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I I in mm ■W *1* HlfljpilJIiHUUlilI ilUii. !I.PJip^JJHI|iJ!4J!l III The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph, and Journal JVEessen^er. Telegraph and ITessenger. MACON, MAY 17 1870. Remittances.' Subscribers may remit by mail at our risk. Whenever convenient to a post-office, it will bo better to register or send a post-office draft, but otherwise let them remit a bank note by mail, and we will accept losses in case they oc cur. We trust that all our distant subscribers will avail themselves at once of this proposi tion and remit immediately, as the 1st of June is at hand, on which we are pledged to enforce a rigid cash system in every case. Every sub scriber knows near enough how he stands on the books to require no bill from ns. Business of the Suez Canal. From November 17 to March 1 >5, 200 ships jsUh-6 tonage of 14G,631 tons, besides COO small craft passed through the canal. The nation alities'Of these vessels have been as follows: 80 EDglfch, 44 French, 23 Egyptian, 18 Austrian, 14 Italian, II Busaian, and the remainder Ger man, 'Spanish, Portugese and Turkish. Of these 200 have been steamers and only nine sailing vessels. Thirty-three were vessels of war. The growth of the transit may be estimated by the following record: In December butt) vessels, •in" January 16, in February 29, in March -62.— The increase in the receipts is not less satisfac tory. Beceipts in December, 48,420 francs; March 450,000 francs. To this last amount is to bo added about 50.000 franc3 for fares from travel. M. Lesseps, in his report, says that an iron steamer may be bniit for this traffic which will carry 2,000 tons of freight from London to Bombay, and bring back the same amount, all in seventy days. The freight, at 150 francs per ton, will leavo the shipper a handsome profit. A sailing vessel for tho semo voyage requires eight months or more, and charges 120 francs per ton. M. Lesseps estimates that as soon as commercial movements are regularly established the receipts from the .canal cannot be less than 00,000,000 francs by the passing through of at least 0,000,000 tons. The American merchant marine, it will be marked, makes no showing at all—not a single vessel carrying the United States flag having passed through the canal. Georgia Mutual Life Iusnrancc Coni' puny. This is a Macon company, which has been in very successful operation for about a year, and is in the hands of men of character, capital and energy. It insures upon the mntnal plan, di viding profits with policy holders, and allows thirty-threo per cent of tho premiums to re main in the hands of the insured, as a loan. CoL W. J. Lawton is President, B. J. Lightfoot, Secretary, and J. O. McBomey, Esq., principal agent. The success which has almost uniform ly attended these domestic insurance companies, inspires the hope that the great business of un derwriting lives and properly in Georgia, can hereafter be done to a great extent at homo, with perfect security to the insured and with ’great benefit to the moneyed capital of the conn' iry. The Philadelphia Hail Storm. Tho Ago of the 9th gives a very graphio de scription of the terrible hailstorm there the day before, and which was brifly reported by tele graph. Tho storm commenced at balf-past two in tho afternoon and lasted twenty minutes. Tho stones varied from the size of a peach stone to that of an egg, and fell so thickly that everything looked of an ashen hue. Awnings and hot houses were as thoroughly riddled as if buckshot had been fired through them. On tiprnco street, betweon Seventh and Broad, one hoar after tho storm ceased, the accumulation of hail was five inches thick. During tho storm, curious phenomena oc curred, much the same as those attending the storm of ’67. The large hailstones were appa rently minute bombs, whioh, in striking an ob ject, exploded with a load and sharp report, and not only by the taste, but by the smell, was the presence of sulphur detected. Tlie Cotton States Lite Insurance Company. We take pleasure in calling special attention, this morning, to the advertisement of this home institution. It is, as we are much gratified to know and state, doing remarkably well—better even than was anticipated by the sagaoious men who organized it. Within tho short time it has been at work, it has issued Eleven Hundred policies, and is daily extending the field of its operations. No Company, anywhere, rests up on a safer, more solid basis, or is managed with more prudence and good judgment. Its officei? are all well known business men, whose charac ters alone are and shonld be a guarantee for tho Company in every respect. A Game Not Worth the Candle. The Northern Bepubllcans and their repre sentatives in Congress are sacrificing good gov ernment, the public welfare and the principles of equity, justice and reason, in the vain expec tation of building up a predominant party force in the Southern States ont of the negroes and their political affiliators in this section. Do they not now see that this hope or expectation can never be realized? If they will look under their Own noses in Washington, they will see a spectacle of brutali ty, misrule, discord and corruption which shonld sicken them of negro parties. If they go to North Carolina, and look at the so-called State Bepnblican Convention there, they mnst have sharp eyes to discern any prospect there bnt a growing public disgust and infamy. South Car olina is such a carnival of rampant ignorance and knavery that she is a practical scarecrow^— Every decent Northern republican who visits that State hangs his head and goes home half or wholly resolved to vote the democratic ticket Georgia is the established congressional emetic. Ia there an honost Bepnblican in tho country, who does not gag over the party in Georgia ? Louisiana? What can be said of Louisiana more comprehensive than the declarations of a Bepnblican Judge upon the bench that the State and city have been pluudrtd by tho party func tionaries more in the last year, that by all her malefactors in any five years of thoir history. And so of all tho other States—an unbroken waste of fraud and malversation in every form— showing that unless Congress can reverse all moral And political laws, instead of building np a predominant party in the South, by force and government influence, they liavo only been erecting fabrics which tumble to pieces of their owninhorent weakness and rottenness, while they are losing every chanco for party influence and power founded npon honest persuasion of tho justice, beneficence and patriotism of the Bepnblican organization. They are burning into the intelligent Southern mind the fixed and inertdicablo conviction that political radicalism in the United States is synonymous with injus tice, violence, lawlessness, intolerance, op pression, bad and foolish government and a re morseless prostitution of the Federal influence and power to the most selfish, sinister and cor rupt party and personal objects. This is tho character republicanism is working for itself among the intelligent people of the South—yea, even among thousands who would gladly array themselves in party opposition to tho Demo crats, if the Badicals would allow them to do it, in reasonably good conscience. We submit to Northern Bepnblicans that they have given this experiment of building up a party in the South upon an ebony and carpet bag foundation, trial enough to know that it mnst fail. The game is not worth the candle. Why not try something else ? Sensible.