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The (ieor^ia ‘W'eekly Telegraph, and. «Xoumal Messenger.
Telegraph aud Messenger.
^XCQN, SEPTEMBER 23, 1870.
Grateful News.
We can conceive of nothing likoly to prove
more grateful to tho tax-payera of Georgia than
the news that there is a probability of getting
rid of the Agenoy by the first of October. -It
has not done us muoh political mischief as was
feared or expeoted, but on the question of
money extravagance has far exceeded pnblio
anticipation. If there has been a scheme to
recklessly throw away the people’s money and
compromise and cripple the State’s credit that
has not had manful backing, we have yet to
hear of it The lobby and ring plunderers of
all sorts have had rich pickings and mo3t plas
tic material for their operations.
Tho only reason we suppose, there has not
been any Stanton at Atlanta as there was at
Montgomery to buy up the Legislature almost
en mass, was because it wa3 not worth any
Stanton’s while to make the purchase. In the
record tho majority of tho Badicals and tho so-
called Democrats of tho Atlanta Agency have
made, wo soe no obstacle to the conviction that
they would have sold themselves to Stanton or
‘‘any other man,” on just as reasonable terms
A3 their like did at Montgomery.
If the next body that assumes to represent
Georgia, as a Legislature, is one-fourth as
worthless in any respect as tho Agency, we
hope some methodwiU.be ^
however, that as tho Democrats will make it
up next time, and not Bullock and Terry, no
«uch record will ever stain the futnre. There
have been a lot of bummers in tbe Agency sail
ing under Democratic colors,- who have taken
the lend in all this mischief, but the people wiU
take care of them in November. They will be
choked off and left at home to repent of their
pins. If any of them, by hook or crook,
thrust themselves again upon the people as
Democrats, we hope they will be summarily
dealt with. We call on our friends to mark and
watch these gentry. Let it be thoroughly un
derstood that these traders must gratify their
instincts somewhere else, and upon some other
material than the in Legislature of the State
and on the people’s money.
Stay at your K'osts!
Wo most earnestly urge upon the Democrats
in the Legislature to aUow nothing short of the
most urgent ard imperative necessity to keep
them from their seats for the rest of the ses
sion. The eyes of tho people are upon them,
and their burning, withering censure wUl blis
ter for all time to come all who either neglect,
or are recreant to duly. There are occasions
when men are forced to be absent and, of
coarse, there can be no blame attached under
those circumstances. Bat tbe necessity mast
be clearly imperative and indisputably proven.
The infamous olection law that Akerman has
concocted to cheat the people out of a fair poll,
this Fall, is just coming np and most be defeat
ed. It can be defeated if all tbe Democrats
and honest Bepnblicans will stand to their guns.
To pass it will be notonly an outrage, but
great injury to Georgia and her interests. It
was conceived in sin, bora of hate, and is in
tended os a swindle and a mockery upon the
purity of the ballot box. It is meant to repeat
the outrages of 18G8, when negroes voted as
many times as they wished or were told. We
do not know any greater ill that could befall
the State than its passage. Let the Democrats
and Conservative Bepnblicans remain at their
posts and stamp it oat. They have the power,
and the will must not not be lacking. Ott as
few leaves of absence as possible from now until
adjournment—is our earnest vppeal to the
Democrats of the House, especially.
End of tho Fall Hirer War.
The Fall Biver spinners endejl a sixty days’
campaign on Friday by capitulation. They were
not only obliged to accept tho wages they had
refused, but to sign an agreement that they
would hereafter be content to abide by the
laws of trade which control prices, instead of
operating, as heretofore, upon the principle of
a one-sided demand to be backed by force and
compulsion. This was healthy for the cause of
freedom, justice and equal rights, but bad for
the spinners; for, in the courso of their two
months’ idleness, they had lost half a million
-dollars in wages. How long will it take them
now to save half a million dollars in surplus
earnings—one year or two years? If it takes
one year, then the sixty days’ war cost them one
year of labor—for labor, like everything else,
is worth in money value only its nett profits.
That comes of this war system of attempting
to establish prices by the mere arbitrary fiat of
one of the parties to the bargain. All fair
trades ore based on accommodation—on volun
tary agreement between the parties in interest;
and every good man ought to rejoice when ho
sees men defeated who are trying to fix prices
"by their meio fist, with the aid of all manner
of-schemes and contrivances to corner the other
(ride info compliance, Tho unions and the
btrikers have been awfully whipped out almost
everywhere in the last six months, and they
can’t stand anywhere long, because their con
trivances and demands outrage justice and all
the principles of free and fair trade.
A Prodigy ol Fraud.
Verbal reports state that Akerman’s bill to
enforce a fraudulent election in Georgia, not
only provides for keeping open the polls three
days under inspectors to be appointed by the
Governor, but prohibits all challengers at the
polls nnder penalty of fine and imprisonment.
It Is a bill to rotate the voting force of-, tho ne
groes round the various counties, and punish
all attempts at a fair election.
Ia there one Democrat in either branch of the
Legislature who contemplates absence a single
day while this Bill of Frauds is pending ? We
-bag every man who has a drop of honest blood
in his veins—on honest thought in hi3 heart—
or one particle of compassion in his breast for
Georgia, to be on the spot instantly, until this
depraved assemblage shall have drawn its last
gasp and sunk into the depths of an eternal in*
fimy.
Ebssonal. —We find the following in the
Oolnmbns Sun, of Friday:
In pnrsnance of a determination formed
some months .since, my connection with the
Son ceases from this date. A. B. Lam ah.
We differ from our friend Lamar on some
points of party policy, bnt we none the less re
gret to lose him from the ranks. He has been
a strong and earnest worker for the causo of
truth and right, and a steady, relentless foe of
Radicalism in all its shapes and disgnises. Un
der his control, th9 Sun has been one of the
ablest and most brilliant exponents of sound
political principles and racy journalism in the
the South. Our best wishes are cordial
ly ***•> in whatever path he may have marked
oat for himself for the future. We trust, how-
over, he will not let his pen mat while thoro is ..
no much Badical deviltry, nndso many “loyal” n,ficant
plundorers to invoke its sharpest stings.
Garcixr has sent King William all bis Iitt
■gricnliur&l essays.
B * Ta ’ X'j taxes swearing twenty-five cents
eaeb, or five swears for one dollar.
