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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, MAY.21, 1869.
Augueta and Hartwell Railroad.
A Convention of corpora tors and subscribers
to the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad Company
was held in Augusta last Thursday, Hon. Eli
Lockhart, of Lincoln, in the chair and James A.
Gray, Secretary. The charter was read and ac
cepted, and the corporators named therein were
appointed a Provisional Hoard of Directors to
whom were added Messrs. H. P. Russell, R. H.
May, James T. Gardiner, and James A. Gray,
of Augusta. R. L. Casey, was elected President
of the Company, H. F. Russell, Vice President,
and James A. Gray, Secretary and Treasurer.
Books of subscription were ordered to be opened
in the counties of Columbia, Lincoln, Elbert,
and Hart, and in the city of Augusta, and each
member of the Provisional Board was authorized
to receive subscriptions. This road will be up
wards of eighty miles long, and pursue a course
nearly parallel with that of the Savannah River
above Augusta. It will give the counties named
an outlet to market, while at present they have
no better than wagon road and navigation by
flatboat down the river to Augusta.
The Cange of the War.
Once in a while the Northern Radicals let out
by accident an honest admission in relation to
the rebellion, so-called. Butler, the other day,
was delivering his views upon the Alabama
claims, and thus spake:
May we not well say that she (Great Britain)
had left us a legacy of slavery which being in
terwoven in the industrial pursuits of almost
one-half of ****£«*£&
ft 1 iJtraul %er°emp5re it was only an incident of
her colonial wealth. She then set us the exam
ple of emancipation, as she conld easily do with
out danger to her Government. She taught us
that slavery was wrong and emancipation and
freedom only right. After our Government had
fully accepted these vieics to such an extent that
a large portion of our people, becoming fearful
for tchat they considered their constitutional
rights, and tchat they held as their most valuable
property vcould be destroyed under our Govern-
■ment, rebelled to sate it, and instituted war. At
once, at the earliest possible moment, she led
the way to sustain them in that rebellion, and
aided to set up that slavery which she had de
clared a national sin and taught us was so.
Here, you observe, Butler distinctly admits
all the South ever claimed in her own defence,
io-wit: that the government had assumed a po
sition fatally hostile to the constitutional and
property rights of the Southern States, and the
latter seceded strictly in self-defence; and yet
no man was more furious over the Southern
“ traitors and rebels ” than Butler, when upon
his own premises they wore as justifiable as any
man who draws pistol against highwayman.
Forney says it is wonderful that the Southern
people are so insensible to the guilt of the re
bellion. Vie have only to say, the Northern
States would have been in arms against the
government had it proposed to do them the
tenth of the mischief that the Northern States
proposed to do the Sonth.
All Pacific—Motley’s Instructions.
The Washington correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier writes on the Sth, that the charac
teristic reticence of the President has been
adopted in relation to Cabinet proceedings, and
nothing is allowed to leak out; but it is certain
that the course which Mr. Minister'Motley has
been directed to take is such as to invoke no
danger even of a piquant diplomatic correspon
dence between him and Lord Clarendon. Mr.
Motley will in his interviews talk of everything
else than the Alabama claims and the Sumner
logic, and the new diplomatic epoch which Mr.
Sumner’s speech is believed to have opened.
It is now certain, that in the opinion of the ad
ministration, no_ trouble with England will grow
out of Mr. Motley’s mission and instructions.
It is well that it is so, for some judicious per
sons, who know Mr. Motley very intimately,
have expressed the opinion that he is not well
suited by temper and tact for a critical and irri
tating negotiation.
The letter closes with the following paragraph:
Commercial men have lately felt some anxiety
in relation to the continuance of peace between
us and foreign nations, and also of peace in
Europe. They have, in reply to inquiries mode
here, been advised from the highest sources of
information, that there will be no trouble with
England, and probably none with Spain, if the
latter power shonld continue to treat our just
representations in the same friendly and liberal
manner as she has lately done.
Deafli of Elder Cleaveland.
We are pained to learn that our old friend,
Elder Washington C. Cleaveland, died in Craw
ford connty last Saturday. He was a man who
will be much missed by his friends and his fel
low citizens—a man of great physical and men
tal energy—sound judgment—warm heart—lib
eral hand—clear head—a friend to the afflicted
and suffering—a pious, conscientious and ex
cellent man every way, and a preacher of much
consideration in his religious connection.—
We grieve that we shall see him no more.
Neobo is the Sunday-Schools.—It will be
seen that the irresistible Sambo has broke ont
badly in the Washington Sunday-schools, and
spoilt the May day celebration by insisting on a
mixture of colors. Sambo is on the high horse
and Grant and Creswell behind him. The Presi
dent is evidently going “to fight it out on this
line,” but why he don’t entertain the African-
ions sociably at the White House, and receive
them at his levees, is a question.
* What is Sauce fob the Goose Should be
Sauce fob the Gander.—The Washington Ha-
tConal Republican, says: “It is rumored that the
President has determined upon the nomination
of suitable colored men to responsible positions
in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago,
and other cities, in order to offset the appoint
ment of negroes in the Sonth, prevent the ap
pearance of harsh and individious treatment of
Southern whites, and also, as a proper conces
sion to and encouragement of intelligent North
ern colored men.”
