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The Greor&’ia, "Weekly Telegraph, and Jommal &c Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, FEBRUARY 10, 1671.
“A Amoosin Cuss.”
Tho World notes the appearance in Washing
ton before the ‘‘Southern Outrage" Committee,
of a chap from this State who had a real out
rage to show. It’s about this size: During the
late election, having squatted himself by a
ballot-box—which, wo may here remark, was
unlawful, the Akerman edict forbidding any but
an actual voter to approach tho polls—and be
ing there engaged taking notes (probably the
names of tho blacks voting the Democratic tick
et, so as to have them mobbed that night,) a
Sanguinary Surrounder out of uniform envel
oped him with tho remark that if he, the loil,
did not put up his pencil he, tho Sanguinary,
would “slap his chops.” Loil bawled out im
mediately for tho military.” “Ho came and
asked me to put it up. After makmg tho re
quest three times, and saying he could not pre
vent trouble if I did not, I oonsented to lower
my manhood. * * * I put
my paper up.” Persons curious to know ex
actly what ho meant by “lowering his manhood, ”
are respectfully referred to that highdriossom of
loilty, Field Marshal Kissnossky, lato election
inspector in this city, and so beloved of nil who
know his performances on that occasion.
Caught in a b Mistake.
In the February number of the Galaxy, there
appeared an article from the pen of that ven
omous old babbler, Thurlow Weed, purporting
to give an account of a conversation with Lin
coln in connection with tho formation of his
(L. ? s) first Cabinet. Weed says he advised Lin
coln against taking either Welles or Montgom
ery Blair into tho Cabinet, recommending espe
cially that Biair be left out, and Wm. Cost John
son, of Maryland, selected in his stead. Old
Thurlow says this conversation occurred in De
cember, 1660, but as Johnson died on the 13th
of April tho same year, it is very evident that
somebody has “put a head on” the truth. If T.
W. don’t look sharp, he’ll bo making some of
the younger members of his party quite green
with envy at their failure to reach his standard
in this very important branch of “moral ideas.’
Fabbow’s opinion in the matter of giving a
certificate to Congressman Tift, written and
printed in Washington and dated February 2d,
is at hand. Farrow says the certificate must be
given according to the “legal and regular re
turns,” and it is not competent for the Governor
to go behind these returns. Tift, therefore,
although unquestionably elected, cannot receive
the certificate, because the returns from Sumter
were signed by only two of the managers, when
they should have been signed by three. This
decision remits Tift to a contest with Whiteley,
the result of which is easy to anticipate.
Race fob a Bridz.—Last Saturday a bridal
pair took seats in the palace car of a Jersey
railroad train, but the groom having occasion to
leave the train, returned in time only to see it
moving off at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
He rushed to the office of the superintendent,
and chartering a locomotive for a hundred
dollars, put off in hot pursuit, overtaking tho
train at Rahway, much to the relief of his lonely
and disconsolate mate. Moral: be sure to be
on time on your wedding day; and if you must
take the cars, observe the schedule and connec
tions closely.
A South African farmer, who was among the
first to go diamond hunting, hunted in vain for
a long time, and had just sold his walking stick
for a shilling, and was about to start for home,
when he accidentally stumbled over two gems
which have realized $600,000. A shoemaker, a
carpenter and a waiter went from Natal to the
diamond tracts, ‘and in a week or two had
stones in their possession which have brought
$750,000. One of the gems weighed 105 carats.
A strange innovation upon ordinary funerals
was recently made at Hartford, Conn. A young
woman had died, and her relations, instead of
following the usual custom of shrouding and
laying her in a coffin, dressed her as she had
been dressed ip life, and laid her on a sofa
amid flowers. She lay thus for ton days, and
then was buried.
Mbs. Adbt -Sage-MoFabland-Richabdson
made her first appearance on the stage as a
reader at Norwich, Connecticut, last Monday
night, selecting “ Maud Muller” as her opening
piece. About the same time her husband was
lecturing in Newark, New Jersey. It is gratify
ing to know that both had very slim audiences.
An Iowa matron is said to have invented a
a patent double back action “snore consumer,”
which is an ingenious combination of the speak
ing tube and ear trumpet, so arranged that the
snore is conveyed from the sleeper’s mouth by
a curvillinear route into his own ear, and wakes
him without disturbing the neighborhood.
A transient boarder in the Meredith House
at Washington, Indiana, on the occasion of a
fire breaking out in that hostelry, ‘‘ascended to
the roof and, by energetic expectoration, kept
the fire in abeyance till they got him a bucket
of water.”
A traveler asked an emaciated South Carolin
ian if tho climate of the rice swamps wa3 un
healthy. . “Wall, no,” replied the loyal native,
“’taintunhealthy; we have the*fever and ague
all the time in these parts, but then we enjoy a
powerful undertow of health.”
The Gentbal Georgian.—We learn from
Sandersville that our friend, J. M. G. Midlock,
has resumed his old position as editor and pub
lisher of tho Sandersville Central Georgian.
Wo are glad of it, and trust ho will meet with
the ample success which he merits.
Delegates from Polk County. —A letter from
Cave Springs states that the following delegates
to the Macon State Agricultural Convention
have been elected by the Farmer’s Club of Polk
county: J. O. Waddell, A. R. Jones and M. H.
Bunn, or alternates appointed by them.
The Uses of Advertising in the Telegraph.
A friend who advertised on Sunday morning for
a situation as a teacher, had on Monday and
Tuesday so many responses by letter, and even
by telegram, that he doe3 not know which one
to choose.
“It is long since there has been so pare an
administration,” says Harper’s Weekly, “asthat
of Gen. Grant” It is indeed very long sinoe.
It is safe to say there hasn’t been one so pure
sinoe the expiration of Johnson’s term.—Cou
rier-Journal.
A Western journal recently published this
extraordinary notice-. “Married, at the resi
dence of the bride’s father, by the Rev. A. M.
Lyons, John P. Ellis, Esq., all of this city.”
This is what is called, in enchre, going it alone.
