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The Greorgia 'Weekly
telegraph and .Messenger,
MACON, APRIU 12, ’.870.
Connecticut Election.
The wires north of Washington went down in
the heavy weather of Monday, and we get a few
Northern items by way of Pittsburgh up to
Tuesday noon. Peradventure, they will repair
images in time for our night dispatches. Prom
the meagre reports received, it appears there
Its been a close contest in Connecticut, and the
eleotion .of English, Democrat, is claimed by
small majority. The Democrats also claim
maj ority in the Legislature. We shall probably
get more certain information before going to
press. ,
Toe following particulars in regard to the loss
of steamers, life and property, throughout the
United States during the year 18G9, are ob
tained from an official report: Explosions, 11
steamers lost by fire, 39; collisions of a serious
character, 21; steamers lost by wreck and
foundering, 58; steamers lost by snags and
other obstructions, 30; lives lost, 583; amount
of property lost, $3,434,900. Of this amount
there was lost in the Western waters, 59 steam
ers, 340 lives, and $1,848,850 worth of prop
erty.
The Woman Question.—New York is greatly
excited over the eloquence and beauty of Miss
Lillian Edgarton. Victoria C. Woodhnll, one
of the Wall street bankers and brokers, has de
clared herself a candidate for the Presidency of
the United States in opposition to Grant in
1872. “I have asserted my independence,”
she says, “ have proved my quality, and being
sound in wind and bottom, do now enter the
arena of politics for the unpurebased suffrages
of a free people!” Mrs. Betsey C. Neal, of St.
Louis, has impaired her future usefulness by
getting drunk, falling down stairs and breaking
her neck. It is feared she has lost her vote.
XIX Gentuby foe April opens with Parts
1-5 of a new tale called Morna Elverley, or the
Outlines of Life. Wm. Gilmore Sims and Chi-
quita contribute two poems—Fancy in Siesta
and The Deluge. It also contains No. 2 of the
Becreations of an Invalid; Parts 5-7 of Henry
Cleveland's tale, The Storm and the Sunset;
Ex-Gov. Perry continues his Reminiscences of
Public Men; Judge Longstreet contributes No.
1 of Old Things become New; and there are
papers upon The Two Signs of the TimeB,
Langdon Cheves, The Revolutionary Character
of the United States Government, and the usual
editorial matter. A very lively number. Pub
lished by the 19th Century Company, Charles
ton, S. 0., at $3.50 per annum.
Tlie Bureau to be Revived.
A letter in the World from Washington, says
that Grant’s proclamation, followed by the out
pourings of the Tribune and Times upon the
matter of educating the colored voters, means
mischief. The Freedmen’s Bureau is to be re
vived, in the shape of an “Educational Bureau,'
still under the charge of that venerable and il
lustrious bummer, Gen. Howard, who is this
time to deal in rations of arithmetic and gram
mar, instead of pea soup and bacon. Under
the new plan the Bureau organization will reach
the remotest districts of the Southern States,
and have its representative in a Bureau teacher
appointed by and responsible to Howard, and
acting as a political as well as educational drill
sergeant. That is certainly a very promising
manoeuvre, and it combinesa “highmoral idea'
with much chicanery.
Tbe Cold Spring*
The Spring of 1870 will have a long memory
for its extraordinary backwardness and rigor.
We judge vegetation, and planting, and gar
dening operations cannot be far from a month
behind where they are ordinarily at this time,
and the cold still clings to ns with extraordinary
tenacity. Tuesday morning there was a very
heavy white frost, and unless we are much mis
taken we saw ice in a low place on the road
side, where water oozing from a clay bank had
flowed slowly down a slight declivity in a hardly
perceptible current. The streams, if we may
call them streams, were congealed as we thought,
but could not stop to examine them particularly.
Here about Macon a single day or two within
a month will constitute our sum total of “grow
ing weather. ” Gold and wet, or cold and windy,
will make up the classifications. We are not,
therefore, surprised to read of a heavy snow
storm in Connecticut last Monday. It is the
Southern spring a little exaggerated, and uni
versally unpropitious all over the country.
A Louisiana planter delighted his hands one
Saturday night by paying them in silver quar
ters. One old negro exclaimed: “ ’Federit
money come an done gone, and greenbacks is
played out, but dis is the stuff that rats can’t
chaw. De ole time is come agin, hoo-ray ?”
And then he went away and buried hi3 money.
To GlveXJp tbe Ghost.
The Herald of Saturday says:
The Anti-Slavery Society intends giving up
the ghost. It proposes to hold a commemora
tive jubilee in this city on the 9th mat., which
shall be its last meeting. We are very glad it
intends disolving. A hecatomb of grave, many
thousand of widows and orphans and a frightful
load of debt are the results of its labors. If,
after all the mischief it has done, it can rest in
peace, we trust it will.
It may rest in peace, even with this mountain
load of crime pressing upon it, but not for all
time. History will take it in hand some day,
and then will come torture and retribution.—
From the graves made by its infernal machina
tions will start grinning skeletons with pointed
fingers to lash the consciences of those who made
them such. The world, by that time, will see
this anti-slavery society and its work as they
really are. They will take their place among
the National crimes that have made certain
epochs of this world’s history, rival holl itself
in horror. We do not doubt for one moment
that the curses of this country will, before many
years, clothe as with a garment the names and
memories of these wholesale murderers. They
have used the most damnable means to accom
plish the most ruinous and wicked purposes
that ever tempted the Almighty to forego and
forget his attributes of long suffering and mer
cy. They have murdered half a million of men
and destroyed the Constitution and liberties of
thirty millions of people in order that four mil
lions of property might be stolen from its right
ful owners, and the descendants of those who
made this government and won this continent
for Christianity and civilization, be ruled by
those whose grandfathers eat one another and
sold their wives and children into slavery.
