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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
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gl«ltlySel£gra||.
:T~^7trtiina on the Georgia Rail-
^Iff* »■
^ r *, H. Shorter, for several years
,v, Montgomery Advertiser, died at
in this State, on tlie 17tli*ult.
rniRLESTON AND SAVANNAH RaIL-
V* LterwnV bridge, over the Salke-
^ rircr. h*»lw® n rc I ,aired ’ and th ® rail *
, Inen to Salkehntchie Station.
|j,||OW u i ,w .
gf C irart3s to erect a building at
designed as a wholesale branch
f*'*’ 0 * ' jj’ cW york firm, which is intend-
^ snjthing of the kind in the South.
* To whst color does flogging change a
//w'-TrlJ’ l "' * ~
pfftt and 1 »«**•
rtirl' wc P rcsumc ’ is a dccided 5nl P rov ®-
. a, your estimation.
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RMATioss.—Among the confirmations
^Senate of the United States, wc find
' Tawing as Postmasters: Augusta, Ga.,
Slodgett; Atlanta, Ga., Wm. G. Fer-
ViCO i>, Ga., J. H- R^Voshington.
BIfT Court.—Wc have the authority
r the National Intelligencer for stating that
Dhtnct Court for the Northern District
'-tewia has been removed from Marietta
1 ^‘t*. The removal is mode by an act
•f Coup***- ^ ltT
^kthiso New.—The letter of Mont-
- frT g| a ir, in the correspondence pub-
rt Sri elsewhere in this paper, mentions a
hitherto unknown in the South, viz: that
« Lincoln, on his first election, offered Mr.
•'piHW s place in his cabinet. It was, to
the least, a very impudent thing in
fiber Abraham.
' foe letter of Mr. Stephens,
will attract attention.
That's theTai.k.—The N. Y. World, re
tain; to the second step of the Radicals to-
^.Js’war. says: “Let them go on if they
yijc bullets and the gibbets, however
^ which in that case would assuredly rid
aoftheinfiamersot our first and the plot-
0 ) our second civil war, may, after all, be
•itoaly way to a calm world and along
P**”
Xot Tri e.—From the best information wo
cm gather, the horrible story of an outrage
-pot a white lady by a negro in Merriwether
. .rty, and the subsequent flaying of the
villain, copied by us some days ago, from a
Columbus paper, is without foundation. We
rtnaot account for the origin of these stories,
tictpt on the hypothesis that there ore some
people who take a delight in seeing the
Northern Radicals rave.
As we Expected.—We perceive that the
telegraphic report of '‘three sporadic cases of
yellow fever’’in Savannah has induced the
Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel to insist upon
u immediate rigid quarantine of all steamers
u d railroad cars coming from the former
city. The next thing we hear will probably
be a quarantine of Savannah vessels at New
York, and the two together would effectually
cut off the transportation business of our sen-
l«oard city. Don’t be alarmed, friend Chron
icle, there is no real occasion for it.
t! J
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THE SOUTH AT PHILADELPHIA.
It is a matter of some public interest to
ascertain the exact course that it will be
proper and becoming for the Southern dele
gates to pursue in the approaching National
Convention at Philadelphia. Wc propose to
offer a suggestion or two on this point. This
joumnl bm earnestly, and honestly, advocated
the sending of delegates from the Southern
States, and ns it was done for a specific patri
otic purpose, we mny not be obnoxious to the
charge of arrogance when we point out the
only way in which that purpose can be ac
complished consistently with the rights and
dignity of the Southern people.
In the first place, it should be borne steadi
ly in mind,that the Convention is not a body of
>ur organization, and in which we are expect
ed to take leadingand prominent parts. The
Southern delegates go astlieyuest»of the con
servative people of the North. It is they who
spread the feast and invite us to partake of
it; consequently to them properly belong all
the “honors” of the occasion. This tact
well understood, there will be no difficulty
among Southern gentlemen in comprehending
their true relations to the body. It is there
fore clear that the organization and all the
leading movements of the Convention, should
be left to our hosts—the Northern delegates.
They should be .allowed to serve up such
dishes at this political banquet as may suit
their own peculiar tastes and opinions. We
can partake of tli«m or not, according as
they may suit, or be distasteful to, our own
political palates. Where they are good, we
should express our approval, and prove by
our acts that we enjoy them. Where they
are distasteiul- if such there should be-
Indian Springs, August 2,1SCC.
To the Kditors of the Telegr<iph:
OnTUDira:—I am happy to inform you
that the excitement created here by a suppos
ed case of small pox lias subsided, and that
a feeling of security again reigns in this rural
retreat. The object of consternation has left
his room, and is now mingling freely and
cheerfully with the crowd of visitors collected
at this place for purposes of health and pleas
ure. What was thought by some to be a
loathsome and dangerous disease, has turned
out to be nothing more than a cutaneous af
fection, the effects of which have almost
wholly disappeared. None need he deterred
from coming hitlici from the apprehension of
the presence of. any fatal epidemic.
There are now some 150 or 200 boarders
provided for in the three houses of entertain
ment located around this fountain of health.
The McIntosh House, of which B. AY. Collier
is the proprietor, has tbo largest patronage,
and may be considered the centre of attrac
tion. Thu table is loaded with the best of
the land, and the arrangements for popular
amusements are on a more magnificent scale.
The votaries of pleasure find here those
sources of gayety and excitement which are
so much coveted by that class of the commu
nity. ^
Dr. AYhitehead and Mr. Elder are both wor
thy gebtlemen, and have made ample provis
ion lor invalids and the lovers of case and
enjoyment. Most of their rooms arc filled
with intelligent and cultivated occupants,
who aro delighted with their accommoda
tions.
