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Telegraph, and
Telegraph and Messenger. _
MACON JUNE 7, 1870.
The Southern farm end Home.
The Jnne number of this reluable monthly is
before us. Its frontis-pieco illustration is a pic
ture of Hale’s Early Peach, a variety -which
combines the earliest fruitage, with the richness
Blze and flavor of the later kinds. This number
contains more than fifty articles upon as many
different subjects connected with plantation and
household economy. Among them we notice
that J£r. Gustin contributes a letter upon Deep
Culture j Prof. Xeroy Broun has an article upon
Frfcts about Roots. Mr. W. W. Turner writes
upon Surface vs. Deep Manuring. The Edito
rial Departments are also very full The Farm
and Home is an excellent periodical. Published
by J. "W. Burke & Co., Macon, at $2 00 a year.
Bringing in Sheave*—By Rev. A, JB.
Earle.
The above popular book, by the distinguished
evangelist, who recently preached one or two
sermons in this city, is now on sale by Bev. Mr.
Dorsey, who will afford our citizens an oppor
tunity to read it. It contains an account of the
labors of Mr. Earle, with many deeply interest
ing and affecting incidents: extracts of letters
from various pastors as to the permanent effects
produced by his revivals; a few. characteristic
sermons; among others, one on the “Unpar
donable Sin,” etc., etc. - •
The book is not denominational, but is filled
with faith-inspiring views, doctrines and anec
dotes. All evangelical Christians will read the
volume with pleasure .and edification. They
may not approve all that is said, ncr indorse the
correctness of all the theological views here
taught, but they will find their religious purpo
ses strengthened and their zeal increased. ■
The closing chapter contains the author’s ex
perience as to the “Best of Faith”—a subject
now agitating the Christian mind in this conn-
try and in England. E. W. Warren.
ARoon, May SO, 1870.
Card from Senator Wooten.
Dawson, Ga., 28th May, 1870.
Messrs. Editors: Noticing that my absence
from the. Committee on the State Hoad is
made the subject of comment in the newspa
pers, I deem it due to the public that I should
make known the cause of my non attendance.
I am detuned at home by protracted and
serious sickness in my family.
It is my earnest desire to participate in t]ie
investigation of the affairs of the road, and I
propose to join the committee as soon as I
can do so, consistently with the claims of hu
manity.
Very respectfully yours,
C. B. Wooten.
Kongli on the Puritans.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says:
A prominent Bepublioan journalist, who had
excellent advantages during the war, and who
has enjoyed even better opportunities at Wash
ington since the war, to study the Paritan char
acter, in lamenting to U3 recently that the Re
publican party had come so. thoroughly under
the control of Now England managers, said of
these leaders: “Sir, they will pray all night and
steal all day.” The two services are insepara
ble with the Puritan—“the services of ye Lord
and great gayne for his ministers and people."
As they appropriate the public plunder, they
say, ‘Tours in ye bowells of Christ.” A re
markable human institution is the Puritan.
This is awful. Why, its almost blasphemous.
We haven’t been so shocked in a month. We
print it merely as an illustration of the doctrine
of total depravity. Why this ribald mocker
might as well say that Frothingham and Beecher
are not Christian ministers, or that Sumner does
not represent the physical manhood, and Dr. But
ler the refinement, honesty, and good looks of
the Kadical party. We shudder to picture the fu
ture of such a man.
A Practical Treatise oh Agriculture; to
which is added the Author’s published letters.
By David Dickson of Sparta Georgia. Edited
by J. Dickson Smith, Macon; J. W. Burke &
Co.
This is an octavo book of three hundred pages
adorned with a portrait of the author; and is
the best specimen of Southern Letter-press
printing we have ever seen. Indeed, the work
is gotten up. in a more expensive and elegant
manner than probably consists with that gener
al and extensive circulation which it ought to
have. We would recommend another and cheap
er edition. The contents of the work are in
great part familiar to the reader. We have
already republished much of it from the South
ern Cultivator. The editor, Dr. Smith, seems
to have performed his part of the work wjith
•are and accuracy..
Water Works.—We observe in the proceed
ing* of the last council meeting, that the Mayor
and Aldermen Boss, Tarpin, Grier and Westcott
were appointed a committee “to confer with
parties in reference to the organization of a
Board of Directors in establishing the Macon
Canal and Water Works.” ^iis proposition is
a little enigmatical, bat we should be glad to be
lieve that it covered some feasible plan for the
aooomplishment of an enterprise so important
to the comfort and prosperity of the city. No
very great investment of money in a Canal wonld
give Macon the use of the whole Ocmulgee river
as a water power except such' portion of it as
might ba needful for domestic purposes. We
suppose it is demonstrable that the interest on
an investment necessary for this enterprise,
would be covered by the saving in insurance,
and that as a private enterprise it could be made
a profitable investment.
The Rev. Wm. W. Niles, of Connecticut, has
recently been eleoted Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, for the Diocese of New Hamp
shire. The Bev. Dr. Coit, of Concord, N. H.,
was the choice of the clergy, but the laity re
fused to ooncur in the nomination, and after six
baHottings a committee of conference was ap
pointed, which resulted in the election of Mr.
Niles. The Bishop elect is Professor of Latin in
Trinity College, Hartford, and has charge of St.
John’s parish, Warehouse Point, on the Connec
ticut river, above Hartford. The New York Son
referring to this election, says in no other part
of the Union is that Church in a more flourishing
condition than in Connecticut.
But a short time ago Mr. Dunn, the indepen
dent candidate for .Congress in the First Con
gressional District of South Carolina, spoke in
Florence. He said that Whittemore was a thief,
having pilfered several thousand dollars from^
Mr. Shaw, a merchant of Boston. He supported*
tiffs assertion with authenticated letters and af
fidavits. When he concluded, Bro. Flood, col
ored, the postmaster of Florence, mounted the
rostrum and said; “Ido not question that
Whittemore may be what Mr. Dunn says he is;
but I must Inquire, may not - Mr. Dunn, who is
also from Massachusetts, be also a thief?” It
seems to us that this is rather hard on Massa
chusetts.
F^*u Wheat.—The prettiest sample of new
dheat we have yet seen comes from Mr. B. B.
