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IN MEMORIAM.
\Ve fled the following felicitous and ap
„,priate notice of the death of Mr. Rose,
‘p the Telegraph, of yesterday. We
Ihali gather tip and put on record in the
columns of this paper, under the above
lead ah the words—and they can be none
( ,i, e r than good—that our cotemporaries
ve to say of one who was such an hon
ored member of the profession.
Death OF BIMRI Rose.— We are sitting
l oue i a the Telegraph offica—the sole
re preventative of business or letters in its
ample domain— for every other person
connected with the office has gone to pay
lait tribute of respect to the memory of
our old confrere, Bimri Rose, of the Jodr
, A .vu Me&senuek. The streets of
Uaeou are in pretty much the same con-
The stores are closed, aud the
Movements deserted. The people have
thronged lo the house of the deceased and
i -[he church. The Masonic Fraternity,
the Printers' Union, tiie Macon Volun
teer-, and almost every other organization
in the city have turned out to honor the
departed, and a long, solemn and impos
im; procession will follow our deceased
brother to the narrow house appointed for
all the living.
We will be excused if, following the dic
tate* of personal convenience, as well as
„f feeling, we apply these solemn mo
ments to the expression of a few thoughts
suggested by this melancholy event.
Mr. lio-e was one of the old landmarks
of Macon. Although not a very old naan
-for lie was born with this century—yet
be has been identified with almost every
public interest of the city since it tirst
took the shape of a small frontier settle
ment. Here he has spent summer and
winter—seed-time and harvest, for nearly
half a century, and patiently watched the
slow growth of the town —known by aud
a ijuainted with everybody, and frankly
participating in almost every public and
social movement.
Monuments of ills fine natural taste
abound in the city, and are still more
strikingly presented in our beautiful cem
etery, which always attracts the admira
tion of strangers. The site aud the im
provements of Rose Hill, named in honor
of Mr. Rose, and where his remains this
day will find their final restiug place,
were due to the judgment and enterprise
of our deceased cotemporary, and will
carry his name and fame down to the
latest generation of our people. This
beautiful resting place of the dead—horti
culture in all its branches, and last, not
least, the interests of Masonry, were the
triad on which the more public life of Mr.
Rose seemed to centre, and upon which
he perhaps bestowed as much thought
and labor as he did upon his professional
business. Everybody in Georgia knew
him quite as well as Grand Secretary of
the Grand Lodge of the State as they did
as publisher of one of the oldest newspa
pers in Middle Georgia.
Mr. Rose was a man of kindly aud
genial nature —of very active habits of
mind and body—of a highly nervous tem
perament, although of extraordinary cool
ness and courage in moments of danger,
he was perfectly fearless, yet entirely
without swagger or pretension. He was
by birth a New Englander—born, we
think, in New Haven, Connecticut, but,
h- we have remarked, has been a Georgian
from early manhood. He leaves a widow
Hinl four daughters—all highly accom
plished women, and three of the latter are
residents of New York and Pennsylvania.
They have the heartfelt sympathies of our
people in this sudden bereavement, news
of which came like a thunder-clap to all
of us.
We learn that Mr. Rose returned from
a visit to Houston county on last Friday
night, complained of feeling unwell, and
continued in the same condition till Bun
day morning, when he was still well
enough to eat, and no apprehensions were
fell: but he died before noon on that day.
Thus do we survivors have again an
impressive practical monition that in the
midst of life we are in death. Tiie two
seniors of the Central Georgia Press have
died within three mouths of each other,
und the struggle of life must soon he over
with the youngest of us.
Himri Rose*is Dead. —lt is with sincere
regret that we learn of the death of our old
•fiend and lermer jiartner, Mr. Simri
Rose. He died at his residence, in Macon,
of Pneumonia, on Sunday morning. Mr.
Rose was in his 70th year, had been Sec
retary of Macon Lodge for about thirty
year-, and Grand Secretary, of the Grand
Lodge for the jiast twenty-four years.
Uur relations with him, for four years iu
business, very much endeared him to us,
and we can hut feel sorrow for his dejrnr
ture. He was, we believe, the most uni
versally beloved man in the State, and had
many noble traits. Macon has, indeed,
suffered a loss in him, as lie was tiie
pioueer of that city. Mr. Rose had been
connected with the Journal & Messen
uek for forty-six years, up to the time of
‘»ur sale to J. W. Burke & Co..— Middle
Georgian.
Another Good Man Gone.— The Ma
con Journal «fc Messenger of yesterday
contains the following notice of the death
of Mr. Simri Hose— ageutleman well and
favorably known all over Georgia, who
for nearly half a century past has been a
resident of, aud identified with the inter
estsof Macon, and who during the whole
of that period, uutil about twelve mouths
ago, has been engaged iu the newspaper
business, first of ihe Messenger, ami then
of the Georgia Journal & Messenger.
Asa Maaou, Mau, and Publisher, he was
without reproach.— Atlanta Intelligencer.
Death or Simri Rose, Esq. —We re
gret to hear of the death of the venerable
Sim hi Rose, one of the pioneers of the
press in Georgia. Mr. Rose established
the Georgia Journal, in Macon, about
the year 1823—when Macon was the small
est of villages. At the time of his death,
w hieh occurred at his residence, on Sun
day last, .ire was Grand Secretary of the
Grand Lfdge of Masons in this State. He
has passed away “ full of years and full of
honors,” mourned by a host of friends
throughout the State.— Monroe Advertiser.
sSimri Rose.—lt is with unaffected pain
we chronicle, this morning, the death of
this veteran in the ranks of Southern edi
tors. The quill and scissors have been
his companions for nearly half a century,
luring which time his amenity of man
tiers, kindness of heart and unswerving
integrity, have berne him through the
heat and strife of political campaigns
when party feeling ran highest without
any diminution of confidence, respect and
friendship on the part of political oppo
nents.
Possessing energy—force of character —
strength of purpose—a mind eminently
practical— conservative opinions aud a
never ceasing regard for the proprieties
and courtesies of social aud professional
life, his loss could not but be deeply aud
sincerely deplored.
So scrupulously upright aud conscien
tious was his course; so constantly did lie
square his actious by the rules of Bible
rectitude—so unceasingly did he live as
though looking forward to the ” recom
pense of reward,” that we confidently be
lieve •• He pitched his morning tent each
hight a day’s march nearer home,” and
that with tlie ” weary and heavy laden ”
he has found the loug sought rest.
[Americus Republican, 7th.
Death of Bimri Rose.— The Nestor of
the Georgia press is dead. He died, as we
learn troui the Journal and Messenger,
on (Sunday evening last, after attaining
the ripe old age of seventy years, Identi
hcil with Macon and all her interests, for
nearly Half a century, he goes down to his
grave respected and revered, and with
hardly an “error” marked ou his “proof
alieet.” His geDial smile aud pleasant
hia iner we will see no more, but he had a
thousand virtues, those he left behind
well might imitate. He sleeps calmly and
Peacefully in the cemetery that bears his
worthy name, and we feel assured no wor
thier remains were ever deposited within
its sacr«d precincts. Peace to his ashes.—
Eufaula News, 6th.
Simri Rose Dead. —The Macon Mes
senger, of the sth, came to us draped in
mourning on account of the death of
Simri Rose, one of the proprietors. Mr.
Rose was one of the very oldest publish
ers in the Btate, and one of the best of
men. In politics iie wasan old line whig,
always conservative, aud unswerving in
his advocacy of what he deemed right
and just, and we doubt whether auy man
in Georgia lias done more for the estab
lishment of the principles of “Wisdom
Justice and Moderation," than this phi
lanthropic and generous man. The news
of his death will bring Badness to the
hearts of all who knew him. Those who
knew him best will deepest mourn his
loss. —Rome Courier, Bth.
