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GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE.
The Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman, ctflke3Jst.
, f re f e rring to tlie anticipated return
this gentleman to his home in that State,
B nd the manner in which that joyful
event should be celebrated, says :
}{ e will return to Kentucky in the
course of time—a few days or a few weeks
will see him among his accustomed walks
in Lexington. He seeks no ovation, and,
in Ids behalf, we request that there be no
demonstration beyond the personal and
individual marks of welcome. That lie
juids foremost iu the alFections of the
r)eop le of Kentucky no concealment need
be made, but even those who would most
dearly love to testify the popular sense iu
bis behalf must recognize the respect due
to his wishes in this regard. He will come
Kentucky realizing that, politically,
hi* career is closed indefinitely, and look
ing to the bar as the field of his labors and
tbe source of his support. Never rich, his
means now are slender, and for the re
cuperation ofh is fortunes, exemption from
public life will come gratefully to him.
Suggestions of political elevation will not
come from his well-advised friends, and
all who call themselves such will, we are
satisfied, manifest it most agreeably to
him by observing the general line of con
duct t» hi* return indicated by us.
Deferring of course to his wishes iu the
premises, we suppose there will be no pub
lic demonstration to attest the love and ad
miration of his old friends and neighbors,
aud the r gratification at his return.
But there is, not only in their hearts, but
the hearts of every true man in this broad
South, a sentiment of furvent loyalty to
him, and the many noble qualities that
illumine his life and character, that can
not and should not be repressed. Tt should
shine out in every eye, and show itself in
speech and manner wherever lie goes, and
let who will scold and frown. Let cold
blooded policy and creeping expediency go
bang, if they bid Bout hern men or Southern
women turn their hacks, or shut their
heart’s doors upon Joint C. Breckinridge.
He is called by those who have fastened
upon us a system whose beauties are being
illustrated just now, and in this State,
upon the banks of the Ogeechee, a
master “traitor” and “rebel,” for whom
there can he no forgiveness; who de.
serves the law’s direst penalties, and
whom to honor is to share his guilt
and deserve his doom. We shall be told
that any mark of regard to him, personal
ly, is a symbol of disloyalty, and that we
shall tints retard the adventof peace; that
it will make our enemies still more irate,
and give their scheming brains further
occasion to devise fresh deviltries for our
undoing. If General Breckinridge were
un ordinary man, and only prominent on
account of his connection with the re
cent civil war, we should probably feel
inclined to hearken to tins croak. We
certainly would, in tiie oases of Mason,
Slidell and others, who did little or noth
ing as compared with Gen. 8., anti who
made no sacrifices of interest in taking po
sition with the South. We are perfectly
willing that they should come home and
drop out of the public memory as quietly
as may be.
Gen. Breckinridge, though, deserves
more at our hands. He left a seat in the
U. IS. Senate, he sacrificed home, friends,
a prosperous present, and still more
glowing future to cast his lot with us.
If he had remained in the Senate and
given the weight of his great name aud
influence to the war policy of Lincoln,
there is no station and official honors that
lie might not have attained If lie had
been governed by expediency instead of
principle, lie might, to day, have been
President of wliat is called tlie United
Btntes. But he scorned it all, bought as it
must have been, at that price. He pre
ferred death, exile, uuything to stain
ing the whiteness of his soul. He was
cast in a heroic mould, aud coul I no more
have antagonized Nature, than lie could
help towering above liis fellows, lie
crossed tiie Rubicon without a sign or a
shudder, and for four long years, witii a
serene faith and a calm courage, almost
antique in their grand simplicity, gave
his every thought and act to tiie cause he
deemed just. Among all the civilian
generals of tiie Confederate army, none
more completely put away the politician
than lie. He did his duty from first to
lust, without faltering, and with a devo
tion and single heurteduess that chal
lenged tiie admiration of an entire people.
God bless him for it, say we! V/e shall
honor and love him till the day of our
death, and we know we speak for a vust
majority of the Southern people. For
them we dare to say, when he steps on
Southern soil: Welcome! th rice welcome
home! O! fearless Soldier, stainless Geu
tleman, aud incorruptible Patriot!
THE SAVANNAH NEGRO TROUBLES.
We are glad to know tiiat tiie law has
been vindicated in tiie arrest, by civil au
thority, of tiie negro rioters on tbe Ogee
ehee, but at the same time ieel somewhat
disappointed tiiat it was done without the
ai lof a volley or two. The shooting
down, promptly, of a score or two of these
ruffians would have had a wonderfully
salutary influence. Os course we do not
mean tiiat this should have been done
whether they surrendered or not. We
did hope, though, that they would resist
the military, and make force absolutely
necessary.
Hereafter, we suppose, whenever the
negroes down there take a notion to rob
and pluuder, and run white people off
tlieir plantations, it will be the rule to or
der a lirge body of Federal troops down,
just to—receive their surrender! They
s ;it upon and defy the law and its officers,
& nd then, when tired of the sport, signify
their willingness to surrender to the Uni
ted States! And this is one of the fruits
°f the tiling called “ reconstruction” —
w hich is supposed to uieau the ability of a
People to take care of themselves, and
tnuke their laws respected. We. wot of
da y* and officials in this State of Georgia,
w hen such difficulties would have been
settled without tbe aid of Federal bayo
nets.
—A deluded citizen of Portland, Maine,
becomiug impressed with an idea that tiie
"oSd is soou to be visited by a second
deluge, lias applied his whole property
7'>,000) to the building of an ark of refuge.
Hie boat will be 50 feet long, 15 feet wide,
ttt-bottonied, square sterued, and round
’ JW9 > a house a little aft of midships,
ie is sole plan ner aud builder.and iutends,
w hen it is completed, to furnish it with
necessary provisions, and calmly await
he rising of the waters.
—By tbe falling in of the roof of a
skating rink at Albany, New York, on
. 00 day last, four cbildreu were seriously
injured, and one fatally.
[communicated. J
SELECT COTTON.
Editor Journal and Messenger ;
Will you allow me, through your daily
journal, to make one suggestion to the
planters of Georgia ; as well for their bene
fit as cotton growers, as for the common
interest of our Btate. All admit that the
cotton crop is our main dependence for
money, and that it behooves us to increase
its production in our State. To thateud,
energetic efforts are being made. The
teachings of science and the mechanic J
arts are being api>ealed to for aid ; Cliemis
and the proper aoaptation
implements of husbandry are being em
ployed through the dictation of experi
mental research; planters are arousing
from tiie slumbers of error, bending every
energy and employing every laudable de
vice for the advancement of Agriculture,
and the production of larger crops from
their greatly diminished means. Among
other subjects engrossing the attention o
tiie modern co-ton planter, is the impor
tance of careful selection of seed. There
are many varieties and names of cotton
grown in Georgia, many of which have
their warm advocates ; butall experienced
planters have, doubtless, observed the
tendency in cotton to degenerate ; add are
as certainly' aware of the necessity of con-'
stantly selecting, in order to keep up the
seed of any particular kind. Not many
however, practice this conviction, aud it
is a generally admitted fact that our old
seed of cotton has run out for want of this
care. Nine-tenths of our planters are
making not more than one-third crops in
consequence of this degeueracy of seed,
and yet the true cause of this failure has
not occurred to them. We owe the true
demonstration of this invaluable fact to a
few thoughtful, enterprising men, who
have been selecting and culling the most
approved cotton seed for the last twenty
years. A mere glance at the cotton fields
of these men at once shows tiie great dif
ference. A recent visit to the farm of Mr. ‘
David Dickson, of Hancock county, quite
.convinced me that one of tiie secrets of his
remarkable success in growing cotton is to
be found in the superior kind of cotton,
which lie lias produced from careful select
ing during a long series of years. Origin
ally prolific, it has been so unproved that
hardly an imperfect stalk can be found in
a whole field. His cotton bears abundant
ly of large heavy bolls, aud is so easily
picked that a hand can gather double as
much during the season as lie can of the
common cotton, which is a very impor
tant desideratum in these times of dull
labor. I consider tiie Dickson cotton’ the
very best in the country, and tiie best
adapted to our climate, soil and labor. It
is incomparably the best that I have seen.
