Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Grooi*£;icX ^V^ekl'y Telegraph a^xicl Journal & M!e8seiigor,
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, DECEMBER 56, 1871.
Is It A Stbavt?—In the Washington Repub-
Qosa of Wednesday, we find the following par
agraph r
Georgia elected a Democrat Governor yes
terday, to fill Bollock's unexpired term. By-
and-by we shall have the same story from Booth
Carolina and the other plundered States.
As the Republican is generally supposed to
ts fleet, in a. sort of back-stairs way, the views
of tin Administration, the inference is not al
together ud justifiable that Mr. Grant has con-
eluded to let Mr. Conley paddle his own canoe,
Mr. G. and his ring, just now, have almost as
pwrrf, on their hands as they can conveniently
look after, in trying to cover np the monstrons
brands and corruptions which Messrs. Trum
bull, Sohurz and other Radical leaders declare
So exist under Mr. Grant’s administration.
Bet isn’t “South Carolina and other plun
dered States" queer talk from so trooly Ioyi a
sheet as the Republican ? Such a lick at its
allies of the seallawag, carpet-bag and negro
stripe, who did the plundering, would be inex-
;enable upon any othor ground than that the
plunderers are unable or nnwilling to continue
So pay 40 cents a line for editorial defence of
their knavery, by the Republican. Of course,
when they are ont of pocket they are a set of
graceless wretches, who ought to be kicked
and! cuffed. That's what ails this particular
Hannah, we “reckon."
Death op a Pbosiinekt Citizen op LaGbakoz.
\Ye learned, yesterday, by a private letter from
lAGrange of the death an Tuesday night,
of Dr. B. A. T. Ridley of that place, from hem
orrhage of the bowels. Dr. Ridley was one of
the most prominent citizens of Western Geor
gia, and for probably thirty yearn had been an
active and influential Ieaderof public sentiment
in that section. He had repeatedly represented
Troup county in the State Senate and House of
Representatives, besides receiving numerous
other tokens of popular appreciation. He was,
besides, a most skillful andsuccessfol physician
and surgeon, and up to the day of his death wa3
actively engaged in the duties of his profession.
T3ia iUfless was very sudden, as we learn, not
more than a day or two elapsing between the
seizure and death.
In every relation of life, Dr. Ridley was one
of the most estimable of men, and we tender to
his afflicted family and near friends a sympathy
commensurate with our esteem and admiration
for his character and personal qualities. He
was, we suppose, very nearly, if not quite,
seventy years of age at the time of his death.
The Savannah Republican, with “singular
insincerity,” (because it knows better) charges
hostility to the Central Road, and interest in
in “opposition to the. Central Railroad Compa
ny” as the reason why a writer for the local col
umns of the Teleqbaph exaggerated that little
jOBSbap a few days sgo. That paper well knows
- tint, no proprietor of the Teleqbath had art or
part in the report, and we will say for the local
editor, that he got his information from a per
son just from the train, who probably gathered
his ideas in the midst of darkness and the tem
porary confusion resulting from the mishap.
Nobody knows better than the Republican
that the Teleobaph has no intention or desire
to ohampion any business interest of Macon
against another, but wishes prosperity to alt of
them. Why, then, will it be guilty of such silly
injustice?
Sumneb’s One Term Resolution proposes to
go into effect in 1873. The Senator says ho did
act wish to interfere with personal preferences
for the next ternj. The passage of the resolu
tion, however, would place the Grant men in a
strange position—that of admitting the mis-
3&evou3 consequences of dual terms, but nev
ertheless proposing to tolerate them some time
icoger in respect to the personal anxiety of
General Grant for a renewal of his official lease.
H may be donbted whether the resolution will
through under the circumstances, although
probably the judgment of the country would en
dorse it. Few will doubt that the policy of this
administration has been shaped altogether by
more lust for re-election.
Cebistras Thunder and Lightning.—We
isvc a wide range of temperature in these
United States—for while printing accounts of
weather below zero in the West, we are chron
icling to-day thunder and lightning in Macon
There was a good deal of both yesterday after
noon, and one shower whnh is not often equaled
lathe course of the year in the amount of wa
terfall in snch a length of time. The flood was
io copious that tho water stood in the streets
hke a lake. They did not drain as fast as the
water fell.
Maoon Cotton Receipts to the 23d of Decem
ber last year were 65,250 bales. This year they
are 39,111—pins yesterday’s receipts—showing
st deficit of 26,139 bales. Everything indicates
that ive shall be at least 40 per cent, short on
j£a whole year’s business, and we think that
will not bo far from the general average. We
doubt whether Middle Georgia is worse off than
the great bulk of the cotton region—Tennessee
and Arkansas excepted. A round throe million
begs seems to ns an outside ostimate, but we
shall see.
No Doubt or 1x3 Authenticity. —Tho follow
ing “regret” to the Tale Thanksgiving dinner,
published in the college Conrant, carries marks
of authenticity upon its face:
Executive Mansion, Washington, D. G.,>
November 25, 1871. )
Gentlemen: lam, much to my disappoint
ment, obliged to decline yonr invitation to the
jnbiloe. One of my horses is ill, and I should
hardly feel warranted in being absent at so crit
ical an hour. There is alao a fair prospect of a
now gift of a house, which I would not like to
miss. Admiral Porter or some of the Dents may
oomo. Touts truly, U. 8. Gbant.
Gold Weathxb.—The telegrams from the
North tell of very cold weather. The mercury
at Cincinnati yesterday morning indicated four
teen degrees below zero. In Canada the range
was from sixteen to sixty below zero. At Chi
cago two devotees of Bacchus caught ont were
frozen to death. On the plains intense cold
and terrible snow storms are reported.
The A beans as Neobozs seem to have been
inflamed by the Radicals to a pitch of despera
tion, and are bent on taking possession of the
3tate. We judge that Arkansas is in a worse
position than any of the sorrowing Bisters and
has been ruled by a more malignant and intoler
able set of white scoundrels than even South
Carolina.
