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The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph, and. Jonx-nal &d Messenger,
Telegraph and Messenger.
1IA.G0N, MAY 1371.
Tee Canabt Bird Tbade.—The Commercial
Advertiser says, in R long article, that 50,000
canaries have been imported into the United
Btates this spring—an nnustul number. They
are reared in the Hartz Mountains, in Germany,
where almost the entire peasantry are concerned
m the business, and set apart a room in each
house to the breeding of the.-e little creatures.
They ore bought up about the 1st of Septem
ber by New York importers, five of whom have
imported 15,000. The first price varies from
40 to 70 cents, and and the average cost per
bird landed in New York is §2.10. They sell at
lrom $3 to $5, according to finality—some hy
brids bringing even more. Tho article states
that the bird of the canary islands, their native
habitat, is inferior to the artificially raised
German bird, bnt tho American raised bird
iaoks vigor of constitution and voice. [We
nave known many exceptions to that rule.]
The best birds (“long breeds or hybrids”) are
brought from Belgium.
The Northern Beds.—The telegrams say that
the “International VTorkingmen's Association,”
now in session at New York, have resolved that
the Paris Communists “deserve the sympathy
and co-operation, as far as possible, of all true
■o7ers of liberty.” It is strange that any man
m America should name the Paris Commune
GHAUT VXD iris WARWICK.
Morton’s Platform—Southern Dictation.
Unhorsed from all their Canada acquisition,
British war and San Domingo hobbies, on which
Bntler and Morton intended to mount Grant
for a second race—divided and distracted on
every question of a peaceful, wholesome, con*
ciliatory and generous national administration—
the Radical leaders have been thrown back on
their old programme of. sectional animosity
and discord, and Grant and Morton have started
out to peddle it round tho land, and 6et the
Ball in Motion for 1872.
The campaign of 1872 is to be, so far as the
Radicals can moke it, a rehash of the campaigns
of 18C0,1SG4 and 1868. - It is to be fought on
the basis of hatred and distrust of the Southern
people. The real truth is, this Is a Hobson’s
choice of a platform on the part of the Radicals.
They have no other issue of a domestic character
upon which they can possibly stand. Where
would they be on tho question of a liberal tar
iff? Where upon the whole series of measures
indispensable to the revival of American Com
merce and the rebuilding of that gigantic mari
time interest whioh, a fow years ago, overshad
owed that of tho Mistress of the Seas, herself ?
Where would tho Radical party stand upon any
conceivable interpretation of the relative rights,
powers and duties of the Federal and State gov
ernments ? Where would they stand upon any
intelligent system of national finance ? What
have they done in the way of purely civil ad
ministration which they can defend or even
apologize for?
Their hatred of the Southern people and con
tempt of the Constitution qualified them for a
and liberty in tho same sentence, except to say
ihat they ore mortal enemies, and one cannot
$xist in the presence of the other. To suppose J cruel war against the BoufoeraStatee ; but when
that liberty is consistent with the arbitrary des
potism of a oonelave of conspirators, working in
secret, and bolding no responsibility to anyone,
is to outrage common sense. But this pestif
erous brood of political owls and vultures is
hatching egg3 all ovor the world, and persuad
ing laboring men to entrust their dearest rights
W personal freedom, under one hollow pre-
tenco or another, to the despotism of a parcel
of dictators.
The Credit System.—The Chronicle and Sen
tinel is one of tho sternest opponents of this
system we know of. In fact, it carries its an
tipathy to sack an extent as to refuse credit
even to thoso of its cotemporaries whose r.r-
* ticks ask it. Such strict adherence to so wise
a system is bound, in the end. it appears to ns,
ho bring great prosperity. In the matter of
news items however—say Georgia news items—
ihis system has one disadvantage: Readers get
them pretty stale, bnt as some folks like stale-
bread, so perhaps there er: :hose who don’t ob
ject to news two or three days old- But this is
.♦ small matter compared with refusing credit to
really clever verses whcao author honored the
Telegraph asd Messenger by selecting it as
his medium for introducing them to the public.
If “Thar’s More in the Man Than Thar is in
the Land” was worth copying, it certainly was
worth crediting. Opinions seem to differ, how-
over, onthis point.
Wake Up, Sleepy I— 1 The agent of the Asso
ciated Press at Savannah must boast some kin
ship with that famous personage, Rip Van
Winkle. On Thursday night he telegraphed
ihat
“ The Snpreme Court of South Carolina has
lately declared in favor of the validity of con
tracts in which slaves were the consideration.
The court was unanimous on the question.”
In the Telegraph and Messenger of Tuesday
we made tho same announcement, on the au
thority of tho Augusta Constitutionalist of Sun
day ! And now, four or five days thereafter,
this wide-awake agent telegraphs it all over the
oonntry as neics ! Bless his somnolence—he’ll
rival Dickens’ fat boy, yet, if ho don't look
snarp. The Associated Tress agents, every
where, should recollect that as the newspapers
taking thoso dispatches are limited to bo many
words per month, the sending of such matter is
counted against us, and thereby deprives us,
uerhaps, of that much live nows.
“How The Old Thixo Works.”—The New
York Democrat says, when that colony of east
ern people settled at Greeley, Colorado, every
thing was lovely, with the exception of the
bloody Indians. The people had no protection
from the Government, so they set about to
devise some means of protection against tho
red men of tho forest Different plans were
canvassed, bnt one after another given up cs
impracticable, until an old editor in the party
hit upon a novel, and effective plan. He start
ed a paper called the Grr- 'ey Tribune, apd had
the head of* tho paper engraved in Greeley's
handwriting. These papers are left around the
outskirts of the settlement, and as soon as an
Indian sees that head he becomes dizzy, has the
colic, becomes a maniac, and rushes to his
triends and drops dead.
An Immigrant Farm.—The Germans in
Charleston are about to establish an Immigrant
Farm near ths city, for the purpose of tempo
rarily locating immigrants who land there un
der no engagement. Here they will be famish
ed with employment and accommodations until
they can look abont them, learn the language
and make arrangements for a more advantage
ous employment of their time. Connected with
the Farm wm. he a school. That is an excellent
idea.
The Fight at Dame Eubopa’b school.—This
ciever little satire, of which 120,000 copies were
sold in England in one month is having a great
run this side the Atlantic. Nothing so saucily
r uggestive has appeared in a long time.
