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Newspaper Page TextThe Georgia. Weekly Telegraph, and. Journal & Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MA.CON, JANUARY 21, 1871. Dead. A dispatch dated Athens, January 19, pub lished in the Constitution, of yesterday, announ ces the death there, at half past ten o’clock that day, of Captain II. A. Gartrell, of Rome, Dem ocratic member elect to the Legislature from the county of Floyd. The writer know Captain G. well, and records the fact of his death with profound sorrow. He was one of the most genial, loveable, high-toned gentlemen that ever won hosts of friends in every *ank of Ufa. Some of the pleasantest hours that memory recalls were spent in his so ciety, and will bo cherished, now that he has passed from earth, among the most prized treas ures of the past. Wo never know him guilty of any aot that a gentleman might not do—we never heard him say a word or give utterance to a thought that was not bom of a true heart and noble soul—we never knew him false in any thing. During the war ho commanded a com* pany of cavalry that acted as escort to General Forrest, and in that sphere, as everywhere else, approved himself a Knight “without fear and without reproach." May the earth lio lightly upon his gallant heart, and God rest his soul! Judge Twiggs. The card published in this paper yesterday morning by a number of the most respectable and responsible citizens of Sandersville, has satisfied us, and wo believe all others cognizant of the matters in question, that the charges and insinuations made by Major Gallaher, in connection with the recent outrage upon him, against the gentleman named above, are entire ly without foundation. Wo therefore take great pleasure in calling attention to the fact, and putting the Judge right on tho record. As a gentleman for whom we have always entertained the kindest feelings, wo are glad to bo able to so completely exoner ate him from charges of this damnatory charac tor. We will own that his appointment by Bullock 03 Judge took us a little by surprise, remembering the ardor of his Democracy when wo last saw him, and that it caused us some rather unpleasant reflections; but whether or not theso were warranted—and we have it on his own authority that they were not—we were nonetheless loth to believe such monstrous charges against him. We repeat that we ore glad, very glad, to know that they are so com pletely without foundation in fact. According to tho New York San, no whisky was allowed to be shipped on board the Tennes see—the Domingo Commission ship; and only a hundred and fifty baskets of champagne to bo used as a medicine. The chairman, Wade, wa3 considerably dissatisfied with this restriction, and also complained of the number of outsiders who had permits to go along, and, of course, would draw heavily on the medical stores, which the Commissioners required for their own use. Also upon the room in tho steamer, which, like .'the medical stores was vory limited in quantity, and when it comes to taking medicine in a pro miscuous crowd, every sensitive man objects to it Pboclamation Printing.—The Atlanta Con stitution soothes its lacerated feelings by the following burst on tho above subject: The Macon Telegraph seems rather ashamed, as it Bricks tho infernal and needless piece of gubernatorial waste and folly on its fourth page. Where did you “stick” it when you had it? And did you call it “an infernal and needless piece of gubernatorial waste and folly” then? Have you a copy of Esops’ Fablea, handy? If •so, -overhaul and when the touching story of ^e fox and grapes is found “make a note on't. Cboakebs.—The Senior acknowledges from the hand of Felix Cobput, Esq.,' at Jacksonville, a gallant pair of croakers, weighing, we sup pose, six or seven pounds apiece. The croaker Is said to bo choice fish, but we do not reoolleot over testing one. Wo will give Mr. Corput’s present a warm reception. Mr. Gorput is now shipping large quantities of shad and other fish to Macon and the neighboring cities, and wo hope ho will be liberally rewarded for his activ ity and enterprise. The Nathans Murder.—A reporter of the New York World had an interview with Colonel Whitely, head of the United States’ secret serv ice force a few days since, and in answer to the question whether he knew anything regarding tho assertion that the murderer of Mr. Nathans would 6oon be arrested, replied as follows: Yes; more than I deem itprndent to disclose at present; but I do not hesitate to say that the right man is known, and that it is hardly within tho bounds of possibility that ho can escape. Georgia Senators.—Blodgett filed his Sena torial certificate yesterday, claiming a seat un til the 4th of March 187C. We learn, that the Judiciary Committee will present three reports upon the other claimants. A majority repotrs in favor of Hill and Miller: one minority report in favor of Farrow and Whitoley, and another in favor of sending tho whole posse back to the Legislature again. Supplementary Crra. Rights.—Tho negroes memoralized Mr. Sumner in the Senate yester day, in behalf of his supplementary Civil Rights Bill, demading common cars, steamboat saloons, hotel accommodations, seats in churches, theatres,'etc. Mr. negro can’t be easy in associations with his own color alone. He is industriously preparing himself to bo snubbed. Ton Alabama and Chattanooga Railboad.— Tho Alabama Legislature met on Wednesday, and in the House a Resolution of Inquiry was adopted by ayes sixty-one, nay3 ten, which pro vides for the appointment of a committee of seven to inquire into tho affairs of the railroad, and the official conduct of Gov. Smith in con nection therewith. Lee Memorial.—Wo have from JohnP. Mor ton & Co., publishers, Louisville, a splendid memorial volume, comprising a record of the proceedings of the citizens of Louisville, on the death of Gen. Lee, illustrated with a splendid portrait and view of Gen- Lee’s birth-place. It is also a rarely beautiful specimen of typogra phy. <jt The German Empire was proclaimed in the camp at Versailles on tho 19th, and we have the Emperor’s proclamation to-day. Like the French Empire it is one of peace; and, doubt less, tho Empire will never fight again, if other people will agree to all that Germany may de mand. A Scheme is on foot to mako Gouiral Wade Hampton President of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. Wo were not aware, bo- foro, that the present efficient head of that road (Colonel Johnston) had resigned. The Courier-Journal had no article yesterday on the Responsibilities of Journalism.