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Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, APBEL 25, 1871. Wo state it as a reliable fact that hundreds of Northern men who had intended to visit the Southern States, with a view to travel and in vestment Of means, have been deterred from doing so by the well authenticated outrages of ihe Ku-klax. The greatest sufferers of this wide-spread lawlessness are the Southerners themselves—Forn ey's Press. What “a reliable fact” from that source means, is known of all men. Forney don’t have much to do with the class of Northen men who have means to invest at the South. They don’t like him and his sort, and choose other company when they wish information and advice. The frind he knows are the vagabond dead-beats and thieves who come down here “on the make," and howl “loyalty” while they plunder the whites and cheat and cozen the blacks, fiat’s the sort of Northern men that seek Forney’s company and ask his advice. But if any decent men with means have really been deterred from coming South to invest them, Forney and his co-slanderers of thetrooly loll press are alone to blame. He and others of that breed have invented and scattered broad cast over the land so many shameless falsehoods about Ku-klux outrages that, in this way, they may have induced prospective settlers from the North to hesitate about coming among us. For every so-called Ku-klax outrage that really had any foundation in fact, there have been at least one hundred manufactured and circulated by Badical hirelings—most of them, at least— who are paid for their dirty work with govern ment money. There is nothing that so sharpens the average ioil man’s talent for lying as to have hio greedy fingers in the swill tub. These chaps know their mission and do it well. It would not be at all surprising if even Northern tourists feared to pass through some Southern States, so horribly have their people and actual condi tion been slandered. When these chartered libertines of lying cease to ply their vocation, and their allies at the South cease to steal and bankrupt the gov ernments they have usurped, then will Northern emigration set this way with a steady current. Wo shall never see that consummation, thongh, till a Democratic administration rules at Wash ington. We regard Northern immigration to the South as out of the question during Badical rule. Men will not trust their own lives and the liveB of their families with a people whom they have been taught to regard at least with suspicion, if not actual fear, and their property to the tender mercies of governments that they know are bnt organized brigandage. When Xjemocrats rule at Washington they will rule all over the South. Then will this stream of filth and falsehood bo suddenly dried np, and the North learn the truth concerning thereat condi tion of affairs in this section; and the State governments once more in the hands of honest men will offer some guarantee to settlers with property that it will not be stolen from them Under form of law to minister to the greed and profligacy of the law givers. Ebon Enron roa a Basical Vote.—By the resignation of Jos. Irving, member of the As sembly from the city of New York, the Demo crats in that branch of the New York Legisla ture lost their majority. On Saturday last they “saw” a Badical from Chatauque county named Winans, and he immediately announced that he had been “converted.” Chatauque is the coun ty where father Greeley has his farm, and where he learned what he Snows about fanning. It is supposed Winans had become completely de moralized by reading after father G. on this Subject, and so fell an easy prey to “Boss” Tweed. The dispatches say he cost the “Boss” $05,000, bnt this is evidently a mistake in fig ures. We think $05 is what is meant. Of oourse Winans will catch it hot from his late BftsnrfafaR. who howl with anoniaH atnothavine had a chance to soil their votes too. Wendell Phillips says that “nothing short of shooting half a dozen Southern millionaires at the drumhead will awe the Kn-klux into sub mission.” Wendell is exactly right abont that, for as there is not a Southerner within the whole length and breadth of the land that can be termed a “millionaire,” and as all the—so- called—“Southern millionaires” are carpet baggers who came to our country beggars, and have stolen all they have, we have no donbt bnt that their execution would have a very mollifying effect on the Kn-klux. Warmoutb, of Louisiana, and Scott, of Sonth Carolina, will be good men to begin on.—Aberdeen Ex aminer. Yale College has called Henry Ward Beecher to the incumbency of a theological lectureship. That will enable the Bov. Henry Ward to sys tematize his theology, which seems a good deal like the channel of the Mississippi Biver—to be crooked, uncertain, shifting and break out in new and unexpected places without previous warning. Beecher’s theology and the Horald’s politics are very much alike. They seem to be made np of a kind of conglomerate, which dis closes new and surprising material with every examination. Gaubexxa’s funeral oration over Kuss, late Mayor of Strasbourg, wound np: “HappyM. Knss, to have the privilege of entering your ag onized country only as a dead man.” Gambet* ta shouldn’t be envious. If he thinkE it is such The Presidential Succession In the teeth of the numerous prognostic* tions to the contrary from the great party of discontented Radicals, we should have not the first donbt of Grant’s renomination in 1873, if he were only a little less pertinacious and a lit tle more modest in pressing his claims. To outsiders, whose minds are impressed with some old-fashioned ideas of the personal dig* nity becoming the Chief Magistrate of tbe American Republic, it appears as .if President Grant were just now the most active and effi cient agent in defeating his own renomination. But Grant is on the ground—he.understands the moral tone of Radical, politics—he knows all the active leaders of that party thoroughly —he does not lack common sense—he has the benefit Of shrewd advisers, and if this undis guised and unceasing intrigue and niggling for a renomination would hart him with his party he would probably find it out. Wo infer, therefore, that the political atmos phere in court circles has become so fonl, cor rupt and shameless that nothing stands in the way of securing a renomination for the Presi dency so much as a decent modesty and self- respect ; and the real way for Grant to win is to use all the resources of his great position, instantly, in season and out of season, without