Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Greorgia, Weekly Telegra/pli and Journal JVIesserLgei*.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, APRIL 18, 1871.
Traiisplantlns Vegetables.
Coaiplainta are common that transplanted
vegetables, snch os cabbages, tomatoes, lettuce,
etc., do not seem to grow off with any freedom.
They do not die, but frequently drop some of
fViAir leaves—look yellow and sickly, and axe a
long time in getting ready to grow. One great
cause of this, wo apprehend, is the unskillful
transplanting by the negro gardener. The
transplanting is usually done when the soil is
very wet. Now watch him and you will see
that he presses the soil very closely about the
roots of the plant—squeezing the little roots
and spongioles together in a clump, and press
ing the soil firmly around them. Then the sun
comes out, and bakes this lump of pressed earth
about the roots almost as hard as a brick. Test
the earth just around the plant with your finger,
and you will find it very much indurated. Chop
ping about the plant with a trenching hoe does
not cure the evil, because the blade of the hoe
cannot approach sufficiently hear the roots to
loosen that hardened earth. It remains for a
long time, a permanent obstacle to the free
spread of the radicles, and until they get
through and beyond it, the plant oannot thrive.
Be careful, therefore, to impress upon your
gardener, in transplanting, especially in clayey
soils, to use no perceptible force in pressing the
soil around the roots of tho plants. They must
have every opportunity to spread through a
light and spongy soil, and where this is the case,
the growth of the common esculents will not
be seriously checked by the process of trans
plantation.
Encouraging from Paris.
The Paris insurrection, as we hope and be
lieve, is rapidly drawing to a close. The morn
ing dispatches report a practicable breach in
the ramparts, and an assault was expected yes
terday. The Insurgents were barricading the
streets, and, from the tenor of the dispatches,
we should infer, have lost heart, and are taking
to cover. It is stated that the Commune has
sought the intervention of the Foreign Ambas
sadors to make terms between it and the Ver
sailles Government.
The morning dispatches announce the sack
ing by the mob of the noble cathedral of Notre
Dame and the pillage of all its valuables. Thus
tho three grand churches of Paris have been
plundered, and the Archbishop is in prison. It
is stated that Rochefort vainly tried to save the
ohurch, but he is not the first demagogue who
has had to learn how much easier it is to raise
a mob than to control it. Perhaps the night
dispatches, in this number, may announce that
the insurrection is virtually subdued. At all
events, we take comfort in the opinion that it
cannot live a great while longer.
Tlie Eepideza Striata.
This indigenous clover is spreading very rap
idly all over Georgia, and its power of repro
duction exceeds anyihing we have ever noticed.
A month ago the writer caused a little garden
bed to bo spaded up for the purpose of resow
ing it with Curled Parsley. The Parsley, as
everybody knows, is a biennial plant, and should
be reseeded every third year. The seed was ac
cordingly sown in shallow drills, but the Lepi-
deza came np in a mass and would have smoth
ered the Parsley, if any of it got above ground.
Determined to try it again, the same bed was
turned nnder to the depth of fourteen inches
with a long garden spade, and reseeded with the
Parsley. In less than ten days the clover was
np again as thick as bristles on a swine's back—
such a growth that the surface is fairly mossy
with the little sprigs. That stuff will puzzle
gardeners, before long, and wo are not so sure
but the farmers will find it worse than crab and
crow-foot. On anything like fair land it makes
a mat as dense as a Turkey carpet, or there
about. _
New Books.—Lee & Shephard, book publish
ers, Boston, send us, through Brown & Co., of
this city, “Guilt and Innocence,” a Swedish
story, by Marie Sophie Schwartz; and Charles
Sumner’s famous lecture,entitled “The Duel be
tween Franco and Germany.” The novel has
been widely read and most favorably commended
by the critics both here and abroad, and, we
judge, is a work of real merit. Sumner’s lec
ture is a production of whose merits we cannot
speak knowingly. Life is too short to waste on
such efforts. Sumner is a finished scholar atfd
an accomplished word-master, but he is also a
pedant and a fanatic, who has done a deal of
misohief by talking. We have neither the taste
nor leisure to give him the slightest encourage
ment as a listener.
Violetta, and L—This little story by a young
lady of Georgia is winning great and deserved
popularity. We have heretofore spoken some
good words for it, and we are pleased to know
they have found strong endorsement in many
quarters. The following extract from a private
letter will show what a lady—a most competent
judge by the way—has to say of it:
The pqyasal of “ Violetta and L” proved so
very agreeable and entertaining, I cannot re
frain from thanking you for the enjoyment of
so great a pleasure. “ Cousin Kate ” so sweet
ly, so thrillingly “reverses the memories from
her grandmother,” that I am quite as enthusias
tic over tho fair and gifted authoress, as her
beautiful story. Lovely Violetta’s wail tor the
loved and lost “ little one,” is touching in
deed.
Brown & Co. have it for sale.
The Sugar Aften the Medicine—The House,
we see, is trying to take the taste of the black
Ku-KIux bill out of the Southern month, by
what is called a liberal amesty bill. It is the
sugar after the nauseous potion. But no amount
of sweetening can reconcile sensible men to
usurpations of this fatal character. They strike
a death-blow at the liberty and security of the
people. If Congress can intervene between the
State governments and their citizens in that
way, better dispense with State governments
altogether.
How They Voted.—On the passsage of the
iniquitous Ku-klux bill in the Honse last Thurs
day, the Georgia delegation voted as follows:
For the bill, Bigby and White, (Rads.) Against
it, DuBose, McIntyre and Young, (Dems.)
Price, (Dem.) from the 6th district, did not
vote, having paired off with Dnnnell, (Rad.)
from Minnessota. He would have voted nay if
he had been present. Speer, (Rad.) from this
district did not vote at all, and, we suppose,
maybe classed as “dodging.”
The Scientific American says it is now impos
sible to construct a burglar-proof safe—for the
thief with his cylinders of compressed hydro
gen and oxygen, can, in a few seconds, bum
holes of any size in the hardest metal—his fire
drill enabling him, in a few minutes to work his
way into tho strongest safe that was ever con
structed.
