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Newspaper Page Text*•' LS y CLISBY & 'REID, Proprietors. The Family Joubhal.—News—Politics—Lite eatuee—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING ESTABLISHED 1826.} MACON, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1869. VOL. XLIII.—NO. 16. Georgia Telegraph Building, Macon, HATES OF SUBSCRIPTION : .$10 00 I),n.r TW*o**fh—for one year.. mur Tii ko raph—for nx month* 5 00 1 for shorter period* One Dollar per month. Acini* Sshi-Whirly Telegraph—one year.. 4 00 ncOROIA SfMT-WEEKLT TELEGRAPH—fix m’ths 2 00 Mammoth Weekly Telegraph—one year 3 00 Mammoth Weekly Telegraph—six month* 1 50 SS'Papable aheapt in arlcance.~*& Book and Job I»x*Ixitlrtt? Neatly executed at reasonable price*. Remittance* by mail with Postmaster’s certificate at fnrrifk. The Jiwcet l*oiato—Best Mode of Cnl- tnre. front I ha Cuthberl Appeal.} The Irish potato, though more general in its tse and cultivation, is far from equaling in flavor #n d delicacy this favorite production of the South. Indeed, eaten, with butter fresh from the chnru and pure sweet milk as an addenda, it constitutes a desert fit for the ropast of a king. Numerous varieties of this valuable esculent abound. Among these may be enumerated the white yam, pumpkin Spanish, white Spanish, buck potato with red skin and yellow heart, early red with white heart, brimstone, yellow in and out, and red negro killer. Of these the white yam and pumpkin Spanish keep the best, while the negro killer and buck are the most prolific, especially upon poor land. The leaf and vine of the negro killer are very large, and the “slip,” from its tonghness, easy of propagation. On the contrary, the early red tors a very small vine with a scolloped leaf, and can be 'raised to perfection by the 4th of July. It is very dry and mealy in substance and is said to be a highly nutricious and inno cent food for children. On the whole, for market and table purposes we prefer the yam, which when fully matured and properly baked, is almost covered with the *ugar or syrup which exudes from the surface during the cooking process. In planting the sweet potato, it may not be generally known that the eyes are chiefly clus tered together at the two ends of each tuber. Tne practice of cutting these off, therefore, be fore bedding or planting is very detrimental. Experience proves that but few of the eyes ger minate save those at the end. This can be shown l>y planting the centres of the potato in a patch to themselves. We cannot pause now to debate the rationale of ibis truism. It may be laid down as an axiom in sweet po tato culture, that a soil thoroughly pulverized ted enriched, is a prerequisite to success. To this wc may add the necessity of keeping the plants entirely free from weeds and grass, at every stage of their growth. Corn and cotton may languish and recover for want of work, but the sweet potato never. The very process of removing the grass by the hoe or hand breaks off thousands of root-bearing fibres, and ruins the yield of the crop. To ensure an abundant harvest, let the earth be well trampled by stock, or plentifully ma nured broadcast with stable scrapings or cotton seed during tho winter, and then thoroughly subsoiled and broken up. If bedding is to be resorted to, the potatoes can lie placed in oblong beds about four feet wide without cutting and nearly touching each other, early in February. After setting them thus, cover four inches det-p with warm stable manure, and finish off with moist earth. The beds should be protected also by a Southern exposure and the means be kept at hand for covering them when frost is expected. If the season bo dry they should be occasion ally watered to expedite the early sprouting of the tubes. When propagated from the potato cutting, planting should bo delayed until the latter part of March, to prevent dry rot during the slow process of germination. The method maybe thus briefly described: Upon ridges four feet apart mado with either hoe or I*ow, trench deeply, and deposit the po tato, cut in two pieces only, at intervals of eight inches. Then add a covering of well rotted stable or lot manure, or killed cotton seed, and cover deep to ensure moisture. The great enemy to a stand is dry rot and the Mischievous crow—though the latter pest is chiefly confined to the sea-board. If the high March winds displace the light soil, or dry the earth down to the cutting, the potato will per ish and never come to the surface. A good plan therefore is to cover very deep, and then scrape off And break the crust about the time tho plants make their appearance. Experience would indicate, however, that the drawer pulled from the hot bed, is the most certain and least troublesome method of propa gation. The cultivation in both instances Is the same, though the sprouts, when dipped in thick mnsli made of water and well-rotted manure, which adheres to the roots, can be transplanted in al most any season. Very wet weather, followed by hot sun, is more fatal to the plant than drought, when the abovo precaution has been taken. < The after cnltnre should consist in simply drawing earth to the plants once or twice, and sedulously destroying all grass and weeds before they take root. About the middle of Jane another crop of po tatoes can be raised from tho same vine, by the use of long or short slips. In the former, after thorough preparation and the formation of ndges, the tops of which ore reduced ton smooth level, let two or three vines bo laid side by side so as to touch tho ground at all points. Then, at twelve or fifteen inches interval cover them with several hoe foils of earth and pack %oly. This will leave several inches of the vine exposed between each of these bills, from *hich shoots and sprouts put forth, which very soon cover the whole surface. Under these bills the tubers are formed in great abundance from the little threads which shoot from tho covered joints of tho vine. When short slips aro used, these in lengths of about Ii inches are pressed into the earth with ? fo *ed stick about four inches deep, and eight tttthes apart, and take root readily in wet weather. . One hoeing, plowing and bedding is sufficient ft the cultivation of the slip crop. «is a curious but well authenticated fact, “at tubers grown direct from the cutting, are only fit for fall use. They cannot bo preserved tough the winter. Those on the other hand from the drawer and slip, can be "Pt under favorable circumstances for twelve toths. it should be remarked also that upon no other crop is a t op dressing of manure dur- rSits growth more beneficial and salutary in lb effects. Of the harvesting of the sweet potato, andits Pt*servation »nd value as food for stock, we ptopae to treat in a subsequent number. Velocipedes Nowhere. Below is a.description from the Dubuque Times of a simple contrivance