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Th.e Greorgia W eeklv Telegraph and. Journal IVIessenger.
Telegraph and 'Messenger.
MACON, APBIL 5, '870.
Monthern Farm and Home.
The April number of this valuable periodical
will appear to-day. We give below a table of
contents: •
Frontispiece, Steam Flowing; Farmwork for
the Month, by the Editor; Sweet Potatoes; The
Labor Question, by Francis Fontaine. (Conclu
ded.) Our Position and Our Policy, by John
Schley; The Policy Planters Shonld Adopt, by
B. D. Lumsden; Agri-Horticultural, by F. O,
T.; Agriculture—Poetry; Cotton Production
in India and in the United States; The Appli
cation of Fertilizers; What is Progressive Ag
riculture ; Stable Economy—Hone-Shoeing, by
the Editor; On Feeding Horses; Dotation of
Crops, by David Z. Evans, Jr.; The Deserted
Home, by Sidney Herbert; Steam Plowing, by
the Editor; Deriving Exhausted Lands, by S.
W. Blood worth; Farm Capital; Cotton as
Surplus Crop; Drainage—Fruit Trees—Oil Cake;
When to use Lime and Plaster; Keeping Farm
Accounts; Construction of Lightning Eods, by
Prof. W. Leroy Broun; The Vegetable Garden,
by the Editor. (Illustrated.) The Flower Gar
den, by the Editor; The Orchard, by the Edi
tor; Pleasure Grounds, by the late Wm. N.
White; Dressed Hogs; How to Feed Fowls
Editorial; Correspondence; Answers to Corres
pondents ; Editor’s Book Table.
Published by J. W. Burke & Co., at $2 00 per
anTinm.
Busan Carolinian fob Aram on time and
crowded. As much reading matter in this par-
ticular line as any farmer can well dispose of
before the next will be out And variety withal.
Articles that excel for literatury execution; un
pretending articles, choke-full of facts; articles
that combine the two. “Agriculture in Educa
tion,” by Wm. Pinkney Starke, can be read
with equal profit and pleasure by the philoso
pher and the planter. “My Plantation” is a
well considered planter’s Utopia. “Snarl’s
Shortcomings in Farming” will touch many
readers in a tender place. “Novel and Curious
Vegetables,” handsomely illustrated, is worth
the year’s subscription. But why attempt a se
lection, much less an enumeration of the good
things in this unusually good number of an un
usually good magazine ? The table of contents
occupies an entire page, and there is noton ar
ticle that the thoughtful farmer will neglect to
read.
•The Kural Carolinian, containing monthly
sixty-four pages of reading matter, beautifully
illustrated, is published for the wonderfully
small sum of $2 per annum, by Walker, Evans
& Cogswell and D. Wyatt Aiken, Charleston,
S. C.
The Stormy Sunday.
Monday’s New York papers are full of the dis
astrous incidents of the great storm last Sunday,
which was very severe from Washington North-
war^. The most melancholly event was that of
the destruction of the Donelly family, who own
ed and occupied a one-story brick house on 4Gth
street, which was crushed to fragments by the
blowing over upon it, of a five story tenement
house in an unfinished condition. The event
occurred at half past two in the afternoon, while
the wind was blowing a hurricane. Of the six
members of the family, only a little boy escaped
instant death. He was riding upon a hobby
horse at tho time and protected by a short beam
which lodged against the wall over his head.
Both his head and his faco were badly bruised,
both legs broken and his injuries consir 7 ed
mortal. In Brooklyn a young lady of nineteen
was blown prostrate by the fierce gale and her
head striking against a stoop, she was killed.—
Phelan and Collender’s billiard table manufac
tory in New York, was also blown down. Great
damages was done to buildings and wharves in
Baltimore Philadelphia, New York and the towns
along tho Hudson river. In Baltimore twenty
buildings were ruined. A good deal of damage
was also done by high water in all these cities.
In Re Flanegan.
A Kentucky paper that is evidently well posted
enlightens us as to the antecedents of the above
named “loyal” party who is waiting to take his
seat in the Senate from Texas. It says:
Some fifteen or twenty years ago he lived in
Cloverport, in this State, and by professing to
be a good Baptist he worked himself into the
confidence of his fellow-citizens, and did a
thriving business es a store-keeper. Without
giving any intimation of his purpose, he sud
denly left for parts'unknown, having previously
shipped his goods, household furniture, eta,
and left suffering creditors to the tune of twelve
or fifteen thousand dollars.”
Now, who dares say that Flanegan isn’t
most marvelous proper man to represent the
Texas Badieals in the Senate? JTe'U vote against
Bingham’s amendment, sure. We’ll dare swear
that Bullock and Flanegan are thicker than twin
brothers, already. We hope, however, Flane
gan will not undertake to teach the B’s any
more than they already know in his peculiar
line.
Blackburn Hakes Himself Very Dis
agreeable.
A Washington letter says that a member elect
from Louisiana has furnished a statement for
publication therefrom Jasper Blackburn, Bepub-
lican and ex-member, charged before the Com
mittee with having sold his cadetship in the
Fortieth Congress. Blackburn says it is well
understood at Washington that no great enter
prise involving heavy appropriations can he con
summated, and no fat office obtained, without the
payment of heavy sums—in other words, and in
plain English, without bribery—and yet Con
gress gets up special committees to investigate
cadet frauds. It is a big cry over a little wool,
and is designed more than anything else to hide
the infamy of those who are stealing the whole
sheep, wool, hide and aU.”
Accounted For. .
Massachusetts had 192 regiments less than
New York, 180 less than Pennsylvania, and 1C2
less than Ohio in the late civil war, yet she has
drawn from the Federal Treasury on the pre
text of war expenditures $1,187,671 more than
New York; $1,392,984 more than Pennsylva
nia, and $911,243 more than Ohio.
These.figures explain her devotion to the
Union. What with buying and stealing South
era slaves to save her own precious sons from
bullets, and thus getting lots of credit on a very
slender capital of real service in the war, and
then plundering the treasury to compensate for
her vicarious patriotism, she has made rather
a good thing out of the war. Who wouldn’t bo
loyal to the “Union” and “the old flag” when
loyalty meant such rich “loot” ?
The Connecticut Election takes place next
Monday. The following are the Candidates:
Democrat•
Jas. E. English.
J. Hotchkiss.
T. M. Waller.
C. II. Pond.
Seth S. Logan.
Republican.
Governor... .Marshall Jewell.
Lieut-Go v... .Morris Tyler
Sec’y State...H. Appleman.
Treasurer....D. P. Nichols.
Comptroller. .Jas. W. Manning.