— Senator Cameron observed the other day in the Senate, “the Senator from Illi nois says the country expects ns to pass a tariff bill, expects ns to pass a currenoy bill, expects us to pass the Georgia bill. I do not believe the country expects any such thing. My belief is that tho country expects to pass tho appro priations necessary to carry on the government, redace the taxes, and then go home and attend to our own private affairs. When wo are at home we do no harm to the public, and while wo are here we do very little good; and, there-* fore, I think the sooner wo get off tho better for ourselves, and tho better for the country." -Tnz French Election.—The Paris' corres pondent of the Charleston News, writing about a fortnight before the election, says: Napoleon expects a vote of confidence of be tween six and seven millions. With such, ho may gracefully part even with the right, how ever abstract, of tho Plebiscite. The friends of order of all shades have grouped themselves to secaro the govarnment a success. They en close checks to meet the expenses of the “stumping committees," and when men put their hands thus in their pockets they are in earnest. fcThe vote of Paris was—Yes, 138,790; no, 182,881; negative majority, 44,091; totalvote, 821,071. Paris has ceased to be France. Congressional Work.—The World says that 1950 bills and 2S3 joint resolutions have been proposed in the House this session. Of these bills 207 have passed the House, 100 have passed the Senate, and 73 of the joint resolu tions have passed the House. In the Senate 893 bills and 192 joint resolutions have been introduced, and 219 of these bills and 79 of the resolutions have passed the Senate, and 58 bills and 40 joint resolutions have passed the House, of tho whole 2849 bills and 475 resolutions. 158 bills nnd 100 joint resolutions have passed both Houses. J. H. Morgan, Esq., General Agent for the Conn XZ .* e In *vrance Company, Hartford, DrAR Sm: Allow mo to tender you my sincere thanks for your prompt payment of the five thousand dollars (§5000) for which my late hus band, Oapt. O. T. Bofaford, insured his life, and also for your own personal attention and kind ness in the matter. Very truly yours, Essex E. M. Botbfobd. Dawson, Terrell county, May 8, 1870. Religions Re-Union. Tho telegrams yesterday announced that the Southern Baptist Convention in Lonisville had unanimously adopted a resolution adverse to co operation with the Northern Baptists. In tho Methodist Conference, at Memphis, a memorial had been presented from the Northern Metho dist Church, suggesting a re-union of the two branches of that Church, and asking for the ap pointment of a Committee of Conference on the subject. The action of these vast and intelligent bodies of Christian men, on such a subject, is bound to exert a powerful influence npon the politics as well os the religions situation of tho country. Mr. Webster, Mr. Calhoan and Mr. Clay—all of them, in their public speeches at the time of the division, deplored it as one of tho most om inous signs of the time; and we may safely say a cordial understanding will never again exist between tho Sonth and the other sections of the country, until Providence shall open the way for a re-union of the religious denominations upon a ba sis of Christian e quality and fraternity. We will not undertake to say when each a movement can be safely consummated; bnt its primary condition must, of course, be one of perfect fairness and equality. The Northern Methodists showed themselves sharp and ag gressive in dividing the chnrch and its common property; it behooves them now to be preem inently liberal, just and conciliatotyin promo ting a reconsolidation. Let them discontinue the work of spoliation and aggression npon the Southern Metho'dists, and cultivate harmonious and fraternal relations now, while a reunion is talked of. 2hat will be a good beginning. For our part, believing that the destiny of this country most be worked ont nnder a com mon government, and that, therefore, it is im portant, in every view, to restore harmony as soon as possible; believing that there will never cease to bo unhappy rivalries, jealousies and conflicts of interest and jurisdiction between the denominations Sonth, unless they are re united ; and that a reunion will give the South ern Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians in creased power and influence for good npon society in the Sonth, and of course in the North also, we shall be glad when the time comes that they may safely and honorably reunite. A Lively Fight. From newspaper and other sources, the news comes that the liveliest sort of a fight is going on all over tho Sonth, almost, and notably in North Carolina and Mississippi, between those interesting creatures known as scallswags and carpet-baggers. Their backs are np, and like tom cats, their eyes are shining, and their claws working in and ont preparatory to a dash at each other’s throats. They are quarreling over the spoils they have filched from the white peo ple, of coarse, and for the negro vote, whereby they hope to retain possession of their ill-gotten plunder. We hardly know where to put our money in the fight. The C. B.’s as a general thing, have more brains than their rivals, and in addition can vaunt themselves the peculiar friends and champions of the negroes, most of them having been in the Federal army in some capacity.— But, on tho other hand, the scalawags, if not so sharp, are, as a class, a great deal meaner than the carpet-baggers, besides being more inti mately acquainted with the negro in all his phasos,and his basest and moBt brutal instincts and passions. In short, yonr genuine scalawag can come nearer down or np, as the case may be, to tho negro’s level than the Northern white man with his inborn prejudices, and therefore it looks as though he ought to win.