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The Greor^ia TTeeklv Tele^raiDh and. Journal &c JVIessengei*.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, APRIL 5, !S70.
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«\'o More tliau C’onntlea.”
The Richmond State Sournal, the organ of
the Virginia Radicals, puts in words what has
virtually boon acted out by its party since tha
war, but which heretofore has not been spoken
no boldly. It soys:
“The States are nothing—no more than
counties—and the general government every
thing. Yon may not like it, bnt the war has
made it so. State Legislatures and Governors
are of small account, and will ‘grow small by
degrees and beautifully less’ in the present and
future political calculations of this country.
The Federal government, in the estimation of
the people, is paramount.”
Perhaps so, though wo do not believe it, yet
The events of the next four years may force us
to the oonviction, bnt we are not prepared to
accept It until they have made longer hope to
the contrary idle. We want to see the people
of the whole country pass upon the proposition,
before accepting it as a decree of fate. If the
American people will endorse such a proposition
they deservo all tho horrors its practical inforce-
ment will bring,and we are not afraid nor asham
ed to invoke them for their punishment. When it
has been finally settled that this doctrine is to
prevail throughout the country, that those who
hold tho Federal sword and treasury are abso
lute masters of the States and all the rights of
their people, then welcome the rnle of the naked
sword. Let all forms and pretences be abolish
ed—substitute, by proclamation, general orders
and military edicts for laws and constitutions—
abolish Legislatures and Congress, and pnt their
duties in the hands of sashed and girded marti
nets, and tnra the country into a vast camp at
cnee. Tho Sonth will vote for a wholesale mili
tary rule any day, rather than see established a
partisan despotism that, under a mockery of law
and right, is far meaner, crnelor, more degrad
ing and more fatal to overy interest than the
most rigid tyranny of the sword that conld be
devised. We prefer Sherman’s rale to that of a
Radical Congress, and wonld welcome Terry’s
as a boon if placed in the scale with that of Bal
lade and his packed Congressional Agency.
Or Importance to Inventors.
Tho Washington Republican says the British
Minister there has received information that tho
Governor General of India has offered a largo
reward for a machine or process capable of sep
arating tho fibre and bark from the stem of tho
rhesa, or China grass plant, and for preparing
the same; and as the cultivation of China grass
has already begun in the Southern States, it is
only a question of a few months who will be the
successful competitor. Therefore, to stimulate
the invention or adaptation of such machinery,
the Government of India offers a prize of
£5,000 sterling for tho machine and process that
beet fnlfil all requirements. Rewards of a
moderate amount will be given for really meri
torious inventions, even thongh failing to meet
entirely all the requirements. A royalty of five
per cent, on the cost price of all machines man-
afaetnred under the successful patent will also
bo allowed upon its transfer to tho Govern
ment. Any informatipn upon the snbjcct will
bo cheerfully furnished by the Legation or
British Consols in any part of the country.
The Income Tax.
In the Senate on Tuesday, Mr. Sherman in
troduced an amendment to the Hons joint reso
lution declaratory of the meaning and intention
of the law relating to income tax. The amend
ment provides that the several duties on in
comes, dividends, and salaries shall continue
daring the year 1870, and so mnch of said taxes
M are not paid daring the year shall be collect
ed in 1870. After the year 1870 the tax on in
comes shall be 3 per centnm. We are disposed
to believe that this will be the final disposition
of tho income tax question, thongh the country
demands its abolition.
The Wilmington Journal says a yonng man
by the name of McAfee, residing in Knoxville,
Term., has invented a conpling machine, for
which ho obtained a patent within the past
week. It is said to be a most complete piece of
mechanical invention, and consists of a lever
and connecting bolts rnnning under tho cars,
operated by the engineer on the locomotive,
and by which he can successfully conple a train
of oars and cause the conpling bolts to drop in
proper position by a touch upon his lever. Tho
yonng man sold his right immediately, and it is
gratifying to know that he obtained for it a
comfortable round sum—§25,000.
£ Case of Mistaken Identity.—The St. Louis
Republican tells of a young man from Calhonn
county, Illinois, visiting St. Louis, who was sr-
Tested thero for stealing rings from a jeweller.
He was examined and committed and subse
quently indicted and tried for the larceny.
Witnesses identified him positively as tho thief,
ud tho evidence to convict was perfect. But a
companion who was with him at the time of the
theft, and other witnesses, established an alibi
Bo perfectly as to leave no donbt in the minds
of the jnry that it wa3 a case of mistaken iden
tity.
The San Dojdkoo Theaty.—A Senator, who
lias made a canvass of the Senate on the ques
tion of the ratification of the treaty for tho an
nexation of St Domingo, says there are forty-
two Senators against it, which is a majority of
the Senate. From this it appears that not only
will the treaty be rejected, bnt the proposed
joint resolution providing for the annexation of
the island conld not command a majority of tho
Senate. So says a Washington telegram to the
Philadelphia Press.
National Hotel, Washington, D. O.,
J March 29, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger :
On account of tho publication of an extract
from tho Atlanta Intelligencer and your paper
by Forney and Bullock, a short time since, in
regard to tho Bingham amendment and its re
suits in Georgia, we caused to be circulated
among Senators and Representatives in Con
gress a pamphlet explaining the motives actuat
ing such publications in Democratic papers (so-
called.)
Wo were assured by parties in whom wo have
confidence that yon published all of Gov. Bnl
lock’s proclamations, besides doing other print
ing. Tho party farther assured ns that yonr
paper, ns weil as tho Intelligencer, was in tho
pay of Bullock. Wo have sinca satisfied our
selves that this statement, so far as relates to the
Teleguaph and Messesoeb, is incorrect, and
hasten to apologize for tho injustice done,
It is not surprising that wo should hit an in
nocent party occasionally, in striking right and
left at enemies of Georgia, both open and co
vert. Our anxiety to savo onr State from tho
villainous grasp of an unscrupulous ring of des
perate men must bo onr defense of tho hasty
accusation of your paper.
Hoping in fntnro wo shall do injustice to no
one, wo are, Very respectfully,
J. E. Bryant,
J. Bowles.
Tho apology is accepted, bnt was quite need
less so far os we are concerned. No slander of
that kind will stick. It is truo so indepen
dent a paper as this, will ovoko a good deal of
criticism, and mnch of it, as things go, is bound
to bo more or less illiberal and libellous. Bnt
we have livod in vain if the people of Georgia
can bo seduced into doubts of onr hearty fealty
to their interests and welfare.
