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The Greorgia "W'eekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1803.
The African Appointments in Savannah.—
The Savannah Advertiser, of "Wednesday, says:
Since the announcement, by telegraph, of a
Washington rumor to the effect that ex-Bev.
Jim Simms and two others of the same color
were, per order of Secretary BoutweU, clerks
in the Custon House in this city, or at least
clerks in prospective, considerable interest has
been manifested in the affair, and the question
has gone up, “is it Sr is it not so ?”
lieve that unless Collector Johnson has nomi
nated these sons of Ham to positions in his de
partment, that the dispatch amounts to noth
ing. It is customary, and as far as we under
stand necessary, for the collectors of the differ
ent ports to nominate their own clerical force,
and the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury is
to confirm these nominations. He cannot, how
ever, appoint directly no more than the Senate
can appoint him. As we have said before then,
unless Gov. Johnson has suggested the placing
of these negro men in his office, it is almost—
\ro say almost in these peculiar times—unneces
sary to give this rumor attention. We of course
labor under the opinion that Mr. Johnson has
too much good judgment, and the proper con-
— — * H——i , ■ — a __ in tnacr JllRtjlfi.
would not make chaos out 01 order ana tumms
intricate accounts and accurate calculations in
to what printers would call “pi”—even if he
may have no respect for the recent decisions of
the courts of hi£ State on the subject of negro
eligibility. ■
Another Press Change in Louisville.
The Nashville Banner says Mr. Walter G.
Overton,, for many years connected with the old
Louisville Courier, and for several years past
the special Washington telegraphic correspond
ent of the Courier and Courier-Journal, has
purchased the controlling interest in the Louis
ville Democrat, and will hereafter have the en
tire control and management of that paper. It
is his design to change its name to that of The
Express—the title of the paper he conducted
during the first year of the war, and which was
suppressed by military authority.
The Ibish Church Disestablishment.—The
majority in the House of Commons show no
relentings of purpose in relation to the Dises
tablishing bill. A motion made last Monday,
postponing the practical operation of the bill
until 1872, was lost by a vote of 194 to SOI
against; Government majority 107. The clause
disqualifying Bishops of the Irish Church from
sitting in the House of Lords was amended to
allow prelates, appointed previous to the pass
age of the bill, to retain their titles and rights of
precedence for life, and was then agreed to.
Carriages.—We are happy to refer our read
ers to the card of an old and reliable house in
New York, of long experience in the Southern
trade, and consequently intimate knowledge of
its necessities, and to which orders maybe sent
with advantage. Mr. B. W. Tilton, 47 Broad
way, New York, is prepared to supply the South
with carriages, buggies, rockaways, etc., from
his large manufactory at Mount Vemon, N. Y.,
only a few miles from the great metropolis. He
has vehicles manufactured expressly to suit the
present circumstances of the Southern people.
He also manufactures the velocipede. See ad
vertisement
Worthless Negroes in Florida.—A St Au
gustine (Fla.) correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser says the negrols there
are utterly worthless. They find shelter, like
lizzards and bats, among the ruins of once
stately dwellings, filling the wind sashes with
old hats, and their stomachs with anything they
oan pick up. They will not work as house ser
vants, considering that only a return to slavery,
but they steal everything they can lay hands
upon.
Hon. A. H. Stephens.—From a gentleman
who saw and conversed with Mr. Stephens on
Tuesday, says the Atlanta New Era, we ate re
joiced to learn that he continues to improve
steadily. The injury was a very serious one to one
of Mr. Stephens’ fragile mould, but we are glad
to hope that he will shortly have so far recov
ered as to be able to complete his history of the
late war—a work in which he takes great inter
est, and which he is extremely anxious to com
plete. • •
Relief fob the Madison Sufferers.—The
five hundred dollars' voted by the City Council
for the relief of the peole of Madison, should be
saved to the city. The Augnsta Chronicle & Sen
tinel says the Madison sufferers have been ful
ly provided for, and a portion of the funds
raised in that city has been applied by the May
or to the establishment of a soup house for the
poor.—Columbus Sun.
Not Lost.—We see by the Savannah Morning
News, that Alfred Albert Aaron Andrew Alpeoria
Bradley was not lost in the Ogeechee Swamps,
as supposed, but reappeared last week before
the Massachusetts Legislature as a witness in
behalf of female suffrage, which Bradley testi
fied was secured by the Fifteenth Constitutional
Amendment! The Massachusetts women who
want to vote with Alpeoriaporia must be strong
in mind and stomach.
The Profits of War.
The Herald presents these as follows:
“Clearly the feeling of the nation is that if
our Alabama dispute go^ 8 6 P 0 ^
people are ready. Wtot about the national
debt ? We may repudiate it, or, better still, we
may pay it more easily after such a war than
now- for the ocean is ours.. Every sea will
tflom xrith our privateers, and English com
merce will disappear. In that very fact will lay
for us an incalculable wealth. At the same
time we would have some benefits at home, and
these incline ns to hope that the war feeling
may run high. Our jobbers will be so eager in
their hunt for the game of contracts that the
whisky rings may be broken.”
Not improbably the country at large would go
into a foreign war with a degree of indifference,
or at least with far less reluctance than was ever
felt before. A large portion of our people like
the excitement of army life, and a good many of
them are much attached to the spoils and plun
der thereof. When the civil war broke up so
suddenly, we think the feeling in the Federal
army was one of profound disappointment.
Fighting had become easy and stealing fat
Perhaps a million of men in the United States
would this moment gladly exchange the arts of
peace, which are just now slow and unprofitable,
for the chances offered by a grand invasion of
Canada.
A few hundred thousand more, it is extremely
probable, are but too willing to renew their an
cient relations to the cre«emiqpnt and the army
conxraawoi juuucts, commissanow,
masters, suttlers and what not; and ontside of
this ring there are plenty of financiers and trad
ing men who had rather take their chances to
accumulate a pile in the general financial con
fusion and derangement incident to war times,
that in the more normal conditions of peace.
Lastly, it is not to be disgnised that a very
great mass of tax-payers who find all their year
ly earnings, above a mere subsistence, absorb
ed by enormous and oppressive taxes, would not
be sorry to see the whole national debt extin
guished by its own unmanageable and incom
prehensible proportions-jnst as the Continental
debt was wiped out in 1783—and the debt of
Virginia, (one of the most honest of the bunch,)
about the same time funded ntthe rate of a. thou
sand for one! France, too, disposed of a debt
in assignats, amounting to over forty-five thou
sand million francs, (say nine thousand million
dollars, or nearly four times the amount of our
present national debt,) by simply ignoring its
existence.
