About Georgia weekly telegraph and Georgia journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1869-1880 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1870)
The Greorgiet ^Weekly Telegra/ph. an cl Journal &o Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger MACON, MAT 24 1870. General News. The Now York World says that Abram W. For, a fall-blooded African, and formerly slave in Sonth Carolina, has purchased an in terest in the Detroit Free Press, and will soon become its managing editor. The Free Press is a Democratic paper. Two important papers, which can hardly fail to attract general interest, and may perhaps ex cite a good deal of controversy, are to appear in the June Galaxy. One is by tho Hon. J. S. Black, on Edwin M. Staunton. Black and Staunton, it will be remembered, were assoc! ates in Buchanan’s Cabinet. Tho second is by Thurlow Weed, and relates to the inauguration of Lincoln, and the earlier days of the war. Mr. Weed includes in it a plan he presented to Mr. Lincoln for the settlement of the war. Mr. Seward’s sixty-ninth birth-day was cele brated in Auburn on the IGth instant. The New Yoke Sonosxs took tea and lemon ade in dazzling toilets at Delmonico’s last Mon day evening. But that was not all they did.— The World says thoy passed a series of resolu tions, expressing profound sympathy with Mrs. Bichardson and eulogising Mrs. Calhoun-Bunkle and Mrs. Sinclair, which were advocated in warm speeches by more than a dozen ladies, and passes unanimously, amid a storm of applause. Another resolution, pronouncing the conduct of the late Albert D. Richardson in offering marriage to Mr. McFarland's wife to be “cour ageous, noble and generous,” was also carried. A resolution condemning the word “obey, forced upon tho weaker vessel in the marriage service, was likewise adopted with enthusiasm. The Now York Sorosis i3 evidently on a fast train. Gbave Decorations at Andebsonville.—Tho following appears among the Herald’s Washing ton specials of the 16th: Gen. Logan, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, has_ appointed Rev. Dr. Collier, the Grand Chaplain of that organization, to proceed to Georgia to super intend the decoration of the graves of the Union soldiers buried at Andersonville, on the 30th of this month. Dr. Collier will be accompanied by a committee of tho Grand Army of the Re public, and ho will be assisted in his work by the Union men and women of Georgia. The Agricultural Bueeatj reports that the Southern cotton planters have expended very largo sums for fertilizers, and made large and expensive contracts for labor, in their efforts to produce a very heavy cotton crop for this year. Some fear is expressed that the crop may be too large to be remunerative, especially as tho cul ture of cotton in India is stimulated by high prices, and its transportation facilitated by rail roads in the interior, and also by the Saez Ca nal to the principal markets for its sale. The whole supply ought not to exceed six millions of bales, which is nearly tho amount of con sumption, and a large excess would knock down the price to the ante-bellum rate. But even at that rate, it may be a profitable crop. Rev. Henry Waed Beeches is rapidly gaining a reputation as a wit. The following note, late ly sent by him to the proprietor of the New York Ledger, contains his last and best effort: "My Dear Mr. Bonner : I have just receiv ed a curious letter from Michigan, and I give t to you verbatim.” Owasso City, Mich., 1870. “apeil fool.” “I have heard of men who wrote letters ana forgot to sign their name, but never before met a case in which a man signed his name and for got to write the letter. H. W. B.” Gekebal Thomas Jordan has addressed an ap peal to the ladies of the city of New York in behalf of the wretched and almost naked women and children of Cuba. He asks for clothing— even the remants flang aside in the stores— which will be received with gratitude by all, and even by many once used to refinement and luxury. Immigration.—The Herald, of Taesday, says over nine thousand emigrants arrived at New York from Earopo last week. We learn, too, that the Pacific mail steamer Japan, which ar rived at San Francisco last Friday, brought fourteen hundred passengers, thirteen hundred of whom were Chinese emigrants. Thus the tide of population is swelling on both sides of tho continent. $14,500! This amount Bullock owns up to having spent in endeavoring to have Georgia reconstructed to suit himself. Now, it may be an impertinent, but it certainly is a pertinent question, to ask who this money belonged to ? Was it Bullock’s savings, or did he borrow it from the bank, or did John Bice advance it, or was it loaned him by Blodgett out of the State Road earnings? It just fairly makes our teeth ohatter, not withstanding this hot weather, to think of B.’s coming down on us with a $25,000 suit for character, so we won’t say all we think; but, really, we would like to know who is so Hash. We would borrow a few hundreds from him this summer to reconstruct our demnidon liver at some watering place. Gentle Rufas, won’t you tell? How the Telegraph is Read.—A friend yes terday, by way of illustrating the effect of going before tho public in the Telegbaph and Mes senger, said, “a few days ago you stated in the Telegraph that an acquaintance of mine was about to start a manufacturing establishment, and you have literally overwhelmed him with correspondence. Every day he gets n hand kerchief full of letters, containing every con- ceavable proposition in respect to the manufac turing business, and if the thing growes as it threatens to, the poor man will soon be com pelled to take a market basket to the Post- office.” So. Ex. Co.—Mr. Halbert, the agent here of this insdtntion and other “expressers,” notably that wide-awake young Benedict—formerly of Athens—“Billy” Hodgson, have been doing the handsome thing by the writer recently, and he begs to put the fact on record, with his and a very swoct little lady’s most graceful salaam. No office in the State i3 belter managed, or has a more active, industrious, prompt and courte ous corps of employes. Same people grumble occasionally about express charges and doings, but we notice they can’t get along very well with out it—that is if they do any business, and the proof of the pudding is, etc. Hon. Rufts B. Bullock, of Georgia, reached Washington on Sunday evening, and on Monday morning (yesterday)- called on Mr. Trumbull, Chairman of - the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, stating that he was ready to be “inves tigated” in accordance with the summons. Tho Republican caucus taking place lost evening, the Governor will not be called before tho com mittee until some time daring this day and evening. The Governor left Atlanta after hav ing been triumphantly sustained.