The Boston Jonmal of Chemistry says that,
“absurd*as the high hat is, It does keep the
head more comfortable, it does maintain a more
equal temperature, and it does feel better than
any other form of head covering.”
A Dreadful Railway Catastrophe occurred
on the Erie Railroad yesterday morning, an
account of which is furnished in our telegraphio
columns.
The Radioal Common Council of Detroit,
reoogalze the claims of tho newly enfranchised
by giving him a position of spittoon-cleaner..
TIio Franco-Prnsslan War and Ar
mistice.
Tho last Prussian requisition of 300,000 men
on the Landwebr takes men up to the ago of
forty-seven. We apprehend that the Germans
do not very strongly anticipate tho conclusion
of a treaty with France which will afford them
satisfactory guarantees for their heavy exac
tions, and, in any probable event, look to a long
armed occupation of France. A Berlin dispatch
of Sunday, says that no confidence is felt at the
Prussian capital that the Bordeaux Government
will accept the terms of peace, or that they will
be ratified by the French National Assembly;
and the plan is now to overrun tho whole of
France, and reduce her to submission, in the
words of the dispatch, “by a savage and re
lentless campaign.”
This threat is probably uttered partly for moral
effect. France is now literally defenseless. She
has not a single army in tho field capable of ef
fective resistance to the Germans. Every corps
in her service is thoroughly beaten, disheart
ened and demoralized, and was only too glad to
accept the armistice. Bonrbaki’s army, proba
bly the best one, was driven panting and disor
dered fugitives over the Alps into Switzerland
—thousands of them perishing in tho snows of
Jura, and yet sixty-six thousand reached the
Swiss valleys beyond. Modem warfare has
never presented a spectacle of more utter defeat
and annihilation.
And if the Bordeaux government should be
insane enough to attempt a resumption of the
war, after the expiration of the armistice, they
will find the French situation far worse than
before. Such forces as they can control will
have less heart, for the fight—just as a sick,
worn and galled traveler is more reluctant to
renew an unwelcome journey after his sinews
have stiffened and his sores have festered by a
rest. They will find the discouragement and
demoralization have increased and * taken a
chronic form, and, worse still, they will find the
comparatively feeble power of France vastly
weakened by division and discord which did
not exist before the armistice.
On the other hand, the whole immense mili
tary power of the Germans, refreshed and rein
vigorated by rest, will be mobilized for simple
pursuit and plunder. The armies round Paris
can b8 dispensed with. The surrendered city"
is safely held by small garrisons of German
troops occupying the French forts surrounding
tho city; and thus abont a million Gorman sol
diers organized in numerous small armies will
soon overran and desolate the entire French
territory.
We suppose nothing can be more harmonious
with the ulterior views of the German govern
ment than a fool-hardy attempt by Gambetta to
set np farther resistance. It was no part of
the programme conceived after Sedan to leave
France in a condition to interfere with any gen
eral continental policy which Germany might
thereafter choose to adopt, and the more totaj
and complete the prostration of French military
and financial power the better for the growing
conceptions of the Germanic Empire.
According to our latest dispatch the elections
in Paris for tho National Assembly wonld take
place to-day. The canvass wa3 going on with
intense bitterness between tho factions, and if
the French Assembly meets according to the
call, in Bordeaux next Tuesday, it will be
marvel, under the existing state of furious dis
cord and acrimonions controversy, if it does
not break up in a general fight. Bat we shall
see what we shall see.
Great Wars Ahead !
A settled conviction seems to pervade the
European mind that great political storms and
convulsions are impending, and the crimson tide
of war has but just commenced its influx. The
truth is, the old traditional balance of the Eu
ropean political system is utterly and forever
gone, and there is not one politician or power
in Europe who does not feel that peace or a
a general war now rests solely on the modera
tion and forbearance of Germany and Russia;
and there is not one who does not know that
this is a frail dependence. Hence every power
is silently arming, and every interest of peaoe
is counting in the dread contingency of war.
But there is no interest in the wide world
which should take snch lively precaution, and
should be so sensitive to alarm, as the great cot*
ton-growing interest of the South. There is
none upon which a season of general European
commotion will operate more fatally; and, at
the same time, there is none in regard to which
a systematic and vigorous retrenchment will be
attended with less possible damage. If the cot-
ton-prodneing interest conld agree to cnrtailthe
product of the present year one-third, there is no
reason to suppose it would lose a single dollar
by the operation, while the industry diverted
with vigor to the production of food crops wonld
save them many millions, and pat them in con
dition to meet the embarrassing results of a
general European war. Every planter oan see
this, and why, then, will any one refuse to act
upon it? [ |
Visible Supply or Cotton.
■JCho New York Gommeroial and Finanoial
Chronicle, of last Friday night, says the follow-
ing table shows the quantity of cotton in sight
at this date of each of the two past seasons.
On account of the irregularity in the cable dis
patches, we are again withont our figures for
stock «a and afloat for Liverpool, and we,* there
fore, for those items, give the figures of last
week:
1871. 1870.
Stock in Liverpool bales 565,000 348,000
Stock in London 77,908 106,593
Stock in Glasgow. 300 300
Stock in Havre 45,600 92,600
Stock in Marseilles 6,850 6,100
Stock in Bremen 4,650 3,300
Stock rest of Continent 25,000 35,000
Afloat for Great Britain
(American).......... 826,000 163,000
Afloat for France (American • -
and Brazil) 1,318 63,000
Total Indian Cottonafloat for
Europe 93,685 103,340
Stockin United States ports. 617,177 629,248
Stock in inland towns 124,310 103,623
Total 1,887,798 1,554,104
These figures indicate an increase in the cot
ton in sight to-night of 356,375 bales compared
with the same date of 1870.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Sunday,
charges that Gov. Bollock has reserved to him r
self a share in the State Rood lease, and this
fact accounts for his acceptance of a bid lower
than others which were made. The Atlanta
Constitution, of Tuesday, says:
This, if true, must have great weight, in set
tling public opinion upon the question, as well
as in affecting the validity of the lease. We
have heard it stated, bat have been able to get
at no proof On the contrary, when traced out,
the* charge has resolved itself into the most
groundless gossip.
