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Telegraph and Messenger
"TaCON MAECH 22, 1870.
— Brjant’s Slander, i , _
vresee our ‘Washington correspondent re-
’ 1 pryant’a slander about the Telegraph
98 . nnder pay of Bullook. We have ex-
beiog
and Bowles’ puzzle over the
Ais( d Bryants
^ 4quotation*ladeby Bullock and Forney
/‘h e ir agent*, from the Telegraph. Had
* |,een a true quotation:, which represented
I jl M jing that the Bingham amendment de-
1 ^ ,j, e whole reconstruction policy of Con-
Jh Bryant would have been justified in a
%rjcion that we were seeking to defeat the
endment under a show of rejoicing over its
s in the House, and thus were co-oper-
2m with Gov. Bullock.
Jiot knowing that the quotation was bogus
and fraudulent, no other line of defence proba-
. occtlire d to Bowles and Bryant, and the ur-
nt need of tome defence was apparent. It is
® won der th»*> knowing as Brgant did, the nt-
ter falsity of the numerous telegrams ema-
the slander mill of Bollock at At
lanta te sion ^^ ^ ave preferred to rest a defence
^ groundless a slander, instead of assuming,
w teir»s^ntitled to do, that the alleged quota-
tioa ** s a ^ ase f raa d. If Bryant knew any-
jjjisg about the editors of the Telegraph and
jjjssxsoeb and the position of the paper, he
B 2jt have known that it never held any such
rations to Bullock—and if he knew nothing,
ju had no right to mako such a charge. No
jbjj can be co-operating with Gov. Bollock who
tarors the Bingham amendment, for that is the
destruction of his cherished schemes.
The Telegraph never took pay from Bullock
or any other human being, for its course upon
a question affecting the rights and interests of
fie people. We acqnit Bryant and Bowles of
malicious design in publishing this slander.
He truth is they were hard np. The bogus
quotation from the Telegraph was a bombshell.
It ns uo doubt raising a violent prejudice
against the Bingham amendment among Sen
ators. Nothing could have been better calcu
lated to defeat it than snch ill-timed and un
founded boasts of Democratic papers, that it
was a virtual abandonment of reconstruction.
Bullock and Forney were very cunning as well
ns treacherous. It was supposed the vote in
the Senate was coming off in a few’hours, and
so the fraud did its work, discovery wonld come
too late. It was a bold game as well as a bad
one, and we are confident will react upon the
unscrupulous rogues who played it.
Radical Contempt lbr Law.
The contest now going on in Richmond for
fie possession of the municipal government of
fiat city, is a striking illustration of Radical
contempt for law and the. constituted authori
ties, when submission to them means the loss of
fit offices.
Gaboon, the lato incumbent of the Mayor’s
office, is a miserable, greedy carpet-bagger,who
ms thrust into office by-Canby's bayonets when
the State of Virginia was a military district.
He has been feeding and fattening on the Rich
mond tax payers for several years, and naturally
objects to vacate bis snug berth and go to work
for a living. Ellison is the lawfnl Mayor, elected
by the City Council, and an honest man, en
tirely acceptable to the people who support
the city government What Canby has to do
with the matter, we can’t see. It is a purely
local question, and one that he has no more
business with than with the uniform or dnties
of the Bichmond police. We hope somebody
at Washington will bring him up with a round
tutu, and soundly rebuke his insolence.
But, as we started out to say, the whole bus
iness is an apt illustration of the contempt for
law felt and shown by the Radical party, and
especially the Southern wing of it. These
crealnres have held our offices so long, that
they begin to feel they have a prescriptive
right to them. They have been so backed np
and petted by Congress, that they consider
themselves above and beyond anything like
laws made by thoso whom they have been plun
dering so many years. They don’t want to re
cognize any authority but that of the bayonet,
or its bastard creation, African and carpet-bag
reconstruction. They flout overtiring else os
“rebel" and “disloyal,” and when, by accident,
the people get possession of any of the rights
that have been stolen from them, and proceed
to act nnder them, these gorged cormorants re
fuse to submit, and raise a yell of persecution.
We have very grave doubts whether Bullock
»ad his crowd would retire from office if voted
out by the people, without a row. Every man
of them has had abundant opportunity of turn
ing many honest pennies, but we should expect
Item to make just as much fuss and howl as
•°ud, as if they were starving. They have come
to look upon Georgia and all she owns as their
rightful spoil for all time to come.
Nor is it surprising, either, that they should
feel thus. It is a logical sequence of Radical
kuehings and action ever since 18(51. Lincoln
Udhis subordinates commenced the crusade
*g*inst State and individual rights, and againRt
ibe Constitution then, and it has been going on
aver since. Each fresh violation of those rights
established a precedent for, and made success
ive ones easier, until now there i3 nothing a
genuine Radical official balks at less than viola
ting law, and snapping his fingers at all author
ity that is not set np by the bayonet, or negroes,
renegades, and carpet-baggers. This spirit is
*een every day, and has almost ceased to ex
cite comment. The Riohmond affair has noth
ing extraordinary about it, except so far as it world ?
famishes fresh evidence for a final reckon
ing against that great criminal, Radicalism.
We havo no donbt it will be duly recorded in
fie popnlar heart, and some day, not very far
off, be produced at the final assize that shall
decree the guilt and death of the monster.
