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,-v ■> F3»i. 5? f t - BH The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph and Journal <fc Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. ~ rrS.'* ? ¥? »• MACON, APBUi «, .870. Telegraphic News. • From this date, at largely increased expense, we are promised a great improvement and large ly increased volume in onr Telegraphic News De partment. We hope it willbeasacceptibletoonr leaders, at least in the degree that it is more expensive to ns. Bent on a Small Fuss. The writer hereof entered on Grand Jury service on or about the 1st day of November, in the year of onr Lord 1869, and continued there ml til the last day of March 1870, say five months off and on. In abont three weeks after he hnd got ont of court, the following delicate intimation was dropped to his address. Geor gia, Bibb county. Yon are hereby personally required, leaving all business aside, to be and appear at the next Superior Court, to be held in and for said county, on the third Monday in May next, to servo as a petit juror. Hereof failnotnnderapenalty of forty dollars. Thatcalls for three months more service.nnd we are sorry to say that we are not alone in this distressing predicament; bnt there are others of whom it is proposed to demand eight months of jury ser vice in a single year. A little reflection will satisfy anybody that this will not begin to do. A man may be as willing as possible to work for nothing for the public and find himself, bnt still some little time is dne his business and he is obliged to earn bread for his children. The plea is that everybody who onght to do jury duty is running after an engine or n book and ladder; bnt them are plenty who do neither and yet are not called on for jury duty. If any information is wanted we will famish names. We appeal to tho Coart to hunt np these names and relieve those of whom sneh enormous demands are made. The Cincinnati .Southern Railroad. The Legislature of Kentucky having denied right of way to the Cincinnati and Chattanooga Bailroad, Senator Sherman, of Ohio, has in troduced in the United States Senate a bill to incorporate and charter the Cincinnati and Ghattnnooga Bailroad Company. Several of the corporators, however, under the Ferguson bill, have telegraphed Mr. Sherman to drop their names, as this movement in Congress is without their sanction. Congress has no constitutional power what ever to grant such an act of incorporation, but donbtless they will manufacture the power and enforce it, and the Kentucky Legislature will take nothing by ill-conditioned and ill-advised attempt to shot ont their State from the benefits of a great highway North or South, for fear it may take some trade which would otherwise go to the Louisville and Nashville Bailroad. The narrow-minded action of the Louisville interest in this matter will only do it harm. Mon Law and Violence in- CoNNEcnctn—Bbu- TAL Fighting, etc —Hartford, Ct., March 21.— At Tamff ville on Saturday some laborers on the Connecticut Western Bailroad nndertook to mob the saloon of Joseph Forsyth, breaking in the door windows, and firing a pistol-shot in the building, the ball passing near Forsyth's head. Forsyth fired into the crowd with a double- barrelled gun loaded with buckshot, shooting one man through tho lungs and breaking the arm of another. He surrendered himself to the authorities. Ono of the wounded men will probably die. A brutal fight took place in the house of a negro named P. St. John, in Pleasant Valley, etn Saturday, which resulted in the killing of a negro named Freeman, of Sheffield, by Ed. Dol phin, of Winstead, and serionsly wounding Dol phin's wife, and St. John Dolphin was arrested. Isn’t Ames, or Terry, or Beynolds, or Piegan Horror Sheridan, or some other gentle recon- ■trnctorneeded in the “Nutmeg” State? Or perhaps Bobadil Bollock, or Blooddrinker Scott, would do better with their Winchester rifles and “loyal" militia. General Lee. The Virginia papers say this grand old sol dier's health is not good, and that he will tako a Southern tour to reenperate it. He is expected to reach Baleigh, next Thnrsday. We are not informed how far South he will some, but if as far os Georgia, we hope to seo him in Macon. No man has ever lived, or lives bow, who has a higher place in the admiration and gratitude of tho people of Georgia, or a stronger hold on their hearts than the stainless soldier and gentleman, Bobert E. Lee. God keep him many, many years in the land he loved •o fondly and served so faithfnlly, is the prayer ef every true sonl in it! Slutuic ! That Butler's negro cadet is kept ont of West JPoint, on tho poor, pitifal plea that ho is not •Id enough! We thought the War Department bad more coorage and frankness. Why not say at once, that while the negro is good enough to rale Southern white men, and ride in rail road cars and steamboats with white women, be is not good enough to rub elbows with North ern youths at the pet military school of the na tion ? We hope the Beast will find another one muoh blacker and older, and push him in any how. The Home Committee on Military Affairs has agreed upon a bill, and directed General Logan to report the same, providing the manner of appointing military and naval cadets. It requires every perron appointed to make oath that he i3 a resident of the distriot from which the Appointment is made for a period of two years prior to receiving the appointment. In oase there is any violation of this act, the eadets so appointed shall bo immediately dis missed. Storms on Sunday. Violent storms lost Sunday are chronicled in the telegrams. In New York an unfinished building was toppled npon an inhabited house and an entire family of six persona killed. In Baltimore twenty bnildings were blown down, bnt there is no mention of lives lost. We pre mime tho storm was severe on nil the north eastern coast . ‘ I Very matrimonial. The newspapers contain tho following mar riage notice: “Married, in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the IGth ultimo, in the presence of the Saints, Elder Brigham Young to Mrs. J. K. Martin, Miss L. M. Pendergrast, Mrs. B. M. Jenickson, Miss Susie P. Cleveland and Miss Emily P. Martin, all of the connty of Berks, England. No cards.” Butler is at his pranks again, seizing the books of a private company for evidence to convict somobody of corruption. Let him seize the archives of the Hotise, and, if rumor is right, he will find enough on record in the re ports of committees to convict him of a good deal more than corruption. A YOUNG Man from the country was sup ping with some city acquaintance—chiefly ie- maieg. Thinking to have fun at bis expense, ope of the girls said to him, “You country folks don’t often drink genuine tea, and per haps you would prefer the adulterated stuff. Now what kind would you like?" “If it’s all tho same to you I will take a little civili- tca, mixed with a little modest-tea—a combin ation I gee you have not got.” “Isn't your