Newspaper Page Text
The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph.
THE telegraph.
JIACON, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1800.
" Adjonrament or Congress.
The most welcomo news we bring to our
-i.nlers to-day is that Congress lias adjourned
a* a Georgia is still unremitted to another revo
lution! Yesterday at twelve o’clock this turbu
lent, despotic and revolutionary assemblage
broke opi and apprehension and dread may now
U e down to rest, until the first Monday in De
cember next
We think there will be no more piebald and
^.colored deputations from Georgia to'
Washington until that time. No more ranting
Conventions—by day-light or darkness. No
more midnight drills of armed Ethiopians. In
a «orA we promise ourselves peace. The
whites of Georgia, wo know, want peace; and
tbe negroes we are quite sure will be peaceable
so long as nothing is to be gained to political
gdrentorers by stirring them up to excitement
and menace.
VTe Relieve Gen. Grant also wants quiet in
Georgia and will do nothing to disturb it. We
junk he understands matters very well in this
State; and although he will, doubtless, give us
appointments more or less unacceptable to the
people ot large, yet we think his mind is undis-
; allied with schemes of social and political rev
olution, Wo don't think ho is tormented with
ay overwhelming anxiety to manipulate Coffee
••to a controlling political power and mount him
spon the sbonlders of the whites. Grant will
.smoke bis cigars in peace so long os quiet is
maintained in Georgia.
Having survived this Congress, we may the
next; hot sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof. With no Congress and no Legislature
to tronble ns for six months, we may well feel
something like old Pilgrim when he emerged
ont of the valley of the Shadow of Death and
mv the bright mm rising in the east and heard
the birds carrolling to the early dawn.
Memorial Association — Speech by
lion. Thomas HTardeman.
The following correspondence has been sent
as, and is its own explanation:
Macon, April G, 1869.
][„i K Tims. Hardeman :
Sir—At a late meeting of the Memorial Asso
ciation, a resolution was adopted, “requesting
too to address the citizens of Macon, nt Kals-
lon's Hall in behalf of the Association, at your
earliest convenience.” If it is possible to com
ply with the above named request, be so good
as to appoint the time.
Very respectfully,
F. A. Smith, Cor. Sec’y.
Macon, April 10, 18G9.
•//« F. A. Smith, Corresponding Secretary
Mies’ Memorial Association :
Your favor of the Gth instant, notifying me of
the action of your Association, was received yes
terday. and my reply was delayed until I met
yoar members in their meeting yesterday after
noon. Having explained to them that the time
allowed me (one day next week) was too short
to prepare an address that would do justice to
them or myself, upon their solicitation, I have
consented to modify one, delivered elsewhere,
upon a subject which may be made appropriate,
to-wit: “Man is born upon a battle-field," and
will, Providence permitting, deliver the same at
Mston'sHall. next Thursday evening, the loth
instant, at which time and place I shall be happy
to most your noble Association and every one
who cherishes the memory of the gallant dead
whose graves yon are seeking to beautify and
a.lorn. Respectfully,
Thomas Hardeman, Jr,
•fonmal and Messenger please copy.
Interesting Letter from Europe.
Upon our first page will be found the second
of a series of letters from a special European
correspondent of the Telegraph—a prominent
and highly intelligent citizen of Georgia.
Not There.
Speaker McWhorter has sent word to the New
Era from Washington, that ho is not there. We
are glad to hear it: and hope that every man
who went from Georgia to beg Congress to dis
organize the State, will find ont tbnt he was not
there. The following is the notification:
Washington, D. C., April 5 th, 1869.
Dr. Sard, Editor Atlanta Neu> Era :
Sin —I see it has been announced through the
public press, that I made a political visit to Gen.
Grant. This is certainly a mistake. My mis
sion to Washington has nothing in it relating to
thnt question.
I am not so arrogant as to think for a moment
that I could move a single Representative. Del
egates from Georgia, great or small, learned or
unlearned, are, in my opinion, worthless here.
This Congress will move in its own time and
in its own way, looking, however, to the conduct
of our people!
I am, very respectfully, your ob’t serv't,
R. L. McWhobteb.
Mr. Davis.—The N. O. Picayune announces
a letter from Mr. Davis, dated London, March
17th, in which Mr. D. says his health is excel
lent, and adds: “It has been my purpose to
return this spring to what was my home, and if
permitted to do, witliont injury or embarrass
ment to my friends, to engage in some business
which may yield a support.”
Now, says tho Picayune, that we are about to
reorganize onr efforts to build a railroad to tho
Pacific, we can place at the head of it, the man
who, as a soldier of tho United States, has already
®»de a topographical rcconnoissance of the
mote: and, as the head of an effort to organize
‘nation, and carry through a revolution, has
Aown such powers of administration as no o th
riving man has equaled.
More Annexation.—There is a rumor from
Mexico says the Columbus Enquirer, that Presi-
*at Juarez contemplates, and Is probably
*«»tly negotiating for, a protectorate of some
wit by the United States over Mexico. It is
^led that ho feels his inability to establish
maintain a government there, and is hold-
frequent conferences with the United States
Minister, which are conjectured to have the sig-
siScance above stated.
Csnnox Clover.—Mr. Jacob Scholl sends us
J hnnch o? crimson (Italian) clover from his
V^ce in this county. At this early season in the
spring it j 8 between two and three feet high and
••• snnnounted with a beautiful conical blossom
rich crimson color. This clover Ls from
*' ,re ign seed imported by Mr. Schall last fall.
Mwa Refuses a Good Offer. — The
, 13 Anna Dickinson is a maiden by choice.
—: paper says that while lecturing in
1 tt ty she received a note while on the plat-
V® - The writer asked for an interview at the
7** °f the lecture, which was granted, and he
-<, vefi to be a rich Omaha merchant, who gro-
Anna on the spot. Anna declined.
,. Albany News. —The miscredi t complained
the News was due to the fact that we cop-
r&m a reprint and not from the Nows.
» Unprecedented Success.
h- 1* , *Me past year, fifty thousand boxes of
UJ 8 ^ e G e tnble Liver Pills have been sold,
L.' t a instance is known where they
~ fiivo .satisfaction. If you would
d ®’ Mavo a flno appetite, and robust
use these pills.
I Facts for the Ladles.
thick , ,? n ° hnndred pair of pantaloons, all
. k ined, with one needle without chang-
W I,U ° m,Ule three hundred pairs in nine
• s - Very truly yours,
Tr °y, Bradford Co,. Pa^' ** M ’ Ta ™ R '
Didactic and Political Praying.
