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The Greorgia, ‘W'eekly Telegraph..
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26,1869.
Srwton, Jasper, Jones, Butt* and
Monroe.
From a gentleman who returned to Macon
joteerday afternoon from Monroe, Batts. New
ton, Jasper and Jones, we gather some lnteresc-
Irg news in regard to the planting interests of
these counties.
Kb reports everything working finely. The
grand is in splendid condition to receive the
cotton seed. The planters are generally done
planting com. "Wheat is looking finely. He
no complaints, for lack of hands. There
seemed to be plenty.
ffe says the people of Newton county have
■gttMuo on the brain. They are buying every
pooad they can, either for money or upon time.
The house of John Merriman& Co., of Balti
more, have sold 811 <5,000 worth to the people of
th«f. county on credit, and could sell three times
that much more if it so desired. The railroad
depots are full of fertilizers. The people seem
ed to bo perfectly confident upon the matter,
*ndE are counting upon a heavy crop of cotton.
Ekrtilizors are being more or less used in all
the counties through which ho traveled, and he
.npossses the opinion that if the season is fa-
'. oeable the yield will be very large. But an in
teresting fact is they are generally trying to
> enough provisions to do them.
The Adamic Race.
Reader, wo are not profane—do not intend to
£weex at the Radicals, however strong the temp
tation—but simply to notice the reception of a
pamphlet, addressed “to the Editors of the
fhznsirn, with the respects of the Author,
31. F. Stovenson, Gainesville, Ga.” This pam
phlet is entitled “ The Adamic Race. Reply to
* Ariel, Drs. Young and Blackie, on the Negro.' ”
•“The Negro does not belong to the Adamic spe*
ciK. Ho is not a descendant of Adam and Eve.
){a fy not the oifispring of Ham. He is not a
becst. Ho is a hnman being—he has an im
mortal soul; but not after the image of God,
and every attempt to civilize him after our
-Took, - has resulted in his speedy and certain
tlestmction. The unity of the human race is
osscriptural—contrary to the laws of science
and destructive to the welfare of every species
The Pacific Railway Failure.
The New York Tribune sums up the case of
the Union Pacific railroad thus:
On Saturday last the Postmaster General re
ceived a telegram from D. B. Ball,special agent,
dated at Laramie City, stating that for fifteen
days the Union Pacificrailroadhasbeen blocked
by snow, for a distance of two hundred miles
west of Cheyenne, and that between 30,000 and
40,000 pounds of mail matter was detained on
the line.
On Monday the Postoffice Department direct
ed Postmaster Kelly, of this city, to send all
The Bill to Reconstruct Georgia.
We find the following in the Western Associa
ted Press dispatches, telegraphed from Wash
ington on the 17th;
The first section of the amended bill to enforce
the fourteenth constitutional amendment in
Georgia, reported from the Judiciary Committee
by Mr. Trumbull, repeals so much of the act of
June 25, .1868, as relates to Georgia.
Section two revives military government in
Georgia.
Section three continues the government of the
State as provisional, and declares null and void
mails for California and the Pacific coast by tha j the expulsion of African members of the Legis-
Isthmus of Panama, and to retain all mail mat- lature and restores them to their seats. Persons
ter for the Pacific coast after that shipment, for admitted to their seats are to vacate the same,
the Aspinwall steamers of the 11th and 21st of The bill prohibits any person disqualified under
March. Advices received from the west on the fourteenth amendment from holding a seat
Monday afternoon stated that the Union Pacific
road was not yet open, and that it was impossi
ble to say when the mails detained in its snow
bound trains would be gotten through.
The report of the majority of the Senate Com
mittee on the Pacific Railroad, made twelve
days ago, predicted the very condition of things
that now exists. Speaking of the necessity of
two additional trunk lines to the Pacific, in or
der to have uninterrupted communication, the
majority of the Committee say:
It is on undetermined problem if the Union
Pacific Railroad between Omaha and Sacramen
to can be operated throughout the year. Of the
elements to solve this question there are:
First, The known effects of drifting snow upon
the railway lines of Central Illinois, and of the
hilly districts of New England and Pennsylva
nia. Second, The known depths to which snow
falls and packs in portions of the Rocky Moun
tain region. Third, The extraordinary height
of the grades and sharpness of the curves in the
passage of the Sierra Nevada. Trains in Illi
nois have often been snowed under, and travel
and traffic in and out of Chicago have been
completely embargoed. Railroad communica
tions in Massachusetts, New York and Pennsyl
vania, is often suspended in winter. These vi
cissitudes take place in States where labor is
abundant, where the stations on tho lines are
very near together, where fuel and food,
draught animals and tools, are plentiful and ac
cessible. But the lino between Omaha
and Sacramento is at present almost a con
tinuous wilderness ; portions of it never
will be settled. Population is very scarce—
help in trouble cannot bo outside of the train—
tho stock of accessible fuel maybe limited to tho
supply on tho cars. In the deep cuttings, and
in some of the canyons of Dakota, Utah, Neva
da and California, snow is well known to drift
chock full up to the top and to pack hard. Tho
depth of snow in places traveled by the overland
stage-sleighs has been crediblyreportea at from
thirty to fifty feet, and it was not melted till
June. Granting the efficacy of roofing; grant
ing the adeqnacy of machinery to accomplish as
—.. —t. - - it, - TTmCam Da 7 ■« rt nn A GTl 1
o, p^pbl.to, ttWj P.S.S, reciva
yesterday.
The Congressional Election.
CONVENTION OF THH THIRD CONGRESSIONAL
ftnrruTiTP of Geohria.—Mr. James M. Mobley,
President of the Democratic Convention of tho
Third Congressional District of Georgia, calls
upon that Convention to re-assemble in La-
Orxngo at 10 a. m., on Thursday, the 25th inst.,
to nominate a candidate from that District, in
place of Hon. Hugh Buchanan, who has surren
dered bis nomination back to the Convention.
We have no idea there will be any Congression
al election in Georgia this Spring. The Legis
lature has passed a bill bringing on the election
ox&the 1st Monday in May next; but it, un
doubtedly, in our opinion, will perish in the
hinds of the Governor.
We are disposed to think that if Congress
<KStB any Representatives from Georgia during
tbo extra session, it will be the members elected
lost year.
The Georgia Rill.
