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The Greox*aia 'Weekly Telee:rai3li and. Journal &c jVTessen^er.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MAY 24 1870.
Xbe Ciuli System.
On and after Jnno 1st, according to an obli
gation imposed by the Southern Press Associa
tion, -we are compelled to discontinue all sub-
seriptions which do not show a balance to credit
on the books at that lime. As we have a great
affeotlon for onr readers, and do not like to lose
a single one of them, we hope all in arrears or
whose time of prepayment will shortly expire
will pay to our agents or remit to us as may be
moBt convenient. We flatter ourselves with the
hope that not a score ont of thousands will be
found minus by the first of June. They are
paying up nobly, bnt nevertheless some are
backward. Come up, friends, one and all, and
remit at our risk, if that is the most convenient
mode of settlement.
General News.
August Ceremonial.—The Court Journals an
nounce the baptism of tho Infant Colfax, under
the eyos of the President and family, who pro
nounced it well done. Dat ish goot.
Easier Sud than Done.—The New York Tri
bune says magisterially: “Let the word go
forth that the prolific lowlands of the Mississip
pi shall be reclaimed.” The hoe will have to
go forth on that errand; and who is to go it7
Not tho Tribune himself—not any of his white
readers, and as for tho negro with his budgetof
superior rights, not many of them will “go
forth” on that errand, wo fear.
Annivebsaby Week.—Last week was anni
versary week in New York city—a great time
for philanthropy, hot coffee, soft crabs and
ices.
Solid Wobk.—ThoPottsville Miner’s Journal
having told of a man in that place who has
been drunk thirty-five years, has been called to
formal account by twenty different individuals,
bnt the man he alluded to has not yet made
complaint.
Embarrassing.—The Senate Committee on
Territories, considering Cnllom’s anti-poly
gamy bill are mnch embarrassed on the ques
tion of disposing of the Mormon children, and
rightly fear that tho summary destruction of
these polygamous families may work more
harm than good.
Tnr. Supplement art Civil Rights Bill.—The
Herald says: Senator Chawles is getting very
tiresome and is riding his black hobby to death.
Worse than that, Mr. Herald. Snmner has
ridden it into the grave-yard, and even insists
upon running tho animal literally “into the
ground.”
One of the Sound steamers, (the Bristol) cut
down and snnk a vessel in New York Harbor
the other night, which was in part freighted
with wares for ono of onr Macon merchants, Mr.
Wise.
The Mexican Republic has issued a decree
confiscating Santa Anna’s estates.
A Choice Mill Site.—Onr friend Houser, who
advertises his flouring mills near Fort Valley,
says be bas got a water privilege of eighteen
feet fall and abundance of never failing water
whore he can locate a cotton factory within ten
feet of the Southwestern railway, if he desires
to do so, and drive spindles enough to satisfy
the most greedy manufacturer in the world.
Jenny Lind is said to be so embarrassed, pe
cuniarily, that she is about to open a singing
school in Paris.
An Aoid Negro.—Among the applicants for
registration in New York, to vote in the judicial
election, was a negro named William Rne, born
in Maryland in 17G2, and a slave till 1818 when
he was manumitted. He was in good health
and appearod sound in mind and memory at the
age of 108.
Sixteen hundred and eighty seven colored
votes were registered in New York city up to
last Friday night.
TIi© Kutlonul Coffee Pot.
Onr friend Wise, on Mulberry street, has a
novel coffee pot for sale which is meeting with
a groat ran in the North and West, though just
introduced here. It is constructed like an ice
pitcher, with an independent lining and a space
of say three-quarters of an inch between. This
space is filled with boiling water through an
aperture near tho handle. The inner recepta
cle then being supplied with the coffee and hot
water, is closed by hinged covers which fit
tightly over both the top and nozzle, so as to be
nearly air tight. The pot is then put upon the
coals or stove to boiL The water behind the
lining does the boiling, and the coffee is steep
ed for any length of time with no loss of its aro
ma by steam or evaporation; and the decoction
will preserve in this pot, for many hours, all
e fragrance and life of fresh coffee, without
iltemess. This little household arrangement
is patented under the name of the “National
Goffee Pot," and of course is loyaL It will be
fonn 1 a very substantial and valuable improve
ment npon tho ordinary contrivance for making
coffee, bat more time Bhonld be allowed for the
operation.
Dby.—This is the record of the last three
weeks in Macon. The ground has not been wet
an inch since the 29th of April. The cool spell
has ended, bnt still no rain. The heavens are
guiltless of rain signs of any kind. There ap
pears no prospect even of a sprinkle. Du6t is
king, and reigns with a tyrant’s remorselessness.
Vegetables are wilting and withering, and the
market is falling off most painfully, every day.
Crops are drooping badly. Cotton that is up
looks like it was sorry it had done any such
foolish thing, and that in the ground appears to
have no notion of committing a similar impru
dence. We never know a bluer May for farm
ers hereabouts. A good rain, just now, wonld
be worth a pot of money to everybody.
Tight.—Money is said to be tight as a drum
bead; bnt it nover can be otherwise this time
of year with tho enormous drains npon Georgia
for tho purchase of food from abroad. The
trade Georgia carries on wonld beggar the
Rothschilds in a very brief time, and what it
actually does for us is to transfer the fatness of
onr soil and the frnits of our labor annually to
the last dollar to the North and the West, leav
ing ns every midsummer to groan over tight
times and empty pockets. Gentlemen, let ns
resolve to mend.
A Lnll.
A Washington correspondent remarks that
since the Georgia bill left the Senate, there has
not been a single outrage reported from that
State.
This is true, we believe, and is well under
stood down here. There is no capital to be
made by it—no doubtful Republicans in Con
gress to be iiiflamed and their votes secured to
push along Bollock’s wicked schemes against
the peace, the liberties, and property of the
people of Georgia. He and his strikers are
taking breath for the final struggle in the House
when the bill comes up in that body. They are
marshalling their forces for the last assault—
taking wind for the last blast of lies and Blan-
ders by which they hope to fix Georgia’s flint
and seenre Bollock’s triumph. Look ont about
that time for a perfect avalanche of monstrous
falsehoods—to manipulate sentiment and votes
at Washington. We have no idea the Atlanta
Slander Mill can begin to get along with its
present force. It will have to be doubled to do
the bnsiness demanded.
