About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1868)
i, The Greorgia 'W’eeJsl'y Telegi*apli. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY DECEMBER 4, 1868. / NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN RACKS— A BAD HABIT. I We dislike no more the almost universal ! assumption of intellectual superiority over, 1 the Southern race by the Northern people, I than the apparently growing disposition -of 1 the former to concede it. The claim is un warrantable by any sensible view of the past } or the present, and the concession isinjuri- ous to both races. To the Southern race it I is depressing, and to the Northern it is de lusive and disappointing. It holds out false hopes at comparative acquisition and success which are seldom or never realized. Of the thousands of Northern people .who three years ago went into cotton growing in the South with the feelings of the basket maker among the savages, how -many suc ceeded? Not-one, that we know of. They were going to show what the superior skill, intelligence and energy of the Northern man could do—hew much better they could man age negro labor—and with how much more economy and thrift .they could carry oh the business—but it all resulted in failure, more or less complete, because they were far too vain and self-sufficient to avail themselves of Southern experience in cotton-growing. They would have just as soon taken lessons from a child! The war which began in the South in a silly undervaluation of the Northern charac ter and abilities, certainly inexcusable in well-informed public men, has resulted in pushing the balance of a false opinion almost as far the other way. Our people (we speak of the mass) have not the confidence in them' selves which they ought to have. The hand of a tyrannous military and political domina tion has wounded their self-respect. The sneers, denunciations, ridicule and abuse of the whole outside world of print and speech for four years have unsettled a just self-ap- preciation. The insultB always due from human littleness and malevolence to misfor tune, have inflicted too vital and rankling wounds upon onr pride. Remember, Southern reader, that history yet fails to record even one instance of a con quered and long subjected people who have preserved their moral greatness, and do not, amid all the obloquy poured upon us—do not forget what is due yourselves and what American history records of the Southern race. The proudest place in that history is yet due the Southron. The South led the armies of tho revolution, and her genius planned and developed the government. Her states men, patriots and soldiers still rank preemi nent in the annals of the national glory, and the busy pens and lips which defile their dwelling-places and descendants do it in pro fessed reverence to the authority of these illustrious names. Our despised section gave the law to the country during four-fifths of her history—administered her affairs justly, liberally, impartially and wisely—conducted ucr from infancy to manhood, and even nourslied the sectional strength wbich-com- bined to crush it. There can bo nothing more false and more injurious to both option* than this unfound' ed idea that the Southern race is mimor to the Northern race in a single element of greatness. In material power the most elaborate Northern statistics show a relative productive capacity greater than that-of any section, and already, in tho midst -of our poverty, our yearly contributions to the national wealth are more important than those of any other part of the Union of equal population. Our prodigious recuperative energies are, in fact, the wonder of the Northern people, who, if they were just, would stop forever in view of them, the slander that we are an idle, thriftless and improvident race. It is impossible, in the limits of a newspa per article, to do justice to a subject which might fill a volume. But even in the very matter and occasion of this undue humilia tion, there is no excuse for it. The war itself was a monument of the warlike genius and resources—the hardihood—patience—fidelity ingenuity and valor of the Southern people. History does not record a more heroic or un* ■ equal struggle. Let us, then, maintain our self-appreciation. The Southern mac is just as much of a man, in all respects, as is to be found on the globe. No race is superior to’ bis own. In the habits of patient, toil we are not so well inured as the Northerns, beeauee our climate and our necessities have not demanded it: but in all that has been required to earn honor, lortune and reputation, the South has never been be hind the occasion, nor will she ever be long excelled by the people of any section of the country. We do not wish to inspire any foolish van ity which is,- in effect, undervaluation of oth ers f but we do desire to rekindle the waning fires of self-respect "and self-appreciation which are essential to intelligent and vigor ous progress and self-vindication. Under the pride of superior material power, the North holds us in very light esti mation. She schools us like children, and reconstructs us with the 6ublimest disregard of our opinions or the philosophy of the sit uation. That we cannot help, and it is use less to struggle against it. We must for the nonce take her dictum for a reason and her assertion for a fact. But meanwhile, we cannot and should not forget' that she is schooling her peers in all the wisdom of statesmanship or the arts of acquisition. Our policy is a quiescent one, and we must rely on time and future' developments to restore the balance of reason and common sense. The Sphinx or the Ape. T« the Editors of the Telegraph : Who, that -pretends to write at all, has not something to say of the cynosure of all eyes, the great riddle that now occupies the attention of the American people? I, too, must give my opinion of the man who is elected to occupy the Executive chair of the United States, for the four years commenc ing with the 4th of March, 1869. It may. be as well to state, in the very out set, that I have scarcely any patience with those people wbo-declare that Gen. Grant is of mental proportions Lilipntian. He is— he must be, a man of power. Never, if he were an ordinary mortal, conld he have ac complished the work that has made his name famous, though the resources of the world had been placed at bis command. Had he been endued with a mind weak as has been attributed to him, the very magnitude of the mass he was required to use would have crashed him. Had his capacity been small, the immense supplies that