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The Gfeorgia "Weekiy Tele^ra/oli and. J~ournal & Mlessenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON , AUGUST 1, 1871.
Getting Bead; for the Planters.
The ootton market began to get ready for the
planters last Monday. It gave way half a cent;
and it Trill be in no wise strange or extraordi
nary if its general course should be. downward,
until the bulk of the growing crop, has passed
out of the hands of producers into those who
are able tohold and who occupy a fairposition as
traders, which the planters are wholly unable
to ao. Nor shall we set np any plea of con
spiracy, underhanded dealing or extraordinapr
hardship in this case. On the contrary, it is in
accordance with the general laws and usages of
trade, and in harmony with the uniform coarse
of exchanges. Competition among sellers is as
certain to depress prices as competition among
buyers is to raise them. It cannot be other
wise. The men who are foreed to sell must pay
for their misfortune in accepting a reduced
price. This is inevitable—whether you want
to sell bouses, lands, horses or cotton. And the
more stringent the neoeesityVith you the lower
(ordinarily) is tho price yon must aooept.
Now hi tho case of the cotton producers, there
are, soy, half a million of 'them holding three
million bags of ootton, and eight out of ten of
them hard up—must Realize just as soon as pos
sible. • There are the-com acceptances, and the
bacon acceptances, and the mule acceptances,
and the guano acceptances, falling due hard
upon each others’ heels, and “tee must realise.”
Ootton pours in as soon as picked, and it
ttb'mes in so fast nobody can imagine howmuch
is behind. There may be twice as muoh as any
body wants. Ootton buyer gets nervous. Last
year, he says, we were looking for a crop of
8,500,000 bnles, and we got one of 4,500,000.
This year we are looking for throe millions and
we may get five. I tell you, says planter, tho
crop is going to be mighty short—mighty short.
"Why, in my neighborhood, wo are not making
half of what we did last year. Yes, says buyer,
and what is your neighborhood? The ootton
region comprehends somewhat less than the
fourth part of all creation, and from all parts
of it, cotton is rushing into market with pro
digious fury. I tell you, I don’t know whether
I can afford to givo you ten cents a pound for
your cotton or not. The mills are overstocked
—there is no demand. I got a letter from my
principals this morning telling me it is the best
opinion of the Cotton Exchange that the money
market will be heavily cramped to carry.the irk
menso surplus through next summer, and they
are in doubt whether it will be safe to buy at
over eight cents. I am expecting a telegram
every hour idling me to stop buying.
Now, more or less of this kind of feeling is
an inevitable condition to a crop pouring into
markot from all quarters, and pressed to sale in
hot haste, without any regard to demand or sup
ply, and under the sole impulsion of the ne
cessity of converting it into money immediate
ly. We ask the capitalists of the world to
take the xiBks of an excessive crop—risks of
long storage—risks of all and singular those
casualties by which trade is interrupted and
produce depreciated, and they oomply with our
demands. They do acoept these risks, and
make us pay handsomely for their acceptance,
They aocepted these risks on the Georgia cotton
crop of 1870, and on abonthalf a million bales,
the Georgia planters paid them about twelve or
fifteen million dollars for accepting these risks.
^Whatis tho plain moral of the discourse?
•Evidently this: that so long as planters pnt
themselves in the pecuniary straight jacket of
debt, they lose not only the exorbitant interest
charged on advances, but, -worse still, they put
themselves into a position where they must
compete with each other as cotton sellers and
"stand at the mercy of buyers. Every Fall, so
long as all the ootton producers are compelled
Hy stress of pecuniary obligation to plunge into
the market simultaneously, they must necessa
rily aooept the fate of all people holding pro
perty of which there is abundance, but on which,
they are nevertherless compelled to realize at
v. ; ^wwuw at full liberty, while they
""Abound hand andfootSP* of ?}} or
The Central Knllrond Lease of the
Macon and Western Railroad.
Reversing the decision of Judge Alexander,
and oontrary to the expectations of many, the
Supreme Court it will be seen, has fully con-
firmed the original lease of the Macon and Wes
tern Railroad, and that iron highway is now but
a continuation of the Georgia Central from
Savannah. As the smoke of the legal conflict
at Atlanta clears away, let us consider calmly
what will be the probable effect of the lease
upon the prosperity of M&oon.
To our mind the chief and only damage re
sulting, will be to the shareholders of the Macon
and Brunswick Railroad. Of ootirse the Central
will discriminate in its own favor as far as possible
whenever the claims of rival railroads are pre
sented. These parties are entitled to our sym
pathies, bnt they have the consolation of know
ing that a powerful diversion in their favor will
be made, by the building of tbe projected line
from Hawkins villa to Eufanla, while through
the northern end of the- Bainbridge, Cnthbert
and Columbus Railroad, another and direct
route to the great West will be opened up to the
city of Brunswick.
In considering the question how Macon will
be affected by tbe coalition, the point must be
oonceded that had the courts sustained the in
junction, the construction of the branch from
Tennille to Atlanta was a foregone conclusion.
Indeed, it was so stated a few days since by one
of the most influential directors of the Central
Road.
This would have indicted a staggering blow
to the Macon and Western, as it would no longer
form a part of the grand highway from the in
terior to the ocean. The superior capital and
great influence of the Central, united with
the diminished distance to .Savannah, would
have certainly determined in that direction all
or nearly all of the freight from points north of
Atlanta. Dependent, then, upon local custom,
it is easy to see that the present handsome div
idends to the stockholders of the Maoon and
Western would dwindle into insignificance, and
through passengers also, who at least now take
a meal at our hotels, and sometimes atop over,
would be diverted to the other and shorter
route to the coast.
All this, however, is saved by the union of
the two roads, and secure in the protection of
her powerful ally, the Macon and Western may
reasonably anticipate uninterrupted success and
prosperity in the future.
But it is alleged this arrangement makes
Macon a mere way station to Savannah. So far
as through freight is concerned,^hls has always
been the case. Visit the Atlanta depot and it
will be seen that all freights for Savannah are
placed in Savannah boxes, lettered Savannah,
and never break bulk until they reach their des
tination.
The opponents of the lease fear, also, that the
Central Road will change local rates and fares
over the Macou-and Western, to the damage of
our citizens. The best reply to this, is,, the
history of tho Southwestern Road Bince it was
merged into the Central. The writer can state
from personal experience, that since that period
in place of any increase, not only have passen
ger fares on this road been reduoed, bnt mate
rial deductions have been made in the transpor
tation of cotton, com bacon, floor and other
staple articles of consumption. A night pas
senger train has also been placed on the road,
to the great benefit of the people. At the time
that the lease was consummated, the same ob
jections were raised against it that we now hear.
