About Georgia weekly telegraph and Georgia journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1869-1880 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1871)
The Tele^ra^ph a,JicL JoixriiaJL Telegraph and Messenger. - • MACON, Ally-* isn. BrxLWt'a Jobs, as explained by a Washington correspondent of tho Chicago Tribune, have been as marvellous since the conclusion of peace as they wore during the war. He pocketed thousands by selling his vote and influence in (Sundry cases; but this is the mere salt in the porridge. • He made a cool hundred thousand oh the Boston post-office- So soon as it was resolved to boild a P. O. building, he privately secured an interest in the quarry and then the contract for the stone to one of his strikers. Bet that, also, was a comparatively small oper ation. In the spring ot 1865 Congress resolved to establish “a national asylum for tho benefit of disabled soldiers, under which Butler proved himself very far from “a disabled soldier.” Un der this bill Butler procured his own election as president and treasurer, and secured possession oi funds to the amount of four million six hun dred and oighty four, thousand dollars. Of that atuonnt ho expended only $660,000, and a good part of tho money, upon his own showing, re mained charged to Iris private account in banks in Lowell and New York, for a lorg time: and to this day only 1,S32,000 have been invested in lands and buildings—leaving more than two millions to be charged to the current expenses of the old soldiers. Famesworth alleges that daring tho past five years Butler has had at least §150,000 public money in his possession all the time. Such aro tho stories told on Butler by the leading Republican organ of the West: and •yet Butler is the leading politician cf Grant’s ***** J3VSIN'ES3 OP THE VfESTEBH AND ATLANTIC Batleoad.—The Constitutionalist of Saturday publishes a letter from ex-Governor Brown, in reply to a statement cf a correspondent signing himself “Publius,” to tho effect that the lessees of the Western and Atlantic Road made $140,- 000 profits in the month of March. The ex- Governor encloses a statement by Owen Lynch, General Book-keeper of the Hoad, showing a balance of receipts over current expenses for the month amounting to (not one hundred and forty thousand dollars) but $4,629.8!). But that does not comprehend the whole story. Tho ex-Governor shews, that during the month of last March the company accepted bills for cars and locomotives amounting to $68,905 65, and has incurred a farther debt for box and coal cars which adds $83,137 87 to its debt for the first eighteen days in April, and must swell thi3 debt largely to repair the track p.nd build now bridges. Ent we aro sorry for any man who supposes that any possible lease of the State Road is not going to be a source of perpetual fuss and complaint. Hates or Interest.—The States in which tlia old maximum interest is six per cent., with va rious penalties generally affixed for a greater rate, aro as follows: Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Vermont and West Virginia. The following States go as high as 7 per cent.: Georgia, New Jersey and New York; while Ala bama allows 8 per cent. In the following States the legal rates are fix ed at various figures, but parties are permitted, by Special contract, to charge as much as S per cent, in Louisiana, North Carolina and Ohio; 10 per cent, in the District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Wisconsin; and 12 per cent, in .Kansas, Minnesota, Oregon and Virginia. In tho rest of the States, while there are also various legal rates as in the foregoing, there are no restrictions at all noon special contracts; or, in other words, a man may hire out his money as he hires out his horse or his house, namely, for as much as ho can get. KzprBLicANiiTi is England.—At the very turbulent meeting of London Iieds in Trafalgar square, on Good Friday, the speaker, Auberson Herbert, member of Parliament for Notting ham, and called the English Hochefort, under took to defend his vote for a dowry to tho Princess Louise with very indifferent success. The Queen and the established Church were severely denounced. Tho speaker declared for a Republic after the demise of the Queen, but his remarks on the folly and suicidal character of violence, which were very forcible and elo quent, were loudly cheered. The whole dem onstration wo3 considered a striking proof of the progress of democratic opinions in England. An eminent journalist in Kalamazoo, Michi gan, declared in his paper that a rival editor had seven toes! The rival editor thereupon came out in a double-leaded article, in which he denounced the statement as nntrnthful, and de clared that the “author of it was a liar and a scoundrel.” The eminent journalist replied that he didn’t for a moment wish to have it under stood that he meant that all seven of those toes were on one foot. And now tho rival editor tries to avoid tho public scorn by asking his readers seriously, “Aro these subject-: which ought to be discussed in organs whose duty it is to mould public opinion?” The Coal Mine Dhtlculties.—The World, ot Friday, says that the miners are not in fault Even if all iH«i r demands were conceded, they would add to tho cos* of Pennsylvania coal not more than six cents pt» ton. The whole trouble lies with tho mine owners o n a railroad men, who are, in most cases, identical, on d it is simply a conspiracy on their part to rob the people. Goal ranged from three to four dollars a ton in 1869, on the precise basis now demand* # vd by tho miners. BmfAngAni.E Increase ox Circulation.—»T2io Galaxy has just completed the firth year of its # existence, and, from the start, has been con- # stantly gaining in popularity. Its publishers ■ now claim to have made a net gain in circula tion of ten thousand copies in the past four months. Few people have any idea of the amount of labor, capital, and time required to establish a first-class magazine; but if success ful, in the end the reward seems to be ample. The Gbeat Cbevasse.—The great crevasse in tho Mississippi levee at Bonne Carre, fifty miles . above New Orleans, is now reported unmanage- ■abld, and sweeping across the country into Lake Ponchartrain in a stream C50 feet wide and 40 feet deep. What if it divides its main channel to the sea ? It will puzzle State, municipal and federal authorities to keep the New Orleans ship canal open- The Ku-klux bill will be found in our columns to-day. Like the Enforcement bill, its object 1 and effect are to put the liberty and property of tho whites at the mercy of the Badical negroes and their fuglemen. What amount of tyranny and wrong they can perpetrate under the bill, remains to be seen. Negro Debts—Important Decision.—The cupreine Court of South Carolina has lately de cided in favor of the validity of contracts in which slaves were the consideration. The court wa3 unanimous on the question. Pasis.