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The Greorgia, Weekly Telegraph.
T?TTR TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, MARCH 2C, 1869.
A Splendid Agricultural Essay.
We insoit upon our first page in to-day’s edi
tion of the Daily Telegraph, about one half of
the most instructive agricultural essay we have
ever met with. , The remainder vrill appear to
morrow, and the document be reprinted entire
in our Semi-weekly Edition of Saturday and our
Weekly edition of Friday. Persons desiring ex
tra copies should make early OTder. This essay
was read before the Pioneer Agricultural Society
of Baker county, last summer, and has been ly
ing in our possession some weeks awaiting a
chance for publication, when our docket should
be clear of legislative proceedings and other po
litical matter. It is the best production of the
kind we have ever had the pleasure of present
ing to our agricultural readers, and merits the
most careful perusal and study. The author. Dr.
Stevens, is a thorough agricultural chemist, and
in thia address shows us the philosophy of good
cropping.
Can’t Vote lor the Negro.
It appears there is a general balk among the
white Radicals of Virginia at the nomination of
Harris, a negro, for Lieut. Governor of Vir
ginia. Even the principal newspaper organ of
the Radicals in Virginia, the Lynchburg Press,
refuses to abide by that nomination, and tells
the negro Radicals, “ the white people of the
North or South will not vote for colored people
to fill high offices unless no competent whites
can be found to fill them.” And further: “We
accord to you equal legal rights, such as we
have now or expect to enjoy. Can you ask
more than this ? Surely not, if you are reason
able.”
And thin is the lame conclusion of the battle
for equality of races before the law ? The ne
gro can vote for white Radicals, but if reason-
ms ciwn color'iftolje'iinrcasonable and factious.
If that be the Radical interpretation of equali
ty before the laws, let the negro ask himself
why he shonld prefer to vote for strangers and
adventurers rather than the sons of the soil,
who, like himself, claim the South as home.
Come and Gone. .
Dr. Bard, of the Atlanta New Era, announces
his return from, and Governor Bullock’s depar
ture to, Washington. Weary Pilgrims coming
and going, can’t you fix up matters ? And, by
the way, here is an account from Dr. Bard of
the luck which befell another lot of Pilgrims to
the Federal city. These were the virtuous
Blodgett and his mottly band. They had passed
the lions safely nnd staggered up the hill of dif
ficulty to the Interpreter's House; where, in
stead of meeting the three graces to entertain
them with sweet counsel, they got a very scant
measure of courtesy. The Era says:
We learned from reliable authority, while in
Washington, that whenBlodgett and his commit
tee called upon President Grant, Blodgett, who
was spokesman, was about to rend his speech,
when he was interrupted by the President, who
said to him substantially, “ If you have a speech
to make, I inform you now, that you need ex
pect none in reply. If you have a short speech
to make, I may have time to hear you; but if it
is a long one, I will not have time to hear it.”
We learn that this rather disconcerted Mr.
Blodgett, bnt in an embarrassed manner he read
his piece through. After he had concluded, the
President asked him what he wanted. The an
swer was, “We want protection for the loyal
people of Georgia.” The President is said to
have responded, “ You shall have all the protec
tion the law gives yon. I expect to execute the
law.”’ After which Blodgett and his party re
tired with minds very poorly made up as to
whether or not they had moved a peg toward un
reconstructing the State.
Dr. Bard himself, it seems, had also a heavy
time of it on his pilgrimage. He says:
During our brief stay in Washington we
learned a very important fact, to-wit: General
U. S. Grant is President of the United States.
Now, at what cost to himself Dr. Bard gained
a comprehension of this fact, we are wholly
unable to say. He don’t tell us.
Gen. Grant and the Tenure Law.
Gen. Grant, says the Richmond Dispatch,
is understood to have had a plain talk a day or
two since with Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, the
leader of the civil-tenure suspenders in the Sen
ate. He told Mr. Edmunds that the civil tenure
law ought to be repealed; and if it was not, he
would not make a single appointment except to
fill actual vacancies. Yet Edmunds returned to
the Senate, and helped on the dead-lock be
tween the friends of Gen. Grant and those who
are afraid to trust him! The letter-writers
from Washington report other conversations of
Gen. Grant on the subject, agreeing entirely
with what he is said to have remarked to Ed
munds.
The dispatches published yesterday show that
the Senate is giving way under Executive pres
sure .and the dictates of self-interest. The
question now is changed to one of suspension
during the administration of Gem Grant, or ab
solute and unconditional repeal
Magazines, etc.
LmrscoTT, for April, came yesterday. It has
a continuation of Beyond the Breakers. Another
instalment of Hans Breitmanm College Edu
cation. The Neglected Grave. Our Globe in
1869. Traditional Fish Stories. First Fruits.
Over Yonder. Women. Sam’s Sermon. A
plea for the Shad, and so on. The April num
bers of all the magazines are duller than usual.
New York Ledger.—The publisher sends ns
and advance copy of the Ledger for April 3d,
which is meant for a bold effort.
We have Volumne 1 and No. 1 of the Phono
graphic Advocate, devoted to “common sense
and short hand.” James E. Munson, 117 Nas
sau street, New York. $100 a year..
Go Ahead, Game-Cocks.
The Griffin . Star announces potentially and
portentously that there is now in process of or
ganization, a new party in Georgia, which will
be a Young Men's Party. It will ignore de
funct principles—dead issues of the past—use
less regrets and so on, and will look forward.
The Star says:
We are informed that a Young Men’s Conven
tion will soon be held at some central point in
the State, and we hope Young America will be
fully and ably represented.
That is right. Let the young men go it while
they are young, because we know that when
they become old, they can’t.
Esnaxa off Hasps.—A case is now pending
in the Houston Superior Court, ou the matter of
enticing a hand from his employer after a con
tract has been made. Suits for damages have
been brought in several cases in the State. Sym
pathy is universally for the plaintiffs, and the
wish generally expressed that the defendant will
be made to smoke for his conduct. The case
in Houston is attracting considerable attention
among the planters of the country, as it will be
taken as a precedent.
Asothbr Payment from the State Road.—
6u 'erintondent Bulbert notifies the Governor
on the 22d instant, that he has ordered $25,000
to be paid the Treasurer of the State out of the
earnings of the Western <£ Atlantic Road for
the month of February.