Wni. France wants more than anything else
ia her Chamber just now, are ‘-Deputies of the
Sight’ — -sort.—Pnnch.
Another t liase of-'tqualffy-
. Wendell Phillips, in his letter accepting the
Labor lteforai nomination for Governor of
Massachusetts, says; “It » 3 a sbftrne toour
Christianity and civilization for our social sys
tem to provide and expect that one man at i 0
years of age shall be lord of many thousands of
dollars wtiito hundreds of other men, Who
have made a good nse of their talents and op
portunities, lean on charity for their daily
bread.”
The “inequalities of fortune” puzzled old
King David in his time, as we may read in the
Psalms, if we will refer to them. But, never
theless, the poet king proposed no cure by poli
ticks, so far as we are advised. He considered
it tho ordination of heaven—temporary in its
character, and consoled himself that accounts
would be squared, balances struck, and a final
equality of dealings and allotments established
by tho King of Heaven in the next world.
In a word, David looked upon this inequality
as one of the normal conditions of human exist
ence, and in this particular ho agrees with all
the sacred writers and with all human observa
tion. Nobody ever yet saw even a brood of
pigs in which there were not some rants, and
many inequalities of weight and condition.
The nearest thing wo ever saw to equality was
a cane-field in Juno on a Mississippi bottom;
but we imagine oven that worked out great in-
regularities and discrepancies before cropping
was over.
He has used his eyes to very little jjurpose
^o^oliunior?oYrnaukind in respect to strength,
capacity and soundness of mind and body, and
all tho relative conditions of heqllty- and sick
ness, wealth and poverty, suffering and enjoy
ment which result from them, are as much part
and parcel of God’s dealings with men as sun
shine.
It is trne these disparities may he vastly ex
aggerated by bad government, and are often
exaggerated by bad self-government or no self-
government at all; but let everything within
human control bo equalized, and then the
chances are that your temporary equalization
would, in a brief time, result in vastly increas
ing the original inequalities of condition.
There is no way of permanently equalizing tbe
stores of tbe spendthrift, tbo prudent man and
the miser—the idle and industrious—the weak
and the strong—tho shrewd and the dull—the
prudent and the careless—the virtuous and the
dissolute.
If wo understand the case ot ‘Wendell Phil
lips, the standard bearer of this equality move
ment—he is living on the wealth accnmnlited
by an industrious ancestry to which he has ad
ded nothing by his own industry, and there
fore, presents a case in which, (if in any) equi
ty might call for a division. He is tho “lord
of many thousands of dollars,” and never earn
ed one, while hundreds of thousands who have
labored hard, live in penury and self denial.—
Suppose Phillips tries his hand first on hi3 own
case and so far as he is concerned rectifies this
“shame to our Christianity and civilization!
That would go at least to show his sincerity.
“War, Pestilence aud Famine.”
This triad of earth’s weightiest woes i3 ever
inseparable. They travel hand-in-hand or in
quick succession. The South is even now jnst
bidding adieu to tbe pestilences which follow
in the train war—small pox and other camp
maladies, and the whole category of miasmatic
and other diseases which follow the social,
dietetic and topographical disturbances of war.
What an awfnl picture of sickness and death is
now before unhappy France, as the inevitable
result of this frightful military convulsion I
The beginning of it we seo in tho fo’lowing dis
patch to tho New York World:
Ostend, September 13.—Late advices from
SedaD, by way of Charleroi, inform us that the
German armies have been compelled to move
from the frontier, not only by constant deser
tions into Belgium, but by the outbreak of an
awful pestilence of a typhoid type. Tbs mor
tality, both in the German army and among tho
inhabitants of that region, is fearfnl. The im
provised hospitals are gorged, and the sick and
the dying in many case3 forced to be exposed
to tho inclemency of the weather, which is very
bad. A single Bavarian regiment has lost more
men by illness since the surrender than in the
four actions in which it was engaged before the
surrender. Nothing bnt the skeleton of the
regiment remains. An awfal stench pervades
the air for miles from the thinly covered graves
of the fallen and from the putrefying remains
of nnburied horses. The pestilence is spread
ing through the villages in the vicinity. It is
intended to establish a sanitary cordon on the
Belgian frontier.
Paris, we fear, after a protracted siege, will
be almost uninhabitable for years. The im
mense amount of earth thrown up on the twen
ty-four miles of breastworks around the city—
the great fosse of the same length, over twenty
feet wide and with eighteen feet of still water
in it—the destruction of all the magnificent
shade trees—the great, venerable oaks of hun
dreds of years, and all the shrubbery for many
square miles around tbe city, and all the disor
der, filth, squalor, destruction, misery and chaos
of a protracted and desperate straggle—mast
necessarily engender a terrible amount of dis
ease and mortality.
I>eatU of Charles K. Kigbet, Esq.
CnanT.ES E. Nisbet, tho oldest son of Hon.
Eugenius A. Nisbet, died very suddenly on his
plantation in Houston county, of a congestive
chill, on Friday last, and was buried from the
residence of his father in Macon, last Sunday
evening. Mr. Nisbet was forty-four years old,
and left behind him a widow and an interest
ing yonng family. He had resided at various
points in the State, and was much endeared to a
large circle of friends by his frsnk and fascinat
ing manners, his warm and genial disposition, a
well trainedand sprightly intellect, and a seamy,
cheerfulness of temper. He was ever fall of
innocent mirth sfad humor, and with the taste
aud reading of the scholar, he united ali the
attractions of the man of society. He joined
an excellent and well-stored mind with a! very
engaging person; but, we believe, daring the
whole of his manhood, he was almost a : con
stant sufferer from rheumatic or neuralgic af.
feclions. Near the close of the war fonnd him
the owner and occnpant of a fine plantation in
Barke county, but, unfortunately lying in Sher
man’s track, it was converted into a waste in a
moment. Every horse and every valuable on
tbe place, to the minutest article of wearing
apparel, was bnrat or stolen, and, with little
left to repair these misfortunes, Mr. Nisbet re
moved, with his family, to Houston, where he
died. We deeply sympathize with his distress
ed flock, and also with Judge Nisbet and family
who have, within so short a time, lost, by death,
two sons and brothers in the prime of man
hood.
