About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1868)
- gyiwMrraanB " wp»n ... . ^ ’ • ' ' s •* • ■ " ;r 4 A ■'-S : ' ; 'V;v^;. ?:§;>■",•'> ’ v -‘ ~ \^vJV - v • > r fr y’V • ? -'r® ., , •. .. .“•'. * .'. . > r t -x . v vf» .' 7 > ' .' ' ' ;•'• ■ *‘\Spk'\ , . V , * / *. . %**■., -* mgamm The Greor-gia Weekly Telegraph.. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27.1SC8. GOHE BACK. Some time ago tbe Augusta National Re publican, under tbe impulse of joy over the election of Gen. Grant, seemed to be in a ge nial mood. It proffered the hand of recon cilement—it proposed to unite in fraternal efforts to build up, instead of pulling down, Georgia. To take advantage of this gentle and friendly mood, we pointed out to that paper the manifest injustice of holding all Georgia responsible for such violent language and acts as it was able to cull from an isola ted village newspaper or Bhow by affidavits about occasional “outrages.” That the best of communities contained wicked, violent and reckless men, and such a principle of judgment would make tbem all mere Pande moniums. The' response of the Republican shows that ho has re’apsed into bi3 old mood, and has concluded, after all, that bis vocation lies in slandering the State. He says these excep tions are tbe rnle and vre know nothing about tbe matter. Well, let him follow his bent. Wc may say with the Scripture, “The dog has returned to his vomit again and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” _ A Hard Job.—We see in the Atlanta New Era of Sunday, “John H. Caldwell, mem ber of the National Executive Committee,” undertakes to cypher away the forty-five thousand anti-Grant majority in Georgia, and charge it to the account of fraud and intim idation. Caldwell is no doubt, constitu tionally, a bold man, but be must also count indefinitely on tbe Radical powers of deglu tition. He believes tho Radical party will swallow anything presented by the bands ol a friend. His confidence is sublime. Old Gov. Duval, (Ralph Eingwood of Washing ton Irving,) said of a staunch follower of Gen. Jackson—“He’s an honest man, sir—by gad —he’s an honest man—and if old Hickory, sir, should tell him he could swallow a hon- ey-locnst tree top down without scratching his throat, by gad. sir, he’d believe him and try it.” It is in full faith in the sublime credu lity of tho Northern Radicals against the “3outhern rebels,” that Caldwell undertakes to charge forty-five thousand majority in Georgia to the account of fraud and intimi dation !! The Alabama State Faie concluded last Saturday, alter a splendid career of four days. Many columns in the Montgomery papers have been devoted to the articles on exhibition. The grounds were crowded with the beauty, fashion, wealth and substantial ity of Alabama, and races, trotting matches and athletic games have been prominent fea tures in the daily displays. The fastest trot ter took a silver pitcher worth $175. The ploughing matches are described as very in teresting. The Montgomery Advertiser of Saturday morning says: “The interest mani fested so far exceeds expectation that we can safely promise next year the biggest Fair ever held in Alabama.” A case was decided in the Superior Court at, Columbus, on Saturday, involving the question, whether an insurance which issues a policy upon property the owner of which afterwards takes out an additional policy without notifying it is released thereby from responsibility. The jury thought not, and rendered a verdict against the company. The New Orleans Picayune of 18th inst., says a steamer arrived that day at New Orleans from Montgomery, Alabama, loaded with Cotton, with the rates for freights upon the bills of lading at fifty cents per bale for tbe through trip. If this is not cheap trans portation, we are very much mistaken. Gov. Bullock.—Our Governor started North Saturday night to look after the finan ces of Georgia. Ohio Crop Pp.oductions of 18GS.—The following summary of cattle and crop pro ducts in this State for 1868 is made np from county reports, and is supposed to approxi mate very nearly the actual yield: The number of sheep i3 set down at 7,560,- 000, showing that in eight years the number has more than doubled in tbe State. Tbe cattle returned aggregate 1,481,214—a small advance on tbe preceding report. Of hogs there are 2,100,000—an increase in three years of about 700,000. The wheat, corn and oat crops aggregate 141,000,000—the largest since 1860, and less than that by 12,000,000 bushels, and greater than that ol I860 by 23,000,000 bushels. Tbe estimate of these crops for tbe entire country tbe present year is 1,000,000,000 bushels. LATE FOREIGN NEWS. Eruption ot Vesuvius—The KnglisU Elec tion—III ots—Tile Alabama Commission. Naples, November 19.—The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius is still very imposing and threatening. All the cones of the Volcano emit rumbling sounds, and eject large quan tities of lava. The lava has set a whole for est of chestnut trees on fire, causing immense devastation. Houses, farms and lands arc overwhelmed with ruins and the population of the nearer villages are leaving their homes in great destitution. It is announced to-day thntLord Stanley has acceded to the modification of the Ala bama settlement which permits the Commis sion to set in "Washington. Hon. Mr. Burlingame and other members of tho Chinese Embassy yesterday were taken on a special train from tbe city to Windsor, and conveyed to the castle in tbe Queen’s car riage, and formally presented to the Queen by Lord Stanley. London, November 21.—The Times states that there are elected to the House of Com mons, thus far, 310 Liberals, 16S Conserva tives. The Daily News gives the Liberals a ma jority of 146. Serious riots occurred at various places. There was quite a formidable outbreak be fore it was quelled. Ten houses were sacked by the mob. There was also a scene of vio lence at the little town of Ripley, in Derby. A fight occurred and many persons were in jured by clubs and stones in tbe hands of the rioters. The mob partially demolished sev eral buildings, including the vicarage. Affairs in Hayti.—Hew York, Hoverribcr 21.