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The Georgia 'W'eeklv Telegram lx and. Journal & Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, APRIL C, !8"0- «I Tell Yon the Winchester Riffle Is I Te Harmonize Discords. the Best Law You t^tn Have.” The quidnuncs report everything in bod hu- Bnch was the declaration of Booth Carolina mor cross-purposes in Washington. Har- carpet-bag Governor Scott, at the 'Washington I agpalofla radicalism is more or less discordant Radical meeting, and it drew rounds of applause tl p 0n erery measure now before Congress. The from the motley crowd to whom it was ad- San Domingo Treaty, Cuba, Georgia and Ten- Littell’s liirlng | pressed. Rifles sad gunpowder, bayonets and lessee are all bones of contention, and when We have No. 1347 of Isttell s Living Age, for hlood was the cry of that meeting from the call th ese £all be worked through, along comes the the week ending Ifarch 2Gtb, which contains I ^ or( j er ^ sojournment, and all theoutgivings | worB6 than alL The fur will fly when Indian Theism and iis Relation to Christianity, ^ letiaj.^jiters, gossips and quidnuncs in 1 tariff comes np, and! though iron, copper Contemporary Review; Carlino, Fart II, by e I Washington go to show that this talk is not I and ooa i are heavy missiles, wool and manufao- anthor of “Dr- Antonia,” Good Words; Jesting, serious meaning. I-—’ ---— «- -• Murder and Burlesque, The Graphic; Memoirs Beard, the blood-thirsty nigger from Augusta, __ m . [ l of Gen. Van Brandt, Edinburg Review; David 8a j<j they did not want these Winchester Rifles 1 i an ^ Pennsylvania will be a unit against Gsrtb’s Night Watch, Argosy; Jeremy Tayor, the hands of United States soldiers. Oh no! the Wegt Md fr ' e ^ on th e tariff question, The Graphic; besides shorter articles and poe- that would not begin to do, because the soldiers bnt tie trutb ig free trade has made great pro- T , - „ . . _„ al , I would be likely to deal even-handed jtutice and gyggg ^ a ;i sections of the country, while a Tho Living Age, besides 8 put down violence and lawlessness wherever j_ rce Dftrt of th e renresentatives of the Western amount of the best scientific, literary, historical f. _ if 8 P 4 b representatives or the Western « ia mMhMwfam ufiwsnd *° and - **i no > Bays Beard, we want the gt^a ar e as much in the hewEngland interest “ a ESFZ. toto at P ° w “ te » mmu * “ a <"1 ™* a* 8“» as tl« New Eoglimd«i« thomselyei very jnterestlDg oub hands.” Yes! Beard and his crowd Nor are ^ the only questions which will 1 don t want peace. Bat they want to kick np a I disclose a wide division of opinion among the Wz have Harper for April from Havens <fc I row. They are * ! spiling for a fight, and we jjadicals. On the whole series of measures af- Brown, with a capital table of contents, Ante- have no doubt would be willing to take a little fecting currency and revenue there is a com- ros, by tho author of Guy LiviDgston, ia contin- preliminary whipping, so they could be thrown p^a fracture of the party. The funding, enr- ed ; Count Bismarck; Round the World on into a quasi defensive attitude and invoke the renoy an a tax bills present just so many points Skates; The War in Paraguay; and Frederick power of the United States Government to put of 8tron g conflict, while perhaps, with the ex- the Great, are among the other prominent arti- down “another rebellion,” by fire, sword, con- oe ptions of the San Domingo and the taxation ctes. fiscation and political disabilities. Give them measnre8> the Grant administration has shown The last number of the “GraDhic ” that in- tb<3lr mebsb 8nd ff 8118 * and they coold get up a n0 disposition to make a resolute issue on any j.he last number ot the urapmc, that in — tba b mate the bttle tortoise bite— iZl comparable English illustrated paper, is for sale , , ... , ,. . . particular hne of policy, at Havens & Brown’s. We have said before, by A he fP“.S h 7° on hia bact _ # J The long vista of inevitable legislation ahead but we repeat it now, that there is no pictorial de *P ente programme to (omffl of Congress, therefore, may be truly said not to paper equal to it in our knowledge. As a lite- So8thern States into an atUtudein which present one important topic upon which the rary paper, it is of a high order of excellence, 1110 universal disfranchisement of the whites Raaioals « harmonize. All its future action J r ^ ’ ** would be justified as a measure of “national muat necessarily be more or less discordant, and safety,” they tell us is the last card of the But- it is at least improbable that perpetual discord ler, Drake and Thayer Radioals, to avert the [ a nd cross purposes will not eventuate in final We have had no Atlanta Constitution at this office since Saturday last. What has become of I possibility that the Southern States should ever I division and collapse. The tariff, revenue and ' ’ * * vote the Democratic ticket. It is the initiatory currency questions have constituted for fifty step in the grand military coup d etat, which, I years, in the history of this government, the beginning in the Southern States, shall spread I main issues between opposing politioal parties, at last to every Democratic State, and destroy I when they did not possess a tittle of the relative every ballot not oast for tho Radical party. I practical importance which they do now. That is tho Winchester Rifle Law as expounded | jj will therefore be something new and strange it ? We assure our friend Avery, we miss him, much. - and I and roads in front of their habitations with the litter from the lot or enclosure. It is not a neat practice by any means. It reverses the ordi- chester Rifle is the best law we can have.” Guano Applied to the Streets Roads, Is of no value whatever so far as we are advised; bnt nevertheless, fertilizers are continn&Uy ap- _ __ plied. We see the majority of householders in I b ? 