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The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph and
Telegraph and Messenger.
MAOON, MARCH 221870.
W* frequently receive poetical contributions
unaooompanied by the name of the author, and
in one or two cases have published them. Here
after responsible names must accompany aU
contributions to insure their being considered
atalL
Another (Slanderer in the Field.
We do not know who the W. L. Avery is,
that sends the dispatch to “two Senators,”
found in our telegram column, but we do know
♦hat he bug perpetrated a most infamous slan
der upon the people of Georgia. He claims to
have taken no part in politics heretofore. Cer
tainly his first venture shows him to be ad
mirably fitted for the business of Radical poli
ties. We advise him to quit railroading and
run for Congress. To utilize and reward such
capacity for atrocious falsehood, Bullock and
the Georgia Radicals would spend the last
oent of the people's money. We denounce
Avery as a graceless, shameless, deliberate
calumniator, and his dispatch an unutterably
mean and malignant effort to prejudice the
Senate against tho Bingham amendment.
We commend his dispatch to our cotempo
raries of Savannah. If we are not mistaken,
their opposition to that amendment is as vio
lent as his. Let extrema set iouehent.
Meningitis.
Griffin, Ga., March 14, 1870.
Messrs. Editors : That dire affection, cerebro
spinal meningitis, having become prevalent in
our country, anything that can possibly throw
light on its natnre and treatment, in our mind,
should be made known to the profession. Hav
ing seen numerous accounts of its prevalence
in the lower parts of this State, we have taken
this method of giving our treatment in this dis
ease, which has proven uniformly successful.
We know that communications through the
newspapers of the land are not considered in
strict accordance with true medical ethics, so we
beg the indulgence of the medical profession in
tbig urgent necessity of the times.
The treatment adopted by us in the epidemics
of 1862 and 1864, was as follows: We in the
first place give from five grains to thirty grains
of calomel, according to the age of the patient,
to be repeated, if necessary, until the bowels
act; apply a flannel well saturated with spirits
terpentine along the whole course of the Bpine,
run over this a smoothing iron moderately
heated; keep this up until the parts are blistered.
Give from ten to fifty grains of bromide of po
tassium, according to the age of the patient,
every three honrs; after getting the patient
fully under the influence of the bromide, com
mence and give large and heroic doses of the
sulphate of quinine. This treatment should be
carried out by some intelligent physician, as
they alone could adapt the treatment to differ
ent cases, and appreciate the actions of the dif
ferent remedies. We regard the disease as a
miasmatic affection making a profound impres
sion on the nervous centres. Hoping that this
communication will prove of some benefit we
remain,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. J. Knott, M. D.
A Candid Confession.
The Washington Republican, a Radical pa
per, aays in its issue of Monday:
Gen. Littlefield has just arrived in town from
North Carolina bearing an official requisition
from Gov. Holden upon the President for
troops to be used in Alamance county of that
State, which has been declared by the Govern
or’s proclamation to be in insurrection. The
communication will be laid before the President
to-day. It is said Gov. Holden threatened to de
clare several other counties in a state of insur
rection, unless the condition of things shonld
change. The programme is to throw out the
votes of the insurrectionary counties at the next
State election, thus insuring a Radical Humph.
If an honest confession is really good for the
soul, the Republican editor ought to feel immense
ly better, now, than he has in a long time. We
judge from his expose, that North Carolina Rad
icalism is in great straits, and requires desper
ate measures to rescue it. Failing to get the
Butler bill in all its straight ont wickedness
passed, wo suggest to Bullock to imitate Hol
den’s little game. He can pack and perpetuate
the Agency this way, just about as handily as
any other.
An Editor Murdered.
While Col. John Wilder, editor and proprietor
of the Jonmal of Commerce of Kansas city,
Missouri, was conversing with Mr. Hudson,
City Clerk, near the entrance of the conrt-house,
about 11 o’clock Thursday morning, Jas. A.
Hutchinson, a butcher, approached with drawn
revolver and said to Wilder, “Prepare to de
fend yourself,” and at the same moment fired,
the ball entering Wilder’s left breast, passing
through both lungs, and lodged near the shoul
der joint. Wilder died in abont twenty min
utes. Hutchinson was immediately arrested.
Wilder was a native of Boston, and one of the
most active, prominent men of the place.
Hutchinson had circnlated slanderous reports
about a young lady whom Wilder was engaged
to marry, and had been horse-whipped therefor
by the yonng woman’s brother. He attributed
it all to Wilder, and took this bloody revenge.
If the people of Kansas City have not lost the
trick, they may yet spare the law any tronble
abont Hutchinson. If there ever is any excuse
for a compulsory view through a rope wiudow,
this amiable individual’s case seems to famish
it.
Phlebotomy for Meningitis.
We have received the following letter from
Baltimore, and pnblish it for what it is worth:
Baltihobb, March 10, 1870.
Messrs. Editors : I notice in your valuable
paper, from time to time, mention of that ter
rible disease, meningitis. Daring the war. I
had on Mr. L. M. Witry's plantations, in Ala
bama, about 125 cases of it, and some forty
deaths in abont six weeks. All that the best of
medical skill oonld do was tried, bnt nothing
seemed to do any good. On my own responsi
bility, I experimented with the lanoet, and
found that in nearly every case, by seemingly
bleeding the patients to death, I saved their
lives. I am so satisfied that it is the best rem
edy known, that were any of my loved ones, or
even myself, attacked with it, in spite of all pro
fessional remonstrance, I would use the lancet
and let the blood flow as longas it seemed pos
sible for the patient to stand it.
Respectfully yours, R. T. MoCat.
Avery, Again.
The Hon. Milton A. Candler, Senator from
the DeKalb district, in a letter to the Constitu
tion makes hash of the above named nhamfilmw
slanderer’s recent dispateh to two Senators at
Washington. Mr. Candler writes under date
of the 15th, and proves pretty conclusively that
Avery was not in Savannah when he sent
dispatch. He says:
To-day he (Avery,) sits in the office of the
Brunswick arid Albany Railroad Company, in
Kimball’s Opera House, in the city of Atlanta,
■nd {a not in the city of Savannah. He may
have been in Savannah on the 14th, running
from the cry of “damned Republican,'' but to
day hs is in Atlanta in his offloe.