Cox,, of Jones county. Me sends qs a cluster of
twenty or thirty heads, which, for size, weight
and color, are not .often exceeded. The seed
was obtained of Dr. John Hardeman and is as
beautiful a white wheat os can be grown. It
was sown in drills at the ratp of only fourteen
quarts to the acre, and will yield about twenty
bushels. The heads range from fifty to eighty
two grains, and very large ones at that.
Few who have ever tried the American House,
Boston, are tempted to leave that pattern hotel
fes-wy other.
The Presbyterian Re-Union.
Our first page discloses the fate of the Re
union movements made by the Northern Pres
byterians. All the oooing of the Northern
doves has gone for nought. “Fine words but
ter no parsnips,” sayr, in effect, the Louisville
General Assembly; and they uplift their “testi
monies” with an ardor and vehemence worthy of
Manse Heddlerig in the tale of Old Mortality.
The speech of Dr. Palmer actually assails the
Northern Assembly for bringing forward their
propositions of correspondence, and charges
them with an attempt to disturb aud divide the
Southern Church. At the same time while the
learned Doctor, in his report, reluctantly yields
the point of a committee of oonferenoe, he de
clares in bis speech that the “conference will
result in fusion in three years.” 'The reader will
find the reports and speeches on our first-page.
We are free to confess that whether these
overtures were to be declined or to be acoepted,
the action of the assembly does not in our
judgment meet the case with either grace or
wisdom: and this we say with all the more
candor because wo sing out of a Presbyterian
'book. They should either have accepted the
invitation to a conference with frankness, or
declined with decision; but they have done nei
ther.
We waive all discussion of' the alleged doc
trinal and dogmatic differences—first, because
unqualified to treat of them, and second because,
if they exist, they should have been conclusive
against every movement looking to a re-estab
lished union, and should have led to a decisive
refusal of the conference. . But Dr. Palmer, in
admitting that a conference must lead to fusion,
leaves & grave doubt of the existence of any
very wide doctrinal differences between these
branches of the church.
We believe practically that Union of the
Christian Churches will be power to the South
and tend to peace and prosperity, social and re
ligious, and that disunion remits the Southern
churches to a disputed jurisdiction in their own
borders. But we are quite content to hold our
opinion quietly and await the course of events.
Whipping (lie Devil Around the
Stump. -
And now we read the following Washington
dispatch:
WEST POINT EXAMINATION.
By order of the Secretary of War, a Board
of officers is directed to meet at the Military
Academy at West Point on June 1, to examine
the- physical qualifications of the graduating'
class, and the candidates for admission into this
Academy will commence at once. So far, there
has been but one colored cadet nominated to
this Academy, and if he proves to be three-
fourths black, he is certain to be rejected, under
the rules governing the medical examination now
in fores
Bah! What a lame way of getting out of an
ugly scrape! It does honor neither to Radical
cunning nor Radical party faith. “Three-fourths
colored,” forsooth! Don’t the “three-fourths
colored” down South furnish more than “three-
fourths” of the Radical vote in this section ?
What new little game is this to cheat real black
men out of their rights? Mulattoes and mongrels
are all well enough, but the pure breed are to he
slaughtered by a medical examination that will
declare against what as an impediment ? Length
of heel, or crookedness of shin, or redundance
of lip, or what ? We really want to know.
We denounce this dodge as utterly contempti
ble. It is a mean, sneaking way of flogging
Beelzebub around the biggest, blackest sort of
a stump. If the negro is as good as a white man,
as these Radicals say, why isn’t ho as good at
West Point or Annapolis ashe is in the Senate?
Certainly no people at the South have a clearer
right to demand admission everywhere the Rad
ical party say they ought to go, than the real ne
groes of the South. They have served that
party with matchless zeal and fidelity.- To go
back on them now for the sake of a lot of aris
tocratic youngsters at West Point whose fathers
endorse and hurrah over negro equality at the
South as a most excellent thing, is shockingly
snobbish and mean. If the rules governing this
medical examination are inconsistent with the
full and perfect recognition and practice of that
equality so recently proclaimed as part of the
Constitution by the Radicals, why not abolish it •
at once ? It don’t keep mulattoes out—only ne
groes. We think these latter will open their
eyes after a while. And we have a suspicion
that when they do, there’ll be music in the air
for somebody.
Cotton Inciting.
Watt’s & Co’s Liverpool-ciroular of the 13th
nit;
Tn this connection, it oiiuuld be farther borne
in mat one prominent cause of the high
prices attained herein August last (14d for mid
dling Orleans) was a widespread conviction, that
the available labor of the South was insufficient
to pick over 2J to 2j millions balds. Now, how
ever, their capacity to pick three millions has
been demonstrated, and many suppose that if
even a half mitiion more is grown, they will
manage in some way to secure it, provided the
picking season should be a favorable one.
Certainly. It is only by the New York pa
pers that we learn that immense crops of cotton
rot in the fields of the Southwest for want of la
bor to gather it. We never believed that story.
About a year ago last February the writer was
discoursing with a party of intelligent Alabam
ians, who were sure that the cotton crop of the
South had attained its maxmum that year, and
'Would fall off rapidly from the diminishing sup
ply of labor to cultivate and gather it We
maintained then that on the Contrary, it wodj(l
swell rapidly from year to year until il had at
tuned and passed its ancient volume.
But where was the labor to come from ? We
could not undertake to say, bat so long as cot
ton was worth about twenty cents we were sure
it wonld be forthcoming, no matter what per
plexities were apparent in the labor question.
And it is coming sure enough. The Southern
States are so eager to bring it that they care
nothing, in comparison, about their own health
and comfort. They abandon the production of
food indispensable to their own physical well
being, in order to swell the cotton crop; and so
it is bound to go on nntil Southern agriculture
is well nigh prostrate from starvation and bank
ruptcy.
Bottom’s Horse Power.
This celebrated machine is now manufactured
very extensively at the Findlay Woxks, Macon,
- and we refer -the reader to the advertisement.
It is in great demand, and we are informed that
the manufacturers have already orders ahead
for three hundred. The Telegraph and Mes
senger, speakifcg of this power, when it was
tested at the Georgia State Agricultural Fair, in
Macon, last November, said :
■ Bottoms’ Horse-Power was tested yesterday
before the Committee on Machinery. As no
mole was handy, six men were substituted for
The Georgia Press.