bill awfully steep ?” inquired a spendthrift of his tailor. “Yon onght to know boat, for it was ran np by you,” was the cool Mply. Beard and Bnllock Call for Rifle*. {I The Final Cutastrophe. Simeon Beard, the Augusta mulatto, wound An article in the last Edinburgh Beview, upon up his speech at the Washington Bnllock meet- j Geological Theory in Great Britain, gives ns the ing with these words: i late8t ilJea8 of *he scientists. The sun is a great In conclusion, give ns what we ask; strike i molten globe of fire surrounded by an incan- ont the Bingham amendment, which ties ns • descent atmosphere, and proved by spectrnni hand and foot. We don't ! analysis of its rays, to be a combustion of ele- gnuspm a inour r hands“anaw“willsee whether j ments'similar in important respects to those wo cannot protect ourselves. Give us this, and j composing this earth, which has already passed we will give yon the State of Georgia ever- j through the fiery stage, succeeded by the vapory more. [Applause.J and aqueous, and the sedimentary or earth- Bullock’s speech was as follows. We quote forming epooha _ from Forney s Chronicle: The planet Mars is getting along equopede h avesaicl 1 a word "on. 1110 eart ( h > “ d * proved to be composed of certainly be insensible to the magnificent recep- j t“ e same materials and to have the same mete- tion which has been given to the loyal re- orological phenomena. Itis divided like the earth presentatives of Georgia to-night, should I re- j n to sea an a land, and subject to like climatal fuse to make a few remarks at least; and while J h f ^ ^ ’ of here, I desire to refer to that matter which has ° ... _ _ , been allnded to by the eleqnent speakers who , cover a corresponding part of it. It has its have preceded me, in regard to striking ont a j polar, temperate and equatorial zones, and the certain admendment to the Georgia bill, now g a me everl a sting barriers of ice around its poles, before Congress. That amendment, my friends, I A11 ite esse ntial conditions are those of the earth seeks to determine in advance, a question which .... , , .. the loyal Legislature of Georgia asks to decide repeated, and it is composed of the sama ma- for itself. We are not here asking that the teriaL Congress of the United States, as some ne wspa-1 Eighty-eight planets make up the solar system j—w—"» dgbtJ . not be cut off, and shortened in the interest of ; ° n ® more than old-faBhioned people have been the rebels. : introduced to. Some of these planets are very If Congress will give a decision in regard to sma n affairs and one is only abont twenty or to d,Bnt band- Uta. which is entertained by every loyal man in onr planets, innumerable asteroids and meteorites State, we will not ask protection at the hands occupy tho space of onr solar system, and fre- of the general government; we will be able to q nen jjy ^ we know, come within the sphere of § ut a rifle in the hand of every loyal man in the ... tate of Georgia. But wo would do this in the earths attraction, and are brought down fly- the interest of peace, and not for the purpose ' ing like a wild duck on the wing, of oppressing any man. All ws ask, as the reb- , Time was when the great globe itself which els of old asked, is to be let alone. We desire . we inhabit, was in the condition of the sun—a simply to be allowed to carry ont the constitu- i . , ... . . tion which tho loyal people of Georgia adopted, I vast famac ® of moIten > b( l md fire > ng heat and when I say the people of Georgia, I mean j and light perhaps to its own system of atten- all the people, black and white. ; dant planets. Bnt the snrface fires have gone It will be seen that Beard, as the representa- j oa t and the crust has cooled to the depth of tive of the Georgia Eadical negroes, calls for ; thirty or forty miles. At that distance, the in arms with which to commence war upon tho tenor of our globe would be found still a great white people of the State, and that Bullock, the ' livid, incandescent mass, which would be in a head of the party here, echoes the demand, state of fusion if relieved of the compressing The sham about defending themselves deceives power of gravitation from such a superincum- nobody. Georgia is at peace now, and we know ; bent mas3 of rocks. of no one who proposes to disturb it but these j But the earth is cooling—her crust i3thicken- Badicals, white and black. There are thou- ! ing, and in course of time, by an inevitable law sands of white people in this State who have ; of physics, the earth and all the planets will be no arms at all, not even a pistol, while there is ! drawn in their orbits nearer and nearer tho sun not one negro in three who does not own some i —the great center of the systqm—and one by sort of firearm. They are armed now—fully : one, as they come fully under the superior force armed. It is the white people who need arms, | of the sun’s attraction, will take the awful not tho negroes. 1 plunge down into the molten depths of that Now, we want to tell these gallant gentry, ' great fiery furnace, and disappear, who are clamoring so lustily for arms, that the : This is the way whereby the great globe we white people don't care how many Winchester inhabit shall dissolve like the baseless fabric of rifles they own. They are welcome to make a vision, andler.ve not a wreck behind—or in walking arsenals of themselves if so minded, the words of the Apostle—the heavens but they must not presume upon that fact to pass away as a scroll. The earth, also, and the bully and insult white people too far. They works therein shall be bnrned up, and the ele- must not forget that “rebels” still have, or ments melt with fervent heat, think they have, some rights that even “loyal” j Our scientists have evondetermined the amount men must respect There are conditions and G f fuel to bo furnished by the planets. They circumstances, tho submitting to which is far gay Mercury would supply the sun with its regu- worse, far more ruinous, in every respect, than lar expenditure of heat for seven years, our even civil war. We would be glad to have these earth for ninety-five years, but the more liberal war men recollect that. It is neither wise nor dimensions of Jupiter would put old Sol in brave to threaten, so our people don’t do it. thermal funds for 32,240 years. They simply ask these devils to remember that : Geologic and celestial events move on in no there are limits beyond which even they must great cycles as wo outsiders are accustomed to not pass. ! imagine—but in a straight line, and there is, There is no earthly use for a “loyal,” or any therefore, no reproduction of events. Our other sort of militia in Georgia, but if one is planet spraDg from chaos by the action of fire— organized it must have something to do to jus- an d then of water, and then of disintegration, tify its orgnnizatwn. If there are no disorders adapting it, after the fiery stage, to successive to put down, they will make them, just as they developments