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Telegraph and Messenger.
7 MACON, JUNE 20, IS71 .
't'lto Tribone ntul Hr. StfpSieas.
A Tribune interviewer Lasbsea after Hon. A.
- v ephens, but confesses that he was allowed
print nothing which had not been published
Wore. We copy what ho says in another part
c* *'-is edition.
Mr. Stephens rightly condemns the 14th and
i.yv Amendments and the process of recon-
< ruction as so many outrages upon the true
i_L .',-y of the Government. Ha truly says that
.Government, as manipulated by the Kadi-
o ' - , is swiftly tending downward to centraliza-
t. a and despotism; and he prognosticates the
ii-; •! loss of liberty unless the people take timely
. r ~. effect a peaceable revolution at the
ballet box.
V e concur with Mr. Stephens rn regard to
—, ..ug political fact3 and tendencies, but do
sympathize, to any great extent, in his
r : urn for the future. Despotism takes great
v ~ js in times of war and public disorder; but
• -.lar liberty revives with the return of peace
’ uf. public qoiet. England, in her great civil
v:(began to io3ist the encroachments of the
crera) lost every vistage of freedom and
• 'k into an absolute autocracy; but she has
■ --.adjly popularized her government from that
.othls. So will it ba in the United States;
. r hope and believe. Tae jealousy for nop-
, State and local rights is even now moving.
r , s y-m g- ow w ith the subsidence of sectional
’•v.u3t and hatred and of alarm for the vs-
‘integrity.
I-uo policy of the South, there; ora, Is HO*.
; - •• those issues on the Sort horn people,
;... • .cse all efforts to that end from this quarter
v.r. only defcattheir object by exciting Northern
r c:ou, irritation and alarm. We are not to
• • am that the Northern people aro less wise,
r--23!ous or zealous for their rights than we are.
A*- them alone. Press no nltimatnms on the
N-r:hera Democracy. Lat; events take their
irdural course. As, practically, the North must
clrc* Iho President, let them make their own
: r.-. form and selection of candidate; and though
.•' ! :her may altogether meet onr views, let us
,v.i.-t them as en amendment on Grant and
it., Icalism, and wait patiently for farther ad-
f » c jg and improvements. This, in out humble
v— of the matter, is the proper and judicious
r. ■: : e for the Soutn to adopt.
Tae Alnmni Meeting Yesterday.
A meeting of the Alumni of the University
•' c-aorgia resident in Macon, was held yester-
<!: y t f cemoon at the office of Nisbets & 3aekson,
John Knlhorford in the chair, and N. M.
'•’omen acting as Secretary. The list em-
bvf :es the following names; Col. W. H. Jack*
«-os. Hon. Jaa. Jackson. Col. D. W. Lewis, Jas.
Nisbet, Esq., Hon. J. J. Gresham, Professor
s. r. Sanford, Professor W. D. Williams, Ilev.
s Hoy kin, Col. H. H. Jones, Col. Henry S.
«’’~ver, CoL Palaski Holt, Judge T. G. Holt,
C pi. T. G. Holt, Jr., Dr. W. F. Holt, Dr. J.
:■ V.&xter, Samuel Hall, Es<j., W. A. used, Esq.,
Capt. A. O. Bacon, Col. L. 2L Limar, J. H.
BS'.tnt, Esq., T. C. Nisbet, Ejq., R. F. Wool-
. Esq., W. Lnndy, Esq , E. D. Hnguenin,
W. B. Bonnell, Esq., and A. W. Keese.
Upon motion of Mr. Jas. A. Nisbet a con-
•r m : 3 e of five wa3 appointed to prepare busi-
E .-.r , and make a report to a future meeting to
v. called by the Chairman. The chair named
:it: following as the committee; Messrs. Jas.
V Nisbet, J. J. Gresham, W. D. Williams, H.
si. Jones, and A. 0. Bacon. Another eommit-
i. consisting of Messrs. D. W. Lewis, (ehair-
--fu,)H. S. Glover and A. W. Reese was ap
pointed to confer with the managers of the va-
.C 3 railroads in the State for the purpose of
• nttuoiag them to extend all the facilities posd-
V, to the Alnmni in ths State who may desire
f ; .tenu the Alumni dinner at Athens next
Commencement.
There was a free exchange of views as to
d ~=ra measurers calculated to farther the
rils aimed at in initiating tins movement,
'.f. a cordial and harmonious spirit manifested
- to the necessity and desirability of attaining
them as speedily as may be. We thick tins
m’-c iing may prove the pivot upon which there
■>.r. be made to turn events of the highest mo-
-..irui to the University, to the people of the
.'.•file and the cause of education.
As an incident of the meeting it may be men-
r.ed that Col. W. H. Jackson is the last sur-
. irag member of the first class ever graduated
the University—sixty odd years ego—and
,V. ssrs. Solomon and Hugnenin members of the
!■'«! graduating class—that of 1670.
Wg would be pleased to have our exchanges
o '- this article.
Important Medical Work.
3‘r jfessor Joseph Jcn23, M. D., now of the
Medical Department of the University of Lon-
.s'. sa*, aud so lately holding a distinguished po
etic# in the University of Georgia, is preparing
for the press,“Medical and Sdboical Memoies,”
which will embrace the investigations of fifteen
veers into the causes, geographical distribution,
natural history and treatment of intermittent,
remittent and congestive malarial fevers, yellcw
fever, typhoid and typhus fevers, small pox,
spurious vaccination, measles, pneumonia, diar-
riu'-e, dysentery, scurvy, tetanus, cerebro-spinal-
•ncuingitia, diseases supervening upon gun-shot
wounds, pywmia, hospital gangrene, erysipelas,
etc. The resnlt3 of the investigation of the
diseases of the Confederate army, during the
American civil war, 1S61-18G5, will occupy a
prominent portion of the work.
This will bo one of the most important me'di-
cv. works ever issued from the Southern press,
and the high scientific and professional reputa
tion of tlio distinguished author will hardly fail
to inspires lively and general interest in the
enterprise among the medical fraternity. The
book^wlll be published by subscription, and
tkoso desiring to subscribe should address Jos.
truss, II. D., glass box 1542, New Orleans, La.
Ma. Stephens.—Of the interview wi.h Mr.
s.ephens reported by its correspondent and
which wo publish on tho onisideef this issue,
the Tribune says:
Our Georgia correspondent gives a chapter
from the utterances of another Southern politi
cian who “does not accept tho situation.” Alex
ander H. Stephens, tho Vice President of the
Confederacy, (while it lived) talks like a newly
vivified fossil from a past political age. As
such, however, what be has to say is of interest.