But the Iogio of facts hasailenoed every tongue,
and all now argue that matters are conducted
much more smoothly and harmoniously than
when the two roads existed separately. Let it
be remembered also, mat- this onion, of two
great interests draws in closer relationship the
people of Savannah and Macon, and will ever
preserve the entente eordiale between them.
What motive can there now be for antagonism?
A recent comer, the writer has abstained from
tbe expression of any opinion on tbe lease ques
tion hitherto; but now that the affair is settled,
feels it a duty to show that the result jgffi-not
be as disastrous to MacQE^ujgomg of our friends
had feared. ^Thg'monopoly aspect of the ques
tion is anojfor and distinct proposition, which
neariy^all thTco'ttoncrops sincSm^sf ihS-=-^aU not argu 9 at present.'
trates the almost inevitable resnlt of this con
dition of tho parties. The buyers take tbe
profits of the crop..
Now, if producers pursued a policy which
enabled them to keep out of debt and live upon
their own food supplies, there would be no
such insane rush to market as we see from Sep
tember to Christmas. Cotton would come for
ward responsive to the fair, legitimate demand
for consumption. Producers would sell as they
saw reason to sell—not alone in their pecuniary
necessities, but in the price offered. We should
hear far less of those cotton gamblers, the future
delivery men. The whole trade would be more
^regular and systematic, and the results to the
■planter, ju3t the difference between the con-
ditiomof a man who is in a perpetual piqch—
borrowing money at extravagant rates and then
forooiProperty into market to sell at any price
to meet the debt—and the man who is easy
enough to require no borrowed money, and to
sell.no property unless the price offered invites
the sale.
m reference to the forthcoming cotton
anticipate, with much confidence, a
.erative price to producers, and this
n is based, in part, on the impression
pecuniary strain on planters is much
usual, and that the crop will not be
to market in the sauce quipeut fashion
ofjast year. The crop will be moderate—let
it show that fact from the start, so that a late
discovery shall not enure wholly to buyer’s
benefit.
Afbican OnonBAXiTBM.—It seems from the
dispatches that the Domingoes indulge a little
in cannibalism among other peculiarities. A
dispatch Bays some nineteen negroeB have been
arrested for that offence. This is the first au
thentic statement we have met with that the
West Indies negroes had really got back to their
original habits as anthropophagi. But in all
probability, under favorable circumstanoes, the
African race in America will generally display
retrogression of this or a kindred character.
There seem to be very marked displays cf this
tendency in New Orleans, where the orgies of
Vaudooism are frequently chronicled at great
longtb, and the terror of Inoantations, witch
craft and demoniacal influence is Universal
among tho negroes. Few observant persons
have failed to notice the same thing among the
negroes in the circle of their own observation,
and its marked increase Bince the abolition of
slavery removed the negro from the predomi
nant influence of the white race. We have
known intelligent negroes to go without food
rather than eat any cooked by a person whom
they believed to Obeah or hoodoo—and in
stances of alleged sorcery or magic are frequent
everywhere. In short it is doubtful whether
that great engine of civilization—the ballot—
will keep the negro on the up grade.
Sootch Immigrants.—Refer to the advertise
ment of Mr. Geo. Smith, who proposes to fill
orders, through his brother in North Sootland,
for laborers and house servants. The Sootch
peasantry are a hardy, honest and moral race,
and there is this to be said in their favor over
even tbe Swedes, that oral communication with
them will be possible at onoe. We hope Mr.
Smith will get orders for a good many. It is a
population, which will benefit itself and the
oountry too.
Concessions by (be Crown of England
—Abolition of the sale of Army
Commissions.
One by one the royal prerogatives and aristo
cratic tendencies of the British Government,
are yielding to the pressure of liberal princi
ples. The abolition of the “Rotten Borough’
system a few years since, under which one small
city ora single university had"more power in
Parliament than large and populous districts of
country, gave the first blow to the exclusive
rights still remaining under the old feudal re
gime. Since then, the limitation for life only,
of letters patent of nobility conferred for meri
torious services, the efforts of Gobden in behalf
of free trade, the modification of the corn laws,
the diminished prestige of the established
church, all have oombined to level the barriers
of caste and promote the growth of the Demo
era tic element in that country.
Yielding gracefully to the inevitable law of
progress, and gathering wisdom from the annals
of English history, the Queen has thus managed
to retain the affections and loyalty of all classes
of her subjects.
More recently she has again been called upon
to surrender her royal right to issue warrants
confirming the purchase of oommisssons in the
army, and to appease public opinion promptly
consented to do so. This has raised a storm
among the Tories, hut the wiBdom of the con
cession is geherelly.conceded.
Under the old system of the sale and purchase
of military commissions, the spectacle was often
presented of a grey-headed, battle-scarred
veteran over-slaughed and ranked by some
popinjay barely out of his teens, who had never
smelt powder,-or even commanded an awkward
squad.
While this was in a great measure restricted
to the sons of the nobility, the injury was not
so apparent, as blood will tell, and these tender
carpet knights turned out to be very game cocks
in the battlefield. But something more tban
courage is requisite in the formation of a sol
dier; and how could these tyroa plan campaigns,
invent stratagems, and execute difficult manoeu
vres without even the semblance of a military
education. The matter became even more serious
when parvenues and country bumpkins, by the
power of the purse, claimed the right to officer
the armies of England.
As stated above, learning wisdom by tbe expe
rience of the past, the Crown has from time to
time to made such concessions to the people as
were deemed expedient and salutary, and the
result is, that England now possesses the frec
ce t, best, and most stable government on the
face of the globe.
Would that our (so-called) republic, enjoyed
a moiety of her liberty.
Watermelons.—The Herald oalls watermelons
“cholera bombshells”—but, in truth, a more
harmless and, we doubt not, actually healthful
fruit cannot ~be found. Our neighbors, the
Walkers, have been importing watermelons
largely from Richmond oounty, paying seven
oenta freight, and are still finding it their in.
terost to buy at that distance, because the
melons are better and oommand a readier sale.
Why the melons are better is Bimply because
they are cultivated with more ear* and as an
important business. From Augusta thousands
are shipped to Northern cities, and, as we see,
hundreds find their way even South, which
ms maofciika bringing coals to Newcastle, i
A Seallawag Judge la Trouble.
