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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, OCTOBER 24 1871.
The Great Nontbern Fires.
In noticing a remark by Rev. Henry Ward
Beccber thnt too contributions for the relief of
the Chicago sufferers camo from the North
alone, the Wilmington Journal justly remarks
that destructive fires and devastations of unex
ampled extent and the result of no accident,
have placed it out of tho power of the Southorn
States to contribute very materially to the relief
of these unfortunate people. Tho pecuniary
losses of the South, needlessly inflicted upon us
by tho Northern people, even in subjugating the
country, are not fifty nor a hundred of millions,
but scaroely less than six thousand millions.
And, sicco the close of the war, although there
have been a few exceptional cases to the con
trary, ninety-nine in the hundred of our people
have been simply struggling for a subsistence,
and, in a majority of cases, with but indifferent
success. Still, wo are glad to say that many
communities in the South have contributed a
mite out of their scanty stores to help the Chi
cago sufferers. The Journal, in tho course of
its remarks, revives the following record of
some of the great Southern fires:
In his “Great March to the Sea,” Major
Nicholl8, Aid-dc-Camp to General Sherman,
says, on page 37: ** November 13—Behind us
wo leave a track of smoke and flame. Half of
Marietta was burned up; for tbo command is,
that proper details shall be made to destroy all
property which can ever be of use to the rebel
armies. * * * * * *
Dwelling houses are leveled to tho ground. * *
* Yesterday, as some of our men were march
ing toward Chattahoochee River, they saw in
the distance pillars of smoke rising along its
banks. Tho bridges were is flames. Said one,
bitching his musket on his shoulder, in a free
and easy way, ‘ I say, Charley, I believe Sher
man has set the river on fire.' ”
On page 33, “ Atlanta is entirely deserted by
human beings, excepting a few soldiers hero
and there. The houses are vacant; there i3 no
trade or trafie of aDy kind; the streets are
empty. Beanlifnl roses bloom in the gardens
of fine houses, but a terrible stillness and soli-
ludo covers all, depressing the hearts even of
those who are glad to destroy it. In the peace
ful homes of the North there can be no concep
tion how these people have suffered for their
crimes.”
“Atlanta, Night of the 15th November.
“A grand and awful spectacle is presented to
the beholder in this beautiful city, now in
flames. By order, the Chief Engineer has de
stroyed by powder and fire all the store houses,
depot buildings and machine shops. The heav
en is one expanse of lurid fire, the air is filled
with flying, burning cinders; buildings covering
two hundicd acres are in iuins or in flames.
Every instant there is the sharp detonation or
the smothered booming sound of exploding
shells and powder, concealed in tho buildings;
and then (he sparks and flames shoot away up
into the black and red roof, scattering cinders
far and wide.”
We may add that for two hundred miles be
yond Atlanta to Savannah, Sherman’s track
through Georgia is still marked by houseless
chimneys and general desolation. That for
thirty miles eastward of Savannah, a friend who
followed Sherman’s trail says he conld have
walked all the way into the city on the carcasses
of dead stock ot all kinds—the slaughtered
plunder of the march. And then from Savan
nah to North Carolina, tho trail of fire and des
olation was still more horrible.
The Senatorial Question.—Southwest Goor-
g^t brings forward the name of Hon. John T.
Clarke for Senator in Congress. We do not
propose to meddle with the contest, but may
say, without fear of successful contradiction,
that among the young men of Georgia, John
T. Clarke hold3 an exalted position in every
particular. His reputation is of the best. Ho
is a man of high moral and religions principle.
Beyond this he is a fine scholar—a laborious
student—an eloquent speaker—a sound lawyer
—a clear headed, cool, cautious and improving
man, and ono who will be found fully up to the
demands of any situation in which he may be
placed.
Wo printed yesterday a communication from
a very prominent Democrat, recommending
General A. B. Wright, of the Augusta Chronicle
and Sentinel, for the position of Senator.
General Wright’s character and publio services
in Georgia are familiar as household words, and
his claims aro presented and enforced in very
many of the Democratic papers. Besides these
Dr. Miller, Gen. Young, Gen. Gordon, Mr. Nor
wood, ex-Senator C. B. Wooten and Judge
Worrell, all have earnest advocates.
Honor.—Tho full text of Butler’s Philadel
phia speech against the late indemnity treaty,
explains bi3 concern about honor. He says that,
under that treaty, the bloody Britons will bring
up a long bill of offsetting damages which will
overbalance the spoliation claims by millions,
and thus the United States will not only have
to whistle over their own losses, but pay a round
snm of money besides. Now, wo understand
the General’s concern about the loss of national
honor in this treaty. One Butler says in Hudi-
bras, that honor is lodged in the breeches, but
(he other Butler is more circumstantial, and in
dicates tho precise part of that garment which
holds tho precious commodity—to-wit: the
pocket. The honor lost is tho money lost; and
in this view of tho case wo believe the latter
Butler is absolutely sincero in his grief. The
treaty went after wool and come3 home shorn.
This involvcssome loss of reputation for shrewd
ness as well as of tho golden honor for which
Butler is so much grieved.
"New Books.—Lee, Shephard & Dillingham,
New York, send us, through J. W. Burke & Co.,
of this city, “Fire in the Woods,” by Prof. Jas.
do Millo, and tho “Spark of Genius,” by Eli
jah Kellogg—both capital books for young
folks especially, but full of interest for grown
people as welL This firm aro publishing, just
now, some of tbo most admirably instructive
and entertaining works that we know of any
where.
- Messrs. J. W. Burke & Co. also hand us from
Claxton, Romsen & Haffelfinger, Philadelphia,
the “History of the Working and Burgher
Classes,” by M. Adolphe Granier Cassagnac, a
distinguished author and journalist of Paris,
translated from the French, by Ben E. Green,
of Dalton, in this State. This work was writ
ten in 1838, but has never been translated be
fore. It shows profound erudition, and will be
read with much interest by the thinking men of
the country. Mr. Green appears to have done
his part as translator with faithfulness and ac
curacy.
The San Domingo Speculation.—The Cour
ier des Efats Unis asserts that vigorous move-
ments are going on in Washington to revive the
grand San Domingo operation. There has been
a general gathering of the speculators in Wash
ington—among them Dr. Fisher and W. W.
Ames, U. S. Consul at San Domingo. Gantler,
prime minister of Baez, has had an interview
with Grant and gone home full of confidence.
