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Tlie Greorgia, Weekly Telegraph, and. JoTirnAl Sc: IVIessexi^ei*.
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Telegraph &> Messenger.
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1370.
Chattanooga, Macon, and Columbus
Railroad.
We were startled yesterday with a grand,
hran new railway project in Georgia, under this
title, which suddenly sprung upon the public
like the god of war from the head of Minerva,
full panoplied for a grand career. It is the con
ception of Chattanooga, assisted probably by
the men who are building the Cincinnati Great
Southern Road, of which it would be a contin
uation. The route from Chattanooga proposed-
is via Rossville, Trion Factory, Somerville and
Price’s Bridge to Gedartown, in Polk county,
and thence through Haralson, Carroll, Heard,
Troup and Harris, to Columbus. The bill
fr>u.-g about a branch from Cedartown, or
somewhere thereabouts, to Macon; but as the
Griffin and North Alabama Road would inter
sect the track about fifteen or twenty miles be
low Cedartown, and give as straight a line to
Macon as could well be desired, we take it the
Macon branch would bo a needless duplicate.
The proposed main trank road would run
through a tier of counties having few or no
railway facilities, and yet fertile and produc
tive, abounding in agricultural and mineral
wealth. A charter for the road will shortly be
submitted to the Agency, and we are informed
that, State aid or none, the capital can be raided
to put it through. Mr. J. W. Leigh, of Chatta
nooga, is acting in the interests of the road
here, and wo hope it will go ahead. It is aroad
which will open up a grand system of connec
tions for the Cincinnati Southern, and at the
same time develope a valuable section of Geor
gia which needs aid. Wo hope the scheme will
go ahead. The more railways the better.
Collection of the Remainder or the
Direct Tax.
A Washington dispatch, in the Herald, gives
comforting assurance that the government will
proceed to collect the remainder of the direct
tax, collection of which was suspended August
6, I860. The Dispatch says: That the balances
duo not only from the States lately in insurrec
tion, but from the Northern States which are in
arrears, should be exacted, appears to bo a
matter of constitutional obligation. Charles P.
James, counsellor at law, who has these cases
in charge, says: “In the case of Longh-
borongh vs. Blake, (5 Wheat., 323), the Supreme
Court of the United States stated the law on
this question in very politive terms: ‘If a di
rect tax be levied at all, it must be laid on every
State conformably to the rule provided in the
Constitution. Congress has clearly no power
to exempt any State from its due share of the
burden.’ ”
Grand Lodge I. O. O. F.
Griffin, August 4, 1870.
The Grand Lodge of Georgia, L O. O. F.,
met here yesterday, about seventy-five repre
sentatives and Past Grands being in attendance.
The reports of the Grand Master, S. W. Hang-
ham, and Grand Secretary Deitz, show the
order to be more flourishing than it has been
for years past.
The following offioers have been elected for
the ensuing year;
James L. Gow, of No. 10, Grand Master.
0. H. Johnson, of No. 20, D. G. Master.
C. C. Kibbe, of No. 24, Grand Warden.
JohnG. Deitz, of No. 1, Grand Secretary.
T. A. Burke, of No. 2, Grand Treasurer.
S. W. Maugham, of No. 20, Grand Represen
tative to Grand Lodge of the United States.
The session of the Grand Lodge has been
very harmonious, and there is every prospect of
increased zeal and activity in the order during
the next twelve months. The Grand Lodge
Will adjourn to-day. Senex.
The Opera House.—The Atlanta True Geor
gian is down on the Opera House—demanding
that a new capitol shall be built ont of Stone
Mountain, worthy of the State and worthy of
Atlanta, at a probable cost of abont five million
dollars, although the True Georgia says nothing
about the cost. He does, however, charge that
the Opera House is unsafe—that many of the
oocnpants anticipate “a grand crash,” some of
these days, at which we don’t wonder—that it
his to be constantly patched, eta, eta If he
Will defeat the purchase and the building, alto
gether, he shall have our hearty co-operation ;
but we have no sympathy in his effort to dredge
the pockets of the people for a grand new
spread eagle edifice of stone to illustrate Atlan
ta. If the Opera House is weak and should
tumble down on the heads of the occupants the
people must curb their grief, try to bear it like
men, and move the Legislature back to securer
quarters at Milledgeville.
Kibe’s Confessions.—A sample of the con
fessions Kirk has extorted with a halter, may
bo seen in the following from the New York
Herald:
The Kv-Klux nr North Carolina.—Several
of the prisoners from Alamance county cap
tured by Governor Holden, of North Carolina,
have confessed to belonging • to the. Ku-Klux
Klan, and, being convinced of the infamy and
villainy of that organization, have expressed
their determination to withdraw from it. One
of them, James Boyd, who was a Democratic
candidate for Congress in Allamance county,
delivers along address to the people of North
Carolina, in which he foreswears all Ku-Klux-
isms for himself, and claims that Andrew John
son, while President of the United States, was
the head centre of the organization. He
charges several whippings and outrages upon
the Klan and two murders.
Federal Handcuffs.—The Age and Press are
in a controversy on the matter of an army bill
for 30,000 handcuffs. The world says :
We recount distinctly hearing (but in our
simplicity we thought it a vile rebel slander)
that on the battle-field of the first Manassas
were found amidst unopened champagne bot
tles and untasted sandwiches, a vast number of
shackles for hands and feet. It was a new ele
ment of war. “I went on the field of battle the
next day,” wrote an eminent man— a civilian
fromWarrenton—“with ice and medicine and
wino to minister to the Northern wonnde, who,
I thought, might be neglected, and there I
found quantities of new handcuffs scattered on
the ground." And so this story, which we once
doubted, now turns out to be true. We have
heard of an arm terrible with banners, but never
before of a host horrible with handcuffs.
Chattanooga.—We were surprised to hear
from a denizen of Chattanooga yesterday that
the river town is going ahead faster than At
lanta. Property has risen a hundred per cent,
in valuo within two years, and population and
improvement are making equal progress. We
are glad to hear it. Chattanooga has the ad.
vantage of affording the greatest soope and
susceptibility for improvement of any town in
the United States.
Wednesday in the Agency.
The Senate consumed most of the morning
discussing a report on certain charges against
Senator Morrell and adopted excuplatory reso
lutions. The special order to expel Bradley was
discharged for a time. The committee on buying
the Opera House reported that the City Council of
Atlanta had agreed to pay $130,000 in city bonds
towards its purchase. The value of the buildng
andlmprovementsisestimatedby the committee
at $390,000. Tne building canbo purchased for
$380,000, payable in $130,000 bonds of Oily
Council of Atlanta, and$250,000 seven per cent,
bonds of the State of Georgia. The Messrs.