The Irish potatoe crop in Sumter county is
said to be a failure.
Plenty of rain in Sumter county. Americas
is to have three new public wells.
The Americas Courier says Mr. Needham Cox,
whom it reported as shot and mortally wounded
last week, was only struck oh the head with a-
gun, and not seriously hurt.
Sumter county will have a meeting to-day to
send delegates to a convention'to be held at
Geneva, on the 15th inst., in the interest of the
proposed railroad from Americas to Newnan.
In the final boat race at Savannah Saturday,
for a purse of two hundred dollars and the
championship of the river, the Queen was
proclaimed the victor. Four boats were entered
and the following was the time made.by each:
QueeD, 5:42} ; King Cotton, 5:45} ; Aphrodite,
5:47, and Irene, 5:52.
The News says; We learn from a source en
titled to credence that the “Brunswick” boat-
ists are organizing for a grand Regatta, which
will oome off on the 4th of July next, and that
the Brunswick CluVpropose to open the door to
all comers, and especially the champions of the
Savannah river, for a race for one thousand
dollars and the championship of the South.
Father Ryan preached in Savannah Sunday. -
The News says:
On last Friday evening, at Augusta, Ga., the
Catholic congregation of the Old Church met,
for the pnrpose of presenting Father Ryan with
a testimonial of esteem ana affection,'on the
eve of his departure for Europe. Mr. P.
Walsh, on behalf of the married men, presented
a well filled purse. Mr. P. F. Donne, on behalf
of the youag men, presented the Reverend
Father with a gold pencil case, a silver match
box, and a check for a handsome amount—
Parses were also presented by the Societies of
St. Alyosius and the Sodality of the Immaculate
Conception. • —’ - J
The gas question is being especially considered
by the Savannah City Council. The contract
with the Gas Company expires by limitation in
August, and there seems to be a prospect of a
hitch in its renewal. At a special meeting of
Council Saturday night “Alderman Davidson
introduced Mr. Cook, who proceeded to explain
the advantages of a Photometer burner which
he proposes to introduce, and which,he alleges
will produce the same quantity of light with, a
two-feet burner now produced by a four-feet
burner, thereby saving one half the present ex
pense of lighting the city.
It appears that the Gas Light Company has
declined to enter into a contract to furnish gas
for two feet burners, and demands fifty-one dol
lars per annum for each lamp instead of thirty-
three dollars, the amount paid under the pres
ent contract. It seems that there are five hun
dred and twenty-nine street lamps, for each of
which the city pays thirty-three dollars per an
num, besides the expense of lighting the Mar
ket and other public buildings at the usual rite
per thousand feet. The additional eighteen dol
lars per lamp, as we understand it, is demanded
for keeping the lamps burning every night with
out regard to the phases of the moon.
On motion of Alderman Davidson, the Gas
Committee was authorized to test the plan pro
posed by Mr. Cook, at an expense not exceed
ing two hundred dollars.”
George W. Evans, yard master of the West-
ern and Atlantic Railroad at Atlanta, has beet
discharged by Blodgett
The Atlanta Sun says:
The late rains have greatly benefited the!
copied by Eagle and Phoenix Factory opera
tives caused a loea of $1200 or $1500—bo in
surance.
The Sun says:
Cotton Squares.—A gentleman tells us he
had ootton squares on his plantation, South of
Columbus, on the 20th of May. The seed was
planted on the 15th of April, live weeks prev
iously.
The Enquirer says that Dr. Wills, of this city,
who preached in the Presbyterian Church there
Sunday night and was interrupted by, the alarm
of fire, baa been interrupted twice before in
Columbus by a similar alarm.
The Enquirer:
Revival at the African Baptist Church—
Baptism—Accident,—For three or four weeks
past a religious revival has been in progress at
the 1st African Baptist Church, situated near
the river, between the Fontaine and Lowell
warehouses, during which many have professed
conversion and the membership been revived.
On Sunday afternoon the pOstor, Rev. E. B.
Rucker, administered baptism to some twenty-
seven candidates, which was witnessed by up
wards of one thousand persons, white and black.
Afterward, on reassembling at the church, owing
to the heavy pressure, the platform in front 7 of
the church fell- through, carrying with, it some
sixty persons; though, from what we can learn,
no one was seriously injured thereby. ,
The Eatonton Press and Messenger says Mr.
William A. Walker of that county shot and tail
ed a wild duck one day last week, with a four-
inch barrel pistol, at a distance of one hundred
yards.
The Rome Courier says :
The Etna Iron Company was organized a short
time since, with a capital of $50,000, which they
propose to extend to $150,000. Ten percent
of the stock subscribed has been paid in, and
the work of ereoting a furnace near Pryor’s Sta
tion, on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad,
was commenced last Monday. Col. Vandevere,
a Pennsylvanian of large and successful experi
ence in the iron business, and & large stock hold
er in this Company, has charge of the work.
The Company have purchase a large tract of
land at the locality above named, and there is
every prospect of great success in the enter-
prite.
A Coweta correspondent of the Chronicle and
Sentinel writes that fine rains have fallen in
that section—wheat crop good, and nearly ready
to harvest. Corn aud cotton looking well, and
clean.
The Chronicle says there were several very
heavy rains in Burke county lost week. On the
20 th the rain was unusually heavy, and was ac
companied by thunder, lightning, wind andhaiL
In some localities the growing crops were some
what injured.
The first new wheat of the season made its
appearance Monday, in the Augusta market, and
sold for $4 50 a bushel.
Of crops and health in Jefferson county, a
correspondent of the Chronicle writes as fol
lows :
We have at last bad an abundance of rain, and
our people seem to be in a better humor. Crops,
though backward, are not ma etrially injured.
Corn is small for the time, but with propitious
seasons I see no reason why it should not equal
the crop of 1869. The first planting of cotton is
equally as good as last year; the Btand as a gen
eral thing is defective, but the recent rains will
soon remedy that I notice where the seed were
strewn with a liberal hand the stand is good.