the smallest delicacy or hesitation, to stock the cards in advance on his party convention. This it is conceded, bn all hands, he is doing; and some of the organs of his party charge that he is going quite beyond even this; and holding aphis own renomination as the only possible avenue of escape from a “split in the party,’’ as he will not submit to be overslaughed by the convention. All this may be quite true. It is impossible for any man not familiar with the inside cur rent or Radical politics to tell. The man who knew Washington ten years ago and has not seen it since, is a poor jndge. We suppose he cannot conceive the descent. Grant will force himself upon the party, because there is really nobody to pit against him, and certainly no one to book his claimB with corres ponding means and appliances. Candidates, there are sure to be; bnt not one of them has much individual strength. The opposition to Grant is very great, bnt it lacks all concentra tion and power. His renomination is, there fore, a foregone conclusion, in spite of all the talk to the contrary. He will go before the country—first, on the strength of a remorseless misapplication of the power and patronage of his office. A man backed with fonr or five hundred millions of pnblio money a year is formidable, no matter who he may be.' Second, he has been active to secure extraordinary powers to control the suf frage, and he means to use them all. Thirdly, his strong card is already disclosed. It is tho getting up of another big scare on the Northern and Western voters abont the revolutionary designs and purposes of the Southern States. A Democratic administration must necessari ly represent, to a great extent, Southern feeling and opinion. It will receive our support at the polls—in the Electoral College—in the Cab inet and in Congress, and it will sympathize with the Sonth. Unless we shat our eyes, we are bound, therefore, to see that the Northern masses will be peculiarly sensitive and auspi. cions of a party revolution and a Democratic succession. We could comprehend it were the condition reversed—were the Southern States asked to support a Northern opposition candi date after a great war of sections, in whioh the ancient doctrines of his party had been put down by the bayonet. In harmony with the grand scheme of fighting the North onoe more are all these Ku-klax move ments—all the attempts in every shape to rep resent tho Southern States as determined to use the Democratic party to disturb the politioal results of the war—unsettle the existing status— jeopardize in any way the value of the national securities—or affect unfavorably the personal Negro Farm Labor. A great diversity of opinion Is expressed In Those Absentees Again. A number of Democrats have been absent different quarters about the efficiency ofthe. from the House of Representatives lately on . * . ... , , n mvAfon^inn fn nroatimt free colored plantation labor. Some writers re privileges of the enfranchised blacks. The Southern people and politicians will be very blind if they fail to recognize the extreme deli cacy of the situation, and to see that defeat must certainly follow any policy on our part lending tho slightest color or foundation to these charges. Grant may be beaten; bat if beaten, it will be in pursuance of a course of management adapted to qniet the popular apprehensions upon which the Radicals will base their grand appeal for a re-lease of fonr more years of administrative power. Tbe Senate Amendments to tbe Koi> Klnx Bill. Under date of April 14, the World’s Washing ton correspondent telegraphs as follows: The Senate has done its worst on the Ku-Klux bill. It not only passed it this evening with all the important amendments submitted by the Judiciary Committee, but adopted two others presented by Messrs. Morton and Sherman, and thereby made the measure more radical and stringent and odious in every feature than when it was evolved from the House Committee. 1. The President is given the power to sus- dend the writ of habeas corpus through the Presidential election. 2. Every one who proves an outrage on his person or properly is given the right of recla mation through judicial process on property in the county where he resides. 3. The iron-clad oath is restored for jurors in Federal courts, so that nearly every white man in the South is excluded fsom the jury box, This will enable the Busteeds and Underwoods to pack the juries with negroes who cannot read and write. The House, it will be remembered, merely fixed this feature so that the judge could a nice thing to enter his agonized country as a set aside a i 11101 ^ho sympathized with the Ku- dead man, ho has only to cross ihe frontier, exact an ordinaa y oat ^ to the oon- where most any German peasant will cheeky extraordinary and radical changes made make him eligible. Bat we are afraid Gam. is by «,« Senate were suggested by Attorney Gen- era! -with the Pre&idfint’fl unnrnval. a flam. He don’t care a Kuss for the privilege. —Exchange. _ Fenton's Quest.—Messrs. Brown & Company have just received this new novel—Miss Brad- don’s last. A great many folks sneer at and abuse Miss B., but we have never heard any of them call her a fool. She writes exceedingly interesting stories, and <> Fenton’s Quest” is one of her best. It keeps your eyes wide open, and your interest np among the nineties, from first to last. Biyeb Running Away from Vicxsbubo.—Du ring the war the Mississippi Biver refused to run into Grant’s ditch, dug to circumvent the blockade; but now it is doing so of its own mo tion, and, it ia said, tbe Mississippi will be two miles from the Vicksburg bluff unless the oppo site bank is protected at an estimated expense Of $2,745,000. _ Fobnzx thinks that Sonth Carolina Legisla ture “the Bymbol of a new and higher life, and declares “every one of those fifty sable but ^patriotic men a pledge sure and inviolable that” ' the State will never go astray any more. His Ideas of a “new and higher life” seem to be robbing a man of his last cent, tearing his clothes and tabbing sand in his eyes. James Carter, of Hamilton, Nevada, told Mr. J. Gates that the four aces the said Gates held were dealt from the bottom, .whereupon Mr. Gates proceeded to establish a nucleus for a fu neral by the aid of a revolver. “Ex I had been eatin’ dried apples for a week an’ den took to drinkin’ for a mortf, I couldn’t feel more awell’d np more dan I am dis minnit wid pride and wanity at seem’ such full tendance bar dis evenin’,” said a colored preacher in Louisville. Anothkb Strike—The Crispins (shoemakers) in