For tiie first time, Mr. Dickson is offering
his select seed to the public, aud we ought
to consider the proposition a great benefit,
as it will certainly prove a boon of success
to all who may plant them.
My suggestion, then, tomycotton plant
ing friends, is to get the Dickson cotton
seed, and then subscribe to and read the
Southern Cultivator, and the whole mys
tery of Mr. Dicksons remarkable success
as a cotton grower, will be revealed to
them. J. Dickson Smith.
Houston county, January 2d , 1860.
HOW SAVANNAH TAKES IT.
Commenting upon the granting of the
hill of injunction against the Central aud
Southwestern Kail road Companies, the
Savannah News rather ruefully remarks*;
While we were congratulating ourselves
that tiie city was relieved from a heavy
burden of debt, and enthusiastic persons
were already looking forward to a reduc
tion of taxation, it appears ttiat other par
ties have gone to work to prevent the pro
posed contract from going into effect It
is wise never to count chickens until they
are hutched, and these do not appear to be
out of the shell yet.
This important matter is now in tiie
bands of tbe Courts, and we wait to see
what the result will be; but, whatever
may be done, we hope that the interests
of Savannah and Georgia will be secured.
This is the main poiut to be gained, it
matters little by wliat course, so that it is
reached.
We understand that the bill of injunc
tion lias been served upon the President
of the Southwestern Railroad, Mr. Win.
B. llodgson. It will doubtless be fought
energetically in the Courts; and until it is
decided, the great stock transfer is not
perfected. We are inclined to think that
i the blowdid not come unawares, although
| it lakes the general public by surprise.
! THE UK VST MAKES A NEW A EAR’S CALL ON
THE PRESIDENT.
G -ier.il Butler, accompanied by Chief
: J un. ice Carter, of tiie United States Dis*
! tin- Court, made his appearance in the
st-earn of tiie profanwn vu/yus aud created
i quite a sensation by walking' up to the
President of tlie United States and shaking
him warmly by tiie hand Tiie meeting
was extremely cordial on both sides. But
ler grasped his great political foe by both
bauds, shaking them With tiie utmost
warmth. President Johnson reciprocated
heartily, and noth stood face to face for at
least five minutes, with clasped hands,
chatting aud smiling like the oldest ami
closest friends. Butler’s eye twinkled,
twinkled and twinkled with an expres
sion it was difficult to comprehend. Presi
dent Johnson’s sharp little ey’es twinkled,
twinkled, twinkled likewise. Johnson’s
face was all over smiling aud happy. But
ler’s countenance was radiant as a full
moon, beaming with mildness, benevo
lence and affection. “Mr. President, I
wish you a happy New Year ar.d all the
compliments of the season.” General, I
heartily return to you good wishes; I am
delighted to see you. General.” “Mr.
President, lam equally delighted.” Tbe
conversation at tiie interview was ending
in an exchange of meauiugless civilities,
when suddenly the (Jeueral becameaware
of the presence of the ladies of the Exee
utive household and hasteued to pay his
respects, tiie meeting with Mesdames
Patterson aud Stover was conducted with
all tbe skill aud gallantry of which Gene
ral Benjamin is capable. He was courte
ous, complimentary and witty, and took
his leave with a t’hesterfieldian grace of
which Sophomore Stunner might be en
vious.— Wash. Cor. N Y. Herald, 2 d inat.
IMPROVEMENT OF THE NAVIGATION OF THE
TENNESSEE RIVER.
The Chattanooga Daily Republican con
tains a call for a Convention to assemble
iu that city ou tbe 24th of February next,
to take measure to induce Congress to
make an appropriation of tiie necessary
means to construct a caual round the
Muscle Shoals of the Tennessee River.
We quote a portion of the call:
We, the Governors aforesaid, most earn
estly recommend that the cities, villages
and counties of the Tennessee Valley, and
the counties adjacent thereto, the Boards
of Trade aud other business associations
throughout the country, be represented in
the Convention. The importance of pro
viding free transportation by water for the
vast products of the country drained by
the Teuuessee River cannot he over-esti
mated.
To the people of the whole South and
West, to the entire country, the measure
is of the greatest importance, aud as a
commercial matter a 1 imperative neces-
I sity. A consultation of representative
men cannot fail to advance it.
R. B. Bullock, W. G. Beownlow,
Gov. of Georgia. Gov. of Tennessee.
I Saai’l Merrill, Wm. H Smith,
Gov. of lowa. Gov. of Alabama,
i T. O. Fletcher, J. W. Stevenson,
. Gov. of Missouri. Gov. of Kentucky.
[Augusta Dress, oth.
—Mrs. Elleu Barfield, wife of B. F. Bar
field, proprietor of the Bainbridge Oeor
i gian, died last Saturday.
Centrul Railroad.
At the Annual election for Directors of the Cen
tral Railroad & Banking Company, held in Savan
nah on the 4th inst., the old Board was re chosen,
riz: Wm. M. Wadley, Andrew Low, Job* R.
Wilder, Wm. B. Johnston, General J. F. Gilmer,
Geo. W. Wylly, Jno. Cunningham, Edward Padel
ford, Geo. VV. Anderson.
The following gentlemen were elected Directors
of the Augusta aad Savannah Railroad;
William Duncan, John Stoddard, A. R. Lawton
Robert A. Allen, Jno. Davison, Augustus S. Jones,
Wallace Gumming.
Jjphe two latter are new members.
a subsequent meeting of tbe Board of Direc
tOTs, WullaceCumming, Esq., was duly effected as
A lot sold by
Messrs. Jonathan, Collins <fc Son, at the extraor
dinary high price of 25% cents. It hardly cleared,
Mr. Collins tells us, New York middlings. It wax
purchased by a geutleman not in the cotton trade,
and cannot, therefore, be claimed as a criterion of
prices prevailing yesterday—2s cents being the rul
ing rate for New York middlings, which was freely
paid. The sales yesterday reaehedthe extraordin
ary amount of 1,070 bales-the heaviest day’s work
we have had to chronicle this season.
Talking of cotton, the Savannah Kern, of the 15th,
says that a bale of the “Peeler” cotton was sold in
that market on tbe previous day at 45 cents per
pound. It was shipped to Savannah frou%goAcin
phis, as being a better market than
The staple was beautiful and elicited general ad
miration. If is believed by ujany that it will, in
time, be cultivated extensively,.JuiTthk* j(lace
of the lower grades of Sea Ish«a cotton. * '
WASHINGTON SPECIALS.
ABOUT THE EFFEOT OF THE AMNESTY
PROCLAMATION.
Washington, January 1, 1869. —The ef
fect of tiie President’s amnesty proclama
tion of Christmas is yet the subject of ar
gument and doubt among Congressmen
aud others, ami it is asked:
“Does the proclamation remit or cancel
ail penalties and relieve against all disa
bilities?”
