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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JANUARY > VtU
“Few Ahead.” —Impeach er Ashley, bein|»
interviewed by a reporter of the Chicago Tri
bute, predicts a good deal of fun ahead in the
South. Ashley says that Grant will be renom
inated for the Presidency by acclamation, and
will secure the vote of the entire South. Here
We quote from the interview:
Reporter—Do you mean at the election ?
Mr. Ashley—Yes.
Reporter—But some of the Southern States
have gone Democratic.
Mr. Ashley—Tee, I know they have. But
7ie'U Jue that. You'll tee some fun about that
time.
The people of Georgia think they have seen
in the last election, what the Radicals can do in
the way of fixing and fun, and they will endeav
or by a stringent registry law hereafter, to se
cure, to prevent the ballot in this State from
sinking into a hopeless farce. Rot Grant “fix”
as he may.
ABhley says that though Hendricks is amighty
“big man,” Chase is the only opposition candi
date who can beat Grant—but Ashley inferen-
tially concedes that Grant cannot be re-elected
without a solid Sonthem support. Ashley says
Grant thinks of little else by night or day, ex
cept how he may seouro a re-election.
A Tribune letter says this is the way it will
be in Washington this winter: * ‘Without mean
ing and without purpose, the gay votaries will
whirl ou this winter, like a dance of flies in the
air; the simplicity o' satin will overlay the
Shortcomings of grammar, clean banknotes dis
guise foul lives, jewels will shine, plumes nod,
coaches roll, sumptuous splendor will delight
the sense, mosio will lift the listener a moment
above the sordid show, till hastening time has
tens the rout that rashes, in one mad stream,
to break mid-sea upon the rock of Lent Then
the devotee shall hurry from the ball-room to
the early servioe at St John’s, cover her velvet
with sackcloth, while ashes shall take the place
of powder on her hair, and the apothecary shall
set in order her little vials of posion, with laud
anum and chlora to force the sleep that outraged
night refuses to yield, with strychnine and acon
ite, and all the powerful appliances by which
art has learned to circumvent nature. And a
Ballow woman, who this autumn was fresh from
Bimple, kindly life, and who will have learned
to eat arsenic, to blanche her hair, to lengthen
her eyelids with blue lines, to enamel the veins
on her bosom, will have it to remember, per
chance with many a sting of memory besides,
that she was part of an unusually gay season at
the capital.”
Another “Dewelopeb” About to Collapse.—
The Mobile Register, ef a late date, has the
following suggestive paragraph. The “dewel-
opers” are fast coming to grief under the ma
lign influence of Democratic victories. They
can’t stand that sort of sunlight;
Stanton, the great Alabama Railroadist, steps
upon the public stage onco more. This time in
a truly sensational role. It is currently re
ported, and in cirelos with the best right to
know, is believed that he has given notice to
the Governor that he will not be ablo to pay
the January interest on his cart load of State
bonds, amounting to $250,000. This is an
event. It will throw the payment on the State
Treasury, which our dear Radical friends have
not left in a condition to meet so sharp a call,
and it may end in the necessity of the State
taking possession of the Stanton road, and on
the final oollapse of the grandest bond grabber
of the South, outside of Florida. We now have
an inkling of the cause of Mr. Stanton’s great
interest in Governor Smith's re-election, and
why Mr. Stanton plumped a thousand of his
railroad hands for Smith.
Fob Shame !—After the sacrifices made by the
two officials below named in the interests of the
Radical party, it is really too bad that the New
York Times, a peculiarly fragrant organ of
loilty, should speak of them in snob Wgnage
as follows:
We are not admirers of either Holden or Bul
lock. The Republican defeat in North Carolina
was due in a great degree to the odium fastened
upon the party by the high handed doings of the
Governor. In Ids eagerness to make sure of
victory, he really rendered success impossible.
The Republican party suffered from his harsh
and impolitic methods of promoting its inter
ests. In like manner the party in Georgia may
attribute not a few of its reverses to internal
jealousy and dissensions; and these, again, are
in good part due to Governor Bullock’s un
seemly and indiscreet atttempts to manage the
party with special reference to his own ends.
Neither Holden nor Bullock, then, has justified
the confidence reposed in him. Both have done
more harm than good to the parly that elected
them.
“Sweet are the Uses of Adversity.”
It is really gushing to hear Forney on the
sanctity of Constitutions. Sweet indeed are the
uses of adversity. He has just failed to thrust
himself into Grant's Cabinet, and has this to
say of tho respect due to fundamental law:
“A constitution is not more a law than an or
dinary decree of a Legislature, but in that it is
tho rule of aotion beyond the control of the leg
islators, -and is the standard by wnich their acts
are tried. It has a sanction which does not at
tach to the commonor enactments, and should
have a stability beyond the whims of the indi
vidual or the caprices of a party.”
If he shonld, perchance, be kicked down
stairs, now, we really should expect to hear of
his whispering suspicions as to the beauty and
godliness of Ioillty and its votaries.
The Jackson, Minn., Bepnblio records the
eternal disgrace of another protuberant middle
name: “ An unpleasant duty devolved upon
Rider Hobert, at the quarterly meeting of the
M. E. Church on Sunday last, it being no less
than the formal dismissal of the Rev. A. Henry
Simonton, the yonng and fascinating Methodist
minister recently settled over the church of that
denomination in Jackson. It appeaas that he
had been guilty of numerous ‘indiscretions,
the principal offenses being the desertion of his
wifo in Maine, and representations in Jaokson
that he was unmarried.”
