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The G-eorgia ~Weekly Teleuraii'li and- Journal Sz-
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MAY 23 1871.
Fall or the Column Venrtome.
That was a pitiable farco described at length
ia the Paris dispatches of Tuesday night, and
published in this edition. The Column Yen-
dome was erected by Napoloon, the great, to
commemorate the success of his arms in the
German campaign of 1805. It was 135 feet in
height, and the circular shaft surmounting the
pedestal was twelve feet in diameter, and
crowned with a bronze statue of Napoleon in
Boman costume. The pedestal and shaft were
of stone, but covered with bronze bas-reliefs
of great morit, representing the principal actions
of the campaign, from the departure of the
French troops from Boulogne to the battle of
Ansterlitz. Except those upon the pedestal,
these bas-reliefs took a spiral form around the
shaft in a scroll of 840 feet in length, and the
whole of them were cast out of twelve hundred
pieces of Bussian and Austrian cannon cap
tured in the campaign. The whole cost of the
column was a million and a half of francs, and
it was justly regarded as one of the finest arch
itectural ornaments of Paris.
Wo can say no more or less of its destruction
than that it was in perfoct harmony with the
follies and atrocities which have disgraced Paris
and shocked Christendom for tho past two
months.
Whx Johnny Didn’t Go Fishing.—“Once,
said a reverend narrator, “the Superintendent
asked mo to tako charge of a Sunday-school
class. ‘Ton’ll Gad ’em rather n hard lot,’ said
he. ‘They all went a fishing last Sunday but
iitte Johnny Bond. Ho is really a good boy,
and I hope his example may yet redeem others.
I wish you’d talk to ’em a little.’ I told him I
would. They were rather a hard-looking set
I dont think I ever witnessed a more elegant set
of blaok eyes in my life. Little Johnny Band, the
good boy, was in bis placo, and I smiled on
him approvingly. As soon asalltbe lessons
were over, I said, ‘Boys yonr Superintendent
tells mo yon went fishing last Sunday—all but
little Johnny hero. You didn’t go, did you,
Johnny ? I said. ‘No, sir.’ ‘That was right,
though this boy is the youngest among you. ’ I
continued, ‘you loam from his own lips words
of good counsel, which I hope you will profit
by.’ I lifted him up on tho seat by me, and
smoothed his auburn ringlets. ‘Now Johnny,
I want you to tell these wicked bojs why yon
didn't go a-flshing with them last Sunday. Speak
Up loud, now. It was because it was very wick
ed, and you would rather go to Sunday-school,
wasn’t it ?’ ‘No, sir, it was because I couldn’t
find the worms for bait.’ And there was silence
for a space.”
Tlse Foil of FariSJ.
The grand assault upon Paris was looked for
yesterday, and tho French correspondents of tho
London papers thought that the Versaillists would
probably cany the city by night. JUaaawhile a
most deadly and implacable animosity actuated
both parties, and no doubt the capture of Paris
will be followed by frigbtfol scenes of carnage.
If wo may credit tho repoxts of fugitives, the
Commune, in the name of liberty and tho peo
ple, have erected ono of tho most sanguinary
despotisms oyer known amoBg mankind. Bat
that was a matter of course, and inevitable to
Buoh an administration. A parcel of villainous
demagogues mount upon the necks of a domi
nant and infnriatcd mob, and then fasten them
selves there by exterminating all opposition.’
They hatch their plots in secrecy and midnight
—decree without law or justice, and execute
without remorse. It is tho most frightful and
Irresponsible tyranny which tho hnman mind
can conceive.
Scribner's Monthly tor June.—-The June
number of Scribner’s Monthly contains no less
than eight illustrated articles—the first in im
portance and interest being the second paper by
Gov. Langford on “Tho Wonders of tho Yellow
stone.” So extraordinary aro tho phenomena
that the accuracy of the account would certainly
bo doubted were it not thoroughly authentica
ted. We have hero pictures and descriptions
of tho singular slate formations which were re
ported to bo relics'of a lost race ; a “Bird’s-eyo
view of tho Geysor Basin,” “Tho Grotto Gey.
ser,” “Crater of tho Castlo Geyser,” “Crater of
the Giant Geyser,” The Beehive Geyser,” and
the magnificent “Giant Geyser,” which threw
a stream of boiling water to tho remarka
ble height of 250 feet. Twenty excellent illus
trations accompany this intensely interesting
article. Another very valuable and entertain
ing articlo is Mr. Twombly’s description of tho
St. Louis Bridge, ono of tho greatest engineer
ing undertakings of tho age. Tho Mastery otf
the Mississippi is only being accomplished by
tho utmost skill, energy and perseverance. Mon
ey and hnman life aro being freely spent in the
conquest, tho methods of which aro hero fully
and curiously explained and pictured.
Pigeons.—Tho great pigepn roost at tho West
this year is in Wisconsin. A paper at Kilbourn
City says that for threo weeks pigeons have
been flying in flocks which no man could num
ber. On Saturday, April 22, for above two
hours before nightfall, they flew in ono cantin-
nons flock from Bouth to north, darkening tho
air and astonishing the peo*i 0 by the sound of
thei; wings. Hotels aro full oi trappers and
hunters, coopers aro busy making bai»k t an fl
men, women and children aro active in packing
the birds or filling the barrels. They aro shipped
to Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati,
Philadelphia, New York and Boston. From ten
to thirty thousand birds are forwarded daily.
TjpE Graphic}. —Brovta & Co. continue to re,
oeive, ovary week, this incomparable illustrated
newspaper. It grows in excellence ftith every
fresh number. Certainly thero is no paper of a
similar character published in this country,' that
deserves to be mentioned in the samo breath
with it; and so for as our acquaintance with
those abroad goes, thero aro none that rival it
Ihere. It costs more In money than any of tho
American illustrated papers, so-called, of course,
but it is worth all of them put together, both as
regards tho quality of its illustrations and read
ing matter.
Wood PayexoLye a Failure.—Tho New York
Commercial Advsrtiser pronounces wood pave
ments a miserable failure: In Chicago, where
nearly ono hundred and fifty miles of it aro
in use, tbs cost last year of new, and tho re
pairs of old pavements, amounted to nearly two
and a half million dollars. In several streets in
Now York where it has been in Wse for two or
throe years, it is worn out, end requires new
bloods.
Ws regret to chronicle that tho bam of Bov.
JIcnry Bonn, near Pace's Station, Twiggs
county, was obnstmed by fire on tho night of
the 9th instant. Th?qe hundred bushels of com,
embracing bis entire crop, was destroyed. Mr.
Bunn is a most estimable citizen and deserves
the sympathy af tho pnblio. The fire was the
wRrk of an incendiary.
The World Says the women of Georgia have
oollected nearly $3,000 for thp proposed monu
ment to tho late Bobert E. Leo. Tho whole
amount raised for the purpose in tho South thus
far is said not to be less than $20,000.
