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The Greox-eia, ^Weeklv Telea;i*a.T>li and. Journal && ]Vtessen^ex\
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, APRIL 25, -870.
Mobile WeeWy Register.
Wo omitted, Inadvertently, to call attention
yesterday to tie advertisement of this paper.
We do so now with great pleasure. It is one of
the best papers published. In fact, with the
exception of the Weekly Telegraph and Mes-
gEfass, we don’t know a better one anywhere.
Its editor, GoL John Forsyth, is known of all
men as holding among the highest honors in the-
profession, and playing them with a vim and
brilliancy that have made him famous. Its
columns fairly glow with the light of his lumi
nous intellect, and epigramatio pith and point.
Wo oordially recommend the Register to all who
are desirous of taking a paper in that section.
Blodgett’s Railroad.
We have received the annual report of the
officers of Blodgett’s Railroad, for the fiscal
year ending September 20,1869. Though it has
been more than six months since the close of
the fiscal year, the pamphlet appears to have
been quite recently published, as its imprint
bears the date of 1870. As it does not show the
business and expenses of the road since Sep
tember last, it is deficient in information that
the public would most like to have.
Wo hope now that Blodgett has leisure, he
will deign to furnish it, and also tell us how
many smash ups there have been ou the road
since he turned it over to Harris, and how
much they have cost the tax payers of Geergic
If Blodgett don’t know—which we think very
likely—let him set bis subs to work and find
out
“Jes So.”
Forney has the stomach-ache pretty badly,
we judge, since the Pomeroy amendment pass
ed the Senate. He said a few days ago, as an
Argument for tha immediate passage of the
Butler bill, that—
If wo refuse to do this, and remand Georgia
back to the military government, we distrust
our well tried friends and encoerage our most
inveterate enemies. We reopen a new agitation
idure quiet should be encouraged. The validity
of the ralificatiod of (he amendments wiU be dis
puted, and a new political issue will be raised :
bnt admit Georgia with her present Legislature,
recognized for its constitutional term of two
years from the date-of such admission, and the
great work will be completed by the Union men
and for the Union.
This is just what the Pomeroy amendment
does, so “our well tried friends” ore distrusted
—which is not a new thing, by any means,
where they are best known. Some of them
have been distrusted to that extent that the
State keeps constant watch over them.
Valuable Medical Work.
Mr Joseph Potts is in Macon as the agent of
■an important medical work, entitled Plain Home
Talk about the human system—the habits of
men and women—the causes and prevention of
disease—our sexual relations and social natures;
-embracing Medical Common Sense, etc., by
Edward B. Foote, M. D.,-of New York—embel
lished with 200 illustrations. Mr. Potts is stop
ping at the Lanier House, and desires to om-
;ploy agents for the sale of the work. The New
York Democrat says of it:
It has been written in a spirit of earnest de
sire to accomplish good, and we feel confident
•this desire will be realized. We know Dr. Foote
personally, and know him to be a gentleman of
recognized position in society, one who is re
spected for his tilents and the success of his
practice by those of his profession, a good citi
zen, and entitled to the confidence of all, as he
already has the confidence of those who know
Let this book be taken and read by old and
young, no matter in what -condition of life; let
it be read with a decent appreciation of the spirit
in which it was written, and let its teachings be
respected by practice, and a generation or two
hence will present to the world such men and
women as we have hardly known in this nine
teenth century.
As a guaranty that this work is destined to
have an immense sale, perhaps unprecedented
in the history of books, a former work by the
same author reached the enormous sale of 250,-
•000 copies. We do not hesitate to give the work
our unqualified indorsement, and recommend it
to all onr patrons.
A .Great and Growing State,
The Charleston News, summing up the rea
sons which imperatively call for a combination
of all the good people in South Carolina in an
•effort to deliver her from carpet-baggers, enu
merates them as follows:
1. The appropriation for the expenses of the
State Government was $420,000 in 1866, and
$720,000 in 1870, exclusive of the interest on
the pnblio debt. Besides this, there is the coun-
•ty tax, amounting to more than $500,000, and
the capitation tax amounting to $200,000.
2. The salaries of the State officials were
$50,800 in 18G7, and are $107,800 in 1870.
3. The estimate of the Comptroller-General
for the expenses of the year 18G9, under speci
fied heads, was $777,390, but the amount actu
ally spent was $l,29G,752, and this does not
include the $200,000 spent by the Land Com
mission.
4. To make a long story short, the debt of the
State, direct and indirect, which was six mil
lion dollars in 18G8, is now fourteen million
-DOLLARS.
That shows great progress in the wrong direc-
-tion, bnt we reckon Georgia will distance the
“Ole Ga’line” in the down hill race.
The annual financial budget, of England, has
Jnst been published. The excess of receipts
•over expenditures is $40,000,000. Free trade
-is almost universal in that country, there being
no tariff except on abont half a dozen articles.
The income tax ic less than 2 per cent., and
^yields $50,000,000. Any body who wishes to
nee how onr miserable, oppressive, plundering
financial system compares with this, can con-
holt the figures at their leisure. We’ll warrant
them a huge disgust. Such is one of the beau
ties of Radicalism.
The Boston Post, to a gratulatoiy review of
the trade in New England rum, says that the
.greater part of the export is sent to the African
coast, and points with pride to the cargo of a
recent bark, which consisted of tobacco, rum,
and four missionaries, one being a woman. For
1869, the five principal artielesof export from
Boston were: Flour, $1,361,000; manufactures
of ootton, $830,000; manufactures of iron,
$G88,000; mm, $G31,000; refined petroleum,
$629,000. With two exceptions, all the mm
made in the United States is distilled in Massa
chusetts, and the distilleries are situated in Bos
ton and the immediate vicinity.
Walking Magazines.—According to the tes
timony of the New York editors on the McFar
land case, they all carry pistols and other dead
ly weapons, anu cany them secretly, too. Now
as, so far as we know, the editors in these un
reconstructed States do not cany pistols or
other deadly weapons. Is that the way the
New York editors propose to illustrate the su
premacy of law—great moral ideas and so on?
A Strike.—The shipbuilders, caulkers, etc.,
in and around New York struck on Monday last
upon a proposition to reduce wages from $4.00
to $3.50 per day. As the New York ship yards
are now competing with other yards in the
conn try paying the reduced rates, it is said to
bo a question whether the work shall be done
there or elsewhere.
Without a Hotel.—The Floridian announces
that the City Hotel has closed np, and Tallahas
see cannot boast a single pnblio house. We
trust that finfe place is not going to seed.