The capacity of the Bath Paper Mills, in
South Carolina, will be increased during the
summer by the addition of some twenty thous
and dollars worth of new machinery.
The “Tribune says: “The nation has been
wveanlsting and'cxperfmentipg long enough, and
Sis time for it to Bottle down.” Its creditors
rtwtfe tklak it it ttaie for it to settle upt
Buying an Indian War,
The New York Times is distressed about the
news from Alaska. “Bad feeling" is reported
among the Indians already, and the chances of
a war are clear and strong. The American na
val officers regret that the Indians have stupid
ly built their villages so far from water that they
can’t be shelled by the gunboats.
The Times asks why is it that Russia got
throngh so many years without any trouble with
these Alaska savages?—Why is it that Great
Britain has no trouble with her Northwestern
Indians? and yet just so soon as the United
States comes to deal with the same people '“bad
feeling” and “shelling,” and burning and butoh*
ery begin. Why is it, sure enough ?
“ Are we a Christian people ?” asks the
Times. Well, the answer must be, we are a
tery Christian people, according to the latest
and most approved methods known among ns.
In the way of fussing and interfering with and
cheating, domineering over and imposing upon
anybody weaker than themselves, there never
was so Christian a people as those who now con
trol the Government of the United States, ac
cording to their interpetration of what constitutes
a Christian people. It is the most difficult thing
in the world to keep on terms with them; and
it seems the patience of the simple savages of
Alaska gave out altogether in a very short time.
Poor Indians! extermination is now their por
tion, because they can’t appreciate the ways of
a Christian people. The U. S. Government has
bought a huge Indian war and an immense
amount of butcher's work with its “Alaska
purchase.”
The Sugar Question.
Sugar has gone up in consequence of the civil
disturbances in Cuba and the practical abolition
of slavery in that Island; and the newspapers
have been agitating the question of the sources
of supply. Two or three months ago we had
occasion to acknowledge the receipt of a samnl“
nfmw . oorgnum, by a company in
Louisville, Ky., which was equal in quality to
the best New Orleans raw sugar. It was stated
that a product of 900 to 1200 pounds of sugar
to the acre of sorghum cane was the ordinary
yield in Kentucky; and if this be true, it is quite
evident the sugar problem is solved at once.
Sorghum can be raised without difficulty in
any part of the United States south of Central
Illinois, but attains a more perfect development
in the Cotton States. Maturing earlier than
sugar cane, the grinding season is sufficiently
long in most of these States to admit of work
ing up the crop as leisurely as the cane of Louis
iana, and the product is sufficiently remunera
tive to justify the most perfect apparatus for
that purpose.
All the obstacles to as perfect a chrystalization
of the syrup of sorghum as that of the syrup of
sugarcane, are removed by the simple expedient
of defecating the juice before it is boiled. The
sugar then granulates beautifully, and both sugar
and syrup are as free from the peculiar flavor of
the sorghum as could be desired.
In short, here, at the moment when tropical
sugar crops seem destined to fail almost en
tirely, is a perfect substitute which ought not
only to fill the vacuum and present any se
rious deficiency in the sugar supply and a corre
sponding rise in price, but it ought largely to
increase the supply and diminish the price of
this staple article of food. Our attention has
been recalled to this subject by an article in the
Richmond Dispatch, from which we quote the
following:
There is now a company in Louisville, Ky.,
engaged in the manufacture of sugar and syrup
from sorghum. The Democrat of that city
states that the articles manufactured by the
company are excellent. The syrup brings readi
ly eighty cents per gallon in the market. The
sugar, “in every respect—in color, brightness
and sweetness—is equal to the best refined ‘A ’
sugar ever made,” says that paper. It adds that
it can be made for seven cents per pound—
about one-third of the cost of imported sugar.
In speaking of the yield of sorghum per acre
the Democrat estimates that an acre will pro
duce 900 pounds of sugar, or 150 gallons of syr
up, which, it contends, will pay better than com
or other grain.
The Knsnrancc Business—Liverpool,
London nnd Globe Insurance Com
pany.
We have a circular report of the Liverpool,
London and Globe Insurance Company, made
to their thirty-fifth annual meeting of proprie
tors, in Liverpool, on the 26th February last.
This company has both a Life and Fire Depart
ment, but restricts its business in America to
the latter only. It reported for premiums re
ceived in 1868 S 7,361,700
Losses paid same year 4,762,000
Total assets 23,000,000
reducing their figures to U. S, currency. Their
credits on profit and loss account amounted to
£211,237 17s lid, and they proposed to take of
this sum £117,525 12s 5d for distribution among
the proprietors, which would yield a dividend
of 30 per cent, free of income tax. Verily, in
surance is a good business, well conducted. A
dividend of 30 per cent, in England is remark
able.
The Company’s receipts on fire risks in Amer
ica during the six months ending December
31st, 1868, were $145,220,65. A table prepared
by the New York Board of Underwriters enables
ns to compare these receipts with those of other
important companies in the United States. The
Continental, the next in order, received for the
same time $82,489,06; the Commonwealth,
$58,517,70; Home, $58,476,14; .Etna, $54,-
814,32 ; Merchants, $48,076,14; Mechanics
and Traders’ $49,294,62, and so on throngh a list
of over a hundred companies in good standing.
The Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance
Company is represented in Macon by L C. Plant,
Esq. lie Policies of this Company are issued
by well-known American citizens resident in
New York, who are Directors and Shareholders,
and consequently, with other Shareholders, are
individually liable for all the engagements of
the Company. All Policies are signed by them.
All claims ore payable in cash on proof of loss,
without deduction for interest, and not, as is
usual, sixty days after presentation of proof.
They expire at six o'clock P. M., and not at
noon. No charge for Policies.
The San Domingo Scheme.
Washington dispatches state that it is regard
ed as certain that the House Committee on For
eign Affairs will report favorably upon Mr.
Banks’ resolution providing for the annexation
of San Domingo. It will be remembered that
Baez, the President of the republic, a few months
ago proposed to Mr. Seward that the island—or
his half of it, at least—shonld be ceded to the
United States, and acquire the privileges and
rights of a sovereign State upon certain condi
tions, the principal one of which was, that we
should pay the San-Domingo national debt. The
island is not worth : shucks. It would be a hard
bargain for u3 tc take it free, gratis, to say
nothing of its “national debt,” whatever that
is. It can’t be much, however, for nobody
would be fool enongh to credit that worthless
band of free niggers for a large amount, and
any creditor would no doubt give a receipt in
full for five cents in the dollar. We have more
land now than we can properly cultivate or gov
ern.