—Later advices from Hayti state thatSel- navc has been defeated at JeremiB, and a vessel with large guns bad arrived at St. Ma rie, for tbe Casas Cape. Hayti was be-ing vigorously attacked by the insurgents. The commander of the British war vessel Niobo had orders to prevent tbe bombardment of any town where British residents were en gaged in trade. A regular Government bad bees installed under the Presidency of Xes- sage Beget, at St. Marie, in the North. Gen- eral.Dopiiniqv.e had his own as President in the South. TnE official reports give a total area of the entire British dominion of seven millions of square miles, and Jvttttfel population of two hundred millions. Of these Anglo India constitutes nearly nine hundred and ninety thousand squar.- oiiiee. and one hundred and fifty million inhabitants. A GOOD IDEA. We are informed that the county and city authorities aro co-operating for the establish ment of- an almshouse, (in connection with land for farming purposes,) wherein not only greater economy can be used in providing for tbe colored poor than lia3 hitherto been practicable, but where, also, by their labor they can assist in tbe work of their own maintenance and those who are competent for heavier labor can be employed in the preparation of material for tbe repairs of streets and highways. The city and regions around it abound in good material for McAdamizing, and our streets, wherever they wash, once thoroughly HcAdamizcd, would give little trouble or ex pense in keeping them in order, besides be ing bard, smoothe and pleasant and profit able for travel and transportation. There is another “ high moral point ” con nected with this contemplated improvement, which is of still greater practical importance, It is but too often that mere donations in the way of charity do more harm than good We believe that “giving out rations” or other public gratuities to the poor, as a sys tem, must inevitably break down by its own increasing weight, owing to its demoralizing tendency. After a trial of more than two hundred years in England, it had to be aban doned. The expense in Queen Anne’s time got to be about thirty-three million dollars annually, and with such an increasing flood of pauperism that the country could stand it no longer. The fact is, it operates as a premium on thriftles3ness, improvidence and indolence. There are, of course, some cases, (the sick, decrepit and aged, for example,) which must be supported in that way. But these are comparatively few. There are few recipients of charity who could not, if it were required of them, return at least a partial equivalent, and there are many who, wheastbev find such an equivalent as they can render is inexora bly demanded, will discover they can sup port themselves. Nobody should help the lazy, because tho pangs ot necessity are a God-ordained corrective of their indolence. Furthermore, the towns and villages of Georgia owe it to the rural interest, as much as to themselves, to see that they do not en courage indolence and vagrancy by a system of ill-considered benevolences, and in that way become harbors of indolence and theft. There is ample room in the cultivation of the soil for every laborer in Georgia. Ifiny able-bodied man or woman in this State suf fers from hunger, cold or nakedness, it is simply because be or she is unwilling to work. We can proudly and confidently say, what few counties or States in the world can truly say, that every person able and willing to labor, can be comfortable in Georgia. Starting, then on this broad proposition, the true measure of benevolence is that which supplies the personal incapacity to labor and all beyond that is hurtful. The old planta tion economy should, as far aspossible, be ap plied to the support of paupers. Those who cannot do heavy labor can do light labor, and those who can labor and will not consent to it, should be turned adrift. A good mar ket farm in tbe neighborhood of each town attached to an almshouse could enlist most of the inmates in profitable employment—re lieve tbe people of a heavy tax—and power fully conserve the public morals. Important Decision—-military Tri bunals Unconstitutional. During tbe recent session of Baldwin Supe rior Court, Judge Robinson delivered his opinion in the case of W. J. Brannan, who, being confined in the State Penitentiary, sued out a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that his confinement was illegal. Judge Robin son sustained the application and ordered the principal keeper of the penitentiary to de liver the applicant into the hands of the Sheriff of Decatur county, from whose custo dy Brannan had been taken by the military authorities. The main facts of this case are these: Some time last spring, Brannan, in a street fight in the town of Bainbridge, killed a man named Bell, and for which he was immediately ar rested by tbe civil authorities and bound over to stand his trial at the ensuing term of the Superior Court of that county. After he had been arrested and bad given bail, be was, by tbe order of Gen. Meade, re- arrested by the military commandant at that post, and subsequently tried for murder by a military court organized by Meade. He was by this military tribunal, found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and be im prisoned on tbe Dry Tortugas for tbe term of his natural life. Gen. Meade approved the finding of the court, but remitted one half the fine and reduced tbe confinement to twenty years. While being conducted through Florida by a military guard to a shipping port for the Tortugas, Brannan’s friends sued out a writ of habeas corpus from a Judge of the Superior Court of that State, who, upon a hearing of the case, ordered the release of tho prisoner. Meade was immediately telegraphed to, who, in reply, removed the Judge from his office and ordered the guard then to return with their prisoner to Georgia and deliver him to the keeper of the State penitentiary, where ho has ever since been confined. Daring tbe session of tho Putnam Court, Judge Locbrane argued the case before Judge Robinson for the prisoner and tbe Solicitor General for the State. The opinion was held up until last week, when, as we have said, Judge R. sustained the writ and ordered the prisoner to be remanded into the hands of the Sheriff of Decatur county. We learn that the constitutionality of the reconstruction acts was not decided by the court, the deci- iion being made upon the point that the con viction was illegal because the right to a trial by jury was denied the prisoner, and that so much and such parts of the reconstruction laws as deprived persons accused of crime of the right to trial by jury was unconstitu tional,— Chronicle and Sentinel. ALLEGED COOLIE SHIPMENT TEXAS. TO The Potato Question.