Baltimore are on a strike—some 2,ooo having turned themselves out of employment port it improving from year to year, while, perhaps, the weight of testimony is vice versa. The reports from the rioh alluviums of the Southwest are very discouraging. All authori ties pronounce free negro labor there unreliable and nnoontrollable. They say the measure of labor to be obtained is graduated by the actual vital necessities of the laborer, and rarely gets beyond. From the prairies and river .bottoms of Alabama we hear about the same story. And the same thing may be said of the lowlands on the coast of the Carolinas and Georgia. The same conditions work every where similar re sults. ■ 'Wherever land is rioh, or on any other ao- count the moans of subsistence are easily pro cured, negro labor is. comparatively unreliable and valueless. The hands will abandon the crops in : any condition for a frolic. The fish and game of the coasts, river bottoms and ham mocks supply tood as the reward of mere sporty and the uses of labor are summed up in the need of money for ammunition, fishing tackle, holiday and Sunday finery, tobacco, whisky, and the.other dietetic luxuries which the negro af fects. As a rule, to which, of course, there are exceptions, the negro in these localities has very little ambition to improve his circum stances, except in the mere matter of sensual gratification. To accumulate property, and attain social consideration as the result of steady, methodi cal industry, is,.from all aocounts, an unusual development of individual character. To live along with the greatest amount of bodily ease and leisure, consistent with his coveted en joyments, is the ordinary rule. Among our up-country farmers we have per- sued inquiries with very conflicting results. The answers are as varied as the respondents. Some insist that every year the freedmen are settling down into soberer and more intelligent views and methodical habits; while others say every year he is getting more worthless. From the older counties above ns the accounts are, on the whole, unfavorable. In Monroe the range of discussion at the Farmers’ Club last week disclosed the unanimous opinion that negro labor is fast deteriorating. But frequently the oral and written testimony of individual plant ers is wholly the reverse of this. It is easy to discover reasons for this variant opinion. Some neighborhoods retain the old family negroes, and have been less pestered by the emissaries of discord and political plunder. In others Ethiopian politics and loyal leagues, with all their blasting and demoralizing in fluences, have had full sway. Some planters display a greater versatility and tact in mana ging and harmonizing interests, and some don’t care to study into and adapt themselves to the situation. Some farms are remote from all dis tracting influences and some are in the midst of them. As a rule, wherever radicalism has fired the negroes with the ambition to ran tho politics of their locality and the condition ad mits it, the morale is bad. A negro office-holder is generally a perpetual fly blister upon the public order and harmony. One great source of trouble in the upland country has been found in such an eager de mand for labor that every applicant is accepted. This was the case in previous years to a far greater extent than it is now. When planters, in an undue anxiety to swell their orops, aocept a worthless or indifferent hand, they should es timate their loss not upon that laborer alone, but also by the evil influence of his example on all the others. A single dead fly spoiled all the apothecary’s precious ointment; and one tri fling, shuffling, shirking, stealing hand will, moro or less, demoralize a whole force. When one such is discovered it will be a losing busi ness to retain his services, even without wages. If we could get fairly over the cotton fever, * ——- bm slowly recovering, a small surplusage of hands, sufficient to make employ ment a valuable consideration, would help much towards introducing more order and efficiency. And to this end, too, we need more as well as a higher and more intelligent and better labor. This would help to leaven the whole lump. The practice of leasing land to negroes, un less pursued with the greatest caution, is very demoralizing. It may be safe to rent lands to negroes who have established a character for diligent industry, sobriety and honesty; bnt to locate Tom, Dick and Harry at farming on their own account, concerning whom there is no evi dence that they will work systematically or live honestly, is to set up a moral pest-house—a source of temptation to idleness, discontent, disorder and dishonesty right around you. It should be discouraged. Let the negroes by dili gence and frugality get a fee-simple title to land, if they wish to farm on their own account. The habits acquired in earning the land will then stick to them, and their example will stimulate others. We believe the great body of negro tenants are practical nuisances. an, with the President’s approval. This edition ^ the fat® 0 f these amendments at the hantn, tt 0 Conference Committee, the appointment and opposition of which was announced yesterday; bnt wheth er it does or not, we have none the less reason to be grateful to Mr. Amos Akennan. That venomous little serpent of hate and hy pocrisy, who has, perhaps, won more wealth of well deserved infamy from the people of Geor- ° gia than any man of his mental calibre ever succeeded in doing before, is still as blind and ferocious as ever. What a debt of gratitude will we owe him by the time he, with Grant, is driven from Washington in 1873! Howspecially honored must the people of Cartersville feel at the prospect of having him. one of themselves when he returns, voluntarily, to wfce up his res idence among those whom he demos de clares such monsters as to deserve the fate bill, as amended, will subject them to! We of fer Cartersville our congratulations. Happy— thrice happy, village! A conBzsroNDxxT of the Springfield (Mass.) Republisan, in writing of political affairs in Louisiana says: “History can furnish no par allel to this spoliation in time of peace. It is idle to expect men to be satisfied with it, and to rejoice at the sight of the told flag,’ and to talk of the ‘beat government the world ever saw,’ when they are living under a robbing, swindling, indeoent pretence of a government.’’ One man's meat, another’s poison—Landlord —“I’m just glad to see ye alive an’ weel, San- dy! I gied ye aqua forty by mistake for whusky last time ye came here!” Sandy—“Aquaforly, eh! Aweel, ’twas varragude! 