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The Greorgia "Weeklv Telegraph and Joiir‘Xial <fe IVIessenger*.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MAY 9 1871.
General News.
Liege Circulation.—Tho London Daily Tel
egraph prints the certificate of a firm of public
aooonntants, sotting forth that they find that
paper, from the 1st of July to the 24th of De
cember, 1870, printed 29,010,035 copies, show
ing a daily average of 190,855 copies.
The Boston Journal notes a great religious
movement in that-city—daily prayer meetings
and many conversions and accessions to the
churches.
Abizona advices slate that a body of United
States troops encountered Indians in war paint
and tilled thirty-four in two fights. They had
also corralled 120 Apaches in the Dragoon
Mountains and had hope3 of killing the entire
party.
The New York Chamber of Commerce ac
knowledge total receipts amounting to §135,360
for the relief of the French.
Northern Strawberry Trade.—The straw
berry fields of New Jersey and Delaware are
now radiant with blossoms. The Commercial
Advertiser says that as high as §2000 per aero
has been realized in that region from the straw
berry crop. Nothing like “ frnck farming” noar
great cities.
The High Commission Treaty.—It is said
that the American members of tho Joint High
Commission have consulted freely with Senators
in reference to the adjustments to bo made, in
prder that a treaty likely to be satisfactory to
tho See ate might be framed. Republican and
Democratic Senators alike have been ‘‘seen.”
The Richmond Whig says it would be con
tent with Hoffman or JHancock, or Hendricks
or Trumbull, and would be entirely willing not
to go into any National Convention, but let tho
North nominate whoever it chooses’.
An army of caterpillars is on the move
through Southern Illinois,devouring inits march
leaves, buds, and everything of a succulent
natnre.
A. Gloucester schooner brought Id, one day
last week, a halibut weighing 847 pounds. It
was the largest ever landed there.
The Commercial Advertiser notes tho signal
discrepancy between tho brothers Sherman.
Senator John thinks the Ku-klux so rampant
that he is in favor of almost everything violent
in the way of remedy. General William T. says
he is satisfied that there are enough true men
. in the South to put down the whole business
without Federal interference, and believes the
troubles have been greatly over-rated.
Resumed Work.—Ono of the Pennsylvania
coal mines resumed work May 1st, with a larger
force than ever. Tho papers indicate that the
Workingmen’s Benevolent Association is losing
hold on the miners.
The Break on the Erie Canal occurred nine
miles ea3t of Rochester, at a point where the
embankment is forty feet high. Thirty thou
sand yards of earthwork gave way, and the
country was Hooded all around. A passing ca
nal boat was carried through the breach and
stranded half a mile off in the woods.
Thalbrey, the pianist, died last Saturday, at
the age of forty-nine.
Collins, the axe-man, died on Sunday at
Hartford, aged sixty-eight.
Six hundred thousand of the population of
Pari3 had left up to the 12th of April.
Spring trade is reviving in Chicago; there
were a hundred and twenty-nine applications
for divorce last week.
Revenue Raids in Georgia.
Supervisor Kryzanowski, of the district of
Georgia and Florida, reports to tho Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue that the total of
property seized or destroyed in his raids upon
illicit distilleries np the first of April, 1871, is
follows: 85 stills and worms complete and in
position; 122,2G0 gallons of beer and mash;
1794 gallons of low wines; 700 gallons of peach
and apple brandy; 595 bushels of com meal,
and 79 boshels of malt. Also 80 illicit distille
ries suppressed; a large number of mules, oxen,
horses and wagons seized; and C2 distillers ar
rested and turned over to the United States
Marshal.
We find tho above in tho Washington Repub
lican, of Monday. It is probably accurate as
far as it goes, but Kissnosski ought to have
gone further and told his employers at Wash
ington how many hen roosts were robbed—how
many women, and children, and old men were
frightened—how much insolence and violence
was used towards citizens who didn't pull off
their caps to the raiders— and finally, how many
of his strikers are under indictment in State
and Federal courts for wanton and wioked in
fractions of law. Then his report would have
possessed the virtue of completeness, at any
rate.
Those raiders generally act with great harsh
ness and insolence towards all with whom they
come in contact on their heroic forays, and their
conduct is the cause of great complaint. They
doubtless take their cue from Krissnosski, who
is notoriously the most malignant hater of the
Southern people ever stationed in Georgia, or
elsewhere. He regards them all as demons and
traitors, and therefore entitled to nothing bnt
the roughest treatment at trooly loil hands.
The very fact that he lives here among those
whom he hates so venomously and uses so
harshly, in peace and quiet, is a test of the law-
abiding and patient temper of our people, and
from anybody but a specimen Radical adventurer
would entitle and secure them more considerate
treatment. Wo trust the valiant Supervisor will
supplement bis report as suggested awe.
Southern Cultivator fob Mat.—A most ex
cellent number, full of plain, practical, reliable,
original matter. The numerous suggestions it
contains aio prepared by practical, intelligent
working men, who know what they talk and
write about. The editors, whilst advocating
progress, are not visionary, but conservative,
practical men, who appreciate the situation of
tho Southern farmer, and are doing their best
to help him. We should be glad to see the Cul
tivator in the hands of every reader of the Tele
graph and Messenger, as the impetus it would
give to agriculture would react favorably upon
our own business, and that of every other man
in the community.
The Removal of Mr. Sumner.—Senator
Sherman has written a long letter to an Ohio
paper, in which ho explains tho causes of tho
removal of Senator Sumner from the head of
tho Committee on Foreign Relations as follows:
The chief reasons that led to tho removal of
Mr. Sumner toys that his personal relations
with tho President and Secretaiy Fish had be
come such that it was impossible for them to
transact in harmony the public business, and
that the Committee was so constituted as not
fairly to represent a majority of the Senate.
The subjects of difference between Mr. Sum
ner and tho Executive, wero the San Domingo
treaty and the Alabama Claims.
The Presbyterian Memorial Fund.—Mr.
Wm. E. Dodge, Treasurer of this fund stated
at a publio meeting in New York City, Monday
night, that the whole amount of §5,000,000 will
be made np before the next meeting of the
General Assembly this month. Nearly a million
of dollars will bo raised in that city.
