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HAOON, JAN DAKY 13, 1871.
“Swell” Englishmen Marrying Amer
ican Belles.
What are called the “higher classes” English
men seem, of late, to bo specially fascinated
by what the New York Snn designates “the
light, graceful geranium Btyle of beauty,''
young American belles.. The other day Miss
Kitty MoVicker, the bright and lively daughter
of Gommodoro’McYicker, was married to Major
Norton of the British Army, a son of the Hon.
Mr. Norton and nephew of Lord Grantley, and
now we find Mins Motley, the fascinating daugh
ter of our late Minister Mr. Motley, wedded to e
son of Mr. Bichnrd Brinsley Sheridan and grand
son of the celebrated wit, orator, and dramatist
that name.
The present Sheridan seems to have inherited
from his grandfather nothing bnt his name, and
his propensity to get into disreputable scrapes.
He eloped, when-quite young, with an heiress,
and his last exploit was in connection with cer
tain disgraceful insurance frauds, so we fear
Miss Motley has carried her pigs to a bad mar
ket. If all the*-young American belles do as
badly in the matrimonial market, we reallypity
them. But just so long as American shoddyism
flaunts its riches in Europe, jriSt so long will
there be found plenty of foreign roues and dead
beats who will jump at the chance of swapping
their tarnished titles and besmeared names
for Shoddy’s money with the daughters thrown
in. m -•
State Aid Explosion.
Tho recent explosion of State aid in Alaba
ma is, wo fear, only the beginning of trouble in
our sister State, and the harbinger of similar
woes in Georgia. The collapse in Alabama has
occurred at what we supposed to be tho strong
est part of tho machine, and so far indicates a
total wreck. In Georgia State aid bills have
been passed by a bogus Legislature making pro
vision for a contingent State liability of some
thirty or forty millions; bnt the projects in
many cases are so preposterous that they will not
bo undertaken and of those s itually in progress,
we heard a railway expert express the opinion
some months ago that not more than one or two
at most could, if built, be kept in operation on
any possible sum total of their business receipts.
It will bo, perhaps, the most pressing business
of tho next session of the Georgia Legislature
to overhaul this State Aid Legislation, and
make some disposition of it which will not in
volve the credit of Georgia in total ruin.
Governor Bullock on the Election.
We copy from the New Era of yesterday, a
letter from Governor Bullock, in which he as
sents to the resnlt of the late election in Geor
gia, saving and excepting that in the 5th Con
gressional District, wherein he makes the action
of General Toombs and Jndge Stephens, in in
sisting npon tho application of the provisions
Of the Code of Georgia to the election, ground
for demand on Congress that the verdict of the
people be set aside.
Omitting all editorial comment on the letter,
we pnblish it merely to show the attitude of the
Governor, which maybe more or less important
as foreshadowing that of his party in Washing
ton. .
Construction and Re-Construction.—Con
structed Sonth Carolina seems to ns near the
point of a grand catastrophe—anarchy and a
war of races. The peace will have to be main
tained there by United States troops, for the
whites seem goaded beyond the point of endu
rance and self possession, by an insolent and
blood-thirsty domination of the blacks. Bat as
it is a reign of barbaric tyranny in the interests
of Badioalism, we suppose, in his forthcoming
onslaught npon North Carolina and Georgia, the
President will have nothing to say to the dis
credit of the Congressional construction of
Soath Carolina. The effort will be to re-con-
struct Georgia till it shall have been brought to
the same pass of subserviency to Radicalism,
perhaps at on equal expense of public order and
private security. ' - -
We supposed yesterday’s edition might con
tain Akermnn’s onslaught on Georgia, subscribed
by Grant; bnt it is probable Georgia will not
be bronght on the Congressional tapis nntil the
San Domingo commission has been legislated
into existence and sent off. It has been well
said that the Badicals seem to have fallen heir
to the old slave plantation policy—more cotton
to buy more negroes and more negroes to
make more cotton. They base fill hope on the
negro power. To pnt it uppermost in all the
Southern States and bring more and more of it
into the Union seems to be their summum bonum
In political policy.
Caucus oh San Domingo.—The Democratic
members of Congress held a conference last
Wednesday at the capitol on the San Domingo
question, and decided unanimously to oppose
the annexation-project. They admitted that
the manifest destiny doctrine of the Democratic
party had been the acquisition of territory, bnt
that the objections to San Domingo were too
great to be overcome. Some of these were that
Dominica only represented halt tho island; that
its population were a half civilized and ignorant
negro race; and that the scheme was shrouded
in corruption. They decided unanimously to
oppose tho scheme.
Judge Twiggs.—This gentleman publishes a
letter in tho Atlanta Constitution, of yester
day, folly vindicating himself from the charge
made by “Enquirer,” in that paper a few days
since that ho (Judge T.) was not eligible to
the office, not having lived in the circuit one
year, nor practised law seven years. The
Judge, also, denies that he was appointed, be
cause bo wonld prove “a valuable accession to
the Bepublican party,” as was also charged by
“Enquirer.” Aswequoted“Enqnirer’s”changes
on these points, wo give tho accused the benefit
of the denial.
“Keceiving Evert Vote.”—Modesty compels
tho Senior to disclaim the laurels mischievously
tendered him in the local column yesterday
npon his extraordinary race for School Com
missioner in Vineville on Saturday last. The
facts of the case are briefly theso: Afternoon
having come, and no polls yet opened, a few of
tho neighbors got together, opened polls, and
cast nine votes for that gentleman, because he
was the only man in Vinevillo who would con
sent to take the office. That is the way he
came to be elected unanimously for the first,
and probably the last time in his life to a polit
ical office—for it is a rule with ns never to run
for any office which anybody else will take.
Crawling to Again.—Abbott, of New Hamp
shire, hailing as a Senator from North Carolina
contests Vanoo’s seat in the Senate, on the
ground that the votes cast for Yance, being cast
for a disqualified person, were null, and he
therefore reoeived a majority of the legal votes.
Will the United States Senate sanction such a
doctrine as this ? How worthy of the men who
have “crawled up” into that body from the
Sonth J
Oath tor School Trustees.—Wo are request
ed to call attention to the fact that under the
school law the Trustees elected on last Sat
urday must take an oath within five days after
their election, to faithfully discharge their
duties under the law. They may administer
this oath one to another.
