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M IL L EDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 17, 1872.
N U M B E R 25.
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October 18,187th 12 fim
~ IP. TLBICIXETtT,
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OO HEN
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TT W. WHITE;
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TT7'ILL practice in this and adjoining counties.
T f Applications for Homestead Exemptions, un
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Milledgeviile, Oct .2, 18l>8. 11 D
IffXlW LAW riRM.
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_ PLANTE RSMIOTEL,
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ted with the Hotel.
JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, Proprietor.
Sept 25, 1871. 9tf
AN O I. II I.ETTEK.
Ore little letter, that’s all, dear.
That I have kept to remember it by ;
Our past, I mean—when together,
We thought we should lire and die.
The third that yon ever wrote me—
But of all the sweetest and best;
It speaks of the pas.Jon of loving,
Of the dim pain and unrest;
Of looking and seeing ever,
For three and-thirty years,
For one, in whose eyes— ah, only
For you—should be smiles or tears;
Of roving the wide world over,
To find me a home at last,
Of how, with your heart, I had taken
The unbelief of your past;
Of growing weary, hut finding,
One day, a sweet little face,
That gave you new faith in heaven—
That found in your heart its place.
Of how, even then, you were tired
Of waiting, to “ have and to hold,”
Forever and aver hereafter,
Your little “ treasure untold !”
Ah, poor litt'e faded letter 1
That I hold to my lips to-day,
You are but the weary history
Of my heart that went astray.
Let me look atyonr sweet beginning,
“ Aly darling, ■’ just once again,
And the last words, “ yours forever;
Death only shall part us twain !”
Death has forgotten us both, love !
Life only bath parted us twain :
To you, the “ freedom of passion,"
Ti> me the “ caim and the pain."
Time was when each day brought safely
Something from you to me ;
Time is—I have onlj my letter,
And a sad, sad miaery.
Ah. poor little tear-stained letter!
That knows of my every ill—
Down at the end I have written,
“ Dear heart. I love thee still 1”
Grant In Public.—Gen. Grant past
along in his slow and awkward way,
with face reddened by good living,
staring vaguely at the world with hit-
odd lack-lustre eyes, that have less
speculation about them than any eyes
I have ever encountered, without ex
citing the slightest attention on the
crowds he mingles with. Sometimes a
stranger turns and gives him a prolon
ged stare, but generally goes on with
out remark ; and the peculiarity, I am
told, accompanies him in all places.
Even when crowds are advertised for
and every effort made to get up a show
of enthusiasm, he is with a vacant space
about him, as if the air even chilled by
his presence and froze people with a
sort of fear or shyness. I have seen little
Stephen A. Douglass fairly liftedoft’liis
feet by the enthusiastic crowds that
seemed bent upon embracing him; and
Mr. Lincoln could not appear without
his hand being heartily shaken, even to
annoyance at times.
If ever a man lived who had no per- !
sona! popularity whatever, that man is
Gen. Grant; and one is driven to the na
ked tact of hiscandidaey, and that is the
necessity of his organization. No other
man can be selected who will consent
to keep such a horde of followers to
gether, and the followers have therefore
Hobson’s choice. They will not select
any other candidate, for no other candi
date would select them. No other prom-
inant man would tolerate them for a
day. So to give up Grant means death
to the thousands of thousands of office
holders who now so seriously impose
upon the people and make a civil ser
vice reform a necessity. You have
heard of the farmer who burned his
barn to get clear of rats. We must run
out the vermin or the destruction of
the government is inevitable. — Wash
ington Correspondent New York Sun.
