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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER
MACON, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1860.
THK FUTURE PRODUCTION OF COTTON. \
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin
Is inclined to the opinion that although
the favorable results of last year’s crop of
cotton have induced efforts#, towards a
still of the staples the
.Jerseiit year, it is very questionable
whether the actual increase will be con
siderable, or even appreciable. There is
land for the pui pose in unlimited abun
dance, but there is no proportionate sup
ply of agricultural labor. Indeed, there
is reason to suspect that the resources of
the latter now at hand iu the South have
reached the maximum of development,
from which there will be more tendency
to deeliue than to increase. We refer es
pecially to the freedmen hands who have
constituted the bulk of plantation labor
ers in the cotton-growing enterprises cf
the past three or four years. Time is
proving in this country what it has proved
iu Jamaica, in Hayti, iu Africa, that the
free negro has no more relish for contin
uous labor in the fields in the long, lan
guid summers of tropical aud quasi-trop
ical countries, than the free Caucasian ;
and by some judges he is regarded as
having much less, and as being particu
larly repugnant to plantation labor as long
as there are open to him lighter occupa
tions, or other modes of living more con
ducive to the dolce fur niente existence of
a big sunflower nodding in the breezes,
which is poetically supposed to fulfill the
Ethiopian’s dream of terrestr.ai happi
ness.
Turning to such elements of white !a||L
as are now in the South, we shall rtiDul
them tending to development in mechan
ical aud manufacturing directions rather
thau agricultural. Henceforth moreaLd
more of Southern industry will be devoted
to the manipulation of Lotion after it is
grown, ami it is not impossible that in ten
years oue half the value of the Southern
export of cottou will be in tbe shape of
cloths or yarns turned out of Southern
factories. The impending change will
promote the substantial wealth of the
South, but, as the situation now stands, it
must necessarily divert capital and labor
from the cultivation of the fields to a va
riety of home manufactures, andj there-
Yore, must tend to limit the production of
cotton.
There can scarcely, then, be a consider
able increase of the cotton crops of the
South hereafter, gradual or otherwise,
without the importation of labor from
abroad, and it must, we imagine, be drawn
from China or India, if it is to be had at
all. It hardly seems to have occurred to
those who write glowing pictures of the
future trade between the United States
and China that the latter couutry con
sumes nearly the whole of its vast produc
tions, and that it has a considerable sup
ply of no exportable value except its sur
plus labor, which is almost incalculable.
Itis reasonable to suppose that when the
trade between the two countries shall be
urged into the largest activity by Pacific
railway communication, Chinese immi
grant ia'oor will flow copiously over into
tbe great basin of the Southwest, where it
will find a better openingand meet with a
more friendly reception thau iu higher
latitudes where it will collide with the in
tolerant competition of white laborers.
[communicated]
MACON AMD HER R YILKOADS.
About twelveyeais ago, a Railroad Con
vention was called to meet at Clinton for
the purpose of taking into consideration
the practicability of building a railroad
from Macon to Augu-ta. At that time
many thought it a wild aud unprofitable
scheme, hut now it appears that within
a few short mouths this road will be com
pleted, and the engine aud cars reach
their western terminus.
About tbe same time the project was on
foot for constructing a road from Macon
to Brunswick, ami from what I am able to
gather through the newspapers and other
sources, T find that road in a few months
will be finished, and the cars ruuning
from Macon to Brunswick. It is generally
eonceeded that both these roads will pay
very profitable dividends. These roads,
with those already built, will ttive Macon
a commercial importance scarcely ex
celled by any interior town.
What is now wanting in railroad enter
prises, to complete her future successful
dqjdiuy, is a road direct from Macon via
Thomastou to West Point, on the Chat
tahoochee. This road would pass througli
n wealthy and influential section of the
State, and throw into Maeon an immense
travel and trade, while it would prove an
important feeder to the other roads men
tioned.
By a glance at the map you w ill per
ceive that this road, after "reaching the
Chattahoochee, might, aud doubtless
would, withiu a comparatively short pe
riod of time, be xtended to Napoleon, on
Lite west bauk of tbe .Mississippi, in Ar
kansas,. and at tbe point where the Ar
kansas river empties its almost unlimited
travel aud trade into tiiat great river.
Now, that your merchants aud business
men are using their heat energies to se
cure and promos every object that may
contribute to tbe welfare and general pros
perity of Macon, would it not he wise on
their part to contemplate the great bene
fits that would he derived from tiiis
project, anil give the subject that favora
ble consideration which the writer thinks
its importance merits? Should any ob
jection he raised on the ground of the
proximity of this road with the Macon
& Western or Southwestern you can re
fer them to the same proximity that ex
ists with Hie Macon & Augusta to the Cen
tral aud Georgia roads, or to any of the
Otiio, Indiana or Illinois roads to each
other, all of which are doing a profitable
business. Engine.
Gor> Bi.ess Him!— We find the follow
ing paragraph in the Washington City
Express of Thursday last:
Uen. Hobart /?. Lee. —This distinguished
geutlemau was among the passeugers who
arrived last evening at six o’clock on the
through train from the South. He was
met at the Potomac Ferry wharf by a per
sonal friend, wito escorted him to the Bal
timore depot. Gen. Lee goes to Baltimore,
with many other delegates from Virginia,
in the interest of the Virginia Valley ami
Lynchburg and Danville Railroads. He
looks hale and well, aud continues to de
vote ids time and energies to the material
interests of his State and country.
Ex-President Johnson.— Mr. Johnson
passed through this city yesterday. The
lutelligeuceof the death of hisson reached
him at Athens, Ala., on Friday, when he
started immediately for home via Colum
bia a:;d Nashville. He readied home yes
terday iu time for the burial, which took
place, we presume, yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Joltosou is looking quite well, and,
but for the intelligence be received, would
have remained iu Middle Tennessee sev
eral days longer. Knoxville Press <i
Herald, 25th.
To Eesion.—The Louisville Courier-
Journal’s Washington special, of Satur
day, says that Secretary of the Navy,
Borie, will soon resign, on account of ill
health. After having filled all the offices
at his disposal, with persoual friends, aud
given Admiral Porter, his brain provider,
an opportunity of settling alj bis oiu
grudges against brother officers in the
Navy, Borie feels that his mission has
been accomplished, aud thus there is ne
cessitated another draw iu the G. G. G. F.
The Great Storm.— Telegrams to the
Western Press, from New York, New
England and the Canadas, report very ex
tensive ruins, aud the couutry almost sub
merged. The destruction to property is
reported as being very great.
To BE Hdng.—Parshal, the hotel beeper
at Courtiand, Alabinaa, who shot and
killed Conductor Oats, of the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad, some time since,
it as been convicted of murder in the first
degree aud sentenced to be hung.
Measles.—Girard, for the want of
something else la do, is having the
measles. Men, women and children are
attacked by it. it is easily controlled.—
The disease is plentiful on this side of the
tiver.—Columbus Sun, 2 2d.
THE QUARREL AMONG THE FAITHFUL.
We find in Die Radical paper published
at Atlauta a long reply to a pamphlet
issued by Potash Farrow, while at Wash- j
ington City, recently, and addressed to
Mr. Dickey, a State Senator from Upper
Georgia. The reply is credited to, and
fathered by the Rev. J. H Caldwell, pu
tatively of La Grange, a shiniug light in
the Radical church, both spiritual and
temporal, aud at -present their candidate
for Congress in the Third District.
We will do the parson the justice to say
that he makes a good argument—which
he couldn’t well help with the material
at hand—aud that he fully and trium
phantly refutes every statement made,
aud every effort at argument advanced by
Potash. He also lets a great deal of day
light in upon dark places where Bullock
and his gaug have been working, and
fixes the status of certain parlies whose
position has been a subject of much
“loil” discussion —notably McCay, and
McWhorter, Speaker of the House. Upon
this branch of his discourse we quote the
parson as follows:
ROBEHT L. Ml VHOKTEB,
Speaker of the House of Representatives. lie
ruled out twe.ni y-nine colored members of the
Georgia Legislature in a body from voting, when
their own right to seats iu that body was contested,
and afterward came to Washington to favor a mea
sure which was ostensibly designed to have them
restored. That the conspirators took him in to aid
them in their plot is a proof that some other mo
tive was at tlie bottom of it. In company with
Farrow lie headed a delegation in a visit to the
President to eudorse the Governor’s “course,” ask
that immediate action should be taken by Congress
w ith reference to Georgia, and urging the passage
of the Butler Rice bill.
