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• Let l - Bury the Dead and Take
Care of Hie Living.”
From the Augu-tu Constitutionalist, August sth.
This is the heading of a late article in the
editorial columns of the Macon Journal and
Mkssenokk. We reproduce it in our issue
of to-day, with the view of making some
comments upon it. We, perhaps, do not
understand it. The article, it is true, is
written witii marked ability ; but it evidently
indicates something not fully expressed. To
us. with our ideas and opinions, it seems to
be inconsistent with itself. It may tie that
tin writer was only “ looking one way while
he was waiting another.”
All our liberties, he asserts, with the accu
mulated capital of two centuries, have been
lost, lint the se, he maintains, can be re
gained. This is hopeful and encouraging.
\Vi. too, lndievo that this end can be attain
ed. if tic people are true to themselves in the
maintenance of correct principles. But while
our esteemed contemporary, if wo understand
him. seems to he looking earnestly to this
great object (if a restoration of rights and
prosperity, his policy, if we are not mistaken,
i:i st certainly, if followed, bears us directly
the other way. He does not expose his poli
cy. i xcept negatively. In this way, however,
lie is sulli iently explicit to show his general
drift. The dead are to he buried. Among
the dead are to he considered all old political
parly associations. The Whig party, the
Stales Rights party, the Democratic party
ure all dead ! These are all, according to lus
views, to be buried, or are already buried
beyond the hope or power of resurrection !
But we are to take care of the living. Wlmt
party then is living? What is the living
party that we are to take care of ? Is it the
Radical party or either of the wings of the
so-called Republican party that he would
have us to take care of ? Then, how are we
to take care of it ? Is it by joining and
building it up ? Is this what our esteemed
( temporary means? If so, let us know it
in plain terms. If so, we wish to enter our
.olemii protest in the beginning. By no
smdi policy can our rights, liberties or pros
perity ever be restored.
Until win"s of tin* Republican party—the
('niisiTVutiw, so-called, as well oh the ltadi
i il are orga .ized upon principles utterly
■■nlnvrsive of all Constitutional liberty; ami
il tin people of this country are true to
themselves, true to the memories of their
■ ire true to all the glories of the past, as
well as the brightest ami surest hopes of the
future, they will spurn with abhorrence the
embrace of either. “Touch not, taste not,
handle not the unclean thing,” will be their
motto. All of our troubles come from that
wing of the Republican party now called
('■ii.v'rritlire. The so-called Radical wing of
tin- party is but the legitimate offspring of
the other the necessary fruit and issue of
it. If liberty ever is to be restored to this
country, it must be done by a total over
throw of the present ruling party, now con
sider* *d by our Macon brother as the only
tiring party. This must first he destroyed,
loot and branch, and placed among the
things that arc dead and to bo buried.
The most effective way to do this, we
maintain, is to revive ‘ and bring into
active operation the time-honored principles
ol the Kentucky Resolutions, which our
jtS.iiin wonM have us to con
sider us amongst the things that are dead —
never to list* again! What an idea this is,
; cluing from one who speaks so confidently
of the restoration of our liberties! Is there
a single liberty we ever enjoyed which is not
cow red ami embraced in these Resolutions?
Can there be any restoration of these liber
ties but by a return to the living and eternal
truths and principles upon which they are
based? Never! Os this the people of this
uiitrv may bo fully assured.
('•in Ih «• jiriiiri/tlrs ever be re rivet l? Here
til.' ,ivut question. We have l>efure rnain
jufil, uml still maintain that they can, and
(tillin', if tin’ people prove true to theni
srlvt's. Nor is the proa]unit of this grand
seliie vfiiii'iit so cheerless a problem as our
M i on brother would have us believe. That
old l’arty organization, which, based upon
tla St* prineipit's, rescued the Government
from centralism and Despotism in 1801, un
der tile lead of Mr. Jefferson, is by no means
dead. For sixty years it preserved the in
tegrity of the country and the liberties of
tlie people. For many times more than
OWy it id ty vet live to do the same tiling, if
H were once brought into power. The Dem
oeratie party dead! Indeed! "Was the wish
'lie father of the thought in this utterance?
ii s the Democratic party dead in 1800,
wlieii the present ltadieal power came into
I'ower by a little over one-third of the votes
et the whole country? Certainly not. It
" - defeated by an unfortunate division and
s 'i'ife between some of its leading memliers
mid ditb renees upon ])riuci])les not essential
f" the maintenance of liberty. Was it dead
in lsiVl, when, even at the North, in time of
war. 1.500.000 mov'd with steady step under
its idd standard of ]>rineiples? Was it dead
in Isos, w hen 2,700,000 rallied to the polls
mjiler the smui* standard? Out of some
thing over 5,000,000 of votes General Grant
was elected by only a few votes in excess of
Jhtl,000. llad the disfranchised Democrats
"t Tennessee been ]>ermitted to vote, num
bering not much under 100,000, his majority
would have been brought down to near
200,000. And if Virginia, Mississippi and
Texas hail not been denied their right to
vote, the result most probably, would have
shown that, so far from being (lead, the Dem
ocratic party was really the living majority
party in this country.
1 his will i rtainly be the case at the next
1 residential electiou in 1872, if those who
ih sire a restoration of their liberties are true
to themselves and true to principle. Pa
tieuee and steadfastness to principles, which
can never die, arc the great virtues our jx*o
ple are now called upon to exercise.
Fhi re are issues, questions and measures
of the past which are dead. With all our
heart, we say let them be buried. Amongst
f : ' se we put Secession as a practical remedy
against Federal wrongs of any sort, and all
the issues, questions and measures of a su
bordinate character growing out of African
slavery. Hut never let it b said that the
principles of the Kentucky resolutions
fwliich so clearly and truthfully set forth the
'lafure and character of our Government and
: ‘l! mir safe-guards of liK-rtv,) are dead!
lien they die and are buried, with them
will die and Ik* buried every principle of
American liberty. Nor let it ever Ih* said
but tin Democratic party is dead, so long as
flies,' principles are borne upon its standard.
He regret that our valued ootempomry,
h*' l Augusta Constitutionalist, has misap
prehended the purpose and misunderstood
s *“ language of the article which we pub
*'a i a few days ago, headed, * I jet us bury
Pi ail and take care of the Living.” We
‘bd a, t intend to be mysterious in our de-
M s'i or ambiguous in our expression, nor did
dream of advising anybody to “join" or
buildup” the ltadieal party or “either of
•a* wings of the so-called Republican party,”
** our eotemjHirary seems to fear. Neither
b * i we the faintest intention of “looking one
Wu ' "bile we “were writing another.” We
'■a nit to he dear and explicit, and if our
spi, ted triend in Augusta has misinterpre
"ur ‘ general drift,” we think it isattrib
bi li more to the morbid sensitiveness of
,ls liatui '° tll!U1 to any ambiguity in our lan
«*ge.
\\ e are as thoroughly convinced as he is
f iat “b°th wings of the Republican party”
au " ‘ ‘organized upon principles utterly snb
|" r siye of all Constitutional liberty,” and
ut and Liberty is ever to be restored to this
t ouuti \ it must be done by a total overthrow
of the present ruling party.” Our thoughts
by day and our dreams by night are devoted
exclusively to devise some plan by which
this total overthrow can lie most speedily and
completely effected. And it was this very
desire which prompted us to write the article
in which our cotemporary has discovered so
much insiduous heresy.