111 just tak’a drain o’ aquafeefty this time!”—Fun. The strongest propensity in woman’s nature, says a careful student of the sex, is to want to know what is going on, and the next strongest is to boss the job. The Best Picture Yet. We are indebted to the artist of the Courier- Journal for the following chef d’oeuvre. We shall honor it with A place in our political al bum. Now, as a companion piece, let ns have the genuine scalawag—one of the “blue cock ade” sort—sketched by the same hand. That unclean bird ought to be easier to paint, inas much as his salient points of ugliness and sin are so much more numerous and pronounced. Says the Courier-Journal: This wretched camp-follower, this fraud upon loyalty and mountebank disguised as a patriot, this swaggering, loathsome and noisy animal, having no aim or credit whatever, and destitute alike of conscince and character, was enabled by the force of shamelessness and bayonets, to elbow the best and purest men out of the way and to fill the highest places of trust and honor. He was made a Judge and dragged the ermine tux«neh the mire of Ids own ignorance and corruption into the hog-wash which that igno rance and corrupuon presently created around abont him. He was made » Mayor and squan dered the property of tho people without stint upon strumpets and faro-banks, openly and no- toriously, playing the double and simultaneous parts of Chief Magistrate and social outcast He was made a Congressman and the only act he performed for his pseudo constituents was to invent calumnies to blacken their good fame and keep them under the ban of treason and the grinding oppression of a state of perpetual war. He was made an agent of the Freedman's Bureau and alternately swindled and cajoled the blacks. He was made a Revenue Collector and cheated the Government he pretended to love so ardently and to serve with such devotion that he alone was qualified to servo it faithfully. He was made 3 -- - - - - „ ig negro leagues, was made an Officer of militia, and differed from the Ku-klux in only his disguise. The Ku-kluz had no law, mock or otherwise, at his back and prowled by night. The loyal militiaman had at least the pretence of law and -prowled at all hours. The sum of the whole was that the fountains of political well-being were muddied at their souroe. Every department of the pub lic service was turned over to the keeping of thieves and vagrants, having neither decency nor remorsG as long as a specious plan of loy alty enabled them to call in tho aid of an alien, partisan power in the General Government. Causation, Couaax and Treatment ox Rctt.vt Insanitt in Women, by Horatio Robinson Storer, M. D., LL. B., of Boston, is a new and important medical treatise just published by Lee & Shepard, and now on sale at Brown Sc Go’s, news agency, Macon. It is a condensa tion of all observation and light npon the sub ject, with original suggestions—the fruit of much hospital and private practice—upon the mode of treatment. private business—some pretending to practice law. A Georgia member is at his home while his constituents are menaced with'the' most cruel tyranny - Democratic members of the House speak bitterly of these xeoreante. The House is so constituted that the absence of a single member, even one who is paired; may do great misohief to the South.—Wash. Cor. Lou isville Ledger, 11th. The Georgia member Is, if we are not mis taken, Mr. W. P. Price, from the 6th District. ;Mr. Price’s private business must.olearty.be of the most imperative nature to justify his ab sence from his post at such a time. We hope he may bo ablo to show as much but have our doubts, as we have Been nothing in the papers of his District explanatory of his presence there when he should be in Washington. On some preliminary votes to the final .-passage of the Ku-klux bill to the House, Mr. Price’s name ap peared among those absent or not voting, bnt he was not announced as having paired with any member of the opposition. Not only the people and papers of his distriot, bnt those of Georgia and the Sonth, have the right to ask and know why Mr. Price ia absent from his seat, just now.' 'And they have the same right with respect to every other Demo crat from the South, who absents himself when his ^toie ia especially needed, as now. Absen. teeism from the post of duty at this time, and when such legislation is being foroed upon the country by tho Jacobin conspirators at Wash-: ihgtbn, {Should be adjudged and- pnnishpd crime second only in magnitude to positive be trayal of those whose votes placed the recreant in position. .. Since writing tho above, we have found the following paragraph In the Dahlonega Signal, published in Mr. Price’s place of residence: We are pleased' to notice, in our midst, our representative in Congress, Ool W. P. Price. Col. P, is in fine health and is giving his clients due attention in court. We trust ins constituents of the 6 th District- will give him- “due attention”- when he comes before them asking for re-election next year- provided he can render no better excuse for be ing absent'from Washington than a desire to attend to his private business. It is a shame— a great shame, that a representative of the peo- pie whose few remaining rights are being put in such imminent peril, should not be athis post to defend them, and if we know anything of the Democracy of the Cth District, they will so declare at the proper time. It has been the fashion up in that section to sneer at the “Athens clique,” bnt their clique never was chargable with such grave derelictions of dnty as this in the person of any representative it sent to Washington to attend to the people’s business, and guard the public interest. Cotton Figures, Prospects, etc. The New York Commercial and Financial Chronicle of Friday, says the total receipts of the week ending Friday night, were 64,156 bales against 67,543 bales last week, 71,744 bales the previous week, and 81,426 bales three weeks since, malting the total reoeipts since the first of September, 1870,8,448,720 bales against 2,488,867 bales for the same period of 1860-70, showing an inorease since September 1, this year, of 059,853 bales. The exports for the week ending last Friday night amounted to 83,987 bales, of which 65, 365 were to Great Britain, 3,391 to France and 15,232 to rest of the Continent, while the stocks as made up this evening, are now 529,177 bales. Compared with the corresponding week of last year this shows an increase in the exports of last year of 34,936 bales, while the stocks are 149,219 bales greater than .they were one year ago. Prices for low middlings closed at 1SJ for April; 1311-16 for May; 13| for Jane; 13J for August and September, and 14 cents for Sep tember. The total sales of futures were 19,350. The mercury averaged during the week at Charleston 71; Macon 74; Columbus 69; Mo bile 68; Selma G7; Galveston 70; Memphis 63. Of the next cotton crop, the Chronicle says: There are some points established with regard to the next crop which are very satisfactory. 