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Telegraph and^Messenger.
MACON, APRIL 25 1871.
Hon. IF. P. Price. i
Wo boo in the Atlanta Constitution, of Thurs
day, a letter from this gentleman justifying, or
rather attempting to. justify, his absence from
Washington at this timo. Ho says ho was
paired, on the Ku-klux bill, with Dunnell, a
Radical from Minnesota, and that therefore hia
absence from Washington could.nofcjresult
any harm to the Democratic party or his con-
Stituents. We give him tho benefit of his ex
planation, bnt our opinion a3to-tho impolicy
and error ofhis course remains unchanged.
Mr. Price was not sent to Washington to run
any such risks, and Ins rime belonged to those
whoso intoiests ho was chosen to protect. If
his private affairs are such as to demand his
leaving his post to attend to them, he ought to
say so, and allow the people to choose some
body else who is not thus hampered. His con
stituents lost tho weight, not only of his vote,
bnt of his presence and influence, which - are
supposed to bo worth something. Tho Radicals
could very well spare Donnell’s vote, but tho
Democrats wore not in a similar fortunate con
dition.
Besides, there is a risk in pairing with any
Radical where legislation against the hated Sonth
and in tho interests of that party are concerned.
The leaders and members of that party bavo
not set such conspicuous examples of keeping
faith with Democrats a3 to make trusting them
an entirely safe operation.
Wo regret that Mr. Price has so disappointed
our and tho people’s expectations of him in his
high position.
Western Meat In Georgia.
Tho local, of the Atlanta Constitution says
that thirty-two millions of pound3 of bacon
bavo passed over tbe Western and Atlantic
Road into Georgia since December last. This
is somewhero in tho neighborhood of three mil
lions of dollars’ worth in loss than fonr months.
Add corn, hay, floor, horses, mules and all tho
other items of heavy importation from tho
West, and is it wonderful that our cash balance,
as a people, is low ? An agricultural country
that can stand such a drainage for any length of
timo without total bankruptcy, possesses un
usual elements of wealth. There must be a great
influx to support such- an outflow, and whenever
wo aro tired of being poor, ail wo have to do is
to stop tho leaks and tho tub will fill directly.
Ilongli on tlie*“ScalIIe9.”'
A. G. Murray, of Griffin, familiarly known in
that section as “Old Sandy" Murray, hits the
editor of the Atlanta Era and his sort a hard
lick in a recent letter to that paper. He says:
We cannot agree with yon that the best Re
publicans now are those 'who were once Con
federates. They fongt against the Government
once and are now only its friends from policy.
We would rather have a friend from principle.
The old man shouldn’t be so personal in bis
remarks. But perhaps he ha3 been refreshing
his memory, lately, with some of Scruggs’s red
hot fahninations against the Yankees when he
“writ” for tho Columbus Sun during tho war.
Over the Ocean ; on Sights and Scenes
in Foreign Lands. — From Messrs. Lee &
Shepard, Boston, through Messrs. Brown &
Co., of this city, we have retrieved• a copy
of this book. It i3 compiled from a series
of European letters to the Boston Com
mercial Bulletin, by Cnrtis Guild, the edi
tor of that paper, and is one of the most read
able works of the kind we have seen. An ac
complished journalist, Mr. Gniid carried with
him on his tour those habits of keen observa
tion and attention to details characteristic of
the profession, and has succeeded, fherebr. in
giving a zest and freshness to his descriptions
of what he saw that are too often found lack
ing in such letters. We think his book will
well repay the reader for the time and money
invested in making its acquaintance.
An in the, Family.—The Speaker of the
South Carolina House of Representatives has a
rather good thing of it for himself, and knews
all about the Christian virtue of taking care of
his kindred. He gets $G a day, and an extra
$1,000 for tbe session. He is also Adjutant
General, and receives $2,500 salary, with $1,-
000 more as a contingent fond, and $21,000 for
expenses of tho militia. He was also allowed
$91,000 to buy furniture for the hall, and $60,-
000 to buy arms, etc. His father is the Chief
Justice, with a salary of $1,000, and a conlin-
genf fund of $5,8Q0. His father-in-law has $I,~
500 for one office and $1,000 for another; and
his uncle is Circuit Judge, with a salary of $3,-
500. The census of his brother-in-law hasn’t
been taken yet.
The Great Crevasse at Bonne Carre, fifty
miles below New Orleans, on tho right bank of
tho river, was reported yesterday two hundred
feet wide and twelve feet deep. Through this
great breach in the levee the water was pouring
in a mighty flood, deluging tho country for a
a distance of twelve miles. The New Orleans
and Jackson railroad was submerged and use
less, as to that end of it. The abolition of sla
very having destroyed labor and capital in that
great alluvial district, tho general government
must now repair or strengthen the Mississippi
levees or allow the count*? to revert to swamp,
morass end desolation. The people aro unable
to do it. „ ’
Clayton on the Kuklux.—That illustrious
exemplar of all human depravity, Clayton, of
Arkansas, claiming to be a Senator from that
State, mado a speech in Washington last Tues
day, in whioh ho said that the Ku-klux in the
South wero numbered not by thousands, but by
hundreds of thousands, and there were thirty
thousands in the Slate of Arkansas alone.
Fetbops there is not a worgo man in the world
then Clayton, and that he is living to bomt
of his tyrannous outrages on the people of
Arkansas was a standing refutation of Ida Wash
ington tirade.
The High Commission. — The Herald, of
Wednesday, asserts that the Joint High Com
mission has settled the fishing question on the
basis of allowing all parties to fish where they
please, from the capes of Delaware beyond
sunrise, except for shad, salmon and shellfish—
and no exception in favor of tomcod, minnows,
eels and sculpins. This is encouraging; but
why do the telegrams persist in saying that tho
Commission has made no progress at all ?
Bloody Days Round Paris.—The civil war
seems to rage with great violence and slaughter,
and the parties are fighting each other with the
desperation of natural enemies. Neither claims
any decisive advantage; but it is asserted that
the Versailles troops aro slowly gaining ground.
Tho devastation and slaughter aro terrible.
Forty persons have been killed in tho city of
Paris by falling shells.
Washington District Election.—The Radi
cals have carried the first Territorial election
in the District of Columbia by five thousand
majority. It is true tho whites largely out-voted
the negroes, but the legion of office holders in
the Federal capital all voted tho Radical ticket,
of course. “Lot mo see you doing anything
else," as Mrs. Grundy would say.