It is due to the publio and to the people, that
the matter be sifted. And in so grave a matter,
if nntrae, the denial of the thing by authority
should be made.
Gen. ’ Beauregard.—The persistency with
which the foreign dispatches represent Beaure
gard to be in France, is remarkable. The Lon
don Standard of Monday has been appealing to
ex-Confederates to come to France in case of the
renewal of the straggle after the expiration of
the armistioe. If Beauregard is not still in the
United States, he has left the country veiy re
cently.
Mbs. Graves, the Postmistress of Onarga,
Hi., has been removed because she didn’t take
any interest in Kan Domingo, and J. L. Parma-
lee has been appointed. John used to own a
spotted coach dog, which is now in Washington.
[<Chicago Times.
Common Schools in Georgia,
A system of publio education iiko that adopt
ed by tho last “Legislature” (so-called,) which
compels the bnildiDg of school-honsos and em
ployment of teachers in every settlement where
there are thirty-five “youths between the agesof
five and twenty-one,” (white or black,) withont
an equally stringent provision of law compelling
tho attendance of these subjects of education,
strikes ns as a good deal worse than faroial, be
cause it involves expense with no promise of
corresponding benefit. In Prussia, a compul
sory attendance of pupils is enforced; but
suppose nobody is qnite wild enough to propose
such a measure in Georgia. Now, the average
attendance compared with the number of “sub
jects of instruction,” in the common schools
onr large cities, where distances aro short, in
ducements great and pnblio opinion powerful
will not equal sixty-six per cent; and, in Geor
gia with all the inconveniences, an average at
tendance of fifty per cent, of the number of
“subjects of education” wonld be more than wo
should expect for some considerable length of
time. The practical enforcement of the exist
ing law would therefore be attended with enor
mous waste and failuro.
And we have not a doubt that any and every
system will fail in Georgia which undertakes to
legislate schools into existence by mere legisla
tive power. It will be, to a great extent, a dead
letter, and the system a caput mortuum. You
cannot dose instruction into Georgians, young
or old, as Mrs. Squeors did her brimstone and
treacle. Any good system must enlist a hearty
co-operation between the people and the leg
islative authority, and be based on a plan of
inviting, arousing and enlisting tho attention
of the people in the work. Popular attention
to, and interest in the subject, is the only prac
tical foundation either for the schools or their
efficient operation. You might start schools in
•very sub-district of the State, but if, in half of
them, the people took no interest in the schools,
that half wonld involve money and time thrown
away.
Now it seems to ns what is required by tho
condition in Georgia is the easiest and most
direct.system by which the ample School Fund
provided by the State may be disbursed pro rata
to schools voluntarily established by the people,
nnder the supervision of a reputable committee
and taught by a teacher duly licensed by com-
potent county authority. And this pro rata
should be graduated not only by tho number of
pupils, but also by the voluntary expenditures
of the School Gommitteo or teacher in promot
ing the efficiency and comfort of the school. It
should encourage expenditure in a good com
fortable building, library, apparatus and all fit
appliances for instruction. Of course, it should
be guarded in every possible way against false
and fraudulent returns, and it should provide
for a State and county Agonization. Bat it
might well leave the question of tuition fees in
the schools an open one—to the influence of the
pro rata payment per pupiL: It would be to
the interest of tho teacher and tho committee to
have the school 03 large as possible up to
proper limitation to each teaoher.
Now, if snch a scheme, not interfereing with
existing schools, were set on foot and found to
work, as we believe it wonld do, highly satis
factory results both to teachers and scholars,
then the motives of private enterprise and ex
ample wonld conspire to its extension whenever
a sufficient nnmber of pupils should be found
to warrant an experiment. Teachers and pa
rents wonld co-operate to secure the benefits of
the system, and the people onoe fairly enlisted
in the work, it wonld proceed efficaciously on
the voluntary system, wherever the conditions
of aucoess were fonnd to exist, and wherever
these conditions do not exist the attempt to en
force the establishment of schools by law will
be futile.
Legislative Per Diem.
The Constitution of the State of New York
limits the per diem of members of the General
Assembly to three dollars. A movement has
been made by a member of the House .to amend
the Constitution, so as to give Legislators
salary of one thousand dollars eaoh. The New
York Gommeroial Advertiser remarks, that
even upon the existing per diem, the anxiety to
occupy one of the 160 seats in the General As
sembly, is so intense that men will go down
into their pooketa and into the gutters to secure
a re-election.
But the best forensic talent and the highest
social standing in the State are usually repre
sented in the New York Legislature. New York
State pays her 160 Legislators an aggregate per
diem of $480. Georgia pays her 219 Legisla
tors at $9 00 per day an aggregate of $1,971
The Legislators of New York are her active and
intelligent minds at the bar, in the marts of
oommerce—at her seats of learning and the
foremost representatives of agriculture and
manufactures. In the last Legislators of Geor
gia about forty of her Legislators were field
hands, whose services wonld have been dear at
twelve dollars a month, with a moiety of other
ohaps whose services wonld have been dear at
nothing at all. Every hundred days’ service of
the Georgia Legislature cost $197,100, and of
the New York Legislature $48,000.
But it is worthy of remark that the member
who is, as we think, rightly dissatified with the
inadequate per diem in New York, does not
propose to amend by increasing the per diem.
He wonld establish a salary, and thus avoid the
demoralizing result of holding out a temptation
to extend legislative sessions. The system es
tablished by the Radicals of Georgia of nine dol
lars a day and an unlimited session, has now, or
ought to have, some check in that portion of
our Constitution whioh limits all sessions, after
the seoond, to forty days, unless prolonged by
a vote of two-tbirds of eaoh branoh. This gives
a patriotic minority a veto power upon outrag
eous spoliation. Bntwalook to the Democra
cy to set a wholesome limitation npon the per
diem,'as well as the length of the session and
the exoess of legislation. Let them fix, say,
five dollars a day, and that in a session of forty
days would make the gross per diem $43,800.