— We guess our best policy will be to hedge, after all—bet on one in one State, and on another in another State. In the issue, as finally to be decided, however, the true people of the Sonth can have no par ticular interest unless these people fight to the Kilkenny cat extremity. That consummation would please them amazingly. It would serve a double purpose, viz: Afford them much sport, and sooner rid them of a villainous* set of plun derers who agree upon nothing except robbing honest men. We hope the fight will go on, and by way of encouragement we say bravo scalla- wag, go it carpet-bapger. • The committee of invitation of tho Calliopean Society of Emory and Henry Colleges, Virginia, will accept our acknowledgments for on invitaS lion to attend the oelebration of thoir thirtieth anniversary, on Tuesday, Juno 7th. Among he names of those composing the oommittee we see the name of I. Harvey Turney, Ga. ’ . — —. A Mississippi paper declares that the capitol at J&okson is in a dangerous condition, and oalls upon the Legislature to move out of it at once. If the building is going to fall the Legislature should stay right where it is. When the calam ity comes, let every man be found sternly mashed to his post.—Court'tr-fourndl. Ladt Mold aunt has taken French leavo and gona to Paris. The Georgia Press. A negro woman, in Columbus, whose hus band was beating her, jumped out of a window and broke her leg, Wednesday. It sounds strange bnt he was not made to take the same bap. At a meeting held in Augusta, Wednesday, the following persons were elected officers and directors of the Augusta & Hartwell Bailroad: Directors—H. B. Oasey, M. D., of Georgia; W. H. Tutt,*of Georgia; J. L. Wilkes, M. D., of Georgia; Wm. H. Thorp, of New York; Wm. W. Dechert, of New York; Geo. D. Chapman, of New York; John Thompson, of Georgia; Haaron Bowley, of Georgia; Francis Morris, of New York ; Willis Gaylord, of New York; Jno. D. Mills, of New York; Geo. D. Chapman, President; Wm. H. Thorp. Treasurer; Chas. B. Abbott, Secretary and Local Treaaurer; Willis Gaylord, Financial Agent; A. Grant Childs, Chief-Engineer; Jos. P. Carr, Attorney. - For the year ending March 31st, 1870,31,009,- 513 pounds of guano were shipped over the Georgia railroad, of which about 25,000,000 pounds wero for points on the road and its branches. The Augusta City Council has decided that running railroad trains through that city is not a nuisance. Tne Savannah Nows says: Large Supplies op Fish.—There -arrived at Warsaw river, Thunderbolt, on Sunday last, two smacks from the Florida coast The wells of the smacks contained over 450 red snappers. Monday evening last a smack arrived in War saw river and anchored off Thunderbolt; the well of this smack was well filled with blackfish from the banks of the South Carolina coast. The Bepnblican gives the following account of the parade of the colored portion of the Sa vannah Fire Department: The colored portion of the City’s Fire Depart ment had its parade yesterday. Three compa nies were in line, and they made an appearance that was extremely creditable not only to the in dividuals of which the companies are composed but that portion of the Depaitment of which they are the worthy representatives. Their uniforms wore particularly striking and neat, and every man marched with the steadiness and ^precision of veterans. The companies, consisting of Columbia No. 5, Tomichichi No. 7, and Neptune No. 4, with their reels, formed in line on South Broad street and in front of Firemen’s Hall, where they were received by Mayor Screven and the Board of Aldermen’s Fire Department Committee. Frnvions to their meeting the honorable gentlemen by whom they were received, tho lino was halted and tho drum corp3 sent forward to salute the Mayor and the committee. This was very appropriate. The Mayor then advanced and delivered an excel lent address, daring which he said that ho con- gratulated them on their fine appearance, their good behavior, and on tho cleanliness of their engines. He said that he was happy to meet those men who, though formerly slaves, were now good citizens, and were assisting to protect the interests of our great city. The Mayor, after wishing them a successful future, closed his speech with a few words of counsel. The presidents of one or two of the companies spoke briefly but feelingly in reply. During the delivery of tho Mayor’s speech, there was not a head of any person in the line bnt what was uncovered. The Columbus Sun says the Eagle and Phenix factory is now working np seven bales of cotton a day and will soon use up eleven bales. It pays out over $10,000 a month to its employes. In the case of the city of Columbus against a lot of Sunday liquor dealers tried Tuesday, the Mayor dismissed all the suits, deciding that the municipal authorities had no right to prevent the sale or drinking of liquor on Sunday—that it was a matter for State interference. The Columbus Enquirer, commenting upon tho report of tho President of the Bainbridge, Cnthbert and Columbus railroad says. The first section extends from Bainbridge to Colquitt, a distance of twenty miles, and tho ro- port says that the road will be one straight line for this distance, on the parallel of tho 31st de gree of latitude. The report estimates the cost of preparing the bed for this section at $2,354 per mile, and the superstructure at $0,235 per mile; total cost for road bed, superstructure and equipment of the first twenty miles, $234,819; bridge over Flint river $45,000; engineering and contingent expenses $27,982—making tho total cost of construction and equipment of this section $307,801, an average of only $15,390 per mile. The Engineer reports that this section will be ready for superstructure by the 1st of July next. The second division embraces the section from Colquitt to Cnthbert, a distance of forty- five miles. The cost of the local work, or pre paration of the bed, is estimated at $2,810.50 per mile, or $126,74G.50 for the section; the equipment (locomotives,-cars, depots, etc.) ne cessary to do the business from Bainbridge to Cnthbert is estimated at $188,305.G0; and the total cost of the equipped road from Bainbridge to Cnthbert, a distance of 05 miles, at $872, 770.85. The Athens Watchman says tho peach crop of Northeast Georgia will be abundant. From Athens to Cleveland via Gainesville the editor saw pc-aches in great abundance. Apples are still more promising. Of tho wheat crop of that section, the Watch man says: In all tho adjoining counties the unanimous report of all parties is, that the growing wheat crop is one of unusual promise—while in the country above we know from personal observa tion that it is looking unusually well. The Dawson Journal reports that there were never better stands of cotton in Terrell, Web ster and Calhoun counties. Chopping cotton is going on briBkly. Corn is looking remarkably mdL The Americas Bepnblican reports very dry weather, with gardens and fields suffering for rain. Cotton planted late has not come np. Bullock has appointed J. M. Qaillian, Ordi nary of Babnn connty; Simon F. Odom, Tax Beceiver, of Dooly county; W. A. Barney, Tax Beceiver of McIntosh connty; John B. Shields, Tax Receiver of Morgan connty; and the follow ing Board of Visitors to attend the annual ex amination of tho Senior Class of the University of Georgia: Rev. David Wills, D. D., of Bibb. Hon. James A. Nesbit, of Dade. Rev. M. H. Henderson, of Clarke. Hon. B. L. Mott, of Muscogee. Rev. B. W. Fuller, D. D., of Fulton. Hon. John Harris, of Newton. ' Rev. Wesley Frettyman, of