About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1869)
w» 'y^-w,M4-u... jwwuiwpi The CTeoro-ia "W"eekly Telegraph. 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- : , s v :