1110 advocatea o{ 4be Bn0er biU r 8114 no ' won ' I if a political organization thoroughly discordant this goodly land sedalously manure the streets der th ®* sa y to each other » “ I teU y° n th ® Win ‘ upon these, and in fact all other leading topics ’ -- *-—*• 1 *■ ” of civil administration, can long be kept to gether. Aware of the danger, some of the lead ing Radical prints and politicians of the Drake & Butler school, propose to create a paramount bond of Union by reviving the strifes of war. The Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina reconstructions are no doubt conceived and car ried on with this idea. Gen. Banks is quoted by the papers as saying at a public dinner (in the candor and frankness of the enp) that he The Orange Culture in East Florida. Some fifteen or twenty gentlemen from vari- nary rule to pnt the best snrface outside, and 0U8 part8 of the s ont h address a letter, March to be more nico about the appearance of that 7tb> to tho p res ;,j ent an d Treasurer of tho Vir- which is most seen. The roads and streets, it ginia immigration Colony, then in Orange : is true, are public highways and as such belong Florida, in reference to the health to nobody in particular. But the man who fills | and productive capacity of that country. We ; •)*;« t Butler on the Rampage. . The following Washington specials appear in the Courier-Journal, of Monday: THE CUBAN LOBBY. - It was telegraphed last night that, under the resolution of th3 House instructing the Judi ciary Committee to inquire into all influences by which members of Congress were intimi dated and corrupted, an inquiry has already been made-into the Cuban lobby. BUZLEB ON THE BAMPAOE. It is stated to-day that as soon as Gen. Butler finishes up this branch he intends to go into the long grant railroad jobs, and will summon no less than two ex-Governors and three ex-mem bers of Congress to appear and testify. He has already commenced a raid on the banks, etc., and yesterday compelled the attendance of the treasurer of the safe deposit to supply a list of safe-holders, to see if it includes Congressmen and newspaper men. His attention will next be direoted to the telegraph companies, but it is understood that the Western Union will refuse to deliver the copies of messages to him. Holy Ben can’t be “asy," it seems; but surely he is not in earnest in this business. If an investigation into tho cadetship matter pro mised to break up the Radical party, as he de clared, what will become of it under such searching probe as he proposes now ? Why, won’t leave a grease spot of the party of great moral ideas. Perhaps, though, this is just what Ben wants. He is after a new deal all around, in order to have fresh pastures and green fields for browsing purposes. Or maybe his con science has woke up and moves him to condone his own sins by unearthing the sins of others. We wish him great success in this now moral spasm. It may sink his party associates to his own level, and if it does that, good-bye Radical ism. Not even that monster can stand the load of more than one Bntlor. them with litter and trash from his lot, directly in front of his own house, shows at least that be has practical control of that part of them; and it is a little wonderful he should imagine the litter is less offensive eight or ten feet in front of his fence where all the world sees it, than eight or ten feet behind it, where the view would be pretty much restricted to his family and friends. find the letter in the last Tallahassee Sentinel, to .° 0mni r^ rf ^ 01 ^ I was tafavor^'raisingan^rmy—marching down on these States, and making war with them off hand, to save the Radical party from going to pieces on qnestions of civil administration. The in that State, and qnote the following paragraph from it In regard to onr lands, we have never claim ed fertility for them, with the exception of tho . hammock lands, which constitute about ten per ncgroBS and carpet-baggers have been actively cent., and are very rich. But we do claim, and enlisted in this grand scheme of fomenting war can prove, that the poorest acre of them is sus* I ^ same interest, and this is the (< national We fail to detect the philosophy of this idea, I the ^es^acre ^ th^ valley of Virgintaf with I inter Py etatl011 ” of the Winchester Rifle Law and call upon some profound genius to explain comparative little fertilization. We claim, and I proclaimed by Scott, Thayer and tho Augusta it The question which we would submit to the can demonstrate, that our second-rate pin© lands negro speaking for Bullock. Stump Hollow Debating Society, is this: Why Anything to overslaugh controversy upon the should a man, in the cause of tidiness, (as the ,i a ae to yield six thousand oranges each in ten whole ““S® of to P 1C8 connected with the pro- Yankees call it;) remove unsightly and filthy years, and that they can be sold on tha tree at I E 1638 of civil government and the prosperity of »t+«r from his back yard to the street in front one cent a-piece, which is less than they have the people. Upon none of these can they co- of his house ? Is he in so doing consulting Sing" $4,080 £?££? ITyol doStter ^ anta f°. f ? ec ; health or cleanliness, or is he parading his slov- than that? Pine-apples and bananas are a 41011 and race be worked np to the point of enliness before his neighbors and the public in I quicker crop, and can be made to yield the same an overriding bond of union in spite of these general ? amount of mofcey in three years. discordant opinions, and force may be success- But it is not so much fLi« view of the case An Enterprise, East Florida, correspondent | fully invoked to supplement and substitute the we desire to present, as the positive wasteful- of the Massachusetts Ploughman, writes as fol- ballot, in putting down all effective opposition ness of the practice. Almost every hooseholder j lows, March 9th: bag his kitchen garden, and should have a ma- j Mr. O. F. Reed, of Mandarin, raised twelve , ° .. _ . . . „ I hundred oranges from three trees in 1868—one nure heap in some unobtrusive spot, where all tree beariDg 3 %oo one 3,300 and the third 6,- these unsightly accumulations should be care- | 500—some of the oranges weighed nineteen to the supremacy of the party. Got Its Eyes Open. The Nashville Banner, erstwhile rather fully plaoed, in an orderly and methodical man- I ounces. Wm. Edwards, Esq., of Micanopy, I warm admirer of the lovely ^ullock-Blodgett ner. This receptacle of all substances which ba3 a fine 8 rove of 72 acres in bearing, some of combination to ruin Georgia and degrade her can, by decomposition, be converted into fer- SSS £ !