The announcement is made from Delhi Del
aware county, N. Y„ that a young gentleman
tfeoro has recently had a party at which eight of
hia grandparents attended, fonr being great-
grandparents. Tbe combined ages of toe eight
amounted to 548years,’ “
Progress of Protection*
■ The New York Tribune having taunted toe
World with the cowardly attempts of the free
traders to secure their objects by piecemeal re
ductions of the tariff, toe World rejoins with a
table showing toe'■piecemeal advances of -the
protectionists. Since the Radical'party have ;
been in power they have passed thirteen tariff
acts—as follows:.;. Three in 1861, ono in
1862, one in 1863, one in 1864, one in 1865,
three in 1866/one in 1867, ono in 186£ and
one in lS70_-.Thia is. a. pretty: shoeing for
party—which insists tbai duties put. on
piecemeal shall be taken off in a lump or not
at all. As some of these piecemeal advances
are very interesting to the Southern people, we
will copy a few of them:
Railroad Iron—Was $7 70 per ton in 1857;
$12 per ton in 1861; $13 50 per fon in 1862;
$13 44 in 1864; $15 68 in 1866 and ever since.
Irate Chains—24 per cent in 1857; 2 cents
per pound in 1861; 2J in 1862 ; 3 cents in 1865
and since. ...... I :.'U •
Horse Shoe Nails—it per cent in 1857 ; 3J
cents per pound in 1861; 4£ cents in 1862; 5
cents in 1865 and since.
Anvils—24 per ceint in 1861; lj cents per
pound in 1861; 2^ in ,1862; 2J in 1SC5 and
since. ’•
Woolen Clothing—was 24/per cent in 1857;
•12 cents per pound, and 2o percent ad valorem
in 1871; 18 cents per pound, and 30 per cent,
ad valorem in 1862; 24 cents per pound, and
40 per centad valorem in 1865; and 50 cents
per pound, and 40 per cent ad valorem in 1867.
Salt in Bulk—-was 15 per cent ad valorem in
7R57- 4 canto por btiohol in ieoi, and afterwards
changed to 12 cents per 100 pounds, and in 1865
raised to 18 cents per 100 ponnds.
Blankets, 24 per cent in 1857; 25 per cert,
in 1861; 18 cents per pound and 30 per cent
ad valorem in 1802 ; 24 cents per pound and
40 per cent ad valorem in 1865 ; 50 cents per
pound and 40 per cent, ad valorem in 1867.
Brussels carpets 24 per cent in 1857; 20 cents
per square yard in 1861; 33 cents per square
yard in 1862 ; 50 cents per square yard in 1865;
and 44 cents per square yard and 35 per cent,
ad valorem in 1867.
These are figures which interest every man,
displaying, as they do, tho rapid progress of
toe iniquitous scheme to compel farmers to pay
heavy, grievous and oppressive tribute to man
ufacturers. They show to what, length these
frauds wero carried so soon as the Southern
States were withdrawn from the national coun
cils, and what may be expected in the future if
toe great farming and labor interests of the
country fail to wage an uncompromising war
fare against this abomination called “protec
tion.” ‘
Tlie Congressional Recoifstrnelions!
We said yesterday that the seven Ku-klux
sub-committees would find nothing meaner or
more lawless in the South than toe Congres
sional Reconstructions, or at least a majority of
them. In evidence of the soundness of this
opinion, we might refer to the letter in this
edition, addreaosd to tho Springfield (Mass.;
Republican, from somo honest and outspoken
Yankee, who has been “down to Orleans,”
making observations there. He says toe State
Government of Louisiana “has not a decent
aspect or a redeeming feature.” He says: “ I
hate faith in my. people sufficiently strong to
believe that if the body of men called a legisla
ture, just adjourned in this State, had done to
the people of Massachusetts what they did to
Louisiana, they would never have left Boston
alive !” How is that for Ku-klux ?
In response to tho exaggerated-complaints of
disorder in the Southern States, we havo repeat
edly alleged that the population cf no Northern
State would have borne with equal calmness
and equanimity the insults, oppressions and
grievances which have Dcen neaped uu inu
Southern people since the war. They havo
been borne hero—simply because the Southern
people were in toe hands of their enemies who
were believed to be seeking to provoke their
resistance as-'an excuse for inflioting further
wrong and injury. They were borne because
we could not help ourselves. This Massachu
setts correspondent sfeys a grea* deal more. Ho
says death by popular violence would havo been
inflicted by Boston on such a Legislature as that
of Louisiana, and yet he adds that “Louisiana
is quiet,” and too Ku-klux Committee cannot
“smell out” aa outrage. *
■ Fighting Grass and Baying. Hay.
The other day a Northern man, in tho hear
ing of toe writer, let himself loose upon us af
ter this fashion: ■
“It seems to me that you people in too cotton
growing States manage somewhat strangely.
You spend half of the spring and all summer
in fighting and destroying grass, and when you
havo succeeded in destroying it all, you send
clear way down to toe State of Maine and buy
dried grass at a cost of two cents per pound to
subsist your stock. Now, so nearly as I can
judge, your planters do not make two cents a
pound net on cotton at thirteen cents in your
market; and thus a bale of Eastern hay on
yonr plantations will about offsett a hale of cot
ton in toe pocket of toe farmer. .; -
“From what I know of Middle Georgia, I
should say that you can beat Maine out of sight
in making hay. Grass don’t take a start in
Maine till from toe first to too middle of June,
and thus, before grass begins to grow in Maine,
yon Georgians could stuff your bam3So full of
hay and clover at a cost not exceeding an §ighth
*■* .a cent per pound, that you might afford to
ship Hu? i/> Maine, if too Maine men would only
consent to pay u.^ price for it which you pay.'
“But if you will not **sqq jjay, which to tho
extent at least of your own nece&iu^ yot . can
raise more profitably than cotton, tell m., ; n
the name of all good sense, why you refuse to
gather that grass which comes in your corn fields
indigenously after tho crop is laid by and which
is much better for stock than tho musty and
falsely packed stuff which ordinarily comes to
your markets?” ■.
We have not yet framed our reply to that Yan
kee.. Will some of our readers help us ? It is
a case of difficulty.
Malic it Mvely fpr Them.
We hope the Democratic papers published in
too respective districts ts thoso seventeen Dem
ocrats who were absent from their seats in
Congress when the vote on the fina passage of
the infamous Ku-klux bill was taken win make
matters exceedingly lively for these absentees.