Kimballs agree to return to the State the $54,-
000 received from Governor Bollock. The ren
tals arising from rooms not occupied by the
State estimated by the committee at $10,000
per annum.
The report was made the special order for
Friday at 10 o’clock.
The following message was received from the
Governor and referred to the committee on In
ternal Improvements:
Atlanta, August 2, 1870. |
To the General Assembly:
I transmit herewith the report made by the
Superintendent of Publio Works in regard to
the obstructions in the Coosa River, near
Rome.
In addition to the valuable information con
tained in the ^report. to which your favorable
attention is invited, I learn that two first-class
river boats are now navigating the river, and
that a third is being constructed. The capacity
of these boats is sufficient, for two thousand
bushels can be floated over the obstructions.
The land in the valley of the Coosa is very
rich and under good cultivation. By a com
paratively small outlay, this whole grain and
iron producing region can be made to pour its
valuable products through our State and over
our own railroad.
The opinion expressed in tho report is fully
sustained by that of the oldest practical steam
boat men on the river, and is, I believe, enti
tled to full credit for its practicability.
While I could not recommend a general Bys
tem of State aid by direct advances from the
Treasury, this seems to be a case where it
would not only be good policy, but wise eoon
omy, to authorize the expenditure of ten thou-
sand dollars, or so muob thereof as may be
necessary, to remove the obstructions from the
Coosa river, and thus add a long and valuable
water lino os an additional feeder to our great
State railroad.
I therefore respectfally recommend the ap
propriation of the sum of ten thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as may bo necessary, to re
move the obstructions in the Coosa river, and
also the election or appointment of three prac
tical and reliable gentlemen as a board of com
missioners, under whose authority the work
should be conducted and the appropriation ex
pended. Rufus B. Bullock.
In the House there was a discussion of State
aid to railroads, arising on a motion to strike
out the State aid provision in the bill to incor
porate the North and South Railroad Company.
The motion was lost—ayes, 37; nays, 74. The
bill then passed- Tho election question was
made the special order for Thursday, 11th inst.
Old and New, is the title of a Boston maga
zine which has reached the second number of
the second volume. It is a pamphlet of 130
pages, and among its contributors Mrs Stowe is
exhausting her resources upon anew stoiy,
called “Pink and Whito Tyranny:’’ Roberts'
Brothers, 143 Washington street, $4.00 per an
num-
Fine Peaches.—Mr. Wm. Holmes brought us
two peaches yesterday which weighed a pound
and three ounces, and were very beautiful—a
yellow peach, slightly streaked with purple.
We do not know the variety, but take it to be
hybrid from the Tinley.
The river at this point got a lift of about ten
Mi by the late rains. . .
Tailing The Back Track.
M. O. Smith, Senator from the 7th District,
whose resolutions to annul the Constitution and
rob the people of their rights passed the House,
addresses a note to the True Georgian, of yes
terday, confessing and recanting his errors.
Will the people accept it in full satisfaction af
ter the crime has been perpetrated. Rather
should not he, dressed in the white of a peni
tent—barefoot, and with a toroh in his hand
proceed to the City Pork, in Atlanta, and there
publicly burn the act of fraud and robbery.
And, if like the recanting Cranmer, he held his
right hand in the flames till it dropped off, it
would be a striking manifestation of bis ab
horrence of the crimo that hand committed.
But here is Smith’s recantation:
Atlanta, August 3, 1870.
To the Members of the House of Representa
tives : Duty to myself, and respect for the peo
ple of my native State, in my judgment, de
mand that I should give some explanation in
regard to the resolutions offered by me in the
Senate, and which passed that body on Friday
last, the effect of which was expected to be
to postpone a general election, ana prolong the
term of office of members of the General As
sembly and of all State officials.
At the time I offered those resolutions it was
my honest opinion that, if this action was not
actually in accordance with tho expressed will
of Congress, their wishes, to say the least,
were left in great doubt, and under the circum
stances it would be better for the State to post
pone an election until Congress should again
convene, and have an opportunity to indicate,
in clear terms, their determination on the sub
ject.
My intention was not to postpone an election
for two years, or for an indefinite period; but
only for a few months, that we might not again
ran contrary to the views which the Federal
Government perhaps entertained, and has the
paramount authority to enforce. I made the
proposition with good motives, and, aslbeljeved,
:in the interests of peace.
The constitutional objection to the resolution
did not impress my mind, probably, with the
same force as it would a person learned in the
law; but I did not intend to propose, nor can I
ever sanction a measure which will deprive or
withhold from the people any constitutional
right, especially the inestimable right of fran
chise.
Inasmuch as the resolutions are claimed by
many, and probably would be construed to mean
that no election phould be held in this State for
two years, and perhaps for a longer time, I tun
satisfied that they ought not finally to pass, and
regret that 1 proposed or voted for them.
Since the passage of the resolution by the
Senate, X have learned more fully, from various
and opposite sources, the history of the passage
of the late law of Congress, and I am now oon-
vinoed that it was the intention of that body to
authorize, and as far as they could with propri
ety, provide for a general election in Novem
ber next, as provided for in our State constitu
tion. I may not prudently, at present, disclose
all the sources of my information; but I do de
clare that it is of such character as to leave no
reasonable doubt that the intention of Congress
was to remit the government of Georgia to the
people thereof. Assured of this, there is no
good reason for interfering with the regular
course of our State Government in all its de
partments.
I have wished, and still desire to avoid all
conflict with Federal authority. The resolu
tions I offered were designed by me to avoid
the possibility of it by a brief delay of an elec
tion until Congress should unmistakably ex
press its will. But the words of the law in con
nection with the history of its passage, so clear
ly manifest to my mind now the intention to
clothe the people of Georgia with all the rights
of citizenship, as to leave those without excase
who withhold them.
Thoroughly convinced that my course and
vote on this subject were erroneous, I take the
earliest opportunity to repair the wrong as far
as may be by an honest acknowledgement of it,
and by an earnest appeal to you to defeat the
resolutions when they oome up for action in
the House of Representatives.
M. C. Smith.
Death or G. F. Outer.—-We are pained this
morning in announcing the death of Mr. G. F.
Oliver, which oocurred yesterday morning at
his residence in this city, of dropsy of the
heart. Mr. “Frank” Oliver, as he was famil
iarly known among his friends, was an old citi
zen of Macon, and for the last few years was
senior partner of the stove and house furnish
ing firm of G. F. & H. E. Oliver, on Third
street. He was a man much beloved and respect
ed in the community and possessed an unblem
ished character for honesty and integrity. His
death will be much lamented.
