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Tlie Greorsda Weekly Telegraph and. Journal <Se Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MABOH U, Mi.
Tlie Mews.
The reports from Paris yesterday morning
indicate that the revolntionary movement is
getting more serious. They threaten to attack the
National Assembly when it convenes at Ver
sailles to-morrow.
In Congress, the Senate yesterday morning
were discussing the Committees. As Mr. Sum
ner has been thrown from his high place as
Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Adairs,
and virtually ignored, we suppose the discussion
could hardly have been good natured.
A Congressional caucus of the Badicals upon
the Ku-klux outrages took place Thursday night,
and a committee of five was appointed to digest
a policy, with Butler as chairman. A letter from
the President was read in the caucus, in which
ho suggests some course of action “to protect
the Southern loyalists” without going into any
further legislation.
The Domingoes seem to have come across an
obstruction. They report the island turbulent
and say that the negroes threaten to burn out
the annexationists. That is very African-like—
isn’t it, now ?
An important item in the morning news 'is
that the Bevenue Beformers in the House,
claim indications of thirty majority. The Sen-
ato, however, will act as a breakwater to the
protectionists.
The Emperor Napoleon has issued another
manifesto, in which he appeals to the people
from the National Assembly, and says that a
Plebiscite alone is competent to pronounco
against his dynasty.
Divorces Dog-Cheap.—Bhode Island reports
14 percent, of divorces among the married par
ties, and Connecticut, we believe, shows a much
larger percentage. Unless Indiana and Illinois
look more carefully to their laurels in this busi
ness New England may eclipse them. Just now,
however, Mississippi seems to take theleacL The
Shubuta Times chronicles a case in that county
which, for brevity and dispatch, Indiana, Chi
cago and New England, will have to take
backseats. James Chapman and Jennie'Wil
liams, or James and Jennie Chapman, (says
' the record) had been living together as man
and wife for a long time, and Jim got tired of
tho old woman, and courted His3 Lindy, who
promised to share bed and board, provided he
would get a divorce from Jennie. Jim hastened
to the office of T. H. Clay, one of Governor
Alcorn’s colored magistrates, and offered him 1
five dollars for a divorce. Clay pocketed the
five, and wrote tho following certificate of di
vorce :
‘‘Miss Lindy, this is to certify that James
Chapman and Jennie Williams have this day
separated before me, and you and him are at
liberty to many when you will.
T. H. Clay.”
After that, who shall say that it is not both
as easy and as cheap to be unyoked as yoked?
Tee following appears as a leading editorial
in the Cleveland Herald: “We wish to give a
very simple remedy for fever and ague, and
wish to emphasize it be saying that it has, to
our knowledge, proved very efficacious. It is
simply common salt. A tcaspoonfol taken in
water and a teaspoonful deposited inside each
stocking next the foot just as tho chill is coming
on. That’s all there is of it; but, knowing
(hat it has been very efficacious in ‘breaking’
the chill and perfecting a cure, we put it in our
editorial columns, where no humbug remedy
shall ever find a place, if we know it.
4 ‘SabeAsm!”—Tho Herald congratulates the
peerless Badical party on the increase of the
negro force in Gongress. This is their grand and
sole achievement, and it is a permanent change,
fast oolors. States change, Governors and Sena
tors “go back” on Badicalism, but, says the
Herald “tho darkey must stay black, and the
mulatto must remain colored forever.” “It is
a great consolation to know that after five years’
hard work, the Bepublican party show such un
changeable evidences of the grandeur of its
mission and its perfect success.”
The Houston Home Journal is one of the
neatest country weeklies in the State. Hous
ton is a large and wealthy connty, and the large
amount of trade which annually comes to Ma
con from there, makes the Home Journal a
very valuable advertising medium for the Ma
con merchants, and it is to their interest to pat
ronize it liberally. Its columns appear to be
well patronized by the merchants of Perry,
which is the very best indication of its popular
ity and circnlation in its own county.
Hobeobs or Wan.—Herr Von Wickede, the
German war chronicler, says that on the road
from Belfort to Pontarlier he saw a “bevy of
famished women throw themselves upon a dead
horse like a pack of wolves, and, tearing it with
all sorts of instruments, swallow morsels quite
raw. ” He also mentions cannibalism, but does
not vouch for that. But ho concludes as fol
lows: “This is the eighth campaign I have
been through, but neither in Algeria, nor in
Italy, not in Bohemia, not even in Schleswig,
have I seen sights so horrible.”
New Hamp&hhik had a shock of an earth
quake and a terrible rambling in her bowels
last Monday. The politicians are not in accord
on the question whether this portends a Demo
cratic upheaving at the election on Tuesday
noxt, or whether the old crater is again to
belch up the excoriating lava and ashes of radi
calism. Some say one and some say the other.
A Governor, a railroad commissioner, three re
presentatives in Congress,-and five State coun
cillors are to be chosen.
Generally Uneasy.—Europe, according to
the correspondents and quid nuncs, is afflicted
with a distressing jnalady called “General Un
easiness.” The terrible storm of war which
has just swept over the political waters, lashing
them to fury, has left an ugly chopping sea be
hind, which threatens to strain or wreck every
political fabric afloat. From little Sweeden up,
all hands are on deck getting ready for worse
weather.
Thebe is a lively trade in autographs at
Bockyville, Conn. Whisky is sold only on phy
sicians’ certificates, and, the aboriginal doctors
being unaccommodating, a Massachusetts M. D.
was inveigled into the town and persuaded to
spend an afternoon in writing his autograph—
at tho bottom of pint prescriptions. These pa
pers are selling on ’Change now, like warehouse
rooeipts. ■
Bmn County Officers.—We saw a notice
from Bullock, yesterday, addressed to one of
the Democratic contestants for a county office
of this connty, informing him that the contes
tants would have a hearing before him (B.) in
the Executive Office, at Atlanta, on next Tues
day, the 14th Inst
The Cabinet.—It is announced that, in con
sequence of the session of the Joint High Com
mission, tho Cabinet will remain undisturbed
for the present. When the Commission rises
Secretary Fish will retire, and a general reor
ganization follow.
Southebn Pbesbytebian Ghubch m New
Yobk.—The Sun says the Southern Presbyteri
ans in New York are about to establish a Church
in that city, and have invited Dr. Palmer, of
Kow Orleans, to beeomo its pastor.
air. mil’s Letter.