Mademoiselle Chbistixe Nilsson, the reign
ing Queen of Song, reached New York, to fill
her American engagement a; one thousand dol
lars per nigh;, last Wednesday. She was sere
naded and feted tho following day, and had a
grand reception at a private house in the even
ing. The World says:
Mile. Nillson was dressed in white tnlle with
an overskirt of white silk. Around her exqui-
sitely formed neck was a massive gold chain,;
from whioh bung a horseshoe formed of mag
nificent pearls. She wore veiy massive
gold braoelets, and her hair was adorned with a
orescent of diamonds. Everybody was charm
ed with the childlike naivete of her manner.
Her smile is peculiarly fascinating, her teeth be
big beautifully formed, and her lips the richest
ruby.
Several people who “lean on charity for
their daily bread” are inquiring about Wendell
Phillips’ birthday. They ate impatient for his
“divy."—Boston Post.
The Georgia Press.
The Boinbridge San says:
Chops.—We went up in Baker county last
week and were happy to see that the crops along
our ronte were very good. The cotton is fast
being picked out and made ready for the mar
ket. We rode through the plantation of Judge
B. A. Lyon and found his crop to be splendid.
He used no commercial manures, and it is said
that bis cotton is much better than those who
used them largely.
Dougherty county has a population of 11,501,
divided as follows: Whites, 2071; blacks, 9430.
The total vote of the county is 5S0 whites, and
2220 blacks. Albany has a total population of
2096, with 305 white and 215 black voters.
A correspondent of the Washington Gazette
writes as follows concerning the cotton crop of
that county :
The cotton crop in this county has been very
much injured by tho excess of wet and dry
weather. The.drought would not have effected
it so seriously had it not been for the excessive
rains jnst before. I’ve conferred with planters
from all sections of this county, and we' are of
the opinion that the crop will be from 20 to 30
per cent, short of what it promised three weeks
aga?—
Messrs. John M. Thomas and Jos. P. Smith,
highly respected citizens of Newnan, died: last
week.
Tho Newnan Herald says :
Last year, Col. Joe Calhoun, of this county,
applied for a homestead, which application was
resisted before the Ordinary by one of Jyg
creditors. TheX^o^asTbachelor, had no
white relative or person living with him, and had
eight servant's on his premises. The Ordinary
held that those facts did not make Col. Calhoun
the head of a family in tho sense of tho law
and Constitution.’ ,, The applicant appealed from
this deeisioD, and one day last week the case
caino before Judge Bigby who affirmed the de
cision of tho Ordinary. We understand the
case will go to the Superior Court
Mr. Jas. BeddiDg, for 35 years a citizen of
Tronp county, died last week,, aged 74 years.
EJ. Thompson, freedman, stabbed and killed
Green Hill, ditto, on the plantation of Judge
Bigham, near Hogansville, a few days ago.
The LaGraDge Beporter, of Friday, says :
Deaths bt Suffocation in a Well.—On
Tuesday last, a negro man by the name of
Wash Loftin, want into a well, on the premises
of Mr. B. W. Brown, seven miles Northeast of
LaGrange, for the purpose of arranging a fuse
for blasting. When he reached the bottom ho
complained that he could scarcely breathe, and
started to come np. When about half-way up
he fell back and expired. Another negro man,
Lewis Hammett, assisting in the work, was let
down to endeavor to secure the remains. His
body was tied to the well rope, bnt when he got
within a few feet of the bottom, he partly un
tied himself, but soon cilled to the men above
to draw him np, which was done as quickly as
possible. When he had been drawn within a
few feet of the top, he fell back to the bottom
of the well, breathed a few times and expired.
Thus two human beings lost their lives in a few
moments.
A “gentleman from Atlanta” tells the local of
the Chronicle and Sentinel “that Kimball has
abandoned the idea of finishing one-half of his
hotel before the Fair. He will hardly be able
to have ready two hundred rooms, or less.”
At the meeting of the Chatham county De
mocracy on Thursdiy, and over which General
A. B. Lawton presided, Dr. B. D. Arnold offer'
ed the following resolution, which wa3 unani
mously adopted:
Kesolved, That, in the opinion of this meet
ing no candidate should be presented by the
Convention who cannot take his seat in the
House of Bepresentatives under existing laws.
The steamship Virgo, which arrived at Sa.
vannah on Friday, brought sevenly-five English
spinners and weavers for the Eagle and Phenix
factory at Columbus.
Judge Linton Stephens’ letter is tronblesome
only to unsound Democrats.—-Avgusta Consti
tutionalist.
Then there are only three sound Democratic
papers in Georgia, tho Augusta Constitutional
ist. Bullock’s and Blodgett’s Democratic cham
pion at Atlanta, and the Borne Commercial. If
tho Constitutionalist is authority, tho Democra
cy of Georgia must be in a tainted condition
indeed.— iSm-unruih liepullican.
The Savannah News says:
A Sensible Neobo.—Yesterday we listened to
a very animated conversation between a negro,
an intelligent specimen of the Fifteenth Amend
ment, and a city official. The negro in ques
tion applied to tbe official to know if there were
any lots belonging to the city which tho city
would lease for a consideration. Being in
formed that there were none, the official advised
him to apply to a well known landholder, who is
the recognized leader of the Badioal party, and
whose disinterested efforts at Atlanta have been
so summarily quashed. At tho mention of his
name the negro broke out into the following
explanation: “Dat man! He’s the wnst enemy
de niggers got in this city. He went to Atlanta
and promised to do something for de party, and
whoa ho come baok, please God, he call a meet
ing and oess ebery one for de ’spences, tuck up
a collection, and dat’s de last of do money.
Dat man 1 He’s done swindled de niggers of
Savannah ontef moro’n forty acres and a mole,
and I want’s to hab noting to do wid him.”
The/Atlanta Georgian says James, the At
lanta banker, wishes to sell his fine house on
Pdcchlree street to the State for tho Governor’s
mansion.
We clip as follows from the Atlanta Consti
tution of yesterday:
lu the habeas corpus case of M. II. Bentley,
yesterday, Judge Luchruno refused to grant
bail, and Bentley was remanded to jail. ^
Several days ago wo noticed a current rumor
that Professor’s Johnson, Miller, Armstrong,
O’Keefe and Boring, of the Atlanta Medical
College, had resigned. In regard to Professor
Boring, we learn that he resigned over twelvr
months ago, and since that time has' not
attended the Collego. We : gave the rumor as
we heard it. The resignation of Dr. Boring,
we believe, had never beenmade public before.
