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The Greorada “Weekly Telegraph and J~oxirnal <Su Messenger,
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, APRIL 12, '.870.
The General Amnesty Message,
The Courier-Journal's Washington special of
Tuesday says it was only two weeks ago that
iho President informed Senators that as soon as
Georgia was admitted, and the work of recon-
strnction finished up, he ahonld send a message
to Congress recommending general amnesty to
all the participants in the late rebellion. The
Republican politicians are bringing to bear all
the influence in their power to cause him to
' postpone his pnrpose in this regard, and may
accomplish their purpose. The opposition takes
the usual form, charging that the late rebels are
as disloyal as ever. It is estimated that the
number of persons still disfranchised under the
Fourteenth Amendment from all State and
Federal offices amounts to two hundred and
fifty thousand.
50,000 Majority.
The Radicals in Congress will be simple if
they suffer themselves to be deluded by Bullock
into the belief that any sort of tinkering will
overcome the fifty thousand solid Democratic
majority in Georgia. Tbo only way in which
they can get rid of it, is by cutting Bullock
adrift, reducing the Stato to a military province
and stopping all voting of every sort They
have the power in their hands, and what do they
want of Bullock? It will do them no good to
enrich him with the plunder of Georgia. Let
them put some honest Colonel in command
here, with full power to carry on the govern
ment and maintain peace and order, and let Bul
lock and all the rest of the waiters on Provi
dence and Congress cam their bread by honest
labor.
A Military Government.
The Radicals tell us unfortunate Georgians,
yon must either take Butler’s bill or a military
government. Gentlemen, we don’t hesitate a
moment in the choice. Just let Congress send
us some gentlemanly, honest military officer,
armed with the full powers of a Supreme Dicta
tor ; but don’t give us a military satrap to hold
us while Bullock & Co. skin us. Give us a mil
itary government, and nothing else. Wo don’t
want to vote. All we want is peace, and liberty
to work unmolested and raise cotton, com, hog
and hominy. Keep your votes and your Bul
locks and give us a fair, square, downright mil
itary despotism for ten years. But don’t turn us
over a helpless prey to thieves and rascals.
How the Cincinnati Radical Editors
Told the Negroes to Vote.
One of the most curious things of the day is the
course of two Radical papers in Cincinnati, the
Gazette and the Commercial, in advising the ne
groes of that city to vote for Democrats at the
election last Monday. The Commercial used
this languages “The worst thing the colored
men of this city could do for themselves next
Monday would be to march to the polls in a
mass and vote the whole Republican ticket If
they want consideration, they must act like
men of intelligence and independence; that is,
they must discriminate. The Republican ticket
is not, in its composition, or in the theory it re
presents, fit to be voted for as a whole.” This,
remarks the Enquirer of the same city, “is cer
tainly one of the most carious things that ever
came under our observation. The Republicans,
having succeeded in making voters of the ne
groes, are now afraid the latter will do mischief
by voting the Republican ticket.”
Change Her Name.
Florida is a small State but she is lou—
cursed with a very numerous brood of un
wholesome Northern birds. Her Governor
is a Wisconsin man, her Lieuteant Gov
ernor ditto, her two surreptitious Senators
New Yorkers, her Congressman a Pennsylvania,
seven of her “Cabinet officers Northern men,
and three of her Judges ditto. We suggest that
the name be changed. It should be “Miserima”
instead of Florida—the Paradise of carpet-bag
gers, instead of the “land of flowers.”
What interest has Congress in making Bul
lock’s fortune ? We believe he will clutch two
hundred thousand dollars of the people’s money
between this time and July next. The Opera
House cost $157,000, and they are going to sell
it to the State for $500,000, and then there’s
$50,000 to $75,000 interest in the Mitchell
claim. These two speculations will make Bul
lock the richest man in Georgia, by the decree
of his Congressional agency, before dog days.
Why, then, should Congress want to give him
four years’ more to operate in, to the utter ruin
of the people ? Will it help them if they turn
the whole State over to Bullock ? If so, how ?
The Northeastern Railroad Company, of
Charleston, reports gross receipts for the year
ending 28th February, $280,097 <53; gross ex
penses, $159,560 33; balance to credit, $120,-
657 40. Tbo road shows an increase of about
twenty-six thousand dollars on last year’s busi
ness.
Lumpkin Weekly Telegraph.—The first num
ber of this new paper, dated April 2d, is at hand.
It is published by Messrs. Christian & Clisby.
It is neatly printed, and, issued in a very inter
esting, fertile and intelligent section of the
State, deprived toy a great extent of railway
and mail facilities, will, we trust, keep us posted
in the events, interests and opinions of that
locality. Wo wish it much success.
Protecting Iron Manufacture.—Willard
Pope, representing the Detroit Bridge and Iron
Works, the most extensive establishment in the
West, says that an iron bridge costs from CO to
100 per cent more than a wooden one, but if
the price of pig iron bore a reasonable propor
tion to its cost, the expense of iron bridges
would not oxceed wooden bridges more than
20 per cent and in that case ten would be built
where one is now. That is the way the tariff
protects the iron trade.
A Brave Lady.—Messrs Havens & Brown
send us a copy of Miss Mulock's last novel,
bearing this title. To those who have read,
with such deep interest, those greatest creations
of any living woman genius, “John Halifax” and
a “Life for a Life,” this simple announcement
is sufficient We are assured this story is marked
by all the beauty that have gilded the writer’s
name with such brilliant lustre.
Spiritual.—The foreign telegrams say the
British are making “superhuman” efforts to
inorease the cotton production of India. That
is a good word for the place. The efforts are
superhuman—they have starved millions of the
East Indians to death, and millions more will
follow suit.
Jubt as Wr.Expected.—Oameronbas lied about
what ho said be told ex-President Davis when the
latter was leaving Washington. Mr. Davis has
written to Washington denying that when he
withdrew from the Senate Cameron told him
that a negro wonld succeed him.
City of Boston.—The stoamboats Crnizer and
City of Durham have both returned from an
oxtended but fruitless cruise after tidings from
the City of Boston. No doubt she struck an
iceberg in tbo night and went down instantane
ously with all on board.