—It seems the grand fight for Paris did abt take place on Sunday, as anticipated. Mat ters there are reported by the morning dis- . patches without material change. The Cotton . Excess.—The crop receipts to iast Friday night, fooled up 3,512,692 bales) ■ against 2,519, A1C—showing an excess this year of 963,576 bales. TUc Democratic Address. Tho address of the Democratic Senators and Representatives in Congress “to the People of the United States,” will be found in this edition. It is in the nature of an appeal to the conserv ative sentiment of tho country against the vio lence, misrule and corruption of the Radical party! It assails the character and career of that party very forcibly, but not from a parti- zan stand point. It is not an appeal to Demo cratic. opposition, so much as to the sober judg ment of the country at large. We suppose the stylo and address of the document, and the points it presents, indicates the current ideas among the Democratic Congressmen of the plan of the next Presidential campaign, and tho issues which ought to be presented to tho country by the National Democratic Conven tion. Taking this view of the matter, it is to be noted that they present no issue against the re cent amendments to the constitution. They complain of the construction given to the four teenth amendment, and of the arbitrary and despotic character of the acts to enforce it, and they call upon the people, “disregarding party names and minor differences,” to insist upon the restriction of federal power within just and proper limits; bnt they appeal to the people to “discountenance and discourage any violation of the rights of any portion of the people, se cured under the constitution or any of its amend ments," and declare that it is for tho purpose of protecting and perpetuating all personal rights thus secured to the humblest citizen, wherever he may be, that they invito the co-operation of all good men. It is quite evident, therefore, that these Congressmen have not the smallest design to raise any popular issue on the ques tion of a repeal of these amendments; and to the extent that they may be supposed to repre sent the democratic opinion of the country, the fact is important, as forecasting the future. The Material Argument Against the Outrage Slanders. Wo are glad to see that Mr. Whitthome, re presentative from the Sixth Congressional Dis trict of Tennessee, in a speech against the Ku- klux bill did handle very effectively the material argument against the charges of the Radicals that Southern society is in a convulsive and dis ordered condition by reason of the outrages against personal liberty and safety from the so- called ku-klux organization. Says Mr. Whit thome : Sir, look at-these circumstantial witnesses, whose testimony outweighs a thousand such as malice and disappointment have sped to your capital: Railroads. Miles. In 1864 7.610 In 1370. • 11,131 Increase 3,521 NUMBER OF FARMS, MANUFACTURES, AND NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS OF PRODUCTIVE INDUSTRY. Increase per cent, in the number of farms returned by assistant marshals in 1870 over the number returned in I860: Florida 59 Mississippi 491 North Carolina 2 Virginia and West Vir ginia 18 Alabama 22 Georgia...-. z Lcnisiana 23 Tennessee...-. 43 Arkansas 7 Tennessee and South Carolina not made up. Increase per cent, in the number of establishments of productive industry retained by assistant mar shals in 1870 over the number returned in 1830: Alabama 43 I Florida 263 Georgia 911 Mississippi 47 Louisiana 142 ! North Carolina 1 Tennessee 106 Virginia and West Vir- Arkansas 76 | ginia 45 Texas and South Carolina not made up. Total value of farm products in 1869 in all the States was $1,847,004,843. Total value in the eleven States in corn and wheat, etc., articles named by the Commissioner $332,524,584 In cotton 303,600,000 Add eugar, molasses, turpentine, and " 100,000.000 Total $736,124,584 Or nearly one-half the total. Value of live stock in the eleven States in 1869 was $ 95,346,023 When it is remembered what immense losses were occasioned by the war in live stock, aro not these figures marvellous? The total export of agricultural products in 1869 from all the States was $389,674,987 The total from the eleven States, as per statement taken from agricultural re port of I860 274,452,108 Over cne-ha:f, and nearly two-thirds. I read you now from a commercial writer, and the same honest testimony is borne by ev ery commercial and financial writer: The great improvement of tho country since the close of tho war has taken place chiefly in the Southern States. With every industrial in terest entirely prostrate in 1865, tho first efforts of the people to improve their condition were in the highest degree discouraging. During I860 and 1867 tho crops, both of cotton and grain, were, to a very great extent, failures. The freedmen wore not disposed to work for hire, demanded excessive wages; and too often rendered poor services. In 1868 there was an improvement. The harvest was so abundant as to famish tho people with cheap food and with a large surplus for the future aud for export, while the sale of the exports of that year, in the form of cotton, grain, sugar, tobacco, and naval stores, amounted to an aggregate of at least $300,000 in currency. Such a result has brought to tho people of the South a large de gree of strength and prosperity. It has restor ed tho broken lines of railway communication and is creating new ones. It is enriching the soil and increasing tho quality and quantity of the great staple per aero through the use of fer tilizers and improved tools. This evidence of tho capacity of the country to repair its waste and extend its production is highly satisfactory. Population in the eleven States, increase, from tables before mo (estimated), 800,000, showing, too, tho per centage of increase in the negro population. Look at these astounding results, and remember that not six years have yet elapsed since those places were deser't places, and this people were desolated, bankrupted, ut terly impoverished, with a destruction of prop erty amounting to nearly, or quite, throe billion of tUAUrg, and answer me, if those who jrould make yon believe that the South is one contin ued scene of murder and rapine, that there “the dance of blood” is nightly held, are not false witnesses. A llild Rebuke from niassa Greeley. Commenting upon Forney’s blatherskite “no ration” the other night to the negroes and Rad ical bummers at Washington, wherein ho took occasion to show whose dog he was by nomina ting Grant for ro-election, Massa Greeley ven tures this gentle rebuke: OoL Forney is so fresh from sharp arraign ment of the administration, that our present high cste'wn for him would have been better preserved if