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The Greoreia ~W~eehly Telegraph and. Jonmal JVTessenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, APRIL 25 1871.
Jzhnt Iam> Goldschmidt.—A suit has just
terminated in an English Court against three
London journals for copying from Woodhnll &
Glaflin’s Weekly a statement that Jenny Lind’s
husband had spent her property and compelled
her to teach music for a living. Tha journals
were mulcted in two thousand pounds damages.
It was in evidence before the Court that Mrs.
Goldschmidt and her husband had always lived
happily together-that on his request the whole
Of her property was settled absolutely on her,
at tho time of their marriage—and the increase
has always been re-invested in trust for her ben
efit, and she is now in much better pecuniary
circumstances than over. That Goldschmidt is a
man of simplo,inexpensive habits,and the happi
ness of the pair had never been clouded, ex
cept by these persistent slanders. That he bad
hoped to live them down, but these aspersions so
constantly re-appeared, that ho was compelled,
at last, to appeal to the Courts for protection.
The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up, pro
nounced tho libel “most scandalous and abom
inable,” and tho foreman of the jury declared
that “they felt that no amount of damages
could compensate the plaintiff for the injury
inflicted upon him by so iniquitous a libeL”
It is worthy of remark that defendants plead,
and tho plea was not controverted, that tho libel
was a mere reprint from an American journal,
and published with no malicious intont whatso
ever; but the plea did not avail against the claim
for damages. Tho same paragraph has gone
the rounds of the American press, and, we be
lieve, has been printed in this paper. We are
sorry for the London Journal, but gratified to
know that ill-fortune has not befallen the Swed
ish nightingale.
Cadet Smith oh the Rampage Again.—Ac
cording to the Northern papers cadet Smith is
again on the rampage—punching the heads and
kicking the shins of the young scions of the
Radical aristocracy at West Point as lively as
over. Cadet Smith is a power in the land. He
has influence onongh to smother the verdict of
the court-martial which lately sat on his case—
for nothing has been heard of it. Cadet
Smith’s pockets are said to be staffed with let
ters from all tho Radical Reds telling him he is
the chosen exponent of a “great principle” and
to go ahead and “knock the little white trash
right and left.” In vain do “de white trash”
protest that they have no objection to Smith
because he is “a yaller nigger,” but would take
any goodhonest piece of shining Ethiopian ebony
to their bosoms with supreme delight—but they
object to Smith because he is such a quarrel
some, insulting, overbearing and lying rascal.
Their tearful protests are of no avail. Smith,
like theso carpet hag Reeds and Scotts and
Whiltemores, represents “a great principle.”
They represent "loi/aUy"-—Smith represents
“de equality—datis to saydat a gemman ob col
or i3 jess as good as de white trasb an a dam
site better.” Well, let him rip. Every dog—
even a “yaller dog,” must Lave his day.
The Eclectic Magazine.—We had a call,
yesterday, from Mr. J. Wallace Ainger, General
Southern Agent of this Magazine, who visits
Macon in its interests. The Eclectic is very
generally and favorably known throughout the
South, and seems to have kept pace with the
progress of the age in all its departments. It
claims to be the only strictly non-partisan, non
sectional and non-scctarian magazine published
at tho North, and furnishes, every month, the
croam of the essays, reviews, stories, etc.,
printed in the foreign periodicals. Mr. Atnger
is at the Brown House.
First Court in Dodge.
The first session of the Superior Court in the
now county of Dodge was organized at East
man, the county site, on Friday last and con
tinued in session Friday and Saturday. His
Hon. judge Alexander, presided. Memhers of
tho bar present were Solicitor General, W. B.
Bcrnett, Ex-Judge Hansel], of Thomasville,
Messrs. Kibbe, Pate andBurke of HawMnsrille,
Rollin Stanley and Col. J. Rivers, of Dublin,
Gen. Eli Warren of Perry, McDermia of Tel
fair, and A. R. Hall and Thomas Taylor, of
Eastman.
Judge Alexander’s charge to the Grand Jury
was excellent He strongly enforced the laws
prohibiting the carrying of deadly weapons and
retailing liquors without license. The law now
makes it a high misdemeanor to sell any kind
of spirituous liquors until a license has first
been obtained from the county authorities, and
the aDplicant has filed a bond in the sum of $500
to keep an orderly house and not to sell to any
intoxicated person. He must also take an oath
that he will not soli liquor to a minor without
the consent of his parent or guardian.
After the court adjourned the memhers ac
companied Mr. Eastman in a walk about tho
town—viewing the proposed site of the new
court-house and examining the plan of the struc
ture. The Court-house is to be built immedi
ately and presented as a donation to the county
by the Hon. William E. Dodge, of New York
city, for whom the county has been named.
Tho now county of Dodge was organized by the
last Legislature out of territory belonging to
Pulaski and Telfair, and will bo tho centre of a
heavy lumber business.
The Inconvenience of Royal Etiquette was
illustrated the other day at tho opening of the
“Royal Albert Hall in London,” in the pres
ence of the Queen and Royal family. That, in
the right of marriage, included the young Lord
of Lome, but bo walked some ranks behind his
bride, stood apart from her when they had
reached the dais, and afterward, when the
whole party went up to their boxes, did not sit
even in the same box with her. Etiquette parted
bride and bridegroom mercilessly.
Got His Name Weong.—The Constitution of
Sunday has a flattering notice in its editorial
column of Mr. Hall, a Republican of Maine,
who, it says, pushed the amnesty bill through
the Houso last week. There is no such member
from Maine. Oorcotemporaryevidentlymeans
Hon, Eugene Hale, from the 5th Congressional
district of that State. If Mr. Hale deseives
the credit of the amnesty bill he surely is en
titled to have it in Lis own proper name.
It is a curious fact among our hat and cap
manufacturers tha. different localities use dif
ferent sizes of bats and caps as standard sizes.
Boston and the Eastern States use tho smallest
sizes; New York and the Middle Stales use the
medium to largest sizes, and Chicago and the
Western States require the largest sizes. Goods
manufactured for one market cannot be sold for
the othor only in exceptional cases. The Sonth
use a shape peculiar to themselves and of large
size.—N. Y. Eve. Post.