Elections in Indiana.—The result of the city
elections in this State, on Tuesday last, gives
healthy evidence that a reaction is going on in
the public mind. The Democrats carry La
fayette, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, Logansport,
Michigan City, Madison, New Albany and Jeffer
sonville. The result in Fafoyetto and Terre
Haute is a great triumph, and the victory in
each place is most decided.
Wheat in Tennessee.—The Nashville Banner
says the prospect is favorable in Tennessee,
Ibis summer, for the most bountiful harvest of
wheat ever known in this section. From one
end of the State to the other our exchanges
bring the most encouraging report. Hereabouts
farmers are backward with other crops, owing
to the unfavorable weather leaving the soil in
almost unmanageable condition.
The womea of Hartford propose a public
meeting to consider the existing state of things
in reward to housekeepers and servant girls.
An article in the Courant signed “A lady,” says
that we “have arrived at a crisis,” andthat“the
exorbitant ways, the impertinent exactions, and
the toplof deal manners of our servant girls de
mand serious consideration. ’ ’
Eatk 330 Afpbentices.—Moses Williams (col
ored) was before Justice Olin yesterday morn
ing, charged with enticing apprentices from the
employ of Jas. T. Fleming. He was bound over
m the sum of if200 for his appearance at the
next term of the Superior Court.-Constioution-
aUst.
The Augusta Railway Meetings.
Augusta has been crowded, during the early
days of the current week, with the stockholders
of her railways and their families, who, owing
to the hospitality of the good people of that
city, have been able to mix up business and
pleasure—fetes and finances—in a very agree
able way. Let us note a few facts developed
by these reports and meetings which strike us as
interesting.
The first of these will refer to the Georgia
Railroad. This road has the name of being a
slow concern among the faster railway magnates
of the day, and yet its exhibition is extremely
satisfactory. We refer to a brief abstract from
the President’s report, which will be found on
the first page of this daily edition of the Tele-
gbath. It will be seen that the gross receipts
of the road are $100,797 38 in excess of those
of 18C8, and the netineome, $83,542 60 greater.
With these results the President compares the
returns of connecting railroads which show for
the same period a falling off in their gross re
ceipts as follows: Georgia Central Railroad,
$212,226 57; Southwestern Railroad, $86,408
91; Western & Atlantio Railroad, $329,584 11;
Macon & Western Railroad, $83,972 86; Atlan
ta & West Point Railroad, $40,405 73, and the
South Carolina Railroad. $21,044 61.
It will also be observed that, although the car
riage of cotton on this road has sunk from 544,-
363 bales in 1860 down to 104,373 bales for the
year ending April 1, 1869, the gross receipts
from freights were $35,852 and the nett receipts
$13,781 greater than in the year 1860. The dif
ference seems to have been made np in great
part by the enormous transportation of grain;
for while this road- in ifinn. —vmiy oZ3,241
bushels of grain, in 1869 its grain freight run up
to 1,407,326 bushels.
This is a terrible exhibit for the country, and
we suppose the contrast in the bacon freights
would be quite as great if we knew them. To
look at these items in the business of the
Georgia Railroad alone, would justify the most
gloomy conclusions about the condition and
prospects of that portion of the State. The cot
ton crop—the only great article of exportation
—knocked down four-fifths, and the grain (prin
cipally Western com) freights increased in
about a similar ratio!
We should say such a country was on the
high road to ruin; and in truth, though other
facts would very materially relieve the situation,
yet it cannot be a good one. No agricultural
country can prosper which imports its bread and
meat. It is bound to be poor, and the same
figures give a hint of the difference in the
pecuniary situation in the country tributary to
the Georgia Railroad. In 1869 the number of
barrels of flour carried by the road was 12,530,
while in 1860 it was 43,989. True, it may be
that more wheat was raised or more manufac
tured from imported grain, but the chances are
that less flour was eaten.
In respect to the Macon and Augusta Rail
road, which is treated as a branch of the Geor
gia Road, we are glad to see that President
King says he is informed the Road will be vig
orously prosecuted to Macon, and we hope,
therefore, the report that he has sold out this
enterprise has no foundation in fact. The
showing it makes is not discouraging for a short
work, in a condition which places its trade sub
stantially at the mercy of a competitor.
From MItclioIl Connty—Camilla, Al
bany and Thomusville Rond.
Camilla, Mitchell Co., Ga., May 12, 1869.
Editors Telegraph : Wheat, rye and oats look
finely in this connty. Com has been planted a
second time and is from knee to waist high.
Cotton has been worked first time, and some
second time, and look3 well for this season.
Labor, both white and black, is abundant. The
best of feeling prevails between planters and la
borers. Our fat, jolly friend, Joel F. Butler,
has had with him eight or nine freedmen for
two years, who came to him seventy-five miles,
and they say they have never done so well as since
they came to Mitchell connty, and were never
so well treated before.
Hogs and stock of all kinds are plentiful.
The fact there is not a criminal in jail, and
has not been for two years, speaks well for this
people. Everybody here is busy; and a more
polite, sociable and agreeable people never lived
anywhere. He who conducts himself as a gen
tleman is so treated. If he wishes a fight he
can get it, as he can all over the world.