The uses of prayer and the spirit and temper
in which it should be offered nre so clearly in
culcated in Holy Writ, that there is b'tile excuse
for error. Man is a needy, dependent creature
—deriving his existence and all that supports,
prolongs and makes it comfortable, from the
hands of an august and beneficent Creator. His
dependence npon the Supreme Being is far more
absolute than that of the infant upon its parents,
and his power and wisdom, by comparison, in
finitely less. . •
How becoming, then, is the simple, child-like
form of petition taught us by the Saviour; and
how utterly at war with all correct taste and in
telligent religions conception are those pompons
public orisons which are manifestly inspired by
the ambition to impress a crowd and excite a
sensation. They seem to us to be akin to ap
proaching God Almighty under false pretences,
and to be little short of blasphemous.
We have heard some preachers, even in the
ordinary ministrations of the gospel, pray in a
didactic fashion, as if they had a purpose to
make their prayers answer the ends of a sermon:
and others make them the vehicle of an ambi
tions rhetoric and a lively and poetical fancy, as
if they had a mind to let the Court of Heaven
see how fortunate it had been in the selection
of an advocate; while others (we speak not ir
reverently) seem to model prayer as if they
could convey, or were conveying, some very im
portant information to the skies.
Ail this needs amendment. But the particu
lar subject and point of this article lie more
within the line of our own profession. Twice
the past week we have had telegrams about the
prayers of the Senate Chaplain. Once he has
prayed for tho success of the Cuban Revolution;
once for the disappointed office-seekers, that
they might go home and become good citizens.
We shall not object so much to the matter of
these petitions, as to the obvious prostitution of
prayer to the uses of politics and personal no
toriety ; and we hope, if a respect for religion
and reverence for the Almighty will not restrain
this prurient itching upon the part of the Con
gressional Chaplains, the press and the tele
graph lines will refuse to gratify it by giving cur
rency to their devotional exploits.
For some years the man Boynton ranted Rad
ical politics in his prayers before Congress every
morning, and the press telegrams, in hnmble
subservience to his object gave almost as often,
a national diffusion of his indecent petitions.
He prayed for the success of every measure of
ultra Radicalism, as it came up, however vio
lent, reckless, silly or unconstitutional. He
brought the Almighty in as a party to almost
every contested election, and he pledged him
particularly to the success of the impeachment
of Andrew Johnson. In short, the man Boynton
was so outrageously blasphemous and indecent
that even poor drunken Dick Yates entered a
protest and said they had had political praying
enough, and it was time to quit.
Certainly nothing can be more offensive to
any just and intelligent notions of religion than
this miserable practice. We are truly sorry
that Boynton’s snccessor Jias conceived an am
bition to follow in his predecessor's footsteps.
And hope the press of the Sonth, if not that of
the other sections, will refuse to pander to this
discreditable thirst for notoriety. Political
preachers are bad enough and mischiezious
enough; but political jira^ciw are too loathsome
to be tolerated.
Tlit Parly Signs.
For about the first time in the wars of Recon
struction, the Republicans in Congress have pre
sented a seriously divided front. Wo will not
pretend to say how the vote of the House might
have stood npon Butler’s Georgia Bill had he
pressed it to an issue: but some of the letter-
writers and quid nnnes say the bill would have
been voted down. It is quite certain, from the
manner in which the House received that- bill
and the hostility displayed to it by Bingham,
that the division would have been great, and tho
Rcpoblican organization in the House must have
strongly divided.
But on Friday last, in the Senate, on the adop
tion of Morton’s amendment to the Virginia,
Mississippi and Texas bill, malting the adoption
of tho Fifteenth constitutional amendment a
condition precedent to the admission of Senators
and Representatives from those States, there
was a decisive and heavy split. It was carried
by yeas thirty and nays twenty; and among
those nays were the following Republican Sena
tors : Anthony, of Rhode Island; Boremnn, of
West Virginia; Conklin, of New York; Ed
munds, of Vermont; Fenton, of New York:
Ferry, of Connecticut; Fessenden, of Maine;
Fowler, of Tennessee: Norton, of Minnesota;
Patterson, of New Hampshire; Sawyer, of
South Carolina; Sprague, of Rhode Island;
Trumbull, of Illinois, and Willey, of West Vir
ginia. —
Thus fourteen Republican Senators slabbed
off on that issue, and we have no donht they
represent in the Senate the same anti-tennre-of-
office bill and anti-Butler-Georgia bill force
which has already made powerful demonstra
tions in the House. In a word, they represent
the coming administration party. It is true,
General Grant, in his Inaugural, proclaimed
himself in favor of the fifteenth amendment, hut
it is not too charitable an inference that ho is
utterly opposed Us forcing that amendment upon
the States as a condition precedent to their recep
tion of the privileges and immunities of States.
That proceeding is so Utterly subversive of
of every fundamental principle implied in the
adoption of Constitutional amendments by the
States, that it must be revolting to all fair-mind
ed men. Instead of giving the States a choice
and a discretion in the matter of adopting amend
ments, it imposes the amendments upon them
as an alternative against something worse. It
is the frying-pan or tho fire—your money or
your life. It is an unblushing and indefensible
outrage upon every usage and doctrine of free
government, and befits only snc5 representatives
of republicanism, so-called, as Sumner, Morton
£ Co.
Thus, in a month after the inauguration, we
see manifest indications of breaking up in the
votes of Congress, and the assurance comes*
from all quarters, that this monstrous and over
shadowing party-tyranny has had its day and
is certainly destined to a speedy collapse. God
send it! Never such a bold, andacious, cor
rupt, tyrannical, reckless, unscrupulous and
shameless a party before breathed tho breath of
political life in America. The Mountain in
France i3 its only historical prototype. It has
ruled the country with a rod ot iron in its own
interests alone, and been utterly reckless of ev
ery moral and constitutional principle, and every
patriotic impulse. It has ruled by force of king
Caucus against right and reason, and in scorn of
all rightful authority, human and divine. When
it shall break up and go to pieces, let liberty
shout—let patriotism raise her head—let com
mon sense exult, and let imposture of every sort
flee, like bats and vampyres, to dark caves and
night. The sun will rise when Radicalism sets.
Early Wheat.—We saw yesterday, says the
Columbus Enquirer, of the 9th, a head of green
wheat, some three inches long, grown by Mr.
T. J. Riley, of Taylor cofinty.- • It ia known as
tho “Raines” variety, and Mr. Riley has about
an acre of it in full head. No sign of injury by
the late frosts was visible on it.