The New York Star exposes all profane per
sons connected with the New York press. Of,
Sam Glenn, the Herald’s “religious editor,” it
says: “Sam Glenn is one of the best known
men in tbo profession. Sam’s forte i3 strength
and if onr pious readers wonld like to know
whore his strength mainly lies, we advise them
to give him a call some Saturday morning when
the religions exchanges are misplaced. He beats
Greeley hollow.”
The Ku-klux Bill.—The Senate yesterday
refused, by a vote of seventeen to thirty, to re
code from their amendments [to the House Ku-
klox bill, and ordered a committee of confer
ence. They passed the House resolution for a
joint committee of Ka-klux inquiry, and ap
pointed on the part of the Senate Messrs. Ed
munds, Sherman and Stevenson. The House
Committee is Schofield, Herr and Shellabarger.
There is considerable talk just now In North
ern newBpapera of putting the steamship Great
Eastern on the New York and Liverpool route
this summer with a fare of only $25, to attract
custom. She can accommodate 2,000 passen
gers—ono of whom we would not like to bo
wniob, on her first or any subsequent trip.
Col. Bonaparte.—The Now York papers an
nounce the return, in the Cuba, of CoL Jerome
Bonaparte, of Baltimore, who left that city to
take part in tho cause of Franoo vs. Germany
about six months ago. They say he has per-
lect confidence iu the restoration of tho Napo
leonic dynasty.
J. Smythe Jownes remarks that “nc-vwab
sinoe ho has known how to pwat his hwair has
the vwulgar pwactice of pwefohmiug at the
table with a knife bwcen swo pwevalent.” J.
Smythe has put his “fawk” in his pocket and
gone to look up another hotcL
? imocrat » bearing that Anna
Eiohnson Isi to lecture in Bath on tho Htb,
Murtsout: If it is the Turkish bath she isgo-
'jcg to lecture in, her agent needn’t send any
* -X- t!cket to this effic©.” ^
whenr^° r Chicka-
‘I 'd S rather1^S2 > i« r ted cowardice replied:
corpse 'fifteen* minutes! ”° word ^ WeVhana
IVIiat arc the Coinmnulsfs
A Paris letter in the World undertakes to ex
plore the position and ideas of the Paris Com
munists. The writer says the Paris revolution
originated in a little dingy office in London,
among certain wireworkers and chiefs of the
“International Workingmen’s Association,” of
whom Assi was the French Chief, and Blanqui
is the soul and brains. The Paris Commune
aspires to complete sovereignty and independ
ence, and professes a determination to organize
all the other cities and towns of France into
similar Communes with equal powers; but in
some mysterious way they are all to be subordi
nated to the Paris Commune, as tho grand
head centro. The power is nominally exercised
by a Chamber of Deputies elected for that pur
pose, through a central committee of twelve,
who sit in secret, bnt there is still an inner
council of six, presided over by Blanqui, and op
erating in the most mysterious seclusion. Blan
qui isspoken of and addressed as “themaster,
and is never seen in public. What they have
done, says the correspondent, all the world
knows:
They have driven the government of France
—the government of the National Assembly
elected by universal suffrage—from Paris; they
have obtained complete possession of the capi
tal ; they have murdered some of the men who
stood in their way, im»c imprisoned others, and
have banished, by terror, still more; and they
have proclaimed, with all due pride, pomp, and
circumstance,
THE BED HXFUBIJO,
with all the proper accompaniments of crimson
flags and Phrygian caps. They have entered
into negotiations with Prince Bismarck, claim
ing to be the real government of Paris, which
they are, and of France, which they are not,
and have taken into consideration the means of
obtaining the five milliards which mnst be paid
to Germany. They propose, as the best means
of getting this money, to sell at auction all the
crown property. An Anglo-American company
have offered a milliard for the chateau and park
of Versailles. A German company have offered
800,000,000 for St. Clond, with tho object of
starting gaming tables like those of Baden.
Five hundred millions have been offered for the
park and ohatean of Fontainebleau. It is cal
culated that tho total result of these sales will
amount to seven milliards. France will thus
gain two milliards dear, after paying-the Prus
sians.
Then, also, they have craftily provided for
the erection of a
POWEBFUL STANDING AT.MY,
in quiet mockery of that section of the Central
Committee’s programme which declares that
standing armies shall bo abolished. This army
is to be well paid—two and a half francs a day
for a private, exclusive of his rations and cloth
ing—and it is to consist, in fact it does consist
at this moment, of twenty-five battalions for
service in the field, twenty batteries of seven-
pounders, fifteen batteries of mitralleuses, and
a body of cavalry. Behind this force, which is
composed of picked men, many of them sol
diers of the regular army, is the whole National
Guard; the whole, that is, of tho able-bodied
men of Paris who will sign a certain paper pre
pared by the Commune. Those who do will get
one and a half francs a day, and may attend to
their business as nsual except when the Com
mune orders them into service; those who
won’t sign will get nothing, and will have their
guns taken from them. It is aU very simplo,
you see.
WHAT WILL THEY DO
in the future ? Ah! who can tell ? The very
worst is to be feared. The men who are now
rifling the whirlwind and guiding the storm are
capable of anything. I bavo seen them; I
have talked with many of them: I know some
of them well; and I know of what I affirm.
They are not the men to stick at trifles. They
are men who have the courage of their opinions,
and they are the only men in France at this mo
ment who seem to have that courage. I should
not be surprised in the least to see
THE GUELOTINE SET UP
to-morrow morning, and a dozen or a score of
bends chopped off before breakfast. These
men, who are not bad fellows in their way, and
with whom, Heaven help me! I have drank
many a glass of wine and smoked many a pipe,
are quite egual to doing this thing or any other
thing that may seem to them necessary for the
oomplete triumph of their idea. But what is
Uioiridea? After a great deal of study, as to
the fomuiia in’which it might be best expressed
in the fewest words, I arrive at this conclusion:
It is the idea that tntflr mission is to
BEOllGANIZEEUBOPE ON SOCIALIST PBINCIELES,
and that to accomplish this the honrgeoiae and
peasantry mnst bo crushed out and tho “working
men”madolordof alL This,[you will observe, is
no new idea. It is simply putting in practice the
theories advanced at every congress of the In
ternationale which has been held since 1864.
In Franco tho ono great obstacle to the realiza
tion of theso theories was the peasantry. It is
impossible to convert them to communism.
