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Newspaper Page Text" UtS* ;ff SERIES.} MACON, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 18B7. {YOL. II.—NO. 41 GEORGIA. TELEGRAPH [’liT.isiiryft house. W.«. RBID &. CO., Proprietor*. J. R. SNEED, j 3. BOYKIN, ! Editors. Terms of Subscription : ix Wikklt Teleqr.u-ii : $4 00 per kcos Dailt TautoiiArn : 810 00 pernnnura. JOB PRINTING. A BUSY-BODY, SPY AND SLANDERER, Those who looked upon the negro pro cession. on Tuesday last, doubtless had their attention attracted by a solitary white face nmong the thousands of black. It was fixed on the ground as if ashamed to encounter the light of heaven, and belonged to a man who is a dishonor to the manly race from which he sprung, Tlio person alluded to is the author of the following slanderous and mendacious letter, which we find In the New Haven Courier & Journal of the 21st inst.: AK IRISHMAN ON* SOUTHERN JUSTICE. . .t —-li i ..I,- tn ii.A Macox, Ox., August 11, 1SC7.—Notwithstand- Particular attention will be given to the we are i,] cs3e d ctc _ t j,e loyal people, white lotion of JOB PRINTING of every descrip- and black) are treated aa of yore. The Rutland shooting affair Is over, and It is demonstrated to the satisfaction of every honest man that loyalty must help Itself In future. The shooting affair abovo mentioned was doubtless the most out rageous and damnable affair that ever took place in any clvilir.ed community. A congregation of colored people, on the Sabbath day, kneeling in prayer beiore their God, were indiscriminately shot down like wild animals, by ex-rebele. No reason is assigned for the crime bnt that the worshippers were negroes. Eighteen men, women and children were shot in every conceivable place, thrceof whombivo since died from the effects of wounds received. There wero six whito men rr SdcTnEitN Express Company.—This npsny is worthy of the patronage and Silence of our people. Its system is so feet that theft or dishonesty is almost itn- sible; but even were this not the case, its >!oyes are chosen and retained because of r honesty and reliability, and we have al- fs found that they may be trusted to flic st. As to promptness and business dis- _ i, and as a convenience to the public, the t pany is unsurpassed. Blot it out, and business world would seem to cease op ing. The officers of this company in Ma ps we have ever found particularly polite ■ efficient, and wc hereby acknowledge y favors at their hands. — »l« ■■ a- u Delta,” of the Baltimore Sun, telo- phs from Washington that it is not known :ther General Sickles is to be mustered of the voluntcerservico as Major General, it is believed that General Grant will ie an order to that effect, thus placing Gcn- I sickles as a Colonel, which is his rank be pilar army. nE Cabinet.—'The National Intelligencer ilonday says: “ Wc are glad to announce they have acted on the suggestion made Itese columns, and tlint the resignation of y member of the Cabinet is at the dispo of the President. This action of the Cnb- ; will prove to their lasting credit, no ter whether it leads to the final retirement the entire Cabinet or to but a part of it. As regards the qualifications of those i are to fill the vacancies, thero is one |nt we cannot forbear pressing, and that is, whatever other qualifications they may or may lack, the new Cabinet members aid be men of invincible resolution—men cannot be turned from the stern path of y cither by the cajolery of friends or the midatlon of foe*. Prompt in action, rcs- te in purpose, they should stand around President as a unit, to strengthen his ids and give energy to his plans. In rev- ionary times, timorous counsels are al- 3 to be deprecated. To the American pie no other quality so commends itself >luck,aml yet it is precisely the quality in fch our public men ure deficient.”- (pardon llic expression) arrested by the military authorities, and bound over for examination to llie civil authorities. It would be a waste of time to detail the exam inations, suffice to say, that It was a perfect farce— they wero all discharged hut one, the court rul ing that the prisoners could swear each other clear; put one on trial and then put the other five on the stand to swear that one clear. Thero were some thirty well acquainted with the accused parties, ana swore positive against them, hut a white rebel’s word has more weight before a civil f tribunal In Georgia than thirty negroes. The prisoners are as yet in military custody, and here comes farce No. 3. Thcsoldiers, who are supposed to look after their safekeeping, take the prisoners through the city every night, for the purpose of satisfying the rebel’s revengeful hearts, and the United States soldiers protect those brutes in as saulting helpless colored females all over the city. I don’t know whether the post commandant is aware of this state of faets. 1 am an eyewitness to it. But loyalty. I am sorry to say, is at a discount; in this community it is unpopular even in the eyes of the representatives of Uncle Sam. The shooting affair took place a short distance from Macon, Ga, Respectfully yonrs, James Fitzpatrick. Hero we have a wholesale denunciation of the authorities, civil and military, of thocity of Macon. Did the readers of tho Courier :oxnta Elections.— The California elec ta i» held on the first Monday of Septem- : Maine on tho second Monday of Sep- iber; Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Iowa on second Tuesday in October; and 3Iassa- aetta, Minnesota, and Wisconsin on the Tuesday in November. That the South has Come to.—The • :: C.-n-itittitinnali.-t uses the following ’ttcatory language, which we adopt in all spirit: “Who would have supposed, * years ago, that Georgia had within her an the core of Radicalism ? Who would e dreamed, three years ago, that a Lincoln nument was one of the possibilities of At ta ? And yet, such things have come to and worse things arc ripe for fruition. 