Putting Down Mobs with the
Military.—We had, says the Cincin
nati Enquirer, in the dispatches yes
terday from Rochester, N. Y., another
instance of the criminal folly, which is
becoming so frequent in this country
of late years, of ordering out the mili
tary to quell the least popular distur
bances and riots. It ended, as such
affairs always end, in a wicked firing
upon the people, and the death and
wounding of a number of innocent
persons. We are getting to be alto
gether too handy with the musket—
too prone to use it—lor a community
that has any sort of claim te be free.—
There was hardly ever a riot so for
midable that it could not be suppress
ed by the police, armed with clubs,
reinforced, if necessary, by the firemen
with their engines. A stream of cold
water thrown upon a disorderly crowd
will disperse it about as quick as a vol
ley with firearms. The strength of
mobs is always vastly overrated, their
numbers being apparently swollen by
curious bystanders who have no sym
pathy with them. In England, mobs,
aud very serious ones, too, are sup
pressed without military violence, aud
such should be the case in the United
States We already have a sufficient
holocaust of innocent victims to the
military power, and it is time some
wholesome examples were made of
those who are too ready to resort to
it.
The Contract with La Fayette.
—In overhauling the old documents in
the Treasury Department, recently,
the following argeement made between
our government and the Marquis de
La Fayette was brought to light. It
is interesting in itself, and as showing
how great undertakings required short
contracts, only, in our early history:
AGREEMENT OF MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE.
The desire evinced by the Marquis
de La Fayette of serving in the armies
of the United States of North America,
and the interest which he takes in the
justice of their cause, and wishii g for
an opportunity of distinguishing him
self in war, and of rendering himself
useful to the extent of bis ability ; but
not concealing from himself, that he
may he unable to obtain the consent
of his family, to his serving in the for
eign countries, or to cross the ocean,
unless he shall go there in quality of
a General officer I believe I cannot
better serve my country, and act in
accordance with my power to grant
commissions, than in conferring on
him, in the name of the Most Honora
ble Congress, the rank of Major Gen
eral, for which 1 pray, the States will
confirm, ratify and promptly bestow a
commission, for him to assume and
hold the rank, from this date, which
belongs to a general officer of the same
grade.
His high birth, his connections, the
honorable titles which his family en
joy at this Court, his very considera
ble wealth in this Kingdom, his per
sonal merits, his renown, his disinter
estedness, and above all his zeal for
the liberty of our provinces have
I alone induced me to promise him the
above rank of Major General, in the
name of the United States.
In testimony of which I have sign
ed these presents.
Done at Paris, 17th December,
1770.
Silas Deane.
Under the above conditions I offer
my services, aud promise to take my
departure at this time and in the man
ner which shall appear most suitable
to Mr. Deane to serve the United
States with all the zeal in my power,
without any pay or special allowances,
reserving to myself only the liberty of
returning to Europe when my family
or my king shall recall me.
Done at Paris, 7th December, 1776.
(Signed)
Le Marquis de la Fayette.
A Pretty Kettle of Fish.—The
New York correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Enquirer makes some rather
astounding revelations. He says un
der date December 25:
“Senators Edmunds, Conkling and
Morton, in objecting to an investiga
ting committee, are striving to sup
press some racy facts that have since
leaked out from the New York Cus
tom House. One of the parties in our
New York Custom House general or
der business has been living for three
years with a lady who was supposed
to be his wife ; but recently thinking
that his position might be strengthen
ed by a real matrimonial alliance, he
Truth Stranger Than Fiction.—
The world’s realities surpass all fiction.
The columns of the press contain dai
ly sober facts that out-blaze in the very
madness of romance all the exaggera
ted sensations of the wildest literature
of the day.
Here is something that outstrips
the New York Ledger in ifs bizarre
incidents. And it is all reality.
General Mariano Melgarejo, late
Dictator and ex-President of Bolivia,
was killed in Lima, Peru, in November
by General Jose Aurelio Sanchez, his
son-in-law
Melgarejo was of rude birth, and of
mongrel Indian and white origin. Il
literate and rude, but bold and able,
he rose from corporal to be the ruler
of a country. Generous, daring, leo
nine, he was also savage, dissipated
and licentious.
In the zenith of his power as Dicta
tor, Melgarejo made one of these
strange connections, so frequent in tro
pical counties, where the ordinances
of God are lost sight of in the wild se
ductions of human passion. He plac
ed in charge over his household an un
wedded divinity, Juana Sanchez,
whose remarkable beauty enslaved bis
fiery nature. Her brother he made a
high officer and gave in wedlock his
favorite daughter. Her sister he mar
ried to his son. Thus did he link to
his fate the family of his frail enchan
tress. From his fabulous wealth
he gave them vast riches.