Febsistenoe Wobtht op a Bettis Cause.—
A Mm. Smythe, of Indianapolis, IncL, now has
idr fifth husband, and yet aha has never chang
ed har name. She was bom a Smith, her first
husband was named Smith, her second Schmidt,
her third Smyth, her fourth Smithe, and her
Vresent Smythe.
Men of badness from alt sections find the
Alt ehican House, Boston, the most oentral for
business purposes of all the hotels, and at the
same time one of the best in the country. The
management of Lewis Rice & Son, which has
heretofore rendered this hotel so popular, is
still continued.
Cotton took a small set back in Liverpool
ester day.
The Reform Standard Bearers.
Within a few days, the Radical leaders in
Washington, snuffing a coming popular storm
against fraud and corruption, have reversed
their engines and joined in the ory. There
most be no more efforts to defeat investigation
and exposure—ell the knavery must be laid
bare and the thieves punished. Morton drops
to the rear end Trumbull now leads with a carte
blanche to oleanse the Aegean stables. “The
poor plundered Booth” has become the fashion
able word, end- curses of Soott and the whole
gang of reconstructing knaves rend the heav
ens. This is sagacious. Pnt yourselves at the
heed of a movement yon cannot stop, and yon
may escape its violence.
Bat General Grant and the Radicals leading
the great national reform movement against the
prostitution of public office to mere corruption
and money getting, it must be confessed, is a
queer spectacle. It will be a “new departure,”
indeed. Will the people recognize the old party
of corruption, extravagance and waste—of sor
did nepotism and present-taking, in their new
maaquerade ? Will the men who have swollen
all the public expenditures fourfold, grace the
new apotheosis of economy, honesty and accoun
tability ?
Perhaps so. We see in South Carolina Bowen
leading off against the frands of Soott, and
Scott against the frauds of Bowen, so that it is
doubtful which will be the great Radical cham
pion of reform in that State. In like manner
in Louisiana, Warmouth led the hosts of reform
against Dnnn, and Dunn, till he died, thundered
against Warmouth—the point of controversy
being, which of them, as the lesser rascal, was
best entitled to carry the reform banner. The
same issue has risen in Texas, Mississipi, Flor
ida and Georgia, and, in point of fact, it under
lies all the fierce quarrels of the Radical fac
tions in Fennsylvanis, New Tork, New Jersey,
Massachusetts and many other of the Northern
States. The grand era of national honesty
must be inaugurated by the faction least gorged
with the pnblio plunder, if they can find ont
which of the two is in that category.
We question whether a permanent reform in
public morals is likely to result from snch
championship. It is too much in the natnre of
the cry of stop thief, in which the thieves are
always the first to join. The popular demand
for reform has sprung from the abases inaugu
rated by the Radical party, which have assumed
their wildest license under the Grant adminis
tration. It is chiefly because this administra
tion has depraved the standard of official morals
to an unondarablo extent that the people de
mand amendment. For the same party to make
their own crimes the essential reason for rein
stating them in office as the champions of
amendment, strikes one S3 illogical, although it
may be very sucoessful, nevertheless. There is
no telling. Rut whether successful or no, when
we come to see the Grant Radicals leading off
in a grand popular movement for official purity,
honor, economy and integrity in the United
States, the people may next demand a contem
poraneous movement by the blacklegs to sup
press gambling—the tipplers to put down in
temperance, and the brothels to raise the stan
dard ot continence and chastity.
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Debt and Demoralization.
We hear reports which indicate in some conn-
ties a lamentable degree of demoralization on
the subject of debt paying, which we believe is
due, In great part, to the so-called “relief leg
islation.” Anysanction bylawto popular evasion
of fair pecuniary obligations, saps the public
Rense of rectitude, and sets on foot bad fash-
Ions which a good many are only too ready to
follow.
Every man who succeeds in evading what his
own conscience tells him is a just debt, no mat
ter by what means, (legal or illegal,) has im-
pared his own self respect and sense of honor
for a very inadequate compensation. A con
science void of offense is the only real wealth
which a man can carry for any great length of
time, while poverty is but a temporary misfor
tune and often proves a blessing in disguise
by bringing ns to soberer views of life and
stimulating our energies to mend onr condition
both for present and fntnre existence.
The man who meelshis liabilities frankly and
boldly with the best provision possible at the
time, will win a positive good in his own self-
approbation and the esteem of hi3 neighbors—
while, on the other hand, he who skulks and
shirks and evades his debts, may, at the gain of
mere temporary relief, build up formidable ob
stacles to his own future prosperity and happi
ness. The equivocating, slippery fellow is rarely
happy or prosperous in the long ran. Oharaoler,
responsibility, unswerving fidelity to truth, are
worth far more than any man can gain by sac
rificing them.
These remarks are so true, that they will be
ridiculed os truisms, and yet we cannot too firm
ly imbed them in our minds and resolve to con
form onr whole lives to them, as axioms from
which it is the wildest folly to depart under any
stress of temptation. He “whoswearsth to his
own hurt and changeth not” is the Old Testa
ment standard of the man who shall sit with
princes and not be associated with mean or base
men.
Shun, therefore, young men especially, every-
thing which looks to sharking any fair obliga
tion of any nature, and avoid association of all
hi&ds—especially business connections—with
any man yon. have foufid to be false to his own
faith. The unreliable man, and the communi
ty in which fiduciary or any other treachery is
not considered infamous, are moral quicksands
equally dreadful and dangerous. He alone is
either safe himself, or to be trusted by others,
who stands on the rock of truth, honor and
duty—who has solemnly resolved within him
self that, come what may, he will be found on
his lot doing his duty manfully in every rela
tion of life.
Attorney General Farroivs’s Letter
Conveys the idea that tho Radicals failed to run
a candidate in this State against Smith, simply
because it was a hopeless business. Tho ad
ministration in Washington favored running a
candidate, and Mr. Farrow himself, as well as
most of the leading minds of the party, were in
favor of contesting the election; bat the one
idea that it would only result in disastrous de
feat, seems to have prevented it, and then the
Radical eanens fell back, as a makeshift, on the
ridicnlons pretence set np by the acting-Gov-
ernor that the election was unconstitutional.
