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MACON, DEC. «. 187S.
Falling off in Receipts.—According
to telegrams in yesterday’s edition, the
eotton receipts at all the ports for the
•week ending Friday night, were 123,939
bales, ngiinst 131,681 last year—showing
a falling off of 7,742 bales.
About a year ago, says the Traveller
of Arkansas City, Kansas, Sus-qu-ne, a
Little Osage, left a package at Captain
Norton’s, and a few days ago returned to
got something from it. The captain
stood by while he opened it, when he be
held twenty-five human scalps—Coman-
chos — consisting of men, women and
children’s, to some of which the ears
were hanging.
The Hf.ai.th of Louisville.—Talking
»'. vit thanksgiving and the reasons for
it, the Courier-Journal shows that the
mortality in Louisville from May 3d to
November 22d was, in 1870, 1,451; in
1871,1,881; in 1872, 2,050; in 1873,1,500
- showing, with an increasing popula
tion, a diminisliing mortality, and a very
light bill the past sum merand fall, which
have been notably sickly.
Marriage of Miss Thurman.—The
daughter of Senator Thurman was mar-
zi ,! to Richard McCormick, delegate from
Arizona, last Tuesday night in Washing
ton. The President. Cabinet officers and
all the Washington notabilities were pres
ent.
A Washington dispatch in the Balti
more Gazette of Thursday states that
John Delano, chief clerk of the Interior
Department, has resigned, and that the
vacancy will be filled by the appointment
of Wm. C. Morrill, of Maine, now Treas
urer of the Western and Atlantic railroad
of this State.
A Spanish newspaper justified the ex
ecution of the Virginius captives, and
cites is a precedent for the action of the
Spanish authorities the circular issued by
the United States Government during our
civil war, declaring the Confederate pri
vateers pirates. These are the bloody
instructions that return to torment the
inventor.
Tom Soott’s Troubles.—The Courier-
Journal has it “from reliable sources” tiiat
Col. Tom Scott's California and Texas
Railroad Company has asked its creditors
for twelve, eighteen and twenty-four
montlis’ extension on all of its outstand
ing liabilities, the company paying seven
per cent, interest and giving its seven per
cent, land grant bonds as collaterals, with
the option to take them up at sixty per
cent, for thi settlement of the debt.”
An* Opinion fhom the Attorney Gen
era i..—.Wording to the Courier-Journal,
Attorney General Williams, in the ease of
Thomas G. Williams, wljo claimed pay
for his services as a lieutenant in the
army prior to the war, in which he went
over to the Southern side, has just given
judgment that the lieutenant’s act di
ved *d him of all his claims and trans
ferred them to the United States—the
amnesty proclamation to the'contrary
aot withstanding.
What Rascal Did It?—The villain
who has carrieatured Hon. A. H. Steph
ens putting on Pis war paint and sliarp-
eniug his tomahawk to go after Cuba is
to be punished with pillory and whippin
Physically, little Aleck is not imposing at
best, but in the paint, scalplock, blanket
and nloccasins of a Cuban brave, brand
ishing his knife and crying "war with
Cuba immediately, if not sooner,” he is a
total failure, and the rascal who puts
him “in that light” in the shop windows,
must be dealt, with.
The Atlantic Monthly, Every Saturday,
and the Young Folks, all Boston publica
tions, and heretofore the property of Jns.
R. Osgool & Co., have been sold to New
York houses, and will henceforth be issued
iu the latter city. Messrs. Him! Sc Hough
ton have bought the Monthly and Every
Saturday, and" the publishers of Scrib
ner’s Monthly the Young Folks, which
will be merged into the new illustrated
juvenile magazine, St. Nicholas. The
prices paid are regarded as advantageous
to all concerned, but the figures are not
given.
Couldn’t Stand the Fire.—Charles
T. Sherman, Judge of the Federal Court
for the Northern District of Ohio, and
brother of the Senator of that name, has
ivsigned. It will be remembered that
grave charges affer ting his integrity both
u man and official were made during the
last session of Congress, and were inves
tigated by the Ways and Means Com
mittee of the House with a view to his
impeachment- The disgust and indigna
tion excited amoag the bar and citizens
of his circuit was so great that that pen
alty would almtost certainly have been
visited upon him, and so he dodges it by
resigning. He couldn’t stand the fire.
Where thht Belles Graduate.—The
Picayune impudently says that no wo
man can set up a claim of belle hood un
til-she has passed the ordeal of New Or
leans—for there all the reigning queens
of beauty do congregate. New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore are
nowhere. In New Orleans gems of love
liness el *i--?er at this season of the year.
They come from every quarter—the vo
luptuous Anlalusian, the enticing gri-
aetfc*, the embonpoint of Holland, the
sunny tint of Italy, the bine eye of Ire
land, the red rose* o£ England, the ** lint-
white locks ” of Scotia, our own seduc
tive Americans—all warmed and mei-
ibwetTby the sun of Louisiana, and all,
of course, resting secure under the broad
*gis of Kellogg and his negroes. Ah !
the picture is overpowering—delicious -
fi-Rgrant.
The-Chief Justice.-—The last news on
this point appears to be that Senator
Conkling has declined a nomination, and
ttm matter now lies between Attorney
General Williams and Justices Miller and
Sway ire- Wehope Attorney General Wil
liams will not be nominated. His mind
■eoms tons tobe symbolized by the edge of
an old plantation hoe blade—that is to say,
it is neither very broad nor acute: and,
besides, tho constitutional provision of
"no distinction on account of color or
nuxT operates against him. Williams
can no more help canning with the nig.
ger against tfie Southern white man, in
every case, than ho can help eating. But
the very fact that.hfa intellect is meagro
and his prejudices inveterate—in short,
that he is totally unfit for the office—will
probably put him in it. He will be an
:s valuable Scroggs on the Sapreme
Bench.
Tlie Cuba Fuss.
The last phase of the Virginius ques
tion, at this date (4 p. h. Friday), seems
to be this: The American Government
has extended the grace term to Spain which
expired by limitation on tho 2Gth instant,
and both governments are now earnestly
engaged in correspondence in cypher by
cabie on the American ultimatum. In
this correspondence diplomatic interme
diaries are dispensed with, and the com
munication is direct between the Caste-
lar administration and Secretary Fish, of
the American State Department.
