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The Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Journal &c Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON NOVEMBER 28 1871.
Democratic State Convention.
Special to Macon Telegraph and Messenger.]
Forsyth, Ga., November 22.—A Convention
of the Democratic party wiU assemble in At
lanta on Wednesday, the Cth day of December
next, at 10o’clock, a. si., to nominate a candi
date for Governor.
By direction of the State Democratic Execu
tive Committee.
% CuFFonn Andebson, Chairman.
Trasliy Boohs ami Slnsic In Sunday
Schools.
The Now York Son, of Saturday, has a very
sensible and apropos article on this subject,
which we heartily endorse. The editor gives
several specimen stanzas from hymns he re
cently heard sung by a choir of a thousand
children at the Brooklyn Rink, on some anni
versary occasion, which are simply idiotic
bosh. For example, these two:
“The poor cripple has a ebanqo for glory,
As good a chance as you or I;
Christ will listen to his story,.
He will hear the cripple’s cry.
“Ho always pities poverty
And scorns not those who have to bog;
His grace for every woe’s sufficient—
One can go to heaven with a wooden leg.
The person who wrote this stuff would cer
tainly go to Heaven if being the possessor of a
wooden head were a pre-requisite.
And too many of our Sunday school books,
also, we may say, aro as liable to criticism and
censure as the hymns from which such quota
tions as the above aro made. Those who write
them seem to know nothing whatever about real
boy and girls, nor even of human nature. Their
premise, most generally, is that there are only
two classes of children in the world the
disgustingly sanctimonons, and the absolutely
and unqualifiedly wicked. Their good girls are
usually only a very little lower than angels,
and their good boys, such mean, sneaking,
hypocrites as are never seen anywhere outside
the pages of these trashy Sunday school books.
And their wicked boy is as great a carricature
as the good boy. He is as great a monstrosity
as was ever painted in a ten cent blood and
thunder novel—though, on the last page, he is
frequently suddenly transformed into a saint,
and sent straight to Heaven.
Wo really think it is about time to purge our
Sunday School shelves of such stuff. It is un
wholesome and pernicious in the extreme, be
cause it gives those whose minds are peculiarly
plastic, false impressions in a guise, and at a
time, when it is peculiarly important that the
very reverse should be the case. One of the
strongest objections urged against novel read
ing is that it is calculated to give young persons
false views of life, and to unfit them for the
reception and relish of other and more whole
some mental food. The same objection, it
seems to us, applies and with equal, if not
greater force to the class of Sunday School liter
ature we have alluded to. What child, after
becoming accustomed to the unnatural diet set
forth in this sort of Sunday Schoolbooks, can rest
satisfied with food of a plainer and more whole
some description ? As well expect an average
boy, under the spell of his first introduction to
dear old Robinson Crusoe, to cheerfully turn
his back upon that delightful person, and greed
ily embrace the disgusting imps that lurk and
grin through the multiplication table and deci
mal fractions? As one of the sagest of the
Roman philosophers remarked: It’s “agin
natur.” Let those whom it most concerns, and
who can work a reformation in this matter, set
about it at once. There is urgent need and
ample room for a thorough one.
“Honey Abundant!”
The Nashville Banner, of Sunday, says:
In the States South of us money seems to be
more abundant than at any time since the war,
though last season was anything but a prosper
ous one in a pecuniary point of view. It W83
expected that there would be a heavy drain upon
New York to move the cotton crop, but thus far
there has been scarcely any Southern demand
for currency, though about C00.000 bales of the
crop have been marketed. '
Mr. Banner come down this way and point
Out just a little of this abundance, for we can-
sot see it. Our fixed impression is that money
in Central Georgia, is a3 yet not very much
more plentiful than it was in mid summer. The
fact is until factors’ acceptances are disposed
of and debts cancelled all round, it takes very
littlo money to move the crop. It is a general
transfer of claims, that sets very little money
afloat in the eountry. We hope the remainder
of the crop will set currency afloat and ease the
pinch a little.
Tbe Great Problem of the Future.
George Wilkes has written a letter from Paris,
in which ho relates and reviews at considerable
length the groat politico-labor movements in
Europo and this country. He says that the
working classes of the world will be the supreme
power of the future. The relations of capital
and labor are to be the great questions divid
ing parties here and elsewhere, on which the
New York Commercial remarks:
Wo have buried slavery, we have settled the
problem of secession, and now we are to face
the issues raised by the mighty labor move
ment whose violent and revolutionary princi
ples are represented by the Internationale
Society. But behind this dangerous organiza
tion aro the aspirations of workingmen who
would not achievo their ends by disorder, ana
to whoso solicitations the politicians of the
future cannot be indifferent. The “Inter
nationals” may perish of their own folly, bnt
the problems arising from the relations of capi
tal and labor will clamor for solution, and will
be, in point of importance to some future
generation of our people, what the slavery
question has been to ns.
Stbawbebbifs is November.—At Dr. O. Col
lins’ residence in Macon, on Monday, eighteen
guests wore furnished with as many ample
plates of strawberries whioh had ripened in the
open air. What is remarkable, the strawberries
were of large size—some of them an inch and a
quarter in diamater, and they were also full
flavored and sweet—not the nsual acrid or
tasteless things that these berries aro apt to be
When maturing out of season.
Veto of the Election Bill.—Acting Gov
ernor Conley put himself in the ungraceful and
unjustifiable attitude of votoing the bill forja
special election for Governor according to the
Constitution, but his veto was overruled in both
houses yesterday. We have not yet seen that
instrument, bnt learn that the Governor hangs
it on the constitutional provision for canvassing
the returns of tho regular gubernatorial election.
If so, a poorer pretence for a veto could not be
imagined.
A Gbeat Fiee in Charlotte, North Carolina,
broke out at 2 o’clock last Saturday morning,
and destroyed about thirty-five thousand dol
lars’ value of property on which there was some
$24,000 insurance. The Observer says it was
undoubted the work of incendiaries.
Quezn Victoria Sane.—Dr. McLeod states
officially that he has attended the Queen for
over thirteen years, and declares that all reports
that Her Majesty has shown symptoms of mental
weakness aro unqualifiedly false. v
Tim Boston Post says: “The hide of a Bul
lock is very thick; but the Governor’s attempt
to hide his rascality is very thin.”
The importers of New York, have published a
letter, whioh complains of the obstruction to
. goods coming through the Custom House.
