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Newspaper Page Textfl.y. 1 \l W - - »- - r ,q ,nyy - >»** ‘•^sorseo-£jnsan«ru4s^vA>- - ^ - »<A» <*-—t’a'EV.l —(misw: /| V isyivtp ^y\J ^r\j, A. REID & Co,,] A Family Journal for the Dissemination of General Intelligence, Miscellany, Agricultural, Commercial, Political and Religious Information. 10PRTET0RS i$W SERIES, I MACON, GA., MONDAY, APRIL BO, 18(56. iVOL. 1, NO. 23 TKUfcXiKAPH publishing house. WILLIAM a. REID &Co., Proprietors. 'j.seio] [S. Botkin. A* - EDITORS Terms of Subscription : WrEKLT Telegraph : 94 00 per f, t oisu " TELCGRAl>n: Vicos Dailt Telegraph : 812 00 per annum. __ » M» job PBiifTiirei attention will bo given to the fijJTsf JOB PRINTING of every dcecrip- Ppospects op Civil War.—Wo copy an 1. 7/vmn.—“There is rest for the weary.” ! tioDa1 '- they have added new lustre to the American now. It is incomfortablc to know that he article on this subject from the Louisville 2. Prayer By Rev. F. R. GouUling. j SowS! for° Sm"°VTc\o£ the Journal, winch ought to arrest public atten- 3. Funeral Hymn—“Peaceful be thy slum-; «n, ey ^ed not in rain. “The blood of the mnrtyrs . wind whistles from the northwest with a. chill- tion. That paper is not given to sensations, hers." i is tho seed of the church.” That which tetrminre.: n ess that makes holders of the staple grin anrl --- ’ ' liolon and morals, mar also be true in this great Strug-I * *> farmers groan. SPECIAL NOTICE. Pustitios Bitters nr tbe Mile.—Messrs, p^te jt Co., last year sold nearly two mil- .. tottlM of Plantation Bitters. Allowing j w inches to tho bottle, set in a continuous I!, they would extend 379 miles. What a ^• oof invalids wo ore! Just think of a r-i ». three inches square, extending from V tT York to Buffalo, being swallowed by human iJsachi in a single year. Yet, people appear 1. thrive uoiier it, and repeat with pleasure.— ire inclined to think Drake A Co. are enti- Cd to d>e persimmons, Viva la Plantation, S. T. 1>W—X- ( The Fisal Adjournment or Congress.— ]. i$ tie opinion of prominent Congressmen tbattbe present session of Congress will be dose! early in June. Apart from the subject of nvoauruction all other business can be dose! in several weeks. So says a porres- pofljest of the N. Y. World. gyln a list of the Confederate dead, bond at Gainesville, Ala., we find the fol lowing from Georgia: L L Falter, Company G, 8th Ga. Ri T. W. Murdock, “ B, 47th JL Chandler, “ B, 29th hmiGRATioN.—We perceive, frflfn the Au- oesu Constitutionalist, that th^'Georgia Im- nij!»tion Company, of which Rev. F. R. Goulding is agent, in this city, received about one hundred immigrants a few days ago, composed of field hands, house servants and/ mechanics. , ^Passengers from Now York to Charles ton, now come by steamer to Savannah and thence by the same mode of conveyance to Charleston, it being some ten dollars cheaper than coming out direct by the Charleston and Xcw York steamers. Tiie old Palmetto City must look to its laurels. Decision in Regard to Revenue Stamps os Notes.—The Supreme Court of Massa chusetts, on a case carried before the full Bench, on demurrer, lm« decided as follows: “A revenue stump is no part of the note, aud seed not he copied, nor is the validity of note affected by want of a stamp, unless it ii fraudulently omitted'” The Gallaxy.—A bi-monthly period! by The American News Company, in N^w York, is a new candidate for public iavor.— We are favorably impressed by the first num ber, which has been kindly furnished us by Messrs. Patrick & Havens from their Periodi cal and Book Depot in this city. Price $0 per annum, or25cts per single number. Savannah News and Herald.—To our Raders of the up-country who are desirous of subscribing to a Savannah paper, wc cheer fully recommend the New* and Herald, whose card will be found in our columns. It is not only a good paper in itself, and conducted with ability and fairness, but the only paper now in Savannah which a Southern man can hkewitk self-respect and with justice to bis people. We arc pleased to see that Mr. Biota, who was long connected with the Be- fiHiatn, in its better days, and subsequently «®e of the proprietors of the JVeirs, has re lumed to the cruft os business manager of Ike JWi and Herald. Central Railroad.—The overland work ' 3 'ki* road is progressing with commenda | ; e di.-[utch, but the contractors, we regret to lay, have recently had serious trouble at *kc Oconee from high water. Some ten or frclre days ago, tho bridge over that stream, 'kich had just been completed, was deprived of * span by the freshet. The high waters coatinued until Sunday last, when down came •■other freshet taking away the entire sta S 18 ?- By this time, no doubt, the waters have ^hraubsided as to admit of a resumption work on the bridge. The accident will for some days the opening of tho route ^wt between Macon and Savannah. The Jt* and teams for filling up the gap be- fK<ta working parties are already on the Pound, and the daily schedule will com- as soon as the trains shall be able to toss the river. and In this instance, we believe, speaks its 4. Address—By Rev. D. Wills, honest convictions. We are much inclined to 5. Benediction—By Rev. F. R. GouUling. ngree with it. We can see no other solution The singing was by the ladies, and was cx- of present differences, unless the people ot cccdingly solemn and touching, and drew the North should rise in their might and put tears from many eyes. If angels ever do re down tho present attempt to revolutionize gard and approve the act3 of mortals, surely the government and enslave one-third of they hovered over that scene, and gave to it tbefreemen under its jurisdiction Everything the seal of their approbation! For there, in rests with them. One thing is certain : tho the bright sunshine, and amid the buds and Sumner-Stcvcns-Stanton-Beast Butler fac- blooms of spring, with feelings softened by tion cannot control this government The • affection, and subdued by tho impressive so- inauguration of their principles and passions j lemnity of