About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1869)
The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, APRIL 0, 1869. The Ramie Plant. We have written and published a great deal about Ramie, but the reception from our friend, Col. Ivoraon, of a Louisiana pamphlet upon the subject, suggests a few words more. Many of the Louisianians believe that the Ramie is des. tined to open up a culture upon the Mississippi bottoms which will prove immensely remunera tive—far beyond what sugar and cotton havo been; and which, at the sarno time, is adapted to the labor exigencies of that region. The Ramie flourishes best in rich sandy soil, but grows luxuriantly in those moist and fertile Mississippi bottoms. It is an East Indian plant, which, in its indigenons soil and climate, attains 3 growth of five or six feet, but, on rich South ern lands, will grow ton feet high. It is propa gated from the root, in the first instance, and then, ns the stems sprout; they aro bedded down, leaving the tops exposed, and in four or five weeks, these stems take root like a layer from a grape vine, and thus a sufficiency of roots is obtained. The roots, it is stated, can be multiplied a hundred fold daring the season in this way. When a sufficient stock of roots is obtained, they are put down for field cropping in fur- roughs six to ten feet apart, and tho roots the same distance apart in tho fnrroughs. Tho land must be rich—very deeply broken up, and the roots covered to a depth of three inches. The same system of propagating from layers is then followed until in process of time the rows have become covered with the stalks or shoots of the Ramie as thickly os wheat in a field. The processes of nnrsory and field culture are very elaborately described in tho pamphlet before ns. The Ramie is gathered three to five times in the year, in the shape of long stems, which . shoot np from the earth almost as slender and as straight ns the osier-willow, with a purple colored bark, in which tho fibre is found as long as the stom, and capable of being worked to al most any conceivable degree of fineness. It is of immense strength, and applicable to any manufacture for which flax is used, while it is vastly superior to flax in length, strength and fineness. Its yield per acre of well sorted plants is said to be about l,r>00 pounds of tho fibre, worth, in London, abont sixty-two cents ■per pound. When, once planted, tho crop is pitched for an indefinite period. It needs only to bo manured from year to year and kept dear of weeds and other growth. It is a crop, therefore, requiring bnt little field labor. It is rapidly gathered, and, by the use of a machine valued at $200, the fibre is broken out and cleansed with great ra bidity by horse power. The stems cut in the morning may bo transmuted to packed fibre by night It is believed this now fibre will meet with a demand limited only by its possible product for many years. It is now used in tho manufacture of laces and many other fabrics to which the .best flax and raw silk have hitherto been ap- phv.'d- In combination with silk, the finest and mosfr costly tissues are elaborated from it, and it is mt&iai h great variety of dress fabrics. The Louiduna planters say this crop will ren der them to inconsiderable extent independent of tho waning proportions of field labor in that region, and that soil once well rooted with it _ can bo tended and harvested without exposure to the heat of the summer sun, All these, and many other facts pertaining to the Ramie culture, may bo gathered from a pamphlet by E. LeFranc, Editor of La Renaissance Louisi- onaifu;, 48^ Conti street. Now Orleans, which may be had by addressing tho author. The 1'nion League* null Imperialism. The New York Citizen, of last Saturday, an nounces something like a literary coup cC dot in most of the great cities in the United States, in favor of a crowned Emperor, and an auto cratic arrangement to correspond. It states that a newspaper is very shortly to appear in Philadelphia called “The Empire,” with the motto, “Let us have peace—the Empire is pence.” It is to bo established under the se cret auspices of the Philadelphia Union League. In reference to tho other literary enterprises connected with tho movement tho Citizen says: It now appears that they (tho Imperialists) havo found sympathy here, and that one week from to-day a paper is to be issued in this city to be called the Imperialist, the prospectus of which has already been issued, in which it is an nounced that “this long expected journal,”as though tho matter had been in secret contempla tion oven during the last Presidential campaign, will appear in April. Still further along we are told that “ the creed of tho Imperialist is revo lutionary ; its mission is to prepare tho minds of the American people for the revolution that has already begun throughout the country”— thus announcing that the work has been pro gressing for a long time, and that it has finally reached a stage where its objects and aims can be openly proclaimed. Another paragraph in The Grant Administration. Thnuunoval of General Stoneman from the command in Virginia, for tho purpose of restar ting that wretched creature, Wells, to the Gov ernorship of Virginia, is the worst sign wo have seen in General Grant’s administration. Wo ore disposed to think he finds himself “over cropped” by the Presidential office, and after a few vain efforts at independence, is bound to subside into a steftdy-going party administra tion. The Presidency, in these times is, mtrutb, an office which will test tho mental caliber of a tnnn more searchingly than any other position •on earth. Ho must have a clear head and a moral courage which pales at no obstacles or conflicts—which is, in liberal truth, indomitable, •or ho is bound to succumb to the terrible outside pressure, and be carried along by the great tide of party corruption andselfishness which sweeps everything before it. We are not disposed to judge too hastily, bnt tho chances for an admin istration under General Grant which shall main tain a stem and inexorable opposition to frand, corruption and all tho acknowledged abuses of tho Radical party,appear to diminish day by day. Board of School Commissioners. At a meeting of the Bibb County School Com missioners, in the Ordinary’s office yesterday, the following persons were licensed to instruct poor children at the charge of tho county: Mias Dollic L. Howard, at Lake Academy, ’ Howard’s District. Miss Van Yalkenbnrg, in the Warrior Dis- • triet George Stinson, colored, to teach colored children beyond the Laboratory, on tho Forsyth road. ^ The Southern' Watchman, published at Ath ens, Go., comes to ns in a now dress and look ing as fresh as a bride. We hope the Watchman is destined to staft on a new and enlarged career of influence and usefulness. We can’t say that Colonel Christy deserves much sympathy since he disgraced the doth by getting elected toCon- gress; bnt on tho whole, wo will overlook that oscapado in consideration of tho fact thatButlor and the Radicals know his proper and appropri ate sphere, although the editor seemed to have forgotten it Veoetabtxb.