Burke’s Magazine for Girls and Boys, for
May Is a capital number, and full of illustrations
and articles which cannot fall to please tho
yonng. The periodical is fortunate in having
a fine list of contributors, The subscription is
§2 00 a year.
Economy ana Retrenchment.
These should be the watchwords at this period
of unprecedented stringency in money matters.
The tumble in thoprice of our great staple daring
thepast season, and the high rales of interest',
have brought to the very verge of ruin the ma
jority of the planters and merchants of tho
country. Nor Is tho newspaper interest in any
better condition. A letter from the senior edi
tor of that sterling sheet, thoBainbridgo Argus,
expresses the opinion that, in a few months,
near one-half of the papers of tho State may be
compelled to suspend their publications. Those
only who aro fully posted, can form an adequate
conception of the immense cash outlay required
in the condact of a daily newspaper. So great
ly dependent, therefore, upon tho “power of
littles,” the absolute necessity of tho cash sys
tem, and pnnclaalityon tho part of patrons is at
once apparent.
Tho most prominent cause, howover, of the
pecuniary distress and lack of confidence so
widely prevalent, is to bo traced to the unwise
legislation of tho past few years.
Such an amount of property is absolutely ex
empted from the claims of the creditor, so
donbtfnl are tho law3 in their operation, so
many avenues of escape to the dishonest aro
open,—so demoralizing has been tho effect of
tho bankrupt, relief and exemption acts that
tho credit system, at a time when most needed,
has broken down completely, save where guar
antees of tho most oppressive character can bo
afforded.
Hence those schemes intended ostenaiby for
the relief of tho people are now tho instruments
of torture. In other and better days the hum
ble owner of a small plat of ground and a single
horse, if stricken down by disease or unfortu
nate in his crops, could pawn his little all and
obtain tho assistance ho required at comparative
little cost. Now, God help the poor wretch thus
situatedwhen misfortune overtakes him. Leg
islation for which lie is in no wiso responsible
Offectaally shuts him out from all financial aid,
and because he has no property over and above
the exemption list, he most suffer tho conse
quences.
^jje writer knows from personal observation
that already the distress existing among small
farmers, and freedmen who have sot np for
themselves, the present season, for want of
credit to procure food for their families and the
means of cultivating their crops, is exceedingly
great. What is to becomo of them before
harvest, heaven only knows.
The severest and most self-denying economy
in every branch of expenditure, is the only ap
proximate remedy' for this sad state of things.
Let the articles of luxury and display, and
superfluities of every description be discarded,
and the planter address himself first to the great
duty of raising an abundance of food for him
self an animals, ere he strikes a blow in the
cotton field.
With fnll bams, gaunt want at least will
not invade his premises, and he will be in bet
ter plight to grapple with the difficulties that
may environ him.
The same is applicable to every other depart
ment of business, where the expense account
should be reduced to its minimum figure.
Retl Republicanism in England.
The London correspondence of the New York
World is full of vaticinations of woe to the Brit
ish monarchy, growing out of the Red Republi
can movement in the United Kingdom. A letter
of the 17th April begins thus:
“No one ventures to tell the Queen the truth,
and the monarchy is going to tho devil! It
would be easy enough to save it, if any one
would show the Qneen the danger in which she
stands, and if she would then aot as a sovereign
and not as a pnppet. Bnt no one tells her the
truth; and we shall have the Republic in five
years more.” These were the words of a gentle
man who had witnessed with me tho Red Re
publican demonstration in Hyde Park yester
day, and who rode homo with me. I am in
clined to think he was a true prophet. Tho
monaroby is going to the devil, and we shall
have the Republic.
Then follows a long account of the situation
—the incessant agitation by public meetings
and speeches—the close alliance between the
Paris and London Communists—the ridiculous
and profane mummeries in Hyde Park—where
a bnrlesqno litany was read as an introductory
ceremonial—tho apparent giving way of a por
tion of tho respectable London press before the
pressure of tho Red tide—the toleration prac
ticed by the police, who look coolly on and say
if they “were to stop the gas it might break out
in a worse form,” and much more to the same
purpose.
That tho English Government is moving on
in the direction of increasing popularization is
patent enough; but they aro a steady-going
people—not given to excesses or wild adventures
and experiments of any sort, whether in trade
or politics. These Red Radicals may possibly
breed a riot or an insurrection among kindred
spirits, bnt they will never get a hold on the
true English heart. On tho contrary, tho effect
of their mummeries and violence will bo to put a
break even on sober and rational progress—just
as the ultimate rosult of the Paris antics will
tell in favor of autocratio instead Democratic
Government. In both cases confidence in the
ability of the people to govern themselves wisely
and justly is not strengthened, bnt impaired.
Wo can never believe it possible, until it is
soon to bo true, that those utter perversions of
the Democratie idea, which strike at the root of
the right of personal property either in goods
or ohattels or in a man’s own person and labor
or those of his family, (all of which must be
held, as they say, to belong to tho Commune)
°**» ever mako any serious progress with tho
sensible portion of mankind. On tho contrary,
such ideas and hau-aninations are really the most
active, though unwilling, supports of hereditary
power and prerogative. So far from plunging
into tho madness of Communism wo should
rather say that if Republicanism and Democra
cy do not act with more wisdom and scrapie,
hereditary government may yet sing a requiem
over the last popular government on the earth's
face. Governments aro permanently strong
only in serving tho great ends of public justice,
liberty, orifer, security and tranquility. When
these f«a, tho government loses moral strength
and tho cogence and affection of tho people.
A Remarkable Ocotoeejj^—Upon undoubt
ed evidence wo give tho ^lowing strange inci
dents connected with those mysterious and
supernatural agencies known (aua believed by
many) as “premonitions,” which if Set (jjjjy
traceable to tho “supernatural,” are at
strange coincidences, exciting mnch remark ana
wonder, and many speculations in the attempts
to explain them.