They should bo scored soundly. There is but
ono opinion among toe people as to their con
duct, and that opinion will take a very unpleas
ant shape for them, -next year, about too timo
the nominating conventions are held. The peo
ple can’t afford to send men to Congress to
represent thorn who have so much “private
business” to look after. They pay a big price
for Congressmen anyhow—considering the ma
terial they are compelled to select from—-and
are entitled to every cent of their money’s
worth. Fancy Toombs, or Stephens, or Cobb,
or Jackson, or Johnson, or Colquitt, or Harde
man coming home to attend to “private busi
ness” when a measure of such moment as this
Ku-klux bill was before Congress!
Sale of a Railroad.—The Selma and Merid
ian Railroad was sold on Tuesday last, at Sel
ma, Ala., to too highest bidder for cash. It
was knocked off to Messrs. C. N. Jordan and H.
H. Wfihurt, representing tho'bondholders of toe
road, for one million dollars, toe minimum price
fixed upon it by a decree of thjj United States
District Court.
— * •
A. Stringent Liquor Lair.
The New Yorlr Son saysi
The Legislators of Miohigan has amended
the liquor law of that State by providing that
all money paid for any sort of liquor, except
cider, beer and wine, may be recovered back by
the persons paying fpr them, or by the wife,
husband, children, guardians, parents or em
ployers of such persons. All contracts and
commercial transactions conneoted with toe
sale of such liquors aro declared to bo null and
void. Every one who has been injured in per
son, property or otherwise, by any intoxicated
person, or fey reason of toe intoxication of any
person, shall have tho right to bring a suit
against toe person, or persons^who_ have sold,
or given the intoxicating liquor which ..has
caused or contribute’cT to the intoxication of
such person or persons, and shall have toe right
to recover actual and exemplary damages. The
owner or lessee of any building or' premises
used for the purpose of retailing liquor is mado
severally and jointly liable with the seller or
givor of the liquor. Any sale of intoxicating
liquors by th9 lessee of any. premises shall, at
tho option of toe lessor, work a forfeiture of the
lease, and any lessee may be enjoined against
the selling or giving away of liquor on the pre
mises he has leased. The penalties of violating
tho law are also largely inoreased by the bill.
It has passed both branches of the Legislature,
and is now in toe hands of the Governor; and
the more sensible people in the State are urging
him to veto it. ,
Wo should think the Governor, if not-too
veriest narrow-brained fanatio living, would
veto any such odious enactment as this—espe
cially when facts show that, under its provis
ions, drunkenness has been steadily on the in
crease all the time in that State. —
Temperance is a good thing, and something
to be worked for and pushed forward by every
legitimate means, but desirable as it is, such
steps to secure it, in the opinion of some of its
best friends, aro not, and never will be justifi
able. They trench too much on personal rights
to suit this day and country. A stringent
license law would very possibly avoid this diffi
culty, and at the same time come much nearer
accomplishing toe result desired. . ‘. .
But if the temperance folks wish to stop
drunkenness and shut up tho liquor shops, they
must touoh the hearts And consciences and ap
peal to the manhood of . men. We Verily be
lieve that if there had never been any attempts^
to prohibit men, by law, from drinking, there
would not be one-fourth as much' drunkenness
as now. The idea was bom in the Puritan
brain, and was the legitimate offspring of .’that
mean,dogmatic, dictatorial spirit that constitutes
the vital element in the Puritan character. A
lot of theso fanatics up in New England having
ruined their digestions by overgorging on pork
and beans, found out that liquor didn’t agree,
with- them, and straightway determined that
their neighbors shouldn’t drink it, either.
That’s about Ihe origin of this prohibitory
liquor legislation. And these are-the same
folks who, ha-ring discovered that slavery did
not pay in. their sterile country, sold their “ nig
gers ” and then set about making their brethren
of the South get rid of theirs, also. Theydidn’t
have it, and,- therefore, nobody else must.
They did get rid of it at last by flooding the
country in blood and destroying the constitu
tion.
One reason, perhaps, why Michigan is so
savage on this question, is because hor people
have been thoroughly, disgusted by the antics
of that vulgar, venomous Sot, Chandler, who in
an evil hour they sent to the United States Sen
ate. If there is any justification for such a law
as tho one in question, his habits would furnish
it. If toe law conld bo enforced as to him it
would be most commendable. Delerium tre
mens would soon make a finish of him, and a
vacancy thus be created for somebody with
brains and a heart—some man. whose merits
did not consist entirely in afonl tongue and
a black heart—an inordinate propensity to guz
zle mean whisky and rillify and degrade the
people of toe South.
Tho Snnfhcrn Farm and Home,
Wo always welcome gladly the monthly visits
of this excellent periodical. It is so fresh and
elegant in appearance, sobeautifully illustrated,
so full of valuable information ably presented,
admirably adapted to toe requirements of onr
people. The May nnmber, which wo havo just
received, is in advance of all tho agricultural
monthlies, and is, if possible, superior to all
former numbers. “John Plowhandles’ ” letter
on “Lien Receipts—Debt and Ruin,” is a “lay
sermon’.’ whioh every farmer in too South would
do well to henr and heed. Mr. Sam Barnett’s
paper on “Plantation Accounts” contains most
valuable advice on matters which are too fre
quently overlooked and disregarded. The arti
cle on toe Labor Question is able, sensible,
practical and timely. Professor Willet’s analy
sis of the lime deposit in Houston county, dis
covers a Source of agricultural wealth, which
only needs development to mako it of inestima
ble importance to that county and the adjacent
sections; and Professor Leroy Broun’s notes
on toe measurement .of waterpower, furnish
plain simple rules, easy of execution for the so
lution of a question of vast importance to those
who have abundant water power at their doors,
but do not know how to utilize it.
Tho commencement of “Tbe Nereid,” by
Mary Faith Floyd gives promise of a story of
deep interest and great gowor. -
In every respect, this number of tho Farm
and Homo is worthy of praise. The agricultu
ral community owe it to themselves to subscribe
for this periodical. It costs but $2 a year, and
we assure them that a single number will repay
them ton fold for tho outlay. The Farm and
Homo and Weekly Telegraph and Messenger
are famished to subscribers for $4.
The Paris .Situation.
The latest dates by toe morning dispatches,
it will be seen, aro to yesterday morning from
Versailles. At that time the Government troops
were reported within one hundred and fifty
jords of the Paris ramparts, and reported to be
getting icofly to make a grand assault Tho
Communists on u*o other hand wero preparing
for a desperate defensive struggle, evidently in
desperate mood. Dombrowski was reported
missing, and supposed to be either killed or
wounded. Claseret, the leading Communist
general, had sent in his resignation, but toe
Commune refused to accept it As Sunday
seems to bo too great day for frolic or fighting
with toe French, it is not improbable too grand
onslaught will com© off to-day. The best wo
can hope for them is that it may bo conclusive.