If Forney and Bollock had, indeed, quoted an
extract from onr paper, they were welcome to
mako their own use of it; bnt they or their
agents manufactured an extract and were guilty
of a base fraud upon the Senate and tho people
as well as npon this print. If, with that exam
ple, Messrs. Bryant & Bowles fail to show up to
the Washington Legislators,from this illnstration
tho reckless mendacity which controls tho At
lanta slander mill aDd characterizes all tho out*
rage dispatches which go up from Georgia in
tho interests of Bnlloik, they will bo much in
fanlt. Let them attend to it
And by tho way, tho silence of the mill since
this performance, shows that tho conspira
tors are aware that they made a bungle in their
villainy at that time. Wo have no donbt Bullock
and Forney gave tho millers a terrible cursing
not for lying, but for lying m a case where de
tection was so inevitable. But tho millers
thought tho vote in the Senate would come off
before detection was possible, and they were
indifferent what happened afterwards.
Am os»’ Credential.
It is not often snch a cariosity as Ames’ certifi
cate as Senator from Mississippi, which wo pub
lish below, is presented for public inspection.
Wo hasten, therofore, to pat it on record for the
benefit of onr readers. Reconstruction has de
veloped many phases of official and personal in
famy, bnt none so characteristic and truo to na
ture as this. Wo do not wonder at tho zeal
shown in Ames’ favor by the Radicals of the
Senate. Here is tho certificate :
Executive Department, ^
State of Mississippi,
Jackson, Miss., January 25, 1870.)
I, Adalbert Ames, Brevet Major-General
United States Army, Provisional Governor of
tho State of Mississippi, do hereby certify that
Adalbert Ames was elected United States Sena
tor by the Legislature of this State on the 18th
day of January, 1870, for tho unexpired term
which commenced on tho 4th day of March,
18G9,and which will end on the 4th dav of March,
1875.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
( » set my hand and caused the great seal
t* 1 ' 8 '). of the State of Mississippi to be affixed,
—'—' this 24th day of January, 1870.
Adelbebt Ames,
Brvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A.,
Prov. Gov. of Mississippi.
The Snpreme Court.
Tho Constitution says this Court will soon
adjourn, having been in session nearly five foil
months, leaving only one month for tno Judges
to write out their decisions. This has been the
longest session ever kEown before, and tho
Constitution thinks if litigation increases, a
perpetnal session will not be long enongh to
get through tho work. Many trivial and ground
less cases havo consumed a great deal of time,
and tho Judges have determined to put a stop
to it. They have commenced, and will continue
to assess damages npon all parties who como in
to Court with cases of this character.
The storehouse of Mr. P. W. Payno, at Rol
lins' Ford, King George county, Virginia, was
robbed and burned by threo negroes, on Thurs
day night, last week. They also murdered his
clerk, a yonng man named Jett, and threw his
body into tho burning pile, where ono leg of it
waa fonnd tho following morning. Oh these
poor, persecuted blacks! What a hard time
they havo. Wo haven’t a donbt this white boy
was trying to Kn-Klox them when ho was killed.
Mb. J. M. G. Medlock, lato the excellent ed
itor of the Sandersville Central Georgian, will
hereafter be connected with the Teleguaph and
Mmskcoeb, having in more special charge the
mechanical department of the paper, into which
yso hope he will introdnee sundry desirable im
provements.
An Old Rnle Dug Up.
The Radical papers of Washington becoming
ashamed of Grant’s persistent and indecent
lobbying in person, among tho Senators, to get
their voto for tho San Domingo treaty, havo re-
jrarrected the following portion of the 37th
yule of the Senato in force sinco 1789. Wo do
not see how it helps Grant, for tho simple rea
son that ho lias not complied with it. However,
any excuse will do where Grant and Radical
purposes are concomed. Wo aro rather surprised
that any at all was vouchsafed.
“When tho President of the United States
shall meet the Senate in tho Senato Chamber,
for the consideration of executive business, the
presiding officer of tho Senato shall havo a chair
on the floor, bo considered as tho bead of tho
Senate, and his chair shall be assigned to the
President of the United States.”
Letter from Louisville.
Louisville, March 29, 1870.
Messrs. Editors : Knowing you are always on
tho watch for items to benefit yonr readers, wo
thought it might be well to drop yon a line, to
say that tho blockade is np—cleared out. Wo
have frequent enquiries as to the delay in ship-
ing. This will post onr customers in Georgia.
Wo aro getting goods off promptly—shipping
from Cincinnati in 7 days, from Lonisvillo in
C days to Macon.
As wo have shipped yonr enterprising and
highly esteemed provision dealers largely with
in tho last ten days, they can attest this state
ment. Than Macon, no Southern city can pa
rade a better class of provision and grocery
merchants. Yonrs, etc.
Feaes, Baetley & Co.
Bottom's Hobse Power.—Tho Messrs. Find
er are sole manufacturers of Bottom’s cele
brated Horse Power, for the State of Georgia.
This is probably the most effective horsepower
in use. Bee advertisement.
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The Alexandria Gazette says that a gentleman
from tho extreme Sonth who has been in Wash
ington for some time past endeavoring to pro-
care colored labor, has left for his home, having
been unsuccessful in his effort. He says that
forty men promised to go with him from Wash
ington, bnt that they conld not be spared by the
Radicals of that city until after the Juno election.
TheTemteeence Watchman, a monthly mag
azine published in Griffin, by W. E. H. Saarcy,
at §3.00 per annum, has reached ns. It advo
cates the canse of temperance, and is tho organ
of tho order of Good Templars. From
statement published a fow days since in ono of
the papers there, we jadge that no more appro
priate place for a publication of this character
could bo found in Georgia than Griffin. Wo
hope Mr. Searcy may havo great success “ in
bearding tho lion in his den.”
A Youxo man recently went to the banks of
tho Danube for the purpose of drowning him
self. He laid his hat on the ground, when a
soldier on guard shouted, “Fall back there, or
’ll shoot yon.” The yonng man picked np his
hat and rapidly ran away. Death by shooting
was not in t^ programme.