Excessive Taxation.
Wo printed, a day or two ago, an awf ol groan
from the Cincinnati Gazette , (ultra Eadical)
abont the excessive taxation in that State, which
that paper said had thrown the State of Ohio so
far into the rear of the Western dolman, that
its increase in population in the past decade
averaged only one per centum per annum, and
the prospects ahead were far worse. The peo
ple could not sustain a taxation equal to abont
three per cent, on their values every year, and
would be foroed increasingly to seek relief by
emigration.
So there is a point reoognized, at last, where
in taxation is impracticable—wherein it con
sumes its own resources and must eventually
kill itself ont; and that point in Ohio-is three
percent. But in Georgia, what with the income
tax, State and county tax, license taxes, texes
on sales, etc., we suppose the demand far ex
ceeds three per cent, a year; and when we
reflect that at this day surplus capital in Great
Britain is thought to be making a fair return,
if it bring three per cent., and six per cent, is
the average in America, we are prepared to ap
preciate the burdens of a system which, in Eu
rope, would take all a man’s loaf, and in Ameri
ca more than half of it for the uses of govern
ment, by so-called “direct” taxation.
Bat when wc have done thinking over “direct
taxation,” we have not gone much beyond tho
threshold of the public burden. That which
even more than the direct tax eats into Ameri
can life, is so-called “indirect taxation” through
a tariff levied, not so much for revenue, as for
the iniquitous purpose of raising prices for the
so-called “protection of American labor.” The
average tax on imported articles under the old
tariff used to be stated at about sixty-seven per
oent., and we presume can bo scarcely less than
fifty; and this tax comes upon the consumer
burdened witb exchange, premium on gold and
importers, jobbers and retailers’ profits, so that,
doubtless, on the average, more than two dol
lars is paid by the consumer to get one into the
Treasury. This is the tax which rakes down
the poor man, whoso necessities for purchasing
imported articles, and domestic articles upon
whioh the price has been correspondingly raised
by the tariff duly, are frequently greater than
those of the rich. It is the poor man who gen
erally has a large family, and the poor man who
must purchase the various implements of Urn
handicraft whioh supports him.
It is, therefore, a difficult matter to say what
is tho actual aggregate burden of taxation bome
by the American people. We can only see how
vast it must necessarily be, and in the present
paralysis of trade, and pecuniary prostration of
the people, need not look a step beyond it for
one grand cause of the publio distress.
Nor is poverty, bad as it is, the worst result
of over-taxation. It injures a people in so
many ways menially and morally that a long
continuance of these inordinate burdens inflicts
a greater mental than physical ruin, and dead
ens their minds to every sensibility essential to
the preservation of free government. The only
hope of the American people lies in shaking off
this inenbus with tho party which has imposed
it ^
A Strike in Georgia.
A telegram from Savannah in yesterday’s edi
tion stated that tho newspaper compositors in
that city, who have been paid since the war at
the rate of fifty cents per thousand ems, were
on a strike for sixty cents per thousand, or an
increase of twenty per cent, on their wages.
This is a singular time for such demands, when
trade of all kinds is at a low ebb, money very
scarce, and prices throughout the whole list of
human necessities tending downwards.
At fifty cents per thousand a diligent compos
itor, of average ability, can earn, with ease,
from thirty to forty dollars per week, and re
ceives his compensation promptly every Satur
day, so soon as the weekly account is audited
by the foreman of the office. It will be seen
that, in point of emolument, there are few em
ployments in the ordinary mechanic arts which
can compare with it, and hence a permanent
position as a regular compositor on a reputable
duly newspaper is often sold out at a consider
able premium by the occupant, when he is
ready to give it up.
For, under the rules of the Union, the propri
etor is not the employer, although he pays the
wages. He is allowed neither to employ nor to
discharge, and the rate of wages is fixed by the
Union without regard to his business and under
a penalty, as in this case, of a universal cessa
tion of labor and a sworn pledgo of the union
to prevent, as far as possible, any other persons
from occupying the places which they vaoate.
We wonld be ready to qualify, to the best of
our knowledge and belief, that for the past year
a fair balance of books by the Georgia dailies
would show that the printers and paper makers
have made all the profits which have been real
ized by these concerns, taken as a-nnit; and
such an exaction as is demanded by the Savan
nah printers, universally applied, wonld break
most of the daily newspapers in tins State.
We trust, therefore, in the general interests
of the craft in Georgia, the Savannah papers
will not only stand ont against this exaction,
but insist, before a compromise is made, upon
the reassertion of some equitable principles of
trade, such as no business can oonsent to give
np bnt at the sacrifice of the plainest rights and
the zuouf-. obvious principles of self-protection.
Let the Savannah, capers issue such editions as
they can, under the circumstances, and throw
themselves upon the publio sense of justice. In
so doing they will subserve the interests of the
craft and the ends of reason and equity.
What is His Name?
Can anybody tells us the name of the Acting
Commissioner of Patents at Washington City?
We much desire to know it, for it is illustrated
byoneof the meanest specimens of small-souled
malignity we ever heard of. Let the following
from the New York Herald prove oar asser
tion:
The Acting Commissioner of Patents has ren
dered an adverse decision in the case of the ap
plication of John B. Bead for an extension of
iis patent for projectiles. He had worked dil
igently on his invention till 1861, when, on the
breaking ont of the war, he joined tho Confed
erate service, and under that government took
out letters patent. The projectiles were used
largely by the Confederate armies. He has re
filed his letters patent in this city, with an ap
plication for an extension, while on their face
is the seal of the Confederate States attesting
the fact above mentioned.. Negative replies to
all applications, without being in the shape of
an official decision, were given at various
times; but now, as Bead inquires as to the
truth of a report circulated that he has been
refused an extension on account of his services
in the Confederacy, the Aoting Commissioner
replies, “That is just the reason exactly/’
Why does not Grant promote thi3 creature?
Suoh superserviceable loilty is out of place in
that lowly station. A Foreign Mission or a
place in the Cabinet wonld scarcely fill the
measure of his deserts. Nay, canonization as
tho embodiment of the genuine spirit and pur
poses of Badicalism, would hardly be too much
honor. Let us have his name.