AH those who have tested the virtues of
these waters are satisfied of their superior
though wc hope not—wc can quietly, yet | medicinal properties. Thousands have been
The llox. C. C. Cj.at.—The report of the
Judiciary Committee says that Mr. Clay’s
statement that lie was not in Canada at the
time of Lincoln’s, assassination “is shown to
be t falsehood.” Tho Augusta Constitution-
aii‘t sajs Mr. Stanton's perjured mercenaries
might swear till they were black in the face
«in the heart, hut hundreds of honest citi-
iens of Augusta can testify to Mr. Clay’s ao-
jtura in our midst at the time specified by
the Judiciary Committee. All the testimony
it about equally valuable, and this infamous
<:bornation of witnesses to injure noble men;
a a disgrace to the Yankees and their so-
oiled civilization.
She of the Steamers Two Boys, Chas.
S. Hardee and Hell, Machinery, Ac., of
the Wm. II. Gibbons.—Yesterday noon,
Hews. Bell, Wylly & Christian, sold in front
of the Exchange, at public auction, the steam-
it Tiro Boys for #14,000 to Messrs. Erivin &
Hardee, the steamer Chas. S. Hardee for $17,-
WO to the same, and the hull of the AVm. B.
Gibbons for $5,000 to the same.
The sale was made for the purpose of clos
ing the interest in these vessels of certain par-
fi«a who weie desirous of disposing of them.
As soon as trade opens, tho Two Boys and
Hudee will resume their places on the Haw-
nasrile route, thus aflording a regular week-
•? tommunication between Savannah and that
PlMe.—Sir. Hep. '2d.
Pertinent, Very !—Among the questions
propounded to the candidates for Coroner, of
Autism county, is the following: “ Are you,
cr *« you not, in favor of the Philadelphia
Convention
V* would suggest another—do you believe
'tatthc world is round or flat ?
H is believed that correct opinions on these
lotions are absolutely essential to a proper
““demanding and administration of the du-
hro of Coroner.
A Narrow Escape.—Col. Henry 31. Ashby
^hited in Atlanta AVednesday evening, hav-
Btode the trip from Knoxville on horse-
Uck. The “Brownlowites” were after him
f° r the “murder” of some of their pets, and
kleft to avoid occupying McC flnn ’ s recently
T *Wed quarters. So says the Era.
&“Gcd. Terry has at fast issued an order
^ oppress the negro milita£p parades that
t * Te been so distasteful to the citizens of
firmly, reject them, and that without giving
or taking offense.
Tin great objects of the Convention are
in reply to J friendly, and of a truly patriotic character.
The motive that has induced a large portion
of the Northern people to invite their South
ern brethren to come forward and assemble
with them around the council-board, is a de
sire to restore our lost rights, and save the
Constitution from overthrow. Such a motive
repels the idea of improper designs or unrea
sonable claims on their part. AYe believe
nothing of the kind will be developed at tbe
Convention. AVhen the South shall agree to
abide the settlement of arms, with
out regard to her political opinions or
course of the past, and to sustain
the Union under the Constitution for the fu
ture, we believe site will be held as having
discharged her whole duty to the Convention
and to the country, and to have qualified her
self for the enjoyment of every right and prin,
ilege.
If, however, it should become necessary in
the course of the proceedings for the South
ern delegates to remonstrate against any par
ticular proposition or measure, and to de
clare the limit of Southern opinion and in
tention, it should be done discreetly and in
all kindness—not with that offensive bravado
of speech and manner to which the political
orators of the South are, alas! too prone.
AYc believe the Northern members
will propose nothing to which we can
not subscribe with honor to our section; yet
should principles on abstract questions to
which wc cannot assent be announced, we
should simply declare onr dissent, and not
get into a huff and dissolve all connection
with the body and its objects; for if we can
not agree with them, pray where are we to
6u«l friends who will do better, if as well by
ns t If the Convention shall pledge itself to
admit the South to a just representation in
the various departments of the government,
to abolish all discriminations against her peo
ple, to resist all encroachments upon the Fed
eral Constitution, and to make reunion com
plete in fact as well as in theory—we say if
this should be done, the South should stand
by the Convention, even though it should ex
press opinions oh abstract political questions
with which we may not fully agree. They
will have done everything practical for the
removal of tyranny and the restoration of our
rights, and we shall be guilty of great folly to
split with them upon abstractions about gov
ernment One thing is true beyond all ques
tion, and that is, there is nobody else that will
grant us as much.
AVliat our people want is their liberty—the
liberty to think, net and vote for themselves,
the liberty they enjoyed before they were
driven into revolution by perpetual war upon
their rights and leelings. Give us this, and
the North may sing peons to political dogmas
and theories to its heart’s content.
restored who have suffered from chronic dis
eases, and ior nearly all nervous and hepatic
disorders nature has provided in this roman
tic region a sovereign remedy. AYe know ot
no better place in this sunny land to recruit! Sergt R S West, co F, 10th Tenn.
the exhausted energies of ali classes than the j I® 1 ®* f co \
T ° _ Sergt M P Bern-, co A, 55th Tenn.
Indian Springs. D. J s c Hester, co K, 18tl. Ain.
Corporal M McAddo. co H, 46th Tenn.
Confederate Dead at Milner, Ga.
Liberty Him.. Pike Co., Ga., )
August 1st, 18CG. \
Mean. Editor* Telegraph: Pursuant to pre
vious notice, the citizens of this section as
sembled at the Confederate grave yard this
day, which is near Milner, Georgia, for the
purpose of paying a suitable tribute of re
spect to those noble heroic martyrs who shed
their blood in defense of Constitutional lib
erty. Their graves were enclosed, the sod
which had been trodden down replaced, &c.
There was quite a number of the lairest of
the fair who animated the sterner sex to a
discharge of their duty, and furnished them
with a sumptuous dinner. All that were pre
sent did their duty cheerfully, and proved
conclusively by their works that they yet
cherished a high regard for those fallen
braves whose remains lie mouldering in a dis
tant land far from kindred. There are eigh
ty-nine buried there, but from tbo names of
some being defaced and obliterated, I could
only make out correctly the names of seven
ty, which I send you for publication. The
Griffin Herald, Atlanta Era, Nashville Ga
zette, Memphis Appeal, Louisville Courier,
Montgomery Mail, and Jackson Mississip.
pian, will please copy.
n. Clay Alexander.
