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rzri-. ■V-#. The Greorgia "W'eekly Telegraph and. Journal &d IVTessenger. — Iw— Vi ■ ; "■ ■ 1 ' ' ■ ■ - — — — JMsEMI-WEEKLY ' Q J Telegraph & Messenger. SATPUDAY ^OBNiyQ, APBIL 29/ 1870. xT lfi|e charleston May Convention. The various committees who have the matter in charge ate, says the Charleston News of the 2Cth, making the beBt arrangements possible for the accommodation of the delegates, as well as the visitors, to the Agricnltnral, Mechanical and Immigration Convention, which meets in this city on Tuesdaynext. There is every rea son to believe that the attendance will be ex ceedingly large. Every county in the State will be represented, and Georgia and North Caroli na will send delegates, to prove their interest in the great oanse of mechanical and agricnltnral development and white immigration. A large number of papers upon questions of importance to the whole South will be presented. Among them we may mention: 1. A report on the necessity of Agricnltnral education and teaching in the schools and col leges of the Southern States. 2. A report on the value of various plants as a UBefnl means of diversifying onr agriculture. 3. A report on Sonthem manufactures, show ing the advantages possessed by the Sonth as a manufacturing people. 4. A report on the hygienio character of Charleston and Sonth Carolina. These papers are in the hands of gentlemen of marked ability and established reputation. The convention will meet in the Academy of Music. The body of the building will be re served for the delegates and visitors. The ladies will occupy the dress circle and the gal leries. Upon the stage will ait the officers and magnates of the convention. It will be the largest gathering which Charleston has had since the war—a gathering of earnest men, who have but one aim, the well-being and progress of Sonth Carolina and the whole Sonth. Fort Sumter to 3E Reconstructed.—The Charleston Courier says the wort of reconstruc tion which has for bo long a time agitated the country and engrossed the attention of Con gress, has reached the classic walls of Sumter, and now that battered old fortress, upon whose walls so much indomitable courage has been displayed, is to bo reconstructed. The crumb ling walls are to be restored, embrasure, angle and alopo to be remodelled, and an armament to be replaced therein. In restoring the work, it is contemplated to make it a “heavy tem- poraiy battery," mounting thirteen heavy calibre guns—eleven 15 inch smooth bore, and two 12 inch rifles. It is to retain nearly its old Bhape. The outside wall is to be rebuilt at a height ranging from thirteen to twenty-six feet above low water mark. Above the wall a heavy earthen parapet will be constructed. All the bomb-proofs and case-mates yet visible will be filled in. A new dock and sallyport are to be constructed on the west side, and the present dock and stairs will be removed. Captain Dnnlap Scott* Is Capt. Dunlap Scott aware that he is a young man? We doubt it, and yet the proceedings Bhow him to be very young. We beg him to make due allowance for the fact. Scott is de luded with the idea that it is part and parcel of a Democrat’s duty to do a heap of public speak ing in the Agency, and as the Arkansas man says, “to keep up a d—d fuss generally;” but the whole outside world sees that a shrewd Dem ocrat should keep his tongne still and his eyes open. Capt. Dnnlap Scott is affected with a verbal diarrhce3. Like old St. Peter, hi3 speech betrayeth him. He is not easy except he’s talk ing. We beg him to be quiet and say nothing. Let him copy from the owL Minerva knew how to train her birds, but Capt. Dunlap Scott never W03 under Minerva’s training. We have no dis respect for Capt. Dnnlap Scott. By no means. But he ought to reflect that he’s a young man and has a good deal to learn. Territory vs. State.—The negroes in Augus ta, says the Columbus Sun, nnderstood the Con federate graves were to be decorated in May, and they mado arrangements to celebrate the adoption of the 15th amendment on the 26th. Finding they were mistaken they postponed their celebration until the 27tb, not wishing to interfere with the honored custom of the whites. Here in Colnmbns we find colored men offering the use of their flower gardens to the ladies. This is the way they do in a territory. In Montgomery, in a so-called State, the negroes forced the ladies to postpone the decoration of the Confederate graves because they insolently wanted to celebrate the adoption of the 15th amendment on the 26th. We’d rather live in the territory. Bobbino Petes to Pay Paul.—The papers charge the American Bible Society with holding on to a bequest made by Rev. Ichabod Wash' burae, of Worcester, Massachusetts, in the sum of $25,00 when that bequest had been revoked by Mr Washbume in a subsequent will, drawn np by hi3 direction, bnt left unsigned by rea son of the sudden death of the testator. That, if true, is a very disgraceful and ridiculous pro ceeding in a benevolent society. Do they sup pose Heaven will sanction or bles3 the unright- eons acquisition and use of money for the cause of religion? Sakfobds Analytical Arithmetic,—Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia, have just published this work, by Professor Sheldon P. Sanford, of Mercer University. It has been printed in beautiful style on fine paper and is the handsomest school book we ever saw. The work is highly recommended by J. P. Coxe, President of the Sonthem Female College at LaGrange, A. J. Barnes, Principal of the Jon- ston Institute, at Monroe, and by Professor Brantley, ofPenfield. Feminine Doctobs.—Mrs. Carleton, a New Hampshire lady, a medical stndent herself, re cently lectured on “Woman in tho Medical Pro fession.?’ She dwolt npon the fact that mid wifery belonged exclusively to women for six thousand years, and that to preside at the na tivity of man was the most honorable position which any one oonld occupy. Madame D’Ar- blay, in the year 1663, was instrumental in taking this department of medical practice out of tho hands of women* . Post Royal Railroad.—The Constitutional ist, of Wednesday, is advised that the first train on the Port Royal Railroad commenced running yesterday, and will continue to run daily, from Jamassee to Elsonville. It is expected that trains will run to Allendale, 58 miles, within thirty days. Oabteesville and Van West Railroad.— Colonel Eugene LeHardy, Civil and Topograph ical Engineer, now Chief Engineer of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, has been appointed and accepts the position of Chief Engineer of the CartersviMe and Van Wert Railroad. . Peace in Sonin Carolina.—The Laurensville Herald says that at thelRedical mass meeting held in Laurensville on the 13th instant, the Radical speakers “proclaimed to the negroes that they would all be armed by the next elec tion with rifles that would shoot thirty times to the minnte.” Let us have peace ! Tbb Atlanta Intelligencer says but a few bales of ootton came into that plaoe yesterday. How many ia a few ? How many came in during the year ? The dried apple trade, we eee was brisk. / . /\A Bad Licit. ‘ The State Government of South Carolina was ejected from the Eutaw House, Baltimore, last Week, on the ground that the House would not “entertain negroes.” Here comes in the Fifteenth Amendment, the civil rights bill, tho United States Circuit Court and a suit at law. White people who refuse to occupy beds and bathtubs which have been used by the “men and brethren” must be punished according to the statute ih such case made and provided.