of animate life for conjectural did in Tennessee, and then the fiend of a race per j 0( 3 S of hundreds of millions of years; but war will be let loose. Have Beard and his g ^ Q jg marching straight on her progress, al- friend, Bullock, thought of these things ? Are , though by circular lines, to her final doom by they ready to face the horrid music that will firo . The planter, however, may go on with surely resound through Georgia if they succeed jjis cr0 p. The’ doom will not como for millions in their plans? i of years yet We write in the interests of peace. We want I peace. We will make almost any sacrifice to ICoiv the Government at Washington preserve it, but we will never advise the people j Runs Itself, to make every sacrifice for it If they choose For a time the all-absorbing questiens Ware to do it, well and good. It is their affair, and runs the administration ? Who Rant's „ ^ B ’ confidential adviser? The conundrum died ont as they make their bed so must they lie. All f or j ftc fc D f interest, for it was discovered that wa ask is that those who are trying to break Grant had nothing to do with the administra- the peace think the matter over seriously, and tiom_ The king smoked^ and said nothing, and restrain themselves, if possible. We speak ; in their interest as well as our own. Their lives are worth as much to them as are anybody else’s. When they start on this campaign against the peace and order of Georgia, they must put ' them to the hazard as other people do theirs. ; the Government run itself. “If this matter belonged to Cox’s Depart ment,” said an influential gentleman to mo one day, “he could accomplish something, but it pertniu3 to the State Department." “Bnt can’t we get some influence to bear upon Grant?” “It would not do any good. He would turn Will any result they can achieve compensate it over at once to Fiskj and that would be an them for a fatal issue ? Let them ask and an- end of it." swer that question. It may improve their state I “Bat are not grave questions like this dis- f .... _ cussed in Cabinet, where Cox and Belknap can of mini We especially commend it to Generals haV0 an inflaenoe j- p Beard and Bnllock, who are snuffing the battle “Well, yes, when the heads of Department from afar, and who, of course, will lend the ' seo fit to introduce it. Bnt each member feels “loyal” columns on their first campaign. ; that he is running his own machine, and there | is an understanding not to intorfero with each Democratic Ferment in New York.! other.” A few corrupt old Democratic ring masters in i farth * r investigation I found this to be at -bt v, , . , _ tho fact: We have seen Presidents; Fish con- tho New York Legislature coalesced with the ^rols the State Department, without reference to Radicals and defeated the bill to restore to New aoy one; Bontwell is lord of the Treasury; York City the right of local self government, j conducts the Interior, and Belknap the Tweed the Grand Sachem of Tammany, made ; War Departmenl, and so throughout. Tho ' ■ I President is a solemn, silent, smoking figure- the bargain and had been served with no- ; head, with abundance of time to put on a whits tico by 220(moro than two-thirds) members j choke* and. swallow-tail, and attend every en- of the Tammany Hall General Committee for I tertainment to which any one may invite him. holding . -.hog tat night to pn. hint on trt.h ! ^“iong^S^toSnS; SSigtaS They say he must clear himself or be turned bands behind his back, out. A general ferment of the New York De- • When wo come to look further, we find that mocracy has set in all over the State and tho Stote Department's worked by that learned probabilUyis it win throwoff considerable scum, j 01 w“aH knowtSTwhen the morflose Fish finds The World intimates Tweed and Sweeney j himself in trouble, he calls on Caleb. Caleb bought up the coalescing Democrats at the fol- j waked np a friend of mine to read him that fa. lowing rates: ten thousand dollars apiece to ^ mons Alabama dispatch, and tried also to wake —•»—* *• ™fl—n : S, 1 tss S £?d stay away and not vote at all. As Sweeney held - - - the office of City Chamberlain, worth two hundred thousand dollars a year, which the bill abolished, he could afford to “come down hand some,” as one of the contributors. Twenty- three were bought np to vote and seven to stay away. foreign policy, but wo have Caleb, and that is quite as good. If the resurrected statesman of the State De partment could only be induced to call on that other old case of pigeon-holes, called Governor Black, and add the eradite Sumner, they would fetch the Department to within about a century of the present time. i The breezy Porter is master of the navy, Won’t Stand the Negro. 1 while an absurd law and an unjust rank makes “Pickles” writes to the New York Commer- ! Gen. Tecumseh obnoxious to the War Depart- »5oi - ic . ment; and ho would be master there, but for cial Advertiser that among the rumors afloat Be)kn ’ wh o stands very obstinately on his concerning the convulsion with which fashion- ; own heels. able society is threatened, in consequence of , For the first time, I say, in onr history, we the introduction of our colored brother, wo find 1 ma ^ 6 an approach to the bureaucracy of r »a. : u,.t <!„ wb. o, to B™to,; srir um ss Ambassador has declined to accept invitations abroad. In our foreign affairs we have no to toeiales or reunions where any of those policy, and, at home, His Serene Highness fires ‘knights of the crispy curls’ are to bo admitted, another cigar, and says: “Better move on against the innovation. taxation and hard times. Wo have had a year Brava! Madame. We are glad to see the of this sort of tiling, with the grim prospect of foreigners at Washington setting the natives so haring, in another, the Democratic party inter good an example. Now what are Bevels and ! ' ?“ d ’ it does, our excellent Presi- 5 f I dent will quietly swing over, and smoke silently Snmner going to do about it ? Eadical deviltry ) on the other aide.—Cincinnati Commercial. can hardly “reconstruct” the foreign legations : mt • and their social tastes and antipathies. The : . A NEWLY-MARRIED couple were at a Cin* effect of this determination will be to pa- cinnati hotel. The lady was pretty, the hus- rify what has become monstrously rotten since ^ Were g / eCn '. J ho c. /. . ... : pair had been in the hotel some tweniv-four Southern men and women ceased to control it. j hours whcn tho bridegroom walked up to the Barter's Successor. • clerk and remarked“That’smy wife that clerk and remarked: -- ."""r 7 , , , j atop3 in the room with me.” “Yes, I suppose Iffawariiwatta luck ia aomathiag wonderful. I wa s the bland reply of the clerk. “Well, ~ “ 1 " I thought I’d mention itj” continued the man, “so you wouldn’t think it strange in my com plaining. I never like to find fault, you know; but we’re kind of bothered. We’ve on ly been here jince yesterday, and my wife has been invited to go to ride three times, and to go to tho ministrels’ shows likewise, and just now a sleck-looking chap knocked at the door and wanted to know if she was alone, and another actually inquired if that countryman she had on the string had gone. I’ve no doubt these young men mean well enough, but they are too doggoned polite for me." No “Forming Oat.” The superintendent of the census has issued Dl0Kra8 ’ nOTr nOTe! > 010 “Mystery of Edwin a circular that the law of 1850 does not permit P~od,” will appear on the 31st inst It will xh.to-i!