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ANDGEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER. (jLISBY, REED & REESE, Proprietors. The Family Journal.—News—Politics—‘Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. -"li Tiir7>‘».yf * 7^ - -■ f - f •'* ? -\.i n..j?,~ ^ £?r—- ■ r .-!»* . V:. ESTABLISHED 1826. bz:\ iLis?z3l c , TUESDAY, BIARCH 7, 1871. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING nnecyrj Jd-Frt ,^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 TOLUir-NO 34 m sc columns, 1 year. 3 00 Sixmonths........... ^ § Piwbti always in advance, and paper stopped * whan the money runs out, unless renewed. (7.001*0 uusomun with j. w. btjbkk & CO.’8 PUBLICATIONS- 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 -rrr 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 w tot soldi »i