Mebcee University.—The exercises of the
next term of this old Institution will commence
on tho tirot day of Pobnury next, in tne rooms
over Johnston’s jewelry store, arrangements
having been completed for use of the same un
til regular University buildings can be erected.
We hope to see opr people, by a large patron
age, show that the advantages promised in re
moving tho University to this oity will be all
' that were claimed for it. The Facnlty is an
able one, and the course -of instruction will be
all that could be desired. Bee announcement.
The Baltimore Gazette.—We see that this
able Democratic newspaper has been enlarged
by four columns, and . has a complete outfit of
new type, malting a very handsome appearance.
We offer our congratulations. The Gazetto is
one of the most faithful and trenchant expo
nents of constitutional principles published
anywhere, and we rejoice to see such unmistak
able evidences of popular endorsement. It
knows no halt or let up jn its battle against Rad-
ioal deviltry, and deserves even more widespread
influence and support.
Piano Guano and Acid Compound.—The
P&cifio Guano Company, represented by that
well known gentleman, John 8. Reese, of Bal.
timore, have appointed Asher Ayres, Esq., of
this city, their agent for Maoon. Pacific Guano
is a standard fertilizer in this section of Geor
gia and, we believe, has given almost uniform
satifaction. Mr. Ayres also advertises com
pound acid Phosphate of Lime, for oomposting
with cotton seed. Bee advertisement.
Mot Kansas, bat San Domingo.
We learn from the-Montgomery papers that a
Colored Labor Convention is in session in that
city and discussing a proposition by two colored
philosophers, rejoicing in the names of Cox and
Coon, to emigrate to Kansas in a body. But the
papers say there is no fear that this African ex
odus will be attempted on any large scale. Tho
Mail says the negroes are generally making new
contracts as usual, and no disoontent is appa
rent among the bulk of them. But a few who
are ambitious of figuring in politios are, of
course, much disgusted with the apparent cer
tainty that Alabama must hereafter be governed
by her white people.
In what respect they will benefit themselves
by going to Kansas does not appear. No matter
how loud-mouthed and red-mouthed any North
ern or Western State may be upon the abstract
question of negro equality, there is not one of
them half so tolerant and friendly to the negro
race as are the States of the South, and in no
part of the American continent will the negro
find so easy conditions of success os now east
in the South. Here he finds a climate suited
to him—an agriculture with which he is fa
miliar, and improved lands cheaper than in.
any other part of the Union. If, with these ad
vantages, the negro fails to. improve his condi
tion and make himself an independent proprie
tor of the soil, he will do it nowhere.
But if he insists upon a happy country, where
those of his own race predominate and gov
ern, we will give tho discontented negro poli
ticians some good advice gratis. Let them rush
at once to San Domingo, where every condi
tion meets their aspirations. A splendid oli-
mate, at tho right temperature—a fruitful soil
—invaluable products, and an exclusively col
ored population. The hyperborean climate of
Kansas will shrivel the negro into the grave in
a few years, and he will find in Kansas a hun
dred whites to ono of his own color. Butin San
Domingo, which, in three or four months, will
be admitted as a State of the Union, ho will find
all of his own color—and, if ho can head off the
New England carpet-baggers, the negro can do
his own governing, and arrange everything to
suit himself.
But let him move quickly, for the carpet
bagger is active as a cat and sly as a fox. He
will be rushing down to San Domingo in a few
weeks full of all manner of “high moral ideas,”
all tending to fill his bags with bonds and col
laterals and his pockets with State and Fede
ral commissions. If the Southern political ne
gro is not far sharper than he has been here, ho
will find himself again, like blind Sampson,
grinding in the mill of the Philistine carpet
baggers, and quite as much a “gone coon” as
this poor Montgomery Goon who wants to se
duce the Alabama negroes to Kansas, there to
perish in the fierce blasts and snow storms which
come sweeping down from the Northwestern
Alps.
Let him seize the propitious time, and rally
ing the whole crowd of negro politicians in the
South, move at once npon Son Domingo—pro
claim two States—and in behalf of his race, in
sist that they shall bo consecrated to the great
experiment of negro self-government in Amori.
ca. Duck every carpet-bagger who comes there
to “develop the resources.” Udite with the na
tive population in maintaining a negro govern
ment, and yon will have removed your political
grievances, on the one hand, while, on the oth
er, you will have secured a local habitation,
where, if a man prefers to devote himself ex
clusively to politics, all testimony goes to show
that there is nothing to hinder it. He can keep
fat on the indigenous fruits of the earth, and,
as to fuel and clothing, there is no need of eith
er. It is surprising that the negro politicians
should talk about Kansas, while Hayti and San
Domingo are before them, both of which will be
negro American States in a few months.
Why Won’t it Work Both Ways ?