which puts the nose of the velocipede quite out of joint. It will be seen that, by adopting the principle of the treadmill, the operator secures, with the ef fort of a common walk, a speed of eighteen or twenty miles an hour. We shall all, before long, be going home to dinner at this rato—streaking it—coattails flyihg in the wind—no chance to nod to a passing acquaintance—great skill nec essary to avoid collisions—city ordinances pro hibiting undue enlargement of driving wheels or a speed of more thou a mile in three minntes within the limits of the corporation—rents re duced in consequence of the public indifference whether they live five rods or five miles from places of business—livery stable men blowing their brains ont ’kase horses and carriages are of no account—double velocycles for sparking—in genious inventions to confine skirts—family ve locycles all stepping up the ladder to church with the speed of chain-lightning—very swift— very undignified, but useful. Distance annihi lated and a railroad in every house, kitchen and counting room. Here is the story: A young mechanic of this city has invented and constructed a vehicle which he terms the velocycle, and which he claims will supersede the fast becoming popular velocipede. The ve locipede, it is known, has two and three wheels. His machine has but one. The velpcipede is ridden upon—this velocycle is not, but trans ports its rider in the position of a “walkist.” We have not seen this novel vehicle, but will describe it as it has been described to us by a familiar friend of the inventor’s. The reader must disabuse his mind of all the forms common to the velocipede, and imagine a wheel 5 feet 10 inches in diameter. Hay, the imagination must go further, and comprehend this wheel to be, as it were, two wheels of this diameter, and of a proportion not unlike a driv ing sulky’s—that the two are made a unit by a light rim 12 inches wide, running around and within two inches of the outer circumference of the two supposed wheels. This comprehension will enable the reader to understand that this wheel is in reality a rim A feet 10 inches in dia meter, and about 14 wide, with two flanges, of two inches depth, projecting over the edges. Having entertained this form, we proceed fur ther. Inside of this rim or wheel, a light but strong frame is hung, by a novel device, which keeps it independent, so far as not to obstruct its (the wheel’s) motion. From the bottom of this frame, which is square, and running to the top of it at an angle of nearly DO degrees, is a band that may be properly called the endless ladder. The band, it will be enderstood, passes over a pulley below and above. On the edges of this endless ladder, in close proximity and parallel to each other, like strings of great beads, are a series of friction pulleys. These pulleys are so arranged as to impinge on similar pecu liarly contrived pulleys on the inner circumfer ence of the main wheel or rim, near to the in tersection of the flanges. The revolution of this band or endless ladder, through the medium of these pulleys, causes the main wheel or rim to revolve. We have now given a sufficient idea of this novel machine to enable us to give the method of its use. The operator steps within the wheel or rim, and being ready for a start, commences to ascend the “ladder.” It being movable—a mere band—of course, he does set this great wheel in motion. Thus, as it were, in the act of walking, he furnishes power. The inventor claims by his arrangement of pulleys that each step will give a complete reso lution to the great wheel, which makes every step equivalent to a stride of eighteen feet! and that the effort is not greater than the mnscle required in ordinary locomotion.— He claims, also, that he can ascend grades equal to those of Lorimier avenue with ease. The entire machine will not weigh over thirty pounds, and can be made for about $40. We understand that he proposes to give a pub lic exhibition at an early day, and we hint that a glimpse of the machine at work may be_ had now, and be seen on Locust street after night fall. Aakcko the Death-Cotillion' in the Am. *%, by the name of Mrs. Roach, was re- murdered in tho county of Austin, Texas. She was sitting in her chamber sewing, when iae unknown person fired through the wrindow, Jtog her instantly. The murder created the eff h e *citement in tho vicinity, and every ^ Mt ^ made discover the perpetrator. j^Piaon fell upon a young man whose suit to h e "Ouch’s daughter had been rejected, and U*Uj> arrested. A remarkable circumstance crime upon him. In his pocket was uuu a copy of the Now Orleans Bulletin, from tur'Pjcca had been tom. On the floor of ^ room in which Mrs. Roach was shot a piece hr*®P C ' I ’i Wa8 picked up, scorched and discolored Maoii N r ’ w kich precisely fitted to the tom Jr 1 the paper. This confirmation of their “^“ood tho neighbors to escort the Ej. Bman to a neighboring grove, where he P n t to dancing the deaih-ootilRon in ticLtifV* Portsmouth, N. H., bought ten •rottinn 111 a loUer y—Prtze being a valuable 4 ‘•‘g mare-one of which he sold to a friend Pto tod $S re 4116 drawing ’ wtich A Visit to the Macon mid Brunswick Railroad. Correepondenee of the Quitman Banner.} Freend Fildes :—Last week I spent a day or two at the junction of the Macon and Bruns wick and Atlantic and Gulf Railways. Escorted by Major A. M. Rowland, the gentlemanly trav eling agent of the Macon and Brunswick Rail road, I spent a very pleasant time inspecting the different branches of work in progress of completion. I found all the officers to be affable gentlemen; it appeared to afford them pleasure in showing and explaining the various parts of the work to me. To Major Hardison I owe many thanks for his kindness in providing me with a good dinner after a long walk, examining his department of bridge and trestle building; also for information as to the amount of work completed and under coarse of completion, which I thought might be of interest to the readers of the Banner. He informed me that on the main line, at the Macon end, there are forty miles of the road completed, also a branch road diverging from the main lino to Hawkinsville of eleven miles completed; also thirty-fivo miles of the main line now graded and ready for the iron. At the Brunswick end there are twenty-three miles completed, making seventy-four miles of the road completed and thirty-five miles graded. So you see, Mr. Editor, there is no doubt but that in the course of the next twelve months the “Central road” will begin fo feel the annoyance of competition; for I do assure yon that there is no joke about it, the Macon and Brunswick Railroad is a success beyond doubt, and the work being done is of the most substantial and workmanlike character. One thing I observed particularly was the improved “circular water- tank the one near the injunction