Among competent judges there does not
appear to be any doubt that it cau be
pleaded in bar to pending criminal pro
ceedings, and that it is within the power
aud province of the Executive to pardou
whether before or after a judicial convic
tion.
But does the proc’amation relieve as to
the disabilities described in tiie new
amendment to the Constitution the
Fourteenth ? This is the mooted question.
May those who participated in the rebel
lion now hold office aud vote? Are the
disabilities provided in the Fourteenth
Amendment intended a-* penalties, and if
so, does not the President’s pardon oblit
erate or remove the penalty? In answer
to this, it is claimed by some that not
withstanding the recently adopted four*-
teenth amendment, which provides for
removal of disabilities by a two thirds vote
iu Congress, the President’s poweris com
plete, aud that his pardon under tiie sec
ond article of the Constitution accom
plishes exactly what theCongiess may do
by a two-thirds vote; that tiie Fourteenth
Amendment does not repeal tiie second
article of tiie Constitution, but at most
only gives Congress concurrent power
witii the Executive in tiie subject matter
named ; that while under the amendment
Congress may do this thing by a two
thirds vote, under the second article tbe
Executive can by his pardon accomplish
tiie same result.
Such is the subject of the argument held
by some officials —legal men and Con
gressmen—and there is so much coullict
of opinion on this important subject that
iu all piobability there will be no definite
settlement of it until a judicial dicision
shall be had. —Richmond Dispatch, 'ld.
THE BUREAU MAN.
At the emancipation celebration here
last night, General Howard, of the Freed
ineu’s Bureau, advocated universal suf
frage in all the States. He said that the
negro race were not out of the woods, nor
was the work yet completed, for freedom
did not exist iu all tiie States. If it was
right, he said, to grant the ballot to colored
people 111 Olio section it
just that they should enjoy it in every
State —in Maryland and Ohio us in the
Southern States or iu the District of Co
lumbia. He thought that knowledge was
an important element in the advancement
of tiie colored race. They needed more
practical information and industry. On
tiie part of some, lie added, there were
those who believed that only those who
would give them money were their friends,
and they t’lought it very hard to have to
work for their living.
CORRUPT OFFICIALS TO Be OUSTED.
When the Senate reassembles it is un
derstood that the President will send iu
the names of nominees for every Internal
Revenue place against whose present oc
cupant charges of corruption have been
made. He w ill probably select good men
without regard to politics’, and thereby
test the sense of the Senate in his desire to
break up the fraudu ent revenue rings.
ILoui'-ville Courier Journal, 3 d
LET US HAVE PEACE” IN MOBILE—NEGRO
RUFFIANISM.
On New Year’s Eve, about half-past
eight o’clock, when all Mobile was upon
tiie streets, witnessing tiie grand turnout
of the Mystic Societies, Mrs. Geisinger,
the wife of the popular proprietor of the
“ Lee House,” No 32 Soutli Water street,
while sitting in a back room of the estab
lishment, Mr. Geisinger and tiie rest of
tiie family being absent, observed a large
aud powerful negro entering tbe front
door in his bare feet and moving rapidly
towards the entrauce which leads into the
room which she occupied. Six other ne
groes were standing ou the pavement im
mediately in front of the door, which they
closed upon their accomplice. Mrs. G.
finding herseJf shut up iu tiie house, and
the negro rushing upon her in a threaten
ing manner, fled from the room tow’ards
the door, which had just been closed, but
before reaching it the negro villain seized
her by the throat and arm and threw her
violently upon tiie floor. She screamed
loudly for help, when a negio on the out
side said iu a loud voice, “ cut her d—d
throat if she makes any noise.” Making
a desperate effort, she succeeded in getting
hold of the knob of tbe door, and succeed
ed iu puiliug it slightly open, when her
assailaut, who had diaw’ii a large knife,
fearing that assistance had come, rushed
past her aud out iuto the street, and joined
liia gang, who were walking along very
leisurely. Upon catching up with them
they all burst out into a loud laugh, and
then proceeded quickly away from the
locality.
Mrs. G. cried loudly for assistance, and
in about half an hour afterwards a negro
policeman came up, and gave as an excuse
for uot appearing promptly that lie was
engaged iu guarding a store, w iiich had
been left open, aud could not leave it.
T Register, 3 d.
Grapes in Los Angei, s County Cal
ifornia. —It is stated, ou good authority,
that the vintage of Los Angelos county
will this year produce one million and a
half gallons of wine, to make uo account
of the value of table grapes shipped from
there to San Francisco aud other markets.
This wine will average at least half a dol
lar per gallon. Los Angelos will, there
fore, realize $750,000 from her wiue pro
duct. Half of thi9 is said to be from the
Anaheim Vineyards. Probably the entire
area of laud from which this -wine lias
been made does not exceed SOOO acres. The
county of San Joaquin, from 100,000 acres
of the best average wheat laud in tiie State,
will aggregate 2,000 000 bushels of wheat,
worth, at $1.67 per cental, (the average
price this year,) just about $1 per bushel,
or an aggregate of $2,000,000. From these
figures it appears chat about 21,000 acres
in grapes will yield as much in value, in
wiue alone, at fifty cents per gallon, mak
ing no account of table grapes, or brandy,
as 100,000 acres of the best wheat land
cultivated iu wheat. A’re for acre, the
advantage is nearly five to one in favor of
grape culture. —Sacramento Union, De «
cember 14.
■ Brandy “Experts” at Fault.—At a
recent trial of a revenue case in New
York, skillful experts swore that some
specimens of braudy which were submit
ted to them were not only genuine, but
were worth twelve dollars a gallon in gold,
when it was afterwards proved that they
were manufactured in Brookjyn, and w’ere
not brandy at all.— Richmond Dispatch.
MACON. GA.. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1869.
THE RADICAL INSURRECTION ! V
The Negro *• Prayer Meeting ” on the
Ogeechee as yet Undisturbed—Fourteen
of the Prayists Surrender -to the Mii'.tary
—Further Arrival of Troops—No Move
ment on Account of "the Weather. _ v >
*
[From the Savannah News of the sth.]
The main body ofßullock’siusurreetionl
ists continue to hold their “ prayer meet)
ing” ou the Ogeechee plantations, undis;
turbed by invasion, either by biu'* coats ot
Sheriffs posse eomitatus. The arrival ot
tbe military has put au end to the latter,
and those who has enrolled themselves to:
service iu that body, were yesterday nr'f
fied that their services would uot be neel
ed, the representatives of the “ best gor
ernment the world ever saw ” haviug
taken tiie matter in baud. The exoi »-
meut among citizeus appears to bedyitg
out, the general impression being that tie
negroes had gained a point, and the civil
authorities also.
Tbe idea that this armed insurrection
against the laws was preconcerted aid
arranged by parties whose interests wouil
be furthered, should tiie State be put oti
of the Union again, is also generally •«-
lieved. The so-called Governor, wh-se
duty it should have been to put down tbe
trouble at ouce, iusLead of being where he
should have been, was away, endeavoring
to furtiier his own selfish interests, at tie
expense of the peace, quiet and prosperiy
of the country, aud nothing in the wqfiil
could have furthered his purposp better
than a disturbance of this kind. Nothing
easier than to charge it to the v m-w
Tbe negroes, with tiieir “ rude
justice,” could not see why tbos rich
plantations, and the crop, the result of a
whole year’s labor, should not belong to
them. It was a piece of presumptiui in
white men to invest their capital in paut
iug, to place watchmen in the fields ; md,
finally, iu the Sheriff'to think it his luty
to arrest a thief or murderer who happtued
to have a black skin. We who are lere,
who are sufferers by the disturbed stab of
thecouutry, cannot view things exactly
iu that light —but we do not see with Rad
ical eyes, nor hear with Radical ears. In
the course of time we may become evil*
ized, hut the Radical millennium has uot
yet arrived.