We submit to that party that this is not ex
actly a candid way of dealing with pnblio
questions, and if they are going to reform and
lead a new life, as Mr. Farrow proposes, they
should not have started ont in their regenerated
career with a mere dishonest pretence, which
it is virtually confessed wonld not have been
set np but for the fact that they oould not hope
to defeat the Democracy in a popular contest.
This thing is not calculated to inspire respect
and confidence, and it places acting Gov. Con
ley in a very invidious position. Is it possible
that he will confuse and embarrass the pnblio
administration of the State by a factions effort
to hold on to office, when it is evident few or
none of the intelligent men of his party really
believe the special election unconstitutional ?
We trust ho will think better of it.
Camzbon “Cbawhno.”—It is report ed from
Washington that among the books ordered by
Senator Cameron as Chairman of the late Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, is a oopy of By
ron’s poems, in order that he might study the
San Joan question.
Our usual Tuesday morning’s Telxqbaph will
not appear this week, nor probably on the
week following, on aeoonnt of the holidays.
We are entitled to at least two days ont .of the
holidays, and they both. ooour on Monday,
and the fact that, on both these days, there
will be a general suspension of trade, as well as
political bnsinea, throughout the world, would
leave little or nothing in the way of news to
communicate to the reader, at beak Barring
accounts and cestui ties there will be, therefore,
nothing to tell, sad the printer with hie less
laborious fellow mortals, can intermit for
day in each week the eternal round of day and
night labor, which leaves him very little time
in the whole 865 days for social -enjoyment or
even intercourse with his own family. The
daily paper is the most confining and exhaustive
of all pursuits.
Most of ns probably dose the year .under cir
cumstances of great depression. The past has
disappointed ns and the' future is unpromising.
The hilarities of Christmas will be restrained
and modified, in spite of ourselves, by present
embamsmeni or fntnre apprehension; bat it is
well to remember that apprehensions generally
outrun realities, and in snob a time as this, the
mind is thrown off its balance and a sort of
mental contagion pervades all classes. We
question, whether in the vast majority of cases,
great flnotnations of trade are not in reality
due in a more important degree to mental de
pression than to any other cause. Defeat brings
universal discouragement and disoouragement
begets a careless and apathetic condition.
When the pnblio mind reacts, activity revives
without any apparent adequate material change
in the condition. Not alone are the Southern
and cotton growing States laboring just now un
der this depression, bat it is not worse here than
in the great commercial centres. Trade is said
to bo “dead" in New Tork, and it is not as bad
&3 that in Maoon.
By and by, probably within a month or so,
(though the wise acres all prophecy the oppo
site) the people will wake np again, and begin
to find out that the case is not so bad as they
thought it Trade will revive, and the spirit of
enterprise blaze np again all over the oountry.
The harvests are generally abundant—food
cheap—the supply of money is ample, if it be
turned loose—and there is no especial reason
why trade should be “dead.” Even in Georgia,
the cotton crop will bring not far from as mnoh
money as that of last year, while the transfers
of goods have been very light, and the indebt
edness is much smaller. We think trade must
revive, so soon as the cotton reserves of the
planters are parted with. Meanwhile we are
all learning valuable lessons of eoonomy and
management whioh in the fatnre will be im
proved to the general pecuniary benefit.
Let ns, then, borrow no over-borden of
trouble and anxiety daring these holidays, bat
throw off care and join heartily in the innooent
festivities of the season, resolved, if trouble
comes, to meet it with undaunted hearts—ener
getic industry and clear consciences. We bid
our readers, one and all, a merry Christmas.
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The Blinistrj on the Increase.
Two of onr clerical friends and former pas
tors are rejoicing under the advent to the one,
of a splendid ten ponndboy, and to the other of
a brace of the same sort.
These little sprigs of divinity, we are happy to
learn, are all doing welL We won’t particularize
as to the color of the eyes, the shade of the hair
(if they have any), and the peculiar accomplish
ments of the little innocents, because minister’s
wines are still mortals; and we love peace and
quiet.
This, however, we feel called upon to do.
These excellent men of God have given another
touching exemplification'of their faith in the
promise of Holy Writ, that the seed of the right
eous shall never lack for bread. It required
tho devotion of a Paul, to attain to such a meas
ure of sublime confidence in these days of home-
steads and sad moral declension. What, then,
is the obvious duty of their respective churches?
It is to abjure parsimony in their treatment of
God’s servants, and give freely andmnnifioently
to the families of their beloved pastors.
Let them give and keep giving, until they
really feel that they are making a sacrifice to
God. Then will the coveted blessing come
from on high, like the precious dews of Hermon,
and the oil that ran down upon the beard of
Aaron. We tell our readers that spiritual lean
ness, temporal reverses, the goadinjs of
troubled conscience, and that genera?Unrest
which is inseparable from neglected duty, will
attach to those who keep back the hire cf the
laborious soldiers of the cross.
The life of the faithful man of God, is a
constant scene of toil and sacrifice. Added to
mental labor, always great and unceasing, is
the terrible responsibility of bearing upon his
soul the immortal interests of a great congrega
tion. Woe is me, he exolaims, if I preach not
the Gospel, yet how can I bear the burdens of
this people, and what can I do for their salva
tion? The inqniry causes sleepless nights and
on agony of apprehension.
But let it be remembered too, that the set
tled pastor is cut off from all secular means of
support, and is expected also to lead the chari
ties of the church. For him there is no pros
pect of retiring in old age to enjoy his otium
cum diynitate upon the fruits of his industry.
On the contrary, with an aching heart he sees
gaunt famine staring his little ones in the faoe,
when thier sainted father shall sleep his last
sleep, and nothing bnt the blessed promise,
will not leave yon comfortless,” sustains his
sinking heart. Think of this, ye prosperous
merchants, rioh bankers, thriving mechanics,
and substantial fanners. Grudge not a portion
of yonr substance to the devoted pastor who is
with yon in sunshine and shade, at the mar
riage altar and In the death sceno, and whose
prayers ever ascend like fragrant incense in
your behalf. God loveth the cheerful giver,
and the liberal aonl shall be made fat
The above remarks are not intended alono
for the latitude of Gathbert and Cartersville,
They apply to every church and congregation
in this broad land. Let every one then bid his
minister a happy Christmas, and leave at the
parsonago some tangible testimonial of good
will and appreciation. It will make many hearts
rejoice, and cause yon to exclaim it is more
blessed to give than to receive.