STATE NEWS.
The Confederate Dead.—Mr. A. L.
Grant has completed the task of takiug
up the Confederate dead buried in the city
limits and re interring them in the ceme
tery. He found the remains of oue hun
dred and ninety defenders of the “ Lost
Cause,” one-half of whom had no head
boards to tell who they were. Mr. Grant
succeeded, however, in preserving the
names of many of them He has dis
charged hia duty well in the premises.
[Constitution, s th.
Read Estate Sales at Atlanta.—
Lot on Broad street 2-5x60, between
Brown’s Building and Postofflce, to Maj.
Geo. Hillyer at $2,500 cash aud charges
Lot on Whitehall street, opposite L. C.
Wells, 67x212 to M. Fouch, of Selma
Ala.—ssso cash. — Ibid.
The friends of Mr. Henry Singleton
will regret to learn of his death, which
occurred at his residence in this county
on the 2d instaut. Mr. Singleton wasone
of the oldest citizens of Monroe. —Monroe
Advertiser, 6 th.
Destructive Fire.— We regret to learn
that the dwelling, out-houses and smoke
house of Mr. Charles Foster, in the Tow
aliga district of Butts county, were con
sumed by fire on Tuesday night last.
Nothing whatever was saved from the
buildings, consequently the loss sustained
by Mr. F. and family is a serious one. It
is supposed the fire was originated by the
children taking a candle to their bed
room, in one of the detached buildings,
and allowing it to come in contact with
the clothes — lbid.
Fikk —West Griffin was alarmed on
Sunday night, by the cry of fire. The
alarm arose on the premises of Mr. Frank
Bloodworth, and was caused by the burn
ing of the roof of his kitchen. Damage
slight.— Middle Georgian, 6 th.
Arrested. —Our marshals arrested a
man on Bunday night, by the name of
Grant, from Fayette couuty, under sus
picion of possessing counterfeit money.
He is held in charge, and will be allowed
an opportunity to prove his innocence, if
possible, before being confined. — Ibid.
Railroad Meeting. —A respectable
number of the citizens of Griffin met
at the City Hall, on last Saturday night,
to take into consideration the propriety of
subscribing additional stock to the Savan
nah, Griffin and North Alabama Rail
road. Col. Peeples, in behalf of the Board
of Directors, gave a most satisfactory ac
count of the present condition and pros
pects of the road, and urged an additional
subscription of twenty-five thousand dol
lars by the city. He promised the com
pletion of the road to Newnau by the Ist
of October, at the furtherest, and perhaps
sooner. Speeches were made by several
gentlemen, and a resolution passed, re
questing the Mayor and Council to have a
poll opened according to law for the citi
zens to express, by ballot, their wishes
upon the subject.— Griffin Star■ 6th.
Homicide.— On Saturday evening last,
about 8} or 9 o’clock, Charles Mathis, a lad
about 15 or 16 years old, hut quite small
for his age, had a difficulty with a negro
woman by name of Susannah Dumas, the
particulars of which we can get no infor
mation, as no one was standing by at the
time. He was seen to strike her, aud she
turned and went to the store of Mr. Joel,
where site was hired, and as she got there,
fell, having been cut in the left breast.
She died in about half an hour after being
cut. —Southern Recorder, 6th.
The City Election. —The election on
Friday last resulted as follows:
Mayor—Col. L. H. Briscoe.
Aldermen—l. Joseph Staley ;2. Dr. 8.
G. White; 3. E. Trice ; 4 Wm. A. Wil
liams ;5. P. T. Taylor; 6. Dr. W. H. Hall.
Clerk —Peter Fair.
Marshal—John B. Fair.
The only members of the old Board who
were candidates for re-election were Dr.
White and Mr. Wm. A. Williams, both
of whom were elected
Iu the 4th and sth Wards the vote was
very close. In the 4th Ward, Mr. Wm.
A. Williams heat his opponent, Mr. Wm.
Caraker, one vote, aud Mr. P. T. Taylor
was elected by only one vote over Mr. A.
Joseph, iu tiie sth Ward.— Federal Union,
6th.
A Pleasing Hurprise. Handsome
Present. —Near the hour of nine o’clock,
on Saturday night last, a rap was heard at
the door of the Parsonage of Asburv M.
E. Church in this city. The Pastor—Rev.
C W. Key—went to the door, and upon
arriving there, found upon the outside,
neatly done up in tissue paper, a most
beautiful silver communion service, with
«■ Asburv Church ” engraven on each
piece. The bearer of this present had
fled, so that no information could be gain
ed about the generous donor. —Chronicle
& Sentinel , 6 th.
A Man Killed at Valdosta.— The
Savannah News reports the killing of
Mr William Libby, at Valdosta, on Fri
day night, under the following circum
stances : Mr. Richard Ralston, formerly
of Savannah, was keeping books for Mr.
Libbv. w ho, a few days since, happening
to look over them, discovered a mistake,
and wrote opposite, “ A mistake—rectify
it ” Mr. Ralston, on seeing the waiting,
wrote opposite it, “ Ignorance is bliss.”
Mr. L. being notified of this, went to
Ralston on Friday night, and asked him
what he meant by it. Some words en
sued, which resulted in Ralston’s draw
ing a pistol and shooting Libby. The ball
entered the left side, producing death in a
few hours. Ralston is in custody.
Accident to General Anderson. —
Yesterday afternoon, as General R. H.
Anderson, accompanied by his wife, was
riding out on the Thunderbolt road, his
horse became frightened and ran away.
The front wheel of the vehicle struck a
stump and caused the occupants to be
thrown heavily to the ground. The inju
ries sustained were slight. —Savannah
jV Teirs. dth
The Work on the Macon and Bruns
wick Rail Road. —We promised in a
subsequent issue to speak of the immense
work that had been accomplished on this
end of the road. We had but little oppor
tunity during our late trip to the twenty
mile Station to notice particularly the
heavy work along the road. When we
reached the present terminus, Maj. Ornie
conducted us (on foot) a distance of more
than a quarter of a mile on railway made
by heaps of large logs which had been
rolled for some distance through water
and mud nearly waist deep. Os one fact
we were fully convinced, that while it is
hard work to build a road through rocks
and mountains, it is no small job to build
a road through swampsof such depth and
width as those through which the Macon
and Brunswick railroad runs.— Brunswick
Banner, 3d.
Stock Sales in Savannah.— On Tues
day, at Savannah. 17 shares of Central
Railroad Stock, sold for $127 50.
A SSOO city bond sold for 93.
$5,000 of'seven per cent, guaranteed
scrip of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
stock sold for 65J.
17 shares of Southwestern Railroad stock
sold for 99J to 101.
Death of Mr Daniel Potter —\n e
learned from a gentleman yesterday, who
left Whitesville, Harris county, on the
day before, that on Sunday night Mr.
Daniel Potter, a worthy young man and
formerly a photographic artist in this
city, was killed in that town. He heard
but few particulars, but understood that
Mr. Potter and another man were engaged
in a scuffle or fight in a room, when a
Mr. T. J. Daniel shot and killed Potter.
We understand from other sources that
Mr. Daniel was arrested and lodged in
jail.— Columbna Enquirer, t7h.
-Vi t a sine Hi iter is Mor s e s
The Shooting Scrape.— Of course we
are expected to report further particulars
or the unfortunate affair mentioned in last
issue. It is one of those things that we
dislike to speak of as having occurred in
Washington county.