the occasion, those warm hearts as the permanent policy of the country must! sent forth from tuneful lips, sacred melody, lead to armed resistance—to war. Try it when they will, the instincts of a free people will rebel against it Then let tho North do its duty, and all will be well. The South de sires peace and has demonstrated her sinceri ty by many sacrifices which she once thought no eArthly power could force from her. But neither she nor the great agricultural West can afford to be ruled and ruined by the puri tanical despots of New England. There is a limit to human forbearance, and we have nearly reached it The government must be restored in its.original freedom and purity— as it came from the bands of our lathers. We should be false to liberty and to ourselves did we submit quietly to a policy that in volves an entire change of its structure, and places despotic power in tile ban As of a sec tional majority. The existence oKsuch government in America would be \ mere uestion of force. It could take no r the affections of tho people. THE CONSECRATED DAY. Throughout the South yesterday—the 26th' if April—was consecrated a day sacred to he memory of the Confederate dead. All over ur land, hy mutual consent, the ladies of the utli met to strew flowers upon the graves of their sons, brothers, husbands and friends, wherever those graves were accessible. Let the day hereafter be held sacred in onr eyes, and observed throughout coming time, in honor of those who fell fighting for what they conceived to bo the rights and privileges of their native section. Let it lie an anniver sary, whereon our mothers, and sisters, and wives shall meet to decorate the lost resting places of their sons, brothers and husbands, and to lament their sad fate. We may not hope to see splendid mausoleums rise up all over our land, glittering gorgeously in the expressive of love, religion and patriotism Mr. Willis' address—as. indeed, were all the exercises—was impromptu; and yet its eloquence and patriotism thrilled our hearts, and fittingly commemorated those wo had met co honor. We presen t our readers with an imperfect sketch, hastily written from memory, but which embodies tbe leading sentiments of the speech: it will find an echo in many hearts, and brings forth prominently the idea we would inculcate, that the 2Gth of April is a consecrated day, hereafter to be dedicated to the memory of the Confederate dead—an anniversary, on- which the ladies of the South will strew flowers upon the graves of their fallen friendd and relatives. efe.”" As therenuU of this conflkrt, great and beneficial nrinciolt b will yet be evolved which m*y bless our race' As to a Southern Nationality, the All W.-e Ruler has decided against it. We aoquiese and accept with rc.-ienation the decree of heaven, trusting in hi- over ruling goednes to free us from our present emfcarraa- ment hy giving success to our noble President. As we look st these graves the sad eonscWisness comes over us that here lie the husbands of broken hearted widows, and fathers of poor orphans. The d<s««esotaia widow gathers her fatherless children around tho fronl board, and with a sorrowful heart speaks to them of their honored father who jure his life for his country. Her tears flow down her cheeks as she remember* his last affectionate words—his last farewell look. That poor widow needs your sympathy. When you invoke heaven’s blessings remember her. MR. WILLS' ADDRESS. Ladies and Gentlemen Standing as we do this day beneath a bright spring sun, with a rich landscape of hill, river and forest spread out be fore ua, with the memorials of mortality all aronnd us, and the dnst ot tho honored dead sleeping be neath ns, I feel loth to break the eloquent silence of this solemn and impressive scene. Butin rea lise to your kind invitation, I rise to indulge in a public utterances. The moat eloquent orators i can address you on this occasion, are those o are sleeping In these tombs which yop have i to renovate and adorn—there is an eloquence speaks from their graves, sufficient to thrill besrtand draw tears from every eye. Let ns devoutly to those eloquent voices which are ’ring back lrom the bosom of tbe silent land, dies, you have assembled on a mission of pure an lime philanthropy. You have come here to repair ‘ decorate the graves of departed patriots aud ea. You have come to testily your appreciation their gallant services andyour reverence for sir cherished memory. Yon hare come to mmuno with the mighty dead, whose glorious ' its may now he hovering over this scene of and beauty. You have come to illustrate noble maxim, “woman Inst at tbe cross and it at tbe sepulchre.” In fine, you are here to eclare your firm adherence to the sublime and wed doctrine of the resurection: for these utiful offerings you bring are not only token* f affection, bnt alto bright emblems of immor- Jity. Heaven forbid I Never: eo long as one emoroa ot gratitude remains in our bosoms will we fail to re: pond to tho orphans of our county? Here lio the hrarts stilled by the icy hand of death that once chertJlief them as idols. Here sleep tbe noble men whose \uiira were once beguiled by these desolate and poor ones, whose charms were as athousandfold cord arour.'i the father’s soul. J . The mothers and daughters—patriotic women of the Sooth—meet to-day from Texas to Virginia, from the coast to Missouri, to honor the noble dead. The sur viving comrades have gathered too, with fraternal hearts, ready hands to offer every token of affectionate remembrance. Tbit day will pasa and we will away. History may never do justice to our braves, but “There honor comes a pilgrim gray. To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there.” All seemed to appreciate these remarks > and each heart was full if we may judge from its index-the eye. Again the work of resto ration was resumed with as much if not more earnestness than before; and soon the ladies appeared among the many new-formed graves placing upon each a token of remembrance and love, in,the shape of l>cautiful and taste Why the Cholera Comes from the Eu The Philadelphia Enquirer, under the above caption, has the following: "The name Asiatic cholera indicates the in variable origin of this dreadful disease.