Fourteen deacons of the Ogeechee “jray
er meeting” arrived in the city aiout
three o’clock yesterday morning. They
gained tiieir point —they surreudersi to
the military authorities at tiie Ogletlorpe
Barracks, and did not “give up t< tbe
rebels—rattier bad expression that,
for a “ prayer meeting,” but in accord
ance with the “rude sense ofjustio” of
these people. Thauks to General Siiley,
however, a point was made by thecivii
authorities, as the prisoners were alonce
turned over to tiie civil officers of tin law.
Commitments were issued against hem
by Justice Philip M. Bussell, Jr., arnithey
were escorted to jail by Sheriff' Doner,
Deputy Sheriff Mendeil, Special Diputy
Sheriff Russell, and Officer Kauliman.
These are the parties against whom war
rants were first issued. Their namis are
as follows:
Paul Banks, Silas Green, Ben lurry,
Carolina Early, Abram Minis, 'Fiomas
Benedict, Richard Jones, Dandy M«Neal,
Janu .ry Hamilton, Harry Blake,Caesar
Malone, CufFy Williams, Jerry Jon*s and
York Hamilton.
Dandy McNeal is one of the drill mas
ters, and lia- been a prime mover in tiie
insurrection. Harry Blake was ttptain
of one of tiie companies. The charges
against each one of these parties are as
follows:
Ist—lnsurrection against the lawful au
thority of the State of Georgia.
2 Assault witii intent to murder certain
watchmen ou Southfield and Irairie
plantations.
3 Robbery from J. M. Middletpn
4 Robbery from J. F. Tucker.
5 Highway robbery from special itficer
Kauffman.
6 —Highway robbery from DepuUSlier
iff E. Meudel.
7 Rescuing prisoners from arresting of
ficers ami resisting the Sheriff of the
county while in the discharge of life duty.
8— Assault with intent to murder Red
ding Baxley.
9 Assault with intent to murder Rich
ard Winn.
Tne eVlUeilCs“aß,.tt«t,„ v *-s#e paon
tLe above charges, is very sf»om . we un
derstand. Olliers of the original seven
teen, against whom the original Warrants
were issued, are also expected in.
Two additional companies of tie lGth
Infantry arrived here yeslerday miming.
One of them, Major St. Ouge’s, w(as for
merly stationed at iliis post.
No movement against the negroes, who
are still ou the Ogeechee plantations, aud
who were engaged in the insurrection
against the lawful authorities hts yet
taken place. The military officers think
that the matter has beeu much ecagerated.
Perhaps Winn and Baxley, then their
heads were being beaten witbelibbed mus
kets, thought that an exaggerated style of
treatment, and a peculiar modeif holding
“piayer meeting,” but they forgot to
ascribe it to a “rude sense of jistice,” as
the Tribune says, on tiie part oil be negro.
It is uot probable that any expeililiou will
be undertaken to-day, we learufrom a re
liable source, the bad weather ireventing
a movement to the front. Tfc city has
quieted down, and the affair is left to tiie
military, co-operating with thacjvil au
thorities. No trouble isauticipatii when
an attempt is made to arrest tli guilty
parties.
Over thirteen hundred warrujs have
been issued by Justice P. M. Kesel for
the arrest of parties conceruediin the
trouble on the Ogeechee plautatihs. In
addition to those named ahoy, there
are one hundred and thirty-f mothers,
against whom the same charges, numer
ated above, have been made. | is ex
pected that these persons will beirrested
by tiie military and turned ova to the
civil authorities for trial.
It would also have been well war
rants been issued against sevtfel well
known Radical apostles belongin in this
city, who hastened to the Ogeecty when
the trouble occurred, and who h;'e been
there ever since, engaged in inding the
Ogeechee negroes to further bad «eds.
HIGH-HAXDED CONDUCT OF VEG9EB AT
DAKIEX.
The Sheriff Compelled to Imprison TV White
Men lo Preserve their Lives.
We learn from a gentleman wib came
up trom Darien, on Saturday veniig. that
there was great excitement b tint place
when he left, cousequeut upii tbi action
of a band of negroes, numhring eighty
louriuall, who were armed itti iiuskets
and bayonets. They came 6m about ten
or twelve miles in the eourry, bringing
with them as prisoners twuwhite men,
w hom they marched up to thajaij, where
they commanded the Sheriff yce tlH*sn
in irons and imprison thX. The
negroes were expostulated ith, the
Sheriff telling them that men tild only
be put in jail on a commitmen and by
regular process of the law. Theneclared
that if the Sheriff did not put tl meu in
jail and lock them up, they wild shoot
them at once. The Sheriff, by |»rce and
arms,” and to save the lives (the men,
had to put irons on them in tliipresence
of the negro guard, and lock iliu up iu a
cell; the negroes remaining arsd to see
that they were not released, skie white
citizens of the place would havq terferred
on thei r behalf, but the couijliT of the
more prudeut prevailed, and tk were al
lowed to remain in the jail, aslieir lives
w r ere considered more secure lere than
outside.
From what our informant did learn,
some of the negroes had been lot at once
or twice by parlies iu the eiitry, and
they took it upon themselvj to arrest
these young men as the ones tt had filed
at them. The general impress*, from the
character of the parties, was thkhey were
totally mistaken. One of thtneu was
named Sallust ; the name of tj other we
did not learn — Savannah Netkith.
1
We Agree With Him.—fee of the
negro speakers at the negro conation on
Friday said: “As an evi<|ce of our
superiority as a race, I can teiou that I
am a inemberof the Alabamatgislature, i
and there are fifty white memrs whoaie
not as well qualified for the jtion as w e
negroes.”
The negroes were by far e most re- j
spectable Radicals in the pie/ld concern.
They were less corrupt, morihouest and i
more truthful than theif BRcal white -
associates.— Montgomery Adr titer, 3d. i
LO! THE POOR NEGRO.
i He Hu tbe Alphabet and the Ballot, but Ue Can’t
Sing.
| (From the Danville (Va.) Register, Dec. 25. j
I And the negro! what is Christmas
to him uow mean particularly the
plantation negro. It is no Christmas at
I all comparable to what it was iu the days
of auld latig syne, in the feudal days of
; the Republic, the full-blooded Afriean
Itondsmau was an institution, the like of
which will never be seeu again. The
mistaken p) ilanthropists of Yankeeland
were wont gj shed crockodile tears aud
heave theh ‘bosoms in very agony of sym
pathy at the imagined wrougs and cruel
ties done the Southern slaves, whom they
looked upon as tbe most abject, misera**
bie, cast-down, broken-hearted, ill-treated
creatures upotr the top of the wide earth ;
in all of which "they were wofu ly in error,
for many of these slaves were the very
happiest people that ever drpw the breath
of life! Ail that had humane aud well-to
do masters were happy aud contented.
They were divided into classes, according
to their several occupations, aud were of
varied habits; but they ail enjoyed Christ
mas as the event of ail events. It was
what was kuown as the cornfield nigger
that was the sui generis, the salient repre
sentative of his condition and his race.
The cornfield negro on a plantation was
like part of the soil. He had him a com
fortable cabin to live in. and lie might
have therein for his especial comfort aud
complaint, a wile aud just, as many chil
dren as he could raise, all fed aud clothed
at the master’s expeuse, like 'himself.
