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The Glove.
From morning time to night time,
Dark time and bright rime,
I haunt the pleasant places
jjy lore hath rendered sweet,
by wood and meadow,
la the aim and shadow,
I follow the sweet traces
Of fairy hands and feet.
Though I love her dearly,
We ate neighbors merely,
She boweth to me daily,
In a distant way;
Then while I am staring.
Dead to my despairing.
Trippetb past me gayly,
Smiling on her way.
In the woodland shady
Walks my little lady,
And botanizes tinder
The pines that sigh above.
There are sweet green places
I follow in her traces.
And one glad morn, O wonder 1
I found a little glove.
So tiny, so tender,
So silken, so slender.
Still moist and warm and scented,
From fingers warm and white,
I found it softly blowing,
Where ferns and flowers wera growing,
Ar.d like a man demented
I seized it in delight.
And while the warmth within it
Grew fainter every minute,
"I lore her.’ how I love her!”
I cried with burning eyes.
“0 sweet as rose-scent lingers,
• Its touefi of rosebud fingers!”
! sighed, and ten rimes over
I kissed my little prize.
From morning time to night time,
Diik time and bright time,
I kept it thrilling through me,
In guilty sweet delight.
AU day its sweet touch fired me,
All day the joy inspired me,
Sleepfng I held it to me,
Ami dreamed of it all night.
Three days my bliss possessed me,
Three days and nights it blessed me,
Anion tbefonrtb mad moraine
1 wandered o’er the grass.
And as I viewed with rapture
The sweet spot of the capture,
Suddenly with no warning
I saw my true love pass.
With distant bow and stately,
She would have passed sedately,
When red as fire advancing
1 held the prize of love;
And while my low voice muttered
Wild wandering words, she flattered,
Washing and brightly glancing,
Apd took the little glove.
Then she with self-possession,
Blind to my eyes’ confession,
Said, “Thank yon, sir,” and pondered,
A moment, adding low,
‘‘My annt, who lost it lately,
Will also thank you greatly,
She missed it while we wandered,
A day or two ago!”
WAKEFCLXESS.
How to Promote Bicep.
From Once a Week-]
The primary cause of wakefulness is ah in
crease ip the quantity of blood circulating in
the brain; hence, any condition or cause capa-
t>of mincing this state of the cerebral circu-
ittion may give rise to it. As these canses are
Bare or less under the control of the individual,
jt ia important that they should bo generally
povn. l. Excessive and long continued intel-
kclnal action, or powerful mental emotions. 2.
those po-itions of the body which tend to im-
N® the flow of blood from the brain, and, at
««same time, do not obstruct its passage to
! ?lte brain. Many physicians have noticed
cannection existing between bodily position
asi wakefulness. It is evident that the recum-
kat position is more conducive to a state of
ingestion of the brain than the erect or semi-
*»eet Dr. Forbes Winslow, Dr. Hammond and
J !her physicians have noticed an increase in the
aamberand intensity of hallucinations of insane
Wheats, or persons suffering from delirinm
itemens, as soon as they assume the recumbent
tuition. These pHnn have been found to
j**P quietly for some rime in an arm chair,
|jt to bo annoyed by hallncinations as soon as
^1 lie down. 3. Certain substances used as
yicino or food. The chief agents of this
-ta are alcohol, tea—especially strong green
■li-coffee, opium, belladonna, stramonium.
Indian hemp or hashish. Opinm in small
'^s is often especially potent in inducing
*ri*tuin esa- A single dose of half a grain has
known to keep a patient awake for three
M asccmivo nights. AU the so-caUed narcoclics,
l ® saall doses, induce wakefulness rather than
}**p. 4. To the above, Dr. Hammond adds a
joarth exciting cause of insomnia—namely,
‘ttnetional derangement of certain organs of
body, whereby an increase in the amount
blood in the brain is produced. As, how-
such cases as these are beyond the con-
of the sufferer, we need not discuts
mem tere. In all those cases of wakefal-
**• dependent upon severe and loDg con-
utaoat mental exertion—and these are the
to which we especially wish to draw the
•(Motion of our readers—all means of relief
*111 be utterly useless until the patient consents
tvi?‘ Ve k‘ s brain entire relaxation for a time,
nneoever it is possible, a course of travel
mrough a romantic country, or a visit to the
**-8ide, should be regarded as imperative. An
'*ny dinner, followed by a hearty supper of
flam and nutritious dishes, is preferable to a
~f.* v y, Ute dinner; and a glass or two of good
•Me at both meals, or a glass of good whisky
' brandy and water after supper may often be
M»en wim advantage. The value of physical
«cise—and especially riding—in the open
■ ’ can . scarcely be overestimated, and should
I 6 Juried on to the point of incipient fatigue.
slower bath in the morniDg, and a warm bath
som J et ’ring to rest, are useful auxiliaries; a
vhat high and no t too soft a pillow should be
!»iii ’ “ tbo feet are very cold, a hot-water
Wi J'bould be placed at the bottom of the
JT, 1 * the preceding means—all or most of
conr ,be P & tient can try for himself—fail, ro-
ste 6 ®“ 0I Hd at once be had to professional
years 5 . ^ ,’ WQ bad been asked a couple of
There is now roason to believe, from
tion ^°® tc bes of Dr. Glouston, that a eombina-
tba . bis salt with tinoture of Indian hemp, in
drenh^P 0 ?* 011 of Half a drachm of the salt to a
iar, ®the tincture, is more potent in allay-
»cd bSS! «zcitement in cases of insanity,
even , y generally than the bromide alone,
u m a far larger dose.
President or the Senate and Speaker
of the House of Represent atives or
the Next Legislature.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Although
I have never been elected to any office, nor
have been a candidate for any either before the
people or the Legislature, or any other political
body, still for the last twenty years I have taken
much interest in the politics of Georgia, and
am tolerably well acquainted with the actings
and doings and standing of most of the promi
nent men of the State. The 14th amendment
has kept many of these out of public employ
ment for years past, and the result has been
that the Democrats, not having very able and
experienced men in the Legislature, Bullock
and his thievish crew have had things pretty
much their own way, and have nearly, if not
quite, bankrupted the State. The present Leg
islature, to assemble in November, having a
large Democratic majority, can do much to
wards rectifying the errors and rascalities of the
pa9t Legislature, jf proper presiding officers are
elected.