The young man who was shot resides
in Johnson county. His father conveyed
him home on Monday after the shooting,
and his recovery is believed to be certain.
His name we shall not put in print—
though it is no secret here—from feelings
of respect for the family. We are in
formed that hut one of the party live in
Washington county. Who any of them
are, save the wounded man, we have not
the slightest intimation.— Central Geor
gian, Ith.
Gin-House and Cotton Burned—A
letter from Marshallville, dated 7th inst.,
to the editor of this paper, says:
“The gin-house of William Haslam, of
this place, was burned on the night of the
sth of this month, together with eight
hales of unginned cottou, the property of
Seaborn Bryan. The tire was first discov
ered about two o’clock. Supposed to be
the work of an incendiary. No trace as
to the guilty party.”
Real Estate Sales at Augusta.—
The brick yard and clay pits belonging to
the estateof Charles DeLaigle, containing
seveuty-five and seventy-eight one hun
dredths acres. Bid in at SIB,OOO.
A tract of land situated in Appling
county, containing four hundred and
ninety acres. Sold for five cents per acre.
A brick store house. No. 300 Broad
street, having a front of thirty feet aud a
depth of two hundred and ninety feet.
Sold for $16,750.
A residence on the Sand Hills, contain
ing eight rooms. Sold for $6,900.
A residence on the Sand Hills contain
ing six rooms. Sold for $2,500.
A tract of land four miles from the city,
aud the dwelling house on it; the tract
situated on the Southwestern Plank Road,
and containing two hundred aud fifty
acres. Sold for $5,000.
There were also a few wagons aud bug
gies (second class) sold. The highest price
obtained for a four-horse wagon was $95,
aud a buggy SBS.
A few agricultural implements were sold
at very low rates. —Chronicle and Sentinel,
Ith.
No. 13., C. R. R.—The Central Rail
road Company basin course of construc
tion, at the above point, a commodious
brick warehouse, which, as we are in
formed, will be completed in about thirty
days. Before the war there was more
freight shipped to this poiut than any
other way station on tlie road, and we sup
pose it is pretty much the same now. The
honor, however, is contested between 13
aud 11.— Central Georgian, Ith.
Badly Bruised.— Our good looking
and clever deputy sheriff, John Hendley,
while riding in his buggy a few days ago,
owing to a bad place in the road, had the
misfortune to be thrown out, by which
his tongue was cut nearly in two, besides
having his face badly bruised. We are
glad it was no worse. —Hawkinsville Dis
patch, Bth
Accidentally Shot.— On Saturday
last, as two sons of Mr. J. M. Brown, liv
ing near town, were playing with a pistol
it was accidentally discharged, the ball
lodging in the arm of one of the boys, in
flicting a painful but not dangerous
wound.— lbid.
Sale Day.— The following property
was sold yesterday at the Court House:
Half interest in Merritt’s warehouse,bid
in by L. C. Ryan for $3,035.
Blip of laud next the warehouse, 12 feet
front and running hack 70 feet, bid in by
M. T. Grace at SIOO.
E. A. Burch hid in } acre of land near
the old cemetery, for SSO.
R. W. Anderson hid in 33} acres on the
East side of the river, including the ferry
lauding, for $235.
Aabell’s laud, adjoining Dr. Clarke’s,
was hougtit by W. H. Hendley for S2OO.
Lot of 202i acres, in lHe 21st district, on
the M. & B. R. R., was bought by George
Ray for SSO.
Another lot of 202} acres in the same
district, near the railroad, was sold to Ar
thur Newman for $22. — Ibid.
CONFESSION OF GEORGE 8. TWITC’HELL.
Mrs. Twitchell Chareed with the Murder or Mrs.
Ilill —How the Crime was Committed—Flight of
Mr*. Twitchell.
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, April 3.
In the presence of Rev. George Bring
hurstaud Wm. B. Perkius, Esq.. Prison
Buperinteudent, u-eorge B. Twitchell, Jr.,
has made the following confession of the
particulars of the murder of Mrs. Hill. It
will be seen by this statement of Twitch
el), that the conditions of the murder were
somewhat different from what were gener
ally supposed; aud if'Twitchell has given
a truthful relation of the tragedy, the
horrors of the murder are greatly increas
ed, as it implicates tHe daughter as the
chief perpetrator of the fearful deed.
“I went to my room on the night of the
murder, and, instead of going to bed, lay
down on the lounge, which was in my
room, and fell asleep. My wife was in
bed at the time. I was aroused at her res
peated calls, and ran down to the dining
room, where I found her much excited,
saying:
“ ‘I have had a quarrel with mother,
and killed her!’
“I do uot know whether she said :
“Bave me!— or help me hide it!’
“But at last we threw the body of Mrs.
Hill out of the window, to make it look
as if she fell out.
“I went down stairs and washed my
hands and face at the hydrant; theu went
to my room, undressed and went to bed.
My wife came up afterwards, and got into
bed, where we staid until Barah (Camp
bell ) rang the bell.
“I think we were in bed ten or twenty
minutes. I made a solemn vow to eter
nal God that night that I would never re
veal it, hut I cannot keep it any longer.
I am sorrv that I said I knew nothing of
it, hut I did it with the vow in my mind
and to save my wife.
“I now make this disclosure that I may
bave peace with God.
(Signed) George S. Twitchell, Jr.
In the presence of Rev. George Briug
hurstand Wm. B. Perkius.
MRS. TWITCHELL LEAVES THE CITY.
This morniug Mrs. Camilla E. Twitch
ell left the city, under circumstances
which would appear to lend the counte
nance of truth to the above arraignment
of her by her husband for the murder of
Mrs. Hill.
About a week ago she visited the con
demned mau in his cell fur the last time.
She then had a conversation with the
Rev. Mr. Bringhurst, in the course of
which -he manifested the liveliest con
cern as to whether her husband had said
anything to his spiritual adviser which
would implicate her in the murder.
She inquired especially if Twitcheli had
made any statement about the crime. Mr.
BriDgburst responded that he had. Tbeu
the wife inquired if he had made a con
fession, to which she again received an
affirmative respouse.
Mrs. Twitched then inquired if her
husband had made auy statement con
cerning herself in connection with the
murder, to which she likewise received an
affirmative response.
• Yes,” said Mr. Bringhurst, “he has
told me all about It.”
“Then,”exclaimed Mrs. Twitched, “he
is a villain—the greatest villain ou the face
of the earth.”
She then directed her inquiries to the
dav of the executiou, asking if Twitched
intended to make any statement on the
scaffold. She was assured by Mr. Bring
hurst that he intended to do so.
This brought out the inquiry as to
whether any newspaper reponers would
be present, and when she was told that
such would be the case, she exclaimed :
“That would be bad!”
Since the day on which this conversa
tion occurred, Mrs. Twitched has not
been near the cell of her husband, aud
this morning she left the city for parts
unknown.
Cuba.—Cuba, in 1867, had a population
of 1 470 000—of whom 764,500 were whites,
and 605 500 colored. Os the latter, as large
a number as 226,000 were of the free class.
More than three-fourtbs of the popula
tion, white and black, is in the Western
Department, where the insurrection has,
as yet, hardly made its appearance.
MACON. GA.. TUESDAY, APRIL 13. 1869-
FERTILIZERS, ETC.-OCR HOUSTON COR
RESPONDENT.
