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The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph and Journal Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger MACON, FEBRUARY 21, 1871. The News. Reports from Borde&nx state that M. Grevy was elected President of tho National Assembly, by 519 out of 538 votes. We judge from pre vious associations of M. Grovy’s name, that in politics he is a conservative Republican. A de liberative body of between five and six hundred would be a noisy affair in any country at any time. We are not surprised, therefore, to read that violent scenes have already taken place, and shall bo astonished if, with stakes of such moment nnd passions so high and people so demonstrative, the bayonets outside the French National Assembly will not be necessary inside to keep the peace. Wo sympathise with Mr. President Grevy in all his efforts to maintain parliamentary order—but what can one mallet do in the tumult of 538 voices? Meanwhile, the armistice is up to-morrow, and the Germans are concentrating on the Loire to be in readiness to renew the war, if they can find anybody to fight them; and, in the absence of that, to ravago and destroy. Surely tlioy will find no military force to stand against them. We hope the armistice will be extended. The British Ministry come forward with a budget for domestic defences calling for three hundred million dollars. That looks very se rious. Sheltered behind these enonnons coast defences, Mr. Bull means to make himself, if necessary, terrible on the high.seas, and to teach the eld lesson that “Britanniarules the main.” Sc-: a’or Davis, of Kentucky, yesterday was before the Senate Committee on Commerce ar- gning that the Federal government hr.d no power to grant private acts of incorporation confer ring right of way —rough the States. Tho Sen ate :■ is quite right, but it will bo a year or two yet before questions of constitutional power will Lave any weight with Congress. Mean while , ,ve regret that such an argument should arise upon tho refusal of Kentucky to grant right of way to a railway, for no better reason th;.;. the fear that it may interfere with tho trade of Louisviilo. Nothing yet from the Domingo Commission or steamship, and conclusions are postponed until the arrival of the Tybeo with tho West Indian mail, which is due on Wednesday next. Mr antime, tho probabilities and possibilities arc an engrossing theme of discourse with tho •Nc .hern press. Seiiaior Davis’ 'irgament. I' it funny to read r.bsuta sober argument Congress, ora committee thereof, against the right of Congress to what is called “emi nent domain” in tho States—the light to con- fisc.ri', alienate and convey land; in ihe States. V. -tii an abundant caution on this point, the constitution provided that the Federal Govern ment should not acqtiiro exsinsivo or para mount jurisdiction over even such littlo parts of States a" might be necessary fora federal soof government, or tho construction of works of common defence, except by the consent of th Legislatures thereof. Only cp a mere vendor of its own lands can the- Federal government constitutionally put snybedy in possession of one foot of property in any of fhe States; and yet it noy assumes not only to confer tho right of way through States divesting and conferring title to and pos session of land, but it has confiscated lands by thousands of acres, to which it can never with out a total change of the Constitution confer the shadow of a legal title. The “power to regulate commerce between the States” under which the right to charter this railway through Kentucky is claimed, against tho assent of her Legislature, as Mr. Madison cloarly points oat in the Federalist, was suggested and granted in order to prevent import and export duties which had been levied by some of tho States under tho Articles of Con federation, and wn3 suggested by tho examplo of Switzerland, where such '0II3 on goods pass ing between tho Cantons were prohibited, and by tho existence of a similar provision in the Germanic Empire. To claim the right of emi nent domain in the States on such a grant of power as that, 13 simply absurd. The South Caeolina Railaoad.—We find iho annual report of the President of tho South Carolina Railroad, in the Charleston Courier, of Wednesday. He reports a very gratifying state of affairs for parties interested in the read, there having been a marked increase in • its business for the past year over that of tho year previous, and up to its full average before tho war. Tho business is thus stated: Gross earnings of Road §1,468,340 53 Receipts from other sources 10,793 01 Total $I,4S5,138 54 And has been disposed of as follows: Road expenses, Including renew al of rails... §910,075 82 Interest—Foreign Bonds 74,272 35 Interest—First Mortgage, Domes tic Bonds GO,805 00 Interest—Domestic 0 and 7 per cent. Bonds 142,621 50 Interest—General 45,003 00 Total §1„238,858 33 Tho net income of the year, after charging up the road expenses and Foreign and Domestic Interest, is... §240,280 21 Against this have been charged— Dividends 116,388 00 Leaving a balance of. §129,892 21 Which has been carried to the “reduction of debt, purchase of locomotives, cam and real estate.” What Causes the Teocble.—The Courior- Journal’s Washington correspondent writing under date of Tuesday, says: The debate to-day in the House on the report of the Military Committee for the expulsion of the first class cadets from the West Point Acad emy was of a most interesting character. Gen. Slocum, himself a graduate of the Academy and a member of the Committee, made tho charge openly and broadly, and read from the evidence to sustain what he said, that the course of the President in pardoning, at tho request of cadet Grant, tho cadets at tho Academy who had been tried and convicted by courts-martial, had pro duced a state of demoralization for which the officers of tho Academy were not responsible, and whioh they were, under such circumstances, powerless to prevent. While Gen. Slocum made these statements nearly all tho members of tho House left thoir seats and gathered round him to hear. The New York Herald says: “There are now seventy-two Postmistresses in the United States, who receive salaries of §1,000 and up ward, besidee women in minor Post-offices. The Postmistress of Louisville, Kentucky, receives §4,000; at Richmond, Virginia, §4,000; at Hpringtfeld, Ohio, §3,000. The offices filled by women are reported at Washington as the best managed under the Government.” The Rhode Island Senate, after considerable discussion, has rejected by a decisive - vote, a proposition to amend the Constitution so that naturalized citizens can vote without owning real estate, and yet Rhode Island was one of the hotest among the Radical States for imposing negro suffrage on the South. A specimen- Iowa item: “AlSwalm, of the Des Moines Register, advertises his left boot to rent for one month. Ho met with an accident, whereby he is obliged to do up his hoof in a slipper about the size of cradle.” A Virginia lady ascribes her ninety-six years of life and her