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ANDGEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER.
(jLISBY, REED & REESE, Proprietors.
The Family Journal.—News—Politics—‘Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs.
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, TUESDAY, BIARCH 7, 1871.
GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
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,^o r gla Teles**? 1 * Building, Macon ernor was President) at three hundred and sixty
„„ thousand dollars. Only forty-fire thousand dol-
Telegraph and Messenger, one year $10 00 lars wag paid into the State Treasury, while the
gjj months 5 00 j road is reported to have accumulated a floating
Os* month..... ............ * 100 | debt of over seven hundred thousand dollars,
orm.Weekly Telegraph and Messenger, 1 j part due connecting roads, balance for supplies
* * 00 monthly pay rolls, making a difference
months........--- 2 00 j against the State of one million »mfl fifteen
"" ” thousand dollars ($1,015,000). This is a sub-
jebt that calls for thorough Investigation, as it
is a matter of great wonder that a main bank
road, besides a heavy way freignt, receiving at
one end the stock, produce and manufactures
of the North and great West, poured in by river
and rail connections; and at the other distribu
ted by three different railroads in immediate
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pjy Telegraph & Messenger and Farm
w d Home.
$11 00 j connection, all of which are paying fine di vi
and Farm and Home ••••••••••••« 6 00 j equipped, should be bo badly managed as notto
Bondem Christian Advocate with Weekly 5 00 i pay expenses, but saddle a large debt upon the
garkek Weekly 4 00 i State. The inquiry is, “ what has besomo of
This arrangement is where remittances are the money ?”
made direct to the office of publication. | Said last report further shows, after paying all
The consolidated Telegraph and Messenger J the ordinary expenses, including the matured in-
rrpresents a large circulation, pervading Mid- terest, a surplus of $471,461, to be used as a sink
dJa Southern and Southwestern Georgia and
Eastern Alabama and Middle Florida. Adver
tisements at reasonable rates. In the Weekly
at one dollar per square of three-quarters of
an inch, each publication. Remittances should
be made by express, or by mail in money or
ders, or registered letters.
Love’s Belief.
I believe if I should die,
And vou ehould kiss my eyelids when I He
Cold, dead, and numb to all the world contains,
The folded orbs would open at thy breath, .
And from its exile in tho aisles of death
life would come gladly back along my veins.
I believe if I were dead,
And you upon my lifeless heart ehould tread,
Kot knowing what tho poor clod chanced to be,
It would find sudden pulse beneath the touch
Of him it ever loved in life so much,
And throb again, warm, tender, true to thee.
I believe if on my grave,
Hidden in woody deeps, or ty the wave,
lour eyes should drop some warm tears of regret,
From every salty seed of your dear grief
Borne fair swnet blossom would leap into leaf,
To prove death could not make my love forget.
I believe if I should fade
Into those mystic realms where light is made,
And you ehould long once more my face to see,
I would come forth upon the hills of night.
And gather stare like faggots, till thy sight,
Led by the beacon blaze, fell full on me 1
I believe who has not loved
Hath halt the treasure of his life unproved;
Like one who with the grapo within his grasp,
Drops it, with all its crimson juice unpressed,
And all its lncious sweetness left usguessed,
Oat from his careless and unheeding ciasp.
I believe love, pure and true,
Is to the soul a sweet, immortal dew
That gems life’s petals in its hours of dusk;
The waiting angels Bee and recognize
Tbo rich crown jewel, love of Paradise,
When life falls from us like a withered husk.
Treasurer's Report.
Tuzasueeb’s Office, State of Geoboia,)
Atlanta, January 10,1871. >
To hi* Excellency, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor
of Georgia:
Sib—In conformity with the requirements of
the Code of Georgia, I herewith transmit a
report of the financial transactions of the State
for the year 1870.
Table A shows the balance on hand at date of
last report, the total receipts and payments in
each month, and tho balance on hand January
1st, 1871.
Table B shows tbo balance on hand at date of
last report, the total receipts from each separate
source of taxation, the total payments from
each special fond, and the balance on hand
January 1st, 1871.
Table 0 shows the bonded indebtedness of
die State of Georgia on tho 1st day of January,
1871, exclusive of the bonds issued iu 1870.
Besides the bonded indebtedness as shown in
Table O, a largo amonnt of new State bonds
have been issued, greatly in excess of the honest
demands against the State, and under circum
stances that lead to tho belief that these bonds
have been used for private purposes, to further
the ends of certain individuals.
Paragraph 10 of section 86 of tho Code makes
U the duty of the Treasurer to “annuaHy report
to the Governor the amonnt of State debt bear
ing interest for each year, distinguishing be
tween the sterling bonds, if any, and federal,
the rate per cent, paid on each kind of bonds,
the amonnt upon each rate paid; also the ex
change, if any, and the aggregate amount of
interest paid in each year, and the amonnt due
and unpaid at each semi-annual payment, and
the reasons for such non-payment.
These bonds, so far a3 the coupons arc con
cerned, not being executed according to law,
and not registered in tho Treasurer’s office as
the law requires, I have no data by which I can
anivo at the exact amount of new bonds issued.
I havo made several attempts to learn the
amount and disposition made of the bonds, but
the financial agent who has them in charge in
New York, has been instructed by the Governor
to withhold all information concerning them.
Enough, however, has been learned to author
ize the statement that nearly five millions have
been issued and sent to New York. This at
tempt at concealment leaves ground for grave
suspicions: and it wonld well behoove an hon
est Executive to expose such fraud against tho
State. In addition to the foregoing, bills were
passed granting State aid to the following named
railroads:
Name or Railroad. Aji’t of State Am.
Albany and Columbus Road per mile. 812,000
Albany, M. andN. O. Road
Americas and Florence Road
Americas and HawkinsviUe Road.
Americns and Isabella Road
Athens and Clayton Road
Atlanta and Blue Ridge Road
Augusta and Hartwell Road
Atlanta and Lookout Road per8miles.l5,000
Brans, and Albany B’d. .additional per mile. 8,000
Macon and Brunswick Road “ “ 8,000
Camilla and Cuthbert Road per mile. 12,000
Chattahoochee Road “ 12,000
Columbus and Atlanta Air-Line
Road . “ 12.000
Dalton and Morgantown.Road.... “ 16,000
Fort Valley and HawkinsviUe Road
Goorgia Seaboard and Northwest
ern Road :....