— The pnblio taste must be corrected. The nat ural impulses of the depraved and unregenerat ed heart must be curbed, and the party of “great moral ideas" are the boys to do it It is nnderstood that in order to set the nation an illustrious example of practical opposition to “caste” and “prejudices of color,” Sumner and Butler are going to start in Washington a magnificent hotel, where they will make, their headquarters, and all applicants will be fur nished with entertainment, “without regard to race, color or previous condition.” George Downing will be the lessee, Fred Douglas will be steward and caterer, and the table d'hote will be directed by a mixed commission from the Boston Sorosis and the National Society for famishing destitute African females with chig nons. Here the Fifteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Bill will be engraved upon all the table crockery and universally respected. The guests will be sandwiched at the table and everywhere else possible, and the grand fundamental prin ciples of the amended Constitution, an ad vanced Radicalism and the great moral ideas of the age will be enforced. Butler stopped the Georgia bill and went down to Cape Cad, to contract for stone for the foundation of tho gigantic edifice, which is to repose npon the everlasting granite of Massa chusetts. The grand facade is to be of white and black marble, in alternate blocks, and the superb dining hall, five hundred feet long by one hundred broad, will be famished through- out—pavement, walls and ceiling—in elaborate mosaic, in which all the colors, while placed so as to exhibit the most striking and lively con trasts, shall yet, in the grand tout ensemble, present a soft blending—a cbhstened harmony illustrative of the great political and social edi fice which it is designed to exemplify and en force. Bntler and Sumner will shortly issue their cards and invite stock subscriptions. Miss Anna —the gentle Anna Dickinson, will inaugurate this vast establishment with a lecture illustrating the difference between whited and spotted sep ulchres, and after that, the nation will move on with some regard to equality. No Ku-Klux or other white rebellious person will be admitted unless with a colored partner. This grand social reform movement is spread ing, and it is demanded that all republicans in the hotel business shall follow suit We are not yet advised whether the great Kimball Hotel in Atlanta haB consented to organize npon this principle, but we doubt whether they will come np to this exalted scratch for some time. Georgia Muddle in the House. The Washington correspondent of the Charles ton News, of the 26th, says: The Georgia muddle, as it is now mostflt- ingly called, seems as far from a solution as ever. Theconrse of the Senate in passings bill remanding the State to a military condition, and virtually commencing the work of recon struction over again, does not accord with the views of a great many Radicals in the House, and especially meets with the opposition of Grant, who informed some of the Ohio delega tion yesterday that he hoped, whatever policy Congress might adopt, with regard to the tenure- of-office of the Bullock administration, that it would not keep the State unrepresented any longer in Congress. He repeated, what he has so often said of late, that he was anxions for the work of reconstruction to be closed up, and all the States represented in Congress at this session. He is seconded in this by three well known Radicals of the House, who have prepared bills limiting the Bullock administration to Novem ber next, and providing in the meantime that the State shall have representation. It is daily more apparent that the obnoxious presence of Bullock on the floor of the Senate and House is working against his own schemes. Senators and members are disgusted with his persistent lobbying and boring, until the Senate has ordered an investigation into the charges of cor ruption preferred against him in connection with this Georgia mnddle. The evidence is pretty conclusive that some of Bollock’s satell- ities have endeavored to influence legislation against the Bingham amendment by bribery and corruption. Besides this, Bullock was per sistently snubbed in the Senate daring the strag gle on Tuesday night. Even Butler snubbed him with the cut direct in the presence of the crowded galleries, by turning away and refus ing to converse with him. The temper of the House is decidedly against the Senate bill, and if the iatter body desire to let Georgia in at this session they most swing loose from Bullock’s demands and come over to the more conserva tive views of the House. Napoleon to the French. The Emperor’s manifesto the French con cludes as follows: I address all the French people; you who, sinoe the 10th day of December in the year 1318, placed meat your head, have recom pensed me by your affection, and call on you to give me a new proof of your confidence in me, by casting an affirmative vote in the ple biscite. Such a vote is a vote against threaten ed revolution; such a vote assures order; such a vote renders easy for me and for Franco the transmission of the crown to my son. Let your vote be unanimous as it was eighteen years since. A great .nation, in order to secure the fruits of its own "development, most support in stitutions guaranteeing national stability and progress. Let the people answer “Yes” on the day of election, in order to ratify by their voice the liberal reform which they have enjoyed dur ing the past ten years. For my port, faithful to my origin and confident in the providence of God, I will continue to work incessantly for the prosperity of France. It becomes indispensable that tho new con stitutional pact shall be approved by the people, as were formerly the constitutions of the repub- lio and of the empire. At those epochs it was believed, even as I myself believe to-day, that anything done without you was illegitimate. The constitution of imperial and democratic France may be reduced to a small number of fundamental provisions, which cannot be chang ed without your consent; yonr decision will have the advantage of rendering definite the process already made, and of placing beyond the influence of political fluctuations the princi ples of the government. I address myself to all of yon who, from the 10th of December, 1848, surmoanted all obstacles to place mo at yonr head; to you who for twenty-two years have without cessation guarded me by yonr suf frages, sustained me by your co-operation, re warded me by yonr affection. Give me a new proof of confidence in bringing to the ballot box an affirmative vote. Yon will exorcise the menaces of revolution; you will place order and liberty on a solid basis, and you will render easier in the future the transmission of the crown to my son. Yon have almost unanimous ly for eighteen years clothed me with the most extensive powers; be also signally unanimous to-day in supporting the transformation of the imperial regime. A great nation has no way of attaining its development without resting on in stitutions which