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Tlie Greorgia "Weeklv Telegraph, aiicL Journal <Sc JVtessenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
UAOON APBEC. 32 1670.
The Georgia Bill.
Bollock's Atlanta organ, of yesterday, says
editorially:
The vote on the postponement of a farther
consideration of the Georgia bill until next
week shows a majority of ten in the Senate op
posed to the Bingham Amendment—that is, if
this be accepted as a test vote, as it undoubted
ly was. Under these oircumstances, it is fair to
presume that the amendment is already defeat
ed. The question now is, whether the Georgia
Bill will pass at all, or whether Military Bole
will be prolonged in Georgia.
A ‘Washington special of the 6th to the same
paper says:
When a vote is reached, one of two things, it
is said, will occur, either the amendment will
be stricken out, or the State will be held under
military government.
We don’t accept asgoHpel what the organ
says abont the vote on postponing the Georgia
bill, being a test of the relative strength of par
ties in the Senate on the Bingham Amendment,
though it may be correct. Between the Geor
gia bill as Bollock wants it passed, however,
and military government, pure and simple, the
great majority of the people of Georgia who
have anything to lose, and who wish well to the
State, will vote for the latter.
In reference to the bill and its fate, the Wash
ington correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette,
under date of the 4th, writes:
I wroto you a week ago that the finale of the
Georgia bill would be either the adoption of the
Bingham amendment, or the postponement of
admission. I got this information then from a
Southern Badical Senator. The opinion preva
lent in the lobbies of the Senate to-day is that
the bill will be passed as reported by the Judici
ary Committee.
Adelina Patti's recent farewell at the
Opera House at St. Petersburg seems to have
been a succession of trinmphs. After the first
act of “Crispino” the Emperor proceeded to
congratulate the popular favorite, while the
chef d’orchestre handed her a magnificent bo-
qnet of camelias with a brooch, in the centre
of which was an enormous pearl, surrounded
by thirty diamonds. This jewel, worth nearly
£3,000, was the gift of a club. Six recalls fol
lowed. Next came the first act of the “Tra-
viata,” followed by eight recalls, a shower of
flowers, etc., and the “mad scene" from “Lu
ma” concluded the performance. After this,
however, Mine. Patti was veritably crowned
with a wreath of laurels set in a massive gold
coronet, presented by the orchestra, the enthu
siasm of the audience exceeding all bounds.
Thebe is a man in the vicinity of Cedar Keys,
Pla., who has twenty-two children living. The
family subsist principally on fish and oysters.
They have never had a plate nor a enp and
saucer in their house. In lien of cups they use
gourds and shells. They help themselves to the
cooked fish or oysters from a common large
dish, and each member of tho family nses his
or her own jack-knife for that purpose. Those
articles of diet are spread on com bread, which
they make themselves, and then they consume
the plate as well as the food on it. In this way
the washing of dishes is wholly obviated. The
family are all healthy, and are more robust than
graceful.
The capital stock of the Pallman Palace Car
Company is now $8,000,000, with cars mnning
over 15.000 miles of railway, and employing 3,-
000 men—not counting the artisans at the shops
and manufactories. To meet the growing busi-
es8 of their recently extended operations, $1,-
000,000 more stock was issued and immediately
all taken by the stockholders, who have, “or
dered” 2,500 additional shares. About $500-
000 of the stock is owned by New Yorkers and
an equal amount by capitalists in Boston. All
this comes from the original capital stock of
$1,000,000 which the organization started with
only three years ago. Who says the American
people do not appreciate tho luxury of riding
and eating and sleeping in palace cars ?
At 11:50 Sunday morning, a sharp, wicked
shock of an earthquake, six seconds in dura
tion, occurred in San Francisco. The vibra
tions moved from southeast to northwest; the
motion vertical. No damage to life, limb, or
property. Intense excitement for a few min
utes. Animals terribly frightened, and numer
ous runaways resulted. The City Hall, where
the courts were in session, Merchants’ Ex
change, Mercantile Library, Custom House and
other large buildings were instantly vacated. A
panic was created in the hotels, and the streets
swarmed with people in a moment It was
raining at the time. Prior to the shock the
barometer was observed to fall rapidly.
A Capital Book.—We are indebted to Messrs.
Roberts Brothers, publishers, Boston, through
Mr. J. M. Boardman, bookseller, of this city,
for a copy of Miss Louisa M. Alcott’s last work—
“An Old Fashioned Girl.” Mis3 Alcott has
achieved mnch and well deserved reputation for
her thoroughly natural and graphic style of
Writing for the little folks. This book, we are
sure, will add greatly to her fame and favor not
only with that class, but many others. A glance
at its contents satisfies ns that it will have a
charm for all grown up people who are attracted
by even children’s stones when so admirably
told as this one is.
Talbot Valley.
Good Sale.—117} acres of Talbot Valley land
sold in Talbotton, last Tuesday, at Administra
tor’s sale, for $2500. So says a friend who
was there. Our friend says that valley is the
finest spot he has seen in Georgia. It is a land
of Plenty—plonty of com, wheat, meat of their
own growing, milk, butler, eggs, chickens and
every thing nice. This valley is about thirteen
miles long and three to six miles wide.
The Boston Post says: “Dr. Samuel Bard is
disposed of at last, thonghitco3t his friends'.the
expense of buying out his paper, ‘influencing’
his appointment to Idaho and lobbying hi3 con
firmation through the Senate. Yet they think
it cheap enough.” The Courier-Journal’s Wash
ington special, of Sunday, says that since his
confirmation, “Bard has been lobbying daily on
the Senate floor for the Bingham Amendment”
—which news makes ns very dubersome abont
the success of that measure.
The Gbaphic.—Havens & Brown have a large
lot of the last number of this incomparable il
lustrated paper. It is, without doubt, the very
be3t paper of the kind ever published. Apart
from its superb illustrations, its litorary merits
are of the highest order. We never endorsed
the excellence of any paper more heartily, and
an examination of any numbor of it will con
vince everybody that we have not said ona word
too mnch.
Cabbieb’s Deli vest.—There been some
irregularity on one of our city routes the past
few days, caused, we are sorry to say, by tho
probably mortal illness of tho little colored boy
who served it. He is very dangerously sick of
pleurisy, contracted by exposnro in the service
during the late bad weather. Patrons who fail
to get their papers will pleaso notify us, atonoe.