Camilla is improving rapidly, and by Novem
ber next the South Georgia and Florida Rail
road, from Thomasville, will reach here.—
Fifteen miles are graded and superstructure
laid and waiting for iron. The bridge over the
Ocklockonnee river is ready to be put np. In
thirty days this fifteen miles will be in running
order, and only seventeen miles remain to be
built, and that is under contract.
Everybody is moving to build this road, and
our friend Butler is chief in the enterprise.—
The distance from Camilla to Newton, Baker
county, is twelve miles. Mitchell and Baker
counties are subscribing money to build a road
from here to Newton and Cuthbert, connecting
the Cuthbert, Columbus and Bainbridge Rail
road with the Sonth Georgia and -Florida Rail
road. One hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars was subscribed in one day to this road.
Camilla has ten stores, a school, two churches,
and three or four business houses building. J.
B. Butler entertains the public—to look at him,
one knows he lives well, and likes the good
things of this life. Mrs. Butler is one of the
best of landladies, full of energy and desire to
please and accommodate her guests. This good
couple are bound to succeed. There is no reg
ular hotel here; the citizens take care of all vis
itors. Our friends, J. M. Burtz, Dr. Wade, C.
Cox, and Mr. Byrd, all give evidence, in their
personal appearance, that all who stop with
them wjll be rested in the morning, and never
hungry. Our friend, M. F. Brimberry, though
small in size, is a “live man,” and when a man is
to be fed or well slept, Brimberry is hard to
beat. His large ideas, and whole-souled man
ner makes every one feel happy and easy. It
is a great pleasure to come here and mingle with
these people.
Superior Court is in session, Hon. J. M. Clark
presiding, who is a good Judge and much liked
by everybody. There is nothing of interest be
fore this Court. A number of legal gentlemen
are in attendance; among them, from your city,
are S. D. Irvin, Esq., and Hon. R. F. Lyon;
Messrs. Harvey, from Newton; Hammond and
Parkhill, from Fort Valley; Major Ely, P. J.
Strozier, Wright, Smith & Hobb, from Albany;
CoL C. W. Styles, of the Albany News; from
Thomasville, Maj. Hardaway, President of the
Sonth Georgia and Florida Railroad Company,
Spencer & Wright; from Bainbridge, Col. R.
Sims, McGill, Gurley, Bower, Fleming, J. C.
Rutherford and CoL R. H. Whiteley, Solicitor
GeneraL Court will last but a few days.
Tbaveleb.
Grave Charges Against a Savannah
Merchant.
For the past two days, says the Savannah
News of the 11th instant, there have been nu
merous reports afloat in the city reflecting upon
the character of Mr. Wm. F. Brantley, who,
ever since his return here after the close of the
war, has enjoyed the confidence and esteem of
all who have had dealings 'with bim. Many of
the reports we know to be without foundation,
but enough is known, however, to say that ho
left the city suddenly, owing many persons va
rious sums of money and not letting anyone
know of his departure nor his intentions. His
alleged defalcations amount to about $10,000,
BRUNSWICK.
The Brunswick Appeal of the 8th instant con
tains part of an address to the Memphis Com
mercial Convention to be held on the 18th inst.,
from Hon. James Houston, Mayor of the city,
in which he sets forth the advantages of that
port as the Atlantic terminus of the Southern
Pacific Railroad. Mr. Houston proposes to use
the contemplated Brunswick and Albany road,
and to run from Albany to Eufaula, and thence
to Montgomery, where the road will connect
with the entire railway system of the South and
West,
Of Brunswick he says:
The first great natural advantage is the depth
of water on the Bar and the Harbor of Bruns
wick. The Bar affords from seventeen to eigh
teen feet at ordinary low water, and from twen
ty-three to twenty-four feet at ordinary high
water. I speak of the average rise and fall of
the tides. The extreme rise on spring tides
gives from twenty-four to twenty-seven feet—a
sufficient depth to admit the largest vessels that
are afloat. The channel over the Bar is wide,
straight and plainly marked, and the entrance
easy and perfectly safe during the severest
gales. This depth of water is, indeed, a great
and decided advantage, and will certainly have its
legitimate effect in determining the location of
the Atlantio terminus of the Pacific road.
To see and fully appreciate the force of this
advantage, we have only to compare the depth
of water with that found at other points. It is
far superior to that of New Orleans, Mobile, Sa
vannah, Charleston, or any other prominent
point on the Gulf or Atlantic coast South of Nor
folk, and about equal to that of New York. An
important consideration, in connection with this
advantage, is the fact that every vessel that ctn
cross the bar, can sail immediately np to and dis
charge the entire cargo on the wharves that will
line the harbor. No vessel will ever be forced
to submit to the heaw unnatural expense
-<• l.-gLiterago and tonnage, to which all vessels
of heavy draft are subject at Savannah, andsome
other points. Neither will the passengers, even
those on the largest ocean steamers, to say noth
ing of those on the small ones running to New
York, ever be subjected to the delay, imjntience
and vexation, resulting from being forced to
wait for the tide for several hours, withii sight
of the city, as some of you have, no doubt, ex
perienced in the river at Savannah. i
The second great advantage is the harbor,
which is, indeed, one of the best on th< globe.
It is in the form of a crescent, completely land
locked, perfectly secure during the mosl violent
gales, and sufficiently capacious to affoid anch
orage to the combined fleets of the world. It is
no little narrow contracted stream or basin; but
a broad and beautiful expanse of water, as salt
and as pure as the briny ocean itself.