— , When, in modem times it first appeared, about thirty^ years since, there were various From the Louisville Journal. The Specter ot Civil War. .. .. - a ., .. . . It ought not to be disguised from the theories os to its causes. Some said that in country that the grim and ghastly specter of *“ e n,, i’. “ght food of the Asiatics civil war is rising indistinctly visible above ' disease took its rise. Bater observation the horizon of American politics. Wa utter ; Bus demonstrated that the filthy habits and the note of warning, and we do it from a ,van ^ °f personal cleanliness of the Orientals profound conviction that there is a necessity for it. We should be glad to close our eyes against so painful and awful a truth if there by it could be averted. But that is r.ot the way to avert calamities. It is the way to in vite them and to be unprepared for them when they come. It is time the country were alarmed, and for intelligent, and peace- loving, and patriotic men to open their eyes to the slow-moving currents ot the wide, dork, fathomless sea that rolls to the fright ful precipice ahead. In no other way can the terrible nlunge bo avoided. Wo must awake to tho perils that surround us, or we are inevitably lost and beyond the power ot redemption as a republican government.— Let no man who has the form, and instincts, and endowments of a ipan trifle in view of tiie possibility of a civil war. The Duke of Wellington has said that all other temporal calamities in a civilized State are as nothing compared with this. All other evils are tol erable in comparison. In a country so vast os ours, if civil war should break, out there is no human ken that can measure its duration, or penetrate its awful blackness, or cast its THE weekly telegraph. 'i e are under many obligations to our con- toporaries who have noticed, with a kindly ” rJ of commendation, our Weekly Edition, * ‘f 1 *’ too Proprietors feel they can say with- 1 - indcHcacy t is the largest, handsomest and comprehensive Weekly paper in the iJ?T" Fr °m a number of friendly notices ore us, we select the following: T nr [From the Eufeala (Ala.) News. J Telegraph.—We now re- era ^? ,arl y fBis mammoth sheet &om Ma- ls a Weekly history of the most im- m”* 0 * events transpiring in the world, con- news lrom everywhere, the latest mar ia* V rU ’ “ d > in * act ’ everything interest- vi F ono “ Blif section wanting a huge !*2 P a P er can get it by ordering the Tel- [From the Tallahauee (Fla.) Sentinel.] q e .best and cheapest Weekly Paper in Pa—perhaps in the South—is the Ma- 1 *t i» « mammoth sheet brim ’“Hun , IC , ate8t Best news. In size it is wpsggcd, anQ the correspondence it con- Bea,iM Wort * 11)0 P 1- * 00 of the paper—$4 only. <tont»!« nc T rs correspondence it always ^eeted articles of great value and B , uch “ ,hould ^ read by all ^•nu^ 1 '?* tokce PP 08t e d “ toaUt he great “"•and issues of the day. 14 by man to Wm. A. Reid & Co., oifier the Weekly Telegraph. i* proposed “'aunn.41. *.:— in the Senate to dis- to L-® branch Mint at New Orleans, toisen r\ i0V £ 1,10 machinery aud fixtures to *«C y ir vada , for thc miut to bc erecu sun, in honor of those who fought to achieve Southern independence; but wc may behold woman, in all her love and*sweetncss and pu rity, meet around their graves, and with flowers and tears reverencing their memory, and hallowing their last resting place: lrom those for whom so much was sacrificed, and with a cheerfulness and unanimity the world never before witnessed, less could not be expected. In the ladies ot the South i< peculiarly becoming, and is indeed a cat worthy ,of enlisting their most active sympa thies. “No nobler cause than tbia of thine May woman’s heart engage— She need no prouder place to win On Fame’s immortal page; Go, seek them in their graves unknown, And by their genial powers, Bid on each snot, in beauty spring A sisterhood of flowers. “No marble slab, nor craven stone, Their mournful deeds to tell— No monument to mark the spot Where they with glory fell; Their names shall yet a herald find In every tongue of fame, When valley, stream and minstrel voice, Shall swell with their aoelaim. “Plant flowers above their lonely graves— The ivy let entwine, Its tendrils there, and there be set The myrtle and the vine; Memorial* of thy love shall mark Each consecrated place, And angels wandering down from Heaven, Will love the spot to trace. “All o'er tbe land like nnturan leave*, Borne on the wailing blast, They lie with no mementoes raised, To link them with the past; Then, bid tbe sculptured atone renew. The story of their fame— Some monument to after-time, Their gallant deeds proclaim. “Bring best blood of the land has consecrated this red soiL Here lies the true type of Southern iralry. Our educated young men, whose es might have adorned the republic of let- have fallen in our recent struggles, illustration* of this I havo but to allude to r departed friends and citizens, the Lamars, e Tracys, the Bosses, Smith, Campbell, loom, Grannis, and other noble names, too jmerous to mention. , Those whose names were fragrant in the annals if piety have been gathered to tho great congrega- ion of the dead ; and those who illustrated the ipirit and principles of patriotism now sleep be- leath the dust or the valley. At the call of their country they rushed to arms, and poured forth their blood for their altars and firesides, for which their countrymen will for them a chaplet of unlading glory, those whe remained at home without cause ,ve contracted an odinm that will cleave to them e the leprosy of Gebazsl, and those who fled m their native land to escape tbe public nflict and peril are justly dammed to everlasting e. “My country, right or wroEg," is one or patriotic sentiments that has come down tons n the days of the revolution. The unjust and uncharitable remark is some- lines