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0Y, REID & REESE, Proprietors. '"n reles rn l ,u Building, Macon dIP* h and Messenger, one year, 4 00 2 00 3 00 1 50 .Weekly fist;. jjf, 56 columns, 1 year, H£ 0 Swavs in advance, and paper stopped ST the money runs out, unless renewed. SSsa AEBiSODIESIS WITH 3. W. BURKE & ■M 1 " ^j.' a publications. “> HoSS “S« »nJ firm ani Home ................. 00 SIweekly Telegmpli and Messenger SLmCbristian Advocate with Weekly 5 00 Weekly. 400 ^JNTD GEORGIA JOTTRJNTAJL & MESSENGER. The Family Journal.—News—Politics—LiTBRATURE-^-rAGBioui.TUBE—Domestic Afpaibs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING tfABRISHED 1826. MACON, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1871 YOLTTME LXIY—N0.43 §10 00 . 500 . 100 Lotc’s Colors. isKSSffisa.- j Tint in t- , rl i Seep in color, as tho heart Wboec every thought of her is prayer; For violets grow pale and dry, Jsdlote tho semblance of bor oye. So lilj's bud I gave my love, • Though ebe is white and pure as they; For they are cold to smell and touch, And blossom but a single day; And pressed by love, in love s own page, Ike, yellow into early age. Eat cyclamen I clioso to give, Whose pale white blossoms at the tips (111 else are driven snow) are pink, And mind me of her perfect lips; 5fll till this flower is kept and old its worth to love is yet untold. Old. kept, and kissed, it does not lose As other flowers the hues they wear; hove is triumphant and this bloom Will never whiten from despair; Either it deepens as it lies, Xhis dower that purples when it dies. So shall my love, as years roll by, TaVc kingly colors for its own; Sole master of her vanquished heart, Am I not master of a throne ? Crushed by no foot, nor cast away, llrpurplo love shall rule the day. OTHELLO’S WAIL. Indignation of a Sonth Carolina Brave, 'ith Carolina correspondence of tho Cincinnati Commercial. | Major Dickerson, of the “National Guard of i State of Sonth Carolina," (as tho militia is id for short) is mad. He sweats, and foams, ci charges—not with his militia, for they have aa disbanded. That is what is the matter. It army has been taken away from him. He to longer ride on his gray charger along the of dusky warriors, giving hoarse orders to ;tt about face,” “forward, march,” and so His occupation is gone. I called npon tho gallant Major at his favorite ■room to-day, to interview him on the situa- j. The Major lives in Charleston, when he cot dragged to the capital of the State by issing official business. Ho was formerly a slave - , and is as black as ulnmn of smoke that comes out of the Ga ft smoke-stack every evening at the hour uia good peoplo aro wending their way to :reh and concentrating their thonghts on ags to come. The Major is consequently en- sly black. Not a drop of white blood can be jjj in his body anywhere. He is not only ii, bnt ns ugly as a stump fence. His mouth xls like the opening of a big black carpet-bag lil with small tomb-stones. If he should put aself at tho head of his gallant men, open at stupendous month and charge pn tho ene- a, the enemy would leave the field in disorder, fpon being introduced to this gory hero of £ adred dress parades, by way of opening the Evcrsation I asked him if he knew how the tremor was. “I understand ho is quite sick,” continued. ' I dnnno how he is,” replied the high officer the National Guard, “but I hope, by G—d, fU die afore night. I’d bo the happiest man this hero earth, if he would.” ‘Ton don't like the Governor, then?” ‘•like him ? h—11, no. He’s sold out to the ids. He's deceived the colored people. He’s tnitor to everything. I hope he’ll die.’ “What do you think of the State Govem- I think the carpet-baggers have got it and ajing h—11 with it. The carpet-baggers that re now running the machine aro a low down, •1st, sneaking set of thieves. They aro de wing the colored people and stealing every- tisg thev can get their hands on. They aro a rekof scoundrels. And yet wo see the colored xople following after them like mules offer a «se. What do the carpet-baggers care for isn tut to get their votes? Nothing. After i*F have stole all they can oarry, which won’t along at the lick they are going now, they * off foi tho North whero they come from. “ Well, what are you going to do about it? ‘Tm going to Washington City and get np ifare ’em all and talk wtth my mouth. I m go- 3f to tell Grant just what sort of d—d thieves ti ia office here. If he don’t fix a change the publican party is gone np in South Carolina, to can’t tote everything. If tho present aint Wont pretty quick the colored peoplo will Sits with their old masters, who, after oil, are itir best friends, and clean out tho whole cap 'll from top to bottom.” Here a colored man took issue with him, and left the Major spouting and splurging at a fn- sctu rate. Ae I went out I heard the queanon 3 to him, “Didn’t you vote for Scott? Tes ” ho said, “but I wish my old master was here now to give me thirty-nine lashes for 'suob ones as ho used to give me in tho days slavery.” Itev. E. W. Warren. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Permit a to express my sincere and heart-felt regret •the contemplated departure from our com- Snity of that excellent Christian gentleman, ia Rev. E. W. Warren. We belong, it is true, to distinct Christian Ejinizations; bnt tho courtesies and charities i religion antedate its differences; and upon i» “celestial plane” of Christian fellowship, ‘ Us more than once been my privilege to meet faithful man and minister, and to join tot apostolic prayer, “Grace be with all them tot love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity." We have been fellow-laborers, too, in tho Jae general field of duty among the poor and to coble working olasses of our community, *541 speak tho convictions of a personal ex- fwience, when I testify that it will be indeed ~5crBt to repair the loss of this Christian ■Mther’s influence in this important field. His “Eaiory will abide in many hearts beyond tho •-•14 he loved and served so well; and I humbly ’*y that the Gracious Master of us all, may tout him tho light and strength of His Divine ■’eaence even unto the end of his earthly la- Ofi. Very Respectfully, B. Johnson, Rector Christ Church, Macon, ■wcon, April 18, 1871. * Lost Hko.—Most startling news comes Saturn. She has lost one of Lor rings, .to missing ring is tho inner one of the three totorto observed. It i3 said that the astrono- tot Shave has been watching for years its ap- rftoh to the body of the plannet, upon which “ tos now closed like a belt of semi-transparent .-T’Or, it s centrifugal force being entirely over- ;5 e - If this bo true the most stupendous Sfges must have taken place in that orb, and S EAjc-ct will be a mogt interesting one for J'f'gation by astronomers. Saturn, for .