Grand Trunk Road
Great Southern Road
Griffin, Uonticello and Madison B’d
Lookout Mountain Road
Marietta, Canton and Ellilay Road
McDonough 'Western Road
Memphis Branch Road
Nownan and Americas Road......
North and South Road
North Goorgia and North Carolina
Road -
Ocmulgee and North Georgia Road
Polk Slate Quarry Road
Savannah, Griffin and Noitb Ala
bama Bo ad
South Goorgia and Florida Road..
St. Mary’s and Western Road
Making in all thirty-two railroads to which
the endorsement of the State is pledged, cover
ing a distance of over two thousand miles, and
ing fond to aid in curtailing the State’s bonded
indebtedness. With a wise and honest adminis
tration, these estimates would have been easily
and fully realized; but with an excessively prodi
gal, unscrupulous Chief Executive in the use of
the pnblic funds, throwing them broadcast, with
the hope of buying influence, and usurping
power for corrupt purposes, with a venal crowd
to respond to his mercenary, sordid ends, over
four and a half millions of new State bonds
have been isssned, which the Governor, in his
anxiety to keep the matter concealed from the
Treasury department, f&Hed to have executed
and registered as the law requires.
Under these circumstances, the Treasurer
asks to be excused from venturing on an esti
mate of the expenses for 1871.
Our final hope is in a great improvement in
the Legislative department, so as to correct the
abnses of the Execntive.
Respectfully submitted,
N. L. Angies, Treasurer.
table A.
1870. ns.
Cash balance on hand January 1,1870.. .1471,461 78
Received in January. 82,529 93
“ February 64,415 23
“ March.....' 46,646 13
• « April 29,063 64
“ May. 31,366 68
“ June 9,399 36
“ July 13,567 40
“ August 14 204 63
“ September 129,190 62
October. 259,29911
“ November 189,922 43
“ December 304,793 73
$1,635,765 57
1870. ca.
PaidinJanuary ,..$ 41,628 90
“ February 10,603 40
“ May 226,476 69
. “ Juno J.. : 89,024 87
“ August 84,947 15
“ September 10,846 00
October 56,361 70
" November 31,067 66
“ December 919,06515
Total $1,470,021 02
Cash on hand Jan. 1,1871, to balance, 165,744 55
1870. TABLE B.
Cash on Hand at date of last report.
Received from General Tax, 1867..
“ “ 1868....
*> “ 1869....
» “ 1870....
“ Poll Tax, 1868....../...
“ “ 1869...
« “ 1870
“ liquor Tax 1869,
$1,635,765 57
DB.
,$ 471,461 78
2,301 81
7,884 87
176,971 82
543,465 95
192 30
1,693 65
177 14
14,328 67
1870 21,695 66
Tax on Ins Cos., 1868... 814 78
“ 1869... 8,503 40
Dividends on Georgia B.
R. Stock 4,617 45
Scrip Div. on Ins 141 80
IntereatoaStatedeposits 5,633 11
Special Rea Tax on Ins. 2,675 00
Net earnings W <fc A B R 45,000 CO
Fam.W&ARBdef agt 630 00
Convention Tax 1,079 01
Tax Circuses 5,643 00
Fees of Com. Gen’s off. 14 76
Fees Sec. State’s office 330 00
Fees Executive Depart. 8 00
Tax on Pat. Med. vend’s 185 00
R. R. Bank & Ex. Tax.. 9,451 72
Overcharges in Pay RoU 904 00
Tax oh Wild Lands l.SOG 00
Temporaiy Loans 310,000 CO
$1,635,765 57
1870.
.8
.CB.
1,000 00
716 60
163,020 02
102,508 93
8,000 00
517 50
53,004 01
17,178 06
Paid on special appropriation, 1866..
“ - 1868.
•• “ 1869.
“ 1670.
*< “ 1865.
Printing fund, 1868
1869
“ 1970
Contingent fund, 1869. 17,201 44
1870 6.480 09
Civil EstabHehment, I860 21,124 S3
“ 1870 53,964 00
Overpayment Convention tax... 16 CO
•• taxes, 18G8 1,820 27
“ 1869 914 74
“ 1870 55 08
Public debt. 495,607 75
Legislative payrolls.. .. 526,891 00
Total
Gash on hand, January 1,1871, to bal-
ance 165,744 65
$1,635,765 57
TABLE O.
Consolidated Statement of the Public Debt of
the State of Georgia, on the 1st day of January,
1871, showing date of issue and maturity of out
standing bonds, annual interest on eaeh issue,
total interest due each year and total annual
payments:
12.000
12,000
12,000
15,000
15,000
15.0C0
12,000
15,000
12,000 '
12,000
12,000
15,000 i
15,000 ! •
%xlso^53ic»Sc?’
12,000
12,000
15,000
» -•=> 2.
So; —
i-lf
pj «*
The above table is exclusive of bonds issued
in 1870.
There fell due in 1868 XI5,000 (Slerling
tag a distance of over two thousand miles, ana jj 0n a 8 ) all in Europe, none of which have been
ra amount about thirty millions of uoJars, . ,,. £3 000 interest on same is stiU unpaid.
which tho State prospectively guarantees. This, (
added to the old bonded indebtedness and new , Blodqexx ’ s Changes.—The Washington cor-
bonds issued, will make something over forty re8pon g e!1 t 0 f the Boston Post writes under
millions of dollars, being about one-fifth of the of p e bniary 23d:
Ux relumed value of all tho properly in the ; certain that Foster Blodgett, who
fctate, exclusive of railroads, banking, express, ^ e ]*jt e a in 1869 to suooeed MiUer, will not
and insurance companies. 0 - ! be admitted. His election, it is claimed, was
In my last annual report, to January, 1,1870, ] became he was not chosen by the Leg-
tile estimate for the necessary and usual dis- j j-utnre e ] ec t e a next preceding the expiration
bursemenls for that year, exclusive of interest; torm flf the person whom it was intended
on tho pnblic debt, was five hundred thousand . .
dollars ($500,000). This was ample for all hon- , be should
set and practical purposes; but reckless, pillag- i The Pilgrim.—Tho great paintings^ now
jng hands have run them up to nearly twice ' on exh5bltion Ralston’s Hall, were well at-
that amount, namely: nine hundred and sev- , , . - . •...
enty-five thousand dollars ($975,000), beside a tended yesterday afternoon and night. Indeed,
large debt incurred against the State Road. J they are of such* character that they excite
The same report estimated the annual net the admiration and wonder of all who see them,
earniegs of tho Western and Atlantic Railroad and tend to make one the better for having
; the property of the State, of which the Gov- done so.