It will be seen that the bill reported on the
J Till by Senator Trumbull, of the Senate Ju
diciary Committee, justifies what we have an
ticipated as tho probablo action of Congress in
relation to Georgia. It repeals so much of an
act of last Juno as admits Georgia into the
Union—continues the State Government as
provisional—declares the expulsion of tho ne
groes from the Legislature null and void, and
restores them to their seats—and prohibits all
■ persons disqualified by the fourteenth amend
ment from holding seats; and provides military
support to the Provisional Governor. See
synopsis of the act in another place. We can’t
help it.
Adjournment of the Legislature.
The Georgia Legislature dispersed on Thurs
day, which was by far the best act of their ex
pensive and useless session. In all probability
there will be another swarming on band before
summer, coming up, like the frogs of Egypt
from the doughs of Radical Re-re-rt construc
tion. Ono thing wo have resolved upon, and
that is it shall havo as little space in the Tele-
hhaph os possible. We see nothing of impor
tance in Thursday’s proceedings, beyond what
was announced in our Special Telegraphic Re
port.
lion. Nelson Tilt,
In a letter from the Intelligencer upon the
outside, rejoins to the Governor, and makes
tome points too clear for dispute.
Bsigxolx Opera Troupe.—The Savannah Re
publican learns that an engagement has just
been concluded with tho great tenor, Signor
Hnguoli, under the terms of which he will, for
the first time, visit the South, and will appear
nr the principal cities. The tour will bo com
menced about the last of this month, and Sig-
asr Broguoli will be supported by leading artists
from the New York Academy of Music—a com
plete Operatic and Concert Company—includ
ing M’llo Louise Durand, the young prima donna
who has created such a remarkable interest this
season in New York, and the renowned Lyric
Artist, Signor Giorgio Ronconi.
Dr. Loyick Pierce.—The Constitution of
Monday, says:
This veteran Minister of the Gospel, now in
his eighty-fonrth year, sixty-five of which he
has been engaged in the ministry, preached at
Wesley Chapel, on Thursday night last. Not
withstanding his age he preaches with the vigor,
fire and earnestness of a man of thirty-five. On
last Sunday he preached three sermons, at Car-
tersvillo, of ono hour and a half each. Few
men of this day and generation can perform a
ftimilar feat, though considerably less advanced
in. years.
ton, there remains a risk, which must be con
stant with the recurrence of winter, that the op
erations of this Pacific road may experience long
and serious interruptions, accompanied occa
sionally with shocking misfortunes. If such in
terruptions should take place, the effect upon
the new trade from Asia to Europe, across the
United States, would characterize the route as one
not to be relied on by international commerce.
But there is no doubt that a railroad on the
thirty-fifth parallel of latitude could be operated
to San Francisco 365 days in the year. Nor is
there any doubt that a line between Puget’s
Sound and Lake Superior could be opexated
without serious obstruction by snow. Its grades
through the mountains are all comparatively
low, and its line is within the isothermal line of
mean annual temperature of fifty degrees.
It was wholly needless to purchase all this
wisdom at a cost of twenty millions or more to
the Federal Government. The whole of it could
have been found gratuitously, if desired,by con
sulting speeches in Congress and reports from
Southern sources nearly twenty years old. All
that the Tribune now claims as proven in respect
to this hyperborean route to California and the
Pacific, was then clearly demonstrated in ad
vance as the inevitable results; but in spite of
all the teachings of common sense, the Northern
route was determined upon simply because it
wag a Northern route, and could be better man
aged in behalf of Northern interests both in re
spect to the profits of construction and the man
agement of its business.
It was not a blunder so much as a clear and
well understood sacrifice to Northern sectional
cupidity, and it was well known then, that no
serviceable railroad to the Pacific could be built
until the North and West had been appeased by
this useless expenditure.
The idea of roofing in a railroad to the Pacific
is too absurd for comment. We see this winter,
roofs of churches, warehouses, and other sub
stantial structures, in the North and Canada,
crushed in by the weight of snow; and how
ridiculous the hope of securely roofing hundreds
of miles of railway, passing through prodigious
gulches and canons, and liable to be burdened
with thirty feet, or more, of snow! The train
that would start for California to run through
such a wooden tunnel should look to a lunatic
asylum for its passengers and operatives.
Savanna!], Griffin and North Alabama
Railroad.
The Griffin Star of Tuesday has the following:
As it is now reduced to a certainty that this
road will be built, and that speedily, it perhaps
would be interesting to know the number of
miles constituting its whole length, together
with the cost per mile, and the distance from
point to point, as surveyed by Emerson Foote
in 1854.
1. From Griffin to Newaan 36.68 miles
2. From Newnan to Tallapoosa river.. .45.34 miles
3. From Tallapoosa river to A & T. riv.39.69 miles
4. From A. & T. B. B. to Guntersville. .62.09 miles
5. From Guntersville to Decatur 50 miles
Length of whole road 233J miles.
Cost of 1st Section, per mile $14,577
Cost of 2d Section, per mile 23,804
Cost of 3d Section, per mile 16,270
Cost of 4tli Section, per mile 17,478
Cost of 5th Section, par milo 17,619
Average cost per mile equipped, 823,033.
The Stockholders met at Newnan, Ga., last
week, at which time Capt. A. J. White, W. W,
Chapman, John I. Whitaker, Thos, Grace, B.
M. Milner, Smith and Camp, were chosen Di
rectors. Capt. White was elected President of
the Board.
The original stock of the company was cut
down to fifty cents in the dollar, (before it was
not worth five cents) and arrangement made to
commence work upon the road at once.
The Macon and Western and Brunswick roads,
each, took stock to the amount of $150,000.—
The Central Road will also take a large amount
With a good
The Richmond Postoffice.—Tho Senate con
firmed only two unimportant nominations. The of stock at some future time,
President sent several nominations to the Sen- • President, an excellent Board, and plenty of
ate, among them that of Elizabeth Vanlew, as i monev the Road will be pushed forward rap-
Postmistress at Bichmond, Va.—A Washington '... '
4^-ach. ldl y-
in said Legislature.
Section four makes it the duty of the Presi
dent to station such a portion of the land and
naval forces of the United States in said State
as shall be sufficient to carry the act into full ex
ecution, and all officers in command of such
forces shall, on the demand of the acting Gov
ernor, render military aid and assistance in the
administration of the government, and protec
tion to life and property, and administration of
justice.
Tennre-of-Office.
The World’s dispatch of the 15th on the ten-
urc-of-office suspension says:
The Judiciary Committee of the Senate, sud
denly spurred to promptness by the action of
Senators last week, and by the dogged obstina
cy of the President, surprised everybody re
porting to-day an amendment to the House bill
repealing the civil tenure law. This amend
ment is to the mere effect that the operation of
the law be suspended until the next meeting of
Congress next December. This shuffling com
promise pleases nobody who has bid for noth
ing but repeal from the start. The Houso hav
ing almost unanimously voted totally to expunge
tho law, declare, at least their most prominent
members do, that they will take nothing less
and nothing else.