Very well, then, let them be crushed out beneath
the heel of
THE UNTVEBSAL BEPUBLIO.
In all.the great towns the “working-man” was
in a majority} let tho great towns be taken by
the working-men, *nd let the great towns govern
tho country. This is the sum and substance of
what is meant by the Commune as expounded
by its present apostles.
Heabd Fbom.—Wo had almost lost sight of
tho “Hon.” Thomas Jefferson Speer—we bo-
lievo that ia his full “entitle”—who does the
negroes and renegade whites of this district the
honor to represent them at Washington. But
he’s there, it seems, and brilliant as over. A
Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Con-
stilntion writes as follows:
A bill for tbo building of a bridge over tbo
Missouri river at St. Joseph, was before tho
House this morning, and Mr. Farnsworth asked
for information as to its contents. The Speaker
ordered the bill read.
Then aroso long Speer, and bawled out at the
top of bis voice:
“Mr. Speaker, hasn’t this Lill been read
once ?”
“It has,” replied the Speaker.
“Well, Mr. Speaker,” said Speer, “I think
that i3 sufficient,”
This sapient remark caused a perfect roar of
laughter, or rather tho laughter was at Speer,
who grinned as though he had done something
smart.
Later, Speer roared out a demand for “regu
lar order,” which is his daily eastern.
Immigration.
The Hon. Charles Beemelin, who is traveling
in the South, clearly perceives why bo few im
migrants from Europe settle in the Southern
States. “Because,” says he, “no higher class
labor can be brought to work alongside of such
lower-class labor as exists here.” We quote
another extract from Mr. R.’s last letter to the
Cincinnati Commercial:
“If the negro could be taken out first, white
immigration wonld quickly resume its former
inflow, for the southern nature offers much
greater advantages than that of the North. To
take the negroes out in large bodies means,
however, disintegration of Southern sooiety,
and for this it lacks the very firmest determina
tion, even if it had the inclination, which it has
not. The very incipient steps toward such a
movement would present such a quantity of
little and big hardships as to make it impossible.
Tearing the blacks out of Southern husbandry
means tearing society np by the roots and hair,
and will, I think, never happen.”
Every word of which the Richmond Dispatch
tTflnlra is true. If the negro were away, white
laborers would soon fill his place. But they will
not goaway; and if they wanted to go away the
white people now here would not let them go.
We have not the nerve to try the experiment
even if it were Incur power to try it. Th6
farmers and the planters are as loth to lose
Sambo as he is to migrate.
Bepobts fbom Pabis.—Tho Germans yester
day •koto concentrating at Cretenil for a move
ment on the Paris communists. Tho condition
of tho latter is reported to bo dosperato, bnt
they have resolved to hold out to tho last.
The Cotton Crop.
From tho New York Mercantile' Journal of
last Thursday, we take the following very sensi
ble suggestions:
It is now pretty generally conceded by the
best informed authorities that the cotton crop
of the year 1870 will very nearly if not quite
reach 4,250,000 bales. This increased supply
has added very largely to the surplus of avail
able cotton, and bas materially affected prices;
consequently, a low range of values has pre
vailed for some months past.
The area of laud devoted to cotton growing
is constantly increasing, and it has now arrived
at a point where many believe a revolution will
take place in the views as well as the plans of
Southern agriculturists. 'A diminished breadth
of land would restrict the production of the
great staple within limits where it could be made
highly profitable. A large surplus of any com
modity over the healthy and actual require
ments of consumers is sure to end in a depress
ed market and declining prices. If a larg
crop of cotton is unremunerative—considorabl
land can be planted in com or other grains,and
the food supply of tho Southern States would
thus be greatly augmented. Planters have too
long suffered themselves to be placed in a po
sition wbore, if the cotton crop is sold at
loss they have nothing left to fall back upon.
Will planters heed tho lesson and devote their
energies to several branebos of agricultural in
dustry, instead of confining themselves to on
great leading pursuit ? It is true that the cos;
of raising cotton has steadily diminished every
year since tho war; but, with the cost of culti
vation ever so much less than now, it will not
be advisable to overstock tho market.
That the depressed condition of the cotton
market is only temporary, we firmly believe,
The trade returns of Great Britain exhibit a
steady increase in the consumption of that em
pire over former years; but on the other hand
the war between France and Germany closed the
ontlet for cotton in that direction, and the bus
iness has been very meagre. Belgium and Hol
land are both good customers for American cot
ton, and the condition of the manufactured
goods market iu these centres is very encourag
ing. Spinners are increasing their productions,
and their merchants are constantly opening up
new avenues of trade and consumption.
Russia has been for several years making rap
id strides in manufactures, and in nothing else
is this so manifest as in cotton spinning. For
some time past she has been receiving her sup
plies of the raw material from Central Asia
bnt there is a prospect of a more active demand
from tho United States. The product of Bus
sian mills is already said to reach $20,000,000
per year, and with extended facilities, her man
ufacturers will very naturally demand consider
able supplies of our superior staple.
The limit to the cotton production of the
Southern States can hardly be estimated, and
with the dawn of more prosperous years for the
sale of merchandise, wo can have no correct
appreciation of the prosperity that will flow in
upon that favored section of our country.
Courier-Journal Fnnnycisms
The wit of the Courier-Journal is evidently
on the mend, again. After one of his orgies on
razor blade soup, there generally sets in a reac
tion of densest dullness wbicb “is very sad.”
Last Friday be was on a regular bender, as
witness tho following. About one week hence
we may hear from him again:
Mrs. Livermore, editor of the Woman’s Jour
nal, says she is ashamed of almost every issue
of Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly. With such a
capacity for being ashamed of the advocates of
woman suffrage, it is a little singular that she
is not ashamed of herself?
An organ of the Administration speaks of
“the distinction General Grant won at West
Point." It is-a distinction to which Gon. Grant
himself very seldom alludes—the distinction of
graduating at the foot of his class.
The New York Times says: “Posterity will
rank Gen. Grant among tho groat men of the
ago.” The editor of the Times evidently sup
poses that posterity will be as big a fool as him
self.
The Hon. Elizabeth Cady Damit Stanton is
about to remove to Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Fancy if yon can the delight of poor Stanton—■*
but perhaps she intends to take him along too.