£*5ss£S IStsfflBgsafJS enumeration must be done by the assistant mar-, America. “Every Saturday’ will publish it in this country. In a Boston paper of a recent date, we read that “Master Albert Walker, of Cambridge, Mass., lost week stole his grandmother’s gold ring and all her silver spoons. He then ob tained his sister’s savings bank book, drew out all her money, and prooeeded to make merry with a wicked young woman named Elizabeth Brown.” Butler and Massachusetts may rest in peaoe, now. Holy Ben’s decease will leave no gap that Walker cannot fill. Macon County Presentment*. The Grand Jury chosen and sworn for the March Term, 1870, of the Superior Court of Macon county,, make the following present ments : We find the Court-house in tolerable oondi tion, needing some repairs in the way of ligh\ and enlargement of the Clerk and Ordinary’s offices, which can be easily done. We recommend and advise the Ordinaryto levy a sufficient tax to build a good substantial jaii, and that the same be built upon the grounds connected with' the Court-house square. And we recommend and advise the Ordinary to ap point five commissioners—discreet' business men—to superintend the building thereof, and that the jail be constructed npon the safest and best plan, and of the best material the finances of the county will permit, to make it a safe de pository for criminals. We believe it to be to the beat interest of the county that the jail be bnilt as early as possible. We find the roads and bridges, generally, in a passable condition, bnt nearly all the bridges are needing some repairs, and we call the atten tion of the proper authorities to the same. We recommend that a bridge be built across. Beaver Creek at the Haugabook crossing. Also a bridge over Little-White Water*Creek at Hil liard Dixon’s. Also a small bridge on the north side of Big-White Water, on the road leading from Oglethorpe to Lanier. We call tho special attention of tho commissioners to'this road, and that they have the same put in better condition. The Boad Commissions throughoutlhe connty are earnestly requested to enforce thelaw3gainst all parties who obstruct the roads with rails and brash, or otherwise while reparing fences, and cause said parties to remove the obstructions without delay. The commissioners of the roads leading by Bozeman’s, Underwood’s and Cook mills, are required to have the crossing at said mills put in good condition. We have carefully examined the report and recommendation of the commissioners of the poor, bnt cannot approve the building of a poor-house at this time. We find a large num ber of participants in the pauper fund, and we think it liable to abuse under the system of al lowing all to partipate in the fund who may or can bring certificates that they are proper bene- ficaries. We have examined, revised and struck from the list a number of those who have heretofore participated in this fund. And we recommend tho commissioners not to reinstate them, or any others, unless upon the affidavit of persons whose names are on the jury list, or npon the recommendation of some grand jury. _ The commi88soner, Mr. A. H. Green is entitled to the thanks of the people for his patient dis tribution of the pauper fund, and we think him evidently entitled to proper compensation for his services. In consequence of the heavy taxes necessary to be levied for State and connty purposes, we recommend that no tax be levied for education al purposes. We find, on examination, the records of the Clerk of the Superior Court to be kept in a neat and correct manner, reflecting much credit npon that officer. In consequence of the sickness of the Treas ure and his inability to attend this court, and at his request, we have appointed W. H. Willis, N. T. Skinner, 0. B. Keen and A. H. Green, a. committee to examine the Treasurer's books,ac counts and vouchers, in connection with the books and accounts of the Ordinary’s office, and that the report of this committee be spread npon the minutes of the Court as a part of these pre sentments. In closing the labors of the present term it affords ns great pleasure to renew an expression of appreciation for the ability, dignity and im partial administration of tho law by his Honor, Judgo C. B. Cole. Wo also tender onr thanks to the Solicitor General, Col. E. W. Crocker, for his polite at tention to this body. We request thxt these presentments be pub lished in Dailx Teleobiph and Messenger. W. H. Willis, Foreman. C. D. Summerlin, T. H. Morgan, J. O. Bodgers, W. W. Hill, W. B. Hicks, S. S. Fields, C. B. Keen, B. B. Williams, N. T. Skinner, A. G. Stewart, A. W. Hicks, Thos. Dixon, W. W. McLendon, B. T.- Marshal], W. H. Harrison, B. Patrick, J. C. Hunter, B. Williams. It'is ordered by the Court that tne foregoing presentments be published, as requested by the Grand Jury. E. W. Cbockeb, Solicitor General. A true extract from the minutes of Macon Superior Court Jno. M. Greek, Deputy Clerk. March 28tb, 1870. The Fiegau Massacre. In a letter to Gen. Sheridan, dated the 24 th, Gen. Sherman says: It is of course to be supposed that some of our people prefer to believe the story of the Piegan massacre, as tramped up by interested parties at Benton, more than one hundred miles off, rather than the official report of Col. Baker, who was on the spot and is the responsible par ty. I prefer to believe that the majority killed at Mountain Chief's camp were warriors; that the firing ceased the moment that resistance was at an end; that quarter was given to all who asned for it, and.that one hundred women and children were allowed to go free to join tho other bands of the same tribe known to bo camped near by, rather than the absurd report that there were only thirteen warriors killed, and that all the rest were women and children, more or less afflicted with small-pox. The In dians on the Beservations are exclusively under the protection of the Indian Bureau, but the Bureau officers had officially notified the De partment of their inability to restrain theso very Piegan Indians, and had called on you to pun ish them for their repeated and unceasing rob beries and murders; you had, as early as lost October, laid down the plan for a winter sur prise and attack, which plan was immediately sent to the Indian Bureau, eliciting no remon strances, so that there is no question at all nf responsibility, save and except only as to wheth er Col. Baker wantonly and cruelly killed women and children unresisting, and this I never believed. This