CosoBESs.PEOOF Lock. — Since Butler has
established the right of Congress to go into the
safes and private depositories of business com
panies, the demand for bnrglar-proof locks has
ceased, and tho Northern people aro crying out
for a Congress or Bntler-proof lock.
Vieoinia Marble.—A quarry of marble, said
to bo equal in every respect to tho Carrera mar
ble of Italy, has been discovered in London
county, Virginia, about thirty miles from Wash
ington, and a company has been organized to
work it.
At Portsmouth, England, a few day3 since, a
target of iron armor plate, one foot thick, and
rolled at cherry red heat, was tested with chill
ed shot from small boro gnus, fired with a charge
of twenty-four pounds of powder, at a distance
of thirty feet. The shot penetrated seven and
oue-fifth inches info the plate.
Down to the Chambers of Death.
“Soon ripe—soon rotten,’' is, we suppose, the
universal and irresistible decree of natnre. It
pervades every department of animate and in
animate organization, and we insensibly predi
cate it of every event in human history. “Up
like a rocket and down like the stick,” is the
homely proverb which embodies tho result of
universal observation and experience as tho ca
tastrophe inseparable from all abnormally rapid
development, in tho whole rango of human af
fairs.
No man should delude himself into the antici
pation that this grand republic of North Amer
ica which has grown np like Jonah’s Gonrd, in
a night, can probably in tho ordinations of Di
vine Providence, have the durability of the oak
which is slowly developed under tho storms and
sunshine of a hundred years. We havo sprung
to gigantic and overshadowing proportions in a
period of time which, measured by tho history
of nations, should not havo fonnd ns out of
swaddling clothes. We cannot reasonably an
ticipate a miracle to save ns from the operation
of the grand universal law.
Hence we should not be surprised to note the
extraordinarily rapid descent of tho country, at
the present time, into all those excesses which
so sorely prefigure a final catastrophe. Pnblio
demoralization is the fatal distemper of all na
tions. When this reaches the vitals of a gov
ernment and tho confidence of a people in its
justice is lost—when they seo that tho laws aro
not beneficent in character, and tho law makers
and administrators aro corrapt, venal, selfish
and malignant, and the government itself a foe,
instead of a friend, to the people—then grad
ually every element of internal discord becomes
irritated, aroused and active in the work of de
struction. It is a house divided against itself,
and tho effort to savo it most generally precip
itates its downward career. The fabric is
wrecked in tho strife of factions, or falls a de
fenseless victim to assaults from external ene
mies.
Political violonce and injustice, propagates t
and perpetuates itself to so frightful an extent,
as to engender armed violence, and no violence
of any kind has a curative or healing power.
It may excise an nicer or cat off a diseased
limb; bnt in all cases it leaves a ghastly wound
which mast bo soothed and healed by gentle
care and the application of emollients. If
treated with tho same violence which produced
it, tho wound will never heaL Justice, integri
ty and beneficence must be tho grand founda
tions of all governments, and mnst constitute
their general aims and tendencies, or they must
perish by an inevitable law.
We are led to those reflections by that re
markable step in the downward progress devel
oped in the action of tho Snpreme Court of the
United States on Friday, whereby that tribunal
reopened its decision on the legal tender law for
reversal. We suppose it is what never hap
pened to such a tribunal before, unless tho gov
ernment which it represented was somewhere
near the last gasp in the fatal disease of pnblio
demoralization. Wo havo copied on onr first
page a brief and pointed article written by the
New York Tribune, in anticipation of this ac
tion of the Court,, and pointing ont, ip advance,
the scandalous influences which have brought it
about.
Even tho great Radical Thunderer is alarmed
and cannot stand the spectacle of the High
Court of the Republic, manifestly surrendered
by desperate political intriguants into the hands
of moneyed combinations to swindle tho people
for their own benefit. We will not repeat what
the Tribune distinctly intimates, bnt refer the
reader to its brief artiolo.
Bat we know that this is only the second grand
step of the Supreme Court downward into the
loathsome chambers of a deadly corruption.—
Soma months ago we took occasion to point ont
the dishonorable course of this tribunal in twice
actually calling a halt in the administration of
justice to tacitly solicit the intervention of Con
gress to disarm the Court of its constitutional
powers for the protection of the citizen, so as
not to be brought in otherwise inevitable conflict
with the usurpations of Congress in the recon
struction bills. That was a deadly blow at tho
constitutional defences of liberty, and here is
another quite as signal at the rights of property.
And both these performances aro bound to as
sist materially in tho fell work of destroying tho
confidence of the people in the integrity and in
dependence of the Conrt and tho value of tho
legal securities of tho government to tho rights
of the citizen. Even those who are able to pros
titute the Conrt in that way, will only under
value and despise it. If it can be made cats-
paw to one political party, it can be to another.
And so the country goes on. What man, ex
cept a rabid, purblind partizan, looks for just
and beneficent laws from Congress ? Who pre
tends they are controlled by the Constitution or
even their own acts? Tho country is moving
on tho down grade of demoralization, almost
with the speed of a comet, and yet the exhibi
tion of snch portontons facts only excites con
tempt and derision from vast numbers of the
people, in whom they ought to arouse the deep
est and most patriotic anxiety. The spreading
gangrene of corruption is as sure a harbinger
of death to the body politio as it is to the physi.
cal system.
Grant’s Boss.
A correspondent of tho Now York TimeB who
writes from Washington, thns speaks of Beast
Bntlerin connection with Grant's administra-
tion:
“This Representative (Butler), with 1 *all his
enmities, is to-day the strongest man in Con
gress—tho strongest with the administration.
You feel his influence everywhere. Those who
claim to hear tho whispers of tho throne, say
that no voice is more potent, and that no mind
ontsido of the Cabinet more frequently im
pressed itself npon Execntive deliberations.’
* * * “For this administration, and perhaps
for ono that comes after, the hend of Butler
u>iU rest upon this country with increasing poicer.
Stevens has gone, and Sumner, after his long
war, glides into scholarly conservatism, and the
Radical leader is the member from Essex."