Mr. Z. J. White, whoso death occurred last
week, was stricken on his return from our last
court to his homo in Brownsburg, with a fatal
disease. On tho day of his retnm ho had oc
casion to go Into the room where was kept the
clock belonging to his father, the late Robert
White. This clock is of tho old-fashioned high
kind, and has been stopped for years, not even
having the weights attached, being merely kept
as a family rolio. When Mr. White entered the
room the clock, which had been silent so long,
distinctly struck “oneI” He at the time paid
no special attention to it, and, not being of a
superstitions turn of mind, thonght it was a
mistake or an illusion of his fancy. Tho next
day or tho day after, ho again had occasion to
enter tho same room. Again the clock struck
'one!” He immediately went out, telling his
wife of the circumstances, and remarked that
he felt assured he was going to die soon. His
promonitions, 83 we have stated, proved trao,
and in a few days his spirit passed away.—Lex
ington Gazette.
Two hundred dollars jp all they fine ye sports,
of Atlanta, in tho Superior Court, for “plying
their vocation.” - . .
A Pilgrimage, to the Georgia Mecca.
The NewYorkWorld has sent a special Cor
respondent to Angasts. Why ho went to AtJ-
gnsta is clearly set forth' by the correspondent.
'Georgia is so emphatically the leading Stato of
tho South that what sho thinks may be pretty
safely predicated of the rest of the “erring sis
ters,” and Augusta does tho political thinking
for tho Georgia Democracy. Hero all the grand
influences concenter—just as in good old times
they used to do about Milledgoville=—so that
whoever could conscientiously say, “/ have
been to WUedgeviUe," was known to bo fnlly
posted. He was a statesman'as well as a trav
eler. Consequently, the traveler of the World
came not only to Georgia, but he went straight
to Broad street, in Augusta, to learn what tho
Southern States think and what Georgia thinks,
by the simple and condensed process of learn
ing what Augusta thinks.
The particular point of anxiety wa3 “that
same old coon”—the platform, and he dips pen
in ink and writes a column and a half on what
Augusta thinks about the platform. We should
judge from what he says that Augusta has been
lately doing “a heap of thinking on that sub
ject.” Wo are rejoiced to learn that ho found
“The Bourbon Democracy,” as he calls it, very
moderate, and o complains of previous mis
information about thoso Bourbons. The scales
fell from his eyes as soon as he interviewed
them. They talked to him about Bonding no
delegates at all to tho next Demooratio Conven
tion, bnt simply ratifying in State and District
Conventions whatever tho National Convention
might do. They said they did not moan to have
it said again that Wade Hampton and tho South
ern rebels forcod a platform on the North. They
did not want to dictate any terms to tho North,
but simply to follow tho lead of the sober
minded and conservative classes of the Northern
people.
As to “do menments,” opinions vary, and ho
foundsnggestionscontrarions. Some said “don’t
accept or endorse the 15th Amendment, or yon
will lose half the Southern States;” but he
found the idea was giving way, though, even
now, exceedingly popular, and-predicts that, by
the time of the Convention, if the Southern
delegates enter it at all, they will take the posi
tion now occupied by tho leading Demoorats of
New York—to-wit: “That the Presidency is
more important than the platform, and that
with the clutch of the general government onco
off its windpipe the South would never feel any
very serious inconvenience from twice the num
ber of punitory amendments which now exist.”
On the whole, the Pilgrim to the Georgia
Mecca went away with a load of doubt liftod
from his soul. Ho had ascertained, in sub
stance, what anybody could have told him be
fore he started; that Georgia is never going to
repeat that ancient folly of harrossing the Na
tional Democracy with vexatious ultimatums as
the price of allegiance and co-operation for the
common good.
Tlie Chicago Tribune-Growing Power
or Independent Newspapers.
Tho Chicago Tribnno is probably tho ablest
journal in tho Northwest, certainly the ablest
opponent of the Democratie party. But it is
not a servile, thick or thin Radical organ like
the Chicago Post, the Cincinnati Chronicle, the
Washington Chronicle, Forney’s Press, and tho
New York Times. It slashes right and left at
the knaves and fools of tho Radical party, and
their wickedness and imbecility, and consequent
ly is growing stronger every day in its power to
shape popular thought and win popnlar patron
age. To show how such papers are beginning
to bo appreciated in this country, wo annex tho
following extract from a recent editorial in
Donn Piatt’s Sunday paper, “The Capital,”
published at Washington City:
The greatest Sunday issue of any journal in
the world is the Seventh-day Chicago Tribune.
Some of the smaller and more envious papers
recently attempted to decry advertising in the
Tribune’s Sunday issue; but, in response, the
paper of Sunday, April 10, contained fifteen
columns of “wants,” “rents,” and small notices,
none above ten lines in length, which produced
§200 per column: six columns of display adver
tisements on the first page at, §150 per coltunn;
and seven inside columns at §130 per column;
making in all, twenty-eight columns, yielding
more than §4,800. The same issue had thirty-
two columns of reading matter, equal to about
four times the whole contents of the Washing
ton Capital. Tho salaries paid on tho Tribune
are amongst tho most generous in tho world,
and the following aro reputed to bo some of
them: Editor, Horace White, §5,200; assistant
editor, S. H. Gay, §5,000; publisher, Alfred
Cowles, §5,200; Eastern correspondent, G. A.
Townsend, §5,200; editorial writers, Jame3
Sheehan, V. D. Denslow, §4,160 each. Tho
Tribune’s staff is ono of tlio largest and best
organized in journalism, and amongst its local
reporters aro many men capable of conducting
first class journals. The annual profits have
heretofore averaged §180,000. Sir John Mc
Donald remarked of the Tribnno last week that
it was tho ablest American paper, and it owes
its reputation to the trnth of its positions, tho
breadth of its views, its enterprise, which keeps
pace with its profits, and its. absolutely inde
pendent entity, being within itself a govern
ment.
A Strange Story.
The Montgomery Advertiser, of Tuesday, tells
tho following:
Wo saw an old gentleman yesterday named
Todd, from Fayetteville, Talladega county, look
ing for a lost son whoso sudden and mysterious
disappearance occurred under circumstances
well calculated to excite suspicions of foul play.
Tho facts are as follows: The young man left
his father’s house near Fayetteville in Jannary
lost to go to Wotumpka to sell his cotton. A
salo was made in Wetnmpka, and the yonng
man and a gentleman by the name of Darden,
a neighbor, started from Wetnmpka to this city,
to spend their money for good3 and groceries.