Judge Thomas Telfair Long,.of the Jackson
ville (Fla.) Circuit, is perhaps as trowly loyl
soallawag as ever was converted from the error
of his ways by a fat offloe. Of course he swears
by negro suffrage, carpet-baggery, plunder,
pickings, “developing onr resources,” and all
the other miscellaneous, mutifarlous and mon
strous iniquities with which Jacobinism has
cursed Florida and the’other Southern States.
And of course he ought to go the “entire swine'
and swear by negro equality, also, bnt it seems
be does not, as we learn from the Jacksonville
Union.' V-fl
That paper says a murder trial has been going
on down there for several days, and many wo
men, both white and black, were regular at
tendants, the gallery of the courthouse having
been set apart for their exolasive use by Long’s
order. Bat tremble arose and Long separated
them—the negroes being left in sole possession
of the gallery, while the whites were assigned
seats down stairs immediately behind the jury.
Tho new arrangement worked smoothly until
last Thursday, when a “colored lady” was fonnd
seated on one of the benches set apart for the
white women who had been crowded from the
gallery by tbe negroes. Three negro bailiffs in
formed her ladyship that she was out of her
"place and suggested the-gallery, but she indig
nantly spurned their advice, and finally the
matter was-referred to Long who directed the
sheriff to take the huzzy up into the gallery,
and if eho refused to go to put her in jail. She
voluntarily retired, however, and tho next thing
Long knew bo was arrested on a complaint made
by her before a United States Commissioner,
charging him with violating the Fifteenth
Amendment. The examination of the case was
to have taken plaoe Saturday, but so far we have
not heard the result.
Our advice to Long is to plead guilty and
throw himself on the mercy of the court, and
after getting down on his knees and begging
pardon of the Jacksonville negroes ask them
to intercede for him, he promising, of course,
never to try and behave like a decent man
again, while on the bench. If he don’t adopt
some such line as this, the negroes will have
bim impeached for disloyally and removed from
offioe. With a fate so dreadful as that staring
him in the face, we will not permit ourselves
to doubt that Long will not prove true to his
instincts and antecedents.
Tee La Gbamoe Repobteb, who can’t see
any difference between the Radical party and
theDemocratie party on the so-called “new
departure,” addresses a very evasive defence of
its novel and ridiculous position, particularly to
“the staid and sober old man of the Tele-
obafh.” Now, that individual (as we know)
has scarcely written a line on politics for the
past three months, and he don’t care the value
of a brass button for the question which is
agitating some Democratic editors so much.
With entire confldenoe in the friendly purposes
and feelings of the National Democratic party,
he will support its nominee with the greatest
cordiality upon any platform they may adopt in
regard to the constitutional amendments, or
upon no platform at all. All that he wants of
the Georgia Democraoy is to quit “ buUyraging,”
and undertaking to diotato to the National
Democracy what they must and must not do in
order to merit and reoeive onr gracions support
and co-operation, or on pain of forfeiting it
altogether and being turned over to outer dark
ness.
If Georgia oan’t go into that Convention in a
good, wholesome and friendly spirit—willing to
take as well as give counsel, and to abide heart
ily by the will of the majority, she ought not to
go there at all, and should not be admitted if
tbe ••oiaman oi ui. T=uw=,ujT.”_had to decide
the point. And we say, with all respect to onr
ftieud of the La Grange Reporter, that we don’t
Butler ought not tobaietfeanyhow; at least, not
JJBiiWHHtecTlKraflht a pair of constitutional
spectacles and learned how to use them,
For onr part we are tired of this system of
dictation and nltimatnms. For tho last gene
ration some (more or less) of the Southern
States have been setting np these tests and ulti
matums, one after another, as the price of their
allegiance to the Democracy, and if any good
has come ont of the business we fail to discover
it. What we propose to the Georgia Democracy
now, is (hat when we go into the National Dem
ocratic Convention of . 1872, it shall be with the
distinct understanding that we setup no more
right to dictate than Indiana, Illinois or New
Hampshire claims. That we shall meet the
States on a platform of perfect equality, and in
a spirit of cordiality and confidence subscribe
beartily to. the general judgment, whatever that
may be,
Evebx good citizen of Georgia will deplore the
proceedings of the.lawless gang from Washing
ton county, who forcibly liberated Oxford from
the Baldwin county jail last Saturday night. It
is time for the people of Washington county to
wake up and protect the State andpxoteot them
selves from the lawless proceedings of some of
their own citizens. Otherwise both will be
likely to suffer. A proceeding of this charac
ter, at such a time as this, when the Radicals
are raking creation for a justification of their
oppressive measures, is fraught with the great
est public mischief, and fills all patriotic hearts
with intense mortification and chagrin. Nor
need, the perpetrators hope to escape punish
ment. The plea that Oxford must be Baved
from the consequences of his crime, because
the Governor pardons negroes, is a poor apolo
gy for such a transaction, and it will be found
to be of little avail.
A Luebabx Field Unoocufied.—If some of
onr sprightly Sonthem housewives who can
wield a witty pen, would give the world a record
of experience with household servants “since
freedom,” as lively and grotesque a work would
appear as the world ever saw. The absurd con
ceits, and airy fancies and .affectations of the
newly enfranchised, as developed in familiar
household intercourse, would afford much more
fun on paper than they do in the household.
We propose that the Georgia ladies concenter
the results of their experience in the form of
pithy anecdotes in the hands of some one of
their number. Dinah’s balance has been much
more disturbed by sudden emancipation, than
that of Pompey.
Mebceb Uhivebsitt.—A letter from a leading
trustee says: “We think there is a prospect and
good one for seventy-five or a hundred stu
dents by next spring—we hope sooner. Bet to
insure sucoess we and you, press and people of
Macon, must exert ourselves. Every day in
creases the ch&noes in favor of the acceptance
by Dr. Curry, of the Presidency.”
The Savannah Fibkmex agreed at a special
meeting held onMonday evening, upon the late
decision of the Supreme Court making them
liable to jury duty, to oommunfo&te with the
heads of departments in the principal cities
throughout tbe Btate, as to tbe expedienoy of
calling a convention to take such action upon
the law as it nay ohooee.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Captain W. W. Hartsfleld, of Upson county,
died last week.
The fat men of Upson county are great swells.
They are compelled to approach eaoh other
sideways, in order to shake hands.