J. W. Burke &Co. have just received a fresh
-apply- ...
H. G. as A Jokee.—While Mark Twain was
here, the other day, ears the Buffalo Courier,
he received by mail a copy of “What I know
About Fanning.” A note on the fly-leaf, in a
chirograpby that is already historical, read as
follows:
“To Mark Twain, Buffalo, who knows even
less abont my fanning than does
“Horace Greeley*”
A lecturer on the “moral sentiments” in
Philadelphia remarked that the “dearest ship
in the world was friendship,” whereupon a
young man arose from among the congregation
and stated that he knew another—a dearer ship
still—and that was courtship. The yonng man
had once been a defendant in n claim for breach
of promise of marriage.
Sixteen Chinamen have been engaged to
work in one of the Pennsylvania coal mines—
the beginning of an experiment which might bo
made effective in breaking down the Miners’
Trade Union.' These men are to commence
their labors in Jose.
The negro Legislature of South Carolina have
ordered two dozen spittoons for their use at §8
each, which tho white folks pay for, of course.
They are planted so thick on the floor that no
darkey who wears oyer a No. 10 shoe, can find
a place for his feet.
Tun editor of the defunct Leavenworth Times
winds np his valedictory a8 follows: “The
play is over and we are played. May the 099
ernes of the Apocalypse seize your d-d city.
Two tailors in L'onisville had a fight, and
one stabbed the other with a pair of shears.
When he has killed eight more tailors they are
going to try him for manslaughter.
resistance was trampled out, they lacked every
capacity to reorganize peace and heal the gap
ing wounds of a distracted country. A misera
ble series of botches and blunders—of doing and
tmdoiug—a wild waste of extravagancies in leg
islation and extravagancies in pecuniary expen
diture—of schemes to perpetuate their own
power by vindictive and repressive measures
against the Southern whites—of peculations
and plunders—of utter contempt of constitu
tional law—of haughty assumptions of power—
of tyrannical and oppressive taxation—have
stamped them with such a total want of con
structive capacity, that Morton does well to
proclaim in advance, at Washington and Indian
apolis, that the party cannot afford to make any
distinct issues on the policy of peace.
The war must be fonght over again, and the
Northern States led once more against tho pros
trate rebels of the South, or the rebellion will
again be rampant and finally victorious through
the instrumentality of the Democratic party.
To back this appeal to tbs fears of the North
ern people against their patriotic aspirations
for national peace and conciliation, the Radicals
have started the grand machinery of the Ku-
klux Committees, and expect to gather the ma
terials for a popular panic out of the very
wretchedness and depravity of the miserable
governments their partisan hatred has imposed
on the Southern States.
Everybody has read Morton’s platforms for
the Democracy and for his own parly, and it is
for the people of the North and tho people of
the South to say whether this scheme of the
Radical Warwick, to bit, bridle and ride both
horses at once in tho next Presidential race
shall succeed? Shall the people of either sec
tion snffer tho real and vital interests of the
next election to ba overslaughed and set aside
by the gory and unsubstantial phantoms of sec
tional jealousy and hatred? Is it not time to
have done with them, and after so many years
of most sad and unfortunate sectional embroil
ment, to address our minds once more to the
great questions of national peace, security and
happiness ?—the progress of trade ?—the allevi
ation of needless and oppressive burdens on
common industry and commerce?—the reduc
tion of the enormous public expenditures?—the
restoration of constitutional law and order?
Surely the common sense of tho American peo
ple will respond with the voice of thunder
“YES! YES!! We have had enough of quar
relling—enough of fighting—enough of hatred.
A generation of sectional contention ending in
a horrid war shall suffice. It is time to stop this
eternal discord and wrangling. As Lincoln said
of the war, it cannot endure forever—why not
Stop it NOW?”
But how can it be stopped until the peddlers
of seeiional hatred and denunciation, in their
own interests, are rebuked by a generous peo
ple? Grant and Morton are peddling these
firebrands for a great price! They hope not
only to receive for themselves and party an in
come of five hundred millions a year for four
years out of them, bnt also to cover their own
foul tracks, and cheat the people into four more
years of civil administration, characterized by
not one single qualification of capacity, liberality
or practical statesmanship. How should they
be met ? We say as becomes their evil coun
sels.
What mischief must follow another long cam
paign of cruel hatred, revilement, contempt
and misrepresentation of t&e Southern States
and people! Consider, ye men of the North,
whose vengeance is more easily satisfied,wheth
er the miseries of this unhappy section have not
been sufficient, and whether another campaign
of unmixed proscription and moral war will not
materially hinder and delay a national harmony
which would solidly affect for good every com
mon interest of the country ?
Tho slanders of Morton that tho Southern
people contemplate or desire the accomplish
ment of anything inharmonious with the best
intextetsof a common country, have no founda
tion. We ask nothing for ourselves but a fair
construction and a friendly administration of the
Federal Government. We ask only that the
enormous powers of the Federal Government
shall not bo wielded to traduce—to vilify and
oppress tho Sonthem people. We wont peace—
good will—public order, and a good under
standing with th9 other sections of the country.
So far from indulging in a spirit of dictation
to the Democracy or the Northern people—since
Morton’s speeches havo appeared, we have hoard
but one suggestion from leading Democrats in
this section of Georgia, and that is that it would
be well to leave to the Conservatives of the
North alone tho Whole duty of making a ticket
and a platform. Many say, “send no delegates
whatever from the Southern States. Wo have
nothing to ask, which any fair minded Northern
man would refuse to concede, and wo would
prejudice no ticket or platform in tho eyes of
the North, by any active co-operation of our
own in presenting them for popular support.”
This, to a very great extent, is the feeling in
Middle Georgia, and this illustrates tho total
falsity of Morton’s allegations.
Slavery in the North.—The Workingmen’s
Association at St. Clair, Pa., have passed reso
lutions protesting Against the combination of
railroad and mining corporations, whioh had re
sulted in crushing tho miners “beneath the level
of the plantation slave or Russian serf, by of
fering for their services a stipend scarcely suffi
cient to keep body and soul together.”