I have seen u card in some of the papers from
this gentleman, in which, alluding to a notice of
the visit, which appeared in a Republican paper of
Washington, he says: “I see that it lias been an
nounced through the public pie-s tl.at I made a
political visit to General Grant. This is certainly
ririnistako. My mission to Washington has uothyig
■Lit relating to that question.” "
am willing to allow him the full benefit of Bin
denial as far as it goes, but it does not go far
enough He does not deny the visit. Will he now
deny it? He does nut deny that the delegation,
heatled in part by himself, “endorsed the course of
Governor Bullock.” Will lie now deny that he
did endorse it? He does not deny thattiic dolega
tion “urged the immediate consideration of the
status of Georgia by Congress,” and that “they
expressed themselves in favor of the Bullcr-lliee
bill.” Will he now deny it ? He does not deny
that he kept company with the couspirators, and
avoided as much as possi .de the company of the
true Georgians who were opposing them. He does
not deny that when asked by some of the latter
class to go with them before the Reconstruction
Committee to remonstrate against the Butler bill
he refused to do so. When the people of his State
know ttiat he did absolutely nothing to prevent
the passage of a bill that would have crushed out
the last vestige of life and liberty in Georgia, they
will hold justly that lie was with, “aiding and abet
ting,” if he was not one of the conspirators,
n. K. M OAT,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Geor
gia. I regret to have to mention this gentleman’s
name. I have always esteemed him, have sympa
thised witli him in the sufferings which in common
we have endured as co workers in the great effort
to reconstruct the State. But he was iu Washing
ton, was with the conspirators, aiding them with
his counsel, and held little or no intercourse w ith
the true friends of Georgia. Justice requires that
he should be named, and on a question of this char
acter I cannot spare him. Well may every Geor
gian exclaim, et tu Unite!
These were preceded, attended, or followed up
by a host of persons of smaller note. Some of
them were “servile retainers” of His Excellency,
some were “irresponsible adventurers,” some were
drawn forward with promises of getting offices
■‘under the new administration,” to be deceived,
abandoned, and disappointed by their seducers,
and some were “lewd fellows of the baser sort.”
All came, however, to make an imposing array of
numbers, to “yelp out second handed notes” that
something must be done with Georgia! One of
them expressed his idea finely when he said to an
other who had ju-t arrived, “You've coine justiu
time to see Georgia go up the spout!”
Bullock aud his gang were defeated, as
the couutry knows and rejoices over, and
so their next move was on the various De
partments where “loilty” was being re
warded by sops of office. There, as the
parson confesses, almost with ungodly
words, they were more suecessful, aud
managed to have such appoiutmeuts
made in Georgia as they pleased. How
Bullock recommends applicants for office
is thus set forth by the parson :
The papers on file at the different departments
reveal some curious facts. Take, for example, a
ease in the department of the Postmaster General:
Butloekites Nos. 1, J and 3, all want the same post
office—say at Confederate Cross Roads. They all
apply to His Excellency (His would-be Supreme
Majesty) for recommendations each for the same
place. But Bullockitcs Nos. 1 and 2 are members
of the Legislature, aud the prudent Governor, pos
sibly anticipating the need of their services here
after in that body, studies out a plan to keep them
there until he needs them. Can any one imagine
what that plan is? Let him step into the office of
the First Assistant and call for Confederate Cross
Roads. Tbe bell rings, a messenger appears, the
papers are ordered, aud in they come. Now look
for Bullockite No. 1. There it is. Open and read
the inside. “Builockite No lis a first rate fellow,
all right, wants P. O. at C * R , ought to h ive it—
must have it.” Signed “R. B. B.” Fold it up.
Look on the outside. That is only the “briefing”
at the top—look towards the bottom—“l do not
want you to appoint B. No. 1 to C. * R., he’s a
member of the Legislature, aud I need him there.
You must appoint B. No. 3, he’s not a member. K.
B. B.” “All right,” says P. M. G., “that settles
it.” Now, look for B. No. 2. All right inside, just
like No. 1. Outside, ditto. If either of the B’s get
C. * R. it will be No. 3, because lie is notfa mem
ber of tlie Legislature. And this i- what R. B. B.
docs, assisted by the “law officer of the crown.”
It was in this way that a number of poor crea
tures were lured hither, merely to beat tnegong for
the would-he-Autocrat, to be deceived, deserted,
and betrayed. The only comfort their shrewd
master could give them in their disappointment
was a promise to “provide for them in some other
way."
OONCLUSUOX.
It is time to expose villainy. There is enough
exhibited here to enrage any people, not in tlie
condition of Georgia. If such couduct were at
tempted by tlie chief officials of any Northern State,
what would the people do to them ? But our peo
ple must uot he ra->h. Their peril is immineut.
Let them bide their time; tie patient and endure
the pressure of existing evils. The day will come
when they will be emancipated from them. A re
action will take place. The most extreme men in
Congress are beginning to see it. They know that
the reconstructionists of Georgia worked in good
faith. They mean to stand by them against the at
tempted tyranny of a few ambitious officials. Let
the people be careful to do nothing to afford them
any pretext to renew their efforts. They will not
have the hardihood to appear in Washington next
December. If they do, they will be spewed forth
as a set of pestiferous wretches who deserve noth
ing hut scorn. Let the people be patient and pray
for peace.
Itis time indeed to expose this villiany.
It has been time every day since the foul
faction of whom both Bullock and Cald
well were original members, first dared to
commence its machinations against the
life and honor of Georgia. We take some
credit to ourself forearly enlistment in the
work, and faithful service from that hour
to this. What we have said of Bullock
aud his fellow couspirators, one who has
plotted with them corroborates. We pub
lish his evidence as part of the history of
the times, aud to siaud as a perpetual wit
ness of the righteousness of every denun
ciation we have ever levelled at these con
spirators against the public peace aud
safety. We shall continue tbe fight,
whether the parson, moved thereto by
what has never been known yet fail iu
mollifying a really “loil” man—a dip into
the spoils pot—makes up with his former
allies or not. In the meautime we have
him on the record.
Terrible Railroad Accident.— Ntw
York, April 23. —A horrible accident is
reported on the Long Island R.ilroad
The train which left Hunter’s Point at 10
o’clock this morning, when about one
mile east of Jamaica, ran off tbe track
when going at the rate of about twenty
miles an hour. Six passengers were iu
stantly killed, fifteen others severely in
jured, two or three mortally. Every per
son iu the rear car were either killed or
injured. Among the killed were two
women and an infant. The cause of the
accident was a broken rail. Among the
passengers killed are Wm. Pushman,
President of the Atlantic Bank, Brooklyn,
and P. Strauuton, a railroad contractor!
Among the injured is Mr. Craig, of East
Thirtieth street, in this city, who was
badly cut about the head, and also had
his hip dislocated.
Another account says there were fifteen
in the last car, which was broken into
splinters and eiglit persons killed. The
brakeman was killed, as was a child named
Adams. The parents of the latter were
terribly injured and cannot survive. Tbe
killed and wounded were moved to Min
cola aud Jamaica, and everything done to
alleviate tbe sufferings of tbe injured.
How He Took It.—lt is said that when
the character of Mr. Chandler’s speech
was explained to Mr. Thornton, the
British Minister, lie laughed scornfully,
and exclaimed, “Pshaw! very good speech
to tickle Yankee D mdle’s vanity, hut
nothing more in it Vox elprceterea nihil.
Amer.ca can’t afford to go to war with us,
you know, and weshau’t be frightened by
threats of that kind."
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
STATE NEWS.