A Fearful Commentary on the Utili
ty of Foreign Missionary Work.
The Courier-Journal in commenting upon the
ease of the parricide Ware who was hung in
New Jersey a few days since, rightly adds that
there was a terrible emphasis in almost the last
words the wretched creature uttered on the
scaffold: ..i • . -• ,.i
“If I had ever reoeived half the attention be
fore I got into prison that I have since, I never
would have been here.” His life and that of
the whole family was one of dlguating brutality,
squalor, ignoranoe and lost that wonld have
disgraced a Hottentot kraal,whereas it was spent
in a pleasant New Jersey village, hardly an
hour's ride from either New Tork or Philadel
phia. He knew nothing of religion; the name
at if emua, was only familiar as adding empthaais
to an oath, and the mysteries of revelation were
as unknown to him as the language of the Tal
mud. When asked if he believed in Christ, be
said, “I don’t believe in Jeans; I don’t know
nothing about him,” and with these words fresh
on his lips he was sent to his account. And
yet we contribute onr hundreds of thousands to
the cause of foreign missions.
rkrrtcal Lahar.
When the body ia taxed by severe exercise or
continuous exertion, prolonged repane is indis
pensable, or the machine gives way and refuses
to net The waste of the system by perspira
tion and the protracted tension of the mnsefoe
must be motored by corresponding rest and
food stimulants. Hcooo the day-laborer re
quires from eight to tea hours of sleep, and an
imal food also, in considerable amount to sus
tain his bodily fanotiocs. This does not ob
tain, however, in rwntal pursuits. The fullest
exercise of mind for the greater portion of
the day and night daring a long period of years,
is compatible with perfect physical health.—
Sir Robert Feel, the elder Pitt, Lord Palmer
ston, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Brougham,
Ur. Webster, Sir Walter Soott, Baron Hnmbott
and a hundred other instances might be ad-
dneed to confirm ibis statement
It is a great mistake to suppose that study
alone will break down the constitution and lead
to premature decay. When this oocurs, the re
salt may be traoed to palpable violations of
bygienle economy. If the mind be taxed, and
the body at the same time is abused,' of oonrse
a collapse of both is inevitable.
We repeat, however, that with proper atten
tion to the ordinary rules of health, the mind
is capable of almost indefinite exertion, with
out deleterious oonseqdenoes. This may be as
cribed, at least in part, to the difference exist
ing between the operations of the mind and
body/ The waste of the latter is positive, and
appreciable in its effeota under the wear and
tear of exposure.- Hence, the prooess of recu
peration requires time, and other addends, to
be complete. Bat the mind, even after the se*
vereet discipline and protracted exertion, re
sumes its vigor just 03 soon as the train of ideas
which has oconpied it has been broken and dis
solved.
A hiatus or interval even of a few moments
seems to restore the equilibrinm and fit it for
new efforts.
Thus the student who has toiled long and
painfully to solve some knotty problem, falls
asleep in his chair, and after a brief period of
total mental oblivion, resumes his task with a
mind refreshed and perfectly nniuonmbered
with former burdens and difficulties. The con
nection with the past seems to have been sun
dered, and the mental faculties take a new de
parture, as it were, and are ready for fresh con
flicts and pronder triumphs. This will account,
for the prodigons amount of brain work winch
has been accomplished in a limited period by
eminent authors and professional men. It is a
wise dispensation of Providence, and marks ont
very plainly the line of demarkation between
the material and immaterial essence of the
human organization.
Who are Their “Confederates?”
The New Tork Tribune, in an article on the
financial condition of South Carolina, and the
thieves who have been plundering that State,
says:
If South Carolina had nothing of which to
complain more discouraging than the beggarly
account of empty coffers lately reported, she
might be less exasperated with her carpet-bag
government. A State whicli had a landed prop
erty worth over $70,000,000 at the end of the
war, and snch elements of prosperity as are
found in the culture of the great Southern sta
ples—cotton and rice—could soon replenish her
drained treasury if she had fair credit and an
honest, prudent government. Bat the report
of the legislative investigating committee, who
have just been looking into the alleged over
issue of bonds, shows that the credit of the
State has gone with its money. The operations
of the so-called financial board have not only
been reckless, but as dishonest (to compare
small things with great) as the financial juggling
of the Tammany government of New Tork city.
It is vain for Governor Scott to attempt to
throw the blame on the Legislature, which he
accuses of extravagance, or on unnamed con •
spirators, whom he charges with a systematic
attempt to destroy the credit of the State. To
be snre, the General Assembly drew from the
treasury the enormous amount of $583,65144
on account of the “legislative expenses,*' and
the State was run in debt fox $91,500 for furni
ture for the State House, (as is alleged;) but
neither of these preposterous items, nor any
“bearing” of the market by men hostile to the
local administration, could honestly be taken in
extenuation of an over-issue of more than
$9,000,000 in bonds. The old debt of the State
was $6,665,856 27; on the 1st of Ootober, 1870,
it was just $1,000,000 more, and on the 21st of
November, 1871, it was $15,806,908 98. What
have the South Carolina carpet-baggers to show
for it?
To whioh query the Washington Republican
(straight out Radical) makes answer as follows:
So far as we know, all that “the South Caro
lina carpet-baggers have to show for" their
wholesale plundering of the State is an interest
in a morning newspaper (the Chronicle) in this
city. That paper is edited by an officer of the
United States Senate, who came here recently
from South Carolina, where he was engaged in
running another jonraal, which at one time
championed Scott and his band of thieves.
This editor has within the last few days acknowl
edged that one of Scott’s scoundrels is his part
ner and assooiate in business; that he has had
“private” transactions with him, and draws on
him for money for “private” purposes.
