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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1860.
«A Fall N apply of Corn.’*
Vft heard last fall about a“fnll supply of com”
being made by our planters, and now we hear
that it is difficult for the Macon grain dealers to
get com enough to meet the demand. They
tell us a great deal more com will be sold this
summer than last; and it is poor com, too—not
nearly as good as they were able to obtain last
year. Andes for the bacon trade—don’t speak
about it in polite circles! There’s no end to
the demand for western bacon. Every year the
food scarcity in Georgia is increasing, till, at
last, it will be difficult to get even a decent
chicken of domestic growth. Can a farming
country prosper winch imports its food? Do
yon believe it? If so, then yon have faith
strong enough to remove mountains.
Crop Weatlier.
We are having as fine weather for the young
crops as could be asked for—perhaps a little
dry, but cloudy skies and light showers indicate
that this evil will shortly be remedied. We
have from all parts of middle and Southwestern
Georgia, that the grand characteristic of the sea
son has been the uniformity and protection of
the stands. Very little replanting has been nec
essary.
The accounts from the wheat crop are very
gratifying and we think the product will be
much larger than it has been any year since the
war.
A Prodigy.
The New Yorkers, (as the radicals asserted at
the time,) by fraud in naturalization, and bal
lot-box stuffing, elected a Democratic Governor
last fall, and thought they were ruined. They
had even determined to invoke the interfer
ence of Congress to prevent Hoffman’s inaugu
ration, but finally abandoned .the idea. Now,
they are so much delighted to find they have an
honest man in the Executive chair, that words
can hardly express their gratification. The
leading radical papers, the Tribune excepted,
are pledging Hoffman the support of the people
for re-election. Reason and integrity are so
rare in office that they can hardly believe when
they see them.
Northern Water Powers.
There has been bad work within a few days
among many of the expensive dams, canals,
locks etc, connected with many water powers in
the North and East. Massive and costly as
these structures are, the violence of the spring
freshes, bearing with them gigantic piles of ice
are too much for the most solid masonry, and the
earnings of years are swept away in a night. Let
those manufacturers build their mills on South
ern streams which can be dammed at small cost
and are very rarely endangered.
The Internal Revenue Receipts. —It is
stated, semi-offlcially, that the receipts from
customs now promise to be the largest of any
one year in the history of the Government,
reaching probably §100,000,000, or §20,000,000
in excess of the estimates, and it is not impossi
ble that they may even reach the high figure of
§200,000,000. The internal revenue receipts to
the present time are in excess of §110,000,000.
The remaining three months, till July, will cover
the greater portion of the income tax and the
special tax which fall due May 1, and which will
augment the receipts, to §150,000,000, and pos
sibly to §160,000,000.
Effect of Radical Rule.—Over one hundred
prominent members of the Bar of North Caro
lina have signed and published a protest against
the open and active partisanship of the Judges
of the Supreme Court of that State, both on and
off the bench. The unhappy people of North
Carolina seem destined to that woe described
by Chief Justice Marshall, in the following lan
guage :
“Heaven has no punishment for a sinning
people so great as a corrupt, because a de
pendent, judiciary.”
Hot Weather and the Ceops.—Since the
heavy rain, says the Albany News, of the 27th,
we have had unusually warm weather, and the
crops have been greatly benefitted thereby. We
have good accounts from the cotton and com
fields, and the planters wear cheerful faces.
Thin, hazy, hot clouds, have hung over us for
two or three days past, and an early shower is
confidently hoped for.
Do teet Miss me ?— One of the sixty-nine
Mrs. Brigham Youngs called upon the President
last week. The Washington papers, reporting
the interesting interview, fail to state that, at
the request of the President, Mrs. Young sang
with much pathos the beautiful air “ Do they
miss me at home," to her own accompaniment
upon the piano forte.
The Western Wheat Cnor.—All accounts
agree that, notwithstanding the great serverity
of the winter in the West, the wheat crop never
was known to be in a more promising condition.
The great depth of the snow prevented winter-
killing, and it3 gradual removal by rains and
moderate thaw saved the wheat from being
heaved up out of the soil.
A Pleasant City.—Washington still continues
to be a delightful place of residence. Bands of
idle negroes are now annoying white residents
by going from door to door and demanding to
know the politics of the inmates and how they
intend to vote in the coming contemptible and
oorrupt municipal contest.
Macon Phesbttebt.—The Albany News of
the 27th says: “The adjourned meeting of this
body will be held in this city on Friday evening
at half past seven o’clock, when a sermon will
be preached in the Presbyterian Church. On
Saturday morning its session will be continued,
and in the evening there will be preaching. On
Lord's day next, the Rev. Dr. Wills, of Macon,
is expected to preach, morning and evening. On
the latter occasion, on “The True Unity of the
Church.’ ”
The largest is not always the best, but the
American House, Boston, which is the largest
hotel in New England, will also be found one of
the best. Every provision is made for the com
fort of guests.
Welcome.—The brothers Nisbet, from Michi
gan, are visiting our little city with a view of
purchasing land and settling hereabouts. We
welcome them, and hope they may be able to
■ accommodate themselves to farms in this vicin-
‘ ity.—Middle Georgian, of the 27th.
The Grams Middle Georgian announces
that one-half interest in that establishment has
been transferred to Mr. P. E. Bridges, who will
be hereafter associated with Mr. Burr in the
management of the paper. The Middle Geor
gian is a very intelligent and interesting paper,
and we wish it great success.
Thu New York Commercial, alluding to the
corrupt legislation of the times, says that there
seems to be no security against the money pow
er of (ho country. Statutes are bought^ the
same as pork and potatoes. Honest legislators
are overwhelmed by the power of venality and
swept down by the tide of corruption. The evil
grows worse and worse every year.
Senator Sprague's Speeches?—The Globe of
the 24th contains twelve columns of letters re
ceived by Senator Sprague, commending bis
recent speeches, permission having been grant
ed him yesterhaypj the Senate to print them.
Tf 1ft ftftl A It. A C AM F - t _ V 1 1 ,
Illinois Editors in Mobile.