The City Council, last night, had the vexed
question of the Mitchell heirs’ claim before
them again. The counsel for the heirs submit
ted a proposition to compromise, and a lengthy
petition, signed by many of tho leading tax
payers protesting against any. compromise, was
read. • Our efity fathers referred tho matted to-'a
special committee consisting of Alderinon Mur
phy, Anderson, Calloway, Castleberry, [and.
O’Keefe, to report to a called meetiog next
Thursday night.
Lockbane” Consolidatid. —The Atlanta
Sun tells the following story :
A couple of city gents ware canvassing the
otlier dtiy, at Bed vino & Fox’s corner, over the
news of General Young’s nomination' for [Con
gress, when up starts a party from the suburbs
and accosts one of them thusly : “I say, !Cap-
ting, kin you tell me whether tho Legislatur’
hez consolidated Lochrano yit?” “Yes, sir: I
am happy to inform you that such is tho case.”
“Well, then, I ’spose we’re gwine to hev court
in these parts as afore, alters. ” “No doubt of
it, my friend, tho courts will run smoothly onoe
more of old." “Well, Tm right glad to [hear
that the thiDg hez ben consolidated at last.
Darn my buttons ef it ain’t the best thing that
are nigger Legislature's done yet; that’s so,
Capting.” ,,3 j
But will Lochrane stay “consolidated?”—
that's the question.:
The Savannah Bepnblican announces • that
Bishop Beckwith has determined to make that
city his future home. The residence of the
late Francis Sore!, on'Madison square, hasbeen
engaged for him, and he will move into its in a
few weeks.; j ” j
A son ot Mr. George Cope, of Savannah, was
thrown out of a buggy and dashed violently
against a tree, on Saturday, bnt strange to aay, :
was not hurt.- ■ 6,101 : - •' t - c .‘.
We clip the following items from the Bepnb-
Ueant; ; ■ • - - r W in cUtH ... osoat} Ht ,(
Tbe Votaoe of the Bbitish Ship Univebs*
Phenomena at Sea.—This ship was docked
yesterday morning at eleven o’clock, after a
voyage of forty-two days from Liverpool. For
the past ten daya Captain Jones reports. very
light winds from the westward. Subsequently,
np to the 9th instant, had a strong breeze from
northeast to east. On the 14tn had a very
heavy squall from north-east, si strong that no
canvass could stand its fury, and during the
continuance of which for half an hour a heavt I
number of the shells being, after the conclu
sion of the storm, picked up on deck. Many
of the shells were broken to small fragments
upon reaching the deck. Captain Jones ac
counts for this phenomena from a water-spout
having sacked up the sand and shells and bro
ken during the storm over tho vessel. After
this extraordinary visitation, had fair weather.
Social Statistics.—We present below some
interesting information in regard to the social
statistics of the city of Savannah, as kindlyfur-
nished us by tbe government officer who has
charge of the collection of statistiesatthis point.
The total value of real and personal estate in
the city amounts to $20,689,037, and the tax on
the same amounts to $336,265. The value of
real estate is represented to be $12,482,350,
whilst that of personal is expressed by $8,206,-
C87. .
The State tax includos $4 00 per $1,000 00
valuation—the poll tax for educational purpo
ses, and tax on professions. The county tax
inoludes $2 3G per $1,000 00 valuation, and 50
per cent, raised on State tax for professions.
The city tax includes tax on real estate, buggies
and carriages and the specific tax.
The amount of the State tax is represented to
be $87,134; that of the county tat is $48,172,
and tho city tax is figured up to $200,959. Total
tax as stated above $336,265.
Mr. Perdue, an employe of A. K. Seago, of
Atlanta, fell into a cellar Friday and injured
himself seriously.
The Atlanta Georgian says the State Bead
can’t pay a bill for $100. How did it pay for
that phieton and pair, then ? Was “tiok ’ the
w ?fhe Georgian also charges “Judges'and other
high functionaries” with lobbying in and about
the Agency. Why shouldn’t they—don’t their
bosses set the example ?
A Connecticut “deweloper,” .named George
W. Bennett, took $580 belonging to h:3 wife,
(a South Carolina woman,) from the Express
office at Augusta, Friday, and loilly sloped
therewith. He is supposed to have gone to
Texas, to run for Congress on the Badical ticket.
The Coiambus San says a difficulty occurred
at Opelika, Saturday, between a Mr. Easley and
a Mr. A. T. Bogers, which resulted in Easley’s
being killed, and Bogers badly wonnded.
• The Atlanta Constitution, of Snnday, says
Dr. S. B. Innes was arraigned before Justice
Spencer yesterday for an assault with intent
to outrage the person of Mrs. ,11 . After
bearing the evidence and argument of counsel,
Justice Spencer bound the defendant over to
appear at the Superior Court in the sum of
$2,000.
We get the following from the Columbus En
quirer:
Habp on Bab-Keeping.—In our neighboring
town of Salem, Ala., an eleotion was held on
Wednesday last to determine whether they
would permit bars to be kept in tbe town, and
every voter but one voted against it. Even
those who kept bars voted in the negative.
A Baby Show We’be to Have.—We learn
from reliable parties that premiums will be
offered at the Columbus Fair for the finest ba
bies, aged six months, twelve months and two
years, respectively, to be valued at$75, $50 and
$25. The parties will bo heard from in a ttey
or two.
A Change of Business.—We hear of a young
M. D. who proposes to doff the profession and
enter the baby carriage business. From the
signs of the timeB we should judge that occu
pation will soon be a profitable one.
Death of an Aged Citizen of Habbis.—We
learn that Nathaniel Hutchinson, one of the
dldest citizens of Harris county, died at his
residence in that county last week. He wa3
nearly one hnndrod years of age.
Public Meeting; in Jones.
Clinton, September 17th, 1870.
At a meeting of the citizens of Jones connty,
held this day at the Court House, for the pur
pose of sending delegates to the District Con
vention, to be held ia Forsyth, oh Wednesday,
21st of this month, in nominate a candid-»t a for
Congress,Col. Isaao Hardeman was requssted to
act as Chairman, and F. S. Johnson, Jr., as
Secretary.
