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MACOX MVT25 1875
Personal.
We had the pleasure yesterday of
meeting Col. A. E. Lamar, of Savannah,
who was making a short call on his way
to Columbus. He seems to thrive upon
his laborious work of wrestling, as State’s
officer, with the law-breakers of the Sa
vannah circuit, whom he generally, as we
see from the papers, succeeds in tripping
np. It does not, however, seem natural
to ns to think of him other than as a
journalist who has done some of the most
brilliant as well as effective work ever
known in the newspaper history of the
country, and we shall not be altogether
satisfied until he is in ranks again.
We see his name mentioned very prom
inently in many representative journals
of the South in connection with the Clerk
ship of the next Federal House of Repre
sentatives ; and os the West and North
will have the Speaker, his selection as
Clerk seems to ns eminently apropos. No
man in Georgia or the South would
bring to the discharge of the duties of
that position greater ability or experi
ence, his training as Cleric of the Con
federate House of Representatives having
Admirably fitted him for the instant mas
tering and ready performance of all its
requirements. Ho would reflect high
Credit both upon the party and his State,
if elected. He has served both with a
zeal, capacity and fidelity that emphatic
ally deserves, and we earnestly trust will
receive this recognition.
liong-Winded.
The counsel for Hr. Beecher expect to
occupy five days in their summing up
and speeches in behalf of their reverend
client. A hundred years’ orating could
not clear his skirts from the leprosy of
sin, it matters not what the verdict of
the jury may be. The lawyer for free-
love Tilton, on the other side, Mr. Beach,
will begin his argument on Monday,
May 26tb, but don’t know bow long it
will take. "He never could tell how
long he was going to speak until he got
at it." He is said to be a whole team
before the jury, and gifted with extraor
dinary powers of invective and sarcasm.
When all is over wo hope not a grease
spot will remain of either of the liti
gants. They have been weighed in the
balances of public opinion and found
sadly wanting in truth, charity and piety.
Mow let the fate of the Kilkenny cats be
theirs.
A New Yoke correspondent of the Buf
falo Commercial Advertiser writes: The
number of Protestant young ladies of el
evated social position who have volunta
rily embraced the Roman Catholic reli
gion of late in marrying has created con
siderable comment and given life to a
sort of genteel slang, expressed in two
words—"Catholic brides.” There have
been many stories told of determined
daughters and heart-broken mothers and
fathers, and the stories were not without
their effect. Since Easter four New York
ladies have become Catholics in order to
become wives; and Colonel Smith, who
married a daughter of the late Horace
Greeley on Saturday, became a member
of the Church of Romo on the solicitation
of his fiancee. Then a niece of W. B.
Astor married a Catholic; so did Miss
Appleton, the daughter of the publisher:
Miss Niles, who married Consul General
Badeau last week; and Miss Morgan,
who married a Spaniard. Love, they say,
is blind, and Cupid knows no religion.
Nevertheless, these convert marriages
have caused the corner-stone of society
to shake perceptibly, and the rejoicing
among the archbsihop3 and priests is
only surpassed by the chagrin of minis
ters and rectors.
An Iemense and Opulent Jewish
Teitple and Congeeoation.—In New
York, the Temple Emanuel has 336 pew-
holders and 123 seat-holders. The con
gregation numbers 2,500persons. In the
religious school connected with it there
aro 304 pupils, 181 of whom are in the
Hebrew department. Tho Rabbi, Rev.
Dr. G. Gottheil, receives a salary of
$8,000, and tho appraised value of the
pews is $493,865. The expenses thopast
year amounted to $37,760, which include
salaries, choir and organ, and outlay for
school.
Tub Eufaula Timet states that Mr. C.
P. Wheeler, postmaster at that place, has
been suspended or removed from that
position on charges made against him at
Washington by tho notorious E. M. Keils.
The Times is perfectly satisfied the
charges aro purely malicious, os Mr.
Wheeler has always refused to co-operate
with Keils in his political deviltry. We,
on our part, are "perfectly satisfied”
that Mr. Wheeler is all right. Keils’
charge that ho isn’t is conclusive evi
dence of his good character and conduct.
A batuzb singular scene occurred at
tho depot Friday afternoon. A lady was
going by when a gentleman stepped out
and said to her: "How’d do ?” extending
his hand and smiling cheerfully. "I beg
pardon,” said she, looking hard at him,
"you Lave the advantage of me.” “Why,
don’t you know me 9” ho asked, amazed.
"I can’t remember you,” she said. “Why,
I used to bo your.husband—John Augus
tus Henderson, you know.” Sho remem
bered him.—Danbury News.
On Monday afternoon a horrible out
rage and murder wsb committed near
Trappe, Pa., a small village, a young girl
named Whitby, being tho victim. Her
body was found under a table, her cars
were tom off and her head terribly beaten.
A tramp was seen in the vicinity, and it
is supposed the crime wa3 committed by
him.
The administration organs ore puf
fing our President for having smelled the
whisky frauds in advance of h?* subor
dinates. Wo don’t question this. .If
Ulysses has a nose for anything it is a
nose for whisky. Perhaps this accounts
for its late blushing look. It shrinks
painfnlly from praise.—The Capital.
Make Twain is said to make a great
deal of money out of the play of the
" Gilded Age.” His interest in it is re
ported to yield $700 a week on the av
erage.
Tee latest style of gentlemen’s cravat
bow has an inner elastic, which on being
pulled brings down the external ribbon
and reveals the "true inwardness" in the
shape of a motto, boldly printed on a
white card, "You know yon lie." It is
likely to prove popular with parties to
The Convention of Stockholders
the Macon and Brunswick Ball -
road.
Quite a respectable number of those
who had planked down their dollars for
tiiia enterprise, and labored in its behalf
for fifteen years, assembled in the City
TTall yesterday to look their difficulties
in tho face.
The full proceedings will bo found
elsewhere, in the report of tbo secretary.
Mayor Huff presided, and the principal
speakers were ex-President Hazlehurst
and Col. Whittle.
The former declared that the road, as
it now stands, hemmed in from all
northern and western connections, and
solely dependent npon local business, can
never be made a profitable investment.