And yet, on olection day, these resolvers
march up to the polls and vote for men who are
owned, body and soul, by these corporations,
and who devote all their time in Congress to
legislating for tho negroes. They have only
themselves to blame for putting Radical politi
cians in positions where they can assist these
corporations in crushing them “beneath the
level of the plantation slave.” If the resolvers
could only chaDgo their color their troubles
would be at on end. A “constitutional amend
ment” would soon bring their oppressors to
taw.
• .Valedictory.
With this number, my connection with the
Telegraph and Messenger ceases. Coining
into tho newspaper business in December, 1865,
when military-authority and surveillance, more
or less, was exercised by the United States
Government (though in justice to the various
officers commanding in this city during the time;
I will say never unpleasantly to me) and contin
uing through the various plans of reorganizing
the State Government to the present, I have
passed through the most trying period the press of
of Georgia has ever experienced. When grave
questions of political policy have had to be de
cided, freely consulting with J. R. Snoed, Esq.
till May, 1868, since then with Joseph Clisby and
A. W. Reese in the Editorial Department, I have
ever had but one aim—to express opinions that,
in my judgment, would most conduce to tho
general good of tho people of the South. Many
of my friends have at times differed with me,
bnt I have over been consciou3 - of discharging
my duty as I saw it Our struggle with the
United States Government had resulted in
placing us in so unfortunate a position that
could never hope to see our political status
such as we desired, and knew would bo best for
our commonwealth, until by lapse of years the
asperities of the war should be worn away, and
a better feeling between the North and Sonth
prevail. When political campaigns have been
upon us, I have fearlessly and steadfastly ad
vocated the right frequently without hope. As
the skids surely grow brighter every day,
hope soon to see these political problems worked
out.
Many questions of practical moment havo
been discussed. The labor qnestion, proper
systems of culture of our lands, diversification
of crops, regulation of cotton production so as
to keep it from reaching minimum non-paying
rates, internal improvements, development of
hidden resources, harmonizing various elements
of society, that our social, moral, political and
material condition shonld become healthy, plans
to make our homes more comfortable and our
firesides happy, gradually to recover that wealth
that by our unfortunate civil war slipped from
our grasp and thus lift our people from the
“Slough of Despond” and make us once snore a
proud and prosperous community, with various
other topics, have had their full share of atten
tion from my editorial confreres. By constant
effort, successfully extending our circulation
through a large section of country peopled by
gentlemen and ladies of intelligence, character
and worth rarely found in the same space of
territory, an army of correspondents, practical,
sound thinking, and of calm reasoning powers,
has contributed much vaiuablo thought on all
these topics through our columns.
I flatter myself that I have seen much
good come from this, aud much that has ap
peared here, though its effects may not yet have
been seen, will yet yield abundant fruit.
To accomplish that great purpose, and to give
all impetus possible to the healthy growth of
our beautiful and prosperous city, a first class
newspaper was necessary. To publish such,
has required from the beginning large outlays of
money. • I cannot too highly praise the good
people of the various sections in which we cir
culate, and more particularly the good people
of Macon for the great interest they have ever
manifested in extending the circulation of this
journal, and thus increasing its power to do
good. They have in reality made a pet of it.
Circulation being large, ha3 brought it much
business from all quarters to increase its reve
nues. Bnt, the business men of Macon, bank,
ers, merobants, those engaged in professional,
mechanical and manufacturing pursuits, than
whom no city can boast of a more substantial
or liberal collection, are especially entitled to
my thanks. Their liberality in advertising and
thus increasing their business through these
five-and-a-half years just passed, has been a
great source of revenue, aud served to place
this paper in its present position to benefit this
community. It has excited notice, and favor
able comment from all the Georgia press.
My personal duties in conducting the busi
ness affairs of this office have thrown me con
stantly in communication with thousands of
our subscribers, and with the whole business
circle. Their promptness in settlements, and
the fact that no unpleasantness of any kind has
ever occurred with any of them, the many
friendships formed in this way have endeared
them all to me.
I leave the remaining editors with regret, and
shall remember pleasantly the agreeable daily
association we have had for so many years.
Mr. Rabun R. Ricks, foreman of the office,
Mr. Shropshire, local editor, Mr. F. LoC. Nis-
bet, clerk, and the efficient mail clerk, J. H.
Enwright, and all other employes of tho office,
many of whom have been with me in the vari
ous departments from 1865 to the present time,
havo my thanks for their gentlemanly deport
ment and the courteous respect shown mo at
all times. They will ever be remembered kindly
by their friend.
I have had much business intercourse with
Mr. P. Welsh, Agent New York Associated
Press, and some with Mr. J. W. SimontoD, Su
perintendent at New York of the same. Also
with Mr. Norris and Mr. 0. K Wright, and oth
er gentlemen of the Western Union Telegraph
Office in this city. Their urbanity and atten
tion to every wish expressed to them at any
time for better Bervice entitle them to my
thanks.
The gentlemen in charge of tho Sonthem
Express Company’s business in this city,
and the Macon Postoffice also havo their full
share of my kind remembrances.
Thp Editors of Georgia have so acted towards
me, never doing anything to leave an unpleas
ant memory to rankle in my bosom, bat, on the
contrary, shown the best of spirit and friendli
ness. This reflection gives me much satisfaction.
As my successor, it is a pleasure to intro
duce to this community Colonel H. H. Jones,
formerly of tho Cuthbert Appeal, a gentle
man of culture, energy and unexceptionable
character, in whom they will have a good citi
zen and active member of society, a native
Georgian, fall of love for tho State. He will
be an earnest and devoted laborer for the good
of our country [in tho line heretofore pursued by
the managers of this journal. I commend him
to tho kind attention and courtesies of my many
friends in the oommnnity.
To one and all I say, farewell! May a life of
prosperity be yours! War. A. Reid.
Salutatory*.
The writer assumes, with no little trepida
tion and diffidenco, the arduous and responsi
ble duties ol his veteran and able predecessor.
A comparative stranger in this community,
he would bespeak the forbearance, and depro-
cate the criticism of thp numerous readers of
the Telegraph and Messenger. Bat for the
fact that the well poised intellect and keen sa
gacity of tho Senior,- and the trenchant and
brilliant pen of his other associate, will, in
some measure, cover his own deficiencies, tho
task before him would appear well nigh insu
perable. He can only promise, however, to be
industrious, faithful, and zealous in the advo
cacy of local interests, and vigilant and un
daunted in defence of the rights of his native
land.
