ing to cock a pistol to shoot a man who was abont to arrest him. of in AT Hotel business in Columbus dont seem to pay. The Perry House was closed again Tuesday Ught Augusta is to have a skating rink. Gen. A S. Gonzales, well known in many sections of this State, is in Savannah. He has been living in Cuba for the past year. The Constitutionalist says: A Commotion Among the Firemen.—Several firemen were summoned on the jury yesterday, and under tho decision of Judge Gibson were compelled to serve, despite tho exhibition of their badges and the claims for exemption they have heretofore supposed themselves to be in possession of to the extent of tbe number of active members of the department, nnder char ter. Onr information is that by charters grant ed to several independent companies and the department proper, the exemption from jury duty was secured to a number of members rangiDg variously from forty to sixty, according to tbe several extensions granted different com panics by act of the Legislature. We have not examined the question closely, but have been credibly advised that the law grants exemption only thirty members of each company at present. The Valdosta Times makes some sensible re marks on “Cropping," which we append. They suit this latitude as well as any: The recent heavy rains will delay com plant ing somewhat. It is feared that if the rains con tinue, those who have already planted will not get a good stand. There will be enough pnt in tbe ground to supply the wants of the people if it comes well, but we have no assurance of a good season, and it is best to be on the safe side, and plant largely of provisions. Every one who has to buy com and bacon in the sum mer knows this. Everyone whosees his working stock suffering for want of full rations before the crop is made, knows that too great a breadth of cotton, and too little of com, is not economy. Cattle are dying in large numbers on account of the severity of the winter, and because their owners have not made foragp enough to give them a share. Bidiog along the road in . cold winter months one may see cows, lean, lank, and shivering, barely able to keep up life, on account of—what ? too much cotton, too little com. Hogs of the “Jand-pike” order, buried up to their cars, in vain search for something to keep fat on, that can outran a horse, so long and sharp are they; and why ? Too much cot ton, too little grain. There are poor horses and mules, poor cattle, poor hogs and poor people, because a majority of the farmers want to make fortune in a few years by planting cotton. A trial for divorce took place in Green county last Monday be tween two negroes. Able coun sel were employed and the jury found for tho plaintiff. - ’ The Greensboro Herald says: On Saturday and the preceding night, the rain was unnsaally severe, and streams all through Middle Georgia, rapidly rose and overflowed the low grounds, sweeping away fences and bridges, and doing much injury to river farms. We re gret to leam that our worthy friend, J. C. Carmi chael, Esq., had some thirty-five sheep, drown ed by the sudden rise of tbe Oconee, which was higher than it has been known to be for years. The violent wind on Saturday night-, blew down one of the side walls of the Presbyteaian Church, which had remained standing since the fixe. , . - ! ■■>.’/. ■ ..- ! .>»!{): The Constitution says of Father Ryan’s ad dress before the Hibernian Society, of Atlanta: It was eloquent, original and poetio, and was characteristic effortof the gifted speaker. One idea we will notice. He alluded to Ire land’s oppression for seven centuries, and her nndimmed hope and faith. Let the South take the lesson, and never embrace th^wrong. The speaker was frequently spplaulbd. Ho closed by saying that,the gray, tho color of the South, glorified the green, the color of Irish- Golladay, Meningitis has made its appearance in Grif- and Jonesboro’. Mr. Henry ’Whitman is announced as asso ciate editor of the Dalton Citizen. We know him well, and extend to him a hearty weloome into the profession. . There was a run-off on the Georgia railroad Wednesday night. Nobody hurt, and little dam age done. The following dispatch, among others, fol lowed Avery’s “whopper” from Savannah: Savannah, March 15. Hon. Charles O’Neill, member of Congress of Pennsylvania, Washington, D. C.