The National Publishing Company send us
adranoe sheets of “Life in Utah; or, the Mys
teries and Crimea of Mormonism,” by J. H.
Beadle, editor of the Salt Lake Reporter.
TJie Georgia. BtA
Pomeroy’s amendment, amended and subeti-
ted as the new Georgia bill, was telegraphed in
full text by the last dispatches Wednesday night,
and has doubtleBS been diligently Btndied by
the curious readers. In the House it was re
ferred to the Reconstruction Committee with
several amendments, in the shape of substitutes,
and we learn to-day that Mr. B. F. Butler; Chair
man of that Committee, proposes they shall all
lie over, in committee, ten days while he goes
East, to Massachusetts, to attend to some mat
ters of his own.
This will enable the Atlanta Legislature and
Bollock and Co. to cool off, and Georgia will
pay $2,200 per diem, each day, during Batter's
absence, to the waiting Legislators in Atlanta.
That is a cheap rate of exemption from their
legislative labors. The State will cheerfully
agree to pay that per diem until frost, and let
them all confine themselves to marbles and
such-like harmless sports, provided they will
leave legislation alono.
The Senate bill has now to run tha gauntlet
of the Reconstruction Committee and the
House, and no doubt there will be strong ef
forts to pnt it again somewhat in the shape of
the original Butler bilL We will indulge in no
vain and useless speculations on the probable
result. If we hazarded any remark upon the
subject, it would be that wo think the tendency
in Congress towards extreme and violent meas
ures is abating a little. We think that the more
moderate are getting a little ashamed of this
rancorous spirit, while the bitterer sort can get
no more spiteful or bitter, do the worst they
can. Butler has already done his worst, and
although he may renew the youth of his malig
nancy by a trip to Massachusetts, yet what he
hopes to gain may be lost in other quarters.
The material amendment made by the Senate
to Pomeroy’s substitute establishes the suffrage
qualifications as laid down by the Georgia Con-
stitntion, and removes the disqualifications im
posed by the Reconstruction acts. Bnt until the
House acts there is no use in speculating upon
the situation. Let us wait.
Sensible.
The editors of Central New York, in conven
tion assembled, recently resolved that after the
1st of January next they will send no paper, and
do no advertising or job work without the cash
in advance. The doily papers of that section,
and indeed the whole North and West, have long
since adopted the cash system. The credit sys
tem has been effectually played out everywhere
in the newspaper business except at the South.
We see no reason why it should not die here too.
Southern newspapers require as much cash to
carry them on as those of any other section, and
their owners are no more exempted from the
payment of their debts than are their brethren
elsewhere. We see no reason at all why they
should not resolve to follow so good an exam
ple.
If every member of the profession would
pledge himself on honor to such a policy, and
stand up to it, it strikes us the thing would be
as good as done. There are some adventurers
and bummers belonging to the business who
might refuse to be bound by any such agree
ment, but their number is small,and they wonld
soon go to the wall under the pressure of a
united opposition. The truth of the matter is
that this class are chiefly responsible for the
wretched credit system with its invariable at
tendant and adjunct, under bidding. They have
no well defined ideas of the duties and responsi
bilities of journalism, and don’t care a straw
abont its dignity and improvement. They are
after a living somehow, anyhow, and if that
living seems easier by crediting where others
require cash, and doing work for a half or two-
thirds less than their neighbors, they take it that
way. They are of the hand to mouth order, and
seem more disposed to live after that fashion
than more reputably. They may make pledges
and join associations, bnt they never hold out
and have no idea of doing so when they make
them.
Now that the Georgia Press Association is
soon to meet at Savannah, will it not be well to
have this subject brought up, and thoroughly
considered? We'are sure the adoption of this
system i3 entirely feasible, and that it will re
sult in immense advantage to both the press and
its patrons. The press of the South is not np to
the m ark of that of the North and this miserable
credit system is more to blame for it than any
thing else. If patrons paid promptly, as they
do generally, there, publishers wonld always
have money in hand to push things in the way
of additional news and other features. They
would have more telegrams, more correspond-
dence, and more life and variety of every de
scription- They wonld give their readers a
great deal more than their money’s worth, and
lay deep and strong the foundation for a steady
prosperity thatwould advance, pari passu, with
the reputation of the press and its opportunities
for usefulness.
We hope all these things will be discussed,
and some definite conclusion reached at the Sa
vannah Convention.
A “Salutary” Scream.
A weekly concern, which th9 editor facetious
ly calls a newspaper, and which he has dubbed
the Eagle, has just made its first flep at Hou-
mas, Louisiana. The editor introduces himself
to his readers in the following unique manifes
to, which he styles a “Salutary.” It is very
evident that the proof-reader of the office is
dead. Perhaps this “Salutary” proved jnst the
reverse for him:
Once more at the Helm we feare no storms,
no thunder, no billows. The winds may roar
and surge and in wild mad career npheave the
political ocean until her discolored depths are
seen and her mountain hight with wild confu
sion the billows and the billows spray.
From cloud to cloud the rending lightning
may rage, until the heavens appear one board
sheet of fire and the torrents pour in unbroken
floods, a solid mass. The ocean may rsge and
the billows strive to reach the very heavens, yet
safely, proudly, fearlessly will we steer our
staunch storm-tossed barque until we have an
chored in the placid waters of the harbor of
Constitutional Liborty.
Unless a prompt effectual stop is put to the
lawless career of the robber hands that ye&Id
the septer of power, we may have stear through
an ocean of blood, a storm of sighs, a 'rain of
tears, yet will we safely breast them all and
eventually arrive at the goal for which all good
men and patriot prays and strive.
Death of Dr. McGeliee.
Perry, Gal, April 18, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger Dr. E.
T. McGehee, a highly esteemed and respected
citizen of this county, died at his residence on
the morning of the 16th inst. At his request,
he was interred with Masonic honors. The re
ligious exercises were conducted by the Rev.
Samuel Anthony. A multitude attended the
funeral, and a more impressive ceremony, reli
gions and Masonic, we have never witnessed.
The Doctor was, for a number of years, a Min
ister of the M. E. Church, South. Truly, our
oountry t has lost a most valuable citizen, the
Masonic fraternity one of its brightest orna
ments, and the Church a zealous, faithful and
able minister and servant. J.
Back Down.—The telegrams yesterday an
nounced substantially that the attempt to reverse
the decision of the Supreme Court upon the Le
gal Tender question had been abandoned. The
case upon which it has been proposed to obtain
the reversal was withdraws. We suppose this
is a very reluctant concession to the power of
pnblio opinion, bnt we are glad of it
The safe of the Treasurer of Vermillion In
diana was broken into Monday night and robbed
of $35,000 ooanty money.
