Georgia Historic Newspapers

    Telegraph and Messenger
MACON, APRIL 18, 1871.
The Blodgett Case.
The Senate Tuesday laid tlxe Blodgett and
Goldthwaite case on the table, and the dispatch
says it will not probably come np again this
session. Congress meets again the first Mon
day in December, and the Legislature of Geor
gia will meet the first Wednesday in November
next Perhaps the Senate has left the matter
open in order to admit of a choice between
Blodgett and a legally elected successor to Dr.
Miller. They evidently don’t want to seat
Blodgett, and perhaps might seat a Democrat
not personally unweloome, in preference to
Blodgett We can only conjecture how that
maybe. At all events, the Legislature will
doubtless, make an election, and send on
claimant If the Senate don't like him they
may seat Blodgett; or perhaps invent some
contrivance for keeping the question open for
tho chances of another State election. Their
ways are as dark and their tricks as vain as But
ler describes those of Speaker Blaine.
The Vote for Congressmen In Con
nectfent.
From the Tribune, of Saturday, we gather
these facts: In the First Connecticut District
in 18C9, Strong, Radical, had73C majority over
Dixon, Democrat; in 1871, Strong had 247
majority over Goodrich, Democrat, showing
Radical loss of 489 in that district. In the
Second District in 1869, Kellogg, Radical, had
424 majority over Babcock, Democrat; in 1871
Kellogg had 23 majority over Kendrick, Demo
crat, showing a Radical loss of 401 in that dis
trict. In the Tbird District, in 1869, Stark
weather, Radical, had 2,399 majority over Con
verse, Democrat; in 1871, Starkweather had
1,465 majority over Steadman, Democrat, show
ing a Radical loss of 934 in that district In
the Fonrth District Baroum, Democrat, had
1,170 majority over Beard, Radical; in 1871
Barnnm had a majority over Coifing, Radical
of 1,076, showing a Democratic loss of 94 in
that district.
If the trooly loil can find any ground for hur
rahing over these figures—1824 Radical loss
against 94 Democratic loss—why let them howL
Seal Hunting.—A St Johns correspondent
of the New York Sun, reports extraordinary
success is seal hunting. The steamship Nim
rod bad arrived with a cargo of 28,000 seals.
A few hours after, the Hector came in with
21,500. She left more than fifty vessels be
hind all laden or rapidly filling np. Eleven
vessels had arrived at St Johns with a total
catch of 231,000 Eeals and over a hundred ves
sels were due. At Harbor Grace 100,000 seals
had been delivered and 150 vessels were out
Each steamship carried 500 men and their
average earnings so far were about $1,500. All
Newfoundland was rejoicing in such extraordi
nary wealth and running over with seal oil and
gladness. -
Bbutal Assassination'.—The Mobile Regis
ter, of Sunday, gives the particulars of a brutal
assassination occurring tho day before at Whis
tler, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, some
distance above Mobile. The victim was a Dr.
L. 8. Martinez, who, while sitting in his office
reading, was shot by a man named George
Hahn, of Quitman, Miss., who, with Charles
Gage and Dr. Jere Saunders, of tho samoplace,
has been arrested and put in jail at Mobile.
Martinez was shot through the heart, one of his
arms broken, and ho was also wounded in the
head.
An undergraduate at Cambridge, who, the
Boston Advertiser says, found among the ques
tions on his examination paper this: ‘ ‘Why will
sot a pin stand npon its point ?” elaborately
explained the point thus: 1. A pin will not
stand on its head; muoh less is it possible that
it Should stand on its point. 2. A point, accord
ing to Euclid, is that which has no parts and no
magnitude. A pin cannot stand on that which
has no parts and no magnitude, and, therefore,
a pin cannot stand on its point. 3. It will if
yon stick it in.
Gebmt Surra has been to Washington to
mend the breaches of the Radical party—but,
they say, without much promise of success. He
was to try his hand on Sumner last Friday night.
Sumner’s breaches with Grant can’t be mended
with anything less adhesive than cobbler’s wax.
Grant’s breaches with Sumner are rough-edged
and inexorable. Darning them won’t do, though
many a Yankee Radical has cried “dam it all”
over them. On the whole, Gerrit Smith’s little
job at tailoring is likely to be unsuccessful.
Tke High Commission.—Tho Western tele
grams say there is high authority for the state
ment that the fishery question and also the
question of the Alabama claims have already
been so far disposed of as to be no longer mat
ters of disouBsion at the sessions of the Com.
mission. Indeed the bams of agreement have
already been secured, which will probably be
satisfactoiy to the representatives of both coun
tries.
A Chicago paper says: “Kate writes from
Bridgeport, Conn., to a Boston weekly journal,
saying: ‘I married where I did not love, and
now I love where I cannot many, o, what
shall I do!’ ” And that stupid Chicago paper
doesn’t have sense enough to answer the conun
drum, as it obviously was intended to be an
swered thus: “Come to Ghioago and get a
divorce.”
Handsome Castes.—Messrs. Brown & Go.
send ns some specimens of very handsome
colored card photographs, gotten up at Rich
mond, and having for their subjeots “General
Lee at the tomb of Jackson,” “In Memoriam,”
and a very fine likeness of Gen. Lee himself.
They are very well done and will make an at
tractive feature in an ( album.
The Connecticut Election.—The Hartford
Times counts np the official returns thus: Eng
lish 47,491; Jewell 47,450—total 94,941. Eng
lish’s majority is 41 votes, and the Times says
of the scattering votes a majority will have to
be oounted for English. The total vote in 1870
was 87, 413. In 1869 it was 90,865. It will be
seen that Connecticut did her best.
An Old Lade.—The Petersburg Courier tells
of Mrs. Lucy Spain, living on Plum street in
that city, who was born the 24th of December,
1767, and is now 104 years old, with bodily and
mental faculties quite vigorous. Her memory
is wonderfully tenacious and accurate.
A note from Thomas ton says, “your valuable
paper is being more appreciated daily.” Glad
to hear it. Upson county is where we like to
range. It is a fine, healthy part of tho great
moral vineyard.
Columbus Cotton Receipts footed np on Mon
day night 71,962, with a stock on hand of
7,325. Last year, at same date, 62,668 with a
stock on hand amounting to 12,344 bales.