—Philadelphia Press, Tues&ty. The Senate Judiciary Comznilteo let him “drap” through, so the honors are easy. To Correspondents. The vorses respectively entitled, “To a Withered Rose," ana “I’m Greatly Grieved,” are respectfully declined. Tho former is un accompanied by a responsible name, which alone is sufficient reason for its rejection. The latter do not exactly come up to the standard of merit, we have set up for contributions of that description. Atlanta Datlt Sun.—The first number of this now Atlanta daily came to band yesterday, and is a lively little sheet. The Bribery and Corruption Report., The Georgia Press. At a late hour Thursday night an extended j Mr. Geo. W. Huntington, for many years a synopsis of the Judiciary Committee’s report. merchant in Augusta and Savannah, died in was received and printed in our edition of yes- New Orleans last week, terday. We presume it was read with a good I The Chronicle & Sentinel says: deal of interest and curiosity. I “Messrs. Geo. G. Hull & Co., will commence The Senate Judiciary Committee, upon which track-laying on the other_endof the M. & A. there is one Democrat, Mr. Thurman, of Ohio, were instructed “to inquire and report whether any corrupt and improper means have been u S ed, or attempted, to influence Senators on the Georgia question.” In giving answer to the precise question, as stated, there is no disagree ment on the part of the Committee: They all agree that corrupt and improper means were nsed or attempted in order to influence the Sen ate on that question; bat two of the Committee (Messrs. Stewart and Rice) make a deplorable and imbecile effort to save the reputation of Gov. Bullock. But even this effort, so hopeless is the task, takes the negative shape merely, and amounts to the Scotch verdict of ‘toot proven. Railroad this week. They are hauling cross-ties and getting ready to pnt down the track. A considerable force is already em ployed on this work, but the contractors desire to increase it, and offer good wages to bands. The work is to be pushed forward as rapidly as possible.” We bave the following items from the Thom- asvill Enterprise: South Georgia and Florida Railroad.— Thomasville has been unusually populous and noisy daring the past few days, owing to the f&„; that Messrs. Papot &Co., contractors, com pleted their work to Albany on the above road last week, and on Thursday evening brought all their colored laborers to town, four or five hun dred in number, to be paid off. The South Georgia and Florida railroad has now been They say that the report of the majority, so completed to Albany, but the depots have not . , T* . ,. ; „ yet been constructed above Camilla, and the far as Avery and Porter are concerned is fully I jj 0 no j y e j r nn beyond that point. Pres- sustained by the evidence, but there is no evi- J ident Hardaway, however, and his co-laborers deuce to connect any Senator or Oov. Bullock in tho grand work, are bending all their ener- with tho conduct or purpose of these men. And in respect to the transaction with Forney, tho minority say that they cannot blame Governor Bullock, because nothing was printed which it would be any object to conceal. So that pur chase of systematic fraud and falsification, amounting in some cases to deliberate misquo tation, at a cost $4,459 to the State of Georgia, was blameless! Messrs. Stewart and Rice expect the country to hold two insignificant subordinates and go- betweens responsible for the attempt to impose upon the Senate by false information, and per vert its action by bribery, while the man who worked the wires and had the chief interest in the result, shall be held blameless. There is “no evidence to convict him!” He has covered np his tracks so well that bnt for the most strenuous, persistent and ingenious worming, the majority of the committee show that thoy would never have been able to get what they have gotten ont of these intermediaries, Porter, Avery, Atkinson, Gibbs, Forney & Co., who had little or no personal interest in the matter ex cept the wages of iniquity which somebody paid them. Porter didn't know anything at all—he denied all knowledge of attempting to influence votes with money, until some of the other parties to the negotiations were brought up, and then Porter knew a good deal. But what interest had Porter, a clerk in the Washington Post- office Department, in the attack on Georgia, ex cept as the paid agent of somebody else, who had a great interest in the business ? And what great interest had Avery in the same business that he shonld harry on to Washington, after his lying dispatch from Savannah, to tempt votes with ten thousand dollar bonds of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad ? Did he act as principal or agent in the infamous business ? And who furnished the ready money re quired in this work? The testimony showed distinctly. Gov. Bollock himself testifies that the amount he used from 5th March to 21st April, a period of forty-six days, was fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. That was a good snm in ready cash, to say nothing of the securities pledged or offered upon condition of service to be performed. Such was the anxiety of Gov. Bullock to operate upon the Senate that he not only subsidized the leading party organ to the amount of $4,500, paid the ex penses of a heavy staff of white assistants, bnt telegraphed for all the negro members to come on to Washington and help him. Eleven went and he says he loaned them fifteen hundred dol lars to pay their expenses. As the whole ex pense of thi3 venture against the tax payers of Georgia came out of their pockets, we trust Gov. Bullock took good security for the loan, and also for the $14,500 exclusive or inclusive. The minority, consisting of Messrs. Stewart and Rice, cannot see any evidence to connect Gov. Bullock in all this business, on the princi ple that they did not see him personally paying, bargaining, or bribing. They could not see a man building a house, unless they saw him driving the nails—or running a saw mill, unless he had his hand on the throttle valve. They lack the sagacity of Sambo, when he collared Pomp for stealing and eating his pet goose. “I see de fodders—I see de fat and do fire whar you roast him—I smell de meat; I see you lick yer chops; I see yer belly full; I smell de breaf, I know you stole dat ar goose, and thar’s no use lyin’ any more about it.” Beats Bollock. The Wisconsin carpet-bagger Reed, who is making snch a good thing of it as Governor so- called of Florida, rather tops our own redoubt able and luxurious