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The Greor^ia Weekly Telegra
THE TELEGRAPH.
ikACOK, FRIDAY, APRIL-9, 18C9.
Another Alabama Jeffries.
Oar beloved sister in affliction, the -State
of Alabama, by some inscrutable Providence,
seems to ba abandoned of Divine mercy in re
spect to her judiciary. She seems to have, so
far as. at least two of her important judicial
officers are concerned, incumbents who have
little ether idea of their professional preroga
tives than to use them for purposes of the great
est tyranny and outrage, venting their despotic
tempera and bitter spleen upon whoever comes
before them, with a malice and fory which rival
that of the judicial beast and monstrosity
Jeffries, as set forth by the glowing pen of
Macauley?
Some weeks ago we alluded to the perform-
anoes-of Judge J. Q. Smith, of the Montgomery
Circuit, who fined and imprisoned the editor of
the Montgomery Mail for declining to do jury
servioe when exempted by statute. Mobile is
now excited over the pranks of Judge Moulton,
of the city court, who sent a poor copper-smith,
named Schultz,- to jail five days, because in the
pursuit of bis avocation in his work-shop oppo
site the Court-house, he had inadvertently dis
turbed the Judge by the noise of hammering.
The Register says:
Mr. Schultz, who had no counsel or friend to
speak'for’liim, only obtained leave to wait till
dark, and in the meantime sought legal advice,
and when, the court re-assembled in the evening,
and after Thomas A Hamilton, Esq., had con
cluded an able argument, Major St Paul rose
and courteously begged the court to allow him
to offer a few remarks on behalf of Mr. Schnltz,
but before he had concluded the very first sen
tence, the Judge brutally turned on him and or
dered him to take his seat, as he would hear no
remarks on his action towards Schnltz, and that
if he, Major St. Paul, offered any apology, he,
Major St Paul, would be sent to a jail at onco.
The foregoing is from the Register. An eye
witness famishes the Tribune with the follow
ing account of what occurred between Major St
Paul and the Judge:
Major St Paul attemt** 0 '' - tu address the
court:
“May it please the court, .1 wish to address tho
court not however, in regard tot h° case now
before the Court I appear for a citizen who
was arrested for contempt.”
Houlton (Judge).—“The Court will not hear
anything from you, Major St Paul in regard to
the contempt.”
St Paul—But yonr Honor, I appear for—”
Moulton, Judge—If the person wishes to
purge himself of contempt the court will listen
to him, -but nothing from you.
Maj. St Paid—Bat your Honor—
Moulton, Judge—Fine this man §50.
Maj. St Paul—This is a—
Moulton, Judge—Fine him fifty dollars more.
Maj. St Paul—This is a high handed outrage
upon the rights of—
Monlton, Judge—Mr. Sheriff, take this man
to jail.
Major St. Paul—The Court can arrest me
through the Sheriff but I wish yon to understand
that you cannot do it. j
As this excitement was at its height Major St.
Paul withdrew from the courtroom undercharge
of the Sheriff, and is now in tho custody of that
officer. j
“The affair has created quite an excitement
in the .community, and a large number of per
sons assembled on Royal street, in front of Maj.
St. Paul’s office, as he was being driven in a
carriage to the county jail. We shall look for
new and farther developments in the ease <Jur.
nnnrca nf fVirt /low **
tien. Grant’s Administration.
The N. Y. Herald of the 1st instant oonsoles
the public disappointment in tho promise of the
Grant administration by a comparison of his
•civic and military breakdown at the outset of
both careers. After reviewing at some length
the inauspicious commencement of his military
career, the Herald proceeds to say:
Affairs is Dougherty.—The Albany Mews
of yesterday says that, at the late election for
Magistrates in that city, CoL Lockett and other
planters had just completed paying off for the
first quarter, and our streets were crowded with
colored people, who had come to trade and have
a little recreation in the city. They were as
joyous and happy as they were wont to be in
As General Grant commenced his military so j the days of slavery on a holiday, and the same
has he commenced his political career. It is • politeness and deference that prevailed in those
not brilliant. His first movement, like that ^ mar k e q their conduct on this occasion.
Cabinet 3 hitche™ 8 H^raTaboth"^ not a j Though many were intoxicated, the day passed
blunder. He had to make a retrograde more-! without a single infringement of peaqp or good
ment and re-fonn his lines. He finally sue- j order, and by dark all had left for their homes,
ceeded in organizing his staff of official conn- i ma y now gafely and certainly affirmed
sellors and began the w ork o * P° j* that the races in tbig section are on good terms,
campaign. Here he was met by the odious B , 8 ’ ,
tcnure-of-office act; and hero he finds that, {and that they are prepared to work together for
as in his military career ho had to encounter —•- ~* v — J —*■**“ . i
the opposition of officials in high quarters in
the War Department in Washington, he has now
ing the course of tho day.’’
The Public Debt.—The pnblio debt .state
ment, issued on the 1st of April, shows ad in
debtedness less cash in the Treasmy amounting
to$2,525,19G,4C1.74, and a reduction of the prin
cipal of the debt, os reported last month, of
§2,592,039.10, whilst daring the same period
the sum of §2,915,320, has been issued to the
Pacific Railroad Company and Branches—rmak-
ing a total reduction of debt proper of $3,507,-
359.28. j
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Fine Planting Weather.—The farmers are
blest, so far, with remarkably fine weather for
planting, and the germination of the crops.
— —.... ... *.-«■»-. cz.au u nas done io.
a week past. The stand will be far better than
ordinary, and if wo escape heavy frosts every
thing will bo right for a fair start in cropping.
History of Hath.—As in all human proba
bility the movement from Hayti for incorpora
tion into tho grand republic will be successful,
and it is important to see what we arc coming
to or what is coming to ns, wo reprint from
the New York World an interesting historical
sketch of this island. It will bo found on our
first page. _
Yellow Fever in South America.—The yel
low fever is spreading rapidly on the south coast
of Pern, committing terrible ravages. It had
broken out on board the steamer Toscarora,
and Paymaster Cushing died of it I
Monroe County Scrip.—The Ordinary of
Monroe county calls upon all holders of Monroe
county Treasury notes to present them to
Messrs. B. Pye & Son for redemption, within
the next thirty days.
Locomotive Explosion.—Engine No. 53, on
the Nashville and Chattanooga Road, blew np
near Dack River bridge last Saturday evening,
killing the engineer and mortally wounding the
fireman. This is tho fonrth one of the engines
bought of the Government by that road which
has exploded. They ore unhealthy.