Besides this luxury ot a wife and chiiUrey,
he could raise a pig extra; he could keep
a dog (master feeding botli ;} he ciULdAiavaß
a garden patch to himself, and his “VHl 1
woman” could raise as many gourds as
her heart might desiie—and they were
some ou gourds! What is more, Sambo,
in the good old days, used to he touched
with the divine afflatus—he carried music
in his “ sooty breast.” It is couimouly
believed that the negro carries more music
under his waistcoat than a Caucasian.
But whether this be true or not, Sambo
had a soul for sweet sounds, and the banjo
was bis delight, the companion of his idle
hours, liis great good joy. Who iu south
side Virginia does uot remember old Joe
Sweeney and his banjo! Oh, how she
talked ! Old Joe was looked upon as a sort
of deuii-god by the music-loving negroes.
And then for the dancing—iu the jig, the
breakdown, tiie old Virginia reel, the
negro was perfectly at home. Sometimes
he moved with inimitable grace through
the figures of the dance, and there was uo
white man who could "cut the pigeon
wing” like tiie corn-field nigger. His leg
went right down into the middle of his
foot; but that did not prevent iiim from
shaking th «l foot—not in the least.
Weil, tiius lie was tiie year rouud, and
at Christmas, he “laid down de shovel
and de hoe” and spread himself. It was
a local season with him—a point toward
which the aims and thoughts of the whole
year were turned. All classes of negroes
were turned loose then, to make tiie most
pleasure possible for themselves. Sambo,
of the cornfield ; Dinah, of tiie spinning
wheel; tiie cook, tiie chambermaid, tiie
boy who waited on his master’s table, to
‘‘Hand de bottle when ’twas di r,
And brush away de blue-tail fly;”
all went in f rit at Christmas. Each one
expected and received some gifts from tiie
white folks at tbe annual holiday, and
they were seldom disappointed.
But this is over. Sambo is no longer
tiie happy servant he used to be; lie no
longer enjoys his plenty, free from care
and anxiety; he lias got trouble into his
brain at last, and Christmas is not wliat it
once was to him. They arecramming the
alphabet into his head and the ballot into
his pocket, but that does not make Sambo
Happy nor give him bread. He even
neglects his foremost idol, tiie banjo, for
lie cannot sing his song “in a strange
land.” Let us Lave pity ou the poor ne
gro.
THE FLORIDA SENATOR.—THE HON. A. S.
WELCH, OF IOWA.
The Tallahassee Sentinel, gives the fol
lowing account of one of Florida’s Sena
tors, whom it dubus a “ carpet bagger ex
traordinary.” It will seem so, to ail who
will read wliat the Sentinel says of the
Sen**?';*- O'ba.Hon. A- S. Welch,of lowa,
1 resident of tiie Agricmrnral I'olleife of
tiiat State, it says, “ witii S4OOO a year, and
a furnished house, audSeuator from Flor
ida, (until March next,) will soon be an
nounced by the Jacksonville Union, as a
candidate for the task of ousting Mr. Gil
bert from his seat as United States Sena
tor from ttiisState. Mr. Welch was elect
ed last juiy, to serve the unexpired term,
and shortly after accepted the lucrative
position of President of the lowa College,
gave up his residence in Florida, removed
his family to lowa, aud his property here
was left for sale. His saw-mill sold for
$12,000. His re-ddence is held at $5,500
with furniture. Mr. Welch lias just re
turned to Florida. He proposes to stay,
if the Legislature will oust Mr. Gilbert
and put him in his place. He proposes to
pull up stakes ii.stauter, if tLe Legislature
will be so naughty as not to gratify him ”
“ Gentlemen of tiie Legislature, we have
the high honor to take tiie bull by the
horns, and introduce to vouracquaintance
in January, the Honorable Mr. Welch, of
Michigan , President of a coliege ill lowa,
and at preseut United States Senator fiom
Florida."
EXTRAVAGANCE IN NEW YORK CHURCHES
flow They are Deep in Debt.
(From a New York letter in the Chicago Post.)
Uur people were greatly surprised at tiie
rumor that tiie Rev. Dr. Osgood, of tiie
Messiah Church, had resigned. He occu
pies one of the most costly ami command
ing church edifices iu New York. He has
been in New York nearly twenty years.
Succeeding Dr. Dewey in 1849, he at oucj
took rank among the foremost preachers
of New York. Removing from tiie lower
I part of the city, a church edifice costing
| over $2-50,006 was erected, and lias just
been consecrated. The financial troubles
I aud reverses have embarrassed tiie society
i to such au exteut that Dr. Osgood teuder
!ed iiis letter of resignation. A meeting of
his friends was called, and at their earnest
solicitation the letter was withdrawn.
The pressing indebtedness of tiie church
is about SIOO,OOO. One gentleman offered
to pay the interest ou $50,000 for one year.
This up-town business is becoming rath
er serious Crowded in a nairow space in
upper New York are more costly churches
; thau can be fouud iu the same space piob
j ably iu the Christian world. They were
built when merchants were flush, and
; land, building materials and labor very
; high. Most of the congregations wor
\ sbipiog in these expensive affairs left not
only tiieir down town churches wheu they
moved, but their congregations also. A
handful of aristocratic, wealthy people,
with from $200,000 to $300,000 in their
treasury, obtained from the sale of their
down-town property, cau build a very ex
i peusive and tasbiouable house of worship,
I but they can’t fill it with a congregation
after it is built. It is melancholy to look
' in on the handful of people that compose
the average of up town congregations. On
a pleasant morning, by the aid of people
who come from the lower pxit of the city,
a respectable congregation cau be gather- ;
ed. But he second service is lean enough, \
aud might as well be abandoned. Most of
these new churches are immensely in :
debt. Commercial reverses have wiped
aw’ay the resources on which the congre- !
gation relied. More than one fashionable ;
establishment is reeling under a debt that ;
may prove its extinction.
Thanks !— To our friends of the Monroe
Advertiser, we lift our hat for the follow
ing good words. It will not be our fault
if they are not always deserved :
“The Journal and Messenger has
been enlarged and otherwise greatly im
proved. There aresome clever writers on
the Messenger, and they get up a splen
did paper. If good wishes avail anything,
that journal will experience a most happy
aud prosperous new year.”
—President Johnson, it is said, denies J
that his amnesty proclamation is intended ;
to cover the case of President Lincoln’s
assassins confined in the Dry Tortugas.
—The great ice gorge iu the St. Croix j
River, Minnesota, opposite the town of
Taylor’s Falls, Is over forty feet high, and j
the ice is still accumulating. J
THE GOLDEN SIDE.
There is many a rest in the road of life.
If we would only stop to take it;
And many a toue from the better land.
If tire querulous heart would make it!
To the sunnv soul that is full of hope.
And whose beautiful trust ne’er faiieth,
Thegrass is grecu and the flowers are bright,
Though the winter storm prevaileth.
Better to though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted;
For the sw.-et blue sky will soon peep through,
Wheu the ouiiuous clouds are rifted !
There was never a night without a day,
I Or an evening without a morning;
i And the darkest hour, us the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawniug.
There is many a getn in the path of life,
Which we pss» in our idle pleasure.
That is richer fur thau the jeweled crown,
Or the uiiser’a hoard of treasure ;
It may be the love of the little child.
Or u mother’s prayers to heaveu,
Or only a s grateful thanks
Fora cup of water given.