does not satisfy the New York Tribune, and ho calls for investigation. Sherman apolo gizing for Sheridan is particularly appropriate, and he varnishes the business over as plansibly as they did tho Shenandoah and Columbia van dalisms. Hotel on Wheel*. The Courier. Journal describes the “Algoma,” a new hotel car, recently to that city, and which must be really splendid, and a novelty to boot. It belongs to the Pullman company, “is fifty- five feet long and ten feet wide, and has room to accommodate from twenty to twenty.five per. sons comfortably. It is mounted on twelve wheels and painted externally in wine color and gilt, and cost, with the outfit, $22,000. The manner in which this hotel is operated is in this wise : A party of twenty or twenty-five persons, say at Louisville, secures one of tho Pullman express hotel cars for a trip to New Orleans or San Francisco, at a cost of $85 a day for the trip, or at the rate of four dollars a day for each passenger. With the car is a steward, to pro cure supplies and transportation along the route, and a cook and two waiters, whose pay is incln- ded in the rates above mentioned. The hotel is attached to the best train on tho road, and de tached whenever the party desiro to switch on another road, to remain in a city a day or two, or to visit any locality of interest along the ronte. Wherever a party may go on a railroad, it has its hotel with it.” It will go from Louisville to New Orleans,and return thence to New York by the way of Mo bile, Selma, Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Wilming ton, eto. One of Mark Twain’s farmers bought some Bartlett pear trees, and the next season ho took some of tho fruit to tho fruit-dealer: “What kind of pears do you call these?’’ Well, I don’t know—Button pears, perhaps." ‘‘But they grew on one of the trees you sold mo for a Bartlett!” “Are you such a fool,” was the dealer’s convincing rejoinder, “as to suppose that a tree is going to bear Bartlert pears tho first year. Candidates for government officers in England are examined upon various literary ana scientific topics. Lately one of them, by asb'p of the pen, wroto “Vennice,” in ono of his papers. “Do .vou know, sir, that there is but one ‘hen, in Venice?” asked the indig nant examiner. “Then eggs must he very scarce there," was the reply.' ' When lovers quarrel, what presents made on either side are not returned ? The kisses. The mother of a family writes to say, that a pawnbroker has no right to make advances to To the Public. Brunswick, Ga., March 26, 1870. Editor Morning Hexes : Being one of the late foremen on the Bruns wick and Albany railroad, and having been held up to the public as a would be murderer, I de sire to place before you the following facts: In 1861 J. Edwin Conant was assistant Treas urer of the Florida railroad, and myself also in the employ of the same company. At this time the troubles between the two sections were jnat assuming an alarming state. I and the other employes being all Southern men, Mr. Co nant being a Northern maD, and having rendered himself obnoxious to the community, the Vigilance Committee desired to lynch him. I and the balanoe of the employes of the railroad formed ourselves into a company for the protec tion of said Conant, and his life was preserved by ns, and he pat on board a vessel abont sail ing for New York.’ Do you suppose, Mr. Edi tor, that we, the foremen and laborers, number ing over one hundred men, and all of us de- S TONE WALL JACKSON. Letter on the manner of Hl» Death, from Dr. Hnntbr McGuire. From ike Old Dominion, for March. | Richmond, Va., March 7, 1870. Editors oi Old Dominion : I have just re ceived your letter asking me to give you some information in regard to the last wonnd of Gen. Jackson, that yon may correct the statement published in some Northern magazines by Gen. De Peyser and CoL Clifford Thomson. The former, you say, claims that Gen. Jackson was shot by the First Massachusetts Infantry, and the latter that he was killed by a canister* shot from Pleasanton’s artillery. You will find an accurate account of the Gen eral’s last wound and death in Dabney’s “Life of Jackson,” or in the account I wrote and pub lished several years ago. The faots are briefly these: General Jackson made the attack May 2d, with his army in three lines of battle. Bhodes, division occupied the front line, Colston’s divi sion the second line, and Hill, with a part of lay down our tools and abandon our work for the sake of one man ? It is true that we were attached to Mr. Babcock, for justice and impar tially marked bis every action. No, it was from the unprincipled rales and regulations attempt ed to be forced upon us by this man Hulbert.— Information from all sides poured in upon us in regard to his character, as no one ever employed by him speaks of him save with the utmost con tempt We did suppose that Mr. Conant was at the head of the concern, and that he would lis ten and correct the abuses that had been heaped npon ns; bnt alas! we found him as deeply concerned in the Opera House swindle as the rest, and thathe would willingly sacrifice us to this and other diabolical shemes. We contend that we are as good citizens of Georgia as can be found, and thus to bo held up to the world as a set of murderers is false, and only an excuse to hide their wicked plot Wo never threatened them in any way; we held and do hold the firm of Halbert, Avery & Conant in supreme contempt As we all worked from October to February, and received our pay in store tickets, due bills and thirty days’ drafts, will you inform us where the “millions of Northern money" has gone ? or, indeed, is it Northern capital or funds derived from the sale of the Opera House? We know that W. L. Avery spent a large snm in getting hia wash ing done, eto., while the poor laborers got none. As all intercourse between the above firm and your humble servant is at an end, in the event you should learn, will you\be so kind as to give the desired information. Very respectfully, yours, G. A. M. Baines. We, the other foremen, desire to add onr tes timony to the effect that in no way, manner or shape, did either Mr. Babcock, Capt. Finney, or any other citizen of Brunswick, counsel or advise with ns, or were knowing to our actions —they had no interest in it. We were simply demanding the rights that belong to every free born man—the expulsion of a fungus. Little did we dream of the horrible plot that bad been concocted to make U3 the catspaw that would enable Avery, Conant and Halbert to insult every native bom Georgian; and we further state that bad Hulbert never come on tho road that the fifty miles would have been completed at least one week earlier than they were. We were impelled to make this statement from see ing the knowingly false and wicked statement in the Atlanta Constitution, of thnt miserable carpet-bagger, that vile specimen of humanity called “Vulgar Spaulding.” Jakes Calnan. Alex E Wattles, Henry B. Fort, Jr , Henry S. Danforth, L. P. Robinson. Extraordinary Phenomenon—Disap pearance oi* Wharves anil Ferry* landings—Subterranean Clmuges. From the St. John (AT. D.) Telegraph, March. 