Let the Response be Generons.
It has been suggested that Mayor Huff
call a meeting at an early day in response to
the appeal printed in onr dispatches yesterday,
in behalf of the suffering people of gallant un
fortunate France. We believe the wide spread
and genuine sympathy felt for them by the
South, well when the oocasion offers, be swift
to show itself praotioally in a generons contri
bution for their relief. They need all the aid they
can get in food, and money and we will honor
ourselves by assisting them to the extent of onr
ability- Let a pnblio meeting be held, and
onr people open wide their hands and purses.
France has ever been the friend of the South.
Let Southern men and women show their ap
preciation of the faot and their gratitude for
the'paat ,by a liberal subscription. Those who
may desire to contribute money oan do so by
sending it direotly to Ohas. Lanier, Esq., Treas
urer, No. 27 Pine street, New York city.
Wages.—One of the lower courts of New
Jersey reoently decided that a domestic servant,
who had been discharged for wilful and persis
tent disobedienoe of lawful orders, was entitled
to recover of his employer his wages np to the
time of his dismissal. On review, however, the
Sepreme Court of New Jersey reversed this de
cision, holding, generally, that if a servant
whose wages are due and payable periodically,
as quarterly, monthly, er weekly, refuses to
serve in the manner contracted for, or is right
fully discharged at any intervening period be
tween the days when the wages are due, he can
recover nothing for that space of time which he
has served sinoe his last periodical payment of
wages. * i
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watkins will commence
an engagement in Savannah on next Monday.
Mr. William Connery, a well-known citizen
of Savannah, died very suddenly in that city,
Sunday morning.
BY TELE0-RAPH.
'New York, February 7,1871.
To the Press of the United States—Gentlemen
|'Availing myself of the courtesy of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, I send yon by wire
Shocking Railway Catastrophe, _
Poughkeepsie, February 7.— An Oil train I tho annexed appeal in behalf of the suffering
bound south with a broken axle, dragged along people of France. Relief to be of any value
tho ground until it reached the drawbridge at must be immediate. The committee respect-
. . Now Hamburg, where a collision with the piers fully request that yon will publish tho appeal
Spalding Superior Court is in session this 1 threw the car 0 g the track. An ineffectual at- with such editorial notice as may tend to enlist
week. tempt was made to stop an express train ran- the oarnest active and practical sympathies of
C D Barksdalo of Griffin, fell dead, Mon- ning on the other track, but it struck the oil all. The Western Union Company, I learn, will
’ ’ . ’ . . , . . - • I car scattering the oil, which immediately ignited, I send, without charge, any telegraph messages
day morning, while sitting in a cnair a. nis i 6nv0 ] 0 pj D g t|j Q entire express train in flames, between the New York Committee of Relief and
house. The express train consisted of a locomotive, co-operative organizations throughout the
Captain Maugham has sold the Georgia Hotel, baggage, express and five sleeping cars. The Union. Respectfully,
at Griffin to a company who will ran it here- engine, baggage and express cars were hurled (Signed) J. WSimonton
... 1 ., J , .. - into the river. All in the Chicago sleeping car I Gen 1 Agent N. Y. Associated Press,
after, with E. T. White as landlord. perished in the flames. The two following sleep- To the People of the United States : Inbe-
The rain Tuesday, of last week, seems to j n g carg were wrapped in flame3, but the in- half of the suffering population of France tho
have been very general. At Sparta it was the mates escaped. Now the bridge caught and fell committee, appointed bv the Chamber of Com-
heaviesi known to ten years, 4.87 inches having'] in ten minutes, carry mg with it the Chicago car, mere of the city of New York to organize
, „ _ , ... , ’ . _ . , , and hurling the burning inmates into the nver measures of relief for the suffering population
fallen. Several mill dam^ and a greet deal of U p OD ^ wreo jja of the locomotive, baggage and of France, is now prepared to receive contribn-
fencing were washed away. express cars, which fell at the beginning of toe tions of money and supplies, which will be
The Sparta Times and Planter says affairs are accident. The sleeping car tickets indicate that gratefully acknowledged. The committee ap-
very quiet in that town, but as it reports several thirteen perished, but the passengers say tho peals to the American people for this object, in
, ,, . . Chicago sleeping car contained twenty-five or the sacred name of charity, and for that alone.
births, wo don t exactly understand how that tMrty ^ not £ ne a of whom escaped. Another, It does not wish to refer to the merits of the
can bo so. probably more reliable account, furnished by conflict which has unhappily arisen between the
David Dickson thinks cotton planting will be the Western Union Telegraph Company says great nations of Germany and France; for it
much more remunerative this year than either eighteen were killed outright and many more believes that the discussion on these points
ii „ , , .til- .u , , , , fatally injured. Three sleeping cars are among should cease in the presence of snch suffering
last year* thoyear before. If itisnt, a teetotal those destroyed. I and want.