As the Telegraph originally printed Mr. Lin
ton Stephens’ speech, to which Mr. Hill replies
in the letter copied from the Augusta Chroni-
cle to-day, we give place to the letter on the
principle of even-handed justice, without de
sign to embark in any controversy between
these eminent men, or to go into any fntile or
premature discussion about the platform of the
| National Democracy in 1872.
We have no donbt, in point of fact, that the
democracy will lay down a satisfactory platform;
and have just os little that we shall all support
the nominee with great cordiality. Wo see no
other possible course for any man who cares a
button about the South, the constitution, the
public liberty, or the welfare of the country, as
affected in tho choice between a government of
law on the one hand or, on tho other, the su
premacy of sectional hate—of wild fanaticism
and bigotry of—a desperate partizan selfishness
which weighs nothing in tho public administra
tion against mere party expediency and success.
A party platform is very well and proper; but
it is by no means the strongest guarantee of
fidelity to principle and of the rights of the
States and of tho people. If we could not find
these in the historical record of tho American
Democracy as a constitutional party—as a lib
eral party—as a party of generous instincts and
broad national sympathies—as the traditional
foe of class legislation, sectionalism and fanat
icism—the firm friend of the States and of pop
ular rights—no platform would give us the con
fidence which we already feeL
But we look with assurance to the general an
imus of the American Democracy as displayed
in half a century’s administration of the gov
ernment, and, inferring the fatnre from the
past, are anxions to restore it again to the con
trol of the government,. chiefly because with
that restoration comes, not more a new plat
form, than new men—new inflnenoes—new
feelings. Because it will liftfrom the South
ern neck the yoke of sectionalism. It will
snatch from the Southern brow the homing
brand of Northern hatred, suspicion, slander
and libel. It will restrain the agenoies of strife
and mischief at work in the South. It will re
store the golden era of peace and fraternization
between the States and sections. This is what
we want a change for. And in this good hope
and confidence we shall not split hairs with any
body about a platform in 1872.
We are glad to see that Mr. Hill calls himself
in this letter “a Democrat,” though he says he
was carried to the party by events—not by
choice. The events, we suppose, are simply
these: He finds tho Democrats practically op
posing breaches of the Constitution—atfieks
upon the sovereignty of the States, and oppres
sions upon the Southern people, and he finds the
Radicals doiDg the reverse. These are the
events that make every sensible, patriotio
Southern man a Democrat, and though some
weakly cavil about the name, yet few, between
tho two parties, are in any doubt about the di
rection of their sympathies.
The K. K. Commissioners—Nome
Friendly Suggestions.
We suppose there is a chance that Bntler’s
Ku-klnx bill, providing for a United States
Commissioner in every connty in the Southern
States, who shall take cognizance of all offences
committed against the trooly loil, will pass, and
if so, as there is a prospect for fat pickings, ap
plicants will not be scarce for the position.
Well, we suppose the chaps that will likely get
these places must live, and they might as well
be supported by the United States as the people
of tho different States,
Bat isn’t this office going to be rather a tick
lish one, viewed from a trooly loil stand-point ?
The reason assigned for creating it is to break
np tho “Ku-klux,” and this commissioner is the
instrument to do it. Naturally enough the
“K. K’e.” will not feel very pleasantly towards
him, and they may stop broiling, roasting, stew
ing and eating the trooly loil as a class, and
broil, roast, stew and eat their representative—
the commissioner. This will be rather tough
on the commissioner, to be sure, but the “K.
K.s” will not be very apt to think of that. Be
ing ravenously hungry all the time, they will
esteem it a rare privilege to satisfy their mor
bid appetites for trooly loil flesh on the Head
Centro, instead of the rank and file. If the
morbid appetite aforesaid be not too exacting,
and the commissioner shows a docent amount
of avoirdupois, he may make a tolerable meal
and thus satisfy the desires of tho “K. K.’
stomach. We suggest that this point be at
tended to in selecting commissioners.
It would be well, also, in making these ap
pointments for the Administration to take into
consideration the fact that the “K. K.’s” teeth,
having by long and continuous mastication of
human flesh, become somewhat worn should
not be required to taokle anything very
tough. Therefore, the Commissioners onght to<
be young and tender, not old and stringy. This
would bo a great deal more satisfactory to all
parties, and probably have a most soothing ef
fect upon the “K. K.’s. Before a commissioner
is appointed he should be put through a fatten
ing process like those fortunate birds whose
livers are destined for the toothsome pates de
foie gras. Gentlemen of the “trooly loil” per
suasion who contemplate applying for these
positions, shonldthe bill become a law, will, we
are sure, see the propriety of onr suggestions,
and second onr efforts to have them carried
into effect. Of their willingness to pnt a stop to
the “Ku-kluxing” 0 n the grand scale represented
at Washington to prevail at the South, by vica
riously appeasing this rebel hunger for loil
flesh, there can be no question, of coarse. It
is sweet to die for one’s conntry, bnt how much
more saccharine most it be to go to the happy
hunting ground for loilty and the spread of great
moral ideas. The faithfal say that five hundred
loil men have been devoured by the “K. K’s”
in Georgia, alone, since the war closed. Now,
suppose there had been a commissioner in every
connty to appease this appetite, and instead of
five hundred being boiled, baked, roasted,
stewed, fried and gulped down by the “K. K,’s,”
there would have been only one hnndred and
thirty-two at the outside—a clear saving of
three hnndred and sixty-eight lives and votes.
Grant onght to be impeached for not thinking
of this matter sooner.
Tlie Nathans Murderer Discovered.
On Thursday last, Superintendent Kelso, of
the New York police, called the various report
ers of the press of that oily together at his head
quarters, and announced to them that he had
discovered the man who murdered Mr. Nathans
last July. His namo is Billy Forrester, alias
Billy Marshall, alias Billy or Frank Campbell,
alias Frank Livingston, alias Frank Howard.
It will be remembered that Nathan was killed
by being struck with an iron dog, and by this
instrument tho police have succeeded in bring
ing the murder heme to Forrester.
In August, 1860, the residence of Mr. Schenck,
on Fifth Avenue, wa3 robbed, and the dog with
which Nathan was murdered was carried away
by the burglars. Schenck & Sons have identi
fied the dog, which was found in the street by
the servant at the time, and used by him to
open the window. This fact led to his detec
tion.
