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- fff the rote qf aixtp rente n pear for the dai-
tp and twenty rente for the tceehlp and eemi-
tre.hlp. Thie ahould be provided fora* the
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1 reorient Advertieemente One DoTlor per
iqunra of ten lino or leer for the Ural inter-
tmn, and Fifty Conte for all aubtequent in-
scrtione. Liberal rater to eontraetore.
Til* TilBiHurn 1KD MKvtioFi repreaenta
three of the oideat netetpapera in thie atclion
ot Georgia, and for many peon hae fnrniehed
tkeearUset neve to that larpr eeopeqf Georgia.
Alabama and Florida trading at thie point.
It ttnde ite wap to almoet every intelligent
hour,hold and man of bueineee in that see-
(ten. Ae an advertieing medium in that range
of country it hae no equal.
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THURSDAY. APRIL 13. 1876.
Congressional Convention.
In accordance with the recommenda
tion of the State Democratic Executive
Committee, the Democratic party of the
several counties composing the Sixth
Congressional District is requested to
appoint delegates to a convention to bo
hold at Milledgevillo on the 26th day of
April next, to talce action relative to the
appointment of delegates to the National
Democratic Convention to bo held in
June next. Clifford Asdebson,
Cnairman Ex. Com. Sixth District.
Democratic p&pera in this district will
please copy.
Congressional Convention.
In accordance with tho recommenda
tion of tho State Democratic Executive
Committee the Democratic party of the
several counties composing tho Third
Congressional District is reqnosted to
nppoint delegates to a convention to be
held in Macon on the 2Gth day of April
next, to talco action relative to tho ap-
pointent of delegates to tho National
Democratic Convention, to bo held in
Jane next. R. W. Andzoson,
Chm’n Ex. Com. 3d Cong’l Dist.
To What Good Purpose?
All so* that the elections show no up
rising of popular indignation over the
gross and disgraceful froc-la in public
administration laid bare bv the Demo
cratic House of Representatives. The
Last "Week’s Cotton Figures.
The Chr nick's report of receipts tor
the Eeven dajs ending Friday night, 7th
in.-.tant, was 55.S04 bales, against 41,156
for the corresponding week of last year-
showing an increase of 14,648 bales on
New York Tribune gajs these disdomma j the week. Total receipts of the cotton
11 bring no strength to the Democratic
ballot, and are creating as much preju
dice against the discoverers as against
the malefactors. The religions and so
called independent press are content with
distributing the disgrace equally among
11 political f-ariiee, and in substance de
year to that date are 3,813,4SC bales,
against 3.236.SS7 bales for the corres
ponding period of the year 1874-5—mak
ing a total increase, thus far, of 576,599
bales.
The Cotton Exchange report the same
date, published in the Tzliobaph of
Joiim E. Owmra keeps on acting, ho
says, “not that I care for tho money, bnt
becanto I want to see how much of tho
darned stuff I can scrape together.”
Times nro getting very busy down on
tho Mexican border. Tho Mexican troops
firod on a Texan town, and the United
States soldiers plantod a twelve ponnder
and returned tho fire, silencing the Mex
icon guns. Three Americans were killed,
It is reported that tho political cam
paign is about opening in Louisiana in
the old style. Citizens are dragged away
from their hemes on Kn.klnx charges,
and writs of tho United States Courts
aro employed to produeo terror in tho
country parishes.
Doeiko tho past ilvo years tho Bn-
ro iu of Education of Virginia has re
ceived from State taxation 52,163,937 33;
from local taxation, $1,982,789 03; and
from tho Peabody fund nnd private do-
nations, J410.S20 37, making a total of
over four and a half millions.
Tub Springfield Republican thinks that
lucariiing to present prospects Mr. Bris
tow will hnvo two-thirds to three-quar
ters of the New England delegates, and
Hkin*—Uv J>nr "fltn/dtr
tho same relation to Hendricks and
Thurman.
“No school on rainy days,” is now tho
urchin’s delight in Boston. Tho School
Board of tho city hae agreed upon the
storm signal—twenty-two strokes by tho
fire hells given at 8 A. m—for “no school
to-day.” It is said the young Boston-
inns aro organizing praying clubs to prsy
for stormy weather.
A decision, said to ho worth half a mil
lion dollars to the photographers of tho
United States, has just been rendered in
tho Federal Court at Grand Rapids,
Michigan. Tho decision is that the let
ters patent issued to Albert S. South-
worth for nn improvement in plate-
liolilers for cameras are void and of no
cfTest, and that Southworth is not the
original discoverer and inventor of the
improvement he claims.
Thk Washington authorities are ad
vised that Spain is preparing to send a
formidable forco to Cuba, which will bo
composed in largo part of troops lately
under the command of Don Carlo3. Tho
expedition will not leave until fall, to
avoid the sickly season and be ready for
n decisive campaign before spring and
yellow jack return. Our Cuban brethren
of tho Republican persuasion may look
for hot times next winter.
Coroner Prasdicow, of St. Lonis,
took some money and a fine diamond stnd
from a corpre that had been found in the
water, and put them in his pocket. Soon
afterward he missed the diamond, and
could find it nowhere. Seared by the
likelihood of being accused of stealing,
ho wont homo and liis excitement made
him dangerously ill. The diamond was
discovered in the lining of his vest, but
he has not yet recovered from the shock
to his nerves.
A vzw years ago the State’s attorney
of a northern county in Vermont, though
a man of great ability, was very fond of
tho bottle. On one occasion an important
criminal case was called on by the clerk,
but tho atto-noy, with owl-like gravity,
kept his chair. “ Mr. Attorney, is the
State rea.ly to proceed ?’’ said the judge.
” Yes—hie—no—your Honor,” stam
mered the lawyer; ” the State is not—in
a state to try this case to-day; the State,
your Honor, is—drunk !”