° m8what * te ttm °’ ° f Iato ’ tihzing matter, will be found every spring to be an acre of land. The price of oranges at Jack- 8ort ot *** e J® opener it has experienced, of great benefit to his gardening operations, I sonville is forty dollars a thousand which would we cannot say. After such an article as appears and to be a solid addition to his means of sub- give as a money product two thousand dollars below,we venture the hope that no more Atlanta Bistenoe. Such a manure heap may be as well for ftn acr0 ‘ letters eulogistio of the B’s, and denunciatory of worth a large sum of money as the money Bat tho ssme corres P° ndont gravely assures tbe Democrats of Georgia, will appear in the itself—whereas, as we said in the beginning of 4110 P®°P Ie of Massachusetts that the population Banner. There’s nothing like attending to one’s this paragraph, it is of no value to the streets of Florida in 1800 was onl y cooo > and is not far own business, however, after *0. and roads. If every householder will system- from that DUmber no ^ That one - haI£ of 4116 It says; atically attend to the manure heap, he will add P°P u,ation re3lde at K ®y Weat > and 11184 leaYes Gearma has a Governor as able [not much— 7 ^ x, • v a balance of only three thousand for the remain-1 Eds. TeL and Mess.] bb he is unsorupulous, and largely to his mcome. Even so. | d0r of , ^ teritoriaUy as large as the »oat of the troubles which now afflict her are „ . , Cfo . - T .. , »_ ^ - directly ascnbable to his machinaUons. Bul- “Beneggleston.” State of New York 1 Now the population of lock bag ^ tbe m07ing 8pirit ^ ^ business This is what Don Piatt calls the Hon. Ben. FIorida in 18G0 was 140,425, and we suppose it from the beginning. It was through him that Eggleston—as he calls himself—who will bo re- 1 18 at flay not very far below 200,000, as the Georgia was remanded back to the tender mer- membered as one of tho “Green Line” exenr- State has, since the war, received heavy acces- siomsts from Cincinnati, and as having made a 810118 b y immigration and its general ratio of 8tr jp pe< j 0 f Conservative members and given disgusting ass of himself down at Fort Pulaski increase every decade has been about sixty per 1 into the hands of the Radicals. The anthori* In a slobbering, blatherskite speech about the oen4 - Th® Massachusetts Ploughman might I ty of Bullock has been well nigh omnipotent 1 ' nor does he intend to abate a single jot or . . ,. .. - _ ■— l title of it The Bingham amendment is intend- him, no ono will wonder at his making that medal for his services. I edto limit this man’s domination, and to fix speech. Eggleston is now contesting Strader East Florida, with many attractive features, a time when Georgia might rid herself of Bnl- (Democrat’s) seat in Congress. Says Piatt: is in general a woe-begone looking country to j lock and Bullock’s policy. Mr. Bingham ex- Gitizen Ben, I understand, has been here 4410 traveller—much of it being of the class i presdy declared in his speech that tho Governor prosoenting his claim with becoming gravity, called “saw-palmetto pine”—a flat, low, level pine region wiUia soil so full of palmetto roots move’every member of .he judiciary, from the nlous proposition. B 88 40 render 4b ® roft ^ 8 a perpetual corduroy. I Chief Jnstioe down, and seei xe from the rail- In looking over the case, one wonders what | Take np a spade full of this soil, in ordinary I road rings more than a million dollars annually in the old Scratch so many men are doing on I wet seasons, and it looks rich till the water drains I LX?r firom^Offio^is ^ the floor; why they wished to come and strng-1 out of it and it will then bleach to much the file so hard to remain. Of this sort of citizen „ * . - _ -... Ben Eggleston was the most noted. Ignorant color o£ 8 w4ut0 clft y P J P 0, 1418 a mystery that as a horse on all questions of a political sort— | smfix soil should be productive, and yet is. When unable to express an opinion or influence vote—such a member must feel as much out of place in Congress as a swine in a back parlor daring a musical soiree. fresh it will prodnee fine cane and sea island cotton crops and sweet potatoes. Bnt it is as the tropical fruit region of the United States that all Penisular Florida will find its true mission, and herd it has boundless re character of the sufficient guaranty that he would not make such statements as these unless there was foundation for them, nor do we know that Bullock has ever ventured an emphatio denial of the charges preferred. He probably thinks the game is in his own hands already, and that he can afford to let his reputation go so long as he secures the coveted prize. What a commentary upon the party in power it is that such a man as this should stand for- 'loyalty,” and Tennessee. _ _ The vote on the ratification or rejection of I sources. It is now producing the finest oranges I ward as the~repVesentative^ of tha new Constitution of this State, and also for rwhich reach the American markets. The rapid- that he should be able to accomplish 'his own county officers under it, took place Saturday, ity with which they can be thrown into market aggrandizement at the expense of an oppressed We are without telegraphic news of the result, from the trees, allows the fruit to attain matu-1 P eo P^®> b y simply appealing to the passions and bnt the Nashville papers say the Constitation I rity and perfection in the orchard, instead of has been ratified by a large majority—more being gathered green like the foreign fruit. The than 30,000. Nashville and Memphis voted market for this fruit will always transcend the largely in favor of the new Constitation. Con-1 supply, however vast it may be, and we, there- prej offices of the mob. Stealing a State. The World calls attention to a recent act of the bones and banjo Legislature of Florida. It servative county officers are generally elected. I fore, look for a good future to the Land of I i 8 entitled “An act to organize the Aquatio and This new Constitution, it will be remembered, | Flowers, wipes out all disfranchisements, and decrees universal suffrage for all—white, black and yel low. Tropical Plant Propagating Company,” by the [ which, if certain of the carpet-bag gentry in festing Florida will undertake to drain the ever glades, they are to receive in fee-simple about Gold Tor Cotton. The New Orleans Picayune has as trong article favoring the adoption of this policy. It says: The period is auspicious. Gold has greatly 0De q na rt®r the geographical area of the fallen, for the present only, it may be, bnt it is I whole State. The charter gives them the conn- indisputable that fluctuations in its value cou- I try south of Township 38, which, as the reader trols the price of cotton, let financial and com- Lrfu perceive from map includes about one- mercialtheorists argue the contrary as they . . . .5" . , , ,, may. This fluctuation in gold, and the chang- 11814 of Manatee comity, the whole of Monroe, ing of it from a fixed value in daily business I nearly all of Dade, and all the keys and islands Rest on That.