Col. R. W. Tucker, Superintendent of Agen
cies for the Alabama Gold Life Insurance Com
pany, with headquarters at Savannah, called on
us yesterday. We were pleased to learn that
the Company is making rapid progress in Geor
gia, and will probably Toon have an agent in
Maoon.
Petrifaction.— Uncle Bob Siappey brings
us from Buzzard Roost, Twiggs county, a pet
rified buzzard’s egg, which is a curiosity.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
(tea. Oarllagion’s Addreu before the Soci
eties—A Brilliant Oration and a “Dim
Religions Sight”—The Junior Exhibition
—Not Trained Enough—The Sophomore
Prise Medals—Gen- Gordon’s Speech. .
Athens, August 2d, 1870.
Gen. Garlington’8 address yesterday afternoon
to the two literary,societies of the University
was delivered before a large and eagerly listen
ing auditory. Gen. G. is an old alumnus of
the college, with a very distinguished record,
and did great credit, not only to tho momorios
of his friends that delight to dwell upon the
good old days when he shone so proudly as ono
of the stars of “Old Franklin,” but to tho grave
demands of the occasion. I have rarely known
an address of this character that more com
pletely filled the measnro of pnblio expectation,
and I beg to offer here, as tho representative of
those who heard him, their heartiest congratu
lations.
Tho address last night to the Fhi Kappa So
ciety, as their representative, by Mr. Walter O.
Beeks, of Griffin, was an effort that the orator
and his friends can well plume themselves upon.
It glowed with gems of diction and imagery,
and sparkled with the correscations of real elo-
quenoe. The subject was, “Nature ns aScience
and Nature os a Symbol.” I predict that Mr.
Beeks will make a bright mark hereafter, if he
is not woefully false to his present proud prom
ise. I was sorry to see, however, that those whose
duty it was to see that the orator had light to
see and bo seen were so remiss in its perform
ance. A more beggarly array of lamps, and a
dimmer, dingier, duskier light—so-called—I
have never groaned over. It was much more
befitting the meeting of a band of midnight
conspirators intent on plunder and rain, than
anything else that occurs to me now. Let this
blondernever be repeated, Ipray you, Messieurs.
The Junior exhibition this morning at half
past ten o’clock, would have been a most ad
mirable performance had the young orators
known their speeches. With this exception,
I can, and do, honestly asseverate that the ex
hibition lacked nothing that the most captions
criticism, and the severest judgment could ask.
I do not say these things in a spirit of depreci
ation or fault finding, but purely because I hope
to exert such a pressure as will prevent their
recurrence. Below is the programme:
mxvsanxx of Georgia.—-junior exhibition. .
Tuesday, August 2, 1870.
Come now : what shall we haze
-To wear away this long age of three hours.
MUSIC—FRAYER—MUSIC.
H. O. Ansley, (P. K. Orator,) Augusta—De
cay of Reverence.
W. T. Armistead, (P. E. Orator,) Lexington—
Glimpses of Glory.
MUSIC.
E. EL Briggs, Columbus—Sincerity.
G. R. Gleen, Dawson—Why this Waste?
MOSUL
R. H. Gcetehius, (D. S. Orator,) Columbus—
On the Heights.
G. A. Howell, Valdosta—What Next?
MUSIC.
J. Hurt, (D. S. Orator,) Hurtsville, Alabama
—Tho Gentleman.
A- A. Murphey, Monroe Co.—The Power of
Combination.
MUSIC.
HONORABLE MENTION.
T. J. Chappell, Columbus, E. Newton, Jeffer
son, T. O. Newton, Jefferson, P. K. Yonge,
Pensaoola, Fla.
MUSIC.
ADDRESS BY GEN. JOHN B. GORDON.
Delivery of Medals to Soph. Prize Doc Miners.
MUSIC—BENEDICTION.
The Sophomore prizes were awarded after the
conclusion of the Junior speeches. The fortu
nate contestants were both from Atlanta—
Messrs. W- B. Walker and H. O. Glenn—the
former taking the first medal and the latter the
second. Gen. John B. Gordon made the award
in a twenty minutes speech as brilliant as any
charge he ever led daring the late civil war.
The leading idea of the speech was that utility
should be the prime object of’all eloquence—to
do good—to defend the right and redress the
wrong. That beauty was a mere aocident of
the elements of which it was composed. That
he preferred an oratory which was applauded
not so much because it gratifies the instinct of
beauty through the embellishments of taste, as
that it was effective and accomplishes results.
He warned them against the idea that patriot
ism has no other theater than battle fields and
representative halls, and showed that wherever
integrity set its seal on a private or publio ac
tion, that is a triumph of patriotism.
He spoke of the eloquence there is in a great
action—an eloquence more powerful to sway
the hearts of men than that action which De
mosthenes calls the chief excellence of oratory.
He instanced as leading examples of this integ
rity of life, whose eloquenoe was felt by all
men, the history of Job, of Troup, and of Jef
ferson Davis, whose fidelity to principle no mis
fortunes could crush.
I have given a very faint and imperfect idea
of this speech, but enough, I trust, to show its
animus. Let no paid hireling of robbing ras
cality attempt to misinterpret it. The evidence
I give here of its temper and expression, can,
and will be corroborated by a cloud of witnesses
whose veracity even these creatures does not
question. I refer to this speech in this spirit,
because the speaker’s words have been so often
and so lately and basely falsified.
To-morrow is commencement day—(As day.
I will tell yon all about it in my next.
Among the distinguished arrivals since my
last, X see Hon. Joshua Hill, and Gen. A. XL
Golquit. R.
“Hon. John A. Wimpy” In Another
Tight.
We are pained to see from a Washington tel
egram in the Boston Journal, that the “Hon.
John A. Wimpy, member of Congress elect
from the 6th Congressional Distriot of Georgia”
is in another critical predicament. Witness the
following:
Washington, D. C., July 30.
As the investigations at the Pension Bureau
progress, the frauds there perpetrated are as-
summing the most gigantic proportions, and
what excites the greatest surprise is the number
of prominent individuals who are implicated.—
Members of State legislatures and prominent
lawyers who have always hitherto stood high at
home, are proven guilty of forgery and other
crimes to secure small pittances of pensions
that justly belonged to widows and orphans of
deceased soldiers. The officer who went South
yesterday to affect the arrest of Roderick R.
Butler, of Tennessee, the Congressman referred
to in my dispatch last night, is also armed with
authority to investigate the case of John A.
