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Newspaper Page TextTelegraph and Messenger. MACON, DECEMBER 12, 1871. “The Postal Telegraph.** General Grant’s message very pointedly re commends an incorporation of the magnetic telegraph with the postal system of the conntry; and this scheme has numerous and powerful advocates, especially in tho largo commercial cities. In the last Congress some strong move ments were made in that direction, and they were vigorously combatted by the Western Union Company, which owns the most of tho tele graphic routes on the continent. Tho argu ments presented by the company against the assumption of this business by government were very strong; and, at that time, tho scheme found no favor with the Executive. Now, how ever, it is very prominently put forward as an administration measure, and the company prin cipally concerned in it pecuniarily, maintain a significant silence. Why is this? We do not know. Bnmor, how ever, says that the stock of the company has, in a great degree, changed hands since that time, and has been swollen by ways common to spec ulative capitalists from about forty to somewhere in the neighborhood of seventy millions. The transfer of thi3 property to the Federal govern ment has now, it is said, become the grandest financ.’scheme of the age. Rumor says that very probably Gen. Grant’s personal interest in securing such a transfer leaves Seneca Sand Stono out of sight But omitting these matters of private and personal speculation, nothing conld be more harmonious with tho general ideas of President Grant, than tho incorporation of tho whole tele graph system of the United States into tho government, as a new, gigantic and irresistible engine of political and party power. What would it add to the patronage of the administra tion ? Wo suppose, to carry out the scheme as laid down by the President, of a telegraph ser vice co-extensive with the mail service of the conntry, it wonld add at least fifty thousand to the present enormous official army of the United States. Such a reinforcement of active partizans, owing their bread and butter to the administration, would be of incalculable service. But even this is a small matter, compared with that of placing the opposition wholly out of the line of communication with the people! The opponents of the reigning dynasty wonld at once be reduced to one of two impossible alternatives—either they mnst forego the tele graph wires in all political correspondence, which wonld be a fatal abnegation against a foe in complete possession of them, or they mnst pnt ail their secrets in the hands of their enemies. The scheme, then, is one simply to uproot all available opposition to the party in power, and in this aspect of it alone, every reflecting Re publican ought to stand aghast—for few of them are so desperate as to be willing to sell themselves into eternal party slavery, which can never hold ont tho promise of a year of jubilee, however much they may become dissatisfied. Cleanse (he Angean Stable or Radi calism thoroughly. Committees of the Goneral Assembly having been appointed to investigate the frauds in the State department, tho wholesale thefts of Blod gett and other offioials of the Western and At lantic Railroad, and the fradulent issue of State bonds, let the work be done eecundem artem, and with true detective vigilance. The people demand this at the hands of their representatives. For years they have been forced to submit to the most odious legislation adverse to their interests, and in silence have Been the corrupt minions of the government fatten and flourish, at the public expense, like a green bay tree—now, let the axe be laid to the root of that radical tree, that its fall, like the death of the wicked, may be the more sig nal and tremendous. At length the turn in the long Radical lane, we trust, has been reached, and we shoulcf go back upon the villanies of our enemies with un sparing severity. Let the whole systematic swindle, yclept a State government, which was inaugurated by false election returns, the dis franchisement of thousands of our citizens, and the keen point of the bayonet, be effectually ventilated and exposed. The work should go on even thongh it embrace the corrupt rulings and tyrannical acts of a venal Judiciary. No captain on the quarter deck of a man-of- war has more absolute and abitrary authority than he who is invested with thetacred ermine' of the bench. If the one can degrade poor Jack, stop his grog, or clap him in irons for a trifle, the other can inflict unnumbered humiliations at will upon high minded gentlemen, and oven fine and oppress them without cause. The people shonld remember that the remedy for all this can bo had at the bar of a Demo cratic General Assembly. Proof alone is needed of malpractice in office to ensure impeachment and decapitation. We are aware that individuals are loth to measure their strength with any pampered in cumbent in offioo, by tabling charges against him. Yet, Bollock’s men (somo of them') -would do well to heed the situation, and at least walk moro warily and circumspectly in fnture. The same is applicable to all pseudo Demo crats, also, who havo been lobbying at Atlanta, and licking the lush from the Radical meal tab, until they have grown sleek and fat in a twelve month or two. iSpot them, if possible, and make them disgorge their ill-gotten plun der, which has been wrung from the needy and honest Democratic tax-payors. Oh that Blodgett or Kimball, or somo other, of the forty thieves who surrounded their chief, Ali Baba, (Bul lock) wonld torn statcs-evidence, and make a cleanbreast of it. What an admirable pocket edition of Tammany could be made from his confessions. We wonld be willing to vote tho witnoss all he has stolen and a pension besides. Macon Cotton Receipts to Deo. 2nd, 1871, were 30,080 bales, against 52,794 for tho same time last year, showing a deficit of 22,714. The total receipts of Macon last year, were 99,446— showing that considerably upwards of half had come to hand by 2nd Docember,—not far from 53 per cent This wonld indicate considerably less than CO,000 bales for the present year; bnt if we trnst reports, a far smaller proportion of the crop is in tho hands of producers this year than they held in 1870. This impression is cor roborated by the heavy falling off in daily re ceipts. The receipts of the week ending Sat urday, the 2nd inst. were 2173 bales, against 4,046 the corresponding week of last year. The Southern Farm and Home.