made that the Confederate dead have died In vain. But the truth Is they died at tbe time, the place, and under the circumstances that God him self bad wisely appointed. They freely offered np their lives for what they believed to bd tbe right of sdf-government; a right bought bv the blood and tears of onr illustrious fathers. And as tbe blood of the martyrs Is the seed of the church, wc trust that their noble sacrifices will work out important results for the cause of liberty and religion. They were removed in accordance with an act of divine mercy, which took them away from the evil to come—from poverty, persecution and every specie* of disability and degradation. They died, but live forever In the hearts of their conn tr^nen, and upon the proudest roll of fame; for when the clonaa of bile prejudice are dissipeted and posterity Bring flowers to deck each patriot grave, And bless the vernal sod, k Where sleep tboee fallen ones, whose deeds Are written with their God; . Place the white stone above each head— Tbe sacred spot enclose, That no invading step may break The night of their repose,” In Macon there are two cemeteries, where repose the remains of those who died in Con federate Hospitals in oar city,-or fell in bat tle during the late contest J and the warring elements and desecrating feet and intruding weeds made It necessury for grateful hands to renovate theso hallowed spots. In obedi ence, therefore, td the published request of the ladies, many of the young men of the city met at each cemetery and, with their own hands wielded the implements which re moulded those mouc Is, replaced the falling boards that designate J the sleeper beneath, and removed the intruding weeds. Very many of the fair ladies of our city were pre sent wth flowers, wreaths and boqueta, which they strewed in profusion over each grave, or hung in graceful garlands aronnd the em blematic crosses, which adorned the burial spot The graves of the Fcdcrals were pot neg lected. They, too, received attention and restoration, in respect to the loving ones, at a distance, who may one day come to reclaim their dead. The hands which remoulded the graves, and re-adjusted the head boards of the Con federate dead, performed the same ofllice for the Federal dead; but above the re mams of the latter, it is bnt just to say, no flowers were strewn. "We were present at tbe ceremonies performed at Rose Hill Cemetery, and were solemnly impressed. The day was most beautiful, os though nature herself had agreed to consecrate it to the hallowed purpose; and soft breezes sighed through its groves a re quiem to tbe lamented dead. At 11 o'clock tbe following order of exer cises was entered upon, beneath the trees which overshadow the Confederate graves— numerous assembly of ladies aud gentlemen being present : pnblie prejudice are dissipeted come* to take a calm and deliberate survey of their principles and achievements, their names will stand high On the list of the patriotic and brave of every age and clime- unborn millions will chant their praises. All time will add to the millentnm of their glory. Pericles «ald when gazing on the re mains of his countrymen, who had fallen in the battles of the first year of the Peloponnesian war, “the whole earth is the sepulchre of illustrious men." We hereby dedicate this day as an anniversary to be celebrated through all coming time, and by onr prayers and tears we consecrate this hallowed spot as the peaceful abode of the lamented dead, who have been gathered here from the blue waters of the Potomac to the far distant shores of the Rio Grande. May God in his holy providence pre* serve their dost from desecration, and their mem ory from defamation—may bands of guardian angels keep their vigils over their tombs, till tiie morning of the resurrection; and when the arch angel’s trumpet shall ponr its thrilling thunders into the car of the dead, may they rise to Join tho grand army oi the great and >vlso and glorious of all ages and generations. THE LOWER CI.’METERY. A friend has furnished us with the follow ing account of the proceeding at the lower cemeterary,including Re”. Mr.Warren's beau tiful speech, which wo piint with pleasure: The day passed pleasantly, yet sol emnly, at the old cemetery. According to appointment the ladies, bearing with them flowers and tokens of remembrance, and the gentlemen with theii spades, hoes and rakes repaired to to this“IIallowcd spot” and were soon deeply and earnestly engaged—the ladies in forming Boquet i and Wreaths, the gentlemen in reforming the graves of the dead. All seemed earnest in the work.— Soon this almost dcsolati place was converted into a neat little grave-jard; the rows of graves nicety formed, and most of the head boards reset. After some two hours spent in this labor of love, Rev. Hr. Warren, of the Baptist Church, proceed:»! to address tbe as semblage in a few short, but very appropriate remarks. consequences. The war wo have just passed through, ... s though technically a civil war, was, in its »..« “ v ““‘ |main characteristics, national. There wasno fully formed wreaths and bouquets some of I ^; v ; s ; on c f neighborhoods, involving con- pale flowers interspersed with green, others fljctg 0 f arms, tire, and slaughter, :in the of the varied hues of the rose. “How beauti- North, nnd there was no such division in the full” we could but exclaim as our eyes South; The nearest approach to any thing of , . at • aa *t a a- t I this kind took place m Jlissoun and ui Last wandered over this “silent resting place of the I TennesseC) aml Y a those states the horrors of dead, with its adormngs. I t j, e war were the most appaling. Tho civil “ How nobly and faithfully have the gen- war wc speak of as threatening to the peace tlemen performed their part in this work of I of this country in the not remote future is love!” was tbe unanimous expression of the }«• wh « se s M do .