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GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 21. 1869.
Y01. ILIII.-NO. 27
^ i Only IX Tear!
BT EnlE EOWDRE CASTLEN.
. u , 1 & tinv tcWj
itUstcns on the dark, fringed lashes.
..Le iov'a a costly mask to wear; ”
•4 bought with pangs, oft with despair,
Anl uirs lie hidden where it flashes.
. TCS *tis bnt a glist’ning tear,
1 Dat t<Bs of hopeless love long nourished—
M raveut waiting through the drear,
rL], jjrs—of love that cast out fear,
1 juil in the light of hope once flourished.
ndra tear, that tells of wars
A ; ocm’iy's hnsy train is making;
„j’ !0 cannot part—not worldly jars—
Oar hearts will touch for mountain-bars! ’’
jj, en came—the sad awaking.
0# > tiny tear—n. moan
Of soals once led out into beauty:
Cdv a bosom swelling, lone,
f^akai now—its world all gone;
icd left—the clasping knife of duty.
Ode , tear-tkat this dark night
So arm can fold, in warm embraces,
;m j. of despair, fast budding white!
r , 1( , bought with pride, to make the fight.
Anil sent through tears to suffering faces.
0 :,!r a trembling tear! A sigh
fue dread and heavy silence breaking.
Are sighs and tears above yon sky ?
jO,: if I only dared to die;
yes—but, Ob, not God’s forsaking.
Otic a tear—to show that still,
ij jam’s sharp wedge, the heart is riven.
0r> a tear the sad eyes fill,
h sweet obedience to His will. -
Twill bo a’l love in heaven.
Airy 6th. I860.
rom Sumter, Dougherty, Lee, and
Baker.
Albany, Ga., May 18, 1869.
5® -, Ti'trniph: The crops in Sumter
jaw on red lands look well—on gray sandy
®d cold and wet weather has caused cotton to
;e burnt places. About the same condition
crops h Lee. Baker, and Dougherty. Labor
s the above counties is about as could be ex
acted nowadays. Work goes on properly.—
ocoaphist in this respect among planters.
iaaicwU steadily improving and is des-
ssi to Income quite n city. Your agent in
rriens is indefatigable and the various edi
cts of th 1 * paper are popular and much read,
tour list will show.
IBudt was very nearly burnt up since the
the bamt districts have been rebuilt
a >11 branches of trade are flourishing and
pHy increasing in importance. In this city
ere are four or five churches, three or four
od schools, one good college, numbers of pro
mt] gentlemen of distinction as well as
tchants and business men generally, an ex
ist newspaper—Albany News, and two splen-
•1 Hotels where the wants of the inner man
owe proper attention. Dougherty county,,
x what I have seen, will raise com enough
year for its consumption.
Sexton, always a nice, quiet country village,
improving. W. W. Livingston and his ex-
iut wife furnish good entertainment in this
togs to their patrons. Your paper is very
polar in Baker county. Quite a number of
od schools and churches are in Newton and
feral enterprising merchants. Quite a rail-
d fever prevails—public attention especially
*cted to the road from Camilla to intersect
this point, the Bainbridge, Cnthbert and
tumbus Road. Subscriptions are being taken
: the citizens tor building a steamboat to run
this point via the Flint River to Bain-
(. A young lady has subscribed $1000 to
stock. Her name will probably grace the
* steamboat The citizens are sociable, and
osit to this village is always agreeable.
Tbavzlee.
Hiring Labor.
J*y»the Central Georgian, as parties are con-!
yetting into trouble by hiring or decoy
s' 1 * laborers employed by another, we pub-
law on the subject that none may act
It is strange, bnt true, that we as
P^pli are so blinded often by self-interest
entirely forget the interest of ourneigh-
L was wise in our Legislature, therefore,
-1 .-.v in „ur statute books, after the
S' of the labor system. But for its enac-
: ?•> sav, there would have been a
«f affairs in many portions of the
* r " !Q 142» of the Code of Georgia reads
5? Person, by himself or agent, shall be
,H*®ployingthe servant of another, dur-
for which he, she, or they, maybe
SHknowing that such servant was so em-
.jJ’tad that his term of service was not ex-
a any person or persons shall entice,
ye <: t ? r dec °y. any servant to leave his em-
,je«Mr by offering higher wages, or in
"gyvha tever, during the term of ser-
sa ' d servant was so employed,
ioaljL^ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
tKj ® thereof, shall be fined any sum
two hundred dollars, or be con-
sej^ -wnunonjailof the county, in the
aatju, c 1110 ourt, not to exceed three
" !i » easily understood that comment
^„^® er sche Correspondenz,” a semi-
paper published in Berlin, gives
^1 h elp knation res pecting the unex-
4v. ; , r S e number of emigrants who are
J t£c ^ me rican shores this year. “We
tkat journal, “that the unusually
]■<. k ; r " tlon i this year, from various parts
JCrtaa ay to America, is the result—as
j^Pnrrsd by inquiry—of the encourag-
bj home by relatives who have al-
Atlantic and who generally
f i lettere ^th a remittance. The
. e ' ’ Q *h® wisdom and moderation of
ji Vea -'ovemment of the Unite] .States
( 8 great stimulus to emigration this
^*2 Sewabd’s Eldest Son, the Hon.
. wardh as purchased Thurlow
; »ai it rC8t 1116 Commercial Advertiser,
^ol,,l r€poited ’ take 016 editorial chair
d WeU established joumaL
Macon and Augusta Railroad.
MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF AUGUSTA.
From the Chronicle and Sentinel of Friday,
A called meeting of the City Council was held
yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock in the Council
Chamber. It was understood that the object of
the meeting was to hear a communication to be
made to the City Council by Hon. John P. King,
President of the Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company, in relation to the completion of the
Macon and Augusta Railroad.
Present: Alderman Allen, Mayor pro tem;
Aldermen Sibley, Meyer, Tutt, Speath, Gardi
ner, Gargan, Goodrich and Jackson.
Mayor S. H. Cramp, City Recorder, acted as
Clerk of the Council in the absence of Mr. L. T.