W* aee from a Mississippi paper that Wash-
tub Simmons is a member of the Legislature of
that State. There is nothing in the outward
appearance of that body to indicate that there
is a washtub in twenty miles of it,—Courier,
ournolj
The Darkey Among the Doctor*.
We reprint at the request of the physicians an
article from the Richmond and Louisville Medi
cal association, discussing the proposition to ad
mit the negro to ' professional fellowship in the
Medical associations. The question will oome
up for settlement, so fares the Georgia Medico)
Association is concerned, at the annual meeting
m Macon next week, and the faculty desire the
light upon the subject afforded by the article
which we copy.
Wo will not meddle with physio or philosophy
in obtruding any opinions. Nature herself gives
the key to the solution of all such questions.—
The medicine men sometimes go into a poppy
bed or delve among disagreeable odors in the
interests of society and the profession, but they
do not dwdl there. Association, by a law more
fixed than that of the Medea and Persians, is
regulated by what is agreeable to the tastes and
the perceptions. Men are, in the line of ^dnty,
frequently brought into repulsive associations,
but they are not voluntary. They cease where
the line of duty stops and that of taste and
election begins.
In the present insane Radical rage for blend
ing colors," which we hold to bo a war against
reason and nature and the substantial interests
of both the white and black races, we suppose
it is the duty of a good and enlightened citizen
to tolerate jnst that measure of association
which might be essential in bis best judgment
to the welfare of both races. If he is a doctor
he will contribute his skill and knowledge to the
cure of diseases among the blacks, and be ready
in all reasonable methods to assist the popula
tion in procuring intelligent physicians of their
own color. If he is a clergyman ho will be
ready to preach for them and assist in educating
or procuring the education of their own preach
ers and teachers.
In a word, his association will he in the strict
line of duty; but ho will steadfastly discourage,
as well from inclination as from principal, any
thing which can lend countenance to the wretch
ed and destructive heresy of a social amalgams
tion of the races—which is treason to nature—
the onglo-saxon blood and the handiwork of our
illustrious ancestry. Whatever is necessary
from the whites to enable the emancipated
freedmen to live in health,comfort and prosperi
ty among themselves, and work ont their own
destiny under equal laws and a just administra
tion of the government—let thnrt bo done. But
all forms of voluntary social affiliation in the
way of companionhip should be avoided, as not
only distasteful, but indefensible in morals.
Driving Ireland into Rebellion.
Mr. Gladstone’s bayonet-and-bandenff bill,
for reducing Ireland to a worse condition than
Poland, even in her darkest days, had ever been
reduced to, has passed through both Houses of
Parliament with great haste, many of tho usual
forms having been dispensed with to hurry it
into the statute-book.—Forney's Press.
Well, what of it ? It is not half as infamous
ly. °PP resa ive and outrageous as the treatment
the South has received for five years from the
Radical party, conspicuously with the hearty
approval of tho Press, and its twin brother at
Washington.
It makes an honest man’s stomach heave with
extremest nausea to read suoli stuff in a paper
like the Press. It is an exhibition of “cheek”
that would provoke admiration did it not rouse
the bitterest indignation. After having hound
ed on the war-wolves to degrade and utterly de
vour the Southern people; after suggesting fresh
deviltry when partisan and sectional hate flagged
in its conception of measures for the eternal
ruin of a whole population; and repressing with
villainous zeal and demoniac energy every whis
per and symptom of peace and conciliation—
this paper dares to talk of British oppression.
Why, if England had done to Ireland what For
ney and his party have done to the South for
five years, the veriest despots in Europe would
have shouted a remonstrance.
Out upon such shamelessness! Forney talk
ing of bayonets and hand-cuffs with an air of
indignation, is worse than the devil rebuking
sin. How dare ho speak thus of one of the
cardinal principles of his party ? Take bayo
net and hand-enff bills ont of Radical Congres
sional legislation for fivo years past, and there
would be nothing left but the record of its raids
upon the people’s pockets.
SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES.
The Present Prospect of their Competing
with those Elsewhere.
According to the able report of CoL John B.
Palmer, of South Carolina, which was ordered
to bo printed with the proceedings of the last
Commercial Convention, recently held in Louis
ville, Kentucky, the Southernmanufacturers can
now make yam cheaper than those North by
five cents upon each pound of manufactured
cotton. Yarns can be manufactured and deliv
ered in Europe at cents cheaper than the
cotton can be exported and manufactured in
Liverpool or elsewhere. These statements are
supported by figures and minnto statistics as to
the price of wool, labor, cotton, and by actual
showing of books in different factories. An
ordinary crop of cotton is worth to the Sonth
$225,000,000. Were this cotton crop, however,
manufactured into yam, it would give the South
$150,000,000 more of revenue.
As the matter now stands, the Sonth has only
199,772 spindles, where the North has 5,848,-
477. Were the whole crop manufactured here,
it would pay to the laborers, chiefly women and
children, $8G,000,000. It would pay this sum
to the class that are ordinarily non-producers.
Spinning is comparatively simple, and bnt little
Northern capital is invested in this primary op
eration. It is in the complicated labor of weav
ing, dyeing, &c., that the heavy demand for
capital begins. Were these operations per
formed, as they will be some day, the amount
of wages paid and laborers employed would be
immensely increased. CoL Palmer’s sugges
tion is that the property-holders and planters
of the South band together and occupy the field
with their own factories and spindles. Once
these are established, his proposition is to ship
direct for Europe, and drive other yams from
the market.
The cost of a spinning mill, giving employ
ment to eighty-seven operatives, and consum
ing 887 bales, ought to be $50,000. The esti
mated net profits of such a factory, at Northern
prices, would be $17,748. The foregoing sta
tistics are endorsed by F. Cogin, Superintendent
of the Augusta Factory, and that they deserve
consideration, there can be no doubt. The
conclusion they lead to is, that yam samples
shonld be sent immediately to ascertain, by
positive experiment, and in authoritative form,
what the precise margin of difference in prices
is. If, after consultation with the manufactur
ers, dealers and others, residing in Europe,
these statistics are verified, as they doubtless
will be, an impetus will be given to manufac
tures which they could derive from no other
source.—Columbia, Phanix.
The Result in Connecticut.