Cobb. Hon. T. P. Bobb, of Chatham. Bev. E. Q. Fuller, D. D., of Fnlton. Hon. E. L Higbee, of Talbot. Tho Constitution says Judge and Mis3 Ers- kine left Atlanta Thursday afternoon for Eu rope, to bo absent three months, i From September lGth, 18G9, to May 10th, 1870, 11,514 bales of cotton were received at Hawkinsville. The Dispatch says the fruit crop in Dooly will be good. Crops rather backward, though green and growing. They are generally clean, and in good condition for rain. The Bamesville Gazette says: Cotton chopping is progressing rapidly all through the country, good stands of cotton hav ing been obtained, notwithstanding the unpro- pitionsness of the seasons. We have heard of one or two instances of worms destroying tho plant after coming up. The Cartersville Express says they are hav ing a very cool, dry spell np there—the dryest Spring for ten years. Stands of com and cot ton pretty fair. Small grain needs rain. At the Fifteenth amendment oelebration in New Orleans the other day Gen. Longstreetrode at ths head of . the prooession in a carriage by himself. There was nobody to ride with him. The white men wouldn’t, and the negroes couldn’t. Poor fellow I , His stomach must be in an awful condition after such a dose. The Georgia Railroad. The meeting of the directors and stock holders of this road was held in Augusta, Wed nesday . From the report of the President and Superintendent of the road, we make some ex tracts. The gross earnings of the road for the year ending March 31st, 1870 were $1,352,- 029 55; dividends on stocks, interest, rent, etc., $83,470 19; earnings of bank $20,414 11, mak ing the total income of the road for the year, from all sources, $1,456,183 85. The gross ex panses for the same period were $1,027,197 13 of which $1,002,925 55 were for road expenses and expenditures on account of the road, $9,- 724 33 bank expenses and $14,547 25 for re deeming circulation of old bills. This leaves a net income from all sources of $128,980 92 from which two dividends of 4 per cent each, free of tax, and aggregating $349,104 have been dclared. leaving a balance unexpended of $79,882 72.— These results compared with similar ones for the year ending March 31st, 1869, show an in crease of $247,598 51 in receipt?, and $106,- 758 28 in expenses, making an increase in the net income of $80,050 23. Of the extension of the road from Athens to Babnn Gap and thence to Knoxville, and of pushing tho road’s Southwestern connections via the Montgomery and "West Point railroad, the report says: When our charter was originally granted, a connection with the Valley of the Ohio, in the direction of Cincinnati and Lonisville, through Georgia and the Rabun Gap, was contemplated by the legislature, and also by our stockholders. And'on the amendment of our charter in 1835, we were kept in mind of this purpose by the proviso “that the continuation of the said road beyond Athens, so as to connect with the Cin cinnati road, shall be steadily prosecuted, so soon as tho Company shall have satisfactory ev idence that the said connection can be formed.” The obligation to the State has perhaps been removed by the State itself having changed its policy, and adopted a different line to reach the Valley of the Mississippi by way of Chattanoo ga, but it is believed, that in justice to a portion of the otiginal stockholders, the disposition re mains to comply with this original obligation in the charter, whenever the contemplated contin gency occurs. The means and ability to do so, will of coarse have to be considered at the prop er time. At an early day after the completion of oar road to Atlanta, the importance of seenringfree connection with the Southwest was fully appre ciated, ani large sums were expended for that purpose. First by aid to the Montgomery and West Point road, and afterwards to build the Atlanta and West Point road to connect with that road at West Point. By the embarrass ments of the Montgomery and West Point road, occasioned by the ravages of war, and the mon opoly of its stock by the Savannah line, we were likely to lose the benefits of this important con nection. To give full value to this connection, it became necessary to extend tho line to Selma, and it wis proposed by the authorities of the Central Bailroad Company, that if our Compa ny would join in securing that important im provement the two Companies should be placed upon the tamo footing “in every particular.” Tho parties have been negotiating upon this basis, and it is hoped that what may be done by tho Boa:d of Directors, may prove satisfac tory to tho stockholders. Thrilling Description of the Acci dent at the Capitol. Elbert Fowler, Esq., writes to the Bristol (Tenn.,) Newsa most graphio description of his experience in going down with the Richmond capitol floor. We give a few extracts: To my right wero Meredith, Neeson, and El- lyson; to my left were Wells, Chandler, Cha- hoon, Senators Kindrick and Herndon; imme diately in my front were Dr. Brock and the re porters of tho city press, while Patrick Henry Aylott sat abont two feet on my left; in my rear were Robert Miller, of Montgomery, Henry Bowen, of Tazewell, and Stubbs, of Gloucester —all members of the House; by my side were two old men whose heads were white. At this instant, ere I had been three minuteB in the room, there was a loud, sharp report, followed by one louder and sharper than before; the main girder immediately beneath me broke, tho floor assumed a funnel shape, a sort of sympa thetic shudder ran through the vast crowd, and in an instant of time, ere we could start or move, wo were hurled and dashed down twenty- eight feet into the hall of the House of Dele gates. As wo sank with that peculiar wave and tremor that accompanies a falling body, amid the general shout I looked upward, and oh, hor ror of horrors! the gallery, with all its human freight nnd heavy fljor, its death-dealing tim bers and jagged nails, tlie clerk's office with all its ponderous desks and huge books, the stair way that led oat to the roof; the lofty ceiling with its great wooden beams, its iron bolls and heavy plaster, came thick and fast, crashed and crushing npon onr unprotected heads. I saw all: I knew all; yet I must have been insensible for several minutes. I heard the workmen re moving tho timbers above me, and I knew they were trying to rescue us. I knew the man un der me had died without a murmur or a struggle. I heard tho poor fellow who lay by my right side say “Oh, Jesus, you saved the thief upon the Cross; save me!’’ and I knew that he, too, was dead; for my right arm was caught between the timbers and pinned across his throat so that he had ceased to breathe. I heard another cry.