he demanded and received would have proved, for him, what the Sabines “ wore on their left arms,” did to Tarpeia — a weight to overwhelm and consign him to destruction. Napoleon I. declared that few Generals could command large armies successfully, because their size would render them un- wieldly, except to a man of decided ability, and thus make them the prey of smaller, more able, more active antagonists; and he set down as a great Captain, him who could handle, without disaster, a very numerous body of men. Is the opinion of the great Corsican enti tied to any consideration ? Is it not conclu cy of feeling to will came into play, and be accomplished what it is possible Lee, under the same circumstances, would have shrank from—a victory secured by a butchery of his own men, in almost unheard of excess over that of the vanquished. If Lee had been able, by sacrificing the lives of his troops without mercy, while comparatively few of the enemy were slain; by sending in column after column to the very jaws of, death, knowing that the foe would invariably suffer much less than his own forces, it is by no means certain, that bis feelings of humanity would not have gotten the better of his judgment as a General. What will be Grant’s course as Pres ident ? Judging by the character displayed in his military career, he will, on all occa sions, do just what he considers necessary, IF HE SHALL HAVE THE POWER—nor will he often consider it necessary to do wrong. He probably has a strong sense of justice. He does net appear to be a vindictive man, and will scarcely remember his enemies to punish them for the past, if they give no new cause. He is too magnanimous for that. Vindic tiveness, like other passions, is a stranger his breast. He is a firm, cool, calculating man, too much occupied with the ambition to make a name as a great ruler, to trouble himself with personal quarrels, piques or an tipathies. He surely iB not hostile to the Southern people, at least to those whom he considers peaceable and law-abiding. In short, it is likely he wishes to do right and treat the South as kindly as possible. But he will not attempt impossibilities. He will, as his letter of acceptance indicates, consult the will and the temper of the majority, and LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Long Sanyo Charity. Butler, in a speech delivered the other day I in Charlestown, Mass., senta centre-shot into | business and Trade.-— 1 The merchants of Macon, the long-range, never-look-at-home charity I almost without exception, brought on very large of the prevalent style of Northern * philan thropists : According to the statistics famished by the I present Legislature, as a report of their com mittee, it is more dangerous to spend a year in a Massachusetts almshouse than it would have been to have led the charge of the Zouaves at Magenta. I see that this state- | ment strikes some of you almost with dread. stocks of dry goods and groceries this season and have offered great inducements to purchasers. In consequence an immense amount of business has been done by them, and their area of trade baa been greatly extended. Onr cotton warehouses were all in trim, at the opening ot the cotton season, for tho storage and sale of the staple, and they are new well filled with it, and have sold some 16,000 bales —and on every hand we see evidences of the lean sive on such points as this? And, tried by that majority may not allow him to treat this test, can Grant be set down as a weak ‘‘rebels” justly and humanely. He will not man? A blunderer? Even as some are silly sacrifice himself by setting up unyielding enough to say, a block-head ? I opposition to the wishes of the Northern No, no, my readers. Let not your. preju- people, dices blind yon entirely. Do not show yonr-1 Nor would it be wise in him, or good for selves devoid of discrimination, small of in- us, should he do so. Let him act so as to re- tellect, by trying to belittle the soldier who tain his influence, and at the same time, if he beat Robert E. Lee, though backed by all wishes to earn a fame that is firm and en- the men and the means that the North could during as time itself—if he wishes to stand bring against tbe struggling Confederacy. in the foremost rank of statesmen, and phi- An article intended for the columns of a Ianthropists, so that a people’s prayers shall daily newspaper, is necessarily too short to attend him all through life and future gene* recite particular passages in the history of rations shall rise up to call him blessed, let the war; but I can ask you simply to look at him do what he can to assist the sorely-smit the stubborn fact that Gen. Grant did, after ten Southern race—let him make, once more, long, hard fighting, cause the capitulation of a whole nation of two sections, between the great, the unapproachable, tho chosen which, at present, there yawns a great gulf sou of the South. Admit that he had ten of mistrust, estrangement, and, it is to be dollars to one—three, five or a dozen men to feared, deep-seated hostility. Horatio. one, and your argument is answered by what has already been written. I pass frbm this I ® ow the Alabama^Claims are to be point, as not requiring much discussion, for . „ , I . ....... . A dispatch to the Louisville Courier and already those who once entertained the opin-1 * ion that Gen. Grant is a fool—that he is not sa ^ S ,, _ e , ... I Although all efforts to get accurate mfor man of power are growing eartily raat i on f rom the State Department respecting ashamed of it. negotiations between our Government and I venture tbe following opinions: Grant England have failed, your correspondent has is not a bad-hearted, not a wantonly cruel I succeeded in obtaining the desired intelli- man. He would not, “ needlessly, set foot S^ce through an entirely reliable source A ’ 7 commission of three is to be appointed, two upon a worm,” but he is destitute of senti- f rom Great Britan and one from the United ment, of strong affection, cf tender emotion States, which is to meet in Washington at of any kind—in fact, might almost be termed early a time as practicable. There are also utterly unfeeling. He would not harm a fly, bc f tw ? a S. eD ‘ s who wil J represent the in- .« .. J & terests of each Government as attorneys there- if it were not necessary to accomplish his f or- The commission is to receive all claims purposes; bnt if he thought that the for damages alleged to have been done by attainment of his ends required it, he could the Alabama and to decide upon them, and gaze upon cannon balls ploughing through whenever they are unable to agreeupon a case aense masses or wiituiug.