Simmons, Lives Regulator, if persisted in,
will cure the most stubborn Liver disease. There
is no failure about it.
TIio KlaUt to Levy a Connly Tax' for
Educational Purposes.
Wo have boforo U3 a pamphlet just issued
froln the office of the State School Commissioner
in Atlanta upon tho “power of tho County
Boards of Education to levy a tax to pay teach
ers.” This pamphlot contains, first, a scries of
resolutions unanimously adopted by tho State
Board of Education May 10,1871. Second, an
opinion of a majority of said Board, “ That the
Legislature has given to the County Boards of
Education power to impose sucha'tax as will be
sufficient, in addition to tho distribnlive share
of the Educational Fund of tho State, to main
tain a pnblio school in each district, at least
three months in each year.
Thirdly, this pamphlet contains an opinion of
Attorney-General Farrow, concurred in by tho
Comptroller-General, npon tbi3 express point
presented by State School Commissioner, J. B.
Lewis, in tho following form: “Havo tho
County Board of Education authority, under tho
laws, to levy a tax for such amount as they may
suppose will bo necessary, in addition to the
State Fand, to maintain tho schools threo months
in each year ?” In answer to this question, tho
Attorney-General replies as follows: “After a
critical analysis of the law, I am compelled to
give it as my opinion that no such authority has
been granted by the General Assembly to the
County Board of Education." And ho proceeds
in six printed pages to canvass tho Education
Act, particularly, in support of this conclusion.
Ho insists that tho taxing power of tho County
Board is limited, as by Section 31, to an assess
ment upon' tho school districts for building,
furnishing and repairing school houses, fur
nishing fuel, etc., bat he also declares that the
clause in this section allowing an assessment
upon the labor of tho qualified voters of the dis
trict is unconstitutional, null and void, because
the constitution declares that “no poll tax shall
be levied, except for educational purposes, and
snch tax shall not exceed ono dollar on each
poll.”
Upon thi3 exhibition of facts, very singular to
relate, tho State Board of Education at tho
meeting in tho Capitol, May 10th, Governor
Bullock presiding, resolve “That tho County
Boards of Education aro left to tako snch action,
under tho law and tho opinions herewith sub
mitted, in regard to levying a tax to pay teach
ers, as they may determine for themselves !" Tho
State administration takes a square issue with
its law officer and then tells tho people, in sub
stance, that as there is doubt about it, and the
doctors differ, tax or not, just as you please.
But it will not do to tax on even doubtful au
thority. There must bo a positive and express
gr.ont of power to do it, or a dear, necessary
and unavoidable implication of tho power from
other express grants. Thero is none here. On
the contrary, tho act, in connection with the
Constitutional provisions on education, makes
it os clear as the nose on yonr face that the tax
must be levied and collected as a State tax un
der act of tho General Assembly.
And wo repeat in regard to tho district tax,
QppilTCnCitf oatlaonaoJ *o ilao Oownfj- Do«r<J bj
section 31, although that section doubtless in-
tended to confer on tho County Board tho power
to levy taxes on districts for the material uses
of the schools, yet the phraseology is altogether
too obscuro and doubtful to justify the County
Board in assuming tho right even to levy the
tax: It declares that tha funds for such and
such expenditures shall bo raised by a tax lev
ied on the district, but it wholly fail to empower
any body to levy the tax.
But however this may be, clearly it would be
an especial farce for the County Board to usurp,
with no authority of law at all, the power to
levy a county tax for general educational pur-
Tho payment of such a tax would bo
optional, or, if enforced, tho County Boards
would lay themselves open to suits for damages
for extortion or spoliation, or something of the
sort,
To sum it all up, this Georgia Educational
scheme is apiece of Stale enginery, and therein
is its capital defect. A State scheme is perhaps
necessary to give any coherence and dignity;
but, after all, tho great propulsive power relied
on should bo tho voluntary co-operation of tho
people. This should bo encouraged in ©very
possible way, instead of being superseded, hin
dered and obstructed as is done by this act. The
counties should not only be authorized to tax
themselves for educational purposes, but en
couraged to do it by tho offer of a correspond
ing bonu3; as for example that tho State will
add a half or a third to every amount which
shall be raised by the county for this purpose.
TIio Grant Campaign.
Tho Now York Sun, of Saturday, wants, in
two columns, to know whether tho Bepnblican
party is going to let Grant complete its ruin?
Lpoking to tho New England States tho Sim
finds only two Congressmen in tho entire pha
lanx who aro hearty supporters of Grant, and
these are Edmunds and Bntler. Not a single
Now England governor is in favor of Grant’s
renomination, and two—Claflin, of Massachu
setts, and Jewell, of Connecticut—are decidedly
hostile to it. In the State of New York ho has
so thoroaghly'disgrnntled tho Badioals that the
Democrats could hardly bring ont a man who
would not beat him fifty thousand votes. New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, tho Snn says,
aro abont as badly distracted as New York. In
tho Key Stone State, Governor Geary, Ex-Gov
ernor Curtin and Ex-Speaker Grow aro inflexi- 1
,bly hostile to him.
Tho great Northwest is demoralized. Trum
bull, Logan, Farnsworth, Schurz and his great
Gorman following, Gratz Brown, Windom and
Wilkinson, or Minnesota, Caldwell, of Kansas,
and Tipton, of Nebraska, aro all down on Grant.
Newton, Nyo and Harlan, aro about his only
active advocates. Grant’s folly in pushing the
negro Moment fofward too rapidly and putting
his tjholo roliauco on tho carpet-bag adminis
trations, which havo brought this section to tho
vergo of tuin, has prostratod tho Badical party
In tho Southern States, and nothing but a now
oandidato will save tho South.
But the Sun ought to know that tho question
of Grantecandidacy in 1872 is already settled;
and so, too, is Uj® general plan of tho campaign.,
It is to bo a war campaign—a rehash of 18G0,
18G4 and 1868. It is to W fought on the ’idea’
of grinding tha Southern whiu* to powder as
incurably traitorous and rebellion?—invincibly
hostile to public justice, order and franqiaijty.
The canvass is to be a raging ocoan of furious
denunciation and hatred of the Southern people
—tossing np from tho very depths of its bed all
the accumulations of sectional mire and dirt
winch havo gathered there for half a century.
A campaign moro maliciously designed—
fraught with more evil consequences to' the
prosperity and harmony of tho country, can- that true ?
Tint flA ftftTlMirAfl • lillfif ioin Twz*
The Way it is Meant to Work.
Tho first case under tho atrocious bill to co
erce tho Southern whites into staying from tho
polls next year, or voting for Grant’s re-elec
tion, known a3 the Ku-klux bill, has just been
disposed of in Baleigh, North Carolina.