The philosophy of the present lull in this bus
iness of false dispatches and reports of outrages
that never occurred, is what we want Congress
and the North to mark and clearly understand.
Here i3 a State whose soil fairly smokes with
“loyal” blood whenever her status is np for
Congressional determination, and when that
subject is not np is as quiet and peaceable as
any in tho Union. Two or three months ago
Georgia was stigmatized as the most treacher
ous, blood-thirsty, and disloyal community at
the Sonth. Radical papers, North and South,
teemed with the bloodiest, most barbarous
murders and outrages by “rebels” and Demo
crats on “loyal” men. Now we hear nothing
of the kind. Georgia’s name is scarcely men
tioned. The moat violent newspapers are
searched in vain for a line regarding her condi
tion. These outrages have ceased almost as if
by magic.
Bnt Georgia is just where she was when all
these slanders were heaped npon her. Her
condition is jnstwhat it was then. Her peo
ple are quiet and law-abiding just as they were
then, and have been in the mam for five years.
There are just as many outrages committed
now as then, and sho deserves political damna
tion now as justly as she did then.
We want fair minded men everywhere and
in Congress especially, to make a note of this
phenomenon and govern themselves according
ly when Georgia comes np again.
Da. Bond writes from Memphis to his paper,
the Baltimore Episcopal Methodist, that a
strong effort will be made in the Conference “to
take off the limitation of time from the ap
pointments and permit the Bishops to station
preachers for any period. It will be as strong
ly opposed, and, I think, will not pass. The
proposition comes from Virginia. It is thought
two new Bishops will be wanted, one to reside
in Texas. ^ Wo think, however, that the Balti
more Conference is not in danger of losing one
of its valuable members."
” Reconstruction.
The telegram says the House Reconstruction
Committee has agreed to report a bill admitting
Georgia similar to the Virginia, North Carolina
and Texas bills, with a supplementary provision
authorizing all the so-ealled States to call out
their militia.
Stlvands Schmidt, after attempting to shoot
his sweetheart, Miss Wells, of Williamsburg,
N. Y., on Friday, and failing therein, emptied
three barrels of his revolver into his own head.
It is sad to know that he was not dead at last
Pen Pictures of Southern Baptists.
The Courier- Journal of Louisville, published
a series of pen pictures of distinguished mem
bers of the Southern Baptist Convention, lately
in session there, similar to those published by
ns a year ago, when the Convention met in
Macon, and this is what it says of two Macon
citizens:
REV. F. M. HAYGOOD
is by birth a Georgian, and has spent his life in
Georgia. He is a man of deep-toned piety and
an active laborer. It is donbted whether there
can be fonnd in all the South a better colpor
teur or a warmer friend of Sunday schools. He
loves the children, and has a peculiar power in
eliciting their love and making them happy.
He is now the appointed General Agent of the
Sunday School Board of tho Southern Baptist
Convention for the States of Georgia, Alabama
and Florida, and if earnest zeal, persevering
toil and love for the cause are guarantees of
success, the Board may confidently expect a
cheering report. Having devoted a large part
of his life to the work of colporteur, he has so
cnltivated the habit of selling books that he sel
dom attends the anniversaries of his brethren
without a box of such. Daring the recess of
the present sessions of the Convention he may
be found in the vestibule of the church ready to
attend to any who may want Sunday school
books. Rev. A. E. Dickenson once said in the
Religious Herald that “without doubt he was
the best colporteur in the world.”
BEV. E. W. WABBEN
is by birth a Georgian, and for the past eleven
years has been pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Macon, Georgia. He first practiced
law, but after his conversion he devoted him
self to the work of the ministry. In this work
he has been decidedly successful, averaging not
less than 25 baptisms per year, while his people
have grown in those Christian graces which
constitute the elements of a Church’s power.
He is not regarded as one of the ablest Baptist
preachers of his State, bnt in depth of piety,
in love for the truth, in earnest, persevering
labors as a pastor and Christian, there are bnt
few who equal him. He feels a profound in
terest in the education of the colored ministry.
He collected a class of 2G of these ministers
last winter, and, by the co-operation of several
of the leading ministers of the State, gave
them a month's instruction in theology free of
charge. The Institute will be resumed this fall
with increased interest. The poor find in him
a warm friend. Ho knows their wants, and im
presses npon his people the duty of supplying
them. Though uncompromising in his views
of truth, yet such is hia amiability, his kindness
and candor, that he has secured the confidence
and affection of all other denominations by
which he is snrronnded. He is abont 47 years
old, and, with the blessing of his Master, may
have many years of usefulness yet before him.
Another Chance lor a Libel Salt—For
ney and Bulloch’s Tracks to be Un
covered.
The special Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial (Rad.) telegraphed as
follows to that paper, last Friday. We suggest
that Bollock sue the majority of the investigat
ing committee for libel if they report as this
correspondent indicates they will:
The Georgia investigation will be closed as
soon as the testimony of Governor Bnllock can
be taken; bnt that gentleman, although sum
moned several days since, has not yet made his
appearance, and his return is daily looked for.
From what has already become known of the
testimony elicited in this inquiry it is judged
to be one of the liveliest investigations ever
undertaken by a committee of CongTess; and
although no actual case of bribery has yet been
discovered, the fact is fnlly established that
enormous sums of money have been gotten rid
of by certain Georgia politicians. For instance,
the Chronicle has been paid several thousand
dollars for alleged advertising and job work,
and Mr. Forney, tinder examination, fonnd it
difficult to satisfy the committee that he only re
ceived customary prices for work performed. It
was shown that he was paid an extravagant price
for publishing the speeches of Senator Morton,
Representative Whittemore and others, and the
argument of Bullock before the committee on
the subject of Georgia reconstruction.
The testimony yesterday of Mr. Mnrtagb, of
the Republican, and Mr. Bailey, of the Globe,
showed that, in comparison, the Chronicle had
charged unheard-of prices for all manner of ser
vice which it had rendered the Bullock party.
It is probable that there will be two reports on
the investigation from the Judiciary Committee
—one by the majority and one by a minority,
probably not more than two members signing
the latter.
