Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Greorg'ia. Weekly Telegraph and Journal Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MARCH 28, 1871.
XJie Holly System or Witter Supplies.
Mr. McBomey, of the City Committee to ox-
amine the Holly system of water works, at Cov
ington, Ky., has retained, bnt we will not an
ticipate his report. This system, which has
been introduced with mnch success in many
places, forces up the water through iron pipes
from a shaft sunk near the river bed with such
power as not only to supply the highest localities,
but also to discharge streams from the hydrants
through the necessary hose to an elevation equal
or superior to that accomplished by the steam
fire engines. The Committee saw five of these
streams playing at onoe from the Covington hy
drants, through hose and inch nozzles to a
height of 130 feet. The water of the Ohio river,
used at Covington through the sands of the
river bed into the shaft by its side is quite clear,
and much better than that supplied from the
same source to Cincinnatti under the old sys
tem.
Mr. McB. thinks a modification of the system
would be better for Macon. By constructing
the proposed canal, better water could be pro
cured, and the water-power could be Used in
driving the forcing pumps economically—while
it wonld also be available for manufacturing
purposes. Moreover, a reservoir could be estab
lished for use in case of the temporary suspen
sion of the machinery in case of breakage.
Messrs. Gardner and Rasdall, the other mem
bers of the Committee, have not yet returned.
The Stains in Washington.
Tho World says the House Friday morning,
after the grand rutlee with Butler, looked like
tho sea-beach after a storm. The .Radicals were
as solemn as a funeral, and Butler himself was
much subduocL The change in the whole as
pect of tho party since the New Hampshire
election can scarcely be realised, and it is bard
now to say which party is running the House.
Tho House Democrats in caucus agreed,'by a
large majority, to support the Senate proposition
for a joint Ku-KIux Committee and court the
fullest investigation into Southern affairs. Gen.
Young and others opposed the action on the
ground that Congress had no right of interfer
ence and that the investigation would be nn#
fairly oondneted, bnt tho other view predomin
ated by a large majority, with the understand
ing that the caucus was advisory merely, and
not intended to bind the official action of mem
bers.
It was believed that the Senate wonld soon
give in to adjournment.
Washington was much excited with a rumor
that Butler had gone back on Grant, and was
arranging with Fenton and the other Radical
malcontents to pnt ont Grant’s pipe in tho mat
ter of a renomination. Indeed the talk was
strong that Grant must be laid on the shelf.
But Grant won’t lie there. He intents to secure
a renomination, as Poinpey says, “whedder or
no.” ■
Another Adactnistbation Blunder.—The in
aptitude of the Administration was again dis
played in fitting out the Domingo Commission
with Champaign only, instead of the reverend
extract of corn. In all parts of that delectable
island, (according to the World’s correspond
ence) the commissioners were everywhere im
portuned for whisky. In some cases the officials
of the government aronsod them from sleep
with the beating of drams, and when asked by
the commissioners what was wanted, responded
impressively in a single monosylable—“Rum l"
The side pockets of the commissioners were
picked of their traveling flasks by the Alcaldes
and other enlightened functionaries, and ex
hausted in a general drink all round by these
ingenuous and noble niggers. In short, the
champaign was a grand mistake. Fature nego
tiations with these advanced people must be
begun, continued and ended with copious sup
plies of the indigenous heverage of Cineinnati,
and it need not be copper distilled or branded
with four X’a. In view of this newly developed
diplomatic necessity some old, hard-headed
drinker/like Horace Greeley, will be dispatched
on future missions, with at least a thousand
barrels in the bold, let alone what is carried in
in the upper works.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger,
quoting our views in favor of trusting the
Southern people to manage their own potitical
affairs, says: “We cannot understand how a
Northern Radical head can hold such sensible
notions and not burst wide open.” Mental
opacity like this must, indeed, be very distress
ing^ but to ordinarily clear understandings the
obvious advantage of possessing such a “North
ern Radical head” is, that the owner of it can
thereby perceive what is for the benefit of the
whole country, which we are inferentially led to
believe it would “burst” a Southern Radical
head “wide open” to do.—.#'. 7. Com. Ado.
Very good point, indeed, if there was any
difference between Northern and Southern Rad
ical heads. But there isn’t—'that we can dis
cover—and it’s very unkind in the Advertiser
to intimate such a thing. Both sort are just
about as incapable of seeing what is good for the
uhole country as Butler’s heart is of a decent
impulse, or Grant’s brain of an original idea.
The Northern and the Southern Radical are
both tarred with the same stick, and a very
black mark it makes, too.
Strong Language from a Radical Or*
< gan—It Advises State Resistance to
National Usurpation.
The New York Evening Post, one of the ablest
and most zealous of all the Northern Radical
papers, in a recent article on Bailor’s proposed
En-klax bill, goes farther in its denunciation of
that measure than even any Democratic journal
that wo have seen, North or South. It deolaros
that “the laws of Draco never approached it in
atrocity’’— that “it would repeal the Constitu
tion of the United States and revolutionize our
whole system of government”—that “Congress
has no more power to pass it than it has to
make different sets of customs or tax laws for
different States”—and winds up with the follow
ing burst:
If such an act were passed, tending to inter
fere with civil order, to disturb the authorities
of the peace, establishing “commissioners” in
every county who wrest his prisoners from the
sheriff and stop his process, what would be the
duty of the State officers ? Plainly to resist such
men at all hazards. Were it attempted in Now
York or Massachusetts, the army and navy of
the United States could not enforce such a bill
for an hour. The law-abiding mind and con
science of every free citizen would sustain the
constitution and the principles of free govern
ment against the usurpation; and this new re
bellion against the Union, though expressed in
an act of Congress and sustained by an admin
istration at Washington, would bo put down as
resolutely as was the last.
Brave words, my masters, but be ye ready to
stand by them? We have heard much valiant
talk of similar import from some other people
of your section in times past, but when the
pinch came those who uttered it were found
just where the Frenchman’s flea was.
