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Newspaper Page Textrr , /-'■'. /. . j v • ' JSBY & REID, Proprietors. The Family Journal. News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING STABLISHED 1826.} MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1869. TOI. XLIII.-lfO. 25 ” Td c « ra l > * 1 Building* Macon. Ifors 1 " ■— -irrs of subscription .'..i-fnrono year.— $10 00 1 .. r Tr.W"L"_f 1 ,r,ix month* 5 00 T-i v T^iKJrr period* Ono Dollar per month. ;v ’ 5 " u-Iikly Tet-KURAPH—ono year.. 4 CO t u.’iVeiki.v Trlkcraph—*i* m’tha 2 00 * . f.. Wi,in—nm {rVutlv T«L*r.BAFH-one year.. 3 00 ‘ tfifMT ItiMunnix months..... "'"'"V* ** "dvaneerSO. a .Job Printing 1 SO IJo rtK 1111 "tlr executed at reasonable prices. t/areJ by mail with Postmaster’s certificate a the skeleton hand. . Horrible Press or Bony Fingers. r -liM to a miserable habit had rained me. 1 uSted my prospects, destroyed my busi- - yelled niylriends and brought me down noint of existence. The habit had overworn m0 - In vain I straggled ' • . • t The imploring looks and words of my he add of my wan-faced and emaciated S V Waning their eyes to me, the author at ''Vir Itfing and of their misery; the spec- t-yl Ae p, otl d home and broad lands, once '' lot bow in the hands of strangers—all ^ which ndgbt well have stnng to madness ‘ , 0 despair a less degraded being, reaeh- Bor affected me in the depth of my de- • : j tad reached a point at which no mo- ii: wight be urged could any longer affect . jeenieg I was sitting in my miserable .T lie children were asleep in bed. They '^ifd themselves to sleep in hunger. My " ’ opposite to me on the other side of the '' vj fire-place stitching some rags of cloth- 1 sullen and silent. i feu a craving for the stimulant that .<k«rv to my life. Rising, I walked to atioard where’ it was kept My wife knew intention. She followed me with her nut there desperate and careless—only Lfcrthe gratification of my appetite. '.' ..; e d forth my hands, tremblingly seized ode. and was about raising it to my lips, isd that very instant, just as the bottle n; T lip*. I felt a terrible sensation. It ,bih"urii some one had grasped my throat. I cried, in a deep, fierce voice.— v; it you dare?” and turning, with clenched i struck at wliat I supposed was my wife, j thought that she was trying in this vio- ny in desperation to keep me from drink. it to my surprise 1 saw my wife sitting by replace with her work in her hand, look- ,t! ice in wonder. I t ald not have been her, evidently, iinl'le feeling passed through me. Shnd- dy 1 raised my hand to feel what it was i-s it my throat, or if there was anything lil. which seemed to be grasping me so : ~ :if l.orrors! isi nisedmv hand I felt the unmistakable ! tom of this mystery and once I told the whole of a bony thumb and bony fingers 1 against my flesh. It was a skeleton filial clutched me by the throat. Uy bad fell down powerless by my side ; ; Uulc cti-bed on the floor. My children ieattli* s.tise, and wife and children all red at me with white faces. hands in my dispair. I felt again the bony fin gers. I moved my hands along the bony arms. In my madness I straggled. I struck ont my fists wildly. They struck against what seemed like bony ribs. The time during which I thus straggled seem ed endless. The horror that was on me cannot be told. At lost all sense left me. IVhen I revived I found myself lying on a rude bench in the bar. It was early dawn. No one was near. All my bones ached. I rose up confusedly, not knowing at first where I was, but soon the terrific event which had overpow ered mo came to my memory. I rose to my feet and tried to get ont. The noise that I made awaked some one inside. Ho called ont to me : “Hallo, there! Are yon off?’’ “Yes," I said. “Wait, I’ll let you ont.” He appeared in a short time. “You had a bad turn," said he, not unkindly. “You’d better take care of yourself, and not be out at nights.” I thanked him and left. "When I reached the house my wife waked up and looked half fearfully at me. Amazement came over her face as she saw that I was sober. I kissed her and sat down in silence. She looked at me in wonder. Tears fell from her eyes. She said nothing, but I saw that she was praying. As soon as the shops were opened, I went ont and managed to procure some food, which I brought to the room. I then left to go ont to my employment. Through the day I felt an in cessant craving, but my horror was so great that I would far rather have ent my throat than risked having that hand there again. As the days passed, the horror remained nndi- minished. It was simply impossible for me to seek for intoxicating drink. I dared not. My wife said nothing. I saw, however, by her soft eyes, the gentle joy of her face, and the sweet,* loving smiles with which she wel comed me home, how deeply this change in me had affected her. Weeks passed and gradually the craving les sened. Yet so vivid was the remembrance of that dread experience of mine, that my horror remained fresh and unabated. To relapse was impossible. I dared not. Thus forced to be sober, my circumstances improved rapidly. There was no longer any danger of want. Comfort came, and peace, and hope, and pure domestic joy. Remorse for the sufferings which I had caused to my sweet wife made me more eager to make amends for the past, that so I might efface bitter memories from her mind. The re vulsion of feeling was so great for her that she forgot that I had ever been other than kind. I made no parade of reform. I made no prom ises, and no vow. Nor did she ever allnde to the change. She showed her joy in her face and manner. She accepted the change when it came and rejoiced in it. I still felt an anrions desire to get to the bot- The Pacific Railroad a Hnrnbng. j Emigration to the Sonth-Xo. 5. The Baltimore Sun has received copies of the ! Georgia has a territoryof33,000 square miles, last report-as late as March 5th—made by a 1 making in acres about thirty-seven millions. Government director of the Union Pacific Rail- . . , „ , road. It is that of Mr. ChanceyH. Snow, of Tms includes mountain and swamp, and much Washington, a civil engineer, and formerly con- entirely unfit for cultivation. Probably it would nected with the Baltimore, Wilmington and not be a wrong estimate to say, there is not ex- Philadelphia Railroad, and who assisted in ma- , ceeding thirtv°millions of acres that would be £. 8 j ?