Says the Thomaston Herald, of Saturday:
A Loud Clap op Thundeb in a Cleab Set.—
On Tuesday evening when the sun was shining
in all his splendor there was unexpectedly heard
a loud report of lightning. -It was evident from
the-sound that it had struck somewhere in the
town and soon it was ascertained that a shade
tree at Judge G. W. Davis’ residence had been
riven, and that tho electric bolt had also en
tered his gate, there expending itself without
further damage. Several years ago, at this same
residence, when occupied by the present owner
the house was struck by lightning, passing en
tirely through it; and after selling his residence
Judge D. removed to the country, and has re
cently repurchased and returned to his old house
when it seems that the electrio fluid follows his
move,
A hydrophobio bull dog and a ditto calf, are
reported among the Atlanta local sensations,
A gentleman named William Butler, is want
ed at Atlanta, by Mr. George Eddleman. Mr. B,
drove an ice cart for Mr. E. and was so chilled
by contact with Ins freight, that he froze to
about $45 of Mr. E.’s money.
Says the Rome Commercial:
Sensible.—A gentleman farming near the
city said the other day that he would raise ten
thousand bushels of com this year. On being
asked what he would do with it, he said he sup
posed he would buy ap all the hogs ho oonld
find, and having fattened them, get rich on the
bacon he wonld save.
TheJBaiabndge Argus says it is still dry in
some localities down in that seotion, and crops
are being seriously damaged thereby. The Ar
gua also reports more bilious and intermittent
fever inthatcounty than was ever known before,
The railroad meeting and barbecue at Lump
kin, Stewart county, last Wednesday, must
have been agrandsuoceBs. Speeches were made
byMessrs. Hamilton, Tamlin, BarnumaudJ.
0. Kimball—the latter letting “out his whole
soul in his speech,” according to the local pa
per, and causing “regular railroad tears,
their magnificence, to roll from the noble
cheeks of a young man”—whiobmusthave been
such a moving sight that we wonder the whole
audience didn’t go off in a grand “railroad”
boo-hoo. Forty-five thousand dollars were sub
scribed, whioh the Telegraph thinks can be
raised to .$150,000.
We quote as follows from the Savannah News
of Monday:
Tee Late Gould Defalcation—Recent De
velopments—Who Beaes the Blame and Who
Cabbies ope the game ? Closing the Circle.
In tbe summer of 1870 John H. Gould and E.
W. Kendall purchased in Boston a large amount
of furniture on credit, whioh they shipped to
this city and opened the honseon Broughton
street, under the firm and style of W. Kryza-
nowski & Co. The company was e merchant of
this city, Kendall being employed on a salary.
There was no money paid in np to the time the
house opened, except $2,000 paid for Gould by
another party, to defray the expenses incidental
to opening the house, eto. Afterwards Gould
paid in $32,000, whioh was credited to all par
ties as follows: to Kryzanowski $6,000, and the
balance to Gonld and the party already referred
to as the company.
A short time before Gould left, Krzyzanowskl
not having come down with the stamps to cover
the amount placed to his credit, withdrew, leav
ing the whole under the control of the remain
ing partners. The concern wa3 then sold ont
to still another party here, whose notes were
given to the silent partner, known as the “Co.”
for about $24,000, which were subsequently
turned over to a merchant on the Bay, who sold
ont the stock at anction through Messrs. Bell &
Hull, and received tho proceeds, so says the last
book-keeper in the ooncera. This accohnts-for
$32,000 that Gonld did not take away with him.
Tho balance of tho $59,000 defalcation, viz:
$27,000 it is said was also not taken by Gould,
but by others, as it is expected can be proved!
So that after all, Major Gould went awayminus,
except the money be borrowed a day or two be
fore he departed, to
Triitz. xi rs-maq i
Wa8bingtj?g > -'nai D g her endeavors to obtain
think a man who can see no difference between :—=> 7" .— —
Earthquakes.—These are days of signs and
wonders. The telegrams report terrible earth
quakes in the Fhiltipine and these
soaring on the heels of the Newfound
land got the other day warn us to stand from I erage: Corn, eight bushels, and ootton 400
under and look well to the cracks and fissnrea I pounds seed. Mr. Taylor said that in tbe Mid-
and that the Major will return and make a clean
breast of the whole business. The United States
District Attorney has received instructions to
prosecute two citizens of Savannah as accesso
ries to tho defalcation.
Major Gonldisnowsummerlngat St George’s,
Bermuda, within abont four days’sail of Savan
nah, where ho is enjoying the retirement of
which he is so much in need, beyond the reach
of his enemies and tbe influence of his friends.
Farther developments in this defalcation
business may bo made in the examination of
the testimony in the case of Clark vs. Gonld,
which will be up for trial in the Superior Court
to-day. The suit is brought by Colonel W. L.
Clark, now Internal Revenue Collector for this
district, for money collected for taxes which he
remitted to Gould, when he (Clark) was his dep
uty at* Thomasvitle, and which he now finds
were never credited to him on the books of the
office here.
Stobu About Atlanta.—A great hailstorm
and tempest oconrred in the region round At
lanta last Sunday afternoon, but did no great
damage to the city. From Marietta down to
East Point, however, the Sun reports great de
struction to crops. The Sun says:
Our readers may think that we exaggerate the
fury of this storm near East Point, but wo can
say truly that the ground was literally Covered
for miles with leaves beaten from the trees';
and, in many places,-the briars andsmall growth
were beaten flat to the earth.
Granite.—We learn (says the Constitution)
that tho demand for granite, especially Stone
Mountain granite, i3 rapidly-increasing. The
latter is being shipped to Montgomery, Nash,
ville, Louisville, St. Louis, New Orleans and
other points. It is adding very muoh to the
trade of Georgia.
Ioe Manufaotobx.—The True Georgian says
the stock of the new ice company is settling
down to $1.50 premium per share, and in eager
request. It is furnishing ice at-two cents—
former price fonr.
We blip the following from the Griffin Btar:
Gehttn, Monti cello and Madison Raidsoad.
Messrs. Taylor and Jones, civil, engineers,
reached Griffin yesterday, and will start ont
to-day on a preliminary survey of the new rail
road. On next Monday a fall corps will be pnt
on the route to run three or more lines. We
bespeak for these gentlemen a courteous recep
tion on the line, and trust that all the citizens
will give every assistance in their power in the
way of facilitating the location of the road.
Mokboe Count;.—The Monroe Advertiser
says that Mr. Crigler, who fell from the Metho
dist church building on Friday last, is recover
ing, and will soon be at work again.