With what light we have on the sub
ject, our sympathies are much moved
for the Castelar Government. They are
earnestly bent on peace and goodwill,
but they have to do with a red-breeched
generation, both at home and in Cuba,
They are well nigh powerless in both
countries, and can, in fact, guarantee
little or nothing. Concession gives them
over to revolution in Spain, and if made
there cannot be enforced in Cuba, whore
even Burriel complains of being but the
tool of a sanguinary mob. The demands
of our Government, therefore, if conceded
by Spain, cannot he enforced on the of
fending Cubans, and this is the main dif
ficulty in the case. Castelar and the
Spanish republicans are ready to do ev
erything the dilemma calls for, hut are
really unable to do anything at alL
Undoubtedly it is of the first import
ance to the American Administration and
to Radicalism to bring affairs to a deter
mination before the meeting of Congress,
and this they mean to do. If there is to
be war or peace, affairs must be in a
train to compromit Congress to the one
policy or the other, or the whole
party fabric goes to pieces. If the ques
tion of war or peace comes up with a fair
latitude of choice by Congress, it would
seem to be not improbable that the best
half of the Radical party would be found
at issue with the President, while per
haps half the Democratic members, North
and South, will rally to the support of a
war programme.
The Radicals are not natural filibus
ters, but the Democrats are naturally on
that line. They believe in manifest des
tiny and the dry rot of all the effete Eu
ropean despotisms, and go in generally
for knocking them to flinders. The Rad
icals of the present day have not a grain
of genuine democracy in their carcasses.
When they talk about “manhood” and
its rights, they mentally limit all its ap
plication to the negro, and go in for ne
gro simply out of spite, to annoy, the
Southern whites. The whole clan of
them have no more genuine sympathy
with the people and popular rights than
Bismarck or the German Emperor. But
the Democrats are a people’s party, and,
left alone, would knock all the tyrannies
of the earth into the bottomless pit.
Consequently, the Democrats of the
United States, as a party, are down on the
atrocious tyranny practiced on the
helpless Cubans, and are ready to seize
hold of any apology to smite the red-
breeches with the besom of destruction.
We fear the Democrats will be the real
war party, while the Radical thieves are
only han lling this Cuba question in the
interests of mere political pelf.
If this is left an open question when
Congress meets next Monday, the fur will
fly. It will open a fierce and distracting
controversy, which the Administration
are now pulling all strings to avoid.
We need not say that a war with Spa’n
for Cuba, opens a new chapter in the his
tory of this government. The war witli
Mexico, in its consequences, immediate
and remote, on the character and destiny
of the Republic, was a most portentious
event; but the war which shall commit
this Republic to a grand colonial, pro
consular system, will be still more signal
and vital in its consequences. We will
not anticipate events.
The Shortest Cut to Specie.
The Northern papers are considerin;
“The Stoniest Cut to Specie Payments.”
That cut lies across the Florida straits in
the direction of Cuba and in adding a few
thousand millions more to the national
debt. This is in accordance with that
well-known principle that the “longest
way round is the shortest cut home”—a
principle as old and well established as
civilization itself. Its application to
finance is manifest. A commonwealth
so much in debt as to find it equally im
possible to pay interest or principal is
within a step of full and final liquidation.
If her creditors are not all satisfied they
soon will he—satisfied that they can’t get
a continental dime, and the sooner the
debt is expunged from their list of assets
and the bonds used in singeing fowls the
better.
The Revolutionary fathers extinguish
ed the continental debt in that way, and
France did the same with her revolution
ary assignats—so that, in point of fact,
the rapid increase of these debts proved
the shortest road to a metallic currency
and specie payments. Every million
added hastened the speed and abbreviated
the road to solvency. Thus the solvency
of the United* States and of France rested
on the broad basis of total insolvency,
and it was the fact that they could not
pay a mill on the dollar of their debts
that brought their obligations to par. A
debt beyond all compass or management
is per force a debt settled, so that when
we add a few thousand millions more to
the debt of the United States, we settle
the debt. Our poverty consists in owing
so little that we can just barely pay the
interest on it, if every man promptly
brings in twenty-seven cents on the dol
lar of all the cash that comes to his hand
and casts it into the treasury. Make it
a good deal larger so that every man
must bring in fifty, sixty, or a hundred
cents in the dollar to pay the interest and
the whole debt is settled in a day, and
we can begin to-morrow on a strictly
speeic circulation with no credit at all.
Manifestly, this is a shorter road to
specie payments than any which can pos
sibly be devised under the existing debt,
and thus sustains our position that the
shortest road to a gold and silver cur
rency i3 by way of Cuba and another war.
In this light it will be seen that the Car-
olinas and Louisiana are insisting on
scaling their debts too soon. Let them
go on, as they are going, and the whole
of their debt will slab off in a single
scale by one inevitable operation, and in
a moment of time.
Jack, who is at a boarding school in
the country, writes home: * Please send
me a good trap to catch a woodchuck and
a piece of carpet for me to say my pray
ers on.”
. JU8T as a Rutland man was going to
get married last week,* his other wife
walked in and muddled things.
Tlie Macon Wagon Trade-
Business Reviving.
Any stranger about noon yesterday
making a tour of our streets, would have
been favorably impressed with the bus
tle and activity observable on every
thoroughfare. Crowds of wagons almost
obstructed the way, and long rows of cot
ton bags blocked the entrance to the sev
eral' warehouses. The retail dealers
seemed all very busy and happy, and
small change flowed freely into their tills.
The extent of this wagon trade may be
estimated when we reflect that last Sat
urday as many as 500 bales .of cotton
were hauled to the city. A somewhat
careful scrutiny of the vehicles used for
that purpose, reveals the fact that they
do not average more than two bales each.
Occasionally six-mule teams, like those
of the olden fame, are encountered mov
ing the crops of more distant counties,
and carrying five or six bales at a load.
But generally two-horse wagons are ‘em
ployed, and very often a single hale is
drawn by one mule or a solitary ox, har
nessed in the mori; primitive fashion.