TW day is coming, slowly it may be, bnt as
certainly as death itself. It wonld be a crime
'gwnit nature and nature’s God, not to feel
Ckvotbatso much wanton, causeless, unadul
terated wickedness will not bo fearfully punish-
Heaven speed the day!
Memorial Volume of Hon, Howell
Cobb.
'We have before us, under the above title,
specimen^ those splendid books, which are
credit to any publishing house. Typographi
cally the volume is all that could bo desired in
a book, with its elegant toned paper, handsome
binding and exquisite printing. Bat we conld
have expected no less of the distinguished firm
of J. B. Lippincott & Oo., by whom the book
has just been issued.
It is a -volume of 300 pages, edited by Rev. S.
Boykin, of Macon, Ga., an<j is composed of all
those spontaneous tributes of honor and affec
tion which, on his death, were lavished upon
the memory and name of Howell Cobb, by
bench, bar, pnlpit and press, of the entire State
of Georgia. These all—and to them have'been
added various tributes of the warmest personal
regard and friendship—have been skillfully and
tastefully linked together into a work, unique
and most creditable to the editor. The whole
composed of an elegant biographical sketch, the
various speeches made in Athens and else
where, tho several sermons preached at the
funeral, the proceedings of the bar in various
cities, tho report of the committee appointed
by the Supreme Court to present resolutions,
the response of Chief Justice Brown, the re
port of the Trustees of the State University,
written by General Toombs, and other letters
and speeches—forms a most attractive and in
teresting volume. We thank the editor whose
“labor of love” has afforded us such a treat,
and so honored one of Georgia’s noblest sons.
He has done his work well—we hope he will be
duly rewarded. Howell Cobb was one of the
noblest and best sons onr grand old State ever
produced, and he deserved this worthy tribute.
His many friends all over the State will be glad
to obtain a book containing so much pertaining
to the worth, nobleness and true greatness of
Howell Cobb—and all true. We earnestly ad
vise onr readers to procure one.
The above, extracted from an Atlanta con
temporary, is published by ns as an evidence of
the estimation in which the labors and editorial
ability of our friend Mr. Boykin is held held
by a brother editor; and we think it due to Mr.
B. that he and all onr readers shonld know how
his book and efforts to honor the memory of
great Georgian are appreciated.
In regard to tho book itself, we repeat that it
is worthy a place on every centre table in the
land, and wo hope, if all onr readers have not
secured a copy, that they will do so at once, ns
the work may be found in all our book stores.
The steel portrait of Gen. Cabb, on page 53,
is alone worth tho price of the book, which, we
believe, is §3 for cloth binding and $4.50 for
library style. Send by mail to Mr. B., at Ma
con, if no book store is convenient, and onr
word for it, you will not bo disappointed.
better from Thomaston.
Thomaston, Ga., March 18, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : As an oc
casional correspondent for the Journal and
Messenger, in the days of its separate existence
will you allow me a brief space in your truly
excellent paper—but excellent does not convey
the idea, it is the paper of Georgia, and I be
lieve this is the general opinion. Bnt to re
turn. It is now confidently believed that the
cars will soon be again ranning over the Upson
county railroad, thanks to the untiring efforts
of onr esteemed fellow citizen, Dr. F. When
this object is accomplished, or in fact now, Up
son county presents more attractions to the
capitalist than any other section of the State
with which I am acquainted. Fine farming
lands, well adapted to the cnltnre of grain or
cotton, good society, fine health, and the finest
water power, and more of it, than can be easily
found in the same scope anywhere else.
Two miles from Thomaston Dr. Rogers has
water enough ranning to waste, over one of the
most splendid falls I ever saw, to ran thousands
of spindles and looms. The Doctor once had
fine mill in operation here, giving employ
ment to quite a number of operatives, judging
from the number of cottages that stand aronnd
the site of tho old factory, but unfortunately
for the Doctor, Wilson’s gallant raiders came
this way. He is now advertising for associate
capital to rebnild this factory. If the advan
tages hero offered to capitalists were realized
bin proposition would be accepted at once.
There are three factories in operation in this
county—two at Waymansville, ten miles from
Thomaston, owned by Messrs. Swift, Hambur-
ger A: Co., and the Flint River Manufacturing
Company, composed of Rufns Swift & Co., are
running successfully, a mill about tho same dis'
tance from Thomaston. One of the two mills
at Waymansville, was Wilsonized also, and
upon the site of the old mill, has sprang
np since the war, and but just completed, one
of the finest mills it was ever my privilege to
examine. Thoroughly supplied, and equipped
with the best machinery, under the immediate
supervision of Mr. Hamburger, it commences
its corse of money making.
The new factory at Waymansville is an enter
prise of which not only the authors,* bnt onr
county, shonld feel a pride. I have never seen
factory, in any city, superior to this one, in
anything but size. Will manufacturing in Up
son county pay? Ask Mr. H., who, twenty
years ago, came to this county, or an adjoining
one, an entire stranger to all, speaking a strange
language, and now be is largely interested in
and controlling two factories in fall operation.