—Tho Thomasville Enterprise of Wednesday boasts of tho first green peas in that locality. Wo had them a week or more ago from Florida, but it will bo a fortnight before they mature here. Asparagus and lettuce ore plenty in Macon, and we think one of our neigh- bora has been shipping asparagus North for a fortnight The gardons this year are remarka bly backward, owing to tho very cold spell in • early March. The Chances.-—The Atlanta Constitution says that a gentleman who conversed with Gov. Smith, of Alabama, on the 31st nit., reports that the Governor expresses the confident opinion that Governor Bullock will not succeed in his efforts to remand Georgia back under military rule. Governor Smith has just returned from Washington city, where be has had ample means for forming an opinion. A Child Burned to Death.—-The Athens Banner, of Friday, learns that the residence of Mr. Vaughn, of Banks oounty, a few miles from Harmony Grove, was destroyed by fire a few •days ago, in which one of his children, six months old, perished in the flames. Mbs. Harriet Beeches Stowe and husband passed through Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednes day last, en route for Mandarin. Rochester, March 30.—Considerable excite ment prevails in the city and along the Genesee valley above, in ooneeqnenee of a rise in the river. Ordinary high water mark has been reached, and the river is still rising. Telegrams from above, to-day, warn citizens of Seooester .-that tfc*ra is danger of an eitreonHnfrjr flood. be openly proclaimed. Another paragraph in this prospectus indicates that either the bond holders are in the movemont, or el3e their sym pathy and aid are sought, and that it is also the intention to make this class the nobility; for it states that, “ Wo believe that tho national faith, if left in the keeping of the populace, will be sullied by sure repudiation of the national debt, and that an Imperial Government can alone pro tect the rights of national creditors." Then, again, it is stated that “the Republic means lawlessness, corruption, insecurity to person and property, robbery of tho pnblio cred itors, and civil war; thatiho Empire means law, order, security, public faith and peace.” This journal is likewise to advocate making Grant an Emperor. These facta prove that the movoment is not a mere ephemeral affair, bnt on earnest and determined ono; that it has already made great headway in this city and Philadelphia, and if tho whole secret was known, it might also ap pear that papers are to simultaneously appear in Boston, Chicago and other cities advocating the same programme. One thing appears quite certain, it is not confined to a few individuals, as a sensation: sufficient hAs transpired to show that it is a bona fide movement, and that it is backed by a powerful secret organization, bear mg the mysterious title of T. I. O. This is the name which has been adopted by tho societies which are now being started in different parts of the country. A very lively story, certainly; and all we have got to say about it is that wo do not care what they call a government working outside tho mil- itations of fundamental law. They may call it a freo republican government, bnt tho false pre tence is demoralizing, and the expense and in convenience of keeping up the machinery of a free government are needless, while that ma chinery itself, worked in the interests of absolu tism and lawlessness is incongruous and ill adapt ed to its purpose. Look at all tho ridiculous fuss we have had and are having, for example, to blot out the Southern States and annihilate State independ ence in general—how mnch better it conld havo been done by an imperial rescript, than it has been done by tho clnmsy combination of a su preme Radical Congress, negro suffrage and carpet-bagism, insulting the common sense of tho people with a pretence of working under constitutional law. And if they give us at last, His Imperial Maj esty, U. S. Grant, by Grace of God Emperor of America, few sensible men will doubt it is an improvement on what wc have got now. Would it not be for better for the South to take her chances under the control of one singlo man, than to be bedevilled year after year with Con gressional reconstruction tyranny—negro suf frage—negro and carpet-bag representation— bogus elections of all sorts—the extravagance, tyranny and corruption of Stale Legislatures, and the whole round of enormous and oppres sive taxes, for a State government which, in point of fact, is no government of the people and is not worth a red cent for any praiseworthy purpose whatsoever ? We say if things are to go on in this way, we don’t believe there are a hundred Georgia whites who would not hold np both hand3 for somo autocrat to substitute his single will for all this bald and ridiculous imposture of a government, and to obliterate with one stroko of bis pen the whole of the absnrd and costly machinery by which tho shallow pretence of Republicanism and free government is kept np in the South. We say, then, if our Northern masters cannot find it in their hearts to give us something bet ter than the bogus Republicanism we have got, let them bring on their Ulysses I, and we will tiy him a while, upon the new schedule. The South is in that fix, in the way of so-called civil government, that she cannot bo worsted by a change. Tlie Farming Reason Is much more forward than last year, and plan ters, if we escape an April deluge, will be in much better cropping condition than they were at that time. We think farm-work is now about where it was on the 15th of last April, when that terribly destructive rain-storm deluged Middle Georgia, in many instances sweeping away the germinating corn-crop, disfiguring plantations with hugo gnllies and leaving all the ploughed land beaton down and impacted as firmly os if it had never been broken up. That rain-storm left our planters to begin anew their crop-preparations, under more dis advantageous conditions than if nothing had been done. Such was tho general disarrange ment and disorder, that they were puzzled what first to turn their hands to. The com out of ground and not carried away, was ruined with out immediate work, and it was questionable, with most of tho young crop, whether it were better to replant what was missing, or break np tho wholo field again and arrange for a new seeding. Then, tho whole pressure of tho cot ton crop was also upon them, and tho entire plan of the agricultural campaign was disar ranged and defeated. Tho cotton was delayed so mnch that tho worms in late summer had it nt double disadvantage, and, in short, nnder all the circumstances, it was surprising that so mnch was accomplished daring the year. If we escape these disastrous rains during the current month, we shall consider the Central Georgia planters a good month ahead of where they were last year. ^ ^ The Sandersville Georgian says that somo days ago Mr. John D. Taylor, a worthy citizen, so far as the editor knows, saw a notice admon ishing him to leave the connty, or he would be severely dealt with. On Saturday night last a party of disguised men appeared at his house, doubtless with tho intention, of executing their threats, but Mr. Taylor seeing them approach ing, fired, and one of them fell mortally wound ed, the others fleeing. Tho wounded man re fuses to give his name, or that of any of the party, or his place of residence, but says he has a wife. No cause is assigned for the outrage. Maoon‘ and Augusta Ralleoad.