^ 8 WGukl 2* ov £ ... . , . . " . . • . | State, city, and village trom Nova Scotia to ladies. And we have been requested to ten-1 t j ie Mountains, aud which possibly, der heartfelt thanks in their behalf to those I might cover their lonely peaks and settle gentlemen who so kindly ancl willingly as-1 down upon the Pacific slopes. It is perhaps sisted them, in this day's labor, and also for I quite probable that some persons who read the refreshing iced water and lemonade J 4 *™* may receive the suggestion of the . ‘ , , possibility of such a calamity as we refer to bountifully furnished. Where all merited so I w jt|| an incredulous sneer. So multitudes of’ much praise, it would be impossible to award I well-meaning men received the notes ot warn- it singly to any, yet too much credit cannot I ing to the war that has just closed. So nia- be given to tbe noble ladies of Macon, who n Y P er f . n <\North and South, joked andS , 8 . . , .. . sneered in 1860 and in the preceding years— have this day given new testimonials of their jok<sd an(1 sneered even up to the very mo- appreciation and kind remembrance of our m ent when the sulphurous volume leaped forth beloved soldiers who fell during onr recent I as from the mouth of hell. Not a few of struggle for independence. j them, alas! long since uttered cheir last This day will long bo remembered by us ® 00 ** 17 ; th « ir 1 ,ast triviality, over , , . , J „| events of which they had no discernment un- all, and will ever be referred to as a day of t j| they camc upoa t h cm . solemn pleasure.” We utter, we repeat, the distinct note of | t warning now, in this, month of April and Letter from Columbus. Fear of .P«“*.“ ,d ffrnce lSCO; now while the I power is yet in theTiauds of the people, who Columbus, Ga., April 24, 1866. I must all suffer to an extent which no pen can April, thus far, has been lavish with tears, describe or tongue tell if the land should bo and chary of smiles. The “showery” pro- h™PP cd in tk .® “"d flames of universal ■uuumu, ui*J f . strife; now while there is time to take mens- pen si tics, the theme of poets, and the adnn-1 ures to avert the impending doom—we utter radon of the lovers of natnre, have recently I the^distinct notes of warning tb intelligent, been exercised in a stvlo too provoking to be I thinking men who do not wish chaos and amusing. Bridges aid fences, the growing ^ come again, that the specter, hid- , . **. .. eous and bloomy, deformed and polluted, of corn, and springing cotton, together | suen a civil war as has never been witnessed the soil of the hill. rides, have all found a I j n modem times is slowly rising before their watery grave in the lowlands, which are all I vision! And it it is scarcely three years off. overflowed. Much damage has been done in However appalling the figure, we had better . ... , look full at it until, we comprehend some- tbis section, and farming operations^ will be thing of - t>untilits ligaments arc burnt in considerably delayed. It is consoling to upon our brains, until we arc fully aroused to know that the visitation came not a month I the necessity of the great duty of putting later. I forth efforts adequate to the extraordinary The freedmen in the country is doing as emergency, and to shield us from tho direful „ ,, , , . , , . calamity. The duty and the power are now well «is could bc expected, but numbers of in the thc £ eopUs no f the pet)p l e of lounging vagabonds of the “heroic race,” are 1 any one State or of any one section, but of loafing, and enjoying the privilege of steal-1 all (he States and of all sections. They can ing and going through the small pox, in the c ? n fr°l ov ^£to and they only can ward off suburb* of our city. Tbe Bureau having c,v ! 1 war ’ , d T V" Wedo not know, • ,, ... . . . “land cannot answer. It they are not lost to yielded a little to the civil authorities, it is their own interests and welfare, if their hoped that our courts will soon add to the I hearts are not shut to the instincts of self-pre- productive labor of thecountiy, or the length jservation, if they arc not hopelessly blind to of the chain-gang. Wc have had one small fu , t “ r . c P<??» bl ® ® iscr j c3 in Jr., , 4 I which all that they have suffered m the late exhibition of the effect of thc Civil Rights war wa3 m nothing and less than nothing, Bill: On Sunday afternoon, a few colored I they will gird their loins, they will rouse citizens, under the stimulus of bad whiskey I themselves as no people ever did before, and indulged their notions of equality to tho ex- overcome the obstacles to the settlement of tent of resisting the city police with knives our ^ional troubk’s before they become in _ . , surmountable and removable. Iney will do •hnd blows. They will, in due time, be taught or forbcar to do almost anything rather than the salutary lesson that jails and whipping subject themselves to the dark doom of > ivil posts arc tbe common inheritance of the black I war. and white violators of the law. The manufacturers ot New England, Pcnn- Tlie “finrinrr fiah** o»o n „l „„ I V»vw«a, and New York, the wool and pork- cause the dreadful scourge, which, commenc ing where tlic provoking circumstances are most abundant, travels tbe earth wherever t finds 'ood. Of course, in the time of infee tion, the cleanly who are exposed to the fa tal influence often suffer with the negligent, but the fact is undisputed that thorough ven tilation and deansing’disarm, if they db not prevent the pestilence. Tho French government, as our readers are aware, some time since dispatcheda com mission to investigate thc causes of cholera. The conclusion reached by their investiga tions is, that the Mecca pilgrimage is a sort of pestilence center. The introduction of steam navigation has doubled thc danger and the deaths. But cholera by no means succeeds upon every annual pilgrimage to Mecca. So admitting the cviU which follow the pilgrim age, we must look to the daily careless habits of the Orientals for the scourge that culmin ates at distant intervals. The poets have led us tb think of the East as a country of foun tains and perpetual baths and washings.— Nothing could be farther from thc truth.