“«•«. leave fwmtbk«4bU«dM Snow went over the lines of the Union Pacific , for the purposes of fuel and timber, and you have Railroad since January last, making a practical ] an area of about twenty millions left, or about examination of it, and his report sufficiently j twenty acres for each soul now in her borders. confirms nil the allegations which have been t ,... ... made heretofore of its incomplete and badly j If / ou wonld locate on0 ^habitant on it spro- constructed condition, showing hnrried, unsub- portion, you would find your whole State n'ow stnnlinl, unsafe and unlawful laying of track, ! occupied by thirty acre farms, of one inhabitant withont proper grades, ballasting, embank- ; to each farm. This would appear as though it i** * fixed per mile, more bonds from ihe Govern- | from this million of inhabitants now liv- inent than the strfiighter ronte would afford. It ■ ing, in the course of a generation, their descend- is a fact which no one doubts, and Mr. Snow be- i ants ^ have to be provided for. Each pair lieves no one denies, that the persons who have \ , .. r 1 had the superintendence and management of the i produce its progeny, and in thirty years construction of the Union Pacific Railroad are j will probably doable our population withont the persons who have been and nre the contract- estimating immigration. And then your lands ors for its constrnction. The “ Credit Mobilier will be divided into fifteen acre farms, and so on, does the work and receives the money. And ., . . . ... 7 what is the Credit Mobilier? To use the forci- j the nambors crease in progression until, in ble language of Charles Francis Adams, Jr., in | a short period, (estimated in the life of a nation,) an article in the North Amerie8nReYiewfor;wewillfind,withoutimmigrafion,ourwholeter '^iljfUh^another name for the Pacific railroad J rit01 7 c ? vered a teemin gn«tfre population, ring. The members of it are in Congress; they Let us be wise in season. A nation does not are trustees for the bondholders; they are di- ' live for the present generation, neither ought rectors, they are stockholders, they are contrac- j their policy be directed alone for the advantage tors; in Washington they vote the subsidies, in t .. . , ... .... — — - - ° - -- - - - of their own times. A wise people will think of New York they receive them, upon the plains they expend them, and in the Credit Mobilier they divide them. Ever-shifting characters, the future—the unborn generations to spring _ . from their own loins. Man, with industry and they are ever ubiquitous; they receive money j ener gy may accumulate, but nature is everdis- rato one hand as a corporation, and pay it into . .. ... ’ story to my medical man. He was not at all surprised. Doctors never are. Nor are doctors ever at a loss to account for anything. “Poh!” said he, indifferently. ‘‘That's com mon enough. It was mania a potu. The brain yon know becomes congested, and yon see and I, treiMing in every limb,stood trans- feel devils and skeletons. Cases like yours are with tenor, the awful feeling of the su- nmnl now folly possessing me. Unable to i 1 gupc-d with fear. I drew away my ?.bgtn>7htad was still held by the same ■dasd invisible power. Iconld not move VpMhblo horror filled me. Kono but ■*!»h»Te experienced something like this : rt»t it is to have such feelings. The «ins paralyzed, while the mind seems to slowed with extraordinary activity, and ;<a$esws new capacities for suffering. :atlast I felt the grasp relapse. I stag- - lick, the grasp ceased altogether, and I J to another comer of the room, endeav- io go as far as possible from the place lethis mysterious thing had seized me. « my wife and children tamed away, the -rto work, the latter to sleep. They knew ua it was that had affected me, bat con- dthat it was somo pain arising from sick- ' or sadden faintness. I did not speak a bat resumed my former seat. 1 bow, gradually, my craving returned. j* could I satisfy it ? My bottle was bro il lay in fragments on the floor. All my f was gone. What was I do ? The craving Be irresistible. I had to yield. 1 took my hat, fumbled in my pockets and a few cents, and taking an old bottle that » comer I went forth in the darkness. It ot without some feeling of trepidation that red the dark passage way. Fear lest the Thing of Horror might return agitated But I passed on unharmed, and reached 1 resort, where I laid my old bottle on the tr. The clerk soon filled it. With an ir- Ue impulse I clutched the bottle and rush- ah to drink the liquor. for a little distance and came to of a wharf. Here, unable nny longer ^t my craving, I pulled ont the cork so as us very dark. No one was near me. In arose the.low hum of the city; ont ' biihor might be heard the noise of soil- ?.7*I bad a general idea of this “ ere > though all my thoughts were on the bottle. At hut I raised it tooth. the bottle touched my lips when ‘nperienced that terrible feeling.’ ^*t was seized; this time more violent- ■p freely, as if by some power which had j**®**! me, and was enraged at having ■j?■ My throat was com- mtdly in that fierce gripe; there was h thrill of horror then shot through the bottle fell from my trembling crushed to fragments upon the Raised my hands to my throat, thongh l>nt the motion was mechanical tod involuntary effort to tear away bad seized my throat—to free my- ®*,pain and horror of that mysterious Ittk’ then, I raised my hands, and J^ttere under my touch, plainly and the long, hard, bony hand which ® ne I° uc b vvas enough. My I tried to shriek, but in vain, breath, and thought that I would common enough. To me, however, my case seemed very un common, but, whether it be so or not, my case has resulted in my salvation. And never will I cease, even amidst my horror, to be grateful to that Power which came down clothed in terror to snatch me from ruin with that Skeleton Hand. the other as a contractor. Humanly speaking, the whole thing seems to be a species of thim blerig, with this difference from the ordinary arrangement, that whereas commonly ‘the little joker’ is never found under the thimble which may be turned up, in this case he is sure to be found, turn np which thimble yon may. Under one name or another a ring of a few persons is tributing and dividing bis possessions among his descendants. The Georgia planter of to-day, stripped by the government of his wealth and labor, may feel his thousand acre farm an in- cubus or a capital unprofitable to him, yet the young scions that are branching from the pa rent stock, when his head is beneath the sod, struck at whatever point the Union Pacific is j will no t find the patrimonial acres too large or : rf 1 “■ ^«■ tors they contract for its construction, and as And so the division will continue ad infinitum, members of the ‘Credit Mobilier’ they build it." | until in the lapse of a few decades we will find „ I all over onr State, on small farms, a teeming , _ ® ° ^ ° . 