—Several of our cotemporaries have been vieing with each other on the question of the largest potato, and, at last advices we believe our friend of the Macon Telegraph had the “hat.” But fame of all sorts is generally short-lived, es pecially in this progressive age, for wc have positive and reliable evidence of a potato that takes the starch out of all their stories. We have not the aforesaid esculent in our office, nor can we adduce the evidence of onr own eyes, but a gentleman of character and truth residing in the interior of this State, and just from Orange county, Florida, informs us that be saw there a few days ago, a sweet potato that measured nine feet in length, and that others of the yam species weighing from twenty to thirty pounds as very common in that section. Wo bav%only to add: let our Macon co temporary hide his diminished head, and the Commissioner of Agriculture—go off and hang himself! Hide your own head, oh, friend of the Sa vannah Republican. You doubted our story of the eighteen pound potato. You regretted thaf the “venerable editor of the Telegraph” should risk his. reputation on such tales! and now in the foregoing you confess your utter ignorance of the. capabilities of. a soil and clime unfettered by frosts. You would never have believed our eighteen pound story, and now you r.sk ug to credit your thirty pound affair 1 Ob, for shame, Palinurus. Comb your time-frosted locks and try it Again. The Kedemptloncr System In Pennsylvania. Wily not Lnrfal and Expedient! How destitute foreign Immigrants may be brought South. We find the following in the Philadelphia Press, of the 18tb, which is the first intima tion wc have seen of tbe existence of the “ Coolie trade” in Texas: At Galveston, Texas, it is reported a large cargo ot coolies have been landed, consigned to a leading firm under ordinary bills of lading, and it is alleged they will be disposed oi on saie as merchandise.— Many of the women, we are told, are very beauti ful, and all the men good workers. It is presumed that they will bo sold for freight and other charges, by way of giving a color of title. Some of the Northern journals are requesting interference by the National Government, and explaining howi under the fourteenth Amendment to the Cosstitu tion, the transaction is'•illegal. It is so, hut the illegality and the remedy lie far back of this tardy amendment. By the Declaration oflndependenee—the organic law of this country—liberty is enumerated among the inalienable rights of mankind Now, this word “inalienable” is one whose virtue and significance we have been slow to learn. It is not only simple English, but also a technical word of law, with a clear and defiuitemeaning. It means not purchas able and not saleable. All tbe bills ot sale, or agreement, or articles of any kind that could ho drawn, would not pass a title to these coolies.— No laws, constitutions, or decisions would make It good. All the papers in the world would be in operative to do a thing which cannot be done.— These coolies are freemen ju6t where they are and as they are. If any one has claims against them he may push them to judgment and issue execution as best he may, but no one holds a mortgage on their persons or liberty. Let the Union journals of the South convince their readers of the flaw in any title which the man-traders can offer, and the coolies are reasonably safe—as safe as any man can be in Texas. We have no faith at all in the truth of this report—but if true, what then ? Pennsylva nia was largely settled by a class of immi grants called “Redemptioners,” that is to say, of men and women who made a bargain with shippers to be hired out at the wharf for the shortest time which should pay their indebt edness to the vessel for passage. The coolies, as we conceive, are hired in precisely the same way. Whether they are more “beautiful” or better workers than tbe original Dutch and German “Redemptioners" ofPcnnsylvania, we leave the imagination of the Philadelphia Press to determine, but we shall be slow to believe tbem half as beauti ful or half as good. Now, we have never yet heard of a man so absurd a3 to set up the preposterous idea that the Redemptioners had no legal or moral right to contract for the sale of their time and services in manner and form as was the cus tom in those days. They were often hired at public out cry—their employers advanced tbe Redemptioners’ indebtedness to tbe ship—the latter served out the time due to the employ ers, and afterwards took their place among the most respectable and influential citizens of Pennsylvania. All this is history—all was perfectly equi table. There was no more degradation about it than if tbe colonist had paid the money for his passage and then entered into a negotia tion to hire himself for a time for a specific sum of money. Or, than if be had borrowed the money from his prospective employer, and then bad paid for it in service. That was. indeed, the effect of the transac tion ; and how is it different in its applica tion to Asiatics ? Does the Press mean seri ously to set up that the Declaration of Inde pendence, (supposing that to be law,) where in it declares the right to liberty inaliena ble, prohibits a. sale of time and labor with the consent of the laborer ? Then it enslaves the laborer! It takes from him the only marketable commodity at bis command. No man can make a contract to hire himself, for when he does it, he binds himself to serv ice, and to that extent curtails or abridges bis inalienable right to liberty pending tbe service. That is surely too absurd a proposition for argument. The laborer exercises his inalien able right to his own time and freedom when he makes the contract, and he can make it through himself or an agent. When it is made, bo has consented to a temporary abridgment of that right for what he deems an equivalent—that is to say, if be has hired himself to work daily for a day, a month or a year, he is not at liberty to use his time and personal freedom in any manner incon sistent with tho service he has stipulated to perform. Now can Congress or any body else, under plea of devotion to human rights, undertake to prohibit a fair and legitimate trade of this character, without striking at the foun dations of personal liberty ! If shiploads of emigrants from any part of the earth come to our ports, penniless and desiring to sell their labor for the shortest pe riod of time to whoever will pay their in debtedness for transportation and feed them meanwhile, what is there immoral or in any