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The Greor^ia, "Weekly Telegraph and. Journal & Messenp;er. Telegraph and Messenger. M1C0N, APRIL 4, 1871. Corn a Defter Crop iii the .South than in the North. Tha Mobile Register shows, at some length, that, taking prices into consideration, the com crop pays better in the South than in the North. The yield per acre is much smaller, but the value of the grain is much greater. The Char leston Conner applies this showing to the State of South Carolina, as follows: The report of the Commissioner of Agricul ture for 1S69, shows that the average yield of Tanght His Place—Another “.South ern Outrage. It is very refreshing to hear that that impn dent negro Radical agitator and incendiary, Fred Donglas, had a lesson tanght him the oth er day, that he will not be apt soon to forget.— , „ _ _ Paired np with the San Domingo appointment corn - P er 1 , ??’. 1 \ S ? utl1 darin S ^ at 18 , r . , „ . . ,? , ‘ : year was 11.6 bushels; and the average nrice thrust npon him by Grant, to the great disgust I a t whion it was sold §1 40 per btfshel. In Dli- and indignation of all tho decent people of the nois, the great com State of the Union, the country.and his unrestricted wining, and dining, average yield to the acre was 23 bushels, and and sleeping with the white commissioners dn- a y er ?2° price per bushel 57 cents, nng their voyage to and from, and their sojourn $1C j 0j and IUinoia $13 n> leaving a balance on that island, he seemed to have imagined that of $2 09 in favor of that State. The small yield he was really entitled to associate with white 1° the South is attributed a good deal to neg- people anywhere. Icct and had culture. Com is secondary always Accordingly, when tha Domingo party took *° col4on ’ the boat at Acqnia creek to proceed to Wash ington on their return to that city, and the gong sounded for dinner, he strutted pompously to- The average yield of com poracre in Georgia last year is put down by the same authority at 12.2. Com was worth in onr markets about an average of §1 25 and, wo suppose, cost $1 40 wards tho dining room with tho rest of his delivered on the p i antat ion, and probably more 1 ’nrtiool ncQAAietno nrtrl enrir*li4- nm.:_ I 4 * Radical associates, and sought admission. This was refused, and ho was gently told that folks of his color were not allowed to eat with white people on that boat. He swelled np like a tur key cock and pnt on no end of airs, bnt the officers of the boat were not to be bullied, and though his white comrades begged hard for him it was no go. They of coarse had to stand by him, and refused to dine nnless be was allowed to do so too. The resnlt was tho whole concern went dinnerless, and reached Washington nearly crazy with rage and hunger. It is said old Ben Wade swore so fearfully at being tbns cheated out of his rations, that the fish in the river flocked around the boat in such on the average. This would make the acre’s product of corn worth $17 08. Bat this is not tho whole story by any means. In Illinois they do not save fodder. They have abundance of grass and bay, and fodder is of no value even for fertilizing, on the bulk of the com lands. Bnt in Georgia the fodder is as valnable as the com, and is worth at least six or eight dollars to the acre. Say six dollars, and we, have $23 08 as the true value of the average Georgia acre of com, against the $13 11, which is re ported as the value of the Illinois acre. But let ns compare the Commissioner’s show ing of corn in Georgia with cotton in Georgia. , . . . lie says the average yield of cotton was 173 crowds to hear him ns nearly to impede its pro- pounda to the acre> and ^ is a high average _ gress. Such a broadside of blasphemy was daetoa favorable season-protracted falland never before hoard on that stream. Its echo heftvy fertilizing . Now> valuin that cotton Qn cached Washington in advance of tho boat’s planintion at t * elv0 cen(s a pound, the ro- arnval, and thus in formed Grant and Congress 8alt va3 S20 . 7C a and wo will estimate cf the approach of the Commission. The next tho cotton seed at ei ht dolIars _ showing 28 . 76 day the affair was, of course, telegraphed a 11 to thoacro . TMg wonld ma]l0 an of over loildom as another “Southern outrage,- 34.es in favor of the cotton-which would hard “1 I"" .S'™ 17 ». S ta pay to, ,h. «««, of labor «d or- more pro-1 penge re q n j red i n cultivating, gathering, gin- iushed to tho White House to ask tection for loyal men.” Dinner being over, however, and the tablo cleared away, Grant didn't even offer them any scraps, and they had to fall back on the free lunch barrooms to rally and recruit. ning and baling the cotton product. But it is the habit of all our good planters, when they lay by their com, to seed the land also with field peas, and the crop of these per core is easily worth about double tho excess of the cotton value—so that we might as well set down PainFul Revelations. The State of Massachusetts has kept in ope-1 an acre of field com and peas, yielding the ration for years a special constabulary force, twelve bushels of the. grain, to have been actu- oreatedon a high moral basis to enforce tho high I ally worth to the planter about $32.00, while moral legislation of tbe*Stato against tho ven- the cotton and the seed were worth only $28.76. ders of wines and ardent spirits—the shakers But will you say if all pitch into com, com of dice—the players of cards—the rollers of will come down below paying rates ? We reply billiard balls and marbles, and tho doers of with greater force that all have pitched into other enormities inconsistent with tho high cottoD, and cotton has come down below paying moral ideas of that commonwealth. Lately, rates. Everybody now talks about ten cents for -joandal has been busy with this high moral con- next year’s crop, and that will be about eight on stabnlary. They have been accused of the the plantation. But in the whole of the past taking of bribes. Yea, verily. And when the fifteen years com lias steadily borne a highly statute required that they should only smell cf remunerative price—from $1 to $3 a bushel inspected liquids in order to be certified of the Daring all that lime, to onr .certain knowledge, damnable nature thereof, it hath been charged wo have been importing com largely from the by the profane that they have even tasted of I West; and when we shall have increased our the same, and sometimes tasted continually to present product three-fold, the supply will even the point of enguzzlement and intoxication.