^nopie^ unre- r hey aretosele , ct a “ u “P’ re or arbitrator . . =” , *‘ess. unre frOTl «, Iucms t i>o mendly sovereigns of sistmg human flesh, even though old men Europe, whose decision shall be a "finality, and matrons and infants at the breast should All claims against the Alabama are to be constitnte tbe agonized concourse, and his I presented within six months after the meet- cheek would nos blanch, nor would his Up {"§.They are to ad- ,, r judicate all claims within one year, and the tremble, nor Ins pulse quicken. Neither I money to be paid on each and every case would lie contemplate the scene with the shall "be paid within one year from the time fiendish joy of a Haynau. Nothing of the of decision. Both governments pledge them- sort would move him. Nothing that could s . elves to accept the decision of the Commis- . „ , “. , , sioners as a finality. When the Corumission- be called an emoUon would stir h.s soul; but ers meet they are to subscribe to a solemn he would simply feel a quiet satisfaction at declaration that they will render their decis- the thought that his plans were being car- ion without favor and without regard to the ried out. When the young Nanoicon’s artil- L?, tercsfs , tbe Government they represent. , .. ' . ? . ‘ . , These are the mam points agreed on. but lery tore through the mob in Pans, even he therc are minor details which a?e yet to be felt more of emotion than the cool, calcula-1 settled. The question concerning the recog- ting Grant would, at a spectacle still more nition of the Confederate States as a bellig- harrowing. | erent power is still pending. And this wonderful impassibilitymanifests itself not only amid scenes of carnage, but in I EngllihmaB’i View oT tlie South the midst of that at which even some of those | Mr. Everett, an English gentleman who A Heavy Cargo.—The Savannah News says the heaviest cargo ever shipped from Savannah was cleared last Saturday by Bin- ghani, Ilolst & Co., in the sloop Emerald sic, Capt. Thomas R. Herbert, for Liverpool, t consisted of 4899 bales of upland cotton, weighing 2,315,088 pounds, valued at $539,- , 81 > and 11 bags of Sea Island, 3152 pounds, ya ued at $2364; total number of bales and bags 4910; total weight, 2,319,140 pounds; to- tlced * tal value, $531,400 81. •’ Tax on Idleness.—The Savannah New a nsis s that the city government should evya taxon idleness and collect it of the loafers, white and black, in that city. We ,#re raid the city Marshal would be forced 'bat cT* 1 <<n t ° MSet, " °° ta* axecutiona of Vibgi Ki 8tatic Aoricoltural Society of Hotel inV- re CalIe ® to ®eefc at the Exchange range for ' ctlmotld 00 the10th h»taat, to **- State Fair and Exhibition. “ The Spirr Kx who fear bloodshed least, occasionally trem- visited the South not long ago, on his re- ble and quail. Checks and reverses, the fail- turn delivered an address in London, from ure of cherished hopes, tho apparent cutting which we make the following extract: off all hope, and a seeming consignment to “Would they believe him? There had something worse than obscurity—to disgrace never been more than two millions of and infamy—have found him the same, un-1 laborers in the Southern States. Ho had searched the records from the Mississippi moved, imperturbable stoic. river t0 Washington . He had 8pent bo f a His failures during the war, at times when and hours in the middle of the night search- the Northern press was clamorous against ing for facts, and there never had been two him, and worse than all, the ciicumstances m illions of paid laborersin the thirteen States under which be first left tbe U. S. army, when Ij^}* would’tbink'^ha^tw^milKons a young man, neither goaded him nor crushed 0 f laborers would do very little. What his energies. The woolfisb, fiendish spirits was the result ? These Southern States that hunted the fine-strung organization of bad exported, dollar for dollar, more in Albert Sydney Johnson to the grave, might amol ! nttba “ ? be Northern States with their . / . .. . ...... . . 6 -. *. 6 teeming millions—more than Russia, more howl and gnash their teeth in impotent rage than Prussia, more than Germany, more than at such a man as Ulysses S. Grant. Their France, leaving out the manufactures of this fierce assaults would “pats by him as the I country, more than England. These two idle wind, which he regards not.” . mill , ions ° f > aborers bad «P°rted more del- • * , 6 , I lars’worth than any country on the face of Wellington, when a young subaltern, at i tbe globe, and they might include manufac- the beginning of his career in India, he en- tures of any other country except England, countered a failure which some thought I In fact, they might put two or three of those would be an eternal bar to his promotion, if I ? 0U “H ies t0 °™ ar > a ? d then the South would / .. beat them. With this small number of la- not a cause for his dismissal from the ser-1 b ore rs, labor was wanted and was well paid, vice, slept not more calmly and unconcerned- There was a wonderful field in which humani- ly on the table, than Grant has slumbered ty might go to enjoy its own industry. The under all the difficulties with which he has South was a glorious land, full of plenty, had to contend. And those who, from the Th^eprobable future of the South ? What . .. . . ... . a landscape! What a panorama 1 How it incident in the history of tlie hero of Water-1 stretebes out over hundreds and thousands loo, could perceive nothing but evidence of I and millions of acres of land to be covered insensibility and stolidity, were not more with a teeming population! When he mistaken than those who have drawn like thought of the glorious views he had had , . , . . . - there, and then thought that the vast coun- conclusions, from similar circumstances in| tfy ^ tobc p eop kdby largo populations, the life ot Gen. Grant. I by busy pushing hives of men, when he re- Dogberry’s philosophy as to comparisons membered that this beautiful soil was to be is. perhaps, the true one: yet, how can one I cultivated, he felt that language was utterly ■»“ * — h >. T sSafcM Ife %2S£ rendered themselves conspicuous by contests t jj e en tj re human race; what a future with others? The mind naturally inquires was that country to have! Was there any in what respects the antagonists resemble, man who could presume to guess ? The inl and how thev differ, when thinking of two ?