RnfU3 in the business of “developing the resources” of a State. He owns the principal part of the Tallahassee Sen tinel, and has spent, in eighteen months, $83,- 000 for printing and advertising. In the same period he spent, for “contingencies,” $45,000, making $128,000 for two items alone, in which he has a large personal interest. The assessed —not collected—revenue of the State for the last two years, has been about $300,000. At this rate, any new beginner in arithmetic will have no difficulty in ciphering ont bow long it will take Reed to fill all bis pockets and bis carpet-sack foil to overflowing, and the tax payers to be completely beggared. We judge, from the following item in the Floridian, that Reed thinks there is very little more to plunder and is gobbling up the scraps preparatory to returning home with his spoil. That paper says: The large copper pipes that conveyed water from the roof, (of the State House) we notice, have been taken down, and tin substituted in their place. We donb'. the wisdom of this change. However, as old copper is worth, in New York, eighteen cents per ponnd, tho sales of these pipes will not a handsome figure in cash above the cost of the tin ones put in their place. “Judge” Avery. Will tho Radical organ at Atlanta please post ns 03 to the fntnre movements of this distin guished “developer” of Georgia resources ? Is he coming back here to bnild more railroads and spend more “millions of Northern capital" for our benefit, or does he purpose devoting his valuable time, hereafter, to learning how to bribe more successfally? Oar own opinion is that he had better go in strong for honors in that line. He struck the wrong customers this time, bnt in snch a school, and with such a wealth of material as Washington furnishes, ho is bonnd to succeed yet. If ho had not already graduated in the art of concocting and sending false telegraphic dispatches, we wo aid ndvire him to porsne that branch of atndy with equal assiduity. On the whole, though, we advise him to study up in the art of bribery. “Judge” Avery is a jewel of a man—a real acquisition to Georgia society, with his “mil lions of Northern capital,” ain’t ho, Organ ? • As for the Telegraph axd Messenger, it makes the motion, right now, that when “Judge” Avery retuma to Georgia he be enter tained at public expense. Such benefactors de serve such honors. We insist upon It. '• Rain.—There was the least bit of a showt r yesterday about four o’clock, by way of showing that it could rain. A report on the street said that there had been showers up tho Macon and Western Railroad, which wo devoutly hope is true. I. or tp > gies, and having overcome all the great obsta cles, will in a very short time, be able to an nounce a schedule for freight and passenger trains between Thomasville and Albany. The Dbouoht.—We are beginning to suffer in this vicinity for the want of rain. The gar dens are already slightly injured, and the field crops are beginning to feel the drought. Late planted cotton has had no rain to bring it np, and some who could not get ready to plant da ring the showers of April find the earth too dry at present to promise an early stand. We shall have rain, however, in a few days, and although late planters may suffer somewhat, it has never yet happened in thi3 section that an entire fail ure of a crop could be reported. Mr. B. G. Fowke, long connected with the Empire Line of steamships, died at Savannah, rather suddenly, Wednesday. We quote as follows from the Savannah Re publican : The Civil Rights Bill.—A very light colored gentleman walked into a bar-room in the city yesterday and called for a drink of whisky. The bar keeper politely informed him that he did not sell liquor to colored people. The colored gentleman then appeared before a magistrate and sued out a warrant, charging the bar keep er with using opprobrious words having a ten dency to provoke a breach of the peace, upon which he was arrested. An examination was had which resulted in the discharge of the pri soner. Beautiful Present. —Mr. Joseph A. Rob erts, Chief Engineer of the Savannah Fire De partment, has received from a committee rep resenting “Young America Fire Company, No. 5,” of Columbus, Ga., a silver service of ex quisite workmanship, consisting of a salver, coffee urn and six goblets, lined with gold, with instrnctions (o present it to the Washing ton Steam Fire Engine Company, No. 9, of Savannah, as a testimonial of their apprecia tion of the hearty welcome which they received upon their late visit to Savannah. COMMERCE OF SAVANNAH, FOB THE MONTH OF APRIL, 1870. Arrivals Foreign 8 Arrivals Coastwise 83 Clearances Foreign 15 Clearances Coastwise 70 Yaluo Imports $ 23,079 00 Duties on Imports 20,547 65 Valve Exports Foreign 1,720,748 00 Value Exports Coastwise 2,272,545 00 The Constitutionalist learns that “Mr. Thos. Shirely has received the appointment of sheriff for Warren county, vice Norris, removed, in compliance with a recommendation from some of the ,‘loil” to the millitary authorities. The Columbus Enquirer says more com has been brought to Columbus from the West dur ing the past four mounths than for the whole of last year, Muscogee factory stock sold in Columbus, Wednesday, for $101 a share. The Savannah papers say that the last volume of Mr. Stephens’ history of the late civil war has been issued from the press, and is now ready for delivery to subscribers. A correspondent at Bartow, Jefferson county, writes as follows to the Savannah News, nnder date of May 17th: I have read flattering accounts from various sources regarding the present crop of cotton in Georgia. But allow me, Mr. Editor, to inform yon and your readers that in this vicinity the reverse is strictly true. The cotton planted may be put down as a half-stand, while thou sands of acres of land well prepared and well guanoed are yet to bo planted, which will not ie done till we bave rain. About six weeks have elapsed since we have had enough rain to drip from the house eaves, and with a drying northwest wind and cool weather, we indulge no hope for rain soon.— Gardens are a failure; also oats. Wheat crop fair, and as a general thing about enough plant ed to supply the demand. From the Athens Watchman we get the fol lowing items: A widower, stant and vigorons—who looks like h9 might live fifty years to come, and wonld no doubt like to marry again, “If ever ho could find Some gay and handsome maiden Just suited to liia mind,” Called at our office the other day to subscribe for the Watchman—as all sensible men should do, who are not already taking it—and among other things, informed ns that by his first wife he had six children and sixteen by bis second —twenty-two in all! The Weatheb.