4 * rm . CrS ’ ! population to the manor bom, of lineage, blood The Rome Commercial of Sunday says: , ^ langTjage gimilar tQ our wvn . Avbj . then) We notice in our Macon exchanges, the ar- ......... . rival per railroad in that city, in one week, of , throw awa J’ thls pnceless inheritance by giving 35,000 bushels of corn, and large quantities of ' it, at the present nnremunerative prices, tofor- flour, bacon and lard, amounting in the aggro- eigners who come with views, and prejudices, gate, we should suppose, to about §05,000. ! aa( x habits alien to our own. No, let us keep This is but one week s shipment to ono city, ! , , . ,. and shows the folly of Southern farmers in i oar lands for our children. Millions of acres planting all cotton and ignoring wheat and corn, are now worn and exhausted by cultivation. At the same rate, the entire cotton crop of Mijl- Let them rest and reenperate for posterity, die and Southwestern Georgia will be consumed i Raleigh. in the purchase of breadstuff's. j —• It would seem reasonable, that farmers wonld WHY CHASE W’ASNOT NOMINATED learn economy by experience, and if the past j three years has not taught them the necessity Ynllamligham Clears Hi* Coat Tails, of raising their own bread and meat, nothing i ami Accuses Seymour, but a famine will. Mr. Yallandigham, in the Dayton Ledger, in- ^ the grasp slowly and nnwilling- . 1 we»thed more freely. At length longer felt rw^streeta for a long time. At first I'hT m y a PPetite had been driven toiror of that moment. As time tj return. Once more I felt the ttolfr k® fear of another attack was *eir£' lon S time deterred me; but at ’ ‘ ’ few too strong for the fear, t fip to a desperate pitch of res- ™ ' back to the shop where I had t l i< l uor ‘ cried; 1 ‘I’m crazy for a drink; , ' Give me a glass, for God’s ’® m y face seemed to excite the He poured ont a glass # j, - oemess I reached out my J? With trembling hand I raised iVitoBt 3 - The grateful fumes already ^ b P 8 already touched ^eet was seized with a tre- [^tadiitco 10 * K>wer was tor- > enraged by my repeat- a l0l^5^‘ ^on, tend wished now by this pUffth!u 610 objection forever, f • (/,, t “:‘ s * °' Vf ‘ r was using with me the f 11 w bich one uses with a dog, t?^i*cared. C ^ °® ence > and each time *■ was terrible; it was fiercer ‘topetuous. “ ‘ £ r ’“ p breath ceased. «y senses reeled. I raised my The Cuban Rebellion. A Washington correspondent of the New York World says: There is authority for stating that the Span envoy to this country esteems the rebellion in Cuba as substantially at an end. That this is too sanguine an announcement is generally be lieved here, but that serious reverses have been suffered by the insurgents is admitted and known. Mr. Roberts declares that within sixty days there will not be a man in arms against the authorities, and that Gen. Prim will find the situation pacific on his arrival. It seems that the Captain-General has had about thirty thousand men under arms, and they are steadily advancing and repossessing the inte rior country. The legation here view the insur rection as concluded, and anticipate a proclama tion of clemency in a few days, which will se cure the adhesion of those who yet feebly hold On the other hand the agents of the insurgents, while they are depressed, are not hopeless, and they give out that substantial reason exists to believe that the rebellion may yet more vigor ously revive tban ever, owing to the fact that the conceded occupation of the interior dis tricts by the authorities will concentrate the in surgent forces more effectually. It is now com petent to state that an expedition lias been in process of organization for some time; that it has offices in Philadelphia, this city, and New York; that several hundred men in the first and last cities have been enrolled, and that a regu lar regimental classification has been agreed npon—at least on paper—one of the fighting McCook family being stated to be in command. That expedition will or was to depart for Char leston. What complexion the present news will cast npon the enterprise cannot bo foretold. It is believed, however, that it will delay it, and most probably disband it altogether. _ The great difficulty the insurgents have experienced has arisen from three causes: The property men have been against them; they cannot bny arms, having neither money nor a market, and their emancipation burst has failed, the-negroes pre ferring to remain at labor than muster into reg iments. A New Cotton Factory In Columbus. The Sun & Times of Sunday says: We were informed yesterday that Mr. J. J. Grant, an experienced manufacturer and lead ing citizen, and others ore projecting the build ing of another cotton factory of the capacity of 10,000 spindles. The organization is to bo known as the Coweta Falls Manufacturing Com pany. A charter was secured at the last session of the Legislature, incorporating the Company and authorizing it to employ a capital of $500,- 000. It is thought the mill can bo erected, and stocked with machinery at a cost of little over half this amount. The projectors own three desirahlo water lots, just above those of the Eagle and Phenix Mills—have a race already completed and will use the large river dam. Enough rock has been blasted in building the race wall to erect foundations. That factories will pay largely, and can be worked cheaper in the South than in the North has often been demonstrated, and that the peo ple are desirous to invest in such, enterprises, when there is a certantyjof success is equally ap* parent. The way to build np Columbus is to bnild manufactories. The water power of our river facility in controllingic are unsurpassedon this continent. The prospects are that this new enterprise will succeed—indeed there is not a doubt of it Already large subscriptions have been promised when the books are opened. If many manufactories are built along onr river, and it is certain they will be, Columbus will have a population of at least30,000 people in ten years—a result worth working for. We would suppose, from the quantities of dignt^nUy denies that he prevented the nonfina- grain going down the State road, that before the j t j Qn 0 j Om.