In consequence of these movements there has
been heavy operations in San Domingo lots at
advanced prices. ,
An exchange tells that, “while engaged in
playing ‘tie up sheep,’ some Delaware county
(N. Y.) children succeeded in hanging ono of
their comrades.” Has it never occurred to the
'friends of justice at Washington that this play
of “tie up sheep” might be extensively intro-
dtzeed among the office-holders there with ef-
News. Items.
The Open Polab Sea Entered.—According
to a Gotha dispatch in our yesterday’s edition,
the German Polar expedition had actnally dis
covered, and entered, the great Polar Sea, and
found it free from ice and swarming with
whales. The world will await with intense cari
osity, a full narrative of this expedition and a
description of this great Polar Sea. Dr. Kane’s
expedition reports having viewed that great,
silent and unknown ocean from the tall ice-
cliffs on its southern boundary. These wero
the first mortal eyes that ever gazed upon that
great, silent waste of waters. Bat the Germans
it seems, have won tha honor of first agitating
its waters with their ship prows, and telling the
world how to get there. The Hall expedition
is superseded, and probably Hall himself will
have to come back and get the nows.
Grant’s Eastern Toub.—The New York
Commercial Advertiser says tho President’s
Eastern tonr wa3 a continued ovation. His
“plain, unpretending stylo took the honest yeo
manry by storm.” To see him without the trap
pings of war and coming and talking to them
familiarly, says Jenkins “ah it was a beautiful
sight; a most touching spectacle.” It is gener
ally a touching spectacle when a great deal of
handshaking Ls to be done, and candidates al
most invariably make spectacles of themselves
in this way. The yeomanry of both Erst and
West, will account for this condescension and
simplicity in the nsnal way, particularly as the
first exhibition of it is so seasonable. We ob
serve by the dispatches on Friday that the
President’s popular addresses are as simple as
his manners among the sovereigns.
Harmed.—We see the following in the New
Orleans Times, of last Thursday, and wi»h the
wedded pair much happiness:
Yesterday was made memorable and blissful
by an event which occurred at the Jesuit Church
in this city. The distinguished author of that
most readable of modern publications, “Recol
lections of Fifty Years,” Col. W. H. Sparks, be
gan a new chapter of the romantic history of his
life, by leading to the altar the young, beauti
ful and accomplished Miss Came A. House-
nann, of this city, Father Dufour conducting
the services and bestowing tho blessings of the
church upon the happy twain. Our most cordial
felicitations are tendered to the eloquent and
graphic author and his lovely bride.
It is announced with no little satisfaction by
a Radical paper that “The President took three
premiums for eolts at the St. Louis fair, last
week.” Grant always had a taking way with
him.—New Orleans Times.
Health of New Orleans.—Tho Picayune
says the average of deaths per week in New Or-,
leans, duriDg the four hot months, was 115.
The population of tho city is about 240,000.
Dastardly.—The New Orleans Picaynne com
plains that tho manufacture of counterfeit nick
els is on the increase, and very serious frauds
on the community are practiced by means of
them. Is it possible that any human being can
be so base as to counterfeit those brummagem
five cent pieces ? We can scarcely believe it.
Let all good men insist that that they shall re
main the unmolested and unimitated and inim
itable testimonials to the pewter age of the Re
public.
Proved. — Our sable brothers in Darfour,
without knowing it, have nearabont demonstra
ted the Darwinian theory. When they wish to
capture a troop of monkeys, they set a kind of
intoxicating beer (a species of African whisky)
out under the trees, and the Simians take to it
so ardently as to get drunk and helpless, and
then are easily done for. That is more human
than monkeys are ordinarily thought to bo.
When the monkeys get sober, we have no donbt
they are as earnest advocates of “prohibition”
as Ben Butler himself.
Back from Texas
Wo saw yesterday Dr. T. E. Blount, jast re
turned from Texas, whither he went last De
cember. Tho Doctor ranged about tho Red
River country near the northern bonndary cf
the State, principally in the vicinity of Sher
man. The country is very rich in black prairie
land and chills and fevers. The land, with
favorable seasons, will produce cotton and corn
enough, but there are no facilities for transpor
tation, and on account of the impassable condi
tion of the roads in winter, hauling must be
done in the summer time. Dronth and insects
render cropping an uncertain business, and
both are perhaps eqnally fatal to the prospects of
tho farmer. Immense swarms of grasshoppers
will somet. nos lay waste great fields in a day,
and aro alik. destructive to corn and cotton.
Tho cotton crop is also mneb more snbject to
the caterpillar and army worm than in Georgia.
Malarious disorders in connection with the chill
ing northers and tho bad water are tho great
drawbacks of tho country, and sap tho energies
and comfort of the people.
The Doctor saw very few emigrants from
Georgia who would not be glad to be back in
the old State again; bnt it is not as easy to get
back from Texas as it is to go there. Ho re
turned, however, in company with several Geor
gia farmers who had become dissatisfied with
Texas. They said that, taking one year with
another, they could produce more cotton and
com in Southwestern Georgia than they conld
in Texas, and enjoy better health and much
greater social advantages.
The Doctor says the cotton crop of the prairie
region of Texas will not bo more than one-
quarter of what it was last year. Cotton was so
low last spring, and the demand for corn so
great, that only about half the area was seeded
to cotton, and this has been seriously injured
by the long dronth, which renders tho ground
hard as a stone, and cracks it so that yon may
bury a fence rail end-foremost in tho fissnres,
and some of them are wide enough to be dan
gerous to tho pedestrian.
Until railroads shall have permeated that
conntry and made travel and transportation
easier, it can offer no adequate inducements to
the emigrant from Georgia. When theso shall
have brought an improved population and
made lumber, fuel and other supplies less costly,
and furnished a cheaper outlet for farm pro
ducts, it may possibly pay a young man to emi
grate to the prairies of Texas; but to the man
of middlo age and a largo family, emigration
now involves sacrifices which he will regret as
long as he lives.
Tire mysteries of “ Spiritual ” Slate
Writing Explained.
The Louisville Commercial, of a late date,
has a long and qnite interesting article on the
myteries of epiritnalism, and the many start
lingly inexplicable exhibitions it has been mak
ing all over the country, of late. That of
writing on a common slate, where the slate
itself is held jointly by tho medium and the per
son whoseeks communication with the “spirits,”
and the pencil is apparently so short as to pre
clude the possibility of* its being grasped with
sufficient firmness to enable the bolder to make
even a legible mark with it, is ono that is excit
ing a great deal of attention. We have recently
conversed with a gentleman cf this city who
interviewed a medium while on a visit to New
York not long since, and whose recital of the
results of the seance was certainly as marvel
ous as it was interesting. Ho witnessed this
puzzle of the spiritual writing on the slate, and
from his description of the position of the slate
—one nnd held by himself and the other by the
medium under a table, its beiDg pressed mean
while close up against the table, and a pencil
too short almost to be picked np lying on the
slate midway his and tbe medium’s hand—we
do not exactly see how deception was possible.