way unfair and undesirable in the trans action? If cotton ships from European ports, for example, instead of coming in bal last, or loaded with salt, to Savannah, Charleston, Mobile and New Orleans, choose to bring able-bodied emigrants, under stipu lation that those emigrants shall accept ser vice from whoever will employ them for the shortest time and advance their liabilities to tbe ship, we believe the whole arrangement would not only be fair, but profitable to ship pers, to planters, and to tho South. We have □ot a doubt that all such laborers will find their services in eager request—that the ship will realize the passage money at a day’s no tice—our gardens, farms and households bo provided with better service than now, and all such redemptioners, with ordinary good luck and good behavior, speedily win their way to the position of independent land holders. THE SITUATION IN SPAIN. It was quite an easy matter for Gen. Prim and his colleagues to dethrone the weak and imbecile Queen Isabella, because the whole nation sanctioned it. But they find the task of remodeling and re establishing a new Gov eminent far more difficult. Each one of the leaders has more or less ambition to be at the bead of the Government, whether a Monarchy or a Republic is the final result. These, leadeis, Prim, Serrano, Espartero, & Co., seem to halt and to hesitate, and to know not what to do. They have no settled plan or policy. In one batch of news we read they have determined upon a Republic, in another they have elected a constitutional monarchy, and then that Prim supports some sprig of royalty for king. In order to ap pease the impatience of the people they have given out that the question shall be decided by popular elections, but they refuse to name the day upon which the voting is to be done. Our readers who take ao interest in that effete, worthless country and still more worth less people may rest assured that a monarchy will be the result with some one of the men wo have named a3 King. The truth is, tbe Spanish people are wholly unfit for a gov ernment modeled after that of the United States. Thsre is something bad in the blood of the Spaniard of the present day which re quires a stroDg central government to re press. It was a great and powerful nation at the time religious fanaticism drove the Moors from the country. Since then it has been on tbe dawn grade. The Moors gave it all its vitality. After tbem came the—In quisition 1 For tbe last fifty years it has been cordially despised by other nations, and looked upon as a country steeped in religious bigotry, intolerance and superstition. Tbe Kings and Queens, since Ferdinand and Isabella, have been licentious, dissolute, de prsved to the last degree. Their courts were nothing better than a Musselmau’s Harem, tbeir only employment dreams of liatchis- bons. The spouse of Ferdinand, that Isabella of tbe days of Columbus, was a noble woman. When they were expelled from Madrid by tbe revolution which cost tbem their throne, and when they had gained the mountains which over-looked their lost capital, Ferdi nand wept bitterly. She upbraided him “You weep like a woman over that which you cannot defend as a man.” Still it has a history with a hundred bril liant pages. The people are brave to this day. They have lost the area of all Europ! in territory, but the mother country has never bowei its neck to a conqueror since the days of Julius Csesar. Napoleon lost four bun dred thousand men in au effort to subjugate it but failed. Successfully baffliDg every at tempt at invasion from time immemorial, the body politic has nevertheless groaned with disease. This has been a union of Church and State. AH its sovereigns have persisted in adminis tering tbe government upon principles emi- nating at the Vatican. No other form cf worship was allowed—no Protestant church to this very day is permitted in tho country. This policy of the Government to bridle conscience, to stand between a man and his God, to dictate to him what his religion shall be, is a relic of barbarism standing boldly forth among the enligbtend nations of Europe. It is afoul incubus, the more glaring because of its being wrapped in solitude. Death of IX. Rives Pollard. In onr telegrams thismorniDg will be found a dispatch from Richmond announcing the killing of H. Rive3 Pollard by James Grant, for publishing an article in his paper (the Southern Opinion) reflecting upon the Grant family. The following is the articlo referred to: AN ELOPEMENT, SO CALLED. ON CLAY STREET —AN UPPEIt TEN FAMILY CONCERNED— DREADFUL DENOUEMENT. •• Oh, no, wb never mention ’em.”—Ota air. The Indian Summer bas passed away, and with it has passed a fa r ami radiant daugh- BY TELEGRAPH. General News. Nhw York, November 22.—Col. Gibbons, the iiui- bnster leader, desired to make a contract a few dare since fora million dollars’ worth of war material with a fiim in this city, but the sureties not being consid ered reliable, theoperation fa led. Philadelphia. November 23.—Mrs. Mery C. Hill, residing in end owning the aristocratic residence on .the corner of Tenth and Pine streets, had her brains beaten out with a poker and her body thrown from the eeoond story window into the yard to-day. Her son-in-law has been arrested. The deceased was quite wealthy. Tallahassee, November 23.—Gen. Waddy Thomp- ter of one of our first citizens—a nabob of son, who, in Calhoun’s time, was Congressman from Clay street—a gentleman who, suffice it to South Carolina, afterwards Minister to Moxico, died The Macon Labor Contention. — Tbe Constitutionalist, commenting upon the La bor Convention to be held in this city on Wednesday, the 0th day of December, says: We trnst the Macon Convention will be composed of men of action, in contradis tinction to men of mere visionary eloquence. Much can be done by a common-sense as semblage to defeat the schemes of our do mestic and alien adversaries; much, too, can be accomplished to speed Georgia on in the path ot empire. The beginning of empire is population. How to gather this popula tion from all the white seminaries should be tbe great and prominent problem of tbe Ma con Convention. The Augusta Registry footed up on Thursday: Whites, 3578; blacks, 1700: majority, 122. • ■ 7’: i A child in Jackson county, Tcxac-, has ex- pectorateA a diaper pin from its throat that is three inches in length, and has. been ifl the child’s throat three years. Grasshoppers and Loyal Leaguers aro cn the rampago in Medina county, Texas, de