1870.
Visible Supply of Cotton.
The following table, from the New York
Chronicle of the 25th, shows the quantity of
cotton in sight at this date of each of the two
past seasons:
E t .. • 1871.
Stock in Liverpool bales 764,000
Stock in London 79,341
Stock in Glasgow... 250
Stock in Havre .44,230
Stock in MarseiUes 6,850
8tock in Bremen 3,450
Stock rest of Continent...... 25,000
Afloat for Great Britain t •.
(American) 294,000 249,000
Afloat for Franoe (American
and Brazil)........ 41,874
Total Indian Cotton afloat for
Europe 131,632 108,512
Stoekin United States ports.693,218 568,234
Stock in inland towns 118,382 101,843
4 at TC..1 r_a Foreign Mote*.
FBKPASKD FOB THE TXLXO&AFH AMO XXBSJUKIIB.
V " ; ..,>UoK j
The preliminaries of the treaty of peaee have
>en signed at Versailles. There being hardly
any doubt but that the National Assembly at
Bordeaux will ratify it, we may consider the
811,000 war as virtuaUy ended. The correspondent of
81,705 - - -■ - Msfafi M m
■ 300
91,500
4,600
. 0,800
82,000
Total 2,160,353 1,596,868
These figures indicate an increase in the cot
ton in eight last Friday night of 563,485 bales
oompared with the same date of 1869.
The Chronicle has the following upon cotton
exports:
Oun Expobts.—The extent of our crop this
year is still, of course, somewhat uncertain, but
the general estimate places it now rather over
than under 4,000,000 bales. Taking that figure
then as the basis and allowing an increase in
stock lit the United States of say 100,000 boles,
we shall still have left for expott (provided our
own spinners consume the same amount as last
year) 750,000 bales more than during the last
season. Up to this time (the latest mail dates
February 17,) we have exported 481,330 bales
more than for the same period of 1869-70, leav
ing, if the crop foots up as above estimated,
about 270,000 bales for the balance of the sea
son, in addition to last season’s exports for the
same period, to make up the surplus which
we shall have to spare over and above last year.
Great Britain has had already 573,000 bales
more than last year, and hence if the news of
peace received to-day turns out to be correct,
for the balanoe of the year she would not be en
titled to any farther increased supply. It is not
unlikely, however, that the movement to the
continent from Liverpool wiU be larger than
last season, or, in other words, the continental
supply will more of it go through Liverpool.
In that case, of course, the direct movement
from here to Great Britain would also be larger;
otherwise our years’s exports wonld divide the*n-
selves up about as follows—giving Great Brit
ain in all, say 2,000,000 bales, and other portE
950,000 bales. Our shipments (according to
latest mail dates) having already been to Great
Britain 1,302,000 bales, and to the continent
292,000 bales; the remaining shipments would,
therefore, in this case, be about 700,000 bales
to Great Britain, and 650,000 bales to the oonti
nent. - .,.
From Dooly County.
Vienna Dooly County, Ga.,
February 27, 1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: We are so
far from railroad communication in this imme*
diate portion of the world that any correspond
ence with the publio journals, if net like “an
gels visits” in point of interest and importance,
is very similar as to “few and far between.”
The crop of the last gone year was a good
yield, and if cotton was commanding a higher
price than it has been and is, the fanners of
Dooly county would be perfectly independent
of all indebtedness. As it is, however, so many
have given liens upon their stock and growing
crops that, through necessity, a great deal of
dispute and litigation has arisen between the
merchants and themselves upon the foreclos
ure and enforcement of the Hens. We always
make average crops of both cotton and corn.
The people of Dooly have caught the railroad
fever at last, and on the first Saturday in March
a rousing meeting of the citizens wulbe held
in the Court-house to raise funds and transact
other business looking to the speedy construc
tion of a railroad running from Americns to
HawkinsviUe, and connecting with the South-
westenFand Macon and Brunswick railways.
Eighty thousand dollars have already been sub
scribed, and more con and will be easUy raised.
The Macon and Brunswick Company will lend
assistance, and, by an act of the last Legisla
ture, the State gave her aid to the amount of
$12,000. This bill wa3 introduced and passed
through the energy and talent of our represent
ative, Colonel Joseph Armstrong, now of Alba
ny, to whom, if the road should bo constructed,
and to our present representative, Judge John
H. Woodward, who first set the enterprise of
having a railroad in motion, we of J)ooly shall
owe a great debt of gratitute.
The recent election passed of quiotly in the
complete triumph of the Democratic ticket,
though there was considerable Radical opposi
tion. Judge Woodward was triumphantly
chosen to conduct the interest of this county in
the next General Assembly, and surely no wiser
or better choice could have been made by the
people. Combining talent, energy, zeal, and to
all these qualifications adding a sincere and de
voted attachment, he has ever cherished, for the
welfare and prosperity of the county he has
been chosen to represent, Judge "Woodward is
eminently capacitated to secure the complete in
terest of those who elected him.
Heavy rains have reoently been falling, and
for a goodly number of days the roads were in
no condition for traveling purposes, and the
bridges on many roads washed away.
But this communication is far too vapid to
allow of prolongation.
More anon. . .. Fabmeb.
Governor Bollock's Interest tn the
State Road Lease—Card from ex-
Governor Brown.
We find the foUowing card in tho Atlanta
Georgian of yesterday:
Office or the W. and A. Railroad Co.,)
February 21,1871. )
Governor Bard:—I find the following article
in your paper this day whioh you say is taken
from the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, which
I had not seen till I read your last issue:
“Wo have the highest authority for saying
that when the company was made up, it was
understood that one share was to be left for
Bullock. Before the bid was put in, the share
of Bullock had been put down to a Northern
man selected by Bullock to hold it for him.