“Mack” says: “Alexander H. Stephens told
me that be ooosidesed Jefferson’s first Inaugural
and Iiaooln’s first inaugural the two finest
pleas of composition of the kind in the oounsry.
Ha meant, of esuns, as to their Btetazy
The Georgia Bill In the Seattle.
It appears that the fate of the Georgia biB in
the Senate la doubtful, unless the Georgia Dem
ocrats shall signify some desire for it passage,
and thus encourage Democratic Senators to
^WAarenot authorized to speak for the Demo
cratic party of Georgia, and do not publish a
party journal; but we have an opinlon that, as
Georgians, ni Democrat of the State should
rive the slightest aid or ootmtenanoe to the
wicked nsmq»tion, no matter how modified its
form. They should not touch the unclean thing.
As we all have to submit to it if passed, that is
quite as much as they can expect of us. A rec
ognition of the outrage as legal—the right of
Congress to upset at will the government of a
sovereign State and substitute its own creatures
in place of lawful mien—is so monstrous a de
mand that we hope no citizen of the State who
respects either her fair fame or himself, will
ever give this side the scaffold. .
Go on and pass your law if you will; we shall
submit and be thankful to thorn friends of right
who succeed in mitigating its wrongs and hard
ships; but approve, or lend any aid or coun
tenance to its passage, never, nevxb !—Sacan-
nah Republican, IZth.
The Savannah Republican, (let ns say,) is
sued in Court for forty thousand dollars. He
denies the justioe of the suit and the jurisdic
tion of the Court; but he knows the cause will
be tried and the judgment enforced. Will he
put himself on his dignity and make no effort
to save his money or to save half of it, if he
can ? Not he! Or he is robbed, but can com
promise on one-half of the plunder—will he
fail to do it?
In this case, is a bill which is bound to pass
Congress in one of two shapes—1. Other, (as
Bullock and Butler desire,) with a provision
creating a regency of Gov. Bollock and his
tools for two to four years ahead, and empow
ering them to work their will unhindered upon
(feorgia for that length of time—or (2.) with
an amendment, which limits them to their con
stitutional terms—brings on an appeal to the
people next fall—and hedges in the Destruc
tives, meanwhile, with all the restraints of law;
and yet the Republican virtually calls upon the
Democrats in Congress to interpose no effort to
save ns from the greater wrong and to make our
burdens less intolerable—simply because the
whole bill is wrong.
“A choioe of evils,” where evils are inevita-
cle, used to be*allowed to mankind by all sonnd
ethical principles—bnt bezs is a man who re
fuses the choice, and insists that no choice shall
be made for btm by bis friends, well knowing
that his oouise practically amounts to a choice
of the greater evil instead of the less.
If a man be in the hands of his enemies to
be fined or hung, as he may elect, and obstin
ately refuses a choice, throws the choioe upon
his enemies, and they elect to hang him, has he
not committed suicide ? And in vain does he
set np in self defence, that he eovlAjiifitly be
subjected to neither penalty. This was no
question, so far as As was oonoemed, and he re
fused to settle In his own favor the only ques
tion hs was allowed to entertain.
Now it is no question with ns, whether the
Georgia bin shall pass or not. It is bound to
pass. The only question is substantially whether
it is going to create a Bullock Regency with su
preme power over the property of the State
and the people—and over all the officers of the
Stats so as to reduce them to the moat igno
minious subjection to the Regency and praoti-
oally abolish all popular representation—or
whether we shall have something like a repre
sentative government and legal responsibility
left The Republican declines to say whioh—
forbids its friends to say which, and as a matter
inevitable ranges himself along side of Bullock
in choosing the worst alternative.
We say this it-a course of conduct no man
adopts in his private affairs, and any man who
proposed to work upon it would be considered
a fool. The simple and sound rule whioh all
men adopt in their private affairs is to work ont
the best practicable results under all circum
stances ; and wby any man should adopt a dif
ferent rule in politics is inconceivable.
Is it not time to qoit this impracticable and
stilted folly ? Has not Georgia suffered enough
from it ? Has it not, sinoe the first dawning of
reconstruction, turned us over successively to
the worst plots of the most ultra Radicals?
What it will dc in this case, is only what it has
ever done. —-
We know not whether our best efforts can se.
cure the Bingham amendment, but if it fails—
if Georgia is tamed over purse and power to
the Bullock Regency, let it not be because we
practically choose that result, under the guise of
lordly indifference. It is time to quit playing
“noble savage,” roasting before a slow fire,
with a back full of lightwood splinters.
The Democratic Senators and the
Georgia Bill.
The press telegrams from Washington of the
12th, published in onr last edition, oontained the
following:
The Democrats of the Senate are in a coord
with neither the Bullock or Bryant party, and
their action on the Bingham amendment is
somewhat doubtful, unless Georgia Democrats,
who they hay have kept aloof, take some action.
The fate of the amendment is doubtful unless
the Democratic Senators vote for the bill ss it
came from toe House. It will be remembered
that toe Democrats of the House voted for the
amendment, but they, tn masse, voted against
toe Georgia bill as amended, and toe Democrats
of the Senate seem inclined to vote the same
way unless supported by some positive demon
station from toe Georgia Democrats.
We understand and sympathies with the in
disposition of Democrats to mix themselves up
in legislation of this oharaeter. It is abhorrent
to all Democratic ideas of the rights of the States
and toe character and functions of Congress
and toe Federal Government.
The House Democrats voted for the amend
ment in order to make toe bill, if it passed, less
exceptionable, and then voted against the bill on
toe general ground of opposition to all suoh leg
islation. In toe Senate, as we understand, toe
vote of Democratic members both for the amend
ment and for the bill will be required to protect
the people of Georgia from the mischiefs con
templated by Butler’s bill In its original shape.
The oocasion Is one which we think urgently de
mands such action on thepaxt of Democratic Sen
ators. Surely it cannot be misinterpreted, and
if there were any possibility of suoh misinter
pretation, they have the right in the way of pro
test to pnt on record their reason for sustaining
the btIL The Democratic Senators shonld not,
and we trust, will not, abandon Georgia to the
horrors and iniquities of this Bollock and Butler
Regenoy bill until they have exhausted all con
stitutional means to prevent it, irt the most
available form in whioh s remedy is presented.