Blome. There seemed to be some mistake as to
who had the meeting called, Mr. King"
thinking that it was the City Council which had
some proposition to moke, while Alderman
Jackson said that it was by a request of Judge
King coming tlironght Mr. Peters of Atlanta.
Mr. Kingstatedthat the proposition wasmade to
him by Messrs. Hull, Sherman <fc Co., of New
York, for the completion of the Macon & Augus
ta Railroad. The proposition is, in substance,
as follows: Hull, Sherman & Co. were to take
possession of the entire assets of the road,
amounting to about four hundred end twelve
thousand dollars; they were to have three hun
dred and seventy thousand dollars of the bonds
of the road endorsed by the Georgia Railroad;
and they were to have issued to them stock of
the road amounting to five hundred thousand
dollars, making a total of about one million two
hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars. Mr.
King stated that these were the best terms which
had been offered and he thought it would be
best to accept them, as upon the early comple
tion of the road depended its safety. He review
ed the history of the road for the past few years,
its frequent straggles and failures, and ended
by announcing that though himself and liis di
rectors had been authorized by the Convention
to endorse $370,000 of the bonds of the Macon
road as desired, he would not take this step un
less with the consent of tho City Council; for
the city was the largest stockholder in the road
and he felt that it had morally the right to con
trol the management.
Mr. Sibley asked how much it would take to
build the road to Macon oh a cash basis.
Mr. King thought that it would require six hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
M.. Sibley asked if it would not be better to
raise this amount by the sale of the assets of the
road and complete it for cash than to pay so
! large a price to Hull, Sherman & Co.
j Mr. King thought not. The early completion
j of the road was the object most to be desired,
j and he thought this proposition the best under
i the circumstances. Council, however, might do
| as it thought best in the matter. He was deter-
i mined not to accept the contemplated arrange
ment unless with its consent.
Mr. Gardiner thought that Council had better
inquire whether the present Directors of the
road representing the city were eligible to that
situation.
Mr. King thought this would do no good.
These directors were powerless now. The af
fairs of the road were in the hands of himself
and Mr. Magrath and Mr. Hazlehurst.
Mr. Gardiner said, with all duo deference to
Jndge King, ho did not think this committee
had done much.
Judge King: “If we have done no good,, we
at least have done no harm.”
Mr. Gardinef: “Perhaps,' as you have been
unable to do anything, we can now get a com
mittee who will do some good. . I see by the pa
per this morning that you charged the city yes
terday with being responsible for the present
condition of the road. I do not think it fair to
saddle the present with the errors of a former
CoutlciL I would like to know who is respon
sible for the election of Bullock as President of
the Road.”
Judge King: “ I don’t recollect any such ex
pression as that which you say appears in the
papers; bnt I will state that I am responsible
i for Bullock’s election, and that I have been de
ceived in him. I knew ha was a Radical, bnt
did not know that he was a politician. The af
fairs of the road were in a desperate condition.
Messrs. Hazlehurst and Heard had tried to ex
tricate it, but had not succeeded. I thought
that Bullock would help the company, and had
him made President. I knew nothing of the
condition of the Express Company, bnt simply
chose Bnllock in order to benefit the road.”
Mr. Gardner: “Who elected Conley Presi
dent of this road?”
Mr. King said that he alone, among the
stockholders, opposed his election. He didn't
know whether Conley was a Badical, a fire-eater,
a secessionist, or the devil, for he cared nothing
for politics in railroad matters: but he did not
fliinl.- he was the man for the place, and he
tried to effect his defeat The City Council
elected Mr. Conley.
Mr. Gardiner thought that Judge King had
more to do with his election than any one else.
Ho asked if Mr. Magrath, the President of the
South Carolina Road, had not desired the posi-
tion.
Mr. King again declared that he had opposed
the election of Air. Conley and only voted for
him because he found it impossible to effect his
defeat, and that State aid to the road was ex
pected to bo gained through his (Conley’s) in
fluence. Mr. Magrath had said nothing to him
about running for the office, and if he had run
he would have cheerfully supported him.
Mr. Gardiner said he cared no more about
Conly’s politics than he (Judge King) did; the
interest of the road was what he looked after.
When in Charleston not long since, he was in
formed by Mr. Magrath that (Magrath) would
have run for President of the Road against Con
ley, as he had been solicited to do, if he had not
been discouraged from taking this step by a re
mark of Judge King’s.
■ Jndge King denied this and ended tho argu
ment by declaring for a second time that tho
Council might act as it pleased in the matter,
bnt that he would not accept the proposition of
Hull, Sherman & Co., unless the consent of the
city was obtained. With this remark Mr. King
left the Council Chamber.
The Mayor stated that Mr. King wished an
expression of opinion from the Council ou Ills
proposition.
Mr. Sibley stated that when this proposition
had come up before the Railroad Committee, by
the latter a proposition had been submitted to
Judge King that the Macon and Augusta Road
should issue bonds to the amount of $500,000,
which should be endorsed by the cities of Au
gusta, Macon, Milledgevillo and the Georgia
and South Carolina railroads, bymeansof which
bonds this road could be completed. No answer
had yet been received to the proposition.
Mr. Gardiner moved that the Chairman of the
Railroad Committee be instructed to inform
Judge King that the City Council refused to ac
cede to his proposition. Carried.
Mr. Tutt moved that Judge King be also in
formed that the City Council will agree to the
proposal made him some time since by the Rail
road Committee, relative to the endorsement of
$500,000 of the bonds of the Macon and Angus-.
taRoad. Carried.
Mr. Gardiner asked what steps had been taken
toward calling a convention of the stockholders,
in accordance with the resolution passed by
Council at the last meeting of the Macon Road.
Tho Mayor stated that he had addressed letters
on the subject to the City Council of Macon and
Milledgevillo and the South Carolina and Geor
gia RaSroad Companies.
Facts fob the Ladles.—I have a Wheeler &
Wilson maobine, (No. 280), bought of Mr.