A committee of fire, consisting of B. T.
Boss, Jas. T. Brown, H. S. Greave, Henry
Christian and F. J. Walker, were appointed,
with instructions to report to the meeting tho
names of two delegates to represent the connty
at Forsyth, and to nominate two suitable men
from each Militia District in tho county, to act
as a Democratic Executive Committee for the
county of Jones.
Samel Barron and F. S. Johnson, Jr., were
chosen as delegates, with H. B. Bidley and S.
M. Anderson, as alternates.
An Executive Committee for the county was
also selected. ’ . j •'
CoL J. H. Blount introduced tho following
Whereas, various opinions exiBt in the Demo
cratic party as to whether Congressional re
strictions as to the eleotion of candidates for
Congress shall bo regarded by tho party—
Therefore resolved, That it is the sense of this
meeting, that the Convention to meet-in Foisyth
to nominate a candidate for the Congressional
District, ought not to nominate any man who
would be unable to take bis seat on account of
the Fourteenth Amendment, or on account of
the test oath, and that we request our delegates
to exert their influence to carry out this view,
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
The Secretary was requested to famish a copy
of the proceedings of the meeting to the Tele
graph aud Messenger, with a request that they
be published. .. 1
Isaac Hardeman, Chui. man.
F. S. Johnson, Jr., Secretary.
David. £• Blonnt lor Congress.
Clinton, Ga , September 17, 18,70.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger :
Permit, me to suggest tbe name of Maj. David
E. Blount, of Bibb, as a suitable person to be
come the Democratic standard bearer for Con
gress in the Fourth District. Thorough educa
tion, extensive information, sound judgment
andiegislalive experience fit him forttsefolness
in that sphere. The people inthis county would
be highly gratified to see him nominated. His
political disabilities have been removed by Con
gress. Jones.
How She Looks.—The celebrated Swedish
singer, Nilsson, whose arrival at New York is
announced, is thus photographed by a reporter
who saw her as she landed from the steamer:
Mile.. Nilsson looked remarkably well, al
though she suffered considerably from sea’sick-
ness daring the early part of her voyage. She
is of medium height,' and her figure is wonder
fully suited to tbe stage. Her chief charm lies
in the expression of her face, which is singu
larly sweet and open. Her eyes are blue, and,
in acting, beoomes as expressive as the notes
which fail from her lips. Her hair is flaxen,
and of great length and thickness. He rprofile
is almost Greek in its regularity, and her mouth
completes a face which has long been renowned
for beauty, even among the many beautiful
faces on the operatic stage.
combines whatever imperial anthority may. be
left with that of the Provisionali Government ?
Troohu, it will be remembered, was pat in com
mand of the garrison of Paris by the Emperor,
and afterwards his appointment was confirmed
by the provisional government of the republio.
Is King William so incorrigibly hostile to pop
ular government that Troohu’s complication
with it is like the dead fly in the apothecary’s
ointment? -^tnaisa I twGj
.On Thursday the Bitnalists were in high
feather in New York. Twelve masses were
formally oelebrated at the “Oratory of St Sa
crament” with imposing ceremonials and a sex-
shower ot rain fell, which contained.a quan ti j 111014 wa * preached by Dr. Dix, Sector, ot Trin-
of sand and small shells, some of the sard * I ity.
Akerman’s Election Law.
We print this bill in full to-day, for the ben
efit of present and future generations. Man
kind may desire to see a bill prepared by the
Attorney General of the United. States, to strip
the ballot box of all defiance against fraudulent
voting, aDd to punish any body and every body
who shall attempt to exercise the slightest scru
tiny of the ballot.
Furthermore: Hero Is a Legislature confess’
edly sitting in defence of tbe Constitution of
the State, loDg after its legal period of session
and its power to enact any law has expired;
and nevertheless it assumes not only to enact
laws, but, in this case laws which flout the
Constitution in the face!
The Constitution declares itself the Supreme
Law next in authority to the Constitution, laws
aud treaties of the United States. . (See article
1L) Now the Constitution fixes this election
in November—this act fixes it in December.—
The Constitution expressly prohibits from vot
ing—ali who have fought or aided or abetted in
a duel—all who have been convicted of treason,
embezzlement, malfeasance in office,crime pun
ishable with imprisonment in the"penitentiary,
bribery, and all idiots or insine persons ; and
it also especially requires that no person shall
be allowed to vote, who Unchallenged, shall re
fuse to iiiko the following oath: “I do bwcar
that X line nut utven. or ranoivaiS dn T »v-
pect to give or receive any money, or other
thing of value, by whioh my oath or any vote is
affected, or expected to be affected at this elec
tion; nor have I given, or promised any reward
or made any threat by which to prevent any per
son from vo’ifig at (his election.”
Now this bogn3 Bill of Frauds undertakes to
annul and set aside all these and other consti
tutional defences of the purity of the ballot;
and not only to pnnish any citizen who shall
enforce them, but also the managers of the
eleotion who shall require them. It swears the
managers to receive all votes.that may be offered
by persons of apparent age and residents of the
county, and to permit no challenge or inquiry
and to keep everybody, but the person voting,
fifteen feet away from the polls, so that fraud
can be exercised with greater freedom and im
punity, and it necessarily substitutes a special
oath for the legal oath to support the Constitu
tion!
Now the Atlanta telegrams in onr last issne
undertook to shift the honor of this handiwork
of unblushing iniquity from Akerman, United
States Attorney General, to McKay, Associate
Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. We
can’t permit that. We have too much respect
for the Judicial ermine. Akerman was specially
delegated by a caucus of the party to do this
dirty job, and their own papers say that he did
it It is his handiwork and-Iet the people of the
U. S. look upon the noble achievement of
Cabinet officer.
Tl»e “Bing’s” Ticket.
From Bollock's special organ, tbe Atlanta
Era, of Sunday, we get the following ticket,
which adorns the head of the first editorial col
umn of that concern:
oun ticket fob 1872.
(Subject to the action of the Bepnblican Na
tional Convention.)
For President—Ulys3es S. Grant.
For Yice President—Amos T. Akerman.
OUB TICKET FOB CONOBESS IN 1870.
(Subject to the Nominating Conventions of
the Bepnblican party.)
For First District — John W. O’Neal, of
Lowndes.