The article upon “Professional Association
with the Negro,” published in yesterday’s edi
tion, we are requested to say was from the pen
of the distinguished Professor Guiliiard, of
Louisville.
Position of Senator Sherman.
In the Senate debate last Monday on the
Georgia bill, Senator Sherman, of Ohio, very
pointedly condemned the proposition to extend
official terms in the original Georgia bill, and
declared that he found no authority for it in the
Constitution of Georgia, and if snoh a power
existed, it would be dangerous to the liberties of
the people, and could not be presumed in any
constitution “ republican in form. ” In the
course of bis remarks, Messrs. Stewart, Drake,
Howard and Williams, each in turn, interrupted
Mr. Sherman with citations of this, that and the
other clause in the Constitution which they sup
posed might warrant the extension, but Sher
man showed conclusively that they gave no such
warrant. Then, coming at last to the general
proposition as to what ought to be done with
Georgia, Mr. Sherman delivered himself as fol
lows :
Mr. President, I think there is a way out of
this difficulty, a way that can be followed with
safety, without violating the constitution or
stretching our authority. We have, it so hap
pens, under the constitution of the United
States, ample power to protect the people of
the State of Georgia. They have now a Legis
lature duly organized, which we can recognize
and arm with the full power of a State. The
very moment Georgia is admitted, the Legisla
ture is in session, or can be brought togetherin
session. It is full armed with all the powers of
a State. When you have a State government
thus organized and thus armed with full power,
what is the result ? You have here the nation
al government under the control of the friends
of free institutions; you have the State govern
ment and the State Legislature under the con
trol of the same authority. The Legislature
and Congress combined may secure law and
order in every county of Georgia without any
trouble whatever.
What was the difficulty in the past? There
has been no organized miiitia to put down riots;
nothing bnt the military power of the Govern
ment, which was not commensurate to the pnr
pose ; but the moment the Legislature is con
vened, and Georgia is admitted, what is the
power thus conferred on the State Legislature ?
The power to organize the militia, to arm it, to
control it. TheLegislatnre of Georgia may con
vene the very day after this bill passes; tbo
militia of Georgia may be organized, and arms
may be put into the hands of the militia; and
then if the Ku-Klux Klan want to mnrder there
may be murders on both sides. There will be
an armed militia; there will be guns in the
hands of lawless white rebels. There is no
difficulty at all, because the Constitution of the
United States expressly gives to Congress and
to the national Government the power to sup-
; press domestic violence in a State; not merely
I nsurrection, not merely rebellion, but domes
tic violence; and Congress has already substan
tially authorized the employment of the entire
military force of the United States to aid the
local authorities in putting down domestic vio
lence. If tho Legislature convenes after this
law passes, we may at once, upon the demand
of the Legislature when in session, or upon the
demand of the Governor when the Legislature
is not in session, give them the whole power of
tho militia of the United States and the regular
army. The clause of tho Constitution to which
I refer is express.
It can hardly be that a man of practical sense
and ability, like Senator Sherman, imagines
that peace will flow from arming a parcel of
lawless vagabonds to dominate over, insult and
plunder the people. If an election were held
this day in Georgia, as matters stand, we have
not the remotest idea a single man wonld bo re
strained by violence from depositing a ballot
according to his will. That, we doubt not, is
the actual situation.
Whatever trouble has existed in Georgia in
the matter of the freedom of elections (and this
tronblo has been greatly exaggerated), has been
tho out-growth of the fears of the radical ad
venturers of the influence of the whites upon
the negroes. These fears led them into a series
of measures designed to provoke antagonism
and foment hostility in the minds of the blacks,
against tho Southern whites. For years this
was done by systematic representations that the
whites designed to re-enslave the blacks. When
this falsehood became stale, the charge was that
the whites wonld not let the negroes vote, and
then it became necessary that the negroes
should be organized in secret oath bound clubs
—armed—drilled in military array, and taught
to flourish their muskets, pistols and broad
swords in the faces of the people.
All the trouble which ever existed grew out
of this offensive bravado on the part of the ne
groes, misled by these infamous political specu
lators—the sole object of which was to remove
the negroes from under the reasonable and ra
tional influence of tbeir old friends, masters
and employers, and present a porcupine array
of bristling bayonets against any effort to se
duce them from carpet-bag allegiance. Wo, in
Georgia, well remember, that peace in 1868 was
due to the forbearance of tho white people, in
pocketing, instead of resenting affronts from
this illegal negro militia of the carpet-baggers.
Sherman proposes to seek peace by legalizing
the same system. We have only to say if it
fails to provoke violence, the fact will be due
to a resolute determination on the port of Geor
gia whites, that they will bear and forbear, look
ing for a resurrection of common sense and pa
triotism in tbo minds of the American people;
and that meanwhile they will not fall into the
trap of Sherman, prepared to betray them into
something which can be construed into “anoth
er rebellion.”
Hood Shot.
Tho Constitutionalist makes this “carom j”
The Secretary of War allowed the colored
folks in Washington to bum government pow
der in honor of the Fifteenth Amendment.
Downing, the oyster man, Rev. Sella Martin,
and Professor Vashon—all bright mulattoes—
were very gushing over the emancipation of
“their race.” True-blooded negroes did all the
shouting for the glory of the Amendment and
in honor of their bosses, the half-breeds.
The real Cuff is a trifle thick-headed, maybe,
but ho is beginning to see this point. When it
gets fall possession of him, the half-breeds fiad
better “hide out," Cuff will go for them more
vigorously than ho over did for the “buckra
trash.”
A Decent Radical Editor.
We judge the editor of the Jacksonville (Fla.)
Union, a Radical sheet, to be that rara avis
among his class at the South—a respectable
person. Here is what he says of General Lee:
Whatever may be our opinion of General Lee
in reference to bis course in the late war, we
fully subscribe to his many manly qualities, and
more especially the wise and prudent course be
has adopted since the war. He has built up
one of the largest Universities in the United
States, and has devoted bis whole time to its in
terest The conrse of studies has been ar
ranged to conform to the improvements and
progress of tho age, the professors selected with
especial reference to character and capacity,
and the standard of scholarship elevated. We
sincerely hope he may be restored to health and
strength by his visit South. It is possible the
General will visit Florida, and be will be cor
dially welcomed by all our citizens.