We do consider—we do confess it—that
the present ruling party is a “living party.”
It is frightfully lively, and it is daily grow
ing in activity and strength, as it is in venom
and malevolence. It is rearing its hideous,
spotted head in many places at the South,
and wherever the Old Line Whig, the
straight-out Democrat, and the uncompro
mising States Rights man are severally most
confident that their party and no other can
save the country, and are most obstinate in
their refusal to unite for the common de
fence, there the “ruling party” will be found
to be most active, most powerful, most veno
mous and most malevolent. While these
divisions and old partialities continue to dis
tract us—while the Whig regards the Demo
crat as the cause of “all our woe,” and the
Calhounite refuses to affiliate with the p irty
tluit surrendered the citadel of States Rights
by voting for the Compromise Measures—
the ruling party will continue to grow in
strength. Our sympathies, our predilections
and convictions are all on the side of tho
State Rights party. We have never be
longed to any other. We believe that its
principles were nearer the true faith as held 1
by the authors of the Constitution and of
the federative system of government under
which we are supposed to live, than those of
any other party that ever existed. But what
hope is there that those principles w ill become
the political faith of a national party suffi
ciently numerous and powerful to overthrow
the ruling party ? Our cotemporary admits
that “there are issues, questions and measures
of the past which arc dead,” and wishes
with all his heart that they may he buried.
He refers particularly to the right of seces
sion and to the questions growing out of
African slavery. We agree with him that
these issues, questions and measures are
dead, but we insist that when he concede-;
this he must agree with us that the party, of
whose existence they were the life-blood, is
dead too. We may mourn the death, but
our regrets and tears can never reauimate
the l corpse. Its life departed at Appomattox
Court House on the 9tli of April, 1865. Ad
mit, as our eotemporary does, that the seve
ral members of the political partnership
called the United States have no longer the
right to dissolve the partnership for any
cause whatever, and that it is the right of
the majority to rule, and admit the right of
that majority to prescribe, regulate and
abolish the domestic institutions of the mi
nority, nay, even to decree who shall vote
•ml who shall not, and the existence of States
Rights cun hardly be maintained by sensible
people.
As to the Whig party it is so long dead
that even its bones can no longer be used as
relics. It was a great, powerful and patriotic
organization. Its exponents were among time
greatest intellects that ever adorned any age
or country. But belief in its resuscitation
is hardly less silly to-day than that of the
suiritualist who lias places at his dinner table
reserved lor ileceuoea . e , .
family.
The Democratic party remains. But in
what does it resemble the National Demo
cratic party of former days. Are the prin
ciples held by Democrats at the North and
at the South the same as those which they
maintained in 1856, the List year in which
the party was united in its faith and in its
purposes ? What community of feeling is
there between the “war Democrat” who
flew to arms to annihilate the sovereignty of
eleven States of the Union, who sanctioned
the tinkling of Mr. Seward's little bell, the
banishment of Yallandigham, the arbi
trary arrests of the thousands who filled
every fortress in the Northern States, —what
community of feeling, we repeat, is there
between him and the Democrats who like
the late Tom Seymour, the recently deceased
Isaac Toucey, or that inflexible patriot,
Franklin Pierce, insisted that the General
Government had no Constitutional authority
to coerce a State? What practical resem
blance is there to-day between the doc
trines of what is now called the Demo
cratic party and the Democratic platform
which was adopted at Cincinnati ill 185(5, or
in Charleston in 18(>0?
There is, it is true, a powerful, numerous
and earnest opposition to the ruling party to
be found in every State in the Union. It
was this party that voted for the defeated
leader of the U. S. Army in the battles of
the Peninsula and the Cliiekahominy; and it
was this party which supported Seymour and
Blair! But, except in the opposition to the
Republican party, where is the community of
conviction between the masses of the Demo
cratic party of the North, and the Democrats
of the South as to the principles of govern
ment which used to lie the foundation of
their common action? We at the South max
con tend for the principles of the Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions. They do “set
forth clearly and truthfully the nature and
character of our government and all our
safe-guards of liberty.” But are the war
Democrats, who plume themselves on their
war record, of the same opinion? How do
their acts and professions square with the
“eternal truths and principles embraced in
those resolutions?”
It is obvious, then, that to revive the old
parties and platforms as they existed before
the war is a hopeless and ruinous task. We
repeat wliat we remarked in the article to
which ouro itemporary took exception, “that
each of the old parties believes that the only
salvation of the country depends on the re
vival of his party, forgetting that the Demo
cratic, States Rights, and the Whig party,
as living active organizations, are dead and
buried, and there can Ik* no parties at the
South now but the party of Self-Preserva
tion, composed of the intelligence, virtue
and respectability of the entire people,
fused and cemented together by a common
interest, inspired by a common danger, and
animated by a purpose to rescue the liber
ties and prosperity of their country from the
despoiling grasp of the mongrel enemy
which seeks to crush the one and ruin the
other. ”
Wo desire the union of every element of
opposition to Radicalism at the North and
South, on a platform suited to the times in
which xve live, adapted to the circumstances
by which xve are surrounded, and freed from
the deadwood of bygone issues. We want
to see our people grapple with the living
issues of the present and not leave the com
mon enemy to consummate our ruin, while
we spend our strength and time in a vain
effort to recall the past.
Nor xvill mere party ]>olities —struggles for
political supremacy—of themselves work out
the redemption of our country. We must
make intelligent and xvell directed efforts to
re-establish our material prosperity by do
vel iping our vast resources, improving
our system of agriculture, utilizing the
immense manufacturing power which a
bounteous Providence has given ns, regu
lating onr labor system to suit our altered
condition, improving the morals of the peo
ple by diffusing more widely the Bible and
the spelling book, amending and enforcing
our laws, making Truth, Justice and Mode
ration the controlling guides of onr conduct,
and thus repossessing ourselves of these ele
ments of power which will restore our
former influence in the control and direction
of the Government.
e know that our purpose is honest. We
believe that it is wise. We feel that we can
regain oar liberties and be the most prosper
ous people upon earth, but that we can
“never do so if we lose our time and waste
our energy rummaging in the political
dust-heap of the past, and trying to fan into
a flame the expired cinders of defunct polit
ical parties. ”
Radicals Alone are Loyal.
No man can be accounted loyal who is not
an ultra Radical. If a Southern man,
though he stood by the Union from Sumter
to Appomattox; though he commanded the
Union armies and shed his blood on many a
battlefield, if to-day he does not blindly sub
scribe to the extremest doctrines of the most
violent Radicals, he is a rebel, a copperhead,
a traitor, and above all ho is disloyal, and
should be forever excluded from everv office
in the gift of the people.
In all rebeldom where can be found such a
malignant copperhead as General Frank P.
Blair, of Missouri? Where is there a more
infamous traitor than Segar, of Virginia?
Where in all the world can ho seen such an
impersonation of treachery and disloyalty as
Andrew Jolinson, of Tennessee ? Blair fought
and hied for the Union, and covered himself
with distinction as a commander of a corps
in the Union army. But he is a vile copper
head notwithstanding liis services, because
he will not dissolve the Union he fought to
save in order to perpetuate Radical power.