The Richmond chain-gang is reported thirty-
five strong, busy in breaking rooks for the
streets.
The Virginia wheat * reported to be
looking remarkably well.
Minna an. —Large Democratic gains are re
ported in the late local elections in Michigan.
Deied Faurr.—Richmond did $150,000 busi-
naaa in dried fruits last year.
Tbe Story of Grant and Grinnell.
Among the many New York politicians and
“bloated bond-holders” who “legged” for Grant
in 1868, no one was more zealous and conspicu
ous than Mr. Moses H. Grinnell, of that city.
He had feathered his nest quite warmly during
the war by army contracts and trooly loil jobs
^ Q (<g£Yo the life of the nation, of course—
and jumped at the scheme gotten np by A. T.
Stewart and others to put Grant under obliga
tions by making him presents, then have him
nominated and elected President, and then come
in for a lot of fat things in the way of official
place and patronage. If our memory is not at
fault, Grinnell went $1,000 even, on that house
in Washington City.
Well, Grant was elected, and Grinnell was
made Collector of Customs at New York. He
hold that office for a year or so, and then Grant
chopped off his head because he (Grinnell) was
supposed to be a Senator Fenton “man,” while
Grant was a Senator ConkhDg “man” Fenton
being disposed to have a mind and a will of his
own, while Conkling was one of Grant s most
obsequious and industrious lick spittles. Grin
nell’s friends, however, made such a row that
Grant popped him into the Naval Office to soothe
them.
But Conkling licked away harder than ever,
and now poor old Grinnell has to take up his
bed and travel again, to make room for a Conk-
lingite. The nomination of Ins successor was
up in the Senate last Friday, and great opposi
tion was made to the change. The Sun says:
A paper was passed around among tfie Repub
lican Senators in the handwriting of Mr. Grin
nell. showing that he had collected for the
Presidential campaign of 1868 $100,000. . A
letter was also shown to a few Senators which.
Mr. Grinnell has just written to the President,
in which he said ho was grieved to find himself
removed from office which he had held but a
short time, without a word of complaint from
any one as to tho manner in which he had per
formed bia duties, and without any notice that
tho place was wanted for any one else; that
since he had held it be had given more to secure
the success of the Republican party than the
pay of his office, and but a few days ago had
given $1,000 to help save Connecticut.
Twenty-two Radical Senators refused to vote
on it, but the nomination was at last confirmed.
Really, it does seem that no amount of money
or favors in the past can give any substantial
vitality to the virtue of gratitude in our beloved
President’s breast. To keep in with him, it
Seems necessary never to allow the golden
stream of presents toBtop for one moment. We
are firmly persuaded that had the headless
Grinnell sent that $1000 to the White House
instead of to Connecticut, it would hare been
all secure with him this morning. Let his fate
bo a warning to all office-holders. When you
have anything to spend for the party just divide
it and draw your check for the larger half in fa
vor of the head of the party. That will save
you—unless somebody that wants your place
goes a few dollars better.
Nothing New Under the San.
When Old King Solomon said, in the way of
a general proposition, “there is nothing new
under the sun,” he came muoh nearer the literal
truth than many suppose. It is the favorite
boast ef the literary, philosophical, political and
philanthropic schemers and theorists of the
day that the “world moves,” and is really get
ting a great deal better very fast; but Old Sol
omon was right, and so is that other stereotyp
ed maxim, to the same purpose, that “history
is continually repeating itself.”
There are the same old Red3 of ’92 and '93
reproduced in Paris—the genuine stock—as like
their great grandfathers in all the elements of
‘pure cussedness” as two peas. A set of red
mouthed, radical thieves—lapping blood like a
butcher’s dog—undertaking to dethrone God
Almighty, and to set up their devilish saturna
lias of cruelty and license as an apothesis of
reason, liberty and natural religion. Hear those
miserable hounds of the Commune, arresting
priests and nuns under warrants as “citizens
serving the person called God,” stripping the
venerable ArchbiBhop Dupanloup naked and
flogging him in the streets, on a demand that
he shall produce a million of francs. Sacking
the ehorches and plundering public and private
establishments of every kind. In less time than
their progenitors took, these fellows would, like
them, turn Paris into one great slanghter-house
of all good and decent people. In a month they
would have the guillotine busy as ever it was in
the days of Robespierre and Danton. Are these
people any better than the Revolutionists of
’93 ? No, not a particle.
And where on the faoe of the wide earth will
yon show anything more than mere material
improvements in that era? We travel faster,
shoot farther and quicker, and send news by
lightning; but these improvements energize
the hand of tyranny and blood, as well as that
of justice, benevolence and sympathy. More
people were murdered and more property
despoiled in war last year, than in any year of
the world since its creation. There never was
time when reason, humanity, justice and
mercy, were more outraged than in this boasted
19th century, and if we can claim that the
agencies of benevolenoe are more active, we
can assert with greater force that those of mis
chief, crime and misery have a still greater ac
celeration of speed and potency.
Cotton Facts and Figures.
The cotton receipts since 1st September footed
up on Friday night 3,383,081 bales, against
2,443,9S6 bales for the same period of 1869-70—
showing an increase, since September 1st of
this year, amounting to 939,095 bales. The
total reoeipts of last week were 69,832 bales,
against 42,490 the same week last year—show
ing an increase of 27,342 bales. The reoeipts,
therefore, though falling off rapidly, keep up
about the same per ceutage of excess over last
year, and that per centage is more than 83J.
Applying the rate of one-third increase the bal-
anoe of the year, we Bhonld have 947,946 bales
yet to come in np to the night of the 31st Au
gust, 1871; and that would make the crop of
1870-71 foot up 4,331,027 bales. This is mar
velous, but probably not far from the truth.
The last year, as one of our farmers remarked,
was indeed “a mighty cotton year.” Sales of
futures in New York run into next September
on a gradually reducing scale down to 14& on a
basis of low middlings, which would allow the
general range here about 11 to l3o. The New
York Commercial and Financial Chronicle of
last Friday says about the growing crop:
“As to the extent of tho planting, ouradvioes
do not at present indicate any decided falling
off. There has been an increased acreage put
under food products, and a muoh less amount
of fertilizers have been used.”