A large proportion of the cotton- thus
received is sold on the spot, and the
money divided between the freedman and
his employer. As may he supposed, a
goodly share of the cash thus liberated is
exchanged for clothing, n ; ck nacks, and
merchandise generally. Hen *e the wagon
trade constitutes one of the most profita
ble sources of revenue to the city, and
imparts an air of life to the streets which
does not exist in any of our seaport towns.
A general improvement in business is
noticeable, also, all over the city.
January is drawing on apace, and
planters must begin to lay in their plan
tation supplies, tools, implements and
winter outfit of every kind. But this
they cannot do under the almost univer
sal cash system which has recently been
inaugurated, and hence their cotton must
be sold, and old hoards, if any there he,
brought to light.
The wheels of commerce, therefore,
will again roll onward, and gradually we
trust, restored confidence and prosperity
gladden all hearts.
When that blissful period arrives, let a
wholesome experience teach both seller
and buyer, to avoid the credit system,
which is the fruitful source of all our
present troubles, as they would a deadly
pestilence. A return to it will infalliby
result in a repetition of the wholesale
min which has well-nigh overwhelmed
the country.
Bife Insurance Decision.
The following important decision was
recen+ly rendered by the Circuit Court
of the United States for the Western Dis
trict of Tennessee:
circuit court' of the united states for
THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE.
IF. E. Tait et al.. Heirs of Doctor Samuel
Bond, decexsed, us. New York Life Insur
ance Company. Commons, J.
A policy of insurance which indemnifies
a public enemy against loss in time of
wvr is unlawful; and where entered into
before hostilities, is abrogated when they
oc -nr. The relations it establishes are
illegal between belligerents.
Where a life-policy provides that it
shall be void upon the non-payment of
premiums within the time prescrilied
such payment is a condition precedent
time is of the essence of contract, and
there can be no recovery if punctual pay
ment is omitted.
Where the performance of a condition
precedent becomes unlawful, or by the
act of God impossible, this will not au
thorize a recovery upon the contract
without performance. Such case is dis
tinguished from those in which subse
quent impossibility and illegality are re
lied upon as a defence.
A contract of insurance, the continu
ance of which depends upon the election
and acts of the insured, is not like a debt,
the obligation of which is absolute, and
which is suspended only by war.
The relations between the members of
a corporation for mutual Insurance pro
sent all the owls and are dissolved by
war for the same reasons as those be
tween ordinary copartners.
The reasons for the dissolution of exe
cutory contracts by war are not alone
that such contracts involve inter-com
munion across the hostile lines, or that
they relate to property liable to capture;
but more especially because their execu
tion increases the resources of the enemy.
A court of equity has no authority to
decree the specific performance of an
agreement in favor of a party who has
failed to perform a condition which is of
the essence of the contract, although pre
vented by its becoming subsequently il
legal or impossible by the act of God.
A court of equity will not relie ve a party
from the effect of omitting to perform an
act, although the omission was caused by
subsequent illegality or impossibility aris.
ing from the act of God, where such act
was merely optional, and the other party
had no right to enforce its performance,
The agency of one representing an in
surance company, authorized to receive
premiums and renew policies, becomes
unlawful when the insured and insurer
become public enemies.
Humes & Posten, for plaintiff; Ran
dolph. Hammond & Jordan, for defend
ants.
Of Course. ,
Of course Beast Butler is for war, says
the Courier-Journal. He wanted us to go
to war with Great Britain for the Ala
bama claims, and now he wants ns to go
to war with Spain because she captured
vessel and executed some men who
were making war on her. Ben would get
some fine pickings if he could be put in
command of a captured city like Havana.
He could rob women and curse them, and
then banish them from his lines without
money or food, and, on his return to Mas
sachusetts, he might again become a re
spectable person, as he was after his oc
cupation of New Orleans. War would
help Ben wonderfully. The Tribune also
understands why the Beast is for war. It
says one war “gave him a major gener
al’s commission, and another might give
him a character.”
How Many were Shot?—There is a
discrepancy in the news from Cuba as
regards the number of victims. Our
consul at Santiago, on the 13th, says
the total number of executions was
fifty-three, and that there had been none
since the 8th instant.” Per contra, the
Havana Diario, of the 14th, under its
"latest news” head, says that thirty-
seven of the Virginias prisoners were
shot on the 7th, thirty-seven on the 8th,
and fifty-seven on the 10th, making one
hundred and thirty-one in all. The Di
ario gives the names of fifty-nine who
had been executed. This singular dis
crepancy is not easily accounted for.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Columbus Sun says the indications
now are that those of the factories of
that city which are now running on half
time, will very soon resume operations to
the extent of their capacity.
In Terrell Superior Court, last Monday
afternoonend most of Tuesday morning,
was spent in arguing a case in which the
consideration was thirty bushels of com
which, at seventy-five cents a bushel,
would amount to §22.50. One day’s
court expenses amount to §104.
Me. B. F. Brat’s gin-house near Leary,
Calhoun county, was burned last week,
together with seven hales cotton. Cause
—matches in the cotton.
The Dawson Journal says a negro
named Wm. Hunter, of that county,
made this year with one mule and one
hand beside himself, nine bales of cotton.
275 bushels of com, pork to do his fam
ily, peas, potatoes, etc., in abundance,
and split three thousand rails. And the
Talbotton Standard says Mr. John Pear
son, of that county, aged sixty years,
made with a twenty-five year old horse
five bales of cotton—500 pounds each—
100 bushels of com, and an abundance of
peas and potatoes.
“War Men” in Augusta.—The Con
stitutionalist says there are a “few ‘war
men’ in Augusta, hut most of them admit
that their maxim is the one so popular
with Ancient Pistol: ‘For I shall be a
sutler to the camp, and profits will ac
crue.’ "
We learn from the Fort Valley Mirror
that "old Aoeleus was on a bum again,
yesterday.” Who the deuce is he ? White
man or darkey ?
War in Dougherty County.—The
Albany News reports the following;
On Friday, morning, 21st, two negroes,
on Mr. Claig’s place, in Lee county, got
into a quarrel. Each was armed with a
shot gun. One of them becoming ter-
riblv enraged, raised his gun to shoot his
adversary, but was a little too slow, and
received the contents of one barrel in his
left side just below the heart, before he
could draw a bead. In the act of falling
he fired, and lodged shot in thehand and
head of his antagonist. Number one died
presently, and number two was supposed
to be dying .when Last heard from. On
last Friday night, Joe Wright, colored,
went to the quarters of Dr. J. P. Stevens,
in Lee county, and got into a difficulty
with Tim Robinson, a colored employe
of Dr. Stevens. Joe fired at Tim with a
pistol, and missed him. whereupon Tim
shot Joe through the heart, killing him
almost instantly.