U#- had not made haste, so soon after taking possession of his Collectorship in Philadelphia, to renominate General Grant for the Presidency. We do not think the lime has come for nominating the next Fresifl ent, and wo are very sure that new and gratefol office-holders are not the men to do it. Bnt Greeley ought to know, by.this time, that it is absolutely essential to Forney’s health and happiness that he should wear somebody's col lar, and what’s more proclaims the fact every time he gets a chance. When Mr. Bnchanan owned him ho was always running around show ing his collar and the inscription thereon: “I am Mr. Buchanan's dog, whose dog are you? ” and now he frisks about livelier than ever, and inviting attention to his new collar. The dreariest days of Forney’s life were those when he could find nobody who thought him worth a jollar. It was when he was in that “ Elough of despond ” tHat Grant whistled him np and now he is happy. “I am Grant’s dog, whose dogate you,” is the refrain of his joyous bow-wow, at present. -I-. .' While at Versailles, the Emperor William lost a favorite dog, and offered 200 thalers for its recovery. It was brought baok by the Cap tain of the Sehuzengilde of Gross-Bodungen, who was then serving as a Landswebrsman. He declined the offered reward; but asked the Emperor to present to his company of -ShaTp- sbooters at home one of the cannon captured from tho French. The gun was at once sent, and on its arrival was received in the village with much pride and great rejoicings. THE GEORGIA*PRESS. Madison is going back on her usual summer coblers and juleps, by making efforts to get np a temperance revival. Tho sleeping room of Dr. Hugh Ogelby, of Madison, was entered Friday morning, and a gold watch worth $250, and $70in money stolen. The “Church of tho Good Shepherd," a new Episcopal place of worship just finished at the Sand Hills, near Augusta, will be consecrated to-day by Bishop Beckwith. Rome has subscribed $1000, and Harris county $500 towards paying the expenses of the survey of a route of the North and South Railroad. The Rome papers say the survey will be commenced to-morrow, the route- looated in three, and the work commenced in less than six months. The residence of Mr. Nathan Massey, just outside Atlanta city limits, was burned Friday afternoon. No insurance andloss $2,500. • The Constitution says: • Charlie Fisher and Thomas Manson hired a horse and buggy from tho stable of Mr. Bell, on Broad street, on the 11th of this month, to go to Decatur. Not reluming by the time speoified, Mr. Bell employed J. R.- Hill to go with him af ter them. Fisher and Manson were chased np through North Georgia, and finally met up with by Bell and Hill beyond Kingston, Tennessee. Manson was arrested by Hill, Fisher making his escape. In returning, Mr. Hill was in tho buggy with Manson. Twenty miles beyond Marietta, Hill undertook to ford Swamp Creek, which was very full, and getting in the current they were washed down the stream. The -horse was drowned, and Mr. Hill had a hard timo making a landing himself, as swimming was difficult. He arrested Manson on the 16th and reached Atlanta on Friday. Manson is in jail. The Columbus Sun, of Sunday, furnishes us tho following : Squabble About the Post-office—’Tho report comes prettyj^raight that Col. Hogan has come very near losing his place as postmaster of this city. It appears that Mr. C.' IV. Chapman, Revenue Assessor of this sub-district, has an eye for the place and a feeling for the salary. Ho is reported as having operated through “Petticoat” Arnold, at Washington, to secure the position, representing that CoL H. is a Dem ocrat, etc. This is funny. To be charged with being a Democrat was always one of CoL H.’s fighting points. The CoL was telegraphed by his friends to come on at once to Washington to establish his loyalty—and we understand has gone forward and made it all right. Poles fob New Yobk.—We saw yesterday a large car load of oak and hickory poles on their way North. They came from the Savannah and Memphis Railroad. Hoops, etc., are to be man ufactured from them. A long way to send poles certainly. They told ns last summer in central New York the people paid from twenty-five to thirty cents for hoop poles. Will it pay to send ’em some? We clip the subjoined items from the Wash ington Gazette, of Friday: Bobbery and Attempted Murder in Lincoln County.—We learn that on Sunday tho 9lh, in the early part of the night, two men visited the residence of Mr. Jas. Howard, called him out and inquired the way to Lincolnton. Mr. H. walked on a short distance with them, to give the proper directions, when they seized him and demanded his money. He at first refused, when they bound him to a tree and forced him to give it up. One of them then turned upon him and fired one shot from a pistol, which took effect, inflicting a very dangerous wound. The fiends then left him bound to tho tree. Ho succeeded in releasing himself, and in get ting back to his house. It was known that Mr. Howard had a considerable sum of money in his possession, a3 he had jnst sold his land and re ceived a part of tho purchase money. The thieves obtained about seventy-five or one hun dred dollars. Going to Test the Legality of the District Court.—Judge Barne3 of the District Court, ordered served a rule nisi on Messrs. Frank Arnold, John C. Dyson and other defaulting jnrnrs, to show cause at the next term of tho court, why they should not bo fined for con tempt in refusing to attend as jurors. Wo loam that these gentlemen intend to test the consti tutionality of tho law creating these courts. According to tho Gazette, Washington has degenerated sadly from the quiet, pleasant vil lage it was when we knew it. The Gazette says it “is a common occurrence for white men to be seen staggering through our most public streets, in a state of beastly intoxication, com mitting acts that would put the Five Points of New York to the blush.” The new engine “ Governor Bollock ” was smashed, Saturday morning, at Smyrna, on the State Road, by running into a construction train. Now let tho lying Jacobin jonrna’s leave out the word “engine,” and substitute “Ku- klnxed ” for “smashed,” and copy that much of this item as another “K. K. outrage.” Pink Whiting now rests his weary bones in Clark connty jail, on a charge of rape on a ne gro girl. Ho was captured in Banks county. The corner stone of a monument to the mem ory of the Confederate officers and soldiers of Clark connty who fell in defence, of their coun try, is to be laid on the 5th of May, at Athens, and will be placed in the centre of College Avenue, near the residence of Mr. John H. Newton. The SpartaTimesboasts that mnch more com, oats and wheat have been planted in that conn ty this year than her “most sanguino farmers dared hope for.” Talbot county has suffered quite severely within the post fen days from storms and floods, but, as a compensation, the Standard says “boy-babie3 aro all the rage in Talbotton.” Wo credit the Savannah Republican with these items: A Local Item Spoiled.