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'The Greorgia ~Weekly Telegraph and. Journal IVTessenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, APRIL 13 <870.
Effect of the Fifteenth Ameuduicnt.
Within the last two or three days the tele
grams have brought ns the results of sundry lo
cal elections in various parts of the country,
held under the Fifteenth Amendment, which
have by no means justified the radical anticipa
tions of party benefit. In every case, so far,
they have shown relatively diminished strength.
Yesterday’s telegrams announced that the Dem
ocrats hadcarried Newark, New Jersey, although
the negroes voted—and voted, of course, tho
Republican ticket Last year, in the same elec
tion, when the negroes did not vote, the Radi
cals elected the Mayor of Newark by 484 ma
jority. The Democrats have also increased
their majority in Albany, and in Ohio and In
diana local elections show similar results.
On the whole, the indications, so far, are
that tho Radicals are in some danger of losing
more white than they will gain negro votes, by
the operation of the Fifteenth Amendment
Some few days ago we intimated the possibility
of such a result It will be no recommendation
to a great many of the Radical masses that the
negroes vote solidly with the party, and es
pecially when this result has been obtained
through a practical fraud upon the Federal
constitution and tho American people. Let no
man be surprised, therefore, to find the Rad
icals, in the course of a short time, very modest
in their vaunts about the support of the blacks,
and quite willing to divide the honor, if not the
profit, with the Democracy. In due time, we
believe the Radicals will be ready to part with
their investment in Ethiopian politics at less
than cost. But we shall see.
The Resnlt-of Cheap Suffrage.
Don Piatt says a Thomas cat without claws
or teeth, in a garret full of strange Thomases,
has about as much chance as a gentleman of
culture and education before a nominating con
vention at the North or West We suppose he
means Radical Conventions, though he does not
say so.
This was not the case once, bat as the suf
frage has been cheapened and degraded, so
have the people become vicious and demoral
ized. As matters now stand,. it will not be
many years before the prizes of office there
will bo won, exclusively, by those nearest tho
mob in tastes, feelings, habits, and manners.
The mob, who all vote and are especially active
as politicians, being too worthless for any hon
est, steady labor, will not rebnke their own ig
norance and dirt by choosing men to represent
them who are educated and intelligent, and who
wear clean shirts and keep their faces washed.
Cheap suffrage is what has filled Congress with
such men as Butler, Shanks, Julian, and Logan
from tho North. What it has done for the
Booth, let the shameless creatures of whom
Whittemore and Deweeso are fair specimens,
■answer. If we are not very moeh mistaken
oheap suffrage will prove the dearest thing that
■was ever known in this or any other country.
■Reminiscences of an OM Georgia
Lawyer.
■ J. J. 'Toon, tho publisher, at - Atlanta, sends
ns some advance sheets of this work, soon to be
issued by him.
It is from the pen of Judge Garnett Andrews,
of Wilkes connty, who has had nearly half a
century of intimate personal acquaintance with
all tho leading legal, and other oelebrities of tho
State. We have read them with much interest,
and we are sura the book will be very popular.
We have had two or three hearty laughs already,
and propoco soon to give onr readers the benefit
of what amused us. A man who makes tho
people laugh these dark days oertainly deserves
well of them.
Angnsta Horticultural Exhibition.
The Cotton States Mechanics’ and Agricultn
ral Fair Association will havo & grand horticul-
ral exhibition at the Fair Grounds in Angusta
on the Uth day of May, to consist of plants and
flowers, cut flowers, fruits and vegetables. Rev.
Charles W. Howard has been selected a3 the
orator of the day. Tho Editors of the Tele
graph and-Messenger acknowledge the receipt
of a special invitation from Mr. E. H. Gray,
the Secretory of the Association, and will try to
be represented there.
Knows Him.
The Boston Post evidently knows Bullock
just about as well as the poople down here in
•Georgia do. It gives him this complimentary
notice whioh we cheerfully publish without
• charge. We are very sure Fcmoy would not
be as liberal.:
“If Governor Bullock’s stories were true, he
ought to be made the first subject of military
■ rule and be put under guard and sent home
with instructions to discharge his duty and see
that the laws are executed, or else vacate his
office. The Senate demeans itself and degrades
•the country, while it does Georgia the grossest
injustice, by suffering tbis inveterate dema
gogue and political gamester to leave his post
of duty to infest the lobbies and oven encroach
upon the seats cf Senators, to ply his art of
falsehood, trickery and impudent demand.”
A High Average.
The Constitutionalist says:
Jt is said that an association of Now England
capitalists, who are thinking of investing large
ly in Southern enterprises, have recently pnt
thcmrelves to a great deal of expense to find
out the price of votes in all the Legislatures of
ton South. Tho rasnlt shows that tho average
price is eleven dollars thirty-seven and a half
cents per dozen, with a liberal discount to
wholesale dealers.
The odd cents would be an extravagant aver
age for some of the members of (Bullock’s
agency, though they may sell for more. We
gnoes Bollock’s crowd is about tho cheapest lot
that has ever been offered. Stanton, the big
Alabama dealer, could get tho most liberal dis
count ho.has traded on, yet.
“Ain’t Got No More Use for Him.”
The Newbem Journal of Commerce says that
the body of a negro man, drowned about two
weeks since, was recovered on Tuesday, and,
after tho inquest was held, permitted to remain
in the water within tho corporate limits until
the birds of prey had horribly mutilated the re
mains. “Wo were struck," says that paper,
“by a remark made by a colored man, in al
luding to tho affair. Said he: ‘The poor fel
low can’t vote no more, and the carpet-baggers
ain’t got no more use for him. That’s why they
letihe buzzards eat him! ”
Malting Up a Presidential Ticket.
The Savannah Republican, cf Wednesday,
says. The italics are ours:
Such men as Chase, of Ohio, and Jenkins, of
Georgia, in the two highest Federal positions
wonld give the country bo tha vigorous and con
servative administration, steering toe snip of
state off the rocks and quicksands of revolution
and mooring it safely in constitutional waters.
We are probably as averse as the next one to
Mr. Chase’s political reoord of former years,
having no approval for it whatever, and had we
the appointment of a President we wonld select
a different man; but we are now speaking for
the country, and dealing with the contingencies
and possibilities of the day. He is at least cafe
in his constitutional views, a friend of peace,
and the best man at the North whom we conld
elect Whatever may be the objections of the
Southern people toward him—and we concede
they are just—they must remember that sick
men take physic not because they like it, but be
cause it restores them health. And besides, if
we are to live in peaco in this country, the harsh
memories of toe past must be discarded, as least
as the regulators of -our conduct in the grave af
fairs of state. The interests of the present and
future are too east, and claim too much of our
thoughts and attention, for either to be vexed with
the issues and quarrels of the dead past.