Well may the blood-drenched, crime-steeped
author of these horrors decree its dissolution,
now that time’s dial-plate shows the slow but
sure approach of the hour for reckoning. Well
may they meet, and shout, and glorify over
their mission as accomplished, their work end
ed. So have done murderers when their vic
tims were buried and all was still. They did
not see the vengeance that was on their track
and hastening to their destruction. These anti
slavery crusaders fancy all is finished and their
crimes secure against retribution. They may
live—some of them, at least—to find out their
mistake. We can no more believe that this
anti-slavery crusade, culminating as it didin a
fearful war and the emancipation of the slaves—
the crime of the Nineteenth Century—will go un
punished, than wo can doubt that the Almighty
is capable of being false to any of his attributes
or promises.
Miss 31 a ml Ernest on tbe War Patb.
And now comes Miss Maud Ernest who couches
her lance and springs to the charge against the
cacklers for woman suffrage. She made her
debut in New York on Wednesday and hit some
hard blows. She expected, she said, to become
target for the petticoat politicians of the pe
riod. She was, however, a tough subject, and
should feel repaid if she could at all affect their
stronghold of self-conceit. She declared that
the suffrage ranks were made up of old maids,
jilted women, and women lost to all faith and
virtue. Women have no right to vote. Put a
beggar on horseback and he will ride to the
devil. Give these women suffrage, and we will
have, as the Old Woman in the Shoe said,
“Bedlam let loose.” Women were unfit to
vote, because their brains were smaller than
men's, and the ancient and modem poets con
demned the strong-minded. The impurity of
the ballot-box is proverbial. What would it be
if women voted? A ring or a ribbon would
buy their votes, and the handsomest man would
get the most Miss Maud then descrihed a
strong-minded woman of the period,” and af
firmed that the day would never dawn upon
woman’s enfranchisement
A Fair Election.
Senator Stewart thinks it will take two years
of Bullock’s doctoring to complete preparations
for a fair election in Georgia, and four years
would be better. The Radicals may practice on
Georgia all the foul means their ingenuity can
devise, but such a fair election as they are after
—to wit: a Radical majority—can never be ob
tained by universal suffrage in that way. But
Georgia wonld much prefer to dispense with the
ballot altogether, rather than be ridden to beg
gary and ruin by Bullock & Co. Why not, then,
instead of four years of Bullock, give us four
years of a pure military Government, and re
move the Bullock imposture. Why should Con-
gres feed and fatten Bullock & Co., at our ex
pense ? What will the Radical party gain by it ?
But if they will put us under a military govern
ment, that will secure them equally against our
democracy and our so-called “lawlessness,” and
it will be a far better government for Georgia
than Bullock’s. *
Johnny Taylob, the great California rider, is
on his way to New York, where he is to ride a
match against time in Jerome Park—200 miles
in ten hours. At San Jose, Califomia, in Sep
tember, I860, he rode 200 miles in nine hours
and six minutes, winning a purse of $1,000. In
this match he used thirty horses.
A Southern Clothing House.—Longstreet,
Sedge wick & Co., whose card appears among
our advertisements, are engaged exclusively in
a Southern clothing trade, and have a very large
and choice stock of spring goods especially
adapted to this trade, and consisting of every
variety of goods in the latest styles, for spring
and summer wear. Orders are solicited on the
usual liberal terms, and will be filled at the
lowest prices.
A small electric battery has been applied to
ordinary sewing machines, and has been found
to operate them very successfully. Two small
battery cups furnish sufficient power for all or
dinary machine work, while three drive the
needle through ten thicknesses of material
The expense of operating by these means is
said to be abont five cents a day.
Josh Billings says: “Menny people spend
their time in trying to find the hole wbar sin
got into the world. If two men break through
the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt
for some good hole to get out, rather than git
into a long argument about the hole they fell
in.”
A man in Bradford county, Pa., in cleaning
out an old well, a few days since, found a keg
of butter that had lain there for thirty years.
It was well preserved, for it was as yellow as
gold, and as sweet as the day is was made.
Two Washington city ladies were arrested
there, Saturday, for refusing to respond to a
summons served on them by a negro bailiff to
testify before the grand jury.
” That Amnesty Message.—A Washington dis
patch of Saturday to the Western Press says “it
is understood from offioial sources that |he
President submitted to his Cabinet yesterday
his proposed message to Congress suggesting
general amnesty.”
The Corps Legislatif of France is composed
of fou/ political sections. The “Bight” con
trols 75 votes; the “Right Centre,” which.is
the party of the Ministry, numbers 130 mem
bers; the “Left Centre" 35 to 45, and the
•‘Left" 37 members.
What They Died For.
The New York Tribune says that the masses
of the Northern men who “watered Southern
battle-fields with their life’s blood,” did it “to
preserve to the world an absolutely free govern
ment /”
How miserably they were cheated, it is well
perhaps they should never know. They died, poor
victims! to set the negroes free, and keep the
rascals who urged them to the field in fat offices.
This is just what they “preserved.” If that is
any consolation to those who mourn them, we
have nothing to say. When Greeley, or any
body else of his persuasion, talks of “an abso
lutely free government,” in this country, the
words ought to choke him. He knows just as
well as Ananias did when he told the fatal lie,
that he is giving utterance to a huge falsehood.
We do not wish him Ananias’ fate, for we fear
he is no better prepared to die, but we really
see no other prospect of stopping this sort of
thing.
A model C. B.
The New York Sun, ultra-radical, makes the
following biographical sketch of Whittemore,
which may be put on record as the history of
a model “ carpet-bag Radical," as that class of
partizan adventurers is called
Whittemore, of South Carolina, the cadetship
peddler, has a romantic history. He is a New
Englander by-birth; inherited a small fortune;
travelled in Europe and ran through the money;
became a clerk in Boston; was converted in
a camp meeting; preached; joined Ben But
ler’s New England brigade as a chaplain; got
funds and other property from the American
Missionary Association; was charged with mis
applying the funds; exhorted and lectured the
negroes; successfully led in a street fight be
tween negroes and soldiers in Darlington, S. O.;
received about $2500 from the National Repub
lican Executive Committee, to be distributed
for electioneering purposes in South Carolina;
admitted that he appropriated the greater part
of the money for his own use, to compensate
himself for his services while on the stump;
charged the negroes who voted for him ten cents
each for the ballots they received; got to Con
gress and sold that cadetship, and is now up for
another trip to the national capital.