The defendants, three lads, none of them
more than eighteen years of age, were chaiged
with whipping, in Chatham county, a white
woman and some negro men who were found at
her house ono night. The whito woman was a
notorious character, living in open concubinage
with tho negro men of the neighborhood, selling
them whisky and bnying tho property they
would steak So some of the neighbors—probably
—concluded, as the law would not or did not rid
them of tho nuisance, to break it up them
selves. The white woman and tho negroes
made affidavit that these young men were tho
guilty parties, so tho United States Commis
sioner sent down a squad of Federal soldiers
and had them arrested. They reached Baleigh
Saturday, and on Sunday a sort of Star Cham
ber inquisition was held at which none of their
friends, not even their counsel, wore allowed to
bo present. The next day an examination in
open court was held, and though a positive
alibi was proved as to each ono of them, the
Commissioner held them for trial in a bond of
$3000! The testimony of tho loathsome whito
beast and her black lovers was held to bo worth
moro than' that of tho respectablo citizens of
neighborhood who sworo to tho alibis.
Vie are not greatly surprised at this result. It
was intended by the framers of tho bill to work
out just such conclusions as this all over the
South. Parties charged with snoh offences
must be held fro trial, anyhow, or else tho pnb
lio mind at tho North wnnld remain skeptical as
to the existence of the Ku-klux, and the whites
of the South not be sufficiently intimidated to
keep them from voting against Grant in 1872.
Tho United States Commissioner in this case
fnlly understood his business.
Against this infamous scheme to put their
lives, liberty and property at the mercy of every
vagabond negro who may have a grudge to feed,'
or a still meaner white wretch with a similar
motive, the people of tho South must oppose
all tho calmness and prudence they can muster.
They must be “wise as serpents and harmless
as doves,” in very deed and truth. Hot words
and deeds are what tho Jacobin conspirators
hourly invoke their patron saint to put into
Southern months, and move Southern arms to
commit. They thirst for such utterances and
acts as only conspirators can thirst for tho re
alization of their wicked schemes. Without
such results their villainy will go for naught.
The Ku-klux bill has no other meaning, and was
passed for no other purpose than to goad tho
Southern people to protect themselves, and
thus give Grant an opportunity and excuse for
martial law, and a consequent stifling of tho
voice and vote of tho South against his re-elec
tion. We believe this as honestly a3 we ever
believed anything in our life.
Let cur people take warning, then. Let them
cutn ineir tongues and restrain their hands.
Upon no provocation, short of intolerable insult,
let them resort to violence. The vote of the
South must be counted in 1872 for the Demo
cratic candidate. Violence is what Grant wishes,
in order that he may decreo that it shall not be
cast. See to it that he is disappointed, remem
bering, always, that a good memory is as valua
ble an ad j onot of peoples as of individuals, when
the time comes for righting their wrongs. ‘ ‘Pa
tience and shnffie the cards,” is abont the best
motto tho South can adopt under present cir
cumstances.
TYliite Agricultural Labor.
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, of
Thursday last, says:
In many portions of this State tho great
problem of whito labor has been satisfactorily
solved, and it has been fonnd that white men
can work on plantations and make good crops,
withont suffering any more from the climate or
fevers than tho negroes do. Thus the popular
fallacy that they could never stand the swamps,
the miasma, tho heat, and all the drawbacks of
plantation lifo attendant upon laboring m the
. fields, i3 at length exploded. There is no rea
son in the world why wo should not havo tho
tenantry system, with its small farms worked
by whito labor, instead of tho present cumber
some, expensive and uncertain one of large
plantations and black labor. If the State was
rapidly filled up with white emigrants, its pros
perity would soon make rapid strides,
i And if it be true that whites can safely per
form agricultural labor in Louisiana, they cer
tainly can do it in Georgia. We doubt not that
wh>to labor is, in fact, a rapidly growing elo
ment in onr productive force all over tho South
ern States. To whito labor is due, in part, tho
increasing volume of the cotton crop, and white
labor is destined to solve tho problem of bettor
and moro profitable husbandry, and a rural lifo
improved in all its surroundings, and in all tho
elements of comfort and luxury.
When a man applies himself personally to his
crops and works at tho head of his hired labor-
ers, ho not only infuses into them a far greater
energy and diligence, but ho very soon becomes
himself so interested and absorbed in tho pro
gress of his affairs that thero is no drudgery
about it. Labor becomes a source of enjoy
ment. But when he begins to give way to
sloth, self-indulgence and neglect, even tho
business of superintending or “overs.eoing,” as
it is called, soon becomes burdensome; and ho
is glad of every apology to get away from his
business.
When our small farmers, all, will not only do
their own “overseeing,” but lead thoir gangs in
labor, thoy will all bo happier—and we believe,
in most cases, they will add a half or a third to
tha results of their cropping. Then, becoming
more and moro interested in their farms, they
will study for tho improvement of their lands—
their dwellings—fences—out-houses —stock—
and ever thing else which makes the form sightly
and comfortable, and tjio whole State will show
advancement ana progress. This Is a phase of
tho “Labor Question,” which the-young farm
ers of Georgia cannot refieet too much upon. *
not bo conceived; bnt it is in keeping witli that
Badical policy which stops at nothing that may
promise party success. Against this nefarious
campaign the hope of the South and the coun
try everywhere—the interests of peace, pros
perity and sectional fraternity, must rest with
tho patriotic and well-disposed of both Sections.
Agaihfet this crusade of sectional hatred and
war, let the Democracy raise high the standard
of Peace, Order and Sectional Harmony, and
make a gallant struggle for victory.
The Goal Sinixis.—-The miners of Bellevue
held a meeting on Friday and dissolved thoir
.connection with the Miners’ Union, and agreed
to go to work on Monday on sngh terms as thCjf
could agree to as individuals. It was under
stood that many of the other miners would fol
low suit, and the strike be all over by the end of
this week.
Tlie Climax Reached. .,
We have been looking every day to see some
one of those “ubiquitous ear-wigs,"calling them
selves reporters for the Northern papers, reach
tho climax of impudence, and from that proud
eyrie calmly survey his less fortunate fellows.
But ho didn’t put in an appearan'ea until yoster-
day, and'wo found him in the World, of Satur-'
day. Ho had been interviewing Mrs. Lincoln,
«»4..her sop, Thad., have just returned
from vitujopo. After nauseating tho former to
the .verge efr vomiting, she turned him over to
Thai, whom ht> tackled in the - following fash
ion : 'Xv.
Beporter—It has been ignored in the papers
that yonr mother intends manning aRa i a t_
thattrue? •*- •' • 6 .‘
Mr. lincoln—That’s all nonsense. 1- wish
folks wouldn’t talk so abont my mother. TheW.s
no truth whatever in that report. People say
pretty near what they like nowadays.
R.—How about yonr mother’s pension ? Does
she intend to try to got It now ?
Mr. L —I don't think she does. In faot, I
know she don’t. Such a fass as she has had is
enough to discourage any woman.
It.—It is indeed. Then she Will probably
never try to get it again ?