European Correspondence the of
Macon Telegraph.
LETTER NO. 2.
Weimar, Saxony, March 22, 1SG9.
Society in Germany—Cost of Lining Here Com
pared with the South—Wages of Laborers
Compared— Cost of Passage of Laborers
South — Great International Horticultural
Exhibition at Hamburg in September—Igno
rance of Affairs at the South and Prejudices
Exhibited here— What the South OuglU to do.
The American, especially a Southerner, would
be greatly astonished to see the difference in.
Germany as regards social intercourse here and
at home. And I cannot see how he could ever
be pleased with it. Let tis take the case of so
cial meetings with young men and women. In
our best society this is unrestrained, each rely
ing upon the honor and proper conduct of tho
other. Here, a young man may meet, for the
first time, a young woman at a hall; she pleases
him, but he cannot continue tho acquaintance;
cannot visit her. as with ns, without being at
once considered a suitor for her hand; nor can he
dare to recognize her afterwards on. the prome
nade, or bow to her. During the ball they chat
gaily, fly around in whirling waltzes and schot-
tisches, but the next day hqis as great a stran
ger to her as ever. But as human nature cannot
always be controlled by the barriers of society,
such a state of things obviously favors, and in
many cases, leads to secret meetings, fall and
remorse. And when so sad a thing happens,
the punishment of the world falls npon the un
fortunate weaker sex alone. The marriages are
bnt few and far between; the foundation of an
existence is so difficult that but few are favored
by fortune to found their own home and hearth.
When this happy event takes place, a betrothal,
exchange of rings and conditions of marriage,
of dowry, etc., must invariably precede—the un
happy couple after that, tangle in worry and ex-
pection for five or six weary months before they
become man and wife, to satisfy the inexorable
laws of stnpid German custom. If they have
some money, the wife may have a few happy
years. If earthly goods are scant, she becomes
at once a drudge, and works harder than one of
our colored maids-of-all-work. I speak, of
course, of tho great middle classes, comprising
the majority of the German people, and I leave
for to-day, unexplained, the condition of the
nobility, and of the peasant and laboring classes.
In common with many Americans, I had an
entirely erroneous view as to the present cost
of living in North Germany. Although I knew
that prices had risen 100 percent, since my last
presence in Germany fifteen years ago, yet I
had no idea that we live actually much cheaper
at the Sonth than the North Germans do here.
It will be interesting tomany to know the act
ual state of the case, as it has been astonishing
to my German friends when I communicated to
them the result of niy investigations.
According to an exhibit of the prices of the
most important articles of consumption in the
Prussian monarchy, famished by the Royal De
partment of Agriculture, in the years 1SG7—
1868, when compared with those of the two
years preceding, the rates have risen in a most
remarkable degree; as for instance, wheat, per
bushel, from 75 to 116 silver groseben the Ger
man bnshel, (two American bushels—one Ger
man bushel, and 30 silver groschens—one green
back dollar:) rye from 55t®75: barley from 44
@64; oats from 32@42; dried peas from 73(®
91; potatoes from 17<®25; tallow from 4 5-12@
5j- per pound; beef, per pound, from 4 l-6i®4;jj
pork from 4 5-6@5|, etc.
The following comparison is also of interest:
Halts in Virginia assta-Hatesin Central Cermd-
tt<l in opamphlet pub- ny, Feb. 1869, comprto-
lishrd by the Virginia ' " ‘ "
Immigration Society,at
Lynchburg, in 1869.
ing Central Prussia,
Saxony and Thurin
gia, one of themost pro
ductive districts in the
North German Union.
Bacon, 33c
Lard, 27c.
Flour, §11 33.
Fowls, pair, 53c.
Eggs, 20c.
Molasses, 60c.
Coffee, 50c.
Tea, $! 50@2 00. »
Beef, 16c.
Wheat, $1 75(S>2 00.
Not Satisfied with administering to the mere
comfort of their guests, Messrs. Rice, of the
American House, Boston, have fitted their bil
liard with the best material in the country.
Bacon, 17@20c per !t>.
Lard, 17© 18c per 0>.
Flour, $10 for 190
Fowls, pair, 30@50e.
Eggs, 18@T4perdoz.
Molasses, 65© 1 OOprgal.
Coffee, 25©30cper lb.
Tea, 1 50@2 00 per lb.
Beef, G@10 per lb.
Wheat, 150@220perbn. _ _ _
Com, 80©90c per bn. ) , - . „ , ,
Meal! 80@95e per bn. \ Kot found herc -
Salt, 2c per lb. Salt, 3^e per !b.
Sugar, 14@16per-Ib. Sugar, 20c per lb.
The rates in Germany are closely calculated
and according to the official list published by au
thority, every week. The rates are hero much
more stationary than in the United States, and
years may elapse ere these rates decrease again.
Everything is dearer in the above list save mo
lasses, for which latter X can account, since it is
here an article manufactured from the beet root
The disparity in the prices of flour I can ex
plain through tho inferiority qf the German
mills, where more is wasted in inferior grades
than in tho United States. Rents and wood are
likewise high, wood much higher than with ns,
I have compared the prices of clothing, and
I can obtain a cheaper outfit in New York than
in Hamburg. How the poor people can live is
a mystery to me—their faro must be, under
these high prices, exceedingly lowly. I have sat
down to table with a plain Southern farmer, ra
ined by the war in the bargain, and had a greater
variety and more plentiful a meal, though not
so well cooked, than I can find here in the house
of a tolerably well-to-do citizen. Thesv facts,
when first understood and thoroughly ventilated,
will open the eyes of many and bring them to
our country, where, everything considered, a
man is yet in the happiest place on earth. The
only thing which is really cheap is the educa
tion of children in the higher schools. But free
public shools are not yet established, every fa
ther must pay for the schooling of his children.
The poor father, who has generally the most of
them, feels this very heavily, since he is com
pelled to send the children to school. The rich
man who has none, pays nothing for the educa
tion of tho poor man’s children, as in our com
mon schools, where every one is taxed and must
contribute according to his capacity and income.
It is to me not a question of doubt which of the
two is the happier system.
In regard to the rate of compensation paid
here and in tho South for farm laborers, me
chanics, and domestics, a still greater difference
exists. A good mechanic, carpenter, bricklayer,
stonemason, wheelwright, white washer, etc.,
never receives more than twenty silver groschen
per day, without board or lodging. Farm labor
ers are generally paid by the day; they receive
33 to 40 cents and their food, bat no lodging,
and often have to support from this pitiable sum
their largo families. These are the highest rates
—in the interior of tho country the rates are yet
lower. An excellent cook receives forty dollars
per year and everything found—washing, too,
no clothing. Inferior servants, according to ca
pacity, receive from fifteen to twenty-four dol
lars per annum, everything found, as with cooks.