£ ina ^n fails, and tho mightiest wing of " . , . !. ,, thought tires and becomes weary, and we are Generals who have striven ably again eac g| ad t0 g et awa y f rom the theme. It would other. Bat no extended parallel shall he be a garden laden with the richest of human drawn in the present article between Grant needs, a country full to overflowing with all and Lee and no analysis of Lee’s character therequirements of human necessities. It was , j to be a country gloriously great and glori- Let me repeat. There was a larger proporr- guration of a new era in point of business. When tion of tbe regiment which led the attack of the balk of tbe cotton crop is sold at tbe present the battle of Solferino came out from the good price, we will have such a revival of business battle than there were of the paupers of 1858 as will gladden the hearts of all who have or - d en who came out alive from the State almshouses I ergy and,industry to secure it. of Massachusetts. _ [Sensation.] Last year the crops of the South were mortgaged Allow me to give yon the figures. How f or the means ot producing them. The result was, many was the average number of paupers in that after repaying advances the people were little the State almshouses duriDg the year 1858 ? I better off than beiore. This year, the want of Twenty-seven hundred and some odd. How cred jt forced a reliance upon its own energies and many died in the year ending October, 1858? resonrcee knd the result will be the retention Six hundred *uch cnrrehcy. as profit, as bids fair to embar Everv fourth man, woman and .child that) .. . ’ , _ T T , went into the Stat4 almshouses of Massachu- the finance o the North Ino her words, the setts died and was buried in tbe meat and bread rtkedffirthe Souffi^yeu^^ field of a pauper’s burying ground. Three c v otton > 8U S* r and tobacco almost clear profit, and hundred and forty-one children, under the tbesestaplea canbemade.entirely so, if the plant- age of five years, died in those charnel houses, e» wUI only carry out the policy of providing ne- and the physician of one of these honses says cessaries first, and raising outside of them as mu<- v he does not expect to rear but three per as they can of their leading staples, cent, of the children brought there under From the local activity in business and trade we one year old! Three out of a hundred—all see almost daily on the etreeto and in the store* the other ninety-seven go to a nameless and banks, we think we see the dawn of a bright grave. and glorious career for the South and its people. Why, this whole Commonwealth felt outr-l.LetuB drop politics and secure, by diversified pro- raged because there came a report from Kan- dnctlon and pursuits, that wealth and independ- sas that six or eight men had been killed, ence of others which hold out the only promise of and yet our mothers and wives and daugh- I the ultimate attainment of the political rights de ters scoured the country for old clothes and nied ^ by ^ part y i n power, other comforts to send to. the people of that EhSndK^ chusetts’ soil died like dogs in a kennel in w S h P rica ot cotto ? wiU bdn /> should it continue our own almshouses, while we were weeping U P to or 8° beyond present figures, will, we fear, over the imaginary wrongs of Kansas.— beget the evil of extravagance among our people. [Cheers.]. Again I ask, my friends, is it not Already we see symptoms of extravagance on the time that we look at home ? Where is Mrs. part of many wnom, we dare say, could live much Stowe ? Where is Greeley in the Tribune ? I within the limits of their expenditures. Bat Where is the extra philanthropy of .the I whether a given thing is extravagant or not de humanitarians ? Where is that denoun- pends altogether upon circumstances. The man cer of great and good men, Wendell who pays $20 for a pair of boots, or the lady whose Phillips? Where are all these men who shoulders are hugged by a $500 shawl, may not regnlate the affairs of the people afar off? Is extravagant; while another who expends $10 for there not ample room for their charities here toots and $30 lor a shawl may bo guilty of inde nt home ? One hundred and sixty-five cbil- fensible wantonness. The thing turns on the re- dren dying at Bridgewater, one hundred and sources of the individual. If these are large and fifteen at Tewksbury, and one hundred and tbeir outer limits are not exceeded, nothing is ex- one at Munson. Forty infants dead in two travagant. If the resources are ameli, extravagance months ! Oh ! but they were white children. comeg £ earl with its cold fingerof warning. The into statistics. Ionly i!k 5011 if it Unottta I P™Pl»tt.»n»edol].n tooth™, we ceased to look after the wrongs of tho ne- Tbe ff ne6tl0n arises, then, are the people of the groes at the South, and look a little after 8onth > 3 nlt beginning to rise from the dust and the people at home? But if any Know poverty of a long and devastating war, prepared to Nothing friend of mine will say that is of no indulge themselves in all the luxuries of diet and consequence, that these people, or the largest dress which they conld easily afford hut for tho portion of them, were merely Irish paupers, heavy losses so recently sustained? We think not. to him I answer, that the great majority of Is not that man wantonly extravagant and selfish them were native born citizens of Massachu- who, having conducted his business successfully setts, entitled to every protection that Mas- for one or two years, will throw away pll his profits sachusetts gives to any of her citizens, [ap- upon costly dress or unwise expenditure of any plause,] and the very largest proportion of I description? Most certainly, them born on tbis continent. If.l am told I. Then, such, precisely, is the condition of the tbat, ‘“Oh, these were the old, the infirm, and southern people, especially the planters. They the sick,” I have to say of these 661, 341 have been remarkably successful the present year, more than lialt—-were under five years of age; and j t behooves them to secure their profits by ‘mmortal souls brought into this world and wiseandjndicious investments, so that, should re placed in the care of Massachusetts charity, J , .. .. . ’ ... Massachusetts philanthropy; and they have °7“ take ^them the next or succeeding years^ gone to God who gave them, and it is for ns bav ? something to fall backnpon and to render an account for them. 1 Liberian Slavery and Polygamy. On the 15th inst. we hoped that some in formation might be vouchsafed us as to whether we were correct in assuming the fol lowing state of affairs under the negro gov - eminent of Liberia to be the fact: I. That slavery exists in Liberia. II. That polygamy exists in Liberia. TIL That no white man is, under any cir- cumstanoo, allowed to vote in Liberia. XY. That no white man is allowed to hold land in Liberia for purposes of trade or pri vate enjoyment. V. That no negro is allowed to vote in Li beria. save nnder educational and property qualifications. In the Tribune on the 18th instant appears the subjoined: Ex-President Roberts, of Liberia, now in this country soliciting aid for the Liberian College, of which he is President, states that that republic has made conquests of the in- from which they can again struggle on 'and up, Let “ Econojtt” be the watchword of every true Southern man for only a few years, and we shall be the wealthiest and happiest people on the earth. The Citizen and Newspaper.