Gardner In 1853, ho having used it a year. I
have used it constantly, in shirt manufacturing
as well as the family sewing sixteen years. My
wife ran it four years and earned between $700
and $800 besides doing her household work.
I have never expended fifty cents on it for re
pairs. It is to-day in the best of order, stitch
ing fine linen bosoms nicely. I started manu
facturing shirts with this machine, and now
have over one hundred of them in use. I have
paid at least $3000, for the stitching done by
old machine and it will do as much now as
W. F. Tayloe.
Jacob Thompson.
Return of the Ex-Confederate Exile—Reception
by Jiis old Neighbors and Friends—His Speech.
From the Oxford (Hitt.) Falcon. May 3d.!
On last Saturday it was definitely ascertained
that our distinguished fellow citizen, Hon. Jacob
Thompson would reach this place on the 7
o’clock p. si. train, and preparations were made
to receive him in a way which would show the
high respect and esteem which our entire people
entertained for him. He had been long in exile
because of his devotion to the best interests of
Mississippi, and every one felt that a becoming
and proper tribute of’ respect should be shown
him. A large crowd of ladies and gentlemen
: were at the depot to receive him, and when the
train arrived and he descended from the cars, a
tremendous otipnr xronk tip from tho assembled
throng, and Professor Stuart’s band struck up
one of their favorite airs. Col. L. Q. C. Lamar,
in behalf of the people, then welcomed the dis-
; tinguished gentleman back to his home in a
speech of great eloquence and feeling, which
was enthusiastically applauded. Hon. Jacob
Thompson, in response, spoke as feliows:
I Col. Lamar, Gentlemen and Ladies: I thank
you for this reception. I especially thank you,
Air. Lamar, for the handsome and eloquent
manner in which you have expressed the feel
ings of those present, in which you have hailed
my return among you and bid me welcome. I
accept it in the spirit in which it was intended.
It is personal and not political. Your kindness
i to me and my wife have indneed you to come
| out to meet ns, and bid us welcome back to our
: old home. By this you show us we are not for
gotten. We feel cheered by it and will continue
i to thank you, and as long as my heart repeats
| its pulsations, so long will this welcome be cher-
i ished in our memory. After the many trials
and disasters through which we have passed,
1 this meeting is truly refreshing, bnt it is sadden-
' ing, aLso. The picture has its dark shades—old
; familiar faces are not here, and they will appear
no more in our midst. Since parted many of
1 our friends have been called to their final ac
count, and you have been left to keep vigil over
their last resting places. Looking into your
; healthful and cheerful countenances, on the one
j hand, and calling to mind those true men who
are gone on the other, my feelings overwhelm
: me and my conflicting emotions can find no voice.
Especially was I touched, CoL Lamar, by your
• reference to the death of our mutual friend,
Gen. Howell Cobb. He was truly a great, good
; and pure man. In all the relations of life, pri
vate andpnblic, in the Legislative Assembly, in
; the Council of State and on the battle-field he
j discharged his whole duty manfully and well.
In making up the jewels’ of the country, his
name will ever appear conspicuous. I felt hon-
• ored in having such a friend, and in being
deemed by him worthy of his confidence. May
the earth rest lightly on his remains, and when
life's struggle is over I hope we may join him in
those realms where there is no more death.
I have come back to see you and talk with
you over the past, the present, and the pros
pect of the future. In this interchange of
' views, of hopes and fears, I hoped and expected
to derive pleasure. I assure you that, though
in my absence I have wandered far, seen and
read a great deal, I have never forgotten you,
your delightful village—clothed all the time,
however, in my imagination, in the weeds of
mourning—and this charming climate. The
g reenest spots in my past life are to be found
ero; and wherever I have been, the desire
with me has ever been the same, that when my
last sun had set and life’s fitful fever was o’er,
my body might here find a resting place. I
went to see the greatest living nations of the
earth, and the countries where the mightiest
people of the past lie buried, and I found plea
sure and instruction in taking a survey of the
whole. Though many valuable lessons were
learned, yet a deep melancholy followed me and
weighed down my spirits. I could never forget
that I was an American citizen, nor cease to
repeat the line of the poet, somewhat para
phrased, America, “with all thy faults, I love
thee still!” At no one time was I tempted to
change my nationality. I was bom on this
soil, and this country is my birthright and
my inheritance; and by no act or deed of mine
did I wish to forfeit it. A man may have
all that money can buy, and be surrounded
by all the luxuries and all the refinements
that taste or appetite can suggest, yet if he has
no country, no place or government, he is poor
indeed. Thus, in my wanderings, I was often
tempted to appropriate to myself the words of
Him, who was more than man, “The foxes have
holes, the birds of the air have nests, but I have
not where to lay my head. ” Though I have en
deavored all my life to live with a conscience
void of offence toward God or man, yet I have
suffered persecutions, but I trust I have borne
them with patience. I have been reviled, but
. I have not reviled again, hoping all things, en
during all things. But here you ask me, and
very pertinently, why I have not returned
among you earlier. This question, you at once
perceive, leads me into the field of politics, into
a review of the action of the government, and
the conduct of its officials. There I am in the
condition of an unfortunate Irishman who was
a sailor on board of a ship at sea, and the Cap
tain ordered him aloft to arrange some part of
the rigging. After reaching a considerable
height on me mainmast, his hold gave way, and
down ho came on deck with a heavy crash. The
Captain, frightened, ran to him, and in sympa
thizing tones said, “Patrick, are you dead ?”
“No.” said Pat, “I am not dead, but I am
speechless!” In Pat’s condition I find myself
at this time in regard to politics and the man
agement of the government for the last four
years—I am speechless.