We have had an unusual amount of sickness
the wheat crop. Some farmers on the line of 1 for this season of the year. We have just pass-
uiiun iihhuj• dia aaauaa nuiu ouuakiiutvU 1U1 . •, ’ • j • , . , , _ ■ ,
j<me mule, although eight is the rule. The rix'' ^L°“
propelled a Forty-saw Gin with great speed.
t Three were then taken off, and the remainder
found no difficufty in driving it with a full roll,
so that three negroes can drive any man’s gin
fast enough with that Horse-Power. We un
derstand the Committee expressed themselves
.highly pleased with the performance.
Thomas M Bottoms, of Thomasville, is the
invenibr of this Horse-Power, and it has just
taken the first premium and honorable mention
at Rome and Batonton and here.
We have no question that it is one of- the
most economical applications of horse power to
the purpose of driving plantation machinery,
yet invented.
Cxbus W. Field is asking Congress to give
•him $500,000 a year to construct a Chinese tele
graph cable. When the. cable is completed the
Government is to have the privilege of porchas-
u>g it .at the cost prices, with an advance of ten
'P® oent. for the interest on the money.
the Macon and Western railroad have com
menced feeding wheat to their stock and put a
stop to corn buying. The corn and oat crops
are looking very fine, and the cotton crop is in
excellent condition.
.The Gainesville Eagle says :
•Crops, Etc.—There has not been, in years, a
better prospect for wheat in this country than
now, and unless visited by rust or fatal storms,
■we may look forward to an immense yield.—
Corn is very promising—s much better stand in
bottom' lands than usual—and the continued
dry dry weather has afforded a fine opportunity
to oar farmers to get fully up with the grass,
and almost every one rejoices in being'at ease.
The Eagle says a fatal disease like murrain,
has been playing havoc with the cattle in that
section, recently.
A Gwinnett correspondent of the Griffin Star'
says wheat promises to be the finest harvest ever
reaped on the Chattahoochee. The peach crop
is, also, promising.
A gentleman who reached Atlanta Monday,
informs the Sun that CoL A. H. Kenan, of
Milledgeville, was seriously ill Sunday, and not
expected to live.
We quote, as follows, from the Monroe Ad
vertiser, of yesterday:
Fine Cotton.—Within the last week, we have
seen specimens of cotton grown this season in
Monroe, and rather think they are a little ahead
of even Southwestern Georgia.
- The specimen famished ns by Mr. William
Fonder was about twoi-ro inches high.
xir. e. ». LeSeur, left in onr office two stalks
of abont the same height as those furnished by
Mr. Fonder, bnt with a more luxuriant foliage.
Mr. Lewis A. Fonder, exhibited to ns, on Sat
urday, a stalk abont fourteen inches high, con
taining two well developed squares.
The specimens, taking everything into con
sideration, are very fine, and reflect great credit
npon the fanning skill of those who cultivated
them.
If any of our farmers have finer cotton than
this, we should like to hear from them.
Wheat.—Some of onr farmers have already
cut their wheat, and others are preparing to do
so. Oar information leads ns to believe that
something over an average yield, will be harves
ted—from which we conclude that fritters will
flourish and abound.
The Weather.—A very refreshing rain fell
in this section last Wednesday, and since then
various timely showers have fallen. Farms are
in splendid condition, and crops generally, with
the exception of oats, are promising.
Oats.—From every quarter, we hear com
plaints of the failure of the oat crop. The long
drouth which was lately the order of the day,
has stunted their growth, and caused them to
head oat near the ground.
The Telegraph and Messenger.—The pros
pectus of this journal will be found elsewhere.
It is usual in such cases, to give an extended
-notice—but what can • wa say that has not al
ready been said by ns heretofore, and that the
people of this section do not already know ?—
With a vagne consciousness of being tautologi
cal, or something of that sort, we will Sffcte that
it is one of the best papers published in the
South. As a news medium,, the Telegraph is
efficient, reliable and thorough, and is edited
with great care and. ability.
' The Southern Recorder, of Tuesday, “regrets
to state that Col. A. H. Kenan is dangerously ill,
and we fear that if there is not a change for the
better in the next twenty-four hours, his friends
may expect the worst. 'His disease is inflam
mation of the bowels, and lie has been confined
to his bed for the last ten days.”
We quote as “follows” from the FederalUnion
same date. r; •" ’' :l ~
Revival,—-A revival isprogressing at the Bap
tist Church in this city. The ordinance of bap
tism was administered to four young ladies ~tiy
the Bev. D. E. Butler, on last Sabbath. Several
have already joined the Church, and many oth
ers seem very seriously impressed on the sub
ject of religion. We trust the good work will
continue.
Death.—We regret to learn that Mis. Fanny
Caraker, wife of Mr. Daniel Caraker t of thin
* District Fair.—Wo understand a scheme is
on foot among some of onr citizens to get up a
fair, to be held annually in onr city, for the
counties of Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson, Wash
ington, Hancock, and perhaps other -comities.
We learn that the 25tn day of Jnne has been
fixed on, and the Court-house in Milledgeville
the place, for a meeting of delegates from these
several oounties for the purpose of organiza
tion. We trust the enterprise will' be attended
with abundant success.
The drouth was brought to 9 close, in this vi
cinity, on Wednesday last, by heavy storm of
rain accompanied by thunder and lightning and
some hail.' During the storm an out-house be-,
long to Miss Margaret Paine was destroyed by
lightning. Ben. Orme, the colored pressman of
the Recorder office, had seventy-five bushels of
com and fifteen hundred pounds of fodder stored
in this building, all of which wds consumed.
“Uncle” Ben had hard luck, having Buffered a
similar loss by lire last year.
A fire in McAllisterville, across the river frem
Columbus, Sunday right, in some hooted 00-
ed through an epidemio of dysentery, malignant
in type, and stubborn and unyielding to the us
ual treatment for that disease.. It has been par
ticularly severe amonp children
Dysentery is becoming epidemifc in Atlanta.
Dr. Thomas Powell, an old and respected cit
izen of Atlanta, died Monday, of dysentery.
The Atlanta Sun learns from a letter from
Clarke, county that Wm. Puryear was shot
through the head and instantly killed on Friday
by liis son-in-law, Wm. Jones.
The Sun says the citizens of Atlanta are mak
ing np a purse of $2,500, to be offered as a pre
mium at the State Fair next fall, for the best
trotting horse. H. L Kimball heads the list
with $250.