State Aid in South Carolina.—A dispatch to
the Charleston Courier from Columbus, says:
A severe contest in the Legislature, involving
several millions dollars of State Bonds, assis-
tance to railroad enterprises, between interested
parties for the railroads on the one side, and
the Governor and a number of the members of
the Legislature, opposed to granting State au.
has resulted in a gr^nd defeat of all the railroad
schemes, anfllfre General ASembly adjourn
sine die on tBu 24th.
The Foreign Aspect of Cotton.
The Manchester Examine!, quoted by the
Charleston Courier, publishes several extracts
from eminent cotton firms in Liverpool and
Manchester upon the state of the European cot
ton market.
Messrs. Ellison & Haywood state:
“In our last report we remarked that the pros
pects of supply were not at all satisfactory, but
we entertained the hope that they would im
prove as time advanced, our impression being
that the receipts at the American ports would
shortly show some increase upon the arrivals of
last year, but we regret to state that this expec
tation has not only not been realized, but the
very reverse has transpired; inasmuch as the
receipts have been considerably less than those
of the corresponding period of 18C8, the arri
vals at the American ports during the past four
weeks being only 200,000 bales, against 375,000
bales in February of last year. * * *
The supply of cotton will fall very short of the
quantity requisite to enable onr mills to work
fulltime. * * * So far as regards the
matter of cotton supply, the prospects are worse
even than they were a month ago, inasmuch as
the receipts at the American ports have proved
to be much smaller than was anticipated, while
the accounts from India and other producing
countries remain without favorable change, the
balance of probabilities indicate that the imports
into Great Britain from America will be less this
season than the last.
“The position of the staple is therefore one
of greatstrength.”
So, too, Messrs. Smith, Edwards & Co., state?
“Public attention is strongly directed to the
small receipts and shipments advised from
America. * * The development of the Amer
ican crop is more unfavorable than any one
could have expected. We have been told each
week that receipts were sure to increase before
long, that bad roads or some other temporary
cause, accounted for their smallness, but, in
stead of increase, we find a further tendency to
decrease, and the average for February Is only
56,000 bales per week, against 93,000 last year.
It seems now almost beyond doubt, that this
crop has been over-estimated like the last one,
and it seems highly probable that the export to
Great Britain will fall short of the total fr*■»
loo*- Vj- ioo,<nto Dales or more.
Nor is there much comfort from the condition
of affairs in India.
The circular ou this subject remarks: “With
regard to India, we are sorry to say that the
prospects of supply have become worse. The
general opinion now entertained in Bombay, is
that the export for this year will fall largely be
low the last year. This is owing to two causes,
viz: the scanty snpply of old cotton left in the
country on the 1st of January, and the disap
pointing out-turn of the new crops. * * It
seems, therefore, taking a general view of the
question, that there is but little prospect of the
country receiving as much cotton as last year,
and there may be a very serious deficit.”
Messrs. Geo. Frazer, Son & Co., of Manches
ter, console themselves with the opinion that
high prices have given production so powerful
an impetus that the cotton supply will be largely
increased in the future. They say:
“Another important element will ere long
come into play, bearing upon the price of cottoa
later in the year, and that is the increased extent
of planting to be looked for this spring in Amer
ica. Cereals have been cheap and abundant
there, but cotton very high in price, compared
with last year. The great bulk of the extra price
paid upon cotton has gone into the planters'
pocket, and the inducement is great, indeed, to
extend its cultivation. * * The only consoling
feature is that prices will give a great stimulus
to its production.”
Thus, it will be seen, they count on lower
prices from increased production, and very pos
sibly they are right. There is a strong conflict
of opinion on this point, and speculation is pow
erless to settle it Some of our most intelligent
planters and cotton dealers assert, with entire
confidence, that the cotton crop must fall off
from year to year, owing to the rapid diminution
in the supply of negro labor. That neither the
increase of white labor nor the application of
fertilizers and unproved culture will make up for
the constant and rapid loss of field hands, and
that loss the heaviest in the best of the cotton
growing section of the South.
We will not contest the question further than
to express the conviction that they are in error.
The cotton crop of the South will grow, instead
of diminishing; and in no great length of time
far surpass its old proportions and attain a
magnitude which, if set down in figures now,
would be regarded as fabulous and ridiculous.
We are not half so sure how this is to be accom
plished, as that it will be, and that the annual
crops of the South are destined, in the next gen
eration, to laugh at the puny achievements of
almost any other section or country. This, we
hope and believe, will be the recompense of our
children for the injustice, wrong and cruelty
which have been practiced upon their sires.
But to drop the distant future—let us have a
word with the present What is the present as
pect of the case here ? Nearly every fanner in
Georgia and the South is this moment busy
planning and working to produce every lock of
cotton he possibly can,almost regardless of food
crops—in the hope that nobody else will be as
foolish as himself.
He knows, for illustsation, that a crop of three
million bales would probably bring the South
very little more money than a crop of twenty-
five hundred thousand. Therefore, in the gen
eral division of the proceeds upon that basis, if
he pushes his crop up to one hundred bales he
is likely to get no more money for it than if it
represented eighty bales in a .crop of two and a
half million. Hia good sense 'fillls him that his
eighty bales in that condition, with a fair food
crop, are far better than the hundred in the oth
er condition. The difference in his favor would
represent the value of the food crop.
But his hope is that the vast body of South-,
em farmers (everybody except himself) will see
and act npon so plain a suggestion of common
sense; and then the general result being a mod
erate cotton crop and a fair crop of provisions,
he, himself, will take the exceptional benefit of
a larger proportion of a moderate cotton crop.
He will have more bales to sell at prices estab
lished by a light general crop.
That is the whole story, and each planter can
see for himself how it is going to work out
The result, reasoning npon probabilities, must
be a large crop in which every-planter's larger
share will be worth no more than a smaller
share in a smaller crop, while all will lose the
value of a provision crop ample for all emer
gencies.
