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the prick of conciliation.
\\’e were sorry to see tire New York
Times abandoning the course of concilia'
lion, kindness and good will towards the
- ,dlli which distinguished it so agreeably
from most of its Republican cotempoia
! es.aodadmitting toa place in its columns
a o article entitled “The Names Rebel
and Traitor,” in which the Southern peo
ple are abused with a wealth of invective
and of spirit, we have rarely
seen equalled by the more rabid and vio
lent organs of ad vanced radicalism.
The» -i*e f>r this access of rage and
it,use was General Blair’e Long Branch
■jieecb, in which that distinguished Fed
eral officer paid a just tribute of respect to
tieneral Lee and General Stonewall Jack
boo and expressed the opinion (hat the
time had arrived when the animosities
and dissensions excited by the war should
be laid aside, and when both parties
should by word, deed and thought labor
to promote mutual fraternity, harmony
and kind feeling.
Tlie mere hint that the constant use of
the terms “rebel” and “traitor” in allud
ing to Southern men is not calculated to
promote cordiality of feeling, puts the
Times, in a perfect fury of passion. We
are tailed upon, if we “desire mitigation
of judgment” to begin by confessing our
selves rebels and traitors, by declaring our
acts heinous crimes, and by admitting
that the stigmas rightly attached to us
should be always “associated with dis-
It is true that we have very earnestly
and witli no little sacrifice of our sensibil
ity, labored to produce what the Times
calls a mitigation of the judgment, and
that, as fate lias decreed that we must live
together, we have desired to be on friendly
terras with our neighbors; but we have
never seen t lie day, and we hope we never
may see the day, when the Southern
people will voluntarily acquiesce iu
the justice of foul abuse, or when
we will admit even in our dreams
that we were guilty of any crime when
we attempted to do the very act which lias
immortalized the name of Washington.
We failed, and have been obliged to sub
mit to all tiie dreadful consequences of
defeat. We have borne and have ap
parently still to hear being called traitors,
rebels ami brazen felons—“atrocious aud
abominable criminals”—but the contin
ued use of such epithets, and the contin
uance of the spirit that suggests their use,
will never increase the Southern desire to
mitigate the judgment or promote the
interests of pacification” which the |
Times at one time labored so efficiently to I
vlvance. Such language can only emtiit- I
.tr animosity, perpetuate alienation, and
prolong sectional strife. The sensible
men at the Nortli cannot expect that
the Southern people will be so very
meek and lovely as to love those
who despitefully use them to the
extent of rejoicing at being called
criminals, and of joining in the abuse of
those who, like General Blair, express the
belief that such abuse is inconsistent with
conciliation. General Blair was right.
There never can be peace aud unity be
tween two people, one of which is in the
daily, hourly habit of vilifying, slander
ing ami vituperating the other. If the
•North wants peace and unity with us, let
her people and her presses abstain from
Ihe use of the terms w liich the Times says
are the right names of vital things; but
11 the Northern people are so sensitive as
tobe'Tashed into an honest indignation,”
if we venture to remonstrate against the
application to us of such iusulting lan
guage as tills a columu and a half of the
limes, in tiie article to which we have
rt-lerred, we can only say, more iu
sorrow than in anger, that if we can
11“win tiie generous feelings” of the
Northern heart , otherwise than by admit*
i : ug the justice of that language, and as*
suiting to the judgment that we are
“•lons, guilty of “an infernal monstros-
L which cau only be guaged by some
J ture Macaulay or Hallam, we must fore
s''the acquisition of “ the generous feel
n o s , until better times, when we hope
! mwe may secure them without utter
: abasement and the acquiescence iu a
. 'dgtnent which we kuow in our hearts
o’ he false. We will also say that the
Northern people cau never wiu tlie gen
erous feelings, of our hearts or do aught
'l‘ au “ lash them into au honest iudigna
-1,01 so loug as they fee! aud express the
which we sincerely regret to
‘ e! *d in the pages of so usually temperate a
journal as tiie New York Times.
Y DECIDEDLY COOL REQUEST.
I be coolest thiug we have seen since the
commencement of the “heated term,” is
the resolution of the negro convention at
Baltimore, invoking Cougress “to drive
' hiuese labor out of the country.” The
" e sro must be allowed to "throw down the
'i l and the hoe whenever he pleases,
a nd go to attend conventions and public
• reelings, and the poor white employer
' •‘ I uot be allowed to secure iudustrious
aborers who will mind their business and
f arn their wages.
it is of course a direct attack on "the
*hits of the colored race even to com
-iui ot tliei r laziness aud reckless disre
gard of their contracts. It is a sign of a
,>r - v unreconstructed frame of miud in
1 y white man who wants a laborer to
w ‘k instead ot attending political meet
-:s Hut it cannot he helped. If the
•no coutinues to pursue politics as a
i Session and leave the cotton-row "in the
L “, lie may as well make up his mind
■ that the white man will get a China*
••--'•i or some other man to take his place,
“-d leave him to the uninterrupted en*
dent of political life. Even Congress
aDQ ot avert this inevitable fate.
' ATU 0F Gen. Steadman.—A cor-
J m leut of the New York Herald,
ln g from Santiago de Cuba on the Bth
nst ?nt, says :
•be (Ji* 1 ,, dee P regret I have to announce
I'm ten 1 lbe dtd i of General Steadman,
beoen. l la . les Gousul at this port. The
ar rived on the 29th ult., and
buiSatiir attacked by yellow fever,
•al a.j.i , ooodition became criti-
h 'oi t th r ed all med ‘cal skill to save
day arm ,Ullt!ral took place on Wednes-
a ?rt Wended by a targe official
Profound; 1 ie General’s death caused
l her ece t l r f° W l(,wn - although from
but f ew 1 , ate °. f h.s arrival he had made
Ijo Qiina‘ir. ai^ '4 u aintances. Pending the
b UB lnl U ®'. C '? n '^ teadnQan successor,
tenieu °f the Consulate will be at
3ed 10 Mr. A. F., Phillips.
THE AGE OF PROGRESS.
Our day and generation will be marked
in the world’s records by great evidences
of human progress. The Pacific Railroad,
bringing the two great oceaus within a
week’s ride of each other; the Suez canal,
uniting the Mediterranean and the Red
Sea, the gigantic tunnel through the
heart of Mont Cenis, and the second line
of ocean telegraph which has just been
laid between the shores of France and
Massachusetts, are accomplished facts, the
importance of which to all the interests
of the human family it is hardly possible
to estimate.
Then we see that it is proposed to corn
mance work immediately on a canal
across the Isthmus of Corinth, connecting
tiie waters of the Gulf of Corinth and tiie
Gulf of Athens, and at the same time it is
proposed to build a ship cauai across the
Isthmus of Darieu, ou our own continent,
by which ships of largest burden can step,
as it were, from ocean to ocean. The pro
ject of tuuneiling tiie Straits of Dover so
that a sub marine railroad eau be con- ;
structed between Englaud and France is !
deemed quite feasible by eminent engin- ,
eers, and steps are being taken to carry it j
out. Tiie Emperor of the French is in
terested iu the execution of a plan for
making Paris a seaport, by deepening and
widening tiie river Seine from Rouen to
Paris, and by cutting a cauai to tiie sea
from Rouen, navigable by the largest
vessels. It is also contemplated to unite
the Rhone with the Mediterranean at tiie
Golfe de Foz, and thus have another out
let from tiie interior to tiie sea.