The same paper says the Tax Collector
of Dougherty county, has collected up to
date §15,000, leaving a balance of §10,000
to he made up. About two hundred exe
cutions have been issued.
The Columbus Sun knows two men of
that city “who have §22,000 locked up in
their pockets.” Send them over here. We
have a key that just fits those sort of
locks,
Barnes & Co., of Senoia, who failed a
few days since have agreed to settle with
their creditors at fifty cents on the dol
lar—ten per cent, payable in February,
20 per cent, in November, 1874, and 20
per cent, in February, 1875.
We find the following in the Columbus
Sun of Wednesday:
Bethune Still Contests.— It has
been generally thought that General Ma
rion Bethune, Radical, of Talbot county,
who was beaten by a inaiority of 1,853 in
this district by Colonel Henry R. Harris,
Democrat, for Congressman, had decided
not to contest the election. It appears
that this is a mistake. He now contest
it on the ground that he lo3t 20,000 votes
by Democratic intimidation. The vote
polled was 97 18-100 of that of the entire
district. All General Bethune can hone
to do is to get some money from Con
gross. Intimidation is too thin. Why
he—or his party did—voted 500 Alabama
negroes in Columbus alone, and numbers
at other points along the river. Intimi-
dation is pure stuff.
Col. Wm. Doyle, a well-known citizen
of Richmond county, and for many years
sheriff or deputy sheriff of the county,
died last Monday night,
The Chronicle and Sentinel has the fol
lowing:
Akerican Generals tn Egypt.—A
letter from General A. W. Reynolds, of
the Egyptian army, addressed to Major
J. E. Willis, of Charleston, states that
the American Generals Stone and Loring,
in t’ e service of the Viceroy, have been
promoted to the rank of major general
and that General Sibley had been dis,
charged on account of physical disability.
Referring to the list of “loyl” claim
ants from Chatham, as recently published
1-y the Federal Commissioner of Claims
at Washington city, the Savannah News
says there are in all about “three hundred
and seventy-six, whose aggregate claims
amount to nearly two millions»of dollars.
This is a rather wonderful exhibit of itself,
and shows how truly loyal Chatham conn
ty was to tho Fedor *1 Government during
the war. But what is stranger about
this remarkable document, is the number
of negroes who lost fortunes by the “di
does” of their Yankee friends. With the
assistance of a county official, who is
pretty well posted as to the status of
nearly every one in the county, we went
over this list and ascertained that of the
three hundred and seventy-six claimants,
about eighty-seven are white, whose
claims approximate in the neighborhood
af §300,000, leaving two hundred and
ninety-three colored claimants for nearly
a million of dollars. If these claims be
granted, and if they are just, it will estab
lish a strong point against the many lies
that have been manufactured concerning
the institution o? slavery. There is no
doubt that the greater portion of these
colored claimants wer- slaves at the time,
and if such a small nnnber were enabled
to accumulate such a large amount of
property as is claimed, it would ccrtaiuly
prove thatthey werenot so oppressed, etc.,
as our tender-hearted Northern brethren
have sought to make us believe.”
The same paper says money in that
market is still very scarce, at rates ruling
from 12 to 24 per cent. Securities very
dull. “For Central railroad stock G8 to
69 is bid, while 72 is asked, there being
great uncertainty about the usual De
cember dividend, which has a marked in
fluence. Bonds of the favorite classes
have ruled strong with moderate offer
ings, city of Savannah and State of Geor
gia being mostlyin request. Thd Atlan
tic and Gulf Railroad Company has sus
pended the payment of interest on their
guaranteed stock, but all coupons of
mortgage bonis on the road and its
branches have been punctually met. The
stock is purely nominal.”
How Gin Machinery Ionites.—Under
this head a correspondent of the Colum
bus Sun refutes the theory advanced by
Prof. Broun that the probable cause of
the horning of so many gin-houses is at
tributable to friction from tho rubber
hand which generates electricity, by the
statement that the speed of horse power
gins is not sufficient to generate elec
tricity sufficient to set anything on fire,
and goes on to say:
Every observant farmer knows that the
band never gets warm. Not so. however,
with the gudgeons of the saw and brush;
th»y revolve fifty times whilst the band
wheel revolves once. Right here lies the
danger, and h-.ro the eeret cause of so
many gin-houses being burnt. It is in the
use # of improper .lubricating materials.
The gudgeona of the saw and the brush
should be lubricated with nothing but tal- ]
low, pure and unadulterated; any other very fine material. His watch, which
substance is very dangerous, as I know was an ordinary silver watch, he desired
by actual experience. The gudgeon of to be given to Mr. W. L. Clifton, also a
the brush demands the closest attention, 1 fellow-prisoner and a comrade. His
as particles of lint will accumulate around , crockery, glass-ware, spoons and a fork
the gudgeon and work their way down (the latter were of silver) he bequeathed
until they reach the hoxin«r, and of course to Aunt Eliza Hill. This Eliza Hill is
come in direct contact with the lubricat- J an old negro woman, who is well known
ing material, and if any other substance j about the .jail, and who did Malone’s
be used but tallow, ignition will take j cooking and washing. Malone never
place. For five years my practice has lived on the prison fare. He had his
SI — N - I _ Florida News."
Peace Assured-The War Flurry Over' * BDrr -—The Apalachicola
. j 14fch has this item ■ -m,! ^ mes ofth.
The dispatches of yesterday noon put Gleason arrived Mond™ ho ° ner1 ^
an end to t’e war excitement-calmed Old Tampa with 2600/
been to personally inspect each bos every
morning, and keep them full of the best
tallow to be found in the market. Dur
ing the ginning season I never permit my
gin to run without being present. If
every farmer in Georgia will personally
supervise his ginning, and use nothing
but tallow for lubricating the gudgeons,
you will hear of no more gin-houses be
ing burnt in Georgia from unaccountable
causes.