In looking over the names of the members
of the Legislature lately elected I find two mem
bers—one in the Senate and one in the House—
who I think can pre-eminently fill the positions
of President of the Senate and Speaker of the
Honse, and I trust yon will give mo a chance in
your paper to suggest their names for the con
sideration of members of the Legislature,
First, then, I weald respectfully suggest the
namo of Hon. Wm. M. Reese, of the 29th Sena
torial District, (including the counties of Wilkes,
Colombia and Lincoln) as President of the Sen
ate. In days when giants were in the councils
of the State, Judge Reese was looked upon as
one among them, and shortly after the conir
mencement of the war was elevated to the posi
tion of Judge of the Northern Circuit, which
position he filled with marked ability nntil re
moved by the present ruling power, on account
of his adherence to constitutional law, and to
the rights and privileges of the white people
of Georgia. The people of his Congressional
District not desiring that the light of such a
one should be hid nnder a bushel, nominated
him lost year for Congress; but his immediate
constituents wishing to send him to the State
Senate, and the Judge no doubt thinking ho
conld be of more service to the State in being
in the State Senate where he conld examine into
and rip up Bullock’s rascalities, declined Con
gressional honors and wa3 elected to the State
Senate. Besides being able and dignified, and
calculated to mako a presiding officer, his fine
knowledge of men, their adaption to business,
and other qualifications, constitute him just the
man to preserve order and to appoint the proper
men on committees to discharge the various
duties they may be called upon to perform. In
addition to this, it is more than possible that
Bullock may be impeached. If half of what is
said of his venality and corruption and viola
tion of the law bo true (and I hardly think the
half ha3 been told), he will surely be impeached.
In that event, the President of the Senate will
be the Governor for the next year—and who is
there in the Senate so well qualified to fill the
office of Governor as Judge Reese ? I know of
none in the Senate, and few in Georgia, so well
qualified for that office as Judge Reese.
As speaker of the Honse, I would also most
respectfully suggest the Hon. J. Milton Smith,
of Muscogee. .This gentleman is one of the
ablest, if not indeed the ablest man in the
Honso. Having lived in Upson county, and al
ways being a strong Democrat, be was conse
quently largely in the minority, and although
his great ability, even upon first entering the
bar, was acknowledged by all, and though his
party, many years ago when Col. Smith was
quite a young man, selected him on one or two
occasions as its candidate to bear its banner in
the Congressional contests, yet being in a large
minority, both in bis county and' district, he
was never elected to the Legislature or Congress,
except during the war, to tho Confederate Con
gress. But since the war, having removed to
Columbus, and in the Court-lionse having shown
that ho was a man of marked ability, taking the
front rank with the ablest in the land, and pos
sessing the most sterling ’qualities, although
comparatively a stranger to the people, he was,
I learn, literally pressed into service by the
Democrats of Muscogee, and was elected by
900 majority, when two years ago tho party was
beaten five or six hundred. Possessing extra
ordinary ability, with a fine and commanding
person, he would not only make a fine speaker
of the House of Representatives in our Legisla
ture, but would makes splendid presiding offi-
cer in any body, where intellect and genius pre
vail.
I have then, Messrs. Editors, given some of
my reasons for desiring to see these gentlemen
elected to the positions named. I might go on
and give other reasons-why it would be best to
select these gentlemen, but I have said enough
to cause others to inquire into their antecedents.
This being done, I think their election sure.
Monbce.
For the Telegraph and Messenger.]
Music.
The midnight hour, darkling and still, is ap
proaching, to be sweetly dispelled by the soft
light of the rising moon, when, with a sudden
thrill, the enchanting notes of several stringed
instruments come gently “stealing o’er our
senses,” and, led by the mystical power of the
mnsic, we find ourselves glidieg down the won
derful river of time to its magical “Isle of the
Long Ago,” when we reach a radiant fairy pal
ace, and, touched by a holy spell, the long,
lonely years that stretch between what was and
what is, vanish, and keeping time to the music’s
flow, tho phantoms glide in, with which mem
ory’s chambers are peopled; we recognize each
loved form with whom wo once so fondly hoped
to treadlife’s pathway, and, wrapt in the blissful
dream, wo forget all our trials and buried hopes,
our bitter pains and withered joys, until the dy
ing tone of the magical strain molts away in a
sad, plaintive moan, and, breaking the dream
of our brighter years, tho fairy vision vanishes
with tho failing of the last sweet note of that
exqnisite melody, known everywhere, sung in
every land, in the grand German opera, in the
soft strains of Italian music, on the splendid
Cathedral organ, the sounding bugle, the tink
ling guitar, ’round the fireside of Prince and
peasant,—the song that will never grow old, of
“Home, Sweet Home!’’
This world conld not exist, and the great
Creator never intended that it should, without
music. A11 nature is full of melody, and earth
and Heaven are qnickened by its spirit. Its
cadence is heard in the grand bass notes of the
thunder and the cataract, and the soft murmurs
of the voice—harps of tho wind, as they moan
through the pines or rustle through the leafy
boughs of the forests, when stirred by tho sum
mer breezes, in the gentle rivulet and the crys
tal streams, as they sweetly gurgle on in their
rocky bed to the untrodden shrines of Ocean.
There is muaie in the bleat of the distant
sheep on the mountain side, and in the tinkle
of the bell as the cattle graze in the quiet mead
ow, or drink at the water’s edge; in the breeze
calling from its “blue air throne,” to the birds
of the summer valleys, and in the midnight
rains, sounding their low, monrnful dirge over
spring’s perishing flowers! And there’s mnsic,
sweetest mnsic, to the young mother’s ear, in
the first plaintive cry of her new-born infant;
and in those faint melodies that seem to float
over us in moments of great agony and crash
ing bereavement, from the Land of the Blest,
like echoes of harps touched by angel bands,
the golden cords that “ in rapturous sweetness
bind man to the angels, and the angels to
God.”