Hr this emergency they can do nothing more or
better than secure the Bingham amendment, and
we believe ninety-nine ont at a hundred of in
telligent Georgians would unite with us in ask
ing this course at their hands.
Many of the leading Democrats in Macon,
looking at this dispatch as an invitation to ex
press their views and wishes on this point, uni
ted yesterday in a telegram to ^re Democratic
Bmaton, expressing the hopeMhst they would
sustain to* bill with Bingham’s amendment.
Tax Boston Journal says: “General But-
hr has appointed to the cadetship of the Es
sex District of West Point, vacated by deser
tion, a young man named Charles Sumner
Wilson, of Salem, the son of Thomas C.
Wilson, a private soldier, who died in the ser
vice of the United States. Hi« widowed moth
er resides in Salem, where she has given him
an excellent education in the public schools,
and he is Baid to be well qualified for the ap
pointment. It will be observed that he bears
the names' of the two Senators from Maasa-
toiwetts, and his complexion is the same as
tittftofue Senator from Mis■■feyc"
I Fate of the Bingham Amendment.
The probable fate of the Bingham amend
ment in the Senate j* i. subject of lively interest
and speculation among the people of Georgia.
It is a question of toe annihilation of public
liberty and representative, government in toe
State of Georgia for two or mom years, and toe
turning over of-toe State into the hands of a
wicked faction, contemptible in numbers and
altogether unprincipled in character, who will
prey like a horse leech upon toe people, and in
all human probability, by their depravity,
bring many a blush to the faces of some of
their present supporters in Congress who are
opposing this amendment in toe opinion that
they are doing something which will ennure to
toe benefit of toe Radical party. But if official
character and publio decorum be worth any
thing, and the lack of them brings odium upon
any party, then such a regency as they threaten
to establish by act of Congress in Georgia for
an indefinite period will be a scandal and rock
of offenoe to every honest mind in toe country.
The opinions of the press as to toe probable
fate of the Bingham amendment in the Senate,
are very conflicting. Onr readers know that
toe Republican Senators caucnssed upon the
matter last Thursday. This, it appears, was
done at the request of toe President, who went
personally to toe Capitol to promote harmony
of action in relation to the bilL We do notnn-
derstand toe President as taking sides for or
against the amendment. He simply desires
toe bill passed in some shape, in order that toe
proclamation announcing toe ratification of toe
Fifteenth Amendment may issue at once, so
that toe negroes in Connecticut may be entitled
to vote at toe State eleotion, whioh takes place
on toe 1st Monday in April next The Connec
ticut registry of voters, preparatory to toe elec
tion, commences next Thursday, and there is
no time to be lost Gov. Jewell, of Connecti
cut, was in Washington on the day of the can
cus, urging prompt action on the bill, so that
Georgia might be admitted—her vote on the
Fifteenth Amendment counted, and the procla
mation issue immediately. The negro vote of
Connecticut is about 2000 strong, and is consid
ered by Jewell sufficient to defeat the Demo
crats in that closely balanoed State.
Bnt notwithstanding all this partisan urgency,
the oaucua was widely divided upon the amend
ment. It stood, according to all testimony,
about half and half, and the issue was so broad,
strong and determined in its character that, by
common consent, toe cancns adjourned sine die
without coming to a vote, whioh would have dis
closed something like a party rapture.
In this attitude of affairs toe correspondents
of the New York Tribune, Herald, Philadelphia
Press, New York Commercial Advertiser, World,
and others, indulge in various prognostications
in relation to toe final result The Tribune
thinks a protracted discussion will follow in the
Senate, and the result, althongh in great doubt,
seems to point to toe defeat of Bingham’s
amendment The PreBS says toe indications are
that the Senate will strike out the amendment.
The Herald aays that “unless there be further
action in caucus the amendment will be adopt
ed by at least ten majority in the Senate.” The
World thinks the ohanoes favor the amendment,
but it will probably pass toe ordeal of a long
debate. The result is evidently very doubtful.
Georgia in Bonds.
From the Chicago Tribune, Radical.\
The bill proposed by General Butler to pro
long the control of the State of Georgia in the
hands of Governor Bullock and the present
Legislature, will not meet the approval of the
country, and we can hardly account for the de
gree of support it seems to find at toe hands of
Republicans in the Honse. We look to the Senate
to defeat it withont doubt, whatever toe action
of toe House may be. It will be remembered
that toe House hss already been called upon to
take a questionable and unprecedented course
in expelling the delegation from Georgia, af
ter an sot had been passed readmitting that
State, and after a portion of its delegation had
taken toeir seats in the House. Such action
tion was excused by toe course of the Legisla
ture of Georgia in’expelling its colored mem
bers. But it, at least, showed precipitancy and
want of due consideration in the House that it
should be obliged in this manner to retrace its
own action and remand a State to its Provis
ional Government whose Representatives had
in part, already been sworn in as Mem
bers of Congress. Snch precedents are dan
gerous, and, as far as possible, shonld be
avoided.
After once remanding the State to its pro
visional form—after seeing the old Legislature
reassembled, toe colored members restored to
seats in that body, toe members who conld not
take toe test oath expelled, it is now proposed
by General Butler to ride toe State over the
next election nnder its present officers, so as to
secure two years more of so-called Republican
ascendancy. On behalf of the Republican
party, we object to any sach dirty proceeding.
If the people of Georgia want Republican offi
cers, let them elect them. If they want Demo
crats or alligatoTB in toeir State offices, let them
elect them. We have now arrived at a stage in
toe work of reconstruction where the past is
absolutely irreversible. The Fifteenth Amend
ment will be proclaimed an soon as the pro
visional governments voting for if—Georgia
and Texas—are readmitted.
Not only is liberty secure, but universal suf
frage will be thereby made secure. This ob
tained, toe warrant for holding any Southern
State in shackles ends, and the farther enslave
ment of these States by Congress becomes a
wrong and an outrage, as promptly to be re
sented and guarded against by the whole power
of toe oountty as the farther enslavement of
toe African portion of their citizens. Individual
rights being secure, and the sovereignty of toe
nation being undisputed. State rights must now
come in for their proper share of protection.