The Superintendent says he has obtained de
cisive proof that Forrester committed the mur
der, and that he has all the evidence to convio*
bim-
Tfce murderer is hiding somewhere, bnt it is
not considered possible that he can long escape
capture.
Downfall of Senator Stunner.
Onr midnight dispatches on Friday night
brought intelligence of the ratification by the
Senate of the canons ejectment of Sumner from
the Chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign
Belatiens, and even from the Committee itself.
The vote stood thirty-oiie Badical Senators for
the ousting—nine Democratic Senators in op
position, and twenty-two Badical3 and three
Democrats not voting. We see the following
report of the caucus action in the Western
papers:
Sumneb Ousted by a Caucus Vote op 2G to
21.—The caucus of Bepublican Senators met at
11 o’clock, with a fall attendance. The com
mittee appointed to arrange the standing com
mittees submitted their report. Senator Came
ron was placed at the head 61 the Foreign Ha
lations Committee and Sumner was made Chair
man of the new Committee on Elections. Mr.
Snmner immediately arose and declined the pro
ffered chairmanship, and challenged critioism
upon his conduct daring the twelve years he has
served on the Committee on Foreign Belations.
Snmner spoke for a few minutes and then with
drew from the canons. It is not known what
influenced the canons committee to change the
arrangements agreed upon last night, which
was to make Morton chairman in the place of
Snmner.
After the Senate adjourned, the Bepublican
Senators again went into caucus on the subject
of standing committees. A motion was made
to recommit the report to the committee. Schnrz
and Snmner spoke in favor of, and Mr. Howe
against recommittal. Altera long and bitter
debate, the canons sustained the report of the
committee by a vote of 26 against 21, thus con
firming, among other things, Cameron as Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Belations.
HOW THEY VOTED.
The Senate caucus to-day occupied nearly
three hours. Messrs. Stewart, Scott, Carpen
ter, Conkling and others voted with the major
ity, and Messrs. Trnmbnll, Morrill, of Maine,
Morrill, of Vermont, and Fenton, with those in
the negative. The list of committees adopted
to-day will be formally presented and voted on
in tho Senate to-morrow.
It is stated by correspondents that an attempt
was made to compromise the quarrel between
Snmner and the adminstration on a proposition
that the committee should be enlarged, and
thns leaving Snmner at the head of it, he would
be thrown into a minority and outvoted. Bat
the administration refused to accept this com
promise and peremptorily demanded Snmner’s
ejectment from the chairmanship and the com
mittee. Grant, it will be seen, has carried his
point, although at the cost of such a heavy
split in the Badical ranks, that his party was
left in a minority of the Senate.
It is evident from these proceedings that af
fairs in the Senate have taken a very serious
turn for the Badical party. It is in danger of
a damaging collapse, and the catastrophe may
probably como before adjournment, and on the
issue of San Domingo annexation. Grant is
trying on the role of Old Hickory, and it don’t
fit him. As Benton, said less justly of tho little
giant, * ‘his coat tail swings too nigh the ground. ’ ’
On the other hand, Mr. Snmner, though, at
best, a mere political sciolist, and no states
man or politician, is the most faithful represent
ative of Northern Badicalism, and can boast of
a heavy following. Ho will fight this battle to
the death, and will provo a formidable enemy.
He is an inexorable hater, and this public affront
at tho hands of Grant will displace the Brooks
assault in his malign and vengeful memory. It
will not be a war of Giant’s, bnt as spiteful a
fight as was ever waged by the belligerent cats
of Kilkenny.
We shall try to restrain our grief within
bounds whoever whips. Tho only bond of union
among the Badicals, since 1865, has been a com
mon hatred and vengeanoo against tho South.
Only within a short time have they began to
disagree upon the measure of injustice andout-
1 rage to bo inflicted upon us, and now if they get
np a good lusty lively fight among themselves,
the chances of peace-and rest in this quarter
will be largely increased. .
The Great Railway King or South
America—The Richest Mau on the
Globe.
The N. Y. Sun pives a long and extremely in
teresting history of the career of Henry Meiggs,
the great railway king of Sonth America. He
was bom in GatskflT, Greene connty, N. Y., in
1811, and, after anotstriking career in business
at the East, went to New York city and amassed
money in the lumber business. In 1849 he
loaded the ship Niantic with lumber, and, with
his brother John G., sailed for California. He
there embarked in an immense lumber trade,
bnilt Musical Hall, lavished thousands on mnsio,
bought land all over the State, and amassed a
fortune. Bnt in the panio of ’54 he went un
der, and in tho frenzy of the day issued forged
paper to the amount of near a million: As his
crimo became apparent, he bought a bark and
sailed to Valparaiso. There he became super
intendent of bridges on the railroad building to
Santiago, and, after the failure of the English
firm to complete the road, assumed the whole
contract, for $12,000,000. The engineering
difficulties were immense, bnt he did not fear,
and mado a supplementary contraot with the gov
ernment that for every month under four years
in which he completed the road he should receive
$100,000, and for every month over he should
forfeit $100,000. He began on the 4th of July,
1858, and hiring Chilian laborers at ten cents a
day and their food—three cents more—he tun
nelled and blasted his way through the huge
rocks and on the 4th of July, 1860, the road was
complete, and on the 5th the first train was run
through to the capital. Meiggs’profits were
$1,326,000, and might have been $3,000,000
bnt for his boundless generosity to the poor.
He bnilt two grand dwellings, costing $850,000,
at Santiago, and there lived till 1867. He was
induced by the call of the Peruvian Government
to go to that conntry in the latter year, and
bnlld a road from Arico on the coast to Areqnipa,
ninety miles inland, for $12,000,000. It was
completed by the first of the present year, and
Meiggs had $600,000 worth of medals struck in
commemoration, and* gave a $200,000 fete at
Areqnipa. His profits were $4,600,000. He
now has a contract to build a road across the
Andes, for $65,000,000, and lives in magnificent
state at Lima. He owns several guano islands
on the coast, and is prospectively the richest
man on tho globed
Tbe Press Association.
