Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Greoraia Weekly Telea;rax)h and. Journal &d Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JANUARY 17, 1871.
Dead—Dead—Very Dead.
There is no doubt about it. All the papers
from boyond sunrise down east, to where they
daily let down the grand luminary by means of
windlass and tackle below the western horizon
proclaims trade dead. New York, the grand
centre of commercial activity and fuss, as be
comes her position, is the chief groaner and the
testimony in the columns of her dailies speaks
of “extraordinary depression 1 ’—*“the dullest
time known for a long period”—“ uncommon
and almost unprecedented decline of trade and
induslry”—“paralysis”—“total prostration.”—
These words are taken at venture from a column
in the Herald of Monday about the business sit
uation.
The Herald charges the whole responsibility
point blank upon the financial policy of the
government. It is burdening the people with
a taxation they can no longer even stagger
under, for the purpose of piling up a little
personal capital for Grant and Boutwell by the
showing of a redaction of a few millions of the
national debt. The country is at length ex
hausted by the extraordinary burdens of taxa
tion borne for so many years, and the alleged
reduction is far more than offset by the in
creased value of money and the difficulties of
acquisition. The policy of the Secretary of the
Treasury in keeping a hundred and fifty mil
lions of money perpetually locked up is foolish
and wasteful.
Here is, no doubt, one grand cause of the
prostration. But the Federal Government is
not alone in its exorbitant demands on the in
dustry of the people. Satan has inspired ev
ery State and corporation to imitate the bad
examplo. The whole brood of them seem to be
inflamed with a zeal to outstrip the Government
in the extent of their requisitions—as if heavy
taxation the better qualified a people to bear a
good deal more of it. They levy real estate,
sale and license taxes as if they had a mind to
punish every man to the very extent of the law
for the impudence of owning a house, or a spot
of ground, or for presuming to carry on busi
ness of any kind within their jurisdictions.
This, of coarse, is a terrible addition to the
trouble. |
Bat then, on the back of all this, comes the
depreciation in cotton valnes, which strikes
out sixty to a hundred millions of the trading
capital of the country at a blow. This is felt
every where. In the South, wo have paid those
guano, corn, meat and mule acceptances, and the
balance in band is very small, or does not ap
pear. In New York it is felt in fow orders, and
small remittances from either South or West.
In the West everything is hard up, because the
South cannot buy. Meat is down thirty-three
and a third, to fifty per cent. Mules worth
three hundred dollars here last year, sell now
for a hundred and sixty, and there is almost a
corresponding redaction in com and small
grains.
In fine, it is a season for the readjustment of
values in a descending scale allround, and
should evidently be met at once by govern
ments all, with a corresponding readjustment of
public burdeas and public expenses. Congress
should set the example at once by a signal re
daction all round. The Federal Bevenne and
expenses are nearly twice as mnch ns they
shonld be. The Badical economy in the public
administration is a farce, broad enough to make
a mule laugh. -
But thore are two points incajdtfH upon the
people, which, if they will atleHfl$%will result
in a sensible abatement of tho pressure very
soon. One of theso is to pay debts as freely
and speedily as possible. Perhaps one of the
worst features in a time of pressure, is the dis
position it inspires to clutch and bold on to
money. This aggravates the trouble very much,
jast as a general rash to get out of a dangerous
house, will block all tbs doors and defeat exit.
A little money passing freely from hand to hand,
prevents a great deal of distress, but so soon as
a greed of holding gets possession of the people,
then comes panic and a daad-lock.
Another duty is retrenchment everywhere*
Diminish family and personal expenses. Quit
foolish ostentation in dress, equipage and hos
pitality. This will positively involve no real
sacrifice when we come to try it. Display is a
stupid bore to every sensible mind, and the poi
son of all trae and elegant social enjoyment.
Lat ns in Georgia abandon this folly and strive
for a sober, rational life which shall combine
prudence and frugality with tho ease and happi
ness of a social intercourse unburdened by in
ordinate and embarassing outlay.
Tlie News.
The Wab.—The Germans boast of a great vic
tory over Chansey, in which they captured ten
thousand prisoners. There was talk of peace
in the German camp at Versailles, and they also
report that fivo hundred shells bad fallen in the
city, and many of them in the principal streets
and public places of Paris. Troehu is declaring
bo often that no never—no never, will surrender,
that, wo imagine, he must be reflecting upon
the point.
Fuank Blaib received fifty-two out or the
ninety-ono votes in the Missouri Democratic
Legislative caucus yesterday. Whether this
amounts to a nomination by Missonri usage,
and whether, if nominated, he can bo elected
with a Badical majority of one in the Senate,
we are not advised. Blair made a speech in
which ho said he was a Democrat and a Liberal,
which wo understand to mean, that he has come
down off the high perch of that ante-convention
letter. Blair has the ability to illustrate the
Senatorial position, if he keep3 it unclouded.
Bow c? Kentcckt.—Tho telegrams announce
a row between masked whites and negroes in
Scott county, Ky. Wo trust it is false or over
stated. ]
The Castaways—A story of adventure in
tho wilds of Borneo, published by Sheldon &
Co., of New York, has been famished us by
J. W. Barke & Co. From tho reputation of its
author, Captain Mayno Beid, it will prove quite
an acquisition to the library of our young
friends.
“Words and Their US03,” by Eiehard Grant
White, we also receive from the same house.
This wo know will bo found a very useful vol-
nmo to those who wish to speak and write our
language correctly.
Captain Tbayebs, of Bochester, has mode a
wager of $25 that he will, at the distance of
thirty-six foot, with a pistol, shoot from tho top
. of a vruo a cork --.which is placed a
bullet, dropping the bullet into the bottle, and
not breaking the bottle. He has twelve shots,
and ongages to perform the feat four times.
An Ohio man who passed around a plate at a
religious meeting for contributions for the
heathens,and then pocketed the money.has been
acquitted of stealing by ft jury of the vicinage
an the ground that he was the greatest heathen
they knew, and therefore justly entitled to the
money. [t .