The hospitality of the people of Mobile, to
the Southern Press Association, has stirred up
the Illinois editors to go, see and partake. Ac
cordingly about a hundred and fifty of them
landed in Mobile last Saturday night Their
ranks, we see, were graced by several editors
of the feminine gender—Webster describes them
as “editresses”—but wq think he found the
word somewhere among the records of the Con
necticut strong-minded. Of these there were
three in the list, and the roll was complete, with
a “Chaplain to the party,” whose sermons, ex
hortations, counsel and example might well be
supposed to exercise a wholesome restraint
upon the flock exposed to extraordinary tempta
tions.
The editors were received by the city authori
ties (o. b.) who, we see by the Mobile papers,
bad the excessively bad taste to address their
guests in bitter partisan cant about the rebellion
—which the spokesman of the party very neat
ly foiled by declaring the past forgotten, and
that they came as friends and brothers. Al
though the city government of Mobile numbers
nearly a dozen negro officials not one of them
was present in the capacity of entertainers, or
allowed to participate in the festal dinner pro
vided for the strangers. The carpet-baggers
excluded the colored aldermen, and all loyal
Illinois mnst have been shocked at the uncon
stitutional distinction on account of color and
ce.
So soon as tho carpet-bag government had
discharged their devoirs, the people, as repre
sented by the chivalrous, polite and high-toned
business and professional men of Mobile, were
to take the party in hand, and we have no donbt
inspired the happiest impressions of the city.
We trust the profuse hospitality of Mobile to
strangers will be like seed sown in good ground,
and return her a hundred fold. She lies in the
direct route of trade and travel between the
great West and the Islands of the Caribbean,
and the Illinois party should represent, as we
hope they do, a powerful constituency to the
future greatness of the city of the Gulf.
Sorghnm Culture in Tennessee.
We had a call yesterday from Brevet Briga
dier General A. R. Z. Dawson, late of the
United States army, who will be remembered as
one of the earliest commandants, after the sur
render, of the sub-district of Columbus, with
headquarters at Macon, and including some fif
teen or twenty adjoining counties.
Gen. Dawson is now located in Nashville as
one of the Southern Sorgo Machine Company of
that city, and says the demand for this machin
ery is very great Even cotton is beginning to
be overshadowed in Tennessee by the Sorgo
culture. In one instance a planter, with three
hundred acres in sorgo, who kept on accurate
account current, found his nett profits average
over seventy-one dollars to the acre; and it is
confidently believed that the practical annnihi-
lation of the sugar crops of Cuba and Louisiana
opens along and prosperous business in the
production of sugar from sorghum, which is now
made to rival the product of the cane in every
attribute of quality. Gen. Dawson says if a
man wants to be effectually cured of radicalism
let him live a while in Tennessee.
“Let Is Have Peace.”
The practical illustration of this motto, fur
nished by the new administration, seems likely
to be unfortunate. Peace has as yet won no
victories even among the Radicals. “General
dissatisfaction” has taken command of their
belligerent forces. There is not a clique or
wing or organ of the party which is not finding
fanlt with Grant, and it is not improbable that
in a short time he may be about as odious to
his own supporters as Johnson was. In short,
at home the only people cultivating peace seem
to be the Democrats.
And as to peace abroad how is it? The news
papers are universally speculating on the possi
bilities of war with England, France and Spain,
and many believe, or affect to believe, that the
Grant administration is, at least, indifferent
to the preservation of peace with other nations,
in the hope that a foreign war may supercede
and extingnsh domestic strife. Appearances
all round are, in fact, peculiarly inauspicious
for the realization of Grant’s promised peace.
Seeing Spirits.
A New York Dispatch says Judge Edmunds
was examined as a witness in the spirit-photo
graph case and said“taking for granted that I can
see spirits—and I see them frequently—I can
not for the soul of me see why the camera can
not see them.”
Judge Edmunds was also a witness a few days
since in a case of life insurance where the poli
cy holder was found drowned and the insurance
company refused to pay alleging it to have Lfeen
a cose of snicide. Judge Edmunds claimed to
see in the court room the spirit of the deceased
man who explained to him all the facts in the
case.
“So distinct was the picture he gave me of the
scene,” said the Judge, “that I made a diagram
of it and of the position in which the body was
found and handed it to the counsel in the case,
who at once pronounced it accurate.” The first
spirit picture he ever saw was that of the late
Judge Talmadge. He saw spirits in their every
day clothing; some times in their grave clothes;
never saw one nude. They aro always impalpa
ble and so transparent that solid bodies are al
ways seen through them.
Queer stuff to be received as evidence.
Colonics From (lie North.
A New York correspondent of the Mobile
Register says:
Another mania has broken out in New York.
It is a mania for making up parties of colonists
to go Sonth and West, and it is spreading rapid
ly. The first symptom was manifested a few
weeks ago by the organization of a party for
Nebraska. The first instalment of this colony
got off a couple of days ago, and will probably
be delivered before this is printed. The nuclei
of two other colonies—one for Georgia and one
for Virginia—are now forming. A largo tract
of land has been secured in Georgia for one
party, and thejmanagers of the others aro mak
ing arrangements for the purchase of about 12,-
000 acres in Virginia, not very far from Rich
mond. Another suspicious feature of this colo
nizing movement is tho giving of catohpenny
names to the associations. Thus, one is called
tho Excelsior Colony, another the Manhattan
Colony. This makes one think of the building
societies and various kindred swindles gotten
up in New York in the past fifteen years to
pocket the money of the laboring classes. The
colonies now organizing may turn out well—I
know nothing against any one connected with
them, and I am sure the ostensible objects they
have in view are good. There aro hundreds of
families dragging out an existence in New York
who would bo immeasurably better off in the
country, and this movement offers them a good
opportunity to get away. We could spare at
least 100,000 persons, and be better off without
them.
Wo have heard nothing of the tract of land
said to have been secured for such an object in
Georgia. It is a great misfortune that these
movements should be controlled and manipu
lated by speculators in theif own interests, when
there is not, so far as immigration to the South
is concerned, the slightest necessity for any
such intervention. Let Northern laboring men
make their own purchases, and then they will
Rave but one price to pay, and that a small one.