—Wo learn from the Augusta Chronicle that a telegram was received in that city on Saturday, from New York, announcing thut arrangements have been closed which insure the early completion of the nnfinished portion of the Macon and Au gusta Road between Milledgevillo and Macon. . Macon Telegraph.—We have missed from our news table for the past week, the genial face of that ever-welcome visitor, the Macon Tele graph, to whose columns the Herald has hereto fore been much indebted. Georgia cannot boast of anything in the way of a newspaper that excels the Teleorafh. We hope to see it again on our table.—Greensboro Herald. We have made enquiries in the mailing office, epd are told the Telegraph is mailed regolady to the Herald. Let ns Examine the Figures. To the Court-House and City Hall Ticket card in yesterday morning's Telegbaph, I would sim ply reply,, that the Commissioners appointed by the Ordinary of the comity, on the recom mendation of a late grand jury, located on the site, corner of Mulberry and second streets, be- causo it was the bat tendered after wttkt of ad vertising for proposals. The lot being tendered free of oost, their design was to erect a building at a cost of $50,000—leaving only $30,000 to be raised, having sold the old property for $20,000, which they expected to pay off within tho next six years ont of the present county receipts, which were ample to spare $5000 a year for that purpose withont any increase of the present tax ation ; and I feel that I am warranted instating that if the ticket headed by Col. Whittle is elect ed, they will cany ont about tho same pro gramme, in the event of a better site not being offered on as good terms. In regard to the City Hal! as a site, I remark that it is the property of the city, and withont a proper compensation for removal of and build ing a new Market House, and the ground to be usedfora Court House, which will cost tho county some fifteen to twenty thousand dollars, the city authorities would not bo warranted in allowing the connty to use it for such purpose. So that any way you work your figures, you cannot prove that tho erection of tho Court House on Mulberry street will cost the county over $30,000, in addition to the amount receiv ed for the old Court House; whereas by your best estimate on a plan condemned by a com mittee of Council and the Inferior Court, as not providing sufficient accommodation, is $S5,000 Add cost of new Market and city’s lot to build npon 820,000 Making $55,000 Thereby showing clearly an advantage in fa vor of the Mulberry 'street location of $25,000 and a building every way better adapted and suited for Court House purposes. Mulbebuy Stbest. Water Runnin" np IIUI t Editors Telegraph: “Neither Side" says ,! the best of some of these lakes are (is) lower than the bed of the river;” granted, but how about the surface, fifteen feet above low water mark ? Lot off that fifteen feet down hill into the river —that will give fifteen feet fall to the waters in lakes near the city, leaving their beds dry, as they ought to be. By actual survey by an ex perienced engineer, the cost of drainage, in cluding levees, will bo thirty thousand dollars, and not one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to complete the job, as stated. But, speaking of jobs, that reminds us of a big one up town in more ways than one. That job includes a gift, so-called, by the sharp men of Mulberry street, who never let one dollar go, unless it solemnly promises to bring two or more back with it. Well, they propose malting a gift to the county that will cost it, by actual demonstration one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollats! And yet it is commended to tho people because of its cheapness! Par ties who make gifts expect considerations, and if the people of Bibb accept this one, they do it with eyes open, and must abide tho result There’s a cat in the meal, be assured; so be warned and look out for it “S’cat.” Prospects ot Reconstruction. Tho telegrams, to-day, Bay that action in re lation to the excluded States during the present session is considered impossible. In this con nection we republish the following colloquy in the Senate in relation to adjournment next Tuesday, the 6th, as proposed by the House res olution. It occurred last Wednesday s Mr. Fessenden, as Chairman of the Commit tee on Appropriations, said, in his opinion, it would be impossible to finish by that time bus Will the Southern press give me a small space to do justice to a Southern institution which has been grossly slandered, and the true condition of whioh a large number of people in this sec tion are interested in understanding? It would seem that no enterprise, however mer itorious, organized at the South, and managed for the purpose of retaining money in the South, can escape the unscrupulous assaults of certain black-mail sheets published at the North. In a recent issue of the Insurance Times, pub- ne8s pending before the Senate; that the Sen- ; liRhedin New York city, there appears an arti- ate ought not to fix a day for adjournment until j cle of sixteen lines, in which Short space there it should at least dispose of the Indian Appro-, are one dozen wilful, malignant, unmitigated priation bill. [ falsehoods. That a sheet which attacks and re- Mr. Sumner agreed with the Senator from tracts as suits its pecuniary interests, should as- Maine, that the Senate ought not to concur in sail the Sontoern Life was to be expected, and tho resolution, but the Indian appropriation bill the article would pass unnoticed, but for the was not the only, or indeed the most important, fact that agents of other companies, doing bu- matter requiring the attention of Congress, j siness in the Sonth, are endeavoring by its use There was the whole subject of Georgia, involv- ■ to prejudice tho public against this institution, ing tho question of admission of representatives The almost unparalleled success of the Southern and tho question os to what shall be done to se- Life,taking from these agents much of the bnsi- curo tho proper reconstruction of that State. This was the most important subject before Con gress, and Senators ought not even talk of going ness which they have hitherto monopolized, has induced them to resort to all means, foul as well os fair, to defeat this company in its pa- home until tho caso of Georgia,in all its branches, i triotio and praiseworthy efforts, should havo been fully considered and settled. At first, they charged that it was a Northern The settlement of tho caso was important not! organization battling under false colors, and only to tho people of that State, bnt also as an! when the honorable names which make np its examplo for Mississippi, Texas and Virginia. list of Stockholders aro published, they assert Another very important matter demanding the . that some of these are nsed without authority, attention of this session is tho revision of the This is false. Every name published as such, naturalization, so as to prevent frauds, Mr. Howe was unablo to see why it was wrong to talk about adjournment. It was a peculiarity of tho Senxtor from Massachusetts that the long er he stayed here tho more he found to be done. [Laughter.] He, howtver, would be willing to remain in session a’ wiiloloDger for the purpose of settling the Georgia e.nso if he could see any prospect of ness the first year of its existence, than was making sucl settlement; but he had been hero done by the “Mutual Life,” of New York, or is a bona fide Stockholder of the Company.