NAMES OP THOSE WHO ARE BURIED AT THE
CONFEDERATE GRAVE YARD NEAR MILNER,
FIRE COUNTY, GEORGIA.
Capt D B Lattimore, co G, 54th Miss.
Capt C C Wood, co B, 4th Tenn cavalry.
Lt J E Harril, co A 0th Texas.
Lt AY Fulghum, rn F, 3(1 Ga.
Dr J W Morrison, Lt co B Cth Ark.
Lt F McCulloch, co A, 154th Tenn.
Lt G G Ussery, co D, 24th Miss.
Lt A\ r H II Barke-, co D, 15th Texas,
Lt J M Fulgum, co G, 9th 3Iiss.
Lt D S Coleman, co D, 33d Miss.
Sergt Maj J R Delf, 00th Ga.
Sergt D Johnson, co C, 10th S C.
Sergt J H Ramsey, co II, 5th Tenn.
Corporal J II Duke, co D, 27th Miss.
PRIVATES.
J R Skinner, 35th Miss.
J J Johns, co F, 4th Fla.
P P Seaton, co B, 28tli Miss.
AY M Wright, co K, 12th Tenn.
E McClure, co A, 1st Ala.
AY H Richards, co A, 154th Tenn.
G E lVilli&ms, co B, 30th Tenn.
John See, co C, 10th Texas.
James Guthrie, co II, 19th La.
OBJECT OF THE LOUISIANA CONVENTION-
ISTS. i
A correspondent of the New Yoik Times,
writing from New Orleans on the 24th ult.,
when the recent Convention row wa9 brew
ing, makes the following statement of the in
tentions of the Radicals in calling together
that body:
The object of the “ Convcntioners” is plain
ly stated in a few words. They propose to
meet for the purpose of disfranchising all vo-; AY H Vanmeter, co H, Cth Ky.
ters who registered themselves as public ene-1 A Appling, co F, 57th Ala.
mics of the country, and other obnoxious i G AV Mills, Sheldon’s Battery,
persons, who wero prominent in promoting j A Cobb, co I, 3d Florida,
the rebellion, and further to enfranchise the ; e Grigsby, co K, 10th Texas,
freedmen. The last election, at which the j s AVillianis, co K, 24tli S C.
freedmen voted separately from the whites, i F G Manse, co C, 11th Texas,
discloses the fact that in round numbers ! J C Parmalec, co K. 57tli Ga.
there are twenty-two thousand ex-rebel votes, D Montgomery, co II. lltli. Tenn.
nineteen thousand freedmen’s votes, and i ft c Patton, co C, 10th Texas,
five thousand Radical Union white votes. The D. L Wade, Stanford’s Battery.
Radicals, by securing the votes of the freed-; AV O Ward, co K. 82d Texas,
men, hope to gain the supremacyln the State, J Vanderekec, co B, 51st Ala Cav.
although tbe contest would be closers many H C Hawkins, co B,' lltli Tenn.
of the blacks would undoubtedly follow the A II Duncan, co B, 29tli Ala.
lead of their old masters. The disfranchise- j G W Burton, c <* K, 9th Ark.
ment of the whites would, however, proba-1 F XV Oppelt, co A, 35th Miss,
bly be extensive enough to secure their ob-, N F Cavr, co G, 17th Ga.
jeet. With this aim in view, they know i B R Benson, co B, 25th Ala.
very well that they would not receive the J D Bryant, co B, 40th Ga.
co-operation of the President, and have con- ~
sequently sent Judge Howell to Washington
to secure their recognition by Congress.
Some of them fear military intorlcrence, and I
have heard it publicly stated that tue Gover
nor would call on the President for assistance
in dispersing the Convention when it meets,
Again, I have beard it loudly proclaimed that
the Governor favored the whole plan. From
this brief statement of lacta.it will De readily
imagined that some excitement exists here.
The white population of the State is organ
ized os a militia force, and the Governor has
promised to authorize a similar organization
of the freedmen, separate from the whites.
If this is done in time, which is not probable,
it will not be strange if some blood is spilled.
Sherman on the Burningof Southern Cities.
The following extract from a speech by
General W. T. Sherman, on the fourth of
July, contains avowals which render palpable
the falsehood of the charge that Columbia
was burned by General Wade Hampton
J A George, co K, 17th Ala.
T J Withers, co F, 49th Tenn.
G 31 Tucker, co A, 25th Ala.
W Thomas, co F, 1st G 31.
AY D Nimo, co D, 12th Tenn.
W C Aycock, co A, 20th Tenn.
AV Jolly, co G 20th Ala.
J P Hall, co H, 1st G 31.
AV AV AVeed, co E, 53d Ala Cav.
B F Rountree, cu D, co*u XU
T M Hoy, co H, 27th Miss.
E Freeman, co D, 24th S C.
H B Hammond, co G, 15th Texas.
A J Chandler, co D, 40th Ga.
31 Hawkins, co II, 50th Ala.
J Shaw, co E, 29th Ala.
T Nichols, co K, 10th Texas.
E M Harris, co E, 1st Ga Batt.
J A A S Carden, co E, 30th Ala.
A Roscnthum, co B, 54th Ala.
G AV AVaters, co B, 9th Tenn.
A Troy, co B, 4th Ala.
0T A case of sun-stroke occurred in Co-
l«obus, Tuesday last The party was rccov-
**“8 »t last accounts.
. The Atlantic Telegraph.—The connec-
‘■° a °f this cable with the main land is not
»t complete. The line that lately connected
” # H Scotia and Newfoundland has l-cen
roken, and a steamer has to be employed to
"® T *y dispatches across the Bay of St. I aw-
a distance of about eighty miles. This
yttk in the telegraphic communication ccca
»delay of five or six hours in the ttans
®***ion of dispatches between Europe and
“TOtrica. But the New York and Newfound-
Telegraph Company had made arrangc-
for restoring the link across St l^aw-
{**<: Bay before the Atlantic Telegraph Ca-
B **** aucceasfhlly laid, and will now Lurry
“P tie work.