But of course there must be an entirely satis
factory solution of the mystery, and the Com
mercial gives it. It lies in the now well estab
lished fact that there are certain individuals in
whom are developed, partly by natural evolution,
and partly by persistent practice, the power of
elongating, at will, someone of their fingers,
and possibly of the entire hand or arm. How
tho medium it will be remembered, being able
as is attested by incontestable proof, to elongate
his whole body some eighteen inches.
These discoveries were made dnrmg ihe past
summer simultaneously in France and Spain,
and offer a full yet simple explanation of this
Slato writing, and are, we think, of sufficient
interest to publish. And now wo quote as fol
lows from the Commercial:
The most scientific notice which has been
given to tho world of this remarkable physiolo
gical phenomenon (of voluntary elongation) is
contained in tbe leading article in tho June
number of El Embustera de Modioino y Cerugia,-
published at Madrid, and is from the pen of
Professor Engano. Tho whole article is too
long to quote at length. Tho subject upon ob
serration of whom the article is based, was a
muleteer from one of the Basque provinces,
named Garcia Dolores Agado. When the power
which he possessed of elongating ot will the
second finger cf his right hand was first ob
served by Agado himself, tho extent to which
elongation could be effected was bo slight as
scarcely to be perceptible.
Gradually with use and the active exercise of
the will power over it, the extent of elongation
increased until in May, of tho present year, then
under the observation of Prof. Engano, it had
reached the almost increditable extent of thir
teen and eleven-twelfth inches, Including the
projection of the end of tho nail, and was stead
ily increasing at a fixed rate, which rate we re
gret to say the profesor omitted to give.
This power of elongation and contraction can
be exerted by Agado at will, and can bo so
quickly executed that threq-elevenths of a second
of time only is required for its completion.
The very ingenious instrument, invented by
Professor Engano for the measurement of this
minute division of time, is worthy of a more ex
tended notice than the limits of this article will
warrant
Strange as all this rvy seem, the most as
tounding and bewi 1 * ring aspect of the phe
nomenon remains j be noticed. The finger
thus elongated to nearly fourteen inches be
yond its ordinary length, maintained its ordina
ry circnmferenca and bulk throughout its en
tire elongation, and yet seemingly drew none of
this additional substance from the flesh, blood
or bones of tbe body of Agado. In other words
the entire weight of the subject was increased
just in proportion to the elongation of tbe fin
ger, and again diminished upon its retraction.
Given a medium with this faculty, and the
mystery of “spiritual” state writing Joses all its
deliciously blood curdling fascination, and at
once descends to the tame level of a common
place fact. The medium makes his finger and
nail grow long enough to reach the pencil lying
in tho middle of the slato and fixing it firmly—
skill in which may be readily attained by practice
—under the lengthened nail,he readily writes the
spiritual messages without losing his grasp
from his end of the slate. How to account for
the “hits” theso messages sometimes make is
another branch of the snbject, and one which
we will not now undertake to disenss.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Foreign Fruit Trade of New York City.
Alato number of the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser gives some interesting statistics con
cerning this trade. Of bananas that city im
ports, annually, from 75 to 90 cargoes from
Boracoa and Jamaica. Each cargo averages
abont 3,500 bushels, and each is ballasted with
from 5,000 to 7,000 cocoanuts. Of West Indio
oranges—the importation of which commences
October 20th and ends March 20th—tho Adver
tiser does not give the exact figures. The duty
on this fruit is 20 per cent, on tho gold value of
tho cargo, while tho duty on other foreign frnit
is only ten pdf cent The wholesale price of
oranges on tho dock is from $7 to $15 per bar
rel. Of pineapples about 75 cargoes, averaging
4,400 to each cargo, arrive annually. The
wholesale price is from $7 to $12 ’per 100. Of
cocoanuts about 100 cargoes are annually im
ported, averaging 45,000 to each cargo. The
price ranges from $35 to $C5 per 1000. The cost
of chartering a vessel to bring frnit from the
West India Islands is abont $15,000, and the
total capital employed in the trade at that port
exceeds $1,000,000.
Loss of Life in Chicago.—A Chicago corres
pondent of the New York Sun says that upwards
of 500 bodies had been taken from tbe rains,
fects greatly beneficial to the country ?—Qou-1 np tg the 16th instant. We hope that is a good
ritV'Tonmal. • deal^bove the real number.
Cotton is Steadily Sinking, day by day,
under the pressure of heavy receipts which ap
pear to indicate a large excess over boll esti
mates- Some writer, in an article published
last week, remarked that nothing was so fatal
to a stalk of wheat as another stalk. We may
say that nothing is so fatal to a bale of cotton
in the market as another bale. But we are qnite
unshaken in the impression that the crop of
1871 will show a large deficit. It cannot be
otherwise, if there is truth in hnman talk and
observation. It is easy to understand how a
little crop may come in for a time abont as
plentifnlly as a large one. A man can poor as
large a stream out of a two as a four gallon can;
and the only difference is it will stop the sooner.
Tho necessity of pushing ihe crop forward is
the same this October as it was the last, although
we hope not qnite so extensive or urgent. But
there is a large amount of accommodation paper
whioh falls due 1st to 4th November and it
must be met, whether the crop be largo or small.
Tho actual tinth will be apparent from what is
left behind.
Hence, cotton is coming in pretty freely into
Macon, on a falling market, and the figores so
far show, perhaps, more tho relative amonnts
of indebtedness to be met than tho actual crop.
Up to and inclading 21st October last year Ma
con received 22,950 bales, and for the same time
thi3 year, allowing 600 bales for Saturday, the
receipts will be 13,310. Columbus, np to Fri
day, had received 5,712 bales, against 12.593
the year before. The falling off in Colnmbus
is, no donbt, heavier than any mere crop deficit
would call for.
Bnt as long as cotton comes in freely there is
amplo ground for the bears to go npon, and the
pecuniary interest they have at stake is a vast
one. If it should turn out next spring that there
will certainly be a crop deficit of fourteen or
fifteen hundred thousand bales, in the face of a
generally sound and active trade condition,
there is a clear ten cents margin npon every
poned sold before Christmas, and ten cents a
pound on a crop of two and a half to three mil
lion bales is worth fighting for. It wonld be
worth somewhere abont $125,000,000.