—Cin cinnati Gazette. Oh, do not mourn. Ah, do not, do not. There are three double-leaded ones now in tho cupboard. You shall never want, dearest. [ Courier-Journal. Montana now has a Hell Gate. We always thought it rather hard that the people who died out there should he required to go- all around by way of Chicago.—Courier-Journal, Political Horoscope. The New York Sun seizes tho occasion of a political conference of the Ohio Democracy at Columbus, to ventilate its opinions and prog nostications abont tho political future. First and foremost, in respect to the idea—common alike with Democrats and Radicals—that Gene- ral Grant will be renominated next year, the Sun gives the Ohio Democracy this piece of in formation : . . Let them not roat their hopes of a triumph in that contest npon any such delusive foundation as this. Grant is not going to be renominated for the Presidency; and the fact that the De mocracy are right in assuming that they could easily overthrow him, is the very reason why he will not bo allowed to carry the Republican standard in 1872. His fate is already fixed in tho minds of the Republican leaders; and. ere long the prophetic hand, tracing his doom on tho walls of the White House in unmistakable characters, will be visible even to tho stolid eye of Grant himself. The Republicans will no doubt present a new candidate, who will be rea sonably acceptable to all who intend to remain in that organization. Wo presume, if tho Sun wishes to back that opinion, ho can find plenty of parties willing to bet against him. For our own part, we have not the shadow of a doubt that Grant will be run for a second term, and he will handle the trumps in hand very badly if ho fails to make a strong raco. That tho Sun docs not credit his own vaticinations is sufficiently clear from the remainder of his article volunteering a good deal of advice to the Democracy how they may carry the election in 1872. All this ad /ice we take to be predicated on the conviction that Grant will be renominated, and then th6 Sun, his bitter enemy, will find no place, if he can’t mako one in the opposition. r Thereupon the Sun warns tho Democracy tha they cannot hope to beat the Republicans ex cept by conciliating tho disgusted portion of the party, and these men, accustomed to having everything their own way for a long rime, are not going over to the Demoorats as hewers of wood and drawers of water. They must be as signed an honorable and leading place in the ooalition, and, moveover, tho Democratic party must be purged before they will consent to come in. There must be a reform in its leader ship, and it must get rid of the Bourbon idea that the country has made no advance in politi cal wisdom since the days of Jefferson and Jack- son. Profiting by this piece of information, per haps the Democracy of the United States will forthwith begin to reform their creed and com pany, and wash and dress themselves to meet tho views of the Sun and his disgruntled fac tion. It is no more than old-fashioned hospital ity, perhaps, to refurnish the house and give them all the best rooms and the best beds, and let the regular members of the family eat in the kitchen and sleep in the piazza. Let us think about it. “A Silly Country for Snaibs I” Colapabchee, January 20,1870. Editors Telegraph— Sms: What you write about them Northern Congressmen and what they say about “Georgia Outraged'- and what horrid villins the Georgians are, to bo share, puts me in mind of a little scrap in the personal history of Simon Short, and a tarrabel country for snaiks. Yon see, when Simon Short (that’s myself,) war a young man, nothin would mete his vaes, but he must go down to Flurriday,—smergrate, as they call it, when they go to die in Texas. Father tried his best to demonstrate with me agin it. Says he, “Simon, it is a mity country for snaiks, and pizen ones, at that.” My mother, says “SimoD, my son, the Lord love ye, Flurriday is fairly crawlin with snaiks.” The neighbors tha all said the same thing, “It is a mity country for snaiks!" But I war young then, end all I keered for the talk was to get mo a pare of high' cowhide boots, made of leather an athe of an inch thick, and cornin’ up a foot above my knees; so, yon see, 1 could stand six inebes of snaiks on a ded level, and never mind ’em, nnless they ennm. Iated into heaps agood deal above that thar ele- vashun. Well, sir, I started down on toy misshun, as the Radicles say, and all along the way down, everybody I met, when they heard I was bound for Fluridy, had jest one thing to say, and that. wnr this—“ain’fcyon afraidof snaiks ?’’—“Flur- idy is a mity country for snaiks PJ iC: . i Finally, I got to Flurriday, and you may swar, I looked round right peert for snaiks. I staid there ten years, farming and lookingfor snaiks, and if I saw a dozen of ’em in all that time, you may call me a Dutchman. But, after so many years, tho old folks got helpless and writ to me to come home, and so I sot out to do it. X got my little plunder into wagons—crossed the Georgia line and after a while struck the old Darien turnpike, a headin’ for Savannah. That wur in the Fall of 1849. Every man I mot, after I passed into Georgia, when they learned I was. from Flurriday, had jest that thar old question to ask and no other— “Stranger, ain’t Flurriday a mity country for snaiks?" Well, it were abont noon, comm along the old Darien Turnpike—sun hot—road dusty, that I says to tho drivers, says I, less stop here and bale and lunch. Luke, says I, take tho bucket and go to the ditch side of the road and get some water for the mules. Now, sirs, you ought to know that the turn pike is mostly made by digging a big ditch on either tade, and throwing up the dirt into the middle. It was a fine, broad road in those days, with splendid live oaks all along in an endless straight row, jest outside of the ditch, and their great branches intertwining over the centre of the road. Well, Luke took his bucket and went to the ditch; but thrinstant he sot eyes into it, he hollers out, “ Lord-a-massy, bless my soul, Massa, come yere /’’ I run to the ditch and saw, I reckon, thousands npon thousands of copper head snaiks a swimmin about in all directions. I walked along tho ditch half a mile, and it was the same all along. I conld almost have hilt a ladder to the moon and back aginonten copper head snaiks. - Now, 6ir, would you hev believed it—while I war a lookin at the critters and a wonderin ef my eyes deceived me, thar cum along another country man, and says, says he, “where be yon cum from?” “Flurriday,” says L “Stranger,” says ho, “aint that a mity country for snaiks?" Says I. “aint Georgia, a mity country for snaikes ?” “Not as I reckon,” says he. “Look thar,” says I, a pintin into the ditch. What do you cad that?" “Why, stranger,” says he, you must be a dam fool to mako a row about them thar little critters!” So you see nobody can soe snaiks in frig own country. The Northern papers come to U3 fall of all sorts of outrages in their own States. Three or four every day in the New Yorkpapers; but, bless your soul, thoso Northern Senators can’t see ’em. No man can see snaiks in his own country. Simon Shobt. What has become of that resignation Akerman was going to hand in on account of ill health? Has some medicinal drug restored the tone of his stomach ? and if so, whose bnchu was it?