1. There has certainly more corn and bread- staffs been planted throughout the Sonth this year than last year. Wo hear this from almost all ohr correspondents, and think there can be no doubt-of it It is not simply true of limited districts, but is nearly if not quite universal. 2. The expense of putting the cotton crop into the ground has been much less than last year. This has arisen from the necessities of the planter. He has had neither the money nor the credit to do otherwise. As a consequence very muoh less has been spent for fertilizers. 3. Bacon, ham and all “hog products’’ are now from 3@4c per pound lower than they were last year at this time, and the market for pro ducts of this description has at present a down ward tendency, whereas a year ago it had an upward tendency. 4. These are facts, together with the farther one (which is only true to a limited extent, how ever,) that better terms have been made with the freedmen, which ensure, we think, a cheaper cotton crop than any Bince the war. It Is hard ly necessary to say that “hog and hominy” enter very largely into the price of cotton, and with these articles lower the cost of tho crop to the planter will be very materially reduced. The cotton receipts at “Interior Ports” last week footed up 10,243, against 8676 the corres ponding week last year. The shipments were 18,577, againBt 10,692 last year. The stock was 69,826, against 78,061 last year. The so-called “Interior ports” are the seven towns of Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Montgomery, Selma, Mem phis and Nashville. The visible supply of cotton last Friday night was 2,159,832 bales, against 1,577,268 at tbe same date last year, showing an exoess of 582,- 5C4 bales. Of tho stock in Liverpool, 55 per cent, was American, against 56 per cent at the same date last year. > tw - v . . ,r Beginning ox the Ku-Klux Was.—The Her ald of Saturday says: The Ku-KIuz bill is not a mere nullity of leg islation—“full -of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” It is meant for use, every word of it It Is to be a heavy battering-ram to batter the marauders to death if necessary; and the exciting work was commenced yesterday by the arrest of two Ku-Klux pages of the Senate who frightened a little darkey in the Capitol grounds by putting a rope around Us neck and yelling “Ku-Klux” at him. It is to be hoped that these oold-blooded miscreants will be made to feel the toll terrors of the law—that is, if we have a law bearing upon their case. And we trust that is not alL Let the Ku* Klnx Committee forthwith report a bill making an appropriation to buy the frightened little darkey some peppermints. The mere punish ment or these “cold-blooded miscreant” pages not enough. SometMng is due to the af frighted “nation’s ward;” and when Grant has put down “ outrages” in the National Capitol, he can start out with a clear conscience to range round the country and put them down everywhere else. Cotton Manufacturing in Lonslana The N. O. Times of Sunday says the cotton factory of the Louisiana Penitentiary is now running night and day—the night hands being the Chinamen recently discharged from Stan ton’s Railroad in Alabama, who are found to be very apt and faithful. They are paid twenty- two dollars a month in gold, and considered as cheap as conviot labor. The market for the goods is St. Louis, where they are in demand at a quarter of a cent over similar Eastern fab rics. The consumption of cotton is at the rate of seven thousand bales a year. Gbeelkx says the best way to raise Cash- mere shawls is to graft the Cashmere goat upon the Sweet William, and muloh with jrhalo oil soap to keep off the rose bugs.—Boston Post. The storm last Thursday night went for the new market-house at Savannah very roughly. The gable end, recently completed, was crum bled down even with the waM. Under the benign influences of “freedom” old Savannah negro wompn creep under the steps of their old masters’ houses to die of starv ation. Having no votes, of course thetrooly loti have no use for them. The Marshall Hose Company of Savannah, propose to visit Charlastown, Massachusetts, in June, as the guests of the Bed Jacket Hose Company of that city. An Important Decision.—Under this head we quote the foUowingfrom the Savannah News of Monday: : . Among the proceedings of the Circuit Court which we publish ttfa morning, appears a case of great importance, as it involves the interest of many non-resident creditors, and we publish' the case in full for the benefit of our readers. The case was argued on Friday, the 14th inst., and the decision rendered on the 15th, Satur day. •lit-:, a. . . William Dawson vs. James Rankin and Wil liam L. Salisbury. Motion to dismiss tot want' of Jurisdiction; motion overruled and defend ants ordered to plead instanter. This is an interesting and important case, judgment was obtained in ihe'State'Court, Mus cogee county. Defendants appealed to the Su preme Court* bug gave bond for $33,000, with Salisbury as security; ' The judgment was af firmed. The plaintiff find security failed to pay the judgment, (this being an old debt, the relief laws Art the State’.embarrassed plaintiff,) and now plaintiff has the jnrisdiotion by suing the principal and security in the United States Cir- cuit Court. . A motion was made to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff had his judgment in the State Court, and remedies under his - execution. The oourt ruled that the Bupercedeas bond was a new contract, that Salisbury had riot yet been sued In the State Court; that by the bond plaintiff bid' the right to enforce the same against principal and security jointly or sev erally. He had elected, ob he had the right to do, to sue jointly. The effect of. tins decision will be to enable many plaintiffs who are non-residents to escape the operation of the relief law. R. J. Moses, for plaintiff; Peabody &‘Brannari and T. M. Norwood, for defendants. The case was fully argued upon authorities. • Mrs. E. W- Beck* and A, J. Matthews, of Griffin, are dead. The Griffin Star says Colonel Flynt, of that place, was terribly injured by the timbers of a house he was raising falling on him and break ing both his thighs. Mr. Y. Y. Bullock and wife are in Atlanta on a visit to their son, Rufus. Daniel McAdams died in Hall county last Sunday, aged 62 years. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He had lived in Hall county fifty- four years. . The black Ku-klux up in Monroe county are committing horrible outrages on white folk’s chickens, ducks and turkeys. The Badical Treasurer and Tax Collector of Monroe county can’t find any Democrats soft enough to go on their bond, and are, therefore, still hungering and thirsting after the sweets of office. The heavy rains last Thursday night made the streams in Monroe county impassable for twenty-four hours. The Ocmnlgee and Tow- aliga rivers ware both out of their banks. The Savannah papers say Nilsson will be there Wednesday and Thursday nights, the 26th and 27th inst. A letter addressed to Elder J. W. Hinton, Macon, is held for postage at Savannah. The Oconee river was out of its banks at Milledgeville last Sunday. The wheat crop of Baldwin oonnty was never more promising than at present. The Augusta thieves must be on the verge of starvation. They are stealing the city lamps. Mr. D. McConnell, of the European House, Savannah, is having very rough luck just at presents On Friday he was thrown from a buggy and seriously injured, and on Saturday his steward levanted with several hundred do! laraof Mo’s, money. Mr. Fayette Gordy, well known in Columbus, dropped dead near that city, Monday morning. Heart disease. The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Taesday, says: Some Sturgeon.—On yesterday a fisherman from the first ward caught a miniature whale, in the shape of a sturgeon. The fish was over six feet in length and its weight was estimated at two hundred and fifty pounds. Strange to say, it was caught in a common gill net—four teen or fifteen yards of which was destroyed before the leviathan could be extricated. The successful fisherman encountered a regular school of these fish and four or five of them struck his net, but only one was captured. The inhabitants of the first ward will all have broil ed sturgeon for breakfast this morning. Under the head of “Good Farming,” the San- dersville Georgian disoourses as follows: A farmer of this oonnty informs ns that last year ho ran eight ploughs, and besides a good crop of ootton, made corn sufficient to supply the farm, with the same number of laborers, daring two yeaTS. The bacon crop was a little short, owing to the fact that he'hadbntreoentiy given his attention to hog raising. This year he iss increased the number of ploughs to four teen, with a very strong hoe force, making, with his own family, eighty souls upon the place. He reparing for a proportionate increase of a, and expeots to raise sufficient pork to r eed all upon the premises. He used laBt year five tons of guano, and this year will use four. Yet his crop is thoroughly manured, by giving proper attention to compost and other manures accessible to every farmer. He farms upon the tenant system and plants as follows: 20 acres corn, 10 aores wheat, 5 acres oats, and 1 acre wtatoes to 20 acres ootton. So far as raising logs is concerned, he finds but little difficulty^ Has had but one hog stolen in three years and then the thief was caught and made to leave. He oontends that it is a grand mistake to aup- jose there is no money in farming. The trou ble is with the men and not with the' business. Atlanta has taken off her mourning tor Lydia Thompson’s departure, and is solacing herself with a series of cock fights. The Borne railroad has proposed to build the Memphis Branch road, and the directors were to meet last Tuesday to talk the matter over. The Era, of yeeterday, says : Special Meeting ox the City Council.—The City Council had a meeting last night to deaide whether or not the city should be asked to sub scribe the amount of $250,000 to the Atlanta and Savannah Air-Line railroad. After mnch consultation, they decided that the question should be put to the people on the first Tuesday in May, with the understanding that it the city does subscribe the required amount, it will be under the following conditions: 1st. That the road be as nearly as possible an air line to Ten- nille. 2. That the shops be permanently located in Atlanta. 3d. That there shall be no discrim- in the construction of that part of the road nearest Atlanta. John Herrington has been sent to the peni tentiary for five years, from Lumpkin county, for BuUerizing a store. - The old farmers of Lumpkin oonnty say the present is the earliest spring known in twenty years, arid that everything is more forward now than it was last year in the middle of May. Sombnee’s Monthly, for May, is a number of extraordinary interest and value, profusely illustrated. Among its illustrated artiolea are: The Wonders of the Yellowstone; Reminiscen ces of Charlotte Bronte; The Moabite Btone, with a facsimile of the inscription; Living American Artists. Norah, the story of a wild Irish girl, by Mrs. Oliphant, is commenced in this number, and Wilfred Oambermede is con tinued. Oar Labor System and the Chinese, and Ben, a story for May Day, are artioles for the times. Besides these there are a variety of . other contributions and editorial papers. For 1 sale by all newsdealers. Lwille’s Mistake. The visit over, bidding ber affies, I took my hat, and, bowing low, withdrew. Then, starting homeward, soon I miaeed my cane, Retraced my steps and rang the bell again. I heard a rush—the door flew open wide— And with a bound Lucille was at my side. Around my neck her lovely arms she threw, Kissed me, ye Gods, she kissed me through and through. yyi Stock still I stood, not during to return The glowing kisses that my lips did born. I tried to speak, and gasped. H ^ean forgot— I left my cane.” She started as if shot,, And cried, with sobs she vainly tried to smother, “Ob, dear! Oh, dear! I thought ’twaa Dan, my -Mother. .«r£: * . What shall I &aJ!l shq asked me o’er and o’er, I lacked the courage to say “Do it more!’’ So looking sheepish, seized npon my stick And forthwith homeward trotted double quick.’ When on my oouch in vain I courted sleep. I tossed—and pondered, “What wealth of love That girl possesses, other girls above! And if & brother she should hold so dear* What must a husband to her heart appear!” >- The idea grew; and—well, to end the tale, I sought her often, and to such avail, That ere a twelvemonth its full oourse had run I woo’d. I won her—and wo twain were one; And once I told her “that my love began The night she kiseed mein mistake for Dan.” “For Dan ?” she said; “why, bless your stupid Poor brother Dan wasBafe arid snug in bed.” “You didn’t know it!”, V\Vby, of course I did,” Arid to my breast her blushing face she hid^ Through all these years I did not once regret My having fallen in the trap she set. Happy am I, and happy, ,too,Fve made her, Although atiimea I laughingly upbraid her; And then she says, “The moral, dear, of this is t That girls don’t often make mistakes—in kisses!” Butler, of Massachusetts, Is now the subject of so muoh loathing and de nunciation, by his Ba’dical compeers on the floor of Congress, that the Southern newspapers may consider themselves relieved from that part of their duty. Speakers Colfax and Blaine, and Representatives Dawes, Hale, Famesworth, Bingham and others have taken tarns at Mm. On Friday last another set-to occurred between Batter and Famesworth, as follows: Mr. Butter, of Massachusetts, asked leave to offer a. resolution that whenever a member ob tains leave to print a speech, lie did so on a pledge of Ms honor that nothing personal or unparliamentary should he contained in it. <■ Six. Farnesworth, of Illinois, objected. Mr. Butler: Who objects to it? The Speaker: • The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Farnesworth]. Mr. Butler: I expected he would. Mr. Farnsworth said personal matters were not always unparliamentary. It was sometimes necessary to be personal. He bad himself had occasion to be personal in protecting the inter ests of the country. [Looking direotly at Mr. Butler.J "When a coward and poltroon crept in here— [The Speaker’s hammer rained rapid arid vig orous blows upon the desk and drowned the re mainder of the sentence.] We Bubmit that it is impossible to give Butler a stronger left-handed endorsement Senator Davis did not do it. The subject is exhausted. A Good Margin.—The Democrats of the District of Columbia ought certainly to oarry the eleotiou there to-day. The registration of voters closed Saturday, and showed a wMte majority of 6,792. The officers to be elected are members of the house of delegates, and a delegate to Congress under the new territorial bilL We shall not be surprised, though, at a Badical triumph, as Grant is spending the peo ple’s money with a lavish hand, and bullying the government clerks to compass such a result. Bichart T. Merrick, gentleman, and “son of the soil,” is the Democratic candidate for dele gate. N. P. CMpman, bird of prey and pas sage somewhere from towards the setting sun, very fitly carries the Jacobin banner. The only distinction he boasts—besides Ms Ioiltyof course —is Ms prominent connection with the murder ofpoorWirzand Mrs. Surratt. He was the Judge Advocate of the infamous tribunal that decreed the death of those two victims of Badical cowardice and thirst for blood. Yioletta and I. We take great pleasure in printing the ap pended communication from one very compe tent to judge of the many merits of the charm ing little story entitled as above. The writer of the communication does not belong to the editorial fraternity, though the use of the im perial “we” would seem to indicate as much: This little book, so filled with exquisite and delicate touches of feeling—with sublime and tender piety—is the production of a fair young Georgian. We have read it with great pleasure, and oannot praise too highly the author’s pas sion for the beautiful, and her success ia mak ing Nature the noblest decorator, the holiest poet, the most inspired musician of God. Her young heart seems toll of the light—the'thnder accents—the sweet dreams and sounds that make np the enchantment of life—showing that heart to be a treasury of tenderness wMoh surely will not expend itself on earth alone. “Yioletta and I” is certainly a little gem, and we oommend it to a public whose duty and pleasure it should be to encourage its own pure Southern talent. Macon, April 17, 1S71 •Weekly Review of the Mari^ OOTTOa.-Jtaaptt to*,, IM to, shipped 233. 1 ***<« fy.| Receipts for the week ending bales; sales 1140; ; shipments llot. Ven “% With the exception of slight chsncf, • . of the market, we have nothing epc*;.;, tts It has been very steady all tho S !> demand for good cotton at 13 cent, H so this afternoon. ’ wa I SIAOOS COTTON STATHKEST Stock on hand Sept. 1J 1870—balea Received to-day 68 " 2*. Received previously J? 4 :•« • ' Shipped to-day I Shipped previously -jujoLii Stock on hand this evening .. —1^1 8,lit Financial.—Eaeo and quiet am still features of the money market—there bein *** moderate demand for money. Tho bit!, ^ ^ 1 ! accommodate good paper at the usual The stock and bend market is Quiet!:' I inquiry, and prices are firm with a eh'shttlr^ tendency for the better does. We quote. exchange on nxwyosx. EXCHANGE ON BAVAW^’ W* Per monto^.”^..™ 01 ^' " gold and Sava.' Buying rates for Silver j M 86111138 The general trade of the city has teen dull ^ the last week, and we have heard of no heanf^ rations in any line of business. The meat wa T market continues quiet and dull, una er a yenta demand. Prices all around aro unchanged, BACON—Clear 8ides (smoked) iov - dear Bib Sides (smoked) M, Shoulders... ^ aP Hama (sugar-cured) is BULK MEATS—dear sides...... Clear rib sides... ..." Shoulders COFFEE—Rio. Itgiuyn Java DRIED FRUIT, per pound RICE per pound TEA—Black Green BUTTER—Goshen ©20* @11 22 fg 0 ss 32 ® a ® a a @1R a.oo qsoo @ 68 Tennessee Yellow. 25 & « Country.......-.; 25 a u CHEESE—According to quality... 18 O k SUGAR—According to grade 15 a m MOLASSES—According to made.. 50 @ K) FISH—Mackerel, bbls, No.l, 2,3.15 00 ma Kits 2 75 @51« Codfish per pound 10 @ u SALT—Liverpool per sack ISO @2M WHISKY—Common Rye 105 @no Fine 2 00 @5 00 Corn 1 20 @ 125 Bourbon... 2 50 @5M Virginia....- 2 50 @550 ALE—Per dozen 2 85 @359 TOBACCO—Low grades perpound 50 @ 55 Medium 60 @ JO Good 70 @ 80 Bright Virginia..... 85 @150 Fancy 1 25 @150 FLOUR Superfine per bbl 7 00 @ 7 50 Extra 8 00 @8 50 Family 9 50 @1000 Fancy Family Brands 10 60 @12 00 GRAIN AND HAY. CORN—White. 105 @110 MEAL 115 @120 GBITS. 125 @130 OATS 75 @125 WHEAT—Per bushel.... 1 40 @ 150 FIELD PEAS 175 HAY—Northern 2 00 Tennesse Timothy 2 00 Herds Grass 2 00 Tennessee .*. 2 00 Morning; Market Report. New Yobk. April 19.—Cotton quiet; uplands 1% Orleans 18)^; sales 2000. Turpentine 68@S8)£> Rosin qniet at 2 55 fa strained. Flour dull and drooping. Wheat quid sod heavy. Com dull and unchanged. Fork steady at 18 i5 Bobgia Come Again.