The Herald, of Monday, in an article upon
the election to be held that day in Connecticut,
said:
The campaign has been mainly fought by the
Republicans on tho merits of Gen. Grant’s ad
ministration, Congress and the Republican par
ty; nndonthe other side in the usual Demo
cratic denunciations of Grant, Congress and all
concerned. The result, then, though not
amonnting practically to mnch any way, will be
an endorsement or disapproval of GAnt and
Congress by Connecticut; bnt still a victory to
the Democracy even in Connecticut, at this
juncture, will be of great value to them as indi
cating not only that the party still lives but that
it is actually gaining ground.
East vs. West.—Mr. Morgan, of Ohio, re
cently made a speech in the House in which he
showed that by the drawback syetem under the
Tariff the Eastern fish packer paid $9,307 for
salt, which cost the Western pork packer $23,-
747. He also showed that Massachusetts re
ceived from the Government an average of $44,-
71G,20 per regiment during the war; New York
got $8,3G4,34, Pennsylvania $8,119,68 and
Ohio $10,735,92. Sharp—very, and “loyal to
the core.”
Debate on tlie Georgia Bill in the
Senate.
We qnote from the Baltimore Gazette, of
Tuesday,’ the following report of the debate in
the Senate, the day before, on the Georgia bill:
At 1 o’clock the unfinished business—being
the Georgia.biU—was taken up, the question
being on the motion to strike out the proviso
known as the Bingham proviso.
Mr. Wilson offered his amendment to insort,
in lieu of the proviso proposed to be stricken
out, declaring that the term of servioe of the
General Assembly shall date from January 2G,
1870, and shall continue until the persons to be
chosen on the Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, 1872, as members of the General
Assembly of said State, are qualified, and pro
hibiting the Legislature from extending the
term of any office beyond the regular period
named in the Constitution of the State. Mr.
Wilson advocated his proposition.
Mr. Willey characterized the amendment as a
vicious species of legislation, and of a charac
ter that would tend to absorb whole power of
the States in Congress. His idea really was
that Georgia was not entitled to.representation
in Congress, and that she should be demanded
to a provisional government
Mr. Stewart thought the amendment of Mr.
Wilson was perfectly right
Mr. Sanlsbnry would like to see one thing be
fore he died, and that was a veritable Ku-Klux-
Klan—this terrible organization, which did snch
wonderfully fearful things. Whenever any par-
cty object was to be accomplished tho Republi-
an papers were filled with horrible accounts of
the outrages of this imaginary organization.—
The whole idea now is not to make Georgia a
Republican State, bnt a Black Republican
State.
Mr. Wilson would call the attention of the
Senator from Delaware to a report made to the
House at tins session of outrages in Louisiana,
which was enough to sicken the heart of any
one.
Mr. Thurman asked if this was true; if these
outrages prevailed, which he did not believe,
why was it that they were not suppressed ? The
Southern States were nnder the control of the
military, and were governed by Republican offi
cials altogether.
Mr. Wilson replied that there were so many
desperate men banded together in this work
that in some sections the authorities were pow
erless to cope with them.
Mr. Saulsbury read a letter from L. N. Angier,
State Treasurer of Georgia, to the effect that
the letteis and telegrams from that State, rep
resenting so much disorder to exist, were very
highly colored to suit personal and political
ends. Mr. S. said this was the same species of
tactics as was adopted daring the war, in Dela
ware, when accounts of outrages were manu
factured in order to have troops sent into the
State, so as to elect a Governor whom the people
did not want, but God, in his providence, did
not allow this Governor to remain long over the
people.
Mr. Howard said the amendment of Mr. Wil
son pleased him very mnch, and proceeded to
give the reasons why it shonld be adopted.
Mr. Thurman asked where was the authority
in the Constitution for Congress assuming to
extend the term of a State Legislature, or where
was there any snch thing even hinted at it in
the much lauded reconstruction aots, which
seemed to be regarded as superior to tbe Con
stitution? Now, if Congress can declare that the
Legislature shall hold over for two years, it may
declare that it shall hold over for forty years, or
for life, and the same of the Governor and of
all the other officers. If the statement made
this morning by the Senator from Massachusetts
(Wilson) was correct, then anarchy had pre
vailed in the South for five years, and yet the
cotton crop of the South had brought your green
backs up almost to par, when they would not be
otherwise more than 00. This very story car
ries its own refutation.
Mr. Abbott asked if the Senator denied that
there were Ku-KInxKlan.
Mr. Thurman did not deny it, never had de
nied it. It would be strange if there were not
To put eight millions of people nnder tbe mili
tary, with power to hang them in violation of
the Constitution; to put the wealth and intelli
gence of the South nnder the control of the ig
norant negroes, and to send men to the Senate
and the House of Representatives whose feet
were scarcely warm on the soil of those States,
it was no wonder if there were Ku-Klux-Kian.
Under such circumstance human nature would
not be human nature otherwise
Mr. Sherman was suprised that his colleague
shonld make a partisan speech on this subject.
His colleague charged the Republican party and
the President with ont ragingthe Southern peo
ple and with organizing military commissions to
execute. He (Mr. Thurman) conld not point
ont a single case where a man, woman or child
in the Sonth had been punished by Congress
for political reasons. Where was Yerger. who,
in cold blood, assassinated one of onr constitu;
ents, and who was saved by the interposition of
the Supreme Court? These eight millions of
people murdered three hundred thousand of the
best and bravest of our people and cost ns
oceans of blood and treasure, and the fact is that
nowhere in the history of the world has there
been snch an example of forgiveness and kind
ness as we have shown to these misguided Dem
ocrats of the South who attempted to break np
the Government
Mr. Sherman called for the reading of that
part of the report of General Terry on the con
dition of affairs in Georgia, in which he states
that no doubt exists of the Ku-Klox Klan being
in actual organization, committing outrages,
and that in some localities the authorities were
either in collusion with them or had not the
ability to suppress them. Mr. S. also h&d read
an affidavit of a colored citizen of Georgia, de
tailing outrages of the Ku-Klox Klan on colored
citizens, whom he describes as riding abont at
night with white sheets. His statement was
attested, Mr. S. said, by the Rev. Henry Pear
son, late of Ohio, who was well known, and
whose word would be received anywhere. There
were no more dastardly, cowardly outrages ever
committed in the world than by these men, and
they shonld be exterminated, and the first thing
that the Legislature of Georgia shonld do was
to put arms in the hands of the colored men to
shoot down every one of them, as they were
unmitigated cowards and scoundrels. And they
had no canse for all these outrages; no one had
interfered with them.