smash will not describe the situation. N ew HambubQj February 7.—Up to 7 o’clock Tho German army with a noble magnaminity
Spring fights have opened in Atlanta. Three, I this morning sixteen bodies have bean recovered. and setting an example which i3 worthy of onr
Tuesday. Washington, February 7.—A letter from I admiration have shared their scanty rations with
Tho Constitution of yesterday has tho follow- Commander Selfridgo, dated January 13, says : their starving foes. Let it not bo said that we longing for peace. Tho News savs the P •
ing items: “I have discovered a line for the inter-oeeanio of onr abundance have done less than they. ian3 will vote to-dav with uni;™ —a , *■*
Mb. A. N. Kendrick, son of one of our cfH- ca jj a ] dividing a ridge three hundred feet higo- The French people have been engaged in a war
oient policemen and a train hand on the West- I or> Tho country on either side is favorable.” I ^e most destructive character; it has drawn
em and Atlantic Railroad, met with a very se- Bombay advices report the capture of the city fearfully upon their resources, exhausted their
rious accident on yesterday at Marietta. Ho Q f Muscat, by Syad Thorke. supplies and crippled their industry. In the
was coupling cars, when his foot Were caught Washington, February 7.—Both houses are agricultural districts the last year s crop was a
and very badly mashed. eneaeed in ventilating the alleged ChorpenniBg s b Qr t one and the present one was harves(pd
Last week, we learn, a couple were married swindle. only in part and much of what was gathered
in Gwinnett county who had been engaged for ‘ London, February 7.—Tho Standard says has since been destroyed or appropriated to the
thirty-six years. The license used on toe occa- that Beauregard has notified a large number of 1156 ot tJ io armies. Their land has -been the
sion was obtained by tho bridegroom twenty- Confederate officers to come to France, in case 8oen0 of numerous battles of terrible magni
one years ago. I of the renewal of the strugglo. Jules Favre lias and tj 0 . horrors of war have been
The Treasurer has paid one hundred and sav- resigned the Ministry of the Interior, but will brought to their very doors. An immediate
enty-five thousand dollars so far of claims against remain Minist A of Foreign Affairs. spPP^ ° f food is needed for the starving popula
te State Road. The stream St. sms to be broad- The insurrectionary war in Bolivia continues. t10 ®- , . _ 4 .
suing every day. The amounts range from tens xho government won one and lost another bat- Tb0 farmer3 must have seed to plant in their
of thousands down to dollars. tie It is rumored that Ecudor, Brazil and Pe- fie]ds in the spring, or the crops of next season
— - “ ‘ ru have formed an alliance against Colombia. I will not be forthcoming. Unless speedyaction
The Prussian Cross Gazette confirms the re
port that all material questions before the Lon
don conference have been settled.
yesterday by the reported absconding of Mr. I T WashingtonI b y and extended no helpn ghand to the French
SiI I “ ■— -—■ -—“—
both Griffin and Macon. His 1
counted by tens of thousands,
amounting to nearly one hundred thousand del-1 £ r a ™ chZT’ TheftllnS) I il laats is for France a'day of misery
lars have Already been reported. te3 ' Contributions in money should be for-
The principal suffered in Griffin aro the ^ warded at once,
banking house of J. S. Jones, Drumright & M; or . stoc k ^ken by United State troops j Supplies of breadstuffs and seed for sowing
Co Jo advanced .bon. 8.1,V % * 1 STfI !“.&» “ - ^
MoWiIliams, who is minus a
bales of cotton, worth abont
His liabilities in Macon are somewhere be-1 P 10 : trOVer ?^®°. t; 1 ^*!!f I made. The Committee calls npon its fellow-
tween $60,000 and §70,000. While in Savan- X Inn™ h7thl oitizens everywhere to engage in this work of
nah his indebtedness, principally with the Cen- Mls^ss'PPiforeotton tak-n from berby the t nman jty and love. It urges them to organize
tral Railroad Bank, is understood to be very r ^ 8 J 8 an Q d %*%%?** ^**» every city, town and tillage at once, and
1 dl0rs was favorably received, but no quorum earneat ly to forward their contributions withont
voting the Senate adjourned. The Beconstrac flela it feels assnrea that this appeal to
tion Committee had no quorum. The Ways and | thQ £ on6volenc0 of allwilI
receive an earnest
The Atlanta Sun seems to know all about Mr.
Charles Sindall and his affairs. We quote as
follows from its issue of yesterday
A great excitement was occasioned in Griffin
is taken for the relief of the inhabitants intense
| misery and destitution must prevail. Other na
tions are moving in this work of true humanity,
| and shall it be said that Americans stood idly
their appeals for relief. The charity that gives
quickly is a double charity. The committee.
heavy.
It is reported that about two hundred bales of
cotton have been stopped by attachment in Sa-
Means Committee resolved to report in favor of |
repealing tho income tax; vote 5 to 4.
Nominations: Thos. Settle, of North Caro- I
lina, Minister to Pern ; Barbour Lewis, Ap- j
prniser of Merchandise, Memphis.
The Commerce Committee will vote on the
and generous response.
[Signed] Chabt.es H. Marshall, Ch’n.
Ceas. Lanieb, Treasurer.
Anson Phelps Stores, Secretary.
Remittances in money, which will' be trans-
vannah, but it is not supposed that the creditors
will be benefitted thereby. However, it will
open up the way to a good fat job for tho law
yers.
The loss sustained by 3. S. Jones, Drumright
& Co., was for money advanced on his personal I I fitted to Paris without delay, can be made to
credit. Cincinnati mid Newport Bridge question on 0has Lanierj Treasure r, No. 27 Pine street,
Mr. R. P. McWilliams isacleverman, hasmade ■ la !?“ a y - New York.
monoy by honest labor, and while he is able to c. 3 ? so C Si gHed] J. W. Sdtonton.
face tho music, ho wonld rather have his green- nni? rWashington, February 8.—The Ecclesiastical
backs back in the Bank. Ho is a safe business cfnsfderabte dbf Conrt > in session at Chicago, has rendered a
man and under ordinary circumstances is not ^ ree .^ m ®£ 8 J^ rea *** ^ After considerable dis- verdict against Key. Chas. E. Cheney, of guilty
liable to be taken in. He received an order to of the char 8 es and specifications contained in
purchase two hundred bales of cotton for Mr. SJofflSrfSJSL in 010 presentment. Sentence was passed of sus-
Sindall, which he did, and npon representation ® of law SiilJ n^ho°fnlte P en aion until contrition for the past and prom-
that the money was in the express office, the by i 5p |”^ ises of conformity for the future were satisfac-
cotton receipts were delivered^ to the house of *««y t0 ^ Bishop. Cheney’s offence is the