“Newly vivified fossil” as Mr. Stephens may
be, in the estimation of this Jacobite journal,
he has yet more brains, more courage, and
more true patriotism than is to be found in the
entire Radical party of tho Union. While the
oundness of his judgment as to the true policy
of tho South and the Democratic party with
reference to what are commonly known as
‘•dead issues” may be an open question, there
can bo none either &3 to tho honesty of his mo
tives, tho singular pnriiy of his private and
pnblio fife, and the great services he has, in the
past, rendered to his section and country.
A Sn.vro Mountain.—The Denver News
chronicles the discovery of a silver mountain
which averages 1500 to 2000 ounces of metal to
a ton of ore.
Tee Great Greeley Demonstration is fiercely
denounced as a scheme to defeat the re-nomina-
tion of Grant, and is greatly detested In official
ircks.
The Bureau. on'the Cotton Crop.
The view3 of the - Agricultural Bnrean at
Washington on the growing cotton crop, de
servedly command a great deal of attentien.
They aro formed very cautiously, and with all
the data ot command; which, however, at iMa
season cf the year are necessarily very imper
fect. They are thus early little more than the
opinions and estimates of correspondents scatr
tered all over the cotton growing region, and
their ideas of the prospects and condition of tho
crop fn their various localities. These corres
pondents are, indeed, among tho best and most
reliable of our planting population, and, doubt
less, they take especial pains to inform them
selves; bnt, at tho very best, their estimates
must rest to a great degree on conjecture.
They write from nearly 300 counties—or
probably from about ono-balf of tho Southern
cotton area. Their information is, no donbt,
the most perfect that can be had, and indicates
probabilities. Last summer, at a little later
period than this, they began to foreshadow the
large proportions of the growing crop, and tho
department then began to talk about a total
crop of 3,700,000 bales, which the extraordinary
favorable conditions of the season swelled sub-
sequently to about 4,200,000.
This season, they sound the note of a largely
diminished crop, and we think it not improbable
that the diminution will, in some measure, cor
respond with tho unexpected excess of last year.
Let u3 consider the figures of the Bureau for a
moment: In cotton acreage they estimate a
falling off from last year of about 15 per cent,
and the Bureau says this would make the exist
ing acreage between seven and eight millions.
The Bureau states that the product of last year;”
by reason cf extraordinary favorable conditions
averaged 200 pounds ot lint to the acre; bnt
the average yield of former years was qot more
than 150 pounds.
Taking this average of former years, what
ought to bo the crop ? We will say 7,500,000
ccre3 at 150 pounds per acre—1,125,009,000
pounds of cotton, representing 2,500,000 bales
of 450 pounds each, or 2,250,000 bales of 500
pounds each, on the Bureau’s hypothesis of tho
cotton area and a product equal to an average
yield through a series of years. Bnt the ques
tion whether the growing crop is likely to come
up to an average yield is one whiob few plan
ters would answer in the affirmative; and the
Bureau reports the condition in all the States,
except Florida, at an average of 124 per cent,
below the mean condition os to promise. r
Now, on the point of what is the average yield
0$ cotton to the’acre through any given series
of years, the information of the Bureau ought
to be accurate. It m. a matter, not of conjec
ture, like»tho prospective yield of a growing
crop, or of part facts and part conjeclnro like a
current estimate of falling off in the acreage of
any growing crop. It is a matter of official re
turn. So, also, wa3the colton acreage of last
year. Therefore, these two items shouldbe re
liable, while the estimate of falling off can ho
only approximately so.
Bat, es if distrusting the most certain data,
or disliking to assume the conclusions thev lead
to, the Bureau seems to fall back upon a calcn
lation founded purely upon the two conjectural
elements of diminished area end diminished av
eraged condition of the growing crop below
mean condition at this season of the year; and,
while declining to present any estimate, talks of
a crop ranging between three and three and a
half million bales.
Let the reader take bis pencil and deduct the
diminished acreage (15 per cent.) and the di
minished average (124 per cent.) which the
crop is represented to be below average con
dition, and dedact these from the 4,200,000
bales produced in 1870, and he will see
that they indicate about 3,130,000 bales.—
But even this is figuring on the basis of
the extraordinary yield of last year—(200
pounds to the acre)—when, as the Bureau says,
the average yield is 25 per cent., less, or only
150 pounds.
To conclude, although wo agree with the Bu
reau that an official estimate of a growing crop
thu3 early in the season would be an absurdity,
yet it will be seen that his reasoning points log
ically to a crop below the figures he names—and
we believe tho facts point that way quite as
strongly as his more reliable data.
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omen in jLee, Dougherty, and Baker.
A correspondent alike eminent for his judg
ment, intelligence and reliability, writes us
from Wooten's Station, S. W. E. E., on the -12th
instant, as follows:
The prospect for the cotton planter is ex
tremely g’comy. I have had occasion, very
recently, to travel through a portion of Lee,'
Dougherty, and Baker counties, and, in an ex
perience of twenty-five years in planting, I do
not remember ever to have seen, at this date,
the cotton crop presenting such a dwarfish,
sickly, and unpromising appearance. The lice
are sucking np the juices of the plant, Ihograss
is choking it to death, and the earth is so satur
ated with water that proper aeration of the roots
is impossible, and consequently the plant is al
most suffocated.
Where not liberally fertilized, cotton looks
smaller than it d‘d two weeks ago. We have
had nearly an average of two Bhowers a day for
more than two weeks, and now the windows of
tne heavens are open, and we have every pros
pect of a continuation of rain for two weeks
linger.
! Notwithstanding the excessive rains the com
crops are very promising, and I seo no indica
tions of firing from excessive moisture, as you
know was formerly onr trouble on tho seaboard;
tho increased attitude of this couutry over that
of the seaboard, our superior natural subterra
nean drainage preventing much firing of the
com. - ■ . ,
Wise. Words .Seasonably Spoken.
We find the following utterances in a late
number of the New Orleans Picayune. They
sinks os as eminently apropos, read in the light
ol recent events, end full cf sound senso. As
such we submit them with our cordial endorse
ment . Says the Picayune:
There is no man now living who can be
claimed as the representative of the sentiments
and opinions of the people of the twelve South
ern States of the American Union. There is no
Southern man who can rightfully bo taken as
the embodiment and personification cf Southern
ideas or Southern feelings. There is no man
of aouthtnj birth, education and surroundings,
however intimately identified with tho South in
her contests and Oofeat, who can properly claim
to speak for the Somber^ people or to give
forth utterances by which U»*are to be judged.
The people of the Sonth have tn« *igbt to speak
for themselves, for no one has the vicarious
right to speak in their behalf. The spirit which
is in them must be judged from the acts of tb*
people, and inno respect by the sayings of men
once prominent and still respected among them.