Yolunteeb Cloves.—Mr. Frank Johnson, of
Clinton, of tho firm of Johnson & Dunlap, of
this city, has shown us a bunch of red clover
thirty inches in length of volunteer growth in
his yard. If unprepared land will prodace such,
what would land of the same fertility do thorough
ly prepared and seeded at tbo right season.
Gamfing-out parties are going to be all the
rage this summer. The Lake George region is
much favored by ladies for this purpose, as bo
ng within call cf civilization.
Over Prodnction in Disordered and
Insurrectionary States!
It is a little singular that none of the poli
ticians in Congress have responded to the car
pet-bag and negro Ku-Klux affidavits, with sta
tistics from the office of the Commissioner of
Agriculture. Horace Capron is a Republican;
and, so far as we know, a very worthy gentle
man, who would tell the whole truth and noth
ing but the truth. Rut in this case they need
not take Mr. Capron’s word or oath- All that
he would have to do, to prove the Ku-klux wit
nesses false—to show that the House and Sen
ate Ku-klux Committees are in total error in
declaring the condition of the Southern States
disordered, insurrectionary and chaotic—and
that the President himself entirely misrepre
sents matters when he asserts the same thing,
is to bring out the crop figures from the
drawers and desks of his Bureau.
■When a paralytio can runaraee.or a dead man
dance a hornpipe, then communities convulsed
with lawlessness and civil and social disorder,
can increase the results of their productive in
dustry. It is barely possible that in manufac
turing or commercial communities a lucky hit
or a spasmodic effort might realize the ordinary
gains of a year of steady, peaceful and patient
labor; but no such thing is possible with the
Southern cotton crop. That is a crop requiring
eonslarit. and unremitting application from Jan
uary to Christmas. If in any one of its
stages, whether of seeding, cultivation, picking,
ginning and packing, labor bo withdrawn, the
result is bound to bo disastrous and in many
cases fatal If the field hands, for example,
doriDg the long period intervening between the
last of March and the 1st of August, abandon the
hoe and the plow, the crop id a few weeks is
hopelessly lost in grass and weeds.
In order, then, to produce the common cotton
yield of the Southern States, there must have
been a condition of affairs conducive to quiet and
steady labor. If there be even much excitement
and discontent among the laborers, with no pos
itive violence, it would be impossible to pro*
duce an ordinary cotton crop. Labor must go on
cheerfully, contentedly and energetically to in
sure even that result. Negroes are very excita
ble—easily alarmed—having comparatively little
self-possession—and the existence of excite
ment and apprehension for personal safety, even
without cause, would seriously impair the cotton
product; because in such a state of mind they
neither could nor would labor with constancy
and heartiness. But under the state of affairs
represented by the Ku klux swoarers—the Con
gressional Radicals and tho President—we say
it would be as impossible to grow a full cotton
crop as it would be to create a world.
Come up, then, Mr. Commissioner Capron,
and tell ns has this disordered, convulsed, be
deviled and ku-kluxed country maintained its
productiveness? Does it show the ordinary
fruits of a quiet, secure and contented industry ?
Mr. Commissioner Capron would hand in his
testimony in two lines, and it would be conclu
sive of the general condition. It must bo con
clusive, too, of the almost universal condition,
because the figures would show that, to make
up such a grand total, no material part could bo
lacking. That evidence would bo:
Cotton crop of 1869-70 ......3,154,946 bales
Cotton crop of 1870-71 about...4,200,000. “
Upon that showing alone there i3 not a well-
informed and unprejudiced mind in the world
who would not conclnde, all allegations to the
contrary notwithstanding, that the Southern
States must be in a condition of profound quiet.
No such exhibit is compatible with any other
situation. The entire energies of the . country
must have been concentrated on the crop, and
could not have been wasted and misemployed,
or have been impaired, in any perceptible de
gree, either in creating or suffering public dis
orders and violations of peace and private secu
rity. This point is as perfectly demonstrable
os any problem in mathematics—or a3 that no
man can be in two places at once, and that no
community can be hard ot work and yet running
mad with riot and disorder at the same time.
It is true we may admit exceptional instances
of disorder; but these exist everywhere. There
is no disorder producing general disquiet and
insecurity—no disorder calling for extraordina
ry remedies, but, on the contrary, in spite of all
the lies and delusions of the Ku-klux alarmists,
there is and must be, a general condition of
sound, social, civil and industrial order, because
such results as these are plainly compatible with
no other condition.
We said on Saturday that this so-called dis
ordered South had positively increased her con
tributions over last year, to the wealth of tho
world by sixty millions of dollars. The cotton
crop of last year was worth about §370,000,000,
at 25 cents per pound. The cotton crop of this
year, at the same price, would have been worth
about $470,000,000,—at 15 cents it will be worth
in the world’s money about §315,000,000. But
the product is there, no matter what it may be
worth in money. The President and the Con
gress of the United States present to the world
tho ridicnlons attitude of proclaiming a section
of their country in a state of chronic disorder
and insurrection—which has increased its crop
products during the year by 33J per cent, and
conld have increased it only by the steady and
persistent industry of the whole people—from
year's end to year’s end.
To Secretaries of County Agricultu
ral Societies.
Office State Ag’l Society, )
Macon, April 9, 1871.)
Mr. Barnett, of Wilkes, the Commissioner
appointed Vy the Georgia State Agricultural
Society to visit the County Agricultural Socie
ties, for the purpose of advising and aiding in
their more perfect and efficient organization, is
now engaged in that service. It would greatly
facilitate his movements and labors if the Sec
retaries of all county and looal societies would
immediately communicate to me here, the time
and place of their monthly meetings. Having
already visited Bibb, Houston, Schley and Sum
ter counties, he will meet the following appoint
ments:
Albany—Thursday, April 13th.
Camilla—Saturday, April 15th.
Thomas vile—Tuesday, April 18 th.
Bainbridge—Wednesday, April 20th.
Starkville—Saturday, April 22d.
Dawson—Tuesday, April 25th.
Fort Gaines—Thursday, April 27th.
Georgetown—Saturday, April 29th.
Cuthbert—Thursday, May 5th.
Mashallvillo—Saturday, May 7th.
I beg the favor of tho weekly papers of the
State, to publish this notice, especially the por
tion of it requesting information of the time
and place of monthly meetings.
Day. W. Lewis,
Secretary.