A successful revolution drove the
great Dictator a penniless exile from
Bolivia. The reverse was as sudden
as las rise ; the fall as great as the as
cent. The rich, powerful ruler lost
all. He fled to Peru, deserted by the
Sanchez family. They too had fled to
Peru but full-handed.
Melgarejo sued the Sanchez fertile
recovery of his property. The suit
was bitterly contested. In his mad
ness at his downfall the unhappy man
became wildly debauched. His ex
cesses were frightful. Stung by the
delays of the law, in a moment of
drunken delirium, he vowed aud at
tempted the extermination of the San
chez family, aud was shot dead in the
desperate attempt.
He gained the supreme power in
Bolivia by stabbing President Bulza
with his own hand. So he died by
the same violence that gave him rule.
The record reads like the blood and
thunder plot of a dime novel. Yet
we defy fiction to produce a tale more
rife with crime, passion, murder, re-
VVU ATTITUDE TOWARD SPAIN.
Washington, Jan. 5, 1372.
Your correspondent has endeavored
to keep your readers advised of such
movements here in official quarters as
would throw light upon the inquiry as
to our relations with Spain and the
difficulties with which we are threat
ened with that country, and which
some of the correspondents still insist
are disturbing the Administration.—
The information I have sent, up to this
time, positive in its character, was de
rived from the highest official sources.
If therefore, I shall not have given
you the correct idea the fault lies with
those who have all the information on
the subject, and the power to control
in a irreat degree, the conduct of our
foreign affairs. To repeat then, re-
lyiug on these sources, there is abso
lutely no ground for apprehension of
immediate difficulty with Spain, nor ! other’s case, with any additional docu-
ulumatcly, if the purpose of the Sec- | merits. This will probably occupy an-
retary of State and the President shall ! other two hours, when the arbitrators
prevail. Nevertheless, there are things w j|] aj r a j n adjourn, this time till the
transpiring which are, on the surLice, J i7tli of June, when, having in the
uuexplainable, except upon the hy- meanwhile had the whole statement of
pothesis that immediate difficulty with | the ca8e3 before them, they will meet
again to receive from the respective
'agents copies of the arguments with
which each government attempts to
meet the other’s case, and each party
may then call lor further argument in
elucidation. IIow long the arguments
will last, none can tell, but the treaty
The Genf.va Arbitration.—The
conclave of political savans, entrusted
with the settlement of differences be
tween the United States and Great
Britain, bids fair to be a slow coach in
its movements. The treaty of Wash
ington, under which it wasconstituted
was ratified 17th June last. The arbi
trators, it provides, should meet with
in six months thereafter at Geneva,
and exchange copies of the cases of the
governments. The arbitrators met and
this ceremony was performed, at the
place appointed, on the 15th of De
cember, some of the parties having
traveled thousands of miles for the pur
pose of going through with a simple
form, which occupied just two hours.
The exchange made, the arlriPrators
adjourned until the 17th of April, an
other six months, when the arbitrator*
are to return to Geneva, and each par
ty is to deliver its written reply to the
Spain, growing out of Cuban affairs
principally, may arise.
First, though, to remove an errone
ous impression, it may be stated that
the Navy Department received intelli
gence this morning that the Florida
had arrived at Charleston, and that
srie had not been molested by a Span- provides that within three months af-
ish war vessel, as had been alleged in ter t h e i r close—say about the end of
the newspapers. Next, Gen. Sickles
has arrived here entirely in a private
capacity, and has not communicated
to rhe Administration information of
the startling ctiaracter affecting our
relations with Spain, with which it
was claimed he was surcharged. So
much for two *f the principal alleged
causes for diplomatic irritation. On
1972—the tribunal is to vote its de
cision. We have here a striking illus
tration of the aphorism that “ great
bodies move slowly.”