—Sir: As | Philadelphians and ex-Union officers doing bus iness in Savannah, we 'wish to state that dis patches sent from this city by W, L. Aveiy, and telegraphed to newspapers, regarding the treatment of negroes in this State, are.untrue in every particular. We have recently traveled throughout the State and never experienced such treatment as alleged by Avery, nor .did we hear of insults beieg offered to Northern men; Signed: Thos. J. Malone, Jr., H. Pennington, of Hecker, Maloney <5: Co. The Cathbert Appeal learns that A. J. Or ms of Atlanta, has just concluded the purchase 1750 acresnf valuable land in Baker; county, and we learn that other capitalists of the country, are looking in that direction for invest- nients'inreal estate. 1 v ’ On Monday there was a terrifio hail storm Cathbert. Hail stones were found four hours after they fell, an inch in diameter. This storm struclrDawson, Tuesday/" The 1 hail stdfies that section were as large as an egg. We find the following in the Enquirer : 1 The Dreadful Mubdebtn Harris—Full and Reliable Particulars.—Editors Enquirer-. The killing in' Harris county of Wm. T. Brant- ly Boswell, about l^or 14 years of age, created intense excitement, and search was instituted in every direction as far as twenty and thirty miles, and'the murderer (a negro boy) was found at 2 o’clock the next morning, within five miles of the scene pf the atrocity ; and a more cold-blooded affair perhaps never occurred, from his own statement. He was brought to my house a little after daylight on Monday morning (day after the mur der), and questioning him, he represented that it wdb all in a play with two other negro boys, and at a.diatance from the house; but on ex- amioriM|jjpn the hoys separately, by myself and N^HKsmore, it was quite evident that they wc-ro innocent and not present at all, and we turned them loose. He then ackgowledged he did it, as follows : Mr. Boswell and wife had left home about 12 o'clock, and left Brantly take care of the house in their absence, and Brantly being alone, he formed a design of robbing the house of any money in it, and mak ing his way hack to North Carolina. Brantly was* on a rail penbaokof the dwelling, working with a reed fife. The negro went under the house, pushed up a plank, entered the house, pot Boswell’s pistol (French Navy), slipped ont and went up to Brantly, who was lying down rather, with his head at the edge of the pen, and had his reed fife up, and spoke, saying somebody had been putting slicks in his fife. Ho put tho pistol in about IS inches (showinj ns how by a switch) of Brautly’s head an fired. Brantly never spoke. He got up on the pen and opened the rails and let him down into the pen. He said he then got scared and thought he would go to the railroad and get away. A little before night Boswell and his wife re turned, and he c&Ued his son. No answer. Mrs.B. walked,around the house to this rail pen to see about her fowls—the pen beiDg used temporarily for a fowl boose—and saw Brantly lying in it, with his hat over his head, face downward across one arm, and his dog lying by the pen. She called to her husband and said, “There was Brant, and she believed he was dead.” He ran to her, and entering, found it even so — his head pierced just to the left of the apex or top part of his head, ball ranging towards the base of the brain, hole' in his hat, and burnt with powder. Boswell’s pis tol was gone. Mr. Edwards arrested the negro in a negro house asleep. He waked him and asked him for his pistol. He clasped his hand on his bos om and said, “That man has it,” meaning Dan Passmore, in whose house he was. It was B.’s French navy. Three loads were in it, the bal ance had been shot off. It was with great difficulty that an enraged community conld be kept from a summary exe cution—the Magistrate in maintaining his of fice against his own personal sympathies and human feelings, and others in keeping conirol of their passions in reverence to law and order -against others whose feelings rtn to farther excess, and claimed their justification in the many reprieves and pardons heretofore given. The negroes seemed to be os clamorous and eager to kill him as any, some offering to pnt 25 balls throughhim if permitted. We reason ed, we begged, we commanded, with men, with women, with youths, and we succeeded in a commitment and delivery of the prisoner to a Bailiff and posse to be carried to Talbotton jail—(the jail in Harris being represented to our satisfaction as insecure, and that of Tal as secure.) The prisoner came along with Robinson’s circns, and