The Little Fishes.—The Cincinnati En
quirer is responsible for a joke upon our Sec
retary of State, Hamilton Fish, who was exhib
iting ta a lady a collection of oil portraits of his
children. “What do you think of them ?” said
the Secretary. “My dear sir,” blandly respond
ed his guest, “they are capital sardines.’
“Good sardines ? What do you mean by that?”
“Why, little Fishes in oil, of course.”
Dawson Hotel, Dawson, Ga, — This well-
known Hotel is kept by Mr. Wiley Jones, one
of the kindest and most accommodating land
lords in Southwestern Georgia. Everything
about the premises is in the neatest order, and
the table is bountifully supplied with good food
in the best condition. The servants are atten
tive, and nothing is omitted to make guests com
fortable. •
Universal Sufferings.—A Washington cor.
respondent of the Montgomery Advertiser re
ports a discussion with an African politician in
the Eederal. City. The following extract will
suffice :
“ But what else can you want ?” said I, sym
pathetically. “ We must have universal ‘suffer
ings’-for the colored citizens, male and female,
he replied.
¥ I suppose you mean suffrage,” said I, “ for
God knows, the white and black race,' male and
female, have had sufferings enough daring the
last eight years.” . Jk»
Never race of man stood a fairer chance for
“universal sufferings," than the blacks under
the manipulations of white politicians in America.
Lewis Tapp an, a New York “philanthropist,”
has published a pamphlet against the prevailing
eagemos3 to become .rich. Ther^ are some
teachings of tbfa sort, mnch older than Mr.
Tappan or his pamphlet, and it is not probable
that, while they fall, he will have better success.
If tho publication of pamphlets would only rec
tify all the weaknesss of poor human nature—
but it won’t,
Lewis Tappan must be a son of the “old
original” abolitionist of that name, and if. he
can emancipate the country from the all-con
suming thirst for. wealth he may redeem some of
thefolliee of his father.
"Fax excellent Menu of the American House,
Boston, commends itself to the traveler. The
location is unsurpassed for parties either on
business or pleasure, and ita accommodations
to be embarrassed with a similar hostility,
through the ambitions designs of the oligarchy
in the United States Senate. The old politicians,
too, are annoying him by their endeavors to cir
cumvent his plans and to make him believe that
party is superior to country and that public plun
der is tho proper reward of those trading parti-
ti« who helped to elevate him to the Presiden
cy. We believe he has a harder fight now than
he ever had in the field, and that ho would any
day rather face tho blaze of an enemy’s battery
than undergo the daily ordeal of meeting the bat
talions of office-seekers that invest tho White
House. But his day his coming, just as surely
as his standard rose above the capital city of the
foe. He is abased now as he was on his partial
successes during the wnr, and the abuse that is
now bestowed npon him will in the end, as it was
at the end of tho war, be turned to pmans of
praise. He will overcome obstacles that the en
vious, tho fanatical, the ambitions or the treaeh-
erousmaycastinhispatli. He will have a political
Vicksburg as ho had a military one; he will have
political successes similar to those military suc
cesses which followed in regular train on the
peninsula of Virginia, culminating in a grand
and final political Appomattox. The vote on
the Tennre-of-office act shows that he has the
House with him, and the temper of the Senate
in exhibited in its action yesterday. He cannot
be impeached, because tho House would not
originate tho proceeding. Therefore. h» might
us well co on, make liia appointments, let the
emote slide, and, after demoralizing the Radi
cal party by a magnificent strategic movement,
erect a party of his own that will rally around
him in any emergency. Thus will his political
■mission—beginning, like his military career, in
a somewhat bungling manner—end as that did,
in a effulgent ray of glory, imparting alike union
and harmony, confidence and prosperity all over
the country.
Since we can get no better assurance than this,
let us take it “ nor look the gift horse in the
month.” The Herald’s whole article is based on
the recognition of a fact, too patent for dispute,
that a serious disappointment already exists
in the patriot mind of the country in reference
to the promise and prospects of the administra
tion. The people did not look for a Democratic
or an anti-repnblican party administration, bnt
they had persuaded themselves that Gen. Grant
would strike ont boldly for a constitutional, hon
est, fair and liberal administration. They
thought he would, to some extent, get out of the
old Radical ruts and carry on the Government
with an eye to the general welfare, and in oppo-
tion to the administration of a Supreme Con
gress which is notoriously conducted in contempt
of the public welfare and in exclusive devotion
to tho interests of the Radical faction, and of
themselves as its leaders. Upon this idea, Grant
was elected, and upon it were based all those
promises of peace and prosperity which were so
profusely made by the Conservative Republi
can leaden.
But the lapse of one month, if it has not struck
them dumb, bos produced a marked hesitation
and faltering. The aspccts.as the Herald admits,
are not flattering. The appointments are gen
erally from the most malignant type of radical
ism, and with bnt few exceptions give little
assurance of reform and amendment in the per
sonal character of the appointees. The tone
of the administration is far from elevated, and
indications are apparent that it will fail to
achieve tho measure of executive independence
voaennal to any administration seeking the gen
eral welfare, and bent on maintaining constitu
tional government. A general weakness and
vascillation aro manifest, rather than that kind
of soldierly Jacksonian firmness which was to
be the crowning characteristic of President
Grant. In short, everybody, except the most
bitter and unscrupulous partizans. is cliopfallen.
and the assurance of tho Herald does not come
a moment too soon to rekindle tho fading light
of hope, or revive the drooping plant of popular
confidence.
It will be bad business indeed if we aro to
have four years more of radical misrule. The
country is already so far from the straight road
of constitutional republicanism that the worst
radicals themselves think a return impossible.
They aro bringing forward their projects for an
empire, or a dictatorship, satisfied that the gov
ernment cannot be ran mnch longer without
chart or compass, and in utter disregard of its
original plan and character. There must be a
change, and they want to overslaugh at once all
the dead letter rubbish of a constitutional gov
ernment, which is practically ignored every min
ute in the day, and set np an autocracy which
shall no longer be embarrassed in any degree
by the forms of law. This is the shape of af
fairs now, and tho farther we travel in the same
road the less hope or possibility of a return to
republican usages and limitations.
The Herald borrows hope of better things,
because General Grant started inanspicionsly as
a soldier and afterwards displayed signal ability
in that career. But to say nothing of the funda
mental difference in the positions, there is this
unpromising contrast in Grant’s past and future
experience—that whereas, in tho one case, the
obstacles diminished as he proceeded, in the
present case they accumulate and increase with
every step. Every month he will be beset with
new difficulties, and they are not to be avoided
by even sinking the Presidential office into a
mere ministerial functionary of Congress.