—A correspondent says this fnss will end in Georgia’s being pnt back under a military government Well, if Congress will gives us a pure military government under some honest, gentlemanly officer and dispense with Bullock and Blodgett and with the Legisia- tore—agreed! But to give ns a military to hold transaction 8 ! into a^mere article of merchandise, I south of Gape Sable. Having stolen about the State, while the rascals pluck her to tho I ^^dSed ffil^rtatoeSthelAnd; I fitting oUe in the State on which they could bone—that’s not the fair thing. Give us an 1 except the illegal one of speculation. Cotton is c now find the reconstructed govern* honest, downright military government for I worth gold in the European markets, and no J uient of Florida actually stealing tho State itself ten years, and we will be quiet while they run I cause exists why it should not be worth I and portioning it out, by the two and a half their radical machine outside of Georgia, just Lottie Market Wtere lt 18 8 rown and firsfc P at counties at a time, to the thieving crews which as they please. _ Wo are satisfied that, with a united effort and ® nviron 4b ® Legislature, r™ p™, i 7*?" . , , _ , a firm persistence of purpose, onr Southern ' * Jut Fisk lately used this remarkable figure of planters can accomplish a revolution in this Southern Securities, speeeh in regard to Sam. Barlow, one of his matter by selling their products for gold exolu- The New York Commercial Advertiser says financiering antagonists. He charged Sam with sively, and thus throw off all reliance upon a foreign bondholders who own over a hundred “piraHng around to see what he could root out,” c^Tt^^dfmmall risk! “[ llions in Southern securities, are getting pan- and said he had struck a barren placer which c f j os8 through tho vicissitudes in the price of lolc y> owing to the result of the untoward leg- did not pan out enough to pay for the court- gold while it remains simply merchandise. Let islative action of North Carolina, and of the plaster to cover the raw spot which his rooting them proclaim as a class that whatever they reC ent demonstration of the unrepentant rebel made on the end of his nose. ably suffice to do the work. This reform once securities will get a ruinous fall unless tho effected, direct trade with the great European Southern States take a more decided stand consumers of our cotton and tobaoco will not against repudiation or revolutionary schemes, bo far off, and the South will be freed from her Colonel Abthub Gogdeix, of Worcester, Massachusetts, gave a party in honor of his ono year old son, Friday. Thirteen mothers, with > u« i<u u.o uuum ww «o ire™ mm uer i » -n babies ranging from five to fourteen months old, vassalage to the Northern cities, and cleared of 8 g ba t 8gal thrwvofa- were present, and very naturally, there were ! 4bo . e . nor . mo11 . 8 cost which that vassalage has up I Nonary schemes of Bullook and Butler, but that thirteen opinions as to whose baby was the best looking. to this time imposed upon her crops. The motto of every Southern planter .should be from this time forward. “A gold market and direct trade with those who buy our crops,” and let them stick to that polioy, for it is preg- Thk Detroit Free Press say “Dawes, of Mas sachusetts, i3 the recanter of tha House, and J nant with great benefits to them. Dick Yates, of Illinois, the decanter of the ] - — Senate." I ' City op Boston.—The opinion in Liverpool The Press has not taken Yates’ measure cor- 18 411114 4416 oi4 y of Boston collided at night with rectly. It has said a pretty good thing, at the 08 * ceber g and went down inatantaneoosly with expense of the Hon. Dick’s character as a first * a11 on boar d. class sot. oalibre as a meter. Nothing under a barrel guages his | Why is the figure nine like a peacock ? Be- I cause it is nothing without its tail. is little or nothing. The bondholders should be men of sense, and consider how much, in law andeqnity, State obligations ought to be worth, should any be issued, by legislators absolutely imposed on Georgia under Butler’s bill—legally representing nobody in the State and no per ceptible portion of the property, beyond what they may plunder. So far as constitutional law is concerned, such a legislature can as well issue bonds for New York as for Georgia. If the capitalists, foreign and domestic, don’t beoome shy of such bouds, we think they ought to be. A Blast Against New England Society. A Chicopee (Mass.) parson has recently lifted up his voice against some New England ways that he don’t at all like. He said: “Marriage formerly meant the family. It used to mean the husband, the father, the wife, the mother, the keeper at home. But things have changed. Marriage now don’t mean any thing in many instances. Home means boarding place. Housekeeping is degradii The home has in it no well-spring of pleasure. The cares and responsibilities of maternity must be postponed. Children are expensive, and a bother. Household duties, either in per son or by proxy, are degrading. Society so teaches. Accept the society, and you acoept its customs.” Then the preacher proceeded to make a practical application of his subject, and to condemn a speoial sin. He proposes that the old New England stock shall not die out. We heartily wish him succoss in his crusade. The “old New England stock” beats the new, all hollow. Webster, Woodbury, Choate, Win throp, Toncey, Pierce and others represent the one, and Butler, Sumner, Phillips and Garison stand for the other. The blood that has been spilled, the rnin and desolation, the widows and orphans, the ivolated Constitution and laws trampled under foot, the enormous debt and crashing taxation, and the hate, and bitterness, and strife that now fill the land, all plead for the one, and against the other. If the “old New England stock” bad not died out, the Union and civil liberty would not have perished under the edge of the sword. It was a woeful day, indeed, that saw a decadence of that spirit that moved the “old New England stock” and the old Sonth Carolina stock to unite in digging the foundations and building the walls of the once proud temple of States Rights and genuine Re publican Government Who Whipped the Fight ? This question was answered in the Senate, the other day, by Senator Williams, of Oregon. Ho said: “It was the negro who saved our country.