In all these cases legal tender acts had been
passed, and the most stringent legislation had
been adopted to secure the public creditors: but
the magnitude of their claims made payment
preposterous, and operated as a receipt in foil
of all demands.
An alleged public “ necessity" which is all the
Constitution America has had for abont ten
years past, called fir the creation of these debts,
and the idea is now to bring into existence a
still more overruling and inexorable necessity
for repudiating them, which will be done by
another war.
How much influence these views have in shap
ing the attitude of the administration towards
England and pushing her into a comer on these
so-called Alabama claims is, of course, a mere
matter for conjecture; but it seems very reas
onable that a man heavily in debt and, at the
same time very anxions to square up as soon as
possible, will be cautions abont all needless ad
ditions to expenses, particularly such material
additions ns will certainly carry him beyond the
line of solvency.
But the man who is abont making up his
mind that the shortest road to self-extrication is
through a bankrupt court, is often, unfortunate
ly, too indifferent abont entering into engage
ments which he sees will, after all, only add a
few more names and items to his liability list.
We judge the masses of the people, newspa
pers and politicians, are drifting, perhaps insen
sibly, as to some of them, into the role of the
man contemplating a resort to bankruptcy,
when they are so noisy and flippant about dra
gooning John Bull into extravagant and humili
ating concessions on these Alabama Claims.
It is true, while these stem and rigorous de
mands-are preferred, the Presidentand his party
are also equally imperative that the boldholders
shall be paid up to the last dollar, and paid, too,
in shining gold. Nothing but untarnished gold
is worthy the stainless and incorruptible faith
of the Great Republic with her creditors. But
these words are only a cheap concession to the
public faith, and scarcely to be weighed against
acts which would render it simply impossible for
the country to discharge oatstanding indebted
ness. Everybody knows that we cannot fight
England and pay this debt. Another war will
place greenbacks and bonds in tbe category of
Continental money—the French assignats and
mandats and Confederate treasury notes. The
war party is, therefore, the repudiation party.
The radicals are working for a measure 6f su
preme relief from debt and taxation far more
sweepingand ingenious than that charged to Pen
dleion. He wanted to pay up in the same stuff
the government borrowed, and call it square.
But it seems to us, from the way they are going
on, the idea of the radicals is to pile up a debt
so monstrous, that common sense will say pay
ment is impossible, and then let ns apply a wet
sponge to the slate and begin again.
The First of the Season. — The editorial
staff of the Telegbath were indebted yesterday
evening to Mr. O. P. Heath for a waiter of Cake
and Ice Cream—‘both excellent. The public can
find more of tbe same sort at Mr. Heath's Con
fectionery Store, Damonr’s Block.
A printer in the Columbus Sun office and a
young companion, with more nerve than discre
tion, have recently been seeking to eclipse the
William Tell romance. At a distance of forty
yards one of them held a target not four inches
above bis bead, and allowed his companion to
shoot at it with a Potter’s rifle. Tho ball very
nearly centered the bull's eye.
One hundred clerks have so far befp discharg
ed from the Third Auditor’s office, and forty
new appointments made, two of whom are col
ored men. One is Robert R. Douglass, son of
Fred. Douglass, and the other Joseph E. O’Hare,
who was a clerk in the North Carolina Consti
tutional Convention.
Crop Projects in Dawson.—Tho Journal of
the 22d says: While all our farmers agree that
this is the most backward Spring we have had
for years, still they report good stands of corn
and cotton. The young plants also present
healthy and vigorous appearance. Wo have
had fine rains the past week.
Frank Leslie’s Publications.—Lady’s Maga
zine for May, and his Boys’ and Girls’ Weekly
for April 24th, with his illustrated newspapers
of all sorts, at Havens & Brown’s.
No Proscription on Account of Colob.—A
leading Northern paper indignantly demands
wlf yellow shcftfd be a proscribed color.—
White, red, Mack and copper are appointed to
office, but yellow John Chinaman is left out in
the cold. Down with dis^fttions on account of
color and race.
The Political Barometer.
Undef this head onr astute friend, John For
syth, of the Mobile Register, says, so inflam
mable is the political atmosphere, he almost
fancies that he smells gunpowder; and we ob
serve that that wise bird, the London Daily Owl,
blinking and nodding portentnously over tbe
telegrams from thin side of the Atlantic in tbe
matter of Cuba, declares yesterday its belief
that a “heavy storm is brewing.'’
We have already hazarded the opinion that
England will not, even for the sake of peace,
which she most ardently desires, respond favor
ably to any demands made npon her, conceived
in harmony with the spirit and tenor of tho re
cent treaty discussions in the Senate, ite be
lieve it is the universal opinion and sentiment
in that country that the treaty covered all the
concessions which could be made in the premi
ses, consistently with self-respect. !
Doubtless tho question of war or peace rests
altogether with our own Government; and it is
abhorrent to all common sense that war between
two such powers should arise upon a question
of this nature; but the danger is that both par-
ties may drift into it npon a point of honor—a
real point, we think, as to Great Britain, but a
false one as to the United States.
There is, in our judgment, enough danger of
a rupture to justify our farmars in looking well
to provision crops and abating over-eagerness
to swell •cotton product.
We see Ministerxiotloy ha»been notified that
he must be at his post by the first af June, and
this seems to indicate a disposition to press a
conclusion. Wo have no great faith in the pru
dence or diplomatic capacity of this function
ary; and he goes to the court of St. James
thoroughly indoctrinated with all Sumner’s
views. He is, in fact, a protege of Sumner,
and his bosom friend—if any mortal ever stood
in that relation to Sumner.
Awful Storm In Tennessee.
The Nashville Banner says a terrific storm
passed over Nashville, on Monday night, and
appears to have extended its mad career over a
large portion of Middle and Western Tennessee.
It up-rooted and unearthed the strongest trees
that, Briareus-like, inclosed in their hundred
armed embraced tbe rural homestead, and, in
one moment, as it were, left them stag-horned
and sere and blasted by the withering touch of
the lightning’s fingers. It demolished dwellings
and stores and bams; played at will with the
telegraph wires, and when, seemingly satisfied
with its fiendish whines, poured down to earth
in literal sheets the accumulated wafers of the
clouds.