—We are requested by General Wm. M. Browne to beg the friends and subscribers of the Farm and Home, in Georgia, to excase the unavoidable delay in the issne of tho December number. The removal of the office, and the embarrass ments and disappointments inoident to the or ganization of a publishing office, constitute the oause. While General Browne craves indul gence, he promises that the December number shall raaoh the subscribers in a very few days, and that thenoeforth there shall be no delays. Petkbson and God ex fob Januaby Messrs. Burke & Go,, send ns these popular magazines for January. Both are capital, and held in de- servedlyhigh esteem by the ladies, who will thank ns, we know, for telling them where they can be found. gekebal amnesty. Total Change of Base—The Engine Be* versed. Nothing in the President’s Messsgo is more significant than the total change of base in re lation to a general amnesty and a correspond ing attitude towards tho South. When Grant and Morton staited ont West, last summer, on their first grand re-electioneering round, they ran a very high and stringent schedale on am nesty and the Ku-klux. They took particular pains to proclaim everywhere that the Radical party in general, and they themselves in partic ular, were inexorably opposed to a general am nesty. The rebels were unfit for it, and, in fact, the interests of the country demanded that they should be placed under more stringent re straints, until they were ready to acknowledge their crimes and show some tokens of a sincere repentance. The passage of the'Kn-klnx bill, forced through the House by the personal presence and solicitations of General Grant and the Cabinet the raisingof the Ku-kluxcommittees and the vigorous campaign laid out for them, followed by the bitter assaults of Morton and others on the stump and supplemented by a chorus of maledictions in tho Radical press, were univer sally Cbnceded to strike the key note of the ap proaching Presidential canvass, and tq fore shadow so violent and proscriptive a campaign as to raise grave apprehensions for social order and peace in the Southern States. The attentive reader will readily recall the frequent expressions of our own solicitude for the future, growing ont of this prospect. We saw then that if the Ku-klux campaign was found to strike a responsive popular chord in the Northern heart, a serious and anxious time was before us next summer. There was no telling to what a pitch of violence a campaign might be pushed in the Southern States, with Grant and his administration at the head of their black cohorts—organizing and urging them on to vengeance by indiscriminate and unspar ing denunciations of tho Southern whites as traitors and murderers. The best to be hoped was that the sensation might miscarry in the North. The northern people might not respond with enthusiasm to the proposed levy of moral war on the defenceless Southern whites. They might be tired of discord and inclined to peace. If so, Grant would soon discover the fact and try an opposite policy. Now, the first clear and indisputable evidence of the complete failure of Grant’s and Morton’s moral war programme is revealed in the mes sage. In this document, as has been seen, Grant all of a sudden hauls down the redflag of war and hoists the white banner of peace and amnesty. The President, who tnmed ont ia force with his whole Cabinet to cram the Ku-klnx bill through the last hours of Congress, in the very first para graph of this document makes a lame and dis honorable attempt to throw off all responsibility for that violent legislation. He sets up that he fonnd the laws on the statute book and conld not inquire into their “wisdom.” Nothing was left bnt to enforce them. Ah, it is easy for any man to find a thing where he has placed it. Grant’s personal influence passed the Kn-klnx bill and this dodge will hardly avail him. Next, on the same subject, he sets np a plea of great cantion and forbearance in enforcing these laws—then he comes ont for a removal of all political disabilities, and even indulges in ratiocination to prove that big leading rebels are, on the whole, a better class than the little rebels. Finally, he drops a tear over the un fortunate condition of the Southern States and longs for the happy day when the “old citizens of the South will take an interest in public af fairs,” and while maintaining their own views, leave the same liberty to others. In a word, the transmogrification is complete. What is the matter ? Grant and Morton have discovered that their Kq-klnx cock won’t fight, and they have taken him down. It is not going “ to fire the Northern heart” as they intended it shonld. On the contrary, if Grant’s re-election may be thought to be in any danger at all, the danger will arise in great part from the precise measures they had taken to ensure it. The moderate Republicans have been taking an un derhold of him, and base their threats to bolt from his support mainly on the violence, un- constitntionality, and aggressive and distracting character of his Southern policy. If he can torn their flanks by a new song of dnlcet peace and lore for the Southern whites, he is going to do it, and presto! it is done in this message. The whole performance is a strong illustra tion of the heartless, mercenary politician, who treats all public questions and interests, however vital to the country, only in the light of their bearing upon his own mere personal interests. We infer from this unexpected snm- mersanlt of Grant thit the Ku-klnx war in the Garolinas will be allowed to bum out with as little smoke a3 possible, and that there is no danger, for the present, of any more violent and lawless interference with the affairs of the Southern States by the Administration. Terrible Times in Boston. Boston woke np the morning after Thanks giving with a headache, bad taste in the month, and a salt-shad thirst about the gills bom of the festivities of the day before and suggestive of water, either outwardly or inwardly, as the first toing i a order before the matutinal cocktail and a square breakfast. But, horror of horrors! there was not a drop to Vo had 1 The pipes leading from the reservoir on Chestnut Hill, had been allowed to clog np with trash which .pre vented the flow of the water, and that in the mains freezing outright, Boston was dry, em phatically. The commotion was wonderful. People didn’t wash their faces before eating breakfast—those of them that had anything bnt cold breakfast to eat—whereat many small boys greatly rejoiced; topers had to take their morn ing nip straight, and the chaps who had been on a bender the night before almost had fits; the kettle couldn't sing, and consequently there was no tea nor coffee; milkmen couldn’t oome their little games a3 usual and were therefore un commonly huffy; steam couldn’t be generated in the boilers of the countless machines in the various mannfactnring establishments of the city and consequently all work of that descrip tion was suspended. The situation was really serions for a time, bnt after a famine of eight honrs the pipes were cleaned ont and the water flowed again. We may be permitted to return thanks that it was Boston, and not Washington during a ses sion of Congress, thus afflicted. Fancy the lat ter city in such a strait at such a time, and, if possible, picture the Presidential stomach and fauces after their accustomed and alternate drenching and drying with old Bourbon and Partagas thus forced to realize the direful dis tress of those of that other present taker and millionaire, Dives. Cotxon, as will be seen by the reports, took a small advance in Liverpool and New York yesterday with strong markets. We hear it also advanoed to 18 cents in Maoon, bnt the opera tions are light, and, in fact, there is very little for sale just now. Farmers report very little in the country, but we insist there are at least twenty to twenty-five thousand bales yet to oome in. __ Cold Weatheb.