The Presidential election is a long way off,
but too South, and indeed too whole country,
have so much at stake that we feel that the pub
lic mind cannot too early be directed to what
we believe to bo a channel of safety.
Is this the paper that almost went into hys
terics because the Telegraph and Messenger
took too position that toe Bingham amendment
ought to have Southern and Democratic sup
port—that lectured us so sternly for declaring
it tho part of wisdom for our people in the pre
sent crisis to do toe best they could, and to be
governed by realities and not sentimentalities ?
Then we were recreant for using almost toe
identical language quoted abovo in setting
forth toe true policy as we oonceived it, for toe
people to adopt. We dealt then, as we hope
always to do, “with too contingencies and pos
sibilities of toe day.” We advised the swal
lowing of too physic, not because we liked it,
but because it was a choice between that and
something worse; because wo were sure toe
other dose would kill, while this one held out
some hope of leaving us alive with a chance of
restoration to health. We are glad to see toe
Republican coming to our position. It is a late
convert, to be 6ure, but this sort generally are
filled with great zeal in toe work.
We express no opinion as to the composition
of the Republican’s ticket, because it is entirely
out of the range of probabilities as they appear
to ns. Besides, it is too early to go into the
business of nominations. There is no telling
the changes that will come over toe spirit of toe
political dream of tha country in tho next two
years. Those who are friends n<Jw, maybe
making mouths at each other with great unction,
whilo deadly enemies may bo swearing eternal
amity. It is very certain that the contest of
1872 will not be fought on the issues that almost
exclusively divided toe people in 1868, and as
toe issues will be fresh, so, perhaps, the neces
sities of too situation may demand fresh men.
Tho leaders who, in the preliminary skirmishes
before toe great battle prove themselves most
potent in handling tho weapons of anti high
tariff and taxation, no matter what they are
now, nor how employed, will, all other things
being equal, come to toe front and lead the
oonntry’s friends to victory.
Thz Rome Daily loams that a sanguinary war
is being waged in St. Glair county, Alabama,
between John O. Brown and friends, and Jack
Springfield and friends. On Saturday evening
last the parties met near Ashvillo and exchanged
some forty or fifty shots, toe SpriDgfield crowd
losing two men badly wounded. Monday morn
ing toe engagement was reopened, but we did
not leam tho result.
Gov. Smith, of Alabama, has issued a procla
mation declaring that, in consequenco of a dis-
• orderly state of affairs in too counties of Greene
Morgan and Tuscaloosa, he has determined to
“organize at least one company of militia for
continuous active service in each of oaid coun
ties, until satisfactory evidence is adduced that
life, liberty and property are entirely safe from
lawless violence; provided there is an indica-
• tion from any respectable nnmber of law-abid
ing citizens in those respective connties of any
wish on their part for any such organization of
jnilitia."
Distinguished “Dead Beats.”
The Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) News charges
Grant, Robeson, Belknap, Cox and Cresswel
with dead beating toe Hudson River Railroad
on their recent trip to Troy to attend General
Thomas’ fnneral. We quote as follows:
Shortly after leaving toe city they were called
upon, in common with other passengers, for
their tickets. They stated that they had none.
They were then asked to pay their fare. This
they peremptorily refused to do, giving the con
ductor, Harry Stovens, to understand that their
exalted positions should insure them free con
veyance. The conductor told them that his in
structions were to pass no “dead heads” over
the road, and that if they did not comply with
toe rules he should be obliged to stop the train
and put them off.
Thus things remained until the arrival of toe
train at Poughkeepsie, when the conductor
threatened to disconnect the car which con
tained toe distinguished party. But before pro
ceeding any further, Superintendent Touchy
was acquainted with the case, and that gentle
man took the responsibility to “trust” them for
their fare as far as Albany. And toe “dead
beats” were permitted to go on, no donbt re
joicing at the victory they had gained over an
humble conductor.
Tbe Rejuvenated South.
We shall agree with the Mobile Register that
it is a “ marvel to the world” how the South has
risen in five years from what was apparently
oomplete prostration to great prosperity, and to
promise far greater. Southern credit has been
re-established on a firm basis, and advances are
made with a confidence equal to anything that
preceded the dark days of 1861. Cotton has
mounted his throne, and is again “kiDg”—
though no longer of an iniquitous realm. He
was a crownless monarch five years ago, and
now, we are told, his last year’s crop was 2,700,-
■000 commercial bales, 3,000,000 bales of 400
pounds each, in value equal to $309,000,000.
Tuesday’s European telegram told us that toe
dispatches from Calcutta announce that the Earl
of Mayo, Governor-General of India, is makings
tour of the cotton-growing districts of that coun
try, urging upon tho people the necessity of toe
increased cultivation of cotton in order to com
pete successfully with the United States. The
Governor-General has need of great eloquence
to overcome such statistics as those we have just
presented. Nor is this all. The Mobile Regis
ter tells us also that Virginia in 1868 sold one
hundred thousand tons of her products, while
her mines of iron, coal, lead, copper and gyp'
sum “are now, with the aid of Northern capital
and energy, worked mere satisfactorily than
ever before j” that South Carolina paid an in
ternal revenue tax of two and a half millions,
and a State tax of one million, and greatly re
duced her debt; that twenty great railroads are
constructing in toe two Carolinas, Georgia and
Florida, while Delaware, '.Maryland, WestVir-
gina, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama, have about forty new
lines under way; that the tobacco crop of last
year amounted to 225,000,000 pounds, valued at
thirty-seven million dollars, the rico crop 55,-
000 tierces, being an increase of 80,000 over
the preceding year, and toe sugar crop 80,8000
or 85,000 hogsheads, against'37,547 for 1867.
The ontlook for the year to come is brighter
yet. Immigration is adding variety and quanti
ty of skilled labor; enfranchisement of the
blacks and the settlement of political issues is
disposing all parties to quiet work and wages
too quantity of land under cultivation is in
creased day by day4 the returns from past ven
tures are forming capital for new ones. North
ern money enterprise and energy are reinforc
ing Southern. In brief, the skies are bright for
toe new Sonth, and the wonders wronght by tho
war will soon be rivalled in their grandeur and
their rapidity cf consummation by the marvel
ous transformation of peaco.—N. 7. Times.
The Philadelphia Star says: “Dr. Hewson, a
well known physician of this city, and an advo
cate of ‘the dry earth treatment of wounds,
concerning which there was such a lively discus
sion some months ago, has continued this
method of treating wounds with very favorable
results. In a late medical jonrnal he cites a
case of compound fractures of the leg, the limb
being kept at rest by means of sand bags. In
too. absence of these, dry earth was substituted,
which had too effect of entirely dispelling toe
offensive odor of toe wound, and their use was
continued with toe most happy results; toe earth
was changed every three or four days. Again
he states, that a man affected with scurvy,
which had resisted all other treatment, was en
tirely cured by being buried up to the neck in
oil for about twenty minutes.”