Tlic Illinois Press Association in Ala
bama.
The wires are eloquent over the happy moral
and political effect of the current visit of the
Illinois Press Association to onr sister State of
Alabama. If any good is done, the' Sonth will
owe it to the liberality and hospitality of the
Mobilians and the people of Montgomery. We
know, if anybody could, the Mobilians, “if they
had a mind to the work,” would exorcise the
fiends of intolerance and sectional bigotry from
the representatives of the Illinois Press, and re
inspire them with sentiments of respect and pref
erence for the white race.
Accoidingly, we see that no sooner had they
been taken in hand by the Board of Trade than
the scales fell from their eyes, and they began
to see that they had been living in an atmo
sphere of delusion about the Sonth—that they
had been crammed, and were cramming their
readers with falsehoods. They were astonished
at-everything they saw, because it was so dif
ferent from what they expected to see. The
Reconstruction Committee and the carpet-bag
gers had prepared them for outrages, violences,
rudeness and abuses of all sorts; but when they
found everything more peaceful and orderly
than it was at home—everybody more polite,
kind and cordial than anybody in Illinois, they
seem to have been dumbfounded.
We say with the press dispatch that we hope
this is the beginning of a new era. The for
tunes of tho West axe identified with those of
the Sonth. Here is the market for their
grain and meat—their horses and mules—their
agricultural implements, bagging, rope, stoves,
iron, steel and a vast variety of manufactured
goods, with which the great West, by reason of
her contiguity, is filling our markets to the
gradual exclusion of the products of the Eastern
and middle States.
Why, then, in the name of all that is sensible,
should the great West persist in that unjust
and oppressive combination with the East to
strike down the South and trample her under
the feet of a senseless radicalism, which seeks
to reverse all known conditions of social order
and industrial progress? Why should the
West, by this unnatural combination, burden
her own trade with enormous excise and tariff
duties, in order to beat the life out of her best
customers, the men of the South?
Tho West and the Sonth are natural allies.
The interests of both lie primarily in the ad
vancement of agriculture, and by a most
felicitous diversity of climate their farm pro
ducts do not compete, but make markets for
each other; so that never does the Southern
planter realize fine crops and good prices but
he divides his earnings most liberally with the
Western farmer.
Thus out of the past crop year the West, it is
stimated, has received more than twenty mil
lions of dollars for live stock, and for com and
meat she will probably receive from the South
upwards of a hundred millions more. The na
tural policy which befits the condition and pur
suits of the two sections is identical, and they
ought to be friends and coadjutors.
Let the western men think over the plain sug
gestions of the situation, and ask themselves
whether anything they will be likely to gain by
playing bob to the New England kite can com
pensate them for what they will lose in assisting
that section to stab the South ? With the aid of
the South, a glorious career is open to the West
She can control the destinies of the continent.
She can direct all the energies of the Govern
ment Restored to her normal condition and
released from the incnbns of carpet-bagism, the
Sonth will have the intelligence, the power and
the disposition to be a most reliable and efficient
ally to the Western States.
Where are the young Western politicians
with acumen and genius to see the splendid
future which will open before them under the
inspiration of their grand idea ?
Look at matters now. A continent ruled by
Boston! All the leading offices in the hands of
Massachusetts. All the leading ideas control
ling this vast government the offspring, in
great part, of semi-crazed fanatics like Wen
dell Philips and Sumner, and a set of addle-
pa ted social and political sciolists of both sexes.
Aro these fit successors to Douglas, Benton,
Clay and Jackson ? Are these the people to
shape the destinies of this giant republic? Are
men who can’t get out of the atmosphere of
Boston, to .control a government covering a fifth
of the habitable globe ? Young men of the
West, awake, and cast off the New England bib
and swaddling cloth.
Gen. Lee in Baltimore.
mmUBtt POPULAR ENTHUSIASM !
Gen. Lee has recently been to Baltimore, at
the head of a committee of stockholders of the
Virginia Valley and Lynchburg and Danville
Railroads, to solicit assistance from the Balti
more capitalists. At a meeting of the city coun
cil, held to consider these projects, after the
close of his address, the Sun says:
Mr. Brout said ho was happy to inform the
ladies that they would have an opportunity of
taking Gen. Lee by the hand. Arrangements
were then made to enable the ladies to pass up
on the platform for that purpose. The privilege
appeared to bo eagerly and generally availed of,
and Gen. Lee was engaged for some time in re
ceiving presentations.
The ladies passed from the west side of the
hall over the platform, passing the General,
who shook the hand of each cordially, and in
return, was complimented by all the ladies, a
largo number of whom saluted him with kisses.
After the presentation was over, the General,
escorted by Mayor Banks, left the building, and
on reaching the sidewalk was greeted with up
roarious cheering, and the greatest enthusiasm
prevailed among the large throng that had as
sembled at the doorway. After liberating him
self from the many friends that continued press
ing forward to shake his hand, the General en
tered a carriage and was driven to the residence
of Samuel H. Taggert, Esq., whose guest he is
during his sojourn here, the crowd following
the carriage for several squares, cheering loudly.
Previously, General Lee had read an address
/to the business men. Upon concluding, the
■audience again warmly applauded, and on the
General resuming his seat, cheer nfter cheer
rent the air, and nats and handkerchiefs were
waved from all portions of the halL It was
a scene of genuine enthusiasm not often wit
nessed.
Before this, when General Lee went to the
hall, as he ascended the stairway he was greeted
with three cheers by the multitude, who stood
around respectfully with uncovered heads.—
Vlhen he was introduced there arose a perfect
storm of applause, which % continued uninter
ruptedly for several moments.
How Is It ?—A lady in Shelbyville has organ
ized the children of that place into a “Band of
Hope,” the aim and object of which is the pro
motion of morality among the young, and dis
countenancing the use of tobacco and liquor.
They have attacked the Methodist Episcopal
and Presbyteriam Churches, by placing upon
the backs of their pews cards with the following
inscriptions: “This house is dedicated to the
Lord; please not defile with tobacco.”