O. A. Sindall & Co., of Griffin, and the railroad omission of the word “Regenerate” in infant
__nr ’ _ -mu—’ u. ci.-_j.ii passage of this act. The second seotion was u„j fu.
".“v-* a,;*!. «a.^.11^
W'th.o S ,b-kbg
which escaped is the iron-clad establishment of I onnlntions in their character to those i j - cu m - j
Josenh H Johnson -which was bomb-nroof to I 8 “ tn . uo 5? ? na , la 8 0n fi m weir cnaracier, to wose i CTirr6( j ln the House amendment increasing
uosepn n. uonnson, wmen was Domo proor to f ^ united States, and recommending that I tTnm g-ie ono to cqo ono tho annronriation for
all the overtures made by Sindall for advances. .. —a a P ~.t*rv of “om ^io.uikj to *‘ U > U * JU , w 0 appropriation lor
Mr. Sindall came to Griffin in 1867, and was Berlin be re^ev incre^^d to tb ® 0atr8 S? Committee. A petition with 1500
cordially received by tho citizens. In conside- i ^ signers against the removal of Governor Yanoe s
.• “ • .. .. -*u I to the same as allowed at Xiondon and a&ti8< I ^joahiiitiao waa refATTAd to tho Rflcon^fTnotion
ration of ha services in negotiating: with L. W. Tfa reoommenda ton was received with laugh- dlsflblll,iss -
Gunther, of BaUimoro a loan of $25,000 for the ^ the Demoorat io side of the house,
city he was fleeted a director of the Savannah, House.* — The commission merchants and
Griffin and North Alabama railroad, and has w j lo i eaa j e g ea j era petition against the one per
occupied a good position in the community. He on jj * Bales . f he tobaoco dealers
isan excellent busmess man, as his “opera- t ition for a repeal of the special tax on that
tions will probaoly prove. |
has defeated a bill for opening the libraries on
Sunday, by a vote of 95 to 125.
Henry Steinway is dead.
Washington, _Febraary 8.—The Senate eon-1
disabilities, was referred to the Reconstruction
Committee with instructions to verify the gen
ninenes8 of the signatures, whole pages of whioh
were in the same hand.
The Hoose is on the sale of the Brooklyn na
vy yards.
• Fobeign.—The German officials in France
Albany, N. Y., February 8 —I
SftSE&S,- oCeSWj
of the-University, over Horace GrceL^*
W. Brystol, by a party vote. ele ?
New Yobk, February 8.—Th a
to-day was §387,000. I P ort of ^
Samuel S. StevenS, of Bansor nr • !
bond robber suicided in the Tomha ft.
Boston, February 8.—The French » I
of this city reaches §52,000. “ te ^ei fry
.New Yobk, February 8.—The W-u-
don special of to-day says the V
will enter Paris on the 10 th. ermai
Charles M. Swazer, of Louisville y
from a shell wound in Paris. ’ - v -> $4
London, February 8—At the Lora v
banquet yesterday, Cardinal Cullen
-Catholics claimed, and expected to
own University and school at the pre se
, The ship Melhelm, first vessel of
line, is announced to sail from
the 10th qf March. .
Ewen’s extensive thread mills, at
_ .. . . ... have been ordered to abstain from a rigorous
The City Council of Cincinnati protest against cenS orship over the press during the elections,
the low bridge between that city and Newport. Many suspended journals have been resumed.
The committee on publio expenditures re- Tho bombardment of Belfort continues,
ported a bill providing that no accounts or
Agricultural Meeting at Fort Talley.
Fobt Valley, February 6,1871.
I P, 0 ? 6 * P ““ n ° a0Con0ta or I The London Telegraph has an account of the
call of Major J. A. Miller, former President of claims, which have been adjusted by the ao- rnoceedinos inside of Paris to the qd Dele
the Fort Valley Agricultural Club, a few of the counting officers of the government, shall be a ta meeting ina oastoodeclared that
friends of agriculture in Fort Valley and the reopened withont authority especially given by the Government waifconmosed of traitors and
surrounding community, met m Mathews Hall | j aw> and forbidding the accounting officers to banSXsoldout Paris ThodisaSg
oaf nnnn nnv? oadnnnf nr moim vhwin fihnll tint I . . . ...... . . . . o
L H. Branham, Secretary.
the canard that the Tennessee, bearing the Do-
Biuipij I .. aale ac wmon it originated, unless me person p ar ; q nro ntncardAd tVmq • “A has 7r<t Tlrmn-
which the following offioers were elected for the having the claim was an infant, a “femme co-I tpf. i. . ,
present year: J. I Miller, President; W J. L ert 4r a lunatic. The seoond’section forbids L ^ B lno RoUte Favte Pvatt Dete-
Anderson, First Vice President; S.H. J. Sis- any person who is or has been an officer, clerk Favre, Pyatt, Dele
trank, Second Vice President, and L H. Bran- or employe in the pnblio service to aot as agent a - , ,.
ham, Secretary. The present prostration of the or attorney in the prosecution of claims before th^dStoSSc^ to Ronmlffia 1 The^d vte
planting interests demands a more economical the department, or any branoh thereof towhich DieDDeisooen Paris lntJeat slf-
and judicious employment of oapitel than that he had served, or to give information or impart ferine exists amone toe Deoole ’ -The^fections
of the past, and the establishment of some sys- knowledge acquired by him officially in aid of tSwiSLS??r ? ejection 8
tern of labor which will be more remunerative “aims against the United States. uittprobaWy result in the return qf peace can
to employer and laborer; the best and most ef- New York. February 7.—A fire occurred at I » 8 ttT u ... ■ , , . ... n
fective and cheapest methods of fertilizing, and 360 Broadway. Lossmrer $100,000. f s P 0 ® ial .. Iia3 a of .^ 9 Queens
tho production of grain sufficient for our own The Nor them and Western passengers are to Xte? iShmSoSthtSceM°rXti^s
consumption. These planters’ clubs-with be forwarded via Harlem Railroad until toe New 2ndwnmectrflsatiMactor?lettiement of toe
which the mechanical interests of our country Hamburg bridge is rebuilt. The details of the
are connected—where opinions founded on ex- accident are horrible. There are several in- ^ -SiS St ratisfactoSj to c^eiiSatora
penmont are freely interchanged, being best stances of children being burned in their moth- r0TOlt sausiaotoruy io co eigaators.