Georgia the Best Place Yet.—We
had a conversation a few days since witn
a gentleman who has spent thousands or
dollars, since the war, in search of a better
home than Georgia. He has now come
hack, aud sa\s he expects to he buried n
his old uat ive State. No where could be
found a home half so desirable. He spent
several mouths in British and Spanish
Honduras. At first he says that country
was iuviting, and he thought it the home
,for the impoverished people ot the boutn
aj'. Orates, Illstio which flesh is
heir to in that country ai*e not to he seen
at the first glance. One has to remain
there for a time to be convinced that it is
not the home for any one except the na
tive. To all he says don’t go to Honduras
We expect a letter from him io a few days
in which he willspeak forhimself. But we
make these statements in advance, as he
seemed to fear that before he could have
time to prepare his letter, some might
leave, as he did, lured by the bright pic
ture held up by designing parties.—ten
tral Georgian, 22d
Broke Jail.— Last Wednesday even
ing as Mr. Hugh Hall, sheriff, opened the
outer door of tlie jail to give the inmates
their supper, the door was forced violently
agaiust him, throwing him to the ground,
and a burly negro prisoner rushed out
and made for the woods, taking the pre
caution to put the jail between himselt
and Mr. Hall. By the time Mr. Hall re
gained his feet the negro bail a considera
ble start. Mr. Hall fired three shots at
him without effect. Mr. Dan Dennis also
fired two or three shots, but with the
same result.
The escaped prisoner’s name is Douglas
Wright. He was iu jail for breaking open
a store at Box Bpring.
[Talbot ton Gazette, 22d.
Heavy Rain.—On Monday night last
this vicinity was visited with a heavy
thunder storm. The rain fell in torrents.
We learn from some of tlie farmers that
their crops have been much injured—tlie
cotton and corn being washed away.—
rshotild such disasters lie repeated, or a
frost overtake the young eottiSi this
mouth, the loss will be irreparable, as
tiiere is great scarcity of seed throughout
the country — lbid.
From the Country.—ln conversing
with our farmers and planters from va
rious parts of the country, we learn that
the recent cold snap has more or less in
jured their crops, and i hat the fruit crop
is materially injured. The majority of our
plauters have finished planting, unless it
should be necessary to re-plant some crops
which have been killed by the frost. As
a general thing our planting friends have
had Cotton-on the brain, to some extent,
and a larger area of laud has been planted
in cotton than in corn and other giains,
although we believe that tbe most of our
planters have planted corn enough to sup
ply their own wants, although they will
have hut little if any for sale. The wheat
crop of the country is by no means prom
ising. We are plea ed to say that tlie
freedmeu are generally working well,
and we hear but few complaints of bad
conduct on their part.
[Greensboro Herald, 21d.
Meningitis. — We are pained to an
nounce the death of Mr. Ezekiel M. Park,
son of Dr. Columbus M. Park, who
died of ttiis disease in our city on
Tuesday morning last. Young Park was
one of our most promising young men,
and bis death is universally lamented by
our citizens.
We regret to learn, also, that our fellow
citizen, Mr. W. T. Doster, has two young
children who are sufleriug from the same
disease, anil that other cases are reported.
We know of no preventive for it, but
would advise great prudence, and temper
ance iu all things.
Since placing theabove iu type we learn
that Mr. Doster’s little boys, wiio are un
der the medical care of Dr. J. E. Walker,
are much better, and are likely to recover
soon.— lbid.
Crops in Henry County.— The wheat
erop looks remarkably well ail the way
from Griffin to McDonough. Much of tlie
corn is up and looks very well. A large
amount of ground is planted in corn and
wheat. The farmers are just commencing
to plant cotton. The ground is generally
iu good fix, and a large amount of fertil
izers are being used. Farm houses, out
houses and fences have been repaired aud
put in order. Ditches are being cut
through many of the rich swampy bot
toms, and all things betoken increasing
prosperity and thrift among the farmers.
Griffin Star, 23d.
Newnan Mineral Spring. —Frequent
notices of this valuable spring may cause
some who are not aware of its real merits,
its wonderful remedial powers, to think
that we are playing a game of “brag.”—
This is not really our object. We wish
the people who are afflicted with disease
to experience its heuetits, and therefore
write often. Dr. F-d. Bmiih, of this place,
has permitted us to see an order for several
dozen bottles of this water. Where do
you suppose the order came from? Not
from Atlanta nor from LaGrange, for both
of these places seem satisfied with their
own waters. That order came from the
city of New York.— People's Defender,
The Late Rains have produced a
heavy freshet iu our rivers, but as luck
would have it, tlie rivers are not as high
by about five feet as in‘lß6l If the river
had reached its highest point, the damages
to the wheat, corn and cotton crops would
have been immense. From this point
down, we do uot suppose that more than
one-half of the wheat ciop is under water,
but from Rome up, the river has teen
much higher than at this poiut, and our
understanding is that all the low lands
are overflowed, consequently the damages
are much greater thau below this point.
Considerable damage to tbe fencing will
result from tbe present rise, and of course
our river farmers, owing to the scarcity of
labor, will be thrown hack two or three
weeks with their crops, if they do not
have to abandon a great portion of the
lands planted.
Io aud about (he city very few have
been injured by the high waiers.
We have not been able to get much in
formation from tlie country of a reliable
nature. The mill of Mr. J. J. Cohen is
about half under water, and his milldam
is not to be seen. He will be damaged,
but to what amount we are not able to
say. —Home Commercial, 23 d.
The Fields “Look far greener than
ever.” Never was prospect more cheering
than that which the wheat fields now
present. Should there be no future disas
ter the crop will abundantly reward the
farmer for the increased care and skill be
stowed upon it.
The first planting of upland corn is
just making its appearance above ground.
The farmer is generally forward with his
work. Cotton is being planted, but not,
as we feared, to such an extent as to en
danger a sufficiency of more important
crops. Sorghum will be produced to a
considerable extent, but not as largely as
it will be in future years. Arrangements
have been made, near Marietta, to pro
duce sugar from the forthcoming crop
which will add greatly to the cultivation
in future. All tilings considered the agri
cultural prospect is highly inspiring to
Lite farmer.— Marietta Journal, 23 d.
Death of Col Sumner J. Smith.—We
regret to learn that this able and esieemed
gentleman died at his residence iu Banks
county last Saturday. He had been in
bad health for some time. Col. Smith was
a man of fine ability, aud exalted personal
worth. He served in the Georgia Legisla
ture about tbe year 1859, from Towns
county, and was a leader in the debates of
that term. He was ardently devoted to
tbe cause of the Confederacy, and raised a
regiment early in the war. His health
failed, aud he returned home, where he
has led a lifeof close retireraeutever since.
New Churches.— Toe Methodist; de
nomination has nui t a comfortable brick
church since the war, the Presbyterians
are about finishing a handsome edifice,
the Catholics are exerting themselves to
erect a sanctuary, and we learn tiie Bap
tists contemplate building anew house of
worship, while the Cumberland Presbyte
rians are energetically striving to lay the
foundation for an increased membership,
and Lite Episcopalians project a temple of
their faith, in our city. We wish them all
a clear sea and fair breeze. This is a good
field for faithful sbeperds.— lbid.
The Weather and the Crops.—The
late cold snap nipped the early corn and
retarded the tender vegetation. But the
fine weather now upon us will soon revive
every growing thing. The wheat crop, as
a general thing, is very promising. But
little complaint we hear from any part of
the county. Cotton planting is almost
over, and we are inclined to believe that
more grain has been planted titan was at
first intended.— LaOranye Reporter, 23 d.
Good for Dalton.— Several saw mills
have recently been put in operation, and
morearecontemplated. The priceof lum
ber will be brought down, while the de
mand is constantly increasing. More im
provements are goiug on in Daltot) than
ever before, aud ere the frosts of another
winter, our city will hardly be recognized
by strangers.— Dalton Citizen, 23 d.
attempted Assissihatipn.— On Sum*
pay evening last a young niajj, the son <n
James King, |’ho reside» near Bpriug
Creek, in tins counlyftfhile4*alkingalong
the road leading from Cloud’s Bridge to
Cloud’s ferry, was shot at by an unknown
person, the hall passing through a meal
bag he was carrying oil his shoulder, justt
missed his breast.