But it is impossible to control and regulate in
dividual operations, by a common personal inter
est, however clear and vital. The cotton crop
must swell, and it is, perhaps, harmonious with
the substantial interests of the South and the
world that it shonld swell. The planter can do
no better than to follow out his honest convic
tions of personal policy, and if he mistakes, so
do other people.
Meanwhile, we cannot be in error on one great
fact—that the South is rapidly regaining her old
position in the cotton trade, and the energetic
prosecution of that vast trade is destined to
make her rich and prosperous again. That is
the main point, and it is made increasingly dear
ever since the condusion of the war.
Sixth Congressional District Conven
tion.
Correspondence of the .Vac vi Daily Telegraph^
Athens, Ga., March 22, 1SG9.
BY TELEGRAPH.
A Row in Ch ambersb urg.
A dispatch to the Western papers dated Cham-
bersbnrg, Pa., March 21st, says:
On Thursday afternoon last, a little girl, thir
teen years old, and two young ladies, daughters
of neighboring families, were ravjfdied by a ne
gro. On Friday £ negro nineteen years old,
named Norris, a dative of Chambersburg, was
arrested, and is now ill jail charged with perpe
trating these outrages. There is but little doubt
of hib being the guilty party. The excitement
in the community is intense. Last Friday night
an effort was made to take Norris from the jail
and hang him, no less than eight hundred peo
ple gathering about the building. Speeches were
made by a number of prominent citizens, and the
mob was induced to disperse. The prisoner has
since been guarded by a strong force, summoned
by the Sheriff, The young ladies ontraged are
jfcughters of< 4**-ee of toost Respectable
From Washington.
Washington, March 23.—The President has nom-
Tho Convention called by the Executive Com- j mated J. C. Bancroft Davis; of New York, Assis-
mittee met in Gainesville on. the 18th instant. | tant Secretary of State, also, two Revenue Aasess-
Hon. Robt. 'White, of Jackson, was called to the ; ors for the North,
chair, and J. P. Edwards. Esq., of Walton, re- ; Full cabinet to-day.
quested to act as Secretary. j Gov ' Attorney General Farrow and seve-
A caucus representing a majority of the conn- ■ ra! Republican members of the Georgia Legislature,
ties ol the district, met informally the ni ht be Tiie g enate in exe cutive session only confirmed a
fore, and addressed a note to Col. Wier Boyd,i Pemigylvania
requesting him, in consideration of his mfeligi- -y Tarfial law has cease q in Arkansas.
bility, to withdraw. A communication was Tead Butler will report the Mississippi bill to-morrow in
from Col. Boyd declining to withdraw, when the House.
CoL "Wm. E. Simmons, Chairman of the Dis- j To-day, Brooks, in urging Butler to report a gen-
trict Executive Committee, addressed the Con-! eral amnesty bill, announced that he would vote for
vention, explaining the action of the Commit- no more removals of a partisan character.
tee, and concluded by proposing the name of
Maj. F. W. Adams, of Clark county, as an eligi
ble and 'acceptable candidate to represent the
Sixth Congressional District in Congress.
Colonel Thomas Morris, of Franklin, seconded
the nomination of Major Adams, in a brief re
view of his fitness and character, and was fol
lowed by General Wm. M. Brown, when it was
moved that the vote be taken by acclamation,
and Major Adams was unanimously nominated
as the candidate of the Democratic party of the
“ Old Sixth.”
A committee was appointed to confer with
Colonel Boyd and request him to withdraw, and
one also to prepare an address to the people of
the District. . ,
While Colonel Boyd,is held in high esteem by
the party in the District, it is greatly to be re
gretted that he has not, like Colonel Buchanan,
of the Fourth, become convinced that there is
no chance for an ineligible man. Colonel Boyd’s
position is complicated further by the fact that
before the Convention was re-assembled he an
swered tho Chnirmain of the Executive Commit
tee that he would acquiesce in the action of the
Convention that nominated him. Therefore, the
old Convention was re-assembled. The notice
was necessarily so short that the Convention was
not as full as might have been desired. Eleven
counties went into the Convention—being a ma
jority—and two or three others were present
through delegates friendly to Colonel Boyd, who
refused to enter the Convention. The counties
represented comprise more than three-fourths
of the votes of the District, and it is believed
that Major Adams can be elected, even if CoL
Boyd stays in the field.
Major Adams represented Clark county in the
Georgia Legislature in 1863, and again in 1865,
where he occupied a leading position. He is a
man of sterling integrity and unimpeachable
character, and would represent the interests of
his constituents with zeal and ability. M.
Andrew Johnson at Homo.
Ex-President Johnson arrived at home,
Greenville, Tenn., on the 20th. He was re
ceived by the citizens of the town, en masse,
who had made every preparation to pay their
respects to their distinguished friend and neigh
bor. We find the following special dispatch in
the Nashville Banner:
the ex-fresidenx’s speech.
It was expected that Mr. Johnson would avail
himself of the occasion to present his views of
the present situation of the country somewhat
elaborately, but he briefly confined himself to
matters relative to his own administration. He
spoke of his course as President of the United
States, and said he had endeavored ever to do
his duty. He had defended the Constitution as
the nation’s only bulwark of safety. He spoke
of his having held every office in the gift of the
people, from Alderman of our little town to
President of tho United States, and challenged
any man to face him and say that he had at any
time ever received bribery at any one’s hands.
He said he earnestly wished there were more
men in the country who could say as much. He
could look that audience in the face and ask the
? uestions: Who have I betrayed ? Who have
oppressed? He reiterated the sentiment
enunciated in the Baltimore reception that he
felt more pride in coming back to his old home,
a private citizen, than he would in being inau
gurated President of tiie United States over the
ruins of a violated Constitution. He again de
clared that no case of emancipation was greater
than his deliverance, since the war. If the Con
stitution was not wrested from the hands of the
usurpers, in a few years the Government would
be lost, or its whole character changed. He
said, in conclusion, that he felt proud in coming
back among his old friends, at least to help
them bear the burdens if he could not re
lieve them.
Mr. Johnson was greeted at the close with
loud cheers, and was frequently interrupted with
applause in thq course of his reply to the wel
come. The entire affair passed off very suc
cessfully, and but one trivial incident occurred
in the arrangement of the order of exercises that
did not reflect very creditably upon its author.