The cotton in sight on Friday night last,
amounted to 2,116.581 bales, against 1,495,199
hales at the same date last year—showing an
exoess of 621,382 bales.
Mr. Davis and the Radicals.
Hon. Jefferson Davis lately said a few words
at Selma in response to some seren&ders, in
whioh he expressed the opinion that the govern
ment would, in time, revert to the State Rights
principles of the Constitution. The speech
seems to have set the Northern Radicals frantic.
They jump about as lively as if their pockets
were full of yellow jacketa. It is another re
bellion and a good deal more so. Sharpen your
bayonets, ye gentle North, and let there be no
more New Hampshire victories. .That, like Boll
Bun, will rouse Northern loyalty to its mightiest
deeds. The Herald pours out two columns of
trash on the subject ’worthy of Ben Butler.
Grant seems to have waxed that political flea
so that he sticks to an idea as long as a month
ata time.
What Is aScallawagT
This question was asked and answered by
that apostle of Radicalism, the chronic smiler,
Colfax, at the serenade to the cleanly Morton
last Saturday night at Washington City. He
said:
What is a “scallawag?” A scallawag is a
Sonthem-bom man, who, when the storm-cloud
of rebellion broke upon this country, and when
it raged around him, and threatened him with
exile or confiscation, or outrage or murder,
dared to stand up in the midst of the storm, anc i
say, “As for me and mine, we stand by the
Union to the last drop of our blood and the last
beat of our hearts.” God bless the men whom
our opponents stigmatize as scallawags.
(Cheers.) They were faithful among the faith
ful ; they were loyal amid treason, and if the
American people do not protect them, not only
against their murderous enemies, but iu the ex*
excise of every right guaranteed to all by the
Constitution, we are not worthy to be called a
nation. (Applause.)
That is nearly as good a definition of scalla
wag as was that of a crab by the French savans,
whom the naturalist, Cuvier, so completely put
to shame. Colfax don’t know the breed as we
do down here, and his definition is not only a
piece of spread eagle demagogueism character
istic of the man, but utterly at war with facts.
For his information and that of those who really
believed he was speaking some part of the
truth, we will tell him what a Georgia scallawag
say, is.
He is a man who, if particularly loil now,
was particularly violent in his hate of the Yan
kees and his desire for their extermination, even
before the war commenced. He believed in the
African slave trade and wished it reopened.
He wanted to secede before breakfast, yea even
before he had swallowed his first matutinal
cocktail, and his favorito boast was that he
could whip five Yankees single-handed, and not
half try. He wanted to crucify every man that
thought secession might not prove a remedy for
every evil, and wore blue cockades, and had
spasms of purest bliss when Joe Brown captured
Fort Pulaski and the Augusta Arsenal. He
abused the Confederate Generals for not march
ing on and capturing Washington, Philadelphia,
New York and Boston in thirty days, and in
every other way, shape and form proved, to his
own satisfaction, that if there was any such
thing as a genuine Southern patriot and true
blue enemy to the Yankees, he was the man.
All this up to Appomattox. Then he had
newlight He dreamed dreams, and saw visions.
He saw that Southern patriotism was a losing
card, and that the hated Yankees were going to
hold all the trumps. Then he fell down and
grovelled at their feet. Then he confessed his
sins and wailed for pardon. He had been lead
off—he had been swept from his feet by tbe
surging tide of popular passion—he had been
forced by the pressure of publio opinion to
conceal bis real sentiments—he had been co
erced and had yielded to save his life and pro
perty. Oh! how unctuously horecounted all hia
past trials and tribulations, and how pathetio
the recital of his emotions when he saw the
“old flag” once more unfurled in triumph
over his head! When “reconstruction” was
decreed he rushed to embrace its infamies. He
made haste to join himself in close alliance
with all the peripatetic rogues and adventurers
from the North who followed in its wake,
and the ignorant, brutal semi-barbarians for
whose benefit it was set on foot. He eat
and slept and talked with, and cajoled
and inflamed them by day and by night.
He sneaked around backyards and through al
leys, and about the plantation negro quarters,
telling the darkies of their rights hndwhata
marvellously proper man he was to represent
them. He sat in the so-called Constitutional
Convention and had a finger in all sorts of jobs,
and when there was a so-oalled Legislature and
so-called State Government, he was high up
in one or the other,.and sold his vote and influ
ence, and filled Ms pockets from the people’s
strong box with the most refreaMng zeal. He
approves every outrage that Radical villainy
and hate has put upon his neighbors and fellow-
citizens^ and declares they have fared muoh
better than their deserts. He calls them “reb
els,” and thinks disfranchisement and bayonets
the only way to deal with them. When out of
job at home he rushes to Washington with tho
most horrible aocounts of outrages on loil men,
and insists upon being sworn as a witness before
committee ata comfortable per diem, or free
lunch and liquor at the very least.
This is about the measure of the average
Southern scallawag, Colfax to the contrary not
withstanding. Fancy the truthful Blodgett and
the immaculate Whitely, listening to such bosh
as their standing “by tho Union to the lastdrop
of-their blood and the last beat of their hearts"—
Captain Blodgett, of the Blodgett artillery, C.
S. A., and Major WMtely, the gallant oom-
manderof “rebel” sharpshooters—red hot seces
sionists and still more fieiy Confederates. If
Colfax hadn’t told such a whopper in Ms defini
tion, it would have been the champion joke of
the season.
War Powers Under the Constitution.
We have received from Bee & Shephard, Bos
ton, through Brown & Co., of this city, a copy
of a huge volume of nearly 700 pages entitled
as above, and boasting as its author one Wil
liam Whiting, who was law jackal to Stanton
when that wicked man was Secretary of War.
WMting held the position of Solicitor to the
department, and we suppose was expected to
furnish some show of legal authority for the
most monstrous violations of laws and consti
tutions when Stanton deemed such necessary.
He seems to have done his work well, and this
book Is the result. According to WMting every
thing that was done during the war, and that
has been done since, by the Radical conspira
tors who have seized the government, is not
only right in itself, hat has abundant warrant
in the Constitution. WMting has made no rep
utation either as a lawyer or honest citizen by
writing such a book, and if he has any children
and they have any regard for his reputation,
they will, after his death, get together every
copy of it and have a bonfire. The day is
coming when even this servile tool to the most
monstrous usurpation and despotism that ever
cursed the world, and all Ms like, will be
ashamed of their infamy.