We wish to know why it is that a warrant has
not been sworn out against Long, the negro
just elected to the 41st Congress from this Dis
trict, for violation of the Congressional En-
forement Act ? We have been informed by gen
tlemen who heard his speech at the City Hall
the night before the election, that he grossly
and repeatedly violated the provisions of that
act having reference to the intimidation of
voters, by threatening all the negroes who dared.
vote the Democratio ticket with excommunica
tion from churches, schools, society and even
the oommnnion table. This speech was listen
ed to by hundreds of negroes, some of whom
were indubitably deterred, thereby, from voting
tbs Democratic ticket. This violent speech of
Long’s was supplemented the next day and
every day of the election by scores of negroes,
both men and women, who threatened openly
on the pnblio streets to “cut the d—d throats”
of all of their color who should dare to vote the
Democratic ticket.
It is a poor rule that won’t work both ways;
Several of the most prominent white citizens
of this city have been arrested, and are now un
der trial before a United States official for vio
lating this act. So far, the evidence adduced
has failed to criminate any of them, bat they
are none the less subjected to the vexations and
embarrassments incident to such a prosecution.
Now let the knife cat the other way. Let Long
be harnessed, instanter, and made to appear
and answer before the United States Commis
sioner, also. He has, if wa are correotly in
formed, palpably and brazenly violated this
law, and could, and should be oouvicted. Will
not some of the gentlemen who beard this
speech, and are oognizant of its unlawful tenor,
move in the matter and bring Long to taw ?
Robert E. Lee.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger—I propose
to be one of the five hundred -gentlemen, who
shall contribute $50 each, with which, to erect
a monument in Tattnall Square, suited to the
memory of this great man.
It is believed, that there is in every oounty
of Georgia, at least, live soldiers of the army,
which served in Virginia, who are ready to pour
out this libation nrtnn tho Alto* at Rani I..—-
JL J atriotiam.
Macon is the Central City of the State. Tatt
nall Square is named for a revolutionary patriot.
Gen. Lee’s ancestors were of the same stamp,
and the General himself, another illustrious ex
ample.
If you agree with me in this suggestion, give
aid and assistance. The purpose has been sanc
tioned by every ono (men and women) to whom
I have named it. Other things and many, can
be said of it; but just now this is enough. I
have no donbt but that I can, with the help of
friends, raise in the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict of Georgia its proportion. Indeed, one of
the best public speakers in the State has offered
his services in the delivery of ono of his very
fine lectures in thi3 behalf.
I invoke the co-operation of officers and sol
diers in tho late war. Any correspondence upon
this snbject directed to me, at Augusta, Ga.,
care of J. J. Pearce, Butler & Co., will receive
prompt attention. D. E. Buxllb.
A young dentist whose clothes were found on
the beach at Long Branch last stunmer, and
who was supposed to have been drowned, has
turned up in Chicago, where he has been living
on tho proceeds of his $10,000 life insuranoe
policy. *
A man wrote to Horace Greeley for a situa
tion, and reoeivod the following letter in Hor-
aee’s handwriting. “ This is tha'2,000th appli
cation in a week. Go to the devti. I qajj’t hire
every 4-^4 fool.”—jV, y Democrat,
Georgia Press.
Central Railroad stock sold for from $115 to
$115 50 a share, and Southwestern Railroad
stock for $9150 a share, in Savannah, on Tues
day.
. Forty shares of Georgia Railroad stock sold
at Augusta, same day, at $98 25, $98 37J,
and $98 50, per share. •
The late Artemae Gould, of Augusta; left an
estate valued at $300,000, of whioh $75,000
goes to his relatives in Massachusetts, $5,000
to a church at Summerville, near Augusta, and
the remainder to his -ftidow.
City of Savannah bonds sold for $84 50, at
the regular monthly sales in that city, on Tues
day.
Richmond eonnty lands sold at Augusta, on
Tnesday, at priceg ranging from $1 80 to $2 50
peraore. A tract of Savannah river bottom
land (97 acres) was withdrawn at $40 per acre.
The Rev. George McCauley has resigned the
rectorship of St. Paul’s Church, Albany.
The connecting track between the South
Georgia and Florida and the Southwestern Rail
roads at Albany, will be finished by the end of
this week.
Messrs. A. C. and Eichard Westbrook, of Al
bany, in searching for goods stolen from their
rooms, tracked the robbers to their den last Sat-
nrdry night. They were three negroes, two of
whom were arrested, and th3 property recov-
ered. One of the robbers, in attempting to es
cape, was shot, and afterwards died.
The first bale of through cotton from Vicks
burg via Savannah, to New York, was compress
ed at Savannah Tuesday, and went North by
tho steamer Loo.
A quarrel between J. E. Edwards and George
Little, hotel drummers at Augusta, on Sunday,
resulted in tho latter’s being shot and seriously
wounded.
The Constitutionalist says Mr. George Bntler,
of Edgefield District, South Carolina, was shot
and killed by James Hamilton, on Monday
morning. Mr. Butler was a nephew of General
M. O. Butler. The quarrel was about a cow.
-The Democrats of Savannah had a grand
torch light procession and display of fire works,
on Monday night, in honor of their recent vic
tory.
Columbus has to raise $100,000 to meet mu
nicipal expenses this year.
A fire at Eatonton, Sunday night, came near
destroying the main building in Prudden’s cor
ner, occupied by W. C. Young & Co. as a ware
house, tho Proas and Messenger printing office,
the poatoffico, and Prudden’s dwelling, grocery
and confectionery.