The Mayor of Greeneville peremptorily refused
to officially participate in the ceremonies—mak
ing some absurd allegation that ex-President
Johnson had gotten himself into an awkward
predicament, or something to that effect, and
he would havo nothing to do with it, but would
resign in favor of some one else. The Mayor’s
refusal was regarded as a piece of ill-mannered
boorishness, and although officially, in a meas
ure, the representative of tho town, his act did
not reflect the feelings of the citizens of Greene
ville, who delight to honor men of Mr. Johnson’s
independence and patriotism.
The Desolation of Paraguay.
A late letter from Buenos Ayres to the New
York Herald, gives the following melancholiy
picture of poor fallen Paraguay:
The Brazilians occupy Asuncion, and though
the attempt is made to deny the wholesale pilage
conducted there, yet it is a fact that nothing val
uable has been left unless it was too heavy to
carry away. Houses of foreigners shared the
same fata. Many houses were partly tom down
to seek for hidden gold and silver. Outside the
city there were medley stores of goods gathered
assorted for sale. Soon the supply of provisions
gave out, when the hucksters would be glad to
exchange a brass bedstead for a piece of beef,
or a splendid arm-chair for a pound of potatoes.
The fine grounds of Lopez, rivalling in splendor
some of the European residences of royalty, are
now a howling waste.
The green banner of Brazil floats from the
cubrildo of Asuncion; the government house on
the Plaza, built by the Jesuit Fathers, is the
headquarters of the Brazilians, while General
Emilio Mitre is with the Argentines at the form
er residences of Yenancio Lopez. The railway
out from Asuncion has not been much injured,
and the station itself is unequalled in South
America. But the streets are fearful ovens,
broad, shelterless, with scalding sand twelve
inches deep.
The present place of retreat of Lopez, the lair
of the Hon, is among the Cordilleras mountains,
in a fertile district, where have been gathered
al the principal families of Paraguay. As early
as one month before the last battle, Minister
Gainings ordered all Paraguayan families off to
the mountains, and young, and sick, all wore
swept away by an inexorable guard sent for the
purpose, and now many of the best families are
living in bullock carts, in tents made of stretched
hides, and living on mandioca and roasted com.
Clothing is almost unknown. The women and
children huddle together; the men are sick, or
wounded, or off on perilous duty. Cannon and
horses are very few. This is a meagre view of
the desperate reduction of Lopez and his follow
ers, and yet the dissatisfied, the rebel, among
his ragged, starving countrymen, is hardly one
among a thousand. All Paraguay is a wide ruin,
the name bids fair to be erased, and the nation
may dwindle now into the insignificance of a
tribe of Indians, after having held three warlike
nations at bay for four years.
General Loxgbtreet.—It is reported that
General Longstreet, to whose nomination some
leading Radicals object, has requested the
President to withdraw his nomination from the
Senate.' He fears if he accepts official patron
age that his motives will be impugned, and it
will furnish ground fo* the charge that he has
supported the Radical cause for selfish ends,
which he says was not the fact
A Pleasant Habit.—The Monroe Advertiser
says:
The young people of Forsyth have fallen into
the very pleasant habit of gathering at the Bap
tist Church on Sunday afternoons for the pur
pose of singing together—and mc*st delightful
music do they make. . , .. ,
■Washington, March 24.—The President has nom
inated Giles A. Smith, second assistant Postmaster
General; Moses H. Grinwell, Collector of Customs at
New York; Wm. Priece, Postmaster at Grenada,
Mississippi; and quite a number of Northern of
ficers.
The executive session of the Senate confirmed
only Henry D. Moore, Collector of the Port of k Pbi-
ladelphia.
Eighty-two miles will complete the Pacific Rail
road.
Congressional.
Washington, March 23.—House.—The House is
engaged in a call of the Committees. There is very
little business.
The Reconstruction Committee agreed to report
Pane’s Mississippi bill heretofore outlined. The
Conservatives aro confident of its defeat.
The Election Committee will commence the hear
ing of the Louisiana contestants Thursday, allow
ing thirty minutes to each.
A memorial was received from citizens of Ken
tucky, protesting against tho removal of political
disabilities, and praying for the enforcement of the
fourteenth amemdment.
The bill for removing the charge of desertion
from certain North Carolina mounted Infranty was
passed.
Mr. Butler announced his intention to introduce
a bill to remove disabilities from eveiy man now loy
al to the Union, regardless of past offences. He did
pot think wo could have reconstruction on any other
basis.
The House adjourned.
Senate.—Mr. Anthony was elected President pro.
tern.
The tenure-of-office bill was recommitted to the
Judiciary Committee.
Hamilton and his party address the Reconstruc
tion Commitee Saturday, about Texas.
A bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury
to anticipate the payment of interest of the State
debt six months passed.
Mr. Sprague introduced a hill for loaning out pub
lic money.
A Judiciary bill was passed. It provides for nine
Supreme Judges,and relieves them from circuit duty,
and provides for resident circuit Judges.
Washington, March 24.—House.—A motion to
extend tho time for the evidence of the contested
election between W. H. Stroden and Eggleston, from
the Cincinnati District was defeated. The motion
was in the interest of Stroden.
The Reconstruction Committee had no metting.
To-mcrrow they consider Georgia.
Paine introduced a bill punishing civil or military
officers having the power hut failing to enforce the
fourteenth amendment, with fine and imprison
ment.
Butler reported the Mississippi bill.
Beck moved to amend it, by giving the President
power Over the Provisional Government.
Farnsworth gave notice that he would move to
postpone action till next session.
Beck addressed the House in opposition to the
bill, when the House adjourned on motion of a Dem
ocrat, by a small majority, which is regarded as an
unfavorable indication for the ultimate success of
the bill
Senate.—Tho Caucus has agreed to suspend the
Tenure-of-office bill for four years. It is reported
that Grant accepts this solution bnt remains stub
born for its repeal. The result is doubtful.
Omnibus bills for removing disabilities construct
ed on partizan basis will not pass. Opposition be
ing thoroughly organized. The matter will be at a
dead lock until some general amnesty bill i3 adopted.
The Committee on Foreign Relations reported a
bill on the treaty of July 4,1868, with Mexico, for
the adjustment of claims.