good health now to the fact that she never took any medicine, save three pills. Planters HefiindkanU. Various causes have conspired to put the Georgia planters two or three weeks behind their state of progress at tho corresponding period of last Spring. Two which wo will men tion are these:—the laborers lhi3 year wore slow in making contracts and reluctant and di latory in settling down to plantation work. This was perhaps more than any thing 6lse due to tho election excitement in December, for the negro cannot divest himself of the- idea that some material results—something-in the pocket or the Sack is to come from voting the straight Radical ticket. But after tho hands had begun to address themselves- seriously to work, then long and heavy rains set in—rendering field labor of any kind impracticable, and the soil is even now so thoroughly saturated with water as to be wholly unfit for tho plow, unless it is of a very porous and sandy character. Wo may say, therefore, up to this time nothing important has been done in. the way of preparation for the crop; while last year a good deal of land had been turned up and many fields were ready for the seed so soon as the season of planting arrived. This arrearage varies no doubt from two weeks to a month. The spring of last year, however, was behind that of tho year previous which was very early and found tho planters ra good preparation for it. Tho philosophy of tho great crop of 1870-1 lay primarily in tho extraordinary lateness of frost last fall and consequent length of the maturing season. Supplementary to this was tho lavish application of commercial fertilizers and tho generally favorable weather throughout tho whole cropping season. Tho occurrence of all those conditions in a single year was remarkable, and it is not likely to happen again. As for commercial fertilizers we donbt whether twenty-fivo per cent, of the consumption of last year will be applied this season. Tho two other conditions depend upon the allotments of Providence, and we hope tho farmers will not Joaso their corn estimates on tho yield of last year, which, owing to timely rains was at least fifty per cent above tho aver- Surveying tho whole ground, wa do not doubt that tho yield of cotton will bo materially di minished this year. Indeed, it must he. We are shut up to the necessity of raising moro grain, or going into bankruptcy. But.wifh ail this in prospect, any rise in market price must bo predicated rather upon increased consump tion than any probable diminution of tho pro- dact. The business of the world is, howevor, so seriously deranged by political disturbances, and there is such meagre promise of future quiet, that we look for no improvement in gen eral trade. As the accumulations of ages can be burned up or otherwise destroyed in a few hours, man kind cannot play tho role of destroyers without incurring very severe and protracted punish ment. Trade on the continent of Europe must revivo slowly and remain for a long time in a crippled condition. The people of neither France nor Germany can afford the comforta ble clothing they once had. The United Stat are only now beginning seriously to feel what they lost by the war, and we must continue in the reactionary, stage probably for a long time to come. Sober calculations, strict economy and steady, persistent and judicious industry are indispensable to cyc-ry material interest. Foreign Immigration. Colonel F. Sehaller sends us a copy of a let ter which ho has addressed to the Committee of the State Agricultural Society on Immigra tion and Land Companies, which wo print else where. Whilo wo nro not prepared to endorse a state appropriation for this business, it seems to us the State Agricultural Organization might develop some scheme of organized co-apera- tion among planters desiring to secure some supplementary white foreign labor, which would work efficiently. Florida is already, doing it on a considerable scale. The planters iu our neighboring. county of Jobgs, by an union among themselves, have already secured "a con siderable number of Swedish immigrants, who have given universal satisfaction, and whose industrious and thrifty habits and intelligent minds will soon make them proprietors of the soil and put them in the straight road to roputa- tion and fortune. The Swedes, in a few years, we venture to say, will bo employers, instead of employed; but in either capacity they are a valuable acquisition to tho State, and Jones county is already after moro of them. Every year brings an increasing scarcity of labor in Georgia from various causes. The rapid and now almost total withdrawal of negro women and children from the field—the growing indis position of the young negro men to agricultural labor, and their increasing passion for the social excitements and indulgencics afforded by the towns, and the gradual decay and death of the old plantation hands—are the most patent among these causes. One effect this increas ing scarcity of labor is, to seriously reduce the standard of efficiency. Planters accept anybody as a laborer, and almost anything as a day’s work. White immigrant labor cannot be had in suf ficient quantity to supplant negro labor in any perceptible degree—nor is it desirable; but it may bo very serviceable in raising the standard of labor efficiency. A few active and industri ous white hands on any place, to show what is a day’s work, may vastly improve the morale of the whole force. The Bupply of Swedish labor which may bo drawn upon is very small. The entire popula tion of Sweden is probably short of four mil lions, and although owing to tho natural pov erty and ruggednes3 of the soil, but a very small portion of its area is arable land, yet we suppose there is scarcely a population in Europe so well provided universally with wholesome bodily and mental aliment. Therefore, no great proportion of the small sum total is likely to become emigrants. Col. Schaller’s sugges tions that French labor is likely to be accessi ble under stress of the political situation of that afflicted conntry, aro worthy of consideration. The Arkansas Muddle. The Radicals in Arkansas, having quarreled, are on the point of a general fight, if you were to believe them; but, as a matter of fact, such fellows as they aro do not often subserve the causo of truth and justice in that way. They will never oblige the public by killing each other off as they ought to do. We do not com prehend the quarrel in its details. Clayton, the Governor, so-called, is at sword’s points with Johnson, tho Lieut. Governor. Clayton has been elected to the United States Senate and don’t want to leave a vacancy behind him for the occupancy of Johnson. Clayton is a terrible scoundrel—who has overran Arkansas with his negro banditti. If Johnson is any better we do not know it. Thopublio can feel no interest in the fight except that they should punish each other. The Crystal Palace cf Phabmaoy.