Of conrso so weak a brother as Grant mnst
have a master, bnt why it is necessary ho should
select tho most infamons living creature for that
position, is hard to understand. Butler has
more than got even, for the famons “bottled
up” insnlt onco put on him by Grant His pow
er proves most conclusively what has long since
been the popular belief viz: That the Father of
evil himself, the head of the Radical party, be
ing absent on more pressing business elsewhere,
his second in command very naturally assumes
control of matters in this portion of his domin.
ion. The Lieutenant in entirely worthy the con
fidence reposed in him by his chief.
Impobtant if True.—Tho New York corres
pondent of the Boston Journal describes a new
invention for displacing steam by electricity,
and says that lathes, ploning-machines, and
other mechanical arrangements are driven by
this power. To ran an engine of twenty-horse
power by this invention would require only a
space of three feet long, two feet wide, and two
feet high. Tho cost per day wonld bo thirty-
five cents. On a steamship no coal wonld be
required, and space now used for coal and ma
chinery conld bo used for cargo. Tho stnbbom
resistance of electricity to mechanical nse here
tofore has, it is believed, been overcome. A
continuous battery has been secured and other
difficulties removed, principally through the coil
of the magnet. If tho invention works as well
on the large scale as it does on the machinery
to which it is now applied, steamships will soon
ply the ocean under the new propelling power.
A machine of great capacity is being constructed,
and will soon be on exhibition in New York.
The whole thing, mighty enough to carry a Cu-
narderto Liverpool, can be secured in a small
trunk. ' .WSi-jJyH
Negro Equality to be Fully Estab
lished.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says:
The social gatherings of Washington city are
becoming decidedly mixed. John W. Forney’s
party, at which were whites and negroes, as
guests, was followed last week by a firemen’s
ball, which was also a black and tan affair. City
officials, with white and colored firemen, ac
companied by females, made np the qnadrilles
and German. The majority of the females
present were colored, bnt there were throe white
women, who were either forced to attend by
their white relatives, or who, from degradation
of taste or social position, did not consider
themselves above associating with negroes. The
white men had negro women and the white
women negro men for partners in the German.
The promenades and dances were without dis
tinction of colpr, and were kept.np until a lato
honr.
This is what tho Radicals intend everywhere,
just so soon as they aro strong enongh to carry
it through. They never intend to stop short of
tho point of entire equality in overy respect for
tho negro, provided ho continues to voto tho
Radical ticket. If he should turn Democrat,
there might bo a let np in tho crusade.
Wo have no sort of doubt that Bullock and
tho Georgia Radicals embrace this in tho range
of their proposed warfare npon white people
and their rights. We will not see or hear mnch
of it, perhaps, for tho present, but they have
down on tho slate. Tho negroes havo demanded
it, or will demand it, when tho programme comes
to be made ont, and Bullock dare not refuse
them. Wo havo no idea, howover, that ho is
at all averse to it, for his game is to bedevil,
and insnlt, and degrado tho white people of
Georgia as much as possible. Control of the
Stato means two things with him and his: First,
plunder, and then tho degradation of tho white
people.
Within tho next two years we confidently ex
pect to witness a most tremendous assault npon
the barriers that nature has erected between the
two races. It will bo commenced at first by
legislation on the question of equal rights in
churches, theatres, railways, steamboats, etc.
Then Radical officials will inaugurate a system
of mixed assemblies on receptions, -like For
ney, and then balls and parties. When it
comes to bo understood that place and patron
age depend on ready acquiescence in tho cus
tom of mixing tho races whenever and wherever
practicable, the venal creatures who hold Bul
lock’s commission, or have taken his shilling os
spies and minions of all work, will hasten to give
in their adhesion. We shall seo at Atlanta and
everywhere else in Georgia that the negros de
sire snch recognition, scenes like that de
scribed by the Enquirer. People who profess
to abhor the foul dogma, bnt who havo axes to
grind and jobs to put through, will give coun
tenance by their presence to these mixed gath
erings, and thns push along their schemes. We
conld call tho names, right here and now, of
plenty of men, both in and ont of the Radical
party, who wonld almost rave if charged with
any such thing now, bnt who will, in our judg
ment, in less than two years bo found assenting
to and practising social equality, at first for po
litical purposes, and then becanse contact with
tho monster has blunted their sensibilities and
robbed it of its repulsiveness. This is tho in
evitable tendenoy of all such violations of God’s
laws and nature’s instincts. Facilis descensus
Averni is as true now as when first written.
Against this devilish plot of radicalism, as
against all its others, tho white people of Geor
gia will, and mnst oppose their most earnest and
undaunted opposition. If they wonld save this
State and their descendants from mongreliza-
tion, they mnst stamp ont the very first track it
attempts to make on thoir soil. If Bullock and
people like him see fit to attopipt, under guise
of official receptions, gatherings, and the like to
inaugurate social equality, just as Forney did,
let him and them do it. But let no white man
dare to give it countenance by his presence. If
be does, no matter what his motive, spot him
at once, and let him be ontlawed from white
society. Let him become a Pariah. There can
bo no compromise in this matter* If any white
man, we don’t care who, thinks that negroes are
good enongh to rido in the same car with him,
or sit in the church or theatre by bis side, ho is
not good enongb for decent white society. Let
him take up his place permanently with the
negroes.
We seo this storm coming, and we sound the
alarm in advance. We are sure the white peo-
plo of this State have ahead of them greater
trials than any they have yet experienced. • Let
them prepare to meet them with even a greater
constancy and courage than they have shown in
the past.
Morton’s Fifteenth Amendment BUT.
Morton’s bill to enforce tho Fifteenth Amend
ment by pnnishing with fine and imprisonment
all who may attempt to control voters in the
oxerciso of the suffrage, judging from tho first
section of it, is simply a bill to place the Sonth
em whites at the mercy of whoever will snborn
negro testimony against them. This bill pro
poses to fino and imprison whoever shall “ pre
vent, hinder, control or intimidate, by means of
bribing or threats, or threats of depriving the
voter of employment, or occupation, or of eject
ing such persons from houses or lands, or other
property, or by threats of refusing to renew
leases or contracts for labor, or throats of vio
lence to himself or family "—making it very
clear that there is no possible self-protection to'
any person hiring negro hands or having negro
tenants. The man who refuses to recontract
with or re-lease to them, at tho expiration of
their terms of service or occupancy, is perfect
ly at their meroy, or at the mercy of any man
who chooses to employ them to do a little
swearing at small cost in the interests of private
vengeance.