'Ore these evil days shall bavo vanished 1 the honest daylight of a better epoch irned, John Brown, we fear, will *bc the •1 of many renegade Southern men, and his wument rise from tho pockets of loyal aks who claim tho whito race ns their own l the South as their place of nativity. 1 of Heaven! is it not enough to drive to the verge of forbidden acts, to know t inch eventualities ore of easy precipita- o! The sooner they come the sooner will great deliverance arrive. TiM then, we , be firm, he true, bo faithful—gird up t loins for n good fight, and quench not •pirit” suistration a Farce.—The utter folly lie white people of the South expecting Mug like a fair showing from tho (so- n1) Ri-construction laws, is manifest. Wo it Hated that at tho close of registration '** Orleans the whites lmd fifty majority, a sweeping disfranchisement had 'bred fully one-half their vote. The Rc- Dn Board have changed all that by strik- 110 lea than twenlyfite hundred names a registry. Thcso “ martyrs" are ex- Nl white, and little slips of paper nc- u *mtbat their registered heads had ea into the registry basket. Savannah Herald announces tlic ■' iin that city, of material foranews- '!«: Belle Frocdom, whereof Rev. *’ stored, is to be editor. The paper :J Pportour King John and the Radical and return will receive sub- '•rioid from the “ Atlantn Ring.” j. Q u Wn Maria Theresa, who 1 itcly died • a p!ea of the cholera, was the daughter , n Archduke Charles, Napoleon's antng- ^ nnd married Ferdinand II, in 1837.— 'Gsband died in 1854, but she lias con- to live in Naples with her step-son. * lf ° of the present Austrian Archduke is her daughter ! Q 1>0 P° has a civil list of about Dal „„n car -. ® ut °f this sum he keeps .‘*00 b , UCl08 la foreign courts, and pays lain n;! 1 ' to m»ck of the cardinals whore- cVutu'r- \ P, ut °i this, too, he keeps up w *iuh contains no less than four «tcsti<, 1,1 ti' S ’ requires a large staff of •ml m 1xt°P° ll 'so pays the Palatine Goa? ( keeps up the and Journal know the source from which these allegations spring, it would be wholly uuneccssary to utter a word in contradiction, But they do not, and hence, in justice to our people, a simple and brief statement of facts is offered. Before referring to them, how ever, Wei must be allowed to say that the edi tor who thus devotes his columns to slander ous’ attacks upon his fellow-citizens of the South, through communications from un known and irresponsible parties, holds in low estimation the patriotic and moral obliga tions that rest upon him as a public journal ist. In this case, if informed of the character of Iris correspondent, the conduct is still more reprehensible, As regards tbo facts of the case referred to, wc would say: A congregation of negroes professing to be engaged in religious worship at night under an open arbor, though well provided with pistols, shot-guns and mus kets—as their own testimony shows—were fired into from a distance by a party unknown who immediately retreated under fire from the worshiping congregation. Thenigbt was dark, and it was morally impossible for the latter to have recognized the assailants across the space that intervened. However, upon information of the vaguest character, six young white men, residing from one to five miles of the spot, were arrested nnd put in confinement, where they wero kept away from their homes and labors on the farm for sev-. oral weeks. There was considerable excite ment nmong our citizens of all classes against tho offenders, whoever they might be, and a firm determination to punish them to the ut most severity of the law. The act was uni versally condemned. - 1 The civil nnd military authorities, united in ferreting out the wrong-doers, hunting up the testimony, and bringing the parties to trial. The utmost activity was used by the prosecution. Tho magisterial trial came on; the State was, represented by the Solicitor General, an able lawyer; many days were spent in the patient investigation ; all parties were fully heard on the stand, and tho whole proceedings conducted under the immediate supervision of the military authorities, who left no stone of duty unturned. The testi mony of the negroes for the prosecution wns of tho most extraordinary, conflicting and even absurd character. Not a particle of tes timony was adduced for the prosecution upon which, to use tho language of the Attorney himself “ you could convict a dog.” The whole charge against the young men was evi dently founded in conjecture. Five out of six clearly, and by most respectable witnesses, proved an alibi—that they were miles distant from the scene on the night of the occurrence, and were discharged from custody. The sixth could not prose an alibi, and although no positive testimony to his guilt was adduced on tho stand, be was held for trial Bucli ure the facts, and we will be borne out in the statement by the record, which has been published complete, and the testi mony of every honest citizen that wns present at the trial. The universal impression now is that all the young men arraigned are inno cent in fact thero is no shadow of doubt about it as regards at least four of tliem— nnd that the assault was committed by a party of blacks in the neighborhood who had j a grudge against a black “Loyal League” who congregated statedly at the same place, and was composed of about the same parties with tho alleged worshiping, yet armed-for- war, congregation. Is is utterly false that “three,' or any, of the negroes “ died from the effects ot wounds received.” They were nil' inflicted with small shot, and consequently slight, and the man most seriously wounded came to town, a distance of seven or eight miles, three days after the occurrence, and testified before the magistrates. So much for this new lying Radical