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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.
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