“Genebal Gbaxt,” says the New York Sun,
“has no special religion.” Then, as we have
long expected, he is damned. Nothing but a
special religion could possibly save him.
The Golden Age says “no man in the Gov
ernment is permitted to outshine the Presi
dent.” Very true, but it is with the utmost
difficulty that the very dullest of them can help
it.
Genebal Butleb says “it does not hurt him
to bo called‘a damned scoundrel.’” It seems
to hurt him quite as little to be one.
Ballroad Meeting.
The Corporators and Stockholders of the
Americas and Hawkinsville Railroad Company
met on the 4th of April at Vienna, pursuant to
previous notice, for the pnrpose of perfecting
an organization of the company.
On motion of J. H. Woodward, O. P. Swear
ingen, Esq., was called to preside over the
meeting, and A. J. Cone requested to aot as
secretary.
An invitation was extended to all persons
who had not already subscribed to the stock of
the company to oome forward and do so at once,
and to participate in the permanent organiza
tion of the company. On motion of J. H.
Woodward,
Resolved, That the Corporators and Stock
holders of the Americas and Hawkinsville
Railroad Company, in convention assembled,
do nowprocoed to elect by ballot aPresidentand
seven Directors, to serve the company for one
year, and that in said election stockholders may
vote in person or be represented and vote by
proxy, each stockholder being entitled to a
number of votes equal to the number of shares
he may hold in tho stock of said company.
The stockholders proceeded to the election
with the following result: J. H. Woodward,
President; W. B. Cone, Shepard Rogers, Jas
per F. Lewis, T. Whitsett, J. J. Collier, A. R.
Foster and E. Westbrook, Directors. It was
agreed that the Board of Directors elect their
Secretary and Treasurer. Tho meeting ad
journed, subject to the call of the President.
O. P. Sweabingen, Chairman.
A. J. Cone, Seo’y.
THE GEORGIA. PRESS*
J. A. Wright has sold the Washington Gazette
to Messrs. H. F. Andrews & Co;, who will here
after conduct it.
The Columbus cotton reoeipts this season
foot up 72,275 bales, to Saturday night.
Small grain and fruit crop prospects are very
fine in Green county. The editor of the
Greensboro Herald has seen a Btalk of wheat
measuring three feet six inobes in length.
'A win of lumber valued at $400 was burned
at Winship’s factory, Atlanta, Saturday after
noon.
The druggists over at Sparta have utilized a
new weapon of warfare. They sprinkle a few
drops of hartshorn in the enemy’s eye. It beats
sand or even gouging, all hollow.
The Sparta Times and Planter of Saturday
says:
On the Macon and Augusta Railboad.—We
notice that the embankment over the Dry
Branch, between Sparta and Warrenton, is now
more than half completed. Some idea of the
magnitude of this work may be deduced from
the fact that a train which is loaded with dis
patch by a steam sbovel bas been employed
three months hauling du$, and will probably be
kept a month or two longer to oomplete the
work. We have been informed that the shovel
will be moved to the trestles near Macon, so
soon as tho work at Dry Branoh is completed,
New timbers are being placed under several of
the tall trestles, thus renewing and rendering
them perfectly safe and reliable.
We are credibly informed that there will like
ly bo no change in the passenger schedule of
the M. & A. R. beforo fall, and the night line
will not he put on tUl thkt time. We suggest
in behalf of -the Macon merchants, that a pas-
senger coach should be attached to the freight
train for the accommodation of those desiring
to visit the city on business,
Messrs. A. P. Neeld and Oscar Langston,
esteemed citizens of Rome, died last week—the
former of paralysis, caused by a fall, and the
latter of consumption.
We clip as follows from the Savannah Repub.
lican, of Saturday:
A Distinguished Wedding.—A marriage took
place at the Second African Baptist Chnrch on
Thursday evening, between an offioial negro,
one of the customs officers, and a fair daughter
of Ham. After the marriage ceremony was over
the happy couple repaired to the house of the
bridegroom, where they received the congratu
lations of their brighter brethren of the Cus
toms, Collector Robb, and other prominent Cus
tom House officials. The scene is represented
to have been brilliant in every respect, and the
bride and groom express an intention early to
call upon the Collector at his mansion, and re
new the social relations so auspiciously pom
menced. This may be regarded as the com
mencement of the social “millennium.”
Runaway—Sebiously Hubt.—Yesterday mom
ing Mr. Daniel McConnell was driving on the
Nicolson pavement, going to the Central rail
road depot; when opposite the Catholio church!
his horse took fright and dashed off'with the
wagon, throwing Mr. McConnell against the
curb of the pavement and inflioting a terrible
gash ia his left temple, besido3 several other
serious bruises about the head and other parts
of his person. The wagon was totally wrecked.
The horse, which has the reputation of being
a runaway, has well sustained it by this exploit.
Mr. McConnell’s wounds, though very severe,
are not necessarily dangerous.
On Friday night a tliief climbed up to the
third story piazza of a house on Jefferson street,
Savannah, and robbed Mr. J. B. Howell, of
watch and $50.
Tho Republican says Mile. Christine Nilsson
will soon commence a Southern tour, and will
visit Savannah.
The Savannah Advertiser, of Saturday; says
The Lee Monument Contbibution.—The
committee of the Ladies’ Leo Monument Asso
ciation of Georgia deBire to acknowledge the
receipt of the following contributions from
towns and cities in the State. Interior papers
will please copy:
City of Savannah, $1,16142; Columbus,
$477 65; Athens, $215; Albany, $63 30; Bruns
wick, $3045; Camilla, $49; Dalton, $15 20;
Eatonton, $186 20; Kingston $44; Louisville,
$78; MacoD, $142 25; Milledgeville, $158;
Boswell, $30; St. Mary’s, $24 50; West Point,
$42 50; Americas, $181. Total, $2,848 47.
Forwarded to Richmond, $2,333 47. Cash on
hand, $15.
From brother Boully’s last newspaper vonture ;
the Gwinnett Atlas, wo extract tho following
Who is She ?—A citizen of this county, a few
days since, happening to read one of the Gov-
eroor’s.proelamations offering arewardforWm.
Hood alias Williams, remarked that he knew
Bill Hood, but he had never heard of Alioe Wil
liams—didn’t know of any suoh woman in the
county!