But, in truth, theso declarations go to show
how deep and widespread is the discord and
disintegration that threatens the life of Radical
ism. Two years agonoRadioal paper at the
North, or elsewhere, would have dared to use
such language. Tho party lash would have
struck it down, o: ; choked it into silence,
they preach “ treason”—open-mouthed and de
fiant as “ unrepentant rebels”—just whenever
they Iiko. For are not such utterances “ trea
son” from an Administration stand-point, and
would not a Southern Democratic paper that
printed them be dubbed “a Ku-Klux organ” by
the howling chorus of the trooly loil ?
Well, we shall see what we shall see; but
as the bill in question seems dead for tho
present, there is no immediate prospect of
finding out whether or not the warriors of the
Post mean what they say. Meanwhlfe, we pnt
them on the witness stand to testify against the
wickedest scheme that was ever hatched in the
devilish brain of the most representative man
In that party to which the Post has given earnest
allegiance and most devoted service since the
evil hour of its birth.
The New Hampshire Election
The last statement of the gubernatorial vote
we have seen foots up as follows: Weston,
Democrat, 34,5G3; Pike, Radical, 33,820
Cooper, Labor Reform, 1,077. Six small towns
remaining to be heard from, which gave last
year 33 Radical and 193 Democratic votes. Add
Ing them all together, we have say 69,086 votes.
Now, last year New Hampshire polled, in her
gubernatorial election, only 68,471 votes, and
In the same election in 1869 she polled 67,781.
We consider these figures conclusive of the
fact that the Democratic triumph is not a special
result of popular dissatisfaction about the course
pursued towards Sumner. Nobody would take
Sumner’s quarrel so much to heart as to affect
his exercise of the suffrage, who was not a very
settled and inexorable Radieal; and such an one
would have vented his indignation, not by voting
tbe Democratic ticket, bnt by staying away from
the polls altogether. When a Radical of the
Snmner stripe votes the Democratic ticket, we
may well look for miracles.
But here we see an increased popular vote
showing that the number wbo staid away from
the polls was smaller than usual. The infer
ence, therefore, is irresistible, that the result is
due to general cadsfis. The people voted down
the Radicals beoause they were tired of them,
and have abandoned the party. They voted
not to avenge Sumner, bnt put down the whole
party. Had the vote been a small one, Sum*
ner’s friepds might have reasonably claimed it
as evidence of his personal popularity and of
indignation on account of bis proscription by
the President. But, on the contrary, the vote
being extraordinarily large, it must be accepted
as the result of a settled political revolution,
and of no spasmodic discontent of extreme par-
tizans of the Sumner stripe.
A Great Democratic Owoutu n it r. —The
New York San, of Saturday, flames with an ed
itors! pointing out what a glorious opportunity
is presented to the Democracy to smash Grant
by nominating Snmner. Bet ns be thankful for
the suggestion; bnt while Drake, Ben Butler,
Henry Wilson and Dick Yates live, to say noth
ing of all the “loyal negroes,” why nominate
Sumner? Indeed, Mr. Snmner is too devoted
to tho war against distinctions on aocount of
color, race or previous condition to allow his
name to be put first on any ticket. His name
should be floated at the masthead as Yiee Pres
ident, with Downing, the oyster man, or Elliott
or Daddy Gain for the first place. Under this
sign, with Sumner’s Supplemental Enforcement
Bill for a platform, we might move onward vic
toriously, keeping step to the music of the
conch shell and de banjo. Who knows ?
A rubai correspondent writes ms: “I see it
stated in one of the Cincinnati papers that Mrs.
Woodhull was formerly the proprietor of a Chi
cago bash-mill. This puzzles me. Who is
Mrs. Woodhull, and what is a Chicago hash-
mill ?” Mrs. Woodhull—the Hon. Victoria
•> Woodhull—U the rBnowned candidate for
the Presidency, who interviews the Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue, while that gentle
man is comparatively in a state of nature; and
a Chicago hash-mill is defined by standard lexi
cographers as a slop-shop boarding-house, whose
proprietor manufaptnrea her hash out of meat
which she buys at half priee without stopping*
to inquire whether the batcher stole the dog or
net*.—Courier-Journal
Bebuhno Up or the Northern Rivers.—
Some idea of the strength required off dams,
{dess, bridges, wharves and other structures on
the Northern rivers may be gained by observ
ing the statement* of the soenes attending the
great spring loe-bro***. A dispatch from Bewis-
w, in Maine, aaya -
«any feet at one point in the W 8 Cy P ^
«b«jfdenee of tin wafer rihden. it BSrttJS
tiie jam will not break. The bridge over the
river here is unsafe, though still travelled.
Violins were Invented ia 1477.
Some Carious Facts about Santo
• Domingo.
The correspondents who accompanied the
Santo Domingo expedition tell ns some right
fanny things about what they saw andfound out
Curiously enough, the source considered, tbe
Tribune reporter informs us that if annexation
is carried and President Baez gets that $1,500,-
000 Grant wants to give him, most of it will go
to pay off his (Baez’s) office holders, who are
nearly all of them his kinsfolk 1 The array of
brothers, and brothers-in-law, and cousins, and
nephews set forth by the oorreqiondent reads
marvellously like a list wo haV6 seen printed in
this country of the Administration’s and the
Administration's wife’s relations. Possibly this
may account for Grant’s obstinaoy in clinging
to this project against the wish of his party. He
reasons, perhaps, that the country can’t have too
much of such a good thing as this comfortable
nepotism, and his heart goes out to Baez on the
principle that “a fellow feeling makes ns won
drous kind.”