Mr. L.—Probably not She has had trouble
enough already. It is an abominable shame.
Incredible as it tnay seen), this chap departed
after the close of the interview, actually walking
ont of tho room and down the stairs, instead of
being kiaked into the street and rolled in the
gutter. It grieves us to state &o fact, buj. it is
nevertheless true.
A little one, after undergoing the upleasan
operation of vaccination,'exclaimed: “Now t
won’t have to be baptized!
THE GEtMIGIA PRESS
Columbus grocery merchants report that not
one-fifth tho bacon, nor half the corn has been
sent into the country this year, as wa3 sent last.
A semi-civilized party of tho African persua
sion named Nicholas Said, who ha3 been travel
ing over Georgia tho past year or two, is devo
ting his valuable time at present to swindling
tho newspapers. His latest victim is tho Savan
nah News. ..
Mr. Anthony Van Wyok, formerly a Bepubli-
can State Senator in Wisconsin, it now living in
Marietta, and is disloyal enough to write to his
friends in Wisconsin as follows:
“The Kp-klnx don’t seem to be around hero,
notwithstanding tho alarm of our Bepnblican
friends. Everything is as quiet and orderly as
a New England Sunday. Mr. Grant don’t seem
to understand the situation down here, I am
sorry to say.”
Bsnjamin P. Wait, a citizen of Savannah, died
very suddenly Sunday afternoon.
The MetropolitanFire Company, of Savannah,
leave that city to-day for Charleston, to particir
pato in the annual parado of the Firo Depart
ment of that oity.
Tho Forest City Boat Club of Savannah has
just received two paper-shell raca boats from
Now York.
Decent people at Savannah were nauseated;
on Saturday, by tho appearance on tho streets
of a creature calling herself Miss S. B. Fowler,
but wearing breeches. She wa3 from the“Narih,”
of course, and had been on a visit to old mother
Stowe, down in Florida.
Tho Nownan Herald, of Saturday, has tha
following explanatory reference to tho recent
action of the board of directors of the Savannah,
Griffin and North Alabama Bailroad authorizing
its extension to the Chattahoochee River. It
says:
Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama
Bailroad.—For more than a week prior to tho
meeting at Griffin, on Monday last, of the Boaid
of Directors of th9 Savannah, Griffin and North
Alabama Bailroad Company, various rumors
were afloat relative to the results to follow the
late trip of President White to New York city.
The public had begun to accept as truths, that
President White had borrowed $1,500,000 in
cash, hadresolved to place undercontract tho Sa
vannah, Griffin and North Alabama Bailroad to
Elyton, in Alabama; and that ha was indiffer
ent as to the payment or non-payment by the
people of Carroll of tha per cent, as called for
on their subscribed Btock, eto. AU of this
sounded well, bnt like many other rumora that
ciroulate, needed confirmation. At a meeting
of tho Board of Directors at Griffin, last Mon
day, it was found that, President White had sold
in New York tho bonds of the Savannah, Griffin
and North Alabama Bailroad Company, dno in
twenty years, for a sum sufficient to pay off the
mortgaged debt of the Company now due, but
had mado no attempt to borrow money to pros
ecute tha work on the road west of this place.
At a former meeting a proposition had been
made to Carroll county stockholders, that if they
would pay over $20,000 that tho road would bo
placed under contract to some point west of
the Chattahoochee river. They failed, however,
to pay over the $20,000, and as the Company,
was pressed with debts duo and falling due, a'
resolution was passed by tho Directors, at their
meeting last month, declaring it inexpedient to
resnmc work on tho road, and, as per agree
ment, tho money paid by tho Carroll stockhold
ers was returned to the Directors in their county
to ba refunded. A portion of this money had
been returned to them before the last meeting
was called. The money not refunded was taken
by the Carroll Directors to fho mieeting at Grif
fin, and, at their suggestion, the original prop
osition was renewed, inasmuch as the Company
was not ijow burdened with any pressing debt.
As soon as this was done the Carroll Directors,
Messrs. B. M. Long and G. W. Camp, paid over
what money they had previously collected and
not refunded, tho sum amounting to $5,650-
and agreed to give their individual notes, paya
ble ih two and four months, for $14,350, being
tho difference between tho money paid over
and $20,000. This was satisfactory to tho
•Board, and thereupon a resolution wa3 passed
autbhorizing the President to place under con
tract at once tho road.on or near tho located lino
to somo point west of the Chattahoochee river.
The Air Lino Bailroad was finished Monday
to a poipt within two miles of Gaineavillo.
Fniton county is to havo a $37,000 jail, and
Alexander and Broomhead aro tho contractors.
Atlanta’s latest brag is a soap factory. And
yet, they say somo folks up there are “ not
happy.” Wo call no names.
The Atlanta Sun snys tho veritable Fred
Douglas passed through Atlanta Sunday night
going to Alabama.
Oa tho 9th instant the Atlanta Snn bad
.“pitching in” article on tho character of nows
furnished it by the New Yotk Associated Press,
from whioh artiele the following is an extract:
Wo have got into this humbug, and can’t well
get ont of it at present; but are waiting pa
tiently an opportunity to mako arrangements to
pay our money for news, and not for the stuff
that is sept ns nightly.
In its issue yesterday, it prints the following
from Pat. Walsh, Esq., tho Georgia agent of
tho Association:
Augusta, Ga., 15th May, 1871.
To IF. A. Hemphill and J. Herrick : J. W.
Simonton directs mo to suspend service of dis
patches' to tho Sun forthwith. Pat. Walsh.
So the Son is out of the humbug, and must
therefore bo “happy.” It isn’t often wo get
our wishes granted so promptly.
Wo find the following paragraph in tho At
lanta Era, of yesterday.
Pastoral Call.—Tho congregation of tho
Seventh Baptist Church, corner of Saratoga and
Paea streets, havo called tho Bev. Ik. Brantley,
of Atlanta, Ga., to ba their pastor, in tho place
of Bov. Dr. Fuller, who takes charge of the con
gregation of tho now Eutjw Place BaDtiat
Church. Dr. Brantley, it is Understood, will-en
ter upon his duties at tho Seventh Church on
Sunday next.—Balt. Sun.
Wo find tho following suggestive paragraph
in a Louisville latter to the Atlanta Constitution
of yesterday:
Louisville has a population of ono hundred
and thirty thousand, and can only support threo
first-class daily papers, while Atlanta, with a
population of some thirty thousand has four.
The three papers in Louisville aro making
money—indeed, they aro rich and a power in
tho land. Tlfo four in A'tlants, I fear, aro not
all making money, aro not all rich, neither aro
they all a power in the land. The trnth is, At
lanta is surfeited with papers—too many to pay
or to live well.
It is a fighting matter up in Monroo county
to toll a man ho is “no better than the Potts
family." (Tho Potts family hold all tho offioes
by virtue of tho solid negro vote.) Wo think
snch a remark is enough to make a man bellig
erent.