—Monday night was as cold as it often gets to be in Maoon. The mercury at sunrise Tuesday morning indicated 20 pins, Ice was to be found about a quarter of an inch thick. The accounts from the North and West yesterday, tell of very oold andjtormy weather, j What are the True Functions ot Gov ernment? AH political theories hinge upon the answer to this question, and when a man has settled in his own mind what powers a government ought to hold and exercise, he shonld bo able to locate himself among the political affiliations of the day. “Extreme* meet” says the proverb. And this is pre-eminently true of what are now very in considerately pronounced tq be the antipodes in human politics—the antoorat and absolutist on the one hand, and the red monthed petro leum communist on the other. Both aim to concentrate all power and responsibility in the hands of “government”—to reduce the people to a herd—shorn of all individuality—all digni ty, and denuded of those grand incentives to physical, mental and moral improvement, which an all-wise and benevolent God designed should stir them up to personal efforts for their own advancement in all tho elements of usefulness and rational enjoyment. An absoldft monarchy is the original type of what is oalled paternal government. It places the people—in their persons and property, at the disposal of a single will, and leaves them no alternative bnt to accept the condition assigned them by irresistible authority. Who wonders that popular inactivity, sloth, imbecil ity, fatalism, timidity, falsehood, seorecy and craftiness, shonld be ingrained into the mental constitution of any people subjected fpr genera tions to such government? They have been de prived of all the incentives to physical and mental improvement, and must find their chief defence againBt injustice in obsequious servility, and skulking cunning. Bnt what better is that so-called development of the ultra Democracy and “the largest liberty' —the so-called extreme of popular sovereignty —now figuring under the name of communism f We think it is not better, but even worse. The communist insists that even a greater degree of power and responsibility shall be devolved upon the government, than the most despotic absolntist lays claim to, or ever proposed to exercise. Tho communist insists that the government shall hold all property—all authority—shall employ and feed all the people, and shall consolidate in a single depository of illimitable authority all social, domestic, religious, literary, commercial, industrial and financial powers, influences and responsibilities. True, they propose that this monstrous ma chine shall be worked by conclaves elected by the people—bnt this does not help the matter at all. It rather makes the thing worse. It sub stitutes twenty, fifty or a hundred tyrants, hold ing no distinct personal or legal responsibility, for a single one—and makes the role so much the worse as the responsibility is divided. Haman ingenuity can scarcely invent a more absolute despotism than the Communists established in Paris, and yet the emergencies of war prevented them from carrying out their theory of govern ment to the full. That theory demanded an absolute surrender of all property and all per sonal rights to the government, which on the other hand bonnd itself to furnish employment and support to the people. The cattle of a fanner’s herd were not more completely con trolled by their owner, than this system gravely proposes the people shall be by the government. Now, between these opposing and yet analo gous extremes, there are numerous classes of theorists who wonld give quite as many answers to this vital question, “ What ar© the trne func tions of government?”—varying only in degree and not at all in principle! Approach the Rad ical of the present day, and he will tell you that it is the sacred duty of the Government to educate the people—to maintain social equal ity.—to protect various industries by discrimi nating import duties—to suppress intemper ance—to build roads, canals, and carry ont gr.eat enterprises of internal improvement, eto., eto. Practically, these differ from the communists and absolutists not at all in principle, bnt sim ply in degree; and as there is no clear bound ary when the grand Democratic dividing line is once passed, so there can be no security against the most misshievous usurpations of power by government in the hands of any of these paternal government theorists. Accordingly, we have seen the Federal Government under the control of the Radicals usurp in turn every social, religious and political function, nntil personal liberty and the right of local self-government have been almost annihilated. And the result has been most disastrous. Whatever government does outside of its sim plest functions is invariably done in tho most wastful manner, and the more it undertakes, the more nnmerons are the frauds and abuses perpetrated under its authority. The notorious corruption of the Federal and State administra tions is not due more to the dishonesty of parti- zan officials, than to the demoralizing effect of pushing their functions beyond the limits of law and safe precedent. We mnst come back, then, to the plain old- fashioned demooratio theory of the trne func tions of government. These are very simple, and elementary, and clearly laid down by the Constitution. They, and they alone, are con sistent with true personal and civil liberty, and the elevation of man, under the inspiring influ ences of free institutions. When a man at tains lawfnl age, let him cast of “paternal government,” and realize all the responsibili ties of manhood to God and his conntry. Leave to the people the interests of trade and com merce—of education, religion, morality and society. Let government be content with the great ends of order, jastioe and the public de fence and protection, and let private enterprise, patriotism and benevolence feel all the stimul us of the God-imposed obligations, upon the manhood of the country, to take care of them. SenatorTrnmbY.il on the “Passive” Policy—He Declares It a Failnre. The Washington correspondent of the Cour ier-Journal, under date of the 3d inst., sends that paper an account of an interview with Sen ator Trnmbnll, of Illinois, whose name has had special prominenoe as a Conservative Republi can candidate for President, to be supported by the Demooraoy against Grant. We shall pub lish it in full to-morrow. The Senator explic itly declares that he wonld not consent to the use of his name in snch oonneotion, and that he thinks “the passive policy already a failnre.” As the Courier-Journal well says, his conspicu ous position, his distinguished character and antecedents, his intimacy with Carl Schnrz, and his prominence as a conservative Republi can named in connection with the Presidency, give to bis utterances peculiar significance. They are clear and explioit, and famish small encouragement to the passive politicianswho ex- peot so much from the moderate opponents of the Administration. It does really seem, after all the fuss that has been made, that the old Democratio carryall is onr best reliance after all. ^ Liqtjob Law.