Night ccme upon them at a plantation about two
miles distant from Wetnmpka, on tho lower We
tnmpka road, where they struck camp. A little
after dark a gang of robbers (negroes) camo
upon them, and demanded their money. Dar
den told the negroes that ho had §20-00, and
that it was in his wagon. At this time two ne
groes were searching young Todd. Presently
more negroes came np, and commenced shoot
ing; at this juncture-Darden and young Todd
lied, the negroes shooting at them.
Todi
Darden and yonng Todd cannally met on tho
road to town, (Wetnmpka) and after arriving in
town got the sheriff and some citizens and went
back to their wagons. The sheriff went to some
negro cabins near the scene of robbery, and suc
ceeded in arresting eleven negroes, a part of
whom proffered to turn State’s evidence. All
or a part of them, were put in jail, and Darden
and young Todd bound over to appear as wit
nesses. Their trials were sot for the April term
of the Gironit Court of Elmore, and Mr. Darden
and yonng Todd went home. On the 17th of
April Mr. Darden and young Todd went to We
tnmpka to appear 83 witnesses against the rob
bers. The trial, from some cause, was put off
till the 25th of April, and young Todd and Mr.
p»*den, in the mean time, stopped over in We-
lumpk«, On Monday, 25th cf April, the day
yonng Todd was seen about 12
o clock, and although diligent search and en
quiry has been ni^ he has not since been
heard of. * * »
His mule was at Hughes’stable, and re
mained there till Thursday, 28th at April, when
a neighbor, Mr. J. F. Averett, carriea it home.
It is said that the jailor at Wetnmpka overheard
the negroes (the robbers) talking about tho
matter, and that they said yonng Todd would
not appear against them.
V THE GEORGIA PRESS.
A'Savannah drug clerk nearly made a case
for the coroner, on Wednesday, by putting mor
phine instead of quinlno, in a prescription.
The impecunious and Constitutionally-tired
trooly loil of tho colored. persuasion near Sa
vannah, have gone into the highwayman busi
ness with varying success. One. of them was
caught and soundly walloped by some of his
victims the other day. ... ’
Rev. D. M. Gilbert, for the past six years
pastor of the Savannah Lutheran Church, has
removed to Staunton, Va., and Rev.- W. S.
Bowman, of Charleston, is called to succeed
him.
Says the Chronicle and Sentinel, of Wednes
day: — - -
The 1 City and the - Gas Company; — Some
time during last year tho city- raised the ques
tion with tho Augusta Gas Light Company as
to whether the Gas Company should pay the
tax on gas consumed by tho former. It appears
that tho Gas Company has been, and is, sup
plying the city with gas under contraot made
before the United States revenue laws were en
acted. After the war the tax was, of course,
imposed, and tho company made the city pay
it. After the matter had been in dispute for
soma time, it was decided to havo it settled by
arbitrators, and the City Council, at one of its
meetings last month, gavo the Mayor authority
to sign a submission. The arbitrator selected
by the Mayor was Hon. J. T. Shewmako, the
Gas Company selectedMr. W. W. Montgomery,
and these two oalled in Mr. J. C. O. Black. A
majority of the Board of Arbitration—Messrs.
Shewmako and Black—has decided that the city
ought not to pay the tax. Mr. Montgomery dis
sented from tho decision.
Tho Chronicle and Sentinel, same date, says
the prospect of the speedy completion of the
Port Royal Railroad is getting brighter. Tho
virtual owner of the road, H. H. Boody, of
New York, proposes to sell it oat to a company
headed by H. T. Poake, formerly Superintend
ent of the South Carolina Railroad, for §300,000,
who will toko charge of it and put it through at
once. Says the Chronicle:
The distance between Port Royal and Augusta
is ouo hundred and ten miles. From Fort
Royal to a point beyond its junction with the
Charleston and Savannah railroad, a distance of
thirty miles, the road Is graded, ironed and in
complete running order. Fifty miles additional
of the road is graded and ready for tho iron,
leaving only thirty miles to be completed, Mr.
Feako and his company can put tho road under
coo tract as soon os they purchase it, and have
the line opened in considerably less than twelve
months. After the road has been purchased,
however, it will require a little more than one
million dollars to complete it, and tho new com
pany will need assistance in order to raise this
money. To secure this assistance they look to
the Georgia railroad, which will bo so greatly
benefltted by the completion of the Port Royal
road. But no money is asked of that company,
only a loan of its credit. We understand that
a proposition will be made to the stockholder 1 !
convention, which will assemble here next week,
to endorse the bonds of tho Port Royal Com
pany, and to receive in retnm a most liberal
compensation. If thi3 proposition should be
accepted, Mr. Peake and his associates will at
once take hold of the road.
The Savannah Republican, of Wednesday,
says;
On Monday evening last tho steamer Flor
ence, which hasbeenrunningregularlybetween
Jacksonville and Palatka the post winter, while
lying at her wharf at Palatka, and during the
absence of tho captain and mate, was taken
possession of by a party of men, who imme
diately proceeded to sea with their prize, stop
ping a short time opposite Jacksonville to land
a portion of the crew. The engineer, a Cap
tain Simmons, who professed to be a steam
boat man and coast pilot, and Henry Eslor,
who is represented as a part owner, were on
board at tho time of the steamer’s leaving.
The collector of the port of Palatka tele
graphed the collector here who immediately
dispatched the Nansemond in pnrsnit of the
missing steamer, which was soon overhauled
and brought into this port, where she will be
detained until Col. Robb can correspond with
the parties at Palatka. Capt. Smith, chief of
ficer of tho Florence, who was ashore at the
time of the seizure, arrived in this city last
evening by the Gulf train, and is stopping at
the Marshall House. Farther facts wilt be
brought to light to-day.
The Georgia Teaohnrs’ Association commenced
it annual meeting at Columbns on Tuesday, and
was called to order by President J. M. Bonnell,
of Wesleyan Female College. Messrs. W. F.
Parks, of Augusta, and JosephH. Roberts, of Ma
con, were elected Assistant Secretaries. Twen
ty-two old members were present and thirty-one
now ones joined the Association. The President
addressed the Convention; after which Mr. W.