•‘^opic observer, on account of its rings, ji-kost resplendent as well as the most jcH® object in the stellar heavens; bnt should Cr® bo lost it would sick in appearance (o a Itoi* ““ *ost >t would sick in appearance M *Uh the common herd of stars. Doss, tbe Nepotist. [From “The Capital”—Don Piatt's paper, j Hoss was a colonel in tbe war Yarik aster fought against Ingomar; His grip was strong and his wind was long, And victory followed his dgar. the least chance for winning the next Presiden tial race is Grant. Although his Excellency did not mention it (he probably ^forgot it,) Geary himself has “aspirations.” It is already whis pered that he is to be a Presidential candidate on pie National Labor ticket with George W. Julian, of Indiana, as his Vice-President. When Ingomar went down in the woods, Yankaster, in its exultant moods, Gave Hoss carouses and costly houses, And bales of honors and other goods. Threo golden moons for shoulder-tips, To dub him Joshua of tho eclipse. And silken fettera, and spotted setters, And odds at poker, and faro chips, So far the grateful people went They ventured to make him president, And all Yankaster low doffed its caster, As in the palace he pitched bis tent. His nominations they heard with awe; Tho first were all his brothers-in-law! To sea him interpolate such in the pnrplo, The Ingomar party roared “Ha! ha!” And next his cousins to far degrees Wore clad in ermine and golden bees; His needy uncles wore fine carbuncles, And bathed in marble to drown their fleas. Repaying scores of anld Iang syne, And fighting it out on the family line, Ho sought in highways and ancient by-ways For more than kin - and for less than kine. When from his lair tho last of Mood And tio was honored since the flood, And one abysm of nepotism Appeared the palace neighborhood, No policy remained to win; The dynasty went down in kin; For want of more heirs ’twas an end of affairs, And the Hoseea went out ’midst a general grin. MORAL. Go slow in kinships, low or great, As adjuncts to the control of a state; If the family stretch the device may “fetch,” But, if short of cousins, mark Hoss’ fate! - Tbe Hfngl I simian’s Fox ’Cnt. . The Washington Gapitol has a racy account of how the Joint High Commission were treated to a fox hunt—a real fox and real (carriage) horses having been provided for the occasion. Tho weather was bad, unfortunately. As a pun ning friend of our Washington correspondent remarked, “ it continued to reynard (rain hard) all day.” But the jovial fox ’onters managed to keep ns wet both within and without and so staved off the influenza and rheumatism. On arriving at the residence of Mr. Suit, six miles from Washington, where the hunt was to take place, the hunters punched and lunched—the punches being ’ot, as the weather was “blarsted cold, you know.” Then the party mounted, the fox was turned out by tbe boy and started with a vim, and the honnds let loose. Tho Patriot tells the tale of this lively dido: “The fo; “ round the kept after him, it was hard to tell whether the hunters were chasing the fox or the foxehasing the hunters. As for the hounds, they unfortu nately took after some Southdown mutton that they happened to see in a distantfield, and they didn’t get back for a week. “The hnnt continued around the house, and the fox wonld undoubtedly have been caught but for the siDgular and eccentric conduct of the horses. Whenever spurred to their noblest efforts they would stop and kick, and several English noblemen and all the members of the Joint High Commission were sent sprawling npon tho grass. We are pained to write that Earl de Grey’s gallant steed and General Shenck’s carriage horse fell down, and when GOT. GEARY ON THE SITUATION. His Opinion of Slippery Simon and the Presidential Succession— 1 That Memora ble Fishing Parly—“As DrnnU as Fid' dlcrs.” Philadelphia Correspondence N. Y. Herald.) THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION. “What about the next Presidency, Governor? Grant is moving heaven and earth to secure Pennsylvania. I suppose he will receive your support.” “Will he? Iam glad to find somebody who thinks so (with a sigh.) Grant has not done the fair thing by me; yet I have no hard feeling— oh, no.” “Do you think Cameron is giving him any assistance?” “Cameron has politically killed every one he has taken hold of.. Why, Grant told me once that he understood Cameron thoroughly; that he spumed him as he spumed the dust under his feet, yet now we witness the two seemingly working in perfect harmony. Cameron has Grant under his thumb.” “Grant thinks that Cameron is doing him an immense amount of good in Pennsylvania.” “Well, Cameron has tho most convincing manner abont him; ho would deceive tho very elect. If you should go to him and ask him about his aspirations for the future he would say to you, LOOK AT MY GBAY HAIT.S: I have no ambition; I only wish tho perma nent good of tho whole party. You would leave him thinking ho was tho worst abused man in the country. I never saw his beat.’ Did yon and Cameron ever have a misun derstanding?” t . “Yes, we did. Cameron came to mo just be fore my second nomination, and wanted mo to appoint certain men to office whom he named to me. They were the very scum of the party. I heard him out, however, and when ho had finished, I arose and said to him, ‘General Cam eron, DO YOU THINK I AM CRAZY, Or are you crazy yourself?’ He replied, very coolly, ‘I neither think you are crazy, and I know I am not,’ Well, I simply said to him that under no consideration would I appoint the men he named. He got in a towering rage, Said ho, ‘We’ll have to nominate some one who can honor his friends.” Said I, ‘Yon can’t beat me; Iam going to be nominated.’ ‘Well, said he, we’ll try that in the field.’ Ho left me, fuming and raging, but I remained in my room and determined to let him run his course, came to Philadelphia and took a suit of rooms at the Continental, and Cameron’s party engaged rooms at the Giratd, just across the street. They Began to put up a job on me. I beard they were spending money pretty freely; finally I got mad and went over to their committee room and just told them I defied them, and dared them to nominate any one but me. I would expose every man of them (for I had every one of them under my thumb), and when I finished I brought my hand down on the table, and when I struck it the room fairly shook. I meant all I said. I need not ask if you know how the elections went; that is a thing of the Pa <‘I understood that Grant disappointed you in regard to a visit he was to make you. “Yes, ho did. I met him and invited him to come to Harrisburg for a visit. Ho said he would as soon as Congress adjourned. I told him ho could have a quiet and, I hopod, a pleas ant sojourn at HarriBbnrg. I wonld bring the best people in the Slate to meet him. We would ride around the country in the afternoon and bo to ourselves, or with company, just as he pleased. He seemed to be greatly elated with the idea, and I (I will be frank) was just as much pleased to have him come. __ I went home and made arrangements to give him half of my house for his residence during his visit to Har- risbnrg. I did not care if I spent a year s sala ry, §5,000; yes, I would have spent §10,000 to have made hi3 visit a success. I intended to make it tho event of my administration. Every thing was being perfected in good style, on the quiet (I am glad now I did not make it known,) for the President’s visit, and I was congratulat- for the President’ „ - , ing myself on the pleasure he would reoeive at Harrisburg, when I received intelligence one day that he was off with Cameron and a num ber of Philadelphians on a fishing excursion. When I heard that Cameron had captured him I knew there was no further hope of & visit to Harrisburg. I stopped the preparations and telegraphed to the Northern part of the State that I would -leave at once on a tour of inspec tion to the prisons, school-houses, and other public buildings, and I started.” “Did Grant and his friends catch many fish?” , “I don’t know; bnt to use a slang term, they all got AS DBUNK AS FIDDLERS, And had to help eaoh other home by turns. “I understand that Commodore Foote had f-ikpri to Grant, with tears in his eyes, until he had induced him to ceaso drinking, at least all tho ‘moral’ histories of the war say that he did. “History is one thing; whisky is another. “You no not, then, place muoh faith in Cam eron’s desire to help Grant to a re-election? “None whatever. I see it stated that Came ron has taken Blaine in hand for tho next Pres idency. What do you think of it?’ “I don’t pnt much trust in the report It is possible, however, that Cameron has use for Blaine, and is flattering him with vague prom- iS£ “I°harffi^ tiSnk Cameron would have tho as aurance to desert Graot so early, unless he.feU positive that there is no hope for him in tho fu ture, but I know him so well that I have ceased to bo surprised at any thing he does. “How about Sumner 03 a Democratic candi date ? Do you think Sumner would accept the for the sake of coming up with Grant. Geary (very thoughtfully scratching hi3 head, ^AndTt soemeel to the Herald reporter that Geary was asking himself what showwiU there bo for me under such a state of things ? We discussed Hendricks, Sumner and Grant, one. _ .. 1 Annvn’c» UofimofinT) PSQ i fox, with great good taste, kept running the baronial castle, and as the hunters the nobleman was set upon end it was found Mary. Tho box is not of stainless alabaster Which o’er thy feet I break: Nor filled with costly ointment, gracious Master, Poured for thy sake. Nay, father is it shapen in this fashion— A living heart. Dashed all across with scarlet stains of passion, And broke in part; While from its open wound comes softly dripping, Like slow tears shed, Or heavy drops, along thy footstool slipping, Its life blood red. It needs no balm or myrrh for sweet or bTtteJr,^ But life and love; -«■ * *• jjub me ana love; ■ < _ _ The gad conditions make mine offering fitter Tby heart to move. From all these claims of cruel wrong and anguish, This load of grief Wherewith my soul doth pant, and mourn, and lan guish, Give me relief 1 In thy far home is not thy soul still tender For mortal woe? Hear’st thou not still, amid that spotless splendor That seraphs know ? O, turn thy human eyes from heavenly glory 1 Bay, as before, Those tenderest words of all tby Gospel story: “Go, sin no more!” Lippincott. Letter from Southwest Georgia; Albany, April 15,1871. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : I submit the following items, colleoted during a week’s jonmeying in this section: Of course I came down via the Southwestern Railroad; unfortunately for the publio it is the only way to get here. The road bed is in very good order as far dawn as Fort Valley, but the moment the train runs on the wing of the road that has no competition, the everlasting flip-i- ta-flap musio peculiar to flat rails and chairs commences. Tho passenger coaches, too, on that his aristocratic nose was severely skinned. When e»Attomey General Hoar was thrown, he lost some time looking for hisspectacles, bnt when fonnd, he continued the chase on foot. Being somewhat bewildered he turned and ran in the opposite direction of the hunt, and spoiled it all by meeting the fox instead of taking after him, as he ought to have done, like a genuine fox-hunter. As it was he nearly frightened the fox to death by making the poor animal believe that a low sort of stratagem had been resorted to instead of fair fox-hunting, such as he had been accustomed to. “As it was, the animal headed off in this ex traordinary way, took refuge in the stable yard, and was about hiding himself in a hen-coop, when the ex-Attorney-General caught it by the tail, and holdiBg on with great vigor,- found himself possessed of the bushy narrative, for the fox was so weak and exhausted that he let his tail go. All the gallant hunters rode up, and surrounding the ex-Attomey-General, blew their tin horns while congratulating him upon secur ing the brush.” “After this there was more lunch, more hot toddy, and then all mounted and went off in search of another fox. There was no fox to be fonnd, because Suit had only hdught one. He said that if he had known that fool Yankee was going to put an end to the sport in that way, ho would have had another fox, so as to have a real, good, long hunt.” Our correspondent sends us this: “Our incident of the excursion does not ap pear in any of the .published accounts, though iit is food for the Washington gossips. It ap pears that a certain elevated dame, not alto- golhor diseoRnoolpd with the AwGriC&H hftlf 01 the Joint High Commission, became seriously affected by the rain, the champagne, the chilly weather or the hot punches, and ‘went on’ at the dinner table at a fearful rate. She is said to have confided to her neighbor that she was dreadfully disappointed in the Britishers, that they were horrid ugly men, and that Sir Ed ward Thornton waB the only good-looking Englishman she had ever seen.” Moral (which is addressed to the ladies solely).