Wejhope Congress will recognize this by admit
ting Georgia promptly without limitations. No
paltty shackles they can impose upon the action
of her people will serve toe cause of equal rights
at all, especially When they would thoreby delay
toe admission of toe State and the proclamation
of universal suffrage, which will be made as
soon as Georgia and Texas are admitted, and
not before. ,
The above, from the ablest and most influen
tial Radical paper of the West, is very gratify
ing, indeed. It shows that toe tidal wave of
oppression and outrage is on the ebb, outside
Congress, at least, and that even toe fanatical
and bitter constituencies whom Congress-re
presents, and for whom toe Tribune speaks, are
at last beooming nauseated by toeir debauch of
bate and revenge. Bullock’s bill may pass
minus the Bingham amendment, but toe signs
are thickening everywhere, that it holds in its
brutal villainy, toe germs of a conflict that must
•ventually bear bitter fruit to toe extremists.
Sorrows of Sparling.
The Nashville Banner deplores the sorrows of
Sparling, a Federal Tax Collector, in this style:
Sparling has recently been to Washington,
and was fooled into a visit to New York, so they
could get a “pop” at him. He arrived there
the night of the 21st and laid in jail the 22d,
out of respect, I presume, for the Father of his
Country. He begged, cried and pleaded for
mercy. Finally he was let go upon his signing
papers to settle up within a certain time, etc.,
and my informant writes me that he will be pnt
through by a requisition from toe Governor of
New York, if all matters don't come right. Ho
forfeited his word to toe Sheriff, but he has
go off. God grant
may. I forgot to say that he did not register as
F. W. Sparling. He changed it, but the trap
was set for him and he walked into it When
the Sheriff first nabbed him be denied his name,
but the Sheriff was posted and had a Nashville
man to “spot” and follow him. I do not know
that any one has beard of it in Nashville as yet,
but what I have written to you axe facts. When
you see him ask him how he spent Washington’s
birthday?
Death of an Aged Man.
One more of the good men of our State is
gene. John Trippe—Father Trippe,- as he was
generally called,—died in Eatonlon, on the
morning of the 10th inst. He was about 95
years of age. Settling in Putnam county when
it was first acquired from the Indians, near
three-fourths of a century did he live there, lov
ed and honored by all who knew him. He had
a family of six sons and six daughters. He lived
to see Ins daughters bloom into womanhood,
become mothers of large families, and die,
Only two of his sons survive him. His good
wife he lost more than thirty years ago.
Many of his grandchildren preceded him to
the grave. JB
It will thus be seen that his life bad been full
of Borrows and trials, the lot of humanity.
Yet, amidst all, having for more than half
century been a devoted Christian, a zealous
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
his piety and faith and confidence that all that
his Maker ordered was right, strengthened
him, and his trials, were borne with a true
Christian spirit. He was unoomplaining, even-
tempered as far as the writer knows in all his
life, never evinced any unpleasantness of tem
per, and never had an enemy. Debarred from
the privilege of activity, being quite a large
man, bis habits were sedentary, and thus he be
came a great reader. He was thoroughly post
ed in all of toe political and prominent events
In his country’s history—having watched, with
great interest, the progress of toe Republio from
the day of its formation. To the day of his
death his mind was active, with no weakening,
reading his daily paper with far more interest
than many of the younger people.
He had been deolining in health for some
months from having received a fall by which
leg was broken. Since confining him to his
room.
He died peacefully and easily—his sun setting
as we would have supposed that of so good
man would. We had hoped to see him reach his
hundredth year, but the God who made' him
knew best, and we have not a doubt but that be
is now enjoying that great rest to which be so
hopefully looked. How beautiful a thought—a
man lived ninety-five years without an enemy
and beloved by all who knew him, and will be
mourned by all of his acquaintances.
An OM Blockade Manner.
A Charleston, S. C., correspondent of tho
[communicated.]
Poems by C’hiquita.
It is expected that we are soon to have an ac
ceptable addition to our present literature, by
the publication of a volume of poems from toe
pen of the gifted Mrs. Eppie Bowdre Castlon,
of Macon, Ga., whose poetic genius has already
won the highest encomiums from the press and
publio. Her powers of description are very
chaste and striking, while she displays refined
vigor and power of diction to an eminent de
gree. Her specimens have proved that she
possesses a true poetical genius, and she may
well be considered as more endned with toe
brilliant qualities of the poet than most writers
of poetry that might be named among toe wide
range of contributors who serve to fill np trashy
reading, and whioh is to be regretted fill toe
parlor tables and shelves of those of a ruder
taste. Her merit is not confined to mere num
bers and elegance of diotion, but more generally
displays-the features of creative fancy enlivened
by expressions of a refined taste, and glowing
with all the animated coloring of nature’s
sublime and unerring pencil.*
Her sketches possess a spirit of taste whioh
need nothing but continued cultivation to be
raised to toe highest degree of excellence. Al
ready she has proved herself a “brilliant set in
pearl.” But while in her pleasant rambles in toe
fields of poetry, it is to be fondly hoped that she
will not entirely sacrifice herself to toe muse, in
neglect of the more severe studies of literature
and art. These will continue to soothe her studies
and give additional dignity to her conceptions,
and animate her forcible pencil.
And should fortune at anytime throw a gloom
over the bright prospects of her genius
“Then, notnnmiudfolof her zeal, the muse
Shall still some comfort in her cup infuse.”
Her writings are pare and unembellished with
gandy trappings, or superfluous ornament, whioh
serve to vitiate the publio taste. Hence the
work will be honorable, and will be an accepta
ble addition to the rising literature of the
South.
As a Georgian she shonld be encouraged by
Georgians: as a fixed star she should be admired
by her surrounding satelites. Tempos.
Albany, March 7, 1870.