It must have an unembarrassed outlet
to the great North and West, and the
connections to accomplish this desidera
tum would have to be constructed by the
purchasers. He averred that his faith in
tho ultimate success of tho undertaking
was as great, or greater than at its first
inception, but it must be extended to be
profitable.
Col. Hazlehurst successfully vindicated
himself and associates from tho charges
of fraud, corruption, etc., which had been
bruited abroad, and asserted that even
had the State donated at the outset to
the enterprise, the sum for which she
gave her endorsement, it was already
repaid in the greatly enhanced taxable
values of a neglected section, which would
never have been developed by private
enterprise.
Cochran, Eastman, and other points on
the line of road were as flourishing and
progressive as any villages on the South
western or Central railroads. And yet,
provious to the building of the road,
whole counties, such os Appling, whose
wild lands were now assessed at fifty.
cents per acre, paid hut the merest trifle
into the public treasury.
The State had given $1,000,000 to the
Gulf road, and bnilt the Western and At
lantic at an enormous outlay, afterwards
expending many millions more to keep
it np, and yet we hear no complaint of
fraud in the premises. He could lay his
hand on his breast and solemnly asseve
rate that he had been faithful to his
trusts, and did his best, though knowing
fnTI well, that having failed, his prestige
and influence were gone. Ho would now
announce that shattered in health as he
was, and believing that he could render
no active service to the enterprise, in no
possible event would ho consent to hold
office again.
Colonel Whittle, who succeeded him,
said it was patent that the Georgia stock
holders, or at least ho himself had no
more money to contribute, but they were
anxious that the road should not fall
through, and believed that turo outlets to
the sea were essential to the prosperity of
Macon. Therefore ho moved the appoint
ment of the committee referred to in the
proceedings of the meeting, whose duties
are there set forth.
Tho Colonel’s speech was sensible, pa
triotic, and to the point.
The Mayor will shortly announce the
names of the nino gentlemen who will
compose the committee.
On the whole, we cannot see that any
thing definite was accomplished by the
convention, but tho committee will at
least be impowered to watch the situa
tion, and take any action which may he
expedient or practicable for the advance
ment of the interests of the stockholders,
and the preservation and extension of
tho road. No opinion was expressed
concerning the proposed injunction
against the sale of the road in the TJ. S.
District Court, but outside, many seem to
think that the Governor will proceed with
the sale in defiance of all interference.
That the Macon and Brunswick Rail
road will bo continued in operation there
is but little doubt. To abandon it, would
inflict a fatal blow upon a large and im
proving portion of the State, and lead to
serious internal disturbance.
Governor Smith, to Grant’s Sec
rctary of State.
Elsewhero wo copy from the Chronicle
and Sentinel, of Wednesday, an admirable
letter written more than a year ago by
Governor Smith to the Hon. Hamilton
Fish, Secretary of State. Why it first
see3 the light, now, is explained os
follows by our cotemporary:
Some days since one of the editors of
the Chronicle and Sentinel was in Atlanta,
and hearing of tho existence of a letter
from Governor Smith to the Secretary of
State on the subject of the “test oath”
and the centennial, inquired of the Gov
ernor as to tho correctness of the report.
The Governor then informed him of tho
circumstances under which tho letter
had been written, and showed him a cony
of tho docamcnt. When asked why 'it
had not been made public, the Governor
replied that he had declined to give it to
the press becauso he was fearful that
hi3 motives might bo misconstrued, and
that it might furnish some one with a
pretext for the assertion that the letter
was intended to promote his claims
upon some public office. Upon his vis
itor insisting that tho letter was prop
erly the property of the people of Geor
gia, and that the citizens of the State
had a right to know of its contents,
Governor Smith finally consented to fur
nish the Chronicle and Sentinel with a
copy for publication. These aro briefly
the circumstances which havo led to tho
appearance of the letter so long after it
was written.
We are assured that every Georgian
will say bravo! to the letter and spirit of
the Governor’s communication. His re
sponse to the insult offered by Fish and
his master, is jnst what the people had a
right to expect from their chief magis
trate, and wa3 eminently the right tiring
done in the right manner. To suppose
that any Commissioner to tho Centennial
Gov. Smith wonld appoint as a represen
tative man, either conld or would take
the iron-clad oath without perjury, was
an affront to him and the people of the
State, eminently characteristic of those
who now rale at Washington, and is re
buked as it richly deserved. Wo are
glad the letter has been made public, and
still more gratified that it echoes so em
phatically tho sentiments of all the peo
ple of Georgia, whose opinions are worth
putting on record.
He Knows How.
Prom tbo Detroit Free Press-J
When a Ninth avenue boy pitches into
a Labrosse street boy and gets & bloody
nose, ho goes home fully prepared for
what he knows will follow.
“Fighting again, eh?” inquires the
Detroit father. "Well, Fll see yon in the
woodshed after dinner.”
"Father,” replies the boy, tears in his
eyes, "it was that Johnson boy. He came
along and called me the son of a cross
eyed sheep thief, and, father, I couldn’t
stand by and hear you spoken of in that
manner l" *
The father feels In his vest pocket for
a nickel, and nothing further is said about
The Atlanta Herald says Hr. James
Onnond drained Ms fish pond last week,
and 2,000 pounds of fish were taken
from it.
Tax same paper has the following:
We had the pleasure of meeting in this
city yesterday, Col. George Reese, an old
and well known citizen of Alabama, but
whose home is just across the State line
at West Point, Col.Reese is accompanied
by Ms estimable lady, and they are on
their way to attend the Mecklenburg
Centennial, at Charlotte, which celebra
tion comes off to-morrow. Mr. Reese is
now in hia eightieth year, and would be,
as he says, just eighty years old, but he
does not count one year in wMch he lived
in Georgia while on Ms way from North
Carolina to Alabama. He says for one
year he was water-hound in this State,
and has, ever since, left it out in Ms cal
ender. His wife is sixty-nine years of age,
and they have been married over fifty
years. Col. Reese’s grandfather was one
of the signers of tho original Declara
tion of Independence at Mecklenburg
in 1775, which we believe is now con
ceded to be the (first formal declaration
by any organized body of American cit
izens against the oppression of tho
mother country. Mrs. Reese’s great
grandfather was Jolii Witherspoon, one
of the signers of the American Declara
tion in 1776. Witherspoon was brother-
in-law to John Knox, the great Scottish
Preby terian Reformer of the last century,
and to wMch faith, both these an
cient people still cling. Judge Reese, of
Washington, and Mr. Anderson Reese, of
the Macon Tzlbqbaph and Messenger,
are hi3 nephews. There were originally
eight brothers in the family, and for
seventy years there was not a death
among them. However, at this time,
only three of them aro living. Colonel
George Reese, the subject of this sketch,
is to-day, hearty, vigorous and healthy.