When we add to these giant undertak
ings the recent various discoveries in the
arts aud sciences, by which the arcana of
nature have been explored, aud the power
and dominion of man have been enlarged,
we can form some estimate of the pro
gress of the age in which we live.
THE OUTRAGE IN COLUMUI V POINTY.
We copy from the Augusta Constitu
tionalist the report of another of those acts
of mob violence and defiance of tiie law,
tiy which a few bad and desperate charac
ters in Columbia county have endangered
tiie best interests not only of their own
county but of the entir? State.
It is just such lawlessness as this whicii
affords a plausible pretext to our political
enemies to slander and oppress the people
of Georgia, and it is by tiie leckless crim
inality of a few characterless vagabonds
that the temper of the entire people is
judged.
There is but one way in which the law
abiding community can protect them
selves and vindicate their innocence of all
participation in these outrages, and that
is, by uniting to arrest and bring to justice
tiie real offenders. It is not only their in
terest hut it is their duty to do so. Where
passion, caprice, and prejudice are per
mitted to usurp the power of the law, and
where each man is permitted whenever
he pleases to anticipate tiie verdicts of
juries and the sentence of judges aud eon.
stitute himself the executioner, protection
for life and property no longer exists, and
anarchy iu its worst and most dangerous
form prevails. Whatever may have beeu
tiie guilt of tiie victims of this outrage,
their executioners are still more guilty.
It behooves tiie good people of Columbia
county therefore to combine and bring
them to justice, and teach all sucli despe
radoes that the liw is still respected and
obeyed, and that while the courts are* open
and are accessible there cau be no pallia
tion of crime like theirs.
It is lamentable to mink hoar the ael of
a few violent malefactors may imperii the
liberties, welfare aud fair fame of the
peopieof the State.
We hope that a moment will not be lost
in arresting the guilty parties, and that
tiie people of Columbia will themselves
wipeout the disgrace which now rests up
on them. Tiie best aud most efficient
allies of the Radicals are tiie men who
commit these outrages. They are the
worst and most dangerous enemies of so
ciety, and a failure to detect and punish
them is almost as criminal as their act
We hope that the press of Georgia will
speak out on this subject and arouse the
people to a speedy performance of their
duty, in tiie arrest of the perpetrators of
the crime and the vindication of their
own respect for the majesty of tiie law.
tub moil r SPIRIT.
At a farewell dinner at St. Louis, given
liy his friends to Mr. Blow, the new Min
ister to Brazil, that gentleman took occa
sion to give some-ad vice to the people of
Missouri, which the Northern people gen
erally would do well to ponder iu their
heart of hearts. It is not only true in spirit
but in policy, and if the North wish for
the "solid and enduring reconstruction”
which Mr. Blow counsels, there is but one
way to attain it and that Is by implicitly
following Mr. Blow's advice. We make
the following extract from his speech :
“Let me open my heirt to you plainly,
for I have never had but one view in re
gard to the settlement of our difficulties.
I had a perfect faith in the high charac
ter, the honor aud the nobility of our
people. 1 had an undying faith in the
strength of our republican institutions,
and hence L deluded that, justice and
safety once secured, it was our clear duty
to forget tne past, and live ouly for the
future. Let tlie world speculate as it will,
all honest minds will agree that brave
men are to be trusted. Let the enemies
of Democratic institutions hope for new
discords, but for us we will boldly pro
claim that the men Nortli or South, East
or West, in whose veins courses the pure
blood of our revolutionary fathers, are our
brothers. What we want is a re-union
founded on the love of the people for each
other, and on a genuine attachment to
free institutions ; and such a result must
tiow from impartial justice. Let us reach
that point, and on tne moment the voice
of the century will proclaim us the first
uation in the world Such, my friends,
is t Lie picture I have drawu from a knowl
edge of wtiat you have done for your coun
try. Let Missouri gladly welcome all
who honor these divine teachings. This
will form a perfect re union. Thisissolid
and enduring reconstruction.”
THE TOST OF It VOICAL RI LE.
In a recent speech at some public meet
ing in England, John Bright made the
proud boast that “the commerce of Great
Britain is equal to that of all the rest of
the world.”
Iu those good old days before Radical
ism blighted the laud, when patriotism,
honesty aud intellect, characterized the
men who held the reins of government
and shaped the policy of the country, the
commerce of the United States promised
well to have ere this equalled, if uot sur
passed, that of England. But instead of
ruaktug progress, the United States have
retroguded to a lamentable extent. By
Radical protection for the purpose of eu
richiug a few New England manufactur
ers, by au unequal aud oppressive sys
tem of taxatiou, crushing industry aud
euterprise iu order to fill the pockets of a
gaug of brokers and hankers, by a stupid
aud vacillating financial policy worthy of
the genius of Mr. Scheuck, the shipping
interests of the United states have been
almost annihilated, the carrying trade has
for the most part passed into the hands of
foreigners, aud aruoug commercial powers
the United States ranks as a third rate
power, doing about one third the trade of
Great Britaiu, aud less than half that of
France. The amount of the public debt,
gigautic though it be, is not more tbau a
fraction of what Radical predominance
has cost the people.
Two Evidences of Progress —On the
23J iust. the new ocean cable was connec
ted with the shore of the United States,
and direct communication established
between Duxbury, Massachusetts, aud
Brest, France. On the following day the
first through passenger from Sau Francis
co arri/ed iu New York. Such is the
progress of the days iu which we live. So
do we annihilate lime aud space.
—The Government of Bolivia has fol
lowed the example of Peru aud Chili, in
recognizing the belligerent rights of the
Cuban revolutionists.
CONSTITUTION OF THE REPU BLIC OF CUBA.
We publish below the Constitution of
the “so called” Republic of Cuba. Gen
eral Prim’s noteat ninety days, payable
in the annihilation of tiie “rebels,” is
nearly due. Like another Minister of
State whom we “wot of,” he will proba
bly have to renew.
Political Constitution to be in force dur
ing the War of Independence:
Article 1. The legislative power will be
lodged in a House of Representatives.
I Art. 2. In this House will he equally
represented the four States into which
from this moment, the island is divided!
Art. 3. 'I hose States are by name Ori
ental, Camaguey, Villas and Oecidento.
Art. 4. Citizens of the Republic, t wenty
one years of age, can only be Representa
tives.
Art. 5. Tiie office of Representative is
incompatible with any other in the Re
public.
Art. 6. When a vacancy occurs in the
representation of any 3tate, the Executive
of the same will dictate measures for the
new ejection.
Art. 7. The House of Representatives
will appoint the President in charge of tfie
executive power, the Cotntnander-io-
Chief. the President of the Sessions and
his other officials. The Comtnander-iu-
Chief is subordinate to the Executive, and
will render him an account of his opera
tions.