Ma. Tkeknch Oazszdx—Ku-Klnx, of course—
threatened Grant and his son while walking on
Femwyivania Avenue, on Friday. Hs was ar
rested, but was pronounced insane, and sent to
Tennessee Negroes ^Interview” Grant
A lot of negro loafers from around Nashville
and Memphis, led by two or three rascally
preachers, so-called, and escorted by Horace
Maynard, who is one grade lower even than
the meanest one of them all, oalled on Grant
Thursday. Such a string of lies as they told,
we have hardly known equalled even by the
negro Radical loafers, and politicians and
preachers of this Stato. They deolared that
negro men, women and children were being
daily shot, hang, drowned, skinned and burned
alive, crucified, and otherwise put to death all
over Tennessee by too Democrats and Ku-Klnx,
and toe law gave them no protection. Grant
replied as follows:
1 regret very much toe condition of the
state of things in Tennessee. I will do my best
to check these outrages. Tennessee is a State
in the Union, and I have no right to take pos
session of herterritory with troops. I will take
the whole matter in consideration. We have
troops to spare, nnd I will see if cannot send
them throughout the State, so as to have a mor
al effect at least, and also to aid toe United
States Marshal and his deputies in carrying ont
the laws of the General Government and the
decrees of the United States Gonrts. As to the
Fifteenth Amendment, I am Rare its provisions
will be carried out in every State, as Congress
is now engaged in preparing a law for that pur
pose. I will certainly give this matter due at
tention. I will consult with the Secretary of
War and seo wjbat can be done.”
The Cincinnati Southebn Road.—The il
liberal conduot of toe Kentucky Legislature, in
refusing right of way through that State to toe
Cincinnati Southern Road, is waking up the
people of Kentucky, and a fierce denunciation
of Louisville i3 to be met within many of the
Kentucky papers. The Lexington Statesman
calls for public meetings throughout Central
Kentucky to pledge the people not to bny goods
in Louisville. The Statesman says:
This whole portion of Kentucky are deeply
feeling the great outrage that the Legislature
has done it, in ordeusto satisfy the selfish de
mands of LanteviUnhad that most infamous of
corporations to^jhonisville and Nashville Rail
road. ItianeoflUess, selfish oompany—tyran
nical in its power and grinding in its exercise.
It is hated freiq^na endfe’f it to the other, and
ail along its biuMUss.
This is the late* story from Paris: An at
tache of tho Austrian Legation was so unfor
tunate as to break a An. Its owner, a most
charming and exceedingly, pretty woman, the
Countess J., was furious, and spoke her mind
quite freely about it. The culprit manifested
exceeding contrition, and offered to have the
fan mended, or supply its place. Increased
anger on the part of the lady, who demanded
a piece of paper in which to Wrap the frag
ments. The youthful diplomatist opened bis
portmonnaie, and, without the least imperti
nent intention in toe world, took out a thou
sand franc note, saying, as he tore it in half,
“I have only this, madame.” This capped the
climax, and the excitement of the lady reached
so high a point that a Ashionable sculptor
who was present requested permission to take
her as a model for the statue of an angry
Juno, whioh he had just commenced.
Queen Victoria is aid: a-bsd in ooneequence
of toe Prince of Wahe being mixed up in the
Mordauai MeadaL
Cincinnati Commercial writes: “Captqin Fenn
Peck is an old and successful blockade runner,
and converses freely on his exploits daring the
war. He is sixty-four years old, hale and
hearty, although touched with paralysis, and
believes that he will live to see many young
men buried. He was opposed to secession,
but when South Carolina went out he fell
into line with the rest of his fellow-citizens of
Charleston, and turning his nautical knowl
edge to account, became a blockade runner.
“Whenever I found how things were going,”
said he, to three ox four of the Cincinnatians
seated in his cabin, sipping otard of water,
this morning, a.q the City Point spread over
the sparkling crest of the Atlantic, “1 made
np niy mind. I bade my folks good-bye. and
told them I was going to Kentucky and Ten
nessee to buy cattle, (and the jouy old salt
laughed at the conceit,) but I was going fur
ther. I took an old carpet-saok, some old
clothes, four pounds of plug tobacco and i
bottle of whisky, and headed for Louisville,
where I spent one night. My next stopping
place was at Niagara Falls, where people’s
baggage was examined by the revenue officers.
“What have you there, old gentleman?”
asked a smart fellow with a gold band on his
cap.
“ ‘A few old clothes-,-some tobacco and
bottle of whisky,’ I answered. ‘Won’t you
have some?’
“ ‘No, thank you; not now,’ says lie. ‘Pass
along.’
“You better believe I felt relieved, for I
had sterling exchange for the amount of $500,
000 sewed in the collar of an old coat in my
carpet-sack, and I’de have felt cheap going
back to Charleston without it.
“Well, l weut to England. That was in
June, 1861, nnd I returned in tho December
lollowing with a ship load of arms and muni
tions of was-j which were safely landed in
Charleston.”
“How much money did you make, Cap
tain?” •
“Well, sir, I made $15,000 in gold on that
trip ; paid $9,000 that 1 owed in Charleston,
made my family comfortable, and took a few
thousand back to England for safe-keeping.
I had $300,000 in Confederate bonds when the
war closed, and I have it yet.”
“Do you ever expect to realize anything
from them?” ,, .. ,' -
“No, sir; not a thing. I had some notion
of papering my sitting-room at home with
them last year. No, sir; all the money I made
out of the war just paid that debt, kept my
family in comibrt, and left me $7,000 in gold
on deposit in England. ' ,
“How long did you run the blockade?”
“All through the war.”
“Were you never caught ?’’
“No, sir, never, but came near being cap
fared by the Rhode Island, off Nassau. I was
in command of the Margaret und Jessie, with
a cargo of cotton for England. The Rhode
Island spied her and made right for us. They
lired two hundred and odd shots; several
struck us, hat only one done any damage. It
tore a four foot hole in our boiler, and 1 run
the vessel into the shoals at Nassau. The
erew escaped; wreckers came down and saved
the vessel and claimed salvage.”
“Did yon ran the same vessel all through
the war?”
“No, sir; I commanded several—the Ber
muda, the Cecil, the Kate, the Margaret and
Jessie, and the Leopard, afterwards called the
Stonewall Jackson. The Cecil, Kate and
Stonewall were lost; the rest came out all
right. I made thirteen trips in all, and never
was caught. Look here now, now, you musn’t
tell this; 1 see you are takin’ notes.”