Tbo Fence Question.
The farmers tell us we must stir up the Leg
islature on tho fence question—that fence tim
ber is getting very scarce in the old counties,
and old field pine saplings aro perishable and
costly fencing material; and lastly that in these
piping days of freedom mauling rails and lay
ing fences is far below tho dignity of freedmen;
and what is more they won’t do it This is
bringing things to a crisis very fast. And this
crisis is all tho more alarming because every
negro keeps a long nosed runt of a hog who
will go through a poor fence into your corn
field before you can say Jack Robinson; and
then, vice versa, as negro won’t build much
of a fence around his own corn or potatoe
patch, or tolerate trespassers in the shape of
white man’s stock, what he does do is to sit in
the door of his cabin on hot summer days, gun
in hand, and shoot every cow, calf and pig which
goes through or jumps over his shabby inclo
sure. This makes it tight times for white men,
and white men are therefore clamoring long
and loudly for a law to prevent all stock from
going at large.
But a great many difficulties surround this
subject and it seems to us the Georgia Agricul
tural Societies ought to take it up—study into
and digest it, and present to the Legislature the
scheme of a stock law which will meet the sit
uation. If possible, the interests of counties
devoted to stock raising and of counties whose
main business is agricultural must be harmon
ized. Some will say this will be easily done by
exempting the former from the operation of a
stock law. But then, what shall be done where
such counties abut—where county lines meet—
on one side of which are large cattle ranges,
and on the other cultivated farms ? This is the
main trouble to be solved. It is a clear case
that the range in agricultural counties is not
worth a tithe of the fence expenses, while in
tho cattle counties the fences amount to little
or nothing.
Meanwhile, the cost of fencing and tho diffi
culty of keeping it up in the agricultural coun
tries is yearly increasing, and the practical value
of tho range becoming less, and the necessity of
some remedy daily growing more urgent. Let
the farmers themselves take hold of this matter
and embody their views and wants through a
bill to be presented to the Legislature. Each
county club or association might discuss this
matter and send one of their best men to a
common convention of delegates, and altogether
agree upon a remedy which might be authori
tatively pressed on the General Assembly. On
the importance of the topic, consider the fol
lowing statement, which wo And in one of our
exchanges:
Some one has been approximating the first
cost of all the fences in the United States, put
ting it at $1,290,000,000. These must be en
tirely renewed every ten years, making the
annual cost of fences $129,600,000.
The Georgia State Agricultural Society has al
ready recommended the passage of a fence law
to tho Legislature, bnt they failed to furnish a
sheme.
Tbe Champion Monster Discovered-
lie Poors Kerosene over His Wife,
Sets Her on Fire and Barns Her to
a Crisp. ,
A Boston dispatch to the Herald, of Sunday,
from Lynn, Mass., says that a barber of that
city named John G. Clinton, was arrested Sat
urday night, charged with first beating his wife
in a most shocking manner, and then pouring
kerosene over her and setting her on fire. She
was literally roasted to death. Her body was
still burning when found, and presented a sick
ening appearance. There were marks of vio
lence on her head consisting of two or three
cuts, looking as though they had been made
with some dull instrument. On her breast were
also wounds, which appeared to have been
caused by something beside the flames. The
features were rendered unrecognizable, and the
hair was burned close to the head, leaving the
skull bare and horribly crisped, and black flesh
was dropping from her hands, arms and body.
Democratic State Convention.—A telegram
from Clifford Anderson, Chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee, dated at For
syth, was received at this office yesterday even
ing about 4 o’clock. We presume similar tele
grams were sent to all parts of the State. It
calls a convention of the Democracy of the
State in Atlanta, on Wednesday, the Cth day of
December next, for the purpose of nominating
a candidate for Governor. Let the counties all
act as soon as possible for the appointment of
delegates. A meeting in this county might be
held on Saturday the 2d of December. We sug
gest it to the people and the committee.
Editorial Correspondence.
Savannah, November 20, 1871.
Taking a leaf from our Macon programme,
the enterprising inhabitants of this magnificent
Southern city, are sparing no pains to make
their industrial exhibition tho reflex and expo
nent of its rapid growth and prosperity. Nu.
merous committees will be in attendance at each
steamboat and railroad arrival, to provide ac
commodations, and extend a suitable welcome
to the expected visitors. The exquisite taste
of the ladies also has been called into requisi
tion to adorn and beautify the ample halls of
the exhibition, and the mossy drapery of the
forest, interspersed with evergreens, flowers
and rare exotics, will conceal and enrobe the
the rough handiwork of the mechanic. Entries
keep pouring in, and there is danger that many
will arrive too late to be ticketed and displayed.
As this is the first exposition of first class di
mensions opened to Southern Georgia and
Florida, the crowd from those sections will be
immense. Thousands will flock in from Charles
ton and Carolina, also.
The projected amusements of the week alone,
are sufficiently tempting to draw a multitude in
quest of pleasure and recreation. The raoss,
regatta, balloon ascension, theatricals, etc.,
eto., aside from the shipping, park, and other
lions of the city, will greatly interest the quiet
denizens of the country. The late heavy frosts
also have removed all fear of sickness, and the
ancient city of Oglethorpe will enjoy a very
carnival of fun and excitement daring the pres
ent week.
All tho passenger cars of the old Central last
sight, were crowded to repletion, and to the
praise of the efficient President of the Com
pany, Mr. Wadley, be it spoken, that he sur
rendered his own sleeping birth for the accom
modation of a passenger..
Several of our Maoon citizens are already
here and we trust the Central City will bo num
erously represented.
COTTON FBOSFEOT.
Prices of the great staple rule very firm to
day and it is generally conceded that a marked
improvement is bound to occur in a few weeks.
Bayers are evidently waiting until the “lien
men” have delivered their last bale under the
spur of binding obligations, before they will
raise their bids. How unfortunate that the re
action will inure mainly to the benefit of the
speculator. This must continue to be so, how
ever, until our people can castoff the shackles
of debt and assume an independent attitude.
But this consummation can never be looked for
unless the planter will raise his own bread and
meat in abundance.
The weather is warm end humid, and the
prospect unfavorable for the exhibition. No
vember is generally a dry month, however, and
we hope for the best
Senator Norwood’s election is hailed frith the
liveliest satisfaction in this city. He will be true
as steel to the interests of Georgia.