Individual utterances by men of any class, what
ever position they mayiave held, however much
of public confidence (hey may have enjoyed,
however efficient their services may have been
in a can§e which has failed, cannot commit or
bind the people, bec&nse the speakers cannot
assume to speak officially by virtue of offices
and positions which no longer exist. Those
gentlemen who were prominent, conspicuous
and influential in tho Confederacy had the con
sideration and respect due to their rank and
position, bnt tho Confederacy having passed
away, the same individuals revert to their former
positions and standing; nor can they assume to
give weight and sanction, force and effect to
living opinions by the virtue of dead offioes.
A xouxa man named Atkins and his wife fell
from a peak of the Blue Bidge mountains in
Wilkes county, North Carolina, on Monday last
The distance was C50 feet. Mrs. A. was killed,
her body being shockingly mangled', but at last
accounts Mr. A. was still alive, with some pros
pect of recovery.
Eleven blonde Boston beauties bestowed their
hands and hearts on colored bridegrooms last
year.
A Cotton Lessen. :
On (he SOth April, 1S70, middling cotton was
worth 234 cents and rapidly losing ground in
anticipation of an abundant crop. The;same
day, 1871,« was worth 14} cents in New York,
and 13 oents in Macon,-all Jn view of such an
emormocs crop that it was going to cripple tho
capitalists to carry the surplus over the present
summer. On the 17th dayof June instant cot
ton was strongin New York et 20} (justeix cents
higher) in anticipation of a scant growing crop.
Wo suppose buyers generally accept the Bu
reau’s idea that the crop will be about 700,000
bales short of last year’s product—or 8,500,000
bales. Let us see how the account of sales
would foot up on this assumption and Its results
on prices:
3.500,000 bales at 20ft—fray $94 per
bale of 450 pounds. §320,000,00
4,200,000 bales at ] 4|—say §C7 per
bale. 281,000,000
Balance for short crop §48,000,000.
Forty-eight millions gain oh the short crop,
and all the discouragement and distress of a
losing business thrown in as a make weight.
Now, we know, that all such profound econo
mists as Mr. Greeley say, with more or less
fores and truth, that it is waste of breath to
preach moderation in cotton-planting; and
while the business pays, it is impossible to stop
excess of production. Perhaps it is. The crop
will be shortened this year in good part volun
tarily by the aolion of planters in devoting a
larger portion of their land and labor to corn.- 1 179 ?* ... — „ a home before he leaves It Peter Lampkin was
ST™ L; dn’e fiimnlv lo the fact that I foand gmlty of assault with attempt to kill T.
This, however, was due simply to the-fact that
cotton had sunk below a remunerative price.
Had it been saleable at any price between fifteen
and twenty cents, it is scarcely doubtful* that
the area In cultivation would have been main-
tained; and should the next crop be disposed
of at present prices, there js as little doubt that
. XS72 will see an enlarged cotton area in cultiva
tion, the product of which, under favor of Prov
idence, will again cut down prices below a re
munerative point.
But. still, tralh and common sense are never
utterly without effect. A good many sensible
men aro settling down upon a system of plant
ing which, whether cotton be worth ten or
twenty cents, will at least leave them out of
debt and independent. Producing their own
food supplies—their cotton represents almost
wholly the profits of the farm. If their fellow-
planters choose that it shall bo worth twenty
cents—well and good. They have a splendid
cash surplus. Eut if by reason of over-produc
tion it is brought down to fen cent 3 , still they
are not in danger of tho sheriff.
And this is the only safe plan. Many wisa
men, with tho permanent good of Georgia at
heart, regret to see cotton rising to a price
which shall set on foot again tho insanity of
over-prcduclion. They know it is the way to
ruin. The people may be a little flush ono
year, but they will be bankrupt the next; There
is no hope for a farming country which boys its
corn and meat. All its profits, no matter what
they are, go to pay freightage, over purchases
and money lenders.
zune county Fair.
We congratulate the Society on the highly fa
vorable issue of their first experiment of «
County Fair. It was, In many respects, a sur
prising exposition. Wo saw nobody on tiio
ground who was not pleasingly disappointed by
this impromptu show. The display of veget*
ables, fruits and flowers astonished us.- We
venture to say no finer will be shown anywhere
this current year. There wore cabbages which
must bave weighed between twenty and thirty
pounds—immense potatoes of many varieties
—bests, onions, cucumbers, roasting ears,
squashes, carrots and, in fine, the entire tribe
of esculent vegetables far bigger than they
ought in right season to grow. Thero were ap
ples bigger than anybody’s fist—of bright hues
and delicious fragrance—very largo and fine
peaches and several varieties of pears. There
was com fifteen feet high—a beautiful display
of flowers—many trophies of fine housewifery
and of the domestic fine arts. There was some
display of poultry—a good showing of agricul
tural implements—and Findlay & Craig had one
of their horso powers in operation. Wo were
on tho gronnd early and but a few moments.
Oar local department will, doubtless, go into
particulars. _________
Deatb of Vallanirighnm.
The whole South will deplore tho untimely
death of Mr. Vallanfiigham—a brilliant star ex
tinguished by that fatal practice, tho careless
handling of fire-arms. Ho was a man of noble
proportions—mental and morah Since bi3 “now
departure” (so-called,) some of the papers have
questioned his integrity and devotion to princi
ple ; but no man has displayed a higher, bolder
or steadier moral courage than Mr. Yallandig-
ham, and few have suffered mora in defence of
political principle. It will not do to attribute
his “new departure.” to moral weakness or in
difference to principle. It was no donbt on his
part dictated by sincere convictions of duty and
polioy on the existing condition of the country.
The Stanton Railway Ehbboglio—Plan of
Opeeations Agbeed Upon.—The creditors of
the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad had a
meeting in Chattanooga last Thursday. Stan
ton made a long speech to them explaining tho
situation of affairs. The total cost of the road,
buildings and equipment had been §9,274,550,
and he had netted from the sale of bonds less
lnterc3t,;coni32nssIan3 endtaxe3abontn §6,883,-
400. There was a floating debt of a million and
a half. A committee of the creditors, after a
thorough consideration cf the facts, agreed upon
a series of resolutions which was unanimously
adopted: first to resist tho efforts to put the
road in bankruptcy. Second, to confer with the
Governor of Alabama and secure hia co-opera
tion. Third, to appoint a committee to exam
ine the books. Fourth, to appoint Stanton to
operate the road and a financial agent to re
ceive and disburse it3 earnings. Fifth, to post
pone debts of general creditors till tho laborers
and employees are paid. Sixth, to appoint an
executive committee of the creditors to adviso
and assist Stanton in running the road. Seventh,
expressing confidence in Stanton’s honosty and
disposition and ability to pay tho debts of the
road, if creditors will wait patiently. Eighth,
taking an extension of time on the debts, except
those dne to employees, for one, two and three
years at 8 per cent interest.
Mh. Stephens, in his salutatory in the Atlanta
Son, of yesterday, well says :
&>«*«titutIonal liberty i3 the offspring of
reason—not °f physical force.