Th^ lieu Bedford whalemen were in Wash
ington in force last Saturday, clamorous about
their claims on the British Government for
damages by the Alabama. Times are tight-oil
so scarce they can’t strike mnch cf it, and no
blubber bnl that which oomee from weeping.
A War with England—-What the
South Will Think or It.
If we can credit the boasts of those who
know Schenck and the meaning of his appoint
ment as Minister to England best, Grant is re
solved on a war with that country to secure his
re-nomination and election in 1872. Schenck
is a bluff, boorish Westerner, -<7To rather prides
himself on hating cnltnre and the social graces
especially as seen in England, and who will, on
principle, seek to make himself and the coun
try he represents as disgusting to English gen
tlemen and the English Government as possi
ble. He is a shrewd politician, but like many
of his class confounds ‘^smartness” as his com
patriots understand it, with statesmanship, and
ignores, if he does not despise all those accom
plishments of maimer and person that mark the
diplomatists of Europe. Schenck’s only accom
plishment that the world has ever heard of is
poker playing, and we suppose he also chews
tobacco and spits on his shirt front, and drinks
Cincinnati whisky. This is the man Grant has
selected to settle one of the most delicate ques
tions ever at issue between two nations. He is
just the man to represent Grant, they being
btult pretty mnch on the same model, bat he
certainly represents neither the intelligence,
the cnltnre, nor the conservatism of theoonntry.
We hardly think there can be any question as
to the motive of this appointment, and a baser,
more criminal one was never conceived.
Grant, so far from realizing his total unfitness
for the high position into which he was thrnst
to save the Badical party from defeat, and
showing a desire to drop ont of it as quietly as
possible when his term of office has expired, is
consumed with a fierce ambition to inflict him
self upon the country four years more. He
little cares how snccess is won, so that it is
won. He has resorted to means to accomplish
his purpose that wero never dreamed of by
even the unworthiest and least scrnpnlons of
bis predecessors, and has linked his name in
eternal sha;.:e with plots and ontrages against
the Constitution and laws he swore to defen^
and the libc:tie3 of the people, that in other
and better days of the Bepublic, would have re
sulted in his being drivenfrom the White House
in disgrace. No man ever filled the office of
President of the United States who was, at once,
so ignorant of its duties and requirements, so
nnfit for its honors and responsibilities, and so
daringly and criminally reckless of the obliga
tions and restraints imposed upon him by the
organic and statute laws of the country. He
has balked at notbing—no matter bow grossly
unjust and illegal—that promised to farther
his daring scheme of re-election.
This plot to plunge the country into a war
with England, to make such purpose sure, is
even wickeder than any of its companions. It
will entail another heavy harden of debt and
misery upon the people, with not one resulting
benefit. The country already staggers towards
utter rain, under the accumulated miseries of
stagnant trade, prostrate commerce, disordered
finance, shattered credit, and iniqnitons taxa
tion. These evils are seen and felt all over the
country, and in almost every honsehold. They
will surely be aggravated by war. Peace is the
only medium that will cure them, and even its
operations most be slow, the disease being so
deep seated. To the South, war means ruin in
its most literal and appalling sense. We have
been tottering on its verge for five years, under
Badical rale, but war will assuredly topple ns
over. We shudder at the bare thought. How
any Southern man, white or black, can contem
plate such a result without the fiercest indigna
tion against its author, we do not understand.
A war with England should, and we believe
will, extinguish the last trace of Badicalism at
the Sontb, and in that light it may probably be
set down as not an unmixed calamity; but Us
material consequences are sore to be so far-
reaching in their ruinous effects, that such a
consideration most be lost sight of. This ac
cursed war would involve all in its terrible
blight, and it is as a unit that the South shonld
speak ont against it. Grant may drag the coun
try into it, to make himself President a second
time, bat he need expect no sympathy or sup
port from the South, in itsprosecution, for such
an unholy purpose.
Brown on Grasses.
The Bural Southerner for January comes to
us in a quarto form, which is an improvement;
and this number is illustrated by js portrait of
D. W. Lewis, Secret&ry of the State Agricultural
Society. 'We think we have seen Lewis looking
better than he docs in this picture.* It was evi
dently taken of him at a time when exhibitors’
entries wero crowding in pell mell, with all the
ulloted space taken np, and claims were rushing
on him by the bushel, and no money in the
drawer. He has a startled look, as if he were
saying, “Good Gracious, what is a man to do
in such a state of affairs as this!”
Upon the matter of Grasses, theBnral South
erner has a long letter from Ex-Gov. Brown,
called ont by a letter of inquiry from James M.
Calhoun, of Atlanta, upon the subject of clover
and grasses in Cherokee Georgia. We knew
the Ex-Governor had a certain reputation for
collarets, bnt did not know he was np in the
grasses, except as his enemies wonld say tl latet
anguis in herba." The Governor, however,
talks sense on grass, as he is apt to do on any
subject. There Is one remark the Governor’s
enemies never yet made about him, to-wit: that
he was a fool.
The Ex-Govemor says he has cultivated clover
and the grasses with great success in Cherokee
connty. In 18SG he put six and a half acres in
clover, and cat two good crops from it the next
season, averaging three tons to tho acre, and
baled and shipped the product to Atlanta, where
it netted him fifty dollars per acre over all ex
penses. He recommends the common Bed
Clover of Kentucky, and Hard’s Grass or Bed
Top, as best adopted to onr climate. The clover
shonld be reset every three years, and the Hnrd’s
Grass does well as long as yon can keep the wild
growth ont of it. For grazing purposes Bine
Grass and Orchard Grass are the best. In Mid
dle Georgia, Bermuda is the best for grazing,
and Clover and Hard’s Grass for bay.
Bich black bottom land is the best for all the
grasses. Next is the stiff pipe clay land, if it
has some soil on it. Bnt almost any of onr
land, except sandy or very loose land, properly
enriched will produce grass well. He sows one
bushel of clover seed to six acres—a bushel of
Hard’s grass seed to tho acre, and three pecks
of blno or orchard grass seed. The land shonld
be thoroughly broken np, and sown the latter
part of February, or first of March. Sow the
usual crop of oats and plow in, then sow the
clover or grass seed and ran a two horse roller
over the land. If that is not convenient, ent a
small tree with a bushy top and haul over the
land with two horses.