— Mr. Stanton, who is now enjoying his reward with the saints above, said that we were on the point of failure when two hundred thousand ne* gro soldiers came to our assistance, and bnt for the assistance of the negro soldiers, the South would have gained her independence.” Now let the howlers about “Northern prowess and patriotism” hold their peace, and lift their numerous affidavits. That brag won’t wash any more. It’s played out. Let it be buried for good. The Union was “saved,” and the “old flag” borne to victory, not by Irish, Austrians, Prussians, Russians, Spaniards, Frenchmen, Portugese, Scotch, English, Turks, Italians, Grecians, Indians, and—we had almost forgotten them—the Yankees, themselves, but negroes.— The glistening and np-lifted African “saved the Union.” Considering Williams’ and Stanton’s testimony, it does not appear that the man and brother has realized any very considerable dividends on his investment. Revels is a very small nubbin to represent such a heavy crop of Union-saving. Wlrat tbe Kentucky Negroes Say. At a recent meeting of negroes in Lexington, Ky., the following platform, as reported by the Observer and Reporter, was laid down. We commend their example to their brethren every where. How it would rattle the dry bones in Georgia! We black Radicals are on a perfect equality with white Radicals. The negroes in this district hold the balance of power, and will dictate terms to the Radical party to suit themselves. The negroes are strong enough to say, and will say, what shall and what shall not be done in tbe party. The white Radicals are only camp-followers of the negroes and hangers-on to their powerful coat tails. Negro candidates must, and shall have places on the Radical ticket for the August election. Negroes were os well prepared to hold office now as they ever would be, and were fully determin ed to hold them, and if the white Radicals did not like it they conld help themselves the best they could. The negroes constituted the true Rndiccl par ty, and they wanted no weak-kneed white Radi cals m their party, and they wanted all such to get out at once and give place to white men who would acknowledge straight out their equal ity with the negro and then act it out. Manotactubino a Constituency to Obdeb. The Radicals are a people fruitful in resources. To secure the Southern States for their party, they manufacture voters by the million—and fearful that this will not secure the result, dis franchise the other side. To secure amend ments of the Constitution they manufacture a sufficient number of States and Legislatures for tho purpose, and they back Congress by any and all means to suit the emergency. Jnst now, as wo see by a special telegram in the Atlanta New Era, they are on tbe high horse at tho suc cess of Sherman’s manoeuvre to admit two Texas Senators, in order to defeat the Binghma amendment. Well, let them go ahead. It is a long lane which has no taming, and your sharp rascals are sure to be signally overtaken and pnniBhed at last Tho horizon wa3 never so portentous of trouble to the Southern people as it is now; but though we can’t see daylight we will grope for it, and it will burst upon us at last. Revels Studying the Constitution. A Washington correspondent, giving pen and ink photographs of United States Senators, says: “Senator Revels, in a glossy black suit, with his cylinder-shaped head and dust brown complexion, studies the Constitution diligently, as if it were his prayer-book.” Revels is wasting his precious time. He might as well be singing psalms to a defunct mole. What’s the Constitution to Revels, or Revels to the Constitation ? He’d better not let Sumner or Drake catch him at suoh foolish- If he wants to rise in the party, he must quit this sort of thing. What’s the use of learn ing such a lot of stuff as that document teaohes? He won’t have any need for it, and it may get him into trouble. We advise Revels to do as his party has done, and let the Constitution ‘slide.” The Georgia Press. The Sumter Republican tells of a certain contract made by the Ordinary of that county, which cost $700 more than was necessary, on account of the depreciation of county orders. Mrs. Herring, of Sumter county, died of cancer of the throat, on Monday, aged 102 years. The Gcinesvilie Eagle says the work of grad ing on the second section of the Air Line road was commenced Tuesday of last week. In few days work will commence on other sec tions. * Tho Savannah News says the .'Pope has con firmed the appointment of the Bishop of Savan nah. A family of German emigrants, on their way to the far West, passed through Savannah, Fri day. Tho News wishes to know why they did not stop in Georgia. The answer is: Driven off by Radical lies. A Mr. Sprague, a Northern invalid, died the Pulaski (Savannah) House on Saturday, The “Vigilants” of Augusta, the “Vigilante' of Charleston, tho “iGlna” of Charleston, and the “Germania” of Charleston have been invited to participate in the annual parade of the Fire Department of Savannah on the first of May next. The Savannah News: The Fbeshet and the Rice Chop.—The fresh et which prevailed for some time past in the Savannah, Altamaha and Ogeechee rivers, has seriously interfered with planting operations, and in many cases interfered materially with the rice prospect for the coming year. Coming just at a time when all the preparations had been made for planting and in the majority of cases the seed already sown, it has pnt back opera tions at least three weeks. In all the plantations the fields have been and are still under water, and if the rivers do not fall this week, the dam age to the present rice will be incalculable. We know on the Savannah, Altamaha and Ogeechee rivers, that the rice crop which ought now to be in the ground and fairly np, will be put back to an alarming extent by tho prevalence of the recent freshets. The steamship Montgomery, from Savannah for New York, put into Charleston, on Sunday, for repairs, having shifted her screw. The Savannah News gives the following ao- count of a new fire engine, the merits of which were tested in that city on Saturday: According to announcement made, the appa ratus known as tha Chemical Fire Engine was tested on the open area on Bay street, near the store of Messrs. D. S. Scranton & Co., on Sat urday, at 5 o’clock. The experiment was some thing new in Savannah, and attracted a large number of interested visitors, including fire men, mechanics, insurance men, and others. The machine, which has already been described in the News, is, as its name indicates, one whereby tho chemical action of certain ingre dients, when placed in contact with extreme heat, produces an extinguishing gas which is fatal to flame. They have been nsed in North ern cities with success, and as a ready means of extinguishing conflagrations when in their in ception, are useful and almost invaluable. Tbe test of the machine made on Saturday by Gen. Mansfield Lovel, the agent, was quite satisfac tory, at least it was so regarded by the Fire Committee, under whose immediate direction the experiment was made. The Americas Courier is of opinion that the peach crop of that section has suffered but little from the recent cold weather. Gardens are un usually backward. The Griffin male and female colleges have two hundred and eighty students. The Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad bridge across the Flint river is abont completed. Jonesboro’ has a new depot built of rock, and a new Court-house just finished. The lat ter cost $8,150. The Era says the Catholics of Atlanta are building the finest church in Georgia. Ho for the West” is the word among many Georgians. If they would hoe for corn and cotton they would make more money.