— Many ot the much-talked of ablutions are mere forms, not so thorough even as those of Tittlebat Titmouse. He did wipe off the soil with a damp towel. But thousands of thc Asiatics are crusted in dirt, which stays with them from childhood till they go back to the kindred dust in which they Jived all their days in a closer relationship than Christians have any idea of. A book recently published in England, the work of a governess in the harem of the Turkish Sultan, represents thc whole estab listunent as varying only from gilded to un gilded nastiness. The wives, whom the poets wouid have us think scarce human in their etherial personal purity, are dreadfully dirty, with populous heads, and xcept, at intervals, in a solvenly dishabille which Brigham Young would never endure. And their toil- etts are said to bc made without any regard to the useless trouble of soap and water. The poor negroes of Africa arc a thousand times os cleanly. These facts incline us to thc opinion that thi functions of the skin need special care and attention, if we would fend off the scourge. It is necessary that the public au thorities do their duty, that all offensive sub stances be removed from thastreets and lanes, and that house-holders carefully clear their premises of all decaving matter. But there are those who have not the op portunity, and there are too many who have not the inclination to attend strictly enough to personal cleanliness. If public baths could be established in cur crowded districts, and the people as well as the premises be scoured, a vash benefit would result. The wearing of flannel next the skin, especially by laborers, is ‘another precaution which all who can should adopt; and the army shirts now so common, would facilitate the general intro duction of thc custom. This flannel should be often changed; if daily, so much the bet ter. It has the advantage that it is easier to wash than cotton, and thus the want ot time of indigent housekeepers would be favored. Tbe sensible mechanic or laborer who will be sure not to sleep in the same flannel in which he has labored through the day, and who will not wear the same two successive days (even though that which he lays aside is merely ventilated) would find it such a cheap and easy course of hygiene, added to proper care of his premises and reasonable attention to diet, a preventive not only of cholera, but of many other diseases. Sailors choose flannel shirts for wear in the tropics. When once accustomed to them they are fonnd more pleasant than any other fabric. MR. WARREN’* ADDRESS. He tsid in eubstanee: ItisxMetfcr.astoaMemble mt tho xrarea of the unknown deed of the Confederate armVf to p*T a juM tribute of Aonor to their memory. Theta mothers aud titter* bam not been unmindful to “ Brine flower*, pale flower*,o’er tho btor to shed A crown for tho brow of tho early dead.”j Hare lie those who were om t the chiralront sons of irthor. embraced at a eomram brotherhood In the dpwd thamaalrea eaeh, aa a •aerifies on freedom 1 * iu a cauto which wo all iho icht then to b>-ju-L and t>to error of which has not vet been dem< mstrited. Thomare graretof a* noble ,-a it- cror eunk i- n- ..til the ro<J tide of battle. Vi.', r deed- an 1 cam.* aroinHUWOd a* Iho unwritten »- ,,M —our hearts. cherished, rue nobility j , j« rv«..- I ‘.‘hiv- idrv are appreciated. Both North and South wilt the-a honored dir.i-l ho loicd i.nd tdimred; their fame la n.i t.::* r:• •* - a- cv»T Mink ■ ; ^ Their dmeds and naznet ar*»nil»re#»«d as tho hi toryofa n.:. My ^ Wo will not i •ij-'t't th< rn; liber >tilll*i i„ t . i ,s 1 y s.utl.ern. *•> 1 ui ri v \ r -r Spring fights” opened on jes-1 ^w^r o fShto, tiiec^’and w£^roSn£ terday with wbat may be truthfully I oflndiana and Illinois and theNorthwest gen- stylcd “ a running fight.” Two irate eraily, the stock-raisers and tobacco-growers belligerents while locked in deadly Kentucky, and the cotton cultivators of the embrace fell on the shafts of a wagon in the °%*t lomakc commoncausc , , r _ ® . , and insist by all the rights of men and in the rear of tlic horse. Mr. Horso catching the I interests of a common humanity that a settle- spirit of the thief dashed away, sending his I ment of our difficulties shall bc made before heels to the rear, in dangerous proximity, to I tlm next Presidential election. Otherwise, thc heads of the combatants. Ho was soon *» no ■«*“** whatever that the terrible , , A . disasters we allude to will not come upon us. halted, and an examination proved that there Beyond that period, there will bc no common was “nobody hurt. 1 arbiter, and the power to effect a settlement Our ladies are prepairing to celebrate I will virtually have passed out of the hands of in a becoming manner, tho 2Gtb the tlie people- Beyond that is the shadow of day set apart for dressing with flowers, deatb -. Beyond that, with no previous settle- « rr*. j , « ' ment, is a vision of woes grotesque, uhape- the gravo of the Confederate dead. Col. horrible as ever Milton had of Pandc- Ramsey, who led the First Georgia Regi- raonium. Let our countrymen pause now; of ment to the war, is to be the orator of the I fill parties and of all sections; our country- day, and onr gardens, which are now bloom- m , eD > we racan ’ baT , e something to lose, . - . . ’ , , ., , who own property, who have families or 1 g beauty, will be laid under heavy I friends, who are just recovering, it may be, tribute by fair bands to commemorate tbe from the misfortunes of tbe past, or wbo have deeds of brave men. As this day will be gen I wept over new-made graves; let them pause eraily observed in a similar manner through- a ° d demand of the politicians a settlement it. w i * .v ... of our troubles while a peaceful settlement is out the South, who knows but that it may possiblef and before £ next p rcsid ential become an anniversary long to be hallowed by its beautiful and touching rites, The late speech of the President has rather revived the drooping spirits of our people.