He goes to his old native home in
Mecklenburg county in hopes of meeting
many of his relatives and friends, whom
he has not seen, some of them, for over
half a century, and embraces this last op
portunity, perhaps, on tMs earth, of ever
visiting the scenes of Ms childhood's
home. We wish the old gentleman and
lady a pleasant journey and happy re
union of relatives and friends.
The Constitution reports a fire on
Wednesday morning in Atlanta wMch
destroyed fonr honses, one of wMch was
a residence and storehouse combined, oc
cupied by D. H. Heath, grocer, and fam
ily, who escaped, but without saving even
their clothing. The scene of tho fire was
the corner of Decatur and Fort streets,
Loss about $4000, on which there was
abont $1500 insurance.
Tbs Constitution has the following ar
ticle on the “Sleeping Car Question,”
which we heartily endorse. Wo hope
every paper at the South will take the
same position and administer this man
Pullman the lesson he seems to be yearn
ing for:
Wo are informed that the Pullman
company intends to invoke the aid of the
courts to sustain its present monopoly.
As soon as the two sample Lucas cars
leave tho shop at Wilmington, Delaware,
it is believed that the Pullman organiza
tion will enjoin tho new company from
using or selling them, on the ground that
Mr. Lucas has infringed upon one or
more of the numerous patents that Mr.
Pullman controls. Tho inventor of the
now sleeping cars has been especially
careful to steer clear of the Pullman pat
ents, knowing that the company which is
in profitable occupancy of tho Southern
roads, carries a long purse, and would
surely resort to litigation to delay, if not
defeat, the appearance of opposition cars.
We believe that the Lneas patents are not
infringements, and that the philosophy
of any injunction at the instance of the
Pullman company would be simply to re
tain as long as possible its present mo
nopoly, regardless of fair play, justice or
the wishes of the Southern people. On
this subject thepres3 of the South should
speak in a way that will leave Mr. Pull
man no grounds for misapprehending
Southern sentiment. Hi3 quick acqui
escence in the spirit of tho civil rights
bill, by thro wing open his cars to negroes,
thu3 compelling all who wish to travel at
night comfortably to accept distasteful
and degrading associations, is offensive
enough without the addition of legal de
vices to delay the efforts of our people in
securing cars to their liking. We urge
upon the press of the South the neces
sity of letting their sentiments on this
subject be clearly known. Nothing else
will prevent Mr. Pullman’s premeditated
attack. He will scarcely want to face an
unanimous South. Outside of consid
erations connected with the civil rights
issue, the Lucas cars deserve tho support
of Southern people. Tho proprietors aro
Southern railroad men, and the cars aro
especially designed for Southern lines.
Tho new car is 20,000 pounds lighter
than the car that Mr. Pullman sends to
us from Northern shops. They aro not
top-heavy, tho extra weight connected
with tho berths being sunk during the
daytime below the seats, and even below
the floor of the car. The seats of a sec
tion do not necessarily face oho another,
so that the occupant of one berth is not
forced to sit all day opposite an unpleas
ant occupant of the other berth. They
contain many other devices that are new,
novel, desirable, and especially adapted
to tho lighter traffic of Southern roads.
The two sample cars will soon come
down the Air Line road, and then the
managers of Southern roads will have a
full opportunity to compare them with
the Pullman cars. If they do not stand
the test, let them be condemned. But if
they aro better adapted to our business
and section, then let them ho put on.
And we assure Mr. Pullman that any
legal dodge will only servo to bring upon
him and his cars a deeper and heavier
condemnation from thoso who were his
Southern patrons. A monopoly is bad
enough under tho best circumstances,
but when a monopoly undertakes to in
augurate social equality and drive ont all
rivals,it becomes too odiu3 for sufferance.
The Lneas cars are needed, and the Lu
cas cars should ho granted a fair field
and a fair fight.
The Chronicle and Sentinel reports the
presence in Augusta of Gen. McRae, and
understands he will not accept theposl
tion of Superintendent of the Georgia
railway” to which he was recently elected.
We find this telegram in the same
paper:
Waynesboro, Ga., May 18-—-On Mon
day morning a petition of the negroes
to be pnt on the jury was handed Judge
Gibson. He remarked that he had a
difficult question to settle before com
mencing tho session of the Court. He
then read the law fixing the manner of
selecting tho jury, and said that the ju
rors had already been arranged and there
was no prospect of a change till another
revision of tho box. That if hereafter
they, the darkies, were dissatisfied with
the action of the rovisors of the jury list,
they would report to Mm, and he would
see that they wero dealt fairly with. He
had been a breakwater for tjio blacks
heretofore, and he meant to do justice by
them. P.
“Explain, Mb. Stephens.—Under this
head "Countryman,” in the Chronicle and
Sentinel, of Wednesday, propounded the
following:
Why don’t Mr. Stephens explain the
causes that actuated General Grant to
advocate the different iniquitous meas
ures which his party saddled upon the
South for the purpose of perpetuating
their power ? If Grant loves the Sonth,
as Mr. Stephens claims he does, why did
he sign the enforcement and civil rights
bills? Let Mr. Stephens lay aside his
hair-splitting and answer the above plain
questions. *
The Columbus Enquirer-Bun says when
the Federal company of cavalry were
many of the privates gave parting
to negro wenches that were assembled
around. A lieut enant is reported to have
embraced openly one of the huff colored
damsels.
Judge Johnson, of the Chattahoochee
circuit, refusee to relieve the Columbus
policemen from jury duty.