The rectification of all political wrongs and
usurpations under out systems of Government
should be sought through the instrumentalities
of the Constitution—through the peaceful oper
ation of the ballot—the LegisHtive, Judicial,
and Executive Departments of the Government.
Yea, war and brute force are the deadly bane
of liberty. In the oourse of two or three years
of civil war, both South and North lost all the
great attributes of civil liberty—the- right of
property—and all personal rights. * Every able-
bodied man lost the right of controlling his own
motions—of choosing hie own time, place and
employment, and of preserving his own health
and life. A fancied or real public necessity,
which neither knew, or recognized law, Clashed
in its stern and remorseless gripe every politi
cal and private right and interest, and it is only
as tho sense of pnblio danger abates that pri
vate and political rights revive and begin, once
more, to assume a controlling position. T7ar
makes hell apon earth, and i3 rarely a remedy
for any evil, but the fruitful mother of cl! hu
man; woes.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
A little boy aged! three years, eon of Mr. Bon.
Ctffiier, of Talbotton, was poisoned last Thurs
day by eatiog cobalt, and died in a few hours.
The Atlanta Eia, of yesterday, says:
The Second Baptist Ohubcb.—Last night, in
the Seoond Baptist Church, Governor Brown
offered a resolution requesting the Seventh.
Baptist Church in Baltimore to withdraw the
(all extended to the Rev. T7. T. Brantley, D. D.,
pastor of the former Chnrch. The object; as
stated in thiB resolution, is to retain tho Doctor
in this city, where he is very much beloTed by
his congregation and highly esteemed in the
entire community- Aff there are no dissections
or dissatisfactions existing here, the Doctor
having agreed lo accent the call extended from
a sense of duty, it is thought that the best way
to secure bis stay with the Second Baptist
Church of Atlanta will be to get the Seventh
Baptist Church of Baltimore to withdraw the
cnlf. This resolution was unanimously adopted,
and, wo learn, will be formally forwarded to
Baltimore at once.
A party bailing from Warrentoa is flourish
ing around Savannah carrying a card engraved
with a coffin, skull and cross bones, with tho in
scription : “You know how ’tis yourself,’ and
offering to take subscription for the “thing, ' 1 as
he calls it, which ho says is running short of
funds. Is the office of fool killer vacant in
Savannah?
From a notice of the death of Commodore
Tatnall in the Savannah News, of Thursday, we
quote as follows:
Commodore Josiah Tattnall was bom at Bon-:
aventnre, four miles from Savannah, in Novem
for this over the old method, irijicb was foot
ing them to, death by piece-meal. 3 : sedpM
Elizabeth Chatman, aged.ten, is in Savannah
looking for her uncle Bardy. She has a bad
cs3s cf cironic runaway, and can't stay in ono
plsec lo; g enough lo look for him. N. B. She
ran away from Atlanta, and of coarse op there
thev say she is crazy.
The arrival of 300 chickens in Perry, Thurs
day, created tho greatest btir in the town that
has been known since it was whispered that
Waterman, of the Home Journal, had gone off
to be “spliced.” At last accounts friedchicken
was tramps and big hands out.
We clip thefollowicg from the Home Journal:.
WEATHEn —The last few days have passed
without rain, and the way fanners are loosen
ing the hide on their mtfleB and bringing the
grease out of their freechnen! There will not
be a large crop of cotton made, and we are glad
of it; and there will be a large com crop made,
and we are clad of that, tqg. •
Houston Supemob CoubA—Reuben Vickers,
for burglary, was senteneed to the penitentiary
for five years. Sallfe Cheeves, who attempted
to strangle the infant of D. N. Hightower, was
bound out, by consent of all parties, till she
becomes 18 years old. Unole George Ormond,
of Atlanta, our Representative elect, was tried
for inducing lilegal votes, ana was acquitted—
shlpmaa in 1812, and- received the commission
of a Lieutenant in 1818. In Fehrcary, 1S3S, he
was promoted to tho rank of Commander, and
in 1850 ho received the commission of Captain.
Ho saw his first service in tho frigate Constel
lation, and participated in the affair at Cran6y
Island in June, 1813. He served in the Alge
rian war with Decatur, with Perry on the coast
of Africa, and was with Porter in his expedition
against the pirates in the Gulf of Mexico. Ho
was in command of tho Spitfire in the bombard-
> ment of Vera Cruz in the war with Mexico, and
commanded the same vessel in the momorable
attacks of Tuspan, Tampico and Alvarado. He
was flag officer of the East India squadron from
1856 to 1859,and in thesummer of 1859, during
the trouble between England and China, with a
chartered steamer, in which he was observing
the attack on the Pieho forts, towed the British
reserves into action at time when the success of
the English seemed doubtful. Afterwards, dur
ing the same day, he passed^through the hottest
fire in a barge to visit Admiral Hope, who bod
been wounded. This gallant conduct secured
Commodore Tattnall the lasting gratitude of the
English, and was approved at Washington, al
though b palpable branch of neutrality.
In 1822, Commodore Tattnall waB stationed
at Brooklyn Navy Yard; in 1863 at that of
Charlestown, Massachusetts; at Pensacola in
1850; and in 18G0 at Sackett’s Harbor, New
York. In tho latter year he brought tho Japan
ese embassadors to this country.
He resigned in 1861, and his subsequent life
and services to tho Confederate States are too
well known to need recapitulation.
The presses, material, etc., of the Atlanta In
telligencer were’ sold, Thursday, for §4.070,
Mr. W. E. H Searcy is announced as future
editor of the Griffin Georgia Cultivator.
Tka Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, says:
Axotheb Geoegia Belle Captueed. —Capt.
J. M. Johnson, of New York city, who was mar
ried on the 14'ii icst. to Miss Mattie HugueniD,
of MacoD, passed through the city yesterday
morning with his charming bride. We saw a
number of Atlanta beaux on the train ccngralu
lating the bride with tearful eyes.
Marietta andCartersvitleare radiant with joy.
They are both to have new jails.
The survey of tho Marietta and North Geor
gia railroad has been completed to Canton,
Cherokee county.
There’s “high Jinks” at Dalton. Forty-five
dwelling houses are being built, and over 20,-
000 feet of lumber are used up weekly.
The Citizen tell3 us about a wonderful calf.
It sayB:
A Wosdebful Calf.—Mr. J. D. Issnbour, of
Murray county, owns a remarkable calf. It is
now a little over thirteen months old, and has
been giving milk for twelve months or more.
Every day it gives oyer a quart of milk, which
is very rich. Its udder is welldeveloped, though
it continues to suckle its dame.
Of crops in Northeast Georgia, the Atlanta
Sun, of yesterday, reports as follows
We conversed with a gentleman last night
who has just been through the c'onnlies of Hall.