Who can say a word in favor of chewing to
bacco in church, theater, or any public assem
blage? Not we. But i3 it not a fact, that the
earth is the Lord’s, and that he himself has de
filed it with tobacco?
The Era of Place Hanting.
The New York Times of the 23d inst., in an
editorial advocating Jenckes’ civil service bill
vents its indignation over the wild hunt for
office in the following paragraphs:,
The warmest upholders of our present system
of appointment to office must agree that the
spectacle recently presented in Washington has
been peculiarly disgraceful. To find that city
crowded with men who are eager applicants for
offices to which they have not the smallest
adaptation, to hear of tho Vice-President so bad
gered by these unblushing place-hunters that he
is obliged to abandon his official position and
take refuge in the country, and that even the
iron constitution of the President sinks under
this incessant and shameless importunity for
office, and Congress is glad to adjourn to escape
it—to certainly altogether one. of the most un
pleasant pictures we have had in a long time of
the tendency of onr method of filling public
offices.
Along with this spectacle, which is calculated
to bring disgrace everywhere on Republican in
stitutions, come the thousand complaints and
proofs from all sides of the utter demoraliza
tion of our civil service. Our most trustworthy
The Georgia Baptist Convention.
Corrcepondence of the 2'eJegraph.l -. .
This body met on Friday the 23d, atCuthbert,
and was composed of about seventy-five mem
bers,. a much smaller number than usually at
tends. Rev. P. H. Mell, D. D., was elected
Interviewing. — The Hedrld’s Washington
corespondent caps the climax of the “Inter
view” business. On the 23d, he busied himself
running alternately to Abbott and Sprauge,
while they were frightening themselves witlfthe
possibility of a personal collision, and jotting
down, in three mortal columns the petulant es-
It is said the Senator has furnished'enough let- j capades of the belligerents. That is the latest
tezs to fill two more editions of the Globe. . development ci neTT^per enterprise.
BIT TELEOBJJlIPII.
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, April 26.—This evening’s Picayune
revives the Havrete case, at Corpus ChriBti, fai a
leader. After reciting the former facts of the case,
President; Rev. G. R. McCall, of Hawkinsville, the Picayune says:
was elected Clerk, and Rev. N. A. Bailey, of' “tSorrentez went through here a few weeks ago to
Albany, was elected Assistant Clerk. , Corpus Christi, to attend his trial, but Reynolds
The main object of this Convention is to a *** appointed :
nnitA 'Rontiefe **** **en forfeited and he returned
unite the efforts of the Georgia Baptists m sup- to jai] . ^ gnretie8 ^ r uired that he can - t
port of Foreign and Domestic missions, and give them. His counsel were not allowed to speak
m the sustenanoe of Mercer University, at Pen- and were twice fined for attempting to speak when
field, Ga. The Convention has not a particle of he was tried at first.
judicial or Legislative power over the Baptist The Sheriff, who is the prosecutor, browbeat the
Churches of Georgia, and pxesuines to act billy bourt and attempted to drive the Juryinto aver-
as an adtisory body.-y i- diet of guilty. The whole ohject-of the prosecu-
It received various reports which are accepted J ^ on ® ^ orce money out of the' victim. Chicago
and adopted, if agreeable to the memljers of the cwtarolj-ongftttoooae to his rescue. - Will hot Mr.
body; such as a Report on the Stated Religioi of the office
in tie State, on Terrance, on Deceased Min- * KiSSES* * X* T^T
’ ... . .... . or to put an end to this unexampled prosecution ?
isters, on Education, on Missions; butthe main , Sorrent ez was kidnapped from Chicago andtaken
report is that on Mercer University, which be- • to Corpus Christi and confined without the privilege
bn^ was. released on bail, on intervention' of
vants, amount now every year,ruuie enormous j r~~ ;— rzur : ' VT' !«nzrrvL H * l yP^’. ; u
sum of one kunfauf ,millions of dollars!, In j Cohvection. ^The Convention elects'ea*h year !:Jhhw Orleans, Apnl;23L4PenYFuller,-who has
other words, 'of every four 'dollars 'paid bjrtHe: a Board of Trustees, to watch over the Univer- ■ jhst Returned to this city, publishes a card in refer-
poorest citizen in taxes, one is stolen by rogues! s it y . provide a competent faculty, and take care ' ence to the Ewing letter. He says that letter,
character and disturbs honest industry. * j urer, we learn that the Convention owns cash Casey’s appointment wouldbe beneficial to him, and
The buying and selling of offices is depraving i assets to the amount of §27,240 54, consisting of he considered Casey a gentleman and a competent
every department of Government, and casting; Loan notes ‘ ...... $13,579 78 man.
far and wide the seeds of corruption. We see! Geoigia Railroad stock....
tho effects in Albany, in every State capital, and I Mobile and Montgomery Railroad pre-
at Washington. Names that ought to be the j : ’ 41 •' }’§22 92
most honored are not free from its stains. The I City of Augusta bonds. < 1,500 00
From Washington.
Washington, April 27.—Francis M. Goddard, late
dence and high-toned honor, under the influence! Cash on hand^f. C60 7C i ^ a cart *. la ^ ew ^ orli papers pronounces
of this scramble for office and bargaining with I L Sprague a liar, calumniator and poltroon.
public positions. Y'oung men are continually j $27,240 54
leaving pursuits of industry and honest produc- j In addition to which it possesses:
tion for this waiting for chances—this drawing | Mercer University fund..........v,....-.$74,157 05
for prizes. The system has become a curse i Central Professorship fund;............ 15,000 00
and "disgrace to the country. That great polit- Mercer Theological fund. 11,492 48
ical philosopher and economist, J. Stuart Mill,
rightly characterized it recenfly, in a publio let- j $
ter, as tho one great blot and disgrace on , Tntpruni.»wnnni. 9G07 93
American institutions.” ■ - 1 1
Total j.. $162,213 CO
The income for the year ending July 1, 1869,
What is worst, too, in the whole mntter, the
evil will continually increase. There never was
such a an undignified scramble for place as this
year; there sever was more jobbery and cor- . ,
rnption and never more difficulty and seeming expenses, §10,3oG.00, including all'the college
Boutwell, Fish and Cresswell, were absent from
the Cabinet to-day.