Cut your oars.nt iha propte jtiat*, keep
stock out of the field, and next Spring one year
after tho grass or clover seeds are sown, the
crop will come up strong and vigorous, and
will bo ready to ont last of May or first of Jane.
The Governor then dwells, as well he may, on
tho vast importance of grass crops in Georgia.
Gra. j is like corn—the foundation of all good
living. The Good Bosk says, “el! Slosh is
grass,” and really by far the larger part of it
in the United States comes primarily from the
grass. And if we remember that com and the
smaller grains are, after oil, only varieties of
the grasses, then we may say that the declara
tion of Soripture is literally true as well as figu
ratively just in respect to the fraiity of all
animal existence. We would print the Gov
ernor's letter in full, but the other demands on
0 ur space just now are heavy.
Lease or the State Road.
Editors 1 elegraph and Messenger .-—I have
heard it stated that, according to the laws of
the State Boad lease charter, the lessees, if
they find it a bad bargain, can throw it np in
thirty days, while the State of Georgia is bound
for fall twenty years. Do- you know whether
this is so or not?
Is it not strange that while every thing con
nected with the legislation of the past six
months has been thoroughly ventilated, the
charter of the lessees of the Western and At
lantic Railroad, and the law under which the
Boad was leased have never been published out
side of Atlanta? A Oountby Subsgbibeb.
In answer to the foregoing, we remark that
this number of the Daily completes the publi
cation of every document relating to the lease
in question, saving the aot of the Legislature
under which it was made, and “Snbssriber” is
thus placed in possession of all the data which
we have, and can answer his own questions.
The act directing the lease to be made will be
found in the published laws of the State, and
although we do not recollect to have printed
that or any other Btatnte of the late Legislature
in full, yet its provisions have been so frequent
ly Urn subject of remark that it is hardly neces
sary. Any one desiring to read the act in full
can easily find it in the pamphlet edition of the
laws. And now we wish to add some few far
ther remarks on the general subject of the
lease.
And first: This is no party or political ques
tion, and we have no personal interest in it to
the amount of a sixpence. Second: It has been
with ns simply and solely a question—not even
whether or not the best disposition has been
made of the State Boad which could have been
made—bnt whether the law has been complied
with which directs the road to be leased, and
whether the lease has been effected, as charged,
in violation of law and to the' injury of the pub-
lic interests as defined and protected by that
law. It is to this single point that we have con
fined the expression of the opinion that there
is, as yet, no evidence at all of oollnsion or
frand or violation of the law by the parties ma
king this contract. Sharper eyes may see more
than'we do.
Bnt, Third: Speaking of the plan of leasing
itself, and the law under which the lease was
made, we expressed a timely opposition to them
as a method of disposing of that property,
against an absolute sale of it 'When this pro
ject was up in the Legislature we foresaw and
predieted the identical trouble which is now
arising abont this lease. No lease will be satis
factory. A thousand interests, jealousies and
suspicions will arise, to object to,'and attack
any lease which can possibly be made. Any
lease will be “a ring,” and any ring will be
charged with fraud and fraudulent purposes.
The ambition to get possession of and wield
five millions of State capital, at abont legal in.
terest, will always stir np sharp competition
and violent conflict between interests powerful
enough to excite more or less publio agita
tion and disturbance, and probably cost the
State a considerable portion of the income from
the lease in Legislative combats and squabbles
over it Consequently, we look for no peace or
satisfaction ont of the lease system. A hun
dred questions and controversies will arise ont
of it, before its expiration or annulment, to vex
the people.
In the fourth place, every sensible ‘man, in
thinking over this matter, will take all tho cir
cumstances into consideration. Some of the
papers talk very wildly abont the State Boad in
its actnal practical pecuniary value to the State,
as shown by results. We admit it is “a great
work of internal improvement”—“a priceless
jewel,” etc., etc., but the question now i3 what
had the State been able to do with it as a
money investment ?
When this question of disposing of the Boad
was before the Legislature, that body had one
of three alternatives to choose: 1. To sell the
Boad for $5,250,000 to private parties, who
proposed to pay the money in State bonds. 2.
To lease it, as ha3 been done; or, third, to bor
row and appropriate half a million dollars to
put the Boad in working order, so that it could
be still safely ran as a State enterprise. It was
in evidence, that, leaving ont the years of the
war, the operating of the Boad had cost the
State about a million and a half more money
than it had paid into the Treasury, to say noth
ing of tho loss of all interest on the capital
stock of abont four millions, from the time of
investment. That was the actual aggregate re
sult under all the State administrations, and
the policy of selling, leasing, or holding was to
be determined under this showing, and not by
flights of fancy or rhetoric.
The Democratic minority in the Legislature
did not, in view of all the existing facts, con
sider that the fntnre promised any beiter re
sults ; and they supported the leasing bill, we
believe, with almost entire unanimity. We are
sorry they did not pass a bill to sell the Boad
for State Bonds, and that wonld have ended
controversy; bnt they chose to lease, and we
are under tho impression that the provisions of
the bill, (all of which are made part and parcel
of tho contract of lease) give ample security to
the State. And if these securities are insuf
ficient, then the bill itself empowers the Legis
lature to require other and further security.
Lastly, as to the general sufficiency of the bid
of $25,000 per month, or three hundred thou
sand per annum—this much ought to bo said
The Boad had cost np to 1818 $3,680,000, and
was inventoried by proposed bidders in a sale
at $1,850,000, including rolling stock and all
property. The terms of the lease allow an in
terest of abont 6| per cent, on this valuation.
Bailway dividends generally ran at abont 8 per
cent, in Georgia, bnt they are subject to all
contingencies of trade, accident, fire and flood.
If these payments are made into the State
Treasury monthly they will bo equal to over six
and a half percent. While, therefore, we do
not consider that the lease works perhaps quite
sufficient results, it is not by any means a bad
operation; and, at all events, is far better than
the investment of five hundred thousand dollars
more, and positive loss upon the whole capital,
which the continued operation of the Boad by
the Stato would undoubtedly entail. *
Let us leave the Bubjeet with all the lights
and documents before ns to the action of the
Legislature. We have no other or further desire
in this whole connection, than that the rights
and interests of the people of Georgia shall be
best subserved.