— They circulate the charge of that unscrupulous shoet, the Times, that this company is “stag gering under tho weight of its inconsiderable business.” Is this true ? By authority of tho facts furnished by tho Blassachussetts Insur ance Reports for 1859-1865, 1 assert that tho Southern Lifo did more than ten times the Jlnsi- To the Telegraph: When Qnidam dismissed the Health and Economy ticket, he honestly hoped that circumstances would not render it necessary to notice it again, but when he sees the great mass of tho peopleliterally hoodwinked on this Court-house question, every instinct of manly honor protests against silence. “Murder will out,” and the tricks of every clique will in 3 develop tUeoaftelves. Q ui dim prefers charges against the ticket, and he honestly be lieves that not one of them w.!l have the daring effrontery to deny them. Why does cot this ticket tell the people “We want tho smoke of battle to settle around the City Hall, while all our shot will be directed in another quarter ?” Why not tell the people “We regard the sale of tho old Court-house as illegal; thit the Gover nor did not approvo it; that Gen. Pope’s order annulled tho sale, and we will fight it ont on that ground?” Why not tell the people, “Elect m, and you will buy a nice lawsuit for the county.” Quidam asks, “Has not one of the leading spirits of this ticket, whose name is a burlesque on Economy, often asserted that ‘the sale of the Court-house is illegal, and it will be fought; that the Central Railroad Depot shall never bo located there.’ ” Straws show tho drift of tho current,” and the people are now fully alive to the crisis. Retire, gentlemen, and hide yinr blushes; your namo is a satire on success. Quid am. Bryant on Butler's Bill. We see from tho telegram to the Louisville Courier-Journal, that another Georgia delega tion, headed by J. W. Bryant, was also heard before tho Reconstruction Committeo. That paper says: « - The Georgia delegation, headed by Col. Bry ant, formerly of tho Federal army, was heard by the Committee on the Georgia question. Bry ant said he opposed this bill and the general policy of the Radicals in Congress in reference to tho State of Georgia, which, if carried out, would, in his opinion, moke a second Poland or a second Ireland of the State. He said the people of Georgia, including rebeLs, were well disposed, and desired harmony, but the mis chievous legislation proposed would not only overthrow the Republican party in tho State, bnt drive the people to desperation, and none could foretell tho disasters to follow. Ho cen sured Gov. Bullock, to whom he attributed the defeat of tho fifteenth amendment in tho Geor gia Senate, and mldett, if unlimited power was placed in his hands, as proposed by this bill, in calculable injury would bo dono to the State and country. Where does Bryant find “rebels” in Georgia? Wo know they havo been a highly useful class of people to the carpet-baggers; and it is ex tremely desirable to the Radicals to maintain it in existence; bnt really, in the face of all the facts, we think it must be hard work to keep np the imposture. Wo have read that tho Black Douglass was a Lowland bugaboo for five gen erations after ho was doad, and possibly Bryant & Co. have hopes of maintaining an equal im mortality to tho “Southern rebels" for the bene fit of their peculiar crowd of Loyalists, so- called. . MA-— — A Disgruntled Governor. The Alabamians, wo think, have been com paratively fortunate in the Chief Magistrate who has fallen to their lot under the accidents and catastrophies of reconstruction. He seems to bo, in tho main, fair, reasonable and patriot ic. Ho has latterly visited Washington, and a correspondent of tho Huntsville Democrat writes : “Gov. W. H. Smith will leave for home, per fectly disgusted with the state of affairs here. The carpet-baggers treated him with the ntmost neglect and contempt, and never consulted him in the least about the affaire or interests of the State. He has been trying his best to have our railroads built, but ho and tho capitalists from tho North who are here with him, have met obstacles at every step, put in their way by these infamous men, who were sent here to represent the interests of the State. The fact is, that, unless they can moke a nice thing of it for themselves, they will have nothing to do with it. One of our so-called State Senators, from the south side of the river, is their under strapper, and he very coolly tolii-President Stanton, a short time sinoe, that if he wpnld give him the contract far furnishing the ctoes- tiee for the read at only sixty cents apiece, everything should be arranged for him in Con gress in regard to getting back the public lauds. Stanton, who is a man of spirit, very politely showed the noble Senator the door.” j ever since 1602, trying to reconstruct Georgia and other Southern States, and yet believed they were no nearer reconstruction than ever. If Congress could reconstruct a State, it had had time enough, but to reconstruct successfully, in addition to Congress and time, ono thing more was needed—good sense. Mr. Sumner asked what tho Senator from Wisconsin proposed to do with the pending ex ecutive business. Mr. Howe did not believe there was enough of such business to occupy one evening session, hut that as a matter of course tho Senate would remain in session long enough to dispose of all business of that kind that might come be fore it. 1 Sir. Anthony said that so far as he could re collect tho Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Sumner, had never voted for an adjournment He thought there was no good reason why Con- S ess should not adjourn at the time fixed in the onse resolution. Mr. Sumnee—What does the Senator from Rhode Island propose to do with Georgia ? Mr. Anthomy—Well, that is a question which has troubled me a great deal, and I have pretty much come to the conclusion to let Georgia take care of herself. Mr. Scmneb—'Then tho Senator proposes to furnish no protection or security to Union men of that State. BIr. ANTHONYreplied—A bill for Georgia could be passed in a very short time whenever the Senator having charge of it would go to a quorum of tho Senate and ask them to stand by it. BIr. Scmsek—What has my excellent friend to say as to Virginia ? BIr. AxiHONr—I don’t think it necessary to do anything for Virginia at this session. Mr. Somnee—Or Texas? Mr. A.vfnoNr—I suppose Texas will stand pretty much as she has dono for tho last few years. These States