The third great advantage is, the beauty and
healthfulness of the location. There is not a
more beautiful, or a more healthy location for
a large city to be found in this, or any other
country. The city is situated on a high and
dry point of land, covered by a beautiful and
magnificent growth of Live Oak and other tim
ber, and is surrounded on all sides by extensive
bodies of salt water and salt marsh, and the air
is, consequently, most pure and bracing. The
city lies within full view, and is perfectly open
to the broad and majestic Atlantic, whose surf,
during the still hours of the night lulls ex
hausted nature to a calm and peaceful repose.
The sea breeze, which is regularly and con
stantly wafted in, so tempers the heat during
the summer months that it is delightfully and
surpassingly cool and pleasant
There is no fresh water in the vicinity of
Brunswick, and comparatively none within
several miles, andnot a sufficient quantity, with
in twelve or fifteen miles, to produce the least
miasma; and she must, therefore, remain for
all time to come, as she has hitherto been, re
markably healthy. Disease can never generate
in air so pure as that found at Brunswick. Yel
low fever, that great scourge and terror of the
South, can never exist at Brunswick. During _
the awful visitations of the years 1854 and 1855, ’
not a single case occurred at Brunswick,
although constant communication was kept up
with Savannah, Darien and St. Marys, at all of
which the yellow fever raged with fearful and
unparalleled violence. In truth, many persons
flocked to Brunswick during those years os to a
place of refuge ; and like the Israelites of old,
they were safe from all harm.
Those who have seen and felt the withering
and blasting effects of yellow and other malig
nant fevers upon the commercial interests of
Southern cities can readily discover and appre
ciate the importance of a healthy location in es
tablishing the terminus 6f the Atlantic and Pa
cific Road. If it be established at a point sub
ject to yellow and other malignant fevers, ves
sels will not visit it only at exorbitant rates of
freight; and if the trade be brought to the point
it cannot be taken care of for men will not en
danger their lives in looking after it. Bruns
wick is peculiarly blessed in this particular—
vessels can visit the port with impunity at all
seasons of the year, and they eagerly seek for
freight to and from her port, when they reject
those offered by Savannah and other points.—
This will be a matter of vast importance in
bringing emigrants to the States of the South
and West, for they can safely land on the
wharves at Brunswick throughout every month
of the year, which cannot be done at any other
point on the whole Southern sea board.
The climate of Brunswick is unequalled by
that of any other point in our'whole country—
it is not too cold in winter or too warm in sum
mer. We have many points that are used as
summer resorts and many as winter resorts, but
Brunswick is the only point, perhaps, that can
bo used as both. Brunswick is neither burnt up
in summer or frozen np in winter; and business
can, therefore, be successfully done throughout
the entire year, and this fact must and will pow
erfully tell in her future history.
The fourth great advantage is, the position of
Brunswick with regard to the timber producing
section of the South. She is situated in the very
heart of the country that produces the best ship
building timber on the globe, and as a point for
that business far surpasses any other in the
country, North or South. Owing to the climate
and healthy location, ships can be built at much
less cost than at any other point. It has been
established by actual experience that a man can
do more labor during the year in a ship yard at
Brunswick than he can do in one in any of the
Northern States; and this is in accordance with
reason and the nature of things—at the North
little or no work can be done for several months
on account of the severity of the cold, while at
Brunswick a man can work comfortably during
the entire year. The contiguity of the timber,
and the climate and healthy location, will give
Brunswick a very decided advantage in ship
building, and the people of the West and South
largely engage in it.
Affairs in the Old Capital.
A Milledgeville correspondent of the Federal
Union says:
I look around often and ask myself the ques
tions, What have we lost? and where are the
visible signs of decay which promised to follow
the removoal of the Capital from our midst ?
There are no vacant store rooms on any of our
business streets, and every private residence in
side of the corporate limits is occupied. Our
merchants are doing a safe and profitable busi
ness—better, by far, than they aid in days of
yore when we were wont to have the assembled
wisdom of Georgia biennially in our midst. The
pinder trade and the lightwood splinter line of
jacks and jennies has suffered severely, and
our agreeable and popular friends (Bob and
Sam) McComb, have less company at their com
modious hotel than in ante bellum days, but
aside from these exceptional cases, I cannot see
any diminution of the prosperity and liveliness
of the place.
We have not given up the Capital yet; and
while there is a shot in the locker, we intend to
fire it at the authors of that monstrous fraud
imposed on the people, and particularly our
own, by Bnllock and Ids carpet-bag regency.
We are stripping for the fight, and I assure you
when the next election for members of the
Legislature takes place in Georgia, we will havo
given the foeman some idea of the energy and
determination which an outraged people can
display in a just cause.
Northern Ceop Prospects.—The New York
Tribune of a late date, in relation to the grow
ing crops, says that “there was never before so
large an area of our country in wheat at this
season as now, and that sowed last fall is look
ing remarkably welL Unless some disastrous
blight shall yet be experienced, we shall harvest
more wheat in 1SC9 than in any former year.—
And on all this Atlantic slope a very large breadth
has already been sown to spring grain, while
much land is now in course of preparation for
Indian com. Our orchards are just bursting
into bloom, and the promise of fruit, especially
peaches, is remarkably good. Our meadows
and pastures are beginning to feel the need of a
long, warm, gentle rain. The last two or three
weeks have been very favorable to spring work,
but grass does not start as it should for want of
a soaking rain. Clouds gather to little purpose
and disappear: and a few more hot, bright days
will shorten our hay crop disastrously. We
want rain,”
The Sonth Carolina Negroes.