The boy turning suddenly, saw the
would-be assassin running from him, bit
he was unable to identify his retreating
figure ; nor could he tel! whether it wa" a J
white or Ida/./ *an,. The hoy Stays, that!
tliftffilU’Bvl. .’e W--..Lud a gun cap b&tJl
twice near him, as he was passing the |
same road, but he could see no one.
[liairibridge Argus, 24 th.
The Crops. —The planters in this sec
tion, with but few exceptions, have plant
ed their cottou seed very early, the reason
is to shield themselves if possible, against
the ravages of the caterpillar. The result
is, a poor stand is generally complained
of. The seed planted in the bottoms, ow
ing to the beating rains we have had this
spring, have not come up at all or very
partially ; and the late frosts and cold days
have had an injurious effect upon tbe col
ton which lias come up. The stand of corn
is better than cotton, although that is not
as good as usual.
The crops generally, are much farther
advanced than they commonly are so early
in the season. Borne corn fields have been
plowed and boed over, and the cotton in
others is being chopped out
The oats continue fine.— lbid.
Terrific Storm.— On Tuesday morn
ing last, about day-light, a terrific storm
of wind and rain passed over this sectioD,
prostrating trees and fences, and blowing
down gin-houses aud cotton-screws, and
otherwise seriously damaging the inter
ests of our farmers. We have not yet
learned the extent of the storm, or of the
injury sustained by it. It was tlie hardest
blow we have had for many years.— lbid.
Death of Col Thacker Howard.—
Cos!. TLacker Howard, oue of our oldest
and most esteemed citizens, died at his
residence near this city, on yesterday
morning. He had been iu bad health for
some tiiAe, and was over seventy years of
age. He was a brother of Major John H.
Howard, deceased, and 1ea.,.-v behind, be-j
sides a widow and several children, a very
large circle of relatives and ■'
[Columbus Son, 2ott.
Accident. — We regret to learn, froia a
private letter ’o in this city,
that Dr. J. B. Randall, fo> inerly of tins
place, had his collar bone broken by be
ing thrown from a buggy, a few dayssince,
near his residence io Jefferson county.
[Arnericus Republican, 28 th.
COL. B. G. LOCKET I'S SYSTEM —.NO. 3
Hiring and l*a\fu£.
Col. Lockett hires exclusively by the
year, and pays iu greenbacks at iheendof
each quarter. He classifies laborers aud
hires accordingly, stipulating the wtgts
for first, second and third classes; aud
j adds thereto one ration—four pounds of
bacon and one peck of meal to the laborer,
per week. He ignores tbe co partnership
or share plan altogether, aud the peace,
good order, contentment aud success of
his plan demonstrate it as the true policy.
When lie has contracted with tbe !a
-- rer. he simplifies tlie contract by reduc
ing the amount sgreed upon to per diem
pay. T ius, if he agrees to nay a first class
hand sl7o for the year’s work, he runs tbe
working days through it, and (he laborer
learns that he is to get 58 cents per day,
or $3 38 every Biturday. This simplifica
tion is not only necessary to enable tlie
simple minded laborer to.keep bis own
accounts, but is necessary t i enable the
j manager to keep a correct tint * book, for
the time is still further divided into hours
and half hours, and the laborer knows
that he is docked by the manager fir every
hour aud even half hour he Gees during
working hours.
1 iris system stimulates a determination
I on the part of first-class bands to retain
that high distinction, and operates as an
I incentive to tlie lower classes to merit
! promotion ; while the docking, or as they
| call if, “ducking,” inspires a wholesome
j fear of falling short of the $3.38 at the
, close of the week.
The ration is furnished only to the reg-
I ulariy hired laborers, but provisions are
i kept on the place and furnished to them
| for the non-laboring members of their
| families, at an advance on cost just sufli
j cient to cover expenses aud interest on
j money expended therefor.
Comfortable houses are provided for
j their lamilies free of charge, and garden
| spots are al otted to them.
At the end of each quarter the pay rolls
and money are r ady, and every laborer is
paid the last cent that is due. No store
accounts or other indebtedness are rung
in in payment, but what is due is paid up
iu money, and a whole day is allowed
them to frolic and spend it if they choose.
They are permitted to use tlie mules and
wagons aud go whithersoever they please.
Os course they all go to town—except,
perhaps, a few of the more provident atui
thrifty—have a good time, spend their
money, and rejoice in the privilege.
Whenever a laborer disobeys the man
ager's orde's, or fails in any way to do his
duty, and there is a conflict between him
and the manager, he has the right of ap
peal to Col Lockett, who is the final
judge, and who is as scrupulous aud rigid
iu meting out justice as the most impartial
judge that ever wore the ermine. This
every laborer in his employment knows
full well, aud he knows too that when the
decision bids him go, it is irreversible,aud
that he must go.
These rules work harmoniously, pre
serve discipliue, encourage industry, and
promote contentment ajid happiness. The
burthens of the field are borue with cheer
fulness, work is performed with a quick
step and light heart, and employer and
employe reciprocate care for each other’s
interest aud due regard for each other’s
welfare.— Albany News, 23d.
ACCIDENT AT THE CIRCUS-HERR LINGEL
BIT UV THE LIONESS.
An incident occurred Tuesday night at
the circus, corner of Bourbon aud Orleans
streets, which nearly became a tragedy,
ft is well known to our people that Herr
Lingel, the lion tamer, at the close of the
performance enters the cage of the lions.
For more than a year past the liouess has
had a great antipathy to him, aud has
more than once attacked him with savage
ferocity. At Madison, Indiana, last sum
mer, site came very near billing him, aud
as if still remembering tbe advantage
then obtained, she last night made a. sim
ilar attack, which came as near being fa
tal. For some time before entering the
•lens tiie lions exhibited great uneasiness,
aud when the lion tamer mounted the
ladder which led into the cage the lioness
assumed a position which threatened au
immediate attack.
Undeterred by this manifestation of
hostility, the iron-nerved performer threw
open the door and darted in. For a mo
ment the scene was thrilling. The lions
Beemed mad with rage, aud sprung from
o ie side of the cage, in apparently ungov
e liable fury. Tbe lioness was particular
ly spiteful, aud sprung at him more than
once witii open mouth, but tbe mesmeric
power of tiie eye controlled her, and she
as often retreated into tiie further corner
of the cage, growling sullenly. Compell
ing the lions to go through their usual
performance, Herr Lingel was about re
treating from tbe den when tiie lioness,
as if possessed with sudden fury, sprung
at him and clutched his knee in her teeth.
The audience were appalled. The shrieks
of women mingled with the shouts of
men.
Everybody expected to see the man tom
limb from limb. But with admirable
presence of mind he succeeded in releas
ing the hold of the animal and retreated
from the cage. Although dangerously
wounded his injuries are such as will not
preclude his speedy recovery. It is but a
few days since one of tiie lions in the cage
eutered by M’lle Ella Eugenia attacked
hnr, inflicting a painful wound in her
hand. Notwithstanding all this, neither
of them appears at all intimidated, aud
will renew tHeir performances as soon as
their wounds will permit.— New Orleans
Picayune, 23rd.
Across the Continent. Chicago
April 2lst. Galveston Mooney arrived in
this city tit is afternoon via Pacific Road
in eight and a half days from Sau Fran
cisco, including nine hours staging thirtv
eight hours delay in making connection
and three hours and twenty minutes on
slow moving of the construction trains.
At the euds of the two roads on tbe 17th
instant, there were hut fifty miles of road
rw, ImejUn l m ejUn i tl ° n oftbe Union and
Centra! Pacific tracks would beconmleted
by the Ist of May, thus forming aeon in
uous railroad across the continent from
Pastport, Maine, to San Francisco, a dis
tance of very nearly S.bCQ tpiles.
Two More.—Bout well has appointed
two more negroes to office in the Treasury
Department. He sticks them all fu the
room of the chief clerk of the Third Au
ditor s office. Fortunately for that official
SAD DEATH FROM A GOAL OIL LAMP EX
PLOSION.
The particulars of tlie painful death of j
Mrs. Benedict, formerly Mrs. Montcure, j
of the Belle Air Plantation, some twenty- j
eight miles below New Orleans, by the ;
explosion of a coal oil lamp, in the latter j
part of last month, we believe bave not as j
yet been "published. The lady who met !
tier death so suddenly, aud yet so calmly, ]
occupied a high position in society, for !
which she was eminently fitted by birth,
education and accomplishments.