A Fort Smith, (Arkansas) paper says the
“number of immigrants that continues to flock
into that country is incredible. Every road is
thronged with them, on the bank of nearly every
creek they are camped, every honse they can
find is fast being occupied by them, and every
vacant farm they can secure readily finds a
tenant for the coming crop. Very little land
now open in the country will remain idle this
year, and we are pleased to learn that a dispo
sition prevails to give oom a fair share of the
ground, and not give all exclusively to cotton.”
The hog-pens attached to J. W. Gaff & Co.’s
distillery, at Cincinnati, were consumed by fire
on Wednesday morning, and abont 8,000 hogs
were destroyed. The squeals «n4 shocking
cries of the animals were heard one mile and a
half. The pens belonged to Gaff k Co., and
were valued at $20,000, on which there was no
Insaranoe. The hogs were the property of
Sadler k Co., whose loss was abont $55,000,
and insured in home companies for $15,000.
The entire loss was $75,000.
The Georgia Press.
The Lumpkin Telegraph has information
from P. H. Woodward, special agent of the P.
O. D., that a contract will be let ont to establish
s tri-weekly mall between that plaoe and
Cuthbert.
Cucumbers and plums have made their ap-
pearanoe in the Savannah market—the latter
retailing at 25 cents a quart.
There were two attempts at incendiary fires
in Savannah last week—one, Friday, and the
other Saturday night. No damage done, How
ever.
Jas. T. Minyard has been swindling citizens
of Savannah by taking their second hand fnrai-
ture to mend, and then selling it and vamosing.
Some of them want to “interview” him.
The News, of Monday, says:
Recovery of the Body of the Drowned Sub-
Marine Dives.—The body of Thomas De Win
ter, the sab-marine diver who was drowned at
the obstructions below this city, near Fort Jack-
80d, in January last, an account of which was
published in the Morning News at the time, was
yesterday picked np by Captain O. Bromstead,
of tho sloop Jose King, off Mackey’s point,
nearly opposite Sonth Channel, and about a half
mile from the spot where he was drowned
months since'.
The News gives a list of prices of eatables in
the Savannah market: Spring chickens scarce
at 75 cents to $1 per pair; grown fowls, $1.25
to $1.50 a pair; dressed chickens, $1.50 to
$1.75; eggs plentiful at 25 cents a dozen.
Strawberries plentifnl; city raised (garden,)
50 cents per quart. Blackberries are in abun
dance at 10 to 12£ cents per qnart; plums,
(first of the season) 25 cents per qnart.
Asparagus, 50 cents per bunch; cauliflowers,
25 to 40 cents per head; cabbage, 25 to 60 cents
per head; encumbers, 25 cents each, and are
very scarce; squashes, $1 per dozen; new po
tatoes, $4 per bushel; lettuce, 40 cents per
dozen heads.
Banch vegetables, raddishes, turnips, carrots,
beets, eto., are plentifnl at 10 cents per bunch,
or three bnnehes for 25 cents; snap beans, 25
cents per quart; green peas, 15 cents for two
quarts; shelled peas, 15 cents per quart.
Beef of good quality is scarce and is selling
at 15 to 20 cents per pound; veal, 10 to 15 cts.
per pound; pork very scarce at 20 to 25 cents
per ponnd; mutton, 15 to 20 cents per pound;
veDison, 25 cents per pound.
Fresh Georgia batter is very abundant; in
ferior, for cooking purposes, is selling at 35 to
40 cents per ponnd, and good table batter at 50
cents per pound.
The Washington Gazette charges the fishor-
men of that bnrg with making their captures
from “the fish baskets of old gentlemen of Afri
can descent.”
Of crop matters in Wilkes county, the Gazette
says:
The crops are represented as extremely fine,
though a light rain wonld not occasionally be
unacceptable. The wheat is very forward, tho
corn has generally received its first working,
and the planters now appear to be devoting all
their attentions to his royal majesty, the cotton
plant.
Mr. Blnmer Whits, formerly a highly esteemed
citizen of Fiko county, died in Smith coanty,
Texas, lately, aged 70 years.
The Hancock Times says a construction train
loaded with iron for the Macon and Augusta
railroad, passed that point Tuesday, and will
remain on the road until it is finished.
We get tho following from the Gainesville
Eagle:
Sad Accident.—Mr. Willie Donaldson, son of
Judge Donaldson, of Canton, Ga., while assist
ing his father in building a bridge near Carters-
ville, fell into the river on some timbers, on
Tuesday last, and was so badly braised that he
died on Wednesday. He was a brother of Mrs.
J. W. Davis, of our town.
Fire.— On Tuesday night the alarm of fire
was given abont 10 o’clock, and before the peo
ple could collect, Mr. Samuel Leaser’s grocery
was enveloped in flames. In less than half an
hour the building, with his whole stock of li
quors, was destroyed, estimated to be worth
over $1,000. No insurance.
We learn that a Mr. Brawner, of Franklin
county, was severely stabbed by one Ariel, dur
ing the show on Monday last at Carnesville, and
died Tuesday morning. We did not learn the
particulars.
The Griffin Georgian says Mrs. Cunningham,
widow of the late Joseph Cunningham, and
mother-in-law of Captain Hoff, died there of
heart disease, Friday.
Spalding Superior Court, adjourned Term,
convened on yesterday. Judge Greene presid
ing, notified all parties interested, that ho wonld
try no case, the consideration of which was
prior to Jane 18G5, unless by the consent of the
parties thereto. There is enough new bnsiness,
together with the Criminal Docket, to consume
two weeks in clearing the Dockets.—Griffin
Georgian.
The Atlanta Constitution furnishes the follow
ing items:
Printing, Publishing, Proclamations, Eto.
The Books of Treasurer Angier disclose the
following warrants drawn by Governor Bollock
in favor of the Atlanta New Era, on the Print
ing Fond:
May Gth, 1870—Warrant No. 323, $484.
May 6th, 1870—Wairant No. 324, $1,530 55.
May 9 th, 1870—Warrant No. 332, $908 70.
May 9tb, 1870—Warrant No. 345, $G32 75.
May 10th, 1870—Warrant No. 3GG, $183.
May lltb, 1870—Warrant No. —, $806 60.
Total, $4,545 50.
Is the New Era Public Printer? If so, who
are the proprietors ? How many officials of the
State Government are interested in the New
Era? Will some one interested inform the
public ?
