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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
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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. >
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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.
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