— then be short of the necessities of the State. Wo Whereupon a legislative committee was pnt on I need enough not alone to feed man and working their trail, and has discovered that these vigi- stock, but to supply all our demands for animal iant guardians of the public morals have estab- food—to fatten our hogs, beeves, mutton and iished a regular fee bill with tho law breakers, I poultry, all which will return to the producer a and agree not to see a gambling-house, a liquor high price for more than three times the amount shop, or any other contraband establishment, of com and grain now produced in the State of for a free ran of the same and a monthly pay- Georgia. Why, then, shall we conclude that meat of $10. The constables have been making I because cotton is not likely to pay the cost of money and having a fine time, but the Legisla- production, onr agriculture must necessarily bo furo is very angry about it. Room for Cite Champion Liar. We find the following paragraph in the New York Tribune, of last Monday, where it appears under the head of “Southern Outrages tetimony of a new yobs merchant. One of the oldest merchants of New York, at present travelling in Georgia, partly oa busi- unprofitable ? Let cotton sink as it may, the acre of com will be worth as much as it was last year, and it was worth more than cotton then / CONDITION OF SOUTH CAKOMXA. [ Resnlt of Universal Negro Suffrage—An archy Impending-State Convention Pro posed. The Charleston Daily Republican, of Wednes- hoss and partly for pleasure^ writes from Savan-1 day, prints a long letter from Hon. C. G. Mem- nab, under date of 17th inst., a IeUer to a per- minger to Gov. Scott. Mr. Memminger was one aomri friend, from which the following is an ex- of tto gentlemen invited by Scott to confer with “One word about Ku-klnx. It is indescriba- bim 011 the rainons condition of that unhappy bly horrid. The Tribune’s worst stones are not State; bnt not being able to go to Columbia, more than half the troth. I sit right here in I Mr. Memminger submits his views in this letter, ^^ X ^ UV6 i,-? ha n ber n n ^ which is one of the saddest and most startling groes and whites (loyal) themselves the evi- . . . . ,. . . 8 denoe and testimony. The outrages by the dis- “ ocnmen8S ever P rm * ;e “ ia America. Raised bands exceed in cruelty the Comanche Speaking of the so-called Ku-klnx, Mr. Mem- 1 ndians, or even cannibals. Humanity sinks I minger says: ”® 4 There can be no difficulty in ascertaining the I raPwrHw ? g 5H 1 P IS 6711 ? cause of these combinations. It is undoubtedly We thnn II 8 . ^ n ° ™ LV« J the conviction that tho existing Government of We thought the champion Radical bar had tho state | 3 utterly corrupt; and that it has already made his appearance and had hi3 say failed in all the duties which are required at its long ago, bnt we were grievously mistaken. This I hands—that there is no adequate security for chap goes so many better over the most stu- l 14e -°f P ro P er ty> the taxes laid by the . . . . , . ... Legislature must eventuate in virtual confisca- pendous stake ever pnt np heretofore in the tioS of the entire income of the citizens. game of wilful, reckless falsehood by strolling jfe. m. then proceed3 to assign reasons why emissaries of tho I01I persuasion, and vagabond, I theso convictions are well founded. Among uebased scallawags, that he must take tho pot these are the admitted total corruption of the wit out dispute. Hereafter let all this tribe I Legislature, which has deranged, confased, and aide their head?. They can never hope to at- perverted every function of government, and tain the eminence in libel this man has achieved ended in a negro militia from which whites are at one bound. But the Tribune prints it, and excluded, and the practical substitution of this Uiousands will read and believe. It is intended, f orC e for law. The waste of the pnblio money, doubtless, for the Connecticut election next I resulting in taxation of the whites utterly in- Monday, and will probably have its effect. If supportable. The organization of the negroes there are any Ku-klux in Georgia they can give into secret leagues, fomenting .violence and ren- ample excuse for their organization and acts by dering them unapproachable by any appeals to pointing to this and kindred attrocious slander. I reason or patriotism. The law does not set forth any punishment com- The f nndamental cause of these evils is the mensurate with tho enormity of such a crime, violation of the great American aphorism that It is only in the court and code of Judge Lynch taxation without representation is tyranny. Ig- that such wickedness finds its appropriate trial and sentenoe. Citabt.es Gaeteb Lee, an elder brother of General Robert E. Lee, died at Windsor, his rosidenoe, in Powhatan county, Ya., on the 21st inst., in the seventy-third year of his age. Mr. Lse was almost as well known throughout Vir ginia as his distinguished brother, and Captain Sydney Smith Lee. To the society of thirty years ago thq deceased was perhaps even better known, in which his wit, literary attainments, and family connection, made him in Virginia, and in the brilliant circles of Washington, New York and Boston a leader and an ornament of unoommon attraction. An Unavailing Remonstbance.—The city of Metz, through her municipal government, pro tests against incorporation into Germany. They trace the history of the city and show that it is thoroughly French in every aspect. They say that their last census, in 1866, showed out of 47,242 inhabitants only 1741 were Germans, in cluding subjects of Austria. Poor Metz. It is of no use. Your protest is but the croak of the frog when the duck is in the act of swallowing him. . A Righteous Decision.—Tho Marine Court •of New York has decided that a sewing machine ■is not liable for debt. - The ground was, firet, that a sevnng machine is a necessary article of household fumitHre; second, that it is neces sary fo* the support of the family, thus placing it on the same footing with a surgeon’s instru ments and a carpenter’s tools. Fbank Blais's Lettkb.—Yesterday‘we over hoard tho following conversation: “What did yon think of Blair’s Letter in the Teleobaph this morning?” know «**t to think about it, when it is so clear from the letter that Blair didn t know what to think » bopt lt „ f „ Southern Green Peas and Stea-wbebbies.