The Houston Home Journal says gentleman
of that county, after the election, offered any
one of his negro employees fifty acres of land,
a mule and provisions for one year, if they
would tell him who they voted for; and not a
man of them could do it. Only 7 one of them
made the attempt, and he failed.
The Albany News tells us all about “ Bunk’
Tarver, a noted Democratio negro of Eaker
county. He formerly belonged to Hon. Henry
Tarver of that county.
When the war closed and freedom came
about, Bunk remained the steadfast friend of
his old master and comrade, and till this day
clings to him with the devotion of sincere grat
itude and honest friendship.
He is a democrat by birth, education, interest
and inclination, and in every canvass sinoe the
war has labored faithfully and zealously for the
success of his principles and his party.. In the
recent oontes't Mr. Tarver was the nominee of
the party, and Bunk went in for him and his
confreres with his whole soul, and all the ener
gy he possessed. He slept not, nor wearied in
his labor of love. Spending his own money
freely, and devoting his entire time to the cause,
he succeeded in oaxrying several hundred of his
race for the democratio tioket, and in the elect
ion of his old master and present friend by a
vote of two to one over a negro candidate.”
The Supreme Court of Iowa has recently de
cided that if a juryman drinks intoxicating
liquors during a trial tho verdict which he and
his fellows may render may be set aside and a
new trial ordered. It is not necessary that he
should become actually drank, but the mere
fact of his drinking is sufficient to vitiate the
verdict. Under this ruling the way of the jury
man in Iowa will be quite as hard as that of the
transgressor. The unhappy man who is in the
habit of drinking a cocktail at noon, or a glass
of bitters before dinner must practice total ab
stinence while in the jury-box. Even an acci
dental pain-in the stomach of a juryman must
be homo with stoical heroism, and the brandy
which might put it to flight must be postponed
until the trial is over. It will, however, doubt
less follow from this ruling that juries in Iowa
will hereafter agree much more quickly than
heretofore. The custom of condemning the jury
man to a diet of cold meat with bread and cheese
has not proved sufficiently potent to force un-
^’Hinc men fr> oji-m together. Bat the man
who may prefer starvation ro me tsauiiSoa of
his own obstinaoy will probably yield his con
victions to the liberal fellow-juryman who hqlds
out the prospect of coming cocktails as an in
ducement to tho immediate rendering of a ver
dict. The defendant will only have to intimate
that free drinks will be provided for the jury
whenever they oome to an agreement to render
his acquittal an eminently probable event.—
Shonld the same rale be adopted by our courts
the work of empanelling a jury would beoomo
a task involving interminable time and incon
ceivable difficulty. For a New York jury with
out drinks wonld be as unheard of and as diffi
cult to find as a Western jury without chewing-
tobacco and poker.— World.
Improvements in New York.
The World of January 1st, prints a map of
New York city as it will be in 1880, with all the
improvements now in progress. Among these
are the new docks, which involve the construc
tion of thirty miles of sea wall around the city.
The World says:
The plan Is to surround the entire city with
a street 250 feet wide, which shall be durably
paved, and have a deep sidewalk, a spacious
roadway, and an open space which can be used
for an elevated railway. Beyond this the wharf
or pier line is to begin. The sea wall is to be
of concrete, faced with granite, and from it the
solid piers are to extend into the river. Each
one will be from sixty to eighty feet wide, with
three abutments and open spaces between, al
lowing free sweep to the tide, and thus obvia
ting one of the greatest nuisances of our pres
ent system—the constant accumulation of offal
and debris in the slips and the stagnation of the
water. It is reasonably calculated that the san
itary advantages of this plan are sufficient to
warrant its adoption independent of the im-
Li- .^uicura it wui secure to the
business along the river’s edge.
Death of Rev. Albert Barnes.—Rev. Dr.
Albert Barnes, of Philadelphia, well known by
his Soriptural commentaries, died suddenly on
the afternoon of December 24, 1870.
He had walked a considerable distance, ac
companied by bis daughter, on a visit of condo
lence to a bereaved family, and had hardly taken
his seat in the house when he suddenly com
plained of a difficulty in breathing, threw his
head back, andsoon expired,apparently without
any pain. It is supposed that his death was
caused by heart disease.
Mr. Barnes was a native of Rome, N. Y., bom
December 1, 1798, graduated at Hamilton Col
lege in 1820, and at Princeton Seminary in 1824.
He was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Morristown, N. J., in February, 1825,
when he began his groat life-work of preparing
Scripture commentaries for the aid of Sunday
schools. In 1830 he was called to the First
church of Philadelphia, where be spent the re
mainder of his diligent andhonorablo life, only
giving over tho responsible change of the chnrch
to a colleague two years ago.
We are delighted to hear, says the Montgom
ery Mail, of the prosperity of our sister city—
Eufaula. She is soon to have a beautiful and
costly theatre, and many other oity-like attrac
tions. Her people are energetio, refined, hos
pitable and generous; we will always note with
pleasure the growth and prosperity of Eufaula.
The New England factories report that the
past year’s business foots np much better than
they feared, but they are more scarce of water
than they have been since the year 1807.
