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MACON,
A. Mensnro of Paclflcatlonj
Tho Georgia election will prove to be one of
the most powerful measures of pacification,
ever known in the Gentile world. The Radi
cals in Washington will probably adjust their
qnarreis speedily in the light of it. It is the
hand writing on the wall, and tells of tho South
one great unit in the defence of Democratic
. State Rights principles. It points with tho In
dex of Fate, to the revival of those principles
in the North and West, and a grand national
jrallytothe defencoof the constitution against
the assaults of a lawless and despotic central
ism, and of an inoxtingnishable sectional ani
mosity. It points ont to tho Radicals so much
solid work ahead of them, that they may cease
their intestine quarrels and strip for the contest.
The election, too, is a grand measure of in
ternal pacification in Georgia. The white Rad
icals, who have mustered their black legions at
such an expense of labor and money, to be led
to victory nndor tho forms of a statute enactod
to facilitate a grand fraud upon the People—
who, in thousands of secret leagues, had tied
up the negroes with deep and bloody oaths to
permit no split tickets—have had all their frau
dulent labor in vain. They have learned that
thoPeople are stronger than their f rauds,andthey
will hereafter abate their pestiferous arts to poi
son the minds of the colored population against
those who alone can be of any substantial ser
vice to them. Hereafter, the colored man will
bo able to vote os be wishes, nnawed by threats
Mm ihiwof oTvaII Ua —— 4 " *• * *
shall be tnrned ont of church and day and Sab
bath schools, if he dares to vote for a Democrat.
We shall have peace here. The current of bad
advioe and devilish suggestion will cease to flow
beoaase it has been shown to be wholly ineffec.
tual to control the politics of Georgia.
A Specimen or Radical Electioneer
ing.
Ono of the most prominent and respected
citizens of this city, and who enjoys tho esteem
of men of all parties and creeds, related to ns
yesterday an incident of the late election which
shows how tho negroes were taught to respect
the right of those of their color to vote a Dem
ocratic ticket
On the morning of the first day of tho elec
tion he was passing down Cotton Avenue, near
the polls, and came across a group of four or
five negro men and one negro women, surround
lug an old freedman, who had a Democratic
ticket in his hand, which ho said he intended
to vote. The men and the woman were curs
ing and abusing him in the most violent man
ner, declaring that if he did vote that ticket
they wonld kill him on tho spot. The woman
was oven more violent than the men, supple
menting the threat to kill him with one to kill
“every d—d rebel in town.” Tho gentleman
in question ordered them to desist, telling the
old man that ho had a right to vote any ticket
he pleased, and he moved toward the polls—but
whether he voted it or not is not known. *
Such threats wore heard on all sides, the
first day of the election, and scores of negroes
were intimidated into voting the Radical ticket
thereby. It is not to be wondered at, however,
03 Long, the negro candidate for Congress, in a
- public speech the night before, sonuded the
key-note by his threat of social, religious and
educational ostracism against all who dared to
vote against him and his party.
How Grant Respects the Popular
Will. ,
The Courier-Journal aptly remarks that just
as soon as a leader of the Radical parly is repu-
(listed by his own immediate constituency—by
the people who know him best, and, knowing
him, pronounce him no longer worthy of their
confidence—the Administration takes him up
and bestows upon him the best office it has to
spore. The defeated Schenck is made Minister
to England; the repudiated Drake is appointed
Chief Justice of the Court of Claims, a life-time
position, with a salary of five thousand dollars
a year; the repudiated Warner is to be made
Governor of Utah or Commissioner of the Gen-
. eral Land Office; the repudiated Abbott is likely,
it is said, to come in for something handsome,
and there iB no donbt if the impeached Holden
is convicted and deposed the President will give
him a position quite as good aB that he now dis
graces.
New Books.—We have from Messrs. J. W.
Burke.& Co. “The Shadow of Moloch Moun
tain,” by Jane G. Austen, and “The Destroyer
of the Second Republic," by Victor Hugo. The
first appeared in the Galaxy and excited much
interest. It is very cleverly written, full of in
cident and sparkling dialogue, and will well re
pay reading. Viotor Hugo embodies in bis
“Destroyer of the Second Republic” all the in
tense hate and venom that his heart cherishes
against Louis Napoleon. It is a powerfully
drawn indictment against the ex-Emperor, and
. to those who like such diet will be immensely
palatable.
James Fisk, Jb., explains what he meant by
“gone where the woodbine twineth:” “You see
I was before that learned and dignified body,
the Committee on Banking and Currency, and
, when'Garfield asked me where the money got
by Corbin went to, I could not moke a vulgar
reply and say np a spout, but observing, while
peddling through New England, that every
spout of house or cottage had a woodbine twin
ing about it, f said naturally enough where the
woodbine twineth. That is alb It seems the
, Congressional cheese-waxes did not understand
my delicacy nor my delicate allusion.”
The State Senate.—We are pretty sure of a
majority of two, and probably more, in the
next State Senate. Gut of twenty.two Senators
elected, the Democrats have chosen at least
eighteen, which, with those holding over, will
give them twenty-four ont of the forty-four Sen
ators. _
GuKEi.gr Goes Bacx on Grant.— The New
York Tribune, December 21, says s “There are
grave though not insuperable objections to the
re-election of a President while in office, and
we cannot doubt that public opinion will ulti
mately settle into a conviction that the one-
term principle Is, aa a general role, well
grounded.
Ah observing Washington correspondent says:
“You can never so well convince a Pennsylvania
politician that bis ke-nntry has passed its his
tone prime as when you take away from him
something that he has stolen, or interpose to
keep him fjrom stealing something more.”
We are assured that Rainey, the negro Con
gressman, never went to sohool a day in his
life, and yet he has contrived t<f educate him
self so well that when reading a newspaper ha
doesn’t hold it upside down more than half tho
time.—Courier Journal
One Store Chance for Governor Bul
lock.
Tho Sedan to Radicalism in this State decreed
by tho people last week, leaves its tnost san
guine and enthusiastic adherent no hope of its
future in Georgia. It Is dead and damned be
yond possibility of resurrection. Henceforth
what has been known as the Radical party here
passes into history along with other rubbish of
like character.
There will be, hereafter, two parties in Geor
gia, wo suppose, but one of them will represent
nothing that, by any possibility, can be affiliated
or assimilated with tho distinctive tenets of.