—Michigan appears to be the champion temp6ranoe State. Under her amended liquor law, now in force, any person found drinking in a saloon, tavern, or pnblio place, or in the streets, is liable to a find of five dollars and oosts, or imprisonment for not more than twenty days. No countenanoe, muoh leas aid and oomfort, ia given to the great enemy of onr social peaoe.—Ex. And now that Diok Yates has retired to pri vate life and com whisky in Illinois, she is represented in the Senate by the champion sot of that body, Zaoh Chandler. Before Michi gan can boaBt herself “the champion temper ance State” she will have to get rid of him. THE GEORGIA PRESS. Dahlonega had her first snow of the season last Friday morning- I® f e 'f i° H*® depth of three inches. W. J. Worley, aged thirty-five, and a citizen of Dahlonega, has never taken a drink of any description of spiritons, vinous, or malt liquor in his life, which is wonderful, considering where he lives, that burg being rather unsound on the G. T. question. Some scoundrel—who was not caught hud gently hung as he deserved—fired into a pas- ■ senger train of the Brunswick & Albany rail road, as it was entering the former city last Wednesday night. The Brnnswick Appeal says: Brunswick and Albany Bailboad Injunc tion.—The counsel for the complainants in the application on the part of the Governor and other for an injnetion restraining the lien cred itors of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad from selling the property levied on, asked, on Wednesday last, to amend their bill by inserting allegations that a number of the claims upon which lien executions had been issued were for work done for H. L Kimball & Co., and not for the Brnnswick and Albany Railroad Company, and that the road had never been delivered into the possession of the Company, and the appoint ment of a master in Chancery to investigate the claims and report thereon to tho Court, at some future day to which the hearing shonld bo con tinued. Messrs. Hood, Basinger, Hines and John L. Harris were heard in favor of the ap plication, and Messrs. B. F. Harris, Bedford and Smith contra. His Honor Judge Sessions granted the application, and appointed Colonel John D. Rumph, Master in Chancery, and the second Monday in January next for the hearing Tho Savannah News, of Monday, says a bold attempt was made last Friday, in that city, to rob the Southern Express Company. While one of tho wagons of the company was waiting in front of the office on Bay street for the freight for tho Central Railroad, the driver and messen ger being inside, some unknown parties, doubt less thinking it was already loaded, jumped into it and drove off unobserved. As soon as the wagon was missed, the police were notified, bnt no trace of it could bo found. It was after wards driven up near the express stables and a white man jumped off and hurried away. Pike, Spalding and Catoosa counties in structed their delegates to vote in the Conven tion, to-day, for the nomination of Speaker Smith for Governor. Mr. B. L. Harper, of Henry county, a lay delegate to the North Georgia Conference, died suddenly, at Athens, last Saturday night. The Rev. J. H. Harris, of McDonough, killed a 15 months’ old pig on the 23rd of November, which weighed 371 pounds, and yielded 110 pounds of clean lard, and B. V. Veal killed, last week, four eighteen months old porkers that averaged 382 pounds each—all of which shows that some folks are not in danger of forgetting how sausage meat tastes. The Griffin Star, of yesterday, says: A Pabbot Notifies his Mistress that the House is on Fibe 1—On the morning of the 30th inst., while Mrs. Able A. Wright was getting dinner, and hearing one of her parrots say re peatedly “what’s tnat Miss,” she went to the door, and discovered the wood work around the fire place burning, and in a few moments more nothing wonld havo saved it, as she had no one but a small negro girl to aid her. Going to the pump, (a Silsby Rotary) and adjusting the ho3e, and making the small negro girl tarn, she soon pnt the fire ont. This is the second time this pump has prevented fire on tho premises, she having saved her kitchen once before with it. The Atlanta Constitution, of yesterday, says : The Brunswick and Albany Railroad Bonds.—Wo had a call yesterday from Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, of the large banking bouse of Budge, Schiff & Co., of New York. A letter from Mr. Schiff will be fonnd in another col umn. Mr. Schiff’s firm sold over seventeen hundred thousand dollars of the first mortgage bonds of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad, to as many as five hundred different parties in Europe. Ho says he ha3 no interest in the mat ter beyond desiring to see good faith kept to those to whom he sold these seenrities. He was employed by Clews & Co., to negotiate these securities, and their legality was guaran teed by Clows & Co. He sayB he negotiated a million in March, and continued negotiating small snms in March when ho declined having any thing more to do with them. He says he does not know Bollock or Kimball. He further says that, when he sold the first million of the bonds, so stable and sound was Georgia’s credit and name, that he had application for seven millions more of them. He does not speak kindly of Clews <fc Cos.’ action in the matter. Taylor Tomer of Atlanta, charged with as sault upon J. D. Clark with intent to murder, was fonnd guilty, Monday. We clip these items from the Atlanta Sun of yesterday: Fibe.