BY TELEGEAPH-
Washington, January 5.—The Cincinnati
Commercial publishes a letter from Orville
Grant to the President, charging General Bloom
field, Supervisor of Illinois, with connivance at
fraud. Orville Grant admits that he was ap
proached in confidence with corrupt proposi
tions, both regarding whisky frauds and Cuban
recognition. Orville says: “ I have gained my
knowledge of the whole affair in the strictest
confidence, audio tell itl am betraying that con
fidence, and the only apology .1 can make for
doing a man an act of injustice is that my duty
to you is stronger than my word of confidence
to one who is instrumental in defrauding the
Government and ruining your reputation. For
all the frauds of your appointees fall upon you
and.the party.”
Washington, January 5.—In the House Mr.
Schenck resigned and Orth was appointed mem
ber of the Ways and Means Committee in his
place. Paraguay matters were discussed.
Cincinnati, January 5.—The sugar cases of
Adolph Wood & Co., of Cincinnati, and F. W.
Perkins & Co., of New Orleans, have been de
cided in favor of the claimants of the sugar.—
While the Government had lost by improper
grading, the court was not satisfied that Perkins
& Co., had any knovreledge of the error or had
any fraudulent intent, the oottit intimates that
Perkins & Co., would bo liable to the payment
of two cents per pound additional duty. This
is an old caso where the government seized su
gar throughout the country under allegations of
fraud in assessing the tariff. The point estab
lished seems to he that the government can col
lect the true tariff whereveT goods my be found,
but can exact so penal forfecture from innocent
purchasers.
New York, January 6.—Tho Telegram has a
special dated London 6th, which reports that a
dispatch from Chausey, at Lo Mans, says he is
constantly pushing ahead with flying columns.
Ten thousand troops are marching towards
Paris via Chartres. Garibaldi is at Dijon, doing
little. Faidherbe, at Arras, is preparing to
attack Monteuffel, probably with the intention
of joining Botrbaki. There are 16,000 troops
in Havre and 20,000 at Eolbeo, exclusive of
Frono-tireurs, cavalry and regulars. The for
ward movement eommenoed to-day.
Memphis, January 5.—A constable and the
father-in.law of a young man under arrest, kill
ed each other at Jacksonport, Arkansas. A
man cut another’s throat at Charleston, Missis
sippi.
At Blontsville, Alabama, Lewis Kechum, who
disemboweled Barges, was taken ont of jail by
disguised men and killed.
Lansing, Micjx., January 5.—The Republican
caucus nominated Ferry for the Senate, which
is equivalent to an election.
Lawrence, Kansas, January 5.—A fire is pro
gressing here and the loss already is $50,000.
Washington, January 5—House.—Hooper,
of Massachusetts, becomes Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee. Hooper is said
to be more of a protectionist than Schenck.
Orth is inclined to free trade. f
A vote on the Paraguayan resolution will be
taken to-morrow. The question involved is
the endorsement of the late Paraguayan Minis
ter, Washburn, and the condemnation of cer
tain naval officers.
The Senate Bill, authorizing the issne of five
hundred million, five per cent, bonds, has been
received. *
Certain reports regarding San Domingo,
made during Fierce's administration, were
called for.
A bill for a Government telegraph was intro
duced, and referred to the Committee on Roads
and Canals.
A bill, giving Sohenck as Minister to England
an additional allowance ot $2,500 for an amann-
ensis, was passed.
House adjourned.
Senate.—The correspondence between Mot
ley accl the State Department relating to Mot
ley’s recall, was oalled for. Amended by Sumner
so as to include telegrams.
A resolution was reported concurring in the
opinion of the Attorney General that tho Choc
taws are entitled to a quarter of a million of
bonds, and deolaring the President authorized
to issue them without further legislation. Tho
resolution passed.
A select committee was appointed to consider
certain charges against Senator Sprague for
blookading in Texas. Thurman, Hamlin, Trum
bull, Howe and Willie Jewett, the new Senator
from Missouri, was placed upon the Committee
of Naval Affairs and Pacifio Railroads. A bill
passed providing that hereafter no tax shall be
imposed or oollected upon any undistribntable
sum addeefto the contingent fond of any insu
rance company, nor upon.unearned premiums
received for risks assumed.
The bill relieving J. Milton Best, passed, 28
to 15. It appropriates twenty-five thousand
dollars. Best was Surgeon in the Federal army
when his house in Paducah was destroyed.
Nominations: Wm. H. Daniel, Oolleotor of
Customs, Apalachicola, Florida.
Resolutions from the North Carolina Legisla
ture asking for the removal of politieal disabili
ties from Governor Vance were presented to the
Senate and referred to the.Committee on Politi
cal Disabilities.
The contestants for Senatorial seats from
Georgia were notified to appear before the Ju
diciary Committee of the Senate on Saturday.
There are seven claimants, though H. V. John
son and A. H. Stephens elected before the Re
construction Committee will not push their
rights.
The following is an extract from Governor
Geary’s message:
“The employment of United States troops at
eleotions, without the consent of the local and
State Governments, has recently received con-
siderable attention and reprehension. It is re
garded as an interference with the sovereign
rights of the States, whioh was not contem-
nlatedJbv -aransrarGo vern-
ment, and, if persisted in, must lead to results
disastrous to peace and harmony. The prac
tice is one so serioas in its character and so in
jurious in its tendencies as to merit prompt con
sideration and deoisivo aotion, not only by the
General Assembly, bnt by Congress.