The same correspondent in Us last letter-
printed in Saturday's Tribuna—says Ban to Do
mingo Is no plaoe for “adventurers, thieves or
rascals,” whioh strikes us as rather discouraging
for the Tribune’s friends. We certainly did not
expect to see such an emphatic protest against
Radical immigration in thatpuper, at least In
tha name of carpet-baggery where are the trooly
loll to go hereafter to become Governors, and
Congressmen, and Judges, and members of the
Legislatures ? The South is spewing them ont
slowly bnt surely, and most of them can’t make
a living at the North outside the penitentiary,
so what is to beeome of them if they don’t flock
over to Domingo and fleece end bamboozle the
negroes? Tire Tribune must lake that declare-*,
tion back. ^, . ,
Pres* Convention.
A letter to the senior, from Mr. E. -B. Gray,
of Augusta, encloses a programme of the Hor
ticultural Exhibition of the Cotton States Me-
cbanica’ and Agricultural Fair Association, to be
held In Augusta, Georgia, du Wednesday and
Thursday, May 10th and lltk, 1871, and sug
gests “tbe unusual opportunity that rb?« occa
sion will furnish for entertaining the Press
Association.” Hdadds: “Our Association Will
do all in its power to contribute to the enter,
t&inment of the membeM of the Convention,
shpold you see fit to ohoooe the time suggested,
aid Augusta the placet”
The list, so far, shows a decided preponder
ance of choice for Augusta, but tt is not full, by
any means. Many of oar contemporaries neg
lect or decline to vote. It so happens that the
time of the semi-annual meeting of the Georgia
Press Association assigned by the Constitution,
is the 2d Wednesday In -My, Vphieh will lee tbe
first day of the Augusta Fair. The Press can,
therefore, avail itself of this kindly and cordial
invitation of Mr. Secretary Gray end Us Asso-
eietion, toould Augusta b* selected. Bet the
brotherhood hurry up their votes.
No great man bad a fashionable mother.
Sharp measures.
According to the Washington correspondent
, of the Baltimore Gazette, Mr. Senator Lewis,
of Yirginia, delivered a speech in the Senato
rial caucus last week, in which ho warned his
Radical brethren that “if something was not at
once done,” and that “something” decisive, there
“would be no Republican party in the South at
all—black or white.” This touches the very
marrow of the grave question at issue. The
people of that down-trodden section without
gard to race or color, must be bayoneted into
the support of the Radical cause, or all must
be lost
Lewis and the Baltimore Gazette are both
right “Something must be done,” and should
the Senate do that something proposed, itris
bound to make matters a great deal worse. The
more the government undertakes to legislate
the people into supporting radicalism, the less
of it they will do. This governmental machine
was devised on the idea of carring out the pop
ular will, and not repressing and controlling it.
Therefore, it is as ill-adapted to the business of
compelling people to support an administration
as a hajrrow is tp plowing or a hoe to mauling
rails.
And yet in the whole of the last five years
have heard nothing from Congress but proscrip
tions, pains, penalties, enforcements, and sup
plemental acts of enforcement. Congress started
ont to revolutionize tbe South by means of
negro votes, and, vexed with tho total miscar
riage of an utterly foolish and impracticable
idea, they have resorted to every legislative
device and contrivance to hold the Southern
people down while the negroes should trample
on them. It would be no surprising thing if,
wherever Congress has achieved any degree of
success in this business, a spirit of resistance
should have been excited among the people.
We undertake to say there are no spots on the
American continent where a majority of igno
rant and domineering negroes can trample on
the white people with impunity.
The Radicals in Congress who are making all
this Ku-klux fuss, know very well that if they
had created or could create in any part of the
North, theinsolent and lawless negro supremacy
which exists in some parts of the South, the
Northern people would make a case of the ne
groes in ten minutes. But having,-in pursuit
of their measures to repress and humiliate the
Southern people for the purpose of outvoting
them through the negroes, succeeded in pro
ducing disorderinsome parts of the South, they
are now trying to turn the existence of this dis
order to account as an excuse for the adoption
of still more violent repressive measures. This
is the “something” that Lewis wants done to
save the Black-Republican party. But the day
of this cruel folly is over. The Sonth sees day
light ahead. The sun is rising, and order, liber
ty, and security will follow—not more Ku-klux
legislation—but the re-establisement of consti
tutional principles and usages.
“Diplomacy Extraordinary.”
Under this head the New York Tribune prints
a letter from Rear Admiral Poor, of the United
States Navy, to President Saget, of the Republic
of Hayti, in which Saget is notified, nnder in
structions from President Grant, in words fol
lowing, to-wit:
That negotiations are now pending between
tbe United States Government and the Govern
ment of Santo Domingo, and that daring such
negotiations the United States Government is
determined to use all its power to prevent any
meddling on the part of Hayti or any other
power with the'Dominican Government. There
fore, any interference with, or attack on the
Dominicans by ships nnder the Haytien flag, or
any other flag, daring the said negotiations will
be considered an aet of hostility to the United
States flag, and will provoke hostilities in return.
Following this notification are a number of let
ters from the negro Bassett, U. 8. Minister to
Hayti, and U. S. Consul Gautier, with a reply
and protest by Rameau Hayten, Secretary of
State, and an indignant remonstrance by the
Port-au-Prince CiviUsateor, against tho insult
ing menace, and the scheme of the American
Government to annex Domingo in violation of
the public will of that enlightened country. Tbe
Tribune calls this “Diplomacy Extraordinary 1
He don’t say wherein it is extraordinary. If
the Tribune dared to say why, it wonld be
compelled to say that herein Giant has clearly
usurped the war making power—committing
himself and the country by menaces upon mat
ters in which neither have any legal concern to
a course of conduct, which makes war contin
gent entirely upon acts of Saget which have no
legal or proper reference to the United States,
and which Saget has a right to perform without
reference to this country. Truly, this San Do*
mingo project unfolds increasing miracles every
day. • ~— .
Adjournment of Congress.