The Recent Stoem.—A gentleman from the
northern portion of Monroe advises the Adver
tiser that the storm of the 17th caused great
damage to the fruit and corn crops in that seo
tion. The well-fruited trees were generally
twisted and broken down on all the plantations
that had fallen under his observation, and tbe
oorn was seriously injured.
Lead Obe in Butts.—Speaking of the alleged
discovery of lead ore in Batts, by Mr. Matthews,
an English miner, the Advertiser says:
The specimens of lead alluded to were ob
tained in a locality that has heretofore proved
a fruitful field to explorers who were novices.
Mr. A. W. Tanner, and other gentlemen found
surface croppings a few years ago plentifully,
whioh Eminent geologists pronounoed indica
tions of. valuable deposits of lead ore. From
some cause, however, no effort was ever made
to develop the truth of this opinion.
Cbofs nr Monbox.—At a meeting of the Ag
ricultural Society on Saturday last, Dr. Lawton
estimated the crops of the Town District as fol
lows : Corn, five bushels to the acre; cotton,
300 pounds seed; clover, good. Mr. Fletcher
thought the Brantley Dlstriot wonld average:
Corn, ten bushels ; cotton, 400 pounds seed.
Mr. Ponder said; the Dillon Distriet would By-
work ootton. It would average, perhaps, seven
and a half bushels to the acre, and cotton 300
pounds. Bottom lands all a failure* Mr. Hol
land, of Box’s District, said the failure of the
bottom lands wonld reduce oorn to an average
of - eight bushels; ootton 400 pounds. Negro
crops in all the districts inferior.
A letter for M. C. Croily, of Maoon, is held
for postage in the Savannah poetoffioe.
A devil fish ran off with Major Bonaud,
Savannah, a few days sinoe, by getting en
tangled in tbe anohor of the.bo&t from whioh
the Major was fishing. That was bad, but
might have been worse. Just suppose it had
been old “Split Hoof,” himself.
The line of steamers running between Cedar
Keys and Havana, puts West Indian fruit in
Savannah three days and a half after it
plucked. A lot of pineapples that were gathered
in Caba on the 19tb, arrived in Savannah, Sun
day morning at 6:30.
At a meeting of the Savannah Fire Depart
ment held Monday night, the folowing resolu
tion was passed:
Resolved, That the Chief of the Fire Depart
ment be requested to correspond with the Chiefs
of tho Augusta, Macon, Atlanta, Columbus, and
other principal cities in Georgia, to take into
consideration the decision of Judge Lochrane,
relative to the non-exemption from jury duty of
men who are actual flremeD, and if in their
opinion it be necessary to call a convention of
firemen, whenever it may be decided upon to
take notion in the matter.
A shocking case of poisoning in Effingham
county is reported by the Savannah News, of
Tuesday—the victims being three little chil
dren, and the poisoner their mother, a Mrs.
John H. Ash, formerly of Savannah, who, be
fore committing the dreadful deed, had swal
lowed some of the strychnine with whioh she
murdered her children. Sirs. A. has been
slightly deranged for some time, but nothing
serious was apprehended, her husband keeping
strict watch over her. The strychnine used was
locked up by Mr. A. in an old bureau drawer,
and the key hidden in a place, as.he thought,
least likely to be fonnd by hiawife, no other
person knowing of the hiding plaoe. We quote
as follows from the News’ account:
About three o’clock yesterday morning, Mr.
Ash was aroused by the cries of two of the
children, and entering the room found Mrs. Ash
in the act of taking a spoon from the mouth of
tho oldest child, a little girl, who had struggled
and resisted until her ories woke her father and
his friend, both of whom feeling alarmed, asked
her what she was-doing. She replied, “only
giving the children a little powder, and I am
afraid I have not given them enough.” They,
begged and entreated her to tell them what she
had given them—Mr. Ash tasting the powder
which he discovered on the mouth of one of the
children, discovered that it was quite bitter.
She finally took him to the bureau drawer and
showed him the bottle of stryohnine from whioh
she had dosed herself first and then each one of
her three little ones. It was but a short time
after this before the mother, a young woman
about twenty-five years old, and her three inter
esting little children, two. girls and one boy,
were lying stiff and cold In the arms of death.
Dying in rapid succession, one after the other,
the mother, although the first to take the pois
on, lived to see her children all die'and then
followed them herself. It is said the struggles
of the poor little creatures were awful, the old
est falling backwards was drawn together in
such a manner that her head and feet nearly
touched each other. The afflicted father held
his little ones and Ins wife in bis arms till they
breathed their last.
' The time was too short from the discovery of
the deed to proeure any aid, although a phys
ician was immediately Bent for. He arrived in
time to save the father, who, In his efforts to
discover what the drag was, had swallowed
enough to render his condition dangerous.
The Augusta Constitutionalist understands
that Appleton & Co., the New -York publishers,
have negotiated for the purchase of a leading
interest in the Port Royal railroad, and that the
necessary papers were to have been duly signed
iMtjwsJkk. -Ur-Uillcfr will be placed in charge
of the enterprise as President and the road
poshed forward to an early completion.
We clip the following from the Constitution
alist of Tuesday:
Caught at Last.—Nathan Collier, one of the
negroes who murdered Price, from South Caro
lina, at Quaker Springs, near thia oity, in De
cember, 1867, was arrested by the police yester
day. Immediately after the murder was com
mitted, Collier made his way to Savannah and
shipped as cook onboard a vessel going to Nas
sau, and since that time until very recently, has
been serving in the same capacity on different
vessels in West Indian waters. Becoming tired
of this, he determined to retnm to the scene of
his crime, thinking, perhaps, that the affair had
grown so old that he wonld not be molested. He
calonlated without his host, however, for as
soon as the vigilant chief of police obtained an
inkling of his reappearance traps were set for
him and he was eventually captured, as we have
stated. Of the six negroes Who committed the
fiendish outrage, one, Mack Griffin, was shot
and killed in a difficulty the next night; another,
John Driver, died in jail; a third, Louis Jones,
is now serving a term of imprisonment in the
penitentiary; a fourth turned States evidence;
a fifth is the present prisoner, Collier, while the
remain'g party is still at large. A reward of
$600 wae offered by the brotber-of Price, and.
paid to Cbief Christian after the arrest of two
of the parties and the 'death of one and the con
viction of the other.
The Augusta Gas Company has resolved to
increase its capital stock to $140,000, and to do
this will sell 676 shares of the stock—par value
$25—next Tuesday at public sale—the proceeds
to be divided among the present stockholders.