“Oh! no, no; wouldn’t tell it to anybody for
the world. Oh, no.”
“All rights gentlemen, let us take another
drop of that brandy.” < ■ • i
“Where did you ran principally, Cap
tain?”
Well, sir, some times into Charleston, but
mostlv into Wilmington.”
Were you not afraid of the torpedoes in
the Charleston harbor?’’
No, sir.” I had a chart of the harbor,
prepared by the Confederate engineers and
torpedo corps, showing where the things were
sunk, and simply steered clear of them. The
main ship channel never was obstructed dur
ing the war, aud any ship could have come in,
hut it seems they were afraid.”
“Well, some of them did come in, *in spite
of the torpedoes.”
“Yes, sir, the Ironsides passed right over
a torpedo male ont of a thirty-foot boiler*
charged with 4,000 pounds of powder, ana
sunk only a mile from Fort Sumter, but it
seems as though Providence ordered it other
wise. The thing did not explode as the ves
sel touched, and then they tried the galvanic
battery on tho shore, for the torpedo corps
were ashore, expecting to see her blown into
the air, hut the battery would not explode it
either. I always bel'eved that the fellow who
fastened the wire3 fixed them so they would
not work, and a great many others were of
my opinion.
Soil for Manre.
Etoauua, Ana., March 13, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: ,
I found by experience while living ip western
Texas that the black, sticky soil in certain lo
calities there was equal, if not superior, to sta
ble or oow manure upon the poor sandy ridges.
I ipg not chemist enough to classify the differ
ent properties of this soil but I know it contains
everything neoessazy to produce the most produc
tive crops in toe shortest possible time. I would
like to have you give tins matter some _ little
consideration. I think there is money in it,
eapeoially in these days of manufacturing fer
tilizers and importing guanos. If it pays to
import sea fowl guano from the Pacific and to
erect large and expensive establishment to man
ufacturing manure, wby should it not pay to
ship the rich soil already made from Texas ?
This may seem to you a novel idea, but I can
not see the difference between buying phos
phates or guano for the purpose of mixing it
with the poor soil to make it rich and produc
tive, and buying the mixture already prepared.
I.know that cowpeniug upon this black sticky
soil does not increase it productiveness. It is
cwttinly the most fertile matter in the world,
and would make Western Texas the garden-
HjKjt of the world were it only, seasonable. I
have known fields there to not make the seed
planted for three years in succession, and the
fourth being seasonable, make one hundred
bushels of corn per acre. This soil can be ob
tained within four or five miles of Victoria,
which is thirty miles from the coast. Wherever
toe mosquit timber and musquit grass is found,
this rich productive musquit soil is certain to
be found. This soil could be dug up, pulveriz
ed, and bagged in toe dry season, at which time
it contains but little moisture and is as fine as
flour. In wet weather it is' as stioky as tar,
and unmanageable.
It is an open question, and a free thing for
everyone to test that will go to a little tronble
and expense to make the experiment. I have
fried it. I am satisfied that there is nothing
manufactured in Georgia, Carolina, or Mary
land equal to it as a fertilizer.
A very small sum—say two thousand dollars
—would be sufficient to test and establish it as
a fertilizer. Two thousand would hire hands,
provision, pay expenses of hauling, bagging
and shipping of one hundred tons to toe differ
ent points upon the Chattahoochee river. I want
to raise this amount by subscription, and ship
one hundred tons to the subscribers. I am
willing to deposit a sufficient amount to indem-
nify toe parties in case I fail to put up and ship
toe first one hundred tons by a certain time
through any neglect or mismanagement upon
my part. ■ T
WiU you assist me in forming a company,
and raising the amount t . ■ \
.Yours very respectfully, D. H. Tucker,
10 miles below Eufaula, Ala.
Remarks.—The soil our correspondent speaks
of is probably nothing more than vegetable
mould, accumulated by the decomposition of
successive crops of musquit grass and foliage.
A careful analysis would determine its precise
value as a fertilizer, and settle toe question
whether it would bear the cost of preparation
and transportation, whioh he estimates at $20
per ton; and whether it is in foot superior to
other accumulations of mould whioh may be
found in greater or less quantities in almost
every planter’s immediate neighborhood, if he
will look for it. Until Mr. Tucker has procured
such an analysis we would not advise him to
spend money in bringing' soil from such a dis
tance.
A farmer who will devote a mule and cart or
wagon daily daring the year to toe accumula
tion of manures, and toeir judicious prepara
tion for his land, need not go far off his planta
tion, or vex himself much about toe purity and
price of guanoes and superphosphates. With
his stock yard properly arranged so as not to
wash, let him deposit therein, day after day,
ell toe leaves and debris from his woodlands and
cattle, any quantity of swamp monld, stable
droppings, ashes, toe scrapings from nnder his
wood-pile and fence corners, and, in a word,
everything which can be converted into fertil
izing matter by decomposition. Let his swine
root through these deposits daily, as they will
do in search of the acorns and most he has
brought from toe woods among toe leaves—let
him pile up this accumulation in toe fall mixed
with his cotton seed (if he is so situated that he
can use them no better) and, if he can cheaply
do so, incorporate a good amount of lime and
some salt in the mass, and he will have a pile
of manure which will make him feel quite in
dependent of commercial fertilizers. Then,
daring tho winter, break np his land and bed
the manors in a deep farrow, split open and
plant in toe spring and we think he will be
pretty near right, and his crops will agree with
us.—Editors T. & M.
The Cotton Crop and the Southern
Slates.
The Boston Post contrasts toe commercial
and pecuniary value of the South to the Union,
with toe treatment she receives in the Federal
family... It is the old story of Cinderilla in a
new shape. We copy the two paragraphs ap
pended, from toe Post’s article:
Last year’s cotton crop is estimated by in
telligent and oareful statisticians to be three
million bales. At twenty-five cents per pound,
it is equal to s crop of six million bales before
tho war. Its entire value, allowing four hun
dred and sixty pounds to the bale, is three hun
dred and forty-five millions of dollars. All this
is hard cash, earned by the single produot of a
single section in a single season. On aqoh a
basis, with even a fair series of good seasons,
that section would outstrip every other lit toe
rapid accumulation of wealth. Of theto three
million bales, it is allowed that two millions one
hundred thousand are for export, yielding the
sum of $241,500,000 in gold. Half of this has
been shipped abroad between the last of Sep
tember and the last of February, leaving toe
other half, which is equal in money to over one
hundred and twenty-one millions of dollars, to
be exported between this and September. That
is to Bay, cotton will supply us in onr foreign
trade, for the next six months, that amount of
coin with whioh to regulate onr balances. It is
considered preferable to coin, because it is a
leading staple of the world’s commerce.”