The resolution to adjourn Bine die to-day
failed in the Senate yesterday by 23 to 30—
which is said to indicate the strength of the
party in that body in favor of passing a Ku-
klux bill. If the Senate cannot do better than
that, there is no chanae at all in the House to
get such a bill through. The Senate cannot
fail to see the case is hopeless, and hence, we
suppose, it is a mere makeshift to hold Congress
ia session sill the Domingoes report and then
try the feres of party drill, and all the other ex
pedients at command, to get an annexation
measure through. As to the Kuklox bill, we
are glad to see a great and growing opposition
to it among the Radicals themselves. They are
beginning to see the dangerous and suicidal
character of all this oppressive and tyrannical
legislation, and to disoover that it will more
certainly accomplish the annihilation of any so
called Repnblioan party in the South, than any
evils it is proposed as a remedy. On tbe
whole, we expect to see tbe Senate concurring
in a joint resolution to adjourn in a very short
time.
DEFACITISO KE VENUE COEEECTOKS
Twenty Millloiui of tbe People’s Honey
Clone.
The Savannah Republican’s Washington cor
respondent, “Druid,” under date of March 17,
famishes that paper with some startling foots in
connection with the peculations and malfea
sances of certain of that class of the trooly loil
who have been running the Internal revenue
maobine since the war. It appears from a list
furnished the House of Representatives on May
3d, 18T0, by Secretary Boutwell, that there
were at that date, three hundred and twenty of
these defaulters, with balanoes charged against
them varying to amount from $1,000 to $1,600,-
000, ahd that out of this number only thirty bad
ever been sued on their bond. The total
•mount of thede defalcations foots up the enor
mous iom of twenty million dollars. The cor
respondent g£ves a list of these defaulters and
the amount charged against them, and in that
list we find Georgia credited as follows :
Alexander H. Wilson $42,893 46
J.~C. MoBnrney...,.., *.,*■; $0,761 61
William D. Bard........ ..‘ 94,340 45
Needham L. A&gier..i. 6,938 87
The Faria Insurrection,
In the light of the dispatches yesterday, had
ffretty nearly or quite assumed the form of an
aeoomplished revolution, and to-day’s morning
disp&tohes report no change. The Thiers gov
ernment has, In all probability, gone under, and
the mob are talking fieroely about running it
ont of Versailles. There is talk among them of
creating Faidherbe Dictator. Meanwhile, the
Germans, it is stated, will decline to interfere,
and the Emperor Napoleon feels quite sure that
the French people will reinstate him on the
throne. The centre of Paris' is reported quiet;
but the whole city Is in danger of pillage. The
more violent the revolutionary phrenzy the
qoioAr, perhaps, will it be over. .
Times and Planter:
Sparta Enterprise.—It is certainly a thing
worthy of note, that Sparta can boast more in
venting and manufacturing enterprise than
most places of its size in tho country. The
originator and manufacturer of a well known
guano compound, (Pendleton’s) is an old resi*
dent of Sparta. Then there is a guano distrib
uter, (Stedman’s) whoso inventor and patentee
hails Sparta as his headquarters. A great num
ber of the “Dickson. Sweeps,” too, are manu
factured here, and shipped to various parts of
the country. Last and sweetest of all, is
“Vowles’ Cologne,” whioh is manufactured by
Birdsong & Co., druggists of this place. Aside
from having the largest nowspaper in the State,
, old Hancock is some on enterprise. ‘
A shooting affray occurred at Bowen’s gro
cery on Broad street, on Saturday evening last,
between a Mr. Landham and Dennis. From
the investigation before the Commissioners, it
appears that Dennis had made some threats,
and was following up Landham when the latter
fired at him twice. Dennis drew a pistol but
was arrested before he could use it. A warrant
has been issued against Dennis, and the case
will ba»carried to the Superior Court for trial.
Farming.—Our planters have begun to plant
corn very generally, and from present indica
tions, we think a large amount will be planted
during the present season.
Oat Crop, though quite young is very fine
and muoh larger than wo‘expected to see plant
ed. We are glad to notice that our farmers
have sown so muoh grain.
Oun principal visitors daring the past week
have been Charleston, Baltimore and New York
drummers. We don’t know the extent of their
sales here, but it is our opinion they drammed
Sparta with a “fisherman’s luck.”. We would
advise the drummers to bring a supply of fish-
nooks, for our opinion is that these will be the
leading articles of merchandise for the spring
and summer trade.
Mr. John B. Peck, formerly Master of Trans
portation on tho State Road, has been appointed
General Passenger Agent for the Selma, Rome
and Dalton Road.
Up to date, says the Constitution, of yester
day, Treasurer Angier has paid $275,000 of
State Road debts.
Drs. S.’ H. Stout and John M. Johnson, of
Atlanta, were thrown from a buggy on Monday,
and tho former severely injured, having his
shoulder bone broken.
A fire in Atlanta, Monday morning, on Ma
rietta street, destroyed three buildings occu
pied by R. A. Wyly, John Weaver, and Mays &
Brother. Loss about $5,000.
The Atlanta Sud, of yesterday, says:
A man who killed another in 1866 on Niofca-
jack creek in Cobb county, fled to Texas, and
remained until recently, when he voluntarily
returned and surrendered himself into the cus
tody of the Sheriff. He went np on the ears
from Smyrna to Marietta yesterday, to stand
his trial for the offence. His name is Pope.
Columbus Hughes, an architect well known
in Atlanta and Athens, died on the 2d instant,
at Lo3 Angelos, California.
William Davis, conductor on the State Road,
had a foot and ankle so severely injured near
Dalton, Monday, as to make amputation of his
leg necessary.
McLaughlin, tho defaulting money order
clerk in the Atlanta postoffice, had a true bill
found against him in tbe United States District
Coart at Atlanta, Monday.
The Air Line Railroad is finished to Boford,
16 miles from Gainesville, and ears are running
to that point. Grading will be finished to the
latter point in about three weeks.
The Gainesville Eagle says wheat ip doing
well in that section, and a good crop is antici
pated.
