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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.