—Era. The Hon. H. P. Farrow, becoming tired of cooling his heels outside the Senate Chamber, has returned to Atlanta. Of course he “speaks hopefully of the situation." The Forsyth colored gentlemen having all gotten rioh, propose to cultivate the noble game of billiards. The Monroe Advertiser “bids adien” to peaches. It reports a failure of the crop, also, in Pike, Batts and Upson counties. The Advertiser has this to say of the status and prospects of tho grain crops of that sec tion : In Monroe, very nearly the same area of land is devoted to wheat, oats barley and rye as last season—with the very important addition of a more thorough and careful preparation of the soil. Wheat has not been materially injured by the cold weather, though in some sections of tbe county, its appearance indicates that it is affected to some extent. The average portion of the crop, however, is quite promising. Oats are doing passably well, and the same may be said of barley. The area prepared for corn is not perceptibly enlarged, but a liberal uso of fertilizers and thorough cultivation in connec tion with favorable seasons, will doubtless ma terially increase the yield. That which has al ready been planted will, under the influence of the cold wet weather whioh, at this writing, seems to be in fashion, probably rot in the gronnd, and most of it will have to be ploughed up and replanted. In Butts, tbe prospect of a large grain crop is excellent. Although the farmers lack railroad facilities for the transportation of their supplies, they are investing largely in fertilizers and im proved agrieoltaral implements. This, together with the fact that they have materially added to the area planted in grain last year, argues well for the future prosperity of Butts. In Pike, the prospects are favorable. Wheat is looking well. Oats sown in January and Feb ruary have been seriously damaged by the cold. Those sown in the fall are promising. Major M. H. Stephens, an Americas mer chant, and an ex-Confederate officer,died in that place on Sunday. Tho Sumter Republican says: The subject of a railroad connection between this place and Lumpkin via Preston, is again reviving in public interest. We understand that Mr. Holt, of the Southwestern road, offers to take, on behalf of the company, one-half of the stock necessary for the completion of the road, and this, in connection with State aid, whioh will be about $15,000 per mile, ought to ensure some action on the part of our citizens. The Albany News says Mr. Telfair Jones,who fell through the bridge over the Flint river one day last week, was worse hurt than was first supposed. His left arm and right thigh were fractured. His wife, who is nursing him had three of her ribs broken, on Friday night, by a fail from a piazza. The News says: The Macon Pbesbyteby.—This body meets in Albany, on Wednesday, tho 6th of April, at 7$ o'clock v. m. It has thirteen ministers, seven teen churches and about one thousand commu nicants. The Presbytery will probably be represented here by abont twenty-five delegates, it being the custom to send at least one minister and one rating elder from each church. A largo attendence is expected. Several min isters beyond the limits of the Macon Presbyte ry will probably be hero. Mr. De Wolf, of the Golumbns Sun, offers his interest in that paper for sale. The Catholic congregation of Columbus, have determined to build a larger and more beauti- fal church edifice than the one they now have. They will soon have the requsite funds for that purpose. A letter for Cornelia Baty, Macon, is held for non-payment of postage, in the Savannah post- office. The Oglethorpe Steam Fire Engine Company have invited as their special guests on the oc casion of the Annual Parade of the Savannah fire department, the Protection, of Macon. The Constitutionalist of Tuesday, says: An engineer oorps, under charge of Gapt. A. Grant Childs, chief engineer, left the city yes terday afternoon to take up the survey of the route for the Barnwell (8. C.) railroad. They ■were fully equipped and the work is to be pushed forward with vigor. *^1 £.» v* • jr . The Chronicle and Sentinel is glad to learn that the prospects for the completion of the rail- toad between that city and Port Royal are daily brightening. Two hundred and fifty tons of iron have recently been received in Charleston for laying the track of this road, and more iron is daily expected to arrive. The Chief Engi neer states that work will soon be commenced between Augusta and tbe Savannah river, and the entire work will be finished by next October. A little girl aged eighteen months, daughter of Dr. W. G. Phillips, of Augusta, was poi soned, Tuesday, by sucking yellow jessamine flowers, and died in two hours. Three hundred and twenty-eight sacks of damaged com sold at Savannah, Monday, for $1.70 per bushel. Samuel Bowman, one of the guards of the Savannah street gang, was accidently shot the hip, Monday. The limb of a falling tree strack and discharged his gun. The Savannah Republican extracts from the American Missionary, a Radical monthly pre tending to be religions in character, the fol lowing report of missionary operations at Savan nah: Rev. G. A. Hood reported for Savannah. Our ohnrch is yet Bmall. Our work for this is to pnt up a small building. The chnrch was organized in March, and has had two revivals. The con gregation numbers abontsixty,sometimes eighty or ninety. The colored people are a good deal controlled by the rebels. In the last election the colored people cast two hundred and thir teen Democratic votes. The colored people are well organized into churches. We have in the school three hundred pupils. The Catholic in flaence is strong against us. Many of the oolored people are Catholic. Northern men keep very quiet. Last spring they were compelled to go two and two with recolvers in their pockets. A Girard and a Columbus lager beer seller ran a foot race at Columbus, Monday, for $ 10. Gi rard won. Tbe Sun says it was the race of the season. Regs of lager beer were plaoed at con venient distances to make the head light Each bore as his colon a tin qnart cup, and went it in his shirt sleeves. Of factory affairs at Columbus, the Enquirer says: During a brief call yesterday wo noticed ac tive preparations going on along the line of our river. The Muscogee Mills will be in full blast in a few days. Operations have already com menced in the pickery and carding room, and spinning and weaving will soon be the order. The machinery in motion is snperb and works admirably. The company will soon be able to give employment to some sixty hands. 