H.H. J.
THE GEOKGIA PBESS.
We have received tho second issue of the
Hancock Sentinel, a new paper just established
at Sparta, which promises to be, when consid •
erably better printed than this number, a cred
itable addition to Georgia journalism. From it
we copy these items:
“Axident.”—In Dixsey, on last Tuesday, a
Radical negro was thrown over the head of a
mule. When reaching the ground his first reply
wss, “you darn’d old Democrat.”
On Thursday night a colored individual of this
neighborhood, while engaged in tho attempt
surreptitiously to increase her supply of winter
fuel, loaded herself so heavily that, on her re
turn, while crossing a gutter, her strength gave
way, and she fell into it, severely injuring, if
not breaking her back.
On Friday, the 10th inst., Mr. Thomas Hob
by killed a young man named Ben. Roberts,
both citizens of this county. We understand
that the difficulty arose from an old grudge on
the part of Roberts. The affair happened in the
public road. The body of Roberts was taken
about five miles from the place of the killing,
where aninquest was held. Tho verdict of the
Coroner’s jury, wo hear, is justifiable homicide.
The foreign shipments of cotton from Savan,
nah, on Saturday, were 5,711 bales of uplands-
valued at $420,895.and 22 bales of sea island,
valued at $4,478.
The Savannah Fair follows pretty nearly in
our track in the matter of outside shows. There
will bo a balloon ascension, a band belonging to
a Federal infantry regiment, Weston, the hop-
skip and jumper, who calls it walking, with the
addition of a race between five Apacho (?) In
dians.
There were three robberies and attempts
thereat at Savannah last week, in one of which
Mr. Augustus Barie, druggist, lost some valua
ble papers, $20 in silver and $75 in greenbacks,
Speaking of the illiberal proscriptions of Con
gress embraced in the Fourteenth Amendment
and the enforcement act, which make all who
held office before tho war, and “aided tho re
bellion,” ineligible and liable to proseoution
and fine if they run for office, the Athens Ban
ner says:
We are utterly opposed to the sentment too
commonly expressed, that holds in light estimate
the wisdom, experience and virtue of the class
of men thus proscribed. “Down with the old
leaders, and give the young men a chance,” is
the agrarian cry of groundings, who in compe-
tion with men of brains could never rise above
mediocrity. We must consent to see those we
have heretofore honored and trusted give place
to men of inexperience, because it is the stem
demand of power; but let us never admit the
wisdom or justice of the demand by endorsing
it, and thereby cast reproach upon those who
have devoted their lives to the publio service.
“We have only to compare the laws and the ad
ministration of the laws, in the days when these
‘old leaders’ were in office, with the wreck, and
waste, and plunder which have followed their
displacement to have convincing cvidonco that
the change has been disastrous. The 'old lead
ers’ are the jewels of our political heritage. Let
us cherish them, and not cast them aside with
contempt, while we are compelled to accept the
pinchbeck regime which God in his wisdom has
permitted to afflict us.”
Wo see from the last issue of the Southern
Christian Advocate that Rev. F. Milton Kenne
dy, who was recently chosen to succeed Dr.
Myers as editor of that paper, has accepted the
position.
Frank James, a Grant voter, of Atlanta,
stole a coat on Saturday, was married Sunday,
and took dinner in jail on Monday. Such ex
press speed is enough to make James’ head
swim.
Mrs. Jonathan Milner, of Griffin, died Mon
day morning.
We find the following items in the Monroe
Advertiser, of yesterday:
Diabolic An Plot.—We have recently come
in possession of the facts relative to the whole
sale attempt at arson on tho premises of Mr.
K. C. Taylor, near Colaparchee, on the night
of the 12th. Abont 10 o’clock fire was discov
ered under the main dwelling, but fortunately
in time to prevent any serious damage to the
building. A few moments after it was extin
guished, the alarm was again sounded, when it
was found that the incendiaries had set fire to
the crib, which was filled with corn, fodder
and oats. Within five minutes the building
with its contents wonld have been in ashes.
It is believed that this diabolical plot was insti
gated by Henry Bell and his sons, Ben and
George, freedmen, who were discharged by
Mr. Taylor, during the summer, for neglect of
duty.
Crop Statement.—The crops are generally
gathered in this county. Tho area in corn was
about the same as last year, with abont onc^balf
the yield. During July and August it was be
lieved that the cotton crop would prove a fail
ure, but the receipts at the warehouses indicate
a half crop. This, of coarse, leaves the financial
condition of the county anything but satisfac
tory. It is true, many farmers show a clean
balance sheet, but a majority executed obliga
tions they are unable to meet, and in many in
stances our merchants will be forced to grant
farther indulgence, perhaps until next season.
Good Farming.—Colonel A. Leary made
twenty-one bushels of corn per acre, and
seven bales of cotton to the hand, without tho
use of fertilizers. Mr. W. G. McCook made
seven bales of cotton, weighing 4S0 pounds
each, forty bushels of corn, one hundred and
fifty bushels of potatoes, besides peas, eto.,
without assistance.
At a sale in Spalding county last week corn
sold at 70 cents per bushel, cash, and $1 per
bushel on twelve months time.
We are indebted to tbe Atlanta Constitution,
of yesterday, for these paragraphs:
Mysterious Murder.—On Saturday morning
last, about four o’clock, the body of a young
man named George Jordan, about nineteen
years of age, was found on the railroad track
just below the depot and opposite tbe colored
church in Newnan. The cow catcher struck
him on the head, and one arm was broken. We
learn that physicians who were summoned, and
made an examination, give it as their opinion
that he was killed and placed on the track as ho
had other wounds on his person not inilioted by
the engine or cars. We have not learned the
result of the Coroner’s inquest.
Arrested.—Three men from Campbell coun
ty by the name of Grizzard wero brought up
before United States Commissioner W. B. Smith
yesterday, charged with violating the Ku-klux
bill by beating an old negro man. The old gen
tleman—A. J. Grizzard—was released on bond
of $1,000, and the other two committed toawait
a hearing on Friday next. The colored man is
still confined to his bed.
Death of an Estimable Lady.—Mrs. J. R.