do not seem willing to come in. I don’t think we can help it. Mr. Coj&lin suggested that the Senator from Rhode Island, in answering the gentleman from Massachusetts on this subject, should bear in mind that the House Committee on Reconstruc tion, which had for a longtime been investigat ing and considering tho whole subject, and which, therefore, might be presumed to know whether it required any further legislation at this session, had impliedly expressed the same opinion that it did not, by twice agreeing to ad journ at an early day. Mr. Scmnee—I understand, then,.that my friend from Ilhode Island proposes to abandon those States. BIr. Anthony—Only so far as I propose to abandon at tho same time Massachusetts, Rhode Island or any other States. Mr. Sumner—Oh, but the Senator knows they are not in a position to require Congressional protection. Denominational Liberality. Under this head the Cuthbert Appeal, of Thursday, says: We are truly gratified to learn that a distin guished Divine (Rev. David Wills, D. D.,)has consented to repeat, very soon, in our city, a discourse recently preached to an immense audi ence in Columbus, npon tho duty of Christian fellowship between the several branches of the protestant church. For that purpose, Dr. Hamilton, himself an ardent advocate of similar opinions, has kindly tendered the use of Andrew Hall, that the learn ed speaker may not feel his liberty o speech in any degree trammeled, by tho consciousness that his utterances might be distasteful to the sect whose hospitality ho was enjoying. It is earnestly to be hoped that this timely effort will do much to cement the good feeling and brother ly love, which should subsist between Christians of every name in this community. The want of this charity, of which the great head of the church was a bright and illustrious exemplar, is the fruitful source of that spiritu al leanness, and those heart buntings and jeal ousies which mar the peace of God’s people, and cost a reproach upon tho religion of Christ. God has created into the bosom of man the spirit of immortality, and endowed him with tho reasoning attributes, which take shape, and arrive at conclusions, as varied and diverse as tho persons of their authors. From a com mon text and standpoint, a half-dozen gifted Casuists will devise theories and deduce rates of practice different in degree, whilst in reality conforming ofttimes in the main to that line of argument which establishes the somo great truth. The diversity may consist in mere matters of detail only. Thus it i3 in religious affairs. Christ, tho head of tho church, is reverenced and adored, and acknowledged s& snch by every evangelical sect, nnd heaven is tho common goal which all aro striving to attain. The several denominations may be likened unto as many paths which all converge and run together at tho gates of tho celestial city. Each pilgrim selects that which to his own vision seems freest from difficulties and obstructions, bnt all are ar rayed in the panoply of tho cross, and should stand side by sido in the dread straggle with the powers of darkness. One great feature of the millennium, we be lieve, will be the utter destruction of that big otry anil proselytism which are begotten of de nominational narrow-mindedness, and are any thing but Christ-like in their influence. The grand inquiry-should be, is the brother n tmo follower of his Lord and Master ; is he a consistent Christian? Tried by these tests and not found wanting, let him bo taken at once to your hearts and loved and cherished as warmly as the most zealous disciple of your own school or sect. We predictfor Dr. Wills anoverflowinghouso, and trust that his messages of truth may do mnch to fuse into one, the divided hearts of tho several branches of the truo church. Timely notice will be given of his appointment. Still Another Horrible ffnrder In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, March 30.—A horrible muder was committed here yesterday, under peculiar circumstances. Early yesterday morning a man threw himself into the Delaware river and was drowned. Subsequently a handkerchief was found in tho water bearing the name of Black- stone. This afternoon the body was recovered, and found to be that of Blackst'ono, of the firm of Funston & Blackstone, picture-frame makers at 912 Market street. The body was sont to his honse in the extreme northwestern part of the city. On arriving there the parties found another party of police in possession, and that Blaekatone'a wife and two small children were dead, chopped to pieces with an ax. It appears that previous to commit ting tho murder yesterday, Blackstone wrote a letter to his wife's father in Connecticut, saying that he had killed his wife and children and would kill himself. The party in Connecticut this afternoon telegraphed to the police authori ties here who went to the house and found the dead bodies as before related, and were investi gating the case when the dead body of the father was brought in. On Blaokstone's body was found a paper stat ing that he had been robbed and was a ruined man, and giving this as a reason for the deed. His wife appears to have been killed while light ing a fire in the stove on Monday morning, as the neighbors heard a noise at that time. The children were killed in bed up stains and carried down and laid at the feet of their mother. Black- stone was probably insane. the “Connecticut Mutual,” of Hartford, in the first year of their existence; and these are the two hugest companies in tho United States. I assert, moreover, that the Atlanta Depart ment of the Southern Life, now organized for less than ono year, has up to this date already effected more insurance than was effected by the “Mutual Life," of New York, in tho Fourth year of its existence, and more than toe amount effected by tho “Connecticut Mutual" in the seventh of its existence. Will any agent who is circulating these lying articles of the Times dare deny thir ? Yet its business is inconsiderable! The truth is thnt its great success is tho harass ing objection with these agencies of othor com panies, and our rapidly enhancing prosperity must continually give them still more abundant and all sufficient cause for assailing our institu tion. But the Southern Life is charged with being about to fail and refusing to pay its losses. Those are falsehoods. Tho sworn statement of its officers evidences a larger ratio of assets to liabilities than any of the leading companies of tho North doing business in the Sonth. It has a capital of $159,000, and assets to over $400- 000. It has paid every legitimate loss over (140,000) that it has ever sustained, and its as sets have more than doubled since its organiza tion. If such men as hold its stock and are identified with its prosperity will not settle f airly with the widows and orphans of the South, will the people of this section expect fair dealings of those of whom they know nothing, and some of whom boast that they made by the war many millions by cancelling policies held by Rebels or “Rebellion Blasters,” as they jeeringly call them ? It (the Southern Life) “has had its notes pro tested, has withdrawn