This fact was known to Brown and the leading
members of the company, and acquiesced in
by him and .them. They know that one fuU
share of the stock is owned by Bollock, though
nominally put down to another. These facts
we obtain from a source altogether reliable, and
we learn they will soon be made known in such
a way as to bring oonf usion and shame upon
those engaged in the transaction. The party
who holds Bollock’s share is said to be a north
ern man, who first gave Bullock employment, j
and sent him South as an employee of the Ex
press Company, several years since.’’
Now, I pronounce the above statement of the
Chronicle and Sentinel a fabrication and an un
mitigated falsehood, as .a .whole, and in all its
parts in detail. And I deny that Governors.
B. Bullock has one dollar of interest in tho
lease of the State Road, as a share holder or
otherwise, in any way, direct or remote, vested
or contingent; except the interest he has in
common with every other citizen of Georgia.
As I do not believe, by republishing the
statement of the Chronicle and Sentinel, that
you wished to do injustice, I respectfully ask
you to publish this card.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Joseph E. Brown.
The ice factory at New Orleans now has seven
immense ice making machines, run by one en
gine of one hundred and fifty horse power. The
ice is made in molds 22 inches long, 12 inches
wide,- and 2 inches thick. There'ore 1600 tons
made every day. It sells for 1J cents per p<qund;
the London. Tunes gives the porticulara of the
treaty which will probably prove in the main
correct. We are told that the French, to save
Belfort, have acquiesced in the triumphal entry
of the German armies into Paris. If Bismarck
should have paid for this privilege so high a
price as Belfort he has rather consulted the
feelings of the German people and the amy
who consider only the occupation of Paris a
worthy elose of the campaign, than acted upon
his own convictions. We think Bismarok, to
whose nature sentimentality is a foreign ele
ment, wonld have preferred an additional sub
stantial guarantee against French aggression in
the retention of Belfort to the transient satis
faction of marching the helmeted German le
gions through the streets of Paris. Belfort,
occupying a naturally strong position, prelects
the only one of the ten passes of the Yosges,
whioh is passable for large bodies of troops at
all seasons of the year. Several highways and
important railways from Southern France lead
ing also to Belfort, the French, supported by
this stronghold, will always be able to move
quiokly a large army through the Vosges, and
to take South Germany almost by surprise.
These considerations explain why Belfort is
prized so' highly by both parties. Among the
cities to go to Germany the London Times
mentions also Saarbrucken and its iron districts.
This is evidently based upon a mistake, Saar-
brucken having belonged to Germany ever sinoe
the treaty of Vienna.
Hastily reviewing the generalship of the bel
ligerents, we find that daring the whole conrse
of the war the Frenoh Generals have labored
under one great disadvantage. They could not,
like the German leaders, confine their attention
to military matters alone. FoHtiosl consid
erations continually forced themselves on their
attention, confusing their counsels and marring
their plans. The desire of producing-a great
dramatic effect for the purpose of adding to the
popularity of his policy, indnoed Napoleon to
hasten on the first st&ps of the campaign, with
out making the necessary preparations for the
supply of the army and the enrolment of the
reserves. After the first great battles were lost,
-the political exigencies of his position became
even more peremptory, and he was forced to
take a course which led to the fatal catastrophe
of Sedan. The same motives compelled Gam-
betta to interfere with the plans of the Generals-
of the Republic, and it is well known that tho
rash advance of d’Aurelles do Faladine from
Orleans, and Faidherbe's- ill-fated march on St.
Quentin, were undertaken at his instigation,
while he prevented the timely retreat of Bour-
baki from Belfort to Besanoon andLyons, whioh
tactics would have Baved the Army of the East.
The movements of the German troops, on tho
other hand, have been determined by military
considerations alone, thus giving them a great
advantage over their adversaries.
The Paris paper “Le Temps,” has pubHshed
a letter purporting to be addressed by Ollivier
to Ning William, and Count Bismarck’s reply to
it. In the former Ollivier says that the war
arose from an insult offered—perhaps uninten
tionally—to the Emperor Napoleon, and that a3
he (Ollivier) believes in a God who protects
France, he also believes in the final triumph of
that country. It is stated that Count Bismarck
answered as follows: ‘’The King has not re
ceived your letter, but I believe I may reply,
that as you believe in God your whole life wiU
not suffice to entreat his pardon, on your knees,
for the misery you have brought^ upon your
country.” It must be bomo in mind that Ol
livier, who was Prime Minister at the outbreak
of the war, declared in the Corps Legialatif that
“he went with a light heart into this war.”
Owing to the unusuaUy heavy snow storms
and the warm sirocoo changing alternately with
cold days, the rivers of Italy have shown them
selves very destructive this year. The Italian
cities by generous voluntary contributions have
hastened to mitigate the sufferings caused by
the recent inundation of Rome. The Tiber has
since risen again to an alarming height, and al
so the Arno thunders against the piUars and
arches of the bridges of Florence, though,
thanks to its excellent works, the city has Httle
to fear from the watery element. The Po has
wrought great destruction and swept the bridges
at Borgoforte and Piacenza away. The want of
trees on the Apennines renders such catastro
phes unavoidable; indeed, all scientific re
searches agree in attributing to the rapid de
crease of toe forests toe destructive inundations
which wiU periodically devastate large parts of
Continental Europe.
In Rome toe poUtioal clubs are growing to be
very important, the' most influential deputies
either joining existing ones or establishing new
associations. Ratazzi, the former Premier, has
become a prominent member of too “ Ciroolo
BeminiMinghetti, the former Minister, has
joined the “ Circolo Cavour.” The purpose of
these clubs is not only to cement the ties of
party, but also to impart the rudiments of po
litical knowledge to such members as are just
entering upon the arduous and thorny career of
publio life. The conduct of toe King forms
frequently the topio of conversation in those
circles. . The influential members, far from
blaming Victor Emanuel for devoting his time
rather to hunting and traveling -than to toe
business of the nation, are quite willing to for
bear, because the political parties are thus toe
less impeded in their actions. The Pope con
tinues to receive toe Roman officials who re
fused to take the oath of allegiance to theKing.