There ia ample time before the second
Wednesday in May, which is the day assigned
by the Constitution for the semi-annual meet
ing, to colleot the suffrages of the brotherhood
of the Georgia press as to the place of meet
ing. As there seems to be considerable diver
sity of preference, and onr only desire in rela
tion to the matter is to make an appointment
moat agreeable to members, let ns now proceed
to colleot the suffrages, with the understanding
that all who indicate a preference pledge them
selves to attend the meeting unless Providen
tially prevented. The vote shall be given by a
paragraphic declaration in eaoh paper. Brother
Beese, who keeps np a sharp' and systematic
examination of the columns of onr Georgia
contemporaries will make the count, and the
place whioh secures the largest number of votes
shall be named as the place of meeting. So
far Atlanta, Griffin, Augusta and Savannah have
been the .only places named. But the field of
selection iB the State, and let every journal in
dicate its preference in its next edition after
.seeing this notice. Is it agreed to?
New Yobk Elections.—The World says the
result of the municipal eleotions in New York
State last Tuesday is generally favorable to the
Democracy. The gains are handsome, and
Troy leads off with 2600 majority for the Dem-,
ocratia candidate for mayor—a gain of over*
1000 over Governor Hoffman’s majority of last
November.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Borne is flooded with counterfeit five cent
nickles.
Grady, of the Borne Commercial, has bought
a house, and they do say is going to housekeep
ing in partnership with the pretty daughter of a
King, now redding in Athens:
The Marietta Journal says at the last sale day
(Tuesday) there were 150 wagons in town, and
that they carried off “tons upon tons of guano.”
Mrs. Colt, a native of Greene connty, and who
has resided in Greensboro for fifty years, died
last Monday, aged 88 years. She had been
member of the Presbyterian Church for. more
than 60 years.
A ship is loading at Savannah with a cargo of
cotton seed for Hull, England—the first cargo
of the kind that ever left that port.
Mrs. Annie Cole, wife of Col. A. H. Cole, of
Savannah, died at Jacksonville last Tuesday.
It will be remembere d that her adopted daughter
was burned to death at Femandina, two or
three weeks since.
The Borne Courier Bays
The pleasant weather for the past few days
has greatly encouraged farmers, who are driving
everything ahead, getting ready' for planting.
The farmer’s work, as a general thing, is rather
baokward. The wheat orop, however, is grow
ing finely—good stands are common, and tho
prospect so far is good. Oats are coming np
well, and a large breadth of land has been seed
ed. Peach trees are- blooming out; many or
chards being in fall bloom.
Saddle-stealing is the prevailing epidemic
among the Columbus 15th amendments. -
The Enqnirer says:
FosMEn Citizen of Columbus Killed.—Balf
Cnthbertson was killed by becoming entangled
in the machinery of the Union Iron Works at
Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 11th of February. He
was formerly well known among machinists and
engineers in this section, having from 1851 to
1857 acted as Superintendent of the Golnmbns
Gas Works, and previously been enaged on the
Chattahoochee and other Georgia rivers as en
gineer.
Tho Columbus Hosiery Manufactory have
three machines in operation, any one of which,
tended by a boy, will knit thirty-five dozen
pairs of stockings per day.
The Columbus Sun complains that not “a sin
gle private party has been given” in that city
past winter.
Brookor’s steam saw mill, six miles from
Dalton, was burned Thursday night, causing a
loss of $1,200.
John Sauls (white), and Dan Mays (smoked),
disciples of the Beast, are being dead-headed
in tbe Albany jail, on a charge of burglarizing
Capt. Hobb’s smoke house Monday night.
Webster connty loilists of African persuasion,
solaco their leisure hours by throwing little
white girls into ponds, and watching them get
out.
The editor of the Albany News has seen a
gourd one hnndred and seventeen years old.
It belongs to Captain John A. Davis, of that
place, and was pulled from the vino by his
great grandfather, Wm. Davis, in the colony of
Virginia, in 1754.
Six hundred and twenty rolls of American
bagging—“Elephant” brand,—sold at Savan
nah, Wednesday, at an average of fifteen cents.
One of the city fathers of Colnmbns killed 80
snipe in one day's shooting recently
The Colnmbns Son, of Thursday, says:
Sale of Fertiltzebs.—Careful enquiry de
velops tho fact that hardly atenth of the amount
that was disposed of to the present time
last year has been sold this season. The cash
sales are very small. Most are sold for cotton
delivered next Fall, generally at 14 to 15 cents
for low middling. Prices are much less than
they were last year.
Some admirer of Beast Butler stole a box of
drugs valued at several hundred dollars from
the drug store of Dr. Mayer, on Bull street,
Savannah, Wednesday night.
Mr. Meinhard, of Savannah, lost two children,
Wednesday, by scarlet fever.
The Savannah hotels and boarding houses ore
fall of Northern visitors and invalids.
Tho Savannah News, of Thursday, says:
Sudden Death.—Mr. Thomas F. Alexander,
of Bryan county, while riding on West Broad
yesterday, on his way home, suddenly fell from
his horse and expired. Only a few minutes pre
vious, ho had been conversing with an acquain
tance, and, to all appearances, was in good
health, and it is stated that he had enjoyed uni
form good health for the past thirty years. An
inquest was held by Coroner B. F. Sheftall, and
the verdict of the jury was, that deceased came
to his death from disease of the heart.
Ex-Senator Miller has reached his home at
Atlanta.
F. S. Fitch, of the Griffin Star, has sold an
intorest in that paper to Col. J. D. Alexander
and the firm hereafter will be Fitch & Alexan
der.
Tlie Bayonet Election Law—A Repub
lican View of It.
The Chicago Tribnne, in an able editorial ar
ticle, announces that it regards the law for the
regulation of eleotions by Federal bayonets as
“of doubtful constitutionality, and, aB a party
measure, a great mistake.” After summarizing
the provisions of the aot, the Tribune says:
“This aot reBts upon the assumption that
Congress and the United States Marshals and
their deputies, are more competent to protect
the political liberties -of the people than the
people themselves. We have an election in this
city every four years, at whioh Presidential
electors, Governor and State officers, twenty-
five members of the General Assembly, twenty
Aldermen, and other officers, State and munici
pal, to the aggregate number of fifty, are to be
chosen.
At. tbe same election we have to choose one
member of Congress. Under the . pretence of.
regnlating the election of this one member of
Congress, this aot interposes the power of the
United States Marshals to take possession of
the registration books and the ballot-boxes, with
power to exolnde any other persons; with abso
lute power to arrest any voter or any other per
son objecting to their proceeding, and with
power to arrest the inspectors of election ap
pointed under the State law and imprison them,
and to disregard any and every State or munic
ipal law or judicial process which might re
strain them.