There is mnsic, sad and sweet, in the murmur
of our own Ocmulgee as we watch it glide past
the home of oar childhood, and with touching
eloquence it whispers to our hearts of those pre
cious ones sleeping their dreamless sleep near
its banks on beautiful Rose HiU, and we can,
in fancy, hear the murmur of their loving voices
above the rolling of the waters, awakening rec
ollections of bygone and happier years, and the
dear images of those gone to “that bourne from
whence no traveler ere returns’—recalling
thoughts of childhood when the sweet strains of
music were first heard from a mother’s lips—
strains which can never be effaced from memo
ry’s page nntil it is Swept by the hand of death.
And when we remember the exquisite melody
of those tones when she sang her soft lulaby to
her little ones, and taught them the sweet hymn,
in the Sabbath twilight, how the thought will
come of its surpassing melody in the glorious
song of triumph, with the redeemed, in the City
of our God.
There is music in the murmur of the shell,
and in the tempestuous roar of the winter hur
ricane, and what more calculated to raise the
mind from the cares and trials of this life to
higher and holier things, than the sound of
music heard in the country on a quiet summer
evening, as the village chimes pealed out tho
vesper hymn, as the glorious sun sank to rest
beneath his mantle of clonds tinged with gold
and tipped with silver, and the perfume of flow
ers was wafted on the breez9. 'What can be
more touching or sublime than the magnificent
diapason of a grand Cathedral organ poaling
forth a Te Deum under a master’s touob, echo
ing from aisle to aisle, from crypt to dome or
arched roof, sounding and resounding through
the massive pile.
And it has been onr privilege to hear all that
mortal ear conld be blessed witb, in sweet and
glorious sounds, the queens of song and kings
music, whose names have become houshold
words, and whose brows have been adorned with
laurels, and the glorious works left behind those
whom genius had claimed as her own and in
spired to write such celestial melodies. How
we lovo to recall the magnificent “StabatMater”
in Saint Eustache on the Holy Friday, ere war’s
desolation had swept over beautiful Paris, and
the grand old master, whose genius composed
the heavenly strains, himself sat there to drink
in the music. Here we love to wander in fancy
on tho borders of tho world renowned Scottish
Lakes, and watch the different parties enter the
boats and glide along as the boatmen sing ont
their wild highland airs, and echo answers with
her thousand tongues, that most wonderful of
all ventriloquism. Now we hear the Swedish
nightingale wail ont the lovely air from the
Messiah, “Come unto mo,” and then burst forth
in the glorious straiu “I know that my Re
deemer liveth,” then the splendid notes of
Giulia Grisi, who now sleeps so peacefully in
her magnificent coffin, are wafted to our ear,
and the angelic notes of one of the sweetest
singers whoso pure and guileless spirit ever
warbled forth rich melody (the Swan of Erin)
comes tons, and lingering by we would dream
on thus, and wish we could only impart to those
we love some of these delightful memories.
Who has ever disputed the words of the great
poet, “Music has charms to soothe the savage
breast?” And we all know howlthe most ac
complished commander that ever led his troops
to battle regarded music; how ho prohibited
some airs and knew how to use others—and
even in making his fearful “passage of tho
Alps,” ho knew when to make his buglers sound
their liveliest notes, just when his fainting
troops most needed it.
To musio wo aro indebted for our most ra
tional enjoyments and refined amusements, and
while it touches all the better feelings of our
nature, it can e’en make ns forget at time3
“the ills which all flesh is heir to;” and we
cannot bo too thankful to the all-wise Ruler for
having bestowed on ns His sweetest gift of
melody. Memohia.
Foreign Notes.
PREPARED FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER.
The Paris Liberte, alluding to the rumored
alliance between Austria, Germany and Italy,
contemptuously observes that an alliance with
the last named country was anything but seduo-
tive, as it not only wanted soldiers, bnt also
rifles and material of war; that, in short, it was
deficient in everything. The Roman journal,
La Riforma, after having severely rebuked the
French paper, in conclusion, thus addresses the
Liberte:
Mr. Adams.
John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, never
writes a letter intended for the public eye which
is not worth reading. Here is an extract from
his letter accepting the Democratic nomination
for Governor:
‘ Now, as formerly, I think it wise to use
calm and moderate methods in dealing with
questions of State, to adhere scrupulously to
constitutional forms in enforcing the will of tho
people, and to make haste slowly with revolu
tionary reforms. But I may bo pardoned if. in
view of a hesitation which lingers hero and
there, I declare my especial satisfaction at tho
position adopted by the convention in respect
to tho later amendment to the Constitution of
the United States. I am heartily glad to see
good citizens who have disputed the plan of ad
justment required by the party in power, so
long as it was debateablo, acquiesce cheerfully
when once it has becomo irrevocable.
“It seems to me to be the part of patriotism
now to accept honestly and without mental res
ervation theso amendments as the final settle
ment and pacification of the oivil war, and then
to turn resolutely away from the irritating and
painful memories of the past to the pressing
daties of the future. That future, if we wisely
improve it, may be made to redeem, and more
than redeem, all the sufferings and all the errors
of the past. It may warn us to guard jealously
the invaluable habit of local self-governments,
while we yield to the irresistible instincts of
national unity. It may teach ns to alleviato
oppressive taxation by economy and skill in
fiscal management, so that a tariff may no
longer strangle trado. Universal amnesty and
equal rights may once again demonstrate to the
world that tho people at their homes may be
trusted to preserve'the peace and maintain the
principles of liberty withont soldiers to make
them afraid. And, above all, a kindly and com
siderate policy toward vanquished citizens may
make us again a prosperous and happy people,
cordially united in a friendship based upon
mutual esteem and cemented by indentical in
teresis.”
Baling Cotton.—A Savannah correspondent
asks ns if there is any likelihood of legislation
by Congress to compel or induce planters to
cover cotton bales completely, so as to leave
neither the sides nor ends partially exposed.