Georgia Radicalism. If it does, it will just as
surely be put todoath. This opposition party
may hate Democracy and its principles juBt as
intensely as did the late Radical party, and it
may even give a quasi support to a Republican
Administration at Washington, bnt it will not
war upon the white race and the virtue and re
spectability of the State as the late Radical fac
tion did. It will strive to have the semblance
of decency, at any rate, and to win to its sup
port on questions that most come np in the fu
ture, and which have no connection with the
events of the last ten years, a portion of the'
honest and virtuous people of the State. Any
other policy wonld be so suicidal, so monstrous
ly stupid, that we take this much, at least, for
granted. It cannot, of course, hope to stand
np and contest the control of tho State against
the victorious Democracy with the least show
of success, but it m^y, nevertheless, maintain a
respectable organization in certain localities,
and occasionally make a dash with favorable re
sults upon the weak or unguarded points in the
Democratic line. , „ ,, .,,, ,
..v^ucic me inture will fully and faithful
ly vindicate the accuracy of our calculation,
and assuming it to be correct, we take occasion
to suggest a few points for Governor Bullock’s
consideration. He has yet two years to serve
as Governor of this great State. His policy,
with reference to the administration of State
affairs, has been condemned by one of the
most popular verdicts ever rendered. Ho has
seen the party upon whose support he leaned,
broken to pieces by the most disastrous defeats
on record. He has seen all his hopes and
sohemes dashed to tho ground, and marred be
yond hope of re-establishment He is a beat
en, thoroughly beaten man—no man was ever
more so. But he is still Governor, with half of
his term of office to serve. He has great
opportunities yet within his reach for good or
evil. He can undo much that he has done, and
atone, in part, for the many grievous injuries he
has inflicted. He can yet play an important
role in the great work of speeding Georgia on
her march towards that golden era of political
and material‘regeneration, and real peace and
good will that surely awaits her. He can yet so
use his power and prerogative as to make those
who scarcely name him now, save with a curse,
either give him the charity of their silence, or
warm words of hearty commedation.
Speaking as one of the people and for the
people, we urge him to accept the result of this
last defeat frankly and like a good citizen. "We
urge him to listen no longer to the promptings
of partisan hate, and tho wicked whisperings of
the evil counsellors who surround him. Let him
not take counsel of revenge. Let not the sting
of defeat rankle in his heart. Let him rise su
perior to every consideration, save the good of
the State, and its people. Let him consult their
interests and his own fnture, not the grovelling
interests of party, and the future of the misera
ble pimps and profligates who care only for
themselves. Let him unite his energies and
powers with those of Georgians and the friends
of Georgia, not her enemies and oppressors.
In one word, let him strive to be the Governor
of Georgia—the vigilant gnardianand protector
of all her people and their interests—not the
State agent of the Radical party at 'Washington.
If he does this, wa think that Georgians will
meet him half way. They will strive to forget
all his past sins, and their past sufferings. They
will endeavor to consign to oblivion the past,
with its bitter memories, and still bitterer reali
ties. They will roll the Btone of amnesty to
the month of the sepulchre where lie entombed
so many burning wrongs and undeserved bur
dens, and fixing their eyes upon the slowly
breaking dawn of a better day, hasten to greet
as allies all who march with the same hopes
and the same purposes with themselves, toward
the shining mount whereon the ark of the re
deemed, rehabilitated old Gommonwealth is
hastening to rest.
Governor Bullock has been the enemy
of our people; but, if he were their best friend,
we could not give Mm cuomd more surely
calculated to serve and save him. In this hour
of victory we can afford to be magnanimous,
and to address him in the language of kindness
and conciliation. We disdain to speak as par
tisans at suoh a time. We speak as Georgians,
whose sole thought, now, is to secure to Geor
gia in the most peaoeful, yet thorough manner,
the fruits of her grand triumph. We are sick
of strife and bitterness. We desire peace—
real, lasting peace—and In Us interests, and
with a sincere wish to secure as an ally in this
great work the Chief Magistrate of the State,
we have ventured to suggest for his considera
tion a few of the lessons taught by the result
of the late election. Whether he shall heed
them, or not, rests with him, of course. . If he
and wssdom are not total strangers, ho will not
only hear, bnt act.
The Vote in Baker County.
Bakes County, Deeember 26,1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—I annex
the result of the election in Hi« oonnty, viz:
POB OOHQBESS.
a hi, (uem.j
Whitelev, (Rep.)
747
S77
Senate.
.*.*
Reben Jones, (Dem.)
759
New York congregation just roared, last
day, when the minister, who meant no joke,
arked: “ Oh, brethren, I know how it is
Cbawtosd County.—The Democrats carried
is county by majorities ranging from sixty to
three bundled.
Cot ’ NTI -—The whole Democratic
*, ln m dolph was chosen by majorities
rwgkg from fifty.air to three hundred.
GeorgeLovejoy, (negro).: 868
BOUSE.
H. A. Tarver, (Dem.) 760
Aaron Wood, (Negro.) 372
When about half the votes had been counted
in Calhoun, the box was stolen and destroyed.
A- L. MgOou.uk.
Tote or Twin*.
The following is the vote of Twiggs oonnty:
For 41st Congress—Long 821; Lawton 238.
42d Congress,' Speer 820, Lawton 229. State
Senate—-Debaux 823; Coates 236. Representa
tives—Griffin 1017. For Sheriff—J. T. Evans 922;
Jno. Benfroe 119. For Clerk—John Fitzpatrick
980. ForTax Receiver—Lewis Solomon 988. Tax'
Collector—Thos. H. Jones 981. County Treas
urer—R. H. Arrington 984. Oonnty Surveyqk—■
E. Nash 991. For Coroner—Harry Bennett 895.
Vote orwillces.
Dubose (Dem.), for 42d Congress, 1,698;
Corker 41st, 1»&97. Beard (Rad.), for 41st
Congress, 380 ; Fannin (Bad.), for 42d, 882.
Reese (Dem.), for State Senate, 1,692; Barker
(Bad.), 878. For the House—Democratic tick
et, Wynn, 1,592; Slayton, 1,589—Radicals—
Williams, 384; Jones, 379. All the Democrat
ic county ticket elected.