guarantee at tho same time stability and progress. To the call which I make on you to ratify the liberal reforms real ized during the past ten years reply, “Yes.” As for myself, faithful to my origin, I shall con tinue penetrated by your thoughts and fortified by yonr will and, confiding in Providence, shall work without cessation for tho prosperity and the grandeur of France. Napoleon. Governor Ballocli’s Message. • We lay before our readers, says the Constitu tion, the following message of Governor Bufus B. Bullock, of Georgia, communicated to the Chairman and members of the Joint Commit tee, appointed by the Legislature, on the 25th of April, 1870, and whioh was yesterday sub mitted to the Legislature by the Committee: Exxounvx Department, ) Atlanta, Ga., April ,2f, 1*70. j Tp the Honorable Chairman and Members of the Joint Committee appointed by joint reso- lution of the Provisional Legislature, April 25, 1870: Gentlemen : After having had the benefit of p fall and free consultation with yourselves, and in yonr company, with Gen.' Terry, touch ing the subject matter of the resolution by which yonr committee was authorized ,to act, I would most respectfully recommend to you, and through you to the Legislature, that, by joint resolution, the appropriation act of 1869 be, in proper proportion, continued for the first and second quarters of this year; that the Comptroller General be authorized to proceed under the tax act of 1869, and that your honor able body then adjonrtx until such time in the near future as will be most likely to embrace the action of Congress for the recognition of the State and her admission into the Union; and I would respectfully suggest the first Wed nesday in July as a convenient time for re assembling. The recommendation in regard to the reso lution for appropriations, etc., is made because we have the assurance of the General command ing this district, that, owing to the pressing necessity for such action, he will give validity to the resolutions, and authorize them to take effect. And the adjournment pending the action of Congress is recommended because of the peculier political condition in which we are placed. The government of the State being provisional, subject in all respects to the Dis trict Commander under the reconstruction acts, the Legislature can not proceed to general leg islation, unless it shall organize by administer ing the test oath to its members. This position is established by the opinion of the honorable Attorney General of the United States in the case of Virginia. That opinion I bad the honor to quote in my communication to the Legisla ture of February 2, 1870, as follows: “It is required under the previous law to act upon the question of adopting the * * [Amend ments] to the Constitution of the United States before the admission of the State to represen tation in Congress. I am of the opinion, there fore, that it may come together, organize, and act npon that Amendment, but that until Con gress shall have approved the Constitution, and the action under it, and shall have restored the State to its proper place in the Union, by re cognizing its form of Government as Republi can, and admitting it to representation, the Legislature is not entitled, and could not, with out violation of law, be allowed to transact any business, pass any aot or resolve, or undertake to assume any other function of a Legislature, if the test oath has not been required of its members.” * The Legislature having adopted the funda mental conditions and amendments required by the several Reconstruction Acts, and having elected Senators, the question whether Congress shall have approved the Constitution and the action under it, and shall have restored the State to its proper place in the Union by recognizing its form of government as republican, and ad mitting it to representation, is now under con sideration by CongreBS, and is not yet decided, it wonld, in my opinion, be unwise, if not un lawful, to attempt to enter upon general legis lation. I am assured by the General Commanding the District, that he will approve a resolution of the Legislature providing for the appointment of a committee, such as was asked for by me in my communication to the Legislature in February last, and which I herewith respectfully repeat as follows: “I shall esteem it a personal and an official favor if your honorable body will authorize a Joint Committee to sit daring the recess and investigate the indirect charges made by the Treasurer through the public prints against the Executive, as well as any and all charges he may now have to present. I would respectfully rec ommend that the Committee be authorized to send for persons and papers, and to administer oaths.” i It is also respectfully recommended that this Committee be authorized and direoted to in quire as to the Treasurer's use of the public money for his own personal benefit, and into the system of bookkeeping in the Treasurer’s office. I would recommend farther and finally, that a committee be authorized and directed to in quire into the financial condition and opera tions of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. As yon, gentlemen of the Committee, under stand from the interview with the General Commanding the District, he desires to avoid the exercise of any authority whatever in the matter now pending, other than the approval which I have heretofore referred to, but ex pressed the opinion that it would be unwise to enter upon any general legislation at this time. I would, therefore, very respectfully repeat and ask your honorable committee to communi cate the same to the Legislature, with my re commendation, that, after having duly consid ered and adopted such regulations with regard to the appropriations, the Tax Act, and the committees for investigation as the wisddm of the General Assembly shall dictate, the two Houses adjourn until such day as that honorable body may determine to be proper for reassembling. I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, Rufus B. Bullock. Last Day’s Proceedings of tbe Gcor gia Baptist Convention. The Executive Committee was elected by bal lot as follows: Thos Stocks, T J Barney," D E Butler, P B Robinson, W G Woodfin, J E Wil- let, JR Sanders, Treasurer, JT Burney. W L Kilpatrick was appomfed to preach the Introductory Sermon next year, (F M Daniel alternate,) and H H Tucker to preach the Edu cation Sermon, (L R GwaJcney alternate.) Reports on Education, the State of Religion, Temperance, the Report of the Board of Trus tees of Mercer University, the Report of the Executive Committee, and Finance, were read and adopted. Fromche latter report it appears that $1,178 05 were received by tho Committee daring this session, and $242 72 contributed directly to the objects named and reported to the Committee. Collections daring the meeting, $430 70; total, $1,851 49. The names of tho Committee to act with the Board of Trmtees of Mercer University,, were announced a: follows: Georgia Association, J H Kilpatrick; Reho- both, J S Iawtop; Central, G S Obear; Wash ington, WI Harley; Flint River, J D Stewart; Fairburn, G R Moore; Ebenozer, G R McCall; Hepzibat, W H Davis; Bethel, R J Bacon; Bow en, R TJeming; Western, U B Wilkinson; Co lumbus, O O Willis; Friendship, G A Loftin; Mercer, J McBride; Middle Cherokee, J G