stroying vegetation and robbing the hen- roots. Mary McELBOY.and.her sister, two domes tic servants in Lee, Massachusetts, have just received intelligence that a wealthy oldrel^ tive has died and left them $70,000 each. Sale of Wild Lands for Taxes For bidden. •It will be seen by the following correspond ence between several of our leading citi zens and Madison Bell that the sale of wild lands, by Collectors, for taxes is strictly for bidden. The Comptroller General has ex elusive control over this matter. We have seen a good many tracts recently advertised, and some may have been sold. If so all such sales are totally Dull and void: Macon, Ga., Nov. 17, 1868. To H n. Hadi&on Bell, Comptroller General: Dear Sir:—We, the undersigned citizens of Bibb county, and owners and representatives of a large number of lots of wild land in Worth county, which lands have been given in and paid all taxes, (State, County and Convention,) duo under the laws of Georgia, and which lands are now advertised to be sold by tbe Sheriff of Worth county in De cember next for taxes, respectfully ask that you will take such action as will stop the il legal proceeding, and oblige Yours very respectfully, Wm. B. Johnston, Wm. B. Parker, James R. Butts, T. R. Bloom, Mix & Kirtland, John T. Napier, Albert Mix, C. D. Findlay, L. N. Whittle, L. A. Jordan, R. B. Findlay. Comptroller General’s Office, ) Atlanta, November 23,1867. \ To Asa Rooks, Tax Collector, (1867) Worth County : la conformity with tbe request contained in the forgoing petition you, are hereby or dered and directed to stop tbe publication and sale of all wild lands lying in your coun- ly, whether the owners have returned them out of the county or not. You will see by reference to sections 874 and 873 of Irwin's Code, that you have no authority to sell wildlands, and that it is the duty of the Comptroller General, exclusively, to advertise and sell such as haze not been returned, in the manner and form therein prescribed. You will, also, forthwith make a full and explicit report in the premises to this office at your earliest possible convenience, before the day of public sale, and you are earnestly forbid den to sell or cause to bo sold tiny of such wild lands, until you report as directed, and until further orders. And you are further informed that any sale of lands in contradic tion of these orders will he illegal and of no effect. Respectfully, Madison Bell, Comptroller General. Georgia—Bibb Countt.—This is to cer tify that tho within named parties, residents of Bibb county, have paid all taxes, both State and Convention, duo to this State. F. M. Heath, Tax Col. Bibb county, Ga. Macon, November 17,1803. say, holds tbe very first position in the wealthy and fashionable circles of tbe city. The daughter, tbe rebellant Helene of the family, is beautiful beyond description, but her beauty did not prevent her from tallin. desperately and irretrievably in love with young gentleman of semi militaric connec- as i eceiver ’ „ r i* ° Fortress Mon-roe, November 24.—The The young man who asked tbe daughter’s hand and got the father’s foot, had the con eolation ot knowing that his wooing was'not bootless. *!j A clever yankce fanner, being much troub led with rats, and being determined to get rid of them, tried every possible plan, hut without success. At la3t he got a lot of vats and shut them up in a single cage; they de voured one another till only a single one was left. He then turiicd t|iis one . loose, when, excited with, the blood of his fellow.rats, and .hating' become'a' genuibe cannibal, it killed and ate all the rat3 it' could find on the premises.*,.:. t. V-T, *:•>.:>> y,' >}lj. Dexter mqde a half mile, last week in 3:06 —the shortest time oh record. tions, who it appears, some months ago, plighted his troth and accepted the tiny hand, grasping it within his own— “ Never to be parted: never for aye, Nobody suspected a messalliance, much less the father, until last Saturday night, when the daughter, who was tbe light of bis house hold, fled to parts unknown, or at least only guessed, in company with one (a masculine) who should ere then have been proclaimed bis son-in-law, The runaway parties have been beard from and it is uow said that the lady proclaims herself a wife of some six months, and that her affianced is the choice of her after life, “What God bath joined together let no man put asunder.” The gay ycung man, who has wisked away the angel, is a Lothario named Horace Ford, of Goochland county, which county ought to be proud of him, as it doubtless is. Horace is an orphan, just plunging into bis teens, and bas lost both of bis parents by death, Much property accrued to Horace in the shape of money, chattels, goods, etc., and having converted the whole into “ready rhino,” Horace ventured for a swim in the sea of gay life and love. He met Miss Mary Grant—a beauty— “Met perchance tho usual way,” Talked delicious nonsense, won her heart, then half inclined to earnestness, threw it away. Ah! me! Then he sailed— "Oh, ho sailed—oh, ho sailed,” The same as Capt. Kyd did. Horace went to New Orleans, and not hav ing been shipwrecked by tbe way, tele graphed or wrote to his beloved. Thus it went on through the sultry month of August, the crimson period of October, when the for ests change their garments, down to dull cbill November. Alas, that love shou.ld never run smooth in an even current, but love never did and never will, so they say. She responded, all unknown to tbe healthy dad, and he replied, Thus affairs progressed until Horace an nounced last week that be was c.