- Though, nominally, this is to be done with
rospect to the election of the member of Con
gress, it must affect equally the election of all
the other officers, State and local, voted for at
the same time. Has Congress the right,or having
tho technical power, onght it thns to attempt to
take the management, control, and regulation
of elections for State and local officers out of
the hands of the people of the State, and from
under the laws of the State? * * *
Bnt the effect of this legislation upon the
public mind is odious. It partakes of the spirit
of the sedition laws enacted under the first
Adams, and intended to perpetuate the power
of the old Federal party. It has a reactionary
effect, and though the law may not be resisted
by violenoe, the popular feeling inclines against
that party which adopts it. Under this law
Federal troops may be employed to aid the
marshals in enforoing their absolute control at
the polls, and thousands of zealous and earnest
Bepublicans, in all parts of the country, will
not hesitate to denounce such unnecessary and
wanton interference with the freedom of elec
tions. Five voters in each precinct thns pro
testing against such legislation would revolu
tionize the political organization of the Govern
ment in a single election.
Bnt, suppose there should be a change in the
ascendancy of parties, and that the United
States Marshals and their deputies, and the in
spectors of elections, and the military command
ers, and the entire machinery of this bill,
should be placed in the hands of a Democratic
administration, what then? How wonld these
arbitrary and extraordinary powers be exercised
in those districts where colored persons vote ?
How wonld it then be in New York city? How
wonld it be in Ohicago? Imagine the entire
election in this city, the registration and the
polls, and the ballot-boxes, and the counting of
the votes, delegated to two “invincible Demo
crats,” with power to arrest any person ques
tioning their proceedings, and having authority
to order the Federal soldiers to clear the pre
cinct of the “naygura” or ether Bepublican vo
ters. Do the Bepublicans of Chicago or any
other part of the West or South want to surren
der their right to hold their elections under
State laws and local officers, to irresponsible
deputy marshals, clothed with the most arbitra
ry and extraordinary powers ?• Yet that is the
law which Congress has just enacted, and which
upon a change of administration wonld confer
these immense powers upon the Democratic
party. We protest against this law, capable as
it is of being abused to snob a monstrous extent,
and wo think that, in whatever light it may bo
regarded, its enaotment will prove a grave
mistake.
Wbicli Accounts lor tbe Blilh in the
Coconnnt.
Speaking of the Senatorial canons, the Her
ald’s Washington special of Monday says:
“Senator Morton and other prominent friends
of the President who, looking at the matter in
a purely party light, are convinced that without
Congressional action the Sonth will be hopeless
ly Democratic in 1872.”
The anti-Ku-klnx bill, therefore, ia merely a
scheme to Ku-klnx the Southern Democracy by
act of Congress.
The New York Times whioh is now straining
its powers to achieve the reputation of being
the recognized organ of the Badicals, explains
the situation thus:
Mr. Morton in the Senate and Bntler in the
House are both anxions that some legislation
shall be enacted to prevent the outrages in the
Southern States. The condition of affairs in
those States is acknowledged on all sides to be
bnd, bnt there are few who are ready to under-
take to change it by the force of military pow
er. Looking at it from a party point of view,
they reason that if the Ku-Klux organization is
so powerful as stated, the attempt to subdue it
by Federal interference wonld produce almost
another war, or at any rate increase the dis
turbances to a degree sufficient to deorease the
productions of the Sonth, whioh are needed
now to keep the balance of trade from setting
too strongly against this country,and they think
such a result wonld cause serions party defec
tion in the North. Still, many BepnbUcans in
dorse the pplicy of force.
Yes! here is a sad state of affairs. The Bad
icals can’t hit ns without barking their own
knuckles, and giving the North a bloody nose.
They wonld be so glad to hurt ns, yon know. It
wonld do ’em so much good to ‘ ‘mash onr heads,”
as Sambo elegantly phrases it; bnt, then, if it
is going to hnrt “the balanoe of trade”—if it’s
going to make old Leatherbreeehes in his New
York counting room “short” and cross, and
swear “these fellers in Washington have no re
gard to the interests of the conntry, and I am
going dead agin’em hereafter,” why yon see
that wonld be homing the bam to get rid of the
rats, and we must think about it, before we
strike. “Looking at it from a party point of
view,” if the breeding of “almost another war,”
or “increasing the disturbances in the South to
degree sufficient to decrease the productions
of the Sonth,” is only going to lose ns in the
North whatever votes we may gain in the South,
by rinsing Cain there with a negro Ku-klux, it
will not pay, you know. We must look into
this business before we torn the South topsy
turvy. We must be sure it will pay in “a party
point of view,” before we “increase disturb
ances” and breed a war in that quarter.'
Seriously, did anybody ever see a more repul
sive picture of the sordid and unscrupulous poli
tician, than is unconsciously presented in these
two extracts from the Washington dispatches of
the Herald and Times, telegraphed the same
day from Washington?
The Hndson river was clear of ice from New
1 York to Troy last Tuesday.
Affairs in tlie South.
A Perepatetio correspondent of the New York
Snn, who has been^raveling all over the Sonth.
writes that paper at Cincinnati, what he ob
served of the social, financial and political con*
dition. The following should be put in by way
of appendix to the forthcoming Outrage Keport
of the Badical Congress:
A CHANOE OF SENTIMENT.
A Northern man visiting the Southern States
at this time cannot fail to be impressed with the
change which has occurred in popular feeling,
or at least in its expressions, during the last
five years. In 1865 I passed over nearly tho
same conntry that I took in my recent trip, and
there was not a day that I did not hear people
cursing the d—d Yankees. If a Northern man
did not have offensive remarks addrossed di
rectly to him, he was talked at from morning
tUl night; and expressions of hatred and con
tempt for the whole Yankee race were contin
ually made within his hearing for his especial
benefit. This is all changed now. A man may
travel from one end of the Sonth to the other
in the exercise of any legitimate business, with
out being subjected to the slightest discourtesy
on account of his nativity. The most enterpri
sing and successful business men of the prin
cipal towns are from the North—generally from
tho Western and Northwestern States, excepf
near the Atlantic coast; and their energy and
public spirit have commanded the respeot and
esteem of the communities where they have
settled. I have also found many Northern men
engaged in planting, and they have uniformly
spoken in the highest terms of the treatment
they have received from their Southern neigh
bors. Bnt as for the horde of
CARPET-BAG POLITICIANS,
who have overran the whole Sonth, and under
the protection of the General Government ob
tained control of the best offices, which, as a
rale, they have shamefully mismanaged, they
are eminently detested and socially ostracized.