The Georgia Press.
Two yonng men in Augusta named Zachary
Taylor Page, and Jeremiah MoGrath, have been
arrested and held in $500 boil, to answer a
charge of swindling in the weights of forage, by
forging the market clerk's certificates.
The stockholder’s convention of the Charlotte,
Colombia and Augusta railroad metis Augusta,
Wednesday.
Of the prospects of the Port Royal railroad,
the Chronicle & Sentinel says:
We understand that a rumor was being circu
lated on the streets yesterday, to the effect that
work on the Port Royal railroad was to be aban
doned. ThS is not the case. So far from there
being any truth in this very absurd report, a
shipment of iron for laying the track of the road
has already been received at Charleston. In
addition to this, an engine and ten cars, so the
officers of the road state, have recently arrived
in Savannah for the Port Royal Railroad.
Savannah is to have a new saw and planing
milL
Mr. Jim Luttrell, of Columbus, sold a three
year old trotter that made his mile in 2:36, in
Savannah, a few since, for $1,500.
Chose “Cussin” to No Pat.—One is told
amazing things every now and then. A negro
man was overheard asking another who he was
working for. “Mars .” “He cusses nig
gers, don't he ?” was the query, to which was
given an affirmative reply. “How does he
pay ?” was the next question, to which was an
swered, “Everything he ’gtees to.” “Den,”
replies No. 2, “I’m gwine to ’gage wid him, fur
I’druther hab a boss cuss and gib me wageB,
dan call me brudder John and nuver gib me
nuthin but vittais.” He “’gaged with the cus-
sin man, and makes a splendid laborer.—Co
lumbus Sun, 20th.
The Sun says a very strong chalybeate spring,
with a sufficient volume of water to turn a small
water-wheel, has been discovered in Girard,
about a mile from Columbus.
The Columbus Enquirer says:
Eufaula, Opelika and GunterstiUe Railroad.
From our fellow townsman, J. H. Mosheil, who
has recently been awarded the contract of
building the bridges, warehouses and wood
work generally along the line of this road, and
who is now here for the purpose of employing
hands, we glean the following rather interesting
intelligence of the situation of the road. In
the first place, Gov. Smith of Alabama, and the
President of the road, Mr. Pendleton, have, by
the aid of Northern capital, completed the nec
essary financiering to make the enterprise a
fixed fact. The Northern terminus has been
changed from Oxford to Guntersville, by which
the company has the advantage of 52 miles of
road bed graded before the war, which leaves
only eight miles of ungraded track on the up
per section of sixty miles, extending from_Gun
tersville to Jacksonville. The great railroad
contractor, Stanton, has received the contract
for putting this portion of the route in running
order, which will certainly be done by the first
of December. Two thousand Chinamen have
been sent for, and are expected to be pnt to
work on the route by the first of July. CoL D.
W. and J. G. Vischer have contracted and giv
en bond for the grading and superstructure on
the first 20 miles on the southern extremity of
the route, commencing at Opelika and extend
ing to Lafayette, which must likewise be pnt in
running order by the 1st of December next,
and should the expected Chinamen arrive, the
entire Southern section from Opelika to Jack
sonville, is expected to be ready for use by
that time. TheMessis. Vischer have already
100 hands at work, together with 100 mules and
carts, 200 wheelbarrows, and 200 picks and
shovels at command, and another hundred men
are expected the present week. Should the
necessary hands be forthcoming, there seems to
be no doubt but that tha entire road from Gun
tersville to Opelika will be completed by De
cember. It is said this line will bring Coinm-
bus 70 miles nearer Chattanooga than any pres
ent connection.
In the U. S. District Court at Savannah, Tues
day, final discharges in bankruptcy were granted
L. M. Lamar and Wm. W. Parker, of Macon,
and Henry L. Corbin, of Macon county. In
the U. S. Circuit Court, nine plain verdicts were
taken, three cases dismissed, one settled and
five continued. Hon. Solomon Cohen came into
•ourt with $4,715 29, the amount of the verdict
with interest and costs, which was rend^£d
against him yesterday morning, which amount
was ordered to be paid over to the United States
Marshak
The Radical Ordinary of Chatham county has
jnst decided that Bullock is not Governor of
Georgia. The case is thus stated by the News.
The TTarear Corpus.—The agreement in the
case ex rd. Simon Gerstman, for the discharge
of the party from the custody of the Sheriff,
and the Sheriff of the State of Kentucky, was
brought to a conclusion before the Ordinary of
Chatham county yesterday, and after an able
argument, the judge decided that the party was
illegally held, and ordered the discharge of the
party. He was immediately arrested by the
Sheriff by virtue of warrants issued, charging
him with like offences against the laws of Geor
gia, and is held in the legal custody of that offi
cer. The decision of the Ordinary was based
upon the ground that the prisoner was arrested
and was held by virtue of a warrant signed
“Rufus B. Bollock, Governor of Georgia."—
The Court held that Bullock was not the Gov
ernor of Georgia, the State government being
merely provisional, and that the Commanding
General alone could grant the warrant to arrest
and carry into another State a citizen of this
State. The decision of the Court was headed,
“District of Georgia, Chatham county.” As
Gerstman is now held for an offence against the
law of Georgia, he cannot be carried out of the
State until the case is disposed of.
We get the following from the Athens Watch
man, of Wednesday:
Peaches. — We announced some time ago
that it was thought most of the peach crop had
been killed. We afterwards stated that the de
struction was not so great as was at first sup
posed. Both these statements were strictly
true. It turns out now, however, that the peach
crop here will be almost on entire failure. They
were were killed Monday night, the 4th instant.
Very few have escaped.
Snow.—At an early hoar on Sunday morning
we had a smart sprinkle of snow, which was
repeated at intervals daring the day, with a
cold wind from the northwest. Snow in April
is something very rare in this latitude. At the
time we write (Tuesday morning) the weather
has very considerably moderated.
Public Baptism.—The Rev. Dr. Henderson
baptized thirty-odd persons at Emanuel chnrch,
on Easterday. The service for the day was un
usually interesting. Dr. H. was assisted by the
Rev. Mr. Knowles.
The Dahlonega Signal says the Yahoola mine
—considered the largest and most important
enterprise of that character in Georgia—is now
in active and successful operation. It has a
stamp mill running day and night, and crashes
near seventy-five tons of ore in twenty.four
hours. The profit is very handsome. Mr. N.