At. 8. When circumstances demand it,
the President of the Republic, the Com
mander in-Chief, and the members of the
House, will he impeached before the House
of Representatives. This impeachment
may be made by any citizen; if the House
regards the charge as probable, the accused
will he given over to the judicial power.
Art. 9. Tiie House of Representatives
can depose freely all functionaries whose
appointment belongs to them.
Art. 10. The legislative decisions of the
House, to be obligatory, require the sanc
tion of the President.
Art. 11. Should this not be obtained
the House will immediately return for
new deliberation, iu which they will con
sider the objections which the President
may present.
Art. 12. The President is obliged, in
the space of ten days, to impart or refuse
to impart his approval to the projects of
law.
Art. 13. Ths passage for the second
time of any resolution of the House will
make tiie President’s sanction compul
sory.
Art. 14. The indispensable objects of
the law should be taxation, public loans,
the ratification of treaties, the declaration
and the determination of war, the au
thorization of the President to concede
patents or letters of marque, to raise and
maintain troops, the creation and main
tenance of a navy, and the declaration of
reprisals with respect to tiie enemy.
Art. 15. The House of Representatives
will constitute itself in permanent session
from the moment at which the represent
atives of the people ratify this fundamen
tal law. until the termination of the war.
Art. 16. l’he executive power will be
lodged in tiie President of the Republic.
Art. 17. To be President, it is necessary
to be thirty years of age, aud to have been
born in the Island of Cuba.
Art. 18. The President can make treaties
witli the ratification of tiie House.
Art. It). He will appoint embassadors,
ministers, plenipotentiary and consuls,
from tiie Republic to foreign countries.
Art. 20. He will receive embassadors,
take care that tiie laws are executed, and
expedite tiie necessary documents to all
employes of the Republic.
Ari. 21. Cabinet Ministers or Secretaries
will be appointed by the House on recom
mendation of the President.
Art. 22. The judicial power is indepen
dent; its organization will be theobjectof
a special law.
A Ft. 110. 'Co U.O *l,O
ditions are requisite as to lie elected.
Art. 24. All the inhabitants of the coun
try are entirely free
Art. 25. All citizens of tiie Republic
will be considered as soldiers of the liber
ating army.
Art. 26. The Republic does not recog
nize “D. Ds.,” especial honors nor priv
ileges whatever.
Art. 27. Tiie citizens of the Republic
cannot accept honors or distinction from
a foreign country.
Art. 28. The House cannot attack re
ligious liberty, the press, pacific reunion,
education and petition, nor any of the un
alterable rights of tiie people.
Art. 26. This constitution may he
amended, when so determined, by the
unanimous vote of the House.
This constitution was adopted in the
free town of Guaimoro for the 10th of
April, 1809, by Carlos M. Cespedes, Presi
dent of the Constituent Assembly, and
tiie citizeus, deputies, Salvador, Cisneros
Betancourt, Francisco Sanchez, Miguel
Betancourt Guerra, Ignacio Agra monte
Cemar, Autonio Lambraua, Jesus Rodri
quez, Antonio Alcala, Jose Jz,aquiue,
ElonoratoCastello, Miguel Heronimo Gut
tenez, Aveudis Garcia, Tranquilino Val
dez, Antonio Lorda, and Eduardo Mac
hado Gomez Long live free Cuba!
\ MY* SHOT AND KILLED AT CRAWFORD
YILLE.
We are advised by a special correspond
ent that a most unfortunate occurrence
took place iu Crawfordville on Saturday.
The facts, as detailed by our correspond
ent, are : Mr. Columbus Reese came to
the village iu the afternoon, (the same
man who was tried soon after the war at
Washington, Wilkes cuuuty, by a court
martial, for killing a negro,) aud began to
drink, as is his custom. It was not long
bef>re he began a quarrel with Mr. Thos.
Edwards, a quiet, peaceable man, though
in the habit of drinking sometimes ; yet
lie was never known to injure any one,
and was much thought of iu the commu
nity.
The quarrel continued for a few mo
ments, when Edwards, turning to walk
awav, Reese threatened toshoot him, hav
ing a drawn pistol in his hand. Edwards
was unarmed and had made no threats or
any demonstrations. When the ttireat
was made he (Edwards) fronted Reese,
opening his shirt, and, as a brave man
will do, told him to shoot. Reese, stand
ing iu five feet, shot, the Gall entering Ed
wards’ breast, uear the heart. Edwards
fell upon the ground, and iu a few mo
ments had breathed his last. Reese re
mained in town for some hours, walking
the streets and threatening to kill any
man who attempted to arrest him. He is
still at large, and up to this hour no efforts
have been made for his arrest.
f A ugusla Constitutionalist.
Removal of the Federal Capital.—
The Cincinnati Enquirer, of tlie 26th,
gives the following strong reasons why
the Capital should be removed from the
District of Columbia :
it is high time that the Federal Capital
should be removed aud the name of its
present loeatiou ebauged The illustrious
name of Washington is blasphemed by
applying it to a uegro village; and the
seat of government of the Republic
should be a place where citizens holding
public employments can educate their sons
and daughters without briugiug them into
immediate contact with the odorous and
une'ean off-pring of the Ethiopian lazza
roui who swarm uuder the shadow of the
present Capitol.
Hancock County.— The Augusta con
stitutionalist says: A gentleman who
was iu attendance on the dedication cere
monies at Sparta, on Sunday, informs us
that reports from all sources represent
coru as having been greatly damaged by
the recent continued drought, and th?.t
uot more tbau half a crop of this grain
will be made in that section under the
most favorable future seasons. Cotton is
doing fiuely, and promises a highly re
munerative yield to the farmer.
Behind the Age. —Marshal Serraoo,
the Regent of Spain, refuses all pay and
emoluments beyond those due him as a
Marshal of Spain. He is behind the age.
He belongs to au “effete monarchy.” If
he were more progressive, and lived under
the best government the world ever saw,
he would pocket all he could get —bouses,
horses, carriages, cigars, etc., etc., and
make hay while the sun shines.
—The St. Paul Pioueer says the wheat
crop of Minnesota, from present indica
tions, ought to measure eighteen million
bushels.
'Vita. sine Literis Mors est
THE CROPS.
Clarke County.—A correspondent of
| the J< urxal and Messenger, writing
I from Athens, July 26tb, informs us tnat
the copious raiusot Saturday and Sunday,
i the 24th and 25tb. have greatly improved
the condition of tiie cotton crop. The up
land corn, with few exceptions, wss in
jured beyond cure by the drought of
nearly seven weeks. Gardens are burnt
up. Lowland corn promises agood yield.
Preparations are making to plant turnips
to a larger extent than usual.
Oglethorpe County. —Another cor
respondent of the Journal and Messen
ger, in a letter dated Lexington, July
26tb, writes that the condition of the
crops generally is satisfactory. In some
localities which suffered from the drought,
the upland corn will not produce more
than half a crop.
Savannah, July 24.—Crop reports from
Southern Georgia and Florida, are very
cheering. Numerous specimens of new
crops have been received here.