Tzxa*.—We learn from late Texas papers
returns bad been received of tho vote of
counties in the late election, and that in
j^ree counties Throckmorton (for Governor)
votes, and Pease 7,945. In the
«ir*»ttn>ber of counties (but probably not
■mrffi® r t ft® 8a ro® counties) the vote ot. the
„ a<lmeats of tho Constitution stood--for
«amendments 17,833, against 14,307. It
Uj yawderod certain that the amendments
mJS? ad ®Pted. Fifty-three countits re-
“•-ned to be heard from.
A Narative of Andersonvim.e. drawn
from the evidence elicited on the trial ot
Henry AVirz, the Jailor, with the argument
of Col. N. P. Chipman, Judge Advocate.
By Ambrose Spencer. New York; Har
per & Bros.; 1800.
Through a friend we, have come in posses
sion of this work, and what is more we have
taken the trouble to read it, our acquaint
ance with the author having excited our cu
riosity to know what ho had to say. The
work is in keeping with the character of the
well-known writer—or perhaps we should say
compiler, for it is simply a rehash from the
record of all the abominable lies sworn to on
the trial of Wirz, corroborated and illustra
ted by such inventions as the established ca
pacity of the author in that peculiar line
could afford. Spencer is a Swiss by nature,
and ns Andersonville was quite a sensation,
to a suppose he concluded there wAs money in
it, and hence this lmok. One of the greatest
frauds about it is tho dating of his preface at
“Americus, Georgia, 1806,” thus making it
appear that the book is a Southern produc
tion. Spencer, we hear, is now' living at the
North, and is a northern man by birth |
though anything in principle that will pay.
He is the son of the Into Hon. John C. Spen
cer, of New York', but was sent adrift in early
life, and has lived for some years, with a va
riety of occupations, in a number of Georgia
communities, so long in each as it would tol
erate him and furnish him with borrowed
money never to be returned. “Played out
entirely, wc learn be went North early in
say. [“That’s right.”] I care not what they
say, but I say that it has ceased to be our du
ty' to guard their cities any longer, and bad
I gone on stringing out our column, little by
little, little by little, some of your Illinois
regiments would have never have got home,
and you would have been crushed. There
fore, I let go the whole country; took one
army myself, and gave my friend George II,
Thomas one, and wc whaled them both.—
[Great applause.]
“Therefore, if Atlanta was destroyed, and
Colombia and Savannah, and all the cities of
the South had been destroyed, I say it would
have been right, because it was necessary to
produce the results in view.”
The 3Laoxetic Telegraph of Georgia
Origin.—The Atlanta New Era reproduces
the following incident:
There is an incident connected with the
history of the magnetic telegraph which is
not generally known. Moreo, the inventor of
the telegraphic line, owes his fame to a plain,
unpretending, but intelligent citizen of Co
lumbus, Georgia, They were riding together
in a stage coach during a thunder storm,
when the Georgian took occasion to remark
his settled conviction, that in a few years
Electricity would lie employed as a medium
of communication between distant points.—
This excited the curiosity of the New Eng
land philosopher, and the Georgian was ask
ed to explain, anil to adduce the reasons for a
belief in what then seemed so absurd a theo
ry. The Georgian proceeded to state liis
theory with great promptness and precision,
and :o support it with arguments based upon
scientific facts which evinced great iamiliari-
tv with the subject, and which enlisted the
respectful attention of all present. This was
the startinir point. 3Iorsc had imbibed an
idea.' He went to work upon it, anil finally
I |, _ succeeded in connecting bis name with the
the present year, and his old neighbors no, jrraridest combination of art and science
doubt wish their brethren of that section known to modern times.
In some ot his published works 3Ir. Morse
mentions this incident, but does it in a very
ungrateful, undignified and clumsy manner.
He concedes that he received his first idea
on the subject “fo>m a drunken doctor” who
was his traveling companion during a thun
der storm ! That “drunken doctor” is still
livin'' within a stone's throw cl Columbus,
where he lias many ardent friends, and where
lie is known to be a sober man. None but
AMERICUS & HAAVKINSVILLE RAILROAD.
Just now a spicy controversy is progressing
“You all may remember that when wc had anion" several of our contemporaries over
taken Atlanta fairly and openly, it looked as j t , of a railroad from Hawkins- savs .
though our army would be strung out on a f . , . .. ,, a®?? •
line of six or seven hundred miles, and the ' T,de 1° Americas. AYe stand neutral In the
head of the column would be but a few di-1 fight, but must say that after the last sally of
visions anil brigades. AYe were strung out, the Sumpter Republican the rest of the conv-
from Nashville clear down to Atlanta. Had j hatants should throw up the sponge, knock
fiSSwhSrsSSj”-"*-**""«r u - n ' re
attacking the little head of the column and ! melo-drama in a nutshell:
crushing it ? Therefore, I resolved in a mo-1 Railroad to II.vwkinsville.—Acorres-
ment to stop the gapnc of guarding their cities, ^ pondent in to-day’s paper recommeuda the
ard to destroy their cities. [Sensation.] i building of a railroad from this place to
“Now, my friends, I know that, all the j Jiawkinsville. -Ourcitizensseemto tavor the
world over, there are parties that denounce ' enterprise, and have taken hold ot it with a
me as being inhuman. I care not what they determination of pushing it through. Be
fore giving our views on the subject, wc shall
await further developments.
'[iwmter Itepulliean
Another Report oil tlie Case of
Jefferson Davis.
On Saturday, Mr. Rogers, of New Jersey
from the minority of the Judiciary Commit
tee of the House of Representatives, made a
report on the case of Jefferson Davis. The
AYasliington Herald says.
The report declares the charge of compli
city made against Mr. Davis not only absurd,
but the mere work of malice and avarice, and
claims that the testimony adduced was a
chain of flimsy fabrications. And these as
certions Mr. Rogers bases upon the testimony
of tbe accomplices Conover and Montgome
ry. Mr. Rogers believes that the exposition
of this plot so invalidates any testimony
coming through the hands of 3Ir. Holt that
it renders all belief in tbe charges against
Davis, Clay, Tucker, et al, impossible.