Interesting to Post-31asters.
The Ealeigh Progress Bays the Post-master at
Hillsboro, in that State, was recently east in a
suit before the United States Court, by a citi
zen who bad presented a $2 bill, United States
currency, considerably mutilated, in payment
for stamps. The post-master refused to take
the bill, and the citizen sned him for tiro dollars
damages. The court gave judgment against
■To peat master for tha daawgct eb'itiedir^?
costs, amounting to about $00. It was proved
that the post-office department had issued or
ders that post-masters should receive mutilated
currency for postage when offered; the court
besides held that all departments of the gov
ernment were bound to sustain the currency of
the government, and the fact of a bill being
more or less mutilated was no justification for
ils.LoIng refused by any official of u>y depart
ment of the government
‘ ‘Stontwall” Febthjzbb.—We direct special
attention to the advertisement of this fertilizer,
found elsewhere, and for which Messrs. Turpin
A Ogden are agents. The certificates as to its
exoellence are from well known and highly suc
cessful planters, and cannot fail to still farther
commend it to public favor.
BY TELEGRAPH
Gormans Claim a Great Victory ever Chan
sey—- Blair nominated for tbe Senate in
Missonri—Bow in Kentucky.
London, January 12—Midnight—The Grand
Duka of Mecklenburg telegraphs the Duchess
as follows: “After crossing the Beonlet of
Hanno, on Tuesday, we fought on the next day
a hot bnt victorious battle at Lembron and
La Chapelle, taking nearly 10,000 prisoners.
Onr loss is inoonsiderable. We are advancing
on LeMans.”
The ship Crescent, from Havana, sunk in the
Mersey Biver. Several of her crew are missing.
The French fire drove the Prussians from
Mont Avion. -The fire irom Clamart reaches
the Invalides Champs de Mars. Persons have
been killed in the church of St Sorpice by the
German shells. Troehu proolaims that he trill
fight to the last
Nitw Yobk, January 13.—The Herald pub
lishes a postscript from Versailles, dated the
' 10th, which says peaoe rumors prevail at general
headquarters. The German batteries now-fire
into Paris from St Clond, Mendon, Ohatillon
and Clamart The shells reach Neuilly and
Porte Mailliat Avenues, l’lmperatrioe and Boi
de Borne, Champs de Mars and the Luxemburg
Garden and Observatory; and Pont Bioetre,
and Place de La Concorde, are also said to be
reached. Thus far 500 shells have been thrown
within line of the bastions surrounding Paris.
Fires have occurred in St Jaques, and on the
night of the 9th a large conflagration occurred
near Luxemburg.
Washington, January 13.—In the Sennte a
resolution was adopted requesting information
from the Secretary of War concerning the pro
gress of the works near the month of Cape Fear
Biver in North Carolina. The House is engag
ed on private bills from the Comitteo on Claims.
Sr. Louis, January 13.—The vote in the
Democratic caucus yesterday, was Blair, fifty-
two, Glover, sixteen, Phelps, thirteen, Wood-
son, ten. Blair thanked the caucus, announced
himself a Democrat and a Liberal, and pledged
himself if elected, to use his utmost ability for
the interest of the people of Missonri.
Washington, January 13.—The following are
farther details of the loss of the steamship
Saginaw. She was totally wrecked, and her
crew were left on an island, with provisions and
plenty of water and birds on the island. The
boat whichleftthe island for Honolulu waslostin
the surf, and bnt one of the boat’s crewescaped.
The Saginaw was lost on October 19th. There
is little doubt that ninety-three persons left on
the Ocean Island will be rescued. The New
York World of the 9th instant has a much better
account as follows:
The disappearance of tho steamer Saginaw of
the United States fleet in the Facifio, upon
which we have already commented, is dismally
explained in onr news oolnmns of this morning.
More than two months ago, it seems, the ill-
fated vessel went ashore on a desolate rock in
the mid Pacific. Less fortunate than Alexan
der Selkirk, the crew could save bnt little from
the wreck, so high and fierce was the sea. The
survivors, ninety in number, were placed on
quarter rations abont three weeks after the dis
aster, and a gallant boat’s crew, commanded by
Lieutenant Talbot,, which set ont in a gig for
the Sandwich Islands in search for help, reached
tho shores of Kanai, after a month’s weary
tossing on the waters, so worn out and ex
hausted that fonr of their number miserably
perished in attempting to land. Measures were
taken at once to send relief to the poor creatures
on the rock, and it i3 to be hoped, though it be
to hope apparently against hope, that they may
be reached in time to rescue some at least of
their number from ono of the most dreadful of
all possible forms of death.
The government of the Sandwich Islands very
creditably pnt a steamer at the service of the
American Minister on the 20th or 21st of De
cember, and the steamer sailed at once on a
truly blessod Christmas errand for Ocean
Island.- But Ocean Island lieswest of Gilbert’s
Archipelago and under the Line, about twenty-
five hundred’ miles from Hawai, and the sailors
of the Ssginaw were pnt on quarter rations—
one day’s, poor life to bo stretched ont to the
measure of fonr— two months ago!
Louisville, January 13.—It is reported that
masked men and negroes are fighting in Scott
connty, Kentucky. It is stated that three
blacks and one masker have been killed. The
frightened blacks are flocking into Frankfort.
New Yoke, January 13.—A meeting was held
in this city last night in celebration of Italian
unity. It was crowded. General Dix pre
sided.
Bobdeaux, January 12.—A general battle was
fought on the 11th under the walls of Le Mans.
The Germans attacked the French army of the
Loire along the whole line. Gen. Janereziberg,
who commanded the right wing, held his posi
tion on tho right bank of the Hjjesine, and Gen.
Galomb on the left and centre, fought despe
rately for six hours. The Frenoh maintained
most of their positions. Prussian loss estima
ted at 10,000 killed and wounded. Extent of
the French loss is unknown, bnt it is serious. .