In the neighborhood of Nashville it blew down
substantial brick houses, uplifted and dashed to
pieces bams, stables and out-houses, uprooted
and blew down orchards, prostrated the largest
shade trees, and in one case drove one of them
through the center of a large bam. It obstruct
ed and temporarily disabled the railroads com
municating with Nashville, and treated the
trains very roughly. Some were badly hurt, but
we see no case of absolute loss of life.
Terrific Storm In the West,^*
St. Louis, April 20.—The extremely sultry
weather <£ yesterday morning culminated in the
afternoon in the most terrific rain storm that
has visitid this region for many years. The
hail stows fell in unprecedented numbers and
force, aid varied in size from that of a marble
to that if an English walnut. Thousands npon
thousand of windows were broken, scarcely a
building in the city with a western exposure es
caping!) jury. Hundreds of horses ran away
anda rjgular stampede occurred on the levee,
but nojvery serious results are yet reported.
Damage to vegetation in the country must have
been -cry severe.
The ttorm was followed by a very heavy fall
of rain A very severe thunder storm also oc-
curred last night, and rain fell very copious
during'nearly all the forenoon to-day. These
stormshave extended generally throngout the
West, but, as telegraphic communication is cut
off, tin amount of damage, if any, cannot be
ascertained.
I LATER.
Tty damage by the hail storm of yesterday
after! ion i3 variously estimated at from twenty
to on hundred thousand dollars. Tho latter
sum i probably the most correct. The demol
ition f glass alone is quite fearful No serious
casuaiies are yet reported.
Indinapolis, April 20.—About 9 o’clock last
night aterrific rain and hail storm, accompanied
by win and lightning, passed over this city.
The Mana Central Railroad freight depot was
blown town and a number of other buildings
unroofd. The watchman at the Central Depot,
Allen MCutcheon, was killed and several other
employeseriously injured. Rev. Daniel Bul
lion, a Universahst Minister, of Utica, New
York, vts passing the depot at the time of the
accident, took shelter in the building and was
very ririously, if not fatally, injured. The tele-
grapk lines in the city were all prostrated, but
most of them have been repaired and communi-
tion resimed. '
i- Dubuque, April 20.—A tornado passed over
the upper portion of tho city last evening, de
stroying a large amount of property, carrying
away ho«es, taking off roofs, eto. One man
1 namedKiiser, wasMIled anda number injured.
The Iowj Brewry and the Fifth Ward School-
e unroofed. It was the most destruc-
that ever visited this section,
a dispatch says that Generals Stone-
ixton left for San Francisco to-day,
will follow in a few days.
April 20.—The storm of yesterday
was oneif the severest and most extensive that
has occifred for a long time. It extended near
ly the thole length of this State, and west as
far as tit Mississippi river. At Bloomington the
CaUiolii Church, not yet completed, was blown
down. Loss $50,000. The church, when com
pleted, would have cost $100,000. The Bloom
ington Manufacturing Company suffered con-
sideraly. Ludington and Road’s warehouse
was nrfoofed. Several others suffered more or
less fr«n the effects of the storm. In this city
the stum was fierce, thunder and lightning viv
id, an ij almost continuous for six or eight hours.
At Duluque a tornado passed over the city. The
residence of Mr. Kaiser was blown down. He
was kfled and his wife seriously injured. Sev
eral buses were unroofed.
The
Jeahuran Ex. Lac. Tant. Boy. Phi. jraa in
town yesterday. When the wind is N. E, it is
time to sigh.
“Harmed oouples resemble a pair of shears,”
r Sidney Smith, “so join&fthat tjEy cannot
separated, often moving in opposite direc
tions, yet alwffva punishing any one who cornea
between them.”
Waterpower in Clarke County.
The Athens Watchman gives a list of water
power sites in and around Athens. There are
twenty-four of them, aggregating in tho neigh
borhood of three thousand horse power, of
which only about four hundred are in actual
use. That is a fine county for cotton mills, and
there will be plenty of them in the course of a
few years. Clarke county is one of the most
salubrious counties in the State or in the South,
or in the world. It has a fine, rolling surface,
a light, porous soil, bright, clear sand
stone water.
When a Georgian, running from low-country
chills and fevers, crosses tho boundaries of
Clarke, be sits down on the first log, draws a
long breath, and says (in the way of internal
consciousness), “ Now rm safe." The people
there never suffer from boat in the summer,
and sleep under a blanket all the year round.
Moreover, they are a civil polite and well-con
ditioned people; carefully grounded in the As
sembly's shorter catechism and understanding
all abotit “ the chief end of man” and “effectual
calling."’
In short, Clarko connty, Georgia, is one of
the counties which it will do to tie to, and
one of these days she will hum in the way of
spindles and people. Science, letters, law,
theology and medicine will claim the modem
Athens as their headquarters in Georgia, while
the spindle, the loom, the plough-and tho anvil
will contest for predominance in the connty at
large.
Reasoning on the soundest general principles,
we jhticipate that one of these days Clarke
connty will outstrip Middlesex in Massachusetts,
which boasts of Lowell, or Eager county, in tbe
same State, which prides itself upon the great
manufacturing,town of Lawrence. Why not?
Hero is the power in any amount available at
insignificant cost compared wRh tho stupen
dous structures necessary to utilize it in Lowell
. andfcLawrence. Here is a mild climate .and „
f toil fruitful alike ip cotton and breodstuffs.—
Here, in Clprke connty, are all the conditions of
manufacturing success accumulated.
gnu in 1805, has just eadel
STEEDJtAX IN CUBA.
General’s Expedition I.'HY:ct a
Landing on the Island.
"Washington Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.’]
Telegrams from Savannah leads friends of the
Caban revolution to believe that General J. B.
Steedman has been successful in landing in Cuba
with a picked force of men. The expedition
has been in preparation a number of montl s.