—Don’t endeavor to keep pace with fox hunting Englishmen at the lunch and dinner table. Speculation. The following curious communication ap peared in a recent issue of the New York Times: BUSINESS RISKS AND REWARDS. I am over 60 years old, in active business, and have been so since I was 17 years old; and since 25 years old on my own individual account, or as a member of prominent firms in this city and the West. I am a close observer, and have been a prominent and bold operator in cotton, Western produce, Southern produce, stoclaand real estate in this city. Unfortunately for my purse, it has only been within a few years past that I determined to cut adrift from the golden illusions of stocks and cotton and to concentrate my remaining depleted means and tho attention of my now remaining years upon judicious turns in real estate. I have been a close ob server of men and of tho individual character istics of prominent, lucky and bold men; have watched their gradual rise, culminating in glory, in country seats, horses, European tours, eto., eto., and in a few months thereafter seen tho stock descending rapidly and surely to the ground. I have also estimated chances on sim ply ten years’ active use of brains and capital, in the chief leading sources of speculation, and now submit them. In round figures, from the old data I refer to, I estimate as follows: Start fifty educated business men, 25 years old, and supply each with §20,000 to use for ten years, and at that period to report their actual position. The probable returns would be: In stocks—One man, at that period wonld be worth $200,000; two men abont §40,000 to $50,000; two men about $20,000 to $25,000; forty-five men bankrupt. In grains and Western produoe—One man at that period would be worth abont $100,000; one man $75,000 to $80,000; three men §50,000 to $75,000; five men $40,000 to $50,000; ten men $25,000 to $40,000; ten men §10,000 to §20,000; twenty men bankrupt. In cotton—One man at that period wonld be worth about §150,000; one piau about $100,000; one man about $75,000; five men about $40,000 to $50,000; three men $30,000 to $40,000: ten men $5,000 to $10,000: twenty-nine bankrupt. In sugars, tea and foreign produce, one man, at that period, wonld be worth about $150,000; one man, $125,000; one man, $100,000; three men, $G0,000 to §75,000; five men, $40,000 to §50,000: four men, $30,000 to §40,000; ten men $20,000 to $25,000; ten men, §10,000 to §15,000; fifteen men bankrupt In real estate in this city and environs, one the Eufanla line are anything but comfortable, They are all untidy and badly ventilated affairs, after the style of those that A. Ward called “caravans of second-hand coffins.” But they never lack for some one to ride in them. To understand the situation fully it is only neces sary to see the elegant palaoe coaohes belong ing to the company that run between Macon and Columbus,.carrying daily about half-a-doz- en through passengers. I also learn that the fare has been raised between some of the inter mediate points on the road, and that persons riding on freight trains aro charged, five cents per mile. These are small matters, bnt they enable the dear peoplo to gratify their propen sity for grumbling. Times are hard, and the public want to know if there is “none of Mrs. Whitcomb’s Soothing Syrup inGiliad” for these evils. I heard a gentleman remark, yesterday, in commenting upon the ud just discriminations against local patronage, mentioned above, that “with the posthumous ideas of enable prede cessor to draw on, a man may, by such man agement crown himself a railroad king, bnt in so doing he might incur the contempt of his countrymen.” . . “A-meri-cus," shouted Admiral Cheiry, show ing his handsome phiz in the door a3 the caravan of S. H. C.’s lumbered up to a commodious and shapely depot, and came to a halt. An indis- criminate rnsli for traveling bags and terra firma ensued, which was met by a simultaneons scramble to get in from the outside. After a general mashing, of course, and derangement of apparel tho crowd succeeded in passing each other on the same track, and when the transfer wa3 completed, and tho last mce young man, with oiled ringlets and voluminous neck tie, had inspected, and been inspected by the last passenger in the hindmost car, the won at courser stretched forth his arms, and sped him away with precious freight of human hope and despair, fried lunch and paste-hoard Saratogas, happiness and misery, pouches stuffed with the Telegraph and Messenger, mails, etc., and I repaired to Cohen’s hotel to revel in the vaned manipulations of passovor bread. Cohen s is a new establishment, and a first rate place to stop at. Travelers will find at it many comforts un known to most of our Southern hotels. I found Sumter Superior Court in session, his Honor Judge Clarke presiding. I could leam of no business of general interest to the public on the docket. The bar is well represented. Besides the local members I have met here Col. Lanier and Judge Hill, of Macon; Messrs. Crisp and Hudson, of Ellaville 5 Col. Wooten of Dawson, Messrs. Schofield and Lloyd, o:: Montezuma, and Mr. Goode, of Preston. Court will be in session again next week. The meeting of the Georgia Medical Associa tion, the proceedings of which you have pub lished, was a very interesting one. I nevei saw assembled together a more intelligent body of men, and during the disoussions that ensued I heard some very fiB.e specimens of forensic eloquence. When the Association resolved to admit into full fellowship the members of the Atlanta Academy of Medicine, the Savannah delegation bolted and withdrew. For a time this created some excitement, but the members soon regained their equilibrium and proceeded with the business before them. The Savannah delegation went home. “When doctors dis agree, who shall deoiae?” The withdrawal of the Savannah delegation necessitated the eleotion of a new secretary. Dr. Stout, of At lanta, was chosen. This worthy refused to al- low tho Telegraph and Messenger reporter the access to fhe minutes. On Friday night the citizens of Americas gave the Association a grand banquet, which I learn was quite a pleasant affair. Eating, drinking and speech-making was the order of business. Drs. H. Y. M. Miller, McDonald, and others made remarks, and the gcose hung generally high. Tho young gentlemen of the Eureka Club gave a hop on Wednesday night which was the most pleasant affair of the season. The ladies, bless them, were out in force and with their sweeteBt smiieB. The light fantastic was tnpped npon to the musio of tho It&li&n bend* Gentle- men of the E. O., I thank you for your kind- “ May you live long and prosper. The Orphan troupe will be in Americu3 on Saturday, and the citizens are preparing to give them a hearty welcome. I learned this morning that a_ cyclone passed through Sumter county last night, which de stroyed much valuable property. Houses, trees and fencing fared badly, and it is said that sev eral peoplo were killed by a falling house. I find business generally at a stand-still in Albany. I am stopping with Messrs. Collier & Oheevis, of the Towns House. It i3 generally