The Fort Valley Mirror reports the
killing of Coot Joiner, a few miles from
Butler, last week, by Perk Williamson
under the following circumstances
Joiner and a man named Worsham met
at Williamson’s still-house, and after
getting pretty drunk attempted to make
an old man named Collins drink with
them. He refused, and they 3wore they
would kill him, which induced William
son to take him to the rear of the still-
house and get him off. When William'
son returned Joiner and Worsham told
him he had to die in Collins’ place, and
drawing tfieir knives ordered - him to get
down on his knees in front of them and
pray to God to forgive him all the sins
he had committed, which he did to the
best of his ability. He begged and im
plored them not to kill him, as he had
treated them kindly antf never did them
any harm in his life, and furthermore he
was unarmed and could offer no resist
ance. Worsham took compassion on him
and begged Joiner to give him fifteen or
twenty minutes to go to his house (dis
tant about two hundred yards) and tell
his trite good-bye, which Joiner finally
agreed to. When Mr. Williamson got to
his house he did not tell his wife of the
trouble he had got into with Joiner and
Worsham, but procured his double-bar
reled shot-gun, and started back to the
still. When about half way between
the house and still he heard them coming
up the road, and, to avoid a difficulty,
secreted himself in the woods by the
roadside, hoping they would pass by and
not discover him. But Worsham hap,
pened to see him and exclaimed to Joiner,
“There’s the d-^d 3—n of a —or words
to that effect. Williamson stepped out
into the road and told the men he did not
want to have a difficulty, and begged
them not to advance on him, as he would
certainly hurt them. Joiner continued
to approach him with knife drawn, swear
ing that he would kill him. When in
six or eight feet. Williamson discharged
his gun, putting the load of shot in the
lower part of the abdomen. Henry Wor
sham fled, and Williamson took the
wounded man in his arms and carried
him to the house. Joiner cursed him the
whole time he was dying. He lived
about three hours. Mr. Williamson sad
died his horse and role several miles to
the residence of the young man’s father,
and told him he had killed his son, and
then went to Butler and gave himself up
to the sheriff.
The Atlanta Constitution, of yesterday
fnrn shes the following particulars of thr
closing scenes in the life of Milton Ma
lone, whose suicide, on Thursday night,
wa3 announced yesterday morning:
The closing particulars are about these
General Gartrell, General Colquitt and
others, visited him in his cell. During
the afternoon he directed permission to
E. Y. Clarke, of the Constitution, an
others, to be present at his death. About
sunset he parted with his father and
mother. Rev. Dr Wills was present durin
the afterpoon—so also some of the Sister.-
of Mercy. Iu the tnorniug an anonymous
letter, stating a man by natneof Neal saw
the killing and would testify Malone did it
in .self-defense, was received by him. This
Malone sent to the Governor with an affi
davit. Nothing unusual occurred till ten
minutes to 11 o’clock last night, when
the adverse answer of the Governor was
taken into his cell by Captain John Wise,
He was walking about the room smoking
ids pipe. Upon receiving it he held it a
moment without reading it. Then toss-
ing it aside he’ remarked to Wise, "it’s
too late, these things are nothing to me
now; I wish you had come ten minutes
before, and, had yon come then, you
would have caught me taking my dose,
You searched well but I had it here;”
opening! he breast of his under shirt, -n
the pleat or lining, next to the skin. At
the same time ha handed a little note to
Wise, which reads as follows: “How
badly fooled so many will be to-day, the
28th. Judge II. and all of his blood-suck
ing clan will be fooled. This little paper
I have worn round my neck for week--
and it will not let the rope take
its place. John, you looked as well
as you knew how, but I told you I was
not fool enough to be caught. Milt.'
These words were evidently written
upon tlie paper in which morphine had
been wrapped. Wise at once dispatched
for Dr. J. P. Logan, who arrived about
Hi o’clock. Dr. Willis Westmoreland
was also sent after, and arrived a half
hour later.- Efforts were at once made to
give Malone some medicine, which he,
however, resisted so violently that no
success was had. Malono knocked a glass
rom the hand of Hinton, one of the
guards, and declared that, though he
wasn’t strong, he would make them feel
it, “if I get my teeth upon .von.” Upon
consultation the doctors decided that,
considering the time elapsed since taking
the poison, the strength manifested by
him and other reasons, that danger was
past and he would recover. They then
left. About 3 o’clock he was heard to
call for Wise, and the guard J. W. Ow^n
saying that Wise had gone to bed,
Malone said “it is not important. I only
want to tell John Wise that I have
taken my second dose.” Shortly after, he
was heard speaking to his little terrie dog,
and these were the last words he was
heard to utter: “Jamp up into my bed,
if you want to.” A little later, the guard
discovered that he was apparently in a
stupor, and called up Captain An ierson.
Upon examination this was found to be
true, and Dr. Logan was again sent for,
arriving about daylight. Antidotes were
quickly administered, but Malone con
tinued in a state of stupefaction gasping
for breath till four minutes to 11 o'clock,
when the pulse stopped and Malone lay
dead. On Thursday night, between nine
and ten o’clock, Malone sent a message
to John Wise, the jailor, saying that he
desired to see him. This was long before
it was thought that he either had any
poison npon his person, or even contem
plated suicide. Wise went immediately
to the cell, and found him, as usual,
pacing nervously up nnd down, with
iis pipe in his mouth. Jim Hinton, one
of the guard, was also present during
this interview. Malone then delivered to
Wise the followin'' nuncupative will. He
stated to Wise that he fir=t desired his
little dog to be given to “ Sister Regiss.”
We take occasion to state here that this
Sister Regiss ” is one of a number of
Sisters of Mercy who have frequently vis
ited Malone during his imprisonment.
We give her name as nearly as it was re
membered at the jail. The dog fa a small
black and tan ter-ter. It was given to
Malone by Wise some time in last Febru
ary, and has remained with him ever
since in bis cell. The greatest attach
ment existed between this dog and his
unfortunate master. In speaking of him 1
the tears were standing in Malone’s eyes,
while in delivering no other part of the
will did he exhibit the slightest feeling.