Keuilly is added to the towns destroyed in this
internecine strife. It was fired by shells, and
was burning yesterday. Inside of Paris tho
National Guards wero reported in a demoralized
condition.
A south Carolina Election.
The New York Sun says the contest between
O. O. Bowen and ». 0. De Largo of South Car
olina, for tho honor 6* a seat in tho Forty-
second Congress, has been virtually decided in
favor of too former. Tho Commissioners of
Election of Beaufort county in De Large’s dis
trict) were arraigned and tried last week in the
U. S. Circuit Court at Charleston, upon an in
dictment setting forth that Williams, Langley,
and Gleaves, the aforesaid Commissioners, had,
while acting in that capacity at toe last election,
stnffedtoe ballot-boxes, falsified toe election
record, made false returns of the number of
votes cast, and committed divers other
acts in violation of toe United States enforce
ment law. The jury found the prisoners guilty,
and Judge Bond sentenced them each to two
years’ imprisonment in toe penitentiary.
The Court haring thus sustained Mr. Bowen’s
charges of fraud in that district, it is more than
likely that Mr. De Large will be compelled to
retire and give plaoe to his contestant.
There is small choiee between that negro
trickster, De Large, and the bigamist Bowen.
Both oceupy about toe same moral plane, and
the election seems to have been worthy toe can
didates.
THE GEORGIA PRESS. j
The body of Henry Knight, negro, who was
drowned in tho Chattahoochee at Columbus,
Friday night of last week, was found buried in
too sand on Wednesday, just where he sunk.
The Sou says competent men think Columbus
can have a system of waterworks stress than
$100,000 cost. ' '• ■<'
We find toe following particulars of tho dam
ages done by a.storm iu Pike county, Ala., on
Thursday night oFlasfc week, in the Columbus
Sim' of Thursday:
— -
Dear Colonel: I have just returned from
the vicinity of the recent tornado or whirlwind
which passed through this county, about five
miles below bere, on Thursday night last. The
Brandidge road, for miles, is blocked with trees,
and on many plantations not a house or rail of
fence is left* standing; also; on toe Elba road
and in the neighborhood of Dr. Barron’s. We
have done all we can here, and yet there is
great destitution. Families lost everything,
clothing, crockery, furniture and provisions.
No pen can describe too desolation whore J. M.
Hamil, Clem Wynn and Eli Deese live. The
latter two have lost everything they had, and
their plantations aro ruined for the present
yean * *$3 t‘ 0
The Savannah Republican says Tunis G.
Campbell, tho negro "Senator, so-.called, from
the 2d District, has become- “bafllv complicated
with the courts of his county on acoount of
sundry unsonatorial malpractices. Tho grand
jury of McIntosh, composed of whites- and
blacks, havo indicted him ;in three separate
bills—one for marrying a negro with a white
woman, contrary to the statute; second, false
imprisonment'of white citizens in his capacity
of J. P.; third larcency after trust reposed.^
The warrant for the first eilenco was sent from
Atlanta.” ,-
The Savannah Advertiser says a young lady
of that city, whose name is not given, tried to
shuffle off her mortal coil last Tuesday by swal
lowing the contents of a bottle of laudanum,
but one officious M. D. and a stomach pump
spoiled her fun. And yet she is not happy.
Savannah thieves raided on Mr. Andrew Goe
bel, Wednesday night, and spoiled him of
enough tobacco to chew, cigars to smoke and
candy to eat for many “long, long, weary days.”
The residence of-the late Edward Paddelford,
at Savannah, was sold Wednesday to Mr. De
Renne, of that city, for $34,000. "' .
The Rev. A.. Blnn, Pastor of the Jewish
Church at Augusta, has resigned his charge and
will soon leave for Galveston.
We make the following extract from toe pre
sentments of toe Grand Jury of Washington at
its last session. Wo hope to hear them re-ech
oed and acted upon, by every similar body in
too State: ev
It is a source of deep and sincere regret that
so many deeds of lawlessness and violence hafo
recently been committed by bands of armed and
disarmed men in our county, hitherto so noted
for its quiet, orderly and law-abiding people.
Wo cannot rofrain from denouncing such ac}s
and their perpetrators; and deeply deploring
this sad state of affairs, wonld connsel and en
join upon the perpetrators of theso acts, for
their-own good and the good of our country, to
desist from such and let tho law take its course.
In tho present condition of our country, such
conduct is a national calamity, and these acts
will be used as a plea by our political enemies
to justify tho passage of oppressive laws, affect-
ng our sectional rights.
Everything was not altogether lovely last
Saturday at the Marietta paper mill. On that
Jay Mr. -Elisha Cochran attempted to make
hash of Mr. Jeff. Land with a knife, and some
body percussed Mr. Faw’s cranium with a gun.
The Marietta and Dalton papers announce
the appearance of rust in tho wheat crop of
those sections.
The Atlanta Constitution says thirty-tivo mil
lion pounds of bacon havo passed over the
Western and Atlantic Railroad since December.
And yet folks wonder why they are so poor.
Atlanta M. D.’s improve toe shining hours
they can snatch from toe bedside of their nu
merous patients, by disputing on street comero
as to thoir merits as whistlers.
The editor of the La Grange Reporter has.
had a visit from Mr. Joseph N. Boyd, who has
been a citizen of Troup county for forty-one
years, and ifi now ninety years of age. He is a
native of Abbeville, S. C., and was a school
mate of John C. Calhoun.
The ReV. George Goelchins, formerly of Co
lumbus, has been called to the charge of the
Presbyterian Church at Atbany.
We quote too following from tha r: Albany
New3, of yesterday: - rr ..
Extension of the S. W. R. R—-We hear it
announced that tho Company propose to extend
tho Southwestern Railroad from this oity to
some point southwest beyond Blakely, i
Heavy Rains.—Last Saturday and Saturday
night the heavens were opened, and toe rains
poured in torrents. There are, and have been
for two months past, ponds of water where
such have not been seen before for years.
Much of toe best land is under water, and the
prospect is that tho water will not depart there
from until too late to plant. During toe storm
on Saturday, we regret to learn, many localities
were visited by hail and wind, so severe as to
greatly damage toe young corn and cotton, and
in some instances entirely destroying hundreds
of acres of cotton just up.
The Houston Home Journal, of yesterday,
says: -
Heavy Rains.—This section of country was
visited by very heavy rains the latter part of
last week, and considerable damage was done to
mills and bridges. Staley’s mill dam was broken
and a good largo portion of it washed away,
also his gin house and screw. The bridge over
Big Indian, known as Staley’s bridge, was
washed away. E. L. Felder lost a large portion
of his mill-dam, and two or three bridges on
Mossy creek started on a sea voyage. The Big
Indian, at Perry, was higher than it has been
for years, and all day Friday the bridge was
expected to be carried away.
