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. t 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.