Wylie, wife of Colonel J. R. Wylie, one of our
most prominent merchants, died last Sunday
morning. We learn that her remains were taken
to Gordon county for interment
The Atlanta Era, of yesterday, says:
Brunswick and Albany Railroad.—Wo are
glad to learn that tbe reorganization of the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad is complete,
and that this work of internal improvement
will soon be perfected Some changes have
been made in tho Board of Directors. Mr. Sto-
phenson, President of the Ocean National Bank
of New York, was elected one of the directors,
to fill tho vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of Lewis Scofield, Esq., of this city. Charles
L. Frost, Esq., was eleoted President of the
road. The new organization assumes in full all
the liabilities of the road, and will pay all debts
that may have accrued. Furthermore, arrange
ments have been made by which sufficient funds
will be available for the immediate completion
of the road, not only to Cuthbert, but also to-
Enfaula, Alabama.
The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, has the fol
lowing:
Another Unsettled Item.—When H. L
Kimball sold the Opera House to the State of
Georgia there was a mortgage of $00,000 upon
it—which mortgage is still unpaid. This mort
gage was for that amount of money loaned to
Kimball by the North Western Mutual Life In
surance Company, to enable him to pay the
purchase money, and assist in the building.
That mortgage is still unsatisfied. Not a cent
of the principal has ever been paid, and the in
terest on it sinoe May last is due. Bullock knew
that mortgage was against the property when it
was purchased by the Legislature. Kimball
knew it was unsatisfied when he deeded
it to the State, warranting it to be free
from all liens. Bollock paid Robert H.
Brown $500 to investigate the title, and
acoepted his opinion that the title was
good. Mr. Brown must have known of the
mortgage, for his law partner at the time, Judge
Hopkins, knew it. Tho Life Insurance Company
named, of which Dr Wm. H. White is the effi
cient agent in this city, loaned this money here,
and in addition to tho security of the mortgage
on the property, required the building • n it to
be kept insured, in the snm of $60,000, and the
policies properly assigned to the Northwestern
Mutual. Bullock has been keeping up this fire
insurance, payiDg the premiums with the peo
ple’s money, and specifying on the faca-of tho
policies, that tho loss, if any should oeenr, must
be paid to the company holding this mortgage.
Another fact is significant. The deed made by
Kimball to the State of Georgia has never been
recorded, unless it has been done within a few
days past.
Hon. Wnght Brady, one of tho members of
the Legislature from Sumter county, is now at
his home qnick sick.
The Sumter Republican folks announce that
they are now living on two meal3 a day, in con
sequence of subscribers failing to come to
time, and are contemplating the prospects of
living on one, if the stampsMon’t come in. As
the almanacs say, now is a good time to start
two or three other papers in Americas.
The Savannnah Republican responds to the
Atlanta Sun’s “wonder” whether all the papers
in the State that are opposed to farming out the
public printing are interested in it, by remind
ing the “wonderer” that it was interested in
having the Constitution beaten and the printing
given to itself, and thinks the less tho luminary
months abont selfishness and selfish motives the
better. All of which is heartily approved and
forwarded.
Letters for J. N. Seymour and B. L. Wil-
liDgham, of Macon, aro held for postage in tho
Savannah office.
Mr. Abram Foard, one of the oldest and best
citizens of Bildwin county, died lost week,
aged 81 years.
We clip the following items from the last
Sandersville Gaorgian:
The late Washington Baptist Association
adopted strong measures iq opposition to the
manufaoture, sale or use, as a beverage, by
church members, of intoxicating liquors.
Mr. C. C. Brown, one of the sufferers by the
ate fire at Linton, informs us that there is no
donbt of the fire being the work of an incendi
ary. Tho snfferers aro Dr. John Stone, Messrs.
W. F. Womble, John Trawick, C. C. Brown, B.
H. Miller and J. R. Goss. One stock of goods
partially insured. No clue to tho perpetrators
of the deed.
Tho Talbotton American says a “small skir
mish” occarred between tho printers in the
Standard office last Monday evening, whioh was
investigated by the devil who took a very prom
inent part in the row. It lasted only three hours,
which was pretty well for a “small skirmish.”
Mr. Finlay, of Talbotton, shot and danger
ously wounded a negro last Friday morning.
Tbo negro had threatened to kill Mr. F.
On the question whether Conley is Governor
or Senator, the Chronicle and Sentinel presents
this argument:
According to the “moderate” theory of Dem
ocracy, Benjamin Conley, President of tbe Sen
ate at the time the Executive vacancy occurred,
became “Governor,” to hold his office until his
successor shall bo elected and qualified. If this
be true, clearly Mr. Conley vacated not only his
office as President of the Senate, bnt his Sena
torial seat also; for no man can be Senator and
Governor at the same time. Tho Senatorial
seat of the 18th Senatorial District is, therefore,
now vacant, and an eleetion shonld be held to
fill the vacancy. If Mr. Conley is not “Gov
ernor” clearly hois not President of tho Senate,
and he shonld take his seat on tho floor of tho
Senate, representing the people of the district
who elected him. Now, which is it? Is Mr.
Conley Governor or Senator ? If Governor, he
is no longer Senator, and tho people of the 18th
District are not represented; and if Senator, he
is not Governor.
Mr. W. J. Mims, who "was born and reared at
Columbus, and daring the late civil war served
as a member of the City Light Guards, died at
Montgomery Sunday. His remains were
brought to Columbus and buried on Monday.
The editor of tho Columbus Sun, who was on
a visit last Friday to Hon. A. H. Stephens, at
Crawfordsvillo, thus refers to it:
If some Northern Jenkins had, by chance,
dropped down on “Liberty Hall,” Friday night,
he would have supposed it was a Grand Con
vocation of tho Grand Cyclops himself, prelim
inary to a new rebellion. There was General
Toombs, Judge Stephens, Billups, Reed, a son
of Judge Reese, and three or four other law
yers, besides two bloody editors. What a sot
of conspirators, and what a place, to conccct
“treasons and stratagems;” bnt “spoils” are
gone since the Bnllock strayed or was stolen or
stole. Stealing now is a “d id issue,” accord
ing to tho old rule, “0 from 0 and 0 remains.”
Politics, however, was scarcely mentioned, and
discussions on law and anecdotes made Time
fly on feathery pinions. Under the withering
wit and keen sarcasm of Gen. Toombs, we had
at our feast of reason and flow of soul—
“Mirth that wrinkled care derides,
And laughter holding both his sides.”