We think our Houston correspondent
rather exaggerates the effect produced by
recent editorials and communications in
the Macon dailies on the subject of fertili.
zers. As far as we are concerned the re
sult he states as having been produced,
was certainly not contemplated. We
bought we saw an error in the system of
indiscriminate and wholesale purchase
and application of commercial manures,
without reference to their character or the
character aud preparation of the soil for
which they were intended, and called at
tention to it. We have not heard of any
panic among the moneyed men or ware
house-men, however, nor do we think any
planter who can make a good showing, no
matter how much guano he has purchased,
will find it hard to deal with them. We
don’t think they will be likely to accom
modate auy man, though, who has bought
fertilizers “blind”—pledged everything
he had, to get it to make cotton with,
nor do we blame them. That man can’t
make a good showing.
As to editors and writers for newspapers
not knowing what they are writing about
—“that depends,” as the French say.
There are some that a man who has
never been outside a town in an Lio life,
and who can’t tell wheat from oats, or an
oak from a hickory tree, knows just as
well as the best farmer in Houston or auy
other county. The folly and ruin of
making sacrifices to buy large quantities
of fertilizers for cotton, without knowing
their component parts, or how they are
suited to the soil, aud not properly pre
paring it for their reception, is one of
these things, too. All that is required to
know this, is a little observation and a
moderate share of common sense, which
most averagt men possess.
With reference to our friend’s strictures
upon “M.,” theTelegraph’scorrespondent,
we think they are undeserved. We do
not know who “M” is, but we read his
communication without reaching auy such
conclusion. He seemed to write under-
aud with none but the best
motives. We certainly were so impressed.
It is hard to say what Bullock is doing
just now. He is trying to do a great deal
of mischief, but how far he has succeeded,
we are not accurately advised at this pres
ent writing. We have some hope that he
will be foiled, but if Grant is with him,
as reported, it rests on slight foundations.
We shall endeavor to keep our correspon
dent fully informed on this, as on all other
matters of public concern. We have
rather “let up” ou the subject of Bullock
lately, for the same reason that the man
who spilled the ashes was silent.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Atlanta, April 5, 1869.
Mr. Editor: The wires still leave us
iu doubt about the status of Georgia. A
knowing one told me yesterday that there
was now no doubt about our “going up.”
He sa} s the delay iu action of Congress
grows out of the fact that Gen. Graut had
utterly refused to do anything until the
Teuure-of-ofiice hill was repealed. That
so long as his hands were tied by Congress
he would do nothing. If he was Presi
dent, he would be President. Bo now,
that the General is untied, we may look
out. 1 suppose that now. he being free, may
see proper to act as a President ougnt to,
and let Georgia atone We wish he would.
We would hurrah for Grant then lustily.
By the way., iu my speculations about*
what would he the result of Gov. Bul
lock’s success, I did not mention oue im
portant item. He would re-organize tiie
Legislature, and put the negroes back—
uoi only those turned out, hut as he would
rule out all those who could not lake the
test oatli, and, upon the precedent set by
the Democrats, would put iu the next
highest man, which would put iu about
twenty-five or thirty more darkies —thus
giving us over sixty sable legislators. We
should theu have anew election for offi
cers —embracing offices of both Houses,
State-house officers, Senators, etc. A1
legislative matter that was a all political
would be set aside, and chaos would hi
the word iu our Btate matters.
The Governor is still absent, and wi
be until the question is settled. Old Bar
says "come home. Governor, as the bus
ness of the Btate is sadly neglected.” No
we know this to he untrue. All the bus
uess of the State-house is as carefully r
tended to as if Gov. Bullock was the.
Os course there may be some maths
which will have to he laid over uutil is
return, hut all the usual business of ie
Department is going ou liuely. Iu »e
Executive Department, Col. DeGraffenrd
aud Maj. Williams, are always on bas,
aud are authorized to settle all businespf
an ordinary character. If Dr. Green g’«
to Atlauta to get money for his iustii
tiou, or Mr. Williams, for his, or any our
man who has a weli authenticated elsu
ou the Treasury, they will find Maj. 81,
Comptroller General, at his post read, to
endorse the papers, and the Becretarat
the Executive office to issue the necesry
warraut, aud Dr. Angier, or hisson atne
Treasury, ready to pay all claims thatre
in order. We are in a position to knv
this, and we cheerfully give these geile
men the credit hue them—and offer as
an instance of old Bard’s miarepresets
tiou9. I
While speakiDg of officials., we musuot |
forget to meutiou our young frieud, J B.
Freeman, who is doing good work iiibe
office of Secretary of Btate. He is tie
right man iu the right place. Coiiig
would find it hard work to get along viti
out Freeman. He was an efficient dek
with Col. Barnett for years, aud is wd
versed iu the duties of hi3 office. Ml
Bell has also a valuable assistant, Cai
E. Thompson. He is an earnest,
man, aud is quite efficient.
If Gov. Bullock would only “let k
have peace,” things are going or. fine!.
More anon. FuLTOH
COTTON SEED OIL FACTORY.
Anew and valuable enterprise is $
course of rapid development in this c::y.
We allude to the extensive works foMfre
manufacture of cotton seed oil, now |eitnJ
constructed iu the southern part of thi
city, by Col. W. D. Maun. The fin
building erected some ten years since U
the manufacture of rosin oil, by a com
pany of which the late Col. Seymour, «f
the New Orleans Bulletin, was PresJden
has beeu selected as the site of the work
that property having been purchased tr
Col. Maun sometimesince for this purpos
Its locatiou is remarkably wed adapted)
the business, haviDg a wharf front i
taebed to the property, to receive tlip r*
material and to ship the manufacuirtl
article.
The machinery and mills will h»ea
working capacity of six hundred gahns
per diem, and this mill, with anotltr of
the same Kind being put up by MesslM-
Toulmin Cos., on Oue-Mile Creefewill
make a cash market f >r the cotton sid of
forty thousand bales of cotton. J sls
the ton for cotton seed, freights olit is
estimated that these enterprises wifcna
ble the planters of those forty tha>and
bales to realize an additional price <so 50
per bale, or an aggregate addition ofaiue
amounting to $220,000. Our pitting
friends will see the advertisement fl cot
ton seed, and it is hoped they wilsave
aud ship according to directions althey
do uot rtquire for manure and reputing,
aud realize the cash price for it.
[Mobile Registei tth.
New U. S. Court House at CrßLEs
tox. The News says that (tougess has
appropriated $46,000 to purclft.-e be Club
House building in Charlestoi foithe use
of the U. S. Courts, and tiat lereafter
sessions of the Court will beaeidthere.
Dead.— Mrs. Martha Caioun Burt, of
Abbeville, C. H., ri. C., diet tberion the
27th ult. Bhe was the wi* ot %eperal
Armistead Burt, ex-M. C. f that state,
a very prominent lawye and politi
cian, and a niece of the grat CA-houn.
LETTER FROM MACON COUNTY.
Marshallville, Ga., April 5.
Mr. Editor : Yesterday and to-day the
thermometer stands 42 to 50, a change of
one hundred and six per cent from Thurs
day last. This morning the thermometer
stands at forty-two—quite cool for this
! seasou. There was a little frost in low
| damp places, but little damage to vegeta
i lion has been done, however.
Ou Saturday last the election came oft'
for one Magistrate and two Bailiffs. Atan
early hour the American citizens of Afri
can blood gathered in large numbers All
had printed tickets, everything having
been previously arranged for the work.