The two candidates for Governor are the same
as last year. The present Senate consists of
fourteen Bepublicans and seven Democrats;
and the House of one hundred and thirty Bc-
publicans, and one hundred and eight Demo
crats. The Bepublican majorities last year
ranged from four hundred and eleven for Gov
ernor to twelve hundred for other candidates.
The press telegrams say the Fifteenth Amend
ment was passed too late to admit the negro vo
ters in Connecticut to register; but we have
no doubt the mass of them will vote.
Gband Smash Up.—Our inquisitive contem
porary of the Macon Telegraph and Messenger
has been rattling among the periodicals, and
finds out from the Edinburg Beview that the
earth is going to finally bolt into the sun and
bnra up, but the casualty won’t happen for mil
lions of years yet
Well, the Constitution expects to be on hand
and report tho affair first, as Atlanta, with her
usual enterprise, will take the flame first.
Atlanta Constitution.
We have no doubt Atlanta and the Constitu
tion will be first in the flames, but whether that
fact will bo anything to their credit is question
able. Everybody, however, will concede their
title to first honors in this case.
Furniture.—In procuring for one’s home the
necessary Furniture, considerations of elegance
and taste are to be considered as well as con
venience and economy. In making such pur
chases it is desirable to find an establishment
combining these advantages, with reliability
and fair dealing. Such a houso we believe is
that of Frost, Black & Co., 69 Bowery, Now
York, whoso announcement may bo foundin our
advertising columns. Their house is one of the
largest of the kind in the country, and every
thing purchased of them is guaranteed as rep
resented.
Tbe Resalt in Tennessee.
The Nashville Union says tho new Constitu
tion hns been ratified by an overwhelming ma
jority, and that there was never a quieter elec,
tion known in the State. There was hardly a
quarrel reported. The Union says the election
of Badical Sheriffs, both Northern men, in the
two largest counties in the State, Davidson and
Shelby, will disprove the slanders of tho reeon-
strnctionists, that the life of a Northern Union
man is not safe in Tennessee. In addition Da
vidson has elected a colored Badical jailor, and
Shelby has elected a Badical Tax-collector and
a Badical clerk of the first Circuit Court
A Sockdolager.
Bevels, the Mississippi negro, occupies the
seat once honored by Ex-President Jefferson
Davis, and the Badieals have loyal spasms of
jubilation over the fact But the Detroit Free
Press comes along and nips them in the bud
with the following impertinent questions:
“Does not Zachariah Chandler fill the seat
once occupied by Lewis Cass ? Is not Fenton
in the seat of Silas Wright, Dick Yates in the
seat of Douglas, Charles Sumner in that of Dan
iel Webster, Drake in that of Thomas H. Ben
ton, Colfax in that once occupied by George
Clinton and Martin Van Boren, and Grant in
that of George Washington and Jefferson ?”
Gelt Edge Papee.—The Macon and Western
Bailroad Company offer in our paper to-day
one hundred thousand dollars of seven per cent,
bonds, which will be the only bonds of that
company outstanding. We suppose tho money
is to be devoted to the extension of the line of
the Griffin and North Alabama Bailroad. There
are no better bonds than these in tho markot,
and very few as good.
The Supeeme Couet.—The confirmation of
Judge Bradley gives us a full United States Su
preme Court. Tho following is a list of the
Judges, with their ages and the dates of their
appointment:
Ago.
Salmon P. Chase of Ohio .. .62
Nathan Clifford; of Maine *...66
Samuel Nelson, of New York. 77'
David Davis, of Illinois 55
Noah H. Swavne, of Ohio 60
Samuel F. Miller, of Iowa 64
Stephen J. Field, of California 53
Wm. Strong, of Pennsylvania 61
John P. Bradley, of New Jersey 57
App’t.
1864
1853
1845
1862
1862
1862
1863
1870
1870
Southehn Feess Convention.—Col. A. B.
Lamar, President Southern Press Association,
has issued the following call:
Tho annual Convention of tho Southern Press
Association will be held in the city of Savannah,
on Monday, tho 25th day of April next. It is to
bo hoped that all the journals composing the as
sociation will be represented.
A. B. Lamah.
Presid’t Southern Press Association.
Columbus, Ga., March 28, 1870.
Speed bx the Suez Canal.—The Brazilian
made a voyage from Bombay to Liverpool, by
way of the Suez Canal, in thirty-three days.
The Asia left Bombay on the 25th of December
at 5 P. m., arrived at Marseilles on the 23d of
January, at 8 a. it, having called at Aden, Suez
and Port Said, Alexandria and Malta, inside of
twenty-seven days’ time. The shipyards on the
Clyde are said to be very busy building steamers
adapted to the traffic by this route.
Couet Circles in England are having very
Democratic spasms over the recent elopement
of a daughter of the Earl of Gaiuesbozongh
with a Limerick Frenchman named Morphy,
who is an organist by profession.
Expected Meeting of Tammany Or*
ganization Not Held.
New York, March 28.—The expected meet
ing of the Tammany organization was not held
to-night. The Council of Sachems met this af
ternoon and refused to allow the nse of Tam
many Hall for the purpose. They appointed a
committee to take measures to restore harmony.
(second dispatch.]
New Yobk, March 28.—Tho meeting of the
Tammany Hall General Committee announced
for to-night, and the expected action of which
has been the universal theme of conversation in
this city for the past few days, did not take
place. The Hall remains closed, the entrances
being guarded by a large force of police. It
seems a meeting of tbe Council of Sachems of
tho Tammany Society was held this afternoon,
James B. Nicholson, of the Council presiding,
and the following Sachems present: S. B.
Garwin, A. Oakey Hall, M. T. Brennan,
E. B. Hart, Peter B. Sweeney, Nathaniel
Jarvis, Jr., John J. Bradley, Charles Cor.
nell, Isaac Bell and Joseph Dowling, Sach
ems B. B. Connelly and G. W. McLean being
absent, when resolutions were adopted to the
effect that the same movement for the meeting
orignated with John Morrissey and his associ
ates, and had for its object to stillfurther foment
disturbances in the party which they had inau
gurated, and since threats of personal violence
were made against members of tho committee,
thus substituting physical violence and terror
ism and mob force for the regular and orderly
action of tbe Democracy, they decide that tho
hall shall not be given np for any such purpose.
They further resolved that a committee, con
sisting of S. B. Garvin, E. B. Hart, M. T. Bren
nan, Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr., and James £. Nichol
son, be appointed to adopt such measures as
will secure just representation to the Democra
cy of the city on the General Committee, and
the harmonious organization of tho party.