Thousands and thousands of able-bodied, well-
conditioned and moral laborers, mechanics, and
domestics, might be h3d but for the difficulty of
raising their passage money. Their pay, as
seen, is so small, that even with hard labor for
years they do not cam enongh to lay by suffi
cient to defray the expense of reaching the New
"World. Another drawback is the uncertainty of
immediate employment should they come South.
In New York, through the Labor Exchange Bn-
reliable agent, and have another who will see to
their transmission from New York to Savannah.
The cost of passage from Hamburg to New
York per steerage is $55. From New York to
Savannah, say $7 50. Commission to agents
in Europe and America, $7 50. Total cost, $70.
This would be repaid in tho following maimer,
through the labor even in the first year: $10
per month, equal to $120 per year. Subtract
to pay advances 70. Paid in cash to laborer,
50. ' *<■>> -.«: '
Make it to the interest of the laborer to stay
by holding out to him the reward of an increase
of pay, dependent on his good behavior and dil
igence. By transporting the men: in the fine
ships of Bohme&Co., (sailing vessels,) a ma-
mterial reduction in money wouid be gained,
the passage being bnt $35 from Hamburg to
New York; but there is the uncertainty of time
of arrival, which, with the magnificent steam
line from Hamburg to New York, can be calcu
lated to the very day.
I have sent to the President of tho Georgia
Agricultural Society a prospectus of an Inter
national Horticultural exhibition to be held at
Hamburg from the 2d to the 12th of September
I8G9. The forms of application for the entry of
articles of exhibition can be had by addressing
Dr. Goetze, in Hamburg, before the 31st of July
18C9, as no communication received after that
date con be attended to. Among the articles re
ceived as of interest to us, aTe: Collection of
objects made of dried flowers and leaves, en
gines for lifting water, hydraulic rams, working
turbines, machinery for pumping water, ma
chines for transplanting large trees, for trans
planting trees in tubs, hand-mowing machines,
winnowing machines, small carts, carts for car
rying water, wheelbarrows, wheelbarrows on
springs, contrivance for carrying plants (for one
man,) machine for clearing walks and nursery
grounds, spades for heavy soil, for light soil,
shovel for heavy soil, for light soil, hoes, mat
tocks, Dutch hoes, rakes, trowels, hand-trans-
plantors, scythes, verge cutters, pronged hoes,
ladders, watering pots, garden syringes, hand-
syringes, machine for watering lawns, garden-
knives, garden-shears and scissors, bell-glasses,
pots, tubs, tallies, labels, stakes, exotic fruits,
potatoes, eatable gourds, collection of transverse
sections of trees, such as ash, beech, oak, birch,
maple, fir, pine, etc., barks for tanning purposes,
dried fruits, turpentine, calibots, and other re
sinous substances, extracts for tanning, wood,
vinegar, pasture grasses in well prepared, dried
flowering specimen, forage plants same way,
hemp, flax, etc., new fibre plants, raw tobacco,
hops in bunches, wood, madder, medicinal
plants and spices, vegetable seeds, compressed
and preserved vegetables, tea, rice, cane-sugar,
oil extracted from fruits and seeds, etc. etc. This
is hut a small portion of the things that will be
on exhibition. The Hamburg American Post
Steam Line from New York will transport arti
cles for exhibition at one-half the usual rates.
Georgia could furnish many interesting products
which are but little known here, and our indus
trial men should seize every such opportunity
to bring themselves and their noble old State
prominently before the world.
Winter is not yet over; the weather has been
dull, dreary and to-day a leaden sky sheds gloom
over the great city from which I write. Tho
fields are devoid of snow, however, and the
young rye is just sparsely covering the ground.
When I tell them that the wheat by this time is
a fqot high in Georgia they will hardly believe
me. The ignoranco of our sodth in Germany,
anil the prejudice. against us I because wfl rent
the Union asunder, are extreme. I have had
four different occasions during one Week, each
in other assemblages, to speak at length in de
fence of our old cause. I did not, of course,
seek the controversy, my business being of a
purely pacific character, hut I hold it my duty
when falsities, uttered by ignorant men, are
thrown into my teeth, to take up the glove and
defend my homo as best I may. We have to
thank this state of things to our dear cousins at
the North who have so persistently vilified us
when they drew a paper blockade arouad our
coast and we had no chance'of being hoard—bnt
we haVe, also, in some measure, to thank 1 our
own pride and inertness for it, since wo took no
measures to meet these abusers in Europe face
to face and rhake ourselves known. Wo cannot
longer withdraw from the world which in days
gone by was perhaps onr best policy. If we wish
to be great and powerful we must trade directly
with old Europe and bring in tho return vessel
precious loads of sinew,intelligence and energy.
That our great resources, our conservative na
tional character he appreciated and understood
abroad is, therefore, our chief work.
Tlte Fire in llailison.
The Constitution has tho following report of
the lamentable conflagration at Madison, a not©
of which was telegraphed to ns on Friday:”,
“A destructive fire broke out in Madison last
night, destroying all the business honses on the
public square, except Itebiason & Dexter’s
Carriage Shop, and the Hotel All the honses
on the street leading from the public square to
the Depot were destroyed as far as Thrasher’s
house. Tho office of the Farm Journal was
destroyed. The Examiner having its com
position and printing done at Covington, was,
therefore, not damaged. There were many resi
dences also destroyed Tho origin of the fire is
unknown, but supposed to ho tho work of on
incendiary. The loss must be very heavy, and
wo sincerely sympathize with the citizens of.
Madison. Will not the people of Madison and
other towns heed this warning and supply them
selves with engines ?
TJie Macon and Bruusuidt Etailroad.
j We learn, says the Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel of Thursday, from Sir. Alexander, of
the firm of Grant, Alexander & Co., contractors
on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, who was
in the city yesterday on business connected with
the recent contracts made between himBelf and
prise will soon be finished He says that the
work on the road is going on . very rapidly, and
that the cars will run from Macon to Brunswick
by tho first of next November.