Ry- als; t^r.rta, F H Ivey; Stone Mountain, W T Atkiison; New Sunbury, W n Stark; Appa- lachae, G A Normally; Houston, L Joiner. It was resolved to make Gartersville, Ga., the plaM of meeting next year. Americas News. The Richmond Dispatch’s Washington special of the 25th says - It has been discovered to-day that $20,000 were brought here reoently from Georgia by Bullock to be used in affecting Congressional legislation for Georgia. The draft was drawn upon the State fund of. Georgia in the firm name of Dykes, Chadwick & Co. proprietors of Wil lard s Hotel, where Bullock puts up, and was payable to the order of Biggs A Co., bankers, ot this city. Tho following is from the Americas Republi can of yesterday: On Tuesday, the 26th, the graves of the Con federate dead In the Americas Cemetery were decorated. Quite a number of our citizens turned out on the occasion, though not with the zeal or unanimity which should have been exhi bited. We do not know what cause we can as- scribed for this lack of Reasonless it be due to the entire want of management on the part of those claiming control of the affair. In the first place, no one seemed to know what was going to take place. Although thero are two newspapers pub lished in the city, and both were willing to pub lish the programme, yet no one could obtain any information. In the second place the hour chosen was altogether inappropriate. It should have taken place in the evening. Rather Antediluvian.—On Tuesday morn ing the Mayor sent his black man, Friday, around to the various places of business with a written order to close up business, and attend the decoration. It forcibly recalled to mind the time when there were neither newspapers, telegraph wires, nor any other new fangled notions “to fright the souls of fearful adversa ries.” . Dr. Bond thus touohes a peculiarity of the negro race: Bnt as yet negroes show no passion for work among negroes.^ Their philanthropy Inevitably, takes a tangential direction towards white soci ety. Unlike Moses, who abandoned the culti vated Egyptians to devote his educated talents to his own rude people, the educated American negro finds in his eduoation only a claim for separation from his race and presumption of nearer relation to ours. As soon as a negro be comes a physician he wants to doctor white peo ple, to associate with white doctors, to be un- ntgroed by his diploma. THE GEORGIA STATE AGRICUL TURAL SOCIETY. To all Whom It may Concern: Atlanta, Ga., April 26, 1870. Th e office of Secretary of the Georgia State Agricultural Society having become vacant by the resignation of the late incumbent, I here by, by virtue of the power invested in me, as the President of the Sooiety, issue this notice, ♦hat, on Wednesday, the 22d June Aext, an elec tion will be held in this city, to fill the vacanoy. All members, aa well as those who.may become members by tho payment of two dollars for the card which entities them to all the privileges of Membership, for the year 1870, and to access to the Fair Grounds, and the privilege of ex hibiting articles for premium, without further charge, will be entitled to vote. Members who live at a distanoe can vote by proxy or ,'by en dorsing their ballots to the President. The order, and mode, and place of holding the elec tion, will be published in the newspapers of the city, on the morning of the election. Persons wishing to become candidates, must make it known in such timt and manner as they deem proper. The President srtight to obviate the expense and inconvenience4o members and the necessi ty of holding this election at a season so impor tant to planters, ty addressing a letter to those gentlemen who vere supposed to be legal mem bers of the society—giving them the names of the gentlemen vho were candidates, and asking them to commmicate to them by letter their choice, intendng, when all tho votes were re ceived, to opei them in the presence of Mr. E. C. Bawson, tie resident member of the Execu: tive Committie, and the Assistant Secretary,and announce tin result. When the time had near ly arrived vhen these votes were to be opened and conntid, a communication was received from a mtuberof gentlemen, who, perhaps, had been nembers for a previous year, but who were not nembers by the payment of the initia tion fee, i>2, claiming the privilege of voting, and deducing that if not permitted to vote by paying row the $2 fee, they would contest the electionas illegal, and resist the payment of the salary of any Secretary elected without their votes lsing counted, as illegal. Pending the time bitween the determination to holdthe elec tion in the manner first proposed and the count ing of the votes, many gentlemen had called on me to know if persons who paid now and be came members conld vote in this election. ' I decided, and so informed them, that it was not lawful or right for persons, after the polls were opened and the election in progess, who were heretofore so indifferent to the interests of the Soeiety, as not to become members, now, in the eleventh hour, to take advantage of locality and proximity to the scene, and come in: and, by means and nnmbers, o' -y an important elec tion over the heads of : ie few legal members who, merely through motive of pure and unself ish interest in the cause of Agriculture, renewed their membership, and thus gave their names and means to the society. Tins ruling was in accordance with the plain law of the Society. I have not modified it, that the payment of $25 created a family life membership; $10 an indi vidual life membership, and $2 membership for tiie year only in whioh itwas made, the year ex piring with the close of the first Annnal Fair thereafter. I am conscious of rectitude and no personal interest in this matter. Ever anxious in my *p- ministration of the business of the Society, to be legal and jnst, and to extend the influence of tiie Society, and to produce the greatest harmo ny, I have concluded to yield to the views of the gentlemen whose interest in behalf of one ot the candidates induced them to make the protest referred to, though in justice to the mo tives of the gentlemen referred to, I most ox- press my belief that they made the threat to at tack the validity of the election proposed to be held in ignorance of the rales of the Society. In adopting the course now laid down in this notiee, I hope all objections will be obviated, and am assured it will add largely to the mem bership as well as to the revenue of the Society, The thanks of the Society are due, and here by tendered to the press of the State, for their liberality in giving pnblioity and circulation to the cards and notices of the Society, and the favor is asked of the publication of this notice in all the papers of tiie State, it being one of the most important it has ever issued. Cards of membership will be sent to all edi tors and publishers who will publish this notice and send a copy of the paper containing the notice to the Secretary’s office. Cards of membership will be famished eaoh member of the Executive Committee from whom they may be obtained by persons wishing to become members by the payment of $2. The Secretary will famish these cards to such person 03 may apply directly, by letter or oth erwise, to him for them. , Ben. C. Yancey, President Georgia State Agricultural Sooiety. Honor Yonr Business. We commend