We quote as follows from the Albany News of
yesterday.
A Smart. Hurricane.—The storm fiend passed
over this locality on Friday morning last at an
early hour, and with the tip end of one of its
wings swooped at the possessions of Mr. Leon
ard Welch, twelve miles east of the city. It
struck the settlement and in its momentary foxy
demolished a small framed building, lifted a
beaver one from its mourings several feet, un
roofed three houses—including the gin honae,
scattered fences hither and yan and made an
avonne about one hundred yards in width
through the pine forest. Nobody hurt.
Brunswick and Arrant Railroad.—We are
pleased to learn that fifty-seven miles of the
division of this road between this city and Eu-
faula, passed to contractors last week, and that
the work will be oommenoed as soon as forces
can be organized. Capti Burchaell and Mr.
Evans, with a fall corps, will commence the lo
cation to-day or to-morrow, and proceed indus
triously till the other end is reached.
The work east of this is progressing rapidly,
and with a constantly increasing force, there
is no reason for prolonging its completion to the
Flint beyond tbe 4th of Jmy.
Jas. Woodall fell dead at the depot of the
Milledgevillo and Eatonton Railroad at Mill-
edgeville, Monday morning, while loading some
Inmber. Heart disease.
Says the Southern Recorder, of Tuesday:
With the completion of the new road comes
rivalry between Macon and Augusta, as to
which shall secure tho trade of Baldwin, Han
cock and the adjoining counties. Previously,
the facilities were in the direction of Augusta,
bnt now Macon is placed on preolsely an equal
footing with her sister city, and seems deter
mined not to yield the palm, as may be inferred
from tbe warlike display of “Macon advertise
ments” that she presents.
The store house and a large stock of goods
belonging to Neil McLeod, at No. 9£, Central
Railroad, was burned a few nights ago.
The loss by tbe fire, Saturday night, in Har
rison & Co.’s auction rooms, at Columbus, is es
timated at $15,000.
We quote as follows from the Chronicle and
Sentinel of Tuesday:
School Tax.—We learn that the members of
the Board of Eduoation propose to levy a tax of
thirty-four thousand dollars upon the taxable
property of Richmond county-—nnder the pro
visions of the school bill—for the support of
the publio schools of the county. This tax is for
two years and is at the rate of seventeen thous
and dollars per annum. There is now no mon
ey which can be used by the Board, and the
idea is to oollect two years tax at once, so as to
get a surplus on hand. The tax ia to be order
ed collected next December. Tbe number of
white and colored pupils in the city schools, ex
ceeds 1,000.
A letter for J. E. Blaekshire, Macon, is held
for postage in the Savannah postoffice.
The Spring fights have opened in Savannah.
Two of the demi mondehad a regular scrim
mage in the street Monday afternoon. One
waterfall, was mortally wounded, and various
garments left for dead on the field. '
We find these items in the Savannah Adver
tiser of Tuesday:
Sudden Death.—Mr. George Causse, well and
faf orably known as the former deputy jailor of
Chatham county, but more recently as a oounty
constable, died saddenly at hi* residence in
Cunytown, yesterday morning, of apoplexy.
The deceased had been enjoying good health
until within the past few days.
The PosTomoE.—Cyrus K. Osgood, the new
postmaster, relieved Clift yesterday, and en
tered upon the duties of the office. J. T. Wil
bur has been appointed deputy in plaoe of Isaac
Seely, who will have to take a book seat In the
clerical department, Clift. Jr., will be supplant
ed by Geo. B. Welsh and one of the amend
ments by a party from the up-oountry.
The effect of this fine growing weather is il
lustrated at Augusta, by men trying, to throw
each other into the river.
Angusta wants toJknow if “we have a ghost
among us ?”, It takes the form of a grave-dig
ger, and in the dead hours of the night enters a
gentleman’s flower garden and digs a hole six
or seven feet deep. If the gentleman was
trooly loil, we should call Greeley’s attention to
it as a K. K. sign.
It took Judge Schley, the Sheriff of Chatham
county, and four or five deputies to pnt the
newly elected County Treasurer, Williamson, in
office the other day,—the trooly loil leech whom
ho defeated stuck so fast
An engine ran off the Georgia Railroad near
Union Point, Tuesday, and the engineer, Wfc
Iiam Oakis, was instantly killed.
Mrs. Robert O. MoGough, who lived a few
Washington, March 21.—The latest news
roe county, but it is not at all certain that the 1 from Paris states that the mob was, crying
«-to.-#, s™»>0b. K
planted this year to give them employment neat I jj er jjq. -^ould be appointed Dictator. The
fall. oentre of Paris remains tranquil. Napo-
Four negroes who were committed to Forsyth j leon is represented as confident of an early re-
jail for setting firo to several bales of cotton be-1 France by the people. No further out-
' the Assembly at Yorsailles votM 7
proposal for the election of B man?,: D , a
and express the hope that the \v pal conS,'
will prevent further confliot tillT‘“ naI oS
ion of the Assembly. 1119 final & J
j Washington, March 23.—The ft, -
the resolution to adjourn bv n oi ate htfci
shows the strength of the Ku-Klnr i 23, $4
[ in toe Senate. kgjty?
House.—Nothing done.
^Washington, March 22,-Nomm^
0t Nevada Oit ^ ftV0 I S’ia^ 0 ^ser,°PMt 0 mMtemfe a ?^
‘•SMSftSHouse — SiSSk** B " ! “.
ment to toe committee of inquiry forbidding I ■,— — m.. - — ^
| the committee to report, except to the next or a
longing to Major B. O. Banks, of Monroe coun
ty, about ten days since, got tired last Tuesday,
and walked out.
The Rome Commercial tells the following: 1 “ ent *° tne coinmiMee ot mqpury loraiacung i Senate.—The case of BIodcMt
7— „ -d . . - the oommittee to report, except to the next ora thwaite wfh discncoos gouged ana c-i.
i nothing.