Whittemore is stumping his district for re-
election with every prospect of success, if wo
may judge ftom the Charleston papers. Those
of last Monday describe in two columns an in-
faria ted meeting of the blacks in Georgetown, at
which something called a discussion took place,
and parties passed tho point where blows usually
come—denouncing each other as liars, villians
arid scoundrels. The Reporter says, however,
that upon a show of hands Whittemore had
nineteen-twentieths of the negroes present in
favor of his re-election.
The voters in Whittemore'a district are labor
ing under the impression thaffhe cadetships are
a species of canal-boat, when everybody else
knowB they are men-of-war.—If. T. Time*.
A Short Chapter on Southern Proa-
— pects. .
The New York Tribune says: “If the South
can 6imply go on as she is going, for ten years
longer, she will be richer and more prosperous
than she ever yet has been.” It speaks of “Ku-
Klux as one of her scourges,” and of the “car
pet-bagger” as another. It defines the latter
precisely as we do. They are not the honest
Northern settlers who come among us to make
their homes and follow their legitimate business
—but, in the language of the Tribune, the car
pet-baggers are “those who went South in quest
of office, or power or plunder of some kind, and
who have let nothing stand in the way of their
greed or ambition.”—Charleston Xeics.
We shall dwell little upon the political pros
pects of Georgia, as they are affecting and will
probably affect her pecuniary condition. Bat
they are as black as night. The planter will be
very heedless who fails, in forecasting the fu
ture, to take into account the heavy taxes and
the general demoralization of agricultural labor,
which in all human probability are before us.
But we will take the condition as it now exists
and express the conviction that there is little or
no truth in the declaration of the New York
Tribune, that “if the South can simply go on as
she is going, for ten years longer, she will be
more prosperous than she ever yet has been.
On the contrary, we fear that Georgia, at least,
is becoming poorer instead of richer at this mo
ment.
Last year, at this time, we were getting twen
ty-six cents a pound for cotton and paying
dollar and eight cents for com. This year we
are getting twenty-one cents for cotton and pay
ing one dollar and thirty-five cents for com.
Last year we had not expended more than fifty
per cent, of our present costs and indebtedness
for fertilizers, and we all know that our debts
are generally heavier this spring than last
spring. Last year we paid less for labor than
we have engaged to pay this year.
Now, taking these factsjinto consideration, let
us inquire into our assets. What is our surplus
from last year’s crop—have we got anything left
after last year’s debts are paid, or shall we have
any remainder when we have paid those debts ?
Can we disguise from ourselves the fact that
every midsummer finds us bare of money, and
living and doing business—how? On money
borrowed from the usurers at two and a half per
cent, a month! How then, will the summer of
1871 find ns ? We confess we see no light and
no remedy or salvation except in a sounder
economy—an economy which shall vastly ai
minish expenses and aim at a substantial inde
pendence in the production of our own food
supplies. Did anybody ever hear of getting
rich on capital borrowed at thirty per cent a
year ? The proposition is absurd. Sound bus
iness men say that ten per cent a year will
break any man at last
No, no! We are not getting rich. A few who
work hard, raise their own supplies and don’t in
vest at all in the fashions and luxuries, may be
getting rich. The money lenders are getting
rich and the railroads may be doing a good busi
ness; but in spite of all the prognostications
and theories of the North, we are no more get
ting rich than any other peonle, who eat up
their year's earnings in six months and live on
borrowed money at exorbitant interest the re
mainder of the time. If we were belting people,
we would stake our pile that nine-tenths of the
cotton growers who are running on this sched
ule will come to ruin, and at no distant day,
either.
But we can say confidently what we are doing
and becoming. We Georgians are daily mak
ing ourselves more completely hewers of wood
and drawers of water for the outside world than
we ever were before. Wo are running plants*
tions down here for the exclusive benefit of the
Northern, Eastern and Western people, and the
hands we employ; and assuming individual
responsibilities for the deficit after deducting
the cost of our living. That is just what we
are doing, and what we are going to do, until cot
ton gets “down,” and the simple question of
bread and meat, brings us to the point of rais
ing our own food. That is the way Georgia is
going to get “rich and prosperous in the next
ten years.” She is going to acquire her wealth
only in the way of experience. She is going to
get so poor on cotton at fifteen to twenty cents
a pound as to be compelled to grow her own
bread and meat or starve, and then discover
that the man who has little or nothing to buy
for his plantation, is the man' who can get rich
by growing cotton. ~ But he who has everything
to buy, and only one thing to sell, will infallibly
come out with a balance at the wrong side of
the sheet.
Well Answered.
A few days ago the New York Tribune taunted
the people of Connecticut who objected to hav
ing negro suffrage thrust upon them by the Fif
teenth Amendment, with the question, “ What
are you going to do about it?” A “Republican”
of Hartford answered as follows:
But in view of the fact that we are to have
negro suffrage forced upon us by such means as
we have seen used in Georgia and some States,
I, for one, say to the Tribune’s taunt, I mean to
vote this spring, and if I am not mistaken, my
vote shall be against those who have done this
job.
And it seems from the returns of the election
there Monday, that a great many others fol
lowed his lead. English’s triumphant election
is a very significant answer to Greeley’s taunt.
A Growl from the West.
A press dispatch from Chicago, dated Sunday
April 3d, saysalargemeeting, composed of bank
ers and business men, was held the night be
fore in that city. There were fifty Vice Presi.
dents made up of leading merchants. Resolu
tions were unanimously adopted calling upon
Congress to take immediate steDS for the reduc
tion of at least fifty millions of dollars in the
rate of national taxation; declaring that the im
position of taxes having for their objeot the
transfer of capital from one class, section or in
dividual, to another, without the owner’s con
sent, is unjust and impolitic; that the present
tariff has destroyed the ship-building industry,
and almost annihilated the foreign commercial
marine of the seaboard States, and increased the
cost of railroad transportation by adding seven
ty per cent, to the cost of iron rails; that the
income tax is unequal and unjust and should
not be re-enacted by Congress; that the tax up
on gross receipts, and the tax on sales, should
be abolished, and that in the present depressed
state of all kinds of business, it is unwise and
unjust to continue paying the principal of the
publio debt at the rate of seven million dollars
per month, it having been contracted for the
benefit of posterity as well as of the present
generation.