Sudden Death.—We regret to learn of the
sndden death of Mis. Martin, aged 57 years,
who resided near Athens, while on a visit to her
son, W. A. Martin, in Jackson county, Georgia,
a few days ago. She was in her usual health
when she retired to rest, bnt died very suddenly
daring the night. She was the mother of onr
worthy foreman, George W. Martin.
Suspicious.—We learn that B. F. Moore, the
general book-keeper of the State Road, has been
removed, to give place to a carpe t-bagger named
J. J. Blake. This, on the eve of the assembling
of the Investigation Committee, is very suspi
cious.
H. G. Cole, Esq., of Marietta, we learn, has
sold a lot in that city, valued at $G,000 to tho
Marietta Female College for $1,000—equal to a
donation of $5,000.
The salt instituted by Provisional Governor
Bnllock against the Constitution office has nor
been withdrawn, as is generally supposed. The
writ was withdrawn immediately after filing,
bnt returned the next day to the clerk’s office.
The Monroe Advertiser says:
The Condition of Crops.—Farmers, as a
general thing, are engaged in ohopping ont oot-
ton. The stand is good, and the appearance of
the weed very thriving, though if the drouth
continues and is seconded by hot weather, the
crop will suffer.
Cora is also very promising, its ultimate
prospects depending, however, upon the length
of the spell of dry weather which is now aston
ishing the natives.
Mortality among the Old People.—Tho
old citizens of the county appear to be dying off
very rapidly We chronicle the deaths of three
which have taken place in this oonnty within the
last few weeks: Mrs. Aaron Sutton, aged abont
seventy; Mr. Tfaos. McCommon, aged fifty;
Mr. Henry Haymond, aged fifty.
The Atlanta Era has the following:
The weather has been very beautifnl for the
last three days, bnt rain is mnoh needed. Some
wells show signs of giving ont.
Freight Reduced.—We leant that the Saint
Lonis, Memphis and Atlantio Railroad have re
duced their freights on Flour, Bacon, Lard,
Rope, Bagging and Grain.
The Rev. W. T. Brantley has, we are given
to understand, accepted an invitation to deliver
the Baccalaureate Address beforo Gen. Lee’s
College this summer.
The Knight Templars are preparing to go to
Macon next week. The Atlanta Commandery
is a fine one, and will make a good appearance,
both in numbers and material.
From Amebicusl—The Republican reports as
follows:
We are very fearful that the Irish potato crop
in this immediate .vicinity will be a complete
failure this year. Complaints from every quar
ter come to ns that the plant Is dying rapidly,
and where an abundant crop was expected three
weeks ago, the oontinned drought has cat it off
almost entirely.
The dry season continues, ana is indeed
working serious injury to the orops. Where
fertilizers have been employed, the damage is
most apparent.
Corn meal is now selling in Americas at the
exorbitant price of $2.00 per bushel. Printers,
of coarse, can’t purchase.
Reports from Webster connty represent crops
in a good condition, but suffering greatly from
the long continued drought.
The Savannah infantry are drilling in whoop
ing cough very industriously.
We get the following items from the Federal
Union of Tuesday:
Macon and Augusta Railroad.—Messrs,
George G. Hull and & Go., we learn, will com
mence track laying on this end of the Road
this week. They are hauling cross-ties and
getting ready to put down the track. A con
siderable force is already employed on this
work, bnt the contractors desire to increase it
and offer good wages to bands. The work is to
be pushed forward as rapidly as possible, and
it is thought the road will be in running order
to Macon by October.
Friday last was a gala day for the colored pop
ulation of this city. The occasion that brought
them out was the annual May day festival by
the colored school. A brass band from Macon
was in attendance. The procession marched
to Encampment Hill, where W6 learn, the cere
monies of crowning a queen of May were duly
celebrated. Musio, feasting and dancing, all
which the colored race enjoy equal to any peo
ple in the world, then followed.
In the afternoon a company of colored troops,'
numbering abont fifty, paraded through tho
streets. They wore firemen’s uniform bnt were
officered and mancenvered as a military compa
ny.
The ship D. W. Chapman cleared fromSavan
nah Monday, for Liverpool, with 3,118 bales of
upland cotton, valued at $304,588 and 40 bags
sea island weighing 11,590 pounds and valued
at $2,547 10.
Tho Columbus Sun says :
Bat little sickness in the city.
Everybody and his wife and family attended
church Sunday. One man, forty-five years old,
went for the first time in twenty years; another,
thirty-seven and some months, was discovered
near the altar for the first time in thirteen years.
Both have promised to attend again next Sab
bath, Providence permitting. Better late than
never.
Cheap Fuel.—Arrangements, which have
been on foot for some time, were consummated
npon yesterday, by which onr citizens may ex
pect cheaper fuel next winter than in years past.
Two well known merchants have engaged three
thousand tons of good Tennessee coal, and one
of the firm will leave thi3 week to superintend
tho shipping. The idea is to ship now while
the railroads are comparatively idle, and there
by secure cheap freights.
Excitement in Church.—There was some
little excitement in St. Luke Chnrch Sunday
morning. A gentleman employed on the river
had a fit daring the first prayer. Many thought,
from the confusion immediately aronnd him,
that an alarm of fire had been given; others,
not reflecting that the building was ono of the
firmest and mo3t substantial in the whole coun
try, feared a Richmond disaster, and others did
not know what to think. Some forty or fifty
men, chiefly from the gallery, left. Soon the
usual order and quietude was established.
There was nothing to fear, in the first place. It
was funny to notice that tho sterner sex were
the first to run.
For tho six months ending Maroh 31st, 1870,
the value of exports from Savannah was $45,-
320.04G; value of imports same period $S10,500;
value of duties on imports $294,000.
The Elberton Gazette says shooting fine
horses as they stand in their stables is quite
common in that section, jnat now.
The Gazette says com is in great demand in
that county at two dollars a bushel, and very
scarce at that price.
A correspondent writes from Waynesboro to
to the Chronicle and Sentinel as follows:
It is very dry here, and planters complain
very much of tho backwardness of their crops.
The recent cold winds, together with the long
drought, have much retarded the growth of cot
ton and com. The oat crop will be a complete
failure if rain does not fall in a few days.—
Many planters complain that their late planting
of cotton is not np, and I saw on my way to the
Conrt-bouse this morning soveral farmers en
gaged in patting tho seed in tho ground, in the
hope, it wonld seem, that rain wonld come in
time to bring it before the season is too far ad
vanced to maintain a crop.