Amicus.—Wo must withhold toe fire of this
writer on the allopaths for our next number.
No room for it to-day; and, besides, we don’t
like to mask a battery upon tbe doctors when
they are in such force as they are now.
Foe Future Delivery.—Murray, Ferris &
Co.’s Cotton Circular for tlie week ending the
Oth inst. quotes sales of 13,280 bale* of cotton
for future delivery at 22£ for April; 224for
May; 22j for June, and 22} for July.
Tlie Georgia Press.
The Columbus Sun proposes a dinner to the
negro firemen of that city, in consideration of
their efficiency and past valuable services.
The Rev. R. A. Holland has been leotoring
in Columbus on “Jerusalem,” and “What will
he do with it”?
The Son says:
Badly Hubt.—A horse attached to a buggy
took fright yesterday afternoon, near the south
end of Oglethorpe street. Two ladies were
thrown out and badly injured. One, Miss
Fanny Bevel], had an arm fractured; the other,
Mrs. Edge, daughter of Mrs. Wacasa, of Girard,
had her spine injured by the wheels passing
over it.
One of the Blodgett family has just returned
from the North, where he purchased a dozen
engines for his pa’s railroad. Of coarse he gets
his little commissions on the purchase.
A skating rink has been opened in Athens.
We quote, as follows, from toe Watchman:
Late Seeing.—We hear toe remark on all
sides, and onr own recollection fully accords
with it, that the present is toe most backward
spring within the memory of the “oldest inhab-
iltml All 4Vin /tnvln nlonfn/1 vtaaaIaKIaC nnil
itant.” All toe early planted vegetables and
most of toe early blooming fruits were destroyed
by frosts and freezes some time ago, while toe
vegetables since planted have a very sickly ap
pearance.
In consequence of toe extraordinary cold and
otherwise unpropitious weather, farming opera
tions are unusually backward in all toe region
around and above this place.
Sale of Watee Powee.—Tho superior water
power formerly known as “Tallassee Mills,” but
more recently as “Pair’s Factory,” together
with toe buildings attached, was sold at Sheriff's
sale on Tuesday last, Messrs. Stanley, Moss &
Co. becoming the purchasers, at $10,100. This
is very valuable property of the kind.
Wheat.—The wheat generally in this section,
though not as forward as usual, looks remarka
bly well—the stand being uniformly good, and
the young grain having a promising appearance.
CoL Chas. W. Howard will deliver toe inau
gural address at the Horticultural exhibition, at
Augusta, toe 11th of May.
Over $13,000 worth of stock have been sub
scribed to toe Columbus Industrial Association.
Geo. W. Gustin, Esq., of this city, was ad
mitted to practice in the United States Circuit
Court, at Savannah, on Tuesday.
In Chatham Superior Court, on Monday,
Judge Schley decided that the salary of a clerk
is not subject to garnishment
In the U. S. Circuit Court at Savannah, Tues
day, it was ruled that where no issuable pleas
are filed and cases are otherwise in fault, plain
tiffs may take verdicts at once.
The case of the United States vs. Solomon
Cohen, debt on a postoffice bond, was set down
for trial yesterday morning.
Of the proceedings in toe U. S. District Court,
the Republican reports:
In toe case of the United States vs. Carter
Contrier, an employe in the post-office at Au
gusta, charged in two counts—1st. Breaking
open a letter, and 2d, Embezzlement—toe de
fendant plead guilty to the charge in toe first
count, and a ml. pros, was entered in the case
of toe second count.
Messrs. Hartridge and Williams appeared as
counsel for the defendant, and after an eloquent
appeal for mercy by Mr. Williams, in which it
was alleged that this unfortunate young man
was in the habit of appropriating one-half his
salary to toe support of his widowed mother,
he was sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars
and costs, and be imprisoned six months in toe
Chatham county jail.
The Republican has the following notice of
the Fifteenth Amendment celebration in Savan
nah on Tuesday.
The colored people of the city turned out yes
terday in large numbers to celebrate toe passage
of the Fifteenth Amendment. The colored axe
companies and toe several colored societies
turned out in force, with music and banners,
and marched through the principal streets, and
finally arrived at a stand which had been erected
under toe big oak in the parade ground south of
the Park. The meeting was organized by elect
ing James Porter, chairman.
An address was delivered by a young mulatto
man, very little of which we were able to hear,
for toe reason that toe colored people were gen
erally engaged in conversation with each other
during toe progress of its delivery. In fact, a
large proportion of the andience appeared to
take bat little interest in the proceedings.
There was a small field piece on toe ground,
which was fired occasionally during toe after
noon.
There were, perhaps, two thousand colored
people, including men, women and children,
present, and, as far we know, perfect order pre
vailed. No white man took any part in the pro
ceedings, and very few were on the ground.
A noticeable feature of the celebration was
five ladies of toe Beach Institute seated in an
elegant carriage, with a colored driver in livery.
A little girl, aged four years, daughter of Mr.
John Green, of Augusta, was run over by a
street car on Tuesday, and had both of her legs
broken below the knee.
Mrs. Z. T. Huguley, wife of Judge Huguley,
of Pike county, died Tuesday.
Mr. YT. R. Grantham, of Atlanta, had his foot
severely injured, Wednesday. A few months
ago he was crushed between two cars and badly
injured. Last Saturday his brother-in-law was
badly hart by falling from a car.
An educational meeting held at Decatur,
Tuesday night, was addressed by Gen. Gordon
and State Senator Chandler. Over $2,000 was
subscribed on the spot.
Under the head, “Interesting Case,” the Con
stitution says:
An interesting ease was tried on yesterday,
before Justice Spencer. Mr. James H. Calloway
had instituted suit on eight promissory notes
for room rent, against the Republican Associa
tion, composed of William Markham, M. G.
Dobbins, H. P. Farrow, James Atkins, J. B.
Dumble, and W. L. Scruggs. The notes were
signed “W. L. Scruggs, for Republican Asso
ciation.”
The Association, it is claimed, only occupied
the rooms for two months, and too notes sued
on were for months subsequent.
Justice Spencer decided that Mr. Calloway
was justly entitled to his rent, and that Mr.
Scruggs was clearly, liable. But the plaintiff
failed to prove that Scruggs was a_partner or an
authorized agent to sign any obligation binding
said Association. Although he was employed
by toe Association for specifio purposes that
gave him no such right, as claimed for him by
plaintiff. Judgment for defendants.
Pebsonal.—Wo had the pleasure yesterday of
meeting with Mr. S. D. Harris, of Cleveland,
Ohio, and the editor of the Ohio Farmer. Mr.