The press should be the avant courier, and
leader in all that appertains to true progress,
and the prosperity of tho people. Hence, gen
uine liberty, in contradistinction to unbridled
license, a puro morality, and the patriotic ob
servance of law and order, should ever be vin
dicated and diligently taught.
Impressed with these views, and profoundly
grateful for the kind mention of himself con
tained in the valedictory of Mr. Reid, the sub
scriber now enters in meaias res upon the' dis
charge of his duties, and will labor with might
and main to aid his colleagues, in sustaining
the well earned reputation of the time-honored
journal they have tho honor to represent.
H. H. Jones.
The above notices will convey to our readers
and the public generally, all tho information
necessary to a clear understanding of the
change that has been made in the proprietor
ship of the Telegraph and Messenger.
We part from our late associate, Mr. Reid,
with sincere regret. An intimate association
with him of nearly four years on tho part of
.one of us, aud eighteen months on the part of
the other, has taught us to fully appreciate, at
its true value, his business energy and tact, his
genial temper, and his unwearied devotion to
the common interests. Ho has always ably sec
onded our every effort to make the Telegraph
and Messenger entirely worthy its numerous
friends and tho newspaper profession, and to
him belongs no small share of the credit it has
won in both endeavors. His connection with
the profession has been as honorable and use
ful to it os to himself, and that, in these dis
jointed times, is arecordof whioh any man might
well be-proud. Our warmest wishes for his
health, happiness and prosperity, follow him in
whatever field of earnest work he may enter
upon hereafter.
Of Col. Jones we have only to say that he
entirely deserves every good word spoken for
him by his predecessor. He has culture, prac
tice and power a3 a writer, well poised judg
ment, fine abilities, keen business tact and en
ergy, and a determination to succeed that is al
most success itself. With tho most confident
assurance that he will more than fulfill every
promise of which our personal knowledge and
his high character are guarantees, wo commend
him to our friends and that publio whoso inter
ests we are sure it will .be his constant aim.
hereafter, to subserve.
Joseph Clisby,
A. W. Rfese.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
•Decoration Day” was appropriately observed
in Savannah, Columbus and Augusta,
There is a vacancy in the Custom House at
Savannah for some man and brother of the
trooly loil stripe, who won’t fall asleep and
drop into the river and drown. That fate b efell
one Henry May, Wednesday night.
A couple of “developers,” at Savannah, were
busy all day Wednesday taking the “testimony'
of the Jefferson county negroes who went down
to tell about “de Ku-klnx.
The editor of the Savannah Republican is
enthusiastic on the subject of Nilsson. Hear
him:
Let the reader imagine a regal looking woman
of five and twenty years of age—her appearance
justifies the judgment—with hair of golden
brown; eyes grey and made for tenderness of
fire; a fair, broad brow; a large, generous,
expressive mouth; a chin denoting decision of
character and independence of purpose ; and a
figure fit for a queen, that never moves save to
illustrate the poetry of motion—and you have a
pen-picture of the great songstress, who, from
prince and people, has won the tribute which
true taste always pays to true genius.
Nilsson sung “Home, Sweet Home” and “The
Conquered Banner,” at Savannah, Wednesday
night.
Mr. Mat Rice, of Augusta, an ex-Confeder-
ate soldier, who lost a foot in service, has in
vented a morticing machine, which is now in
use at the machine shop of tho Georgia Rail
road.
According to the Gwinnett Atlas that county
can boast the champion storm of the season,
which swept over that section Wednesday night
of last week. Its track did not exceed one
hundred and fifty yards in breadth at any
place, and its general direction was from south
west to northeast. No loss of life is reported,
but there was great damage done to houses,
fencing, frnit, and forest and shade trees. An
idea of its fury may bo formed from tho follow
ing:
Whirling on, with lightning rapidity, two hun
dred yards further down tho road, it came to
the residence of CapL Tyler M. Peeples, on the
edge of town. Large oak trees were hurled
against this with tremendous force, one crush
ing in the rear of the roof, and another thrown
back in an opposite direction from, the course
traveled by tho tornado, smashed in' the portico
on tho front side. The whole building was
lifted from its foundation and tossed five feet
from the pillars that supported it. Every chim
ney connected with it was utterly demolished.
Here a clean sweep was made of fencing, fruit
and shade trees, and all the outhouses with the
exception of tho kitchen. This, though stand
ing within twenty feet of the main building,
seems not to havo boon touched. Captain Peo
ples’ children were sleeping in a trundle-bod
near the fire-place at the west end of the house,
and made a narrow escape from death, as tho
heavy mantel-piece, followed by the chimney
itself, fell into the room and missed the head of
the bed a few inches. From Capt. P.’s it made a
short detour to tho right, sweeping through tho
back part of Col. Samuel J. Winn’s promises, up
rooting every tree in his large orchard, and car
rying away the last vestige of the fencing
around thi3, and that enclosing his garden.
The next point visited was the Cleveland place,
now occupied by the Rev. C. 0. Spence. The
main buildings there were uninjured, though
the well-house and green-house wore destroyed.
On this place there was a large apple orchard,
of well selected varieties which was entirely de
stroyed, not two trees boingleftnninjored. An
apple tree was torn up by the roots on this place—
carried fully seventy-five yards—and hurled with
terrible violence against the west end of the
residence of John Mills, Esq. Mr. Mills was
considerably damaged by the tornado. All the
buildings in his yard ware torn down and scat
tered abont over tho adjoining lots—the north
east corner of tho porch to his dwelling was
crushed by a falling tree, and his large, two
story carriage factory, whioh stood immediately
in front of his residence, on the opposite side of
tho street, wa3 lifted from its foundation and
dashed to pieces.
The Griffin Star, of yesterday, says:
N. Sellers Hill, a revenue incendiary, who
went through the country last fall burning still-
houses generally, was arrested in this place on
Wednesday last by Deputy Sheriff Mann, and
placed under bond to answer the charges at tho
next Superior Court.
The Rev. M. B. Harden, of Waco, Texas, has
been called to the charge of the LaGrange Bap
tist Church.