Forney’s East Insult to ITliite Men.
This notorious Hessian is hard at work lickiDg
Grant’s boots to pay for that Collectorship. His
last effort in this line takes tho shape of the
following insult to the white people who choose
to vote the Democratic ticket. He knows there is
no surer road to Grant’s favor than by such in
sults to white men. It is consoling to know,
however, that Forney would abus£ the negro
just as heartily as he does tho Democrats if De-
mocracywas trumps and tho road to plunder
lay in that direction. He says in tho mess:
Wo believo the Democratic party of tho
North, all its protestations to the contrary not
withstanding, will eventually get down on its
knees in abject beggary for the negro vote. It
will be no condescension, however; for the
Democracy is already below tho level of the
negro, and tho average colored voter i3 not
only the intellectual equal, but the superior of
the men who march up to the polls like oattle
to vote the Democratic ticket.
Ex-Congbessman Cake, of Schujkill county,
F<l, was in his seat six days daring the last
season of the Forty-first Congress, for which he
received §5,000, or §833 per day.
Mrs. Dr. H. H. Steiner, wife of the well
known surgeon of Augusta, and a most esteem
ed lady, died last Friday.
'Columbus had received 71,740 bales of cotton
this season, np to Saturday.
Two new warehouses with capacity for 5,000
bales of cotton, are proposed to be built this
summer, at Savannah.
Captain O. W. Marshall, of the schooner L.
A. Edwards, trading to Savannah, was shot and
killed by mistake at Fernandina, last week, by
a man named Mooney.
A fire Friday night at Savannah, horned ten
frame buildings on William street, near Fahm,
and caused a loss of §12,000 — insured for
§2,000 in the Southern Mutual at Athens,
The Savannah Advertiser, of Sunday, says:
The New Centbal Railboad Extension.—
The important work of the extension of the
Central Railroad track northward from its pres
ent line through the large area of ground re
cently purchased by the Company, to its termi
nal point west of the Ogeechee Canal, will, in
a few days, he commenced. Workmen have,
for sometime back, been at work getting ready
the necessary piling, whilst Messrs. Muller &
Schwaab, the contractors, have been busily en
gaged for tho past six weeks in getting in readi
ness their pile driver, which is gotten np on an
entirelv new plan from any of those formerly
used here. There are to be three tiers of piling
driven, extending for a distance of one and
three quarter miles, and for the performance
of this work a pile driver ha3 been constructed
and fitted with necessary wrenches, eto., where
by it will propel itself on iron rollers along the
tier of piling as they are driven. The machine
is sleigh shaped, and is provided with the nec
essary appendages of saws for cutting the tim-
beis to a suitable length, and, in fact, every
thing that will facilitate business, the machin
ery beiDg driven by steam. It is contemplated
by the contractors to commence operations
early the coming week.
The Advertiser furnishes the following par
ticulars of the movements and present where
abouts of Gould, tho defaulting revenue collec
tor, furnished by a reliable gentleman just from
Florida:
Gould arrived at Palatka on the morning of
the 22d of March, and proceeding to the Pnt-
nam House, kept by George MeGinley, former
ly of the Screven House, of this city, and
seemed very much surprised at meeting Mr.
MeGinley, not knowing that he was the propri
etor of that hotel. Shortly after his arrival,
Gould informed MeGinley that he felt very un
well, and was at onco assigned to a room where
he remained the entire day, not even leaving it
to take his meals, but having them carried np
to him. He was attired in a dark suit with blue
hunting shirt, and had with him a double-bar
relled gun, powder fiask and shot pouch, as if
on a sporting tour. On tho evening of his ar
rival he left the hotel, leaving behind him his
powder flask, which was seen by our informant,
hanging behind the counter in the office of the
Patnam House upon his arrival at Palatka, on
the Sunday following the departure of Gould.
Oa leaving the hotel Gould took the boat for
Enterprise, and oar informant having business
at another point took his departure, hearing no
more of the absconding Collector until ten days
after, when on his return to Palatka he made
inquiries and gamed the following farther in
formation relative to his travels: Upon arriving
at Enterprise, he crossed the rivor on tho night
of the 29th alt., paying a negro two dollars for
ferrying him across and landing him in the
woods at Mellonville; at which point ho papsed
nnder the assumed name of 'William Harrison.
Our informant beiDg compelled to leave Palat
ka, heard no more of the affair, but prior to
leaving, was informed by a reliable gentleman
of the legal professional Enterprise, that should
any other facts come to his kowledge, he would
communicate them to him by mail to Savannah.
Two days after the arrival of onr informant
in this city he was apprised by mail of farther
facts relative to the movements of the Collector.
After remaining at Mellonville long enough to
perfect his plans for future movements, Gonld
employed and paid twenty dollars to a man to
convey him m a wagon to Orlando, where he
assumed a disguise, swapping his flue black coat
for a very dilapidated one, and bis boots for a
pair of old brogans, requiring no “boot” in the
trade. When about twenty miles Southwest of
Mellonville, on Ms way to Orlando, be made a
§ urchase of a cream colored mare from one
osan L. Cook, paying her one hundred and
seventy-five dollars for the same. After pur
chasing the animal, he parted company with
his twenty dollar employe, and mounting, with
his doable-barrelled gun and ammunition, he
bade adien, nnder the assumed name of Jaekson,
and started across “The Cross Prairie,” on the
road, as he said, for Fort Capron. It seems to
be the general opinion of those acquainted with
the country in the direction of wMoh Gould was
last seen to go, that he has, ere tMs, fallen in
with some of the many cattle drovers in the
wilds of that portion of Florida, and may remain
withthemuntil the matter of his defalcation be
comes quieted down or forgotten, when he will
doubtless emerge from bis cattle hunts and
prairie sports, and take passage for other parts.
The Georgia State Dental Association, at their
recont meeting in Augusta, elected the follow
ing officers:
President—Dr. E. Parson, Savannah, Ga.
First Vice President—Dr. H. A. Lowranoe,
Athens, Ga.
Second Vice President—Dr. S. G. Hollend,
Augusta, Ga.
Corresponding Secretary—Dr. li. A. McDon
ald, Griffin, Ga.
Recording Secretary—Dr. L. Carpenter, At
lanta, Ga.