— Courier-Journal. Ask ns a hard question. Tho way the Geor gia Democrats flattened ont Akorman’s party at the late election, was the medicine that did tho business. It beats anybody's bnchu all hollow. It is tonio, emetio, purge, diurefio, liver invig- orator, blister and blue pill, all in one. Sxnatob Wilson, of Massachusetts, says that he is worth less than $5,000. That’s a fact. Aftor Jerry Black had done with him he was not worth a twenty dollar bill. Secret Political Societies. From immemorial secret, oath-bound associations have been equally the offspring and the agents of political disorder and oppression. The Holy Vebme in Germany, the Carbonari in Italy, and the hundreds of other secret and bloody associations Which have existed in near ly all the countries of continental Europe, were the offspring of political tyranny—originally the mistaken refuge of a defenceless people, planned to wring from the fears of tyrants and oppressors, an immunity which' was hopeless from any other motive. But, in a brief course of time, these deadly and desperate affiliations became more frightful and destructive than the very agencies they were established to combat. They erected even a more terrible despotism than the open tyranny of the governments; and at last, by provoking the agents of political oppression to resort to tho same secret measures and appli ances to countervail the stealthy operations of tho clubs, they begat a condition of affairs which one cannot contemplate at this distance without a shudder. Power lurked for its victims in every bush and secret place, like a tiger in his lair. There was no- time or place of personal safety. Tho sleeper in his quiet bed at midnight—the mer chant in his counting house—the mechanic in his shop—the pedestrian in the street or high way, would disappear and never more he heard of. Whether he were a victim to the government or the clubs could not be known. It was known only that he was gone. No place was secure from this awful peril. A man’s own household betrayed him. His very servants were paid spies upon him, in one in terest or tho other. An atmosphere of remorse less treachery pervaded everything religions, political or social, and men thought, spoke, wrote, moved and slept like startled hares. Im agination is almost powerless to portray the horrors of such a social and political condition. But there was something very like an ap proach to it in America daring the civil war, when the stealthy step of the detective was on so many men’s heels, and hundreds found themselves suddenly immured in dungeons in perfect ignorance of any offence—in the ab sence of all legal process, and, in faot, hardly knowing how they got there. And long after the civil war, the system of detective doggery was kept up by the Govern ment, and the powers that be have uniformly enconraged the organization of secret political clnbs. Even in the South the emisarie3 of this frightful system have crept stealthily round the peaceful plantations, organizing the poor ignor ant negroes into these clubs or leagues—excit ing their fears and animosities against the whiles—urging them to invest their hard earn ings in deadly weapons—in many cases purchas ing arms—drilling them by the midnight moon —indoctrinating them in mysterious formulas— frightful oaths and cabalistic signals—all in ab surd and ridiculous prevision of a time when the whites might seek to re-enslave them, and it would be necessary to fight for their lives and liberties. As a natural and almost inevitable result of such proceedings as these, we hear of counter- organizations springing up, we know not to what extent, under the name of KnKlox; and the ex istence of these dabs has been made a constant excuse for various oppressive measures and proceedings towards the Southern States. • The Government can permit no secret clubs not in the interests of the Radical parly. It is im probable that these KuKlux ever had any exten sive organization. The idea in most casos probably bas bees 'caught up in impromptu fashion by small parties of idle boys and heed less men,.partly for purposes of amusement and partly to redress neighborhood abases. Bat whatever may be the actual facts of the case, these clubs have been fraught with much practical mischief to the South, and have played powerfully into the hands of her enemies. Ev ery intelligent friend of liberty and good gov ernment must serionriy deplore their existence, if they have an organized existence; and if they have no existenca-beyond the spasmodic follies of a few adventurous and thoughtless people, then we call upon tho latter to reflect how much miBohief they may do themselves and their country, by any pranks which tend to keep up the improssion that such secret clubs exist. Let them note,,as one result of seoret organizations of some kind, (clearly not tho so- called Ku-klnx,) that some parts of the Caro- linas are even now in a condition of perpetual vendetta, and mnrder stalks at noonday as well as night. , Let tho Radicals keep up their “Loyal Leagues" and other secret Clubs as long as they may. -They cannot do very mnch in that line, except on the hypothesis that they are antago nizing some other secret Democratic organiza tion; and when the government and politics of the country become reduced to the plottings of secret, oalh-bound clnbs, and spies, informers and detectives, wo have no polities left worth saving. Let Democrats walk in the light of day, and defy the powers of darkness—the mousing owls and vampyres of secresy and stealth. Lib erty lives not in darkness nor under leek and key. Patriotism needs no bloody oaths or dis mal ritual. Democrats, spurn the whole brood of secret political organizations, and remem ber that their record is written in the blood of freedom and good government.-' Weir Hallway Schedules. Let the pnblic tako note of the general change of Railway Schedules which takes place this morning, to wit: „. . . Macon and Augusta Road.—The passenger train leaves at six in the morning and gets to Augusta at 1.45—early dinner hour. Down trainleavs Augusta at 12 noon,aud reaches Macon at 7.40 evening. Vie are pleased, by the way to hear, that this new road is doing a good business both in passengers and freights. Southwestebn Road.