Habersham, Franklin, Madison, White anc
.other connties in that neighborhood, and he
reports crops as looking very well, though back
ward. Com and oats were looking fine, bnt
wheat is considerably cut off. Ho reports
everything in the “hog and hominy” line in
great abundance. There was plenty of old com
everywhere, and could be bought at CO cents
per bushel.
Romo is “happy,” at lait The prlco of fry-
Ing chickens have come down to 20 cents.
The Courier says the oat crop of Floyd county
is “magnificent,” and some farmers say that
without a grain of corn they will have oat3
enough to keep stock fat.
(Savannah gave Commodore Tatnall a public
funeral. Right.
Anthony Jenkins and James Mattox, both
Grant’s favorite color, are to be hung at Thom-
asville, on July 11, for murdering two other
’mendments.
H. L Kimball has’been elected President of
the projected Columbus and Atlanta Railroad.
This makes seven, we believe, that he proposes
to b033. ,
The Columbus people have woke upsuffi
ciently from their usual summer nap to mb
their hands over the prospect of on. early coin-
msneanient of work on the North and South
Railroad.
A youth named Striokland, living in Musco
gee county, accidently shot his sister last Satur
day. She is not expected to - recover.
The Columbus Enquirer, of Friday, says:
Ths Mobile and Gibabd Raobsad.—We re
gret to learn that the committee appointed at
the late extraordinary meeting of tae stock
holders, to seo what arrangements could be
made to relieve this road of its financial em
barrassments, have been unable to effect any
arrangement with Ool. Wadley, the representa
tive of the Central Railroad. This, we suppose,
necessitates the raising of a largo sum of money
st once, or tho sale or lease of the road. The
matter, however, is in the hands of good busi
ness men, and it is to be hoped that they will
yet succeed in finding a way out of the difficul
ties that oppress their Company.
Somo’time last April, Jacob Brice, a Demo
cratic negro, and therefore an honest plan,
while on his way home from Qnitm&n, Lowndes
county, was seized by a band of negro Radioal
Ku-klux, stripped naked; and whipped until the
blood streamed from his limbs like water. He
wasthfen released,' the negroes telling him if he
did not change hi3 politics he would be killed.
The case was reported to Bnllock, bnt np to
date he not issued a proclamation on the sub-
ject. Does ho approve the outrage ?
• The steamship Ashland, of th9 New York and
Brunswick line, made her first trip last week,
arriving at Brunswick, Wednesday morning.
Captain C. B. Cluskey, late of Washington
City, died at Brunswick, Wednesday, from the
effects of exposure to the son on St. Simon’s
Island, where ho was engaged in constructing a
light-house.
The Brunswick Appeal, of Thursday, says:
Disturbance in Watne Oountt.—A private
note from a friend informs us of a serious dis
turbance which occurred at'Woodward & Sweat’s
steam saw mill, in Wayne county, on Saturday
last. Daniel Ragan, white, received a knife
the one who threw lime in John B. Cook’s eyes,
was convicted of stealing a horse from C. W-
Holloman, and sentenced to the penitentiary for
five years. As he is already i.n for three years
for a like offence in Twiggs, ho will probably
become familiarwith the regulations of his now
wound in the ride, had one thumb shot off, and
knocked down with a gun. Henry Stone, white,
received a fearful wound, a gun being smashed
over liis head. Bill Bright, colored, was cut
through the hand and shot in the elbow. Tom
Steward, colored, was knocked down and
stabbed several times. About thirty guns were
fired during the melee. Farther trouble was
anticipated when onr correspondent wrote.
The stray bow-wows of Augusta are to be put
out of their misery hereafter by being put in a
large box and having a stream of wafer turned
on them. They express & decided preference
A. Grnv, and was sentenced to the penitentiary
ten Years. Peter Davis was charged with burn
ing a gin bouse, wa3 found guilty, but was al
lowed a new trial, to come off in July.
P. S.—All these martyrs are of the trooly Ioil
persuasion.
The Savannah Republican, of Friday, says:
Exteseiok cf the Atlantic and Gulf Bail,
load to the Eiyek—Interesting Figubes.—Th?
brig Etta M. Tucker, two hundred and twenty-
five thousand feet capacity, is now the first ves
sel loading oargo, fumisheu by Beppard & Col-
cord, at the river wharf of the Atlantic and
Gulf Brilroad. The first lumber for shipment
passed over the extension Taesday, Juno 33th,
1871. This extension is destined to be of great
benefit to the lumber interests of Savannah.
Where it used to co3t under the old routine of
draying it from the company’s yard to the
wharf one dollar and fifty cents per thousand
feet, it now costs as follows: Company charge
fifty cents per thousand feet, extra freight, for
putting it to the wharf, and it costs fifty cents
per thousand feet for labor in moving it from
the skids to within reach of vessel's tackle, a
Earing, as will be seen, of fifty cents per thous
and feet to shippers of lumber, which in the
course of a year will amount to a large profit to
onr heavy shippers. Last year Beppard &
Coicord shipped nearly twelve million feet of
lumber over the Atlantic and Gulf B&ilro&$,
which would be, if it ail went to the river, a net
saving of six thousand dollars, and thero are
.other shippers who do nearly as large a busi
ness.
Under the head of “ Important Brilroad
Move,” the Savannah Advertiser, of Friday,
says:, ... .
Thero are undoubtedly important moves be
ing made on tho railroad chess-board of Geor
gia, which have great significance, whether
viewed as political iaove3 or mere questions cf
corporation interests. The last we hear of is
now a matter of rumor on oar streets, and from
whet we have ascertained there is something in
it. It i3 said that a proposition from the lessees
of the State Eoad is now pending, in which it
is proposed to unite the Atlanta and Savannah
Eailroad with the Western and Atlantic, and
unite these interests in extending the charier
of tho Atlanta and Savannah through from
Tennillo to Savannah. It is claimed that this
move will be a check on tho movements of the
Cental and the Georgia Railroad, and that the
measure, as a matter of expedency, is in great
favor with the people of Middle Georgia. Tho
lessees of the State Railroad are men of great
wealth, andwebave . no doubt but that if this
movement i3 determined upon it will be cur
ried out.
Hot* not Accept the Situation—He thinks
the ConstUntloiml Amendments Void—
Believe)! Despotism will MOu.be Ke-«»-
Inblisbed. TTgL”.,-, ®
Xew York Tribune special oorrespoBdeec} }
Cbawfoldsvxlls, Ga., Jane 4.