Treasurer—Dr. Thomas J. Jones, Sparta, Ga.
Executive Committee—Dr. F. Y. Clark, Sa
vannah, Ga.; Dr. E. M. Allen, Marietta, Ga.;
S. O. Ford, Atlanta, Ga.; W. H. Burr, Madison,
Ga.; J. P. H. Brown, Augusta, Ga.
‘‘Jim” Sims, the little mulatto fiddler whom
Bullock appointed District Judge down at Sa
vannah, can’t find his court. It dodged Mm in
Chatham, ditto in Effingham—where he fonnd
the court-house locked and the officers “gone a
fishing”—and it will probably dodge Mm in
Bryan.
Patrick J. Nagle, formerly of Eatonton, and
a' fireman on the Atlantio and Gulf railroad, was
fatally crushed wMIo coupling a car at Jessup,
Friday night, and died Satnrday at noon.
Joseph B. Gonder, of Hancock, has resigned
the appointment of Jadge of the Twentieth
District Court, and assigns two reasons : First,
The law enacting the court is unconstitutional
and void; second, Because ha is neither a judge
dejure nor a judge de facto, Ms appointment
not having been confirmed by the Senate.
The Savannah Republican says:
Green peas from Georgia and Carolina are
selling in New York at §2 50 per bushel, or just
about half the price asked for them in the Sa
vannah market
Fishy.—We yesterday saw two fresh water
trout, caught in the waters of the Savannah
river, weighing twenty-seven pounds. An old
fisherman informed us that they were the largest
tronts ever brought to this market They fonnd
ready sale at almost fabulous prices.
We clip the following item from the Consti
tutionalist, of Sunday:
The South Caeouna Railroad Company.—
Tho Directors of this company have declared a
dividend of one dollar per share for the three
months ending Maroh 31st last. This dividend
is payable on and after the 1st of May next
The South Carolina Railroad Company is now
earning and distributing regular quarterly divi
dends, which, at tho price of the stock, pay over
ten per cent, per annum on the money invested.
The Athens Banner says:
Shot.—We regret to leam that Mr. Samuel
Pruitt, of this place, was painfully shot by R. O.
Waters, in Homer, on Tuesday night. We have
not heard the particulars of tho affair. The
ball entered his side and came ont near the
navel.
Chuboh Burned.—The Sandy Creek Church,
nine miles from Athens was destroyed byfire on
Monday last. It"caught from a fire in tho woods.
Says the Constitution, of Sunday:
DeKalb county has made itself famous by
lawsuits against the Georgia Road. At tho last
term these suits wereprotty nearly knocked into
“pi.” First came tho'case of Platt Madison,
who sued tho road for §3,000 damages for being
put off of Jthe cars. The jury rendered a ver
dict of §25 and cost of suit for plain tiff. Green
B. Clay 6ued tho road for §2,300 for cross-ties
furnished for the rebuilding of that part of the
road destroyed by Sherman, by tho Confeder
ate Government, in 1 SG.3. The jury returned
a verdict- for the defendants. In the cases of
J. W. White & LeBoy Hudgins and J, D. Wil
liams, similar claims, the jury rendered a like
verdict. ,
The bonded debt of Columbus is §633,800,
the annual interest upon which is §44,366. The
annual income of the city is about, §100,000,
and current expenses about §40,000.
Wbat the Radical Organ at Atlanta
Has Cost the Feople or Georgia.
The editor of the Atlanta Constitution has
been overhauling the State Road books, in or
der to see how muoh plunder from that source
daring the past year, has lodged in the office
of the Radical organ of that city. He first
overhauled the Treasurer’s books to discover
the amount that bad been paid ont to the organ
on aocount of printing and Executive patron
age, and discovered that §37,675 86 were the
figures that represented the amount of fatness
lavished nnder that name for 1870. These
figures made his mouth water to know more,
and he determined to continue his investiga
tions. So he writes a letter to Bollock asking
to be allowed free access to the State Road
books, to which that official promptly answered
yea, and the editor proceeded to interview the
books aforesaid. We append the result of Ms
labor:
We find that daring the year 1870 the Era
drew from the State Road Treasury the follow
ing amounts:
March 17, 1870 § 1,075 50
“ 26, " " w, '“
“ 31,
April 16,
" no,
May
June
July
Aug.
Nov.
Dec.
28,
31,
11.
25,
30,
30,
28,
80,
24,
696 00
•« ; 499 00
“ 419 00
« 806 50
“ 925 00
“ 248 50
“ 315 00
“ 160 50
“ 377 00
“ 786 00
“ 1,134 50
“ 1,248 00
“ 2,752 50
§11,439 00
Add this snug little sum to the first amount
and we have:
Pablio Printing and Executive Pa
tronage §37,675 86
State Road Printing. 11,439 00
$49,114 86
In round numbers, then, we may say that,
during the year 1870, the tax payers of Geor
gia contributed §50,000 to keep alive an organ
of the party whose only mission and work in
tMs State has been the degradation and beggary
of the aforesaid tax-payers. They not only have
to submit to the presence and publication of
such a journal, but actually are forced to pay
for its defamation and insults to themselves.
If this is not “roughness” we would like to know
what is. No wonder its editor can afford to
gather up in its columns, and parade for the
delectation of Ms lavish employers, all the fonl
garbage contribnted to Northern Jacobin organs
by strolling vagabonds of the trooly loil per
suasion. He and they know that it is garbage
of the vilest character, and manufactured for
the basest purposes; but secure in the pos
session of a free pass to the people’s strong box,
he and they can afford to laugh at decency and
mock at truth.
It is a most healthy reflection that the
day of this orgies of plnnder-stimnlated libel
and abuse is hastening to a close. The Ides of
November will see this stream of slander
damned up in a sharp, short and decided way. It
will run, we suppose, a few months longer after
that event, but its current will have to gather
force and volume elsewhere than from the
Treasury of Georgia.
Bad For Vicksburg—'Threatened Cnt-
oir—Tlio City to Become an Inland
Town.
From the New Tork Sun. J
Our readers will remember that wMle Gen.