One of the complaints of the colonists against
tho British King was the oppression growing
out of the assumption of the power. They said,
He has .kept among ns in times of peace, stand
ing armies without the consent of our Legisla-
tnres, and what is especially pertinent to the case
in point, he has affectod to render the milita
ry independent of and superior to the civil pow
er.” The alleged authority for the use of troopB
at bur State elections i3 derived from tho tenth
section of air act of Congress approved May 31,
1870, entitled an act to enforce the right of cit
izens of tho United States, to'vote in the several
States of the Union, and for other purposes
whioh authorizes United States Marshals to call
to their assistance suoh portion of the land and
naval forces of the United States, or of the
militia as may be necessary to the performance
of the duty with which they ate charged, and to
insure a faithful observance of the fifteenth
amendment to the Constitution of the United
States. Bat it must be a forced construction of
this law that justify the presenoe of armed na
tional forces at our places of election when no
’necessity exists therefore, and where their pres
enoe is calculated to provoke oollision.
With .a good President the exercise of • the
power referred to might hava no injurious re
sults, but in the hands of a bad man governed
by personal ambition it might prove exceeding
ly calamitous; unconsciously a good President
might be induoedto employ it wrongfully, a
bad one would- be almost certain to use it for
bis own advancement under any circumstances
in my opinion. It is unsafe and antagonistic to
the principles that should govern our republic
and institutions. At the last October election
United States troops were stationed in Phila
delphia for the avowed purpose of enforcing the
election laws. This wa3 done without the con
sent, or even the knowledge of the civil author
ities of either the city of the State, and without
any expressed desire oh the part of the citizens,
and as far as can be ascertained without exist
ing necessity.
From a conscientious conviction of its im
portance, I have called your attention to this
subject. A neglect to have done so might have
been oonstrned as an endorsement of a meas
ure that meets my unqualified disapproval.
The civil authorities of Pennsylvania have al
ways been and arq still competent to protect its
citizens in the exercise of their elective fran
chise, and the proper and only time for the
United States military forces to intervene, will
bo when the power of the commonwealth is ex
hausted and their aid is lawfully required.
The Tribune comments thus: The remarka
ble passage in the message of Governor Geary,
of Pennsylvania, on the subject of the employ-
mentof troops at elections, ismainlyremarkable
for its resemblance to the kindred utterances of
Governor Hoffman—that the presence of troops
is not desirable. Nobody claims that it was de
sirable in Philadelphia; it was perhaps a sub
ject for consultation between the Governors
and the President—hardly for discussion in this
message.
Ferry, who was nominated by the Wisconsin
Republican caucus, and whose election is con
ceded, succeeds Howard, who is credited with
the Fourteenth, or Howard’s Amendment.
It is stated that the Senate Committee on
Claims has been holding in abeyance some five
hundred claims similar to that of J. Milton
Best, which the Senate affirmed to day.
Senate adjourned to Monday.
Tho Treasury Department has issued orders
that the tariff be assessed according to the de
cision of a Chicago Court against the Govern
ment in a malt case, where the Collector charged
at consumption rates in Canada, which included
a home excise duty. This decision will seri
ously affect imports from countries where pro
ducts are taxed for consumption, bnt not for
export, especially wine, tea and coffee, from
England. There is muoh confusion in regula
tions, and dissatifaction among importers.
New York, January 5.—The Post says the
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company
have suspended payment of the January inter
est on their first morgage bonds, on which the
State of Alabama is endorser. The amount of
these bonds is about $4,000,000, of whioh about
$750,000 is held abroad and $250,000 here. We
are informed that the resources of the company
are ample for the payment of this interest, and
that the necessary money was offered the Com
pany by bankers in this city, but according to
reports dissentions prevailed in the Board of
Directors, which resulted in the offer not having
been accepted. The Governor of Alabama has
telegraphed to the State agent in this city that
the obligation of the State, as endorsed on the
bonds, will be responded to as soon as the Leg
islature meets, whioh convenes on the 18th
inst., and can make the necessary provisions
therefor.
Owing to complaints of short weight at Lon
don, the Produce Exchange have appointed a
committee to examine into the method and cor
rectness of weighing grain going into ships.
The printers of the Jersey City Evening Jour
nal have struck, in oonsequence of a dispute
whether certain figure work shonld be charged
as price and a half or two prices.
Arrived—Montgomery, Wisconsin and Cam
bria. Arrived out—Guierriere.
New York, January 5.—The Chamber of
Commeroe unanimously resolved that it was in
expedient to petition Congress to stop privateer
ing during the time of war. It was stated by a
prominent member that the Government was
opposed to the scheme.
The case of the alleged fillibuster, Florida,
has adjourned to Saturday. The evidence on
both sides is completed, unless the Government
finds two witnesses who have been spirited
away since the trial began.
The books of a prominent German BCgar firm
lately seized were returned upon payment of
$10,000 fine.
Senor Azarato, credited os the Spanish agent
to settle the Cuban troubles with this country,
returned to Europe to-day.
San Francisco, January 5.—The Supreme’
Court, in the case of the people vs. Brady, re
versed the decision before the court and ordered
a new trial on the ground that the defendant
was convicted by Chinese testimony under the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The
Court holds that the amendments cannot affeot,
and do not abrogate or annul, the State laws
regulating the praotioe in courts of law. Judge
Rhodes alone dissents.