No appointments. There is an absolute lull in
politics.
Washington, April 28.—The Secretary of War lias
ordered the resumption of recruiting.
Borie, Secretary of the Navy, Rawlins, Secretary
of War, and the President, held a consultation to
day. Its obj ect is unknown.
Borie and Grant will make an excursion down the
is estimated at §10,535,00, and the estimated Potomao to-morrow in the steamer Tallapoosa.
1 Since the 4th of March, one hundred and nine-
impossibility in filling tho right place with the
right man. * Four years hence the spectacle at
Washington kill be only more degrading, the
scramble more disgraceful, the jobs and bargains
more corrupt and the inefficiency of the public
servants moie glaring—simply because the num
ber of offices will become each year greater, the
prizes richo: and the public sense of honor
more dulledunder the present system. This is
evidently the inevitable drift of things in this
country.
There is but one practical remedy for this
state of things ; and that is the entire change
of the mode of appointment to places of public
trust.
Hon. Itevertfy Johnson—His Fareiveil
Speech.
The Pall Mall Gazette, of th9 7th inst, says:
Mr. Johnson was among the speakers at the
anniversary festival at the Royal Asylum of St
Ann’s Society, at the London Tavern, last even
ing. In returning thanks for the Foreign Min
isters, Mr. Johnson observed that his was a mel
ancholy duty on account of the short time which
remained to him in this country. He had for
warded his resignation to the UnitedStates some
eight or ten days since and he believed his place
would be henceforth filled by a gentleman, a
scholar and a humane Christian man, who would
do all that lay in his power to cement friendship
between the two countries, and who would, he
believed, come out of his office with distinction
after having fulfilled the speaker’s own best
wishes for national advancement. The United
States would never allow their Minister to haz
ard peace between ns; he did not know whether
the United States were dissatisfied with the con
vention he had signed last November, he was at
least well assured that England would never ac
cede to demands against her rights and honor.
Should any dispute ever arise between the two
countries, there was always an escape from war
in the shape of a reference.
At home, in America, he had been charged
with having spoken too much on this side of the
water, but that was because he had had such
willing auditors. He had always been seduced
by kind friends ever ready to listen to him, and
perhaps he had too willingly yielded to their
kind seductions. Very recently one of the news
papers had charged him with being over-
exuberant, but he must remind them that the
expenses,
Mercer University is at present in a flourish
ing nnd growing condition, under the able man
agement of Dr. H. H. Tucker. It has a very
able Faculty, composed of Rev. H. H. Tucker,
D. D., President, and Professor of Theology
and Intellectual and Moral Philosophy; S. P.
Sanford, A, M., Professor of Mathematics and
Astronomy; J. E. Willett, A. M., M. D., Pro
fessor of Natural Philosophy; Wm. G. Wood-
fin, A. M., Professor of Ancient Languages;
Rev. J. J. Brantly, D. D., Professor of Belles
Lettres and Modem Languages.
There are at present in the college, Seniors,
15; Juniors, 82; Sophomores, 19; Freshmen,
18—total, 84.
teen Assessors, and one hundred and twenty-two
Collectors have been appointed.
Capt. Daniel Ammen has been appointed chief of
the bureau of navy yards and docks, vice Admiral
Smith, resigned.
Nothing whatever has transpired regarding the
elections in Virginia, Mississippi and Texas.
The Secretary of the Interior decides that a eix
months’ abandonment of a homestead forfeits it.
Greeley declines the Pacific Railroad Commie-
sionership, tendered him by Grant.
The Herald’s correspondent says he has authority
for saying that General Lee will visit Grant.
and may probabl^ be built. It was decided to
appoint an evangelist for Northwestern Georgia,
and the subject of State Evangelist was referred
jH * m * - ~ ' " A resolution was adopted earnestly recom
mending the churches to contribute liberally to
ing with friendship for the people of the United
States; and this being so, he had given way to
an exuberance which is characteristic of an old
man who cannot expect to enjoy life much
longer. With regard to his speeches at New
castle and Manchester, he had been charged
with meaning to intimidate England, and he
would say with reference to this, that only for
the fact of his being a writer in the paper which
influences so vastly the destinies of the world,
the author of such
up in a lunatic
Christian wanted was that the United States and
England should ever bo associated together as
friends. Judging from past history there was
every prospect that both countries would at
least remain free forever. How much could
not the one assist the other ? In a month’s time
(Mr. Johnson added) he would leave for home;
and how would he leave England ? A sadder
man. He would leave thousands of friends
Marine Disasters.
New Orleans, April 26.—The steamer Lizzie Hop
kins, from Shreveport for New Orleans, took fire
■ . among the cotton stowed in her hold on the 22d,
The college has graduated 244 young men, j and was with difficulty saved-partiaUy filling with
many of whom are filling' responsible positions j water. One hundred and fifty bales of cotton were
of ministers and teachers, throughout the i thrown overboard. The boat arrived this evening,
States of the Sonth. ! | slightly damaged.
It is proposed by the Convention to place an j Galveston, April 26.—The Norwegian bark Nor-
efficient agent in the field, with a compensating | dicap, from Liverpool, with 3000 sacks of salt, stuck
salary, and raise an additional endowment fund , in crossing the outer bar yesterday and lodged till
of §100,000, so that a stronger corps of instruc- three o’clock. Removing she drifted on to the
tion may be employed in the College, as the , Eonth brak _era and biiged. and is now full of water,
number of young men seeking admittance is j ® er car °° a * 068- lives lost,
increasing rapidly. i The schooner Mary D. Freland, went ashore off
— } — _ i Pelican Spit, on the 17 th, and has filled to her hatches.