The Savannah Republican discourses of
weather and crops, rather cheerfully, as follows:
So far as wo have seen and heard a drought
is prevailing all over Georgia, from three to five
weeks having passed in many places without
rain. Still, it has not proved unfavorable to the
crops, which are very backward and too young
to suffer materially. The dry weather has ena
bled tho planters to put their fields in perfect
order and to givo the young plants of every sort
a fair start. Cotton is from three to four weeks
behind time, but the “stand” is remarably fino
and with fair seasons a fall crop will be made.
It has a healthy appearance, and corn, too, is
looking well despite the dry weather, the worst
effects of which are felt by the gardens where
vegetables of all kinds have been pushed for
ward and ore in a more advanced state than cot
ton or corn. Onr growing season in Georgia is
a long one. and the late spring will not materi
ally affect the crops, provided tho summer shall
prove to be favorable.
The Eatonton Press and Messenger says farm
work is progressing slowly, on account of the
dry, hard siato of the lands. A light shower
fell in the vicinity of Eatonton last Thursday.
Crops suffering greatly from dronth. Reports
from the wheat crop of the connty very favora
ble. A good deal is heading ont. No sign of
rnst as yet.
Judge Jesse Lambertb, Ordinary of Floyd
coanty, who has married 2,700 conples, was
trapped himself last Sunday.
The Rome Courier says tho railroad bridge
over the Oostananla river was to bo completed
last night, and the cars on the Selma, Rome and
Dalton Railroad will probably run through to
Dalton, next Saturday.
An “obstropulous” darkey who knocked a po-
lioeman down in Rome, Taesday, was dosed by
the latter with three pills, and now lies in jail
to boot.
The Rome Daily, of Taesday, says:
The Western Union Telegraphio Company
commenced the erection of a double line of
telegraph from this point to Dalton yesterday.
This line will be completed by the first day
of July, when onr city will bo in direct commu
nication with New York, New Orleans, Nash
ville, Atlanta and all intermediate points.
We quote, as follows, from the Atlanta Gon-
stilntion:
Legal Services for the State.—Among the
warrants drawn for the month of May are tho
following amounts:
George S. Thomas, legal services $1,650
Cary J. Thornton, “ “ 500
Robert H. Brown, “ “ 650
H.P. Farrow, “ “ 250
$2,850
It will be observed that the Attorney General,
Henry P. Farrow, only gets a small slice of this
legal pudding. Does the Governor still ques
tion tiie legal ability of his official adviser?
And does ho think it necessary to call in other
distinguished and world-known counsel to help
his Attorney General ?
On May the 11th, Governor Bnllock drew
warrant No. SG9 in favor of V. A. Gaskill for
$1,000, “for services as agent to apply for, re
ceive and sell lands and scrip donated to Geor
gia under act of Congress.”
Scene at the State Road Cab Works.—Enter
a Fifteenth Amendment with an axe on his
shoulder—“Boss, how much you charge for
grinding my axe ?” “It’s owing to your poli
tics—if yon are a Democrat, twenty-five cents;
if a Radical, nothing," said the foreman. ‘T
reckon I’ll havo to pay it,” said the darkey.
“What! yon ain’t a Democrat?” excitedly
asked the boss. “Dat’s what’s de mattery boss,”
replied the colored man and brother!
The Montgomery Advertiser says “it is prob
able that in a week the Central Road will con
trol that part of the West Point Road from
Opelika to Columbus, and the Georgia Road
the portion from Opelika to West Point The
road from Opelika to Selma will be used as one
road. The whole. route will be placed in first
class order, a condition it is very far from being
in at this time.”
Bed Clover.
The most luxuriant thing the writer observes
now about his habitat in Vineville, in this time
of drouth, is an occasional stock of red clover,
probably from Beed which were aooidentally in.
termixed with the seed of orchard gras3—Dac\
iylit Glomerata, in the barbarous Latin with
which the botanists elucidate soience. And
this observation is true not only the present
year, bnt we have noticed the same fact for a
period of several years since the red clover
made its appearance here and there on the
place. It stands seasons of dronth better than
any of the cultivated grasses, and now on that
place looks far fresher and greener to-day than
even the famed Lespedcza Striata, which is
gradually taking possession of the place, and
exterminating the Bermuda grass, however
deeply and firmly rooted.
Now everybody who knows anything ate*';
the matter, knows that Vineville is, for the most
part, the poorest quality of pine ridge land,
with a surface mould of not more than three
inches, and an unknown depth of sand under
neath, showing only here and there a semi-oc
casional admixture of clay. The stalks of red
clover we spoak of may be fonnd scattered hero
and there on just such land, in a materially un
improved condition, and hence we infer that
red clover will flourish npon almost any kind of
land in this region of Georgia upon very mod
erate enconragement.
True, we suppose it will do much better npon
clay lands, with proper treatment; and with
good culture we sure it will be fonnd one
of he moat nardy, luxuriant and valuablo crops
to which the farmer Gan turn his attention.
Those red clay ands in Monroe county are
wc believe, splendidly adapted to this crop, and
instead of baying hay, we think Monroe county
could this day make as much money, acre for
acre, raising it for market as she can do in cot
ton, so long as any considerable number of our
people pursue the suicidal policy of bujing their
forage. Hay is worth two dollars a hundred,
besides the cost of hauling, which is hardly lets
than fifty cents a hundred for every twenty
miles. It would be safe to rockon a planter's
forage (that is to say what he requires for his
own use) to be worth, in his barn or stable, fifty
dollars per ton, and he ought with the greatest
ease to harvest two tons to the acre and have it
all stored away snugly by the first of June/
Neither tho cost of cultivation or of harvesting
will be half as mnch as that of an aore of cotton,
and yet yon see he has produced by Jane from
his acre nearly as great value as he will proba*
bly produce from an acre Of cotton intelligently,
liberally and faithfully tended till November.
