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The Georgia "Weekly Telegraph and Jonrnal IVIessenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JANUARY 20. 1871.
The News.
Tho Grand Conference of the five great pow
ers cosignitary to the Palis treaty of 1856,
meets in London to day. It haa been stated by
the European dispatches that this conference
will entertain and consider, with the assent of
Prussia, propositions coming from Austria for
an adjustment of the quarrel between the Ger
mans and the French. It has been said that tho
proposition will be for France to pay one thou-
sand millions of dollars a3 a money indemnity—
and surrender to Germany twenty ships of war
and a spot of land on the west bank of the
Rhine four miles wide, and destroy all military
strongholds within twenty miles west of that
lino.
The Germans claim to have captured sixteen
thousand of General Ohausey’s army between
tho Gth and 12th instants. Over thirty thou
sand of the combatants, including both sides,
fell in tho fights—killed and wounded.
The cotton receipts since 1st September now
fodt up 1,900,552 bales, against 1,538,919 to
asme date last year, showing an excess so far of
461,633 bales.
Three grand sorties were made by the French
from Paris last Friday, all of which were re-
pulsed with apparent ease by the besiegers.
Another serious steamboat disaster is reported
onlhe Mississippi, by which at least fifteen lives
were lost.
Tho Georgia members presented their cre
dentials to the House yesterday, which were re
ferred to tho Judiciary Committee.
The weather is cool again. The mercury
stood at 31 before sunrise Monday morning.
War In New Yorlr.
We are pained to see that what the imagina
tion cf Mynheer Von Kryouroyosoutoski trem
blingly depicted in Savannah actually occurred
in Brooklyn last Wednesday—a revenue war.
Marshal Dallon, at the head of an expedition
of 2,000 United States troops, commanded by
General Vogdes and Colonel Brown, took the
field at sun rise that morning, and made a day’s
campaign of it. Clubs, brooms and buckets
flew, but the troops, nevertheless, charged sword
in hand. On washtubs, barrels, pipes and stills,
Whisky run like water, and flooded the streets
half leg deep. The heavens were filled with
vapor from a hundred bnrsted stills—and steam
boilers hissed and blow—in vain wrath. Wo
men wept—men groaned and cursed—boys
shouted — soldiers huzzaed—many prisoners
wero taken—Columbia won the victory, and, in
the grim twilight of evening the stars and
stripes were laid to rest in glory, while a good
many lawless revenue violators were laid up in
pickle. We hope and trust Kryoureyesoutski
was there to see that the United States revenue
officors in Brooklyn did not run to Washington
with the lie in their mouths that the Mayor had
warned them that their lives were in danger.
Chicago proudly announces that 668 divorce
suits were prosecuted in her courts last year.
What a striking illustration of her “advanced”
position!
Federal Interference is Elections.—Gov
ernor Saulsbury, of Dslaware, is the third Gov
ernor in the connecting line of States to de
nounce the interference of United States au
thorities in the late State elections. He says:
There were, on tho day of the last general
election in this State, persons at or near the
polls in Appoquiniraink Hundred and several
other voting places, in this State, falsely claim
ing to act as marshals, under authority from tho
Federal Government, and assuming the right
to interfere with the lawfully chosen election
officers in tho discharge of their duties. I rec
ommend the passage of a law making such an
offence a felony, punishable with tho forfeiture
of the right of suffrage, with such other penal
ties as the Legislature may deem expedient and
proper, and the application of its provisions to
all who may secure, solicitor encourage the per
petration of such offence.
“A Square Denial."—The “integrity and
parity of the New York Sun having been attacked
in pamphlet form,” Charles A. Dana, of tho
Sun, over his own signature, gives tho pam
phlet “a square denial.” He commences by
saying:
James B. Mir, blackmailer; A. M. Scteldo,
jr., self-acknowledgedscoundrel; Horace Gree
ley, philanthropist, and John Russell Young,
convicted sneak news thief, are responsible for
an anonymous pamphlet of sixty-nine pages,
tho product of a malicious but feeble disposi
tion to injure the Sun.
He closes his article by politely saying:
Mr. Greeley is a Universalist, and believes
that no one will ever go to hell, or he could not
have been tempted to stand godfather to the
anonymous libel of two scoundrels and one
thief.
Bbown & Co., send us from their gem of a
book store and news agency on Second atreet,
Godey’s Lady’s Book, and Peterson’s Lady’s
Magazine for January. Both of which com
mence the new year with a glowing promise of
increased attractions. They are bothdeservedly
popular in Southern households. We also beg
to acknowledge receipt of a box of, as the ladies
say, the “sweetest” rose tinted, initialed paper
and envelopes. The possession of such paper
is irresistibly provocative of the cacocthes acrib-
endi, especially where there is a young person
of the feminine gender in the case.
German Looting.—I have just assisted at the
deballage of a Prussian officer’s baggage, which
was captured by some Franc-tireurs. Besides
the uniforms, were found three ladles’ dresses,
a piece of uncut silk, two cloaks, eleven watch
es, seventeen silver spoons, nine marked with
one monogram, and the others having miscella
neous marks, and a large quantity of French
gold and notes. If (his officer did not know
the meaning of the word “loot,” he has chosen
some curious articles wherewith to pack Ins
valise.—Tours Correspondence London Post.
We did not know before, that any of the But
ler family were in the Prussian servioe. Or is
this the reault of sitting at the feet of that
Gamaliel of Yankee hammers, Sheridan ?
The News.—Austria announces that peace
propoaitons between Germany and Franco will
be made in the Conference on the Treaty of
Paris. Paris is said to be in flames, and the
light of the conflagrations is a fine mark for the
German cannoniers. The Germans are moving
200,000 additional men into France—raising
their force there to a million.
The Hon. Jacob M. Howard, who, as a candi
date for re election to the Senate, has just been
laid oat so beautifully in Michigan, is the same
shining light who though he had made his
“calling and election sure” by being brought
into the Senate on a litter, to vote for the im
peachment of Andrew Johnson. How do yon
feel now, sweet youth?
Thebe is, of course, little or no truth in the
report that tho tormsupon which Akerman went
into the Cabine* were one-fourth cash, and the
balance in six, twelve and eighteen months,
and that ho is now forced to go out by his in
ability to meet the second payment.—Courier-
Journal.