dropped or was dropped ont. He says he is from North Carolina, about 17 or 18 years old or more; seems totally devoid of feel ings of concern, and will sleep sitting or lying. His speech shows considerable sharphess, but utter indifference, and his head structure more of the beast than commonly witnessed, if there be anything in that ’ The confession before written he made freely while the warrhnt was being written. On trial he said he desired to make no statement. He call3 himself William Williams. Yours truly, ' G. A B. Dozier. Just after I closed the above, the bailiff re turned the prisoner to me from the jailor of Talbot county, representing the jail there as to tally insecure. I am now determining whether to send him to Colnmbns or to Hamilton. . /, G. AB. D. Carroll county has a paper milL The Sun says during tho present session, the Columbus publio schools, 600 pupils, male and female, have been in attendance. At least $75,000 have been saved the citizens of that place by these schools. Mordeoay Johnson, aged 82 years, a most respected citizen of Meriwether connty, died on tho 13 th. Mr. Jas. MeFenlin, an old citizen of Troup county, died on Wednesday, aged 71 years. ,.i The female school building burned in Colnm bns on Wednesday, was msnred for $2,500, and the poUoy expired just fifteen hours after its destruction. , ..j, j , dwirnos The Columbus Industrial Assooiation has fixed ifs' Secretary’s salary at $500, its Treasurer’s at $100 and decided to call in an installment of 25 per cent on the stock subscribed. Whisky, “keno” and fico dogs are having a fine rati in Bainbridge at present. The editor of the Lagrange Reporter has a pair of andirons made at tho West Point fonndiy, from shot and shell used in the fight at that place in 1865, nearly tbe last battle of the war. The Savannah Republican says : Crop Prospects in Lower Georgia.—Beyond the mere preparation of the soil for seeding, we are unable to say anything favorable of the crops in Georgia. In the low country, on the rice and sea island cotton plantations, there is a deficiency of labor and much less in cultivation as compared with last year. In fact, tfie labor is diminishing in quantity and deteriorating in quality year after year, aud if some remedy sfiould not be found, the cultivation of these valuable products will, in a great measure, be abandoned. Many of the finest rice plantations on the Ogeecheo and Altamaha have already -been given up, or turned over, to the negroes, which is about the same thing. So far as cul tivation goes this yar, the lands have been very well prepared, but planting of a]l kinds has been greatly retarded by the cold spells whioh continue to occur from time to time. The rice planters on the rivers have great apprehension from the freshets now coming down upon them, and no doubt great delay, if not serious dam age, will result. The crops of both rice and cotton are obliged to be smaller than those of last year. In Sonthem Georgia and. Florida considerable com has been planted, but in view of the weather, it might as well be out of the ground.. > e The Chronicle A Sentinel learns that the ■whole of the capital stock of the Langley Man ufacturing Company has been subscribed, and that the stockholders will soon meet and or ganize. Of the Bingham amendment, the Newnan Herald talks very sensibly. It says: Let the truth, be told, viz: the Democrats of Georgia favor the amendment, because it se cures to them the privilego which they are enti tled to under their State Constitution to hold an election in November, and at that election they will [riumph; and if the truth is unpalatable to Congress, it is not our fault Let truth grace our triumph or defeat We undertake now to say, if the Bingham Amendment does pass, peace, law and order will roign supreme in Georgia, and the many evil consequences predicted to fallow its passage will be heard of no more, while our great ole State, with step elate and spirit unbroken, will march grandly on the road to prosperity and Rlory. The Conatituiionalist makes this point; Because certain of the people of ]$orth Car olina are indisposed to eoontenanM the swin dler Littlefield, who has done so much to bank rupt and rain the State, Genera} Grant sends United States Boldiery into North Carolina in order that an eminent thief may have fall swing. Is Georgia to be saddled with the 18th infantry in order that Conant & Co. may plun der at pleasure ? “Biro” Edwards, an engineer on the State Road, was killed at Dalton, on Friday, by a man named Black. The Thomaston Herald says the wheat crop of that county bids .fair to be good, though there are some complaints of bad stands. All the peaches in Upson connty have been killed by the late cold weather. A singular case of honesty (for Atlanta) has come to light in that city. A gay youth lost a pocket book at the Varieties theatre, containing $200 in money and $3,000 in notes. A negro found it and returned ,it to the owner! The Killing of George W. Browner. Columbia, At.