La Grange is getting quite citified in some of
its ways. John N. Cooper’s grocery store was
entered and robbed, Sunday-night, of $225, a
pistol and two watches.
The Griffin Georgian says Mr. Salla, of Meri
wether county, brought to that town and sold,
last Friday, a load of country hams and bacon.
He was quite a show, and tho Griffinites follow
ed him round all day to see what he looked like.
A strawberry five inches in circumference
causes tho local of the Griffin Georgian to flap
his wings and crow lustily.
Dr. John W. Jones, of Decatur, DeKalb coun
ty, died Thursday afternoon.
The Calhoun Times reports considerable dam
age last Sunday to tender vegetables, corn and
frnit in some localities. Wheat is suffering
some from rust.
Wo quote as follows from the Dalton Citizen,
of Friday:
Storm in Murray.—We leam from residents
of the northwestern portion of Murray county,
that a terrible storm prevailed in that section
on last Wednesday night a week ago. Conside
rable damage was done to frnit, crops, fonoes,
etc. One gentleman had his bam blown down,
heard many complaints made by farmers who
live in some of the adjoining counties. Fruit
was injured but very little, and it is thought no
damage was done to wheat. Vegetables were,
about all tbat received hurt.
Says the Constitution, of yesterday: . - .,
Last night, at the Strawberry Festival of the
Loyd Methodist Church, one gentleman gave
$100 for a bouquet. This bouquet will be on
exhibition to-night. Another gentleman gave
an order for a $300 cabinet organ for.thg
Church. , , . ,
Willis McAfee, colored, plead guilty in Fol-
ton Superior Court yesterday to burglary, and
was sentenced to ihe penitentiary for fifteen
years.
The chess players of Atlanta have been sig
nally defeated by a Macon gentleman. He has
shown them what a Boy—kin do at chess.
Snap beans at fifty cents a quart, aro makiDg
the mouths of- the Columbus people water.
Mrs. Tinsley Winston died near West Foint,
Inst Monday,
r Miss Mattie Seward, of Thomasville, was
thrown 'from a horso la3t Saturday, and her
right arm broken.
Tho Savannah Advertiser, of Friday, says
Mr. Henderson, part owner of the Theatre Sa
loon, lost $800 in money from tho pistol pocket of
his pantaloons, Thursday night, while shaving
in Haywood’s shop, as he supposed, and had
one of tho barbers arrested, but so far nothing
has been heard of the money.
Tho tax gatherers down Augusta-why com
plain that tax-payers don’t come forward as
lively as they would like.
A man namedMaobethwas arrested at Augus
ta, last Thursday, on a bench warrant from Co
lumbia county, five years old, charging him
with kidnapping.
Savannah exports, Thursday, were 5,170
bales of cotton, valued at $312,250 91, and
$2,453 32 worth of timber, lumber and rosin.
Tho Constitutionalist, of Thursday, says that
there are a great many $10 counterfeit Nation
al bills in circulation in that city, and that they
are generally very skillfully executed. It
thinks some “shover of tho queer” is located
there, and that he is getting rich, fast.
The Chronicle and Sentinel of Thursday, has
the following:
A Returned Exile.—On yesterday a young
man named Craig arrived in this city, from
Sonth Aemrica, on his way to his parents’ home
situated in tho northern part of tho State. He.
says that he is a native of West Virginia, and
served during the war in the Confederate army.
After the war he, like many other soldiers of
the Lost Cause, was bit by the Brazilian emi
gration scheme, and went to that country. Af
ter giving his now homo a fair trial, he became
convinced that he coaid not make a living there
and determined to return to tho South. With
all his money spent, he found this a rather dif-
ficnlt task, but succeeded in getting to Califor
nia. There ho was the vietimjof a railway acci
dent, which severely injured his loft arm. By
a very roundabout way ho reached Augusta, on
his way home—his father having moved from
West Virginia to Georgia on account of politi
cal persecution. He was entirely out of funds,
and applied to tho Mayor for transportation to
Atlanta.
Manufacturing Stock.—One hundred shares
of tho Langley Manufacturing Company’s stock
was sold yesterday, upon a foreign order, at par.
This company has but started. It is only a few
days since that we chronicled tho proceedings
of the first annual meeting of the company, and
the sale of the first yard of cloth made at Lang
ley Mills. Of conrso, the first annual meeting
could but receive the report of tho cost of con
struction, and the first yard of cloth but berald
the outset of operations. But the sale of this
stock at par, upon a foreign order, is evidence.
of what people abroad think of stock in manu
facturing companies under Augusta manage
ment.
We have now four large cotton mills in our
neighborhood under Augusta management and
drawing all their supplies, cotton and provi
sions, from our market. The first of these is
tho Richmond Factory, of which Adam John
stone is tho head. Nobody knows what this
factory is doing or has done. The stockholders
are few in number and choose to keep the re
sult of their operations within themselves, and
for themselves, of jvhich no one can complain.
Tho Augusta Factory, under the management
of Wm. E. Jackson, Esq., chronicles its divi
dends quarterly and regularly. The Granite-
villo Factory, under the able management of
H. H. Hickman, Esq., struggling up from se
vere losses by the war, give3 its stock-holders
eight per cent, per annnm in dividends, and
lays by with in a decimal fraction of one hundred
thousand dollars for banking purposes in a
singlo year, and now tho Langley Manufactur
ing Company, just starting into existence and
operation, under the management of Wm. O.
Sibley, Esq., finds that its stock, at the first
turn of the wheels under Augusta management,
commands par from a foreign purchaser.
O. W. Chapman, Assistant Assessor of Inter
nal Revonuo at Columbus, died very suddenly
while sitting in his office last Thursday—it is
supposed from heart disease. He was an ultra
Radical and exceedingly obnoxious to tho
respectable people of that section. Ho was a
"Massachusetts man, but had lived in Georgia
thirty yearn.
Trains on the Air Line Railroad are now run
ning to within four milos and a half of Gaines
ville.
The Constitution says Mr. Charles S. Oliver,
an old citizen of Athens, was found dead in his
bed Friday morning.
Thieves aro breaking through and stealing in
Atlanta. A Mr. Meister was damaged $60
Thursday night, and Judge Erskine was also
victimized.
another had his house swept away, three or four
of the family being seriously wounded. A
church house, also, was overturned by the wind.