— Three hundred bushels of green peas and thirty quarts of strawberries were among the arrivals .n New-York from Charleston on Taesday last. nor&nce, vice, barbarism and poverty impose the taxes, mako the laws, expend the revenues, contribute nothing to support the government- pay not a cent of the taxes they impose and yet wield supreme power over life, liberty and prop erty. These evils, says Mr. M., must resnlt in anarchy or civil war unless some remedy is ap plied and that speedily. Tho remedy he suggests is a Constitutional Convention and the co-operation of Scott and all well disposed persons to secure such qualifi cations and restrictions of the suffrage as are imposed by Massachusetts. Without endorsing all of his letter, the Daily Republican, which is the Radical organ of Scott, endorses the proposition for a convention, which, if it fails to restrict the suffrage, might, says this paper, “easily correct many of onr evils and perchance reach the seat of the very worst of our diseases.” Speaking of the Legis lature that paper says: We should say that Mr. Memminger is right in his estimate of the Legislature. Although many of our evils have their origin outside that body, still we most admit that itis, in very fact, one of the great spawning-ponds of evils. As Mr. Memminger says, the character of this body mnst, therefore, be changed. And so, while Grant is marching his columns into South Carolina to rivet the chains of negro barbarism on that unhappy people, his own fac- tionists< in that State, concede that the govern ment imposed by the Radicals en the State is so fatally bad, that it must be fundamentally changed or universal anarchy and rain are in evitable. Such is the result of Radical recon struction and negro government in America. It secm3 to ns there mnst be a great, if not im possible change, or the white population must turn over tho State to rampant Congo, and let them work out their own destiny in it. “The Grand Confidence.”—A Connecticut correspondent of the New York Son has inter viewed Ex-Goveraor Jewell, Radical candidate against English for Governor. Jewell says un less the State is struck by lightning between be at English.^ M ° nday » ha 17111 cer ^y A Level Head. Speaking of the circular of CoL Styles an nouncing his intention to issue weekly until October, the Cartersville Semi-weekly Express well says: All oyer the country there seems to be an almost impatient eagerness on the part of tho press to issue semi-woeklies, tri-weeklies and dailies, in addition to the weekly itself. Whether it results from tho spirit of emulation md rival ry,-a desire not to bo outdone, or a love of writ ing editorials and publishing matter fox tho reader, or what not, of one thing we feel pretty well assured, that it is by no moans a paying business, if indeed it should not prove a losing ono. Unquestionably there is no business more «castcfulty conducted than the general ran of onr Georgia newspaper trade. There is im mense waste not only in tho number of editions, bnt in tho number of publications. And there is also large waste of paper in unprofitable ad vertising in theso editions. The ambition for the display of a large sheet not only wastes ex pensive material in unprofitable display, but redaces prices and profits on legitimate adver tising, by eager oanvassing and sharp competi tion to increase its volume. When newspapers have too largo a space to fill and mnst canvass actively for advertising, in order to divide and and reduce the loss on that space, they are at buyer’s mercy. And they increase the discomforts of their condition when, in the course of active compe tition for subscribers, they take names on credit to swell up a list which will justify a boast of “the largest circulation /”■—vain and expensive boast which, in these days, meets not the small est credulity. When, then, a paper begs advertisements in order to fill “the largest sheet," and then begs subscribers on credit in order to boast of “the largest circulation!” its miseries are well-nigh complete. Now, against this vain and wasteful policy, have the courage to out down your sheets to the smallest size compatible with your current profitable advertising, and admiring the usual amount of readmg matter which experience tells you your business will j ustify. Have the courage to stop editions of your paper which do not pay. Have the courage to demand cash from your patrons, and so avoid the loss of a host of small debts not worth the collecting. There is not one old newspaper publisher in the South who cannot show a fortune lost in bad debts, however poor ho may be. Have the courage to unite newspaper interests which are destroy ing each other. Save useless expenditnre in paper and type work. Increase tho mental ex penditure on the woTk and yon will add to the influence, usefulness, profit and comfort of the business. Pnt your papers resolutely on the cash system, and save the expense and tronble of earning your money twice, and the loss of not getting a large per centum of it, after alL The merchant who pays cash for his goods and sells on a credit, mnst go to rain in nine cases out of ten." The printer pays cash for every thing, and if he persists in selling on a credit, involving thousands of small scattered accounts, he will do little better. THE GEORGIA PRESS. We clip the following items from the lost Hawkinsville Dispatch: Fabm Wobk.—The recent hoavy rains have considerably retarded farming operations. The lowlands are overflowed and tho uplands will scarcely bear the weight of a plow. Farmers are becoming very impatient under the rapid advance of the season and their inability to proceed with the necessary work. Betteb than Cotton.—A Dooly county farmer came into Hawkinsville Monday evening with a four-mule wagon load of sweet potatoes, and, Wilkinson; A. B. Adams, Bibb; Daniel Gard ner, Richmond; James C. -Collins, Mitchell James R. Ellis, Miller, Dick Grant, the negro who killed Cheves Da vis last February, near Savannah, and for whose arrest $500 reward was offered by Gov. Bul lock, was captured and jailed last Wednesday, The Savannah Republican says: Railboad Accident. —The authorities of the Central railroad were notified yesterday morn ing by telegraph that a serious accident had happened at No. 5, caused by the running off the track of the engine and freight train, cans A Wicked Canard. We are inexpressibly gratified to announce, this morning, that the story published by us yesterday of the horrible outrage perpetrated on Adam Sekoh Friday nighi, is false in every particular. No snch occurrence took place, call, yesterday, from the supposed victim in person—whose name, by the way, turns out to be Hokes, instead of Sekoh—satisfies ns that we have been shamefully imposed npon. We do not envy the man who could thus deliberate ly, and in cold blood, play such a trick on an unsuspecting journalist and seeker after truth. He must, indeed, be a hardened wretch whom it were fnlsomo flattery to call a Tribune South ern correspondent. We may remark here, en passant, that Mr. Hokes is a stontish, well-to do looking person, with a very open counte nance and insinuating manners—the only thing especially noticeable about his personal appear ance being his way of wearing his hair. He parts it in the middle. P. S. Mr. H. requests ns to say, in response to the fears expressed by tho gentiemon of this city who took him in and so hospitably entertain ed him yesterday, that the announcement of his murder might enable the Radicals of Connec ticut to carry the eleorion there to-morrow—that he has made all his arrangements to prevent snch a catastrophe. He will proceed thither per balloon, early. this morning, and show himself at the polls all over that State during to-mor row, and thus contradict personally the story of his murder. We trust this assurance will have its desired soothing effect. Affairs In Paris. According to the night telegrams in