—A noto from Dr. H. T. Hembold’s” Crystal Palace of Pharmacy-says that Dr. Dyott, long known as the publisher of the Oracle of Health, and ■Father of the Proprietary Medicine Business, has been induced to enter into arrangements with Dr. Henry T. Helmbold, the world-re nowned druggist and manufacturer of the cele brated fluid Extracts. Dr. Dyott will bo pleased to see his olct friends at 594 Broadway. The Crystal Palace of Pharmacy is daily visited by thousands. There is no suoh store in the world. THE GEORGIA PRESS. Morgan Saxton was severely stabbed, Tuesday night, at Columbus, by Pate Smith, and on Wednesday they wont at it again, and Saxton brought up in the guardhouse.- The Columbus Euquier of Thursday says: Preliminary Epamination.—Tho preliminary trial of Daniel P. Dozier for tho killing of Bun- jamin F. Odom, at No. 1 J, Southwestern Rail road, Saturday night last,, commenced in tho Superior Court room, under Jnstices Crawford, Shivers andMcCahey, at 12 o’clock, yesterday. The examination was opened by tho introduc tion of threo State witnesses, Messrs. Daniel Odom, J. D. Odom and Jonathan Jenkins, from whom no material facts were elicited, as neither of them saw the rencontre. Somo eight or ten witnesses were next examined by the defense— among them Conductor Jeter, Baggago Master McIntyre, Supervisor Cosby, and a colored train hand named Matt All of these witnessed more or less of the killing, and all- concurred that Dozier and Odom left the city together on the same train, and occupied seats in tho same ear; that when the parties reached No. 1 J, Odom got ont first, secured a large sized stick or clab, with which he felled Dozier as the lat ter was passing him in tho dark; that in rising Dozier fired, missing Msaim,-and on the second fire deceased fell, the ball -taking effect in Ins back, from which he expired in about half an hour. After examination of the main witnesses, several others were brought forward to testify in relation to a previous diffidulty between the parties at Johnson’s store, which is believed to have given riso to tho unfortunate one which resulted as above. Tho evidence was concluded about five o’clock, when, by consent of parties, the argument of counsel was postponed until nine o’clock this morning. Tho Savannah News is gratified at Grant’s nominating O. K. Osgood as Postmaster of that city. It says he is competent and honest. At Atlanta, Thursday, Mr. Potts, of Ten nessee, handed John Moon §10 wherewith to buy him, the verdant Potts, a ticket to Chat tanooga. At last accounts Potts was still look ing for that Moon. Major Thos. A. Grace, of Newman, had his pocket picked of §175 at Atlanta, last Tuesday. Harris and Hick’s grocery, comer of James and Peachtree street, Atlanta, was burned by an incendiary, Thursday morning, loss §1,200. Mr. Hicks, who was sleeping in tho house bare ly escaped suffocation. A miller named Mabry, at Tomlin’s mill near Cartersville, was drowned Wednesday morning. Work will soon be resumed on tho Western extension c-f tho Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama railroad, with the intention of com-, pletmg the road to the Chattahoochee river. Mrs. Mary M. Scott, wife of Capt. Dunlap Scott, late member of the Lc-gisiatnro from Fiojd county, died at Rome, on Wednesday, leaving an infant seventeen days old. A Presbyterian Church has been organized at Cave Spring, with Rev. S. E. Axson, of Rome, as pastor. W. It. Webster, was appointed Ordinary of DeKalb county, on Thursday. His predecessor died Wednesday. How very sharp set the patriots up there must be! The Dalton Citizen says: Wo had occasion to go to Atlanta recently, and were pleased to find that many important changes have been made on tho State Road. Tiio road is being improved rapidly, and is now in much better condition than when under the previous administration. System, thorough system, is manifest everywhere along tho line. Besides, being well managed, it is done eco nomically; thereby showing what a vast amount of mocoy Blodgett could have placed into the treasury if he had been so disposed. Dr. Tichenor, of Alabama, has been called to accept the pastorato of the Baptist Church at La Grange, vice Rev. H. C. Hornoday, resigned. Tho editor of the Albany News hints at a series of festivities which have put his thinking aparatus out of order. Kimball, Hulbert and a lot of other Brunswick and Albany R. R. officials were rather too much for him. Mr. A. W. Wood is now drawing Dougherty County rations for being too familiar with some body else’s pistol and shirt, and also a lot of towels belonging to tho Towns Ilonso at Al bany. The editor of tho Talbotton Standard says tho negroe3 of that county are working-better than he ever saw them, and repairing and making fences is more fashionable now than any year since tho war. The local of the Savannah Republican is down oa baby carriages in the streets. P. -S.— The “galoot” having no baby of his own, don’t “know how it is yourself.” Tho Savannah Advertiser, of Friday, says: Taking the Veil.—At the Convent of St. Vincent de Paul of the Sisters of Mercy, yester day, very impressive and interesting ceremo nies were observed, tho occasion being the taking of the veil by three yonng ladies,* Misses Kate Prendorgast and Agnes O’Brien, of Savan nah, and Miss Ellen Rooney, of Augusta. They were professed at half past seven a. m. at tho Convent, and received the names respectively of sister “Mary Genevieve, sister Mary Maga- ret and sister Mary Pius.” Mis3 Cole, daughter of Colonel A. H. Cole, of Savannah, a beautiful girl of seventeen years, was burned to death at Fernandina, on Wednes day night. She was reading in bed and the bed clothing took fire. Daniel P. Dozier, of Columbus, who shot and killed Benjamin F. Odom, at station 14 S. W. R. R. last Saturday, has been discharged from custody by the magistrates at Colnmbm before whom tho preliminary examination was held on Thursday. Says the Columbus Sun of Friday: A Sneak or an Assassin.—Colonel Blake was stopped near Captain Van Marcus’ residence, Tuesday night, by a man, who, presenting a cocked pistol at his breast, said he (OoL B.) was the one ho had been looking for. Tho Colonel not knowing tho would-be assassin, was taken somewhat aback at first at his impudence, and very coolly told him that he was unarmed at the time, bnt if ho would meet him in the morning he would give him a depont thrashing or shoot ing if ho preferred. Tho Colonel then an nounced his name and demanded to know that of his assailant. This tho latter rof used to give, or rendered a wrong one; he said ho was mis taken in his man, and slid* away in tho dark ness. . . J. T. McCormick, who misrepresented Tronp county in tho Agency, loft Atlanta for that county on foot somo three weeks since, and has not been heaid from since. He was not in the “ring,” evidently, as ho tried to borrow §10 to pay railroad faro the day before he left. P. F. Smith, of Newnan, has been appointed Solicitor of the Tallapoosa Circuit. The Atlanta Sun says: Somo vagrants arrived recently, who reported themselves from Macon, saying that the Mayor of that city had furnished them free transporta tion to this point We are also informed that they were likewise returned to their native home by the liberality of the Mayor of our city. So it is that vagrants travel all around in a rail road car and don’t pay a cent An incendiary attempt to born tho drag store of Heery & Rendleman, on Whitehall -street, Atlanta, was made Thursday night Miss Sallie Lou, oldest daughter of Capt James Hendorson, of Jasper comity, was bnried on Friday last, having died very suddenly from a violent attack of inflammation of the bowels, aged about sixteen years. Oa Saturday night last, as Sheriff Penns wagon was returning from Covington, the four males of the teara^were drowned in the creek, near Mr. John Pope’s residence, at MonticeUo. The drivet saved himself by clinging to the foot-log. All the load which was in tho wagon was lost. Bainbridge is putting on airs on tho strength' of receiving 35,000 bales of cotton this season. Tho Sumter Republican, of yesterday, says: Arrested.