We answer that such legislation has already
been adopted, and published in full in our col
umns. The act of February 28, 1871, pre
scribes “That no loose hay, loose cotton, or
loose hemp * * shall be carried as freight
on any steamer carrying passengers; nor shall
baled cotton or hemp be carried in snch steam
ers unless the bales are compactly pressed, and
thoroughly covered with bagging or similar
fabric, and secured with good rope or iron
band3; and every bale of cotton or hemp that
shall be shipped or carried on any passenger
steamer without conforming to the provisions of
this section shall be subject to a penalty of five
dollars, which bales shall be liable to seizure
and sale to secure the payment of such penalty.”
This, we think, ought to be a sufficient induce
ment to planters to cover their cotton as well as
to pack it properly. This act is now in force
and as the penally is easily collected, and half,
as we infer, goes to tho informer, our Southern
friends will do well to stir up all their packers
on this subject. Every bale of cotton packed
this fall and winter ought to be carefully covered
in conformity with the provisions of this law.
This is the third time we have referred to it,
and wo hope it will now be generally understood.
—N. T. Journal of Commerce.
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If there ever was a fisherman who loved eels
it was old Job Stuart. They were, in faot, the
summum bonum of bis existence, and he never
was so happy as when he drew in a great wrig
gling monster, and nothing made him so mad
all over, or fight so quick, as to insinuate that
they in the slightest degree resembled snakes.
And for fifty years the old man reveled in his
favorite dish. Then fate, or the death of a
brother, called him West, and he was sorely
troubled in spirit at the thought that he should
be deprived of his accustomed luxury. Very
great was his surprise, therefore, to find the
breakfast table of the prairie tavern loaded
with fried eels, and the old man ate with even
more than his aocustomed gusto. But he
thought it strange there should be suoh a boun
tiful supply, as he had seen neither river nor
pond any where in the vicinity; and so he ques
tioned the landlord as to where they were ob
tained. “Wall, stranger,” was the reply, “we
always have ’em—just as many as we want.”
“Bnt, where do you catch them ?” ‘ ‘Anywhere
on the porarer; and the woods am full of ’em.
We call'em bush eels.” Job left the table hastily.
“Jupiter,” a celebrated leaderof the Demo
cratic negroes out in Texas, is fall of metaphor.
He said the other day, in a speech at Waxa-
hachie, that if he had his way he would give the
Rads the stripes in the old flag till they saw the
stars, and then knock them out of doors with circumstances, there are evidently no limits to
“Italy lias, no doubt, made great sacrifices
without reaping from them all the advantages
expected. We have disbursed several hundred
millions, bnt onr armaments are neither com
plete nor perfect. Our administration which,
is a bad copy of a French pattern, has simply
created a confusion from which we will never
issae until we have returned to Italian laws and
Italian traditions. All this is true, and we may
add, that no man of genius has yet appeared in
our coontjy, capable of supplanting our vain
glorious mediocrities and reorganizing the State.
Cavonr himself, regarded ont of Italy as a great
statesman, had skill enough to induoe Europe
to accept the results of the Italian revolution,
bnt he wa3 incapable of reforming or laying
down a basis for reforming the publio adminis
tration.
“In spite of all this, Italy has progressed and
accomplished her unification; and in the penin
sula so often subjected to foreign invasion,
there was no example of such savage confliot3
as those whioh occurred at Paris in June, 1818,
and May, 1871. Among us the government,
though entrusted to weak and unskilled hands,
was never disquieted; and we may therefore
assume that we will continue to advanoe without
being exposed to those violent shocks that drive
a people from coups d' etat to insurrections.”
“Let us tell the truth. In 18GG the commanders
of onr army and navy were not equal to their
tasks, but if Lissa and Cnstazza sent a pang to
every Italian heart, they were of service to onr
ally, for by occupying Austria in Lombardy and
the Adriatic we lessened her chances of con
quering at Sadowa. Our alliance had its value
and onr soldiers might have marched to Vienna
and shaken hands with the Prussians in the
ancient capital of the Hapsbnrgers, had a dif
ferent man been at tho head of the army on the
Mincio. In 18GG wo had soldiers—who fought
like heroes—and we did not want for either
material of war or rifles.
“The ‘Liberte’ knows little of its neighbors,
and likes to season politics with pnns. Has it
ever tried to discover how Italy, with no bril
liant ministers, with limited means of war, in
the midst of administrative disorder and popu
lar discontent, has come to be a united nation ?
It is certainly owing to the good sense of the
population, and to a liberal patriotism unaUoyed
with solfish ambition. This sound sense, this
genuine patriotism, has saved us in every crisis,
has conducted us to Rome, our goal, and will
give us that liberty and progress to which we
aro entitled. It is exactly these qualities that
are not to be found in France.
“No sooner has France escaped from a dis
astrous war than we see her groat cities rent
asunder by factions, and her rural population
stirred up by the clergy. She is unable to col
lect and recover herself, or to found a stable
government. Isolated in Europe, she threatens
Prussia with revenge, and Italy with interven
tion in favor of the Holy See, while at tho same
time she insults England with her unreasonable
sympathies for Deland.
“ The Liberte should understand the present
circumstances better. Franco haff need of
friends in Europe, and she follows an unwise
policy in awakening the distrust and suspicion
of her neighbors.”
The German troops havo evacuated the four
departments contiguous to Paris. A misunder
standing between the German commander and
tho French government threatened to delay the
complete evacuation, but the difference has been
satisfactorily explained and settled.
The Bonapartists are very active to prepare
the way again for the man of Sedan. The Italian
government has recalled Nigra, its representa
tive at Paris, who is said to have secretly in
trigued for the restoration of Louis Napoleon.
This act is interpreted as a friendly courtesy of
the Roman Cabinent to Thiers, with whom Ni
gra was no persona grata. Marshal McMahon’s
declaration before the committee of investiga
tion on the conduot of the war, has greatly aided
the cause of the Bonapartes. The Marshalis said
to have stated that he assumed the whole re
sponsibility for the disastrous results of his
march from Chalons to Sedan. He declared that
he did not act by orders of the Emperor Napo
leon, who had exeroised no influence whatever
upon his resolution. His plan which was op
posed to that of concentration of the army
nnder the walls of Paris ought not to be abso
lutely oondemned, as it had equal chances of
success. But two days had been lost, the troops
being too fatigued to continue their march, and
because he was ignorant of the movements of
the other commander-in-chief which was the
principal cause of the disaster.”