Better t o weave in the web of life
A bright and golden Ailing,
And to do God’s will with a ready heart.
And hands that are ready andVilling,
Thau to sn.ip the delicate, minute threada
Os our curious lives asunder.
And theu blame Heaven for the tangled end*,
And sit aud grieve aud wonder.
A NEW INVENTION IN FIRE ARMS—A PATENT
EXTERMINATOR.
(Froaa the Nashville I’re-s. J
The invention consists of a range oti
guus of 0.76 bore and about 40 inches long,
mounted on a carriage of very simple
t structure to be hauled by one borse. Tiie
width of the carriage between the wheels
six feet. The gum barrels, twelve in
•wirfeber, arearrauged apparently parallel
to each other upon this carriage. We say
apparently, for their line of tire is not
strictly parallel, but divergent, so that at
three hfffhired yards distant the twelve
bullets sweep aline of about thirty-live
feet. They are ranged at equal distances
from eaclr other, except in tho middle,
where there is a space often iuches, into
which is placed a telescope of considerable
power, aud a uicearrangemeut for adjust
ing the gun3 iu taking aim. This con
trivance enables the operator to send a
bullet through tiie bull’s eye at one thous
and six hundred yards nine times out of
ten. The tubes themselves are rifled, and
double the strength of ordinary rifles, and
are made strong at the breech by a band
six inches broad and one inch thick.
They are all loaded at tiie breech. The
breech'pieces are ull connected by and,
whicli i.s attached to a crunk, one turn of
which opens ami shuts ail tHe breech
pie es.aiui loads tiie pieces; for tire breech
pieces, by this motion, are brought in con
tact witii twelve tubes, placed immediate
ly over the breeches, and containing the
cartridges, the same turn extracting tiie
cartridge from its tube, and inserting it
with precision in its place iu the gun.
The guns are made ready for firing by as
simple and rapid a motion us the turning
of a crank. They are fired by another
slight motion, which drives twelve nee
dles, inserted in tiie breech for the purpose,
into the fulmirate with which tiie car
tridges arc covered. So simple, sure and
rapid are these movements, that twenty
seven rouuds were fired iu sixty-three sec
onds, yesterday, at tiie place of trial, out
ou the Hyde’s Ferry Pike. Tiie cartridges
are four inches in length, and do not en
tirely explode until tiie ball i.s about half
way out of the barrel; ail effect whicii is
produced by a nice arrangement of the
material of which it is composed. Ex
cept tiie bullet tiie whole cartridge is com
bustible, and leaves nothing behind when
it is fired oil'. The gun will send a hall
three miles. The aim is always good at
2,000 yards. At a trial yesterday a line of
plank, six inches broad, was raised four
feet from the ground and fired at fifteen
hundred yards distant, aud out of sixty
shots fired forty seven went through, and
six others left marks upon tbe edge of tiie
plank. The inventor is confident that a
regiment of soldiers, a mile and a half dis
tant, could be all killed by one of these
Pollyleri (the name lie has given them)
in four minutes. In tiie hands of an in
telligent, steady operator, at least ninety
per cent, of the balH fired w;li take effect.
The whole affair, wheu in fighting trim,
weighs but five hundred pounds, and is
intended to be hauled by one horse and
worked by two met), one to drive, and
‘i-- t<> operate. Tho loading and
firing apparatus is so arranged that it can
be detf-ched iu a moment, when the other
part of tiie deadly engine becomes perfect
ly useless. One of them can be finished
off complete, with horse, etc , for SI,OOO.
Tiie inventor, a young workihg me
chanic, feels jubilant at the great success
which has attended tiie first trial of his
important production, which cost him so
many mouths of toil and ail the means
which lie had at his command He goes
to Washington in about a week, to push
his fortune, and to revolutionize tiie art of
war.
A FACT IN TIIE HISTORY OF THE VELOCI
PEDE.
The Pall Mall Gazette is authority for
the statement that fifty years ago tiie
velocipede mania was as prevalent in
England as it is in France to-day. It was
then known as the “Pedestrian Hobby
Horse.” It was identical witii tiie French
velocipede, save tiiat it was worked as the
French instrument is now started, by
putting tiie feet on tiie ground on each
side. The patentee was a Mr. Johnson,
but it would appear tiiat tiie invention
was not iris, but came from Germany.
The following description is taken from
an engraviiiK of the year 1819 :
“The machine is cf the most simple
kind, supported by two light wheels run
ning on the same line; me front wheel
turning ou a pivot, which, by means of a
short lever, gives the direction in turning
to one side or tiie other, tiie hind wheel
always running in one direction. The
rider mounts it, and seals himself iu a sad
die conveniently fixed at the back of the
horse (if allowed to be called so), aud
placed in the middle between the wheels;
the feet is placed flat on ttie ground, so
that in tiie iirst to give the machine
motion, the heel should be tiie part of tne
foot to toucli tiie ground, and so on with
the other foot alternately, as if walking
ou the heels, observing always to begin
tiie movement geutly. In front, before
the rider, is placed a cushion to rest tiie
arms ou while tiie hands hold tiie lever
which gives direction to tbe machine, as
also to balance it if inclining to either 9ide
when the opposite arm is pressed on the
cushion.”
General Blair.—General Frank P.
Blair, who lias been stopping iu this city
for a week past, has left for one thousand
miles beyoud Omaha, to survey anew
section of the Pacific road. General Blair
declined to discuss the canvass, but is con
viuced tiiat the majority of legal voters in
the country were not represented by the
party in power, which got itself up by the
negro and kept its opponents down by dis
franchisement. He has come put of the
war, he says, a bankrupt; his business
gone, and he solely dependent upon a
commissionership of the Pacific Railroad
for even subsistence In refeieuce to re
cent issues which had grown up between
General Grant and the Radicals in regard
to thecivii tenure law. they only bore out
tiiat estimate of the General’s character
which General Blair had been frank
to acknowledge. He had stated it that
General Grant would lead, not follow ;
and would be more likely to demand
new powers than to relinquish a single
prerogative. The Genera! was of the opin
ion tiiat tiie liveliest times in political
circles were ahead.— Washington Express,
Ist.
Excitement in the First Pesbyte
rian Church. —Y’esterday morning Rev.
David K. Porter, Pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church, while in the act of read
ing the secono hymn in tbe regular order
of services, suddenly fell to tiie floor of
the pulpit. Considerable excitement was
ceated in the congregation, and mern'em
of the Church went up to the Minister,
who was found to be suffering from ail
attack of palpitation of the heart. He
wa9 taken to his residence, and medical
aid summoned. We understand that the
attack is not likely to have any serious
result, a few days’ quiet being only neces
sary to restore tbe Reverend gentleman to
his usual health. —Savannah News, 4 th.
—The men of Illinois are called “Suck
ers,” because the pioneers in that State
used to get water from tbe crawfish holes
by sucking it through a reed.
MACON A WESTERN K VII.HO ID COMPANY
Preside lit’* Annual Hr|H>rl
M.uxjn, Oa., Ifeeeuiber Ist, 1868.
j To the Stockholders :
Gentlemen— The earnings of the Road
; for the tiscai year ending the 30th ulitmo,
• are, iu curreucy, asshowu by Treasurer’s
j Table, No. 1—
| From Freights *315,619 99
I I rum Passengers vmo jts
j From Mails ”” 7 756 25
l From Interest and Premium 2 422 88
.From Car Kent 614 82
Total from all sources.... #4'v4,373 82
And expenditures for the same time, as
J Per Table No. 2 *315.026 74
i For Kevenne Tax 10.751 91
For general Taxes. (State,
County and City,) 6,1*7 51
For Deductions l,‘i»o 73
For lusurauce 957 81
Net earnings. *150,219 13
To this add balance as per last Report.. 124.571 77
Making *274,790 90
Out of this amount bas been
paid Dividend No. 44...| 60,000 00
Out of this amount has been
paid Dividend No. 45... 60.000(10
# 20,000 00
Leaving #154,790 90
Os which amount * 43,190 64
has been paid for materi
al now on hand, as
shown by the balance
sheets aud inventory,
(Table No. 5.)