Georgia State Agrlcnltnral Society.
We find in the Atlanta papers of yesterday, a
full report of the proceedings of the late meet
ing of the State Agricultural Society, and will
publish them at an early day.
Meanwhile we may state that the resignation
of Secretary Lewis was received and accepted,
and that CoLT. C. Howard, Assistant Secretary,
was appointed to act as Secretary till one is
elected. A resolution was passed that the Sec
retary establish an office in Atlanta, which shall
be open from 9 to 4 o’clock ecch day, where all
claims for premiums or otherwise, will be
promptly attended to.
The Secretary is authorized to advertise for
one month in all the Atlanta papers, and in one
prominent paper in Albany, Athens, Rome,
Maoon, Columbus, Savannah and Augusta. The
President of the Society, and Messrs. Howard
and Livingston were appointed delegates to the
Louisiana State Fair at New Orleans.
Notes on the Railway Situation, No. 6, is a
heavy onslaught upon recent railroad enter
prises in Georgia. We do not altogether agree
with the writer; but shall not take up the
cudgels against him. Much that he says is
true, beyond a doubt; but we think he takes
too much of an old-rime view of Railways.
They are but roads, and the only kind of good
roads we are likely to have in Georgia. Every
part of the State should have the benefit of
them; but, of course, in a legitimate way.
They are bound to multiply, and we believe
will all pay; if not, at first, as so many invest
ments, oertainly in the development of the
country, whioh in time will bring them up to a
paying point. As for Macon and other towns,
if they cannot stand such railways as are con
venient to the people, let them slide. But we
have no fears.
A Carton* Sort of a “Rebel-”
In the trial at Richmond of the injunction
case of Chahoon—bitter Radical carpet-bagger
—against Ellison, Conservative, the lawful May
or of the city, Gov. Wise, who, strange to say,
was Chahoon’s oounsel is reported to have said
That, as was well known, he was still a rebel,
and would scorn to accept pardon or amnesty.
Were Ulyssess Grant to send him a pardon, he
wonld draw black lines through and around it,
and return it with the indorsement that he was
no more a traitor than Grant was. No, he hoped
for better days and better things, and he would
take nothing as a favor—nothing which directly
or by implication made him confess that he was
sorry for what he had done in the last ten years.
This is all very pretty talk, but it don’t seem
to fool the Radicals by any manner of means.
Underwood who tried the case, and of course
decided in Chahoon’s favor, Went to Washing
ton after the trial was over, and here is what he
says as reported by the special Washington cor
respondent of the Richmond Dispatch.
He (Underwood) is enthusiastic over Govern
or Wise, and declares him the ablest man in
Virginia. He says Wise will be the nominee of
the Republican party from the Richmond dis
trict ; that the colored men are warm in praises
of him; that the German and a good portion of
the Irish votes are with Wise; and that the lat
ter has declared' himself a Republican and
friend of the piesent administration.
Put Wise’s zaalou3 defence of Chahoon, and
what Underwood tells his friends at Washing
ton, against what Wise declares in a buncombe
speech, and the publio will bring in a verdict
without any trouble.
A Grim Joke.
Grant speaking of the Constitution as that
“revered instrument,” in his last proclamation,
when he knows that since the party whose
head he is got into power, they have violated it
almost as many times as there are days in the
year. Grant can claim the bet as the cham
pion joker of the age. We know not which to
admire most, his boldness in perpetrating such
a joke, or the hypocrisy that impelled him to
essay so barefaced an attempt to deceive
the people whom he addressed. We would
not wonder if these same people did not get off
a grimmer joke on him somo of these days,
really looks as if some of them up in Connecti
cut had a notion that way.
Baez and Bullock.
The Chicago Tribune (Rad., red-hot,) is after
the San Domingo treaty business with a very
sharp stick.* Itpays its respects to “President'
Baez, and incidentally to “ our model Govern
or,” after this fashion:
“President” Baez is a cowardly and brutal
adventurer, who, having run his career of as
sassination and despotism, seeks to escape from
the avenging arm of justice by selling his coun
try and his countrymen for money to a foreign
government. He has an idea, doubtless, that
n case of annexation he will become a Bullock
or a Whittemore, besides pocketing, in the pre
liminary transaction, a large share of the money
which may pass from the United States to San
Domingo.
A nice chap, this, to add to the already re
dundant population of his sort in this country.
The B.’s had better look to their laurels.
Kln£ Cotton.
Lonuon, April 4.—Dispatches from Calcutta
state that Earl Mayo, Governor General of In
dia, is making a tour through the cotton grow
ing districts of that conntrv urging the neces
sity of an increase in the cultivation of cotton,
in order to compete successfully with the United
States.
Approved and respectfully forwarded for the
information of -all those who are borrowing
money at 2 per cent a month to buy more
guano and more bacon to make more cotton
and more money next fall—perhaps.
Oh! Dear.
Bureau Howard’s pet negro school at Wash
ington City is in a bad way. The negro lads
and lassies have been mingling rather too pro
miscuously, and tho consequence is an increase
in the population of the school, the increase be
ing a fourteen pounder. Several others are ex
pected, and a temporary hospital has been fit
ted up for their accommodation. Howard is
reported in great distress over this lapse among
the chosen vessels.
A nephew of the great Chief Justice Marshall,
of Virginia, is said to be begging in the streets
of Macon, Ga. Virginia may be everything that
could be desired, as to the mother of statesmen,
but she is evidently not a great aunt.
So says the Chronicle ar-’Sentinel of Tues
day. The illustrious beg b aforesaid may be
plying his vocation in the streets of Macon, but
up to this writing he has very successfully con
cealed his line&ge from prying people. We
know a man who would have found him out long
ago if he had been here. He^never fails to in
terview all such distinguished strangers.
Butler to Have an Organ.
