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ra! majority has gone Democratic, electing a
1)< .noermic Governor, a Democratic Congress-
mnn and a Legislature Democratic in both
hr motes, will fall like a thunder clap upon
tli.* country. We can hardly believe the
0ar'»
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<,„*’,]» a* to execute «rery description
ID B.'Ow WORK. and we suaranteo.«ati<-
,1 , lit. t.ivor u«. ...
Too ,!!»; Democrat* Gained in Pflni
..., ?/*««»■ vear the Republicanselect* d
11’ ' ‘ —- A
rfrmt !*• 00 cue country.
Wmw r.-.-noxArii-jenrly. 0Q t) .|,. ?ram s as they reach us, and would’ have
i * K ' * "“ ArH ■ .*f* 1 misgivings but'for the concessions of the
Radical press. They give up all as lost.
Pennsylvania, too, grows stronger for the
Constitution and liberty the more wc hear
from her. Radicalism, with all its vile con
spiracies against the country, has been thrown
completely overhoard. All honor to the old
u Key-stone State’’!
In view of these great changes, the mind
involuntarily turns to those high and dry
politicians in the South, who, from one mo
tive or another, have been induced to fall in
with the Radical scheme for africanizing the
r • ' men ' the results of the Ohio' dec- South and degrading her white inhabitants.
theTuPuint.net of » Democratic-.U. There are some of them who, from good
° ucCO'ior to Mr. Wade, whoso character in the past, may be lorgiven >}
■* : ylnrcl i860 ca.ly ,.res. ...alio., of -fruits meet for repen-
tt» fiptrea 4th of MafCi. _* tame.’’ If the Justices of the Georgia Su
- ^ TO RedOcR titk Dkiit.—'The New ,,r-me Court are anxious to make a public
. v-y. hi hi* an article on this subject, to recantation, profess repentance, and promise
lC V'V „a this page. Tlic adoption of not to he caught again in a Yankee trap, we
'v ">.uhl create no little fluttering g r .. lC iously tender them the use of our col-
U ^ ,,,, r.nsury plgeonstl.nt arc banquet — w- U“l*"Isd* «ro hnrthnned
l0I, '.i n public. It maintains that when wu „ lua< „„„„ „— „
Bi i r-cU possession of an office where t i u .; r souls. As regards those great sinners,
«... I .M.l <l!uKnrcrwl flHfl fillfl— /T..—> 15r» onrl Ino AfilPA.hlintlllf^ COH*
rf»rr coventor by n mnjority of 17.178. Ac-
jfniTto th* telegraph tlio Democrats have
. on |* overcome that vote, but heat them
IjOO |,owing a grand agrtg.ueof 2G.178—
|iicll *„| „o doubt bo increased by the lull
oTn ' * T.^clved and disbursed, and sud-
‘ IjCpwarich, there, is strong legal pre-
lapti" jtlial he is using somebody’s money
thex tha-i his own, and cites cases where tlie
nrbsil-' ight such parties to account. No
'wbt million* are thus stolen from the Gov-
,rv month, especially at theNorth,
5t J. inf reckoning is approachiug.
F...S«: -rn is Georoia.—We clip the
cllowing letter from our city contemporary:
AliteWter from Atlanta to the Oincin
',j ifn.ei'.'vr cJmrgps, and with an offer ot
fu denial is made, that General
>oe ref- I tq let Joe Williams speak in
Jr;., . ,l that ho abased him, and ad
r»\» ■ no rocs if he came tlicrc, "to go for
an’ - sis, wn elegant language.
Wli i L .vo the two Negro Radical organs
Atlsnia to say to this ? Did General Pope
ictally refuse a poor negro the liberty of
tdure-siog his race, and intimate to tlie
bluk mob that they might "pitch into
Lim’i 1 - ‘ " ° 1
Severe PcsistiMENT oy Colonel Swke
oi.-O .nt Co’oatl Thomas W. Sweeiuv.
c.'the Sixteenth Infantry, of former P«nian
imf, ho .»cen court-martialed at August•,
Seorgia, an 1 sentenced to six months’ su-*-
xnsion, with confinement within his bar
racks, ami to be reprimanded in general or
Sen, Th.- World says the charges arc of a se
plow nature, and include indecent conduct
cd misappropriation of public property.
Hum ScprkjKCT Illustrated.—The
fpuaunent of a uegro judge, and the draw
tgoftmi hundred grand jurors with twenty
tbitemeu among them, in New Orleans,win
ittnct and startle the country. It isacir-
amsUnce that appeals to the reason aud
hxks the moral sense of the white mc<
Tcrjwlicro. In-iimtions that can lead
7 Rich waits are unnatural and infamous,
odeven the people of the North have onlv
o be s )i>cr to view it in the same light. Wt.
wsmead the spectacle to tlio Democracy «>*
few York and New Jersey. Is this the fate
ley wonld bring upon the intelligent, bravt
'- I chivalrous jh-nple of the South ?
Ovacral Grunt contradicts tlio statc-
-tat that he said if ho was nominated be
nin lor President.
The General ueed feel no uneasiness on thu'
>ubjeet. There Is no danger.of his being
xountted hy a parlv tlmt can elect any-
’ody.
, ^ 8£ sidas as an ELKCTioNr.Er.nn.—Gen.
Mieridau, judging from his recent movements
«d the cnnfessioi s of the Radical press, was
'••ought from duty in the West for the spe
tJ l purpose of showing his august person,
rosing a ground swell against tlie Ad
•bstion. It turned out charmingly.
sail tip election Tuesday shows a Rad
^ of twelve hundred! In Cincinnu i
*Jtu juat long (uiough to secure the dc—
of die Umiienl candidate for Congres
Governor Brown and his office-hunting con-
spiratorsin Atlanta, Augusta, and elsewhere,
who went into Radicalism as a speculation,
purely with the hope of bettering their for
tunes and getting power through the groans
and sighs of their fellow-countrymen of the
South, wc turn them over to public con
tempt and the goadiogs ot conscience, if, in-
deed, God bas gifted them with the faculty.