The report of the Finance Committee an- | Abont ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 8avedi
nounces §l,oo4.9a sent up to the Convention, | tho Teg8el ^ a total logg _
in cash, for various purposes, but mostly to aid !
in carrying on the Denominational Missionary ! General News,
operations. V ! Savannah, April 27.—United States District At-
From the report of the Executive Committee j torne L Mffledgo, arrived to-day. Under warrants ...
of the Convention, we gather that four young ! i«nedby the United States Commissioner, A. 8.
men are receiving a gratuitous theological edu- 1 7 r n 7*1 7™ 7
a ...... b , c • rested, charged with connection with whisky frauds.,
cation; that HeamJ-p. | Both were released under bonds to appear at tho
Ga., under the carq.6. the Convention, is in S j Maytorm of the United States Court,
flourishing condition, and is & valuable auxiliary J it la rumored that startling developments in this
of the' denomink tion in Northwest Georgia; j connection will be soon made by tho grand jury,
that a railroad tojPenfleld is in contemplation' The weather is warm.
San Francisco, April 27.—Thefiro in the Goldhill
mines continues. Five hundred men are out of
employment.^
New Yore, April 23—Charles A. Dana, of the
Sun, was arrested on the suit of J. Russell Young,
managing editor of the Tribune, for libel. The
| Sun's article implicates Young in receiving bribes
the contingent fund for the support of aged i and fraudulent use of associated press dispatches,
and infirm Baptist ministers. 1 • j Baltimore, April 28.—The quarantine regulations
The report on the State of Religion thronghont i commences the first of May.
Georgia manifests a great destitution of relig-
Ogtetkorpe Superior C«»rl-In|4
1 | tint Decisions.
From a Lexington tetter in the Constitution
alist we clip the following:
This has been an unusually interesting,
in Lexington. The Superior Court of Oeletb^ 4
county held its Spring Session from Mor?*
until yesterday afternoon, and then adjourn!.!
till court in course. The presiding jude#
Garnett Andrews, conducted the business^:
credit to his judicial ability and gave
satisfaction to the bar and people, {w* 1
point arising under the relief law, he heli.v a
a contract made before the war was a conb7"
to pay the specific number of dollars th!S ?
mentioned, and that though he was bonM 1
under the ruling of the Supreme Court, to .i
nut testimony as to the amount of property
by the debtor when the contract was made W
much he had lost, in what manner, etc. ’»•
provided in the relief law, yet, as to theeS
this testimony wasr to have, he would not. unt;
further controlled by the Supreme Court X™
an old debt to be scaled upon the ground th-!
the debtor had lost his property, or other sur’’
ground; that he could see no equity in it
unless there was a plea of failure of consider
tioa r qr 1 so-pie simihyr on^, the reduction of tC
Amount of the debt was in violation of the PaY
eral Constitution. rea ‘
Affidavits filed by debtors for the purpose n
re-opening judgments under the above hr
were summarily dismissed and the leuin!
officer ordered to proceed. ‘ u ' b
Quite a number of ■ cases, involving poirr
arising under the homestead and relief hx
are going up to the Supreme- Court from neafir
every county in the Northern Circuit 1
The criminals, Simpson and YVeaver vto
last winter stole several thousand dollars in cur
rency and gold from Mr. Jesse Dalton, of thii
county, ansi who were caught below Atlanta hr
the energetic and talented Capt. John C. Reii
caine into court, pleaded guilty, and were sen
tenced by the judge to three years’ con£neme-t
in the penitentiary. ..
Pulaski Superior Court.
AN ELIGIBILITY QUESTION UNDER THE FOUETEEX72
AMENDMENT.
We copy the subjoined from the Hawkinsvi'h
Times, of the 2Sth:
But one criminal case—that of James Dow*
for burning the gin house of G. B. Coley—w>i
submitted to the jury. Dowd was convicted
and sentenced (o the penitentiary for three
years. His counsel have made a motion for j
new trial on various grounds, the principal cf
which is, we understand, that he was convicted
partly on confessions which, it is claimed, were
extorted from him. The indictment again!;
Sullivan, as accessory to the burning, was with-
drawn by the Solicitor, for want of evidence to
convict. ■ •
The case of R. G. Fulghnm vs. B. B. John,
son, acting tax collector of Pulaski county, was
determined in favor of the former. It seems
that at the election held last spring, Fulghnm
was elected tax collector, but the Governor re
fused to commission him, because he was inel
igible under the 14th article, of the Constita-
tion of the United States, and a commission was
issned to Johnson, the next highest candidate.
Fulghnm applied to Judge Alexander for a writ
of quo warranto, to enquire by what authority
he held the office. Fulghnm had been a justice
of the peace before the war, and in January,
1865, he was elected Justice of the Inferior
Court, and went into the militia service under
the call of Governor Brown. He fed and
clothed soldiers and their families whenever
they needed assistance, and his feelings were
with the Sonth in the war, but he did not other
wise engage in it.« The jury, nnder the in
struction of the Court, found him eligible, and
a judgment of ouster was entered against the
present incumbent.
Whether the Governor will issue a commis
sion to Mr. Fulghnm, in accordance with this
judgment, we do not know, but suppose his
counsel, Messrs. Grice, Burke and Hansell,
have considered this question, and will know
howto meet it,
The Calm after the Storm—Generals Lei
and Grant . Meet.—The Washington *corre-
spondeut of the Louisville Courier-Journal tel
egraphs the following to that paper on the 24th
inst :
To-day has been given np to quiet rejoicing
in official quarters at the relief experienced
from the office seeking pressure of the last eight
weeks. The President and most of his Cabinet
have left town. The President went into the
country early this morning and spent the entire
day at a village called 'Laurel, where, it is un
derstood, he met General Lee; and spent an
hour in social converse. SecretaryFishleftfor
New York.this morning; Secretary Boutwell
went to Boston last night, and Postmaster-Gen
eral Cresswell went to his home in Maryland
The other officers of the administration have
generally refused to receive visitors.
ions privileges in all parts of the State, and the i aat * ^ 0U ^’
,, j-. ■ j x., ,,, c , _ . , . | Mobile, April 27.—The Illinois Press Association
-J — ----- j ... ‘. .. nC “f’ n S ; numbering eomo 120 gentlemen and about the same
h an idea ought to be locked and social irregularities exist in all the rehg- number of ladiea> Ieavo yj olliIa br a special train for
f rCate ; i elt « n, ; than f °I! ^ O ^o0mery, to-mon'ow morning. They go to .c
tho last twenty years; that a sad Laodician spirit. cept the hospitalities of that city, tendered two davs
is generally prevailing; that there is a great • since. > *. .