Great excitement prevailed, in regard to the
action of tho Sachems, among the adherents of
Morrissey and O'Brien, who assembled in great
numbers, principally, of the rowdy class, close in
front of the HalL It is thought that nothing
but the immense force of police assembled pre
vented tho roughs and shoulder-hitters from at
tempting to force the doors of the building. So
great were the apprehensions of violence that
Bryant’s Minstrels decided to close their theatre.
The course taken by the Sachems has been
twice beforo adopted, in 1851 and 1858.
New Yoek, March 28.—The Young Democra
cy, finding the door of Tammany Hall closed
against them, held an indignation meeting in
the basement of Irving Hall, and adopted reso
lutions protesting against the action of the
Council of Sachems. Speeches were made ac
cusing tbe opponents of the Young Democracy
of being in league with the Badieals. Despon
dency and irresolution were apparent; and the
meeting adjourned without definite action. Im
mense crowds of roughs were in the streets
around Tammany Hall, but the police, twelve
hundred Btrong, maintained order.
What is the size of this place,” gravely
asked a New Yorker of the conduotor, just after
tho brakeman had BUDg out O-pe-ll-ka at a
Southern station, where not a house was visible
among the pines, except a rambling shed oalled
an “eating saloon.” “It’s about ar big as New
York,” was the ready answer, “but it On’t built
up yet" ’
The Georgia Press.
The Augusta Fair Grounds will oontain about
70 sores, and have three buildings for exhibi
tion purposes—two, of 200 feet long by 40 in
width, and one—the main building—400 feet
long by 80 in width. —
Mrs. Baker, of Augusta, had her right arm
and the upper part of her body horribly bnraed,
Monday night, by the explosion of a kerosene
lamp.
A negro boy jumped a red fox, Monday, near
Willink’s ship yard, Savannah.
The last Borne sensation was a formidable
wolf lead np and down the streets by a little
boy who was trying to sell him at cost. He was
caught in that neighborhood.
The Savannah News has seen a bird that was
found in a Back of Peruvian guano. It is called
the guano chicken.
The smokehouse of Woolfolk Walker, near
Columbus, was robbed on Saturday night of
$250 worth of baoon. The negroes on the
place arrested the supposed thief, and brought
him to Columbus.
The Sun has seen a beautiful monument jnst
arrived from Italy, and to be erected in the
cemetery there to the memory of the late Col.
Peyton H. Colquitt, O. 8. A. It is of Italian
marble, elegantly polished. The die, three feet
high by two thick, rests on a solid base three
feet square, and is snrmonnted by a gracefully
shaped cap and urn. The whole is ten feet in
height, and of solid Tuscan marble.
On the front face in raised letters apears the
following inscription:
Col. Peyton H. Colquitt, C. S. A. was bom
in Campbell county, Ga., and died September
21st, 1863, near Binggold, Ga., of a wound re
ceived in tbe battle of Chickamanga; aged 31
years, II months and 14 days.
On the other side in shaded capitals, the sen
tence : “A Ghristan Soldier.”
On another face the following lines appear in
italics:
Through the gate of Death we pass to our joyfal re
surrection.
Until tbe daybreak and tbe shadows flee away,
They that dwell under His shadow shall return.
John Slimpkins, a negro convict who escaped
from the chain-gang at Augusta in July, 1868,
was captured Tuesday. He will be consigned
at one to the care of Grant, Alexander & Go.
We get the following from the Athens Watch
man, of Wednesday:
Bold and Daring Bobbeet.—About noon on
Friday last, two horses, one belonging to Mr. L
Pittard and the other to Mr. B. H. Boon—were
stolen from a horse-rack near Bishop’s comer,
and ridden off by two strangers. As soon as it
was discovered that the horses had been stolen,
several persons started in pursuit of tho thieves
but, having got on “the wrong scent,” failed to
overtake them, or even to gain any tidings of
them on any of the roads leading np the coun
try.
Suspicion rests upon two men who wore trav
eling on foot and stopped Thursday night at a
house some miles from town, and represented
themselves to be citizens of Atlanta.
Cloves and Grasses in the Up-Countbt.—
Wo were pleased to learn from many of our
friends in Hall that they have commenced, and
from still larger numbers that they are prepar
ing to begin the cultivation of clover. They
wffl find in it the means of agricultural salva
tion. Nor arc they confining themselves to
clover alone. Timothy, herds grass, blue grass,
and other grasses, are being introduced. Cora
is too expensive to raise stock on in this coun
try, and onr people are finding it ont. When
ever they manage to subsist stock chiefly on
small grain and tbe grasses, Northeast Georgia
will become one of the best stock-raising coun
tries in the South, and the day is not now far
distant.
Peaches.—We stated in our last that the
peaches were all killed here. This was the pre
valent opinion at that time, bnt subsequent ex
amination has disclosed tbe fact that many had
escaped.
We were pleased to observe last week that
about Gainesville, and, indeed, all along tbe
road between there and Athens, many orchards
had suffered little, if any, damage from the
frosts.
Singulae.—Beginning with the great freeze
of April, 1849—which destroyed not only all tho
frnit, but the wheat crop and nearly everything
else in this section—we have noticed for several
years past that most of the killing frosts have
occurred on Sunday night. Have othere ob'
served this singular fact?
The Savannah Bepublican has a strong arti
cle headed “Toombs of Georgia.” predicated
upon a recent Washington letter to the New
York Tribune in regard to the impracticability
of finishing reconstruction until “Toombs and
other Confederates” are under ground. We ex
tract as follows from it:
Now, we do not know that Mr. Toombs cher
ishes the slightest aspiration for a return to pub
lic life ; indeed, in the present condition of the
country, and his own health, we believe be
would prefer to continue under his own vine and
fig tree in Georgia, cultivating the soil and pur
suing a profession in which he has won both
wealth and distinction. But those who know
him best, bis qualities of mind, bis massive,
splendid intellect, bis profound learning in tho
science of government, his aento perceoliou
of the relations of cause and effect in public
affairs and we would add—though it may sur
prise some who are less acquainted than
tbe writer, with the real character and tem
perament of the man—his conservatism and
ove of rational peace, can see a nse for Mr.
Toombs, and wonld rejoice as patriots to have
bis great intellect and astute statesmanship
utilized in the government of the country. Fi
nancial and political troubles, domestic and for-
e.gn, abound, and in our national councils wo
have only intellectual pigmies and pettifoggers
to solve them and put tbe country on the high
road to permanent peace and prosperity. Ho
would tower above the tools of radicalism like
the lofty pine of his own Southern home among
the dogwoods and thistles of the forest. He
wonld point ont the blunders and tbe crimes of
tbe party in power, and bold them up to the
just indignation of their plundered and be
trayed countrymen. Hino idee lachryma.
