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" a nupM c aprannni mg iV ■m ■ K * l» '• . • ;, • * ■■ , I SI ————— ■ ■- " - "~ ''■ •-' ’■ 1 f 1 ~ 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-