A portion of the pews of the Baptist Chnrch
at Columbus, were rented on Monday for
$1,711 30. There are 100 more yet to be
rented. Tho highest bid was $150. Five
others brought $100 each.
The North and South Railroad has secured
the right-of-way for fifteen miles from Rome,
at a cost of $2,300.
The two negro Senators, Wallace, of Milledge-
ville, and Deveaux, of Jones county, were up
before the Mayor of Atlanta, Tuesday, on the
charge of drunk and disorderly, firiDg off pis
tols, etc. That tender-hearted functionary let
them off with $5 and costs.
The local of the Constitution learns that a
paper is soon to be started in Atlanta under the
name of the “Constitutional Monarchist,” and
to be devoted to the advocacy of the doctrines
of “Imperialism.” Which is, it strikes us, a
very roundabout way of saying that another
Radical paper is soon to be published. If they
don’t all advocate Imperialism, what do they
advocate?
There are one hundred and ten lawyers, and
seventy-seven licensed bar-rooms in Atlanta.
The San thinks the latter fact explains the
former.
Wo learn from the Atlanta Sud, of yesterday,
that the dwelling house “of Mr. George HarveJ,
five miles west of Griffin, was entiroly destroyed
on Monday night—the family barely escaping
with their lives. The fire originated in the
store-room, and had got so far under way that
it was impossible to save even the clothing of
the family. The loss amounts to about $2,500.”
Brutal Sport.—The Gilroy (Cal. j Telegram
thus describes a recent Sunday entertaiment,
in San Juan (South):
The boar was confined in a large cage, and
after considerable work tho Mexicans managed
to fasten one of his forepaws, and one hind one,
with chains, and then Brain was taken out of
the cage and the bnll brought into tbe corral,
where the sports were held. The first round
consisted of the bnll making a rash at the bear
and knocking him over; bear gets np and seizes
bnll by the fore leg and chews the flesh off it,
making Taurus howl with pain; the bear was
palled off by the Mexicans by means of a lariat
The second and third rounds were both in favor
of tho bear, who took the bnll literally by tho
horns and endeavored to eat him np, commen
cing at tbe head. The fourth and last round,
the bear seized tho bnll by tho tail and pulled
him down, bear under, who tried to complete
his victory by eating from tbo other end, when
they were again separated. Both the combat
ants seemed to have had enough, as no amount
of red flannel could aggravate the bnll, and
poking with sharp sticks failed to excite the
bear, so the fight ended, the bull being led out
of the arena literally streaming with blood.
Death of a Distinguished Functionary.—
Lieutenant-Governor Oscar J. Dunn, the head
of the Grant Black Legion of Thieves in Louisi
ana, is dead. Dunn, we fear, was always a bad
negro, even under the restraining influence of
a master.
State Fair of Louisiana.—Tho New Orleans
Picayune of Sunday says of the State Fair now
in progress there, that it is a brilliant exhibi
tion, bnt has a meagre attendance.
Tbe Governor—Hon, Hiram Warner.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
The General Assembly having passed the
election law for Governor to fill the unexpired
term of Governor Bullock, and the Demooratio
party being abont to be called together in con
vention to nominate a suitable candidate, al
low me to suggest the Hon. Hiram "Warner as
the man for tho times.
In these times of dishonesty, corruption and
rings, the Governor should be too honest to
be suspected; too incorruptible ' to be ap
proached by the agent of a ring. Such a man
is Judge Warner.
In these times of danger, of tyrannical in
terference by the Federal Congress and Gov
ernment, it is well to have for our Chief Exec
utive a man influential at Washington. By his
intimate association years ego with Senator
Trumbull, and that gentleman’s personal
knowledge of his character, Judge Warner is
again pre-eminently the man for the times.
In these times when it is so important to over
haul the Executive Department and ferret out
its corrupt expenditure of the people’s money,
one familiar with tracing the subterfuges and
windings of crime and criminals by a long life
os counsel and judge, and one not afraid to-ex*
pose crime because it might involve some of
tho ring of his friends, is “par excellence” the
man for the offico of Governor now—and Judge
Warner is that man.
In these times when most of the great men
of our State—men whom the State honored
whenshe was free—aro disabled from holding
office, it is really most refreshing to think
that wo have one man of the men so honored
then who is eligible, and to whom we can
entrnst the Chief Executive office now. That
men is Judge Warner.
In these times when the party and people are
divided abont men to fill this high office, it is
most fortunate that we can find one so far above
all others in age, experience, and fitness for
the high position as to command the confi
dence and insure the support of all the honest
voters of the State. Such a man is Judge War
ner. No Politician.
The Cartersville nnjtl Vau Wert Ball
road.
We have learned some facts in regard to the
Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad that excite
no pleasant sensations in the reader’s mind.
On the 12th day of April, 1870, Mr. Cooper,
the President of the road, delivered to Colone l
D. G. Cotting, the Secretary of State, $100,000
of the road bonds for State indorsement, taking
Cotting’s receipt for them to be substituted by
Governor Bnllock. Tho road still holds Col.
CottingVreceipt. On the same day tho rest of
the bonds to the amount of $200,000 were de
posited by Golonol Cooper with Perino Brown,
agent of the Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company in Atlanta.
On the 22d day of June, 1870, Mr. Brown de
livered to Mr. Kimball $100,000 of the bonds
in his possession on Colonel Cooper’s order.
And on the 9th day of August, 1870, Mr. Brown
delivered $15,000 more of the bonds to Mr.
Kimball on Colonel Cooper’s order.
Thus we Bee that $275,000 of these bonds
were issued before five miles of the road was
fully finished, Only 3 84-100 miles from Car-
tersvillo to the Etowah was completed. The law
allows the State indorsement to the bonds of
$12,500 per mile when each five miles are
done, or in batches of $02,500 for every five
miles.
In addition to the $275,000 of these bonds,
Governor Bnllock has had issued $300,000 more,
ostensibly to be exchanged for the first $275,'
000, but both sets are oat. -
On the 11th of April, 1870, LamaD, Conant &
Co , the contractors, wrote to Colonel Cooper
requesting him to ask Governor Bullock to turn
over to Clews & Co., of New York, the bond3
for advances when the bonds shall have been
indorsed by him. On the 12th Colonel Cooper
made the request of Governor Bullock.
"Gov. Bullock indorsed these bonds knowing
the road was nnbnilt. If we had nothing else
against him, this violation of his duty alone
would justify his impeachment.