—Tho negro who stabbed Mr. Wil liam Miller after he had been shot by some par ties in the difficulty that took place at Stark- ville not long Bince, was arrested in Terrell county a few days ago, and turned over to the authorities of Lee county on Thursday last dur ing the setting of the Superior Court. Ho was brought to this place on Friday morning bv the Sheriff of Leo, and lodged in jail, where he will remain until the March term of Lee Supe rior Court, when he will be tried for the offense ofmurder. , mian to bo Kicked Ont For In- competency. A special Washington dispatch to tho Now York Evening Post dated the 13th, says: “Your correspondent is in possession of in formation which leaves no doubt os to tho early resignation of Mr. Akerman ns Attorney-Gen eral;” “Tho President has frequently of late been urged to inako-a change in this office, not mere ly for political reasons, bnt for other and higher considerations. Within a few days past the af fair has assumed Buch a shape as to require the change to be made; and although the Presi dent’s mind is said to be fully made up to it, he hesitates as to the policy of making a break in the Cabinet until after the 3d of March.” “The necessity for Mr. Akerman’s resigna tion is understood to be entirely professional, and to bo attributed to his want of familiarity with the law governing important cases in which the Government is interested, now pend ing in the Supreme Court. -“Your*correspondent violates no confidence In eaying that several of the justices of the Su premo Court have advised the President to make this change, asserting that Mr. Akerman had not thus far displayed even ordinary legal attainments in conducting cases for the United States before the Supremo Court.” And this is Amos’ reward for cooking up that infamous law whereby he sought to prop Grant’s falling fortunes in Georgia. Or perhaps he has been a little backward in taking stock in. the Great Grant Gift Enterprise. Let him come down with the dust, hariHsomely, and perhaps his legal attainments may reach tho necessary standard. If he must go, though, we beg leave to recommend to Mr. Grant, as his successor, that distinguished legal luminary, P. B. Bed ford, who represented tho Government in the’ recent case of the United States versus Hon. Linton Stephens, tried here last month. Let Bedford start a subscription, and hio to Wash ington with it at once. The Louisville Ledgek.—We have received the first number of the daily issne of this new paper, just commenced publication at Louis ville, Ky. It is Democratic in politics, ■ and shows decided ability and taste in its mako-up and original matter. * On the snbject of “dead issues” it holds tho following views: The war decided secession to be dead; bnt It didmot decido the Constitution to be dead, nor did it decide the. edicts of the Radical party to bo tho Constitution. There are results of the war which because of the time whichhas elapsed, and the rivets by which that time has enabled tho Radical party to perpetuate them by forms apparently regular, which it were vain to con test at this lato moment, and these may be re garded as dead issues, but all of the frenzied excesses of that party do not make tho issues entailed by it doad. Messrs. Paul Shipman, formerly of the old Louisville Journal, and M. W. Clusky, formerly of tho Memphis 'Avalanche, aro understood to be its principal editors, though no announce ment is made of the fact. Tho Ledger will be published at §S per annum, for its daily edition. Highly Important Life Insurance De cision. A case involving somo points of great inter est and impcrlance, both to Iifo insurance com panies and policy holders, has just been decid ed in Now York against a company in that city. The Tribune, of Tuesday, has tho following in referenco to it: It will bo recollected that tho .person insured, being in etnbarrased circumstances and harrass- ed by creditors, procured policies to the amount of §10,000 in his wife’s favor tho day before his death, then, went on board a steamboat at Louisville, was found in an insensible condition, looked in his state-room, when tho boat reached Cincinnati, and died shortly after. The testi mony during the trial included a post-mortem examination, showing that, at least, half a grain of morphia was found in tho stomach and tis sues of the deceased; while it was also proved that ho was in excellent health and apparently good spirits when going on board the steam boat. Tho Judge charged the jury that if they found that tho deceased had committed suicide by taking morphia, tho presumption was that ho was insane at the time; and the burden of proof to the contrary rested with tho defendant. Under such a ruling it would appear to bo al most impossible for an insurance company to defend a suit successfully on the ground of sui cide of the insured. The view hitherto held has been that if the suicide occurred within a comparatively short period of the act of insur ing, fraud might be suspected; but if a long time had elapsed, fraud was impossible. Under the new ruling the companies may as well take the “suicide clause” out of their policies. Tlic State -Agricultural Convention Meets in this city next Wednesday. The Atlan ta Sun says: . We have no doubt that tho attendance at Ma con next week will bo very largo and highly in telligent. As will be seen from the list of dele gates published in the Sun, men of distinguish ed ability have been selected from many coun ties, and, taken altogether, the body will be fully as respectable and ablo as the best legisla tive body ever assembled in tho State. The Sun will, of course, keep its readers posted in regard to tho action of the body. During tho sitting of the convention, ad dresses maybe expected from the following named gentlemen, upon the subjects assigned by tho Executive Committee: State Legislation and State Agriculture—Samuel Barnett, of Wilkes county. Federal Legislation and South ern Agriculture—Governor Johnson, of Jeffer son county. Grass and Glover—Colonel John H. Fitten, of Bartow county. Rust in Grow ing Crops—Judge Yason, of Dougherty county; T. P. Jones, of Green county; Dr. Pendleton, of Hancock county; Wm. Jones, - (Southern Cultivator,) of Clarke county; Dr. Ellis, of Grif fin; J. V. Jones, of Burke county; J. B. Wal ker, of Madison. Agricultural Education— General William M. Browne, of Bibb county. Condition of Southern Agriculture—the Causes and the Remedies—General R. Toombs, of Wilkes county. Steam on tho Farm—Colonel E. Steadman, of Newton county. Sheep Hus bandry—Richard Peters, of Falton county. Irrigation— Captain C. W. Howard, of Bartow county. Immigration—Colonel Mark Schallor, of Clhrke county. Planting with Fruit Culture —W. W. Moses, of Washington county. Fruit Growing in Georgia—Dr. W. P. Harden, of Falton county; J. Van Bnren, of Habersham county. Mechanism on the Plantation—Simon Thomas, of Washington county. Wines and Vines—J. Norcross, of Falton county. Factor and Planter—Fertilizer and Profits—By the whole Convention. A Beetle too Strong.