Tlirir innoc-nt and deluded followers should
make a public abasement, and send in their
petitions fora pardon to the next Legislature
of Georgia. As to the Radical editors of the
South, wo have only to say, if they have the
virtue of Judas, they will go off and hang
themselves.
OUR ADVICE TO TIIE NEGROES.
Recent events at the North should banish
at once from the miudsof the colored people
of the South all those extravagant notions of
political and social equality, with which they
have heip stuniously crammed by wicked
■ind designing men, who would make money
,n«l ride intw offir-o on their shoulders. Wc
have never ceased to assure them that it wns ; bridge masonry,
a delusion, and one that would lead to cna-
Icss trouble and disappointment on tbeir part,
riuy cap now see in the tone and temper of
die Northern people, as expressed in the late
. lections, that we were right, and that a foul
leception has been practiced upon them.
They have been deserted by. tbeir supposed
friends, or to be more candid in our state
ment of facts, the sober sense of the North
ern people never intended to confer these
distinctions upon them, and they arc simply
thiowing off the madness that induced them
o make the promise. And they have nctcjl
.viscly—wisely both for the country and for
he black man.
Wha’cver differences of opinion may exist
m this point, it is certain tb.at the negro ns a
political dement to any great extent in this
country, is a myth arid d cheat. Rtwolutlbn
tryiiWg", wiicn men are regardless of law
tnd right, are closing up, nr.d in tlio reign of
common sense nnd patriotism about to ensue,
'he Federal Government and the States will
•e brought back to the exercise only of their
lelcgated nnd reserved rights, respective!};
md whatever power the negro may have in
•Lc future, must conic solely from the South-
,.-v people—from his own State. To that let
iiim now look, and -abandon forthwith his
vild goose cliaso after false gods at the
North. IIis interest is our interest, and nil are
lisposed to do him full justice, to make bitn
secure in person and all his civil rights, and
to bestow upon him from time to time all the
political control that ho is capable of excr
rising for the good of the country and hint-
self*
Then, what is the plain duty of the freed
Macon and Augusta Jiailroad Com
pany-Annual Reports, 1867.
REPORT OF THE CITIEF ENGINEER, OCTOBER
7. 1807.
To the President and Board of Di’ectors:
Gentlemen: The lollowing Report of the
ob^rvations for the past year, in the Lngi-
i neer’s dtpntmint, is respectfully tendered
to your consideration:
After the last annual Convention, the work
wa3 slowly continued on the rock cut in
Hancock coonty, ub the "Dry Pond” summit,
on the heavy entlMaknat approaching the
Oconee river; also, on general repairs of the
slides and washes on the entire line, and on
the mftsnnry of tlio piers nnd abutments
the river bridge. The progress was con
trolled tiy the ■natl collections made from
tho stockholders, who paid tlieir instalments
most reluctantly. A great change was, how
ever, soon produced by the action of tho
Georgia Railroad in tlieir endorsement of
|i800,000nf the first mortgage bonds, which
were authorized ‘to be issued by the Conven
tion. Their endorsement wns followed by
the South Carolina Railroad, giving sucu
value to tho bonds as to enable us to nego
tiate lor sufficient iron rails to complete tin
line to Millcdgoville; also furnishing means
to pay up the contractors, and to give gene
ral activity to tho work. Track laying was
commenced in May, and has since been con
tinued without interruption.
Tue road was opened lor business to Sparta
in Augu-t, nnd daily trains extended to that
point. Since that time the track lias lu t n
laid to Town .Creek, leaving but seven miles
further to lay. For the purpose of affording
transportation for the material of" the bridge,
three miles of track have been laid from Mil-
ledgtville to tlie Oconee river. Should eo
delay arise from the non-delivery of the bolts
and other irons for the bridge, of which there
is some fear, we think we can safely promise
that tho trains shall run through by the 15ib
November. The iroD, chairs and spikes,
cross-ties nnd other material being on hand,
and bridge framed and ready for raising.
This near completion of the work enables
us to approximate very closely to the cost ot
the road fim-bed to Milledgevillc. Ere enter
ing upon tLis statement, I desire to make a
few remarks to correct an impression which
might otherwise be naturally created from
the fact of moat of the work having been ex
ecuted during tlio war, that the same has
therefore been executed atextravagant rates,
and should be scaled down to give the true
valuo of the road. s ■ ;
Just previous to the war contracts were
cntiTrd into with Messrs. Orr,Thompson atm
Lockett, of tho Southwestern Hoad, and
other large contractors, on the basis ot pricts
paid in gold on tbit road. These prices
were not ra'sctl during tlie war for any work
cast of Milledgcville, and increased only one
C-*nt per cubic yard in earth excavation be
yond that point. With some slight varia
tions to equalize ibe respective work on the
various sections, the following were the prices
puid u viz: 1G cents per cubic ynrd of earth
work, 75 cents per cubic yard lor loose rock,
§1 25 for solid rock, and §0 per perch for
bridge masonry. The prices since the war
are 25 cents per cubic yard for earthwork,
$1 25 lor loose rock, §2 lor solid rock, and
$3 per perch for bridge masonry, being mi
increase of 50 per cent. In other words, tlic
grading and masonry, which cost in round
numbers, according to the report, 637,000,
would now ost §955,000 for tho same work.
Again, 5,000 tons of iron rails were delivered
tu^us in Charleston before the war at §42 in
gold. 1000 toss of tbtsc rails were laid and
are now on the road; the balnnce was seized
and paid for by the Confederate States au
thorities at tbo rate of $80 per ton, which,
while far below its value at tbo time of its
seizure, still as the proceeds were applied to
the grading at gold rates, cannot be consid
ered.otherwise than ns a. clear gain. The
only real absolute losses sustained, outside of
of the depreciation of roadway ami loss ot
interest, consist in the Confederate money in
hand at tlo*d»te«if tlic surrender, amounting
to some $26,018 5014.