When the polls were opened they com
menced voting iu crowds, and until the
voting was over they voted the printed
ticket. The result was the election oi one
scalawag for Magistrate, one mongrel and
one African gentleman for Bailiffs. After
the election the successful parties were
mouuted upon the backs of the African
gentry, aud borne along the streets amid
the shouts and exultations of the joyous
crowd of blacks. Should you ever he so
unfortunate as to have business in this
part of the country, be sure to conduct
yourself well, or in strict conformity with
the law, or you may fall in tiie bauds of a
negro Bailiff. Allow me, just here, to ask
a question. Is it legal for parties to vote
whave uot paid their tax? If not. is
••(-> election legai when a large majority of
tiie voters Voi.og »t oairi plppfirtn m»y h f*
in that respect? The law is
very clear to mv mind that no one has a
right to vote until all taxes required of
them have been paid. [You are right.
Such delinquents bave uo right to vote. —
Ed. Journal and Messenger j
The wheat c.iops of this aud Houston
county are looking well. The oat crop
promises a good yield. The corn is up
and was looking well until the few cool
mornings we have had, which makes it
look a little sick. The rains falling iu
gentle showers has caused good stands of
corn. Some few planters are neglecting
their corn, but as a general thing a suffi
cient aroouut of laud has been appropri
ated to corn, at ten bushels per acre, to
raise, with fair seasons, a sufficiency for
the comiug year. Cotton plautiug has
just begun—most of planters being a little
ate in preparing their lands.
Yours, B.
THE COUNTRY RUINED BY THE SALE OF
GUANO.
Houston County, April 6, 1869.
Editor Journal and Messenger: *
Sir: For several days past I have read
several communications in the daily pa
pers of Macon, aud some editorials, which
have the effect to discourage the planters
injure their credit, and alarm the commis
sion merchants and the provision dealers.
Now all of this is wrong. Those <om
uiunieations are generally, if not all, writ
ten by persons who know nothing about
planting, and that is not all, they state
what is not true. I particularly no
tice one communication under the sig
nature of in the Telegrapk of last
veek, from which every planter knows
tiat he did not know anythingaoout the
sibject he was writing about. Hs did uot
s.ate facts, aud he did not intend to state
Hem, for they did not suit his purpose. I
;m a planter, and I reside in Houston
ounty. I have been using fertilizers for
tie last eight years, to some extent. In
867 I purchased ten tons of guano, and
jut it on one hundred acres of laud, which
tie year before produced from three huu
<red and fifty to four hundred jiouuds
(f seed cotton to the acre, aud the same
lud, after using the guano, produced
torn 800 to 900 jiouuds of seed cotton to
he acre. I sold my crop for 14c-., making
tie seed cotton worth 4}c. per pound,
’hich, after paying for the guano, made
3,1.75 clear, (to say nothing about the
creased quantity of seed,) even at 14c.,
aid besides, leaving my land in a bet
pr condition to make a crop another year.
:f I had sold my cotton that year for 25e.,
should have cleared $20 —net, per acre,
you think I was badly hurt by using
;uano?and do you believe the planters
if Houston couuty are such poor fiuan
;iers as to keep buying fertilizers, year
liter year, if they lost money by it ?
“M.” tries to make us believe we are
losing. It is not true that the planters are
[>aying sls to S2O per acre for lertllizers,
general y. I know as much about the
planting inteiest of Houston county as
auy one jilanter does, aud the average
amount paid for fertilizers per acre is from
$1 to SB, and they use it on their cotton, and
use cottou seed and such manures as they
make at home, ou their corn. It is true
that there has been a considerable quanti
ty of guano bought by the plauters this
spring, a great deal of which was paid for
wiieu they bought it, aud I have uo doubt
a good deal more will be bought aud used
next year than has this, and nobody will
he hurt by the jirudent purchase and ju
dicious use of fertilizers. It improves the
system of plautiug, and lands are better
than before the general use of fertilizers,
and 90 far from editors and writers in
newspapers tryiug to discourage iis use,
they ought to he trying to encourage it.
If you write at all, inform the planter
how to prepare his lands, and how to ap
ply fertilizers, if you know, yourselves—if
not, say nothing about it.
I understand some of your warehouse
merchants in Macon have refused to ac
cept the drafts of our best planters, aud
that some of your moneyed meu and pro
vision dealers are much alarmed at the
large quantity of guano purchased this
spring by the planters, and are crying out
at the corners of your streets,the country is
ruined.
Now, sir, if the country is never ruined
uu.il it is ruined by plauters purchasing
guano and putting it on their lauds aud
cultivating them, we will have a long
course of prosperity. Tiie guano question
has excited the publieso much lately, that
you don’t tell us what Governor Bullock
has done with Georgia. We did hear that
the G< veruorand his Opera House friends
had gone to Washington to put us hack
ten degrees or more. Let us know where
we are, and what latitude do we now oc
cupy. A Farmer.
POLITICO-RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Poitmaater-General Cretwell.
“We have been surprised at the amount
aid tone of comments by the press on the
Appointment of this gentleman, but we
learn from a well-informed source what
'fully accounts for it. He is the official (or
• unofficial) representative of the Northern
Methodist Church, appointed, no doubt, as
Mr. Harlan was by Mr. Lincoln tothe In
terior Department, at the demand of the
political Bishops of that Church. Then
it was the Interior Department Mission 1
aud other Lauds ; now it is postofflee pat
ronage that is demanded.”
The above paragraph, taken from the \
St Louis Christian Advocate, is very sig
nificant. During the time Mr. Montgom- j
ery Blair was Postmaster General, he re- |
ceived, a visit at the Department from |
Bishop Simpson. The Bishop complained 1
that the Methodist Episcopal Church had
uot received as fair a proportion of the
offices as it was entitled to. He claimed {
that his Church had rendered more ser- I
vice to the party in power than auy other, !
and had a right to demand a larger share
in the distribution of the appointments. \
The Postmaster General disclaimed any
intention to ignore the M. E. Church ; but
remarked, that the question of a man’s
Church relations did uot influence him in
making his appointments. BishopSimp
sou theu asked to examine the books, but
Mr. Blair refused him that privilege,
alleging that such privilege could not be
accorded to auy gentleman.
The Bishop left greatly offended at Mr.
Blair, and the affair brought on a very
elaborate correspondence between tbe
parties. The controversy was character
ized by much personal abuse and bitter
invective, and not a little misrepresenta
tion on the part of the Bishop’s friends.
It was finally used by certaiu Methodist
preachers who went in person to Annap
oiis to defeat the election of Montgomery
Blair as U. 8. (Senator. Mr. Cresswell’s
claims were urged by the friends of Bish
op feimpsou, aud his election over Mr.
Biair was proclaimed as a Methodist tri
umph. The facts are iu our possession.
They are undeniable, aud should be seri
i ously pondered. "We speak aa unto wise
! men, judge ye,” etc.—Baltimore Episcopal
« Methodist, April 3d.
THE TWO CIVILIZATIONS.
Don Piatt Contrast* New England and the South-
Plain Talk Trout an Independent Wetter* Man.
Don Piatt, the witty aDd plain spoken
Washington eorresjamdeiit of the Cincin
nati Commercial, receutly alluded, iu one
of bis letters, to the stro ig Jove of home
that prevails at the South, as forming the
basis of much that he regards as admirable
in the Southern character. For this he
was bitterly attacked by the Cincinnati
Gazette. From the spirited rejoinder of
Don Piatt we make some extracts :
A kind friend sent me the compliment
of a column clipped from some issue of
the Gazette, iu which the leading editor of
that solemn old organ takes to pieces a
part of my Arlington letter. I wish he
had not done it. Like the famous ouoo,
I would have come down had he given me
a chance. I was ready to admit that 1
was under “stress of composition,” and
gave forth “the froth of a dull imagiua
tiou,” after cudgeling “to briug forth a
sentiment.” There is so much delicate
poetic fancy in the columns of this vener
able organ—there is such a quantity of
teuder, touching seutimeut in the bou! of
this great financier, that I hasten to ac
knowledge my master, and beg forgive
ness for the siu of attempting sentiment
on the heights of Arlington. I say again.