H. Hand, of Boston, is the manager, and has
furnished most of the capital, bnt the company
comprises several enterprising Georgians.
A writer is the Watchman is giving a very in
teresting description of Athens sixty-five years
ago. Of the college buildings at that time he
says.: •.
The old college was jnst completed, and oc
cupied by a few students. The President’s a
story and a half house, was on the ground now
occupied by Dr. Mell’s house. The grammar
school was near or on the grounds of Dr. Lips
comb or Prof. Rutherford, and a single framed
room, about 20 feet square, with a chimney at
one end, and a window without glass at the
other, and a door at each side, stood where the
Phi Kappa Hall now is. These constituted all
the buildings on the south side of Broad street
Lest I forget it, I will now say of this house,
last mentioned, that it was the lecture and reci
tation room for the classes before the college
building was finished—that from that room was
issued the first newspaper that was published
in Athens, impressed by types brought from
Philadelphia In a road wagon, sent from this
place for the purpose, and driven by Mr. John
Espy. I forget the name of the paper, bnt its
editor was Rev. J. Hodge. He was succeeded
by a McDonald, who changed the name, I
think, to the Georgia Gazette. Copies of the
paper issued from that honse may be found in
the college library. That room was the print
ing office for several yean.
Judge Rawls, of Pulaski county, is sick in sa
vannah, and is not expected to reoover.
The Hawkinsvilie Dispatch says a bloody
tragedy occurred at Thomasville on Monday:
A white fiend by the name of Jack Harvard,
coming home to dinner,and not Andingit ready,
requested his wife to set the table. Bhe being
busy washing, told bim there were plenty of
victuals in the safe, and to set it himself. After
eating dinner, he told his wife that she
would have set the table for any one else, and
that he had a great mind to whip her. She
dared btm to lay his hands on her. He then
drew a knife, when she ran to the depot, he
following her and cutting her as she ran. On
reaching the depot, finding that he could notfur-
therharm her, he then ent his own throat.
Mrs. H., although cut seriously in several
places, will probably reoover. Her brutal hus
band is 'expected to die. We learn that this
same fellow cut off a former wife’s nose, on a
previous occasion.
The Atlanta Era learns by letter from Frank
lin oounty, that the wheat crop of Northeast
Geoxgia was never better; more land sown than
common, and a better stand than usual. There
is a great deal more than a half crop of peaches,
and a fine prospect for a heavy apple crop,
whioh will be gratifying to “everybody and his
kin-folks.” The citizens seem to be in fine
spirits, pushing farming operations • ahead as
rapidly as possible, preparing, especially, for a
fall com crop.
From Atlanta.
Atlanta, April 20th, 1870,
Editors Telegraph and Messenger :
The passage of the Pomeroy amendment^ by
such a decided vote in the Senate last night,
though not altogether unexpected, it is plain to
see, causes no little stir and commotion among
the extremists here. In the absence of a sum
mary of the text of that amendment, beyond
the meagre details in the press dispatches, many
vague and conflicting rumors are rife this morn
ing as to its probable extent and-' operation,
gome think—and this, we may add, is Oaldwell
and Bryant’s theory—that it amounts to a de
cided and complete defeat of Bollock and his
plans. Others regard it as a compromise be
tween the Bingham and Wilson amendments,
containing none of the virtues of the former,
and stript of but few, if any, of the odious
features of the latter measure. Its extent and
meaning will probably be better known by the
time you receive this, but of one of its fea
tures, the dispatch this morning very clearly
assures us, viz: the admission of the State is
indefinitely postponed, and she is, in the mean
time, to be delivered over to military role, with
power to organize a negro militia, eto. What
effect it will have upon Bullock’s tenure of of
fice, and in what particular it curtails his pow
ers and vaoates his appointments, etc., are
questions on which none are agreed. I merely
note these as a sample of the conjectures and
speculations here current among those suppos
ed to be best informed, and of the glorious un
certainty that overhangs the whole Georgia
question in Atlanta, as well as at Washington;
in fact, it would be safe to affirm that they
know no more of the matter here than they do
there.
We are afraid, however, that those who think
Bollock and his self-existent Legislature cheap
ly gotten rid of, even at the expense of a mili
tary dynasty, have not sufficiently considered
the subject. In the first place, Terry’s well
known partiality to Bollock, and his expressed
sanction, heretofore, of Bullock’s plans, are
sufficient guarantees that his—Bullock’s—real
powers will not be sensibly diminished, while
the absence of everything like constitutional
restraints will enable him to wield that power
with for more effect. The militia feature, too,
of Pomeroy’s amendment, will be another po
tent weapon in the hands of so adroit a schem-
ist as Bullock. In short, whichever way we
turn, we are forced to the reluctant conclusion
that, unless the House greatly modifies the
Pomeroy amendment, Georgia, in the expres
sive language of the day, will have to “ go up.”
You will see from the dispatches that the
Agency again met and adjourned, to-day, until
Monday next. In the House, O’Neal, of
Lowndes, struck with a stroke of disinterested
virtue, which would be quite refreshing were
his motive unsuspected, moved to amend the
motion to adjourn by inserting “ until the 1st
of July, and that members, in the meantime,
draw no pay nor mileage.” Scott, of Floyd,
not to be outdone, by a Radical or any one
else, moved to amend by adjourning sine die,
and proceeded to discuss his amendment in a
long, desultory speech. As both motions were
merely made for buncombe, the House prompt
ly voted them down. Some of the members,
we observe, are beginning to think $9 per day
well earned in listening, day after day, to the
superabundant gas of these two gentlemen.
Yours, eto.
Hanging a Sian for Comfort.
The Austin (Texas) Journal relates the fol
lowing :
In 1837 or 1838, the county of had
Some Item* Abont Hneon.
We make the following extract from a recent
letter in the Milledgeville Union, with the
comment that we do not exactly understand
either the propriety or justice of the writer’s
sneer in the last paragraph. He doesn’t at all
understand us in the particular referred to. He
oertalnly meant some other place s :
Macon, April 14, 1870.
We are spending a day in this flourishing city,
and jot down herewith, an item or two for your
readers. The first thing that Btrikes the attention
is the unmistakeable progress visible in ttie city.
Buildings are
going up, and population is flock
ing hither. Its sudutm are rapidly expanding;
and the style of new buildings is substantial,
indicative of solid capital and enduring pros
perity. Everything reveals to the eye of the
beholder that the recent growth of Macon is not
of the mushroom character, but of the solid and
enduring order.