Ludden, of Savannah, read an essay on “Vocal
Musio in Schools,” and Mr. W. A. Slaymaker,
of Atlanta, one on “Polytechnic Sohools for the
South,” when the Association adjonrned for din
ner. At the afternoon session Rev. H. D. Moore,
of Talbotton, read a paper on “Tho Difficulties
in Teaching Algebra and how best Overcome,”
and Mr. G. M. Dews, of Columbus, a paper
upon “Grammar and the proper age to begin
it a3 a Study.” At the night session addresses
in favor of education by ths Stato were made
by Rov. Dr. Landrum, of Savannah, Mr. E.
M. White, of Colambu3, and Col. Joseph Hodg
son, State Superintendent of Education for
Alabama. The Association then adjonrned un
til next day.
The Ku-klnx are rampant in Barnesville.
Proof: On “Memorial Day” the grave of the
Federal soldier who is buried near the Confed
erate dead in the cemetery there, was covered
with flowers by “rebel” women.
Dr. John J. Ford, a citizen of Atlanta, died
at Denvor City, Colorado, on tho lGth of April
Charles Lamb’s reverie, during an attack of
“spring fever:” “Hang work 1 I wish all the
year were holiday; I am sure that indolence—
indefeasible indolence—is the true state of
man, and business the invention of the old
teaser, whose interference doomed Adam to an
apron and set him hoeing.”
Late California papers declare their State
is to be second in wool growing this year. Silk,
wool, tea, cotton, coffee, all manner of fruits,
splendid grain, vegetables that beat the world,
biggest trees in the universe, fine woods, pro-
cious metais, eta—what more can man desire ?
Truly, California is a wonderful country. ■ 1
New Rooks.
Callishoe, by Maurice Sand, son of George
Sand; translated from the French by S. A. Da
Ponte, has just been published by Claxton,
Remsen & Haffelfinger, of Philadelphia. It is
a book of 325 pages—very neatly printed and a
lively story of love and adventure.
Among my Books is an elegant 18 mo. volume
of essays—printed in exquisite taste on tinted
paper. No anthor’s name is given. They are
a reprint of papers originally contributed to the
New York World, and comprise some twenty
essays upon standard writers and current topics.
Both of these books may bo found at Barke’s
bookstore.
The Caban patriots havo invented a curious
cannon of loathcr as n substitute for tho metal
field-pieces, which they aro unabio to obtain.
The barrel of the gun is about three feet and
a half long, and is made by stretching stout,
well-dressed leather in a soaked state upon a
mould four inches in diameter, and sewing the
edges with cords of the native pita de corojo,
which has great tenacity. When dry, another
thickness of wet leather is stretched upon the
first layer, and fonr more are subsequently
added. The breeeh Is made of hard wood, and
tho chamber is often lined with tin. These
guns firo from ten to twenty rounds before be
coming unfit for uso, and aro usually loaded
with stones, through the absence of grape and
canister. They have done considerable execu
tion, and are lightly transported in pairs upon
the shoulders of a man. When used, they are
laid npon tho ground, and pointed at short range
upon on approaching colamn.
Tho manufacture of garters and suspenders
is a business of greater magnitude than is gen
erally supposed. Two factories, ohoatWater-
bnry, Ot., and the other at East Hampton, Mass.,
have each a capital of §300,000, and produce
about §2,000,000 eaoh per annum. Their sus
pender production alone is five hundred dozens
per day each. There are about one hundred
smaller manufacturers of suspenders, whose
average daily make is from twenty to one hun
dred dozens. The ranging sale of suspenders is
sixty cents per pair, and garters eighty-five
cents. Tho highest cost suspenders are §15
per pair; high cost garters begin at §15. The
latest novelty in the line of ladies gaiters are
broad velvet bands, heavily fringed and gilt
mounted.
The Indians on the Rio Grande are commit
ting fearful outrages on the whites. Fourteen
persons aro reported to have been killed, inclu
ding four ranch men, six emigrants going from
Tucson, to Now Mexico, and the driver of a
mail coach, who was horribly mutilated.
New York, May 4.—A special correspondent
in Paris telegraphs that the Communists have
gained considerable gronnd within tho last three
days. Two regiments • before Fort Issy yester
day turned their fire upon their comrades be
hind them and deserted to the-Communists.
Frankfort, Kx., May 4.—On the sixth ballot
the Democratic State Convention nominated for
Governor, P. H. Leslie, the present incumbent,
who received 638 votes, and Jy -Proctor Knott,
432. i-.Vgl f, J ■
Rochester, May 4.—The persistent rain
checks operations in repairing tho Erie Canal
and tho prospects are unfavorable for the com
pletion of the woik ns early as was anticipated.,
San Francisco, May 4.—Tho National Medi
cal Association, after a long debate, referred
tho standing of Townsend, of Philadelphia, to
tho Ethios Committee.
Cleveland, O., May 4.—Tho Michigan South
ern and Lake Sboro Railroad elected Horace F.
Clark President, and/ Augustus Scholl Vice
President.
Hartford, May 4.—The Legislature has ad
journed to Wednesday next, to await the result
of the Election Committee’s investigation.
Milwaukt, May 4.—Mrs. Anna A. Pomeroy
has gained a divorce with §20,000 alimony.
Paris, May 3.—Tho Communists aro falling
back. The Versaillists havo re-occupied Issy
Park. Issy village is almost surrounded and its
remaining defenders aro closely pressed. Shells
have killed several persons in Rue Vangnrard.
Tho Versaillists aro apparently massing for an
attack on Fort Issy. The Commune has been
compelled to redace the .garrison of Fort Vin-
conno3 by the Prussians, who demand a strict
compliance with the terms of the capitulation.
Paris, May 3.—Tho Communis have re-oco'n-
pied Issy park. An experiment with the torpe
does planted near the northern forts blew five
horses into the air. Gen. Rossil forbids all
communication with tho enemy. All attention
to flags of truce is forbidden. The inhabitants
of Avenne de Gla are notified to leave the ar-
rondizements within 24 hours. Tho besiegers
are active and a decisive engagement is immi
nent. A balloon left Hotel de Ville with letters
to-day.
Washington, May 4.—Steady rain to-day.
Robeson has gono North for a week. Corcoran’s
condition is less hopeful to-day.