Grant, Leet & Co.—The Senate
Committee ou Investigation and Re
trenchment has made a good begin
ning. Its opening labors are remark-
tlie other hand there is undoubtedly able, not only a* foreshadowing, at an
great activity in the Navy Department, unexpectedly early stage of the iuqui-
and it is assorted that it is caused by a ry, an amount of corruption, particu-
state of affairs in Cuba and on account larly as to the “ general order” system,
correspondence with the Spanish Min- which exceeds all popular apprehen-
ister, which together go to show that : sions and allegations, but as a com-
theend may be a warlike attitude be- mentary upon General Grant’s whole-
tween this Government and Spain. sale commendation of Collector Mur-
It is said by one having the ear of phy and unqualified endorsement of
the Administration that outrages have the honesty, faithfulness and purity
been perpetrated upon American citi
zens in Cuba within a few days that
call fot remonstrance from our Govern
ment ; that the tone of the Spanish
people and Volunteers is insulting and
defiant to our Government and its citi
zens, and it becomes necessary to have
awaken the most
upon the character
The smallest engine in the world is
on exhibition in Worchester The ma
terial isgold and silver comprising 14S
pieces, fastened together with screws,
the largest of which is one eighteenth
of an inch in size. The engine, boiler,
governor and pumps stand in a space
seven-sixteenths of an inch square, and
are five eights of an inch high. The en
gine alone weighs but fifteen grains,
and yet every part is complete, and it
may be seen in motion by filling the
boiler with water and applying the
heat, being supplied with valves and
otuer appliances to be found upon an
ordinary upright engine- It is a marvel
of mechanical ingenuity.
determined to be married to another i proportion of the population which
they constitute.
This fact should
serious reflection
and attributes of a race to which the
Northern States thought proper to
consign the dominant power in a great
many Southern communities. Tiie
moral and reflective faculties in the
negro are very feeble, while his ani
mal passions and appetites are inor
dinate. It is extremely doubtful,
therefore, whether the moral re
straint of human or divine law will
ever be a sufficient protection against
the direful effects of these outbursts
of passion. A severe penalty in the
distant future and apprehended only
through the delays and uncertainties
of legal process, will never have half
the retaining effect that did the simple,
direct and milder discipline of the
plantation, attended with the whole
some respect it inspired for the whole
race.
During the existence of slavery a
case of rape upon a white woman by a
negro was a thing almost unheard ot;
and it is now, compared with the black
population of the South and North,
very uncommon here, because, what
ever may follow, it is certain that the
white population of the South will
visit that crime with speedy and sum
mary death. We suppose, therefore,
that its comparatively greater preva
lence in the West, is simply due to the
fact that it is not punished in the same
way, and the bulk of the negroes have
little respect for a punishment a great
way off', and more or less uncertain as
to its actual infliction.
At all events, let the West and North
see the frequency and desperate nature
of the crimes committed by their small
negro population, the difficulty of re
straining them, and learn that, as a
matter of fact, there probably will
never be a time in which cases ot sum
mary punishment will not occur in
the Southern States. While lynch
law is shocking to every mind and de-
As nearly as can be determined by
the local papers the new Davidson
fountain at Cincinnati spouts bean
soup.
“ This is the Princess’ birthday”
were the first intelligent words spoken
by the Prince ot Wales after his long
delirium.
woman. To this the quasi wife ob
jeeted, contending that she was, by
the laws of New York, his lawful
spouse. Yet he married the other
woman, and thereupon the deserted
lady, following the example set by
Miss Josephine Mansfield in her war
with Col. James Fisk, Jr., put into the
hands of some of the antagonists
of this enormously profitable stor
age and cartage business a mass
o( testimony establishing all sorts
of awkward facts which cannot
now possibly be suppressed. One of
these facts is that the profits of the
general order and cartage business in
New York have been distributed in
four shares, of which two have been
regularly paid over to Gen. Horace
Porter, one of the illegal Military Sec
retaries of the President.”