—There is a very Intimate relation existing between tho reader and his regularly received newspaper. The relation is similar, in one respect, to those existing be tween a community of people and tho merchant •with whom they deal. Every one resorts to the merchant to dispose of hiB surplus, and to procure necessities he does not possess, the merchant, act ing as a medium of exchange, supplying the de flciencies of one with the surplus of another. Ev ery person looks to the paper for interesting lo cal news as the consumer looks to the merchant for bis supplies; but it is not every person that thinks cf keeping the newspaper supplied with news as the consumer does the merchant with any overplus in his productions. People will ask, “why don’t yon have more local news ?” ana yet, if they knew an interesting item, would never teribr tribes until it now has a total popula-1 tbInk of imparting it to the editor for the benefit tion of 000,000 souls, of whom only about of the paper and of those who do not know it.— 18,000 are emigrant negroes from America. The increase of interesting reading matter'will It is a singular and atrocious fact, now first more than counterbalance any trouble or expense coping to the knowledge of the public, that encountered by giving in these little items-that this republic, founded as an asylum of free- I go so far toward making a paper lively and nsefnl. dom for emancipated slaves, has permitted Let our friends tell ns of events worthy of note the continuance of slavery among the interior that have transpired in our midst, or of any new tribes which it has conquered on a very ex- enterprise being inaugurated among them. Let tensivo scale. President Roberts is quoted, as I them send ns information by mail, giving the admitting that the wealth of the interior points of anything that may have taken place. ^ nb <. e8 Afnca, j the readers of the Telegraph would pursue this course, they could 600n make it a complete is measured by their number of wives and slaves. Efficient steps should be taken to rescue Liberia from this lapse into a slave- holding province, and it will be well for those who are solicited in the name of free dom and humanity to contribute to a Liberian College to inquire whether the gratuitous education of the sons of these slaveholding chiefs may not inure to tbe growth of slavery rather than of freedom. : ’ ■■ 1 It is here seen that slavery and polygamy, those twin relics of barbarism, exist rankly compendium of information of all that' is dal ly transpiring in the State. It would, in many instances, be ot incalculable benefit to them, by directing the attention of capital and enterprise to any local advantages for manulacturing or other improvements in their several sections of country. Will you all heed this, or will many of you c6n‘ three in the “good old way ?” City Improvements. — Several extensive im- in this negro republic—a republic started I provements have been in .contemplation in this under thg fairest auspices, upheld by Cau- city ior some time past, which we are all anxious casian wealth and sympathy, and yet reduced to see put under contract and the work entered in not quite one generation, back into savage- npon. ry from the fatal inability of the negro to any Of tho many improvements proposed, we favor government outside of sensuality and force, none that will not fnlly justify the cost, and none “Efficient steps,” whines the Tribune, “should that are not imperative at the present time. To be taken to rescue Liberia from this “ lapse | move by degrees, and not rush into the' workbe- into a .slaveholding province.” . Bah ! Does I yond the ability of the present generation to dis- the Tribune not know that it and its co- I charge the consequent pecuniary embarrassment, thmkers, when they had charge of this jg, certainly; the dictate of prudence, republic,. recognized these polygamous, Among other suggestions, in regard to city im- slaveholding, barbarous blacks as an.in- provements, the construction of a street railway, te <3 l“twn relgnty ’-. a ? da8 ^ Ch “ adea the bridging of the river at the-foot of Second treaty with them; and how,, then, does it | street kj f d bnlld!ng of a new Court-house, are propose to intermeddle with their domestic concerns ? The negro has but fallen to his level. The wind has been let out of the Man and Brother, and he appears in his natural narrowness as a many-concubined, many- slaved savage. Wherefore, theD, does the Tribune want our ships and soldiers sent to Senegambiato lift him out of himself? The thing is an infraction of the law of nations the most prominent and mo3t imperative. The expense of these improvements would not be more than $100,000—$30,000 of which is already in hand as the proceeds of tho sale of the old Court-house. These improvements, we think, ore indispensable, and they should be made at the earliest possible day. The trade and business of Macon are rapidly as- article upon TnE *<**-”-* brUliaflt attention of the r^d e J Jage is weUworthy the ' ■' .Hempted-lKmgh. ft#potato wiU'b. »c | ^ quire to effect the change!” It is tbe unhesitating belief of nearly all the Southern people, that if Lee had pos-j Big Hunt in Florida.—Messrs. Price and j i And Pearson started from Enterprise on Tuesday sensed equal resonrceS ] with Grant, he, and I ^ ^ p^. 