*., March 12, 1870. Editors Telegraph Qnd Messenger: Wd wish to commnnioate to the public the particulars of the death of one George W. Browner. About the 25th of January last this man entered our town as a horse dealer, with bnt one mule and a horse, which he offered low, as he was in a great hurry to get home on a certain day ap pointed for his wedding. Finding no market, he was about to leave his stock in the hands of a stable keeper to be sold, when a farmer came in with a load of cotton and bought the stock for $300. Browner took his saddle and left, and the farmer went home with his stock. A few days after, a gentleman appeared inquiring for lost stock, and identified the horse and mule, and took possession of them as his own. We next heard of Browner stealing stock from another farmer, and again from another. On the 10th instant, a young man left town to visit his father living two miles distant, and met Browner in the road. Browner told him he was going to town to spend the night, and they parted—Browner taking the direction for town, bnt directly after , they parted Browner took a divergent fork of the road leading from town. On this road, at dusk, Browner met the young man’s brother, also going home, and when the two young men met at their father’s house and compared notes, they resolved to ride to town and inform the citizens. When they got the news the oitizens sent out a party of eight men to pursue and arrest Browner. They traced him to an obscure cabin about five miles from town, went to the door and hailed the man of the house. Browner him self answered the hail, and approaching the door, caught sight of the party without, who were still inquiring for the man of the house. Browner then wheeled suddenly, seized his navy revolver and a bowie knife, and rashed out to the doorstep with nothing bnt his under clothing on. Exclaiming, ‘T can weed my own way,” he rashed upon the party with desperate foxy, firing upon them as he approached, bnt fortunately doing no harm. He then seized upon one of the young men, but before he could do any mischief, he received five pistol balls in his breast and fourteen bnekshot in his side and expired without a groan. Browner had a partner with him—a young man—who said his given name was Thomas, bat the surname is forgotten. While the deadly straggle was going on with Browner, Thomas slipped on his clothes and escaped through an unobserved back door, leaving nothing behind bnt his hat. Among Browner’s papers were two or three re ceipts from parties with whom he had left stock, and a receipt for a registered letter directed to “Mrs. Brown, Thomaston, Georgia.” It is fully believed by this community that said Browner was a full-grown horsethief. When killed, he, Browner, had in his possession one horse and four mules. Whether they were stolen or bona fide property, we expect to leam soon. His effects, stock, eto., are now at this place. CmzzKS. Mysterious item JL oorrespondenl of Writes as follows : remarkable caseofg*, manifestation is reported in ; about three miles east of B ps.- the road to- Narraganseu. Ti* ’ little girl, almost eight years ofL^i usual in such cases, of sanguinp^' but of a billious organization, has dark, expressive eyes, dark I s a slender, fragile frame; until has eDjoyed good health. ^ Some days ago, when on hsr she found a comb in the roai » 1 attached by a string an oil ' When the sessiouclosed she went?* 1 home and the manifestations cotErT 1 soon as she went into the house heard on the windows and around the room, the noises following room to another as she building. Wot only were'tSe ^ but stands, chairs, crockery, heavy bedsteads and ponderous i ro , seen to move perceptibly as she AU these movements are acknoiv™ the common phenomena of assJ*/. tations of tho presence of disenAP itants of the spirit land. A gentleman of education and U ! ed at the residence of the child re* 1 he heard the rapping, witnessed^ the child around the room withom 1 contact with her; also saw a liri' lii on which was placed a heavy trj T f J flat-irons, fall tp the floor as the proached it, and, singular to relate ‘ and contents kept their position cc’V the same as when standing unto rappings on the window were fe. loud, and when the mother of the t?