Memphis. March 21.—Trains are running on I
a bill regarding the South. ” lu tfc
Morton wanted the commitleetore
would necessitate his absence from home for
three or four days. He leftrand she tod the . ^ ^ roadg- The damagea have been tempo-1 e ffTcT'wheTD'^blv‘the^ etore P 9 «toa,
March 21-Nominations: Cor- W “h^cferiS"'the
sasssL I Jamea Bulger> I JS^SSffsasas
attempting in vara to force her to tell the main
of the money, they °^ er ®? J 1 ?*, -I, 6 !Tho Tennessee has arrived at Key West. j ntd^Anthonv’^ resolution 'it
some supper. While she was busying herself I TfaQ Sou th Carolina delegation called on the 8 luUo11 waa rk
with this forced task she achieved the idea o r Fre8ident in answering the question how long Resolved That the Sannin ™
themoney andher husband^ honor. She deftly £ t t ^ P e S a 5''de5tS’w“ridS <! Sta S a P^sent’session no other legblauS^
slipped some arsnio in the coffee she was mix- .. President said thev should remain than defi ® te “°y.- appropriation bill thf*?
inf They drank SS^toSSSSa Senate «h Ste ggLgltttf* ■***
afterwards. She stripped their disguises off I, * investigation into the condition of iu
and found that two of the villains were stran- “ „ amendment to the In- kte lT insurrection, and the rcsoWT?
gers, but the third was her husband, who had afaXStotoj So Shfi
taken this means of stealing the taxes of the h h it was informally laid over 1° ' 6 P°^? bl ]} or blU3 t5i at -will —iff
A Protest fromMussuclmsetts-Com- Hous£.-Hibbard, Bell, and S n -
ww !SSS e B K .ni?75JESsa; , ‘ s 2SS£ 52ft g-
Thu Bouton Ad.. rtil ur uttouh. Butte* pn,
posed Ku-klux bill and aB similar legislation 0 nt action the Senate adjonmed. and
almost as fiercely as the New York Post, from House.—Nothing done in the House. j ws j mn i v ridiculous and
which we quoted yesterday. As one of the most proclamation signed by Louis Blano, Victor had never felt, from the day^of ^his a V
trusted and influential exponents of Massachu- tht
setts Radicalism, its recoil from this last wick- the National Guards elect chiefs, and the orea- JPVp***
edness of its party shows that the leaders of tion of a municipal council by the suffrages of ptesen ^ X P de P ire,-and intend to^bevtt!^
that party can no longer rely upon unanimity Mimtizens. „ of my country, and: to do all in wW?
or anything like it, inside that organization, in da yffts ofiS jounl^he^de^The Official P ro9 P erit L ^ glory. '*
their further devilish crusade upon the white journal of the Republican Federation.” It an- Edwards, Democrat, from Arkansas, n
people of the South. If appearances are not nounces the Committee will abdicate power I Eaui _ a _j^ HiACootrfr,
utterly unreliable the policyofthe eternal ^e^atlo^ctos^theXes pf the Figaro P^ent, Bitting for the trial of TV. TV.Si
batatas 13 about to be repudiated. Says the Gaffiois. They now possess the whole city.
Advertiser: The tradespeople of Versailles are discontent- fnl F A e ^“ en P r r £ensi
There can be no better argument against the ed and impatient for the decision of tho Na- JgS vote bein^requLd lo Sfe
Ku-klux bill, an abstract of whioh is printed tion Assembly. . ZbeM nS - On 1st a^cle
elsewhere, than a mere statement of its provis- New Orleans, March 21.-The damage to £&
of the United States.' The real object of tbe
bill is undoubtedly to asaiaf the Republicans in
maintaining or regaining their power in the
Southern States. It will certainly fail in this.
The “enforcement act,” as it is called, has irri
tated and alienated more Republicans at the
North than it has secured in their rights in the
South. It has proved to be not only of dotibt-
ment for the prosecution to-day. The vote will
be taken to-morrow- The Convention bill failed
in vain to obtain a two-thirds vote, failing by a
vote of 72 to 43.
order was then passed removing Got. HoEa
faom office and disqualifying him from hois
any office of honor or profit in tha Slate, la
| this order the vote stood ayes 36, nays 13.
Paris, March 21.—Chausey is a prisoner of J All the Senators were present except ax
the insurgents. The sentence of death passed I The completion of the Senate shows 36 Coast.
,, „ „„ J on him was deferred. Lasante was shamefully vatives and 14 Republicans. OneEepabSaa
ful constitutionality but ineffectual and much beaten by the revolutionists. The National was absent. Mr. Flythe, of Northampioa
m Assembly met yesterday, but little business^was Montgomery, March 22.—Tha Soutta
hv AkMniw transacted. The populace is terribly excited BaptistEduoationalConventionmeetsatMsBa,
over the absence k one hundred a£d twenty Aim, April 12th. Distinguished spring
his wav to a mn«anpMdn hnlL^nhfn “6 mlj ers. Yinoy, with twenty thousand troops, I gaged in the schools and colleges throned
arf offence ia entrusted with the suppression of the insml tire South, are requested to senddelega^
toe°5r$1000 it SK* bnfc »*■ • I* , Wirria™, pa., March 22-Lloyd 3*
would subiect a bov who aid* a sistol from a 1 Tiuers positively orders Yinoy to suppres nots, ton, colored, was hanged here to-day.
tit ildes are leaving Paris. Bouher, who was ar
rested at Bologny by order of the Versailles
Government, was brutally treated by the mob.
FreBh barricades have-been erected. Chausey, .. „ . _
is in the hospital from maltreatment. General I cloudy and clearing up weather and brisk nordt-
Cremer is spoken of for Commander of the Na- I wost winds. The pressure has bnt slightly it
fife years’ imprisonment Besides these sever
ities of sentence, it takes away from the State
Courts nearly their criminal business,
and gives marshals the power to call ont troops,
which may become in the highest degree dan
gerous. Under it any laborer who applies for
War Dep’t, Oitice Chief Signal Office
Washington, D. O. March 22,1871.