Taa Congressional Delegation from Georgia
will, from the best information we can gather,
stand six Democrats to one Radical. We have
elected Messrs. Paine and McIntyre for short
and long terms in 1st District; Tift for both
terms in the 2d District; Wright ditto in 3d
District; Corker and Dubose ditto in 5th Dis
trict ; Price and Young in Sixth and Seventh
Districts. In this, the 6th District, Col. Law-
ton, is defeated, we think, by a very small ma
jority—less than one hundred votes.
Sale of Wild Lands.
Sorno two or three million acres of “wild
lands” have been advertised by Comptroller
General Bell as nnretumed for taxation, and we
understand execution will issue against them
on the :Mth day of- January next, and they will
be sold unless redeemed by their owners.
These lands, we are informed, for the most
part belong to tho estates of deceased persons
and are the property of widows, orphans and
minor heirs who are so unfortunate as to be
inefficiently represented by trustees, guardians,
administrators and executors, and probably
many of these owners are altogether unaware
of their jeopardy, and perhaps in many cases
do not know their property interest in these
lands. Let all who do know themselves pos
sessed of an interest in these lands see that the
tax claims against them are adjusted immedi
ately. y
In this oonneotion we should do injustice to
Comptroller-General Bell, if we failed to state
that he did his best to induoe the Legislature
to repeal or modify tho arbitrary provisions of
this law. .In his supplemental Report dated
Janaary 12th, 1880, the Comptroller-General
says:
Entertaining the views that I do in reference
to the perplexing subject of “Wild Lands,” I
would fed that 1 bad bein derelict in official du
ty were I to withhold the expression of my con
viction that the Wild Land law of 18GG ought to
l>o repealed. The provision in that law requir
ing all lands to be returned by District, Number
and Section in every instance where the land
bears such designation, works great injury to
hundreds of innocent people, and among them
poor, ignorant men, and helpless widows and
orphans. From the long established practice
ofjeceivmg^re^s^fja^^^-^v^i^
payers, with the importance attached to a strict
compliance with this law ; and hence it is often
neglected. Then again, it is often impossible
to do so from, a variety of causes. From the
loose (manner in which conveyances to real es
tate have heretofore been written, in which
lands have been described by metes and
bounds, and by other modes of identification,
and from the loss anddestruotionof title papers
during the war, and the ignorance and inexpe
rience of the parties—a great number of land-
owners have been deprived of the means of de
scribing their lands as the law requires. Yet,
under its provisions of law, unless wild land is
so described, it amounts to no return at all, and
is liable to be reported in default and sub
ject to levy and sale, although the owner may
have made the best return be could and actually
paid the tax on it. He is thus subject to vexa
tion and additional expense to save his land
from being sold at public outcry. There may
be some advantages in the system if properly
carried out; but, in my judgment, the advan
tages are counterpoised by the extra expense to
the State attending its execution, and the ex
pense and trouble inflicted upon hundreds of
innocent persons who are thus punished for no
crime or fault on their part
I believe, therefore, that justice and economy
require the repeal of the law, and that returns
of land should be made in the manner and form
practiced before its passage; that is, to return
by district, number and section, where practi
cable, and, if not practicable, then by such des
ignation as may be practicable to the taxpayer.
Oar Streets and Highways.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger;
It is high time that the attention of our citi
zens, and residents of the county, was directed
to the subject of the improvement of the streets
of the city and the highways of the county. It
it self-evident that the present desultory system
is very defective, and it consequently needs no
demonstration to prove the necessity of a
change. Considering the city first, we find no
regular system of grades established. Each
citizen builds his house or store at any eleva
tion he chooses above the street, and the innu
merable steps and offsetts in our sidewalks,
consequent upon this loose management, are
alike offensive to the eye and dangerous to pas
sengers, and prove conclusively the necessity
of having permanent grades established at once,
thereby avoiding, as mnoh as possible, the in-
extrioable confusion and litigation which nearly
all cities have to go through with in consequence
of deferring this matter until the urgency was
so great it -could no longer be avoided. The
history of nearly every city in the country is a
warning to our citizens not to defer any longer
what should have been done years ago; it must
come at sometime, and the quicker the better,
and the less trouble it will cause to property-
holders. It is much easier to fix a grade now,
that* will favor existing buildings as much as
possible, than after the city is compactly built
up. Let us, therefore, have a city engineer at
once, and have our town graded and a regular
alignment that will prevent confusion in the fu
ture. Let a county engineer be appointed also,
who shall have charge of all highways, and see
that they are pnt in the best possible condition
consistent with the resources of the people. At
present, two-thirds of the work done on high
ways is of no account because it iB not properly
applied. With these officers we can rest assured
that whatever the people are able to expend
upon their streets and roads, will be applied
to the best advantage. The expense of ‘ this
supervision, by a competent engineer, will not
be one-half the amount annually wasted by the
county in consequence of applying labor to dis
advantage on its highways. One oifioer can
take charge of the city and county both. What
say the citizens of Maoon and the residents of
Bibb county ? U. R. B.
The Cotton Crop.
Speaking of the Agricultural Department es
timate of the cotton orop, the Mobile Resister
says that cotton picking is virtually over, and
that thousands of bales will be left ungathered
in the field. These, it thinks, must be deduct
ed from the department estimate of 3,800,000
bales. The New Orleans Picayune thinks the
estimate quite too large, and calculated to work
bad results on the market.
That paper says the picking season is over,
and it is quite certain that fully a quarter mil
lion bales will be lost, owing to an inadequate
supply of labor. The season has been exceed
ingly propitious, and we may reasonably expect
between 3,200,000 and 3,400,000. This allows
almost, if not quite, as good a yield per acre
as last year. The Commissioner himself allows
an increased acreage of twelve per cent., or
nearly one million acres. The same yield aB
last year would increase the crop by the Bame
per oentage, i. e., 870,000 bales. Certainly
none who are familiar with the extraordinary
advantages of the season of 1869-70 oould
reasonably look for more favorable circum
stances this season.
The Picayune market review, of the 23d,
says:
The staple seams to have reached bottom,
and a final rally has commenoed, which will, no
doubt, plaoe prices materially above previous
ourrent rates. The diminished value of the
staple has also reduoed the profits of that large
proportion of the mercantile community en
gaged in handling it. They can well afford,
however, to work for leas, sinoe they are also
participants in the advantages of cheap cloth
ing ana cheap food.