Wo have, from time to time, published in
structions in relation to seeding red clover
crops. The land should he well broken, deeply
snb3oiled, thoroughly disentegrated and liberal
ly fertilized broadcast. It ought to bo well
harrowed with a good iron-tooth implement be
fore tho seed is sown—then well broadcasted with
the seed and the latter lightly brushed in. The
seed and its germs being very minute and deli
cate, the danger is in covering them too deeply,
and that danger is”nggravated by the plan of
sowing in drills—but some of the machines for
drilling aro said to work with great nicety and
success. Good red clover seed is worth abont
twenty cents a ponnd, and in broad casting, one
wonld probably use from ten to fifteen ponnd3
to the acre. Opinions differ as to the best time
for seeding in this region—Some preferring the
early fall after the September rains, and others
the early spring—the latter part of February or
first of March. We think a sowing in early fall
will give the young plants vigor enough to stand
any ordinary cold of our winters, and hasten
its maturity in spring very mnoh. It will be
three to fonr feet high on good land in May.
“Turned Uemocrat.”
Whenever a Republican member of the Sen
ate drops any thing in debate having tho least
particle of constitutional law, reason, common
sense, prudence or good natnre in it, the Rad
icals turn him bodily over to tho Democrats—
“Oh, you are a Democrat” “You had better
change yonr seat” “Yon had better go over
to the other Bide.” So, on Taesday last, when
Senator Ferry spoke on the bill to enforce the
Fifteenth Amendment, and expressed the opin
ion that tho State if Georgia had been syste
matically traduced and belied, and that in
tbe effort to seenre the rights of the black man,
the rights of tho white man had been endang
ered, and that tho policy of tho government
should be conciliatory towards the Soath,—
Morton set np tho usual exclamation to Ferry—
‘Yon have made a Democratic speeoh. You
should go over and take your seat on that
side.”
It was an appeal to party terrorism—the re
enactment of the old policy of the leaders of
the Mountain, from whom Morton and Butler
appear to take pattern. Bingbatn, Fessenden,
Matt. Carpenter, Trumbull, Sehnrz, and every
man who has dared to counsel moderation, or
to uphold to the slightest extent the restraints of
constitutional law, has in turn been charged
with deserting the Radical colors and warned
to go over to the opposition benches.
We most congratulate Sonth Carolina that
even one of her carpet-bag Senators could not
stand the insolence and dogmatism of Morton,
and backed Mr. Ferry’s speech in strong and
manly terms, and just and liberal sentiments.
We have noticed several instances in which Mr.
Sawyer has done himself honor by his indepen
dence and moral oourago against a senseless
party despotism, and this is another.
Let Americans, North and Sonth, heed that
everything looking to reason, law, jnstioe, con
ciliation and the restoration of national harmo
ny is invariably branded in the Senate by the
Radical leaders as “democracy.”
Masonic Festival—An Imposing Dis
play.
Next Wednesday, the 25th instant, the Grand
Commandery of Knights Templar of the State
of Georgia will initiate the annual conclave of
tho order in Maoon with a pnblio parade in full
uniform, at which all the subordinate Com-
manderies have been ordered to appear. The
display will be novel and. imposing, and will
constitute one of the grandest exhibitions ever
witnessed in Georgia. The lines will be formed
at 10 o’clock a. u., for inspection and review,
after whioh the columns will march to the Pres
byterian Ohuroh, for the purpose of engaging
in the public devotional exercises, which will
be conducted by Rev. and E. Sir David Wills,
Grand Prelate, who will, at the conclusion of
the servioe, deliver an oration. The musio will
be an attractive feature of this service, the
choir being composed of much of the very best
musical talent of tho city. The whole affair
will be both novel and attractive—the introduc
tion, as we believe, of a new era in the history
of Christian chivalry in Georgia.
A banquet will be given by St. Omer Com
mandery on tho evening of the 25th, to whioh
all the Sir Knights present will bo invited.
Supreme Court—June Term.
From an advertisement in the Atlanta Iteli-
gencer, we learn that at the Jane term of the
Supreme Coart, the Southern Circuit is third in
order with two cases; the South-Western Cir-
oni t fourth in order with seventeen cases; the Pa-
taola Circuit fifth in order with thirty-fonr
oases; the Maoon Circuit, seventh in order,
with two cases, one from Bibb, and one from
Crawford ; the Flint Circuit, eighth in order,
with four oases; and the Oomnlgee Circuit, fif
teenth in’order, with nine eases. There are one
hundred and seventy-six cases from all the cir
cuits, to be determined.
First Grand Rally or the South Caro
lina Anti-Radicals.
The Charleston News, of Tuesday, gives full
details of the mass meeting to-inaugurate the
Citizen's Party of Sonth Carolina, and open the
campaign against tiie Radicals, which was held
in that city the night before. We give such
extracts as onr space permits, and as will fur
nish an idea of what sort of an affair it was.—
Says the News :
For the first time in Charleston the wealth
and the mechanical skill, and the musoular
strength, and the honest intelligence of the
white people of Sonth Carolina, were joined to
the force and energy and influence of our ool-
ored fellow-citizens.
Republicans and Democrats, natives and
adopted citizens, white men and black men,
sat together in mass meeting, considering for
the good, not of class orparty, bnt of the whole
people. The platform was broad enough to
holdall honest men, and handsomely was it
filled last night.
Prominent amoDg those who were present
were several notorious agitators, who did their
level best to exoite a disturbance. While one
of the colored speakers was addrelsBing the
meeting, these partisans of- Scott began to hiss
and stamp; bnt the firmness of tbe speaker,
and the energetic action of the chair, added to
the unmistakable determination of tbe vast ma
jority of the meeting to see Fair Play, brought
the Scott faction to their senses. They did not
again dare to interfere with the proceedings.
The stage, as well as the body of the hall, was
crowded. There sate some of our staunchest
citizens, the vice presidents and secretaries,
both white and colored, showing by their con
duct their hearty acquiescence in the purpose
of the gathering. Indeed, the meaning of the
whole meeting was a union of all honest men,
irrespective of class, color or party, for the
purpose of obtaining for Sonth Carolina some
relief ? rom the myriad troubles wo are now
called npon to bear.