is the most complete affair I have ever seen. They aro constructed under the supervision of Captain Robinson, of Brunswick. Besides tho above distance of road complet ed, there are very heavy embankments being thrown np on both sides of tho junction cross ing the Finholloway Creek, and adjoining low g rounds on the one iside and the low grounds of oose Creek on the other, besides locating and laying two complete Y’s at tho junction, and arrangements for the main crossing. Mr. Abe Lewis need not be ashamed of his railroad work for it cannot be excelled. I took a ride on the engine of the dirt train at the instance of the obliging engineer, Mr. McGruder. To CoL Hunter, Civil Engineer, and Maj. Sargoant, General Superintendent, I am under obliga tions for civilities. The Macon and Brunswick Railroad is being built entirely by Messrs. Hull & Miller, of New York. Mr. Sidney G. Miller, of the above firm is superintending the contract, and Mr. Hull remains in New York. Every branch of the work is carried on in a systematic style, every man at his post, and everything in its place. It will be, ■ when complete, a model road. , , ■ -1 Mr. Willis Clary is building a large, two-story hotel at the junction, spacious enough to ac commodate tho traveling public; and Mr. C. is one of the indefatigable sort of men that know howto “keep a hotel,” and will have the best the country affords. There are four stores well supplied with goods, doing a fair business near the junction, and CoL Finnegan keeps his neigh bors well supplied with good meal from his steam mill. Truly yours, * . D - TIio Chester “Pigs.” Pnsexlng Woman. Messrs. Editors:—The vital question of again ! The National Intelligoncer has an eloquent raising our own meat is # engaging the serious j article on the detestable agitation of tho day attention of*the planters of Georgia. You edi- ; about giving tho ballot to women: tors are very fond of lecturing us upon our duty j “They can be considered nothing but inva- . > . ' . . c , . .. * . j ders of domestic peace, inciters to social disor- to ourselves and to our State at largo m raising ; der> ^ O j enco and (ji scor d, who seek to draw wo- provisions. But you have failed to suggest how man f rom jj er appointed and supremely exalted to successfully raise hogs in a country where at sphere of home, as the guardian angel of the least every other freedman has a shot-gun. It; world’s inner life, and plunge her, with her im- is as well known in Southwestern Georgia that j and ... . - the coarse and jarring throng of masculine pub- the freedmen have killed out two-thirds of the | jj fe> ti mes ° on which we have fall- entire stock of hogs, as it is that we cannot t en are all unhinged, lie same' fanaticism raise them under the existing order of things, j which has overthrown, or is overthrowing, the You give us brave advice upon this subject, j matter, but while you mention an admitted j everything conservative and settled, is striving ■ also to overthrow the order and food ■ govern ment of the fireside; and, as in th< former case, the larger liberty of man is pleadtd as the pro- polling motive, and in justification, so in the latter casa tho larger liberty of uoinan isplead- necessity you stop short of suggesting a remedy. Some planters have abandoned all efforts at raising the old breed of hogs in despair, and are introducing the Chester “pigs” upon their plant ations. Their reason for this is, they grow sev- cd, linked with a thousand, uicamed yet fun eral times larger than the old kind—it will take j cied benefits that would accrue to’ her, and less number to make their meat: and the lesser through her to mankind toy man with aprop- •erly organized mind, and who is capable, of calm the number, the more easily they can be kept under guard. A hog at large has about as much chance to live as a rebel General of getting into tho present Congress. Hence the plan adopted is to build a pen dose to the residence, with a house in one corner of it, and a number one lock on this “ hog-house, and philosophical reflection on the nature and the province of the two sexes, and how they stand at the antipodes, one of strength and the other of tenderness, cannot but condemn the tendency, as here indicated, of fanatical and unbalanced natures; and every woman, en dowed as Heaven meant she shoidd be, in whose But as it is exceed- j being bests a sense of almost superhuman de- ingly troublesome and very expensive to keep a j ^^^paSS^t prerogative ‘to create laigo number of hogs in tins way, the Chester j ^ so ° ial rPn i,‘ n> Md i t b ° the power and breed is strongly recommended, because they i the purity of the heart, must shrink, with instinc- weigh many times more than the scrub. | live and womanly dread, at the bare thought of In order to give your readers an idea how ' sotmsexing herself, and casting aside all that . t a . . . | makes her better than men, as to enter tho low large they grow, x send you the following extract i pnblic and political arena of men, and partici- from a Pennsylvania agricultural paper, The j pate in its wrangles, its low ambitions, its cor- Philadelphia Practical Fanner, which reads as ' follows: The slaughtering season just passed has again confirmed the superiority of this now fa- ruptions, and its debasing influences. She could not but feel herself profaned. Once there, she would feel herself an outcast, and look back upon tho sweet dominion which she had left, where she sat unsullied, lifted up and pure, as Fernando "Wood has issued cards of invita tion for a private dinner party, to bo given ex clusively to the Democratic members of tho present Congress. The time is set for next Sunday evening, and tho place is to be Welck- er’s Restaurant Is front of a stage office at Buffalo, a sign board informs the public that “stages sUrt from this house for China, Sardinia, Holland, Ham burg. Java, Sweden, Cuba, Havre, Italy and Pen-Yan." mous breed, in rendering the most weight and I our first paren ts did when exiled from the Gar- value for food consumed, at whatever age they : den of E ^ en for ^ eldi to the tempter, and may be killed They are emphatically the farm- nover xeslore d to that peaceful Eden again.” er s hog—returning a large amount of lard, j \ n giving weight in the most valuable parts, with I Northern Opposition to Negro the smallest amount of rough bone or offal. Suffrire. ! We find the following paragraph in our North- port of 18CT, weighed at 15 months old, 5I>0 ern exchanges; pounds. Walker Y. Hoopes, of Lima, Delaware j “ Petitions are circulating for signatures in county, killed two the past fall, tea mouths and ; Pennsylvania imploring the Legislature not to eleven days old, weighing respectively, when I indorse a suffrage amendment to the Constitu- dressed, 438 and 3D0 pounds. j tion. These petitions assert, and numerous sig- “A gentleman in