Harris is on an agricultural missionary tour
through Georgia, and isspendingsome time in
this city with his son, Col. A. L. Harris, of toe
Western and Atlantio Railroad.—Atlanta Era.
Uth.
A la “Captain Wragg,” we suppose. That’s
bad for our people, surely. Wragg skinned his
victims awfully.
From Chattooga county the Rome ■Courier
reports a garrison of sixty soldiers at Bummer
ville. Their campaign so far has resulted in
toe capture of four stills. The county is entirely
quiet
The Rome Daily sermonizes after thin
fashion:
The true prosperity of our State depends upon
our people, and not upon our politicians.
More depends upon planting com and peas,
and beans, apon raising pork and beef, upon
building up our manufacture, and opening out
our wonderful mineral wealth, than upon all
toe United States Congress together.
The copper interest of North Georgia is of
more importance to toe State than a pen full of
Bullock’s, with all their brazen faces. •
Mark A. Cooper, with his iron, is doing more
to raise Georgia out of the dust, than Bryant,
Brown and CaldwelL
Our own Nobles are performing a nobler work
for onr peoplo than Dr. Miller or Joshua Hill
Every ton of iron they drag from the bowels of
tho earth is worth moro to our prosperity than
all toe speeches over uttered by Bullock. Tho
spado, so dexterously handled by toe operators
of Capt. E. G. Barney, are far more efficacious
than too votes of all the niggers from the Sa
vannah to the Apalachicola.
Then why exercise ourselves about the mis
erable farca of reconstruction? The entire
system is a lie. Congress is a fraud—toe Union
a swindle—toe Constitution of no more virtue
than telegraphic reports ten years dead. Let
us turn rather to our home resources. Keep
these well developed; eschew debt and extrava
gance ; make all we can, and keep all we make,
and let Congress, Bullock, Butler and Grant go
to “where the woodbine twineth.”
Mr. Samuel Scott, of Spaulding county, has
patented a distributing plow, which the Griffin
Georgian says will distribute anything. It will
drill wheat, cotton seed, oats, or any grain, and
it is claimed that it will plant com.
We quote as follows from toe Covington En
terprise :
Paealysis.—We regret to leam that Major
Charles Strong is very dangerously ill from the
effects of a paralytic stroke on Friday night
last, which is toe third attack of toe kind from
which he suffers. At the present writing,
Thursday morning, be is reported slightly im
proving, but yet in a very critical condition
and little hope of his recovery is entertained.
Damaged! Lightning.—In the thunder storm
of last Saturday, a very vivid flash of lightnine
was observed about noon at the residence of
Mrs. Rakestraw, near Starrsville, in Newton
county, which was afterwards found to have
struck in the horse lot, about 150 yards from
house, killing two mnles and destroying two
trees. The most remarkable part of too phe
nomenon was that there wore four mules in the
lot, two in each of two stables situated some
thirty yards apart, and the same stroke of light
ning killed one mule in each stable, leaving the
others unhurt, and tore to pieces the two trees,
one a persimmon and the other an oak, about
tho same distance apart as the stables.
The Albany News says toe farmers of that
section are all behind hand with their planting,
but the good weather this week has given every
thing a shove, and toe cotton crop will soon be
all planted.
The Americas Republican says the negroes of
that place are going to ran men of their own
color for all the municipal offices at toe next
election.
Nelly Patterjon, colored, aged 102 years, was
burned to death whilo washing, near Americas,
Tuesday.
Sumter Superior Court is now in session. In
the suit of Jowers Windsor vs. P. H. Oliver, for
slander, the jury gave toe plaintiffs $4,000,
They asked for $10,000. John Robinson, alias
Stewart was found guilty of burglary at night.
The survey of the route for the Savannah,
Griffin and North Alabama Railroad, west of
Newnan, was begun Thursday morning.
W. X Williams, agent at Augusta for the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, as
representative of that corporation, was fiued
five dollars by the Mayor, Thursday, for vio
lating a city ordinance prohibiting the running
of traits through the streets faster than five
miles an hour.
Bill Singleton, a black scoundrel who raped
and murdered a young white girl, at Beaufort,
S. C., in 1866, was arrested in Savannah on
Wednesday. We suppose he will be taken
back to South Carolina and pardoned by Scott,
toe so-cilled Governor of that State.
We quote, as follows, from toe Savannah Re
publican, of Friday:
Georgia Teachers’ Association.—We havo
received, and shall publish in a day or two the
announcement by the Secretary of the approach
ing meeting of this Association, to bo held in
this city on too 3d, 4th and 5th of May. The
programme shows an exceedingly interesting
list of papers and subjects for discussion, and
we observe the names of somo quite distin
guished speakers. Addresses are set down for
Hon. H. W. Hilliard, of Augusta, Hon. Solo
mon Cohen, of Savannah, and B. Sears, D. D.,
Agent of toe Peabody Education Fund.
Challenge to Fight a Duel.—We leam that
two colored boys, each about nineteen years of
age, had a quarrel yesterday, all about a yaller
gal, whioh resulted in a challenge to mortal
combat. The weapons chosen were case knives,
and toe place an unoccupied house in toe south
western section of the city. Seconds were cho
sen and just as the fight was about to commence
a police officer made his appearance, when the
whole party dispersed, and toe tragedy indefi
nitely postponed.
Mr. John P. Fam, a native of New Jersey,
but for fifty years a citizen of Augusta, died
Thursday.
The local of toe Columbus Enquirer is “as
sured by a gentleman who has every facility for
knowing, that there is no longer tho slightest
donbt of the removal of tha wood and iron
shops of this company from Macon to this
point. In fact, movements in that direction
are now actively going on, and toe present year
at toe Southwestern depot will be an active
one.”
Well, seeing is believing. We will wait and
see whether it turns out bo.
The ladies of ColnmBuK will decorate toe
graves of the Confederate dead on the 26!h in
stant. The address will bo delivered by T. W,
Grimes, Esq.
The Son has toe following items:
Amount of Guano Sold.—We saw yesterday
every one that we thought dealt in guano, and
asked an approximation of actual sales, thus
far. The total amounts to i3,530 tons. The
greater proportion has been sold at $80 and be
yond that amouat per ton. Taking the lowest
figure we find that toe country whoso radius
does not exceed 50 miles has already expended
for fertilizers $282,400. At 20o. per ponnd, it
will take 2,824 bales of cotton (500 lbs. to the
bale) to pay foe it.
The whole oi last year only 2,600 tons of fer
tilizers were s«ld.
Broke an Aim.—A man named Goo. Peddy,
while noon a ladder engaged in whitewashing a
portinn’of tot Eagle and Phoenix Manufactoiy
building, Tuesday afternoon, fell and broke his
right arm. Ee fell about twenty feet.