Frank Mnai Sc Co.’s Leather Preservative,
Harness Oil Blacking, Polish Oil Blacking, and
lubricating oils, are sold by O. H. Freeman,
agent for the proprietor. These are celebrated
preparations, and are tbo bost applications for
leather known. Applied Jto harness, they are
a complete dressing—softening the leather and
leaving it black and lustrous. Tho lubricating
oils are of all qualities, np to the finest sewing
machine oil. These preparations bear tbo
highest endorsements, and may be had of
Charley Freeman, sole agent for this section.
Good Securities for Saie.—The City Treas
urer of Savannah offers for sale a lof of City of
Savannah Bonds, endoised by the Southwestern
Railroad Company.
TnE original Greek Slave of Hiram Powers
was lately sold in Franco for 50,0'JO franc' 1 , or
more than six times the price paid to tho
sculptor.
Words or Wisdom.
The Memphis Avalanche believes that If the
season upon which we are now entering should
prove favorable, the next cotton crop will hardly
fall abort of 3,500,000, and will possibly reach
4,000,000, boles. For this inorease of produc
tion everything is just now favorable. The
South-Southwest has experienced an immense
addition to its working and producing popula
tion, from Europe, Asia, and various sections
of onr own country. What the Atlantio cotton
States have lost in contributing to this increase
is being in part, if not fully, compensated by
the introduction and use of fertilizers on
greatly enlarged scale, while all through the
South the effect of increased applianoe of capi
tal will be felt very sensibly. In the event of
such an increase in the cotton crop, as we have
estimated, there can be no qneBtion that prices
will rule materially lower six months or a year
bence. It becomes the planting community to
take note of this, and act accordingly. They
are now exhausting the gains on last season's
crop in com and provisions with which to make
a larger crop.
The prospects are that the price of cotton
will range between fifteen and eighteen cents
next fall and winter, at the highest, in which
case all who shall have failed to raise enough
of the necessaries of life will be In as deplora
ble a condition as was the planting community
in the fall and winter of 1867-8, when they sold
cotton as low as thirteen cents per pound to
pay for com at one dollar and twenty-five cents
to one dollar and fifty cents per bushel and pork
at thirty-four to thirty-six dollars per barrel.—
The experience of those few months, which
ruined both the mercantile and agricultural in
terests of the South, and contributed to the
wealth of the West, should be sufficient to point
out to planters their lino of polioy for the future,
Yet we fear it i3 not sufficient. The country is
wild on the subject of cotton planting, and,
unless the mania is checked, a year hence will
show serious drawbacks on the present prosper!
ty of the cotton region.
It should not be forgotten that the country is
steadily receding from the inflation and high
prices caused by the war, and that cotton must
share the same fate with wheat, which, for
nearly a year, has been at ante-war prices. This
is inevitable. It is our mission to recall the
events of the past year, as lessons to guide our
readers in the future. If cotton brings only
fifteen cents next fall, it will be min to those
who are baying com and pork now, and will
also have to buy them then. In order to avert
such a state of affairs, the polioy of the agricul
tural interest is to plant an abundance of com
this season. It will prove to be the best kind of
economy. With their cribs full of com, and fat
swine in their pens next fall, planters will be in
position, to some extent, to dictate prices for
cotton, otherwise they will bo at the mercy of
cotton gamblers and brought to the verge of
ruin.
Another Southern “Rebellion.”
The Ways and Means Committee of the House
of Representatives, at the instance of a carpet
bagger from Alabama, named Buckley, who is
strongly suspected of incipient insanity by his
friends on that account, recently agreed to re-
xirt that “allmachineyr, manufactured express-
y for spinning cotton into yam, may be im
ported, free of duty, for twelve months from the
passage of the act, provided that this exemption
shall be limited to the importation for any one
manufactory of no more machinery than is ne
cessary to operate 100,000 spindles.”
Some Alabama planters wished to try the ex
periment of competing with the British manu
facturers in the business of making fine, soft
cotton yams for export to the Continent of Eu
rope, and accordingly got Buckley to aid them
as aforesaid, which he did, to the serious injury
of his standing in the party.
Now what do we see ? The cotton and ma
chinery manufacturers of New England have
sent a strong lobby to Washington, to defeat
the committee’s recommendation at all hazards.
They represent that the present duties on the
material entering into the manufacture of the
machinery named, amounts to from 35 to 60 per
cent, while on the machinery itself the highest
duty imposed is 35 per cent, on iron and 45 per
cent, on steel. They admit that the English
machinery, adding ten per cent., for preparing
for shipment, and the freight and tho cost of
handling, can be laid down in Southern ports
at one half that it will cost in New England, and
that there is none such now imported or manu
factured in the United States; but aver that if
this kind, or any other cotton machinery, is
put upon the free list, all the New England fac
tories will have to dose.
Our Alabama friends had better “come
down” at once. Their gamo’s np. The little
finger of these lobbyists is thicker than tbeir
loins, twice measured. They wont get tbeir
little bilL New England so wills it. Buck-
ley will be guillotined for working against his
bosses, and this rebellion of Sonthem cotton
growers incontinently suppressed.
A “Repentant Rebel.”
Tho late Gen. Thomas musthavo been, if tho
stories told on him be true, one of the earliest
of this interesting class. The New Orleans
Picayune says when he was stationed in Texas
just before the late civil war broke out, and
when the sectional issues of that conflict were
attracting attention even in the army, he took
so bold a stand on the Southern side of the
question as to gain the title the of apostle of
secession.