Augusta, July 24.—There have been
rains throughout this section the past two j
days. The crops are doin'-
Sumter Cmv.ix.— lbe Americua Cou
rier says: This section has at last beta
v.sited by a refreshing, soaking rain. On
Sunday it begau about 10 o’clock, and con
tinued to rain for several hours. Although
a great deal of raiu fell, the desceut was
so gradual that it ran very little—soaking
in and moistening the earth to a consider
able depth. From what we can learn the
rain is pretty general; and growing crops
have been given anew lease of life.”
Baldwin and Hancock Counties.—
The Federal Union has the following:
“A business excursion up the Oconee,
across Walker’s Ferry and into Hancock
county, at the close of last week, gave us
a peep at the growing crops in that re
gion. Cotton looked rather better than
we expected. A trying drought has pre
vailed, particularly in the Hancock por
tion of our journey. Corn has suffered
severely ; and early corn must of necessity
yield a very short crop. Late corn may
do better, as we had a good general rain
on Sunday : aud now while we write, on
Monday, the heavens are overcast with
clouds that promise a still further supply
of the needed showers.”
The Caterpillar in Southwestern
Georgia. —The Albany News of tiie 23d
has tiie following: “There is no longer a
doubt about tiie appearance of this seed
ling of Radicalism—the cussed things are
in Dougherty, Baker, Mitchell, and other
counties, aud planters are beginning to
look sour. All now depends on the sea
sons. If we should have a wet August,
the havoc will be terrible; but if reasona
bly dry aud warm no very great damage
need be apprehended.”
Mitchell County.—Crops in fine con
dition, witli au almost assured prospect of
abundance.
Pulaski County. —The crops general
ly are good, healthy and strong. In some
places the farmers complain of want of
rain, but throughout the county they
have had fine seasons. —Madison Farm
Journal.
Morgan County.— The Madison Farm
Journal says : The drought in portious
of tills couuty is darnagiug the crops ex
cessively. Corn especially, is damaging
badly. And if rain does not come very
soon in copious showers this important
crop will be cut very short in sections
where the drought lias prevailed.
Spalding County. —The fine rains of
the last two weeks have restored every
body in this region of country to the best
of humor. Crops in Spaldingand viciuity
are now more promising than they .have
been for many years.
IMPORTANT IF TRUE.
The following extracts from some Sfour
exchanges contain information which is
important if true :
—The fluid extract of lobelia, when ap
pLH to mosquito bites, entirely and
hiust instantly puio ..Vir itch
ing. It can be obtained of any druggist.
—They have anew grain in Paradise
Valley, Cal., grown from seed taken from
the crop of a wild swan. It is described
as being like a cross of wheat and rye,
with heads ten or twelve inches in length,
and yielding at the rate of 100 bushels to
the acre.
—An English farmer, by picking over
his seed wheat with tiie utmost care, and
planting a grain in a place at Intervals of
a foot each way, produced 162 bushels to
the acre.
—Sunflowers, when plauted on an ex
tensive scale, it has recently been asserted
by experimenters in Frauce and Holland,
will neutralize the deleterious effects of
exha'atious from marshes. This plan has
been tried with great success in the lenny
districts near Rochefort, France, and tiie
authorities of Holland assert that inter
mittent fever has entirely disappeared
fiom districts where the sunflowers have
beeu planted. Though tiie above facts
appear to be approved, it is not yet ascer
tained what effect the sunflower produces
on tiie atmosphere, whether it generates
oxygen like other plants of rapid growth,
or whether, like the cone-bearers, it emits
ozone, aud destroys the animal and vege
table germs of miasms producing fever.
EGYPT AND TURKEY.
The Great Turk, aud his great vassal,
the Viceroy of Egypt, according to iate
dispatches from Europe, are uot on good
terms. The Sultan refuses to receive the
Viceroy, and the latter has returned home
precipitately and commenced to equip his
army. The cause of the difficulty is an
apprehension on the part of the Sultan
that tiie Viceroy of Egypt is seeking to
throw off his subjection to the Ottoman
Empire and is intriguing with the princi
pal European governments to obtain their
recognition of his independence. The
Viceroy, on the other hand, insists that
his recent European tour was made with
the sole object of inducing tiie Great Pow
ers to guarantee the neutrality of the Suez
Canal aud regard it as a great commercial
high-way, never to be used for warlike
purposes.
The fact that the Austrian Government
received the Viceroy with the pomp and
paiade generally shown to a crowned head
is said to have given offence to the Sultan
aud to have aroused the sensibilities of his
government.
We suppose that the "good offices” of
England aud France will be invoked to
restore amicable relations between the two
Mussulman potentates and that the open
ing of the Suez Canal will not be post
poned by a war between the elder and
younger sons of Mahomet.
A Home for Ex President Da vi s
An attempt Is making iu Bourbon county,
Ky., to raise a fund for the purchase of a
home for Jefferson Davis in that, his na
tive State. A gentleman of Louisville has
offered, if fifty thousand dollars or more
shall besubscrioed to the fund, to give a
splendid building site fora house, with
ten acres attached, within four miles of
Louisville.
The Savannah Republican adds: "The
idea of hedging in the great Confederate
leader on a teu acre lot, and that four
miles from towu, is simply ridiculous. If
the Southern people wish to honor their
old chief aud make him and his family
comfortable, let them present him with a
large and well improved estate, on which
he cau live in style benefiting his charac
ter aud dignity, and at the same lime lay
up something for those who ate to come
after him. He deserves a principality,
and a quarter million for that purpose is
not too much”.
The last night of the great debate on
disestablishment in the House of Lords
taxed the London papers to the uttermost.
The Times, which was the only paper
that gave Lord Granville’s reply in full,
and an account ot the division, had but
fifteen minutes between going to press
and catchiug the first trains for the coun
try. In that fifteen minutes 15,000 copies
were printed.
The march of Radical ideas is onward.
In Massachusetts it is made a crime, pun
ishable by fiue and imprisonment, to sell
a glass of lager; and the Mayor of Wash
ington has appointed a negro to be aTrus
tee of the white schools of the District of
Columbia. Quiensabel
The Pacific Railroad is now bringing
us fresh fruts from California ; and the
dispatch of a fruit car laden with plums,
pears and grapes for Chicago aud New
York, oper.s up the prospect of a large
I fruit trade between our Atlantic and Pa
cific States.
MACON. GA.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 3. 1869.
THE NEWS!
—Mr. Swinburne is very ill.
—Mr. Prentice is better thisjnonth than
he lias been for years.
—lke Marvel gets $-5,000 a year for edit
ing the Hearth and Home.
—The new Treasury Building, at Wash
ington, D. C., is now completed.
—Ex Gov. Crapo, of Michigan, died at
his residence in Flint on the 23d inst.
sc —The wheat crop in Pennsylvania has
beeu harvested and is unusually large.
—SenatoHßuckiugham, of Connecticut,
has been ill, but is better.
—Senator Sherman is to join the Pacific
quad shortly.
—Hon. Albert Lange died at his resi
dence in Terre Haute, Indiafia, yesterday.