—Wo are never sen sational, and can only allude to a slight misun derstanding which occurred yesterday after noon between two well known young merchants in general terms. It appears that for some real or fancied of fence given at a social party, a correspondence took place between the two young gentlemen alluded to, which, though supposed to be sug gestive of coffee and pistols for two, was brought to a rather abrnpt conclusion by tho mere force of circumstances. One of tho belligerents armed himself with a cowhide and went to the store of tho other, and proceeded to inflict con dign castigation. Tho other party being rather surprised drew his revolver, bnt was estopped from making daylight shine through his oppo nent^ the interference of a third party who, by his presence of mind, prevented a homicide. In deference to a request made, the names of tho parties combatant are withheld. The Storm Thursday. Night.—Tho storm which threatened our city Thursday night passed over withont expending itself here, or, as far as we can learn, in this vicinity. We have information, however, from a letter from No. 7$ Atlantia and Gulf Railroad, that it struck that vicinity in its fall faiy at 10 o’clock p. m., demolishing the mill house of Mr. W. P. Wylly & Bros., breaking the saws and saw frame, blowing down the smoke stack and destroying the steam and exhaust pipes, making a perfect wreck of one of the finest saw mills on the line of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. “An Antiquated Hambng.” The Radical organ at Atlanta calls Magna Charta. m “antiquated humbug.” Thatiscan- did, we must gay. We knew that his ‘party allies so considered and treated it, bnt we did not know they , had reached the point of thus openly and emphatically saying‘so. This is just the difference between the Jacobins and the Demdcrata—between men who hate liberty and spit upon the Constitution,, and those who love the one for its own sake, and revere the other as the ark of their political covenant May that difference grow and deepen until it shall become a great gulf, into whose dark depths an aroused people may soon cast headlong the guilty wretches who have robbed and ruined tiieml___ Let the organ proceed with its enumeration of what it deems other “antiquated humbugs.” We are very sure the catalogue will not embrace any of the attributes or qualities that Jaoobini3in has made its specialities, and which mark the difference between partisans and patriots. There is a movement on foot in Philadelphia to have separate street car3 for ladies, with fe male conductors. address .OF THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OP CONGRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF TUB UNITED STATES. Alarming Strides Towards Centralization —Reckless nnd Desperate Measures of the Radicals—Grave Apprehensions for the Future Peace of the nation, etc., etc., etc. Washington, April 20.—The Democrats in Congress have jnst issued the following address: To the People of the United, States : Onr pros enco and official duties at Washington have en abled ns to become folly acquainted with the actions and designs of those who control the Radical party, and wo feel called upon to utter a few words of warning against the alarming strides they have made towards the centraliza tion of power in tho hands of Congress and the Executive. Tho time and attention of the Rad ical leaders have been almost wholly directed to devising snob -legislation as will, in their view, best preserve their ascendency, and no regard for the wise restraints imposed by tho Consti tution has checked their reckless and desperate career. The President of tho United States has been formally announced as a candidate for re- election. The declarations of Lis selfish sup porters have been echoed by a subsidizedpress, and the discipline of party has alreadyjhado adhesion to his personal fortunes the supreme test of political fealty. The partisan legisla tion to which we refer was decreed and shaped in secret canons, where the extremest counsel^ always dominated, and was adopted by a sub servient majority, if not with the intent cer-r tainly with the effect to place ih-tho hands of the President power to command his own re nomination, and to employ the army, navy, and malitia, at his sole discretion, as a means of subserving his personal ambition. When the sad experience of the last two years, so disap pointing to the hopes and generous confidence of the centry, 'i3 considered, in connection with the violent utterances and rash purposes of those who control the Presidents policy, it is not surprising that the gravest ” apprehensions for the future peace of tho nation should be entertained. At a time when labor is depressed, and every material interest is palsied by oppressive taxa tion, the public offices have been multiplied be yond all precedent to serve as instruments in the perpetuation of power. Partisanship is the only test applied to tho distribution of this vast patronage. Honesty, fitness, and moral worth are openly discarded in favor of truckling sub mission and dishonorable compliance) hence enormons defalcations and widespread corrup tion have followed as the natural consequences of this pernicious system. By the official report of the Secretary of the Treasury, it appears that after the deduction of all proper credits, many millions of dollars due remain from ex-collectors of the internal revenue, and that no proper dili gence has ever been used to collect them. Re forms in the revenue and fiscal systems, which all experience demonstrates to be necessary to a frugal administration of the government, as well as a measure of relief to an over-burdened people, have been persistently postponed or willfully neglected. Congress now adjourns without having even attempted to reduce taxa- tion, or to repeal tho glaring impositions by which industry is crushed and impoverished. The treasury is overflowing, and an excess of $80,000,000 of revenue is admitted; and yet, instead of some measure of present relief, a barren and delusive resolution is passed by the Senate to consider the tariff and oxcise systems hereafter, as if the history of broken pledges and pretended remedies famished any better assuranoe for future legislation than experience has done in the past. ; • >1 - i • Ship-building and tho carrying trade, once sources of national pride and prosperity, now languish under a crushing load of taxation, and nearly every other business interest is struggling without profit to maintain itself. Our agriculturists, while paying heavy taxes m all they consume either to the government or to monopolists, find the prices for their own