Neveb Saw the Cabs.—There is an old citizen
of Lawrenceville, who, though nearly eighty
years old, has never seen a train of cars. The
nearest he ever came to it was seeing the track.
The Columbus Sun says one of Macon’s gor
geous policemen was taken for a Yankee Major-
General last week, while in that city.
A Novel Hobse Tbadeb.—The man Ginnett
who was arrested by policeman McEachren and
carried to Macon, was running a high string
here. He agreed to buy two fine horses from
Dr. Toggle, three from Mr. Munday, and two
from Mr. Gammel—in all about $5,000 worth.
He tried them all, pronounced upon their merits,
and promised to settle for them Wednesday.
On that day bo was arrested on a warrant from
Macon, charging him with obtaining money
under false pretences. He came to Columbus
last Sunday. He obtained some splendid rides,
and they nre all the owners lost.—Columbus
Sun.
Wo find the following in the Chronicjo and
Sentinel, of Sunday:
Burrs Against the Railroads.—Noarly twen
ty suits, brought against the different railroads
entering the city, will come up for trial at the
next term of the Superior Court. The plair-
tiffs are owners of property on Washington
street, and the defendants are the Central rail
road, the South Carolina, the Georgia and the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad. The
damages vary in each case, but they are all for
large amounts, and the sum totalis immense.
Genebal Toombs’ Lecture.—We are gratified
at being able to announce to onr readors this
morning, that General Robert Toombs bas do
cided to deliver Ms great leotnre on Magna
Cliarta in this city on the 11th of May—during
the progress of the Horticultural Exhibition
and the session of the Georgia Press Conven
tion. The lecture will, wo understand, be de
livered at Girardey’s Opera House.
Actors Strapped.—On yesterday two women
and a man were in the oity, seeking assistance
to leave the State. They say that they belong
ed to a theatrical company (Katie Putnam’s)
which was performing in Southern Georgia, but
recently went to pieces. Mayor Este3 gave
them tipnsportation to Charleston.
The Atlanta police nabbed a notorious negro
tMef named Willis McAfee, last Saturday, in
whose possession was found two gold watches
and chains, a lot of clothing, and $105, stolen
Friday night from a gentleman who had just
moved to Atlanta from Southwestern Georgia.
The[Atlanta Era narrates the following strange
story:
. On Wednesday last a singular fight took place
in Forsyth county, on the Air Lino Railroad.
Two fine cows, one belonging to a Mr. MoGin-
nis, tho other to Mr. Rogers, got into a fight,
and so desperate was the encounter that tho
one belonging to Mr. McGinnis was killed, and
the other, after lingering two days, had to be
killed. It is said tho combat was heard for a
long distance. When found they were looked
together, ono had her horn through her oppo-
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TELEGRAPH.
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The Nevada Legislature, at its late session,
chartered a number of railroads with the pro
viso that no Chinese shall bo employed either
in building or operating them, on pain of for
feiture of tbo charter.
Personal.—We received tho following dis
patch from Louisville, Ky., yesterday:
Say in your paper that I havo this day (17th)
withdrawn from tho firm of Fears, Bartley &
Co. A. E. Camp.
Make Twain has sold his interest in tho Buf
falo Express, and has gone to Elmira, N. Y., to
live, threatening to abandon pen-and-ink labor
•or the remainder of bi3 life.
nont’s neck. Tho other had stuck her horn un
der tho jaw, proceeding upward to the brain.
It took two men to extricate them.
Defeat op Amnesty.—The Senato Radicals
yesterday caucussed amnesty to death again by
a vote of sixteen to twenty. It will bo seen
that Amnesty is gaining by every defeat and
will, in all probability, go through next session.
A city of Mexico dispatch says tho charge
that tho American Minister in Mexico and Mr.
Bliss, his Secretary of Legation, wore interior*-
ing in tho elections i3 untrue. The re-election
of Juarez is conceded.
If you are troubled with warts or corns take
piece of fresh beef, soak it ia vinegar for
twenty-four hours, shave it in very-thin slices
and bind upon the wart, renewing the applica
tion for three or four days, when a cure will
have been offected
London, April 16—Evening.—Dispatches from
Versailles deny "that the insurgents took four
hundred prisoners yesterday, and declare that
no important military events have taken place.
They say the insurgents in tho forts waste their
ammunition by firing at night to no purpose.
On Saturday night, though they kept a con
tinued cannonade, 'only one Versaillist was
wounded.
London, April 16.—A terrible cannonade took
place all last night. The attack of the govern
ment troops was everywhere repulsed. The
cannonade and fasilade were resumed this af
ternoon. It ia said that fort Issy was damaged,
bnt otherwise results were trifling. ^
PabIs, April 16.—The Communists report
that Fort Issy repulsed the successive assaults
of the Versailles troops on Friday and Satur
day, with severe losses to the assailants. Gen
eral Dombrowski attacked the Government
foroesat Neuilly yesterday, and it is claimed
that he took four hundred prisoners. The en
gagement continued through the night. The
batteries on the hill of Trocadro have opened
fire on Fort Valerien, which replies with vigor.
General Dombrowski enforces strict discipline
among the National Gnard, and is doing much
to render all branches of the military service
more efficient.
London, April 16.—Cloche deplores the Com
nmne’s inflexibility. The government troops
have made no serious Attack. The Temps sum
mons the Commune te state its demands,
fall of waters of the Seine prevents the Commu
nists’ gunboats from moving. The Central
Committee is still at variance with the Gom-
Ocmnlgee and North
road.