Second District—Bichard H. Whiteley, of
Decatur.
Third District—Tomes Johnson, of Mnaoogeo.
Fourth District—George Wallace, of Baldwin.
Fifth District—isham Fannin, of Morgan.
Sixth District—W. B. Bell, of Banks.
Seventh Distriot—James L. Dnnning, of Ful
ton.
It will be observed that Akerman & Co. gra
ciously allow the negroes just, one-seventh of
the Congressional honors, although they fur
nish nineteen-twentieths of the entire Badical
vote of the Stato—which is very liberal, indeed
We shall see what the negroes have to say
about it before venturing an opinion as to
whether the ticket will stand. Wo take it for
granted that this slate has been fixed np after
full and free consultation among Akorman and
bis fellow Jacobins, and that if there is no
hitch, the Conventions, so-called, will ratify it.
Now let the negroes show their manhood or
stop boasting of their strength and how they
mean to use it. Their white allies have become
their masters, indeed, if they aocept this situa
tion.
This ticket means something else, too, be
sides the determination of tho white Badical
leaders to make the nogroe3 do all tho voting
while they hold all the offices. It means that
Akorman is pushing his fortunes as a successor
to Colfax, aid that Grant has sent him down
here to do a good turn for both. Akerman has
devised the infapious election law which we
print elsewhere, to cheat the people of Geor
gia out of a fair poll this year, and thus get
control of tho machinery for manipulating the
vote-in 1872. He thinks by carrying the State
this year, and putting in power a lot . of corrupt
officials, the State can be made sure for him
that. Now we see the “little joker.” This is
Akerman’s real business down here. It is of a
very dirty complexion, bnt eminently worthy
the author and his master at Long Branch.
Now let’s soe tho man in the Legislature, be
he Democrat or Bepnblican, with the slightest
claims to honor or decency that will dare to put
himself on record as favoring this doubly dyed
scheme of villainy and fraud.
Won’t Tbeat with the Bepublio.—Snnday’a
dispatches state that King William deolines to
treat with the provisional government, bnt will
treat with the Emperor or Marshal Bazoine.
Why with Bazaine rather than Trochu who is at
the head of a larger army and at the same tinia counterfeit bills or bogus coin, or operate in
Where Is John A. Wlinpy?
The country is flooded with thieving and
counterfeiting circulars from New York. One
class of them is signed by Edward B. Kane, 23
Dnteh street, New York City. Kane is very
much in want of shrewd, trustworthy agents,
and has been, of coarse, particularly recom
mended to the person addressed, by the agent
of a large business house, who has made ah im
mense fortanein circulating counterfeits. Ho'has
on hand a very great quantity of the “queer,”
so well executed that no banker can detect it.
He wants orders—does Kane ? He is going to
deal on the square and wiU send the “queer”
by Express O. O. D., or can be seen at his pri
vate office in No. 52, John street, room No. 5
up stairs, where greenings will be taken in and
done for. Is it possible that all the elaborate
machinery of detectives, spies, eve droppers,
eta, organized by the government, cannot stop
this open trade-in counterfeit money ? We call
upon that “galliant” volunteer detective, the
Hon. John A. Wimpy, member of Congress
eleot from the 6th Congressional District of
Georgia, to take Kane’s ease in hand and work
it up.
Finally, In regard to ell these flying circulars
offering gteatindncemenls to steal, forge, 'pass
Ecclesiastic*! anil Civil Law.
The Illinois Diocesan Convention of the Epis-
oopal Church, we see by the dispatches, has
adopted a canon, after once rejecting it, that a
clergyman appealing from an ecolesiaatioal to a
civil court, shall be suspended from ministerial
functions. This action, as explained by the
Nashville Banner, is prompted by the case of
Bev. Mr. Cheney, of Chicago, who, it will be re
membered, solicited the protection of "a civil
court from the alleged tyranny'and oppression
of a church tribunal. The latter had tried him
for persistently omitting certain portions of the
church service, which he could not conscien
tiously subscribe to. The fact of it is, Bishop
Whitehouse, who is considered an advanced
High Churchman, is dogmatio and determined
in his Episcopal capacity, while Mr. Cheney;
representing the extreme Low Church wing,
is conscientiously obstinate where convictions
of dnty are involved. Between tho two, it has
come to pas3 that chnrch feeling runs higher in
Illinois than perhaps any State in the Union.
The mistakes ot the War—Historic
Parallels
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—Whilst
it is interesting and instructive to muse on his
torio parallels, the lessons to be drawn from
them should certainly cause the Generals of ar
mies to avoid the
preceded tnem. in a former article I have al
ready told you that science furnished new arms
and implements of destruction, and disasters
brought forth from obscurity-new Generals for
every war,
The battlo axes of Joshua, the bows of Xerxes,
the Damasaean blades of Saladen, tbe javelins
of Alexander, the elephants of Hannibal, the
battering rams of Csesar, the spears of Pom-
pey, the smooth-bore guns of Charlemagne and
Marlborough, the rockets of Wellington, the
galleys of Agrippa, the line-of-baltle-ships of
Biuoys and NelsoD, have passed away—the lat
ter only needing the lapse of time to render
them equally as obsolete as the former. Each
had their peouliar evolutions of the line which
passed away with them. No General now would,
iu the presence of an enemy armed with the
chassepot and needle gun, form the famous
square with which Napoleon successfully resist
ed the impetuous charges of the Mamalakes, or
who would orders Neyora Murat-to charge
with a hundred thousand cavalry at a Borodino
of to-day? Scott’s columns closed in mass
(borrowed from Napoleon and the British Gen
erals of the latter half of the eighteenth centu
ry) was a favorite manoevre of Grant, and was
successful at Mission Bidge, partially so at the
Wilderness and successful at Petersburg. Home
future General will remember these successes
and annihilate his army by hurling it en masse
against breech loaders and mitrallense. Indeed,
tha French committed this great mistake in the
present war. Belying upon the elan, the mer-
cuiial or exoitable temperament of their men,
their officers have, in every action, tried to force
positions by irresistable charges. It was by these
terrible onsets that the great Napoleon won his
brilliant victories. The French Marshalls of the
present war have failed to seo that modem arms
require new tactics—that imitations of even
their greatest hero are fatal now. Charging r
position armed with guns which kill at two thou
sand yards, and which can be fired fifteen times
a minute, is madness. Even the invention of
CoL Minnie rendered cavalry in a pitched bat
tle ineffective. The charge of the immortal
light brigade at Balaklava proved that. The
breech loader has rendered horsemen in war ob
solete, save as the “eye3 and ears” of ah army.