To the enterprising capitalist Upson offers
the strongest inducements. To the small plant
er, good lands, and in quantities to suit. When
tho cars come, and come they will, railroads
cannot be eaten np by rnst in these go-ahead
days. Thomaston offers every inducement io
merchants and mechanics. Think of n town,
without railroad, having been burned three
times since the war, and three times re-built,
and the character of the buildings each time
improved 1 If there is sufficient trade, without
railroad, to accomplish this, what may we not
expect when once more connected with the
Drake’s Proposition,
quarter the United States troops in the hons-
of the people of Georgia in order to compel
latter to vote the Radical ticket, strange to
®*y» does not meet with that cordial response
»hich might have been expected under the cir
cumstances. The Northern mind is not yet
Prepared for so advanced a position. The New
^’°rk Tribune* is gruff on Drake, and says “the
President has all the power necessary orproper;
Hie enforcement of the Civil Rights bill is al-
Axoiheb Steamship Gome!—The Herald says
■Nat on the first day of last December the iron-
>l*d Atlanta, purchased by the Haytien govem-
a ent, left Philadelphia for Port-au-Princo, and
Ms never been heard of. Sho was officered by
young men from tho United States navy, and
F-d on board tho wife of the commanding offi-
1*^ two Haytien Senators, and a crew enlisted
pi Philadelphia—in all one hundred and twenty
puls. She must havo been tho ram Atlanta—
reconstructed from tho Fiugal in Savannah
I 1 ring tho war.
|\ How About Tennessee ?—The New York Tri
I one of the 16th says:
Onr confidence that Congress will bear pa-
=ntly and ponder thoughtfully before nnder-
-:ug to upset the Government of Tennessee
*° Perfect that we do not write on the sub-
le® 1 w e might be misinterpreted as feeling
“ety 00 the subject when we feel none.
Yours,
R.
Mercer University.
For several months the removal of this Insti
tution to Macon has been agitated among onr
citizens. A Cirong desire ( for its accomplish
ment has been expressed by many. Some have
thought the movement was unnecessarily de
layed—that more enorgy and enterprise should
be displayed by its friends—that action should
at once be taken by the people of our city.
Upon this subject a difference of opinion ex
ists. Some who have given it much thought
believe that the present is not the time for no
tion. 1. The city and its business men are
laboring more or less nnder the embarrassments
of the finhneial crisis caused by the depression
in the cotton market.
2. It is useless for»ny effort'to be made by
us that does not embrace a liberal proposition
to aid the University in the erection of build
ings. . i.
3. It may be better to wait till the convention
which meets the fourth’week in April, decides
to remove the College, and the Trustees pub
lish an invitation for propositions. Then we
can ascertain more definitely what is best to be
done.
Onr citizens may feel releived from pecuni-
ary embarrassments by the first of May.
Let it not be understood for a moment that
the enterprise is abandoned. Macon is too
deeply interested. It is believed she under
stands her own interests too well to permit to
pass unimproved an opportunity to secure an
Institution which will pay her citizens one hun
dred thousand dollars annually. We may ex
pect to be called together to consult upon this
subject early in the month of May. W.
Macon, March 10!A.
The Murderer, Sickles, was confirmed by the
Senate on Wednesday as Minister to Spain. To
the honor of Messrs. Trumbull and Cameron it
may be put down that they bitterly opposed the
shameful act.
BY TELEGRAPH
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special to Telegraph and hfessengtr.']
Washington, March 17.—Senator Spencer to-day
read a speech on Ka-K!ux outrages in Alabama and
Georgia without touching practically on the ques
tion. t ' nv * ■' 1 -••• : ‘v '-i «*>*•:•
Howard spoke against Bingham’s amendment, hut
was pnt hors da combat by the questions of Trum
bull, Edmunds and others.
Sawyer followed and favored the amendment.
He had been convicted among the Bullockitea.
A question asked by Schnrz indicated bis endorse
ment of the amendment
The situation looks hopeful. Dalton.
Washington, March 18.—Colfax told colored
members of the Georgia Legislature that the
freedmen bad bis sympathy, but he did not believe
the present Legislature had power to perpetuate
itself.
Senator Wilson gave notice of an amendment to
the Georgia bill, to enable the Legislature to hold
over till 1872.
8chuiz made a very able speech in favor of Bing
ham’s amendment.
An attempt to get a vote on Drake’s amendment,
authorizing the President to Bend troops into tho
State on the requisition of the Governor, failed.
Drake and Stewart were very abusive of Geor-
gians. . .. - ■
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, March 18.—Currency balance in
Treasury $7,750,000.
The Ways and Means Committee visited the treas
ury for consultation with the officials over the fund
ing bilh
General Bennett, ex-Revenue Supervisor of North
Carolina, was arrested in Iowa, and will be taken to
Raleigh, to be tried on a chargo of conspiracy to
defraud the Government.
Adozen negroes of the GeorgiaLegislature visited
Colfax to-day, who stated that be did not believe
the present Georgia Legislature could perpetuate
itself. His sympathies, however, were in favor of
froedmen in the enjoyment of their rights.
The President was at the Capitol yesterday, favors
ing the acquisition of San Domingo.
The President is preparing a message about troops
for Tennessee.
Morton's amendment to tho Georgia bill, for or
ganizing the militia, was adopted—tho debate be
coming very bitter.
Washington, March 19.—The opponents of Bing
ham’s amendment claim they have six majority in
the Senate.
The Senate had no session to-day. The House is
debating the tariff. Committees, nothing.
The House met, but no one wishing to speak ad
journed immediately.
Revenue $350,000.
Canby, in obedienco to orders from the President,
sent two companies into the insurrectionary district
of North Carolina.