Segar suffered severely for his desertion of
Virginia in her hour of peril, and for his un
deviating devotion to the Federal cause dur
ing the entire war; but lie, too, is a rebel,
because he opposed Wells and the extreme
Radicals at the recent election in his State.
What is there tliat Andrew Johnson did not
do to prove his hostility to the Confederate
State of Tennessee, and his friendship for
Ahraliam Lincoln and the coerciug forces?
Was he not Lincoln’s military governor of
Tennessee, and was he not the choice of the
“loyal States” for the second office in their
gift? But he is now par excellence, the traitor
rebel and copperhead—-the most disloyal man
in America.
And so it is with some of those who have
been recently elected to office in Tennessee,
for instance, with Emerson Etheridge, Bail
lie Peyton, John Fleming and Ed. Cooper.
They are of the select few of the prominent
men in Tennessee who stood by the Union
and opposed secession when Stokes was
raising regiments for the Confederate army
and hurling blood and thunder against the
invaders of the South. They are now de
nounced as “old rebel and copperhead lead
ers,” because they have been elected to their
State Legislature by the opponents of liadi-
To be accounted loyal one must believe in
Radicalism, and stick to it as tlic devoted
Roman Catholic believes in the infallibility
of the Pope and the Immaculate Conception.
To doubt is heresy. To offer opposition is
an offence to he punished with excommuni
cation by bell, book and candlelight.
We rejoice to see the number of the here
tics is increasing, and that the bulls of ex
communication issued by the Radical papers
are of no more effect than the old-time Papal
Bull against the comet.
A not tier Radical lie leaf.
It was natural to suppose that the anti
liadicals would hold their own in Kentucky,
where at one time alone of all the States
which governed themselves the principles of
the Constitution and of republican liberty
xvere successfully vindicated and upheld.
The nexvs of the recent election iu that State
shows that the people have done more than
hold their own. They have made important
gains. They have driven the Radicals from
their only strongholds, routed them com
pletely in the few mountain counties where
they had any strength, and added one Sen
ator and three Representatives to the Demo
cratic ranks iu the State Legislature.
May it not be that the tide is turning in
favor of Constitutional Liberty? Wherever
at the South the people have an opportunity
to speak out, unawed by bayonets, they pro
nounce the doom of Radicalism. So it xvas
in Virginia. So it was in Tennessee. !"k> it
xvas in Kentucky; and so we trust it will he
in Mississippi and Texas.
When the tide of patriotism begins to
flow, it behooves the Radicals to withdraw
rapidly, for those of them who are caught
below high-water mark xvill inevitably be
overwhelmed. Nor do we confine our liopi s
of its advance to the South. We trust that
at the North, too, its waters are beginning
to lick the shore, mounting higher and
higher until we shall again rejoice to see the
good old ships Constitution, Union and
Equality of the States floating proudly and
serenely in deep water, with honest and
solier crews on board, and the pirates who
have almost wrecked them placed in irons
under closed hatches.
The clouds are beginning to exhibit then
silver lining.
The Express Robbery.
BLAND CONFESSES.
No judicial examination has yet been held
of the parties arrested iu this city on Satur
day night, in connection with the late 85000
Express robbery- on the Central Railroad.
We have been advised that Frank Blaml yes
terday made confession of the circumstances
of the robbery, by which the burden of guilt
is fastened upon Win. Hargraves. He re
ports that on the night of the robbery he
paid an unpected visit to a private apart
ment used by Hargraves as baggage-master
iu the train, when he found the accused en
gaged in burning Express envelopes. That
he interrogated Hargraves as to xvliat he xvas
doiug. aud received in reply the answer : “I
have been through the Express, aud xvill
divide. Bland further states that he received
but a small portion of the spoils, some 8800.
As far as we can learn, nothing has yet
been developed to criminate Thomas Lassi
ter, the third prisoner.
Hargraves, xve Icju-u, has heretofore en
joyed the confidence of the road officials,
and of those who were acquainted with him
in this city.
Bland's previous reputation is represented
to have been of rather a suspicious order, as
he is now. we understand, amenable for a
forfeited bond, with Foster Blodgett as secu :
rity, to the Superior Court of this county,
in connection xvith another transaction, in
which a man knocked doxvu iu the street and
robbed of 85000, some years ago.
[ Const it uttonal ist, 10/7<.
—The xvarm nights induced a man in New
York to sleep on the roof of his hotise; his
dreams induct'd him to rail off, and his fall
superinduced his funeral.
Vita, sin.© T literis Mors ©st
The Tenues ee Election.
Notwithstanding the direct interference in
the contest in Tennessee of Secretary Bout
well and Postmaster General Creswell, and
the indecent use of their official power and
patronage to help the ultra radical candidates,
the conservative-democratic alliance lias tri
umphed and Governor Senter has been elect
ed Governor by a larger majority than his
most sanguine adherents expected.
tule. as in the ease of Virginia, we have
no reason to regard the result as a democratic
triumph, we think that all good citizens must
rejoice at the emancipation of Tennessee
from the radical thraldom of corruption and
proscription under which she has lived and
suffered for the past four years. Every step
that is taken to break the strength of radi
calism is a step'in advance towards the resto
ration of constitutional liberty, and whether
the step is made by men calling themselves
conservative republicans or by democrats, or
by both combined, we must rejoice that it is
made, because it must lead to the overthrow
of radicalism.
Os the “States lately in rebellion,” Ten
nessee was the List to secede and the first to
be restored to what was called representa
tion. By violent usurpation, wholesale fraud,
undisguised corruption, disfranchisement
and persecution of all declared or suspected
opponents, the radicals, by the votes of thefr
negro allies, expected to secure a permanent
ascendancy in the Government, and of all
the States which liave suffered, Tennessee
suffered the most acutely.
The means which the radicals employed to
perpetuate their power liave been the cause
of their ruin. Cooper’s militia, which was
organized to compel obedience to radical
doctrines and a radical government, created
the opposition which grew daily in strength
and power until it defeated Stokes and re
deemed the State from the profligate tyranny
which so long oppressed her.
The success of the opposition depends
largely on the discreet use of their triumph.
It is not by retaliating the violence and had
legislation of the radicals that they can re
store peace and order to their State, but it is
by the repeal of the had laws which now de
face their statute book, and the enactment
in their plaee of such good, wist l and moder
ate laws as will conduce to the re-establish
ment of a stable government on which all
can rely for the protection of their rights and
liberties.
In a strictly party sense democrats can
claim no victory. Governor Santer and bis
followers are very far from being democrats.
But every movement which crushes the
monster of radicalism and advances the
standard of popular self-government and in
dividual freedom, is a gain for the demo
cratic cause, which may well encourage the
hope that the living principles on which the
Democratic faith is founded are gaining
ground where they seemed weakest and were
most contemned.