Mr. Alexander also states that in two or three
months the contract which his firm has taken
with this company will bo finished, and that at
the expiration of that time he will take his whole
force—several hundred hands we believe—and
commence work on the Macon and Augusta
Railway. : -jV
Odious Comparisons.” — Don Piatt thus
writes to his paper:
“A distinguished statesman, lately recalled to
public life after an absence of twelve years, said
to me not long since, ‘ Those Sonthern fellows
wore very unreasonable and troublesome, but
they would not steal ’ Tho Government Is run
on stealings, and fraud rots its foundations.
The Sonthern soldiers marched without pay,
and fought with poor food, and slept without
tents, and sometimes without blankets. Every
soldier of tho government cost ns a million,
through the frauds of contractors and stealings
of officials. We build on property, and take
pride in display. We ara blest, with a civiliza
tion that makes onr Government a vast ma
chine to crush the poor and build up the rich.”
Taylor County.
The editor of the Columbus Sun, who attend
ed the Taylor Court, says: t •
We conversed freely with planters as to the
disposition in that and adjoining counties to
plant com."' I We heard of but few who were dis
posed to neglect this necessary article on tho
farm. Com is generally up, with good stands,
reau," they are generaDy at once supplied. I an: f iuld 18 l°°sing welL • Some are done planting
, , J , . . , „„„ z - i.cotton and have good stands up. Others are
and always have been against passage-money-ad-; plantiug whilst £ me prefer to wait till next
vances, holding the belief that this class of emi- ! week. Guano is being freely used by about
grants will coma with the wealthier, by the pur- i one-third of the planters of that section. We
chasers of land engaged as their help", and the ! could hear of but .littie cotton yet in the coun-
. . f ,. v . i try. One bale came to town during the three
expenses defrayed by the land pnrehaser. Yet . da J ys that wo wera in Batler •
opinions become modi fiedas we gain experience, j —--—. : :; ^ ...
, T e ^ n „ -a. i The Southern Baptist Convention, embracing Georoia JLegi&laturz Presented. —The De-
and I cannot see how he who w ante good labor , he Soathem and southwestern States and the Kalb GrandJury presents the last Legislature
for himself can do else than advance the passage ■ District of Columbia, meets in Macon, Georgia, j of Georgia for reckless extravagance in voting
money and have the men selected here by a on the 7th of May next. " 1 themselves nine dollars a day.
Cnrtersville and Tan Wert Railroad rnTTvi 1 t7>/~«t> a tvtt
Meeting at Cartenville. j ** x - 1 - ^ Jr'Jtl,
From a report of this meeting in the Atlanta | From Washington.
Constitution, wo copy the following: | 43EORC1IA PASSED BY
<4 JnW e ^ 8 -^f by fV F -1 April 9.—The Senate is conaid'ering
Stephens, President of the Cartersville and Van tim Rnn»« i.m tZTn. , . ...... .
Wert Railroad Company. ( tfie Houae teU for tha elections m Virginia, Miw»-
In response to repeated calls, Hon.- Mark A. i “““W* “d Texas. Morton’s amendment making
Cooper responded in a plain, practical common . ad0 P tl0n °* th© fifteenth amendment a condi-
sense speech. Railroads must be bwlt by work ^ on praeedent to representation, is pending,
and not by talk. . , j The House proceedings are unimportant.
. Loud calls were made for Col. Hulbert. Inj The Banking Committee will have no more meet-
responding, that gentleman stated that in his mgs unless the session is prolonged
official capacity, as Superintendent of the West- j New England is solid against ihe proposed plan
em and Atlantic Bailroad, he was willing to ex- ■ proposed pian
tend to it ©very aid in his power. It was an im-) 4116 6qu * llzaU ° a of , the currency, and will sup-
portant auxiliary to the State Road, and would ' port “P*^ 81011 rather than consent to a curtailment
develope a fine section. He was willing to grant j of t!ieir National Bank circulation,
the use of locomotives, cars and the Depot at ( There is no prospect of action regarding Georgia
Cartersville, to this Road, and if necessary, to Hub session.
loan it iron. The enhancement of property at
the terminus of the Road, and contiguous to its
line, would pay the cost of its construction in
one year. The development of the iron interest
was of great practical moment. The iron of
Georgia is recognized as a superior article.—
The iron crop is sure and never fluctuates. The
iron crop will he worth more than the cotton
crop, and the development of this interest alone
will make upper Georgia the wealthiest portion
of the State. Cartersville was admirably adapt
ed for manufacturing purposes, having fine wa
ter privileges, and being situated in tho midst
of an agricultural region. He could see no rea
son why she should not b© a manufacturing
town, and have, in the course of the next five
years, a population of at least 25,000 inhabit
ants. Activity should be the motto, and he
therefore suggested that the meeting proceed at
once to solicit and receive subscriptions. The
lists were then opened and $35,000 was quickly
subscribed by citizens of Cartersville, Tan Wert
Stilesboro’ and other points. Hon. Mark A.
Cooper then arose and said that if all whq wished
to take stock had done so, he would subscribe,
and announced that he would take 10,600 shares,
or $265,000. This raised the amount of stock
subscribed to $300,000, and was loudly cheered
by the large and intelligent meeting.
A long and animated discussion ensued upon
the right of the' corporators to reject subscrip
tions.
A resolution to turn over the subscription
books and franchises of tho charter to the stock
holders, was carried.
The presiding officer and Secretary were unan
imously requested to act in their positions.
Colonel E. Hulbert offered a resolution that
the stockholders proceed forthwith to elect by
ballot eleven Directors, to be determined by a
majority of tho votes cast, each shore to be
counted os a vote, which was adopted.
Abda Johnson, R. H. Cannon and Seaborn
Jones were appointed tellers of the election.
On counting out the ballots, the following
gentlemen, were-declared elected:
Hon. Mark A. Cooper, Etowah; J. F.
Deavers, Van Wert; Seaborn Jones, Van Wert;
S. F. Stephens, Stilesboro’; Abda Johnson,
Cartersville; Thomas Stokely, Cartersville ,* D.
W. K. Peacock, Cartersville; W. H. Gilbert,
Cartersville; J. G. Stocks, Cartersville; E.
Hulbert, Atlanta.
Complimentary votes were, cast for A. E. Mar
shall of Atlanta; W. T. Burge, Dr. J. G. Simms,
of Stilesboro’, and Dr. W. W. Leek, of Carters
ville.
The meeting then adjourned.
After the adjournment, the Directors met and
elected Hon. Mark A. Cooper, President.
Annexation Scheme.
The atmosphere of Washington ever since
the 4th of March has been full of annexation.