Tho special committee on the decline of Ameri
can commerce heard steamship and railroad men
from New York, Boston, Philadelphia and the
South, who favored an Oriental and Mediterranean
Steamship Company.
Collector Bailey. Collector 22d (Wall street) Dis
trict of New York has disappeared.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, March 17.—Senate.—The House
bill abolishing the franking privilege was made the
special order for Tuesday next.
A resolution favoring open discussion of treaties
for foreign annexations was referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations.
There was considerable disension upon the reso
lution looking to the equal distribution of govern-
ment patronage in Washington. Several Senators
deplored tbe appointment of yonng men to office
hero, as having a tendency to rain them for useful
ness. tfijfi V? JdW*
A bill was reported amending the Consular and
Diplomatic Acts. It authorizes 11 Consuls General,
146 Consuls and 4 Commercial Agents.
A bill was introduced io consolidate tbe Indian
tribes under a territorial government.
Tho Georgia discussion was resumed without vote.
Among the confirmations to-day are: Luther Lee,
Collector of Customs at Norfolk; David Turner, at
Alexandria; F. J. Bromberg, Postmaster at Mobile.
House.—Platt, of Virginia asked leave to intro
duce a resolution requiring the Reconstruction
Committee to inquire into the constitutionality of
enabling act of Virginia, by which State offices are
vacated and vacancies filled by the Governor.
Brooke objected, saying the State had already been
reconstructed. Platt said she needed it again.
Tho House rejected the resolution to expel But
ler, of Tennessee, for alleged cadet sale, the vote
being 102 to 68—a two-thirds vote being required.
A resolution of censure was adopted unanimous
ly.
Tho House then considered tho tariff bill.
Washington, March 18.—House—The House is
considering private bills.
The Pacific Railroad Committee have resolved to
report a hill incorporating the Kansas, Missouri and
Texas Railroad.
Tho Reconstruction Committee had a prolonged
session over Tennessee. The result has not trans
pired.
The Jndiciary Committee, except Rice, are unani
mous against seating Ames, as Senator from Miss
issippi. ,
The Honso was devoted to district and patent
matters, whon the tariff bill was resumed. The
House meets to-morrow for debate only.
Senate.—In the Senate Mr. Kellogg introduced a
joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Treas
ury, within six months, to transfer the mint, lands
and buildings to the city of Now Orleans.
Conkling reported from the Judiciary Committee
adversely to Ames. Tho report was ordered to bo
printed. The ground of objection was non-citi
zenship.
The hill for improving tho Cape Fear river was
disenssed.
A resolution looking to a survey for a ship canal
across Tehuantepec was introduced.
Tho Georgia hill was resumed. Wilson offered
an amendment making the tenure of the present
Legislature dato from January, 1870.
Schurz favored Bingham’s amendment, and spoke
severely against the proposition to extend tho tenure
of Legislatures beyond the legal term. Adjourned
to Monday.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Bichmond, March 17.—A conflict of authority be
tween the newly appointed city authorities and the
old incumbents has arisen. Mayor Cahoon refuses
to give up the office to Mayor Ellison, who was
elected last night by the City Council. The former
has sworn in one hundred and fifty special consta
bles, including twenty colored men—and the latter
has two hundred special officers. The old police
force is divided equally betwoen the two Mayors.
Ellison has possession of the City Hall and all other
public buildings, except tho station house, which is
held by the Cahoon party.
Cahoon wrote to Governor Walker, stating his
position, and asking assistance to maintain his au
thority. Walker replied that Ellison was legally
elected under an act of the Legislature, and that he
cannot recognize any one else as Mayor; that Ca-
lioon is incapable of holding office under the Vir
ginia law, as he already holds a Federal office ; that
no breach of peace can occur without Cahoon’s act
or approval; that he should resort to a peaceful
judicial remedy, if he wants to tost the question of
right; and finally, he should obey the laws and sus
tain the constitutional authorities. v" i >
Gov. Wise, Judge B. W. Hughes, and L. T. Chan
dler are counsel for Cahoon, who, with about
thirty men, are in the lowor station hope be
sieged by the Ellison party who have cut off the
gas and water, and. forbid any provisions being
sent them. A crowd of colored men brought out
bake shop and commenced throwing bread np
to the windows but were driven off by special
police, at . dark. Mayor Ellison, Chief of Police
Poe, and others were arrested by the United States
Marshal for having refused a revenue officer per
mission to see Cahoon in his capacity as United
States Commissioner. They were bailed until to
morrow.
Aoompany of troop* have been brought into the
city by order of Corley.
It is stated that Judge Underwood will arrive to
morrow, and isaue an injunction prohibiting Ellison
from exercising the duties of office. Great excite
ment here all day and but little business done in
the city.
Richmond, March IS.—This afternoon General
Canby interferred in tbe municipal troubles, by
sending a guard of soldiers and raising the siege at
the lower station house, and giving free egress and
ingress to all having business there. This action,
he says has no reference to the question of the
Mayoralty, bnt is taken purely as a precaution
against any acts of disorder or violence.
Thia action is applauded by the friends of Cahoon,
and was protested against by Ellison as an unwar
rantable interference with the civil law of the State.
When the military took possession of the station
house Mayor Ellison’s police left, and being rocked
by the crowd of colored men, charged them. About
fifty shots were fired, and two or three negroes
were wounded. Affairs have since quieted down.
To-morrow both Mayors will have a police force on
the streets, and hold independent courts. Trouble
is apprehended. The Council is in session to-night
considering what shall be done.