-sq and caused the overthrow of the next crop can be gathered, the planters in lower ; Democratio Party in the late election. He says: Georgia wiU have expended from a half to a Tho facts nr0 J exactly the reverse. Within million of dollars for supplies to keep up their - much lesg than « ono hour, ” had “Vallandig- fanns, and if there is money in raining cotton j ^ not done anything,” another man than and paying it out to Western farmers for pro- , Chase would bavo bee n nominated. There may duce, we have never been able to see it. have been—no doubt was—an unfortunate error How does it work. The South grows cotton 0 f neceS sity; but there was no “mistake in judg- to enrich New England; she buys corn, meat, ; Certainly, Seymour declined the nomi- flour and mules from the West to ennch that • nat j on j n g 00( j faitli; he was sincerely for Chase, section. From whence then, comes the money ; and had & D0ssessed tho prese nce of mind and to ennch the South ? Is it not plain, that unless i boldness to - bayo anticipated “Vallandigham’s one or the other of these drains upon our pock-: furions dec i arat i 0 ns,” so-called (of which we ets can be stopped, that we are obliged to grow bad bad previous notice) by concluding, poorer every year. »Ills speech with the suggestion of Chase, Southern Emigration — The Mnnhat- ' Yallandigham would have been silent; tan Company. i similar scene would have followed, Chase have We learn, by the latest advices, that this com- : panv has sent southward within two weeks 41C : ®em^tic Party with its bold, brave men at persons, and many others are leaving daily . After ^ ipik treacheries and stupidities The locahons chosen are bouth of thoJames f the Democrn 1 tic managers from October, nver, in Kemble, Amherst, Bedford^ Fronkhn, : ]8C7 to July> 18c8 , there was but one thing Mecklenburg and Halifa , S\ ■ which could and would have commanded suc- settlement numbers from twenty-five to fifty J cess _ th0 nomination of Salmon P. Chase, who, famfiies, and the lands ba ™ SfLtZ'oLr unlike Andrew Johnson, had brains enough to state of half cultirabon from $1 :>0 to .^lO per com hend ^ if ho ^ to overpower the acre. The colonies have purchased from JO to str * mindedf strong-willed audacity of tho 300 acres each. The payments may be made as ■ £ e p nbbca n leaders, it was alone by antagonizing follows: Some quarterly, m advance, »°me , to } t the strong-minded, strong-vriUed audacity and some in labor. , j be “Copperheads” of the Democratic party. The Old Dominion ba0 °f®tetmers cany Ho was not nominated; wherefore and by reason southward every trip some member or fa - 0 f the premises, Grant and his relatives now hold ity of t^.^y- .The next regular batcl i pi ac e, if not power; while Seymour crops his will leave May -, and ..,000 membera are ex- milis llis COWSi and churns his butter near pected to leave within &e next three j .^ n t np Utica;” Blair, in silent retirement, no The company have^ longer even a railroad director, chews the cud within the past week, making $3,000 Uierein at o{ ^. eet and bit tcr fancies over Grant’s pro- present, with a rese^e fund of $14,00) m city foundly b j dden capacity to develop himself banks, ir. 1. Times, _8f/i ult. , into an American Crcsar, cleaving to tlie Twulein tliP West ' vhito Houso tiU carried thenoe a corpse; Free Traile in me West. Pendleton, from tho heights of “Bowler The free trade movement, says the Savannah piac^” calmly survovs, with musing eye, the Republican, is strongly reinforced by some of m-genbacked slopes and pastures of the val- the leading Republican papers of tho XVest, par- i eys 0 f Mill Creek and the lacking ; McLean ticularly the Republican papers of Chicago.— ; creates pleasant parks along the Roman nosed The Evening Post of that city does not see how, declivities of Deer Creek ; while Vallandigham, with wheat at one dollar andfour cents and com nolongerconcerncdabontthat “greathereafter,” at fifty-six cents a bushel, the home market and ■ wbose slow-paced movements he has delivered remunerative prices forfarm products promised ovor ^ history, contentedly hurls his “furious by the protectionists have come to pass. Since j declaration" at courts and juries in the vicinage the commencement of the war there have been ^ 0 f Romside's raid, vindicating the rights and eleven changes in the tariff, each change turn- I redre ssing the wrongs of those venerable gen ing the screws closer, and with every turn the 1 tlemen of ancient family and renown, John Doe protectionists have told the farmers that they, an d Richard Doe—the aforesaid Seymour, Blair, as well as the manufacturers, would be bene- p end i e t 0 n, McLean, and Yallandigham, with fitted. It is seen now that the tariff not only ; di verg others “to the grand jurors unknown,” destroys the commerce of the country, but it is . bebl g ab sweetly oblivious to the fact that a New raining the agriculturists. The West jus tty i Y orb Convention was ever assembled; and each complains that, while Congress steps to the I consoling himself with tho heavenly reflection protection or relief of the manufacturer, it does nothing for tho farmer. Special_ enactments “When wicked men bear away, enable the manufacturer to keep his prices up; • Tho poBt of honor is a private station." whereas, if the manufactured articles were left This consolatory reflection is as essential as to the laws that govern trade, the goods would it is gratifying; for no party that has the aada- go down with cheap raw material and cheap c jty to elect Carl Schurz to the Senate can ever food. But they do not. Protection thus plun- be bea ten by a party which stones its prophets dere the fanner to enrich the manufacturer. and rejects its martyrs. The President’s Secretaries. From the Correspondence of the Philadelphia Pi ess."] It is the business of Gen. Dent to receive all who seek the presence of the President. When Andrew Johnson was Chief Executive all those waiting for an andience with power were left by ttiemselves to pass the long hoars in waiting. It is somewhat different now. The large reception room, over the front of the east room, is fitted np with tables, as well as sofas and chairs, and all, from the humblest to the highest, aro admitted to General Dent's presence. In the cosiest coiner of this reception room, beneath the window which commands the uninterrupted view of tho delightful park which fronts tho mansion, may be found the broad, long table at which Genoral Dent sits, with his accomplished assistants by his side. Gen. Dent is below the medium size, thongh the rich, dark bine military garb in which he is en cased diverts tho mind from size altogether. Now add a face, neither handsome nor plain, bnt a benign, good countenance, through an astral shade, and you have the picture of the man through whose hands yon are to pass before you are consigned to the august presence of his ma jesty. I At the same table, directly opposite General Dent, may be seen the assistant private secreta ry, Mr. Robert M. Douglas, eldest son of the late Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Those who can recall the fonu'and features of the departed Sen ator will see them reproduced, bnt, like the se cond edition of the same book a little revised and somewhat corrected. Mr. Douglas inherits the broad shoulders, crowned by tho same mas sive head, so well remembered by the nation.