— He is evidently confident of ultimate triumph and not at all appalled at thc fearful odds he is called upon to face. Ex-Provisional Gov ernor Johnson has satisfied a very general cu riosity by giving, through the column of the “Enquirer” of this date, his evidence before tbe “Obstruction Committee” at Waseington. There is little noticeable about it, not suffi cient to induce any one to drag him from liis obscurity by comment. But little excitement about the approaching election for county Judge and Solicitor. Ice cream, strawberries and soda water, with other ante helium luxu ries, are plentiful in our market. Spring bon nets and dresses enliven the scene on our streets in a way that rather staggers one’s be lief in the stcrotvped cry of merchants that trade is dull.” We have full stocks of com, bacon and heavy groceries with a fair demand. Tlio almanac man lias predicted frost about election; and if those politicians will not hear and act and end thc strife while they can and may and ought, then let the people rise up in their might at the ballot-box and hurl from power any man and every man who persists, from whatever motive or with whatever pretense, in jeoparding the internal peace of this country and tho lives, the prop erty, and the rights of all citizens, Cart Semites.—We had the pleasure of meeting and shaking by the hand, in our office yesterday, this gallant gentleman who lias just returned from a Washington prison, into which lie was thrust by the Radical junta in the Cabinet, and from which he has been released by the justice and state.-maniike wis dom of the President. We are lsappy to find him looking in good health and spirits, and yet hopeful of the future freedom of this country, after its Government shall have pa.-sed' triumphantly through the storm of civil revolution which is now trying the strength and durability of its timbers. We cordially welcome Capt. Setnmes to his home again, tor his private virtues and public ser vices have endeared him to every true friend of con.-titutioual liberty in the land.—Mobile Adt. 21. Corpses Turned into Spermaceti. Tho Ashtabula (Ohio) Sentinel says: Mr. Atkins, the Recorder, informs' us that a curious discovery has been made in chang ing thc cemetery at Hartsgrove Center. On opening a number of graves, the remains were found to be complete in form,but changed in substance to a material in appearance be tween chalk^and tallow, and closely resem bling spermaceti. Mr. Winslow who was present at tho removal of most of the re mains, says he found at least a tenth of them so changed, some entirely, and some only in part The body of one old gentleman was found entire, with the woolen clothing upon it changed with thc body to this substance. Many very interesting facts of this kind* were observed, details of which we hope to obtain. It may be well here to remark, that this is not’ a new thing, and the change of bodies of men and animals to this material known as adipocere, has long been known to science. About a century ago, in some of thc cemeteries of Paris, where bodies had been buried in im mense trenches, holding thousands, the en tire mass wns found converted to adipocere, and repeated discoveries of the kind have been frequently made since—always where thc bodies were nearly or quite covered with water in the ground, as wc are told was the case in Hartsgrove. It may be counted upon with some certainty, that this will be the case in all cemeteries where the graves fill with fresh water, and remains filled, especial ly if thc ground be porus and springy. Affairs in Putnam. Putnam Co., Ga.., April 2$, 3863. Mr. Editor:—Wc have just been visited by a deluge. “It does not rain now-a-tlays, it pours.”, For the last four years the dis turbance in the natural elements have danced a devil's hornpipe pari passu with the demons in thc social, moral and political depart ments of this witch-ridden country. To in stance examples in my own neighborhood: I am ready to make affidavit to one war, one sirocco, one hurricane, two plagues, three deluges—with murder, suicide, rape, arson, burglary, Ac., &c.—thrown in to make it “thc truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the fmtli ^ “Tho JntnlL trt .. —.. .... .1 ^ jJ3F” Beast Butler, ono day last week, made a speech before the House of Representatives of the Pennsylvania Legislature. Among other things, he said: “Wc had conquered the South—conquered them of all their rights, except one—the right to be hanged. He had impoverished himself, and shed the blood of a brother and son in defense of the great principles for which they had fought, and he for one would never yield unless some of the leaders in tho rebellion were hung. The good and brave President Lincoln had, by public acts and private conversation, said that Jeff. Davis and General Lee should be hung. But An drew Johnson said these traitors should be admitted to their seats, and help to make laws for us.” A Reappearance.—A Waterloo soldier who was supposed to have fallen in the battle, and, accordingly, for fifty years bad bis name inscribed among the heroes of that action, has suddenly risen lrom the dead. It ap pears that one Win. West, a private in the Nassau force theu attached to the English army, disappeared in the battle, and, natu rally enougli, was numbered among the dead. Very recently, however, the identical indi vidual h lie had emigrated, if not in the moment wit hot.” Bubble, bubble,—boil, boil—toil and trouble. Reverend saints!! Beecher and Brownlow!! 1 Desciples of the meek and 1 owly Jesus!!!! Watch your religious pot. Wade and Steven-, and the black-Douglas- mighty statesmen—on whom lias fallen the mantles of. thc immortal Palmerston, Web ster, Moses and that other immortal dead one, to wit: Duck!! Watch your political cauldron. Beast Butler—tremendous Ele phant—Prince of New England society— watch your social kettle of spoiled cod-fish. The devil is intlic”—moral—“pot.” Cali ban is in the tempest—Michiavelli in the po litical cauldron, nnd the very old Freedom is in the decent aunt of Ham. About the crops—well, Mr. Sneed, they are about as non-com&atribus in vicowpo, as von ever saw >a mud turtle. Jesting l..: >. The fanners of this county, I think, havep :t their branch, creek and river bottoms in com: their uplands in cotton. To judge other places by my own, the com is gone, ancl the cotton “is yet to hear from.” Bad seed, and bad weather will make a bad stand. The season started propitiously. There was nev- in my experience, a better spring for breaking up and planting, but tbe work of tbe year will have to be done over again.