0. H. Shockly, Esq., a prominent lawyer of
Columbia county, died last Thursday.
Jas. Greene, negro, who was working on toe
new Orphan Asylum, at Augusta, fell from toe
top of an unfinished wall Thursday, and broke
both his thighs. On the same day, a little
daughter of Mrs. L. H. Brockman fell from too
piazza of the Presbyterian Church, a distance
of ten or twelve feet, and was severely injured,
Messrs. Henry Heilman, Herman Hessee and
Martin Henges, and Alderman M. H. Meyer and
family, have just sailed from Savannah for
“Fadorland,” via Now York.
The white man who is charged with “kid-
nabbing” the dusky Venus at Savannah by her
wrathful “par,” Is named Powell, and he has
been given till May 10th to produce the stolen
beauty.
Liquor licenses paid $32,463 16 into the Sa
vannah treasury from October 1st, 1869, to
September 80th, 1870. From October tst, 1870,
to April 20th, 1871, toe receipts foot up $33,-
439 28. The actual receipts for the current
year are estimated to reach $35,000. Tho sale
of licenses for vehicles of all kindp, for the year
ending September 80, 1870, put $13,924 in the
treasury, whilo tho receipts from the same
source for the first seven months of the present
fiscal year, amount to $13,956 50.
The News, of Friday, says:
Uttering Counterfeit Money.—James B.
Harrell and Solomon Harrell were brought be
fore tho United States Circuit Court yesterday,
charged with passing counterfeit money at
Cuthbert, Randolph county, Jamc3 having in
his possession at tho lime of his arrest $1,450
in spurious bills. They were arrested in Stew
art county by U. S. Deputy Marshal David O.
Bancroft, and by him brought to this city.
James shot at the officers while effecting their
arrest, and tried hard to prevent being captured.
Both parties were before toe Circuit Court in
November last, on a similar charge. Solomon
Harrell gave bond in the sum of $2,500, and
James was allowed time, in company of an offi
cer, to secure a similar bond, -in default of which
he will be committed for trial. The parties are
respectably connected, and from their sang
froid manner, seem to attach little importance
to the dilemma’^ whioh they are plaoed.
We clip the following from toe Chronicle and
Sentinel, of Friday: • ■
Reclamation on Cotton.—A case, in the re
sult of which cotton buyers and cotton factors
are largely interested, is now before toe courts
of this countv. It appears that some time since
a cotton buyer of this, city purchased of a cot
ton factor a bale of cotton, which\was sold as
New York middlings. The’ buyer shipped it to
Savannah, where it was discovered that the cot
ton was of a lower grade than New York mid
dlings, and sent back to Augusta. The buyer
re-sold it here at a loss of twelve dollars, ex
clusive of freight to and from Savannah, and
demanded that amount as reclamation from the
faotor-from whom it was originally purchased.
The latter refused to pay, and the buyer
brought suit in the court of Justice Ells. The
plaintiff introduced testimony to show that it
was the custom amongcotton buyers to demand
and receive reclamation in cages like tins, while
the defendants denied that they were liable, be
cause they had a.priuhsd notice posted in their
office that no reclamation would be allowed after’
cotton purchased from them had been shipped.
Tho Court decided in favor’of the plaintiff, be
cause there was no evidence' that toe notice
posted in the defendant’s office had ever been
assented to by toe plaintiff, and: consequently
it was not binding upon the latter. Counsel
for toe defendant gave notice that he would
take the case to the Superior Court by certior
ari. Mr. Blaok, for the plaintiff, Mr. Strother,
for tho defendants.
Eva Lyons, “an amiable and good-looking”
member of the Savannah demi-monde, attempted
to solve the great problem, on Thursday, wito
twenty-five cents worth of laudanum.
Bellviow, six miles north of Talbotton, was
visited by a severe storm last Thursday, which
blew down every house’ in tho place except two,
though.it is not stated how many there wero at
first. ’ 1 -»
Mr. Chas. G. Bo area, has retired from the
•Thomaston Herald, and is succeeded by Mr.
M. O. Cahaniss.
Mrs. Augustus J. King, of Thomaston, is
doad.
The Thomaston Herald says fertilizers have
been gonorally used in that section this season-
Of .crop prospects In that region'; the Herald
says
The Crops.—From onr observations whilo
riding through considerable portions of Upson,
Talbot, and Pike counties, and our information
from toe planters, we are induced to believe
that a much greater breadth of land has been
devoted to the growth of corn, wheat and Irish
potatoes this, season that formerly,.and we are
glad to say that at too present time all these
crops aro looking well. There Is no danger but
what sufficient attention will be paid to cotton,
and we trust with a good result.
We clip as follows from the Newnan Herald,
of Friday:
A White Man Robbed by Negroes.—A gen
tleman writing to us from Bowden sa?s:
A gentleman by the name of J. L. Marbnt,
citizen of Paulding county, reports that he was
attacked and robbed on last Saturday, the 15th
inst., on toe public road leading from Possum
Snout, in Haralson connty, to Columbus, Ga.,
about seven miles from Possum Snout by two
negroes.
He was alone and traveling on foot. Tho
negroes were sitting by the road as Mr. Marbut
camo up to them , when they halted him and
asked how far it was from there to Atlanta.
They then drew their revolvers, presented them
at him, cursed him and demanded his money.
Mr.- Marbut having no means of defence gave
them his pooket book, which contained abont
eighteen dollars in money. The negroes then
told him to get down and pray hi3 last prayer.
He. kneeled down and prayed. They then
ordered him to take off his shoes and hat. See
ing they were determined on killing him, he
broke and ran for his life and succeeded in
making his cscapo. Tho negroes shot at him.
one ball passing through toe skirt of his coatj
bnt missed him. The robbers have not yet
been arrested.
Found Dead in the Field.—A friend writing
ns from Carrollton, under date of April 17to,
communicates the following mournful item:
Just as I was closing this note, Mr. William
son came in and told mo that Mr. Henry Martin,
son of the late lamented Hon. Emanuel Martin,
started from home thi3 morning to hunt his
oxen, and was found this evening late, dead in
tho plantation near a fence. Ho seemed to be
iu perieot Ueallli tlus morning. It is supposed
that he died of apoplexy. Respectfully,
J. J.. J.
The Income Tax.