J Mr. Benedict, her husband, had left the
plantation for a visit to the city upon
business, aud Mrs. Benedict, with her
little babe, hairjust retired to lest for the
night, when the accident occurred which
proved so fatal.
A coal oil lamp was burning upon a
stand by the bedside, and when the lady
had seen that her little one was tucked iu
and cared for, she leaned forward and
with her hand upon tbescrewof the lamp,
turned it down, at the same time blowing
down the chimney to effectually extin
guish the lingering flame. In an instant
the blaze which had been forced down
into the lamp ignited the oil, resulting in
au explosion, ttie burning fluid covering
the night clothes of the lady and spread
ing itself over the tied.
Mrs. Benedict’s screams attracted the
attention or a nurse in an udjofning apart
ment, who, rushing, in seized the babe,
whose night clothes were also on fire,
aud left tiie room iu a slate of terror which
seemed to have paralyzed her.
Mrs. Benedict, with great presence of
mind, wrapped the bed clothes about her
to suffocate the fire, but finding that this
would not do, she left the bed and room,
and ran down a flight of stairs into the
parlor, where she endeavored tostille the
flames with the rugs and other woolen ar
ticles she could get hold of. Btili the fire
demon clung to her, literally scorching
her to death by inches, and at last, in the
frenzy of despair, she rushed from the
house out into the night, and across the
fielri, past the sugar house to the and welling
of the overseer, who, aroused by her cries,
opened the door and hurried her into his
wife’s apartments.
The poor lady, around whom linens were
quickly thrown, saturated with oil. was
|<>ue living mass of IfSlYis; but for air this,
and feeling that she had but a little while
to live, she talked as calmly as she was
wont to do before the terrible accident had
happened.
The overseer, at her direction, left at
once fir the house, and succeeded m put
ting out tlie lire and securing certain val
uable papers, the place of keep! og of w hieh
Lad been detailed to him by Mrs. Bene
diet, with a calmness which was wonder
ful iu oue writhing iu the agonies of
death.
Couriers were immediately dispatched
above and below the plaulati >n, tor medi
cal aid, aud also for Mr. Benedict, iu the
city, but in a few tiours tile sufferer had
passed away to i lie better land.— New Or
leans Dicayuue, 20 th.
THE GREAT STORM AT ST. I.OLIs.
Br Louis, April 19. I’he storm king
has been holding bis saturnalia in this
region. Last night we bad a deluge oi
rain, accompanied with vivid lightning
and terrific peals of thunder. No partic
ular damage vvu- done, however, though
telegraphing was quite out of the ques
tion. At.out noon to day a heavy rain
storm, accompanied by lightning and hail,
passed over the city.
While the merchants were on ’Change,
the lightning struck the Chamber of Com
merce, passing through the dome, dam
aging the painting slightly, and putting
an end to the transactions for some min
utes. At four o’clock ttiis afternoon the
most terrible flail storm ever witnessed for
more than a quarter of a century burst
over tbe city. Tbe winds blew a hurri
cane, lightning flashed, thunder roared,
and the rain and hail fell in torrents.
The storm came from the West, and un
numbered panes of glass were broken in
windows on that side of buildings. All
h D-ls suffered heavy losses from this
cause. Sky-lights every where have been
completely riddled, amt an immense deal
of damage done to buildings. In various
parts of tlie city some small buildings
were Injured or demolished, though no
valuable bouses w ere seriously damaged,
except from broken glass and water.
Tbe steeple on the Catholic Church was
struck by lightning, and t he s eeple a good
deal shattered. Homeyer’s, Biiaw's, and
Lliiard’s gardens suffered severe loss by
Die breaking of glass iu hot-house frames
and injuries to p 1 ->nts.
The west side of the Republican office
had its forty windows literally riddled
with hail, causing the buildings to iook
like a wreck. Two hundred and fifty
panes of glass were broken. It is esti
mated that at least $20,000 worth of glass
was broken in the city. It is said that
over oue thousand street lamps are
broken.
Bailey’s large menagerie tent in the
western part of the city was lowered at
the approach of t he storm so that it formed
in funnel shape, through which fifty
bushels of hail passed into the arena
Terrific consternation was created among
the animals, ami it was with the greatest
difficulty that the lions, tigers, rhinoceros
and other animals were kept from burst
ing out of their cages. A number of per
sons were slightly injured inconsequence
of the storm, though none seriously, ex
cept two persons, who are said to have a
leg each broken in some way.
The storm came up very suddenly, and
created a (rightful confusion among horses
and carriages. Two fuuerais, on their
way to the cemeteries, were overtaken by
the storm, and the horses to both hearses
ran away, overturning the vehicles, and
threw both coffins into tlie streets.
It is impossible to detail the innumera
ble incidents of the storm, and it is a mira
cle that no lives were lost and so few per
sons injured. The storm extended east
aDd west as far as heard from.
THE CHEAT FLOOD AT THE NORTH.
Troy, N. Y., April 22 —The flood in the
river here is the highest since 1857. The
lower portion of the city is inundated, and
several piles of lumber have beeu carried
away from West Troy. Railroad travel is
suspended. The storehouse of theGlenu’s
Falls Lime Company, at Green Island,
containing about 1.5U0 barrels of lime, was
set on tire by the water slacking the lime
and wholly destroyed, together with the
storehouse of holes & Sweet, of this city.
Loss, $30,000. The freshet north of us 'is
very severe. The boom above the dam at
Glenn’s Falls was carried away this
morning, and 40 000 logs set adrift. The
loss will be very heavy.
Albany, April 22.— There is the great
est flood here since 1857, and the water is
rising an inch per hour. The Hudson
River road is submerged at different points
between here and Stuyvesant, and in some
places washed away. Several bridges on
the Central road have been carried away.
Travel is entirely destroyed The flood
along the valley of the Mohawk is the
greatest ever known. The Central Rail
road track is under water for miles. No
trains since Tuesday night.
Granby, Canada, April 22.— While a
number of persons were congregated on
the principal bridge at this place last ev
ening, watching the flood, one end gave
way, precipitating eleven persons into the
water. The river being very swift, and
the water unusually high, no assistance
could be rendered to the victims of the
disaster, and the whole number were car
ried quickly out of sight and drowned.
Concord, N. H., April 22.—There is
now the greatest flood in the Merrimac
since 1862. The Vermont Central and
Northern Railroad trains are embargoed,
aud the mails and passengers detained
A raft of 915 000 logs, belonging to Mr.
Harrow, at White River Junction, was
carried away.
The Trade in Manures.—Never in
the history of Mobile’s commerce has
there existed such a demand for commer
cial manures as has prevailed during the
planting season, now approaching to a
close. Everything in the shape of guano,
superphosphates, land plaster, ground
bones, cotton seed meal, etc., that came to
market was eagerly taken upat remunera
tive prices, and the result is that while the
demand has not entirely ceased the market
is utterly bare of everything of the sort
that is recognized as desirable. Os Pacific
guano alone the sales have amounted to
about 750 tons, worth over $60,000; while,
besides, 250 tons of Peruvian guano,worth
$85,000, about 300 tons ground cotton seed,
worth SISOOO, about 250 tons different
brands of superphosphates at sl7.soo,about
1500 barrels of land plaster at $3,750, and
200 tons ground bones at SB,OOO, would
swell the trade in manures to the very
considerable sum of $139,250. Os course,
these figures are only estimates, but they
approach very near to correctness, suffi
ciently so to give a very good general idea
of the trade. —Mobile tribune, 22d.
The Fertilizer Trade,—There were
10,815 tons of fertilizers, of various kinds,
shipped over the south Carolina Railroad
in the three first months of this year, end
ing March 31st, of which 3.519 J tons went
to Augusta and other points in this State.
THE SPUAGL’K FAMILY AND THEIR I'OSSKS
SKSSIONH.