It is with pain we give these facts, beeanse
they implicate parties respected hitherto. But
we have no choice. Tho truth must be told, lot
it hurt whom it may.
This road is.22 miles long; $275,000 is the
whole indorsement it is entitled to when done.
Yet all was given before five miles was dene.
And fourteen miles only is complete now. Thus
has Bullock committed the State to the payment
of a large amount of principal and interest ille
gally. Clews & Co. hold the $275,000. Who have
the last $300,000 is not known.
Here is matter for the Legislature.—Consti
tution.
Helping Hie “Bears” Again
The Golumbos Enquirer says: The Agricul
tural Department has raised the estimate of tho
cottou crop, which plays into the hands of the
“bears.” It bases its last calculation upon the
lateness of frost and the “top crop.” There
may bo some grounds to expect a large yield
from these conditions in other sections; but
certainly the planters of Southwestern Georgia
and Eastern Alabama are not able to see where
their increased yield is to come from. All the
reports and fignrings of the Department cannot
make a large cotton crop ont of that now com
ing in; and perhaps one good result of its mis
take will be the recollection of it in coming
years, when it may again undertake to advise
tho world that the planters do not understand
the condition of their own crops.
Now let those planters who have paid their
debts and have something over, just wait quietly
until the “bears” have done their worst, and
they will see some sport as well as pat money
in their parses. If some of the big crop gentry
don’t get a toping skyward and a hard fall on
their return therefrom that they will remember
all their lives, we shall be gTeatly mistaken.
Will Tammany re Reorganized?—Under
this head the Boston Post’s New York corres
pondent, under date of Thursday last, writes as
follows:
Tbe general opinion appears to be that Tam
many will have to keep in the background for
some time to come. Its power is, for the pres
ent, completely broken, and the men who have
been foremost in managing it are shrewd
enough to know that their best policy is inac
tivity. But whatever may be the future of Tam
many, it is certain that the Democratic party
will be reorganized without mnch delay. Not
withstanding the defeat it has just suffered, the
party can and will get control of the State again.
The majority against it on the Staie ticket can
be easily overcomo, and will be, perhaps, at the
next election. The Empire State is not by any
means lost to Democracy. When a reorganiza
tion of the party takes place, and the people
have got over their indignation against a few
individuals, wo shall have this city wheeling
into line with its old majorities against Radical
ism, and the rural Democracy making a better
fight than that of last week. At all events there
is a much better feeling among Democrats now
than there was then, and full confidence that
the party will soon be in power once more.
Ku-Klux in Georgia and Florida.—A Wash
ington special to tho Cincinnati Gazette of
Saturday says:
The Congressional Sab-Committee, composed
of Bayard, Scofield and Maynard, returned to
Washington to-day. The committee report that
they have investigated Georgia and Florida, and
have found that the Kn-klux organization has
an active existence in those States, bnt not to
that extent whioh wonld justify Interference cn
the part of the Federal troops, or require that
the writ of habeas corpus be suspended.
Is He in Georgia?—We clip the following
from the last Memphis Christian Advocate:
Thomas G. Lane, local elder in the M. E.
Chnrch, South, Jackson Station, Paine’s Chapel,
was unanimously expelled from the Chnroh by
the quarterly conference on the 28th of October,
1871, under charges of falsehood and forgery.”
He having left the country and changed his
name, (G. L. Thomas) we failed to get his cre
dentials. W. T. Harris,
Presiding Elder, Jackkon District.
Jimfisk presented Grand Duke Alexis with
the freedom of “all he owned on the American
Continent” yesterday, including, as we suppose,
personal and real property. If the Duke can be
persuaded to take also all that Jim is fairly en
titled to, many years wonld elapse before Alexis
would see Russia again.
Cotton stiffened a little in Liverpool and New
York yesterday.
proportions whioh make further
essary, we give to the publio
be of unusual interest. “hi
Some four years ago, the great bod
Southern railroads, being still i n ^ ri, i
less dilapidated condition, from the - q
tear of an exhausting war, their stJUl
mortgage bond3 being in a verv dept*r‘
dition, their means and credit beij-M
and their co-operative organization S L
incomplete, bnt checked by the tintae,-.?!
special interests and narrow views an T
was inaugurated by Mr. W. T. Walt e ~ M< *J
city, which, he believed, would not c-’l 1
a large profit to himself and lij
money invested, but benefit the citv^a®
more by adding greatly to its trade r t
indeed, evident that a compact orgasms!
the great lines of Southern intorccrTw
tion, under a system controlled by
kept in full working order, thorough. wS*
with regular and speedy passenger i JV
trains running at the lowest payisnf
must necessarily improve the conditio* s?
whole Southern country, and lead, canie!j
ly, to the development of this, its
most important market. “*■
Mr. Walters has been joined in this
prise by onr fellow-townsmen, Mesan i
Brown & Sons, Gen. O’Donnell, and 1
Thomas O. Jenkins, Horaie Abbott i
Kensett, George Bartlett and B F.
Messrs. M. K Jessnp & Co., D. \Villu j3
Tbe Elements of Opposition to Gen.
Grant.
Under this head the folllowing appears as a
double-leaded editorial in the New York World,
of Saturday:
At least three-fifths of tho voting citizens of
tho United States deprecate and wonld gladly
prevent the re-election of President Grant.
These opponents of bis administration consist
of the whole Democratic party and fully one-fifth
of the Republican party. Tho only diffioulty is
to combine these into one solid phalanx. The
defeat of Grant and the deliverance of tho
country from another four years of his imbecile
and disgraceful administration, depend upon the
possibility of perfecting a cordial union among
his opponents.
To accomplish this some things must be done,
and other things most be forborne. Among the
things to be forborne and deprecated are those
two: First, appeals to mere party spirit and
party prejudice. If Democrats should raise
their party flag too high, and flaunt it too de
fiantly in the faces of Grant’s Republican ene
mies, they wonld set a bad and suicidal example.
Honest Republicans can enter into such a union
as we propose only by breaking their present
party ties; and Democrats are bound, in honor
and magnanimity, to concede as much as they
ask. We cannot in conscience and consistency,
ask others to make greater sacrifices for the
common good than we are willing to make our
selves. Of course, it wonld be an insult to either
side to expect it to make any sacrifice of princi
ple; but if, on a comparison of views, the anti-
Grant men are fonnd to agree on essentials, it
is tho plainest dictate of patriotism and public
duty to waive minor points of difference and
not allow party punctilio to stand in the way of
success.