Later.—Tho City Council, to-night, passed an
ordinance abolishing the station houses now in the
hands of Cahoon’s police, authorizing Mayor Elli
son to call out the fire brigade as police, and pledg
ing the city to pay all special police sworn in by El
lison, and authorizing court to be held in the City
Hail, and pledging Mayor Ellison the earnest sup
port of the Council in his efforts to maintain the
peace of the city against the lawless men conspiring
against iL. ,
The city is quiet this evening. Tlio casualties of
the day have been ono man killed and three wounded.
Cahoon has his headquarters at the lower station
house, where the military guard is. Ellison’s head
quarters are at the City Hall. Ellison’s police patrol
the city to-night.
Richmond, March 19.’—The Ellison police arrested
and disarmed a part of the oppositi police; the
balance took refnge in a station house. At noon
tho second station house surrendered to Ellison.
The new officials have notice of a motion on
Wednesday before Judge Underwood, of the U. S.
District Court, for ah injunction. Both Mayors
held court this morning, and no disturbance occur
red to-day. About thirty of Cahoon’s adherents are
shut up in station houses. The Ellison force, about
two hundred and fifty, have possession of the city.
Ellison’s force numbers two hundred, with a re
serve of one hundred. Two public meetings were
held to-night, and resolved to volunteer to support
Ellison. The city is quiet, except around the Third
Station House, which Cahoon holds, with some forty
white and black advocates.
FROM TENNESSEE.
Nashville, March 19.—A meeting of the people
of all parties to-day passed resolutions protesting
against Congressional interference, denouncing ex
aggeration and misrepresentation regarding the in
ternal affairs of this State, and pledging the people
to maintain tho laws of the State and national laws
at all hazards, and declaring soldiers to sustain the
civil authorities to be unwelcomed.
GENERAL NEWS. .
New York, March 19 George Wakeman, editor
of the World, is dead. He died of pneumonia,
aged thirty years.
Capt. Phillips, of the schooner Ann Elizabeth,
fell into the hold and was killed.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Paws, March 17 Specie in the Bank of France
has increased nearly 20,000,000 francs since last
Thursday.
Rocelifort has been taken to Tuers, where he is to
appear as witness in the Bonaparte-Noire homi
cide.
London, March 17.—Tho Times prints the City of
Boston canard, corrected this morning.
Underwriters have exacted 7 guineas premium on
over due steamer Samara, while the premium on
the City of Boston has again been reduced.
A question put by Sir J. Pakington in tho House
of Commons as to the rumored overlading of the
steamer City of Boston, has called from the Board
of Trade the report, giving extended rules and reg
ulations for interior loading of ships, etc.
London, March 18.—The agents of tho Inman
Line positively deny, in a letter to the House of
Commons, any overloading of the City of Boston.
The new Irish bill is very strict—involving two
years hard labor for carrying arms, contrary to law.
The Ians are to be closed at sunset.
Mr. Gladstone said two Fenian prisoners Aad cer
tainly gone mad. Though the treaty will, ho said,
be amnesty to the Fenians, it was untimely in the
presence of continued violence.
St. Johns, March 19.—The bottom of the harbor
ou Carlton sunk twenty feet. Some of tho wharves
were deluged and carried adrift.
Rome, March 19.—The Pope pronounced mass to
day for the Connt Mantalavaert.
Ottawa, March 19.—A movement is to be made,
championed by Sir A. T. Galt, allowing the Domin
ion to establish commercial relations with foreign
countries, subject to the Queen’s approval.
London, March 19.—The contract for the Hondu
ras Railway has been signed. Work to commence
within a year.
Love at First Sight—A Shoemaker’s
Daughter Captivates a Foreign Offi
cial.
Pierre Bonaparte has become famous forma
rying a saddler’s daughter and shooting an of
fensive editor. The first act was regarded as a
noble piece of heroism on his part. A certain
yonng foreign gentleman residing in Washing
ton, has furnished almost a parallel to Pierre
Bonaparte’s honorable conduct to a shoemaker's
daughter.., The story is this, according to the
Washington correspondence of the New York
Herald:
The young gentleman was walking down
Pennsylvania avenue about three or tonr weeks
ago, enjoying a pleasant promenade along onr
Washington Broadway, when his attention was
suddenly attracted by a very pretty girl stand
ing in the doorway of a shoe store. Ottr hero
was fascinated instantaneously. It was literally
love at first sight. On tho pretence of making
some purchases in the leather Une, he entered
the store, engaged in conversation with the
maiden, and discovered that she was the daugh
ter of the proprietor, Our hero found excuses
for making many subsequent visits to the store,
and finally the parents of the girl, noticing this
marked attention to their daughter, and think
ing tho disparity in rank was too great to admit
of proper addresses, politely informed him that
they wonld prefer him to discontinue his visits.
The young gentleman, with an unexpected
manliness and evident sincerity, told the pa
rents that his intentions were honorable to the
last degree; that he loved the daughter devo
tedly, and that though their respective stations
differed widely, an arrangement could be made
which, he hoped, wonld prove satisfactory to
both sides. He told the father that his child
was yet young enough to be thoroughly edu
cated and fitted for any station in life, and that
if he would consent, he, the yonng gentleman,
would have the girl sent to cue of the best acad
emies in the country, there to be instructed in
all the accomplishments and acquirements de
sirable. The young gentleman also offered to
give a solemn pledge that he would never visit
the young lady at the academy, and that at the
end of the educational course, if she still enter
tained an affection for him, he wonld lay at her
feet his hand and heart. I am informed that
his generous proposal has been accepted, and
that the young lady is now at a female academy
in a neighboring city. The whole thing is
looked npon here as highly creditable to all the
parties concerned. The young man occupies a
very high official position.