The low pressure Tuesday evening on tbe
coast of Maine has continued to prevail, wilh
employment to any en^qM^arfiifferent poll- ^ Guards, who will creased in tl*eEastern and Middle State,d
tics, and imagines that poEtScar reasons have S and pro venti^aai^: approaches to £ ^ * f M u aIso the cl3S00lh)
something to do with the refusal, may send the [ I Golf coait. Clear weather has generally^
employer to jail, and obtain damages for the |
failure to get employment.
Paris and prevent invasion.
Latest.—The Insurgent government annonnoe
that they will arm the forts and insure the de-
^7 f °r the return of the Assembly to Paris. If
toe applicant because toe latter did not vote for th | retnm they shall have liberty of action
himself, the workman has a cause of action r .r iy, >r , , ™,
agaZthim, and may, «Kh toe ^stance of a S*^** 0 " NationaI Qnarfs ™ rch « r -
judge of the same way of thinking, send him to I versaules -
prison for five years. Certainly nothing more I Versailles, Maroh 21.—Twenty thousand
vailed in the Southern and Gulf States, beta
now followed by cloudy weather. The ilea
centre indicated Tuesday evening west of da
Mississippi River, is now in Central Mu
and Illinois, with brisk northeasterly winds*
Lake Michigan, brisk northerly in Ion, nd
brisk south and southwesterly in the OiioYil
ley. Its influence is shown in fresh wnbalj
winds on toe Gnlf and freahnortheastly onldi
need be said to show the iniquity of toe details troops are in toe neighborhood of the Assembly j Superior. Probabilities: It is probable U
Chamber. The Assembly -mil appoint a com-(the area of the lowest barometer will moieta
The inevitable result .of its passage would be mittee on toe condition of France and toe no- J the northeast with high winds on the Ms;
a continuance of toe dUtytaik In toe South, and cessity of placing toe departments of the Seine J cloudy and threatening weather in the Middle
a sorions defection of Republicans In tee North, and Seine-et Oise in a state of seige. [ and Atlantic States. Fresh winds «
Theoretically thegeneral Government is strong- London, Maroh 21.—Ten of toe council of probable on the Gulf and South Atlantio cort
er than toe Government of any State. For Rouen voted an address to toe Government de- p im March 21.—The Insurrectionary Ca
practical purposes in putting down local dis- ploring the insurrection in Paris and urging trai Committee will respect tha conditiowi
turbances the State Government Is infinitely prompt measures, offering their support. Sim- peace but consider that toe bulk of tha ind®
preferable. OJe preliminary action of the liar addresses are made by private citizens. It Sty should fall on the authors of tha war. Ik
House shows that neither this bill nor any one is hoped the addresses will have a good effect situations of Mont Matre and Belleville ue®
resembhngit can pass. It wouldbe well for upon the working classes. changed. Business labor has been stopped 1*
the country and for the Republican party, Parties to make a treaty between Franco and frequent night alarms. The .demonstrationo.'
which toe promoters of this bill profess to have Prussia have arrived at Brussels. The Govern- f thefriends of order to-day proceeded ton*
so muchat heart, if toe efforts to pass a Ku-klux ment at Versailles has addressed a reassuring headquarters. The insurgents found bayonet*
LSff 1 M e S^ d0ned ’ > HE fogy** informing them barring the way. Angry altercation ensued, vte
gross make all haste to adjourn. | that the situation in Pans is no worse than crim-1 the orderlies retiredf
inalities. The revolution is unanimously dis-, Versailles, March 21.—The insurgent! kii
avowed. Chausey and other officers are still G en- chausey and Admiral Soissit as hostage*
v - ’ ’ - * — - - - MHmo
The Future of Cotton. _ UBUt ^
Upon toft interesting point we quote toe sub- ^7 1110 insurgents, but hopes of their early I an d shoot Chausey if attacked. —
joined editorial from the New York Commer- ^
cial and Fraanoial Chronicle, of last Friday: eminent promises a speedy intervention by the London March22i—The report thataFreal
Prospects.—With a crop this year of four army now before Versailles, and concludes with I transport into 3000 prisoners was lost with d
million bales and over it aaay be of interest to I assurances that the greater part of toe country J on board is regarded as absurd, and ia p«-
be reminded, before complying our planting I is calm. I ttally contradicted.
for another season, at what point we are likely I The meeting of Paris editors declared the Berlin March 22.—Bismarok ha3 been*
to begin the next crop year. This is toe more convocation of electors to-morrow null, and vated to the rank of Prince of the GerminEo-
important as some appear to think that toe public opinion is decided against the committee j p i re Moltke has the grand oross of order of
price at whioh next year’s crop is to be market- that ordered it. The oommittee is implicated I the Iron Cross,
ed (if it reaohes 4,000,000 bales) will not be So in illegal and criminal acts, and now is the time I Versailles, March 22.—Thiers anm
low as we have, in previous reports, indicated, for toe National Guard of Paris to come for- that the Government would not declare«
As to consumption we must remember that I ward and put an end to the deplorable state of aeainat the insurgents unless instructed ty* 1 *
Great Britain is now running at about its pres- affairs. Assembly 8
ent maximum capacity, and it would take seve- Later.—Tbe indignities upon Chausey and Paris. March 22 —The National Guar®
ral months to increase to njr Mtattt the number the many arbitrary arrests aroused general in- f search all trains Thev hold all fortified#
of its Bpindles. Low prices for cotton and pay- dignation. The Government at Versailles has | we „t 0 f Paris. * 3 .