this paragraph, from the Lon don Economist, to all who have a “vocation: “ It is a good sign when a man is proud of his work or his calling. Yet nothing is more common than to hear men finding fanlt ! contin ually with their particular business, and deem ing themselves unfortunate because fastened to it by the necessity of gaining a livelihood. In this spirit men fret and laboriously destroy all their comforts in the work ; or they change their business, and go on miserably, shifting from one thing to another, until the grave or the poor-house gives them a fast grip. But while occasionally a man fails in life because he is not in the plaoe fitted for his peculiar talent, it happens ten times oftener that failure results from neglect, ,and even contempt of an honest business. A man should put his heart into everything he does. There is not a profession that has not its peculiar cares and vexations. No man will escape annoyance by changing business. No mechanical business is altogether agreeable. Commerce, in its endless varieties, is effected like all other human pursuits, with trials, unwelcome duties, and spirit-stiring necessities. It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out toe frets and burdens of his calling, and give his mind every day to the consideration of them. They belong to hu man life. They are inevitable. Brooding over them only gives them strength. On toe other hand, a man has power given to him to shed beauty and pleasure upon the .homeliest toil, if he is wise. Let a man adopt his business and identify it with pleasant associations, for God has given ns imaginations not alone to make some poets, but to enable all men to beautify homely things. Heart-varnish will cover np innumerable evils and defects. Look at the good thing. Accept your lot as a man does a piece of rugged ground, and begin to get out toe rocks and roots, to deepen v and mellow the soil, to enrich and plant it. There is something in the most forbidding avooation around which a man may twine pleasant fancies, out of whioh he may develope an honest pride.” The New York Journal of Commerce, in no ticing the passage of toe Senate bill, says The amended Georgia bill is perhaps the best that could have passed the Senate in toe present uncharitable temper of that branch. It is but little consolation, however, to say that it might have been worse. The bill is a very bad one, in that it continues toe dominion of the Federal bayonet over toe State as long as Congress choose to maintain it, fixing no time for toe ad mission of Georgia to representation. What ever Georgia may hereof ter do to win the es teem and confidence of Congress, she is still at their mercy as much so as she was the day that toe rebellion ended with the surrender of Lee. The bill as toe Senate passed it settles nothing; but leaves the distracting Georgia question, which has profitlessly occupied so mnoh time this session, to be fought all over again at the next one, and so on. We hope that toe House will rise superior to the miserable bigotry that prevails in the other chamber, and whatever other regulations they may see fit to provide for the Georgia elections, will at least name some time when the State may be admitted to Con gress. It is not so mnoh toe outrageous inter ference of Congress with the locaj politics of the State, or toe perpetuation of' armed rule over her territory, that we object to—though these things are unnecessary and cruel—as the indefinite postponement of her admission. Let toe people of Georgia be able to see that that result is possible at an early day/ and. courage and hope will take the place of the doubt and despondency that now prevail among them. The Crops.—The Columbus Enquirer says: ’ Beports concerning toe damage done to toe cold snap of last week are various. Most of the accounts say that the injury to vegetation was slight; but we notiee that the Early County News says that garden and other tender vegeta tion was nipped in ita neighborhood, and the 'Marianna Courier expresses the opinion that the bottoms, if not a largo proportion of toe up lands, will require re-planting in cotton. Corn, in this vicinity, was turned yellow, and looked qaite sickly for a few days, but it is now gaining a good color again. We presume that there was very little, if any, cotton up in this region. THE COXING WAR. Heft™ of American OtHeers to Egypt* From Wilkes' Spirit of the Times. / Though Europe appears, at present, to be m a reasonably tranquil state, and (barring the petulant disturbances in France and Spain) may be said to be snoring in the very lap of peace* it is evident to ns, from many signs around us here, that a great war is upon the point of breaking forth across the ocean. A war wlych. is destined to envelope top whole of toe Eastern Hemisphere, and probablygive a new commer cial destiny to Asia. 1 J] f It is % little singular thaf'no distinct warning of this coming storm has been given to the world through the European press; and still more strange, with the many, special signs :of'it which have been springing here under our very eyes, that no Amerioan journalist has seen their drift, or pointed to the crisis. The war that we speak of is the obvious breach which is now imminent between the Pacha of Egypt and the Sultan, the former aetjug under the patronage of Bnssia, and the latter stand ing not only for his authority in Egypt, bnt for his foothold in Stamboul. This Egyptian move ment has evidently been going on nnder the impalse of toe Sultan's hereditary enemy, and the money which the Pacha has spent in the United States daring the last two years for arms, and toe millions likewise lavished by him upon toe festivities of last December, may also be credited, in large part, to the Bussian treasury. But toe most significant of all the signs which toe Faoha has given of toe friend who instigates and counsels him is to be found in the fact, not only that he has bought his arms in toe United States, bnt has sought among toe Federal officers who figured in the late rebellion the chieftains for his. army. Prominent among toe officers whom he has selected is Gen. Stone, who, it will be recollected, commanded at Ball’s Bluff, and who takes ship this week to assume either toe commandership of His Highness’ armies or the rank next to it. On the Helvetia, which sailed last Saturday, and which bore the new Consul-General of Egypt, Col. John H. Butler and his staff, were three or four young American officers, also en’ route to Egypt— among whom we may mention Colonel Sparrow Purdy, formerly of Newton’s and Franklin’s staffs, who enters the Pacha’s service with the full rank of Colonel of Engineers. Here we have signs sufficient of a large mea sure of the war which i3 now on the point of cracking with its own fulness, but of whom no journal has yet spoken. To what enormous limits such a war as this may finally extend, we have unbounded warrant for conjecture. France must take sides, and so must England, the mo ment Russia moves. Bat France has the most immediate reason to interfere. She can have no interest in strengthening toe Pasha by toe weakening of the Sultan, to say nothing of the danger which such a debilitation of the Otto man Empire would lead to, in the opportunity it would afford for an undue extension of Rus sia to the Mediterranean. Franoe united with