Senators, professing to speak for the Presi
dent, denounce the idea of suspension as anom
alous, and as insulting to the President^ virtu
ally saying to him: “We will see if wo can
trust you during the summer interim, an if we
can’t we will put down the screws on you next
winter.” They roundly declare that General
Grant will not approve of any such measure as
proposes that he certify to this Congressional
suspicion of his sagacity and fidelity. The bill
will come np in the Senate to-morrow. A hard
fight will be made for unconditional repeal,
but the anti-Grant party profess to be able to
put the amendment through. That it will be
defeated by the House is conceded. Then fol
lows a Committee of Conference. But the days
fly on, and it looks as if the shrewd Senators
had arranged a game by which no conclusive ac
tion can be reached this short session, so that
the old law may stand all the year round; still
it is not safe to hazard an assertion on that. Total
repeal may not be carried even in the Senate,
though prolonged debate and desperate tatics
will prevail to defeat it, and the chances favor
the meaningless amendment offered to-day.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, and tlie New
York Tribune.
Some days ago the New York Tribune, in com
menting on the action of the Georgia Legisla
ture in regard to the fifteenth amendment, in
dulged in some aspersions of Hon. Joshua Hill,
Senator elect from that State. Yesterday the
Tribune published the following card from Mr.
Hill in reply:
Sir—In your paper of Saturday last, in refer
ring to the action of the Georgia Legislature on
the adoption of the fifteenth constitutional
amendment, you make what I consider an un
generous allusion to myself. You describe me
as “hanging by the eyelids before the doors of
Senate at Washington,” etc. If you mean by
this expression that I vex the Senate as a body
with my presence, or as individuals by my calls
or my letters, endeavoring to procure admission
as a Senator, it is an unwarrantable assersion.
I have not spent an hour in all with the Sen
ate or Senators since the recess in December,
and but little time before that. I did, about the
first of December, call on Senator Sherman, to
request him to present my credentials to the
Senate. And although invited by several Sena
tors to visit them, andfully appreciating the civ
ility, I have thought it more dignified and inde
pendent not to do so. They will not charge me
with obsequiousness. I think I understand
what is duo to my own seif-respect. _ It will be
time enough for you to instruct me in manners
when Senators shall complain of my importu
nities.
As for my “telegraphing solemnly,” or in any
other vein, what consequences were likely to
eysuo to my colleague and myself by the refu
sal of the Legislature to adopt tho amendment—
nd what Congress would do with Georgia, and
icHFsoon it would act, I will merely say: I
havo not ventured to predict the action of Con
gress in regard to Georgia, or anything else. I
have my opinion as to the proper course to be
pursued by Congress to secure the best inter
ests of both government and people, but, while
the present circumstances exist, I cannot ex
pect it to influence others, and therefore do
not urge it.
Respectfully yours, Joshua Hill.
Washington, D. C., March 15, 1869.
The U. S. Government and Cnba.
The Baltimore Sun, of the 17th, has the follow
ing special from Washington:
Washington, March 16.—For three or four
weeks prior to the end of Mr. Johnson’s term as
President, agents of Cuban revolutionists were
here urging the late administration to recognize
them as belligerents. They received no direct
encouragement from Mr. Johnson; who, how
ever much ho may have favored tho petition,
was probably restrained from any action in tho
matter by Mr. Seward, who favored and advised
the issuing of a proclamation forbidding tho
formation of armed expeditions and recruiting
in the United States in aid of the Cuban revolu
tionists, this country being at peace with Spain,
and Cuba being one of her dependencies. So the
matter stood at the conclusion of Mr. Johnson’s
term.
Immediately upon the inauguration of Gen
eral Grant as President, the agents of the Cu
ban insurgents renewed their efforts for recog
nition, and found favor and encouragement in
both!)ranches of Congress, and, it is said, re
ceived encouragement from the Executive*.—
These facts becoming known to the Spanish em
bassy here, and action being taken looking to
this recognition in the form of a resolution in
tho House, remonstrance has been made by the
Spanish minister to our government In view
of possible difficulties that may arise from this
state of affairs, the government has to-day,
through the Navy Department, ordered two iron
clad vessels to proceed at once to Key West,
and that a part of the Pacific squadron proceed
immediately to Cuban waters.
According to the results of lato recent deep
sea soundings, it is announced that the bottom
of the sea, at great depths, is covered by a con
tinuous mass, extending over miles in extent,
of what may be considered as one single animal.
It is thought to form the lowest stage of animal
life on tho globe, and is. supposed to derive its
nourishment directly from tho mineral world, as
in the case of plants. The new animal has boen
baptized by the euphonious name of Bathybius.
Tho lady in question rendered the Union some
service, as a spy for Gen. Grant during his Vir- Westem Brunswick Beads, in order to com
mence operations immediately, have generously
guns. campaign.
Farming in North Carolina.—Tho Wilming-
tendered tho use of cross ties and iron without
ilixa. me winning- c harge, only requiring the return of what may
ton Star sayB: “Messrs. David Landreth & be used.
Wo learn with pleasure that tho Macon &
Son, the well-known seedsmen of Philadelphia,
some time since rented a farm near Goldsboro’,
«nd are now busily engaged in preparations for
* heavy crop of early vegetables.”
The Cultivation of Corn.—We call atten-
- uon to a very interesting and practical article
upon this subject on our first page.
George Francis Train, the eccentric, erratic
Train, sends a note to Greeley in reply to his
calling him a politician:
Sib:—You have called me many namesin
■your time, but this is the unkindest of all. Af
ter the Cassius M. Clay debate, von called me
“Charlatan” and “Mountebank;’’ while in a
British bastile, an “ass and a lunaticbut this
is tha first time you have passed the insult di-
. rect by calling me a “politician!”
-Griffin and North Alabama Railroad.—The
Atlanta Constitution says, that work on the Sav
annah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad will
be commenced immediately, and completed in
time to transport the next cotton crop.
Periodicals.—Wo have to-day Putnam for
April, tad the Edinburgh Review—Scott's ro-
-lint
The road bed is complete and ready for the
ties and iron nearly forty miles, so that, with all
the advantages at hand, the iron horse may
safely be set down as making its way directly
to Newnan by tho first of November next. Tho
skeptical may dispel their doubts, and go to
work for the Road, for it is a “fixed” fact—a
reality. Croakers and evil prophets may hang
their harps upon the willows, for the Savannah;
Griffin and N. A. Road will be built.