Wbisgs his Neck.—The World wrings the
neck of that Badical qnackor, Drake, of Mis
souri, in this neat fashion:
Drake is terribly affronted that Georgia has
not a truly republican form of government,
and prescribes bayonets as a means of pro
curing the samo. It smells to heaven that Bnch
rogues as this should be in the Senate. Put
him to-day before the lawful mffragans of Mis
souri, and where would he be ? Were he a real
Senator, his malignity wonld be bad; but-, sur-
reptitions as he is, the very ohild of disfran
chisement, it is nanseons to hear him.
Drake wanted to wring the necks of tho free
negroes in Missouri, before tho war, by selling
them into slavery. He has repented him of
that wickedness, now, the “trooly loil” say,
and therofore they cry ont against the World's
cruelty. They hold that his present merciful
intentions towards Southern whites onghtto off
set his former rage against the Miss onri blacks
Affaibs in the West.—A friend who bos just
made a trip to the West says affairs aie mighty
blue thero, although the people have no recon
structing and stealing rascals at their heels. But
the farmers are down in the month, and talk and
look poor. They think we in the Sonth have
got all the money, but never were more mis
taken. Wheat is a perfect drug, and another
big crop coming. Money very scarce; people
in debt and complaining that they can make
nothing fanning with present prices of labor.
They are very mnch out with Radicalism, and
talk fiercely Democratic; bnt it would do better
to vote that way, instead of talking.
A Chattanooga Radical, named MoGlohon,
who was most properly excoriated by the editor
of the TimeB for some very pronounced rascal
ity on election day, (last Saturday), shot at tho
editor, Mr. Kirby, Thursday, and then took to
his heels. The ballet hit a yonng 15th Amend
ment in the cheek.
The Georgia Press.
The Colnmbns Sun says that gas retorts for
Macon and Montgomery, are manufactured i:
largo nnmbers, at tho Colnmbns iron works.
Mr. John Hull, for many years a prominent
merchant of Colnmbns, died in New Orleans
Wednesday.
We quote as follows frost the Son:
Thrown and Badly Stunned.—Mr. Ingram,
from Harris county, was riding a mule np Broad
street yesterday. Just as he came under the flag
of the Virginia store the animal suddenly reared.
The rider was thrown backwards and fell on his
bead. For some time he was stunned, and two
hoars elapsed before he recovered even partial
consciousness. Later in tho afternoon he was
enabled to mount bis mule, and with friends
went homewards.
Cotton Plantixg.—We hoar of a few farmers
who have planted cotton and some who are now
doing so. The plan of rolling tho seed with
some fertilizer is very popular. Corn, in many
quarters, is peeping from the ground. The
planting of cotton will not generally ho com
menced before next week, or the one after.
Tbaveled.—The other day we met a freed-
woman, who told ns that, since the war, she had
been employed by a German family, and had
traveled all over England and the Continent,
and resided over the seas for two years or more.
Did not like to come back, she said. Of all lands
visited she liked England best.
Provident Fbeedmen.—On tho Baudy Moore
yesterday there came seven bales of cotton be
longing to two negro men. They made them
by hard work, not by loafing aronnd towns.
Referring to the resolution passed by tho
Agency suspending all action on debts contract
ed before Jane, 18G5, and requesting Terry to
enforce it, the Son says the Sheriff of that
county recently applied to Gen. Terry for in
structions, and, “ npon good authority it is in
formed that Terry, by letter, says that he shall
not recognize the resolution of the ‘illegal and
revolutionary body,’ becanse he considers the
same to be in contravention of the Constitution
of the United Slates."
Tho Enquirer says:
Columbus Medical 'Society.—This society
was organized at Dr. Taliaferro’s office on Tues
day night, by the election of Dr. S. A. Billing,
President, Drs. J. A. Urqnhart and J. E. Bacon,
Vice Presidents, and Dr. George Grimes, Secre
tary. Drs. Taliaferro, Word and Grimes were
elected delegates to the Georgia Medical Con
vention, which convenes in Macon on the 14th
of April.
The Rock Island paper mill, at Colnmbns,
will be running by the first of September next.
A Fifteenth Amendment of Augusta Bntler-
ized the store of D. W. Calhonn, of that city,
Tuesday night, and was afterwards caught,
The grand jnry of Columbia county have in
dicted John Lambert and Ben Adams, for the
murder of two men named, Hodo and Adams,
few months since.
Chap Norris, the scalawag sheriff of Warren
county, with seventeen Federal soldiers was
searching private honses and tho bed-chambers
of respectable ladies at Dearing, Columbia
county, on Tuesday, for two of the murderers,
so-called, of Adkins. He was not molested.
The steamship Tonawanda which left Phila
delphia for Savannah on the 26th returned to
the former port disabled. The Wyoming sailed
from Philadelphia yesterday with tho Tona wan-
da’s cargo,
Gen. Terry will shortly honor Savannah with
a visit.
The Savannah News says:
Bradley in Luck.—This irrepressible leader
of the respectable portion of the Republican
party in Savannah is in luck. We learn that,
owing to the scarcity of intelligent negroes in
onr sister State, he has been appointed Assistant
Keeper of the Insane Asylum nt Columbia,
South Carolina, with a salary of §2,000 per an
num, with pickings from §15,000 per month.
The Dawson Car Factory are to bnild 100 box
cars this summer for the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad. ...
The Constitutionalist says:
Abbiyal of Gen. B. E. Lee in Augusta.—
This distinguished Christian soldier and gentle
man, accompanied by his daughter and Colonel
Crawley, of tho British army, reached our city
last night by the 9:30 train on the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad. His Honor
Mayor Allen, Aldermen Ponmelle and Walsh,
and Dr. D. B. Plumb, met our mnch loved and
venerated visitor with carriages and cordially
extended to him and bis party the hospitalities
of the city. He and his friends were then with
out further ceremony taken to the Planters’
Hotel, where they will remain, so we aro in
formed, until to-morrow morning, when they
leave for Savannah.
Benjaman Sizemore and James George, who
loved their neighbors’ honses not wisely bnt too
well, have been sent to Milledgevile from Cobb
connty, for ten and twelve years, respectively.