Since the death of its master, the littl;
dog has been whining unceasingly an i
hunting for him through the jail. H 1
mattress and blankets he desired to be
given to Mr. Harry Lewis, a felliw.
prisoner, with whom he bad be n
very intimate. The blanket w ;
something of a 1 eque t, as it
was
meals sent to him regularly. His sheets,
towels, clothing, of which he was well
provided, and also his trunk, he told
Wise to send directly to his parents. Mr.
Wise has faithfully observed the re
quests. The trunk and contents were
sent off at four o’clock yesterday after
noon to the residence of Mr. DeWitt Sey
mour, on Pryor street, where his parents
are staying. All of Malone’s other lega
cies were also sent off during the after
noon, except the little dog. Yesterday
afternoon Wise received, through Colonel
W. H. Betts, a message from Malone’s
afflicted father, in which the lat
ter instructed him to carry out the
son’s will to the very letter. After the
inquest had been completed the body was
washed and neatly dressed in a full suit
of black taken from the trunk. A fine
coffin was furnished by his friends here,
into which the body was placed, and de
livered to Mr. Betts about three o’clock.
The coffin was provided with a solid sil
ver plate, upon which was inscribed
“Milton Malone, born in Columbus, Ga.,
in 1842; died in Atlanta, Ga., November
.28, 1873.” This plate was furnished by
Mr. Seymour, who, we learn, is an old
family friend of the Malones. The body
was taken to Columbus on last night’s
train. How he obtained morphine is an
unsettled question. In a conversation he
stated that his parents did not give it to
him.
War has actually broken out in Butts
county. The Indian Spring Echo says,
at a sale in the upper part of the county
last week there was a general free fight,
in which sixty warriors of various de
grees of benzineism took part. Pistols,
knives, sticks, rocks and yelling were the
principal weapons used, but nobody was
either killed or wounded.
Mr. W. Livingston, a popular hotel
keeper at Newton, Baker county, died
last Monday.
We clip these items from the last Cuth-
bert Appeal:
Captured.—John Hammock, reported
in our last as having escaped from the
officers who arrested him for burning Mrs.
Thomas’ residence in Quitman county,
has been captured and is now in jail in
Georgetown.
Burglary.—On Sunday night last the
residence of Mr. Ben Davis, near this
place, was entered by a couple of negroes,
his safe unlocked and about §1,000 in gold
carried away. The negroes were arrest
ed, and finally produced some §600 of the
precious metal, with tlie promise of bring
ing forth the remainder if allowed to go
to a neighbor’s house where they had de
posited it. One of them was placed in
charge of another negro and started after
the aforesaid deposit. Of course he has
not been heard of since. Those in wait
ing for his return,' becoming restless at
his protracted absence, left the other
thief in charge of another negro and
went to look up the absentee. The
mystery was soon solved—the bird had
down with his money. The party ini
mediately returned home, thinking they
had one of the thieving scoundrels, and
that he would be made to suffer the pen
ilties of the law. But upon their return
were somewhat surprised to learn the
other prisoner had "stepped out for
niiiute.” These negroes have been em
ployed on Mr. Davis’ plantation the pa
year, and were thoroughly posted as to
! he whereabouts of this money.
Mr. Early Varner, an old citizen of
Quitman county, died last week.
The La Grange Reporter says the gin
house of Mr. L. L. Hardy, ten miles from
town, was burned last night week, to
gether with a fine new gin and sixteen
bales of cotton.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch say:*, the
best quality of Georgia raised syrup is
selling in that market at from forty to
fifty-five cents per gallon, by the barrel,
From the same paper we get the fol
lowing
TwA Young Men Shot at and One
Wounded.—Sunday night last as Lee
Thompson and Albert Bagby were re'
turning from town to their home on Pine
Level, they were fired upon from a fence
comer near Tanyard branch. The ball
penetrated the left thigh of Albert Bag-
hy, and made a painful flesh wound.
The would-be assassin immediately fled
down the branch, and up to this writing
the young men have not been able to as
certain who shot at them, or what motive
prompted him to do the dastardly act.
Off for Liberia.—Saturday morning
last a squad of freedmen and their fam-
il'es, numbering thirty to forty, placed
themselves in charge of a white man and
took the.cars at this place. -They are
emigrants for Liberia, and are to take a
steamer from Savannah to New York,
where they will embark for Liberia with
a large number of others going from the
South to that, country. Among the
prominent. egroe; vzas Cmsar Bro-fri, who
took his family. We are told this freed
man was doing well on' a plantation
owned by Messrs. John H. Pate and R.
T. Coley, on the Dooly and Pula-ki line.
He had made a first-rate crop; an 1 would
have soon owned tho place, stock, etc.
One Farmer All Right.—The present
trouble has caused many a poor farmer,
to have his com crib and cotton house'
levied on and nailed up by officers of the
law, bat there was one nTtown the other
day that had been sued, that wav last
year, and ho was determined to guard
against it this year. So when ho gathered
his crops he put them in houses as usual,
and then took his axe and knocked all
the boards off the top, tore down the
door, and pushed out the gable end. He
swore he would put them to some trouble
this time to lock up his crops and “level”
on them.
A correspondent of the Gainesville
Eagle who has lately visited Union and
Towns counties was surprised to see well
matured cotton under the shadow of Blue.
Ridge Mountain, and was informed that
the yield was a little more than one pound
of tint from three pounds of seed. White
county will make fifty bales this year
where there had never been a bale raised
before. The correspondent also saw §50
worth of “wild hay” grown upon one
acre—also “a 16 acre field, reaching al
most to the top of Boll mountain, that
yielded 600 bushels of com, and at the
base of this mountain wo were hospitably
entertained by a farmer, who was stall-
feeding about 60 head of cattle, 14 of
which would net' 600 pounds each.”
Newspaper Postage.
The Postmaster-General, in his annual
report, estimates that a third of the pos
tage on newspapers is not collected. His
remedy for this loss to the Department is
the prepayment of postage by the quarter.
To avoid trouble and simplify this pre
payment he proposes that publishers of
newspapers shall, under oath, state the
number of papers that are sent from their
respective offices, and pay at the begin
ning of each quarter for the number bo
sworn to.