Wimpy, a member of Congress elect from
Georgia, who is also charged with forgery in
connection with pensions. Butler’s son will al
so be arrested as a party to his father's fraud.
Wimpy showed by the evidence of Gov. Bul
lock and a letter to theNew York Tribune, that he
proposed to go into the business of circulating
counterfeit money as a sort of amateur govern
ment detective—running at his own expense
and on pure loyalty! No doubt the same spirit
has driven him into pension forgeries, if any
he has committed. Let him resume his inimit
able pen, therefore, (freeh from a legal opinion
that the Legislature of Georgia, sworn to sup
port the Constitution, ought to set it aside) and
show that a man can forge pension papers, as
well as circulate counterfeit money, In pure pa
triotism.
The American Agriculturist for August, is
certainly one of the most Bplendidiy illustrated
and valuable magazines in the United States.
Orange, Judd £ Co., 245 Broadway, New York.
Magazines. — Peterson’s. Xiadios' National
Magazine for September, can be had at the
Book store of J. W. Burke A Go.
The Georgia Press.-
Chatham County.—We clip the following
from tho Morning News of the 3d instant:
The New Cotton Crop.—Messrs. Saunders,'
Goodwin & Miller bavo laid on oar desk four
bolls of cotton, thoroughly matured, a specimen
of the crop of Oapt. J. It. Cooper, of Scriven
county. Cnpt. Cooper sent tha fourth bale of
cotton reoeived hero laBt season to Mr. Miller,
and if these bolls now boforo us represent the
average of thisyoar’s crop, Oapt. Cooper will
probably havo tho fortune to Bond the “first’
bale this season to Savannah.
The Georgia Banking Company.—We loam
that the bill to incorporate tho Georgia Bank
ing Company of Savannah, with a capital of
$1,000,000, has boon favorably reported upon
by tho committoo of the Sonato. Thocorporator3
of tho bank aroa number of capitalists in North
ern cities, and Major J. H. Gouti, J. W. La-
throp, Esq., Geo. W. Wylly, Esq., of this oity;
Col. White, the President of the Macon and
Western Railroad, and W. 0. Morrell, of Macon;
and R. L. Mott, of Columbus. This enterprise
was started by Major Gould and .Mr. Morrell,
and wo understand they will leaje at an early
day for the North to complete arringements.
The following stook sales were nade on Tues
day at the regular publio sales in Savannah:
Fifteen shares Atlantio and GtiS stock, guar
anteed, brought $75 50 per short.
Six shares Central Railroad stick, $116J.
Fifteen shares Central Railrotd stock, $119|-
per share.
Ten shares Southwestern lailroad stook,
$92£ per share. j
Boston Steamship Line.—tho business of
tho line between this city and Boston (says the
News) bag increased so much that the agents
have put on another steamship^he Kensington,
a fine Bhip of over one thonssid tons, which
will ran in connection with the Oriental, leaving
each port on the tenth, twentiah, and thirliet i
of each month, carrying freiglt at New York
rates, thus affording superior inducements to
those receiving goods from Boson. The price
of passage is fixed at only tweny dollars, with
superior accommodations.
The Republican chronicles aviolent thunder
storm on Tuesday, during whim the bark Com.
Dupont was struck in the forecast and several
of her spars destroyed. The, Republican says
the health of tho city.is remarkable. Last
week, for instance, the report, which appears
elsewhere, shows the interment of but five
whites, one of whoi* was drowned, another died
of dropsy, and th» remaining three infants of
two years and ruder. We doubt if any city in
the Union of <qual population, can show so
clean a bill of health. As usual, the blacks
largely preponderate in the death roll, the num
ber interredlast week being fourteen, or nearly
three to ore.
Musoo*ee County.—The democrats of Mas
cogee appointed as delegates to Atlanta: Mark
H. Blasdford, C. H. Williams, A. R. Lamar, L
T. Brooks, A. H. Chappell, J. A. L. Lee, W. A.
Cobb and Thomas Watt. .
W. D. Ohipley offered resolutions of instruc
tions to the delegates to Atlanta, whiob, after
being debated at length by Messrs. W. P. Ram
sey, A. C. Morton; F. G. Wilkins, Mark H.
Blandford, E. F. Colzey, James M. Russell, A.
H. Chappell and P. W. Alexander, were amend
ed by a substitute for the third resolution, of
fered by CoL Chappell and adopted, as follows:
“Resolved, That this Club counsels due and
strict observance of law and obedience to au
thority, and that each member thereof will use
his individual exertions to see that peaceful re
lations are entertained with all classes of citi
zens, and that tho publio peace is preserved.
‘jResolved farther, That the delegates ap
pointed to represent this body in Atlanta be di
rected to urge the adoption of a general elec
tion policy throughout the State, at the time
provided by the Constitution, and that this Club,
if this polioy is adopted, hereby pledges its un
qualified support to the measure.
“Resolved further, That said delegates be,
and are hereby requested and instructed, to
oppose the appointment to the State Executive
Committee of any person of donbtfal fidelity
to the Democratic party, or in any vay allied to
the enemies of the State.”
The Enquirer has the following:
Singular.—A gentleman inforaed us a day
or two ago that lightning had recently struck a
cotton patch near the city, killing cotton, grass
and everything on a space of ground as large
as a house. Can such things be ?
Rust.—We learn from a planter residing
three or four miles from the city, in Russell,
that rust has made its appearcnce in cotton
fields in that vicinity, which threatens serious
injury to crops.
We see from the Sun that some of Dr. De~
Votie’s late parishioners have sent him $200.—
The Son has the following:
River—Very low; at Woolfolk’s Bar there is
probably twenty-eight inches water. The Bandy
Moore (the only boat making regular trips) ar
rived with four bales of cotton, and other small
freight. She left Monday heavily laden, for
Apalachicola and other landings; some freight
was left at the wharf for want of room; business
for the river is ahead of previous years and will,
no doubt, exceed that of any previous one since
1866. The other boats except one, the Atlanta,
have been pnt in thorough trim, and are wait
ing for a river, and the completion of the rail
road to Chattahooohea. Prospects for Colum
bus are brightening every day.
Work at the Fair Grounds is progressing.—
One-half of the frame-work, 250 feet, is up; the
balance framed and lying in place for raising.
One load of lumber, fading to be delivered, has
somewhat cheeked the work, but will be de
livered in a day or so, when the remaining
frame work will be raised. About 140 panels of
the fencing have been completed, which is one-
third, more or less. All the posts, except a few,
are planted, and lumber for the remaining-two
thirds of the fence will soon be delivered.