—Trains for Columbus leave Macon at 5.25 in the morning, 8.15 even ing-reaching Columbus at 11 and 4.45 in the morning. Eastward trains leave Colnmbns at 5.45 and 8.05 in the evening, and reach Macon 11.15 evehing and 4.10 morning. The Enfaula mail train whiob connects with Albany, Cuthbert and Fort Gaines, leaves at 8.00 a. m., and 8.50 p. m. (See schedule for all particulars.) Central Road.—Passenger trains leave Macon at 7.00 morning and 11.80 night. Reach Au gusta at 5.38 evening and 7.40 morning. Reach Savannah 5.25 evening and 9.10 morning.' Cen tral passenger trains arrive at Macon, C.40 evening and 5.05 in themoming. See schedule for farther particulars. Zion’s Herald,-the politico-religious organ of the moro bigoted of the New England Puritans, says of Brot Harte: “ Gamblers, harlots, thieves, murderers, men so vile as to have no trace of oven good humor, sulky and villain ous, entirely and completely, are sent by him to heaven.” It is a little singular that the ed itor of the Herald should object to the sending of such people to heaven. They could certainly bo sent to noplace where he would bo less likely to meet them.—Courier-Journal. Alabama. — Governor Lindsay addresses a letter, on the 19th, to ibe Solicitor of Coosi, -re quiring him to be vigilant and active in tho de tection and punishment of disguised bands who have committed violence in that connty. He declares that the peace of tho State shall be maitained at all hazards. THE GEORGIA PRESS. On "Wednesday morning, Mr. Charles Bock- hurst, first engineer of tho steamer Dictator, was fonnd dead sitting in a chair in his state room, while the steamer wa3 on her way from Charleston to Savannah. The Eagle and Phoenix factory at Columbus, has re-elected the old board of directors, end Messrs. N. G. Bussey and G. G. Jordan, Presi dent and Secretary and Treasurer. The factory at present is running 20,000 spindles; 2000 woolen and the rest cotton, and 435 looms. The matrimonial market in Columbus is very brisk. There have been half dozen pairings in that city and vicinity within the last week. The Columbus Enquirer says: Will Less Cotton be Planted.—The Macon Telegraph is rejoiced to hear suoh accounts from the planters as leads it to look for a heavy falling off in cotton production this year, and a corresponding increase in food crops. It also anticipates a diminution of the cotton crop as the effect of the policy of renting lands to the nogroes—a plan extensively resorted to this year. It has heard conjectures that the cotton crop of Georgia, from all causes, will fall off at least 25 per cent., or upwards of 100,000 hales. ■ We are sorry that wo cannot report, as the prevalent disposition in this region, any design to reduos the cotton production. The policy of renting the lands to negroes will probably have that effect, but we much doubt whether it will at the same time produce a corresponding in crease in the food crops. Henry Hodges, of Atlanta, has been appoint ed Akerman’s private Secretary. Henry J. Knight, of Heard connty, was killed Thursday by a negro named Moses who was in his employ. Moses wa3 arrested at Fairbum the next day. . Rev. Mr. Wharton, of Eufanla, had been in vited to take charge of tho First Baptist Church at Atlanta. John Jones has CDjoinedthe proprietor of the Atlanta Georgian from using his press, which is -on Jones’ premises. The proprietor has gone to Washington to have Jones reconstructed. The Calhoun Times whets our appetite by the following tantalizing paragraph: Madam Rumob has it that onr town has re cently been the theatre of one of the strangest romances of the present decade. . We forbear giving a detailed account until the facts in the premises are fully established. Bays the Constitution of yesterday: A Bio Haul.—The Treasurer paid yesterday a warant for five thousand dollars,'to E. C. Mur phy, for the apprehension and deliver? of Hughey Butler, charged with assault to kill Allied Watson, of Hancock county, as per Ex. Procla mation of 2Gth September, 1870. Five thousand dollars for a man charged with an assault. And nineteen burglars, imprisoned for life, turned loose in a body. Five thousand dollars to catoh a man charged with an attempt to kill. And Long, eaid by Judge McCoy to be a reckless, causeless mur derer, pardoned ere his victim wa3 thoroughly cold in his grave. The Era of same date has the following: Bold Robbery. —Yesterday, an old man named Rainey, was with his family passing through Atlanta on his way to Texas. He pur chased five emigrants’ tickets, for which he paid, at commutation rates, $75. His baggage, was dll checked and aboard tho train, when he discovered to his consternation that tho remain der of his money, some $70, his tickets and baggago checks, had all been stolen. His grief wa3 pitiable. The agent of the lines over which the old man was abont to travel, Mr. Akers and McGill, buised themselves to find out the thief and comfort the old man. They were preparing to make every effort to have the family passed over the road when, late in the afternoon, Mr. McGill received the following: “To Tom McGill or Akers: I am off. Those tickets and checks yon can have. I know you both.” (Signed.) ’Texas forever.” The gin house of J. A. J. Phillips, a few miles from Hawkinsvillo, was burned last Mon day, with the machinery and two and a half bales of cotton. A runaway horse, belonging to Mr. W. W. Ricks, of Hawkinsvillo, after a gallop of three miles with a buggy attached, jumped into the river and swam across, bringing the'buggy safe ly out. Neither horse nor vehiole were injured. Mr. Ferdinand. Collins, of Pulaski county, made rather a bad trade last week. Ho sent Mr. William Barnes, of New York, $10, in re turn for which Mr. B. was to send him a large box of “watches and jewelry.” The box came per express, bat Mr. B. had made a little mis take, and instead of watches and jewelry thero was some old iron and a slip of paper entreating Mr. O. not to be surprised at the contents, and to “keep kool.” Mr. C. thereupon tore'his hair and sought a lawyer who garnisheed tho express agent. Mr. C. paid $96 express charges on the box, and got bis money back minus about $25 for fees, etc. It would not be healthy for Mr. B. to go to Mr. G.’s house to stay all night, just about now. . . Mr. W. Kellar, a “quiet; industrious” young man, cut Mr. Alonzo Btitton, another “quiet, industrious” young man, vory severely with a knife last Wednesday night, at'LaGrangO. We clip as follows from the Albany News, of Fridays : The Brunswick and Albany Railroad—Re turn op Colonel Schlatter—Work to Com mence at this End.