—Senator Stockton, of New Jersey, has
the finest span of horses at the Braucb.
—Hon. Sanford E. Church hay become
the head of a free trade league.
A -£s2 v ernor Chamberlain, of Maip,e,
contemplates a tour of the New Eugland
capitalists. *
—Congressman Haight, of New Jersey,
...a probable to succeed Governor Randolph
when the latter goes to the Senate.
—The Congressional Committee of Ways
and Means, and Senator Hendricks, were
in San Francisco ou Saturday.
—George B. McCartee, Chief of the Bu
reau of Engraving and Printing iu the
Treasury Department, has resigued.
—Judge J. S. Black is rapidly recover
ing from liis injuries received by a rail
oad accident near Louisville, Ky.
Mr. Robeson is as literally aud wholly
under the thumb of Porter as was the
good-hearted Mr. Borie.
—lt is reported that anew cable is pro
jected direct from Milford Haven, Eng
land, to the American continent.
—Louis Clapjen, a French physician,
was found dead in his bed, at the Prescott
House, New York, on Sunday last
—Gen. Weitzell, Chief Engineer U. 8.
A., in charge of river improvements, will
be in Chattanooga this week.
—Postmaster General Creswell endorses
Stokes as tiie true represeutative of Ten
nessee Republicanism.
—Mexico, according to tiie census just
taken, lias a population of 9,000,060 souls,
against 8,253.05S iu 1861.
—The President of the Republic of Ven
zuela has recognized the Cuban insurgents
as belligerents.
—Gens. John C. Breckinridge and
Braxton Bragg were iu Cincinnati on the
23d inst.
—Henry J. Raymond, late editor in
chief of the New York Times, died worth
$450,000.
—Commodore Chase succeeds Admiral
Dahlgren as Chief of the Bureau of Ord
nance in the Navy department.
Hon. George H. Munroe, late editor
of the Suffolk County (Mass ) Journal,
has become connected with the Boston
Commonwealth.
—Postmaster-General Creswell fell from
the porch of his house in Elkton, Mary
land, a few days ago, aud broke his left
arm.
—Senator Cattell, despairing of re-elec
tion to the Senate, contemplates leaving
New Jersey and removing to Philadel
phia.
A movement is being made by the
officers of tiie army to secure au increase
in their pay at the next session of Con
gress.
—Mr. Charles Francis Adams declines
to allow his name to be used in connec
tion with the Governorship of Massachu
setts.
—A circular has just been issued by the
Secretary of tiie Navy providing for the
immediate organization of a torpedo corps
in tlie navy.
—lt is announced that in Mr. Ray
mond’s papers was found a very enter
taining aud enlivening sketch of his first
experience as a local reporter.
—Tiie recent purchaser of the Daniel
paid SSOO to be released from his bargain,
be> ause of his ill health.
—Mrs. General Williams, formerly
Douglass, is at the Greenbriar White Sul
pli ir Springs; also Mrs. Gen. Green of
North Carolina.
—Chief Justice Chase was charged by
Forney with having pledged himself in
advance of hearing to release Colonel
Yergeron writ of habeas corpus.
—His Excellency A. Musgrave, Gov
ernor of British Columbia, and his family
are staying at Mr. Cyrus W. Field’s, at
Irvington, on the Hudson River, New
York.
—The Board of Trustees of the lowa
University, located at Mount Pleasant,
lias elected Hon. James Harlan, United
States Senator from that State, President
of that institution.
The Common Council of tiie city of
Portland, Oregon, lias appointed a com
mittee from their body to receive Hou
Vv in. H. Seward on his arrival, aud tender
him tiie hospitalities of the city.
—The across the-continent Pullman pal
ace sleeping-car reached the Thirteenth
street depot at 7 o’clock Saturday morn
ing, tiie 24th. Her time from Sacramento
was seven (lavs.
—The vaiious German societies in San
Francisco have resolved to celebrate the
centennial anniversary of the birth of
Alexander von Humboldt, by a grand
concert and festival.
—Secretary Cox expresses unofficially
tiie apprehension that General Rosecraus
will defeat General Hayes iu Ohio by a
majority whereof the expression will re
quire more than four figures.
—Hon. Henry T. Blow, our new Minis
ter to Brazil, sailed from New Y’ork on
the 24th, for Rio Janeiro, on tiie maii
steamer Merrimac.
—Senator Hendricks, of Indiana, ar
rived in San Francisco on tiie 23d. He
was serenaded and introduced to the peo
ple, but made no speech.
—lt is again stated that John Bigelow,
former Minister to France, has accepted
the editorial chair of tiie New Y'ork
Times.
—Mr. A. P. Messenger, Thursday even
ing, accomplished in New York t iie featoi
riding 500 miles on a velocipede within
fifty consecutive hours.
—The present law, imposing an income
tax. will expire in 11870, unless extended
by legislation at the next session of Con
gress.
—Lieut. Seeley, of the United States
steamer Pawnee, has been arrested at
Portsmouth, N. H.. for excessive cruelty
to seamen, tying them up by the wrists,
etg.
—The anniversary of the birth of Hum
boldt, on the 14th of September, is to he
celebrated with great pomp in St. Louis,
New York, Boston, aud many other cities
of the Union.
—lt is claimed that the Peruvian, of the
Canadian line, at Quebec, has just made
the quickest passage across the Atlantic
on tecord, having oeeu five days, eight
houts and forty minutes iu going from
laud to laud.
—The Navy Department bolds the un
necessary iron clads at $190,000 each.
Richard Wallach, formerly Mayor of
Washington City, has offered $320,01)0 for
two of them, but the offer was refused.
He wanted them for the Cubans.
—The reeeut announcement of the mar
| raige of Miss Minuie Warren and Com
modore Nutt was premature. Miss bar
ren is now at home with her parents at
j Middleboro, Mass., and has not told the
! day of the union.
Lopez, the Dictator of Paraguay, is
said to have retreated to the passes of the
Cordilleras, where he is able to maiutam
his defences and supply his commissariat.
Bolivia and other sympathizing republics
are said to provide him with ammuuitiou
aud other military supplies.
—There is some talk in Washington of
a plan to re-establish the District of Col
umbia in its old limits by Congress, hr
the reconstruction of Virginia; resuming
control of the whole teu miles square, in
cluding the town of Alexandria. It is
said that President Grant favors the pro
ect. -
—Serrano, the new regent of Spain, he
gau his administration by sending $6,000
to the Pope, as an instalment upon the
Spanish tribute of 18,000 duros a year,
originally instituted for exemption from
serving iu the crusades aud for dietary
privileges in Lent. The remaiuder of the
tribute, Serrano informs His Holiness,
shall he paid before September.
—The HuDtsvilieDemocrat,of Monday,
says: A number of residents of tiiis cicy
; were aroused by the shock of an earth
| quake. about 2 or 3 o’clock this morning.
I It made furniture in our bed room rattle
for several seconds after we awoke.
NOYES A CO.'S SWINDLE.
Barnesville, Ga., July 26, 1869.