Senators from Georgia.—The Atlanta Con
stitution, of yesterday, has the following special
dispatch from Washington City:
Washington, January 9.—In a conversation
held since his return from Georgia, Akennan
expressed a very decided opinion that Hill and
Miller were the legally eleoted Senators from
Georgia, and Bhonld be admitted to their seats.
It is predicted to-day that the Jndioiary Com
mittee will report unanimously in their favor.
Akerman says that ho does not intend to ra-
sigt}. ,
Governor Bollock’s Letter.
In making room for Governor BfiHock's letter
yesterday, at a late hour, we had space only to
call attention to it as a pnblio admission by the
Governor of the general fairness of-the late
-election, and an avowal on his part, that he did
not intend, as he did after the last election, to
array himself against the result in a general ap
peal for Congressional intervention to set it
aside. Without pretending to measure the
amount of the Governor’s influence with his
party in Congress, we are glad to understand
from this letter that the rumored attempt to re
construct Georgia for the fourth time will not
meet his co-operation. He declares distinctly
that the State has complied with the Badical
conditions precedent for restoration, and he is
in favor of admitting her to the Union withont
delay and seating ail the representatives in Con
gross elect, except those of'the Fifth District.
Now, we, on the other hand, are quite free
to admit, with the lights before us, that we do
not consider the last election a fair and legal
one. It was, perhaps, pretty nearly fair in the
general resnlt of it—that is to say, suph would
have been the proximate result of a fair and
legal poll confined to every qualified voter in
the State. The aggregate Democratic majority
would have been greater—for it is really be
tween forty and fifty thousand, at least. But
the law under whioh this election was held was
itself, and in the sober judgment of tho people
and of every impartial mind, formal notice that
all the resources of colonizing and repeating
were to be tried— that no fair election was in
tended / As an inevitable result, Bharp prac
tice on one side called for sharp practice on the
other. It is hard to fix up a soheme where all
the cheating shall be done on one side; but in
this ease, the bulk of it was obliged to be with
the radicals. They could oolonize and repeat
indefinitely with their black voters, bnt the re
sources of the whites* in that particular were
necessarily very limited. \Zi-
• Between both, a large number of illegal votes
were polled, but with a very heavy preponder
ance against the Democracy. -We do not, there
fore, agree with His Excellency that the late
election was “as fair an election as could have
been obtained at this time.” On the contrary,
had a good registry law been passed, and the
polls opened for only one day, and thftt at all
the usual voting precinots, and the appointment
of inspectors been left to the county authorities,
wc are confident the election would have result
ed in an almost perfectly fair and free ballot by
all the voters, white and black.
And this brings us to what the Governor says
of the recognition of the right of tho blacks by
the whites to the free exercise of the ballot. We
have yet to hear of a well authenticated case of
any attempt by the whites-of Georgia, since the
blacks were voters, to prevent them from cast
ing the ballot. There have been two cases in
which the negroes took possession of the polls
and, attempting by violence to drive away the
whites, were afterwards themselves driven away
as the inevitable resnlt of their own lawless au
dacity. But nobody can except to that. So far
as our personal observation or information ex
tends, there has been nothing like intimidation
practiced at the polls, except by the negroes,
and exercised by them chiefly against those of
their own color.
And about the Fifth District, wo have this to
say: Whatever opinions may be entertained as
to the expediency of the course of Messrs. Toombs
and Stephens, in asserting the actual existing
law of the State at the polls of Sparta, no man
can doubt that they had the law on their side,
and that they enforced it withont turbulence and
in perfect fairness. The vote of Hancock county
was in no wise affectedby their proceedings, and
even had it been, how can it be jnst to set aside
the election of representatives in the Fifth Dis
triot, who received majorities of five or six
thousand votes, in respect to alleged illegalities
at one poll in a single county, whioh contribu
ted but a few hundred to those majorities ? The
Governor will undoubtedly find plenty of sym
pathy in Congress with his personal animosity
to Mr. Toombs; bnt if there be no better rea
son than this for refusing to seat the members
from the Fifth District, let it be fairly stated
that the movement turns on hatred Co General
Toombs! ,
Let Him Rip I
A Washington speoial to the World, of Satur
day, says:
Tho President’s message on the condition of
affairs in the Sonth is expected to be sent to
Congress on Monday next, and is well under
stood to be the basis of a proposed committee
to send fer persons and papers regarding the
so-called outrages, and to serve as a pretext for
the attempted semi-reconstruction of the States
of Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. In
fact, so far is this programme developing itself
in advanoe that it is given ont that it is intended
particularly to strike at Alabama and Georgia,
and in the case of the former State to refuse the
admission of Senator-elect Goldthwaite.
“Whom the Gods wonld destroy they first
make mad.” Grant can no more surely secure
his annihilation in 1872 than by pushing ahead
with this wild scheme. Possibly he feels that
his renomination is ont of the question, and so,
like Samson, he is feeling for the pillars, the
pnlling down of which will bury everybody in
his party in a common rain. If he can’t lead-
it, he may have made up his mind that the man
who does, shall only lead it to signal defeat
We await the result with the serenest faith
and equanimity. He may compel Georgia and
Alabama and all the other Southern States to
register him as their chcice in 1872, bat what
he gains down here, he will assuredly lose across
the line. We are fully persuaded that there are
enough doubtful Western and Northern States
whose vote will be assured to the Democraoy by
this polioy, to more than balance all the gains
credited to him at the South. Therefore wo
snap our fingers at all such devices to cheat tho
people, and stifle their voice. They are bora
Gf an accursed ambition, the cherishing of which
has never yet foiled to destroy those who sought
its gratification by such unholy means, and of a
low animal cunning that is sore to react upon
and finally overreaoh itself. If Grant had a
penny weight of wisdom or a grain of common
sense, he wonld put far away from him such a
polioy and till who counsel it. Bayonets and
fraud cannot be tramps, always. Another suit
must lead some day, and he cannot so stock the
cards that that suit won’t be ballots. What sort
of a hand will Mr. Grant hold in that suit, he
has already learned. We say again, and with
foil faith that the future will vindicate and jus
tify our contemptuous words: Let him rip.