Senator Joshua HW.
It is alleged that Mr. Hill did not vote, either
on the resolution authorizing the appointment
of an “Outrage Committee,' or npon the Ku-
kluxbUL ’
We regret this cMefly for Mr. Hill’s own sake.
We had a right to expect that he would be in
Ms place, and vote against the last named meas
ure, since it is not such as can be approved by
enlightened Republicans in Georgia.
We quote as above, from the Atlanta Era of
yesterday. It is not onr province to defend
Mr. Hill from the strictures of Ms political
friends in Georgia, but we do say that, in Ms
place in the Senate, he has made a manly and
characteristic defence of his neighbors and fel
low citizens against the shameful slanders of
such papers as the Era. And as no direct vote
has yet been taken on the Kn-klux bill in the
Senate, wo cannot see how it oan be “alleged’
against him that he ban failed to put himself on
the record with reference to that measure. Be
tween Mr. Hill and the Era and its special
friends and backers, the people of Georgia can
have no difficulty in choosing.
Mosquitoes are represented to swarm in such
clouds around Memphis thus early, as to scare
the river pilots, who mistake swarms for a black
storm-cloud. They make terrible havoo with
their Ku-klux bills, and shed blood remorse-
leaaly. This makes Bluff City very lively. 1
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
F. B. Thomason has been elected Mayor, and
E. W. Thrasher, F. B. Martin, A. S. Hough and
N. B. Atkinson, Conncilmen of Madison.
The Madison Farm Journal says a family in
that place have in “their possession a mess
chest belonging to the United States gunboat
Water Witch, which was captured by the Con
federates, in Osabaw Sound, below Savannah,
during the late “onpleasantness.”
- We quote as follows from the last Talbotton
Standard:
A Sharp Thick—A House and Buggy Stolen
—The Thief is Caught and Gets Away.—A
young man who had been living with Mr. El
bert Williams, near Centerville, in this county,
but zeoently left M3 employer and concluded to
get a horse out of his neighbor’s stable, while
the owner was asleep at night last week, and
riding over to Mr. David Lockhart’s plantation
hitched his horse to Ms bugy. In the morning
it was discovered that his buggy was missing.
Mr. Lockhart, immediately dispatched Mr.
Spinks in pursuit. Spinks supposing the thief
had gone in the direction of Buena Vista, made
the dirt fly till he reached the above town, where
Ms pony gave out “Have you seen anybody go
through town with a certain horse and buggy?”
inquired Spinks. “Yes,” said a citizen, “about
a half an hour ahead of yon.” A fresh horse
was immediately offered Spinks, with the re
mark, “That horse’s bottom has never been
found, put him through until'the thief is
caught. In an hour Spinks presented a pistol
to the fellow’s face, and one Marshall Harris,
the young man alluded to as having lived at Mr.
Elbert Williams’ was overhauled. While bring
ing the thief, horse and buggy back, Harris es
caped, and is supposed now to be on Ms way to
Texas.
ANew Idea.—One of Talbot county’s best
farmers gives os a new idea aboat guano sacks.
He says, after you are through distributing their
contents, cut the sacks into small strips and lay
them along in the bottom of the farrow, to make
the largest and best cotton.
Cotton planting has commenced in Talbot
county. We think the acreage will favor com.
Wheat and oats never looked better.
The Colored Missionary Baptist State Conven
tion will meet at Atlanta on the 24th of May
next.
The people of Buford, on the Air Line
Railroad, think they have diamonds in that
neighborhood, and in consequence have quit
eating and sleeping.
There were two fires and two false alarms of
fire at Atlanta Monday night. In one case a
bar-room on Peters street was burned, causing
a loss of $400, and in the other four wooden
shanties on the corner of Baker and Peachtree
streets were destroyed. Loss $3,500 and no in
surance. Daring the fire a bombshell exploded
in one of the shanties, but hurt no one. In
going to the fire the engine of the Tallulah com
pany ran over and badly crushed the foot of a
•young man named Wylie, and seriously injured
Mr. Israel Guntz.
The Constitution, of yesterday, says:
Atlanta About to Lose One of Her Faibest
Daughtebs.—We have received an invitation
to attend, to-night, at half past seven o’clock,
at the Second Baptist Church, the marriage
ceremony of Miss Louise Brantly, the daughter
of the popular and eloquent Baptist pastor, Dr.
Wm. T. Brantly, and Colonel John L. Morehead
of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Wo deem it not inappropriate to say, that we
echo the general sentiment, in the society of
Our sooial city, when we express profound re
gret that Atlanta is about to lose this one of her
fairest daughters. Perhaps no young lady has
been better and more favorably known, in the
refined circles of any Southern city, and has
been more widely admired for her beauty, ac
complishments and intrinsic worth, and rare
loveliness of character than Miss B.
Well and gracefully said, Colonel. We are
proud to be able to endorse it every word. No
lovelier flower was ever transplanted from
Georgia soil to bloom in thst of North Carolina
or any other State. These raids should be
stoppe d, though. PrizeB like this must be kept
at home. We can forgive Col. M., however,
knowing him to be as near worthy of such rare
good fortune as any “horrid” man of our ac
quaintance. May the future prove a veritable
Arcadia for both these happy hearts.
W. G. McAdoo, of Milledgeville, has been ap
pointed Judge of tbe District Court for the 20 th
district, and Milo G. Hatch, of Sandersville,
Solicitor.
The Rev. R. W. B. Elliott, son of the late
Bishop Stephen Elliott of this Diocese, was or
dained as a minister in the Episcopal Church
by Bishop Bepkwith, last Sunday, at Savannah.
CoL James Nicholson, one of the first settlers
of Putnam county, and a most estimable and
respected citizen, died at Eatonton last Sunday,
in the 78th year of Ms age.
The Augusta Presbytery meets at Eatonton
to-day. A protracted meeting in the Presbyte
rian church of that place has been iu progress
for a week, and much interest is manifested.
Crop prospeots in Baldwin county are very
promising—especially for wheat and other small
grain.