The improvements made in connection with
the transfer of the depot of the Oentral Rail
road from East Macon to the city proper are in
active progress. A new line of road from Wal
nut creek to the river, a' distance of abou; two
miles, is under construction. This is necessary
in order to elevate the road-bed at the city, so
that the cars may reach the new site for the de
pot on Mulberry street—the latter being con
siderably higher than the old depot in East Ms-
oon. Trains will pass on the top of the present
bridge over the Ocmnlgee river, instead of
through it, as now.
The business over the Brunswick road is rapid
lyon the increase. The passenger trains from
Brunswick since our sojourn here, have been
well filled with passengers; and we understand
the business of the road in freights is already
very large. Brunswick is attracting a large
share of attention of the Maconites, and they
are inclined to regard it as a little pet of theirs.
Bat their eyes are tnrned Eastwardly with as
ardent gaze as the worshippers of the snn bent
to welcome the “powerful king of day.” The
Maoon and Augusta Railroad touching the sub
urbs of your little oity, is hastening to comple
tion. In a few months, two passenger trains,
eaoh way, every twenty-four hours, will be run
ning directly between Macon and Augusta. This
activity of intercourse will awake many of the
dormant energies of pleasant old Milledgeville.
Not content with these achievements (which
may be regarded as accomplished) the energet-
io Maoonites are projecting a northern road,
through (or near) Clinton and Monticello, to
cross the Georgia railroad and extend as direct
ly as possible to a point of intersection with
the Blue Ridge railroad in Rabun county in this
State. This wonld secure for Macon almost an
air-line road through Knoxville, Tennessee,
through the magnificent coal regions in Eastern
Tennessee, through the famed blue grass region
of Kentucky, to Cincinnati. We trust this pro
ject may speedily be realized. That done, Ma
oon will castoff the last relics of the chrysalis
state, and spread out her wings as a great city.
Already she is finding out that there really is an
outside world; that there are a few scholars,
and philosophers, and editors, and statesmen,
and capitalists outside of her own limits, and
that there are certain great commercial centres
of business in various countries of the civilized
globe worthy of emulation. We shall rejoice at
each new step of her onward progress.
just been organized, and the first district court
was held in a small room that had been used
for a grocery. It was the Fall term, a severe.
Norther was blowing, and there was no fire
place or stove in the room. A desperado was
on trial for one out of many murders he had
committed, and the judge and jury were im
patient to end the case. The county was
sparsely settled, and consequently too poor to
make adequate arrangements for the comfort
of prisoners; so, when the jury brought in a
verdict of guilty, the judge in pronouncing
sentence upon the culprit, said: “Bob Jones,
you have had a fair trial; you have been
found guilty and the court adjudges that you
conveniences to lodge a prisoner with any de
gree of comfort—there being no suitable
building nor bedding, not even blankets, the
court do hereby, in consideration of his per
sonal comfort, order that the prisoner be taken
to the nearest tree and there hanged until he
be dead, and may the Lord have mercy on his
souL” The sheriff then borrowed a lariat
from a bystander, pnt it over the culprit’s
neck, and led him out to a tree a few feet from
the court-house, threw _ it over a limb, and
suspended the prisoner till life was extinct.
A Sensation Preacher.
Rev. Chas. B. Smyth, a sensation preacher of
New York, who first gained notoriety by his pe
culiar sermons on the “Black Crook,” held
forth in the Eleventh street Presbyterian
Chnrch last Snnday, and performed many
strange antics, not only in the pulpit, bnt else*
where. He disenssed the McFarland encounter,
demanding a law prescribing death as the pun
ishment for adnltery, and after finishing his ser
mon, called together six reporters who were
present and asked them out for refreshments.
He led them to a liquor and refreshment saloon
on the avenne near by. Beefsteaks and oysters
having been ordered, Smyth turned to the re
porters and asked them what they would drink-
Their orders having been given, he himself re
quested the barkeeper to bring him “some of the
same.” This turned out to be gin and milk, of
the former of whioh liquids his reverenoe took
five fingers, swallowing the dose with evident
relish. The viands having been disposed of, all
arose to leave, and Mr. Smyth, turning to the
barkeeper, carelessly requested him to “hang
that np.” The barkeeper, who seemed to know
him, said, “All right !” and the party passed
out and separated.
The Fate op Two Hats.—“D. P.” writes
from Washington to the Cincinnati Commer
cial as follows:
At a dinner party the other night. Senator
Nyo pnt his new silk tile carelessly upon the
sofa.' A few minutes after, the veteran phil
osopher, Greeley, sat doth and crushed the
hat fearfully.
“Damn it,” roared Nye, “I could have told
you it wouldn’t fit before you tried it on.”
Speaking of hats, I am reminded of an an
ecdote illustrative of the ancient Jerry Black’s
habits and absence of mind. Coming into
his room one night with the papers of an im
portant case, he sat down, put his hat upon
the floor, and began studying the case while
reading the papers. Getting excited, he got
np, stuffed some tobacco in his month, and
began walking over the floor, reading at in
tervals and expectorating all the time. After
nearly an hour’s exercise of this sort, he threw
down the brief and clapped his hat upon his
legal head. As he aid so, severe^ yellow
streams started down his venerable counte
nance. On investigation, he Was disgusted to
find that he had mistaken his hat for a spit
toon.
Miss Emma Willard, for many years promi
nent as a teacher and authoress, died at Troy,
New York, on the 15th, aged 83. She had great
fame in her day as a teacher, and probably
nnmbered more pupils among the present mat
rons of the land than any other woman that
ever taught in this country.
Improvements in Dentistry.
[From the N. O. Picayune.
The clinic operations of the Southern Dental
Association, now in session at the Mechanics’
Institute, in onr city, are exceedingly interest
ing, even to the general observer.
These operations taka place daring the morn
ing hour in the convention halL The operations
this morning consisted in one instance of the
filling over of an exposed nerve, an operation
abont the success of which there has not been
an entire unanimity of opinion in the profession
heretofore.
The operation in question was performed in
the most skillfnl manner by Dr. E. Y. Clarke,
of Savannah, Ga., who is an enthusiastic be
liever in the power of the dentist to save teeth
of this kind.
It Is contended that in these cases nature, if
assisted, will do the work of re-covering the
nerve, so as to admit of a perfect filling.
One of the profession looking on at the ope
ration this morning, gave it as his opinion that
a dentist guilty of extracting a tooth simply be
cause the nerve was exposed, ought to be sued
for damages.