known that Collier can’t be beat as a caterer, and Cheevis promises to be tho jolliest, biggest and best Boniface in the State. The prospect of an early completion of the real estate in this city and envuons, one Enfanll f end of tho Brunswick and Albany rail- would, at that period, be worth about . , g ^ flattering. Messrs. Smith, Brown $200,000; two men, $150,000; five men, $100, 000; ten men, $50,000 to $75,000; ten men, $40,000 to $50,000; ten men, $30,000 to $35,- 000; ton men, $10,000 to $15,000; two men bankrupt. Or, in other words, there is less danger of loss in real estate than in any line of business, taking steady operations for ten con- road is very flattering. - . & Co. have several hundred hand3 at worK be tween the Nachaway and Patoula creeks. Mr. G. W. Smith is a stirring man, and when ho takes hold of a job you can call it completed. Crops of nil kinds along the railroad look healthy. I notice that the farmers are planting plenty of grain this year. If the seasons are secutive years, and attention and taste for the . f hey arQ going to make their bread- pursuit There are a great many sheep in it | ^vorame xuey b fa M. who try to follow the lines of operation of oth- Brans - era, whose plans of oparation they cannot con ceive, and by judicious purchases of cheap bar- guns aro steadily in a fog. A Sccprise Wedding.—At a recent wedding Hecla and Vesuvius.—It is a long way from Hecla, in Iceland, to Etna, in sunny Sicily. Yet scientific men tell us there is little doubt that these two volcanoes aro connootecl by a tunnel or natural subterranean P&ssago in Louisville, Ky., the first bridemaid, the beau- j communication. There ar“ good tiful daughter of a millionaire, bad arranged to this belief. The g£* accompany the happy couple on the bridal tour, beats simultaneously in cac ~.. - rr ,, asher necessary outfit had been duly packed. | disquieted but Hecla 5*®/***“’ Strangely enough, a young salesman, whose at- ! never shows symptoms of. moan, tentions her proud parents had some time be- i somo tbrobbmgs m Etna. Ancient *?, fjjf fare interdicted and who had been, for months, : tio twins are they, standing for ages v.» - y sep- fravehngon busine ss, appe are d aUho wedding Sated,but holdingI myBterio^ooimnnn^a^on aB an invited guest. The bridemaid, soon after tho ceremony, complained that her shoe pinched, cud slipped out to change it. She did-not re turn at once, and search revealed the fact that through an unexplained labyrinth, a fiery arte ry, through which their hot blood flows and mingles. > • . „ . An old lady who was very muehltronbled by nf fliA. infrodlictioil OI CBS in nor We disonssed uenaricss, oiuuuw r^nnal canacitv. and the man who, in Geary s estimation, has she had stepped into a carriage with her lover, -- ™ introduction of gas in her and repaired to a quiet church, v^er 0 . W. . P and the consequent disuse of whale oil, Van Clare and Miss Kate Jefl*rson were-mftio ^gf^^Sstness: “What is to be- They aeoprnpamed the other couple in a ^ wha i e3 ? ” ' Foreign Notes- ' (prepared for the telegraph and messenger.) There is no remarkable change in the posi tion of the belligerents in France. Each party holds its ground, and the struggle promises to be more protracted than was first anticipated. Further efforts to bring about a peaceful solu tion have utterly failed. In Paris the reign of piHage and plander continues. Several other churches have been robbed of their treasures. In Lyons and Marseilles tolerable order prevails. Gambetta, who has so suddenly disappeared again from the publio scene, is said to sojourn in Bourges; he intends to take up his residence in a little Spanish city to live on the savings he made during his short-lived publio career. •Bitsohe, the impregnable mountain fortress, has capitulated, at lost, to the Germans, after a siege lasting from August 15th last until half March. Before the -Paris insurrection bad assumed its present formidable proportions, leagues were forming in the large French cities for the pur pose of ostracising all Germans in France. The members of the league pledged themselves neither to employ any German nor to maintain any connection whatever with any German bus iness house. The plan, were it to be executed at all, is puerile iu the extreme. Among those who have carried the programme into effect are several naturalized Frenchmen of German birth or descent Monsieur de Rothshildt is said to have dismissed all of his German employes, a great many of whom had been staying with him for a number of years. Yet the founder of the House, Anselm Rothschildt, was bom, lived and died in Germany, while there is still one branch established in Frankfort on the Main, another in Vienna, Austria. Were it possible for Franoe to protect herself by a Chinese wall against all German intercourse, both countries would nat urally suffer, though tho French wonld be the greater losers. The annual exports to France from the Zollverein amount to about 266,500,000 francs. The most important of these artioles are cattle, grain, coals, wool, raw hides and timber. No more than 12 to 15 millions of manu factured goods are sent from Germany to Franoe. On the other hand, the latter countiy annually exports to Germany a variety of arti cles to the value of about 215,000,000 frauos, consisting chiefly of laces, ribbons, silks, hard ware, jewelry, woolen goods, fashions and arti oles de Paris. Thus, while, comparatively, it may be easy for 1 the Germans either' to do with out the French goods or to procure them some where else, France will find the loss of raw material formerly imported from Germany, very inconvenient. When, after the battle of Sedan, the Parisians could doubt no longer that the modern “van dals” were marching on the “center of civiliza tion,” everything was put into a state of de fense, and orders were given to destroy all vil lages within a vast range around Paris, that the forte might be able to sweep the whole sur rounding country. Thousands were thus driven out of their homes and compelled to seek a shel ter in the capital. Alexander Flan, a dramatic writer, owned a charming home in Neuilly; where by dint and industry he had oollected a very select library, which he prized as his greatest pleasure; there was hisTusculum. One day the officers of the Republic came to notify Tiim that he had to move, as the Prussians were advancing. “May they eome! I will stay here!” “You have to remove this very night still 1” “ To-night ? And I want eight days only to move my books!” said Flan, casting a dole ful glance around his house and garden. “Then the book3 will remain here.” Poor Flan hur riedly saved some linen, entered the first hotel he passed in Paris and retired silentlv to bed. On tne xouowing morning ne was found