Grant was conducting military operations
at Vicksburg in the beginning of the yoar 1863,
he undertook to dig a canal across the neck of
the bottom land on the western shore, immedi
ately opposite the city. His purpose was to
open a passage by which.bis transports and the
naval flotilla might pass below Vicksburg with
out coming within reach of the guns upon the
fortifications there. TMs undertaking was not
successful, but it appears that the current of
the river has now taken up the work, and
threatens to cut through the neck at a point
just below Grant’s canal, and change the chan
nel so as to convert Vioksburg into an inland
town, some two or three miles distant from the
river. The subject has been investigated by
officers of the Engineer Corps, and Gapt. O. R.
Snter has made a detailed survey pnd estimate
of the expenditure that will be requisite to pre
vent tho dreaded calamity. Capt. Suter, who
regards the danger as very serious, thinks that
the best remedy wMch the case admits of would
be to cover the slope of the river bank where it
is now wearing away, or where it may be ex
posed to wear away hereafter, from low water
mark to the deepest portion of the channel,
with a layer of broken stone at least three feet
thick. Above low water mark the bank should
be graded to a suitable slope, and paved one
foot thick with atone to the proper height. The
total length of shore to be thus protected is
twenty-one thousand feet, or nearly four miles,
The cost of the work Captain Snter estimates
at two millions and three-quarters of dollars.
His superior officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Rey
nolds, endorses his report, though he doubts if
the work can be done in time to prevent the
impending disaster, bnt says that if it is to be
done at all it is of the greatest importance to
commence at once. General Humphreys, the
able Chief of the Engineer Corps, concurs in
the views of Captain Suter and Col. Reynolds,
and says that if the river should be allowed to
make its way through the neck, the futare
landing will be in a locality where the form of
the river bed will not be so favorable for such
uses as the present. The Secretary of War, in
submitting the matter to the House of Repre
sentatives, does not ask for the appropriation
of the Luge sum required for the work, but
simply calls the attention of the House to the
fact that unless prompt and energetio measures
are taken to stop the encroachments of the
river, the city will lose its harbor. It appears
also that Vicksburg has considerably inoreased
since the war, and that its present taxable
property is something more than seven millions
of dollars.
Of Wbat Material Judges are 91a le.
From the Oskoth (Wisconsin) Times.]
Wisconsin seems prolifio in material for
judges, and Waukesha county is equal to tho
demand. That county, at short notice, gave to
Florida a supreme justice, and now gives to Ar
kansas a United States district jadge, at a salary
of §6000 per year, for life. When living in
Waukesha, we remember to have seen a lad
named William Story—now about twenty-eight
years old, not very promising then: bnt of fam
ily connections that gave turn some degree of
eminence. That boy grew up without any par
ticular aim in life, read law a short lime in Mil
waukee, provided Mmself with a oarpet-bagand
went to Arkansas. Gov. Clayton appointed
Mm a oirenit judge. At that time he had never
had a case, if indeed he had ever seen the inside
of a court-room; and now, as we see by the
Senate proceedings of the 4th instant, tMR Wm.
Story has been appointed and confirmed United
States judge of the Western district of Arkan
sas, at a salary, §6,000 for life! With all
such impositions npon practiced tho people, is
it strange that trouble exists in the Southern
States ? _
Curious Tmxos to Know.—Besides the fact
that ice is lighter than water, there is another
curious tMng about it wMch persons do not
know, perhaps, namely, its parity. A lump of
ice melted will always become pure distilled
water. When the early navigators of the Arctic
seas got out of the water they melted fragments
of those vast mountains of ice called icebergs,
and were astonished to find that they yielded
only fresh water. They thought that they were
frozen salt water, not knowing that they were
formed on the land, and in some way launched
into the sea. But if they had been right the
result would have been all the same. The fact
is, the water, in freezing, turns out of it all that
is not water, salt, air, coloring matter, and all
impurities. Frozen sea water makes fresh
water ice. _ If you freeze a basin of indigo
water it will make it as pure as tbat made of
pure rain water. When the cold is very sudden
these foreign matters have no time to escape,
either by rising or sinking, and are thus en
tangled with the ice, bat do not form any part
of it. ’ . ,
London, April 9.—There was desperate fight
ing around Paris Saturday. Fort Valerian and
the advanced batteries of the army of Versailles
steadily bombarded Porte Maillot, their shells
fallingin Champ Elysees. An engagement took
place at Villiers, and there were skirmishes at
Boulogne and Billanconrt. All the southern forts
haye resumed firing.. The Government forces
are gaining ground in front of Mont Rouge and
Bieetre. A decisive struggle is expected at the
Gates.
It is reported tbat TMers is averse to forcing
an entrance into Paris by fighting, and that he
prefers to redace the city by investment. At
ten o’clock last night the cannonade at Porte
Maillot and other points continued with great
violence. To-day a conflict occurred among the
Insurgents themselves, in Rne de Faubourg St
Antoine, in consequence of the refusal of a por
tion of the National Guard to march beyond the
walls.
The Monitenr reports that Deleshuse Is under
arrest; also that the ambulance service In Paris
is insufficient, and the wounded are suffering
greatly for want of proper attendance. Domi
ciliary visits will be made to-morrow to seek
for refractory Nationals. The recent decree of
the Commune has been modified so as to make
military service compulsory oh all between the
ages of nineteen and forty. A flotilla of gun
boats has been sent from Havre up the Seine to
assist in tho operations against Paris. Si6ge
guns have also been dispatched from Havre to
Cherbourg for an attack on the forts occupied
by the Insurgents. The Insurgent National
Guards in Marsailles were disarmed withont
resistance, and all who were taken prisoners
have been sent to the Chateau dlf.
The Observer says Bismarck is still favorable
to the restoration of Napoleon.
London, April 9—3 a. m.—Dispatches from
Paris of the 8th, confirm the accounts received
from Versailles, and admit that the Govern*
ment troops carried the barricade at Neuilly at
at seven o’clock on Friday evening. The Voit
announces that General Henry has arrived in
Paris, having escaped from prison at Versailles
by stabbing the guard while the latter was hand
ing food to the General.