Mr. Drake withdrew the amendment hereto
fore offered by him, providing for the sending
of United States troops into insurrectionary
districts to be quartered on the inhabitants.
Mr. Sherman continued by saying that he had
more donbts and difficulties on this subject of
Georgia than on any subject connected with re
construction. He had carefully examined the
Constitution of Georgia. and he had failed to
discover in it the slightest authority for Gov.
Bulloch or the Legislature, or any one else, to
extend the term for which they were elected. If
he conld find any power in Congress to extend
the period of the term of the Georgia Legisla
ture, he would exercise that power for the good
of the whole people of Georgia, because it
would probably avoid bloodshed and little short
of civil war.
The Darien expedition has reaohed Caledonia
Bay and started upon its work of exploration,
and all connected with the expedition are very
sanguine of success in discovering an easyronte
for the construction of a ship canal. Contrary
to the general expectation, the Indians thus far
have been very friendly, though somewhat
frightened, and have assisted the explorers in
every possible way. The expedition has al
ready cut a road three miles in length into the
interior, meeting with a river which is said to
flow into the Pacifio Ocean. Captain Heine, an
American, who arrived at Aspinwall bv the
steamship Alaska, on the 1st tut., claims that
he knows of a route across the Darien superior
to all others, by which he can pass from Aspin
wall to Panama entirely by water. In proof of
this assertion he chartered a small sailboat, and,
accompanied by two men, had started on his
voyage, arriving safely at Caledonia, but when
he will pnt in an appearance at Panama it is
not easy to conjecture.
The expenses of the Government for the
month or March were as follows: Civil and mis
cellaneous, $4,018,831 0G; "War Department,
$5,151,421 02; Navy Bepartment, $1,876,030
8G; Interior department, $G,509,878 07. Total
$16,656,171 01. This does not include the pay
ment on account of the interest and princidolof
the publio debt
Hon. Geqboe Ashman, of Massachusetts is dy
ing. He fell upon the ice at Springfield, Mass.,
a short time since, and so severely injured him
self that with his advanced age and feeble
health, reooyery is impossible. To a gentleman
who called upon him last week he said: “Give
my love to all my friends, and tell them fare
well ; I shall soon be gone.” ~
So says the World.
The latest matrimonial sensation is the re
ported engsgement of Chief Justice Chase to
Miss Cons tan oe Kinney.
Tlie Georgia I’ress.
The Savannah News of Wednesday says:
His Hon. the Mayor, and the City Council, paid
a formal visit to General Lee yesterday and
were cordially received and welcomed at the re
sidence of Andrew Low, Esq.
After an interchange of compliments, varied
by a few pleasant remarks, (in which were re
called the memories of post trials, and many
thoughts and prayers, and a “God bless you,")
the delegation took their leave. There was no
politics—no reference to the past, excepting
only as they allied themselves to the character
and services of the distinguished patriot. The
meeting was prolonged for an hoar.
The arrangements made by General Lee have
not been fully decided upon, although he will
leave for the St. Johns River, Florida, by
steamer; and if compelled so to do, in conse
quence of the cold weather, he will return to
Savannah when the Forest City is fully recon
structed from the dire effects of the severity of
winter. r .i •
Patrick Logo, an engineer on the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad, was shot and it is supposed mor
tally wounded, by a fireman on his train named
Thomas Brennan, at Statioa 6, on that road, on
Tuesday. Brennan escaped. ,
A Savannah surgeon administered chloroform
to a little boy in that city, on Monday, prepara
tory to performing an operation on his month,
from the effects of wHoh the child died on
Tuesday. Surely that JL D. was not one of the
“administrative minds’ of which our friend of
the Republican boasted some time since ?
The monthly sales «f real estate, stocks, eto.,
in Savannah, on Tuoiday, showed good prices,
generally. Shares ia the Forest City Loan As
sociation, par valuf $13, sold at $10 each; At
lantic and Gulf Rolroad seven per cent, bonds
brought $G1; Southwestern Railroad stock, $98
a share, and Central Railroad stock $118 a
share; males from $65 to $160 each. Two lots
of land in Miller county of 202J acres each
brought $50 and $75, respectively.
A Savannah negro not liking a serenade that
was beirg given, Monday night, in that city by
some vhite men, in which “Shoo Fly” was too
prominent, pulled ont his pistol and fired sev
eral shots at the party. He’s a lawless rascal,
of course, but his head is very “level” on that
Itama. -1
A lettei from Bainbridge in the Savannah Re
publican of Wednesday says:
The fanners of this county are abont done
planting com. Fertilizers are being used this
year to a greater extent than ever before, plan
ters seeming to believe in the plan of cultivating
less gronad and manuring more highly. Gar
dens in oad around Bainbridge are very fine in
deed, thaigh somewhat injured by the recent
cold weaiher.'
There are different opinions as to the effect
of tho coli snap on the fruit, bat my opinion is,
that if not entirely killed, it is injured to such
an extent that it will drop off before it ripens.
Tho latge cotton factory, recently owned by
Mr. Tong«, of this city, is undergoing complete
repairs, aid a company or firm from New York
is to take hold of and run it.
The monthly sales on Tuesday, in Columbus
and Augcsta, were pricipally of city property.
One lot of 202A acres of woodland seven miles
from Columbus sold for $125. Dry goods,
groceries; furniture, horses, mules and wagons
brought good prices. Building and Loan Asso
ciation stock sold in Augusta ($46 paid in,) at
$50.25 a share. Forty-four acres of woodland
on the Sind Stills, near Augusta, brought $470.
A small steamer of eighty tons burthen sold for
$90. Building lots on Greene street sold for
$14 per front foot.
We quote, as follows, frem the Columbus Sun,
of Wednesday:
House op Ex-Shebut Holland Bubned.—
The dwelling of Mr. J. T. Holland, in Alabama,
on the Crawford road, one half mile from the
upper city bridge, was burned yesterday about
3 o'clock p. m. The house was a six-roomed
framed structure valued at $3,000. The furni
ture was saved, though some was damaged.
The origin was accidental.
Good Hunting.—Two geutlement, in a ten
hour’s hunj, Monday—three before breakfast
and seven after dinner—killed sixty-one birds
—partridge, snipe and plover. Both aro
splendid sluts.