“We touch bottom again, in matters of trade
and finance, aa soon as we oome to a full crop
of cotton. That has twice proved itself our
commercial support and savior. Intelligent
merchants and the more comprehensive minds
among our publio men so understand it. Strange
as it appears to dispassionate eyes, the Congress
that has been doing its best to cripple, confuse
and obstruct all healthy financial operations, by
its jargon of phrases, its medley of schemes,
and its plots of personal and partisan profit, is
the very same Congress that has been revenge
fully bent on keeping the cotton-producing
States in a condition of servile degradation, on
repressing every attempt of their property-
holding citizens to establish order and a well-
regulated industrial system, and oh driving
away capital from toeir valuable fields by de
stroying the growth of oonfidenoe and trust.
The objeot was nothing less than the absolute
degradation of the people that give those States
all the character and importance which they ever
enjoyed. Mr. Sumner publicly announced that
thirty years, th e term of a generation, was none
too long to keep' (bein ' suppliants, dependants
and servants outside toe Union. His states
manship must have borrowed the eyee of the
mole when it inspired suoh an anathema on an
entire section of the country. It did not reckon
on the vast productive capacity of their favored
soil and climate, and the great staple whioh they
alone can supply for the resusoitation of our
commerce, it forgot to allow for those press
ing necessities in toe national finances, for
whose instant alleviation we should be compelled
to turn to toe South as we had done before.”
B»w State Minaevs sere
under Gen. Grant. ^
From the Press, j
R is the evening of the President’,
dinner. The guests are net onlyW^
expected to be punctual in their atp> T T a ’ *1
7 o'clock p. m. President and MiToS* 1
already in the Red Room awaiting *
pany. The ladies have disrobed them.!?
of outer wrappings, and, like graceful^
they sail slowlv into the presence. >
j nt iroi D ful1 evening dress-jeweku?
and all the et ceteras to match. Rp, i?
guests are attired as handsomely as IJS
and the gentlemen are expected to wear
swallow-tail coats and white neck ties. *
Grant leads the way, witK
wife of the oldest Senator present on hi#
-not the oldest Senator in jears, but t}J
who has enjoyed the longed term of r<
The President is followed by the other^M
while Mrs. Grant, assisted by the huafe®
the woman who honors the President h
exclusive attention, brings up the res?
alter slight confusion the guests are co B £?
bly seated. When no person is nJSi
Divine blessing is onmted, unless iD ^
Quaker thankfulness—the silence J
heart. In the beginning of iLe . ?
flowers and sweetmeats gr.iee the’ $
while bread anil butter only give‘
simplicity to the “first course,’’ which j-
posed of a French vegetable soup, and !**
ing to those who have tasted it, no .sen: "
eigu or domestic, has ever been k ao *’ i!
equai it It is to be a little smoot k
than peacock s brains, but not quite J
qmsitely flavored as a dbh of “ , e
tongues. ?aj *i
The ambrosial .-onp i- followed by i
croquet of meat. Four admirably train^?
vants^ remove the plates between uch <%,?
and their motions are as perfect as clock-worf
These servants are clad in garments of''{*2!
less cut, which serve to heighten to the*
degree their sable complexions. White
gloves add the finishing touch to this raj. 1
the entertainment. Tue thud “course 'o'
dinner is composed of beef, flanked on
side by potatoes the' size, of a tralnm.,
plenty of mushrooms to keep them »nito
The next course is a dainty in the aw
It is made up entirely of the luscious jj
partridges, and laptized by a Freucht
entirely beyond my comprehension. It,
be readily seen that a full description cf
twenty-nine courses would be altogether
much, so we pass to the desert, not omit,
to say that the meridian or noon of the fe*T
marked by the guests being served bouaiV
with frozen punch. As a general rule,
served about every third course. SL _
glasses ef different sizes, and a boquet of£
ers, are placed before each guest at
ginning.
The desert is inaugurated bytheaes _
of a lice pudding, but not the kind t!
prompted the little boy to ran away to
North Pole because his mother “would'
rice pudding for dinner.” It is not the.
dish which onr Chinese brethren swallow
the aid of chop-ticks, biit.it is such ape*
as would make our great grandmother
their hands in ioy. This Presidential.
cannot be described except by. the po«\
nius, therefore it ca i only bis added ik
plebeian pies, or otl er pastry are allowed
keep it company. After the rice pi"
canned peaches, pf trs and quinces are
Then follow conf .'Ctionery, nuts, i«
coffee and chocolate, and with these
soothing drinks, the Presidential enl
meat comes to an end, the host and his _
repair to the Red Room, and after fifteen
utes spent in conversation, the actors in
dinner rapidly disappear.
Goy. Bollock’s Brains Card.
A CARD.
Willard's Hotel,
A Very Unfortunate Question.
It ia related in Harrisburg, (Pa.) Govern
or Major General John W. Geary was recently
invited to address the children of a publio
school, and in to Washington’s birth
day, put toe following question: ’’Now, boys,
why should we oelebrate Washington's birthday
anymore than mine?” In the midst of the
profoundstienoe a little fellow at the foot of the
Washington, D. C., March 8, 1870.y
The following note was left at my hotel this
evening:
Washington, D. G., March 6, 1870.
Sib : I have in my possession six affidavits,
of respectable citizens of Springfield, Mass., in
regard to yonr career with Mrs. Levitt and the
infamous treatment of her husband, canting,
as they believe, his untimely death.
Now, air, I propose to have these documents
published and placed in the hands of every
Senator and Representative in Congress, re
ferring them to a gentleman of high standing
in this city who knows something of toe facts
in the case himself, and into whose hands I in
tend plating the original papers.