8tarted> wU £ not the Federal General, would have been the jjj e j r do gs, ten deer and killed four, victor. We contend that the latter occupied Wednesday, hnnted a portion of the day, the position of a draft player who had a great started four deer and killed two, and moved many more men than his adversary, and conld ““P 8 - . ' J , lr „ ~!TV7 . . .. - Thursday, moved camps, hunted half the afford to give two or three for one, g J day> girted eleven deer, kiVed three deer that tbisprocess continued long enough would ^ 0Ee pother. certainly win the fight Grant, like Napo- Friday, moved camps, hunted half the day, leon and many others, looked on soldiers as started 6 deer and killed 3. • L a. . roniri Saturday, started 15 deer and killed 6. ““J P lece80n the b ° ard ’ aDd he C °° m Monday, started 12 deer and killed 7. sacrifice them just as coolly and unconcern- Tuesday, started 11 deer and killed 6, and edJy—it being in his opinion necessary—as returned to Enterprise and took the steamer the chessjilayer can exchange pawns for a Hattie for home. bishop. Total for five days—started 78 deer, killed Here lu^iron nerve, his perfect subservien-131 deer and 1 panther.—Jacksonville Union. to begin with. It 13 a filibustering expedi- Miming enormous proportions, and her citizens tion that the Tribune meditates, and it is the demand such public improvements and conve- duty of the authorities to prevent the crim- niencies as will be something like commensurate inal intent bodying itself forth' in action.— and in harmony with them, and with the public N. T. World. j pride and spirit of her, people. These improve* * xr ... n., -?**' a t • . . meats are acknowledged and known to be absa- - - 1 or complain at any additional tax the cost of such be successful, consisting of a one-wheeled carriage, propelled by the horses being in side. It consists of a large wOoden wheel, fourfeen feet in diameter and six feet broad, with foot board for horses to hold. From improvements would impose. Indeed,iwe believe that in a short while they would tend to diminish taxation. The next municipal election will have, an important bearing on tbis question. The men Hear Rib S|dM— shoulder*..-... Salt—Liverpool pernek„._ WuisTr^Coainion By«-—- ' Fia*... —.... Corn Bourbon...„ Alp—Per dot on.. . TobaooO—Low trade* per pound Medina, Good Britht X Fancy- Mial- Wbbat—Per bash Field P**s— HAT—JJorthern Tennessee Timothy Herds Grass...- - BAGGING, TIBS. ROPE. Bagging—Gunny per pound 25J4® Richardson Greenleaf.. 26 & Kentucky - 26 © I*onTiss—The Arrow Tie per lb...:.. 8. @ Beard’s Buckle Tie Rort—Green leaf’s per pound J1 © Other brands.. — 10 ® Twinb—Per pound — 35 © Over the Brunswick Road—A Rn» F*o*t Buf|C Msaw—Clear Side* . . Macon ts Hawiinsvills.—We had the pi ensure yesterday, ot taking a ride over the 'Western divi sion qi tho Macon and Brunswick railroad. The President snd tho Directors wishing to. show Mr. C. H. Dabney, of tbe house of Dabney, Mor gan & Co., Exchange Place, New York, snd who. is one of the heaviest stock-holders, and who re cently arrived In our city, the progress being made in the construction of the enterprise which Is so deeply Indebted to him and other wealthy capitalists of his city, sent one extra train down yesterday morning. We left the passenger depot at 9 o’clock. On board were tieo. H. Hazlehurst, President of the road, Col. Thurston B. Bloom, one of the leading Directors; Mayor Obear, Mr. Nutting, Mr. - Board man, Mr. Strobeoker, Mr. Bose, Mr. Peter, Mr. Hutton, Mr. Barclay, and Capt. Jas. B. Butts and our specially invited guest, Mr. Dabney. We ran slowly along, down the track, stopping here and thereat such points oflnterestasthe road of the country presented. The track was In fine order. At Dykes’ station, the point where Hawk- .inaville branch leaves the main track, weeaw a large number of hands at work npon tbe main road leading off to Brunswick. About 25 miles of the track are graded below this station and now ready to receive the iron, which is coming np the river from Darien asfaat as steamboats can bring it. We may as well here state that the officers of the road are perfectly sanguine as to having the whole work completed in time to transport the next cotton crop. Between 1500 and 2000 hands are at work upon it, at various points. The surveys have all been completed, and it is now known that the extreme distance will not vary much from 185 miles. Of this 65 are completed, leaving 120 yet to do. The road will pass through the finest timbered country in the world. It is now thinly popnl&ted, but population will qnickly follow its track.— The New York millionaires who have agreed to complete it never made a better investment in their lives. We came npon Hawkinsville a little after noon, and wholly by surprise. The citizens oi the town were all hard at work buying and weighing cot ton, and selling the surrounding country supplies. Our company strolled through it for one or two hours, most o( them knowing nearly every one in the town. A great deal of cotton is shipped from that point down the river. A steamboat had lett tbe wharf that morning with four hundred bales. We wefe highly pleased both with Hawkinsville and its polite and* very agreeable people. It is twice as large and there is three times more busi ness done there than we had snpposed. Mayor Horne met ns at the depot, and informally ten dered the freedom ot the town. We had an invi tation to dinfe at the Ivey House, but, having din : ner along, we declined. After spending an hour or two there in the most agreeable manner, we re turned on board and started back. Onr train ran np to Dykes’ Station where it stopped'for dinner. A line lunch was spread in a baggage car attached to the single passenger coach, which the company partook of with considerable relish. The ffain was again put in motion, and we came np to' Bollard’s Station, where we were to meet the regular down train. Bnt it failed tu come down on time which caused an hoar’s delay, and hence we did not get’ back to the city until 6 o’clock. The trip was a very pleasant little excursion, in deed. A majority of the company along do not oilen get an opportnnity to spend a day eat of town, and to them,.especially, it wa3 agreeable. In noticing ^he falling off in cotton receipts for November, in yesterday’s paper, we failed to in sert the important words,' “by the Southwestern Bailroad.” The “paragraph referred, exclusively, to the cotton receipts of that road for November, 1867-8. We repeat the statement-, so that no one may be misinform'ed: The receipts of cotton by the Southwestern road for November, 1867, were 37,759 bales; for November, 1868, only 19,520 bales —showing a falling off in tbe receipts, last month, of 18,239 bales. L FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. 40 < ► 45 50 56 60 75 t 86 180 125 <5 IBS 1 25 060 IS 000 !4T 90 2 25 250 1 25 180 200 2 25 200 1 90 3 2 re 000- 2 U) @ 000* 26 OO 00, V 6 00 LATEST MARKETS—BY TELEGRAPH.. Oon.itlc Markats. New York. December 2, noon.