Washington, April 9.—The Senate Commit
tee on the Judiciary were in session five or six
hours yesterday on the House Ku-Klux bill. Va
rious laws were examined in order to ascertain
whether they and the bill conflicted. While
objections were made by several of the Senators
to that part of the measure authorizing the
President to suspend at Ms discretion the priv.
ileges of the writ of habeas corpus, the majority
agreed to the general principles of the bill, and
unless they shall change their minds by Mon
day it will be reported to the Senate withont
amendment. Many of the members of both
houses think that if the Senate make amend
ments the passage of the bill will be delayed if
not perilled as to its final passage, and hence it
is probable it will be passed by the Senate in
precisely the same form as it passed the House.
The above is from a Radical source.
An amnesty bill will be introduced on Mon
day and pressed to its passage by Hale, of
Maine.
Washington, April 9.—The proceedings of
tho Judiciary Committee yesterday are kept
secret. A very reliable statement however, is
to the effect that tho Ku-klux bill was amended
in several respects so as to make it more in ac
cordance with judicial tests. Efforts to make
punishments follow more speedily upon the
heel of offences, failed. The bill, as amended,
is not more stringent but only more in accord
ance with legal logic than the House bill.
Cotton Movements for the Week.
New Yobk, April 10.—The cotton movement
for the week shows a falling off in receipts com
pared with last week. The receipts are over
3,000 below last week, when the total was the
smallest for any one week since tho early part
of October, 1870. The exports are large for
the season, and this week they are about one-
third greater than for the corresponding week
last year. The receipts at all ports for the week
are 67,543 bales. There has been less rain at the
South daring the week, and weather generally
warm and dry. Exports from all the ports for
the week are 00,461 bales. Total exports for the
expired portion of the cotton year, 2,370,350
bales; stock at all the ports, 555,208 bales;
stock at the interior towns,. 77,500 bales; stock
of cotton in Liverpool, 751,000 bales; amount
of American cotton afloat for Great Britain,
370,000 bales.
New Yobk, April 9.-The bank statement Bhows
loans decreased nearly §1,000,000. Legal ten
ders decrease over §2,250,000. Deposits de
crease over §6,250,000.
Washington, April 10. — The government
troops now occupy, in strong force, the towns
of Boulogne, Asnieres and Suresnes. They
have unmasked numerous batteries between
Neuilly and the ramparts. Many Paris news
papers exhort tho people to abstain from voting
to-day, and thereby give the death-blow to the
Commune. The Communists are barricading
Rue de RivolL
The Commune has made an indirect demand
that Foreign Ambassadors should arrange the
quarrel with the Versailles Government; who,
however reluctant, have aooepted the responsi
bility.
It is stated that the breaoh at Porte Maillot
gives easy access to the assailants, and an assault
is expected to-day.
A Tribune speoial of Sunday evening says
there was a cannonade all day. The Champs
Elysees are completely deserted. The National
Guards are Mding in cross streets, seeking pro
tection from the shells, which fall in every di
rection—many of them close to the American
Legation.
The Versailles troops have erossed the Seine,
and occupy Sabtonville and Long Champs. The
drawbridge and floor of the Porte Maillot are
broken.'
A Commune bulletin announces that the Ver
sailles troops have been driven from the Neuilly
bridge, and that the National Guards are eager
to advance, but are forbidden.
The Cathedral of Notre Dame has been
saoked. Rochefort vainly endeavored to save
it from pillage. Nearly all its valuables' were
plundered.
The Archbishop of Paris has been trans
ferred from the Concierge to another prison.
General Henry has not escaped. He was sent
to Belle Isle. The Commune is controlled by
secret committee wMch arrests other mem
bers. It has no known cMef. Py at declares in
to-day’s Vengeur that the suppression of news
papers is the act of the Committee of Publio
Safety, and not of the Executive Committee.
Sunday’s sortie against Ghattillon was re
pulsed with heavy loss. An incessant fire is
kept up from forts Issy, Vanvres and Mont
Rouge. The damage done is slight.
General Vinoy will keep the command until
Tuesday.
A deputation of Paris merchants to Thiers
has returned without result. A reconciliation
is believed impossible. There was no sitting of
the Assembly on Sunday. A majority of tho
members have gone to mass.
New Yobk, April 10.—Arrived —Georgia,
Livingston, Regulator, Wm. P. Clyde. , ..., . .
Washington, April 10.—The Senate is dis
cussing Blodgett and Goldthwaite. The Ku-klux
bill has been reported from the Judiciary Com
mittee, with no verbal amendment in it except
that the law terminates with the next session of
Congress.
In the House Hale’s bill for nearly universal
amnesty, was referred to the Committee on the
President’s’ message—the only live committee
in the House. An early and favorable report
improbable.
’Washington, April 10.—Boutwell and Belk
nap have returned. Delano returns Wednes
day. No Southern nominations. No executive
session. The amnesty bill wMch passed the
House tMs evening by a vote of 134 to 46 ex-
oepts those who were members of Congress,
officers of the army and navy who left to join
the rebellion, and members of the State conven
tions who voted for the ordinance of secession. -“**•’* liquid tonS
The bill was supported by all the Demoor&ts : WeU with hk ji
and many of the leading Republicans, among
them Banks, Dawes, Eames, Farnsworth, Gar
field, Lynoh, Hale, Schofield, Kelley, Fincklen-
burg and Sheldon. Among the Southern Repub
licans who voted nay are Maynard, Wallace,
Porter and Elliott.
House.—Bills were introduced allowing the
Momphis and Savannah Railroad to enter pub
lio lands; granting lands to the Selma and Gnlf
Railroad; granting lands to Kansas City and
MempMs Railroad.
The amnesty bill passed nnder a suspension
of the rules. [Applause on thefloor and galle
ries.]
The bill withdrawing publio land from market
failed by a arote of 57 to 102.
The following passed by 130 to 21: Resolved,
That this House reaffirms the resolution adopted
on the 12th of December, 1870, by the House
of Representatives of the 41st Congress, declar
ing that the true principle of revenue reform
points to the abolition of the internal revenue
system, wMch was created as a war measure to
provide for extraordinary expenses, and the
continuance of wMoh involves the employment,
at the cost of millions of dollars annually, of an
army of assessors, collectors, supervisors, detec
tives and other officers, previously unknown, and
requires the repeal, at the earliest day consistent
with the fasth and credit of tho Government, of
all stamp and other internal taxes, and that
properly adjusted rates Bhould be retained on
distilled spirits, tobacco and malt liquors so
long as the legitimate expenses of the Govern
ment require the collection of any sum from in
ternal taxes.