The Constitution says the construction train
on the Air Line Bailroad is now nmning to the
eleven mile post, and is expected soon to reach
tho new town of “Cousin John,” seven miles
beyond. In ten or twelve days the cars will be
running to Norcross or PiDknoyvillo, twenty
miles from this city, which will be the first twen
ty miles of the road. The road has been graded
five miles beyond Finkneyville, and tbe road,
it is thougl t, will be completed to Gainesville
by falL There are some five or six hundred
men at work on the road.
A disputo between two mon named Gulliver
and Davidson, of Atlanta yesterday, about fifty
cents, resnlted in in the latter being severely cat
in the head, arm, and leg.
Western and Atlantic Bailroad Bonds.—
The Financial Chronicle, of New York, gives
$5,770,080 as the amount of State Boad bonds
now in that market.—Constitution.
Another rua-off oh Blodgett’s railroad Wednes
day.
A store and cooper shop near the Macon and
Western depot, at Atlanta, was burned Wednes
day night. Loss about $500.
Tho Era says farmers in Northeast Georgia
are counting upon about half a peach crop. In
the same section the appearanco of the wheat
was never better at 'this season of tho year. In
some fields it is tall enough to bide a rabbit.
As soon as the Supreme Court adjourns, the
Constitution will have ready for the uso of the
lawyers a pamphlet of the Head Notes of the
Decisions of the Supreme Court of Georgia,
with an index. Price, $1.00.
The Washington correspondent of the Era
says Blodgett has received pay as Postmaster
for the time he was suspended from that office
at Augusta. He drew $5,500.
The Blodgetts are among the distinguished
arrivals at the Metropolitan, New York. The
delay of Congress gives them leisure from their
arduous duties to attend to personal recreation.
Gen. Thomas.—Tbe telegrams announce the
death of General George H. Thomas.
THE DARIEN LUMBER HART.
Down th« River on a Hsft-Shafl Fisheries
—The Vexations of the lumber Trade In
Darien—A Water Piuwge to Brunswick
—Return on*the Brunswick Bailroad.
Lumber Cut, Ga.. March 26, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger In this
hour of scarcity of. political news, I propose to
give yon an acoonnt of a trip down the Ocmnl-
gee and Altamaha rivers to Darien, the timber
mart of Georgia, some dots on the timber mar
ket there, and other matters and things con
nected with the trip.
On the morning of the 14th inst, I, with
several others, embarked on a large raft of
square timber at tbe month of the Little Oc-
mnlgee river, near this place, for Darien. Be
ing well supplied with rations, and everything
necessary for onr comfort, we anticipated a fine
trip down the river, bnt onr bright anticipations
were soon nipped in the bud. _ We had been
drifting bnt a short time when it began to rain
heavily, and we were soon thoroughly drenched.
It brought forcibly to our mind3 the days when
we donned our gray and went forth to battle for
a cause which now exists only in name. In the
afternoon, however, the clouds broke away, and
tbe genial rays of the sun brought cheerfulness
once more to our party, and made us feel that
a little hardship is necessary to make man prop
erly appreciate the blessings of life.
Our craft was, in the meantime, drifting
rapidly down the river, and we had by this time
reached the junction of the Ocmnlgee and Oco
nee rivers, and launched ont on the broad bosom
of the Altamaha. We passed several shad fish
eries, at one of which we purchased some fine
shad. A cheerful fire gleamed from the hearth
on our raft, and our cook was at once ordered
to the scone. With knife in hand he approached
the aforesaid shad in a barbarous manner, but
it is needless to dwell on particulars. Suffice
to say that in less than a half an hour our party
were reveling in fried shad, which we did to
such an extent that “we couldn’t rest.”
The river beiDg in fine condition, wo drifted
fapidly towards onr destination. Many places
were passed on either side of the river, of which
some incident of the past, real or imaginary,
was related. Our pilot who, by the way, was an
old ono, and an excellent one, too, related many
things connected with the river, which oconrred
in the days ere “pole boats” gave way to that
wonder of the age, Folton’s invention. Thus
we drifted, scarcely knowing how the hours
3, until we came in sight of Milligan’s
Bluff—the most beautiful and picturesque spot
on the river. It is, indeed, a most lovely place,
but the task of painting its beauties in true col
ors must be left for a more gifted pen than
mine.
By the way, there is a story related in con
nection with this bluff, which I will give you as
told to me by some of the oldest citizens who
live in this vicinity. Some time in the early
part of the eighteenth century a party of Span
ish Buccaniers, were operating on the coast
of Georgia, and having amassed a large amount
of money, it was brought to this place for con
cealment. They were afterwards captured or
shipwrecked, and never came back to claim
their treasure. Many years afterwards a citizen
of Tattnall connty found and secured a large
portion of this money. Many efforts were made
to secure the balance, but without success.
As dark approached, we tied our craft to a
tree on the river bank, and slept soundly on
board until “Aurora’s crimson face” in tho
east warned us that day was approaching, when
we nnlooBed, and drifted on until night, without
any incident of importance occurring. Again
we tied up for the night, and by daylight tbe
following morning, we were loo3e and drifting'
Shortly after dark we reached Darien, and lash
ed our raft to the boom, preparatory to having
it surveyed on the morrow.
Jnst here, Messrs. Editors, I wonld call the
attention of the public to an ordinance of the
City Council of Darien, whereby the timber
cutter is badly imposed upon. When a cutter
carries a raft of timber there, he has in tha first
place to report to a general inspector, who as
signs a surveyor to his raft, who surveys and
inspects it before ho can offer it in market, and
this all done at the cutter’s expense and in the
face of his unimpeachable right to have whom
soever ho chooses to survey his timber. Had
we a legislature, to which we could look for
equal rights and common justice, this matter
might well claim their attention. We found the
timber market extremely dull, almost no sale at
alL After having our raft surveyed ana sub
jected to tbe most rigid inspection and defects
found where the most practiced eye conld dis
cover nothing, we offered it in’market, and
could hardly get a prico that would pay expenses
of cutting and bringing down the river.
Darien has been for m?ny years the great
timber mart of Georgia. Millions of feet of tho
best pine lumber has found its way there overy
season from the Ocmnlgee, Oconee, Ohoopee
and Altamaha rivers and their tributaries, for
which tbe cutter has never been fairly remu
nerated, but a future awaits it by which just
retribution will probably be visited on the tim
ber monopolists of tbe place, by whom the cut
ters have suffered.