London, January 13—2:30 a. at.—Tho army
under Gen. DeChausey was completely defeated
near LeJians by the second German army, com
manded by Frederick Charles and the Dnke of
Mecklenberg. Tho Germans have occupied
LeMans, capturing laTge quantities of supplies
and war material. The French are being pur
sued.
London, January 12.—Henry Alfred Dean, of
Canterbury died suddenly to-day.
Tbe Inmans have despatched the steamer,
City of Durham, to the assistance of the City of
Brooklyn.
Another terrible explosion occurred in a col
liery near New Castle, in Staffofdshire—twenty
persons were killed and injured.
The British Foreign Office-has received tele
grams from the Legation at Pekin to December
31st. They report that there has been no far
ther troubles, and advices from Chinese ports
are satisfactory.
- Versailles, Jannary 12.—In the East, Gen
eral Von Werder is followng np his victory.
After the battle of Villers, he oontinnedhis
movement on the left flank, the French meet
ing with no opposition. .General Montenffel
passed through Versailles on his way to his new
command in the East.
London, January 13.—The Times has the
following special, dated Versailles, the 12th:
Bombardment was heavy until this afternoon.
Several fires are seen within the Frenoh lines.
The Prussians are crowding in front of Clamart
and Mendon. The pickets of Bavarians was
surprised near Clamart by sorties.
London, January 12.—A special to the New
York Telegram says: Dispatches from Patis of
i?:3 C-ih w.1Cw-J.n des'. qotiva c, ■
foot of the enemy’s guns in the neighborhood
of Luxemburg. Tho destruction of. buildings
in that neighborhood aro everywhere visible.
ThG southwest suburban’pait of the city is in
rains. The damage to the buildings in this
neighborhood of St. Jacques is great and gen
eral. The imp.assicTi was that neither life nor
property was safe in that vicinity. The battery
at' OIamont is doing the Prussians good service.
The shells undoubtedly reach the Place De la
Concord.
Versailles, January 12.—Thore was fighting
near LeMans on 'Wednesday. Tho Germans
captured the suburbs of Champaign and Chat
eau Aroh with 7 pieces of artillery. The number
of prisoner taken on day previous has swelled to
6000. A
Vienna, January 12.—The Austrian delega
tion have passed the army estimate.
Queenstown, Jannary 12.—Arrived, steam
ship Pennsylvania.
New Yobk, January 13.—A World's special
from Berlin, dated the 12th, says: Reinforce
ments are now on the way to join the Ger
man armies in France, and those
readiness to go number 200,000 men, raising
the German force to one million.
San Fbancusoo, January 13.—Dion beat
Deery on 1,350 inning. Score: 500, against
478.
G. M. Ford, of Chicago, left papers at Van
couver, indicating the intention to drown him
self. William Stokes, of Oregon, was killed
over a hone race quarrel. Peter Millen was
found murdered near San Diago yesterday.
Savannah, January 13.—Printers have re
sumed work at old prices.
Congressional.
Washington, Jannary 13.—House. —Private
bills were passed, relieving the Kentucky Uni
versity and several Tennessee people.
The bill authorizing the issue of five hundred
miilion of bonds, passed with an amendment,
leering quarterly payments -of interest dis
cretionary with the Secretary of the Treasury,
and goes to the Senate for concurrence.
The appropriation bill was resumed.
A motion to abolish the Bureau of Education,
failed. Adjourned.
The President Bent a message to the Senate
to-dsy, being an abstract of papers in the War
Department relative to ontrages in North
Carolina and other Southern States. The ab
stract covers reports from 18G7 to ’70.
Leggett _was confirmed Commissioner of
Patents.
The Senate after an executive session of four
hours upon Porter’s confirmation, adjourned to
Monday.
Washington, Jannary 13.—Porter has been
confirmed by a vote of SO to 10.
The prospects of Judge Chase’s restoration
to health ore encouraging.
Siegel has declined the Secretaryship of the
Dominican Commission.
The Jndioiary Committee voted down the
proposition that the 14th and 15th amend
ments confer female snfirage—Loughering and
Butler alone voting aye.
A large number of notable people attended
Perry Fuller’s funeral to-day.
Allan A. Barton, of Kentuoky, has been ap
pointed Secretary to the Dominiean Commis
sion and has accepted. The Tennessee will
leave New York with the Commissioners Mon
day.
Bismarck telegraphs to the North German
Legation that, in canseqnenoe of the treatment
of the German merohant navy by France, the
declaration made at the beginning of the war,
that ships having no contraband of war on
board shall be exempt from capture by German
war vessels, is withdrawn; bnt the withdrawal
will not go into effect till fonr weeks from date.
New Yobk, January 13.—The Ocean Bank
mulcted in excess of valne of bonds held as
collateral over a loan with interest upon dif
ference. Negligence on the part of the Bank,
whereby the bonds were stolen has been estab
lished.
Alleged Peace Ifegotiaiions and Terms—
Paris on Fire and Bombarded Amid tbe
Flames.
Washington, Jannary 14.—In the Bordeaux
dispatch for Prussian losses are estimated at
eighteen thousand, should read Prussian forces
engaged estimated at one hundred and eighty
thousand.
New Yobk, January 14.—A Herald special
from London, 13, says Vienna dispatches of the
12th state that Austria will initiate peace, and
that peace propsals in the conference are wel
comed by Bemstoff. The preliminaries are
that Franco shall surrender one fort, twenty
war ships, one thousand million thalers, and a
strip of land fonr miles broad on the left bank
of the Rhine, and destroy all forts within twen
ty mile3 of tho Rhine. Prussia is to guarantee
two million rations to Paris daily.
A Herald’s special, from Havana, says the
schooner Wanderer, which brought a cargo of
slaves to Savannah in 1859, was wrecked off the.
north coast of Cnba. The captain and crew
were saved.
A Herald’s special, dated Versailles, the 10th,
5 p. at., says Paris is burning in several places.
Last night the conflagrations famished excellent
marks, against whichyfi brisk fire was main
tained from the southern and southwestern bat
teries.
Beblen, Jannary 14.—200,000 German rein
forcements are in motion for Franoe, making
the forco there abont a million.