Newton county is ont of debt and has $1,-
887.35 in her treasury.
The Rev. J. F. Morrall has retired from tho
pastoral charge of the First Baptist Church of
Griffin.
The Constitution says:
The local editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer
was arrested yesterday evening for having
knocked down Mr. J. M. Hunnicutt, who de
nounced one of his local items as ungentleman-
ly. We learn that the artiole referred to was a
statement of Hunnicntt’s trial for assault npon
a negro', in which he was unintentionally styled
a colored man.
Another run off, Wednesday, on Blodgett’s
railroad—the second this week. Tho baggage
and second-class cars were wrecked. No one
b *dly hurt.
Martin & Heppco, charged with passing coun
terfeit money, were discharged, Thursday, in
the U. S. District Conrt, at Atlanta.
The Constitution says:
A German wearing a red turban with blue
tassels, carrying a sword, attracted considerable
attention at the carshed this afternoon, by ac
companying what purports to be his black vrow.
They were as loving as two sick kittens, and
drank lager together.
Of matters in Green county, the Herald
says:
March has been nnnsnally cold, stormy and
wet Farmers are greatly behind in their pre
parations for crops. Wheat looks well—oats,
indifferent Some few peaohes have escaped,
and in sumo sections it is said there is a prom
ise of a fine crop. We regret to learn that the
large, and perhaps the most valuable orchard
in the county, belonging to Capt John Branch,
did not escape the freeze.
Of General Leo’s visit to Angusta, the Chroni
cal and Sentinel says:
General Lee's Levee.—As soon as it became
known that General Leo would spend yesterday
in tho city, the many old officers and soldiers of
the Confederate army, who reside in Angusta,
and the ladies and citizens generally, expressed
a desire to call upon the great Captain. The
General, who had positively declined anything
savoring of a pnblio demonstration, consented
to receive them, and the ladies’ parlor in the
Planters’ Hotel was the place seleoted for hold
ing the levee. The reception lasted from ten
o'clock in the morning nntil two in the after
noon, md daring that time hundreds of ladies
and gentlemen called, and were presented to the
General and his daughter.
The General was exceedingly courteous and
polite to all, and seemed mnch gratified at the
admiration in which he is held by the people of
Angusta, and his visitors were charmed by the
ease and eleganco of his manners. Bnt, while
polite to all, Gen. Lee was particularly kind
and attentive to several Confederate officers
present who had lost a limb in the service, and
this endeared him more than ever to onr peo
ple.
In the afternoon Gen. Lee and his daughter,
Col. Crawley, Mayor Alien, and several other
gentlemen of tho city, rode through the streets
in carriages, and the visitors seemed much
pleased with onr beautiful dity.
Frank Bland, who has been held, since last
August, as a witness at Angnsta in the Southern
Express robbery case, was discharged Thursday
on an appearaneo bond.
At the Savannah City Marshal’s sale, on
Thursday, five lots were sold at figures mnch
higher than the city valuation. Two valued at
;2,100, arid §2,200 brought $2,700 and $2,900.
Six thousand, one hundred and ninety fonr
bales of upland, valued at $604,252.07, and one
hundred and sixty-nine bales of sea island cot
ton, valued at $19,976.71, were shipped from
Savannah, Thursday, for Liverpool and Havre.,
Mr. B. T. Smillie published the following
card in the Savannah News:
Editor Morning News : My attention having
bean called to the telegramB reciting the slan
ders on the people of Savannah, uttered by T.
P. Robb in Washington, I simply desire to state
To give a finishing touch to the whole fabrio,
one most find a new name for onr government,
the present one of United States being a mam
moth lie. We shonld be known as the Ameri
can Empire, or the Kingdom of Lincoln, or the
Butlef Menagerie. Mean while,\he President-
General has been precipitate m issuing his
proclamation. He shonld have paraded it on
this day and dedicated it to the fools who have
surrendered their birthright for black broth and
yellow pottage.
Mr. Thomas Griffin, who lived about ten
miles from QnitmaD, Brooks connty, was killed
by lightning, in a field, near his house, on
Wednesday,
There are twenty candidates for tax collector
in Brooks connty. Bad sign for Brooks county.
The Newnan Herald says it is a fixed fact
that the Savannah, Griffin & North Alabama
Railroad will be finished to Newnan by Jane
1st. Of its extension, westward, from that
point, the Herald says:
We have a word of good news for onr Carroll
friends. The Chief Engineer of tho road has
been ordered to begin the survey of the route
weBt of Newnan, on the 1st day of April. He
will make two or more trial surveys to some se
lected gap in the mountains, m Calhonn connty,
Ala., and when it has been ascertained at what
point the road will cross tho mountains in that
county, he will locate the road to or near Car
rollton on the route chosen.
We wonld remind the stockholders that the
company has agreed to pay the contractors
(Messrs. A., G. & Co.) every thirty days. The
money mnst come, and come ont of yonr pock
ets. Every dollar of the subscription of the
Macon & Western Railroad has been paid in
and expended for iron.
The wheat crop of Floyd connty promises a
most bonntifol yield. With hardly any excep
tion, the stand is very good. All other farm
work is backward.
A beaver, weighing forty pounds, was caught
in Coweta connty, Monday. It was brought to
Nownan, and cooked and eaten by a select party
of gourmands.
“Bill Arp" lectures in Rome, Tuesday night,
on the “ Ancient History of Modern Rome.”
Atlanta mnst be getting more unhealthy each
year. For the first quarter of 1867, the deaths
were 83; for 1868, 95; for 1869, 71; and for
1870, 194!
Judge Erskine, in the United States District
Conrt, at Atlanta, Friday, granted tho applica
tion for the writ of habeas corpus in the case of
John Stephens, arrested by Terry a few days
since.