Judge Clark has adjourned Sumter Superior
Court until the regular term in October.
The Americas- Republican says, there is a
great deal of sickness among the negroes .of
that place. The average deaths for the last ten
days has been from two to five per day.
The late rains were general in Sumter and
adjoining counties, and did great good.
Upon the snbject of the subscription by
Macon to Mercer University, the Albany News
discourses as follows:
“Many Citizens” publish a card in the Macon
papers objecting to the city subscription for
Mercer University.
This is lamentable dullness, and is a sad com
mentary for Macon. That city is approachfqg
a most critical period in her commercial career,
and there is nothing more certain than that
herculean energy, and bold enterprise alone
can save her.
We love Macon very dearly, and utter this
warning in solemn earnestness and sincere
friendship. She must go to work-like other live
cities, expend money to save money, and grap
ple competition with vigorous extravagance to
regain her status. Her natural advantages are
superior to any interior city in the State; her
railroad facilities are equal to any,, and her po
sition for the distribution of provisions and
manufactured necessities is bettor than any
other. If she falters and fails, the fault will
be her own, and she will have no excuse for her
lethargy.
The State Lunatic Asylum.
We find the following letter in the Atlanta
Sun, of yesterday;
Milledgeville, Ga., May 28th, 1870.
Hon. Daniel Pittman, Ordinary, Pulton County :
Dear Sir—I regret exceedingly onr utter ina
bility to receive the poor unfortunate woman,
in whose behalf you write. But wo have over
one hundred applications on onr record, and not
an unoccupied room in the houso. Some of
those applications date eighteen months back.
The institution is indeed dangerously crowded.
We have two, and oven three patients, in rooms
12 feet square; a condition of things that must
militate against their health in hot weather, and
at all times, exposes them to the hazard of inju
ry at the hands of each other in the night. In
my report to the Legislature at the first session
in July, 18G8, I urged npon them the necessity
of extending the accommodations, and every
session since, have continued to do so, more
and more earnestly as the necessity has become
more urgent. They promise to do all that may
be necessary, at the present session, if they ever
get regularly to work, - Yours truly,
Thos. F. Green.
The Sun proposes to turn the State House at
Milledgeville into an asylum, and thus provide
additional room for the patients.
The Effect of One Inconsiderate Ac-
1 tlon.
One of our exchanges is responsible for the
following highly amusing statement. Gray
hairs in Wilmington must be exceedingly
troublesome: at this time: . _
Down in Wilmington, some time ago, an old
man who was very feeble was helped across a
crowded street by a youth of twenty. A mouth
afterward the 'rid man died, and as : an expres
sion of his gratitude he left the youth forty
thousand dollars>—-And now-no rid man’s life is
safe in Wilmington. All the young fellows have
bad their ambition excited, and as soon as any
Venerable man' appears onlhe side-walk a dozen
chaps rush at Mm, grab him by the browsers
and the collar and the back hair, and try to car.
ry him across the street, whether he wants to
go or not. When he gets there a lot more fast
en on’him and set him baok again, and then
present their cards. So the old men in Wilming
ton are having a lively time now, and they have
got to tack up the street whenever they go out
for a walk. Thus far very little cash has been
evolved; bnt all the young men study the obi*
nary advertisements carefully, and wheD <ney
s?e the words: At the age of seve£5 r ’“ £
sixty-six, oc anywhere in that ne^gbborhood,
they hurry down to the office "C Register of
Wills and pore over 7 **" tsat testament of the
deceased. All «•*» go® 8 to how much dis
tress oi*° inconsiderate action will 3kuse.
Bismarck is to make a tour in Amentaa for his
health, and his physicians restrict to three
bottles a day hereafter, ■ ■ ' '
Rebri BHMriHHtln.
Under this head, the Cincinnati' Gazette, one
of the bitterest of all the Western Radical pa
pers, lately had an article very unexpected,
the source being considered, and showing a de
cided change in temper with regard to general
amnesty. ' •» 'r|gH ~ ~' *1- r - r '- n
As showing the wonders time or something
else has worked in Radical public sentiment at
the West, we quote some extracts from the
Gazette's article—notably what it has to say of
Messrs. Davis and Breckinridge. The italics
are oars: r .
Bat we are met by a picture of the heicona-
nees of the crime of rebellion, and are told that
to grant amnesty to rebels is to become acces
sories after the fast to the murder of our sold
iers. And, furthermore, we are frightened with
the bugaboo that if the disabilities are removed
Jefferson Davis and JohnO. Breckinridge will be
back in the Senate.
This is a fearful tatti-climax. The rigantio
crime of the rebellion against the best Govern
ment the sun ever shone on—a crime which our
much-strained orators were wont to say is the
greatest sinoe the crucifixion—the murder of a
quarter of a million of our soldiers—ail taken
satisfactory vengeance upon by excluding Jeffer
son Davis and John 0. Breckinridge from the
Senate.
It seems to us that any scale of justice ade
quate to this view was abandoned when Lincoln
and Grant granted terms of capitulation to the
rebel armies, which amnestied in terms all the
fighting men of the rebellion. To go around
after that, picking up civilians and stragglers to
administer justice upon, is rather a small busi
ness.
And besides, we find it impossible to be scared
by the prospective return of Jefferson Davis
and John G. Breckinridge to-the Senate. More
than that, we gay let them come. We would as
lief have John O. Breckinridge as any other
Kentucky Democrat We believe him prefera
ble to many who practiced Kentucky neutrality,
and who Bomehow fanoied that .they conquered,
and are anxious to continue the - rebellion.
Breckinridge tried ic thoroughly and bravely,
and has had enough; and we see nothing in his
conduct to indicate anything else than a desire
to repair the destruction caused by the war to
his own fortunes and those of the common
wealth. “ ‘ Jr- *
True, he will-probably continue his relations
with the Democratic party. ? But if by fidelity
to our slain soldiers we mean the exclusion of
Democrats from Congress, let it be distinctly
said. And, if we do not mean this, let as rec
ognize the distinction.