Grant and his Cabinet
The New York Sun illustrates the retioence of
Grant, in regard to his Cabinet, as follows:
—He never told his Cabinet,
But let grim silence, like a corn i' the foot,
Torture their anxious souls; ho smiled i.. thought,
And with a rare and prudent understanding (of tho
situation).
He sat like a fellow holding four kings and an
ace.
Calm and serene.
And the stakes—what did they amount to ?
An Important Discovery.—The Central or
gan of radicalism in New York State, the Al
bany Evening Journal, has made an important
discovery and divulges it in the following para
graph:
“The repugnance of certain associations and
affiliations are perfectly natural. * There are
physical and mental differences in the two races
which separate them by an inexorable law of re
pulsion, and which can ho overcomo by no
amount of humanitarian philosophizing or phi
lanthropic legislation. The white does not ac
cept the black as a congenial fellow and associ
ate. And he never will, * * We believe that
sensible colored people will agree with us upon
this point. They see that nei&er their own hap
piness nor their position in society will be im
proved by their ignoring the differences which
the Almighty has created. No black man with
a proper sense of self-respect would seek to
crowd himself into society where he was not
wanted, and where he must be conscious that all
around regarded as an infernor.”
MtaaaritarfKitti
Roswell Factory.—We are indebted to the
Superintendent, General A. J. Hanseli, for sam
ples of tiie excellent. Thread now being spun at
Roswell Factory. The samples embrace sewing
thread——extra strong thread for making grain
and flour sacks, and knitting yams—all round,
even and Btrong.
It gives ns much pleasure to learn that under
the energetio and systematic management of
General Hanseli the Factory is again doing a
Bev.” Tucker as a Landlord.—The renown- prosperous business, and that there is now being
ed Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, has leased the manufactured for it $20,000 of new machinery
- „ , soon to be put in operation and to be paid for
“Stephenson House, at St. Catherines, Canada from ekmings if the Factory. Success to
West, and will open it in llay. all such worthy enterprises.—Marietta Journal.
Cultivation of Corn.
Editors Telegraph: — In compliance with
promise, Iproceedto give your readers Mr. Dick
son’s plan of cultivating corn. Having prepared
the land and planted the seed, as noticed in my
former communication, Mr Dickson proceeds to
describe his method of cultivating as follows:
‘My plan is to finish the first working from the
20th of April to the 10th of May. Sometimes
I have not finished till the 25th of May. With
the land well turned, very little grass and weeds
will come up, except in the bottom of the fur
row, and this is easily managed.
“For first ploughing, have a heavy twenty-
two-inch sweep, with the right wing so set, that
its back end will not he more than one inch
from the ground. This is to run near the com,
and should fill the furrow within one or one and
a half inches of the general surface. Break
out the TTiidiiln with the same-sized sweep, with
the back of both wings turned up. If the plough,
ing is well done, four furrows will finish out—
four hands completing fourteen acres every day,
by going sixteen miles a day.
“ Second ploughing—have the wing of the
siding sweep turned a little more than half up;
run close to the com, leaving nothing for the
hoe; for if the ploughing is well done, there is
no use of a hoe. Break out the middle with
three furrows, to make a good place to plant
peas. From the 1st of June to the 20th is a
good time to plant peas. Proceed in this man
ner : After the second ploughing, run a shovel
furrow in tho middle of a com row. Drop one
bushel of peas to every eight acres—say six to
eight peas to a hill You can plant sixteen acres
per day, and will use two bushels to each plough.
Cover with a harrow.
Third and last ploughing—Pair your hands,
one to side the com, and one to side the peas;
the hand that sides the com will need a twenty-
two inch sweep, right hand wing well up, audit
should run close to the com—not going more
than, a half inch deep ; tho left wing should be
nearly flat. The hand that sides the peas will
need *a heavy twenty-six inch sweep, with the
right wing set at medium height, and should
ran it near the peas and fill the pea furrow up;
the left wing should be up, to push tho dirt near
the com. This is tho last ploughing, and if well
done, the gronnd ■will bo as smooth and level as
a floor, irith not a spur of grass to tho 200 acres
nor a weed to bo seen in the field. In old times
I required every hand to clean the crop as ho
went—what tho plough left to be removed with
the foot and hand. From thirteen to sixteen
miles, according to the condition of tho crop,
was a day’s work.
‘ ‘Such pine land as mine (some of it very poor,)
should average from 20 to 25 bushels per acre ;
and wet or dry, if the work is rightly done there
is do such thing as a failure, as my many visitors
from all parts of the country will testify.”
Now, Mr. Editor, how encouraging this clos
ing declaration of Mr. Dickson, a man famous
for his skill and extraordinary success in farm
ing He says we need not fail, “wet or dry.”
Who would not liko to be taught how to raise
25 bushels com on one aero of pine land, with
a drought of two or three months? How many
of us do so well on our best lands ? And yet
Mr. Dickson tells us that he does it and tells us
exactly how he does it. He gives us the benefit
of his experience from a long series of experi
ments. desiring not self aggrandizement but to
advance the best interests of agriculture.
What, then, is the guiding principle in Mr.
Dickson’s system of cotton culture ? It is found
in a careful study of the laws of vegetable life.
Moisture is' the great essential, and its due ap
plication to the growing plant the chief design
of the agriculturist. Deep ploughing, deep
planting, and surface cultivation, all tend to the
securement of tho same end. Surface cultiva
tion incorporates one additional item. It seeks
to preserve, intact, the roots of the plant, the
smallest of which are as essential to the grow
ing plant as the blood-vessels to the human or
ganism. Mr. Dickson says that every com root
cut—no matter how small—looses tho planter
one grain of com. When we calculate the
miriads of roots and fibrils in one corn-stalk, we
can estimate the actual loss in grains of com,
The idea is to spare every root; do not tear
them up. They represent grains of com—the
fruit of the plant.