— Oh death, where is thy stiDg? Oh grave,where is thy victory' 1 ? and I knew that ho, too, was gone. I know that two poor fellows on my left had fallen with their faces together, and hoard one say, “My friend, can’t you turn your head a little ?" and when told that he coaid not move, calmly replied, “Then I must die.” He had no murmur to make, but died only as man can die in such a place. My eye was black, my forehead scraped, my nose black and blue, my ear mashed, my head cut to pices, my ankle sprained, my leg mashed, my clothes torn to pieces, my hat, stick, and pooket-book gone, my mouth full of clotted blood, and still I thought I was not hurt. I absolutely walked from the Exchange to the Capitol the next morning, re covered my cane from the ruins and returned to sponn the day in the parlor, when three days afterward I could, with difficulty, walk on a orntch. And this seems to have been the pre vailing opinion with all those who wero wound ed; they wero not hart much, and yet several are dead. The story given ont,aud generally believed at first, that tho accident was caused by the giving way of the gallery, is a mistake. "When the main girder under the floor broke, the floor sank, and as the gallery rested on the floor it followed; bnt the gallery was conneoted with the ceiling —which seemed to have been suspended four or five feet below the roof by a Btairway and some lesser timbers—these drew down the ceiling. So that the force of the floor caused the fall of the gallery, and the gallery that of tho ceiling. I saw it in this order. Could it have happened otherwise ? lira. Lynch, who was captured with the Lope* family, is said to be a beautiful French woman who acquired considerable wealth and renown in Paraguay, and whose husband was an officer in the English Navy. y-' -r . A last in Maine was left by the war with 31 orphan gnwtiiiiMwf, An “Unreconstructed” Baptist D. D. Of the Bev. P. H. Mell, D. D., Vice Chan cellor of onr State University, and President of the Southern Baptist Convention recently in session at Louisville, tho Courier-Journal tells the following story whioh we do not recollect to have seen in print before: In Baltimore in 18C8, when the response of tho Southern Baptist Convention to the frater nal message of the Northern Baptist Convention was being discussed, the venerable Dr. Welob, of New York, had the floor and was making a very loving speech. To show that he did not oensure harshly his Southern brethren, he said: “Why, Brother'President, if I had been in the South, such are the impulses of my heart that I should no doubt have been one of the leaders of the rebellion.” At the utterance of the last word the gavel came down sharply, and Dr. Mell said, in his firmest bnt most courteous tones: ‘ ‘The chair rules that word out of order on this floor.” “.Why, Brother President, what shall I call it, then, sir?” meekly asked Dr. Welch. “The chair will not presume to dic tate, sir, but he insists upon his ruling that the word ‘rebellion’ in that connection is out of or der. He shall so hold, unless you appeal from the decision of the chair. Do you appeal, sir?” “No, Brother President, I do not appeal,” meekly responded Dr. Weloh, and there were not a few followers of the “late so-called” who inwardly rejoiced that, in any respeotable body, the word “rebellion” oould be ruled out of or der. At an election for municipal offloers of Cum berland, Maryland, held on the 9th instant, and at which 130 negroes voted, the Badicals elected the Mayor by 75 majority,' and the Democrats the six councilmen by majorities ranging from 20 to 113. Last year the Badioals elected the Mayor, and two of the six councilman," Fish Culture—A Visit to Spring Villa From the Montgomery Mail. 1 Spring Villa, the oonntry seat of CoL W. F. O. Yonge, lies in Lee oonnty, Ala., three miles from Yonge’s Station, on the Columbus and Opelika rallroacL It was laid ont for the culti vation of fish in 1851 and the lake oompleted in 1801. The lake covers Bix acres, and tne wind ings of the stream which feeds it must be near ly a mile in length. Tfae springs, which alone feed the lake, number thirty-one, the central and most important of which gushes np like the current from a strong artesian welL These springs are enclosed and well gravelled, the waiers being dear as crystal. The lake is or namented with weeping willows, water oaks, aspens and other varieties of decorative trees. Islands have been thrown up throughout the lake and covered with a vigorous growth of shrubs and shade trees. Several row-boats have been placed upon the lake for the convenience of fishers and the pleasure of visitors. The water is so clear throughout that the different varieties of fish with which it abounds may be seen swimming about—Suckers, scraping the bottom in search of spawn, whioh they destroy in immense quantities; Trouts chasing, with their cannibal propensities, the smaller mem bers of the fish family; and Breams, the true Southern fish, alone pursuing the even tenor of their way, striving to do equal and exact justice to all varieties, without regard to race, color, or previous condition. CoL Yonge h%s never stocked his lake with fish. He discovered the springs, trained the waters into the reservoirs, and the fish appeared spontaneously. It is not for us to say whero they came from. We leave all that to Darwin and Agassiz. They came just as fish come in brick-yard puddles, in wells, and in the ditches around the old fortifications; just as pinos come up in old fields, and just as oaks grow up when the pines are ent down; and just as the so- called Japanese clover has sprung up all over the South. These special plants, and fish, need no transplanting or transportation. They just grow of their own accord, asTopsy did. With the thirty springs which feed his lake, CoL Yonge proposes to form thirty different primary reservoirs for spawning the different varieties of fish which may be adapted to our temperature. On a small scale he has already practically illustrated the plan which he now submits to the East Alabama AgrioultnralAssoci- ation, and which he proposes to the farmers of the State as a most valuable addition to their home productions. When the spawning season arrives, the tront or bream, as the case may bo, is caught and transported to the primary foun tain reservoir appropriated to that variety, where the spawn is deposited. The parent fish are then immediately allowed to escape by raising the wire-door and letting them pass down into the lake. The spawn prodnoe thou sands of young. At a certain age, say six months, the gate is raised and they all pass down into reservoir No. 2, where they remain and grow to the age of one year. They then pass to reservoir No. 3, where they reach the age of two years. They are then introduced into the great lake, where their size and strength save them from being made the .prey of their cannibal kinsmen. If, however, the spawn were deposited in the lake, great part of it would become the prey of Backers, Eels, Tar- ties, &o., and that which developed into young would suffer another loss by being preyed upon by larger fish of their own variety; so that but a small proportion of the eggs would ever reach maturity. But, by removing the spawn to the fountain sources, protecting tho young, sepa