The Talbotton Standard requests Ma
con, Columbus and Savannah papers to
copy the following:
On the evening of April 19th Mr. Brown
and his two daughters. Misses Ella and
Tommie, were in a buggy in front of the
residence of Dr. E. L. Bardwell, when
their horse became frightened and tea
away. Mr. B. fell out of the buggy be
fore tho horse had run many yards and
was seriously injured. Two or three riba
were broken on the right side and he was
injured internally, to what extent has
nevor been precisely ascertained. The
horse ran on with the young ladies, who
remained in the buggy, until he was stop
ped by the heroic efforts of L. A. Bald
win, and they escaped unhurt. Mr.
Brown has been confined ever since the
accident. For a while it was thought
that he was improving, but a relapse has
taken place and now he may be consider
ed in a critical condition. He has grown
much worse within the last week. The
entire community is deeply interested in
the welfare of this good man andcitixen.
Shonld he be taken from us, Talbotton
will lose the best friend it ever had and
the people of tbo county will feel the loss
of a man who has done a vast deal to
help them along. May a merciful Provi
dence see proper to spare him yet a while
longer.
From the Athens Watchman: Madison
connty boasts a citizen 69 years old, who
has never been drunk, never took a chew
of tobacco,never shot a pistol, never used
an oath, and "has only been married
once.” Wo "guess” ho has never had
any dealings with free negroes or he
couldn’t brag about not "enssing.
John H. Patrick, formerly of Athens,
was shot and instantly killed, at Hunts
ville, Texas, on the first instant. He had
killed one or two men daring Ms six or
seven years residence in that State
Jackson county is to have two news
papers by tho first of June. Why not a
dozen? “There’s millions” in each for
the proprietors. Twenty-five years ago
there were only three papers in the
Athens Congressional district, and now
there are thirteen. TMs accounts for^the
numerous millionaire jonraaliats now in
the district
Mid Bboodon, negro, made a stump
speech at a darkey picnio in Gwinnett
connty last week which is reported as
follows by the Lawrenceville Herald:
He argued that the civil rights bill was
a good thing. It gave the negroes eqnal
rights with the white people; but still
he thought it would be best for the ne
groes to “mind white people just as they
used to do.” Whereupon some of his
audience invited Mm down from the
stump on which he was standing. They
didn’t want to hear any moro of his
"derned foolishness.”
Thx Monticello Banner has tMs abont
a very peculiar old gentleman formerly
of Jasper county:
The old citizens of Jasper doubtless re
member Captain Bill Smith, who lived
in this county many years and up to Ms
death, wMch occurred in 1864. The old
gentleman hod many peculiar ways. It
is said that ho would never sit in but one
place in the house, and that was at the
side of a fireplace by a window. This
window was kept up day and night, win*
ter and summer, and no one ever saw it
closed during the Captain’s lifetime. He
was so persistent in occupying Ms same
seat that he never hesitated to ask any
stranger to give it np to Mm. Where
the chair stood tho floor was worn
through and through, and a new plank
had to be pnt in. This same peculiarity
existed in sitting out in his piazza, and
thero the chair had worn a hole fully
three-quarters of an inch in thickness.
Another Ned Brace (colored.)
Our readers will remember Judge
Longstreet’s inimitable sketches of Ned
Brace in his *• Georgia Scenes,” and the
oyster eating and singing exploits of that
famous worthy. It seems that the truth
of history ha3 been verified by another
similar instance in Savannah.
The Advertiser states that one George
Brown (colored) entered a church, and
joined in the singing so uproariously,
that he silenced the brethem and sistern,
who couldn’t competo worth a cent.
Finally George was mildly admonished
to desist. But this was a free country,
and singing a most important part of
religious worship. So George continued to
inflate Ms lungs to their fullest capacity,
and then let loose like tho "Fulling Mills”
in Don Quixote. This at length became
too much for tho nerves of his sablo
fellow worshippers, who have usually
an ear for music and keep excellent time,
and a policeman was summoned. Thi3
official seized the sonorous but discord
ant psalm singer, and, despite tho civil
rights law, Ms conscientious convictions
of duty and earnestremonstronces, "trot
ted him off to tho barracks.”
Then to weave tho last garland in hi3
martyr’s crown, poor George was fined
fifteen dollars and costs by the cruel
Reeorder, and insulted with tho admo
nition that ho did not possess the gift of
singing. Alas for unhappy, musical
George!
America ImportlnffBreadstuffe
In view of the va9t shipments of wheat
and corn from California and the West
to Europe, for several years past, it seems
hard to believe that a country with a
virgin soil so cheap and fertile, should
not always have bread enough and to
sparo.
Bun only as for back os 1866, both
English and French wheat were import
ed, and, curions to relate, whole cargoes
of California wheat dispatched back
again to our shores from Liverpool, with
out breaking bulk. . At that timo the
prico of the best flour ranged from eigh
teen to twenty-two dollars per barrel,
and wheat sold for four dollars a bushel.
Even within two years the importations
of barley also havo been heavy.
This shows that agriculture m this
country is really still in its infancy.
When the countless acres cf rich wood
land yet remaining in the South and
West havo been reclaimed, and tho broad
expanse of praiiio in Texas, Kansas and
other States are converted into waving
fields of corn, then the United States in
stead of importing hreadstuffs, will be
the Egypt of the world.
Highly interesting letter
FROM COL. B. H. HARDAWAY.
While in St. Louis, Vice President
Wilson said of his visit to Gen. Breckin
ridge > 'T see that the newspapers, those
of my own side, too, have raised a howl
about my calling upon a ‘rebel.’ The
man who censures another for visiting an
old friend with whom he had served in
public, and who was in a dying condition,
cannot himself be too severely condemned.
I would do it again, regardless of press
opinion.”
Bsetn Oaee tke Exporter of One.
Tenth of the cotton Crop of the
Unite* States—Navigating the Oe-
nmlffee with Cotton Boxes—Feur-
teea Dollars Freight on a Single
Bale of cotton—The Staple Selling
at Two and One-half cents per
Found.
We publish below the contents of
letter jnst received from that intelligent
gentleman and model Georgia, farmer,
R. H. Hardaway, of Thomas ville. It was
penned to correct some slight inacura-
eies in a report received from Mm recent
ly on the cars of the Southwestern Rail
road. The writer understood him to say
he had threshed and sold 366 bushels of
oats, from five acres. But that figure
was the total of the crop, and the sales
were 330 bushels.