Mock Marriages and Modest Gills.—A New
Yoik paper says that at a recent sooial gather
ing in Albany mock marriages were proposed
for a source of amusement. Two yonng couples
stepped forward and were united by the per
formance of the marriage ceremony by a lawyer
who was one of the party. So far so good. The
performance was regarded as something done
“just for-the fun of the thing," until the party
broke up, when the girls who had consented to
play the parts of brides claimed to be legally
married, and insisted upon their partners in the
“joke" taking them home. The yonng men,
seeing the sorious turn the affair was taking,
fairly broke cover, took to their heels and ran
away. The girls threaten a suit, and if they
fulfil their threat it may be that the oourts will
decide the ceremony to have been properly per
formed, and of. binding and full force.
The negroes of Natchez, Miss., eleoted a
negro Mayor and three Aldermen, a day or two
since. That’s the medicine to make the o b’s
and scallies sick.
THE GEORGIA PRESS. Radical Protest Against the. Re-Re-
| construction or Georgia.
Mn Dennis W. D. Boully has retired from , ^ Baffalo AdTOrti6erj & leading Badical
organ in }IVe8tern New York, gives the Georgia
Badicals some good advice. After congratulating
them npon electing two Congressmen it slips
the Hawkinsville Dispatch, and is succeeded by
Mr. Geo. P. Woods.
Bullock has again respited Book Dominead.
thenegromuraerer nowunaersentenceof death j ^ ^ and aks out frankly and
in Hawkinsville i ail, and ordored him sent to, .Y, ^
, - J ’ 1 sensibly, as follows:
e pem n iary. ■- j “This congratulation will be turned into dis-
Mr. R- F- De Lamar, a well-known citizen of , a pp 0 intmont, however, if the sore-headed poli-
Pulaski county, died last Sunday. ! ticians in that State persevere in their declared
An unknown disease is killing the poultry in intention to’ bring Georgia again before Con-
ana around Hawkinsville. g****- eleclio ° : u- 6 hea , rd fron ^ otl ?
-D >r ir-t v 11 -tt .-HioWf sides that the voting was taking place without
Dr.B. N. Mitchell, of Hawkinsville, will short- or riot. Now we are informed that some
ly remove, with his family, to Florida. 0 f the defeated Republican Congressmen intend
St U»w « ~ j outrages committed at the polls. One cor-
tempted to commit suioide Sunday morning by says that ‘thousands’ of negro voters
shooting himself with a pistol. were driven from the ballot-fcox in one distriot.
Five thousand eight hundred and ninety-six ! “Now, to be somewhat expressive, that sort
bales of cotton weighing 2,780,858 pounds and | of talk fa ‘playwl ouV and the Northern peopl®
* a . - V. % r , a are heartily sick of it If, after all, the pro-
valued at $413,729 26, were shipped froin Sa- SgSna that have been taken, and the laws
vannah for foreign ports on Saturday. | have been passed for his protection, the
The second story of the Powell building on ■; negro voter is not yet secure, why, he never
Peaohtree street, opposite the National Hotel,
Atlanta, was burned yesterday morning. Loss
about $3,000.
We clip the following from the Monroe Ad
vertiser of yesterday:
Thrifty.—Mr. Amos Nobles, who is now sev
enty-six years of age, with,theMsistanceofhis| I “n e d'' E ometh i n g by experience, and they
son, raised the past year 180 bushels com, six j mow that no anti-Bepubfican Congressman-
will be. We do not believe that he will be, in
fact, so long as those who coddle him feel that
they can run to Congress with their everlasting
grievances. We take all such stories of intimi
dation and violence with a strong dose of doubt.
There is good reason to believe that the old ‘rebel
element’ is willing enough to act ugly towards
the freedmen. But the Southern.men have
bales of cotton and 1100 ponnd3 of pork.
Fire.—The dwelling on the premises of Mr.
A. M. Weaver, known as the “Lyon place,” in
Bed Bone District, was destroyed by fire Friday
night The particulars as detailed to us leave
no doubt that the fire was the work of aninoen-
diary.
Coincidence.—At the election in Butts coun
ty six white men voted the Badical tioket—four
at Indian Spring and two at Jackson. Long’s
name was struck from four tickets, and Dr.
Whitehead's was substituted on the two cast at
Jackson. This is a coincidence that deserves
the attention of tho “colored troops.” When
scalawags want office Sambo is petted and flat
tered ; when he wants office he is discarded
like an old shoe.
Returned Home.—We learn that Dr. Luoien
Sanders, and the brothers Blaten, who emi
grated from Jackson to Mississippi over a year
ago, have returned to their old homes, folly sat
isfied, by their migratory experience, that the
Empire State is good enough for all practioal
purposes, or at least good enough for them.
CoL Tom Howard retires from the editorial
conduct of the Plantation, the Atlanta weekly
agricnltnral journal, and is succeeded by Bev.
C. W. Howard.
CoL C. Peeples “defines bis position” as po
litical editor of the Atlanta Sun, in yesterday’s
issue of that paper. He will “sternly and de
cidedly oppose Badicalism in all forms,” and is
“the determined foe of centralism.” Welcome
on that platform, ColoneL It’s good enough
Democracy for ns.
Jas. P. Harrison offers that capital weekly,
the Monroe Advertiser, for sale nntil the 25th
inst. Failing health is the cause of his wish to
retire from business.
The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, understands
that the Central Bailroad, has also thrown up
its interest in the State Boad lease.
The pews of the Presbyterian Church at Co
lumbus were rented Monday afternoon for
$3500.
We clip the following items from the Sun, of
Tuesday:
Burned to Death.—lie eldest daughter,
aged about 12 years, of Mr. James Anderson,
residing in the north-east part of Chattahoo
chee county, was so badly burned a few days
ego that s‘he died Sunday. Her body was
brought to this city and interred yesterday.
Her clothes took fire whilst cooking. Mr. An
derson, we learn, had his hands badly burned
in his efforts to extinguish the fire.
Bobbed of $165.—The money drawer of the
store, on upper Broad street, occupied by S.
B. Baldwin, was robbed jof $165, Saturday
night abont 9 o’clock. There was a number of
customers in the store. Mr. B. stepped in the
backyard for something. On examining his
drawer he found the money gone.
How Much More.—We heard Iasi week of a
river plantation in which there were some thirty
bales of unpicked cotton in the fields. The
river lands yielded splendidly last year.