On the other hand the Count of Paris is said
to nrepare a manifesto, adopting the programme
of the Count of Chambord. These reactionary
principles are not shared by the Dake d’Aumale,
and dissensions are said to have sprung up be
tween the different members of the Orleans on
that aoconnt.
“The German Correspondent,” a semi-official
Berlin organ, states that the Roumanian Gov
ernment has sent a note to Berlin relative to
the railway question. The Imperial Chancellor
has, in consequence, inquired of Turkey wheth
er she is prepared to support the note. From
this faot it is clear that the matter has not been
negleoted, bnt forms the subject of a constant
correspondence between our Government and
the parties conoerned. Indeed there is every
reason to believe that the question will not be
treated with coldness or indifference, shonld
the Roumanian' Government fail to do its best
to solve the question with fairness and justice.
The German money market being conoerned in
the transaction to the amount of from forty to
fifty millions, it is easy to understand the in
terest the Imperial Chancellor takes in the
matter.
Bavaria, which had succeeded in retaining a
still somewhat exceptional position among the
Confederate States, is renouncing, one by one,
the prerogatives she had reserved for herself.
The Government is about to abolish all foreign
embassies, and Bavaria, being a State of the
German Empire, will, in future, be represented
by the oentral government.
The dogma of Papal infallibility, which is as
cribed to the influence of the Society of JeBus,
has given rise to bitter attacks on that order in
Germany, and a protestant league is forming
for the purpose of expelling the Jesuits from
the country.
King Amadeo is stiff continuing his tour
through Spain. The London Times, after hav
ing paid a proper tribute to the personal char
acter and exterior of the King, proceeds as
follows:
“But, after all, there is something of far
greater consequence than even the King’s
oersonal qualities to stir up the loyalty of the
Spanish population at the sight of one who,
elected by their representatives, must be re
garded as the Sovereign of their ohoice. The
aoceBsIon of Amadeo was the end of a revolu
tion. Great political ohanges may startle,
eleotrify, and even interest the multitude at the
outset, but in the long ran they are wearying,
disappointing, and disheartening. Next to the
Moon and to the Inquisitors, the Spaniards, it
cannot be denied, must look to their politicians,
no matter of what party, as the very worst
soourge of the land; and they must hail the
Government, no matter what name it may bear,
whioh holds ont the best hope of rest and
peace. The race is naturally sober, laborious,
and intelligent; and the great mass of it being
agricultural and pastoral, is conservative to the
backbone. In suoh a country, and nnder saoh
the pole.” Go in, Jupiter, and win.
a unanimous Ministry and a well-organized
Parliamentary majority, may hope to exercise.”
There comes a rumor from Vienna that the
Emperor, Francis Joseph, is seriously disposed
to abdicate, the periodically reearring consti
tutional experiments whioh have still failed to
bring peace and harmony to the realm, making
him despair of the fnlnre of Austria.
Jabno.
Something More About Colorado.
Denver, Col. Territory, )
September, 1871.) .
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In my
letter a few days ago I promised to write again
and tell you what I saw and know about Colora
do and the Rooky Mountains.
DENVER.
is the the largest and finest town in the Terri
tory. At present it has a population of abont
8,000 souls, and has almost doubled its popula
tion in the Iasi twelve months. Fine houses are
being erected on every hand, and stores are
filled with godds that present a very fine appear
ance. But goods are very high here, compared
with the East, of course. Her trade extends
all over the Territory—north to Cheyenne and
south to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Last year’s
sales footed up to the large amount of $8,-
500,000. There are five railroads centering
here—the Kansas Pacific, Denver Pacifio, Col
orado Central, Boulaw Valley and Denver and
Rio Grande. The latter is constructed on the
nRrrow gauge system. Work on the last three
named is progressing very fast. The track of
tbo narrow gauge railroad is about three feet
wide—a perfect show to persons that have never
seen one before. The engines and cars are not
more than half as large as they are on the other
roads. The population of Denver as well as
that of the whole Territory, is chiefly German.
They are all flocking to the plains to buy land
cheap and havo a country almost to themselves.
But Denver has also Americans, and some of
the best, too. There are a good many Ameri
can merchants here who do a heavy business.
But the Germans and Jews have the dry goods
and clothing trade to themselves nearly. Sa
loons and restaurants pay here better than any
thing else—they being crowded all the time.
They all keep sleeping apartments to accommo
date their customers. Board is very high, being
from $15 to $20 per week in first class houses,
and from $7 to $10 per week socond class, and
poor at that—small rooms and hard beds.—
There is one hotel and saloon kept in this place
by a negro named B. L. Ford, and largely pat
ronized by the whites. He is said to be rich.
The farming interests of Colorado have not
been developed very much yet—mining taking
np all the attention of tho people nntil the last
two or three years they havo gone to the old
standby—“farming”—and some are making it
quite a success. On one farm near this place
there was raised, without irrigation, 38 bushels
wheat per acre, 25 bushels corn, 35 bushels bar
ley, oats, rye, etc., in proportion. That is a
pretty good showing considering that it never
rains here except in the winter, and not often
then. Old settlers say they would rather it
would not rain at all, as it does not come when
they want it. Tho knowing ones say they are
looking for a six inch fall of rain this winter.
Colorado has the finest climate in the world—
diy, clear and bracing—never cold but about
two weeks in winter, or hot longer than one
month in summer. Tho weather at this season
is delightful, something that a Georgia man
has no idea of. The nights and mornings are
cool and pleasant,and the days clear and extreme
ly pleasant. Denver is in full view of the Rocky
mountains, winch, these clear, pretty mornings,
look like just ont on the skirt of the town; but
the nearest point is twelve miles. We see from
here three peaks that are perpetually crowned
with snow and look like great, hnge lumps of
marble in the distance, and nothing can excel
tho beauty and loveliness of the scenery from
this point of the mountains. I would ! recom
mend some of your chill and fever people to
come to this climate and get cured. It is much
better than calomel or quinine. You see I
know, for I have tried it myself.