A Washinoton correspondent of the
Raleigh (N. C.) Nmes writes (March 31) :
“I have just seen Colonel Mosby, who is,
as yon know, one of Grant’s right bow
ers. He had just come from a confer
ence with the President at the White
House, and he says that Grant : s still in
the field as a candidate for re-election,
that he considers New Hampshire an in
dorsement of his administration, and is
determined, if possible, to secure a third
term.”
An Insult,—A World Washington
dispatch says the Southern members of
Congress feel that the appointment of
Boutwell as chairman of Morton’s Mis
sissippi Outrage Committee is a direct
insult to the South, as the witnesses
which they must of necessity examine
are the very men whom Boutwell de
clared in the Senate to be, in his opinion,
liars and unrepentant rebels. The com
mittee are uncertain when they will
start, as the contingent fund from which
their expenses must be paid is exhausted,
bnt expect to get away tho latter pait of
next week.
Recciuts for the week. 55.93S— receipts
or the corresponding weeek of last year
39.076—excess 16.912 bales. Receipts of
the current cotton, year to that date 3,-
814,573—do. of previous year 3,223,221—
excess 591.352
The Chronicle's interior port table
shows receipts of the seven days ending
last Friday night, 25,4-16, against 14,929
for the same week last year. Shipments
34,331, against 24,933. Stocks 132,495,
against 133,421.
The Chronicle’s table of visible supply
showed on Friday night 2,959,917 bales
against 2,877,308 last year, 3,048.503 in
1874, and 2.757,390 in 1873. These fig
ures show an increase of 82,609 bales on
the supply of 1875. a decrease of -88,591
on tho supply of 1874, and an increase of
1G2.527 bales on tho supply of 1873. The
price of middling uplands in the Liver
pool market on Friday and corresponding
dates for the past three years, compared
as follows: 1876, 6 713; 1875. 8aSi;
1874, 8}; 1873. 9J.
The Mississippi overflow threatens to
be more extensivo and durable than last
year, and some apprehensions are ex
pressed that it may exercise an unfavor
able influence on cotton planting in that
region. The general tenor of reports
from all parts of the cotton country is
very damp.
daring that both are equally knavish, last Saturday morning, was as follows:
and no party can be trusted. Unless
men are put in office entirely unconnect
ed with parties, the Bame frauds aro
inevitable. None but a floater, or a man
with feeble political connections and
affinities can be trusted.
Thus one of the plain and manifest
lessons of these disgraceful events is to
tally perverted and misapplied. Let ns
consider a few plain facts which cannot
be denied: Up to the war the adminis
tration of the national government was
always in the hands of political parties.
Sometime?, it is true, hat rarely, they
were more or leas disorganized and un
settled, bnt, in general, more boldly
aligned, more bitter and antagonistic
than those which now exist. And yet,
daring all this time the Government was
carried on, in the main, with entire in
tegrity with the highest personal honor
in ail its prominent officials.
On the other hand, the breaking out
of tho war was the signal for the destruc
tion of existing political parties. The
question of preserving the union and
the proper way to do it became the only
dividing line, and men arrayed them
selves against each other who had voted
hand in hand for decades. One . of the
old traditional parties then ceased exis
tence entirely, and the country, from that
date to the present time, has been con
trolled by an organization composed of
men of opposite original parties, banded
togetheron the nnion isBue, ns paramount
to all other political Isaacs.
The Government, therefore, in respect
to traditional party divisions has been a
“no party Government.” It is now com
posed of old Democrats and old Whigs in
about equal measars, and its dogmas as
a political party, refer only to an assum
ed disposition of the Southern peoplo to
assault the authority of tho Government
and endanger the public peace. As a
party it possesses not a single doctrinal
idea or opinion which enlisted the honor
able pride, enthusiasm and zeal of the
ancient political statesmen nnd parties of
tho country, in the hands of cither of
whom tho pnblio honor and integrity
were safe and unchallenged.
Wo bold, therefore, that one groat
reason for the lamentable spectacle of
public dishonor and demoralization we
now sco is to bo recognized in tho fact
that tho Government has been wielded
so long without coherent political ideas,
and by persons of really discontent doc
trinal ideas, which have been sacrificed
to an assumption, now for a long time
practically false—a quasi party, with no
ground for permanent cohesion in tho
past or in tho fnture—apolitical expedient
and not a party, which necessarily gath
ered witliia its embrace men of weak
convictions—strong love of popularity
and self-interest and eager to use every
opportunity to benefit themselves, under
the rational conclusion that the career of
such a party must virtually ceaso with
•* Aiiu irutu is ’/u&i tnlFfeVeftff-oYViiat
is assumed. A cabal of public men with
out political connections or adhesions is
the most unsafe of all depositories of
public administration. It would be as
feeble for good as irresponsible for abuse.
Tne safety of the country depends upon
a reorganization of parties upon normal
questions and issues arising necessarily
out of tho disputed realm of State and
Federal power, and the over recur
ring issues of public policy. These
parries watch each other nnd bring
to tbo public administration tho pride of
opinion and the esprit du corps, which
fortify all other incentives to honor and
integrity. The real lesson of tho pres
ent is therefore all against the emascula
tion and derangement of proper political
parries, and shows that when this has
been accomplished by ge neral civil dis
order or any abnormal shock, tho effect
is vastly mischievous.
And finally these developments of
fraud must go on, and we mast wait pa
tiently to see their full and final effect in
restoring honor and honesty to the pub
lic service.