Mrs. Charles Gordon, an old resident of Ea-
tonton, died last Friday of a congestive chilL
The Eatonton Press and Messenger says large
numbers of negroes have made contracts for
form labor for the ensuing year within the last
ten days—some for part of the crop, others for
standing wages. Most farmers have secured as
many as they want.
The Bichmond county bar at a meeting held
on Monday adopted the following resolution:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting
that those cases on the docket of the Superior
Court of Bichmond county, whioh come within
the purview of the relief law, passed by the last
Legislature should be generally continued.
A negro boy fell from the bumper of a shift-
elect has a ohanco of admission if any charge of
illegal proceedings at the polls can bo proved
against his party; and hence the majority of
the Southern people are too shrewd to give their
political adversaries any such chance to make
capital against them.
“The fact is, that the Southern States arc
overran by a lot of political adventurers, who
have lived on the Bepublican party until they
have sucked all the life ont of it in that.qnarter
of the country. Such men are nothing without
office; they have taken no pains to live on good
terms with the Southern people, as they felt
sure that political honors were theirs so long as
they desired them. Now that the whe el is turn
ing, and that they have demoralized their own
party by tlieir selfishness and unserapulousness,
they cling with the grip of dying men to the
profitable places that are slipping away from
them, and they hope to make Congress do for
them what the ballot-box has failed to do.
They are mistaken. The Northern people have
submitted to suoh tactios until forbearance has
ceased to be a virtue, and they will submit no
longer. If. the defeated candidates in Georgia
are wise, they will bear their overthrow with
good grace and keep their disappointments to
themselves.”
A Fire at Plainfield, New Jersey, on Monday
morning, destroyed a large four-story brick
building, owned by Elston Marsh and occupied
by Baldwin & Schefflen, clothing cutters, and
A. D. Eaton, dry goods merchant. Total loss
$204,000, of which $1.75,000 falls on Baldwin &
Soheffien, who are insured for $71,500. Over
five hundred sewing women in various parts of
the State were thrown out of employment by
the burning of this factory. -
The Herald’s Last Splurge.—The -Herald
is running away now with the idea of a new Cab
inet for Grant. It strikes us a new President
is needed a great deal more. The Herald’s
slate is Beast Satler for Secretary of State to
stir np a war with Edgland, and Beize Canada—
Ben. is good at seizing—and Morton for Secre
tary of the Treasurer. If the Herald is in earn
est it has gone back on Grant. Such a pro
gramme would kill him deader than Badicalism
in Georgia.
Prices in Iowa.—An emigrant from Connec
ticut to Iowa, writes the Hartford Times that
last season he raised 200 bushels wheat, 200 of
oats, 200 of corn, and cut 20 tons of hay,
Marketing there would be refreshing to Hart
ford folks. The retail prices are, butter 20
cents, eggs a cent each, turkeys 8 cents a pound,
best beef 12£ cents, veal 8 cents, potatoes 40
cents a bushel, flour $5 a barreL He bought a
quarter of beef two weeks since for 5J- cents a
pound. The season was dry, which made a
light wheat crop. They ploughed up to the
10th of December, when severe cold weather
set in, and the thermometer sank to 40 degrees
below zero abont the middle of December. The
people there do not take much interest in poli
tics-know little and seem not to care much
about what is going on at 'Washington
Hieing in Alabama.—The Montgomery Mail
says:
The matter of hiring freedmen for the pres
ent year is still engaging the attention of plan
ters, and on the street corners may be seen
daily small sqnads of freedmen and one or two
whito proprietors of lands grouped together ar-
uing the point All sorts of arrangements for
ibor are being entered into, bat from what we
can learn the larger portion of the laborers are
contracting to work for a part of the crop.
The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks the daughter
of General Anderson has taken her duoks to a
ing train, at Augusta, Sunday, and was ran poor market, like the majority of English and
over and mortally injured.
Little, the hotel drummer who was shot by
Edwards, another drummer at Augusta a few
days 8inoe is reported in a critical condition.
The Federal Union of Tuesday says:
We were conversing with a gentleman who
had lately been on to North Carolina to hire
white laborers, and had succeeded admirably.
He says in the upper part of Sonth and North
Carolina good able-bodied, industrious white
men can be hired from eight to ten dollars per
month; and with a little encouragement hun
dreds and thousands of them will move here
with their families and become good citizens.
A post mortem examination of the body of
George Bartlett, of New York city, which was
found a few days ago near Savannah, was made
Monday night, and resulted in establishing the
fact that he had been first knocked down and
afterwards strangled.
A Wilkinson oounty correspondent writes the
Federal Union that there were about four hund
red white men in that county who did not vote.
The same correspondent also offers Bullock
$1,000 to let the people have the election over.
Twelve or fifteen hundred emigrants bound
West, have passed through Atlanta, within, the
past ten days.
Mr. Hall, dairy farmer near Atlanta, had his
house burned last Saturday. Loss $15,000, and
no insurance.
There was $40,000,000 of capital represented
in the dinning room of the H. L Kimball house,
at Atlanta, on Tuesday.
The first regular meeting of the directors of
the Western and Atlantic Bailway Company was
held in Atlanta, on Tuesday. The,proceedings
were confidential. The following persons were
present:
Messrs. J. E. Brown, Delano, Jr., Cameron,
Jr., Scott, Walter, Dunning, Plant, Cole, Kim
ball, Cook, Peters, May, Johnson, White, Nut -
ting, Holt, Hill, Morrill.
The Atlanta Son of yesterday says:
Hon. B. H. Hit.t..—We had a call from Mr.
Hill yesterday, and listened to his explanation
of the points made in his late letter to the peo
ple of Georgia. Mr. Hill disclaims most earn
estly any intention of uniting, or in any man
ner sympathizing with, the Republican party.
We have been mortified to learn from Athens,
that daring his absence from home some
thoughtless young people went to his house and
gave offence to his elegant family by crying
“traitor," and doing some antics, which, we
submit, was in exceedingly bad taste anywhere,
and more especially in that refined locality.
According to the Bome Commercial, the hotel
drummers of that town are playing it high on
the traveling pnblio. It says:
A tremendous war is being waged at the in
coming of the trains by the agents of the city
hotels. One establishment (Coleman’s) sent ins
American women who have married Italian
counts. “The Italian count, os a general thing,
isablaek-whiskered beast, addicted to drinking,
gambling, and occasionally beating his wife
when she fails to provide him with money
enough to pursue his elegant recreations.”