-ff for Texas right away, and couldn’t stop for trifles like an affianced Then it was that the girl of the period made up her mind and bundle. She would follow him—yes, she would follow him to the uttermost parts of the earth. Being of age, and no longer the slave of parental control, Miss Mary, on Saturday night last, having habilimented herself becomingly, deserted tbe palatial mansion on Clay street, and cast ing behind her wealth, society and friends, sought the office of a gentleman on Broad street, whom she importuned to buy her a ticket to New York. This gentleman, who is the pick of propriety, refused, and Miss Mary sought elsewhere and found the ready means. At all events she procured passage on the cars and embarked on the 8 1-2 o'clock train, which carried her Northward at the rate of twenty or thirty miles on hour, if not as speedily as her heart desired. On the train, between Richmond and Acquia Creek, she was observed to weep bitterly by tlieconduc tor, to whom she related her tale of woe and distress. Her departure created, cf coarse, a hub bub in the mansion on Clay street, and amid tbe wringing of hands and loud expressions of flistress, the telegraph was invoked, and parties sent iD hot pursuit. It was surmised that young Ford, instead of going off to Texas “right away,” as he announced, had put for New York, there to meet his Mary, and thither the directives directed tbeir steps. The upshot of the matter is, to make a long story short, that Miss Mary has been beard from; that she is now in Philadelphia, and that upon the whole there i3 a very sorry family history connected with the case, which it is not within our province to reveal. Important Decision In Bankruptcy. Tho decision of Judge Swayne, recently rendered in tbe matter of the petition of H. N. Bill, assignee of John C. Neal, against Beckwith, Yaupel, ct. al., who bought Neal’s stock of drugs, etc., when, it is alleged, Neal was insolvent, i3 a very important one. The question decided was whether pro ceedings by tho assignee to recover back property wnich he alleged had been sold by the bankrupt in fraud ot tho act, should be by formal proceeding in equity or at law, or whether summary proceedings might be taken, as brought in by the assignee in the present case. Judge Swayne, in a very elaborate and able review of the bankrupt law, and au thorities upon the subject,in substance said: 3. Property fraudulently disposed of by bankrupt in proceedings by or against him may be recovered by tho assignee upon peti tion in the bankrupt court, proceeding upon which may be of a summary character. 2. The district judge may order issues of fact arising in such cases to be tried by a jury. 3. Saits mayjbe brought at common law or by bill in equity for the securing of property in such cases, but as they must bo governed by the technical rules, and be subject to tbe delays incident thereto, it i3 preferable to proceed by summary petition, auxiliary to tbe original proceedings in the court of bank ruptcy, that being a cheaper, speedier, and more simple mode.— Gin. Enquirer. Corn In the Sequatchie Valiev. For the information of onr grain merchants, says the Nashville Banner, we give the fol lowing extract from a letter written by our Jasper correspondent, under date oftlie 20tb inst: “The great topic of interest hcre-abouts at tho present time', might conveniently bo con densed into tho common noun—corn, and the yield therof. Not one year in a decade draws to a close with such well filled cribs to gladden its ebbing days, as does this year, and if tho harvest is ns bountiful over the State, as it is in this county, there will be a startling grand total for the statistician of the Agricultural Bureau to figure up. “It is now changing bands at forty and fifty cents, but as to what tho price will .be thi3 winter, there is considerable difference of opinion, varied according to tbe number of bushels a man has. The buyers aro very certain that it will be worth just nothing at all, while the sellers are confident that it will command a .“comfortable” price. Bat it nil depends upon the market south of us, and if the people oi Georgia and South Carolina fail to raise enough for homo consumption, which is generally the case, the Jasper Branch may prepare for lively business; for tiiero will be an immense amount of corn to sliip out of tbo valley. Last year, when there was not near the corn to spare that there is now, dno firm (Byrne & Redfleld) shipped over forty-five thousand bushels to Atlanta and Charleston, and yet there is still more than an ordinary amount of old corn in the country, to Bay nothing of tbe new.” tbis afternoon, aged about 70. Richmond, November 23.—Chief Justice Chase ar rived here this evening and will be on the bench to morrow. New York, November 24.—Judge Southerland has placed the Erie road in the hands of ex-Judge Davis, . I chooner Kate Wentworth, has put into Norfolk disabled. Albany, N. Y., November 24.—Tbe official majori ty of Slocum over Roberts, who heads the electoral ticket is just 10.000. The average msjority for the Seymour electors is 9,963. Philadelphia, November 24.—The Coroner’s Jury on the Hill case, charge her daughter and son-in-law with the murder of that lady. Doth have been com- m: ted for trial. New York. November 24.—Tho Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court has indicted Judge Ful lerton, Birdsall and others charged with conspiracy connected with whisky frauds. Warrants have been issued for their arrests. From Washington. ■Washington, November 23.—It is stated that Rol lins recommends the suspension of Norcross, Collec tor of the Third Louisiana District. Cuban filibusterism has not become sufficiently tangible to warrant a proclamation, but it is under stood Federal Marshals and Attorney Generals havo been ordered to be watchful. Washington, November 23.—A party of English men and two Americans were arrested in Syria, charged with smuggling arms into the interior for the purposo of overthrowing tho Government. The prisoners claim they were surveying for a railroad, and the arms were to defend tho employers. The American Consul is active in their behalf. The English Consul appears indifferent regarding the fate of his countrymen. Fullerton will havo a bearing by tho President on Wednesday, when he will submit additional evidence. All Government offices will be closed on Thursday. Senator Cameron and Representative Randall urge the suspension of Collector Coke, of Philadelphia. McCulloch’s estimates for the coming fiscal year will show a decrease of from forty to fifty millions. Washington, November 24.—Butler’s sickness is a hoax. Tho early appearance here of Morton and Trumbull is taken by tho politicians as an indication of the character of Grant’s constitutional advisers. Grant has not written to Slocum. C. E. Creecy, for some years in tho appointment of a clerk of tho Treasury Department, has been ap pointed Revenue Supervisor for Louisiana and Ar kansas. Mr. Creecy was born in Mississippi, andis regarded a3 an excellent business man. Tho new Postal Treaty with Great Britain was signed to-day. England abandons the double post age; otherwise the new differs but little from the old arrangement. 1’arragut will arrive to-night. He will be the guest of Secretary Wells. From Florida. Tallahassee, Fla., November 24.