Below this place eighty miles is the Saratoga
of the West,
COLORADO STRINGS.
This 'place is near the foot of Pike’s Peak,
which rears its head 15,000 feet into space.
There are five different snringa already far
famed for their medioinail properties—soda
spring, hot spring, snlphur spring and two oth
ers, and the “garden of the gods” is also close
there, as well as the petrified forest, in which
yon can see some monster trees from 19 to 25
feet in 'diameter and from 25 to 50 feet high
stumps. This, they think here, is destined to
be a great place of resort for strangers in some
future day. It is oertainly a place of interest,
and one that has as many natural curiosities as
any other place on the globe. The country, too,
is just the place for a city—having beautiful
villa sites that command a view of the country
for hundreds of miles around. There is now a
colony started at that place that have a large
tract of land for sale to settlers at the following
rate: For $60 you get 160 acres land and a life
membership in the colony. They have already
abont 100 settlers, and'more aro coming in all
the time. This colony is a Southern’ one, too,
being from Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia,
and is called the Southwestern Colony. They
have one irrigating ditch 20 miles long, and one
loj miles long, both being capable of irrigating
15,000 acres of farms, with plenty of capital to
to improve more; and my advice to the poor
farmer in the cotton States is to sell his land
there and come to the new garden spot, where
land is cheap, and good crops, by the irrigating
process, sure, and health and climate not to be
excelled anywhere in the world; no doctors’
bills to pay; and yon can have yonr own smoke
house, with plenty of bacon and beef, antelopes,
deer and buffalo, if you want. No more smoke
houses in Illinois and Kentucky, and oorn cribs
in the same place. Hero they make it all, and
don’t have to be eternally buying. Come, there
is room for ail, and don’t think, because this is
a long ways from home and away where the
Indians are, that you can’t live, and make
plenty, too. Come and see!
The agricultural fair of Colorado has just
onded at this place, and it wa3 quite a success
for so young a country. Fine horses, fine
mules, fine cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, tnr-
kies, duck and babies; the finest display of
frnit ever seen here and in almost any place;
vegetables of all descriptions, from a pumpkin
np. They had one pumpkin on the gronnd that
weighed over one hundred pounds, sugar beets
as large as half a bushel measure, eta, etc. So
you see Colorado is some pumpkins, sure.
There are a great many mines in operationin
the Territory, and most all of them are success
ful, too, but they aH complain of too much tax,
and a good many are leaving their mines to find
something more profitable. So farming will
soon take the Territory in good earnest.
John P. Walt, of Georgia.
the influence whioh a well meaning King, with
The Price of a Consulate.—Mr. George
Roosevelt, a clerk in the Interior Department
at Washington, D. C., appeared in the Criminal
Court on Thursday last, as a witness in the case
of the Government against Dennis Darden, and
testified as follows:
“I am a olerk nnder the Government in the
Iuterior Department; have been so for abo»‘
five years. * * * I was seeking for a posi
tion, and was introduced to John McO**thy as
a lobbyist; I wanted a consulship. ant I had
not money enough; I had only i** 0 * one hun
dred and fifty dollars.”
“Judge Fisher. How r-aoh money does it
take to get a consulate ?” „
“Three hundred dollar 8 -
“What consulate did yon apply for?
“Pernambuco, Brazil.
“That is a small consulate.”
“It is worth #2,000 in gold, a year.”
“How muoh did yon lend him ?”
“Two or three hundred dollars.”
A Herald Reporter Interviews Gen. Han-
cook—What He Says Abont Being a Pres
idential Candidate. •
A Herald reporter has recently interviewed
Gen. Hancock at Brainard, Minnesota, at which
point aro located, we suppose, the. headquarters
of the department Gen. H. commands. He has
this to say of the General’s personal appear
ance, at present: ^ s ii-rD ;
I think he has grown stouter since the days
of ’64, when active service and daily artillery
and infantry drills gave ns but little opportunity
to add to our avoirdupois. The respite from
constant anxiety and incessant toil in the tented
field has told with good effect in the person of
General Hancock, and to-day he presents every
evidence of sound- health and a contented spirit
Discipline, I believe, will not allow of discon
tent, and soldiers must, perforce, be contented
whether they will or not Tho jaunty goatee
and mnstaehe of olden days—slightly frosted
now—still adorn that rather heavy face, and he
reminds one more of the Third Napoleon—
minus the French cunning and doll, treacherous
eye—than any man of eminence that I can call
to mind. I judge his age to be fifty, possibly
fifty-two, and his weight above two hundred.
Upon the point of being a candidate for Pres
ident, he delivered himself as follows:
Reporter—You are, of course, aware that
your name has been freely mentioned as a can
didate for the Presidency.
General Hancock—Yes; lam alive to what is
transpiring around me; but, to be frank, it does
not possess that interest that people probably
suppose. My position in the army is assured.
I can confidently look to the future, I think, for
farther honors; for it is possible that in the due
course of events my turn will come. I have
been in the army thirty years, and at my time
of life it is a little late to seek a new field of
action. To be snre I would be complimented
by any evidence of partiality on the part of
Pennsylvania; it is my native State, and I am
glad to be honored at her hands; it is a matter
of State pride. I would deem it a compliment
—nothing more.
Reporter—Am I wrong, then, in supposing
you have no aspirations with regard to the Pres
idency? ‘ * •
General Hancock—Well, I think that there is
no man in the country to-day that can afford to
ignore such a gift, coming from the people.
Reporter—You have, I believe, expressed your
political views on different occasions?
General Hancock—Yes, I have; bnt not be- 1
cause I had any desire to mingle in politics or
be thought a politician. Whatever views I may
have expressed were my sentiments with regard
to the situation; I was a war democrat; I am
now a conservative. I was anxious to retain the
esteem of the republicans—radicals—bnt my
course in New Orleans, unfortunately, made me
lose it. I was forced into a position there in
which I had to assume a course of action that
was bound to make me sacrifice the esteem of
either party. I did not succeed in pleasing the
radicals.