Steedman himself, spent two weeks in Havana,
and during the latter part of the time was so far
under arrest to be ordered quietly by the Cap
tain General to report to him daily. The first
rendezvous of his party was on one of the islands
near New Orleans, mien Admiral Hoff received
his first orders, the headquarters of the expedi
tion were clianged to a point on the Florida
coast " •»
A blockade runner, captured from the rebels
in tbe late war, was obtained, and the belief is
that nearly a thousand men, well supplied with
arms and thoroughly accustomed to them, have
been landed. The Cuban leaders have been
fully acquainted with Steedman’s movements
for some time. Information has been received
that bodies of men are nightly drilling in New
York, whose ultimate destination is Cuba,
though they will probably not leave direct from
that city. It may be stated in this connection
that the Navy Department has just added five
vessels to the squadron in the Atlantic, so that
it now consists of eleven vessels, with an ag
gregate of 108 guns.
Dawson Car llannfkctiriug Company
Tho Dawson Jonrnal of yesterday learns that
^President Hazlehurst of the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad Company, has contracted with
the Dawson Manufacturing Company for a large
number of cars, to be delivered daring the com
ing summer and fall
Tho Journal adds: We are glad to see a lau
dable spirit manifested on the part of our South
ern roads, in giving patronage to an inititution
so meritorious as is the Dawson Manufacturing
Company. The high estimation in which the
work of this company is held, must insure for it
large patronage. It possesses advantages over
institutions of the kind in having the best lum
ber known for car building, and their facilities
for doing the iron work cannot be surpassed.—
We see extensive improvements are going on at
tho works, and learn that it is the intention of
President Nelson to double its capacity by an
increase of machinery, additional buildings and
operatives. '
Case of the Liizlc Major,
A New Orleans dispatch, of the 20th, to the
Western Press, says:
Captain Giles, of the schooner Lizzie Major,
publishes an account of the boarding of his ves
sel by a Spanish frigate. He states that the
aassengers token from his vessel had passports
n due form, regularly signed by General Dulce,
which were recognized by the authorities at
Calbarien, where the schooner touched. _ The
Captain also publishes an extract from his log
book, giving an account of tbe affair, with the
protest made to the officers on boarding his
vessel asfollows: “Being on the high seas and
out of jurisdiction, I protest against any officer
or his men touching or removing any passenger
or cargo from my vessel; and should any such
officer insist on doing so, the act will be reported
officially, and the Spanish Government be held
responsible for all the damage which may arise
from such detention.” The protest, however,
was of no effect. The Captain also gives an
account of the murder of prisoners by volun
teers at Calbarien.
From Crawford.
Knoxville, Crawford Co., Ga.,)
April 20,-1869. Cj ,
Dear Telegraph : We were bles8ed with a
splendid rain last night, and it was much needed.
To-day the lovers of good vegetables are bnsy
at work in their gardens, transplanting, etc.
The com throughout the country looks lively—
I am proud much more has been planted than
was anticipated. The fanners are tired of hav
ing their barns so far from home. Wheat is out,
and the crop is. fair. The cotton plant is com-
ing up finely. The beauty of everything to be
observed here, is, everybody seems to be em
ployed, and the ciy is for more laborers—no
idlers nor paupers needed—but working men
of any color or race, can get employment The
morality of our. county is above par, as every
body is at work, and, as yon axe aware, idleness
always begets viep. .... . .
W6 bad a very sudden death in onr village
last night, the wife of our highly esteemed
friend Judge Jacob Lowe. She was visiting in
the village at sundown yesterday evening, re
turned homo, eat supper as usual and about nine
o’clock was stricken with paralysis. Medical aid
was called but availed nothing, and at half past
eleven o’clock the grim monster, as usual in
such cases, claimed his victim. She was a good
woman. It was but to know her to love her. She
leaves a distressed, sorrow stricken husband,
son and daughter, numerous relatives and
friends to mourn her loss to them, but her eter
nal gain.
The health of our county Is, as a general
thing, good, with some exceptions, mostly among
tho old people. The past winter, with its rigors,
has made heavy ravages upon the systems of old
people generally; one case I will mention. Onr
highly esteemed old friend, Elder W. 0. Cleve
land, has bcon confined to his room for the paat
two months. His friends have almost despaired
of his recovery. Onr prayer is that he may be
restored to his health and usefulness again.
Cuban Movements in New York.
A dispatch of the 20th says:
For several weeks the Cubans in this dty have
been quietly but assiduously working to aid their
brother revolutionists in the field by tbe ship
ping of men, money and ammunition to them.
Volunteering is going on very rapidly, but quiet
ly. The recruits are promptly forwarded in
small detachments to Cuba. Very recently a
full battery of field artillery,completely equipped
and manned, was dispatched, and information
has been received of its safe arrival. Recruit
ing is progressing rapidly at the Brooklyn navy
yard.
The report that twenty vessels are to be made
ready for service i3 true. There are only eight
that can bo made serviceable in a few weeks,
and the only one that is actually repairing for
sea is the practice ship Sabine, winch carries
tliirty-six gitos.
Starved to Death.—The Columbus Sun of the
21st, has this report of a case of starvation in
that city :
The lifeless body of a negro man named Al
fred Williams, was found yesterday in a house
fhXjooleyviMe, beyond the briokyard. Aninr-
was held by Cdsoner McCahey. Dr. B:
J. Kirkscey, County Physician, examined ^
body and found no marks of violence, showing
that he ooull not have been foully dealt with.
’The negro was a hearty looking felloy^J but had an
1 intensely lazy look. He was about middle aged.
The verdict of the jury was the deceased came
to his death from starvation. The only reason
why a man should starve now-a-davs in this sec
tion is because he won’t work. The evidence
(Slowed he was not willing to labor for a liveli
hood. Hia wife had left him beoause he weuld
HOt help support their children. He had been
qn fixyhain gang for steading meat from Major
ns and Floods in Floyd Connty.
"YVI copy tbe annexed from the Rome Courier
of tie 2 2d inst:
Between last Sunday noon and Tuesday morn
ing, over four inches of water fell in this vicin
ity iThe rain seems to have extended to the
heat waters of onr rivers, and been general in
Noith Georgia. The rivers here commenced
risijg Monday evening and bad not ceased np
to lioon "Wednesday. The water at that time
covtred a large portion of the bottom lands
on Ihe North side of the Oostananla river,
oppisite the city, and on this side surrounded
the post office, and came np to within three feet
of tie top of tiie pavement at that place. Most
of tie ground in the rear of the Shorter block
was mbmerged.
TBs flood will probably prove very disastrous
to the crops on the Coosa bottoms. So far as
we have heard there has been no material dam
age done in this city, nor is there likely to be.