A Sultrt Day.—Yesterday was a sul
try, close, cloudy day, but rainless. Ram,
however, had fallen during tho previous
night. The day was all that ceuld be
asked for in the interests of young grow
ing corn and vegetables, and the first of
genuine Spring-like weather. Up to yes
terday we have been more or less in dread
of an intensely nipping frost, before
Spring sets in. Frost wa3 confidently
predicted at the full moon in April, (the
8th) but it did not come, and we feared
postponement to a later and more un
favorable date. A friend, however, re
ports that he saw several specimens of
the genus sesrabaeus yesterday while
walking in his garden, and the story is
that the beetles never come ont of their
holes till cold weather is over. TVo shall
therefore assume that the danger of a
killing frost is over for this Spring, and
proceed accordingly. If it comes in spite
of the bugs and beetles, most of us will
be in condition to ascertain the fact and
scout the propherio sagacity of the bugs
accordingly. Therefore, transplant the
tomatoes—the peppers—the egg plants
and the okra—let the snaps and butter-
beans appear, and proceed with the mel
ons, cucumbers and squashes.
Bell.—There are some facts about
Bell’s history which have been overlook
ed by journals friendly to tho Adminis
tration, in their haste to denounce him as
a totally diisreputable scoundrel. The
Pittsburg Chronicle has been puzzling
over the subject, and, good Republican
paper as it is, it feels moved to say: “Bell
may be a scoundrel, utterly unworthy of
credence, but he produces some strozg
certificates. When a man produces writ
ten testimonials from snch men as Gens.
Grant, Sherman, Didge, Hardie and
Hurlburt, only the testimony of Hurl-
burt, Hardie. Dodge, Sherman aud Grant
can overthrow them. Aud that is the
clamp Bsll has put on his eminent de
tractors. They are in the position of
men who, if they pronounce Bell a rascal
on general principles, must admit that
their certificates are sometimes not worth
the paper they are written or.”
The District Sate Burglary.
Gen Babcock had a long conference
with the President to-day, says a Courier-
Journal telegram of Monday, It is un
derstood that the conversation related
to the now phase which the safe burglary
conspiracy has assumed, the develop
ments affocting Gen. Babcock. Attor
ney General Williams is not willing to
bear the repsonsihility of discontinuing
tho prosecution of Harrington, and it is
said will testify to-morrow that Gen.
Babcock brought them an order from
the President that he wanted the prose
cutions stopped. The President’s friends
assert on his behalf, that he gave no such
order, and that there is talk of his going
before the committee to put his denial
on the record. This last, however, is
not generally credited. Theee revela
tions create much excitement, and it is
generally supposed will go on to includo
other parties. Babcock and Harrington
had even less motives for their part in
the conspiracy than had Boss Shepherd,
John O. Evans and Hallet Kilbourne-
EveryDody, nearly, now believes that
these three worthies were as much mixed
up in tho affair a3 Babcock or Harring-
ti-n, nnd the only doubt expressed is
whether they will bo caught or not. As
for Babcock, his case seems desperate.
Tho general Belief is that his testimony
before the committee only confirms the
original accusation. One of the ugly
things against him that does not rest on
tho testimony of a detective, is the point
that a year ago parties who did the
actual work in this conspiracy job com
plained to Babcock by letter that some
one person had bagged most of the
uo panl; utm'C oh Uneasy.'" ' Tho story
goes Hint tho original of thia lotter of
Babcock’s is in the possession of the
committee.
Tnz recent eruption of Vesuvius is de
scribed as something thrilling to behold.
After many false alarms and partial out
breaks, the ancient mountain began to
pour forth a stream of lava, while an im
mense column of milk white vapor rose
high up into the air, illumined magnifi
cently, it is said, by the fires which were
raging in the crater beneath. Quantities
of stones, cinders and Ecorue were at the
same time ejected during the next twen
ty-four hours, as though the subterranean
furnaces that underlie the brim of the
lovely Bay of Naples were being stoked
by the fire gnomes for a really grand
outburst. The warning to the inhabi
tants was given several weeks before,
when a dense and rolling volume of smoke
arose from tbo volcano. Even then the
mountain was trembling with the inner
shocks and noises which mostly precede
nn outbreak, and near its top fire could
bo seen luridly shining in the night from
the many crevices, out of which exuded
the mephitic smell of sulphurous gases.
Yet, notwithstanding all these tokens of
disturbance lnsile the volcano, the
symptoms appeared to have subsided,
and Vesnvins was thought to be settling
down. From time to time after that
there were only slight relapses ; and tho
present paroxysm seems to have come on
with something like abruptness, which
is one of the worst possible signs of its
intentions which the volcano ever gives.
The terrible outbreak of A. D. 79, which
overwhelmed Pompeii, and cost the lifo
of the elder Pliny, began in the same
fasbicn, with a great cloud of white
vapor suddenly ejected to a vast height,
lighted up by the fires of the opening
crater, and full of black fragments and
showers of scon®. From his watch tower
near the Bummit Professor Palmieri
keeps an eye perpetually fixed upon the
mountain, surrounded by cunning instru
ments of all sorts, which enable him to
feel the pulse of Vesuvius, and generally
to foretell a fever fit in the cipricious
volcano. Its changeful moods, however,
frequently deceive even this watchful
sentinel of science.
A member of the staff of the New Yotk
Tribune has been pursuing a course of in
quiry at Washington, concerning Presi
dential candidates, and this is what he
says after getting all his points together:
“There is no longer any talk of an old-
fashioned Democratic ticket. It was
plentiful and noisy enough at the begin
ning of the session, but it has all died
away, little by little. The Hendricks en
thusiasm has evaporated; Bayard is only
a fascinating dream impossible of reali
zation. Of Thurman there is some solid
roUssa remaining, hut it diminishes
day by day. Tilden’s strength may be
great, but, if so, it is not well known to
his party associates in Washington. The
name of Judge Davis, spoken in a whis
per a few weeks ago, is now on all men’s
lips. Nine Democrats out of ten in Con
gress if asked to-day, not for their pref
erences bnt for their opinions as to who
the St. Louis nominee is likely to be,
would reply, ‘Jadge Davis or some new
mas.’ ”
Bristow.—The Cincinnati Commercial
is certain that Bristow is the coming
man. He has arranged the work of the
Cincinnati Convention in advance, nnd
assures us that it will follow this pro
gramme: “We presume a majority of
the delegates wilt go into tho Cincinnati
Convention as friends of Morton, Conk-
lmg and Blaine, with ■ certainty that
neither of these candidates »fll be able
to command a majority. There will be
A Twelve JlllMon Franc Bride Mar
ried—In the Temple in Paris.