ing prices for goods will, without doubt, gradu-1 resolved promptly to restore.order. J Berlin March 22 —The Empetor deth*#
ally enlarge its manufacturing power, but this Berlin, March 21.—The German Parliament his speech from the marble thorne of C1»m-
enlargement must necessarily be of slow growth, .was opened to-day by Emperor WiUiam, who I maC ne brought from AochenAix la CtapelM
According to toe best authorities, Great Britain in person delivered a speech from toe throne, j the purpose
is now consuming five thousand bales per week I The Emperor said: “When I see the German Ghstenne. Much 22 —At the
more than toe averag&Ju 18G9-70, and we would | RIechaUg for the first time after the glorious which met here yesterday, four ladies 00
therefore (allowing for any increased manufac- struggle whioh Germany has so victoriously the jury An Indian was found guilty “
taring power) place her increased takings for prosecuted for independence, Tam impelled first der and sentenced to be hanged. ■ „
toe year, as a maximum, at 323,000 bales more to give thanks to God for toe historic successes J Versailles. March 22 via London, 5:30
than last year. As to toe continent, we cannot, I with which he has blessed toe faithful unity of I Thiers sent another circular to the Prefect 1 «
in view of the disorganized state of labor and of Gtennan allies, the heroism and disoiplineof tha Deoartmente. informing theta that
toe manufacturing distriots of France and Ger- armies, and toe devotion of toepeople. We haw oeived bv the Government from all tbe P»i-
many, count on any considerable increase, while what our forefathers struggled for—toe unity of i n06g are reassuring- that attempts to create fl
our own consumption, by twaftb of pur want of Germanyandtheseourity of her frontiers. Our orders everywhere failed. In Paris the cit^
water the early part of tin fl&taoo, will not be convictions of future unity were veiled, but toe are organiztog for the suppression of the
muoh, if, any, in excess of 1869-70. Allowing ever-present enthusiasm .of toe people rent toe lutionf Animat now numbering
then the largest possible increase for the contU veil. When the fatherland was threatened, the {nrotecta the Government and Assembly »t >"
nent and this country toe remainder of toe sea- nation unanimously rose in her defenoe, and aailles whioh are ranidlr bscommR master
son, we see that 450,000 bales is probably the traced its firm willjn indelible characters on the events A nroolamation is about tsw 1 ®:
very utmost toe spindles of toe world can use battle-fields of France, to be united people. warning toe insurgents to lay down thaw
during this Crop year more than during the pre- The Paris correspondent of the Times tele- Lvons Marseilles and Bordeaux, where “7
vious year. I graphs that many person* were shot without a } troubles were anticipated, remain
As to toe prospects of supply from other] trial on Sunday. The National* will shoot These official renresentations cannot beaow
countries they aU appear to be quite favorable, Thiers, Yinoy and D’Anreiles if captured. A The Government is hourly growing swa
the only doubt that there will be a large increase strong reaction has commenced among the re- j backed bv the Assembly and support® 1 %^
brought to market from these sources arising speetable inhabitants, and consequently tbe 1 ooontrv with a majority of toe oifizenf ol /7r
ont of toe question whether the low prices will Committee are seeking to have Admiral Soisset reallv in its favor and surrounded byjrT
not check tho movement Cotton, in excess of command toe National Guard. Versailles re- atantly ;•**«*••;-* army- X*is already
last season, has been raised almost everywhere, semblea-a ‘camp of the prisoners of Meta and ble and begins to inspire wholesome
Egypt is fulfilling her early promises of an en- Sedan offering their servioes to toe Govern- cower New Prefects have been app° mte4 w
larged yiold. India had ft<A|M§0ble surplus J meats. Napoleons route from Dover was an Schteen departments. „
leftover from last crop, and la Bamstiag a j ovation. I ji,, OsiauBTsiudi
better one. Brazil end other minor sources Washington, March 21.—The Democrats of I oam A PooWamillexploded to-day..
are not from present app^krarues likely to make this diatriot have nominated R. T. Mezriok as a f man was fetidly hart
any change in their contribution to toe total delegate. Foreign dispatches are voluminous i Savannah, March 22.— Arrived . .. cam
supply, while China has raised so much herself I and generally indicate a toning down of past I steamship Montgomery, New York.
she will want much less than heretofore from insurgents. f steamship Huntsville. Arrived to-day.
India. That these sre faois is now admitted 1 The proceedings of Congress indicate a final era Thomas and Charlotte, Charleston,
on all sides. There is considerable doubt, how-1 adjournment on Monday. schooner Arctic,
ever, whom under the influence of present | PABia> Maroh 21 ._ The Insurrectionary offl- March 23.-AI a
resumed their trips and the Theatres are ooen. I tneir cunsaior’ai comae m g*
irom aU sources otoer than America will at least A proclamation signed by Gen. Duval ^nd Fenian orgadratic* in this oounW ^
• ‘daffimnly “PaT’ dem y an^» ffitou*ot “W* £***/&
of Paris withDeputy Mayors in *U toe f
equal last year’s supply.
The conclusion from these facta would appear I ^7^“’
to be that toe balance of bur present otod can I
■ ■ j cree further postpone* the maturity of oommer-1 Facts roa the Lames. W have *—■
Emigration from Gzbuavt.—Dr. ’
Berlin statistician, has
let, in which he trfefl 16 F
emigration from Germany will sssuifie this spring
and summer unusually large proportions. He 1 been instructed to follow the French Govern- j until it was worn too anort sot
predicts, e» fee oentngr, «*****] be sutaU- f! Mlg T 6nt ^ I^ve jnidf ^ i
—J nrfM i been made to protect EflgUXh U/e and property I aUtehed fiity-«i* doaeft ^hars,
in toe House of Commons that Lord Lyons had j like a charm,
been instructed to follow toe French Govern- j
I used one needle ft* 1 ,
«««'*» <■>») ,Tp“ i
leave toe emigrating (flasa generally too poor J tan o’otock to-night say it is tranquil. A placard
to emigrate at present • signed by the l&yors informs the citizens that
day* for fbv years.
Green Island,