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The Greorgia “Weekily Telegraph and. Journal &c Messenger. iii ten-nrrt btu a. ,*00.\ t fS«i ^05000 Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, Q0T0BER2 1, 1870. Superb for Cotton Picking. Wfl have never seen finer weather for getting •at the great staple than has blessed this sec tion nearly all the current month. Ecarely a drop of rain has fallen, and the atmosphere and sunshine have both been peculiarly fitted for its development and growth. If cotton was xrorth 25 cents a pound, the planters would be the most jovial people in the world. But they are not, and we doubt whether they have scarcely thought of the advantages of the season. They are picking this year to sell at a sacrifice to pay for meat, and corn, and guano, with little or no prospect of having a dollar over. Working with such a purpose is not very conducive to jollity. We indulge a bare hope that this mis erable business is nearly played ont. We say bare hope, because the Southern planters have so often roalized the old proverb abont man’s uncertainty that we are afraid to venture fur ther. If our friends, the planters, shall be at work this time next year with no better pros pects of profit than this, we shall set them down as foreordained and predestined for nun and cease trying to savo them. Alas ! Poor Milledgeville ! It looks as if the Agency had determined to give the coup de grace to our neighbor, the an cient capital of the State. We have reason to believe it has determined to convert the State buildings there into a negro college. Suoha result will sign the death warrant of the peaco and prosperity of the place. We denounce this outrage as pro-eminently and inexcusably wick ed, wanton and devilish. If the Agency thus ruins the prospects and business of tho tax pay ers of MiUedgoville it should reimburse them. It has just as much right to confiscate the pro- erty of tho citizens of Milledgeville directly, as to do it indirectly by such an act as this. A Grand Marriage. Royalty, in tho person of the Princess Lou isa, fourth daughter of Queen Vio., will soon •toop—conquered by Cupid, we suppose—to mate with a subject in the person of the Mar- quis of Lome, youngest son of the Duke of Argyle. No such marriage has occurred in England since that of the Second James and tho daughter of Chancellor Hyde, more than two hundred years ago. The Marquis is repre sented as eminently a "safe” young man with untold stores of the demnition cash in prospect when ho succeeds his father, and thoroughly accomplished by au extensive tour through tho United States. Amos to Come Home. We find the following paragraph in the Herald of Saturday: There are changes and rumors of changes in the Cabinet this morning. Secretaty Cox has resigned and is to bo succeded by Commissioner Delano. Attorney General Akerman, it is re ported, will resign on account of his health, and Senator Williams, of Oregon, will probably ancceed him. Cameron and Chandler are credited with Cox’s resignation, they having demanded his head of Grant, because he is a gentleman and opposed the swindle of allowiDg the clerks in his depart ment to go homo and vote the Radical ticket at Government expense. Suoh disloyalty roused the wrath of Cameron and Chandler, and they went for him. We regret, for Akerman's sake, that he is coming back here again. After his Atlanta speech, andhis infamous no election law, we fear ho will not find the atmosphere of Geor gia quite as agreeable as that of Washington. Smrxoits.—Slight pain in tho side, the skin and eye assume a thick yellow coat, digestion k impaired, an nnpleasant sinking sensation at the pit of the stomach is experienced, the bow els are irregular, the mind fretful, the memory weakened, sometimes a slight cough, coldness of the hands and feet, sometimes loss of appe tite and at others nnnatural craving for food, dizziness of the head, depressed spirits, feeling of uncertainty, of having left something un done, but oan't tell what it is. Taka Simmons' Liver Regulator, it will remove all nnpleasant feelings and make yon welL The Dxhooutio Pabtt have only to exercise patience and perseverance. Possibly they may be whipped in the next Presidential eleotion, bnt if so, it will be the last time for a genera tion. Stand fast, therefore, and consolidate the party on the basis of the supremacy of the Con stitution—the rights of tho States to local self government—Official Responsibility and Integ rity—an economical and honest publio adminis tration—a tariff for Revenue and not for pro tection—the abolition of all unconstitutional tax es. We shall see all these ends accomplished by the instrumentality of the Democratic party, If wo bat havo faith, patience and perseverance. The Nobthebx Pares on Gen. T.-ira—"We print elsewhere, a resume of what tho leading North ern papers say of the illustrious Cbiet whoso loss we mourn so deeply. Generally speaking they are just and appropriate—that of the Her- ald, particularly. There are some hyenas how ever who revel in the foul work of rending tho dead and desecrating their graves, and these we commend to the undying hate of every true Southern man, woman and child. We are weak, now, but some day we will be strong, and then we will pay off this and other debts with compound interest. Be acre of that, ye ghouls! Interesting Information for Candi dates. Fobt Gaines, October 17, 1870. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I r ?" quested by numbers of your patrons ana mends in. this section to ask you to publish in the ool- umns of your paper the oath required under the reconstruction act of the members of the Legis lature, and the iron olad °*‘h, with such com ments upon them os you think best There is an unparalleled scramble for office m this whole sectionTand to my knowledge men are seeking to 90 to tho Legislature who are clearly ineligi ble from having held offioe before the war that required them to take an oath to support tho constitution of tho United States, such as for mer sheriff, justice of tho peace, etc. I do not think that, as pnblie journalists, you can at this particular time do the country more good than by keeping this subject and that of bolting con stantly before the people. We print, with pleasure, the above communi cation from a subscriber at Fort Gaines. Wo havo notieed, with deep concern, the un fortunate and ill-timed greed for office manifes ted in so many quarters where we had reason to look for a far different spirit. It is about the only symptom, wo have observed, unfavorable to a grand Democratic triumph in December. It isfrnitfal of mischief, and must be treated he roically, if no other course will abate it. It breeds bolting, and that fatal apathy on account of personal disappointment that is so sure a forerunner of defeat. Let the people put it down at once, and vigorously. Their dearest in terests are put in jeopardy by it, and they