Receptions at Washington.—Itia announced
from Washington that “Mrs. Grant will receive
every Tuesday afternoon during th6 winter,
beginning with Jan. 10."
President Grant will receive any time and
anything, whenever anything is offered.—JV.
Y. Sun—(Bad).
Anna Dickenson’s stock of clothes must be
running low ns a report of her last lecture says
,c Bhs appeared attired in a modest but rich
necklace.” "'*'
A New Ministry and New Plans,
Simultaneously with the departure of Schenck
for the Court of St. James, the Tribune an
nounces that, with the adjournment of Con
gress, Senator Morton will supersede Fish as
Secretary of Stato. Tho gossips all say that
Butler, more than any other man, has now the
ear of General Grant, and, in fact, runs tho
machine pretty much according to his notion,
Grant is now, to a great extent, out of the hands
of the bondholders and financial interest, and
is controlled by the most aggressive element of
the Radical party. Butler, Morton and Schenck
will run a heavy schedule on “a high national
spirit, manifest destiny and enlarging tho area
of freedom."
Grant invested in a .small way, at first, on Do
mingo—partly on speculation and partly on the
general idea of “extending the area.” Carrying
out his ideas of State craft, he first pnt Bishop
Simpson on the Domingo commission, with.
a view to enlisting the Northern Methodist con
nection in support of tho business. Failing in
this appointment, he hopes to catoh tho Northern
Presbyterians through the influence of Wm. E.
Dodge.
Having gone to this extent, he is more in
clined to the bolder counsels of Butler who
wants, if possible, to hinge the next Presiden
tial contest on the acquisition of all the Cana
das at one bold swoop, and also at sufficient risk
of a complication with Great Britain to scare
off the manifest destiny Democrats. In pur
snanco of this idea the willing Schenck will be
instructed to show his teeth to the British Lion,
instead of using them altogether, after the fash
ion of Johnson and Motley, upon the trophies
of the English cuisine. Schonck, therefore,
pompously announces that he is not going to
England to keep a house of elegant entertain-
tainment—not he. He is on business—he means
business. A small snite of rooms with a few
chairs, desks and spittoons, wilt anrrrer all bis
purposes and requirements. His talk is to be
/ery square, brief, sharp and to the point.
Meanwhile, it is sagely observed by the staid
old Journal of Commerce that a wonderful ac
tivity in arming is going on in Great Britain.
All the dockyards are busy day and night, and
a dispatch of tho 13 th says: “Extraordinary
efforts are being made to place the entire Brit
ish Navy in a sea-worthy condition.” An active
and gallant nobleman, the Earl of Straithnairn,
supersedes the old Secretary of War. Lord Na
pier displaces the old Duke of Cambridge, as
bead of the land forces. Orders go out for tho
immediate fortification of the British West India
coast. Every regimentinthe army is ordered to
be filled to fighting strength. The militia is to
be reorganized. Press and pnblie meetings talk
of little else than arming. What does it all
mean ? asks tho Journal of Commerce; and
since England threatens nobody in particular,
tho Journal concludes that sho is only tired of
being taunted as “a nation of shopkeepers”—a
“declining power”—a people devoid of spirit—
fizzling out and losing all martial capacity. The
English are sick of being snubbed, and are arm
ing on general principles to be ready for tho
next case which comes along.
All this may be true; and, if bo, then the
time and the British temper are unfavorable for
initiating the braggadocio and bullying policy
said to be contemplated by the administration
in its new phase. The Court of St James may
not be willing to purchase peace with the United
States by the transfer of Canada, or by any
other concessions incompatible with its own
dignity and with its own judgment of rectitude.
But whether or no these military preparations
may have any regard to the possible attitude of
the United States and the Alabama question,
the entire destruction of the political balance
in Europe, the triumph of pure military govern
ment in the consolidated Germanic States, and
the standing menace of the new combination of
Russia and Germany are, it seems to us, ample
reasons for movements looking to self-defence.
Let us not blind ourselves either to the spirit
of tho age or the signs of the times. We call
this an era of civilization, progress and im
provement, and so, in many respects, it is. But
the spirit of discord and destruction is quite as
active os any other. The last two decades have
been signalized by violence and blood in yearly
increasing volume, and it needs little forecast
to see that the politioal sky is more overcast
now than ever. With an increased activity in
the human mind, comes naturally an increased
violence in all its passions, resentments and as
pirations. Twenty-five or thirty years ago, in
the general repose which followed tne exhaust
ion of long and great wars all over the earth,
men thought that, at length, sober reason and
religion bad triumphed, and civilized people
would cease to rend and destroy each in the
demoniacal phrenzies of military strife. Bat
alas, history since that time ha3 been bnt a page
of blood—deepening with every line, and so it
is going on to deepen in the future. War is
self-perpetuating. Violence is its own great
cause, and victory is but the ashes thrown over
smoldering fires to maintain ignition, till they
again find force and opportunity to inflict retri
butive wrong. Lat no prudent man base bis
business plans on any prospect of long subsist
ing peace anywhere. It is as true of this gen
eration, as it was of the days of Nosh, that the
earth is filled with violence.
A flairs in Africa.
Dr. G. Scheveinfurth, a distinguished German
traveller, reports in- the Cologne Gazette a re
cent trip to the country of the Niam-Niams
(Central Africa) with a caravan of 300 persons.
They did not travel in palace cars, bnt on foot—
across rivers and marshes, in which they some
times sank to the hips in black mud, and great
black leeches stuck to their legs. Neither Blot
nor Delmonico went with them, and, in conse
quence, they picked up their subsistence on the
way by digging up roots, gathering wild fruits,
and now and then shooting an antelope or a
bird. But one piece of good luck happened to
their commissary department, when Ring
Uando and Scriba Sorabba gave them a large
jar full of scorched elephant’s tripe.
After a long and devious travel they finally
reached the Kingdom of Mombuttu, which is
the headquarters of African civilization and
gives tone to the manners of that illustrious
continent. Here they were lodged in the palace
of King Munsa, the magnificence whereof is not
described. Only one note of Dr. Scheveinfurth’s
observations among these enlightened people is
mado, which is well worthy of perusal, inasmuch
as it illustrates the great wrong inflicted upon
that chosen race, when Europeans interfered
with their internal trade, and took some of them
away from their happy homes, to hoe com and
tobacco in the Sonthem States. The Doctor
says: - - .