* fidently told spirit visitors that til break the glass and she would st* Ji pense, two panes of glass came ctl twinkling of an eye. Thegentwf examined the window sash and fcuj dened putty, and even to the tiaih taken out as cleanly and nicely as y knife had been used. At times the, tations were so powerful as to shake th and threaten serious disaster to thel and its occupants. Oh one occasion's became so exhausted with excite^ gentleman present attempted torm, two buffalo robes to quiet her, bit] turbance became so much more fa- threatening that they were glad tok to the mysterious forces that seems] the right to control and use her fort] vellous deeds. Thousands of persons have house, as many as twenty-five huudj. in a single day and evening. The i ing villages and surrounding com sent multitudinous representatives si view the child. The pressure ol c came so great that the tamily weret to remove the little one to the hi] friend in the village of Westerly, point we are confronted with six tery. Immediately after being n the friend's house the manifestation] and the poor, weakened little inm blessed with quiet, rest and repose. In behalf of sense, science and nL ask for a thorough and intelligent H tion of the facts in this extr ” marvellous case. LETTER FROM AMERICCS. Its Commercial Importance—A Good Sns- cestion—Railroad Meeting—Mssonle Fes tival, Ac.. &C. Amebicus, Ga., March 17,1870. Editors Tdtgraph : I have something to say in favor of our growing city, which I think de serves “brief mention.” It is far ahead of Eufanla, Albany, and all other railroad towns, in the extent of its bumness, as will be seen from the following statistics of the amount of freights collected at the three stations mention ed, for the last month, as reported to the writer: Americas ,$5‘500 Eufanla about 4,000 Albany 3,500 This shows the magnitude of the business done at this place in the way of receipts of merchandize, fertilizers, etc., Ac. The merchants are preparing for a large spring trade, which I hope they will enjoy, af ter the present loll in the market. Among these merchants, WaxelbanmBros. diserve spe cial notice. This firm are now moving into their capacious new store, at the comer of La mar Btreet and Cotton avenue. No such dry goods house can be found in your eity in point convenience and capaoity, and it will be fill- •»d from floor to ceiling with new and desirable goods. Prosperity attend all such enterprising merchants. Another change is about to be made in one of the printing offices of the city. The Courier has changed hands, Mr. "W. L. Perry, of Flori- being the purchaser of the press and mate rials of that office, with the design of publish ing the paper tri-weekly and weekly. Messrs. Christian retire to new fields of labor, not far distant. The new railroad depot here is now reooiving the finishing touches of the painter’s brash, and when the paint is dry will be opened for bnsinesss. Will it not be s good time for Railroad Company to celebrate tho occasion by a grand banquet and blow-out to the merchants of Americus who are patronizing the road so handsomely ? Come, Messrs. Holt, Powers & Co , what say you ? Let there be one grand “Oh, be joyful,” before you commence receiving freights into your new Ware House. I charge nothing for the hint, and hope no offenee will be taken ai the suggestion, which, as a friend to the road, liave taken, the liberty to make! 5 The cold weather here has, I fear, played, the wild with all early vegetation, fruit, eta The Clerk of the weather does not often go off in such a whirlwind of hail, sleet and frost as we have experienced here for the last few days. Hope the wild frolio will soon have ended and followed by gentle breezes, light showers and sunshine. A big railroad meeting oomea off here on Sat urday. A dozen or more counties will be strongs represented. The idea is to reach Bruns wick by a direct route. A Hasonio Festival, under the charge of the sisterhood, is set down for the 24th. It prom ises to be a pleasant affair, as the ladies of Amerious are well skilled in snob matters. Truly