An outlet from the .’Altamaha to Darien will
make that port as accessible as Darien, and this
outlet, I learn, via Cooper’s river, is passable
now. Another season will probably -find the
vast qnantities of timber cut in this section and
formerly sold in Darien, en route for Brunswick,
where remunerative prises will doubtless bo
paid for it. ,
Having transacted our btu-iness in Darien, we
set out to return via tbe Macon and Brunswick
railroad. Wo embarked on the cars at No. 2,
and placed ourselves in the care of Mr. Dart,
one of the kind and courteous conductors on
this road. A few hours’ ride and we reached
Lumber City, our destination. We noticed as
we came up quite a number of saw mills up and
in operation, along tho line of this road, and
from the quantities of lumber lying by the road
awaiting shipment, we judge they are doing a
fine business. Tho country generally seems to
be awakoning from its lethargy since this road
has been built, and evidences of thrift and in
dustry are to be seen almost everywhere. "With
such prospects os this may we not bespeak a
bright future for this road and tho two fair cities
at either end of it. Yonrs, etc.
Subsoil eb.
Governor Orr and tbe Tribune.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune
has been interviewing Governor Orr, in Ander-
sonville, South Carolina. Orr has a great deal
more to say than we have tho space or disposi
tion to print. He explains how he became a
Bepublican—thinks the Democratic party is
dead forever—considers Grant’s election a bless
ing—that there’s going to be reaction towards
decenoy in radicalism and the party will eventu
ally control the Southern States, which, by the
way, they are doing now in form and manner
cantionary to all beholders. Orr says the negro
is a good legislator and improving rapidly, and
the Fifteenth Amendment is putting a two-edged
sword in the hands of the South which they
will never give up. As to the future of the
African race, Orr expounds as follows:
THE FATE OF THE KEGBO.
Tragic Event—A Man Killed and
House Burned by a Stroke of Light* |
ening.
Cuthseet, March 30.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Happen-1
ing to be here on business, I regret to reoord
another illustration of the adage: “ In the |
midst of life we are in
Tbe Captain** fei
Tbe wind was blowing up fro m *
On tbe eve of ft .tormv aT th * <
. . ... -latoravdav
And she saw the ship that t„
Veering across tbe bay 6 Iot ^%
The sails were ragged, and
•t n o, th 2L flapP r i *° fi? f roun^
jke tbe wings of a spent
The wind had sobbed itself to r<*t
Tike a weary, wayward child - ’
And she lay wnh her babe „ ,
Auddreamed ot tbe ship,
She smiled as she thought m SiWl
That the long, longp.S^Sj
But she did not hear howtbf.^ 8 °»1
_And the breakers dashed on !^
An American Engineer on tho Suez
Canal.
The following is published as tho opinion of
an eminent American engineer, after a careful
examination of the Suez Canal:
I cannot say the canal, commercially, is a
success. Financially, so far as the present
stockholders ore concerned, it cannot be. It
has cost, in cash, 400,000,000 francs (SS0.000,-
000,) which, for one hundred miles of canal, is
too large a sum to pay dividends upon. If tbe
company charge a very high rate for vessels
passing through it wonld deter many from com
ing this way. Only light freights could afford
it, and that would furnish but small tonnage.
Cotton from India is tho great bulk of the re
turn traffic, which would continue to go round
the Cape of Good Hope.
The canal will become the joint property of
all the governments interested in the trade that
would pass through it, they paying the stock
holders a fair piice for tho canal, and thereafter
make it a public highway, charging only suffi
cient tolls to keep it in good working condition,
which I am pleased to find will require very
much less than represented. 1 thought the
diif ting sand would continue to fill up the canal.
This is not the case. The entiro canal, or near
ly so, is excavated below the level of the coun
try on either side, hence the embankments are
very wide and high, and serve as a protection
against tbe drifting sand, as well as a bulwark
strong enough to prevent breaches in the em
bankments. The harbors at either end are ad
mirably constructed for the accommodation of
the immense business the canal is destined to do.
Tho water is at present twenty-two feet
throughout, and will soon bo twenty-five, with
a width of 1,500 feet, and moro in many places.
There is not a look of any description on the
canal, from the Mediterranean to the Bed Sea,
or Gulf of Suez. There is no obstruction of
any kind. The water of tho two seas is about
the same height—the tides affecting the canal
only for the distanoe of a few miles at either
end. I repeat, that in my judgment, as a canal
and railroad man, this canal is a great success,
and will mark an era in the history of the world.
I regret our government did not order one or
more vessels of war to represent us here.. All
other nations were thus represented at the
opening. 'We had some fine ships very near
her?.” i'
Q. I have frequently seen it stated in the
public prints that the negro is dying ont, and
the fear is expressed that in the course of time
there may not be enough left to till the crops;
but what are your views on this subject?
A. It is one to which I have not given careful
attention. Yet my observation of the mortua
ry records of our principal cities satisfies me
that the fear expressed is not without founda
tion. Natural causes, which yon will readily
understand, are at work to produce this result.
In old times, under onr system, tho health of
slaves, especially of the young, was a matter
of constant solicitude. Unless on extraordi-
ry occasions, they were neither over-worked
nor permitted to lounge in idleness. They
were fed on substantial food, comfortably clad,
properly amused, and had little or no cares.
When ill, the plantation physician was called
in, arid all his skill applied to the business
of restoration. Tho slave represented money-
money in himself and money in tho current
year’s crop. It wasn’t profitable to allow him
to be sick, and much less profitable to let him
die. The consequence was, that between the
year 1800—when there were only 50,000 slaves
in the United States—and tho year 1860, the in
crease was upward of four millions, and it is
grave question, by the way, what sort of a coun
try we should have had in fifty years more at
the same rate of negro growth. It is another
grave question whether, if Providence intended
emancipation to take place at any time, it did
not occur auspiciously in 1863. But to resume.
The condition of the freedman is now reversed.
With no master, he has no sense of responsi
bility. The more ignorant among the field hands
are content to live in squalor and wretched
ness, their children die from lack of proper food
and care, and there is unquestionably a diminu
tion in their numbers from natural causes, which
in their present sitnation cannot be controlled.
This is especially the case among the negroes
on the coast; but tho remark does not apply to
the intelligent colored man anywhere. Itis a re
markable fact that the slave increased 23J per
cent., and the colored free people only 1 per
cent, daring the ten years preceding the war.