Cannibalism is prevalent both amoDg the
Mombuttu and the Niam-Niams. Munsa eats
human flesh daily, and the Mombntto go regu
larly on hunting expeditions among the wild
negro races in tho South; the dead and wound
ed are either eaten on the spot or their flesh
dried for future consumption, and tho prisoners
are carried away to be eaten at leisure. As for
the Niam-Niams, they make war on the Nubians
out of sheer cannibalism. “Flesh, flesh!” is
their war cry, and any slave that comes
in their way is at once sacrificed to their ruling
passion.
Messes. J. W. Burke & Co.—It was this well
known firm to whom we were indebted, Satur
day, for magazines and stationery, thanks for
which were returned, in Sunday’s issue, to
Messrs. Brown & Co. The mistake was the re
sult of inadverlence entirely, and wo hasten to
correct it. Next time we shall try and hear
more distinctly when packages are handed to
us.
“Fishy on the White Question.”
Tho Mobile Register decorates us with these
words of censure, because in noticing the ru
mor that a new Democralio paper would com
mence publication in Louisville on the lat prox.,
wo expressed the opinion that there was so
room for it, and that if the people knew when
they had a good thing in hand there was no wish
for it. We also observed in tho same conneo
tion that, as a newspaper, tho Courier-Journal, in
oar opinion, loft nothing to be desired, except
by the professional politicians who couldn’t
dead beat it, and, therefore, tried to howl it
down as not “sound” on the white question.
We also said that we didn’t think Mr. John For-
sjth’s shoulders—who was mentioned as one of
the editors of the new paper—were broad and
strong enough to carry the burden of such a
big job as wo know that of breaking down the
Courier-Journal would prove. This, in brief,
is a full statement of our offence.
Leaving the Courier-Journal to tako care of
itself—and it has shown its entire ability to do
that, os tho editor of the Register can sorrow
fully testify—we will reply very briefly for our
selves. And first we let the Register be heard.
It says:
As to the Macon paper, wo refer it to the re
sult of the late Georgia election in its own
county of Bibb, which was lost to the Democ
racy because of its weak attempt at coquetry
with negro voters. Before that paper vaunts
its political wisdom, ai> far as to undertake to
advise the Kentucky Democracy as to what it
shall deem catholio and sound, it should show
the fruits of its own dawdling policy in its own
bailiwick. It disgusted the white men, and beat
its own party, by attempting to run with the
black hare and hold with the white hounds.
Failure—deserved and disgraceful failure—has
marked every such attempt, and it always will.
White Democrats will not train in parti-colored
regiments, and every attempt to odist black re
cruits in onr ranks, will drive more white sol
diers away than gain black ones.
As the Telegraph and Messenger did no!
coquet with negro voters, and did not dis
gust white men, and did not beat its own
party at the late election, we might leave
the Register confronted and confounded by this
square denial, of whose entire correctness and
impregnability we defy challenge and attack
from any quarter.
But we prefer to go farther, and say that the
whole scope and tenor of the Register’s article,
as applied to this paper, is grossly unjust and
unfounded. It finds no warrant either in any
thing we have ever said, or any thing any re
spectable enemy has said of ns. It has the ap
pearance of a deliberate attempt to impugn and
impeach our fidelity to Democratic principles,
and onr standing as an exponent and defender
of the politioal faith of that organization,
merely bccanse we made bold to say that a new
Democratic paper at Louisville was not, in onr
judgment, needed, and that even the editor of
the Register could not successfully head the
charge it proposed to make against the Courier-
Journal. It has the appearanoe of personal
pique, because we ventured to doubt the ability
of the editor of the Register to inspire the
new organ with a sufficient vim to break down
and drive its rival from the field. It is the ed
itor of the Register, personally, who seems to
feel himself aggrieved, and who attacks, and
not the conductor of a public journal profess
ing the same political faith with ourselves, and
owing it to himself, to us, and to his readers to
cast no unmerited reproach, to make no cause
less assault upon those whose standing is just
as well recognized, and whose repute is just as
fair as his own. We may do our assailant in
justice, but such seems to us the animus of his
attack.
Lot the Register goits way, and we will go ours.
If it prefers to fight windmills, and when then,
the real enemy is attacked and vanquished by
men who hit where hitting hurts come prancing
on the field and vaunting itself the sole viotor,
well and good. When the Democratic hosts are
slinging their knapsacks and preparing rations
and ammunition for a grand advance along the
whole line, against the common foe, and wel
coming every reoruit who comes animated with
the same spirit, if the Register prefer to stop
and mouth over dead issues, and split hairs
over defunct or wrecked theories and abstrac
tions, and then,when the battle has been fought
and won, brandish its bloodless spear and
call for the band to play. “Seethe Conquer
ing Hero Comes”—all right. It hurts nobody
and is very amusing. Bat let the Register con
tent itself with such harmless absurdities—let
itB fooling stop right there. Let itnotseek to tra-
dace or reproach those whose status and services
are at least as honorable and well recognized as
its own. Let it turn its batteries upon the ene
my, and not upon those who fight in the same
ranks with itself, and whose banner bcaTS the
record of quito as many victories as that of its
assailant.
As for the Telegraph and Messenger it will
neither halt in, nor deflect from its well defined,
well considered line as an advocate of what it
conceives to be the best interests of the people
—having time and inclination neither to stop
and consult the Register and kindred sheets as
to the propriety of it3 course, nor to quarrel
with any man,* or men, or newspapers who insist
upon it that the world does not move, and that
the best way to destroy Radicalism is to assail
those who, quite as earnest in that desire as
their assailants, yet do not insist that all who
come to help them shall walk, and talk, and dress,
and look,, and eat, and brush their hair, and
wear their beard, and believe in the same ghost
stories, and cherish the same superstitions and
absurd prejudices as themselves. We hope in
creasing years will bring the Register to the
same stand point of wisdom and common sense.