Several speeches wore made by both whites
and negroes. One of the latter, Black, by
name, and who was one of the Vice Presidents
of the meeting, reflected very severely npon
the present so-called Government, and being
loudly hissed by some negro Radicals who were
in tbe ball, said, as soon as order was restored :
I am sorry to observe that my remarks have
occasioned any disquiet among my colored
friends, but I do not hesitate to speak the truth
at all times, and under all circumstances. We
are living in a free State, where the right of
free speech belongs to all, and I intend to exer
cise it npon this occasion. It may be distaste
ful for some to hear it, bnt I have no hesitation
in declaring that South Carolinians mast rale
South Carolina. [Loud and repeated cheering ]
We have here as great men as have lived in any
State, and when the choice is between them and
those who come from abroad, for no other pur
pose than to seek offices of profit and honor, I,
for one, will always cast my vote for him whose
interests are identified with my own. [Great
applause.)
SPEECH OF MB. W. G. BOUT.
Mr. Rout, one of the colored secretaries, was
next introduced, and said:
I did not come here with the expectation of
being called npon to speak^ bnt since yon have
done me the honor, I will say that, in adopting
the principles of this party, I do so without re
gard to any politics, and because I believe its
principles are correct. They should appeal to
every honest colored citizen. We are engaged
in a common work—that of trying to bring
abont a reform in tbe manner in which the State
has been conducted,, and it is a cause that
should nnite all citizens, without regard to party
or complexion, who feel an interest in the pnb
lio welfare. [Cheers.]
SPEECH OF MB. MARLOW COCHRAN.
Mr. Cochran, another of the colored vice-
president’s was introduced, and said: I shall
not detain yon with my remarks. I simply wish
to say that I’m glad that I have been able to join
in this movement. I do not care who may be
displeased; my opinion has been formed; my
judgment tells me that I’m right; I know that
the cause i3 right, and from this time forward
I mean, with the best of my ability, to work
with the Reform party for the good of my State,
[Cheers.]
coslnbj.
J*‘]
Methodist Episcopal Chnrch South
on Rc-IJnion — The Resolutions
Adopted.
The following a*e the resolutions adopted by
the Methodist Conference, now in session at
Memphis, mention of which was made by tele
graph Sunday:
The committee to whom were referred the
papers relating to the proposals of union by
the Methodist Episcopal Chnrch, reported, and
the following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved, 1. That gratofnlly recognizing that
Providence which has heretofore guided ns,
and strengthened onr powers, and preserved
onr integrity as a chnrch of Jesus Christ, un
der trying conditions, both in war and peace,
we earnestly desire to cultivate true Christian
fellowship with every other branch of the Chris
tian chnrch, and especial y with our brethren
of the several branches of Methodism in this
country and Europe.
Resolved, 2. That the action of onr bishops
in their last annual meeting at St. Lonis in re
sponse to tho message from the bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church North has the fall
endorsement of this General Conference, and
accurately defines onr position in reference to
any overtures which may proceed from that
chnrch having in them an official and proper re
cognition of this body.
Resolved 3. That the distinguished commis
sion now present of the General Conference of
tho Methodist Episcopal Chnrch North, which
met at Chicago, May 1863, and appointed it for
the specific purpose expressed in the following
resolution, to-wit: “Resolved, that the commis
sion ordered by the General Conference to con
fer with a like commission from the African M.
E. Church to arrange for a union of that body
with onr own, be also empowered to treat with
similar commissions from any other Methodist
Chnrch that may desire a like union,”—cannot,
in onr judgment, without great violence in con
struing the language of said resolution, be re
garded as having been constituted by that Gen
eral Conference a commission to make propo
sals of union to the General Conference of the
M. E. Ohnroh Sonth.
Resolved, 4. Moreover, that if this distin
guished commission were full clothed witH au
thority to treat with ns for onion, it is the judg
ment of this Conference that the true interests
of the Church of Christ require and demand the
maintenance of onr separate and distinct organ
izations.
Resolved 5. That we tender to the Rev.
Bishop E. B. James and Rev. W. L. Harris,
members of the commission, now present with
ns, our h'gh regards as brethren beloved in the
Lord, and express onr sincere desire that the
day may soon come when proper Christian sen
timents and fraternal relations between the two
great branches of Northern and Southern Meth
odists shall be permanently established.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted.
Sew York Election.
The New York election, last Tuesday, was the
first Northern State eleotion under the Fifteenth
Amendment, and the negro seems to have fallen
short of giving the victory to the Radicals.—
Hoffman’s majority for Governor, in 1868, was
27,946. Seymour’s majority over Grant, the
same year, was 10,000. In 1869 Nelson (Dem
ocrat) was eleoted over Segal, for Secretary of
State, (Radical)by20,241. Bntnow,if we may
credit the telegrams, the Democratic ticket for
Appellate Judges was 75,000 majority in the
State. The Radicals say the vote was light:
but we know no reason why that faot should
have worked particularly against them. It is
not probable that many of the newly enfran
chised negroes were absent from the polls, or
that one of them failed to vote with the Radicals.
The probability is that the negro vote in New
York, as elsewhere, involved a heavy nett loss
to the Radical party.
A paragraph is going the rounds of the pa
pent abont a female idiot, in Chester, Vermont,
killing herself by tight laoing. A wretch of an
eoitor, somewhere, comments on the faot after
this fashion:
These oorseta should be done away with;
and if the girls can't live without being squeez
ed, we suppose men can be found who would
sacrifice themselves. Aa old as we are we would
rather devote three hours a day, without a cent
of pay, aa a brevet corset, than see these girls
dying off in that manner. Office hours almost
any time.”
Growth of the
«■<
The statistics of the Methodist
Church, South, for 1869, show the n?
figures:
Total number of traveling preache 1 I
year, 2,646—an increase over 1868 of Uk ^
preachers 4,753—increase over 18S8 340 ' ^ I
members, 540,820—increase over !SGs * T ^
colored members, 19,686-decrease fJH??
12,399; Indian members, 3,149 i ne r ^
1868, 848. Total, ministers and meS?*
241—increase over 1868, 26,072. ' HI
The.12,399 colored members are, f or th«
part, reckoned in the colored Conferences ^ I
the Bishops have been organizing.
Fbom a report read in the convention of r 1
Protestant Episcopal Church, of the Die* ^
Alabama, now in session at Montgom^T*
learn that during the year past there *
baptisms, and 482 confirmations. The cjf
mations exceed those of any other je&rf^
The communicants increased 25 per cent. Vu
are 2,626 communicants in the Diocew^
2,236 Sunday School scholars. The con ’ **
tlons for religious purposes during the
amounted to $27,291 68.