Tho Courier-Journal's special New'York Dis
patch of Sunday says:
The fact has just leaked out that Gen. Butler
will, in a very few weeks, establish an organ in
this city,.its main object being to counteract
the influence of the New York Tribune upon
the Radical party. Butler, though well aware
that he himself cannot receive the nomination
for the Presidency, is preparing for the fight of
1872, and wants to run a man in under whom he
can be Secretary of State. He is all ambition,
considers himself the statesman of the future,
and takes time by the forelock to promote his
chances and those of his confidants. The new
organ will also urge free trade upon the Radical
party, and denounces Grant’s foreign policy.
An Editobial Apology.—The White Pine,
Nevada, Daily News, of the 14th of March,
opens with the following apology to readers:
Apologetic.—At the present writing we are
in the midst of the most terrifio storm we ever
experienced anywhere. The atmosphere is
not intensely cold, but it curls about with a
rapidity, variety and industry not at all charm
ing. The tin roof of the office has gone off en
tire, and all hands are at work without shelter.
The gale is so terrifio that repairs cannot be
made, and wo are compelled to freeze it out,
praying for an early subsidence of the storm.
Under the circumstances, it is necessary to
crave the indulgence of our friends with the de
ficiencies in this issue of the Daily News. Every
man is in his place—all industriously working
in jhe cold—laboring to bring out some sort of
publication to keep up the proper daily appear
ance.
A bearded girl has made hor appearance at
Glade Spring Depot, Washington county, Va.
She is four years old, and has a moustache and
whiskers, the hair upon the forehead extending
to the eyebrows. Very heavy hair, exceedingly
blaok, extends below the shoulders. The child
is sprightly, with fully developed limbs and
well-formed body. The arms, shoulders, and
back are covered with soft downy hair. .
“Professional Association with the Ne
gro.”—We have had left with us a paper on
this subject from the Editor of the Richmond
and Louisville Medical Journal, with the desire
that it shall be reprinted before-the meeting
of the State Medical Association in Macon, on
the 13th. We will make room for it in a day
or two.
The Georgia Press.
The railroad officials at Americas have moved
into a new and handsome depot just finished
there by the Southwestern Railroad Company.
Mrs. R. E. Cobb, of -Americas, died on
Wednesday,
Mr. J. E. Christian, foreman of the Americas
Courier office, had his clothing and other arti
cles stolen by a thief, who entered his room
Tuesday night
Gen. Lee was out on the streets of Savannah,
Saturday, looking well, and quite recovered
from his fatigue. He attended Christ Church,
Sunday.
The Savannah Chamber of Commerce has
been reorganized.
We get the following items from the News, of
Monday:
Injunction Granted.—On Saturday his Honor
Judge Schley, of the Superior Court of Chatham
county, granted an injunction against the Sa
vannah and Charleston Railroad under the
statute of the State of Georgia creating me
chanics’ liens.
Tho action atises on a claim of Messrs. Mc
Dowell & Callahan, contractors, for work done,
amounting, it is alleged, to the sum of $26,
336.33.
On Saturday last, the Sheriff of Chatham
county, by virtue of the writ, proceeded to the
bridge across tbe Savannah river, locked the
draw, leaving a deputy to see that the train did
not pass over that portion of the road which
laid in the State of Georgia. The train went
from here on time yesterday, and arriving at
the bridge, found the draw open and tho gear
ing locked, and waited for the Savannah train,
which, on arriving, unlocked the same, closed
the draw, and both the out and in trains passed
over, arriving on time in this city and in
Charleston.
Raileoad Accident.—The train from Augusta
did not reaoh the city until 8£ o’clock yesterday
evening. The delay was caused by a “run off’'
at the eighty-five mile post, Bix miles above
Millen, which was caused by running over a cow.
Three cars were thrown off the track and con
siderably damaged, and the road was tom up
for some distance. No one was hurt.
The shipping for the past few days indicated
that the business for this season is much larger
than that of last year for the same period, and
is the sign of healthy times.
The steamships are taking out the tourists
and travelers who have “ done up’ ’• Georgia and noon *
Florida duriDg the past winter. '
The daughter of a Morgan county farmer
eloped, a few days ago, with a married man,
who left a wife and several children to rejoice
over his departure. The Farm Journal don’t
give any names.
A couple of Madisonians exchanged pistol
shots a few days ago, without any material dam
age to their respective persons.
Tho Butts county people around Indian
Springs held a meeting, on the 31st ult, and
adopted the following resolutions:
Whereas, we feel the great necessity of a
railroad in our county,
And, whereas, the most of the counties
through which the Ocmulgee and North Georgia
Railroad will probably run, have given an ex
pression of their approval and their promises
of aid and comfort. Therefore,
Resolved, That we in this portion of Butts
county “welcome the dawn of a better day,"
and unanimously agree to give the right of way,
and cheerfully promise what material aid we
are able to afford.
Resolved, That we request all our fellow-citi
zens to meet on the first Tuesday in April next,
at Jackson, in county meeting, and unanimous
ly adopt a resolution similar to the above.
The “first musquito of the season” appeared
in Forsyth, Saturday night.
Rock Greek Church, Monroe county, was de
stroyed by a spark from a pipe on Saturday.
It will be rebuilt, a subscription of $300 having
been raised the day after in the neighborhood,
Joe Davis, in for murder, and Henry Trapp,
charged with burglary, escaped from Forsyth
jail, Saturday. Davis was captured Sunday,
but Trapp is still at large.
Dennis Callahan, an old and esteemed citizen
of Alanta died Monday.
A carpenter named Hoare, was stabbed in At
lanta, Saturday night, by a negro man.
The Constitution says Ed Holland abas Ed
Phelps, was arrested there, Friday, charged
with passing at $100 bill on a Westend firm.
Holland was formerly with Robinson’s circus,
but was discharged a short time ago.
The Constitution tell3 of the following habeas
corpus case
A habeas corpus case will come up before his
honor, Judge Daniel Pittman, to-morrow. It
appears that a white man named Long was ar
raigned before one J. Cooper Austin, one of
Bullock’s Notary Publics in DeKalb county, on
a charge of vagrancy. Upon the trial, it was
proved that Long only furnished his wife with
ten pounds clear bacon sides per month, and
the sapient official decided that because he did
not famish his wife with thirty pounds, per
month, he was a vagrant, and sentenced him to
twelve months on the chain gang. The defen
dant, believing that is too long a sentence for
so little meat, takes out the writ, on the ground
of excessive punishment.