* New Books.—0. F. Vent, subscription book
publisher, 33 West Fourth street, Cincinnati,
sends us two books, just issued from his press
—the first oalled “Belden, the White Chief; or
Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians of the
Plains;” and the second “Satan in Sooiety.
From a hasty glance we judge the former to be
of considerable merit, and abounding in scenes,
situations, and incidents of thrilling interest
The hero, George P. Belden, is a white man, a
native of Ohio, who lived on the plains with
the Indians from 1858 to 1870, and his narra
tive is vouched for aa a simple, straightforward
statement of his life daring that period.
, * ‘Satan in Society” is well named. The sub
jects it disoussea are infinitely more fit for the
lecture-room of a medical professor than to be
printed and lie on the book shelves of a circu
lating library, or be talked of in general socie
ty. Such books generally pretend to be written
in the interests of morality and Bound physio
logical doctrines, but they too frequently only
pander to the prurient tastes of those who bny
and read them. We cannot see where “Satan
in Society” differs from its companions.
The Medical and Surgical Repertory, is
the title of a semi-monthly magazine, published
by Drs. E. F. and J. J. Knott, in Griffin, the
first number of which is received. It is a
pamphlet of siiteen pages. Price, $3 CO per
annum. * . ;
The miracle of the age has been found in the
person of William H. North, who won’t take the
State Ssnatorship of the Tenth District of Wis
consin, because he only got the certificate of
election on account of the ‘misprinting of his
opponent’s name on some six hundred ballots.
Newfoundland is do longer niider the mili
tary protection of England, the last of the gar
rison having recently been removed from St.
Johns, after an occupation of more (ban a cen
tury.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Columbus negroe3 are going to contest
the election for county officers in Muscogee
county.
There are forty bar-rooms in Columbus—
eight first-class, and thirty-two seoond-olas3,
The former sell 25-cent drinks, the latter 10
cents and under. They yield an annual reve
nue to the city of about $2,800; first-class pay
$100 license, second-class $50.
The Columbus “priz9 baby" fell down and
broke his, or her, arm on Tuesday.
The Columbus San tells the following story
A Judicial Freeze Out.—All know how cold
it was Tuesday night Well, a jury wafi in a
vacant room up stairs in the Court-house, with
out fire, from 6 p. m. to 12 m. They played
“freeze out” with a vengeance. All agreed but
two, and they wanted twenty years in the peni
tentiary for the prisoner. At last one came to
terms. The other was firm. They say one
juror offered to drown his conscience with beer,
whisky, champagne, a whipping, anything to
keep from freezing to death. At last, cold re
duced the obstinate one to terms, and the body
found a verdiot which caused the Judge to sen
tencethe prisoner to two years in the peniten
tiary.
The father and mother of tho young girl,
whose seduction by a young man at Augusta we
noticed yesterday, found her on Wednesday and
took her bade home.
Dr. W. F. Pendleton has taken permanent
charge of the South Georgia Times.
Rome is borrowing money at 1 J per cent, a
month to redeem her city currency.
Mr. W. S. Burney, an old and much respected
citizen of Cave Spring, died last Wednesday.
A drunken man was run over near McDaniel’s
Depot on the State Road, last Monday, and so
horribly mangled that his identification was im
possible.
The Atlanta San proposes “from time to time
to give brief sketches of the business characteris
tics of Georgians, living and dead, whose con
nection with its oommoroial advancement and
progress have stamped their biography with
marks sufficiently strong as to invite - attention
to them as representatives of their class."
Onr friend Randall, of the Constitutionalist,
“Wogan’s” Wimpey, and monogram garters are
the latest arrivals in Atlanta.
Kencsaw mountain, near Marietta, has been
on fire for the last ten days.
In a difficulty at Monroe, Walton county, a
few days since, between three brothers named
Eason, and two men named Simmons, and a
man named Adcock, one of the Easons was shot
dead, and another dangerously wounded.
The iron safe of Mr. Dickey, Dalton agent of
tho State Road, was unlocked, Thursday night
of last week, and six or eight thousand dollars
stolen. A clerk in the offioe named Trantwine
is suspected, as he ha3 turned up missing.
Mr. James J. Mayo, one of the oldest and
most esteemed citizens of Albany, died of par
alysis on Wednesday night.
Albany pays her Mayor $800, her Marshal
$1200, her Deputy Marshal $1000, Clerk of
Council $500, Treasurer and Collector $500,
City Attorney $400, and her City Physician
$IS0 per annum. i-’JH
Some workmen digging a ditch lost week from
a pond on the farm of L. M. Honser, in Hous
ton county, found nine young alligators, seven
of which were killed.
The Columbus Sun tells of a case called in
the Superior Court over there, the other day,
which involved $315, and in which twelve law
yers, among them some of tho most distin
guished in the State, appeared as counsel.
There will not be much meat on that bone after
such picking. In fact, we hardly think there
will be any bone left
A little son of N. S. MoOalley, of Troup
county, was crushed to death in a gin, one day
last week. -
The La Grange Reporter has this to say about
the lease of the State Road:
Lease op the State Road.—This subject is
creating unnecessarily, a great deal of newspa
per discussion. It is charged that favoritism
ias been practiced by the Governor in letting
the lease to the company now in possession of
the road. It is charged, and color given to the
charge by Hon. A. H. Stephens, one of the les
sees, that a higher bid wa3 refused. In a letter
in reply to Mr. Stephens by Joseph E. Brown,
the charge is met by that gentleman in the state
ment that a company, headed by A. K. Seago,
Foster Blodgett, et at, put in a bid offering $30,-
500 per month as rental for the use of the road,
but failed to give the required security. Ac
cording to the statement of Brown, we are in
clined to the opinion that the lease was lawfully
and justly let out to the only company comply
ing strictly with the aot authorizing the Govern
or to lease that property. Brown, however,
thinks Bullook, if he exercised favoritism in the
matter at all, did so in behalf of Seago, Blodg
ett & Co., because he gave them two days after
the time of opening the bids had passed, in
which to name sureties in the place of those
named in their bid, but who refused to become
so by informing the Governor that their names
were given without authority.