yours, Wide Awake. A girl of the period, belonging to a Paris thoatra, gave a supper to a few gentlemen the other evening. Her mamma was present, half guest, half servant. One of tbe gentlemen was telling a story; he stopped on a sudden, and said, “I beg your pardon, the oonciosioaia scarcely fit for ladies’ ears.” “You hear,mom ma,” add the girl of the period; '‘leave the nxxna minute; ^ * ' Geo. Peabody’s Gifts to Londt tbe Estates are Worked | The London Times of the 28 th of 1 says: We are requested to publish tbe i statement of the Peabody trustees] year 1869: The trustees of the Peabody I sent their annual report of pn the year ending the 31st of Lecemtel The statement shows that to theoripl of £150,000, there has been added,l and interests, £26,809 13s. Sd.; ui| deducting from the amount the apt tending its administration, there iem the end of the year 1869, property! buildings, and cash in hand, to thei £175,079 8s. lid. The trustees now if under the first trust, four groups of ^ situated in - Spitalfields, Islington,^ and Westminster, providing collect^ commodation for 498 families, irres. the rooms assigned to the superintend porters. A fifth range of four blocks t sea, of somewhat different constructbe.1 ing tenements for sixty-eight famiiisj preaching completion. The tenenen one, two and three rooms each, andth| 3y rent varies from 2s. 6d. to 6s. 6l,i to the number of rooms and desires location. The trustees also possess il Bermondsey, not yet built upon. Ths| donation of £200,000, which only i available for building purposes in H has been increased by interest tolled $9471 0s. 7d. Mr. Peabody, by his te and testament, added to tho second n sum of £150,000, but this, by the tel the gift, will not hecome available The sum total of his gifts to the t* amounts to £500,000. Tbe Prince ol Wales and thcl daunt Divorce Case—Quee* Vij “Congratulates” Her Mob. Tho special London corresponded I Birmingham Post writes relative to f mous trial thus : The Prince of Wales consulted £an| ville and the Lord Chancellor before: himself for examination, and was ere: by their advice to attend the court 1 that the only doubt entertained by t!w] Chancellor was whether tbe course ] to be taken by His Royal Highness, 1 agreeable to the feelings of his futures was quite fair to the other gentlemesj names_had been mentioned in the the Prince purged himself from any ol ity, would not a prejudice be raised j those who did not follow him and si mi* dare their innocence. Sir S’. Jota* reasons special aud peculiar to hi®fi equally dbsirous to make a statement] were neither of them summoned, •" appearance, as was feared in high 1 tors, has raised a certain unfair pre against the other parties whose nao up during the hearing. , Another rumor of the day is, than illustrious personage iu the land wroRj Prince, after hearing of the evidee^J given, to offer him her affectionate c Iations, and to invite him to call ’ Princess to receive them in P eTS ^| Prince and Princess accordingly <£-<* the Queen at Buckingham Palace. . The Queen’s sympathy with dauut’s family has been warmly 3r -^ f T ly expressed through the DowagerP*! Athole, who has been throughout tkj attendance on the Queen at Windsor-* daily companion in her walks and OaMv Grant. Washington Cor. Cincinnati Cotsincrd^..1 I am pained to confess that I *1 when I stated that tho father of the tion intended to retire from the cares ol life, and getting into bed take Roothisy and a hot brick to the small of his paW 1 " I was assured that after mature deli’oe- tbe Kitchen Cabinet it was so deter) " Daddy G. came on and vetoed the by declaring that bis name should n°*, I drawn. He hastened to tbe Sena* 8 *7 * every member separately to such &n *7j| to get clear of him he was coa£'®*l hurry. The threatened invasion of the WbhJ in case he gave up the Covington frightened one and all of the hoosek their remaining wits. Dent wa* alarmed, and kept himself in a c broB1 J indignation meeting. At the fi* 8 * ,, held in the executive mansion after J ^ ble man arrived, he took his place with healthy regularity. ’Miss girl, told me that she was - 01 _ father of the government, and, tonishznent, the old gentleman sw* w A arms, and exclaiming, “I must kW.131 gave birth to an explosion that popping of the largest sized ale was, of ooutse, a sensation and ta® buffer wast immediately sanwuwte. ing friends and relatives, whe baffl* subside. <' " ‘ . i.u, c Ostatt ■A&,