There are arriving large funds at too Vatican
from abroad. From Belgium toe Jesuits expect
to forward six millions francs worth of Peter’s
Fence in toe oourse of the present year.
The population of Nice is anxious to secede
from Franoe to be re-united with Italy, and
several riotous anti-French demonstrations have
been suppressed by the force of arms.
Garibaldi, who is a native of Nice, may be
placed in an awkward position by toe Italian
sympathies of his fellow-oltizens, as his former
partisans ask him to support too restoration of
Nioe to Italy, him who took, up arms for the
very power that wrested Nice from his native
land. 1
Tho Italian patriots seem to give' the Frenoh
authorities much uneasiness, the Prefect of
Nice having ordered all Garibaldian volunteers
to leave that city. In the meantime the aged
General declaring his mission tohefnllfilled has,
resigned his command of toe army of the Vos
ges, and toe French government in high sounding
words has tendered him toe thanks of France.
Garabaldi’s return to Italy has probably been
hastened by toe sadden death ’of his favorite
daughter Teresita, on the Island of Caprera.
He would have laid down his command long
ago had not toe French authorities feared the
moral depression this step would have on the
army. The enterprise of toe Republican chief
tain was hopeless from the first. It could not
turn the tide of war, or bring back victory to
the banners of toe Republic. It could only
strew France with a few more graves, and ren
der a.few more German homes desolate. The
name of Garibaldi will be long remembered by
tbo widows and orphans of the German soldiers
who have fallen in battle against his followers.
The idea of issuing a manifesto to the Spanish
people, prepared byMartos, toe Democratic
Minister of Foreign affairs, and signed by the
whole Cabinet, has been ahandonea in Madrid.
It being therefore left to each Minister to ex
press his principles in separate oirculars, Ruiz
Zorilla, the Minister of Commeroe, has taken
the lead by advocating toe introduction of com
pulsory education free of charge and perfect
liberty of instruction, by promising that the
schoolmasters should be paid, and hinting at toe
improvement of agriculture by oanals and
drainage. Many municipal councils, after the
September revolution, having interpreted the
expression “liberty of instruction” to signify
that they were now at liberty to close the schools
and to 5 : «miaa the teachers, Zorilla takes speoial
pains to define toe meaning of this term.
The German Ambassador has been instructed
and is very good, being made out of Mississippi
river water after distillation. It has been in to entertain with the Government of King
operation since 1867.
tative of any other power..; While the.Eepubli-
can, Carlistic, Alphousine and even a part of
the Montpensier press are not yet reconciled to
_ the new King, he contrives to make a favorable
been signed at Versailles. There being hardly impression upon the publio. Like his father,
- .. . he has promised to keep aloof from party strife
and to pay particular attention to the army.
Topete, toe ardent adherent of Montpensier,
has been won over so far as to be willing to ao-
oept any offioe the King might offer him. The
private life of Am&deo is also favorably com
mented upon. That he has instructed his ad
jutants to address him wily on solemn oooasions
of state by “your Majesty;” that he has sat
down with them to indulge in a Havana eigar
after dinner, has created a sensation among the
people of Madrid, who were accustomed to see
the King strictly adhere to the stiff Spanish
etiquette of by-gone centuries.
There was much damage done by floods in
the provinces of Navarra and Saragossa. The
King contributed 25,000 francs for the relief of
toe sufferers. The elections for the Cortes and
toe Senate will take place toward the end of
February. They promise to be very lively.
- -. ,Y— ■ Jasxo.
From narion County.
Mabion County, February 27,1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : In renew
ing my subscription to your valuable paper, I
will indite you a short epistle on our situation,
agriculturally. Six years after the bloody strug
gle that resulted in our subjugation, politically,
we find ourselves in a worse state of subjuga
tion agriculturally than we were at that time.
If we suffer our minds to revert to toe causes
that produced the overthrow of anoient Rome
and Attica, or Lacedemonia, or Macedo
nia, or toe Persian Empire, or any oth
er country or kingdom, ancient or mod
em, we will find it to be the effect of some
egregious error in government or polioy. As in
toe political, so in the agricultural downfall of
nations and States. The people of these cotton
States have erred and are now reaping toe fruits
of their polioy. In their greed for gain they
have killed the goose that was laying the golden
egg. The cotton planter that was, and might be
again, toe embodiment of chivalry, and honor,
and high-minded nobleness, and dignity, and
zeepectabUity, and wisdom, and sense, to-day
is toe pitiful dupe of his own folly, and
toe beggar among kings instead of the
the King among beggars. He is down in toe
mire, floundering in the mud—a slave among
freedmen, and a starveling in a. land'that might
provision the world. Cotton Planter, will you
arise from your ashes, reassert your dignity,
resume your reason, and onoe more stand up a
man among men, an honor to your profession,
and a father that will feed his children not on
foreign snbstanoes but on toe productions of
our native soil ? Let the lessons of the past
suffice. Raise your own provisions—bacon,
com, oats, wheat, rye, potatoes—everything
that you need and can raise at home. Don’t
buy fertilizers on a credit, to double your bales,
that will cause you to sell two bales for what
you might get for one. Retrench aU your ex
penses—buy nothing on a credit—and recollect
that as your bales of oottonare formed from
little fibres, and Httle looks, and little bolls, s6
are all your wants supplied from little things.
Big debts come from Httle ’ dimes—therefore
save them and with them many a thousand dol
lars—your credit, your peace of mind, your hap
piness and your independence.
. . . G. W. C. M.
Letter From Mu inter County.
Sumteb, February 6th, 1871.
Editors of Telegraph and Messenger,
Farmers in this and adjoining counties com
plain a great deal -of the scaroity of labor.
Several have left this county for -Arkansas.
Those that are here have generally come out in
debt, and go to work with a great deal of re
luctance. The same is also applicable to the
whites. Everything and everybody seems dis
couraged at toe low rates of cotton. We hope
that our farmers so called, have been taught a
valuable lesson, yet we fear not. Some of them
seem to take hope from toe “fact” that many
farmers are totally broken down in consequenoe
of toe low pxioe of cotton, and a failure to pro
cure labor to carry on their farms. From this
Tact” they think that cotton will be better next
year. Lookout gentlemen or you err. A great
many are thinking “My neighbors intend to
plant a large crop of com and but little cotton,
and now is my time to make a large crop of cot
ton.” Your neighbors are thinking the same
thing, perhaps, and toe result is another large
crop and low price. Better plant 00m three-
fourths and one-fourth cotton, and not rely on
foreign meat honses and com cribs. Such a
policy is suicidal, and if persisted in will bring
beggary, nakedness and starvation.