The Augasta police wore ont Tuesday in their
new uniform—“coats of cadet gray, and pants
of heavenly azure.” They are required, here
after, to salute the Mayor and members of Coun
cil when met on the streets.
We get those items from tho Sandersville
Georgian.
Death opMaj. Wil L. Habdison.—Wo regTet
to learn the death of this old and well known
gentleman, who died on Thursday night last at
his residence in this county. He was in his 73d
year. Major Hardison was one of onr oldest
citizens, and was quite a prominent man in the
county.
Railroad Accident.—On Sunday last, as the
morning train from Macon was near No. 8J the
engine unfortunately ran over a cow, and two
passenger cars were thrown off the track. We
have heard no estimate of the damage. For
tunately no person was hurt, only the cow!
Gen. Toomhs has been invited to deliver the
address at the Augusta Floral and Hortibnltaral
Fair, to be held next month. •
The Atlanta Intelligencer says Mormonism
exists among the negroes of that city almost as
extensively as in Utah, and numerous instances
are found In which a woman has children bear
ing as many different surnames as they are nu
ts. The great majority of the men and
women have neve? been married by any recog
nized authority, and as a consequence of that
laxity they exchange husbands and wives oftener
than any other species of property. A common
practice among tlie women when they want a
particular husband is to get him np on a charge
of seduction and take advantage of the law
which allows that offense to be settled by the
marriage of tho parties. To escape the pro
scribed punishment, he often agrees to settle
the difficulty in that way, whether guilty or not,
and thus the “oullud lady” gains a husband.
A Jonesboro correspondent of the Intelligen
cer says:
Meningitis still prevails in this little place,
bnt not to such an extent as 4 it was some time
past. The only case now is the son of N. G.
Hudson, tho well known proprietor of tho Hud
son House. He was taken down with the dis
ease on Thursday evening about 4 o’clock, p.
m., and at 4£ o’clock it took four men to hold
him still in bed. His attending physician, Dr.
Venable, administered to him the same treat
ment as that communicated by Dr. Knott, of
Griffin, through the columns of the press, and
at present the patient is considered out of dan
ger.
The Atlanta Constitution tells of a lawyer of
that city, who habeas'corpused a man ont of the
chain gang, and then sued him for divorce at
the instance of his wife.
The Constitution says the Bullockites of that
city are getting np a cute dodge. Fivo or six
men meet every night or two, and form Repub
lican clubs, “plain” and “straight,” passing the
same old resolutions and only changing the
name and officers at each meeting. They ex
cept on a reasonable calculation, to make five or
six clubs out of Fatty Harris.
The Era understands that tho contract has
boen awarded to New York parties for the
graduation of the track of the Air-line Railroad,
from Gainesville to the other end. The woTk
istobedone as early as May, 1872. The road
to Gainesville, it is understood, will be in run
ning .order before Christmas.
During the month of March, 64,000 pounds of
pig iron, 144,025 pounds of car wheels and axles,
and 169,588 pounds of manufactured iron were
shipped over the Rome Railroad.
We copy the following items from tho Haw-
kinsville Dispatch, of yesterday:
A very clever and extensive planter from
Southwestern Georgia told ns in Macon, not
long since, that last year he made 400 bales of
cotton, and lost 65 in the field, which he was
unable to gather. At the same time he ipd to
buy bacon and corn on time at ruinous rates.
“But,” said be, “it taught me a lesson. I in
tend raising my own com this year.”
Mobe Frost..—We had considerable of a frost
Tuesday morning, and another quite heavy one
yesterday morning.
Georgia State Agricultural Society.
Atlanta, March 30, 1870.
At a called meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of the. Georgia State Agricultural Society,
the following gentlemen were present:
Tho President, Hon. B. O. Yancey, Messrs.
Fitten, Livingston, Kawston, Steadman, Waring
and Fannin, and Assistant Secretary ,T. C.
Howard.
Upon the motion of Mr. Fitten, the Commit
tee endorsed and approved the supplemental
and explanatory understanding of the contract
with the Counoil of Atlanta and the Georgia
State Agricultural Society, entered into between
the Mayor of Atlanta and the President of the
Sooiety, B. O. Yancey, on the 29th of March,
1870, which was as follows:
Whereas, The Executive Committee of the
State Agricultural Society of Georgia entered
into a contract with the City Council of Atlanta,
with reference to holding the Fair of said So
ciety for the year 1870, and the terms and con
ditions of said contract between said parties are
specified in writing, dated the 12th of February,
1870, and signed, on the part of the Executive
Committee, by Ben. O. Yancey, President of
the Georgia Agricultural Society, and on the
part of the City Council of Atlanta by William
Ezzard, Mayor of said city; and whereas, the
parties who drafted said paper to express the
agreement of said official bodies did not use
language so explicit as to exclude ell doubt as
to some of tho conditions; and whereas, it is
desirable that there should be an explicit under
standing, now, we, the official heads of the con
tracting parties, do hereby agree upon the fol
lowing construction of the contract, so far as
we construe, (the rest of said contract being left
to its plain import,) to-wit:
The Executive Committee does not surrender,,
bnt retains its complete jurisdiction, control
and management of tbe Fair and of the Fair
Grounds, until the close of the Fair and removal
of articles exhibited in Oetober next. The Presi
dent and Executive Committee will appoint the
Chief of Police to be furnished as well as the
General Superintendent and Manager of the
Fair Grounds, and all the other necessary offi
cers ; all of whom will be accountable to and be
nnder the control of the President and Execu
tive Committee. But the Mayor and City Coun
cil may appoint persons to collect all the money
due at the gates of the Fair Grounds and rent
and collect rent due for the rents of booths
and stands used for the purpose of selling
things (the word stall in contract is improper
so far as it might be used to refer to horse,
cattle or other animal stalls;) and to collect for
side shows of a\l kinds admitted to said Fair
Grounds daring the Fair, bnt no shows ox
amusements to be admitted save by order of the
Executive Committee. Charge for entrance to
Fair Grounds shall be the same, as well as for
the season tickets, as heretofore prescribed by
rales of the Executive Committee, but mem
bers of the Society shall enter the Fair and ex
hibit articles free from any charge, with the
immediate members of families of President,
Vice Presidents, Executive Committee, and
other officers of the Society, as privileged.