Facts for the Ladies.—I have used one of
Wheeler & Wilson’s Sewing Maohines (No
2,762) nearly fourteen years, making cloaks
for the last eleven years, and doing all other
kinds of sewing down to book muslin. It is
now in perfeot order, has never had any re
pairs, and I have not broken a needle since I
can remember. I appreciate my machine more
and more every day, and would not exchange it
for any machine that I know.
M. Budlono, Utica, N. Y.
Carrollton Masonic Institute.—We invite
attention to the advertisement of the Carrollton
Masonic Institute, under the charge of that ac
complished instructor, Major John M.- Bichard-
son. N It is a sohool organized on the Polytech
nic plan, and the rates of board and tuition are
very low—three to five dollars a month for the
one, and twelve to fifteen.dollars for the other.
A Month’s Notice.—According to the Second
Adventists of New England, the world has only
a month and four days to laat. They assure us
that this earthy sphere will be destroyed on the
11th of February, 1871. People will please take
notice, and aot and govern themselves accord
ingly-
Missouri Marble.—A ridge of beautiful
black marble, ninety feet high and three-fourths
of a mile long, has recently been discovered in
Girardeau county, Mo., abont a mile from the
Mississippi river. It is said to be susceptible
of the finest polish.
Trade Stagnation.—The New YorkJExpress
says one consoling faot in connection with
the stagnation in trade, which prevails at all
our centres of business is, that if nobody is
making money bnt few are losing it.
Frozen to Death.—The Now York Standard
and doing some antics,' which,' we tells a piteous story of a family consisting of one
woman and three children frozen to death in
New York in the cold snap just after New'Year.
A hard place for the poor.
The latest cause for divorce is credited to a
female theologian, somewhere ont in Ohio.
She demands to be uncoupled, because her hus-
drammers to the depot clad'in faultless raiment band “does not believe in the damnation of
and strawcolored kid gloves. Atthe next train j still-born infanta.”
the representatives of another hotel (the Choice
House) sported not only nnexceptionable kids,
but also rejoiced in castor beavers and natty
walking canes. The war thus rages fiercely.
One wild bnt sagaoious yonng drummer cli
maxed matters by capturing Big John Under
wood and onr friend Qovan. He led these
lambs to the depot, and when the trains came
in he led them to the front of tho passengers
and screamed ont triumphantly: “TTiis man
(pointing to Big John) boards at our house, and
this one (pointing to Mr. Govan) boards np
town. Pay your money and take your choose!’
The Ball at Gordon.—We again invite at
tention to this festive affair, which takes place
to-night. Guests can go down by the Central
evening train and get back by the morning
train at a seasonable hour.
A gentleman from Mobile informs the Mont
gomery Advertiser, that six thousand people in
that city were afflicted with the yellow fever at
one time, daring, the month of September.
VISIT TO A JAPANESE PEINCE.
A Gorgeous Palace and a Royal Entertain-
meat.
(Yokohama Correspondence of the Ban Francisco
Bulletin.)
I am not abont to bore yonr readers with court
scenes, or with anything in the line of usual oc
currences, but for your amusement-1 propose
to portray simply a little inoidenttbat fell in my
way, and as it resalted in the greatest pleasure
to rue, my recital of it may afford amusement
to yon:
Eit route from Kobe to Yokohama at early
dawn after being only a few hoars oat, our
steamer suddenly stopped just as the sun was
rising over the emerald mountains; and with a
rash away went the anchor. Naturally enough,
with ths few other passengers, I was hastily ont of
bed and on deck anxious to know what was up,
and was told in reply that the machinery had
weakened and wonld require a few hours to
repair.
My attention was next attracted by seeing
one of our ship’s boats, bearing our minister’s
flag, pull out from the side of the Bhip, and
make way for a little village to be seen near
theshore. My wonder grew at this, and upon
inquiry I learned that Mr. De Long, who was
on board, had sent a note on Bhore to .the prince
of Koshiu (by the borders of whose province we
then were,) informing him of the accident to
our vessel, and requesting permission of the
prince to land tfith some friends, pay him his
compliments and enjoy a few hours’ hunting.
Obtaining a glass, I could see, away beyond
the village, the batting walls and towering for-
tatice of a grim old castle, hidden away in tho
forest on a mountain, and, in the innooence of
my heart, I said to mysglf, how very fortunate
a thing it is if we were to break down at all that
we should meet with the accident at such a
place. Bat then I reflected that the said prince
of Koshiu was reputed as being one of the most
retired, powerful and savage of savage barons
of Japan—a man who never, sinoe the fall of
the tycoon, left his domains, where in sullen
anger he nursed his vengeance - against the
present government, and having no treaty ports
in his domain, kqew nothing of foreigners, and
I questioned very much the security of landing
at such a place for a hunt, through fear that we
would become game for other hunters.
However, curiosity overtopping fear,
sought to become one of the party, if possible,
and succeeded in my aims. Very soon our
boat was seen returning, escorted or rather fol
lowed by two native barges of princely mien,
and we had no doubt but onr request had been
granted. Sure enough, and with princely hon
ors, also; for in the barge were two of the min
isters of the prince, in their official robes or
robes of state, who came to greet the American
minister, and in the name of their lord to bid
him welocime to the hospitality of his palace
and its grounds, but with the very earnest
request that none but he and his staff should
land. Hence, I had to pass in as a member of
the official staff, and soon we neared the shore,
where we found house-jops and trees filled with
wondering natives, and at onr landing place a
squadron of lancers mounted on wiry little po
nies, with flaming pinions, and shining lances
drawn up, to reoeive us, whilst also awaited us
horses for our party—that of the prince him
self, with all of its gay apparel, for the minis
ter—and soon, with an escort surrounding us,
we commenced onr march for the castle. Bopes
stretched across the corners of the streets kept
baok the surging crowd, and soon first one and
then two regiments of infantry, all armed with
Prussian needle-guns, formed, saluted, and
then fell in the line of march, so that by the
time Ve reached the outskirts of the castle
grounds we were at the head of a little army.