Washington, Jannary 14.—Dr.. S. T. G.
Howe, Superintendent of the Perkins’Blind In
stitute,' has accepted the third place on the
Dominican Commission expedition, which is
now complete.
The House is engaged on appropriations. In
the Senate there is no session.
New Yobk, Jannary 14.—A convict in Au
burn Penitentiary has confessed the Rodgers
murder. Rodgers was killed and robbed while
sweeping the pavement in front of hi3 house.
New Yobk, January 14.—Arrived, Virgo.
The New York managers send the following
dispatch: All the theatres in the United States
are invited to aid the Holland Testimonial in
New York, by simultaneous performances on
Thursday afternoon, Jannary 19th. All the
Now York theatres unite in a performance on
that day. Will you ?
([Signed] Lesteb Wallace,
Edwin Booth,
J. Jzffebson,
John Gilbebt.
Send answer to Wallack’s Theatre, New York.
Washington, Jannary 14. — The National
Council of the Union League, headed by Gov
ernor Geary, called at the White House to
day.
Private dispatches announce that Logon has
been nominated for the Senate from Illinois,
vice Yates, by the Republican cancns. Logon
received 98, against 80 scattering.
Fairbank’s patent for railroad track scales
has been extended for seven years.
New Yobk, January 14.—The following is not
generally believed:
Detective Elcker, of Chieago, of tbe Federal
secret service, showed Judge Cardozo and a
brother-in-law of Benjamin Nathan, a locket
and other property belonging to deceased-
The detective claimed that he had the murderer
where he could prodace him at any moment
Cardozo, gave the detective one hundred and
fifty dollars, and referred him to police super
intendent, Kelso, who claimed that all the
New York detectives most share in the reward,
whereupon the Chicago detective returned the
$150 to Jadge Cardozo and departed. The
Chioago man is negotiating with the Jersey
City uolcrti res.
New Yens, January 11.—'i'hcsUftmcr France
reports speaking ihe City of Brooklyn on the
8lh inst in latitude 47:38, and longitude 42.
This is four days later than when molten by the
Denmark, and on her eighth day ont.
The reported execution of Zeena is untrue.
Mobile, January 1 i.—An editorialexmiri-jit—
sovonty-fivo strong—from Missouri and Kansas,
arrived yesterday in a palace car, inrougli via
the Iron Mountain and Mobile and Ohio roads,
the first through passenger oar between St.
Louis and Mobile. The Mayor, President of
the Board of Trade, President of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, proprietor of the Register
and other leading citizens, reoeived them at the
Battle House with speeches of welcome. An
excursion down the bay to tbe fleet of cotton
ships was tendered and aeoepted. To-day
the whole party left on the steamer Ann!for
the excursion, accompanied by a large number
of citizens. The excursionists are greatly de
lighted with the climate here, and with their
cordial reception. 'They leave to-morrow for
New Orleans on a special train over the new
railroad—the Mobile, New Orleans and Chatta
nooga.
Savannah, January 13.—The dispatch from
Washington, published in the New York Herald
of the 10th, on which statements are made re
garding threats against Kryanowski, Supervi
sor of Internal Revenue for Georgia and Florida,
is untrue. The Mayor of Savannah has no
knowledge, whatever, 'of the alleged threats,
and does not even know Kryzanowski. Tbe
entire statement, as far as this city is concerned,
is unfounded.
Richmond, January 14.—Woody Buff in,
colored convict of the penitentiary, is sentenced
to be hung on May 21st, for lolling one of tho
prison guards:
A verdict for two thousand dollars damages
was given in the Circuit Court to-day against
the Richmond and Danville Railroad, for six
hundred boxes of tob&oco, destroyed at their
depot in Danville by a band* of straggling Con
federates, two weeks before the snrrender of
the town.
New Obleans, Jannary 14.—Lewis M. Van
Eaton, alias Livingston, alias Phillips, is charg
ed with forging by Fiske & Hatche, and Wells,
Fargo & Co., of New York. Van Eaton came
from Havana by the steamer Cuba. Attach
ment was issued against diamonds in posses
sion of Van Eaton’s wife.
Boston, Jannary 14.—The Massachusetts
Fenians are preparing an ovation for those
coming on the Cnba.
Mr. Bliss, of Morton, Bliss So Co., haB been
elected President of the Union Pacific Rail
road.
Albany, Jannary 14.—Bishop Doane has
ordered prayer for rain.
Tbe Great Battle of Lemons.
Lemans, January 10—Midnight.—(Special to
the New York Telegram.) The army of the
Loire, the hope of France, has been defeated in
a bloody battle within seven miles of this city.
The report of cannon was heard all day. The
entire population of Lemans crowded the house
tops and suburbs of the city, and all the thorough
fares, and the progress of the fight was anxious
ly-watched. Although the people are accus
tomed to the roar of cannon, there never was
seen such excitement. At 9 o’clock in the morn
ing the right wing of the French army, which
was on the east of Lemans, were suddenly at
tacked by the advance guard of tho Prussians,
which emerged from the woods on the extreme
right of the French.
Upon the alarm being given, the advance of
the French infantry wheeled into line of.battle.
The artillery poshing forward through intervals
made in the severed ranks. The cavalry took
position upon the right and left wings. A more
perfect line of battle conld not have been
formed by the finest army. The artillery were
well supplied with ammunition, and the infan
try with one hondred rounds per man. Supply
trains were conveniently posted near, and the
real bloody work began. The battfe field was
in a valley, and the two armies occupied the
heights opposite each other.
The French line was a semicircle, and ex
tended twelve miles overlooking the valley
whioh was covered by one foot of snow. On
the heigBts opposite the Prussians held an al
most similar position. Shortly after nine
o’clock the Prussians began a furious cannon
ade from the woods near ihe extreme left,
flanked by an immense force of cavalry, the
wood concealing their position, when the troops
were massed with ihe evident intention of turn
ing Chausey’s right. The artillery fire con
tinued on both sides until tho ammunition of
tho Prrrzian artillery was almost exhausted,
when the Prussians became furious and gave
an order for an advance of the infantry.