from BXississippi and a general agent has abandoned it in disgust.” Wholesale falsehoods these in every part and particular. No note of this Company was ever protested—it has not withdrawn from Btississip- pi, bnt is doing a large and increasing business in that State, and the general agent referred to, is now in correspondence with the Company de siring a reconnection with it. In this department, where tho names of its stockholders are known, they admit it is sound, bnt the Memphis Department* who is respon sible for that? In the Blemphis Department, where the stockholders are recognized among the best citizens and ablest financiers of tho country, they admit it is safe, but the Atlanta Department—who is responsible for that 9 They circulate a report made by a committee of the Kentucky Senate, doing great injustice to this company, but will they circulate the sup plementary report of the same committee ex plaining the clause of tho first (and fully mak ing amend) or will they give currency to tho following extract from a letter of Col. J. P. Les lie, one of said committee, in wt-ich he says: “I feel to know that the Southern Life is sound, beyond doubt, and will gladly co-operate in doing it justice—that ample justice which would havo been done in the first report, if all the facts had been before the Committee.” The Southern Life has no war to make upon other companies, bnt will continuo to urge tho people of the South to retain their money at home, and coase to send so many millions to other sections for life insurance. It will still offer as safe an institution, ns solidly founded, and ns honestly managed as any in the United States. It will, at least, never boast of millions of accumulations made by canceling policies held by rebels, or “rebellions masters.” J. B. Gordon. President Atlanta Dep. Sou. Life Ins. Co. The Senate. Says Don Piatt: This ominent body has gone up, in my esti mation, fifty per cent, within the hist two weeks. There is so much pluck shown in tho fight now going on that 1 havo come to the conclusion that the Senate is a positive quantity, and can bo counted on in an emergency. Tho whole power of the Executive is brought to boar upon the Senate in favor of repeal. The entire press, Democratic and Republican, is in favor of re peal, except, perhaps, the New York Tribune. The galleries are packed, day after day, and the lobbies ore thronged by men who scowl, and scold, and swear at the delay that keeps so ma ny from tasting the sweets of office; and yet, day after day, the dignified old Fog-hank set- ties in solid gloom, as indifferent to these in fluences ns to the winds. Some few havo been excited, but the majority sit in calm quiet, dis cussing tho qnestion as jf it were an abstraction of a remote contingency. Do you know that to me thiB is beautiful ? It reminds inc of President Lincoln coolly consid ering the claims and filling the offices of all the little cross-roads post-offices, while the South was gathering in arms to march upon the capi tal—or, rather, of a scono I once witnessed on a Mississippi steamer. A number of gentlemen were seated at cards, in the cabin about mid night, gambling, when a flue collapsed. There was a wild scream, • and then a dead silence, for the cnglno stopped its throbbing, and the pas sengers stood appalled. The silenco was bro- den by one of toe gamblers bringing his card down with a bang upon the table, and exclaim ing: “That’s an unhealthy noise. Clubs is trumps, gentlemen." Adana and Phnrpar rivers, of Damascus, men tioned in the Scriptures, have recently been thoroughly explored by Macgregor, the famous canoe traveler. Blacgregor, after going from Cairo to Suez, and exploring the Delta of the Nile, had his canoe carried by land to Beyrout, thence over Mount Lebanon, and finally launch ed in the river Abona, on which he paddled to the plains of Damascus. The rivers Abatis and Pharpar, in consequence of the wild beasts,deep jungles and savage Arabs, have heretofore been laid down inaccurately on the maps by travelers. Macgregor gives an interesting account of a “giant stone town," with stone doors, rafters and window shutters, covered with Greek in scriptions, dating before the Christian era. A Valuable Discovert.—A man named Eller- shausen, who for some years past has been ex perimenting in Nova Scotia, in toe manufacture of iron, has at length discovered a process which, it is said, saves about twenty dollars per ton in toe production of wrought iron.- This is done in a simple manner by the introduction of solid metallic oxide into the molten metal “Pittsburg,” says one of the papers of that city, “ electrified. A myriad of hammers clat tered on the new-born ingot.” The Pittsburg Post says “the modus operandi is so simple, that, like the results of Newton’s apple, it is a matter of surprise that it was not discovered be fore. ” This discovery is one which is calculated to cheapen all the necessaries of life, for iron in one form or other is used, either directly or in directly, by everybody.—N. O. Times. Lee County.—The editor of the Albany News, who attended Lee Superior Court, says : There were a goodly number of people about the Court-house and on the hill, and we were pleased to hear a general expression of satisfac tion with crop prospect*. Meet of- them have their lands well prepared for the seed and fertiL izera, and bat few complain of inefficient labor. They have planted largely of corn and it ia generally up on looking fine. Our observation up one reed and down another verified these gratifying statements. ■ m List of Acts IWed by the Last legis lature, WHICH HAVE BECOME LAWS, AND OP RESOLUTIONS WHICH HAVB RED KITED EXXCUTIYB APPROVAL, [Conducted.] No. 98. Act to incorporate toe Taswell Cot ton Manufacturing Company in Marion oounty. An aot to encourage immigration into the State of Georgia, and the investment of capital in lands. [By expiration of time.] No. 94. Act to incorporate the Atlanta Canal and Water Company. No. 95. Act to authorize the election of ten commissioners for the county of Bibb, de fining their dutios, and to empower the ordinary to issue county bonds to drain toe Blaoon re serve. No. 96. Act to issue bonds for county pur poses for too county of Bibb. No. 97. Act to cbaDge the county line be tween the counties of Henry and Batts. No. 93. Act legalizing the election of Wm. J. Brown as Sheriff of Quitman county. No. 99. Act to create a Board of Commis sioners of Road and Revenue in the county of Harris. No. 100. To incorporate the Georgia Reed and Fibre Manufacturing Company. No. 101. Act to incorporate the'Berne Plant ing, Manufacturing and Fruit Growing Com pany, in Camden connty, Ga. No. 102. Act to declare void toe unauthorized sale of wild lands by tax collectors of tho counties where the lands were located, and to direct too refunding of moneys received therefor. No. 103. Act for too relief of B. G. Poole, M. A. Hardin, and F. BL Ford, of the county of Bartow. No. 104. Act for the relief of John V. Price, Wm. Pilcher and Robert C. Black, as securities on the bond of Samnel Dawson, deceased, late sheriff of Snmter county. No. 105. Act to change the line between the counties of B.