A Paris correspondent describes the
grand ceremonies attending the recent
marriage of Bettina, daughter of Baron
Alphonse de Rothschild, with her double
first cousin Albert, son of Baron Solomon,
of Vienna, which took place in the syna
gogue of the Rue de la Victoire. Twelve
o’clock was mentioned on the cards of
invitation, hut it was nearly half an hour
after that time before the bridal pair
arrived, in a magnificent equipage, fol
lowed by the other membera of their
numerous family in voitures de gala.
The Moorish porch at the entrance of
the synagogue was profusely decorated
with flowers. There was a great display
of jewelry in the bonnets, in which were
fastened, instead of the hackles now
worn, rare and costly gems. Shortly
aiter 12 some hundred tapers behind
a seven branched candlestick were
lighted, and their rays, falling upon
the ornaments, produced a glittering
effect. Then entered, in Oriental
bats and vesture?, Isidore, the Grand
Rabbi of France ; Zadoc Kahn, the Grand
Rabbi of Paris, and Rabbi Bauer, who
was to offer wine to the newly wedded
conple. They awaited for some moments
the bridal party in front of a baldeqnin
placed on an elevated part of the floor,
and resembling a Moorish kiosk. The
Prince and Princesses of the Orleans
family were placed close to the sanctuary.
Behind them were the ministers of
finance, war and foreign affairs, and sev
eral generals. When the bride was an
nounced the rabbi3 went to meet her.
She entered leaning on the arm of her
father, who kept on his bat, as did the
other gentlemen in her tram. Most per
sons rose to look at the young lady, who
has won a diploma of governess and who
brings twelve million francs to her hus
band. She is small aud fair. When the
affianced couple ascended the dais be
neath the baldequin the service began
with a Hebrew canticle sung by M. Levy
to the organ accompaniment. Zadoc
Khan then delivered an exhortation, in
which he alluded to the great financial
power of the Rothschilds, and spoke of
the marriage as a fresh tie between the
closely united branches of that house.
The Rabbi Isidore also made an oration,
in which he spoke of the obligation of
the young couple to aid their poor breth
ren according to their great fortune.
Rabbi Bauer, at the close of a psalm
which was chanted by the full choir, ad
vanced with an ancient Venetian goblet
filled with wine, which the bride and
bridegroom drank. On the latter hand
ing it back tho officiating minister dashed
it to the ground. The clash of broken
glass against the stone pavement an-
nounced that the ceremony wa3 at an
end.
The Meanest "Woman In New
York.
“ Irensus ’’ in tho New Tork Ob'erver.J
She lives in a fashionable quarter of
the town. And this is what she did and
does: In the name of charity she gave
ont some dress-making to the inmates of
one of the institutions for reforming we
men supposed to be lost. When the
work wa3 done, this fashionable and
charitable lady was not ready to pay the
bill, which amounted to the enormous
sum of $12. The same work, if it had
been done at a fashionable dressmaker’s
would have cost her $25, or perhaps $50-
She had no ■ complaint to make of the
manner in which the work was done; hut
she haggled about the price, and, as she
gav9 out tho work in charity, she thought,
probably, that the charity should be ex
tended to her and not to the poor sewing-
woman who had earned the money. One
month passed away, nnd another, and
six more, while this wealthy and charita
ble woman, with one excuse and another,
put off paying tho poor girl who was
ratlrrronlTie^eTir»aj5r*iul : sEe‘could
not get her hard-earned money from this
lady patroness. Finally, in despair, she
had recourse to the law, by the aid of an
agency of which I will write to you, and
the prospect of an exposure, in the char
acter of a fraud, brought the lady to
terms, and she paid the full amount 1
And I have styled her the meanest wo
man in New York. If any one knows of
meaner men or women than they are who
defraud in the name of charity, who do
wickedness under the pretense of benev
olence, let them mention the facts, and I
will modify the opinion.
A Negro Killed.
On the night of the 23i of March, a
daring and impudent negro was found in
the bedroom of the daughters of Mr. S.
H. Curry, a highly respectable plantor
in the eastern portion of the county.
The young ladies discovered him at a
late hour of the night sitting on the foot
of their bed. They screamed in great
terror, but before their father could reach
their room, the black scoundrel made his
escape. He was arrested next day, and
upon preliminary investigation was com
mitted to jail. But while he was being
conveyed to this city for the purpose of
being turned over to the sheriff, he suc
ceeded in making his escape by cutting
the rope with which he was tied. Noth
ing more was heard of him until the
night of the 27th, when he again forced
an entrance into Mr. Carry’s house.
When he was discovered ho had a danger
ous looking knife open in his hand, and
manifested a devilish determination to
stand his ground. He resisted arrest
with a drawn knife in his hand, and du
ring the excitement that prevailed some
one shot and killed him instantly. An
inquest was held and the jury returned a
verdict thnt deceased was killed by some
one unknown.
That the black villain was killed is no
wonder. The only wonder if*, that the
exasperated friends of the young ladies
did not hang him when he was first ar
rested. We believe in law and order and
deprecate anything like violence and law
lessness, but when a black scoundrel at
tempts an outrage upon a respectable
young lady we know of no court better
suited to his case than that of Judge
Lynch. Hraging or shooting is too mild
a death for such ingrates. They should
be burned at thestake.—TusJcaloosa Times.
Tnz Baltimore American (Rep.) says it j found on the Epot a powerful Current for
was one of the idiosyncrasies of President
Grant that he never understood the im
portance of having a first-class lawyer at
the head of the Department of Justice.
Bristow, and after the first ballot, all the
loose votes will flow to him, because he
is the man who, if nominated, will surely
be elected, and even the Republican ring-
sters would prefer him to a Democrat.”