—Mosey 6@7. Star- ling Qi- Gold 35. 1862’a 10%. North Carolines 65%: new 63%. Virginia’s, ex-coupons, 56; new 57. Ten nessee?, ex-oonpons, 68; new 68%. Cotton quiet 25%. Flour steady for common, dull for good grades. Wheat dull and drooping. Corn dull and a shade* lower. Mess Pork dull. 26 00. Lard dull and lower: steam i5%@15%. Turpentine declining at 46%. Rosin firm; strained common 2 55@2 60. Freights quiet. New Yoke, December 2.—Money, good demand at 6@7. Sterling 9%. Bonds closed dull, ’fit’s 10%. Tennessees, new 63. North Carolina* 65. Virginias 57. Cotton bills 8%@8%. Gold 34%@S5. Cotton heavy; about %c lower; sales 2500 bales at25@25%. Flour medium; good deolining; superfine 5 5088 08; Southern dull; common to fair extra 7 00&3 23. When drooping. Corn dull, soareely so firm; white Sooth cm 10403*110%. Mess Pork steady: new 2£00#25 25. Lard heavy; kettle 15%@16. Whisky heavy; State 103%. Rice dull. Sugar, fair demand; Muscovado 10%@11%. Coffee steady. Molasses dull. Turpen tine dull and heavy at 4£@46%. Rosin firm at 2 40® 750. Freights unchanged. Baltimore, Deoember 2.—Virginia 6’s, old inserib- ed, 46% bid, 47 asked. Coupons, old, 5C ; new, 57%. Flour firm and active. Wheat dull’; prime to choice, 2 30; fair to good, 2 00®2 25. Corn dull; new white,98@100, yellow, 89. Oats firm; Western,-73® 75. Rice dull at 40® 45. Pork dull. Bacon quiet; shoulders 14%. Lard 17. Savannah, December 2.—Cotton opened firm and* closed dull; uiddling,23%@24; receipts 3022; exports, to Havre 1685; coastwise 2207. Augtsta, December 2.—Cotton quiet; very little business done in consequence of the election. Charleston, Decembers.—Cotton dull and % low er ; sales 370 bales; middlings 23%; receipts 1352 bales; exports, coastwise 331. *-?, .-,7! - Sheriff’s Sales of Jasper County bo. published in the Georgia Weekly. Telegraph until farther notice. dec2-dltwlt T. R. PENN, Sheriff 3 asper County. JASPER SHERIFF’S SALE. W ILL be sold before the Court house door, in'the town of Monticello, on the 1st Tuesday in Jan uary next, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder tbe following property: Four hun dred acres of Land, more or less, levied on as the property of C. A. Spears, deceased—the place where Mrs. S. C. Spears now lives—to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from Jasper Superior Court, in favor of Cicero M. Spears vs. Crede E. Spears or his administrate* nr executrix.- Property pointed out and levy made by order of Col. G. T. Bartlett, plaintiff’s attorney. T. R. PENN. At the same timo and place, will be sni«r f to the highest bidder, 190 aores of Lend, more or ’known as the Porter Plaee, joining lands of/],,- T. Digby, S. C. Spears and others. Levied o:v' 0 .satisfy a C fa. issued from the Superior Court 'of Newton county, in favor of N. Goodhue vs. C. >. Q. Flemister snd Isaac H. Freeman, levied on ?; s lhe pr0 p e rty of Isaac B. Freeman, and pointed, oq^ j^y said Freeman* B. T. DIGBY,. ' dec2-w30d’/ Deputy Sheriff. Weekly Review of the Market. OFFICE DAILY TELEGRAPH,! December 2—Evening, 1868. / Cotton.—Receipts to-day 620 bales; sales 577 bales shipped 527 bales. Receipts for the week ending this evening, (above included) 3123 bales; sale* for same time 2762 bales; shipped 2772 bales.,., .. The past week has been quite a lively one far the cotton business. Prices’have been firm all the week, and the demand good for the better grades of cotton. In our last weekly report we quoted the market active at 22% cents for middlings. The price is the same this evening, ‘thbugh the market closed very quiet a£ those figures, with a declining tendency. Very little attention is given to tbe lower grades of cotton, MACON COTTON STATEMENT. Stock on hand Sept. 1,1868—bales 1,326 Received to-day- —................ 620 Received previously -27,566—28,186 29!512 Shipped to-day....— 1 527 Shipped previously - .18,070—18,697 Stock on hand this evenings. .10.915 FINANCIAL. Since our last weekly review of the money market here it has undergone no change whatever. The sup ply of currenoy has bean ample for all legitimate business transactions, and rates of interest on call loans and discount on commercial paper have been .easy all the while. First-class borrowers have no dif ficulty in getting all the accommodations they desire st quoted rates of interest. Operations in stocks.and bonds continue to ho very limited. Indeed, they are so few and far between that it Is almost unnecessary to give quotations. We do so, however, to keep the suhject warm until it manifests some symptoms of returning life: EXCHANGE ON NEW YORE. %@% discount -par UNITED STATES CURRENCY—LOANS. Permonth. 1% to 2 per cent GOLD AND SILVER. dug rates for Gold.....—......................SI 31 iug 1 35 Buy ing rates for Silver.....*. .....1 20 Selling 125 BAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS. Central Railroad Stock..*— — .125 Central Railroad Bonds 101 Macon A Western Railroad Stock 126 Southwestern Railroad Stock...—.— 94 Southwestern Railroad Bonds 99®100 if aeon A Brunswick Railroad Stock Macon A Brunswick Railroad Endors’d Georgia Railroad Stook — —... Georgia Railroad Bonds 98 Muscogee Railroad Bonds 80 Buying....— - Selling....— - HTotice. O.EORGIA, QUITMAN COUNTY.-Jackson Batts has applied for exemption of personalty, and I will pass upon the same at 10 o’clock, A. M., on the 10th day of December, 186S, at my office. This 27th day of November, 1868. . , W. P. JORDAN, decl-d2tiwlt* Ordinary- Notice. G EORGIA, QUITMAN COUNTY-Charity Cur- lee has applied for exemption of personalty, and I will pass upon the sameatlO o’clock, a. it., on the 10th of December. 1668, at my office. This 27tlr day of November, 1868. . , w. p. Jordan; deel-d2tAwH.* , Ordinary.* *■ Notice. J ONES COURT OF ORDINARY.—At Chambers, November 30, 1868.—Newton W. Messer has ap plied for exemption of personalty, and I will pass on the same at my office, on Tuesday, December 15. 1863. at 10 o'clock, a. m. Given nnder my -hand officially. THOS. J. GIBSON.' Ordinary:' dec2-d2twlt Notice. J OSEPH J. WALTON has applied for exemp- of personalty, and I will pa?s upon the same at 10 o’clock, a. M., on the 11th day of December. 1*68, at my office, dec3-d2twlt C. T. WARD, Ordinary. G eorgia, bibb county.