How the Radicals Expect to Car
ry the Presidential Election.—A
Washington telegram to the Balti
more Sun, of Saturday, say : “The
military election programme for the
Presidential campaign will be devel
oped in the House next week in the
introduction of a bill agreed on by ma
ny of the Southern Republican mem
bers, especially from Virginia, by
which it is proposed to extend the en
forcement act of the last Congress to
every polling precinct in the country,
thus requiring Federal inspectors of
all elections for members of Congress
or United States officers, and the use
of troops in such cases as are made aud
provided in the present law. The act
as it now exists is restricted to cities
whose population is above fifty thous
and. Porter, of Virginia, will present
the enlarged bill and ask the House
Judiciary Committee to consider it.”
Perhaps the country is prepared to
inaugurate a Presidential election in
that way, perhaps not.— Sav. Rep.
The Wo’-’fl summarizing the local
crimes and calamities in New York the
past year Says :—126 children have
been found dead in the streets ; the
suicides number 108 ; sixty-nine per
sons have been “found drowned tor-
ty-two homicides have been commit
ted ; fifty-three have been killed by
horse cars ; twenty-eight by steam
cars; eighty-four perished in the
Westfield disaster, and fifty-two were
killed in the Orange riot.
venge, violence, debauchery, ambition | » n ample naval force in the proper po
sitiou to vindicate the dignity of the
United .States. In corroboration of
this it may be stated that at the navy
yard here every department is actively
engaged. All the vessels that are
serviceable are being ready for sea a?
fast as possible. Tne same activity is
observable in other navy yards, espe
cially iu Philadelphia, where five ves
sels are being put in readiness foi sea
service The.Worcester, which is now
lying at Boston, will it is said, be re
commissioned at an early day. In the
Navy Department all the force is en
gaged making out orders for transfers
of officers and vessels, and even retired
officers are being called into active ser
vice, and leaves of absence to others
are being revoked. Such are some of
the demonstrations out <>f which is de
duced the conclusion that we are on
the eve of a war with Spain.—Boston
Rost.
aud doom.
Indeed, truth is stranger than fic
tion.—Atlanta Constitutim.
From the Telegraph Se Messenger.
tiie RotnEsrex iiorbds.
The people of Rochester are in
flamed to madness at the horrid negro
rape perpetrated in that city during
Christmas, but they have sacrificed
four valuable lives to save the felon
from summary retribution. The whole
number of these or similar attrocities
perpetrated by negroes iu the Western
and Northern States, during the past
year or two, is great, considering the
few negroes living in those sections of
the country aud the inconsiderable
Governor Hoff man suggests that the
Federal constitution be so amended as
to provide for the election of United
States Senators by the people instead
of the State Legislatures. That
amendment and the one term princi
ple might be waxed together, aud thus
two birds be hit with one stone.
South Carolina.—The extent to
which popular rights and sacred legal
privileges have been violated by the
Grant administration in South Caroli
na under the name of law, should be
kept prominently before the people of
this country by the press. Perhaps,
at last, popular indignation can be
aroused to the degree necessary to
overthrow Radicalism at the ballot-
box.
Postmasters are acting as United
States Marshals, neglecting their pos
tal duties and conducting themselves
infamously to the citizens. These hy
brid Post Office Marshals break letters
open, steal money out of them, and
arest the complaining parties as Ku-
Klux. They arrest without warrants,
arrest witnesses who can acquit their
victims to prevent their testifying, re
fuse prisoners the privilege ot seeing
friends or relatives, go into ladies’ bed
rooms and compel them to dress be
fore men. One A. A. Hamlet, Post
paster at Union, *S. C., is one of the
most malignant and reckless of these
bad men.
The bare recital of these outrages
should excite a spirit of unforgiving
resentment, that should never allay its
bitterness until the party that thus
overrides law and encroaches upon pop
ular liberty, has received its merited
condemnation by the ballots of a free
people.—At. Constitution.
The New York Suu says the total
of his administration of the New
York Custom House, and ot his owa
utterly false pretences in the matter
of civil service reform. The revela
tions already made incontestably shovr
rhe complicity of the President in a
continued series of transactions con
nected with the New York Custom
House—the great centre and source of
official corruption and prostitution of
public patronage, extending its cor
rupting streams, as the testimony of
Mr. Lindsay proves, even into the val
leys of New Hampshire—such as, it
in ay be safely said, has never before
degraded tiie Executive office.