: Editor Daily Journal and Afessenger, Ma
con, Ga. :
We enclose you the accompanying cir»
i cuiar, (Noyes & C 0.,) received through the
Postoffiue this day—and send it toyou that
it may be ventilated as it deserves. We
know not wbat the object of tbe circular
really is, but are satisfied that something
is wrong about it. We have likewise
mailed a copy of the same to the United
States Treasurer at Washington.
Yours truly, Jas. B. Hanson.
In answer to our correspondent we copy
the following history of tiie swindle,
which we fiud in the Washington Ex
press :
When Wm. E. Chandler was Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, authority was
given to certain parties iu New York city
to photograph the national currency (the
copies being about tbesizeof our fractional
currency,) as a means of enabling bankers
aud others iu detecting counterfeits?
The firm undertaking the job did not
succeed as well as they expected, and the
surplus 6toek was disposed of to a number
of parties in that city, who at once issued
circulars, the tenor of which is the same
as that of “Noyes & Cos.” It would be
impossible to state the amount of money
realized by their propositions, nor how
many have been swindled iu their will
ingness to defraud the Government.
The photographic copies are packed in
small tin boxes, and sent to address of tiie
purchaser. He gets just what he bargained
for—exact copes of tiie United States
Treasury or National Bank Notes, and no
one doubts that tiie originals were exe- '
cuted by the most skilled men in the art
outside of the State’s prison—and the
packages do represent what the circular
claims.
General Skinner, tiie United States
Treasurer, is daily iu receipt of letters
from parties who have thus been victim
ized. But what can he do. It is certainly
no crime; and if it was the accuser would
lay himself liable to couvictiou in pur
chasing what he supposed would be well
executed counterfeits. The Government
detectives, as well as tiie New York detec
tives, have given their attention to the
matter, but have failed in every case to
find grounds for a prosecution. The “cir
culars” are ingeniously worded, and the
several firms faithfully fulfill their part of
the contract. The only remedy is not to
patronize tiie swindlers. Such advice,
however, is unnecessary to honest men.
At a large diuner, given after the dedi
cation of the Peabody Institute, in Dan
vers, Massachusetts, tiie following verses
were read by Oliver Wendell Holmes :
GEOHOE PEABODY.
Bankrupt—our pockets inside out!
Empty of words to speak bis praises !
Worcester and Webster up tbe spout!
Dead broke of laudatory phrases !
But wby with flowery speeches tease,
With vain superlatives distress him?
Has language better words than these—
“ The friend of all liis race, God bless him.”
A simple prayer—but words more sweet
By human lips were never uttered,
Since Adam left the country seat
Where angel wings around him fluttered.
Tbe old look on with tear-dimmed eyes,
Tiie children cluster to caress him,
And every voice unbidden cries,
“ The friend of all bis race, God bless him !”
Extracts from the "Court Jour
nal.” — We take pleasure in making the
followinginterestingaunouucemeuts from
our newly established “Court Journal
“Long Branch, July 25. President
Grant aud his family attended service at
the Methodist Episcopal Church this
mtaming. _■- _ co i2- , ,
tatuftyVode to the residencejpf Mr. .John
Hoey, with whom they diue; returning at
half-past eight.
“Arrangements are all completed for a
grand ball, which is to be given in honor
of the President, to-morrow evening ”
We are still without uews of the safe ar
rival of Egypt aud Cincinnati, tiie Presi
dent's favorite carriage horses. Master of
Horse Cox should see to this, aud have
tiie public properly informed.
—The Ecumenical Council which has
been summoned to meet iu the Vatican
Basilica, Rome, in next December, will he
t lie nineteen til. The program me, asat pres
ent affixed, gives for the respective sea
sons tiie following subjects: 1, Panteism,
rationalism, naturalism, absolute rational
ism, in nine theses; 2, moderate rational
ism, in seven theses; 3, indifferentism,
tolerantism, iu four theses; 4, socialism,
communism, secret societies, Bible so
cieties, liber-clerical societies, iu six
theses ; 5, errors on the Church and its
rights, in twenty theses; 6, errors on so
ciety and its relation to the Church, in
seventeen theses; 7, errors on natural
and Christian morals, in teu theses; 8, on
tiie Christian marriage, in ten theses ; 9,
on tiie sovereignly of the Pope of Rome,
in two theses ; 10, ou modern liberalism,
iu four theses.
Rumored Removal of Gen. Canky.—
If it be true that the President has deter
mined !o remove Gen. Canby and assign
Gen. McDowell to the command in Vir
ginia, it is to be hoped that the change is
made in order to dispose of the test oath
question, and practically overrule General
Canby’s iude ensible position without di
rectly rebuking that officer.
It is admitted that General Canby con
ducted the Virginia election faiily and im
partially, and it is fair to presume he will
do so in Mississippi if assigned to com
mand in that State, and at all events he
will be more acceptable to the people than
the present commander, General Ames.
Good for a Beginning.—A paragraph
is going the rounds of the papers which
informs the public that a newspaper is
about to be started in New York with a
quarter of a million subscribers !
For a beginning that will do moderately
well; but how lias the exact number been
ascertained? May it not be that the pa
per will be started when it gets a quarter
of a million subscribers?
France Salutes the United States.
The completion of the cable communica
tion between France and the United
States has been inaugurated by an inter
change of good wishes and friendship be
tween the Emperor and President Grant.
They shake hands very gracefully across
the Atlantic, and the United States and
their “oldest ally” may now be supposed
to be on excellent terms, notwithstanding
the httle difficulty in landing the cable.
The announcement of an express tralu
that shall run from Liverpool to Loudon
in four hours is a remarkable event. The
distance is two hundred miles, aud in or
der to make the tifty miles per hour it will
be necessary to make it a through train
that is, to allow no stop between the two
places. The necessity of stopping for
water is obviated by meebauical means.
Bitten by a Rattlesnake. —A cor
respondent informs us that a iad named
James Lawson was bitten by a rattlesnake
on the 14th iusl., on the plantation of VV.
S. Bush near Ellisville, Florida, and died
in twelve hours after be received the bite.
An exciting fire occurred at Long
Branch eariy Sunday morning. The sta
bles of the Mansion House caught fire,
and were completely destroyed in a short
time, the fire burning rapidly. The horses
were all saved.
In 1871 the term of George H. Wil
liams, Seuator from Oregon, will expjre,
and the Democracy of their State ought
to bestir themselves to see that he is not
his own successor.
Horace Greeley’s Tribune takes open
grouud against Boutwell, of the Cabinet,
for bis hostility to the newly elected
Walker administration of Virginia. Gree
lev thiuks the Republican party “cannot
afford” to adopt Mr. Bout well’s views.
From Geneva, Ala.— One of our cor
respondents, writing from Geneva, Ala.,
July 2lst, says that crops in that section
are good—very good.
Among other wonderful things for
which the Great Eastern is lelebrated are
her remarkable hatchways—she lays tele
graphic cables.
Correspondence of tbe Journal aud Messenger.
LETTER FROM UPSON COUNTY.
Thomaston, Ga., July 27, 1869.