—Tho Radicals in Con gress don’t seem to take to Elliott, the black Congressman so-called from Sonth Carolina. They stood Long and Rainey tolerably well, a3 both are bright mnlattoes, bnt Elliott being as black os the devil himself, and tho temperature of the House favorable to developing his strong points, they rather fought shy of him. A Wash ington correspondent writes that fflliott was on the floor Tuesday, and received anything bnt a warm welcome from his political allies. This is the first symptom of that grand vomit the man and brother is going to cause in bis pecu liar friends at tho North before many years. And if wo know anything of the purposes of tho negroes in localities where they now have political power, they intend at the next election to follow up tho Elliott dose with many more of the same sort, or even stronger. The Next Cotton Cbop.—Speaking of the next cotton crop, the New Orleans Picayune says: We have closely examined our country ex changes for the last three or four weeks to as certain the intention of tho planters with regard to the next cotton crop. From nearly every section of the Sonth the reports agree in stat ing that the acreage under cotton will be largely reduced this spring. In some districts it is said not half as much cotton will be planted'as was last season. On the whole, we may safely esti mate from twenty-five to forty per cent, reduc tion in acreage. • Planters now fully realize the folly of their, action last season in entirely neglecting food crops. They have paid pretty dearly for their experience; and the cotton crop of tho Sonth wifi henceforth, no donbt, be kept within the proper limit of 3,000,000 bales. _ [COXniUNIOATXD.] Sandzbsvhyle, Ga. , Feb. 11,1871. General A. R Wright, Augusta : Deab Sib—A number of the citizens of San- dorsville, mot nt the office of J. N. Gilmore, Esq., for the purpose of taking action in regard to J. C. Gallaher, who recently left these parts; whon it was Resolved, That the annexed communication be sent to tho Ohronido and Sentinel for pub lication : Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: We beg the use of your columns for tho statement of a few facta in relation to one J. O. Gallaher, who, writing over tho signature of “Enquirer,” in the Atlanta Constitution, and over his own sig nature in the Macon Telegraph and Messen ger, has made a false and cowardly attack upon one of our best and most highly esteemed citi zens, Judge Twiggs. Where this fellow Gallaher is known he is in capable of injuring any one, bnt as he is a com parative stranger in this State, a few facts about this man’s character will show how totally un worthy are any statements coming from him. Gallaher came here about one year ago, a total stranger. He claimed to have* been a Major in tho Confederate army, end that he lost an arm at the siege of Vicksburg. This was all ho. chose to disclose of hia post history. He brought with .him a woman, whom he claimed as his wife, and so introduced her into such society as he could gain admittance to. Soon after bo settled here, claiming to be a law yer, bo began to stir up suits and engender strife among our people. Being a good -talker and, withal, exceeding plausible in his stories, ho very soon obtained, to some extent, tho ear and good-will of come of our citizens. Things went on very quietly uutil our Spring Term of the Superior Court, which sat in April, when, having a littlo case appealed from a Justice Court, against one of our oldest and leading citizens, ho took occasion to abuse him in the most scandalous and vulgar manner. This speech of lawyer Gallaher caused our people to begin an inquiry into his character, and it soon became whispered about that he was not exactly what he ought to be. Among others, Judge Twiggs, then a practic ing lawyer at the bar in this place (and whose experience, like that of the other attorneys, only confirmed and strengthed the distrust which be gan to be entertained by the public generally); commenced some inquiries in regard to tho past history and antecedents of Gallaher; and very soon a letter was received from one of the most respectable citizens of .Eafaula, Alabama, giving a very full history of Gallaher’s career while a resident of Alabama, besides conveying the intelligence that Gallaher had deserted his wife then living in Tennessee, where he married her, and had courted and seduced, whilo'Iiving in Abbeville, Ala., a young lady from Mariana, Fla., by whom he had a child born, and that tho person with whom ho was living here was the same. It was also discovered from a lawyer of high standing in Macon that Gallaher had been de tected in some short-comings, in regard to money matters in tho latter place. These facts, wa are informed, were communicated to Gallaher by Judgo Twiggs, who begged, in - justice to him- 'self and to the community, that he would make to the people cf ibis village some explanation of theso charges. Gallaher thanked Judge Twiggs for his candor in making known these facts to him, and assured him that they were en tirely false and without foundation—that he had never married any woman, other than the one with whom he was then living as such. That the charge about tho Macon money affair was false, and gotten np with a view to injure his character by a persona.! enemy. From that day to the present Gallaher Luo; entertained tho most bitter hatred and spite towards somo of the citi zens of tho community, and particularly to wards Judge Twiggs; and although he pre tended to invite scrutiny Into .his history and assumed an air of injured innocence only to be counterfeited by one inured to vice, and hardened by evil associations, ho constantly watched for opportunities to injure those whoso just sense of social security and propriety had led to deserved exposure of his crimes. For a time ho pretested so earnestly and with such apparent truthfulness his entire innocence of adultery or ligamy with tho woman he brought here as his wife, that somo of the citi zens thonght he must be slandered, and contin ued to receive social visits from himself and wife. Somo time in the. early part of last fall, farther evidenco was received here from differ ent sources and by divers persons, not only of Gallaher’s former marriage, bnt of attempts by him to marry other women, and that