— His North Carolina speech has made him famous os a youth, and it seems cortain at present that ho was created to prove the exception to the rule that a great man never bequeaths his talent to posterity. Tho social manners of Mr. Doug las are such as would endear him to a sovereign as haughty as Queen Elizabeth, and just as soon as he culminates as private secretary it would be for the honor of the foreign service to send him abroad. Bnt at presentho cannot be spared from a certain ante-room of the "White House. At the left of Gen. Dent may be seen Mr. Crooks, one of the few men left who were be queathed as servants to the people by our be loved Lincoln. He has seen the inauguration of four Presidents and tho installation of three different families in the White House. His mind is a storehouse of legend and story. He is still a young man, more than comely in per sonal appearance, and distinguished by social manners which admirably befit court life. Canoeiug on the River Jordan. Tho voyager “Rob Roy” (Mr. Hacgregor) is making another canal trip, and, at last ac counts, was at Tell Hum, on the sea of Galilee, where some geographers place the site of Ca pernaum. He was alive and well on the 22d of January, although he had somo hair-breadth es capes. He was in a peculiarly wild country. From Damascus he struck westward to the Jor dan, near Hasbeya, and launched his canoe. Thence paddled down the Dan, where ho must have passed the field in which Abraham gave battle to those long-named barbarians who had carried away Lot and his family, and, having delivered his nephew, got back safe to his tent at Mamre. The country which Rob Roy next reached, the Hnleh of the Arabs, wonld be a de sirable residence if it retained the character giv en it by Joshua’s spies—“a placo where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.” Bob Roy, however, fonnd it mnch snch a place as Robinson and Thompson had described before him, very fruitful, but sunk in barbarism. He tried to explore the Lake of the Hulch, the waters of Merom, near which Joshua defeat ed Jabin, “upon the waters of which,” says Robinson, “no boat ever appeared to have floated;” bnt the natives turnedontina body and took shots at him as he sat in his canoe, not apparently one of any ill-will, bnt as if in obe dience to some instinct which prompts both tho civilized man and the savage to bring every thing strange under their power. An under standing was brought about with a skeikh, bnt tho lake, which is about ten miles above that of Tiberias, proved unnavigable. When Mr. Macgregor gets home he will have something new to say about the sources of the Jordan. His account of their comparative im portance differs in some important respects from that of previous travellers, but then he claims to have traced the three terminal streams as they have never been traced before. Like Dean Stanley, he regards the Hasbany river, in a scientific sense, the parent stream of the Jor dan. At the date of lus last letter he had spent six hours exploring the northeast shore of the Sea of Galilee, where, as the New Testament students know, many points of great interest re main to be cleared np. Yellow Fever. South American advices report that the yellow fever is raging fearfully in Pern, Bolivia and portions of South America. The City of Tacna, Pern, has been almost entirely depopulated, and such a panic has prevailed that nurses could not be obtained at $25 a day. Thongh this scourge is confined within narrow geographical limits, it is an epidemio in tropical America, and now and then makes its appearance as such in onr Southern States, particularly at New Or leans, Pensacola, Mobile and Charleston. Its terrible ravages at Norfolk, a few years ago, are still fresh in the minds of many. Daring the latter part of the last, and the earlier part of the present century, New York was frequently swept by this plague, if such it may be caUed. Since 1822, we have been par ticularly fortunate in escaping from it. It may at anytime, however, reappear in the Golf, and, following np along tho coast, for it is particularly a coast epidemic, again assail onr metropolis. In view, therefore, of the reports which reach ns from Sonth America, it behooves the muni cipal and health authorities of all onr coast cities to exercise every precaution and employ every safeguard against its approach. The fact that we here in Now York have escaped the scourge for the past forty-seven years by no means ar gues we should not provide against it in the fu ture. Sending a Valentine to tho Pope. A case has just come to our knowledge which is probably withont a parallel in the annals of St. Valentine. Six yonng ladies in an English boarding school—two of them hailing from tho North—purchase a very pretty valentine, which they sent direct to “His Holiness the Pope of Rome.” Accompanying tho valentine was a let ter, signed by all the yonng ladies, stating that they had seen His Holiness’ condemnation of chignons and long dresses, and had been so im pressed with it that they had given np both. The young ladies waited impatiently, and in due time received a letter from Cardinal Antonelli acknowledging receipt of valentine and epistle, which had afforded His Holiness mnch gratifica tion. The letter was in French. The yonng la dies were delighted to get an epistle from such an exalted prelate. However, another post brought back their valentine, with the Pope’s blessing beautifully written npon it in Italian. His Honness had not been accnstomed to snch souvenirs, and thought it would be doubly valu able returned with his benediction. Tho yonng ladies were immensely pleased and are now hav ing the documents lithographed for preserva tion—the originals to be given to the girl who suggested the affair. It may be added that neither of the young ladies has either taken down her chignon or shortened her dress ono- eighth of an inch; the whole matter having been entered into as a joke, although it may seem to some that for a few girls to hoax his Holiness Popo Pius IX, and his great Lord Cardinal of a secretary, was hoaxing in rather high quarters.—Scotsman. Cnbau Affairs. A Valuable Discoyeby.—A process has been discovered for the prevention of the decay of wood. As the result of a five years’ experience, a paint is recommended which at Die same time possesses the advantages of being impervious to water. It is composed of fifty parte of tar, for ty parte of finely crashed chalk, five hundred parts of fine white hard sand, four parts of lin seed oil, one part of the red onde of copper in its native state, and finally, one part of sulphu ric acid. In order to manufacture the pint from this multiplicity of materials, the tar, chalk, sand and oil are first heated in an non kettle ; the oxide and acid are then added with a peat deal of caution. The mass is very carefully mixed, and applied while hot. When thorough ly dry, this paint is as hard as a stone. Fatally Burned.