Property in the vicinity of the Fair grounds
is advancing in value, and merchants and gro
cers anticipate a rich harvest for a short time.
This enterprise is one of magnitude, and will
be remunerative to the oity ana section beyond
the expectations of the most hopefuL
Last Hours ofA.B. Lokobtbeet.—The South
ern Christian Advocate copies from a corres
pondent of the St. Louis Advocate, a note upon
the last hours of Rer. Dr. A. B. Longstreet,
from which we take the following:
For a week previous to his 'cease he had
been suffering from a severe .tack of ohills,
but after the first two or three days had rallied
so far as to sit up, to read, and to write. Late
on Wednesday evening, 6th July, he had de
clared his intention of sitting up through the
whole of the next day; but early in the morn
ing he was seized by a chill, which rapidly de
veloped into pneumonia, and thenceforward he
sank rapidly.
His last hours were remarkable, even for
those of a true Christian. To within two days
of his death, and while prostrated by disease,
his aged and trembling hands were eagerly
writing on a work of a religious character, to
which the last part of his life had been devo
ted. An ineffable peaoe settled around him,
quieting even the grieved souls about his bed
side. All the numberless moments of his life,
which had been consecrated by his remarkable,
unhesitating trust in God, seemed to gather
from the bygone years, drawing aronnd him in
the trying hour of death to sustain and brighten
him and his. 'When questioned respecting his
ipiritual condition, raising his hand, he replied,
‘There is not a cloud.” Bo unshaken was this
repose 'hat he watched the approach of death
with tl e 0 irious interest of one making a new
and important chemical analysis, rather than
with the tremulous apprehension of one about
to enter the unknown and awful hereafter.
The parting of the soul and the body was an
event which he had long anticipated, and which
for years he had mods the topio of his daily
conversation. When the time oame, with a
wonderfully lucid inind he gave the closest scru
tiny to the loosing of every tie which united the
two; and it is very donbtfal whether nny soul
of the millions departed can tell moroof the
rationale of death than that of Judgo Long-
street. With his own fingers he counted the
failing pulse. When he could no longer move
his hand he made one of his attendants placo
it on his wrist, and, looking around on tho
loved ones he was leaving, he quietly exclaimed,
“Almost gone." At four o’olock in the after
noon, and without pain, he expired, with the
light of a glorious smile playing over his face.
Washington County.—The Sandersville Geor
gian of the 8d announces the deaths of William
Tanner, senior, in his 80th year, and of Alex
ander Xiawson, in his 55th year. The Georgian,
also, has the following:
The first open boll of new cotton we have
seen was from the plantation of Samuel J.
Smith, Esq., of this county.
Ministers and Deacons’ Meeting at Sisters’
Church.—On Friday last an interesting meeting
began at this Church, in which quite a large
number of ministers and deacons from the va
rious Baptist Churches in the Washington As
sociation participated. The .exercises were nn-
usually interesting. The essays read and the
• sermons delivered by several. of the brethren
evinced a high order of talent) and were listened
to with earnest attention by the large congrega
tions who were present on each day while the
meeting was in progress.
Baldwin County.—We clip the following
from the Milledgeville Federal Union, of the
3d:
Mr. OnnewiU deliver a lecture at Robert'
Academy on Tuesday night 2d inst Subject
The relationship the animal and intellectual or
gans of the brain bear each other to oontrol or
excite;, and why some men are more animal
than intellectual and vice versa. The pnblio in
vited to attend. Lecture begins at Sj o’clock.
Death.—Mr. J. L. Keith died at the residence
of Mr. Clayton Vaughan, in this city, on Friday
night last. He moved to this county last win
ter, and was engaged in farming near the city.
He was a man of energy, and promised to be
come one of our most useful citizens. Daring
his short residence among us he made many
friends who mourn that he was called hence in
the bloom of manhood.
A Large Turtle.—Mr. G. T. Weideuman re
ceived by Wednesday night’s train, from Bruns
wick, a huge turtle, weighing two hundred and
fifty pounds. It was a present from Mr. F. Toll,
a former citizen of this place, who has reoently
located in Brunswick. Few of our citizens had
ever seen so large a turtle, and it attracted con
siderable attention. On Thursday morning it
was butchered and taken to the market where it
found ready sale at 15 cents per pound.
Our Fair.—One hundred and fifty acres has
been selected on the north common for the fair
grounds, and the shrubbery and cumbersome
undergrowth has been cut down. We learn that
the work of grading begins to-day. A very ex
cellent corps of managers are charged with the
completion of the work, and the subscription
of stock being nearly ample, success is sure.
The Central and Georgia railroads have agreed
to pass all artiolesfor exhibition and all visitors
to the Fair, for one fare; in both cases foil
rates required going, and return tickets free,
Putnam County. — The following Putnam
county Items are taken from the Eatonton Press
and Messenger of Tuesday, 3d inst:
The colored barbecue on Friday last, we un
derstand passed off as pleasant and quietly as
could be desired. All behaved themselves like
good oitizens, and nothing was said or done to
mar the feelings of the whites they had so cor
dially invited to be present. Jeff Long, the or
ator of the day, made a very good speech on
the subject of education, and urged upon his
race the importance of obtaining it soon, and as
thoroughly as possible. He eschewed politics,
in his speech altogether, and urged upon his
bearers the performance of their dntiesto them*
selves, their God and their country. A few re*
marks were made by several of our townsmen,
in response to the calls of the colored audience.
This barbecue was given on the occasion of the
closing of Bell Huson’s school. The dinner ta
ble is said to have been well supplied with edi
bles served up in good style.
Death of J. Monroe Adams.—Again are we
called upon to record the death of another of
Fntnam county’s good citizens—J. Monroe Ad
ams is no more. On the morning of the 30th
ult, after severe suffering for weeks from that
dreadful disease, consumption, he was called to
that “bourne from whence no traveller returns.”
Quietly he sank into the arms of deaih, leaving
the full assurance that “it was well with him."
Rain.—A few more light showers of rain have
fallen during the past week, though more is
needed in this immediate vicinity.
The crops in this section are generally prom
ising, clear of grass, and growing rapidly.
Dance.—We understand our young folks con
template having a dance at the Eatonton Hotel,
or some other convenient place on Wednesday
evening next, after the exhibition and pio-nic
at the Fair Grounds are over. A pleasant eve
ning for all who attend is anticipated.