In the late struggle for self-government wo
went to sea in a hastily constructed boat, which
for four years gallantly bore the buffetings and
beatings of the wind and waves, and finally went
down amid the breakers, attracting the admira
tion of the world. We, the passengers, were
thrown out into the turbulent waters, and have
been gradually picked up and hauled on board
the ship Nationality, where wo are permitted to
breathe and live, but not allowed any lot of em
ployment in sailing the new ship on which we
are’embarked. Few among us can hold office,
a greater number cannot vote. Possibly this is
for the best, and in the end it will prove a great
blessing. You are relieved of all responsibility
in helping to govern the country. Purer and
better and wiser citizens, in their own estima
tion, at least, will freely undertake to discharge
nil the onerous duties of office, and relieve you
from all its anxieties and perplexities. This
state of things, I hope, will result greatly to the
advantage of our community, increasing its
wealth, happiness and security.
While I was in Paris, an intelligent French
man undertook to prove to me that under the
French Empire the people were the freest, hap
piest and most prosperous people in the world,
secure in all personal rights, in the rights of
property, person and reputation, each man al
lowed to pursue happiness in his own way, and
certain of reaping the fruits of his industry. He
was debarred from one right only, and that was
for his good and welfare. He had no voice in
the conduct of pnblic affairs. He could hold no
public meetings, or criticise the acts of the Em
peror or his officials. Hence he was exempt
from all care and anxiety on this head, and con
sequently the Frenchman was a happy man.
Why cannot we in the conquered South, reason
and feel in the same way? Under such circtun-
Btances my opinion is that we ought to imitate,
as practicable, the example of the great King
David. When his child was sick nigh unto
death, he mourned, fasted, prostrated himself
upon the ground and put on sackcloth, but when
tho child died, he arose, washedhimself, put on
gay clothing, and appeared to his attendants
with a cheerful countenance. So, while our con
test lasted, we suffered, fasted, prayed, shed our
blood and spent our treasure freely. Now that
it is over let ns meet the actualities of life with
a brave, cheerful and manly heart, submitting
to the inevitable, and exerting ourselves with
energy to take care of ourselvea and families.
Owing to the institution of slavery which once
obtained among us, our people have been mis
understood ana greatly traduced abroad. Let
us, by industry, skill and economy, reap all the
our prolific soil and genial climate. Let us, by
the practice of virtue and sobriety, and all the
charities of life, disarm all criticism. Let ns
maintain a high standard of education and mor
ality for our youth that they may ‘ be fitted for
all the duties and responsibilities which may by
possibility devolve upon them. Above all, let
ns straggle with a hearty good will to build up
the waste places and secure prosperity and plen
ty to our people. In all ages the God of battle
has made some curious and inexplicable de
cisions. But it is not for us to find out the
reasons which controlled Him. It is ours only
to obey the decision, because from it there is no
appeal. In the late war the power of arms de
cided that we should remain one people, now
and forever. The God of battles decided the
case in favor of Union. Now the true Christian
MMiat justify the ■waya at Gnd to man, »nd there
fore he must say it was wisest and best that the
case should be so decided. From this position
a duty is devolved upon every man. Each in
dividual is bound to contribute his mite to make
this people a great people, strong, happy, pros
perous and glorious. I think we may all
hold the firmest assurance possible in our own
mind that the public conscience in the govern
ing section of the United States will some day
be awakened; that prejudice and uncharitable-
ness and ill will, in the end, will give way to
kindliness and brotherly love; that the heel of
the oppressor will be raised; that our State Gov
ernment will be placed under the influence of
the virtue, tho intelligence, religion and wealth
of the country, and we shall be placed on an
equality with all the other citizens of tho United
States. A great destiny awaits tho people of
America; we ought and we must contribute our
part in working it out. We are not called on to
sacrifice our independence of character, our
honor or our self respect, bnt simply to follow
the plain dictates of duty, and wait, and I feel
as certain as the night succeeds the day, so cer
tain will the Government still need you. Only
be true and faithful to yourselves and to your
whole country, and be prepared to act well your
part when that day arrives. Again, we thank you.
Justice to tbeSoutb.
LESS CBIME IN THE SOUTH THAN IN THE NOBTH.
We call the attention of our readers to the
following candid, liberal and just article from
the New York Times of the 14th instant:
Law and Order in the South.—A strenuous
effort was made in the Anti-Slavery Convention,
on Wednesday, to revive expiring prejudices
concerning the condition of society in the South,
with especial reference to the rights and inter
ests of colored citizens and Northern “loyal
ists.” One of the expelled Georgia legislators
_ was asked whether he considered his life safe
in that State, and he responded that no man’s
life, who stands on the loyal side, is safe in
Georgia outside of the large cities. The ques
tion was pressed in other forms, and always
with a somewhat similar result; the evident
aim being to produce an impression that Ku-
klux and rebels still dominate in the South, and
that the staunch Republican, white or black, is
all the time in jeopardy. Air. Wendell Phil
lips likened the white Southerner to “ the bull
dog that, having been taught for twenty years
to spring at every passer-by, could not change
his nature in a day.” The ladies were equally
ferocious; a colored Mrs. Harper declaring that
“there is no civilized country in the world
where there has been so much murdering as has
been going on recently at the South.” For the
object of these representations we have not far
to seek. A case against Georgia and the unre
constructed States is desired as an excuse for
harsh action, and the story of murder for polit
ical causes is the best that can be concocted for
the purpose.
We are more than skeptical on this subject
We do not believe these tales of wholesale mur
der and oppression, nor do we give credence to
the allegation that “loyalists” are systematical
ly persecuted and hunted down. There was a
time, undoubtedly, when in some localities a
hostile spirit ran high, and when the assertion
of Republican opinion involved more or less
peril; but trustworthy evidence seems to show
that this state of things no longer exists. So far
as we can judge, life and property are quite as
secure at the Sonth as at the North. Taking
population into account, we are convinced that
the percentage of crime is no greater anywhere
in the Sonth, and certainly not in Georgia, than
in the North or West. For every murder com
mitted there we will undertake to find a murder
here. For every outrage that admits of verifi
cation in Georgia,we will trace aparallel outrage
in Indiana or New York. Nay,we are persuaded
that, all things considered, there is less crime in
Virginia,in South Carolina, in Alabama, and even
in Georgia, than in this State or in other parts
of the North. This city can easily supply a
chapter of horrors, of recent date, whioh, by a
parity of reasoning, Southern observers might
cite as proofs of savagery and demoralization.