Mrs, Amanda Thomas, wife of Mr. Henry
Thomas, of Milledgeville, died last Thursday.
Mr. John A. Orme, of Milledgeville, had his
watch, valued at $200, stolen from his vest pock
et last Friday, by two small Afrioans aged aboat
nine years each, who immediately sold it for
fifty cents.
The Federal Union, of Tuesday, says a negro
man named Lewis Beall shot and wounded his
wife in the shoulder and abdomen last Saturday,
and then shot himself through both lungs. His
evident intention was murder, and then suicide.
Jealousy was at the bottom of it. Both parties
were alive Tuesday morning, but the man’s re
covery was considered doubtful.
Hancock Superior Court has been adjourned
to the 1st Monday in June.
Dogfights, runaway horses, Lydia Thomp
son’s burlesquers are the latest sensations in
Augusta. The latter greatly disappointed some
of the folks down there by not being “unusual
ly piquant,” and by wearing “Mgh necked
dresses.”
There has been a very heavy run of shad in
the Savannah river, near Augusta, within the
last week. About 1000 were on sale at the mar
ket house Monday morning, at prices ranging
from 30 to 75 cents.
The Chronicle and Sentinel of Tuesday says
A private letter from Rabun informs us that
an arrangement can now be made, upon favor
able terms, for the purchase of all that portion
of the Blue Ridge Road witMn the confines of
Georgia wMch is graded, and culverts, for the
most part, constructed, and the charter for that
part aligned in North Carolina. A railroad con
nection with the beautiful valley of the Little
Tennessee, wMoh would bring Augusta near to
the grain region and coal region of East Ten
nessee, is that wMch every active business man
in the city desires. Two routes are proposed,
one by the extension of the Georgia Railroad
from Athens; the other the Augusta and Hart
well, following the line of the valley of the Sav
annah River. Eaoh of these projects possess a
warrant for liberal State aid, but popular opin
ion seems to have settled down to the belief that
no encouragement will be given by the Georgia
Railroad and Banking Company to the projaot
for extending its Athens branch to Clayton.
The Augusta and Hartwell Railroad has been
revived under new bands, and is asserted that
it will be reorganized in a very short while un
der a head that will merit the confidence of the
public—the head of the old organization having
! eft for parts beyond the seas.
A letter from Griffin, dated Tuesday llth
inst. says, that Geo. W. Waddy, agent of the
Macon add We stern Railroad at Griffin, is $2,300
short in his aocount with the road, so far as
they have been examined, and Intimates that
the amount may foot up much more than that
before the investigation is concluded.
Mrs. Foster Blodgett is desperately ill at
Washington, and news of her death was expect
ed to be received in Atlanta, Tuesday night.
The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday has
the following: .
The Wedding.—Last night the Second Bap
tist Church was filled with the elite of Atlanta,
to witness the marriage of Mias Louise D’An-
tignao Brantly, daughter of Rev. W. T. Brantly,
D. D., to CoL John L. Morehead, of Charlotte,
North Carolina. Every seat was filled, and the
aisles and vestibule crowded.
China Berries as a Fertiliser.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says:
Last yaar a planter of this county, living near
Hawkinsville, made a satisfactory experiment
At half-past seven o’olock the bndal party en- common china berry as a manure, by
tered the ohnroh in the following order: Right I „ a ing it nnder Ms com. He tested its value by
hand aisle—Miss Mary Clayton and Major J. J. I a comparison with cotton seed, wMoh he sowed
Williams; Miss Mary Brown and Dr. J. B. Baird; I ^ rowa alternately. The yield of the rows
Miss Sophie D’Antignac, of Augusta, and Mr. pi an ted with the china berry was fifteen per
John A- Fitten. Left hand aisle Miss Ruth cen ^ greater than that of the eotton seed. The
FINAN0IAL AND C0MMERCIAI
Weekly Review or the Market! "
OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND MESSEXom> i
April 12—Evening ifM? 1 !
Cotton.—Receipts today 122 bales; iwlj
nrauS 1 287;
shipped 333.
— I I . ^ . . “ding this evening sti
Henderson and Sidney Dell, Esq.; Miss Janie rowa Soald easily be distinguished by a more ba i® 8 * 8&l08 1879 * shipments 966. ’ 51
Clarke and W. T. Brantley, jr.; Miss Ruby I ygrdant appearanoe and vigorous growth. The] The market has been quiet and remarliablveio a
Erskine and Captain J. C. Mills; Miss Lucy I planter is entirely satisfied with Ms experiment, j all the week at 13 cents for middlings *ns
Walker, of Augusta, and Mr. Eugene Morehead; I an( j probably make use of all the china 1 closed this-evening. Offerings rat hnri’;r,ia
attendants. Middle aisle—-Col. Morehead and berries upon Ms place the present season. macox cotton sta-emf-.- oM ’
Mrs. Dr. Brantley; Miss Loin so DA. Brant- Another farmer of this county assures us that [ gtoet; 0 n hand Sent 1 iotu k.i T ‘
ley and Rev. Dr. Brantley. | ^ garden manure the china berry is excellent I Revived today ?. ;. - 2*
The nuptial ceremony was performed by Rev. J j(. j s we u known that the berry contains a large Received previously qe loo
_ r.' Henry H. Tucker, in a solemn manner. His qtuul tity of oil, and that certain kinds of stock
voice trembled with deep emotion, though los- ^ exceedingly fond of it. We give these state- Try
ing none of its force. Indeed, he made thelgjQQtg to the publio, hoping, if there is any 1 Shipped to-day 333 ®W*i
whole ceremony one of the most impressive and I value in the china berry, that it will be made f “hipped previously.... SO,499—90 m,
ofToolinn ovflr TOltnPSSPil. I fcnOWH -
China berries are a very valuable fertilizer,
trimmed with deep frilling of satin—low necked, as any man can prove to his own satisfaction by a*oal.—The money market has harden^
very deep point in front, poBtillion basque in I scraping up the surfaoe soil under an old China I bttle durmg the week under review, bat the banfo
back, three-quarters of a yard in length, puffed 4™ applying it to com or anything else. 1 are Btm ^counting unquestionable p &per it 77
illusion Bertha, and sleeves, with point lace I _ , . , , , . „ | usual rates, and there is enough monev m ,
falling 1 from both. Over the brid^dropped T 1 * 80 be « ieB fould be cmefully swept up dom&nda of legitimato
gracefully an illusion veil of the entire length every spring and added to the compost heap. atock and ^ markefc te ^ Th«
of the dress, and upon her head rested a rich And another idea has often oeourred to us j demand for the best grades We auot “ ofietile
coronet of orange blossoms, with beautiful 0atUe aU kinds of stock are very fond of j exchange on new yL
veilings floating like a wreath of silvery mist
upon a rosy sea.”