These things are not far off to-day. Look,
for instanoe, at tho poor negroes, unolad and
half fed; also, toe poor dass of whites. With
better wages we hope to see a change in toe
coining year, if they can’t do better with the
present price, which is generally a third 0/ the
com ana a half of the cotton, or vice versa, and
feed themselves.
ABtrange story is told by one of my neigh
bors, and I vouch for the truth, as he had three
reliable witnesses: His wife had missed her.
male turkey for ten or fifteen days, waB terribly
distressed, and sent her husband off to look,
stiff hoping that he might be found. He did
find him, sitting on a nest of eggs, a mile or
more from the house. Finding him so unwilling
to leave his nest he made a pen around him, in
tending to see how long he would continue.
Some one stole toe eggs, and toe last we heard
of him he was still sitting. This is no tale of
fiction, hut a fact. Thbqnateeska.
The Boys at Athens.
State Univebsity, Athens, Ga.,)
February 27, 1871, j
Editors Tdegraph andMessenger : Supposing
that Macon is interested in her boys, in her
ministers, and in colleges generally, since she
now has one'of her own, I beg leave to commu
nicate the following items:
Mr. J. S. Hardeman, son of.CoL Thos. Hard
eman, Jr., reoently represented the Demostho-
nian Society of the University as its anniversary
orator. His oration was on toe subj ect, ‘ ‘Foot
prints on toe Sands of Time.” During his en
tire speech, as Disraeli makes Lothair say, .“£
was, inimagination, throwing endlessbonqnets.”
It is seldom that pTaotieal thought is wedded to
discursive fancy, but in Mr. H.’a effort both
were united. He showed great common sense
(which is after all the most uncommon) by
many useful suggestions of adviceand he ex
hibited great imagination' by many beautiful
metaphors. For instanoe, speaking of inde
pendence of character, he said, in illustration:
“Had Galliles conformed to popular opinion,
had he held his genius' in abeyance to toe wiU
of his cotemporaries, he would never. have
decked hia brow with the satellites of Jupiter,
nor girdeduphis loins with the rings of Satnm.”
Surely when «thinker finds snob an expression
as this, the steeds of fancy mast, as in Plato’s
dream, be harnessed to the chariot of toe sonL
The students here from Macon all belong to the
Demosthonian Society, and all felt glad that the
ability of the Society to equip a fine speaker was
honorably demonstrated. But they did not for
get, also, to feel proud that. toe anniveraarian
was a Macon boy.
Mr. B. S. Berner, of Honticello, was the Phi
Kappa Anniversarian. - His subjeot, “True
Greatness” was treated with an elevation of
thought, and wob presented with a fervor of
elocution worthy of the theme. Public opinion
has the warrant of justice for the verdiot that,
never since the war, have the two Sooielies been
more creditably represented. •
Dr. Hicks has consented to preach the annual
sermon of the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion of the University, at the next Commence
ment. The fame of tiffs pulpit orator has already
reached Athens, and several of the leading citi
zens are desirous to secure a delivery of his
Jeeture on General Lee, in this place. ~
The next Commencement will be on an entire
ly new programme. In the stead of Juniors and
Sophomores discharging their eloquence on toe
suffering publio;-an orator from the Alumni and
one chosen by toe Societies will speak on Mon
day and Tuesday. We trust this improvement,
not unaided by the Alumni dinner, will draw a
large crowd and insure great suooess. Z.
AflUrs In the South.
The Baltimore Gazette says:
A New York merchant, who is described “as
one of toe most distinguished” in that oity, has
just returned from an extended tour through
toe Southern States, and has furnished one of
the journals—edited by a Republican—with the
result of his observations. His aooount of the
condition of affairs there ooinoides so entirely
with the reports that, from time to time, have tion of the road to Eufppla Ih time for this
reached the Gazette from other sources, that
they ale eminently worth considering. Both
financially and - commercially, he found the
South greatly depressed.
The ootton crop, though the largest that has
been gathered sinoe the war, has not been prof-
i table to the planters, except in a few instances tie men are expected 16 be far" an-
and under exceptional circumstances. The too- - 1
..Amadeus as friendly relations as toe xepresen-
t 1: |sdJ. 003* r -v- -Anitas! rtoqnr L'Oiasvu. < . ,
•tv: • cj ::
fjdi e~.aa a «i I n yrntU-rV/v*!
7si 6 di ai -td&ia Otti nflto&'g&toiniaO sril oi :ao«f j
tors who had token liens upon toe stock and
crop, to cover their advances, have, to a consid
erable extent, suooeeded in getting their money
back; but the planterhas been left without suf
ficient resources to carry him unembarrassed
through the next season, and the factors,
though partially reimbursed, ahd generaUyse-
oured against loss in respect to their previous
advances, are shy of putting out more money,
or of furnishing more fertilizers on toe basis of
their old engagements. The greater part of the
proceeds of last season's crop having been ab
sorbed by the factors, the ooontry mercbacts,
with whom the planters have .also had dealings
daring toe year, find it difficult to make collec
tions, and in many instances will have to wait
the chances of toe next crop.
Money is consequently scarce, and in demand,
and will readily command one and a-half per
cent, interest Of all the ootton States, that of
Georgia presents toe most hopeful prospects,
whilst Savannah, her chief city—through to*
facilities offered by her great Central Railroad
and the liberality of its management—“has be
come the seoond city of the South.” Charleston
has sunk into s kind of sullen stupor and tor
pidity. Mobile languishes wearily, and the
trade and commeroe of New Orleans, as oom
pared with what it was before toe war, has sen
sibly declined. No new buildings of consequenoe
are going up in either of the three latter cities.