Winter an* Spring.—A runaway conple from
Alabama, the groom -70, the bride 18, were mar
ried by justice MoCahey Wednesday night'
Neither party had much of worldly goods.
We publisled, in this column yesterday, a
statement from the Chronicle and Sentinel of
the day before that the Directors of the Geor
gia Railroad, at a recent meeting, had resolved
to build the Athena and Rabnn Gap Railroad;
had accepted a contract for building the West
ern Railroad from Atlanta to Decatur; and had
also resolved to buy half toe stock in too At
lanta and West Point Railroad, in order to de
feat too designs of tho Central Railroad. The
same paper next day modifies its statements,
very materially, as follows:
In regard to too extension of toe road from
Athens to Rabun Gap no resolution was passed
declaring that toe proposed road between these
two points should be built: but a pledge was re
newed that this road will be constructed when
ever the Company shall feel satisfied that the
road from Knoxville to Rabun Gap (toe Blue
Ridge Railroad) will be completed.
With regard to building too Western Railroad
from Atlanta to Decatur in North Alabama, no
contract fordoing the work was accepted. But
our information was correct with regard to too
offers made. The proposal to build this impor
tant line of communication was read bntno def
inite action token upon it at that meeting, bnt a
committee was appointed, whose duty it will be
to investigate the subject and report.
No resolution was passed to buy half the
stock in the Atlanta and West Point railroad,
for the Georgia railroad already owns a con
trolling interest in that railroad, 'and has noth
ing to fear from toe Central railroad. Bat
there has been a proposition made to the Geor
gia Railroad Company to take enough of toe
stock of tho Montgomery and Opelika railroad
to enable it to neutralize toe interest which toe
Central railroad has acquired, and whioh it has
used to divert too trade of Alabama from its
legitimate channel, and take it to Savannah.
No final action was taken with regard to toe
pnrehose of tbis stock, bnt a committee was
appointed to attend the next meeting of the
stockholders of the Opelika road, and investi-
pate the condition of toe affairs of too Com-
gany.
The Talbotton Standard says cotton planting
is progressing finely in that county. Com
promises to bo a good stand. Up to date tho
wheat crop is splendid.
The Talbotton negroes are building a spacious
church, in which they have been liberally aided
by toe whites. The Standard hopes they will
not allow it to bo prostituted to political purpo
ses.
Bullock will arrive at Atlanta to-night, the
papers say.
Medical students are arriving in Atlanta, to
attend too May term of the college there.
The lumber trade of Atlanta is brisk. One
dealer has received twenty car loads and has
sixty moro to come.
THE IXCOJIE TAX.
Mark r wain's Interview with an Assessor,
and What Caine of It.
The first notice that was taken of me when I
“settled down,” recently, was by a gentleman
who said he was an assessor, and connected
with the United States Internal Revenue De
partment I said I had never heard of his
branch of business before, but I was very glad
to see him—all the same—would he sit down ?
He sat down. I did not know anything partic
ular to say, and yet I felt that people who have
arrived at the dignity of keeping boose mnst be
conversational, mnst be easy and sociable in
company. So in default of anything else to say
I asked him if be was opening bis shop in onr
neighborhood.
He said he was. [I did not wish to appear
ignorant bnt had hoped he wonld mention what
ho had for sale.] <
I ventured to ask him “How was trade ?” and
he said, “So-so.”
I then said we wonld drop in, and if we liked
his house as well as any other, we wonld give
him onr custom.
He said he thought we wonld like his estab
lishment well enough to confine ourselves to it
Said he never saw anybody who wonld go off
and hunt up another man in his line, after
trading with him once.
That sonnded very complacent, bnt barring
that natural expression of villainy which we all
have, the man looked honest enough.
I do not know how it eame about oxactly, bnt
gradually we appeared to melt down and run
together, conversationally speaking, and then
everything went along as comfortably as clock
work.
Vie talked, and talked, and talked—at least I
did. And we laughed, and laughed, and laugh
ed—at least he did. But all the time I had my
presence of mind about me—I had my native
shrewdness turned on “full head,” as the engi
neers say. I was determined to find ont all
about his business, in spite of his obscure an
swers ; and I was determined I would have it
out of him without his suspecting what I was at.
I meant to trap him with a deep, deep ruse. I
would tell him all about my own business, and
he wonld naturally so warm to me during this
seductive burst of confidence that he would tell
me all about his affairs before he suspected
what I was about. I thought to myself, my
son, you little know what an old fox yon are
dealing with. I said:
“Now you never wonld guess what I made
lecturing this winter and last spring?”
‘‘No—don’t believe I conld to save me. Let
me see—let me see—about $2,000 may be? Bnt
no—no, sir, I know you could not have made
that much. Say $1,700may be?”
“Ha-ha! I knew yon couldn’t. My lecturing
receipts for last spring and this winter were
fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dot
lars—what do yon think of that ?”
“Why it is amazing—perfectly amazing,
will make a note of it. And you say even this
wasn’t all?”
“All! Why.bloss you, there was my income
from the Buffalo Express for four months—
about—about—well, what should you say to
abont eight thousand dollars for instance ?”
“Say! Why Ishonld like to see myself rolling
in just snch another ocean of afilnence. Eight
thousand! I’ll make a note of it Why, man *
And on top of all this, I am to understand that
yon had still more income ?”
“Ha-ha-ha 1 Why, you’re only in toe suburbs
of it, so to speak. There’s my book, ‘The In-
nocents Abroad,’ price $3.50 to $5, according
to the binding. Listen to me. Look me in toe
eye. Daring the last four months and a half,
saying nothing of the sale before that but just
simply daring the four months and a half end
ing March 15th, 1870, we’ve sold ninety-five
thousand copies of that book! Ninety-five
thousand! Think of it. Average four dollars
a copy, say. It nearly four hundred thousand
dollars, my son. I get half.”
“The suffering Moses! I'll set that down.
Fonrteen-seven-fifty—eight—two hundred To
tal, say—well, upon my word, toe grand total is
abont two hundred and thirteen or fourteen
thousand dollars. Js that possible ?”.
‘Possible! If there’s any mistake it’s the
other way. Two hundred and fourteen thouS'
and, cash, is my income for this year if I know
how to cipher.”
Then the gentleman got up to go. It came
over me most uncomfortably that may be that I
had made my revelations for nothing, besides
being flattered into stretching them consider
ably by the stranger’s astonished exclamations.
Bnt no; at last the gentleman banded mo £
large envelope and said it contained his adver
tisement ; and that I wonld find ont all abont
his business in it.
As soon as he was gone, I opened his adver
tisement. I studied it attentively for fonr min
utes. I then called up the cook and said:
“Hold me while I faint. Let Maria tom toe
batter cakes.”