The French advanced with equal rapidity
long the whole line to meet the Germans in a
fair hand to hand musketry fight. The Ger
mans were cool and collected, and the French
were behaving favorably, bnt near noon the
Mobiles began to waver, and the’Freneh not
able to .hold their position began to retreat,
meanwhile the dead and wonnded strewed the
ground, and the field was red with blood. The
carnage was fearful. Fifteen thousand French
had fallen before five o'clock, when the whole
French army yas in full retreat.
The number of troops actually engaged on
each side were numbered at sixty thousand.
General Chansey is reported sick, bnt be is
still in command, and it is expected that another
battle will occur.
London, January 13.—The Dnke of Mecklen
burg telegraphs from Montford, department of
the Sainthe, on the 12th, that after a severe
engagement at St. Cornicle we reached the
river near Saaiqua Leregue, several miles north
east from Lemans, with a small loss. We have
taken one thousand prisoners.
Extraordinary efforts are being made to place
the entire British navy in a seaworthy condi
tion. Vessels being repaired and approaching
completion are harried by order of the Admi-
rality. ; .
London, January 13, 3:30 p. m.—The tele
gram just received from Versailles brings the
important news that the mines and counter
mines around Fort Mont Valerian are in such
close proximity that a collision is momentarily
expected.
London, Jannary 13, 4 r. m.—Lemans has
been taken and is now occupied by the third
and tenth Prussian corpB. A great quantity of
stores was captured both at Lemans and St
Coriel.
London, January 14.—Pixley’s circular, just
issued, expresses the opinion that the Continen
tal demand for specie must last until the end of
the present month, after which overland ship
ments will satisfy it.
Havana, January 14.—The Hornet appeared
off Puerto Guinchas, two miles from Puerto
Delpadre, on Sunday. The gunboat Gnerrriere
sighted the Hornet, and fired at her several
shots. The Hornet immediately went to sea,*
and was chased by tbe Guerrire.
The Courier-Journal says:
The Radical Congressman, John A. Wimpey,
of Georgia, who sent $250 to Morgan & Co., of
New York,.fcr $1500 in counterfeit money, and
received a box of sawdust in return, was defeat
ed for re-election by W. P. Price. What with
this Prioe and the price he had to pay for the
box of sawdust, the poor devil must be pretty
well rained.
What took Greeley to the White House after
the result of the Georgia election was known,
has loakcd cut. Grant invitod him over to have
a good hard a«eu togctLor. The g-..i in the
Presidential mansion burned blue that night, if
never before. _
The “Heathen Qiunee” Subsiding.—The
San Francisco Bulletin reports a great deorease
of Chinese immigration, and says that for Borne
time pest the departures of these people have
been more than tho arrivals. The surface, min
ing, the great aitraolion to Chinamen, is abcat
exhausted; the completion of the Pacific Bail-
road returned abont 5,000 to a depressed labor
market; and women and children are being
employed in faotories to tho exclusion of the
Chinese. In short, an extraordinary and excep
tional demand for labor having ceased, the Chi
namen are being rapidly crowded out of the way
i>y the whites.
THE STATE
The Whole Hatter From rt,. i
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Three
Dobbin,.,Hodg^u
TheBids-theV^,^^^
Squabbles About Security,
Ihe Whole Gam of This Grand
THE BID OF THE DOBBINS-BLODGEIT <*>»>
Atlanta, Gbobgia, December 24 i s-^’
To Ex ^ aene » Rufus B. BiiOoej; aJ 1 '
oj Georgia;— ’ “ W£ hi«r
Govebnob: The undersigned have .
ourBelves into a Company for the r^Li 01 ® 4 *
leasing the Western and Atlantic
derand in accordance with the nrovisw’ 11 ’
AnAoiof the General Assembly of^MR?
entitled “An Act to authorize the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, and for
timrein mentioned,” approved £
ol ! UBal0 dnrselves topariL
said State of Georgia a monthly rental of
four thousand and five hondred f$3i emGT
lars, payable monthly, for a lease of 4id rS
and its appurtenances, for the term oT*»Ti:
(20) years; or, if preferable, we offer toiS £
follows:
For the first twelve months twenty -air tv-,
and ($26,000) dollars monthly rental,
next forty-eight months thirtv-ona
($31,000) dollars monthlyreSal iff
next sixty months thirty-four thousand
000) dollars per month. For the neit S
months thirty-nine thousand ($30,000) dor/
per month. For the next sixty months fa?
three thousand (43,000) dollars rental mS
an average of thirty-six thousand five hmflrwj
$36,500) dollars per month for twenty yeaRi,
provided for in said act. Appended hereto S
an instrument in writing, showing that« h»»
formed ourselves into a company for the
poses aforesaid. Appended hereto, oppose
onr signatures, is specified the amouhSthli
each of us are worth over and above onr debt!
and liabilities. If your Excellency desires it
we will each and all of us make oath that «
are worth the amounts set opposite to on
names. We also give onr place of remdeaee.
We offer as our securities upon the bond n.
quired by said met to be given by the lessees of
said road, the Central Railroad and ftativL
Company of Georgia, the Southwestern Bail
road Company, and the Macon ahd Weeten
Bail road Company and other connections.
Names.
Place of
Residence.
M: G. Dobbins Atlanta, Ga.
Wm. B. Dobbins... “ “
Henry Banks; “. “
John B. Wallace...’ “ “
Wm. SIcNiught.... •* “
James Ormond..... “ “
A. K. Seago........ “ ■*
Thomas Scrutchins. “ “
James M. Ball “ “
A.C.4B F. Wyly “
T. J. Hightower* Co “ “
P. AG. T. Dodd...
Abbott A Bro “ “
John Collier./. “ “
8. B. Hoyt “ “
Jno.M. Harwell... “ “
W. J. Tanner “ “
A. Leyden
Fos ter Blodgett....
Amount etdi
is worth
SIOO.KO
5;000
100,000
E0,0M
30,009
50,000
60, CM
100,000
75,000
75,OKI
2*5,000
60,000
30,000
10,000
15,000
$925,000
25,000
THE COMPOSITION OP THE DOBBINS-BLODGEIT COL
PANT.