“ When the crisis came at last, he manifested
great impatience to leave the Federal army and
join that of the South; and it is known to many
officers on the ground that no less a person than
Robert E. Lee advised him to greater modera
tion and the propriety of waiting events before
final notion. But he promptly resigned his
commission and proceeded to Richmond, to of
fer his services to Virginia and the Confeder
acy. Whether he did this directly and in un
mistakable terms is somewhat uncertain; bnt
during the war the Richmond Examiner repeat
edly asserted that the letter was extant in which
he had done so. We have heard, however, that
when informed of this fact, after the warclosed,
by an old army associate who espoused the
Confederate side, be denied its truth. Be this
as it may, Thomas left Richmond on bis way
North, ns he alleged, to bring bis wife, who was
a New York lady, within tho Confederate lines,
bat be never returned except as a foe. The
resignations of Johnston and Lee bad made him
a fall Colonel of Cavalry; and, yielding either
to the influences of his Northern wife, or to con
siderations of material interest, ho went over to
the enemies of Ins section.”
It was probably a foil knowledge of all these
facts that made Lincoln answer as he did when
urged to make Thomas a Major General: “ He
is a Virginian,” said Lincoln; “he can afford
to wait.”
Alabama Gold Life Insurance Com
pany.
Agency in Savannah.—Capt. R. W. Tucker,
Superintendent of agencies for the Alabama
Gold Life Insurance Company in the State of
Georgia, is about to visit Savannah to open an
agency in that city. Wecommendhimtotheoon-
fidence and good offices of friends. The Alaba
ma Gold Life Insurance 6ompany is chiefly a
Mobile institution, and comprehends among its
stockholders the enterprise and capital—the
solid men—of that gallant city, with whom it is
a pet institution. Its success has been extraor
dinary, and the company is under a close and
vigorous management whioh is bound to place
it in the front rank of Life Insurance companies
in the United btates. We refer to the card of
the company in another column.
The German papers announce the death of
Moscheles, the once famous pianist and com
poser, and the Tutor of Thalberg and Mendels
sohn, at the age of seventy-six j ears.
“Reform In Representation.
David Dudley Field has been leotnring in Bos
ton on the subject of s reform in representa
tion and the representation of minorities. The
latter point, we have no doubt, is an indispen
sable feature to every equitable system of rep
resentative government; and could a practica
ble plan be adopted, it would go a great ways
towards substituting that conservative feature
in the American government which is already
so seriously impaired by the assault on the
rights and funotions of tho States, and will be
finally annihilated by the other reforms whioh
Mr. Field proposes.
Like all other Radical politicians, who are
either totally ignorant or wilfully blind to the
true attitude of the Senate of the United States
in our Federal form of government, Mr. Field
treats the Senate as a popular representative
body; and, so considered, it is easy to make out
a very strong case of injustice and inequality,
and found thereon an immense clatter for re
form.
Mr. Field calls it “bogus representation,” and
he shows very elaborately by long tables of
figures how 18 States with 5,022,871 voters have
36 Senators, and 19 States, with 1,111,885 voters,
or not a quarter as many, have 38 Senators. How
16 States with 787,310 votes have 32 Senators,
and New York with 849,750 votes has only two
Senators. How 26 States with 52 Senators cast
only 1,948,189 votes, and three States with six
Senators cast 2,024,240. Now all this elaborate
array of figures, which do not lie, brought for
ward by Hr. Field with immense and needless
labor to show the monstrous inequality of the
present system, proves—icliat? First, either
that the Senate could not possibly have been
intended as a popular lepresentative body; or,
second, if it were so intended, then the wise
framers of the Constitution did not know what
they were about, and were the silliest of all
schemers.
But whether Mr. Field comprehends the fact
or not, those profound American statesmen who
framed the Federal Constitution, had no idea of
making the Senate a popular representative
body. They made it an assemblage of atnbas-
dors from sovereign States, charged with the
duty of representingco-equal political sovereign
ties in a council of confederated sovereignties
and as one State was as much a sovereignty as
another, manifestly they were all entitled to an
equal representation. But the House of Rep
resentatives, being a representative body of the
people of the State, a common and uniform
basis of popular representation was fixed by law.
It is not surprising, since the States, as sepa
rate and independent sovereignties, have been
theoretically and, ingreatpart, practically struck
out of the American system by the Radicals,
that we should hear these complaints of the ine
quality of the Senatorial representation. Un
less the Senate is contemplated and maintained
in its true sphere as a representative body of
diBtmct and independent sovereignties, it is
nothing but an absurdity and a deformity. If
the Government of the United States is not, in
deed and in truth, a government by representa
tives of the sovereignties and peoples of dis
tinct, independent and co-ordinate States, there
is no coherence or sense or reason in the entire
machinery o£ the Constitution. Congress, con
sidered as a representative assemblage of the
American masses, is the most ill-constituted,
inequitable body on earth.
But we see that the real fault lies not in the
Constitution, but in Mr. Field and his Radical
associates, who are tired of tho government cre
ated by the Constitution, and want to make a
new one under the old formula.
But they cannot do it. The Constitution of
the United States is not adapted to the doctrines
and schemes of the consolidationists. Far bet*
ter to thrown it overboard at once, instead of
traveling outside of—around and across it, and
patching it here and there with inconsistent and
incoherent amendments, as unsightly as a red
patch on a beggar’s breeches. No amount of
patching will enable the Radical party to har
monize with the Constitntion, either as it was, or
as they can tinker it, because that instrument
and the Radical party contemplate different
principles and forms and objects of government.
Therefore, we sar, lei them throw it aside and
make a new one out and out
Now, as remarked in the outset, if Field &
Co. can, by the plan of minority representation,
substitute some conservative power for that
which they have destroyed in the American sys
tem in the destruction of State sovereignty,
then they may possibly make a new government
which might work with steadiness and safety to
the people; but the machine they are running
now is a steam-ongino without balance-wheel,
governor, or any regulator whatever. In due
course it is bound to go to pieces by its own in-
controllable energy, unless the people shut off
steam and go back to first principles.
The Courier-Journal says:
The Radical women of the North have made
such a run upon Revels for locks of his hair
that, in ordor to supply tho demand, ho has
been forced, it is said, to buy np all the black
wool in the District of Columbia.
They say that if Revels had not made such a
run upon his legs for motive power to got out
of Leavenworth with that $1100 borrowed from
certain men and brethren, they would have
made a final ruD, not only upon his wool, but
his scalp. If he should ever go back to that
place, a wig of this wool would be a healthy pre
caution against accidents.