The Richmond Dispatch thinks much
work for the postmasters entailed by the
above system could be avoided by adopt
ing a plan which it suggested some time
since, and which was simply to weigh to
gether-all the packages of papers from
each office and then prepay them by
weight—the standard of weight for each
Who Projected the Atlantic
and Great Western Canal?
Charlestown, W. Va., )
November 24,1873. >
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I have
heard it said that within twenty years
Georgia would build a monument to'the
man who projected the Atlantic and
Great Western Canal, and more t.lvm one
has been erroneously accredited with its
conception.* Here I call"your attention
to the fact that all the honor is due to
my gifted friend. Mr. Julien Ransone,
of Early county.
In 1869, early in February, if my mem
ory serves me,.you printed a letter from
him which you introduced as a “bold and
original proposition,” and at the time
, - , . , - one °f the leading minds of your State
22* WeighmS a predicted that the suggestion would
the Wdrod lnn^T 6 ?^ 111 ? v tllem by I eventuall J <*> more to develop her re-
- „ . - . . the hundred, and the fractional hundreds 1 sources than all the schemes then before
unusually heavy, and nude of, of pounds,and taxing them accordingly 1 the publio. J. M^M.
the “exuberant belligerency and patriot
ism of the nation”—and consigned the
iron pots of Secretary Robeson to inac
tivity and rust again. In the quiet se
clusion of some naval retreat, they will
lie motionless or swing slowly at their an
chors upon the sleepy and oozy current
of the tides, and gather' again on their
black hulls, by slow accumulation, the
customary tribute of scum, moss, seaweed
and barnacles.
There is a manifest discrepancy in the
Washington and Madrid reports of the
concessions mode by Spain in settlement
of the controversy. The former assert
that Spain ha3 agreed to the restoration
of tiie Virginius and the surviving offi
cers and crew, and provision for the fam
ilies of the slain captives—a salute to the
insulted “Old Flag” next Christmas, and
the trial and punishment of the officers
w’-o perpetrated jhe horrible butchery.
The Madrid statement of the conces-
cession is a delivery of the ship and cap
tives, leaving the question whether the
Spanish seizure was legal to the arbitra
tion of a mixed commission, and, as de
pendent on that point, the matter of
damages to be paid to the relatives or
families of the slain captives. It says
nothing about “saluting the old flag
on Christmas, and doubtless, if any stip
ulation was made for this ceremonial,
this will also be dependent on the decis
ion of the tribunal of arbitration, whether
the Virginius was rightfully captured.
Nothing, moreover, is said about trying
and punishing the Spanish officers con
cerned in the butchery. The discrep
ancies, in short, are material and im
portant.
The cause of justice would be better
served by shooting a score or two of
those red-breeched and bloody-minded
Spanish butchera than in firing a thou
sand salutes to the old flag.
However, the main point achieved is
escape from war, or rather escape from
the beginning of the acquisition of for
eign colonial dependencies. This has
been at least deferred. Doubtless it will
come in time; but come when it may, it
will poison every fountain of the public
administration hopelessly. It will revo
lutionize beyond recall the whole charac
ter of the government. _ , ..
As at present constituted, it may be
that'the carnival of force, fraud, violence
and corruption which has been going on
in this country since 1861, is but an
episode in its history; and the country
may, one of these days come back to hon
est, pure and constitutional administration
again. Let us hope so. But when we set
out- on a career of foreign annexations
with horde.s of satraps and immense fleets
and standing armies to guard our acqui
sitions, and the scum and offseouring of
every k'a-’z •’ u'aUon, tongue and people
make up our 0 ^ /. -n ’tip, old-fashioned re-
public'uism. popular" government and
civil libuz.j* ----- - -T-e’l put on their hats
and bid us adieu. We judge the conclu
sion of the negotiation with Spain has
put off this consummation eight or ten
years at least, aad perhaps more—who
knows. If the government ever comes
back to morality, sense, reason and pa
triotism, they may voluntary shnn the
abyss of death opened in the annexation
of these islands of the seas.
quantity of bananas.
Most Melancholy.
The only sad thought that,obtrudes
itself upon the general gratification.and
thankfulness at the escape of the country
from the evils of war is, that so much
thrilling Congressional eloquence will be
lost to history and an admiring world.
There were, at a molerate calculation, at
least two hundred and ninety, of the two
hundred and ninety-two members of the
lower house, and seventy of the seventy-
jour senators, charged to the lips, brim-
full of “thoughts that breathe and words
that burn,” to be avalanched upon -the
country next week; but who are now,
alas! doomed to hitter 1st disappoint
ment. The child is not to be bom—the
national bird fa to be allowed to rest in
peace a little while longer. 'What a mel
ancholy reflection, to be sure. We sym
pathize with’the sufferers, hut we sup
pose the country can st-ind it. It almost
moves U3 to tears, though, to think of the
anguish of some of the disappointed ora
tors. Such an opportunity for gush-
such an opening for poppycock—such a
good excuse for slopping over, has never
been held so near the lips of the average
American demagogue, -Only to be rudely
snatched away. We shall not be sur
prised to hear that Congress insists npon
indemnity from Spain for acceding to the
demands of the Federal Government, nnd
thus spoiling their opportunity for wrap
ping themselves in the American flag, and
going to glory on the wings of the Amer
ican eagle.
Trade in New York.
The Philadelphia Ledger’s New York
letter gives some encouraging reports of
the retail trade revival in New York.
The letter says: "City trade, as regards
the retailers, has been, on the whole,
rather more satisfactory last week than
during its predecessor. People are less
inclined to hoard money than they were
during the panic, while the general
shrinkage in values presents new tempt
ations to buy. As a result of the mark
ing down of prices by the leading houses,
there is everywhere a recognition of
lower prices, particularly for drygoods,
and this attracts custom. There mav be
no profits resulting, but if there are no
losses shopkeepers consider that they are
aoinsj welL As the holidays draw near
J. JJ. 1
owner, reports orange and J
severely injured by the
ness along the coast.” ’ a ° I
The Palatka Herald says tW .
since the early settlement of tW°N
fry, has the fruit prospect H
flattering. From aU sections of
Johns, Indian and Halifax rive« H
from the interior portions of
da. we have most glowing aecouTtsJa'
bountiful yield of the oran
lemon, guava and shaddock , ’
quality and flavor is almost'nil?*
pronounced to be superior in . *
degree. “
During last month the
United States Land Office K 3of «»
was active. There were 65
entries covering 6,857 acres : a^d^ 1
tiers made proof of five yearwf 4 ^
and cultivation of an area of
and a fraction, makin-* 11 7 n- ’' W8 to es
posed of during the month 0 ^^
On the 5th inst., the Cubans »t p
West celebrated the birth-day 0 f S*
Carlos Manuel Cespedes byamL,;*
display of flags, banners, speST^
in honor of their patriot president.’ ’
The Key West dispatch says • «w v
han commenced at Fort Tayfar, and J
thirty-five men are engaged at
It is supposed that a large force
ers will be brought out from the w
on the next steamer.”