Senate.—The Democratio side will be brief
in arguing the Ku-klux bilL It will probably
pass by Thursday. The proceedings indicate
an adjournment on Saturday.
Scott spoke in opposition to seating Blodgett
Sherman opposed both Llodgett and Goldth
waite.
The Senate adjourned without action.
The Supreme Court to-day reaffirmed its re
cent decision nnder the confiscation act holding
the act as constitutional and the form of pro
cedure valid. TMs was in the case of Ty
ler against decrees from the Supreme Court of
the district involving the title to certain real
estate. The case of Millers, executors, wMch
had been decided before, was one of personal
estate. These two decisions will dispose of the
various other similar cases remaining on the
docket of the Court. The Court also reversed
the decision of the Supreme .Court of Louis
iana, sustaining the proscription laws of that
State as a bar to an action on a promissory note,
wMch had not been commenced within five
years. The case is remanded with directions
to overrule the plea of proscription. The Court
also reversed a judgment of the State Court of
Connecticut, wMch exempted from liability to-
the income tax the undivided profits of corpo
rations.
Synopsis of Weather Statement.
Wab Dep’t, Office Chief Signal Offices, >
Washington, D. C., April 10,8:40 p. an)
The clondy and threatening weather prevail
ing Sunday evening in the Central Mississippi
Valley, as is shown by the reports received
this morning, was a portion of a storm then
passing over Missouri, which this morning
was central in Southern Illinois, in wMch State
it still remains. Light rains and cloudy weather
are now reported northwest of the OMo Valley,
with brisk northeast winds on Lakes HicMgan
and Erie. No reports have been received from
Minnesota, nor west of Omaha. At the latter
place a northeast gale prevails. The pressure
has fallen on the Gulf and Lake Ontario, with
clondy weather.
Probabilities: It is probable that threatening
weather, with brisk winds, will be experienced
on Tuesday on the Gulf, in lower Mississippi, on
Lakes Erie and Ontario, and to a less extent in the
Eastern States. Cloudy weather and a falling
barometer are probable for the Middle and
Southern Atlantio. There are not sufficient re
ports from the Northwest to give the probable
weather on Lakes MicMgan and Superior.
Pabis, April 10.—Unless the Germans save
us Paris must soon swim with blood. The
Commune hourly grows more desperate, and
resorts to fierce excesses. The Concierge isfilled
with priests and nuns who have been arrested on
warrants calling them citizens styled the ser
vants of the person called God.
Archbishop Durfoy was stripped naked and
bound to a pillar and scourged and mocked for
hours by a band of two hundred Reds.
Savannah, April 10.—Arrived, Tybee. Sailed,
steamer San Folio, Old State Maine and a tug
boat from New York for Havana. Cleared,
schooner Francis Satterly, Saqua la Grande.
Cleared Saturday, steamships Montgomery and
San Salvador, New York; Wyoming, Philadel
phia; schooner Lucy M. Collins, at Darien,
loaded for Boston. Arrived yesterday, steamer
Saragossa, Baltimore; General Barnes, New
York.
Washington, April 10.—In the Senate to
day Mr. Carpenter also spoke against seating
Blodgett. Trumbull, in course of the debate,
called for the reading of Blodgett’s credentials,
wMch were fonnd defective as to when and by
whom he was elected;
Cameron called for Trambull’s credentials,
asserting that they would be found equally de
fective. Trumbull’s were read. They contained
a fall statement of when, how and by whom he
was eleoted. The little crowd of disappointed
Republicans had a general laugh over the de-
noumenk
The Masonic banquet to Earl De Gray to
night was a grand affair. No one excepting
Masons were present in any capacity. The
Earl made a speeeh expressive of his gratitude
for the courtesy and attention, and believing
this meeting of English and Americans would
develop a closer feeling of friendsMp and inti
macy between the brethren of the two coun
tries.
Savannah April 10.—The base ball match be
tween the Mutuals, of New York, and Savan
nahs, of ths city, resulted in favor of the Mu
tuals. Score 29 to 3 times; grme two hours
and fifty-five minutes.
Onr Public Men.
Forney writes m the PhfiadelnT,,- „
H°w welll remember some ft***
cian and a declaimer. His\w\ 0nce
his incisive sentences and re«*? A
.figure were. .admirably ttiSaZS* *si |
reasoning powers and admirabU L 1 , fc f *
A rare specimen of the same ctndm?
P. Benjamin, of Louisiana,
before the Que en’s Bench in w> a N?
Borne Jewish face, Ms liquid tr
debater and his accuracy as
Soule, a Senator from the rntmn c
different, yet as peculiar a troe -
complexion, black, flashing
fled dress and speech, madehiVn’^ 4
tractions of the Senate. He
after a strangely eventful and no«i «-
was an artificial man—brilliant Mrej t
subject to fits of melancholv-i^ pa ^l
reserved—prona, but polite—
a contradiction as Viotor Hn eo M
of knowledge anda deposit at aT '“
never exhausted. a 7 **
sionist when the rebellion
light shone feebly in that darken?? 4 »
Virginia always had a supply ofS' 5 *
Thos. H. Bayley, with his onU 8004 ^
Ms Southern idiom, a
and the scholar;
his pleasant smile, dandy dr«»' d ^ £I >
phrases; James M. Mason, 4ft
diction and pompous pretence. r » 1)5
ter, with Ms quiet and Xd***.