As to the price to be paid as rental for the
State Road, we think it too small, the opinion
of Governor Brown to the contrary. Other
roads pay larger dividends, and they are mere
feeders to the State Road. That the present
company, with judicious management, will
make a handsome thing out of the lease, there
can be no doubt. But at the same time, it i3
better they should use it, make money wi h it,
pay the State a small portion, and keep it and
return it in good condition at the expiration of
their lease, than that it should be ran down on
political account and the people taxed to keep'
it up solely for the benefit of partisan purposes.
The Eiberton Gazette says a well of kerosene
has been discovered in the lower part of that
county. ' ’
J. F. Collier, formerly an employee of the
Gulf Railroad, was arrested last ‘Wednesday, at
Savannah, upon the charge of passing counter-;
feit U. S. currency of the denomination of $20.
Annie Hearn, aged 14, dressed in a striped
print dress, brown oloak, with brown bonnet
and ribbons to match, hair cat short, and a
sharp scar directly over the left eye, has been
missing from her home in Savannah since Tues
day last
The ladies of the Lee Monument Committee
at Savannah acknowledge the receipt of the fol
lowing moneys:
City of Savannah, $1,161 17; Columbus,
$477 65; Macon, $111 25; Athens, $200 00;
Eatouton, $186 20 ; Kingston, $38 00; Ros
well, $30 00; St Marys, $24 50; Albany, $63-
30; West Point, $42 50; Louisville, $78 25;
Americas, $120.
They also publish the following extract from
a letter received by them from the Central Com
mitteat Richmond t
“I received a letter last evening from Mrs.
Lee in which she says that it is her intention to
have the General’s remains removed to Rich
mond should she ever leave Lexington; and if
not, that she wishes them at her death to be
placed in Hollywood, and that she be bnried
beside him there. This settles the question
that Richmond is to be their final resting place,
and makes it appropriate that here his grateful
and loving countrymen should rear their great
est monument to his memory.”
Papers throughout the State please eopy.
The editor of tho Atlanta Constitution, now
on a visit to Dalton, writes as follows to that
The Lease.—The great subject of public in
terest I find to be the lease of the State road.
Everybody is talking about it, and there is
variety of opinions. The people up here are
about equally divided. Mr. Stephens’ connec
tion with it is a matter of special comment. His
withdrawal from it in the manner he did, has
not b9en commended. All agree that his punc
tilious regard for his reputation was character
istic, but that he owed it to the company that
he had associated .himself* with, to have waited
for investigation. This view I find universal.
The Atlanta Era understands that but few if
any removals on the Stato Road will be made
until February 1st.
The corps of engineers engaged in surveying
tho route for the Oomulgee and North Georgia
railroad were expected at Covington Thursday
night.
John W. Adams killed Anthony Adams,
negro, at the house of Mr. W. Martin, Upson
county, oh the night of the 11th instant. The
latter had broken into the store room of James
Adams and stolen $60, and the former in at
tempting to arrest him was cut with a knife and
had to kill the theif in self defence.
The Outhbert Appeal, of Friday, says:
We are sorry to learn that Mr. Jno. Ohirstian.
editor of the Lumpkin Telegraph, was serious
ly stabbed in several places, a few evenings
since, in that place, by a young man named
Douglass. The difficulty, as we understand,
grew out of a notice published in the Tele
graph relative to a Christmas tree with which
the mother of young Douglass was associated.
We hope the wound3 are not as serious as rep
resented to us.
Chickens are thirty cents each, and eggs forty
cents a dozen at Rome.
Jinuaey A. Hunter, convioted of the murder
of Thos. Alexander, in Brooks county, and for
merly in Savannah jail, has been taken baek to
Quitman. Unless pardoned, he will be hung
on the 27th.
Hon. Jas. Houston is contesting the election of
JimBlnx, negro, to the Legislature from Glynn
county, on the ground of Jim’s constituents
voting early and much too often. • v
The Brunswick Appeal notes the arrival of
fair sprinkling” of freights over the B. and A.
Railroad—“considerable cotton among it.”
A free fight between abont one hundred and
fifty colored troops at Florence, Stewart conn*
ty, last Saturday, resulted in one of the num
ber being very scientifically carved with a
knife.
Albert Christian, negro, lessened the census
of Columbus, on Friday night, by stabbing and
killing Jack Williams, another.man and broth
er.
Bollock issued a commission, on Saturday, to
Hon. Stephen A. Corker, Democratic Congress 1
man elect from the 5th distriot, to the 41st
Congress.
Under the head, “Our Conclusion Abont the
Lease,” the Columbns Enquirer says:
We suppose that we have copied or noticed
all tho “documents” relative to the State Road
lease. They have, we are free to confess, pro-
ducedsome changein our view of that transaction
While we are still convinced that the Road has
been leased for much less than its value—and
perhaps for considerably less than could have
been obtained for it had there been an assur
ance that the highest responsible bidders could
get it—we are satisfied that the Company re
presented by Gov. Brown, was the most relia
ble of tho three competing companies, and that
the Governor’s choice, as between these three,
was tho best that could have been made.
paper:
The State Road Owes $600,000.—The Con
stitution stated, a day or two ago, that over
$30,000 of the State Road debts had come in
in a few days, and been paid. I was informed
last night by a gentleman on the train, of an
incident that illustrates the inimitable and jolly
humor of Mr. Foster Blodgett, ex-Superinfen-
dent. Ho said that The Constitution needn’t
bq fretting ov6r that little sum of $30,000, that
wasn’t a drop to what was coming; that the
State Road owed six hundred thousand dollars
more, and that he had a notion of informing
the editor to that effect. This is the substance
of his reported remarks.
I do not believe that there has ever been mis
management to surpass Blodgett’s. Tho condi
tion of the road is represented to bo most
wretched. The new oompany has tough work
before it for a while.
The Constitution Bays, on the same subject:
If there is wrong, we want to see the issue get
into courts, and let it bo fonght vigorously. The
court is the only tribune that can settle the ques
tion. Tho matter is now out of the hands of the
peoplo or the Legislature. Bights have vested
under the.-forms of law, and each day these
rights are strengthening by time. The great
question of fraud, ever under the law a live
issue, must be decided under the arbitrament
of tho Bench.
A few days more will decide whether the issue
will be made. It is rumored that great legal
ability has been called to prospect the situation.
If the battle occurs, it will be a battle of giants,
and the stake a stupendous one..