The Charleston papers concur in saying, that
the nnmber of negroes in Sonth Carolina is
much less than the number reported in 1860.
They say that, during the last four years, that
is, since the negroes became free, the mortality
among them has been vastly greater than it was
when they lived in slavery. And the causes of
this increasing mortality in that State are set
down as identical with the causes that have pro
duced similar results in the rest of the Southern
States. The negroes, it is stated, are utterly
careless in their habits, taking no pains what
ever to protect themselves and their families
from disease, and the filth and squallor that
generate it Thev will not work, unless their
necessities force tkem to do so, and they never
see or feel any such necessities whilst the alter
native of stealing is within their reach. They
have no idea of the provident use of money, so
that when they get it, either by labor or by theft,
or through charity, they buy with it neither
wholesome food, nor clothes to keep themselves
and their families comfortable.
Of course they are continually getting sick,
but, in cases of sickness, they have no resort for
relief. They have no owners to look to their
welfare, they have no money to pay a physician,
and, whatever the disease may be, whether one
that kills in an hour or one-that kills in a week
or month, they have only to let it take its course,
and are so far gone in paganism as not to be able
to offer prayer to heaven. Even in Charleston,
where they are least exposed, and where, by
some means or other, they can generally man
age to obtain medical treatment, there are more
than twice as many deaths of negroes as of white
persons, although the negro population is less
than the white; and in the country districts, as
reason would infer and as facts attest, the pro
portionate mortality of the negroes is twice as
gieatas in Charleston and the rest of the cities.
But it is not mortality alone which has re-
‘(InCGd to or » olovTv»i**S ovf/m* tko mirnhpr *»f no
groes available for work in the cotton fields.—
The negro women, who once were good field
hands, and who endured work as well as the
men, have got above the business. They think,
and the men think, that women should remain
at their homes and not work out of doors for a
living, and this would be all well enough if the
men could support them, but the men scarcely
support themselves, and, in many if not in most
cases, do not even attempt it. And, to aggra
vate the wretched condition of both the blacks
and the whites, the officers and emissaries of the
Federal Government step in with their accursed
politics. They are responsible for much of the
evil that exists. The Charleston News says that
the negroes, after many trials and hardships,
were becoming pretty well convinced, that, with
out work, they could not live and eat and sleep,
and were, consequently, ready to work tolerably
well and were doing so, but that, for some time
past, they have been filled with the hope, that,
if they do what they can in the Radical cause,
some office, big or little, an office sufficient to
support them in their laziness, will fall to their
lot, and that, at the worst, they can join the
State militia and shoot Democrats. No reason
ings, no facts, no experiences can drive these
wild ideas out of their heads.—Courier-Journal.
Death or Joseph Atkins.
On yesterday morning it was rumored on the
streets that Joseph Atkins, a notorious scalawag
and Senator in the Georgia Legislature from the
Warren District, had been killed on the previous
day in Columbia county. By the mail of yes
terday evening letters were received in this city
from that county giving the particulars of the
tragedy. It seems that some time since, when
the Legislature was in session, Atkins wrote a
very insulting letter to a respectable lady living
in Dearing, Columbia county. On Monday
morning Atkins, accompanied by his wife, got
off 'the cars and remained a short while in
Dearing.
When about to get in a buggy to leave the vil
lage, A. was approached by a man with but one
leg, an only brother of the young lady whom A.
had insulted, who said to Atkins: “I am in
possession of that letter, and demand satisfac
tion for it.” At this remark A. put his hand be
hind him to draw a pistol, and Adams, being
unarmed, attempted to borrow a weapon, but
unsuccessfully. It seems that here Mrs. Atkins
interfered and persuaded her husband to leave
the place on foot with her, the bnggy being left
in charge of a negro boy. After proceeding a
mile from town, Mrs. A. returned, and, entering
the vehicle, was driven off by the negro to over
take her husband. Some time after this had
happened, Mr. Adams and two other gentlemen,
leaving Dearing for their homes in the country,
overtook and pass-ed the Atkins party two miles
and a half from the village.
Atkins and the negro were walking together
in advance, the latter with a cocked revolver in
his hand, while the buggy was driven behind by
the female. This was the last seen of the Sena
tor until after the tragedy. Some time after
passing Sturgis’ Mill two gun shots were heard,
and the alarm being given, parties repaired to
the spot, and found that Atkins had been shot
and mortally wounded. The wounds were made
by a shot gun, and the wounded man stated that
he was shot from the cover of a tree by one of
the Adams. In falling, his pistol was discharged,
and the ball lodged in a fence bordering the
road. In contradiction to this, both his wife
and the negro state that they were unable to see
who fired the shot. A search at the place from
whence the shot was fired disclosed the footsteps
of but one man, and he a negro probably, as
the tracks were those made by a No. 10 negro
brogan.—Chronicle and Sentinel.