Still the French persist in ordering thereto crats into voting with Northern c'rpet-lu-l
charge! Such obstinacy, such persistent tenac- „ erg ‘ “ I
ity to old and exploded tactics, folly explains °
the easy conquest of the most chivalrie nation
in Europe.
When each particular implement of destruc
tion mentioned, was invented, the people and
the leaders of their day flattered themselves that
science could do no more—that perfection had
been reached But when fixed hornan projects
are touched by the brain of science the effect i
tike ignited powder confined in a bombshelL-
And this metaphor reminds me that when CoL
Congreve invented the bombshell, and alter its
first trial at the siege of Copenhagen, the Eng
lish thought they had brought up a veritable
element of bell and applied it to war. Yet, one
hundred years later, I saw fifty-four men-of-war
and gunboats hurl these shells for forty-six days
into Vicksburg, crowded with citizens and sol
dier-, with no other effect than the killing of
one soldier and a woman. From its lofty start
ing point it has dwindled to an assertion: “it
has a demoralizing effect.” Most lame and im
potent conclusion 1
Iu musing on the old battlefields of France,
we find the same fatal blunders committed by
the Gauls that the French have in the present
war. When Ctesar invaded their country, they
too, took to inland fortifications, where they
were besieged, captured, killed aud conquered
in detaiL In the siege of Avaricum they last
40,000 men; the oppidum of ihe Aduatuci
53,000; Octodoros 10,000. Bat the crowning
disaster was at the siege of Alesia (the town of
Alise-Sainte-Beino of to-day.) Here within re
gular walls Yercingetorix concentrated the
flower of his country. Cf03ar surrounded him
by tho same circumvallations that Metz is
encompassed by now. In time the troops
within the forts were reduced to tho greatest
straits. An army was raised to relieve them
fiom without like McMahon did for Bazaino.—
Upon its approach Ctesar withdrew a portion of
his besieging army and after annihilating (he
army of relief liko Moltkc did McMahon at Se
dan, returned, captured Alesia aud murdered
every man iu it. In this siege the Gauls lost
the enormous number of 300,000 men killed.
In the whole war they lost not less than one
million, yet the Bornaus at no time had over
60,000. They were then as their descendants
have been recently, defeated in detail—whipped
by fortifications.
There is a strange intoxication about military
snccess. Men otherwise gifted with -the loftiest
genius become tho moat veritable bigots after
coming forth from a victorious war. Pluming
themselves with the fatal illusion that they are_ the late General James W. Armstrong, »J
infallible in war, they are often overthrown by
gilded • brass watches, copper jewelry, patent
combination tooth-picks, reoeipta for making
batter and soap cut of clay and stable drainings,
and the whole vast mulgus of propositions
which oome to the people through the mail*,
holding out the idea of getting something vtty
valuable for a little money, let the people quiet
ly burn them. As the eloquent and erudite law
yer said, they may be all embraced under live
letters—“F-B-o-A-D”—fraud ? At a time when it
so difficult to gst-jnstice and your money’s
worth, is any one Bimple enough to suppose he
going to get something for nothing ?
Fibst Cockney— I «ay, what sort of a’onse
will do for a fowl 'onse ? Second Cockney—
Lor’ bless yer, henny 'onse.— Punch.
their former adversary who, in the hour of ad
versity, closely studied the causes of defeat.
Sedan is the corrallray of Jena. The French -were
allured into this war all unprepared under the
delusion that the Germany of 1870 was identi
cal with the Germany of 1808. For fifty years
they have patiently prepared to avenge the in
sult the nation felt at rite desecration of the
tomb of Frederick tbe Great. In turn tbe French
will revenge AVoerth and Sedan. No longer
clouded with the intoxications of former suc
cesses, their Generals will closely study the art
of war as developed in their day, re-arm and
re-organize their armies, and in a few years be
a thousand times stronger than they were two
months ago. They will gain strength from de
feat, courage from misfortune, hope from dis
appointment.
In the beginning of this oentury the German
people were despised by the great powers of
Europe. To-day those powers tremble at their
name. The causes which have led to this result
are to be found in their ready acceptance of the
march of science in the art of war. There was
vein of bombast in the declaration of King
William that “Germany marches at the head of
civilization,” still it is a literal truth. Her dan
ger, however, is in accepting this as an accom
plished fact, and relapsing into bigoted indo
lence whilst other nations march past her.
Snch has been the misfortnne of France, such
was the fate of Borne.
“Oneof the causes of the prosperity of Borne,”
saya Hontesqne, “was that its kings were all
great men. We find no where else in history an
painterrupted series of suoh statesmen and snch
military commanders.” And one great example
these men taught ns wa3 to adopt whatever is
good irrespective of the teacher. They learned
from conquered nations and Carried to their im
perious capital the arts and principles of civili
zation whioh eventually made the nation tike
mistress of the world. In this they showed the
truest elements of greatness. Giufton.
Since the toes of the Captain, it -is -said that
the British government haa smspended ali its
contracts for the building of turret Whlpe-
Thk carnage Effected by the mpdhin war
weapons is Baid to' realize the moat senguinary
anticipations.' Such is the awful And over-
whelihing foroe of wounded that the Prussian
municipal end other authorities taste at length
been compelled to solicit their countryman to
‘make hospitals of their houses. Three of the
famous whilome. “House Towns” have jit ones
come nobly forward—Hamburg, -Bremen, and
Lubeck. Each of these hae offered to provide
or five hundred men. ‘ “ 4 ” " *
Fr®m Atlanta. •
Special to the Telegraph and iCme ngtr
Atlanta, September 19.-Sek ATe .
effort vos made to reconsider tho s
bilL Blodgett was active on the fl 00r ^
tion was tabled—yes 18; nays 13 ' hs 1
Bills were passed to incorporate th* .