W. J. Speer’s store, in Americas, was en
tered and lobbed, Friday night, of a large num
ber of valuable artioles.
The Americas Fire Department had a parade
and inspection Monday afternoon. The two
companies, one white and one colored, were
out in full foroe. The steamer threw 175 feet
with 50 pounds of steam.
The Albany News gives the following as the
order of exercises of the Macon Presbytery that
meets this evening, in that place. Sermon by
Rev. J. S. Comby, of Cnthbert, the Moderator.
After the service, the Presbytery will organ
ize, elect its Moderator, and prepare for busi
ness. On Thursday morning the session will
resume at 9 o'clock to proceed with the regular
transaction of ordinary business. These meet
ings will continue during tho remainder of the
week.
In the evening of each day during the sittings
of the Presbytery, Divine service will be held
in the Presbyterian Church at half-past 7, and
on Sunday next the pulpits of the other churches
in the city will be filled by the brethren present
at this meeting.
The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail
road now sells through tickets from Auguste to
New York for $28.00; to Philadelphia, $26.00;
to Baltimore, $24.00; and to Richmond, $22.00.
The City Council of Augusta has refused to
allow the Fort Royal Railroad to come into the
city and locate its line along Walker street to
the Georgia Railroad depot A request from
the street railroad to lay a track along the same
street to the fair ground, was also refused.
A woman named Elizabeth Williams was bad
ly cut and beaten by a Federal soldier named
Hansen, in Augusta, on Sunday.
The Augusta negroes, according to the Con
stitutionalist are up to some curious tricks. A
negro child, on Sunday night about 12 o’clock,
was found hanging by her fingers whioh were
fastened under a window sash in the second
story of a negro church. Nobody seems to
know howBhe got there. On the same night
policeman found a negro woman standing
ereot against-the innerside of the yard fence of
Judge Levy, on Ellis street, her chin resting
over the top of the fenoe, and breathing with
great difficulty, as if partially choked. The Ser
geant was called, when it was discovered that
the woman was fast asleep. .
The Augusta duel Bpoken of in Sunday’s
Chronicle, did not come off. On Saturday, when
the invitation was sent, the invited party ac
cepted, and chose double barrelled guns—load
ed, each barrel of each gun, with fifteen buck
shot—to be fired at fifteen paces. On Sunday
the weapons were changed to revolvers at the
same distance. Monday a “fist-and-skull” fight
was proposed and accepted, and, finally, one of
the party apologized, and there was no blood
effusion,
The late Judge B. H. Warren, of Augusta,
left an estate valued at $225,000. Among the
legacies was one of $5,000 to the Presbyterian
Church of Augusta.
The local of tbe Chronicle has seen a minia
ture tea ■Service of twenty-three pieces, made of
solid silver, by Mr. Thoa. Russell, an Augusta
jeweller. , v
The Savannah News says:
Yesterday morning it was rumored that our
distinguished guest, General Robert E. Lee,
wonld receive visitors from 12 h. to 3 o’clock
r. m., at the residence of Andrew Low, Esq , on
LaFayette Square, corner of Abercom and
Charlton streets. As soon as the fact was
known, a large number of ladies and gentlemen,
among the latter nearly all of our prominent
citizens and several ex-offioers of the Federal
army, who have made Savannah their home,
repaired to the palatial residence of Mr. Low,
to pay their respects to the most distinguished
General of the latter half of the nineteenth cen
tury. . ■ •to- - i -
Gen. Lee received his numerous visitors in
the parlor, each being introduced by Gen. A. R.
Lawton. The General received them with a
cordial grasp of the hand and a kind “1 am giad
to see you.”
We regret to learn that owing to the remark
ably unseasonable weather whioh has prevailed
for several days, the General will have to leave
us and seek a climate more congenial and suit
able tor his health. We learn that he will re
turn to the Forest City as soon as spring sets in,
and will then remain with us for several weeks.
A man named Edward Williams shot and
killed his son. a young man abont nineteen, in
Savannah one night last week, mistaking him
for a robber.
The following gentlemen have been elected of
ficers of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce
President—Cearles Green, Esq.
First Vice-President—Octavus Cohen.
Second Vice-President—R. N. Gonrdxn.
Secretary and Treasurer—J. H. Johnson.
Committee on Appeals—-William Duncan,
Andrew Low,. Henry Brigham, F. W. Sims,
John ConniDgham and Wm. Hunter.
Letters for Mrs. Cornelia Batz and Mrs. H.
A. Freeman, of Macon, are held for postage in
the Savannah Post-office.
The Colnmbns Enquirer notes the death of
Mrs. Dr. Fogle at Linwood, near Colnmbns on
Monday. Mrs. F. was the daughter of J. P.
Turner of Millledgeville, and moved to Colum
bus in 1834.
A negro child was drowned in the cistern of
the Perry House, Columbus, on Sunday after-
Weeklj B«nme or Foreign
PEEP ABED FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND ]
Great Bamni.—The debates on th e
»»the
h Land Tenure
The Sun has the following items:
The Raileoad Suit.—We understand the suit
to compel the city of Columbus to issue $G5,000
in bonds to the Savannah and Memphis railroad
has been formally commenced. The trial will
take place during the May term of the Superior
Court. At present, Gen. Benning and Ingram
and Crawford are the lawyers for the road
Peabody and Brannon for the city.-
Mobb Cotton fob New Orleans.—The sec
ond shipment of the season for New Orleans
took place yesteiday. Ninety-six bales were
shipped by the Barnett line for fifty cents per
bale.
The following is a statement of the leading
articles of freight shipped over the Macon and
Western Railroad, for the week ending April 4:
Bacon, 415,762 pounds; lard, 48,970 pounds;
flour, 1870 barrels; corn, 18,940 bushels; oats,
1560 bushels; hay, 513 bales.