“An’ I thought he had been valiant, and
so cunning in fence”—by Jove, had I
Known that Uu wouid even condescend to
read my poor stuff, I would have cut the
seutimeut, aud given him some solid fig
ures, ou which to feast his statistical soul.
Nay, I would have gone forther, and
confessed that the Yankee love of locality j
surparsed iu strength all other love kuowu
to humanity. I wouid hare ceased to m- j
dulge iu that impious belief, once my fa- j
vorite, that, had Adaii and Eve been 1
Yankees, they would not have waited for
the Lord to expel them from the Garden
of Eden, but would nave emigrated long
before, and gone to speculating in wild
lands.
I would have svoru that the love of
home was a great love iu New Englauri,
aud found expreisiou iu the quiet repose
of the household that was without par
allel in theaupals of humanity. I would
have denied Wat it was common for chil
dren to quarsel over the support of the
aged parent or that the aged parent ever
charged th< dtyrr children a weekly sti
pend for b*ard. I would have repudiated
with indication the charge that the cal
endar ofhorrible crimes instigated by a
love of noney shown by New England,
is heaver than that of any other civilized
people Known to the world. I would have
shut ny ejee to the matrimonial infidel
ities and divorces, that make tiiat Yan
kee community, called Chicago, so fa
mous. I would have sworn that the love
of the homestead was so intense, that it
passed down from generation to genera
tion of tender Yankees, who would die in
cold blood lather than part with a foot of
toe loved locality, for a slight advance. I
would have sworn to this, and more, if I
could have thought of it, rather than be
stretched in torture along the leaded
length of a column in this ancient journal.
I could have admitted much, if not all
of this, aud yet maintained what I meant
to assert. I had no idea of running a com
parison between the moral condition of
the North and thatof the Houth. A man
may be as pure and upright as Charles
Sumner, aud yet have uo love of home or
attachment for the locality home has made
sacred. He may be a wicked man, and
yet be attached to the little surroundings
made dear by feelings we hold iu common j
with the brute creation. The Arab in his j
tent may be as good a creature, in a moral I
point of view, as the Swiss peasant in his
cottage. What I endeavored to say in my
letter was, that the love of home existed
at the South iu a way unknown to
New England. I never heard this dis
puted before. And in this love of home I
find the foundation for a better civiliza
tion than one based on force, pride or prop
erty. The very illustrations offered by
the editor prove the correctness of my poi
sitiou. A man may adorn his dwelling i
with all that art or taste can supply, ami
yet sell the house to strangers without a
pang of regret. Paintings and statuary
aud architecture may make it valuable
without making it precious. The fact tiiat
in our little town we have made our fight
witli the world, tiiat there the wife loved,
believed in and trusted, and the dear chil
dren were born, or grew up and sickened
and died, make it and all its surroundings j
dear to us beyond mere valuation iu
money. I helped to burn houses iu the
Shenandoah Valley, that were on farms
held by the same families siuce the days
of tlie colony. Our New Eugland friends
would have snapped their fingers at the )
loss, for the value in money was small; but
the people of the valley fought to the ilea' h
tor those homes, because they were homes.
Os course, my friend will sneer at this,
and call it auother gush of sentiment, got- i
ten up to order. It is common to do so,
with people who, not feeling it, fail to un
derstand and appreciate.
Nor is his reference to emigration any
happier. A New Englander sells out to
strangers, and seeks new lands, from a
wish to better his condition, iu a pecu
niary way. The Houtheruer leaves his
home, as a son goes out into the world,
leaving the old homestead in the keeping
of the family, and cherishes its memory
with life. Aud in this way the South lias
come to be one great family. And Vir
ginia seemed to reach out and embrace the
vast territory such emigration had con
quered. This is not the civilization of
New England. A man there does not
have a love for his home—but as the
learned editor tells us with such charming
naivete , he has a pride in it. He adorns it
with beautiful tilings, aud then sells to
the highest bidder.
The learned editor, who never gushes,
differs from me only in the facts he is
pleased to question. We both believe, I
presume, that the true definition of
patriotism is a love of family, widened to
embrace the community we call country.
A civilization based on this is the better
civilization. We cannot base it on pride,
nor a sense of possession, nor upou prop
erty, and have the true tiling; and the
evils of the ODe aud ttie good of the other
run through all departments. A dis
tinguished statesman, lately called to pub
lic life, after an absence of twelve years,
said to me, not long siuce:
“Those Southern fellows were very un
reasonable aud troublesome, but they
would not steal.’'
The government now is run on steal
ings, and fraud rots its foundations.
the Southern soldiers marched without
pay, and fought with poor food, and slept
without tents, and sometimes witbont
blankets.
Every soldier of the government cost us
a million, through the frauds of contrac
tors and the stealings of officials.
We build on property, and take pride in 1
display. We are blessed with a civiliza
tion that makes our government a vast
machine to crush the poor aud build up
the rich. The able editor, day after day,
deplores this state of affairs, and calls
aloud for reformation. But then he does
not gush, he has no sentiment. Cool as
a dog’s nose, he rebukes those who feel sad ;
to weeping ; and, with the cheap wit of a
good memory for Dickens, laughs to scorn
the mourners.
I do not propose being driven, in my
difference, to extremes I agree with the
Gazette, that there is much in New Eng
land civilization to be proud of, and that
it was very pretty, in one of a thousand
at the South, to visit fashionable watering
places at the North in summer. I wish
the South had a better knowledge of ag
riculture. New England lias no end of
villas, built after Downing, that are splen
did show places, and a vast number of
churches, academies, lyceums, libraries;
and it has Char es Sumner, aud had Daniel
Webster; and tbe poor South was cursed
with slavery; aud so we have pride in
New England, aud in duty bound should
be ashamtd of the South. Nevertheless,
there was a love of family and a love of
home that more than balanced the ac
count, and gave, in fact, the better civil
ization "f the two.
Still, keeping in view that I am not call
ed upon to consider the difference, in
morality, between the two sections, but as
an illustration of tbe civilization of one, I
venture to call attention to a little book
before me, by Professor Storer, of Boston,
in which he tells us that the love of off
spring in New England is such that tbe
land is being depopulated of Yankees
through the wholesale murder of the in
noeents: and tooertain statistics furnished
b.v the Society of Social Science, that go to
prove that ihe homes of New England are
rapidly passing iuto the hands of foreign
ers. 1 leave my sarcastic friend to settle
these ugly results of New Euglaud civili
zation with his neighbors.
GENERAL GRANT’S ADMINISTR ATION.
The Telegraph, of yesterday, comment
; ing upon the Herald’s consolation “of the
I public disappointment in the promise of
I the Grant administration, by a compari
son of his civil and military break-down
at the outset of both careers,” proceeds to
say that:
"Since we can get no better assurance than this,
let us take it "nor look the gift home iu the
mouth." The Herald's whole article Is based on
the recognition of a fact, too jiateut for dispute,
| that a serious disappointment already exist* iu the
patriot mind of the country In reference to tiie
| promise aud prospects of the administration. The
j people did not look fora Democratic or an anti-
Republican party administration, but they had per
suaded themselves that General Grant would strike
out boldly for a constitutional, honest, fair and lib-
L eral administration. They thought lie would, to
| some extent, get out of the old Radical ruts and
i carry ou the Government with an eye to the gen
eral welfare, and in opposition to the adiuinlstra
| tion of a Supreme Congress which is notoriously
conducted in contempt of the public welfare and in
exclusive devotion to the interests o< the Radical
1 faction, and of themselves as it* leaders. Upon
this idea. Grant was elected, aud upon it we-re
I based all those promises of peace aud prosperity
I which were so profusely made by the Conservative
• Republican leaders.
i Bui ibe lapse of one month, if it has not struck
them dumb, has produced a marked hesitation aud
| faltering. The aspects, as the Herald admits, are
not very flattering. The appointments are generally
from the most malignant type of radical ism. and with
but Jeie exceptions give little assurance of reform and
amendment in the personal character of the apjtaintees.