Said City Council has the right to retain the
money so collected; their collectors or agents
to be subject to the control, as to proper con
duct, of the President and Executive Commit
tee.
As witness onr hands and seals this 29th day
of March, 1870.
B. C. Yancey,
President G. S. A. S.
William Ezzabd, Mayor.
Witness: War. M. Williams.
The President reported that he had arranged
through Dr. O. P. Culvor, the agent of Dent &
Paige, the claim held by them against the So
ciety for services rendered in procuring the
Laboratory building for the last Fair at Macon,
and that he bad compromised said claim at five
hundred dollars; whereupon it was
Resolved, That the President bo empowered,
and authorized to call upon the City Council of
Atlanta for an advance of five hundred dollars,
with one dollar and twenty-five cents for pre-
mium on draft, to bo charged to amount agreed
to be advanced on premium list, and that he bo
instructed to receipt for the same.
The President reported that he had purchased
a draft on New York for five hundred dollars as
directed, which was then transmitted through
the mails by the Assistant Secretary.
• April 1, 1870.
The Committee met at 10 o’clock, a. m.
President B. O. Yanoey, Messrs. Fitten, Liv
ingston, Waring and Rawson. Mr. Steadman
was absent by permission of the Committee.
Mr. Rawson reported the draft of a bill or
ganizing a Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry,
under the control of this Sooiety, which report
was adopted and ordered to be presented to the
Legislature.
Mr. Livingston offered the following:
Resolved, That the Secretary, in conjunction
with Council, open an office at once in this city.
That the Secretary’s office shall be open from 9
A. M. to 4 P. m., on each day, Sabbath excepted,
for 6nch business as should or may be transacted
•therein. That the Secretary shall bring np all
unfinished business in a systematic form as soon
as possible. That the Secretary shall be careful
not only to reply to all communications, bnt so-
lioit by correspondence all and any information
that may in the least degree advance the inter
ests of the Society.
The following resolution was adopted :
Whereas, A vacancy exists in the office of
Chief Secretary by the resignation of CoL D.
W. Lewis;
Resolved, That tho Assistant Secretary, Thos.
C. Howard, do control the office and discharge
the duties thereof till the Chief Secretary is
elected, and that all claims for premiums or
otherwise be promptly attended to on presenta
tion at the^Becretary’s office in Atlanta. The
Secretary will advertise at oneo for one month
in one prominent newspaper in Augusta, Ma
con, Columbns, Savannah, Albany, Athens and
Rome, and the Intelligencer, Constitution, Era
and Plantation, in Atlanta.
Apbil 2, 1870.
The committee met at 10 o’olock a. m. Pres
ent : the President, Messrs. Fitten, Livingston,
Rawson and Waring.
The following resolution was adopted:
Whereas, Col. D. W. Lewis has this day ten
dered his resignation as Secretary of the Geor
gia State Agricultural Sooiety.
Resolved, That the same be accepted by this
body.
The following resolution was adopted upon
motion of Mr. Waring:
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this com
mittee that an interchange of ideas on agricnl-
ture and agricultural improvements with onr
sister States is of great importance to ns, and
as a beginning, we will send three delegates to
the approaching great State Fair at New Or
leans, nnder our official sanction, to represent
this Society and its interests, and thatourPresi
dent, CoL B. C. Yancey, the Rev. O. W. How
ard and Mr. Livingston, of this body, be re
quested to act as delegates.
The regulations of the Fair as amended, with
instructions to the judges, were adopted. (These
will appear in the published Premium List.
A resolution was passed ordering, at an early
day, the publication of the perfected Premium
List.
The Judges having failed at the last Fair to
report upon Mrs. A. P. Well’s system of dress-
cutting, upon her application, it was ordered
that the Secretary prepare and issue, in her be
half, a certificate of the simplicity and value of
her system.
The salary of the chief Secretary of the So
ciety was declared to be $2,000 per annum, and
that of his assistant $1,000.
Whereupon the committee adjourned.
B. O. Yancey,
President G. S. A. S.
T. O. Howabd, Assistant Secretary.
Northern Colored Voters.
Wo annex from the New York Tribune a table
showing the colored population of the Northern
and Western States, and the number of voters
added by the Fifteenth Amendment:
States.
Delaware
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan......
Minnesota , ,...253
New Hampshire.. 494
New Jersey 25.336
New York 49,005
Ohio....... 36,673
Oregon...,.'... 128
Pennsylvania 56,849
Rhode Island 3,952
Vermont ....709
Wisconsin 1,171
Jfegro
JVeio
■ Population.
Voters.
4,0S6
681
8,627
1,433
21,627
3,604
7,623
1,271
11,428
1,805
1,069
178
236,167
9,361
.......1,827
221
171,131
28,522
9,662
1,609
6,799
1,333
From the Richmond and Louisville Medical Jour
nal, for April.
Professional Association with the
Negro.
The issue which has reached all classes and
professions has at last been presented for an
alysis and disposition to tbe medical profes
sion. It makes its appearance^ with the fol-
lowihg history:
It seems that, for very' : many years, there
has been but one Medical Society in the Dis
trict of Columbia. A committee of this body
constitutes an Examining Board, before which
all physicians seeking to practice in the Dis
trict must apply for examination and license.
The license gives the right to practice and the
legal right to collect claims, hut not necessari
ly a right to membership in the Societv.
_ During the past year, certain negro physi
cians presented themselves before this Board
and, passing creditable examinations, were
granted the usual license. They next sought
membership in the Medical Society. The
members or the Society, after duly examining
the whole question, decided not to admitthem.
The reason for refusal was simple: that whether
their Society was strictly parliamentary in or
ganization and action or partly parliamentary
and partly social, membership necessitated an
individual association that was personally un
pleasant to a majority of the Society. So the
application of the negro physicians was rejec
ted. A minority of the Society then seceded,
and, with those who had been rejected, or
ganized a separate and distinct Society. This
so far was all as it should he. Those who
preferred not to associate even thus much with
the negro exercised the unquestionable right
or the ballot, and the negro was rejected in
his application for society membership. Those
who. did not object to Society association with
the negro, united with him, and organized a
distinct Society which has, it is believed, been
duly cliarteredby Congress. This new Socie
ty will send its delegates to the American
Medical Association, in May, and, according
to the provisions of the organic law of this
Association, these delegates will claim a right
to be admitted to membership and fellowship.