The nature of this testimony is best shown
by extracts therefrom :
“May 8,1800.—Campbell’s testimony.—The
testimony of this witness, taken by Jiidnc
Holt, was read to him in the committee-room,
and he was asked if it was true, and he re
plied : No; it is all false.
“Why did yon make it ? "'
“I was informed by Mr. Conover that Judge
Holt had offered a reward of $100,000 for the
capture of Jefferson Davis; that lie had no
authority really to do it; that now that Jef
ferson Davis was taken, they had not enough
against him to justify them in what they had
done; that Judge Holt wanted to get wit
nesses to prove that Davis was interested in
tbe assassination of President Lincoln, so as
to justify him in paying the $100,000.”
Speaking of the women that had testified
in Holt’s ofiice to corroborate Conover, Camp
bell says at this examination: “Sarah Doug-
is not her real name. Her name was
Dunham. There was one other woman s worn,
Her name given was assumed. One was
Conover’s wife, and the other liis sister-in-law.
Tbe one that called herself Sira. Dunham is
Conover’s wife. Conover’s name is Caarles
Cunham. Conover told me that if I engaged
in it, it was not going to hurt anybody ; that
Jeff. Davis would never be brought to trial
and that if this evidence got to him lie
would leave the country. Conover di
rected me to assume the* name of Camp
bell. There was a person described by
that name who was supposed to be implicated
in that affair, and I was representing this
party. He met Conover, in the first place, b;
the appointment of Snevcl. Snevcl said
could make money out of it. 3Ioney was my
motive. I received six hundred and twenty-
five dollars. I received one hundred dollars
from Conover and five hundred dollars from
Judge Holt. I got one hundred and fifty
dollars at Boston, and one hundred at St. Al
bans. I went to Canada to hunt up a witness
to swear false, who was to represent Lamar.
Srievel and Conover together arranged with
me to go to Canada. Snevcl saw tho written
evidence I was to swear to after Conover
wrote it.
3Iay 24, 1800.—Joseph Snevel sworn: his
right name is AVilliam H. Roberts. His de
position before Holt, read to him, and signed
Joseph Sncvil, he stated wus false Iron), be
ginning to end. Conorer wrote out the evi
dence, and I learned it by heart. I made it
to make money. I received three hundred
and seventy-five dollars from Holt, and one
hundred dollars from Conover. I told Con
over that I was coming on here to testify to
tbe truth; that I had not had any rest since I
swore to what I did. Ilqsaid I would be in
a worse fix than I was now. This was on
last Saturday, no said things would be
settled and there would be no further trouble.
AVlien the false evidence I was to swear to
was read over to me by Conover, Campbell
and Conover's brother-in-law (Mr. Ansen)
were present. Conover told me he knew
what Holt would ask me, and Conover asked
me the same questions. I gave this evidence
before Holt. AYhen I was wrong Conover
would nod his head. Conover was present
when I was sworn by Holt. AYhen Contfver
would nod, 1 would then correct it as near ns
I could. Campbell, Conover, and Holt were
E resent. Campbell and I rehearsed at the
otcl in AYashington. Conover said ‘I was
asked if such a sum would be satisfactory ?
said it would. I can't tell how much I re
ceived. Conover was an agent ot tue otov
emmeut to hunt up evidence.’.”
Conover has escaped, as already stated.-
3Ir. Rogers wn9 kept from seeing the evidence
in possession of tbe committee for selection
and arrangement till 12 o’clock on Friday,
the House adjourning on Saturday.
3Ir. Rogers cfoses his report by urging the
speedy trial of 3Ir. Davis, and agrees with
the majority of the committee in seeing no
need ot additional legislation to try 3Ir. Davis
for anything unless it be the design to try
him by expo*facto acts of Congress.
IIow Mr. Davis’ Imprisonment is Regard
ed in i-.'iiglaml.
The London Cosmopolitan in its review of
Dr. Craven’s “Prison Life of Jefferson Davis,”
The Half Not Told
Ben C. Truman, one of the traveling cor
respondents of tbe New York Tinier and
who, some time ngo, was sent by Government
to quiet the feuds at Jacksonville, writes from
Beaufort, S. C., in the Times, of the 23d.
He says that Beaufort contains from fifteen
hundred to two thousand white people, “al
most all of whom are genuine Yankees—all
rich, too—thanks to the fiite of war and the
existence of direct tax commissioners.” After
some preliminary remarks upon the nature
and disposition of these people, he goes on
to say:
I tell the readers of the Times, that Gens.
Steadman and Fullerton have not told half.
These colored people have been swindled be
yond all consideration; and if the Freed
men’s Bureau Bill, now before the House, be
comes a law, God help the colored men of
the South, say L
The most distinguished and most success
ful of all these negro robbers is a former
chaplain, known as Father French, who has
in the past four years accumulated a quarter
Ol’R CHESS DEPARTMENT.
1 in this column
Weekly Tltgraph.
All those inter
should subscribe for the 1
Macon, Ga. $4 per annum.
Communications on matter-pertain
ing to Chess are solicited, and should be ad
dressed to “ Chess Editor " of the Telegraph.
CLUBS.
AV e hope the players of our neighboring
cities will unite in tbe formal ion of Chess
(tubs, and get up some interesting matches
by Telegraph. AVc will be glad to iieur of
the formation of any such clubs, and will,
with pleasure, chronicle their organization.
AYc know that Atlanta, Augusta, and Colum-
allbus can boast some fine players.
IF« willingly place upon cur exchange
list the Kingston (N. Y.j Journal, in which
there is a very interesting Chess column.
over the return of the prodigal
is the dedication of the
protect the truth !
much joy
son.