Dr. Bkinner, pastor of the Baptist Church, at
Columbus, has withdrawn his resignation from
that oharge, and will remain at his post.
Sharp Johnson^ (white) who. killed his step
father in January, 1870, near Columbus, and
for whose arrest there was a reward of $500
offered by Bollock, was captured in Russell
county, Ala., last Saturday.
Mrs. Mary McDonald, of this city, wife of
Mr.-Hugh McDonald, engineer on the South
western Railroad, died of a congestive chill, at
Columbus, last Sunday.
The freedmen throughout this State are evi
dently of the opinion that their race needs thin
ning out. During last week George Matthews
was killed in Hancock county by his son-in-lgw,
Charles Dubose, and Jordan Dennis killed Geo.
Williams! in Washington oounty..
The cholera is playing havoc with the hogs in
the western part of Putnam county, Numbers
are dying daily.
An incendiary fire on the premises of Dr. E.
W. Lane, of Emanuel county, burned hiakitchen
and dining room last week, and caused a loss of
$1,000. ' *
The Sandersville Georgian has the following
crop report for last week:
Weekly Bepobt.—A heavy storm' of wind
and rain passed through this county on Monday
of last week. Mnoh damage done to fruit trees.
Nothing more serious that we have heard of.
The rain u as much needed. Since said storm
the nights have been qnite cool, and the days
Peasant. Crops of all kinds growing finely.
! formers are beginning to find time to drew a
long breath and rest from their labor. Health
of the oounty good generally.
James Ward, formerly of Charleston, died at
Brunswick, Monday, from injuries received last
week by falling across'* piece of timber.
The Brunswick Appeal says that Dodge & Co.,
lumber merchants of that place, have let out a
contract to have built for them, “at the south
end of Bay street, a wharfof 216 feet frontage-
main wharf to be 72 feet wide, with two els 126
feet in length by 82 feet in width, with rails
down each L, and treble switches, so as to ac
commodate the loading or unloading of twenty-
fonr oars at one time. We are permitted to
further state that it is contemplated , by thia
firm to farther add to this wharf within a twelve
month until it shall cover a frontage of about
700 feet, and plaoe upon it a saw mill of 12,-
000,000 feet annual cafttcity.”
The Atlanta Era clawIfles the gentlemen of
the drain gang in that city u “soldiers, white
men, and colored men”—which is very naughty
below.
i diobrooks Distriet oorn had been abandoned to 1 in such a trewly loyl sheet.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Wasbisgton, July 25.—Hon. Thomas Harde
man, of Macon, Ga, testified as follows: “I
know of Ku-klux organizations; whites, instead
of blaoks, were kept from the polls by intimida
tion—negroes having taken possession of the
polls. I know of no organized violenoe or op
position to law except' in one inst&noe, when a
number of negroes attempted to tar and feather
another negro for voting tbe Democratic ticket;
but tbe row was easily suppressed.”
' Dr. Walsh, who is here, has a dispatch from
Wellman’s kinsman that they have made a sat
isfactory arrangement of the Savannah Custom
House defalcation.
New Yobk, July 25—Charles Dyke, assist
ant engineer of Robert Fulton’s first steamer on
the Hudson, and engineer of the first steam
boat which ran down the Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers to New Orleans, died yesterday, aged 85.
The wife of Gideon Lee and grand daughter
of-John O. Calhoun, died at Carmel, N. Y., on
Sunday, aged 26.
Nobfolk, July 25.—Brig Musoorado, with a
cargo of sugar, bound for Baltimore, is ashore
on Body Island. Assistance will be sent to her
from here.
London, July 25.—Tho Standard publishes
the details of a series of terrible earthquake
shocks, which recently occurred on one of the
Phillipine islands. More than 200 persons were
swallowed up and 6very one of them almost in
stantly killed. Sixty dead bodies have been re
covered. The rest of the inhabitants fled from
tbe island, which is utterly depopulated.
A Herald cable dispatch, dated London 24th,
says the Pope may leave Rome at any day.
Preparations are making for his reception at a
Chateau, at Corte, Corsica. Valeroy, the
owner of the chateau, has bad an understanding
with Cardinal Antonelli, and is to place it at the
disposal of the Pope.
There is a movement going on in France to
guarantee the Pope’s temporal sovereignty over
Corsica. Tbe Pope wishes to publish a sylabus
in regard to the occupation of Rome by the
Italian Government, and declaring that tbe
measures withholding from bim all temporal
power are void. Measures have been taken al
ready in Rome tqgg>repare for the eboice of the
next Pope. It is proposed to ohooseonewho
may be moderate in his ideas, and not unfriend
ly to Italy, and, by this means, to effect a com
promise with the Italian Government. Cardi
nal Camillo di Pietro is mentioned. The dis
position made by the French. Chamber of pe-
tioners in regard to temporal power is equivo-
lent to laying them on the table. - 7
London, July .25.—Dispatches from Madrid
in relation to the recent ministerial crisis are
somewhat oonfnsed; for it now appears that
members of tbe Cabinet formed by Marshal
Serano have taken the oath of office. The
Minister of War acts as Minister of State ad in
terim. Many Spanish officials have tendered
their resignations.
Omaha, July 25.—Bed Cloud's preparations
for the war path are contradicted.
Washington, July 25.—The Board of Pnblio
Works being enjoined from negotiating $4,000,
000 bonds, have stopped work on streets, ave
nues, alleys, eto. litany workmen have been
thrown out of employment. •'H
Washington, July 25.—Among tho Ku-klux
witnesses to-day was a member of the Oxford,
Miss., Grand Jury, who is a Republican. Their
investigation of disorders shows that politics
had nothing to do with them. Their taxes were
increased three-fold by school teachers who were
sent among them at $60 per month, and who
were not content with such buildings as the
counties could furnish, but must have new ones
for their average of 25 negro scholars. Cohab
itation of negroes with white women always
provoked assault, but a majority of cases had
their origin in theft
St, Louis, July 25.—A violent hail storm, in
Pike county, Missouri, destroyed the oorn and
tobacco. •
The report that the Indian Chiefs, Satanta and
Big Tree, were killed while attempting to escape,
is untrue. Both were fried and fonnd guilty of
murder in the firrt degree.
An express robbery was committed on the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad, in Hickman county,
Ky., last Saturday night. Three men got on
the train at Union City, and at Moscow, where
the train halted, two of the robbers get off and
the other confederate remained on the platform.
As tho train moved ont from the depot, the two
jumped into the express car, overpdwerad the
messenger, and robbed the safe of $20,000.