by his for mer marriage he had two children, one a blind boy, some ten or twelve years, of age In con firmation of these facts, gentlemen in Macon stated that while there Gallaher had made in quiries about the mode of getting children into the Blind Asylum located there; was by them introduced to the Superintendent of the same, whom he informed that he had a blind child which he wished to have admitted. These facts were also communicated to Gallaher, and he de nied them entirely—stating that the child was that of another Galla^pr of the same initials, whom he was befriending, and whose child he sought to benefit by his efforts. When told, however, that the Gallaher who had the blind child had lost an arm and was a lawyer, he re plied that the facts were singular he knew, bnt that they were strange coincidences, and insist ed that the mother of these children was not his wife, and that he never had a blind child, boy or girl. Theso statements he has made over and over again to several gentlemen of this place, (which will bo verified by them), ever declaring most positively that the person with whom he was then, and still is,* living, was the only one he had ever married, and that his child (an infant), was his only child. Enquiries were continued, and in a few months resulted in the receipt of the following letter from two prominent gentlemen of Marys ville, Tennessee: Marysville, Tenn-, Dec. 31, 1870, Deab Sri:—Your letter of the 28th inst., just received. I have shown the letter to W. D. MeGinley, an old lawyer of this place, Who to gether with myself, know all abont the Major JohnC. Gallaher yon speak of, as well as the family into which he married. MeGinley lived for a number of y$ars with the family of John Ambrister, deceased,'and was well acquainted with Mary Ambrister, before she mamed Galla- hor, and knows that she did ma.rry John O. Gallaher, who was at one time a carpenter by trade, afterwards studied law and was admitted to the bar. John O. Gallaher was a Major in tho Southern army and lost bis arm while in the service, wo are informed; ho left here with one arm. Neither of us desire to make an affidavit abont the matter, unless there should be somo legal proceeding, instituted, bnt if legal pro ceedings should be instituted, it could be proved that he was married before ho left here to Mary Ambrister, and that he has tho blind child at his brother-in-law’s, Asa Ambristcr’s, at Lenois Station, Tenn., and that Mb wife is living at his brother-in-law’s, Asa Ambrister’s. You will not be likely to get an answer from Asa Ambrister, be causo he knows all abont the matter, and the way Gallaher has treated his sister, and does not want to have anytMng to* do either for or against Gallaher; he does not wish Ms sister to know anytMng about the con duct of Gallaher, thinking that he has treated her badly enough by Ms desertion, to say noth> ing of marrying a second time. If you desire to do so, you can got a certified c6py of his marriage license to Mary Ambrister by addressing R. O. Tucker, clerk of the county court at this place, together With the return of the minister of the Gospel who married them. Very respectfully, F. M. Hood. W. D. Mo Gimlet. Tho contents of this letter were also repeated to Gallaher, and ho still protested that the charge was false, and that it had referenoe to a John Calhoun Gallaher, who had married the lady referred to, and not himself. During the time these investigations were going on, Galla her still thrnst the woman living with him upon our community as Ms wife, and was always open and bold in hss assertion that she was Ms only and lawful wife. The community felt outraged at tMs and at other conduct quite as venal in its nature, and, as yon have already heard, some disguised parties, unknown to us, took Mm one night from his boarding house and carrying him jnst beyond the village Bhot Mm, As soon as ho recovered from Ms wounds he left for Macon, reporting there that some of our leading citizens were implicated with tho crowd wMch mobbed Mm, and even went sofar as to insinuate that Judge Twiggs was privy to the act. He has, we are informed, been indus triously-circulating in Macon and Atlanta all sorts of falsehoods against Judge Twiggs and some of oar best citizens. Pursuing onr investigations with regard to Gallaher’s character still further, a gentleman of this village wrote to Asa Ambrister, his re puted brother-in-law, and below we send you his reply, as well as a certified copy of a mar riage license, which shows that Ms marriage with Mary A. Ambrister was solemnized with all the moralities and requirements of law. To place Ms identity "beyond question, his brother-in-law had the foresight to enclose the photograph of the man who married his sister, (wMch we transmit herewith,) and it is wholly unnecessary to say that it is a most excellent and striking picture of the man Gallaher who is the object of this notice, and who fortunately has left our community. Lenoibs, Tenn», January 9,1871. Deab Sib—Enclosed you will find a certified copy of the marriage licenso of J. 0. Gallaher and Mary A. Ambrister, wMoh will be sufficient proof to satisfy any one that ho is the same gen tleman. . . You wish to know who is this lady. She is my sister; has been living with me since tho year 1863, soon after her husband, J. O. Gallaher, had enlisted in tho war. She has two children, the elder a little blind boy—his name is Eddie F. Gallaher, abont. twelve years old—and the little girl’s name is Blanche, about'nine years old. You wished me to give a description of J. 0. Gallaher. He is abont five feet ten inches Mgb, black hair—Ms right arm off—lost at tho siege of Vicksburg, l will send you a photograph which was sent-to me from Abbeville afow years ago; probably yon can trace some resemblance be tween tbe original and tMs photograph, if not, return it to me. I believe I have said all that .is necessary and yon have sufficient proof in this to convict him, which I think is nothing but right, that he should be handled by the law. He has not been to see his wife since the year 18G8—spent about two weeks. He has not writ ten to his wife in a little over twelve months. Wo never knew where he was-until wo received your letter. If this is not -sufficient evidence, and you wish my presence, I will come and his wife also, if it is necessary. Very respectfully, Asa Ambrister. * Wo have been requested by a meeting of the citizens of this village, to make this expose of Gallaher, as ho is now actively engaged in trying to injure us through the columns of the news papers and by verbal street corner slanders. Mach more might have been said, and other facts detailed of this man’s history, which aro in our possession, and which aro revolting in their nature, but wo think tho brief ontline give,, will bo sufficient to answer the purpose for which this is written, and to warn other com munities wMch mny bo-imposed upon in a sim ilar manner. Oar peoplo have felt that it is dco them and to Judge-Twiggs, who has taken an active part in exposing Gallaher’s character, that it should be ventilated, as