Tho feeling among politicians and others in fa
vor of the acquisition of new territory appears "
to grow stronger day by day, andif publicopin- ^
ion on this subject should gather strength in the °
proportion that it has for the last few weeks, it
is probable that there will be a pretty strong an
nexation party in the United States before the
close of the year. Even now it is gravely and
confidently asserted that the present adminis
tration will put this question in the foreground 1
of its policy, but nothing has been said so far by
the d&ecnfive'or hny of his Ministers t<n justify
these statements. The Banks resolutions, which
w«rp int^oduqefi a few, days ago, and fh^Cqban
sympathizers who are at work here, and a dozen
other minor influences, fan the sentiment. The
newspaper articles in reference to the subject
are also not without effect* and the restless spir
its, who are always numerous in Washington,
aro industriously turning every little occur
rence and incident to their advantage. Some
aro looking toward the British Provinces, and,
others at Mexico; but at the present time the
great majority have their eyes on Cuba, which
latter they expect to fall into our lap within a
short time. The Foreign Affairs' Committee of
the Hottsc, at their meeting this morning, dis
cussed the St. Domingo annexation project^ but
arrived at no conclusions.—Neio York Times.
"• Cassandra Sprague, i-.f.vo j...;
I was somewhat astonished, writes a-Wash
ington correspondent, while listening to the lit
tle Senator from tho little State., He was not
talking like a lunatic, by any manner of means.
His address was not the most polished or in the
best taste, but it was full of meaning, statistical
facts, and what I consider sound sense.. Da
you know, after reading, the results of David A.
Wells’ investigation, and being well aware my
self of tho unhappy condition of tho country,
the shrill, clear, earnest voice of the Senator,
coming up from sneha strange place, sounded
to me like the inspired 'Cassandra, foretelling
xpiivamldisaster.
Senator Sprague and his brother are said to
he worth over $30,000,000. He is the head—
the ; business manager and-guide in the vast
operations that involve, towns and- counties,
huge factories and thousands of Inborers; and
yet here he is, crying out ruin, and warning us
that our financial'policy means bankruptcy.—
He may be insane, but for- all that he utters a
deal of good sense. He said yesterday r “I
am not troubled about my private affairs. They
lire well enongh. I have what I have through
a proces3 that has crushed others engaged in tho
same pursuits as myself.”: Of course he need
not trouble himself. We have so legislated that
money takes care of.itself, and makes money.
The small capitalists and mechanics and labor
ers Alone suffer. • The rich grow richer, and the
poor poorer.—N-' Y. Commercial Advertiser.
General JaIl Delivery.—Five colored in
mates of the Muscogee County Jail made their
escape about four o’clock last Thursday morn
ing—leaving only one tenant, awbiteman. The
fugitives were all confined together in an , iron
djamber, hut had managed to secure a file and
•ver the topmost bolt which secured the door,
and then to lift it from the hinges. The Sun
ndds: *
Then by filing and afterwards pounding with
this door a hole was made through the floor
laTge enough to admit of tho passage of one
the citv and countv. that this important enter- ra ‘ in -, All erowded through and then ascended
somehow within the, narrow space betweeh the
It ia stated that Delano intends removing all the
Internal Revenue Supervisors in tho Southern Dis
tricts. except Noah, of Tennessee.
The President Bent a proclamation summoning
the Senate to an extra session next Monday, for Ex
ecutive business.
W. H. Barnes. Collector of the 1st District of
Pennsylvania, was the only nomination made to-day.
John L. Haynes, Collector of Customs in Texas,
was the only Southern confirmation.
THE VIRGINIA, MISSISSIPPI AND TEXAS BTT.T,.
Washington, April 10.—The Memphis and El Paso
Road, encouraged by favorable Congressional ex
pressions, will commence work at once. Congres
sional action in its behalf to merely grant a right of
way appears to have been defeated this session by
the friends of Northern routes, who seek to force
the Memphis and El Paso Company into a combina
tion.
The following is the full text of the act authoriz
ing the submission of the Constitutions of Virginia,
Mississippi and Texas to a vote of the people and
authorizing the election of State officers provided
by said Constitutions and members of Congress, as
approved and signed by the President to-day:
• Section1. Beit enacted, etc., That the President of
the United States, at such time as he maydeembeat
for the public interest, may submit the Constitution
which was formed by the Convention which met in
Richmond, Va., on Tuesday, th? 3d day of December,
1867, to tho registered voters of said State, registered
at the date of said submission, for ratification or re
jection; and may also submit to a separate vote,
such provisions of said Constitution as he may deem
best, such vote to bo taken either upon, each of the
said provisions alone, or in connection with the
other portions of said Constitution as the President
may direct.
Sec. 2. That at the same election, the voters of
said State may vote for and elect members of the
General Assembly of said State, and all the officers
of said State provided for by the said Constitution,
and members of Congress; and the officer command
ing the District of Virginia, shall cause the tests of
registered voters of said Stato to bo revised, en
larged and corrected prior to snch election according
to law, and for that purpose, may appoint such reg
istrars as ho may deem necessary; and said elections
shall be held and returns thereof made in the man
ner provided by the acts of Congress commonly
called the Reconstruction acts.
Sec. 3. That the President of the United States
may, in like manner, submit tho Constitution qf
Texas to tho voters of said State, at such time and
in such manner as ho may direct, either the entire
Constitution, or separate provisions of tho same,
as provided in the first section of this act, to a sep-
1 arate vote; and at the same election the voters may
vote for and elect tho members of the Legislature
and all the State officers provided for in said Consti
tution, and members of Congress; provided, also,
that no election shall be held in said State of Texas
fpr any purpose until tho President so directs.'
Sec. 1. That the President of the United States
may in, like maimer, resubmit tho Constitution of
Mississippi to the voters of said Stato It sudi time
and in such manner as he may direct, either the en-
tiro Constitution or separate provisions of the same
—as provided in tho first Bcction of this act—to a
separate vote, and at the same election, the- voters
may voto for and elect the members of the Legisla
ture and all the State officers provided for in said
Constitution, and members of Congress.
Sec. 5. That if either of said Constitutions si jail
be ratified at such election, the Legislature of the
State so ratifying, elected as provided for in this act,
shall assemble at the capital of said State on the
fourth Tuesday after the official promulgation of
sush ratification by the military officer commanding
in said State.
Sec. 6. That before tho States of Virginia, Missis
sippi and Texas shall be entitled to representation in
Congress, their several Legislatures, which may he
hereafter lawfully organized, shall ratify the fif
teenth article which has been proposed by Congress
tQ the several States as an amendment to ,the Con
stitution qf the United States.