—The London Medical Press and Circular has the following : A very startling communication has been made to ns by a gentleman occupying a most important post in this country, of the existence of a most deadly poison, by tho inhalation of wMch, simply through the medium of a letter sent by post in the ordinary way, the reader will suddenly drop down dead, with all the symp toms of asphyxia. The position and acquire ments of our informant should place Ms evi dence beyond suspicion; nevertheless, before giving entire credence to suoh a startling re port, we are anxious to obtain confirmatory evi dence from any of our readers, in whose minds suspicious of foul play have arisen when invest igating cases of sudden death, and what such symptoms were. Certainly, the following clip ping from a Canadian paper, relative to the re cent sudden death of a person of note, looks y ugly: “He received an anonymous letter, 1 while reading it he fell down insensible, and shortly after expired. It is said the letter contained some poisonous substance.” Alsace Coming to East Tennessee.— Wash ington April 11.—It is expeotedthat alarge em igration to the United States will take place during the coming summer from the French population of Alsace and that portion of Lor raine annexed to Germany. Letters reoeived by Frenoh residents of Washington from friends ia those provinces state that the desire to emi grate is strong, not only among the poor, but among the middle classes, who possess small properties in town and in the country districts. With a view of encouraging tMs movement, a number of French gentlemen living in New York and Washington are endeavoring to form an organization and raise capital to buy large tracts of lands and settle upon them agricultu ral and manufacturing colonies of their ooun- trymen. Their attention is cMefly directed to East Tennessee, Northern Georgia and Ala bama. A mi.t. limiting the charges of railroads in Illiniois is before the Governor of that State having been duly passed by the Roads earning $10,000 per mile per annum and over are to oharge only two and four cents; and those earning lees than $4,000, five and a half cents. For children under twelve years of age only one-half of these rates are to be allowed. Another bill, wMch has already been signed by the Governor, limits freights for short distances to a pro rata pro portion of the rates charged for the lengths of the several roads. Facts xor the Ladies.—My Wheeler & Wil son Maohine has been in use nearly eleven years without any repairs. Five and a half years ago I set a No. ly needle, wMch has not been changed since. The machine has been used by as many as seven or eight different persons du ring that time, and has made dresses, shirts, boys’jackets and pants, tucked and hemmed ootton cloth, linen, Nansook and Swiss muslin, without either tucker or hemmer. Mas. H. Hast. Adrian, Mich. I have broken np several longstanding of Chills and Fever with Simmons’ liver Reg ulator. I also find it a great remedy for Dyspep sia and liver Disease. J. W. ANtiLEY, Buena Yista, Ga. @19 00. Lard quiet at 11^011%. Governments dull and steady. Stocks acttoial firm. Money steady at 6. Gold strong it 11& Exchange, long 10; short 10%.- London, April 19, noon.—Consols 93j& Bonds 90*. Liyeufool, April 19, noon—Cotton dull anil lend ing down: uplands 7j^@7%; Orleans (^'@7%; sales 10,000 bales. Markets—Evening Report. New Yoke, April 19.—Cotton doll and uu char red; uplands 14$/; sales 2690. Flour. Southern: dull'and heavy; common to fair extra 6 85@7 60; good to choice 7 55@9 CO- Wieiy firmer at 90}£@91. Wheat steady; winterred and amber western 163(5)165. Com tinner at 56@57 for mixed western. Folk steady at 19 00. New mesa beef dull; plain mess 10 00@15 00. Lard quiet; kettle 11011K- Navals firm and qniet. Tallsw and freights ateadr. Money 6@7. Exchange firm. Gold 11%@U& Governments, 62s 13%. Southom securities eteadr, Tennessees 66; new 66. Virginias 71%; new72Jf Louiei&nSs 67; new 62. Levee 6s 74; 8a 85. Alabama 8s 100%; 5s 70. Georgia 6s S2; 7s 89. North to oliaas 48%; new 25%. South Carolinas 71; new58^. Money was easier this afternoon at 6@7oncall; with exceptions at 5 to government bond dealere. Exchange continues quiet and firm. Skipmentoci specie to-morrow is estimated at $500,000. TO failure of a small firm in stock business and anw& In the gold room was announced to-day. opened at 11%, sold down to 11% and closed at U&@11%. Governments steady; very few tnas- actions; 81s 17; 62s 13%; 64s 13%; G5s 13%; tt* 12%; 67a 12%; 68s 12%; 10-40s ?%. Cincinnati, April 19.—Provisions, demand lgj holders firm; better feeling; higher prices auM. Pork salable at 18 50. Bacon sold at 9%<910 x« sides. Lard 11. Whisky in fair demand at 67. Louisville, April 19.—Provisions dull ana MB'- white and yellow'75@78. Oats 63@65. Br&nlW Hay, prime 23 00: choice 25 50@26 00. Yessf^v 20 00. Bacon dull and lower; shoulders rib sides 10%; dear sides 10%; sugar cmedhasa 15@15%. Lard dull and ’lower; tierce 1W?£ keg 13813%. Sugar firmer; prime lOglOX-. K lasses, good fermenting 30840; plantiUonrehcJw 35.546. Whisky, western rectified held at89A’ C °Stefltog22% Sight % premium. Cotton steady and in fair demand; middling* n @14%; net receipts 4884; grose 4945; wg* Great Britain 4720; to Amsterdam 1994; sales tsn, stock 217,400. , ...-ja. ^Savanna^ April 19. -CottoniaWrdemandti lower rates; middlings 13%; ports coastwise 1278; to Great M* > BJU 14; set reoeipts 447; exportB coastwU) . BOO; stock 17.116. ... , oW middlings Norfolk, April 19.—Cotton dan, 35 13; net receipts 627; exports coietmae net receipts SO; exports coastwise 137, seise Bt Boerow, April l9.-Ootton market sBajSasgsss^ »„«, £S2ss3££siS xy ’ 12@" n1 ' ; iqii* Avnorts w ri./* Britain 4 Mobile; April 19.—Ootton maraei 4"'“'_ orti S 14%; nBt raeeiota 375: gross —fTijr Galveston, April lsj.-uoironww. e~- ^ 12(§>ia%; net reoeipts 1914; KSSSSfliSRsl 44 980 a flit: ’Liverpool, April 18, evening. — ^ uplands 7%@7%; Orleans 7%@7%; sales W bales; speculation and export 2000. • London, April 19, evening—Consols 93>s- 62a 90%. Our Economical GovEBNMmcr.— 1 The ing is a statement of expenditures of tBJVjj eminent for the throe months ending 31 > 1871: *.-ooi8llSl Civil and miscellaneous coo SCO 33 War. 1’44S91396 Pensions -Z’ooor53!<> Interest on pnblio debt......: ot>,33-, . $73,414,161 ^ Total... Immigration.—The New York ComndssioB^ report since January 1st neariy 20 >°°° grants, against 27,631 for the correspo period last year. The Selma and Meridian B * a f^jScery < sold on the 18th, under a deoroa m ^ The Pennsylvania Central, it is said, wu* a bly bo an active bidder. V — k -A