The loregoing facts, therefore, show that,
£o far from being proper to scale down tlic
wink, it should inoic properly be increased
to give its valuo in present currency.
STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES
Gradation and Masonry14
.\i*sonry of Bridges —5-
Bridfinf anil Treading....;..'— 02*9?,5 «
Chain, and Spikes W® BJ
Cross Ties — 2o.015 41
eight of " ay ••••;—- 19, 9S J-
i>i,uioR IIr-u*«a •;•••— ,
Pas engtrand Frcisht Houses 4® 00
Kuidnecring....— b'
Jmn Kails ... 31.\Mi ,6
< ifflco KincufCS nnd Salaries.. le.WG 10
Iikwcx'o Kspe,,?r*.... w ^
Maintetiai.ceofWay...........™ 27.^ 4J
Kca! B-Urte, 30
Profit and I* s —Confederate
money and Discount.. 99.S54 CO
• 11 fcv»»uuu wmw vuu.•*••••(»•.• - men, wuui ia mu jj/iu.u «..»j —
delphla, the main object in eye, and man of t jj C South f We ask the question
^ tue most extravagant honors were be ll0 pi n rj he will give thought to tho subject
^ °« the burn hurncr of tbo Valley, iin d answer it honestly to himself. Wc have
lielntingly Radical, gives n tlmu given him only conscientious advice in tbo
crutic majority, nnd tho State goer past, nnd .wo expect to continue to be bis
°tatic by from eight to ten thousand ! f r i cn( l, even in spito of himself. 1\c tlicre-
l) Pped a day at the little city of New- fore ur g C him. ns the cottrso dictated by ins
highest interests, and, in fact, his continu-
ancens an inhabitant of the Southern soil,
to turn his back at once upon the men who
I M „ . have been plying him with false arguments
^mortally wounding, if not the death, nnrl lending hint to destruction. This is tb?
first step in the line of duty and safety. The
kt is, us a Southern man, to unite with the
c P*Hj in the 8fato!
*iuiM little Phil., tbo martyr 1 As An- .
*°Uko care of tlic Indians, would it Southern people in presenting an undivided
* pf*sihlc for the New York Democrats f r ont in opposition to the' w
:ate services for the campaign ?
Scenting the Danoeh.—Some
‘ cr two previous to tho late election,
Pereas wrote ns follows, predicting the
r °F of his party, and is honest
'** to auign ns a renson its own bad
an <l inherent carruptiou. If ho bad
“te diabolical and revolutionary plot?
* • ® tc vens hinieelf, he wonld have com
d ,lle list. Re said:
I w ® *baU Jose Pennsylvania this next
8 1 do not think wc bare earnest—
ou !tu in the State to unite and d
^~eRepublican strength, while
jiully
in tlic
‘ caa portion of our Legislature 1ms
M ,?P- n ly, notoriously and »!• >
u v honest people
dtebcartopad un-i disgusted.
^ Tt *** *
I . ,e ®*gro wbo-.'vras found guilty of
^ 10 I'fr'ow couoty and condemned to
Red twice respited by General Pope,
1 turned out of jail by a United
jjj ltr " Idle the soldiers who guanlei
st ' re ‘ deoping most probably," lias
: Io . ' ' UDl ^ ' ,rn ught back to jail by
** who re-ido in tho neighborhood
■’lurder was comraittod.
front in opposition to the' wild and rcvolu
tionary schemes of the now defunct Radical
party of tlic North.- Vote down the conven
tions they have called in the Southern Skates
for their owu benefit, as the worft enemies to
your happiness and the prosperity of the peo
pie npon whom you have to depend for pro-
trciion and a living. Cling to your old
' omes and your own people. Be sober, in
dustrious, faithful to your engagements, re
spectful to the white?, anil esteem yourseli
too well to be guilty of a dishonorable or
criminal act.
Thus conduct yourselves in the future, and
all will be well with you. You will find a
plenty of labor with good compensation; your
children will bo educated and cared for in
their moral iind physical wants, anil you m»y
continue to live at your old homes in the
South anil lie happy. Break up your loyal
leagues, which arc a Yankee invention to use
and then destroy you, »and in their place
u uuinw build up cliristian churches and benevolent
guarded associations for mutual nid in sickness and
distress.
If on the other hand, you arc determined
to l>e blind to reason and what is passing be
fore your eye*, be it so. The consequences
will lall upon yourselves.
00,013 60
1,310,321 70
Proceeds of talo of iron to
Ccnfodcrato Government...
1.051.537 83
Tin# for Iren Bail's- 105,U0U 00
C -^rV 0<inir ’ d t0 C ° mPletB 100 000 09
1,256.53788
351.783 09
157,619 34
Amount expended between
Alilledgcvillo and Macon —
Total cost from Warrenlon
to Milledgevillc...- 1.1W.91S Cl
Distance being 44 miles. This will give
an ttveregeof $25,000 per mile, a? the cost per
mile of this section, exclusive of rolling
.-took- No outlay has been, as yet, made for
outfit of c ginc and cars, as the road has
.been operated altogether by the Gcoigia
Railroad. An addition -of $4,000 per mile
will be n proper otic for this purpose, which
giv. s $29,000 per mile ns the cost of road
ennudete, being a fraction less than the aver
age vnluc of railroads in the United State?,
usually valued ot $30,000 per mile.
Sonic $050,000 will probably be required
10 complete the mad from Milledgcville to
Macon ready for the cars. From theiluctunt
;ng nature ot the present currency, it is use
less to ntttmpt a closer,estimate.
Every regard has been had, and much
work been encountered to procures favorable
grade anil assignment for the road. The
gTalii'a have been kept down to 40 feet per
mile on the curves, and to 45 feet per mile oh
the straight line. Ruling rate of curvatrire
is of a radius of 28G5 feet.