—Mrs. Blake, residing on Mill street, has been subject to epileptic tits, in a mild form, for some time, and her husband A Washington dispatch says that the admin- kept a colored servant woman to attend her. istration has determined on recognizing Cuban Yesterday morning the servant made up a fire belligerency at an early day. The policy and in the back yard to heat water for washing pur- mode of procedure aro determined upon. It is poses. She then went to a pomp for a bucket also said that the President has given directions of water, and when she returned, she fonnd to sell all war material not wanted by the Gov- Mrs. Bloke lying in the fire in an insensible con- crament to any parties who wish to purchase, dition. The servant took her from the fire and Tho Tribune says that an expedition for Cpba called in the neighbors. sailed from here on the night of the 21st ult. Dr. Walsh was immediately sent for, bnt he The vessel was the famous fast sailing schooner found her body, from her face to her knees, Grapeshot, memorable for the part she took in burned to a crisp, rendering her recovery im- the capture of Lewis Baker, indicted for the possible. She was perfectly conscious of her killing of Wm. Poole. The schooner was heavily dying condition, and bore her excruciating suf- loaded with boxes containing arms and munitions ferings with patience and Christian resignation, of war, and barrels containing about 1,000,000 A Catholic priest was sent for, who administered rounds of cartridges. These were placed in the to her the consolations of religion. She was hold, while the deck was loaded with boxes con- still alive at four o’clock p. m. yesterday.—Sav. taining harness and other light articles. On the Jim. so th. night of her sailing, fifty men were taken on ‘ ’ board, lie vessol quietly sailed under the com- The Bailboad Wab. — In former articles on ,,,,,1111 of Capt. Kempton, formerly of the United this subject we expressed the belief that as soon states Navy. She will soon be heard of. ' as the City Council passed the ordinance allow- . vote in the Mexican Congress in favor of ing the Columbia and Augusta Railroad Com- recognizing Cuba beligerency stood one hnn- pany to construct a bridge across the Savannah dred to twelve. Arms have been shipped to and enter the city, that the litigation between Mexican ports intended for Cnba, and letters of that corporation and the Sonth Carolina Rail- jnnrqne will, it is declared, soon be issued. In road Company wonld commence afresh, and the view of this, the patriots are making Btrenuous United States Court would be the scene of war- e ff oz ts to obtain and hold a port on their South- fare. That this opinion was correct was demon- eI n coast. strated on-’Wednesday last by a notice being The Spaniards declare they are putting down served on Mayor Bussell, by Messrs. Gould and the rebellion; bnt it is to-day stronger than at rv-ti 11 CT1 HlA fhirrf ! U Ti /.A Hull, the plaintiff’s attorneys, that on the third an y previous time. It is fast including within of next month an application wonld be made to jtg iimitg all the interior of the island.—New judge Erskine, in the United Steles Court at York Commercial Advertiser. Savannah, for an injunction restraining the city from allowing the Columbia Road to enter the corporate limits of Augusta.—Chronicle and Sentinel. Mb. R. S. Habdaway, commission merchant of St. Louis, and a native of Columbus, Geor gia, died in the former place on the lGth instant, one. A lady, who has a great horror for tobacco, got into a railway carriage the other day, and inquired of a male neighbor, “Do vou chew tobacco, sir?” “No, madam, I don’t,” was the reply, “but I can get you a chew if you want J. It. Rarriclc. There are some sentences that we shrink from writing, yet we are compelled this morning to write “Barrick is dead.” Yesterday morning the words passed from month to month in the city, creating a deep feeling in the hearts of those who henrd them. There were many moist eyes, and sad, solemn countenances, as the in telligence was received among his many devoted friends. So unexpected was it to many, that the news came like a thunder-clap on a clear dear day. Y’et it is solemnly truo. About seven o’clock the life went out of his fragile mortality andreturned to the good God. Never was a more beautiful life ended. Never ended an existence that was more charmingly endowed with all the attri butes of moral, manly and intelligent worth. Never was there one who in a higher degree de veloped those excellent traits of character which endear man to man, and render life something more than the pursuit of an ignis fatuus, or a reckless hunt after the fruits of a selfish ambi tion. Barrick lived a high life—a life of devotion to whatever is true in nature—a life that glori fied the Creator of life by its purity and blame lessness. He walked in great humanity. He was a violet hid away in the crevice of a rock. He was passed daily by hundreds who knew of him and knew his personal worth, and yet were unacquainted with him personally. He was one of those who, to be found, must be sought. He never poshed himself into notice, but, on the contrary, was retiring in his position. He lost no opportunity to do a good deed, or say a word that wonld make mankind do better, or feel better. The lost few years of his life were full of pain. While living then he displayed the most exalted moral heroism. We beliexe that more than once his mind triumphed over the frailty of his body and dragged it back from the gateway of death. He fought a good fight with the grim monster. Time and again the victory was ms, bnt at last —Barrick is dead. We bavo little heart to write of him now. To few men his wealthy nature was opened as it was to the writer of this. We loved him as it is seldom given for man to iove man. At another time, when the feeling of pain that is now in onr hearts shall have relaxed, we may write more of bim and say more than we can say now. To-day we can only join those who monrn for him. We lament him as thongh he were a brother, and in such heaviness as we have not felt in years, we write—“Barrick is dead.” [Atlanta New Era. A little six year old boy was asked by his teacher to write a composition on the subject of water, and the following is the production “Water is good to drink, to swim in, and to skate on, when frozen. When I was a little baby the nurse used to bathe me every morning in water. I have been told that the Injuns don't waBh themselves but once in ten years! I wish I was an Injun!” Scbiten County.