18. Yesterday morning, just before the com mencement of the snow storm, and as the wind was rising so as to be heard within doors, a strange, noise, similar to that accompanying the earthquake on the morning of the 22.1 of Octo ber last, was heard by the residents of the lower end of Protection street, Carleton. The storms of last fall, and those of the winter, have made great havoc in that vicinity, and not only has tho breakwater been carried away, and build ings removed from their foundations, but the sea has washed away land, and encroached so much upon property a3 to make the residents of the neighborhood display more than usual interest in each approaching gale. The noise referred to, as its rambling ceased, ronsed many from their beds, who, on going down to the harbor, found that a startling change had taken place in the appearance of the land and wharves. The tide was nearly down, and though it was quite dark, it could be seen that the old ferry landing which should be several feet above water, had vanished. Messrs. Littlehale & Coram’s wharf, better known as Coram’s Wharf, had nearly disappeared. It had been piled with deals, which belonged to Messrs. Scam melt Bros.', and that part of the wharf where on the deals were did not break down, as though tho bottom on which it rested had been washed out, as at first supposed, but a piece abont 20x 70 feet broke off and settled squarely down into tho water, and tho whole mass, with the top of the wharf beneath and tho deals remaining upon it, floated away into the harbor, where it was picked up yesterday by Mr. James Stack- house and his men. A frontage several hundred feet in extent, running from the line of the demolished wharf towards the breakwater, has gone down, leaving a steep embankment sloping towards the har bor. About midway along this new embank ment, and less than one hundred feet from it, in to the harbor, is the place where the old ferry landing was. Ou this spot soundings were made by Mr. Joseph O'Brien, Mr. Clark and others last evening, and where the old ballast or reef was the day before, rising above the water eight feet They found six fathoms of water, showing that even so near the shore as that the bottom had settled just thirty-two feet Near where the portion of tho wharf settled away, or where a moderately sized vessel used to ground at low water, there is now between six and seven fath oms at low tide. One of Messrs. Adam's buoys, moored about four or five hundred feet from the shore, had disappeared, and last evening, when the tide was at its lowest level, the cur rent was just showing a ripple over the top of it. As the tides rise and full about thirty feet in St. John harbor, and the chain of this buoy had several fathoms of soope, it may be inferred that the bottom sank as much as nine or ten fathoms at this point. So far as could be ascertained yesterday, after the blinding snow storm subsided,it was thought that at the surface of the harbor bed a portion extending over an area of, perhaps, three acres, had been affected. It would not be surprising if, with the swift current of the harbor, tho break-wator on tho east side would become af fected in time. There will also be a falling away of additional portions of Sand Point for somo time to come. It was thought before souudings were made, and the falling tide re vealed the extent of the changes made, that the “slide” was cahsed by the shifting of sand which had washed over the bar, but that theory is now exploded, and the fact fnlly established that the phenomenon was caused by some sub terranean action boneath the spot affected so materially. Tlie Administration Airaitl to go to the Country Upon a Contraction Policy. The New York Times says that the reports from Washington strengthen the impression that neither the greenback circulation nor the national banking system will bo finally dis turbed by the Funding Bill. It it should pass Congress at all, it will be in a shape to meet the Executive approval, and that could not be under any provision to contract the greenbacks or to treat with harshness or injustice the na tional banks. The President is understood to favor simply a refunding bill, by which new stocks, bearing from five down to four per cent, interest, shall be gradually substituted, as the market affords the opportunity, for tho five-twenty six per cent, stocks, and for no other object At all events it is reasonably, certain that the Administration will not go to the country next fall, in the Congressional clec- tjon, ujion the contraction of the greenback circulation, or upon any issue with the national b: banka. If tho banks should be required to third line. Daring the attack and rapid pursuit of the enemy, Rhodes’ and Colston’s divisions becamo commingled and moved in one confused mass. Bhodes, finding how disordered tho troops were, asked Jackson to send Hill forward to take the advance, and permit the first and second lines to be reformed. While this was beiDg done, Jackson, accompanied by some officers and couriers, rode forward to reeonnoi- ter. He advanced as far as the Federal pick ets, and then turned to come back to his own line, when his party, mistaken for Federal cav alry, were fired into by the Confederate line of battle. The fire was probably from troops who had just been plaoed in position, and who did not know that Jackson and hia party were in front of them. Ithink this was the General’s im pression in speaking of it afterwards. Several of his party were killed and wounded by this fire, bnt tho General escaped, and turning to his left entered tha forest and continued to approach his own line. When within thirty or forty yards of it a second volley was fired, which wounded him in three places. One of the wounds was in the right hand, the other two in his left arm. The ball causing the first wound lodged under the skin npon the back of Ms band. It was a round ball, such as was used for the smooth-bore Springfield musket. The wounds in his left arm were believed to have been made by the same kind of bullets. The Confederate troops who fired the volleys at the General and his escoVt were armed with smooth-bore muskets. I will add that Gen. Jackson did not die from these wounds. His death was the result of pneumonia, and occurred eight days after the wounds were received. Yonrs, very respectfully, Hunter McGuire, Late Chief Surgeon Jackson’s Corn’d. Exciting Encounter with a Whale in Provincetown Harbor.