For many yards the heavy character of tue
Country between Macon and Augusta lifts de
layed the execution of all railroad communi
cations between those places. T he interyia
jus country is cut hy the deep valleys of tlie
Ocmrilgce, Oconee and (igeccbee rivers, and
by the high ridges intervening be
tween'these stream' 1 . A direct line ot rail
road to connect Augusta, Macon^Columbus
und Montgomery has been long felt; the Other
connictlons have been, ntndc and uow tlie
completion of our road tills the gap. In for
mer days, lathe first settlcptent m Georgia,
before the era of railroads, tliere passed! oyer
this same route the lieivy through travel^by
8tu ,r e from New York to Mobile, and New
Orleans. Tills travel will anon resume its old
channel. Every consideration of saving in
distance, timer economy and facility for high
sliced will attrqpt to this line the business
diverted eince many years to more tortuous
"border to avoid the necessity of comp’e-
tinsr tlie section between MllledgevUle rfnd
Macon, an arrangement baa been suggested
for the passage of our trains tor the present
over the Central Road between the same
points. An increase in distance of seven
miles is incurred by this detour by the way
of Gordon, but money being difficult to be
raised, and some compensating advantages
presenting themselves, it would ere pro-
urcssim? further with the grading, be well to
confer with the Central Railroad Company,
to h*arn if such an arrangement could not he
made mutually advantageous. It not, the
balance of tbe stock due (45 percent.) slioub
be called in, and operations progress, as tlie
urposes of the Road would bo incomplete
without direct and uninterrupted communi
cation from Augusta to Mac. n. now the
great cotton and railroad centre the StatP.
A brief statement of distances and compar
ison of routes between Augusta and Mont-
g-it cry may not be uninteresting:
From Augusta to Montgomery. °T°Ji
G.org : u, Atlanta a LaUOUige, and Mout-
g« xucry and Wc>t P«'iot Railroads.. *-.-346 miies
From Aukus! a fo M"ntf*inner}’.'r»verAu»rusta
nnd Navatnmh C’ential, and 6' Utnw«torn.
Mu-cnae© and Monta-'mery. and west
P..jnt ltailroaiU, via Milieu. Macon and A _
Coiuml us w :—8uO milOJ
Fr m Auxusta.o Monta'imeo.ovfrGcorsia,
Mae n .v Aucus a. Central. Southwestern.
Muscogee and Montgomery Sc l\ (it roint
Kailrtoid.-. via I’amak. ftiillidgcvillo. uor-^.
(1 ii. Mac -ii and Co ambus •••*■>•'> “’•il 0 ' 1
Krill,1 Aigu-rii to Mo-'K-uieo. o\or the
t.c. rcia. Macon & Augusta (direot line)
Sou.iiwe-tem. Mus'-ogee Ar Montg- mery
and W.n Point Ra bouts via War>entun.
Mi.ledRcvillc, Macon and Columbus _.-u2 miles
Tli s 1 i-t route, contemplating a saving of
four mites in distance, by cutting off the nn-
gle at Cnmak and seven miles by direct route
horn Milleri&evillc to Macon. niakiDg the
intid distance from Augusta to Macon 121
mwano *
Showing a gain of 34 miles in distance over
the present ma t route via Atlanta, 44 milts
over the route via Millen and eleven miles
over the route via Cnmak and Gordon. _.
In conclusion# nllow me to bear testimony
to the zeal and efficiency of tho Contractor?
who, during and since tho war, have been
connected with tbo woik. Also, too much
credit cannot be awarded to tho Engineer in
charge E. J. Campbell, who has been engaged
. d on ‘tut road since its first inception, .ana to
whose good judgement tbe Company is much
indebted for its success.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Geo. H. Hazlehcrst,
Chief Engineor.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
The accompanying report of the Chief En
gineer sets forth the progress of tho work on
tlio road since your lust annual meeting, giv
ing a detailed statement of tho expenditures,
together with theeslimated amount necessary
to'comphti-it tn Millcdgrtille.
As authorized by the stockholders, the
Board has issued the Company’s bnnds to the-
aniount of tour hundred thousand dollars
which, together with the other assets on hand,
wns deemed sufficient to complete the road
to Millcdgeville. In this our expectations
would have been realized, but for thu unex
pected turn in political affair?, which nfitcted
all Southern securities to a serious i xtent, and
while the co»t oi labor and material necessary
to the building of the road was enhanced,
the value of our bonds wos trtantnatty
reduced. Tbe work, however, has beet
prosecuted, as rapidly as our means
would justify. The iron bas all been tieltv-
ere-don tho line, and cross-ties and, other
material necessary to isy Jhe seven milts
remaining to he laid down has been contrac
ted for, ar d should nothing < ceur to retard
»hc work, we wifi he able to run the csreinto
Milledgeville hy the middle of November
next; but to accomplish this desired result
«u additional amount of means must be pro
vided.
The Company is now owing, in debts du<
and to become dne in a short time, in round
numbers about $185,000. This incluriesiron.
mil* and other tmUeriuls, together with a few
unpaid bills for work done on .the road. Tht
assets are in bonds of tlie Company $187,000.
in tioncts of the South Carolina Railroad
Company $3G 000. and the Baldwin county
und Macon l.onds, say $10,000. If what we
consider a lair valuation could be realized on
-iurse assets, but a small amount additional
.would be necessary Incompletetheunfinished
work, but this cannot be done at present un
’css at a ruinous sacrifice. To obviate this
wc would‘suggest the issuing of an additional
-et of bnnaa, payable in five or ten years, oi
a further assessment on the stockholder?. It
i* with vnur body toelect which of the two
jipn-iti.c.s it will'ndopt.