—This great work is now progressing with vigorous activity. Colonel Hulbert is, with upwards of six hundred hands, grading and laying track. He has probably reached the Alapaha with the track laying,wl Ho a large grading force Is working fifteen miles this side. Colonel Charles L. Schlatter returned to our city on Wednesday morning to place contractors oa the lino eastward from the Flint, and yes terday with Messrs. Overton and Lewis went ont on tho survey. The latter gentlemen, we believe, have a contract extending thirty-one miles east, and we are glad to announce that numerous applications for snb-contraotors jus tify the supposition that this section will be completed as early as tho Alapaha section. Given Bond.—Mr. O. Wesolowski, recently elected Clerk of our Superior Court, succeeded on Tuesday last, in making a satisfactory bond, and was sworn in. We understand Mr. J. F. Cargtle, tho best clerk in the Stato, will remain in the office and do the work. A Neqbo Disemboweled.—A difficulty occur red between two negroes at a suburban doggery, kept by one Sauls, yesterday afternoon, in which one used a knife across the front and center of the other, inflicting a wound from side to side and exposing his commissary department. One went to jail, and the other—well, no matter. Names unimportant. Thero is an incipient secession brewing down at Augusta iix the new territory annexed to that city by the Agenoy. The merehants and other dealers inside its limits being interviewed by a official on the snbject of licenses, said they had paid the county for licenses, and that they’d be— dashed if they didn’t secede before they would pay any more. The National Hotel, of Atlanta, has closed. “Busted.” Tho liquor and tobacco storo of R. M. Rose & Co., at Atlanta, was entered and robbed Thursday night of $10 65 in money, and a Smith & Wesson pistol, a basket of-champagne, brandy cherries, several bottles of fine brandy, a.boxoffine tobacco, fifteen boxes of fino ci gars and a lot of mersobanm pipes. On Thursday evening Messrs. M. 0. Davis andN. M. Robinson enlivened matters on White hall street, Atlanta; by appearing on that thoroughfare uno armed with a double-barreled shot gun and the other with a revolver. They didn’t shoot, though. Whon juvenile fifteenth amendments fell out of trees and smash themselves while ’possum hunting, u^f at Atlanta, their grief stricken parents apply to tho City Counoil for relief. The Covington Enterprise of Friday, says: Ic Ocmuloee and North Georgia Railboad. The corps of surveyors of whom Col. Dubois is chief engineer, passed through .Covington this week, reporting the distance by their survey from Macon, at 66 miles. Height above the ocean at. this point 747 feet. Tho engineers were las: night reported to be near Mr. Giigess, on the west sida of Lawrenc6villb road.. What General Blair Thinks of Divers and Sundry Matters—He Stands by Ills Letter of 1868. A reporter of the Herald has been interview ing General, now Senator, Blair. Here is what he says abont Missouri, and what she will.do at ihe next election: “If we only had a fair presentation at the polls, we would have doubled our majority at the last election. If we only got the fair play that Indiana got, we could have done it. Look at the figures. Indiana has a population of 1,600,000, and sho has 312,000 voters. Mis souri, with a population of 1,700,000 has only 165,000 voters. I tell you, sir, that when we restore the franchise to the men who are deprived of it now, under the oonsti- tution, which we are going to change at tins session, you will see Missouri giving a larger Democratic majority in the next election than you did in New York in November. Yes, by a long sight.” The Senator thinks Grant is just as danger ous a man as he has always thought him, and that he will not scruple to use the bayonet to keep himself in power. He also was very'em- phatio in the opinion that the Democratic can didate for President in 1872 shonld come from the West, and that that section wonld demand as much—thought that Tammany was going too fast, and that Governor Hoffman conld wait In a speech in the Missouri House of Repre sentatives, delivered a few days before this in terview, he took oooasion to refer, as follows, to his Broadhead letter, written in 1868: Now, sir, my letter contends that the military shonld be made tonndo their nsnrpations at the South. I say so still. And you. have only to withdraw them from the Sonth and their work will be undone. [Applause.] That carrion crew of carpet-baggers who are gorged upon the plunder and drunk with the blood of the vanquished people of the Sonth, will disperse themselves iu an instant, if not sustained by the bayonets of the Federal Government [Ap. plause.] There is no item in that letter that I take back. I stand by it. [“Good,” “Good.”] I believe in the construction given to the Con stitution of the United States by the Supreme Court that this reconstruction was unconstitu tional. My hopo in going to Congress, if I shonld attain that high position, is that I may aid in withdrawing tne troops from those South ern Slates, which are held there to saddlle upon the backs of that people, a parcel of carpet baggers and scalawags, followed by an ignorant mass of negroes. And if the people of the Sonth, who have shown a disposition to abide in good faith by the arbitrament of arms, renew their allegiance to the Government they will be allowed to resume self-government among them selves, as we have done in Missouri. [Applause.] — -.t More About Scott’s New York Itonghs We observe that Soott, the So called Gov ernor of South Carolina, denies that he ever hired any New York roughs to come down there, and Ku Ktnx prominent Demoorats. in various sections of the State. Of course Scott does. His sort always do, even after the facts are proven on them. They leave Court- after conviotion howling that it is a “rebel” lie, and a “rebel” persecution on account of their “loyalty,” and the next thing we hear they are retailing their wares abont the Washington bar rooms, and begging for troops, or a little more “reconstruction.” It isnotexpeoted that prov ing those charges will hnrt Scott at aU,—rather the contrary. So we only publish tho subjoin ed additional information that the publio may see that Scott has probably—well, say lied, to be genteel—and what an exceedingly lovely thing loilty is. We quote from the New York Sun: “City, January 16,1870. “Sia—Iu addition to Mr. Samuel Haggett’s card in to-day’s Sun, you will oblige by adding our names. You will please find inclosed a card, entfrom the Charleston News; also, a passage ticket in the James Adger Company Charleston, South Carolina, in proof of ell Mr. Haggett slates, “K- H. Goodman. “Also Messrs. Presooli, Riley* end R- R. Jackson.” The following is the paragraph in the Charles ton News alluded to in Mr. Goodman’s note : “Governor Soott has at last been convinced that it is to the interest of South Carolina to encourage emigration, and looking around him he has gathered in New York a promising col ony to settle in the upper part of our State. The steamship James Adger brought out on her last trip twenty-eight ‘Bowery Boys,’ ‘New York Roughs,’ ‘Lost Sheep,’ or whatever pet name the reader may see fit to apply, all with through tickets from New York to Colombia, directed to Governor Scott, and marked ‘Handle with care.’ “They were under the charge of one Colonel Baker, of New York, and ostensibly bound fur the Dorn gold mines of Union District, where the Colonel has already amaased a considerable sum of money by previous mining operations. The crowd is mostly composed of young men, some of whom, with a little change, would pre sent quite a respectable appearance, while most of them are the hardest looking cases to be picked up anywhere between New York and Omaha. They all seem fit for treason, strategy and spoils, particularly the latter. Among the ronghness is Colonel Carrigan, who obtained an unenviable notoriety daring the war for com manding a lawless set of desperadoes. This piccious cargo amved last Friday night, and left for Columbia on the morning train. Before this they had gladdened the heart of their hirer, Governor Sdott, who will be able to send hi3 account for their pay and expenses into tho Leg islature. It is shrewdly surmised by some that the so-called miners are only recruits for Scott’s detective force, for which they are certainly bet ter fitted than for honest labor in the mines.” i From the Rome Courier. , Sonth Carolina. BY VIRGINIA q ORnTITH. “Fraud and violence have gone hand in hand. 'Where the one has been not potenf enough, the other has been resorted to, until at list, in every shape and form in which it was possible, the vety iron has entered into the souls of the people. £Charleston Courier. Dark—dark as Egyptian skies Hath fallen the gloomy night. And over the beautiful laud of the South Hath fallen a withering blight. The places where once intelligence reigned, Are usurped by a miserable crew, - ; . Whose sweetest reward is the joy they inhale, From the mischievous work they do. While the lovely and pure, the good and the true, fiffie pride and the life of the land, Are spurned by the law, as a monarch would spurn The chief of a robber band. Cold—cold as an iceberg’s breath, Gathers the chilling blast, And it pierces the hearts of our Bouthom homes As its furies come reveling paat. And our flowers of love, and our flowers of joy Are nipped by its witheringbreath, And it seems that the brightest and best of our * laud Are doomed to its bitterest death— And we cry, as our roses lie faded and dead, “Is there any mercy, oh, God! Spare ns, good Lord—oh take from us now lie weight of the chastening rod.” Sharp—sharp as apoignard of steel, Pierces the wrath of the foe, - - And deep in our hearts do we feel tho insult, As we writhe with tho pain tff the blow.— Not the strong hand ot power can ever restrain Tho spirit we cherish and love, The spirit of Liberty, bright as it beams From the eye of its heaven above. And deep in our souls as tho iron sinks. And sore as it now rankles there, The day will yet come when our fetters will break And then—may the tyrants beware. DIED AT IIIS POST. A True Hero—Heroic Conduct of a Locomotive Engineer. The Philadelphia Age, of January 10th, tells the following story: A few days since one of those genuine acts of heroism, so seldom witnessed, occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is one, indeed, which entitles the name of Enos J. Hoopesto be placed upon the record of those who surren dered their lives sooner than desert their post. It appears that a wheel of one of the cars at tached to a freight train bound west had come off, and the oar was being carried down a grade by the momentum of the train. The train of which Mr. Hoopes was engineer was coming east, and as he neared the wrecked train he thought he ssw something wrong. Owingtothe darkness Mr. Hoopes stepped to the fireman’s side, which was near the other track. At this moment the engine struck the wreck, breaking his leg in four places, crushing his hip, tearing away half of one of his feet, and knocking him, in company with the fireman find one of the breakmen, back into the tank. The con ductor and tho othor brakeman were in a rear car, and did not know of the disaster. The train was not BC much injured as to delay its progress, and Mr. Hoopes knew that if it was not promptly stopped it must mu into the hind end of the one next ahead, which would stop at a station less than three miles off for water. Mr. Hoopes, crushed and bleeding, dragged himself slowly and painfully over the prostrate bodies of his comrades to the throttle-valve of the engine, shut off the steam, whistled “down brakes,” sounded the summons for tho conduct or, and fell backward exhausted. ’When the train stopped and the conductor came forward, Mr. Hoopes was trying to stop the flow of blood from his wounds by tying up his shattered leg, aud said, “It is all up with me; do the best you can for me.” He lingered nutH next day in great- agony, which he bore with his usual bravery, and then died, lamented by all who knew him. THE CESSUS. Th« Fnlore of Earope^T; Final and Fatal 1 A correspondent at Versailles aft* and temperate review of the politic^ concludes as follows. We only hop* nations may crystalize into speedy that France may soon have ampler**. *’* her brutal despoiler: • to My conclusion is this: The » 0 >tA, disposed at first to look at the I25JN the dismembering of Franoe as • peace, but it is time that the work deratend the great danger with tones of. Prussia threaten it. l i * power is as effeotually broken now IT 1 * as it was under Napoleon I. England® purely maritime power, will remain’*!! and dwindle to something like anotWn , Central Europe will be taken up by an - empire-of twenty millions of men f" powerfully constituted, in a militarv view, that ever was, exercising a natnM tion on all the populations of German-‘ around it, and ready to seize withont all the lands which it will judge necea^ ' ij completion, its grandeur, and its mtetejM Germany, then, will have no rival b,^'] World but Russia—the one represent; Germanic race as the other, tha onion, both, it may be, agnate time in the realization of their respeA ” but fated to fall out one day, be it in'ti-Vi rt &wherJ In outside conversation leading Radicals do not hesitate to assert that the Southern States must be restored to Republican oontrol before 1872, or they will be lost to them in the Presi dential election.