John Bright was lately dining with a citizen
of Manchester who is an enthusiastic admirer of
the United States. “I would like,” said the
host, “ to come back fifty years after my death,
to see what a fine country America had become.”
“I believe you would be glad of any excuse to
come back," said Mr. Bright, with a grim smile.
The point of Bright’s joke is pretty hot. If
these United StateB travel on much farthor,
in the direction they are now going, this gush
ing cotton spinner might not be glad of any ex
cuse to come back from where Bright located
him. He might think it a case of out of the
frying-pan into the fire.
The entire alphabet is found in these four
words. They form a pleasant stanza for a child
to leant:
God gives the graz’ng ox his meat,
He quickly hears the sheep's low ciy;
But man, who tastes bis finest who&t,
Should joy to lift his praises high.
The ■Washington Republican (Radical) asks:
How does it happen that while honest men,
many of them discharged soldiers, are vainly
seeking employment from Government, a noto
rious dead-beat scribbler, who is always bor
rowing money and never payB back, and who
owes nearly all the hotel and boarding bouse
keepers and washerwomen m the city, can se
cure tbo appointment as clerk to two respecta
ble committees in the House of Representa
tives? - • ,
Poor, dear innocent! As if you did not know
that it is because the principles and praotices
of “Government,” as now administered, have
put honesty at a discount, and bulled the premi
um on rascality higher even than Fisk and Gould
sent gold in the September panic. What do
your folks want with honest men in office ?
Does a man at a feast want a death’s head grin
ning at him all the time to remind him of the
grave ? Your “dead-beat” is a representative
loyal" man. He won’t make anybody feel
bad.
Congress wants to stop the Georgia Demo
crats from voting. There is a sure way to do it
—by putting the whole State under tho solo and
exclusive direction of some officer of tho regular
army, and putting a stop to all elections and all
voting for ton years to come.
The Georgia Press.
The Sun computes the number of dogs in
Columbus at 2,500, some of whom are very
savage, and attack people on the street. A pro
position will be made in the city council to levy
a tax of $L on every dog in the city.
Mr. Sid'Lowe, living near Columbus, has
brought a novel action against some negroes
from North Carolina, whom he brought home
to work for him last year. He paid their ex
penses, and has paid wages and famished ra
tions since Juanary, and now some of them re
fuse to work. He now brings an action against
them for cheating and swindling.
Of the Hook and Ladder Company drill in
Columbus, Wednesday, we quote for the benefit
of our boys, what the Bun says, as follows :
Hook and Ladder company drilled yesterday
afternoon. As usual the company present a
handsome appearance. They put three ladders
on Jones’ building from Randolph street, mount
ed eight men, and had their ladders back on the
truck in three minutes and fifty-five seconds,
counting from the unstrapping. They did the
same thing on Epping’s building in 2:45, using
two ladders. This is quick work.
A serious accident came near happening.
When on the ran, at the intersection of Broad
and Randolph, a dray was in the way, a quick
turn was made, and the rear wheels of the track
straok the raised bridge and were overturned.
All was righted in a moment, bat hot before one
of the wheels had ran over the middle of the
back of Mr. John Mott, one of the members,
and striking him on the heacC
A little boy named Jimmy Mize, of Thomas-
ville, died Monday, from injuries received by
being thrown oat of a cart the Saturday before.
Judge Sessions, of the Branswiok Circuit, has
adjourned the Coffee county Superior Court, on
account of the prevalence of meningitis in the
county.
Of crop matters in Lowndes county, the Val
dosta Times says:
Onr fanners are busily engaged in the farm
ing interest Most of the com has been planted
and is coming np, bnt tho stand is bad. This
week all hands are engaged planting cotton, and
as the price of that article goe3 down, and the
price of corn up, the greater is the breadth of
land planted in that staple.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says that on the
first of May a new route will be opened between
Augusta and St. Louis by means of which
freights and passengers will be carried from the
latter city to the former, without having to
break bulk or change cars.
The Savannah News of the 7th instant says
that the ginhouseof Mr. Stephen Whitehead
a planter on the South Carolina side of the Sa
vannah river, eight miles from Screven’s Ferry,
was burned on Tuesday night, with a consider
able amount of cotton. It is supposed that the
fire originated from the friction of the cotton-
gin, as it was working at the time the fire was
discovered. The loss is heavy, as it falls'with-
out insurance on the building and cotton con
sumed, amounting to $3,000.
Thomas Brennan, the fireman on the Atlantio
and Gulf railroad, who shot Lago, an engineer
on the same road, Monday, was arrested Wed
nesday, and gave bond in $1,000 to appear be
fore the Superior Court. Lago is doing well.
Brennan says Lago was drunk, and assaulted
him with a stick of wood, and also threatened
to throw him off tho train.
Tho Augusta Fair Association will invite the
Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton to deliver an address
at the Fair, in October.
At a sale of the remaining assets of the City
Bank, of Augusta, on Wednesday, the following
securities were sold:
Eight Bonds Selma and Meridian (8 per cent.)
Railroad Company, of $1,000 each, between
$3,000 and $4,000 accrued interest. Lot sold
to John H. James, of Atlanta, at 674 cents on
the dollar.
Note of same company, dated October 19,
1868, for $1,800, with 8 per cent, interest—in
terest now due, $211. Sold to James Hope, at
SI cents on the dollar.
Six hundred shares 3 percent, preferred stock
in the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad Com-
pany, of $100 each—50 shares at $30 50 ; 50 at
$30 25; 200 shares, at $30; 300 shares, at
$29 874.
Under the head of “Alarming," the Griffin
Star says:
It is alarming te see the amount of corn and
hay that daily goes into the country. Every
day we see farmers in town who have hundreds
of acres of land, plenty of mules, horses, and
no corn nor money to buy it with. They bond
their crops at an enormous per cent, and get
their supplies of corn, hay and bacon.
We want to see this thing stop. To-day we
have to give three dollars a bushel for cow-
peas, which will grow on tho poorest land, will
thrive in the midst of a corn-field, in fact grow,
like weeds, anywhere All that has to be done
is to plant and gather them. And yet they are
three dollars a bushel. It is a disgrace and a
scandal on Georgia farming.