Mr. Editor: A gentleman who is plant
ing in this couuty, Mr. L. H. Thurman,
called my attention to a communication,
which appeared in the Journal and
Messenger a few daya since, written by
some geutleman whose name he had for
gotten—inviting, persons to come to his
f«rm and look, at his cotton —which tie
said was planted about tiie 22d of April,
jn which he had found some stalks with
eighty, and one with one hundred and
sixty two bolls aud forms. Mr. T. re
quests me, through the Journal and
Messenger, to iuform tiie gentleman that
on last Saturday lie examined cotton
planted April 15th in the check, manured
in the hill with fertilizers purchased of
Mr. Ayres, of Macon, and found many
stalks with two hundred bolls aud forms.
This cotton is growyi upon upland, apd
upon the same kind of laud the same gen
tleman informs me that he lifts cotton
planted the 3d day of May, which he
topped on the 22d instant at front four and
a half to five feet higfl, and full of fruit,
plan led in rows four reet apart aud locked
already across tiie rows.
These facts will give some idea of the
prospect in Upson. Much is written about
the crops, because to us it is of great im
portance. If other portions of the State
do as well as Upson promises at this time,
I amagiue less money will go West next
year for corn tliau has goue the present—
but it is hardly fair to presume that the
whole State will compare with Upson,
notwithstanding her red hills. Tiie land
is not only good, hut we have tiie most
energetic farmers in tiie State—men who
not only press their business, but do it
with system, and are of sufficient intelli
gence to call in all the help they can ob
tain from science. If geutletueu wish to
see cotton that is cotton, aud co r u that
makes the beans of the jnior glad, let them
come to ITpson—ami they will find that
Mr. T.’s crop is not the exception—yet
land is cheap. I wonder persons iu search
of good laud do not come here.
Yours, R.
MU. JOHN UIURLOW
We see it positively asserted that Mr.
Johu Bigelow, former editor of the New
York Evening Post, and more receutly
U. S. Minister to the court of France, has
accepted aud assumed tiie chief editorship
of the New York Times.
In former days we had the pleasure of
knowing Mr. Bigelow well. He is a writer
of marked ability and power. He is a
scholar of considerable eminence, and in
tiie best days of New York journalism
was universally regarded as equal to the
best newspapei writers of tiie time.
Mr. Bigelow is a Republican, hut we
believe that lie is not a Radical. Like the
late Henry J. Raymond, lie is conserva
tive in liis opinions, aud prefers the wel
fare of his country to tiie success of a
partv.
the holion-uichens vendetta.
From the Memphis Avalanche.
Mr. Wade Bolton, who was shot by
Colonel Thomas Dickens, ou Main street,
opposite Court Square, a few days ago,
died at the residence of Mr. Frank Cash,
on Court street, about seven o’clock yes
terday morning, alter suffering the great
est agony. It was at first supposed that
tiie wound would not terminate fatally,
but Mr Bolton refused to allow it to lie
probed, and, although lie continued sensi
ble to near tiie time of liis death, his at
tendant physicians stated that they had
no hopes of his recovery.
The enmity which has so long existed
between ttie Dickens and Bolton families
has been referred to so often that it need
not lie recapitulated at tiie present time.
Suffice it to say that tiie deceased was one
of tiie chiefs in tiie feud in which over a
“ ik Yial'ive or Washing
ton county, North Carolina, and was horn
on the Bth day of November, 1812, so that
at the time of liis death lie Was in his fifty
seventh year. He came to this section of
tiie country while yet a boy. He entered
into business in early life with Mr. J. H.
Winchester, and afterwards formed one
of tiie firm of Bolten, Dickens & Cos , who
were, previous to tiie war, exieosive negro
traders iu tbe South. The firm amassed
a vast deal of money, and the divisiou of
tiie profits led to the feud above referred
to, and which has ltd to the death of so
many persons. Mr. Bolter: leaves a widow,
hut no children, to mourn his death. It
is conjectured that liis estate, of which
Mr. E. M. Apperson has been appointed
sole executor, will amount to about $250,-
000 It is understood that he has left his
widow $20,000 and three hundred acres of
land, aud lias bequeathed SIO,OOO to tiie
widow of Stonewall Jackson. It is also
stated that he has donated over SIO,OOO to
build an Orphan Asylum and endow it,
at Big Creek, tiie institution to be called
the Bolton Asylum. He lias, it is said,
also given teu acres of land to liis former
slaves, wlio remained with him after the
war and behaved properly.
An Oppressive Law. —The interna
revenue law pertaining to the sale of to
bacco, in the form of segars, chewing,
snuff, etc., is very severe, aud if strictly
enforced must annihilate the retail trade
in those articles. If a retailer sells a se
gar, except taken at the time of sale from
the original box, he is liable to two years'
imprisonment and a fine of SI,OOO ! (So in
regard tochewing tobacco and snulf—they
must be retailed from the original pack
age or a like penally is incurred. A re
tailer cannot take a handful of segara from
a box in Ins show-case, place them upon
tiie outside glass aud sell one or more from
the lot without the risk of fine and impri
sonment ; tie must let his customers select
from the box—from tbeoriginal package—
himself. The unnecessary obstructions to
the trade thus presented are calculated to
destroy it and oppress a large and indus
trious class of citizens. Snuff cannot be
sold from a jar, but must be taken from
the bladder—tbeoriginal package—by the
cent’s worth.
I Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
A Valuable Work.— We have just
received a copy of Lyman’s “ Treatise on
Cotton Culture,” published by Orange
Judd, of New York, aud from the exami
nation we have given it, we do not besi
tate to pronounce it to be the most valua
ble woik on the subject we have ever read.
Everything connected with the planting,
cultivation and marketing of cotton is
treated practically, perspicuously and sys
tematically. The author, Joseph B. Ly
man, late of Louisiana, is evidently a
skilled planter, wli<»se knowledge has
been derived from experience, aud who
i has the good fortune to be able to impart
his knowledge in plain, comprehensible
language. Appended to this book is a
chapter on Cotton Seed and its Uses, by
J. R. Sypber, which will well repay pe
rusal.
This valuable work is for sale at the
hook store of J. W. Burke & Cos., and sent
postpaid on receipt of $1 50.
—The Governor has pardoned Robert F.
Curry, Walker P. Inman and Win. H.
Inman, President, Cashier and Director
of the Northwestern Bank of Georgia,
who are prosecuted under the statute of
this State for refusing to redeem the bills
of said bank. The Governor alleges, as
grounds for this proceeding, that the fail
ure was not the fault of these officers, but
the necessary result of the action of the
civil powers of this State during the la e
rebellion and the destruction aud loss of
property occasioned bv the late civ!
war”; and, secondly, because “the ex
panses, inconvenience and trouble of a
defence will work great damage and hard
ship to the said parties.”
Still at It.—The correspondence be
tween State Treasurer Angier and State
Comptroller Bell progresses duly. The
rebutter of Bell appears in the Atlanta
Intelligencer of yesterday, and we may
expect therefore to see the surrebutter of
Angier in the Era of to-morrow or the day
after. If they only knew how little the
; public is interested in their unseemly
| squabble they would write fewer letters
aud address themselves more asaiduoudy
to the duties of their offices.