Of crop prospects in Monroo' tho Advertised,
of Tuesday, says:
Crop. Prospects.—Wo aro confident, after
talking with a number of farmers, that crop
prospeots are not really discouraging. It is
true that wheat hoS been more or less injured
by rust and mould, and more, recently by heavy
rains, yet the injury is not so great as was at
first anticipated.
Cotton is small,’ and, owing to tho recent wot
and cold, weather, is reported to bo dying out.
But tho warm sfinshino of yesterday will arrest
this blighting influence.
- The"United ritates Light House Board will
put up two lights on Dawfuskeo island, Savan
nah river, this aummor, and will also mako im
provements in the day beacons at the oyster
beds’ at'tho mouth of tho river.
The Sandersville Georgian reports tho hard
est rain ever known in -that section as falling
last week from Wednesday to Saturday, Tho
small grain crop of tho county has been serious-,
ly injured, oats and wheat haying the ; rasVhad-
jyfa miaaylocalities.,~ m : s j*s.tTr Jduaoju
Mr. Bennett Womble, a well-known and
prominent citizen of Washington county, died
last week*. • — -\n .ri i,. gniiUuxqctaii
The Columbus doctors aro in fine Spirits.
Considerable sioknessis reported in that oity.
The AjUgnata flower and vegetable thieves
have broken out afresh. They say they will
have to emigrate soon or starve, as they can’t
livo on such diet always, and there s nothing
else to steal.
There was a perfect feast of law at Savannah
on Monday. The U. S. Circuit Cou.t, State Su
perior Court, City Court, Mayor’s Court, and
somo seventy-five Magistrate’s Courts, wore all
in foil blast on that day.
Tho last Grand Jury of Talinferro county
“went for” tho District Court as follows:
Wo join heartily in sentiment with the Grand
J nries of many counties in tho State, in repro
bating tho action of tha last Legislature in form
ing a “District Court.” It is a political blister
that is calculated to draw tho body of tho peo-
pie to emaciation and pain, while to the draw
ers fatness and joy is promised in its adminis
tration to a well-known party power.. We trust
tho next Legislature will repeal tho aot.
.On Saturday last, in broad day light, the
store of Mr. Abram Minis, of Savannah, was
entered and robbed of a considerable quantity
of groceries, several boxes of tobacco, a case
of lard, and a barrel of hams. The goods were
put into a wagon, and coolly driven off.
Eefoxring- to tho recent consolidation of tho
two Montgomery dailies, the Chronicle and Son-
tine!, of Tuesday, talks sense, as follows:
Wo believe that results will prove that our
Montgomery friends have done a wise thing.
There are tod many papers in tho South, tho
proprietors of many having learnt frqjn tho
past that spbscribera aro fow and far between.
It is better to publish ono first-clas3 -journal
than two indifferent ones—not that wo mean to
be understood as saying that eithor tho Adver
tiser or Mail were poor papers. On the contra
ry, th8y wore among tho first in tho South.
Montgomery could not support two such pa
pers. Consequently as rivals, the proprietors
could not expect to rcalizo more than running
expenses. Combined, tho proprietors will bo
benefitted 'and tho pnblio also—in this, that a
better article will bo given for tho samo price,
and merchants and others formerly taking two
city papers will content themselves with ono.
The following Georgia soldiers aro buried ip
Myrtle Hill Cemetery at Borne
Chas. Foster, Company F, G5th Ga.; Capt.
A. O. Wells, F, 57th Ga.;' J. Temples, G, 50th
Ga..; N. Morris, —, 56th Ga.; J. W. Lee, E,
26th Ga.; W. D. Payne, D, 9th Ga.; J. M. O.
C, 43d Ga.; Jasper Corbett, C, 4 th Ga. Cav..
J. T. Towers, F, 4G Ga.; Robt. Miller, —, 27th.
Ga.; J. Phillips, K, 47th Ga.; O. H., G, 43d
Ga.; J. Bachell, 3d Ga. Bat.; P. Marsenbura
B, —, Ga.
The jury in tho easo of Dr. Harrison West
moreland, charged with assault with intent to
murder Dr. Bedwine, at Atlanta, brought in a
verdict of guilty, on Tuesday, bitt recommended
the prisoner to mercy.
Tho Atlanta Constitution denies that Dr.
Brantley, of that city, has accepted the call to a
Baptist church in Baltimore, and says it is un
certain whether he will do so.
One thousand dollars was contributed in aid
of diocesan missionary work, at tho late Episco
pal Convention at Rome. Columbus was se
lected as tho place of next meeting. Sixteen
persons were confirmed Sunday morning.
Wo clip tho following items from the Milledge
villo Recorder, of Tuesday:
Col. Sneed, the reported bigamist, is now
in Miliedgeviile, having been brought over
from Macon on Tuesday last. His preliminary
trial took place; and, in default of two thou
sand dollars bail, ho was remanded to prison.
Tho Sheriff, Mr. Arnold, kindly allowed him to
hire, at his own expense, two reliable men as
guards to attend him everywhere, to obviate
tho necessity of confinement; and thus attended,
he has been seen in various parts of tho city
dnring the week. His continued avowals of
his innocence, together with other palliating
circumstances, have sptnewhat softened public
sentiment towards him. All desire that he may
be fully able to establish his claims as an hon
orable man; especially on account of the fanr
ily of General Myriek, one of tho most influ
ential in tho county. He will remain here until
tho proofs claimed by his prosecutors aro
bronght up, and his case is disposed of at the
August term of Court.
On Tuesday evening about two o’clock a
difficulty occurred between two well known
gentlemen of this place, that almost resulted
fatally. Mr. John Strother, in abnggy, accom-
.panied by Mr. P. Fair, jr., had stopped in front
of Moore & Co.’s store on Wayne street Col.
Lewis H. Konan, a member of the bar, stepped
out of Moore & Co.’s store with a double
barreled shot gun in his hands. Raising the
weapon, ho fired. Mr. Stevens knocked the
gun upward, and the load lodged in Mr. Staley’s
house on tho opposite eido of tho street. Tho
horse sprang forward, throwing both Mr.
Strother and Fair ont backwards. Col. Kenan
again fired, bnt as they were falling the load
passed over them, taking effect in tha leg of a
negro on the sidewalk. A crowd immediately
assembled, and any farther demonstration of
hostilities was prevented. Mr. Strother was
considerably bruised by tha fall, and has been
confined to his bed ever since. Not the slightest
clue to tho motives which prompted CoL Kenan
to this aot, is given. Even Mr. Strother is in
donbt as to the cause. Col; Kenan was arrested,
bnt gave bond in tho sum of $2,500 for his ap
pearance at court.
World’s Georgia Correspondence—
The Supreme Court—Radicals Pre
paring to “Flop or Fly.”