Frost.—Last Sunday morning we wore visited
by old Jack Frost, being, yyo trust, his last ap
pearance. Fortunately, very little damage was
done in this immediate vicinity, though we have
Tbe Hatch Tax—How It Works.
The Chancellor of tho English Exchequer tel-
graph Commissioner Pleasanton last Monday,
tho inquiry how the match tax worked in Amer
ica ? Did it derange the manufacture or cheek
consumption, and how muoh does it yield ? To
this Pleasanton replies that it “works well"—
does not derange the manufacture of check con
sumption, and yields two million dollars per
annum!
Tho man who holds ths monopoly of a toll
bridge over a big river where the people must
cross, and can’t do it without paying him a dol
lar, also thinks it works well, although it may
not pay him two millions a year. Tho stamp
tax on matches, of one oenta paokage, is a
scandal to all fair and liberal revenue systems.
It is a tax of ono hundred per cent, and more
on the prime cost of the article, and it comes to
very large extent ont of the laboring classes,
who are forced to consume matches much more
freely than tho rich. The match is most used
by tho poor who cannot afford to maintain the
fire or the midnight lamp, and though it bleeds
them by drops, yet it is only part and parcel of
system which, in all its multifarious ramifica
tions, is constantly bleeding-them by drops;
and many drops produce exhaustion. There is
nothing which the humblest household touohes
—from the match and spool cotton of the house
wife, to the tobaeoo of the man whose labor
keep3 tho pot boiling, on which the master is not
bled, sometimes by drops and sometimes by
drachms. Theprocess is constant. Everyminute
squeezes something out of him, and he only
knows it beoause he sees that, pinch as he may,
it costs him twice as much to support his family
as it used to do. The system “works well” in
sqncezing his earnings ont of him at the rate of
sixty to a hundred cents in the dollar of every
thing he bays; bat to him it works ill—and a
good deal of it.
We regret extremely to leam that little May,
daughter of the senior editor of this paper, was
very ill yesterday with diptheria, and that her
recovery was very problematical yesterday
afternoon when wo heard from her last. Wo
hope to hear, this morning, that the disease has
taken a more favorable turn and that she is out
of danger.
The Potomac fisheries are extensive and prof j
itable. -Last week 800,000 herring and 85,000
shad were sold at ono wharf in Washington;
the" former brought from $4 to $7 per thou
sand, and the latter $12 to $18 per hundred.
- Homeward. "
A gallop through the mountain way,
. With click, click, click, against the Sint-
Hard following on the flying day,
That backward flings a fiery tint.
Tbe twiligbtpines stand dense and grim,
And sign and sigh, “The day is dead
The virgin birches, tall and slim, .
Wave shadowy arms across the red.
In brooding peace tbe uplands lie,
Stretched calmly in their- evening rest;
As through their lifted calm 1 fly,
On, onward to the happy West.
Oh West, heart-red, burn close before 1
Pale, dreamy East, float far behind!
No pause, good steed—a few milea more,
- In yonder glow our rest we’ll find.
Urgent, we reach the downward hill,
Tho village darkens far below— .
Has aught befallen her of ill ?
Hy eagor heart leaps down to know.
A swift dekeent along the ridge,
Through shady glooms and breaks of light
A cheery clatter on the bridge,
Then up the street where falls the night.
Across the dark a hearth-fire’s gleam,
A graceful shadow on the wall;
’Twas f “ "*
Legends of the
C«r*Hg late-n. 0. rnmaan
Editors Ttlcgraph and J/ej
MEN: In preparing the mss
of my revered father’s writing
hoped to have offered to the nuhif» a eh I i
I found the accompanying ^ or ei{
seems to.appealtosS4
and touching a manner that Iamw 80 **®!
impulse which prompts me to
space once more in your valuable faj
it originally appeared some 35
It must recall the feelings of .***»► ■
leans of many the recoliZ- a >
cheerful, beaming face, kindWwJSf 00 of &I
virtues of the one so reveredf be&Hl
petted, whose youthful kand&S*
How few aro now left to reperuse it > n ^
even of those grown old “i a nf V Bo » Wl
the dust of their toil and cares”? tfl
other in the streets of our fair ’ C itl
sound of their footstep was once aTi** 8 * hi
When we turn to the shad" ;?/^. I
hearts callfor those who once maZlS? a ? d e-j|
when weary even of home
. share our happiness with those
!was false, thank God, that last night’s dream, of home, we wandered throueh ikT 0Qt <Ul|
That something evil did befall. streets to exchange words and look r p!eas ^! I
From out the door a ruddier shine ? .?. ur frfends—ww? 04 ! 12 1
Meets vanished daylight’s golden trace; I ^ n ? w * - omB .toiling wearii» e
And starry eyes tnmed np to mine—
One light in heaven and home and face I , ..
have grown so old in the f «8i I
COTTON CW.TCBE. trust, £ nd sw6et h th “ 6 *»* * love, t j
The Sonthem Problem-Profits in Cotton such a boundless hetiiw Z"' • ----- |
Raising at tow Prices—Why sp Little sleeping the dreamless ; ^
Money Is Made l>y the Planters—Hiring man bows bis massive bmv 1 L -''~ 1
Xabor and Letting on Sharcs—Practical honors to yield for a few moment.*
Hi» ts - memories of his youth and recall ***11
Correspondence of the 2?cw York World.’] his boyhood; the grim warrior 6£neidsc! I
Mobile, Ala., April 18. yield also to the memory of the pasS- 110110
he present cotton crop has shown the South- pictures of home and early friends, and 'v 5T#
em people that they are again gaining their the din of battle can hear the street trip. :
former yield, and that they cannot hereafter ex- mother commending him to herGoi 1 :
pect either high prices or large profits. Most it often does the world-weary heattmwi
of tho planters claim that they have made no have some reminder of the past • the
money; many that they have lost. Hence, they | cherished past! ’
are anxiously looking around for a solution of
their trouble, and it is announced that a cotton-
planting convention is to meet at Macon, Ga.
on the 22d inst-., to consider the question.
The remedy in brief is, in the raising of their
own provisions, especially on tho second and
third class cotton lands. Bnt even with this
many claim that they cannot make any money
with cotton at 14 cents per pound thero. Tho
reason of this is that they have not yet gotten
SIcmorla.