Is Negro Labor Unreliable?
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: You
are constantly hearing something like
the following, and all of our misfortunes
are laid at the door of the negro:
“As a race they are thriftless and un
reliable, and the farmer does not know
when he plants hi3 crop if ho will be able
to retain them to make and gather it.”
Do the facts sustain the charges ?
As to the large majority of those
around the towns and cities it is true.
Go where there are no negroes, and you
will find the same class, in any town or
city, of the same race as the balance of
the population. Is seem3 as if the natu
ral order of things require a lower stra
tum of human beings in every large com
munity, and the advantage we have is
that ours is of a different race and not so
vicious. We have a great many petty
thefts, bat few house-breakings or mur
ders.
But take tho farm laborers and it is
not true. When a farmer goes to make
arrangements for advances on his cron
from his commission merchant, he is
asked, “How many plows do you rnn ?”
“How many bands do yon work, etc.?”
But the question is never asked, “ Do
you think your laborers will remain with
you to make and gather your crop?” If
they
thing, or he would never be willing to
mortgage his crop and perishable prop
rty to get supplies to make a crop with
that labor.
The foundation of every business in
the South is agriculture, and the bulk of
it is dependent on negro labor and we all
in every pursuit base our calculations on
the crop and price of cotton and of the
contingencies to affect that crop the un
reliability of the labor is never included.
Who has ever heard of the failure to cul
tivate a crop or to gather it after made,
ou account of the desertion of the planta
tion by the negroes ?
The past season, there has been made
and marketed over 4,000,000 bales o: cot
ton. and more corn, oats, wheat, peas and
other products, than has been made for
several years past.
Were these crops made, gathered and
housed by a set of loafers and vagabonds ?
If this is the resnlt with an unreliable
labor, what would have been the result
if it had been reliable ?
We have no cotton choppers unions,
cotton pickers unions, fodder pulling
unions, corn pulling unions ; none of the
evils of that kind which every farming
and agricultural interest at the North
and in Europe are cursed with. As a
rule the negroes are faithful to their
contracts. They tray not work as well
as we wish, but they work better than
the farm laoorers of any other race. A
great many persons who talk very
learnedly on this subject know no more
about it than the man in the moon, nnd
conld not tell yon whether corn tusekd
before it silked or vice versa, or which
came first on cotton the square or the
bloom.
Of the farmers who harp on this sub
ject, a large number do not settle fairly
with their laborers. Poor paymasters
make poor laborers. Which is responsible,
the employer or the laborer ? Take the
negro out "of politics and he is better for
oar purposes than any other labor we
can get. It is true, when an election
comes, which is of sufficient importance
to have his vote sought after, that it does
demoralize him for awhile, but where
are there any people occupying a simi
lar status that are not affected by it?
Who in the country this year are re
ducing their crop* for fear of the elec
tions this fall so demoralizing the negro
that it will prevent the gathering of a
fall crop ? The bulk of the cotton crop
of thie section is carried to market, vary
ing from five to twenty-five miles, on
wagons driven by negro teamsters. There
has never, a3 I have heard, a single bale
of cotton failed to reach tho warehouse
or railroad depot through tho dishonesty
of these teamsters.
The supplies of bacon, corn, bagging,
ties, salt, etc., are hauled home in the
same wagons; often the bacon is pub in
the wagon loose; frequently they aro in
the night getting home—yet the losses
are trifling, compared with the amounts
so carried. It is not the rule only on
few plantations, but it is the rule of tho
country. It is a rare thing that the
owner or agent ever goes to market with
his wagon.
There is not a farmer in this part of
the country who works twenty-five or
thirty bands who has not at least half
dozen negroes on his plantation that he
would send to town to bring back an en
velope containing from one hundred to
five hundred dollars—they knowing
what the contents were.
It is true that they will steal hogs and
corn and cotton from the fields, that they
do not consider as particularly under
their charge, and they think there is no
harm in it, for they thrak it is the busi
ness of the owner or manager to look
after and protect it; besides they have
had it instilled into them by carpet-bag
gers and others of that cla-.s; that all we
have was made by their labor and that
they have a right to help themselves to
it whenever they can without being
caught. The negro is a curious creature,
and in his code of morals he makes
distinction between that which is en
trusted to his care and that which is not.
As Secretary of "War, he would steal
package of money, in passing through the
Treasury, but no never would have sold
a post tradership,
Where confidence is placed in them as
a rule they are faithful to the trust. They
parents. "We leave our houses at night
with only our wives and our children in
them, surrounded by a negro quarter.
Our whole conduct in our business ar
rangements, etc., gives a flat denial to tho
charge that negro labor i3 unreliable. If
we will spend more rime at home looking
after our business and give it our undi
vided attention and les3 in town talking
about the unreliability of labor and other
similar topics, we will find that our busi
ness will be more prosperous, and that
all of the cause of our failures cannot
properly be laid at the door of the negro,
No employees of any class will pay prop
er attention to their business if they find
that it is neglected by the employer.
It is human nature when things go
wrong to lay the blame on some one else
besides ourselves, but we will find that
bewailing the short comings of others
will not make up for our own, cry a3
loud as we may. Q,
The Secrets Coming Ont.
New York Sun.]
All the testimony taken before the i-n
vestigations at Washington during tho
last few days sustains to the last letter tho
statements of the Sun before, ponding,
and since Babcock’s trial. The efforts
of the President and his Attorney General
to prevent an indictment are now made
transparent, and date back to the rime
when the matter was first laid before the
Grand Jury, and when the public was in
the dark a3 to the nature of tho charges
and the preof by which they were sud
ported.
It is now in evidence that tho Attoi-
nev General required the testimony
given in the Grand Jury room to be sent
to him by tho District Attorney, and
then made it known to the President.