Bine Bidge snd St Mary’s, Western 8
tahoochee Biver, Chattahoochee Air C ' c * t
icus and Florence railroads, aud to
aid to the same. i
The bill to grant farther aid to iv „ .
bridge, Cuthbert and Columbus road *
definitely postponed—yeas 17; aays ]0
HousE-Among the bills read tha g l
was one by Simms, to provide for the ^ I
ing of registration in Savannah, Also
the local laws of Savannah and Chafh ^ I
and the fees of Justices of the Pea ? mC0!Iat }!
stables in criminal cases. ° ^ &a< * ^ I
Bethnne, a bill to declare the noil , .
’9’-70 illegal. P - Jl %l
McWhorter introduced a resolution to
a Joint Committee to report a bill on th^* I
entive Mansion. ce &i-1
Bills were passed to incorporate th« n. .
ga Coal and Iron Mines Company th r
Springs, Eatonton and Union Point v, 6 ,
Northeast Alabama, Atlanta gffiH
BaQroads. a ^anm].
The bill to grant further aid to t 1 , rr
and Brunswick road was indefinite^ „ J* 0 *
—yeas 50; nays 49. 1 |
The bill to allow the Brunswick ,
Eailroad to build a bridge acrossK^fH
Albany, passed, ■ nre rti j
J
Atlanta, September 20-Sexate. u
S “"'°
Th. Election bill
yesterday.: ® 5, l
Pending a motion to refer it to tho t * .
Committee, the Senate adjourned. a4CU,J
Conley ruled that the Senate cotdd do
pleased, and declared the motions of hi
crats out of order, though entertaining
motions. The bill passed-yeas 19 j na , 3 J*
At one time, Bums, Candler, Hinton, a,’
comb, Normally aha Wellborn withdrew. ^
Conservative Bepnblicans say the conducts
the Eadicals was an outrage.
House.—The bill granting further aid loth
Macon and Brunswick Eailroad wasie^
erea—yeas 63; nays 43-and passed, l- r(11
65; nays42.
Bills for incorporating the McDoncra^
Western Georgia, and Seaboaid tsdSafc
western Bailroad Companies, passed.
Also, to loan the credit of the State bfi,
Trion Bailroad.
The bill to incorporate the Atlanta adfc-
vannahAir Line Eoad was indefinitely n*.
poned.
The bill to amend the charter of the tiljd
Macon, and divide the city into wards, psssei-
yeas58; nays41.
Tho Thomas villa Loan and Trust Coa m
was incorporated.
It is rumored that the Augusta and Lonisrii
Eailroad bill was designed to trap the Dew
The Election bill is considered by consem. I
lives of all parties as destructive to the right I
and liberties of the people, and will make fen |
serfs.
The Blodgett-Bullcck Conservative mcalea \
ot the Legislature are urged to return.
Albany Convention.
Special to the Telegraph and ITessemjer.]
Albany, Ga.', September 2L
The Convention held here to-day icdorsl I
the Atlanta Convention and approved of ia
recommendation to run none but eligible cant!-1
dates, and nominated Tift unanimocdybjif I
datamation. The greatest hatmony and cntkr I
siasm prevailed.
The Convention protested against .Vienna! I
election bilL Cff. &
Shebidan.—Little Phil, finds great fault vfl I
the generalship of the French, aud sayj till
French soldiers are so badly handled that tin I
can see no equivalent for good fighting. L|
soldiers want to see some chance of sncca [
and French generalship has put success oniof I
the question in every battle that he hss ril
nessed.
England is withdrawing her last redcoat !ie I
Canada, and within the past fortnight hisi*!
mally surrendered to the Canadian Micistai I
Militia andhis various deputiesallherbinsii
forts and earthworks at Malden, Landoa,Bf I
ara, Toronto, Kingston, Isla anx Noil, Pas® I
St. Johns,- Montreal, Ottawa, Halifax, |
rickton, etc.
The Charleston News comes to usiaS®®j
sionally— say twice a week, or thereabout W j
hope its substribera fare better.
DIED,
On the 28th of August, 1870, at Tampb P®*
Mr. Daniil H. Tccann, late of Barbour cc®?i |
Alabama, aged abont 33 years.
OBITUARY.
On Thursday, the lat instant, Octatks,
at i
seventeen summers was fast einkisg kto tt* I
emn shades of the tomb. The devre of tifid^ I
standing^fn beada on his noble brow—to I
aye wae growing lustreless in its gltsey I
his ear which had been open to every cit 3 ,
and honor was becoming insensible to all tbs - I
voices of sympathy and. affection. , • I
Around tills death-bed there stood
of weeping ODes who eagerly sought to cat
faint whisper from the pale lips of tM df 3 * ^ i
and anxious to' soothe his last moments ^ j
holy ministries of a mothers love, and a 6“ j
votion. Absent members of the family «• j
ing home to share the parting embrMs ef l ^ I
beloved, and to mingle their symp*tbiM ^ I
rows with those whose hearts are swollen *
under the parental roof. -ajj i
Whilst all was tearful and tempe 61003 *^ ^ I
nature without was calm and radiurt 10 . ^ j
beams of a September sun. The
pervaded with an autumn stillness, bo-* j I
wind ruffled the reclining folitgs of ti*
this pervading peaoe and transqtoiV
broken by an occasional sob from th* *•“ . ^
of pain and grief. Whilst all eyee ^
tearful interest to this youthful! victixn
virulent fever, he gently breathed his J
hands of God, and his body lay in ^
repose on the quiet oouch of-darth- j
At two o’clock in the afternoon, |
consolation entered the sick-room
young friend of God and Christ, dea ^
surrection. Heaven end eternity. He
the liveliest attention to these wo™*"
soberness. He confessed his sins *•*“{**
and Borrow, be prayed with exceeding
lor faith, repentance, submission •*
and he spoke in eloquent terms of » ^
try where the waters sparkle with
neea, where the fields are clothed
and where God shall wipe ewey aHt****^^
eye. He said the angels are boiMhtfw #
the da*river which lie.
bank beyond I see the good and tbe
to welcome me home. He added,
there is no sea-sickness, and no naw*“^ yd
but in a moment of tillta the pw*
from earth into gtary oredaating- g/d
At three o’clock his time of v0 ‘“® ^ jod**
and his breathing more difficult, wne
affectionate and final farewell of
and companions, exhorting them
and tears, to prepw® ** ^
At four o’clock he w*e w
and when the dty clock *** t
f-waa totaeffaud tne golden bowl W**