onr last edition the insurgents would march oat and try conclusions with the Thiers government yester day, in anticipation of a similar movement from the Thiers government, backed by an auxiliary force of the Germans. H such strife as that must come, the sooner it is over the better. The spectacle presented to the world by the Paris in surgents is a scandal to Christendom—worse still, it is high treason to the human race. Every absolutist in Europe will gloat over it as another demonstration of the folly and imprac ticability of popular government; and the ex ample is well calculated to alarm every friend of order and every man who has anything to lose. And so it is. Most poor humanity be shut np to one of these two wretched alternatives ? Either to a deplorable anarchy and the reign of terror and mutnal destruction on the one hand, or, on the other, to be paokhouses to the gilded burden of Royalty—to supply its extravagrant wastes and dissipations from the hard earnings of daily toil, and to perish miserably in its idle qnarrels about the balance of power—its schemes of kingcraft and dynastic aggrandize ment ? To such a wretched dilemma do these guilty traitors to the right and capacity of man for self-government reduce the populations of Europe; and if we, in America, are not willing to be governed by the Constitution and laws of the States and of the United States, we shall complete the evidence. They have compelled France, after being conquered by Germany, to invoke the aid of her conquerors to restore or der and prevent anarchy and 8elf-desfraction. Can anything be more humiliating? And how fally event justifies the Napoleonio coup d'etat of 1852, and the whole domesrio policy of that sagacious man! Chabagteeistic.—The Radical organ at At lanta publishes, without comment, the mon strous falsehood quoted by us yesterday in the shape of an extraot from a private letter written by a New York merohant from Savannah, and appearing in the Tribnne of the 28th nit. The organ therefore makes itself responsible for at least a quasi endorsement of the atrocious ca lumnies therein contained, and in this attitude we hold it np for the soorn and reprobation of the people whom it so foully asperses. The ed itor of that paper knows that a baser, more un founded slander was never forged, bnt for par tisan purposes he sends it out with the stamp of his approval and endorsement 1 Bnt why did he not pnblish aU of it ? Why leave ont the words “Executive Chamber” in the sentenoe com mencing “I sit right here in the Executive Chamber,” etc,? Was this strolling liar really staffed at Atlanta with the falsehoods he vomits forth through the Tribune, and has his blabb ing as to the source of hi3 information necessi- tated this expurgation? Has the Atlanta “Slan der mill” commenced to grind vicariously ? Wo want to know. in a few minutes, sold them at seventy-five cents 1d 2 considerable damage to the property, eight _ onrca a bushel. Ho raised, last year, about two hun- baggage cars and the engine, but fortunately sonrca dred bushels on one acre, for which ho received I without any damage to life. The engine ran off one hundred and fifty dollars-paying nothing at what is technically termed the ‘*F<»k.” The for guano, and devoting less time to the culti- locomotive was precipitated off the track into vation of this one acre than he did to one acre and, our informant stated, was almost in cotton. Potatoes and sugar oano will beat otmed. Eight freight cars were wrecked, anything in this latitude. A postoffice has been established at Devereux The Last .Stake.—The horse carts and the Station, on the Macon and Augusta Railroad, one-ox teams, which usually denote the arrival w ith H. W. Bass, as Postmaster. Bays only ones who have any clear “rhino” left from WEAranx. Heavy ana continuous rains last year’s labors. Very few of them ever ask feU t h9re Wednesday, Wednesday night and for credit, knowing that their small business niost of yesterday. The mercury in the ther- does not favorably impress the merchant niometerwas several degrees higher yesterday Hence, at the end of the year, they are better ‘ han on , the day before. All apprehensions of a off than their rich neighbors. freeza have passed away, and, nnless a cold n. _ % - o , S nr o, . snap in April blasts our hopes, we may reason The barn of Col. S. M. Strong, four miles ab ly expect a fine fruit year. from Thomasville, was burred last Saturday The streams throughout this section of the night Ho thinks it “was merely an incident country are reported to be full and overflowing of Radical reconstruction”—which is a very their hanks, which will interfere materially with Mr, Joseph White, who lived near Ceutreville, especially on the Savannah river valley planta- Fla., fell off a train just starting from Thomas- tions. villo for Savannah last Monday night, and sev- I According to tho Constitutionalist, of Friday, oral oars passed over his head, killing him in- a gentleman while hunting lately in Colombia stantly. Ho was drunk. : county, discovered a large cave divided into two Tho Talbotton American says H. M. Turner I rooms, and in ono of them a lot of arrow head-, turned up there last Sunday, and after preach- hatchets and medals, evidently placed there by ing took up a collection of course, which netted Indians, “or a people antecedent to them.” enough to keep him from work at least a month. Our cotemporary ought to have kept back his Tumor is fixing np for a big loaf through the I story ono day. It would have been much more hot days of the coming summer. apropos for Saturday’s issue. Captain B. F. Mosoly, of Valdosta, formerly The lessees of the State Road have just paid of Eatonton, was thrown out of his bnggy last $25,000—the rent for March. Saturday and seriously injured. A lad named John Brown accidentally shot We find the following in tho Snmter Repub- I and killed himself with a pistol at Bowden, Car- lican, of Friday: roll county, last Wednesday. “Muedeb Will Out."—It has been elicited We clip as follows from the LaGrange Eeport- by tho preliminary investigation, just closed 6 r of Friday • Judge of tho 13th District Court, that one John on Fridav^ht 6 f R. Holsenback and ono James C. Lloyd, two ° i °/ white eitizensof that place, committed the mnr- JS 72? der. The causes which induced the deed on of an .incendiary, as no fire had been about the the part of theso men, are Said to have been the J * jealousy of the first and a personal grudge of los f £ about th9uaan d doUa «- M . the other * K b A Sad and Fatal Accident.—A little daugh- The accused having been committed to await ter ’ t ^ ree yea f °] a > ° f Mr - AndersonCrenshaw, final trial at the next Superior Court of Macon 4 -° .*? e . a l1 01 1 4bQ oC^ b ins4 -?i n ,f ar county, it is not regarded prudent and advisa- 8 ® ClU * “ 41113 coan4 y: 1738171111 J» er bio to anticipate at this time with the imperfect- father where he was burning off some grass, ly known details of the tragedy the develop- ^ hen ^ er cl ° tluD e to ° k fl 5f and sb ?.