-utow and Quitman. No. 106. Act to change the county line be tween the counties of Carroll and Paulding. An act authorizing the Treasurer of White and Habersham connties to receive jury certi ficates for all dues to said counties. [Received March 5th, by expiration of time.] An act to change the county lines between too counties of Carroll and Campbell [Received March 5th, by expiration of time,] An act to change the lino between toe connties of Taylor und Macon. [Received March 8th, by expiration of time.] An act to repeal an act to provide for too election of a superintendent of pnblio roads and bridges, so far as relates to tho county of Muscogee, approved Biarch 10, 1866. [By expiration of time.] An act to relieve from jnry duty members of toe Watchful Fire Company No. 1, at Cuthbert, end toe Neptune Fire Company, of Thomas- ville, G.u [Received March Gto—by expiration of time.] An act to incorporate the Bainbridge, Cuth bert and Columbus Railroad Company, and for other purposes therein named. [Received March 11—by expiration of time.] No. 107. An act to loan toe credit of the State to the Dalton & Morgantown Railroad Company and for other purposes. No. 108. Act to aid the Brunswick & Albany Railroad Company. No. 109. Act to amend the 12th section of toe act entitled an act to provide for setting apart a homestead of realty and personalty. No. 110. Act to authorize toe Atlanta & West Point Railroad Company to subscribe for stock in the Columbus & West Point Railroad Com pany. No. 111. Act to extend the jurisdiction of con stables in the several connties in this State. No. 112. Act to incorporate the Etowah Canal and Water Works Company. No. 113. Act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the village of Cave Spring, in toe county of Floyd, and for other purposes. No. 114. Act to incorporate toe Georgia Water Mills Company of Muscogee connty, for the manufacture of cotton, paper and other mer chandise, and sale of same. No. 115. Act to change toe corporate limits of the city of Cuthbert. No. 11C. Act to incorporate Homersville, iu the county of Clinch, and to appoint commis sioners for the same, and for other purposes therein mentioned. Noi 117. Act to incorporate the town of Social Circle in toe county of Walton, and for other purposes therein mentioned. ho. 118. Act for toe relief of Wm. B. Heptin- stall, of Chattooga county. No. 119. Act for too relief or Josiah Williams, of Dooly connty. No. 120. Act to allow the citizens of Bruns wick, through their City Council, to donate or sell town commons to the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, and Brunswick and Albany Railroad. No. 121. Act to incorporate the Southern Bla- sonic Assurance Society. No. 123. Act to authorize John. C. Smith and William BL Pitts, commissioners in the corpo ration of the town of Thomson, in the county of Columbia, iu this State, to order an election for throe additional commissioners of said town. No. 123. Art tokeep in repair the pub’icroails of Bnrke county, and to levy an annual tax for that purpose. No. 124. Act to incorporate toe Georgia Be nevolent Mutual Life Insurance Company, and for other purposes therein mentioned. No. 125. Act to allow Wm. I. Wilcox, of the county of Coffee, and Willis R. Ivey, of the connty of Habersham, to peddle without paying license in their respective counties. No. 126. Act to amend the charter of the Georgia Home Insurance Company of Columbus Georgia, passed December 12, 1859. No. 127. Act to be entitled an net to levy nnd collect n tnx for toe support of the government for tho year 1869, and for other purposes. No. 128. Act to provide for the removal of the seat of justice of Camden county, Georgia, from too town of Jeffersonton to tho town of St. Blary’s or Sotilla Mills, in said county. No. 129. Act to legalize all the official acts of Joseph T. Harrison, late deputy clerk of toe Superior Court of Jackson county. No. 130. Act to authorize clerks of court to amend fi. fas., and issue alias executions in certain cases. No. 131. Aot for the relief of W. B. Heptin- stall, of the county of Chatooga. ’No. 132. Act to allow T. B. Thompton to peddle without license. No. 133. Act to incorporate tho Georgia Slate and Blining Company. No. 134. Act to legalize and make valid the acts of the old justices of the peace who have held over. No. 135. Act to amend tho charter of the town of Sandersville. No. 136. Act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for toe setting apart and valuation of homestead, assented to October 3d, 186S. No. 137. Act to incorporate toe Van’s Valley Manufacturing Company. No. 1S8. Act to amend an act approved Oc tober 3, 1868, to provide for setting apart a homestead of realty and personalty. No. 139. Act to incorporate the Paramon Hill Manufacturing Company. No. 140. Act to incorporate the' Georgia Methodist Mutual Life Insurance Company. No. 141. Act for the relief of F. F. Taber and his wife Louisa L Taber, formerly Louisa L Patch. No. 142. Act to reduce the amount of too offi cial bonds of toe sheriffs of Irwin and Haber- sham counties. No. 143. Act for the benefit of Dr. John M. 0. Dodd, of Chambers county, Alabama, author izing him to erect a dam over the Chattahoo chee river in. Harris county, Georgia, and for other purposes. No. 144. Act to authorize the tax collectors of Murraycounty to receive jury certificates ia pay ment of connty taxes. No. 145. Act to incorporate toe Georgia Life Insurance Company. No. 146/ Act to authorize the ordinary of Towns county to levy an extra tax for the pur poses of building a jail. - No. 147. Act to make it a penal offence for owners or persons controlling billiard tables or ten-pin alleys to allow minors to play or roll on their tables or alleys withont the consent of their parents or guardians. No. 148. Act to incorporate the town of King ston, in the oounty of Bartow, to appoint com missioners for the same, and for other purposes. No, 149. Act to carry into the effect section 8, article second, of the constitution of this State. No. 150. Aot to carry into effect the 30th sec tion of the 15th article of the constitution of the State npon the subject of the lien of laborers and mechanics. No. 151. Aot to dispose of money arising from fines and forfeitures in the new criminal oourts of this State. No 152. Aetto alter and amend 2518th section of Irwin’s Code. No. 153. Act to repeal the 8d section of an aot entitled an act to define the liability of toe rail road companies of toe State for injuries to par sons and property, to preaeritefewtet annrvtiMi they maybe sued and bow served with, ptoeea. _ No. 154. Act to explain section 818 of Irwin 1 . Code. ® No. 156. Act to encourage and protect the building of mills and manufacturing establish ments in this State. No. 156. Aot to change the time of.holdirp th6^Superior Courts of Morgan county. ° No. 157. Act to provide more effectual). tho^collection of poll tax. w No. 158. Act to repeal an act to educate th* indigent maimed soldiers of Georgia, aoDro.^i December 18th, d866. " M No. 159. Act to amend an act entitled an to incorporate toe town of Bowden, in til county of Carroll, and for other purpose, therein mentioned, and to regulate the retailor spirituous liquors in a certain distance of the poor honse in Atlanta, approved Deoemh.