Tbe robbers then halted the train and jumped
off,and disappeared in the dark.
Atlanta, July 25.—The Supreme Court of
Georgia to-day, in the Macon and Western
Railroad jnj unction case, decided in favor of the
lessees.
Gen. Gordon leaves to-night for Washington
to appear before the Kn-klux Committee.
Nobfolk, July 25.—The sehooner John Row
lett, run into some time ego by the steamer
State of Virginia, has drifted ashore in Aooo-
hanock Bay, twenty miles north of Cherry
Stone. Her masts, bowsprit and sails are gone.
Her deck load washed ashore.- The vessel is.
full of water, and her deck is broken np. The
wreckers have abandoned her.
White Sulpheb Spuing*, July 25 —W. Mead
Addington, a prominent Jawyer of Baltimore,
aud U. S. District Attorney of Maryland under
President Buchanan, died last night of a com
plication of diseases.
Weather cloudy. ■ Thermometer 72 at 12 m.
Vebsailles, July 25.—President Thiers has
refused to accept the proffered resignation of
Jules Favre, as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Assembling of the courts-martial is pos
itively announced for July 31st.
Washington, July 25.—Tbe agri cultural re
port gives elaborate crop tables. The compari-
son is based upon 100 for the last year: Mary
land—tobacco acreage 91, condition 83, wool
yield 95. Virginia—tobacco acreage 95; con
dition 93; wool 93. North Carolina—tobacco
acreage 93; condition 97; wool 39. South
Carolina—sugar acreage 105; condition 100;
tobacco acreage 100; condition 102; wool 104.
Georgia—sugar acreage 107; condition 109;
tobacoo acreage -102; condition -102; wool 98.
Florida—-sugar acreage 100; condition 102;
tobacoo unchanged; uool 101. Alabama—
sugar acreage 110; condition 106; tobacoo acre
age 106; condition 108 ; wool 95. Mississippi—
sugar acreage 98; condition 99 ; tobacco acre
age 100; condition 98; wool 92. Lonisana—
sugar acreage 110; condition 100; wool'93.
Texas—sugar acreage 115; condition 103; to
bacoo acreage 103; condition. 104; wool 93.
Arkansas—tobacco acreage 106,- condition 92;
wool 105. Tennessee—aoreage 88; condition
96; tobacco acreage 93 ; condition 98; wool 100.
West Virginia—tobacoo acreage 96; condition
94; wool 100. Kentucky—tobacco aoreage 87;
condition 95 ; wool 95. Missouri—tobacco
acreage 102; condition 102; v/ool 101. The
culture of sorghum shows a large decrease in
aoreage.
New Obleans, July 25.—The City Council
to-day by a; vote of 5 to 3, adopted a resolution
removing from office. Reoorder Stats, of the
Second District, and Dumont, of the Fifth Dis
trict ; also that the Governor be notified of the
vacancies created in these offices. No cause is
assigned for the removals, but, it is said, Gov.
Warmouth directed them, because he believed
these persons opposed his administration.
■ Badu’s shoe store, Domain street, oorner
Chartres street, last night was burglarized of
goods to the value $3,000. The stock was
wagoned off the premises. The two metro
politans of that beat, who did not see tbe
burglars, have been suspected.
Frederick Seymour, second officer of the
New York steamship Leodona, fell overboard
and was drowned on the 18th inst, off the
Frying Pan Shoals. The weather for the past
two days has been cool and pleasant.
San Fbanoisco, July 25.—The miners’league
terror, in Amador county, continues. A force
of men, not members of the league, are be
sieged, but determined to hold out Troops
will be ordered immediately to the scene of dis
turbance. E. E. Hatch, book-keeper of the
Amador mine, was assassinated by the league,
but before he fell he succeeded in shooting a
leader of the league.
New Yobk, July 25.—The work on the new
Cotton Exohange, into which the Hanover
building on Pearl street is to be converted,
commences at once and will be furnished in
November. The expense of altering the build
ing will amount to $40,000 or $50,000. John
Kellam, the architect, is dead.
' Indianapolis, July 25. — The Democratie
State Central Committee unanimously resolved,
That in Thoa. A. Hendricks they recognize a
choice of the Democracy of Indiana for the
Presidency in 1872, and recommend every
honorable effort to secure his nomination and
election.
Washington, July 26.—W. D. Griswold has
been tendered the presidency of the Toledo,
Wabash and Western Railroad.
Tusoon, Arizona, advices of the 18th state
that in a fight over a wagon train en rente for
Fort Bowie, thirteen Indians and one soldier
were killed. Nothing had been heard at Gen.
Crook for three days.
Fort Smith advioes of the 22d, report that a
party of savages had returned to weir lodge
with white scalps, and loaded with plunder.
A Haytien letter states that nineteen citi,.. j
had been arreeted for oanibsiism. I’ersuufl? i
vices report the famine in that countr*al!ji
fuL The snrvivers eat tbe dead. The i
has also appeared. A sanitary oordon ha* ££ I
drawn along the borders of Turkey and P*,*? S
A British gunboat has been sent to Cantona 1
proteot the English and other foreigners. ' j
Charles James Mathews, the comedian < i
dead—aged 67. »
The yellow fever is malignant at Para, Brazil j
The English consul is dead, and his wife^l
dying. Nearly every stranger who has arrive!
within six months is dead. The naval canto. 1
Jas. C. Williamson, is dead. ** 811
Havana, July 26.—Alvarez and Hernandez i
two Cuban emisearias, were recently captow
and executed. Felix Auguste Bayez, the chtoil
pion of the late Oavada, has been executed !
Washington, July 26.—Gen. A. B. Wright
of Augusta, was examined five hours. His tea
timony was highly satisfactory to the Detnt
oratic members of tho Committee.
Boutwell has finally rejected Kentucky,,
claim, though be will say, in opinion, {lieyhar,
strong equity rights, and strong claims on Con !
gross, to which Boutwell refers tbe State aeenL
It is, doubtless, Frank Mathews whose death
is reported by cable, instead of Ghas. Jana,
Mathews, who is now playing at Montreal.
Fifteen buildings at Frederioktown, N B
oontaining shipping stores, have been burned’
Loss, $200,000; insurance, $50,000. 1
A special from Indianapolis reports the
arrest of B. J. Bright, editor of the Sentinel
for perjury, in connection with tbe State print
ing. He was released on personal recosmiz.
ance. 6
The Tyne Boat Crew has arrived at Halifax.