The tone of the administration is J'ar from delated,
and indications are apparent that it wilt Jail to achieve
the measure of executive independence essential to any
administration seeking the general wetj'are, and bent on
maintaining constitutional government. A general
weakness and vascillation are manifest, rather than
that kind of soldierly Jacksonian firmness which
was to be the crowning characteristic of President
Grant. In short, everyth sly. except the most bitter and
unscrupulouspartisans, is chapfallen .”
NVe are overwhelmingly gratified at this
endorsement —late though it comes—by
one of the members of “the leading aud
intelligent press of Georgia,” of our posi
tion and prophecy at the outset of Grant’s
administration.
We saw, or thought we saw, in the new
President’s inaugural—uotso much iu its
words, as tone however—aud the cast of
his Cabinet, that nothing was to he ex
peeled by the Boutli or the couutry from
him, aud so expressed ourself. For so
doing we were cast out of the magic circle
of “the leading and intelligent press of
Georgia.” We hardly think tlie jiublic
will hear very much more of “the leading,
etc,” on the golden promise of Grant’s ad
ministration. If.its members are satisfied
with the accuracy of their vaticinations
we certainly are. The public will see,
though, who uot ouly judged most cor
rectly, hut also had I lie mauliness to bring
it face to face w ith facts. Having made
no mistakes at the start on this point, at
least, we are not now under the necessity
of acknowledging them.
URIGHAM YOUNG’S THEATRE.
Portrait* from Among the Audience.
From a Salt Lake letter to the Boston Journal.
Brigham Young owns a theatre which
cost, it is said, two hundred thousand dol
lars, and which has yielded a large reve
nue. It is a well built edifice, nearly as
large as the Boston theatre, with jiarquet
and circle, dress circle, family circle and
gallery. Gentiles are consigned to the
dress circle, though Saints also sit there.
Climbing the narrow stairway we find
ourselves iu tiie dress circle, occujiying a
front seat, giving us a good position to
study the audience. We are not there to
see the play, but the people. The curtain
is still down and the audience are taking
their seats. The jiarquet is arranged with
slips like those in a church. At thu right
hand side in the parquet circle is Brig
ham’s family pew—distinguished from all
others by its red plush or damask uphol
stery. In the right hand side of the par
quet is a rocking chair, which Brigham
sometimes occujiies when he wishes to be
ou a familiar footing with the Saints.
The light in tiie building is rather dim,
gas not having been introduced to Halt
Lake, coal oil being used instead, hut
there is light enough for us to study the
countenances of those around us. On
seats adjoining ours are two young girls,
fresh, fair, rosy cheeked, accompanied by
a young man well dressed —Gentiles, I
judge, Irorti a remark dropped now and
then. At our right h >nd is a woman with
a baby in her arms, three other children
by her side. Bevoud her another woman
witli a baby and a great strapping fellow
willt red whiskers by her side. Behind
her are three royi-terlng fellows from the
mines of Montana, ogling the girls in the
jiarquet. They are Gentile wolves. Elder
Williams cautioned the girls last Sunday
to beware of those who came in sheeji’s
clothing to lead them away from the
church and down to perdition. The wolves
Uo sometimes carry off'the fairest lambs of
the flock. Borne of the girls piefer the un
divided love of a hardy, good looking
young Gentile to the fortieth or fiftieth
part of withered old apostle.
Two seats distant is aLotlier baby. The
mother is wrinkled and careworn. We
can see lines of care and suffering across
her forehead and in her sunken cheeks,
ns if Time had been turning deep furrows
and his jiloughshare had gone down into
the sub-soil and had cut tiie heart-strings.
Not her alone. We see the same joyless
cast of countenance on every female sane.
Artists, who with jien and pencil paint
characters, who can read the joys and
sorrows of life in the lines of the human
face, should come to Balt Lake City, they
would find it one vast studio—every
woman a subject. “Dead Affections”
would he an appropriate title to their pic
ture. Stifled, rather. These women have
never known what it is to love or be loved.
They know only sacrifice. They are
slaves —in bondage to the church and the
devil at the same time. They are ground
to powder between two mighty mill stones
—the upperonea religious idea, the lower
one the lewdness and lustof hard-hearted
men. Heaven and hell are together
brought into action, crushing out human
affections, aud the highest and holiest in
stincts of the soul.
But there is the man who runs the mill
—the head of the church —President and
Revelator— in the private box by the side
of tbe stage. He is portly, his hair is nice
ly brushed. He wears a white vest, black
broadcloth coat, kid gloves, puts an opera
glass to bis eye, aud looks over to the gal
lery containing us Gentiles, to see who is
there. He has a broad forehead, a large
nose, and whiskers turning white. Ability,
decision, duplicity, shrewdness aud cun
ning—the good and bad elements of char
acter are plainly marked in his counten
ance. Apostle Wells, a tall, thin, spare
man, nearly as old as Brigham, is by his
side.
In Brigham’s family circle we see two
of his concubines and twenty-two of his
children —all but three of them girls. One
of tbe women is past tbe prime of life
—plain countenance, plainly dressed. She
is sad—sad when others laugh. The play
is ‘ The Somnambulist,” but the comic
scenes which set the crowd a laughing
brings no smile to her face.
At the end of the seat is one of the fa
vorite concubines—a woman of 30 years,
pale, thoughtful, with an intellectual cast
of countenance, with a book in hand
which she reads between the scenes. She
has large, lustrous eyes, dark brown hair,
jewels on her fingers, and a mother-of
pearl opera glass in her baud. Sbe is ele
gantly dressed —wears a costly fine crape.
Did I notkuow that they were Brigham’s
concubines, I should set them down as
teachers of a girl’s boarding school, who
had come with their classes to enjoy the
evening.
It was a motly audience, saints, sin
ners and Indians. Far up in the gallery,
I see these of the Ute tribe, in moccasins
and blanket; gazing with impertur&ble
gravity upon thesctsne.
Brigham looks upon the audience most
of the time, turning his attention to the
stage only when something especially at
tractive or laughable occurs. He talks
with Brother Wells, takes a knife from
his pocket, pares an apple, which he
slowly munches. He has the appearance of
a man not acquainted with ttie usages of
good society, but who is well off iu the
world, independent of everybody, and
j who, for the remainder of his liie, is go rg
! to take thiugs easy and have everything
1 his own way.
VOL. LXI., NO 4.
Georgia. — Congress must “hurry up its
cakes” If it designs organizing war and
chaos in this State. Roth Houses have re
solved on adjournment Saturday, and still
neither Butler’s bill in the House, nor its
twin brother. Bice’s in the Senate, have
ever come up for discussiou. Papers at
Washington, notably given to falsification
say tiiat the President favors Butler’s bill,
but the National Intelligencer doubts the
report very capitally. We hardly have an
opinion as to the result. We think if
Judge Dooly had lived In these days, he
would have put Grant’s decision on a very
important matter ou a par with the pos
sibility of guessing at the verdict of a pettv
jury.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
At a regular inectiug of Macon Typographical
Union, No. 81, held on the7th lust., the following
was the action taken In regard to the death ol
Mr. SIMKI ROSE:
(gUI TRACT.}
Mr. PresidttU. Your committee beg leave to
present the following report:
A good man has fallen—a useful cl lsen has
been taken away. We, ap rtion of his fellow
cititens, desire to uulte In the unlver-al tribute
that will be reuder-d him, and In thia time of
mourning to "breathe a beulson upou his sleep
lug dust."