We publish in this issue of the An
csettings of a meeting held in Fow.hu ^
last week, and also one at Dawso^
son county, in the interest of the
and North Georgia railroad. The v,^ u , ct0 ^
section of the State feel keenlt o? p,6cf ti
railroad faoilities-are folly aroused L J* *
ter, and prewired to give Ubera&^'kfc
Btaoce towards the construction of oL^
We are also pleased to learn that a
dent of tiie Board of DirecC&*£
people of Forsyth county that thecoo*
require their engineer corps to 3**5
route from Lawreaoeville, via iu„ ““ tSs
Richland creek, on the Chattahooeh *
ming, and through the Blue Ridcm V’ 0 ^
Amicolola and Findlay
see, as suggested by us iu a ^
That this is the direct air-line ron^LV?^
to Knoxville is indisputable,
most ample assurance that it is a “ 4reli ®
one, and, when once properly
selected by the comply as the™./ 6
We admire the pluck, zeal -° cte -
menced from that quarter of the city. Crowds
are demanding passports to leave Paris, and
hundreds are disappointed. The streets leading
from the Porte Maillot are in ruins. Forts Is
sy and Vanvres are firing- small bombs, wMch
splinter and ore terribly destructive. The So
cialist and Republicans are making great efforts
to secure a return of their candidates. Dele
gates^ Versailles have returned with Thiers’
conditions, wMch have rendered the Insurgents
very violent. Rochefort demands thatVinoy,
Gallijet, Favre, Picardi, andMacMahon shall
be brought, chained in conplets, to the Champs
Elysces, where the relatives of tho Nationals
killed will be allowed to do what they please
with them. It has been deoided not to demol
ish the column in the Place Vendome, bnt
displace the statue on it..
Havana, April 16.—Tho Bishop of Havana
left by tho steamer Missouri for New York this
afternoon. Crowds of’priests, bnt not citizens,
were on board to bid him farewell.
Cotton Movements for the Week.
New York, April 15.—The cotton movements
for the week ending Friday night show a con
tinued falling off in receipts and exports, com
pared with many weeks past. The exports,
however, are largely in excess of the correspond
ing week of last year. The exports from all
ports for tho week are 86,987. Stock at interior
towns 69,526. Stock in Liverpool 813,000.
Amount of American, cotton afloat for Great
Britain 320,000. The weather in the Sonth has
been very wet. The rains have been unusually
heavy. This has interfered with work in the
field. In some sections tho weather has been
fine and planting is progressing. In the far
South the plant is up. The cotton supply ques
tion is being actively discussed both here and
at tho South. In tho general estimates of the
present crop thero is a strong leaniug towards
4,200,000 bales as the total production for the
cotton year ending 1st September next.
New Yobk, April 16.—Arrived—Gen. Barnes,
South Carolina and Crescent City.
Germans Moving on PnrIs---CommnnIs(8
Said to tie Going Up!
Pabis, April 16—Noon.—The attack on Porte
DaupMn continued all day yesterday. The
quarter of the Champs Elysees is damaged by
shells, which still fall thickly. Fragments of
shells struck tho American legation in Avenue
Josephine, where Minister Washbume remains.
His family has departed.
Barricades have been ordered in the quar-
tieres Tuilleries and Bellville, which will make
Paris impregnable. It is estimated that the
loss of the Versaillists during the two days has
been 1000 killed and 1500 wounded. The de
partures from the oity, except of males between
19 and 40 are unrestricted.
Chaudrey, editor of the Siecle, bas been ar
rested.
Sunday night there was firing in all direc
tions. Thirty-three shells struck the ATch of
Triomphe. No interest is manifested in the
elections. Gluseret says the demand of the
Versaillists for a surrender witMn twenty-five
hours is mere nonsense. It is very well for
accustomed to capitulate; hut our sol
diers' #ill let gunpowder bear back our reply.
The city i3 provisioned for three weeks. The
sole of horse flesh has been resumed.
Washington, April 17.—A dispatch frojfl
Paris yesterday evening via London says the
Germans are at Creteil, reinforced by 18,000
men, and are preparing to intervene. The de
tachment of Versaillists on the island of Grand
Iatt have escaped.
Tho Commnne has resolved to continue the
defence to the last. The Versailles Government
says Paris is completely invested. A summons
to surrender within 24 hours will he sent.
Gen. Dumont, Governor of Idaho, is dead.
The latest dipatch from London, the 17tb,
says a spooial from Versailles to the Times states
that the Versaillists occupy the Prussian trenches
at Mendon. Sixteen guns pointing towards Issy
and Vanvres are in position there. MoMahon
has surrounded the Insurgents at Asnieres.
The Prussians are massing around Paris. The
shelling on Monday was less severe.
The correspondent of the Independence Beige
says the end approaches. The Asnieres affair
was disastrous to the Communists. Three lines
were filled with their dead.
Washington, April 17.—Tho Republican Sen
ators, after an hour’s caucus, on motion of
Rioe, of Arkansas, tabled the amnesty proposi
tion of Robertson—thus defeating the measure
for tMs session, by a vote of 20 to 16. The
Senate refused to recede from their Ku-klux
amendments by a vote of 17 to SO, and a com
mittee of conference was ordered. Housepro-
ceedings unimportant. The Ku-klux Committee
resolution was passed. The Senate Committee
consists of Edmunds, Sherman and Stevenson.
Tho members of the High Commission, al
though (hey try to give no information of their
proceedings, authorize, a contradiction of the
published statements, and intimate indirectly
that little or no progress has been made. On
tho contrary, each consultation develops now
perplexities.
Washington, April 17.>—It Is believed the
Conferenoo Committee will modify Sherman’s
amendment, and reject tho iron-clad oMb, atod
that it will pass in this shape. The Conference
Committee on the Deficiency bill has made no
progress. "
Tho Senate confirmed Clift as Collector of
the First Georgia District; Manning, First Texas
District; Rankin, Pension Agent, Vicksburg.
It -.is stated that tho Senate will convene in
extra session the middle of May, to aot sijgon
the High Commission’s propositions.
Judge Chose was on tho bench to-day. The
legal tender will bo argued to-morrow.
The Houso Committee on Elections is an-
A Herald cable dispatoh dated Paris, 15, says
yesterday shells fell in Avenue Wagram; also
many rifle bullets. Tradesmen in Avenue des
Tonnes were wounded. An exodus has com- tage to either side. The Government troops I file exception of a notice. In each, of tfceJL^
still hold possession of the bridge and have e f 8i ne ®L cor P 3 “ their place,
strongly fortified their position. The W• 3^^%*
gents several times during the day charged the who are interested in it, to keep the
barricades of the Government troops, and each motion, and not let it fall through by resV
time were handsomely repulsed. j and Thepresscanmaieits££
, . .f _ t er felt in this matter, as in all others nt
Another account says the Government troops concern, Uf by its earnest ana peSlfe
attacked the Communists’ position at Vanvres capitalists are fully aroused, and satisfied tia
Saturday momiDg. The attack was sudden, it offers a splendid opportunity for profitable^
and took the Insurgents completely by surprise,' vestment * Gicinnett Atlas.
bnt they soon rallied, and after a most deter-
THE REPVBLICAX INCOME TAJ
mined fight, in which many lives were lost, sue- I Fresh Bean ties or tbat Precious Ea*,,
oeeded in compelling the Government forces to ^[From the Newlcfis-
retire. Several times daring the day tho fight it has just been discovered*^ t a ^ o!
was renewed, but the Communists, in the end, Congress imposing the nnconstitutionl
were left masters of the position. Daring the ! oome tax practically makes it a lien on thelaai
Fort Vaimes rt-nUto*. , ^
to upon tho ranks of tho Government troops, is empowered to collect the amount due bjn;.