Such an application of facts would bo unwar
ranted, but it would be not less legitimate than
the endeavor of the Anti-Slavery Society fana
tics to arraign the whole South for the acts of
its criminal class. It is absurd to look for a
greater average of virtue, or greater immunity
from crime, there than wo are contented with
here. What Georgia and its neighbors may
fairly plead is, that, in respect of offences
against person and property, they have nothing
to fear from comparison with Alassachusetts or
Michigan. And this is all we are entitled to
expect.
But we are told the South does not welcome
loud-tongued loyalists as cordially as they think
they should be’welcomed. Mr. Fomev, who
has been spying out the nakedness of the land
in company with a party like unto himself, pub
licly complains that they went about without be
ing worshipped. He does not allege that they
were insulted. He does not pretend that they
had any apprehension as to their personal safety.
He does not deny that homes await all who seek
them with a decent respect for the feelings and
opinions of the present population. But he ob
jects that the entire South did not take him and
his friends at their own valuation, and that it
receives coldly those who go there as professional
politicians, or who insist, when settling, that
they shall be esteemed as the only loyal, the only
righteous members of the community. _ These
objections and complaints are very foolish. In
tho first place, Southern citizens have as good a
right as Northern citizens to choose their com
pany and friends, and may as properly discrim
inate in their welcome to new-comers. In the
next place, the men who go Sonth expecting to
make a business of politics, and who denounce
every one who refuses to vote their ticket, are a
nuisance in any locality, and are not entitled
anywhere to courtesy or consideration.
The Sonth should be judged, not by its feel
ing toward demagogues and adventurers, but
by its treatment of strangers of any nationality
who go there in good faith, prepared to settle
down and become useful citizens. In regard to
this class, we see no reason to doubt that they
are gladly received, or that they share the pro
tection of good laws, administered impartially
and effeettively. There maybe exceptional lo
calities, bnt so there are in the West. Indeed,
the conditions of welcome in Virginia or Geor
gia do not essentially differ from those which
obtain in Kansas or Alinnesota. And the su
premacy of law and order is, as a rale, as well
assured in the one case os in the other.
Prospects of Cotton.
The price and prospects of this great staple,
says the Boston Journal, are of interest to every
merchant and manufacturer. The Northern
States of this Union consume yearly a million
of bales, worth, at present rates, one hundred
and twenty-five million dollars. The price of
cotton affects the value of dry goods and the
cost of other manufactures. The value of cot
ton determines the ability of the South to pay
for our productions, and it contributes more
than a third of our exports and of our means of
paying for foreign goods. Its purchase calls
innuaky for our greenbacks. Its shipment
theapens exchange. Under every aspect it in-
ierests (he mercantile community.
Two years since, England undertook to break
prices, and the planter and the spinner
acquiesced, for the purpose of removing the
cotton tax. The price fall, to fourteen cents a
any machine I have.
Berlin, New York.
Bad Accounts feoji the Wheat in Floyd.—
The Rome Courier of Thursday says:
We exceedingly reget to learn that the rains,
some two weeks since, materially injured both
the wheat and cotton crops throughout this
country. . ‘
The wheat has not spread as it ,would have
done under favorable circumstances, and it is
now “spindling up” with short heads, and th©
indications are that even if it esoapes rust, there
will not be over a half a crop.
The cotton to a large extent is utterly ruined,
and many are plowing it up and planting com
instead.
Connecticut has ratified the fifteenth amend
ment. The House reached a vote Thursday,
and passed the amendment by 126 Republicans
—less than the cost of production after pay
ment of the tax. Some profits were made by
the factory but cotton went abroad through the
cotton season at the low average of twenty cents
a pound, aa low as fifteen in the early part of
the season, as high as twenty-seven after the
planters had sold their crops. The price was
too low to:continue, for most of the negro
women had left the field, and at the lowest point
we venture! to predict a rise to twenty-four
cents a pouad.
Lost year, again, the season was favorable.
Cotton came in early on the Alississippi and its
tributaries, and the price went back to twenty-
one cents. .Again we ventured to predict a rise
to twenty-eight cents, and this has been the rul
ing price a’ the season, and stocks which form
erly rose to a million of bales in Liverpool have
fallen to at out three hundred and sixty thou
sand. The reasons aro now obvious; the great
decline in the fall of 1867 checked production
both in America and Asia. In 1867, the planter
raised little corn, and the price for his cotton
did not suffice to pay for the food and tools he
required, and last year he devoted thirty per
cent, of his land to breadstuffs, and some to peas
or sweet potatoes, and bnt six and a half million
acres to cotton, while the culture of rice and su
gar was also increased.
The rivers of the Southwest were high during
the fall, and under improved prices cotton came
into New Orleans much earlier than the year be
fore, and stocks accumulated, but at other ports
there soon appeared a deficit. The breadth of
land given to cotton was found to be ten per
cent, less than it was in 1867. The receipts
gradually declined, and now it appears that the
amount received to date is less than it was to
this date last year. Meanwhile the English have
held back, and the stock in European mills has
declined and the export has been less in quanti
ty than it was to this period last year, while
stocks show a moderate excess.
The price has now risen to twenty-eight cents,
equivalent to twenty-one cents in gold, which
checks production of cloth, and the manufacture
abroad is checked by the consequent loss of
profits.
While cotton has risen, wool has fallen in
value in Europe. We have cut off the wool of
Australia and La Plata, and thrown it upon
England and Belgium until the fine Alestiza
wool has gone down to sixteen cents, and comes
more or less in competition with cotton. Wool
en goods are sold cheap, and tho sale of cotton
fabrics is affected. The rise of cotton, too, has
given a new stimulus to cotton planting, both
at the South and India, and a new railroad, the
San Panto, has been carried into the elevated
districts of Brazil, more favorable to cotton than
coffee, which is now less thfcn cotton per pound
in value. Last year the rise of prices in the
spring and summer gave a start to cotton which
had been depressed so much by the fall, that
the income of the railways in India was affected,
but now, under the impulse given by the rise, a
large crop has been raised, which comes to mar
ket from February to July, and will reach
Europe between Juno and November. The
shipments from India since February are fif
teen per cent, above those of 1868.