— Washington Correspondent Courier-Journal. Let them set to work at once, then, on a bill to bnok and gag, and lock np under guard, the white people of the South. That’s the only way to restore the Southern States to “Republican oontrol.” If they leave the whites any liberty at all, they will just lay out Radicalism colder tlian a wedge every time. The day has gone by for carrying the Southfor the nigger stealers many other way than by wholesale white dis- franohisement. There is nothing more certain in this world than the Demoorats sweeping the Sonth in 1872. These conspirators may put that down as an inexorable premise to any con clusion they may sot out to reaob. We have got what Gen. Pieroe Young, in wartimes, used to call “the bulge," on them, and we mean to keep it. The viotoriou3 Democracy have re taken all their-old strong-holds at the point of the bayonet, and no party or power in this coun try can fairly or legally dispossess them. Lot these malignant plotters at Washington go to work on a white disfranchisement bill then, right away. /- Trouble in Domingo.—The World has infor mation, through a private letter from St. Thomas, that a formidable insurrection has broken ont in San Domingo against Baez and annexation. ' ' .. ... The headquarters of the revolutionary forces i3 at Graya-Canos, a day and a half’s march from Santiago. The plan is support by Pimon- tel, Benito Monoion, Folanoa, Rodriguez, Fed erico Garcia, together with many others equal ly as influential and popular as the Vice-Presi dent. This movomont is in combination with the rancheros under the command of General Lafit, and he issupported by. the Almonto broth ers, Dominguez, Folentino, and Juranioo. La- fit is a bravo man, although unknown. Porto Plata is iu perfoot chaos. The people there likewise proclaim against Baez, nis dishonest proceedings in regard to rates (repudiation of bonds witohut notice), tho announcement of tho issue of paper money on Januaryl, and tho dread of annexation under Baez, and the fear that he will be continued in power, have so ex asperated people of that town that they, too, are determined, notwithstanding thethreats of the United States naval offioers, to join in the revolution. A notable fact in this female rights move ment is, that tho agitators are either hopelessly unmarried, or else are cursed with husbands who have not the brains or the energy to sup port them.—Chicago Times. • Population or Various Stales According; to Census of 1870. 1870. Alabama 1,002,000 Arkansas 486,103 California . 556,203 Connecticut 537,886 Delaware 125,050 Distriot of Columbia.—. 131,889 Florida 189,995 Georgia 7.. 1,185,000 Indiana... 1,CCS,169 Illinois.; 2,567,032 Iowa 1,182,933 Kansas 359,440 Kentucky.......... 1,323,261 Louisiana 717,026 Mams.........;/,...- 630,243 Miryland 780,000 Michigan 1,191,463 Massachusetts 1,449,042 Minnesota - 460,037 Mississippi 834,190 Missouri.....,.........'’. 1,703,000 Nebraska 105,000 Nevada 41,836 North Carolina... 1,072,000 New Hampshire 317,063 Ohio.. 2,652,302 Oregon 110,000 Rhode Island 1 217,319 South Carolina 735,000 Tennessee 1,258,326 Vermont 330,235 Virginia 1,209,607 West Virginia 447,943 Wisconsin 1,051,720 I860. 964.201 435,450 379,994 461,146 112,216 75.0S0 140,424 1,057,286 1,350,428 1,711,951 671,913 107,206 1,155,584 708,000 • 628,279 687,049 749,113 1,231,063 172,023 791,305 1,182,012 28,641 . .6,857 992,622 320,073 2,339,611 52,465 -174,620 703,708 1,109,801 315,098 1,596,318 with Va. 755,620 A California Obituary.—Bsddlepopsler Is defid! The bale announcement will plunge tho city into unspeakable gloom. The death of Boddlepopster was most untimely; he should have died twenty years ago. Probably no man of his day has exerted so peculiar an influence upon society as the deceased. Ever foremost in every good work out of whioh anything could be made, an unstinted' dispenser of every species of charity that paid a commission to the di8burser, Mr. Boddlepopster was a model of generosity, and weighed, at the time of* his death, one hundred and ninety-odd ponnds. Originally bom in Massachusetts, but for nine teen years, a native of California, and partially bald, possessing a cosmopolitan nature that loved a York shilling as weU, in proportion to .its value, as a Mexican dollar, the subjoct of our memoir was due whom it was an honor to know, and whose close friendship was a luxury that only the affluent could afford. It shall ever bo the writer’s proudest boast that he enjoyed it at less than half the usual rates. Mr. B. was the founder of the now famous Boddlepopster Institute, and some years prece ding his death suffered severely from a soft com, whioh has probably done as much for ag riculture as any similar concern in the foot hills of-onr State. In 1862 he wa3 elected an honorary member of the Society for the Pre vention of Humanity to Mongolians, and but for the loss of an eye in carrying out its principles, would have been one of the handsomest whites that ever resided among us. There is little doubt that he might have aspired to any office in the gift of the people, so universal was the esteem in which he was held by those he voted for. In an evil moment he was induced to as sociate himself in business with Rev. Albert Williams, and though he speedily withdrew from the firm, he was never able wholly to eradicate tho disgrace from his constitution, and it finally carried him to his grave. His lost words, as he was snuffed out, were character istic of the man. He remarked, “Fetch me that damn catnip tea.” The catnip consolation arrived too late to be of any use; ho had gone to the devil. Farewell, noble heart—pure soul —bright intelleot! We shall meet again. Edwin Fobbest recently actedin Chattanooga and an envious Knoxville paper insists that when he appeared on the stage, and many of the audience saw that he upon whom they looked was not the cavalry leader, General N. B. Forrest, the only great man of that name of whom they had ever heard, they jumped to their feet and declared they had been sold. Mb. Ferry, the new Senator from Michigan, is soon to become a son-in-law of Senator Chan dler. Bismarck.—’The telegrams report Bismarck very sick. Cheap Fares.