From the Rural Carolinian for April. |
Alabama from an^Agirtcaltaral Poi Bl
Tho geographical position of Alabama j, ,
peculiar one. Wedged in between Georoi/
(which is not remarkable, as a State, for
virgin fertility,) on tho one side, and Hjf
sissippi, the great allnvial Stats of the South
through your columns that I removedtothis aS^ncte^t'treVo'S*
city more than five years ago, with tho inten- *•_,™ 2 , . .... “'Ra
tion of making it my home, and havo resided
hero continually ever since. During all that
time I have been and am still a consistent mem
ber of the Republican party, and am known to
be so by all my fellow-citizens, and I have yet
to experience a single instance in which I have
been prescribed or insulted on account of my
political opinions. On the contrary, I havo in
variably been treated with courtesy and respect
by the men denominated by Mr. Robb as rebels,
whatever that may mean in these days of peace
and quiet. I have no doubt that if I had been
in the habit of employing every occasion to
ventilate my sympathy and interest for my fel
low-citizens while I was secretly endeavoring to
injure them, I might have had snch things said
of me, as is the case with Mr. Robb; it would
be bnt natural.
The Columbus Enquirer “regrets to learn
that the residence of Major James F. Waddell,
at Villula, Alabama, was consumed by fire Wed
nesday night last. It was valued at §2,500.
Most of the furniture was saved.”
The negro Methodists of Columbus, numbering
1,200, propose to build another church, to cost
$4,000. The “ rebels” aro keeping them very
liberally.
The Sun give3 us some information abont
the Phenix Stove Manufacturing Company of
Colnmbns. They turn out abont 1,000 stoves
per year, and are making money. Abont $25,-
000 is invested and twenty men employed. The
San says this is the only stove factory sonth of
Lonisvillo.
A letter for J. W. Hontoon, Macon, is held
for postage at Jacksonville, Florida.
Wo quote as follows from the Bainbridge Son,
of Thursday:
Tho planting interests aro greatly curtailed
in this, Calhonn county, for want of bunds.
Thero aro one-third less this than last year.
The same may be said of Baker and other ad
joining counties.
Oats, wheat and rye look well: Corn i3 np
on some plantations, and appears vigorous.
The planters are nearly through com plant
ing.
Poisoned.—A Mr. Miller, living on Spring
Creek, and fourteen of his family havo been
seriously poisoned by the Acetate of Lead—so
Dr. O'Neal informs ns—threo of whom are in a
dangerous condition. No cine to the perpetra
tor can be found, nor are tho family aware of
the way in which the posion was administered.
Batsbridoe Factory to be Reparied.—We
aro much gratified to learn that this splendid
Factory, and all the buildings connected with it,
is to be repaired, and the machinery put in per
fect order.
Dead.—Mrs. Grimmer, wife of onr respected
fellow citizen, Robert Grimmer, died this morn
ing after a short illness.
The Constitutionalist, of the 1st inst., com
ments as follows npon tho proclamation of the
ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment:
The deed is done. The form of government
has been changed from a Union of States to
ono of centralized power. The Fifteenth
Amendment has been duly proclaimed a part of
the fundamental law. Henceforth tho people
are the subjects of a Central Government and
not citizens of States.
Condition of (ho State Road,
A gentleman who traveled over this road on
Thursday lust says he nover yet saw a railroad
in operation in so terrible a condition. He left
Chattanooga in the morning, behind time, the
np train being past dno, but not arrived. Get
ting down as far as Tilton, they fonnd the np
train off the track and pretty mnch smashed np.
Passing on, they came to Cass Station, and here
fonnd a freight train eff tho track, and three
other trains waiting for way. They worked
there from ten in the morning till fonr in the
afternoon to clear the track, and then pro
ceeded.
While waiting at Cassvill*,' ho examined tho
track for two miles, and was amazed to find that
the road conld operate at all. Many of the
cross-ties were broken in two, and some of them
so rotten that he found no difficulty in drawing
the spikes with the end of his walking-stiok.
The track was frequently eight inches ont of
evel, and the jumping, rolling and rooking of
the train when in motion exceeded all ho had
over conceived possible.
An engineer at Cass Station told him they bad
had a ran off every day for a week, and wbat
was to become of tho road in the hands of “these
politicians,” he could not tell. Tho road has a
very heavy freighting business, but the passen
ger trains are light. The people are actually
afraid to go over tho road, and onr informant
says he was thankful to get through with whole
bones.
The road, we are oertain was in fair condition
last August at the time of the Press excursion,
and mnst have been wholly neglected to get into
each a fix as this since that time. True, the
weather has been bad and tho freighting busi
ness enormous—two conditions which will nse
np a railway in a short time, if there is nobody
to attend to proper repairs.
Accident on the Eras Railroad.—Throe
cars of a passenger train were thrown off tho xu ,won» am Bpuu , K ,;. ,
track last Tuesday, and some twenty passengers Xn girl's question. When will goM I ®**
ful to an observant traveller. And, if the 8taU
be divided latitndinally into quarter sections a
exhibits an agricultural and mineral wealth tLt
haps nowhere seen in the same area of teirifai!
ry in the United States.
The Northern seotion is one peculiarly ad tD *
ed to tho growth of the cereals and all Northern
fruits, while the climate is perfectly salubrious
The next section is, so far as I have seen te
ricnlturally barren, and uninviting to the tiller
of tho soil, thongh it is incalculably rich in
erals. Coal, in many parts, can be had for the
gathering; iron is superabundant; and marble
as beautiful as the purest Italian, crops out of
the earth in many places. 1
The third seotion comprises a belt of ptobt
bly an hundred miles wjde, and is the cotton"
growing region of tho South. Within this area
the cotton crop of 1869 will, probably, reach
250,000 bales of 500 pounds each, and, with
proper cnltnre, double that amonnt might just
as paaily bo grown. That it is not grownan.
pears to be attributable to other causes than tha
solo one of inefficient labor. Tho fine old mau-
sions and their accompanying dusters of slaw."
cottages, so frequently seen throughout this sec!
tion, remind one of better days. But in ttan -
places tho mansions aro deserted while the
cottageB are still occupied, and, consequently
in the absence of the directing head, the ni
duetive capacity of tho Boil is annually aitnin
ishing. The habit of renting lands to freed
men, or of hiring their labor for wages and ea
trusting a plantation to an old-fashioned ova
seer, (now called agent or manager, bv wav 1
suppose, of dignifying tho calling,) are two
methods quite common in this beautiful conn
try. And both theso systems are to my miud
impoverishing the land and owner If iim
planter invariably lived on his plantation .w!
as well by precept as example taught the i’cuor '
ant negro, both parties wonld be benefited and
the country very materially enriched. These
allnvial lands are more generally scratched
than plowed, and of their productiveness
yields abont two hundred pounds of lint cotton
per acre. A moiety of science would make the
same lands produce double the amount, with
the same labor. The muscle of the country is
abundant, bnt its direction is at fault, I have
seen in several places in the cane-break and
prairie lands of middle Alabama this spring
whole gangs of plows bedding cotton land, while
tho water farrows of last years crop were stand
ing several inches deep in water. Upon inquiry
too, I was assured such work was neither mini
rious to the land nor the future crop. This as.
surance did not convince me, for I cannot im-
agine what are the comuonent parts of that
soil whose fertility is not injured by working it
into a mortar.