promotive of these ends, the Fort Valley Club The bodyof tKhductorTtoe ^P 68 * 6 araua ‘ 100 "g P 0 ® 00 . anff
will hold weekly meetings until further notice, sleeping ear has been fonnd. The list of his ^ 18 811X10118 to render friendly offices to that
USaSUK.oB&ibSiftShE gsgpjg*-Jfe» g* .A Wiujmm.ta.
views as to the best method of preparing and jy Sorbish Gomaund Norcreade* Rosenthal 8 PP 0ud -?°g Emanuel Arago Minister of the
cultivating land either for com or cotton. Del- aklpStaSb-STSto tEw“ to the deeping % railway wagons; entered Paris
egates to the ^lacon Convention will he elected, m tioketa—sixty-five to all, of whioh fifty-four 3d T 0 ? “scnptoin, London Gifts
any interest m tne matter. lett is missing. As soon as bodies are raised to men f Assurances are riven of a naacefni
J. A. muxt, taM | tt. Jh., m placed to 0» heated bag. S“u„»1””e“ item
A Lively Prince Royal.
the royal scion of the House
disposed to imitate his compeers across the
water. A New York dispatch of Friday, says: li Iuka, Miss, February 7.—A hotel was burned I minican commission, was lost. It is regarded
At the meeting of toe House Military Com- | —loss $60,000. as a hoax at tho Navy Department,
mittee to-day the sub-committee whioh recently In the ArkansasHouae three sitting friends of I Denard Burnley nominated as Collector of
visited West Point made a report of their in- Clayton were ousted by a vote of 45 to 63. An Customs, for Wilmington, N. O.
vestigation of the outrages committed by certain Avalanche special says there is great rejoicing The health of Chase is improving. He rides
cadets upon the members of toe first class. It over the result. or walks out every fine day.
appears that the officers of the institution did San Fbanoisco, February 7.—Arrived, Moses The river and harbor bill will be reported to-
not enforce the disoiplino of the institution and Taylor, from Honolulu with crew oflthe Wrecked morrow. It appropriates four million dollars.
jranish the offenders, for the reason that they steamer Saginaw. Four of her crew died—all Washington, February 8.—House The
were 6ons of men high in civil and military sta- the rest saved. Brooklyn navy yard bill was considered during
tion. One of them is the son of President Grant, Memphis, February 7.—Governor Alcorn’s the morning, and went over without action,
another the son of Adjutant, General Townsend, gin house, with 400 bales of cotton,-was burn- The bill for the better protection of the
The committee will probably report to the cd. Loss $75,000—insuranoe $50,000. j Texas frontier,, authorizing the Secretary of
House to favor of censuring the officers of the | Pittsburg, February 7.—The Smith Brothers’ I War to organize and employ citizens, and ep-
locomotive works, with twenty-three adjoin-1 propriating $100,000 therefor, was taken up,
_ _ m „ _ , r , ing buildings, was burned—loss §150,000. I Logan opposed the bill, as giving employ-
Hunttno the Wobd White. —Boor Mr. London, January 7.—The Post publishes a ment to gentlemen on the Texas frontier who
Sumner is still hunting the word lent.e. Ages dispatch of the 6th, saying toe Prussians had nothing else to do. It meant nothing more
?8° y 8 thought the whole question setued, and B how a determination to retard the victualing nor less than war with Mexico. The bill was
the Almighty s distinction or color duly ruled 0 f p^jg. Nine Prussian trains were detained tabled—75 to 64.
out of order by toe 14th and 16th Amendments; b y the Prussians at Amiens, though the line is The joint resolution passed remitting, the
but onthe 20th of January, in this very year, entirely olear. The Post says the British war duty on articles sold at fairs for the benefit of
®“*. _ pnr-r-esents in the Senate a 0 fg 0e and admiralty are actively assisting in the the French,
little bill by the first section whereof all oeme- efforts to revictual Paris, and a large nnmber I The bill establishing a national system of
teijr associations, masons, odd-fellows, churches, 0 f British transports will sail in a few days with education was discussed without action. Ad-
hoteto etc., ®to., quicqmd homines provirions. The Telegraph has the following I jonmed.
. 00 j - e * “ a ® d wLOfiO to from the inside of Paris on 3d Inst: Senate.—Trumbull reported a joint resolution
$ j,000, ana imprisoned from three to seven “Although the elections occur on Wednesday that Miller from Georgia, be seated npon taking
yeaM; andby the last section the word white (next, up to the present time everything is in the oath administered to Hilt, and asked present
is to be rontea out of every law, statute, ordi- con f ns ion, with every tendenoy to rejeot the consideration. Edmunds objected and it went
nanoe, regulation, or custom, whether national mem bera of the National Defence. The meet- over.
or State. Fie, fie, that, in 1871, Mr. Sumner jugs held in various halls are becoming more The resolution that the Southern Outrage
should confess there w yet a national —ho demonstrative. Some of the speakers demand Committee be increased by two members, that
meansFederal law with the word white in ^ arre8 t and trial of those who surrendered it may sit during the session of the Senate and
lt- r/oria. Paris. The Liberal Republican Committee de- [ report from time to time, passed.
A vbinteb onoe determined that every time dared that the government of the 4th of Sep- The hearing, before Oommisakmer Plearan-
hls fellow.workmen went out to drink beer dur-1 t ember shotdd be arraigned by the National I ton on'the New York Central Scrip case, has
ing the working hours, he would put in the bank Asssmbly to account for their conduct in do- been postponed till toe 16th.
the exaot amount whioh he would have spent if fending Pans, and give reasons for agreeing to The bill to pay Susan M. Shelby, of Muato-
he had gone out to flw’nfc He kept to this reo- anmstioe. The Committee also declare that slppi, for cotton taken by the United States
lution for five years. He then examined his 110 trea ^ ratifying a cession of Alsace and Lor- forces, was postponed. The balan^ of the day
workmen had, in the meantime, become drunk- Blanche, one orator declared that France de- at length. Sumner and Carpenter strongly ad-
ards, were worthless as workmen and were dis- landed a Robespierre, and the guillotine alone vooated mixture. ’ > - .-•*
charged. The water drinker then bought out °° uld wve the country. This sentiment was Thurman argued, as the friend of common
the printing office, went on enlarging his busl-1 received w!th enthusiasm by the audience. The | schools, that mixture would destroy them.