-bibb superior. ■ «M[— Court, November Term, 1868. j-Libel for Divorce. Simpson Rath vs. Elizabeth Ruth, Wherennon, in the c; nereunon, in tbe case stated, in the Libel ior Divorce, filed by the said Simpson Ruth against Elizabeth Ruth, returnable to November Term, 186*. of Bibb Superior Court; and whereas, the Sheriff has returned upon said petition, that the defendant is not to be found in the county, it is hereby ordered by the Court that service be perfected upon the defendant in the above stated case, by publication in tbe Macon Telegraph onoe a month for four months, in terms of the law. JNO. P. FORT. , , , , Plaintiff’s Attorney. „ A tree extract from the Minutes of Bibb Superior Court, Dec. 2,1868. . .' . A. B. ROSS. deo3-lamo4mo Deputy Clerk. the axle are suspended seats for the passen- w ho will “put through” these affairs with the gers, which axle extends on both sides be- greatest speed and in the most economical and jn- yond the wheel, it being only necessary to .dicious mannner, will be the favorites of the keep them balanced. Iron stays from the ex- people, tremities of the axle are carried over the top I Money was never easier or more abundant in rather in front, which supports the seat for I Macon than at the present time, and, by proper gloriously great M P^on who drives the vehicle, which is | managemeiit”tte ctiy improvements alluded to re say nothing of a park we might have next sum mer—can be easily secured. A little energy, spirit and wise management will vastly improve the ap pearance and conveniences of the city during the next twelve months Robbery in Monticello.—On last Sanday night, in Monticello, Ga., as a company of gentle men were going home from church, they heard a noise in a store as they were passing along the General Grant is said to be worth about I street, and suspecting that rascality of some sort $300,000. He owns residences at 8$. Louis, was going on, surrounded the building And intti- Philadelphia, Washington City, and thirty- tntea a search. Sure enough, a negro was caught eight acres of land within the corporate limits I i n the store making preparations for a large hanl of the latter city. When the war commenced I 0 j ® 00 de. Upon hta person was found skeleton he was quite poor. j k jys, which unlocked every store in the place. He The Austrian army and navy are to be pat n 8 d, evidently, been having an easy time of it, ns on a war footing of 80,000 men. J goods of the town were st his dlspoeaL He .The London policemen have all lately was relieved of his magic key sand liberty in short been armed with cutlasses. I order • . L". . t done with the greatest ease, and it can turn in a much shorter space than a coach. A successful trial was made recently with one j carrying twenty-fonr passengers and two heavy draught horses, previously trained, as they are entirely unfettered by harness. A j distance of five miles was performed in twenty eight minutes. The work of the horses is easy, as they travel on an endless plank Atlantia A Gulf Railroad Stock..—— 42 Augusta & Waynesboro Railroad Stock 90 STATE AND CITY STOCKS AND BONDS. Macon Gas Company Stock- - .140 Macon Faotory Stock 107 City of Macon Reserve Mortgaged Bonds..—.— 75 City of Macon Endorsed Bonds..—.——— —..100 City of Macon Bonds - — — 70 City of Macon Coupons 95 State of Georgia, new 7 percent Bonds..——..... 90 State of Georgia, old, 7 per cent Bonds.. 87 State of Georgia, old, 6 per cent BonSs.. — 75 OROCERIBS AND PROVISIONS. The trade in this branch of business has been only moderate the past week. Our streets have presented lively bnstle and stir almost daily, bnt sales of groceries and provisions were confined mostly to a good retail consumptive demand. In the article of bacon, prices have declined fully half a cent during the week, and it is a little weak to-day at onr quota tions. Th* new stock of bacon, pork and bulk meats are now arriving, and we may say the new meat sea son is now about opened. Corn is firm at our quota tions—the old stook being about exhausted. Flour continues firm, and has manifested an advancing ten dency for the last few days, though prices are the same as in our last weekly report. The market is well stocked with almost everything in this line, as it is also in dry goods and fancy groceries. We quote Bacon—Clear Sidee (smoked) 4 18%® 19 Clear Ribbed Sides (smoked)— 18 @ Shoulders—..— — —...... 15 ® Hams (country). ——....— none. Canvassed Hams, sugar eared. 21 0 Coffee—Bio 21 Lagnayra—— — *• Java..——.—.————.— 45 Dried Feuit per pound ——- 1| &SEi=:== 51 Green,.*.... 1 60 Floub—Sttptrfin®, ptr barrel......—. 0 50 Sxtrs^...^ J1J® Fancy family Brands 14 00 Butter—Goshen..— ..... W Tennessee Yellow ——• ® COVOtryHS.MOWW.HM.MIMWSmWtN. JO Creese—(According to quality)-— m Lard———.. jgae—(Accoi KK9S& 1. Kits— Xmtters of XMsmistton. G eorgia, j ones county.—ordin art’s omc« Said County. May 25. 1868. Whereas. R. W.-. Bonner, Administrator on the estate of Fly Seabrook, deceased, applies to me for Dismission from said ad ministration. These are to cite and admonish all perrons con cerned to show cause at this office, if any they have to the contrary, on or by the first Monday in next De cember. Given nnder my hand officially. , „ •„ ROLAND i june5-6m > T. ROSS. Ordinary. betters of Administration. These are. therefore, to cite all persons concerned to be and appear at my office on or befote tbe 1st Monday in December next, and show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not issue. Given under my hand and official signature, this 25th day of October, 1663. WM. H. DAVIES, oct30-30d Ordinary. Xiettera of Administration. rjRORGIA, BIBB COUNTY.—Whereas, J. A. Ker- V* “ay applies to tbe undersigned for Letters of Administration npon the estate of Doncan MeCallum, late of said connty, deceased. All persons interested are required to bo and ap- Pesr at the Court of Ordinary, on tho first Monday in December next, to show cause, if any they have, why letters should not be granted. Given under my hand officially. - C. T. WARD, oct3(WS0d Ordinary. Twiggs Connty Lands for Sale. B Y virtue •trill rtue of authority vested in us, snder the last and testament of C. A. Tharp, lately deceased. will be sold on tho 23d of December, 1868. at his late residence, in said connty, all the Lands belonging to said estate. Sold in lotsto suit purchasers. Sold forth* benefit of the hetrs and creditors. Terms- Cash. nov!2-w40d* JOSEPH THARP, SIMEON THARP IJ Executors. Administrator’s Sale. GREBABLK to an grder from the of to; adejLll— lfi%l t , U% ivit* ——— 84®,] > 6 b Mass-—31 I JO Wilkinson oouaty. Stateof Georgia.will'b^Ield before the Court-house door in Irwinton. in. said eo .to, between the legal hours of sale, on tSe son eonnty. Terms oaah. • ’ ~ : novll-w40d* Bxecator’s Ifito. TrriLLbssold.1 M&isSS- her next, the as th* Stanly sa’ftysRf' Rumps......—- ... 28 00 trij! *£>!»oV t