Usurpation grows with indulgence. Tyranny
whets its appetite on non-resistance. They are
ever restless, unsatisfied and raging. They
must always have a victim, and a legislative
tyranny, when it has exhausted outside opposi
tion, will rend itself with its bloody fangs.
There is no peace in the premises but the peace
of the Constitution or the peace secured by a
military autocracy, lbe one is the peace of
liberty, law and justice—the other is the peace
of despotism. The Rump Parliament, after dis
patching all its enemies, turned npon itself, and
another and more bloody and cruel war was pre
vented only by the despotism of CromwelL The
French National Assembly did the same, and
France was saved from civil war and chaos by
the despotism of Napoleon.
This is the plain road tho American Republic
is travelling with its Supreme Congress—respon
sible to no law, human or divine. The two es
capes from universal chaos lie in fighting Con
gress back within Constitutional limits, or in
destroying the whole fabric of dishonored paper
guarantees and in setting np a despotism strong
enough to overpower their factions tendencies
and prevent the catastrophe to which they in
evitably tend. Some of Grant’s ultra Radical
friends see this in time, and call npon him to he
dictator. Others were looking for him to fight
Congress on the line of the Constitution, and
they are beginning to abandon hope. Both see
the drift of things and know that the aspect of
affairs is far from satisfactory.
The Independent takes this view of the po
litical condition
Grant “cares for no great idea," that he is
‘lifted to a station which is one placed too high
for his genius,” and that the Radical party “will
gradually grow weaker and weaker, and their
opponents stronger and stronger.”
each other’s good. The whites are satisfied
with the negro as a freedman, voter and labor
er; are willing to give him employment at fair
wages; protect him in all his rights, and stand
by him in all his troubles. Tho negroes, having
discovered that the whites are not their enemies,
as represented by by scalawags dnd carpet-bag
gers, but their true and only friends, have come
to the conclusion that they are, as yet, unfitted
for the arena of polities, and that their true
policy is to live npon terms of peace and friend
ship with us, and to content themselves in the
sphere of usefulness and tranquility.
Georgia Factories.
The Chronicle and Sentinel gives a list of
twelve cotton mills in that region which draw
their supplies from that cotton market, which
aggregate over 70,000 spindles and over 1,000
looms, demanding a minimum average for daily
supply, of more than ninety bodes of raw cotton.
All of these mills are prosperous and prosper
ing. The Augusta Factory pays its stockholders
regular quarterly dividends of five per cent, or
twenty per cent, per annum. The established
dividend of the Graniteville Factory is S per
cent; all profits over and above this sum is held
as a reserve fond and set apart as a banking
capital; a policy made necessary by the existing
limited National Bank capital, which has been
wisely and profitably pursued. We derive this
evidence of the prosperity of these mills from
their regular reports. The remainder of the
mills being close corporations, yield no statisti
cal information os to their prosperity.
Macon, April 3d, 18C9.
Editors Telegraph :—In a work from a mod
em pen I find the following classical allusion:
“Clytie like though her lips were, they did not
drop pearls and diamonds; but then they never
drop’d toads and adders.” Who was Clytie ?
Also, ’tis said of Swift, (yon know he was
fond of pans,) and his application of the line of
Virgil to the lady who threw down a fiddle, is,
so Scott says, the best that ever was made.
This is all that’s said on the subject. Can
you tell me the line? Any information by
either yourself or readers of the Telegraph, on
the above, will be gratefully received by—sir,
’tis impossible to say how much I am yours,
Kate Query.
In respect to the first question, a lady tells ns
the allusion is to a fairy tale. Clytie is a good
fairy from whose lips drop pearls and diamonds
as well as loving and benificent words, and she
is contrasted with a malignant fairy whose spite
ful words become toads and adders. We are
sorry that our fair informant conld not verify
tho information by citing book and page.
The second question we cannot answer at alL
Hancock County.
The Hancock Weekly Journal of the 2d instant
says:
If we may judge of the coming crop by the
amount of fertilizers brought to this county
daring the past three months, it will be im
mense. But while this is true, we are glad to
know that the greater part of it has been paid
for, and that a failure of the crop would not
leave onr planters so heavily involved in debt
as to prostrate them for another year.
There being a scarcity of field labor, tbnre t
— general disposition among the planters, we
believe, to cultivate less land—making the fer
tilizers make np to some extent, for the lack of
labor—and in this fact, we believe, will be found
the secret of successful planting in Middle Geor
gia.
We are gratified to hear that a few of our
planters are determined to mako com enough to
do them. This is a good policy—plant every
foot of land in com that yon can spare cotton
seed to' mannro. Then plant a small area in
cotton and pile on the fertilizers till yon make it
rich—make it produce a bale to the acre, and it
matters not how low tho price, there is money
in it. Bnt tho less there is made, the greater
will be the nett profits, if you will raise plenty
of com.
llonroe, Jasper, Jones and Pike.
The Monroe Advertiser of tho Gth instant
says:
The wheat crop of this county, we are in
formed, has ontgrown the gloomy prospects
which wo reported a fortnight ago, and now
promises welL Oats, notwithstanding the injury
received from the late cold weather, have every
appearance of turning ont a good yield.
We have information from Jasper, Jones and
Pike, as to the crop prospects in those counties.
In Jasper, the cotton crop will not be as largely
increased as in some of tho neighboring coun
ties. Wheat is looking well. Planters nro np
with their work, and everything is progressing
finely. In Jones, the planters generally are
preparing for a large crop of cotton, in spite of
the advice of newspapers. The provision crop,
however, will not be neglected. In Pike, the
farmers are not crazy on the cotton question,
and a good crop of com is likely to be put in
the ground. In all these counties a lack of farm
labor is complained of; bnt the energy of plan
ters, thus far, has kept them np to time.
Barbarities in Cuba.