And if a man comes from the North into a
Southern town to bnild np a business, it will
be well for his pocket if he gives his whole at
tention to his business; for if he undertakes to
make himself conspicuous in politics, the people
will drop him like a hot potato, and he might
as well shut np shop at once. His neighbors
will not recognize him socially, nor frill they
have any dealings with him if they can avoid
it. I know that this will be looked npon by
many as an evidence of a rebellions and unre
genera to disposition on the part of the South
erners ; still, when the character of the most
active of the carpet-bag politicians is' taken
into consideration it will hardly seem unnatural
that the people should rather be governed by
men of their own seleotion than by such a
class of strangers.
THE WHITES AND THE BLACKS.
Throughout the cotton States, with the ex
ception of North and Sonth Carolina, there
seems to be a friendly feeling existing between
the slaves and their former masters I have
frequently heard snch expressions as this: “Do
yon see those three yellow fellows? They all
belonged tome before the-war; they always
come to me now if they get broke.” And it is
not nnnsnarto hear of freedmen who have
prospered coming to the relief of their former
owners, when the latter have been in distress.
Those who suppose that negro suffrage is going
to have the effeot of securing tha perpetual as
cendancy of the Bepublican party in the Sonth
are likely to find themBelveB mistaken. Among
tho colored people, as among the whites, the
best claBs does not always famish the most
prominent politicians. In the Sonth that de
scription of colored men who before the rebel
lion were usually classed under the general head
of “sassy negroeB,” are the noisiest politicians,
and are all stannoh friends of the carpet-bag
fratenity. The “genteel negro,” on the con
trary, is disposed to maintain the best relations
with what has always been and must always be
considered as the superior race. So, too, It is
with the plantation hands, if they are not afraid
of the Loyal League. Many of the negroes of
the cotton States are quite as much afraid of the
Loyal League as the negroes of Kentucky are of
the Ku-klux. A smart, intelligent barber who
was shaving me one day, in a city where the in
fluence of the League is very strong among the
colored men, told me -that he did not dare to
vote as he wished to; that he had got his free
dom from slavery, bnt he had no freedom to
vote except at the dictation of the League. Bnt
in all the ordinary matters of life the white and
colored races get along very nicely together in
the States that I have mentioned. In Sonth
Carolina, however, it is quite different. There
the negroes and the carpet-baggers are j n
glove and control the whole State; and as a
consequence the feeling between the freedmen
and their former masters is very bitter.
A Cheerful Prediction.—A Badical New
England Senator said pnbliely, Thursday Might
at Washington, that the downfall of the Demo
cratic party dated from the day the Buchanan
Administration demanded that Douglass should
be removed from the chairmanship of the Ter
ritorial Committee, and that a similar fate
awaited the Bepnblioan party on the sacrifice of
Mr. Snmner. Amen 1 and amen 1
letter from son. b. h. mix,
Tbe Attorney Generalship—Tlie State Road
Lease-Jadge Stephens’ Macon Speech
Etc., Etc.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
No man places a higher estimate than myself
on the power and usefulness of a well conducted
press. When not well conducted, its power for
wrong and evil is equally great In the memo
rable days of 1867,1 learned to honor and love
the press of Georgia. It was bold and manly
when great leaders were silent and timid.
Bnt, frankly and kindly, have not too many
of onr papers of late indulged the habit of
making statements without evidence? Of giving
loose rumors the dignity of charges, and too often
betrayed a facility for learning facta'that do not
exist “from reliable authority ?’’
I shall be slow to believe the Chronicle wonld
intentionally do me injustice. Nothing bat
compulsion will make me believe it. With the
exoeptionof a short period during the war, when
I believed the paper was edited by an enemy to
onr cause, I have, from my first connection
with politics in 1855, been in the habit of ex
pressing my views to the public through the
indulgent and courteous columns of that paper.
This is sufficient to jnstity me in noticing an
erroneous personal statement in that paper
which I would not notice in many others.
You could not possibly have any authority
for stating that I was to be tendered a seat :
the Cabinet—more certainly none for saying
wonld accept it, and most certainly of all, none
for saying a movement of this kind was com
menced in November. You have, and can have,
no fasts to authorize tho statement that I sought
association with certain gentlemen in the lease
of the State Boad, or that Gov. Bullook has an
interest in the lease, or thatjl ever had a debate
with Gov. Brown on the subject of allowing
Gov. Bollock to have a shore under cover of a
“Northern friend.” So you can have no relia
ble authority for stating that I am preparing
lengthy and elaborate reply to the speech of
Judge Stephens before Swayze. I do not know
that yon have said these things. I have care'
iessly allowed my subscription to tbe Chronicle
to expire (which I regret and will remedy), and
have not been reading it lately. Bnt I am told
these things, and perhaps others, have been
stated by you and that people say they must be
true, as the Ghroniole states them about myself.
I do not suppose President Grant ever hon
ored me with a thought in connection with his
Cabinet. I understand ho regarded me as the
chief'of tbeKu-Klux. I saw this in a news
paper. It was certainly a great mistake. I am
very sure I never thought of being in the Cab
inet. If, however, the President were to make
me snch a tender, I should certainly regard it
as the highest evidenoe he eonld famish of an
intention to administer the government in a
spirit of justice to the Sonth, and I should then
begin to suspect there was some foundation for
another rumor I have heard—that President
Grant was expecting the nomination of the
Democratic party in 18721
I am anxions for the real facts, as far as
know them, touching the State road lease, to
be correctly known, and with your permission
I propose, at an early day, to give them to the
pnblio through the Chronicle.
I read the speech of Judge Stephens soon
after it appeared. I saw nothing in it which
thought needed a reply. He opens with a high
eulogy npon the intelligence and courage of Ms
Judge—Swayze. These things may be true. I
do not know Swayze. Have beard of him, bnt
never heard these things of him before.