A Wild Theory of Insanity.
In Putnam’s Magazine is an interesting arti
cle by George M. Beard, M. D., on the subject,
“Whoare the insane?” in which he contends
that “ungovernable attacks of passion, violent
temper, and unnatural cruelty are the results of
insanity far more frequently than will probably
be admitted by those who have not given this
subject close and special attention. Their dis
ease has its exacerbations, its paroxysms of at
tack, and during the intervals their bearing may
be entirely courteous and their whole disposi
tion sweet and tender.” He adds:
Howard, the philanthropist, who crossed seas
and mountains to relieve the distressed, was a
brute and tyrant in his own family. Dr. Win-
Blow says or him: “His cruel treatment caused
the death of his wife. He was in the habit for
many years of doing penance before her picture.
He had an only son whom for the slightest of
fence he punished with terrible severity, making
him stand for hours in a grotto in the garden.
The son became a lunatic as the result of his
brutal treatment. I am strongly inclined to the
opinion that even the extraordinary benevolence
of Howard was one of the symptoms of the dis-
easd in his brain; for insanity may have good
as well as evil manifestations, and such excep
tionable self-sacrifice as his—so blind, so per
sistent, so life-enduring—is just as liable to
proceed from a morbid state as the directly op
posite qualities of ungovernable rage, intense
hate or cruelty. There is a point beyond which
notonly forbearance, butalso the manifestations
of benevolence, charity, self-sacrifice, devotion,
spirituality—of all the higher and nobler quali
ties of humanity—may cease to be virtues.
“Very much of the cruelty that we meet with
in everyday life is the work of the partially in
sane. I know some really good men who some
times under peculiar circumstances, act more
like lunatics than reasonable beings. I knew a
farmer, a conscientious and worthy man, who
was at times attacked with paroxysms of rage so
violent and irresistible that he would beat his
oxen unmercifully, and without provocation.—
An acquaintance of mine told me that his fath
er, who was one of the kindest of men in his
family, very often whipped his children almost
to death, and that, too, despite the tearful ap
peals of his wife, to whom ho was most devoted
ly attached.
The Radical Circus Committees.
Traveling committees of Congress are one of
the means now used by the Radicals to draw
modey from the public treasury. During the
last sessions several of these extracting institu
tions were put in motion, and their chairmen
havo drawn on the Sergeant-atArms, through
whom and the Clerk of the House warrants havo
been sent to the Treasury Department. The
total amount for the contingent fund was $35,-
000. Seven of these committees havo drawn
$2S,000 of this amount already, leaving only
$7000 to pay the expenses of the House. Mr.
Schenck draws $10,000 for the Ways and Means
Committee. Gen. 'Garfield has had a warrant
issued for $3000 for the Census Committee. Mr.
Lynch, of Maine, draws $2000, the expenses of
his sub-committee in their inquiry os to the de
crease of American shipping; Gen. Paine and
Co., $5000 to go to New Orleans; Gen. Banks,
$3000 to defray the expenses of two or three
members of the Foreign Affairs Committee to
Cuba or Paraguay, and Mr. Bingham, $3000 for
himself and associates on their tour to Mont
gomery, Alabama, to investigate the truth or
falsity of the charge against Judge Busteed! In
this manner the whole contingent fund will be
expended. And what useful results will flow
from the inquiries instituted? None; where
matters can be forced into a political channel
such a bend will be given to the stream. When
this cannot be aocomplfsped the Radicals will
pocket the money and end the examination.
JBY TEIjEGEAPH.
From Washington.
Washington, May 13.—The *n«nal procession of
the Sunday-schools, a regular event for fifteen years,
has been broken up by the determined participation
of the negro schools. Each school will have an ex
tensive May festival J
The President has appointed Judge Edmunds, of
Michigan, formerly Postmaster of the Senate,' Post
master in the Washington city office.
Banks is reported as indignant at the delay in the
Cuban recognition.
The President has appointed Addison Low, In
spector of Steamboats in the second district; Samu
el Houston, ditto, in the sixth district, and William
H. Rainey, Collector of Customs at Brunswick, Ga.;
and Wolf Adams, Surveyor of Customs at Nash
ville.
Attorney-General Hoar decides that the brevet
ranks conferred since March 1st, 1869, are null, ex
cept for gallantry before the Indians.
Spinner directs the Assistant Treasurers to reis
sue, instead of cancelling, fractional currency fall
ing into their hands.
Customs from the 1st to the Sth, inclusive, are
$3,950,000.
Mr. L. Q. Washington, of Virginia, called at the Ex
ecutive Mansion this morning, by appointment, to
lay before the President the views of the committee
appointed by the late Conservative Convention of
that State, in reference to the approaching election,
Mr. Washington having been delegated by the com
mittee to act for them.
Judge Lorenzo Sherwood, President of the Cheap
Railway League, is dead.
The Internal Revenue Department , decides, em
phatically, that Eales of tobacco stamps to or from
any oiner person than a collector is a violation of
the law. .-.I
The details of the interview between Grant and
Washington, of Virginia, are withheld.
Another delegation of citizens, from Richmond,
are expected to-night.