Tho income tax is not popzfijqr in the North
nor, per se, any where ; bnt the West pressed
it on tho-East in 'the 41st Congress, because she
said it was about toe only way to get taxes out
of them. Tho great mass of p'roperty holders
there had hoarded their funds in United States
securities, which ware otherwise exempt from
taxation; and thus, fenced in securely from the
tax-gatherer, while themselves levying enor
mous tributes on the rest of toe people in toe
shape of protective tariff bounties, tho prospect
was that the Eastern and Middle States would
hold a mortgage on all the remainder of the
Union, before the national debt should be paid.
Consequently, tho West made a desperate and
successful struggle against the repeal of the
income tax. But, naturally, although every
body hates this tax, these older Stales hat9 it
with a wonderful intensity, particularly since
they havo failed to throw off tho burden. Here
is the way in which the staid old Journal of
Commerce attacks it:
When too question of continuing this tax
camo up in Congress, we were almost alone in
onr prediction that the dominant party would
not relinquish the power it gave them, to be
used for political ends iu a quiet bnt efficient
way in ovary community. That prediction was
ridiculed, but vindicated in the result, and the
tax was reimposed in a still more unjust and
tyrannical form. Here are a thousand people
in one community, bnt toe lax, in theory, is to
rest only upon thoso whose income exceeds two
thousand dollars. If every one made a sworn
return, much injustice would still prevail, but
there would bo equality in terms. As now in
terpreted, however the law iB held not to require
this. Thoso whose inoomo is not $2,000 need
NEW ORLEANS.
Decay oftlie Crescent City—The “Days that
are no niore”.--%l»a .New Regime—The
Curse of Carpet-bag Government—A DaHc
Picture. S >-
Correspondence Springfield Republican.]
"* - New Orleans, March, 1871. ‘
Notwithstanding the fact'that the cotton crop
of the current year is onb of toe largest ever
grown, already indicating an amount of over
four millions of bales, a large .proportion of
which will seek tide water by way of New Or
leans, unload, at our levees from our steamboats,
be repressed, handled, sampled, sold and
sbippedLfrt&i hero—yet there is a cry from all
sides that tho business of the city is unsatisfac-
tdryr- Peoplecomplaih of-poverty, real -esl af& _
rapidly declines, new enterprises are not ,TlIat-hecouldpeveVlpvet^ 1 l0p ^ u
planned, no houses are built, and toe city, un-j-'q 13 *,-v-'i'-’; : , ’ ~
make no return; and every man who is lot
alone, even though his ineome'is $10,000 a year,
need make no return. If he is all right with tho
Assessor, ho may thus bo let off, and he makes
no sign himself. If tho Assessor will, however,
ho can not only hunt out very sharply thoso
opposed to him who ought to make a return,
but he can require every man he chooses to sus
pect, to submit to a rigid examination and es
tablish his right to the exemption. Those who
cannot see in the possession of such power tho
means of political intimidation, coercion, or re
taliation, must understand very little of human
nature and the wiles of a party campaign. It is
this hold upon their fellow-citizens which the
income tax gives to thoso in power that led to
its renewal for another term. :l: .
We do not see any legal protection that can
be given too private citizen against this tyran
ny and injustice; nor aro wo sanguine in regard
to tho final remedy for the enforcement of tho
tax. Such a levy is unconstitutional beyond all
reasonable doubt; but the courts are in the
hands of tho oppressors, and civil process has
boen purposely so hampered and restrained by
them, that it can ueither.be used to prevent tho
wrong, nor to furnish prompt redress for those
who suffer.
“Tbe Old Folks at Home”—Sixteen
Proofs of Healtbfqlness.
There are, it seems, many other persons be
sides ourselves, who are of opinion that there
is no healthier country on the face of this con
tinent, at least, than Middle Georgia. The fol
lowing letter famishes strong ground for such
belief:
'Jones County, April21, 1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : I see in
a late number of your paper, some account of
the age of tho Rev. Cary Cox, etc., etc. I will
give you a showing of toe old people of this
county, Baldwin.and Putman. Strike a circle
of seven miles in diameter, and within said cir
cle there are sixteen white persons: the young
est of them is more than seventy years old, five
from 82 to 86, one 93. There ike seven females
and nine males. Three or four of the number
are more than 75. There may be several blacks
within these figures. I kno^r st spine' three or
four myself. I doubt whether tbfc can be beat
anywhere in toe State of Geotgja, outside of
toe oities. Yours respeot/fllly.
John Farrar.
Queen Victoria has more Mohammedan sub
jects than toe Sultan of Turkey.
like most American towns,' seems to have been
completed and set apart to decay. Of course the
causes of this dullness are complicated and va
rious, but some of them are so plain that tho
simplest mind’can readily see them.
This is a vast rambling town of small houses,
situated in a low cypress swamp, and contain
ing in winter probably- 250,000 inhabitants.
Before the war its business was to receive and
sell for toe planters of Mississippi, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas, over a million bales of
cotton, and to distribute all the sugar and mo
lasses of Louisiana’. Nearly the whole value of
their rich crop, was advanced each season to toe
planters by factors and bankers at a high rate
of commission and interest, largely in toe form
of -supplies of; provisions and merchandise,
bought at dear prices. If tho crop fell short,
the factor took a mortgage on plantation and
negroes, and advanced money, untila good crop
or great prices could float the planter up again.
It was an immensely profitable businers. The
planter, lazy, careless, extravagant and san-
guino, always In debt, always wanting a new
advance, nover dared to scrutinize or dispute
an account with his commission merchant, bnt
submitted to be royally plundered on all sides.
Coming down to New Orleans with his crop in
toe winter, even if he paid his past advances
with the proceeds, ho must have -bacon, com,
negro clothing, shoes and. blankets for next
year. IIo always wanted a few ’-bauds:” he
must buy a carpenter or a cooper, a cook or
a seamstress; a few baskets of champagne, a
couple of casks of claret, & blood horse, an Eng
lish saddle, a Hanton gnfc and some diamonds
for the girls.; 7 - "y 5a .. - ; ~
Then New Orleans was, a hard place to get out
of. There were the dinners at Moreau’s and
Victor’s and Pina!s, with toe little game after
the table was cleared; there wero sirens from
Maine and Massachusetts, and New Jersey,
who charmed yotrag Longstaple’s tender heart
and willing purse; there was the box at (he op
era, the races at the Metairie — Lexington
against Lecompte, Gray Medoc and Sally Bla
den, Lightning...and Fanio. They were gay
days, these last rapid days of the old regime,
and New Orleans waxed fat and recked not of
cock-eyed lawyers pettifogging in Lowell police
courts. Factors and bankers aro men of this
world, and wiser in their day and generation
than the children of light. They encouraged
the extravagance of the planter and made long
bills. There was too commission for purchas
ing supplies, paid both by planter and merchant;
interest on the money, at least 12 percent;. cot-
ton'press charges, handling, sampling, selling,
short weight, insurance, so that each bale of
cotton had to sweat at least four dollars before
it could get from the steamboat to the ship.