Mr. H. C. Harper has suffered a loss of about
one thousand dollars from tbe injury done to his
brick yard and nnbnmt brick, near tbe Oosta-
naula river, above the city.
The river ceased to rise abont 1 o’clock, and
was then not as high as in February, 1861 by
over five feet.
Card or Tbanks.
Hat.t. of Cleburne Fire Co.,\
Eufaula, April 19th. J
At a called meeting of Cleburne Fire Compa
ny, No. 1, of Eufaula, Ala., the following reso
lutions were unan'—onsly adopted:
1st. That our -auks are due to General
William S. Holt, President of the Southwestern
Railroad, for the very low rate of transporta
tion tendered at a trifling cost to visit Macon,
and be present at tbe annual parade of the Fire
Department of that city.
2d. That our warmest thanks are due to Cap
tain C. E. Cox, the accommodating and gentle
manly conductor of the train that conveyed us
to and from Macon. Captain Cox seemed to an
ticipate our wants, as well as the wants of tho
numerous passengers traveling with him, and
we only regret onr inability to mention him ac
cording to his merits.
3d. That onr thanks are tendered to that
prince of caterers, Mr. McAfee, for the splendid
dinners furnished ns at Smithville and Fort
Valley, and we feel that we are but doing jus
tice to the traveling public when we advise
them to patronize Mr. McAfee.
4th. That we remember with pride and pleas
ure the warm reception which we met on our ar
rival in Macon, and we tender our thanks, first,
to Protection Fire Company No. 1, for the fine
collation tendered us on our arrival. Second,
to Young America No. 3, for tho free use of
their elegant Engine house and Hall, and, lastly,
to the entire Fire Depatement of Macon for the
fraternal greeting, genial courtesy and brother
ly acts of kindness so freely bestowed upon us,
and as tho Roman matron fondly pointed to her
two sons as her jewels, so may the city of Ma
con, with liko pride, point to her six fire compa
nies as the brighest jewels she possesses.
5th. To the gentlemanly proprietors of the La
nier House, Messrs. Collier and Boys, wo ore
under lasting obligations for their successful ef
forts to render ns comfortable. This first class
hotel, with its gentlemanly and accommodating
proprietors, merits and should receive a largo
patronage.
Gth. We regret our inability to properly thank
the fair ladies of Macon for the smiles of ap
proval and friendship with which they greeted
To Mrs. Geo. M. Logan, Mrs. B. A. Mor
ris, Misses Maggie M. Seymour, Emma Powers,
Mattie J. Dorsett, Ella Ross and others whose
names we are unable to remember, we aro par
ticularly indebted for the beautiful wreaths and
bouquets with which they decorated our engine.
One by one the flower petals have dropped from
their stems, and the evergreens, the emblems
of unchanging friendship, have faded. But the
memory of the donors still blooms in onr (hearts,
and will only change when mortality changes
to immortality.
Resolved, lastly, That our thanks are tender
ed to the fair ladies of onr own city, who ac
companied ns on the excursion; their smiles
enconraged*our hearts, their presence nerved
and strengthened our arm3, and we feel that to
them, in a great measure, we are indebted for
whatever of success we may have attained.
A. A. WALKER, )
E. L. CATTERVTLLE, - Com.
T. L. HARDMAN, >
Belief Law.
Editors Telegraph : Under the statute the
privilege of jurors trying old claims is quite
broad, but it seems now to be a well fixed rule,
and a just one, too, among the juries of this
State in adjusting the equities under the Relief
Law to first ascertain tho amount of property
owned by debt previous to June 1, 1865, at an
average time, and second the loss and present
worth. Loss may be sustained by depreciation
of value of property from cause or by a total
destruction of the property. A third step is to
reduce the claim in proportion to the loss. Ten
ders, of conrse, go far toward reduction of the
amount. "When a piece of property was pur
chased and the purchase money is the object of
suit, then, under the third section of the relief
act, it may be returned to plaintiff, etc., pro
vided, the debtor holds tbe same, bat if he holds
property for which the same was exchanged,
then it is different property from that held and
cannot be classed in order to fall under the said
section. In the adjustment of the equities the
law does not allow the loss of plaintiff to be in
vestigated.
BY TELEGRAPH’
Colonizing Old Virginia.
The New York Times has tho foil raring
From Washington. kition to an extensive emigration movement
Washington, April 22.—In Executive session, to- Virginia:
day, am Senate confirmed Dnmaa for Liberia. . ? nit ? * far ° r the Ubopng
mu a , , ana mechanic classes of oar cjtv m the
■The Senate ha* postponed the San Juan treaty. of colonization. Companies aw bei - ^
n ~ Bvoipuucu wo o*u - mm oi colonization. Companies are being fanned
Capt. 'Henry A. Wise, formerly Chief of Naval for the purpose of moving to the West am)
Ordnance Bureau, died at Naples. South, and settling on the rich public lands in
Tbe nominations, to-day, amounted to only a half the ' former, and on those lands in the latter
dozen. None Southern. which are now offered for sale at very reduced
Messrs. Young, Ramsdell and Shaw, of the New figures. Colonies are formed, each member of
York Tribune, are in WieWton which pays a small sum into a general fund
tion regarding the Feny-Hsle correspondence, as Another colony, to be called the Eureka i,
involving a breach of faith and injuring them in also in process of formation. It alreadv
their business. The Senate Committee allowed abont two hundred members, and proposes to
tho correspondents to depart. swell its number to three hundred families.