This year we may expect increased crops of
cotton, rice and sugar, and less corn, at the
South. We may reasonably anticipate a diver
sion of at least a million of acres from com to
cotton, and an increased use of guano and other
fertilizers. With a good season we may expect
a crop of three million bales of cotton, in place
of three million six hundred thousand bales, the
average before the war. We might have more,
were it not for the fact that the negro women
have in great part abandoned the plough, and a
strong force is devoted to rice and cane. With
a favorable season we may hope not only for
three million bales of cotton, but also for eighty
thousand tierces of rice and more than two hun
dred thousand hogsheads of sugar.
How will it be with prices ? Last year, al
though the crops were less than before the war,
the aggregate sums realized from rice, cotton
and sugar at the South, after conversion into
gold, exceeded the returns of I860, during the
palmy days of slavery. This year, what may
we expect with increased production? There
may be some decline in rice, as the crop may
exceed our local wants, and is now too high for
export, but in sugar, of which we consume thir
teen hundred million pounds, our crop will,not
supply a fifth of our consumption, and the revolt
in Cnba must sustain Drioes.
How will it be with cotton ? The stocks must
be light, nearly exhausted by July, and this
must, for the present, tend to sustain prices, bnt
by the autumn may we not well anticipate an ac
cession of three hundred thousand bales from
the increased growth in India and Brazil, and at
least half a million bales from our Southern
States? In the face of light stocks and a grow
ing consumption in this country and on the Con
tinent of Europe, an accession of eight hundred
thousand bales might not seriously depress
prices, but there is a new- element to be taken
into account, the promised completion of thd Su
ez Canal in October. This will reduce the pas
sage to France, Spain and England, by propel
lers, through the canal, in place of ships by
the Cape, at least four months. May we not
reasonably expect the cotton of Bombay to
take this route, and will not the effect be to ac
celerate the delivery of India cotton to the man
ufacturer, at least four months, and will not
this be equivalent to adding for the first year
one-third to the deliveries from India, say six
hundred thousand bales ? An accession of four
teen hundred thousand bales must, of course,
depress prices. If our anticipations are real
ized, we shall begin to feel the effect of the in*
crease by November, and may well expect to
see cotton decline below twenty-two cents by the
close of the year, and take at least a twelve-
month to recover.
\Ye do not look for the prices of 1S60—they
cannot well be anticipated; bnt the coining win
ter will subject cotton to a new ordeaL
An Enteepbisixo JKetobteb.—The New York
Sun tells this story:
Some years ago “the New York newspapers
had correspondents with the Prince of Wales's
party at a great ball in Montreal, and the Her
ald man, having determined to out-general his
contemporaries, engaged the wires early in the
evening; bnt to hold them, he must keep the
telegraphers busy. So he put the Book of Gene
sis on the operator’s desk, and bade him tele
graph until further orders. The correspondent
went to the great ball, made his report and re
turned to the telegraph office at about 1 a. m.,
when, sliding his report in over the Bible he in
structed the operator to “keep right on.” His
brethren of the press waited and swore, and
cursed and waited until 2J o’clock, when—the
Herald correspondent’s dispatch having been
completed, and it being then too late for the
Tribune, Times, and Sun correspondents—the
Herald man naively said, ‘Gentlemen, the tele
graph is yours.’”
The Condition of the Sonth.
General Tochman, of North Carolina, a na
tive of Poland, but long a resident of the Sonth,
delivered an interesting address before the New
York Fruit-Growers’ Club on Thursday after
noon, 6th instant. He said that the exports of
the Sonth are larger than those of the North,
East and West combined; this was so before
the war, and is so now. The war has impover
ished the people, but has not changed the cli
mate nor destroyed the fertility of the soil. He
would read from the report for 1867 of the Sta
tistical Bureau at Washington, that the popula
tion of the Southern States for that year was
9,668,709, while their exports were $328,406,
757. The.population of all'the other States in
pmmd, and the planter realixe™ ^ rive^
A New York letter-says all business is drag
ging, and those who worried through the winter,
relying upon-the “good timM coming in the
spring,” nave not realized their anticipations,
and it will be a straggle for many a well-to-do
tradesman to keep even until the good time
promised in the fall.
The Federal Union suggests the erection of a
monument at Milledgevifie, to the memory of
the lamented Gen. George Doles.
, -pOASJSi hence, while the Southern States
had but twenty-eignr—pc. *i lo
population, they furnished sixty-nine per cent,
of the total value of exports, or $34 and 32 cents
per head; while the pro rata share in the other
States is bnt $25 and 75 cents. This is not ac
cidental or an isolated instance. The same dif
ference has been maintained since the begin
ning of the Government. Before the war, in
18C0, according to the United States census
taken in that year, the population of the South
ern States was 10,259,007; of all the other
States, 21,185,963. The average amount of
com raised per head in the Sonth was 53 2-100
bushels; in the Northern and Western States
only 1!) bushels.
After the war, in the year 18GG, the popula
tion of the South had decreased to 9,560,709;
and yet, while yet, while one half of their new
ly-made “fellow-citizens of African descent” re
fused to .work, expecting each the gift of land
and mules from the Federal Government, the
average yield of com for each inhabitant, white
and black, of the Sonth, was thirty-three one-
half bushels. The population of the Northern
States in the same year was twenty-four bushels.
These figures are based upon the census of I860
and upon tho reports of the Statistical Bureau
at Washington. This can bo attributed to other
cause than the geniality of climate and greater
productiveness of the soiL Some may consider
this view wrong, and reply that the larger sur
plus in the Sonth results from the fact that the
consumption is less, and that tho farmers of
other States consume more of their products.
This is true, but it only proves what he would
demonstrate. The Northern farmer consumes
only during the one hundred days of winter, and
produces nothing, while during’ the same time
even tho Southern fanner produces more than
he consumes. And this is one of the additional
reasons why labor is better remunerated in the
Sonth. ’ :. .