rating the varieties, and permitting only those of the same age to mingle together, the produc tion is vastly increased and the sale of fish be comes a matter of great pecuniary profit. Most persons have springs of more or less volume and of the proper temperature on their premises, and generally near their dwellings. The labor of preparing the ponds and lakes would be cheap, as it could be done at such sea sons as not to interfere with ordinary farm work. There is no reason why the experiments made by GoL Yonge, reBultiDg in such marked success, may not be tried by every farmer and planter. The primary spring at Spring Yilla is a noble one, but not bolder than a hundred others which may be found in this State. In training the waters into a proper channel, the .other springs made their appearance, and they *in turn being controlled, that which was a marshy and unseemly hill-side and bottom be came a lovely meadow and lake. Just such a conformation of ground and arrangement of springs may be found all over the State. It may be asked what does all this amount to, apart from tho pleasure of fishing and of natural beauty? In reply, it may be said that fish may enter largely into the economy of the plantation. It is a cheap food. It costs noth ing to raise except the expense of preparing the lake. Fish cannot easily be stolen; poach ing being a most difficult and laborious work in such a case. CoL Yonge has not made his lake a source of profit, but nevertheless has frequently realized hundreds of dollars by the sale of trout and bream. What’s in the Wind? Editors Telegraph and Messenger: The Washington correspondent of the Savannah News has the following: “Moreof Bullock’s schemes have been brought to light. It is said he has actually sold the State Road to the Adams Express Company, and only awaits the action of a carpet-bag Legislature to consummate the fraud. Also, that it is proposed to buy the residence of John H. James for a gu bernatorial mansion, at a cost of $250,000, although the value does not exceed $00,000.” I have no information of the truth or falsity of these statements, but having been in Atlanta a week or ten days daring the late session, it seemed to me more was going on than appeared on the face of the proceedings. While the Sen ate were adopting by resolution the general ap propriation acts, Senator Harris proposed with an air of “childlike simplicity and_ innocence,” “a very simple resolution instrqcting the Gov ernor to preserve the publio credit,” although From the St. Louis Republican. \ A STRAW©® DEATH-BED. Cartons Particulars «f Hoar* of a Courtesan—She Foretell* Her Own The filets oonnected with the death of Sarah Gladstone have been kept quiet and away from the public, but have excited a very deep interest among the few medical men and others acquainted with them. There appears, however, no object in further se ® re ^ y * "S unfortunate prostitute has been dead several weeks, and it is pretty well established that she has no near relatives, whose feelings need be considered in connection with the matter. We therefore give the story as told by those personally acquainted with the facte, suppress- nnin . TwrGnnlftTs as to the names ot ing only a few particulars as to the names persons and localities. ‘ , . , Sarah Gladstone belonged to that class ot prostitutes milled by the polioe privateers. Her home was a small room.m a tenement building which die kept furnished with great neatness and taste. It was never the scene of drunken revels or unruly gatherings, and, in fact, Sarah’s visitors were so few that it was often said she had some private means of her own. It was well established that she was a prostitute, although she was never up before court for the offenoe, and always conducted herself oa the street with decorum. She had been well educated, was exceedingly handsome, and her manner and deportment indicated that her early associations must have been re- fined and genteel. Very little is known about her history, Sho came to this city about two years ago from the east, hut under what cir cumstances and from what city or town is not known. She never spoke of her past life, ex cept what escaped from her lips on her death bed; as mentioned farther on. A month or so ago Sarah was taken ill. The fact was first discovered by a^young man, a clerk who was in the habit of visiting her. He went to her room one Saturday night and found the door unlocked and Sarah absent. Thinking she was only gone, but for a mo ment, he closed the door, which was fastened with a slip-latch, and sat down on the sofa and amused himself reading a book which he found on tho table. According to his subse quent statements, he must have remained reading about half an hour, and then uncon sciously dropped asleep. Ho was awakened by the sound of a woman’s sobs. He saw Sarah kneeling on the rug before the fire place, her face buried in her hands aud weep ing bitterly. She appeared wholly unaware of his presence and absorbed in some great sorrow. He watched her for a few moments The night was one unusually sultrv „arm for April, and between llandl vj? a thunder storm broke over the city. - had continued silent for over an hour nan? fKo whiqrprinff mnvpr^aiiAM cept the whispering .conversation of thetjj?' thunder which shook the building Ju,- her, and she suddenly sat up in bed. t? physicians state that they approached ■ found her trembling violently. She« ^ hold of the arm of Dr. , saying, “y a good, strong, brave man; can’t yon , mo ? I have been suffering all mylif.^ now I am dying at the bidding of this J* stem man. Oh 1 save me, doctor! sa-, for God himself has given me up 1 ” " 6 41 As^he spoke she clutched the doctor’, with desperation, and a fearful earned was expressed in her face, The youn» Henry, at this time, overcome by left the room. Sarah did not' departure,, but continued to talk vrilcj,^ some coming peril. All at once, when tv doctors were endeavoring to compose her * induce her to lie down, she turned her? towards the door and uttered a tlwJ 9 shriek. In a moment she had beam? raving maniac. Her eyes were fixed on & door, as if they saw some terrible object tl? “So you’ve come,” she said, ‘‘you’ve k-' James Lennox, to complete your wort, ft! I’ve got friends now. You ruined — •- and soul, but now I’m free. Keep d—d villain 1 As she spoke she spranc ms bed and ran behind the physicians, ahadfc! and muttering to herself. They m 'B arms round her and lifted her into the S again. Sho resitted like a wild beast, k seemed to think herself struggling jjih deadly foe. She heaped imprecations cc it! head of her haunting persecutor, andiS him in desperate terms, also alluding [aS. rently to persons and scenes in her For more than half an hour she remsiJ? this way, and then suddenly became qui«i seemingly composed. Her eyes closed 2 she seemed asleep. Her breathing w! regular, hut very low and faint, and her fell alarmingly. In a little time she her eyes, and looking upon her attend® smiled sweetly. She muttered sometS and one of the doctors bent down and up, heard the words, “It’s almost morning am They were the last words of Sarah Gy; stone, for ten minutes afterwardsshe wiF —and the clock was striking twelve. silently, and then getting up he approached her and laid his hand upon her shoulder, say ing: Why, Sarah, what is the matter ?’ She looked round at him with a convulsive start, and at first did not appear to recognize him. Her hair was dishevelled and her face and eyes swollen with crying. She at length said: “What are you doing here ? Leave me, for God’s sake leave me, Henry.” The young man states that he endeavored to persuade her to tell him what troubled her, but that she seemed bewildered, and persisted in passionate entreaties that he should leave the room. Her agitation increased, and final ly, fearing the sound of her voice would at tract attention, he went away. The following evening, Sunday, feeling cu riously interested in the state of the unhappy girl, he again went to her room. He found the door locked and could gain no response to his knocks. On Monday evening he went to the same place. As he stood at the door he heard the sound of a woman’s voice sobbing, and he recognized it to bo Sarah’s. He knocked, and after waiting some time, she finally admitted him. He states that he found her the picture of misery. Her face deadly pale, her eyes bloodshot with tears, and her movements indicated extreme weak ness. The following is his report of the con versation that took place: ^ , ■ “I heard you at the door last night,” said the girl when I had entered. “But I could not let you in. Ido not want you to stay now.” “I only oame, Sarah, to see if I could be of any service to you, as I thought you were sick, or in great trouble.” “You are good and kind, my dear hoy,” she answered. “I thought nobody in- the world cared for me. But I am past all help. I am dying, Henry.” “Dying, Sarah? what on earth do you mean?” I asked. '* “I am dying,” sho repeated, shaking her head pitifully from side to side, and leaning back on the sofa in a helpless way as if with out strength. “You are only sick, Sarah,” I said, trying to comfort her. “I will get a doctor and you will he all right in a few days.” , j “Its of no use, Henry; nothing can save me; I’ve been called; I’ve been called, and I must go. My strength is ebbing away fast and by this day week I will be dead. I’m not sorry,” sho continued slowly as if talking to herself; my life has been a bitter, hitter strugt gle, and I want rest. But, oh God! ” she cried, starting to her feet and walking up and down the room, ringing her hands, "why shonld ho be the one to call me ? He ruined me; he stole me away from happy Stamford and made a wretched strumpet of me. He left me all alone with my dead child in the big city, andjaughed at my prayers and tears. I heard he was dead long ago, shot bituself down South, and I felt God had avenged me. But, no no! ho has haunted me when dead as when alive. Curse him, curse him, my evil The above is a hasty sketch of the end oft unhappy girl.. The physicians held a L mortem examination, but except so <atnj dications of great mental excitement wereei cerned no adequate and satisfactory cans' death was discovered. The theories of doctors are never very interesting, so b them unmentioned, we leave the simple £ with the reader. Cases of death tVca strength of a mental delusion are not to. cedcnted; hut even admitting this fietii almost impossible to interpret the deal Sarah Gladstone without accepting an da of the supernatural. From East Tenuessee. iMrge Grain Crops—A Hairs in lii-owii Railroad to Macon. the Code makes ample provision for tho re- - , * , SP . demption of the Publio Debt. Harris said that star, and now no takes my hie. Curse him, * . m <i> i r t.A T_i a I Llwt LaIi 4a*attai» ” vHa hi rend thncn the amount falling due before 1st July was not curse him in hell forever.” She hissed those more than six or seven thousand dollars, as tho Governor had informed him, but it was well enough to make provision for it, and he there fore offered the resolution, which gave Gover nor Bullock plenary power to preserve the pub lic credit until the 1st July, and in point of fact to do what he pleased with the property of the State under the general instruction to “pre serve the public credit" When this resolution was brought forward, and I saw Senators Candler and Burns jump upon it, I was surprised. I thought them too suspicious. But daring the debate it leaked out that after an examination in the Treasurer’s office, so far from only six or seven thousand dollars being due and to be provided for by the 1st of July next, the amount of bonds alone then due would be over $100,000, and the interest and bonds together, to be paid this year, amount to between five and six hundred thou sand. ; Harris’ resolution was finally voted down and a substitute by Senator Speer adopted, whioh instructs the Governor to preserve the publio credit as direoted by the Code. After this action by the Senate, I am informed that Harris said, in effect, to one of his Radical colleagues who voted against him, “You bothered us by your course. You knew not what yon did." The people cannot be too watchful and vigi lant, when this Legislature is called together again. It is corrupt beyond the most lively ap prehensions. Let them early warn their Sena tors and Representatives, Badioals and Demo crats, that if they do sell ont the State to these intngnants, they Bhall be held to solemn ac count. A Georgian. Steel vs. Iron Rails. From the report of the Superintendent of the Georgia railroad, we extract the following with reference to the comparative merits of iron and steel rails: The railroad mind of this country is. being greatly interested and exercised, just now, upon the question of substituting steel tor iron rails, aud many of tbe leading lines of railway in the oast and west have adopted the use of the steel rail entirely. Various estimates have been made, and many speculations engaged in to determine how long a steel rail will wear nnd bo safe and useful. The time indicated by these tests and experiments are almost fabulous. I had, myself, lately the opportunity of examin ing a section of steel rail which had been in use on the Erie Railroad, in New York, for twelve month’, on an eighty-five foot grade, and over which three million tons had passed, showing even wear of only one thirty-second part of an inch. The relative wear by the tonnage of yonr road, as at present, would have shown less than one nineteenth part of an inch, probably, for the same length of time. The relative cost at this time of steel and iron rails delivered, is about one third more for the s'eel ■ k - John Jat, the last survivor of the regiment to whioh Wellington addressed the famous words, “Up, guards, and at them,” has juat died in London. last words through her teeth with terrible emphasis and sank on the sofa panting and exhausted. ■ “I tried to sooth her but