It has been demonstrated by the
testimony of Mr. Greeley and Mr.
Lindsay that Gen. Grant, the great
civil service reformer, was directly
concerned in such a manipulation of
the general-order business as to throw
into the hands of his friend and part
ner, and former member of his staff,
brevet Col. Leet, an opportunity to
make for himself and the partnership
a hundred thousand dollars a yevr at
least by swindling the merchants of
New Y'ork in the general-order opera
tions ; that Gen. Babcock and Gen.
Porter, the confidential aids of the
President, shared in the proceeds of
the iniquitous business; that Col.
Leet was entrusted by Gen. Grant and
and furnished with a carte blanche to
manage matters at the Custom House
in the express interest of this White
House ring; that lor the certain exe
cution of the purpose, he was invest
ed with full powers to threaten Col
lector Grinnell with removal from
office if lie resisted, as he was inclined
to do, the designs of the ring and re
fused to assign the general order busi
ness to Colonel Leet, as desired and
recommended by the President; that
Mr. Grinnell was finally removed upon
the information or at the dictation of
Leet, after he had in vain repeated to
him iiis authorized threats; that Mr.
Murphy was appointed for the express
purpose of using the power and influ
ence of the office to control elections,
which Mr, Grinnell was unwilling to
do; that while, as admitted by one of
the partners in the general order bus
iness as conducted by Mr. Murphy, not
a dollar could be made out of it under
the management of Mr. Grinnell, the
Leet partnership found no difficulty iu
running up tiie profits of the contract
to a hundred thousand dollars a year ;
that the recent organization of the
Legislature at Albany—since the ini
tiation of the new civil service reform,
and in order, probably, to afford the
President an opportunity to give it, as
he had promised, “a fair trial”—was
effected wholly in the interests of Gen.
Grant, by Federal office-holders and
Company for the year ending Septem
her 66, 1871, was, according to its re
cent official leport, 86,247,667. As
suming the cost ot running the passen
ger trains to have been tbe same that
it lias been for several years past—
about $5,500,000—the loss to the com-
, ... - - , paay on this brauch of its business has
plorabie in many of the consequences,) ^ oyer S2 . 000>000 during the year,
it is but too probable that many pur- j a
passenger traffic of the Erie Railway | those under the pay and patronage at
tions of the fcJouth would have to be.
altogether abandoned by the white race
and given up to mere barbarism, but
for the fact that lynch law will most
inevitably follow such crimes as have
driven Rochester frantic with horror
and indignation.
Official information has reached
Washington of the conclusion of
a contract between Mr. Meiggs
the great railroad contractor of
South America, and the govern
ment of Costa Rica, to construct a
railroad from the port of Limon, on
the Atlantic coast, to the City of Ala-
juels, on the Pacific, the estimated dis
tance being 120 miles.
There was a serious manifestation of
Irish opinion at Leir.erick on the oc
casion of the installation of the conser
vative mayor. The Prince of Wales
was hissed and home rule called for.
The 6tock men have been experi
menting in the feeding of their cows.
Steamed food has been found to in
crease tbe flesh and the quantity and
quality of the milk.
Not long ago Senator Ames refused
to pay a poll tax in Mississippi, on the
ground that he was not a resident of
that State, and yet he presumes to rep
resent Mississippi in the United States
Senate.
the New York Custom House.—Bos-
| ton Post.
Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, ex-Senator
from Ohio, is now counsel for the
Northern Pacific Railroad, at a salary
of S10.00U a year.
David A. Wells lias made a report
to tne Governor on the financial con
dition ot New York city. The debt is
less than $100,060,000, and the city is
amply able to meet all its engage
ments.
The House of Representatives of Illi
nois has passed, by a good majority, a
resolve taking ground in favor of the
One-Term principal as opposed to the
re-election of a President while in office.
A rose-bush *by the Cathedral .of
Hildesheim is 1,060 years,old.
In Los Angelos, California, the ear
lier qualities ot oranges are already
finding their way to market. The
fruit in all the orange groves is well
advanced, and an abundant ciop wilj
be obtained this year.