Prince Koshiu’s castle, 200 years old, with its
grand walls and giant towers echoing with the
tread of horses and troops over its gravelled
walks and resounding with bugle calls, really
made up a picture such as I had read of in fan-
oy tales, but never expected to behold. After
passing over the outer moat we went through
gate after gate, each guarded by troops, and
frowning in their barbaric sulienness of two
centuries of time upon us, until at last we now
halted in front of the grand entrance and all
dismounted save the minister, whose horse was
carefully led np the stone steps to the door it
self, and he was carefully assisted to alight so
as not to tonoh the earth on his descent; thence
into the castle, np flights of stairs, through
winding corridors, filled with armed retainers
and cringing servitors, until all knowledge of
the route we had come was completely lost, we
were led to the grand reception hall where, seat
ed in barbario state, surronnded by guards and
ministers, was this Prince Ko3hiu. Onr recep
tion was very courteous but exceedingly brief,
all being almost at once' shown into an adjoin
ing room, where^his prime]minister received us
whilst our minister remained with the prince.
I did not get to see enough of this august per
sonage to gratify me. I saw enough, however,
to make me feel that we were safe; that we had
not been invited in for slaughter, but for hos
pitable purposes, and so felt at ease.
From here we were allowed to ascend to the
tops of the castle’s towers, where wo conld look
out upon a most wondrous scene of beanty,
composed of city, country and sea, with our
ship rolling at her anchors in the distance. On
our return from them we were informed that
we were to remain during the balance of the
day and tbatnight in the castle, and on the
morrow go to the hunt. This was very pleasant,
but I was filled with wonder to know what we
wonld be given to eat, and how we should sleep.
I was soon put at rest on this score on being
asked into a banquet hall, in which was spread
a table in European style, and all onr dishes
were' served in courses in approved style of
French cookery; and when we were ready to
retire at night, I found splendid European beds
awaiting us, each being cat off and hemmed in
by magnificent screens, forming many rooms
out of one. This struck me as being eiceed-
ingly Strange, but it being very agreeable, I
asked no questions, and took my share. I was
amused by the bedding, however. It consisted
first of a silk mattress and pillows, and lastly of
a largo dressing-gown of silk at least four inches
thick, with sleeves eto., in which yon were first
dressed and then laid out on the mattress like a
huge giant. They looked cumbrous, but were
really light and veiy agreeable.
At early dawn we were aroused, given toast,
cheese and coffee, and again marched out with
squads of cavalry and infantry for a hunt. I
was lost in wonder to know how it was expected
that we were to kill any game thus escorted
with all of that pomp and confusion; but very
soon we reaohed the bank of a river, crossing
whioh in boats awaiting us, we found a little
hastily-constructed.road had been made daring
the night, leading into an immense tractof rice-
fields. Then our guard halted, and we fonnd
ourselves in the presence of a large delegation
of country esquires, each of whom, it seems,
had reoeived orders to stop all work in his rice-
fields for the day, and summon his laborers to
do duty as setters and pointers for the guests of
the prince..
Then followed the hunt. Such another scene
you never saw. The rico-fields were alive with obliged to forbid his Majesty’s visits to the
wild geese, duck, ourlew, snipe, and the most wonhded at ih« Palace. The sound of •
magnificent cranes that ever stalked the earth.
Wholly unused to being shot, at, they fell easy
victims to ear barbarian arms, and, as they
wonld fall, away would go the naked coolies in
a rush into the water to hunt up and bring back
the game: whilst others raked and "swept tho
walks clear of all leaves and dirt; and some
surrounding themselves with bundles of rice-
sheaves, would walk ahead to serve a3 shelters
for our near approach upon the game; and
others, with chairs and refreshments, were con
stantly at hand to accommodate you with both
when you wanted to rest. The least wish was
anticipated and instantly gratified. Of such a
royal pleasure it was never mine to taste before.
You were not allowed to carry gun or game, to
get from under the shade unless you wished to
do so, and at every hand boats, chairs, or what
ever you might wish were yours.
Thus we sported until noon,, when we were
taken all of the way back in barges, and again
regaled with a banquet as a parting meal, es
corted by the troops and ministers, ahd sent off
to our ship with piles of fruits, meats and nick-
nacks enough for a ship’s company for months.
The Law Under Which the Radicals
Carried South Carolina.
The editor of the Scott organ at Charleston,
like others of his class, has no conscience to
speak of, and a stomach capable of digesting al
most any amount of political villainy; bat the
election law by whioh his party got control of
the State last October seems too strong a dose
even for such *a seasoned vesseL Remorseful
reflection upon the unparalleled and inexousa-
able wickedness of that scheme has stong him
into the following confession:
‘-The election law should be changed speedily.
It is not too much to say that it is the loosest
and rotte&eat law ever framed by any State for
the conduct of an eleotion. It is notorious that
in oertain portions of the State there were such
frauds, rendered perfectly easy by the existing
law, that should make South Carolina blush all
over, and whioh should oonaign scores of people
to the penitentiary.”
^ The Alabama SiateB^r^-
The Bullock and Blodgett railroad J-
Georgia are no doubt the instigato^, " a 8 of
lowing dispatch, which appeared in ft® 9 ®*
papers of yesterday: • Ule ne*j.
Atlanta, January 6.—There is n-n v
ment here in business circles over
failure of the Alabama and Chattanoo!?^
road to pay the January interest on ^
mortgage bonds, endorsed by Alabama fL* 8 *
statement that the Governor cannot pro via 1 ^
the payment of the interest by the Kilt'*
the Legislature meets. The laws of
make it the duty of the Governor fat**
interest on endorsed bonds whenever
topay, so that holders of bonds endows^
Georgia are sure of interest being paid
ly, Without waiting for special legislation f*-
. This dispatch is calculated to deceivah^
ness men as to the real state of the case V .
aa Alabama is concerned, in this matter
defalcation of the Alabama and ChatL^
Railroad. Although the general endorS?
law was carried to an extreme by a set
era through the grace of Congress and ? P '
State Government which was never electeSt!
the people, the legal State corporators!
they came into power' in November hJ 11
wish and have no intention te disown orw 110
diate the endorsement except when thev
legally (under the scaUa^ag laws themsli'
issued. The Alabama and ChattanoomTSn
road stands on a somewhat different w.’