Your infamy shall be known throughout the
land, and the Ghost of poor Levitt, whom you
worse than murdered, shall rise up in accusa
tion whithersoever yon go.
I write for toe purpose of attaohiug one con
dition, viz: that you oall off your blood-hounds
and let us have peace in Georgia. Oo home
and attend honestly and faithfully to your du
ties as Governor, give np this unworthy idea or
scheme of perpetuating yourself and friends in
office, and I promise to place the papers at your
disposal as soon aa you have oompUed with the
above condition. Meantime I'll not show them
to mortal man.
I shall await your action for one day only af
ter receipt of this. Think well and decide your
fate. Brutus.
To R. B. Bollock, Governor of Georgia.
“Brutus” is respectf ally informed that I have
no “idea or scheme of perpetuating myself or
friends in office” beyond the constitutional term,
and that I am “honestly and faithfully” endeav
oring to secure the admission of Georgia into
the Union with a reliable republican State gov
ernment
My efforts in that direction will not be suz-
pendsd in deference to toe latest effort of toe
Ku-Klux-Klan, and “Brutus” need not withhold,
even for one day, whatever new batch of lies
this Klan may have accumulated.
My efforts, either publio or private, daring
my whole life are open to inspection and criti
cism.
It has been my fortune, either for good or ill,
to be placed in a position that secures for me
toe intense hatred of an unscrupulous partisan
organization, and, although it is disagreeable to
bear, I Shall not shrink from toe support of po
litical principles to avoid the flood of infamous
slander and abuse whioh has heretofore, and
will be hereafter, poured upon me.
Rums B. Bullock.
Glorious S
The news that that bad man and bitter hater
of the South, Geo. Wilkes, of the Spirit of toe
Times, was well oowhided, yesterday, by Major
Lei and, is aa welcome as flowers in May.
Wilkes has been instant, in season and ont of
season, in his blackguard abuse and villifloation
of toe Southern people. For every laah laid
on his ruffian shoulders, we cry bravo f “Here’s
a health to thee,” Bill Leland, and more power
to your elbow should you ever have oocasion to
“do toe trick” again!
Brevities and Levities,
Taking people—thieves.
Late habits—night-gowns.
High-toned man—tenor singer.
A fruitful vehicle—a sloe coaoh.
Natnre’s weapons—blades of grass.
The tnos* fashionable of flowers—the<34
delion.
Unlawful pharmacy—compounding I
A questioning ghost—the shade ofia do:
Pieadiug at the bar—begging for a c
Woman's (natural! protective union—a
tiara
The most difficult thing to remember-a
jifior..,. A . ‘ j, .Ti
Isa man with a red. face neco warily a Flo:
ian ?
Chronological. c dl clions—(irune-iiis
dates. * ■; -h ( .?vi -ra :
A well-balanced man—oitee»ithalarget:
account. «*. agjnk
The cup that cheers but notinebriate-
byHltapiahU .cii.nM breJ. tlint
The only organ without stops .is a gor;|
tongue. fe
Bed-ridden—those who trav«! by tifl-j
sleeping ca|W? moil ntiotiroioorf mod ttit J
High living that does uot produce the S’]
—living in a garret. 1
Every bird pleaMj.> in with its lay—osp
the hen.. - ..
“What ailsy-oui-eyc, Jne,?’ ’ “I tolJ a
he lied,” replied '
Men of regular habit-?—those who gel j
every morning before breakfast.
To take spots but bf lihen—use a very:
knife or pairof scissors. J '
Makingfightofinisfortun<— tbrowingap
poet’s verses in to the fire.
Suffering'from' wet groceries,” is thep
name for drunk in Chicago.
The stoiy of the “Lost Heir” is suppose*^
torn upon a dropped chignon.
The man who attempted to look into 1
future had the door slammed in Lis face.
Could frogs have chosen a log for is
ereign, with such love as they have for a erolj
king?
“Died from the effect of mixed collaten^l
is the way they get the delirium tremto 3 ]
Cheyenne.
It is estimated that fifty millions of
and government bonds baa been shipped to?
rope this year.
Sentimental youth—“Dear Maria, will?
share my lot for iiie?” Practical girl—“fi
many acres in your lot, sir ?”
“Itis a sad moment in life,” said 1
“when you find that love, glory, happ
are, altogether, not worth a good cig»r-
is a sadder moment still,” replied his f?
‘when you find that the cigar itself is
“Do you believe in second love, Mistefrj
S uade?” “Do I believe in second
amp! If a man buys a pound of i
isn’t it.swate? and when it? gone, dot
want another pound? and isn't thati
too? Troth, Murphy. I do believe w i
love.”
The wife of a Boston man ran av
ver about two months ago, and the
telegraphed her husband to send be? :
for ner to come home with. H
Don’t cut your visit short on my i
and Bhe is in Denver yeti
As several neighbors of a rather
man who kept a turner’s shop were diW'
his wonderful skill in his art, one of t®
marked that, as skillful as he was, tb<
one thing he couldn’t -‘turn.’’ “*
that?” was the general inquiry. “At
penny," was the satisfactory reply.
In Iowa a merchant sent a dunmn ?
to a man, who replied by return mail: ’ J
say you are holding to my note yet. S.I
say you are noiaing to my uuie -.-.i
all right—perfectly right. Just keep/rj’l
on to it, and if you find your hands
spit on them and try again. Yours
ately.”
The Cm or Boston. —Yesterday morning we
delighted ourselves with telling our friends, on
the authority of a private dispatch, that the
steamship City of Boston was safe in port, but
the noon dl»patehee aanoemoed toe telegram a
cruel hoax.” One who oanperpetrate«eeh a
boax is beyond man’s help.
class root and replied: “Biean he array told 1 M mod
One of toe popular doctors
Be."
i Qravee.
The Louisiana Sulphur
The New Orleans Picayune says
tore of that State has appropriated f
aid in the full development of tl
entifio men say there is enough
mine to supply the oommerca ct ‘
end that within a few months the <
be ready to deliver fear hundred <
This is the only bed of virgin
and It commends $60 at
city:
A wore steak hotel«
totti