So also the reported weight of three
heads of cabbages, (120 pounds or 40
pounds per head) was correct, but they
were grown, not last year, but the year
previous. The 119 bushels of corn we
spoke of, was the product of a single
acre, in 1873.
Bat the Colonel’s letter will explain
everything, and at the same time contains
some facts and reminiscense3 of the
olden time, which will be perused with
the deepest interest. He writes as fol
lows:
Thohas villi, May 18,1875,
. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Gen
tlemen—I noticed this morning an* ac
count of a conversation I had on board
the cars, with CoL Jones, copied by the
Savannah Morning News, from your most
excellent paper. The conversation was
hurried, and witb the usual noise attend
ing a railroad train, and as Col. Jones did
not quite understand me, I write tMs
correction. I am a nativo of Virginia,
but my father moved to Macon when I
was quite a child, in 1823. I was raised
in Macon; when we came to Macon, it
was known cMefly by the name of Fort
Hawkins, the agency of the Creeklndians.
We lived in the barracks, on Fort Hill,
recently the property of the Woolfolks.
All the business was then in East Macon.
What a change time has made! Mr.
David Flanders is now the oldest inhabi
tant of Macon. Atone time, Macon re
ceived one-tenth of the entire cotton
crop of the United States, the total crop
being 1,200,000 bales, of which Macon re
ceived 128,000 bales. Those were the
days of river navigation, frequently re
quiring six months to complete a trip of
a cotton box to Darien, Ga., and frequent
ly delivering the cargo of cotton in ham
per baskets, the bagging on the (then
round bales) cotton being rotted off from
long exposure to the runs and river dewB.
I remember well when a clerk, of sMp-
ping cotton at $10 and $14 per bale
freight, to Savannah and Charleston, and
some cotton speculators got broke at cot
ton buying at 2} cents per pound. The
era of railroads has worked wonders since
those days of snail traveling. I find I
am getting ont of order a3 to the correc
tion I intended to make as to my garden
ing and farming. I have raised cabbage
to weigh forty pounds, and last year
twenty pounds as nearly an average.
This year, however, my garden in com
mon with all tho gardens, has suffered
immensely from the long and continuous
rains and cold winds, and is far behind
what it was last year. The vegetables,
though good, are not so fine as usual.
Last year, I sold 330 bushels of oats, after
having paid one-tenth for threshing and
cleaning and saving out my seed oats,
wMch would amount to about 366 bushels
os the total yield of five acres. My corn
last year, yielded 134 bushels on 1$ acres.
Tho year previous, three acres yielded
304 bushels, the best one acre of it being
119 bushels.
Col. Jone3 has stated correctly the pro
cess of preparing tho oat land, and the
manner of fertilizing.
I am fully satisfied that the old sys
tem, as pursued during tho days of slave
ry, must and will bo gradually aban
doned, and that small farms alone will
be made profitable; and furthermore,
that the rising and future white genera
tions will havo to do tho field labor here
tofore performed by negroes. I shall not
see the day, but I think my children will
see the timo when tho soil of the South
will bo cultivated exclusively by wMto
people, and that the negroes will ho col
onized to themselves, possibly in Mexico.
I think now is tho timo to begin small
farms, and teach our children tho science
of agriculture, and nobility of honest toil
upon tho farm. To do this it must be
shown that field labor is not degrading,
and that with intelligent, well directed
industry a few acres can he intensely
fertilized, and these small farms bo made
to produce a handsome support for the
toiling millions of tho South. And a3
these small farms multiply and increase,
in the same ratio will bo the increase of
independent living at home, until the
time will come when Georgia will be an
exporter of provisions and not a vassal to
some other community for the supplies
of life. All tho trades of the world aro
dependent npon tho farmer for food, and
if farmers ceaso to make this food and
become purchasers instead of sellers, it
unhinges the law of supply, and causes
want and suffering to all cla33es, and
produces stagnation and bankruptcy.
THE CHOP PROSPECT
i3 not so flattering as last year, owing to
excessive rains. Tho planters have not
been idle and tho work is well up. Tho
oat crop in this county is tho largest and
finest ever made, and is now being har
vested. Planters are really getting stingy,
and purchase only actual necessities.
There are moro hogs in tho county than
for many years, and occasionally bacon
is sold. In fact some few planteis have
been selling bacon for the last throe years.
All havo plenty of corn, and some to sell,
and generally plant less than half in
cotton.
Next Saturday, 22d, is our county Hor
ticultural Fair, and I would be glad to
see a delegate from tho Telegraph and
Messenger at tho exhibition.
Trusting I havo not borod you through
and through,
I am, very respectfully,
R. H. Hardaway.
Pittsburg, May 20.—Dodd beat Bes-
singer for $500 in a game of 500 points—
Beamnger giving Dodd 125 points. The
Emory College
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I have
been acting (as other duties allowed) as
an agent for Emory College—seeking to
rebuild and refurnish after tho desola
tions of war. Much of tho work has been
done, but much remains. I am anxious
to finish.
Fully awaro of the scarcity of money
and the depressed condition of tho people,
I hoped to accomplish my object by a
plan so easy as to enable every friend of
denominational education in the church
and out of it to help, without any sensi
ble taxation. Hence in tho Southern Ad
vocate I proposed to be one of twenty thou
sand persons to give one dollar each.
Some have responded, hat the Advocate
does not reach people enough to fill tho
plan. I therefore beg the use of your
columns to give "the proposition” a wider
circulation.
Let all disposod to accept forward the
money to mo at Sparta, or hand it to tho
pastor of the Methodist Chnrcb, who will
receivo and remit to me.
This proposition is made first of all, to
every member of the Methodist Church in
Georgia and Florida, and with equal em
phasis to every friend of Christian edu
cation.
I am trying to do thi3 work 03 one of
tho ways to servo my generation. I have
no other interest in it than is common
to my brother Methodists and to my fel
low-citizens. My services aro gratui
tously rendered, and I feel the more free
to ask any and all for aid. Every dollar
goes to the college. I am bold therefore
to say, help me. I ask yon for a dollar,
but if you are more liberally inclined I
must cheerfully acquiesce. I will thank
yon for the dollar, but will bless and
praise you for the thousand.
Men, brethren, friends, let me hear
from yon soon, and favorably, and thus
oblige Yosr friend and servant.
The Fishermen.
Correspondence Telegraph and Messenger.]