Bye and bye, when I came to, I sent down
to the rum mill on the comer and hired an artist
by the week to set np nights and curse that
stranger, and give me a lift occasionally in the
day time when I came to a hard place.
Ah, what a miscreant he was! His “adver
tisement” was nothing in the world but a wicked
tax return.
It was plain that that stranger had enabled
me to make an ass of myself. It was very,
very plain, and I went out and hired another
artist. By working on my vanity the stranger
had seduced me into declaring an income of
SI 14,000. By law, $1,000 of this was exempt
from income tax, the only relief I could see, and
it was only a drop in toe ocean. At the legal
five per cent, I must pay over to the govern
ment the appalling sum of $10,650 income tax.
[I may remark in this place, that I did not
do it.]
A New Rebellion—Riotous Conduct
of a Early of Raiders from New
York.
On Saturday night a largo nnmber of laborers
for the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad,
from New York, passed through the city, and
wore taken down the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad, where they had been engaged to work.
The greater part of them were good men, bnt
there were some thirty or forty of them of the
regular Billy Wilson Zonave style, who only
camo down to go through tho conntry, and had
not the least idea of doing any work. These
proposed to stop in Chattanooga, bnt the offi
cers of the road were too sharp for that, and
took them through here at night. When they
found themselves, on Sunday morning, at toe
terminus of tho road, these roughs took pos
session of one of toe cars, and demanded that
they should be taken back, and they were only
gotten rid of by detaching the car they were in
from the train. After this they amused them
selves by catting toe mess-tents np with their
knives, and by threatening to go through the
store of Col. Richards, the Commissary of the
road.
Yesterday morning they still kept possession
of the ears, and compelled toe conductor to take
them along, stoutly refusing to pay their fare or
remain and go to work. A telegram was at once
sent to Mayor Rathbnm, announcing the faots,
and the Marshal, with all the available police
force, were sent to too depot to await the arri
val of tho train. For rear the police wonld be
insufficient, the Mayor called on Colonel Ilges,
Commander of the Post, for a company of sol
diers.
Tho troops were placed on each side of toe
track to prevent any escapes; and, when tho
train arrived, at 4:S0 r. ir., the police arrested
twenty-two of the roughs and took them to the
jail. Afterwards, eight more were taken, and
wo believe some four or five are still at large, as
fifteen or twenty are reported to have jumped
off the train near the Vulcan Works.
We think it was well that the soldiers were on
hand, for we understand that some of these men
made their boasts that they intended to get
money enough ont of Chattanooga to take them
home, and they wonld havo been likely to clean
ont the police without toe presence of the troops.
We understand that this same gang sacked a
jewelry store at Cleveland, Tenn., Saturday night.
The owner of the store has been telegraphed
for and will be here to-morrow.
The conduct of this crowd has been on a par
with this ever since they left New York. The
Knoxville Press and Herald, of Sunday, says:
Four hundred laborers en route for toe Ala
bama and ChattanoogaKailroad, passed through
here yesterday on a special train, which fol
lowed the passenger going down. We were in
formed by passengers on the regular passenger
train, who were from the East, and had often
come in contact with them while on toe road
from New York to Knoxville, that they made a
regular practice of robbing stores and business
houses at every station on the route. The apple
peddlers at toe depots had their entire stock
confiscated by them.—Chattanooga Times, 12th.
FROM WASH1XGTOX.
The Promised Amnesty—The Tennessee
Disorders—A Slew Deal for Georgia—Dis
cussion of the Georgia Bill, etc.
Washington, April 13, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and MessengerThe
promised proclamation of amnesty has not yet
made its appearance. Nor yet a message to
Congress recommending a general amnesty bill.
One, or both had been promised by the Presi
dent, contingent npon the ratification of the
Fifteenth Amendment. There has, however,
been brought to bear on him such a pressure
that he not only refrains from any action in
the matter, but denies using words in rela
tion to it which certain Congressmen readily re-
calk It is urged by snch sheets as Forney’s
Chronicle that a general amnesty would be ruin
ous to the interest of toe loyal men in the Sonth,
i. e. the carpet-baggers—and perhaps it wonld,
thongh in a different sense from that implied
by these partizan sheets. The fact is, tho Radi
cals fear—and with good cause—that if recon
struction wa3 over, and a general amnesty pro
claimed, their chances of success at the coming
Presidential election wonld be exceedingly
small.
Tho Now York Tribune, alone of too leading
Radical journals, demands that an end be pnt
to reconstruction and a general amnesty grant
ed. It counsels are unheeded, however.
Georgia will be kept out in tho cold as long
possible, and if n State election does take place
before 1872, it will be held under the recon
struction laws, and with twenty thousand white
voters disfranchised.
It is not believed the Radicals will be able to '
make out a case against Tennessee. They have !
been unable tons far to secure such evidence as !
Transactions of the
clariliS-irwenty.n r, tAnrf^u^l 4^ |
SECOND DAY—MORNING SESSION. '
Tho Association met pursuant to ad
10:30 a.m. J0Uril am> ( .
The President, Dr. Nottingham, called th
ing to order. The minutes of yesterday Zl
read and confirmed. ^
Dr. Thomas, of Savannah, moved a
of the rales which was carried, and he
the following: :
Resolved, That we tender to Dr .T *r „
President of the Academy for the Blffia y re *»
and the Superintendent and officer’
same, our most cordial thanks for the 1 ^
taming exhibition of the attainments of the*a!&
0 0 eai( l institution, 6c «o!|^
Tliat the institution is SeserrinuMa
moat hearty support of our State ™8ot^
Resolved, That we recommend that the .
sional men throughout the State will take
terest m hunting up all the blind children
SfdcaS th ‘ S metUut: ° D for «*““**• fi®
Dr. Co anally moved a suspension of them’
offer the following names for permanent
ship. Seconded and carried. ***
Doctors J. W. Christopher, J. E. IfcMiUen \-
Jennings, J. A. Hiller, T. Jones. W. T. jwT 1
of Dougherty county; Dn E. 8. Carew, Baker w ^
ty; and Dr. V. G. Hitt, of Lee county, All of ^
were elected.
Dr. J. McDowell offered the following f ota
| berahip:
Dr. C. 8. Shorter, Barnesville; Dr. J.
Culloden—elected.
•E-Cbd
- .. . . ,, , Dr. Love moved that tho order of un*
will warrant them in proceeding to farther re-j. 3
construct that State. j suspended for tho purpose of reporting ths
Mr. Beck, of Kentucky, left yesterday with j ° r the Nammatmg Committee. Seconded
the House Reconstruction Committee, of which
he is a member, a paper signed by the Judge
and Grand Jury of Rutherford county, which 1
states that the representations abont disorders i
in Tennessee are grossly exaggerated; that, on ,
the contrary, good order prevails generally In '
most parts of the State; and that, in their !
judgment, there is no earthly occasion for inter- ;
ference by the Federal authorities with the local ,
government. But if the Radicals are headed off
with regard to their designs on Tennessee, they
will certainly turn their attention to some other
State or States, Kentucky to come first “The
Radical party must and shall be preserved,” is
a new reading of the words of a dead statesman
It is evident there is to be a new deal in the
Georgia game. Bollock had stocked the cards
for the purpose of defeating tho Bingham
amendment; and now, after several weeks de
bate and delay, that amendment is virtually
thrown aside, and toe game re-commences.