Will this claim be granted? Will 'the ne
gro physician be admitted to membership in
this representative organization of the physi
cians of America ?
The officers of these Societies have sent
copies of their official papers and circulars to
the editor of this Journal (in common with
the editor of other medical journals,) and have
asked that this matter he presented to the
public. All other journals have failed to pub
lish anything on this subject which will com
mit them to either side of the question. It
would be equally easy for this Journal to be
non-committal; “to stand upon the fence”
(to use a vulgarism) and wait for develop
ments, before determining upon which side to
alight. Would this, however, be right?
Have not those who sustain a journal which
should be an organ of the profession a right
to demand that this, and all important ques
tions affecting the character and the future
of the profession shonld be definitely and de
cidedly presented ?
There are some Medical Journalists in Amer
ica who state that they make their journals
strictly practical and in the prosecution of
this, their assumed proving, seem to believe
that a journal is practical if it only dissemi
nates clinical matter, prescription recipes, a
few original papers, with limited miscellane
ous extracts from current medical literature.
If the stripping from a journal so entirely all
individuality as to leave it no more vitality or
personality than a letter-file or a storage closet
be to render it practical; if hospital records
and miscellaneous prescriptions, etc., chiefly
represent the practical field in journalism,
such conceptions and such manifestations "of
these conceptions are entirely correct If, on
the contrary, the chief pride and b'oast of med
icine that it is a true science and rests on the
broad basis of all collateral and co-ordinate
sciences be true; if the science of medicine
embraces equally fully all that gives increased
health and longevity, taking into its being and
assimilating all that is grand and. noble and
true in philosophy, in physics, in philan-
thropy ? in the physical and psycholological
man; if the domain of the physician be not
limited to the dull pharmacy of the gallipot
and the sad spectacles of tho hospital; if phy
sicians be often the best naturalists, the nest
philosophers, the best philanthropists, true
The French Reform.
The Emperor’s steady and persistent %
in the work of liberalizing the Fresch £?J
ment, is at length stopping the months of J
Iers to some extent. His celebrated ter ti
Premier Ollivier is in the following vords: I
Pams, March 21,1^
I think it opportune, under present <
stances, to adopt all reforms required bl
constitutional government of the empire,-I
der to pnt an end to the immoderate deal
a change which prevails in certain miiiAJ
also not to leave public opinion nsseH
creating instability.
The first place I accord to those r
which refer to the constitution and the p
atives of the Senate. The constitution of |
had above all things to provide the gore:
with the means of establishing snthor>|
order, bnt it remained to be perfected. '
was necessary that it shonld remain pene^
as long as the state of the country woddp
the establishment of pnblio liberties a j
bases. At the present time, when ut
changes have gradually created a constits
regime in harmony with the bases Jaiddw
the plebiscite, it is important to replace:
domain of law all that more specially
ence to the preservation of legiili ivso'
impress a definite character upon the 1
forms, to place the constitution abort if j
troversy, to call upon the Senate—A; r
body which contains so many brilliant s
lend to the new regime their most
psychologists and progressive scientists; if concurrence,
such investigations form the practical
93
82
4,226
8,167
6,112
21
9,475
659
118
195
Thbee inohes of applejack is called a straight
drink in North Carolina.
investigations form ■■
study of medical men how can medical jour
nals (the organs and exponents of the physi
cian) be regarded as practical, when in their
literature they reject the consideration of great
subjects and confine their readers to a dull,
monotonous, bald recapitulation of the routine
facts and records of a plodding professional
life ? Where journals rej ct the vast material
specified, material so valuable and interesting
to the profession, on the ground that such
journals are practical in their .scope and aspir
ations, it is blit consistent that all questions
relative to the educational, progressive and
associate relations of the profession should be
rejected also ; it is therefore consistent if not
natural that these works should refuse or fail
to present to the profession the interesting
question forming the subject and object of this
article. It is but reasonable however, and to
be expected, that the medical journals of the
country should entertain at least some opinion
on this subject, and advocate some action in
regard to it.
There can be no question of the fact that,
according to the organic law of the American
Medical Association, delegates from all char
tered medical societies in good standing, have
a right to be admitted as members of the
Association. No one can question this fact,
for it is based upon existing organic law. Will
these delegates be admitted? Should they
be admitted? Physicians more frequently
than all others have daily to recognize and to
establish a practical distinction between what
is right and what is expedient The highest
moral authority enjoins an observance of this
distinction upon all men. While therefore it
is proper to admit the right of the negro, dele
gates from the Society to fellowship in the
American Medical Association, the practical
question is, is it expedient jto grant them this
right No one who is disposed to try this
question in the forum of either common sense
or justice, can possibly pretend that the grant
ing of this right would be expedient Why ?
Because the admission of these negro dele
gates would be a wanton and reckless disre
gard of that principle of action which subordi
nates all other principles of action, save those
springing from a proper observance of the
claims of honor ana truth; that principle of
action which is paramount and should be
paramount with au bodies, whether individual
or corporate; the principle of self preserva
tion. It can nqt be doubted by; any one of
sound judgment, that the admission of these
delegates would cause a disruption of the
American Medical Association. If it did not
destroy the whole body, it would destroy cer
tainly one half .of it, and most probably the
greater part of it Such an admission on the
part of the Association, would be no more nor
less than corporate suicide; it would be to
destroy the life of the body.. It is maniiest,
therefore, that the admission of these dele
gate can not consistently or.propcriy be urged
by the friends of the Association. It is equal
ly manifest that the especial friends of the ne
gro can not advise hipi to a course so selfishin
its objects and so fatal in it results. That for
these and other reasons, the negro delegates
from this new Society, or any other Society,
should be and will be rejected, can not be
doubted. Societies and Colleges will so in
struct their delegates.
It may not he generous or noble to refuse
help to those who need it; it may be in dera-
gation of man’s highest instincts to suppress
the impulse to help and protect; but man is
not the creature of these impulses only; there
are other impulses equally natural, and far
more overwhelming in their nature: impulses
before which all aro forced to bow, as before a
dictator; the impulses controlling jnost ab
solutely all men in their physical and psycholog
ical associations. Some few may be so consti
tuted as to herd acceptably with the negro,
but the great mass of the Caucasian race have
that peculiar indestructible instinct which re
volts at the mention even of such association.