Admiral Davis reports that the allies refused to This colobv will locate in Middle Virginia,
allow tho bearer of dispatches to the Paraguayan twelve thousand acres of land have been
Minister (McMahon) to pass the lines. selected there for this _ purooee, the soil
The President withdrew the nomination of James offered tn Rein* ^
„ _ > . , r r. IT. ....... . the owners have offered to sell it to the col
B. Townsend as Marshal of North Mississippi. oniat8 ftt f(mr dollaw acre . No Me •
The details of the flood north aro terrible. At asked on the amount of the purchase money
Grandby, eleven persona wore swept away. The and the buyers are allowed to pay for the land
flood at Albany, New York, is within two feet of the ky small monthly installments. Part of these
flood of 1857. The Menymac, at Chaming, is high- lauds are already cleared, and on the remainder
er.than since 1832. . there are very valuable timber cuttings. The
all night, unless the adjourning resolution is recon- etc . This colony proposes to set out about tL
sidered. ' « . .. ,, middle of May next. The entrance fee d«_
There was a big fight to-day over Sanford for ■ ma nded from such as become members of th;-
Spain. Tho nomination was finally tabled. This organization is small; and if any one becomes
leaves three nominations for first-class missions in dissatisfied with the manner in which its opera
abeyance. tions are conducted he returned to him. The
In the Senate, to-day. Sprague, replying to Nyo, members of tbe Eureka organization appear to
who made a personal explanation, and Abbott, of their enterprise will be
North Carolina, who defended Gen. Burnside, Gov
ernor of Rhode Island, said he had expected to be j
ridiculed and pronounced drunk or crazy, but there sons will leave the city for homes in the South
was a multitude behind him equalJy intoxicated and and West during the coming summer season,
equally crazy. During his speech, and still alluding ««>
to Nye, Abbott and Anthony, Spragne said: Is there New Race Course near BALTnronE.—-The
anything left in the Constitution of our fathers that State of Maryland has appropriated $50,000,
remains sacred, yet against which you do not yet a ?.. cl iv>°£P ft * lm0 - 1 i? j iie
dare to raise vour pmicidal hands? citizens of Baltimore wall add.$o0,000by private
The vote tabling Sanford’s nomination to Spain subscription, to be expended m the construction
was 20 to 30. ■ of a handsome race course and fair ground near
that city. The grounds are already purchased
The English Press on the Cuba Question, are very suitable for the purpose, and are lo.
London, April 22.—Comments of the city journals cated about four miles from the centre of the
on Cuba: city. The main drive to the course will be
The Telegraph savs that England is unbiased, but *r°. n 8kthe extensive and beautiful new pari,
r dd-iii i. . „ i, c • the improvement of Which is rapidly progrei
English interests wUlbe best served by Spain re- j ar f d which is destined to ri£l theCenW
taming authority over Cuba. It would not be Eng- Park of New York. Gov. Bowie and other dis.
land's business to interfere against Cuban indepen- tinguished Marylanders are much interested in
dence; bnt her good offices might bo useful in tho proposed race course, audit will be coc-
averting a quarrel between the United States and pleted as soon as possible.
Spain. The seizure of tho Maiy Lowell is designated
as a mad act implicating England and Spain's best
friend, in her quarrel with tho United States. Tho
Telegraph argues that the Cabans can never willing
ly attach themselves to American rule.
The Owl says Grant has run mad on Cuba, and
thinks England and Franoe will fight if the United
States attempts to take Cuba from Spain. The Owl
adds: Grant longs for a foreign war" The prevail
ing feeling among American officials is one of ha
tred towards England, and in a less degree towards
France. The Owl says a yacht leaves in a few days
for Cuba, to ascertain the exact position -of affairs,
and declares its belief that there is a heaVy storm
brewing.
fruitful of success.
Several new organinations are contemplated
nd it is estimated that twenty thousand p«[
A murdered girl having been found in the
water at Hoboken, and an account of the fact I
published, more than a dozen women called
upon the authorities, in the course of a single
week, to see if it was not a daughter which each |
had recently missed.
MARRIED,
On Thursday afternoon, April 22, at Fort Valiev,
by Rev. N. N. Edge, Mr. B. A. Coixjkb, of theL* I
nier Honjet in this dty, and Miss AddieV. Cheevh. [
of Fo^Talley.
Wht is the Baptist-church in Maoon in a dan
gerous way ? Because she is re-beU-ing /
A sun in the Englah- Cqprt <ft Chancery be-; A J. looses, an<l having- served oat his time,
was discharged last Thursday.
Further Particulars oi the Murder ot
Ayer.
Wo published yesterday, the particulars of
the murder of Dr. Benjamin Ayer, of Louisville,
Jefferson county, which established that he was
murdered and robbed by a negro man. Below
we give a synopsis of the evidence brought out
on thp commitment trial We thank our cor
respondent for his promptness in giving all the
facts in relation to the murder of Ayer, aa the
Radicals are thereby rendered powerless to work
this case up into a Kn-Klux outrage :
Louisville, April 19th, 1869.
Editors Chronicle c& Sentinel—Our usually
quiet little town has been very much excited
to-day, occasioned by the commitment trial of
the negro Wilson Flournoy, who was arrested
on Saturday night last, charged with killing Dr.
Benj. Ayer. The Court-house was filled with
both white and black, all eager to hear the evi
dence. On the trial it was proven that Wilson
camo into Louisville on Thursday evening abont
dork; that on the suburbs he took from under a
ditch bridge (about two hundred yards from
where Dr. A. was found dead) a musket barrel,
which was found secreted in the same place yes
terday (Sunday) morning. From the tune he en
tered town nothing was seen or heard of him
nntil half-past eight o'clock, when he entered a
store and commenced trading; that he had
more money than was usual for him to
have; that on his return home, about 104
o’clock p. sl, he exhibited some money and
a pistol: that tho pistol, a six shooter, and dif
ferent from tho one he psually carried, was
seen in his box on Friday; that on Saturday
he lent a negro woman two bills of money,
which she supposed to be two dollars, but, on
coming to town on Saturday night, she found
that they were twenty dollar bills instead of
one’s, and that he had a large quantity be
sides ; that he gave to his brother one hun
dred dollars on Saturday, most of wbicb was re
covered that night; that he attempted to pass
off some through another negro, and as soon as
he found suspicion was excited left hastily; that
he was arrestad the same night on the Creek
Bridge abont a mile from town, and that when
arrested, he denied having a cent of money
about bis person, but on being made to strip,
with a view of searching him, he very adroitly
slipped a pocket book down the leg of his pants
and into his shoe and then kicked his shoe off
some distance; that when his shoe was being
picked up ho remarked to the witness that it
was nothing but his shoe ; that in bis shoe was
found a pocket book containing two hundred
and eighty-five dollars, which was identified by
two witnesses as being the one seen in Dr. A. s
possession the evening he come to Louisville.
Affer his arrest ho said he found the pocket
pook lying near the body of Dr. A., on Thurs
day night, as he went home.