The method of breaking laud deep and broad
cast, and planting intrenches eight inches deep,
enables the planter to cultivate very easily-
saving a great deal of labor—with the large
wing sweep. It throws sufficient dirt to the
com and destroys the grass and weeds. When
the cultivation is commenced the com is be
neath the common surface; and it requires the
second ploughing to bring it up to a level. The
■whig of the sweep, well turned up, will throw
sufficient dirt to tho com tho third and last
ploughing, and the land is left almost a perfect
eveL
The roots of the com are left to permeate the
soil in every direction, and the evaporation of
the moisture has been prevented by not expos
ing it to the influence of the sun and wind by
turning up the soil in ridges. The moisture is
left then, imbedded in the soil, to bo appro
priated by the roots of a thirsty plant—
Consequently the facility with which com
stands the drought. The moisture furnished
by the rains of winter and spring has
been %^11 husbanded by this surface cultiva
tion, and every root and fibril have been
left to perform the functions that nature in
tended in putting them forth. You may as well
contend, that by cutting veins and arteries in a
man’s hand, and allowing the flow of blood, you
add vigor to his health, as to say that, by cut
ting the roots of com, you do not injure the
growth of the plant. If the plant did not need
roots, nature would not put them forth. Every
com root you cut injures tho plant so much, and
the common practice of ploughing com with
straight plows necessarily cuts a great many
roots, because the plant puts forth its roots right
at the surface of the ground. Tho lateral roots
are necessarily injured, and the plant stunned
for the want of feeders.
Nature, as well as common sense, and reason
and philanthropy, assert the correctness of Mr.
Dickson’s theory and practice in the cultivation
of com; and his own success demonstrates the
truth of the principle. He makes the com,
while those who follow the adverse policy fail to
make it. Such success is attributable not to
magic, but alone to management.
J. Dickson Smith.
Houston county, March 13th, 1869.
4*» ■ •
The Colored Cabin Passenger.
In the case of Harriett Jacobs vs. the Savan
nah line of steamers, tho jury, being unable to
agree to a verdict, were discharged. The N.
Y. Herald says editorially:
By the Judge's oharge the whole point in tho
case of the suit against the steamship compa
ny for ejecting a colored person from the cabin
is made to turn on the point whether or not the
daughter used a deception in purchasing the
ticket. Judge Daly has put the merits of these
cases in a clear light. Common carriers ore re
quired to take passengers, but can impose their
own rules, and may properly separate persons
of different color, so that no colored person has
a right or claim to travel in a cabin set apart for
whites. Nevertheless, if the company makes a
a fair contract to carry a colored person in the
cabin of tho whites, it must execute this con
tract. The question is, then, whether the com
pany sold the tickets, knowing they wero for
colored persons, or whether the tickets were,
when sold, believed to be for whites. The com
pony claims that the tickets were sold for whites,
as the daughter who bought them could not be
distinguished from a white person, and that
this daughter deceived the company as to the
color of her mother, who is black. This fact is
whet the jury is to determine. If there was de
ception, the plaintiff cannot recover damages
but if the company knew, or for any reason
were bound to know .that the plaintiff’s mother
was a black woman, it must pay.
The jury failed to agree on a verdict.
AFFAIRS IS GEORGIA.
HON. NELSON TIFT IN REJOINEF. TO THE
GOVERNOR.
To the Honorable Chairman and Members of
the Reconstruction Committee :
Gentlemen—I have read the letter of Gover
nor Bollock, of Georgia, to yqpr Committee, in
reply to my statement, which was laid on the
table of the House and ordered to be printed, on
the 3d instant.
I am gratified to learn from Governor Bul
lock’s letter that he now,'in effect, denies that
he has ever desired that “the civil government
of the State shall be destroyed, and military or
provisional government established” in Georgia.
But if thin be true, he has been so unfortu
nate in the use of language as to deceive not
only myself, but all others with whom I have
conversed upon the subject.
In the answers which he quotes from his tes
timony before the Reconstruction Committee,
he virtually states that the Legislature has not
adopted the “fundamental conditions required
to make Georgia a State,” and he refers to a
communication which he made to Congress.
That communication will he found on page 117
of the printed testimony, in which he styles him
self Provisional Governor, and states distinctly
that the government of Georgia is provisional
Ho says: “Having, as Provisional Governor
elect under the reconstruction acts, been author
ized * * * to convene the Provisional Leg
islature of Georgia; and having * * * been
appointed Provisional Governor of Georgia by
Major General George G. Meade, * * * I
deem it my official duty to represent to your
honorable body that tho laws under which the
State of Georgia was to have been admitted to
representation in Congress have not been fully
executed."
*******
“The government of the State has therefore
been, and must continue to be, provisional until
the conditions required by the act which became
law June 25, 1868, shall have been complied
with by a Legislature organized in accordance
with the reconstruction acts previously adopt
ed.”
The testimony of Governor Bullock which
follows the question and answer quoted in his.
letter is as follows—p. 2, printed testimony:
By the Chairman:
Q. By that you mean that the Commanding
General should re-assemble the Legislature as
it was elected?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And then to have the test oath adminis
tered ?
A. Yes, sir, to have the law executed * *
By Mr. Brooks:
Q. "What effect would that have upon existing
laws, upon money appropriations, the judiciary
of the State and general legislation ?
A. The same effect as the act of Congress had
which declared the government of 1865 altogeth-
or illegal. * * *
Again, on page 5, printed testimony:
By Mr. Beaman:
Q. What is your view as to whether the four
teenth amendment has been adopted by the
Legislature of Georgia?
A. Ido not think it has been legally adopted;
my view is that there has not been yet any legal
organization of the Legislature in 'Georgia, au
thorized to do any legislative act, from the fact
that the original provisional body was not cor
rectly organized.
I have quoted these extracts from Governor
Bullock’s testimony, and his communication to
Congress, to show the reasons which I had to
charge him in my “circular” “with the avowed
purpose of inducing Congress to destroy the
present organized government of that State, and
remand her people to military rule, or the dic
tatorship of a provisional Governor and in
support of my “statement” to your committee,
that he “ asks that the civil government of the
State shall be destroyed, and a military or provi
sional government established.”
What does Governor Bullock mean in his
communication to Congress, in which he styles
himself “Provisional Governor;” insists that
the reconstruction acts “have not been execu
ted ;” states that “the government of the States
has therefore, been, and must contiune to be,
provisional until” certain conditions are com
plied with; and calls on Congress to interfere ?
What does he mean when, in answer to Mr.
Brooks, as to the “effect” of the policy which
he was thus urging upon Congress, he said:
“The same effect as the act of Congress had
which declared the government of 1865 altogeth
er illegal” ***** Again, in answer
to Mr. Beman : * * “My view is that there
has not been yet any legal organization of the
Legislature in Georgia.” * * * * * *
The Government of Georgia is now, and has
been since July, 1868, operating as a legally or
ganized civil government. Governor Bullock’s
anguage conveys the idea that he believes that
government to be illegal, and all its acts void;
that the government of Georgia is still provis
ional, and that he desires Congress to enforce
his views.