she seemed delir ious, and while her great brown eyes glared with a horrible light, she continued to rave wildly of someunknownman who had wronged her, and who was now causing her death. “I left her for a short time and procured two of my medical friends and returned to the room.” The remainder of the particulars connected with the girl’s death are gathered from the physicians who attended her. They stated that they found tho patient in a state of ex treme lassitude on their arrival. A period of strong cerebral excitement had been followed by a reaction of weakness. She was collected and tranquil and readily answered all ques tions asked her. She seemed possessed with the idea that her death was approaching, and it was evident that she considered she had a supernatural intimation of the fact. She had been called, she frequently said, and knew she mustgo. “Wecould detect no specific ailment and treated her as we considered best to allay nervous and mental excitement, and to sup port the physical strength. On Monday and Thursday she seemed better, but on Friday, alarming and most singular symptoms were developed.” It appears that on this evening, when the two doctors visited Sarah together, they found the young man, Henry, in the room. As they approached tho bed they observed a change had occurred on the patient. Her eyes shone with extraordinary brilliancy, and her cheeks were flushed with a crimson color. Other wise, however, she appeared calm and self- controlled. ‘‘Tell them, Henry, what I told you,” she said to the young man. He hesitated, and finally she continued— “Thi3 poor boy, dootors, won’t believe me when I tell him I shall die to-night at twelve o’clock.” Heury was weeping, and she said to him— “Were you fond of me really? fond of the wretched girl of the town ? Oh I Henry, God will bless you for your kindness and love to i, . mo* She continued to talk rationally and affec tionately to her young friend until about ten o'clock, when she dosed her eyes and appeared to sleep. The physicians had become deeply interested in the case, and volunteered to re main until after midnight. They state that at this time there was no appearance of Berious . disease about the girL Her pulse was strong and full and somewhat fast; the skin was healthy in oolor and to the touch, and that the general condition of the patient wa& that of one suffering from nervous agitation, bufc whose condition could not he considered ajtali dangerous. The only medicine they adminis tered was a strong dose of morphine, with the 1 intentipa of induing deep. Knoxville, Tenn., May 10,181 Editors Telegraph and Messenger: l bustling little city, perched proudly mountains, is smiling beneath sunshise h an April-like shower in the earlier mooir Birds are singing, fiowers are blooming, nfa tore rejoices. The heart of man is aloneisi panoply of caro and gloom. Throughout this beautiful aud fertile !i crops exhibit the most promising nppessn notwithstanding the long delay of spring, f wheat fields throughout the celebrated Sit water Valley, and indeed elsewhere, ere h riant to a wonderful degree. Unless sc-xer great calamity should overtake that crop,^ Georgians may reckon surely on an studs and cheap supply of flour after harres: in this region. The com of last year’s crop, h ever, is very scarce. Our supplies in Mid Georgia must be drawn this summer {ton* other quarter. An unusual breadth of land is soiaaL Tennessee this year in small grain. Bci'sj largely sown, more so than ever befort a, rye and oats the same. This results ten! increasing diminntion of labor—the cd::n of com requiring more labor than that o!a grain. This diminution results from tie a ration of vast numbers of the negroes K)j itates lying farther Sonth; a movement pe nlarly active since the complete triumnbeft Democratic (or as it is here styled, the Cm vative) party. Yonr readers are aware tog new Constitution, formed by the recent f vention, removes all disabilities, and thoras democratizes the State. And it is admitted | all here that all hope of Congressional ntt ence with tho State government of Tenntsa j at an end. Knoxville is a flourishing city, claimingt the same population as your beautifole Nothing Would delight its business men tl than a direct railway communication with 1H through your proposed Northern Kail wy. a road would benefit this region quite ts: as Central Georgia. You may count on s W co-operation of East Tennessee capitalists si project. The road is already graded ton! the Babnn Gap in Georgia, and is in eration to, or near, the celebrated Molt Springs, thirty miles South of KnoivQiJ the other direction, towards Kentucky, the* is oompleted aud in active operation lets' than forty mile3 north of Knoxville, to Iff ville, near Jacksboro. This road peneWJ ready some of the richest coal and iroa: on the Globe. Your citizens have alreadjaj using the Coal Creek coal, from this lined? The work on the road is temporarily see?? but ere long it will be resumed and pnsi*J ward to meet the great line of rail«f ‘ Cincinnati capitalists are pushing acres tuoky to meet it. The day, not far dis*J trust, which shall see a direct line of connecting Macon with Cincinnati, va - ville, Tennessee, will be a proud one HI commercial and industrial interests cf»-1 mense and wealthy territory. . J Tho spring, here, is two or three hind the same season in Macon. Taa • pseudacaciaiB infull bloom here—* ‘m*? ’. as Tennyson says of them in° n0 . o *T,. charming lyrics. The atmosphere is f-;' 1 delightful; we breathe it- now G50f*^J height of the great pyramids of above the level of the sea than you do 0c Macon and Augusta From the annual report of the Sap ent of the Georgia railroad, made at stockholders’ meeting in Augusta, ws 5 follows with reference to the business, e* the Macon and Augusta railroad *. The receipts and expenses of jlft, 1 *] unfinished condition, for tbe fiscal. | closed, have been as follows: beceipts. From Passage $21,921 97 From Freight From Mail 2,350 00-f 5 * I For Conducting Trans portation $ 7,608 31 For Motive Power 13,9CS 72 For Maintenance of VTay. 25,363 55 For Maintenance of Cars 1,034 S3— Net Income * Vi Owing to the Ices of the first for this road, the extension of traesyi _ and onr reasonable expectations o i revenue from this Bource have n« A izecL But the offloers of that the contractors under them, seem < ^ all in their power, and an early cow. the traok is expeoted. Considers w bridges on this road will be reqni ^ > current year: many of them oug placed with culverts and embanxf Strong Tkstdiont.—Judge . First District Court of New Orle*^ his Grand Jury, a few days ago, *•* A, I I am satisfied that the officers <^l and city have, by extortion, intrigue, robbed the State and P® ^ in the last year than every ihie | for five yean. 0 1 That is a judicial commem^ siructed government which all endorse. At Spnrenburg,Frossi^a» ’ salt wee diaoowawdtwo bee* twedteth* depto »-^ pnr * $ 2.347 go through *** ”1 The temperature at the d™ 1