NotMng grows more loxnriantly or affords more
lying
Selling.
EXCHANGE ON SAVANNAH.
_____ J..
Over the altar rose an arch of flowers, whose I succulent browsing for cows, horses, mules, j Buying.
blended colors rivaled the beauties of the rain- ^ or oats- A good many people drill “cat- Selling.
bow, and were only excelled by the loveliness I . * - 1T united states cubbenoy—loans
of the bride and her attendants as they stood telIea for S™ 11 food f ° rtb ? r . cows > bu ‘ Permonth S*
beneath and around it. Pendantfrom the arch a drill of China berries as seed will give amuch 1 r*
frem.
GOLD AND SILVER.
rates for Gold
pttoea
*107
hung an exquisite flower monogram in the foam greater weight of green food. The tender
of two hearts intertwined. shoots grow almost with the rapidity of aspara- a Wr h; 1
mer Night’s Dream,” in tones soft and sweetly j in the fall, when, of course, the stamps should
STATE BONDS.
be grabbed. Without ever having tried it, we I Georgia 7 per cent. Bonds, new,
,90®9l
delicious. _ _______
The coupleleft the city soon after, taking the [ bel f 6T0 drills of China berry on good land would I g«oi£ia 7 per cent Bonds,' oia
totfetook p».» s .r <*•«<■» i
We elip the following items from the Monroe | 8? een to C0W3,
Tbe Connecticut Election.
, .... ,1 For the information of those of our friends 1 tw,s» ’ mV S
«»HlBSS&ir
treasury to pay current indebtness. TMs is the Telegbath and Messengeb, of the 1st inst, Augusta Rinds new*
what Radical rale hasdone for Monroe oounty— | of a fictitious Ku-klux outrage, and who have | citv of Atlanta Bonds 8 nnrAini
the seventh in point of population and wealth j been deposed to think that such publication l City of Atlanta Bonds,’7 per cent.".'".'.'.'.'.’.'; |
Runaway.—A negro on the plantation of Mr. m5 8 ht possibly have been used against the | cte0Ig ; a cent^ndsT??!?!
A. P. Steele, near Colaparohee, was plowing I Democrats in Connecticut at tho recent elec- j Georgia Railroad Stock
with a spirited horse a few days since, when the I tion, we print the following letter. The publi- Central Railroad 7 per cent. Bonds.
were entangled in undergrowth, the horse Nbut its author isg!ad to know-as he Soutoweetem Railroal Stock. . 2
- - — - ---- felt sure would be the case—that no harm has [ Macon* Brnnsvi.kB. B. 1st mort. Bonds...77@78
South Carolina new Bonds, 6 per cent”!”’.”.
CITY SECURITIES.
City of Macon Bonds, endorsed by B. R. m
City of Macon Bonds ” J?
96@93
■ »
thrown and killed outright.
Macon & Brunswick B. R, 2d mort. Bonds...
The cotton mania is dying out. A gentleman I resulted to the Democratic party anywhere from I Macon & Brunswick Railroad IstockTnomi!! m
who has recently passed over the different roads J seemed to have been very generally un- I Macon & Western Railroad Bonds 95
leading to Indian Spring, informs us that many I , . , ,.. n .„.„ . _ . „ tT , Macon & Western Railroad Stock 105G1C3
fields planted in cotton hist season are now m aerstood ontelde ** Stat0 ** both Democratic Macon & Augnsta Eailroad lst moit BondT*®
com, and that this is true as regards other por- and Republican journals—as the author intend- Macon & Augusta Bailroadlst mortgage Bonds
Hnnanf tho /mimhr ed it should be—as a very broad and ridiculous f 53
I. . . - „ , , Macon & Augusta R. R. Construction Bonds. SO
- . .. ■ .7 travestie of the equally fictitious reports of Macon & Augusta Railroad Stock «
^ Ku-klux outrages that are being almost daily Atlanta & West Point B. B. 8 per cent Bonds 1M
propose uniting in a petition to the Governor . Atlanta & West Point R. B. Stock ioo
to order an election to fill the vacancy in the ] written ana telegraphed tp Northern Radical I Atlantic & Gulf Railroad, consolidated mort-
newspapers as actual occurrences. Here is the
. _ _ Hamfobd, Conn., April 8,1871. | Atlantic* Gulf Railroad Coupon Bonds.....
A. W. Reese, Esq —Dear Sir : In reply to Atlantio & Gulf Railroad Stock
gage Bonds. .
I Atlantic & Gulf Railroad Bonds, endorsed by
City of Savannah.
Senatorial branch of the General Assembly.
Death of Mbs. MoGough.—Tho injuries re-1,
coined by Mrs. Robert O. McGough—so severe- 1
ly burned about two weeks since—terminated
- } yours of the 4th inst, I have to say that I have 1 Western Bafiroad 8 per cent! Bonds, endorsed
Branching Out.—It has been mentioned m | l b y central Railroad Oflgsi
knowing circles, that several
contemplate extending their
ing branch houses at Colaparohee. The' trade I everythtoTexc^L'I Mobde * G | r ^4, Ila > boad endorsed
of the place is said to be bmldiugup rapidly. new and monev was used as freelv as water bv Centra 1 Railroad 88(390
a ^“brin^rfri 011 M °i a £°itte B^car^u^^ ^S 1 * 1611116486 ^ 0 " 3 l 8t m°r<^
p.. ss^ witbfjoSd. I s .br u b^fSSftoS I
Mongtgomery & West Point Railroad Bonds,
endorsed by Central Railroad.
killed one of the mules The driver escaped SS”
mjuryby leaping from his wagon on the ap
proach of danger.