—At a meeting of the Supreme Court this morning there was a full bench. Lieutenant Governor Gleason, by connsel, asked for further time to show why a writ of quo warranto should not bo issued. Until 11 a. st. to morrow was granted, and the Court adjourned till 3 ?. it. No business was transacted at tho afternoon session. It intimated that the advisory opinion from tho J nsticcs of tho Supreme Court, requested by Gov ernor Reed, is ready and will ha delivered'soon— probably to-night- From Louisiana and Mexico. New Orleans, November 23.—The Tribune, the organ of the colored Republicans of Louisiana, owned, edited and published by colored men, re-appoured yesterday, after a suspension of six months. In the salutatory it says; "While it will ask for colored men every right belonging to Americans, it wiii never at tempt to abridge that of an7 otb*: class of citi zens. Advocating the enforcement of, and obo liance to all constitutional law, it wi'.l raise the voice of Justice and appeal to reason.” The Tribune receives favorable comments from the Evening Press. Five Chicago and St. Loni3 thieves, part of a gang lately depredating on tho New Orleans and Jackson Railroad, wero arrested here on Saturday night. The Tiiacs of this evening copies from tho Browns ville Ranehoro extra, dated 12th, letters from Monte rey, received the previous night, which state that Es cobedo, having gone from Tampico to Victoria for tbe purpose of commencing the Tamaulipas campaign jointly with troops from Matamoras, was surprised by the entire force of Vargas at Hacienda De Alami- tas. Escobedo was defeated, escaping with only a few of his staff to Monterey, Escobedo’s forces fought badly, and beforo the fight wm over hurrahed for Vargas and Canales, and finally declared in favor of tho rebels. Escobedo attempted to collect a force at Monterey but failed, tho soldiers refusing to march without first being paid, and afterwards openly re fused to fight against their Tamaulipas brethren.— Escobedo seeing this complicated stato of affairs, sent in his resignation, declaring himself incapable of putting down the Tamaulipas revolution. The forces at Victoria under Lopez and Montzinos becoming demoralized, disbanded thomselvcs, a large portion joining Vargas’ commands. It is believed mat by this time Tampico has prouounced. as weli as other towns in tho State, and soon tho entire State will bo in the hands of Vnrgas. From South Carolina Colusieu. November "4 -tk 0 islaturs »et to-day. The' pointed a committee ceive any communication he hsd '*** ate met. but there being no aQ0 ^l° .■*». j* Egypt-xne Dress. LifeYf^ ners of the Modem Emmeline Lott writes toanEnJr ^ per the following account of Egypt as they are to-day. She° W0!r,tr mi -p ;. J ‘-“esayg; . -V? e tEgyptian women are geno-i. in Europe to be shut up in th! t slaves, subject to all the «tpri e « Without^ a*y society wha^ver from being the case. . They are 7 ^ i l shrewd enough to learn, is married, to make their lives p™, * 33 ly enough. Being accustomed £ mid taught from their eadiest their duty to study the whi ms ^ 7 those to whom they are to be maiS , to do so, and by that means ence over their husbands, to ma& ‘7 the sole occupation of their liv« Ai t more females than males in Eg™ b * divided into two classes, iw^rl black slave, the native bom among whom wc class the ftw si a ns, and Mingrelians. Q The former are purchased bv a ‘d People the harems of the kW ! , viduals attached to the i*?™ 0 ; The female clerks at Washington resolving that they won’t be “retrenched” out ot their situations, are making the heads of depart ments unhappy by an organized rai l Tragedy in Richmond. Richmond, November 24.—H. Rives Pollard, editor of tho Southern Opinion, was shot and killed this morning at 10 o’clock, while passing near his office, by James Grant. The cause of the shooting was a publication in the Opinion reflecting upon the char acter of a member of Grant’s family. additional. The following aro tho particulars ofthetragody this morning: On Saturday a report was published in the Southern Opinion relative to the elopement of tho daughter of 17m. H. Grant, a wealthy tobacconist of this city. This morning, about 10 o’clock, as H. Rives Pollard, editor of tho paper, was near his office door, on tho corner of Main and Fourteenth streets, and as ho wa3 going in, a shot was fired from the upper win dow of a building opposite. Mr. Pollard fell dead- eleven buckshot having entered his body, one passing through tho heart. Tho polico searched tho building and found James Grant, brother of the lady named, in the room, lie surrendered, and was taken to tho station house. A double-barrelled gun, one barrel discharged, was found in tho room. The affair oaused great excitement here, and a largo crowd has been gathered around tho Opinion office sinco its occurrence. Foreign News. Havana, November 22.—The Republicans claim that the Revolutionists aro receiving daily reinforce ments, but tho GoTcmmcut’s information is different. The revolutionary districts are suffering for provision. Tho reported rising in Vuelta Abajo is a hoax. The Revolutionists are badly armed, and lack ammuni tion. Government dispatches state that Valmozeda holds Puerto Principe. Valmozeda ridicules tho idea of being attacked. On the contrary, Valmozeda says he has commenced operations against tho Revolu tionists. Marine Disaster. Fortress Monroe, November 22.—Put in, steamer Key West, from New York for. Charleston, leaking and pumrs broken. She encountered a heavy gale during Friday night. She goes to Baltimore for re pairs, t '■ - . • ■ ■ : From Virginia. Richmond, November 24.—In tho United States Cir cuit Court, Chief Justice Chase presiding, in the case of the admi3t,ators of Mrs. Keppei, of Pennsyvania, vs. tho Petersburg Railroad Company, requiring the Company to paj tho dividend in United States money on three hundred shares of stooks sequestered by the Confederate Government, the Chief Jnstice affirmed the decision of tho lower court, in favor of the plain tiffs. Large Irish Pctatoes.-T!i; 3101 Advertiser says: II StvercJ Foreign News- Havana, November 24.—The resignation of Mejia, Minister of War, is considered certain. The reported insurrection at Sierra Puebla is un- Thc Secretary of tho Treasury complains that Car- over tWC and a hal’ P° a “’ tom-houee officers disregard his instructions. ribo “ Western Bed” vatie*j\ a® The American schooner, Eugenie, &om Nantlr. far Galveston, bes been wreckod. Berlin, November 24.—Bismarck make- no secret of his affiiir.rion with theliboral party. Madrid, November 24.