All this is changed. Old Longstaple, with his
great plantation, rambling house and negro
quarters swarming with slaves, has not a local
habitation or a name. His smartest boys work
part of too land closely, with hired labor; and
shrewd freedmen, possibly, with old mules, rope
harness, mended plows and spliced chains, get
more crop from the remainder than they ever
made for old Longstaple. Instead of sending to
Orleans they get supplies on credit from a swarm
of little Jew and Yankee traders, who have
sprung up among them, who in return take the
cotton at cash price, and shipping it to New
Orleans, insist upon the most rapid and eco
nomical realization of the proceeds. They
know the lowest cost of handling and pressing,
they ask for tho return premium on insurance,
they will have no short weight without a reason
for it, and in every way possible they make
themselves disagreeable. They havo oredit and
bny their own goods, not merely in the restricted
and high priced markot of New Orleans, but in
Cincinnati, St. Louis, and even New York.
They live to make money, not to spend it, so
while they flourish Now Orleans languishes.
Handling more cotton than ever, the city grows
poorer every day. Ono of the great hotels has
been closed ever since toe war; large shops aro
unoeoupied. In the French quarter the whole
town seems to be “tb'let.” The doleful words
“Magazin a loner” stare from half the houses.
The retailers of all kinds are poor, and “getting
no better fast.” The fact is, the town is too
large to subsist on a mere exchange business.
It has got to shrink down to the new condition
of things.
If you discuss toe matter with a creole, he
vaguely says, “It is the Radicals;” that is the
end of his philosophy, and he adjourns to the
nearest bar-room. Well, how abont the Radi
cals ? \\ hen the poet sung,
. Disillusion.
AtC m emzabeth aeebs ailut V\
I dreamed thatl hading be 6!J ac . '
Spring ram, and Hummer ik-ht , Av
Had swept acrosB my lonesome S‘ , ’ 0: a
With clover-scent andwiid bewL
Lightening tho place of half
Serena and calm, my quiet’ghost
Came softly back to see tha
Whose memory death could not et*^
But ho, mv love, whom even in
I yearned to comfort and Emst»;n ea
..Knowing how sore his heart ws.
- —My-toverwitk life so changed
Thatlifl m-.nW 1 10 Dim
Forgetful of the golden band
- On my dead finger slumberin'*
how bent above another band t ”
And clasped and kissed the dsinf.
And whispered of another ring ^ *%!.
Alas, poor g^bost! I felt a thiffl r -
A sudden stab cf- mortal p&iaZ
And sighed. He shivered ■“kb
The air has grown, and foll of h-
My darling, kiss me wanuagaiii?'
Why should I linger ? As I
Her lips touched ehyly, mnrrnrm-r,,,
Just wheremy own had
Only so little whileagoT beu M
“Ah, well,” I said, ‘ ‘tis better so.»
■How small, of all that human hearts endaro'.
That part which laws or kicg3 can cause or
euro”—
perhaps ho was singlpg wisely. It is well
enough to think so. I aui not a politician, but
I see how things go,, and at toe risk of contro
versy and hard feeling I .will venture to say,
and my language is plain, and it is “the heft of
my judgment,” that there has never keen, in
too tide of time, such an ntter failure of human
schemes as wo sea in the result of reconstruc
tion in this State. I say “this State” because I
am here, and know Low it is myself. Possibly
it is worso elsewhere. A more contemptible,
disreputable, low-dowd, oppressive government
than that of Louisiana never before polluted
human records. It has not a decent aspect or
redeeming feature, and as revolntions do not
move baokward, I see no prospect of favorable
change at present. I havo faith in my people
sufficiently strong to believe that if the body of
men called a Legislature, just adjourned in this
State, had done to the people of Massachusetts
whdt they did to Louisiana, they would never
havo left Boston alive. •- .]
The complaint is nst merely .that these legis
lators aro “radical” in politics; or that many of
them are ignorant blaok men, who but jester,
day were slaves, or that tho majority of the
white members aro base carpet-bagging scala
wags from tho North, with no knowledge of the
State, no prido in its past history or interest in
its future, elected after ten days’ residence in a
parish by the convenient machinery of registra
tion and “commissioners” and “inspectors” of
elections, appointed by a governor, himself the
creation of similar frauds. Nor i3 it because a
small minority of them are tha meanest South
ern whito trash, men without a “last place of
residence,” soaked in whisky, living with negro
women, and smelling like wet dogs, as they el
bow about tho lobby openly selling their votes;
for even such a collection of foul birds might
be got rid of and the State havo a future. But
these cormorants have not only plundered,
looted and sold out every visible thing, but they
havo so mortgaged the State that the noble do
main of Louisiana, purchased by Jefferson from
the First Consul of France, onco rich in sugar
and cotton land, is, to-day, without credit or
available resources.
But a few faots must be stated. New England
understands figures. Look at these: la 1865
toe debt of Louisiana was about $5,000,009. It
is now (I quote toe State Auditor’s report)
$25,021,763, comprised of State bonds, $22,-
560,233; warrants and certificates, $1,593,907;
miscellaneous, $867,533. Add to this “ accru
ing debt,” being endorsements on railroad,
’’ship canal” and other swindles, amounting to
$15,390,000, and there is a total of $40,416,763.
That is all; there you have the blessings of uni
versal suffrage and free govemmentin a “dem-
nition total.” Only[forty millions of mortgage on
farms and labor ana skill. Little drafts on the
future, and for what—what have we got ? No
thing ; the money has been stolen. In addi
tion to this, franchises have been granted, cor
porations oreated, oppressive, injurious and
abominable, so that toe whole community groans
under the oppression. History can furnish no
parallel to this spoliation in time of peace. It
;s idle to expect men to be satisfied with it, and
to rejoice at tho sight of the “old flag,” and
talk of the “best government the world ever
saw,” when they aro living under a robbing,
swindling, indecent pretense of government.
Yet Louisiana is quiet. I do not think even a
Congressional smelling committee conld report
a single ease of “outrage” in the State. Shame
on them, say I, that they are quiet. Bat all
this planting, and watering must bear fruit, and
what will it bo ? The time will come when Fed
eral bayonets cannot be so easily invoked as
now, and then I trust the occupation of carpet-
bagging will come to the end it so justly de
serves.