must, if they would save themselves from absolute ruin, be no respecter of persons in enforcing this policy. As a general rule, the greediest men for office aro those with tho least qualifications for an intelligent and honest discharge of its duties. Men of real merit are not often found among the brazen, hungry clamorers for the loaves and fishes. But to tho subject matter of our correspon dent’s letter. No oath is required of members of tho Leg islature except that set forth in tho Constitution of tho Stats, which merely binds the person taking it to support tho Stats and Federal Con stitutions. But the 3d section of the Fourteenth Amend ment reads as follows. Italics our own. “No person shall bo a Senator or Represen tative in Congress, or Elector of President or Vice President, or hold any office, civil or mili tary, under the United States, or under any Stale, who, having previously taken an onth asa member of Congress, or as executive or judicial officer of any State, to support tho Constitution of tho United States, shall have engaged in in surrection or rebellion against the same; or giv en aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability." If, therefore, a man who has ever held office before tho war and taken an oath to support the Constitution of tho United States, and after wards aided the rebellion, so-called, in any man ner, should run for and be elected to any State or Federal office, ho would violate this section, and lay himself liable to prosecution by the Federal government, and on conviction to be punished by fine and imprisonment. We warn all such persons against taking this risk. We are satisfied that it is the intention of the pres ent administration to 'exercise, through its offi cials in every Southern State, the keenest scru tiny into tho record of all candidates elected to office by the Democrats, and if they are found ineligible under the section above quoted, to re- gorously prosecute them. Let all such candi dates go to the rear, at once. The law is as odi ous and unconstitutional as Radical spite and tyranny could mako it, but still it is'the law, and must be obeyed as such. We hope no man who is banned by the provisions of this act, will think of offering himself as a candidate for the Legislature or any county office. His election will only result in a risk, at least to himself, of fine and imprisonment, and tho defeat of the party by the seating of a Radical in his stead. The test oath or “iron clad,” as it iB commonly called, is as follows; It will be seen that it is to be taken only by persons holding office under the United Slates: Troenu’a Grand Sortie from Paris Pence Bomors. The Herald, of Sunday, prints the following cable dispatch from London : London, October 15.—A correspondent of the New York Herald at Tonrs telegraphs, confirm ing the reports of the grand sorties at Paris on Wednesday. The fire from the forts, espeoially from Mont Valerien, was excessively heavy, and was so well directed that the shots were sent with the precision of rifled mnaketa. The sharpshooters in the earthworks kept up a rattling sound of musketry, that was excess ively demoralizing to the Prussian infantry in their rifle pits, and thus prepared the way for the grand sortie all aronnd the lines. General Trochu led the French forces in per son, inspiring the raw troops by his presence and his brave demeanor and encouraging the gallant efforts of the older soldiers. The sortie was a complete success all round the line. The Prussians were repulsed wherever they made any show of resistance, and were driven from all the works they hid reoently constructed. The works at Villejuif, at Sevres and at Gen- nevilliers, where guns had already been placed to bombard the city, are in possession of the French. ■ • The greatest enthusiasm prevails in Paris and in Tours. The Prussians deny that there has been any sortie with snoh successful results as these, but we are inclined to think that the denial ante dates the sortie. They say there has been no change in the military situation around Paris sinoe the 19th of September, which declaration may have been true when it was made. The dispatches yesterday, however, give some color to the Herald’s report as it was published, then, that rumors of an armistice were current in German banking circles, and stooks were ad vancing. In London, too, Berlin banking pa per was refused—all of which seem to point to Prussian reverses. If the Prussians have really been driven back from Paris, at this time, with the season for military operations so far ad vanced, and find themselves confronted by tho prospect of having to do their work all over, the natural results it appears to us of such a cheek would be just suoh manifestations as are noted above. We have heard little, heretofore, of any current rumors of an armistice in Ger man circles as the Prussians have been so stead ily successful. Theso sort of rumors are bom of reverses, not victories. As we write, and with such information as has coma to hand at this hour, it seems to ns that there 1b more light in the direction of a cessation of hostilities, at least, than has bean indicated for some time past. . . > omu Jjsoii) i The Pension Roue of the War Department contain the names of twelve widows of revolu tionary soldiers, each over one hundred yeans of age. Of these relics of the Revolution two have reached tho ripe age of 117 years; another, ft resident of Ohio, counts nine' years over a century, and her son is. ft promising, lad of eighty-soven. ,„j ■,,, ’. It is related that as some friends of Camp bell, the author of “ HohonlindeD,” wore leav ing hia room after a late supper, one of the nnmber had tho misfortune to fall'down a flight ot stairs. The poet, alarmed by the noise, opened the door and inquired,.“ What’s that?’! “ ’Tta 1, sir, rolling rapidly," was the immedi ate reply of his fallen friend. Heavy Yield.—-The Eufaula News says that twenty-nino acres, of land In Jackson county Florida, belonging to Mr. Dunwoody produced this year thirteen hundred and fifty bushels of com. Eight of tho acres yielded four hundred and fifty bushels. The some laud sold one year ago for less than three dollars per aero. And now it is rumored at Washington, that the notorious Forney stands a chance of suc ceeding Cox in the Interior Department. The decent portion of tne American people who know and appreciate both Grant and Forney, will cheerfully make affidavit that it is an appoint ment eminently fit to be made. A Lon(i.Contest.