A dispatch to the Herald, speaking of the cap
ture of the British schooner, Jeff Davis, by a
Spanish steamer, says:
This vessel was captured in the old Bahama
Channel and brought into Caibarien because
she had on board as passengers five Cabans,
white and colored, who were endeavoring to
reach Nassau. On arriving the passengers were
at once brought on shore and their landing was
soon known. Two of them, Francisco M. Jim
enez and Rafael Falero, were persons of stand
ing and wealth. They were surrounded by a
mob of volnnteers, and, in the presence of the
women and children of their own families, wero
taken from the guard of marines who had them
in charge and put to death in the street nnder a
promiscuous attack with guns, pistols, bayonets
and knives. Even after they wero dead the
volunteers amused themselves*by sticking their
bayonets into the lifeless bodies. When tired
of this Moody pastime they searched the bodies,
and finding a bag |nll of ounces, greeted the
discovery with cries of “ Viva Espana /” The
only crime of these two victims was merely that
of trying to escape from being sent to the
Island of Fernando Po, which has fallen to the
lot of all Cabans of any standing.
Gen. Grant and Georgia.
Tho National Intelligencer, of the 3rd, has
the following to say, bnt it most be remembered
that the Intelligeneer is an outsider
“The statement that General Grant has ex
pressed opinions favorable to the interference
jy Congress with the State Government of
Georgia, we regard as inaccurate to say the
least. We have very_ good reason to believe
that General Grant is tired of this continual
tinkering at the reconstruction business, and
thinks that States which are in the Unionshould
not be put ont again. He favored Bomo time
ago the submission of the question of negro
eligibility to the jndicial tribunals of Georgia,
and he might possibly favor an ultimate decision
of the issne by the United States Supreme Court;
bnt that he would prefer to see any hostile leg
islation directed against Georgia is- opposed to
his repeatedly expressed opinions. He prob
ably has the sagacity to see that this is not the
road to peace, and we guarantee that not for
one moment would he approve such a bill as Mr.
Butler has drawn.”
A Solid Consideration.—On Tuesday week
Mr. Sprague Raid in the Senate that he “knew
himself of a legislator, a member of a commit
tee, who had been asked to report npon a certain
way, and the temptation held ont before him
vu one honored thousand dollars. ’’
Affairs in Europe.
Editors Telegraph :—In France the
of a triple alliance between France, II
Austria have somewhat subsided.. But it' is a
fact, that negotiations with- such a/view have
been carried on between Napoleon and King Vic
tor Emanuel. The point of this scheme, which
so far has proved a failure, was directed against
Prussia, to lay her prostrate atFrance's and Aus
tria’s feet. The Emperor Francis Joseph cannot
forget the defeat of Sadowa, while Napoleon’s
mind is continually haunted by the growing con
solidation of the North German Confederation,
which is destined to destroy the so-called pre
ponderance legitime de la France cn Europe. In
the meantime, are brought to light the secret
wounds from which tho empire is bleeding, and
many suspect the government would not dislike
any complications abroad, to divert the public
attention from the dissensions at home.
The beautiful “Luxembourg Garden” in Paris
was devastated despite the public indignation,
and near the Tornado, seventeen millions of
francs were spent in earthworks, the purpose of
which nobody can comprehend save some in
terested property holders, viz: Monsieur de Gi-
rardin. The enriching of a few individuals at
the expense of the whole is a dark page in the
book of the Empire. The Emperor’s much
quoted saying, L'empire e’est la paix is by his
enemies interpreted as L'empire e'est Vepce.
It is generaly believed in Italy-that there ex
ists a secret agreement between Napoleon and
Victor Emanne'. binding Italy to strict neutrali
ty should the Imperor lead his pratorians to
the banks of tht Rhine. Pnblio opinion, how
ever, will not >e very enthusiastic to take np
arms for France as long as the Emperor leaves
French troops at Rome, holding the sword of
Damocles over Italy. Pope Pius Nino is enjoy
ing good health, and busying himself with the
preparations for the Grand Council. On tho
11th of April he will celebrate the fiftieth anni
versary qi his first mass. Great festivals are
to be hell to commemmorate this event.
Tho Jritish Parliament discussed the Army
Budget. They intend to save £1,192,000 or
§5,900,000 in gold by diminishing the standing
army by 10,240 men. Since the extension of
suffrage tho English are turning their attention
towards improvements of the educational sys
tem, and the prejudice against compulsory edu-
caticn is fast dying away.
Excitement, street combats and bloodshed are
still prevailing in Spain. Public demonstra
tions against the conscription were made, in
ducing the government to reduce the number of
40,000 to 25,000 recruits a year. The Cortes
lave, according to the latest news, bestowed the
crown of Ferdinand and Isabella on the Duke
of Montpensier, grandson of Louis Phillipe,
and married to a sister of ex-Queen Isabella.
The Russian papers never grow weary of
filling Europe with lamentation about the intol
erable sufferings the Christians have to bear in
Turkey. Yet the truth is that the Sultan rales
his Christian subjects with a gentle hand, while
Rnssia continues russifying everything with
savage brutality. Tho Roman Catholic Colle
gium in St. Petersburg opposes energetically
the introduction of the Russian tongue into the
Catholic service, declaring that the Pope only,
as the head of tho Church, had the right to ap
point the language to be used in the Catholic
service. The Protestant parishes in Lithuania,
being mostly composed of Poles, who refused
likewise to adopt the Russian language for all
official acts, have sent a petition to the Emperor
Alexander. The national Russian papers de
nounce this remonstration as an act of rebellion,
requesting the government to take energetic
measures against the petitioners.
The Sublime Porte has issued a decree stop
ping all coercive measures against the Greeks.
In Jerusalem the last scaffoldings have been
removed from tho cupola of the Holy Sepul
chre.
Xlie cnicham-Baschi, tho politico religions
head of the Israelites in Palestine, numbering
about 25,000 souls, is dead. His successor is to
be appointed by the Sultan.
The North German Parliament is in session.
The military organization of the confederation
and its allies, the Southern States, Bavaria,
Wurtembnrg and Baden, is completed. A
single telegram from Berlin will place one mil
lion of disciplined men nnder arms, ready to
take the field at any moment. Jarno.
Macon, 5th of April, 1869.
The Eloquence of the Show Shop.
Gentlemen : This is the celebrated boar con
strictor ; the finest, largest, longest, strongest
and prettiest animal of its species on exhibition
in tins country. He was caught in South Africa
(as he lay torbid after swallowing two oxen and
a drove of sheep) in a wire net, his capture
affording a beautiful illustration of successful
wire-pulling. .