The musket barrel was identified as the one
he took from under the ditch-bridge on Thurs
day night, and the physician who made the post
mortem examination testified that it was an in
strument a blow from which would be likely to
produce death, and gave it as his opinion that
it was the instrument which had been used.—
The same evidence was elicited as on the in
quest, as to Dr. A., passing Sherman’s houso in
company with another person, and going to
George Holt’s for his overcoat, and saying he
had company.
Tho defendant introduced no evidence, and
after a few remarks from Major "\V. A. "Wilkins,
the proseenting attorney, he was committed to
jail to stand his trial at the next term of the Su
perior Court for murder. On being taken back
to jail, just 83 he reached the steps of the jail,
he broke from the officer and ran for the swamp.
The alarm was instantly given by the report of
tho officer’s pistol, (who fired at him as he ran,
but missed him) wheki every man in the court
house able to run, both white and black, gave
chase, and after a race of about half a mile, he;
was overtaken and brought back, placed in jail
and heavily ironed.
The blacks were more incensed againt him
than the whites, and would have executed him
very summarinily ifthey had had the least en
couragement, some of them wanted to shoot
him as soon as he was caught, but were pre
vented by the whites. No doubt rests on any
unprejudiced mind, but that he was the mur
derer, that by some means he either discovered
or suspicioned that Dr. Ayer had a considerable
amount of money, and that he killed him to
get it. H.
An Unsettled Balance.—-The Washington
Chronicle speaks of an army officer with a bal
ance of sevhnty-two millions in his hands, as
follows:
By tho settlement in this city reeently of the,;
accounts of an army officer he was found to bei
indebted to the Government in the enormous
sum of $72,000,0Q0 ; but it was shown at the
aame time that the amount of Government pro-
peaty in his possession to be disposed of would
equal this deficiency. Even were officers dis
posed to do So, what adequate security could
some of them gtVe to justify the Goverment in
tap ting such immense amounts of property in
tBeir possession?
The new English college for women is in
creasing yearly.
Butler’s Case in Baltimore.
Baltimore, April 22.—Chief Justice Chp4e deci
ded that Butler’s plea of limitation was^bad, but as
the seizures were made by a Provost/Marshal and
defendants failed to plead that the Provost Mar
shal was Butler’s agent, the case would be continued,
with the privilege to complainants to amend their
plea—complainants paying costs for past proceed
ings. ...
General News.
Baltimore, April 22.—A Virginia delegation,
headed by Robert E. Lee, is here, in behalf of the the aU devouring scythe of Time,” and
Virginia VaUey Railroad. Tho deputation was re
ceived by the Mayor and city authorities. A busi
ness meeting occurs to-morrow at 4 o’clock.
AT RENT.
Macon Lodge, No. 5. F. A. M.,>
Macon, April 19th, 1869. j"
The committee appointed to draft resolutions h |
regard to tho death of Brother Sdcbi Rose, 1
leave to report as follows:
The silent eloquenco of the sleeping dead, more j
than the most impressive utteranoes of the living. I
is calculated to remind us of the uncertainty of life. I
and tho vanity of all human pursuits. “ Man tin: I
is bom of woman is of few days and full of tan- J
ble.” Like a flower of the field he springeth up, I
and though he may perchance continue to a ripe I
old age, “yet withal he must soon be cut down hi
the plAf I
that knew him on earth muBt know him no mor*|
forever.’
Than our beloved Brother, Sami Rose—whos|
memory we revere, whose loss we deplore—who, t; I
us and this entire community, was more familiar.’;!
known, more widely respected, more highly et-1
teemed ? As a genial companion, a worthy citizen. I
Mew York Dry Goods Market.
From the Independent, April 15J
Bleached shirtings and sheetings are dull, ex
cept for some of the more popular standard le T eu "', ^
makes, and prices for all descriptions can hardly a devoted friend, lie has long been endeared to the
be quoted as firm. The next week or ten days hearts of our people. Uniting his destiny with Ha-
will doubtless determine whether a decline will con when, as an humble village on the eastern luai
bo established or not, for daring that time of tho Ocmulgee, it was struggling to maintain a
tho amount of the spring business will pretty feeble existence—when the spot whereon we now
well be ascertained. 1 stand was covered by the primal forest, where the
Prints have exhibited an exceptional activity . . , „„„„
during the week, and much larger sales have Bed Man s footprints were fresh to be seen and Is
been effected than of any other class of domes- emux* 1 fires had scarcely ceased to glow-he has,
tics, and prices are firmer, though the light fan- j the present time been prominent in every irorsc
cy patterns do not sell freely at quotations, culated to advance its interests; and to no one mu!
Sprague’s fancies being 12J less 1 per cent., and perhaps, is our beautiful city more largely inlebtel
for D. Merrimack s the same price is obtained. > present state of improvement.
Ginghams are in fair demand for the best j whe ^ 1824 . tha Master’s gavel first called a
quahties without any materiai changeofpnces noWo cr kf fc t0 labor here, be was among the first a|
Printed lawns and percales are in fair demand
at steady rates, bnt they are not quite so active
as at the beginning of the season. ,v
Rolled jaconets are in very good supply, and
prices are not fully maintained.
Cambrics are in fair demand, but some mokes
are offered at a slight decline of prices.
Silesias are in but little demand. The season ,
is not favorable to them, and sales are limited. ; .wi,
Prices remain without quotable change. *****T
In all other descriptions of domestic -cottons • 'which had been tendered to him with *
the market remains without material change. j nimifcy for forty-four consecutive years. Of
Muslin da Lines are-slow of sale, except for a : faithfulness in the discharge of its duties, tbe
few choice styles adapted to the season. j Jerous tomes in our archives attest. He bad
Woolens are generally lower and dull, except fiUed the office of Secretary in Constantine Cbai
forcertainmakesofblackandcoloredcloths.
seek the light of Masonry, and to cravo admis:
to its solemn ceremonies. From that time to ,:j
evening when, indisposed, be left this hall to s
repose, on that couch from which, three days af*
ho was borne a lifeless corpse, he zealously I
formed the duties of the faithful craftsman.
In 1825 he was chosen Secretary of this Lo&j
Mr. Beecher's latest excentricity is to take
up tho cudgels for tho practice which some per
sons, wo are told, have of dying the hair. The
reverend moralist writes to the New YorkLedger:
If a man is yonfig, and from some peculiarity
of constitution, or by reason of sickness, is pre
maturely gray, whether he shall dye his hair or
not, is a matter of his own. If he will he the
happier for it, let him do it If his wife ■♦ill
love him any Vetter, or if she will be made any
happier, in the name of love let him dye. Fam
ily happiness is a great blessing to purchase at
so small a cost os a bottle of hair dye. But is
it seemly for on old man to prit on-rhe appear
ance of youth, and not to meet hi* fate bravely?