Through the courtesy of Dr. Morrison, of
St. Louis, we were shown two newly introduced
dental instruments invented by Dr. E. R. E.
Carpenter, of Chicago, whioh are destined to
work, and are in trnth now working, a great
revolution in dentistry. The new instruments,
or rather the application of a motive power to
the old instruments, are a pneumatic burring
engine and plngger, by whioh cavities are
cleaned out and filled by the aid of a tiny air
apparatus which is worked by the foot upon a
pedal.
The old-fashioned dental burring instrument
was capable of making about eighteen or twenty
revolutions a minute, while the new one will
make some eighteen hundred.
The plugging machine moves also in a cor
responding manner, doing in five minntes what
used to require one honr’s time.
Dr. Bntler, of Louisville, has upon exhibition
an improved dentist’s chair, which is capable of
being moved in any way that the operator or
subject may desire. It is in marked contrast
with an old chair sitting near it, some twenty-
two years old, and used for a long time by Dr.
J. S. Clarke and onr townsman, Dr. Freidrichs,
the well known dentist.
through which a wagon road passed. Mr. Keel
enclosed it, and it is now one of the most pro
ductive spots in the State. And yet he has not
spent a dollar for guanos, phosphates, fertili
sers, and all that. He has put on it annually a
few loads of stable manure, and has ploughed
deep. We hope to see the time when Middle
Georgia will produce floor for home consump
tion, and export, besides; and when her own
mills, propelled by the magnificent waterpower
within her limits, will manufacture it.
And this last remark brings afresh upon us
the regret at the waste continually going on in
the unharnessed water-power of the Oeonee.
That the time will come when onr cotton trill be
manufactured at home, I do not doubt Bnt
when ? The Oconee river, in the space of two
miles immediately above our city, falls over
ledges of granite the perpendicular distance of
over fifty feet. No better site exists in the
whole world for the erection of mammoth man
ufactories sufficient to convert into fabrics
ready for use, all the cotton grown on the thou
sands of cotton fields of this and other coun
ties.
Our little city continues as healthy as usual—
that is, as healthy as any place in the world.
Business is not so brisk as if “the staple ” bore
a better price. Among the hopeful signs, how
ever, is tha establishment of a new mercantile
house among ns, the crockery and grocery
store of Messrs. H. W. Mustin & Oo. The Cap
itol and the Executive Mansion are, themselves,
in a good state of preservation; but the en
closure around the former has disappeared, and
the fine, fanoy-work done two or three years
ago npon the grounds of the Capitol Sqnare,
are in a ruinous condition. Oar two stanch old
newspapers, “The Federal Union ” and “The
Recorder,” are still in vigorous existence; and
the editors are preparing to participate in the
grand editorial pow-wow soon to come off at
Savannah. Vert Occasional.
An Anti-Catholic Lecturer Mobbed.
Madison, N. J., April 16.—Last night Miss
Edith O’Gorman, formerly a nun in a convent
at this place, now converted to Protestantism,
delivered a lecture on the reign of the priest
hood in the Methodist Church. There was no
disturbance in the church, but a vast crowd
gathered outside, yelling and shouting. At the
conclusion of the lecture she came out of the
church, conversing with Rev. Mr. Hawkins.
The crowd closed around her, but was kept
back by her body-guard of the students of the
seminary. 'When stepping into the carriage
a pistol was fired at her, the ball passing over
her head. The carriage drove rapidly away,
and was followed by a large crowd. Arriving
at the parsonage, the house was surrounded,
and stones were hurled by the students. The
constables repelled the mob, which did not
break up till midnight This morning a body
guard escorted Miss O'Gorman to the train, and
she left for Jersey City.
Life fa East Tenanste Undo. „ ,
Brown low Regime.
From the Richmond Dispatch.]
We have an “anecdote” which we (W
rn St0Ty ^ ld by Bob O., tffM
of good fellows, and now repeated witk 7*1
mauc excellence by F. E, We are notskit*'
as these men are, but will tell it the be» .
we can. The imaginative reader niao.^i
Letter from Milledgeville.
Milledotills, April 20,1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Planting
operations in Baldwin are backward, as they are
elsewhere this season. Much energy has been
displayed by onr planters, however, despite the
unfavorable weather. Cotton planting is now
in active progress. Moat of the com crop has
been planted. I have heard of none injured
by Ihe cold Easter snap justnowpassing away—
at least not worse injured than being tamed a
little yellow. This it will soon reoover from
when the spring fairly sets in.
At sunrise on last Monday morning, the mer
cury stood at 32 degrees exactly, the freezing
point, yet we saw no ioe. The high winds pre
vailing through the night were sufficient to pre
vent frost .
_ The comparatively few fields of small grain
in this section look Well. It is a great pity that
more wheat is not grown. No surer crop exists
where sufficient attention is paid to it Near
the depot of the Milledgeville and Eatonton
Railroad, Mr. Nathan Keel has a lot from which
he produces annually a very fine crop of wheat
The lot contains just one acre of ground. Last
year the. yield from it was thirty-seven bushels.
This year the growing orop looks remarkably
well, and promises a still larger yield. Eleven
years ago Mr. Keel’s lot was a bed of red clay, uurrvL! be “’. and ^on t“S^. with their
as the cookery book says, “seaa^
One day at the dose of the war, a hon*».
? a steed was riding along a forest
in East Tennessee, when suddenly^J^
from the road six men crying out “HZ?*
Amazed and fearful, the rider, arrayed-” 1
missiveness, reined up, crying out, “fT*
Momstown-was going after medicinal
daughter, who was mighty sick-andwhi
was m Morristown would buy a little cof
What are your politics?’’ CU *“I ahft ’LM
politics—never hadajy—don’t knew ant ’ * ‘
fihmif fnom end • , u J
What’s your sympathies?’* .
of tnem either-always been a healthy1?
never had nothing but jaunders-never^tl
to have them agm.” “You don’t get off I
weatherwax. On which side dif yon ^
the war, and which do you belong to Jj
On no side. I’m an oafistariung K i, ' T
never had any trouble with anybody Tt. I
clear of both sides, and tried to* livel/i?*
with all mankind.’ 5 Itc kader SR
air of great determination, and told tkCl
man that he could not move a foot uSI
told on which side he was, and if he dtt£|
being on either they would whip the skin?
him. The poor fellow seeing how it was, JI
m, and, suspecting that h e was detain^
rebels, declared that, if he must tell the trail
“his heart was with the rebels!’’ I
That settled his hash. One held the kc*|
by the nose, while another took off the brill
with which an able-bodied man with the »|
most sincerity laid npon his bare back sail
hundreds of heavy blows, the steel buckle d
the reins, as the man said, cutting the fell
every lick.