Great Britain to prevent that danger once be fore, and since then it haB become more neces sary still that she should curb the Russian pow er. Besides, war between toe Pasha and the Saltan would inevitably lead to the blockade of the Suez Canal, a thing which France conld not tolerate, but which England would be glad of, because of the superiority of her marine by toe old routes to India. In both of these respects, however, and which ever way the problem of toe ocean routes to In dia might turn, Russia stands prepared to be the gainer. She cares not for the route to Hin- dostan by Suez, or for toe more tedious jour neys round toe capes. Her road to toe E&t is by a straight line; Westward, overland; and thus tapping China and Hindostan in toe cen tre, she may fling the riches of toe Orient by rail to Brest, and tons settle toe problem of the China trade, so far as Europe is concerned, in seven days. The iron road aoross the European continent is already more than two-thirds done, while oars is entirely finished; so, with nothing bnt the Atlantic lying in between these equal railway spans of 3,500 miles each, toe world will soon be belted with commercial traffic (even at toe present rates of railway speed), in twen ty-four days. By and by, when railways are properly improved whioh must be toe case with in ten or fifteen yearB, toe pendulum transit, swinging from San Francisco Eastward, in a straight line over the broad land, via New York and Brest, to China, at the rate of fifty miles an hoar while on toe land, and at the rate of ten miles the hour where the dull sea comes in, will barely occupy sixteen days. We shall then hear bnt little more abont the Suez Canal, while the burlesques of a short ship cut through toe nar row neck of Darien and Panama—that foolish fable of 400 years—will cease even to remain a dream. Man in the new found power with which he has already spaned this continent and even pierced theadamantine Alps, will then shun the ocean, because he can go round the world with the sound earth nnder him, and with noth ing to impede his flight more stubborn than the air. This is what Russia is looking to, among her other calculations of toe coming Moslem war; and her skilled captains, along with ours, both wearing the turban nnder the banner of the Viceroy, will contend with a mutual friendli ness for a common destiny. Between us we will command the commerce of the world; and possibly Russia, putting her officers, at some future day, at the head of 400,000,000 Chinese, may sweep Hindostan to her coasts, and then' playing, again, the part of Rome, swarm baok over Western Enrope, and plant her standard on eivery abutment of toe continent, from Gibraltar to the frozen ocean. This is the most likely mode by which the prophets will realize their dream of a common family; the only de fect in the picture being that America will hold the same proud position on this continent as Russia does on hers, and thus, between them, divide toe empire of the world. Building np the Sonth. An excellent symptom, in the new movement of population and industry, now so rapidly tend ing Southward, says the New York Commercial Jonmal, is that bodies of settlers, of both na tive and foreign birth, are starting out with toe co-operative principle, combining their experi ence in various practical pursuits with moder ate capital offered to them by responsible par ties. We have heard of several enterprises of this kind, within two or three weeks, and are in clined to augur well for their success. Only a few days ago, an expedition of abont 100 persons sailed for a certain point in Florida, taking with [them implements, cottages in de tached pieces that may be run np in a few hours, seeds and live stock. Another set out last week for Georgia, and there are several more about to leave New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, for Southern destinations. Among these small colonies which have lately been, or just about to be established, the Swiss and German community at Grutli, in Grundy county, Tennessee, already in operation, may servo as a very fair specimen. One of onr valued German exchanges, toe Baltimore Weck- er, gives a long and interesting detailed account of it, in a series of letters from the spot, and the encouragement they afford may be useful to other intending colonies and settlers. In October, 1869, there were fifteen lots, of 100 acres eaoh, left for sale to private parties, of the original purchase. In less than two weeks after the fact was made publicly known, all of them were taken np. The result was that the Swiss OodsuI from Knoxville visited the spot, and made two additional purchases for the colony not far from Traoy City, and lying along the Ohattanooga Road. This is toe true way to go to work, and we are happy to know that these spots of light are swiftly breaking out over the surface of those portions of tbe South which have hitherto been reposing in the silence aud darkness of the primitive wilderness. These are “armies of peace " which are destined to achieve toe truly grand triumphs of our time, and we take all the more pride in their steady and victorious maroh that, from first to last, in spite of all dis couragement—the forebodings of the timid and toe Bneers of toe skeptical--we have urged and favored this emigration of the sturdy European stock to the Canaan of the South. Already the bug-bear stories of a deadly climate and hostile population have been soattered to toe winds, and the margin of Northern culture, industry and thrift begins to fringe toe Gulf. Experiments made in Germany by the mili tary authorities show that a sheet of ice, three inches thick, affords a perfectly safe passage for infantry or horses, marohing in single file, and for light carriages; with a thickness of six inches it will bear all sorts of wagons and can non. Tho strength of tho ice may be inoreosed by oovering it with straw and laying planks un der toe wagon wheels. Tam Prussian Government has military maps of every foot of its territory, so complete that every hill, ravine, brooklet, field And forest is delineated with perfect aconraoy. It is a com mon-boast of Prussian military men, that within eight days 850,000 men can be concentrated to toe defence of any single point within the king dom. It is no sign because a man makes * stir in the oc^nmunity that be is a spoon. ' ' Going to Meetfag. . V .BYHEJtBY wabd akr/HVR - The old Litchfield (Conn.) “meeting house” ^tood on the “Green,” very nearly at the in tersection of the two main streets of the town. There it stood, solitary, solemn and homely There was not a single line or fixture in it sug gesting taste or beauty. But that which the architect had neglected, the worshipers sup pled. The hearts of thousands of men and women who had worshiped there from child hood to old age, had thrown the color of the deepest, feelings upon the gaunt old church, and no doubt, in their eyes, the old wooden “meeting house” looked more beautiful than did Parthenon to the Greeks. The building was square, with two stories of windows, and a high Bteep roof, on which the snow had hard work to lie in the winter. The windows were large, with panes of glass six by eigh£ in size, full.of warts and wrinkles, through which external objects were seen by our young eyes in'the most grotesque distor tion. The