Secondly, another thing to be forborne is
any obstinacy of preference for favorite can
didates for President. For onr part, we do not
much care from which branch of the combined
opposition to Grant the candidate is taken, pro
vided he be one who can give the needed tone
to our public service. Let it be understood
that in this respect, both wings of tho reform
party stand on the same footing in every re*
spect, and there will be on each side equal wil
lingness and zeal to support a Presidential can
didate selected from the other. It is for the in- - ». o - K - v — <
terest of all to nominate the strongest man, ir- g* p° f * fJi
SOUTHERN RAILROAD COXSOLR^,
TliePennsylvania Railway
The Great Effort for Ovorlnii.i •
tatioli A'orlLwarU. 1 Tri
Wo copy the following important
the Baltimore Gazette of the lTifi. , ^
Wo have from time to time alluded t„„
chase or lease of Southern roads bv °'“*11
close connection with the PennsjivA,j P ^>|
For a time, it was believed that these
wore being made for the benefit of th r
Some months ago we discovered that th '
zation, under which this Southern cons-i 01 *
was being effected, was an indeuenrf
and we have heretofore been restrain.] 11 '
dential motives from speaking more «
the subject. Now that the system ht»
respective of geographical position or former
party connections. We hope the friends of no
real reformer will be discouraged from pres-
sing his candidacy when the proper time comes.
To lead such a movement is an object of hon
orable ambition to any statesman. The more
aspirants the better, provided the supporters of
each will cheerfully submit to the decision of a
national convention after a fair comparison of
claims. A multitude of competitors will be at
tended with two advantages: it will stimulate
and diffase effort previous to the nomination;
and it will develops the popular strength of
the leading candidates, thereby aiding the new
President to compose a strong and popular ad
ministration. Let all candidates, whether in
side or ontside the Democratic party, have a
fair show in the preliminary canvass. Our
chief business, meanwhile, is to settle the prin
ciples and issues ou which the combination
against Grant shall be made.
Without undertaking, to give a complete cata
logue, we will indicate a few of the elements of
of opposition to General Grant:
1. The crusade against corruption in office.
This is one of the most hopeful issues for a
combined movement of honest Democrats and
honest Republicans. It has been well started
in tbe successful campaign against the Tamma
ny Ring; a campaign in which Democrats and
Republicans have served together with co-oper-
atiug zeal. The overthrow of Tammany ‘is a
preliminary engagement, which introduces the
general battle against official corrnption. It
has demonstrated tho possibility of sinking par
ty differences in a joint effort to expose and de
throne fraud and pnnish its perpetrators. A
movement of this kind, which is prompted by
an awakened public conscience, cannot stop
with a mere local triumph. It will spread
throughout the country like a devonring confla
gration, consnming the nepotism of Grant and
the corrnption of his subordinates as effectually
as it has the abases of the Tammany Ring.
This is one plank of the platform on which all
the opponents of General Grant can stand
together.
IL Amnesty to the South. Liberal, honest Re
publicans can unite with Democrats on this
ground as cordially as in opposition to official
corrnption. The rascality which has been
brought to light in tho Southern State govern
ments is absolutely astounding; and it ha3
chiefly resulted from the vindictive, ostracizing
policy which has excluded the property-holders
and intelligent classes of (he South from their
due influence in local politics. A victorious
crusade against corrnption necessarily includes
the only radical cure for the hideonsmaladmin-
tration which prevails in the Southern States.
III. The revenue reform or free-trade move
ment. This is one of the most important bases
of the new political combination. For the last
three years, revenae reform ha3 been making
great progress among thinking Republicans,
especially in the West. Tne most widely circu
lated Republican journals in Chicago and Cin
cinnati are ardent advocates of free trade ; and
free trade, with amnesty for its ally, carried
Missouri against Grant and eleoted Gratz Brown
last year. The revenue reform Republicans and
the Democrats can cordially act together on this
great issue.
IV. These and some other bases for the con
current and harmonions political action of all
good men are set forth in Tbe World prospec
tus for 1872, in another column. Though ad
dressed to onr Democratic readers, and thongh
setting forth distinctively Democratic princi
ples which neither we nor they can surrender,
abandon or compromise in the estimation of a
hair, we are assured that it none the less com
mands tho support of those who most be onr
allies if onr defeats on issues of the dead pas
are to be replaced by victories on issues of the
living present and the near future.
Such a now movement as we propose affords
the best promise of enlisting the German vote
in opposition to General Grant. The majority
of our German citizens, both in the East and
the West favor parity of administration and
nniversal amnesty. Among the most zealons
and determined foes of Tammany were the
German voters of this city; and the great am
nesty triumph in Missouri last year was chiefly
owing to their co-operation under the lead of
Senator Sohnrz. This eloquent and gifted
statesman justly despises General Grant; and
in snch a combined opposition as is proposed
he wonld be a host. His vigorous sense and
persuasive tongue wonld aid the reform move*
ment to captivate and carry the whole body of
German voters in the United States, in opposi
tion to snch a nepotist, venal gift-taker, and
corrapter of publio morals as President Grant.
We will not, at present ennmerate farther. It
must be obvious, from the points we have pre
sented, that nothing is needed bnt a liberal,
conciliatory spirit to bring all the opponents of
General Grant together on a satisfactory plat
form, and make tho next Presidential election
the opening of a new and brighter ora in onr
politics.
A Pleasant Little Story.
Two months ago an aged widow in Massachu
setts received a telegram that her only son was
dying at Lawrence, Kansas. Notwithstanding
per extreme age and feeble health, she most
ble and good. Wine, cake, fra 1 * *®L
delicate refreshments, intermixed .
smiles and pleasant voices of a few
. _ . . . - ing ladies, with the portraits of the gw*
see her son. She undertook the journey. Tho ing down from the walls, all combined 1 ',
train was delayed. When it arrrived at Utica the oocasion exceedingly delight®.^,
she was taken violently ill. A young physician imbed the recollection thereof im-fface^l
the memory of all who had the good - . J
be present. Both Mrs. Folk aE “., A
possess the rare and charming *“ cn * «
ing strangers feel perfectly at uom - J
onr American ladies are perfect typ--^- J
manhood, possessed of aM the
and ease of the purest nobility vr
hauteur and appearance of condesc |
often observed in ladies of rank.