If I remember rightly, the city registrar of Bos
ton reported that daring the five years preceding
1859 the number of colored births was one less
than the number of marriages, and the deaths
exceeded the births in the proportion of nearly
two to one. In Bhode Island and Connecticut,
according to tho registries kept, the yearly
deaths of blacks and mnlattoes have generally
exceeded the yearly births. There is no method
of reaching similar results in the Sonth, except
through the reports of the health officers of the
different cities, bnt these show a startling
amount of mortality in the race, and invite a
question as to its altimate condition. My own
impression is, that in a quarter of a century
from the present time, all the colder regions
of the South, from Virginia to Georgia, will
bo mainly populated with sturdy white emi
grants, before whose competing toil the negro
will bo obliged to give way, and that he will
seek the lowlands as his final abiding place.
death.” Dr. George And it’e oh ship! brave ship! aife 1
B. Smith, of this (Kandolph) county, met a ^ H , 8 ^ ; f or the dawn of W **
sudden aDd tragic death, under the following it’s oh for a rippling sea? 110 *
circumstances, at an early hour this morning.
Daring the prevalence of a yitdent storm of
rain, accompanied with severe discharges of
electricity and thunder, Dr. Smith stepped to
the secretary for a book which he wished to
show to Bev. Jas. Armstrong, his guest of the
previous night, and the subject of which they I am H4“ohtMp*b?Tve dL®
had been discussing. While in the act of tak-1 she 1:0
ing down the book, a bolt struck the roof of J ^wMeh b*d
the house, struck the Doetor through the head, ' 6 lliEK 841
broke his neck, and otherwise bnraed, blacken
ed and disfigured his person badly. He was of
course killed at once. Bev. Mr. Armstrong, a
few feet distant, was prostrated and severely
stunned, while Mrs. Smith, wife of the Doctor,
and a little daughter, were knocked down, se- —
verely bnraed, blackened and blistered. The And it a 8 &p! but
remainingtwo children, with their grandmother, 1 And it’s oh! it was well thera
.... ... i * . I wo a trail
KMl.
She did not wake though thaw,™ .
But turned in her dream withT M
And her Bleeping lips framed the.
Which dropped from the full "I
As water falls from a shaken enn 4
Suddenly over the brim • p
“Lord, keep my capUin safe toidri, I
And all at the eea with himV" ^ I
I !t’o nh ahin 1 -VL a .*
was well there was none to S
were in the breakfast room some little distance I
off, and escaped personal injury, though feeling ]
the shock very sensibly.
The honse, a new framed one-story dwell- j
ing, just completed, instantaneously caught fire, ___
and was rapididly consumed withl all its con- ^And none can see the land; ,
tenis, furniture, family relics, a change of cloth-
ing for any of the family not excepted. Mr. And it’s oh ship! brave ship! and how* J
Armstrong, recovering from the shock, with J Thatyoa^ear^t^rafc^mdwsjjjjgj.^
They are striving now to i
The captain and all his men •
And still that fond prayer is j
Again, and again, and again
The waves are high, the rocke'n, m
land?
difficulty saved the surviving members of the
family, as well as Dr. Smith’s body, from the
flames. Mr. A. was present for the purpose of
officiating in the approaching marriage ceremo-
mony which was to have occurred the same
morning between the mother of Mrs. S. and
a gentleman of the connty. Mr. Armstrong
will be remembered as the late President of
Union Female College, Eofaula, Ala,
In tbe sad and untimely death of Dr. Smith,
his family have sustained the irreparable loss
of an affectionate and faithful husband and
father, and the community of a worthy and
most excellent man and citizen. Hia death is
deedly deplored and lamented. Requiescat in
pace.
The night is dark, the storm is Met,
Bnt the ship lies safe in a creek
And the captain stands with a light h<
And a flush on hia sun-brown A du-.
And the captain’s wife sleeps Bound i-l
Through the wild and angry blast
For the mom shall rise on a petcefk
And her captain home at last .
And it’s oh Bhip! brave ship! br&Te nJ
may bo, 1
Bnt was it yonr strength that eared t,.
from the might of the crnelaeil
Waiting.
"And he showed men pore river of«
clear as crystal proceeding out of the a
and of the lamb.”
From the New York Tribune, 30fA ult.]
Shall the Ermine be Spotless ?
The Legal Tender act was lately adjudged,
by the Snpreme Court of the United States, not
bindiog, as to obligations incurred prior to its
passage. The question had been considered
with a deliberation worthy of its grave impor
tance, bad been argued in various forms no less
than six times before the Court, and had been
held under advisement nearly or qnite two
years. It was finally deoided by a full bench,
five ont of the eight Judges (to which nnmber
the Court was then limited by law) nniting in
the opinion of tho Chief-Justice. If ever an
opinion of this highest judicial tribunal was en
titled, by reason of caro in its formation or de-
liberation.in its utterance, to the respect of the
whole country this one is.
Since this decision was announced, changes
in the composition of the court have placed two
new Judges fresh from tho practice of their
profession as advocates, upon tho Bench. Al
ready it is announced that the carefully con
sidered opinion of two months ago is to be re
considered on a new test case, and a decision
forced within the single month left for the pre
sent session of the Court. We make no objec
tions. The Snpreme Court has not been wont
to make haste in displaying such contempt for
its own adjudications, bnt that is, in large part,
its own concern.
Twc things, however, wo have a right to de
demand, and the issne is of such momentous
importance thnt we shall take good care that
neither be overlooked. 2 his question largely
involves the pecuniary liabilities of powerful rail
road and other moneyed corporations. We in
sist that no one heavily interested in them,
either as stockholder or as long retained coun
sel, can, without gross indecenoy, sit on the
trial. It raises questions lately much discussed
among members of the bar. We insist that no
one, fresh from tho bar, can, after having al
ready as an advocate expressed decided opin
ions concernig tho points now to be tried, sit as
a judge on their trial.
In the universal alarm concerning the purity
of our Judiciary, wo have been accustomed to
turn to tbe Supreme Court as a refuge from
the prevailing corruption. Let onr Judges look
to it that they do nothing to cause even the
shadow of suspicion to fall on their high office.
Darien Canal.
A curious story comes from the Isthmus in ]
regard to the crossing of that <( narrow neck of
land.” Captain Haine has arrived there with
credentials from this Government. He says
that, being in Europe, he heard of the revived
Darien project, and proceeded at once to Wash
ington, where he informed the President that
some years ago be crossed the Isthmus of Da
rien in a canoe by water, assisted by the over
flow of two rivers at their headwaters, one of
which rivers flowed to the Atlantio, and the oth-
er to the Pacific. He was prepared to do this j
again. He gained the ear of the President,
who gave him letters to our Consul at Aspin-
wall, and Captain Selfridge, of the Mipsic.