Fighting at this point continued the entire day. rant, and from the moment this warrant is»
Every inch of ground was obstinately disputed. foot of land belonging to thedebta
- . it. , „ . . _ , within the district is hable to ba soldmuti-
Wien first attacked the Communists fled pre- consequently, every person intending to®
oipitately, but under cover of the guns of Van- chase or lend money on land must, to protest
vres, they rallied, after some difficulty, and, himself, get a certificate from the collectortht
after an obstinate struggle, regained their lost no ^ arrant has been issued againat UiaseL'aa
, ,, .. . .. „ . . „ - mortgagor; and one of our largest life iiso-
ground. Both sides fought well, but the Gov-1 ance companies has directed this to be donen
thorized to take testimony regarding the cre
dentials of the Mississippi delegation in the
Hbuse, and the validity of , the eleotion under
which they hold their seats. The committee
has authority to send for persons and papers.
The bill amending , the revenue law taxing
dealers in leaf tobacco failed—48 to 70.
Cobum read a dispatch from the United
States Marshal of Tennessee, announcing the
assassination of one and the wounding of an
other of his deputies. Brooks said the officers
were servings process - against a distiller, and
charged Cobum with trying to create the im
pression that this was apolitical assassination,
when it was no such a thing. The House then
adjourned.
New Yobk, April 17.—-At a meeting of the
stockholders of the Texas and Pacifio Railroad
Company, for the purpose of eleoting directors,
Marshall O. Roberts occupied the chair. A
resolution was adopted postponing an eleotion
for directors until the meeting be called by the
President after fifteen days notice given in a i *•““*< wm nut caase m urcinn n "“ u
paper in New Orleans, Washington, Memphis, wko^re this great enterprise £
tion by mail to each of the stockholders. we see it permanently located anil 9 ’ M
Wilmington, April 17—George Apple, (white), building in rapid progress. If we
one of the most notorious of the Robeson conn- r ?^, ( V w ? must not “hide our light unde?'-I 1 *?'
v ~ »y *
yesterday. strong opposition to contend vito ^
London, April 17.—Thiera’ circular says: its friends are active and vigilant, 63
The Insurgents are emptying their houses and 5 ? 6Ter i* Te *° ® ee it constructed. Atlanf* S
selling their furniture. The Government con- U^f^letionSoffiS^iS 95 ' ^2
tinues to temporize for the pnrpose of oollect- Uhem, and throw it into the laps of m .
ing an irresistible force and also to allow the Savannah. Already our friends it
Parisians time to refleot. The Insurgenl
we shoot our prisoners and intend the HU DOOm UUYei ro naTa .
throw of the Republic and the suppression of portance of such a road to then citv^' 15-
the subsidies of the National Guards. These nals in onr sister town of Covinotm
statements are false. °“ v i 0U3 to ^ fact «»' S5
Fighting at Neuilly Sunday continued from L efc to^sea in thei/colmmheS J' 1 ?*
morning till night without any decidod advan- it3 behalf—or even allusion to it-witVr -®
mi,a n m ‘ I ft1aatMnticnAr AnA U*** m v Wfi SIS’
the people of Forsyth in this matter
that they will not caase in urebl d
all future cases, before making loans on reals I
tate. The example will doubtless be folfcrecl
by other money-lenders, and thus an addition! I
burden will be imposed on the already 0T3- j
burdened industry of the country.
We have not the statistics by which to I
eminent troops suffered heaviest.
Pabis, April 17.—Last night all was quiet.
The Communists captured some colors from the
Pontifical Zouaves at Neuilly.
Memphis, April 17.—Rates on cotton advanc
ed to-day. All rail to New York, 86; by river I an accurate computation, but the iml
and rail 6 less. I ex P en se of searching in the various collector!
_ n . ^I offices, against every seller and mortgagors
Cleveland, O., April 17.-There is a strong real e ’ sta f e> wiU pro £ ab i y be not farfroatie
feeling among prominent Republicans to nom-1 entire amonnt which the Government recurs
inate Ben Wade for Governor. Vigorous efforts I from the odious and unconstitutional tar! Us
are being made by Wade’s friends to induce him C°mna i ssioxier of Internal Revenue has stag
to run declared that the tax costs more to collect tic
_ ’ , _ ,. . ... . , it yields, and now we see that it indirectly is tls
London, April 11. Iu tho leading editorial J solirc g 0 f another enormous exaction. Andre
upon the report as the result of thelabors of the J tho majority in Congress refuses to abolish if
High Commission, in tho Times of to-day, it
says tho case of the Alabama has always created
a feeling of insecurity in England, and has de
moralized American politics. Wo hail the possi
ble settlement, and think that the arbitrators
will acquit England of the responsibility for the
deeds of the Alabama. The Times adds that
tho Alabama was partially fitted out at Azore,
and hence Portugal is liable to our experience.
The Times is evidently not sanguine of the im
mediate settlement of the question, for it warns
the British publio it is very uncertain whether
a treaty will be ratified by the American Sen
ate.
The demonstration in Hyde Park yesterday,
How Clara X.onise Kellogg Made
Nilsson Break Her Fan.
A curious little episode diversifieJtic pc;
formance at the Academy of Music, Xevlod;
ono night. Kellogg was singing ter very best,
and. looked her very prettiest, conscious tin
her Swedish rival was in the house, andtai
the eyes of New Yoik were on then both.
Nilsson, dressed in blue velvet with snilatl
ance of rich lace and a profusion of diaucrii
glittering in her golden hair, occupied a puts-
nent box and languidly applauded with berfc
the edge of the box.