Synopsis or Weather Statement.
War Dep'^T Office Chief Signal Officer, >
Washington, D. C., May 4, 7:30 p. m. >
Tho barometer continues low on tho Pacific
coast, with cloudy weather and high westerly
winds. The lowest pressure is now central be
tween Lakes Ontario and Huron, and has ex
tended southward into Georgia. It is highest
on Lake Superior and in Maine. The tempera
ture has risen somewhat in the Gnlf States, but
has fallon'on the Atlantic and the Lakes. North
easterly winds have prevailed from Lake Erie
to Superior, but are now turning to the north
west. Brisk northeasterly wind3 prevail in the
East and Middle Atlantic, and westerly winds in
the southwest. Clear weather is reported from
Minnesota and Louisiana. Heavy rains have
generally prevailed on tho Lakes and the At
lantia
Probabilities: Cloudy weather, with brisk
northwest winds are probable for the Lakes on
Friday; clearing weather for the lower Missis
sippi valley and the Gnlf; high northeasterly
winds, followed by westerly winds and cloudy
weather for the Middle and Eastern States.
New York, May 5.—The State Superintendent
of Insurance reports that the Nickerbocker Life
Insurance Company has met all legitimate
claims. Jay Gould voluntarily surrendered
himself, and the books required produced,when
Gould was released on §10,000 bail.
Rochester, May 4.—The laborers on tho Erie
Canal break made a disorderly strike. Troops
were sent.
Versailles, May 4.—The Versailles forces
and planks whirled through the air. The north
and south walls of the penitentiary, together
With the roof of • the shoe factory' cells on the
south wing of the building, were blown away.
The whole of tho second story, and roof of the
store house of the United States Arsenal, togeth
er with three hundred feet of the laboratory
frame building, and tho roof of ono of the pow
der magazines were blown away. The roof of
tho Catholic churches and the cemetery fence
wero blown away, and a large number of frame
houses unroofed and other damages, done. A
sugar house and a number of cabins on Joseph
Bernard’s plantation were blown away, and one
colored man killed and several wounded^- Tho
sugar house, gin house and cabins on James
McCallea’s plantation were all destroyed, and
several colored people wounded. Aportioh'of
the sugar house and all tho cabins on W. S.
Pike’s plantation wero blown down, and two
colored men killed and several wounded. A
number of coal boats and flats laden with coal
were sunk. Tho loss will reach §400,000.
San Francisco, May 4.—Tho Medical Con
vention has prolonged its discussion over the
admission of female delegates—though there
were none present. The first prize was awarded
to E. R. Taylor, of Sacramento, for an essay on
chemical constitution of bile. The second to
Benj. Howard, of New York, for an essay on
artificial respiration in drowning.
Tho new officers of the Medical Association
ore as follows: President, D. W. Yandell, Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston’s Medical Director; Thos.
M. Logan, of California, C. Lives, of Alabama,
R. M. Mitchell, of Albama, J. K. Bartlett, of
Wisconsin, Vice-Presidents.
The next meeting will be held at Philadelphia.
Niagama, May 4.—A life boat belonging to
Fort Morgan got adrift daring the gale and a
boat manned by six soldiers and Lieutenants L.
G. Ashbnry and J. C. Morris started in pursuit,
but their boat capsized and all were lost.
Hartford, May 4.—Tho Democratic mem
bers of the oommittee that review the report of
canvassers do not participate in the investiga
tion.
Boston, May 4.—Nearly every town in Mas-
sachusetts voted no on the question of licensing
the sale of beer and ale.
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■ > ttogled mass of soft brm^ v
Two eyes cast ineekl
A little face tho ’
Two cheeks a little
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“I do not think f knn^l? °7.
Two little lips that t«n . iu
Between tho ebb and
A little heart that lo'scln
To know what neatTSSJSfr
A little face that shyly
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A little pride that well vi°X
Between theebbaadaSy?*’
The Fbuee Crop.—
better prospect for a frait Jm^ D8TCr b
The apple and peach trees ** 1 .
beneath the weight of the fmn . - J
certainly will not only haYA”< Dpoatte M
but an abundance to 2ip to N»°H
barians. e “ 6WEE glejy
Now’s tho time when
xoachesare popping out of their h*.^? 1
nies Take a pop at them with 8
Pop and pay them off forever. 2. l
druggists. 11 “Jl
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have carried, by assault, the Insurgent position
at Soquet Mill. One hundred and fifty of the
Communists were killed, and ten cannon and
three hundred prisoners captured. The mill,
howevor, has been evacuated by the Ver-
sailles.troops as it was exposed to a destructive
fire from tho Insurgent fortifications.
Note.—Tho Soqnet mill, reported captured
by the Versailles forces, is south of and about
ono mile from Forts Bioetri and Ivy.
A Proclamation by the president.
Washinotoy, D. O., May 4,1871.
The act of Congress entitled an act to enforce
tho provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States and for
other purposes, approved April 20, A. D. 1871,
being a law of extraordinary publio importance,
I consider it my duly to issue this, my procla
mation, calling the attention of the people of
tho United States thereto, enjoining upon all
good citizens, and especially upon all publio
officers, to be zealous in the enforcement there
of, and warning all persons to abstain from
committing any of the acts thereby prohibited.
This law of Congress applies to all parts of the
United States, and will be enforced everywhere
to tho extent of the powers vested in the Execu
tive. But inasmuch as the necessity therefor
is well known to have been caused chiefly by
persistent violations of the rights of citizens of
the United States by combinations of lawless
and disaffected person? in certain localities
lately the theatre of insurrection and military
confliot, I do particularly exhort the people of
these parts of tho country to suppress all such
combinations by their own voluntary efforts
through tho agenoy of local laws, and to main
-tain tho rights of all citizens of the United
States, and to secure to all such citizens the
equal protection of the laws.