Jndge Stephens then made an elaborate ar
gument before his learned and brave jndge, to
show that the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments were usurpations. These arguments are
all familiar to me. I have endeavored to pre
sent them often, of course never so ably. Bat
feebly as myself and others have a thousand
times made the argument, I never thought it
could be successfully replied to except by force.
But am I to understand that Judge Stephens
was flattering Swayze, and appealing with Mgh
argument to Swayze to induce him—the learned
and brave Swayze—to declare and proclaim
that these amendments were treated, and should
be treated, as no paris of the Constitution ? If
so, then, when we remember that every depart
ment of every Government, State and Federal,
including all the Governors and all the‘Judges,
Democratic as well as Bepublican, in the Uni
ted States, are abiding, obeying and enforcing
those amendments and the acts of Congress un
der them, this scene before Swayze narrowly
escapes the ludicrous! It certainly admits of
no reply.
There seems to be an impression that Judge
Stephens alludes to me under the name of Dan
iel. This must be a mistake. I certainly never
used snch language, nor entertained snch ideas
as he ascribes to Daniel. And, as in this very
connection, Jndge Stephens, in elegant style,
tells a very touching anecdote, illustrating his
sacred devotion to truth, I am constrained to
conclude that those who think he alluded to me
as Daniel do the Judge great injustice.
Jndge Stephens next reveals to Swayze his
plan for getting rid, not only of tbe fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments, bnt of all the gov
ernments nnder them,, and the work of our
newly elected Democratic Legislature with them.
The plan is to elect a Democratic President,
who will withdraw all troops and proclaim all
these things nullities. This is splendid. Beats
Daniel, on the same line, a bow shot! No re
ply to this; like it too well. "What a vision!
To see that noblest of men and most glorious
of Governors—Charles J. Jenkins—returning
with all dignity to Milledgeville, and calling np
the fonr years dead. What a pity that snch a
glorious vision should be so sadly visionary!
With some knowledge of Democratic purposes
and opinions, I fear Jndge Stephens will not be
able to find even a candidate who will promise
to execute Ms plan. I confess I do not exactly
see what Swayze had to do with this question.
That portionof Jndge Stephens’ speeoh devo
ted to the ease made before Swayze was certain
ly oonelnsive. It seeins ho did notMng except
nnder legal process. TMs can be no crime. He
was enforcing the law. I learn several citizens
about Macon and other places were arrested on
similar charges. None others chose to make
it the occasion for a political speech. All the
prosecutions will doubtless end in notMng.
Jndge Stephens closes Ms speech well. He
is ready for the sacrifice, feels honored in be
ing the victim. How these brave words wonld
have cheered me once 1 Too late! Nearly fonr
years afterdate. Two negroes and one Swayze
are not equal to the task of making a martyr,
and I know of no other who desires one.
I regret that the distinguished gentleman
made this speech. He will regret it himsolf
before he is two years older. It is outside of
the policy of 1872. This I say with confidence,
and am willing to let time pass on its correct
ness.
Now, Messrs. Editors, allow me to say I do
i propose, in a short time, to write a few short
! tfotes on the Address. I never issued a docu
ment in the stern and stubborn correctness of
which I had and have more faith. It was well
considered, and prepared with absolute freedom
from passion or prejudice. He is not a safe
adviser who suits bis counsel to Ms wishes.
The greatest of all fools is he who closes Ms
eyes to facts, and will admit that nothing exiats
which does not suit him; and the most incorri-
gible of despots is he who will insist that noth-
i ng is law bnt Ms own opinion of what ought to
be law. I shall seek to write the Notes on the
Address in the same spirit of passionless logic
whioh I think characterizes the address itself.
~ desire and will have no personal controversy.
shall seek to make clear the path of duty in
the present exigency of our people, and I have
an abiding faith that fonr out of five of onr
people will agree with me in a few months.
Before dosing, allow me to trouble yon with a
message to our exoellent friend of the Constitu
tionalist. Was there a typographical error in
Senator Blair’s speeoh? It seems Senator
Blair drew a distinction between the reconstruc
tion aots and the constitutional amendments,
and said the latter “were laws of the land.”
The Constitutionalist insisted the word “not"
was typograpMcally omitted. My own opinion
is there was no error. How about it? I have
not read the speech, but I think I understand
it. Of one thing I am certain; I am not the
only Democrat, original or reoent, who believes
snccessfnl usurpation may beoome law.
I think it well to keep cool. Why should
fellow-Bnfferers quarrel? If we cannot exactly
have onr way, why not take the next best way?
If some people are not oarefol, they may say
much they will have toreoall, or find themselves
carried out of the Demooratio party precisely as
I was carried in it—by events, not by choice. At
any rate, whether tea remain with it or not, I
am folly convinced the Demooratio party of
the North does not intend to ran the next Presi
dential race on a fool’s schedule.
March 4,1871. Bsnj. H. TTtt.t..
The Telegraph complaims of “oppressively
warm” weather in Macon. We always thonght
Macon was not far from “Tartarus down below
Avemus.”—Atlanta Sun.
Yes : Macon is below Atlanta and Atlanta is
the “Gate City”—but why call it “Avemus”—
the mythological “gate” to hell ? It is doubt
less a hot and hard place, but we should never
think of calling Atlanta by that name.
North Beaeh-Altei^^.
BY t. BEET HASTE. * I
&&isxs3s£S^
S?®I 0n long quay that stretches
Well known to citizens as wharf of 22*
There each sweet Sabbath walka *
The pensive Margaret, and brave Pm °f i4ei
Here cometh of t the tender nuwe» ^
.in tne sly sea crab lew in ambush'i.u
Seeth his legend bitheth hbaftSfe
Ah me! what Bounds the shudderim, V
When his email treble —.PiSS eclu
Hard by there stands an ancient hnot.i -
And at its side a garden, where
The stealthy catamount, and coon ^
To work deceit on .
when Augusta—that unconscious v
Withnutsand applespliethSSalw?**-
A^i the 816611 d «reth her Wv w
Office of Seo’y State Aob’l Socm..