—During the past week, the weather has been delightfully cool and dry— very favorable to wheat, bnt bard on other growing crops. There is not half enough land in oora in this section, and not one-hundredth part as much in grass as shonld be. Heabt County.—We visited Heart conn y this week and were surprised to learn that the J udge had again adjourned Court until the third Mon day in September. The wheat along the road looks promising—but oats and everything else is suffering for want of rain. The fruit pros pect is very good. We saw a great many fields of cotton and a few patches of corn. Where the cotton is np, the stand is good, but much of it is not up yet. Tho people are evidently preparing for starva tion next next year, if the fields along the road afford a fair criterion to judge by. Homicide.—In the upper part of Franklin county, on Saturday evening, the 16th nit., Mr. John Collins struck Jesse Adams on the head with a heavy stick, and killed him instantly. Collins made his esoape, and, so far as we are informed, has not been arrested yet. A writer in the Savannah Republican, of Thursday, gives some startling facts in relation to the condition of affairs in the Ogeecbee dis trict of Chatham connty. He Bays there are 4,000 negroes in that district, and only about 50 whites. There is an organized gang of abont 50 black robbers, who steal and plunder at will, overawing the majority of the blacks, whom the writer describes a3 orderly and well dis posed. So little regard is now paid to tho rights of property, that cattle and hogs cannot bo al lowed to range at large, nor are the crops in the field safe after maturing. He concludes his story as follows: The most of the shops are kept open all the Sabbath, and become the place of resort daring those days for a large portion of the meD, to drink, dispute and quarrel; while the young, both the boys and girls, occupy the roads in largo bodies, shouting and quarreling in the most noisy and- turbulent manner. . There has not been either a day or Sabbath sohool for these children foj more than three years past; the old and the young are left alone to natnre’s teachings, without tho restraint of law or the habits and enstoms of s more enlightened class to check their downward iendenoy. Their present condition, when compared with that in which they formerly lived, is sad indeed. They are generally ragged, shoeless and hungry, improvident and wasteful. About one-third of their annual earnings is spent for liquor. Al though I bave s^en but one habitual drunkard among thero, I am informed, that with very few exceptions, every one drinks liquor habitually: believing, as many more intelligent white peo- H pie do, that the free use of stimulating drinks Go\. Warmodth has appointed Gf neral Jds. I is a p:even!ive of disease, if notof poverty. Longstrcet, Adjutant General of the Louisiana ! The pnblie roads have been so neglected for -oUtc militia, vice Sheridan resigned. yesrs paat that they have become unsafe for traveling, and reducing the passing over them to less than half of what it was a few years ago. The Ogeechee district now experiences as few of the benefits of a civilized government as it wonld were it located in the centre of Africa; and the property owners of the district only know that they are within the jurisdiction of the State of Georgia on the annual return of tax days. The Greensboro Herald says: Daring the present week considerable cotton has been shipped from this point, which has been held over for good prices. From the best information there is at least one-third of' a cot ton crop in the county yet unsold. ’Weatheb, Crops, eto.—The weather for the last few days has been qnite warm, and all over the country we hear complaints of drought. Gardens are evidently snffering. Wheat throughont the connty is reported to be most flattering. The peach crop is far more general and abundant than was expected earlier in the Spring. We believe at least a half crop will be realized. The Marietta Journal says Wm. Dobbs, of that connty, fell off an ox cart Tuesday, while drunk, and broke his neck. The Griffin Star says the com market there is weak, and off five cents. Some lots of new wheat have been engaged in Griffin at $ l 25 bushel. The Griffin Georgian has seen a farmer Meriwether county who has one-fonrth cotton and three-fourths com planted, and knows sev eral other farmors who have never bought bushel of com or wheat, or pound of meat, in their lives.- We would like to have their names to frame and hang np in this office. The Rome Cornier has the following inter esting item for formers: There has bsen sold in this city in tho last five months about 40,000 bushels of Northern com, at say $1.45 per bushel, and 400 tons of Northern hay at $40 . per ton. Thus carrying from our section about $60,000, Bacon, flour, and other natural produots of this section would swell the figures to over $100,000. But don't mind this—continue to plant cotton, live poor, and curse somebody or something for bad luck. The Cuthbert Appeal reports the weather op pressively dry and hot. No rain for a month. Gardens “gonenp.” Camp-fishing all the rage, One party went to Baker county and caught 300 pounds of fish. Tho Albany News says: The Weather and the Chops.—We are having a dry, hot spell, and tho crops are suffering ter ribly. Gardens are seriously injured, and planters are considerably alarmed about their com and cotton. All manner of vegetation has ceased to grow, and, without rain in a few days, will begin to die. The Chronicle & Sentinel says old Bard is part owner of the Atlanta Sun. Bryant still has charge of the Augusta post- office, and recently discharged one of the clerks. Prince, the P. M., is at home in Skowhegan waiting for the K. K.’s to subside. The Chronicle says a heavy rain fell, Thurs day, several miles from Augusta, but in what direction, it does not mention. There was none at Augusta. The Sun says there was a “glorious shower” in Columbus, Thursday afternoon—the first re spectable rain in six weeks. Out of a lot of seventeen bales of cotton sold in Columbus, Thursday, seven were mixed, and seven water packed. The young men of Brooks county, are to have a tournament, Jane 2d. A Bainbridge letter to the Savannah Repub lican says the weather is fine bnt very dry, and that the cotton crop is already considerably in jured thereby. Of weather and crops in Brooks county, the Quitman Banner says: The weather continues very dry, and no pros pect for rain. Crop prospects are not as favor able as the planters would like. Oats have suf fered materially from the drought; com is small bnt healthy; and in a few instances cot ton seed, which was planted