—In the Radical Congres sional Convention for the Twenty-sixth New York Diatriot, held in Binghampton, Thomas C. Platt was nominated for Congress, Ootober 14th, on the on* thousand and twenty-second ballot. We do not see how long that convention was in session. Ghaxpaaws should be very cheap and abun dant, the coming yettf, In toe > United States. Baoh an apple crop never was known aa has keen raised at tha North this year. TUB TEST OATH. By the act of Congress passed July 2, 1862— Every person elected or appointed to any of fice of honor or profit under the government of the United States, shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: “I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I have never voluntarily borne arms against tho United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I hare voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have never sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government authority, power or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and de fend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the du ties of tho office on whioh I am about to enter, so help me God.” The following is the oath prescribed by sot of July 11th, 1868, to be taken instead of the test oath by persons whose disabilities have been relieved by Congress: “I,. A. B., do solemnly swesr (or affirm) that I will support and defend tho Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to tha same; that I take this obliga tion freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on whioh I am abont to enter, so help me God. Getting Ready to Cheat, r.. - :, • Forney sounds the first note of villainy for the next Congress to take up. He deduce that several of the Democrats eleotsd to that Con gress were put in by fraud, and that their seats must be contested. He points particularly to Morrell and Schcnck, two of the moat shameless tools of tha tariff robbers, who have been fairly beaten by their Democratic opponents. Wo“ may expect to seo these men posted at tho door of the House in December, 1871, demanding a reversal and repudiation of tho verdict of the people of their respective districts, and we have very little doubt but that their allies inside will listen to their appeals. It will oome to pass after awhilh--unle8s tho Jacobins aro hurled from power—that no Democrat with less than 800 or 1,000 majority will tako the trouble to present himself at Washington. If tho people of tho Noyth, how ever, are willing to stand snoh a state of affairs, we of the South can certainly endure it. It is they and not ns who are to be affected hereafter, by what Gongrem may or may not do. That body has exhausted its ingenuity and spite in legislating against ns. There is little it can do to injure us further, so we are easy. The South would swap every Congress man she is entitled to for the control of her State governments, and feel she had made a groat bargain. What we need now to save our selves from absolute ruin is the management of our local affairs. fiWMc! A Fair Election in Charleston. The Charlestonians having made application to Judge Bond of the U. 8. Circuit Court for some aotion to insure a fair election and fair count in that oity that functionary has appoint ed two residents in each election precinct in tha city, one from caoh political party, with the fol lowing instructions: First. To attend at all times and places fixed for folding elections, of Representative in Congress, and for counting the votes cast at said elections. Seoond. To challenge any vote offered. Third. Jo be present and witness throughout the counting of all votes, and to remain where the ballot boxes are kept at all times after the polls are open, until Me votes are finally counted. Fourth. The parsons thus appointed have the right to affix their signatures for the purpose of identification, to the list of the names of the persons who shall vote, and to the certificate of the number of votes cast. Thus it will be seen that the ideas in Charles- ton of what is necessary to secure a fair eleo tion are precisely the reverse of the provisions of the Akerman bill. The right of the repre- sentativos of both parties to challenge—the right of personal observation where the votes are re ceived, and where kept and when counted—all these the Judge thinks are indispensable safe guards to a fair election. But the Akerman bill forbids all challenge or question of a person of fering to vote, and compels all ontaide of the corruption ring to stand off fifteen feet, so that nobody bat the rings can see what is done. Adjourned. Bullock, in a proclamation dated yesterday, and published in the Era of that date, has ad journed the Agency tine die from and after the 25th inst, next Tuesday. The Senate, how ever, will meet in executive session on the 21st of November, to confirm appointments, and do suoh other deviltry as B. may have hatched ont for them by .that time. One of Bullock’s where- asas preceding his proclamation hits the nail spang on the head by declaring, in substance, it is best for the interest of the State that the Agency shonld finish its business 03 early as possible. It looks very much like looking the stable door after the horse is gone, bnt on the prinoiple that.late is better than never, we probably ought to feel grateful to him. We are moved to write a short biography and epitaph of the Agency, but the ease of the man and his aahes rises np in our memory, and we give sp the job in dispair. Speed The Day I So it seems we are to be relieved of both branchesof the Agency on the 25 inst, for which let all give humble and hearty thanks. The Senate, however, after Nov. 21st will still bleed the Treasury to the tune of $9 00 per day and meet as a Starchamber, to register the degrees of Bollock. We have no hope of getting rid of them until the day of tho election—If then. Nevertheless, let fag prepare to made the. 25th at this present month with the very whitest of stones. Manly Words Eloquently Spoken. Tho New York Tribune in its notice of that mustard seed business of the Custom-house Bag at Sovannab, spake as follows: The better sense of the Bonthern people will approve the conduct of the Collector at Savan nah, Georgia, in rehoisting the United States flag over tne Custom-house, which thoughtless subordinates had plaoed at half mast out ot re- speot to the late General R. E. Lee. To whioh ineffably ainall-souled outburst the New York Express thus fitly and forcibly re sponds. The South lifts its oap in appreciation of such noble sentiments: “Tho better sense of the Seutoem people 'will do no such thing,’ nor will the better sense or the Northern people approve the act of the Savannah Collector. The flag at half-mast was but a mark of respect for an eminent publio man now no more; and to raise it was the reflex of general opinion where it was raised. Gen. Lee had done for the booth what hundreds of brave men, educated as be was and believing as he did, had done for their country or section. He had, by the admission of all men, some of the noblest of human qualities, as honesty, sin cerity, fidelity,-’gentleness;: forbearance and courage. The pare ho acted after his defent was in eveiy respect unexceptionable, and the fact that his cause was a lost one, and that ho was the Very embodiment of that lost cause, as the chief of the