A correspondent of the 'Vyorld, of last Sunday,
who writes from Atlanta, S^es quite a sprighti^
pen-picture of men and matters in this State,'
a3 seen from the standpoint of that city. Of
the Supremo Court, we find tho following
sketch: ; lj| i I
The Supreme Court of Georgia oo'nsists of
threo members—a Ohief-JustiCo, O. A. Loch;
rano, and two associates, H. K. McKay and
Hiram Warner. No robes are worn as in South
Carolina, neither Is there any gentleman from
Afrioa upon tho bench. Judge Lochrane is an
Irishman by birth, and was onco a protege of
Chief-Justice Lumpkin, in whose seat, ab longo
intcrcallo, he now reolines. Ho is a man of
8prfghtljr mind, not much troubled with sticking
to anything long bnt O. A. Lochrane, to whom
ho clings with sweet devotion, -was a flno advo
cate at tho bar, and doe3 very well upon thej
bench. This is the gentleman of whom Senator
Hill, of Georgia, said in the Senate, “Lochrane
is ©very man’s friend.” Colfax has no laurels
to win as a smiler by his Honor’s side. H. K.
McCay, or Kent McCay, is of Northern birth,
has lived in thi3 State for many years, and has
a good legal mind, thought at times to bo over
acute so as to cause him to forget apices juris
non sunt jura. Hfasm Warner has long been a
Supremo Caqrt Judge in Ibis State, and is
known and honored alike for his legal knowl
edge and upright cliarastos. Taken altogether,
the Supreme Court is a.very great improvement
on the affair in South Carolina.
Tho correspondent is of opinion—and his
head is pte-eminotly level on this point—that'
Georgia Radicalism has gotten its death stab,
and that henceforth nothing is left the leaders
and professors of that faith bnt to “flop or fly”
—-to turn Demoorat or retreat to the svreets of
private lifo ia their various Northern homes.
Ho instances ex-Gov. Brown’s retirement from
the Supremo Bench and entrance into railroad
lifo as a proof that Radicalism has ceased to be
a paying investment, and is doomed, and says
Gov. Baflook purposes at the expiration of his
term “an eleganj; retirement in a fino mansion
ho has built himself at Albion, N. Y.” Upon the
whole, the correspondent sets forth a very tooth-
somo dish of news, and whioh will bo as relish-
able in l}ew York *3 it.ia.do^n here. f .
I ' L.. g ‘ life
The Ilaniptoii Roads Controversy—
What Mr. Stephens Sajs.
Referring to the statement mado some days
since by tho Montgomery. Mail of what happen
ed at the Hampton Eoads conference, Mr.
Stephens writes as follows to tho Atlanta Con
stitution: - .
“ I have not seen the article published in the
Montgomery Mail, to which you refer, andfrom
which the extraot quoted by you is taken; but
in response to your call on mo for information
on tho subject, I very promptly as well as un
hesitatingly say that thero must be somo mis
take in the now revelation. The substance of
what occurred and passed on both sides at tho
Hampton Road3 conference, i3 very accurately
set forth, not only in outline, but in detail, in
'tho second volume of my work on tho war, to
which you refer. It will bo found on pages
599 and 619 inclusive. No proposition of tho
character alluded to by tho writer in the Mont
gomery Mail is thero mentioned, and I feel
quite confident that none snch was made. In
deed, no tcord was written by any ono at that
conference. Neither pen nor pencil was used
by any ono of tho parties on the respective
sides, for any purpose whatever connected with
the conference dnring the entiro interview. So
thero must bo a mistake abont the writing of
tho'word “ Union."
What Mr. • Lincoln said about the “sine qua
non” with him of a pledge for tho ultimate re
storation of tho Union, as a condition precedent
to his entertaining or considering the subject
matter contemplated by tho Confederate Com
missioners in asking tho conference, is therein
also set forth vary fully in substance. No ma
terial word or idea is omitted.
. Bat in nothing that was said by tho commis
sioners, or either of them, was any reference
whatever made to their instructions.
I will hero further state for tho information
of your readers, who may not have aeon my
statement of the fact3 connected with this cele
brated conference* as well as to its origin and
its objeots, as what transpired at it, abont which
so many errors qxist in tho popular mind—that
the Confederate Commissioners had no written
instructions other than what was contained in
their letter of appointment, which has been
extensively published North as well as South,
nor had they any verbal instructions inconsistent
with the letter of their appointment.
All who wish fall and accurate information
upon tho whole subject are referred to the book
before mentioned.
Your3 truly,
Alexander H. Stephens.
FINANCIAL AND ’gom5
Weekly Reviewer tha
OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND MEisvv-r,
wHisas}
M!es a;;.
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Corrox.—Receipts to-day 40 S? 6
hmrw! IKS * " a •
shipped 165.!
Receipts for tho week ending this
bales; sales 1171; shipped 959. 257
Tho market has been irregular and ecm--,v
cited during the last week. The advance- ’ itei "
in tho Liverpool and New York m-rke‘s ^ ^
day and Monday last,produced qnHe a
market heie-pricoa touching liy CPn ,
aubgs on Monday. But tho aftekoon
telegrams of that day being unfavorable
damper upon tho ardor of bnyers, and JL, 1
took a downward tondenev, ana
fallen off a fall bi cent-the market dZ!
and nominal this evening at 14 cents for ffil ^
MACON COTTON STATEMssr
Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1870-bale-.
Received to-day.... .......... " .. 2,%
Received previously •"•'.7.797
Buying
Selling.
• A Disgusted “Arkansas Traveler.”
F. L. Anthony, of Little Bock, Arkansas,
evidently a hugely disgusted man. The cause
‘of his disgust seem3 to by cotton—that is, too
much cotton. To relievo .himself, he writes as
below to tho U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture
iat "Washington. Wo heprlily sympathize with
•him in his disgust. If it wasn’t wicked, wo
would wish a sharp remedy for the disease, and
about the only sore one, viz: gentle starvation
for a few months. Ho says:
Cotton is tho cars© of this country. It is pro
duced as a means of procuring everything.
Even Indian corn, that can bo produced here at
less expense than elsewhere in the Unipn, is im
ported in largo quantities. At gathering time
last fall tho com grown on tho river above and
bronght here in tho shuck,[sold at from $110 to
$1 25 upon our leveo. Every steamboat now
brings sack corn, which sells at from $1 30 to
$1 35 per bushel. Wo depend wholly upon
other States for flour, potatoes, turnips, cab
bages, celery, horse-radisb, fruit, and a variety
of things at high prices, whioh might be pro
duced hero at a low price. B&cojj, beef, butter,
lard and eggs are among our importations. To
this li3t -Of agricultural productions we may also
add all sorts of mannfactnres—sash, doors,
window blinds, furniture, wagons, carriages,
hnbs, spokes, felloes, bows, homes, ax-helves,
auger-handles, ox yokes and bows, and almost
everything yon can name.