products so reduced that honest labor is denied its just reward, and industry is prostrated by invidious discrimination. Nearly 200,000,- 000 acres of public lands which should have been reserved for the benefit of the people, have been voted away to giant corporations,neglecting our soldiers and enriching a handful of greedy speculators and lobbyists who are thereby en abled to exercise a most dangerous and corrupt ing influence over State and Federal legislation. If the career of these conspirators be not check ed, tho downfall of free government is inevita ble, and with it the elevation of a military dic tator on tho ruins of the republic. Under pretence of passing laws to enforce tho fourteenth amendment and for other purposes. Congress has conferred the most despotic pow ers upon the Executive, and provided an official machinery, by which tho liberties of tho people are menaced and the sacred right of local self- government in the State is ignored, if not ty- ranically overthrown. Modelled upon the sedi tion laws, so odious in history, they are at vari ance with all the sanctified theories of onr insti tutions. And the construction given by these Radical interpreters to the fourteenth amend ment is, to nso the language of an eminent Sen ator, Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, an “annihilator of States,” Under the last enforcement bill, The Executive may, in his; discretion, thrust aside tho government of any State, snspend the writ of habeas corpus,” arrest its Governor, im prison or disperse tho Legislature, silence its judges, and trample down its people under the armed heel of his troops. Nothing is left, to the citizen or tho State which can any longer be called a right; all is changed into mere suffer ance. Onr hopes for redress are in the calm, good sense, the “sober second thought,” of the American people. Wo call upon them to be true to themselves and their , post, and disre garding party ’ names and minor differences, to insist upon a decent equalization of power,-the restriction of Federal authority within its just and proper limits, leaving to tho States that control over domestio affairs which is essential to their happiness and tranquility, and good government. Everything that malicious inge nuity could suggest has been done to irritate the people of the Middle and Southern States. Gross and exaggerated charges of disorder and violence owe their origin to the mischievous minds of political managers in the Senate and House of Representatives, to which the Execu tive has, we regret to say, lent his aid and then helped to inflame the popular feeling. In all this coarse of hostile legislation and. harsh re sentment no word of conciliation, of kind' en couragement, of fraternal fellowship has ever been spoken by tho President or by Congress to tho people of the Southern States. They have been addressed only in tho language of proscription. Wo earnestly entreat our fellow-citizens in all parts of tho Union to spare no effort to maintain peaco and order, to carefully protect the rights of every oitizen, to preserve kindly relations among nU men, nnd to discountenance and discourage any violations of the rights of any portion of tho people secured under tho Constitution or any of its amendments. Let us, in conclusion, earnestly beg of you not to aid tho present attempts of Radical parti sans to stir np strife in the land, to renew the issues of the war, or to obstruct the ictum of peaco and prosperity to the Southern States, becanso it is thus that they seek to divert the attention of the coontry from the corruption and extravagance of their administration of public affairs, and tho dangerous and profligate attempts they are making towards the crcdtion of centralized military government. In the five years of peaco following the war the Radical ad T ministrations have expended $1,200,000,000 for ordinary purposes alone, being within $200,-- 000,000 of tho aggregate amount spent for tho same purposes in war and in peace daring the seventy-one yearspreoeeding June 30,1861, not including in either case the sum paid upon principal or interest of the public debt. It is trifling with the intelligence of the people for the Radical leaders to pretend that this ‘yast- sum has been honestly expended. Hundreds of millions of it have been wantonly squandered. The* expenditures of tho government for the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1861, were only $62,000,000, while for precisely the fame purposes—civil liBt) the national army and riavy, pensions, and Indians—$164,00.0,000 wore ex pended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1 1870. No indignation can bo too stern and no Boons, too severe for the assertions by. unscrupu lous Radical leaders that the great Demooratio and conservative party of the Union has or can have sympathy with disorders or violence in any part of the country, or.in the deprivation of any man of his rights under the Constitution. It is to protect and perpetuate the rights which every freeman cherishes; to revive in all hearts the feeling of friendship, affectionand harmony which are the best guarantees of law and order, and to throw around the humblest citizen, wherever he m$y be, the protecting icgis of these safeguards of personal liberty which tho •fundamental. daws of the land assure, that we invoke the aid of all good men in tho work of peace and reconciliation. We invite their'gen erous'co-operation,'irrespective of all former differences of opinion, 6othat the harsh voice of discard may be relieved, that a new and dan gerous sectional- agitation may be cheeked; that the burdens of taxation,'direct or indirect, may be reduced to the lowest point consistent with good faith to eVdiy just national obligation, and with a strictly economical administration of the government; and that the States may bo restored in their integrity and time relations to onr Federal Union. , .-?* • • SENATORS. < Eugene Cassoriy, Gal. A. G. Thurman, Ohio. Gerrit Davis, Ky. George Vickers, Md. John W. Johnston, Va. J. W. Stevenson, Ky. T. F. Bayard, DeL Jos. P. Kelly, Oregon. J. P. Stockton, N. J. Wm. T. Hamilton, Md. Frank P. Blair, Mo. H. G. Davis, West Va. Eli Saulsbnry, DeL Henry Cooper, Tenn. *nTPTVpjnN>^TATlVl?3. Fernando Wood, N. Y. S. S. Marshall, HL S. S. Cox, N. Y. E. Y. Rice, III. A. H. Waddle, N. O. Jas. H. Slater) Oregon, J. M. Leach, N. O. J. F. McKinney, Ohio. E. E. Hibbard, N. Y. J. O. Robinson, Ill. F. E. Shober, N. C. T. W. McNeely, Ill. H. W. Slocum, N. Y. John M. Crebs, DL , Thos. Kinsella, N. Y. Henry D. Foster, Pa. DwightTownsend,N.Y. Richd. J. Haldemad.Pa S. N. Bell, N. H. Edward Crossland, Ky. H. W. Parker, N. H. S. Griffiths; Pa. James B. Beck, Ky. Henry Sherwood, Pa. Lewis D. Campbell, O. W. McClelland, Pa. Wm. A. Handly, Ala. Stevenson Archer, Md. J. O. Harper, N. O. Thomas Swann, Md. R. M. T. Duke, Va. B. T. Meyers, Pa. John T. Harris, Va. E. L. Acker, Pa. Peter M. Dox, Ala. Chas. A. Eldridge, Wis. R. B.'Roosevelt, N. Y. Alex. Mitchell, Wis. Wm. R. Roberts, N. Y. J. Lawrence Getz, Pa. Smith Ely, Jr., N. Y. E. Milton Sjpeer, Pa. Jos. H. Lewis, Ky. Wm.iL Bamum.Conn. John T. Bird; N. J. • M. D. Mason, Indiana. Sam'l C. Forker, N. J. W. S.