The house of Bprague started with
Amasa Sprague, the grandfather of Amasa
and William, the present representatives
of the house. He was succeeded by his
sons Amasa and William, and thus the
firm of A. & W. Sprague came into exis
tence, At tile death of the “Old Govern
or,” as William Sprague, the nude of the
“two boys” who now control the house of
A. & W. Sprague, is generally called even
now, the business had not yet assumed
anything like its present giant propor
tions. That even occurred iu 1856, and
there were at that time only six calico
printing machines iu the print works at
Cranston. however, notouly
has addition afterauuition and extension
afier extension been put to the works,
until the mills form an extensive village
in themselves, but every species of im
proved machinery has also been procured
and set iu motion. Instead of six color
machines, the highest number auy ma
chine was capable of printing at the death
of the ‘ Old Governor,” there are in the
works at Cranston to-day machines whicli
print twelve. There are now thirty ma
chines in the works, and 50,000 pieces of
cloth can be printed and finished ill a
week. This immense establishment is
driven by six engines, varying from 40 to
300 horse power, and the consumption of
coal per day is not short of 100 tons.
Twenty-five donkey engines are scattered
over the establishment to do special duty
wherever needed. Trimming machines,
washing and drying machines, dyeing ap
paratus, engraving machines, all the im
mense and complicated machinery neces
sary to the manufacture of the material
fora new dress. The villages where the
operatives reside are built afier a uniform
model, and consist of story and a half
double bouses. In the store at Cranston
an immense business is done. Tile
Spragues do their own slaughtering, and
kill about 35 bead of cattle per week, and
sheep and hogs iu proportion. The meat
is furnished to their operatives four and
five cents fier pound cheaper than it can
be bought in the Providence market, and
the “store” sells goods of every kind at a
proportionately low figure, the sales in a
single year amounting to $400,000.
Amasa riprague resides at CrarWton,
about one mile from tbe city of Provi
dence, and William lives with bis mother
en the ciiy of Providence. What this
woman lias had to do with building up an
immense business, the influence of whicli
is felt everywhere iu the country, has
never been told. “The boys” habitually
resort to tier for advice, and tbe “old Gov
ernor” was accustomed to hold her judg
ment in tiie highest esteem. Hercouusels
to the old firm of A. & W. Sprague have
been transferred to the new house, and
have proved as beneficial to her eons a*
to their father and to their uncle. She is
now an old lady of seventy years, but her
faculties are as vigorous as ever.
The house of A. & W. Bprague, as at
present constituted, resemble* the old
liouse of that name in a striking degree.
Amasa Bprague, at his home at Cranston,
is much like Amasa Bprague, his father.
As the father hated politics, so, too, the
son dislikes the turmoil of party, and de
votes himself to ins family, it in business,
and bis trotters He lias now in bis sta
bles, near the Narragau-ett Itace Course,
an associat.on of which he is president,
much thorough and blooded stock —tbe
famous horse Khode Island and tire Dutch
Girl among the others. Os libode Island
lie is especially confident, and expects kirn
to trot hi* mile in 2:30 at tile June meeting
at the Narragansett Pa k. But William
Bprague the uncle, and William Bprague
tiie nephew, both naturally took to poli
tics. P> .th were Governors of the Biate,
arid both Senators of the United Btates.
In his receut course in the senate, Wil
liam Bprague the younger only did what
would have been done by William Bprague
the elder under like circumstances, and it
would have been done by the iatter with
the same intrepidity, the same disregard
of consequences, and the same defiance
of tiie opinions of others that the former
exhibited in tiie past few weeks.
Iu these bold acts, apparently so incapa
ble of explanation, Bprague may have cal
culated to some extent upon his “Khode
Llauders.” In the works at Scranton
2,000 hands are employed, besides those
engaged at their other mills. In tiiis
there is a power as great as in 250,000 spin
dles, fed by the ingenuity and foresight of
Senator Bprague and his brother. He
boasted iu one of his speeches—or, per
haps, rattier complained—that small man
ufacturers were breaking down because
they could not do as lie does. It was very'
vaguely put, and was not generally under
stood. He simply meant that ins pur
chases of stock were so immense that
those who could not buy in like immense
quantities cannot compete w ith him. Jiut
lie also ineaut to say that lie can make
better goods out of inferior material than
any one else. His great point, however,
was that persons who do not own an im
mense capital cannot borrow, owing to ttie
course of legislation in tiie last few years,
and that meu like himself, by their*great
facilities and large cupitai, crush their
neighbors either willingly or unwillingly.
Ten thousand bales of eotton, 3 000 casks
of madder, and proportionate quantities
of drugs, is no unusual single purchase.
They consumed 17,000 bales of cotton the
last year, and within the past five months
have bought at least 10,000,000 yards of
cloth from ether manufacturers, and
printed it in their works at Cranston.
The Bp rag ues have mills at other places
he-ides Providence, even as far away as
Augusta, Me. Their “Baltic” mills are
an immense affair, as are also the “Quid
riick,” “Natick,” “Arctic," and "Central
Falls.” They have besides many outside
interests Their farm at Cranston alone
contains 2,000 acres of laud, worth from
S2OO to S3OO per acre, and in all the follow
ing companies they have a controlling or
a very laige interest;
Rhode Island Locomotive Works, Per
kins’ t-beet Iron Company, Phoenix Iron
Foundry, Comstock Foundry, Rhodo
Island Horse Shoe Company, American
Horse Nail Company, Nicholson File
Company, Boston Wheat and Bread Com
pany, United States Flax Manufacturing
Company, Providence and New York
Steamship Company. This view scarcely
gives an idea of the immensity of the en
terprises, into many of which they be
came engaged oy taking hold of the failing
enterprises of others. The immensity of
the whole can only he judged from the
immensity of any one of the undertakings
named in the foregoing list. Allareso
great in themselves that the successful
conduct of auy one of them would stamp
a man as eminently successful in business,
and give bitn the prestige aud social influ
ence ot great wealth.
[New York Tribune.
REAMT CULTURE.
As the planting season for this valuable
crop is close at hand, we advise our plant
ing friends to put a few bushels of them
in the ground. Piaut the first week iu
May.
A light, sandy soil, with clay sub-soil,
moderately rich with lime or marl com
posed witli fresh soil from the fence cor
ners, applied iu the drill or broadcast, pro
duces the largest yield of bright, marketa
ble peas. A rich, dark, loamy soil will
produce a heavy growth of vines aud
much hay, hut not a half crop of peas.
Flush, harrow and bed the land, throw
up light ridges over furrows, three feet
apart, and putting in first Peruvian guano,
ten pounds to the hundred yards, or shell
lime about ten bushels to the aere. The
runniug pea should be planted eighteen
inches apart in the row, aud buried only
about one inch deep. Every filth row,
drop two or three peas three or four inches
apart for re-setting.
The flat system of cultivation is consid
ered best. The plowing is generally done
with a turn plow. They require about
three plowings and a slight hoe work.
The harvesting season is from the first
to the 20th of October. Just before or alter
the first frost the crop is dug. They are
generally dug and shocked the same day.
After being properly shocked they require
no further attention until picked off' the
vines. The unmatured peas or “pops” are
left on the vines. The vines, when dug
before being hurt by heavy frosts, are
worth more than corn fodder for horses
mules or cattle.
The usual yield Is about forty bushels to
the acre, hut many of our farmers gather
as high as sixty, and some seventy-five
bushels to the aere. Good laud, with a
fair season, will bring the farmer from SIOO
to $l5O to the acre. But one crop can he
raised on the same laud the same year
when planted in peanuts.
[Atlanta Constitution, 23 d.
Bravo! Trumbull.— This gentlemau
in a debate, on Wednesday, in ttie United
States Senate, said that “Senators and
members bad become mere solicitors for
offices for their constituents, and might he
seen hanging around the doors aud ante
rooms of the Secretaries like so many beg
gars. He gave notiee that at the next
session he would introduce a bill making
it a penal otfeuce for any member of eith
er House to solicit office or attach their
names to papers recommending persons
for positions.”
A CL'RIOL’S CASE.