When cotton is pouring into tho Sonthein
ports, however, the fears of buyers are easily
excited. It is a marvel how faint-hearted a
commodity cotton is in the market, and how, by
common oonsent, so many dealers reverse all
the conditions of trade and buy on rising and
sell on falling markets. Faith is lost and re
gained without reason. The tales of cotton
commission merchants, in proof of this fact, are
amusing. Cotton drop3 and all, by one consent,
let go—don’t want to tonch it at any price.
Without a reason cotton reacts, and they pass
to opposite conclusions and courses with the
speed of a kite. The course of the planter is
plain. If he will not come in with the crowd
and sell his crop, when everybody else is forced
to sell, and therefore on a falling market, he
mnst get and keep out of debt.
Farm and Home.—This excellent periodical
is oat, and as a frontispiece presents a beauti
ful view of the Grand ^ Central Bark Entrance.
The table of contents ^occupies a whole page,
and is, of course,exceedingly varied. We
heartily commend toe Farm and Home to the
public—especially to^tbat large portion of oar
people who will be most interested in the
Grand Agricultural Exhibition which takes
place to-morrow-— ’ M
The trewly loyl loafers of tho colored persua
sion living on the Louisville road, near Savan
nah, liivc organized a Bntlerian syndicate and
levy contributions on all travelers going to tho
city over that road. But as the travelers aie
while, of course there is no harm done.
Thero were 39 life, and 44 fire insurance com
panies belonging to other States dbing business
in Georgia last year. The number of Georgia
fire insurance companies daring the same period
was three, and of lifo insurance companies,
one. The number of foreign insurance was
ten, making 97 companies in all.
The Methodists of Americas are having a re*
vivah
There is an unprecedented amount of sick
ness in Miller county, this season, caused by an
overflow of a large area of tbe connty daring
the heavy rains of September.
The Rev. Thomas Boone, son of tho late
Bishop of China, will assume charge of the
Episcopal Church, at Americas, on the 1st of
November.
The Columbus Sun learns from Mr. Gorman,
of the Talbotton Standard, that he will again
issue that paper next week, he having just se
cured new press rid type from New York.
Mr. William Madden, who amused himself by
disturbing tho negro Methodist congregation of
Columbus, last Sunday, has been made to give
a $150 bond to explain that little circumstance
before the next Superior Court.
David Smith, of Clinch connty, was bitten on
the hand by a rattlesnake, last week, bnt being
drenched with a pint of turpentine, and two
qoarts of whifcky, astonished his friends by re
covering. They say his stomach is still a little
disordered, though.
A constitutionally tired colored troop, named
Henry Mitchell, who borrowed ahorse last week
near Camilla, has waked np from his fond dream
of never riding “Shank’s mare” any more, and
now boards with the Thomasville jailor.
The Terrell county farmers say they will finish
picking cotton in two or three weeks.
Dawson is rather disposed to crow over a man
who hasn’t shaved in ten years, and sports a
beard 294 inches long.
Gen. Toombs will deliver the annual address
at the Thomasville Fair, on Wednesday, Novem
ber 1st.
The Dawson car works have recently shipped
a number of narrow-gauge cars io be used on a
North Georgia railway.
The cane crop of Decatur connty is very largo
this year, and tho lips of the Bainbridge girls
are in a state of chronic sweetness. The S. G.
in G., if not tho P. G. in G., has “the largest
.aggregate circulation” in that section, just now.
We clip the following from tho Dawson Jour
nal, of Thursday:
Work on tha Brunswick and Albany, and
Bainbridge, Cnthbert and Colnmbus Railroads
ha3 been suspended. On tho former from the
Notchaway Creek, west, and on the latter from
Cnthbert, north. Rumor has it that the mana
gers and contractors have completed so much
of these roads as they had received indorsed
State bonds for, and that they were doing tbe
work just suspended on borrowed Northern
capital. A financial crisis in the North has in
duced tbe capitalists there to offer the sugges
tion of suspending for the present.
The Valdosta Times announces the death, in
that place, on the Uth instant, of Col. W. R.
Manning, late President of the Lowndes County
Agricultural Society, and during the late civil
war commander of the 50th Georgia regiment
np to the battle of Boonsboro, when he was
badly wounded and compelled to leave the ser-
We find the following card in the Columbus
Sud, of Thursday. It would give us the heartiest
satif faction to chronicle Col. L.’s election:
Columbus, Ga., October 18, 1871.
To ihe Democratic Senators and Representatives
of the Georgia Legislature :
My namo will bo presented to a caucus of
the Democratic members of the Legislature as
a candidate for the office of State Printer, and
I shall be grateful for any support at your hands.
If elected I shall be fully prepared to execute
all work in prompt and workmanlike style, and
to give ample security for the faithful discharge
of all the duties appertaining to toe office.
Respectfully, A. R. Lamar.
Col. Hardeman, of this city, delivered the an
nual address before the Atlanta Fair Association,
on Thursday, whioh is highly complimented by
the papers of that city.
We quote, as follows, from the Atlanta Con
stitntion, of yesterday:
Athens Items.—Tho annual meeting of the
Northeastern Railroad was held in Athens on tho
18th. The old Board was re-elected except J. J.
Turnbull, of Banks county. George W. Center,
of Athens, was elected in his place. R. L.
Bloomfield was elected Chairman of the Board
of Directors. About 1,300 shares wero repre
sented. Saturday week the Direotora meet to
decide which route to locate the road. It is ex
pected that dirt will be broken by the middle of
November.
On the 17th Tom Ware, (colored) and Jonas
Cochran, (colored) had an altercation near
Moon’s shop, in Jackson county, concerning a
dog, in which Cochran received a pistol shot in
tho abdomen, resulting in his death in seven
hours. Ware was arrested in Athens on the
17th and lodged in jail, aid on the 18th sent to
Jefferson for commitment.
The Synod of Georgia met in Athens on the
evening of the 18th. There was bnt a small
attendance.
The Western fever has again broken out in
Dalton and vicinity.
The Atlanta Era, of yesterday, has tho follow
ing items:
Another Fatal Railroad Accident.—While
the train on the Georgia Road from Madison
was approaching Kirkwood Station, a few miles
from this city, yesterday morning, the locomo
tive ran over and killed Mr. A. B. Reagan, a
brother of Major Reagan, who was working
on the track. The Engineer did all in his pow
er to avoid the sad accident, bat in vain. The
body of tho nnfortnnate man was taken to his
home, a short distance from the plaoe of tho
accident.