Tho Dubuque Times says that the highest
land in Iowa, at Spirit Lake, is 17,000 feet high
—2,000 feet higher than the highest mountain
in the United States, outside of Alaska. i
__ ........ > darkening .for
Beside my grave all bramblt c iL,
-With-sorrow in hie eyes—alone '
A tear,’down-glittering as he stood
Hung, etar-idie, in the graaabrin..
I blessed him in my gratitude "'
He smiled: “Dear heart, if she cosh k I
How sweet these brier-bloasoauI
. Harper's Jtfffftein/fcr jf,„ f
The Nestor or the Georgia Bar
Editors Telegraph and Messenger-rJ
sertmycnr paper the. foliavitn fr 6 «ri;,
note3 connected with the early histm
reer of Hon.. William Law, who
of character, profound legal erudition iJiE
manning eloquence, has no BUtviuneVZd
Georgia, and justly takes rank with tie!^
riens, Crittendens and Websters of the a
past. The'snows of 78 yeara havevfe
tho locks and bent the form of this m3
citizen, but his undimmed intellect sal aa
its ponderous weight and buoyant eh;'
and to-day he is able to' accomplish ta u. -
of office work and severe labor, vhkhfaj]
his juniois could undergo. Judgo Laving
tive of old Liberty county, that ertlwhilefi
abode of patriotism, intelligence and i
In the war of .1812 he bore 1
defence of his country against foreign t
sion. and at the close of ■
study of law, and was admitted to the led
March, 1815, in tho ancient town ot ikjJ
once New Inverness. The follovring j<arM
he was appointed Solicitor General bj Gored
Rabun, to fill the unexpired term of CoLEa
Tatnall, resigned.
Onr young barrister distinguished himatfij
mediately, by convicting in the first oomt '4
of Glynn) which succeeded hia appoint"
three parties out of four chargedwith tbe
of murder. The fourth escaped on tripial
insanity. It is related of this indmduihrJ
it will be seen, wn3 very far from being drill
the true sense of the word, that hit mm
Jeremiah Atkinson, advised him, in afett
maintain his role as a crazy man, to anwsij
questions propounded by counsel or couit
the simple ejaculation, u Piggie,pi$gkr (
serving his instructions to the letter, it was J
once decided that toe accused was either i
ranged or an idiot, and a verdict of i
was rendered accordingly. When the toil*
over the connsel of toe prisoner took him i
and demanded the. stipulated fee for his sen
To his utter consternation, however, las d
only responded “Piggie, piggie!”toe
word that was uttered. So for once thebi
was bitten, and the legal acumen was fdkilj
a natural, so-called^
Judge Law was afterwards elected 1
General by too Legislature, his opponeatb
Hon. Levi S. De Lyon, deceased. Since t
period his career as a joiist, has been ois«
tinned and splendid success. Ononeoccasi
in the celebrated Florida case of Croon i
Smith, he received a fee of $S,000, andsj
two and a half days, gaining a verdict of t
COO for his clients. Against him were «n
Pettigru, Davis, Galbraith, Long and ofer a
icent legal minds.
The-subject of these notes wa9 tendered,!
both parties, a seat on. the Supreme Bail
tho State, upon the organization of thitCsf
bnt refused the position as inadequate tri
support of his numerous family. He has, i
than once, also, declined Congressional ha
At this, time be is confessedly tho oldeiia
ber of the bar in Georgia, and probably c£j
entire South—land yet all will agree tbit
legal opinions are cs clear and comprehend
and his voice as potential before Judge crjt
as at any-former stage of his life. Lotg r
'this eminent sage and Christian linger k‘
us. -,,w E. El-1
Some!Liny About Dodge Cenntj. |
Editors Telegraphy and Messenger :-T ’
your indulgence while 1 attempt to into
outsido world of Some of the latent adra
hitherto unknown’' (or if known <
in this part of toe county, known contei
ly as the wiregrass. Tho subject wtici
pose to treat principally is Dodge comtj,*
:its county town Eastman, situated J7 ®
from Macon, on tho. Macon & Bionstid®
road, and a more healthful spot of earth J”
to be found in Georgia, besides
beautifully situated.
The friends'of education
a place not'ed for good schools, aad it ss
opinion of the . writer that they are is 0*’*
jorfty, and will succeed—offering there
ducements to persons wishing to edac^**"
ily scarcely equaled in the State.
generally throughout tho cotton Stat
this season cf the year, nevertheless '
smashing business in dry hides, andfti s
rels, when nothing else is available, tha.<
remunerative. But,- we-need above r"
else at present, a good 'wheelwright«
maker, either Or both of whoia won.ap
tho greenbacks just now, at this place.
Mr. W. Pitt Eastman is now withers
intending the laving off of the towM
so far exhibited much proficiency, »
good taste in behalf of beauty ana eon ■
as well as a lively interest that he[ ■
manifest for the good of the community‘-o
C *Dr. Dodge is expected to visit his mSetsJj
these parts at an early day,
community peculiarly fortunate in ...
men as the above named have or T
matters not from whence ' gt!!
gladly receive all public Md
that would build np the waste
country.
Tbo Opponents
The New York Commercial AdvertJJ
prominent Republican paper, ■£«*>*
failure of tbe Amnesty bill in the
When the twenty-one Senntors wbi
the death of tho measure, and the m
didnotvotoat all, *° ^ **.
cies, they will be likely to .
questions—such, for example, ^ s
did you block the wheels oi
tho course of Trade? Why didy K , f
introduction of capital into th
did you rejeot the offers of men
to bo ready and willing to enforce a
laws ? Why did you not give an op ^
test the sincerity of these men t " IjuW
pass Force bills, and establish rui® ^
net in time of peace ? Why v*® 1 *.
subvert the Republican form of
What is to be gained by the aaopuo^^
nres alike oppressive and unco
And why should the President be
arbitrary powers ?
— , Its
Vance’s Chances,—Tho Sun o .
says, that one of tho reasons .j*
the Amnesty bill in the Senate"
have relieved Governor Z. B. ^ a " ca y{
Carolina of his disabilities, so tha,
take his seat as Senator. This ^ H
toe Republican members would 8 o‘ ’ { c
are strongly antagonistic to _ Ya fv.;* s V :
of the. extraordinary zeal end ao “
manifested as Governor °f
supporting and protracting the r , L
now certain that he will not be
Senate for some time to oome.
If you would consult your interest £
Hart’s family grooery house, Amen •
bacon, lard, flour, salt, coffee, s °? ar ’
tobacco. He says on account of me b s
titycf hogs killed this season
salt, at present, for less than $1 ^,1^:
want the bacon go and see him-