The telegraph recently gave us the re
sults of a curious will case in New York,
wherein a widow sued for and recovered
thirty thousand dollars from tiie estate of
her husband, with whom she had not
lived for thirty years. The details of tbe
case are more interesting still. Theplain
tiflf Wiunifred VVaid, was married to John
Ward in Ireland, in 1831. Immediately
after their marriage Ward came to this
country’, and engaged in btisine-s as a cot
ton sampler, from whicli lie realized a
large fortune. In 1864 lie died, his wife
having previously fallowed him to this
country.
After her arrival Ward refused to ree
ognize her as his wife and never lived
with her as such. On her part she refused
to apply for support and received none
from him. When Ward died, to prevent
identification, his body was packed in a
dry goods box, and sent to Philadelphia.
Os the witnesses to the marriage all were
dead except one, and that one could only
swear that the plaintiff had married a
John Warti, but what John Ward he could
not tel). The plaintiff could not swear t<>
the death of her husband, as she had not
seen tiie body after his decease, which
was purposely kept out of tier way. John
Durney was ttie surviving witness to the
marriage, which took place in Roscom
mon. Ireland, hut lie had no knowledge
whether or not Ward was dead.
There was no person living iu this coun
try that knew that plaintiff was Ward’s
wife. The evidence in the case consisted of
letters w itten by Ward to plaintiff from
1835 to 1837. His band-writing was proven
by Mr. Price, a cotton broker ; a Mr. Car
rick, John Krett, and John Farrell. The
letters to plaintiff which were put in evi
deuce were shown to he in tiie hand-writ
ing of Ward. There were no stamps on
the letter-, hut it was proven by a witness
who hud been employed in the dead letter
office in Ireland, previous to 1810, that no
stamps were required at tnat time for let
ters sent from New York to Ireland. It
was also proved that the letters in ques
tion had oeen in the dead letter office in
Ireland. The suit involves the title of,
property in Brooklyn valued at SIOO,OOO.
The jury found a verdict for tiie plaintiff
WHAT THE.NEW YORK I’ll E»* SAY OF
1.11 t Mil. Aft’S SPEECH -
“We do not believe that the proper spir
it iu which to conduct this negotiation is
one of bluster or threatening We do not
believe that it is desirable to approach an
aneieut empire,as proud as she is still pow
erful, with liie notice that she must settle
promptly, on our terms, iu thirty days,
or fight for her possessions, which we are
qni'e capable of taking, iu thiriy more,
with the volunteers from a single one of
our Btates.
* * * * * * *
‘ Neither tiie new Administration nor
the new Minister will forget that, after
all, the English are of me same blood with
ourselves, and that, because they are, they
must not be bullied. We all know that
(treat Britain is too proud a nation to he
coerced by unworthy fears. Let us not
forget that the United Btates is too great, a
nation to fail in securing justice, and too
absolutely a-.sured of her power to secure
it, to lie guiity of tlie bluster and bravado
which characterize omy the weak.”—Tri
bune.
“Bach an utterance as that of Mr.
Chandler on his resolution iu regard to
Canada damages our case, s > far as it lias
any effect whatever, and if his resolution
were acted ufton it could have no other
re.-ult ttian to forfeit tiie very strong
ground we now hold in our difference
with Eng and. If Mr. Chandler was talk
ing for Michigan, we must regret that he
el lose this very important subject at a
time when every word spoken in our Sen
ate may be scrutinized for the indications
of our temper; for certainly It would not
lie creditable to us to have it supposed
tha: we enter iu this spirit upon a grave‘
question of national right and honor.
Bullies and vaporers have no man’s re
spect, and it is a weak case that has to be
sustained with threats. Our case might
have been very welt left to go to the com
mon een-e of England on Mr. Bumuer’s
statement of it; hut our opponents on the
other side of the water may well use Mr.
Chandler’s ridiculous clamor to show that
we area people with whom it is iu vain to
reason.” — Herald.
“It would be a disgrace to instruct our
new Amba-sador to go bowing and whin*
! ing around Downing street, with his letter
| of instructions in one hand and the list of
tbeAlabam .in i-s iu theother, begging
Lord Clan ii .< to let him know when it
would be coiiv- oient to give him an audi
■ eiu'f, and |o,.k over his bill. Rather let us
never n lei io li.e Milject again until Eng
iano he r,-ii reopens it, and then insist
ti < tti«- n* gm la 1 imis he carried on at
I\V a lubsrtnii if England should not re
j open tbe question, or doing so, should fail
i to tender due compensation for the dama
ge* inflicted upon us, then, at the earliest
fit opportunity, we should coileet our debt.
When suitable occasion invites, let us seek
righteous retribution, by seizing so much
1 "f her territory on tiiis continent as w ill
balance our accounts. It may be said that
this would hail to war. Perhaps it might.
We need not be in a hurry to levy our exe
| cutiou. We can select our time.”— Sun.
TAPE WORM.
We clip the following from a letter to
■ the Constitutionalist, writteu from New
York. It may be interesting to the medi
| cal fraternity and others :
A leading lawyer of this city was re
cently delivered of tape-worm twenty
eight feet Jong, and has almost wholly re
covered his health. There are many cir
| cumstances of sufficient interest about tbe
case to justify going into them with some
i detail.
The patient had become reduced to a
mere skeleton ; and it may not he regard
ed as a favorable comment upon our city
physicians when it shall appear that the
preservation of the patient’s life is ascribed
to the sagacity and determination of his
wife. She declared the presence of the
tape worm before physicians in council
seem to have suspected it, and only on her
peremptory demand did they consent to
prescribe in that view. The treatment
may be of general interest.
The patient was first given food of the
most stimulating character for about four
i days. He ate large quantities of beef,
i poultry, game and oysters, and drank
j large quanties of brandy. At the end of
; four days, all food and drink was with
drawn for thirty-six hours. In thattime
absolutely nothing passed his iips, until
the worm, rising iu liis stomach, caused
great pain and a feeling of suffoca.ion.
Then, a large quautity of pumpkin seeds
having been procured, their shells |«r
husks) were removed, and the meats re
duced to a pulp.
RESTITTTIO.V DEMANDED IV A VERY Sit)
DE.\ MANNER.
A few days ago a Captain Harrison, the
agent of the Fieedman’s Bureau at Bcotts
ville, called to Charlottesville by business,
was dining at one of the hotels iu that
town. A young lady, one of the heroines
of the war, whose name we omit, having
scrutinized the Captain for a moment
arose from her seat deliberately, aud ap
proached him with the tread of a woman
who was not afiaid who knew her “hon
est rights and dared maintain them.”
Said the lady, witli a stamp of her beau
tiful foot which subdued the Y’ankee Cap
tain at once:
“Is tiiis Captain Harrison, of the Yan
kee army ?”
Tiie Captain stammered out that it was
“Yes.”
‘‘Well, sir, you have a watch and chain
on your person tiiat belong to me. You
took them from me during the war by
force, by threats aud violence. Now, I
want them hack again.”
With these hold remarks she accompa
nied the same witli a dexterous movement
of her hands, and the gold watch and
chain, valued at two hundred dol ars, was
removed from tiie bosom of the Captain,
aud transferred to tlie possession of the
rightful female owner.
The vanquished Captain bowed, retired
from the table and left tbe hotel aud the
city of Charlottesville.
[Charlottesville Chronicle.
Wonderful Discovery !We are in
formed that a spring has been discovered
some seven miles north of Dahlonega, the
mediciua! properties of which promise to ;
render it more famous than any of the fa
mous watering places. Scrofula diseases!
of every character are cured as if by the i
magic power of “laying on hands,” in the
shortest time, by driukingofand washing |
in tiiis water, which seems to impart the !
elixir of life. Borne of the most miracu
lous cures have been perfected in a few
weeks’ time, and which had baffled ail
physical skill. The afflicted from the
mountain tops and the valleys are flock- !
ing around it, aud every evidence of its I
wonderful properties attracts still more :
attention. The mineral qualities of the
water, we did not learn, though a bottleful j
lias been sent to New York for analizing. !
A constant uprising of bubbles agitate the
surface of the spriug, which have the ap
pearauce of gas escapements.— Ballon
Citizen, 23d.
TO THE PRESS A .Ml PEOPLE OF GEORGIA.
From the Albany News, 23d.