Richmond County.—We got no Chronicle and
Sentinel yesterday. The Constitutionalist has
the following:
Reobanization of the Fort Royal Railroad
Company.—We arc advised of a reorganization
and change of officers in the Fort Royal Rail
road Company, by which Mr. EL XL Boody, the
former Treasurer of the company, succeeds Mr.
S. C. Millett as President. The work on this
line of road is to be at onoe taken charge of by
Mr. Gustav Xiehlbaoh, engineer of the road,
under whose direction and management we un
derstand that it is to be pressed forward to com
pletion as rapidly as possible. To that end he
has already commenced the reorganization of
a laboring force, having on Saturday engaged
about one hundred of the hands who recently
deserted the contractors, George D. Chapman
& Co., on aoeount of the failure of the latter to
meet their monthly payments. These hands left
on Sunday morning on the steamer Carrie for
Savannah, from whence they are to be thrown
on the Beaufort end of the road. This would
seem to indicate that the failure of Messrs.
Chapman & Co. to execute their contract will
not be allowed to interfere to any considerable
extent in delaying the progress of this impor
tant enterprise, which has already progressed
too far towards completion to admit of abandon
ment.
Sudden Death or Dr. T. W. Battky.—A pri
vate dispatch received here yesterday afternoon
from Wilmington, N. G., brought the announce
ment that I>r. T. W. Battey, of this city, fell
dead at the dinner table of the hotel in that
city yesterday, about 2 o’clock, p. m. Dr. Bat
tey was an old and widely known citizen of Au*
justa, having long been engaged in the drug
msinesa as a member of the firm of Meesss.
Barry & Battey.
Muscogee County.—Upon the population of
Columbus the Enquirer says that Mr. Thomas
Greer, appointed to take the census of the cor
poration, has completed his work, and we learn
from a circular to him from the auditor of the
census bureau at Atlanta that the sum total is
7,450, or a falling off of 2,181 since 18G0.
This result is due simply to the colonization
of the late slaves in the suburbs without the
city limits.' The population of Columbus pro
perly stated would be as follows:
Columbus. 7,430
Girard, Brownsville and Summerville 3,500
Northern Liberties, Womackville, Cook-
ville and Beallwood 1,500
Liunwood, Wynnton, Cooleyvillo and Rail-
roadville 200
14,130
This population is within an area of a mile
from the Court House.
This estimate, if anything, is below the actu
al number, and 15,000 would come nearer the
mark. In this population we will venture to
say there are as few drones as are to be found
anywhere. We are emphatically a working peo
ple. Although not expanding as rapidly as some
of the mushrooms cities we hear of, we hold
our own remarkably well, and are gradually but
surely increasing in wealth and population.
The real estate of the city in I860 was valued
at $2,966,200, and that of 1870 at- $3,3G2,950,
showing an increase of $292,750, notwith
standing the war and the destruction -of the
most valuable part of the city by fire in 1864.
The Enquirer reports that there was a rencon
tre on the 1st at Cusseta, between D. H. Burts,
Esq., and Mr. N. N. Howard, in which the
former wan shot- in the forehead, and the latter
severely, if not mortally wonnded on the head
with a hatchet.
The Bun reports any quantity of petty lar
ceny and rowdyten. On Sunday, at St. Luke
ohurob, in consequence of the illness of the
pastor, there was so service, either night or
morning; neither at the Baptist church, for
reason of the resignation of the late pastor, J.
H. DeVotie. Other churches were, as usual,
attended. Most of the day was tolerably pleas
ant in the open air. At 4 o’clock a gale, almost,
struok the city from a southeast course, and for
a few minutes dust and strong wind had full
sway. After the wind hod wasted itself, for au
hour or more, it was uncomfortable anywhere,
in or ont doors.
Chatham County.—The Savannah Republi
can of Tuesday, reports the following:
Arrival of the General Barnes.—The gun
of this steamship. was fired at half past one
o dock on Sunday afternoon, • announcing her
arrival at her wharf. She brought twenty cabin
passengers and a handsome, freight'for the. sea
son. Reports fair weather on the passage.
From Baltimore.—The America reached the
bar at midnight on Sunday Inst, and, having- lost
the tide, took that of yesterday lnorniDg and
came up, reaching her wharf at ten o’clock.
Her cabin passenger list embraced fourteen
names, and her freight list.was nearly a full one.
She reports pleasant weather all the time—winds
baffling and blowing generally from tho south
ward.
The Savannah, Sxidaway and Sea-Board
Railroad.—--It is reported in the oity that the
Board of Directors of this company has decided
to make the terminus of this road at Fine Is
land, beyond Green Island. Fine Island offers
superior advantages for surf bathing, and it is
the intention of the company to build a large
hotel there, and to make such improvements as
may be necessary to make the neighborhood a
fashionable summer resort. The good news is
welcomed by many expressions of approbation
on all sides, and it. is hoped the long talked of
terminus may soon become an established real
ity- m
THE FRENCH ASD PRUSSIANS.
Beginning of the Fight and Operations to
the asth nit.
The New York Tribune’s specials from Lon
don the 3Xst, read as follows:
Actual hostilities began July 21, Kraus, a
fusileer, shot the first Frenchman. There has
been continual skirmishing since Saturday.—
The Prussian patrol went some distance beyond
the border, finding no enemy; but on the same
day some French cavalry were repulsed, losing
an officer and thirteen men.
The Prussian forces are partly armed with a
new and lighter gun, having a shorter barrel,
using a smaller bullet, but with the same needle
arrangement The Bavarians tried the ehaase-
pot two years ago, but preferred the needle gun.
During the recent skirmishes the PrasaiansHgore
able to fire quicker than the French. The cav
alry is splendidly mounted.
The same correspondent writes on the 28th
that the destraction of the railway atBitche was
extremely important. The.line runs from For-
bach and Saareguemines to Haguenau, and
thence to Strasbourg. The order to destroy it
was given on the 18th, so as to prevent the sud
den concentration of the French from the
South. Accordingly, a small number of picked
men of the 40th Uhlans started tinder the com
mand of Lieut. YanVoigh for ZweibruckeD, the
nearest German town to the French viaduct.—
At Zeibrncken an engineer with miners and
workmen awaited the cavalry. On Tuesday they
sent off the 30th Cavalry, the man with the min
ers and carts carrying the necessary materials.
But on this night, and alsoon the followingone,
the French outposts were too active for them,
and they had to retire unsuccessful.
Now follows the characteristic part of the ex
pedition. They made up their miuds that the
heavy materials which incumbered them must
be reduced to the smallest possible compass,
and that every man who took part in the expe
dition must be mounted. The next two days
were therefore given up to riding lessons. Af
ter two days’ instruction the miners and work
men were able to keep themselves on their
horses, and on Saturday night the whole body
crossed the French frontier. The mounted
miners and workmen were charged to push on
with all haste to the viaduct, while the Uhlans
engaged the French outposts who were this
time supprised.