The following Light-house Stations are to he dis
continued after the 80th of Juno: Brant Point,
beacon light, two hundred and eighty feet front;
Brant Point Light-house, Nantuckett harbor, MasB.;
Old Point Comfort, beacon light, on. south-west
point; Old Point Comfort, Va.; Bay Point Light,
Port Royal entrance, South Carolina; the bay at
east end of the bay in the city of Savannah, Ga.
The light vessels now stationed at Fishing Rip, in
the mainship channel of Port Royal entrance, South
Carolina, will, on the 15th of May, be withdrawn
from that station, and he immediately transferred
toTybee Island Knoll, Savannah river; and will,
on the evening of the 1st June, and thenceforth
until further orders, exhibit a light at an elevation
of thirty feet above sea level, visible in dear
weather ten nautical miles.
Several negroes representing an organization
known as the National Colored Convention, visited
Grant to-day and presented an address urging the
appointment of negroes North aB the best means of
reconciling the Southern people to negro officers in
the South. The President said he would consider
their suggestion.
From Louisiana.
New Oiileans, May 13.—The steamship Mexico,
which lia8 been lying at the wharf for several weeks,
took fire at two o'clock this morning, and burned
till sho sunk at 6 a. m. No cargo or any combustible
is known to have been on board. The fire was un
doubtedly the work of an incendiary. The fire in
spector reportB the vessel as recently sold. It is
rumored to Cubans.
There is no assurance that the crevasse reported
a few days ago at Villere plantation, below the city,
has been abandoned as hopeless. The repairs by
the negro soldiers and plantation hands have been
washed away as fast as constructed. The opening
is about eighty feet wide and eight feet deep. At
last accounts it was increasing. Another crevasse oc
curred only a half-mile below the city limits last
evening, but a company of negro soldiers, promptly
sent from the barracks, dosed the gap, and strength
ened the levee. The water is about two inches be
low high water mark, bnt ia driven by a high north
west wind sometimes above the marks. The
wharves at the head of Poydras and Lafayette
streets are submerged, and considerable alarm is
felt. A strict watch is kept over the levees on dty
front streets.
Tbo steamers Virginia'and Louisiana report a se
rious crevasse as having occurred on Sunday last
west of Baton Rouge parish, nearly opposite Port
Hudson. The Baton Rouge Advocate of Monday
says this crevasse was caused by a sudden fell
of two incbeB in the river at that point; and, also,
that all attempts to dose it will be ineffectual, ow
ing to the sandy soil artd the extent of the break,
which was then sixty yards wide.
From Cuba.
Havana. May 13.—Accounts from Spanish sources
represent that after the fight at Altagrada, General
Lesca reached Puerto Principe with his convoy, the
insurgents being unable to detain bim, and that the
Cabans lost one thousand in killed and wounded.
Tbo Diario says two thousand; but the Voz de
Cuba doubts the correctness of the Diario’s infor
mation.
Letona. who made the official report of the affair
at Altagrada, gives few details. He says since the
fight the rebels cannot get together two thousand
men.
The taxes for the coming year are to be reduced
fifty per cent.
•The Gaceta publishes accounts of further confis
cations.
From Alabama.
Montgomery, May 13.—The morning papers con
tain a call signed by maany of the most prominent
business men and planters of this dty and county,
for a Convention on the first day of June, to organ
ize an Immigration Company. Col. Lee Crandall,
of New Orleans, has been canvassing the State in
favor of the plan, and it is meeting with great suc
cess. Railroads and hotels have agreed to take half
fare from all attending the Convention.
General News.
Louisville, May 13.—Gen. Thomas has deedined
to accept a magnificent silver Bervice, expressing hiB
determination never to receive donations under any
circumstances.
Pihadelphia, May 13.—It is stated that the New
Orleans, Havana, and Philadelphia steamer, Jacinto,
is in trouble—Buspected of smuggling.
Philadelphia, May 13.—At 2 o’dock to-day the
wires hence to Pittsburg, worked without batteries.
The electrical disturbances interrupted the wires in
other directions.
Harrisburg, Pa., May 13 The Court of Com
mon Pleas has dedded the question involving the
liability of taxation of railroad bonds held bydti-
zens in other States. Judge Fearson decided that
if the property is protected by Pennsylvania it conld
be made to pay its share of taxation.
Providence, R. L, May 13—Geo. L. Clark, anti-
Spragno Republican, has been elected Mayor by
1418 majority over all other candidates.
Foreign News.
London, May 13.—The United States Minister,
Hon. Roverdy Johnson, takes leave of the Queen
to-day. Mr. Moraw acta as Charge d’Affairs till
Mr. Motley’s arrival.
Great agitation exists in Paris in consequence of
the elections, and four public meetings in different
parts of the city havo been dispersed by the police.
Madrid, May 13.—The British Minister; Crocap-
ton, asks to he recaUod. ’
A constitutional amendment declaring all power
eminating from the nation and all persons entrusted
with power must be elected by, and held responsi-
sible to the people, has been introduced.
Prim approves a regency under Serano. ' '
Dispatches from Lisbon report a serious distur
bance at the Capitol. Aplot against the Govern
ment is on foot.
Lisbon, May 13—Paraguayan advices report the
Allies moving against Lopez, who is strongly posted
with nine thousand men and forty guns.
London, May 13.—The London Times of to-day
has an editorial on the rejected Alabama treaty,
wherein it is asserted that the government of Great
Britain, in submitting to an arbitration on the ques
tion at all, conceded everything that was originally
demanded or expected by the American people, and
everything that it was possible to concede.