John Dsrdes’s Vision.
The narrative of John Durden, not only so
far as relates to the recent election in Bibb,
but in all the thrilling details of his extraordin
ary vision and indomitable fight, will excite
profound interest. Speaking for Mr. Durden
we can assure the reader that he was never
known to embellish or exaggerate In the slight
est particular. His story, although exciting in
the highest degree, is as straight as a dog’s tail.
We are sorry for his misfortunes -and trust
every reader will interest himself in keeping a
sharp watch for the mare Baldy and restoring
her to her rightful owner. It will be seen that
any information on the subject can be left at
this office or at the stores named.
Early County—The following is the vote of
Early oeunty, at the late election: For Con
gress, Tift, 409; Whitely, 392—Tift’s majori
ty, 17. For State Senate, Reuben Joaee(Dem-),
619; Lovejoy (negro), 280—Jone’a majority,
239. For House of Representatives, B. Chan
cy (Dem.), 546; T. T. Swain, 240—Chancy’s
majority, 306. The entire Democratic oonnty
ticket was elected. ■" * ‘ ;
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Tho Hawkinsville Dispatch gives the official
vote of Pulaski county. Tift (Dem.) for Con
gress, has 549 majority; Hendley and Booth
(Dam’s) for the Legislature, have 657 and 514
majority, respectively—-and the whole Demo
cratic county ticket i3 elected.
It snowed in Hawkinsville Thursday from
six to nine o’clock, to the depth of three inches.
At a meeting of the citizens of Hawkinsville,
held last Friday, the following resolution was
adopted:
On behalf of the citizens of our town and
county, we return our thanks to Brevet Lt. CoL
J. S. Fletcher, Capt. Commanding Co. E, 16th
U. S. Infantry, for his oonrtesy and valuable
assistance rendered during the late election.
And we but express the general opinion, in
thus returning to him, and, through him, to his
entire command, this expression of high re
gard and confidence.
The official vote of Washington county shows
a majorityfor Corker (Dam.) for 41st Congress
of 666 votes, for DuBose, (Dem.) for 42d Con
gress 667 votes, and for Benfroe, (Dem.) for
the Legislature 684 and 694 majority respective
ly*
In Eohols county Paine (Dem.jkfor 41st Con
gress has 168 majority, and McIntyre, (Dem.),
for 42d Congress, 215 majority. Phillips (Dem )
for the Legislature has 173 majority.
Clinch county giv63 Paine and McIntyre.
(Dems.) for 41st and 42d Congress 437 and 436
majority respectively, and elects Mattox (Dem.)
to the Legislature.
The Radicals carry Glynn county by 119 ma
jority on their Congressional ticket, and elect a
negro to the Legislature by 57 votes in a poll of
i.oin —i— Two yoars ago the Democrats
only polled 75 votes in the county. At this rate
of gain Glynn will bo o>o»whelmingly redeem
ed by 1872.
A fire at Savannah, Sunday morning, burned
the “Dollar Store,” on the comer of Brough
ton and Whitaker streets.
The weather, Saturday and Sunday, was un
usually cold at Savannah. The street gutters
were full of ice, and on the ponds in the vicin
ity ice was formed strong enough for skating.
Michael Quinn has been arrested at Savannah
for the murder of John Sullivan.
The bark A. B. Wyman, which left Savannah
November 26, bound for Liverpool, with a cargo
of 2C60 bales of cotton, valued at $198,408 56,
was struck by lightning on the 8th of December
and entirely destroyed.
The corner-stone of the newmarket-house at
Savannah was laid yesterday morning with im
posing Masonic ceremonies—Grand Master
Lawrence officiating.
Says the Savannah News of Monday:
Knocked Down in the Stbeet.—One of our
Broughton street merchants, while standing very
quietly upon the sidewalk looking at the fire on
Sunday morning, was approached from behind
by a man who, without even speaking, hauled
back and knocked the merohant flat to the
ground. Tho merchant at once sprang to his
feer, but his assailant had disappeared in the
crowd. -
Long Yisaged Individuals—It is re ally laugh
able to see the elongated countenances of gen
tlemen of the Radical persuasion in and abont
the Custom House. They look as though they
had lost some of their chances for future plun
der, and knew that their little game of running
the State to suit themselves was fairly ended.
We mark the following shots from the Atlanta
Georgian:
Cameron, Delano, Bullock and Blodgett.—
We learn that the lease of the State Road is to
be made (if not already accomplished), on the
contingency that Blodgett is to go to the TJ. S.
Senate and Bullock is to have a foreign mission,
at such time as they may designate. All this is
deeply significant of present and future politi
cal rascality. More anon.
It Killed Bullock.—The infamous Election
Law has done very much to kill off poor Bul
lock and his rotten ring. Will Judge McCay be
good enough to try his hand again ?
Bullock and “Our Honob.”—We learn that
our friend Bollock dispatohed to Augusta to the
effect that “the State had gone to hell, and that
all was lost save our honor.”
Bnlly for our honor.
■Bullock and the U. S. Senate.—If the State
had gone Republican, Bullock and another gen
tleman, whose name we will not now mention,
intended to secure seats in the United StateB
Senate.
The Americas, Bainbridge and Blakely papers
report the heaviest snow ever seen in those sec
tions as having fallen on Thursday last.
M. M. Cohen, a merchant at Bainbridge, was
shot and Blightly wounded on Thursday last, by
a man named McDnrmond.
Captain Henry Persons, of Talbot county, by
having to kill, and killing hogs averaging 240
pounds, gets himself published in the Talbotion
Standard.
On Thursday last a negro boy cut and severe
ly wounded, two lads in Talbotton named Ma-
shon and Boswell, and was severely cut himself
by the latter.
the official vote of Talbot oonnty for Con
gress and the Legislature is as follow:
FOB FORTY-FIRST OONGBESS.
Wright 1,000 | Re thane 1,041
FOB FORTT-SECOND OONGBESS.
Wright ...1,042 | Bigby. 1,000
FOB THX STATE SENATE.
Mathew* 950 | Guilford (col.) 870
FOB THE LEGISLATURE.
Spain 883 I Woodall 891
Coetin (eol) 886 I Mahone (col) 36
Morris (ind) 1,066 |
The Rads eleoted their county ticket.