—A Provincetown correspondent of the Yarmouth .Register writes: ■ ■ Two “right’’ whales were discovered in the harbor about three o’clock Monday afternoon last The cry of “there she blows!” was soon repeated along shore, directly followed by hasty mantling of whale boats, and hurrying into them the weapons and gear for chase and capture. Some half dozen boats, equipped and manned with six men each, soon started in pursuit After a chase of about three quar ters of an hour, the whales the while deftly eluding their pursuers, by soundings and ir regular spoutings, a boat steered by Mr. Geo. Smith and “headed" by Mr. Archibald Mc Curdy, both experienced whalemen, was run upon the broadside of one of them, and Me Curdy, to use his phrase, “sent his iron home to the seizing into her bilge.” The scene now become exciting to the ac tors, and hundreds of spectators who were witnessing the proceedings from the town.— The wind at the time was blowing a stiff gale from the North, and so cold that the spray froze as it flew. The whale ran sharply now to the windward, now to leeward, then following tho shoal water back and forth along the Wist end of the harbor, the loose whale all the time keeping close corn- pay with his wounded mate, and the sea and spray enveloping the crew, and at times al most obscuring the, boat from view. The en raged whale in her frantic career poised upon her nose, and elevating her flukes twenty feet above water, would again and again strike fearfully for her invisible foe. Every attempt to haul up aud lance was met by her flakes jii't clear of tho boat. Thus the contest con tinued without much change of manreuvre or advantage gained by either antagonist, until about half j—.t five P. M., when the whale succeeded in delivering the boat a slight blow with her tail, knocking off the head of the stern post, breaking the st oring oar into sev eral pieces, and filling her to the thwarts with water. Another boat near at hand took her tow-line, but after a short time, the whale still fighting and preventing any near ap proach, and night setting in, the harpooner reluctantly cut tho line and let her go. Her wound is thought to be mortal, as she bled profusely, and it is eaaected she may be pick ed up in a few days iwthe bay. The crew of the crippled boat on reaching the shore were completely encased in ice, en veloping even the head of Mr. Smith, who had lost his hat Several of the other crews were badly irost-bitten. . From the iV. Y. Commercial Advertiser. Down with the Taxes. Republican j mmiisall over the country are ^beginning to talk very plainly to the authori ties on the importance and necessity of reduc ing taxes at once. The Boston Transcript says: “The people of the United States will not much longer endure with patience the present excessive rate of taxation. It is not to be supposed that the people of the loyal North will abandon the great party of freedom for the communion of the friends of treason, but if heed is not given, the tide of public opinion, now steadily rising, will gain in volume and force until it sweep* to oblivion the men who would resist it. • “Let Congress then, at once, reduce not only the direct, bur the indirect, taxes; abolish the income tax, only endurable as a war meas ure ; lessen the customs duties on the necessa ries of life, and, abandoning wild schemes tor doing in a few years the work belonging to many, provide for the pre-ent welfare and the future prosperity of the nation.” And the Times declares with equal empha sis this morning: “The procrastination to which this great subject is being sacrificed will imperil the every existence of the Republican party, if the leaders are not very careful. We believe we shall go before the country under very unpromising circumstances if wo cannot succeed in getting the taxes reduced before the next elections. Tho people will not al ways submit to be ‘put off’ like children.— They will have relief from taxation, if not from one party, from another. Four months have been frittered away already. Is not this not enough to satisfy the greatest admirers of a Fabian policy? We can only once more warn Congress that further delays may exas perate tho people in a way which no one need be anxious to witness.” President Grant, Secretary Boutwell, and Congress cannot afford to disregard such ex- pres-ions of opinion as the above. They re flect tho people’s views, and if the latter can not make known their wishes through the public press, they will unmistakably do so at tho polls. SUNDAY'S telegram^ Usury Laws.—The Legislatures of Maryland, New York and other Northern States, says the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, are moving in the matter of modifying existing usury laws, so as to reoognize and make legal the rates of interest agreed upon by contract. South Caro lina, we beliove, is the only Southern S^ate thus ,far that has acted in this matter. In Georgia the money borrower, to obtain the amount de sired, aud the money lender, to command the current market rate of interest, generally con federate discount and interest, taking seven per cent discount from the face of a note bearing seven per cent, interest, or as one of our law- abiding citizens phrases it, “obey the law, whioh allows seven off and seven on, with a liberal oftheir circulation, it will he upon tho fair | fl f th* ^ 8 self mi^htv well in the mrlor.” TheWf equivalent of a repeal or an exemption of the present taxes upon their circulation, and ! Abolxshino the New York Boabd of perhaps of their deposits also; the two amount-1 —AVbpny, March 25.—It is understood mg at present to the difference between the j ^ ere that a bill will be introduced in the early six per cent old and proposed new four and a ! P* rt o( next week abolish the Board of Al- half per cent stocks to be lodged with the ! deImen of New York City, as at present oonsti- United States Treasurer. j memberaat large throughout ,,, the county. It is also understood that Senator B™ U. negro Mdet ttaU,,., » . ■ tSfg St 2SA cheap principle. Let him nominate a hundred, J provisions large miariM aati and thay will all be too young or too ignorant arpeoditurea of money. FROM WASHINGTON. Treasury Operations.—Secretary Bout*»n directs the sale of two millions gold and tha >», chase of two millions bonis on account of a sinking fund and two millions on account special fund—making a total of Treasury tnLj actions for April, the sale of two millions TnP and purchase of four millions bonds. • Congressional.—In the House yesterf. speeches were made by Mr. Hay against tL« protective system and in favor of large rednT tion of import duties and internal taxation • u Mr. Strickland in advocacy of the protection rJ lumber and copper; by Mr. Bird in favor ot advancing farming interests as the best niej!, of insuring the prosperity of the whole Conan? nity; by Mr. Hill in favor of protecting AaJ[ can products, especially pig iron; by mZT Burdett, Witcher and Danley, in behalf of protective system. Tide San Domingo Annexation Treaty- Three caucuses were held to-day regarding tT San Domingo treaty—one at the White Hons*! one at Morton’s rooms, and another not located —the latter in opposition to the treaty. Official dispatches from Baez, announcing fi, result of the San Domingo election, havA noi yet reached Washington, but are en route hi tha way of Havana, and are expected short]/ Heavy rain and a terrific gale from midn-i, till noon to-day. . FROM KeW YORK. Fearful Storm.