Mechanicai labor is worth from $3 to $5 per
day; farm labor from $18 to $25 per month _
day laborers in town want from $ 1 to $2 per
day. With cotton 11 to 12 cents as the base for
these prices, you may well conclude we are
fairly on tho road -to ruin. When I add that
potatoes are worth $150, and turnips $lper
bushel; eggs, 25 to 50 cents per dozen; fowls,
35 to 50 cents apiece; cabbages, 25-to 75 cents
par head; and a handful of greens a dime, you
may judge thero is great need for some ono to
make endeavors to have these things produced
at home. A dish of strawberries and milk for
a family of six, say n balf-gallon of each, would
not cost less than $1 50 to $2.
Hydrate of Chloral.—Another death was
reported in New York last week from the use'of
this dangerdus drug. g Indeed, it seefns to bo
taking the place of kerosene, as a thinner bnt of
our surplus population." It is strange',’says the
World, how widespread is the delusion that this
powerful and frequently unmanageable drug is
safe and universal panacea. Men use it to
procure sleep, and women to cabn. their nerves.
Its rapid action, and the fact'that it does not
leavo behind it tho usqal reaction consequent
upon tlie most narootios, has given it a wonder-'
ful popularity. And yet both experience and
the testimony qI medical men have shown it to
be extremely dangerous. The^ very nature of
the drug is yet imperfectly understood. The
pnblio cannot be too earnestly warned against
itB use except under competent direction.
Women in iho Editorial Room,
From the New York Evening Ledger.]
Some comment has been occasioned on the
part of our contemporaries by. our strictures
several days since on women journalists, and
onr condemnation of tho policy of urging wo
men into the profession, whether they have spe
cial talent to enable them to meet its require
ments or not. On that question we stand firmly
in the position wb assumed in the 'first article.
Wo do not abate ono jot tho harshest terms of
onr statement. We have no gallantry to prompt
a plausible argumentum ad faminem, and be
sides, we do not believe that gallantry in the
senso of sentimental politeness to women has
anything to do with journalism. Wo adopt the
motto place aux dames; but wo only give way
‘to them in the drawing room or on the street,
or, in short, anywhere bnt tho editorial room;
for that, we think, is no place for them. Jf
there were any really clever journalists among
all the women who sprawl their fashion articles
over scented pages, or engrave their puling edit
orials in microscopio characters r.n tinted cream-
laid noto sheets, wo might qutl fy onr adverse
judgment. But of the entire lut there is not
.ono who is oven a passable journalist—hot one
who can perform tho work of an editor or re
porter with anything like tho average ability of
men. A lot of butterflies in spring bonnets and
gaudy raiment, calling themselves editressess
and rejoicing in pet names invariably ending in,
“ie,” as Josio, Jennie, Fannie, Katie, Suae, in-
fcsk ? th'e editorial rooms of the newspapers, and
annoy thb editors with their chatter—that is fhfc
nearest they approach to journalism.
Thoy draw their pay n3 a gratuity in most
cases, the frantio editor being willing to audit
thoir bills to any amount if by that means ho
can only rid himself of them. Several of these
women are, we know, poor and dependent on
their pens for their living, bnt tho majority of
them aro graduated milliners, who aspire to
something easier than bonnet-making, 05 who
manage their editorial office as a bureau of free
advertising for their trade. Tho introduction
of women to the editorial room, wo claim, 13
demoralizing and provocative of scandal; for
while a fow come to work, tho general incompe
tency of tho majority renders them too prono
indeed to tho arts of coquetry rather than the
arts of journalism. This talk abont tho neces
sity of women earning a living by journalistic
service i3 all humbug. Women havo tried it,
and not ono success brightens tho gloomy pic-
tufo of failure. They are not fitted for tha
work, and can not dop. And a'3 for taking tho
risk of introducing‘them to editorial rooms and
giving them charge of departments of a paper/
why, it would be suicidal, r For our part we
would as willingly opon the door to his Satanic
Majesty as to a single one of them; for wherever
they have gone there has been scandal, demor
alization and trouble.. In short, wo re-assort,
and wo think experience has proved, that
has an exclusive right to journalism, and will
have until suoh time as woman becomes strong
enough tp forget that sho is woman while
attempting tho part of journalist. Those who
essay tho paths of the profession withont the
ability Jo comprehend or give expression to its
Si
Baying rates for Silver.
Shipped to-day . 89,634
Shipped previously
Stock oa hand this evening
"" 3,657
The money market is qniet and comp™-
easy again—the banka readily -
limited amouiit of good paper
tion. There ia a moderate inquiry in
bond market for the better StocfSJS
securities and operations on a limited saiTA *
pile daily. Wo quote: 3 tBEj -
EXCHANGE OS NSW YORK.
77.7.7.;;;;;;;; $ ’
Borine ^change os sayasxab.'' [f(tL
Seiimg &
Pormcn™..^.!^^? 1 '
OOLD AND SHiVjZB. ^
rates for Gold W(9
-7-7.7” m
I 04
1 07
„ . _ STATE BONDS
Georgia 7 per cent Bonds, new.. ‘
Georgia 7 per cent. Bonds, old... ®
Georgia 6 per cent Bonds, old 8T ®2?
South Carolina old Bonds, 6 uer cenV r*
South Carolina new Bonds, 6per cent %
... CTFT SECURITIES.
City of ImS.!*' 4by E '
City of Savannah Bonds, old. [ J?
City ofSavannah Bonds, new 'S
City of Augusta Bonds, old
City of Augusta Bonds, new
City of Atlanta Bonds, 8 per cent....' m
City of Atlanta Bonds, 7 per cent , Sj
. RAILROAD SECURITIES. '
Georgia Bailroad 7 per cent. Bonds... s&r<«
Georgia Bailroad Stock S
Central Bailroad 7 per cent. Bonds " " ’95»os
Central Bailroad Stock ii7^T?
Southwestern Railroad Bonds £
Southwestern Railroal Stock ” «
Macon & Brunswick B. ET 1st mort. BondLiisja
Macon & Brunswick R. B, 2d moil;. Beads... '{5
Macon & Brunswick Bailroad Stock (nom).. %
Macon & Western Railroad Bonds 95 \
Macon & Western Railroad Stock ....1C6OU0
Macon & Augusta Bailroad 1st mort Bonds. ' 91
Macon & Augusta Bailroad 1st mortgage Bonds
endorsed 92®9i
Macon & Augusta B. B, Construction Bonds. "911
Macon & Augusta Bailroad Stock M
Atlanta & West Point B. B. 8-per cent Bonds 100
Atlanta & West Point B. B. Stock 100
Atlantic* Gulf Bailroad. consolidated mort
gage Bonds so
Atlantic * Gulf Railroad Bonds, endorsed by
City of Savannah 80
Atlantic & Gtflf Bailroad Coupon Bonds 60
Atlantic & Gulf Bailroad Stock 23
Western Bailroad 8 percent. Bonds, endorsed
by Central Bailroad 90@S1
Mongtgomery & West Point Railroad Bonds,
endorsed by Central Bailroad 85§S3
Mobilo * Girard Bailroad Bonds, endorsed by
Central Railroad 88@90
Mississippi&Tennessee Bailroad 1st mortgage
Bonds ;. 82
Bonds 70
South Carolina B. B. Bonds, 7 per cent 73
South Carolina B. E. Bonds, G per cent 70
South Carolina Bailroad Stock 37&@40
Cotton State Life Insurance Company Stock. £0
The wholesale and jobbing trade of the dfy con
tinues dull and is daily growing mate, to ts the
summer approaches. Tho market, however, is in
healthy condition and onr leading busmen mm
will all go throngh tho summer without trouble or
pecuniary embarrassment. Tha hulk of tad* is
now confined to grain, provisions end giocccee.