The Federal Union publishes the following
election returns in Baldwin county:
For 41st Congress—Jeff Long, (ooh) 1136; W.
J. Lawton, 659. For 42d Congress—T. J. Speer,
1147: W. J. Lawton, 659. For Representative
—Peter O’Neal, (ooL) 1188; L. H. Briscoe, 656;
8. J. Kidd, .9. For Sheriff—O. Arnold, (no op
position) 1711: Scattering, 3. For Clerk Supe
rior Court—Frank Foard, (col.) 1121; P. L.
Fair, 658. For Tax Receiver—Josias Marshall,
1113; G. W. Caraker, 666. For Tax Collector—
J. B. Strother, 1426; B. W. Hawkins, 328. For
County Treasurer—Henry Temples, 1213; Sta
ples, 54; T. B. Moore, 225; J. A. Jarratt, 289.
For Coroner—I. T. Cushing, 1642; Scattering,
19. For County Surveyor—M. Grieve, 1599;
Scattering, 6.
Dr. Joseph Anthony was shot and killed, at
Jonesboro’, Saturday night, by a man named
O’NeaL “Keno” and whiskey said to be the
oause. "" .
Mr. Thos. Gilder, of Atlanta, who took too
mnoh Christmas, Monday afternoon, got a load
of buckshot in his chest from a negro, at whom
he had fired first.
The official vote of Spalding shows a majori
ty of 33 for Long for Forty-first Congress, 35
for Speer for Forty-second Congress, and 41
majority for A.D. Johnson (Rad.) for House of
Representatives. Democratic oonnty ticket
was elected.
We dip the following from the Atlanta Con*
atitution of yesterday:
Accident.—Aa Mr. Larkin Davis was stand
ing on Whitehall street, Saturday night, some
one fired off a pistol through sport, the ball
struck the pavement and glanced and knocked
off the end,of one of Mr. Davis’ toes.
We regret to learn that, on last Saturday
night, the merohant mills, store house, gin
house and cabinet shop of Hon. Lewis Nash, at
Yellow River in Gwinnett oonnty, were destroy
ed by fire. *It was evidently the work of incen
diaries. Loss heavy. No insurance.
It is whispered in political circles that Cap
tain Foster Blodgett and son have retired from
political life.
Who Runs the Macon and Augusta Road ?—
A passenger schedule of trains is annonnoed
horn. Maoon to Augusta and Charleston, through
in 24 hours—via Central Road of Georgia, Ma
oon to Savannah—11 hoars. By running a very
dow day train on the “Maoon and Augusta rail
road,” in oonneotion with a still slower freight
train on the “Georgia” and “South Carolina”
roads, this 24 hours is wasted.
Does the “Macon and Brunswick” or “Geor
gia Central" own the Maoon and Augusta road ?
We find the foregoing in the Charleston Cou
rier cf the 26tb, and print it to meet the atten
tion of all ooacerned.^*^, .jfc*'
Lease or Che Western and Atlantic
Railroad.
In compliance with public notice given by
the Governor in October, bids were received
for the lease of the Western and Atlontio Rail
road until the 25th instant. On opening the
bidstheRoadwaslettoa company composed
of the following gentlemen, to-wit: John P.
King, Joseph E. Brown, Alexander H. Steph
ens, John T. Grant, Benjamin H. Hill, E. W.
Cole, Richard Peters, William B. Johnston,
William 8. Holt, Andrew J. White, Charles A.
Nutting, Benjamin May, E. Waitzfelder, W. C.
Morrill, Simon Cameron, Thomas A. Scott,-
William T. Walters, William B. Dinsmore, H.
B Plant, Thomas Allen, and their associates,
making in all twenty-three.
Other bids were made, bnt the parlies failed
to comply with the law by tendering sufficient
seenrity.
The successful company is cue of the strong
est ever formed in the South. The sharehold
ers represent in their own right over $15,000,-
000. They give as securities the following Rail
road Companies : The Georgia, the Central, the
Sonthwestern, the Macon and Western, the At
lanta and WeBt Point, the Maoon and Bruns
wick, and the Brunswick and Albany in Georgia,
the Nashville and Chattanooga of Tennessee,
and the St. Louis and Iron Mountain of Mis
souri. The Companies signing as securities
are worth $20,000,000. The high character of
the Lessees, and the undoubted solvency and
large capital of the Company are ample guaran
tees that the Road will be well managed, and
the terms of the lease faithfully complied with.
The rental agreed to be -paid to the State is
$25,000 per month for twenty years, and the
Road is to be returned in as good condition in
every respect as it now is, at the end of the
leone, Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown —>igned
his offico as Chief J n a 1 - - - oi tne Supremo Court
befr*»o puiiing in the bid, and has been unani
mously eleoted as President of the new compa
ny to whom the Road is leased. The President
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad Company
was placed in the possession of the Road by or
der of tho Governor, and he at ones assumes
the control and management of it.
Saturday Night.
BY HESTER A. BENEDICT.
To castle and cottage the night comes down.
With sombre visage and shady vest,
And, happily, out from tho dusty town
The weary are hastening home to rest.
The dew fails eoft where the buds bad birth,
The sun set splendor is shut from sight;
And hearts, all over the beautiful earth.
Are glad for the coming of Saturday Right.
Placid and peaceful the sweet sea lies,
Braided with bountiful breaths of balm,
Darkling and daring as dangerous eyes,
Bai'guid with laughter and cruel with calm.
The winds are asleep where the bird notes were;
And loneliest lilies that leant to the light
From slumberous solitudes, thrill as they stir
In the duck and the dew-fall of Saturday Right.
Oh, the Saturday Night! To hamlet and hall,
Where life of lonely, or love is sweet,
It beareth a tender race for all—
Repose for the bosom, repose for the feet
And the tired heart, and the tired brain.
Will rise from slumber afresh and new,
When morniDg has climbed to the hills again.
And Sabbath is bringing the dawn and the dew;
I sit and think of a happier dawn.
That waits to gladden my yearning Bight, -
When, f air>r than fairy and fleeter than fawn.
Sly life leaps free from its Saturday Night!