—A terrific easterly gale om I rain storm raged here all day Sunday. ^ The Democratic Emeute.—The fight L. ! tween the Democratic factions continues, ft, young Democracy are marshalling their w! for conteBt to-morrow evening. Sheriff 0’S says Tweed will be distinctly asked whethetv has been coquetting with the Republican part. If his answer is equivocal, he will be expellti from Tammany and a new chairman elected. The Tweedites are equally confident. Grand Fenian Expedition against Canada I General O Neill is organizing for a descent upon Canada at three points. A large amount of arms and ammunition are said to be stored near at hand. Camp No. 1 of the Grand Army of tha Constitution resolved to ask Congress to ' interfere to prevent farther swindling by claim-1 agents, and advocating county retreats for wounded veterans instead of State asylums FROM FRANCE. Trial and Acquittal of Prince Bosapasu The Procurenr General made his argument to the high court. Ho opened with an energy denunciation of the political party to which Noir belonged and made frequent reference to the Marseillaise Journal. Nearly all the evidence of the prosecution was set aside by the Pm. enreur, who demands the condemnation of the Prince, because the shooting was not done ij self defence. The Prince was mnch excited during the delivery of this argument Le Rom & Demage, counsel for defense, both denounced I the Marseillaise. . The Court will meet again at I noon to-morrow when a verdict is expected. I Paris. Sunday, March 28.—To-day, at Toon J Prince Bonaparte was acquitted, in spite of tht I strong appeal made by the Procureur-Generai 1 for a verdict of guilty, with extenuating dr. | cumstances. The jury was out only an hoar. ] As soon as the verdict was announced, one he. I dred thousand francs were claimed on a drU suit, in consequence of which the Pritco re mains in custody. The Prince is exctefcglj indignant at the restraint He wishes to ahov himself, and is not afraid of the menaces against his life. The news of the Prinoe's acquittal produced intense sensation and astonishment in Paris. It is the universal topic of conversation. I The Crenzot strike continues. Many arrest! have been made, but no collisions have taken j place between the troops and workmen. . I FOREIGN ITEMS IN GENERAL An Election Ordered in Cuba.—Senor Be- I ceera, Minister of the Colonies, declared, on | Saturday, in Cortes, that the Captain-General of I Cuba, hid been inst rue ted to order an election far I deputies to the Cortes, if the situation permits. I From Panama, hews by the Alaska report! I the conspiracy against the Government sop. I pressed. A few parsons were arrested at Fan- I ama, but released on taking the oath of allegi- I once. | Lopez Gone Up.—Letters from Valparaiso I represent the cause of Lopez as hopeless. His 1 few adherents are suffering great misery, anl j many of them are deserting. I Darien Canal—New Route.—A Panama let-1 ter says Capt Hein, an American who claims to I know a ronte across Darien superior to all other I routes, and by which he oan pass from Aspin- I wall to Panama entirely by water, has chartered I a small sail boat at Aspin wall to be delivered in I Panama and gone to Caledonia bay. j Aspin wall letters say that Capt. Bird* of the I schooner Kermline, has been imprisoned until I he pays $700 for the schooner which the Kent- j line injnred. I From Nassau.—The schooner Gertie Lewis I which arrived at Baltimore Saturday, from So- I sau, reports that the authorities seized the I steamer Salvador for a violation of the passes- I ger act. She was condemned, sold, and bought I by the Government for one hundred thousand ! dollars. The Spanish gunboat Candie Die Vanielto, I ashore off Nassau, was got off with some damage. I The Lewis brought home five of her crew, j The Lewis was consigned to tho Cuban Junta*! I New York. j FROM LONDON. The Irish Bill.—An amendment was adopted I requiring one notice to be served on seditions I journals, in the bill for the preservation of the I peace in Ireland. Another amendment limiting I the operation of the act to March, 1871, was n-j iected. Bill then Dassed. The Rattle or the Text-Rook*. For many years there has been a determined I struggle among the book publishers to decide I whether A’s books, or B’s, or C’s, should be re- j cognized as the standard school text-books. Ifce J result is that we have 20 series of readers aud spelling books; 10 series of geographies; 16 of I arithmetics; 12 of grammers; 32 of histories [ and ten publishers issuing text books on the I sciences. Ono-balf these works are good for | nothing, as even the publishers know. All the book publishing houses have emp traveling agents to introduce their publications, j and it has not been an uncommon thing to meet ten or twelve of these drnmmers at one time in a town or city where’the Educational Commit tee had decided upon a change of text-books. In some towns and cities the change of tefi- books is made annnaliy. I The publishers have been taught by exp*?’ ence that this constant clashing of interests >t making their business unpopular, and that b; continually resorting to the meanest tricks the) are injnring themselves. [ Therefore, it was proposed to corns down w the decent and legitimate way of doing basing A convention was called, and on Thursday lsst the representatives of all the great publisJanfS houses of the United States came together in secret meeting, and after a glorious dinner »> Delmonico’a decided to abjuro agencies here after, and rely upon their legitimate aids—w I author, the printer, and the press. On « u®. I they met again, and. formed a “Sotoo*I Trade League,” and elected as officers: wmn I Appleton, President; Smith Sheldon, 5tre President; J. 0. Barnes, Secretary; and C.t- Woodridge, Treasurer.—New York Sun. Pleasant Termination of a Hymenld j Romance. . I At Mason’s depot, on tho Mobile and OW railroad, there lives a good looking | clerk, who is pretty well known in ItaanviJ l He saw and loved a handsome young lass^-i | siding five miles distant. The affair npe°Y i into a betrothal, but the girl’s parents stroor ly objected to the consummation of theii'V dent desires. She was sent to Memphis. •* adorer followed on the same train, and the o*. succeeding their arrival at that place, the. were married at the Worsham House- bride returned home the same day, wllo*’- shortly afterward by her lord and master, *■* went about his business with .as much a° chalance as if nothing had happened. . Hhe bride had been at home about ten <w j when her mother happened to glance throng her spectacles, at a paragraph in one ot self mighty well in the parlor. 1 clerk was immediately informed of ^ tarn affairs had taken, and was olaim his bride. This was folio wed by » F* blow out" in honor of the event Adeuna Path narrowh while returning from St,F ear in which she wm f took Sr® ft?