Return of Governor Habt-ti,
Floridian says Governor Han
turned to the Capital on Saturday ev™
ing last by special train from Jacfc* a '
ville, and has resumed the duties of pi
Executive office. We understand, W
ever, that he is quite unwell and will to*
Imps be compelled to return to Jacfc^’
ville for further relaxation and rest.
• 6a J 8 Tallahassee Flaridinn
is selling m this market at 6} to 7Zt,
by the hog-panic prices. Turkevs Js
last week at §1 50 per pair. Beef
at retail, and mutton keen up we U t £
two former at 12* and the latter at n
cents per pound.
A tax-payers’ meeting was he’d is
Madison last Saturday week and a con
mittee of twenty-five citizens appointed
to petition the Governor to postpone the
collection of this year’s taxes.
Gov. Smith’s Refusal to Pardon
’ Malone.
Gov. Smith responded on Wednesday
to the petition asking a pardon for Mil-
ton Malone, in a letter to Messrs. W. A.
Hawkins, D. P. Hill, and Gartrell i Ste
phens, Malone’s attorneys. Most of his
letter is devoted to an examination of the
evidence as bearing out the plea of in
sanity advanced by the counsel, which
the Governor does not think at all suffi.
cientifor that purpose. He goes over the
whole ground thoroughly, and fails to
find any te itimony strong enough to in-
duce him to accept the plea as sufficient
to warrant executive clemency. The Gov
ernor closes his communication as fol
lows:
In .closing this communication I can
not* refrain from expressing the pain it
gives me to refuse the prayer of the ap
plicant in this case. But after a most
careful and protracted examination of all
thq evidence my mind is left without a
doubt, even as to the justice of his sen
tence. He has been duly, and, in my
judgment, properly convicted of a great
crime against the public, and the lav
must’ be vindicated. With my convic
tions of duty, any attempt, upon my part,
to interfere with the prompt execution of
the judgment of the law in this case
would be a deliberate betrayal of the con
fidence reposed in me by the people. I
fully appreciate the humane feelings
which has prompted so many estimable
citizens to unite in a petition for the ex
ercise of Executive clemency in this case.
But it fa.my duty to be influenced in my
offi-ial conduct by such considerations
only, a-? should control the action of a
magistrate, nnd in this, as in all other
cases, I must act with sole reference to
the good of the public.
The application for Executive clemency
is refused.
Troubles of the Scallawag “Boier*
nor” of South Carolina—Foster
Blodgett Mixed up With Them.
The Charleston News and Courier
prints a letter from its Columbia corres
pondent concerning a late row between
Moses, scallawag, and so-called Governor
of South Carolina, and one Neagle, a no
torious carpet-bagger and ex-office-holder,
in which Foster Blodgett plays a some
what conspicuous part. He says:
During the campaign of 1872, Moses
borrowed from Foster Blodgett, now of
Newberry, sundry amounts of money, and
gave therefor sundry notes endorsed by J.
L. Neagle. The notes were due last spring
or winter. In order to quiet Blodgett ana
prevent a pressure of the collection of ttw
notes, Moses of his own accord intimated
to Blodgett that his (Blodgett’s) son was a
suitable man. for the place of county
treasurer of Newberry, and that he meant
to appoint him to the position. Upon
this understanding Blodgett al"wed
the notes to stand over. But Moses
did not stand up to his agreement, and
Blodgett placed the notes in suit and
recovered judgment. Last week the levy
was ordered, and Moses having noviume
effects the sheriff attached Neagle’9 bridge.
which is the best paying property tunt
the ex comptroller owns. Thereupon t
latter became quite indignant, and ton?
about three sheets in the wind, swore
eternal vengeance against Moses, and de
clared that he would kill him unless t
money was immediately paid and to
levy npon his bridge released.
were poor,” said Neagle, “and could n -
pay his debts, I would not grumble mo
would meet these obligations, but he n
got as much or more property than I hav ,
and I will not be swindled in any sn
manner. He has to stop this levy to my
property, or I will stop his life.”
John Patterson hearing these remal ^_
and feeling a warm interest iu t * ie
tinued existence of the Governor c.
down to the executive office and sent
a hurried note demanding imuieJiatec ^
ference. He was promptly admitted an
told Moses the story as it was, aba ’
the jewelers and dealers in fancy goods
report business a little more active, nothing, and declaring that Neagle worid
though customers all expect an abat;- surely kill the Governor unless the levy
ment in pncee. - lV ^ rr -* - - coia
was immediately stopped. “Why,
Moses, tremulous with apprehension,
will fix it all right if he will only S ive
a little time. Patterson, can’t you go• v
and see Neagle and quiet him a •
Go and see him,” said Patterson, n L
*;none
shoot
of that for me—he would as soon
me as yoa, and I am not going to |*jrj
ardize my carcass in any such way,
1 would advise you not to y 0UI Ld
outside of your office until you have
this matter arranged.” Whereof*
Moses, it is said, slipped out of the •
way of the State-house, and, driving V
idly home, got Mrs. Moses, in whose n
all of his property stands, to allow
levy to be made as against her.
An old bachelor who raises hogs
lives alone near the Golden Gate rs- ’
San Francisco, fell into his well the 0
day. Although not much hurt he 1 1
not get out, and he shouted in vam ^
out obtaining assistance. Th e er
morning the carrier wbo left his P P.,
thought he heard a call, but did not '
to investigate it, and it was not nm’ 1
returned the following morning tna
prisoner was found and rescued, __
much exhausted but not beyond reco erj