Snapper Clue oh the "Wing, )
May 19,1875. j
The weather was remarkably pleasant
and promising, as we glided down the
river into the bay early Tuesday morn
ing, casting anchor at Shell Point, north
ward of, and near Marsh Island. Fishing
with seine, hook and line, was embarked
in with moderate interest, securing plen
ty and of fair quality. Dinner served,
pulled up anchor and made
POE THE WRECKS,
which consist of two—the Ellen Maria,
having on board two thousand bales of
cotton, burnt at her anchorage in 1865,
and the Amathea, with fifteen hundred
bales, burnt in 1866. A remarkable feature
- about these wrecks, is their being made
- the home of largo quantities of black
fish—they not being fonnd in any other
part of the bAy.
These wrecks are three miles from
land, and while the pilots can approxi
mate their locality, at times it requires
considerable search and sounding to find
them. Fortunately they were easily lo
cated and the steamer anchored over one
of them, and fisMng commenced in ear
nest,
OVER FIVE HUNDRED
being caught within two hours. FisMng
inside the wreck causes great destruction
of hooks, each fish taken averaging the
loss of one. Being surfeited with fish
and amusement, the steamer was moved
near shore and anchored for the night.
Next morning was appointed for the
Snapper banks. Bright and early we
headed in that direction, with the pros,
pect of a lovely day, the sea as smooth as
a mirror, all in Mgh glee at the prospec
tive amusement. Over halt the distance
was made when the steam chest
SPRUNG A LEAK,
requiring immediate return to our for
mer anchorage for repairs, which were
soon completed, bnt too late in the day
for snapper fishing.
A SEINING PASTY
of select ambitious young men was soon
organized under tho guidance of an old
dago fisherman, who went merrily to their
sport. The weather and locality were high
ly favorable and never did amateurs meet
with better success. Among their spoils,
were the pompano, Spanish mackerel,
angelfish, boss,trout, and several other
varieties, the three first standing high
with epicures, especially the pompano,
wMch is considered the finest fish in the
gulf. The angel fish is appropriately
named. It is nearly square, thin and of
a clear, brilliant pearly appearance.
Spanish mackerel twenty-eight inches
long and of delicate flavor.
The benefits to be derived from a
select
FISH DIET
are already apparent, for never did the
sharp, keen, satirical, intellectual force
more prominently develop itself—no
matter what subject, or how complex or
abstract a proposition that is suggested,
or made by any one, it is grappled
with and analyzed with an avidity credi
table to a body of learned savans.
Men of modest and reserved mien be
come self reliant, and to the front, meet
ing all suggested problems with a clear
ness of argument truly surprising. On
none ha3 this been more distinctly de
veloped than in a Mr. C and E .
Their friends are surprised, if not becom
ing alarmed at this volatile development,
and are considering the necessity of re
manding them back to their accustomed
diet.
Next morning was again set for the
snapper banks, but tho weather proving
unpropitious went into Pilot Cove. This
situation not proving satisfactory, we
steamed eastward into Tyson harbor. A
fair assortment of small fish were ob
tained, when tho weather proving favor
able wo
MADE FOR THE BANKS,
twenty miles distant, preparation being
fully mado for earnest, vigorous work,
the gunwale was lined with fishermen
thorougMy equipped and eager for the
contest. Frequent soundings reporting
various depths, until at last, "nine fath-
oms” was announced and orders were given
to throw out the hooks. "I’vo got him,”
shouted a Maconite, as he pulled ou board
an immense gray grouper. A slight move
ment ahead and with a whoop and yell the
announcement was made,
“HERE THEY ARE!”
Fliperty flop, the snappers are hauled on
deck, the sea is brilliant with their scar
let,glittering appearance,and active,dash
ing movements. One cannot conceive of
moro exhilarating and intoxicating sport;
the dullest and least excitablo are fired
with enthusiasm and electrified with the
scene.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE,
averaging twelvo pounds, were taken in
thirty minutes. All being surfeited, we
headed for Apalachicola, arriving at the
wharf at 10 r. ir. Tho fish were given
to all who came, and the deck was soon
cleared.
After a good night’s rest, we steamed
out early in tho morning, through Indian
Pass for
st. Joseph’s bay.
After passing tho lighthouse at Saint
Bias Point, wo followed closely tho coast,
and when near St. Joseph’s Bay saw
what are called
DEVIL FISH.
Large numbers wero lying near tho
surface apparently asleep. They are
from 10 to 12 feet square, huge, shudder-
ingly repulsive in their every feature.
Rowing close np to a monster, a small
harpoon was cast into Mm, and for a few
minutes mado things lively, dragging a
heavy life-boat well manned at a rapid
rate, surging, floundering and splashing
the sea into a foam until at last
BREAKING THE FASTENINGS,
he disappeared in the depths below, hut
not without leaving a crimson witnc33 of
tho fearful struggle. Having no other
apparatus for a successful attack, the
rifle was brought into requisition, wound
ing several, as was apparent from their
writhing and disappearing. Sport being
exhausted, wemovedalongthecoast,cast
ing anchor for the seining party to try
their luck. As usual, there was no lack of
fish. A
CONCH CEACKEE,
weighing about 150 pounds was captured.
They are diamond shaped, largo head,
beautifully spotted very much like a
Leopard, bat-like propelling appendages,
long attenuated whip-cord tail, armed
near its root with formidable bearded
sword3 and famished with a beautiful and
powerful piece of mechanism for crack
ing all kinds of shell fish. They are re*
ported eatable, but their appearance is
not epicurean, Failed up anchor and
moved into St. Joseph’s hay and anchored
in shallow water.
TURTLE CATCII1NG
monopolized our attention. Although
several were Btruck, only one was secured.
On Saturday morning we left a detail
for turtling and moved over to the old
town of
st. Joseph’s.