sensa- tioD. Wc have said this much in vindication of the character of our citizens, which has been slandered by this scapegrace that honest Ireland, unable to retain, spewed out upon the shores of the New World. The military arc also arraigned for corruption and oflicial delinquency, but as they are amply able to take care of themselves, as well as mischief- Mr. Ashbnrn Explains. Editors Telegraph—You report, me as say ing that Ex-Governor Brown’s “ head was not large enough to hold a national idoa—that he had been raised a States right man, and a seccessioDist, and can not be anything else.” I meant to have said, nnd friends present understood me to say, that Governor Brown’s head, prior to the surrender of the Confed erate nrmy, was not large enough to hold a national idea—that he had been educated in the radical State rights school, hence lie believed in the supremacy of "Georgia, and followed his convictions, and like every honest man had surrendered the idea he fought to establish—tho supremacy of State authority over national authority. If you will allow me to nddjT will say,’that we be lieve Governor Brown to be sincere—tiiat he is now following his convictions with as honest intention to build up as he was to destroy. And every right-minded man con siders his efforts to restore Georgia to her former position ns a State in the Union, based upon honest intentions and practical national ideas; and to the extent of my influence with the citizens of Georgia and tho people of the nation, he shall, at the proper time, be entitled to all the rights and privileges of any American citizen. Your reporter also made me to say that was a Grand Marshal of the Loyal League for Georgia. I said that I was a member of the Loyal League—that they had honored me with the.GraudMarshalship of tboGrand Council of the United States, and in such capacity I had been and km now acting, and intended to see and know that Loyal Leagues an*l Republican Clubs are established in every county in Georgia. I also said that returned to Georgia in May, 18C5; found her all down at the heel; that friends North had furnished me ten thousand dollars, backed by millions, for the purpose of devel oping the resources of Georgia; tbatthrou; detectives the people of Georgia had been shown to be rebellious in feelings and re vengeful in temper; that capital wns as sensi tive aa virtue, and never sought investments in the Inline of rebellion nor the camp of the military; that in tlio Spring of 1800 all enter prise was suspended and capital withdrawn from Georgia. Respectfully, G. W. Ashbcrn. Pursuit of a Medium Through Diffl culties--Eurcka! at East. That fertile and chronic author, “The Countryman”, who has been brimfull and running over with “Reconstruction and Re lief’ for many months past, gives, in an in troduction to an article in the Savannah Re publican, a pathetic narration of Ills troubles in bringing bis literary wares before the pub lic. We quote from his letter: Eatonton, Ga., July 31, 18G7.—On the 19th of last March we wrote, and .soon after wards published in the Macon Journal & Messenger, an article headed as above. The article was devoted mostly to Reconstruc tion. Subsequently we wrote a second arti cle devoted mostly to Relief. In the mean time, some pop-gun of a fellow, over the signature of "Rupert,” had assailed us in the paper that printed for us. We did not at that time deign to mention “Rupert’s” name, but the Journal & Messenger editor seemed to think we alluded to the pop-gun aforesaid, nnd would not publish, our second article, because—“Second, the article wa3 abusive of a correspondent, and, on. that ground alone, inadmissible.” A few days before the sage of our Macon cotemporary published thissapientparagraph he, with a degree of silliness unparalleled in the world’s history, spoke of “Rupert” as be ing severe upon “The Countryman.” This ‘severity” “The Countryman” Jailed to see.— But, hero is the point: The Journal &, Messenger could admit, from its correspon dent, an article “severe” upon “The Country man,” but not an article from “The Country man” “abusive” of its correspondent, who wa9 never named by “The Countryman.” God knows human, nature is little enough at all times and in all places, and we know it, but it does occasionally make some exhibitions of littleness past our comprehension. After tho Journal & Messenger failed to publish for us, we sent our article to the At lanta New Era. Our brother, Bard, after wafting, we know not how long, upon being appealed to, wrote on our return articles as follOWS: ‘ •• 1; “Held for consideration. Now respectfully declined, because you propose too lengthy and too prolonged a discussion, which wc tliink will prove fruitless. It is no want of back-bone which inclines ns to return, as I think you will agree, if you read the Era.” Brother Bard being determined not to pub lish for us, no doubt satisfied himself with the reason given for declining our communi cation. This is tlic way we are excluded from the columns of the newspaper. Last Fall wc desired to address our people nud legislator's on the subject of relief. We wrote an article on the subject for the Macon TELKOUArn, which, after lying, over some time, was finally declined, because the editor, never made the Telegraph r. vehicle for counsel to lawlessness.” Our good friend, Dr. Andrews, of tlio Citizen, at length pub lished ior us “without comment”, at the same time giving us such cold comfort that we did not feel encouraged tq seek the columns of the Citizen again. As we have said before, we have been striving eight or nine months to address our people through the newspaper press, but have fiuiqd to get any one to pub lish for us, until the editor of the Republican has kindly and manfully consented to do so ; and to him we return our most sincere thanks. lOaehold IT: 1 .’,, the camerures, Jus take care of themselves, as wcu as unsemci- Maritv’jin 1' A 1 lls * 3 administered with makers generally, they need no vindication 1 cco °omy. at t h e bands of the press, Free Speech.