East Bradford township, ! natures attest, that they are presented “with- near West Chester, killed two nine months old, j out regard to party.” weighing 385 and 377 pounds. John Hannum, j This movement only confirms the opinion in the same neighborhood, killed two, nine . long since expressed by us, that should univer- montlis old, weighing 384 and 3S0 pounds. i sal negro suffrage become fixed upon the coun- “Richard Strode, of Coatesville, Chester conn-j try by the acquiescence of the people of the ty, killed two, thirteen months old, weighing , Southern States—in which States the negro 1030 pounds—one 500 and the other580 pounds. | would become an element of political power, to “C. K. McDonald, of East Nottingham, Ches- 1 be wielded by the superior intelligence of the ter county, killed two, fifteen months old, weigh- whites—five years would not pass before the ing 495 and 4G0 pounds, respectively. j people of the Northern States, where there “Emmer Green, West Goshen, in the same would be comparatively few negro voters, would county, killed a couple nearly two years old, be arrayed against negro suffrage at tho South weighing respectively 400 and CS0 pounds. * as fiercely and uncompromisingly as ever they “David W. Morriuson, of Chester, Delaware ' were against negro slavery at the South, county, slaughtered seven pigs, 13 months old, I Had negro slavery been equally diffused over of one litter, weighing respectively, 41S, 440, the whole Union, whatever might have been its 577, 520, 483, 518. * J fate, it would never have been the cause of sec- “Joseph B. Hinkson, of Parkersburg, slaugh- tional alienation and conflict. Negro slavery tered one, eleven months old, weighing552 lbs. was first unpopular at the North because it was Such cases might be almost indefinitely ex- i unprofitable—it became intolerable when it be- tended. The usual rule here is, that a prime 1 came sectional. So with negro suffrage. Pow- Chester county hog will gain a pounds day till j erless in the North it is unpopular there. At two years old. Our farmers do not keep them . the South where it will be powerful, it will be usually so long; but in the West and Sonthwest, : exerted in the interests of the Sonth, and thus where land is cheap and com plenty, it might! will be reinaugnrntdd the “irrepressible con- be profitable to get the greatest weight out of flict” in a new form but with the same materiaL fhem, which is rather avoided here. If we would have penee 'fie wust have political “In fact there are two types of the pure • homogenity. We must not hiJve a mongrel South Chester county hog—one more compact, shorter against a white North. We must haveuiffusion, and maturing sooner than the other, and never or exclusion of the negro element.—News. growing quite s<? large. The others have a i lengthy carcass, indicating great growthiness A ’IVestcm KailroiwI Convention, and large size, though also with afine bone, and There was a Railroad Convention at Newark, having the same excellent easy-feeding property Ohio, on Wednesday. The call for the Conven es the other. These we generally select for fill- tion included representatives from West^Virginia ing our Western and Southern orders, where the Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, this kind is usually preferred, and is used for and Alabama. The purpose was to take steps mess pork and bacon for shipping. For our that may lead ultimately to the eonsturction of city markets, hams from hogs weighing over 300 a road from Kaneville southeasterly to the Ohio pounds are sometimes objected to. . river and thence to the sea board at Norfolk, “These smaller Chester county hogs resem- Charleston, or Savannah, connecting with roads ble much Suffolks—having the same small dish to Mobile. From Zanesville North two roads faces, but are considered a better breed by those are suggested, one to Cleveland and one to Tol- who have tried both. We once sent a pair to a edo, and perhaps one to Sandnsky. The object farmer in this State, who did not want the large is to draw trade from the lakes to one or more, kind, and he complained that we had sent him of the Southern cities before named. Suffolks, instead of the Chesters; whereas, we \ The Cleveland Herald, in noting this conven- had never owned a Suffolk, and did not know of tion, observes that there is no reason why New any within 209 miles of Philadelphia. , York should for all time be the sole focus for “The pure ‘dies.- r breed of swine are tin- the vast business of the West and Northwest doubtedly the best and most profitable breed in ; that there now is, and which is to go on increas- the United States; though in Chester county, > ing for indefinite years to a volume in size not where they were started, there are varions oth- 1 now dreamed of. Philadelphia and Baltimore er breeds and crosses of white hogs. We have are mainly manufacturing cities as compared sometimes had occasion to write to correspond- ; with New York in their foreign commerce. But ents that the pigs from Chester county are not there aro harbors on our Southern coast that always ‘Chester Co.’ pigs.” ■ are equal to that of New York, and but for the As will be seen from the above extract these incubus of slavery, largo cities would long ago hogs take their name from, and are grown in, ^? ve . b ? en . bailt ° n , margins. Norfolk, m “ , h , . Virginia, is probably not surpassed for accepta- Chester county, Pennsylvania. I have not the bility, extent, nnd safety, and has deeper water address of any one engaged in raising them for than at Sandy Hook, at the month of New York sale, but presume it can be obtained by writing Harbor. ^ to the editor of the Philadelphia Practical Ominous—Speaking of tho letter we copied Farmer. a few days ago from Washington to Comptroller I suggest that some of yonr Macon merchants General Bell, which predicted harsh action by migKi. Tnnk« a haTutsnmn -profit, hy engaging iu Congress towards Georgia, the Augusta Daily the trade and supplying the demand. Press says: . , ‘ , ■ Dunkirk The above is really-ominous. It almost plint- February 25 1860. ters the fond hopes which wo had began toen- 3 * " »> • 1 , tertain—that the next Congress would quietly Interesting Clerical Statistics of the the Georgia question. We give its con- Catliolic Church. tents importance because we are assured that A Catholic statistical publication in England the author is Hon. Amos T. Akerman, who is gives the following figures concerning the Eo- forking on the Bard hne, and therefore is not man Catholic Chmchl The total ninber of likely to pen such statements from enthns^n, bishoprics is 1,004. Of these, 133 are archbisb- « because tho “vush is father,to the thought oprics and C57 bishoprics of the “Latin Rite,” ? f Legisla te ™U*ot ratify theEif- and 7 archbishoprics of the “Oriental Rite.” teenth Article, or restore the negroes yolnntan- The latter includes Armenians, Greco-Roumain, & Haw* wufear Akerman s predictions will Greco-Buthenian, Greco-Melchite, Syro-Maro- 1 * 5 verified. Poor Georgia. ,.