Tho tenure-of-office bill has passed to the follow
ing effect: The President may suspend during re
cess, and appoint another to perform the duties,
reporting the suspension within thirty days after the
next meeting of Congress and nominating a suc
cessor. If the Senate refuses to confirm the nom
ination and also by a vote shall disapprove the sus
pension, the suspended officer, at the end of the
session, shall resume his office. The President
need give no reason for suspensions.
There was an executive session.
Senate adjourned.
Governor Wells Arrested for Stealing.
Richmond, March 23.—Last night about 10 o’clock
the police arrested Gov. Wells, N. G. Bond, Register
of Bankruptcy, and L. E. Dudley, Secretary of the
Republican State Central Committee, on the charge
of purloining from the postoffico a letter written by
W. H. Samuel, ex-Secretary of tho Republican Cen
tral Committee, to Edgar Allen, ex-member of tho
State Constitutional Convention. The parties were
before the United States Commissioner Cohen, to
day, and were bailed until to-morrow, to which time
the case was continued. This is the same charge
that was published at the Petersburg Convention.
Havana, March 22—Dolce issued an address re
ferring to the embarkation events. He says he has
kept his promise of maintaining order and justice.
The proclamation concludes with a flatteiing ad
dress to the citizens and volunteers.
Haytien advices are unfavorable to Salnave.
General News.
Fortress Monroe, March 23.—Yesterday there
was a heavy storm and many vessels sought tho
harbor.
New Yore, March 24.—Tho Ocean Queen has ar
rived from Panama with $100,000 treasure. She
brings no news.
Indianapolis, March 24. — Democrats were re
elected in all cases of resignation to defeat the fif
teenth amendment. An extra session is called for
April 8th.
Columbia, March 24.—Tho General Assembly, af
ter a four months’ session and the passage of about
seventy-five acts, adjourned to-day sine die.
Marine Disaster.
WmnxGTON, March 24.—Captain Hunter, of the
steamer Fairbanks, arrived to-day, reports that ho
passed tho fragments of a wreck of a large schooner
or brig, off Cape Lookout, on the 23d inst. He pick
ed up a trunk in which he found a book with the
names of Jasper W. Haskell, Martha D.
Susan J. Haskell, Deer Isle, Friday, July 18,1862.
He searched among the fragments of the wreck and
floating timber, but discovered no trace of any of
the crew.
From Cuba.
Havana, March 24.—The Insurgents are massing
on the south side of tho Island. The inhabitants
demand more troops. The Government is silent re
garding the movements of the troops.
The American brig Mary Lowell was captured at
Ragged Island.
The Peruvian monitors remain at Ragged Island.
During the voyage one of tho monitors j ammed with
the steamer Havana, sinking her. Seven of the
Havana’s crew were drowned.
Foreign News.
Paris, March 23.—Tho Mexican General, Almonte,
i3 dead—aged 57.
Madrid, March 24.—Two hundred women inarched
through the streets to Cortez with a petition against
conscription.
London, March 24.—The strike of the Preston
Cotton Spinners is exteding. Several of the Glas
gow Mills have stopped for the want of hands.
Gen. Lonostbeex’s Office.^-TMs office (Sur
veyor of the Port of New Orleans) is only worth
$3,500 after all. It is a ^nall affair about
^which a great deal has been said. The Macon
postoffije is a better thing.
The Foils about the Tenure of-Offlce
Act.
Affairs seem to be getting no more good na-
tured over the Tenure-of-Office bilL The New
York Herald’s dispatches say, on the 22d:
If the Tenure-of-Offlce bill comes to a vote
and fails, many of the Senators now favoring
the repeal will vote for the next best thing—the
f onr years’s suspension. It is reported that Mr.
Nye and the Southern members have agreed to
vote for the repeal; therefore no doubt exists
any longer that the repeal will be defeated.
President Grant is very much incensed at the
conduct of some Senators, and has determined
to make no further appointments shonld the
civil tenure restraint be still kept over him.
Per contra, the Tribune dispatches of same
date, have the following:
There is no question involved which should
antagonize the President and the Senate. The
Senate is in session, and ready and willing to act
npon any nominations that tire President shall
see fit to make, and is certain to confirm, at
least, ninety-nine in everyone hundred, until at
least one is rejected, we perceive no plausible
reason for the repeal or suspension of the ten-
ure-of-office act.
The Western press dispatches have the fol
lowing about the Senatorial caucusses npon the
subject:
A Senatorial Republican caucus of two hours
on the Tenure-of-office bill adjourned till even
ing withont action. Senators Morton, Grimes
and Sprague withdrew, refusing to bind them
selves to the action of the caucus. It is gener
ally believed now that the bill will be suspended
for four years.
The Senate adjourned to 2 o’clock, when the
Republicans, by previous arrangement, resumed
the caucus on the Tenure-of-office act, with a
view to accommodating the differences.
The President sent in no nominations to-day.
Many Senators suppose they will be such as to
release the President from the present embar
rassments. It would seem that the majority of
Senators are opposed to the total repeal of the
law, and desire to retain its principles, but
think some proviso may be added which will
render it generally satisfactory. As the House
has twice passed a bill for its repeal, the differ
ence between the two branches of Congress may
■ultimately be adjusted through a committee of
conference.
And later, to this effect:
The Republican Senators were in caucus about
two hours this morning, and about the same
length of time this evening, on the tenure-of-
office act. Mr. Conlding’s proposition to sus
pend the law for four years, or during the ad
ministration of President Grant, was discussed
with much animation. Several Senators declar
ed that they would not be bound by the caucus,
and retired from the room. Mr. Edmunds sub
sequently offered a resolution that the act ought
not to be repealed. This also occasioned a live
ly debate. Finally, a resolution was adopted,
that the bill and pending amendments in the
Senate shall be recommitted to the Judiciary
Committee with a view to a modification of the
law now in force. It is not known what changes
will be proposed.
Health of Sanderswille.
The Central Georgian of yesterday says:
We are truly glad to be able to state that
no new cases of Meningitis have appeared
in Sandersville since the 16th. Most earnestly
do we hope the afflictive hand has been removed
from us. In reply to the question so often asked,
we say, upon the authority of the medical fra
ternity, the disease is not contagious.