Wesleyan Female College—Meeting
of Executive Committee.
At a meeting of the Execntive Committee of
the Board of Trustees of the Wesleyan Female
College, attended by other Trustees who were
casually in the city, E. H. Myers, H. L. Jewett
and B. F. Ross were appointed a committee to
draft resolutions expressing the sense of the
Board in respect to the recent bereavement of
tho College in the death of Dr. John M. Bon-
nell, which d-ity was performed as foilsws:
We are bereaved, indeed. The loss to our
selves is that of a cherished friend. Bnt not
onrs alone the loss. The community has lost a
pattern of domestic, civil and social virtues;
the State a wise eminent, public-spirited in
structor ; the Church a faithful minister, a lofty
example of Christian purity, one of her most
gifted and highly honored servants. The sud
den, stunning blow has fallen on many hearts,
and we are left to marvel at that Providence
which thus removes at a stroke, and in the
zenith of his nobly endowed life, one so useful,
so beloved, so seemingly needful to society and
to the church.
But God is good; and he never sows evil bnt
that it may grow and blossom into good. So we
accept this dispensation. One more pure life
is ended—one more triumphant spirit is added
to the victors over earthly eviL We weep and
we rejoice. We see tho way he went—we mark
the sorrow with which the honor and love of a
community committed “dust to dust, ashes to
ashes,” and we interpret the tribute as given to
a life whioh, in Christian humility and unosten
tatious goodness, was devoted to Christ and His
church—and seeing this, we take courage and
follow on—hoping for a life as pure and an end
as hopeful as those of our departed friend.
In this testimonial we express onr sympathy
with the college of which he was the honored
head—with his sorrowing oolaborers in the
work of education—with the community that
loved him—with the church of which he was
an ornament, and especially with his bereaved
wife and children, towards whom we would
express our tenderest sympathies, and for whom
we wonld supplicate the sustaining communion
of the God of the widow and the Father of the
fatherless.
On the representation of the Faculty to the
Exeontive Committee that the interests of the
Institution demanded some action immediately
on the part of the committee, to give the col
lege a fuU board of instruction, after due delib
eration, the following resolutions were nnani-
mously adopted
Resolved, By the Executive Committee of the
Wesleyan Female College, that nnder the power
to fill vacancies conferred upon ns, by the
statutes andregulations of the college, we fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of the late la
mented President, Dr. John M. Bonnell, by the
eleetion to the Presidency and Professorship of
Mental and Moral Science and Bhetorio, of Dr.
Osborn L. Smith, of Coiambus, Ga.
Resolved, That we congratulate the patrons,
pupils and friends of onr college, that we are
able to secure the servioes of an ex-President of
the Institution, and one so w ell fitted by expe
riences, attainments and character to fill this va
cancy. E. H. Myers, Ch’m.
H. L. Jewett, Seo’y.
Macon, October 3,1871.
The Advantage of Hair Dye.
A clergyman in Massachusetts, who has seen
his three score and ten, was oomplimented on
his hale and youthful locks the other day. Sow
ing, he touched his handsome brown hs~ ft Q d
replied, “You know they have a way o^nelping
old men a little these days.” “Wb<* ! ’
friend, “have yon been oolori*(f J°, ur
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
We dip tho following from the Columbus
Son, of Tuesday.
The Fact Ascertained.—The question of
the P. G. in G., has been settled by the follow
ing announcement:
Mr. L. J. Hill, of Atlanta, was married on
the 28th inst, to Miss Mary Both Henderson,
of Covington.
We congratulate Mr. Hill on having won the
handsomest lady in Georgia, and the brilliant
bride on her conquest. There’s crape on more
than one door knob in Columbus. The “Slip
per Club” is very sad.
Two Pianos fob the Publio Schools.—Col.
W. L. Salisbury and Mr. J. M. Estees, while in
New York, purchased two excellent pianos for
the Publio Schools of Columbus—one to be
placed in building No. 1, for the boys, the
other in No. 3, for the girls. They are now
enroute to Columbus. The Central Railroad
charges nothing for the transportation. Means.
Saulsbury and Estees are members of the Board
of Trustees, and purchased the instruments with
money obtained by the exhibition given by the
scholars last spring.
Of the prospect and present status of the
B., O. and 0. Railroad the Ban of same date,
on the authority of Mr. J. O. Kimball, reports
as follows:
He informs us that this ride of Cuthbert, on
the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Columbus Rail
road, the surveying party has finished the loca
tion to a mile of the Stewart county line, and
the graders are directly behind. The party run
ning the experimental surveys have reached
Lumpkin. Below Cnthbert, the two working
parties from above and below, are in tea miles
of each other, and iron is being laid from the
Bainbridge end. The rails may not reaoh
Lumpkin by January first, bnt the grading by
that date will oertainly be finished to that pout.
Stewart county will grade through her borders.
Track laying is going on rapidly between Albany
and Cnthbert.
Letters for Daniel Dunn and Col. A. H. Sand,
of Forsyth, are held for postage in the Savan
nah office.
A chap named Harmon Stinok illustrated his
ugly name and uglier nature on Tuesday, at Sa
vannah, by hitting a little girl on the head with
a brick. It is very soothing to know that he
now reposes in jail.
Mr. Brinkley Babb, an old and honored citi
zen of Baldwin county, died suddenly last Sun
day, aged G4 years.
We clip the following items from the San-
dersville Georgian:
An old farmer of this county, and a success
ful wheat grower, tells us that he always sows
his wheat when the gronnd is so dry that he can
scarcely plow it in, and he never has blasted
wheat. One year a near neighbor sowed when
the ground was wet. He sowed in dry weather,
in an adjoining field, only a cross fence separa
ting. His neighbor’s wheat was blasted badly
while his was perfectly sound. He never soaks
his wheat before sowing. He has been pursu
ing this course for many years with perfect suc
cess. . ;
A gentleman from Wilkinson county informs
ns that one of the best and most extensive
planters in that county will not realize more
than an average bale of cotton to eight acres.