The Game or Lift.
Out of so dry a thing as the official statement
from the Burean of Statistics of the imports
into the United States, for 1869, it is possible
to extract some suggestive incidents of that
tangled web we call life. Here, in the grim,
lifeless figures that spread before us in almost
endless profusion, are the records of our health
and our sickness, our meat and drink, our faults
and our vices, our pleasures and our toils.
To take them as they come, we first touch
the article of amusements, and find that the
duties last year on imported playing cards were
$5,162.30, and those on chalk for billiard ones
$309.50, a fearful exhibit of masculine vice, no
doubt, some fair one will think, but let her wait
Her little eccentricities have a plaoe in the pic
ture. Beauty calls for $99,216.50 for beads,
$71,820.25 for her fancy fans, and $396,387
for tho dressed feathers which decorate the lit
tle olam shells that the girl of the period puts
upon her comely head under the name .of
bonnet
Turning to the matter of drags the physician
will find an awful significance in a duty of $2,-
333.75 on ergot; of $227,49L88 for opium
simple; and $158,718.75 on opium prepared
for smoking. Calomel, on the contrary, with
which the Faculty are said to dose ns, only calls
for $1,354.60 and ipecao, $5,635.50.
Coming to what we eat and drink, coffee pays
a duty of $11,540,718.83; rice—thanks to the
sublime polioy of reconstruction which takes
Caff oat of the field and sets him to making
laws and constitutions—is imported in such vast
quantities that the duty aggregates $895,610.
63. Tea calls for $9,785,438.88; molasses for
$4,168,900.16, and sugar for $30,645,235.39,
in which two latter itetoa we see onoe more the
fine effects of taking the negro oat of the cane
field and putting him to legislating like a learn
ed crow.
Men’s vices do not make so great a show
the constant harping on that theme wonld'lead
one to suppose, and it is with pleasure we men
tion the circumstance, inasmuch as it is a pet
belief that the great mass of mankind are much
better than we take them to be. Fusil-oil, the
gentleman who lately made such a sensation
throughout the country, only calls for a duty of
$10,310, which is a little remarkable consider
ing the wonderful tales that have been spread
abroad respecting his universal use and pres
ence. Forsegars there is paid a duty of $1,-
237,556.97; for meershanm pipes, $153,885.15,
and for the dandy’s walking stick, $13,085.80.
This is not so very bad a record for the frivoli
ties of man, bnt, says one, how abont liquid ?
We are coming to that. On the brandy and the
wine imported into the United States daring the
year 1869, the duty was $5,111,832.80. This is
terrible, of course, but it is also terrible to know
that in the article of silk* dresses alone, lovely
woman calls fora duty of $5,951,983.60; which
rather “sees” men’s toddies and goes $800,000
better. Lovely woman’s laces, also, cost $969,-
537.65 ; her velvets, $624,212.31, and her dain
ty ribbons, $2,249,799.58. Add to this the
small miscellaneous item of $2,221,310.50 for
silk mixed goods, and the feminine exhibit
rather overtops the male item of $6,771.60 on
silk vestings. Human hair for chignons pays 1
duty of $128,680.20, and cordials, liquors, eta
$ 104,438.12. Railroad iron pays $3,513,658.49
dnty, and woolen, dress goods $12,061,295.49.
Diamonds and gems pay $190,728.20; Brussels
carpets call for $1,166,337.19; perfumeries and
cosmetics $227,223.10. Sugar candy for the
little ones pays a duty of $5,429.45, and the ca
naries that trill so sweetly in onr houses call for
duty of $31,436 on the seed they eat
And thus go the items which make np a dnty
on imports of $177,151,126 27 gold, for 1869.
Truly a map of life, and, by way of winding up
this review in a manner to defend poor man,
we give the dnties in some chief articles IhBed
by him as compared with some of the few little
cheap things required by lovely woman.
DUTIES PAID, 1869.
lie. .. She.
Segars $1,237,556 97
Brandy and
Wine 6, 111,862 80
Playingcards 5,162 30
Liquors 104,438 12
Fusil Oil...
Billiard Chalk.
Ribbons....$2,249,799 58
Silk Dresses..5,951,993 60
Fancy Fans 71,820 85
Chignon Hair. .128,680 20
Beads 96,216 50
10,310 00 Lily White 69,026 00
..309 50
Total..... $6,469,609 69
$8,579,536 23
V"
Mr. Edmunds on the Georgia Bill.
Senator Edmunds, in his speech in the Sen
ate on the Georgia bill last Tuesday, handled
the Georgia Agenoy without gloves, and declared
it, what no donbt it is, “an illegal body.” A
dispatch to the World says;
But when Mr. Edmunds tobo in his quiet way
to answer Mr. Stewart, tnere was much more of
expectation; nor were the audience disappoint
ed. The Senator very keenly criticised Mr.
Stewart’s inconsistency in proposing to relieve
the Southerners, by a general amnesty, of their
disabilities, while at the same time he proposed,
by prolonging the term of the Legislature, to
deprive them of any power in the government.