Military or provisional government necessa
rily involves the destruction of the present civil
government. The difference between military
and provisional government is, that a provi
sional government is the creature and instru
ment of military power; their edicts supersede
civil law, and are enforced by the army and
navy.
But Gov. Bullock now asks, with the pathos
of injured innocence, “is there anything in this
answer of mine which asks that the civil govern
ment of the State shall be destroyed and military
or provisional government established ? Is there
any suggestion in my communication to Con
gress, on the opening of the session, which in
dicates such desire on my part ? My only object
was, and is, to secure the establishment of a
loyal civil government in this State.”
If Governor Bullock means by this language
that he is opposed to the reconstruction of the
Legislature, charges “their absolute failure to :
perform the duties required by the Constitution,
and their revolutionary action in expelling many
loyal members. ’ ’ By what right or authority does
the Executive of Georgia impugn the motives
and denounce the action of the Legislature to
the reconstruction Committee of Congress ? He
is no way responsible for their action, and is ex
pressly prohibited by the Constitution from ex
ercising any power properly attached to the leg
islative or judicial departments of the Govern
ment.
5th. Gov. Bullock misquotes the Constitution
to show that negroes are eligible to the Legisla
ture in Georgia. He says: “The State Consti
tution distinctly provides that ‘ all citizens of the
United States who have resided six months in
this State, except idiots, insane persons, and
thoce who have been convicted of felonies, shall
be eligible to hold office.’ ”
* * * * * •
Gov. Bullock was a member of the Conven
tion which framed the Constitution, and is not
ignorant of its provisions. I am, therefore,
compelled to believe that the above fabrication
was intended for deception. The fact is, there
is no such danse or declaration in the Constitu
tion of Georgia.
I suppose the following to be the artide and
section of the Constitution of Georgia which
Governor Bullock intended to pervert:
Article 1—Sec. 6. The General Assembly
may provide from time to time for the registra
tion of all electors ; but the following classes of
persons shall not he permitted to register, vote
or hold office :
“First. Those who shall have been convicted
of treason, embezzlement of public funds, mal
feasance in office, crime punishable by law with
imprisonment in the penitentiary, or bribery.
“Second. Idiots or insane persons.”
There is no part of the Constitution which
declares who ‘‘shall be eligible to hold office."
The striking ont, by the aid of Governor Bul
lock’s vote in Convention, from the original
draft of the Constitution, the clause which made
a right to the elective franchise a qualification
for holding office, left the Constitution silent on
that subject, and has been the cause of doubt
and difficulty.
6th. Governor Bullock quotes the resolution
passed by the Legislature, pledging the people
of Georgia to abide by the decision of the Su
preme Court, when made on the question of
eligibility of colored men to office ; and he gives
as a reason for not approving it, his opinion, in
substance, that the Legislature did not intend
to abide by such decision, and that there
was nothing in the resolution tending to
bring about a settlement of the question.
I disagree entirely with Gov. Bullock. I be
lieve that the preamble and resolution expresses
truly the motives and purposes of the Legisla
ture that passed them, and that they could not
probably go further or do more under the circum
stances.* The Legislature cannot refer the ques
tion of the eligibility of members to their body
to the Supreme Court, because it is a question
confided by the Constitution to the Legislature,
and the court has no jurisdiction. But when a
case shall come before the Supreme Court in the
usual way, their decision will be an authoritative
exposition of what the Constitution really means
and is on this subject, and will settle the whole
question, because after that time all persons, in
the Legislature or out of it, who take the oath
to support? tho Constitution, must accept that
meaning.
7th. Of those who sent answers to y mcircu-
lars, two are judges of the Supreme Court, four
judges of the Superior Court, the State Treasur
er, sixty-eight judges of the Court of Ordinary
in as many counties, eleven mayors of cities, six
clerks of the Superior Court, nine sworn state
ments, one United States assessor, and others—
making one hundred and eight persons, one
hundred and seven of whom agree in all essen
tial particulars in opposition to the policy advo
cated by Governor Bullock, and in denial of the
statements made to Congress, which were in
tended to show that his policy was necessary. I
stated my opinion, that these witnesses of the
truth were chiefly Republicans. Governor Bul
lock thinks I am mistaken. It may be so. I
know that they represent all shades of political
opinion—extreme Republicans, moderate Re
publicans, reconstructionists, original Union
men, and Democrats; bnt what is more impor
tant is, that without the possibility of preconcert
they are in general agreement as to the facts,
and their veracity is unimpeached.
Governor Bullock says: •* Lewis Jackson,
(colored) as I am reliably informed, denies, on
oath, ever having made any reply whatever to
the interrogations of Hon. Mr. Tift, and an
nounces the communication appearing in the
report of the Beconstraction Committee as com
ing from himself to the Hon. Mr. Tift to be a
forgery.”
My circular was directed to the Judge of the
Court of Ordinary of McIntosh county, as to all
other counties. I did not know who occupied
the place. I received through the mails, Mr.
Jackson’s answer, which is published on page
217 of the testimony on “ the condition of af
fairs in Georgia." The manuscript is in the
hands of the committee, and I have the envelope
in which it was received I shall adopt means
to ascertain the truth on this subject. The tes
timony purporting to come from Mr. Jackson
agrees in substance with that of the Mayor of
Darien, Ga., Hon. S. Vi.Wilson, printed on page
189 of the Georgia testimony.
In closing this review of Governor Bullock’s
letter, I confess with sorrow the humiliation I
feel in the necessity which makes it my duty as
a representative, to defend the people and the
State of Georgia against the slanders and mach
inations of her Governor. "Whatever may have
been the motives which dictated his course, in
stead of acting as the guardian and defender of
her rights, her honor and her interests, as duty
and manhood required, he has been foremost
among her defamers, and the chief enemy of
her peace and prosperity.
The order and comparative prosperity which
General Assembly of Georgia,
REPORTED SPECIALLY FOR THE MACON
DAILY TELEGRAPH.
Atlanta, March 18, 1869.
Senate.—The Senate met.
Mr. Hinton moved to reconsider the action of
the Senate on the bill preventing fraud in the
laying off of homesteads.
The motion prevailed and the bill waa taken
Mr. Speer moved a reconsideration of the ac
tion of the Senate on a bill repealing so much
of an act as authorized the levying of a tax to
pay costs due on insolvent criminal cases so far
as relates to the county of Macon.
The motion prevailed and the bill was taken
up and passed.