^edthe ments of that hearing. ^ I flame down her throat. But for this the burn The editor of the Dawson Joumal has had a Til0 frost kst week aeema to have besn gen _ call from “two intelligent and well-to-do farm- eral throughout the State, but no damage is re- ors from different portions of that county, who | portod> and lllQ fn ut. prospe ct is remarkably report tho amount of com planted this year greatly in excess of last year. They also report good stands of tho first planting. The recent heavy rains, wo fear, will cause much of the corn that had not oome up, to rot in the ground, as it fell in such torrents as to pack the earth.” promising. “What the Democratic Convention of 1872 may do we know not, and we do not now pro pose to discuss. Every State will be represent ed, and fairly represented. We trust, in ad vance, that what shall then bo done will be well Daring three days of this week, sevon negroes I done > with proper regard for the constitu* died in Augusta who were so po*or thaf the county had to bury them. | check discussion, we nrcdict than fhai-A mu Augusta is still one ahead. She now boasts of a man who took out the license for Bowen to perform one of his numerous matrimonial feats, and furthermore actually stood near him when he did it! Capt. John H. Niebling, for five years Captain of Washington Fire Company, at Augusta, has check discussion, we predict, than there was twenty and thirty years ago in the House and I Senate, whenever any sectional question was [ brought forward.”— 2V. Y. Express. The Southern delegates may then deem it in- | expedient to insist on any platform embodying their peculiar national grievances and demand any speoifio action as to the usurpations known Attacking toe Effect Instead of the ! For the Telegraph Editors Telegraph and Messenger : This error SIletcl1 of the Lite of E. ^ s is . is as injurious as it is common. Men occupying I n b. w. davis. " public positions are denounced in the severest Condensed from the MSS of th 0 “t,- manner. They are held np to public contempt. T . Georgia Justice a .'> Tea otthj Their rascality pointed out. Anathemas are Judge Nisbet was of English and c. • poured ont as so many viols of wrath upon their S9 ®nt. His father was a physician heads. Yet it does not reform them. If they ? Uy ®^noated in Philadelphia and t °^ essi0 5- havo been plundering the pnblio treasury, they f 79 ? 1 N°rtb Carolina to Georgia do not_“cease to do evil and learn to‘do good, He was a man of consideraM 4119 Tear bnt are rather stimulated to acts of greater ras- nence and represented Greene conn? ? tc 5i. cality. In a republic like ours sovereignty is General Assembly for a number of r in tts vested in the people, consequently all reforms l9lJ removed to Athens, for the ?? ara- t or changes for the better must spring from this educating his children, where La source. Purify the fountain and the stream will bu rmd. 14 atd also be pure, so likewise wh6n the majority of a ■*-“ 0 subject of this skotoh wa9born \ community is pnre their representative will be e°nnty. His mother, whose maiden lnGre «Ee of the same stamp. In r * 1 fiftnnBr 0 • - uea Eam * - a government liko ouis 1738 a native of Virgin;,, and 13 ?^ pnblio men are so many representatives of the 1183 n0309nt. When Eugenius A tone of pnblio sentiment in their particular ? e “ 8 of a S 9119 ^aa s ®nt to Powelton 1 , ^ neighborhoods. Whoever heard of a thief be- la Hancock county, at that time, Derhn ^ ing selected as a representative man from a com- 9* 1 " 9 - beft f cl10019 ln tie State,’■Rhprn i i S ’ °ta inanity when the greater portion of the people I *" te “ for e °nege. At fourteen he were upright and honest men? Do men sup- I bophomoro class in Columbia Uollenlo pose for a moment that Ben Butler would to-day then under 1the Presidency of Dr \r ® i represent tho State of Massachusetts if tho peo- Leaving Columbia the next year he fn , f pie there did not approve of and endorse his "L Bm ? 7 class * n Franklin College j outrageous conduct ? Butler, in his conduct, is Presidency of Dr. Waddell, and here 1m 1119 bnt carrying ont the wishes of his constitutents, ated in 1821, at the age of eighteen and should a man be denounced for this thing, 4119 nrst honors of his class. 3 “ lift for doing jn3t what he was elected for and in- . “ school young Nisbet was studiono - . struoted to do? In the primitive- days of the cial and genial. For the ono trait L-, S5 ' Repnblic John Adams was a trae representative vonte with his_ teachers; for the other „ ? fa ‘ man of the same State which Butler to-day salty beloved by bis fellow-students ’ t? UTet ' represents. How great the change! °/, 41l t drs4 ortler > and at schonH Newspapers and public speakers may de- blotted.that bad of superior intellect 5,;., , et- nounce such men in the most violent manner, | ln99 bl<mmed and expanded to the bnt it doe3 not reach the case. If we would re- al ?n 1116 glory of his own name/ store our government to its primitive purity, ®nortly after leaving college he com", we must inculcate in the community such senti- * Ial7i n the office of the km ments as our noble ancestors had. We must Clayton, where he applied himspi? I-? instill into tho minds of men, women and chil- eighteen months. He then Ti-niT drenlove of country, honor, justice and indi- Litchfield, Conn., and took a regular eon« ** vidual rectitudo. Once lot this condition of so- j9Clure9 “ then celebrated law seW ^ ciety be brought about and at once will we see “n^S 9 Gould. Returning home, bnt beboLt! a change in the representative men. A pure u ?f, er . ,° aPP^ed for, and obtained srw and patriotic community will elect only good „ , Legislature admitting him to tha men to office. Opening a law office in Madison, Ga. Mr v Republics arc the best governments on earth J* entered immediately upon the p’raetbo , when the people are intelligent, honorable and , ? c . S£ n profession. Nor was ho Ion- ? just; but they are the worst immaginablo form bringing himself into notice, and a vervu of government when these qualities are wanting. I y ears Rraud him with ajarge and lucrative^ 1 For this reason Mexico has been in a state of Having entered into a marriage anarchy and confusion ever since she attempted P 1 * 21 ” when but seventeen years old ho iS to establish a republican form of govemmoat. hardly reached majority when maniei *** France is in tho same wretched condition at this , About this time the heated contest behr« time, and nearly all of South America is in tho * “® Troupe and Clarke parties was at itskciuH same situation, going from bad tovorse daily. Alljmghimself with theTroup, orStatesBw* The tendency in the North is to sink the spin- P ar ty> tne young lawyer entered into the tual in the material man. The only thing that withzealand ambition. The political idea3 K is regarded as being worthy of mere attention for “ ed “6 held to the end of life. While r/ is the accumulation of vast sums of money, fine Tnn® young he was elected to the , houses, fine farms, and a magnificent display of fteprasentetives in the State Assembly finery. Now when this idea gets full hold on ~®. fal thf ally served his constituents for three of the mind, men set abont getting money in any . 