The Republican introduces the Tribune’s ar
ticle under this caption: “The South Carolina
Thieves and their Washington Confederates,"
and proceeds as above to point ont who these
latter are. We submit that it utterly fails to
cover the whole ground in this ease. The Chron-
iole and its editor are not the only Washington
Confederates of the “Sonth Carolina thieves”
by a long shot. Who has aided and abetted these
“thieves” more zealously than the entire Radi
cal party, and especially the administration at
present in power at Washington? What was
the Ku-klux deviltry now ravaging that State set
on foot for if not to proteot these thieves from
exposure and punishment. If this is net “con
federating” with thieves in the very way most
likely to aid and farther their purposes,we wonld
really like to know what the proper name for
it is.
New Law Firm.—We inadvertently omitted,
yesterday, to direct; attention to the oard of
Blount & Hardeman, a new legal firm that has
just been established in tins city. The senior of
the firm has been a resident of Maoon some*
months, and is oountsd among onr most active,
enterprising young citizens and rising lawyers.
The junior, CoL Isaac Hardeman, late of Clin
ton, is a worthy coadjutor of our friend
Blount. We have known him sinoe the halcyon
days of college fun and frolio when he was a
studious, promising youth, and ever since, and
always heard a good report of him. What he
is now, and how he stands as a lawyer, is well
known in this section. We call this a steady
team with vim enough for any pall, and as
snob we weloome it to the honorable roll of
Macon’s law firms.
The Iniquitous Cotton Tax.—We saw a peti
tion, yesterday, which is ready for signatures
here, asking Congress to refund this iniquitous
tax. We understand a strong effort will be
made to have this tax refondod daring the pres
ent session of Congress, bnt we have little faith
in its success. It will do no harm, however, to
try what oan be done, and signing ihe petition
is little or no tronble. The petition can be
found at the offioe of the,Southern Express
Company in this city.
The Constitution blames us for making a
brief synopsis of spme public documents whioh
appeared originally in its columns without cred
iting the facts and. figures mentioned to that
paper. We Had'ho idea ofdoiuginjastioe to
that paper, or that any credit would be due or
aooepted under the circumstances. There was,
in fact, not a line taken from the documents in
question.
THE GEORGIA F
The Savannah Industrial Association has re
organized, with Gag. 8. Owens, as President,
Judge Wm. Schley, as 1st Vice President, Oota-
TT38 Cohen, 2d Vice President, and E. McIntyre,
Treasurer.
Cora la selling in Thomas county at 75 to 80
cents, cadi, per bushel.
Colonel O. T. Goode, a prominent lawyer of
Americas, is mentioned m a suitable snooessor
to Mr. Wright Brady, lately deoeased, as a rep
resentative in the Legislature from Sumter
county.
Captain H. L. French has been elected Mayor
of Americas.
The Sumter Republican, of Thursday, says
Midnight Assault.—Oa Tuesday lad, be
tween the boors of one and two o’clock, a negro
man named Richard Hill entered the sleeping
apartment of Mr. J. H. Blaok, and inflicts*.
severe wounds on Iris arm, while in bed. Mr.
Blaok, hearing some one walking about the
room, stretched forth his hand to see if any one
was in reach. As he did so, he reoeived the
wounds. The negro then made his escape. Mr.
Black got ont of bed and followed him to the
door, where he saw him distinctly, as he moved
off. The negro was arrested in the morning
and taken before Justice Wm. Coker, on
charge of assault with intent to kill. The evi
dence being sufficient to convict, he was com
mitted to jail to await bis trial.
The gin house and eight bales of cotton be
longing to Mrs. N. Fondreu, of Thomas county,
were burned last Monday night. Accidental.
The Columbus Enquirer’s city editor is in
sorrowful state. He has not seen a live oountry
turkey in market this winter, and makes
mighty mean over the prospect of having to put
np with a dressed one from Tennessee for his
Christmas dinner. Poor fellow!
The Warrenton Clipper is responsible for this
story:
A few days since General Toombs was ex
pressing his opinion of a few public men in
Georgia, especially that olass known as “Demo
crats so-called,” to a few friends at the Kimball
House, and he alluded to Joseph E. Brown in
snch severe terms that ah enthusiastic religions
friend of Jo’s remarked to the General:
- “Ah, General, Joseph E. Brown is a Chris
tian, and when the great day shall come, in
whioh the earth shall give np her dead, and all
mankind shall be summoned before the great
White Throne to answer for the deeds done in
the body, Joseph E. Brown will head a larger
oolnmn than General Toombs.”
“Yes,” replied the General, “and when God
Almighty sees that column, with Joe Brown at
its head, approaching, He will give this com
mand: Head of column to the left.
As Mr. Roland Bryant was riding into Rome,
last Tuesday morning, his horse took fright at a
passing railway train and threw him off, injur
ing him so seriously that he died in less than
an hoar. He was one of the oldest and most
esteemed citizens of that county.
A man named Peter Tomer, while resisting
arrest by a policeman at Rome, on Tuesday
night, was shot three times in the stomach, and
it ia thought will die.
Mr. Sam. P. Sparks, of Athens, has been
awarded the prize medal as the best declaimer
in the Sophomore class of tho State University.
His speech wa3 Hayne’s “Sonth Carolina dar
ing the Revolution.”
The hat of Miles O’Ronke who has been miss
ing from Savannah for some days has been
found on the canal bank, and the inference is
that Mr. O’Ronke, himself, is in the canal.
The Savannah Republican is very unkind to
Blodgett Not content with chronicling the ig
nominious defeat of his effort to steal his way
into the United States Senate, the Republican
proceeds to wash his wounds as follows:
This bold, unscrupulous, bad man is reaping
his reward. And so will it be with all his fellow
conspirators against the white people of Geor
gia. Bollock has fled from the scene of his
crimes, and is now a fagitive on foreign soil.
Some have found their way into the State peni
tentiary, while a goodly number are under in
dictment for thefc and other crimes againBt the
State. Let the sweep be a clean one, and the
record prove a warning through all time to men
who set themselves against society, and for
personal gain cut loose from all the ties of
honor -and right and common honesty that re-
strain the conduot of Christian men. The un
scrupulous villainy and corruption cf these men
are without a parallel in our history, and the
brand to be put upon them shonld be indelible.
The world should be taught through them, that
the way of the transgressor is hard, and that
that justice, however tardy, never fails to over
take the guilty.