about the middle of April, has not yet germinated, on account of an entire lack of moisture in the soiL The Columbns Enquirer says the oat crop has been much injured by the long drought, and on some of it rust has appeared. It fears wheat will also suffer in the heading from drought. Dr. Burt reports to the Talbotton Young American that tho crop prospects are not very flattering. The cotton, where it has been chop ped out, is beginning to die. He saw no com worth mentioning. The farmers generally have slanted nearly all cotton. The early wheat has been almost totally destroyed by the birds. Many farmers are cutting it to feed upon, being satisfied that there is not enough grains left to replace the seed. Alderman D. T. Scranton, of Savannah, died of dropsy, Thursday. He was bom in New Haven, in 1812, and came to Savannah in 1827. A letter from Taylor county, to the Talbotton Standard, says fair stands of com and cotton have been seemed in that county, bnt rain is very much needed. A young man named Hill, was bitten by a rattlesnake, near Savannah, on his right arm, Wednesday morning. Chloroform, whisky and tobacco, saved his lifo. Tho snake had twenty- two rattles and a bntton, and was, therefore, twenty-two years old. He killed the snake, and will keep tho rattles as a memento. The Savannah Nows says: We bavo received the following particulars of dreadful accident, resulting in the loss of life of Mr. James H. Butler, near Eden, in EffiDg- ham county. Mr. Butler, on last Wednesday morning, while adjusting a belt near the circu lar saw, was thrown or fell from his position upon the saw, which was in full motion at the time. His right arm and right leg were cut off, and being remote from immediate surgical aid he bled to death in abont six horns after the ac cident, and was buried yesterday at Goshen Hill Cemetery, about twelve miles above Savan nah. Mr. Butler was identified with the me chanical interests of Savannah, and was well known in this community, where he had many friends. He was aged forty years, and leaves a family consisting of a wife and four children. The Atlanta Constitution denies mo3t em phatically, the rumor “that the proprietors of the Constitution have mado overtures to Pro visional Governor Bullock, in order to effect a compromise in the libel salt instituted by him against that paper, and that they had offered as much as $20,000 to have the suit withdrawn. The Constitution defies Provisional Governor Bullock, the Bullock “Ring” and the libel suit.” Of the report of the Senate Judiciary Com mittee on the Bollock-bribery affair, the Con stitution says it teaches many lessons. “It teaches that tho accusations against Georgia order are false; that Bollock and his henchmen who fabricated them are the true enemies of peace in the State, and foes to the Common wealth; that they knew their holding-over scheme to be wicked, or they wonld not have restored to bribery to engineer it through; that men who resort to bribery will not be too good to plunder, and hence, the charges of misappro priation of pnblio funds against these men gain strength; and that the dynasty now rilling Geor gia is corrupt.” An Alpharetta, Milton county, correspondent of the Constitution writes that the corn crop is fine, and wheat and cotton “decidedly more so.” Farmers say tho wheat crop, if escapes the rust, will surpass any grown in that section for years. The Nownan Herald reports a half acre clover patch in that place which is nearly ready for mowing, and which will yield .a ton of hay worth $45. . It was sown in November, 1868. The LiGrange Reporter says: A porsonal difficulty occurred between J. T. Dix and Wm. Gorham, on Wednesday afternoon, on the road about a mile and a half from town, in whioh Mr. Gorham received a flesh wound in the arm, and Mr. W S. Evans, (not concerned in tho fight) received a shot through the left hand—both shots being fired from a pistol in the hands of Dix. As the ease is undergoing examination before tho proper authorities we shall not at tempt to give the particulars. The Americas Republican reports the general condition of crops in Sumter, Webster, Lee and Schloy as favorable, and cotton promising an abundant yield. Some complaint of drought, but it is not general. The University question. The citizens of Macon should not forget the public meeting called by the Mayor on Monday, (to-morrow) at the City Hall, at 5 o’clock. Cer tainly, no man who stays away should feel at liberty to complain about what shall be done on that occasion. The question will be whether the city shall contribute to the establishment of a University in Mocod, and, if so, how much and in what way. The proposition most bruited about is a city subscription in bonds of $100,000, and pro vision of suitable grounds for the necessary edi* floes. We are one of those who believe that the removal of Mercer University to Macon, would, within a reasonable time, return the amount of this snbsoription annually to the people in the trade and business which it would bring here; bnt that mere fact, if true, would not conclude the propriety of a city subscription for the object. That is a point whioh the people should and must decide for themselves. The objections suggested by “Caution” in another column, are entitled to just such weight as the people shall give them. They may or may not be of pracli cal force, according to pnblio sentiment on the subject. The writer, for example, though no Baptist, does not attach a particle of weight to the denominational objections; bnt others might. The fact that the College is under the auspices of the Baptists would constitute no ob' jeetion to it with as as an institution of learn ing, while it wonld probably add muoh to its efficiency by bringing to it the pecuniary support of a large and powerful denomination in Geor gia. The point is to get a strong well endowed institution, and we think Mercer University, in Macon, would probably be about the strongest in tho State. We have heretofore dwelt at length on the general considerations which would make the establishment of this college in Macon a great social, moral, religions, and pecuniary acquisi tion to the oity, and will press the subjeot so further. We call upon the citizens to make up their minds and then turn out and express them to-morrow. Tire Radical War in Hie Senate. The reporters for the Northern papers give very piquant reports of the soene in the Sen ate between Messrs. Ferry and Morton, on Tuesday, over the bill to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. They regard it as the culmina tion of a mortal quarrel between the Conserva tives and the Irreeonoilables. Both read ont the sentence of excommunication against