—We heard a great deal from the Republicans, before the rebellion, about free soil, free speech, and a free press. These they were determined to have at any cost—war or no war. Well, wc have had the war, and tree soil is promised to the ne groes if they vole right. As to the free speech and free press, we arc learning more about that as we read the pompous orders ot the five military dukes. The latest news from Gen. Pope is, that he has notified papers in Georgia opposed to Jhe Congressional pro gramme of reconstruction of the withdrawal of patronage from them! How those things will read in history ! Go on, gentlemen! You are digging a pit, and digging it deep ! [Hew Haven Register. The Atlanta Sling. From tho Augusta Chronicle «fc Sentinel.] There can lie little doubt but that a “Rin has been lormed in this State, with its chiet managers located at Atlanta, for the purpose ot procuring tbe removal of Gov. Jenkins and tbe appointment ot some one under the in fluence of tho“Ring” in his place. The lead ing members of this corrupt combination are said to be gentlemen who have been more than once honored by the people of Georgia; but who, on account of those honors, both State and Federal, are disqualified for hold ing office themselves. The “Ring” also em braces a set of broken down political hacks, and bankrupt gambling speculator? vwho, for the purpose of making money, have sold themselves to the ultra Radical party. These men are well known in Atlanta and their plotting and counterplotting for the removal of Governor Jenkins, whose honesty and stern integrity of character forbids the hope that he could be made subservient to tbeir wishes and objects, is uo longer a secret. Wc hope and believe that Gen. Pope is well informed as to tbe purposes of this con temptible clique, and that he has the good sense to refuse any co-operation with them in their attempt to get possession of tho State government. Without the aid of Gen. Pope, they are powerless. But if in an hour of weakness he should be led into the snares which tho “Ring” have so adroitly arranged for him, the interests of the State, wbreb, under the Military bills, are confided to bis care and protection, will become a prey to the unscrupulous and corrupt men who are now pulling the wires for the removal of Gov. .Tonkins. The prize for which they are contending is a rich nnd profitable one. The State Road, with its immense patronage and the monthly receipts of nearly or quiet one hundred thous and dollars a month; the State government, with the taxes of the current year just now beginning to he paid into the treasury; the State bonds nuthoritized to be issued by the last Legislature, these are the main stakes for which the Atlanta Ring are now shuffling the cards to play for. If they should turn a jack (Pope), the game for them is won.— Without this trump card their play will be a hopeless one. This they well know them selves, and hence all the arts of the demago- gue;*all the tricks of the politician; all the cunning of the gambler; all the chicanery of the stock-speculator, and all the fraud and falsehood and slander which mean and un principled men can invent, will bo used to carry out their schemes. We believe that the “Ring” has not yet agreed among themselves who will be the best exponent of tbeir principles and most pliable tool for the execution of their plot against the welfare of the State. It is said that Columbus claims the distinction of hav ing a bigger rascal than Augusta can furnish for the place, while Southwestern Georgia claims that Wiregrass alone can supply the man who contains in himself all the elements of the demagogue, the gambler, the trickster nnd traitor in a greater degree than any living man.” We hope that these scamps may Tail to agree upon the “ individual” who is to have the power of distributing the plunder and that in their quarret we may find safetv for the State. About Xiightning. Soiling. To the Editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer: From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The great number of casualties from light- treatment of milch cows ning during the present season h^s created an During the Summer Mr. Pell’s cows are unusual interest in all that relates to the sub- k:pt in the barnyard and soiled. They are ject; yet it can be_ truly said that the igno- fed three times per day at stated hours, and ranee of t-ic multitude of even, many well in addition to their ordinary food, receive at established facts in regard to its laws or hab- twelve b’clock each day eight quarts of wheat its, as well as of the best method of escaping , bran, wet with water. The general feeding its effects, is profound. j is dry hay, green grass, green corn stalks^ Let any person recall the instances of fatal occasionally a few potatoes, and saltwhen- results that have come to his knowledge, and 1 ever the cows feel a disposition for it. Water he will observe that the victims have been . they have free access to at all times ot the nearly all grown men. There was an article day and night, and should never be without m the Enquirer a few days ago, purporting | it. An experiment was tried of giving the to give the deaths by lightning somewhere ; cows water only three times each day iin- for n series of years, and fixing the propor- i mediately after eating tlieir food, and they tion between the sexes at about four to one. ; seemed satisfied. They were then constantly If these figures are reliable, the observation supplied and drank freely nine times in one was made in some country where women ha-1 dav, taking apparently as much at each draft bitually work in the field. In the United < as when