‘Holman, Indiana, Ernstus Wells, Mo. J. G. Sutherland, Miob, A. T. Mclntyro, Ga. M. C. Kerr, Indiana. O. W. Kendall, Nev. * James M. Hanks, Ark. Jos. H. Tnthill, N. Y. Wm. B. Read, Ky. C. N. Potter, N. Y. Geo. M. Adams, Ky. Eli Perry, N. Y. W. E. Arthur, Ky. John Rogers, N. Y. Sam’l A. Merritt, Idaho, John B. Storm, Pa. Boyd Winchester, Ky. Samuel J. Randall, Pa. A. Comingo, Missouri. P. Van Trump, Ohio. D. W. Voorliees, Ind. J. R. McCormick, Mo. W. E. Niblack, Indiana. Geo.W. Morgan, Ohio. Wm. Terry, Virginia. Andrew King, Mo. D. M. DnBose, Ga.* John M, Bright,Tenn Elliott M. Braxton, Va, John Critcher, Va. . John M. Rice, Ky. H. D. McHenry, Ky. Wm. M. Merrick, Mo, R. P. Caldwell, Tenn. Frank Hereford, W.Va, John M. Carroll, N. Y. James Brooks, N. Y., Wm. Williams, N. Y. Benj. T. Briggs,.Del. O. N. Lanison, Ohio. John Ritche, Missouri, Ed. J. Golladay, Tenn. P. M. B. Young, Ga. ‘ A. E. Garrett, Tenn. W. P. Price, Ga. W. W. Vaughan, Tenn. M. K. Armstrong, Da. BYt TELEGRAPH. Georgia Baptist Convention. Carters viCle, April 22, 1871, Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Large and interesting sessions were held, and several in teresting reports and speeches were "made to day: That which excited most attention was the report of the trustees of Mercer University, in regard to the removal of tho College to Maoon. The report states that the* committee appointed to decide the locality elected Macon, but oppo sition was made by the people of Penfield,*by whom the matter has been litigated and carried up to the Supreme Court, which will render a decision next July. That decision will settle the matter of removaL In the meantime the college proper is suspended, with a view to preserving their organization and securing a fair start when the trustees shall again declare the University in operation. Tho faculty are con ducting an institution of learning in Macon at their own risk, bnt with the consent of the trus tees, under the name and style of “Mercer Col lege.” If the Supreme Court decides that the trustees have a right to move the college, (as is not doubted by any one conversant with tho facts of the case) then the college will officially be declared moved to MacoD, and building will be commenced immediately. It is unnecessary to speak of the advantage this college gives to all in Georgia, situated as it is in such a favor able locality, insuoh a moral and- high-toned city, and with such an able faculty. The funds of the University were reported at $159,856 83, besides a site in Macon and bonds of the city for $125,000. A speech in favor of,the Institution was made by Rev. H. C. Hornady, and among other do nations was a bale of cotton by J. J. Howard; $50 by Rev. M. J. Wellborn; a $1000 AUhr&a City Bond by Ex-Gov. Brown. An interesting speeoh was made by D. Tras- dale, Secretary of the Sunday-school Board, and a large collection taken up. Rev. Wilks Flagg, representing the Middle Georgia Colored Association, wa3 duly received by the President, and the Pastor of - the Church requested to provide a suitable seat for him in tho body.--- Tho Convention took a recess this afternoon to enjoy n ride np the Etowah Valley, by invi tation, on the Cherokoe Railroad. A number of other distinguished visitors have arrived, and to-morrow we look for a variety of good things, including a; Sunday-school mass meeting in the afternoon. B. How Akermau had tho “Dry Grins.” The Now York Sun’s Washington letter of Thursday, speaking of the debate in the Senate on the Ku-klux bill-says: The Attorney-General has been on the Sen ate floor for "some time, and dnriDg a fierce phillipio against the bill by ThurmaD, the Initer turned toward him and said that this bill would keep from the jury box the Attorney-General who had been in* the Confederate army. This seemed to annoy him exceedingly, bnt he stood tho gaz9 of tho gallorics and the Senate tolera bly well, until Edmunds replied and said that the objection to the bill seemed to bo that it would not allow traitors to sit on a jury where a traitor was to be tried. He had to sit and take it. He is not likely soon to trouble the Senate again, r Marriage of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.—Tho nup tials cf Gen. Fitzhugh Lee nnd ' Miss Nellie Fowlo, daughter of the late George D. Fowle, wore solemnized Wednesday afternoon at tho residence of Captain P. B. Hoo'e, on Washing ton street, Alexandria, Va. Rev. James T. Johnston and Rev) Mr. Norton, rector of St. Paul’s Church, officiated. The guests com prised many of the most distinguished officers of the late army of Northern Virginia. General Jnbol A. Early, Gen. W. H. F. Lee, Gen. Lo max, Gen. P. M. B. Young, of Georgia, Gen, M. D. Corse, Capt. Haxall, and R. E. Lee, Jr., were among those of Gen. Lee’s comrades who were present. . ; • The Demooratio Platform.—The Norfolk Journalsays: •• “ The Constitution as it is should be thebasi3 of the- Conservative platform for the Presiden tial election. It has been accepted by the coun try for ‘better or worse,’ and no party can suc ceed by maintaining that tho late amendments are null and void. These amendments are among the results of the war, and, good or had, right or wrong, whether born of force or free will, they are there; we are living under them; and an overwhelming majority of the votes of the conntry will be cast against any candidate who may beoommittedto a repeal of them. Onr strongest arguments against the Badioal party are afforded by their violations of the' Constitu tion. Let us not permit them to torn onr own foils against us. They are daring ns to the en counter on this suicidal issue, and endeavoring by taunts and menaces to provoke us into an acceptance of the challenge.” • Pauperism, in New Yobk.—The Journal of Commerce, commenting on the statement made at the late National Immigration meeting, that there were one hundred thousand people-in New York out of employment, says, on the contrary: Wo do not believe that the daily average number of men out of -work, who are willing to worlc, in this city, is more than 1,000, if so many; and that 1,000 are not long disengaged. Wo maintain that there is no point in the world where a man or woman in health and who knows any trade, or can or will do common manual labor, can more easily find the opportu nity. In many seasons of the year the demand for labor of all kinds is in excess of the supply. The men and women who are out of work are almost always tho3o who are too proud or too lazy or too ignorant to perform the service that is wanted from them. The rush of miners to the nifties in the neigh borhood of Balt Lake City continues. About two tons of bullion are sent from there daily, besides abont twenty car loads of orejfor reduc tion at other points. There has been a great deal of snow in the mountains, and it has not melted away sufficiently yet to work to advan tage. 4t Cotton 9Eovements for the Week. N*v York, April 23.