&tate of Georgia, County of Fulton :
The undersigned hereby form ourselves into
a company, for the purpose of leasing the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad, in said State, under
and in accordance with the provisions of an act
of the General Assembly of said State, approved
October 24, 1870, entitled “An Act to authorize
the lease of the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
and for other purposes therein mentioned.”
We agree that the amount of money set op
posite onr names respectively, shall represent
the amount of stock or interest which eachof
ns has in said company, and that onr liability,
individually and collectively, shall bo such as is
provided for in the act of the General Assembly,
above set forth, in the event that* the lease oi
said road shall be awarded to ns:
Fames. Amount of Sloi
M. G. Dobbins, fifty thousand dollars $50,003
Wm. B. Dobbins, five thousand dollars...... 5.000
Henry Banks, twenty-five thousand dollars.. 25,000
Lewis L. Abbott, ten thousand dollars 10,000
Wm. T. McNaught, twenty-five thousand dol
lars 25,000
James Ormond, twenty-five thousand dollars 25,000
James II. Ball, twenty-five thousand dollars. 25,000
John Collier twenty-fiTe thousand dollars... 25,000
Thos. Scratching, twenty-five thousand dol
lars 25,000
S. B. Hoyt twenty-five thousand dollars.... 25,000
G. T. Dodd, twenty-five thousand dollars... 25,00C
P. Dodd, twenty-five thousand dollars 25,00)
W. J. Tanner, ten thousand dollars 10,0ft 1
B. F. Wyly, twenty-five thousand dollars.... 25,000
A. C. Wyly, twenty-five thoneand dollars.... 25,000
T. J. Hightower A Co., twenty-five thousand 25,000
John B. Wallace, fifty thousand dollars 50,000
A. K. Seago, fifty thousand dollars 50.000
A. Leyden, twenty thousand dollars 20,000
J. M. Harrell, five thousand dollars 5,000
Foster Blodgett, fifty thousand dollars 50,00°
THE WM. K. DE OBAPPENBEID BID.
Atlanta, Ga., December 24,1870.
Ty Bis Excellency, Gov. R. B. Bullock—
Deab Sm: Under an act of the General Ai
sembly of Georgia, approved October 24, 1870,
we, the undersigned, agree 'to, and bind onr-
selvea to pay to the State $31,000 a month a>
rent for the Western'and Atiantio Railroad foi
twenty years, in accordance with the terms sub
mitted by you in an Executive proclamation o.
yours, dated Atlanta, Ga., October 26,1S70.
In a word, we bind ourselves to conform h
all of the obligations imposed by the law an
thorizing the lease of the Western and Atlanta
Railroad, by your Excellency, and which ai*.
stated by you in your Executive proclamatuT
dated October 26, 1870, to the fullest extent in
letter and spirit, founded upon an act of the
General Assembly of Georgia, entitled an act to
authorize the lease of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, and for other purposes therein men*
tioned. Approved October 24, 1870.
Yours respectfully, •
W. K. deGbaitenbeid & w.
By V. A. Gasktll.
THE BID OF THE BBOWN, CAMEBON AND EMi c01[ "
PANT _
lo Bis Excellency Bon. Rufus B. BuUock, Gov
ernor of Georgia; ... ,
Sm—The undersigned, Benjamin H. •
Athens, Ga.; Wm. 8. Holt, Wm. B.
Charles A. Nutting, Wm. C. Morrill, of
Ga.; John T. Grant, of Walton county,
Simon Cameron, of Harrisburg, Pa.;
Delano, of Monnt Vernon, Ohio; Andrew •
White, of Maoon, Ga.; Wm. T. Walters- ® 1
Baltimore, Md.; Thomas A. Scott, of PhU»«.
phia. Pa.; Joseph E. Brown, of Atlanta, wu-
Hanibal L Kimball, of Atlanta, Ga.; Ed®® 1
W. Cole, of Nashville, Tenn.; Richard Fe.ui
of Atlanta, Ga.; George Cook, of hew •
Conn.; Henry B. Plant, of Augusta, Ga.;
jamin May, of Columbus, Ga.; Ezekiel V
felder, of New York; Thomas Allen, * “
Louis, Mo.; Alexander H. Stephens, of
fordsville, Ga., and Wm. B. Dinsmore, of a"
York, respectfully inform your Excellency u*
we are prepared to enter into a lease oi.^
Western and Atlantic Railroad, in conform:
with the provisions of an act of the LeS 1 " 51 ^ .
of Georgia, entitled “an act to authorise,
lease of the Western and Atiantio Railroad,
for other purposes,” therein mentioned, ,
proved the twenty-fourth (24th) day of UM'--'-
A. D., 1870. i
We estimate ourselves to be worth, ore
above our debts and liabilities .at least, et»“
follows: Benj. H. Hill, the sum of
Wm. 8. Holt, $80,000: Charles A. hntuw-
$100,000; Wm. O. Morrill, $8,000;
Johnston, $100,000; JohnT. Grant,
Simon Cameron, $500,000; John S* _ -
$50.0pC; Andrew vi. White,
Walters, $500,000; Thomas A. Scott, -.'"d,,
Joseph E. Brown, $100,000; HannlbaU-^.
baU, $100,000; John P. King, $2o0, WO >
ward W. Cole, $40,000; Richard Peters,
000; George Goolq $100,00J; b- ,;.;
$100,000; Benjamin May, $100,000;
Waitzfelder, $100,000; Thomas AUen, ^ j
000; Alexander H. Stephens, $10,ow,
Wm. B. Dinsmore, $500,000. fc?
We possess all the requisites pr-iaC
the act aforesaid anthorizing yoG to ^ j
road, and all and singular the
which, in eaoh of its several seetions, *e
by aecept, and offer folly to comp^Nim- . ,
We, therefore, offer and prop® 8 ® , r ^
rental of twenty-five thousand dollaM for
month during the full tenn of the le»M- ^
WereapeotfuUy aakyousRxoeRency^ of
our names to be entered on tbe nun ^
Executive department as the
to take the lease, and that you will a<*»*