9 niost eventful years in the history of Ge^r way it is possible to obtain it. If they cannot 8 18 - At me expiration of his term in the Horse get it honestly, they get it dishonestly, since it ne was immediately returned to the Senate is only necessary to have it in order to be „ 9 ™. , e Iem ained one term.' In the Senate thought great, and have the community to honor by his unceasing labor in the cause them. This disposition to worship at the shrine 01 ri 8 al » soon won the admiration of his con. of riches is rapidly demoralizing the American P 9ers tJi e confidence of his people. He raj people. Thero was a time in the history of our 4h9 orl ginator of many good and wholesome country when honor, intelligence, refinement, I t ai7S and resolutions, bnt his more especial oh- hospitality and patriotism, gave social and po- i eo4 88 a le &* slalor was the establishment cf 1 litical position to men; bnt now it is money . pr ? m0 Cmirir for the correction of errors h —«*— 4u k l a.-a-a .-ii. I inferior tribunals. At tha tim* resigned that position for the pnrposo of moving [ as tiio Reconstruction measures, the Fourteenth to Missouri, and the company presented him with a handsome silver service, last Wednesday night The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Thursday, un derstands that a company is now forming in that city to buy the controlling interest in tha Port Royal Railroad, “take control of the road and complete it as rapidly as possible. At the head of the gentlemen who propose to purchase the Boody interest, is Henry T. Peake, Esq.; for so many years known throughout tho South as tho General Superintendent of the South Caro lina Railroad, and as a fine railroad man. It is said that Mr. Peake, Mr. Ryan, of the Charles ton and SavannahBailroad, and their associates, will endeavor to get tho aid of the Georgia Rail road in making the purchase, and will ran the road ae a kind of extension of the Georgia lein. If they succeed, the indications are, that in a very short time, the trains will ran through from Augusta to Port Royal. Tho heaviest work on and Fifteenth Amendments included. It is not improbable they will take that view. But they should not give their formal assent to the pro position that any usurpation is irreversible— any admitted wrong is forever settled in favor of tho wrong done. Usurpation and wrong do ing can never, in a representative government, be sanctified by time and become dead issues. The crimes against liberty and the audacious defiance of all constitutional restraints have been so manifold that they cannot all be re dressed at onoe. Moreover, the Republicans, by fraud and villainy, have so possessed them selves of the forms of power that they cannot be ousted by apopular vote for President They will hold the Senate and the Supreme Court in their grasp long after Grant is driven by the popular vote from his seat Tho effectual reme- the road has been done, and almost the entire dy for the great wrongs inflicted will be a oon- line graded. From Port Royal this way, thirty B titutional convention of all the States. The miles of tho track are laid, with an engine run ning. A heavy force placed at work on the road would finish the grading in a very short time, and the track laying could bo done with great rapidity. “ If there is any one thing that characterizes us it is modesty; but such a speech os the follow ing from the Georgia Cultivator, at Griffin, storms even that citadel: The Teleobaph and Messengeb.—Wo take South can bide its time.—Constitutionalist. Connecticut Registbation.—The Boston PoBt says registration is now all bnt completed in Connecticnt, and the resnlt i3 as good as ascer tained already. The Democrats have only to get ont their utmost vote, and the work is done. Senator Stunner’s speech gives a fresh impulse to the revolntion going on in the minds of the occasion to return our thanks to this paper for electors, while the return of the San Domingo ■■■■ - — — 1 Commission happens just in time to add to the disgust of the more candid Republicans. Ex- Governor Hawley’s paper is lecturing the “grumblers” of the party, and Mr. Jewell is tramping np and down the State to see that the money is distributed effectively. The New' Hampshire wave has washed over the whole State. Tho Democrats can poll a much heavier claim no right to an exchange with daily papers, we desire it, and appreciate it as a favor. It is a favor, however, wo are sorry to say, that a majority of the daily press do not extend to “country editors.” In oonrteonsness to the craft, the Teleobaph and Messengeb stands foremost, as in all else that goes to make np a first-class, interesting newspaper. We esteem it as the best and most reliable in the State. Any of onr friends desiring a daily, semi-. . .. , _ . weekly, or weekly newspaper, containing all the To4e tnan last year, and thereby increase their news, will do well to address that office. former majority for the State tioket. If New Talbot county is nearly ont of debt Haven alone should do all it can, the Demo' The Standard says a terrible storm raged “in oratio vote will be increased folly one thousand. Meriwether, Sunday, in the vicinity of Chaljbe- j The correspondents of that paper say that ate Springs, felling trees, destroying fences, the negro vote will be abont 1,000, not all of breaking windows, eto. Its ravages extended whioh will go for the Radical tioket. The new for several miles.” voters registered are largely Democratic. The The Savannah News i3 bragging of a patent eleolion of English is conceded by nearly all, newspaper folder that folds 3000 to 3500 sheets and Jewell has hurt himself by sedulous atten- an hour. j da nee on negro balls and parading arm-in-arm The Savannah Advertiser of Friday says: | with belles of high color. In faot, the Demo- only, in some sections,'that constitutes either I inferior tribunals. At the time there was con- social or political positions. siderablo opposition to such a court, and it was When the first-named qualities were consid- ' Hat ^ r nnch difficulty that it was finally sccoe- ered essential to positions of influence, we had Pfjfhed- Ono Hr. Nisbet’s speeches on this as our representative men John Adams, Thomas . > Published by request of a volunteer com- Jefferson, James Monroe, John Hancock, Pat- f? l44 f 0 ° 4 Senators, is said to have been one cf rick Henry, George \\ ashington, and a host of , nn®® 1 efforts ever made in the Georgia Sea- such men whose “names the world will never I a4 ?n .... let die;” bnt, since capital has become to be I Notwithstanding the fact that, by a dhiaoi considered essential to greatness, we have snch £, n 1119 Question °f Carolina Nullification, tha men as Bntler, Wade, Fisk, Cameron, Grant, £ ron P party was thrown ont of power, Mr. Nis. etc., eto.