A reconsideration by Mr. Smith, of the 7th, of
the action of the Senate on the resolution adopt-
ing the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, was decided out of order
by the President, on the ground that it was a
motion to reconsider a motion to reconsider.
An appeal was taken from the decision of the
Chair, when the yeas and nays were called and
the Chair sustained by a vote of yeas 14—navs
Mr. Cohnan moved to lay the whole matter
on the table, which motion was lost by a vote of
yeas 9—nays IS.
Mr Braten moved the adoption of the fifteenth
amendment upon which the yeas and nays were
called, when they stood yeas 13—nays 1C.
The following are tho names of the Senators
voting:
Yeas—Adkins, Braten, Collier, Griffin, (21st,)
Hungerford, Jordan, Merrill, McCutchen, Nes
bitt, Smith, (7th,) "Wellborn, "Welch and "Winn
—13.
Nays—Anderson, Bowers, Bums, Candler,
Column, Fain, Griffin, (6th,) Harris, Hinton,'
Lester, McArthur, Moore, Nunnally Sherman
Smith, (36th,) Speer—16.
The Senate took up a House resolution ad
journing sine die at 12 o’clock to-night, and con-
curred in the same.
Mr. Bruton moved that the Governor bo au
thorized to call upon the Secretary of War to
send troops for the aid of Sheriffs in counties
where the Sheriffs make affidavit that they can
not make an arrest without such aid.
A vote was taken when the motion was lost by
a vote of yeas 12: nays 19.
The following bills wero taken up, read and
passed :•
A bill making the fiscal year conform with the
■year.
civil government of the State, and the establish- now exist in Georgia are due to the wisdom,
ment of provisional or military government—
that he did not inteud to make any such sugges
tion to Congress—that there is no such desire
on his part, and that he desires simply to secure
good civil government, by the constitutional and
legitimate means which would be applicable to
moderation and forbearance of her people.
They believe that troth and justice will yet pre
vail, and their rights as a State in the Union be
recognized and respected.
Very respectfully, your obedidfirt servant.
Nelson Tift.
all other States in the Union, then, whilst I con- j
gratulate him and the country upon this revela- ! Establishment of the Opera in Paris,
tion, I must express my regret that the language j The Paris Opera was established by the fol-
heretofore used by him has not only failed to lowing edict, remarkable for its ingenuous and
The Gettysburg Monument.—Senator Mor
ton, of Indiana, has accepted the invitation of
the Board of Commissioners of Gettysburg Na
tional Cemetery to deliver the address on the
first of July next, at the dedication of the mon
ument, which will be completed by that time.
An original poem will be delivered by Bayard
Taylor, and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will per- grounds,
form the duties of chaplain. f" "
convey bis present ideas, but has been the cause
of great anxiety and alarm to the people of Geor
gia, and the friends of peace and a restored
tinion elsewhere.
I now pass to a brief examination of the ar
gument of Governor Bullock.
1st. He does not deny my statement, that the
laws of Congress for tho reconstruction and ad
mission of Georgia haye been complied with,
but says, in substance, if this be true, the ob
jects of Congress have not been attained.
If the object of Congress was to establish con
stitutional government in Georgia, which should
be so administered as to protect the rights of
person and property, and bring peace and pros
perity to the country, the testimony which I
have heretofore presented shows that they have
succeeded in their object, with a single excep
tion ; 4 I mean the pestiferous swarm of disap
pointed leeches and office-seekers, who make
merchandise of their “loyalty,” to the disgust
of all true Republicans, and who are determined
that there shall be no .peace in Georgia until
they are provided for at the public expense.
2d. In answer to my statement that “we have
the legal testimony of the members themselves,
and of the respective legislative bodies of which
thoy are members, that not one in either House
is ineligible under the 14th Amendment,” Gov
ernor Bullock says: “Is it reasonable to sup
pose that a body of men, tho majority of whom
subscribe to the political faith of a party of
which Hon. Mr. Tift is a leader, * * *
would do otherwise than vote themselves legal
members?”
If this means anjrthing, it means that the
body of men composing the two Houses of the
Georgia Legislature, 217 in all, with the excep
tion of two members who dissented, perjured
themselves in declaring that none were ineligi
ble under the fourteenth amendment, and this
is a reasonable supposition, because a majority
of them were Democrats!
It would be painful to comment on this dec
laration as I think it deserves, and I leave it
with the single remark that it is more important
for Governors of States to be charitable gentle
men than violent partisans. .J, 4 * . . j •* ’
3d. Governor Bollock complains that the
House of Representatives did not submit to
him the evidence upon which the members
were declared eligible under the fourteenth
amendment. The reason, doubtless, was be.
cause neither law nor propriety made it neces
sary, or gave him any voice in the decision of
the qnestion. General Meade demanded the
investigation, and both he and General Grant
were satisfied. Governor Bullock’s action on
that subject since that time has been an offi
cious intermeddling in a matter in which he had
no rightful authority, and over whioh he had no
official control
The question then under consideration, re
lating to qualifications under the fourteenth
amendment, did not affect the colored men who
wore subsequently declared ineligible on other
Governor Bullock, in speaking of the
patriotic tone—which was issued by Charles IX.
in 1570 BBBI
“We, Charles, by the grace of God, King of
France, send greeting to all men now living and
to come. As we have made it our care, after
the example of King Francis, our predecessor,
of good and praiseworthy memory, whose sins
may God forgive, to see that literature and sci
ence should flourish in our kingdom of France,
and also in our town of Paris, where there are
great numbers of persons who devote their dai
ly labor and study thereto, and as it is highly
important for the citizens of a town that the
music usually and commonly cultivated in a
state should be subject to certain laws, and the
more so because that tho minds of most men
are formed and directed by it, in such wise that
where music is neglected manners are aptto de-
denerate, and where it is properly regulated
men are of good morals.
For these reasons, and after having seen the
petition addressed to our privy council, and sent
in by our well beloved and trusty. J. A. de Balf
and J. T. de Courville, which sets forth that for
three years, with great industry and persever
ing labor, they have worked together for the
improvement of the French language, which
may be applied both to the constmction of po
etry and to the nature and regulation of music,
as those arts were well cultivated in former
times by Greeks and Romans. With the wish
that I may multiply for them the grace which
God has shown them, I hereby permit them to
establish, on the model of the ancients, an acad
emy or society, consisting as well of composers,
singers and performers upon musical instru
ments as of worthy auditors, which academy
shall not only be a nursery, whence we shaft
one day obtain poets and musicians, but which
shall also profit the public. Charles.”