—A fire broke out last evening about 7 o’clock in the gas-fitting establishment of Messrs. Eichberg & Lauggesser, on Peachtree street. By the prompt and united efforts of tho firemen, who struggled with water against fire, wind and severe cold, the flames were prevented from spreading to adjoining stores. Messrs. Eichberg & Langgesser sustained some damage to their goods. We learn that they were in sured. Burglary in Crawfordvuxe. —We under-* stand that the storehouse of Messrs. Williams & Richards, in Grawfordville, was broken open a few nights ago. The door was opened by boring with an anger. The robbers were rather considerate, as no great amount of goods were taken, not over $150 worth. Loyal League Nominations.—We are told that the Radicals, in secret mid-night Ku-klux conclave assembled, on Saturday night, nomi nated John C. Peck, white, one of the propri etors of Peok’a Plaining Mill; P. Corey, white, the cashier of the negro Savings Bank: Mick Mitchell, negro, and William Finoh, negro, as candidates for conncilmenin the wards in which they respectively reeide. Mb. H. L Kimball —We learn that Mr. Kim ball is still in New Haven, quite unwell, and mnch afflicted in mind as well as in body, on ac count of the failnre of his business in this State. Resigned.—We learn that Judge Lochrane, of the Sopreme Benoh, has resigned. It is in tended or expeoted for Benjamin Conley, con trary to law, to send an appointment to fill this vacancy to the Senate. Sheriff Branford, of Colnmbns, who was so painfully injured a few days since in a fight with a lawyer of that city, named Moses, is rapidly recovering, and will soon be at his post again. Madamo Isabello McCullcch-Brignoli will give a concert at Savannah, soon. The cotton exports from Savannah, on Mon day, to foreign ports, footed np 6901 bales, valued at $599,257 16. At the last regular meeting, at Savannah on Monday night, of the Goorgia Historical Society, one of the members presented to the Society a volume printed in 1492, forty-seven years after the first book was printed oh metal type. The Savannah papers note the arrival in that city of a number of Northern people on their way to Florida, and announce that an unusually large influx of that class of visitors may be ex peoted this winter. The Columbus Sun of Tuesday says: Murderer of Mb. Felix Long.—This gentle man, a large planter in Jaokson county, Florida, was killed last Thursday night, on his farm near Marianna. . He was standing at his corn crib when he was shot dead. A negro has been ar rested, and the circumstantial evidence against him is very strong. The print of the butt of the gnnon the ground corresponds with the weapon fonnd in his possession. One of the screws of the gun is wanting. A short nail found where the old “fnsee” rested, exactly fits the hole and seems to have supplied the place of the sorew, but fell out when the owner rested the weapon on the ground. The traoe of foot steps also measure well with his shoes. The motive for the act is not known, as Mr. Long was very popular both with blacks and whites. He was one of the wealthiest men in the county. The boats brought no farther par ticulars. Mr. Long was about fifty years of age, a widower with an only son. Db. A. G. Thomas arrived at Bandersville, last Saturday, from Indiana, to take charge of the Christian Churches of Washington county. There was a grand fox hunt in Washington eounty last Monday night, in which twenty-one men and twenty-five dogs participated. Two Reynards were captured. A writer in the last Sandersville Georgian, offers a premium of $50, to be awarded at the next Washington County Fair, to the child un der twelve years of age who shall show the most thorough knowledge of the Bible. The Sumter Republican, of Tuesday, says: Pardon of G. F. Page.—We learn that a tel egram was received in this city on Saturday, that aoting Governor Conley had pardoned Mr. Page, who was found guilty of “voluntary manslaughter” at the last Superior Court of this connty, and sentenced by Jndge Clark to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The steamship Georgia, which arrived at Charleston on Sunday, brought a large number of Swedes who will settle near Atlanta. The Ohroniole and Sentinel, of Tuesday says: Death from the Bailboad Accident.—Mrs. T. Dotterer, the lady who was so seriously in jured in the railroad acoident, on Friday morn ing six miles above Florence, and subsequently brought to Charleston, died Sunday morning at her residenoe in Meeting street. She has been almost wholly nnoonsoious since the acoident. Joseph Rivers, who lives at Cane Spring, is eighty fonr-years of age, and has had the honor of shaking hands with General Washington, and sitting in the same Masonic Lodge with General La Faye'tte. The Monroe Advertiser says, it is reported in that section that the notorious negro desperado, Green Mayfield, alias Norris, was caught in Jones connty last week, and afterwards lost in a swamp. John MoMahon, of Atlanta, is one of the most UDfortnnate men we ever heard of. He Bhot at policeman White, of that city, Tuesday night, and missing his mark, now boards at county expense,.. The Sheriff and Marshall’s sales at Atlanta, on Taesday, were tame affairs. There was plenty to sell but very few buyers. Mr. P. H. Hall, of LaGrange, died very sud denly Sunday morning. The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, says Shooting Affaib.—A difficulty occurred yes terday, at the Kimball House, between Mr. T. D. Cushman, a brother-in-law of one of the Kimballs, and a Mr. Hall, Mr. Crittenden’s hostler, in which Mr. Cushman was shot. The ball, which failed to penetrate to the vitals, entered the breast and glanced around one of the ribs without serions injury. Mr. Hall was arrested. The altercation was occasioned, we learn, by some old grudge and a misunderstand ing about some harness. The Era, same date, says: A GoodSign.—It is oertainly a pleasing sight, and one of the most indisputable evidences of the prosperity of our city, to see the long lines of freight trains constantly coming and going over the railroads centering here. A friend in forms us that a few days since, coming in on the State Road, he was passed by no less than seventeen long freight trains; and the inoessant blowing of. whistles and ringing of bells in the different railroad yards is enough to convince any one that these roads are being used to their ut most capacity. Letter from Monroe Connty. Monboe County, November 21, 1871. Editors Telegraph and Messenger ; Thinking perhaps that you would like to hear from this section of the connty, (the southern portion,) induces me to drop yon a few lines to inform you of the crops, weather, eto. Tho cotton crops are nearly all gathered and are very poor indeed. I do not think it will average more than half a orop. I conld show you numbers of fields that wonld not mako more than a bale to every ten acres; and the recent frosts have been so severe as to entirely destroy the late crop. Corn crops are all gathered and are very sorry, particularly on gray and bottom lands. This community was surprised to learn that Mr. Frank Yates, a son of Washington Yates, who lives in the western portion of Bibb connty, suddenly disappeared in