—men who are willing to “owe their j 0e4 1788 111 1837, elected to Congress. Ihh, greatness to their country’s rain.” A mania to I J®°» wl5en Congressmen were elected on the build railroads, manufactures and canals, to general ticket plan”—i. e. there were no Con- grow rich and live in style, has seized on tho gressional districts, bnt each candidate was voted public mind and is thoroughly demoralizing I State at large. Re-elected at the end public sentiment Men do not as in former 01 1118 term > 119 continued in Congress fa1 times seek office in order to advance their conn- y ear3 \ The fact of his being twice elected te try’s welfare, bnt seek it as an engine by which V 113 position, when his lellow party caadi- they can hoard up money. For this reason we dates were be ' n g defeated at every election,:! find in great cities, like New York, that politics I ® vldence of G 16 Nigh esteem in which he to is as much an article of traffic as calico or do- , eld . by tbe people of his State. In Ms second mestics. Unless a more healthy state of morals , ectl .°n he received (Wm. O. Dawson excepted) can bo brought abont, we, as a nation, must {ne highest popular vote ever given for any man soon go to rain. With such false ideas of what I ln y eor 8 ia - In Congress Mr. Nisbet adhered should constitute social or political position, it 3lnotl y t0 Gie principles of the Whig party, end is perfectly foolish to suppose that we can lon« “is name was numbered amongst such as Clay, hold together as a republic.. We must, unless , , te. r , Troup and Berrien as leaders. Of the wo can bring about a change, see our country I delegation elected with him were Wm. 0. Du- involved in the same civil strifes that rained 11 01 ?’ "»W. Habersham, M. A. Cooper, T. the Roman and Greek republics. The masses, | Cwqmtt^ Lott. Warren, J. O. Alford, T. B. when they come folly to understand that office ™ is sought for no other purpose than to wring from them money, in order that those in power may indulge in all manner of luxuries and show, will become indignant, and will inaugurate strife and rebellion. This will destroy all protection iai . . . - - . . 1 either life, property or liberty. Under suoh °e termxne d never again to enter public life, circumstances men will naturally seek for pro- St a o 0wed ’ however, but a short rest tection of their lives and property, even if thev " . lhe Su Pl e “® S 0Brt was organized he was have to adopt a despotic government to secure , cl ^ 0n e of its Judges. Subsequently re- it To this state of things we are fast drifting, ele0ted h ® continued on the Supreme Bench and nnless some measures can be set on foot to • eig -- yeai8 * Of this number Ihj. King and E. C. Black. ! Cooper alone survives. “All at rest now; all dust.” Refusing renomination to Congress, Mr. Xis 1 j bet now resumed the practice of his profession ports, most speak for themselves. They are check this tendency, we are doomed to anarchy I 0flli ? I 701111 , 88 8 i adicia l officer his decisions, and confusion, and that in much shorter time | re P? rteu m volumes ! to 14 of the Georgia Be* than men generally suppose. General Jackson, in one of his veto messag words:. “I have tried,” my countrymen, so far as I may,' Uuu j. B UO t 1 - j ,,-r . . - ,, _ . in a splendid government, supported bv power- good and illustrious man. Many other proml; fnl monopolies and aristocratieal establishments, n !^ 4 J >< i? 1 . 4l0 ,? a .T 79 ? 6 held by Judge Nisbet; of that they will find happiness or their liberties whl0 £ th i 8 Nnuted space will not allow us to protected, but in a plain system, void of pomp, 5® drew or *g»nal resolutions to ‘protecting all, and gjunting favob to none” f lvin ® the connection of Georgia with fa This sounds like the old General, and has the ^ me ? 0an Union. These Resolutions are sbll ring of tho true metal in it. Would that our ia *^ te, ? 0 ®.V ^« ^ty years Judge Nisbet to puplic men of the present day were actuated by 8 ?® ld ® r “ Presbyterian Church. An a* the same noble sentiments. Thosiaston. pjary husband and father—a kmdneighlwrsol ■ <h- . * ^ affable gentleman. It may be truly said nos# Sorosls In Procession Swoops Down knew hun but to love him—none named bio Upon Defenceless Sian. hut to praise. A letter to the Detroit Post from Sb ^ 4un *^- >llB ***» whfeh «*??*** Miohigan, has this story: % 4be 18thda y of March, 1871, Judge Nisbet TO This, like many other villages that make any I. tf 6 ' pretensions to being fast, has its Sorosis, on the , J roll of membership of which are to be found the names of all the strong-minded women, so- called. Their worthy President, having read Mrs. Woodhull’s memorial, and attended the Lansing Convention, came to the conclusion “But death is the crown of Wo.” onrred by the heavy blow Sunday afternoon last, 18 8°uig to do. persons, on their way from this city to Hilton 17 ON THE Negboks.—The Rads of the District, Head Island, was overtaken by the gale and tho or rather territory of Colombia, had a nomina- boat capsized on Terrapin beaob. AU the ocon- ting convention oh Thursday night to seleot a pants must have been drowned, as nothing has L» t j, . . t, K I/T since been seen or heard of any of them/ On candldata fer delegate to Congress. They Monday morning the boat, with a bottle of chose one N. P.Ghipman, white, aoarpet-bagger whisky and some other effects of those who were from Wisconsin, by 67 votes to 37 for Fred TSS latto boy, who had apparently clung to the boat 010 dlnner on Fotomao River boat the other for some time, was also washed ashore, with day. The white Rads who manipulated the several articles of female apparel. A colored convention played it-smart on the darkeys— who famish the votes, however. They made child was also found on the beach at Melrose. The Savannah Republican publishes the fol lowing list of Grand Jurors just chosen to serve for the May term of the United States District Court: P. T. Pitts, Jones county; L. Rathropf, Rich mond county; W. W. Geiger, Bryan county; John Brown, Mosoogee county; David fieddiok, Donglas permanent president of the conven tion and two of his sons delegates, but when it came to putting him up for an offioe that had money in it they beat him out of sight The Douglas family got three elegant bones, bnt the white man walked off with the meat The Appling county; Albert Brown, Chatham; James darkeys talk of going for Ohipman & Co. a la T- Glover, Twiggs; W. R. Davis, Houston; B. I W. Nyo and that plnperfeot euchre-player. Ah fir- .i"™,* •*? b °" m Cone, Dooly; Berry Rambo, Decatur; F. H. I “anthey deserve. Massey,Thomas; James Stapleton, Jefferson; -d . o ~ Blanton Hardeman, Jones; 'W. P. Sheffield Bravo.