These last will be just to the negro; they will
protect him; they will give him every legal
right to which he is entitled; but they cannot
and will not make him an “associate.
It may be said that tho legal profession h
more generous; that it admits
professional fellowship m the
The answer is simple—such felwl-
result of necessity. Governments p2 pi ®3
State, cannot create separate courts
for the convenience of negro attorney!
must practice in existing courtM or' ' 1
A £. ai M he P u, .P it does not grant a fell 1
which if springing from chanty should I?
tested by its advocates and teachers,
ever other professions and other elasio. v
ever may do, the.medical profession^ J
tent to decide this question for itself , C <•
writer feels no hesitation in deciariii»'fkr!
decision will properly be against lwz!i
Association with the Negro. ^
Bermuda Grass.
Edftob Southern Cultivator—<J
fit of Richard Stratford, Jr., of Mont
Ala., I wifi state that in the spriuTSS
(March,) I broke up f ths of atroEglyTnrfLl
muda grass land, with small Bhort oK 1
plowing it four times, then bedded op s A*
ed it in cotton. Itprodneedover
of seed cotton. In December follo^
it in bailey—made a fine orop. k-JS
barley was taken off, planted it in eor!.
1869,) and but for the drought in Anpnst ’.3
it would have made a splendid yield p 1
rime not a live sprig of Bermuda Jj.1
found. It now has a fine orop of bade
ing on it I applied green ootton seed lit/
broad oast on the ground, and plowed it ^ J
the barley each time.
In the spring of 1S69, similarly ireaM
9 acres that had been in Be^uda^i
years, without being disturbed.
drill about 120 pounds of Peruvwf J 1 ' 1 .
the acre; gathered 9,376 pounds ofti^ 1
notwithstanding the August dronehTT
lTOSj
on this field, but great quantities of ^
I shall plant it in cotton the present
fir crea “ tte yieid> iftbe se ^l
Hr. Stratton that there arehun J
acres in his section “rendered worthlml
for pasturage, on acoount of it.” Ke is tJ
mistaken. Tho land is improving evetrj
and gathering immense quantities of vepi
matter, principally in its roots, that by til
system I have given can be converted in! 0 J
food for cotton or grain. I once regard^
a pest, because my neighbors and Be
friends did. I now invite it to take hi
every cleared acre out of cultivation J
perate those acres, and gather strenstifJ
tore cropping. ”
Also say to A. J. W., of Port Gibson, ]
not to be alarmed by your reply, that “»
da grass is excellent to stop washes, elt/k
most cases is objectionable as the gnllits ■*
selves.” I know no grass so valuable t 1
washes, and I think I have damonsirateiJ
can bo turned to a most valuable accost, J
out any great outlay of labor. And L : J
spring, long summer and autumn grant-j
is nothing equal to it in these Southsnr.
R. W. Bor
Clinton, Ga., Feb. 18, 1870.
I therefore request you to come tor.a
standing with yonr colleagues and lay a
me the draft of a Senatus Consult<m »
shall firmly fix the fundamental disposiua
rived from the plebiscite of 1862, ulj
shall divide the legislative power bet«e
two chambers, and restore to the natal
portion of constituent power it had @<r
to me. Nutf*
The Herald of the 4th instant says:
It transpired on the examination of omi
witnesses (in the Bonaparte trial) that t&l
seillaise had announced that, “convictedI
quitted, the Prince would be killed.” W|
publishing this atrocious sentiment, tke|
seillaise continued in existence as a nwr
in Paris. Napoleon’s letter oi ll&gnri
addressed to Premier Ollivier, is pnblt x
extenso ia our columns. The documents!!
cases give proof that France is being I
advanced to a healthy system of demoi
the law vindicated, imperialism talen
people educated and loyaL
“Mack,” the ‘Washington correspcM
the Oincinnati Enquirer, recites the fdj
painful narative:
“In conversation with a very intellijs
accomplished lady from Maine, afewdrij
I learned the following facts, which r
shadow of a sad romance over the 0#i
aster. Commander Williams, the higta
cer on the vessel, and one of the
widower, of something less thanfortyij
father of two bright little children,
last he contracted an engagement for «J
marriage, which was to have taken pi*
soon after the arrival of the Oneida in u
try. I believe it was fixed for thH
of ApriL He left the United States i£j
in June last, and just before his deps-T
was one of a dinner party at which ojJ
ant and the affianced bride were alsc r
Had he returned safely he wonki have*-
fate which his brave heart would not
with the cool courage that he faced defrj
post on the quarter-deck. Since the lsj
nary his two children and his intended*"
died. When he left Japan he had t'J
this sad news, but supposed he was cos?"
to meet them all in health and harpttf
to one, at least, of the gallant men
down in the ill-fated steamer, death
ooDod disaster.
A - writer in Good Health says:
Cooper, of South Carolina, ased^i
students, “ Don’tbe afraid of a little J
gentlemen. What is dirt? why,JT
all offensive, when chemically viewc-l
little alkali upon that * dirty g rtt ; ,1
yonr coat, and it undergoes a
and becomes soap. Now, rub «
water, and it disappears; it is Lk
soap,' water, nor dirt. That is no-
ous pile of dirt you observe th« r6 -
ter a little gypsum over it, and it 1
dirt. Everything you call dirt is ■
ties, as students of chemistry.
will separate into very dean e 1 *® A
makes corn, corn makes meat ash Kj
they make a very sweet young lady J
one of you kissing last night J
you were kissing dirt, particularly I
her skin with chalk, or Fuller’s
is no telling, young gentlemen, j
The Inactive a Doubting Cfif,
We cannot give the philosophy ot jj
is the fact—Christians who have j
do but to sit thinking of themsri.LJ
ting, sentimentalizing, (or ^y^*!
almost sure to become the prey. 0 ' xl
misgivings. John, struggling
needs no proof that Jesus 1S
shut up, becomes morbid and
diately. The history of a hu®» a ",
vellons. We are mysteries;
history of it all—for sadness, *
there is no remedy but stirring
Robertson.
Melton Ft.t.tr, a son of the p 10 '
paper mill in South Dedham,
mat week, got caught la the “L. m
curried over the shaft twenty *
olentlv against the ceiling aboj . jj |
pipes below. He wasdenudadd^
ing except one stacking •® d .* b 'K-
banes were broken he »
oover.