Captain Haine, on his arrival at Aapinwall, pro-1
cured a boat, men, and provisions and started
for the point of entrance, declaring that he
wonld be at Panama in his boat within fifteen
or twenty day. Fifteen days had elapsed at the
last dates from Panama, and there was no news
of the captain. They await the opening of
communication with him with interest there as
well as here. But the whole story has a dubi-1
ous appearance. It is hardly probable that the
Atlantic and Pacific can Le so easily united.
[JV. Y. Commercial Advertiser
I have a little angel waiting for me
On the beautiful banks of the etreu; J
Not impatiently waiteth my darligj
For a smile lights np his brow so Iijl
And his little harp rings out so eleit 1
So soothingly sweet to faith’s listers!
And he lives on the smile of the SivJ
Who so tenderly called my child iki 1
I’ve a little angel writing for me
On the beautiful banks of the cmaJ
Forever free from sorrow and pair. 1
Spotless and pure from all earthly s *|
Never in ening paths to rove, ’ ■
Safe in the bosom of infinite lota
Evermore, evermore “walking isfjfy'I
This little angel robed in white 1
Pve a little angel writing for me
On tho beautiful banka of the ctriUlst
When my heat t is yearning and throli
And I fain woulg clasp my darling ixl
I ll look away from this earthly etrari I
To the beautiful banks of the‘‘BettsJ
Til think of the writing angel there,
And offer up to God a thankful pnyet I
Pve a little angel to welcome me,
When I too shall stand by the cryetdsg
When the Great Befiner hath fitted me 1
In mo His own image shall clearly se:. [
When in the robe of Christ’s righteoai
My soul shall seek the home ot the kt*|
On tho beautiful banks of tho crystal
My darling, still waiting, shallwelcoati
Col. Benton on Horace Greeley and |
Solon Robinson.
From the Courier-Journal.]
It was the opinion of the late Thomas H. Ben-
Land and Labor in Phlladd
From “Our Monthly Gossip,” ioa
ii was me opinion or me lare J.nomas il. isen- I . ivS?:- f.ctnnntJPtlnf'f-id
ton that Solon Bobinson’s chief merit, like that I ^ 0 L,win ^ * 13 estimated that . J|
of Sampson, lay in his hair. “Fellow-citizens,” I twenty millions or dollars earKc;!
said Col. Benton onca in a speech at St. Lonis, a ge of sixteen per cent a year—are a
“the editor of the New York Tribune, Horace Philadelphia m the business t j
Greeley, is the whitest man I ever saw. TTia I houses for sale. The usual mode of ti
hat is white, his coat is white, his pantaloons is as follow: A capitalist buys tbsl
are white; he has white hair and a white face, I acres in the outskirts of the ear. ki
and I think you will find that his liver is about run through tho property, and thes J
the whitest thing about him. The assistant to a mechanic about sixty per cent ? J
editor of the Tribune.sfellow-citizens, is Solon of building ablock of houses. Whentr
Bobinson. Solon Bobinson, is an Irishman, and the owner of the fee makes a deed I
everything about him is red. He has a red faoe, the property to the builder, reserwl
and a red head, and— l - 1 J - *»• - -
Just here the speaker caught sight of a couple j
of double-fisted, red headed Irishmen standing
nenr, who looked pretty much as if they wonld j
little rather swallow him whole than not. —• — ..
“But, fellow-citizens,” he continued. “I mean I each being subject to a
no disrespect to my Irish friends by speaking of two-thirds of its value, more or jess, tt*|
* red beaded Irishman. Indeed, I may say as to be paid by the purchaser is snal
_ compliment to any such who may chance to greatest demand is for bouses of -‘jj
be here to-day, that I never saw a’red headed rooms, with bath, gas, hot and cola ^
woman in my life that wasn’t virtuous, nor a kitchen range, worth about twenty i
red-headed man, with a single exception, that dred to three thousand dollars apiece-1
wasn’t honest; and it is my deliberate convio- c banic or clerk who can raise scree I
tion, fellow-citizens, that if it hadn’t been for h un dred dollars can buy a comfoml
Solon Bobinson’s red head he would have been I -- -- J
banged long ago.'
! charge of so much a year. The rec:d
| sold by tbe capitalists and the pn
again. The builder retails the heu
as * ‘bonus houses’ ’—to persons ol s
Fashion- iu Church—A New View oi
the Subject.
Appletons’ Journal thinks that tho wearing of
fine dresses by chnrch-going ladies is not so
reprehensible a practice after all. It says:
Man and woman in pare linen, in unstained tice of an institution comparatively
apparel, in choice personal adornment, have a country,'but which has been in op
house with bis money, and pay off tlj
rent at his convenience. These groj
are peculiar to Pennsylvania, and, Jfli
the com parative absence of ‘bankine 1
they have done much to make Pol
a cheap and desirable place of raw
“To the above statement of the :*|
forded by ground-rents should^ be i
Oolethoepb Colleoe.—The Trustees of this
Institution met in this city, yesterday, and per
fected arrangements f jr its removal to Atlanta.
They also elected the Bev. Dr. Wills, pastor ot
the Presbyterian Church here, President. We
are not advised whether or not he will accept
the position. He has the matter under consid-
Thz Hon. Pierre Boule died in New Orleans eration, however, and will make his decision
on Saturday, aged sixty-nine years. ‘ known in due season.
Horrid Condition of North Carolina—
Operations of the Radical Hu-klnx.
The Wilmington Journal, of Tuesday, has
the following:
In addition to the murder of Mr. Owen O.
Norment, and the attempted murder of Dr.
Dick, Mr. Bridges, and Captain Plummer, upon
the night of tho 19th instant, we learn from the
Bobesonian that upon the same night, Mr.
Archie Graham, near St Paul’s was shot and
dangerously wounded in his own yard. Mr.
Benjamin McMillan, in tho same neighborhood,
was shot, and the houso of Mr. Jackson, on the
Elizabeth road, eight miles from Lumberton,
was fired into, fortunately doing no damage be
yond the killing of a dog.
We repeat that the perpetrators cf these
crimes are Badieals—members of the League—
mostly blacks. Leaving out of consideration tho
long chapter of their deeds of violence and
blood, this one night’s operation shows a spirit
of lawlessness and a record of crime before
which all the ontrages in Orange, Chatham and
Alamanco pale into insignificance. These vic
tims are men of character and standing—law-
abiding citizens. Dr. Dick is a brother of
Judge Dick, of the Snpreme Court. The crim
inals aTe known—their hiding places conld be
discovered, but the civil authorities are either
not disposed or are powerless to arrest them.