allowed water only three times; so Stales the nronnrtion is not frreater than one that, in reality, when permitted to drink only State! the proportion is not greater than one in twenty. . { .... , ...... As might be expected from tbe above state ment, a very large majority of the cases of fatal lightning stroke occur in the open air. When itis considered that almost everybody is indoors during a thunder-storm, a pretty three times a day, they must have suffered much from thirst in the interims. When the weather is very hot and rainy, the cows have sheds made partially under ground, into which they can retire and ru minate undisturbed. With this treatment ---- —-o —* 7- > - r- —-j 1 umusiuiuoi. nuu I.U1S ireatme correct idea of the relative risk of the two } they constantly take on fat, and secrete twice situations is arrived at ■ the quantity of milk that they would if al- The most dangerous situation, as is almost, lowed to run at large. During the past universally^ known, is under an isolated tree. I summer the cows gave au average of sixteen Where the trees stand thick, as in our for ests, the danger is less than in a naked field. In the latter case the danger is greatly in creased by the jiresence of a team. Persons are often severely shocked, seldom fatally struck, in dwelling-houses. Those killed in such situations will be found to have been in contact with a wall or partition in almost every instance. A person sitting or lying in the middle of a room, being sur rounded by th non-conducting dry air, may be considered absolutely safe. Some nervous constitutions suffer tbe most exalted and.torturing fear during a severe thunderstorm. Instead of ridiculing such, humanity would dictate tho gudeavor to calm this cxcitemement by showing them } quarts of milk daily, and in the fall were fit for the butcher. In winter they tra kept in stalls in a warm barn, littered freely, as occasion requires, and daily curried and rubbed. When the weather is fine, they are turned into the barn yard for exercise in the middle of the day. Twice a duy they are fed on cut oat and wheat straw, with a small quantity of bran sprinkled over it, for the sake of which they eat their allowance en tirely up, and once a day cut hay; tliey are salted four times a week, and have roots, such as beets, carrots, potatoes or turnips, once a week. By cutting tbe straw and hay, cuttle are enabled tc eat their meal in twenty- five minutes; whereas, if uncut, they are en gaged in masticating their food half the how they may avoid even the small risk to j n i ? bt, the labor and fatigue of which de- Gkocndlessness of the Charge Against the Treasury Department.—The Secre tary of the Treasury has written a letter on this subject in which he says: No man in tho country ha3 a deeper inter est than myself in knowing whether or not there have been over-issues in tho Printing Bureau of tbe Treasury Department. I have, therefore, ns you have already been advised, I The Widow’s Right and Left Bowers. caused a searching examination of that g n( j t b e following in tbe Chicago Post: bureau to be made, from its organization up 1 winch the careless are exposed. It may serve to quiet many such to know that out of every five hundred peals of thunder heard uot au average of one single bolt passes between the clouds and the earth. Most explosive dis charges are between opposite sides of the same mass of vapor, or between contiguous masses; and they may be easily distinguished from interchanges between the clouds and earth, though several miles distant. The thunder in the latter case is much more in cisive and clashing, and the reverberations much more prolonged. Let every person hearing this sound get within doors as soon as possible, or seek tbe safest place his situa tion admits of, as it will be very sure to be followed in a few seconds by another, and perhaps by several. The striking proves that, tho clouds and earth at that point are in opposite electrical states, and a single dis charge seldom restores the equilibrium. This was well illustrated by a meteor that visited our city (Parkersburg) twelve months ago. The lightning .struck seven times in less than five minutes, within a space of one mile in length and one-fourth of a mile in width, three buildings, three trees and a fence being the objects struck, and one of the buildings being burned. But for the numer ous conductors, the explosions would doubt less have been still more numerous. A per son in the line of one of these exceptional phenomena may perhaps incur a greater dan ger from lightning during the brief period of its continuance than the average risks of a life-time. jggfTThe Buffalo Courier says that Sheri dan is the youngest man ever mentioned for the Presidency, but thinks he will be old enough before he gets it. to the 24th of January last, by some of the most competent and reliable employes of this Department. From their report I am satisfied that there have not been any over issues of Government securities, or Government obligations of any kind; and that the reports which have been so industriously circulated in your city and other parts of the country in regard to frauds in tbe Treasury Department are without foundation. The secret of these assaults upon the Treasury and the National credit is as fol lows : Nearly all the machinery used in print ing the notes, and all the improvements made in the various processes, are the invention of Mr. S. M. Clark, tbe Superintendent of the Printing Department. Certain parties in New York, who wish to get the printing of the notes transferred to that city, and who are hostile to Mr. S. 3L Clark, because he thwarts them in this design, are making con stant efforts to effect his removal, by brin against him themost astounding charges. These charges have always been flatly dis proved. Tho fact is, there is no public ofli cer to whom the Government is under great er obligations than to Mr. Clark. The use of the machinery and process which he has in vented saves to tbe Government $80,000 an nunlly. The Death of Madame Murat.