the opposite wing, in terms of intense bitterness and with even greater vehemence and exacer bation of manner than of matter. The quid nuncs pronounco it a formal split in the ranks— a compound and incnrable fracture. Tho point at immediate issue was the policy to be pursued to the rebels, so-called. Ferry denounced tho course of the extremists, and the whole policy of perpetuating the fends of the war. He assailed the studied misrepresents tion and slander whioh had been pursued to wards Georgia, and declared she had been a victim to persistent slander. This brought np Morton and the amiable Howard, of Michigan, n bitter reply. Morton told Ferry to go over to the Democratic benches, where he belonged, and Howard fulminated perpetual war against the Southern whites. He said five generations wonld not obliterate their hatred of the North, and they wonld fight against the government they hated, whenever they had a chance. The reader will see underlying this explosion a vast range of issues and questions npon which the schism may widen and embitter. The re port npon the Bollock investigation will bo one of them, as well as the Fifteenth Amendment bill, and Sumner’s supplementary civil rights bill, and the new Georgia bill. At the bottom it is, perhaps, a question of party tactics. Mor ton and his crowd go it blind on keeping np the hatreds and animosities of the war, in the be lief that this is the way to sustain the party and reap the plunder. Forney, Trumbull, Edmunds, Gaipenter and their following, with more states manship as well as more conscience, balk at the idea of making tho national peace a perpetual holocaust to party plunder and personal ad vancement. The one want j ustice and reconcilia tion—the other to stimulate race and seotional animosities to their utmost, in order to concen trate a predominant party of “loyalty.” “Loy alty” is a good card, and has paid them well, and they want to hold on to it. Such being the state of the case in Congress it is cady to see why some of the Northern par ty papers are clamorous for an early adjourn ment, and declaring the longer the session the more deep and irreconcilable the quarreL The faot is, one of the revnlsionary waves of the war is returning. The armed South having been subdued in the interests of National Union, the wave of public opinion is rising to sub merge the enemies of peace and union in the North. The sagacious in Congress are just be ginning to catch sight of it; bnt Morton, Sum ner, Howard and sneb like one-idea men who have subsidized the union sentiment into the accomplishment of their negro side-issues, as part of the programme, can see nothing bnt their absurd dogmas and their own wicked, selfish and reckless designs. They are like the Dutch miller who swore that the tides and winds were created simply to grind corn. Tho New York election may open their eyes, bnt it doubtful. The irreeonoilables may triumph for a time in Congress, but are bound to be whipped at last. Which Side Grant is On. “Timon” writes a letter from Washington, nnder date of May 17, to the Richmond Dis patch, with reference to the division in the Radical party, as showed in the Morton-Ferry debate. Of Grant’s leanings he says: So far as the President and Cabinet are con cerned, they are, with probably three, (if even that is not counting one too many,) exceptions, favorable to the more conservative policy. At any rate, they will do nothing to help the Rad ical cause. Grant wants peace. He likes an easy road, and does not care'to interfere. At the same time he would like to have reconstruc tion complete before tho end of hi* term. If there is no more progress made within the next yenr than there has been in the past, or if the extremists continuo to hold their own as well, ho will not experience that satisfaction. One matter has been made very plain of late. The reconstrnctionists do not want President Grant a second term. If they did, pains would be taken to quiet Mr. Boutwell’s aspirations, which seem to be np secret. Grant’s indiffer ence to “men and measures” is the principal reason why he is losing ground with the party. A few days only will demonstrate more clearly the fact that disruption has certainly sot in, and is not to be stopped. Considering that Grant has never yet refused to do any and ull things Ihe extreme Radicals desired him to do, his inclination towards the more conservative of the Republicans, is rather a carious kind of performance. We wonld, rather not have any leaning of that sort, ourself. It hurts worse than the most ramrod perpendic ularity. “Timon” being a Washington corres pondent, and therefore a man of almost un fathomable wisdom, ought to know better than this deponent, bnt we'll make him a lively bet that Grant don’t fall whero he predicts. A young white girl of Montgomery county, M3., whose marriago with a neighboring gen tleman wa^ prevented by her family, revenged herself, a'few days sinoe, by running away with one of her father’s’ former slaves. She is now in Massachusetts, where they were married. We congratulate her parents on the riddance. The darkey, though, has our sincere sympathy. He will live to tear his hair yet over his rash act. . . TOE WOMAN'S JURY. A,!?,®?!?* T®*"* ***7 T®M» au A beat It—A Spicy Letter. Prom the Dodge County ( Ww.) Citizen. 1 Dear Mother :—Of course you have read in all the papers how that Anty has been set ting on the j my, and how they convicted a man to death. I know it was a great honor for her, but I had an awful time of it, and was gl A SAD STOBv^ Death of tho Eldest Son Tblrlr-eiffht Year, and Final Death in T *•*'*a man Through Love. Oatidde of Fayette county ras held m high, but not & being “in his own country ” ft**'*? [ has ever been a sacred one in 1 : nflma him hen t.. • **• 4 J ed hasn t got his place paid lor yet, so Anty in him a champion. When r Ul: ‘ t and me do our own work. The day the jury land of Gxeeoe, the fountain V* began to set wo got up at 3 o’clock and had ot ' the wash out before breakfast Anty went away before 10, then I had the work to finish u * “na oeat back the faded)* »■» up and dinner to get. Before I got half I East; when Macedon through little Ulysses Grant Flail woke up I, , of her conquering bov'S? , k i and missed his mother,and set up snch a 1struck for the land that brat? 1 1 record of howling you’d thought there was a dozen In- w* Javwl.?* 7 roUe ? °ver dians on the war-path. Itriedmybest to keep * 0 froin tie claimer wearied. Such being aJ*< Just as I got the" words ont of my mouth, I Z^!™#******• wSUalft Jed came in and says “damn your jury.” He W6a ith havfl^^V ha . peopl8 of Ifct® was biting mad, I tell you, for he cannot bear *he skeleton iiTm!. 0 ? 