In Orange, Chatham and Almance, the venge
ance of the people has been wreaked upon the
perpetrators of the crime. In every instance
in which violence has been used, it was in retal
iation for violence. The cries of outraged fe-
male% the corpses of murdered viotims, the
smoke of burning dwellings and barns, and the
want of confidence in tho purity and impartial
ity of judgos, have been the incentives to re
venge.
In Bobeson a wanton spirit of lawlessness, a
thirst for the blood of good men, and the hopes
of plunder, seem to be the bonds of union which
keep together the band of plunderers and mur
derers which infest that country, f And yet we
have no proclamation, no appeal for soldiers.
The good name of the county is not brought in
question by embracingit amongthose denounced
by his loyal Excellency. One company of well
disciplined soldiers conld capture and destroy
this band in a few weeks—a work which the
Sheriff of the county does not seem capable of
doing.
We ask again, can Governor Holden spare
one of bis companies sent to Alamance, or are
the emergencies of the service there so great as
to require the presence of his entire army ?
particular sin if this sense of elevation is car- I ^rcTt is estimated, between ono anil
ried a Uttle too far. Pride, of course, often ’ d of tbcse associations in operati
enters into fine dressing, and many women par- - h disbursing, on an avers*!
licularly are fond of flaunting theirfine feathers P„huht a
in people’s eyes; but a majesty love handsome ? ne thousand monthly. k’ntfaPgjl
dressing in obedience to an instinct of refine- her at the lowest figure— sa y « j
ment—in consequence of that sense of personal ^ ave ^. e F e , e . :.l
purity which accompanies the wearing of choice ly invested in real estate (tor tna »
apparel—and hence we see perfect cocgruity in security taken by the MOT***]
the well dressed crowds that pour through our loans) by the^workingmen oi^h'^Tj
streets on Sundays, wending their way to the
place of prayer. And our most fashionable
congregations, if exhibiting a little too much of
ultra elegance, even if showing unmistakably
the presence of pride and vainglory in too large
a proportion for the spiritual welfare of the
worshippers, have yet, an air of sobriety, are
reverential in manner, at least—conditions that
seem to have been somewhat different in for
mer times, if we can credit Mr. J. U. Jeaffre-
son, who, in his new “Book About the Clergy,”
givdb us some striking pictures of church as
semblies in the olden times.
An Emigration Scheme.—The Northern Pa
cific Bailroad has a vast emigration scheme on
foot. They have a land grant equivalent to a
strip of land twenty miles wide from the head
of Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean. To
stimulate emigration to these lands, and to se
cure labor to build their road, the company have
organized the grandest scheme of emigration
ever devised, and they propose to send Senator
Schurz, ex-Secretary McCullochandex-Goveraor
Marshall to Europe to stimulate the desired em
igration. They propose to offer tho emigrant
abundant employment in building the road for
the first year or two after his arrival. Then
when he has finished his work for the company
he is to have a farm of 40, 80, or 160 acres,
with a neat frame dwelling house ready erected
thereon, and a lot of reasonable size fenced in,
all at the expense of the company. The terms
of payment are so long and on so low interest,
that they cannot prove a burden to the poorest.
It is expeoted that the surplus wages received
for constructing the road will stock the farm
and provide the tool3, so that overy person em
ployed in tho construction of the road may, as
soon as it is finished, go to raising the crops,
whioh it will bring to market. The company
will manufacture the houses, by the thousand,
exactly alike. By the plan thus devised, labor-
for the road is secured and a population on the
line of the road to furnish it business. The idea
is novel and significant, and if effectually car
ried out will bring wealth and development to
an immense portion of tho Northwest.
■ffitfii irrsiinj 1
Last Franklin recently arrived at Bio Jan
eiro, on the way to Vancouver's Island, whore
a settler is said to have a letter from Sir John,
or relating to him, whioh he will not deliver ex-
oept to Lady Franklin in person. Her ladyship
is nearly 80 yean old.
imnHBn
Enterprise.—CoL Hawkins, a large planter
of Enfaula, Ala., feels convinced that the South
can raise its own provisions, and that its farms
may be made self-sustaining, in addition to their
usual yield of ootton. He has lately brought out
from Kentucky twenty-two bro?d mares, a fine
horse and jack, and twelve full-blooded Berk
shire hogs. He sows five hundred acres in oats,
six hundred and fifty acres in rye, besides
patches of wheat and rye for grazing, and plants
one hundred acres in ground peas for hia hogs,
and gives four hundred acres to com, and four
hundred acres to cotton. He has invested $10,-
000 in the experiment, and believes that it will
proves to bo money-making an wefi‘ as economi
cal.
it is no wonder that Philadelphia sj
at tbe rate of a square mile of bo'
nually,and that nearly every family t
own house.
In a Bad Way*
The Chronicle and Sentinel has WJ
ed, by a private letter from M ast-41
the following incident: I
A venerable “ Unionist unltr
stances,” chancing lately to 80 i oa 5T_J
two in 'Washington, as “in duty **
to pay his respects to the Fresi ■
stately octogenarian was receneu 1
tingnished consideration cnaract^ l
National meridian, and was hig“. j
thereat. Of course the conversa j
upon politics in Georgia, touching f|
reconstruction" and the Bepublican pj
the clear-headed old gentleman
pains to elucidate, from what n® ■
be the true national Bepublican
But in the height of his argument»
his guard by his interest in the s-T
far forgot himself as to say thattw 1
canparty in Georgia was damneawi
Appalled at having outraged po^l
the respect due to the Chief AlagispLl
nation” by letting slip a eusswora, ■
suddenly, bringing up with a st -J
contrition and “I beg your pardon- ^
dent.” “Never mind, never
General Grant, in that sooth soft
characterizes his utterance. _
I’m very muoh interested.
self-possession, the gray haired 1*
ceded with his narrative with dig^'J
return of the interrupted ctureWJ
brought a return of cerebral ©xcitem^l
old gentleman agaip brought up * . *
fact is, Mr. President, BepubUc® 1 *” .
are in a bad fix, they have
with thieves or associate with J
G—d, sir / I shall preserve «>!/ 1
armed neutrality. ”
A bearded girl has made her sin
Glade Spring depot, Washington ^
She is four years old, and has 8 j(i
whiskers, the hair upon the fowne $j)
to the eyebrows. Very heavy h a '’ ™
black, extends below the shQuldei*
sprightly, with fully developed J
formed body. The arms sboolf* I
are covered with soft, downy haw-
The last of Washington’* fl
again, this time in St Loui*. u .
105 yean old, and all his j,
He is still living tn several other r
One thousand Chinese laborer®
get fUXa msatk«*d
