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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