—The advocates of a Repcih- Uc seem to be gaining ground in Spain. Batcciona favors a Federal Republic. , ■ . Naples, November 24.—The sruptlonof Vesuvius is subsiding. Pears for the e^lcty o’ *1,^ adjacent «L»r ges havo ceased. w, . _ piexion, wiiife the others are muchly have pointed features. The a >ac- were born Christians, but were ** the Moskm faith before beingbrocY 0 ^ Those in Turkey, but espSf , nople, have been endowed with i,h, n r c -i ners totally different from thLrfJS 0 * sex in their respective countries, i 1 * 1 know, as soon as they enter theWm t are destined to live in opulence and Utr ' respect will be shown them—ibr u pointed out in “Harem Life in t Egypt.the etiquette that the slava^ ^ the princesses the seeds of be developed among them, ar.d bigots in their new religion. Tj 1( , , :at great care of such women. Thn-o d l son of tbeir rank, orthepoa^ A*^- in the government, disdain an allian& true-born Egyptian woman, no m a tt er Jit rank she may be, generally purchase I . Price, varying from £300 to £1000, a ofY* or Circassian, whom thev marry afterward ^ and who, whe'n sheL hold on her husband’s affect counsels of the mother of the chiavelhan princess—enters heart -YY,' political intrigues. The women snm strained in tleir tastes, nor in they eat, drink coffee and iiqoon j'Y 6 ) their .heart’s content. personal and favonte slave attendant, ti- e S eunuch, they quit the harem tthenever they like, proceed to the hammam (baffij-xta - i. siping shop of the Orient—visit ether ha-ST and go shopping into the bazaars. Thev entirely free in all their actions, and there iY fear of their transgressing the grounds of dew rum or etiquette, for I can safely savthatssj, line of conduct never enters the heads oi v*. Iem women. In the first place they as bigoted to engage in any liaisons witli'annate and secondly, they know, from their own oo&. er of the harem, and others, the fate that wsh them if they were so imprudent a to cornua such a suicidal act—that death wousld fcethi punishment, as well as that of their paraana Their habitual conversation among thenAi is disgusting beyond conception to Earojea cars, but they have been trained up from dvi hood to converse in that manner, withoatla. ing tile slightest idea that by so doing titt-r ts- rage the feelings of their sex; thev do not tldnk there is any harm in so doing, and all am- pcan woman could say to them would na tu- vince them to the contrary. The Egyptian women generally pastier time in frivolties, except on certain dap, when they attend to their menage, as I have’ alreafr explained in “The English Govern®n Egypt,” in pleasing and wheedling their has bands, studying their whims and eiprica They delight in relating stories thtmfdres » their ladies of the harem, slaves azd eancck congregated of an evening en jamTc, t ltd ot convenashme, or in listening to the mep cf the almehs and their own slaves, IiavugthcL- era horoscopes,cast, and asking their trait® cf their harem to interpret the dreams they hat had during their kef, as Joseph did those of Pharaoh of old. The splendid halls of “the mansion of Kb’ of the great resound also with complaints. One woman murmurs at her barrenness; another ct the favor bestowed hy her lord upon her for the time, which raises hc-r jealous feelings to fever pitch. A question of engrossing iatass is Low they can obtain theirs. Most of t~ Turks adopt a rigid system of economy re- j gards the pin money wliich they allow | wives, and the baksheesh they bestow up ikbale, slaves^ eunuchs, and other sttendak Many limit their toilet expenses to a fixed s» per mensum, and do not allow them to give k» expensive fantasies. The Hemlock woiaei, ® tho contrary, who possessed large landed pxj-, erty, were very wealthy, and disbursed mp sums most generously—expended their pa«= with no sparing hand for fantasies, and hrmj 1 1 such a state of independence that they had eta j the upper hand over their husbands. Q-reasicg' Wagons. This is of more importance than nazj wagon owners imagine. * The iollowitj. from an unknown source, is valuable a** mation on tbe subject, which we trustwi.. < duly heeded: , “Few people are aware that they do Vi s - and carriages more injury by greasing fully, than in any other way. A wheel will endure common wear fernJ* twenty-five years, if care is taken to «*• . right kind and proper amount of g re f= e ’ ' j this matter is not attended to, they j™" np in five or six years. Lard Ea02 - U k Ej used on a wagOD, for it will percm:« SD ,j c . f , and work out around the tennotsof» and spoil the wheel. Tallow is the I tor for wood os!etrec-s, and c&j-erou w- Just grease enough should be . spindle of a wagon to give it s hgM < f, this is better than more, for the WJP’" \ will work out at the ends, and be forew ) shoulder bands and nut washers _ia» w around tbe outside of tho boxes, as ° !1 “ asletree, first wipe the spindle clean w:- 1 "j. wet with spirits of turpentine, and tue 11 a few drops of castor oil near the , -o n fi end. One teaspoonful is sufficient for to* .... Wo would add, that for journals on there is a heavy pressure, it is a good P 1 * with the oil some lamp-black, or coaimoDi - powdered plumbago, or black lead,: ployed for the same purpose. A Severe “ Movement.”—That 13““ ful filibustering expedition which ui? ing fitted out in New York. '-v.-a. Eg Boiesias Pallakoff, who bas seen ckv ® a J' i;0 of service in the Turkish wars, is no be at tbe bead of the movement, if -E of the campaign is thus stated by 1 => - commander: “I take five toiled- what you call feelibustars to Cue?., ig soir [night] veree quite-1 got ,. r jr my staff 1 say to Monseigneur de at Havana, ‘You give me Cuba.. ‘no nevarel’ Hah, dam ! I cut oil miz my sword. Then be ran away. 1 E - yon mv plans for.zis. I tell zem to ffij - not to you. No. Hah, dam! I have 1 of money. I have one million nonns . se pasha of ze Anatole. He my Generate Santa Anna, he be Fresiaef Onba. He help me wiz amoomtgia 1* grand battailc .Hah, dam!” To Ins s “Ynsef, ze brandee— ze branded. j. came with a decanter of brandy, an 1 d a salaam, presented a huge glass to ter, and filled it full of rtw brandy,- f drank at one gulp. • Thinking tha cellency was beginning to get unmte b tbe reporter bowed himself out. Dr. Roddey has raised the large^ potatoes this year on record. .They are the “ Western ■ the most prolific potato known. ItaRU are only tef MrfW®.j City. . .Coplribtttwqjps eosm arcunu. j* v,