The Atlanta Era makes the following astound
ing statement:
The State Road.—By the first of July al
most the entire track of the Western and Atlan
tic railroad will be new. The old rails, some
of which have been in use for eighteen years,
are being supplied by new ones as rapidly as
they can be laid down. Hence by the first of
July, or earlier, almost the entire track will
have been renovated, and nothing else is lack
ing to make the road one of the best and safest
in the country.
“Nothing else lacking” yon say. What abont
honesty in its management? What curious
ideas some people have.
The Era says if it were the fashion in Atlanta
to shave the head of every man who gets drank,
wigs wonld be in demand.
The Constitution learns “that the civil estab
lishment of Georgia, is suffering for want of
their salaries—Judges of Superior Courts, So
licitors, etc., because Governor Bollock is at
Washington, and the warrants are not signed.”
In Town.—Hon. Garnett Andrews is in the
city, and in apparent good health. He is here
superintending the publication of a book which
is now being printed at the Franklin Printing
House. The book is entitled “Reminiscences
of an old Georgia Lawyer,” and promises to be
one that will be popular.—Era Gth.
Georgia Press Association.
By the persistent indifference of a majority
of the press of Georgia, all attempts at the for
mation of a “Georgia Press Association” have
resulted in failure. The first meeting, in Au
gust last, promised to be successful, but the
second and last meeting was slimly attended.—
This is to be much regretted, as it is certain that
suoh an organization is much needed and wonld
do much to add to the efficiency and success of
the newspaper business. These associations ex
ist in many of the States, and have accomplished
much good, if we are to believe the reports we
hear of them.
At the last meeting a constitution was adopted
and entrusted to the newly-elected Secrotary for
■ inblication, and to be submitted by him to the
! Press for signatures. If it has ever been pub
lished we have not seen it, although it has been
but a month* or two since the attention of the
Secretary was called to the matter, when he
promised that it should be certainly attended to.
Really, there seems to be a studied and system
atic effort to throttle the attempt to consummate
the organization.
Under all the circumstances, we now regard
the organization as a failure, and conclude it to
be useless to make any farther effort to revive
it It may be that onr worthy President, who
has exhibited more interest in the formation of
the Association than any one else, can resusci
tate proper interest on the subject But, in all
earnestness, we tell the Georgia Press that they
aro defeating their own interests in defeating
tho formation of the Georgia Press Association.
If onr worthy friend, Col. Clisby, the President
wonld enter fully into the interest of the subject
with his powerful pen, something might yet
be done.
According to the last adjournment the next
meeting should be called for May, at such place,
and on such day as the President may deter
mine upon. Vie know that a considerable »or-
tioti of the press would like to complete the or-
ganization of the Press Association; and would,
therefore, be more than pleased to hear from
Col. Clisb^on the subject—Lagrange Beporter
of the 1st instant.
Georgia Press Association.—The strictures
of the LaGrango Reporter are just but its con
clusion that the enterprise is a failure, is erro
neous. Persistent effort is necessary and suc
cess will yet crown onr friend’s labor and zeal.
As one of the Vice Presidents we suggest a
meeting of the Association at Savannah on the
occasion of the assembling of the Southern Press
Association, and respectfully nrge the President
to issue the order.
The time and place suit exactly, and it will
be not only pleasant but profitable for ns to
mingle with the distinguished brethren from the
neighboring States.
Let ns make one more effort to perfect the
organization and establish the Association upon
a durable basis. We hope. Col. Clisby will agree
with us and at once publish a “proclamation.”
Albany News, 5th.
Some correspondence with the Secretary has
occurred within a few days, am} we do not doubt
that the Constitution and abstract of proceed
ings at the Maoon meeting will shortly be for
warded to every member of the Georgia Press
and then, should that instrument be approved,
we will take the first favorable occasion to call a
meeting. We have thought over the suggestion
of CoL Styles, and come reluctantly to any con
clusion which would savor of unreadiness; and
should there be any indications from the press
that such a meeting will be attended, we wonld
oertainly go into the proclamation business to
the extent of appointing a time and place. The
time of the Georgia members of the Southern
Press Association, we doubt not, will be almost
exclusively ocoupied with the affairs of that
body, and we should despair of diverting their
attention to a State organization. We shall be
glad, however, to get the views of the press,
with the understanding that all who advooato
the proposition for a meeting pledge themselves
to representation.
of Ireland are |
Parliament. v
pass both houses, but the reform iaTn
to pacify that unhappy member of the
Empire. The eveuts in Ireland are ».
still more threatening turn, and mao. i
papers are advooating the proclamation
rial law. Fortunately, it is not likely
Government will listen to such radical
tions. The authorities in Ireland
against all offenders of the public pea!**
the utmost rigor of the law. *
Archbishop Culler, has issued a paatoT,)
ter, cautioning hie flock against FeniiT ^
Masonic Societies. Two villains, conviaLl
having robbed a farmer, O’Connor, and«l
his nose last year, were sentenced, the
fifteen the other to seven years’ penal '
tude. 1
A celebration which was held at Smitn
the former plaoe of execution of the capiw
minded England once more of a siniate™
in her history, when Queen Mary, the <W
of Henry YIU, and his first wife, CathaiSl
Aragon, attempted to foroe again the {vM
religion upon her people by introdadJ?
Holy Inquisition into the Insular Empires*
dreds of Protestants were then delivered
flames, i On the same spot, where the »
consuming the heretics, blazed against iw.
in those times, “ad, majorem Dei gbri,;^
Earl of Shaftesbury unveiled a
erected to the memory of martyrs, it
of gray and red granite and bears an i,**.
tion, recalling to the wanderer’s mind tur*
Rogers, John Bradford, John Philpot ,77?
servants of God suffered there the death i!z
for Christ’s sake in the years 1555 i°/ T ®
1557. ! "*«
An interesting suit has just been
the House of Peers, as the highest ConmT,
peal. When the Earl of WicUow ffieS
vanced age last year, there presented ftJ
selves two heirs, who both laid claim to
and estates. Each insisted on being the i
ful heir. The nearest relation originally n
nephew of the deceased, who died, ho*J
already before the Earl. The nephew’s l
being unable to prefer any claims for w
appeared now as the representative of heia
tended child, a boy six yeara old. Thai
argument rested, therefore, on the quw
whether the child was really her ova,
other party laying claim to the earldom,,
many cross-examinations and a host of \
having been heard on both sides, has
in establishing the proof that Mrs. Howard!
plaintiff, had taken the child from a poor t
in 1864 for tbe sake of adoption. The I
have, therefore, decided against Mrs. Hon
claims to the Earldom of Wicklow.