After making due allowance for the general
depression at this time, arising from the low
price of cottoo, the oonclusion is reached that
the main trouble of the South is tho extrava
gance of toe alien Radical authorities, and that
the States where negroes predominate, and,
therefore, hold, through oorrupt white Radicals,
the, chief oontrol, are in worse condition than
any of toe sister Southern States.
“In New Orleans, toe rate of State and lecal
taxation for the year 1870 amounted to five and
a half per oent. upon a full valuation of all the
property, personal as well as real.” The feel
ing at toe South among all classes of the native
white population, is that they have been brutally
dealt with by the Radicals at Washington, and
that the malignity of the latter has not yet ex
hausted itself. This feeling has crippled their
energies, shaken their oonfidenee in the future,
and tends largely to keep up and 'intensify toe
social, political and industrial disorganization
that now prevails there. The worst enemies of
the South are the carpet-baggers, and nothing,
we are told, can be more certain that prosperity
there cannot be restored until the carpet-bag
governments, with their organized system of
robbery, are put down, and an honest system of
administration established instead. T?r
Tbe Oddest Funeral on Record.
The New Orleans Times tells the following
story:
A few days ago it became the painful duty of
a well known sexton to commit to its last rest
ing place the mortal remains of one who had
died far away from home and kindred. The
unfortunate, in obedience to an earnest solici
tation made prior to his demise, had been dis
interred, and brought from Texas, to be placed
by tho side of those of his faith and race. The
sexton being a conscientious man, complied
with his duty strictly, and the ceremonies are
described as having been most impressive.
About the same time a well known dry goods
merchant reoeived a letter from his brother, re
siding in Indianola, informing him of toe ship
ment of a case of dress patterns which he de
sired to have sold for his account The articles
did not arrive, but in due time the freight bill
was presented and payment was declined. The
agent insisted that he could show a reoeipt, and
produced one, which, however, was signed by
toe sexton alluded to. The gentleman was
called upon, but, while he admitted the signa
ture to the reoeipt bore a remarkable resem
blance to his own, he had no knowledge what^
ever of the goods. Mentioning casually that at
about the same time he had received a corpse,
an investigation was determined on. In com
pany with the sexton the gentleman visited the
cemetery, and discovered that toe drees pat
terns had been buried with funeral honors. The
goods are of course ruined utterly, and the
corpse has not yet arrived. But toe joke is
oonsidered worth twice the value of toe invoice.
A Center Shot from a Preacher, o/1
The Rev. Leonard Wools ey Bacon, of Balti
more, formerly of Williamsburg, lately preach
ed a sermon in defense of “The Little Church
Around the Corner,” in which he took occasion
to say something not altogether plSasing to
rigid ears abouf toe modern stage. The Chris
tian Advooate, of that oity, reviewed toe imper
fect report of the sermon, putting the lash upon
the preacher’s back with energy. Mr. Bacon
thereupon sends a card to The American, barb
ed with pleasant sarcasm, and closing thus:
“The editor of The Advocate olaims a better
personal acquaintance with the theatre than I
have, which I cheerfully coueede. But when
he adds the enticing suggestion that, in order
to know as mn«h as he does, I should ‘go incog,
for a season to each of the theatres in the city,’
I object. If the editor had read my sermon
before he reviewed it he would hav? seen that
this ‘going incog.,' whioh is the favorite Evan-
gelieu way of attending theatres, is just that
sneaking and demoralizing thing in the Church
whioh I have stripped bare and soonrged. If I
go to a theatre I shall go in my own elothes,
and take a seat where the editor of Tbe Advocate
or his disciples who may be there 'incog.' may
have no difficulty in seeing me.”
Bravo 1 Baoop. ' - " v
How They do Business in St. Dominoo.—
There is very little money in circulation m St.
Domingo except when a man of war ia in toe
harbor, and in the market season. The whole
business of the islandis conducted on a system
of barter. The farmer, for instanoe, when he
wants a yard of calico or a bottle of whisky,
gives in exohange for it double its worth In cof
fee or rice, which is shipped by the trader to
Turk’s Island and SL Thomas. Some idea of
the markets maybe obtained from the following
prices, which, however, must not be taken eith
er as an index of the cost of Uving or of the
wealth of the place. They are many of them
exorbitant, and'were arranged to suit the
finances of toe Amerioan government When a
ship as large as the Tennessee arrives in port
and sends her boats on shore for supplies, the
shopkeeper does not hesitate to make all the
money he can: Rice is $3 per barrel in the husk;
coffee 20 to 25 cents per pound, sweet .potatoes
$3 per barrel, oranges from $1 to $2 per hun
dred, bananas 50 cents a bunch, 70 orjlOO to a
bunch; codfish 15 cents per pound, sugar 15
oents per pound, chocolate $6 50 per barrel, in
fie
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THE CUEOKCIA_
Of the prospect* of theBnmswtefc sad Albany
Railroad, the News saya: ^
B. and A. R. R.—are glad to have it in
our power to bear to the friends of toi* eater*
prise, and the people interested la Sts snoeeae,
the glad tidings that toe pracawMi of the work
is altogether satisfactory, ana tost tbo. eomple-
year’s ootton crop is arranged for and dotes-
mined ^pon.
Colonel Halbert la driving ahead with tmafe-
laying near toe 120 mile poet, and by the 1st of
ApriTwill reach the Overton A Lewis contract,
thirty-one miles from this city. The latter gen
tlemen are expected to be far encash advanced
by that time to oause no hindnnoa to the work,
while in tbe meantime, a large foroe wlll, in aU
probability, be organised at this point to eom-
menoe the work westward, and we have good
authority for announcing that it is the present
purpose of toe company to have at least twen
ty-five milee graded towards Eufenla by the
time the ’ tirkeUaying reaches toe east bank of
the Flint. The prospect tor the completion of
toe entire line by toe flirt of October, is indeed
oHnSL , * gotten.
The Federal Union, of Tuesday, says Henry
Speights and Jim Lewis—the latter of whom hails
from Macon—attempted to rob Mr. Robert F.
Adams, of Wilkinson oounty, near that pUee,
Tuesday of last week. The were koto arrested,
and are now in jail at Mijledgeville.