Mrs. Dr. Cowan, who lives about nine miles
from Atlanta, was thrown from a carriage near
that city, on Thursday, and seriously injured.
The Greensboro Herald says froBt and ice
have been seen in that section every morning
this week. Hon. Thomas Stocks, now nearly 8G
years of age, eays it is the latest spring within
his long memory. By-the-way, we are glad to
see that the health of this venerable and good
man is unimpaired.
Tho last Dalton Citizen announces the death
of two esteemed citizens of that place—Messrs.
James O'Neil, and Andrew Norris.
A company has been formed in Dalton, to
work tho King Coal mine near that place.
Tho Citizen understands that a movement is
on foot to build a railroad from Ringgold to the
mining region in the neighborhood of Lookout
Mountain.
A lad named Hery Heinz, died in Atlanta, on
Thursday, of meningitis. He was sick only
twenty-four hours.
Having published the statement alluded toby
the Constitution, we also publish its correc
tion. It says:
Our local stated, in this morning’s issue, that
Mrs. Gov. Bullock had entertained the negro
couple that were married last night. He was
misinformed. Mrs. Bullock, we learn, is in Al
bion, New York, with her children, and there
fore the statement was incorrect.
Seven head of horses and mules sold in At
lanta, Friday, for $792. Tho day before, eight
brought $984.
Warren Superior Court has been postponed
to the 1st Monday in June.
Twenty-six New York “roughs" passed
throngh Atlanta, Friday, bound for Mobile.—
Are they the advance guard of the “Young
Democracy” retreating before Tweed’s victori
ous legions?
The ship Southern Rights cleared from Sav
annah, Thursday, with 2867 bales of upland cot
ton valued at $279,530 85, and 148 bags of sea
island cotton valued at $16,144 62.
They have an anti-swearing club in Savannah,
the members of which fine themselves five cents
for every oath uttered during the day. The sum
total of fines goes each month to some public
charity.
The Rome Southerner reports the arrest of
gay Lothario in that city, James alias Thimo*
thy Langford, of whom the following biography
is furnished:
A true bill was found against him in 1867 for
rape. He was lodged in jail, soon after broke
jail and made his escape. He married, lived
with his wife a fow months then quit her. Went
to Oxford, Alabama, married a young girl about
.sixteen years of age, and of good family, lived
with her three months, abandoned her and came
to Rome. He commenced boarding with Mr. J.
W. Tarwarter, and in the conrse of a few
months took his wife from him. These facts
were made known to Thos. J. Perry, Justice of
the Peace, who immediately issued a warrant
for hjs arrest. He was arrested, brought before
tbo Judge, and sentenced to twelve months’
hard labor on the chain-gang.
The Dahlonega Signal says: The high price
of corn hero has put it out of reach of the poor,
and many people in the npper and northern por
tion of this county are on the eve of starva
tion. They must have relief from some source.
Newnan wants Ueroer University located
there.
We get the following items from the last Tal-
botton Standard:
Crop Pbospvots.—In consequence of the very
backward spring many of onr farmers are not
through planting com; much of that which is
already in the ground will have to be plongbed
np and the ground replanted. The weather has
been exceedingly cold, delaying farming opera
tions for several, weeks. Active preparations
are being made for a cotton crop—a large amount
of guano having been purchased to offset the
deficiency in labor. Hands are generally work
ing for a third or a half of the crop, finding
themselves and families. Labor is scarce.
Narrow Escape.—As Messrs. Lyon and John
Neal were standing near Waterman’s Drag Store
a thick plank, about ten feet in length, became
disengaged from the roof of the building where
the carpenters were making a sky-light for Mr.
Lyon’s gallery, and fell with aU its force be
tween these two gentlemen. A few inches to
the right or left, and one of them wonld have
been killed or disabled for life.
Good fob the Boss.—A number of boys have
gone to work bravely in this county this year.
We know of several who, we think, will make
six, eight and ten bags of cotton eaoh. They
are planting plenty of corn, too, whioh is the
only true polioy for the South. Manure heavily
and cultivate well, boys, you may get the pre
mium at the next fair.
The Directors of the National Bank of Au
gusta have elected Edward Thomas, Esq., to
fill the vaoancy made by the death of Mr. B. H.
Warren. W. O. Jessup was elected an addi
tional Director, and A. 0. Ives, Assistant Gaah-
ier.
J. O. Hunter, a Kentucky drover, was thrown
from a baggy in Augusta, Thursday, and had
his nose terribly mashed.
The following officers for the Augusta Orphan
Asylum have just been elected:
President—Dr. L. D. Ford.
Finance Committee—J. O. Fargo, Geo. M..
Thew and Wm. A. Walton.
Committee on Education—Revs. J. R. Wil
son, J. S. Lamar and Wm. H. Clark.
Dr. Jos. Milligan, Secretary; Dr. Wm. E.
Dearing, Physician; Thomas H. Holleyman,
Superintendent, and Mrs. Semmes, Matron.
The Medical Reformer and Progressionist.
—This is a revival of the old Medical Reform
Journal published in Macon for many years be
fore the war, and is edited by Dr. J. T. Coxe,
assisted by several other eminent writers in that
school of medicine. It will be published
monthly at one dollar per annum in advance.
We learn from its pages that the State Medical
Roform Association of Georgia met in Macon
on the 9th ultimo, and, by their appointment,
Dr. Coxe resumes a publication which he suc
cessfully conducted through eight years, begin
ning some twenty-five years ago. We see, also,
that the Reform Medical College of Georgia will
resume its annual course of Lecturers, the first
Monday in next November, being the 27th
course, under the following Faculty:
J. T. Coxe, M. D., Prof, of Principles and
Practice of Medicine.
M. S. Thomson, M. D., Prof, of Obstetrics
and Diseases of Women and Children.
A. L. Clinkscales, M. D., Prof, of Descrip
tive and Surgical Anatomy.
T. A. Warren, M. D., Prof, of Operative
Surgery, Surgical Diseases and Clinical Medi
cine.