Prices are steady and unchanged. Wo append only
onr meat and grain quotations:
BACON—Clear Sidos (smoked) 11% @13
Clear Rib Sides (smoked) 11%@UK
Shoulders 9% @10
Hsuns^sugar-cured)...- 18 ©SO
BULK MEATS—clear sides UK
Clear rib sides U
Shoulders 3
GRAIN AND IIAT.
COHN—White.. i05@lljj
MEAT. 1 15 @ 1 a)
GBITS........ 125 @l*j
OATS 75 @125
WHEAT—Per bushel • 40 @1»
FIELD PEAS
BAY—Northern
Tonnosse Timotfcv J ®
HerdaGraea . 200
Tennessee - “ »
first principles we have no sympathy with. We
may pity if they bo‘ suioidally inclined, but,
dead or alive, wo cannot grant that they arS
capacitated for tho work of journalism.
MarUsls—Kreulng Report.
New Yens, May 17—Cotton weak; sales 2234
uplands 15,
Southern flour a shad© firmer; common to m
eiffa G 7P@715: good to choice 7 20@9 00. WliinJ
firmer at 92@92>£- Wheat eno cent better, M*
holders at close more dispoeCd to realize; ante
red and western 1 60(3)1 62. Com closed hhU.
declining from 73@S0. Pork lower at 16J50. -jf
dull. Lard heavy; kettle 11. Navals quiet.
low firm. Freights firm; cotton, per sail <■*!
steamy* . _ ,
Gold stiong atllj£@llJi. Gorsmments ad
vanced’ Stocks active. Money easy » *•
States tolerably active, especially Tennessees, TOt;
new 71; Virginias G9; new 72. LouisiarM w
new 62. Levees 69^; 8s 83. Alabama* iOk*
69. Georgias 89; 7s 92. North Carolinas
new 27. South Carolinas 74; new 63>£. ,
Stocks quiet and strong. Eriss active. Ceaun
Union Pacific bonds very steady and etrmr, jj“
17%; 62s U)£; 61s 11K; 65s 11%; now 1»H5 6,9
13Jf;6Ssl3^ 403 93K.
Cincinnati, May 17.—Flour, demand goea*
full prices. Corn quiet and unchanged. For*
at 16.753)17 01. Lard holders anxious; kettle Wi-
Bacon dull and unchanged. Whisky in <?CD2ffi
. Baltimore, May 17.—Flour fairly w*®;
Wheat firm; Ohio and Indiana 1 625165.
lot of-red sold at 2 10. Corn, white
78@75; mixed western 74S75. ProvL.oc
Whisky unchanged. , v ; owor - mid-
Cotton market easier; n ? t .CToaa Wex-
dltegs Ufc®UK; net recego-Mfc Gross 103, ex
portscoastwiss 146; salesS2 J > C3rD
mMSaSSitS figSjiyjs® ra " 1 “
Bran higher, scarce at 140. Hay quiet, gigffift
C<i23 53. Pork inactive, nommidjlS
Ttaivwi rlnll *t, Lard, tteg*
_
Whisky 87KS97K- ,Coffoonominally-MSgS’
Btorling 23Jf. Sight ^premium. Go%; s cC{
. Cotton dull and lower: middlings
receipts 2526; gross 3139; exports to H*Tiov“
to Barcelona 461; sales 1400; stock
sales
Will the President Caret Out His Procla
mation ?—The New York Sod, a llepnblican
paper, asks! the following impertinent ques
tions: . ■
Last week President Grant ordered jJnitod
States troops to South Carolina to carry out his
will under .the provisions of the Ku-klnx In'll,
No outrages had bsen reported from that State
for several months, and there was apparently,
no necessity for the President's order. rtiaV
On Tuesday morning a fearful riot occurred
in Scranton, Penn. Ono man was killed, and
several probably fatally wonuded. The people
in the cOal regions momentarily await a more
terrible Outbreak. President Grant, though
perfectly aware of these facts, has ordered no
United Stqtes troops to Sozanton.
Would it not bo well for the President to re
call the United. States troops from South Caro
lina and station them ia Soranton ? In his re-
ewt Ku-klpx proclamation Gen. Grant aafi
tnat “the Jaw of Oongxessnpplies to all parts of
the United States, and will be enforced every
where to the extent of the power vested in the
Executive.” Does he mean it? If so, lot him
send ai brigade of infantry to the raining regions
to see that the people are proteoted.
for Liverpool middliijg!;
rC slvAXNAii, M»y 17.—Cotton Inactive
drooping; middlings 11%; net receipts 503:
to continent 600- coastwise 918; sales 3W| 8
27,551. - rJd .
Norfolk, May 17.—Cotton nominM;. ic T s ’ Tio-
diings 14; net receipts 505; exports coastwj®
’ Wilmington, May 17.»-Cottorr quiet; miJi® 55
15; net receipts 25; sales 19; stock 1SC5.
Charleston, MstvlT.—Cotton easier;
15K; net receipt 4& gross —; exports cois*
944; sales 250; stoel07,132. .
Boston, May-17.—Cotton quiet; m»ddlin6» 4
.sales 406!; stock 10,500. . .-sins#
Galveston, May 17.—Cotton firm; goodo™.®
13@1S%; net receipts 1140; exports to th« •0“°’
700; Coartwise 2100; stock 57,644. ^ 15U ■
Mobil*, May 17.—Cotton weak; ruddltogp
(®15K; net receipts'511 sales 25; slots*. - e j
Liverpool, May 177 even—Cotton closes 9‘ t
and steady; gales 12000; speculation and
3000 On vessel at Nsiw Orleans 7%; Charlest<5“
Savannah 7%.
Facts fob life Ladies.—I have
Wheeler and Wilsen Machine eight J 6819 a(J oi
out tho slightest repairs, and H is ip **
running order as the day it was bought,
the first dozen noodles that came with
ohino, all complete ekoept the wear.
needle is worn nearly to the
poarae sewing. The machine has bebn run nw
IT every dgy ia the wegn^ p g £tosax»
Sharon Centre, H. 7,