Chicago, January 5.—No change in the Sen
atorial contest. Logan is the strongest man
out. Governor Oglesby is his principal com
petitor. Gen. Palmer, who commanded in
Kentucky after the war, is spoken of as a com
promise candidate.
Ross & Gossage, heavy retail dry goods mer
chants, are reported failed. Liabilities nearly
half a million. They offer fifty cents in the
dollar.
Indianapolis, January 5.—The House organ
ized. Wm. Mack was eleoted speaker, and all
Democratio officers. The Senate organized
with Democratio officers, two Republicans be
ing absent, and two, eleoted as Republicans,
acting with Democrats.
Lancaster, Pa., January 5.—H. G. Brenner,
who was to have been married at 7 o’clock to
night, suicided.
&r. Zjous, January 5.—Girard B. Allen was
elected President of the Merchant’s Exchange
to-day.
Augusta, Me., January 5.—Tho Legislature
organized to-day with last year’s officers.
Lille, January 4.—A battle was fought on
the 3d, which resulted in a great victory. Faid
herbe reports the villages Bupoume and De
Haighniers as destroyed.
Railway travel between Lille and Cambria
has been restored. The Fortress of Peronne is
nearly destroyed but still holds out.
Havre, January 4—Evening.—-The Prussians
in* force attacked the French on the left bank of
the Seine to-day. Result unknown. No par
ticulars.
London, January 5.—The Presbytery of Bel
fast, Ireland, denounce Gladstone for the in
terest displayed by him in the welfare of the
Pope.
Hon. Nelson Tift reoeived 16,367 votes in the
Second District for the Forty-first Congress.
Whitley reoeived 14,249 votes without counting
618 votes east in Randolph county for “Con
gress” alone. If the latter be oounted, Tift’s
majority is 500. The result for the Forty-second
Congress-is about the same.
Dr. Thomas G. Parks' was eleoted Senator in
the 4+th District in place of Wm. Henry—as
Mr. McCutohen died. He had no opposition.
and
to
At Troy the liqnor dealers are only allowed
to sell benzine to the “traveling public,
now when a resident wants to drink he has
shoulder his carpet-bag. Before breakfast
the morning the streets of Troy look like some
Southern oity previous to election.—New York
Democrat. I I. \ .
the moarrcKNis tunnel.
The Great Work Complete—History of the
Project How the Piercing; or the Alps
Was Done.
From the New York Times. ]
The “eternal” barrier between France and
Italy has at last been overcome, and at this mo
ment the workmen, who, for thirteen years,'
have been working toward each other in the
bowels of the Alps, have doubtless met, and
with such familiarity as their diverse languages
will permit, congratulated each other on the
completion of their more than herculean labor.
THE PRELTICINABIES.
The Alps have been crossed even with great
armies since the days of Hannibal, bnt the un
dertaking ha$ been one of no little toil and some
danger. In 1805 the first Napoleon constructed
a road through the pass of Mont Cenis, which
was a moderate elevation of some 5,400 feet
above the level of the adjacent country. This
was thirty miles long and eighteen feet wide,
and was built at a cost of 7,000,000 francs. It
served for many years as tho only highway be
tween France and Italy; bnt within the last
five years a railway has been, bnilt over the
ridge, upon which a steam engine of peculiar
construction slowly drags a single car. The idea
of piercing the mountains, and gliding from one
country to the other in a few minutes’ time,
was first broached about twenty ‘years ago, and,
ob a matter of coarse, was ridiculed by that
large class of persons whose conception of what
oan be done is formed entirely in aooordance
with what they know has been done. All man
ner of difficulties and obstacles were suggested,
and declared to be insuperable; hut the projec
tors believed they could be overcome, The
Governments of France and Italy were applied
to to lend their assistance for the accomplish
ment of this stupendous undertaking. The fea
sibility of the work was argued at length before
the legislative bodies of both these nations, and
the result was finally a contract for the work.
- THE ROUTE.
The route chosen was, of course, the shortest
possible line through the vast mountain range,
as the altitude of the peaks or the general ridge
made no difference with the work. The old
plan of sinking shafts from the top at intervals
and working from one to another was pronoun
ced impracticable from the start, and a contin
uous boring from either end was determined
upon as the only method of proceeding, the
workmen being supplied with tight and air as
they retreated from the cheerful light of day
and the wholesome atmosphere of the outer
world. The place was found abont fifteen miles
from the old Mont Genis road, where a tunnel
of 12,220 metres, or a little less than eight miles
in length, would pierce the mountain range and
and connect the town of Foumeaux, near Mo-
dane, in the valley of the Are, in Savoy, with
Bardoneohe, in the valley of the Dorariperia, in
Italy, by a railroad over which a train of cars
of any desired length could run in a very few
minutes. Between these two termini the tunnel
passes under three mountains of considerable
height even for Alpine peaks, known as the Col
Fre jus, the Grand Yallon and the Col de la Kone,
ranged in the order in whioh they are here
named as we pass from France to Italy. The
central summit is over 11,000 feet above the sea
level, and by the old method of ranking shafts it
wonld have required more time and labor to
bore one of these than has been taken for the
entire work.
BEGINNING OF THE WOBE.