Railroad Extension. The Macon
I and Western Rai.road, we are informed,
I will shortly run its track across the old
Monroe railroad right-of-way, connecting
with the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
somewhere above Its machine shops ;
VOL. LXI., NO 20
The Suez Canal.
This marvel of enterprise and engi
neering skill will he opened to the trade
of all nations in September next, and
the event celebrated in a manner com
mensurate with the magnitude and im
portaneeoT the undertaking. The his
tory of this work is interesting. In
1846, M. Lesaeps, a French engineer
of high rauk, who subsequently figured
in Central America in connection with
an effort to connect the two oceans
by a ship channel through the territory
of Nicaragua, obtained the consent of
the Egyptian authorities to commence
a canai across the Isthmus of Suez, and
in 1854, having completed his plans and
arrangements, organized a company
and prepared for work, lie was made
head and manager of the company,
which was under a ninety-nine years'
grant, and subject to certain rules and
regulations to bo enforced by the offi
cers of the country throng', wMrft the'
canal ran. The works were to be at
the company’s expense, and the vice
royalty to receive fifteen per cent, of
the earnings yearly. The ship tariff of
the canal should be the same for all na
tions. In ease the company desired to
join the canal with the Nile, they might
take at their own expense the unculti
vated lands thereby. They might quar
ry stone free, and similarly import all
machinery, and at the end of the grant
the Egyptian government would come
into possession of the work. Napoleon
favored the work in all possible ways,
and when Egypt refused to carry out
certain portions of her agreement, acted
ns referee and mulcted that government
in damages amounting to more than
sixteen millions of dollars. In a direct
line, the route from point to point is
but seventy miles, but as the canal is
constructed, it measures more than ono
hundred miles in length. Its width is
throe hundred and twenty-eight feet,
and ships drawing twenty-six feet of
water will bo able to pass through the
canal with free keels. At I'ort Said,
on the Mediterranean,two break- waters,
nearly three thousand yards long, and
including a triangular area of five hun
dred and fifty acres, have been built to
form a complete harbor. They arc
twenty-six yards at the base, twelve in
height and six at the summit . At Suez,
a mole eight hundred and fifty yards in
length is to be constructed, equally as
a protection against gales and tides, for
the dredging of tho Suez channel, and
for the reclamation of lands. With re
ference to tho financial condition of tho
company, it is reported that up to tho
end of April, 1868, more than fifty seven
millions of dollars had been expended.
In the meantime, seventy millions ol
dollars had been received from t olls upon
such portion of the work as are in active
operation, accommodating the local
trade. When the whole line is opened
from tho Mediterranean to the Rod Sea,
it will revolutionize the trade and com
merce of a largo portion of Europe.
Long voyages around tho Cape ot («ood
Hope and across the Indian ocean will
be things of the past, yarns for old
salts, while ships will flit from the Pa
SAbAHying *uutchfnan. The United
States must take care of its own inter
ests in Asia by canaling the Isthmus of
Darien. In that way and that way
only can we head off the French and
English in the markets of Asia. — Phila
delphia Age.
—The cost of the transfer of tho tele
graph lines to the Government in Eng
land will amount to $.43,750 000. The an««
nual revenue of the telegraph lines is es
timated at $3,309,190, and the expenditure
at $1,707,420, thus leaving a net profit of
$1,571,770.
“llt is rumored that superintendent Hurl
berl has taken steps to prevent the new
Treasurer of the State Road from handling
the money. Wise, if true.
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Mayor’* Court.
There arc scenes occasionally in the Mayor’s
Court that arouse the sympathies of all pre.-rnt,
aud create the wish that something could he done
to stay the evils caused by seeing those poisonous
compounds so destructive to domestic happine-s,
to health and to the peace and comfort of our clti
zens generally. This morning a ease was presented
of this character, the particulars of which are as
follows:
A man of mature age, who has constant employ
ment as a bricklayer, was brought up by officers
Wood arid Pridgen, charged with getting very
drunk and beating his wife shamefully last Sunday
morning. The witnesses were all positive as to
the great disturbance made, and tin- ease would
have gone rather hard against the prisoner had not
the wife tearfully begged the Mayor to “hear her
just one single minute.” 11 is Honor, who is
known everywhere as one of the most tender
hearted men in Macon, courteously granted her
request, when she began her sad story, sad enough
we thought to have touched the hearts of all pre
ent: “My husband,” she commenced, is a good
inan. He works very hard to get a living, but lie
will drink at times, and it’s the only fault lie lias
when he is sober be is kind and affectionate as any
man could be, but when lie gets drunk he abuse*
me terribly and beats me. I can’t stand it, Mr.
Mayor, as I could if I was only youjger. I am
going on fifty years old, and have two grown up
children in Savannah ; and when my husband beats
me so bad it lays me up sometimes for three or
four days, so that I can’t get up to do my house
work, and some day I’m afraid I shall be killed. ’
“Well,” said the Mayor, “why do you not go to
your sons, and leave your husband, if he beats
you V”
“Because lam a wife,” she answered sadly. I
am his lawfully wedded wife—married to him by
BishopVcrot, of Savannah; a wife should never
leave her husband, sir; she has sworn to love him
and to stay with him till death, and if 1 break my
oatli made at the altar, I shall be sure to go to tor
ment, and that I’ve no wish to do. Besides," she
continued, as the tears streamed in torrents down
her cheeks, “I’m quite old, and can’t live a great
while longer. I reckon I’ll try to hear it the best
way I can. If Mr. wouldn’t sell my husband
such mean whisky lie wouldn t act as badly a- in
does. It’s all Mr. ’s fault, every bit of it.’’
“I)o you ever take a little whisky yourself?” in
quired his Honor.
“No, sir, never!” she replied, with empha-is.
“It has done so much sin and wrong to me an I
mine. Oh! if you only knew half the trouble .
brings, sir, y>u would try to close some of the-,
whisky-shop*, and not let them make people -n
very miserable; and es]iecially Sundays, w!> n
everybody wants to be still and quiet.”
“Who is this Mr. V Where does he keep
Does lie sell Sundays?” asked the Mayor, -■
somewhat interested.
“Yes, sir,” responded the afflicted ■
sells, every Sunday, at his shop on - -~~
his liquor is enough to poison anybody >..<
it. Everybody says so.” f|f .. an ,j
“I’ll issue a summon*,” said the w'ipy.ler
liave this thing attended to at once. w ,. (
have this inan up to rnorro '' ]i vflU to attend
nesses to appear before me. L
to iL ” _ urontances, the poor
In view of the existiu- 11 yc w ; t i, ou t being
inebriate was permit b 1 lu , ut wc fancy that the
punished for lus ““ ‘ j lit , ioUS interview with
liquor dealer will l ja '\ . . c yv e would not
the Mayor at his
exactly like to be in i young uiau with a
The next ease of! irenerullv. who
boil on his foot. and ™% - shop, and was Mtluux
" There ws-m-ln
understanding somew here, or ,md
was disebarg* cl and country storekeepers s en "
Adeline A!!*-** -
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