The conservative victory in Tennessee is
a scathing rebuke to the two Cabinet of
ficers who disgraced their public position by
interference on the side of Stokes and his
myrmidons. It is a scathing rebuke to the
administration of General Grant, who did
not promptly protest against the indecent
conduct of his subordinates. By his silence
General Grant sanctioned the letters of Sec
retary’ Boutwell and Mr. Creswell, and be
came as responsible for their action as if he
had openly endorsed their sentiments; but
the people of Tennessee by their voices, have
condemned the Cabinet officers and their
chief, and have taught the Administration
the useful lesson that even a Secretary of the
Treasury and a Postmaster-General are im
pertinent when they venture to dictate to a
State whom they shall elect to administer
their government.
The threat that Stokes will claim to be
elected, and will seize the government by a
coup de main, is of course mere idle vapor.
He can do nothing of the kind. Even Bout
well and Creswell will not dare to recom
mend such silly lawlessness.
unl’lhbVlV elected IjogistatMre wiri ng anion nS
to ensure the election of an anti-radical
Senator, and if this prove to be the case,
the victory will become a blessing not mere
ly to Tennessee, but to the whole country,
provided the conservative victors make a
conservative use of the power which they
have acquired.
Turkey and Egypt.
Recent cable dispatches announce that the
quarrel between the Sultan and his tributary,
the Viceroy of Egypt, is in “a fair way of
settlement,” and that the representatives of
all the Great Powers at Constantinople have
agreed in counseling moderation. If this
mediation be as active as represented the
necessary consequence xvill be that the diffi
culty will be adjusted. Bat the interests of
some of the Great Powers are somewhat an
tagonistic on this subject. It has long been
the policy of France to encourage and help
to satisfy the ambition of the Viceroy of
Egy pt, to become independent of Turkey
and shake off his present vassalage of the
Grand Signior. It is the continual interest
of Russia to promote the dissension and
strife between the Sultan and his subjects,
and thus afford a pretext for interference
and that peculiar hug of the Russian bear
called a protectorate. England’s interest is
to keep the peace. To preserve the existing
relations between the Sultan and the Viceroy,
keep the way through Egypt to her posses
sions in India open and unmolested, and
continue her amicable relations with both.
The greatest diplomatic triumph of Lord
Palmerston’s career xvas his settlement of the
Turco-Egyptian question in 1811, by which
lie checkmated the designs of Russia, France
and of Mehemet Ali.
The cause of quarrel now is, that the Vice
roy is endeavoring to establish independent
relations with foreign powers, assuming the
authority of an actual sovereign, and making
Egypt assume the attitude of an independent
nation. It is for this that the Sultan thn at
eued his vassal that if he did not promptly
abandon his ambitious designs and return to
his allegiance and subordination, his Suze
run would revoke the rights, privileges and
immunities granted him in 1811—in other
words dethrone him, and resume direct do
minion ox er Egypt.
Without mediation, it is not likely that
one having the blood of old Mehemet Ali in
his x-eins, and who has shown unmistakeable
signs of ambition, intelligence and firmness
would tamely submit to be so effectually
snubbed. If the Great Powers order peace,
the Sultan and Viceroy liax-e but to obey.
But then recurs the question, is it the in
terest of all the Great Powers to interfere to
separate the contestants? Their interest and
not the merits of the controversy will settle
the question.
A Good Word for the Musquito.
As so many readers will find themselves in
dost* contact with this insect, presently, we
quote xvliat the Entomologist says concern
ing him. for their edification:
The eggs of the mosquito are laid in a
lioxvl shaped mass upon the surface of stag
nant water by the mother fly. After hutch
ing out they become the wiggietails or wig
gling worms that may be seeu in the summer
in any barrel of xvater that is exposed to the
atmosphere for any length of time. Finally
the “xx-iggletails” come to the surface, ami
the full fledged musquito bursts out of them,
at first, with very short limp wings, which iu
a short time grow both in length and stiff
ness. The sexes then couple, aud the above
process is repeated again, probably a dozen
times iu the course of one season. It is a
curious fact that the male musquito, which
may lx* known by its feathered ante, is
physically incapable of sucking blood.
The musquito is uot an umitigated pest.
Although iu the xvinged state the female
sucks our blood and disturl* our rest, in the
larvae state the insect is decidedly beneficial,
by purifying stagnant water that would oth
erwise breed malarial diseases. Linnaeus
long ago showed that if you place two bar
rels of stagnant xvater side by side, neither
of them con tuning any •‘wiggietails,” or
other living animals, and cover one with
gauze, leaving the other one uncovered, so
that it xvill soon become full of “wiggietails,”
hatched out from the eggs deposited by the
female musquito, then the covered barrel
xx-ill, iu a few weeks, become very offensive,
and the uncovered barrel will emit no impure
and unsavory vapors.
—The drinking, smoking and chewing of
the laboring men of New York costs them
$6,720,000 per annum.
MACON. GA„ TUESDAY. AUGUST 17. 1869.
Literary, Art and Scientific News
—A paper was recently read before the
Academy of Sciences, at Toulouse, to prove
that the trunks of trees are not of a circular
but of an elliptical form, the axis from east
to west lieing longer than from north to
south. The names of eight distinguished
observers of the operations of nature are
given as supporting the snot mentioned.
—Messrs .J. B. Lippincott k Cos., Philadel
phia, have ready the first five parts of their
“ Universal Prouoimeing Dictionary of Bi
ography and Mythology,”by Dr. J. Thomas,
the learned editor of “ Lippiucotts Pro
nouncing Gazetteer of the World. ” Such a
work of reference is greatly needed, and its
issue will be warmly welcomed both by schol
ars and general readers.
—lt is reported that two French chemists
have recently perfected processes by which
oxygen can be obtained from common air at
so low a rate of expense that the brilliant
Drummond light may be made available for
ordinary use. The magnesium wire now
used to bum in a hydrogen flame is very ex
pensive, and though yielding an intense light,
is better suited to photography than the illu
mination of dwellings. It is reported, hoi* -
ever, that the recent experiments show that
zirieon will emit a mild light, without con
suming in the flame, and that thus a large
part of the expense now required l>y the use
of magnesium will be obviated.
—M. Carre states that when writing has
once attained a certain age, an alteration
takes place in the ink, which prevents the
ordinary process of copying being success
ful; but, in that case, moistening with water
acidulated with hydroeliolic acid effectually
aids the copying process. When, however,
the writing his attained the age of eighty
years and over, this contrivance also fails to
insure a copy. M. Carre found that writing
made in 1787 could not lie reproduced by
the copying press, even when previously
moistened with acidulated water. This fact
suggests a method of detecting the age of
old written documents.
—Archimedes, of Syracuse, declared tluit,
if they woidd give him a fulcrum and u suf
ficieutly long lover ho would move the world,
but, not knowing its weight, he could not
have formed a very clear idea of the magni
tude of the task. Supposing that he got liis
lever planted, and of sufficient length to he
moved by exerting upon it a pulling force of
thirty pounds; had he moved it through
10,000 feet per hour, for ten hours u day, the
remote end of the lever would have to pass
through an arc which it woidd take 8,774,-
994,574,737 of centuries to accomplish, in
order to raise the earth a single inch.
[ Appleton's Journal.