Tlie Xetv Ontcry Against the South.
From the Few York Times, of the loth,]
The Washington Chronicle, and other of the
more ultra of the Radical Press, are trying to
find excuses for Executive and Congressional
interference in the affairs of the Southern
States. The Tribune insists that “the situation
in Georgia is grays enough to warrant prompt
investigation;” and its co-laborer at Washing
ton will have it that there is still “no more im
portant question than that of the future condi
tion of the late rebellious Stales.” What these
journals desire the Government to do, they do
not clearly explain. The Tribune wants “in
vestigation,” but into what, concerning what,
under what authority, or with what object, it
does not specifically telL So, again, the Chron
icle demands that “the ascendency of the loyal
people” shall be preserved, and the machina
tions of “a reactionary party” frustrated, bnt
the means to be employed, or the authority
under which the Executive should interfere, it
fails to indicate.
The object of the Tribune in directing the
volume of Radical wrath to Georgia may be
conjectured. It is on the lookout for causes of
quarrel with that State, with tho view of reopen
ing the status of its reconstruction when Con
gress reassembles. The steady progress of the
State toward regular, and prosperous industry is
not denied. The efforts it is making to attract
foreign population and the cordial reception
given to all who go there in an honestsearch for
homes are facts not to be gainsaid. Bnt the
Bullock party want a monopoly of all the offices
and of the Legislature iu the bargain, and they
know that their only chance lies in a forcible
upsetting of the present order of things and
their installation by Federal order and under
Federal manipulation. They caused the fifteenth
amendment to be rejected in order that North
ern indignation might be excited against tho
State. And, having failed to win the sympathy
of Congress, they are concocting bugaboo stories
of outrage and persecution and danger to “loy
al” interests, in defiance alike of fact and pro
bability. The Tribune seems to be enlisted in
their service,
Tho Washington oracle takes a wider aim. It
objects, not to Georgia particularly, but to the
whole South; and it urges a policy which would
end in ripening reconstruction—undoing what
'has been done and multiplying obstacles to tho
completion of what remains unfinished. It as
sumes that the authority which forced through
reconstruction in the first instance is at liberty
to do as it pleases with the entire Sonth. To
prevent “reaction” and to secure “loyal as*
cendancy,” the Government may—according to
the Chronicle—throw the South back into an
archy and enact whatever fresh conditions it
deems necessary for the furtherance of a “loyal
policy.” The proposition is too monstrous’to
be entitled to serious discussion. Its promulga
tion, however, is worthy of mention, as an illus
tration of the madness of partisanship, and a
key to the invention of Southern outrages.
There are Southern newspapers which suggest
that much of this new born ferocity is traceable
to a bear-game* in real estate speculation, with
which a recent traveling party is said to be
identified; bnt before accepting this construct
tion of the new outburst of violence, we await
further evidence.
How “Dixie” Became the “Marseil
laise” of the Sonth Daring the War.
In the first place, the; song and chorus of
“Dixie” was composed and arranged by Dan.
Emmet, a member of a traveling minstrel party,
who, while at Mobile, in the winter of 1857-8,
heard some negro labores singing on the levee
while loading a steamboat with cotton. The
thought struck Dan. that, with a little change
of measure, it could be made a good song and
“walk around,” which generally winds up a ne
gro minstrel concert. Dan. arranged it and
produced it. It became a success, and was sung
and played all over the country by all the bands.
In the Spring of 1861, Airs. John Wood came
to New Orleans to play an engagement at the
Varieties Theatre. During the time she ap
peared in Brougham’s burlesque of ‘‘Pocahon
tas.” At the first rehearsal of the piece every
thing went w6ll till near the dose of the second
act. Tom McDonough, (now agent for the
Leffingwells,) the prompter, got up a Zouave
march and drill by twenty-two ladies, led by
Susan Denin. Everything ran smooth, bnt the
music for the march could not be fixed upon.
Carlo Patti was leader of the orchestra, and he
tried several marches, but none suited McDon
ough : one was too slow, another was too tame,
and another not enough of spirit. At length
Patti struck up the negro air of ‘(Dixie.” “That
will do, Patti—the very thing,” said Tom, and
“Dixie” was played and the inarch gone through
with, And the chorus by all the characters. At
night it received a double encore, and “Poca
hontas” had a “run,” and from that time the
streets and parlors rang with “Dixie.” The war
broke out that spring, and the military bands
took it up, and “Dixie” became to the South
what the Marsellaise hymn was to the French.
And that is how it became the popular song of
the South.—Memphis Post.
The Cotton Trade.
The position of the cotton and cotton goods
trade (says the New York Shipping and Com
mercial List of the 15th instant) nas undergone
no essential change for- the better, on either
side of the Atlantio, during the last month.—
There has bean a slight shading in prioes of the
raw staple, but the decline has not kept pace
with the fall in goods, and hence there is con
tinued complaint from manufacturers of a lack
of profits, and a general feeling of uneasiness.
Stocks of cotton are everywhere below last year,
while the supplies of goods are larger, though
the production. of- the latter in England has
lately been curtailed to the extent of twenty per
cent. The production of goods, on this side of
the Atlantic, has not thus far been lessened to
any appreciable extent, thongh it is evident that,
unless the present depression and apathy in the
market shall give place to a better tone, an
abridgement of the honrs of labor will be forced
mipn the mill owners, as it been on the
other iriantip In rtifa way.
accumulated stocks reayBe wi*m ,
proper marginbetween the cost of theraw staple
and the value of_ the manufactures restored.