the night of the 12th instant, taking with him every thing of any -'alua that he possessed, and leaving all bis debts iOpaid, and although he made professions of his ability willingness to pay his debts np to a few honrs before he left. He is well known to some of your merchants, and two of them at least, have been the victims of his rascality. He was arrested last spring in your city for passing counterfeit money; but was afterwards released. He is supposed to be lurking about in Washington and Hancock counties, where he has relatives; but his ultimate destination is said to be Texas. Yon wonld do well to give him a passing notice to prevent him from im posing upon others. I have nothiNg more of interest to write. Yours respectfully, A Friend. The Political Outlook at Washing ton. Under date of the 3d inst, the Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writes as follows, on the above subject: Those Republican Senators and members who have arrived here, and who havo expressed any opinion, do not expect that mnch important business will be done this session beyond pass ing a bill rednoing taxation and the general ap propriation billj. The supporters of the admm. istration express their confidence in the nomi nation and re-election of Grant, and declare that most of the president-making for tho session will be confined to the democratic side. The anti-Grant republicans do not appear to develop mush strength in the House; indeed, it is said there are not half a dozen who can be counted on, while Messrs. Snmner, Schnrz and Tipton are the only Senators positively known in the Senate to be against Grant’s renomination.— The Democratic Senators are very generally op posed to joining hands with the’anti-Grant men until the latter show some positive organization that wonld warrant a coalition, on general issues before the people. It is evident that there is to be no preoipitate action on the part of theDem- ocrary in Congress on the presidential question, audit isdonbtfnlif anything positive re3nlts from the cancn3 to be held early in the session. The feeling at least now appears to be that the lesser shonld come to the greater. Important Dispatches from Madrid-- Tlie Cuban Insurrection to be Crushed; The Washington Republican, of Monday, says: Dispatches received in this city on Friday night and Satnrday morning last from Madrid, are to the effect that the Spanish ministry, at its extraordinary session on Friday last, had resolved upon sending immediately to Cnba a force of not less than fifteen- thousand disci plined troops to restore peace and tranquility throughout the island. A naval fleet will ao- companv the transports, and the force will be mainly concentrated on the eastern end of the island. It is the determination of the Spanish Government, according to the information re ceived in official quarters, to enter promptly upon the work of suppressing the insurgents and establishing order in the disaffeoted por tions of the island. It is expeoted that the embarkation of troops will take place this week, and that they will arrive at St. Jago and Havana by the middle of the month. Very Singular Case—A Man Lives Over Two Years wilh a Watch Kevin His Lungs.— The Norwich (Conn.) Advertiser of a late date has this paragraph: Mr. Eli Hempated, formerly of New Haven, but recently of Chenango Forks, N. Y., died at his father’s residenoe, in New Haven, on the 20 th instant, from a most singular cause. Some years ago he was attacked with insanity, and was sent to the Insane Retreat at Hartford. While there he pushed a watch key np his nose, and after his recovery informed his physician what he had done. An effort was made to get it ont, without snooess. He left the Retreat, and nothing further was done to remove the ar ticle, though he occasionally spoke of feeling it. In a year or two he was attacked with a sharp pain at the lower part of the right lung. He suffered from it for some time, when it passed away, and for two years he enjoyed good health. A few weeks ago he came to New Haven with an invoice, of produce, and while engaged in lifting barrels was again attaoked with pain and bleeding from the lungs. He was taken to his father’s house, where m a few days he died. His oase was so singular that his physicians made a post mortem examination, , when they fonnd the key imbedded in the lower part of the luDg, and surrounded by a lamp in a state of mortification. The key had dropped out of the nose through the windpipe into the lung, and 'had remained there over two years. Bow Black They Have Stolen. Under date of Sunday last, the 31 instant, the Washington correspondent of the Baltimore San, writes as follows: The snb-Ku-KIux Committee on the debts of the Southern States, appointed to ascertain how much the debts have been increased since the war, will Boon make their report, and present the most astounding record of fraud and corrup tion ever known in modern history. The evi dence already shows that they have been in- oreased over a hundred million of dollars. And yet the thieves and their allies who have backed them np with Federal bayonets pointed at the breasts of the plundered people of the South while they filled their filthy pockets, have the effrontery to talk of Tammany and its frauds! Tammany may have stolen immense sums, but its thieves were natives and spent their plunder among the plundered, so that the tax-payers, in some measure, were indirectly profited. They stole too from those abundantly able to stand it The thieves who have beg gared the South were, for the most part, the vilest alien scum who only knew enough of our people tq hate and plunder them. They came down upon us like a flock of buzzards, and after enlisting the services of the most degraded wretches among the native whites, and the ignorant, brutal blacks, commenced their loathsome work. When those who writhed in agony under the pangs of their sharp talons complained, or were restive, Federal bayonets were invoked, and straightway the victim was pinned more securely to the ground, and the buzzards flapped their wings in triumph and plunged beeks and claws deeper into the vitals of their prey. These words describe the initia tion and progress, np to this day, of that most stupendous crime of the Nineteenth Century— Southern “Reconstruction.” And now ths figures coma to the front, and they tell us that it nett results, in money, aie ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. This is what it has cost an impoverished, rained peo ple to have themselves spit upon and tramped over by their own slaves, under the leadership of those who filled their pookets, while venting their hate—a donble luxury, not often enjoyed even by rogues. This is “reconstruction,” in its last analysis. Contemplating this frightful record of Radical deviltry and dishonesty, we- cease to be astonished at the existence or