Fully sensible of the responsibility imposed
upon the Executive by the act of Congress, to
which publio attention is now called, and reluc
tant to call into exercise any of the extraordi
nary powers thereby conferred upon me, except
in oase3 of imperative necessity, I do, neverthe
less, deem it my duty to make known that I
will not hesitate to exhaust the powers thus
vested in the Executive whenever and wherever
it shall becomo necessary to do so, for the pur
pose of securing to all citizens of the United
States tho peaceful enjoyment of the rights
guaranteed to them by the Constitution and
laws. It is my earnest wish that peace and
oheerfnl obedience to law may prevail through
out the land, and that all traces of our late un
happy civil strife may be speedily removed,
The30 ends can be easily reached by acquies
cence in the results of tho confliot now written
in onr constitution, and the duo and proper en
forcement of equal, just and impartial laws in
every part of onr country. The failure of local
ommnnities to famish snch means for tho at
tainment of results so earnestly desired imposes
npon the National Government the. duty of put
ting forth all its energies for the proteotion of
its citizens of every raoe and color and for.tho
restoration of peace and order throughout the
eetire country.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed. Done at the city of ’Washing
ton, this third day of May, in the year of onr
Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven
ty-one, and of the Independence of the Uni
ted States the ninety-fifth.
[Signed] U. S. Grant.
Washington, May 4.—Corcoran’s erysipelas
is checked, bnt his right long is somewhat con
gested, and general vitality is feeble.
New Orleans, May 4.—A tornado Tuesday at
Baton Ronge resulted in great destruction of
property. Trees- were uprooted, and bricks
Travellers are always liable to inddato*,
Dysentery and Cholera Morbus, and ti* 1
Rochester, May 4.—Rain and whisky caused I *°S a lsent from home, are yen
tho riot at the break. The presence of troops m-*--*,-p * TTvr
allays the alarm. Raining again this afternoon. -*■ -O xii Jl JAJ..LN
London, May 4.—It is positively stated that - .
Thiers refuses to enter into a commercial treaty u yon t/ el u, 0 Bymp toL, taSoTeLS
with Germany, and Bismarck has protested la gfil ot new milk and molasses and agffl 4
against the unjust discrimination made by water, stir well together and drink bot 1
France against German commerce. It is re- tho dose every hour until relieve! If tin
ported that the Commune has requested the | severe, bathe the bowels and back wthtl*
Orleans Princes still in Paris to leave the citv. I icine > c * eai ‘'
A Times special from Versailes says on Toes- M a gU1 of hot water
day night three divisions of the army of the I ^ h.fte the throat .tA
Assembly, under the immediate command of I fapy^ith the medicine, dear.
MacMahon, advanced towards the Enceinte of Dr> Swe6t Bays it takea out ^
Paris through the Bois de Boulogne. An entire 0 f boneaettiDg faster than anything he m
corps’was ordered to follow, but owing to dr- plied,
cnmstances imprudent to explain the movement j Fishermen so often exposed to hurts h
was not consummated.
A Times editorial says the decision of the
United States Supreme Court in favor of the
ponstutionality of the legal tender, is both un
just and violent, and will prove a misfortune to
the country.
Versailles, May 4.—The approaches of the
Versailles army to Fort Issy being rapidly com
pleted it is now regarded impossible for the
Communists’garison to escape. Cannonading
and musketry firo continue, and several engage
ments of an unimportant nature occurred. As
the result of these affairs Eixty prisoners have
been bronght in from the front.
Favre has gone to Brussels to participate in
the peace negotiations.
Selling Offices—A Rival to Jesse It.
Grant.
their skin pierced with hooks, and fins ot M, J
be relieved by bathing with the Fun EEu us
as the accident occurs; in this way the iri|
soon abated; bathe as often as once iafn 1
ntes, say three or fonr times, and yoa *2 e
have any trouble.
The bites and scratches of doge aslcu^
soon cured by bathing with the Pain EEs, d
See advertisement of Dr. Cntts’ 1
I headed Book for the Million—Marriage C
another column. It should be read by all
an20-d&wtf
OONSUMPTIOl
Its Cure and Its Preventive. |
By J. H. SOHENOK, M.I
M ANY a human being has passed awaj.fj:»l
death there was no other reasm this that
I of known and indisputablj proves oos] ■■
Thoso near and dear to family and triend; irtiir
ins the dnamleeslumber into which, kadtltja
[ adopted
I)K. JOSEPH H. SCHEXCIi’3 !
TREATMENT,
and availed themselves of bis wonderful t
From tho New York Sun.]
It appears that the office-peddling propensi
ties of the President’s father are reproduced in I
other persons possessing influence with General
Grant’s administration. We published the other I uu ul3 _
day the evidence that General Cooper, one of j inedicines, they would not havo Allen. TrS
President Grant’s collectors of internal revenne has In his own case proved, that wherero i
in Tennessee, has been offering to sell subordi-
1 1 * • _ _T,n£>o”a a. I bis directions fortbcir use, isquicmucaw.k-
nato places at puces varying from §2o0 to §6o0 I yv^or.
each; and now we have from Toledo, Ohio, the In this’statement thore is nothing rr<
proof that three of the most important offices Toth® futh of the
in that Congressional district wero lately put up andvisiblework”The theory cf the earthy
for sale at the price of $4,000 for the three. Bchenck's medicine^ is as simple as it if nv
The testimony to this effect is complete and I Its philosophy requires no argument. It u *
conclusive. It is given by Mr. Alexander Reed, "Th^eawt^floSoald Mandrake PilkiniWj
recently Postmaster of Toledo—a gentleman of I two weapons with which the ciudel of
distinguished character and unquestionable an- I asFailed. Two-thirds of the cates of, 1
tecedonts—and by Mr. J. Swigart and Mr.
George E. Welles, the collector and assessor of j
internal revenue at Toledo.
These three gentlemen publish a statement I
thas in the latter part of February last one L.
M. Hnnt, a friend of the present administration
in that district, who is especially influential with
Dr. E. D. Peck, tho member of Congress,
caused to bo made to them a proposition that if
they would pay him fonr thousand dollars in
cash they should be kept in office, acd that oth-
originata in dyspepsia andafanetioMUld*"
liver. With this condition the bronchisUabej
pathize” with the Ftotnaeh, They rapo»l“;
morbific action of the liver. Here then e«w
culminating result, and tho setting u>, with 1S1-
tressing symptoms, of
CONSUMPTION.
The Mandrake Pills are composed dots of
noblest gifts—tho Podophillum Feltatia. »
sess til the blood-searching, alterauve prop®
calomel, but unlike calomel, they
“LEAVE IfO STING BEU15D."