. Sec. 7. That tho proceedings in any of said States
shall not ho deemed final, or operate as a complete
restoration thereof, until their action, respectively,
shall be approved by Congress.
• Impeachment Ashley is confirmed Governor of
Montana, after a sharp debate, by one majority.
The New York nominations were defeated by a
strong effort on tho part of Conkling.
Tho President, with Hoar, Fish and others, was
at the Capitol to-day, considering and signing hills.
Fifty-three nominations were unconfirmed tojday
and must be reserved,,
Tho executive session of the Senate wiil pfobably
continue several weeks.
The whisky and tobacco bill was signed to-day. It
extends tho time for withdrawing spirits from bond
tothe30ih of June, 1869. It subjects it to one
cent per gallon per month after the 20th of April,
and forfeits it if not removed on or before the 80th
of June, 1809. It also 1 provides for refunding tax on
tobacco, in certain cages. <; ;., f
Congressional.
Washington, April 9.—House—A conference
asked on the amendraenl to the whisky and tobacco
tax.
The Connecticut members stated-that the Com
mittee on Elections. bya- subcommittee, were di
rected to take evidenco in th^. Third and jEourtb Dis
tricts of South Carolina, -■
Myers, from Pennsylvania, pas seatcifiy a (strict
party vote. ‘ ' , ? -
The conference report on the deficiency appropria
tion, was passed. ’ ‘ 7! " jj.
Whittcmoro reported-4'bill relieving from politi
cal disabilities, alarge number Of persons; but with
out action the Hoose took recess to 8 o’clock.
Senate—After a somewhat bitter,fjkscutaio'n,
Morton’s amendment .making the adoption Of the
fifteenth amendment a condition precedcnt to ‘rep
resentation, was adopted. Yeas 30. Those. Voting
nay are, Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Bozeman,, Cas-
brickand iron walls,, to a skylight, through
which they ascended to tho roof; and thence
descended by means of the lightning rod. An-
derson, who gives this account of the mode of , serlv, Conkling. Davis, Edmunds, Fenton, Ferry,
escape, says he heard two fall to the ground Fessenden, Fowler, McCreary, Morton, Patterson,
hke bales of cotton When nsked why lie did Sawyer, Sprague. Stockton, Thomas’Trumbull, and
not go with them, he replied he did not wint to r tvm EV _oo v , r 7Tlo n<
—he had done nothing. The night was unite i ; ... ......... . . » ,
dar ^ ° ° 1 The clauso authorizing ■ the suspension of laws
Col. R. G. Mitchell was jailor. Sheriff Ivey, j was do ® ned oppressive and stricken mat. An addi-
witli others, have scoured the country, hut dis- tional clause was adopted declaring that the bill
covered no trace of the fugitives. This prison.' shall not operate so as to complete restoration until
was thought to be ono of tho most secure and . the action was approved by Congress. In the first
4be connlr > T ’ interior consisting section tho words •* registered voters of said State'
whoHy of iron, but not a year lias passed since , wero stricken out and the words “voters of said State
tho war closed in which there has not been two regigtercd at (he time of said submissioii of the
escapes. The concern had better be aban- „ . . - , • ~
dosed. . Constitution inserted. The bill passed—ye^s 44;
««►■• ■ ■ j nays 9, among them Sprague.
Cuba Fhjbustebs—Expedition Obganizino : The Senate then took recess.
in New Orleans.—A prominent citizen of Washington. April ID.— Senate. —The Senate
Louisiana, now: , n Washington, has received a confined Pinchbeck, Register of the Land Office at
ssssssra&n: ■ssrste s » °?r c r- ^ .«»— U
affairs, and the action therein of certain public fioe ’ at Jackson ’ 3IlS8IS81 PPb
characters in this city. The writer states that Postmasters: Cardy, Vicksburg; Eodgera, Knox-
Gen. Steadman has returned from Cuba, and viilo. - '
that with the aid of ex-Confederates he is sec- Col^pctors: Prince, 2d district of Virginia; Wil-
retly preparing an expedition in aid of the in- cox, 5th district of Virginia ; Wood. 4th district of
snrgents, and that agents aro enlisting men with Texas, ! > •
great care and privacy to accompany the ex-
Assessors : Pedigo, 1st district of Texas j Bald
win, 3d district of Texas : Pettengill, 1st district of
South Carolina; Nelson, 2d:district of Tennessee;
Clark, 1st district of Tennessee; Shaded, 3d dis-
trict of Mississippi.
Attorneys : Scott, Weeteren Texas ; Purveyance,
pedition, which is being fitted out.' Enlist
ments, it is represented, nre rapidly being
made, and it ia thought a laTge force will be
securedjf the recruiting is not broken up by the
authorities. In view of the state of affairs, the
Navy Department yesterday dispatched orders
to Admiral Hoff, advising him. of the reports West Tennessee • ,, ,
from New Orleans and directing him to keep a DUUnghan)i Hava* Agent at New Orleans. ,
fSSSSKt »«-“• *>
now engaged in war in that island. Orders have and Parker, Marshal for Texas,
also been sent to the commandant of League House.—The House passed the Virginia, Texas
JslandNavy Yard, directinghim to at once pre- and Mississippi election bDl, with the Senate's
pare.the iron-clad Miantonomoh for sea duty. — amendment.
Wash. Cof. N. : Y. Tribune.
Vestel Burned at ffew, Ortaua.
New Orleans, April 9.—The steamship Gen.
Grant took fire at midnight iaat night while lying at
the wharf, and burned till she sank. Tbs iofR
fall on Northern companies. Daring the program of !
tho fine, her commander. Can tain Quick, whOM.'
mind waa apparently affected bythblou of hte've*- ;
sel, mads several attempts to oommit suicide, by
throwing himself into tbs homing vernal Only a
portion of the vessel’s cargo was on board, oossiat-
ing of bulk grain, bagging and cotton mad. The
greater portion of the cargo on tbs wharf was not
damaged.
The Nevada Catastrophe. ■'
Gold Hnx, April 8. 8 r. h.—At least forty per
sons perished from the fire in the minm. The *p.y
pearance of the bodies recovered indicate* despe
rate efforts to escape, and: intense suffering before
death. ■ r . . .
Fire in Madison, Ga.
Augusta, April 9.—The business portion and ma
ny residences in the town of Madison were destroyed
by fire last night—loss heavy.
Foreign Hews.
Paris, April 9.—Three pnhlio meetings have been
dispersed by the police, and many arrests have been
made.