The work was begun in 1857. At first tho or
dinary hand-drill was used to pieroe the rock,
and the solid masses were blasted out with pow
der. This method of operating kept up on
the Italian side until 1861, and on the French
side until 1863, wonld have required upward of
fifty years for the completion of the work. Ac
cordingly it behooved the projectors to bethink
them of some more expeditious method of pro
ceeding. Tho use of steam was out of the quos-
( tion, and the attention of the Italian engineers
was therefore turned to a device for using com
pressed air as the motive power. This matter
presented no very great difficulty in its general
principles, bnt a great deal of experimenting
was necessary before it could be put into suc
cessful praotioe.
THE MACHINERY USED.
A machine was finally invented and put into
operation which conld stand outside by one of
the streams that came down from the moun
tains, and with its aid force the air through
long tubes to the drilling apparatus. The latter
is a machine whioh works in a galley nine feet
square, and carries a large number of perfora
tors, each of which bores a separate hole in the
rock. By the compressing machine the air is
forced into a reservoir, and thence it passes
through flexible pipes to the cylinders contain
ing the drills of the perforating machines. By
the opening of a valve each drill i3 forced
.against the face of the rock with a force of
about 260 pounds, turned slightly,, and with
drawn. Two hundred of these blows are given
every minute with each drill, and when holes of
the required depth have been bored, the air is
turned off, and the machine withdrawn a short
distance. The holes are bored in such a way
as to converge slightly toward each other, so
that every blast will bring down a considerable
mass of rock. At first, powder was used in the
blasting, but there were many obvious objec
tions to this. Ab soon as any considerable pro
gress bad been made, and subsequently, gun
cotton was tried- This was afterward displaced
by the use of nito-glyeerine. The rate of pro
gress has varied, of course, with the hardness
of the rock, and has been from one and a half
to three feet per day. Among the incidental
appliances employed by the workmen, are a gas
house, miniature waterworks, and a machinery
for supplying their own lungs with air as well
as those of the perforating machinery. Thus
the three essentials of comfortable life—light,
air and water, are reoeived from the outer world
by machinery.
SIZE OF THE BORE.
The tunnel is in the form of a segment of
a cylinder, the bottom being level for the road
bed of the proposed railway. The height of
the arch is 24 feet -7 inches, the width of the
tunnel at the base 25 feet SJ inches, and the
width in the broadest part 26 feet 2| inches.
As fast as the rock is blasted ont it is removed,
and a party of masons follow close behind the
busy machinery to complete the masonry. The
work has gone on in this way, day and night,
for more than a dozen years, and at last the two
gangs of workmen have met—so we are told by
the telegraph—far beneath the summit of- the
Grand Yallon. The progress has been a little
more rapid on the French than on the Italian
side, the average being 56.80 meters on the for
mer to 53.20 on the latter.
The completion of the tunnel itself has been
achieved three or four months sooner than was
anticipated a year ago, April, 1871, being the
earliest date fixed for that consummation. It
will require abont six months more to complete
the railroad whioh is to thread the tunnel, and
make a journey from France to Italy as easy
as that aeroes the German border.
Comparative Profits of Cotton and
Cane Culture.
A correspondent writeB ns from Pine Grove,
Jefferson eonnty, the results of an experiment
in the cultivation of cotton and sugar cane, giv
ing the cost and relative profits of each crop.
He planted six and a half acres of ootton and
estimates the cost of working, picking, hauling
and ginningat $47—the yield being 666 pounds
of clean cotton, which, at 15 cents a pound,
amonnt3 to $99,90, showing a profit of $52,90.
Of cane he planted one and a half acres, and
estimates tha cost of tho seed, manure, planting,
working, catting, hauling, grinding and boiling
at $90—the yield being 12 barrels of sugar, aver
aging 200 pounds each, 5 barrels of syrup, 136
gallons, and 4 barrels of molasses, 130 gallons,
which, at 18 cents a pound for the sugar, and
75 cents a gallon for the syrup and molasses,
amounts to $631 50, showing a profit of $54150.
These figures appear rather inoredible, but
our correspondent assures us they are correct.
Here we have an acre and a half of cane yield
ing a net profit of $488 60, more than six and
and a half acres in cotton ! Our correspond
ent, we think, estimates his sugar and syrup
too high, but, putting them at the minimum
price, wo still have a large amount over the
profits of the cotton.—Floridian.
A Model Plantation.
Messrs. Busey & Lambert, whose plantation
lies on the river between Limestone and Flat
creeks, some three miles from Claiborne, are
what we call model farmers. They raise every
thing, literally everything, except ooffee, that
they consume, and not only what they consume
but some to spare. By fertilizing, Btrict atten
tion, cto., they produced this year one-third
more cotton to the hand than their neighbors,
and in addition made 43 barrels of very superior
syrup and 8 barrels of most excellent, finely
granulated brown sugar, all made from 9 acres
of land. Estimating the syrup at 75 oents per
gallon, say 1800 gallons, would be $1,350, and
the sugar, say 200 pounds, at 12£ oents per
pound. Samples of both sugar and syrup may
be seen at planters’ headquarters, and none
have looked at them yet bnt express surprise at
the exoellenoe of both articles. If every plan
ter would pursue the course of Busey A Lambert
our oountry would soon be flooded with money,
and prosperity would reign again throughout
the South.—Monroe Eagle.
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