he may otherwise be able to do much harm. Your- paper circulates very largely in the country, and, I-believe, has n gen eral circulation, in the State, and, we,therefore appeal to you to aid us in giving publicity to the foregoing facts. -v v ’ ■ v/ ' [cosmonicactd:] Albant, February 14, 1871 Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I was very much shocked on reading tho proceedings of the “Cow Meeting,” reported in your very excellent paper of Sunday morning last, to find that your “Local” so murdered the old nursery story of “The House that Jack Built” as to make the “Beautiful cow with the crumpled horn Toss the maiden all forlorn!” Now, sirs, what man or woman is there in all the land that has not treasured np in memory, as among the choicest and richest of childhood’s recollections, tho story of “the Honso that Jack Bnilt ?” Who does not remember the triumph of that honr, when, in the nursery, surrounded by the whole famiLy of juveniles, they were able for the first time, to repeat from memory, the whole of that thrilling poem from beginning to end ? Somo, perhaps, of the little circle could never learn to repeat it all wiilioftt making mis takes; bnt tbe veriest dolt among them all could at least remember and quote correctly that part commencing with— “ This is tho maiden all forlorn, That milked tbe cow with tho crumpled horn, That tossed the dog. That worried the cat, That killed tho rat, That eat-the malt, That lay in the house That Jack built ” Oh! who can forget it? Your Local (Mr. Shropshire, I .believe, his name is, sometimes familiarly called “old Shrop,”) ought not to have been guilty of such Bacrilege as to misquote, mangle and murder that sublime creation of immortal genius. I write this to protest against such carelessness in fntnre. Murder, if yon please, Byron, Shakspeare, Goldsmith, Yonng, Pope, Moore; nay, all tbe standard poets; but’ lay not your bloody hands (or pens) upon the immortal anthorof “The House that Jack Bnilt!” or any other poet whose jingling numbers have caused so mr-h youthful enjoyment in the nur series of tho land for the last half century. •-Woodman, spare that tree. Touch not a single bough! Iu early youth it sheltered me, * And I’ll protect it now.” Now, sirs, the object of this communication is to vindicate the memory of that venerable “cow with the crumpled horn.” She did not “ toss the maiden ajl forlorn.” No, sirs; she was too g&od a cow for that. She stood gentle and submissive, while the milk-pail received the life-giving, strengthening and invigorating fluid, which streamed forth responsive to the pressure of the tender fingers, of “ the maiden all for lorn.” But there was a fellow—a naughty fel low, who, in the language of tho immortal bard, "kissed the maiden all forlorn.” Quite a dif ference; I apprehend, to a maiden, between be ing kissed, thongh by a “man all tattered and torn,” and tossed by a “cow with crumpled horn;” particularly when that man makes amends by getting a “priest all shaven and shorn,” to marry “ the man all tattered and tom,” “that kissed the maiden all forlorn.’ Now the poet does not say, that “ the man all tattered and torn,” married the “maiden all for lorn,” bnt that is the inference of the youthful mind, on reading the story. By the way, Messrs. Editors, I don’t know, after all, if I have not ex perienced more pleasure than pain, from tho murderous misquotation of yonr local. But for Ms alluding to the “cow With the crumpled horn,” I should not have gono back in memory to the time, so mas-y years ago—it matters not how many—when “Tho House that Jack bnilt” first made its appearance in onr nursbry. “Ah, well do I remember that it was in bleak Decem ber,” when many I then knew and loved were clustered around me, to be seen and loved on earth no moro forever. Eager hand3 were stretched forth to catch, then to read, then to memorize tho wonderful story of “ The House that Jack built 1” A beautiful red book—com panion to “Who Killed Cock Robin”—with il lustrations of every incident in the pleasing nar rative. Commencing first, with a picture of the “house” itself; then, “ the malt that lay in ihe House that Jack bnilt;” then, “the rat that eat the malt that lay in tho Honse that Jack bnilt;” then, “tho cat that caught tho rat,” etc; then, “the dog that worried the cat that caught the rat,” etc; then, “the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the wicked dog that worried poor pussy cat, that caught the thieving rat, that eat the precious malt, that lay in the honse that Jack bnilt. Ah! well do I remember, how my youthful mind was puzzled, to determine what malt was. I could- very well comprehend, what a “rat, cat, dog, cow, maiden all forlorn, man all tattered and torn, priest all shaven and shorn, cock that crewed in the morn, fox that lived under the thorn, Jack with his hands and horn, honso of beautiful form, stable so snug and warm,” and all that sort of tMng was, bnt that precious malt, that Jack bnilt a house for, was beyond my comprehension. Seeing in the fiction that it was tied np in bags, I could but believe that it was .equally as valuable as the gold tied np in bags, of wMohl also saw pic tures, and read about in the “forty tMeves.” Bnt I have done. My point is this, when “Ye Local” attempts to quote “poetry as is poetry,” do moke Mm qnote it correctly. Let him do injustice to all the heroes and heroines of history or romance, if he will; bnt leave, oh! leave un touched the memory of the good old “cow with the erampled horn” that never, no never, *tossed the maiden all forlorn.” She simply, so says tho poet, “ Tosaed the doo, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That eat the malt, That lay in the bouse, That Jack built.” And all the juveniles in the day when I was one of them; said “she did right.” Como, Tho Prayer ol the BY JOHN HAT. S ‘ Not done, but near its eedine Where the blushes of dawn'ine*.. How long were onr fond dreams h,«i Novara’s ead mischance TlA 01Qn»’a n — -.. 1 1 • * ed!_ Boutwell, it seems, is not to go ont of the Cabinet on the 4th of March next. We didn’t much think that he would, for suoh a radical change in tho Treasury Department might ac cidentally necessitate a reorganization of the entire stealage system of the Government. [ Courier-Journal. The cost of carting documents to and from the Lower House of Congress last year was §7,500. How many of these “documents” were simply drunken members the report of the con tingent expenses does not say. The Kriser’s sword and fetter-lock Aad tbe traitor stab of Franco - TUI at last camo glorious Venice ’ , storm and tempest home • ’ Lame Lion of Caprera! And the stain of Mentona’s «od - But forged the curse ofkinga that««« From your breaking beau to GoF 3 Wo lift our souls to Thee. O Lora Of Liberty and of Light' a Ldt not earth’s kings.pollutetho work •r d . on ,® m ttcir despito: Let not Thy bgkt be darkened In the ebade of a sordid crown. Nor the Piedmont swine devour the f„-. . Then shookst with an earth“a 8 k 0 Let the peopleeomo to their birth---, u ■ And crozier and ciowu pass awav’ Like phantasms that flit 0 cr the mawt-o A t the glance of the clean wbS " And. then from the lava of iEtua " To the ice or the Alps let there ho One freedom, one faith without fettew One republic in Italy free! ■ Copy of a Letter Addressed to Committee of the Agricultural . on Emmigratiou and In-J Companies. 