The following
book:
•To the few brave men who have sur
vived THE HORRORS of TnEIR IMPRISON
MENT lt Andersonville, this imperfect
recital of their wronos and sufferings
is respectfui.lv inscribed by TnE Au
thor.” ... , - . ,
If the world is to depend for history on in terms other than those ot respect and venc-
sucli men as Ambrose Spencer, then Heaven ration.
km York, July •»1. A AV asli-
ington special savs the 2d Comptroller of the
Treasury is of opinion that the bill for the
equalization of bounties is inoperative in con
sequence of serious delects in tho wording of
the first section.
Tho movement is premature and will be
superceded by a railroad, contemplated to be
built some day, from Ilawkinsvillc to Thom-
asville, on the east side of Flint River, with
a branch to 3Iacnn via Fort Valley.—Citizen.
So says the Sumter Republican, and so says
the Georgia Citizen, but it is all a mistake.—
Tho railroad is to go to tho newly discovered
gold mine near Augusta, where ample funds
will be furnished for its completion, and it is
to have a feeding branch from Swainsboro.—
Journal <£ Messenger.
None of your reflections, gentlemen, on onr
contemplated Railroad. Stranger things have
happened than this. AYe tell you now, that
notwithstanding all your slurs, this road will
certainly be built. Capitalists have taken
hold of it, and we learn that books of sub
scription will be opened in a few days. AYhen
this road is completed, good bye*3Iacon.—
Our Macon cotemporaries will have to pull
up stakes and come to Americus. We will
give them a cordial greeting. Three cheers
for the Americus and Hawkinsville Railroad.
—Sumpter HepuhUean.
A letter to the Atlanta Intelligencer
from AA’ashington, makes mention of several
persons who have, in different spheres, figured
in the late political history of Georgia. It
seems that N. S. 3Iorsc, late of the Augusta
Chronicle & Sentinel, has turned up again,
and is trying to “raise funds,” as usual. Says
the letter:
A nomadic creature, whose character is
somewhat familiar to Georgians, has been in
AYashington lor some days. He has some
ambition of re-embarking in the newspaper
business in the State ot Georgia, and hence
is endeavoring to raise funds to establish a
simon-pure Union paper in your State, nc
holds that there is not such a paper in the
State, except, perhaps, the Loyal Georgian,
which can ill afford to support two such. I
allude to N. S. 3Iorse, formerly of the Chroni
cle and Sentinel. He is as foul-naoutliecl in
his denunciation of the Southern people as
any of the Radical Crew. He applied to Josh
Hill to aid him, but that gentleman peremp-
. torily declined. Capt. Bryant, of the Bureau,
3fr. 3rorse, we briieve, ha> ever spoken of him 1 is also here, and was welcomed on the floor
of the House. This is intended as a rebuke
The Freedmen’s Bureau in Princess
Vnne countv, Va„ have decided that a negro
who stole a* gentleman’s breeding sow and
kept her until after she had pig. 1 *, may keep
all the pigs if lie returns the sow.
to General Tillson. Father French is fre
quently invited to open Congress with prayer.
This is intended as a rebuke to Steedman and
Fullerton.
Prentice says that the man who ob
jects to tbe adornment of Confederate graves
would scarcely hesitate to violate them.
■ To us this book is a very sad one; wc
scarcely found heart to read it, and we have
still less to write an elaborate review. It is not
so much from sympathy with the illustrious
prisoner, whom, in the day of his Senatorial
and 31inisterial fame, we Were proud to call
our friend, and we shall feel still prouder if
he continues to call us his friend in the day
of his adversity—it is not so much the pang
one naturally feel9 on looking at tlie cugecl
eagle or tlie chained lion that makes this
“Prison Life” the saddest of books; it is the
shame and sorrow we feel for a great nation
who make a victim of their captive and torture
their heroic prisoner in very wantenness and
vindictive cruelty. Jefferson Davis was
manacled with heavy irons, as well as imured
within loathsome prison walls. And the deg
radation inflicted upon the ten millions of
people whose cause he represented—a cause
lor which he risked all but honor—a cause
which lie vindicated for four fearful years
with a zeal, a courage, a heroism, that com
manded even the admiration of all that was
manly in the hearts ot his enemies. Whether
he was right or wrong in the great secession
movement is a question we do not propose to
discuss. Let it sleep in the graves of its mar
tyrs. -It is enough to say that the entire
South, educated in the school of State Sov
ereignty, most religiously believed in the
right of secession from the federation; and
they held the doctrine that the citizen’s first
allegiance was due to the State—as the child’s
first obedience is due to its mother—not to
the Federal Government. Before the war
3Ir. Davis was a man whom the people de
lighted to honor
* * * He was universally re
garded as one of the ablest statesmen in
America. And yet this man, defeated in *a
cause which he thought as iust as the old rev
olution—a revolution in which success chang
ed the name of AA’ashington from “rebel” to
hero, almost to demi-god—despoiled of
wealth, of health, of honors; banished from
the sweet consolation of domestic sympathy,
from intercourse with friends; debarred the
privileges of reading except, by a species of
pious mockery, tbe Bible, with the ever fixed
bayonets and ever-fixed eyes of sentinels in
liis cell, not even allowed tbe blessed relief of
darkness by which God soothes the vilest of
his creatures to sleep; under all the priva
tions, hardships and humiliations, the 3Iinis-
ters of the 3Iodel Republic inflict upon the
emaciated limbs of this world weary old man
the torture of irons—of irons ^hat gnaw the
flesh from his ankles! But we turn from tbe
beart-s'ekening picture. Let the veil of
Iphigenia fall upon the victim.
AYc will close this article with a “little an
ecdote.” In calling on a certain financial
speculator the other day, who, though born
in Ireland, Irish-like claims to be an Ameri
can—be accused us of having called Jeffer
son Davis, in a recent number of this jour
nal, the Illustrious prisoner of Fortress Mon
roe 1 We ventured mildly to repeat the
words: “3Ir. Davis is an illustrious prisoner.”