work of the Ku-klux. Our wonder now, is, that they have notrisen all over this strioken South, and in snch strength as to sweep every robber from Southern soiL Suppose New England to have been thus bound and gagged, while alien rob bers, and the most degraded of her own popu lation, rifled her pockets—what wonld her peo ple have at least attempted to do? And yet, daring all thiB time, the land where all this monstrous villainy was being enacted, has been the most orderly and peaceful section of the whole conntry. History cannot match it, and history will some day fully vindicate those who have made this record. There s a beautiful face in the silent air Which follows me ever and near ’ With smiling eyes and amber hair, With voiceless lips, yet with breath of nr*™„ That I feci but carinot hear. P ayer > The dimpled hand and ringlet of gold Lie low in a maible sleep; I stretch my hand for a clasp cf old, Bnt the empty air is strangely cold, ’ And my vigil alone I keep There’s a sinless brow with a radiant crown And a cross laid down in the dust; ’ There’s a smile where never a shade come* And tears no more from those dear eyes flow So sweet in their innocent trust. ” Ah, well! and summer is come again Singing her same old songs; ' But, oh! it sounds like a sob or pain, As it floats in the sunshine and rain,’ O’er the hearts of the world’s gieat throng There’s abeantifol region above the skits And I long to reach its shore, For I know I shall find my treasure there The laughing eyes and amber hair ’ Of the loved one gone before. Foreign Notes. PREPARED FOR THE TELEGRAPH AND MESse*.. The execution of Rossel and two of hi a ^ OCR NEXr GOVERNOR. Hon. James 91. Smith, of Muscogee, Nomi nated by Acclamation. We are specially gratified to announce that the above named gentleman, now Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Georgia Legislature, was nominated for Governor, by acclamation, by the Demooratio Convention that met at Atlanta yesterday. At the time of writing we have no details of the Convention’s action as to organization, etc , bnt will doubt less receive them by onr late telegraphic re port from Atlanta. In onr judgment the Convention has done an emphatically good day’s work m this nomina tion. Mr. Smith is eminently honest, capable, and faithful, and will redeem Georgia as far as in his power lies, by a wise and wholesome ad ministration. He will see that no hurt cornea to the honor or welfare of the Commonwealth, and nobly illostrate both by the practice of all those virtues that in the olden days we were wont to see in the men who filled the Exective chair. These things we confidently predict of and for him. Now, let the Democrats of Georgia pnt him in by a vote that shall show how enthusiastically they approve the wisdom of the Convention’s choice, and their high appreciation of the charac ter of the leader they have chosen. Old Virginia Fired.—Old Virginia has suf fered fifty thousand martyrdoms with the com posure of a stoic—but there is one thiDg she cannot and will not stand with Christian phi losophy; and that is anything said against Pocahontas. You may burn her fences, plows, barns, plantation ntensils, crops, houses and furniture—you may leave her green bosom a horrid black waste, and her children houseless and starving, as Phil. Sheridan did—but yon must say “nothing agin” Pocahontas. Oar thoughts are drawn to this awful subject by the blazing indignation of the Lynchburg News against the “venomous reptile of the New York Tribune,” who has been saying that “Poo” was “a wanton young girl” who used to idle round the fort for the purpose of enticing the boys ont into the market place where they practiced the indecorons sport of standing on their heads and putting their feet up into the air just where their heads ought to be. “Is it not enough (asks the News,) that the State should be hand cuffed, despoiled, impov erished, put below the feet of its negroes, bnt that the very graves of its dead should be thus filthily defiled?” We think so, too. Let little Poo. alone. Don’t pull a porcupine quill from her head— a feather from her blanket, or a bead from her casin. Dearer to old Virginia is little Poo than all else beside. All her anoient glories and modern renown pale before the romance of the tender savage maiden to whom every Virginian traces his origin. Who does not bnm with indignation to hear his mother Eve lightly spoken of? But the Eve of the Virgin ians is Pocahontas. _ They own no other. The Simian theory has no terrors to Virginia. All the rest of the world may have sprung from a tailless monkey, but the Virginians know that they all came straight from Pocahontas, and, if good, will go back to her again. A man mean enough to speak lightly of Pocahontas, should be cut up for oatfish bait. .We join in the indignation of the News, and if possible, wonld outgroan him. BeIuties of the Radical Tarife.—Chloro form costs in the European market pound 87£ cents, gold. The American duty on it is one dollar and the wholesale price in New York is $4 per pound. What does the reader, who is compelled by a protective tariff to pay $4 for an article that costs 87£ cents abroad, suppose is the revenue derived from it to the United States Treasury? Just $139 50. Collodion costs in the foreign market 75 cents per pound. It is taxed by the tariff one dollar, and the New York price ia $140. This artiole yields to the United States Treasury a revenue of exactly $4. The rest of the tax goes into the pookets of the protected American manufacturers, and it is on this plan that the whole national tariff, sup ported by the Grant Administration, is consti tuted. A protective tariff is the greatest eqgine yet invented for robbing the people under the disguise of raising Government revenues. Very Decided.—A paper called the Caucasian, published in Lexington, Mo., thus proelaims its attitude on national polities: “Horace Greeley, Gratz Brown, Cox, Tram- bull, Palmer, or the devil—anybody to beat Ulysses the gift-taker!” There is no possibility of a compromise be tween Grant and that editor! Thongh the alarming want of stem discipline in the army, seemed to demand that the st t tence of the court martial should ba i 4 ] es , lessly executed, popular sympathy was Ruiaj". mously enlisted in Bossel’s favor, who hadgi ret proof of superior qualities. And France h, ing so few living talented men to boast of tht she must draw her inspirations from herfcetoM cast in bronze, it was argued that the countn could not afford to lose a man like Cose) promised to play some day a prominent part j» the annals of France. Bat Thiers seemed to consider the execution of the judgment ten dered a political necessity. Rossel had a clear insight into the wants ol his country and knew what it needed. It said that his last words, to a friend, illostratins the excellence of his judgment, were these- “If you