40 s P e ? fe sfiL: to hear the baby cry. He told me to take the homes of the state Uloa S» baby straight to the Court-house to his moth- household word. 6 Sa< * 8tor y £ er, and he would eat his dinner in the pantry; Yesterday morning our ., and told me to tell Aunty to get excused and nounoed the end of a wearvlif • ? COme home. Hilt; when T matthero. the fihief I ThnruSnm t. UIe > hi S Justice was i folly, and told' looking at them; and that Wyoming had took briefly thus: the first stop to give wiring thrr rights, and thirty years of rgo Thecd-, n lots more that 1 can’t remember. Poor Ulys- P romi “ n 8 lawyer. He was the ses spied his mother, and was getting uneasy, f 0 ^ of statesman whose fame ^ so that I couldn’t hear half of it *?"£??*. *** there After she got through, Anty gave the baby *^?j 8 1 Ki°i 1 - ndlfferentniot& is,S his dinner, and he was happy as a prince, t v 0 f nln f 8 looking at aU the folks. She said if she din house. Still it was hoped ? *» not come home to supper, 1 might bring tne the result of youth, and wools S!*** baby again about dark. Wdl, 1 had to trot when circumstances caUed that baby three times a day back and forth, man to assert m u a , : te all the time that Anty was settin’ on that in the community. 8 “3U!ta] jury, and do all the work besides. All the It was in this turning-point in v; wimmin had on new. dresses except Anty. Theodore Clay began to pursue ! She bought a beautiful blue merino, but wearied perseverance that caused hr couldn’t get it made up for love nor money— great uneasiness, a young lad? 0 f hj* so she had to wear her black alpaca. She I whom he had long loved hopelessiv. was glad of it afterwards, for a man sat next of “s attachment, who is at the preset-l to me and says to another man that that wo- of the b«gbtost ornaments of KmS man in a black dress is sensible, for wimmin’ even* settin’ on a jury in a murder trial ought to £ B mea ning^tSbSSSSST wear mourning. I was real provoked one no te * onld Eot c bTreS l^ day when I was takin the baby; he kept hi3 fai £ fate in the streetsbydayCd^ squalling all the way, when who should I see in the neighborhood of her home KS coming but Bill1 Smirker. I pulled my veil annoying manner, until at last it over my face and pretended I didn t see lum, dent that he “was not all there,” t 0 rS but he sings out, “Hallo 1 what’s that? a I phrase by which a kindly peasantry S young juryman?’’ sanity. Subsequent violent dencunJ Bill has been home with me a couple of I tended to confirm the impression, itbZ. times, hut I’m afraid he won’t again after related that he went to the house oflg J that meeting. They would not let Anty come j “J demanded hia daughter at the pistoi'J home during the whole time. I couldn’t get | uatil at last the wretched truth could ia£ dinner so Unde Jed used to get a lunch at the I igaored and confinement in the Asvb saloon. I don’t ought to say anything about ■R|l s ™ *« it, but he stayed out three nights till twelve. 7°^’-^ lc3 “’ Where he was I don’t know. I shall tell Anty, for she is all tuckered out, and has to oar b a £\? eodor6 f 0r “fe H lie down every little while. Anty sai4 to-day after thirty-eight years of imprisonmS that she was going to turn over a new leaf in in the earlier days of his confine®7S the house, ohe would hire a girl, cost what wont to call “a good boarding-house, bit! it might. She had come to her senses, and some of the biggest fools he ever sswu, found out her sphere, and as for wearing her- ers,” has just closed. For nearly tto self out among pots and kettles, and being a he was one of the most noted of the I slave for Jed Flail, if she knew herself she not only his proud descent, but his shouldn’t do it. Not much, Mary Ann 1 She manners and flow of conversation real is going to read and expand her mind, and I 611 object of interest to all visitors. He some day will start on a lecturing tour, and hallucination that he to _ that would be pretty soon, if ’twant for the Washwgton, and wa3 fond of assumingi baby- She said “there is one thing certain, ^ attitudes of the Father of his C I put my foot on that square; there will no LfZf - l0lhe l.l moh Flails come into this house. exquSly dSed t S3 Ulyss* is the oldest, and vrifi always be the KSSKffli youngest When I was settin on that jury a ll these long years, despite his geneffii [was mortified almost to death to think of ! tleness and cheerfulness of manner, heiu Jed Hail being so stupid as to send that baby I less and discontented, and required dost right in court time. Of course he had no ing—it never, in fact, having been to feelings for me. I sometimes thought I should I prudent to allow him to go ont into the faint away and drop out of my seat, and this without attendants. About the year Bj great lumix to drag out what little life there condition began to grow worse, and be was in me. Other wimmin could have their ter became demented, continuing in 1 babies at recess, and their fathers think just I idiocy until a few days since, when as much of them as Jed does of his baby. If I greater healer than Time, placed him I had my lifo to live over again, I’d keep U P°& “ equality with the peera of tis school tiU I was gray before I’d many a man ? a ? hood ? wfaqhadyDebeforehhntoi. that couldn't appreciate my talents.” J S 8 *- crea ted him and did with him accorin r i a *.* „*..)** a his inscrutable will. Andsoendsassrin I said, Anty, you was beginning to get I as truth of history ever commacdsd ii| jray, wem t you, when you were married l written. jut she didn t hear. Just then somebody I iwo sons of Henry Clay yet survive b] knocked; I opened the door, and there stood H. Clay, Ex-Minister to Honduras, no vr* Ruth Roddock. She had been visiting here on his place, “Mansfield,” near Leiingta a spell. Shi o*ys to Anty, “Good morning, John M. Clay, the raiser of “Kentucky," Mrs. Fiall; howdoyonfindyourseli after set- one of tho greatest turfmen living,—Car ting on the jury?” She said she had just Enquirer. come from Mrs. Goslow’s; that she and the „„ . baby were both sick; that she left a quilt half ™ Mew GeorgIa Bil! ’ off when she went to serve her country by set- Of this bill which the Ee-Construetion ting on that jury; and now that Providence I mittee has been instructed to report to I has seen fit to afflict them with sickness, she Souse, a Washington special of the Kill did not know when it would come off, with no- A . body but a twelve year-old-daughter to dc the Eichmond Dispatch, says: •verythimr I The Reconstruction Committee to-aay w Then Icalled at Mrs. Knockabout’s, and to . «P? rt fo . r the admission of C-t f nd haf eof tWhd^en * off to sc W ^ ni8 «Emitted,'™ A band had got the children off to school, and clause the organisation of a cj the breakfast dishes washed. He said he was I force in the State. This bill is virtually i willing to work his finger nails off, for he con-1 tory for the Governor Bollock party, alibi sidered it a great honor to have a wife smart it is silent ai to the period of time the d enough to set on the first juiy of wimmin in of the present State government shall Wdj the country. They would have agreed sooner, offices; that is left to the State courts to dd if it hadn’t been for that Poodle of a man, for Bingham and Farnsworth have prepared ij they did not calculate from the first to let that stitute compelling the election of a nev if murderer go, and have folks to say they were latore next falL A close vote is anticip^ chicken-hearted, and dar.