Confederate armies, caused all generous hearts in the Union ranks to rospeot ner his misfortunes, even though they had no sj m- pathy with the cause of them. In the South, to have raised a Union or Revenue flag at half- mast on such an occasion was most natural, snd to change its position, and to endorse this change by the Secretary of the Treasury, was a piece of meanness which ‘the better sense* of very few persons will approve. The Consuls of aii nations in the South raised their flags at half-mast yesterday,-in honor of a brave, virtu ous and modest public man. It was simply a token of respect for a well known aud well be loved citizen. In the same spirit nations victo rious in battle, ships triumphant in war, gov ernments in the hoar of their conquest; have Baluted the flags of those onoe their enemies. No one will forget the honors paid to George Washington in England at the close of the Rev. olotion, nor the reception of old John Adams, aa the first Federal Ameriean Ambassador, by King George at the Court of St. James. It re mains for the bigots ef America, five years and a half after the war ended, to oppose a passing remembrance to the virtues of a brave man, and at the same rime to inflict a wound upon the living and the dead." The Georgia Press. The memorial exercises in honor of Gen. Lee at Bavannah, Saturday, were peculiarly im pressive. Most of the business houses were closed and draped in mourning, and at a large public meeting suitable resolutions were adopt ed and addresses delivered by Bishop Beckwith and Generals' Joseph E. Johnston and H. R. Jackson. Hancock Superior Court was in session last week. It will hold an extra session on Tuesday, after the 2d Monday in November. We clip the following from the Sparta Times and Planter, of Saturday We have oonversedwith a number of planters during the past (court) week, and most concur in the opinion that the corn crop is some better than an average. Cotton crop an average, and at present prioes will scarcely pay, up the ex penses incurred in raising. A good crop of sweet potatoes is reported. Gin House on Fibe.—A fire originated in the cotton room of Colonel A. J. Lane’s steam gin, on Thursday last, which did considerable dam age, but was extinguished by the timely appli cation of water. A negro was seriously burned In the fire. Arthur Chappell (colored) convicted of par ticipating in the burning of Dudley’s and Dick son's gin-houses, was sentenced to the Peniten tiary for twelve years, six years for each offenee. A motion for a new trial prevailed in.the case of his accomplice. One “Hop Whitmore,” convicted for burg lary, was sentenced for fivo years, The deaths for the month of September in Atlanta foot up 61; for the three months ending September 30th, 241 against 201 for a similar period in ISC9. The Kimball House, Atlanta, wa3 opened to the publio Monday night. Champagne and or atory flowed in a steady stream. A brakeman was killed on last Saturday even ing, on tho Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, while passing over Cedar Creek bridge, near Cave Spring. The brakeman was climbing on the top of the cars, when his head came in con tact with a cross-piece on the bridge, and was knocked off nnd instantly killed. A car loaded with cotton was burned at Rog er’s station, on the State Road, Friday night. In laying tho corner-stone of the Confederate Soldiers’ Monument at Atlanta on Saturday, Bullock’ organ was thrown ont at the request of the ladies prefont. The Democrats of Monroe county have post poned their Legislative and county nominations until the 1st Taesday in December. The Democrats of Butts county will hold a mass convention on the 7th of November, to nominate county and Legislative candidates. Tho Griffin Georgian says: Gin House Bukned.—We are reliably inform ed that the gin house of Mr. L. L. Goddard, at Macindona, five miles from Jackson, was burn ed on last Friday. He lost his machinery, screw, a quantity of wheat and three bags of cotton. Wo clip the following from tho Atlanta Geor gian, of yesterday: Pick-Pockets.—Mrs. Freeman, mother of Mrs. Judge Lochrane, had her pocket pioked on the Western and Atlantic Railraod yester day, as the mail train was approaching Carters ville. An old gentleman, whose name we oonld not ascertain, had his pocket pioked at the same time of several thousand dollars. Two men who attempted to get Mrs. Freeman’s baggage from the baggsge-maBter, having her checks in their possession, were arrested with much difficulty, and lodged in jail at Gartersville, as the supposed perpetrators of tho thefts. The affair created much exiitement on the train. Mrs. Dolly Barfield and Mr. Luke Mann, two of the oldest residents of Bainbridge, died last week. Mr. James Tillman, a well known machinist of Columbus, died at Montgomery, Saturday night. Mr. David Cody has been nominated for the Legislature, by the Democrats of Chattahoochee county. The Columbus Sun notes as a remarkable oc currence, the presence of a five mule wagon in that city, loaded with com for sale. A lad named Camming, living in Mnsoogee county, fell from a tree, on Sunday, and was instantly killed. The Sun reports the following loss by fire: Loss by Fibe.—A four roomed dwellinghouse on the Chattahoochee county plantation of Hon. Wm. A. MoDougald, of this city, together with several outhouses, were burned Saturday night about 11 o’clock. Consumed with it, was about a bale and a half of cotton, carefully gathered and preserved, which was intended for exhibi tlon at our Fair. The origin of tho fire was ac cidental. All the farniture, books, eta, were saved. The total loss is about $2,500 or $3,' 000. Policeman McMahon, of Sawannah, dropped dead from disease of the heart, on Monday night, while walking his beat. We clip as follows from the Americus Couri er, of Taesday: Damages to the amount of ten thousand dol lars has been awarded A. B. Green by the de cision of the present term of the court, in the case of A. B. Green vs. Southern Express Com pany for false imprisonment. A freedman was badly crushed a few days ago npon the plantation of George E Clark, by the falling of a cotton Bcrew, which ho was as sisting to raise ~ rr ~ ~— *“ — —i condition. The editor of the Griffin Star says Campbell county lands are rapidly increasing in value. A place cf 1,500 acres recently sold for nearly 30 an acre The Csnstitntionalist regards as one of the host signs of tho times, the universal and hearty grief manifested at the death of Gen. Lee. It ■ayst^ty^ It springs from the unmistakable expression of general admiration in whioh onr great chief tain's matchless worth was really held by all classes of our population. Instead of being, even for party effect, held up as a traitor or reb el, this renowned leader of our Cause is honor ed even by the bayonet-backed Houses of Leg islature of Georgia and Virginia as both a Pa triot and a Hero. Has tho world ever witnessed Huch a tribute of vice to virtue? If these things are done in the green loaf, what will be jlone in the dry ? If at this day, with all the passions of the strifo still alive; while usurpa tion is still rampant—that usurpation which it is Lee’s honor aud glory to havo warred against —if wo - say, under thorn circumstances, such homage is done 'to the man andhis memory, what may not be expected in future for the memory of all who-fought, bled and died for the same cause under the satno stainless ban- The Atlanta papers-think tho Fair will bo, a Facts tob the Ladies.