—This ladv, Who died recently on her plantation, near Tallahassee, Florida, was a grand niece of Washington, and was born during the early portion of the present century. About the year 182G slit- married Prince Napoleon Achille Murat, the eldest sou of Joachim Murat and Caroline Bonaparte, at one time King and Queen Of Naples. The Prince came in 1821 to the United States and settled in Florida, of which State be became a citi zens. He purchased an estate near Tallahas see and devoted himself to literature and scientifice pursuits until his death, which oc curred in April, 1847. The deceased lady continued to reside upon her liusband’spro- perty, and during the late rebellion suffered severe pecuniary loss from both Federals and Confederates. After the downfall of the rebellion, tho Emperor Napoleon, through the French min ister, received information oi her reduced circumstauces, when he settled on her for life an annuity of 20,000 francs. Madame Murat lmd no issue. By right she was a princess of the French Imperial family; but she never assumed the title. Soon after the close of war she paid, a visit to France, and vras most cordially received by the Emperor and the Murat family. It is a singular fact that the present recognized princes and prin cesses of the Imperial (Murat) family are all Americans by birth ; their hither, Prince Na poleon, Lucien Charles Murat,.having married Miss (Siroline Gcorgiana Frazer, of: South Carolina, who. supported her husband and children by teaching school until the election of Louis Napoleon as President ot the French Republic.—Fredericksburg Aei cs. Death of the Sheriff of Mobile.—31. D. Grinnell, Esq., tbe Sheriff of Mobile city and county, died at bis residence in that city on Saturday last, at 12 o’clock, after an ill ness of several weeks. Ho was a native of Slobile, and in the 37th year of his age. Generals Steedman and Rousseau had the reputation of being great gallants and very attentive to all good looking war widows they, encountered in the course of their cam poigns. While at Florence, Alabama, Gen. Croxton was called upon by a handsome young wid ow, who earnestly begged him to place a guard over her house, as she was afraid the soldiers would destroy her garden, fences, etc. The General tried to persuade her that a guard was unnecessary; she, at last brought forward the names of Generals Rousseau and Steedman to influence Croxton. “When they passed through Florence,” said the fair wid ow, “they both furnished me a guard, and were vefy kind to me. Are you acquainted with them, General?” Croxton admitted that lie knew them well. “Oh'l indeed, I am so glad to hear that,” exclaimed the wid ow, “I am sure you wont deny me now. Gen eral ; for General Rousseau and Gen. Steed- man are very dear friends of mine—they arc my right and left bowers.” “Ah, madam,” replied Croxton, with a merry twinkle in his eye, “I find that every pretty woman in Ala bama holds that same hand.” 31b. Bright’s Defeat in Parliament.— London, August 10.—3Ir. Bright, on Thurs day, night, met with a Waterloo defeat. Mr. 3Iill, 3Ir. Buxton, and others of the leading Radicals, joined Mr. Lowe and the Conserva tives against him, and carried the Lords’ amendment for the representation of minori ties in spite of his violent opposition, and filled him, as Mr. Lowe would say, with grief, anger, and despair. No longer will the Radi cal majority in' Birmingham or Slanchester lie able. to - ride rough-shod over tlic mi nority. The minority, whenever it amounts to twoo fifths, will be able to elect one out of the three representatives. 3Ir. Bright insisted that no minority, how ever large, or respectable, or educated, or otherwise influential, bad a right to be repre sented in Parliament, or have a voico in the government of the country. If in any com munity there were 20,000 fools and 19,000 philosophers, whenever the fools could be in duced.to vote together tho philosophers must be extinguished. Parliament, however, has otherwise decided; in .spite of a most elo quent, passionate, and even pathetic speech, the House of Commons by a large majority has a right to a hearing and a vote, and that the whole people, and not the majority alone, must be represented in tbe legislative assembly.—N. Y. Times. prives them of the necessary time required for their rest. ADVANTAGES OF THUS SOILING STOCK. 3Ir. Pell carted from his barn yard two hundred and thirty loads of manure on the 10th of 3Iay, which was made in the pre- cedingsix months. On the 10th of Novem ber, from the same yard, hecarted.two hund red and thirty-six loads more, averaging thir ty bushels per load, made within the six months following the 10th of May. Five cows only were kept, which thus made four hundred and sixty-six loads of good manure in one year. During the. summer, leaves, straw, etc., were constantly thrown into the yard, and occasionally covered with charcoal dust. Each cow voided in six months 6000 pounds of urine, which was absorbed by tbe refuse, and its strength retained by the char coal dust, gypsum, etc.; the manure, there fore, was intrinsically worth the New York city price, viz: one dollar the wagon load or four hundred and sixty-six dollars. In addition to making this great quantity of manure, the other advantages of soiling are: 1. No cross fences are required on the farm. 2. The cows give twice as much milk as when running at large. 8. They are fit for the shambles in the Fall, being fat. 4. They are always ready to be milked. 5. They are never worried by being driven to aud from the pasture. 6. They eat all the refuse grass, which would otherwise be lost. 7. Light acres would keep them longer and better than forty would depastured. 