“Ttoo’ tho long vista of forgotton rears 1
H:s home,his.childhood’s homoigjhiL-v
A wanderer m his native land appeua ‘
Where once in careless ease hie boytow.
And truant gambols on the villas®
Gave life and joy to mirth’s enffi-’riag£ea e .
Years, times and seasons have their chisM. 1
. - .the summer sun-bud unfolds its beanton-.S^ I
out of their old, ante-war, careless ways; that C rs, to be nipped by the frosts ofantn— , I
they go too much on borrowed capital, use too the gay butterfly basks but a moment Sn
many manufactured manures, and do not save atmosphere of spring to end its
those the plantation animals and muck would istence and be forgotten' Thus too SttT a ' I
yield. Again, they are not content with small his prolonged existence is yet but a briefS'
profits, and but fow of them keep accurate, ac- his youth passes rapidly as the vernal
counts of what they get from, give to or wasto life, then come the care and wei«hTofS?
on their plantations. sink the vision of his early life into fS
I have before me a calculation of tne cost of nes s and oblivion: yet if fortune
running a plantation one year, made and pub- reel his path, after years of wanderins
liRliAf? hr n nlftnfpr nf hioh fifnnflina fif. I i
earliest life. Every one who haslongsojtmai I
in any of tho little villages of tha Northern m I
Eastern States, has no doubt witnessed tie to. I
tie and commotion into which- their usuil omt |
and tranquility aro thrown by the arrival of 11
stranger. I
The moment ho alights from the doordfcj
grown at a profit for 1-1 cents per ]
pound. He places the value of the plantation,
etc., thus:
Plantation ; $6,000 I
Mules, etc. 1,200
Implements 425 |
This amount of $7,625 is his business capital,
and the amount made.on the plantations so i . .. - „ , --1
much per cent, on that sum. But in the caleu- !?S«coaehbdbre the srnaU vifiage Inn wife
lation referred to tho planter counts up interest "J? 8 ? denotes the ostatl
on this sum at 8 per cent., and thus makes out 1 “ dica . ^ g / s ?i, tnin ! fe |
a loss. Ho further goes on: ? time, his movementsare watched with rake J
Ten hands (hire at $9 per month) $1,080 J n , r ® st > and conjectures as to who ondat J
Extra labor. 225 j he is becomes the exclusive theme of aS vSlip I
Feed of hands (meal and bacon) 593 gossipers. Thus it was with the quiet fits I
Feed of mules (corn and fodder) 602 village of F., as on a fine Sabbath eveningisl
Taxes 75 I the month of July 18-, the mail coach drovec I
Overseer or planter’s time 860 to the door of the little hotel and a etas |
He also adds 1,260 bushels of cotton seed at
20c.; but as they are returned by the crop I
shall take no account of them. He also adds in
$375 worth of guano, which I shall leave ont of
this, as it shonld be from the land.
We make, then, the expenses as $3,140 00
On this ho calculates interest 271 20
Total $3,414 29
Tile yield is:
20,0000 pounds lint cotton at 14 cents... .$2,800 00
25,000 pound of fodder at $125 312 00
200 barrels corn at $5 1,000 00
Total $4,112 00
Less wear and tear of stock, otc.... -; 256 00
alighted, requesting his baggage to be rant! I
into the house under the superintendence cith I
bustling landlord. Tho frank manner, did I
sun-burnt features, and lively expressive ejedI
the stranger, indicated one who had seen ns; I
summers in a more Southern clime, yet retc-l
ing, in a quick and lively step, an earnest dl
the not forgotten activity belonging to these oil
higher latitudes. As he followed his t;
within the bar-room, a rapid glance at its ii-l
mates was withdrawn without any indication k|
his features of a recognition, and he passe"
his own room as a stranger and unknown.
Gan it bo, thought he, that this is the landril
my nativity; that in this ve|y spot I have fat I
icked away years of my boyhood in spoifel
and careless gaiety; that here in childhoodo-J
nocenco I havo added carnation to the resj
tints of many a sweet cheek as its girlish hofa”:
owner withdrew with the half willing yet rttir-l
revelled.
Melancholy was the heart of the stranger 1:1
he left the inn to tread once more themaaq
his youth. He bent his course toward the y |
whero once stood tho little village 8choo4ho^|
the most prominent feature in the reminisceaM I
of boyhood, bnt it, too, was gone; thearfl
progress of internal improvements had swtpl
away this once retired throne of the pedigopjl
and the artificial watercourse filled with ca.. I
Net 83,856 00
Or, as above deducted therefrom, we have
$445 within a small fraction of 6 per cent, in
terest on the amonnt of investment. Then, too, . . ..
this planter dors not allow in his calculation for I ln S modesty of virtuous loveliness, and. bade
the production of any more of the food crops I medoE ° do more, while, perhaps, like thelivtly
than just enough to bread the hands and feed I butterfly, I ran to steal the sweets from acoi;:
mules. One of the great items of food for hand is flow 6 *. Now, alas! where are they? Yes. - !
bacon at 20 cents per pound, $468. This must I have matured their then tiny forms ahi
be produced on the plantation. I am aware of I the stately woman—perhaps the dignifiedEste;
tho difficulties in tho way of “ borrowing” with- j stlrrorlIlded by a blooming retinue of yonng a-
out notice; but these things will soon become I l° ve ly forms, who are now sporting in yonflB]
regulated. I maintain that, even according to I innocence where their patents once so
this planter’s own estimate, but few characters
of business do much better. Six per cent, is a
good profit, especially when not more than half
the plantation was in use, while interest was
calculated on the whole. I will, however, add
that the gentleman who makes the calculation
goes on to give the following sensible advice:
You must not trust to hired men to do every
thing and look after everything, without your
personal attention and supervision, or nothing::: 7;——- ■; ———, .