—The Omaha (Nebraska) Herald of the
28th July, contains a long account of the re
cent archuelogical discoveries of Prof. Henry
L. Scott, LL. D., of Georgetown, Ky., who
first analyzed moss agates. His object in
making his explorations has been to prove
the former existence of a race of mound
builders who traversed the continent. In
the course of his excavations in various
mounds, he found a number of skeletons,
earthen pots, iron and silver ornaments. His
last labors were at Evanston Station, Shelby
county, Utah. Evanston lies in the upper
valley of Bear river, at the foot of the north
western slope of the Utah mountains, and
has an elevation of 7,000 feet above tide
water.
—ls the new Zieoma light ever comes into
general use, a large quantity of oxygen gas
will be needed. Anticipating this want, a
plan for preparing oxygen on a large and
economic scale has been devised by M. Tessie
du Motliay. Iu tlic bottom part of a retort
divided equally by a horizontal grating, is
placed a quantity of manganate of soda, which
is heated to a dull red, and a stream of super
heated steam is passed over. The steam
withdraws oxygeu from the soda, and thus
loaded is led into a refrigerator, where the
former is coudeused aud the lil>erated oxygeu
is collected in a gasometer. When no more
fp.ryen is given off lw the uiauganate of soda,
heated*air*over it. As the atmosphere fur
nishes the oxygen, the soda acting ns an in
termediate agent solely, the supply of gas is
inexhaustible. It lias been found best to
deprive the supplied air of all carbonic acid
gas before supplying it to the soda.
—The death of William Jordan recently
took place in England, in his eighty-seventh
year. He was for thirty-four years editor of
the Loudon Literary Gazette, und was instru
mental in seizing Bellingham, the assassin of
Spencer Perceval, Chancellor of the Ex
chequer, in the lobby of the House of Com
mons. His connection with the Literary
Gazette ceased in 1850, and two years after
wards a pension of £IOO per annum was con
ferred upon him by the Government. A
testimonial, subscribed to by many of tlic
first men of the day, was also presented to
him, “as a puolie acknowledgment of his
services to literature, science, the fine and
useful arts. ” Mr. Jerdan wrote four volumes
of the Memoirs for “Fisher’s National Por
trait Gallery of Eminent Personages of tho
19tli Century.” He also contributed occa
sionally to the Edinburgh and Quarterly Re
views, Bentley’s, Fraser’s, and other maga
zines and periodicals, and to most of the an
nuals during their popular career. His “Au
tobiography," a record of his literary,
political, and social reminiscences was pub
lished iu 1852, and met with great success.
The Alabama Election.
The Mobile Register says:
After all the unfortunate white shortcom
ings iu the late election, the men who took
part in the struggle against our tyrants have
reason to congratulate themselves on what
has been achieved. We have carried three
Congressional Districts, which is a gain of
three, and xve liax-e diminished the Presiden
tial Radical majorities at almost every polling
box. Enough has been done to sh >w that j
the Democrats and Conservatives are power- !
ful enough to be masters of the State, when j
they shall choose to put forth their united !
strength.
In the Mobile District, Col. Mann has ;
made a gallant run. He has done his whole
duty to the people who nominated him, j
working night and day, from the moment
the standard was put into his hands, travers- ;
ing the entire District, and making forty
speeches in the space of four weeks. He has '
also proved himself personally a strong can- !
didate. He ran even with the legislative !
candidate on his ticket in this county, and
ahead of the one in Wilcox. His efforts
would have been crowued with triumphant
success, but for the white men who would
not go to the polls. This could neither have
been foreseen nor controlled. If we could
trust our white people to see their true inter
ests, and do their duty, this election proves
that next year we can sweep the C. Bag
usurpers from the control of the State. In
this District, out of ten counties, only two
are Radical, and the other eight an* reliably
Democratic. Wliat a difference tlint would
make iu the complexion of the Legislature.
It is to lx* hoped that, when that struggle
comes, a lx*tter spirit will prevail, and that
all hands will pull together, to deliver the
people from the rifle of tyrants.
Apropos to “the unfortunate white short
comings,” the Montgomery Mail says :
From our State exchanges we gather the
following facts :
A fraction over one-third of tin* voters
of Choctaw county voted at the late elec
tion.
About one-third of the vote of Shelby was
polled.
About one thousand voters, mostly white
men, failed to vote in Lee county.
AVxmt one thousand votes in Marshall
county were not polled.
At least four hundred aud fifty Democrats
in Etowah failed to vote.
Cherokee did not vote her full Democratic
strength.
As many as five hundred Democrats in
Calhoun county failed to vote.
These are only examples. The same may
be said, we believe, of almost every county
in the State. The white men, from various
reasons, refused to vote, and so let the ne
groes and other Radicals elect their own
candidates
—The American Presbyterian Mission has
a medical missionary department in Canton
and vicinity. It has done a great deal of
work the past year, treating 50,(536 out-pa
tients aud 1,038 in-patients, and has per
formed 1,038 surgical operations, some of
them of great importance. A medical class
numbers 12 scholars.
Letter From Clarke County.
The Superior Court—Arrear of Business—The Bar
—Crop Prospects—Wheat Culture—Agricultural
Society—Negro Labor—Wretched Roads, and
L os&fc Bridges.
Watkinsville, Ga. , August 10, 1869.
Mr. Editor: The {Superior Court for this
county commenced here on Monday, Judge
Charles Davis presiding. There is a very
heavy arrear of business, both civil and
criminal, and although there are no very im
portant east's to be tried, it is thought that
the Court will be compelled to sit all the
week and even then lie unable to “clear the
dockets.” There are a large manlier of law
yers present, among whom I noticed Wm. L.
Mitchell, Hon. JuniusHillyer. Lamar Cobb,
Joel Abbott Billups, E. P. Lumpkin, J. D.
Mathews, Garnett McMillian, Alex. Erwin,
the Solicitor General of the Circuit, Mr.
Marter, A. L. Mitchell aud James McCleck
ey. They nil, especially the older lawyers,
seemed to be full of business. It reminded
me of old times to hear Judge Hillyer in his
wonted impressive style, mid with his master
ly knowledge of the law, shaking to a jury,
aud looking, I rejoice to say, as hale and
hearty as if it were not exactly forty-one
years since in this same Court he was admit
ted to the liar. I missed the familiar face of
that great jurist and eminent citizen, W.
Hope Hull, but I learned that he is absent
at the Supreme Court, anil that he expects
to lie here before the end of the week. Hon.
B. H. Hill was here on the first day of the
Court, but was culled to Atlanta to urgue
some cases in the Supreme Court.
As is usual during Court week, Watkins
ville is tilled with plaintiffs, defendants, wit
nesses, jurors, lawyers aud lookers-on. They
come from all parts of the county and from
adjoining counties, and those I liave seen
and heal’d talk represent the condition of
the crops in their respective neighborhood
as very promising. They look forward to a
good cotton crop fully equal to that of last
year, and those who have “bottom com”
expect a full crib. Those on the contrary,
who have planted upland corn, expect “to
have to buy. ” The seven weeks’ drought iu
June and July damaged them beyond reme
dy. On all hands lam informed that the
negroes are working well and faithfully. In
this region a share of the crop is the prevail
ing mode of compensation for laborers, and
those who have tried paying monthly wages
in cash say that they believe that the negro
works better and more assiduously when he
is working for himself as well as for his em
ployer. On those plantations where the
planter resides himself and is his own over
seer the negroes are doing best. They never
did feel much affection for overseers, and
now that they are free they very frequently
take advantage of their freedom to prove to
the overseer that he is no longer “ the boss.”