Thirty-five years ago this was a thriv
ing, prosperous tows, with about 3,500
population. One year later yellow fever
carried off over 1,400, and te-day not a
hunter’s shanty, or even a chimney, is
to be seen. A more complete annihila
tion of a town is not on record. It is,
sad to think such a decay and desolation
cohid occur iu tho short space of one
generation. Late in the afternoon we
returned, and found three large turtles
had been secured—one monster pegged
and lost in going to the rescue of one of
the hunters that had lost his equilibrium,
wMch was only restored when flounder
ing in the water. Saving him lost the
turtle. The
tached from the pole—line
him as he sinks and swims,
boat is rowed in his coarse, dra
line safely taut, he is soon toed
down, when a favorable opportunity is
sought to catch him by one hind flipper
and be is secure. A strange feature is
that
80 SMALL A PEG
should bold. It can only be accounted for
by the elastic and strong muscular con
traction of the shell.
Late in the evening we steamed into
Eagle harbor and anchored for the jught.
Fonnd here the U. S.
SURVEYING SCHOONER 8ILLIMAN
and a party of Columbus fishermen on
the sloop Redjacket. Both crafts sent on
board delegations, which kept up merri
ment and song, until the "wee small hours
of the night.” Bright and early next
morning we headed lor Apalachicola, out
side St. Vincent Island, and through East
Pass into the bay. Arriving at the wharf
most of the party repaired to the
CATHOLIC CHURCH,
where we witnessed the very pleasant
and attractive ceremony of confirming
and consecrating fifty-four persona, most
ly yonng people, to the service of God
and the Church.
BISHOP QUINLAN,
of Mobile, delivered a very able discourse
on the Mother of Christ, presenting the
subject in a very fascinating line of argu
ment. Monday morning we steamed up
into Jackson river and to Lake Winlico.
Passing through this body of water, we en
tered Deep creek. It is very narrow, deep
and sluggish waters, of a dark inky-like
appearance. Following its sinuous coarse
some ten miles, sufficient width was fonnd
to turn the boat, and we retraced our course
back to Apalachicola, where we fonnd the
steamer Geo. W. Wylly, from Columbus.
LETTERS AND PAPERS WEBE PERUSED
with an avidity commensurate with our
long fast from the outer world.
Fishing was over and preparations
were actively made for returning next
morning.
The club are under renewed obliga
tions to the intelligent and refined
CAPT. GEORGE HATCH AND LADY,
the hermits of St. Vincent’s Island, for
courtesies and favors. The world is a
loser by their Beclusion, as their wealth
and intelligence would be a prize to any
community. Why not come out into the
busy world and add their mite to its pro
gression ? Macon wonld welcome them
with open arms. Come, Captain, come.
Four o’clock Tuesday morning fonnd
the boat under way, and a favorable run
landed U3 at Ft. Gaines at 6 o’clock next
morning. Augusta and Macon members
disembarked, leaving our Columbus
friends solitary and alone to wend their
way up the river. And here ends the
chronicles of the Snapper Clnb at their
annual pilgrimage in 1875. Aquatic.
THE TEST OATH.
J
METHOD OT CATCHING TURTLE
is unique. A small peg-one-eighth inch
square and three-fourths long, to a shank
of which is fastened a small, strong cord,
is arranged to tho end of a small pole.
Running close to a turtle, the peg is light-
1. llimat fnfn if, ih.1l. ind in,fawflp rla.
Governor smith to Secretary Fish—
Georgia's Share In the Centennial—
No Takers or Test Oaths la Georgia
-Mr. HUIyer’s Commission Ketnrn.
ed—A Manly Letter.
Specially furnished tho Chronicle snd Sentinel.]
State of Georgia,
Executive Department,
Atlanta, March 18,1874.
Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State,
Washington, D. C.:
Sir—I havo the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication of the
10th inst, enclosing the appointment of
Mr. George Hillyer as Commissioner to
represent the State of Georgia in cele
brating the centennial anniversary of
American Independence at the city of
Philadelphia in the year 1876. Accom
panying the President’s commission is an
open letter from yourself to Mr. Hillyer,
advising him of his appointment, to
gether with the printed form of an oath,
wMch, in the event of his acceptance,
yoa direct Mm to execute and return,
that the same may be placed on file in
the State Department. A portion of tho
oath referred to is as follows:
' I, , do solemnly swear that I
have never voluntarily borne arms
against the United States since I have
been a citizen thereof; that I have vol
untarily given no aid, countenance, coun
sel or encouragement to persons engaged
inarmed hostility thereto; that I have
never songht, nor accepted, nor at
tempted to exercise the functions, of any
office whatever under any authority, or
pretended authority, in hostility to* the
United States; that I have not yielded
a voluntary support to any pretended
government, authority, power or consti
tution within the United States, hostile
or inimical thereto.”
By requiring Commissioners to take
this oath tho Southern States are, in ef
fect, excluded from all voice or participa
tion in the celebration referred to. It
must bo known to the President that al
most tho entire body of tho white peoplo
at the South were engaged, actively or
otherwise, in behalf of then: own section,
m the lato war between tho States, and
that they can take no part in tho Exposi
tion under tho requirements now made of
them. Indeed, if the Commissioners,
or official representatives of the States,
are required to take obnoxious oaths,
see no reason why the exhibitors, and
even the visitors at the exhibition, may
not bo called upon to do the same
thing.
I know of no provision of law wMch
requires any such oath to be taken by the
Commissioners, and what good is expect
ed to be accomplished by going beyond
tho requirements of tho law in this re
gard I am at a loss to imagine. I may be
pardoned for suggesting, at this point,
that Georgia was one of the thirteen
States wMch revolted against British au
thority, and that she has the same inter
est and the same right to celebrate the
one hundredth anniversary of American
Independence that Pennsylvania or New
York has. Her delegates signed the Dec
laration of Independence, and I have yet
to learn if her son3 have eve? hesitated to
make any sacrifice necessary to maintain
the great principles enunciated in that
Declaration. And yet, it is nowproposed,
not only to tax her people, in order to
meet the expenses attending. the cele
bration of American Independence, but
to exact an oath which practically ex
cludes them from all participation there
in.