Roger A. Pryor, with his imnetr^ ^
zling temperament—these^ere^ii 5 ^ i
speakers, though as distinct as
The noisiest man in the
Congress was Georgs S. Houston
the most quarrelsome was KeitUf
olina; the best tempered, Orr of *
State; the most acrid, Geo. IV 1
nessee; the jolliest, Senator Jere
Alabama; themost supercilious, Shan't
of Louisiana; the mostgenial, 8eZ», ,
Kennedy, of Maryland; and’ttfS
coarsest^ Wigfall, of Texas. • • 31
in many respects a true orator and"
copy much from Clay and Crittenden ^1
son Davis was always a capital d-alec^-l
strong in argument, but always stem
tions. Hammond, of South Carolii >-
good presence and a persuasive tcVu|
not a great man. Toombs, of Georria
stormy petrel, often grand as a decU-1
always intolerant, dogmatic and extre—"“f
was as violent in 1850, whenfcewasafi 1
as he was in 18G0, when he became as"
ist _____
The Marriage Ceremony in Su I
mingo. f
A special correspondent of fie Snl
Tribune gives the following desciipi:-/
marriage ceremony as celebrated at LjTa
San Domingo:
■When we announced onr intention o!fe
the next day for Moca, via the Santa C
Father Christinacce invited us tome
him there, where he was to perform •
the chapel built over the place whtnCc.
planted the celebrated cross, aadvhj
priest also was to officiate in sevenl a-
ceremonies, wMch he thought we tedds
tereated in witnessing, as the marnirs i
be celebrated according to theo!dc:d
the people. Marriage in San Domirpl
somewhat costly business, but whe:;lo|
The bans are published twice on naf
Sundays or other fete days, and ttepua
expected to confess twice, although
answer. The wedding fees are 1
stated from §8 to §16, which prc.lsi.7l
not include the confessions. It is stT
much of the immorality of tho lower d
springs from the fact that they cauuctl
to pay the fees, and so dispense wifi u
mony. The plain near La Vega is it s|
state of cultivation; we passed large!
of plantations, which neat dwelhng-
and fields separated by maya hedges. I
coffee and cocoa is raised, but Urn on
duct is the indispensible plantain.
saw many broad-leaved breadfruit trees f
thre e miles from the town the road nsh 1
rapt bend, and began ascending a iliijl
ed Mil, rising some two hundredfeeii!
plain. As we rode up, we could cat
sional glimpses of a little white
on the brow of the hill, and the roadval
ed with gaily dressed men and wocecgJ
to the religious services. Another
reached the summit, and, at oarfeet^v
Yegareal in most of its great extent
is a never failing means of transport
a railroad from Santiago to Samara j
erse the most fertile and easiest de>e!
of the Island. The Mil thickly woodelj
church is surrounded by a dozen 0: E-l
built in the usual fashion from pslcj
and thatched with its leaves. The si
was, as the Padre said, according tofcl
rabie ritual, but I am inclined to tfiil
local customs have much to do wifiiij
liarity. There were the usual premia J
hortations, interchange of rings, etc
the contracting parties took lighted ®
their hands and knelt; the prieet ttej
stout rope and literally joined them io?
the neok. The matrimonial noose is <
to be a figura of speech, bnt in Sarto 0
least, there is no metaphor about it
A Youthful Mabtinet.—A Berlin letter to
the London News says:
Berlin is MgMy tiokled with the story of the
manner in which the eldest boy of the Grown
Princess demeaned Mmself when he met his
grandfather the other day, at Wildpark. As
soon as the Emperor came within proper dis
tance this youthful Fritz sainted Mm with in
tense gravity, and stood to attention as rigidly
as if he had petrified. The Emperor called
Mm familiarly by name, and asked an affec
tionate question. His reply was another elab*
orate military salute, and a resumption on the
boy’s part of “attention.” With a burst of
laughter the old gentleman took Ms grandson
in his arms, when at length the latter thought
circumstances entitled him to merge discipline
in affectionate demonstrations. He is very
Hke what, in appearance, our Prince of Wales
was at Ms age. He is spoken of as a very
promising boy—honorable, studious, and eager
to exceL The seoond son, Henry, is a pretty
boy, but rather pale and delicate.
Baggage Smashing as a Fiat |
The Boston Commercial BalleiisajsJ
Baggage smashing as a fine art,
a Mgh state of perfection in this cert j
the skill, ingenuity, and perseveres
by railway porters and employe^
the strongest built trunk to s ■■
leather and iron, must be highly
the trunk makers. New York an;, fie■ 1
duoe some human bombshells vMSjn
head of the destructive brotherhood ft]
nihilation of baggage. A heaviiy
iron dad, armor plated tmnfc**?l
a two days’ trip and the
three of these railroad wreckers m-
reduced to old junk. On
put our faith and our clothing : u.|
Bole leather valise, handsomely t.---
together as far as Washington, _
believe that some great reform
“revival” had taken place among in
railway men; and that some r J
Mathew, or hotel Elder Knapp ha^,
that the debased baggage smasher^,
pledge to abstain from destroying e
as a bandbox, or had experien ,
heart, and with it moretender^!
with a hopeful spirit, therefore,^
pectingly parted with our Irns J P° j
the depot in Washingfou Al^^',
bility of human hopes; tha. e-^
leather was delivered to ns
end of the day’s journey, needy®
into leather shoe-strings. ^Artock,
erod flask of cologne.bad I
and tho fragments
ted in onr linen, vnere it w*
cUeThe most Btelj-emotion.A
had been converted into snuff J
-rraaaaggL
would suggest to anynewnflsgg
wish to win immortMfame^ a;: .. ; .i
selves in the most M
announce that they of»
livery of bBggage, except m « ^
railroad accidents for win ,^$1
blame.” Such a guarantee
out would largely increase ^1
railway, and cause them - -ua
throughout the civilized vo
tors of mankiniL____ 4>> __ - ^H
Tbial of Mbs. Lauba FaM
of Judge Chittenden—
OF THE PbISONEB.—San ffv. I
Mrs. Laora A. Fair, ontriai\
Judge Crittenden on the few $ r
which he had just entered van f
allowed to testify yesterday i“. f :;j
She admitted having been Metis'
once sinoe her adulterous :;fT
Crittenden. Two of A®?,* 1 . 3
suicide, from one she obtain
one is still living undivorew.
ried the last two she avowed v- ^
free-love sentiments, declai“» (
Crittenden’s true wife in the S J _
Ms wife, to whom he
two years, is still living. hJ® p
riage with Snyder did j
because she did not love h'-®-,,.-71'
Two women in court
mony were fined twenty-nv
contempt of court.
The ert-c- 1 ‘
Beginning to Faint.—-te ^
all the ports for the weekending,
last, were 67,543 bales. T e
week ending 31st of 4fArfl " 1 . aj.1i'
24th, 81,426; da 17tb, l02 > 4 ®*’ pdf
36,584. This shows a pretty r*
ib
Of
ten