—The people of this county are taking steps to rebuild their Court House at Sylvania, which was destroyed daring the war. The new edifioe will be a large and fine one, and is to be oompletcd by October. . Reports from Southwestern Illinois say that the wheat crop is more promising than ever known before, and the fruit crops of every varie ty promise abundance. From the Monroe Advertiser. The wheat crop of Monroe and adjacent coun ties is most flattering to the industry of farm ers. The prospects are that more than an aver age crop will bo harvested. The Weather, etc.—An abundant supply of rain fell during the past week, somewhat retard ing the operations of the planters of Butte, few days of fair weather, however, will bring them well up with their work. The planting season has been an auspicious one, and most of the seed is in tho ground. Cotton has come up unusually well; com do. Wheat and oats, of which a considerable area was sown, promises fairly. The negro who was arrested for the murder of Dr. Ayer was committed to jail one day last week to stand his trial at the next term of the Superior Court. It is reported that tho negroes are more incensed against him than the whites, and would execute him summarily if they had the least encouragement. No doubt rests on the minds of those acquainted with tho facts that the negro Wilson is the murderer. Decline op African Colonization.—The abo lition of slavery in the United States appears, says the Baltimore Son, to have had the effect of lessening even such disposition as there was formerly among the colored portion of the com munity to emigrate to Liberia. Previous to the war and the proclamation of freedom, the Colo nization Society found difficulty often in provi ding adequate conveyance for emigrants, and for a time after peace was declared, the greater part of those applying for passage were from tho far-off slaveholding Southern States. Bnt in the last two years even this demand has fallen off, and for the expedition expected to be dis patched this spring there are less than one hun dred applicants for passage. The fall expedi tion was dispensed with entirely for the want of passengers, and the splendid ship Golconda, be longing to the Colonization Society, and pur chased from the Stevens bequest, was chartered for a voyage to Europe, from which she but re cently returned. She is now in port and will most probably be again sent on a mercantile voyage, the small number desirous of emigra ting to Liberia not justifying the employment of so large and valuable a ship. It is probable, however, that a smaller vessel may be chartered to convey the limited number of applicants to Africa. On the whole, the colonization project just now appears to be on the wane. Chain-Gang vs. Thirty-Nine.—A negro man was caught stealing cotton from a bale on a wagon of which he had charge. He was taken out of the cool atmosphere at once, and had an nounced that he most either take thirty-nine lashes or go to the chain-gang. Darkey swore “’fore God” ’twas the first time he had ever done such a thing, and it would be the last. He begged by all that was holy and profane that they wonld give him thirty-nine and let the mat ter drop. He was informed a white man could not inflict such penalty, and he would have to pay a freedman a dollar to put on the blisters. The free and independent .brother did not have a dollar, but declared if any of the gentlemen wonld stand his security to that amount, he wonld gladly promise it to any freedman who would at once give him the thirty-nine, hot and heavy, and then drop the matter. “’Fore God I’ll do it,” was his continual exclamation. A freedman stood by ready to make the dollar when onr reporter left. ’Whether the castiga tion was given or not we cannot telL—Colum bus Sun. Venice is built on 117 island. The Grand Canal was cat over the flats and makes the Cor- so of the city, or the grand boulevard of Venice. It cuts the city into two equal parte and is ser pentine in its course. From^ these start out a number of small canals, which correspond to streets in other cities. There are 150 small canals; add to these the small roads or streets of the city and the whole amount to 2,480. Reli giously, Venice is divided into thirty parishes, with 100 churches. There aro over 200 squares. The churches and palaces aro built on piles, which number many millions. The canals are crossed by 400 bridges. Yellow hair is now the rage among the girls of the period in New York. The “Golden Hair Dye,” which produces the color, sells at forty dollars a bottle, and it requires two bottles to liroduce it. Owing to the immense number of female fools in ana around the city, the manu facturers of the dye find itimpossible, it is said, to supply the demand. The old blockade runners Fox, Badger and Lark, are undergoing an entire remodelling in Liverpool, and it is surmised that they may yet be heard of in Cuban waters. They are very swift boats, and would be just the land of craft the insurgents would like to possess. The Proposed bridge over East river at New York is estimated to oost $7,000,000, and to re quire six years for its construction. It will be a mile in length. Tbe Dutchman’s Inanrance. A good story is told of a German by the name of Schmidt, who had taken the precaution to insure the life of his wife for $5,000 and his stable for $900, believing the former might die and the latter be burnt, and be oould not get along withont some compensation for the loss. Both policies had been taken from the same agent. In a few months after the stable had been in sured it caught fire and was destroyed. Schmidt quietly notified the agent, and hinted to him that he would expect the nine hundred dollars at the earliest possible moment The agent at once sent a builder to ascertain the cost of erecting a new stable of the same dimensions, having learned that the property had been insured for more than it was worth. The builder reported that he could replace the stable with new mate rial for $500, bnt unfortunately there was an ordinance preventing the erection of frame buildings—the old stable having been of wood. He was asked to estimate ihe cost of a brick stable, and reported the amount at $750. The agent then notified Schmidt that he would build him a new brick stable in place of the old frame one; bnt Schmidt became veiy indignant at the proposition, saying: “I do not understand dis insurance business. I pay you for nine hundred tollar, and when my shtable bum