And Dividend due and being
paid this day 90,000 00
Lilanee...' * 16,300 26
The above sialemen ns was an
ticipated in my last report, a decrease this
year botli in tiie gross earnings and ex
penses. Os tiie former, $83,972 86, and tiie
latter, $130,891 53, tmt an increase in the
net earnings of $46,918 67.
The decrease of the earnings has been
caused mainly by the reduction of the
rates of freight and the irregular charac
ter of our connections with tiie Central
Railroad aud the steamships from Savau
uah to New York.
The expenditures, $334,154 69, includes
$60,970 67 extraordinary expenses. This
being deducted from $334,154 69, leaves
$273 184 02 tiie working expenses of the
Hoad, about fitty-six per cent, of tbe eam
ings.
The extraordinary expenses are for new
rails, chairs and spikes, Revenue lax, gen
eral taxes, (State, county and city,) insu
rance, depot building at gunny si !c, bridge
witii stone abutments over the Road iu
Troup street, legal expenses, etc.
I refer you to ihe Treasurer’s Report and
balance sheet for the financial condition
of the Company. It will show tiiat no
change lias been made in tiie liabilities of
the Company, and tiiat tiie Company
owes uo debts other than those incident
to operating the Road, and has nothing
due ilie Company thm. may not lie collect
ed, except tiie claim against Mr. Cline,
which lias not been adjusted, ami may
have to be charged to Profit and Loss.
In March last, tin; Directors determined
to dispeuse witii the offiee of Superintend
ent, aud leave liia duties to he performed
by the President, with such changes in
tiie departments as lie thought proper.
The service inis been performed, and in
tiie reorganization of the departments tiie
carpenter and machine shops were again
placed under separate, management, with
Mr. James A. Knight in charge of tin
former, and Mr. William McCandleas now
of tiie latter.
I refer you to tiie report of the Foreman
of tiie machine shop for the amount of
labor performed, and material used iu
shops, and to Tables 3 and 4 for service
peformed by, and the preseut condition of
the engines.
DEPOT BUILDINGS
Are all in good order, and ample for all
the requirements on tiie Road at this time.
WOOD AND WATER STATIONS
Are in good order.
ROAD REPAIRS.
The repairs of tiie road-bed have been as
complete this year as could Le made with
out the purchase of more uew rail-, whie l
was not deemed necessary. About five
hundred and forty tons of new rails were
obtained from reroiling of old rails. Tiie
new rai s were laid on tho track continu
ously, with new chairs, and the sound
rails taken up were removed and relaid
where damaged rails were found iu the
track, thus putting the road bed in good
order. The road-bed lias required 46,587
cross-ties, and vve now have on line of
Road for this year’s repairs 24 560, which
will approximate the requirements of tiie
Road, and in order to keep the Road iu
excellent condition, it will only be neces
sary (for the supply of new rails,) to re
move from the Road five or six hundred
tons of rails annually to be rerolled.
The cross-ties used tiie last t hree years
have generally been of sucli excellent
quality, tiiat they may he expected to lust
several years; and the Road having been
so well repaired, no heavy repairs will he
required lor some time to come.
ROLLING STOCK.
I copy the report of Mr. James A.
Knight, tiie efficient Master Carpenter, for
information iu reference to the rolling
stock :
“ I'be stock of cars consists of 6 passen
ger cars, 6 baggage cars, 2 seiond-cl ss
passenger cars, 2 express cars, 135 box
car 9, 49 fiat cars, 12 slock cars, and 5 coal
cars. Total, 217.
“ Tbe cars, botii freight and passenger,
are generally in good order. Two passen
ger aud baggage cars have been thorough
ly repaired and panned and put on the
road in as good order as wheu built. The
ordinary seats ot two passenger cars were
removed, and reclii ing or sleeping chairs
substituted, at a cost of S3O per chair, each
car requiring thirty seats; total cost per
car, $960. Two first-c ass pa-senger cars
are in process of construction, and can be
completed during the next year.”
The condition cf the Company’s eiitire
property is such ttiat no expenditure*
need he made next year, except such as
may be incident to the repairs of the natu
ral wear of the same, or until our connec
tions may require additional motive jkiw
er, which may be tiie case when the Ma
con and Brunswick aud Augusta and
Macon Roads reach Macon; also additional
supply of box cars.
The completion to Macon, of the Ma
con and Brunswick and the Macon and
Augusta Roads, will lie an era in the busi
ness of this Company, aud will advance
its interest to au extent not yet obe
properly estimated. It now app'ears to he
time to take hold of and aid tin; Savan
nah, Griffin and North Alabama Road, 1
leaving Griffin for Decatur, Alabama.
This connection is of the most vital inter- }
est to this Road and ail the lUadsconnect
ing with us at Macon, each of which
evinces a sincere desire to aid the enter
prise. but urge this Road to take the ini- i
tiative step, and show a disposition to aid |
the road. I trust it will not requireargu- j
ment toshow tiie stockholders of this Com
pany that this Road is of vast importance
to us, and when all our connecting Roads
at Macon from the East are willing to aid,
and only connect with us at Macon, gi - ing
us the benefit of all their business to take
over our Road to Gritfiu, we ought to aid
in putting this Road iu operation without
delay. It is therefore earnestly recom
mended to you to give such direction to
this matter as you may desire.
It has pleased an All-Wise Providence
to remove from us two of the most es
teemed and valued Directors of our Local
Board; in this the Company, end we as
individuals, have sustained a loss not
easily repaired, for in Mr. N. C. Monroe
and Mr. Hendley Varner we had efficient
and constant counsel, ever ready and will
ing to give the Company’s interest their
time aud influence.
It is a pleasure to me to acknowledge my
indebtedness to MiioS. Freeman, Secreta
ry and Treasuier, to H. W. Bronson, Mas
ter Transportation, and to the Agents,
head* of departments, and all the em
ployes of the Company, for the faithful
performance of tiieir several duties.
Respectfully submitted for the Board.
A. J. White, President.
—The agent of.the Virginia Express
Company was knocked down and robbed
of $12,000 at 5 o’clock New Y'ear’s morn
ing, at Norfolk, on the way to the depot.
He was seriously hurt.
—During the year just closed, 156 whites,
and 285 blacks, have died Ju Atlanta.
VOL. LX., NO- 43.
POLLARD.
History of thr Fatal \rtirlr—Hanna's Account.
The initial No. of the Southern Opinion,
under it* new management tW. D Chee
ternian <fe C 0.,) has ma«le its app»:irance
witti aUrocive eouicti -t. .! ’>! . i un-a,
Mr. Pollard’s as-■ «■:■ 11 < ami H.iimate !i it li,
contributes a long and circumstantial ac
count of the killin' f the la!•» cl ,r -f
the paper, with many facts hitherto un
published, from which we extract the fol
lowing interesting history of the “fatal
article”:
Says Mr. Hanna:
I was at dinner at the Ballard House on
a day the week previous, when a gentle
man who sat at the same table with me,
remarked, “Did yon hear of the elope
ment?” I had not, and asked of him to
whom he referred. The gentlemau then
named the parties, and related all the facts
within his knowledge.