24,000 spindles are already in place, and the number is soon to be increased to 40,000. Only white cotton goods, consisting of osnabergs. sheeting and shirting are to be manufactured at these mills. 6 and 8 oz. osnabergs will be turned out, by way of turning and tempering the ma chinery. Mr. D. Keith is Superintendent. We wish the company much success. Eagle and Phenix Mill No. 2 is also just com mencing business. The carding machinery is already at work. Two rooms in the building are occupied by looms, all of which are to bo employed in the production of cotton goods, such as ginghams, checks and BtripeB. These are to be tho specialties, and the amount turned out will be immense, and the quality very supe rior. Some 300 hands will be employed and ten thousand spindles operated. We noticed a splendid lot of cotton goods being paoked for the Louisiana State Fair. The company have just commenced making colored cotton blankets, which we think will be found to be more popu lar than the white, as they are not so easily soiled. West Point, Georgia, has bought the first- class hand engine, formerly owned by the At lanta fire company No. 1. Two big raffles, one for a 5000 pound ox, and the other for a $1000 set of furniture, axe on hand in Atlanta. The Era says some of the Atlanta fair were oat on the streets, Tuesday, in spring suits of pink. Yesterday would have been a good day down here, to christen them. The Americas Republican says: “The gas is so bad in Atlanta that the man who puts it out uses a lantern to find the lamp- posts.” It was good enongh, however, for the people to see George pour that bottle of cham pagne into Charley's tall, black hat, when the press convention was here.—Era. For the week ending Maroh 26, the follovfing freight was shipped over the Georgia railroad Founds com 1,266,144 Pounds wheat 177,280 Ponnds flour 824,600 Pounds bacon 350,200 Pounds lard 60,450 Pounds cotton 282,500 2,961,174 Other freights 687,650 Total for week 3,948,824 Pounds up freight for week 670,886 The Constitution announoes the arrest Tues day by Terry’s soldiers, of Mr. John Stephens, worthy citizen and unright merchant of At lanta, charged with no crime, but simply to ex tort from him supposed knowledged of an of fence committed by other parties. It alse gives the following particnlare of an other military outrage. One week ago, last night, Mr. Fred S. Lamb, the venerable bridge-keeper at Roswell bridge, Mr. Adam Legg, who resides some four miles beyond tbe bridge (across the river), Mr. John Adams, who lives one mile, and J. L. Wing, who liveB two miles this side of the bridge, were ar rested by the military, and have been kept in imprisonment ever Bince. The ground of their arrest seems to bo simply this: A negro woman, living about four miles this side of the bridge, was killed several weeks ago, supposed by a band of three disguised men, as three men, disguised and mounted, crossed and recrossed the bridge that night The bridge-keeper, Mr. Lamb, was released yesterday, as no information could be extracted from him. The others are suspected to know something about the murder or the murderers. Mr. Wing is known in this city as a quiet, inof fensive man. A negro man named Joe, reputed to be a no torious thief, is said to have been the husband of the murdered woman. A few weeks previous to the murder, Mr. Wing had the negro Joe arrested for stealing oats from his barn. Joe acknowledged the crime before Notary Fublio Smith, and was fined for the offence. He paid it and returned home in Wing’s wagon. One can readily un derstand that Joe, to be revenged on Mr. Wing, would cause his arrest. When tho prisoners first arrived here, their gal counsel were not permitted to see them. Mr. S. P. Campbell, son of a citizen of At lanta, has invented an instrument called the Tellnrion, that shows the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of thp seasons. In Hartford, Conn., a company has been organized to manu facture it, called the Tellnrion Manufacturing Company. Radical Complications on the San Domingo Treaty. The Washington correspondent of tho Rich mond Dispatch says, on the 26 th: Rumors have been afloat here to-day of a dis- greement between the President and a number of those members of Congress who have hereto fore been numbered amongst his warmest sup porters, which indicate serious results in a party point of view; bnt the probabilities are that they arise altogether oat of the very intense feeling which has been originated by the dis cussion of the San Domingo treaty. It is no secret that the President has set his heart npon the ratification of this treaty, whioh he has made the prime point of the foreign policy of the administration thus far; and it is equally plain that Samner, who is the chairman of tbe Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, can not be brought to Bee the slightest advantage which could accrue to the United States by the annexation of San Domingo. Sumner’s influ ence with the Executive has not been as potent he has wished, and the ardent attack of the Senator upon the pet projeot of Grant shows how earnestly he appreciates the slight differ ences that exist. San Domingo may get through, however. Grant will fight for it until the very end, as he now considers that our government pledged to annex it to its territory. Aa American Engineer Canal. The following is published a« t b an eminent American engineer examination of the Suez Canal • ** I cannot say the canal, cotti success. Financially, so far i stockholders are concerned, it has 0061, in cash, 400,000,000 fi 000,) which, for one hundred mu! 0 too large a sum to pay dividends? company charge a very high rat* passing through it would deter m* ing this way. Only light freight* it, and that would furnish but