want of ministerial consecration and min- I Their visit here lasted three days, and has done a
isterial support; that there is much destitution i vast deal to promote good feeling between thosee-
among the churches, many neighborhoods be- j dons. They havo received great and continuous
ing unprovided with the preached word; i b°spitafity from the City Government, the Board of
that a Sunday School revival spirit prevails; P? 3 ®: c“*“8, representing all shades of politi-
‘ * * • * I Ml nninmn TUltra. Tra/b.vel ovframa Prmncr , _
whom he would never see again. Mr. Johnson ' that the state of religion and religions destitu-
cal opinion—from ultra Radical to extreme Copper
head—they, one and all expressed themselves per-
<rr p ° ; cessation should be put to advancing the war j selves in their progress South.
Outrageous
President poverty as pleas for the love of the world
i and the idolatry of covetousness.
Attaclc on
Graut.
From the .Yew York Sun.] j The general spirit of the late Conventions was
A telegram sent all the way from Washington j a desire to promote the cause of religion, edu-
They are surprised at the fertility of the soil—at
the openings for industrial manufacturing, as well
as for commercial and agricultural enterprises.
In all their speeches, and in all their private ex-
Commercia 1 Advertiser announces that | cation and morality . The mee ti ng was harmo- P re8sions 4 opinion, one and all have declared that
the hostility of the Sun to General Grant s ad-| . . now light has dawned on them.
now light has dawned on them.
They would hot have believed what they have
seen for themselves.
Radical editors axe surprised at the peaceful con
dition of the country and its political quiet.
The Daily Register has opened its columns to all
parties, and is filled with these expressions from
some of the most uncompromising Republicans.
ministration is attributed to our not being ap- 1 n ^ ous > som ® fk® discussions were very
pointed Collector. j interesting, particularly that whioh occurred
In tho first place, we aro in no wise hostile to • on tho adoption of an able report on temper-
bwtr^ "““r “ ■“Sir- r
given us tho same pain nnd anxiety Tdiich, i ln ^ re soluhon, which was adopted, will exhibit
believe, they have occasioned to all his sincere '• the animus of the Convention:
friends. Even the enthusiastic Senator Sprague, i Resolved, That the Convention observes with 1 , L
ningf prefaced hi^prophecy of ^brUlian^toture i P 1 ^ 0 ^ regret the growing disposition to in- j To-day the Boato of Trade gave a steam boat ex-
for the President by admitting frankly that his! cW B e m intoxicating liquors as a common bev- i cur * 10n “own the Harbor-through tho eliipbing and
star had paled in the beginning. ! erage, and that we earnestly exhort onr breth- ! ^ collation on board, there was a further re-
Next, we have to add that we have never said ren to abstain from all such indulgence them- : newal of s ° o1 feelin 3 an<i general desire to be at
anything of General Grant so severe as thein-; sel and b all dent meaaure8 to per . j P caca . Both parties declare they see great results
timation of tho Commercials correspondent, . , ^ , ^ p to spring from this^excuraion, and hope for more
that he might have had tho support of the Sun | suado otter3 to the same course. j from other seetions .
for the miserable sop of the Custom-house, and | The body was able and dignified, and pre- , xha Western editors will go from Montgomery
didnt secure it! That would make him out a . sided over with distinguished ability by Dr. homeward via Columbus, Miss., and tho Mobile and
to be. i nan » Ga '» Kev - J * Bjals being appointed to ■
This reminds us of a story told of Grant out preach the introductory, and Rev. D. Shaver
in Ohio, where ho was born, and which every . being appointed to preach the educational ser-
body out there seems to credit. The story is, ' nion.
that when Ulysses was a boy, old man Grant j Conven ti on is distinct from that soon to
said to lnm one day: ! .... .. . ,
“Ulysses, get on that horse and ride him. 111 ®8 city of Macon. This was a State
down to neighbor Blank's, and tell him that I. Convention; that will consist of Baptists from
want to swap horses with him. Here is fifteen 1 aU p ar ts 0 f the South, and other portions of
ff 0 n^'off?rtomMeSuIrTto^o 0 oI”“^ and the United States,and is called the Southern! . ... .
Ulysses mounted, and whether ho “taught;Baptist Convention. It meets annually at, the Foreign Ifews.
Dave to pace” on the way or not we are not in- ! place that may havo been previously appointed, j Havana, April 27.—It is reported that the revolu
formed. But, arrived at the place of destiua-; j s expected that a very large and respectable tionary Governor of Lagua Villas has been cap-
tion, ho found neighbor Blank, and delivered j body of men ^ compose tbo Conven-! toed - ' Ihe Spaaiah Ye3ael Jmjion haa «*Pturod
’““S'Jitmed™, t. tradeho I se,!«o»,«»ait»hoi*dth. l a.Sto»,o tM .„» .
with yon. He told me to swap even if you: by a cordial welcome and generous hospitality, ’ d J -mid w 1
would;, and if not, to offer you fifteen dollars to sustain the character vouched for L city! ! IMe cnea: ^ Ampere,*
b00t ’ when the Convention v.’as invited to hold its
session at this place. a • ■ B.
Couldn’t Take the Iron-Clad.
Savannah, April23.—In the United States District
Court, to-day, in the case of Wm. Hone vs. tho
James River Insurance Company, the defendent's
counsel demanded that the jury subscribe to tho
Iron-Clad Oath of tho Act of Juno 17, 1862. The
oath on being read to them; every juror left the box
and the case fell through from want of a jury.
St. Andrews Society of Savannah.—This
Society has recently issned a circular in which
they say: > , . '
“An earnest and cordial invitation is hereby
extended to all Scotchmen residing in the State
of Georgia to unite themselves with the St.
Andrew’s Society of the city of Savannah, and
to co-operate with this ancient brotherhood in
maintaining the traditions of their native land,
in promoting fraternal relations, nnd in extend
ing to destitute Scotchmen and their families
the kindly charities of life.”