—My Wheeler A Wil son Machine baa been in use nearly, eleven years without any repairs. Five and a half years ago I set a No. 1$ needle, which has not been chang ed since. The machine has been used by as many as seven or eight different persons dur ing that rime, and has made dresses, shirts, boys’ jackets snd- pants, tucked and beamed cotton eioth, linen, Nainsook and Swiss muslin without either tucker or bemmer. Mia. H. Hass. success. "***• IG. O. Cleghom has been renominatod for the Legislature, by tha Chattanooga county Demo crats. " ' . The Constitution relates the following: Quite a romantio case was tried a few days since before one pf the Magistrates of Atlanta. A negro woman, who bad been in the employ of Dr. Angier for tome time,’ it seems, was mar ried in ante-bellum times to a colored gentle man, according to the usages of plantation life. After the surrender, he thought that the Eman cipation Act, had freed him from the matrimo nial bonds, and he therefore deserted his old love for a now Dinah. The former wife, in conversation with colored friends, animadverted npon hia oonductin abandoning her for another she-male. This enraged and incensed the cou ple to such a degree that they had her arrested for slander. Upon hearing the evidence, the Magistrate dismissed the warrant for slander, and sentenced the man to pay a fine or go to the chain-gang. Wife No. 2 appealed to wife No. 1 to lend her the money to pay the fine, to keep their polygamous husband from the chain-gang. This she did, and ont of gratitude, the truant has gone back to his first love. The fable of the living jaokaas kicking the dead lion is very forcibly illustrated t by 4ha order of Mr. BoutweR to the collector at Savan nah, in regard to the custom-house flag, whioh bad been placed at half-mast for the death of Robert -E. Lee. The dead lion, however, did hot complain, Shd the living jaokaas brayed triumphantly, just as his fellows of the radical preair wHi do in the present instance.—Chicago Timm. Table Mountain and Truthful James. The following,, which has been going the rounds for some time, is from the band of F. Bret Harte, author of “The Look of Boaring Camp," “The Out casts of Poker Flat,” and several poems, full of hu mor and exquisite description: I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truth ful James; I am not up to small deceit or any sinful games; And I'll tell in simple language what I know abont the row That broke np our society on the Stani-laue. Now nothing could be finer or more beautiful to see Than the first six months' proceedings of that same society. Till Brown, of Calaveras, brought a lot of fossil bones, That he found within the tunnel near the tenement of Jones. Then Brown he read a paper, and he reconstructed there From those same bones an animal that was extreme ly rare; And Jones then asked the Chair for a suspension of the rules Till he could prove that those same bones were one of his lost moles. Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile, and said hia greatest fault Was that he had been trespassing on Jones’ family vault; He was the most sarcastic man, this quiet Mr. Brown, And on several occasions he had cleaned out tho town. Now I bold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass—at least to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Beply by heaving rockB at-him to any great ex tent. Then Abner Dean, of Angels, raised a point of or der, when A chunk of old red sandstones took him in the ab domen. He smiled a kind of sickly smile and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. Then, in less time than I write it, erciy member did engage In a warfare with tho remnants of a paleozoic age, And the way they heaved those fossil s in their an ger was a Bin, And the skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. And this is all I have to aay of theso improper games, . For I live at Table Mountain and my name is Truth ful James; ' / And I’ve told in simple language what I know about the row, That broko up our society upon the Stanislaus. Charleston, a Reliable Seaport* From the Charleston Courier, October 12.] Experience, it has been trnly remarked, is a great teacher, and this proverb finds a fitting illistration in the circumstances growing out of the recent freshet in Virginia. Large capital had been concentrated in railroad and steam ship enterprises at Norfolk and Portsmouth, and it has been sought to sustain the heavy ontlays thus made, by attempts to make large sections of distant country tributary to these investments. Tariffs of freight have been put in operation which must bo entirely unremuner- ative, and seem to be persisted in, Bimply be cause it strikes at the regular business of more Sonthern posts—and we have in onr State this policy actively pursued by the Charlotte Road, whioh charges more for a bale of cotton from Winnsboro.S. 0., thirty-five miles, to Colombia, than from Columbia to Charlotte, one hundred and ten miles, or three times the distance, on its way to Portsmouth, Ya. But nature sways her sceptre in spite of capi tal. The connecting roads Southwest from Norfolk and Forsmontb, whose ragged rails bear testimony to the scarcity of their eamings, have the additional disadvantage of traversing mountainous regions over costly and dangerous bridges and trestlings; and the rise of a moun tain stream, a sudden freshet, breaks np the transportation facilities of thousands, sends bills of exchange on cotton, in transit, but blocked np on the edge of broad ohasms, to pro test-while on the other side of this impassable gulf, hundreds aud thousands of tons of valua ble merchandise await the slow aud difficult re construction of bridges and trestles—groceries for Selma, perishing—dry goods for Memphis, getting out of style—boots and shoes for Vicks burg, moulding in exposed localities. These are some of the facts of attempting to force business out of its natural channels. North Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Lower Tennessee and North Carolina, are all reached by regular and always available rail lines from Charleston, and bnt for the misrep resentations of parties having private interests to serve, this great belt ot country could be bet ter supplied at this port than elsewhere. We cannot illustrate more clearly thin point than by taking the most distant point, Memphis, which