The Savannah Republican, of Sunday, prints
the following list of grand and traverse jurors,
lately drawn to serve in the United Stated Dis
triot and Circuit Court.. The Grand Jurors are
ordered to appear at Savannah on the fourth
Monday in Maroh, and the traverse jurors the
second Monday in April next:
Grand Jurors for District Courts:—T. C.
Mitchell, Wilcox county; G, W. Bishop, Wil
kinson; Chas. A. Harris, Randolph; Jesse A.
Ansley. Richmond; John Sullivan, Chatham;
George R. Palmer, Burke; Chas. E. Middleton,
Chatham; Alexander S. Qaarterman, Liberty;
Wm. S. Oliphant, Upson; George W. Barr,
Bibb; W. B. Jones, Burke; Ezekiel H. Wim
berly, Houston; Henry Miller, Calhoun; W.
H. Cutter, Bibb; Wm. E. Anderson, Warren;
Reuben G. Hood, Harris; W. H. Barfield,
Richmond; David M. Hogan, Irwin; E: W.
Thomas, Baldwin; B. M. Polhill, Bibb; Joseph
Carson, Macon; Martin Duggan, Chatham;
Robert T. Kent, Richmond; A. P. Nicholson,
Dacatnr; J. E. Whitehurst, Bibb; Elisha W.
Jordan, Washington; Albert H. Thorpe, Hous
ton; Jas. W. Reagan, Terrell; Sheldon M.
Chapman, Liberty; Samuel D. Linton, Rich
mond; James McDonald, Thomas; Wm. A.
Blonnt, Bnrke; A. Porrington, Wilkinson; E.
D. Schneider, Richmond; Joseph Grant, Chat
ham; J. W. Oaraker, Baldwin; Duncan Curry,
Deoatur; Theodore Basch, Chatham;' A. C. De-
Cottes, Richmond; John J. Reagan, Thomas;
R. H. Clinton, Muscogee; Cliff Coleman, Mus
cogee ; John EC. Banks, Monroe; Hiram A.
Crittenden, Randolph; John B. Lee, Randolph;
L W. Brinkerhoff, Chatham; John W. Barber,
Muscogee; L. H. Holmes, Bibb; W. R. Meek,
Monroe; Jno. T. Dickinson, Dougherty.
Traverse Jurors for Circuit Court.—Abram
Hardee, Charlton county; F. Y. Clarke, Chat
ham ; Lewis Goldburg, Thomas; B. M. Bate
man, Houston; W. A. Beach, Muscogee; J.
Pinckney Thomas, Bnrke ; John D. Cay, Lib
erty ; J. E. Blackshear, Bibb; Lewis G. Mor
ris, Hancock; George W. Aymer, Glynn; J. B.
Sharpe, Monroe; John Sherlock, Chatham;
John It. Cook, E. T. Ailing, Baldwin ; Thomas
R. Rhodos, Richmond; Cole B. Pringle, Wash
ington ; Henry T. Davenport, Sumter; J. R.
Buroh, Chatham; George A. Jansen, Chatham;
Lawrenoe Dunn, Chatham; Richmond A. Reid,
Putnam ; Robert M. Herrington, Burke ; Blas
ter Green, Chatham; Leonard E. Welch,
Dougherty; Matthew McManus, Bibb; Robert
McNisb, Chatham; R. G. Chestnut, Decatur.
The Atlanta Era says there was a “fearful
collision” on the State Road Saturday morning,
between Kennesawand Aoworth between two
freight trains. One engine, the‘Jessie,’per
haps the finest in the State, was ruined. The
damage done will amount to several thousand
dollars. __
Canvass in Jones County.
Clinton, January 16,1871.
Ediiors Telegraph and Messenger: By order
of Judge-Robinson, bolding the adjourned term
of the Superior Court for this (Jones ooonty),
the counting of the ballots given at the eleotion
held 20th, 21st and 22nd ult., was finished on
Saturday last, whioh resulted as follows:
For Congress—Lawton, (Dem.), 701; Long,
(negro), 810; Spear, (Rad.), 792.
For Senator (Georgia Legislature) 21st Dis
trict—Coates, (Dem.), 764; Devaux, (negro),
804.
For Representative Legislature — BannoD,
(Dem.), 810; Hutchings, (negro), 756.
For Sheriff— Jenkins, (Dem.), 763; Williams,
(negro), 783.
For Clerk Superior Court—Ros3, (Dem.), 764;
Clark Smith, (a Chatham county negro), 804.
Tor Tax Collector—Greaves, (Dem.), 1002;
Stripling, 429; Tioknor, 22.
For Tax Receiver—Alexanda, 13; Morris,
746; Smith, (negro), 800.
• For County Treasurer—R. H. Banon, (Dem.),
76!.
■For County Surveyor—R. Johnson, (Dem.),
760. ..i-.E. .\i , Sir : c.
For Coronor—Owens, (Dem.), 761; Green
Barnes, (unfit Bad. negro), 781.
Yours, F. S. Johnson.
The These Commissioners sent out by Grant
and Congress to see if San Domingo is where it
used to be ana has not been moved by a.voloano
or the negroes, are, ex-Senator B F. Wade, .ex-
Congressman Wm. E. Dodge and the husband
of Jnlia*. Ward Howe. .-
BY
Store Sorties from Paris and Repulses—
- Steamboat accident—Cold Weather.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Memphis, January 16.—The steamer McGill
from St Louis for New Orleans was burned at
“Shoo Fly” Bar. Tne weather being intensely
cold, and many who escaped drowning were
frozen. The lost certainly number fifteen, in
cluding the captain, first clerk, two children and
three women. No South eastern names among
the loBt or saved.
New Yobx, January 16.—An arrival reports
that the steamship Manhattan, hence for Charles
ton, collided with a schooner, twenty miles
north-east from Boraegat. The Manhattan
continued her voyage apparently uninjured.
Washington, January 16.—Tho Potomac is
clear—no ice running. Fred Douglass, Jr.,
colored, goes as an assistant Secretary to the
Dominican Commission, [his qualification being
one of color.]
Washington, January 16.—The Senate is
considering the Pensions and Postoffice laws.