This is a stragRling, shabby, dirty Southern
town, of perhaps 400 or 500 inhabitants. The
streets are without sidewalks, and pedestrians
take their choice between walking in the mad
or dost of tho roadways or among the rank
weeds that fill tho broad qpaces between the
wheel-tracks and the fences. ‘The decayed
francs houses wer'e painted so long ago that they
4ns former slaves still
worked the land on Shares am
profitable than slave 3!5^bS£F«S
vrded the crops thamselves and
his share. He depended entirely
honesty, and dia not believe they i ^
The negroes were not as well
as in tho days of slavery he said •
ggffigsgi £fj r ho ? sea f fc W L
vney preferred freedom to slaverr Jk"
comforts. In one of the brief intern? 1 —« B
political talk. Mr. Stephens spoke oTnf ’’l Ss
zation of Georgia before the war as twft.
in the world. Pauperism, he said
unknown, and In all hia practice at —»
Iran*} Houses w«o jkuulouou .u« k ««« ^ 2?°. C8S0 01 deliberate
nowrirow no traces Sprint This to the county ^ C&Ses ° f
town of the county of Triiafenro—a name tlut ^
has degenerated, in the months ot the people,
into Tolliver—and in the center of a weed-over
grown Equare in the town there is a little ugly
brick court-house, but no business seems to be
transacted in it. Around the equate stand foor
or five etores, with large vaoant spaces between;
each store boa Us complement ot half a dozen
•dirty, yellow-faced loafers, in butternut panta
loons, coarse ootton shirts, and broad-brimmod
slouched felt-hats, who wer© hanging about the
doorway and chewing tobacco as vigorously aa
if that were the chief business of life. The
rude little tavern has no outward indication of
readiness to furnish entertainment, except a
muoh-whittled bench upon the porch, and a
wash-basin and towel for public use. There is
a church or two, but no public school, no news
paper, no telegraph office, sit hough the wires
run through the place, and no particular sign of
modern civilization except the van of a travel
ing photographer established among the weeds
on the square.
Oh the outskirts of the village, across the
railway track, is Liberty Hall (the residence of
Alox. H. Stephens, late Vice-President of the
Southern Confederacy,) so named, not with any
reference to the mansion of the hospitable old
fellow in Goldsmith’s comedy, hut to indicate
the interest of its owner in the cause of human
liberty; for even here In the South, in the old
aay3 of slavery, men talked with enthusiasm
about liberty, meaning of course tk© liberty of
the white race. Liberty Hall is a plain-white
farm-house, with a large sloping lawn is front,
shaded by locust trees and numerous negro
houses and other out-buildings at the side atd
in tho rear, all freshly printed. A sprightly
mulatto girl took in my card, and returned at
once to the porch to escort me through a nar
row hall, past a little, plainly furnished parlor,
through a large room walled around from floor
to ceiling with books, and into a room at the
back of thohouso. Here I found a little withered
wrinkledold man, with wonderfnllybright brown
eyes, white hair, and a frame so emaciated that
it seemed to be literally skin and bones. He
wore a homespun suit of butternut color, and
bad an old black felt hat upon his head. .This
person was Mr. Stephens. He half rose as X
entered, and extended a handso gaunt and flesh
less that it did not seem to be the hoed of a
living chin, and immediately af terward he sank
back into bis easy chair. At his right hand stood
a round table, piled up with a confused heap of
books, letters, newspapers, manuscripts, and
writing materials. A pair of crutches leaned
against tho wall on the other side of his chair,
and ho rested his feet on the rounds of another
chair, in which lay an ugly, fat, brindled dog,
that tho flies would not allow to sleep. There
were two bed3 in tho room, a bureau covered
with bottles of every size and shape, containing
medicines and liquors, and a grate in which a
coal fire was burning, although it was & warm
June day. A single picture, representing Faith
standing by the cross, htmg above the mantel,
which rivaled the bureau in its array cf bottles.
There were piles of books upon the floor, and
articles of clothing were scattered about the
room. Mr. (Stephens-said he w&3 always glad
to see visitors and to talk upon public affairs,
•but that ho Invariably insisted ihat correspon
dents who called upon him should not publish
what he said, because he bed no wish to be
brought before the public. This prohibition I
afterward prevailed on him to modify eo far ns
to consent that I might mention whatever he
should say that had heretofore been made pub
lic, and he told his nephew, a young man who
come in while we were talking, to give me n
copy of an Augusta paper, which he arid con
tained an anthoritativo'statement of Ins views
as far as he wished them to be known.
Mr. Stephens denounced the Republican lead
ers in the strongest terms as quietly of “the most
Up to date not one white person has died in
LaGrange since January 1st.
Coweta county comes to the front with tho
smartest darkey. The Newnan Herald says:
Monroe Price, a person of color, wa3 em
ployed recently by Mr. C. Robison to hoo his
cotton in town. Monroe thought as the stand
was bad and it did not need thinning, Mr.
R., would not care how the grass was killed
provided the job was done, so he very consid
erately turned into the field eighty hungry geese
that wont heartily to work on the grass, while
Monroe calmly rested in the shade end wit
nessed the operation. Sensible Monroe ! A
fact.
The Constitution pictures a gloomy future
for tho State Road. It saye:
The net-work of railroad enterprises that pro
ose to endanger Atlanta, affect when done the
tate Ro.ad more than the city, while the remedy
that helps Atlanta, viz:' the Georgia YVesf era",
bnt strikes an additional blow at the State Road.
Already the Slate Road is suffering. Its busi
ness is falling off. The lease of the Nashville
^.nd Decatur Road by the Louisville and Nash
ville Road was a ten strike at the prosperity of
the Western and Atlantic. The lassoes made an
effort to thwart it, but too late to succeed. It
was not concealed by the lessees at their late
meeting thatrthe situation was not hopeful. The
construction of the Cincinnati and Chattanooga
Road would neutralize the disasters from other
competing routes, but that enterprise is prob-
L matical, The situation is a gloomy one for
tho State Road, and it is a question of serionB
moment whether tho sceptre has not departed
from that great line, unless the lessees make
unusual efforts.
The Constitution says:
Rich “Silyee" Deposit Found.—Tnursday
evening, two colored men, while engaged in
cleaniDg out a well at tho corner of Houston
and Calhoun streets, drew np a bundle in the
bucket. The bundle was found to contain one
dozen silver teaspoons, one dozen stiver table
spoons, ono dozen silver forks, one’dozen ivory
handle knives, and a sliver ertem pitcher. They
wero arranged in sets, with India robber or
gutta percha bands around each set, and the
whole wrapped up in a napkin. They were un
tarnished, and consequently oouldnothave been
in tho tfell long. They all bore on them the
name of “the H. I. Kimball House.”
Wnlrtsg. Up the Wrong Passenger-
The telegrams a few day3 since Informed the
public that the testimony of son^e carpet-bag
preacher from Alabama as to tho horrors of the
Ku-klnx In that State had created a prodigious
sensation, and was the “most valuable” the
Committee had yet received. Gov. Lindsay, of.