£•» nite, Greco-Bnlgarian, Svrisac andSyro-Clmldaie Count liismarcli’.s Sew Jlap of Eu- prelates. The sees of bishops inpartibus infi- , rope, delinm number 229 ; and the whole Christian The International of London and Paris, of world which acknowledges Borne os “41ie mother the 3d ultimo, publishes a plan of Count Bis- and mistress of all Churches, is divided into 12 march’s geographical views respecting the future patriarchates, 177 archbishoprics and 505 bish- 0 f Europe. The most striking feature is the oprics in ordinary. At present one patriarchate, solid and square proportions given to the Pros- 0 archbishoprics and 102 bishoprics m orfinary 8iaa empire, the frontiers of which are indi- are returned as vacant,’ and thus reducing tho cated as follows: To the north along the Baltic, effective episcopal strength of tho Roman Cath- f rom the Vistula to the frontiers of Holland, olic militant to 382 prelates in esse. ! including Denmark; to the southeast it avoids Kie theoretic number of the Sacred College Cracow and Vienne, but includes Bohemia, Ba- of Cardinals is seventy, bnt at present there are varia, and Wurtombnrg on the right shore of the eleven “vacant hats,” so that thejictual number Rhine, the left being ceded to France. Switzer- of Cardinals is only fifty-nine. Out of these, six i and and Holland are left, as it wore, in doubt, are “Cardinal Bishops,” forty-five are “Cardinal t ho frontier lino not being in either case priests’ and eight “Cardinal Deacons. carried past the present boundaries of those semor “Cardinal Bishop (Manus Mattel) and countries. Berlin is dedicated as the imperial the senior “Cardinal Priest” (Philip de Angehs) capital, while Hanover, Posen, ; Dresden, Prague, were bom in the same year with the present Stuttgart and Monich ore classified as the seats Pope. The senior “Cardinal Deacon” (James of Viceroyalties. Austria and the principalities Antonelli) was born in 180G. The youngest are entitled the Dannbian empire. The Bus- Cardinal is Prince .Lucicn Bonaparte, who was a j a n limits start from tho north at the month of bom in November, 1828; he holds the title of the Vistula and strike off eastward at the city St. Pudenziana, by which Archbishop Wiseman of Cracow, which city isicludedin the Danubian was elevated to that dignity. It further appears empire. Tho line of the French empire follows that, out of .the Sacred College, there are now the left shoroof the Rhine from the frontiers of living twelve Cardinals created by Pope Gregory Holland to the frontiers of Switzerland. XVI, and that the other five have been either ” 1 created or reservedin petto by the presentPope. ! The Boston Journal says; Among the claims. Eighty-five members of the College have died allowed by an Accidental Death Insurance Com- during the Pontificate of Pio Nono, of whom p any the following: “No. 278,966. This thirty-seven were raised to that dignity by him- . gentleman was blown up by an explosion at a self. ■; . -r • . ^ j paraffien oil works, and receives fifteen dollars The Richmond Dispatch announces, on be- a day until he comes down.” . ,. : half of the Committee of Nine, (the New Move- . The-Negrq’s Rod.—In the United States Sen- ment Committee), that in consequence of the ate, on Friday, Mr. Sawyer asked Mr. Stewart delay whioh lias already occurred, and the prob- what .effect he thought thaf the adoption of the able failure of the present Congress to act constitutional amendment establishing negro definitely on their propositions, the Convention suffrage in all the States would have in Georgia, called for the 17th of March will be postponed i Mr. Stewart, a champion of the amendment' 1 to some future day. yet to be announced. The replied.that it * ‘would place in the hands of the Committee express confidence in the final sue- black meu of Georgia a rod of power before cess of their plan for reconstructing Virginia. which all politicians would quail." GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. From the Atlanta Conttitufion."] Monday, March 1, 1869. Senate.—Journal of Saturday read and ap proved. The rules were suspended, and a resolution offered by Mr. Speer, tendering a seat on the floor of the Senate to Gov. "W. H. Smith, of Alabama. . Adopted. A message from Gov. Bullock, enclosing the action of the City Council of Atlanta, asking the appointment of a joint committee to adjust the matter of furnishing the Capitol with furniture, and recommending that the. request of the City Council be acceded to. The Governor claimed that the necessities of the situation 1 demanded the course pursued by him in expending the thirty-five thousand dollars, and that under the contract the City Council of Atlanta was bound to furnish the Capitol- with appropriate furni ture. The message was taken up. Mr. Nunnally offered a joint resolution, which was -adopted, appointing a .joint committee of four from the Senate and six from the Houis, to consider and adjust the matter of furnishmr the Capitol building, and that one hundred copies of tho message be printed. The Chair appointed the following as the com mittee on the part of the Senate, viz: Messrs. Nunnally, Smith, 3Gth, Fain and McArthur. BILLS ON FIRST READING. Mr. Candler—To amend section 3763 of the Code; for tho relief of defaulting tax-payers for 18G8; to require the Secretary of State to keep a recorded list showing the number and title of all acts deposited in bis office, and to provide a penalty for permitting such acts to be taken from bis office, or to keep said list; to change tho lines between DeKalb and Gwinnett, so as to include the residence of L. B. Wormack in DeKalk. Mr. Smith, of the SCth—To fix the salaries of members and clerks of the General Assembly. [Fixes it at $360 per annum, with actual neces sary expenses to and from residence,* after 1870] Mr. Nunnally—To amend the act incorpora ting the Savannah, Albany and North Alabama Railroad. Also, to provide a more speedy mode for en forcing liens in certain cases. Mr. McArthur—To define the meaning of the term wild and unimproved lands. Mr. McWhorter—To allow Judges of Superior Courts to send to the penitentiary for safo keep ing parties charged with crime, when they deem it necessary, and for other purposes. Mr. Wooten—To amend the charter of Athens and the various acts amendatory thereof. Mr. Griffin (6th)—To authorize the Ordinary of Lowndes county to issue scrip to raise funds to erect a court-house. Mr. Himgerford—To incorporate the Atlanta Savings Bank, (William Markham, Lewis Scho field, E. L. Jones, D. G. Jones, W. D. Cook and their associates,) capital stock $20,000. Mr. Colman—To amend acts incorporating Brunswick. Mr. Winn—To change the time of holding Paulding Superior Court. (To bo held seconcl Monday in March and September. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CLERKS. Mr. Wellborn, chairman of special committee on clerks, reported that the Secretary had acted in accordance with the resolution of the Senate authorizing him to employ additional clerical force, but they would recommend the Secretary to discharge five clerks, if he can, without det riment to public interests. Laid on the table for the present. Mr. Merrell offered a joint resolution for the appointment of a Joint Committee, to report at the next meeting of the General Assembly, on equalization of labor of Judges of Superior Courts, and the necessity for the creation of new Judicial Circuits; but tho rules not being sus pended he withdrew it. A message was received from ‘ Gov. Bullqck which, the Governor’s private secretary stated, required to be considered in Executive session. The unfinished business being the considera tion of the bill retroceding five acres of land in Atlanta to tho heirs of Mitchell, was resumed. The President left his seat, calling Mr. Well born to the Chair. Mr. Wooten made an eloquent and elaborate effort in behalf of the bill, basing his argument on the idea that tho State had abandoned the land in question, but threw no new light on the subject, though making the best speech on the vexed question. The President resumed his seat. Mr. Hinton opposed the passage of the bill in a logical speech, having the floor at the hoar of adjournment Senate adjourned until 3 o’clock p. k. House.—Sir. Bethtme moved to reconsider the bill lost on Saturday to amend section 3598 of Irwin’s Codo, so as to have only three Sher iff’s sale days in the year. Mr. O’Neal and Mr. Price spoke in favor of reconsideration., Mr. Warren moved to lay on the table. Yeas "and nays were called on motion, and were yeas 52, nays 53. Yeas and nays called on motion to reconsider, and were yeas 49, nays 60, and motion to recon sider lost. i t ... Mr. Watkins moved to reconsider the bill ap propriating money to the Rev. H. C. Homady, passed on Saturday, and motion to reconsider prevailed: On motion of Mr. Gullatt, the message from the Governor was taken np. He represents the communication from tho Mayor and Council, and asks that a committee be appointed. He thinks that the city of Atlanta should pay the money spent for furniture, etc. Mr. O’Neal moved to appoint a committee as requested by the Governor. Message and resolution was, on motion, laid tin the table for the present. SPECIAL ORDER. The veto of Mr. Price’s resolution by the Governor, referring the eligibility of the-negro to the Supreme Court, by special order, was taken up and read. Mr. Duncan moved to indefinitely postpone it. Yeas ana nays required and were, yeas 46, nays 51., ‘ Mr. Flournoy moved to lay it on the table. Mr. McCullough moved to make it the special order of first Mondny in ApriL ,"; Yeas and nays required and were, yeas 32 nays No quorum voting on motion, the roll was called to ascertain if there was a quorum pres ent, and there was found to be 103 members present. Vote was then taken on Mr. Flournoy’s mo tion to lay it on the table, and yeas and nays re quired, and were, yeas 59, nays 39, and the whole matter was laid on the table. House adjourned. ■ . 5-V. z*;. ..* ■■■■ Zfie Cfyt v Tuesday, March 2d, 18G9. Senate.—Two or three local bills were acted upon, when the Senate resumed the unfinished business, being the Mitchell case. Sir. Hinton spoke at length in favor of sub mitting the matter to the courts. Mr. Winn moved the previous question, which was not sustained. Mr. Holcombe moved to lay the whole sub ject matter upon the table. The yeas and nays being taken were, yeas 19; nays 16. - The Senate then took np Senate'bills fora third reading, the first being: A bill to prevent the sale of lottery tickets, -i Upon the passsage of the bill the yeas were 19 ; nays 18. Several other unimportant bills were taken up and acted npocu . > Senate adjourned to meet at 3 o’clock. House.—Mr. Sparks moved a reconsideration of so much of the Journal of yesterday, as re lates to the loss of the bill appropriating money to Dr. A. L. C. Magmder, of Macon. Motion prevailed. Mr, Hall," of Glynn, moved to reconsider the action of the House on yesterday, upon the bill allowing the town of Brunswick to donate cer tain lands to the Albany and Brunswick Railroad Company. Motion prevailed. Mr. Erwin moved to reconsider so much of the journal of yesterday as relates to the passage of the bill allowing Dr. Osborn, of FrankSn county, to practice medicine. Motion prevailed. On, motion of Mr. O’Neal the rules were sus pended to take up the Senate resolution appoint ing a joint committee to decide who is 'tne re sponsible party for the $31,000 drawn by the Governor in favor of the Messrs. Kimball. Mr. Shumate amended as follows: “But said Committee shall not be regarded as arbitrators, and its finding shall not be an award; but its duty shall simply be to report facts, and recommend any action they may think proper.” Mr. Scott hoped that this House would not concur in the Senate resolutions, appointing a joint committee of arbitration from the Senate and House and tho City Council of Atlanta, to settle a dispute between Governor Bullock, the City Council of Atlanta, and the Messrs. Kim ball. We are not a judicial tribunal to settle the construction of contracts between other par ties. We are not here to decide upon points of law, but to make laws—leaving their construc tion to the courts. The City of Atlanta has, un der its contract with the State of Georgia, fur nished a magnificent building, with ample con veniences for the use of this General Assembly. No complaint_has been made on our part that this building is not suitable, ample, and conven- nient. Governor Bollock, without the authority of law, furnished one on the contracting parties $31,000, to be used in heating and lighting the honse. The Governor, in his message read yes terday, states unequivocally that under the con tract between the State and city of Atlanta, that Georgia-is not bound for a dollar invested in this building and its fixtures. And he does not ask an appropriation to cover the amount that he has paid out. The city of Atlanta has not intimated to this body that she has done more than was required by her contract, and has not. asked to be relieved of any part of the burthen. Whence, then, the necessity of this committee, if Georgia is not a party to this dispute. A committee has already been, appointed by this Honse to devise ways and means by which the $35,000 drawn on the credit ot the State by the Governor, may be secured to the State. Let, therefore, this message be referred to that committee, and not thrust Georgia into- a con troversy to which she is not a party. He re peated that the only legitimate way in which