U. S. District Court.—The Grand Jury re
turned on yesterday twenty-six bills, which in
addition to the five previously returned, make
thirty-one against persons charged with being
gnilty of Ku-Klux outrages. Judge Erskine,
npon discharging tbe jnry, recommended them
for their fidelity. Judge E. leaves to-day to
bold court at Savannah, having adjoarned the
Conrt for the Northern District until tbe 22d
day of December, at which time he will expect
to hold conrt again in Atlanta.
The Son, of same date, says:
Treasurer Angieb Sued.—At the instance of
Major Williams, Governor Bullock’s warrant
clerk, and by Bullock’s prompting, Dr. Angier
has been cited to appear before Judge Hopkins,
on Saturday, the 28th insfc., to answer for his
conduct in refusing to pay Exeoutive warrants,
drawn while it was known that the Governor
was beyond the limits of the State.
Samuel Blakely, one of the oldest citizens of
Spalding connty, died 1 at Griffin, on Tuesday,
aged seventy-six years.
John Smith is not dead at alL He only broke
his arm by falling from a cotton sc :ew in Spald
ing connty, last Wednesday.
Miss Fannie Davis, aged 28 years, and of
highly respectable character, committed suicide
near old Bethany Church, Green county, last
Sunday, by shooting herself twice through the
head, and onoe in the side. She left two notes
for her mother, bnt neither of them assigned
any zeason for the aot.
Times are lively with the Randolph county
jailor. He has nineteen boarders—thirteen
blacks and six whites.
We clip these items from the Cnthbert Appeal,
of Friday:
Removed to Macon.—Colonel H. H. Jones,
formerly editor of this paper, and now one of
the editors and proprietors of the Macon Tele
graph and Messenger, left with bis family on
Wednesday morning for their new home. Col.
Jones is a citizen whom onr city can ill afford
to part with. Be was always alive to the ms^
terial welfare of the community, and was always
found in tbe lead ir publio enterprises. He
loaves a vacancy in business, social and church
circles which will be felt for a long time; and
tho good wishes and fervent prayers of many an
honest heart go with him, his amiable wife and
courteous, lovely children, to their new field.
We congratulate Macon npon this valuable ac
quisition to her citizenship, and heartily wish
for tho Colonel a full fruition of his brightest
hopes in all the relations of life.
Leaving.—The large force of Messrs. Lyons
& McLendon which has been engaged on the
Bainbridge, Cnthbert and Columbus Railroad
for sometime, passed through the city on Mon
day. They go to work on the Griffin and Madi
son Railroad. We learn that tbe force of Col.
Griffin, recently on the Brunswick and Albany
Road, will also proceed at once to Griffin to
work on the Griffin and Madison Road.
The gin houso of Mr. W. D. Lynch, who lives
in Muscogee connty, on the Southwestern Rail
road, was burned Wednesday might, together
with about eight bales of seed cotton, a cotton
press and the seed of thirty bales previously
ginned. Loss $3,000.
Columbus is to have a fire alarm bell weigh
ing 4,000 pounds, with the names of the officers
of the Fire department engraved npon it.
Mr. Cranson Williams fell forty feet into a
well, at Gainesville last Tuesday, and instead of
finding Truth, he came out with a couple of
sprained ankles. Which he got off light, in our
jadg-ment.
Ono hundred convicts and forty mnlos and
carts passed through Gainesville, last Wednes
day, going to work on the Air Line road. They
wero part of Grant, Alexander & Co.’s force,
and have been working on tho Cartersville and
Van Wert road.
We find the following* items in the Indian
Springs Mirror, of Friday :
Serious Accident.—On Monday last a little
daughter of Joseph Wise, of Factory Hill, in
this county, fell from a tree while gathering
chestnuts, and was severely injured. She fell
aoout thirty feet upon a fence, and was carried
homo with a broken thigh, an arm broken abont
tho wrist, a fractured jaw, teeth knocked out,
and generally braised from head to feet.
Fire.—We regret to learn of the destruction,
by fire, of the store house, with its contents, at
Hodge’s mill, in this connty. The storo room
had undoubtedly been broken into and plan
dered. Of this several evidences wore manifest,
when the fire was first discovered, at daylight
on Monday last. Nothing in the building was
saved. Tbe loss i3 estimated at $3,000—a
small portion of which falls npon the Messrs.
Morgan, manufacturers, who had a furniture
wareroom in the buildiDg. No insurance.
Elberton connty does not need an emigration
society. Aladynp there gave birth to three
girls, one day last week, each weighing seven
pounds.
The Powder Mills property at Augusta was
sold on Thursday, the city beiDg the purchaser.
There wero 131 acres of land and two buildings,
one of them very large and costly. The price
paid was $10,300.
Under the head “To Run Around Columbus,”
the Colnmbus Enquirer of Friday calls the at
tention of tbe citizens of that city to the follow
ing paragraph from the Opelika (Ala.) Locomo
tive. and says if such a scheme is really on foot
the building of the North and South, and At
lanta Air-Lino Railroads “is a vital necessity.”
Says the Locomativo:
The report of President Hazlehurst to the
stockholders of the Macon and Augusta Rail
road leaves no room for doubt as to the exten
sion of that road to Opelika, crossing the Chat
tahoochee at the mouth of Mulberry Creek.
The proposed line passes through a fine farm
ing country, possessing many advantages over
the route from Macon to Columbus. The Presi
dent is confident it will bo built. It is hardly
probable that Opelika will be permitted to own
any interest in this road. The stockholders
know they have a good thing and will prefer to
keep it to themselves. Other roads are con
structing to which Opelika may desire to come
in when the door is shut.
Tho Savannah Advertiser, of Friday, takes
nearly a column to tell how a “nice young man”
fell in Jove with his “young and handsome”
landlady—how they billed and cooed to such an
extent that landlady’s spouse “out up” awful
rough, and thirsted for nice young man’s gore
—how a “jewel” was only averted by the inter
ference of friends—how, at last, hnsband and
wife quarrelled so bitterly that the household was
broken up and the house closed—and how tho
“nice young man” has gone to Baltimore,
whither the young and handsome femme afore,
said also betook horself a fow days since. What
has become of tho hnsband wo are not informed,
but if he should turn up in Baltimore, too, we
shonld think thero was good ground for expect
ing a fat job for the coroner.