That is a question of gpod tfiste. For ouraelhee,
we prefer gray hairs. A bnckfeh old gelt^sihan
of seventy-fire, nffirnipg every month from his
barber with glose^Drown locks, is not oar style
of manhood. But if he likes it, he might do
things far worse. "We admire the bravery in a
woman by which, at thirty-five, she carries her
Ipcks full of silver. And yet, if her happiness
maybe nmmoted by hiding the earl/gray, we to buy John O.
see no-reason tot dritfeism. Lexington.
In cassimeres and satinet there is bnt little
doing, and prices are unsettled. The stock in
first hands is large, while ihe demand is mostly
confined to medium or low grades of cassimeres.
The finer qualities of satinets are dull but there
is a fair demand for some of tho lower grades.
Kentucky jeans are without any quotable
change of price.
Carpets are in good demand, and prices are
steady. Brussels and ingrains are equally called
for, and the manufacturers have considerably
reduced their stocks.
Imported goods have not been actively dealt
in during the week; and, except for silks, and
tbe best styles adapted to the city trade of dress
goods, and summer fabrics, tbe demand is very
limited. The importations and withdrawals
from bonded warehouse for the week have been
large, and the auction rooms have been well
supplied with every description of goods
adapted to the season, bnt the bidding has not
been lively. The rise in the price of gold dur
ing the week gives more firmness to tho market
for most kinds of foreign goods, and the ad
journment of Congress without touching the
tariff imparts more confidence to importers; for
it is now certain that a full year must elapse be
fore any change can be effected in the present
rate of duties.
"Washington Council and St. Omer Commandeu. j
Knights Templar.
HV labor as Grand Secretary of the Grand I~'^
of Georgia, began in 1845, and terminated wiii’J
life, after twenty-four years of devoted sen
By the craft In Georgia, no one was more f
beloved," and the tidings of his death was » aw
of mourning to every subordinate Lodge.
"When Freemasonary was made the object-a
fiendish persecution—when political aM&s
were thundered against it, and its very «■***
threatened, he," nothing daunted, stood firmly*
post, and, with the faithful few, kept alive th-
upon its sacred altar.
Devoted in Ms attachment to the principle
Order, he in every station performed
fidelity and zeal, never shrinking from the dS-
of any duty, however onerous, nor absentia
self from our assemblies when it was in II s ?
to attend. . .
But long as he walked among us, and zeal
he labored with us, the dread messenger did *
come—as come he must to us all—and sue 2 -'
him away.
“ Tis meet that, in the evening of his days I
He thus should pass from us to his rew«a-
Yet 'tis a sore bereavement, and we woah •
give utterance to onr sorrow.
With saddened hearts we have borneU® lC ',
beautiful resting place of the silent dead thi.
liis name, and is a lasting memorial of b- 3 ■'
energy, and devotion, there to rest from th*
of life till summoned, aa we hope, to the if
ment of a blissful immortality.
May the dust press lightly on his lionore:.
and his sleep he peaceful as an infant’s (
Resolved. That in the death of Broth®
Rose tha Masonic Institution has lost <
most ardent supporters—one who, in
Horrible Murder by Negroes—Swift
Retribution.
The following is from the Marshall (Texas)
Republican April 9th:
We have just heard of an affair in Rusk coun
ty that forms a climax of horrors. The circum
stances as detailed to us are as follows:
A young man by the name of Colonel Green,
who is said to have been a new settler in the
county, left Henderson on Saturday oveninS
last, in a state of intoxication, for home. When
he got about Seven miles from town, on the
Marshall road, he stopped at the Widow Griffin houre, forsook it not, but steadily maid
place, where a body of negroes were making a
crop, and ordered Ms snpper. While eating it he
was seized five negroes, who tied his hands
behind him, and dragged him about a half milei,
and hung himi They treated him very brutally,
throwing him over the fences as they reached
them, bruising his face and otherwise maltreat
ing hjm. "While he was hanging they rolled
backiuog, dug a trench, threw him in it before
life was extinct, and then rolled the log back to
its former plaoe. Two of the negroes were
prebchers. The principal one engaged in the
murder (Julius Jones) stood by with a gun* di
recting the others, and telling them he wonld kill
the first one that flinched. The same negro went
the next day to Henderson, preached a sermon,
and baptized fourteen negroes.
Green is represented as a refined, intelligent,
accomplishedgentieman, but who, occasionally,
unfortunately got intoxicated. His friends,
missing him it seems, found his hors& at this
plantation, and his hatat one of the cabins. On
searching for him, tfl^tracedhia footsteps npon *— * —--—. . Irf f
the route he had beenlSrricd, and found a let- published in the Maoo* Telegraph and '
ter that he had dropped out of his pocket.
Five negroes were arrested, who Confessed
the crime, and were taken to Henderson and
placed in jaiL Ifti waffbn Monday. On Tues
day night, about 11 o’clock, a mob webt to the
jail, and hung every one of them on'the pffitlic
square fronting each sideof the const-house;Sjhe
two preachers together.
A subscription is being taken in Kentucky
Breckenridge < reswUnofrat
right till justice triumphed, and truth or®- j
hood and error prevailed.
Resolved, That this Lodge has been c .
ah old and much loved member—one who J
five years labored for its interests with ^'
and a zeal which hare seldom been eqni- 1 -
never surpassed, and which knew no akh£S“'l
his dying hour. J
Resolved, That we will cherish liis memo 1 ?
we delighted in life to honor—one bound t,3 '|
ties of affection which death cannot sever- ^
Resolved; That a page in onr records be ia*
with Ms name, place and date of birth, tL ^
his death, and the various positions he h»s
in the Masonic Institution. w ■
Resolved, That we will wear the usual '"J
mourning for sixty days, and that the f“
jewels and implements of the Lodge be b
crape for tfce same space of time.
Resolved, That this preamble and reso'M j
published in the Maoon Telegraph and
Messenger, and ■ a copy transmitted to th* *
of onr deceased brother, in testimony ot
pathy in their sorrow and^flSrtion.
Reepedtnjbr submitted,
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