Alabama, has been before the same committee
on summons this week, and he has made the
fur fly. The Western telegram says:
The testimony of Gov. Lindsay, of Alabama,
before tho Ku-klnx Committee to-day, com
pletely riddled tho Radioals, and showed that
most of the conflictaparadedbeforethe Commit
tee were not politicri, but grew oat of personal
rivalries and contests. .Markedimpression was
produced by his account of the disappearance
of five negroes alleged to have been killed by
the Ku-klux.
Gov. Lindsay was the counsel of these men.
They had been members of a negro conspiracy
to burn the town of Tuscaloosa, hat had oom-
iromised by burning the female seminary
inildtng there, and had confessed their crime
to Gov. Lindsay. They were only oonvicted,
and while in jail had been released by their
Radical friends and escaped from the State.
Gov. Lindsay described the Alabama election
law, which punishes any person for challenging
a vote, but yet infiiots no punishment for the
illegal voter.
In regard to the whipping of Dorman for
preaching the Gospel, it appeared that he had,
on being ordered off by the owner of the plan t-
tation for incendiary^&ngnage, drawn & knife,
and had been knocked down for it. For this
act of self-defence this gentleman and many
neighbors were arrested as Ku-klnx. Dorman,
pretending to be a preacher, -had committed
rape on his own cousin, in Georgia, and wks a
fugitive from justice. - ■■
Women are rapidly marching forward to com
plete emancipation. A beautiful And well edn-
oated young lady has just opened a large .boot
and shoe store in Philadelphia. She has
girl clerks, and they all wear little fancy aprons
made ot leather, so ss to look business Uke, and
at the same time pretty.
outrageous perfidy” in prosecuting the war for
the avowed purpose of restoring the Southern
Stat03 to their old places in the Union, and then,
when they had triumphed, refusing to let them
take those pieces, denying them the- right of
self-government r.r.3 representation in Congress,
putting fhbtn under bayonet role, and after-'
ward reconstructing them by uprooting all tho
foundations of their society, disqualifying all
men of intelligence and property from holding
office or voting, and placing their governments
in the hands of the ignorant and vicious. He
spoke of the Repnblican3 as Jacobins without
conscience or consistency, whose purpose was
to establish a centralized, despotic govern
ment, and to destroy the liberties of the people.
All of the reconstruction legislation of Congress
he believed unconstitutional, fraudulent and
void. The 13th Amendment he admitted to be
valid, because it had been ratified by the right
ful Governments of the Southern States—the
governments de jure, and not the governments
dc ficitlo afterward established by bayonets.
The 14th and 15th Amendments, he claimed,
were no part of the Constitution, because their
pretended ratification had been effected by
forca and fraud.. They-were not results of the
war, as the Radical leaders falsely claimed, but
were conceived after the war was over, as apart
of the sohemo of centralization which those lead
ers had concocted to keep themselves in power.
He did not hold the 15th Amendment to be in
valid because he opposed negro suffrage, bnt
because of the usurpations and outrages upon
the Constitution by - which it was wrongfully
adopted. He did not believe the ballot would
ever bo taken from the negro if- the 15th Amend
ment were declared void, and the control of the
suffrage placed where it rightfully belonged,
under the exclusive jurisdiction of the States^
In such a case, if it should be proposed to de
prive the negroes of the franchise, the white
man would divide into two parties upon the
question, and the one that opposed the measure,
with the aid of the votes of the negroes, would
carry the day. But tho fact that universal suf
frage was so firmly established did not, he said,
lessen the duty of all Iovera of constitutional
liberty to oppose the 15th Amendment. This
usurpation should never "be permitted to pass
without proper rebuke and condemnation, even
by those who favor the object aimed at by it.
The dc jure Governments of the Southern
States, he said, are still in a condition of re
pression, and he deolared that the history of no
country shows grosser er more palpable usurpa
tions of power, or more glaring acts of wrong,
violence, fraud, and perfidy on the part of those
in authority than, were committed by theEepub-
lican party In the passageof the so-called amend'
meats and the Reconstruction laws.
Mr. Stephens talked for more than an hour
in this manner, rehearsing all. the old arguments
with which Democratic orators and newspapers
have made people too familiar for the past few
years.*, to answer to an inquiry as to what he
thought of the New Departure of the Northern
Democraoy, he road me a copy of a long letter
recently sent to a friend ih Pennsylvania, who
had asked his opinio.n of the platform lately
adopted by toe Convention in that State. The
letter. expressed very positive - opinions, and
these he enlarged upon in conversation, but he
especially desired me to make no mention of his
TieW3-upon this subject, as he wished that they
should not be made pnblio, and bad cautioned
his Pennsylvania friend not to let hia letter get
into print. He expressed the belief that the
movement toward centralizing power in toe
general- government, which' he said was going
on with constantly accelerated .rapidity, would
end in destroying all the power and Independ
ence of the States and next the liberties of the
people. This, he said, was toe deliberate pnr-
; >osc of the Republican leaders, and he looked
: or its 'speedy accomplishment. One .pretext
after another would be found to invade the lib
erties of the people and deprive them of the
right of self-government. • “I' may not live to
Nearly all of our two hoars’ talk™
political topics indicated above-dTvLS
rather, his talk, for most of thetima
ens seemed nearly oblivious of th« &
his auditor. -With his eyes aTe^^or
point on toe wall, he would talk as
consecutively as if repeating a w e nr yaa i
oration, and he seemed impatient of
or any interruptions. It was as if}, 5!£ ®osa
hearsing from memory the chapters*•
and felt bound to get torongh with
Bitting in his disordered
contusion of old books, mtmuS^tn
Vials, and : andent furniture, fccft - ,e5 ,
questions many oi which were g
and are nearly forgotten,
of necrotnancer trying to rerl™ • a 8014
dead past. He has bee a m * eSDint
idtousecrntev-^ifcst
gpo9»SfaSSsr
South to see Mm. Scarcely a °*
he does not receive visitors from a £ s &?•
this way he keeps up his acqaaVf^ 1116 ' ^
pnblio men throughout too South
potent in controlling the action
cratio party in this State and, to someerw
in all the Southern States. Probably no^ ’
Georoia wields toe influence that ho
the class that still refuse to accent its
Tho people cf toe village havf^SS
ence for him and seem to rely upon him iorlt
vice fend assistance. His charity ana
of heart aro proverbial in aU the cootfnS
and he is beloved alike by white raenssa^
gross, who, when in trouble, come lone jy
tances to get his counsel. n
THE WAR IN BARIS.
How tUo Palaces and Private Eeshw*
; were Fired. ^
Paris (May 26) Correspondence of
Haapai may:
see it, ’ he said, “hat you aw young, and will
yet witness toe downfall of republican govern
ment ih this country and the establishment of a
centralized despotism.” : Unlike Sir. Toombs,
Mr. Stephens does not believe that another war
is possible' between-the North and Sonth, and
he tolnka a remedy tor the evils of wMch he
complains can be reached only torongh peaoe-
ful means. He said he believed the Democratic
party could yet save the country if it would
make an earnest and solemn appeal to toe peo
ple at toe next Presidential electlbn, warning
them of toe plot to destroy their liberties, u
this were done, he was confident that there was
yet honesty and sense enough among the people
to cause them to rise and “hurl toe Jacobins
from power,” as he expressed it.