In a collision of freight gravel trains between
®dwardBvilie, six persons were
killed and four hopelessly hurt. The engineer
and firemen of both trains were saved bv iumn.
ing. •
On account of the difficulty between Boat,
well and -Pleasanton, the paper for revenue
stamps is about exhausted.
■Pams, July 26.—The Pope publishes a 1U1I!
letter congratulating Guibert upon hii eW
vation to tbe Azchbiehoprio of Paris.
London, July 26.—For the Goodwood stakes
fourteen started. Taraban, first; Lady Bun.
gerfoid’s colt, second; Claudius, third. Fonl.
ham rode the winner. The odds against hi®
were fifteen to one.
Madrid, July 26.—The Cabinet finally formed
under tbe lead of Zorilla. All the Ministers be
long to the progressist party, and will follow the
policy inaugurated in the September revolu
tion.
Savannah, July 26.—Arrived: Barks, Crimes,
Cardiff, Virtuous*, Havana; schooners Freak
Lucas, Yucatan, Cornelia, Philadelphia.^
Cleared: Schooner L. E. Edwards, Wilmington,
Del; Eta wan, Charleston.
Synapsis or Weather Statement.
War Dkp't, Office Chief Signal Offices,)
Washington, D. C., July 26, 7:30 p. it. )
Tbe barometer rose considerably in the South
ern States Tuesday night, bnt is now again fell,
ing. It remains low west of Louisiana end
northwards to Nebraska. Tho low pressure
which was Taesday afternoon in Minnesota,
has moved eastward and is now extending
towards Lake Ontario, where the pressure has
fallen decidedly. The small area cf low ba.
rometer which was Tuesday afternoon south
east of New Jersey has moved to the northwest
into Pennsylvania. High norihwosterly winds
prevailed Tuesday afternoon on the coast o{
New Jersey with rain, and the storm was felt
slightly from Rhode Island to Virginia. Cloud
and rain continue in New England and north
wards. (Bearing weather is reported from
Michigan to. Minnessota, bnt cloudy and threat
ening weather continues from Missouri to the
Gulf. A storm is now reported in Nebraska.
Probabilities: Pleasant weather is probable
for the Upper Lakes on Thursday. No mate
rial changes are indicated for the Gulf coast
and Southern States. An area of low bametei
will probably move eastward from Lake Huron,
with freah southwesterly winds on Lakes Erie
and Ontario, and oloudy and threatening weath
er northwest and northeast of Massachusetts.
Washington, July 26.—The following is the
substance of Gen. Wright’s testimony: Is a
practicing lawyer and one of the editors of the
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. The people of
Georgia are as peaceful and law-abiding, and
the laws as fully enforcod as before the war.
Wright’s law practice covered ten connties. Ha
stated that, from his personal knowledge, tbe
negroes enjoyed all the*privileges of courts ac
corded to whites. Judges and juries seem
rather inclined to favor negroes. Wright pros
ecuted a white man for the murder of a negro;
he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced
to a fall term. The same court convicted a
white man of killing a negro and sentenced him
to be hung on the first Friday in September.
While these trials were progressing, twelve
whites of Washington county were carried one
hundred and thirty miles to answer before a
Federal commission for assault on negroes, and
after imprisonment and mnch expense, acquit
ted. Wright had no reason to believe there
was an organized band of Kmklux in Georgia
for political purposes. He knew of bank ma
rauders, like Morrell’s gang, extending through
a portion of the oouniies of his district. Men
were convicted in Washington oonnty, suspected
of belonging to a gang; a man named Rose who
was convicted of killing's negro by a military
commission, and pardoned by President John
son, then ooavioted of killing another man and
sentenoed.to be hung, was reprieved by Bul
lock. His ultimate pardon, Ruse’s friends say,
depends npon the raising of a certain amount
of money. Witness explained fully the organi
zation of the Georgia Legislature. He said that
if the disabilities imposed by the 14th amend
ment were removed, and the people allowed to
select their best men for office, there would be
no oomplaint against the government; negroes
have neither been cheated or swindled out of
their wages; difficulties and discontent often
arise from the difficulty of convincing negroes
that a third is more than a tenth of the crop; ar
bitrations called often determine the question
for them; a white man named Ferguson was
whipped nearly to death by negroes; a negro
convicted of living in adultery with a white wo
man was pardoned by Bullock; a white man and
negro woman were prosecuted for the same
offence; conviotion failed, but the people
whipped them. There were no politics in these
occurrences. The people resorted to such pun
ishments because of the. mischief to society,
produced by the Governor’s indiscriminate par
dons. ” ’
Sad.—It is sad to think that of all the legions
who onoe swore by and sounded the praises of that
renowned statesman and distinguished orator,
Ulysses S. Grant, only his own relations and
his offloe-holders remain true. Even those sweet
saints of trewly loyl, Sonth-hating and Sonth-
slandering sanctity, tbe Messrs. Harper, book
publishers, of New York, who were onoe such
persistent trnmpetters of his fame, have been
foreed to change their tune, and in their maga
zine for August, publish the following bitter as
sault upon him in the form of an extract from
a letter of Thomas Jefferson, in which the wri
ter said:
The public will never be made to believe that
an appointment of a relative is made on the
ground of merit alone, uninfluenced by family
views; nor can they over see with approbation
offices, tbe disposal of which they intrust to
their Presidents for pnblio purposes, divided
ont as family properly. Mr. Adams degraded
himself infinitely by his conduct on this subject,
as General Washington had done himself the
greatest honor. With two such examples to
proceed by I should be doubly inexcusable to
err. It is true that this places the relations of
the President in a worse situation than if he
were a stranger; bnt the public good, whioh
cannot be effected if its confidence be' tost, re
quires this sacrifice.
Such base desertion, so malignant an attack
npon a former idol has scarcely a parallel in
history. We have entirely lost all our faith in
human nature.
The Fofe to Leave Rom.—According to a
London special to the Herald the Pope is on the
eve of leaving Rome for the Island of Corsica,
and the Italian government have set on foot
measures to elect and install a successor so soon
ss he leaves. This is stirring news it true, but
probably it is a mere sensational dispatch. It
is hardly probable that the opposition Pope set
up by Italy would meet with any adherents ont-
■ide of that kingdom.
Mr. and Mrs. & E. Chittenden, of Atlanta,
were thrown from a buggy, while ont driving
Monday afternoon,and Mrs. O. seventy braised,
besides having one of her elbows die located.
The horse had one at ki» tore legs broken, sad
will have tobc kiUe&