The crop, he says, is woefully out off.
A gentleman of this connty, assisted by some
of .his neighbors, measured an acre of land on
his farm last week, gathered and measured the
corn accurately. The yield was 4l£ bushels
and three quarts to the aore. He is a corn and
bacon man.
Stevo Smith, for burglary, is Monroe oonnty’s
last contribution to the penitentiary. Monroe
connty juries put rascals of all grades through,
in short order.
The Monroe Advertiser says:
Mr. Isaac Fearlstin arrived at home Wednes
day evening from Charleston. He informs us
that “outsiders” have no idea of the terrible
effects of the yellow fever upon the business in
terests of the city. The streets are nearly de
serted, every one having left who found it pos
sible to do so. He thinks he saved 100 per cent,
in purchasing his stock in Charleston instead of
New York.
The same paper has an interestingletter from
Randolph county,' from which we extract the
following paragraph.
Much speculation is being indnlged in as
to the prospective yield of onr present crop of
cotton. And it is really amusing to see how far
men may be misled by their interest. While
same place a fair estimate upon the crop, others
are deeply interested in making the manufac
turers believe the present crop will equal, if not
exceed that of last year. Well, I do not pre
tend to know more abont this matter than oth
ers who have taken like pains to arrive at the
truth, but I hazard nothing in saying the pres
ent crop is the shortest that has been made
since the boll-worm committed snob ravages
from 1840 to ’45. I have visited lately several
of the surrounding counties, and talked with
intelligent and trnthfnl planters from other sec
tions, and all agree in saying that not even a
half crop may be expected.
The Augusta Constitutionalist, of Tuesday
.. . ^ "T v~ S-S- - w l, fl A T XUA-JVUiOAIimil 11 • AUUWWUU, VA AUMI
once^though t^no thin g * wo- 1 <1 induce me to do. j lying ill with a severe attack of paralysis.
Wesleyan Female College.—The Executive
Oommiltfee of the Wesleyan Female College
yesterday elected Dr. O. JU. Smith, of Colum
bus, Ga., to the Presidency left vacant by the
recent death of Dr. Bonnell. Dr. Smith aocepts
and will at once enter upon his duties.
I have been taming mr 8™y hrir brown, and I
wiU tell you how T vas brought tott. After
leaving my po?* 101113 ’• \ P ro P<»ed to go
back into t^ 5 ministry and become a parish
minister -Accordingly, as I had an opportunity,
I prep« J ® d to some few destitute churches, and
ws* gratified to hear, at the oonolusion of my
jervices, that the people were well pleased with
my preaching, and bnt for my gray hair wonld
gladly have me for a pastor; but they conld not
think of so old a man. Well, while I was going
through this experience, an old friend suggested
to me to color my hair, and thus remove from
the eyes of the people the reproach of being an
old man. And I consented, finally, to make
this experiment. And what do you think? The
very first time that I preached with brown hair
upon my head I was greeted with a call to settle
in the ministry, and have ever rinoe been the
happy pastor of a united and apparently per
fectly satisfied people. So much for the color
of one’s hair—so muoh in proof that looks are
something after all, notwithstanding the old
proverb that looks are nothing and behavior is
all.—Commercial Advertiser.
»*ys:
Shooting Affair on Bboad Street.—A diffi
culty occurred on Broad street last evening be
tween Messrs. J. J. Browne and James Neal, in
which the latter received a severe wound in tha
back from a ball fired from a pistol in the hands
of the former. It appears, from what we conld
learn, that a quarrel has existed between the
parties for some time, Mr. Neal having used
some opprobious language abont Mr. Browne.
Yesterday evening the latter called upon tha
former for an apology, which was refused. The
parties then walked up the street together, and
when at the corner of Broad and Jackson
streets, stopped. Mr. Browne again demanded
an apology, which Mr, Neal declined to give
and walked off. Mr. Browne thereupon drew a
pistol and fired at Neal, bnt withont effect. A
second shot, however, struck Mr. Neal in tha
baric, and Mr. Brow** was preparing to fire a
third time when ie was arrested by polioeman
Shaw and ce^ed to police headquarters. Mr.
Neal's wc*tid is quite serious, the ball not hav
ing been extracted up to a late hour last night-
in the ease of the State vs. O. P. MoOalla,
late General Book-keeper of the State Road,
charged with embezzling public funds, Justice
Butt, of Atlanta, rendered a decision on Tues
day, discharging the accused.
Ex-Alderman \f. O. Anderson, of Atlanta, is
He
The Prinoess Mary, of Holland, who was re
cently married to the Prince of Wield, made her
own wedding cake. The law ought to require 0 t ,
this of every young woman, and a bad cake upon the whole procedure aa a high-handed
.11 1. tha ...li.ll i .tl I
is speechless and withont use of his legs.
The last brilliant wedding at Atlanta was Mias
Mary Clayton to Mr. O. W. Henderson.
We clip the following items from the Atlanta
Era of yesterday:
Society News.—The New York Home Journal
contains an elaborate acoount of an elegant ra-
ception recently given in honor of Mrs. Maria
Jourdan Westmoreland, of Atlanta, by Mr. Fore-
paugh, of No. 56 West Twenty-fourth Street,
New York. Many literary and other celebrities,
including some of our most noted Southern
writers, were present It is stated to have been
a very pleasant and brilliant affair.
The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, says:
Released on Bah-—The friends of the par
ties who were lately arrested in Gwinnett oounty,
brought to this city, and lodged in jail, in a
somewhat mysterious manner—a notice of
whioh has heretofore appeared in onr oolnms—
came to this city day before yesterday, gave
bond for the prisoners, who were thereupon re
leased. Among those thus summarily arrested
are some of the best men in the country, who
never did anyone any barm, against whom no
charge of a violation of taw or morals was eve*
made. The affair has created much indigna
tion among the people of Gwinnett, who look
ought to stop the nuptials.
outrage.