Speaking of the two daughters of Dr. Brantley,
who were both carried off by this virulent dis
ease, the same number of the Georgian says: -
In a postscript in last paper, we stated that
Florie Brantley was an angel, having died
that morning, (Tuesday,) and that her baby sis
ter was very ill. Sweet little Lorie (Laura)
didn’t stay long after, bnt went up With Florie.
For the benefit of the children we want to tell
how Florie died. The kind Minister, Mr. La
nier, was present, had held prayer, and was en
deavoring to soothe the sorrow of the stricken
parents, whose hearts were crashed, by pointing
them to the sweet promises contained in God's
holy word. No one supposed that the tender
flower, now withering beneath the chilling touch
of the damp of death, heard what was passing;
but as the man of God repeated some soothing
text, she raised her tiny hands and in accents of
angelic sweetness said—glory, glory. It may
be that she heard not the voice of mother, fa
ther, or minister, bnt that it was sounds sweeter
far than e’er was produced on earth. We beliece
she saw the convoy of angels delegated by the
court of heaven to escort her home, and heard
them sing—and this heavenly vision caused the
happy exclamation — glory ! Doubtless, she
heard them sing “ glory! glory!! and catching
the sound, she repeated after them. Let that
be as it may, we know that she is with the an
gels now.
We imagine that when Florie’s happy spirit
was freed from the lovely though frail‘body, it
cast one fond look over the household. There
was dear little Lolie, not quite ready to go yet.
Turning to the angels, she said:
“ Wait tor Sister.”
They waited until Lolie was ready, and then
all flew home together.
The steamer Ruth, which was burned on the
Lower Mississippi river, was one of the largest
and finest vessels on Western waters. She was
owned by the Atlantic and Mississippi Company,
and cost in 1865 $200,000, and was valued at
$100,000. She was insured for $55,000 in
Western companies. Her cargo, of 2,000 tons,
was valued at about $130,000. The fire caught
in the hold near the boilers, and she was imme
diately sunk by cutting a hole in her bow. She
lies in fifteen feet of water. A large portion of
her cargo will be saved in a damaged condition.
Gen. Grant has domesticated his military
family in the White House. Their duties are
thus apportioned:
Gen. Dent will have control of all arrange
ments for visiting the President, interviews,
presentations, and the general charge of the re
ception room—transacting the business of all
callers not absolutely necessary to be sent to the
President.
Gen. Badeau will attend, as heretofore, to the
opening of the correspondence.
Gen. Babcock will have charge of all applica
tions for and matters pertaining to appointment
to office. All such applications will be promptly
referred to the several departments.
Gen. Porter will have charge of the matter of
making out appointments.
In a speech on the finances, last autumn Mr.
Boutwell, now secretary of the treasury, said:
“The Republican party knows no policy in fin
ance but honesty”—which, with a slight alterna
tion is strictly true—as thus: “The Republican
party knows no policy in finance (which is the
fact) but honesty it does not know,” which is
also a fact.—N. O. Crescent.
Frederick Douglass, George T. Downing, and
others, have formedan association for the publi
cation of a weekly newspaper in Washington in
the interest of the colored people. It will be
commenced at once, and will be under the edi
torial charge of Frederick Douglass.
Pat’s Description of the Velocipede.—A
velocipede is a wheelbarry, with two wheels and
nary a barry, and a chap astraddle of the harry
a runnin’ off wid himself like the divil.
The bullet that killed Nelson, at Trafalgar, is
in the possession of Queen Victoria. It is set
in precious stones, and enclosed ina golden case
shaped like a walnut.
A vessel arrived at Savannah recently, hav
ing onboard sixteen cases of fine brandy, num
erous cases of Cuba cigars and three cases of
small-pox.
The Last from Prentice.—President Grant’s
appointments may be expected to increase rap-,
idly. They are all in the family way.
A Bridgeport (CL) Democrat paid an election
bet on Thursday, by firing a salute of thirty-
eight guns in honor of Grant’s inauguration.
There is a cow in Allen county, Indiana, that
gives forty-eight quarts of milk daily.
A royal decree abolishes slavery in all the
Portuguese possessions.
Buteer’s New Proposition.—Mr. Butler will
submit shortly, to the Reconstruction Committee,
a plan for removing the political disabilities of
the Southern people. It will provide that any
person, excepting those who previous to the
war served in the United States army, or navy,
Judges, members ef the vonfederate Cabinet,
etc., may, by making certified affidavit before
the county clerks of the State accepting the war
situation, negro suffz^gp, and all, be restored to
citizenship. The persons excepted in the act
can have their disabilities removed only by ap
plication to Congress. The bill is to become a
law only with the concurrence of two-thirds of
the members of both Houses.
The Herald jhjnks the Repgplers have gpt the
Suspenders—£ut itffc a little doubtful.
The Spoils.—Every consulship to Europe has
an average of three hundred applicants except
Liverpool, the best in the lot, which has seven
hundred and fifty, with the Pacific States to hear
from.
Warlike Speeches,
Upon a report that Mr. Senator Sumner
elaborated a war speech on the Alabama
tion and is going on to let it oft shortly
throw the country into consternation, the V
York Commercial Advertiser says : 5
Are we so easily moved from an arrange®,,
of acknowledged utility, that the “speech”'*'
Mr. Sumner, or of any individual, can throw
into a war? Surely, we hope not. Does
question of the Alabama claims demand that ^
should go to war with England ? If so, how d
it happen that we have an along regarded it°^
proper matter for diplomatic negotiation-
allowed, nay, instructed, our minister to Y ,
efforts compatible with self-respect, to have^
adjusted peaceably ? How is it that the warhl '
temper is now for the first time bidden to jG 5 *
itself ina quarrel of which the last incident;,
old a story ?