They accomplished their task with perfect
intelligence and success. The country aronnd
was roused from sleep by an explosion which
sent the great viaduct into the air. The miners
rushed out again upon the railway from the
spot whither they had retreated after lighting
the end of the train, and succeeded in tearing
and blowing up some length of line on both
sides of the viadact. Then they mounted their
horses again and got back safe into Bavarian
territory.
The heaviest skirmish that has taken place in
this distriot is reported on (homoming of the
28th. A party of French iflWHtry had crossed
into Prussian territory abont half way between
Saarbruckand Saarlouis. Forty men of the garri
son of the latter place, belonging to the infan
try of '69, went oat to meet them and were
coming up with them between the villages of
Lndweiller and Geiserlanterm, about six miles
west of Saarbruck, when a squadron of French
cavalry suddenly appeared. The Prussians fired
away as fast as they could at the cavalry with
their needle-guns, and disposed of them before
the infantry could oome up. Then an infantry
fight followed, which ended in the French
throwing off their “kits” and running away,
leaving one officer and eight men dead on the
field. Three Prussians were severely wounded.
According to report no less than three French
companies of infantry were engaged.
Prussian and Bavarian troops are said to be
mustering in great strength in every town in
this district. Neuenkirchen is spoken of as
headquarters. It is supposed that if the French
army does not enter Germany within three or
four days, war will be carried into France. Neu
enkirchen is admirably situated for the concen
tration of forces from every point of Germany.
The country abont here would be very rough for
fighting, but if armies could push forward a little
way over the frontier they would be protected
on the right by the fortress of Saarlouis and on
the left by the Yoeges.
A cavalry regiment is expected here (Saar-
brack) to-morrow. There has been a good deal
of firing to-day between the Prussian and French
outposts. One of our (Prussian) men had his
horse shot under him, and adventurous civilians
have consequently been impressed by the good
shooting of the ehaaaepot at 1,250 or1,500yards.
msslan War Operations.
A cable special to the Herald dated London,
August 1st, says preparations for war on the
part of Prussia are being carried on with great
activity. Trenches have been opened two lea
gues from Cologne. An entrenched camp has
been established in a triangle, formed by Co
logne, Coblentz and Treves. The fine park at
Cologne, and the magnificent chateau of the
banker Oppenheim have been rased. Mayence
is in a state of seige and ocoupied by 25,000
soldiers Trenches have been opened iu front
of the city, and persons unable to provide them
selves with six weeks’ provisions have been no
tified to depart. A large force is encamped in
the heights of St. Rupert, overlooking the val
ley of the Nahe, which will protect an impor
tant group of coal mines at that place, and com
mand the junction of the railroad from Binger-
bauckto Landre. Large rafts are descending
the Rhine at all hours with provisions and mili
tary munitions. Between Mayence and Cob
lentz a formidable amount of war material and
an immense body of troops have beenoellected.
In consequence of new instructions from the
War Office, there will be an entire change of
tactics hereafter. There will be no open cam
paign. The tactics will be similar to those em
ployed in a seige—an advance under oover of
entrenchments.
The Rhine Provinces,
are being covered with improvised works.
The country between Coblentz and Mayence is
entirely cut up in this fashion. This new sys
tem of defense requires a new mode of- attack,
hence the delay of the French advance. Prus
sian corps have been stationed as a curtain to
the Black Forrest. The prinoipal forces are
concentrated in the triangular section of the
country formed by tha rivers Rhine, Moselle and
Saar.
The last two rivers form the lino of defence
of the army which rests on the Rhine near Dan-
dan and the right stretohes out to the Moselle,
near Treves.
The Mltralllear.
A reward of 500 thaTers is offered for the cap
ture of a French mitrailleur.
It is believed Prussia will raise her army to a
million and a quarter soldiers and advance on
France. '
The day after the declaration of war General
Yon Moltke said if Napoleon did not march to
the Rhine by the 21st he would. never cross
above Mayence.
Saar Louis has been recently fortified and
serves as a center in case of necessity. Prus
sia can fail baok on Mayence and Coblentz,
which protects a passage over the Rhine, and
behind which they have a formidable corps in
reserve.
VtmtOieWarWlllAv.
London, August 1.—The King of Wurtem-
burg is quoted as saying that Germany would
be ruined by the war for twenty years, and em
igration to America will swell to enormous pro
portions.
Napoleon's Error.
It is thought that Napoleon erred in not rush
ing promptly into Bavaria. He would thereby
have neutralised the action of ail Southern
Germany. Such a movement is impossible now,
beoauso it would expose Paris.
From Twiggs.—A friend from Twiggs thinks
there will be abundance of corn harvested in
that valuable. cotrnty to supply its necessities.
The accounts from every part of Twiggs report
seasonable rains and abundant oom crops, ex
cept from a small seotioa near Marion. We feel
so little interest about cotton that we forgot to
make inquires. With a good start in com,
Twiggs will go on to raise her own meat in fu
ture and we hope she will do it forever hereaf
ter.
The Secret Treaty.
The Tribune’s hatred of French W* „
amounts to a passion, and it is with a
fort he can see anything wrong in a £***
Nevertheless two items from the Tribun
notes” of tho first instant put in
may go to explain the existence of
treaty, to-wit:
We hope the world has been dnW <«
I* 6 charming personal relations S?! 63 * 613
until lately between Count BentJ 1 n- 3>tv
the Prussia* Court. When FraWti j ^
sia were on the verge of war, King Wiffi.* 1 ? 4,
vited the Embassador to dinner
lum so well that his next official dlaratA**
rampant, not so delirious, eulogy T,?™*
Nunes’ mingled with unintelligible
of the Prussian policy. It was
the Corps Legislatiff that, “owingto? 643 “>
menfc of the wires,’’that diroatoh^l, uni
63 ^ tate for Anfr*
seems that Count Bismarck was in
vsmg Count Benedetti as his primte lh ^^
When he wanted a secret treaty dra^f
made M. Benedetti sit down and *
his dictation! After so much intimJ^
the Count thought he had some
E ^ » h “ His SSJ'S
secret treaty. Put all the French 0)6
gether, and you will liaye no difficnltv 1 i* ers30 '
ing at the truth. First, there was
posed treaty. Then there was a prowfe
it came from Prussia, and Franca nW" 1
Then (after the manuscript was exhibited#u
Benedetti s autograph,) it was merelv ‘ ^
formal memorandum, of which tha u
Government had no knowledge Tl,; *
rather a tax upon credulity, but the ?
answers have beenin a geometricaii^'^
tyia
Gen. Sigel was run over m Broadway, .