Our exchanges from various seotions of the
State give the returns of the election last Tues
day. Generally there seem to have been a light
vote. Muscogee gave Smith 1178 votes 98 of
which number were those of negroes. Floyd
county voted 581, all for Smith. At Marietta
the vote wa3 825 for Smith—a number of ne
groes voted for him at that place. Riohmond
county gave him 1030 votes; Baldwin 650;
Warren 345; McDuffie 250, and Burke 307
against one vote for Wm. Gibson; Sumter
county voted 670 for Smith, eight negroes cast
ing their ballots for him; West Point polled 235
voteB for Smith, and Thomasville 234.
Colonel Frank Hill, now of Barbour county,
Ala., but formerly of Athens, in this State, is
lying extremely ill at his mother’s residence, in
the latter place.
Eight manufacturers of illegal benzine are in
quod, at Atlanta. They represent Gilmer,
Union and Pickens counties.
Two houses belonging to Miss Lizzie Clifton,
of Atlanta, were burned Friday morning. In
sured for $4,000. Most of the furniture saved.
Incendiary.
Mr. John Wilcox, of Augusta, was killed on
Friday by the accidental dischargo of his gun.
Tho Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, says:
Foster Blodgett is eternally disgraced—even
in tho estimation of his accomplices in crime.
The Grand Jury found a true bill against him
last summer. He gavo bond for his appearance
at court. He went away, pretending ’to be
looking after a seat in the Senate, bnt, no
doubt, to keep out of the clutohes of the law.
His bond wa3 declared forfeited at the late ses-'
sion of the Superior Court in this city, and a
bench warrant for his arrest i3 now in the hands
of the sheriff.
Besides this, the Grand Jnry last week found
another true bill against him.
And the Constitution, of Friday, says:
lex Company Stock and Gold Bonds.—CoL
G. W. Adair will sell on Saturday next, in front
of his office on Wall street, at 10 o’clock, six
hundred shares of stook of the Atlanta Ice Man
ufacturing Company, and five gold bonds of the
State of Georgia of $1,000 eaoh, said stook and
bonds having been pledged by Foster Blodgett
for the payment of a note which has been pro
tested for non-payment
From which we infer that the little perjurer
has catawampoosly collapsed, pecuniarily, as
well as politically.
A party of negroes called at the house of Mr.
Joe Dawson, of Henry county, a few nights
sgo, and after calling him to tho door and
coning him most outrageously, riddled his
house with shot
E. A. McLaughlin, the defaulting Postoffice
clerk, of Atlanta, was sentenced on Friday, to
pay a fine of $2,058—the amount of his steal
age—and to do penitentiary gymnastics for 1
three years.
O. P. Love joy, of Hogansvtlle, was shot and
accidentally killed last Monday, by Mr. O.
Norwood, .while they were ont hooting together.
On Thursday last, in Clayton Superior Court,
Thomas O'Neal waa found guilty of the murder
of Joseph Anthony, on the 24th of last Decem
ber, and senlenoed to be hung on the 16 th ot
February next. At the same term of the oourt,
Bob Redding, a notorious negro desperado and
burglar, well known In Spalding, Clayton and
Fayette counties, was sent to the penitentiary
for twenty years. He waa one of Bullock’s
pets, having been pardoned ont of the peni
tentiary by the great abaquatolator about a
J year since.
Tho old poatoffloo at House Greek, Wileox
county, has been re-esUblisbed, and B. V.
Bowen, appointed Postmaster.
Capt. John A. Hendley, a well known oitizen
of Pulaski county, and at the time of his death
a representative in the Legislature from that
county, died last Sunday night after along and
painful illness, aged 37 years. u g
The gin house of Mr. David Johnson, near
Abbeville, Wileox county, was horned one sight
week—the incendiaries steeling therefrom eight
or ten bales of unginned cotton before applying
the torch. And from a paragraph in the Hawk*
insville Dispatch, of Friday, we learn that eight
or tea bales of ootton were stolen from the gin
house of Dr. E. F. Way, in that county, one
night last week, and an attempt afterwards
made to fire the building. Tracks of one Bix
horse, and one four horse-wagon, and one ox
cart were discovered aroond the house,-indica
ting a raid on a grand aoale.
A faithful old negro named Green, for many
years employed at Mr. Waterman’s livery sta
ble in Hawkinsville, was killed by being thrown
from a baggy, last Friday week. Mr. Camp
bell of this city was also thrown out, bat sus
tained no injury.
Judgp Jas. Johnson, of Columbus, voted for
Smith for Governor laRt Tuesday. The Judge
seems to have completely gone back on bis
Radical friends.
Washington developed its mnsole in the first
snow bailing match of the season, on the 14th
instant. On Thursday last the train on the
branch road from Washington to Barnett ran
off near the former place, smashing some
freight cars, and badly tearing np the track—no
one hart. Wilkes county polled 626 votes for
Smith—all whites except about fifty.
At a pnblio meeting of the citizens of Savan
nah, held on Thursday, and over whioh Mayor
Screven presided, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the proposition of the City
Council to is3ne Five Hundred Thousand Dol
lars of bonds of the City, be, and the same ia
hereby approved, provided, the proceeds of
said bonds shall be exclusively applied to the
redemption of the existing floating debt incurr
ed for public improvements now under contract,
to the improvement of the Savannah harbor,
and to the prosecution of the system of sewers
now in courso of construction, and in contem
plation, so as to render Baid system available.
The Savannah Republican, of Friday, says:
The bill whioh passed both branches of the
Legislature at its recent session, appointing
Commissioners for the county of McIntosh ancl
the city of Darien, where the negro Campbell
has been riding the high horse to the manifest
injury of the commerce of that part,was sent to
the aoting Governor for his approval. Conley
pocketed the bill, and the five nays having
transpired, it has become a law of the State.
We are trnly glad that Campbell and his nest
of rascals, who work for and with him, will soon
be broken up by the legal operation of the law.
While making some repairs to a cane mill last
Thursday, Mr. Roily Boatwright, of Pulaski
county, had his head canghtin, and badly bruised
and gashed by the machinery.