The sub Ku-klax Committee for Georgia ar
rived at Atlanta Friday morning andcommenced
work at once, holding a session that day and
examining many witnesses, of whom st least
forty were from Floyd county. The committee
consists of Senator Bayard, (Dem.) of Dela
ware, Hon. D. W. Voorhees, (Dem.) of Indiana,
and'Messrs. G. Schofield, of Pennsylvania, W.
Lansing, New York, and Horace Maynard, of
Tennessee, all Radicals of the most relentless
sort. On Friday night some of the Atlanta Demo
crats welcomed and wined Messrs. Bayard and
Voorhees at the Kimball House, and some im-
promtu speeches wero made.
The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, says:
Putting on Airs.—We learn that Gov. Bul
lock, since his return, has not only caused a
suit to be commenced against Dr. Angier, be
cause the Doctor refused to pay illegal warrants,
but that he declines to draw any warrants on
tho Treasury for any purpose. Persons to
whom money is justly due, and to whom the
money could as well be paid as not, cannot pre
vail on tho Governor to draw his warrant for
tbo same. We have heard that ho says he wants
the question tested, as to whether he or Angier
is Governor. He has, we are told, refused to
issue warrants in favor of the it sane and the
Deaf and Dumb Asylums—both of whioh are
entitled to the money, and ought to be paid.
We clip the following from the LaGrange Re
porter, of Friday:
Judge W. M. Reese, of Washington, State Sen
ator elect from tbo 29th District, has been
suggested as a fit and proper person to preside
over the deliberations of the Seqate ; and Col.
3. M. Smith, of Columbus, as a suitable person
to be made Speaker of the House. Capb Dun
lap Scott, of Rome has also been suggested for
the latter position. No better selection could
be made than of Judge Reese. He is a repre
sentative man of the intelligence and patriotism
of the State. Firm and discreet, moderate and
conservative, yet always adhering to principle
and to the right, he will, it is to be hoped, be
unanimously supported by the Democratic
Senators for that position. We hope and trust
no opposition will be offered, that the honor
may be conferred aB a just tribute to uncring-
ing adhesion to prinoiple and to the highest
political and judicial integrity.
Judge Clarke for United States Sena
tor.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In com
mon with many citizens of this section of the
State, I think it is time that Southwestern Geor
gia should be allowed to sharein the honors dis
tributed by the Legislature. We ought to have
the next United-States Senator.
We can present a man every way qualified,
and who is known as eminently trustworthy and
deserving. I allude to the Hon. John T. Clarke,
of Cnthbert, Ga., who filled the Judgship of the
Fatanla Circuit with marked ability and integri
ty for five or six years, and was finally removed
from office by special order of Gen. Meade, be
cause his manly and upright nature refused to
use the functions of an office conferred by the
people for the enforoenf&nt of oppressive and
unconstitutional military orders.
Judge Clarke has, since the war, taken a lead
ing part in advancing the Democratic ciU3e,
especially in Southwestern Georgia, and tho
Democracy of the State recognized his ability
and service by placing his name, with that of
Gen. Gordon, on the eleotoral ticket for the
State at large in 1868, and by giving him the
position which he now fills as a member of the
Executive Committee of too party.
Judge Clarke is comparatively a young man,
bnt is old enough to be in the full exercise of
all his gifts, and to have displayed on many oc
casions that political knowledge and those pow
ers of eloquence, wLich cnHMe h’ra to rank
among the first men of the State. We claim
that he has few, if any, superiors, even amoDg
those whom age and opportunity have made
more celebrated. The material from which the
Senator must be chosen is limited, for I take it
for granted that the Legislature will not commit
the folly of electing an ineligible man. Wo all
regret the necessity of losing for a time the
services of many of our statesmen of tried
character and commanding repntation, but while
we will never ceaso to honor them for what they
have done, we will be obliged in tho future to
look more for actnal service to the rising young
men with whom the State is blessed. Give them
positions where their light can shine, and ere
long all will acknowledge their fitness to do those
labors and bear those burdens of pnblic life
from whioh unjust legislation has disabled so
man of the older men. Judge Clarke is free
from all legal disability. Having never held of
fice beforo tho war, his name stands happily dis
connected from those violent ante-war political
issues which led to sectional strife and animos
ity, and he might obtain a more favorable hear
ing for this State in the Senate on that afcconnt.
Were he in the United States Senate neither
hope nor fear wonld drivo him from the post and
path of duty. Ho wonld prove a discreet and
prudent counsellor, yet an able and gallant de
fender of truth and right, and all his publio
conduct would bo regulated by exalted senti
ments of personal honor and disinterested pa
triotism. We know that oursuggestion is warmly
approved by many, both in and out of tho Leg
islature, in various parts of tho State, as we
wonld not write this until wo had written to and
consulted witn several members of the Legisla
ture in different parts of tho State. Whether
Judge Clarke would be disposed to turn aside
from bis professional career to enter upon snch
an office we are not authorized to say. But
Georgia and Georgia Democrats can do no bet
ter than to elect him.
And we may say unhesitatingly, wero Judge
Clarke in the United States Senate fonr years,
that both parties would acknowledge his marked
ability as a statesman, and toe Democratic party
be prond of their Senator. Democrat.
Sonthwest Georgia, October 17, 1871.
Female Slanderers.
Editors [Telegraph and Messenger • y
could read the just and able remarks’*? 0 *1
peared in the Telegraph & Messenger *
13th, on tl e male slanderer of woman • *
fully appr mating and endorsing them’
female sei wonld be ungrateful, indefY^*
thank the generous mind tvho so ^ *
fend3 it. But when we try to esaai 'l
man’s exc illenoe, we find that the worm J
is eating i nd destroying it is really ij! , V
sex itself, pot the male, and so we will av
show ns the man who has a truly
itiau mother, or a I
Tlie
High Honor to a Macon Boy.—Master Wes
ton Patterson, son of Dr. Fatterson, of this city,
and at present a member of the Sophomore class
of the University of Georgia, has been chosen
one of the participants in the pnblio debate
that will come off at Athens some time next
month. We hear six members of the Senior
class are among the number selected for thiB dis
tinguished honor, bnt onr young friend is the
only “Soph” that has been this year, or ever
was thus honored. He is fonr years the junior
in age of any of his companions, but in the mat
ter of. brains we predict that he will prove his
right, at least, to equality with the most gifted
among the number. -
A New English Coalition.—The World’s
London correspondent says that & coalition has
been formed between leading members of the
House of Lords and the representative men of
trades unions and working classes upon the
oonoesaion by the power of certain demands of
tho latter, embraced in sev6n distinct- stipula
tions. One of the Lords, in the' course of tho
negotiations, exclaimed: “Yon say we may be
actuated by selfish impulses. We confess it; if
we don’t make friends with you, yon and yours
may take all we have; bnt if we make friends
with you, you maybe willing to leave us
half.”