Mr. SiMKI Rose was looked upon as our elder
brother. We regaided bint as one of the few rw
nmtuing landmaiks of a business whose prim!
tlve features are fast being lost. Who shall fill
hlspiace! The old otdt; with whose sturdy mink
the storm-god and the thunderbolt did hatlle,
and among whose brandies the birds warbled
aud the lightning played, has been cut down.
Mr. liosK “fell on sleep’’ Just as he was comp cl
ing that period assigned by the prophet as the
limitation of man's lUe— three score and ten.
Your committee do not propose lo follow our
late friend through Ills long and useful life. A u
other pen wiil perform that duty ; but we dolri
to adorn our archives with a record of some ol
ills most promin nt charactei istlcs.
Mr. Konk was boru In North Brantford, Con
necticut. May 12,179 U, and at uu early age started
upon hls career un a printer. Iu Ik_M, he con
nected himself with the Joeus Al. AN i> Mt-srN
orr. of this city, and was Its publisher or editor
until Its purchase, one year ago, by its piesent
proprietors. While the personal supervision of
Ills paper must necessarily have required much
of hls time, yet he iound leisure occasionally u,
give hls attention to the embellishment of out
city, and lu many ways he added to Its beauty
In fact.no measure, looking to the beauty, health,
or prosperity of the city ever failed to find in him
a hearty aud cordial supporter. Hence, he was
among the very earliest trlen *s of the railroads
converging at this poiut, aud which have made
Macon a commercial c< litre.
But while, through a long series of years, he had
succeeded In collecting the rarest and choio -t
selections of trees and shrubbery to be found In
Georgia; aud by his public spirit inseparably
linked his name with every enterprise or eveut
worthy of local historic fame, yet there la one
thing that will forever stand as a monument lo
hls noble public spirit and far-reaching angiwily
Rose Him,! He beheld lu its wave-wlssed
shores a place where the dead might JM£ in
peace; and to make It what it is, he
hls euergies and much of hls meuus. Success
crowned tils efforts. What a lofly pride must
have tilled hls soul as he saw the accomplish
ment of hls long cherished desire ! An object cl
beauty rose up before him which would be a Joy
forever.
What shall we say more! Many words cannot
add to hls worth—lengthy sentences will con
tribute nothing to hls fame. We said he was a
good man aud a useful citizen ; let us add, lie was
a steadfast friend. Hypocrlcy aud deceit had no
lodging place In hls heart. But perhaps the best
tribute we can possibly pay him Is lo say that,
although during hls loug connection with II e
press he gave employment to more printers
than any one cotemporuneous with him, n ver
has there been oue who Coul i say, ‘ Mr. Rt.su has
wronged me.’’ We can sing of him—
The glazing mists that dim the eye
Are tokens of our sorrowing
For one whose name to memory
Is green as leaves In spring.
Not hls the soul to crawl and plod ;
In It all virtues bloomed aud grew—
The Iranklncense aud myrrh of Good,
The essence of the True!
A heart whose fallings, light as nlr.
The virtues shadowed like a veil ;
A hau4 that ope’d to Misery's prayer
And agonizing wall.
All these were hls; aud thus he moved.
Fulfilling hls Maker's plan ;
He lived as one whom seraphs loved.
In mein and acts a Man.
Long live the name we eulogize !
In silence rest Ills earthly parts.
His dl:ge shall he our weeping eyes.
Hls monument our hearts.
We add the following:
Hetolved, '1 hat lu thu death of Mr. Himju Ro.-k
the cralt has lost a tried and faithful friend, so
ciety a worthy member, and the city of M .eon a
valued citizen—one who was ever ready to aid lu
every good work with hls purse, hls hand, or his
pen.
Retolved, That we tender to the bereaved of hls
household our sluceiest condolence, In this their
great hour of sorrow, with the prayer that lie
who tempers the winds to the shorn lamb will
enable them to bear their loss with re lgnution
Reiolved, Tnat the .Secretary be directed to h . vo
prepared certified copies of this report, an I fur
nish the same to the family of the dee.; sed, to
the Grand Master of the Slate of Georgia and
also a copy to the city papers for publication.
Respectfully submitted,
JAH. H. SMITH,
C. W. HEMINU,
J. J. NEVILLE,
Committee.
GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS OF
HOUSTON COUNTY.
HOUSTON SUPERIOR COURT, I
February abjockmcu Tkkm, 18./j f
We, the Grand Jurors of Houston county, cho
sen, selected and sworn for February Adjourned
Term, 1889, beg leave In concluding our services
to make the following general presentments:
We have, through appropriate committees, ex
amined the books and records of the different
county officials, and find them all kept In supe
rior style; all moneys are properly accounted
for and legally disbursed.
The building known as a county Jail being
unsafe and not even suitable for the reception of
a person of moderate respectability, we retiom
mend the building of anew Jail upon a plan em
bracing both safety and comfort.
We find the roof ou the Court House ncedlny
some repairs, which we recommend f.e attended
to immediately.
Believing the present amount, (7a cent*; seven
ty-live cents per dtem. allowed for board of pris
oners, to be more than is necessary for their
comfort, we recommend that only fifty cents
(50ceuU) be allowed.
We find the County Poor House anil premises
needing tome repairs In order to render them
comfortable and preserve the buildings; there
fore we recommend such repairs as may be ne
cessary.
In consequence of the unsettled condition of
the country, we defer action in regard to an ap -
propriation for poor school purposes.
It appearing to our body that there has been a
mistake in the assessment of tax on the proper
ty of C. C. Duncan, Ksq,, for 18<W, we recommend
the Ordinary to examine and correct any such
mistake so far as relates to his county tax.
We find the roads and bridges generally
throughout the county to be In a very bad condl
tion, and some of them almost Impassable, and
recommend that the Ordinary see to It that all
the roads and bridges needing repairs are at once
put in good condition.
We regret to see such an utter disregard for the
Sabbath day In different communities iu our
county, and for the good of the rising generation
we recommend strict diligence on the part of
all officials and persons desiring a reform, In
order to suppress all drunkenness, gambling,
profanity and other misconduct, especially on
the Sabbath day.
In taking leave of his Honor, Jndge Cole, we
tender to him our high appreciation of tbe
ty and impartiality with which he has conducted
the business of tbe Court ; and our thanks o j..
Crocker. Solicitor General, for hi* proinp ne»
and courtesy to be
We recommend tLat jocrnau ixu
published in the Maco-
Mkssengek. smith. Foreman.
J. DICK»u.> oji p HimrnoDS
' ii-holas Mashburn, .. v (,| H. H m-erj
Wna. L>. Oyer, Charles G Gray,
james A. Tu nor, Wru . r. Hick*on,
Dewitt C. ’ Jesse Cooper
David H. Riley, Ham’l W. J. ksrris,
1 Wm D. Day- jno. O A. Houser |
I D-rrlllH.Cu.n. rhos. P. Tucker,
I Jno. G. Uavls Geo. W. Maddox.
Wt J < ‘ a ii l a nv I the Court that the above prescnt
j Ordered b,.uhed as requested.
ir'-nts he nubosnea \y. CROCKEK.
! By the Coart. Solicitor General.
| A true extract from the ix
Aaeputy clerk.