The Prudential Committee of the Board of
Trustees of the State University, have chosen
Mr. C. P. Wilcox, of Columbus, as professor of
Modern Languages, vice Dr. Smead, lately de
ceased. This selection is subject to the aetion
of the Trustees. Of Mr. Wilcox, the Columbus
Sun sayB:
He is one of the most cultivated men in this
country. Having received a complete collegiate
education, shortly after his marriage he went
to Europe and, at Berlin, established a school
for American youths desiring to learn languages.
There and at the other Capitals of Europe, he
spent fourteen years, we believe. He is a
brother of Mr. D. F. Wiloox, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Georgia Home Insurance Com
pany. He speaks and writes flaently a number
of languages.
The ColumhuB Sun, of Friday, reports a gen
eral jail delivery at Seals Station, Russell coun
ty, Ala., last Wednesday, by whioh eight negro
prisoners got away, two of whom were subse
quently recaptured. They used the jailor, Mr.
James Waddell, pretty roughly before getting
away. ...
The Sun, same date, also makes the follow
ing report:
A Cowaedly and Bbutal Robbxby.—On the
15th of this month, (last Friday) Mr. Americas
H. Mitchell, who lives at Hatchechnbbe, Ala.,
left home to collect some money. He came
back by the old Battle plantation, and stopped
to warm. Some persons concealed in the dark
ness fired at him. The shot entered his head.
When he became sensible he fonnd himself ly
ing under a house. His pockets had been rifled.
He staggered to negro quarters, but the inmates
refused him admittance. He found strength to
totter to the residenoe of a white man who gave
assistance. Since the occurrence he has had
few lncid moments, and has not been able to
state of what money he had been robbed. The
shot mostly lodged in the side of his head. The
doctors think his reoovery doubtful, or, if he
lives, that the sight of one eye will be gone.
Sheriff J. T. Ware arrested two negroes, John
Thomas and Powell, who are cliargod with be
ing implicated in the affair. They were among
those who escaped from Russell county jail on
Wednesday.
The Atlanta Snn, of yesterday, says a party
representing the Rogers Locomotive Works, at
Patterson, New Jersey, filed a claim for $59,-
923 64, principal and interest, the day before,
against the State, on three notes given by
Blodgett as State Road Superintendent. They
were all dated Deoember 17th, 1870, and made
payable April 20th, 1871, at Clews & Co.’s
office, New York city. They were presented
when due, and payment refused by that firm.
They were for four looomotives now in use on
that road, and the Snn says it ia alleged the
reason Clews & Co. refused to pay the notes
by Bollock’s direction, was because the Patter
son Company refused to divide with the ring.
Mr. James H. Burnett, of Sparta, died last
Thursday, aged 83 years.
The np night passenger train from Savan
nah for Angnsta, ran over a drove of mules
about fourteen miles from the latter city, Fri
day morning. The engine and four cars were
thrown down an embankment twenty-five feet
high, and the engineer, Michael Larkin, danger
ously injured. The two firemen were also in
jured, but not seriously. A negro passenger,
named Plummer Ellison, was also dangerously
hnrt. The engine and oars were badly wrecked.
A special meeting of the Georgia Railroad
directors was held at Augusts, on Friday, which
was also attended by President Wadley and
Messrs. Lawton and Gilmer, directors of the
Central Railroad. The Chronicle and Sentinel,
of Saturday, gives ns the rumored explanation
of what was the objeet of the meeting, the
transfer by the Georgia Railroad to the Oen
tral, of all its interest in the Western Railway,
of Alabama, in consideration of a large sum of
money, the object of the trade on the part of
the Central being to prevent the transfer of the
Georgia Road’s interest in the Alabama Road
to the Pensylvsnia Central, which has been ne
gotiating for it.
from ChristUn Union ] ~~
°«*y a Lock of Bair.
BY UTJ.IBH wtii,
On)j a lock of dark farm feir
Threaded with silver hare md tiMtra
Never again shall tLt dearth aeba
Never again stall that true heart wi
Never again ahaU those aad^^>
From that calri.i^**
Poor long vein in the grave at r»»
Tired huxdo folded acme the breast
Atlantic and Mississippi.—Senator Price
sends us a oopy of the memorial to Congress by
the Governor and Legislature, in behalf of the
Atlantic and Mississippi canal, which asks for a
donation of land or a loan of the credit of tho
Government There should be eemeet efforts
to enlist the whole West in this movement, end
no doubt it can be done with proper exertions.
Floksa Elections.—The Savannah Republi
can of Thursday says:
Elections were held Monday last, to fill va
cancies in the House, in the counties of Jackson,
Calhoun, Walton, Sumter, Merton and Colom
bia. Nothing official has been reoeived, bnt it
is believed that the Conservatives have carried
all of them, end secured a Conservative majority
in the House, and perhaps on joint ballot. As
i United States Senator in plane of Osborne is
o be elected, the resalt is e metier of no Utile
mportenee.
'•’•““asstsaFas
I chesge thee, etUl in the homi of
Mj image keep.
See ahere tt Ilea in my open pa'm.
Ihnffing my soul like a eileni p-.U m
_ ... (Why do I weep?)^
Tangled with bases Mid wet Wh tec.
Named on my heart for four lone
,.... (Why do I weep ?) ****’
All trill be past in a few short tic,
Huehed the tumult, and dried the tear,
life with its Borrows and hopes and
Will calmly Bleep.
Step by Step.
BY J. O. HOLLAED.
Heaven ie not reached by a tingle bound-
But we build the Udder by which we rite
From the lowly earth to the vaulted akin.
And we mount to its summit round by rouai
I count these things to be grandly true,
That a noble deed ia a step towards God-
Lifting the aonl from the common sod
To a purer air and a broader view.
We rise by the th'ngg that are under onr feet
By what we have mastered in greed and
By the pride deposed and the peeeioa ehm
And the vanished 111 we hourly meet. '
We hope, we resolve, we aepire, we taut,
When the morning eaUs to life and light,
Bnt onr heart grows weary, ard ere the nfebi
Oar lives are trailing in sordid dost
Wing* for the angels, but feet for the men!
We must borrow the wings to find the war.