Cotton from India is the great Wj? turn traffic, which would continue the Cape of Good Hope. The canal will become the joint all the governments interested inth wonld pass through it, they paT j * holders a fair price for the canal’*-? make it a public highway, charei* cient tolls to keep it in good workin which I am pleused to find will i much less than represented. I drifting sand would continue to fin This is not the case. The entire ci ly so, is excavated below the lev try on either side, hence the eml very wide and high, and serve a, against the drifting sand, as wtll 63 - strong enough to prevent breaches * bankments. The harbors at either^' mirably constructed for the accomm, the immense business the canal is de The valet is at present throughout, and will soon be tvWf a width of 1,500 feet, and more in II? There is not a lock of any descriw! canal, from the Mediterranean to A. or Guff of Suez. There is no 0 W- ortvT Vinil TVio _r n ‘heEil any kind. The water of the twcTj^ 1 the same height-the tides affecthc?." only for the distance of a few ul,l end. I repeat, that in my judgment, and railroad man, this canal is a grew if and will mark an era in the history or >sl I regret our government did not ordel more vessels of war to repreeent us he! other nations were thus represent! opening. We had some fine ships " here.” German Colony in North Carol* The Nashville Union and Americca 1 following: The German colony at Valhermoso, cf J Col. J. J. Giers is President, has beta, ized. The drones have been excluded fa- hive, and all hAVo gone to work Several thousand acres of government 1" the vicinity of the Springs, near Decat; been taken up under the homestead . number of small farms have been parch rented, and the colony bids fair to be atL as it contains nothing but industrious, b and intelligent people. Tbe cultivation il ton is forbidden, and nothing bnt bre*J vegetables, eta, will be raised by thjl year. The Germans are very much > with the kindness andhospitality of them and their only complaint is that they nJ ed to eat at every house they call, andtt can’t stand to eat six meals a day. came here partly to make purchase) tfl visions, seeds and farming tools for thea| pie, and Nashville may in time expect to» rich harvest from the influx of this population. Mr. Giers thinks that thousand families will move into Kiddle 1 nessee and North Alabama by nextiiS. The Suez Canal.—The New York! Saturday says; There is now in this port a small cargo fee, via the Suez Canal, which grev up* mountain estate of Pasha Ali, in Arabia reached New York via England in 40 dap, ]j this coffee come by the way of Good . sail, it wonld have required seven months']: er to have made the trip, and would baieh liable to injury from passing through the t Vessels drawing 19 feet nave passed f and the Canal Company are working ener; ally to remove the only obstructions, than at Serapecum, after which the unifomdi. of water in the oanal will be nearly 30 feet! a few weeks the Company promise to fctnj| Canal in a condition to permit the \ ship drawing 27 feet By telegram vs ] that the rocks named above have been k removed as to afford 27 feet depth ot i through the canal, and that there are hart" charters cf sailing ships being made in 1 ports for Enrope now at the low rate of & ton, which was thelhigheat quoted rates oti ing vessels, while steamers, via Suez, vend cepting the old rates of sailing ships, rii: I per ton. The New York Evening Mail says that female suffrage meets with much better support now the abolition of slavery did in ite early days, into a fhn. Gold In Texas. The Houston Union says that been hoarding gold for years. Fifty mi! probably, are now in the State. Tbe gold has cost Texas, on account of this ing, at least five Bullions- This capital rill be employed. Hew shall we employ tbe boci ed gold of Texas ? is one of the most imj questions of the time. We can answer it. Buy np your Coi sional Agency, and make it run in the ini of the people, and not the Radicals. If k like others we know of, the purchase won’t tii tithe of yonr fifty millions. Tennessee. - Nashville has sent a delegation on to W ington to tunnel a way for truth through mountain of lies aggregated upon the f&irfi ot Tennessee, by the industrious and perssti efforts of Stokes, Mayuard, Butler and They report the work heavy, but proeps hopeful. We should suppose it wonld be al hard a job as the Hoosao TunneL The Richmond Dispatch's special Washing* telegram of Saturday, says “the Georgia will, from present appearanoes, go back to £ House minus the Bingham amendment, thosj the parties for and against that amendment a so evenly divided in the Senate that it is difik* to speak with certainty of its fate.” \Tt<ih L. Babklow, of Brooklyn, N. Y., dent at the St. Louis, Mo., law school, pa««i very severe examination yesterday before W Knight, of the St. Louis Circuit Court, and i* admitted to praotioe.—Herald, of Sunday. Now, we suppose, she will Bark-fiiyA A least we hope so, as that is the way to tree t* catch fat fees. An official table prepared at the Trewuiy 1> pertinent shows that the public debt of United States could be cancelled by a sinto fund capital of twenty-five millions a y 641 " twenty-three and a half years. At the fifty millions a year, in fifteen and a half fi*" ana at the rate of a hundred millions a nine and a half years—the interest to M per cent, payable semi-annually. White Fabic Labob—Our Jefferson cosS correspondent says that several leading gen^ men in that county are employing whites * their plantations. We hope the experini* will succeed, and the example be contagion! As a current statistical item it is stated tW one hundred young women are preparing 1 the legal profession in the United States.® ladies onght to know better than most peep how a declaration should be filed. The sale of the celebrated library of John 4 Rice, of Chicago, dosed in New York, Seb 2- day night Twenty-seven thousand vola® 8 were disposed of for about forty thousand** lars. The ice companies on the Upper MississpP 1 river have been busy harvesting ioe reoeiW' Home 20,000 tons have been out, all of whicb for Southern consumption. Collapse in the New Yobe Gknebal A* sembly.—The New City Charter bill, tor York City, was killed in the lower house of Legislature last Tuesday, by a contention ^ tween the country Democrats and the members. The event created great ezcitean» and much hard swearing. A new fashion is being introduced. are now having fans made in the snap® pistols and daggers. It is rather a cwW" sight to see the blushing, timid Miss