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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, ') h’yfj, ■ TT - i w j; B. BLAC®SHEAL . • L W. BCBKE. - • B. 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