W. Cale Jones, M. D., Prof, of Chemistry,
Botany and Pharmacy.
I. J. M. Goss, M. D., Prof, of Physiology and
Pathology.
Jubilee Smith, M. D., Prof. Institutes of Med
icine and Therapeutics.
J. T. Coxe, M. D., Prof, of Forensic Medi
cine.
M. S. Thomson, M. D.,Prof. of Materia Med
ica.
A. L. Clinkscales, M. D., Prof, of Diseases
of the Eye and Ear.
T. A. Warren, M. D., Demonstrator of Anat
omy.
Dr. E. J. Nesbitt, Assistant Demonstrator of
Anatomy.
Dr. J. R. F. Thurman, Prosector to the
Chairs of Surgery and Anatomy.
M. S. Thomson, M. D., Dean of the Faculty.
A. L. Clinkscales, M. D. Secretary and Treas
urer.
Radical Ilate for Foreigners.
Commenting upon the extract from a late
Washington letter to Bollock’s organ at Atlanta,
published by us a few days ago, which so gross
ly insulted our Irish fellow-citizens by stigma
tizing them as inferior to the negroes, the Sa
vannah News says:
In the summer of 1866, while travelling on a
Hudson river steamer, we were drawn into a
conversation with a prominent Boston Radical.
In reply to his question, “What do the South
ern people complain of in the reconstruction
policy of the Republican party?” we replied
that the Southern people regard the proposed
enfranchisement of the millions of ignorant ne
groes at the South, just out of slavery, as a
great wrong, and dangerous to the stability of
representative government. “They are more
fit to exercise the right of suffrage,” he re
joined, “than the ignorant Irish and Dutch,
which have been the curse of the country.” We
expressed our surprise that he should speak thus
of the men who had composed the great body of
tbeir armies, and who did a large share of the
fighting for the Union. To which he replied:
“Oh, yes, they went into the army for pay and
bounty, and where they were better clothed and
fed than they ever were before in their lives.
But they are not fit to be citizens of a free coun
try. We would have been glad if you had killed
every d—d one of them.”
Thebe is a very remarkable young woman in
Wisconsin. Her name ia Pauline Rivers de
Yere; and yet, instead of becoming a regular
contributor to the New York Ledger, as her
name amply qualifies her to do, she has pone to
washing dishes in a Milwankie hotel.
There ia an eighty-year-old editor in Ohio
who claims to have voted for Henry Clay in
1844 and for General Grant in 1868. Imagine,
if you can, the immense velocity at which he
must have traveled in order to descend from
Henry Clay to General Grant in the brief space
of twenty-four years.—Courier-Journal.
Macon and Knoxville Railroad.—We call
attention to the meetings in Jasper and Gwin
nett on this subject. The npper counties seem
to be thoroughly aroused in favor of this road.
Spring Weather.—A heavy rain storm cleard
off yesterday in favor of warm bright spring
like weather; but the wise prognosticate a cold
snap yet when the inoon fulls.
Garters with monogram clasps are now worn
by the pretty girls. They are rather a novelty
yet, but we hope to see more of them.—Courier-
Journal.
Miss “Brick” had better see more of “G. W.
B.” He is getting rather too frisky. We sus
pect she is not at home.
Why should Congress hold Georgia while
Bullock & Co., skin her. Let them discharge
Bullock who says he can't maintain order here—
that tho : Ku-Klux whip him out, and appoint a
good solid military officer with supreme power.
A gentleman writes us from an adjoining
State: “I am a miserable man. My only son
is not quite eight years of age, and yet he not
only swears and chews tobacco, bnt he persists
in partinghishairin tho middle and in declaring
that his mother has a bettor right to the ballot
than I have. Tell me, for heaven’s sake, what
shall I do with him?”—Courier-Journal.
We take the liberty of answering the question
of this afflicted parent. “Interview” the young
gentleman about twenty minutes each day, for
one week, in the presence of a bed post and a
bundle of keen hickory switches. We will
answer for the result.
The Prospective Cotton Crop.—A Washing
ton dispatch says “Letters received in this city
from different sections of the Southern States
represent that the planting of crops has been
seriously delayed by long-continued wet weather,
and that in consequenoe thereof less than the
estimated quantity of land will be planted in
ootton. In Alabama and Georgia the decrease
will be greater than in the adjoining States.”
Excitement In Mormontfo^'
The World of the 4th is full of the exa *
in Salt Lake City over the passage of Caiv’l
Anti-polygamy bill. The “Gentiles had »} '
mass meeting on the 26th, protesting
the retrospective operation of the bill,
larly Section thirteenth, which enaota,
“That any man in said Territory
after this act goes into effect, live or
with one woman or more other than hi* jT
wife, as his wife or wives, shall be adia
guilty of the crime of concubinage, ani *.
conviction thereof shall be punished by
exceeding one thousand dollars, and by
onment in the penitentiary at hard law*
exceeding five years, and in all prosecnti oa .}
the violation of this section the alleged ocn*
bines of the accused shall be competent
nesses to establish or disprove the charge.” '
At this meeting a good many Mormons
present by invitation, and one of them,
Kelsey, a prominent apoetie, delivered J *
as follows:
He had been a Mormon for many j ea „
also a polygamist for twenty-fonr yean/
would ask no more from the government <1
himself and for the people of Utah than for 1
other people of another sect or creed. G?|
gress had certainly encouraged the idea r^l
seBsed by the people of Utah, that they u I
peoplo here) really did run the machine fL E
the Territory), and that they had a nrtrl
these mountains to make enoh laws as irJl
good to them. Congress had left the^zl
for fifteen years without any legislation onall
peculiar institution practiced bv the Moim»!l
as a religious duty, and/or the first eight
after their arrival in this Territory Coin I
appointed and sustained President Foin I
the Governor of the Territory, under tin ,2 ( "|
ic act, reserving the right to Congress to I
any or all of the acts of the Territory of lio., I
they did not annul one single measure, h|J:|
cd every act to become law and permitted it fast," I
upon the statutes. In the passage of the bin!|
1SG2, Congress, by not enlorcing the bill aiil
the authorities here in impressing upon?!