ooming on of Saturday night was always a serious business with the youngsters. We had no stores of religious experience on which it is presumed the old folks meditated; and the prospect of a whole day without anything in it to amuse us, was not a little gloomy. On no night of the week did the frogs croak so dis mally, or the tree-toads whistle in a mood so melancholy, as on Saturday night. But those blazing summer mornings! What a wealth of light spread over that blessed old hill-top! What a wondrous silence dwelt in the found heavens above our head! The birds sang on. The crows in the distance called to each other in hoarse discourse. The trees stood in calm beauty—the great giant trees, tall, pliant, graceful; the perfection of strength and beauty. AIL this we saw and heard while buttoning on our Sunday clothes by the side of our open window. For the oow and horse had been foddered, and the pigs fed, and all the ham chores done up, and a bountiful breakfast eaten, and our hands and faces washed, and every article of apparel, from shoo to hat had changed from a secular to a sacred use. Not the every-day hat—soft, shapeless, universal instrument—used as a liquid or solid measure; used now for the head and now for a foot-ball; used for a net to catch butterflies, or to throw at wasps; no, not this bag, pocket, pouch and magazine; but the Sunday hat, round, stiff, hard and respectable. Although the new hat was always disagree able to our head, yet we had a wonderful rev erence for it, and spent no inconsiderable por tion of our time in church in getting it dirty, and then brushing it clean. Our jacket, too, was new. Only a handker chief was then_ in the pocket; no knife, no marbles, no strings, no stones, no fish-hooks or dried angle worms. No; a boy’s Sunday pocket of the olden time was purged of all temptation. In meeting time we ofteii put our little hands down into our Sunday pocket with a melancholy wish, “Oh, if I only had my other clothes on! As sobn as we were dressed and mustered in the sitting room, an inspection was had. The collar was pulled up a little, the hair had a fresh lick from the brush, the mouth must bo wiped with a wet towel, the shoestring tied, and after being turned round and round, we were started off. “Now Henry, be a good boy.” “Yes, ma’am.” “You must not laugh or tease Harriet” “No, ma’am.” “Don’t stop on the road—go right in when you get to church.” “Yes, ma’am.” Fvery word was sincerely promised, and offi* ciously broken in ten minutes. - Oh, how high the trees seemed! Oh, how bright the heavens were 1 Oh, how hard it was not to play with Chester Covington’s dog, that came running to us with hark and frolic, Here go the people! The Lords are not going to-day. The Landons have gone on the other side, with the Bacons and the Champi ons and the Demings. On one side came forth the “Miss Pierces,” as they were called, the Braces, Dr. Sheldon, Dr. Catlin, Colonel Tal- mage, tall and stately, Judge Gould, and mul titudes of others. The long street was full of people. The first bell had rung., It was de corous for every one to be in his plaoe by the time the tolling was over. Among all these we made our wa^—kindly people—many of whom looked benignantly forth upon us from Sunday bonnets, but no one saying a word. . The old musical bell up in the belfry was busy tolling. It was the only thing that was allowed to work on Sunday—the bell and the minister. That bell-rope was always an object of desire and curiosity, in our young days. It ran up into such dark and mysterious spaces. What there was up in those pokerisk heights in The belfiy tower we did not know, but some thing that made onr flesh creep. Ooce we ventured to pull that rope. It was a bold and venturesome thing, we know. But a sorcery was on us. It come gently and easily to the hand. We pulled again. “Dong! dong!” went tho bell. The old sexton put his head out of the door when, on that particular morn ing service had begun, and said, in a very solemn and low tone, “Boy 1 boy 1 you little -youl” and much more, I presume, Railroad I1& toa, Eafcmtoa *ad Athens. Eusaratw,, Thare ought to bo a raflroad oon, through (Minton, Eatonton, son, and on to Athens, ffhls wouia direot route—indeed as near an air fia,' of those that are so called. Atpn * nam county, thanks to that great .w toe Central Railroad, is virtually oonfl^l market, to-wit: Savannah. She 0 *nil l | and meat cheaper in Macon than ia fijl toe former is much nearer to her, the freight is less, so that it would h. 4 saving for her to purchase these nrGj the Bibb capital. Fertilizers, and rIN oles, too. could be bonghtto better^! in Macon, by Pntaam county planted the seaport. The trade of Putnami. heavy one, and the profits accminDft factors, grocery merchants, provision! etc., are immense. Business men nG will yon make a note of this fact forvLl gnidanoe ? Putnam is quite a cotton-growing e™, is probable the number of bales ? limits does not fall very far short ofv j sand bales. Besides, a considerable of the cotton raised in Jasper county i« j at Eatonton, as well as a little The road I speak of would carry a nJr this cotton to Macon, or throm* ] 01 Brunswick—for, the privilege ofew-, tween two sea-ports is ono of the whioh I wish to secure to toe peopfe line of the proposed road. DorttL*! toe cotton of Jones county which no 8 Savannah would, if it had a prone, its way through Macon to BrunsCl n.J not a doubt that much of the oL,,, Putnam, Morgan and Clarke coMl ,q pass over this road, and it is very wa; 1 Macon wonld gain a host of solid eocij customers that are now forced to tnal where. This article is hastily written, and as a mere hint, perhaps to be enlarged* a future time. ” Tbe Garden or Eden. The New York Herald says: Our correspondent in this ancient i after ascending in a Turkish steamlL Euphrates and the Tigris to Bagdad, vrSj the site of the Garden of Eden, bytrafoL located at the junction of the Enpbrjj the Tigris, at an Arab village called (abont a hundred miles above the Persbtj and that this is the only place whi<4. j essential points, (including tbe foorji agrees with the Scriptural narrative of tta roundings of Paradise. * ‘To look at Ki says onr correspondent, “it is by no t_ Paradisaical abode,though it is certainlul more inviting location than many othaj along these rivers. Soattered along the td some couple of hundred houses, madeiJ and thatch, while nearly on the extras J where the rivers meet, a shanty has for a telegraph station;” and we agree^J traveller that “it is carious, indeed, tc J the site of toerastia arbor in which*J parents billed and cooed being appn a resting-place for commercial b&J newspaper dispatches.” We are frntsl that “the town people live chiefly by del vation of dates, of which there are several I tations enclosedby mud walls;” thalbesiij date there is only one other kind of trees locality, which, toongh not a fig tree, iil dered of its leaves by every traveller t] venirs; that two or three years ago then trees of Kornehwere carried off to the! residency at Margin, and are much e lineal descendants of the trees from i leaves Adam and Eve made themselves ■ ■ESliwBSnHHHHX but I did not wait ;for it, but cut round to the other door, and sat all church time trembling, and wondering whether he would tell “my pa;” and if he did, what he would say, and more especially what he would do. I "called up the probable interview. I had numerous precedents on which to found a possible expe rience, and afflicted our little soul all meeting time with needless punishment by the imagi nation. Butordinarily we escaped into the minister’s yew without special temptations. Imagine a joy of eight years old, round as an apple, hearty and healthy, an hour and a half in church with nothing to do. We looked at the galleries full oFboys and girls, and wished we might go into the galleries. We looked at the ceiling, traced all the cracks hack and forth.