Candor constrains mo to say that if
thi3 gratuitous and wanton requirement
is insisted upon, the people of Georgia
will not, with my consent, take any part
whatever in the proposed partisan cele
bration at Philadelphia. I had supposed
that the people of all the States were ex
pected to take part on the joyous occa
sion, and that not only the people of
these States, of every creed, color and
condition, but the lovers of liberty
throughout the civilized world would be
cordially invited and welcomed, without
preliminary oaths or exactions of any
kind. I£ in this I havo been mistaken,
and if, as it now seems, only a partisan
celebration by tho dominant political
party of tho country is contemplated,
then, I regret to say, that a great oppor
tunity has been lost, and that neither the
Governor nor the people of Georgia will
be responsible for that misfortune,
I must ask to be pardoned for having
troubled the President to appoint
Commissioner for this State. My do-
rire was that Georgia should be repre
sented at the celebration by a native
bom citizen; bnt candor compels me to
say that I am not acquainted with a na
tive fit to represent the State who could,
or would, take the oath required. Cer
tainly Mr. Hillyer cannot taio it, and I
respectfully decline to be the channel
through which he is invited to do so.
I have the honor to return, herewith,
the commission intended for Mr. Hillyer,
with accompanying papers, and to ask
that I be allowed to withdraw his nomi
nation for the position of Commissioner.
I have the honor to be your obedient
servant, James M. Smith.
ancon and ura,^
The
Heeling
«ny.
Pursuant to the call of Mr «
Hazlehurst, late President of'the
and Brunswick Railroad
the stockholders of the r^ «
the City Hall at noon vested
about twenty-five persons ^ %
but nearly all of them were
nnd some of them-large ones. h ^
L . “eeting wa, organised**], *
W. A. Huff, Chairman and
Secretary. _ '
• Hadehurst addressed the «
tion briefly, stating the reason
had called the meeting, j,. * ^
little faith in it as a means of
plishing any good; but he had
the solicitations of many of the iw
holders and sent out the circular*
had faith in the Macon andErra J®
road. The project is as good^*
when it was first started. He t*]i U
in it, but to accomplish what
naUy intended, and make the rt-f
good one, it must ha Te connect!*
it must reach the interior,
link between the Haeon
J*
and An
gusta and the Georgia roads must!'
buHt, giving the line connection * ith n
lanta. He made some statements ia *
gardtothe earnings of the road «
also in regard to its development of fi,
portion of the State through which t
passes. He Baid the object was to see i
the road cannot he saved to the Etocl
holders. The Southern stockholders co-jj
not take it and comply with the tea
of the advertisement. He did not C
lieve any action of our people ha*
at home would reach the sale as acre,
tised. He favored a committee to Itf
tne
after the matter, and in default of a at
isfactory bid to go forward and treat rfi
the Governor, to see if some terms coij
not be arranged by wMch possession i
the road might be retained. He is
pressed it npon his bearers that the mj
wonld not pay as it stands. He
not put a dollar into it and vo&
not advise anyone else to do 30, B
less connections were to be had. ~a
road baa no value of itself as it stub
Any one who tries it will find it so. ]
the course of Ms ramarks, Mr. Hariehm
spoke with reference to the chugs d
fraud in connection with the indorses*
of the bonds of the road, and he-mp4
them with an honest indignation, via
proved Mm to be incapable of letia
himself to any questionable transseth
CoL Whittle followed Mr. Hazleha
briefly. He said the question vu,
Macon men, what must we do? ini
going to lot the opportunity escape ?
moved that a committee of five bassi
men be appointed, with the Major
chairman, to supervise the whole math
and take such steps 03 opportunity n-
rants for the protection of the inters:
of the people in the matter. This to
mittee is to watch all developments, si
act as the issue warrants.
Judge Granniss thought the commit!
ought to be larger, and the number ti
raised to nine.
The resolution was then adopted. •
The Mayor said he would take tint
consideration before appointing tie a
mittee.
The meeting then adjourned.
THE committee.
Mayor Huff, yesterday evening, has
us the names of'-tho committee, ssi
lows:
W. A. Huff, Chairman.
Stephen Collins, H. T. Johnsa
E. C. Granniss, John P. Fori
W. R. Phillips, A. R. Tinsley
I.C. Plant, Walter B. Hi
When two Pike ooucty (Mo.) mes are
about to make a trade, the first question
asked by the would-be purchaser is,
“What’s bis record?” Seller replies,
Three niggers and a couple dozen dash
boards.” "Here’s your money,” and the
new owner lands hia nronerfew 0*L
Anetber Child Found In,a TO
Yesterday morning, while eos!
ored men were engaged in cleaniq -
a well on Cheriy street, near Fifth
came across the remains cf an
which, had evidently been this
months. The men had drawn k*
water, and one of them, upon goings?
into the well, found something tied
a pillow case. The package wm
to tho surface, and upon being
was found to contain the remains -
infant entirely decomposed. A lev h®
were left and tho skull, hut bejowt'
there was nothing by which tie i
conld bo identified as human
The premises have been nnocNp
portion of the timo of late; but **
the Indian female doctor mi M
teller lived there, and used witer-
the well. Of course, there ii»**
tho perpetrator of the crime,
will probably never be any, ^ 1
guilty one will go unpuaiahti,
tho stings of her own conscience" 1-
has any. .
Macon is not seeking to .
lanta in this matter of disceverfe"
babies, but, while Atlanta ^
advantage by two or three, wo
that Bhe should maintain the P 1 **: L
We object, however, to any
same sort being thrown into * 3
act is as inhuman as the prion i; ' I
fanticide - . —
Escape* Cenylct Bec»P' J
During the latter part of ^ T
while the county chain-gMg' r: “. _
in Vineville, Mose Lanier, who
a fire months’ term succeeded a ^
his escape. Since that time *' .
at large, and it is believed h* 3 ® J
very far away from the ci!7>
has succeeded in eluding u- e (
ness of those who wer® hk f
him if discovered.
Day before yesterday . ^
given the guard that Lamer ** J
at his home, on the'left side e-
and opposite Pio Mono
night Messrs. BedingfielJ. 1-1 ^ ^
Hamlin went out and buK .^ <
king the capture. The ? r '
lodged in jail last night anJ ‘
turned to the gang to-moR* ’
four months to serve yet.
■ore oats*
Mr. C. M. Chapman, ot
sends us a specimen of °*t* . ^
They were grown on one 0 ^
hillsides of Jones, and wi 0 ^
The
manure of any kind. T h® ^
sente not the least tig®
well headed. . — "
nortanrr.
Mr. H. A. Harman, city
the following report or » !
the week ending yesterday
White adults
White children
Colored adults.
Total —
SlMKOXS* LiTE*
sptenotiworcErfc