Tho work efeure is now beginnieg- Th**??
num-Mij Aanneito in ♦tin hAV8U !1C(1 1- i
erwise they should be turned out. This propo- and mucous deposits in the bou-ete
Rif-inn fliAv rafncAil nnr? thAv rafnaod if efill 1 ZUdUtsry CSHnl UTO ejected. TholiVCr.litGi 1
wound up. It aro uses.from its torpidity..**'
ach acts responsively, and tho patient w 3
that ho is getting, at last.
A SUPPLY OP GOOD BLOOD.
The Beaweed Tonic, in conjunction mi i*.
permeates and assimilates with the woo.
tioa i3 now rrogre:sing without its pren^i-- j
Digestion becomes painless, and thecBi»j- ! ‘ l , v ^j
sition they refused, and they refused it still
more decisively at a subsequent interview had
with Mr. Hunt on the 18th of March last,
Whereupon President Grant, on tho 19th inst.,
appointed one E. V. McMaken to be Postmaster
in Mr. Reed’s place, and the appointment was
confirmed by tho Senate on the same day.
Whether tho internal revenue officers, who also
Whether tho internal revenue olacers, who also Digestion becomes raimess,,anu
joined with Mr. Reed in refusing to pay for
their places, havo yet been turned out or not, j
we do not know; bnt if they are still in office, giw. „
they will doubtless have to go soon. KrirtfjJS
Faots liko these show in a startling manner entcrs at once upon its work. K» tttr ?Juija
the extent to which the sale of offices is carried I cheated. It collocts and ripens the icr“w f ^
on under tho example and influence of Presi- J casea portions of thAlnugS;. In
dent Grant. In Cincinnati his father puts the ^cry shortTime?tho mafady*£ vauoaifijJ "jjV-'S
price of a gauger’s appointment at §500; in throne that, it occupied is renovates ,
Tennessee one of his Collectors of Internal Rev-1 and t! J e patient,.in all the dignity oi r s•
enue gets from §250 to §650 for subordinate steps forth to omoy tho manhood ert-
places; and in Toledo §4,000 is asked as the GIVEN UP AS LOST. ^
price of one Postmaster’s, one Assessor’s, and The second thing is, the patient*
“ " - ' - - — am room until they get well:
le to prevent taking co.d cisD
isod. but it must.bo Prevented or » fei
uuYvsaiura iv# Bu.j j uui i affected. Fresh air and riding cut, ap- teI
these few afford indications that the Eame de- section of tho country mtho
basement and depravity aro likely to exist in - 0 B U i J^thiir patients? if their.lnnp “•H,
every part of tho country. And why should this diseased. anJ yet‘be. : -v-fe they arc in l
not bo tho case ? With a President greedy for must uot sit down length wM
presents, and appointing men to tho highest I rQ ? ma3 “““Circulation of blood, Thori-*
offices in retnm for donations to himself; with keopffi8®e dspiri j _bo -, d K t *b?a n DMt?lej: i
a convicted bribe-taker kept in a place of great ThisSias a sreat deal to a f r ° 0 f Jnreaft*®
President’s i w
right to take §500 for a gauger’s appointment; I personal 1 statement to tho
how can the sentiment of honor and morality was in these modest worcu.-
be expected to prevail in the subordinate do-1 ’’Many years ago I was m
partments of tho government or among the:
and file of the Republican party.
i bed. and»t wjjrrJ
A WOMAN’S SERMON. i seemed to me iusl x Jihe 3& aa ,1
Enthusiasm Aronsed In a Methodist Meet. 7r hole T^oiGdsdUup mwa thaaaf'^l^J
in«r House—An orator not Made by «»oJ
Schools—Something New in the Pnlpit. 1 As soon as that began to st,-: 1 .
When the Free Methodist congregation as- I {SSritru
sembled in their chapel, at Eighth avenue and a&t TiZuldtoS■ ttjittlni too «g$4 •
Twenty-eighth street, yesterday forenoon, they gained my strength and have gro*“ .
found themselves without a preacher. Their! si °ce." r «o«iT’£i
pastor had been called out of town and had fora- r th^JSSSoMm looking Hkea
ishedno substitute. The hour for the begin- weight was ODly ninety-seven.
ningof tho services had barely passed when a weight is two hundred and twenty-n
stout, middle-aged, drab-dressed lady walked up V ;■ |
the centre aisle, and entered the pulpit. It was to New York and Boston. I!c or -=
Mrs. Albert Dnnning, a leading member of the Schenck, Jr .still continue.to
Free MethodistSooiety, and she had volunteered r® f ® e ,^’I 5 n S 0 q ^ s i x to tW 8
to preach in the absence of the pastor. thoreugJ examination wiih thety£jj£S%.£
“I have not prepared any sermon,” said she, charged *5. The Reapiromoter
as she collectedly turned over the leaves of the
Bible, “and have no idea whatlamgoingto w xh b " r t cctioM fort^inethomedicM‘ t t l^|
preach about; but I believe that I have only to to the intelligence even of a child- «st.
open my mouth, and the Lord will fill it.” readon*. anakfarf are to
Finally she seleoted a text, and preached from } ^increased doa«: the^tlme medicines
it a discourse ono hour and ten minutes long, accompaniments than theamrle (jn*&
Its character was exhortatory, and it advocated company them.: .gtotjgSS«
entire indifference to the world, and a life de- it°ewill^mthe desr»‘ r j 0 f:jA;
voted oxoln8iveIy to religion. Mrs. Dunning’s be of good cheer. Good bloc d at
delivery is animated, her gestures frequent and cough loosens, the are A
emphatic, and her periods rounded with fervent
“hallelujahs.” Tho auditors were, at times, Lf thousands of families. Asala««'*^tic» ; J*
aroused to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, and the Mandrake Pills are a standard J
frequently echoed her pious invocations.—.Who ^“regarded^' “ prophylaoterio J
York Sun. I sumption in any of its fonniL^ an( j ^
It is stated that the Texas Legislature has just
adopted a common school system for that State,
in which compulsory education is a prominent
feature. A term of schooling not less than four
months in each year -is required of “all the |
scholaatio population.” *
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