Story of a Remarkable Ken*
tucky Family.
We find the following article in the Courier.
Journal of Thursday:
Abont one mile from Jamestown, Russell
county, there lives one of Iho most remarkable
families in all this commonwealth, and probably
in tho United States. Mr. James Jeffries, who
i3 now in this city serving npon the petit jnry
in the United States Coart, tells his own story,
and says that he was married before ho was
seventeen years old, his wife being only five
days younger than himself. They lived together
seven years without children, when his wife gave
birth to twins, a buy and a girl. In the fifteen
years which followed, nineteen children were
born to the happy couple, each of the first three
births being twins and each subsequent birth
alternating between twins and single births un
til the fifteen years were accomplished and nine
teen children composed the family circle, seven
pair of twins being bom daring the time. Mr.
Jeffries is only 45 years old and is still youthful
in appearance and very stout. His wife never
had better health in all her life than at present,
bnt sh9 will not weigh a hundred pounds. Her
greatest weight at anytime was 110 peunds.
The boy of the first twins now weighs 165
ponnds, and ihe girl 125 pounds. All the boys
who are grown have made large men; the girls
are of good size and all the children hoalthy,
But five out of the nineteen have died. Mr.
Jeffries has ten brothers, all of whom are large
men, and within the families of these eleven
brothers there are thirty-seven pairs of twins,
making seventy-four twin children, to say noth
ing of the host of single births. Five of Mr.
Jeffries’ children are married, and, added to all
these singular facts, notwithstanding the absence
of silvery lock#on his head, he is the grandfather
of five children.
The Jeffries family is certainly a remarkable
one, or the member thereof whose Christian
name is James, a most remaikable liar. And
if tho latter, he is a relishable one, and no
mistake.
The
Kn-klux Committee at Knox
ville.
The snb-committee appointed by Congress to
investigate the condition of affairs in the States
of Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina,
met in thi3 city to-day to organize for their
work. Hon. Horace Maynard is chairman of
the committee, and for this reason Knoxville
wa3 chosen as the place for organizing. Tho
committee, in addition to Mr. Maynard, is com
posed as follows:
Hon. Glennie W. Scofield, of Pennsylvania;
Hon. Wm. E. Lansing, of New York; Hon.
Thomas J. Bayard, Senator from Delaware; and
Hon. Dan W. Voorhees, Representative from
Indiana. The last two named, representing the
Democratic party on the committee. The com
mittee will be accompanied by W. Blair Lord,
Esq., and an assistant as stenographers. Dar
ing their stay in Knoxville the gentlemen named
will bo entertained by onr citizens. The com
mittee will probably leave on Thursday for At
lanta, Georgia, to begin their investigations.
The gentlemen composing this committee are
all of a national reputation, and will donbtless
bring to the discharge of their duties an earnest
determination to do right. Senator Bayard and
Mr. Voorhees, the Democratic members, are
able lawyers and distinguished leaders in their
party.—Chronicle, 17th.
The Late Tenessee Road Sales.—The Balti
more Snn, of Wednesday, says:
The East Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia
Railroad Company has purchased the Cincinnati,
Cumberland Gap and Charleston Railroad fox
the snm of $300,000 in Tennessee State bonds.
The Knoxville and Kentucky road was sold
by the commissioners to an association of
gentlemen composed of Wm. B. Johnson and
A. L. Maxwell, of Macon; ex-Governor J. E.
Brown, of Atlanta; O. M. McGhee, of Knox
ville ; Columbus Delano, of Ohio; Simon and
Don Cameron, of Fennsylvania; Thomas Scott,
of Pennsylvania Central Railroad; Moses Tay
lor, of New York, and B. Severe, of Boston, for
$350,000 in bonds.
The Nashville and Northwestern road was sold
to the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Com
pany for the amonnt of $1,700,000, State bonds.
It is the intention of the purchasers to place the
road in first-class order at as early a date as
possible. Work has already began, inclading
the construction of an iron bridge over the
Tennessee liver at Johnsonville, to be about
1,200 feet in length.
“To be Taken Gradually.”—The St. Loots
Democrat, a Radical paper, prints the following
dispatch from Chicaeo:
There are all sorts of stories afloat from time
to time concerning the arrest and' shooting or
hanging of incendiaries. Among the moat sen
sational is one that last night an inoendiary was
arrested near the Catholic Church, who, learn
ing he wonld be hanged, confessed that he came
here with a hundred ex-rebels from St. Louis
to burn the oity, and now that it was done, he
was ready to die—and he died. Although some
respectable people vcnch for this story, it must
be taken gradually.
We are glad they swallowed that story “grad-
ualiy”—otherwise it might have hurt them.
vo ed chri itiau mother, or a true-h
tuous wife, one “whose price is abow* .
whose chiJ Iren rise up and call herblemJi
whose bus land also praiseth her,” eho» ^
a man whe was ever known to traduce ,3
Did Washi ngton or John Q. Adams B t?
° r J- E - B Stuart, ever slander woman'j *
John Net ton, (whose saintly mothr ,
soared to the Beautiful City) andlvl
twenty yeairs rushed recklessly on to
until reoia ined by the recollection ofTl
sons early taught him by his angel nun?!
in the wu l hurricane exclaimed ■ ‘inr
mother’s C od, save me, help me,” did i,
became as a shining light, and afterwariLl
many to tl e foot of the Cross, slander tmT*
And the s era old patriot, Andrew
whose mot ner was left a widow with tW*
when two >f them fell in their country
vice, noblj gave np her life attending t**
poor prise ners—did he traduce woman’
who honoi ed his mother and adored 1
more than Napoleon the First, and wet-^
member 1 is famous injunction to thece’rf -J
Madame C ampan, how to train up the
girls unde * her eare.
