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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.
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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
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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
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