8. The fields are always in order, not being poached by their feet in wet weather. 9. The person is not much longer in cutting their food aud giving it to them than he would be in driving them to and from their pasture. 10. Manure enough is saved to pay tho interest on a large farm. Numerous other good reasons might be given if the above are not considered suf ficient. The abovo experiment of 3Ir. Pell, show ing the supremacy of the soiling system, is strongly corroborated by others made in Eu rope, though probably unknown to 3Ir. P. when he commenced his. Wc quote from a speech recently made before a meeting of the Larne Farming Society, in Ireland, by 3Ir. Donagby, Superintendent of the Agricultu ral Department of the Larne National School: “* “Mr. Smith, of Deanston, a gentleman whose scientific and practical knowledge as an agriculturist lias placed him in the first rank of the improvers of the soil, is no inenh authority in support of the soiling system. In the summer of 1841, he made an experi ment on a dairy of twenty cows, pasturing the one half and. house-feeding the other. He selected them as equally as possible; in point of carcass, condition aud’milking qual ity. The result of this experiment was, that the cows liousc-fed gave their milk more uni formly and more plentifully, and continued throughout in excellent health* and improved in condition from thirty shillings to forty shillings per head over those at pasture. The cows house-fed were kept on three quarters of a statute acre each, while those that west pastured required one and a quarter acre of pasture and a quarter acre of cut grass and vetches, making one acre and a half for each; so that, upon the whole, about the one halt of the extent of ground necessary for the keep of cows at pasture was sufficient for those kept in the house. “I could adduce abundance of other proof, from equally respectable gentlemen, in sup port of tho superiority of this system to that in general practice ; but I shall content my self with merely saying, that if according to 3Ir. Blacker, a gentleman who deserves the best thanks of the agricultural community, threo cows could be kept on the same extent of grouud as is at present required to keep one—and I have not the slightest doubt but that by proper management they could—the benefit thus resulting to the farming interest would be immense. But the increase of milk and butter consequent on its adoption would not be the only resulting advantage—the in crease of the manure heap would be equally advantageous. No farmer, I care not how good his practice in other respects may be, can farm profitably, without a plentiness of manure. Now, it has been calculated, on an average, that cows are not kept in the house, at present, more than eight hours each day, throughout the year. If such be the case, I have no reason to question the correctness of mile, tbe contrast, on our part, ia melancholv. But the Belgians pursue a regular rotation of cropping, house-feed their cattle, keep urine tanks, Ac.; and, Ly superior management-, * r V? tlie - cn j°J ment of a degree of comfort and happiness to which the lower classes of Irishmen are utter strangers.” The Growth of Cotton. From the Boston Post.] To really restore prosperity to the country, the policy of Congress towards the South is to be so changed that the industry of that section shall be revived by re-establishing public confidence. 80 long as the Southern people raise nothing but the means of sub sistence, they can be of no practical account in the political economy of the country.— Diversity of occupation is the very thing winch the Radical Protectionists clamor for as the means of improving the condition of the people; but they keep out capital from the South, which would produce cotton there, and, by destroying’ public confidence, pre- vent the gro wth of the one staple which is to restore at once their prosperity and that of the entire country. An article from the New York Times very conclusively illustrates the connection between these two things, and de- serves a thoughtful reading. It is an un deniable fact, that while tho South produces iu.l crops of cotton once more, which it, of course, cannot do, so long as its present con- dition of uncertainty and poverty is main tained, neither its own status as a very essen tial part of the Union can be recovered, nor can that harmony of relations between the different sections, which is the pledge of solid and enduring prosperity, be restored. The South raises its own food, instead of cotton, and therefore wants nothing of the M est; nor would it have the wherewithal to pay for its purchases,, if its wants were .ever, so numerous or pressing. Cotton is a staple which the South alone can produce, and it has an exchangeable, value that gives to those who produce it the power-to purchase of the other, sections. But Congress has steadily done all it could to.hinder the growth of cot ton. . In the first place, it has kept that sec tion in such a state of unsettlement that cap ital would not go there to aid in raising it; and in the dismantled condition of the.cotton plantations, nothing can bo done without money. In the second place, it has imposed .