While tho President was thus kept
informed throHgh Mr. Pierrepont, he
had his own private source of informa
tion through For, the foreman of the
Grand Jury, who daily communicated its
secrets to an intermediary for the use of
tne White House. Independent of these
two, Bell, the detective, was “looking
into the hand of Mr. Dyer,” of course
merely to satisfy the curiosity of the
President.
Tor a month or more preceding the
trial, the chief counsel of Babcock estab
lished himself at Washington to watch
the interests of his client and to prepare
for the defence. Horace Porter, former
ly Secrotary of the President, was nlso
there, and had abundant reason for aid
ing Babcock in every possible way, be
yond the claims of personal friendship.
They had been associated together on
the staff of Gen. Grant, were with him
as President, and were equally deep in
the secrets of the Whisky and other
rings. Porter was on the most familiar
footing with Pierrenont, and had free
entry to his office. Tito Attorney-Gene
ral protested with much vehemence, in a
letter to the Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, that he had no memory of
ever having seen Mr, Stores, Babcock’s
counsel, in his life. . That statement was
intended to negative the impression
that he informed him of the testimony
received from St. Louis. But it was not
necessary for Mr. Pierrepont to see or
know Mr. Stores in order that the latter
should get the information he desired.
Horace Porter had access to the papers,
and put his knowledge where it would
do most godd. Pierrepont recently told
Gen. Henderson that “he did notpu^ose-
ly or designedly let Porter or Babcock
have access to the files of his office;’’
bathe did not dare to deny that tbe tes
timony was inspected and utilized.
It is well known that the President
gave Babcock and his counsel all the in
formation that came into his hands, from
Pierrepont or from the Grand Jury room;
so that while the Government was osten
sibly prosecuting a conspirator to defraud
the revenue, the Executive, Bworn to see
the laws faithfully executed, and the At
torney General, charged with their up
right administration, were secretly con
niving to thwart the coarse of justice,
and betraying their trusts to save the
could cot help knowing this treachery,
and also that the whole official power
outside tho Treasury Department was
exerted in behalf of Babcock. The Dis
trict Attorney and the special counsel at
St. Louis had likewise reason to know
that instead of being aided they were
obstructed at every step, and that tho
influence of the Administration collect
ively was openly thrown on tho side of
the accused. To such an extent was this
carried, that the letters which passed be
tween the Secretary and Solicitor of tho
Treasury and St. Lonis preceding and
during the trial, were marked “ Confi
dential. "Burn when read.” The testi
mony of Mr. Dyer, Gen. Henderson, Bell,
Pierrepont, and others, makes these facts
stand out in bold relief, and together
presents a case, which justly subjects
Grant and Pierrepont to the gravest pen
alties for conspiring personally and offi
cially to defeat an honest administration
of the law.
In the light of these developments it
is easy to understand why Pierrepont’s
dis (raceful instructions to the District
Attorneys were written last January, and
why the President ordered him to per
form that base service. They were n
part of the conspiracy, and quite in keej -
ing with the unworthy conduct of Grant
and Pierrepont throughout.
The statements made by General Hen
derson nnder oath of course intensify tbe
hostile feeling toward Bristow, and havo
provoked the strongest expressions of
resentment from the President and his
lojal Cabinet. He was isolated before,
but his position at thU time must bo
one of positive antagonism. Henderson
was dismissed as special counsel for
speaking irreverently of Grant; but here
is a case in which tho Secretary of the
Treasury is known to have expressed a
want of confidence in the good faith of
the whole Administration, beginning at
the head and making no exception.
Grant would order him ont instantly but
for the condition of publio sentiment.
It is to be regretted that Mr. Bristow
should have chosen tbis peculiar time,
and right on the heels of Henderson’s
testimony, to visit Kentucky for “his
health. He 13 wanted at Washington
now more than ever; and his evidence
may soon be needed on various matters
of tho greatest moment. Tbo appear
ance of retreat does not become his rep
utation. If Grant should got another
attack of "neuralgia of the brain,” tbe
Kentuckian may never return to tho cap
ital a3 Secretary of the Treasury.
are . on the place the merchant
thinks that is a sufficient guarantee that - . „
they will remain and fulfill their contract I President’s Secretary from the peniten-
for the year. tiary 1
The farmer is satisfied of the sane I Mr. Bristow and Mr. Bluford Wilson
Depressing Maladies.
Dyspepsia, constipition nn?l bilious
ness, as well as disorders of the nervous
system and the organs of urination, re
act by sympathy upon tho brain, fre
quently cansing a degree of, mental de
pression not remotely akin to insanity.
The surest way to banish the "blues”
thus produced is to use that unfailing
antidote to bodily irregulrity and gloom
iness of mind, Hostetter’s. Stomach Bit
ters. A course of tho great corrective
tonic promptly removes the maladies
above specified, as well as many others,
and restores the cheerfulness which is
such a characteristic attendant of good
health. It likeviso imparts a vigor to
the constitution which is its surest safe
guard against disease, and the best guar
antee of a long life. The aged and in
firm, as well as the sick and convalescent,
derive inexpressible comfort and benefit
from its use.
CHOICE GOSHEN BUTTER!
D
IADEM HAMS.
NEW YORK STATE CHEESE.
SEED POTATOES.
FLORIDA ORANGES.
Cheap as the cheapest at
FRANCIS LAKE’S,
corner of Cherry and Second streets.
CLASSES!
T| AYE JUST RECEIVED twenty cars of
REEOILED AND CHOICE
CUBA MOLASSES!
In Hogsheads and Barrels,
Which we offer to tho trade at inside figures.
Send us your orders.
SEYMOUR. TINSLEY ft CO.
FLOUR!
Wo offer tho following well-known brands of
FLOUR, and aro prepared to Oil orders at mill
prices, in car-load lots:
“BELLE”—Strictly Fancy.
“ROYAL GEM”—Choice Family.
"SPRAY”—Family.
SEYMOUR.TINSLEY A CO.