At.t. the islands in Lake Erie are now reached night for Paris to meet colleagues and they re- j nation to discourage it, because It was wicked
with teams, tho ice connecting with the main I turned here with him, and officially announced and not approved of by heaven,
land being very thiok and perfectly safe. > | the Paris election postponed to the 8th. J Executive session and adjourned.
^pinvraH <
have been destroyed by fire.”’’ I
operatives are thrown out of emDlovml? 4
London, February 8.—Carnot Conmi • ■
of Defence in Normandy, has resiiZSp 9 1
derton’s army occupies the most of I
General Belli-ier lias evacuated i*.
Louis V. avor ct|
Odo Russell has been instructed fn
French demand for too extension of ^ I
tice. Extension is expected. “**W|
The Times, to au editorial on the siimu
says that information from Paris indict 1 1
longing for peace. The News says the P
ians will vote to-day with entire confident
on the good faith of the Germans. Itis;! 0 ^
sible to complete the terms of peace beSS
the meeting of the Assembly and the errim? I
of toe armistice, when fighting maybe rene ? I
It is said, .continues the Nows, in that eveMa I
German power to overran France will *
formidable. D
Florence, February 7.—The Government I
sists npon the satisfaction of the just dema* I
from Tunis and guarantees for the fatara* I
Frankfort, Ky., February 8.—The Cm* I
nati and Southern Railroad bill was detested I
the Senate by a vote of 23 to 12. The Sft I
by^the same .majority, refused to considerS |
Berlin, February 8. — The Ifakta ,
Finance introduced into the Prussian Diet k
day a bill authorizing the credit of 50 0000*
thalers, 6,000,000 thereof to be in treasvn
bonds payable on the 1st July next. Thelfi
ist6r in his remarks ascribed the necessity h
this credit to the fact that the new Empire;
yet without constitutional representation^,
was stated in tho same session of the Diet ftr
the members for North Schleswig preferred t
reign to taking the constitutional oath.
Liverpool, February 8.—Arrived, ship k
sterdam, from Mobile, with 5,500 bales of»
ton; bark LaPlata, from New Orleans,
1,500bales; Centam, from Mobile,with3,ii
bales.
ftlercer University.
The Rev. H. O. Hobnady leaves Macon tod^
on a mission to toe people of Southwesk.-
Georgia, as General Financial Agent of Mas
University. We commend his cause andpe.
son to the kind offices of our numerous fries
in that section.
Mr. Homadyhas views of the future policy
and prospects of the University which are a-
cecdtogly gratifying. He proposes, (and doaia
not that the Board of Management will take tit
same view at their next meeting) that so sou
as the endowment fund shall reach the sum d
half a million dollars it shall be declared a Fra
Un iversity, and no tuition whatever be collected
of the students. To reach this position theta
versity fond now requires only about $175,0011
There are one hundred thousand Baptistsin tiii
State, and two dollars a piece wonld more the
make np the amount. Surely more ihaathi)
can be raised among the people at large d
^Southern and'Oentral Georgia on a propostin
to throw open the portals of the Uni verity to
the youth of the country, and enable them ft
avail themselvs, withont oost, of all its rich re*
sources of instruction to the wide range of b
man knowledge—to qualify themselves for c;
of what are called the learned professions,«
for any scientifie, business or agricultural pr-
suit. The course of instruction will be of tie
most enlarged and liberal character.
Mr. Homady is receiving contributions io
any shape most agreeable to the friends of tit
Institution. One of these methods, which bs
been adopted to consideration of the existing
financial condition, is a contribution by person
al bonds, falling due in five years and bearing
7 per cent, interest payable annually. Th«
bonds answer all the purposes of collection as’
investment, while they, press very lightly on
the donors, and give them the benefit of £«
years of recuperation and general improvement
Mercer University does not look so much ft
large contributions from a -few, as to nnivera
aid to small sums, from the great body of fit
denomination and of the people. Resolved to
establish a grand popular centre of univesl
learning npon the highest religious, literary-
philanthropic and patriotic principles, they as
ambitions of universal co-operation to sec®
this grand and beneficent object. They fed
that every man who helps, is a friend securad
to tho University and its high purposes, m
look forward with ardent hope and confide®*
to the day when its fountains of knowledge eta
be free as water—when its students shells
numbered by hundreds, and its influence iab
half of liberal Christian Education shall perrtde
Georgia, as well as the neighboring States.
We aro requested to Bay that it is not the it*
tention to solicit private aid to Macon.
city has been exceedingly liberal to the Units*
sity and will certainly reap a rich reward lot ij
at no distant day. But if any of the citizens^*
Maoon desire to take a hand in advancing 8*
great objects of the University they can 1»**
their contributions, large or small, with
Rot. E. W. Warren.
“De Bubo.”—When shall we get rid of tta
pest? We see among the late Congress^®
appropriations one of $100,000 for ifa suppo *
We thought it had played out along with o
nuisances. We suppose, however, that Bo* 8 *
and a lot of other peeksniffs like him 5 ^ m
have a living, and this is the --j - - ,
get it. Belonging to “de bnro” otosX
most as well as being a brother-in*k* t°
Administration, or forty-ninth- cousin to ^
Administration’s wife’s grandmother’s nep ■
Gen. McMahon and O O. Washbarce,
ex-American Ministers to Paraguay, are ^
a rough-and-tumble fight through one _
New York newspapers. If toey toil the tr^
abont each other, some penitentiary wc
ont of a couple of convicts in a way * e a 1
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