people hero the belief that it was not constkl
tional, and that Congress hau no right to int» I
fere with polygamy, seeing it was a religions?I
stitution; and thus the people had, for tweatvl
three years, been educated in the idea thatil
was their right to practice such social cnstcml
as they saw fit, provided they did not infria.1
on the liberties of any other people. i£l|
were the ideas that he (Kelsey) had; andwl
teiedinto polygamy as honestly, and withal
pure motives, as any man ever entered iaj
monoganio relations. His wives had done & I
same thing; and he had become the father^!
many children in polygamy; and his polypi I
ties were just as dear to him as those of tnl
monogamist. He felt that he would be wife I
to accord to cny other people, under aimiktc? I
comstances what they now desired of Cocgt^l
—to let bygones be bygones, holding nora: I
subject to the pains and penalties of the bill), I
having entered into polygamy previous to® I
passage. As an individual he did net fi , I
his privilege, right, nor duty towards Oot A
enter into new polygamic relations in i I
face and protest of forty millions of Ids f I
low citizens; and his respect for his country’s l
her laws would forbid his seeking to eafoa I
upon the people of the United States his peal
liar notions on any subject. He felt to forepl
his own ideas upon that or other subjects, mil
to honor the laws of his country in time tal
come, that is, any law that might be passed in]
regard to polygamy. Bnt he did not feel will-1
ing to repudiate his wives and bastardize 1
children, and he would not do it. He hid ti-1
ways been loyal to his country, behoved it to I
bred in his bones, and he never entered into I
polygamy with a desire or intention to defy the I
laws of the land. He had the idea that, con
stitutionally, they had the right to ordain Etc
rales and regulations for their social gores-
ment or family relations as seemed to thee
good, their views being based ou religious cot
victions, and not interfering with the rights a
privileges of any other people. Under theee |
circumstances, he felt it np more than the (
of Congress to help to repeal their own erica,
as well as those of the people of Utah, by ban
lenient and considerate in the present bilL
The world correspondent says there is asep-
idemic for martyrdom among the Mormons, tit
not one will put away his exoess of»wires ai
children, and not one woman will abandon he:
investment in a husband. 'When the courts be
gin the work of enforcing the law, Master Dis
trict Attorney will have a sweet time of it, and j
as the burden of the proof will rest upon the j
Government, the getting np of evidence will be
a nice piece of business. On the who'e, vt 1
suppose that the law, as to its retrospective op-1
erstion, will be a dead letter, and poly gamy vi |
be left to die out with the decease of its victim!
Bingham Amendment.—The Washington cor
respondent of the Charleston News says:
The Radicals will carry their point, os things
now look, and the Bingham amendment will be
defeated, the infamous rule of the Buliock ad
ministration will be perpetuated. The manu
factured stories of outrages, and the lobbying
of Bullock on the floor of each House, hsn
done the work, while Grant has thrown his per
sonal influence in support of the extremists.
Leo of the Courier, says:
The visit of Gen. Lee to Georgia and his cor
dial and enthusiastic reception by Georgia, “the
only surviving member of the Confederacy,”
are brought forward, together with the Ku-
Klnx-Klans and their “white sheets,” to st&rlJe
the Senate. Some of the Republican members
begin to talk of the expediency of leaving Geor
gia, for tho present, nnder military rale.
Particulars of the Death of General
Thomas.
From the San Francisco Bulletin. Starch 29.)
The General came to headquarters about noon
yesterday, and gave bis attention to business
immediately, conversing with officers and writ
ing dispatches. His demeanor was pleasant sad
cheerful as usual—the lustre of the eye was as-
dimmed and the step unfaltering. Abont half-
past one o’clock he arose from the desk where
he had been writing, and oassed into a rooa
adjoining, where he remarked to an officer that
he felt unwell. Scarcely were the words spoken
ere he fell in a fainting fit Medical assistance
was summoned immediately, Dr. Hagner and
Drs. Murray, M’Cormick and Bailey, of the ar
my, being dispatched for. The former gentle
man arrived upon the scene first, and applied
restoratives, which had the desired effect of
bringing the General to consciousness. The
army physicians mentioned having arrived, be
was left in their charge, and for half an hod
slowly revived. His wife and daughters, resid
ing at the Lick House, were brought to head
quarters, and he talked rationally with them
and officers abont him until shortly after tide*
o'clock p. m. Symptoms of an apoplectic fit
were then observed, the eyes dilating, end the
breathing growing stertorous. At 3:30 ?.
be relapsed into a lethargy, from which he neve*
recovered, and at 7:25 P. M. quietly
away, surrounded by his family and the mes-
bers of his staff.
Macon Presbytery.—The Albany News, of
yesterday, says: •
This body assembled in the Presbyten'iJ
Churoh on Wednesday evening. Rev. Dr. Dr
vid Wills was selected moderator, and the Pres
bytery entered upon its duties.
The absence of the Rev. Mr. Cosby, and other
Divines who were expected, will materiallj
change the programme published in our last,
but services will be held as then stated.
There is a pretty good attendance, and tW
occasion is one of great interest to the church.
Fresh Indian outrages are reported i®
Wyoming. Six citizens near Atlantic Citf
have been murdered and horribly mutilated
The stage from Big Sandy, due at South Pa*
is missing, and it is feared that the passenger 5
have been captured or killed. Among them
are two United States Army. officers.
Canals,—People who think canals are a thing
of the past, should be informed that during th®
seven open months of last year the Erie can® 1 s
freights exoeeded 700,000 tons, the joint trans
portation of the Erie and Central railroads.
The Queen of Holland having stated to Mr-
Motley that she should like to meet those of the
literary men of England whose acquaintance sM
vas not likely to make in oonrt and fashion*® 1
■kdes. the latter gentleman hastened to ooespjJ
wub her request by Inviting them all to din**
his house with her Majesty. The Queen r*
of the most learned women of Europe,
great favorite in the intellectual wroiety of
There was a peculiar propriety in the Queen
the Netherlands meeting the lUeraUof Eng^
at the house of the Mutoita af hfit oountij-