K. W. JESIISON. JR.
SAM. H. JBAUSON.
Soda, Water.
Soda, Water.
O UR SODA FOUNTAIN will bo in opera
tion on Monday. April 10. With Fresh
Syrups, made Irom tho
PURE JUICE OF THE FRUIT l
And as good Soda as can bo made, wo moan to
deserve a liberal patronage from the public.
HUNT, EA.NKIN & LAMAR’S
RETAIL STORE.
CIGARS! CIGARS
^ NICE LOT always on hand. Our
KEY WEST!
Canuot bo heat for the money.
HUNT, RANKIN & LAMAR’S
RETAIL STORE.
Corner Second and Cherry street?.
JEMISON BROTHERS,
GENERAL
Merduifoe, Stocfc and Bond Brokers
B7l Third street, Macon, Ga.
O UR Mr. R. W. Jemison, Jr., having resigned
tho position of cashier of the Central Geor
gia Bank, both members of the firm will from
this date devote their entire timo to tho General
Brokerage business. At our old stand, 671 Third
street (up*stairs, will always be found full tele
graphic and mail advices from all the markets,
on Provisions. Grain, Stocks, Bonds, etc, etc^,
which aro at the disposal of our patrons.
mar26eod2w JEM ISON BROTHERS.
Telegraph and Messenger
FOR 1878.
CBHTEIEBIIALi
MEMORIAL
MEDALS!
Struck in solid Albata Plate, equal in appear
ance, wear and color, to
SOLID SILVER OR GOLD
Presenting a variety or Beautiful Designs in Ro-
Wo* Aled-ls are larger than a Sliver
Trade Dollar, being 1) inch in diameter, hand
somely put up, and sell readily ai light.
THE MOST VALUABLE
EVER ISSUED.
GOOD AGENTS WANTED
In every City and Town in the U. 8. and Canada,
to whom exclusive territory will bo given, if de
sired.
RETAIL PRICES.-—For the Albata Silver. CO
cents. Gilt, 51, in fancy box. Usual discount to
the trade.
A complete outfit of magnificent samples for
agents,.in satin or velvet-lined morocco case,
containing Six Medals, different designs, one
gut. suitable for Jewelers, show windows, e*c.,
sent on receipt of draft or Pest-office Order for
$4. or will ship by Express C. O. D.
Descriotive Circular Price List andonesnm-
p.e sent upon receipt of 50 cts. Immense Profits.
Sells at sight. Correspondence solicited. Infcr-
mation free. Extensive fields fur enterprise.
Address ail communications
U. S. MEDALLION CO.,
GREAT REDUCTION!
/“\N and after 1st January. 1878. our Mammoth
vJ Weekly, the Great Family Paper of Georgia,
containing sixty-four columns, and the hugest in
the South, will bo sent to subscribers at
©2 jfk YEAR,
and postage. This is but a small advance on cost
of blank paper. Weekly for six months, §1 and
postage. The postage is 20 cents a year.
Tho Serai-Weekly
Will be reduced to THREE DOLLARS a year
and postage—SO cents. For six months 51 so and
postago.
XSoOly xs muon
Ten Dollars a year and postage. Five Dollars for
^ months. Two Hollars anc Fifty Cents for
three months.
The stirring events of the Great Centennial
Year of American History, which include the
Presidential Struggle, will render 1876 ono of tho
most memorable in our annals. Everybody in
this remon will need tho Telbqbaph, anil we
have put down tho price to accommodate their
necessities and pecuniary status.
ClilSBY. JONES & REESE.
B. W. CUBB1DJB.
CU32E233, HAZL3EUHS* & qq
Bankers and. Brokers
Maooni On.
R eceive deposits, b U v u „
change. Bonds au.i n<l
Collections made on all accessible point*.
CUBBED&E, HAZLSHTJBSTACcli
SAVIH05 DFPART5JH7,
Interest paid on all sum* from *1
marS ly *
J. O. Curd, President. J*. t\ LawiobTuT^
EXCHANGE BANK OF MACoT
Office In Hwar’s New Bulidm,.
Receives Deposits
BUYS AND 8BLL8 BXCHANOR.
Makes Advancer on 8hvks, Bonds.
Store. Also on Shipments of Oottin, 1 *
attbnd« !)To
I. 0. PLANT & SON,
Bankers and Brokers.
MACON. GEORGIA.
Buy and Sell Exchange, Gold Silver. Stock,
Deposits -Eecoivou
tin Which Interest wilt be AUawe*
AS AGBPHD CTOS.
UBXJK OH cat t
Advances made nn Cotton and p r .
duce in Store.
COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED W
FIRST NATIONAL BANK of MACON
TRANSACTS A CE5EBAL BASKING m\m
Office hour,, 9 to I and 8 t*
N6W York Exchange 3-10 Pram
W. W. WaiGMY, Cash’r.
ianlS’7B-ly.*
1.0. PLANT, Piwi
TO PLANTERS
TTTE are props red to advance two-third, th«
v I value of Cotton, in .tore, at EIGHT Pkit
CENT. PER ANNUM, with “
Low Rate tf Storage M Insurance.
G- YJ JBL 3^ OS
We can supply any quantity ot SOMJBI.l!
PACIFIC and PHOSFHO-PERUVMN GU.
ANO. pajablo in Cotton, next fall, at 15 rrntH.
There nro no better JfertUizers in ihomnrktt
than these are.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
Nearly opposite the Depot, Macon, Ga.
rpHE present managers respectfully solicit
JL share of public favors.
locality of raomf* ** 40 per Day ’ accordin S 40
, , T. RYAN.
fchlS-tf L. W. HOLLINGSWORTH.
DR. W. W. FORD,
DENTIST
(108 Cherry street, over M. R. Rogers & Co.)