I have seen some cotton fields which are lit-
tle, if at all, inferior to the finest iu South
western Georgia. The weed may not be as
tall, but the fruit is there, and us the negro
says, “if nothing happens,” the cotton will
he there, too, und the lint will lie in the
packing screw when the fall comes.
Great interest is felt in the cultivation of
wheat in this neighborhood. The experience
of the Athens Wheat Club has done a vast
amount of good in attracting attention to
the growth of this valuable cereal, and to the
advantages of deep plowing, thorough prep
aration of the soil, liberal use of fertilizers
and the selection of the best seed. It has
been demostrated that to cultivate a small
area thoroughly in the improved way, will
pay much better than to cultivate a large
tract according to the old mode of scratch
plowing, no manure, und any kind of seed.
Men who did not believe that wheat was a
suitable crop for this country have seen their
error and mean to grow it extensively, aud
the idea that clover could not be grown suc
cessfully on the red hills in this vicinity has
been shown to lie a delusion by the luxuriant
patches of Colonel D. C. Barrow and others
near Athens, who have ulro-V -•>* »
„„.i ..hi cut another in the early part
Ail active Agricultural Society has been
organized with Col. Barrow for President,
Lamar Cobb for Secretary, and Rufus Moss
for Treasurer. This society intends to work
industriously, and by well directed efforts
and liberal prizes for competition, to encour
age improved culture of all the principal
crops.
If instead of talking polities, the jK'ople
would all devote themselves to the encour
agement of industry and enterprise tlu-y
would find that they could inaugurate l>y
themselves a system of reconstruction which
would surpass in efficiency and in practical
value all that all the Congresses and Legisla
tures and politicians can ever do.
There are pleasanter things in life than be
ing obliged to spend a week hero under a
subpoena to testily, watching for the case to
be called, which Is my regrettable fate ut this
time, but I have derived some compensation
for the annoyance by meeting so many prac
tical agriculturists, and hearing such cheer
ing accounts of the crops in this part of the
State.
I hope that the Grand Jury before they
separate will “ present” the deplorable con
dition o' the roads and bridges in the coun
ty. It is really a service of danger to cross
the bridges, and the roads are in a state
which can only be favorable to carriage and
buggy makers. They are by many degrees
the worst I ever saw in a community which
professes to Ire civilized. Dark Corner.
Tragedy iu Boston.
THE WIFE OF A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN SHOT
DEAD IN HEB PABLOB, IN PBESENCE OF HEB
FA MIDI'.
From the Bystou Journal, August 4.
It is our painful task to record one of the
most heart-rending tragedies of which our
city has been the scene during the present
generation, resulting in the death of a wife
and mother, by violence, in tlie presence of
her husband and family, by the hands of an
inmate of the family dwelling, and a patient
under treatment by the murdered lady’s hus
band —L)r. Alvalr H. Hobbs. An air of mys
tery, to a certain extent, seems to pervade
the terrible a flair, and, from tlie lateness of
the hour at which the murder took place, it
was impossible to procure all the facts in the
case, but, so far i.s we could collect them,
they were as follows:
About 10:30 o’clock, last evening, Dr.
Hobbs, who is an old and highly esteemed
physician of this city, residing at No. 1,206
Washington, a few doors alyove East Ded
liam street, rushed breathlessly into the
Fifth Station, situated iu the latter named
street, and stated to Captain Small, of that
stilt ion, tliat his wife h;ul been shot. Ser
geant Hawthorn was immediately dispatched
to the scene of the tragedy, and arrested
Major Thomas L. White, said to Is- a resi
dent of the State of Tennessee, but for some
time past residing in the family of Dr. Hobbs
for medical treatment. This White was the
author of the tragical event, and was brought
to the Station-house without any resistance.
The statements'"of inmates of Dr. Hobbs’
family are to the effect that the members,
including the murderer, had taken tea to
gether m the most friendly and agreeable
manner, and at the conclusion of the repast
Major White retired to his room in the upper
part of the house, where lie commenced to
read aloud. Mrs. Hobbs proceeded up stairs
and inquired why he read iu so high a tone,
to which White replied: “Iu order to develop
nil’ linigs,” or words to tliat effect.
Mrs. Hoblis soon afterward came down
stairs Again, and was alxaut to enter tlie par
lor, when, turning her head in the direction
I of the room altove, she saw White coming
down with a pistol iu his liaud. She seemed
to Is? apprehensive of White's murderous
intention, for she immediately called out to
I her husband, “He is coming, and with a
I pistol,” and almost simultaneously with this
| ejaculation the first shot from the assassin’s
i pistol resounded tlirough the house. This
shot proved ineffectual so far as striking the
I murderer’s victim was concerned, who im
mediately closed the door lietween herself
and White. But, strangely, the second shot
—which almost immediately followed the
first—after passing through a panel of the
door, entered the left breast of tin unfortu
nate woman, passed through her lx sly aud
came out under the right arm, aud she fell
to the floor and in a few moments breathed
her last. The dreadful act was witnessed by
the husband and young son of the victim—a
bov alxtut nine years of age—who Inis since
bt*?n almost frantic with grief and horror. |
When the officer entered the reom wherein
the terrible tragedy took place, the murderer
stood iu the middle of the apartment, con
templating Ins fiendish work, and still hold
ing in his hand the fatal instrument of death,
immediately, however, upon the entrance of
Sergeant Hawthorn, he extended his arms
ill a theatrical maimer, saying. “I'm your
man!” and was immediately secured aud
conducted to the Station-house, whither he
proceeded quietly.
White is a good looking man, apparently
somewhere in the vicinity of 30 years of age;
and, in conversation with the officer on the
way to the station, although expressing no
regret at the horrible deed he hod commit
ted, remarked that there ought not to have
been cause enough for him to have done
wliat he did.
The murdered woman, Mrs. Katie Hoblis,
was the second wife of the Doctor, and was
about 35 years of age.
It is stilted that the murderer had !>oon a
friend and acquaintance of Mix Hobb.\, from
early childhood, and no reason was given
last night showing what impelled the mur
derer to commit the awful deed. White,
last night, was unaware of the extent of his
crime, and seemed to be under the impres
sion that liis victim was still alive. It is
deemed udvisable by those iu authority to
leave him in that condition for the present.
Thu ♦ ■mUe otTiiir WWM tilt* must* of cuu
siderable excitement in the immediate vi
cinity of the tragedy; but owing to the lute
hour at which the deed was committed, it
had attained but slight publicity. An ex
amination of the room of the murderer, af
ter liis arrest, revealed a scene of the wildest
disorder. Books aud papers were scattered
about in every direction, aud innumerable
letters were found in a partially consumed
condition.
Coroner Barrows will hold an inquest on
the Imdy, when the details of the tragedy,
and probably its motive, will lie explained
iu some degree. It is the opinion of such
as should have good judgment in the matter,
that the murderer was quite sane.
For the Journal and Messenger.
YVliat are C oolies ?