dead, excessive grief having broken his heart. All parties of the German Parliament, the Clericals only excepted, have unanimously ap proved of the draft prepared as a reply to the speech from the throne. The clerical members are finding fault with that passage of the pro posed address which, emphatically, upholds the principle of -non-intervention and protests against all possible Roman crusades for the resurrection of the anoient Roman-German Empire. This is the text of the passage in question: “Germany, by her interference with the life of other nations, laid once the founda tion of her decay, her rulers following the tra ditions of a foreign origin. Now she has reaohed the height of her power, because the spirit of the people, aimed for defense, only inclines unchangably to works of peace. The new empire will be bound by this same trait of culture. In the intercourse with foreign na tions it claims for its citizens the reBpeot which right and custom accord to every foreigner. Else, however, not influenced by thefluotoating courses either of like or dislike, Germany will follow her peaceful aims, suffering eaoh nation to aspire after unity, and acknowledging that eaoh State has a right to find the form of Gov ernment best suited to its wants. The days of intermeddling, we hope, will never come back again under any pretext or in any shape!” As this declaration, of course, refers also to tho Papal Question, the leaders of the clerical party deem it an injustice towards the Head of one hundred and fifty million of Catholics which is ill-becoming the dignity of the Empire. They propose to bring in another address or to amend the passage in question. In reply to an inquiry of Deputy Miguel con cerning the building of a new House of Parlia ment, Delbrueek, acting for Bismarck, stated that the Chancellor had not lost sight of tins matter. - " The relations between Austria and the Ger man Empire aro growing very cordial. The proposal to cede some districts of Alsace to Bavaria has raised’a storm of indignation in Germany. We would consider such a cession a most unfortunate idea; for what made theAl- satians Buch enthusiastic Frenchmen was the nroud satisfaction of belonging to a great united empire, while Germany, at one time cut up into three hundred sovereign States, was tyrannized by a host of petty princelings. In troth, nothing would be so well calculated to turn the longing thoughts of the Alsatians, toward Fra»coas this measure. . Prussia has found a warm friend in South America. . . . Dr. Jose Francisco Lopez, who spent a part of his youth in Europe, has addressed a number of letters to the “Tribuna” in Buenos Ayres. The writer, who displays great knowledge and impartiality, expresses the following remarka ble view: “The traditions of Prussian policy are far from making absolutism the ideal of the State, and every liberal movement the object of persecution, as it is now the fashion in some circles to assert. They aim at educating the people in the school and army, thus strengthen ing and realizing a true Democracy, For where a people is still wanting in culture, the authori ty of a democratic government is an empty farce, which can profit no one but the dealers in electioneering wares.” The courts of justice in Russian Poland he reformed after Russian models. A *ecent decree ordering the male Jewish population to lay aside their old Jewish costu>r jB > an ? to shave off their beards has been »»*Jdified owing to the intervention of the *raotorof pohee mWar saw Those dr«> sea after the mpdem fashion may wear tfc® 11 beards as they please. Subscriptions are being colleoted in the whole Ko^otan Empire to erect a monument to the memory of General Ghruluv, one of the valiant defenders of Sabastopol. . The Protocol of the London Conference be* - ing signed, the Russian Ambassador in Gonstan- linoplo was at once instructed to express to the Sultan the lively satisfaction of the Russian Government at tho onlighted and far-seemg polioy ho had displayed by unreservedly ap proving of an aet of international justice. There is a lively agitation going on in the commercial circles, of St. Petersburg for the formation of - a Rnssian mercantile fleet m the Baltic, and the establishment of a direct and regular steam communication between the Rus sian porta of tho Baltic and North America, especially Now York and New Orleans. There was a religious riot lasting three days in Odessa. It was directed against the Jewish population, who were despoiled and persecuted. Order could only be restored at tho point of tho bayonet. Several revolutionary outbreaks in Spain were quickly suppressed. There were Republican demonstrations in Andalusia, while the Garlist are stirring again in the provinces. The Italian Minister of France has laid a bill before the Chambers, proposing an additional issue of one hundred and fifty million of paper money and an increase of taxes of one-tenth. There is reason to believe that the Holy Father has riot relinquished entirely his former idea of leaving Rome, to seek an asylum in some other country. Bixen, in Tyrol, the stronghold of German Catholicism, is hinted at as the probable future residence of the Pope, in case he should leave Italy. Jabno, TBS PEARL FISHERIES. New Yorkers In Search or a Fortune—A Cargo or Pearls In John Street. From the New York Commercial Advertiser.] It will be remembered that not long ago a number of New Yorkers conceived the idea of substituting improved diving apparatus for the naked bodies heretofore employed in the pearl fisheries of Panama Bay and Lower California, believing that they had merely to descend to the bottom of the ocean and' scoop up treas ures bjr wholesale.. They conceived a plan by which it might be possible to operate, at great depths, wholly independent of the free atmos phere above. The gentlemen interested ex pended large sums of money in building a sub marine monster of boiler iron, which they for warded to its destination across the Isthmus, in sections, then reconstructed and made their ex periment—bat not their fortunes. At the first trial the thing struck a rook forty foot below the surface and lodged, and then slid off, taking a second plunge thirty feet further. The seven men who were inmates of the machine do not ap* pear to have been in the least discomfited by this occurrence, as they spent sixhours serenely sur veying the ocean world abont them, and at pleas ure quickly rose to the surface. This happened ninety miles from .Panama, near the Island of St. Elmo. The next exploit was to secure a quantity of pearl oysters and return to New York, where the beautiful bivalve is now on de posit, and may be seen at a store in John street. The engineer of the “Pacific Pearl Company,” by whom this success was achieved, is