New York, on Thursday night, by a carriage, give as good cause in the onees* 1 ?^
and had two ribs broken. preawts in tite other,-—_Y<ie
ratio of absurdity. A few dais m
told that it was only a little game of
to test Bismarck ; and now M. Benedetti 3
ly informs us that he wrote it atCofe
marck s dictation. At this ooint in , ,
nation all the world laughed.^ tte ^
Then add the last explanation byBismati
that his approval of this treaty, though actual;,
given, was wholly insincere and given io7"
treacherous purpose towards Franco, ana it
seems to us there is no particular difficult'
comprehending the whole story.
AFFAIRS IN FLORIDA.
The Floridian, of tho 2d, contains a call
a Conservative State Convention, at Ta#
Bassee, on the 31st August instant. Tint
paper says the total State and County taxes
in Leon county will be one dollar and %
five cents on every hundred dollars’ valuation.
We clip the folioningfrom the Floridian:
Caterpillar.—None of the genuine, “a
mon pure” cotton caterpillars have made their
appearance in the fields yet that we fan
heard of, but thousands of the grass or art-
worms can be seen almost every where, and
strange to say, on several farms they are play,
ing havoc with the sugarcane. The cane crop
as far as it goes, is as important as the cotter!
crop, and its destruction would be a great mis
fortune. Is there no way to stop the worn!
Storm.—Quite a severe little storm passed
over our city on Sunday afternoon, Qw
about fifteen minutes. As the farmers are en
gaged in pulling fodder, we fear much ofit
was scattered over the fields, which wiiipnt
them to considerable trouble to gather up.
The army worm has made its appearance is
immense quantities in the vicinity of Pena-
cola and is destroyingthe grass.
The farmers of Walton county are mod
alarmed about the cotton crop. The grass c?
army worm has appeared in large quantities,
and having eaten up all the {grass are de
molishing the cotton.
Nearly a bale of Florida cotton, tins yen’s
growth, was exhibited in Savannah on tie
23d inst., sent from Marion county. It dies
es a good style of medium sea island.
Crops.—The Tampa Peninsular says: Tie
crops in this section are better than ever be
fore. The com crop is fully matured and is
abundant, and the cotton and cane promises
all that could be desdred. The potato and
pea crops are also good. This is a fair sam
ple of what is generally claimed by other pi
pers. Then it does seem that there is at least
a prospect that “good times are coming.’’
Thirty-six! thousand pine-apples will be the
fruit of one man’s orchard near Tampa this
year.
Crops in .’Columbia.—With two or three
exceptions, gut State exchanges speak vet;
encouragingly of the crops in their respective
sections. It gives ns pleasure to state tint
the prospects in this section were never better
at this season of the year. Cotton, both locg
and short staple, promises all that the firmer
coaid desire. Exoept in isolated spots the
caterpillar or boll worm have found bnt little
to please their palates, which is doubtless at
tributed to the oppressive rays of old Sol
Com is thoroughly matured and looks m
There will probably be abont one-third more
cribbed this year than ever before.—1m
City Press, ZQth.
A Jackal Convention.
Several eminent carpet-baggers, touched It I
heart by the spectacle of the President pomnj I
artillery into North Carolina on the eve of® J
election there, rush frantioally with one sec® I
last week from their several cribs in Delia J
Texas, Louisiana and other parts South, a* I
Long Branch, and there, on Friday last, met® I
convention to compare outrages and incabee j
freedmen’s groans. Gen. Littlefield, “of R*; 1
ids,” took the chair. This Floridian G«f*
not so long sinoe found the curbstones of
street his native “habitat,” but, disappear I
one day from those resorts, turned up as a®
mense lobbyist in attendance on the Son I
Carolina Reconstruction Convention. Hiag®*
here it would be too long to recount; bntI
to say that he “jobbed” that learned bod? «*
the Legislature which followed it until)*
North Carolina State debt mounted ty a *
such proportions that then was no long**?
profit in the State bonds, and then bed**®"
' upon Florida. The finances of this Sw» ?
uig, if possible, even worse than those of
Carolina, it at once became evident to u®*® !
Littlefield that he must prop up the people,
as Saogrado lanoed his patients, to get«
the last drop; and in this view he comesiP,
Long Branch, hoping the President .
as well for him in the way of troop®, .
has for Governor Holden, tho North j
lina Governor who is now mshe S i
on the people of tha State. Next to u* i
ridian Littlefield, the LouisianianCobvi?"^
the floor. Conway is a preacher fromf-JJ j
delphia; he rojoioes in a forked tailed oo*h j
when he talks of the poor oppressed l ^ ■
of the South is given to tears. He wj .
this occasion to the effect that “P er f 3 vLit»
forts on this oooasion are beingmade tt “!T.. I
and seduce away members of the hep
party under specious and false devices
from the Democratic party." The
not believe this, having their own
in hand; but with brine ss salt as tn« ^
the sea-shore, he assured the assemble
that it is so. He speaks from a feehnS j,,
tion of rebel barbarity iu 1868. At |
the Republican party only gave (
men a blue muslin badge and a
they resorted to blue «lk with silver tn
knocked out the heads of several i
rels, and made large inroads on t“ e |
Louisiana, i— —- w te Generi* ^ I
This recital r
gress having adjourned it is iuopos^ 0 , I
an appropriation for the purchase of
badges with silver trimming, and the tno“e^,l
delegates disbursing anything thems® 1
1 GeueroTciaTk, of Texas, rises
gloom. He went from New Hampshire ™ ^ I
is now a member of Congress from tn» ^ I
has just drawn all his pay and aim"",
feels fine. Moreover, the Legislate”' “ ,
has just authorized the .enlistment
of ten thousand cavalry and fifty-ooA
infantry; and, in view of the
troops are to be matched from p° u , I
crash out rebel barbarism, he cannot I
Texas is in beautiful condition for »*> I
forthwith. He moves there be such&uw^
The convention votes unanimously^ ^|
must, and then adjourns, every
theNew Hampshire Texan, rushing .
to Grant’s headquarters with s ye» 1
What answer the Presidential wwf" jj iif ]
safes does not now appear; bntu »
to order artillery into North Carolina^ „ ^ I
on the election, why not spare some rj"* ftt |
and cannon for Louisiana ana FW
jackals lately tn convention at Lmig ^