We may hope, and reeolve, and aepire. w 'd n ,
But our feet must rise or we fall agen. '
Only in dream ia the Udder-thrown
From the weary earth to the sapphire well-
But the dreams depart and the visions fail,'
And the sleeper wakes on hia pillow of stone.
Heaven U not reached at a single bound;
But we build the Udder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies.
And we mount to its summit round by round.
LAST OP THE FARRINGTONS.
Truffle Sequel to Use Arrest or the Soatk<n I
Express Robbers—A Right of Terre h
Union City—Levi Farrington and aais
complice Suddenly Patontoftbe Wsjkj I
tbe Citizens—Tbe one Sbot and the Olka |
Hung to a Tree.
Monday evening Deteotive Robert Pinkertm I
arrived in Union City with Levi Farrington, th
express robber, who was captured fay twain
days previous at Farmington, Illinois, asat-
count of whioh, together with that of thety
tore of his brother and William Barton, re
cently appeared in tho Avalanche. The broths.
Hilliard, it will be remembered, met his desk
by drowning while attempting to escape free
Detectives Pinkerton and Connell, on board the
transfer steamer between Cairo and Colombia
Barton, who was along, waa brought down n
Union City and looked np.
Tuesday night, about two hours after Lttii
arrival, a suspicions looking man was nouc« I
hanging around the hotel in which be was»I
cured. A young policeman named Benjamu I
Cline notioed the man, and started toward bin I
with a view to questioning him. As soon u bt I
saw him the man turned and ran, Cline follor-1
ing in rapid pursuit. Seeing that he was abous
to be captured, the man stopped, and, drawing
his pistol, fired, the ballet passing throng!
Cline’s right long, inflicting a wound from j
whioh he
died in about a halt hoob.
Another polioeman, Mike Moran, here led
up the chase and fired at the man, wounding
him seriously, as was afterwards ascertained
The man returned the fire, however, his bullet j
striking Moran in the shonlder and inflicting i
very painful wound. The noise of the shocting
having attracted a number of oitizens to Ik
spot, the man saw that there was
NO CHANCE BOB ESCAPE,
and accordingly surrendered. When qneslm: |
as to his name,, he said it was Toler, and thatba
lived near Reelfoot Lake. He refused to null
any explanation of his conduot, and after baa j
searched was semrely ironed and placed in tbt
same room with Farrington. The pistol Till
which he did the shooting was an exact coonier
part of the one found upon Farrington at tk
time of his arrest, and was evidently a mitt
to it. |
Just before the shooting Mr. W. A. Pinkerton |
induced Farrington to make
A FULL CONFESSION
of his participation in both robberies. Farriig-
ton stated that he knew Toler, and for this m-
sori they were locked up together, an aiffld
guard being plaoed over them. Farrington bk
made ah agreement whh Mr. Pinkerton thatii
consideration of being allowed to plead guiltj
and recnive a five years’ sentence he would re
store to the Express Company $2,500 in bon*
and a quantity of valuable papers, which he b«
stolen from it. The bonds and papers, ■
stated, were hid in the woods near teste- 1
landing, and, in company with Pinkerton and*
guard, he was to have proceeded there yester
day for the purpose of delivery.
The killing of yonng Cline, who was wt
known and universally liked in Union Ci?-
caused the most intense excitement amongtM
citizens, but no serious outbreak was_ anticipa
ted by the persons having the prisoners o
charge. About 4 o’clock yesterday mornisg-
however, when the townpeople were wrap- ^ |
slumber, ‘ y* ‘ '
A BAND OF DISGUISED MEN
quietly rode hpto the hotel in which the
oners were confined. Dismounting they
into line and marched directly to the roon^J |
copied by Farrington arid Toler. I'
the work of a moment to overpower 1— P .
Farrington jumped from the bed in
had been sleeping, only to receive the contei j
of a half dozen pistols.
SILLING HOC INSTANTLY. ,
Seeing the fate of his fellow-prisoner, !■>*
did not move until ordered la get up ana
His irons were removed to allow of hia p r
on his clothes, and then they were rep
Crazed with fear, two of the mob bad^
carry and half drag him from the house, *
he was thrown across a horse, which *** ’
mounted by a large, powerful-looking
who, with the others, moved rapidly *•**
southwesterly direction.
Hearing the reports of the pistols, ..
Pinkerton and Connell, who were
the next room, ran ont in the halL
met with cocked navy revolvers and » 8
der to go back in their room. Not c0 ®Pt^j
with the request, others of tbe mob caug
hurried them back, and then fastened ™
’Hie deteotivee begged for the
men, bnt no heed waa paid them by
who in a very few minutes left the hoas®-^
The town waa at onoe aroused, but no
They*#*
i stem* -
The town was at onoe aroused, duiiw ,
action was taken until daylight, when
parties started in search of Toler. Abo
o’clock his deed body was found
SUSPENDED BY THE HECK j,
to e limb of a tree, about three-foorto* ^
mile from town, near the line of the ^
and Northeast railroad. No marks of
were upon him exoept the shot wound
• few hoars before in his affray with
Hia body was eat down and brought ^
where an inquest waa held by the Cknon
verdict being “death from hanging " t r^)S
of persona unknown to tbe jnry. ms
verdict was rendered in the case ot Far e*"
THE ACTION OF THE ROB -y.W
is to be regretted, if from no other,
the death of Farrington all chanoe » "f flu
Express Company of ever obtaining »»J ^
bonds or papers mentioned by him. #
fearion. No farther violence is anticip*"^ rt -
every one regards Barton and Taylffl^
maiolng two prisoners, as mere too
Farringtons, both of whom are now
| Memphis rtwiswM ^
South Cakxltxa Aitaie*.—We
from e leading Baptist paper in
a very striking preeentwtion of the ot *r\pr.
South Carotins, from tbe pen of
Winkler, of Ohasfaefcm. B i«
that dear statement of affair* ^ ^
State with the acme aalnruss which V*
maintained by tha dtetingstied writ**- ^
About 200 feet in length o# the ne* ^
reed depet ad Saratoga Bpsinga was n***®*^
Monday by the wtiffM of the »®w on ti#