Having dispatched him in this “reeail
way,” he was placed on hi3 horse and «n;4
at a gentle pace as if nothing had happe«j|
The rider bled and ached in every limb, i)|
“cussed" aloud when out of hearing of b|
tormentors. He had got far on his joum«.|
entered a ford, where his mare drank hear, |
giving him time to reflect upon his latter
and had just emerged from the flood,
nine armed men leaped from the woodsy I
brought him to a second halt. Ties*I
questions propounded by his first captors w|
repeated by his present detainers, andt J
Crime and Retribntlon.
A notorious desperado and murderer, accounts
of whose villainy and cinel deeds of blood have
often been chronicled by the California and
Arizona papers, has at last been overtaken by
justice, and a summary and fearful punishment
administered for his numerous crimes. He was
known as the “Arizona Ruffian,” and feared by
everybody. A few years ago he robbed an old
San Francisco jeweler of $20,000 worth of jew
elry, after beating him nearly to death. The
police searohed for the villain for months, and
finally oaught him at Fort Prescott, Arizona,
whero he had jnst arrived from Mexixo. He
was a tall, raw-boned individual, named John
Kelley. While confined at the fort, whiolr is
situated on a rocky precipioe, fifty feet above
a stream, he broke from his guardhouse one
night, dashed past the sentinel, and leaped
boldly over the diff, escaping without injury.
He was next heard of at the Santa Rita mine
in Arizona, where he worked at blacksmith-
ing and tried to stab the superintendent
of the mine, a Mr. Grosvenor. Before leav
ing he took one of the employes of the mine to
his rooms, where he opened his trunk and ex
hibited to him eighteen pairs of human ears,
whioh he said he had cut from the heads of
eighteen persons that he had killed; and said
he had taken an oath to increase the number to
twenty-five ere he had stopped. - Several months
ago he brutally murdered a family of four per
sons near El Palso del Norte, for the sake of a
few dollars. He was finally captured at Arizona
by some of the inhabitants who quickly wreaked
their vengeance on him. He was taken into a
wood some distance from the oity, where they
tied one end of a rope to the limb of a tree, and
to the other fastened Kelley by the heels, so
that his head hong within a few feet of the
ground. They then built a slow fire under him
and allowed him to remain suspended until
death pnt an end to his existence.
Strange Freaks of a Maniac—A Thril
ling Scene.
Jacksonville,’ III., April 14.-j-On yesterday
a ihnlling scene occurred at the insane asylum.
A woman who has been in the asylum for sever
al years escaped from her ward, and went
through the halls and np the stair way that leads
oat npon the roof of the building. She wan
dered aronnd npon the roof of the building until
she came to the edge of the eornioe. After look
ing down for some time, she swung herself over
the edge of the oornioeby her hands, and swing
ing there she could just touch with her toes the
cap above the fifth-story, which was just below
her. Having gotten a foothold thereon; she let
go her hands, and, Btrange to say, preserved her
balanoe, and Btood npon the cap, which is about
twelve inches wide. ’While standing there she
was discovered in her perilous situation. Im
mediately several men went npon the roof and
let down a rope, and tried to persuade her to
fasten it aronnd her. She would take hold of
the rope, then laugh at them, bat refused to use
it. Meanwhile beds were brought out and placed
on the ground five stories below her, and in
breathless suspense all who were on the ground
awaiting her fall. Nothing daunted, after re
maining on the window cap for nearly a half-
hour, all of a sudden she grabbed the rope held
in the hands of the men above, and jumped off.
They let the rope run through their hands, and
she held on until, when within about thirty feet
of the ground, she let go and fell upon the beds
unhurt. During all this time there was the most
thrilling suspense to all the beholders, and glori
ous relief at her eaoape from suoh peril.
The Undulating Mbs. Kate Chase Sprague.
One more sketch before the galleries are cleared.
Before ns walks, or rather undulates, a slender
lady of finest mould, with the most delicious
curve of throat and chin possible. It recalls at
once that throat of Ethel Newcome, Thackeray
praised so much. Add to this, a youthful
cheek, that charming nose, straight in itself,
while it relieves the line of the brow, bright,
deer-like eyes and spirited poise of the Bmall
head, smooth, white complexion, with a streak
of red in the cheeks, burning like the flame in
an opal, sloping shoulders and a graceful hand.
Snoh is the presentment of Mrs. Sprague. I
could scarcely believe her to be eighteen, by
gaslight. I had imagined a slim, cold beauty,
like most of the society belles, and this exqui
site creature, with uplifted head like a d4er just
risen from its couch of fern, took one alt by
blissful surprise. It is so seldom one meets a
woman capable of looking a heroine. Mos4 wo
men are to one’s ideal like discolored pearls. Of
oourse you want to know what she wore. I don’t
know what she had on. She reminded-one of
Miss Mulloch’s deer-throated heroine in “A life
for a Life,” and the two have been associated in
my mind ever since. You know I am not given
to raving about beauties, bat this woman has
made many delicate impersonations passible.
[ Washington Letter.
swered, with fear and trembling, in a sia i
manner. As in the first case, he found is ]
he could not baffle them, and thintiq-]
safest to try the other side t he declared t
while he did no fighting, his “heart wasi
the Union men.”
“Nuf sed”—his captors were enraged, an
tying his innocent and unsuspecting steed L
the bushes, cut a bundle of keen hieloria]
and proceeded to persecute tbeir victim. M
remonstrated, he implored mercy. HeassmJ
them he had gone "through the expense;I
and then, with that experience, they plwl
hickories with malicious energy, amidst hi
roars and groans. I
Once more dressed off, squirming with pal
and all aflame with counter irritation, the til
tim essayed to go on to Morristown. Hfel
flections were not calculated to give conso» J
turn; but at last, catching a glimpse of tit I
tillage, he thought he was safe. Just thecil
single individual, hedged around with pa I
and pistols, suddenly appeared and timed |
his progress. This person had no tictnr
parley, and came at once to the point, “t'ta
or Hebei?” Sorely perplexed and M d
dread, our hero begged to be allowed top os I
He had already suffered severly—he Mhw I
cut and slashed behind until he was ala® I
one great sore. His eatechizer was intot-l
able; whereupon the rider dismounted,
with the tear of distress glimmering in laj
eye, and a smile of humility and supplicatisl
on his face, ha threw an am affectiontii
around the walking arsenal and said: 1
“Stranger, won’t you Bpeakfus?”