—The cotton movements for tlie week show n continued falling off as compared with weeks past, although the totals ace in excess of the corresponding period of last year. Tho receipts at all tho ports for the week are 63,042 bales, against 64/156 bales last •vyeSk; 67,543 the. previous week, and 71,744 three weeks since. Total receipts since Sep tember are 3,512,G92 bales, against 2,529,116 the corresponding •period of tho previous year. The exports from all the ports for tho week aro 80/525, against 59,142 the same week last year. The total exports for the expired portion of the y«a are 2,531.218, against 1,719,478 for the same time last year. Stock at all the ports 4'84,- - 643, against 341,083 for the same time last year. •Stocks at interior towns 01,991, against 75,002' lost year. Stock in Liverpool 923,000, against 484,000 last year. American cotton afloat for G/eat Britain 249,000 bales, against 216,000 last year. Indian cotton afloat for Europe 242,000 bales, against 163,000 last year. New Yore, April 23.—At the South much ran has fallen during the week. At some points thero have been severe storms although at the dose thero were signs of clearer weather. Not withstanding tho rain and atorm?, reports of operations in the Held and the progress of a new crop are generably favorable. It is too early to speak of tho area of land planted with cotton for the next crop, although tho estimates are awaited with much"interest in consequence of the discussion here nnd at the South in regard to decreasing the planting of cotton and increas ing the planting of grain. At tho cotton ex change daring the week, a largo number of April contracts have been settled, and the set tlements generally'were on the basis of 13 j to a split between that prico and 14 for low mid dlings. A noticeable feature' of the settlements this month was the faot that the difference be tween good ordinary and low middling was only | to 1 cent, against lj cenffi in tho March set tlements. The manipulation of quotations last month for tho purpose of settling contracts, and the general disatisfaction which it caused throughout the trade have had a wholesome ef fect, and hence tho reform this month. Any individual has a right to buy cotton long or to sell it short, but there is no equity or justico in arranging the classification of cotton to suit either one of these individuals at the expense of the other. No cotton merchant should be com pelled to take lessfor any grade of cotton in the settlement of contracts than he could receive by selling his cotton on the tables in brokers’ offi ccs. Cotton exchange has a higher mission to perform than assisting either bull or bear inter ests in the monthly settlement of contracts. Washington, April 23.—It has transpired that the points in negotiating give the United States free navigation of the St. Lawrence River, and also the adjustment, of the old question of ju risdiction of the island of San Juan. Louisville, April 22.—Tho board of aider- men to-night unanimously passed an ordinance subscribing $375,000 to aid the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company in extending its connections South by a lease of the Louisville and Decatur Railroad, and to purchase interest in the North and South Alabama Railroad. The ordinance will be : submitted to the people on the 9lh of May. Madrid, April 23.—Deputy Castellan will in troduce a motion in the Cortes demanding the dethronement of the King. New York, April 23.—A Herald special from Paris of the 21st, says the Prussians are pre paring to evacuate Charenton and other forts in favor of the Versaillists. ". The printing office of the Opinion Nationale has been invaded, and the type scattered. Versailles, April 23.—Five hundred million of francs worth of property have been destroyed within the last few de.y3. The avenues are filled With wagons ceaLdning the wounded. Paris, April 23.—The situation is unchanged. The Versailles troops are building formidable barrioades in Neuilly, and constructing pontoon bridges at Luresnes and Puteaiix. The Chateau Racon, the pivot of their operations, is strongly fortified. It is rumored that tho Versailles Government has paid the first instalment of the war indemnity, (500,000,000 francs), and that the Germans are evacuating the forts on the north and east. Tho Communists hold their ground with great tenacity. They complain of maladministration, in the war office, and begin to accuse Cluseret at aiming at a military dicta torship. The Commune has made a requisition on the gas company, and seized 200,000,000 francs at the office of the company. Washington, April 24.—Dispatches from Paris up to Sunday afternoon, via London, at midnight, say that official reports to the Com mune state that the Nationals silenced several of the enemy’s batteries on Saturday, and re pulsed the attacks on Issy and Vanvres on Thursdays night. The Prussians have ordered strangers to leave St. Denis. No detachment of French troops was there yesterday, as ru mored. The Republican league has published tho details of its proposal for autonomy 1 for Paris. If President Thiers consents to it, the league will force the Commune to accept it. General Ceceillia has been appointed Com mandant of Paris. Bergeret has been released from arrest. Tho firing to-day is not heavy. The Mexican. Commission resumes its sessions to-day. The foreign dispatches describe the attack on Issy and Vanvres as postponed. A night attack by the Communists upon Asnieres was repulsed with great slaughter. Faidherbe is expected at Versailles. Toulouse has been declared in a state of siege. Another emeute had occurred at Marsailles and been suppressed. A delegation has left Havre to mediate between Versailles and Paris. The bark Lillie N. Charlton, for Greenwich, is at Antigua leakiBg. * She lost her rudder.; Daniel Symonds, theatrical manager, is dead. Versailles, April 24.—The expected general attack has Mot commenced. Reinforcements for the Versaillists are arriving daily and are immediately forwarded to the front. The evac uation of Charenten by the Prussians is officially oontradicted. It is reported that the Prussians at St. Denis have stopped the ingress of supplies to Paris from the North. • St. Louis, April 24.—The tobacoo factories of Erickson & White and Wm. O. Woodson, with eighty thousand pounds of plug tobacco, are bunted. : President Grant has arrived in St. Louis. The Great Crevasse Beyond Control. The following dispatch has been reoeived by the President of the Western Union Telegraph Company: Louisville, April 24.