will be properly done. You should not frequent mmunerablo, bearing the rich prociocjcf ,
all the fox-hunts of tho neighborhood, attend I now passed over tlie once prioad-*
every picnio to the neglect of your work, nor be Y ih a g® learning, thus blotted out forever,
found keeping company with a certain class of , Eat thero was one adjacent spot yet
loafers, who make it a business to 1neet at soothe his perturbed spin! -r‘
country stores and crossroad grog-shops, and which the hand of sacrilege hadnonurK
there spend a portion of each day in idleness *™ dl *. This was the peacefulsanctoa^twr
and mischievous jest. ed to th0 memory of the angelic spmt
Again, the system of labor adopted by the mother. Thither he bent his way, and
planter above referred to is that of hiring; the tho gate its localities struck at once t . "
other system of labor at the Sonth is that of memory as tho scenes of yesterdav,
working on shares. It has many advocates and guiding Wm to the sacred spot. M{r . ;
many enemies; I shall not here discuss it, but the marble memento, the years, tbec-g.
simply state that on many lands it pays best. I of years, when ho had wltne , ss ,®”,. T , I . iS f:
In a two-month trip through the South, ending °* these sacred remains, seemed to LJ
in November, I did not see a planter who had and th° t0ar which childhood ^
tried this system who had not made money. I ? ted over the fresh sod, conceah g -I
The usual custom, I found, wastogivo tho land- image forever from his view, a„ J
owner one-third of the cotton, and one-third of °J er tho undisturbed dart. Oh.
all other crops, deducting their food and feed these ashes have rested undistnib^,® I
of mules—or one-half, charging them with the memory remained fixed in1 this n ^
feed. By tho first plan the hands on the plants- J^P 8 £? r th® last time bid adi Jj-
tion above quoted would have received $9 334 lyrestmgplace. Peacebe to thy jjgJ
instead of $10 80. The land on that plantation x stranger retraced Ms steps to « m
brought about two hundred pounds of lint to the J he^
To the Northern man who has the idea of I breath, and from which he v jjjn$i|
coming South to live, I would say: Select land “*«■ of ]“■ depart.^ moier w“
that will bring from 200 to 250 pounds of lint churchyard, was now filled bytn
to the acre. Such land is almost universally was imknown, but who kmdJ r deep iy ic-
healthy. There is abundance of such land in feelings by showing him a place so 1 j
middle North Carolina, Northern South Caro- pressed m his memory. He ^
lina, Northern Georgia and Alabama to be had stranger where were s0 “f c “ reme mbei
at from $5 to $10 per acre. After the first year P^ 01 * ^ ose ^“1?J a on1elJyrepo5iDg : -
the plantation Bhonld supply its own manures, Some had for yeara bee q e^ Migrated
except a little phosphate for wheat. Such land Y llla g 0 church-yard, ot _ - nc;J j® ^.
thus worked cannot fail to be profitable, and if far West, and many J e3 tate aud engi
the planter chooses to use any commercial ma- to grown up to ‘ t0 \i 3 0 f life,
nure3 let those nature put near the crop be the tl10 plodding and care- tliron:
ones—I mean the Charleston phosphates. To mgtheeven the i greeted
raise cotton at a profit, then, I would Bay-Se- world; these lie1 soughtt^
lect such land as is, at least, reputed healthy, with kindly L warm-hearted h##
Manure it with muck, marl, cotton seed, and cherished him vnth tho w ® a a f 6 w i
pure bone phosphates—let guano alone. If, in of earl y fnendslnp. A p (|J
Its natural state, it grows 200 pounds of linf aad ^e wanderer agmn WMg^
make it produce 300 pounds. Grow all the com native home and y 0U tb‘ . otte
and pork you need on your place. If you have forever. His bomo was n » des[inea
to buy meat, raise some other crop than cotton where his remains a* 0 no do ,- ndte i
to pay for it. 'Work yourself, or be always on P OS0 « far awa y from those of Tll r
hand to see that your hands work. Ten dollars x
per month and food for hands is equivalent to a
fair share of crop at fourteen cents per pound.
Give yonr hands a home to seenre and interest
them. Follow these simple roles and those
consequent thereon, and then planters of the
Sonth will soon find that cotton can be grown
profitably at even less than fourteen cents.
H.B. O.
From Dooly Connly-
Vienna, Ga., April*!, I
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: l-.“1
should forget that there is such a ^*^1
Union as Dooly, I write to say ‘ a
are alive to their own interest; they
ture their own guanos. The windowsif ^1
‘ ■ ■J® ‘ I have been opened; the rain desccn _ j#I
Cherokee Mounds.—The Iocid of the Consti- the wtole in Dooly ia saturate^ J
tution, getting beyond his bounds, says: Llanters in Dooly are despondent;
About fourmilea below the State road bridge, £ hem w]loJiaTe hands cannot
on the right bank of the Etowahnveron Turn- the males bog down in the field.
lin s plantation, are three mounds. The Cher- great quan tity of rain that has 4
okee Indians, who inhabited this part of the ££^3 blSoms like a rose. Sho^. ^l
country did not know anyUung oonoeming the J over & her troubles, for the world eaa * I
origin of these mounds. They are situated on j, er dowIS ijj.1
the bank of the river and command it. Two Jndg6 cole held our Court. Godf* on lA
smMler mounds in front, some twenty-five or The s £ 0W s of winter that have faU? n
thirty feet high, and covering about an acre venerated head, have not impaired R“ 7^
each, seem to have been designed as guards to intellect. He commands and deserve* : r
the main mound, which stands a little further j^t him live forever "Whenhedies, on®
hack. This mound is ninety feethigh.oval- gr eatof sclent legal lorewjUf ;,
shaped, covers about five aorea-the top being ^ the old pannel oflawvew,
exaotly an acre. Aplatformof earth in front e xbaa3t ^d. if the people of
goes up about half way. The mam entrance pow6r to preserve his life, they would ®
was on the upper side and towards the rear. forever. Yours « 8 P e ®“Y;„isJ-
That these mounds were the work of human 1 3 8 B« c0 .
hands cannot be questioned. The excavations, — ***~_ b&nd'
covering about two acres of surface earth and A German advertiser this morni s ^
extending to a depth of twenty or thirty feet, | the following “want,” written L ,,
can be seen in close proximity. "Who built character: “Wandet: a kind v* wirts*
themJs yet a mystery. , The ploughshare every kar for a little Soheild for risun peop;
yrihr turns up human bones, and the skeletons (compensation) or elaegnt P* an£ili'
of several 1 have been exhumed entire, whioh wat want to tak do bebi for O 0r *
measured seven feet. I Nttoark Advertiser.