seems, these latter years, to be afflicted with a sort of color blindness, seeing everything with a rose-tinge of hopo at Norfolk. Loaded cars can bo sent to Charleston from Memphis, 750 miles, without breaking bulk, and yet cotton is forced to Norfolk, over nearly 1000 miles of rail, breaking bulk more than once “en rente,” wa bolieve, and every winter interrupts the transit —ice and snow alternating with freshets to de stroy regularity. But to recur to the advantages of our own ]>ort. It is always open, the Atlantic Ooean is insight of its piers—an unbroken line of five feet gauge railways reaches Nashville, Memphis and Vicksburg ; on the outer circle of available territory between whioh points and the “City by the Sea,” crops enough are raised and mer chandise enough consumed, to sustain semi monthly steam lines to Europe, a daily line to New York, and corresponding facilities to Phil adelphia and Baltimore. In confirmation of what we have written, we notice the arrival from Norfolk of the steam ship Albermarle, with 600 tons of merchandise foif Western points, which has been re-shipped to this city, and goes West by our splendid rail lines, in consequence of the serious disaster which has destroyed so much of life and prop erty in Virginia. Another vessel of large ton nage is also expected; and onr regular lines are now receiving at New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, a great tonnage of this freight, which, in other days, was always passing through Charleston to the West, bnt which has since the war, from adverse causes, not entirely in the power of Charleston to overcome, been diverted over circuitous lines to more Northern ports. Foi an all-the-year-round route there can be no better line than via Charleston. With, rail roads capable of pouring in 4,000 to 5,000 bales of cotton a day, and steamships moving 2,000 to 2,500 bales in a single cargo—this freightage can be brought back to its old channel. ’ The Heathen Chinee. It reads very strangely to find the New York World disoonrssing thus on the Chinese ques tion: In tho friendly game of oards played be tween Truthful James, Bill Nyo and Ah! Sin, (Truthful James being tho historian of the af fair), it is ovident that the purpose was to get the belter of Ah Sin. With this end in view, Nyo had surreptitiously provided himself with certain winning trump-cards,which were to have been used on AU Sin as occasion required. But as Truthful James ■ was moved to remark, “for ways that are dark the heathen Chinee is pe culiar”—so much so, indeed, that in the courso of the game Ah Sin, who was supposed to know nothing of poker, developed the aston ishing faot that, concealed in his ample sleeve, were twenty seven packs of oards—more than enohgh to enable him, if the necessity should arise, to hold hia own against his two adversa ries. What followed? “We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor,” roared the discomfittea Nye ; “and he went for that heathen Chinee” (and no wonder); thus establishing the impor tant fact that Adi Sin's “ little game ” was ob noxious to him merely because tho Celestial was more “ handy ” than himself. Truthful James tells a plain story, and there is food for reflection in the moral of Nye’s going for Ah Sin. Bill Nye evidently had a good deal of hu man nature in his composition. From the turn things took, with poor Ah Sin, some people might be led to infer that in his special case lay the whole sum, scope and argument—past present and to oome—of the gar at Chinese la- xur question. The Radical tariff levies these taxes: On pig if on, 122 percent.; wollens, 122; oottons, 92, clothing, 95; leather, 76; real, 103, and salt 139, Beautiful, beautiful “protection,” whioh pro’ toots the money out of the people’s pooketa in to the hands of a few millinn^ OT “Impending Crisis" Helper, of North Caro lina, cuts Holden, Great, Kirk and others of the tiny thus: “I have no association with Dwmm. Radicals whose venal, corrupt and mere entry ^j^°jM|^treoarrfed rim State down to in- WH.4T THE HARDS HELLS SAY. Ad v tee of the tlpalole Association to tho *K2m££3S25! u * **" ,n For tie Telegraph and Meieengvr-i There is a clause in tho Constitution of the State of Georgia which grants any citizen of the State the right to withhold from the pay ment of his debts the sum or its equivalent of $3000 in gold. This is a privilege of which we may naturally act! reasonably expect the “world" will take the benefit; and some members of the Church have been so inconsiderate as to sup pose that it was not wrong for them to take the benefit of it, inasmuch as it is the law of tho land. Bnt we hold that no Christian can take the benefit of that law without violating the law of Christ, even if he is not in debt. For if he is in debt, and takes the advantage of that law with the purpose of paying his debts, he is taking an undue advantage of hia creditors, in using their money against their will; for if he had the consent of his creditor, there would bo no necessity to resort to the Homestead. The Word of God declares that the “borrower is servant to the lender,” but the Homestead makes the lender servant to the borrower; it places tho creditor at the mercy of the debtor. It is a further violation of the law of God, which requires ns to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. We would advise breth ren to note the fact, in the first chapter of Dan iel, that the Hebrew children would not eat the portion of meat and wine provided them by the King of Babylon, because they could not do so without defiling themselves; nor do we believe that a Christian can under any circumstances tako the benefit of the Homestead without de filing himself, even if he is not in debt; for one not in debt has no excuse to resort to tho Homestead, and hence must be influenced by a spirit of “providing for the things of to-morrow,” in violation of the law of Christ. And if it is wrong to resort to the homestead to stay the payment of his debts, it is, of coarse, wrong to resort to it to escape them wholly, whether it be as principal or security; because in this case as in the other, it is a violation of contract. We believe that wa fully appreciate the difficulties by which some brethren are sur rounded who are in debt aud who have lost their properly by the late war, bnt we still hold that they are not thereby justified in doing wrong; but that thoy are required by the law of Christ to turn the other cheek, and, to give tho cloak also, that is, that tho loss of properly is not to move them from right, nor even life itself. For we know that these trials have not been permitted to come npon us to drive us from the sanctuary of God, to trust in an arm of flesh, and to make us worse, but they are de signed rather to cause us to amend our ways and build up the breaches in the wall that sepa rates us from the world. We are commanded by Christ to “seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things (food and raiment) shall be added unto ns." We are taught by Him that he cares for the sparrows, that the hairs of our heads are numbered, that he clothes the fields and that his care is mnch greater for us; that no good thing will be with held from them that walketh uprightly. Surely then we depart from the sure promises when we violate his law in taking advantage of our neighbor (extorting hia consent) to stay the payment of onr debts, or to escape them en tirely, or if ont of debt to provide beforehand for escaping our obligations in' fature. We think it an erring from the faith hence disor derly, and as such we are commanded to with draw from it. Nor is it resistance to the law of the land to deoline availing ones self of the benefits (?) of the homestead, for none are compelled by law to take it; and even if they were, we hold that it would be wrong for them to do so, but still not to resist that or any other law of man by force, whioh is the kind of re sistance we are forbid to resort to and which brings damnation. We are commanded to re sist the devil in whatever guise he may present himself. But Christians are required to submit to any losses they may incur by the people of the world taking the homestead. We are command ed to love one another, and shonld manifest that love in a great measure to our brethren who, rather than violate the law of Christ in taking a homestead, should render all they have to their creditors; and this ire believe, brethren, yon will do. Therefore, we advise that any member who resorts, under any cir cumstances, to the homestead, be dealt with by the church, not aa an enemy but as an erring brother; and that all Sciptural means be used to retain and reclaim him. And we advise all brethren who have resorted to the homestead to renounce it and return to the bosom of the church, and we believe that it will be well with them. Brethren, let us remember that Ho’has promised never to leave nor forsake ns; that He has loved us with an everlasting love, chos en ns to salvation before the world began, re deemed ns by Hia Son, and quickened and taught us by His Spirit, and that we are to glo rify Christ as the light of the world and tho salt of the earth; and seeing suoh unspeakable meroieB are bestowed upon ns what manner of men wo ought to be in all Godlioess and hon- esty. May the Lord bless you! Amen. Unanimously adopted. Extract from tho minutes of the last session of the Association. Memory of General ^ Butlee, Qa., October^* A publio meeting was thiTT* . ’ 18 70 Court-house by the citizens of^Ta^ « Q to express their feelincs teUtiJ 5 ylor <W General Lee. ThroufwtK? % th ® ft and shops were closed and all business was suspended. * 8 ner&i On motion of Mr. J. Fow i er D ^ h was called to the ch»;, '“.1 fith Miller was requestedto aS 1 The purpose of the meeting w!"?’ plained, on motion of Major .T ^? S r. be * a o committee of nine were app 0 j n ' ted ' ^ o! sey, suitable resolutions for the actio* o* ^ ; whereupon the chairman iwJ? mg upon the chairman ® Hoiaey, Dr. A. D. Smith, J. FoJriw ?*** tmson, W. BW C„! J, Ji l ^ l WONDERS OF THE TELEGRBP1I. How We tiet the War News—The Operator at Heart’s Content. From the Journal of the Telegmph. The press dispatches from Europe to New York during the last four weeks numbered about 100,000 words. New York has been better j mated on the issue of the war each day, than • Liondon, Paris or Berlin. These dispatches have almost wholly been sent by a single cable, foil one-third of the whole to a single daily pa- ~er, and with marvelous rapidity aud accuracy. 'amiliar as we are with tho work of the tele graph, it has been a marvel to us. To hundreds of thousands of minds, the whole process is and has been a deep enigma. Hero is a man sitting in a dark room at Heart's Content. Tho ocean cable terminates here. A fine wire attached thereto is made to surround two small cores of soft iron. As the electric wave, produced by a few pieces of cop. per and zino at Valentia, passed through the wire, these oores became magnetio enough to move the slightest object. A looking-glass, half an inch in diameter, is fixed on a bar of iron one-tenth of an inch square and half an inch long. On this tiny glass a lamp is made to glare so that its light is reflected on a tablet on the wall.' The language of the cable is denoted by the shifting of thin reflected light from aide to side. Letter by letter is thus expressed in this flitting idium in utter silence on the wall There is no record made by the machine except as the patient watcher calls out to a comrade the translated flashes aa they ooiqe, and whioh ha records. It seems like a miracle of patience. There is something of awe creeps over ns aa we see the evidence of a human touch 3,000 miles away swajing that tide of light. ' By such a delicate process as this, and after being repeated from lino to line five times be fore its ultimate copy is in'New York, have the great battles been recorded in our daily papers with great particularity, and sent throughout the Union. Nothing like it has ever before been accomplished. Tho enterprise of tho New York press has eclip3ed that of ■ the wealthiefA and oh.'est prisses in Europe. It is charaoter- istip of the nntioa to :do its work grandly and well. who, afterretiring a short time tat J 50 ® 11 *** reported throhgh Major HoliJSfS! them, the following resolutions- “ pr ®P«* We, the citizens of Tailor . ceired with feelings of deerJ* 1117 ' 114 ^* intelligence of the^eath ef Lee, have met in the town of Bnthl 7°^* other business aside, that we may I’m pressions of heartfelt grief to lhA,! . 0E, U tion, and offer such humble bu&° f of respect to his mortal remains sna*® *** memory as the occasion aud circm* ford us. cn ® s! »a«si{ And we now, with unfeigned Brief ,. , and admiration for his greatness atIua lo9 unanimously resolve— M<1 S^e* 1. That we mourn in tho loss nfoL ertE. Lee, America’s noblesTlT^ hero, the great, the wise, the mod a the South and noblest work of 6l ^ ol °: man. u " a a loses *• That when we view him as the whose shoulders we hung the vast ^ oc ® <* ties of our destiny, and who that he wrung love and adminflojl*?** ponents; when we view him as the -. “?