In the House, the credentials of the Georgia
members were presented, bnt under a motion to
refer, went over until after the morning hour,
when they were referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee. The House considered McGarraghan’s
claim, and had Wilson, Commissioner of the
Land Office, before them. He wa soontrolled;
he intimates, in some doubtful certifications by
Secretary Cox.
New Yoke, January 16.—Arrived, General
Meade, Herman Livingston, South Carolina,
Ellen Sterry, Darien City, Baltimore and New
York.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
New Yobk, January 16.—A Herald special
from London, of the 14th, says the Prince de
Joinville, just from France, reports that Gam-
betta, declining his services either as an officer
or private, ordered him to leave France.
The Duke de Chartres is in France incognita,
and Tysot, the French charge d’ Affairs at
London, with several leading imperialists, has
joined the Orleanists.
London, January 14.—General Chansey ral
lied his disordered troop3 near Le Mans, and is
retreating in good order. Tho Duke of Meck-
leuburg telegraphs the Duchess: “We advanced
to-day north of La Mans without fighting. Onr
vanguard has crossed the Sarthe. Part of the
army of the Loire is retreating on Allencon and
the'rest towards Laval.
London, January 15,3 a. m.—A dispatch from
Versailles, of the 13th, says vigorous sorties
were made by the garrison of Pari3 in three
several directions. The French simultaneously
advanced against the Prussian guards near
Lebourget and Drancy, northeast of Paris;
against the eleventh German corps near Meu-
don, southwest of Paris, and against the second
Bavarian corps near Clamart; and' also to the
south of the city. The fighting in each instance
was spirited, but resulted everywhere in. the
defeat of the Frenoh, who were repulsed at all
points and retreated rapidly within their works,
a portion of them in great disorder.
Havana, January 15.—The Hornet lauded
her cargo nearManate. The Spaniards, arriv
ing shortly after, captured the cargo and killed
several of the expeditionists, and are pursuing
others. The Hornet pnt to sea.
Washington, January 16. — In connection
with the recent'statement published in a New
Yorkpaper, in regard to Colonel Ktyzanowski,
Supervisor of Internal Revenue of Georgia, that
his life wa3 threatened in Savannah, Colonel
KryzanoWski telegraphs the following to the
Mayor of Savannah: I have not made any
statement to the reporter of the Herald, or any
other papers as being notified by you of iny un
safely in Savannah. The whole matter as to
yonr city,being invented.
The Seoretary of the Treasury writes to the
Committee on Banking and Currency, asking
them to Lame a law authorizing him to reprint
tens and twenties of National Bank notes, for
the reason that there are many counterfeits of
these denominations.' -. -
Geo. 8. Smith was nominated for Collec
tor of the Fifth Virginia District. Confirma
tions—Reman, -Vice Admiral; Jenkins, Rear
Admiral, and all promotions incident upon
Farragut’s death.
The Dominican Commission sails on Wednes
day, and returns about the middle of March.
House.— Many bills were introduced for
referenoe, including some for removal of disa
bilities ; also one presenting the oath of office
for persons implicated in the rebellion, but not
excluded by the 14 th amendment. Messrs.
Young, Price, Bethnne and Long—the last col
ored—claiming seats from Georgia, were sworn
■%]
A bill for an Air Line Railroad hence to New
York, was received, and then was lost upon
leave to introduce, resulting in a vote of 114 to
78. All the Democrats and Benjamin, Buffing
ton, Butler, of Mass., Dawes, Hill, Hooper, Kel
ly, of Pennsylvania, Ketchum, Loflin, Moore, of
Ohio, Myere, Neglejr, O’Neill, Packer, of Penn
sylvania, Pollard, Smith, of Vermont, Stephens,
Trichel, Van Wyick, and Washburn, of Massa
chusetts, voting nay. The bill comes up next
Monday.
The ocean telegraph bill passed. It provides
certain conditions upon which any company
complying therewith may lay cables. It grants
no subsidies or special privileges.
Adjourned,
Senate.—Trumbull endeavored to have the
Senate pass an amnesty bill instead of a piece
meal relief.
A bill to cede back to Ohio the Dayton Asy
lum for disabled soldiers, was introduced.
Wilmington, January 16.—The second single
number drawing of the North Carolina Benefi
cial Association took place in the theatre to-day.
Tho following numbers drew the principal
prizes: No. 9,231, $5,000; No. 360, $2,500;
No. 6,853, $2,600; No. 7,590, $2,000; No. 9,-
727, $2,000; No. 6,489, $1,000; No. 5,198,-
$1,000.
Rome, Ga., January16.—A. B. S. Mosely, jr.,
editor and proprietor of the Rome Daily, was
married last night to Miss M. P. Swain, au
thoress and literary editoress of the Rome
Weekly.
Raleigh, January 16.—The General Assem
bly met to-day with a quorum in both houses.
A high court of impeachment will organize on
the 23d to try Governor W. W. Holden.
New Orleans, January 16,—Vom Ealin, im
prisoned and awaiting requisition from New
York, applied for habeas corpus. It was inef
fectual..
Suit is entered against Myra Clarke Gaines,
for one hundred and twenty-seven thousand
dollars, lawyers’ fee cf Eli & Go.
The decision of the Supreme Court of the
State, quite entitles the heirs of B. D. Shepperd
to an estate of two million.
Boston, January 16.—Henry Wilson was re
nominated by the Republican Legislative oau
eus this afternoon. The vote being Wilson
108; Dawes 22; Bontwcll 11. The labor re
formers and Republicans opposed to Wilson also
caucussed and negatived the motion to nominate
Wendell Phillips, and adjourned till to-morrow.
New York, January 16.—Arrived out, City of
Brooklyn, under sail; Lafayette and Colorado.