When the track reaches Milledgeville'the
road will at once ticcomc a paying institu
tion. Measures should, therefore, be adopted
without delay to provide engines and su.l
other rolling stock as may be necessary to its
profitable working Tho amount necessary
for this object should be p ovided for in vot.
appropriations lor the completion of the
road.
No arrangement has yet been effected with
he Central Road for the privilege of running
our cars over tbeir track from Millctlgevilli
io Macon, though we trust that fair t«Tiw-
may be made, as in that event we could web
afford to suspend further operations at leusi
for the present. If. however, wo should bt
disappointed in tbis reasonable expectation,
we will tie under the neces ky of pushingtbr
work through from Milledgeville to Macon
in the earliest practicable time. The cost oi
that work is estimated at $650,000, but the
profits obthe road, working to Milledgeville,
would afford us very material aid.
S. D. IlEAttp, President.
£gr El Diario, of Havana, learns from
Belgium that the mental health of the E:ti-
pre^s Cartosta is continmlly on the nvend.—
Little by little the fate of her husband is to
be communicated to her. This delicate dutt
alb.tti rl to to r sister in law, the Queen ot
the 'Belgium*, who is constant atjd rinrrtnif-
ting in lwr attentions to her.
Mrs Lincoln.—Thurlow Weed prepare?
his late reply to Mrs. Lincoln's attack upon
him. with til" following remark-. It is dm
t<> him that they I a published :
We have never approached a questiou with
halt the sorrow that this one awakens. To
vindicate, shield and protect ••Heaven's best
<nfi to imm” is a «jintvful niuy; wmle to
even reprove, and much more to a-.-ail a
woman, is painful, and, it without u perfect
justification, unmanly.
If the American Congress, or the Ameri
can people, have failed to meet the pecuniary
expectations of Mr. Lincoln s widow, it i?
liecauss that per-onagelulled, during Ins lilt-
amt since his death, to inspire either with re
spect orocnlidence. They should not, there
fore Iks subjected to the reproach, or rest
under the niiputatiou of ingratitude, nan
Mrs Lincoln, while in power, borne lierseil
becomingly, tlie suggestion of a Lincoln fund,
by voluntary contribution?, would bnvebc'i n
promptly responded to. The national heart
was warm. It gushed out in liberal endow
ments ‘ to" 'Grant and. Farragut. It would
US Clieerludy have met the appeal in favor of
Mrs. Lincoln if jt had .not intuitively closed
and chilled.
Kgr The Mayor ot Jackson, Mississippi,
publishes a notice in the C arion of tlie.ls'
i , a t informing the pit' lie that six persons
had died of cholera in that city during tbe
preceding twenty-four hour?.
In a prosecution for larrcny proof m *y H
given of possession hy the accused of tht,
stolen articles. So, too, possession of a larg-'
amount pt money, several weeks after tli*
criminal uct, not identified as the stolen prop
erty, is admitted as tending to prove, in con
section with evidence oftlie previou? poverty
of the defendant, a single set of larceny by
him. We remember to have read a reporter,
a case tried in Massachusetts, where thi;
charge, against a ticket master of a railroad,
was in the nature of embezzlement, extend
ing over a period of two years. The railroad
brought a civil action against its lormer
ticket master, claiming tp recover of him a
large sum, upon tho ground that he had
freudu'enijy abstracted and appropriated it
to his own use, while in the employment ot
the road. Tlio railroad could not establish
its case by direct proof, but was compelled to
resort to circumstantial evidence. It offered
to prove that the defendant, when he entered
upon the imployment referred to, was insol
vent; that Ills salary had been limited to a
certain amount, and that, subsequent to liis
alleged misdoings, be was the owner of large
property,far exceeding the aggregate-of all
bis salary while in the service of the railroad.
This position was denounced by the coun
sel of the ticket-master as monstrous in law,
i.nd not sanctioned by the rules of evidence.
,It was urged that to permit the introduction 1)1
evidence by the railroad of the defendant’s
poverty and riches, would, compel tlie latter
ta prove transactions and negotiations during
ail that time from which the property in hi?
possession resulted. The Court, however,
admitted tlie evidence, telling thejurythat.il
was not a competent way to prove t hat motley
had been abstracted from the railroad, but
it they were satisfied from other testimony
that the railroad had really lost money, then
they could consider the insolvency and sub
sequent solvency of the ticket-master as bear
ing on tho inquiry whether he had abstracted
or appropriated the money.
It would bo edilying to sec* this rule of
law practically applied by the Government
to its Internal Revenue officers, in a suit be
gun to recover money belonging to the
United States embezzled by them. That the
Government has lost money.- can be substan
tiated by the Tribune editors, who assert
that halt a million a day is a fair statement of
thu amount. Tho next question would be
whether the accused officer of the Internal
Revenue had taken any, and how much.
plenty of witnesses could be called to testily
to tho general bad character, in an official
sens*-, of tlie men appointed by tbe present
Republican administration, and confirmed by
a Radical Senate. Commissioner Wells, in
his Report of December, 18i>6, says, ‘'that a
very large pt-reentagG of these losses is due
to the incompetency, neglect, or complicity
of official?, no one who has had any expe-
riencoin the supervision of onr revenue sys
tem can doubt.”
Mr. McCulloch, in hi? communication to
Congress of July 18. 1887, testifies that his
‘•officers have been not only inefficient in the
discharge of th- ir duties, but in many cases
they have been suspected ofdirect complicity
with dishonest men to defraud tho govern
meut.’’ Commissioner Rollins declares, under
date of July 1G. 1867: "I regret to state that
distillors and holders of spirits seem to have
urned tlieir attention to corrupting the
revenue officers themselves, nnd am mortified
by the apparent frequency of these ca?es.”—
To remedy this evil and stop the admitted
embezzlement, the Metropolitan Revenue
Board w» r - rganized—a temporizing expe
dient, w' eb ■ cated only symptoms, and did
not touch io - cause of the disease. But the
Board has, by tlio necessity of removing one
.;f its members, lurnished other testimony
useful to tho government in the suit wc ore
.-onslde'lng.