- 18 th, 1859. No. 160. Act to incorporate the town of Coch ran, in the oounty of Pulaski, State of Geo-" gia. No. 161. Act to change the line between th. counties of Cherokee and Pickens. No. 162. Aot to incorporate the town of Dray ton, iu the county of Dooly. 1 N. J63. Act to amend an act entitled . c , to enlarge the boundaries of the town of b Grange, and for other purposes, aporov»,i Marchfi, 1856. w 64 No. 164. Act to incorporate the tows of Thomaston, in the county of Upson, to appoint commissioners for toe same, and for other py poses. : “ No. 105. Act to extend toe Atlanta and W es * Point Railroad Company too provisions of u, act to amend tho charter of toe Macoa Western Railroad Company, assented to 29th of December 1847, to allow an increase of the cn- ital stock of said company, to fix the rate of tar to be paid by toe same, and for other purposes. No. 1GG. Act to amend section 2565 oflru)^ Code, so as to change the length of time orlj. narios are to publish citations to diseharge minis trators. No. 1C7. Act to regulate insurance businea and insurance agencies in the State of Georgia. No. 168. Aetto incorporate the Augusta Hartwell Railroad Company. No. 1G9. Act to amend an act to bo entitled ti act to charter tho Georgia Fire and Life It,-.' anca Company. No. 170. Act to authorize improvements tot. made on toe reserve at tho Indian Springs intLs county of Butts, and to protect toe same frea trespass, and for other purposes therein wet tinned. No. 171. Act to incorporate toe Georgia Alabama Steam Road Company. No. 172. Aot to incorporate toe Georgia La-j Emigration and Manufacturing Company. No. 173. Act for tho relief, ofThos. V. La and Nancy Lee, and for other purposes tiers? named. No. 174. Act for toe relief of Jas. W. Keep and Jas. W. Hill, securities on a penal bond i Sumter Snperior Court No. 175. Aetto compel too ordinary of Ti nal county to kee-p his office iu Reidsville, Tit. nal county. No. 177. Act to incorporate the Blufoogs Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Qmp No. 178. Act for tho relief of Zachariah Sk phenson and others, securities on the tax at lector’s bond in Tulbot connty, so far as ttltsa to their liability for taxes going to said cuustj, No. 179. Act for raising a revenue for the po- li tied year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, «a to appropriate money for toe use of toe gown- ment during said year, and to make cenin special appropriations, and for other pnrpcsa therein mentioned. [Approved, except the 21st section.] An act to change toe line between the cock of Quitman and the county of Stewart. Oct lt| I8G8, by expiration of time. No. ISO. Act to prevent fraud in laying dl the homestead nnd exemption of personal p: erty under the newConstitution. No. 181. Act to extend the aid of the Georgia to the Alabama and Chattanooga road Company. No. 182. Aetto authorize Bnttie H. Mi to peddle in Coweta county ■yithout license. No. 183. Act to amend an act of October 1863, entitled an act to require toe Repo: of the Supremo Court to publish the dei ’ of the Supreme Court in pamphlet form provide for toe distribution ot the same i other purposes. No. 184. Act to amend an act entitled an to amend the several acts of force in relatior the incorporation of the town of West Point Tronp county, and to incorporate the samei der the name of the city of West Point, nnd provide for too election of a Mayor salfi Aldermen, and such other officers as msybe quired, nnd confer npon them speeded poi and for other purpoaea thernin maniiincJ. No. 185. Act to amend the 86th secfiuxot win’s Code, changing the fiscal year tots make it conform to the calendar year. No. 186. Aetto authorize the town sioners of tho town of Spring Place, 1 connty, to issue license for toe retail of spifits, nnd for other purposes. No. 1S7. Act to appropriate money payment of too amounts now due and nri the schools and colleges of this State, education of indigent maimed soldiers. RESOLUTIONS. No. 14. Resolution to appoint a joint committee of four from the Senate and six the Honse to take into consideration the tract made by the State with the City Co of Atlanta, in regard to the Capitol Bail' 1 -; No. 16. Resolution appointing commis;-- to look after too future interest of tho the Western and Atlantic Railroad. No. 17. Resolution explanatory of the tr?J tent nnd meaning of a bill to be entitled k to loan the credit of tho State to the Carl - and Van Wert Railroad Company, p&ssod the present session of toe Legislature. No. 19. Resolution in reference to tk pointment of E. Hnrlbert, Campbell fi Murk A. Cooper, John P. King and “ H. Stephens, Commissioners for the of the Rome Railroad for the State of No. 20. Resolution authorizing his cr, toe Governor, to accept the surrey charter of too Planters’ Bank of th' Georgia. No. 21. Resolution prescribing the drawing toe salaries of toe Secret* Senate and Clerk of tho Honso of atives. No. 22. Resolution authorizing the to draw his warrant npon tho pay for copies of the general la present session. No. 23. Resolution in relation to & ment of the Treasurer of the State wit* Treasurer, John Jones. No. 24. Rosolntion appointing a of three from the House und two ato to ascertain if the labors of d' Judges of tho Superior Courts of Jl cannot be so distributed as to avoid t-f sity of creating new circuits. Resolution extending the time for of taxes until the 1st of March nett- . piration of time, February 4.] No. 7. Resolution to authorize the- nrer to pay to the President of !'• lege sums expended for educating D diers. No. LJ. Resolution authorizing hb the Governor to furnish all civil ofc State with a copy of ‘‘Irwin's Re 1 and to pay for the same out of a«f Treasury not othewise appropriate No. 14. Resolution in relation obstructions from Tennessee river- No. 17. Resolution for the further of the State in lending its aid to <* roads, and for other purposes. No. 19. Resolution (joint) to a] acceptance of the charter of the vannah. [hi J rh de [cr | in llu Cat I fa Q J Is IT] |8T Ibc |Pc |‘a di (of No. 27. Resolution authorizing aid I ing his Excellency the Governor to ^ J sion of, and receipt for, all bond* ^ belonging to the State nowin the han“ heretofore authorized to have a® bonds. No. 25. Resolution that Judges or Courts and Judges of the SupreiWN porter and Clerk of the same, and- •; eral shall continue in office until shall be elected and qualified and t- be authorized to draw his warran same. No. 29. Resolution directing tie‘ I ent of Pnblio Works to revise tie -I State of Georgia. , No. 29. Resolution authorizing s the House and Secretary of over the State printing to J- " J On* dav last week, ibe engin* ^ j train on the Rutland and struck toe sleigh of Myron E- ^ endon, Vermont, where the sight of Ute train until he was on ws at the same time prevented the ■ „ seeing the team. Mr. Marshall «** m feet, nnd his head dsabed sgamw I snch force aa to break a board®? and produce eonou-ahmof ^ he cannot rally. Mis. Marshall the track ana foortaef oa» 4* iVii