From the deluging dark and the ruinous rain;
From tli9 phantoms of rest in the restless way;
With never the pulse cf a passionate pain ;
Beating my bosom to dull decay 1
And oft, hen the weary have sunk to sleep,
And silence over the earth are gone,
I watch through the night-time, heavy and deep,
For a fairer than ever an earthly dawn—
For a glimpse of the jasper bars dropped down,
And the beautiful break of a Sabbath’s light,
That waits on the emerald hills to crown
Tho close of my life’s last Saturday Night.
And I hear, sometimes, where the billows are
The feet of my Beautiful, gone before,
And smile to remember it is not far
From the reach of my hands to the saintly stiore,
Nor long till my kisses onii cover act face,
Fair in *'». flood of Eternity’s light—
a,, i x shall forget in her truest embrace,
The dream and the danger of Saturday Night l
The Suspension of Mercer University
at Pen Held.
It will be seen by tho following extracts from
the proceedings of the Board of Trustees of
Mercer University that met in this city, on the
27th inst., that the above named Institution
will be suspended in its exercises at Penfield,
until further notioe:
“Whereas, the members of the Commission
to remove Mercer University, who were present
at a meeting in this city to-day, passed the fol
lowing resolution, viz : That, in our opinion the
Trustees should suspend the operations of Mer
cer University, until suoh time aa the Charter
can be so amended as to enable the Board to
remove the Institution to Macon; and whereas,
pending and prospective litigation in regard to
the removal of the College renders it, in our
opinion, altogether inexpedient to continue the
exeroises of the University until suoh litigation
is terminated, or until an amendment of our
Charter oan be procured, authorizing the re
moval to Macon:
1. Therefore resolved, That in the event of
final amendment of the Charter for such pur
pose is not obtained before the usual time for
the opening of the next term, the exercises of
Mercer University shall be suspended until the
needed amendment can be procured.
2. Resolved, That, sympathizing with our
beloved Faculty in their temporaiy relief from
the active duty of teaching in said College, we
earnestly hope that the period of such interrup
tion will not be long, and that Providence will
kindly open to them some means of temporary
livelihood, until we can again claim their ser
vices.”
The Beard of Trustees also elected Rev. H.
C. Hornady, of LaGrange, agent for the inter
ests of Mercer University generally, and espe
cially for its farther endowment.
S. Landrum, Secretary.
Official Tote in Crawford County.
Forty-first Congress—Wright, Dem., 652;
Bethnne, Rad., 559. Wright’s majority 93.
Forty-second Congress—Wright, Dem., 653;
Bigby, Rad., 553. Wright’s majority 100.—
For the Senate—Holsey, Dem., 657; Anderson,
negro, 569. Holsey’s majority 88. For the
House—Rutherford, Dem., 697; Ross, negro,
503. Rutherford’s majority 194. For Clerk
Superior Court—Walker, Dem., 704; Ross, ne
gro, 511. Walker’s majority 193. For Sheriff
—Preston, Dem., 727; Hodges, negro, 417.
Preston’s majority 310. For Tax Collector—
Andrews, Dem., 645; Pitts, negro, 550. An
drews’ majority 95. For TaxReoeiver—Knight,
Dem., 6G6; Prior, negro, 548. Knight’s ma
jority 118. ■
Loushraa Sugar Crop.
The Louisiana Pioneer, published in the Par
ish of St. John the Baptist, says:
The sugar planters of this parish seem to be
well pleased with the yield of the cane lately;
the weather has been very favorable for the
cane, and accounts partly for the larger yield
than was expeoted at the beginning of the roll
ing season. Some eane yields, as we were told,
two hogsheads per acre, and one and a half
hogsheads appears to be the average yield.—
Tho only drawback in rolling is the lack of wa
ter, as we had unusual little rain this fall, and
most of the water ponds are dry, so that many
of our planters are obliged to employ pumps at
the river to supply their sugar-houses.
The Biggest Show or all Coming.—The New
York Sun says: '
Howes’ great London Circus, an establishment
of colossal proportions, is on its way to this
oountry, and will travel through the United
States next snmmer, starting from this city in
the spring, This company was organized in
England (where it has been extremely bucooss-
ful) by Mr. S. B. Howe, the Amerioan million
aire circus manager, who shipped a cirens from
New York to Liverpool ten or twelve years ago,
and who has passed the greater part of the in
tervening time in the'management ~of large ex
hibitions in Earope. The material of the troupe,
including horses, ponies, trained animals, wag
ons, chariots, and other paraphernalia, will be
sent over in six vessels, three of which are now
on the ocean, and nearly due at this port. The
remaining shipments wUl be made between now
and the 1st of February. There will be many
new and striking features introduced in the
performances of the London Girons, while the
outside display will probably be more gorgeous
than anything of the kind hitherto seen here.
The troupe will include a great force of male
and female riders and gymnasts, comprising
some of the most famous performers of Europe,
and every one of them wul be new to American
audiences.
Maoon and Augusta Road.—Our Charleston
contemporaries, we think, are needlessly anxious
about the Macon and Augusts Road. It is in
the hands of men who are deeply interested in
its welfare and success, and will omit nothing
to give it a claim upon pub'ilo favor, by the ef-
floiency and aotivity of ita management, and the
promptitude and rapidity of Us schedules. At
present, pending a general readjustment of
time tables by the Southern roads, the Macon
and Augusta is running easy time on day sched
ules, but in a few days they will adjust their ar
rivals and departures to meet all fhe necessities
of the traveling publia ''-TiESSS?*
“Lxnobx.”—We would take great pleasure in
complying with your request for re publication,
did not the pressure upon our columns forbid.
We have to economize and condense bow to
sneh an extent that every fraction of an inch
counts. We regret that the exigencies of the
situation compel us to say “no” to a lady, bat
there seems no help for it. ■
Cotton—'Tire Crop Literally Eaten up
iu Advance.
[From the Chicago Tribune Mississippi ILetter.']