now in [this city, and his submarine iron diver is safely moorfed at St. Elmo. Meanwhile, as we are informed, fabulous wealth awaits those who, with perseverance and capital, may proa cute the search for pearls. There is no reason to doubt the riohnessof the pearl fisheries of the Paoific. As conducted heretofore, the search for these gems is of the most primitive kind. The divers remain under water but a few sec onds, and do not descend further than twenty- five feet, coming np in nuoH a state of exhaus tion that four or five dives each day is the full limit of their -ability. They not only suffer from the pressure of water, even at that mod erate depth, but are liable to be devoured by sharks. Notwithstanding these embarrassments, the Pacifio coast has yielded splendid pearls. One from Margarita, possessed by Philip Q of Spain, was valued at no less than $150,000, and the Spaniards who first visited America de scribed the native chiefs as decorating their bodies with a profusion of pearls. Precisely in point is a paragraph just at hand, from the Ocala (Fla.) Banner, which says: ‘ ‘The readers of the early history of Florida will re member that De Soto found pearls a common ornament among the natives. "Where they came from was a mystery, until now unsolved. Dr, Kidder, of Sumter county, has the honor of be ing the discoverer of the secret. He fonnd the mussels Of thQlakfta to oonlain many j%**-rla_ out or one snellhe obtained eighty-four pearls, and altogether he has collected three thousand, which have been sent to the Smithsonian Insti tute for examination.” The famous discoveries of pearls in fresh water mussels of New Jersey will be distinctly remembered. The most re markable found there exceeded an inch in diam eter, and report says it was sent by Tiffany & Co. to Europe, where it came into possession of the Empress Eugenie. It is quite probable, as the Florida editor conjectures, that pearls for merly supposed to have originated in the ocean were really the product of fresh water, but the latter are much inferior to those of marine orig in, and of the real sea pearl none surpass the Oriental. The United States Government haring made overtures some time ago for the purchase of the American pearl diving appartus above described (to be used as a torpedo boat or sub-marine ram), we may not hear of it again in the em ployment for which it was intended, bnt Ameri can enterprise is not subdued by temporary dif ficulties, and searches in the Pacific may be resumed ere long with renewed energy. General Presentments or. tbe Grand Jury or Crawford County, We, the Grand Jurors sworn, chosen and se lected for the county, of Crawford, at the April Term of the Superior Court, beg leave to make the following presentments: We have examined carefully the books and accounts of the respective county officers and find everything in systematic order and proper vouchers for all expenditures. The Ordinary’s books we find badly behind previous to 1870, and since that time they are kept properly and fully up with the business. The Clerk’s books are kept in a very neat and orderly manner. The Treasurer’s books and acoounta are kept in a moat satisfactory manner, showing proper • vouchers for all disbursements. Bnt we find the Tax Collector for the years of 1866-67 is still in arrears to the county, and we recommend the proper authority to see to it. The roads in the lower portion of the county aro in good order, but the roads in the upper portion of the county are in a very bad condi tion, and we recommend the proper authorities to look after them. We also reoommend the ereotion of a bridge across Ulcohachee oreek, on the publio road leading from Hickory Grove to the Old Agency by Macedonia church. We find repairs needing on both Court-house- andjail. In oar financial depression and impoverished condition we will not reoommend the levying of any tax for the poor and publio school fund for educational purposes. We reoommend that the Ordinary, at as early a day as practicable, take the proper steps for the erection, in our county, of a poor house for the benefit of the poor and those of our oit* izens dependent upon the county for support. We recommend the Ordinary to assess a tax of 50 per cent, for county purposes; bridges, 25 per cent.; insolvent and criminal cost, 25 per cent., and jnry duties 20 per oent. We do most earnestly reoommend that the Ordinary do not levy a tax to defray any of the expenses of the so-called District Coart. In our opinion that concern has no legal existence. If. we are not mistaken in our opinion we axe confident that a court oreated.a3 that one was, and with such judicial officers, will not be able in the present condition of society in our coun ty to do anything for the public good. We are now comparatively free from crime, and if that court should continue we fear that its very pro ceedings would be productive of crime. It was created against the will of good, true men of our county, as we' believe, and so far as our suggestions may be binding upon our immediate Representative for the next Legisla ture, we say to him it is his duty to labor in the Legislature for the repeal of the odious law creating the court. _ . : . To Ins Honor, Judge Cole, we would beg leave to return our most sinoere thanks for Ms explicit charge to us, his kindness to U3 as a body, and would ask that Providence may long continue his useful life and bright example. To Solicitor General Crocker we return our thanks for his promptness and kindness. We recommend, finally, that these present ments be published in the Telegraph and Mes senger. William H. L. Barron, Foreman. Aug. J. Culverhouse, Joel E. Seigler, William J. Dent, John Blasingame, Jabag J. Nichols, Thomas J. Martin, Kinchen Britt, 'iam T. Drew, Mathew, John J. Champion, George W. Holloman, Jacob P. Turner, James G.-Fitzpatrick, Williams Rutherford, Sterling F. Collier, John H. Gooden," Benjamin F. Kennedy, John A. Miller. Ordered by the Court, that the above Present ments be published as requested. E. W. Crocker, Solicitor General. The above is a true extract from the minutes of said Court. April 18,1871. W. A. Walker, Clerk Sup. Court. The Xenia (Ohio) Torchlight says that some twenty ladies presented themselves at the Yellow Spring poll, and demanded of the Judges of "Election that their ballots be received.