There would be testimony enough forth
coming to justify introduction of evidence as
to the insolvency of most of the internal rev
mue and law officers when appointed, and
their better pecuniary condition now. Wc
can imagine the leelings with which some
officers of the government in New York, or
Ohio, or Michigan, or elsewhere, who, as col
lector, a?ses«or, special agent, or district at-
iornev, lias been concerned in tho adminis
tration oftlie revenue law, contemplates the
Tisclosuros 5 r> his case if the facts were made
public of bis slender means, economical hab
its, when appointed tooffic.e. und his changed
condition now. with a fine house, plenty of
horses, much jewelry, ami altogether unlike
the poveriv-strickcu individual lie was when
he passed tlic ordeal of a Republican Senate.
\nd yet, Republican office-holder, tlie time
may riot be far distant when tbo people will
lemind all these things to be revealed and
iho miilty one to be a victim of that justice
which conquered Kohnstuiner, and so wres
>lcd with Henderson, publisher ot the Even
ing PoEt
To the public thi? legal notion of ours holds
ut bright visions of reduced indebtedness.
What an enormous sum would be gained to
he Treasury it Sir. McCulloch’s Republican
•fficials could bo compelled to disgorge, as
vas the ticket-master in the case referred to?
We commend our idea to Sir. Tracy, who
ippears to bo the only District -Attorney
who has courage to deal with government
flieinis, and doc? not content himself with
' lalleoi g about a few casks of lager beer
-i ized ou a cart or a poor Dutch distiller
.rnsted.—y<to York World.
New Plan of Reconstruction—Souxn
ERNKRs in Consultation with the Presi-
nSsrr.—Wo find the following important in
telligence in the Washington telegraphic
news of the New York Herald of the 3d
ins'ant:
Two gentlemen possessing considerable
political knowledge and experience- one
from Virginia nnd one from Georgia—called
npon the President yesterday and had an in-
L-rview, at which the present condition of
inatters in the Southern States was dis-
cusaed. In tlie course of the conversation,
tninng other points considered, was' the
quickest and surest method of restoring the
inreconstruetcd States to tlieir proper posi
rions in the Union, to the satbfactioii ot the
•ountry at large. It wt»s suggested that it
the people of tho Northern Staten would re
cognize the principle enunciated by Senator
Trumbull of tho right of each Sfate to decide
lie question ut suffrage for itself, as equully
applicable to tbe Southern Stiles, they, i>
turn, wou d voluntarily include the colored
population as voters ss they became qualified
by intelligence for the proper exercise of tbe
elective franchise, and a vigorous policy of
encouragement to their education and ud
vaiieenieiit wonld immediately be inaugu
rated by the Statu governments. With this
modification of tho preseut requirements,
reconstruction, or a restoration ot the ex
cluded States, it wns thought, would be
easily accomplished.
The "finest woman in the world” is
oeing exhibited io a booth on the f'hampe de
Mars! Those who visit her are addressed bv
her in the following m 'dest style : “I am the
most beautiful woman in the world. No
empress, no queen, can compare with tu •.—
You are ut liberty tu touch me. messieurs ;
yon will find that there is no cot ton about
me.” Very 'few of the visitor*, however,
avail themselves ut this permission.
Unparalleled Outrage In New York City 5—
A “Mail and Brother” Caged and In
Chains!-—A Demand for Fair Play.
The Augusta Constitutionalist copies from
the Round Table and prefaces as follows:
Mr. Barnurri, the great showman and im
mense humbug, has imported a live gorilla.
The hypercritics claim that it is no gorilla at
all, and, having a tail, mu6t lie classed among
the baboons When it is remembered, how
ver, that recent traveller? have discov
ered human - beings in tlie remote wilds
ot Central Africa ornamented with caudal
appendages, it matters not wh.it the casuists
may say against Air. Barnum and hisprisontr.
But it is a matter of some moment, in this
day of progress, that a creature so nearly ap
proximating to one form of humanity should
be b( Id in bondage and debarred the privi
lege of equal rights. Wc contend that Bar-
nnm lias acted in contravention of the spirit
of the age, and should, by ?pcciai act of Con
gress or through the Justices of the Supreme
Court in Georgia, be compelled to enlarge
his captive and afford him a chance to devel
op the capacities that are hidden within
him.
The New York Round Table, sensibly af
fected by the injustice of the proceeding, has
entered a caveat against Barnum, and insists
upon giving the gorilla or ljaboon elbow room
in the best Government the world oversaw.
It says:
: Wc perceive by the evening Post that this
person—Mr. Gorilla or Mr Baboon, as the
case may be—has been actually dragged
about by a heavy chain made fast about his
neck, notwithstanding bis strenuous objec
tions and repented solicitations to the con
trary. and that he is now ignominionsly im
prisoned in a contracted cage, shut out by
cruel iron gratings from the light and liberty
to which lie was born, to which h« has always
been accustomed, and to which he has an in
defeasible right. We feel bound to protest
ag.vnst sncli treatment being shown to an
unoffending stranger in this great and free
country, and in this wonderful and progress
ive age. We should be false to our cunvic-
tions and responsibilities did we not urge
that us this no doubt excellent and estimable
individual lias been brought hither from
Africa against bis will under circumstances
of cruel restraint and unjustifiable oppression,
the least we can do is to set him free, to rec
ognize his equality to ourselves in all re
spects, and to afford him those opportunities
tor.the pursuit of property and liappiness
which we ourselves enjoy.