France.— 1 The farther debates in the (
Legislatif have bnt little interest. Fraa*]
threatened-by. another change of minUtea, 1
Ollivier intends to resign, unless he obtaaj
vote of confidence in the chambers. Thai
one remedy to the present stagnation, pa
ble in French politics—dissolution of the tu
bers ; but the Emperor, well knowing, tkJ
ter the abolition of official candidates a if
hostile assembly would replace the presentyl
will not consent to this measure, except t 1
the strongest pressure.
The most astounding forgery has been t
to light, in Paris. Monsieur Michel Chasle^l
member of the Institute, and a celeb. 1
mathematician,is passionately fond of rare b
and autographs. In 1865 Chasles presented t
Academy with a series of letters, purporting j
have been written by Pascal, by which-he a
tempted to show that Pascal, and not Ke«-
had first discovered the law of gravitation. S
men of the profession protested against C
assertion; who, thereupon, produced i
series of notes and letters by Pascal, t
them a whole correspondence with NevtotJ
that time only twelve years old. The EijJ
indignantly refuted the Frenchman's c!aia(
the honor of that disoovery, and pointed e
several inaccuracies in the documents proc
by Chasles. But Chasles had again new 1<
by Pascal ready until he had produced nt
than 150 autograph letters within one year-]
The controversy grew always more complia
Letters of Galileo and his disciples W6re bra
forth, and the Acadamy, which had a!«
printed the various documents in their “coBpI
rendus,” finally adopted Chasles’ version, lij
Italians proved at last, in 1869, that the hilt
of Galileo were forgeries, and Chasles, wboh
always acted in good faith, was obliged to ml
fess from whom he had reoeived his prwej
documents. It was discovered then that Oasr
had bought in the course of seven years fra*
individual named Yrain Lucas, 27,000 tas
which, as for paper and ink, were forged ia i|
excellent a manner as to defy even the ljMt>|
of the experts. Among the collections then*
letters of all centuries of the Christian andm
Christian era. Thales and Pythagoras, Pa
aeyns, Cleopatra, Julius Cffisar, several Boa
Emperors, St. Hieronymus, St. Augustin, 4
Apostles, Herodes, Atriln, Gregorius of Tot
Moliere Rabllais, have all been copied i
equal facility by Vrain Lucas, whose genuist
industry are truly miraculous.
In consideration of his eminent services i
dered to science, the Criminal Court has s
tenced the talented forger to two year’s imps
onment in order to allow him ample time locr -
plete his extraordinary discoveries abont I
law of gravitation. Monsieur Chasles hug
ten rid of 140,000 francs whioh he expended d
the wonderful collection in seven years.
North Gebman Confederation.—A
graph, inserted in the new Criminal Code,
cures the members of the legislative bodies j
the various States composing the ConfeP
tion from - all responsibility for their |
mentary votes or speeches.
The line of. vessels between Stettin andSj
York will commence running in April. !
will be a great boon to emigrants from Pa
East Prussia, &o., as the jonmey to the por]
embarkation will be greatly shortened and I
fares less than from Bremen and Hamburg. }
The idea is entertained of erecting a suin'
monument to the memory of Luther at £
ben, his native city. They hope that it
completed before November 10th, 1833, >
four hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Italy.—The Fathers in Rome have been i
cussing already three months, without havs
arrived at a single resolution. Despite aH 3
stacles and opposition, there is no sign thatflj
Curia has any intention of changing its poaf
which leaves so many prelates only a choice 4
tween schism and disloyalty to their oonviccai
The irritation of the prelates forming jrartef^
Opposition is great, while the Pope is satij
have lived in a state of chronic indignation”
since he discovered that there are bishope»
venture to differ from him, even in Borne, *»■
under his very eyes. Should the theses witi^j
spect to infallibility be really discussed, v-tf
-mil be heard loudly protesting, even ia«
consecrated church of St. Peter, and clos*
the tomb of the apostle. The proposw^
Franoe, the warnings of Austria, and tbe c
sciousness that the great Protestant
England and Russia, view the proceedin|S | L
the Guria with disapproval have but little
enco on the Papal Court. The correi
of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zedong <
Pius IX as a man of extraordinary and P- ..
character in these modern times. “Heist^l
convinced,” says the writer, “that a sup«®l
oral and irresistible commission has been
him to conqner and destroy the * monstroB j
rors’ of our oentnry. A picture executed bj I
express command, whioh is to be seen i n4R *|
behind the * Raphael Chambers,’ re P re£e .^jjl
Pope illuminated by the rays of light is»*I
from the Trinity and the Holy Yirgin-* <r I
bol of the mission which he thinks he b*> - J
ceived to purify the faith of the world u 4
extirpate all heresy. ”
The rupture between Rome and the
nians is widening. Three days which
granted to the dissident Armenians bavin?
pired without bringing them to terms,
excommunication will be pronounced t“
them. The Council will probably 00“ _
the discussion of the scheme of infallibly
once. Spain will abstain from all interta-
with the affairs of the Pope.
Spain.—Spain is again on the eve of »*
terial crisis. Nothing indicates thatj
times will soon dawn upon the country °>
deron and Cervantes.
The “Epoca” has republished the lette*"
the late Don Henry of Bourbon, which «**
cause of the fatal duel with Montpensier- K
having severely criticized the claims of tb®*. t
to the throne of Spain, the Prinoe concw®“ j
follows: “Montpensier represents the
the Orieanist conspiracy against the B
Napoleon III, a oonspinoy into whioh 1
Spaniards of rank have entered. ^
less, let these conspirators know that “
Imperial dynasty fell, the Orleans family
not be the hairs, but Rochefort; or, what
same thing, the French Republic.”
“Let them know, alio, that in Spain,
trioua Espartero is the msa of prestige sm
object of national veneration, and by ao
the inflated French pastrycook!”
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