- The Judges declined, and invited them into a room to discuss the matter. They complied, and for su hour the matter was argued pro and con. The ladies insisted that the Fifteenth Amendment repealed so muoh of the Fourteenth Amendment as would seem to refuse to women all the rights of citizenship. The trustees read the law, and said they must adhere to their oath. The ladies called upon a Professor of Antioch College to argue their case, whioh he did at some length, claiming that “ citizen ” meant both men and women. Bat it availed nothing. The trustees refused, whereupon the ladies withdrew, saying they wanted the pleasure of casting their votes on the table if not in the ballot box; when it was Observed that the Board of Trustees would keep the ballots as memorials of the first attempt of ladies to vote in Ohio. A Grand Negro State.—A,c^-f?P on ^ ent ° f the Cincinnati Oommercta* C^P^tohcM) writ ing from Colombo oontl1 Carolina, draws a crarhie of the present government of the state. Among other distinguished persons in authority, he describes the Treasurer of the State—one Parker, formerly a saloon-keeper, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, a man represented as “not good for his debts before he became treasurer.” After the war he settled iu Charles ton, and kept grocery. He was then very poor. Now he ia considered the “wealthiest office holder in Columbia.” He lives in elegant style, keeps mx or eight horses, and “entertains Ms copper-colored and carpet-bag friends like » prince.” His wife displays herself in a mav^n- cent equipage, the finest in the city “ n< * “ er hands are bedeoked and heavy wiMj diamonds. “Meanwhile,says the oorreseO° aea t Commercial, “everybody abases Parker of be- New Yoj 4 or The Art of Exasperation. Some people possess an unconscious art of exasperation whioh is almost a thing to admire. We may suffer from it more than words can tell, and yet there is a fascination in its fine perfection; there is a feeling of inferiority on the part of the sufferer that fills the soul with envy. Bnt the admiration and envy are the af ter-surge. In the presence of the artist, that is the tormentor, there is only anguish and in dignation. We had occasion once to make some inquiries at the advertising desk of the Daily Idiot. We suppose the time occupied by our conversation with the clerk at that desk was not more than two minutes and thirty-five seeonds, yet the memory of those two minutes and thirty-five seconds—be they more or less—we expect to carry with us to our grave. It was-a season of trial and temptation; of smothered passion and resentment; of madness and misery, followed by remorse. Wo did not want to kill the gen tleman on the side of the counter. No! we are naturally of a quiet disposition, with an uncon-' querablo bias against murder. We merely felt a gentle desire to crawl through the little glass window at which we were talking, seize the nape of that long, unlovely neok, and inconti- • nently kick the advertising clerk of the Daily Idiot. , , „ And pray, what had he done, you ask? Well, he had “done” nothing, we suppose, nor had he said much. The “subject-matter” of discourse was entirely commonplace, a simple business affair; nothing of an out-of-the-way or exciting nature waa oalu on either ride: an ob server might have failed to notice anything that was at all u»oourteous in look or language. It waB ouiy that frigid air of insolence; that way of mating an honest man feel like a pick-pocket; that inimitable art of exasperation. We have often wondered how such people get along in the world. We once cherished a theory that their days of prosperity are soon numbered, a brief basking in the sunshine of success, and then they are cut down and perish Eke tho flower of the field that withereth; ft few years, at the most, of irritating arroganoe, and the world wearies of them and flings them aside forever. But we were mistaken. Alas! no such moral can be pointed to the tale. They live and thrive, have their salaries increased,, rise to places of greater dignity as well as profit. It is inscrat&ble dispensation. We may not fa* spared, sensitive feliow-sufferers 1 We may not even kiok— exoept in a mild, metaphoric \pay—we can only mingle our plaints and our sympathies. We can only cherish a vain wish that we were great men traveling incog.—some thing like a President of the United States, or an ex-Emperor, or a millionaire with an idio- pathy for purchasing newspaper establishments and turning insolent subordinates into the streets.—From “The Ola Cabinet,” in Scrib ner's Monthly for May. The True Polioy op the Conservatives.— Commenting upon Senator Morton’s recent not die out or degenerate speech, tho Norfolk Journal says “Let the Conservatives of tho South meet these issues of Mr. Morton frankly and prompt ly. Let us declare to the country that our pol ioy is peace, that our purpose is to prevent ex cesses, not to perpetrate them; and we shall eleet tho next President by a majority that will drive Radicalism from the field forever: “The polioy of that party is plain. Let us take warning now. They are endeavoring to drive us back upon dead issues. Let ns force them to fight on their own reckless violations of liberty and law.” A lady conducting a private school in Green wich, Conn., somo eighteen pay her expenses, and after struggling dong and gelling deeplyin debt, sold all her effects and pad her creditors seventy cents on the dol lar, the latter cheerfully accepting that for the whole amount Fortune having since smiled unon her, she has lately paid up her old debts in full, with interest to dato. The Rev. Humphrey Mooro, D. D., of Mil ford, N. H., aiedon Saturday, aged 93 years. Mr. Moore was born in Princeton, Mass., Oc tober 19, 1778; graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1799, and at tho time of his death" there were but two older graduates living Rev. R. J. Collier, in his recent anti-woman i in Chicago, “mixed it rather sour.” Hu for lack of blatant stump-speakers, platform, termagants, and scolds. The sort of womea who are clamoring for ballots and rights are or the type of our men-lobbyista and intriguers, and dead-beats generally. And, m plain word^ what is the scheme in its last analysis,'fitripped of its flimsy rhetoric, but free love and Uberti nism?” . _ _ Clara Louise Kellogg is said to bear a stak ing resemblance to the actress Rachel, owing • to tho shape of her face and her dark, deep- sot eyes; though her happy, open mule and changing color give her a luxuriance of woman* ly beauty to which the slender Hebrew, c_asric, white and lustrous as a statue, was a stranger. At the Washington carnival ball “there waa no more beautiful woman present than Mrs. Scott-Siddons. She made a most lovely picture as she stoodin animated conversation with Lady Thornton—dressed in white satin, with silver- wrought lace over-dress, looped with black vel vet and scarlet geranium flowers, her dark hair flowing free.” % Medical societies aro warned not to ask a Western minister to preach Lor them. He has this text ready;" “In his disease Asa sought not to the Lord, but to. the pbyaoians. And Asa slept with his fathers.” — — MM