-ent convict him. j Perhaps when the House reads the Sir Ruth told Anty that it would be a good idea diciary Committee’s report on the Bnlloa-lJ to stop some ot tho Mormon sisters on their ory business, the vote may not be i way to Utah and impress them into the ser- aaticipated . vice, and to keep every husband well supplied r with nurses—then they might serve their couu-1 A curious story is afloat about the b try- and still have things going on as smooth I James do Rothschild having sat for fci at home as a well-greased engine. . ture some years ago, to try Scheffer, t! Anty says 1 must go to school; and as I am character of a beggar. It is added, # pretty good in grammar an’ spelling, she plete the romance, that a chance via:* wants me to study latin. She says she has ing the Baron in the artist’s studio, e*! heard the doctors and lawyers are chuck full for a sitting, and, believing him to be of latin, and sho thinks they are, for she could appeared, slipped a louis into his hind, not make out a good many of the words, an’ pretended model took the coin, kept ij knows they must ’a been latin. She saysmost vested for ten years, and then sent bid’ likely I’ll have to set on the jury some time, donor ten thousand francs as the * and she don’t want me to be as ignorant as profit, with a note to the effect that Jjj she is. You had better sell the cow and Jet action always brings good fortune. A-f me have the money to go to school. 1 ~ ’ Your affectionate daughter, Sally Sprout. , —i ■ ■ ■- From West Tennessee. corroboration from flic giver of the jj published in a respectable Paris jounM | prevents this tale from being incredible- | The Paris correspondent of Ij’Btwfe® writes: “The Empress Eugenic ■ titty. Her vanity and. tier unseaw^- j to conceal the ravages of time are of many amusing epigrams m the j tile to the court of the Tuilenes. Staunton, Haywood Co , Tenn.,) . , , ■... . ■ , May 14, 1870. j growing old, and despite the prins she a Editors Telegraph and Messenger : In com- t0 con ceal the traces of years, everyWJ1 pany with Dr. Hannah, of Nashville, yonr cor- ^ t }j at herface is furrowed withw'iikkl respondent made an excursion into the country. t hat her hair is irrowintr very thin- T Here I found the farmers all busy and their Yaf- ™ “ Yhe unDlelSnt imH crops all planted, bnt owing to the cold springs adds perhap3, to the UDpie^an, *' great deal of the cotton is not np yet and the ^appearance ££ &SJ com not growing rapidly. It is very dry and ma ^’ 13 Dad taste which ? j the dust is very oppressive, as well as very det- *0 her costume, obe stm jj jl rimental to both corn and cotton. she were only twenty* five years 0*u« * .J They raise their own com, and many their cess Mathilde displays m tins rc?^ .‘J own meat, although they raise r great deal of better taste. Her costume is stite'- 1 .' .T cotton. Tho common yield of corn is abont 30 ing with her years, but Madame in? J bushels per acre. On many plantations they not yet accustom herself to the yt raised last year a bale of cotton per acre, yet fact that in six years she will be an cA -| t? e average is about one bale to every twoaores. fifty. Her vanity and her unsBOoaf'J The fibre is very fine, and the cotton raised * > -* .miMM here holds an enviable reputation in all Western cotton maikets. j Clover is cultivated to a considerable extent and other grasses receive a great deal of atten- Bisma-ck is a fa’l elderly, tion. Stock is raised, both horses and mules, \■’ with the with great profit. Some of the finest apple | Tintnninhk’ breast an 3 orohards in the State are located here. Peaches hung u P on ~‘ 3 f b 1 do not do so well. The land is fertile and very f' Tor( ^ dangling ungraceful y j i ; productive of cereals, especially. The average Y ls * ac ® is . a curious mix ^ price of land is about $40 to $45 per acre. The I an d sadness; it is m BWpMuw ^ river bottoms sell for much higher prioes. eyes sparkle and burn, and tne ^ t The community is quiet, politically. Many compi eased, now wide open , W1 V y seem to think that they have not made much by humorous satisfaction. He w swapping Brownlow for Senter. Yet all are hope- Uncle Ned of famous memory jtt-V ful for the future. Thoy think they see the j his forehead, nuble with the deveM dawning of better days. So mote it be. g.mius, run two deep furrows, won , Labor is as uncertainhere as in Georgia. The contracted into the snarl of thongpvjj negroes refuse to enter into contracts whenever an expression as wicked »3 M* c they can get permission to settle in some cabin ' - , _ in the woods. White labor is declared to be as uncertain as tbe negro labor. Foreign labor is more uncertain than either. Snch is the I nortions" of Souther# l *^j varied experiences gleaned from many fanners | ™ afl of bv the Ger®*j Staunton is located on the Lonisvilie and Memphis railroad, about 45 miles from the city of Memphis. It is a small villago, but is im proving rapidly, and is destined to be of con siderable dimensions yet The President of the S. and M. R. R., Co). Andrews, resides here. crafty as Mephistophtics. California Wine-Growino^'Q^ _iost fertile portions of Southern was taken possession of by the especially for the purpose °f ® j t ™ The wine became such a drug ,V pay to make it. Heavy ©°“ wine-growing farms followed A.uuju.o.a, *jo,. n.uur«w H , roamos nere. i And the German population in His bonse is a mansion, iedeed ; one of the a"C cutting up their vineyards • . most elaborately furnished and finished mi- lots, and turning their attent- dencea that I bave ever seen in the country, j profitable agricultural labors The Methodists have recently built a neat i ——” “ church edifice here, and it is to be dedicated on to-morrrw by Dr. J. W. Hannah, of the Ten nessee Conference. We return to Memphis on Monday. Ios Rave. A man registered his name ** ! and added : “The man who *j tall spirit of Christ” The landlord in advance.