Mr. Edmunds said if this was the polioy it
ght to be established in all the States North
d South having Republican Legislatures, and
should be declared that their terms should be
extended for two years. The present Legisla
ture of Georgia Mr. Edmunds denounced aa an
illegal body, and he made the very important
statement that the Judiciary Committee were
unanimously of opinionthat, if they attempted to
perpetuate themselves in office as was proposed,
Congress would have the power and ought to ex
ercise it—to guarantee a Republican form of
Government to the people of Georgia. Such an
expose and snob a stand from a Senator hitherto
so extreme as Mr. Edmunds was an unusual
event, and the effect was telling.
Numbering the Hates op the Head.—It id a
vain task, one might suppose, to set to work to
number the hairs of the head. “As the hairs of
the head, or the sands of the sea,” is a favorite
Oriental metaphor to express an innumerable
host. Yet there are those who have attempted
this incredible labor. Nor is it a very great
task to make some approximation. Thus, we
know there are 120 square inches oovered with
hair, *>n a head of average size. Take a single
square inch, where the hairs seem of an aver
age thickness, and count how many there are.
It can be done in a short time. The result will
be, in a healthy scalp, from 800 to 1,200, say
in round number, 1,000. Multiply this by 120,
and we have 120,000 as the average number of
hairs on the head.
Tins astronomers are fast now turning their
glasses in the direction of the sun, that lu
minary having lately broken out in a perfect
rush of spots, some of them of enormous size.
No less than eight groups of spots are visible
and the largest single spot covers a superficial
area of not less than one thousand four hun
dred and fifty-eight millions of square miles,
or seven times the superfices of the terraque
ous globe.
Bingham Amendment in the Senate.—A
speoial to the New York Commercial Advertiser,
dated WashiDgton, the 15th, says :
The friends of Governor Bullock, who say
they have canvassed the Senate, express them
selves confident that that body will disagree on
the Bingham amendment to the Georgia bill.
DIED.
* In Louisville, Kentucky on the night of the 8th
inst., Mrs. Sabah Hushes, only sister of Mrs.
Charles Collins, of this city.
IN SIEMORIAM.
This world has been aptly styled “the vale of
tears.” And never do we feel the fnil force and
truth of this appellation until we stand on the brink
of the grave, and see all that is mortal of the loved
and lost, committed to the “noisome tomb.” It is
hard indeed, to see the old and decrepid pass away,
but then we are solaced by the reflection, that the
fully ripened frui 1 must fall; but when the young
and hopeful and loved are struck down in all
their usefulness and prime, then it is that w6 feel
that life is the saddest of tragedies and we but the
solemn actors therein.
Those reflections are suggested by the death of
lira. Victobia A. Faulk, wife of John Faulk, Esq.,
of this city, which occurred on the morning of the
4th inst. Sad, sad indeed was it to behold this
young loved and almost worshiped wife and mother
pass the portals of the Tomb. In the S3dyear other
age, when her form had been much wasted by long
and patient vigils around the sick bed of three of
her children, and just as they had ceased to need
her watchful care, she was stricken by the fatal
mallady that ended her days—a sacrifice to mater
nal solicitude and love. Marrying in early life, her
strong common sense and cultivated intellect soon
endeared her to her devoted husband, and installed
her as his best and safest counselor and friend in
all the affairs of life. And never was a mother more
devoted and faithful to the young and confiding
minds and hoarts that had been committed to.her
trust and care. Naturally warm-hearted and for
giving in her temperament, she had tested in her
life the strength and beauty of the golden rule—
“do unto others as you would have them do'unto
you.” And as if to crown and embelish this charm
ing character, her warm-hearted natural charity had
been refined and purified by grace Divine. The
writer of this notice cannot say when* she became
the subject of renewing: grace, but does know that
she had been a devoted Christian for years now
gone. And so ardent and zealous was her piety,
that although she bad been connected with the First
Baptist Church of tins city for scarce a year, yet she
had attained the prominence with her beloved pas
tor and congregation, as one of the leading mem
bers of this large and flouriBliingchurch. Andchaer-
ing it was amid the darkness and distress of dissolv
ing nature to bear her say to her agonized and
heart-broken companion: “I shall soon be asleep
upon the rock of ages.”
Yes, yes her faith was securely anchored, well
within the vale, and the storms of. death itself
‘could not prevail against it.” She knew and felt
in life and death
‘“There is a life abOTO
And all that life is lore.” -
Then husband, children, friends, weep not the
wife and mother gone. She has but preceded you
to that land of love, and if you but follow in her
faithful and loving foot-prlnta, soon the attritions
of time will reunite yon in that Messed realm where
weeping and parting are no mors. H.
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ERNEST PESCHKE, : b
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER,
MANUFACTURING JEWELER AND OPTICIAN,
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CONSUMPTION
•AND-
PARALYSIS.