A consideration ot his probable future
career under such changed and inspiring ctr
cum stances! inust surely give pleasure to even
noble or generous mind. We may trace bin
in fancy accumulating a little fortune by tin
judicious management of a corner grocery —
He rise?, step by step, through a careful study
of the principles' of eancu?es nnd a sedulou-.
attendance at ward meetings, to the position
O a common councilman. Watching his
chances and aided by a ielicitous in vest turn
in a share of a faro-hank or a lucky partner
ship in a lottery office, lie ascends by stead.'
progress to the dignity of an alderman.—
Skilled now in the politician's art nnd filled
with an enthusiastic love of the people, Ik
jobs some mark f, some street railway, o
some other patriotic enterprise, and sudden!'
apnears at the opera' or in the park a9 a
millionaire, splendid in diamond*, purple
and fine linen, sumptuous in the coitiines>
and beauty of his equipage.
In time, mixing bigner, greater, ann mor*
useful in the sucial scale, in proportion to tin
increase'of his well earned fortune, he buy
the lastest horse in the world, breaks tin
largest bank in the world, builds the largest
house in tlie world, drive? eight in hand?
“combintb” in Erie and Pacific Mail, throw-
thousand dollar diamonds to pretty ballet
girls, and Jinally—fr/r/s coronat opus—goes ti
Congress. Even In-y ind this lofty pinnacle,
with no great stretch of imagination, w.
might depict his swelling progress, but w<
have gone _f;ir enough to show the enormity
of hi? present incuro ration and the national
benefits which arc.sure to inure from his en
largement. Are these benefits to be forgone
for the sake of the miserable cupidity
of a Barnum? Forbid it hospitality, jusiic ,
and tqu d rights. The lime has gone i>y fui
ridiculous ethnological distinctions, arid,
whether our illustrious visitor be Mr. Baboon,
or Mr. Gorilla, wo insist upon bis having fail
play.
The Public Debt.
The following is a statement of the public
debt of the United States on the 1st of Oc
tober, 1$(57:
DEBT nKAMSG COIN INTEREST.
Firo pcro'nt. b“nd*._...9 193 431.350 00
Six tier cenl. bonds of
’67, 63...: - 14.7O7.WI0> : i i- : '■
Sis per cent, boods of
1S81.; 2'3,676,100 00
Six per cent 5-20 bond?-1.225^80,750 00
Navy pension fund I9.UQ0.00a 00^ ■ y. ^
DECT DC 'RING CURRENCY INTEREST.
Six percont. boods $ 16,746,09000
Three year compound in
terest note?.., —7?3 ; 9.5S00Q
Three year 7*30 note?...... 3U-, S91.000 ^ ^ M
MATCHED PERT NOT PRES! STED FOR PAYMENT.
Three year 7-30 notes due August 15, ’67 4,250.900 00
Compound interest notes
matured J - ne 10. July
15. snd Auc. 15. 1S67...
Bonds. Texas in lem’ty.
Troafury notes, ac ? of
July 17.1S61, and pri T
thereto —
Bonds, April 16,1SI2
Tro.isury note?, March
S 186 k..: -
Tcm norary loan-
Certificate? of indebted-
S7.4S3.1P0 00
262,000 00
164.51161
54.06164
059.38000
5.012,70355
36.000 00
13,221,256 83
PEtrr REARING NO INTEREST.
United Slcto- notes- $ 361.164 S44 tri
Fraoti"nal currency - 29.864 713 Si
Gold certificates of do-
Posit .*. 14.£6(,b-v0a
j 06u...... , ;J 405.S97.S77
Total debt..—.....
Am»’.nt in Treasury.
coin —...S 103,298,6-9 69
Amo nt in Treasury
2,620,589,426 00
currency
31.812.349 55
.135,112,009 21
Amount of debt, lass cash in Treasury. 2,495,277,445 76
Tlic foregoing is a correct statement of the
public debt, as appears from the books and
Treasurer’s returns in the Di partment, on the
1st of October, 1867.
Hugh McCulloch,
Secretary of the Treasury.
J2jgf" - Auber, now eightv-fivc years old, has
written and is superintending relienrsals ot a
new opera entitled "Un Jour de B tiheur,'
which he says will he his Inst. He rises aud
goes to work "at. five, o’ lock iu the morning,”
and drives a span of very Inst horses in‘the
afternoou.
J-jf Prussia furnishes cvc ry non-commis j
atoned,officer in her army with a French j
grammar, a French and German dictionary. ■
and a typographical map of the north and
east of France. This is considered signifi
cant. i
ry A proposition is before the Merchants’ j
Exchange of Sr. L->ui-», and "ill probably lie j
adopted, which nbol’Mies the system of gir-
ing three days' grace for cash saics made ou
’Change, iirid substituting payment oh deliv
ery or the return ot properly.
rPWlWRTORS
{VOL. II - Not 47 H*
Startling Immorality Among the. Freedman
of Georgia.
MARRIAGES INFREQUENT, AND THU CAUEB—©■
FtETICIDK AND STERILITT—RATIO OF MO*.
TALITY— PERVERSION OF C!URKI”-aA Wo8»
TO TI1K UliNEYOLENT.
Corronpohclenci of tile jVew Fori J7n»fff J
Auousta, Ga., Sept. 28, 1837.
In its anxiety as to bis political statu**, tbe
North 6eem9 to be overlooking the moral
and physical condition of tho freedtaeu.
These, to speak plainly, are lamentable
enough, and I have some sad facts upon tho
subject. First and foremost, then, the im
morality of tbe colored population through
out tlie South is something appalling. Under
the old slavery regime—when marriage was
encouraged, and the obligation of tbe nup
tial tie to a certain extent enforced—there
existed a sort of proximate chastity among
this population, and its increase wa? rapid.
Births were frequent, and chief among the
cares ot a mistress of a plantation was a jeal
ous attention to tbe physical weltare of the
negro children.
This care was, of course, for the most part,
based upon tbe monetary value of its recip
ients, but such as it was, it was sufficient to
make the infantile negro mortality one per
cent, less than that of the whites. With
emancipation - , however, this ground of caro
has been swept away, and the cons<quence
is. as stated, a very lamentahle condition of
concubinage and sterility. So far from there
being any inducement now to marriage
among the blacks,every motive tends strongly
tli oilier way. On seeking employment, al
most the first question put to the treetlman
by tbe planter is,f“Are yon a clean hand,"
t'iat is, unencumbered by wife or children.
