Georgia weekly telegraph and Georgia journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1869-1880, January 24, 1871, Image 8
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. «r. I