down you make me a new one. I no want a new shtable. I 'want nine hundred tollar.” The agent reasoned with Schmidt, bnt all to no purpose. ’When the stable was about finished, Schmidt went to oonsnlt a lawyer, thinking he might still get tho amount of the policy, besides having the new stable. The lawyer, however, informed him that the company had a right to make good the loss by building a new stable, and expressed surprise that he should talk of bringing suit against them. “But,” said Schmit, “I insure for nine hun dred tollar, and this feller put np dem shtable for seven hundred and fifty—I do not under stand this insurance business.” Finding that the could not -compel the pay ment by law, Schmidt determined to get out of the business altogether. Calling upon the agent, Schmidt said: “Mr. Agent, I want you to shtop dem insur ance on mine fro w. I not pay any more monish dat way. I not understand dis insurance busi ness.” Agent, surprised—“Why, Mr. Schmidt, you are doing a very foolish thing. Y’ou have paid considerable on this policy already, and if your wife should die you will get $5000.” “Yaw, dat ish vat you tell me now,” said Schmidt. “Yen I pays you on my shtable, you say I get nine hundred dollar if it bum down. So it was burnt, and yon not give me my mon ish. You say ‘O, dat vash an old frame shtable —it not wort anything; I made you a brick shtable,’and yon not pay me mine nine hun dred tollars. Ven mine frow dies, den you says to me, ‘0, she vash an an old Dutch wo man. she not wort anyding, I get you a new English wife,’ and so I lose mine five thousand tollars. Yon not fool Schmidt again. I do not understand dis insurance business.” (Exit Schmidt. ■ . . • ,> A woman at one of the city dispensaries ap plied for medical aid, stating her disease to be flirtation of the heart “Not an uncommon ail ment with your sex, ma’am,” said the Doctor, with a twinkle of the eye, but it is not danger ous if the proper remedy is applied." At the last term of the Clay county (Indiana) court, a married couple living in Brazil were di vorced. The divorced wife, resuming her mai den name, went to Terre Haute lost week to re side with her sister. The husband soon after followed, old courtships were renewed, past dif ferences forgotten and forgiven, and among the list of marriage licenses published on Monday last their names appeared. In 1SG-, a yonng man by the name of Sharpe —Jacob Sharpe—afterwards of Columbus,Miss., was reading law with Stephen F. Hale, in Eu- taw. Just after he had finished his coarse and been admitted to the bar, he fell a victim to a severe revival that occurred in the Methodist Church of the town aforesaid. Being a yonng man of brilliant parts and zealous in the work, the work was not over before the older members had Jake well broken in. Scarcely a meeting passed at which Jake was not called on to pray in public; and right well he bore his part One evening, when the interest was at fever heat, and the tears and groans of the mourning multi tude conld be seen and heard on every band, Jake was asked to “lead in prayer.” He com plied, of course; and in the midst of his petition, vociferated: “Oh, Lord! call back thy wander ing sheep. Inspire sinners with a horror of sin. Enable them, we pray, Thee, to present their petitions at the Throne of Grace before they are fsnver hatred by the statute of limitation /” It was sometime afterward ere Jake had heard the last of pleading tho statute of limitation against the sinner.—J[arion Commonwealth. Draining the Lakes. A Lavenworth paper broaches a grand project, by which Chicago proposes to distance all its rivals. A ship canal, one thousand feet broad and sixty feet deep, is to be constructed across the State of Illinois, to some point on the Mis sissippi river, enough below the level of lake Michigan to admit of a steady flow of water into the Mississippi. The following are the results to ensue: The rivor St. Lawrence will become bnt a brook. Niagara Falls will stand a damp wall of rock, if indeed the water does not flow back over them, forced by the tremendous suc tion of Chicago. Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and wilwaukee will be sixty feet above the present high water mark, and millions pf new land will appear in the shallows of the lakes. New York would be nowhere. The largest ves sels in the world would navigate the Mississippi, “and steam tngs of extraordinaiy power”—-we quote the Leavenworth paper- 1 -“would bring sailing vessels from new Orleans to Chicago in four days.” an .Imir. This work will cost $S4,000,000. The money is not yet raised, nor is the survey complete, but as Chicago and Leavenworth have pronounoed in favor of it, it will be accomplished. The Turkish Sultan corresponds regularly in French with several Parisians who were intro duced to him during his western journey in 1867. - "Why will yonng fellows be such fools as to give their sweethearts locks of their hair, when, after marriage, they can help themselves? A Colored woman who recently died in New Bedford, was six feet and one inch in height, and nearly two feet broad across the shoulders. The famous nun Patrocinio has arrived in Paris. She is believed to be nearly as wealthy as Queen Isabella herself. Two Young women, on an average, commit suicide in Paris every day in consequence of dis appointed love, and one man in consequence of pecuniary embarrassments. The question of separating the Siamese twins will soon deoide itself, as Chang is in failing health while Eng is robust and healthy. The only surviving son of Robert Borns is now living at Chittenham, at the age of 77. The Prinoe of Wales is described as “quite bald, rather bloated,” and on the whole jolly. An Imperial Pilobuiaoe.—Napoleon III, who keeps remarkably quiet of late, and whose grow ing rheumatic pains malm him almost sn inva lid, is about to undertake a pilgrimage. He, with all the royal family, is going to Corsica in Au gust, to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of “his uncle's” birthday. This will furnish a chance for a great deal of enthusiasm, fire-works and white wine, both in France and Corsica ; but it is a very charming little fraud, whioh Na poleon I originated himself. The “Little Cor poral” was bom in 1768, but Corsica didn’t be come subject to the French until 1760; so when Napoleon had tbe throne of Charlemagne in prospect, he did just what ladies never do- poet dated his birth-day by one year. But this is only a very faint specimen of the subterfuge* necessary to support imperial rule»-~$w»‘*0> field Republican. ^ v IBHnBUlKftflnHHBl % , \ A' „r. ■ -. /.a • . -v. ' f trrii—

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, May 07, 1869, Image 1