Mr. Willis Bentley, his wife and four children,
formerly of Monroe ooonty, were all lost by s
steamboat disaster on the Mississippi River g
few weeks since. They; were on their way to
Texas. ; ci \baanla
The Methodist parsonage at-Fonyth was
sold last week for $1,400, and the money appro
priated to the building fund of the new church
soon to be built, ad : ttogtotS *3 MdI
We quote as follows from the Fozsyth Adver
tiser of Tuesday:
The Macon Teleobaph.—-Mr. Mason is to
town in toe interest of this splendid jonrnaL
The Telegraph has toe present business season
been unusually interesting and attractive. The
untold amount of reading matter thrown upon
a host of readers should induce corresponding
interest on their part in a largely increased
patronage.
A Dastabdly Act.—Saturday night as the
passenger train on toe Maoon and Western
Railroad was approaching Vineville depot, some
miscreant threw a rock at the train—it passing
over the platform of one of ; tho r ooaohes, on
whioh two gentlemen were standing at the time,
Who luckily escaped the well directed shot
Railboad Prospecting.—^The corps of engin
eers engaged in surveying the route for the Ma
con and North Georgia railroad, crossed the
Oomulgee near Smith’s Ferry, on the line be
tween Newton and Butts, on Wednesday last.
The first line survey ed was from Maoon to Gaines
ville, via Covington, on the east aide of the
Ocmulgee. The line now being run will be on
the west ride, from Smith’s Ferry to Maoon,
and will, of conrse, pass through a comer Gt
Monroe. .. yam,'. ; ~s.
Sad Accident.—We regret to learn that Mrs.
Eliza Strange, of McDonough, was severely
burned last week. Mrs. S. was at her father’s
house, in Jaokson, an invalid, and daring a mo
mentary absence of her friends from the room,
she fell, one side of her head coming in contact
with the fire. It is feared the lady wili lose one
jeff htk effart’b' 1 --'! efi* ovari ^nimmoO
Stephen Bell, a Floyd county amendment,
split 400 red oak, rails, one day last week. That
Steben is nottme-of- the “decebin” sort where
work is concerned, like most of his class are,
nowadays. • ym aoig uldstWA
Messrs. Rose and W. A. Hemphill were spilled
ont of a buggy, at Atlanta, Tuesday afternoon,
and considerably jostled. The Constitution
says the latter “described k- circle in the air”
before he dropped. ^Ma3t .eric
The lessees of the State -Road‘paid $25,000
into the State Treasury; on Ta6Bday;-as rent of
the road for February** 1 - 1 ^ f-sdw
The Methodist Press and Rev. Mb. Hol
land.—It has already been stated in these col
umns that Rev. R. A. Holland has notified his
Presiding Elder, the Rev. S. S. Hassell, D. D.,
through a letter published in the Baltimore
Christian Advocate, that he has severed his con
nection with the Methodist Episoopal Church,
by “becoming a candidate for orders in too
Protestant Episcopal Church.” The Richmond
Christian Advocate, nearer the field where this
change of church relations takes place, says:
No ecclesiastical movements of any general
interest are taking plaoe in this country. A
domestic ripple occurs now and then upon toe
surface, agitating small oommunitien of Chris
tians. One-of. these has just transpired in Bal
timore, where Rev. B. A. Holland has signified
his intention of applying for orders in the Pro
testant Episcopal Church. A spent wave like
this now and: then breaks upon the shore that
compasses Methodism, but dies without making
sensibly less the vast deep that throws it off.
Many good men have gone from .ns to toe
Episcopal Church and filled its pulpits, and
thousands of converts from our altars have
added to its membership. Providence seems to
have laid upon Methodism the double task of
perpetuating her own 'organization and taking
care of the f riling strength of her weaker aster.
Well, so let it be. If we have strength enough
for both, Heaven’s blessing must largely reel
upon us. Query: Which is Christ’s Church,
the feeder or toe fed?” t **
Harder of Hon. George W. Flab, oi
Oglethorpe.
We received the following yesterday after
noon by mail, and the statements therein made
are fully substantiated by parties who came is
on the Southwestern road at 4:50 r. m. Colo
nel Fiah was lately appointed Judge of On
Thirteenth Senatorial District, by Qovemoi
Bullock, and was a very popular gentlemar
with those who knew Mm in Maoon. We an
assured by several gentlemen that his assassin
a tion oould certainly not have been canoed fron
anything of a political nature :
Montezuma, February 28, 1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Our com
munity is now under great excitement, cause*
by toe wicked assassination of Colonel Georg
W. Fish, of Oglethorpe. He, (Oolonel Fish,
came down on the night train from Maoon las
night, and while passing the Court-house Is
was shot down by the lurking assassin, who ha<
placed himself in toe Court-house door, am
made ready for hia victim, and toot a load 0
buckshot immediately below tbe left ear, whiol
produced death in a few minutes. Suspicion
rests strongly on one party I understand, but i
is thought advisable not to mention the nam
vet, as our citizens are using every effort t
capture and bring to justice the assassin. On
citizens greatly deplore this wicked deed, a
they know, from previous experience, it will b
tortured into a Ku-Klux outrage oh an inoffend
ing Radical, to make oapital far toe wanin
the bean ; r beeawax 25 oents per pound, honey Radical cause. But, from what little we hav
*1 ner three Ballons: salt is brought from Turks heard of the matter, It possesses no politics
$1 per three gallons; salt is brougl
island; branav is about $1 50 to $2 50 per bot
tle.— N. 7. Times Cor. '
A German inBiohmond, Indiana, spoke in his
native tongue to a Frenoh lady, who, not under
standing, thought his remarks insulting, and
went far him with a club. He buys his arnica
by the barrel. :v il yi?
Cbawfobd county, Indiana,' brags over a man
who did all the chores, cut two cords of wood,
walked seven miles to the county seat, and got
drunk; all before 11 a. a.
significance whatever,
household of faith.
all being of the sam
M, O.
Valebze Annan.—The Old North State,
paper published at Salisbury, North Carolim
states that toe author of the above capital now
is Miss Frances Fisher, eldest daughter of tt
late OoL Chas. F. Fisher, of that town, who wi
killed at the first battle of Manassas.
A Cincinnati boy kicked a mole -twioe. T1
long suffering beeat at last Mok>4 back, and tl
boy fcqnded to his chips, sigtoe© t
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