It may be that some imaginative reporters c,
a necessity for making a demonstration t 0 s*
tract public notice; and they know that the nJr
pect for war Is a snre card. Bnt the country <Z
afford to be indifferent to the manoeuvre'
we have been right so far, in attempting to
tie this matter diplomatically, we shall conti-
the method, if we change our agent twetf
times. If we have been wrong, we have esto?
ped ourselves from using any other method. ^
Do any of these writers, who talk so
about war with England, know what it means >
If they do, .they must be aware that any wJ
talk of this kind is injurious, and evea-wickM
If they do not, and yet wish for their own nr^
poses to foment a needless war with that coantrr
we will tell them what it does mean. It me ?'
a struggle which England must regard as rj
for life or death, and in which it will be p r Y
gal of life and treasure, both to be eipendT;
with more determination than, it showed inti-
long war with the first Napoleon. It means a -n*
in which our strength would be fully taxed
from which, with the sea for our battle-field,»•
should emerge with untold debt, no matter wlv
the result of the conflict. Anditmeansan al*
lute severance of the two great nations tti
speak the language and use the institutions th
ere destined to govern the world, and, we w
for the world's benefit. If this is necessary.
will do our part in it like men, with aefe
knowledge of consequences; but, if it
necessary, wo will refuse to be hounded onto-'
even though the voice be that of a charmer.
The Wind.
From an article in the London Spectator ?<
take the following:
Nothing is more curious than the effect p- : .
duced npon the mind by the wash of the wav«
and the blowing of the wind in hollow
It cannot be association which gives both socni
their air of mystic dreaminess, of vain lament!
tion, or of melancholy desire. Both sea ajj
wind are potent enough and practical enon.~
to make the men who specially devote tb;t
selves to usiDg and breasting their power hail
keen, daring, rugged. Yet the sound of the set
on the shore and the wind roaring through tb
house, suggests anything but daring and enter.,
prise. If it suggests danger and shipwreck-
that is, by association, and because wo knn
that shipwrecks come of waves and winds—;,
rectlyit does not suggest danger or straggle
but rather •
Old unhappy far off things,
And trials long ago,
—and this can only be because there are cerul;
sounds adapted of themselves to recall certain
moods of thought, and which have not gaitei
their power to do so by association. Thisa
true of all music. Bnt the special expressii
power of a high moaning wind seems to be:
blend an immense variety of subdued notes-
notes melancholy in themselves—into a voh»
of sound so great as to seem like the voice oft
great past-away world complaining of its fate c:
its oblivion. If it is strange enongh—as it is—I
that solid food growing out of tho earth shoill
snpply human organization with nervous povi:
to perceive and feel, it is at least as strange th:|
a few gases ranged round the earth, the mo:-
immediate object of which seems to be to oxidh
the food in the longs, and to provide curreKi
which ventilate our planet's surface, should, i
addition, have the extraordinary power of sa:-|
plying ns with a medium for speech, a natim
music, and an inarticulate language of ernotic:
Gen. Grant’s Determination.—'UieWasMq-
ton correspondent of the New York Trife
corroborates the statement of other letter-writea
that Gen. Grant will make no farther imports;
nominations until the tenure-of-office matter is
disposed of by the Senate. He answered snap,
plicant for office a few days since with the re
mark, “'Why, that place, sir, is not vacant "
While this may show that he will make nomina
tions where vacancies exist, he will not male
vacancies by removal to gratify office-seekers
until he is free.
Members of the Senate, friends of the Presi
dent, declare in conversation that he will refc:
to sign any bill suspending the tennre-of-offis
law. He will have repeal or nothing.
Extemts of Climate.—The electric telegraph
if nothing else, gives us. about these days,a»
alizing sense of the truth of that popular a
pression, <; this is a great country.” Over tb
wires come the announcements, from opposia
quarters of the land, that the snow is still fa
to eight feet deep in most parts of Maine; thx
in Canada three weeks of almost contins«
snow storms have shut off Ottawa, the seat d
government for Ontario, from all commutia
tion with the rest of the world, while from Mffl
tread to Quebec the snow lies in a mass near;
ten feet deep—all railroad communication I
stopped —avalanches have buried several p»
pie at Quebec, and the storm was raging agaa
at last accounts. On the other hand, vd
comes from Florida that the com is kneo higt
Who shall say that ours is not a “great coo
try,” or fix a limit to its development in the flj
tore?—Hartford limes.
How to Mourn in Taste—Crape is a peci
linrly bad material for the purpose, from its ei
pensiveness and its liability to injury from eve.?
drop of rain. The too common addition of je
ornaments, or, still worse, of black flowers
other dismal translations of finery into funere;
trapping, is both lugubrious and ill-timed, ®
nobody can think the result really beautifcl. k
lay aside one’s ornaments is the natural syn»
of grief, and a relief when the feeling iswA
The French plan of signifying the “ depth' ®
mourning by increasing the degree of plaice**
of the simple black dress and by the absecct*
ornaments and trimming, seems much the a*
reasonable and appropriate. Their period*
wearing mourning is considerably shorter
ours. I believe they never wear crape at#
and I cannot seo how any one, living or deal*
the worse for it The free use of white iu f*
cases of mourning, however deep, would also«
a great gain.—CornhiU Magazine.
Georgia Amu of New England,—Said Ik
Sprague the other day in a speech in the Sea#
“A few weeks since, in order to unde»a?
something of the condition of the South 1
ited Georgia, and naturally was invited"®
spect a cotton mill. In the city of Augusta,
is a cotton mill that to-da^ will surpass, and a*
surpass in the success of its operations, thet*®
one in New England; and the secret of that
cess lies in the turn of one roll where the
ton is delivered on the spindle, it turning at
hundred and fifteen turns to the minute, w f -'
others in New England, and even by the
it, turn ninety or one hundred.”
General Grant on Southern Disfea>'c£^
ment.—Messrs. S. P. Reed and William
son, Democratic Congressmen from South
olina, waited upon General Grant a fe* ^
since and described to him the restrictions
disabilities under which the Southern white“
bored, The President listened to them an
tively, and at the conclusion of their rein
“Gentlemen, the disclosures you make®^
to be known and understood and considered „
every Union man and woman in the country-
How many a ruined family might be
ing and happily circumstanced but for
of “appearanoe-making!” How many a ^
would never have been committed if it nw
been for the same cause.
An Irishman recently soliloquized: * -g)
waste of money to buy mate when y°n*®. ^
half of it is bone, while yon can spina it
that hasn’t a bone in it”
Recently a flock of sheep was passing
the bridge at Danville, Pennsylvania. q(
them concluded to jump into the live
course this was the signal for the others,
ton was cheap next day at Danville.
The negro, Harris, who was nonnnsi^ji
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia bJ"r 0 „T«b)t-‘
convention at Petersburg, last week, ons _ •
woman for a wife. Sl» was a “ .jfjii
marm” from New Jersey. They were
since the war.
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