Another system is adopted in many of those
beantifnl plantations which simply tends to
sterility. Where the land is sufficiently high to
be drained, bnt level enongh to hold the rain, j
water, the cotton beds are run towards the
nearest stream; and thus the gentle declivity 1
of each' water-furrow acts as a superficial
sower to carry off gradually, thongh certainly,
all tho soluble fertility in the land. Homoo’
talization and under-draining would act asi
perfect preventive to this exhaustion. Bit
who in the Sonth ever saw a renter tuider-dnia
or horizontalize ?
The Southern section of Alabama, off from
the water-courses, is a pine-barren regioD, pro
ductive at present of only turpentine and rosin.
These lands have scarcely any marketable val
ue ; and yet I feel warranted in sayiiig, were
they cleared np, and manured with the phos
phate manures made in Charleston, they would -
prove to be the most.remuaerative planting
lands in the State. They are to the eye very
similar to the lands of Edgefield District, South
Carolina., which have latterly been so revolu
tionized, both in prodnetiveness and price, by
liberal applications of the Charleston phos
phates.
By the way, I have been somewhat surprised
at rno limited knowledge planters here have of
the extent and value of those phosphate de
posits. I have been asked mora c than once,
will they last another year?” “has the manure
any strength in it ?” ” do they make enough o(
it to supply South Carolina ?" and similar ques
tions which invariably enable me to procure a
subscriber to “The Rural.”
■ In Southern Alabama marl deposits are veiy
abundant, and when composted and spread
thickly npon the surface, produce an almost
permanent fertility. A gentleman told me
he had applied a heavy coating of marl and
stable manure compost to a lot twenty years
ago, and it had produced annually remunerative
crops, thongh never manured again. Last year
it produced fifty dollars worth of oats to the
acre. Near Eufanla there is an immense she'd
deposit, whioh crops ont on all tho creek and
river banks, and of sufficient value to warrant
a company’s being formed to grind and manip
ulate it into a fertilizer. By an analysis the
shells are found to contain thirty-two per cent,
of the phosphate of lime.
Commercial fertilizers are used in all parts of
Alabama, and nearly all of them are as as apt
of Northern manufacture. 'When in Selmsfl
saw a steamer land on the blnff 3,600 bags ot
Patapsco guano, and was assured there was, at
the time, nearly three times that amount of
other fertilizers then in the city. As 'freight
can be shipped from Charleston to Selma with
out breaking bulk, our Charleston friends should
almost monopolize this trado.
One feature of the labor question is very no
ticeable everywhere I have been iu Alabama,
and, psrhapH, more so than in Georgia or Sonth
Carolina. Every Saturday not only is no work
done, bnt at least half the freedmen seem to
think it a religions duty to go to town; and to
go afoot is not tho custom. On horseoack and
mnleback, in wagons and bnggies, ox carts and
mule carts, and in or on every possible kind of
vehicle or animal, to town they go, and while
there spend most of their week’s earnings. Not
a few drink np more then they make. As a
race, they appear to me to be more ignorant
and worse clad than the negroes of upper South
Carolina, bnt superior to the low-country ne
groes of onr State. Occasionally very laudable
exceptions are encountered. At Fort Valley, in
Georgia, I met several negroes who had one,
two or three bags of cotton stored, and one fel
low had sevon. In Montgomery I saw one who
had twenty-eight bales stored, and was holding
it for a higher price. I advised the worthy feh
low to change the investment, for I cannot thin*
the price will advance sufficiently to give a bet*
ler future net sale. I have been astonished »t
the amount of cotton everywhere in tho coun
try. The crop will certainly approximate 3,-
000,000 fiiales.
Nowhere have I seen any material percentage
of immigration into the State of Alabama. On
the various railroad projections of the Stale
hundreds of hands are at work, and many of
them white, but far the greater portion
freedmen, many of whom have been brought
from North and Sonth Carolina and Virginia.
In many sections I heard of agents having gon®
on as far as Virginia and brought ont hundreds
of laborers, in addition to the necessary other
hundreds of new laborers. This kind cf
gration will not rapidly develop the_ industrial
resources of the South. We want intellect
well as muscle. And, in this view of th® c f 8 ®>
the failures of those Northern men and foreign*
era who attempted to cultivate cotton after tM
war, were doubly disastrous to the South. 11*“
they succeeded, they would soon have he® 0 ®*
identified with the country, and introduced
class of labor that, ere this, wonld have haa 0“
depressed South npon the stilts of fortune.
can but patiently hope for future sucoess.
to secure this, every Southern planter shorn
lend his best energies to the task of maang
the year 1870, throughout the South, remarka
ble for the economy exercised and the thrift t
joyed by onr people. ; „ .•
Hobbies and specialties are occasionally
here as elsewhere. I have bought, sinoe I
homo a peck of corn said to be prolific, ana
such rapid growth and early maturity as to m»*'
two crops in one season. Also a few bushels®
cotton seed, called “Poor Man’s Relief,
markable for the quality of its lint, its P rodt !\
tivenesa and early maturity. If I li^ e >
readers of the “Rural” will hear of these sp® -
dairies in fall next fall. D. Wyatt Aik®.
Jackson, Miss., March 20.
On Thursday the milliners in Now
opened their spring styles. Among the m
elegant haw were the “Vandeboule, a rom*
modest hat, of white chip, shaped like a
and trimmed with black crape, white
and tea roses; tha “Fouriette,” an xiupJJ“rr
hat, rising high, and set with waving
feathers; the Roohefort, Grousset,
OUivier, and many other beantifnl deaig®r .
head ornament Colors are various, bnt moa**'
Flowers are used sparingly.
seriously injured—two of them fatally.
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