It was supposed that the sand where he was
fonnd was hot enough to boil eggs, and that his
skin was at least “well done" is proved by his
highly finished appearance. His color is sup
posed to combine all the bncs of all tho snakes
that hissed or bit from the “old serpent" to the
congor eeL His size is variable, as, like most
other objects in nature, ho expands with heat
and contracts with cold. For every rise of five
degrees in the thermometer, ho gets a foot of
longitudo. In his native sands he is a hundred
and fifty feet long. The warm season of our
country stretches him twenty-five feet. Last
January, when the thermometer fell to sixteen
degrees, he shrank into such trifling dimensions
as to be invisible through a microscope. His
present length you can see for yourselves. His
temperance principles are of the Goughist kind.
He is a dozen cold water societies rolled into
one. His drink at bis present dimensions is
three gallons of water per week, his food three
more gallons. He has great natural talent for
politics, which he shows by changing his coat
three times a year. Price of admission twenty-
five cents.
Squirt Guns and Sardines.—A Western land
lord, somewhat noted for blunders, took it into
his head to get np a ball at his tavern. As he
intended to do thinks np brown, and have every
thing on tho big augur plan, he fancied that a
few “store fixings” would be a great addition to
the bill of fare of pork and turkey. ■ He there
fore made inquity of his friends, and fonnd
that the only delicacy in the market at that sea
son of the year was sardines. Accordingly, he
sent to the nearest city for two dozen boxes sar
dines.
His chirography, however, was so bad as to
make it read, “ two dozen boxes syringes.”
Tho night of the party came, and, as supper-
time drew near, the landlord looked anxiously
down the street for the appearance of the stage
which was to bring the principal dish on the
bilk
At last it arrived, and with a package for the
the expectant landlord.
Directly there was a great outcry, and a sound
of cursing in tho bar-room.
The entire party rushed ont to see what was
the matter, and there stood Boniface, aB mad as
a turkey cock, puffing and blowing with rage.
“ See there! I sent to Dnbnqne for two dozen
boxes of sardines for supper to-night, and the
cussed fools sent twenty-three boxes of them
pewter squirt-guns, and says that’s all there was
in the market."
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Southern Cotton Mills.—According_ to the
figures published by the National Association of
Cotton Manufacturers and Planters, there are
now eighty-six cotton mills in operation in the
Southern States. They are distributed as fol
lows :
DEATH OF siHBK ROSE,
the funeral and burial.
A
STATES. Mills.
Virginia 10
N. Carolina. ..17
S. Carolina... 6
Georgia 20
Alabama.,.,.. 8
Mississippi.... 6
Texas 4
Arkansas....: 2“
Tennessee....10
Kentucky 3
Spindles.
So,060
24,000
31,588
69.782
25,196
' 8,752
8,628
924
Average
vam.
15%
10%
13%
12%
17
8
9%
8%
10
10
Cotton
spun.
4.010,000
3,537,000
4.174.100
10,864,850
2,820,594
1,457,006
1.372.100
258,400
1,847,200
1,075,000
18,720
. 6,264 ■■■[
It will thus be seen that the eigbty-sik mills
ran 215,000 spindles altogether, and work up
nearly 41,500,000 pounds of cotiona year,which
is oertainly a most encouraging start, taking
into consideration the condition of the country
and the depressing consequences of the failure Erim King of Terrors never churned a purer heart
cf ilia crop inl£CC uul ISO". ! The itidow and the orphan never lost a better friend
Weep, fellow-citizens! for one of the purest and
best of men has passed from among yon. “A
groat tree has fallen in the stillness of the forest”
Simri Rose, after having walked the earth for sev
enty years, at 10% o’clock Sunday morning, wrapped
the drapery of the couch of death about him. as one
lying down to pleasant dreams, and calmly and
peacefully passed away. In a few moments the
news passed from house to hpuse.' from street to
street The people were then engaged in their
Sunday morning’s worship. The sad word passed
into all the churches and was whispered from bench
to bench—no one receiving it without a sigh of gen
uine grief. None scarcely knew of his illness.
Indeed he was only sick one day. On the morning
of his death he ate his usual breakfast, and died in
fifteen minutes thereafter. He had been complain
ing, hut not a great deal, and his sudden death
shocked bis family as greatly as thoso who knew
nothing of bis ailment.
The death of this good man is a ead event in the
history of Macon. “None knew him but to love
bimj none named him but to praise. ’ He lived
here forty-six years and died without an enemy.
OBITUARY.
Simri Rose was born in the town of North Brans-
ford. Now Haven county, Connecticut, in 1799, and
hence was 70 years old. At an early age he was
apprenticed to the Now Haven Columbian Register.
After serving out his time and leiming tho trade of
a printer, he engaged for a short while in the fishiDg
trade along the coast of Now England, on board of
a vessel commanded by tho father o f George R.
Barker. Georgia was then a new country, and pre
sented many inducements to young men of Now
England. In 1823 he landed at Savannah in quest
of a new home and fortune. Fort Hawkins, on tho
opposite side of the river, was the western military
post, and on the western vergo of civilization at the
time. It was in command of Col. Hawkins, of the
United States Army. Tho Indians occupied and
owned the west bank of the river, and the whites
approached tho oast.
On the 21st day of March. 1823, tho first number
of Tho Georgia Messenger was issued in East Ma
con. Mr. Rose was a journeyman in the office at
the time, but soon afterwards bought a half inter
est, and subsequently the whole paper. Many
years later, it was merged into; the Milledgeville
Journal, the two papers assuming the name of The
Jonmal and Messenger. As editor, pnph'sher and
proprietor of that paper, he has been- best known
to the people of Georgia.
In 1825, tho Bine Lodge of Masons was organized
here, and ho was elected its Secretary. He was re
elected for 44 years, and held the office at tho time
of his death. Some 20 or 25 years ago he was elec
ted Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Georgia,
and was reelected every succeeding year. He was
no less known as a Mason than as a journalist, and
in every capacity of life, either public or private, he
discharged his duty faithfully, and with the most
scrupulous honor. The world was better by his
having lived in it He never did anything knowing
ly wrong, and he must have been serene in his own
conscious rectitude in the final hour of dissolution.
As a husband, father, citizen and friend, he filled
the good man’s measure.
As a public citizen, be was the Father, as it wero,
' of Macon, or, at least, nearly everything about it of
a public ilaturo. He lost sight of his private inter
est to look after that of the public. He first sug
gested tho Southwestern Railroad, and was foremost
in advocating its construction. The road looked
npon him as its father, and would never receive a
cent from him for freight or passage. Indeed, the
whole city of Macon looked npon Simri Roso as a
child does upon its father. His life was made up
of good deeds, for he went about doing good. No
human being ever appealed to him in distress witli-
out receiving relief. Ho wroto tittle for tiis paper,
but no reward or hope of reward could induce him to
make a statement ho did not conscientiously believe
to be true. In his salutatory he promised to tell
the truth, and scrupulously did he keep his plighted
word in this as in all the other affairs of Ms long
and well-spent life. We can do nothing but revere
tho memory of such a man.