If the answer be in the negative, the chances
arc very greatly against poor CuflVe’s ob
taining a place, arid a knowledge ot this fact
not only defers the single men front marry
ing, but even leads those already married to
desert-their wives and families, anti then hire
therrselv s out in distant loculitits as unen
cumbered.
’l bus tlescrted and left unaided to main
tain their'cliiklren, tlie negro women are not
backward in themselves evading Hie respon
sibility by decamping, and though, from the
strength of the maternal instinct, this deser
tion is far from being as frequent as thnt of
• lie fathers, it is still considerable though to
produce great misery and detritus am. Among
tne. women, also, there are practices in vi'iiuc
.if which, though farced tu speak, I hardly
know how to treat. To indicate the general na-
.ure of tl;e crime, I may say that tiiose of our
people who sbudcjcr so at infanticide in India
no China, would find litre, almost at their
<>wn doors, a kindred and wide spread
itrocity—fceticide. Once, savour travelling
■gents and business men—may renumber to
nave seen in their trips throughout the South,
lardty a kitchen or negro Cabin on the lines
of rail but would have at itff"doors a swarm
■f little piccaninnies, as numerous and noisy
as so many bees.
h*ow. ns those who have been in this scc-
iiVn .-.ince the war can, I think, well corrobo
rate my own observation, a real ni gro Oaky
•s rather a curiosity than oth< r"iw. inas-
m idi as tlic production—to use a mercantile
hvise—and preservation of flu* little ne-
; ioeswsisa matter of prirhc attention, even
up to the- last hours ofthe Ouflf*.deracy, there
may still be seen something near,tlie usual
mmiier of children from three to ten ■ but
oelow the former ago they are so iufri qi.ent
is to' bedome matter 1 of riotei - 1 lYf r3 he:rr a
child now is for the negro mother to endure
ne pangs of maternity unifidcd, and then to
’ic forced, almost front the- lmur ot confine
ment, into a desperate /struggle", for that
child's maintenance and hef own. This
change of affairs to one accustomed to the
••ost medical attendance,.-'~b kind, though,
if course, interested care,,i? so very discour-
iging that it is perhaps only natural the poor,
IL-regulated and helpless creature?, should
:ock ro free themselves' by 'the early me of
abortives.
In the columns of Southern pnped (more
■itiarne to thva>)-quark wlyor-riremcnt? <>i this
nature occupy a premincit pcsi'ii'iV .ml tho
scoundrels who vend “rcliel ” preparations
•cap a ba-e, bnt abounding harvest. V.WItt
this much on a pain fill, subject ;Jia» it may bo
[ shall have further to^irryuc?. I pwj du-miss
the general topic with the renunk '.U d in
fanticide (a thing.almosf nbseluK’fj unknown
in the days of slavery) ts fhr.frnm info quvnt,
the perpetrators being these who, while afraid
to use "preventives,” do not' scruple to de
stroy their offspring, which as-things now are
can only be a soun c of p verty a*.d . ''irow.
With tlie withdrawal td 3 o of ’he old-iimc
restraints oncoccubinage.it may-l*o added,
is the physician can .well iniagim.ytbat •sex
ual diseases are both wide spread and viru
lent. ' 7.
As to cither matters sin elirig the health of
the I'reedmen it may be said that, adults do
not suffer to the.cxteut J.’- was first supposed
they would from the abolil’oi. of the sanitary
regulations of slavery. Ir.eiifiicTci l and un
suitable food, imprudent c ypn-urc, inability
to command medical ai l. nnd In tlic towns
and cities cold and lack ot ventilation, in
crease the ratio ofmortaliiy to a.very con
siderable extent, but still'not id ti-at degree
feared, or so generally prevalent tor some
Vear or so immediately succeeding emancipa
tion. s
With regard'ti>* Heir moral welfare it
would be well for the benovuli nt c.f our peo
ple, " I’.o have contributed so liatnlsomcly to
the ediicmioa and religious improvement of
the freed men, to institute s un* inquiries as
to tho uso made of theni'-no *-<* Ii. * r oly be
stowed. So far as my obs»r*afioh goes, the
good of tlie lreedmen i? uVulc a vr ry‘secon
d-ary consideration to t he political .advance
ment of those who are siippos:-! to have
thrit 1 interests in charge. The L fi< whehers,
it is proper tuwy, Itppuirrm wuk taiilitully,
aud it is pleasant to add tnat sJuJ.oi the
prejudice against them in the minds i f the
whites is wearing away. Other in turaeu-
mentalities need attention, howevi r, tor jf
an hnntiity of one hundred thousand dollars
to the Indians dwindles dow n, a? is .-..i 1, into
a donation of one-tenth that Mini add a few
rotten blankets, the imramsu means poured
out for the poor freedmen are tar too'fre
quently diverted, long ere tln-y reach them,
into tbe channels of private rattiest or
party good.
A negroWasso convinced of tho low-
line.-s of his race that he was inditf. rent as
to a future state, believing timi “dey II make
niggers work then in Ile-aben . A clergy
man tried to argue him out of las opinion
by representing this not. to ‘be the rase, as
there'was no woi k for him or anyone else
to do. His answer was; “You gno ’way,
massa; I know better. If det'e's no oder
woik tor culled peraons up dar dey’II make
uni sliuu de clouds along.” i
^"The great objection to' emi rt children
Is that when they'commence having whisk
ers they leave off having brains. By forcing
children, you get eo much into their heads
that they become crocked in order to bold it.
The sugar crop of Louisiana, accord
ing to.thc New Orlcana Bee, will be double
last yi ar’s crop, and will reach eighty thou-
cand hogsheads.