have not, before loDg, crushed the army, it will crush you. It has always been pretorian, and has always formed a distinct party, whereas it should be national Dancer is pressing. Republicans have abandoned in- snrrection. Yon did not like the men of the' 18 th of March—I did not like them; but it was necessary to join in order to restrain them.” Gremieux, one of the leaders of the insurrec tion in Marsailles, was also executed. Ho was at an early hour, taken from his cell and shot within aeehort distance outride the walls. He refused to be blindfolded and died bravely, hia last words being “Vive la Repubhque." There is a general uneasiness prevailing throughout France. The public mind is nn- settled and no one seems to believe in the sta bility of the present government. The Buthori- ties are exercising great vigilance, and hare concentrated many troops in Paris. A squadron will remain at Ajaccio, Corsica, for an indefinite period to prevent any Imperialist rising on that Island, the home of the Bonapartes. The threatening complications between Bra zil and the German Empire will be amicably solved. The difficulty originated in an alleged assault and subsequent imprisonment of Ger man sailors in the streets of Rio Janeiro, is the Brazillian government was tardy in repair ing the injuries thus inflicted on German sub jects, the Berlin Cabinet had ordered a squad ron to sail to Brazil to support its claims, in case of need, by the thunder of cannon. In the meantime, however, intelligence has been re- ceived that the prisoners have been released by order of the authorities, thereby rendering an amicable settlement probable. The pnblio press throughout Germany ia commenting with indignation on the frequent assassinations of German soldiers in the depart ments still held by the Imperial troops. The papers, dwelling on the almost total immunity of the perpetrators from punishment, demand that the government shall take energetic meas ures to put a- stop to the outrages. Those dis tricts have accordingly been declared in a state of siege, and offenders will be tried by German conrts-maxtial Twe Frenchmen who were con victed of having assassinated a sentinel were shot by the Germans at Epernay. A German squadron of evolntion has been ordered to practice in the Atlantic. The lower House of tho Diet passed the tri ennial buget on its second reading by a small majority. The items of expenditnre wes sharply criticized; and the opposition to the alleged extravagance being very strong andde- termined, the government was only enabled to carry the bill by telling the House that Ger many should prepare for the future; that France contemplated revenge for her defeat and Vould seek it as soon as the indemnity was paid. The only safety for Germany was in her array which shonld neatber be weakened nor neglected. Thanksgiving day was generally observed by the Americans residing abroad. In Vienna, Jay, mi'niaterof theUnitedStates to Austria, gave a supper in celebration of the day. In a speech made on that occasion, he alluded to the pres ent proud position of the Republic, and the end of local corruptions before the assaults of a fear less press and honest men of all parties. The conclusion of the Tradesmark Convention be tween Austria and the United States was signifi cant of increasing the interchange of manufac tures of the two countries, to which the ap proaching International Exhibition in this cap ital would give an impetus, by presenting Amer ican productions for the first time in Eastern Europe by the side of those of Western Asia. There were serious disturbances occasioned in Brussels by the appointment of De Decker as Governor of a province, by the Belgian clerical ministry. De Deoker, a former member of the Cabinet, has been very upopular since his inti mate associations with Lagrand—Dumonceau, a Papal Count, who, three years ago, fled to Brazil after having ruined thousands of people in hnmble life. This bold adventurer adroitly managed to introduce himself into the first cir cles, where he succeeded in finding eager lis teners to his vast and dazzling projects. Being supported bv very prominent men whose influ ential namA wonld figure on the Board, he founded, without-any real basis, a number of financial establishments, one engrafted upon the other, for which the poorer classes hastened to subscribe their hard-earned savings. In due time the airy fabric collapsed, and the great benefactor of the poor became invisible, leaving his dopes behind to vent their impotent rage in loud execrations. The examinations ordered by the Govern ment into the state of the various companies, almost conclusively proved that men hi 5 Dedecker had notbeenignorantof theswindling character of the transactions; bnt, temptedby large dividends and salaries as Directors anu Presidents, had affected to place the utmost re liance in the new institntions. Hence this pres ent outburst of popnlar indignation against ths Ministers who dared to appoint DeDecker to the lofty station of Governor of a Province. The King was finally pompelled to give way to the will of the people, by dismissing his_ Cabi net. The capital is generally in a revolutionary mood, and the 30th of August beiDg one of tue fete days of the Communists, gave rise to fre quent collisions between large crowds parading the Rtreets and representing opposite political parties. Jaeso- , Taylor Connty, Georgia- Butler, December 2,1&71- _ A portion of the Democratic party of this county met this day in the Court-house for tc purpose of appointing delegates to repreaen the connty in the Gubernatorial Convention i meet in the city of Atlanta, the 6th inst. , The meeting organized by electing Coione W. S. Wallace, Chairman, and James D. I* 068 ' Seoretary. Tho Chairman, on taking the chair, bneny and pointedly explained the objeotof th ® “iTi. ing, whereupon, on motion of M9jor J. sey, Hon. Wm. G. Bateman and Silas Mbus, -.Esq., were appointed delegates to represent w connty in said Convention. . . Hgjor Holsey here introduced the /““TS resolutions, wbioh was unanimously adopts® 1 the meeting, viz: . Resolved, That while we will not trammel 0 delegates with instructions, yet we cannot bear expressing it as the sense of this that the public interest wonld 'be eminently subserved and protected by the qleetion Hon. James M. Smith to the present vawnqy in the Gubernatorial office; and we behe* 0 to be the wish of this oonnty that onr delegs should contribute sll in their power to hsf° name placed before the people of tins Sta». our candidate for Governor, at the appro* election for that officer. - _^ e . On motion of O. M. Colbert, Esq., the See* 0 tary was requested to forward a oopy minutes of this meeting to the Tblsobaph Mxssknqsb for publication. On motion of R. Montfort, Esq., the me« ing adjourned sine die. * W. S. Wallace, ChairmiB- James D. Russ, Secretary.