— Mules lost, gin houses burnt, fences destroyed, corn to buy, cotton seed inferior, money nil, free labor to remedy the evil. The farmer, you see, has a sprinkling of vexations, as well as that miserable wretch, an editor, who don't smoke dead-hend cigars, who don’t sit in “easy chairs,” who don’t get circus ticket-, by the grab, who ain't waited on by a com mittee of pretty ladies on all occasions of fair, frolic, or festival. The man and the lion were disputing thc point of superiority : “See that picture in yon shop window?” says tiie man,—“See yon lion upon the ground, an .1 the man with his grip upon his throat ?” ‘Yes,” says the lion, “but man painted tile ficture. If I had painted it the man would iave been at the bottom, certain>ind shore.’ Tiiat blister is for your crAeCiencc, friend- Sneed. Put it on and bear it like a good fellow. If we poor farmers bad the ready use of pen, ink, wit ancl paper, we would daily paint a picture of a poor rebel farmer, with a patch on each knee, in the mud with freedman skinning a calf, dead of starva tion, for his hide, tallow and feathers; said hide and tallow to bc respresented in a sub sequent picture as stolen by said freedman, leaving said farmer with the-feathers. Look, on this pitturc, then on that—that rosy cheek ed editor, young, and handsome—I don’t mean you, friend Sneed—in an easy chair, pleasingly sipping a “new idea,” through his. goose quill—yon heartless rascal—I do mean you enemy, Sneed, About tho negro, in this settlement is working noislv, cheerfully, ir regular, buthe is working well. He working from tbe force of habit. He working to make something to set up for himself next year; not a single one intending to be a ^birecl hand” after this “spell.” He obedient Away from “town”and thc Freed- men’s Bureau, he is infinitely contented, labo rious, musical, yes, and thrifty. It is a mis take to say that the better sort are improvi dent. They have the same love of locality, and old association even their former masters, who have treated them well, shares some of their attachment. So much to his credit I do not think he will steal, never having known an instance of his doing so. The women men are strictly v—s. Fathers are attached their families, particularly where the chil dren are large enough to command wages. They nrc not easily influenced by superior intelligence. They now manifest a decided preference for fine teeth comb3 in lieu of the Jim Crow card. A village store keeper, who started business with twenty-two of said cards, is “busted” by twenty-two. This mer chant, I am glad to inform you, was not my friend, G. W., of Eatonton. In sobriety, Mr. Editor, there are many hard-working, clever negroes in old Putnam, to whom I am attached, and who have befriended me in more instances than one. And,'for ond. 1 intend to keep on the good side of Cuflee just as long as I con, and just us long as it does not conflict with my duty to those who arc nearer allied in color" More anon. . ; Rustycuss Putnam, Esq. A Sensible SIan.—Wc were told at Enter prise the other day that a negro doctor had located there, bought real estate, and would engage in thc practice of medicine. Ho is re presented ns a man of intelligence and some cultivation, decorous in his conduct, and re spectful to white people. He made an ad dress on Saturday night to liis colored friends, which some of them lacked the good sense to appreciate. He told them it was useless to expect equality with thc white race. He had travelled much over thc North and Europe, and nowhere was the negro on an equality.— In the city of New York he was not permit ted to ride in the same street cars with white people. He told them furthermore that it was a mistake to believe the Northern peo ple were any better friends to the negro race than the Southern people. The Southern men, he said, would prove to be their best friends. This black educated man is a native of Kentucky, and in his boyhood was in the family of one of thc Breekeuridges, who as sisted and encouraged him to acquire an edu cation.—Meridian Messenger. EP”It seems a hard matter for thc military to yield up any portion of their power and acknowledge the supremacy of the laws.— We see it stated that Gen. Thomas has order, ed thc commander of the garrison at Louis ville, Ky., to disregard a writ of habeas corpus that was issued* by U. S. District Judge Ballard, in the case of a man named Ilenderson. Would it not bc well for the President to take steps to r rerent all mis understanding on the part orthiilitary officers ? A circular from the War Department by, his authority, would be very edilying both as to rights and duties. Greenbacks as a Legal Tender.— Wc learn from the Augusta Chronicle that in Richmond Superior Court, now in session, Judge Hook has delivered a very able end elaborate opinion, in which he decided that returned from America, whither j in nil cases of contracts made before the ‘2 itii jrated, it not iti the moment when ; February 1802, (the date of the Act making the battle begun; at least before it was over, greenbacks a legal tender) coin, a lone, or ire and his regiment mustered. At liis own re- equivalent in currency was a cgal tender, quest Ids name .has been erased from the i Business men would do well to bear this in monument at Wisbaden, where it lias figured mind when settling t ieir chinas or contract:-, for half a century among the victims of the ; for purchases made anterior to the daq Nassau contingent. tioned above.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, April 30, 1866, Image 1