This is hard on Bollock. He was not at the
tied. To-wit: ” *^8*1
Dr. H. T. Campbell, Richmond county.
“ W. <3. Musgrove, Burke “
“ J. G. Thomas, Chatham “
“ J. R. Boon, Bibb ««
“ E. J. Roach, Fulton ««
“ W. L. Davio, Dougimny “
•* J. R. Jones, Terrell «
“ W. A. Green, Sumpter “
“. J. P. Touchstone, Raker '*
“ M. W. Harris, Houston “
“ W. M. O'Daniel, Twiggs “
“ J. B. Ramsey, Randolph “
“ H. H. Smith, Screven “
“ E. H. W. Hunter, Jefferson “
“ T. H. Powell, Baldwin “
“ W. P. Bond, DeKalb “
“ EL SI. McDowell, Pike “
The report being received, Dr. Thomaa’resold I
Ahis is hard on unuoex. ne was not ai me 0 f yesterday was called np in reference to die—* I
Senate yesterday, thongh hourly expected from f tbe rt of th0 Committee on
New York, (where he has been to negotiate for ° f
funds, it is understood); and he will find it diffi- of tho Constitution and By-Laws,
cult to arrange matters to suit bis purposes un- Tho Secretary, Dr. Myers, then read the re;<r. I
der the new aspect of affairs. The amendment Much disftasion ensued, when Dr. Holt, of Macx.|
offered by Mr. Pomeroy, providing that an offered the following:
eleotion for a new Legislature shall be held in Resolved, That each section of the ConstitffiaI
September next, and that the State government bo read by the Secretary, and if no objection'll
shall be provisional until Georgia is admitted, urged that it bo considered adopted. Carriei |
is understood to be a compromise measure, and The reading of the report was resumed until I
will be substituted for the Bingham amend- hour of 12 at, when Dr. Musgrove’a resolution* f
ment. This amendment vitiates all the elec- called np and acted on, to-wit: The hours of li I
tions to the United States Senate, and will no- to x p M shall be devoted to th6 ai acilag i on cf t
cesaitate new elections. It is supposed that ical andcoUatteral 8ubje c ta .
Bollock will then tom up as an aspirant for _ „ J , . .. -
Senatorial honors if he and his friend Gen. Whereupon Dr. Magruder, of Macon, reportedij
Terry can arrange the election satisfactorily to case*of extra uterine pregnancy,
themselves; and with the case of Ames before Dr. Charters moved that said report bepcb&Mj
him Gen. Terry may also be a candidate for the in the transactions. Carried.
United States Senate. Georgia will have no X)r. H. F. Campbell, of Augusta, reports! Bi I
Congressional representation this session, how- Smith’s (of Atlanta) case of extra uterine premia* |
ever Thatseems nowto be asetUed fact. Be- of cin0 year8 8tanding . A^ 0S J nmrtoueiaomJ
yond this all is speculation at present. . 1
There were but two speeches on the Georgia P roved result. (Verbal report.)
bill in the Senate yesterday, and only one of Dr. Charters, of Savannah, made a verbal reps j
these referred to events of the present day, or of a similar case.
recognized the existence of the Constitution. On motion, the Association adjourned till 13 j
That was the speech of Mr. Tipton. Mr. Howe P . M .
followed, and wandered off into the dark ages, afternoon session
one ha. ,et fcovotad what alilo o( the <jacs. r. and «CUM to order bvYraE»|
tion or what question he was discussing. The
Georgia bill was before the Senate, bnt the
speaker did not refer to that State. I shall
have to consider Mr. Howe’s speech a connn- By-Laws, which with its discussion cm11
dram, and give it np. , moBt of the afternoon; when on motion if ft
To^ay the Senate chamber has been well Crawford fto fol]owil) reEolution was
mgh a goodspeech EeBOlved> That the e adoptia|1 of tho j
from the Democratic standpoint. He was fol- t0 ccm a titution, as a whole, be nostponeJofl
lowed by Mr. Williams, whodelivered a prosy the next annual meeting, and that it ba first inoan I
address in support of his amendment postpon- 0 f business. I
ing the election of a new Legislature in Geor- Dr> charters offered tho following, which w I
gia until 1872. Mr. Ferry spoke briefly, bnt ado p ted:
dent Love.
Tho Chair called np the reading of tbe report! I
tbe Committea on tbe revision of the Cer.h::::^ |
warmly and strongly, against the proposed per- .'
Resolved, That tbe By-Laws may be altered s I
amended at any meeting by a two-third vote.
Tho Ctommittee on nominations reported as El
lows: I
Dr. H. F. Campbell, President. / |
Dr. J. G. Thomas, First Vice-President. /
Dr. G. G. Crawford, Second Vice-President,
Dr. J. E. Blackshear, Treasurer.
Dr. R. P. Myers, Permanent Secretary.
Dr. W. O. Musgrove, Corresponding Secretly.
Dr. W- F. Holt, Orator, Dr. Cooper, alternate.
The above named gentlemen were tmanimottl;!
petuation of the present Legislature. Either
military rule or Pomeroy’s amendment he con- .
sidered preferable to this. Mr. Abbott next
took the floor, and his rising was the signs) for
a general exodus from the galleries. He nlade i
an ultra Radical speech, endorsing all the ultra
Radical amendments for the perpetuation of the
Legislature, etc., including the “monstrous”
amendment offered by Mr. Drake for quarter
ing troops on the Southern people. Mr. Abbott»
said the lenient policy toward the South since '
tho surrender of Lee had been a great mistake.
Indeed! Mr. Abbott’s little game is this: His
term expires next spring, and he wants Federal elected.
bayonets sent to North Carolina to secure his The following gentlemen were appointed deie|
re-election. Before he had concluded, a mo- g a t ea t 0 the American Medical Association
tion was made to go into executive session, Dr w A . Qreen Sumpter county .
which was agreed to. 1 ’ e J
The darkies here have been celebrating the i
15th amendment proclamation to-day with pro
cessions, bands of mnsic, etc., and to-night
there will be Bpeechtnaking. j
The Honse to-day decided that feheldon. Rad- ■
ical, was entitled to the seat to which Hunt, j
Democrat, was elected by ton thousand majority.
Bullock has not been at the Senate to-day. !