— We looked at the dear old aunties all around the church, fanning themselves with one hand and eating fennel seed ora bit of dried orange peeling out of tho other. We gazed out of the window high above our head into the clouds, and wished we could only climb up and see the trees and horses and dogs that abound around the church on Sunday. Gradually these died out, and we dropped asleep. Blessed liberty! the child’s gospel. All trouble fled away, For a half-hour’s para dise was gained. But then an unusual thump op the pulpit Bible, and the ring arid roar of a voice under full excitement, that went on swelling like a trumpet, and that no one, not the most listless, could hear without catching its excitement, waked us, blushing and con fused that we had been asleep in church!— Even on the serene and marble face of mother the faint suggestion of a smile came, as we clutched our Eat, supposing the meeting to be overhand then sheepishly dropped ana sank back in dismay. But even Sunday cannot hold out forever, and meetings have to let out some timel So, at length, a universal stir and bustle announced that it was time to go. Up we bolted! Down we sat as quick as if a mil lion pins were sticking in our foot I The right leg was asleep 1 Limping forth into the open air, relief came to our heart. The being out of doors had always an inexpressible charm, and never so much as on Sunday. Away went the wagons. Away went the people. The whole green swarmed with folks. In ten min utes all were” gone, and the street was given up again to the birds 1 Little good did preaching do me until after I was fifteen years old—little good, immedi ately. Yet, the. wholo Sunday—the peculiar influence which it exerted on the household, the general sense of awe which it inspired, the venr rigor of its difference from other days, ana the suspended animation of its sermon time, served to produce upon the young mind a profound impression. A day that stood out from all others in a hard gaunt way, might perhaps be justly critioised. But it left its mark. It did its work upon the imagination, if not upon the reason. It had a power in it, and in estimating moral excellence, power is an element of the utmost importance. Will our smooth, ooozy, feeble modern Sundays have such a grip on the moral nature ? They are far pleasanter. Are they as efficacious? Will they educate tho moral nature as much ? m [A! 'H Ledger. Mercer University.—The Constitution fs of opinion tote Mercer University abattid St lo cated in ^ *^1 -. * ■ • ” 'cl+iSaOk Commodore Vanderbilt is turning tiis tion to the erection of a magnificent str iron and glass on Fourth Avenue, Xev II for the use of the cars of his sevenl lial railway. The edifice, when completed, rij the largest, most costly and imposing ini of the kind on this continent. The weig! iron to be used will be over 8,000,000 p It will require 100,000 square feetof i_ the roof alone, and 90,000 square ized corrugated iron to cover the roci. , roof over the car-house will extend on area limited south and west by the ^ buildings, east by Fourth Avenue t by a line thirty feet six inches i Forty-fifty street. The entire length ot tel will be six hundred and fifty-two feet, aJ be one hundred and ninety-nine feet twrnf in width between toe walls, and suppx thirty-two arched trusses, placed twe?| four inches apart The great arches i npon the foundation, whose upper fact 4 feet below the surface of the ground, :' an elevation of ninety-four feet from the s! ing line to toe extrados of the arcb. Ij pot is intended to accommodate the t-k the Harlem, Hudson River and New Tcd| tral Railroads. The car : house will have u modations for twelve single trains, while, ifl necessary, double or even treble thatry can be accommodated. It is expected j open to the public by January, 1871. Farming; in Brooks. Quitman, Brooks Coustt, Gt. April 19,1874J Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Sir—I am not in toe habit of writing« for publication, but I feel that it is the d some one to make'known to yon andywj era generally, the following faots conns toe farming of Mr. Flavins E. Young, >>| respected citizen of this county. In the first place, Mr. Yonng’s physktj ia very poor, having had a heart diseaiy years, and of oonrse, must be oonsidH abled ns all who know him, will at ocsl But notwithstanding his physical disabir various other hindrances, all of which^ with marked Christian fortitude, haj’ ' gathered the following orops : 15 acres of Com made 14 bushels per acre. 210 bushels, worth at $100 per bu.' 3500 lbs. fodder worth. 7 acres of ground peas made 32 bu. per —224 bn., worth SI 00 per bu ,1 16 acres of field peas made 100 bu., w| 52 50per bushel.. ,1 15 acres of Boyd’s prolific cotten made s-| bales weighing 2650 lbs.; Bold in SavicM-l at 20c -vf Half an acre of sugar cane made two tw J syrup worth 520 per bbl.. Saved 2000 seed cane, worth One-quarter acre of potatoes made 25 m One-eighth acre in rice made 4 bu., worti • Total....J None of the above crops were a the cane; he manured it with stable ® The whole crop was made and gsthe^ Young himself and one horse, aave ^i bor to toe amount of $70—who c»n D4 *-l Very respectfully, Staff*“2 On* Dozen Eve ^ 11:3 Boston Philanthropy and Pauperism. Sumner is a fair representative* 1 1 chosetts. He raves about the wro? ( * negro, but never does anything to 1 whites or blacks. Massachusetts, many years past wasted all her syrup*®*! toe negroes of the South, whilst she b*-J thousands of whites in an infinitely “j 1 dition. The last New York Tribune 9 that at Chicopee, Mass., one compwL 1,600 persons, of whom 885 can new* nor write. The same paper notie? J of the Boston Bureau of Statistics, * 1 visit to the homes of low-paid oribed, showing their condition in ^ ment houses. One picture given oft® is a fair sample of the others: . “We next passed into Stone’s Tat' 1 street between Nos. 100 and 102 Hat"-’ A three-foot passageway led into they* 12 feet, wherein lived fourteen faob^J was one privy, too horrible to be toe whole tenantry; some small pl* 06 ^ ed off in the yard, and intended ^ covered with human exorement T- s r were three stories high—wretobec downs, and not fit for oattle. ^ room wo visited was 14 by 14 . posts, occupied by four persons, °*"JL sick. The floor was perforated by patched up by in-pourings of ““J!) J This room yielded a rentage of f i- ‘ advance. Going then up a dirk, ( rickety stairway, we came to a roo' I bv Mrs. B. She stood at a tub room was a bedstead, a tahle, thr e a stove. Everything denoted toe ‘ ( of poverty. The officer attendm? he once found here a family appeared cleanly and indnstnooi,® { disheartened. Is lew tbsa » visit theme etabbed e*d firt «r with a neighbor about the to*” ~ ^ What buma to j to be tem. a£ei'