This year the orop of cotton is, save.it be
that of 1860, undonbtedly as large a one as any
ever raised. In fact, it is generally admitted by
the planters, that were it aU picked out, it
would fully equal that of 1860. Probably fully
half of that raised has been upon the share
system. The planters, negroes and all* have
run in debt, and the merchants have trusted all,
with a prodigal hand. A11 this has been done
in expectation of a good price for ootton. It
tarns oat to be very low as compared to that
calculated upon. Taking the whole of the
Southwest, it may safely be said that nearly, if
not quite as muob, has been advanced upon the
crop, in the wav of supplies, as ean be re
alized thereon. The consequences may read-
Uy be imagined. The planter finding him
self no better, even worse off than a year ago,
and reckless thereby, is apt to ignore his credi
tors and give them the slip by eending bis cot
ton elsewhere for sale. The black, seeing no
reason why he should do better than the white,
finding his share will bring him barely enough
to leave him where he started, perhaps leaves
it unpicked and his creditors to whistle, while
he picks out the crop of a neighbor for pay.
Nor is it, indeed, the crop of the black alone
that is left unpicked. On the contrary, as I
have it from the merchants, the blacks, as a
rule,pick ont and bring in their ootton far more
promptly than the whites themselves.
Between the two, however, from reasons like
these, and the fact of the crop being a very
large one, there is perhaps,20 per cent, of the
cotton that wiU remain unpicked. The country
merchant, very naturally, is making desperate
efforts to make himself good. This explains
the fact, which I have heard commented upon
by travelers as passing strange, that at all of
the inland towns along this road a higher price
is being paid for cotton than it will bring in
New Orleans. Upon the same principle that
the cotton planter readily consents to pay al
most any price for supplies, with which to
make his crop, the merchant consents to
pay almost any -price for the cotton, with
which to make himself whole. That either
will make themselves whole I very much doubt.
Considering, his extraordinary profits, perhaps
tho merchant may—the more especially so as
he has in most instances, in addition to a lien
on the crop, one on the farming stock as well.
That the producer, however, will fare as well, I
cannot believe. On the contrary, I can well
believe them worse off than they were a year
ago, in that their credit must of necessity be
much impaired by the experience of those to
whom they must look for supplies.
My own conviction is that the South is abso
lutely the poorer to-day for the last crop, raised,
as it has been literally eatennp in advance.
For aU of thi31 can see no hope, save in a com
plete and final revolution in the whole system
of planting. This credit system, to begin with,
is the greatest curse of the South. Just so long
aB the planter can command credit, just so long
he wiU continue to overreach himself in gam
bling on the coming crop, the least failure in
quautity or value of which must, of necessity,
prostrate the whole interests of the country.
The Introduction of Swreedrs.
Maoon, Ga., December 28, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—Having
received a number of letters, making enquiry
about the Sweedes lately brought among us, I
have thought proper to drop you this note, to
say that, so far, those in whose hands they have
faUen are much pleased with them. Works-rs
they are, and among them artizans such as are
not to be met with commonly. Those lately
taken to Jones county are aU employed, and
hundreds more are wanted. Mr. John Moreen,
an inteUigent Sweed, who brought out the party
referred to above, assisted by my son, F. 8.
Johnson, Jr., purposes going again next Spring
to bring a large number, if he can be helped to
do it. He states that any* desired number can
be induced to come, and I feel confident, judg-
jng from what he has done, that he wiU bring
those only as will be found of such character as
we wiU find valuable to us in every department
of labor. Letters addressed to F. S. Johnson,
Jr., Clinton, relative to the matter, will receive
attention, and I wiU take pleasure in giving to
persons who will call on me at my plaoe of bu
siness (store of Johnson & Dunlap) aU the in
formation I can. RespeotfuUy,
F. S. Johnson, Sr.
Got nr the Wrong House,—We find the fol
lowing acconut of a person getting in the wrong
house in the New York Commercial Advertiser:
A well-known publio functionary who lately
changed his residence, and now occupies apart
ments in a row of buildings in Twenty-third
street, which resemble each other very muob,
had a very narrow escape a few evenings since.
He returned home abont ten o’olock, and mis
taking the house, entered the premises adjoin
ing, and made his way up stairs to the second
story, front room. On trying the door, he
found if looked, and taking it for granted that
his wife had retired, he knocked again, when a
lady in night-dress made her appearance, sup
posing it was her own better-half who had
smocked for admittance. The surprise of both
parties oan be better imagined than describ
ed. The shrieks of the lady, of course,
alarmed the house, and brought several of the
inmates to the spot. It was very embarrassing
for the unfortunate gentleman, who was so oon-
founded by the blunder he had made that ha
hardly had a word to say. It was a lucky thing
for him that he was known to oat of the ladies
ef the house os he would have been tuned over
to the police aa a burglar. It was still more
fortunate that the gentleman ia fbove suspicion,
having passed the yean of discretion. It waaa
very trying time to the gentleman when the ex
planation of his mistake was made. People
living in dwellings so near alike that it ia diffi
cult to tell which is whioh, should be admon
ished by this incident. To be shot down as a
burglar under suoh circumstances would be
rather unpleasant aU round.
Resignation of Gam Justice Brown.—Aa
-mentioned elsewhere, Judge Brown has resigned
his mat on the Supreme Bench to seoept the
position of President of the Western and At
lantic Railway Company, by which name, we
believe, the Western and Atlantic, or State
Road, wifi hereafter be known under its new
Waste and Ruin.—The distilleries of the
United States have a spirit-producing capacity
every twenty-four hours as follows: From main,
759,337 gallons; from molasses, 24,903 gallons;
from fruit, 126,271, making * lot*! daily capac
ity of 910,551 gallons, or wont the ratio of one
quart to every forty inhabitants, Txuly, this
nation neither hungers nor thirsts.
Shocking Accident—It is our painful duty!
this morning to record* one of the most shock I
ing accidents that baa occurred in this section!
for years. The facts, as related to us by an eys j
witness, are about as follows : ,
On Tuesday morning about 11 o’clock a party |
of gentlemen, composed of Messrs. W. Scott!
Clark, John Barclay, Dave Connor, Dr. F.
Castlen, Henry Ell*, W. T. Nelson, George C. -
Napier, and a colored man named Bob Banks,
left here in three bateaus on a duck-hunting
excursion down the Oomnlgee River. They
had proceeded‘down the stream to what j
is known as Ballard’s, near Barclay’s plan* S
tation, when, on yesterday afternoon about i
2 o’clock, the boat in - which - Mr. Henry I
N. Ells and hi3 Servant,’ Bob Banks wore I
seated, became capsized in the river, by running
against a log floating down the stream. Mr, t
Ells clung to his boat, bnt Bob grasped the log
arid climbed upon it. So soon as this occurred I
the boat in which Messrs. Connor, Nelson and !