Bnt the most beautiful monument to his memory
is Bose Hill Cemetery, for it is indeed bis monu
ment. He was its originator, its surveyor, its
friend from its inception to the present time.
Other men’s graves there may be marked with the
marble column, but the whole is his.
THE FUNERAL.
At 2 o’clock tho store rooms, shops and other
places of business were closed, most of them re
maining eo throughout tho afternoon. Macon was
in mourning for one who had loved it most unself
ishly. Men met each other in the streets and spoke
intones of sadness of the departed. All agreed
that the brightest ornament among them had died—
that a brilliant star hod shot from onr social firma
ment.
At 3 o'clock a long tine of Masons defiled from
their Lodge and passed up Cotton Avenue to the
residence of the deceased. At the honse the body
had’ lain in state throughout tho day, many friends
calling and taking a last look at the familiar fea
tures,
A division of Knight Templars passed into the
dwelling and took charge of the coffin, wMch they
carried to the hearse on tho outer yard. Here the
procession was reversed and marched back in sol
emn tread to the Mulberry street Methodist Church.
That edifice was crowded from top to bottom with
as many people as conld get into it. Tho religious
preferenco of tho family of Mr. Roso is that of tho
Baptist, but that chinch undergoing repairs, tho ser
vice was conducted in the above church.
Arriving at the edifice at 4 o’clock, the corpse
was carried np the middle aislo and deposited in
front of the altar. It was followed first by the an
cient order of Free and Accepted Masons, second
by tho Macon Volunteers, and third by the Macon
Typographical Union. Abeautiful wreath of white
immortelles was on tho metalic burial case.
As soon as the vast audience were seated, the
Rev. E. W. Warren rose and read a chapter from
the Bible, commencing:
“Man. bom of a woman, is of few days and full
of trouble.”
And, after offering a solemn and impressive prayer;
tho audience were requested to sing the 670thbymn
beginning:
“Beneath our feet and o’er our head,
Is equal warning given,
Beneath 03 lie the coantless dead,
Above ns tie the heavens.”
Tho deep feeling pervading all was evinced by the
manner in wMch the beautiful hymnwaG Bung.
The Beverend divine then read the 13th verse of
the 17th chapter of Job: “The grave is my house.”
and mato it the basis of his eulogy npon the
dead. He recited many incidents in Ms life, and
allnded in feeling terms to the many virtues of his
character.
Prayer was theo offered by Rev. Mr. Key, when
the remaining service was delivered over to the Ma
sonic Brotherhood.
Tho procession was now formed on the outside as
follows:
1st The Masonic Brotherhood:
2d. Hearse.
3d. Family, of the deceased.
4th. Macon Volunteers.
6th. Macon Typographical Union.
Gth. Citizens.
Tho wholo was preceded by tho Colored Band of
the Macon Volunteers, led by Charley Bender.
THE BURIAL.
The procession solemnly moved np Mulberry,
across Walnut and to Rose Hill Cemctciy. It went
down Central Avenue and tumingto the left, passed
to tho family lot overlooking tho Ocmulgee,
After the coffin was placed over the vault, the
Knight Templars formed around it. Brother J. E.
Wells now read the grandly eloquent and sublimely
beautiful burial service of the noble, brotherhood.
The concluding portion, or perhaps another portion,
was read by Mayor Obear. Then their swords were
drawn, crossed or arched over the tomb, when all
knelt and repeated “Onr Fatherwhich art in Heaven,
hallowed be thy name,” etc. The Knight Templars
passed ont of the enclosure, when the others enter
ed, passed in single file around the grave,' each
dropping a sprig of evergreen npon the coffin of the
dead and beloved brother.
This closed the ceremony when the various orders
for the last time reformed and marched back to the
city, and the vast concourse of people went to their
various homes.
CONCLUSION.
Sweet be thy eternal Bitimber, Simri Bose! The
jrife and the children never lost so kind a pro-
tector/'SQie public never lost a better citizen.
Soft be thy slumbers, Ocmulgee’s wave
Shall bring its sweetest anthem to thy grave;
And every one who loves ita verdant shore,
Will praise thee forever and forevermore. .
A Flying Visit to Eufaula.—There are few pleas
ures in tliis life dearer to the heart of man than that
of returning, after an absence, to the scenes’ amid
which he has passed many of his happiest hours,
and where live some of his best and most cherished
friends and companions. It was onr. good fortune
to have such a pleasure during the past week. >
We left Macon on Saturday morning in care of
Mr. Carson Cox, one of tho three most.excellent
conductors now running the passenger trains on the
Southwestern Railroad between Macon and Eufaula.
In the company of several interesting and very com
panionable gentlemen from different points in
Southwestern Georgia, and glad, as we were, to
have a short respite from the arduous duties which
devolvo upon all who are connected with a daily
newspaper, we had a most pleasant trip down the
road, and though it is a ran of just ten hours, yet
we scarcely felt wearied from its effects, or realized
that we had been in a rail car all day.
We found the good people of Eufaula as full of
life, energy and dash as they ever were, and doing a
brisk business inmost allbranches of trade. We no
ticed many building improvements going on in dif
ferent parts of the city, and heard much talk of
others in contemplation—among them, the bnilding
of a new Baptist Church, to cost about 825,000.
The site for the new bnilding has already been pur
chased, and about 816,000 has been subscribed
for its erection. It will be near the heart of the
city, on Randolph street, and mnch more conven
ient for citizens and members of the church, than
the old bnilding away down in the' southeastern
common of tho town. They are also talking of
erecting one or more cotton factories in that
section, as few more eligible sites for such
buildings could be found than those in the vicinity
of Eufaula. There are several never-failing
streams of water within a radius of ten miles
around the city that would furnish abundant
water-power, and they are beginning to attract
the attention of capitalists. When Eufaula shall
have her thousands of spindles and looms to make
her own dresses, she will then be what nature evi
dently intended, tho beautiful queen of Southeast
ern Alabama.
During our visit we had the pleasure of meeting
with several of the magnates of tho town, and from
whom wo learned mnch that would interest the gen
eral reader, bnt hare not now tho time or space to
mention it.