A good nother’s influence is never
although t may seem to pass away ora
tor years, md through the loDg vista of^
hood’s fea s, and hopes and ambition
dren prese :ve unsullied the gems ensWi
the caskei of childhood and yonth "and’T
with all iti winds of passioD, “its eymeesd
its asphodi h,” conld never shut ont the t ^
of their mt ther’s face; even as to the a
on the batt le-field and the sailor, rudely t
on the raf ing sea, will always come fa]
memory of their mother. We all remem^ j
story of t te Eastern Monarch (and sot J
come to th > worm at the root of the U
who, when his prime minister approached
for justice, for any of his subjects, invaral
asked, “Where and who is the womamthd
caused this wrong?” and always traced if]
woman’s influence. One of onr writers!
said that “slander and gossip are the dead
weapons man ever forged for hia brofa
hurt.” Great crimes work great wrongs,!
the deeper tragedies of human life sprin’fc
its greater passions, bnt the “nncatalogneda
edies” tha< issue from slander and gosi-j,
most woef il and melanoholy; aud moated
ful is the s lipwreck so often made of noils J
tures and lively lives by the bitter winds 3
“dead sea waters of slander.
One of c or most gifted and well beloved;
isters here preached one of tho finest m '
ever deliv red from a pnlpit, on tho text 1
shalt not go up and down as a tale-h.
among my people’'—ably showing thate
worse tha: i the originator of the slander w
was the oi e who carried it from house toH
adding to it, of course, as it went. And*i|
know that it is woman who goes from boa]
house, in the very bosom of each family, J
dneing other women—instigated by envy, ;J
0U3y and petty malice—dissolving frieikl
once firm, as granite, and evaporating liiel
morning : nist love that was once as stable]
truth itsel! and had promised a future as 1
during as leaven.” And it is the vile, ste
ons tongt cs of snch women that make 1
give placuto despair, and faith to doutt J
suspicion, and will even make charity, |
greatest o the Christian graces, wear the!*
tures of “ black malevolencefor with t
little aton of trath that makes it all thee
diabolical they insinuate things so hard toil
prove, an 1 throw on the innocent all the tcif
and stain >f demonstrating their innocence,!]
cause the; cannot destroy the sting of whatti|
do not s >e, or deny the slander they do:
hear. Hi w fearful to think of the lives £
blighted! Foor, feeble women, toiling tog
an honest livelihood for themselves and b
helpless t nes—widows, and those deserted!
their hnsl ands (too often from this my emu
straggling on in their loneliness for their dc|
bread—ai d suddenly they awake to the!
that frien Is fall off, and cold looks and fa
smiles gr set them from some they belief
'most true, when an accidental word is dag]
which uni avels the mystery: they have tel
basely “s abbed in the dark” by ono ofbl
sneaking t usybodies circulating false repcre.J
them, or b inting baso insinuations, mean-::d|
and more < lowardly, to try to take away all lh|
was left 1 o them—their fair unsnllied i
more preo: ons than the costliest gems.
Even th i poor snffering invalid, pro;!:
on a bed of agony, or shut np in afflict!;]
chamber, i 3 not saved from these femaleghos
for her very sufferings are, by them, attrifc-J
to imagine tion, hypochondria, or worse 4f
the inline! ce of morphia and stimulants, r
slanderous vipers take refuge behind thefe*
to slander and malign poor, feeble women, tha
ing they c innot be called to account for all ltd
mean, ions baokbiting tongues assert c;J
sinuate tr^m house to house of absent pecpl
When a man defames or rains a woman u]
made to account for it, or even shot down *
impunity, and tho whole world is against h
bnt when a woman, through jealousy, envyr
malice, in a base, cowardly manner insinar
these falsehoods and perpetrates these slanJ
she thinks her sex protects and shields if’jj
How many snch cases occur daily, and weg - "'
to say our fair city has the reputation of 1
peculiarly fdieted in this way, and event
journals of sister cities have remarked
this vejry faot, x for some have been forced to s]
peal to the journals for redress and justice, r
deed, there are few (if even one isolated r
be found) here who have not been slung i
backbitten by these slanderous tongues, «■*
can bnt feel rejoiced that our Legislature:®
wisely taken it in hand and made Blander]
criminal offense; for what can a woman J
thus persecuted by others far beneath her is’
that makes true worth and excellence, foratre.
noble woman will never degrade herself tolw
to, repeat, or believe,such baso insinuatios::
her fellow-women. J
There never was a truer sentiment than
of the old Scotch nurse, “a dog that will f*-
a bone will carry one,” and should he
distrusted and watched, for they rob us of tr^
ure far moire precious than gold and silver—^
unsnllied name. We know their iniquity"
find them ont; and even as they mete will ir-
measured to them. Aye, even more fujtyij
sowing the wind they will reap the whii‘ r *
But alas! many noble and good will ofteni-
fer to leave a community and die among s**.
ers, rather than endure the daily heart-acMR
bitter wrong with which they wonld be tort®
in “living down” the slander and defio^,
of these backbiters. It is bard and
experience that feeling of being wrongei^
we might beoome disappointed, hard-bs^
cynics did we not ding to the great ancb-T;
Truth, and, treating the hissing serpent “
the silent scorn it deserves, bide G°^ a 5
time, knowing that he who never slumbers >
said, “Vengence is mine—I will repay,' *®-'
patience await the reward promised to the p^-
maker and the pare in heart.
A Firat-class Notice of Little
man.
We are indebted to the Ohio Statesmen -
the following highly appreciative notice of
Fouquier Tinville of tbe 'WashingtonComm®
But Akerman was only a wagon-ma8ter>
Statesman: ,
OoL Akerman, late Commissary on ft 0 t
of Gen. Robert Toombs, in the rebel a-m.V,
compariied his patron, Gen. Grant, on Jj} 3
to the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, on
- — - - ecbm 1 ;
last The Colonel made a glowing spee—.^
disabled veterans, bnt wisely refrained
staff and in the ranks of the rebel Ho®*?
I tne reDei hk*"-. ; ^
of Georgia. He is now Attorney
administration of General Grant, n! j, ; 5
honnd in chief to the oppressors of tha ®°
people. ’
A purchased traitor to his own secJ<w> J
as bitter on the South as he was on his |
North daring toe war, when it was tow
eet of his pocket and his precious hum
into the rebel commissary department u
Akerman is one of the few Northern ^
birth and ednoation who took service ^
rebel army, bnt the veterans at Dayton ^
consolation of knowing that he wasnev^ ^
enough to the front to be responsible •
of their injuries.
The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Deutsoh P* I
shocked at the nnds small boy on the D* I
Fountain:
“Der Bhmall Poy stand* on der Fountain,
Und he don’t get cn any dose, .
Und dem young girls dey all plash, •»
•Vat he means by snob <
act as do»«-