Vienna, April 9.—The Austrian Government haa
resolved to reduce the army, and postpone the call
for recruits.
New York, April 9.—Tho Bising Star brings $220,-
000.
The small pox ia raging fearfully at Panama.
Montreal, April 9.—Extra-precautions are being
taken to watch the banks here, in consequence of
information received by the bank authorities, that
an organized robbery will he attempted,
eneral News.
Havana, April 8.—Francisco Leon Nunez, a natu
ralized American citizen; and Augustin Medea, will
bo g&rroted to-morrow. They had charge of the
arms in Havana, the fight over which involved the
death of several police.
The Treasurer of the Royal University has fled to
tho United States with its funds.
Tho news from tho seat of war is contradictory
and unreliable.
Norfolk, April 10.—The Propeller Thames, from
New York for Galveston, was binned off Cape Hat-
teraa. The cook, three writers, a seaman and the
coal passer are supposed to be lost Tho rest of the
crew were saved.
Galveston, AprillO—To-day, in the case of Hen
ry Cotton, indicted as an accessory to the murder of
Major J. B. Lochman, in January last, a vet diet of
murder in the second degree was given, and he was
sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. An
appeal will be taken in this, as well as in the Leroy
Cotton case.
Augusta, AprillO.—The disposition of the Geor
gia matter by Congress gives universal joy.
The New Orleans Faces.
New Orleans. April 9.—Metairie Racks—Third
Day.—First race—Two-milo hurdle dash, eight leaps;
club purse $500. Transit beat Chalmette and Con
test’s four-year old chestnut gelding by Entry. Time
S:52tf-
Second race—mile heats, best three in five; purse
$600. little Mack 12 11; John Kilgour2122.
Time 1:49, l:4CJi, 1:52^, 1:55.
Transit was tho favorite in the first race, and the
betting light; Kilgonr the favorite in the seoond, at
two to one and heavy betting.
New Orleans, April 10—Metarie Races—Sixth
and Last Dat.—The course was crowded to-day,
more than half the spectators were ladies. The
day and track being fine tho betting was heavy.
First Race—Two-mile dash for beaten horses;
purse $300. Banshee boat Gen. Ewell and Gilroy.
Time : 3:40V.
■■Second Race—Sweepstakes for all ages. Three-
mile heats. $500 entrance; club added $1000. Bay
onet'1 1; Locust Pest 23 ; Plantagenet 3 2. Time:
5:31, 5:33. Bayonet was slightly lame at the end of
the race.
Gen. Ewell was the favorite, in the first race, and
Bayonet the favorite in the second.
Congress Adjourned.
■Washington, April 10.—Congress adjourned at
12 o'clock to-day sine die.
The Political Disabilities bill failed—neither the
Senate nor House bill having passed.
The President signed the election bill for Virginia,
Mississippi and Texas, and the amendment to the
spirits and tobacco tax.
. Most of the morning was wasted in fillibustaring
on Sawyer's amendment to the election bill, which
orders a new registration. It is estimated that it
adds 15,000 white and loses several thousand negro
votes in Virginia, and it will work in the same way
in Mississippi and Texas.
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, April 10 Gov.-Warmoth to-day
applied to the Seventh District Court for a suspen
sion of the appeal from its action in appointing a
judicial sequestrator to take charge of the Auditor's
Office. Tho appeal granted to Warmoth remains in
possession of the office. The argument on demur
rer to the jurisdiction of the First District Court in
the indictment against Auditor Wickliffe for official
misdemeanors closed to-day. The Jndge reserved,
his decision till next Saturday, but instructed that
demurrer be sustained, it being his opinion that the
Legislature alone had jurisdiction in the case.
Captain Sheridan, brother of the General and
Adjutant General of this. State, lias arrived from
Havana, and reports the strictest official espionage
upon his movements during his stay.
The Second District - Court, yesterday, decided the
case of Pietre Soule', whioh haa been at issno some
time, that his reason was 'overthrown, and decreed
an interdiction. ■; V • •^ a . t
From Virginia. %■ j
jRicexiond,April 10.—The Conservative State Cen
tral Committee, in view of the recent action of Con
gress, has called a Conservative State Convention to
meet here on the 28th of- April It is stated that
the Conservatives will not nominate a candidate
for Governor.
To-day a man giving the name of James Cham
bers, sold a bogus draft of $2000, purporting to be
drawii by HcKill A Co., of Baltimore, on Duncan,
Sherman & Co:,'of New York,- to Via. M. Seuton &
Co., Brokers here, and got the money and got off be
fore the fraud was discovered, bnt he waa arrested
at Petersburg with half of; the money.
From Cuba.
Havana, April 10.—Leon and Medina were gar-
ro ted to-day in the presence of a vast crowd. Leon
cried “ Viva Independence! ” The crowd uttered
seditious cries, .whereupon the guard fired, tilling
six and wounding many.
Sugars, yesterday, were advancing, and there is a
large speculative demand, with 8% offered.
The Fire at San Francisco.
San Francisco, April 10.—The fire still rages.
No more bodies have been removed.
Carroll County.
The editor of the Newnan Herald haa made a
tour into Carroll and report*: _
Carrollton and vicinity are alive on the railroad
question, and entertain high hopes of hearing
(he whistle of'the iron horse in this place some
time during theyear 1870. The books of sub
scription for stock in the road will be opened
soon, and the indications are strong that the cit
izens along the contemplated line of the road
will subsenbe liberally.
Carroll has no fear of starving, for we have
been informed since our arrival here, that last
year a gentleman named Calvin McRae, a citizen
of this county, produced on four acres of land
2G3^ bushels of corn. Of course, each acreteul-
tivated in Carroll will not produce as much as
one of McRae’s,‘ yet a sufficiency of breadstuff's
was produced for the support of all the inhabit
ants.
We have sjen a sample of silk-thread, man
ufactured in this county, _ which will compare
favorably with that of china. The • quantity is
so small, however, that it will not enter much
into commerce.
The trial of the case Swothard vs. Shell for
ansa, oon., is now progreasing. The testimony
of ope witness as amusing as that of the
one of “ Cousin SaUie Dillard’’ notoriety. He
with tears in hia eyes portrayed what transac
tions he and Shqll had in buying ' cattle during
the war, and much other matter as tittle touch-
Also. the bill restoring Blanton Duncan’s prop
erty. 7. ; v ,. '
Both go to the President.
. A bill remoringthe political disabilities of a large ptets that tiM ijsibleh
number of peraopa waspissed. [ controllable.