The word «>oly, or something like it,how
ever spelt and pronounced, seems to he from
the Hiudoostanee, and means simply u port<‘r,
or laborer. One hundred and fifty years ago,
Kampfer, in his great work on Japan, made
use of the word, which he spelt Kuli, “to
designate the Japanese laborers employed in
the lading and unlading of the Dutch ships
at Nagasaki.” The term cooly has, for a
nuuilier of years, heen applied f>y Europeans
and Americans, to all the lal>orers obtained
from Eastern countries, whether India, Japan
or the Chinese Empire.
In 1839, for the first time, a ship load of
Coolies was brought from Calcutta to British
Guiana, on the N. E. coast of South America.
This was in the year following the emancipa
tion of slaves iu that colony. These first
appeared to have suffered so much, from some
cause, that, with diseased bodies, they were
placed in the public hospital, and inquiry
into the case caused the interference of the
British Government to put a stop to the
trade. However, afterwards, the imputa
tion was allowed, oil the earnest representa
tion of the inhabitants of British Guiana,
Trinidad and Mauritius. Agents of the
government were stationed in East India, to
see that the emigrants understood what they
were going to do, and agents iu the colonies
to look after the rights of the Coolies after
their arrival. These people agreed to re
main ami labor in the colonies to which they
emigrated for live years; although they were
not obliged to work with any one planter
more than twelve months; and at the end of
their term, they were entitled to transjmrta
t-ion back to their own country, at the ex
pense of the colony. Their passage to the
colonies was generally paid by the colonial
governments, and the latter, in some in
stances, claimed re-imburs uncut from the
planters. The Coolies had in advance an
Oil Lilt l»l emuj 4 ,. l , ****4l> J 4 .
i'K”r u nte,
ing to them for their labor. Their wages
were four dollars a month, two suits of clothes
a year, food and medical attendance. Quite
a contrast between these terms and those of
Mynheer Koopmanscliap, with his demand of
one hundred dollars in advance, and twelve
dollars a month —all in gold!
It seems that the thing succeeded admira
bly, especially in the island oi Mauritius,
where, in about twelve years, the sugar crop
increased from twenty-eight thousand to one
hundred and eighteen thousand tons.
So much for the East Indian Coolies. A
great many emigrants have come from China
into California, some paying their own way,
and some being brought on terms somewhat
similar to those already spoken of. The
trade between China and Peru, together with
that batweeu China and Cuba and other
islands, was almost as had a-s the original
African slave trade. Chinese contractors
were employed who went into the villages,
and, by paying the Mandarins a dollar or
two for each laborer obtained, they were al
lowed to befool the miserable beings to their
heart’s content. They gave a little money
and said to the poor ignorant creatures, “ you
are only to bind yourselves to he domestic
servants, or to do some kind of light work for
seven years, to lie paid forty-eight dollars a
year, and furnished with shoes and clothes.”
The dupes were thus seduced iu crowds on
ship board—ami the tale of the passage of
such vessels across the ocean is oft-told and
horrible. Arrived at their new homes, they
were put up at auction and sold for seven
years, at prices varying from something less
than three hundred dollars, down.
But it generally amounted to shivery for
life. At the end of their term, they were
generally so much in debt as to Vie compelled
to engage for seven years more, and so on
in jserjM'tutnn. In other words they were the
slaves of necessity—such slaves as they were
at home —such slaves as exists in all the over
crowded countries of the old world, including
“ Free England ” herself!
In 1855, measures were taken to suppress,
modify or ameliorate this' traffic, and it was
driven from most of the Chinese consular
porta, to take refuge at the smuggling town
of Gwatow, about one hundred and fifty
miles from Hong Kong. The amount of
tonnage from that jxirt s<xm reached to a
little over twelve thousand, of which between
five thousand and six thousand were Ameri
can. id esi Yankee, for the Southern people
had scarcely any shipping of any kind. The
British parliament passed an act confiscating
all vessels of every nationality found within
British jurisdiction, engaged in the trade,
without certain prescribed papers. The Pe
ruvian Government forbade the importation
of Coolie* “ in the violent aud cruel manner
hitherto prevalent” Cuba bad, up to a short
time ago, done nothing in the matter.
There is an Act of the U. S. Congress,
which I have not now before me, and the
exact language of which Ido not recollect,but
it prohibits the contracting with Coolies and
then selling or transferring these contracts
on terms of service to others. Contracting
with laborers for one’s own use does not seem
to lx-forbidden, nor is voluntary immigration
at tlie expense of the Coolies. The Act ap
jxairs to 1m- directed against the agency, or
brokerage business. It is now said, though,
tliat Congress, at its next session, will pass a
law rendering all eontracts made in foreign
lands void whenever the parties arrive iu
this country. Tin- dominant faction is di
vided, however, on this point, and so are all
other parties aud classes. Some Northern
men are iu favor of introducing Chinese,oth
ers opposed. So with Southerners. Some
democrats advoeate the plan, while others
declare that it is fraught with evil. So with
the radicals. What will come of the agitation
of this question only time can reveal.
Van.
Public Debt Statement. —The public
debt statement shows a reduction of the
Government indebtedness during the month
of July amounting to 87,435,744 2b. The
amount of coin in the Treasury is, 366,405,-
770 92; coin certificates, 536,"725.840. The
amount of currency in the Treasury is, 323,-
381,054.29; sinking fund. 311,982,147 07;
other lannis purcluised, 315,110,590. Ihe
reduction is less than was indicated a few
days ago, for the reason that there lees been
advanced to the Pacific- ltailroad Company
interest on their bonds amounting, to 31.-
036,801 37, making tlie real reduction over
39,000,000. Iu addition to this there was
an excessive amount of warrants paid on
Saturday, amounting in all to upwurd of
32,500,d00,
VOL. LXL, NO 22
Supreme Court of (icortia.
TRIBCTB TO TIIK MKMOKT or ICON HOWPI i. • -lilt.
Wednesday, August 11.
The Committee ap] minted by the C<- nt mi
Tuesday, made their rojiort which \\*< ,-i\
follows:
Tlie Committee ap{ wanted b> r»-j»< >rt a s
able tnbuU- Ut the memory of the late <i u.
Howell Cobh, ln>g leave to submit, that o a
mix'tiug of tlie Superior Court of Bihbe -unt v,
and the Bar in attendance, at Macon -n tho
30th of Xoveiultcr last, t-Ste- following p.- .i:
hie and resolutions were adopted, to wit
[The preamble and resolutions here re. .i
by the Committee, were published in tli -
Journal A Messenger of Dm-mU-r 1. 1- s
—lienee we do not rejn-at the publication.
Resolved, That this Committee adopt the
form of their report upon the present.
sion, and request that they Ir> entered upon
the minutes of this Court, and a copy bo
transmitted to the family of General t bb
by the clerk.
S. Hali„
E. A. NnuiKT, ,
Wm. Ezzakd, Committee.
W. H. Hi 11.
D. A. Vason, I
cuusv Ji nil. e raovx MADE THE FOLLOWING
remarks:
OenUrmen if (hr li,tr • In behalf of the
Court I submit the following reply to v. ur
report and resolutions:
General Howell Cobb was no ordin >rv
man. His name will occupy a large spu in
the history of the country and the tim . in
which he lived. Richly endowed bv n ituro
with intellectual strength, whieli had l>. n
developed and cultivated in a very high and
grix\ he was eminently fitted for the in on
responsible positions which, bv the fr. ui
frage of his Countrymen, he was call* and i
- To great ability uud force of oharaet. -
were added industry and energy, fonniii - l
combination which seldom fails to achieve
success.