Knowing the anxiety winch you have
felt for tiie welfare of our Btate, and the
welcome with which any iuielhgence con
cerning our future would be received, I
have thought it my duty tostate, briefly,
what I suppose would lie important or in
teresting to you.
The stor> of Gov. Bullock’s appeal to
Congress to subvert the Government of
our Btate, together with tiie means used
by hi rust- If and his official and unofficial
c i-iaborers, to effect iiis purpose, would tie
a long, sad aud humiliating story which
it is unnecessary now to repeat Suffice
it to say, that we have been pursued by
au energetic, persistent and devilish ma
lignity, which can only he rationally ac
counted for by the most selfish and evil
motives.
Nor is it necessary to relate the long and
interesting story of the mesas, or iustru
menialities in the hand of Providence, by
which we have escaped, as if by miracle,
from the calamities which were prepared
for us in the Bullock-Butler bill. With
tiie single weapon of Truth, wielded by
friends in and out of Congress, we have
defeated the conspirators against our
peace, our prosperity, and our remaining
liberties. But our enemies are again at
work, preparing, by personal efforts and
printed documents, for another a-sault,
through Congress at iis next session, upon
the life of our Slate, iu a pamphlet now
being circulated, entiled “ The Btatus of
Georgia—Letter to Hon. Joint B Dickey,
Senator 41st Senatorial District, upon the
status of Georgia, by Hon. tficury P. Far
row,” the refuted slanders of Governor
Bullock are repeated, rea-otis are given for
the non-action of Congress at its late ses
sion, and assurance is given that Congress
will reconstruct Georgia at it* next session.
He denounces General Meade and all wno
disagree with tiie views of Governor Bul
lock, w ho is lauded f r the “firm, decided,
and bold stand taken aud maintained’’ by
him.
1 do not mention these facts for present
comment, hut to warn t lie people of Geor
gia, and to suggest tiie policy which I
think ought to govern us. My own opin
ion of Governor Bullock and those who
are co-operating witli him for tiie destruc
tion of tiie Constitutional f-tate Govern
ment which they have sworn to support,
is, tiiat they are moral, if not legal,
traitors to the is tale, and it does not lessen
their moral guilt, tiiat, instead of using
jiersoual violeuc ■, they seeK, by false pre
texts and faise testimony, to accomplish
their objects by a law of Congress, from
which mere could he no appeal
How, it may be asked, should such a
Governor and -uch men tie treated by tiie
the people w hom they have sought to be
tray ? I answer—Treat them wiih silent
observation ; there is no alternative which
would not be worse. They will doubtless
hopj to excite disturbance aud violence
which can be used as pretexts to accom
plish their purposes. It will lie our duty,
not only as good citizens, but to defeat the
purpose of our enemies, to see tiiat the
laws are strictly observed aud enforced,
maintaining, in all tshings, a position of
conscious rectitude and a patient endu
rance of evii* fur which there is no present
remedy. Evils are sometimes permitted,
to correct, or prevent still greater evils.
But a-God i* true, -o justice, with its
compensations, will, in good time, prevail.
I believe that the counsels of our ene
mies w iil come to naught. The baek-borie
of their project is already broken. Many
of their once friends in Congress have
been enlightened as to their character,
motives, aud purposes, and will not. even
tor partisan purposes, aid them Among
ilusel am li .ppy to say i- President
Grant, who holds that Georgia lias com
plied with the Reconstruction Acts of
Congress, and is entitled to the same rights*
as other Btates of the Union; Represen
tatives Bingham, Bcbeuck, Jetiks, Po
land, and other Republicans, aud the en
tire Democratic party. Whil-t mention
ing these evidences of hope and confidence
we should not torget how popular majoii
lie* are sometimes swayed by cireum
stan es. and tiiat a two-thirds’ majority in
Congress is practically omnipotent. lam
satisfied tiiat iu this rests the only hope of
our enemies.
There is now reaily but one disturbing
element between us and a majority of
Congress—the right of colored meu to
hold office under our constitution and
laws. It was represented, aud generally
believed, tiiat the Legislature acted in
willful violation of law iu declaring them
ineligibie. The opinion and decision of
Judge Bcliley in tiie case of the Slate vs.
White, which was printed in the National
Intelligencer and distributed in Congress,
modified, and in some instances changed,
the prevalent opiniou of the action of the
Legislature. That case will be decided by
ttie Btipreine Couit of Georgia in June.
Th 6 decision will settle the law on that
subject. The people of Georgia will abide
by it. Congress will, iu my opinion, be
satisfied of its justice, will admit the
Btate to representation, and thus will end
our Federal troubles.
I take this opportunity to publicly re
turn my thanks to the one hundred aud
eignt gent emeu—Judges of the Bupreme,
Superior and Ordinary Courts, Mayors of
cities, and others—who, in answer to my
circular, furnished the testimony relative
to the condition of affairs in Georgia,
whicli silen ed tiie false witness and slan
ders of our enemies, and destroyed one of
the chief arguments upon which they had
relied fur the accomplishment of their
purposes.
Iu the trials and sacrifices of war, and
in the higher moral aud mental trials and
sacrifice- of their subsequent efforts for
peace, the people of Georgia have illus
trated the hightst type <>f Christ au civili
zation and heroic fortitude. Notwith
standing the afflictions thev have suffered,
the provocations to disorder they have re
ceived, and the discouragements by which
they are surrounded, if we compare tiie
present condition of affairs with the fast,
there has uevtr heeu a time when all
classes of our people were more kindly
disposed, when the laws were better ob
served, when life, liberty aud property
were more secure, or when tiie euiire en
ergies of the people were more persistently
devoted to productive industry.
No people have been more blessed by
Nature’s bounties thau the people of Geor
gia—situation, climate, soil, productions,
mineral resources, manufacturing power
—these -if we can have assured peace and
security for the future—with such a
people, and with the aid of capital and
population which will flow iu to share tiie
ricti rewardsof industry, the future glory
and greatness of our State can scarcely be
conceived.
Our purposes and action will, in a great
degre*, determine our future. Let us
strive to prove worthy of the blessings
which we seek.
Very respectfully your ob’t serv't.
Nelson Taft.
A Good One.—Now we certainly are a
great people—and here we are reuiiuded
of a little anecdote of our friend, W. W.
Gilmer, of Aloemarle, who says a great
many capital things. In 1865 ttie Federal
officer was swearing everybody in Char
lottesville with the Johnson oath of alle
giance. Gilmer went up iu turn aud with
a grimace gulped it down. “Well,” says
he to the officer, “I suppose I am ail right
now?” “Yes, sir; you areal! right now.”
saiti the official. “Reconstructed am I?”
said Gilmer. “Yes,” said the officer.—
“Under the old flag again?” said Gil
mer. es,” said the officer, growing in
terested, “you are ouce more under the
dear old Hag ” “A good Uniou man,
now ?” says Gilmer. “Yes, sir,” says the
officer, “you are as much in the Union
now, as I am.” As good a Yankee as
anybody ?” says Gilmer. “Yes, sir—just
as good as any man in Boston,” says the
military notary. “Well, now, stranger,”
says Gilmer, “didn’t old Stonewall Jack
sou giveus Yankees tits in that Valley
campaign ?”— Richmond, Enquirer.
Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad.—
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of this road was held at the Chamber of
Commerce in this city yesterday. 'I here
was a full attendance, and the proceedings
wereconducted with the utmost unanim
ity aud liai mony
Mr. Barney was called on to give an ac
count of the condition and future pros
pects of the road, which he did in a clear
ami satisfactory manner.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
President—Franklin H. Delano, of New
York.
Direc’ors—U. A. Murdock, Wm. Baton,
Isaac H. Knox, John T. Aguew, C. C. F.
Dambmauo, David Crawford, of New
Tork, A. G. Mabry, J. W. Lapsley, of Sel
ma, Levi W. Lawler, of Mobile, Daniel S.
Printup, of Rome.— Selma Times, 22 d.
Savannah and Charleston Rail
road Stock.—One hundred and forty
shares of this stock were sold in Charles
ton, on Thursday, for from sl2 25 to sls 50
per share.
Menotti Garibaldi is not living very
happily with his young wife. She lesides
at Leghorn, aud he has gone back to C&«
prera.