So it is probable that Jefferson Davis will con
tinue his Democratic partisanship. He could
not be elected Senator from Mississippi unless
a Democratic Legislature were elected. If there
be a charm in his name that would elect a Dem
ocratic Legislature, if his disability were re
moved, it .would anyhow; for hjs disfranchise
ment gives him even a stronger hold upon the
sympathies ef the Southern people. If this he
the case, we must stand it.
Bnt if we are to have a Democrat for Senator
from Mississippi, is it not mortally certain that
we shall have one who fully sympathized with
secession and aided it ? And if so, we would as
lief have Jefferson Davis' as any other. His
ability is-unquestioned: He has large experi
ence in the affairs of our Government. The
Senate needs such members. The leading South
ern members were always good watchmen of the
public Treasury.' That is what is most needed
now. The debasement of the Senate, both by the
number of Senators who lack that element of re
sponsibility which is made by adequate constitu
encies, and by the number whose position is so
temporary and unnatural that it lacks all the
elements of responsibility, has given such ease to
profligate schemes that the country needs the aid
of all the forces that would oppose them. Thiais
now the most practical patriotism.
The conviction has been forced upon the pub
lic mind that the experiment of governing the
Southern States by.oslracising the great body of
tax-payers and alt those'who, under the natural
conditions, came into the administration of gov
ernment, and by foisting over them Northern so
journers, freedmen's bureau men, and the most
ignorant of the natives, has worked badly, and
that the services of the former governing elements
are needed for the protection of the people. The
name of loyalty is too dear at the cost of such a
system of plunder, as, for example, that in South
Carolina, under an Ohio carpet-bagger.
There is a talk of a willingness to removo dis
abilities as fast sb these men give evidence of a
return of loyalty. What are the signs of this
loyalty? Let its conditions be plainly set forth,
that the Southern rebels may know what is re
quired of them. Does it mean an oath of alle
giance to the Constitution; of the United States ?
That certainly should be indispensable. Does
it mean that they shall join the Republican par
ty, or that they shall support tbo next amend
ment to the Constitution ? If that is the mean
ing, let it be set forth in plain terms. Bnt in
fact, it is very hard to state any rational condi
tions for continning these disabilities; and, on
the other hand, there are many and argent rea
sons for removing them.
An Ugly Business.
Kentucky and Kentuckians are much scandal
ized, just now, over a bitter quarrel between
Honorable Thos. L. Jones, M. C., from that
State, and Gov. and U. S. Senator elect, ^even-
son. It all grows out of the Senatorial election
last winter, when Governor S. defeated the
present Senator, McCreery, and when, among
other objections to McCreery, it was urged that
he had signed' a recommendation to a Federal
office for one General Burbridge, a Federal offi
cer, and who was peculiarly obnoxious to the
people of Kentucky on account of his infamous
treatment of them during the war. The state
ment was circulated by Stevenson’s friends on
Jones’ authority, Stevenson having declared
that he (Jones) had told him (Stevenson) that
he (J.) had seen McCreery’s name to a paper
recommending Bnrbridge for the position. Jones
now declares that he never said any such thing,
for the simple reason that he had ne^er seen
any such paper, and charges Stevenson with an
attempt to prove him a liar before the people of
Kentucky. The upshot of a very voluminous
correspondence between MBCreeiy, Jones and
Stevenson is seen in the ^following paragraph
from Jones’ last seven-column letter to Steven
son. We suppose pistols and ten paces, or
thereabout will be th* wind np of the affair.
Here is the paragraph: ' ■
“Hence from my sight and memory forever 1
go thou—shall I say, Bar, slanderer,, coward?—
from the presence of honest men and gentlemen;
and if before this unhappy strife shall end,
blood shall flow, whether I or another may fall,
I brand thy brow with the blackness of Cain;
wander up and down in the earth; wear the
mask as long as thou liueth; and when thou
diest thou shalt surely so appear before thy
God.' ~
The Act to Enforce the Fifteenth
. Amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment itself is worded in
lees than a half score of lines; bnt the act re
cently passed to enforce it wouldfili three of our
’ columns, and is arranged in twenty sections. It
is one of those legislative extravagances which
are the offspring of a sensation—an idea pushed
into disproportionate and incoherent promi
nence at the' sacrifice of more important mat
ters—an act which men are surprised at and
ashamed of when they get sober—that is, when
they recover the balance of common sense. It
is legislation which defeats itself by leading to
suicidal results and intolerable consequences;
for, to go no farther, the sixth section of this
act puts every white man in the South, in re
spect’to his liberty and property, at the mercy
of any negro who may choose to tramp np an
accusation of an “attempt to pm vent, hinder,
control, or intimdate ’him fmm exercising the
right of suffrage." It is ahill which so far an
nihilates the constitutional control of the States
over the suffrage that a State inspector of elec
tions in the exercise of his sworn and lawful
duty, **“7 easily subject himself to the extreme
penalties of this act. la a Word, it ie of such a
character that so ultra a radical paper as tije.
St, Louis. Democrat is compelled to say, “it
is little less than an endeavor newly create
these United United States; to bring a political
miilenium by one act” , .
Pamirs Havana advices state thi$ the Span
iards intend to plaoe a loan of fifty millions on
the United StetesmarWt, 5 girinff 3 Cfeba and its
revenues as security? * ■ ; •- L-- V. „• t .n l
County Aflklr*.
The GraadJary presentments yesterday stated
the income of the Bounty the past year to have
been $42,597 of which $88,472 hid bees dis
bursed in current expenses. The Jury recom
mend the following levies for the current
year:
For Educational expenses. $10 000
Court expense 7 000—Jail 2 500..., 9 500
Panpera and Hospital - 4 000
Roads and bridges..^. 10 000
General Expenses................ 3 500
Interest on County Bonds 5 000
Making a total of.'......,... $42 000
The Grand Jury find a balance of 16,441 to
the credit of the Court House fond, which in
cludes the proceeds of the sale of $6,000 in
county bonds, and recommend the issue of $50,-
000 more of bonds for this purpose, which will
make $100,000 in alL They also find $17,041,
to the credit of the Jail Fund. They complain
of the oondition of the Roads and in a series of
resolutions advise the Ordinary to expend ten
thousand dollars upon repair contracts made
with the lowest bidder. The Grand Jury com
pliment the Ordinary and Mayor for their man
agement of the joint County and City Poor
House aud Hospital, and find the books and ac
counts of the Ordinary and Superior Court cor
rect, and kept in a neat and systematic manner.