We suppose the correspondent of the Com
mercial believes this story.
The New York Tribune calls upon the report
ers to give us next fall the cost of the traveling
expenses of tiro different committees of Con
gress now about to start out on their summer
excursions. The Tribune says: “These tours
are to range from New York to New Orleans
and San Francisco, and we all know that your
true Congressman, though loaded down with
free passes, is never able to travel, save at
enormous cost, when the Sergeant-at-Arms
comes to settle the bills.”
The gentlemau who moved to “lay it on the
table” accidently knocked it off.
The speaker who “brought down the bouse’
— j has been compelled to put it np again.
The cocktail of the barnyard is much less* The gentlemen who “fell out” have got in
dangerous than the cocktail of the saloon. •» pg n in injuries wore sustained.
A Canadian boy, in the quiet .town of St.
Catherines, had been punished by his father
with solitary confinement for lying. He show-
We are sorry to read tho following in the Co
lumbus Enquirer, of Tuesday:
Another Sorrowful Dispensation. — Miss
Carrie Ragland, daughter of the senior propri-
ecl on his release that he had 'been employing etor of this paper, died on Sunday afternoon,
his time in theological reflections instead of | ®ke had been for some time an invalid, and dis
using it for self-mortification. He asked his ! pluyed throughout her sufferings the Christian
father: “Fa, did you tell lies when you were I spirit that had marked her life of gentleness and
little?” The father, perhaps conscience smitten, I purity. This young lady was greatly endeared
endeavored to evade the question. Bat the ! to a large circle of friends by the amiability of
child persisted. “Did You tell lies when you ; her disposition and her noble devotion to Chris-
were little?” “WelL no, said the father; “but! tianity and benevolence. She had long been a
■why did you ask?” “Did ma tell lies “when she : consistent member of the Presbyterian Church,
was little?” ‘T don’t know, my son; you must! aud was zealous in the discharge of every re
ask her.” “Well,” retorted the young hopeful,
•‘one of you must have told lies, or you conld
not have had a boy that would do it.
A Philadelphia merchant got drunk one
night last week, and found himself, in the morn
ing, in a dissecting room, having been taken by
a party of drunken students for a stiff.
! ligious duty. To her immediate family—which
has within the last few years had to sustain sev
eral vary afflictive bereavements—she was the
cetoer of affection and an object of tenderest
love. They have, in this last severe trial, the
sincere sympathies of a community in which
the virtues and worth of her whom they now
mourn were so well appreciated. ' •
The Decoration of the Graves.—The ladies cf
this city, generally, cast their annual floral tributes
yesterday upon the graves of the men who gro
their lives in defence of a cause they could not sus
tain. Both, cemeteries were visited by large nan-
bers of ladies and gentlemen, and all the gr^e;
were beautifully decorated or strewn with dower?.
We could only find time to visit the Roso Hill Ce&
etery. Arriving at the grounds where he the Coo-
federate dead, we found more than one hundred la
dies and misses busily engaged in their mounfri
yet beautiful labor of love and respect. Vfe hive
not the space to write an extended notice of the
scene which greeted our eyes on all sides as we
walked through the sanctuary of the dead: but sev
eral beautiful objects, which attracted much atten
tion, we must allude to. The first was what might
be termed a floral monument. It consisted of s
column about ten feet high, wreathed with flowea
and evergreens, on the top of which was a floral ih;
of the Confederacy, ingeniously wrought in red sr!
white roses. The column stood upon a beautifrilj
decorated double pedestal, and near the top of tie
column, encircled by a wreath, were the words:
“For love of those who vainly brave ■.
Died for a cause they could not save.”
The next object of beauty and attraction
large floral arch which stands near the centre of
first row of graves on the upper side of the groani-
In the centre of the arch and beautifully wreh-^
are the following lines:
“Oh! happy in their homes, the noble dead!
The seal is set on their maj estic fame! , ,
Earth haB drank deep the generous blood they see-,
Fate has no power to dim their stainless name.
They may not, in one little moment shame
Long glorious years : Prom many a lofty stem.
Fall graceful flowers, eagle-heart’s grow tame,
And stars drop, failing from the diadem; .
But the bright partis their’s—there is no change t-
them!’°
Another exquisitely beautiful object in the fora e-
a double floral arch, Btands in the centre of
grounds and amid the -graves. From the centre c.
the bright floral arches above, hangs a crown ex
posed of pure white pinks, forming, altogether.
of the most radiantly beautiful and tasteful object
which attracts the visitor’s eye.
All the graves had been prepared for their deccn*
tion days before, and they looked as fresh as if
had just received their mortal remains. And a-
were wreathed or strewn with the fairest and swet- -
est flowers.
In our wllk among them we found tho followTO
beautiful original lines which we could not pass nB "
noticed. They are, if we mistake not, from the U :
of a well known poetical contributor to thftS
columns, and with them we close our hastily wr.. -
ten sketch of a scene which would require colnnos
to appropriately and worthily describe:
CONFEDERATE ORATES.
Oh! graves, with your tangled grass overgrown,
Do you think in your chambers chill,
Where the death-worms creep, forever shall =iee.
That your coffins and clay forever can keep
The hearts there cold and still ?
Behold! at eve how the sun goes down!
And the stars at night from the horizon
Fall silently into the sea!
Their graves they find far under the waves;
Are ye still deeper than they ? IF'
Oh! hearts, like these stars that are gemming l ~ e
skies,
As in glory you fell, so in glory you'll rise.
Like the paths that the dying sun leaves on the ~ fc '
So lightens our way your'memory.
As we look on your bollocks, like waves on the m 312 '
We return to" the days that aro over.
With the past now the present is busy again.
But their sadness is ours, and ours the pain.
When we think of the glories they cover.
Ye remind us, oh, Dead! of the dreams that we
dreamed,
While the sunlight of freedom around us
beamed,
Of a nation that lives but in story.
Strong, proud a&ddeftiat. itfaoed'theworlu^ fw '
But with von in the brunt of ih6 oonflict went down,
. AndwTOjw4*.l«wbw>e4ta8l ot y- : ,
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