xonrs cotton State Life Insurance Company Stock. 80
Gh’m. Democrat State Com. | ^ wholeB&le and jobbing trade of the city hu
The Evening; Post on tbe Kn-Klnx
Bill.
ri.h««.Wa<M.n i been light daring the week nnder review, and vs
r ignung n omen. i he&r of no beavy transactions in any department
p , The Paris Reds are the most consistent among I Tbe grocery andproviaion market l exceedingly
TheNewYork Evening Poefc.altltoHghalead-hdi the Radical Reformers of the age. They I d uU, and prices are drooping and lower than on tbe
ing organ of the so-called Republican party, I ba ve invited the women to form military organ- I date of our laet weekly report; We quote:
has not entirely overcome its ancient Demo- j izations for the defence of the city, and in so j BACON—Clear Sides (smoked) 12j£ @ 13
eratio fealty to law and the Constitution. It j doing have shown themselves the most “ad- J gear Bib Sdea (smoked) 12 @ 12M
thus powerfully assails the Ku-KIux bill of tho j yanced” In the whole pestilent brood of long- - ^ - - -
Mured philosophers.
However, there is, perhaps, more propriety
Hams (sugar-cured)
| BULK MEATS—clear sides
Clear rib sides
Shoulders.
18
@20
@12
@UM
9 @ 9*
House:
TMs legislation is not only unconstitutional,
*"£ I “ patting the women into this fight than into 1 COFFEE-Bio 22 @'30
that by tho traditions or tho law, it miebt b© I _ mL . . % .. . | T.n_imumi .. so o S3
pronounced “void for uncertainty. I ordinary warfare. This is a domestic broiC—I Java..... .. 82 @ 40
It is unconstitutional because it assumes Ha-1 “a family fight,” and it is to be carried on in DRIED FRUIT, per pound 15
tional authority over municipal police matters, the streets and lanes—from the housetops and BICOB per pound 9 @ 10
which are not delegated by the Constitution to probably in the very halls and I TEA '^- 2 OS SIS
Congress. If two persons “conspire” to commit I "“"""“j t * ' .
omn-nbi nAfconiinr ornnartv. this hill parlors of the great metropolis. Street barri-
any crime against^peisoaS or property, this bill, I parfors of the great metropolis,
by the natural construction qf its termB, takes I cades must be flanked through cellars, back
BUTTER—Goshen 48 @
Tennessee Yellow 25 @
them from tho State authorities and brings I yards and IrilwNnTia, nnr! rnnlr nr,f? «f>nl1inn mriflfr [ Oggggg qn.jity - J8
them before the United States tribunals as po- t tb y er8a illeF flanking parties, with hot
lice courts. It erects new seats of justice, with . ^ ^ . . | LARD—.
20 @
15 @
Green 2 00 @3 00
— - - - 60
40
40
25
25
16
20
FISH—Mackerel! bbla,“No. % 2,3. 15 00 §24 00
Kits 2 75 @5 00
Codfish per pound... 10 @ 12
BALT—Liverpool per sack 1 90 @ 2 00
WHISKY—Common Bye 1 05 © 110
Fine................ 2 00 @500
Com 1 20 @ 125
Bourbon.................. 2 50 @500
_ _ Virginia................... 2 50 @350
obtained throughout thelandT'Under thisacL I houses. Let the gentle Anna Dickinson, the | ALE-Per dozen..... • .2 85 @SM
any two members of a State legislature who financial Biddy Woodhull, Sallio Brass, Cady j aOEACCO—Low grad caper pound n @ ^
1 m H "’Hi " Good...”'.'.'.'"."’.'.’.'.'./.!! 70 a m
Bright Virginia ^85 @ 1 M
inay be dnigged^aVonee befbre'a national court | Pftris to y 88130 010 8 ontIe 8118 8nd flowing gar- J FLOuS^Superfine per bbV.‘.‘ V. 7 00 @ 7 50
ments of peace, and prove that women ean be
a jurisdiction that conflicts at all points with I water, kettles of boiling soup, spits, chopping j SUGAR—-According to grade 15 @
that of the State courts, and sets up two distinct knives, hatchets, forks, cleavers and broom- j ^■^ AS S E8 7~£f! c0 J : !ffi lg ^ t0 o’ M **
and widely different penal codes for the same sticks.
nity for indefinite annoyance and oppression to hold will prove invaluable as sconts and voi
ds exercised under the forms of law towards the I tiguers, and can, if needful, smash the heads
very men who ought to beeoneiliated by the gen- 0 f the Versailles troops with showers of pots
eral government, and who must oe treated with I.... . . . .. ’
forbearance and kindness, if peace is ever to be I kottleB » and crocber y from tb ® roofs of 010
obtained throughout the land. Under this act, houses. Let the gentle Anna Diokinson, the
any two members of a State legislature who financial Biddy Woodhull, Sallio Brass, Cady,
unite in proposing or supporting a bill which gtanton, and the rest of the Sorosxs, look on
ss; ■»*“* “»<*l
may be dragged at once befor " ^
and tried for “a high crime.”
It is vagns in the highest degree. It con- gg terrible in war, as sagacious in connsel, and
ever an offence is liable to puniphment by two 8X0 coming right at the root of the matter; and
cedes, and by two sets of adfirinistaators, toe with the women as soldiers, the whole oontro-
common result is that it is punished by neither. verey of woman’s rights is settled.
An indictment by tho one may be plead in bar I m
of an inffiotment by the other. How far this J Tbelaeon and Brunswick Railroatf.
ftWSSSSSSf SSSitS SSSr
snrmlant tho State courts entirolv in tho nmi-oo. 1 tontion during our recent excursion to Bruns-
characteristic work nnder the Constitution.
Extra.... 8 00 @8 60
Family 9 60 @10M
Fancy Family Brands 10 60 @12 %
ationai and. the atate tribunals. When-1 ’—“ r — i __ GRAIN AND HAY. .
offenceis liable to panifhmtmt by two j ooming right at the root of thematter; and @120
GREK 125 @1«
OATS 75 @125
WHEAT—Per bushel 140 @1M
FIELD PEAS ii®
HAY—Northern
Term esse Timothy ••
Herds Grass
Tennessee i w -
markets—Evening Report*
New You, April 12.—Cotton dull and heavy!
nda 14%; sales 2450. _ , .