Gen. Cobb was admitted to the lmr at an
early age, as stated in your report, and < a a
rneueed the active duties of hie as a law v--r,
in the Western Circuit in this, he ,i\.-
Stab*. With the advantages of all |» r
sonal appearance, a miml remarkably aetiv. ,
logical and penetrating, aided by a lib id
education, he rose rapidly to position and
distinction in his profession. Hut lie was
soon called by the people to lay aside, in a
great measure, his professional pursuits, and
to serve them, as he did during most of the
remainder of his life, iu high official pn-i
tiousof great importance and responsibility.
In the Congress of the United State.,
where he served during a long period of its
proudest history, he not only won rank as t
man, but he exercised great control as a
leader.
In the Executive chair of his State, In.
administration was distinguished for ability,
liberality, and a vigilant attention to all tin
duties imposed upon him.
< >f the course of (b-lieral < 'ohh. dui in--, 1 he
latter and more thrilling scenes, through
which we have passed. 1 will not now .p. k
Justice requires that the history of tin •
times, as it is to he transmitted to posterity,
shall not Is- written; lior the motive , and
conduct of men, who acted as prominent a
part as did General Cobh, to l»- too fivelv
criticized, till the passions and prejudice
which were engendered during the emit 1,
have entirely subsided, and reason has i
mnned her swur. When posterity has ten
results, the historian, with the materials,
which will lie preserved and placed ut hi-,
commaud, will be üble to assign his propel
position, to each of the leading spirits who
took part in the war, and in the lit inf na
tion of the Government, after the disastrous
and crushing defeat of the armies of tho
South, and the hopeless loss of her cause.
During the high excitement of the past,
and the great conflict of opinion, as to what
was the l>est that could be done for out
—i— t -1 -*■ -»nij- it ..I I • 1..- ..n *l..
the close of the civil war, it was the mi bu
tune of some of ns to differ widely from
General Cobb, and, in the excitement of the
times, when men had too little charity for
each other, while sitting in judgment upon
motives, those differences may, in some
cases, have been productive of jtersonal alien
ation, which lead to crimination and re rim
iuatiou.
But, all these differences, which gi- out
of conflicting opinions on public policy, m
times of high politic-id excitement, anil pm
dnce alienation and estrangement, are evaii
escent and soon pass away. In the gi v.
they are forgotten. And when, under I >i\im
providence, one party precedes the ot In .
fora little while, to tliat habitation which
awaits all the living, they are never rein- m
lx-red and cherished by an honorable and
generous survivor.
Genend Cobb was not only an honorab! ,
upright citizen, in all the private u lk <>,
life, but he was distinguished for many noble
traits of character, and many private and
social viriues In his death, Georgia ha
lost one of her ablest statesmen; the If mm
of its brightest ornaments; society om- of
its most cherished memlx-rs, and his inblli
gent and amiable family an affectionate,
kind, indulgent husband and parent.
But, relatives, friends and professional as
sociates, as well as Stub's ami nations, mu t
bow in submission b> these afflictive <1; p< -n
nations of Providence, uml we must all
reverently, “Thy will l>c done.”
It affords the Court pleasure b> testify th ir
respect for the memory of Genenil Cobb
a distinguished member of this Bar, by di
reeling that the preamble and resolution b
entered upon the minutes of this Court, in
compliance with the request there: i .
tained. Ami it is so ordered.
Reader, It Your Life InHiirrd I
There in no man in this community who wn .. I
not be greatly beneUtted by making Mii’abl ,
vision for his family or for those lie loves in t b<-
eventof his being suddenly removed from t! -
world by death. The cost of securing a polo . i
but trivial when coiiqwred with the udvaM.:_ ,
man’s family is sure to receive after his death. <ml
we sre at times surprised to see that ho few ii ■ -
ebonies, clerks, etc., who have nothing to *1- ;.ei l
upon but tbeavsils of their daily labor, should •
so negligent iu this matter.
How many men have lived Comfortably m
happy, seeure of all tlie comforts and many --f ti *■
luxuries of life, and at their death left tin ir wiv< >
» id children dependent Uj ot, the (oMelni
ti.e world, when a slight investment in tin- way
life insurance would have left their loved on-- at
home perfectly independent for the balance of
their natural lives. Why, the sum that many
young mechanical invest for whisky and < _.n
would secure the yearly payment of a Mini Milli
dent to supply ail their wants a* long a- they
lived. These are facts that cannot he lost sic lit "f.
The “Cotton States Life Insurance Company'’
of this city, is one of the Ixst tnat ai.y of • • 11 r
voutig mechanics can apply to for a polie-, Ii y
have a capitd of live hundred thousand do! r and
which one hundred thousand dollars is dcp“ ted
according to its charter under the control of th
Comptroller of the State of <»edrgia, for tic- -
curity of policy holders. Our well known md
very popular Mayor, lion. Geo, 8. O'near, i- tic*
Secretary of this organization, and Maj. Praia is
R. Shackelford, No. 66 Mulberry Street, ag '
the city of Macon. Rev. J. \V. Rurke. of th tirm
of J. W. Burke & Cos., is the general agent
Either of these well known gent I < men will be
happy to furnish any information that may be re
ijuired of them.
The “Cotton States Life Insurance r. pans
is a Southern institution throughout. It ■ • "■ J
tualcompany, one that has a large guarani ‘
ital, granting liberal polices that are non b>r!ec
iug, and every dollar due by them in ]■• , '
this city, without having to employ h'- 11 1 n s
to go here, there, and everywhere, to e« o
claims, reserving large commi-sions tin r ' .. .
“A word to the wise is sufficient _
that all who have wife, children 1,111 j *
peudent upon them for support, wi •*
I M-t into consideration without ueu.
First B.le us 'e" *'““" n '
The first bale of the l r Vins .c N th Wed
in this place by Messrs. • • mj)| ()n s ,, ut
nesday afternoon, W l* . from the plantation oi l*
western Railroad. 11 . ~‘„oiintV’—quality, low mid
’V. Jones, of We ~a ril tliat f ., r?v
dling in color; jt aU j it was shipped to
cents was rv-fu»c*', • un j B
Boston. U j Jje of cotton yet rei>orted th
This is the Mod US „ OUi . toll county, IVxa
season--the «rjtir ® f fiftv cent - a pound and
sold in - V *t W <-■> the 10th instant in Bam
the second r forty cento The lott r si
bridge. *f | SSi“i U nty on the plantation of W
raised in M . p or t Valiev, VS hen the differ
K. Br.° W .' 1 J• Jude*h»-Iween the other places and M
ence inMi u account, we think we hav. a
AS? orn ‘ w cot
ton at so ea l > * received in '! - !
, on the lSth of August It was ra -
last year j 0 f lYr. J Dickson Smith and
on the) u„ s Houston county, and was
Maj. 1U „ ale received in
SSsStto w* at Mobile on the 10th of August,
which was sold *t forty-live cent.