AAliereupon the Irish-American patriot burst
out in these words: “Jeff. Davis is a damned
black-hearted scoundrel who ought to be
hung.” Of course we bowed ourselves out
of the presence ofsuch intolerance incarnate.
Truly, in men’s judgments, there is nothing
meritorious but success. Three weeks ago
Count Bismarck was the blackest-hearted
scoundrel in Europe. To-day ho heads the
list of statesmen!
We have written
you.
We expect 6oon to have some original Prob
lems for our column.
EfF* Why cannot the New York players
revive the Chess 3Ionthly ? We need a Chess
3Iagazine in America, and believe it would
be handsomely sustained. Let a ProspcctUB
bo issued.
PROBLEM KOm G.
BLACK.
k JUL
N. M., New York. Your letter is receiv-
of r rn1monlolla^°in^ *r^l H «tafe S cd and a “swcred. Can’t you send us the ad-
Even the Northern people here, to a man, J drestes asked in your 2nd letter ?
pronounce Father French tlie Tycon of all N. J. H„ Atlanta. Yours with the names
? n H™ b ,^ n ? e i bad «® n -Saxon completely rece ivcd. Thank yon.
under 1113 control, and got lnm into bad re-
pute. He was ordered away from the auction 31. J. H. We shall be greatly pleased to
sales by tlie Direct Tax Commissioners, but see “Brevity and Brilliancy” in Chess, and ex-
mannged to buy all the property ho bid on, pect to make frequent use of it. Our copy
which was considerable. Gen. Saxon is a , . . , ,
frightful fanatic, and while a Commissioner has not J et come to hand,
of Freedmen did a world of harm. But
the accounts of Gen. Saxon swindling the
negroes are strictly untrue, as arc also the re
ports of his being mixed up in the direct tax
sales greatly exaggerated. The only case in
the latter charge that can be substantiated, is
tbe fact that he became possessed of the most
palatial mansion in Beaufort for a mc-rc song.
I have met several of the warmest triends of
Gen. Saxon liero, who scout the idea of his
ever personally being connected with any ne
gro-swindling operations, who say that his
purchase of the house above alluded to was
a fraud. If it had been bid in fairly, and
tbe Commissioners inform me this, it would 1
have brought ten thousand dollars. As it
was, Gen. Saxon got it for two thousand, as
there was no competition—the whole commu
nity agreeing that he should have the proper
ty-
Another correspondent, writing from Beau
fort, say8 of the venerable old scamp :
Father French’s operations extend from
here to Charleston, both in the purchase of
real estate and in running plantations. His
modus operand! in the purchase of land was
as follows : Thousands of acres of tiuc land
were laid off and called soldiers’ tracts, to be
sold to soldiers at certain low prices. Father
French would buy in these lots ostensibly for
the soldiers, tlie latter being present at the
sales; but in almost all cases the certificates
ultimately found their way into Father
French’s pockets. Bat his negro swindling
operations beat everything. He is the big
gest planter South Carolina ever had. • He is
running thousands of negroes, and running
them into debt and into their graves. They
are all in debt to him, on account of his lofty
charges for meal and Attleborough jewelry.—
For certain reasons, I will not give this bad
man at this time the full extent of my knowl
edge of his operations in South Carolina. He
has been sent for from AYashington; but it is
the common expression here that he will pull
the wool over the eyes of the authorities there.
TnE Authorship of Junius.—Among
the many singular revelations made during
the recent trial of the royal scandal case in
London is one which, if it be true, clears up
the long disputed point as to the authorship
of the letters of Junius. They were written
by Dr. AVilmot, liis granddaughter asserts, to
obtain redresss from George III, who, writh
ing under their sharp lash, was induced to
sign certain certificates testifying to the mar
riage of Olive AVilmot and the birth of her
child. The youthful Olive made the discov
ery accidently, when she was but fourteen
years old. She chanced to take from her
grandfather’s library some loose sheets of old
manuaeiipis to scribble and draw upon, umi
they were found to be some of the letters of
Junius,
\m
*
WHITE.
White to play and give mate in three moves.
The following skirmish, taken from Lou-
enthall’s Magazine, is offered in support tf
the thesis that there exists a perfectly satisfac
tory detencc to the Ruy Lopez Kt.’s Game.
Ruv Lopez Knight’s Gave.
White. Mr. Stipworth.
1. P to K fourth
L Kt to K It third
3. K It to Q Kt fifth
4. lt to Q k fourth
6. Castles.
(S. P to Q third (»)
7. B to OKt third
5. U to K Kt filth (b)
9. B takes Kt
10. P to Q B. third
11. P takes Kt
13. U Kt to u second
13. K Kt to K square
14. PloKB third (e)
15. Q to K second
Id. Kto R square (!)
IT. K Kt to Q B second
18. K to Kt square
19. P to K R third
39. P takes II.
31. Q to K Kt second
Black. Mr. Mreyte.J
1. P to K fourth
2. Kt to Q B third
3. P to OR third
4. Kt to K B third
5. B to K second
(i. P to Q Kt fourth
7. P to Q third
8. Kt to (J B fourth (cj -
9. B takes B
10. Kt takes B
11. Castlas
12. B vo K second
13. P to K B fourth (di
14. P io KB fifth
13. R t» B third
10. K to K R third
17. B to IC R filth
18. B to K Kt sixth (g)
19. Q B takes K P
20. R takes P
21. Q to KR fitltt
Common Scolds.—The Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, at its recent session, decided in
the case of Elnor 3Iohn, of Lehigh county,
that a woman can be indicted as a common
scold. Judge AYoodward, in delivering the
opinion of the Court, said: “ As to the un
reasonableness of holding women liable to
punishment for a too free use of their tongues,
it is enough to say that the common law,
which is the express wisdom of ages, adjudg
ed that it is not unreasonable. And tlie Leg
islature have not changed the common law in
this regard, but, on tho contrary, declared so
recently as 18G0, that this offence shall be
punished as heretofore.”
An accident occurred in St. Louis on
Thursday which has exploded a theory that
has been held immutable for many years.