Tennessee to be Reconstructed.
Old Brownlow writes as follows from Wash
ington to the Knoxville Chronicle, under date of
the 11th inst.:
I expect the Committee of the House to re
port a bill looking to the reconstruction of Ten
nessee. We propose to wipe out the Legisla
ture and the late Convention, and order an
election of a new Legislature under the old law,
and with a new registration, leaving the Execu
tive and Judiciary undisturbed. The bill will
meet with opposition in the House from the
Democracy and the tender-footed Republicans,
bnt will, nevertheless, pass. In the Senate wo
will have less trouble, as we are divided, politic
ally, sixty Republicans to ten Democrats. They
will, of course, go on to elect Judges in Ten
nessee. What Gov. Senter will feel it hia duty
to do I am nnable to say, but if I were Governor
I would refuse to commission their Judges and
other officers.
Crops in Middle Florida.—The Floridian,
of the 19th, says:
Large quantities of com have been planted,
bnt on account of the cold spring, the crop is
very backward and the stand very poor. Sev
eral planters have had to plow np and replant.
The ground moles and wo id rats have done
much injury to com this season. Cotton is now
coming np, and some of it looks tolerably well.
Several of the varieties of improved seed have
been planted, some fertilizers used, and onr
planters seem determined to make use of every
appliance that will inorease the yield of the
staple.
But the oom crop concerns ns most. Without
broad, the “staff of life,” there would be mnoh
suffering. We sincerely hope that the balanoe
of the season will be favorable, and a large crop
harvested.
An explosion rivalling in magnitude that of
the Petersburg mine took place in California
last Wednesday, as we learn from the following:
Ban Francisco, April 17.—CoL Yon Schmidt
has completed the excavation of Blossom Rock,
and powder has been placed and wires run, pre
paratory to the explosion, whioh is fixed for
next Wednesday. The. excavation is 132 feet in
length and 60 feet in width, and its greatest
depth is 12 feet. It is filled with twenty-three
tons of powder.
Railroad Meeting In Pulaski.
In pursuance of appointment, the follow
delegation from the county of Dooly, to-t
Messrs. J. J. Collier, S. Rogers. J.!
Woodward, J. Goode, John E. Lilly,
Mashbume, W. H. Davies, B. A. Ww
Jerry Broxton, A. J. Cone, A. B. Spence
Jas. Bradshaw, Larkin Joiner, and M- (I
Jordan, met at Hawkinsvilie, the 19th instl
for the purpose of uniting with the citizeJ
of Pulaski m considering the best policy <
pursue to secure a line of railroad from sob
point on the Macon and Brunswick road, V
Hawkinsvilie, Vienna and Drayton, to "
icus.
On motion, Gen. O. C. Horne was
mously elected Chairman, and Col. 0.
Kibbee requested to act as Secretary.
The object of the meeting having 1
plained by the chair, and the meeting add
ed by Shephard Rogers, Esq., of the P
delegation, the following resolution was J
mitted by Col. N. W. Collier, and i
mously adopted, as follows:
Resolved, That a committee of two i
counties of Pulaski, Dooly and Sumter, (
be appointed bythe chair to confer with (
President and Directors of the Macon i
Brunswick Railroad, and request them!
make application to the Legislature for'
amendment to their charter, authorizing t
to extend their branch road from Hari
villc to Americus, and thence to Columbpij
The following gentlemen were appoi' J
under said resolution: Col. N. W. Co’
chairman, and John H. Pate, of Pulasti- I
Rogers, and John H, Woodward, of DoofJ
andB. B. Hamilton, and W. A. Hawti^j
Sumter.
On motion of J. H.' Woodward, it i
solved that the citizens of Marion, £
and Chattahoochee be requested to co-op 91
with us in establishing and equipping thoP
jected road.
On motion, it was resolved that the e
ing do now adjourn, subject to the call of®
chairman of the committee appointed I®,*?
fer with the President and Directors ot •
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, and tv
of the proceedings of this meeting M 1
warded the Hawkinsvilie, Macon, and A*J|
ous papers, with the request that they p#**
the same. Chas. C. Kibbee, Secret#
New Mexico.—The World is opposed to the
admission of New Mexico as a State. It char
acterizes the act as a gross wrong, and says:
“In 1867 New Mexico cast bnt 17,685, ana in
1869 bnt 14,467 votes, or 3,218 less, thus show
ing that the Territory is actually decreasing in
copulation; and yet, by a most gross and abom-
sable act of treachery toward the people of the
United States, it is in contemplation by Con-
gross to bring in this mere and fast fading
shadow of a political entity, this one-four-hun
dredth part of our voting population, to exer
cise one-thirtv-eighth part of the wMble power
of this great Republic.
Harper's Magazine, for May, has just been
received by Havens A Brown. The table of
oentents embraces a large and well chosen va
riety of articles “from grave to gay, from lively
to severe,” and offers attractions for all classes
of readers. When Harper is not political, it is
emphatically good.
The Montgomery Advertiser says Mr. Rylsnd
Randolph, editor of the Monitor, who was shot
by a scalawag named Smith, at Tuscaloosa, a
short time since, has had his leg
Reports of the wonderful richness of tW|
gold mines in New Mexico have been re#* I
at San Francisco. The ledges are from »|P
300 feet in width, and contain very rich c"
The location of the mines is near SuJlit J
roff Mountain in the Virginia District, 1
miles West of Burr’s Mountain. Ti
said to be nearly deserted. Colonel
commanding at Fort Bowie, has estabfe” 9
post at the mines for the protection o>“
miners. Parties are leaving San Diego'
Los Angelos for the new mines.
A New Wrinkle about the
Horses.—A short time ago we met a g*
man from Illinois, who gave us a piec® c
formation in regard to ascertaining the
a horse, after he or she had passed the
year, which was new to us, and will be, **
sure, to most of our readers. It is this: JT
the horse is nine years old, a wrinkle
the eyelid at the npper corner of the
lid, and every year thereafter he has one
defined wrinkle for eaoh year over nina
for instance, a horse has three wrinkles, 9
twelve, if four, he is thirteen. Add the n
ber of wrinkles to nine and you will
says the gentleman; and he is confident*
never fell. As a good many people.,
horses over nine, it is easily tried.
the horse dentist must pve up his i
The cotton merchants of New 1®*
speak of establishing a ootton exchange’,
Over 7,000 immigrants arrived u*'
York during the past week. ^.
IhraJNO March California sent, 23.0W
of wheat to England, valued at
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