F OB EIGHT YEARS I have made the treatment
of Consumption (Lung and Bronchial) a spec
ialty, and believe tout I can arrest any ease of this
formidable disease (however far. it may have ad
vanced) in from six to twelve weeks. I do not Pro
pose to supply new Lungs. nor any large amount of
new Lung Tissue, to a patient; but I do pfopose to
prevent farther progress of the disease, to leave the
system in that improved condition that robust health
may be speedily re-established. The first case of
Consumption which it was my good fortune to suo-
oossfully treat was of a young lady in 1861. In the
years 1862 and 18631 had charge of Hospitals Nos. 2,
3, add 15, Nashville. Tenn., and of the many cases
whioh came under my treatment there not one re
sulted fatally. Iu 1864 I was Mayor and Health Offi
cer of the city of Natchez, Miss., also Surgeon of the
23th Illinois Infantry, and in prescribing for this
disease good health succeeded in every instance. In
18651 removed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to superin
tend the General United States Hospital, and of the
twenty or more cases whioh I there administered to, I
was entirely successful. Tbe same results have at •
tended my practice during subsequent yean, and I
candidly believe that no case exists (however formid
able) that my treatment will not speedily eradicate.
I refer to the above that to those whom this may
come that they may not set me down as a quack, for
certainly a quack could never attain to lush respon
sibilities.
REFERENCES* *,
Mai. Gen. Chas. S. Lovell, U. S A., Colonel 14th U.
S- Infantry, whose son I restored to robust health in
six weeks, after mott eminent physicians of Milwau
kee, Wisconsin, had pronounced his case utterly
hopeless; H.M. Lyman, M.B., Editor Medical Jour
nal, Chicago. Illinois; Mnj. R. R. Ryan, Louisville-
Mrs. R. N. Nichols, Cincinnati. Ohio; burgeon Hies
man. Elbridgo, Illinois; ail of whom are indebted to
me for their lives; Hon. Andrew Johnson, late Presi
dent of the United States;. Gov. Yatee, Springfield,
Illinois, who twice commissioned me as Surgeon);
Brig. Gen. Swift, Surgeon U-S, A., and Medical Di
rector Department of Mississippi, Vicksburg, Miss,
under whose eiders I have served as Surgeon of vol
unteers for several years, etc., eto.
For Bronchitis (acute), send for paokage No. L, ^ ^
For Bronchitis (chronic), send for package No. _
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For Sphthisis Confirmed*, "send for package No. 4,
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Packages in all cases will bo forwarded by express.
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any other. Address ^
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TO BBBEDERS OF FINE STOCK.
P ERSONS wishing to raise horses from Thorough
Bred Stallions, have now an opportunity to do so
by sending thoir mares to Whirlwind, Jim Hill and
Young Albion. The two fifst mentioned will stand in
Albany; the latter, at my residence. Under no circum
stances will either of the above mentionek Stallions
serve mares till the following terms airs' 00m plied with,
viz: Thirty Dollars for each Mare and One Dollar to
the Groom. The-o amounts must positively be paid
at the time Ot service. The season will commence the
20th of March and end the 20th ot J une, 1870. Those
breeding to said Horses can have the benefit of the
balance of the year by sending their Mares to my
Hesidence after the olese Oi the season, .No contract
for insurance will bo made, or liability for accidents,
Fifty cents per day for boardr- , *' ' f
JBtlEMEAH WALTERS.
N. B.—Jim Hill will stand at Mr. Abbott’s stable,
who is my authorized agent. Whirlwind at Holly's
Stable, who is also my authorized Agent.
AliusY. March 14.1870. ~JJW,
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1 DMINI3TRATRIX SALE.—By virtue of on or-
J\. der from the Court of Ordinary of Bibb county,
will be sold on the first Tuesday in May next, in
front of the Court-house doorat Macon, iu s- id coun
ty, between tbe legal hours of sale, tbe following
property belonging to the estate of Louis B. Stotes-
iiury, late deceased: An unexpired lease of font acres
of Land in the City of Brunswick known as the Stotes-
bury Let—said lot leased from the City Council of
Brunswick, abont the year 18601 for forty years.
Terms cash. ELIZA H. STUTESBURY,
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Details. - ** * .
T HE Stock of this Company is all owned in Macon
and vicinity. Having no circulation to protect,
the whole capital is guaranteed for the security ox
Depositors and Patrons.
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Central Georgia Baiiiai Company
acAcoK, a a. ,‘33'■
or
Capital, *- - -
$200,000.
.
T. W. MANGHAM,
Cashier.
otobsl
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H. Baiaoxu, Savannah.
W ILL do a GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
in all its branches. Having no circulation to
' o^he pro-
>6Mew3m
J. K. JONES,
President.
John L. Joses,
T. G. Holt, Jk.,
protect, the whole Capital is guaranteed foi
tection of its customers. jan 1 '
BDRDICE BROTHERS.
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Oil,
PROVISION STORE,
63 THIRD STREET,
MACON,
- GEOBGIA.'
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CORN! COEN!J
W E karo now; engaged and arririeg daily. 5,000
bushels choice WHITK COHN, sound and dry*
Wo buy and tell nothing but a strictly choice
tide, and in this way can always Eire satis&otion.
BACON AND BULK HEATS.
50,000 L s \ 3 ottfo & r«Vto d w? alk Sid " “ 4
FLOUR! FLOUR!
A LARGE and assorted stock of Flour,, id barrels
and 1 sacks, atlow prices.
OATS AND RAJ.
A LAKGE supply always on hand^at lowest mar
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SUNDRIES.
AAKegs choice LEAF LARD.
JVM tierces MAGNOLIA Ho MS.
10 barrels extra AMBER SYRUP.
Alro PICKLED BEEF in barrels and half bands.
SALT. SUGAR, COFFEE, etc-
Oadert solicited.
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