The state of trade’in this country, bad as it is,
is not so disheartening, apparently, as it is in
England. Wo have had no such accounts of re
duced wages of operatives, improvident strikes,
and general paralysis, from our own manufac
turing districts, as we have received from Eng
land during the last two or three months, ac
companied by heavy failures. The falling off
of 40,S07,000 pounds of yam, and 61,416.000
yards of goods exported from England during
the first quarter of the current year, compared
with the same period in 1868, will go far to
explain the present distress among the Lanca
shire spinners. From the present outlook, it
does not seem likely that present prices of either
cotton or goods will undergo any marked change,
until such time as a better idea can be formed
with regard to the probable supplies of the raw
staple for the next year, when the market will
probably be subjected to a new ordeaL
As it is necessary in England to ran the mills
fall time in order to realize a profit, the losses
to the manufacturers, in consequence of the
short time movement, which has been forced
upon them by deficient supplies of cotton, must
be estimated by scores of millions of dollars;
while to the operatives the losses and privations
are even more serious. This state of affairs,
naturally, has tho effect to renew the exertions
of the Manchester Cotton Supply Association to
stimulate increased supplies in the new sources,
and this they are doing by the extension of
railways in India, and the employment of in
creased capital there and in every other country
where the staple can be raised.
From the views and efforts of the English cap
italists to obtain supplies from other sources be- •
sides .the United States, onr countrymen will un
derstand the necessity of lending every exertion
to secure at least a share of the profitable trade
in which they formerly enjoyed a monopoly. It
is for our planters and capitalists to consider
how this great end may be best affected. It is ,
evident that labor must be more thoroughly or
ganized iu the South, and that the essentials of
perfect order must bo secured in order to at
tract capital to that section. Every considers- .
tion of sound policy and statesmanship demands
that no effort should be spared to recover our .
prestige in the cotton trade.
A Sitka correspondent thus describes Alas-
seenery; “Take one big mountain, covered
with trees from the base nearly to the summit,
with an undergrowth of brash, briars and moss,
almost impassable; multiply the one by ten
thousand, and yon have Alaska. There is a ter
rible sameness. One singular feature of this
mass of forest is the absence of birds. I have
seen but one robin in Sitka.”
Rohe Postofitce.'—The Rome Courier says,
we are in possession of the following facts in
regard to the Rome Postoffice:
The Rev. J. H. Caldwell made application to
have his brother, Rev. A. W. Caldwell, ap
pointed Postmaster at this place. The Presi
dent put his name in nomination. As soon as
Air. A. W. Caldwell heard'of it he wrote his
brother that he could not, and would not, take
the oath, unless his disabilities were removed.
His brother then withdrew his name, and put
the Rev. "Wesley Prettyman's name in nomina
tion, who was appointed Postmaster; but Pret-
tyman preferring tho Marietta office, asked to
be appointed to that office, which was granted,
P. AL Sheibly then applied and received ihe ap
pointment at this place, and we presume will
take charge of the office on his return from
Washington. ■ 1 . •
Jno. M. Carroll has been appointed Postmas
ter at Cave Spring, vice Simeon Hammell, re
moved. ■ ..•>
A Foreigneb’s Account of an Election is
South Carolina.—The Washington correspon
dent of the Baltimore Gazette, writing to that
journal under date of the 14 instant, savs :
I met to-day, at Willard's two Nova Scotians,
who have been spending the Winter at Aiken,
South Carolina, which is becoming quite a re
sort for persons afflicted with pulmonary dis
eases. They came North via Richmond, and re
port the crop generally along the route as in a
flourishing condition. They were full of sym
pathy for the Southern people, whose unhappy '
condition strikes them the more forcibly from,
the freedom they enjoy at home under the Brit
ish flag. They spoke of an election they wit
nessed, where day after day the Conservatives
had a majority, and the polls were kept .open
for three days, until negroes could be’ brought
from the country around for a distance of twen
ty miles to obtain a Radical majority. What is
the use of suffrage to the Southern people, they
asked, if elections are to be conducted in this,
way ? _ ;
From Putnam Comity.
We clip the following items from the Eaton-
ton Press and Messenger of the 18th instant:
The Crops.—The crops generally in this sec
tion are looking well, though, on account of the.
cool weather, are not growing so rapidly as is
dasnecl, or as fast as they would have grown had.
the weather continued warmer. The indications
are now good for favorable growing weather,
which we are satisfied will please our farming
friends through the country, ,
Rain.—On Wednesday night last we had a
very heavy rain, whioh came in good time foe .
our’farmers. Since then the weather has been
quite cool, _ making it •< necessary, for those who
had laid aside their winter suits to don them
again. .. , r .
Rust on Wheat.—We have been informed by
friends from the country, that the rast has made
its appearance on some of the wheat in this
county, but whether to an extent likely to dam
age the crop, we could not learn. Would it not
be well for those who have wheat with rust to
try what virtue there is in salt ? It is said that
salt water applied to wheat badly mated, will
effect a cure. Let some of our friends try it
and report, for the benefit of others..
Grass.—The guano, it has been said, is push
ing the grass ahead very rapidly this season, and
we fear some of our planting friends, who have
put in large crops, will find it harder to keep np
than they had anticipated; but now is the time
to kill it, and we hope they will all succeed is
keeping it under.
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Gold in Northeastern Georgia.
The Air Line Eagle of the 14th, says:
While at Cleveland last week, we had the
pleasure of meeting Captain Samuel N. Boa-
worth, of the Nacoochee mines, and were shown
by him another nngget of gold washed out of
one of his mines a few days previous, weighing
137J dwts. It was oblong and cone-shaped,.and
one of the handsomest slugs of the precious
metal we ever beheld. A few days before we
saw the Captain, four of his hands washed out,
in one day, over 400 dwts. The Captain is us
ing Hydraulic Pipes for washing, and is now en
gaged in investigating the extent of the rich de
posits with a view to opening the veins; but as
long ag these deposits continue to yield as they
have dime since he has had charge of them, no
better mines could be desired.
A large proportion of the gold obtained from
these mines is coarse, ranging from 5 to 40 dwts.,
and not unfrequently pieces are found weighing
from 200 to 300 dwts.
Captain Bos worth, the Superintendent, is not
only a gentleman of culture, but a practical mi
ner of experience and rare judgment j and his
selection is not only fortunate for the company
he represents, but also for our own section in
directing attention to its rich tad undeveloped
mineral resources.
Mis
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