* a tax of three cents per pound on all the cot ton exported, and a special tax on the sales of the producer. That is a grievous abstrac tion, and might prove a fatal one. In the third place, it has sent its partisan emissaries all over the South, to act as drill sergeants in collecting a negro party, when they need nothing so much as to be taught the impor tance at_this,critical period, of patient and steady industry.. This injection of partizan virus into the veins of the whole system of labor in that section, is to tell a more"lament able story Uian the country just now appre hends. If the South has nothing to sell, neither cotton nor sugar, it will of course have noth ing to buy with. The trade between the West aud the South by way of tlic great river is therefore at an end. And next, the spin ners of the East find iheir mills slacking work, and gradually their machinery gath ering the rust of idleness. Beyond this, im porters lose their trade with so profitable a section, and their business visibly relaxes in its activity. Then the coastwise navigation traffic falls off, and refuses obstinately to be restored. Further still, American commerce suffers in its most vital part, and shipbuild ers no less than shipowners arc crippled and driven from their avocation. If cotton does not go from our ports to Europe, where it has always, ruled the market, something must go in its place. Grain supplies but a limited substitute, aud no other staple pro duct offers to make its appearance for similar service. .Ot course, then, gold and bonds are sent instead. And thus the entire round of exchanges is broken in upon, and broken up, tlie business interests and industry of tbe different sections deranged and depressed, public confidence is undermined, and the common prosperity permanently disturbed. .What the country wants then, and what it will finally have at some rate, is such a resto ration o| the sectional relations as will bring all tliings into order and hafmony once more. It will demand the t partisan politicians cease making of reconstruction a mere footba 1 for their own purposes, and that the political status of the ten Southern States shall be af firmed in such terms as will at once re-estab lish tho confidence of Capital jn its future, and give back to its industry the fruits which are peculiarly its own. Unless this is done, Europe will pass out of our reach in securing cotton supplies aad making, cotton prices for itself. . A PniLANTiiRonsT in a Nkw Field of Labor.—The gospel of marriage and mater nity which the eloquent Father nyacinthe has recently been preaching to the licentious and loose-living Parisians with such brillian cy aad power, has been producing a great effect among the fashionable classes. It has induced multitudes of persons of both sexes to revise the irregular or hetairic relations they were maintaining with each other, and lias resulted in a large crop of marriages among people who had previously ignored the ceremony. At the same time it has affect ed the Parisian women favorably toward children, and has resulted in a decrease of those abominable practices of infant destruc tion which prevail largely in all licentious cities. Wc are glad to hear these things of Paris. Fathers Hyacin'the are needed in other .cities besides Paris. 53P Some one given to mathematics has made a fearful calculation. He has been at considerable pains to discover that if a man weighs as much as sixteen thousand locusts, and the note of a locust can be heard one- sixteenth of n mile} he ought to be able to make himself heard at tlic distance of one thousand six hundred miles ; and when he sneezed, “his house ought to fill about his ears.” How the Puritans Talk—The Salem (Massachusetts) Journal says: Although it has taken a great deal oftime, j ^ „„„ and costs us a vast amount of money, we have the calculation, would not a cow which is at last got the.stolid Dutch of Pennsylvania house-fed summer and winter produco,three and the verdant “Suckers” and “Buckeyes” i three times as much available manure as one of,tbe Western States, educated up to the j pastured ’ higher standard. When a few years ago they j « then, according to 3Ir. Smith’s opinion, spat upon us—the despised Abolitionists : ^ wo CQW9 could be kept in the place of one, we determined that the ’* ne fU?” ( a3 they 8 j x times as much manure could be made—if called the colored man.) should be made gi acker ' s views be correct, nine times as their equals, or wc would crush ute Lnion. muc b manure could be realized. I contend. Colored suffrage is now a fixed feet. Tbe therefore, that the general adoption of this foot of tbe negro is now on the neck of our 8vstem WO uld do away with a great deal of the ancient revilers, and those who are not in our p 0V erty, privations and misery with - which toil must stand from under.” the small farmers are at present beset. And •*—~~ how ? By increasing the means of subsist- When the President’s aid waited upon j ence. If we look at Belgium, with a popu- Gen. Grant with tlie order assigning that Iation of 321 to the square mile, (and an m- chieftain to the War Office, he was at his ferior soil to ours,) and compare the condi- hcadquarters smoking. He read the order, tion of its inhabitants with that of the in- looked at the officer, and made a speech.— habitants of our own country, in which the He said: “Very well.” population does not exceed 2G3 to the square The Use of Government Horses by Civilian Officials.—It- is said that Gen. Grant, in liis close scrutiny of the working of the War Department machinery, for the purpose of getting rid of supernumeraries and tlie curtailment of expenses, has had his attention drawn to the large number of pub lic horses—many of them very fine ones— that are now being used by civilian officials. This is a cheap luxury that has been em ployed duly since the war. Previous to that time no civilian ©fficers were allowed the use of government horses; but now these officers uiay be seen any day driving a span of fine animals which are public property and fed on government forage.—Hew York Herald. Chicago is an Indian word meaning “much wind.” These aboriginal linguists, says an exchange, deserve to rank among the prophets. 5^*° The income of Cambridge University, in England, is $860,000 in gold annually, of of which it receives about $300,000 for tui tion fees. Tlie income of Oxford is $760,000 in gold.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, September 06, 1867, Image 1