89 WACOM. GA
U. ii&COX. JOHN C. RUTHERFORD.
BACON & RUTHERFORD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
YYTILL practice m the United States Courts
V V at Savannah and Atlanta, anil in tho Su-
wsnar Courts ol the counties ol Bibb, Monroe,
Crawford, Twiggs, Houston, Jones, Early and
Decatur, and elsowhere by special contract.
Special attention given to Commercial nnd
Bankruptcy business. mch21-Sin
COMMERCIAL HOTEL,
eufaula. ala.
rpHIS Hotel now under the control of Mr. A
1 J' RIDDLE, whom thousands know as a
ihotographer.Uoneof thebest kept houses in
right place after putting up at the Commercial
A free _°“} mbu s row in the interest of the hotel
TO BAM Alii) OTflEUS
T aEundersUnerl, having made arrangements
which will require his person*! attention at
dispwQ of his business for
cash. That it will pay cau be easily proved.
Tne present owner started the busimss without
a dollar, and has made money. He has a wood
nread route—a livin* in itself. The store aleo
hu* agool run of custom. Tho Bakery avenuraa
ton barrels a week. The horse, wagon, and ail
appurtenances complete for carrying on tbe Ba
kery. This u a bona fide thing, seldom offered,
n® be proven to the satisfaction of siiv one
desiniij? to take advantage of thia rare offer,
ball early, as the owner must leave at an eari?
date for the Centennial. Inquiie r t 3
THli BAKERY,
j.-Hg> tf x Third street.
212 BliOADWAY,
P. O. Box 5270
aprll-d&w till jur.S
NEW YORK.
C. J, HARRIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Macon, Ou.
Office in Boardman’s block, opposite Lanier
House. Mulberry street. decC flin
SCABBOKOUGH BOUSE.
OPPOSITE COURT-HOUSE,
■ TAWKIXUVILLE. CA.-Bcoms newly
-Li furnished: Table the best the market will
KiiortL The proprietor pledges him***-lf to use
every effort to give satisfaction, and respectfully
solicits a share of public favors. Bates, $2 per
<Uy - «.. B. F. BOON.
* n - 5 ri Proprietor,
IODIDE OF
Cures Neuralgi., Face Ache, Rheumatism, Gout,
Fronted Feet, Cbillblaino. Soro Throat, Krysipe-
las. Bruises or Vi ounds of every kind in man or
animal.
At Bar»:um*8 Hippodrome; Hr. Wood, Yeteri-
nary burgeon; Colonel McDaniels, owner of
Harry Baasett; Dr. Ogle, of SJO W. 25th street,
GILES* LINIMEXT IODIDE OK
AMMONIA the only remedy that can be relied
on to cure lameness in horses.
C1 ,. J. PINCKABD & CO. Agents.
Sold by all druggists. Depot 451 Sixth Arenas.
>ew York. Only 50 cents and $1 a bottle.
mchSl-d&wira
First-Class Private Board.
MURDOCH HOUSE
No. 92 Forstth Stusst,
JACKSONVILLE, - - FLORIDA.
A- M. JONES, Proprietor.
TERMS—By lb • Duy. ,2; Oy tne VI oek,'
ME. A. W. GIBSON.
Wo havo enraged tho services of this gentle,
man. who is well known in the Cotton hiisiiK-j
of Mat-oil, nnd who will, as heretofore, take un
cial pains in obliging his many planting friends.
0. G. SPARKS & m,
rachl4-eodlm
Thrash’s ConsumDtion Cure I
Read what Rev. J>r. LOVICK PIERCE hat
io say about it.
. Da ut Brother Davies—Excuse me for wnt-
ing only when 1 am deeply interraU-d. I ban
been voiceless about two months. Could nut
read and pray in a family. Had trad man;
things. Got no benefit from any. Since Confer-
ono 801,1 me * from Americus, n bottle
of THRASH’S CONSUMPTION CURE AND
LUNG RESTORER, which I have been taking,
now this is the ninth day. I can talk now with
some ease. I came here, am out? other thinm, to
supply myself with thia medicine. No drujciriil
here hiu» it on sale. I must have it J want yoa
to so in person to Messra. Thrash A Co., and
show them this letter, and make them xend nn
J9 Spactn, Ga., two, three, or four bottles, with
bill. I am petting on finely.
For sale by HUNT, RANKIN ft LAMAR
and J. J. PINCKARD ft CO„ Macon, Ga.
jan29 tn.th.snt ly
T HE introduction of these crops throughout
thj South will enable ui to keep our stock
and fill our smoke- houses as cheaply as it can Iw
done at the West. The CHUFA is planted inn
ridge, like potatoes, yields on common land
bushels per acre of tne richest feed, unequalled
for fattening hogs, poultry—and children. One
acre will fatten more hogs than ten acres of the
best corn, besides furnishing grazing all summer.
For the truth of these claims we refer to U. 8.
Commissioner of Agriculture, Washington, or to
any agricultural paper in the Kouth. Price, by
mail, postage paid, 2(»c. a package, 40c. a pint,
^ 5 £:. a 9 uart t by express, $4 a peck, $ 15 a bushel
The JAPAN PEA fully established its merils
several years ago, and is now in universal de
mand. It grows upright, like a cotton stalk, i«
cultivated like corn, and yields from 160 to SCO
bushels an acre on ordinary land. Stock of all
kinds relish it aud thrive highly on it without
other feed. Also excellent for table use (*fter
boiling about a week.) Price, by mail, postage
paid, 15c. a package, 80c. a pint, 5t>c. a quart; by
express, |S per peck, 810 per bushel. These seeds
are so scarce and costly that we cannot make
any discount to wholesale dealers or Grange*.
When Southern planters grow their own start,
feed and fatten their own hogs, we s* all hear no
more of hard times and “middle men,” for this
will put an end to both. If you f«ar toinie»t
largely, it will cont but a trifle to try these se*ds,
and unless your experience differs from ail others
yon will be iorever thankful for the trial. Ad
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NEW YORK TIMES,
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June 14,1S73.