To Mr. Jno. Black, the witty and poetical editor
of the Eufaula News, we are indebted for many
kind favors and-a warm and hospitable reception.
He bas been flourishing in that town for the last
twenty-five years, and is entitled to bo ranked as
one of its institutions. What he don’t know of the
place is scarcely worth looking after, and he can
find what he wants, when in company with a friend,
quicker than any man we ever saw, and it is gener
ally of a very fine article, as he is an excellent in
spector of the contents of barrels and casks.
Mr. Vich, of the Howard Honse, and Mr. Baker,
of the Chewalla, are now doing np the hospitalities
of the town at their respective hotels, mid the trav
eler will find neat and comfortable quarters with
either, and tables spread with fish, flesh and fowl,
to say nothing of the vegetables of the season and
the Inxmies of the tropics.
During our stay we had tho pleasure of witness
ing a turn-out of the Cleburne Fire Company, a very
fine body of men manning a very fine machine. Bnt
as they will be at our firemen’s .annnal parade on
the 15th inst., wo will not say how far they threw
water, because “our boys” will know what they have
to beat. We will say, however, that the Clebnmea
are going to interest some of our Macon companies
on that day.
Wo cannot round to in this article without return
ing thanks to Mr. George F. Cherry, another excel
lent conductor on the Southwestern Bailroad, for
kind and polite attentions extended to ns whilst in
his keeping on onr return trip. Also to Mr. Jim
Mathews, the most skillful and accomplished engi- <
neer wo ever knew, for the honor of a seat, for a i
few miles, on his engine, and during which ho gave
us many valuable and interesting items, in regard to
engineering, we never saw in tho books.' We spot
Jim as the best engineer that CTer laid a hand on a
throttle-lover in Georgia.
Mayor's Court.—His Honor made his usual debut
yesterday morning at the Council Chamber, when a
goodly array of the fair daughters and sons of Af
rica greeted his searching optics. Before him stood
on his desk a lordly looking bottle, the original col
or of which was black, but, truthfully reflecting the
complexion of its contents, it was, at that present,
a lively red. The Mayor with becoming dignity
cast it asido. as if its cliarms bad no virtue in them
for him.
This done, the first case npen the docket was that
of J. F. Jordan, (colored,) who. having within him a
high appreciation of what doth “soothe tho savage
breast,” presented himself with a violin, the prop
erty of Mr. Brantley, of the Southwestern Railroad.
Said J. F. looked like one who might naturally pos
sess tho happy faculty of coveting the goodB and
chattels of others. Mado the usual disposition
made in all State cases.
Melinda Allen, not quite as musical of breast as
her fore-“gone” brother, was callednpon to respond
and give the reason why she had taken unto herself
a pocket-book containing two dollars and one quar
ter, the property of Mrs. Hoge. Melinda was one
of the most wronged creatures in the world, and
never was so foul a charge made against the fair
fame of one more innocent and spotless. So
thought she, Melinda; bnt His Honor begged to
differ with her, and gave her some advice which,
for true wisdom and virtue, would “knock” any
homily we ever heard. He, however, as the parties
did not want the prisoner pnnished, let her go, af
ter getting sorgo very faithful promises of future
good conduct.
The bottle above referred to next came np
for consideration and for chemical examination,
and with it came an old and well known friend
of His Honor, in the person of Joe Baker, who,
having become the owner of the same, was unable
to tell how or why he did so. This struck the atten
tion of the officer who met him and questioned him,
bnt who, unable to get at anything like the truth,
took him to the place where the thief and the mur
derer alike live in peace with the world. Joe took
him, previous to this, to two houses where he said
ho had got the whisky or brandy, but it so appeared,
when they arrived at said places that he did not get
them at either. The Mayor knew Joe well, and Joe
knew the Mayor, and it was wonderful to notice
what an instantaneous reciprocation of recognition
took place when the Judge and the criminal met
face to face. The Mayor chided Joseph somewhat
tartly, bnt he was not at all abashed, and, like one
accustomed to the place, he. with an air of unmiti
gated familiarity, laughed and caused all around
him to do the same.
His Honor is getting tired of Joe, who was almost
naked, and if be gets in “snch a fix” again, we have
no doubt, will deal pretty harshly with him. He or
dered that he get some clothes, go to work or be
put to work on the streets 30 days. When Joe was
departing in the custody of an officer, he seized his
friend, the bottle, to take it along, bnt it so hap
pened that he. failed to acquire a repossession of it
on thiB occasion, in the same mysterious maimer in
which he had previously acquired it.
The Court adjourned, bnt will, it is confidently
expected, hold another session this morning.
The Blind Asylum.—It affords ns great pleasure
to be enabled to state that the repairs about this
valuable institution will be commenced very soon.
Mr. Williams, the. President, has received the earn
of 82500 appropriated for that purpose by the last
session of the Legislature, and the only obstacle in
the way now is, toget the necessary apparatus ready,
as well as the material for building with. It is con
templated to build at the front of the bnilding a
brick wall about two., feet high,‘with a fence on top
about 1onr feet high—the fence to be of light iron
railing. At the south end, the present brick wall,
wich is a very durable one, will be allowed to stand,
and on the west an upright palling about ten feet
high will be erected. This latter paling will extend
all over the western side, and it will be a tight, not
open fence.
We aro glad to see onr Railroad Engineers prac
ticing good manners in regard tq blowing their
whistles in the corporate limits. They have quit
the outlandish, heathenish practice of waking every
body np at night. Glad to know they are having
awn decency.
Fun at the Fair.—The following spirited letter
was received yesterday, in response to one published
recently in this paper:
Bpabta, April 2,1869.
Mr.J.A. Walker and others, ifaeon:
Gentlemen—In reply to yonr communication of
the 22nd, suggesting the offer of certain premium*
In a short time, when all suggestions for addition*!
or extra premiums have been received, I will pnh-
lish a notice of all that are approved, including
those suggested by you gentlemen from Macon.
From CoL Capers, of the Putnam County Agri-
cultural Society, I have received the suggestion of
adding a Tournament to the tnteresta of the fair
week. This suggestion win be adopted; and all y 0n
Knights and Cavaliers of Macon particularly, and of
elsewhere generally, may prepare yourselves fora
severe contest in the coming tilt, for it will be open
to all the world, and the “horse marines” thrown in.
Tell all your beauties with their “eyes so bright,”
with fringes and ringlets, with their trails and trim-
mings, with their bonnets so-called, to be ont in and
looking their best, for the beauty crowned will not
only be the queen of beauty of Macon, not only the
queen of the State, not only of the South, but just
think of it, the qneen of the whole world, and get a
silver cup besides. Yours respectfully,
David W. Lewis,
Sec’y Agricultural Society of Georgia.