. Macon, Ga., March 2, lgj^M
The Executive Committee of the !
cultural Society of Georgia at its »
February, resolved to hold its great Amf °,1®
of 1871 at Macon, beginning Mon
of October, and continuing four davs*’
The committee of seven appointed
Executive Committee to revise the —-* 1
list, adopted, and ordered published h!® 5 ?
ately the subjoined list of premiums^ 1,
crops. They will meet several weeks
for the purpose of revising the remtiJ®* 1
thelist._ Inthemeantime,allperc™A c4 ? ti !
suggestions of amendments or i
list of last year, will please
in writing to the Secretary.
PREMIUMS ON FIELD CE0P8
Sec. 1. For the cheapest 10 bales of cot.
ton....i........,,,... MMtl( ...
Sec. 2. For the cheapest and best 1 ac-’o ;;
of com
Sec. 3. For the cheapest and best T een *
of peavine hay. _
Sec. 4. For the cheapest and best l'acre ” " I
of clover hay.
Sec. 5. For largest crop of cotton
duced on two acres of upland—with
the mode of cultivation, the amount
and kind of manure used, the period
of planting—the number of times
plowed and hoed—the kind of cot-
ton—the land to be measured aitd
the cotton weighed in the presence
of three disinterested and reliable
witnesses with certificate from them j)i» I
Sec. 6. Largest crop of native grass 4
hay raised on 1 acre—requisition as
above
Sec. 7. Largest crop of cultivated grass
hay including or not a mixture of
clover.,
Jog
See. 8. Largest crop of corn grown on
two acres of upland, not less than
75 bushels per acre—requisitions as
above M(|
See. 9. Largest crop of corn grown np
on two acres of lowland, not less
than one hnndred bushels M( I
Sea 10. Largest crop of wheat grown j
upon two acres m(|
Sea 11. Largest crop of lowland rice
on one acre SOOII
See. 12. Largest crop of oats roaised on
two acres
Sec. 13. Largest crop of rye per acre... fit
Seo. 14. Largest crop of barley per acre 25(11
See. 15. Largest crop of sweet potatoes
raised per acre, one-eighth of an
acre to be dug and certificates of
the yield by disinterested persons
famished MS I
Sea 16. Largest crop of Irish potatoes .
raised per acre ...- Mt>]|
Seo. 17. Largest crop of turnips raised
per acre MCOl
Sec. 18. Largest crop of ground peas or I
Pinders per acre.
Sea 19. Largest crop of field peas per
acre 50M|
Sec. 20. Best box of chewing tobacco,
Georgia raised 29(1
Sec. 21. Bestboxof cigars from Georgia «
raised tobacco ; M (|
Seo. 22. Best sample Southern raise!
smoking tobacco 5(1
Seo. 23. Best sample Georgia raised leaf
tobacco 5(j
Sea 24. Best crop of broom corn on one
acre, with sample of one bale 25 (|
CROPS BY BOYS UNDER SIXTEEN YEARS 0FA3
Sec. 1. Largest crop of Indian com grown
by any boy under 16 years of age on
one acre of land—requisitions as in
other field crops 25 # |
Sea 2. Largest crop of cotton grown by
any boy under 16 years of age on one
acre—requisitions as above 25(1
In the reports made by exhibitors of ah fin I
above crops, the cost of production must I* I
carefully estimated and reported, and in tha e* I
of production shall be considered the value * [
the land—the cost of fertilizers and cost ol c--1
tivation. Exhibitors of all the above cm? I
must also state in writing in full, to the Sea I
tary at the time of making the entry, al!6|
facts as laid down in the requisition for con I
cotton, etc., given above—the statement ■■ I
be accompanied also with certificates of U* I
disinterested witnesses of the measnreaect i I
land and of the yield of pounds or twMie I
acre. Jndge3 will be instructed to with-* I
the awards where exMbitors fail to comply T -* |
these rales. .
Printed copies of this notice are sent to *>
the members of the convention with the requ*
that they will procure, if practicable, its P-;
lication in any daily, weekly or monthly J-'-’
nal accessible.
By order of the Committee. .
A. H. COLQUITT, Fresmew.
David W. Lewis, Secretary.
Old Man Grant on tlie Dent
Donn Piatt tells the following in the Ado* I
istration’s paper:
“So ye’r goin’ to Washington, are ye! ®jj
the venerable father of the Administration R
half-fare ticket on the way to the Csrniva-
“Yes, I believe I am,” was the response-
“Well,' Til tell you what I’ll do;
a letter of introduction, and write it -
And so the venerable patriarch pennea
epistle, and continued, “Now yell fi® -< \
WMte House; walk right in; ye’ll see a »t oi
lers in sort o’ uniform, but don’t bo scan^j
say yon want to see the President, ann
stairs. Ef you meet a Dent, and ye ii
tain to do that, don’t tell ’em ye rei got
They’r the lyingist creatures in the w _ d,
they’ll want that letter, an’ ef they get Jj £ j_
ever see Lys, and Lys’ ell never see ^
y°^ want only to sh^ ^
ter. Yon jist say yon want oniy w £
with that great man, General Grant, as
Tho instructions were followed, and j
great man, duly shaken.
The North Adams Chkamen.—'K® . g, j
Valley News, referring to a stateme . ^ i
Springfield Bepublican, to the eSect tot&
Sampson, finding his Chinamen uneqn^
amount of work he wants done, is try 1 ?*;
forty-eight white men, offering t0 . I
separate room, as they refuse to wow
Celestials,” says: „ thU I
“We beg leave to inform the Bepnhu ^
the above statement is erroneous. , [ati*
finds his Chinamen more than
amount of work he wants done, and «
more shoes at the present time thmi ^
ever produced before with the eamen
bottomers. He has not tried to hire f i ^
white men, bnt has had innumerable ^
tions for work by men who have er F! m
unwillingness to labor In the Bam9 , i 7 wei' 18
the Celestials, or anywhere he should. ^
plaoe them. One hundred and 4 f e /vtff*
will be made at his manufactory this w ^
hundred and five cases being the l ar 8 I
her he has ever before produced in one
H. L Kimball House. —This hotel, .
ta, is nnder the management of a C0I T 8 ^
Messrs. Crittenden and McCon^ ^
, assisted by Mr. O. E. Barge an ^
, a. F. Warren and others in theo^ ^
st make it a very popular place for ^
r. All the appointments about the ^
one comfortable. If the bill ® ^
tlemon,
prietors,
•,S.
must
der.
to make one comfortable. ir me |
and the preparation of the same do no
then the party complaining does I
at ,l! — “ “ ' '