—Eon. Wm. Orton, President: The crevasse which occurred iiji the levee of.the Mississippi river at Bonne Carre Point, above New Orleans, some days ago, has gradually Increased in extent until it is now en tirely beyond control. It was last evening 650 feet wide and 18 feet deep. The danger of the New Orleans and Jaokson Railroad and of our lines is very serious. fSigned] John Van Horn, Gen’l Sup’t. New Orleans, April 24.—Assistant State En gineer Hatoh, writing yesterday from the Bonne Carre crevasse, says' xi ‘is now COO to 650 feet wide and a vast volume of water rushes through with a roar like thunder, piling itself up in the middle in tho form'of an arch, cf which the centre is five or six feet higher than the rides. The torrent has cut its channel through the front Balture and f %r out into the fields to the depth. of probably forty feet, while^stelsiiD foot, the great levee crumbles into f ' waters. The closing of this crevass *!! the range of possibilities the ml 1 is to prevent, if possible, the wi,W breach. A continuous sea of 1 to Lake Ponchartrain aRdfonaanv m 1' and below. The disaster is great butis beyond reach of remedy!? dtfl who has seen it admits. €T(S J i Washington, April 24 —Xh 3 were refused the franchise hav e T‘'“ ' suit, claiming $2,500 damage 3 . 0!C:s '’ Bontwell has gone to Chicago Richardson will act in tho meanti c ? * 1 Admiral Porter will command L f meet the Russian fleet bearing i Prince hither. ‘ 1 “■ 1 Tho Mexican Commission against the motions to dismiss «... The dismissal is claimed on th ® grounds: The claimant had n ot J . remedies of the Mexican conris- a had obtained permanent residence^ and had acquired citizenship because the damage was .. of war. Tho motion to on all these points, because the ai M ^ prisonment complained of weref^ .v tion of law. Tho Commission decides it eigners domiciled here who have fleck , intention to become citizens, are eaUtS hearing before the Commission. ' * The commissions to bankers, one j one per cent, for negotiating the ne* tT 5 " payable in coin. 0J5? 4 Southern claimants desiring to have ti timony taken by tho- Commission at J points in the South must rednoe their ^ writing, and designate suitable wt// commissioners. Parlies desiring tobm cases set for a certain day, must nafe n tion to the clerk in writing, stating yp) 1 themselves can be ready. The Secretary of War has ordered !;. fer a soldier convicted of murder l- marlial in Alaska to tho civil authorities^ ground that murder being a capita cf’;;.-.' cognizable by the court martial vhichseX!’ tho murderer to fifteen years iopum^ New Yobk, April. 24.—The ship % Stover, from Liverpool hither, hadseTcal pox deaths. The interest on the firstmortgagelaa-i Chesapeake and Ohio railroad will bep^j on tho first of May. Pams April 24.—General Cluseret rep* the Commune that suspension of hos&is: Neuilly has been arranged to date fra: to-day. He also reports that affairs a* are iu excellent condition. There ; great movements of troops yesteife. mense defensive preparations are in Torpedoes have been planted at the St main and Versailles Railway station, id teries erected in the Rue Castellane. St and St Sulpice are re-opened aad their released from imprisonment. Versailles, April 24.—Thiers neeh deputation of the Masonic Lodge from who asked, in behalf of the people of an armistice. Thiers, replying, said Ladmiranlt had power to grant a truce ever necessary, but the Commune could be recognized by the Government. Beblin, April 24.—The Parliament has the loan bill. Bismarck stated in the Hos| day that although the French should pij first instalment of the indemnity, then forts north and east of Paris wouldnotbe uated until the final treaty of peace in cluded. Tho negotiations at Brussels slow progress. The French were trying tol ter the conditions, bnt Germany was The movement of the Commune entiM fices on Germany, bnt she would cot with the internal affairs of France. Cabacgas, April 9.—Qucsada rezrtsa! accas, having reoeived £6,000 from emissary of the New York Cubans. Ci has gone to St. Thomas, from thence t: to Aspinwall to meet the steamer and New York. There are no indications tilt man will aid Quesada. The largest portion of Pulido’s arm; turned to Lagnagro from the west, what; is again re-established. It is generally' Guzman’s own partisans are working to mence a rebellion to overthrow him. San Domingo, April 12.—The troops of havo again defeated Cabral. Several engagements between the forces of l-'P Baez took place recently in the neniee* vinces. Munich, April 24.—The King of Bswa written a letter to Dr. Dollinger, deploys sentence of excommunication pn against him. Poet au Prince, April 8.—Tho Hi again offered for sale. She will P purchased by the Dominicans. Tho excitement over the anneiiM 2 4 mingo is subsiding. A loan to redeem- ^ renoy and establishing specie pajof ly discussed. London, April 24.—An immense e employes of tho match factories the Commons with petitions agains ened match excise law. The cr ^.,' A | but an ample policeVorce controlled 1 -^ 1 procession approaching from Eafi L ' J ~ | dispersed on the route. Albany, April 24.-Tbe for navigation to-day. or -t:. I tions are that tho caualsaroiaS^^ | Learning A Bad t’nstom W»! We quote as follows from the he* Times, of April 19ih: -a on Mr-1 The Chinese laborers employ^ .J Davidson’s Po ^ D p ^orh%nd iJ StBernard,haro stoPP^^ kill t0 the* had evidently determined to sbrk der to give them an l 3 ca o£ 0 n 1 expected, he set them t _ They «i rows with a gang of “ e f>* j tbc eve* there until dinner-time, and «* turned to their own b3C kiotl*J The overseer ordered them 1 tc f er place, and when they■refused £ ed them to quit the field- - ( At this the-entire gang took ^ l and started for their Waters. on driving down to the pi them on their way to the ci£ beie | ter stated that they were commg^ some purchases, but on tnmr complaint was entered of J 10 ^* They contend that the 1 their contraot differs fr° m ihefiP 1 their first arrival we hear that ; ^ very exacting, and that many ^ have been almost frivolous. , , they demanded that their nta brought to the door,and at ano have water hauled for the^ .*) Superintendent Badger m v agrs hear, that this was no that unless they went to wo» would be arrested. - - # 1 We thought John didn’t know ^ and wouldn’t if he knew how- is learning, with much that . jjjjj country, a great deal that is e» ^ i If he expects to compete with ( labor of the South he’ll have to such nonsense as this. _ «——■ * li> * L A flock of stolen sheep f»rs> j Louis last week and sold, h *r t MereS - 5 ] having been taken down by to get the sheep into the roaj. Tim orops throughout Noij-hf^ , me a finer harvest than ever ^ rain of Sunday night will do mo^ along.