Visible Supply of Cotlo'L
The following table shows
York Chronicle of Saturday,) the , ( J
cotton in sight at this date of each
past seasons:
1871-
Stock in Liverpool bales 539,000
Stock in London 1 iiJi
Stock in Glasgow La
Stock in HavFe I* 1 ,*?
Stock in Marseilles
Stock in Bremen. £4,6
Stock rest of Continent W"*
Afloat for Great Britain . H
(American)
Afloat for France (American
and Brazil) • •
Afloat for Bremen(Amerioan)
Total Indian Cotton afloat
for Europe.
A young physician
assisted her to a hotel, and provided everything
he could for her comfort Her detention by
sickness and moderate means would not have
allowed her to pursue her journey but for the
kindness of tho attending stranger. He paid
her bills, assisted her to the cars, and accompa
nied her to Buffalo.
At parting she requested his address. The
othor day this stranger was seated in his office
at Albany. A stranger entered, and after some
conversation presented the doctor with a gov
ernment bond for $500, as a reward for his
kindness to the old lady, saying: “She was my
mother. She died a few days after reaching
me, and I recovered. Had it not been for
yonr kindness she wonld have died on the road.
I am her son, who was sick. I am a banker;
bnt money can never repay the debt I owe to
you for your generous kindness to my dear,
good mother. God bless you 1”
The New Orleans Levees.—Tho Times says:
The broken l6YeeB above Garrolton present
just now a very threatening aspect. In two
placeB the embankments have tumbled into the
river and a mile or two of new levee most be
oonstraoted within forty or fifty days or the oily
of New Orleans will be subject to overflow at
the first rise of the winter floods. The danger
is no imaginary one. Two hundred thousand
people and two hundred millions of property
are in jeopardy if this levee be not speedily
and securely reconstructed. It has been com
menced by the Levee Company, but the pro
gress is not satisfactory, and the line staked ont
is not considered by any means sufficiently ex
tended.
Co., P. A. & S. Small and Whitney
Pennsylvania, and Daniel James, of Liv -J
are also associated with it. Over seven
dollars have already been expended iat_
cash outlay, and np to the present tbl
purchase of stock, a controlling m*jjnhJ
number of most important lines of rJ*
comprising in all 1,425 miles, has been see.
Besides this, control has been obtained,;
lease, of 303 miles additional These co* 1
tions already comprise complete lines fre-1
Richmond, via Danville and Charlotte taJ
lanta; |
Richmond, via "Weldon and "Wilmingtc;|
Charleston and Augusta; and from 1
Atlanta, via Knoxville to Bristol, from*
a connection will, in all piobeb&l
made with Danville by Generali
road, which will be constructed.
Additional roads have been built, ardC,
orate being put, in first class working j
and thoroughly equipped.
Itwillthusbe seen that this ne*c _
now controls both the main lines socij]
Richmond, the North Carolina roads, th j
roads of Sonth Carolina, two main i
Georgia, and the important lines of Eisll
nessee. These combined Southern liia J
have direct communication north of Biel
with Washington, Baltimore, PhiladelphJ
New York, both through the present liit-l
by others to bo bnilt in friendly alliaasf
the new organization.
The programme will be complete witbjl
years, when facilities for freight irs£ j
passenger communication will be affordril
entire South that will not only be
vailed, bnt cannot be provided for by any J
peting interest, at less than donble thea
of this company, as the oontrol of these r
been obtained at an average cost of aboal
cents in the dollar on the original cost intT
of gold currency and cheap labor,
will have complete communication rid]
whole Sonth bylines of railroads 200:
nearer than New York. Atlanta will be p
in direct commnnication with this city H
route 100 miles shorter than any exbtitgi|
and passenger trains will traverse the t
distance, 050 miles, in less than tvt;:;
hours, upon tbe final completion of th* 0
lotte and Atlanta link, to be finished i
eight months. It follows, as a matter of a
that the enterprise of this now oq
cannot stop here. From Chattanooga i
lanta it is bnt a railroad step to KevQ
and Mobile.
The great benefit to be derived by taixj
from a thorough organization of a i
system of roads, under one managemer.i
equipped, and free from the petty acirr
of local interference, must be apparent ten
one. Such a system must tend to deve'.cj^
mensely those great home interests, i
and manufactures, upon which the very ri
indeed we may almost say existence, rfl
Sonth now depends. To Baltimore tbe 4
tages of economical transportation and H
travel must be very great. We shall fc|
thrown into more intimate business and J
sonal commnnication with those with vtxl
are allied by common sympathy,
whom, we have always contended, oar c:=:J
portent commercial interests are its;;
united. There is no risk in predicting I
the staple article of cotton alone, the i
in this city for the first year after the taM
pletion of communication with the leal:; f
iness centres of the Sonth, will. be inffl
fully 300,000 bales. There will not e: : |
vast increase of receipts from tbe SottiJ
there must necessarily be an enormon?a. !
to the supplies shipped to the South,
more will not only become a large ex;
mart,.bnt its foreign importations mustci]
cessity grow very largely. I
For prudential reasons we forbear-I
present giving further facts in regard Uf
tiations now in progress, whioh will add
to the magnitude of this enterprise. "=1
only add that the organization which t
these operations is in no way connecfeoj
the Pennsylvania Central. It is ner“
moat dangerons competitor for lhe_ - _
and Ohio road, its prime movers having -J
sagacity and tact to obtain quietly EO-'.yl
tant leading communications, from v-j-J
State road is new absolutely cat off.
is at least to be congratulated upon the: 1
no matter what else may be said of it’l
grown great enough to sustain more t->l
considerable railroad enterprises.
Mrs. Polk’s Legislative
Nashville Correspondence of Knoxville Oc0
Mrs. Polk was looking better than at" j
visit, and she and Mrs. Fall, who
honors,” recognized gentlemen pres®
than a year ago, and not seen ij*£ j
powers of memory are truly woBSJjWJv,
Mrs. Polk is altogether a most
woman, extraordinary alike for her** j
moral qualities, her beauties of p-
lingering like sweet memories oft- 1 .
ing youth, and her excellent "
those graces that adorn thejife
21,444
1,851
I
333,182
Btockin United States ports 329,1^
Stock in inland towns
Tout
with the same date of 1870.