■ tary chieftain whose exploits in inferior to his unparalleled go 0l W*.? ^ view him as the Christian gentleman’« * true to his principles and his faith^midW passions and struggles of war and the if ^ tiona of power; and lastly, when in the hour of defeat, when all thin lf 5 skill or bravery could do had failed him S? followers—sad, but temperate and fim ^ natural dignity, rising high above the disappointments of the hour, and ereiS tho sentiment which he uttered, that ‘ man virtue should be equal to’everyhS lamity,” we bow in admiration only to that due our Maker and Savio» X ' 3. That language canbut fail to write Vn n. pnate eulogy, and attempting the sawed sebL short of inspiration, the chastest svordu S but mar the divine splendor of his nS less and spotless character; and that, tkniS' our hearts alone must bear witness to tW 1 ed sentiments that his memory inspires ^ 4. That we of this sunny land ot don* withered, of prospects blighted and Lop«S ferred, whose fountain of tears has alreiM*. strained full dry by the. sad bareawnlatrf our noblest son, still again essay to in default of tears, weep blood, in heariMtS for our dear, good Chieftain who is no morT 5. Aud while melancholy gloom o’trsprui our land, as when the sun eclipsed letssnpe- stitioos shadows steal upon onr mother emit" funereal endowment, we still have the sad jerb claim this precious grief as ours,-a rich'heri tage to be entailed by changeless law, toon posterity from generation to generational itself shall end. “~ 6. That these resolutions be suitably dnjtj in mourning, and filed and recorded in thsoS of the Ordinary of Taylor oonnty. and asm of the same be forwarded to the family aide ceased. 7. That the Macon Teeeqbaph m lm oeb, Columbus Enquirer and Talbotion Sari- ard be requested to publish. The meeting was briefly addressed-by D; Griffith, S. F. Miller, O. M. Colbnl, QM Brewer, Major Anderson, and Major Bohn, touching tho exalted character of General Lk, and the happy influence his virtues exerted a society throughout the land. The remarks va diversified and earnest, manifesting the pro found grief which swells every Southern betoa, as the bell tolls the solemn requiem. The preamble and resolutions were nnui- monsly adopted; and, on motion of Hr. Col but, the meeting adjourned. Jas. Geottth, Chairman. S. F. Mtlt.ee, Secretary. Tine Absurdity of Tight Lacing There would bo no tight lacing if girls co«2 be made to understand this simple fact—tha men dread the thought of marrying a warn who is subject to fits of irritable temper, to hi headaches and other ailments we seed noi mo tion, all of whioh, everybody knows, we the £-1 rect and inevitable product of the comprasa of the waist. Men like to see a small ns certainly, but there is a very great difciai between the waist that is well formed iHq proportion to the rest of the figure, and ansi which is obviously and artificially compuM to the destruction of that easy and gracefd*j riage, which is one of the chief chums of iwl man’s appearance. An unnatnraly comp-*! waist is far more certain of detection t-Bi mass of false hair or a faint dusting of i» powder. The rawest youth who enters i * room Can pick out the women who have w? eued themselves artificially; and them in more ready handle for his harmless j 1 ®- the young, lady who, to obtain the *PP®|* of a dragon fly, has been subjecting considerable p&in, and who has been kraji for herself a pretty store of ailments, etsi> ly want time to pronounce themselrai® only see the stare of scarce’ - M “ tempt, aud understand the a greet the result of her labor, we shMd *V change of fashion—and itis merely There is nothing intrinsically _be»nura3 unnaturally small waist, and if it wr-' 1 * 1 * ion to go into the opposite extras* sc would see beauty in padded wuih- “ great misfortune that popular taste in this as it alters in other matters. 0**7 may notice with what a regular ebb f wide skirts and narrow skirts aUenura-^j have the peg-top mentof men f*"™^ the sailor’s wide, kled attire; 1°**^ pointed boots give place to peak-towtw how tho peak toe a go out again for ^ points. Through all changes true to only one faahion. 'Whether bei_ is as long and lank as that of » or whether ehe builds around the her figure a rotund and capacious steel, she is forever faithful to tne tr**^ ( a small waist; and she will make her hands red, she willin cs '“"-Jj she will crack her voice, and A she will orack her voioe, »nu digestion, all to produoe a nialfcw*. ^ wise men regardwith pity and fooU ««* sion. SINGULAR SUICIDE IN XEW OR- - LEANS. Yonnar Gentleman and Lady Jump Into the River. From the Few Orleans Picayune. ] One of the most remarkable cases of suicide that has ever startled the community occurred at the foot of Soraparu street, about five o’clock this (Tuesday) morning. A young man and woman, by mutual consent, proceeded to the river’s edge, and, locking hands, jumped into tho river and wore drowned. The namo of the man is Andrew Ryan; he is about twenty.three years of age, and a native of Ireland. The girl’s name is Jane Sweeny, seventeen years of age, and a native of Scotland. It has been ascer tained that tney were lovers, and for some time have been living in intimate relations. The girl's nature recoiled from this disreputa ble life, and her importunities have been inces sant that he would many her. The persuasions of her friends were also added; and the man was finally given to understand that this aot of justice to tne girl oonld no longer be postponed. Her sin was the. result-of inexperience—of her friendless condition and affection for him. These representations ware, however, unable to subdue his repugnance to the marriage, and he stated that he would rather die than submit to suoh an alternative. The girl, dietraoted with grief, and mad, it may be, with despair, re plied that if death waa the only alternative, she would share it with him. TCda has been going on for shveral days. Monday night they had an interview, and conversed for several hoars to gether. The result of this interview has been the double suicide just committed. Franc-Tirenrs. There has been much ar 8 nniei ^ 1 r I »« among the reading public aa to M e nition of the word. franc-tire^, printing offices among a fraternity ^. directly iute.vested.in being j lt ,f rect dtfiuiiioa of wordsia fwk than any other working d 455 ° £ ! The word franc, in the free, and tireur a shooter, ana w ^ payment of a trifling sum of ® i may obtain license to keep 8 8“ freely after ail the necessary tt ! through. Hence he is a ff * n *' nn0j j 4# shooter. Many in this country ^ " be sharpshooters, but the Frendi ^ shooter is tirailleur, and it e» n Lj. ceived that there is no BimSsD’J- and franc tireur. They may it is true, but it is due to ' during the shooting season that same license which free use of arms, and from < of them may knock out * , . M rin£ neatly as Daniel Boone barke pi are they guerrillas, aa ®*ny ^ not wander about, waylay®? ^ of the enemy, or plundering . homeless the disaffected of Many of them are — -. h . whose faoes would rouge to , hair, and whose swords wow t scabbard at snoh a slur uponto The Radical majority In Iowa is reduced to the vicinity of 30,000. In 1868, the Radical majority waa 46,859; in 1389 (eleotion fox judge pf thu Supreme Court,) tt wae 40,301. Ah Ihctdznt of the nr BiLTnroa*.—The ®***“&.’, Baltimore to express that c i. s4 death ct Gem. Lee, was one v t » seen there. A correspondent ing Incident: „r.t A scene of the greeted when CoL Marshal said: ^ {ford sjmmmrfCy. The audience ter cheer resounded through , , handkerchiefs were waved e» waa some momenta before Jm.