—In the Massachusetts Legis lature a petition has been presented from Joaiah Quincy that an act may be passed re quiring the managers of railroads terminating in Boston to provide oheap trains for the bene fit of the working classes, in accordance with the Rystem of tho railroad corporations in Eng land, where it is said that the railways termina ting in London run trains for a distance of ten miles for a fare not exceeding a shilling a week, sending passengers by a special train in the morning, but permitting them to return by any train in the afternoon. The plan is said to have snooeeded admirably there, the railroads being more than repaid for any extra expense by the families of the workingmen, who pay the regular fares. The ice in Virginfa is said to bo the best and hiokest ever gathered in that State. tic, on the Vistula, in Bohemia, or t And then it is that tho day of revenue vffl 4 for France. Tho policy actually , ‘ Uc< Bismarck is short-sighted, indeed. Wte Franoe, left to its free development in bound over to peace by the necessity to, its losses, by the severity of the lessen / ed; and by the very nature of a popular ment. But once tom from a part of its. tion, Franoe will be, as I aver, delivered the demon of revenge; it will turn thoughts and all its resources to that J*. ordinate all its pursuits and policy to the! paration of another great war. Unab!» hi same time, to fight the next great battle al ^ Franoe will look up to Russia as its only i and natural ally. The clearest result of march’s policy therefore is to make Franoe” ready supporter of Russia, whenever " will.require aid against Germany; in ! words, it is to make Russia tho a’rb Europe and the mistress of the future. F n unable directly and alone to influence the i nies of Europe, will still be able to rule 1 by its joining to another, and this tei eventuality Herr Von Bismarckhas delicti set against himself! An Old Fashioned Virginia tl: A correspondent of the Richmond Whig ting from Buchanan, Botetourt county, 7th inst., gives the following account of ghoatly antics in that vicinity at the hi ReY. G. 0. Thrasher, a worthy minister of Baptist Chnrch. The correspondent says: There lives in the suburbs of Bnchiut worthy man, the Rev. G. C. Thrasher, househa3 been for six weeks the theatre of curious aud ghostly exploits. It (whatern may be) commenced operations by extra from the reverend gentleman’s com through a padlocked door, a sack of coi pourlsg.it out some twenty paces from the c£r| and thin circumstance proves that the most be, at least, white, for one bearii u hue of the fifteenth amendment conld ml have resisted the temptetianof testing it to hi haunts. Then night after night it came, ps. formed its fantastic tricks, opened winder! barred on the inside, doors locked andgnu&i scattered furniture and the utensils of the bi nary department hither aud thither, and va away uuperoeived, despite the fact that eri night the house was guarded inside and aroiti by vigilant, neighbors, armed to the teeth ri eager to capture or detect the bold hobgoUii who had time and again passed through tha ranks unseen. One evening last week, whilst Mr. T. n writing iu his study, about three o’clock, the was a bold knock ou the door several times» posted, but on Mr. T.’s seizing a pistol is rushing to the door, 1 o I nothing was there, am nothing was to be seen in the vicinity. althocA the minutest search was made; and this bod ing occurs frequently, and has been attestedIj gentlemen of undoubted veracity. Three evening ago Mr. T. went over toDr. Wood’s residence, aud whilst there heard hi little children, whom he had left at home fir ing a bell, and at the same time heard aviolat knocking at the door, and on approaching, be ing armed with a shot gun, and acoompanddb] Dr. Wood, distinctly heard his little son incite of the unwelcome visitor what it wanted. reply was given, but in an tmdiatingnishiHi mumble, resembling, as Dr. Wood describes ! a confusion of voices coming from the grocci Both gentlemen affirm that not the leas trace of any person of thing was visible, !; though every nooY and comer of the premise were carefully examined. Some two weeks ago Mr. T. was watching i his yard, armed with a double-barreled shot gun, when, as he says, something likeathh shadow, boating resemblance to a human fort, passed by him, but swiftly as the wind, and! stantly disappeared. This i3 all that he has sea and strange enough, ’ not a track or a trace b ever beenleft behind, althoughnight afternigb- in moonshine and darkness, in cahn and 1 storm, the mysterious stranger has come, playa his curious pranks, the half of whioh I have a told, and went—where? One would natnrag ask if there might not be some place in white person might conceal himself for tho parpos of playing a joke upon the reverend gentleab but I answer there is none. Every nook ha been examined time and again by many pereos and there cannot possibly be any subterrawn retreat for flesh and blood in the vicinity. Tt! surrounding grounds are plain and clear, ante seems impossible that any person conld p» from the house uuperoeived, even in part* darkness. Supreme Court et;«eorg^a■"^*|^ ul, Term, 1871. * Wednesday, January 18,1671 John L. Conley was admitted to the bar. A rule nisi wa3 granted on motion of iff-* Hill, requiring tho Clerk of the Superior (W- of Crawford county to transmit to this CoukJ“ bill of exceptions and transcript of the the case of Thornton vs. Gibson ou ot bewj tho 11th day of February, or in default thereat td appear before this Court on the day aio said and show cause why he shonld not be pn- ished for contempt. . On motion of Col. N. J. Hammond, th® ® . of Wells et aL vs. The Mayor and Aii.e«nen Atlanta et al—injunction from Fulton Sape Court—was set down for a hearing on tne - instant. ,, Argument in No. 1, Blua Ridge Smith & Looper vs. Byers et aL—was res® and concluded. Messrs. Dorsey & 11 far fendant in error, and Messrs. Bice * * }€U defendants in error. No. 2, Blue Ridge circuit, MontgonteU’.. ministrator, vs. Walker—was argaed for iff in error by Messrs. Boyd & Bice, and £ fendant in error by H. P. Bell, Esq. No. 3, Blue Ridge-Palmer ys- was withdrawn upon motion of H. r. No. 4, Blue Ridge—Crosby vs. Bull * having been settled, was upon motion 01 Bell, Esq., withdrawn. g. Pending opening argument by Judge'yip 1 ' Rice, in No. 5Tb1uo Ridge-Handet b,^ Dexter et al—the Court adjourned till Id a. m , to-morrow.—Atlanta Era. Delegates to tbe Macon Slate Agrt* 01 ' tnral Convention. The following 00unties bavo appoirt^ gates to attend the State Agricultural w tion, which will assemble oa the 22d of * Bartow Connty—Dr. S. W. Leland, CsV^ George H. Waring and Thomas Tamim- Baldwin County—S. J. Kidd, B. B. A L. Carrington. _ . -.rDvri Clayton County—J. W. Story, Robt. M and J. M. Huie. • Cobb County—Amos 8. Way, G® 11 ; , Phillips, J. A. Bisaner and Robt. Dante 1 - ^ Effingham County—F. Grams, Jn> Rahn, and Amos F. Hahn. _ _ « Gwinnett County—Eli J. MoDaniel, in Mitchell and Tyler M. Peeples. n c.„neU. Laurens County—Dr. James T. ChyPte Elijah F. Blaoksheer, and Eollin A. Stan- J- Mitchell County-John B. Whitehead, H. Spencer, and B. F. Brimberry. mmviSi Thomas County—John G. Dekle, L. a and John Hambleton. “Madame, I want a coat that I should ^ ashamed to wear in the daytime,” was mark of a justly indignant Connecticut . as he handed back a garment with the top ton gone. T.iKH OooHrruAT*, whioh supplies ,{ with water, is eight feet lower than las* 7 this time.