Napier were seated hurried to the assistance of
Ells and the negro, and in the struggle to get
them out of the water thisboatwas also capsized
and the water was so intensely cold that the
straggle was then for life on the part of each in
dividual, and as clinging to the boats in such
cold -water was certain death -each man, except
the negro, struck out for the banks. Messrs.
Nelson and Connor succeeded in reaching tha
opposite or east bank of the river, near Bar
clay’s plantation, arid after wading through a
canebrake and water waste deep, and through
the ice in the swamp, they managed to find
their way to Mr. Barclay’s house, after suffer
ing most terribly from the cold. From thence
they walked to the Macon and Brunswick rail
road station and reached this city last evening,
. Mr. George Napier reached the bank on this
■side of the river, but as he got into a most
dense cane-brake, and near which there is no
known settlement, the greatest fears are enter
tained for his life. Mr. Ells was seen by Messrs.
Connor and Nelson, out in the river after they
got ashore, and he called to them that he was
going to drown, and to give his love to his wife
and mother, and went down.
The colored man still clung to tho floating
log, bnt as he could not swim and was nearly
frozen to death, no hopes are entertained that
he is alive.
The foremost boat, in which were Messrs.
Clarke, Barclay and Dr. Castlen, was several ■
miles below the scene of the accident when it
(recurred, and are not yet aware, perhaps of the
tragic fate of their friends.
■ Mr. Etta is well kriown all over Georgia, as
the proprietor of Ells’ Restaurant and fancy and
family grocery store on Mulberry street, and
for y ears has conducted the trade in ice of this
city. His death will be lamented by all who
knew him. God grant that after he was seen
to sink, he rose again, and suooeeded in reach
ing the shore, bnt there isno hope that he didso.
A party of gentlemen will go down on the
Brunswick road this morning to recover the
bodies, if possible, and to rescue Mr. Napier, if
he is still alive.
—m ■ ■ —
Christmas Tree and Musical Entertain
ment.—The ladies of First Street Methodist
Church propose to have a Christmas Tree on
exhibition at Good Templars’ Hal!,Friday night,
and, in connection with the Tree, they intend
to furnish some music. The performers are alf
native Georgians, and as Miss Fannie Foote arid
Miss Fannie Johnson are expected to sing,
they will certainly have a full house. Let our
citizens show their appreciation of home musi
cal talent and soon we will produce in our sun
ny South performers equal to any in the world.
The money received for admission and for arti
cles sold from the Tree, will be appropriated for
church purposes.
Homicide at Boonvtlle.—We regret to learn
that a most unfortunate homicide, or murder,
as the ease may be, occurred yesterday at Boon-
ville. A Mr. George Bull playfully persisted
in an attempt to ride his horse into Mr. J. C.
Norris’ place of business, and was repeatedly
told not to do so; or he would get shot As the
parties had always been good friends Bull paid
little or noattentiontosuch remonstrances, and
still persisted in'nrging his horse forward,when
Norris - becoming exasperated, seized aahot-
gnn and killed him-
Horses at Auction —Mr. Besore, the auc
tioneer, sold tea horses yesterday, varying in
price from $45 to $150. Oar stock market is
now dull and hence the low prices which a few
of these horses brought. There were but two
or three in the lot, however, worth more than
they were knocked off at
By the way it will be seen that Mr. Besore
will have another sale of live stock on Saturday
next, embracing horses, mules and oxen, and a
lot of agricultural implements. See advertise
ment.
The Last Decade.
With the 31st of December, 1870, closes a de
cade of years that can be said, without exag-
eration, to stand unrivaled “in the known ao-
oount of time” with respeot to tte importance
of the events that make np the sum of its his
tory. There is a tendency in the human mind
that leads men to oonsider their own time to be
the most important of all time; and though
they are right in holding such time to be the
greatest of all days and years to them, inas
much as they constitute their lives, yet it it oer-
tain that the real interest of histoiy is concen
trated around some few periods, during which
events take place that forever after color and
control the world’s course.
Such periods were the decade of year* that
began with the crossing of the Rnbioon by Csa-
sor (b. o. 50-40); tiie decade in which occurred
the fall of the kingdom of Granada, the discov
ery of America, the first voyage to India by tike
Cape of Good Hope, the intermarriage of the
royal houses of Austria and Spain, and the in
vasion of Italy by the French (1490-1500) the
decade that began with the meeting of the Long
Parliament (1640-4650); the decade that fol
lowed the passage of the Stamp Ant (1765-1775);
aad that which followed the last meeting of the
States-General of France (1789-1799. All these
periods were faff of events great in themselves,
and greater in their consequences; and yet the
most striking of them all—that with whioh the
fifteenth century dosed—was not so rich in
events as the deoade that is just being added to
the sum of departed time.
There is hardly anything that can move the
sympathies of men, or excite their wonder, that
has not occurred sinoe the beginning of the
year 1861. Mighty empires have been over
thrown, old dynasties have fallen, great inter
ests have been uprooted, the most indent of
temporal politics has oeased to exist, new na
tions have been created, wan of unparalleled
proportions have been waged with new weapons
ana on new military principles, continental
railways have been laid down, obstacles to ma*>
itima commerce have been ont through or re
moved, remote nations have been brought into
daily intercourse through telegraph cables that
Ke at the bottom of seas over whioh men were
once afraid to sail, and gnat discoveries and
inventions in soienoe and in art have added
vastly to the means at man’s oommand to re
claim that earth over which he has the promise
of dominion on condition tint his exertions
ahaii show him worthy of such supremacy. To
match the seventh deoade of our century, it is
probable that we should have to take the great
est of modern centuries, even the sixteenth, to
which belongs the Reformation, and whioh aaw
the beginning of those changes the fruition of
which was reserved for our own time and for
the next age.—O. C. EasetseU, in Harper's
Magasine for January.
Christmas Gut.—His Honor, Mayor Huff,
received a present on Christmae ee wee a pres
ent worth talking about, in trie shape of a nice
Utile boy baby, just aa much like tie papa as
one pea resembles another. May it tive,
flourish and prosper, end on* day be an asbut-
prising, generous and active hotiaese man, and
wear the honors of a groat etty—juat 14* iteil-