In toe oourse of uie conversation a negro
man eamo.in, presented Mr. Stephens with a
basket of apples, and asked his advice about
selling bis peas at the present market price.
After he had gone Mr, Stephens said that all
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to the Commune. Such was their
solve, and they proceeded to carry out Ag,
threat of destroying' the Capital wtich tier
could not retain. They set to wotk in o»L
distinot ways. In the palaces and public cScta
which they commanded they disposed Boat-
lar intervals, sometimes bottles, Eoaefcs*pets
of petroleum. "When the vessels of pstro’ren
wero arranged at proper distances, one ci t-m.
would be overturned.and ignited; the flases
would rapidly spread, and the vbritbtt&ar
would soon be past salvation. It was i»
way that the Tuileries, the Pelnis Eoya), tie
Hotel do Yille, the Palae3 cf the Lcpoa of
Honor, and other celebrated public
were set in flames. This arrangement ra sli
made in too Ministry of Marine,, bit tie
wretches engaged in toe work of destruction
had to fly befpre they could set fire to the pets
of petroleum which they had planted ia the
most lively corridors. Thero was a second
method adopted for the destruction of private
residences. When it became necessary to retire
from a particular barricade, the Guards tore to
piece3tne beds which formed part of lie lim
eades ; they took toe tow out of the bed?, oi;pel
it in petroleum, and loaded their gens with it.
Then they fired tho tow into toe witdres cf lie
houses. It was in this way that the block cl
houses in theEueRoyale, facing the lUdckia,
was set on fire.
Stiil a third method: Men and vroxr.ciiven
going about Paris with bottles of petrolenaia
their pockets, or hid about their dresses. Thy
threw these bottles dowmjjito toe ground£kh
of every dwelling- they ftnld get at. If flat
was no room for the bottle to get through, the
neck of the battle could get into certain sir ban
which belong to the cotstruciion of French
houses; the liquid would be poured ia, tads
lighted match would be sent in after it. Ia (Lis
way very many private bouses were set in flames;
and many, hundreds of women were taken in
the act ail day—some of them shot upon the
spot. All day, too, the inhabitants, apprised cf
what was going on, were sngaged in flawing
np all the skylights, gratings, and s.vc teles
wMch connected their ground floors with the
pavements. ‘Wherever you turned—in every
street—you saw tho inhabitants busy plaster;;?,
brickmg, or shutting up with planks, the tsa
feet of their houses next to the pavement. Not
only wero women taken, bnt the firemen slain
great numbers wero arrested. The fact is that
many adherents of the Commune entered the
ranks of too firemen, partly to disguise then-
selves, and partly to spread the fire instead cf
extinguishing it.
TBAGrOAL FATE OF THE COMMUNIST IEADIE-.
Paris (M*y 27) Cor. of the London Telegraph]
The Government troops are vindictive, if rot
even brutal, in following up their viJicry- 4
trio of the Communist leaders was captured on
Thursday night. They were Jules Valle?, lere,
and Longuet. Valles was made prisoner after
the others, in rear of the Theatre da Chtl&L
His comrades had been taken very shortly be
fore. Valles wr.a dragged forward t-y the Ver;
sailists, and one of their uon-commisioued
officers struck him upon the neck with tis ewori
In Ms anger aUd.ngony Valle3 struck hsck,esi
immediately aa extemporary shooting party
drawn up, and fired into the body of the nul::-
tnnate rebel. Eut Valles had the bad taste not
to die off at once; he writhed, and twisted, ar-
groaned upon tho ground, until nearly e’J rip
were within sight and hearing had to avert thw
eyes and rnoro away from tho sight of his ■»
horrible suffering. The Captain oomeu^f
toe firing party told me that “They let hjosus-
fer on purpose.” Hjs fellow captive, E-re;
whose doom was bnt deferred, cried out, *vfl-
Captain! in the name of mercy, put bin out oi
pain,” and the appeal was so far success'*—■
the captors then shot their prisoner dead.
Lefranoais, Gambon, and Amouroci
shot in. the Rue de la Banquo, against the wm
of. the Stamp Office. Raonl Eiganlti
his days in toe conrt-yard of the Ecole
Courbet;^ the punter, who ordered the aestiu--
tion of toe Vondome Column, was found biffl-s
in a cupboard, not quite large enough to con
coal- him, in the Ministry of Finance, sna,
attempting same resistance, was, aepor*^
some reports, shot on the spot.
who has boasted ever since the larat --J
March, when the Party of Order was urea p
in toe Rue do la Pair, that ho gave
has met toe fate which he bo «oMymen..
Dombrowshi died to the bedroom «* « e
Hotel de Villa formerly occupied by Mdile.
Haussmann. The day afterlus eEcapefromB
Muelte he received three nfle Ehote whue Et a
barricade in toe Ena d Oroano. He was WJ
ferred from there to.the Hotelje^, ^
he died of hie wonnds. De
on Tuesday at the barricade of the Cfcawa
d’Eau. Hi3 face was much disfigured by nj»
tion of a burning wall which had Men on*
His identity is amply proved by paperi**
inhiapooket. The insurgent Gan. Bisson
was captured, was shot yesterday, as w
Tavemier, a member of the" Commune,
here, a Deputy of the Nation^ Assest-fi
arrested on Thursday in the Place LuxernM^
.He was thenoe led to the Place duPath e ° u.-
there shot. \Vhen toe soldiers were
their rifles to dispatch him, he cried, 1 u
Commune!" “T7so VHumanite!
Peuple!” ‘
The Bxfobixd Accident on the Macon ^
Augusta Bailboad.—-A nolo from Mr. J-
Adams, agent at this place, for the M&cou
Augusta Railroad, informs ns that it 4 ’
copied into toe Telegbath and Messes^
Wednesday, from the; Hilledgeville Eeoom et
the day before, to the effect that a terrible *
oident had occurred Monday by toe running 0
the bridge over toe Ooonee River of a tm 10
cub, ia entirely without foundation—no
accident nor anything like it having
We had, however, no reason on earth to svspj
the genuineness of toe Recorder's
ns railroad trains do sometimes run off buoS”’
and railroad officials occasionally exhibit eo
tdderable reticence as to the details ot eac ‘‘
ourrenoes until they think proper to allow
to be made public. The absenoe ot P 61 **®
in toe notice of the Bocorder we accounted
upon the supposition that toe paper had
m « w -»«*««“
Information of toe reported aooMeot «*
wived
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