London, January 14,—A dispatch from Pran-
tut on the 18 th reports severe fighting all that
day between Henreioourt and Croix, in the de
partment of Haute Saon, and had not ceased
at a late hour in the evening. The result iB
unknown. Large reinforcements are coming
from the North to the German army of the
East - - j
• j A dispatch from HavroswTtwT'
skirmishes near that city. The p’*
turning the left wing 0 f General ty,.’
army, and are menacing Caubria. * aidil
London, January 15*—A cor
Versailles of the 12th says, f rom 2“^
to five yesterday, the bombardment past <
vigorously, with a few intermissioi .
twenty minutes respectively Th B 7 , ea »i
Koigl h bleached a :
near Seeaux, that a spectator cL ,
through ts the enciente. The ho W
utterly burned down. The French
day engaged in bringing troops across iS
The Gauche bridge Bas Mention, wb‘l e ^
with men, was struck with sheila an Tv
down, precipitating the soldiers f rom
mense height, crushing them todeu'^
four, p. m., the heaviest firing i
was going direoted mainly again *
Bouge. The bombardment was ak/
unceasing for twelve hours. Gen X 0 Tv
narrowly escaped. He was retnmin e JS
visit to the western batteries, when a 4*? ‘
dose to his carriage, covering him an ^. t:
de-camp with mud, ice and fro Z A n
Frenoh dash made at the old breast» 0lS
suited in the capturo of one ofS;cr and
men of the 6th Bavarian Infantrv.
A dispatch from Versailles states that I
Frederick Charles announces that Ct- - I
army is broken up, disorganized and re ^
in three different directions. Twenty t
prisoners were taken. The battle was's^l
ive victory for the Prussians and a —* **■
feat for the French. *
London, January 16.-Chausey’s a tnji .,
organized, and is about to resume operathj
Official advices from Paris say the boab^l
ment continued throughout the night. Sh*"|
are falling every minute in Saint Salplin Q-j
ter. Forts Isty, Vanvers and Mont Itonge^
cannonading with great vigor, inflicting p
damage upon the Prussian forUSoatious. 6 *,
causing a Blackening of their fire. Porti'
gent and the village of Fontenay, in the l
of the Marne, sustained tho bomhrli
without serious damage.
Versailles dispatches say the bombari
of Paris continued on the 14th. Forte I*I
Vanvers and Mont Rouge arc silent.
A dispatch from Lille says the army of Fi|
herbo 13 daily receiving reinforcements, i
advanced its encampments during Monels;
Albert, supported on the right by the divis's
of Paulsee and Devoy, and on the left by Faw>|
The division of Robin remains at Bapsaal
The Prussians menace the bombardier! j
Longney, and the women and children are iJ
ing into Belgium and Luxemburg. There nf
quite a heavy fight Saturday near LoDgaej.J
which both infantry and artillery engage! ‘
command of the German army of tlia Yos
was assigned toMonteuffeL This army wfllccl
prise part of Werder’s force, which will k
greatly augmented.
The protest of the Paris Govemoenit
foreign powers against the bombardment i
tho Frenoh capital, is in effect as follows:
The bombardment is proceeding wants
upon hospitals, ambulances and churches, t
is killing many innocent women and chilfatl
All authorities on war and military nsage re|
quire that a warning to remove non-combatt
shall precede the opening of such attack upond
city. The bombardment continues. Thepro'edi|
not preliminary to military action, bat is a
act coolly calculated to devastate the cityi^
strike terror to the citizens by murder audi
cendiarism. The Government protests k
in the face of the civilized world at tlia r
barbarism, and concludes its manifesto i
the statement that the inhabitants of Pama
undismayed.
Cardwell will probably defend war measue
on the first night of the’ coming session cf Pel
liament. Gen. Mansfield, whom the Gotu:|
ment consults respecting the organization cl
the army, in his speech on Saturday at the cLl
tribution of volunteer prizes, declared the
cessity' of universal disability from
service in England with no paid substitutes.
The Times’city article to-day is severe c
propositions made by Florida to comproa
her State debt.
The weather is tempeslous and machd^i
age occasioned to shipping. The gale wast?j
rific off Lands End Sunday night.
Berlin, January 16.—Count Bismarck, in 4
note just issued to the North German repr-
sentatives abroad, defends the German mode*
warfare, and appeals for witnesses I
gltah and American reporters with the Ga
armies. He cites to several cases as evident: :j
French barbarism; two cases in which I
French fired upon parlamentaries; and
thirty-one violations of the Geneva Costs
tion. He also says that the French use <
sive missiles, bum ships, maltreat prist®
and encourage the violation of their paroles -.
Frenoh offioers. In conclusion, Bismarck 3
that the French rulers do notwishforpeace, I
gag tho press to prevent a convocation of t
national assembly, and force the people toe
tinue the war.
Havana, January 16.—Later and arih®*|
news confirms previous reports that the cc-1
cargo of tho Hornet landed on tho
been captured. One cannon and three fls?|
I were also captured in the
vi-|
those who composed the Hornet expediaM-l
and seventeen of the men were killed in I
same engagement. Five Spaniards were 1> I
ed and nine were wounded. Coto'l
Chinchilla, who has estalished himseu I
Santa Serterendos, had au encounter
two hundred insurgents, under tho conu^J
of Ooevedo at Sales, and twenty of the i®®!
gents were killed. . I
An accident happened to the Potto Bioo I
ble at a point about twenty miles off Mo • I
Bay. The Jamaica steamer Darian is M'ri-j
gaged in making "the neoessaiy repairs o ■
injury of tho cable, with fair prospects o a
pleting them at an early day.
Brussels, January 16.—The Prussians |
destroyed the bridge over the Chiers be
Longney and Aslon. Material for th®
bardment of Longley is rapidly concent -|
in the interior.
Bordeaux, January 16.—The Prussia**]
dislodged from Giene, and retreating on 'I
targes and Orleans. General Chansey Kfj |
minor engagements with the advanced
the enemy yesterday, and that he expe*
general attack today.
Bombay Cotton.—The British
nounoe a serious deoline in the number o
in ootton in Bombay. The annual eipor
Bombay to 1st September has been ’
against 1,077,886 bales the previous year- I
American cotton will alternately rere I
labor to food production, and all ^ I
can produce is needed by their
people. India cotton means starving J
The new art of drawing enables pem^^J
one lesson, by means of an apparatu t ^,1
photographs to life-size fine Orayon ,
enlarging all kinds of pictures wi
measurement. • Warranted simple *°
enough for all; and not expensive,
osted phould call on Mr. and Mrs. J ^
onoe, this being the last week the a
taught here!
the
Getting Ready.—The Herald says
ish Island of Jamaica is to be fortifie s
by order of the Home Government, on »
of the near proapeet of war.
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