Flour, Southern unchanged. Whisky steady “
citizen.
But these are not the wont provisions of the
bill. The Constitution expressly authorizes the
Executive to use the army to sapport the laws
and authority of the State when the State Ex
ecutive calls on him for aid, and thus by direct
implication forbids him to do so in other cases.
But this bill authorizes Mm to Interfere when
Petes Solomon, E. Wxnship,
L. W. Hunt, H. J. Lamas,
A. G. Burrs, B. F. Ross,
E. Isaacs, J. F. Gbxeb,
Charles H. Solomon.
Maoon, Ga., April 11,1871.
I take pleasure in testifying to the exoellent j
ent of the national government, so that it to marxrae eviaenoes ox improvement at runs- Freights very firm; cotton per steam
gg-gheggSi^aBgStaSBagaa
snttstsrtftygtfttJSxas&L'-' ‘ te Sums wHi
... 1 Pu*rta RnTfvunw TJ! Wwoim* i Al&b&m& 88 100; 58 70; Georgia 6s86>i, ,
North Gttolinas 10; new 2%; South Carolina .
ne <Gk>vemment ve* steady
have changed but little swoe y«terd»y,
62s 12^r&4a 12)6; n6W Uiii ®
12 ^ 10b 8 ^‘ , -to pork dull and unsettled
Cincinnati, April 12 —Pom auu g
19 60@20 00 asked; 19 00 cgWefl. ^ gj
unsettled; nominally "MO
drooping? shoulders 7&5 clear rib gg W.
sides lOjf-. Whisky dull and lower at ^ M
Louisville, Aprfl W-Pork ddl; held
the rights of citizens are not protected by a condition of the Maoon and Brunswick Railroad,
State, and when the State authorities “fail or 8113 to the uniform courtesy of the officials.
neglect” to ask his aid. And of the necessity
for such interference and of the extent to
J. M. Board man.
for such interference and of the extent to I The signers of the foregoing card are very | Louisville, April us—*»»
which Ms military operations shall be curied it enthusiastic over the condition andproepeots of & WfiskyWg*
the disorders in any State “a rebellion against track, in every respect, is equal to the beet in M 7 joiU63@aK 25. Hay, prirae»°?
the United States,” and “when, in his jndg- j Georgia, and its smoothness and low grades en-1 <§>24 00; choice 24 50@25 GO. Mess Pork dou r;
ment, thepublio safety shaU require it,” may ^ ^ trains to make fast time. The engines Ipwerat 20 00. Bacon djffi;
-*—» j* as P g,®*
In other words, everu constitutional restriction. I gia, and are kept in perfot order. The line is I prime 9?f @10. Molasses, pianution rebouw
_In otfier words, every constitutional restriction\&*> - - , ...
upon the power of the Executive is withdrawn, I doing a fine freight and passenger business, and I duU; we8iem
and instead of the constitution and its checks, f the improvements along the entire route* show ! — **
85@95.
Sterling 2ltf. Sight Kpwmmm. .GoWlOX-^
Cotton easier but not lower, midduugs
145*; net receipts 4257; gross 4523; exports to J
safeguard for its liberties. If he should choose enco on 1110 oountr y* Brunswick is also making oejo^ 625; sales 3700; atock 282,188. ^
at any time to deolare the city of New York or I marked advances, and every prospect both of I Augusta, April 12.—Cotton in modewte a _
of Washington in rebellion, aSd to take posses- the city and this noble avenue to the interior, is * ’ ,
S. 0 .? kw > Mgbly flattering. April 12-Ootton in moderatedem^
that is, under the will of himself as com- 8 J •? —- middlings 14; net receipts 891; exports toi
mander-m-chief, the people must choose be-1 “Three Successful Girls.—Messrs. Brown Britain —; coastwise 255; sales 600; stock
tween submission and armed resistance to the 4 (u booksellers, stationers and newsdealers. 1 oniot:
enforcement of an act of Congress. That is to J _ ’ _ . .. .
say, it gives color of law to such a oouf d’etat I this city, have sent na a copy of the above
as made Napoleon HL master op France. book, just issued by Hurd & Houghton, New, . „ - ,
N® republio is justified in thtw surrendering I York. The author is Julia Croat*. We think
she is bound to make a spring upwards in the 'TuSSS? ^ m
'restoration of order by such meals %ould Ua Uteniy world and in the direction of a cash 10^m
greater calamity to the country than the promo-1 balanoe at her banker’s. “Three Sneoesefull Boston, April 12—4Dotton quiet; mWdlmgsi^j
tion of disorder by it. For it would establish a Girls” is quite a clever performance—one of net reoeipts 21; gross 71; exports to Great m
the Executive, might intrench itself and its I * S 003 moral for 811 who 1083 ib 1 <«- exoorts ooas
President in absolute power,, and leave the| A Saved is‘a Peenx Made.—Salt
munnmuA. Apm id.—.
middlings 14; net reoeipts 58; exports oo*stw»
s&lee 38; stock 1859. go
galywton, April
people no remedy against absolutism and oen- A ,rr!TTT dinsryT^tfP netrooSpta 1148; exportsto^
tralization but in revolution. It £t an attack I $1.75 per sack. Good O. Sugar 6 lbs to the dol-1 SSiSv. ■ coastwise j to the continent
upon the foundationsof civil liberty; an aban- j lar. A No. 1 Coffee 4 lbs to the dollar. Choice salmASOO; stock 54,954.
ueajwuu; awo* u*,9um. _iJAHnog
Mobile, April 12.—Cotton ffiUtsin
puouc opinion wmenis megrovnnor nisiory anai „ „ .. n-
the erown of civOleation; a recurrence to the\ Haits > Ameriwa > Ga<
principles and methods of barbarism.
I —: ooastwise-; salse.600; sty*
donment of that reliance upon law and upon | j^ ew Orleans Syrup 75 cents per gallon, at J.
_ ew _
J Liverpool, Aprfl 12, ®xeufcQg.—jo,005
Good Words for April is received and may J g ^
The fruit and wheat crop of Hancock county I be found at the [bookstores. This is one of the
promises an abundant yield. best reprints in the country. 1 #2)^.