From this review it.will be seen that County
taxation will probably be about the same as last
year—that the new Court House is going to en-
gulph a considerable sum of money and give
the people a long and solid drag. That the jail
whioh is most needed, onght to be first built,
Ond that.- there is enough money in hand, pro-
bably, to begin the structure in a - shape to en_
large it so as to meet all the wants of the county,
at some future time when we are not so hard
0P '
Th© Nineteenth Century
For June leads off with a: long article npon the
status and prospects of the negro, in which the
writer harrasses himself with some very gloomy ,
views of the future, not only in respect to the
existence and prosperity of the negroes, but also
upon their political and social relations with the
whites. He thinks Sambo will go to the bad
every way. He says Sambo is lazy, and migttfc
have added that the same is more or less true of
everybody. The number of people who prefer
mental or physical labor to a good arm chair and
cigar, a lounge, a siesta or a good dinner is la
mentably small. He says Sambo is sensual,
sanguinary, indifferent to marital and parental
obligations, fickle, fond of change, whisky,
dress, extravagance and snperstitous, &c. and so
on; strong ethological characteristics, no donht,
but still unfortunately not altogether peculiar
to the African race. Sambo must work out his
own destiny, and we have too many troubles of
our own on hand to expend any extraordinary
sympathy on him just now;. Nothing is more
certain than that if he fails to hoe-his own row
he must go under.
This number of the Nineteenth Century also
contains a continuation of ex-Gov. Perry’s pa
pers, of Storm and Sunset, by Henry Cleveland,
and of Moma Everley. The Nineteenth' Cen
tury is conducted with spirit and ability.
Sontbern Presbyterian Pastoral Eet-
ter *
in the General Assembly at Louisville, Mon
day, Dr. Palmer, from the Committee on For
eign Correspondence, reported a pastoral letter
of the General Assembly to all churches under
its eare. This letter is in regard to a reunion
of the Northern and Southern Assemblies, and
the recent action of the Southern AssemWy
daring its session here. After a long discussion,
the letter was adopted. The letter claims that
whatever obstructions may he In the way of ec
clesiastical fellowship were not created by the
Southern Church, and that they could not allow
themselves to be placed in a false position be
fore the world as parties who had been guilty of
wrong to the Northern Fhurch.
Effect of Intimate Acquaintance.—In D.
C. Forney’s counterblast to the Senate judiciary
report on the Bullock Investigation, Forney
complains that the committee insisted npon see
ing his books, implying that they would not be-
Heve him under oath. This demand Forney
resisted to the uttermost, bnt finally comphed
with. Not only did the committee decline to
trust Forney on his personal o&th, tyit they even
suspected the ledger of lying, for “they held
the pages to the light to seo if .no alterations
had. been made, and then applied a microscopic
glass to the figures."
“Valuable Citizens.”—The House of Rep
resentatives decided on the 23th that all pen
Stoners of the war of 1812 must take the iron
clad oath or forfeit their pensions.- The policy
of the Gqremment is to make the late rebels
the only valuable citizens of the United States.
They will be allowed to reoeive nothing out of
the Treasury and required to pay in freely.
The remainder, drawing out in the way of pen
sions, salaries, bounties and subsidies as muoh
as or more than they pay in, will be a privileged
class, but of no value to the country. The pol
icy of the Government looks to the creation
from the rebel States ef an aristocratic class of
useful citizens.
Ith*^
Freoa 8*eea Con Bt ,
A letter from Montezuma dated «*
“Plenty of rain. Crop* looking fine
op one stalk of ootton six forma, n 1
old Texan Burr variety. I saw son*
Early Prolific with two forms.”
Another letter of same date, from 0
says: “On the' 26th and 27th
two fine rains—the first for nearly seve **
They gave gardens and crops a fine th?
cool weather, after the rains has mads ^
lice appear on the plant, and they ar e •
it a good deal Much of the cotton
during the dry spell has come up and h
welL Gardens are fine. The laborer
county are working well. So far, thev
better than heretofore.” " ’
From tram ford County.
_ Knoxville, June 1 u-.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger; ’
We have had fine rains. The farm ■
busily engaged in plowing and pla n &|
pea crops, weeding cotton, etc. TmT^I
are doing well with but few exception
- A Union meeting of the Primitive ^ - L
was held at Montpelier, Monroe cn^l
Friday, baturday aud Sunday ]a=t° U \r J ' , l
tended on Sunday and there
friends, all in good spirits. A thoLn ^l
sons were, uo doubt, on the ground t
polite and hospitable people I have never^l
The ladies, God bless them, vrere<b(.J^ IB M
all the taste and fashion of our
Elder John Bassett, of HoustotfiH
preached the 11 o’clock sermon.
from the writings of Paul, and he v ***1
persuaded me to believe. Such **1
we have not listened to in manynion-4
is blessing those people.. Although^
was half of the congregation that S
get into the house, everything wm« ^
■out of doors as in the house. I
haved people I never met, both V,’ a Iv.ol
white. ^**1
After the preaching everjbody v iS wJ
to a long spread table by those nobler*,?
and sucha dinner. It could not be evrZp
any country. Forney, Bullock &
have been present to have seen their faw^
partaking of the good things prepared- Si
might have gone and done as Judas did’ V1
ternoon, Rev. Mr. King preached Sfehl
by Rev. John Fields in one of Snnnra
hortatione, and such a feeling among (vl
turns and sinners I have never witnessed 1
As ever, Fun-
From Carroll Uounty-St»vana*kl
Griffin & kortli Alabama ItailroML |
• : Carrollton, May 23, isto.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
The surveyors of the Savannah, Griffin*!
North Alabama Railroad have about finiljl
their work between- this place nndNeml
The route surveyed, so far, is a very practia-I
hie one, and does not near reach the preseiwl
steepness of grade. J
A grand soiree was given at the fed
House for the benefit of the surveying coral
last night. A fine and luxurious supper n!
prepared. They participated free!vmfe|
roll hospitality with real enjoyment.' a!«J
crowd was out to meet them, notirithstM&l
the rain during the evening, of ever tl»|
hundred persons, consisting principally
stockholders, fine young ladies, fast votatl
men, with about fifty Bowden collegians. Thi
crowd was neither thirsty nor hungry, «|
merriment was the order of the season
jNicopEnra.