—Senator Davis, of Eentuoky, in a Early; James Harvey, Bibb; Jacob P. Pagh- speech in the Senate on Thursday, referring to ley, Tatnall; Thomas Cauthome, Upson; Wil- the late E. M. Stanton, said a more lawless dio- Monroe; James O. Byalls, Montgomery; J. 6. oat to him in his lifetime for his crimes, he Lassiter, SoWey; James S. Bryan, Houston; would We been hung a hundred times for mnr- David Denton, Glassoook; Griffin Dickson l0r “ s cnmes * Pierce; John R. Battle, Macon; L. Kronskopf, Truer words were never spoken, and uttered J 884 1711910 tW ou «ht to have been: In the IgTj lwichmona, £, Cofllson, Brooks ? R, W I is * r », _ ■ ■ • • ■ --- Woolen, Monroe; Solomon Newsom, Washing- ?^ mber 4bat bas 80 ofton echoed the wicked ton; Thomas D. Hawkins, Jr., Clinoh; Nelson eulogies upon his infamous character and erimes N. Murphy, Jefferson; James F. Fowler, War- , by those who had the malioe and but ren; S. Keenan, Baldwin; M. J. Carswell, J not the oourage to do and dare what he did. Npt so Pions as Be Seems. Some lively comments have been made npon _ ^ m the religions character of Kaiser Willivas TO that their natural enemy, man, had unworthily 1 bulletins, and that eminent fighter has been r«- left open a gap through which they mnst pass garded as a sort of Oliver Cromwell, sminig to the ballot and to office. A meeting was caUed, his enemy, hip-Rnd-thigb, with a sword in os# and twenty-one aggrieved and suffering losing j hand and a Bible in the other—cutting thro»» made a descent en masse upon the offioe of reg- an<1 blowing people into pieces with explosr# istration. They found three frail, defenceless ] shells, while praising God for all His mercies, men constituting the board, and by arts unpub- B . al now appears that William has not Deen Iished, got their names registered high on the P ions ell- On the contrary, he has been#*- roll of fame. * ceedingly profane. In point of fact; be W# This was on Saturday. Monday was corpora-I 8wora abominably. The bubble of faith in tion election. The day came, and with it men, "William is rudely pricked by the lance of on# boys, and dogs from village and country to wit-1 of his fellow-Germans, one Arnold Bnge, *no ness the novel scene. At half-past eleven they says that the set phrases in whioh the mustered in regular military style, a Deputy has so freely indulged are understood in all w United States Marshal at the head. They Fatherland as exolamatory. Nobody m marched down our prinoipal street, followed by man y believes in God, say the Herr Bnge> “ a rabble of grinning boys. Arriving at the polls “the Emperor is not more religions than they were greeted by the ehoers and oomments countrymen 5” bnt the use of religions JsngnagF of a hundred or two expectant men, who fell has been retained long after the /““L rTj- back itf good order, allowing them to surround 8* ve ifc meaning has ceased to exist, iniw, the polls, the orowd then closing them in, shut- °atholio Germany, one says: _ Nausea ting np every avenue of retreat. They tendered Christ!” instead of “Good morning! their ballots, but onr venerable President re- 4119 North, “O! Je,” shortened from o "ef fused to take them. Thef insisted and he pro- ^ahy means “I wonder;” “Ach Gott! tested. Meantime the crowd became restless *3 »° use;” “Gott in Himmel! ® e *r and pressed forwardthat they might hear, mak- “That’s something awful." Bage further it rather unoomfortable for the ladies. serves that in the Emperor’s famous telegrau^t At this stage of the proceedings a lawver *he expression “Danko nur Gott!” meant 1 ’ ... - - n u..,_ I was s olnflA nlinvAl" vMIa “Ich dank® uOtl- Itis asked that he might be Beard for°his or”their I ' v ^ aa a close shave!” while cause. He talked of humanity, joatioe, and signified “I feel really relieved! il "“ —Irful law, bnt to no purpose. The board would not °holy to reflect that a striking text for po* e , Tlol&td thfA At- - — r*». 19 ml nMOAttAM 1m Ginn mimMsmll* OVlMlTlOfld! ***“ ^ It is all the the fault of a their oaths to support the constitution of preachers is thus summarily expunged: tte. The game was np, and now for the sadder still to have onr faith in William so m retreat. Elbowing their way through the crowd ly shaken. It is all the the fault of a le "" 0 . name the crestfallen ladies, expressing disgust German, who is bnt too prond of bis E®Py with politios, men, and even themselves, and 88 t h® representative man of the people.—- • - - JI Com. Adv. mm . - A V i * — ■ U—— it is ft noted fact that not ft Udj can be found in the village that is willing to admit that she ever attended an eleetion. The Grand Central Hotel.—These modern days of wealth and lnxnry develop frequent on flow Horace Greeley ‘-Fooled A* 8 ? His Ufoney. Mr. and Mrs. Warren, of Quincy, B^nto . - . . „ . _ lately celebrated their golden wedding, terpnses that startle, while they compel us into j among the gifts was a letter from Horses admiration. A visit to “Gotham” never fails to ley, containing this addition to his Autobiog 1 *’ impress this truth. The new Grand Central phv: T Hotel, on Broadway, New York, whose palatial New York, March 8.—Mg Old Friend:- 3 walls cover almost an entire block, is a notable I have a letter from an acquaintance of instance of what wealth, taste and enterprise I who says he helped celebrate your golde® can accomplish. Although the many deecrip- ding. (I apprehend that the gold was somebo tions given of it are highly eulogistic, the vis- dropped out of the programme.) I canh®®' itor will find, like the Queen of Sheba, that the realize that you were married fifty years *8”’ half has not been told. In richness of appoint- but I remember that it is forty-five years ' ment and completeness of detail, not even the I ing a few months,) sinoe I went to Fonltney ® palace Louvre of Paris, nor the far-famed learn printing, and I look at my snowy Langham of London, con surpass; while it snr- and consider that we have a great many passes them .both in size and.eapacity. behind us, and probably few of this life befe*® Under the management of H. L. Powers, the j us. So I thought I would write you a line j 01 proprietor, whose genial, sterling, administra- old acquaintance sake. ****** , tire qualities fairly claim him to Its charge del lam poor, bnt it is my own fault; beoanse affairs, with his affable corps of gentlemen in endorse other folks’ notes. One was bronfl” the office, there is a quiet determination to me to-day for $5,000, which I must find a moke this modem palaoe of taste and luxury to pay within a few days. I have fooled aW outrank any other in the world. at least $150,000 trying to help others, and it One would suppose from the appearance of j done no good. Now I guess my foot is do the Grand Central that the income of a prince that I wul not endorse another note. J would be neoessary to enjoy its hospitality, see the stables all get locked after the M** when, in fact, its prices are only from three to are stolen. Let me hope that yon and four doUras per day. . 1 Warren are well.