When She ls Lovliest.—We have seen woman
ever fair and enticing woman, in every circumstance.
We have seen her in her smiles and in her tears, in
her gloom and in hor gaiety. Wo have seen her
dressed in all the rich attire of wealth and in all the
misery which belongs to the most squallid poverty.
We have seen her portrayed in language and in
paint, and we have often repeated the words of the
poet “all the lovlier for hor tears,” but we must
confess that we have made a discovery which is
that never does a woman look half so lovely as
when she is begging you to take a “chance"
and when her little snowy fingers are pointed at you
as if they would feign glide into yonr pocket and
bear away tho much coveted dollar. Wo say without
fear of successful contradiction that at no time, nor
under any circumstances, is a young lady half so
fair or so eloquent as when she is pleading to yon
with outstretched hand in the name of charity, and
if you feel at all inclined to doubt our tasto just
step into the Catholic Fair to-night, next to the
Postoffice, and givo us yonr opinion to-morrow,
friend. If there is half a soul within you, or half
a dollar which belongs to you on this side of eternity,
we’ll warrant yon don’t get it away from there.
We understand, in connection with the Catholic
Fair, that the Rev. Father Ryan will deliver a brief
address to-night, at tho request of the ladies who
have been most prominent in getting it up, and we
have no doubt that it will be like all his other efforts,
worth hearing.
Wo understand that preparations are being made
for the opening of the Fair every evening, for the
purpose of accommodating children, and the heads
of families who cannot possibly come ont at night.
This is a good idea, and we trust parents will see
it in the light in which it is intended.
Wend all Phillips Thrown in the Shade.—Yes
terday morning quite a young looking white girl,
with rather a shabby appearance, made her appear
ance at the office of tho Chief of police aud aBked
for transportation to Atlanta. She was closely
questioned but did not appear to be in a state of
mind competent to account for herself. They could
not ellicit from her her name or place of residence,
and she only stated that she would lik6 to have her
brother sent with her, who was also in town. Tho
Chief sent an officer with her to find her brother,
with a hope that he might be ab]e to give them some
information touching their friends. Tho brother
was found, when horror of horrors, ho was a negro
as black as Erebus himself if we can say that he is
black. The negro would not acknowledge the fam
ily connection, but the girl persisted in calling him
her brother. She was sent to the hospital to have
some attentions paid to her toilet and wardrobe, af
ter which she will be sent to her friends. It is sup
posed she is from Houston county. If she is not
really insane she would make a capital school maim.
We'll go so far as to say that we believe her loyalty
can’t bo impeached.
Meeting of the State Medical Association.-
The Georgia Medical Association will convene in.
Savannah on tho 14th inst. Every physician in tha
State should feel a deep and lively interest in its
prosperity, and willing to contribute all in his power
to render its annual meeting not only pleasant bnt
profitable. The physicians of onr seaboard city ex
tend a cordial invitation to all regular physicians to
attend, and the city authorities, appreciating its
importance, have, with a liberality that is truly com
mendable, appropriated 8500 for the entertainment
of its members. Tho railroads will pass delegates
for one fare. Let each physician, then, feel that it
is incumbent npon him to go, and there will be a
full meeting, and one that will reflect credit npon
the entire profession.
Sessions’ Liver Regulator, the component parts
of which are purely vegetable, and, as a medical
agent, its healthful effects have made it a general
favorite. The effect of the medicine on the stomach,
liver and kidneys is prompt and effectual.' The pa
tient soon feels as if he had taken a new lease of
life, and is overjoyed to find the depressed feeling
dissipated, the coBtive habit corrected, and new
streams of health coursing through his frame.
For deranged liver, dyspepsia, diarrhoea, piles,
etc., Simmons' Regulator certainly has no superior.
It acts like a charm, without debilitating the sys
tem, and without any of the evil effects of mercury.
Made only by J. H. Zcilin & Co. Sold by all drug
gists. Price,81.
Facts Tor the Ladies.
I have used my "Wheeler & Wilson sewing ma
chine for the last twelve years, and it had al
ready been in use two years when I bought it.
I have had it doing all kinds of - shop-work from
seven in the morning until six and sometimes
ten o’clock at night, continually going. I have
never sent it for repairs, and I think it is now
in as good order as when it came ont of your
store, and I would not exchange it for any yon
have. Henry Wright.
Staten Island.
New countries have wants and habits peculiar
to themselves. In our widely extended and
sparsely settled territory, medicines ready pre
pared are more employed, and are, in fact, a
greater necessity than in the old countries. Dr.
Ayer’s preparations have given the public great
er confidence in this class of remedies than 1 had
ever been felt before. Physicians, instead of
discarding them, really favor the use of such
ready at hand antidotes for disease, when they
can be depended on. And we wish onr readers
to know that in publishing J. O. Ayer & Co.’s
advertisement, or any others of like reliable
character, we think we are furnishing them as
useful information as any with which we can
fill our columns.—Louisville Courier. >
The Weather and the Crops.—All accounts from
the plantations below and around ns agree in repre
senting the crops in a forward state of preparation
or growth. .
The weather for the past fifteen days—and, in*
deed, for six weeks has been as fine as heart conld
wish. Tho trees are everywhere green, com is up,
the gardens are furnishing onr tables with anabun-
dance of vegetables, flowers are in bloom, and the
gentle spring zephry steals through the lattice la-
dened with the perfumes of the rose.
All Georgia rejoices in the prospects of a fine
crop of tho great staple, of grain, of vegetables, of
fruit. Never were preparations more thorough or
complete, confidence more utter, hope more bony*
ant, than that the harvest of 1869 will be a rich one
But our people do not forget the prayer: “Paul may
plant and Apollos may water, bnt the increase most
come from Thee.”
The Confederate Dead—The 27th of Abril.'—
We would remind the ladies throughout sill onr
Southern land that this immemorial day—hallowed
be it forever—is again approaching. They will then
gather around the graves of our heroes and strew
their choicest flowers upon them. Nothing, mortal,
save dost, remains of them now; bnt they wiUerer-
more be innrned in the memory of all who admire
men who knew how, where and when to die.
A Mean Bobbery.—A lady occupying rooms over
a fashionable millinery store in the P®**
the city, was robbed on Tueeday sight <tf serera
drawee and other articles of wearing