During the heavy thunder storm in that city
on the day named, Angela Anita, while lying
on a feather bed, entirely insulated from al l
other material substance, was struck by light
ening and instantly killed.—Exchange.
The difficulty was, that whilst the feathers
were a non-conductor, the cotton tick that en
closed them was a good conductor.
—
J3?“It has been erroneously stated that the
recent convention of fire underwriters at New
York had advanced the rate of insurance ten
per cent. No action whatever was taken by
he convention on that subject.
S3?” The President has not signed the Ne
braska Bill, and it has therefore failed to be
come a law.
Egyptian Remedy for Sunstroke.—In
Egypt, says a gentleman who has traveled in
that direction, where sunstrokes are of fre
quent. occurrence, the Arabs dissolve some
salt in water and pour it into the patient’s
ears, which renders speedy relief to the suf
ferers.
Can’t Get Away.—Tlie Raleigh Sentinel
says there are about 75 prisoners on Johnson’s
Island, too sick to get away, and that they
are without means of traveling to their homes
even if well enough, and the Government no
longer furnishes transportation.
55?” The increased pay of members of Con
gress amount to $2,800 each.
|5?“ The official Staatsonzenger of Berlin
says: “ AYe aro authorized to declare that
during the recent fighting in Bohemia not a
single Prussian gun has been captured by the
enemy.”
|5?“An exchange says that when a piece of
iron is thrown into a trough where chickens
drink water they are not affected with chick
en cholera. A gentleman who has tried it,
says that his chickens are thriving while those
of his neighbors arc dying daily. As tbe
cliicben cholera is ranging to some ex
tent throughout the country, it might be well
to try it. Iron will not hurt fowls, and a tri
al of it might be beneficial.
Disastrous Fire in 3Ionticello, Fla.—
Tbe Monticello Family Friend says: AYc re
gret to announce that the livery sale of E. AY.
Stephens, was on 3Ionday night last destroyed
by fire. The flames communicated to a buil
ding occupied as a law oilice by Col. AA’. S.
Dillwortli, and we are sorry to announce the
entire desmictic-i ot his 1 iw hi nrj ind ilso
the destruction of a fine collection of classical
works in an adjoining room used by 3Ir. Pasco
as a sleeping apartment.
J5?“ A special despatch from Savannah to I
tbe Chicago Republican, says:
“An influential citizen was this morningar-
rcsted by military authority, for beating'and
abusing a negro servant. This is the first in
stance occurring in this State enforcing Gen. j
Grant's recent order.”
And white resigns.
notes.
(a) . P to fourth, or Q K* to B third, is u»u»lly re
commended; hut the more in the text (a favorite ono
of Mr. Paulecn’s in this opening), is perhtps equally
good.
(b) . We doubt tho policy of this more, and of the
subsequent capture of the K Kt.
(c) . In this opening Black phon'd always endeavor to
get rid of the adverse K B. If this more were not made
now, the Bishop would be played to <4 fifth, and Black,
wou’d be compelled to lose time.
, (d). At this point we already prefer B'ack’s game.—
he has two Bishops against two Knights, and his K B
P will get first into the field.
(e) . Thu Pawn should have been advanced two Stepp.
White’s gamen*w becomes completely locked, and his
opponent has ample time to mature hit attack.
(f) . White appears to have anticipated 18. P to Q 4th
followed by a check at Q B fourth. Ihialoss of time,
however, mattered little, as White has no good move
on the board.
(g) . If this Bishop is taken, Black simply retakes
with Pawn, and mate is inevitable.
AViiat Constitutes a AYhite 3Ian.—The
Supreme Court of 3Iichigan has been consid
ering tlie question of illegal voting at the
election in that State—the case before it be
ing that of AVm. Dean, who was convicted in
a lower Court for illegal voting. The illegal
ity charged was that.Dean was not a “white
male citizen,” as is required by the laws of the
State of 3Iicliigan as a qualification of a vo
ter, he having one-sixteenth negro blood in
liis veins. The Supreme Court, however, de
clared him legally entitled to vote, and laid
down the principle that a man with one-fourth
negro blood should be regarded as white.—
3Ir. Jefferson, in bis Notes on Virginia, has
made an elaborate examination of this sub
ject, and demonstrated that, in Virginia, a
person of one-eight negro blood should be re
garded as white.
International Cable Courtesies.
The following were the congratulatory
messages interchanged between Queen Vic
toria and the President:
Osborne, July 27tb, 1860.
To the President of the United States :
The Queen congratulates the President on
tlie successful completion of an undertaking
which she hopes may serve as an additional
bond of union between the United States
and England. Victoria R.
The following reply was sent:
Executive JIansion, AYashinhton, )
July 30, I860—11:30 a. m. )
Her Majesty, Queen of United Kingdom oj
Great Britain and Ireland:
Tlie President of the United States ac
knowledges with profound gratification the
receipt of Her 3Injesty’s despatch, and cor
dially reciprocates the hope that the cable
which now unites the Eastern and Western
Hemispheres, may serve to strengthen and
perpetuate peace and amity between the
Government of England ana the Republic of
the United States. Andrew Johnson.
Income of the Cable.—We find the fol
lowing despatches in a Nashville exchange.
There is a slight variance, but tbe reader can
believe either one, or neither, ns may please
him:
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
New York, August 1.—19 messages were
filed in the New York office yesterday, for
transmission through tlie cable to Europe, on
which tolls were paid to the amount oi $21,-
500 in gold.
ATLANTIC CABLE.
New York, August 1.—AVc learn that the
announcement that the Atlantic Cable was
opened for business was only made yesterday,
p. m.
There were twenty messages filed for
there-
Europc on that day, and ca«h receipt
from at New York, at tH in gold.
jt-^”The following charming answer is re
corded of tbe Empress Eugenia to a inar>har
who expressed to her hi- admiration f >r the
courage she had displayed -i ir ng her recent
visit to the cholera patients at Amiens:
“Monsieur, c’ eat not re maiere i.’a'.lerau feu.”
“Sir, it is thus wc go under fire. '