this subject can be brought before this House is by a bill or by messege asking an appropriation. No such request has been made, and if made would not be complied with. Mr. O’Neal said that ho had never evinced or felt any disposition to take any part in the con troversy between the Governor and Treasurer, nor did he think the controversy of itself a le gitimate subject of action by this Honse. But he did think the State of Georgia was a party to the action of the Governor in paying out $31,000 from the Treasury of the State. The city of Atlanta seems to think that it was not bound by any contract to furnish the “ heat ing, lighting and furniture of this Capitol” and the city authorities may be honest in this opin ion, bnt I think diflerently. I think the “ heat ing, lighting and furniture ” of the Capitol are part and parcel thereof, being fixtures, and are embraced in tho contract. The Governor thinks likewise. He advanced the money to the Messrs. Kimball as a matter of necessity, under the emergency, but did not intend thereby to com mit the State to the final payment of the amount. The city and the Messrs. Kimballs represented to tho Governor that the thirty-one thousand dollars was essential to the completion of the Capitol in time for the beginning of this session, and the Governor felt it to be his duty to advance the money, that the Capitol might be in readiness for this General Assembly. He merely did this under the emergency; and now the City Coun cil, as well as the Governor, ask for the appoint ment of a joint committee from both Houses to confer with the City Council, that this matter may be finally disposed of. The Legislature alone can determine this matter, and it is onr imperative duty to do so at once. I have no doubt of the willingness and ability of this city to comply with our decision; and I say, let us determine it without delay. We have had ‘ ‘fuss and feathers” enough on this matter. It is al ready stale in the newspapers, and I hope the various Democratic editors of tbia State have satiated their, desire to abuse the Governor by visiting upon him, without just cause all sorts of epithets and phrases of viturperation. Let us do onr duty by settling this matter and giving quiet to the public mind. A few here may desire to keep this matter open and unset tled, to furnish a pretext for continual abuse, etc., but I am not one of these. Mr. Shumate’s amendment was agreed to, and the resolution adopted. House agreed to the Senate’s amendment of. the bill incorporating the Commercial Banking' Company Of Griffin. House agreed to the Senate’s amendment of the bill incorporating the Savannah Banking and Trust-Company of Savannah. BILL ON THIRD READING. A bill to incorporate tho Independent Tele graphic Company. Passed. The House took np the report of the Com mittee oh the bill to organize a system of pnblic instruction in Georgia, whioh, on motion, was postponed, nnd made the special order for next Thursday. The House took np the report of the Com mittee on the bill to aid the Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company, for which the Com mittee had reported a substitute. The report of the committee was agreed to, the bill read the third time and passed. Mr. Maxwell—A resolution inviting the Hon. J. I. Hall to a seat on the floor of the Honse dur ing his stay in the city. Adopted Mr. Scott; pf Floyd—A resolution appointing a joint committee of three to inquire whether Treasurer Angier has made improper use of State money. Adopted, and Messrs. Anderson, Bethune and Sparks appointed on the Com mittee. li ■ i 1 • ■ •■«••• i.ii 1 vie ia BILLS THIRD* TIME. . A bill authorizing the Governor to draw his warrant on the treasury in favor of John Jones, late Treasurer. Passed. A bill to incorporate the Vann’s Valley Man ufacturing Company. Passed. A bill to protect planters against imposition in the sale Of fertilizers. Passed. A bill to make penal the removal or destruc tion of joint fences. Lost. The House took up the bill repealing an act providing for the collection of a tax to pay Clerks and Sheriffs in • insolvent criminal cases, so far as the act relates to the counties of Mus cogee, Macon and Richmond, and concurred in the Senate amendment thereto. (The Senate struck out the counties of Macon and Rich mond.) A bill to amend the charter of the city of Griffin. Passed. A bill to incorporate the Darien Banking Com- pany. Mr. McCombs amended so as to include the Milledgeville and Planters Banking Company of Milledgeville. Amendment agreed to and 'bill passed. Yeas 110, nays 2. A bill to incorporate the Georgia Importing Guano Company. Passed. Abill authorizing agents and Attorneys at Law of. defendants to make oath to pleas in certain cases. - Passed. . A bill to amend Section 3329 of Irwin’s Code, the same being iu relation to suits against Rail road Companies. Passed. *- Mr. Gray—A resolution that no money be drawn from the Treasury to defray the expenses of- traveling committees, until the same shall have been audited, by the Finance Committee, Adopted A bill to allow W. J. Avery to peddle without license. Lost. , A bill, making it a misdemeanor to ent down chestnut trees on the land of another. Passed. A bill to amend section 4010 of Irwin’s Code. Passed. ... (This bill relates to the issuing of distress warrants.) A bill to amend the charter of the city of At lanta. Passed. Abill to dissolve garnishments in certain cases. Passed. A bill to refund money expended by Baldwin county in building a bridge. Indefinitely post poned. House adjourned. Florida. From the Florida correspondence of the Hart ford Times we take the following extracts: ORANGES. Everybody who buys a piece W land makes haste to set it out- id orange trees. These are commonly called the wild “orange stumps,” so- called, which are budded with the sweet orange. In four years from transplanting they will be gin to bear a few sweet oranges; the next year the yield will be larger, and after the tree 1 at tains tho age of twenty to thirty years it will, .if properly cared for, yield 5000 oranges. There have been instances in St. Augustine, and on the Indian River, where one tree yielded 6000 or anges in a season. But ninety, groves every hundred, so far as my observation, goes, are shockingly neglected. Tho trees are covered with a lichen growth all oyer the trunk, are sad ly neglected in the trimming and are left/, tobe- comea prey to theparastic “hanging moss,” everywhere prevalent ih tide South.. Moreover they are not cultivated and enriched — (he ground is left uncared for. Under the prevalent system, or rather lack “bf system, the yield per tree is 500 to 2500 oranges, according to age. The fruit sells readily on the spot at about three cents each. SPRINGS, ' ' « The "system of natural springs-in. Florida is one of tho wonders of the State. All Florida seems to be undermined