Labor in Kentucky.—A letter from Bowling
Green says:
Go where you will in the country, the same
complaint of deficiency in farm labor is heard.
The negroes, as a general thing, are unreliable,
and, strange as it may seem, they become disaf
fected just about the time they are most needed.
I heard a farmer say that he had gone to the ex
pense of building a house on his place for a ne
gro, and kept him all winter in comparative
idleness, and now that spring has come he has
tendered his resignation. Such cases are quite
common, and there is but little reliance placed
on negro labor. The farmers are all in favor of
any good immigration scheme that would secure
reliable and skilled farm hands. They are now
paying negroes $200per annum, and good hands
are scarce at that price.
Breaking Down of a Church Roof by Snow.
Lewiston, Me., March 15.—Heavy snow on
the roof of the Congregational Church at Wil
ton caused it to give way this morning, entirely
leveling the building, and destroying the organ
tad furniture. The library alone remains un
disturbed.
A bill extending State aid to the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad.
The resolution by Mr. Speer, requiring the
Secretary of the Senate to furnish a list of the en
grossing clerks and the dates on which they com-
mencedactiye work, and requiring the Auditory
Committee to audit their accounts as rendered
in by tho Secretary, was taken np and adopted.
The usual number of votes of thanks to clerks,
secretaries, etc., were adopted.
The Senate adjourned.
House.—The House met tes usual.
Mr. McWhorter, the Speaker, decided that as
there was a quorum present last night, when the
vote on the adoption of the resolution providing
for tho purchase of the Opera Capitol was taken,
and, as a majority of the votes cast were for the
adoption of the resolution, the resolution was
adopted, and the Opera House purchased.
Mr. Scott* of Floyd, appealed from the de
cision of tho Chair. He claimed that such a de
cision wes an infamous, fraud practiced upon
the people of Georgia. He denied that there
was a quorum presont, and referred to the
Journal to prove tha correctness of his state
ment. He stated that the Speaker had always
required a quorum to vote on all matters here
tofore, and his present decision is one which
the honest people will not submit to. His re- *
marks plainly intimated that personal motives
had influenced the Speaker's decision.
Mr. Shumate argued that a quorum being
present, it only required a majority of the votes
cast to effect the adoption of a measure.
Mr. Flournoy thought the Speaker in error.
The Speaker tried to justify his decision, and
felt that he had possibly done right.
Mr. Rawles objected to the Chair trying to
explain himself when the previous question had
been called.
On tha appeal from the decision of the Chnir
the yeas and nays were demanded, and the
voto stood, yeas 55, nays 65; so the decision of
the Speaker was overruled.
Mr. Scott, of Floyd, moved to indefinitely
postpone the whole matter, which motion pre
vailed—yeas 64, nays 57.
On motion of Mr. Shumate the House tooknp
the General Appropriation Bill, and appointed
the following Committee of Conference :
Messrs. McCullough, Tumlin, Hudson, Be-
thune and Butt.
The following bills were passed:
A bill to bring on an election for members of
the Forty-first Congress in May next.
A bill to change the time of holding the Supe
rior Courts in certain counties.
The Governor has signed the resolution
appointing E. Hulbert, Campbell Wallace, Mark
A. Cooper, John P. King, and Alex. H- Stpehens,
Commissioners for the purchase of the Rome
Railroad.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, of Ribb, offered a resolution
allowing no pay to committees during the recesi
of the Legislature, which was taken up anti
adopted.
A bill incorporating the town of Cochran, in
the county of Pulaski. Passed.
A bill incorporating the Georgia and Alabama
Steamboat Company. Passed.
A bill legalizing the marriage of Thomas Lee
and Nancy Lee. Passed.
A bill to change the line between the counties
of Gwinnett and DeKalb. Passed.
The House adjourned.
Important Change* in the Military
Service.
Washington, March 17.—The fbllowing order
was issued yesterday:
Headquarters of the Army, Wabhinotol
March 16.—General Order No. 18.—By direc
tion of the President, the following changes are
made of Military Divisions and Department
Commanders:
L Lieut. Gen. P. H. Sheridan is assigned to
the command of the Military Division of the
West.
II. Maj. Gen. H. W. Halleck is assigned to
the Military Division of the South, to bo com
posed of the Department of Louisiana, th;
Fourth Military District and the States com
posing the present Department of the Cumber
land; headquarters at Louisville, Ky. M»J-
Gen. Halleck will proceed to his new command
as soon as relieved by Maj. Gen. Thomas.
ITT- Maj. Gen. Geo. H. Thomas is appointed
to the command of tho Military Division of the
Pacific.
IY. Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield is assigned to
the command of tho Department of Missonn-
The State of Illinois and the post of Fort Smith
are transferred to his department.
V. Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard is assigned w
the command of the Department of Louisian*.
Until his arrival the senior officer, Brv’t M»>
Gen. J. A. Mower, will command according to
his brevet rank. J
VI. The Department of Washington will *
dtscontinued and merged into the Departm® 1
of the East. The records will be sent to f e
Adjutant General of the army. < ,
VTL The First Military District will be adn^
to the Military Division of the Atlantic.
YIII. As soon as Maj. Gen. Thomas is ready
to relinquish command of the Department m f& e
Cumberland the department will be discontin
ued, and the States comprising it will be sdde
to other departments. The records will < or "
warded to the Adjutant of the army.
By command of Gen. Sherman,
E. D. Townsend, A. A. ti
ll is an ill wind that blows nobody my g 00 ^
as we think somebody has said before. And eve
a steamship race across the ocean mef be mad
conducive to the interests of the aeople-
seems that the Cunarders, who retail the m*’'
carrying, though their ship lost in the re*®.
race, have done a good thing to “vrn P°FrS*
ty,” as it is said; and we don’t cafe what t
motive was, regarding only the thing d< ®.
They have reduced their fares; anl any one
now go to Europe as a steeragepassang°{| nt
$30, and as a cabin ditto for $80, which is abo
one-third of the former rates. Until very
the Cumard boats received no average passe-
gers, but the success of the Ciy of Pans
stirred them up to see dollars in “ragged
men,” or any other man who )u the money
Twiramnjt’s Confession.—tie have
the following communication fom the Rev-
Bringhurst: a
“A report is widely cirouhted that Gto 1 ?®
TwitcheU has confessed to up that he m the®
derer of Mrs. Hill In jofeoe to the jouw
man I would say he has made no such coni
«inn lint nn the oontrarv. rfotests his InnoCtlU ^
sion, but on the contrary,
confidently expecting the.-
innocence patent to the
rto
makettst