Dead.—We regret, sincerely, to learn of fi»|
.death, at Griffin, yesterday afternoonabootiilI
past five o’clock, of Mrs. Sparks, wife of Ci I
Wm. EL Sparks, and sister-in-law of onr tour I
man, O. G. Sparks, Esq. Her remains will e. I
rive here by the 1.30 p. m., passenger tnia® I
the Macon and Western Railroad, and will bi ]
buried from tire passenger depot.
In a recent work, entitled Ten Years in W j
Street, the following story is told of Jim Fish I
Jr.: “While the future impressario animus-1
cierwas peddling in Vermont, an old lady com-j
plained to him that his father hail cheated k I
cm a ‘ ninepence’ yard of calico. ‘Well, nor,’ I
said Fisk, whose regard for his father's lota I
burned as brilliantly then as in Ms subsegud I
career, T don’t really fhinlr father would tell i
lie for twelve and one-half cents, though b|
might tell eight of ’em for a dollar.’’’
■ Welcome News.—The Lynchburg Yirgink j
of Saturday, says:
Our noble old chieftain, General Robert El
Lee, passed through this city yesterday aftes-1
noon, on his return from the South to hishoH|
in Lexington. It will rejoice all our peopktJ
hear that the General’s health was greatly in |
proved by his Southern trip, and his appeal-1
anco is far better than it was when he was j - ' 1
k some six weeks ago.
Some subscribers will miss their papers th
morning. If anyone gets it who has not;
np, it will be by mistake. We hope they 1
all, however, let us hear from them immediir|
ly and resume intercourse.
Official tables,.taken from the books of the
commissioner of immigration, and giving the
comparative number of Irish and German emi
grants daring the last twenty-three years, show
that there have arrived in this country from
Ireland sinoe 1847 only 7755 more emigrants
than have reached here from Germany alone
during the same period. For example, there
arrived in the last twenty-three years from Ire
land, 1,624,009; from Germany, 1,639,254.—
More than this, during the first five months of
the present year the emigration from Germany
has amounted to 25,500 against 24,461 from
Deland.
The New York Democrat states that some
body, who is troubled with Grant cn the—we
had nearly said brain—took a vote in a railroad
ear, the other day, on the question of re-nomi
nating Grant for the Presidency. It stood
thirty-eight for Grant and two against. He
rushed off and had it printed in a Syracuse
paper. Now he is oondned to his bed, the re
sult of learning that the ear was loaded with
convicts, who were being transported from one
iprison to another. The two votes against Grant
were cart by the two keepers who had the con
victs in charge.
The English Ritualists are beooming bolder
in their aims. One of the organs of the party
openly recommends that boxes for oonfessions
should be introduced in all churches where con
fession is preached, so that the penitents may
not, as st present; have to go to the private
houses of the priests, but that “the Sacrament'
of Penance” may be administered in “the ofily
place consecrated for such purposes.” Some
of the more advanced members of this party
are, it is believed, about to secede to the Greek
CIhurch.
Mb. Reeves, M. O. fromNew York, proposes
to tax aH the dogs in tbs oountry, and the Tri
bune backs him up. It says in Maine alone, last
year, In only flve Counties, the number qf sheep
fcffled by dogs was 1,400.
Mkbsbs. Qh arias J. Folge* and Charles An
drews, have been elected by the New York;
Radicals, Judges for-tbw-Geurt of Appeals.—
They, with the Chief Justice (Qhurcb;) and the
tout Democratic associate judges, will oonsti-
iute the (Start. ' ;
At the recent, municipal election in (
tralia, Illinois, James T, Jackson, a Radiol 4
the Ethiopian wing of that party, was eit&|
alderman against 0. H. Day, a white Bri»|
The Radical newspaper sheet at that place!
the eleotion of the negro was a
movement.’”
“Imitation,” says the Couriei-Jonmil,
the sinoeiest species of flattery.” The Nafltl
for a long time sneered at the Southern cuttos j
of setting apart a day to memorialize onr fG’J
braves. They have concluded their peri«-|
mances by setting apart, by law, as a ratio* |
holiday, a day for the same performance s l
respect to their own dead. The SoalfeBI
tournaments have been a standing boll of Norti-1
ern ridicule, but now tourneys of their oti> 18 1
-.beooming fashionable.
The United States and Mexico!—Gen. If
Rosecranz is circulating a pamphlet of brent?
three pages, in which, in behalf especiiUj®
Mexico, he develops and enforces a pob'<7^
“complete political, commercial and indnstrid
fraternity among the republics of the wadi
The General certainly demonstrates that
ioo is sadly in need of a guardian.
The arrangements for the forthcoming
star musical festival, in New York, are proi^*
ing. Maretzek, Peck, Bristow, Bergn*®
Anschutz, Zerrahn and Gilmore will act 43 ^
ductors. Six opera companies will
sing the operatic selections. Miss KelkfS
be among the soloists, as well as the two r-
tenors, BrignoK and Lefranc. The diw^®
intend to pay all the artists liberally, vk*
they malm any money out of the
not; but, at the same time, they expect to
a handsome harvest.
The clerks in the Richmond.post-o&ooart'
a strike. Their “boss, u a Miss Van Lev’s
so}e recommendation to the office was ti®
that she had been a Yankee spy during ^
turns owl to be a regular martinet in peffi* 1 *
and works them beyond their strength ef
requirements of law. Tljere is no tyrant in
world like a pettiooated tyrant.
women bossing men in r11 the governs)s* 1
flees. Why the poor fellows would Tee'S 11 '
scores, a thing heretofore unkn9wn.
New Orleans Cotton Stattmzv 1 '-
till ootton receipts of New Orleans up to' ,
day, May were 1,150,213 bales;
and burned, 1,039,570 bales; leaving ^
hand, 110,643 bales,
I TS3 tariff
Mercer Unttersitf .—-W0 have
to attend the 86th tnidverearyof tkeCi
Soeiety of Meroer Unfversity, fit JT*!
Ofasppd l?th of' Jin®; ’ 18?0. We
time
cone to at.