by great springs of fresh water—soma mineral, some not. “Blue Spring,” some miles-abovePalatka,"is a wonder of itself. If is a bright, green-colored fountain, of great size and depth, which forms a river of of itself, that on emptying into the St Johns turns the water green at its entrance. At Green Gove Springs the mineral qualities of the green water fountain render it a valuable resort'for bathing, by visitors and invalids. It is said to be a thermal spring, of a steady temperature of 78 deg.; but it . did not seem to me to be so warm. Right iu the middle of the St. Johns River itself, np near Lake Harney, there (mils np a tremendous spring, which makes a con spicuous state of turbulence, on the bosom of the river—enough to shake the steamer; and in ordinary stages of tho river this spring lifts its waters visibly above the surface of tthe river. Tho captain said lie-had sounded it to a depth of three hundred feet, and found no bottom! If he told the truth—there must be the spot where the truth “Res”—at tho “bottom of awell!” and a deep well, too. The Oklawaha river is a narrow, tortuou3, but very deep stream, emptying into the-St. Johns river just below Lake George, and it is navigated by steamers some two hundred miles to the Northwest and West, through a region finer in many respects than that of East Florida proper. On the Oklawaha is -Silver Spring, a great basin of surprisingly clear and deep water —a fountain head for a river, of stself. I can beReve almost any story, after seeing the springs I have seen in Florida.' They: are veritable rivers—bursting, like Minerva from the head of Jove, full-powered and perfect into Rfe, from the instant of their birth. If the many mineral springs of Florida do not make this State a sort of general winter Saratoga for invaRds and pleasure seekers, the signs of the times are deceptive. It is a pity the State. can never be drained- It might be made one of the finest agricultural lands of the world, if it were not one level swamp. I find the fall of the stately St. John for. a dis tance of three hundred miles, is only eighteen inches! A Kod of Power before which all Poli ticians Quail. We make tho following extracts from the debate in the United States Senate, pending the adoption of the 15th amendment: • f ” Mr. Sawyer, (Rad., S. O.) said that probably rather than lose tho amendment altogether, he would agree to the report of the committee; but, before doing so, Re wished to make the Senate understand clearly (he position in which the adoption of that report would place the Be- pnbHcans in the Reconstructed Stales. For two years they had lain under a reproach; that the RepubRcan party put the negro upon one plat form in the North, and another in the South. They had met the charge by sajing that it was only a few weak-kneed Republicans who were afraid to stand np for equalrights in the North, as weR as in the South, and that whenever the question should be fairly submitted to the great national Republican party, it would be decided by putting the negro on an equaUty with the whito man all over the country. ■■ .... Mr. Stewart said that it was very easy to say that whatever risks must be taken ought to be taken for the right, but the difficulty was that no two Senators seemed to agree exactly as to what was right. Mr. Frelinghuysen, (Rad., N. J.)—And there will be no chance for the amendment ih the next Congress, because there will not be tvHVthirds in favor of it ih the other House. ! RIjv..- . Mr. Stewart—Yes. It will have no chance at the next session, because wo will not have two- thirds in the House. The Legislatures are now in session, waiting ready to act upon- the amend ment if we act upon. Now it'ean he; ratified, but if we disagree and ask for another confer ence all is lost. This amendment "might hot be the best, but it was the only one that conld now be had, and its adoption was absolutely neces sary to meet the state'of affairs in Georgia, and elsewhere in the South. Mr. Sawyer—I ask the. Senator from Nevada what effect he thinks the adoption of this will have on Georgia ? g Mr. Stewart—Itwitt place in the hand of the black man of Georgia a rod of power, before which all politicians. quail, and -so will protect him until some further action can be had here to stay the hand of .the oppressive rebels there. Mr. Davis (Dem., Ky.,) to comfort-the Sena tors from Nevada and New Jersey, remarked that the case of the RepubRcan party next ses sion would not be quite so desperate os they seemed to fear, because; by wesorting to their usual party tactics, they could easily expel Dem ocrats enough to give the. RepubRcans' a two- third vote. (Laughter.). As to the proposed amendment, he was, of course, opposed to it, because he did not believe .-the negro was fit either to vote'or hold office, bnt if he could be Reve him fit to vote, he 'certainly would not think of denying the right to hold office. He beReved, however, that it was mere demagogue- ism to assert that neither of these was a natural right, Common to all men in this country. To day the real problem was not whether negroes, Chinamen and Hottentots were entitled to vote- and able to do so -wisely, but whether the white man himself was capable of self-government. Blowing np a Mountain. Science is. daily growing more audacious. The engineeringfeatof springing mines in the army, which was generally followed with but limited success, pales before the attempts tp overturn mountains in some of the mineral regions of the "West. This introduction of miniature earth quakes into hills and mountains, by- means of , tunnels and powder, is an accompRshment which belongs to the latest science. r The SmartviUe (Cal.) blast, so long in prepa ration, has been fired, and the results singularly coincide with the calculations. A tunnel was bored 570 feet in length, in which were placed 1,200 kegs of powder. An electric wire threaded the mazes of the tunnel and tapped each keg. At a distance of 600 feet the battery stood, con nected and charged. After- public notice, in pursuance of which the inhabitenta of the sur rounding valleys left their hemes, and at a stated hour, a romantic young lady applied : the light ning. The mountain rose some fifteen feet, burst into atoms, and settled back a pulverized mass. Water will do the rest, it can be washed now from summit to base. Thus man tears ' - down what nature has built and through science gives us gold. A gentleman in Texas was so provident as to save twenty-five thousand dollars in gold and bury it. and so inconsiderate as to die without telling where it was hid. 'jjaaiu maim •M, TP ? ..'-TSr* j The. Czar has given Patti that fur cloak. cost $10,000, - vfc»-C It v •J*! * - l . •-< * ;> I . .- yV V ;. . •<

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Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, March 05, 1869, Image 1