804 Athens, Ga., February 13 jg;, Deab Sib : It is my intention to bo at Mao* during the spring meeting of tbe State AmS tural Society, and to request, as Chairman ni the Committee on Immigration and Lind Coa panies, a meeting of said committee to consifo what steps should be taken by tho Societv h order to give a new impulse to proper efforts tn establish emigration to Georgia. For my part, I would recommend that tk Society petition tbe State Legislature to mS! another appropriation for this object, and tow amend the Immigration act as to make tbe S‘ih Agricultural Society the medium of disbar^- tho fand; in short, to charge tho Society ^ the whole subject. Under existing circma. stances, it would behest managed by that both wMch has nottong to do with politics, and wfcjg consist b of members generally accustomed.k deal with practical matters and who aro neatb all more or less directly interested in immigrc! tion. The bill, which was framed in January, ISC' by the Special Committee, consisting of Her Yancey, Howard, Schley, Burnett, Bloom, Cobh Harris, Lewis, Hatton and myself, I yet c.j. sider, and after a residence abroad of nearl- two years, during wMch I have been entirely occupied by the subject of immigration, as fe one wMch, had it been fully adopted by ft Legislature and carried out, would have esUb. lished immigration to Georgia with the §10,- 000 appropriated, in the hand3 of men at. quainted witlrthe basic ess. I judge that this would have been the case from my own success on the Continent and from that of Mr. Huttos in England—both in behalf of Virginia. Yet another element, experience has taught mo, may be utilized with great advantage, »nj that is, the formation of a joint stock land cod pany among tho members of the Agrienltnnl Society; for it is necessary to have always oa hand various bodies of good- farming land at accessible points at fixed and moderate rates,', sell to immigrants, that we may guarantee to the European Immigration agents a commissi - for tho land purchased by the immigrants they send ns, wMch is the mest effective way to ir- terest them and to keep them interested in in migration to onr State. There i3 another snbject to wMch I should de sire to oall attention at tMs time; Dating a visit to France in tbe past summer, I psttica- larly inquired into the possibility of induc\ French agriculturists with means, fruit, wine, and silk growers to come South. Frenchaxi do not often emigrate to Una country; but 1 found that emigration to the Sonth Amentia Republics was greatly augmenting, '&monntii$ to some 10,000 in 1SG9. TMs was mainly ne. I was informed at Paris, to the efforts of th \ Republics to establish more intimate commer cial relations with France, wMch efforts had been eminently successful. I was furthermore enconraged to state at the South that if emigra tion from France to the United States would become a snbject of consideration there, tho! the feeling in favor of the Sonth would be 1 natural consequence. I apprehend, however, that for a few years, it will be difficult to induce men with means to settle here, because they will not be able to sell their landed property, wMch is the case after ever continental war. On the other hand, tho misfortunes and tho poverty wMch have befallen thousands of the best farm-laborers in France, will lead tbemtt look, with renewed interest, to these States. Since my return I notice a disposition in som: parts of the States to obtain European laborer" by advancing their passage-money, to be repail by future labor. Would it not be pof-tiblo tc form among the members of the State Agrka* tural Society an association for the purpose of employing French agricultural labor, so as send out for 500 to 1,000 handset once? L- forts of small associations or individuals art always more expensive, and I think that bj sending such an order tho expense of transit from Franco to Savannah would be materially reduced. The sympathy for Franco is alive in our peo ple. French farming laborers are not surpassed by any others in Europe, and as a demsmd if steady labor is felt in many parts of the State, it ought not to be difficult to give some practi cal expression to onr sympathy, by giving t somo of these snffefers a chance to greatly bet ter their condition. „ These subjects, it appears to me, are of v- '• dent importance to induce the committee • recommend them to tbe attention of tta t Agricultural Society. I would respectful’;' quekt yon to meet the membera of the cowc tee on the evening of the 21st inst., at Brc jc Hotel, in Macon, and should yon not beenab ; ■ to do so, to send to the same place, to ms ■- writing, an expression of opinioh as to the su. jects indicated in this letter. • I remain most truly yours, F. Scania Supreme Court or Georgia—Jann::-. Term, 1871. Wednesday, February 15,187L W. H. Booker, Esq., of Cherokee Circuit, admitted to the Bar. _ Argument in No. 12, Chattahoochee Cue®'" Ellington vs. Dillard et aL, caveators—*"* * sumed by Col. James M. Smith,, for defendants in error, and concluded by Gen. Toombs, w plaintiff in error. ' Upon motion, No. 15, Chattahoochee Circuit— Barnett & Co. vs. Terry & Smith—was and argued for plaintiffs by CoL John ■’ and for defendants by Col. M. H. Blandford. Upon motion, No. 23, Chattahoochee Circuit— Martin Jeter, administrator, vs. E. Barnaiu Co. et al.—was called, and was *rgued forp."- tiff by Judge E. H. Worrill, and for defendant by Judge Crawford. .. Upon motion, No. 25, Chattahoochee Circnu— Isaao Cheney vs. Smith & Alexander— called, and was argued for plaintiff in error 1 Judge E. H.* Worrill, and for defendants n* error by CoL M. H. Blandford. l0 The regular order was,resumed, andho. Chattahoochee Circuit—Polly Wynn vs. Seab° J. Banning, administrator—was called, a pending a motion to dismiss it, tho Court a • joumed till 10 a, m. to-morrow.—Nrff, low- • Freight Blockade at Chattanooga. Chattanooga Times of Thursday says: The paragraph in our local columns J 1 ester- day, stating that the blockade on the ^\ e5 - e .. and Atlantic Railroad is removed, was ijn» “ pleio. The sentence should have ended tn horn.” The fact is, old sMppers agree that m Western and Atlantic Railroad was never- crowded with freights, and so little able to SH 1 ' ply the demands of shippers as at present, ad depot iB crowded to overflowing with Even the platforms ontside are piled np tea a Mgh with com sacks. There are 200 l oa ~ through oars in the yard, for wMch transport' tion cannot be provided, and we saw yesteWfi 00m being shipped on flat cars, exposed to 1 weather. ^ fob the Ladies.—I have nsedjny witb- Facts Wheeler & Wilson MacMne seven P? 1 ® out repairs, and one needle for all kinds of I ily sewing for four years. It is the mos ", . „ uable piece of furniture for me that ooulu purchased. ^ R R Milton Mead, S. C.