from the rest of the roads. There LsyZ?
doubt whether the original State bondS
even the endorsed State bonds, neirotiatl/r
that road were legally issued under the existing
We understand that Gov. Lindsay has -v
been able to find the personal security Wa
which the road was to give as a condition
cedent to the issue of the $2,000,000 bonds. Tt
may be that no Buch bond was ever given, r!
may be that it was a straw bond. It maybe
that the bonds have never been sold. It ii!
be that the holders of the bonds have no'rirvt
to claim gold interest. As long a3 such nan
doubts exist as to the condition of thess bondi
Gov. Lindsay does well to postpone the viS
matter nntil the General Assembly convene
next week. They are the people, and tie*
protect the credit of the State. We say to these
BulIock-BIodgett sharpers that the credit of fl.
abama can never be preserved by paying eliiis
at random, without a calm and honest examiu.
tion into their validity. But we tell them tint
the oreditof Alabama wouldhave been damaged
by a usurping', bayonet attempt to hold Saltl
in the Executive chair until ho should hare
helped this defaulting railroad out of its trouble
[Montgomery Mail,HX'
Vicarious Decapitation. — The New Toil
Tribune says: . ; ;
The custom in China which allows a criminal
under sentence of death to buy a substitute
threatens to be raised from the rank of a u’.
tional eccentricity to the importance of an in
ternational complication. It turns ont that
many of the persons executed forthe Tien-Tsa
massacre were not the guilty men at &IL The
mandarins arrested a few of the meaner crim
inals, carefully allowed all the rest to escape,
and filled up the list of victims with substitutes
who were quite ready to suffer decapitation ia
consideration of 500 taels a piece. Perhaps t
more correct way of putting it wonld be to say
that there useful gentlemen were hired of theii
respective families, at so much for the day, and
returned after their heads had been ent off tots
decently buried. They had the satisfaction of
knowing that they could provide much mete
liberally for their wives and children in this mj
than any other, and by their vicarious atone
ment save the Government a great deal ct
dreadf&l bother. Of course the Western nation!
will not submit to be cheated of their demaid:
by any such fictitious satisfaction as this. The;
are not to be fobbed off with counterfeit corpse!.
We are afraid the mandarins must try again.
Grant’s Domingo
Does not appear to move off with that olesi
nous velocity which is predicated of hot cakes
and greased lightning. In the House, on Tnes-
day, after a bitter debate, an amendment was
tacked on to theSenate resolution authorizing a
commission- of inquiry to be sent out, a declar
ation that this aotiqn should not commit Con
gress to annexation. The vote upon this amend
ment was 106 to 76. The Senate will no doubt
concur, and the commission start off at onceia
a great hurry, to get back perhaps in a month
The time is short between date andtheSdot
March. Meanwhile, the measure is evidently
losing strength, and will have to be driven
through at last, if at ail, with a very tight rein
and a cracking whip.
Bnrke’s Weekly.
This sterling child’s paper is hereafter to be
published as a monthly magazine, very elegant
ly printed and illustrated, and containing forty-
eight pages. Contributions from a score of the
best Southern writers have been secured, ail
it will be, in all respects, a first-class publication.
The terms are two dollars a year, and, speaking
experimentally, we can say that the fathers aid
mothers among onr readers, can hardly please
the little folks at home better than by subscrib
ing for it. Burke’s Weekly was always a great
favorite with our juveniles, and in a montU;
form it will possess increased attractions. I
W. Burke & Co., Macon, Ga.
An Important Decision.—We quote the fol
lowing important decision from the Montgom
ery Mail, of Sunday: .
At a recent term of High Court for Escambii
county, at Pollard, an important question va!
decided. It appears that an old sow, eating
corn on the railroad track, collidedvrithafresgit
train; result, the train slightly damaged aM
the sow defunct. The owner of her porksbi?
brought suit against the road for killing hef.
The case wa3 argued long and well, manyknon;
points were discussed and decided pro and ax
Finally, the sage justice said the whole question
turned on whether the railroad train was trav
eling on the sow’s time, or the sow running ca
jthe railroad’s time. Being as how the sow vas
on the road’s time, the owner of her porciM
majesty must pay damages to the road for tres
pass. Court adjourned to the nearest groWjf
and *‘fired up” at the expense of counsel for tn-
sow. ^
A Sensitive Man in the Wrong Place.—P f -
Russell, the war correspondent of the Loslca
Times;, writing at Versailles, says:
lam told that King William is <*» «f“|
most sensitive men in the world. Hisf«-iap
are bo acute that his medical advisers
wounded at the Palace. The sound
march, ortho sight of a military funeral in
duces a deep melancholy, and the aspect ot
battle-fields on which were won his l nl .P c ,
Crown and the immortal glory of
of his honse and name, has made him sick u-g
unto death, and quite unmanned him for m .
hours afterwards. •
If that is true King William is certainly «.-
unfortunately situated.
Boutwell’s Financiering. — The Lon u ° a
Times, in an article on Secretary Boutwells 16
port, expresses the opinion that:
Tho vast resources, the patient
tax-payers with whom the American beer \
of the Treasury has to deal, would give a
ora Gladstone tho opportnity of making*®
great strokes in finance. The United ^
however, it seems, do not produce eapaDie ,
ciers, or, at all events, they have not got ^
Mr. Bontwell. He has done noUnng . e
mentioning with all his opportnities, an ;
results achieved could hardly Lave been
by the grossest blundering. When a g 3 * 6 .
isterof finance takes up the functions wW
Bout well now discharges he will find s0 ^l!n t»
better to do with his surplus revenue t
throw it into a sinking fund.
A Sensible Ruling.—In the trial of *
named Buloff for murder atBinghampk®?
York—now in progress—the usual difficult?
experienced in getting a jury who had no
about or formed an opinion of the merits °
case. The presiding Judge—Hogebeom—
ever, took a new departure by decides ^ j
“when a juror is found to have no settled 0 ?^
of the merits of the case, and believes
be without bias or prejudice, he is comp«
notwithstanding any opinion he may bav ® t'
Viouslyformedorexpressed.” Whichdecta -
to our mind, seems very sensible, indeed.
Ice.—The Northern icemen are n°^ fcr “'
gathering in their harvest.
It is abundant-