In the second part of the programme, Cj
Louise sang “I’m Alone,” was rapturouslyc-
cored, gave “Home, Sweet Home,” as anew*,
and being compelled to return a third time,®
pensed with the pianist, and seating herselfit
in favor of the Pans Insurgents was a failure. I the piano, poured forth with the most witcHa
Pabis, April 17.—The Communists’ decree archness and point, Lover’s ballad “She's Fee!
provides for a methodical requisition upon the ing Thee.” It was noticed that Nilsson list®*
inhabitants of P«*,sttnstb,stre.t, Jnotta JS^U, e *£“ 8 ^
decree convokes the syndioal chambers in order
to draft statistics of abandoned work-shops,
and arrange for their reopening by workmen
who are not proprietors. .
From Mexico.
City or Mexico, April 11, via Havana.—Mar
tin Carerra, Ex-President of Mexico, is dead.
She has rich hair of golden bus,
Take care, take care.
And what she says it is not true,
Beware, beware,
She’s fooling thee.
Nilsson, with a look of excessive anger, skat*
the box edge with her fan so angrily as tow
it. At this there was a great laugh and«g®-
Fifty-two public journals advocate tbo
tion of President Juarez, forty favor Porferio. J her admiration for a sister artist. l>ut
General Sanchez Ochos has been appointed look belied this. The initiated who were port*
Minister to Washington. were highly amused, for it was eT“®“r
Croup and measles have become an epidemic hearSi^ltiig of afstave Dore. I
in Durango. Deaths from these diseases aver- brought her into notice, made herapnbas ®
age 30 a day. vorite and the idol of Paris; but when she
Juarez is gaining ground in his campaign for
the Presidency. He proposes that the election but y eyenrefused to achnit him to her drawfcff
Of the President, in future, be directed by the room as an ordinary visitor. He was
people, and not through the electorial college, completest sense of the term forbidden
The parties accuse eaoh other of endeavoring to k 0QSe -
bring Mexico under the American flag. - Reconstruction.—Mr. Roosevelt, cf - *
Romero, Minister of Finanoe; Mejia, Minis- York, carries his humor to Congress and
ter of War; Abecarool, Minister of the Into- the revolutionists a little story:
rior, and Loavdra, Minister of Justice, have The Republicans themselves seem a little^
been impeached, and will be tried before the satisfied with their own work. Bei s
Supreme Court. The condemnation of these they reconstructed the Sou ^en thej
Ministers is considered certain, as the Supreme had^econa'trncted'iVover again Wg "g
Court, over which Tejada, himself a candidate like it much more than when they baa aoa*^
for tho Presidency in opposition to Juarez, pre- first, and, therefore they Tec0 ^l^J it for ^
sides, is regarded as strongly partisan. more. And1 ttjgjWH a ° orjrs6 of theRe#
An attempt to assassinate political leaders in respect reminds me o!Fm*
Morels has oaused fresh trouble. Their chief I Paul in the French opera of the
assassin, it is alleged, was hired by two mem- Ducbesse.” When the P™® 10 « X oposcd hi*
bers of the Legislature, Cuadra and Robelo; I Wghness came to the
both were arrested. The Government proposes •Bbrire'raTnMonga^coiridor, then down
to introduce reforms in the laws whioh Bhall be then along other corridors; up mow
applicable to all States of the Republic. Among I along more corridors; down farm
Isa *ssaJa Ia ii*.a 2m. si I olnrtn fnrfViar ftATTldorS. UP iUItuv
I U a©6CcIlUCra ; cUUAO j* AvaaawAAv — -, ggj .
Inga civil authorities Bhall be powerless, while | il re-redescendera; alors ilro-ro-remonie^.j,
outside their churches, the clergy shall be | so forth. That is just about the
equally powerless. reconstruction. We tot
'then reconstruction; then re-recojj 1
The regular session of the National Congress tb enre-m-reTon's't^tion7 and this
began on tho 1st inst. Sen or Hernandez, Pres- j re-reconstruction*
ident of the Chamber, in his opening speeob,
alluded to the fears expressed bymany ofdireet I tha A t SflSr Sj^developei
intervention by some officious agents of foreign of his own in regard t J 0 the everlasting^-
powers ia the coming eleotion for President, miflgo question. It is that of a black
and to muttered threats heard everywhere of holding all the West India Islands ^
a refusal to aocept the decision of tho people at R r °torate of the United S!atc3. .j-p*
the polls. He deprecated such expressions as j^y wouia be a troubleSOme ^ *
foreboding^ evil far the ranntry. “So'mnirEn Beer” is the latest
Romero has submitted to Congress a scheme lager concentrated in the way they do
for the consolidation of the national debt at so that a man can carry enough ia ^
rate of interest beginning with one-half of pooket to ruin a temperance society.
1 per cent per annum, and increasing one-half The Missouri papers are all i-"- 1 '
per oent. semi-annually until it reaohes 3 per ° f a * arg ° wbeat Cl01 ’
cent. He says the debt of Mexico is domestio, fnT a ceb.
not foreign. Its creditors are merely Private tio t“ extliSmefof its semi-ccntcnniak g:
parties. Mexico has never contracted a public bo a general gathering of its nlna-n*.
loan. Tins plan, like others which have been most interesting time is anticipated.
proposed by Romero, is considered impractica- Tho new iron steamship for the
bio, and he will hardly be able to carry it New York hne, now under consunc -^j
through Congress. The extra session of Con- mond, is rapidly assuming CrSjjf
gross was barren of results. j a few monl-is will be ready fo
Knoxville, Tene., boasts of a j-ij
Mbs. Judith Rust, who died ia Ipswich, I named Louis Kuekert. One ox;
Mass., a few days since, was married on Christ- lie flat on his back on the floor a ^ ^ i
mas Eve, 1799. There were ninety persons arms above his head, with the p * n ^ j
present at her wedding, and she survived them upward, and for a heavy man p wife*** I
all. She left two children, nineteen gvandchil- either hand, when he Williprfted ■ I
dren, thirty-eight great grandchildren, and one and get up on his feet. ia ^ i
great-great grandchild living. She was bom weighing nearly two hunare i J
July 5, 1773. H if