Blodgett exposed himself awhile to the gaze of i
the occupants of the ladies gallery, and then |
adjourned to “Whitney’s” for a julep.
The tariff bill was np in toe Honse again to- |
day. Dalton.
“ S. G. White, B&ldwjn
“ H. H. Smith, Screven “
“ T. S. Powell, Fulton “
*1 R. D. Amord. Chatham “
“ Joriah Harries, “ “.
“ W. 3. Doughty, Richmond *'
f • j. a. jjnns, Screven »*
• “ E. J. Roach, lulton “
“ Ed. E. Newton, Clarke f l
“ G. E. Snssdorf, Bibb “
“ E. P. Ingraham, Albany, Ga.
Dr. Love offered the following, which ’
adopted:
Whereas, There are many within this State. 4
gaged in imposing upon the ignorant and unnj
A Rival to Greeley—Mark Twain as
Agricultural Editor. I.
The readers of the Galaxy Magazine are going ! by cl aiming to be of our profession, who are ■
to tan. . good time le.tmog eeieolfflo tommg |
from MarkTwain. We don’t at all donbt his , of the regular school, and practice under an/n
triumphant success over Greeley. He knows 1 License, or some such show of autl
punm, buncos, uver vjrcaiuy. jao miuws thereby fleecing the public, and casting KJ
probably as mucb about tn© subject as that ©mi- j upon, tlie profession, and
nent raralist, which is just nothing at all, but
that’s a small matter. We shall hasten to sit at
his feet and drink deep draughts of knowledge.
His letter to the “Galaxy” editor, with his first
article for the May nnmber, is very promising.
Here it ia:
Buffalo, April 5.
Mr. P. F. Church, Editor of the Galaxy:
Deab Sir : My own paper, the Buffalo Ex
press, does not occupy my entire time, and
therefore I accept your offer, and from the
present time forward will edit and conduct a
Department of Agriculture” in toe Galaxy
Magazine. I thank you for leaving me the se
lection of a department; and in choosing that of
Agriculture I feel that my judgment has an
swered yonr highest expectations.
I have not made this choice at haphazard.
After carefnl survey of the ground, I saw that
the snbjeot of Agriculture had been wholly over
looked by the magazines of the day as a sensa
tional topio, and that all that was necessary for
ns to do was to enter in and seize this rich op
portunity. Fortune is secure to us. * Nothing
can prevent snch a consummation. In this vir
gin soil I will insert a reaping hook that shall
blossom as the rose; upon this sailless desert I
will launch a triumphal barge; in this deep
mine of afilnence will I plant a sturdy tree of
prosperity whose fragrance will slake the hun
ger of the naked, and whose sheltering branches
shall stretch abroad until they wash the shores
of the remotest lands of earth.
(I never can touch the subject of Agriculture
without getting excited. Bat yon understand
what I mean.) Under the head of “ Memoran
da” I shall take hold of this neglected topio,
and by means of a series of farming and graz
ing articles of blood-curdling interest will pro
ceed to lift the subject of Agriculture into the
first rank of literary respectability. Herewith
please find my manuscript for yonr May num
ber. Mask Twain.
P. S.—I have no practical knowlege of Agri
culture, bnt that need not interfere. Yon may
have noticed that the less I know abont a sub
ject toe more confidence I have, and the more
new light I throw on it.
A Noveltv.—Mr. Felix Gorput, the Florida orange
and fish man, and to whom this office is indebted
for many favors, presented the writer yesterday
with a whistle made out of a largo aligator’s tooth.
It is rather whiter than ivory, very handsomely
carved, and bears a good polish. If Franklin had
obtained his whistle on the same terms we got this
one, the world would never have heard the familiar
old sw of “ one’s paying too dearly for his whis
tle." Should the police hear this whistle at a late
Getting Impatient.—Ah effort was made in
tho Senate yesterday to enforce a continuous
session until the Georgia bill should be disposed
of. The Senate is evidently wearying of the
reconstruction business. The motion was de
cided to bo out of order, and we conclude there- bonro f y, e night, anywhere on Second street, we hTVhe carriage reposit'oryof Mr DeLoiciiSi”°^
fore that this edition of onr paper will not an- hop9 they wiU ^ to it quickly and get us cut of | “5 SSo S™! tho
nonnee final aotion on the Georgia bilk trouble. j do for Hall to talk about ba luck Uere» ner -
Whereas, It is in the opinion of this Asi
an act of simple justice to the regular profet
that they should be allowed to say, and to sat *
thoritativelg, who are its regular members, an!*
are mere interlopers, claiming to be of ourl>‘ K
hold, but are not of our faith, therefore ^
Be it resolved. That a Committee of three
pointed by the President to memorialize the
eral Assembly of tlie State of Georgia to eui-'tS-l
laws amendatory of the present existing st»Sf|
and laws, as will enable the Medical Boardo-'l
aminers for the “Alopathic School" of Medicitf
tins State, to draw with authority the line I
markation between the regular graduates >J1
licensed practitioners of our school, and thiy
posters who impose upon the masses under’ 1 *
pretences.
Whereupon the President appointed W. A 1**1
S G Crawford and J. E. Blackshear a cconaitW -
memorialize the General Assembly of the State.
Dr. Harries, of Savannah, moved a auspeh® 0 * |
the rules for the purpose of reading communis.-1
from tho Trustees and Faculty of tho Atlanta^|
cal College. Carried. u .1
The Secretary then read several letters r«^l
from the said College. _ f
On motion, the Association adjourned till i* 1 1
At the hour last named, the Association tS# I
bled and was called to order by the President ' j
ter which, Dr. Juriah Harries, of Savannik ^1
had been selected for the purpose, proceeded »'|
liver the annual address.
At the conclusion of the address, the Aseoc*5 , |
adjourned till 10:30 A. 21. to-morrow.
The Cotton Crop.—Estimates as to,;,
extent of the cotton crop last year vary wjf
way from 2,500,000 to 3,500,000 bales.
Daily Bulletin presents numerous statifp*']
prove that the crop amounted to fully 1
000,000 bales, 2,406,000 bales having
come forward, lleliable Southern aj- J
represent that the supply still remaining ® J
Central Cotton States is about the
year ago, while large quantities are p ■
the country back of New Orleans. It
therefore, to assume that the receipts
now until the first of September win not
short of those for tho same period 01 j L
(viz: 595,000,) so that the whale crop 01 I
year may be computed at 3,000,000 baJes-
Mr. S-* 1
Lucky.,—On Wednesday night last
Hall lost on Second street, near bis
package containing between $200 and $300 U
backs. Fortunately for him an honest uw 0 )
it early yesterday morning and made it tD ^
the streets, and by 10 o’clock the loser ^
I dollar restored to him. Mr. Lewis