Effect of a Kpbee.—Grady, of the g,
Courier, was down at Augusta last week ^
gushes over that quiet village most copia^f
He says it is “a vigorous, well-built, stacJ
growing city, free from the mouldy
that marks the ancient and eminently reswl
hie city of Macon.” But then Grady ache-
edges having had a “high old time” do*atl e »
from whose ’‘mellowiDg influences ho hasbiti
ly recovered.” We submit that Grady ism
a competent witness while in that condition.
—
Responsibility or Bank Cabbiees.^,.,
time since the cashier of the State Kafoti
Bank of Boston certified a check of .$125 CCQ.
for Pitt Cooke. Afterward the bank discoretsd
that the drawer did not have sufficient depoca I
to balance any such check, and contested fa
liability for the payment. Judge Brady decidei 1
that the act of the agent is the act of the pa;,
cipal, that the cashier of the bank is virtafij
the bank, and that consequently the latter is
sponsible for the certification of the forme:.
The Philadelphia Age is surprised that “iti jl
recent entertainment at the Gubernatorial ms:-'
sionin South Carolina, the carpet-bag Gove-jj
nor handed a negro wench up to the bead of the |j
table, before all the white women in the root I
Bat the chances are that if the editor of th* I
Age had been compelled to hand ono o' & I
crowd of women to the table, he would hit I
chosen the negro wench himself.—Count |
Journal.
Tbe Senate Committee on Commerce hi
agreed to report favorably on the bill inxtf
rating the Southern Express Company, withJ-
B. Plant, R. B. Bullock, W. B. Dinsmore,* 3
M. Shoemaker, M. J. O'Brien, Cyrus 8. P#l
Joseph F. Gibson, Hugh Dempsey and Jp
Shuter as corporators. The capital sloe d
the company is to consist of ten thousand sp
at $100 a share. /
The Chattanooga Rolling Mill has erjuyl
its capital stock to $GOO,000. The old'sta
amounted to $250,000. Of the increased st&
$215,000 have already been subscribed. E. I
mill will begin work abont the middle of fee,
and will make one hundred tons of rail per dip ;
In connection with the rolling mill, another
blast furnace will be bnilt as soon as posable.
Putnam for June came yesterday, and its h
contents: Down the- Danube. Birds of i
North. The Tale of a Comet, concluded. Ka.C
A Woman’s Right. Shall we have a more m
able Bible. ADomesticRomanoe. Proport
Representation. And sundry other arJc/
including the Editorial Departments.
The President of the Southern Pad”
road has assured the workingmen ef Sa
cisco that if $1,000,000 subsidy i 1 xolcf *“ e
company on the 7th of Juno, it shall J* eI '
pended among white -laborers-pses/S
no Chinese labor will be emplo/ed ;m ooo:1 '
struclion of the road. , H
. 1 r
The Dbouth.—The weaihel is to ' w
distressing. We have forgotto hi* * 0D S A 13
since rain fell; but it is a ®*
gardens are parched up—crop o/all kinds are
suffering and the streets art W S3 are very
dusty. We need, rain gadlj/ j
The Wilmington Joan 3 jvP 01 * 8 a terrihe
hail storm in that sectionrichy afternoon, h
lasted ten minutes. Tj-sfones were as large
ashen eggs, and cove-* the ground to tit
depth of several inches
The Bible question 348 taken this shape is
tho Illinois Constitute! Convention: “Tie
Bible shall never be fcluded from, nor its use
compelled in, the schools of the State,
nor shall sectarian is trines be taugbt thereia
Froj Atlanta.
Atlaia, Ga., May 17, 1870.
Editors TJcgreh and Messenger: iroi
causes not necessai to mention, or pernsi'
worthy of remark I have not been able to |
write as frequent? as I desired of toe ip c '
dents of my trip.) In fact, in many perti®-;
of the country th'effects of the unpreccdciw'
backwardness ofthe spring, taken with u
chilly nights ai furnace like heat or tw j
days, are havini most depressing ieiiokJ
upon the mindsif the local population ast
as on the feeling of the traveler. I will ow
remark in passig, that we shall have
fruit after all th risks and singular
this strange s/ring. Those who ongM
know say that j£e portion of the P c ? c ~ c , .
which escaped oe March freezes, ana wow-,
fill to tell that snow storm of the low I
April, will in al likelihood be very use,
the fact that thicrop which has been po®
ted by those caaalties to set will n0 vf ^ 6 . ‘ n
abundant, and or that reason ought w
folly developed The apple crop ^ ^ I
promising, thotgh the strawberries, n
important in otr fruit estimate, baa
very severely from some cause not exa<- u ) I
der.-tood. " 1 ■ r . " , ^ I
You may laj your account and .so I
your readers fat another short forage » L I
vision crop. This State really seemstog, I
mented whenever cotton reaches 10 -l
warnings against the suicidal improyi
neglecting bread for more dollars, are »^ ■
idle winds in the ears of those wee w ^ ( |
the maddening itch to reaoh a ton ; I
season. Will men never listen to J
Will they forevor despise that
teacher—experience ? Does not evert
district in the world prove that the snap j|
diem reoeipts of labor don’t make J
that comfort, without which wealth is c.i
iest of all shams, is as far removed
come oftentimes as one pole is from ^ y
It is what a man can keep far more th I
he nominally earns that makes s 0 ” 0
No human being can live incom»rt ■
most exalted significance, who most ^ Ll
oerned for the next meal for man ana ^1
and who is obliged to put his band ‘ J
pocket for the purchase of every* d
is obliged to consume. This ra thec^i
of tens of thousands of cotton raiders
the South, and will be, until men ge* ^
garding the farm and plantation 83
in itself, and that the same rulo3 I
economy apply to that empire as to
But I must not forget that even you, „|
Editors, have not escaped the retort . *1
this monitory talk was impertinent ' ^ /■
asked, and that the planter could tak j|
himself. The answer is vel 7 f v e J|
pointed. We, everybody. 1 j ftter iiii9«i?|
the agriculturist, and if he oSStl
starve, we must needs, in sprte , ^ Bl
starve vrith him. ^But enough
my next letter I will f've you *0®*^ &
thu “Chicago of the