Dinner over, I returned to the oflice.
Mr. Pollard whs not there; he had gone >
his residence, on the Grove road, I• a
note from him lay on my desk. Its <
tents were an urgent request to visit him
at his hoii-e that evening, a- he had some
important items for communication tome.
I visited him. f met him alone in my
own room, as he seemed nnxiou- that th
servants should not hear anythin that
might pass between us. He had -one
notes in his hand, and w hen I si *> e of
the case l had heard at the Pal turn Hous-,
here marked qui kly : “ Yes, I have he ud
ail about it, too ; *aud I want you to take
the address of this gea.leujau ;go i.«> .n,
get all the facts, and prepare an article
upon it—in the old style, remember.”
rills was a phrase of ins, used when Tie
wished anything written in a peculiarly
witty or sarcastic vein. He then guve me
the notes he held in tits hand.
I suggested that |>o*»ibly It would behest
to suppress names, as the parties stood
high, and trouble might ensue. He an
gered at ouce, ami replied: “The papers
don’t keep my name out when I g t into
a difficulty; why should I suppress the
names of these persons? My family is as
good as theirs. No, put the names in lull;
I’m responsible for what goes in my pa
per.”
Here tlie conversation dropped, or pass
ed to other subjects. We came into (ho
city together the next morning ; in a few
hours thereafter the article was written
and in the hands of the printers. That
night I was again at his residence, and
heard tile proof read. Again t ugg. -ted
tliut as the name occurred in but one place
it might he omitted without injury to the
interest or point of the article. 11 > de
clined ; nor do 1 think he altered or e rased
a single word, but, on the contrary, ex
piessed entire satisfaction with it.
As the week drew to its close, theallc<:ed
elopement was the town topic in c-rtaiu
circles, and grew in exaggeration It was
hinted abroad Unit the Southern Opinion
was preparing to ventilate the matter On
Wednesday late, or early Thursday ru
ing, a friend of the Giant family visited
the Opinion office. Mr. Bollard was at Ins
country house ; I was alone. ’Milsgentle
man inquired whether such an arti
cle, based on tli * rumor afloat, was to ap
pear in the nexA issue, i told him 1 h<- -
lieved there would he a publ cation. lie
inquired further whether such publication
could not be suppressed, saying, “Hi .illy,
this is very dreadful! you are doing a
family a very great wrong; besides, there
is not one particle of truth in the report.”
He then recounted the oireumstu ices of
the young lady’s going away. 1 told him
I was powerless to stop the publication of
the smallest paragraph after it was once
in type; and that Mr. Pollard was editor,
proprietor, and chief censor.
‘•Then,” said he, “is there no way in
which it can ho stopped ? Is (I ,<* any
pecuniary consideration w hich w .old in
duce you to forego the publication ?"
With that the gentleman, on his own
responsibility, as 1 have understood, offer
ed to fill the space occupied by tin- i.rtide
with an advertisement for w hich he would
pay one hundred dollars down. I told
him l had no authority lo negotiate ; that
he must see Mr Pollard. “Then, where
can Mr. Pollard he found? I must si-e
him at once,” was his reply ; and lecc-iv
ing his address, he took a carna: and
went out to ttie Grove-road residence.
What consultation lock p ace a! that in
terview I never beard, except through a
third party ; but as lam the relater of
facts within my own knowledge only, 1
omit even the substance, there were
several subsequent interviews, however,
between this gentleman and Mr. Pollard.
The paper was usually put to press on
Thursdays at 4 i*. m. ; baton the afternoon
of tlii* day, wlifii the for mu were on the
pirHH, 1 received orders from Mr. pollard
to hold them hack until Friday morning.
Late on Thors .ay evening there w7s
another interview between the genth mini
representing the Grant family and Mr.
Pollard, in the presence of the writer.
The conversation again, as before, bin <1
on the possibility of suppressing the pub
lication. The intermediator at last, rising
with impatience, said with empiin-is'
“ Mr. Pollard, is there no way by which
this can he prevented ? lum a friend of
Hie family, am acting s sucti, ami do
assure you, upon the honor of a gi-utle
mau, that the r ports concerning iis
members are false—utterly false.” .Mr.
Pollard,'rising, walked the floor of ids
sanctum, then resumed his seat, and re
plied: ”As for any pecuniary coii-id-lo
tions that may he offered me, "that i- pale
ly a matter of business. f publish my pa
per tosell. If Mr Grant, or you, ns ids
representative, wish to purcoa-e Hus edi
tion of my paper, I will sell it to you ; or I
will sell a half in ere-t in my paper, or I
will sell it entire; for I have wi-hed for
some time to form another tn-ws a|c r
association in New York city. Hut as for
selling my principle, tii t I will never do;
(here is not money enough to buy me”
The gentleman remaiiieii silent, and Mr.
Pollard resumed: " Or, if 1 publish tins
article, this lam willing to do: I v ill
open my columns to Mr. Giant, and I will
print line for line and word for wont
whatever lie may write in contradiction of
tlie article ”
'J lie gentleman asked: ‘‘.Mr. Pollard,
Can I see the article you have prepared for
publication?” Mr. Po lard turned to mo
and said: ‘-Have you any objection
to Mr. reading it?” I replied, • None
in the least,” and passed the proof-sheet
to him Ho read it over carefully, and
concluding, remarked: “Weil, that i« not
so had as I expected it would i*e ; never
theless, tiiere is not one word of truth in
the whole of it.” Mr. Pollard demurred.
“How is it, Mr. , then, that, all these
stories are going about? I myself have
made inquiries, and feel justified m
making them public through my paper.”
Mr. , fur ttio third or fourth time,
related the circumstances of the case, add
ing, “Now, that is all there is in it.”
Hull another and lastinterview was had
early on Friday morning between this
same gentleman and Mr. Pollard. The
former did not seat himself, hut appearing
at the door of the editorial room, delivered
bis message: "Mr. Pollard, your prop .-
sitions are declined; I can "do nothing
further.” Mr. Pollard responded, “Well,
sir;” and (here the matter ended The
paper was at once put to press, and in it
was the fatal article.
Ihe paper appeared on Saturday mor
ning, and the sensation it produced wm
very apparent; but the day passed with
out any intimation from any member or
friend of the Grant family that they
would seek reparation in any manner or
avail themselves of the columns of the
Opinion as a medium of correction.— Rich
rnond Dispatch, 2d.
BLOODY WORK!
Chicaoo, January 2.—A Bloomington,
Illinois, paper gives an account of a tragi
cal a flair at tiraidswoods, a station on the
Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. A party
of coal miners on a s ree went into the
saloon of a tnan named Toohey, beat him
badly, and then commenced demolishing
the contents of the saloon. Toohey, in
the meanwhile, crept behind the counter,
se ured his six-shooter, and threatened to
shoot if they did no’ desist. 1 hi* only
, increased their fury. He then commenced
’ discharging his revolver, ami shot four of
them dead in succession, and in the cmi
-1 fusion escaped through a hack door. H
wus soon found in the possession of ti •
sheriff, when an infuriated mob, to the
number of about one hundred, surrounded
the sheriff and his prisoner, with ropes to
hang the latter. I oohey’s revolver seems
to have been brought into use again, for
the narrative says that two more w ere -hot
dead, and four seriou ly wounded before
the roughs consented to retire. Toohey is
now safe in jail.