Marine News.
Savannah, May IS.—Cleared, the steamships Gen.
Barnes, New York; America, Baltimore; brig Wood
land, Montevideo.
From Augusta.
Augusta, May 13.—Great interest is manifest
ed in the Southern Convention which meets in
Memphis on the 18th. Delegates are going from the
Carolines, Georgia and Alabama.
The shooting of Adkins is greatly deplored by
many leading papers and citizens, as it is feared
that it will be handled as a pretext to deal harshly
with Georgia. No more developments as to the
cause of the shooting.
• From Virginia
Richmond, May 13—In the U. 8. Circuit Court
to-day, in the proceedings against .the U. .8.. .Mar
shal of this district in 1861, for funds turned over to
the (Confederate Government, the defendants plead
the U. S. Statute of Limitations, and the plea was
admitted by Chief-Justice Chase, presiding, the
United States being non-suited. This is an impor
tant decision, the plea put forward being the same
that will be put in by all postmasters in the South
ern States who, at tbo breaking out of the war,
made the same disposition of funds..
Spanish Advices that the Cuba Rebell
ion is Suppressed.
On the 11th instant the Spanish Minister, at
Washington, received a sub-marine cable dis
patch from General Dolce announcing the final
suppression of the rebellion in Cuba. It is as
serted by Dulce. that only one thousand two
hundred insurgents are under arms in detached
bodies, without leaders or conceit of action.—
The news was submitted to the State Depart
ment, bnt did not receive much credit in Wash
ington, and is supposed to be promulgated to
discourage American sympathy with Cuba and
deter filibustering schemes. The Cubans in
Washington affirm the ability of their country
men to hold out against tiie Spaniards for some
time. They claim that the armed bodies alleged
to be wandering around constitute the nucleus
of forces to the number of eight or ten thou
sand men, working on farm and plantations,
that can be concentrated at any time to strike a
decisive blow. __
Crops in Alabama.
A private letter of the 10th from Coosa county
says a large area of land in Alabama has been
devoted to cotton—entirely too large a portion,
and the result must be a deficiency in breadstuff's
the coming year. Owing to very heavy and fre
quent rains up to eight days since, some are yet
planting cotton. Much complaint as to the dying
out since up. The hilly lands are more injured
than ever before. The crops are also very
grassy. On the whole, notwithstanding the in
crease of land planted, the prospect of a heavy
crop is not flattering. Of course, there would
be an increase over last year if the worm fails
to appear; bnt a heavy crop upon the land
planted is not to be expected. We are blessed
with fair health yet; and are thankfuL
Horrid Harder.
Capt. E. H. Fletcher, one of our best citizens,
was waylaid six miles from this place, on the
Cuthbert Road, and murdered, on Tuesday, the
11th inst. It seems that the weapon used was
a shot gun, loaded with large shot, eight of
which entered his neck, killing him instantly.
One white man and some negroes were bnt a
few paces in the rear of Captain Fletcher, in a
wagon, heard the gun fire, saw the Captain fall
from his horse, and one of the negroes saw the
man who fired the gun running off in the bush
es.
The day before this occurrence, Capt. Fletcher
had a difficulty with a man named John Lee,
late of West Florida, “almost a stranger in this
county,” which he regarded as but a slight af
fair, until informed by a friend that this man
“The Radical Party the meat Corrnnt
that ever Cawed Ikt TLiUJtl.”
The above caption is frolfc aft Article of the
New York Herald, from wMdh we copy the fol.
lowing condeoted paragraph :
“The fact has become patent, (hat the Rapah.
lican party ia the most corrupt that aver eSrsed
our land. Dozing the war it* fenders fell nDon
the national treasury and the public credit Hke
so many ravenous wolves. T^teir jobs and job.
beries in the way of army contracts, in the sale
of rotten old hulks for transports, in the build,
ingof new war vessels that proved shells or
abortions, and in everything connected -with
supplies, including provisions, clothing, forace
hospital stores, and so on to the end of the
catalogue, for the nseof the army and navy
were enough to appall any other than the Amen
can people. These depraved and hungry lead
ers, with appetites for the spoils of office still
lingering in their insatiable maws, have now fas.
tened upon the Senate of the United States, and.
with an avariciousness that spams all comprol
mise, reason and control, demand that no ap
pointment shall be made without their having
a finger in the selection. In the homely
of a Western Senator, they are persistently
“dingdonging” every member of that body; an /
it is mortifying to acknowledge, “they have m
that body friends and confreres as corrupt
themselves, who are ready and are employed to
do their bidding in making Indian treaties &!.
lowing enormous grants of land for private p^r!
poses, and engaging in other scandalous practil
ces, besides encouraging fraudulent aepom*"
merits to office.”
The Cotton Caterpillar in Florida.
Additional to the dispatch in relation to the
alleged appearance of the Cotton Caterpillar ia •
East Florida, the Charleston Courier of the Uth
publishes the following letter:
Ocala, Fla., May 4, ipc9.
Messrs. Geo. H. Ingraham. & Son, Chadeston:
Gentlemen :—We telegraphed you this mom.
ingthatwe had just seen some'genuine, fin
caterpillars, and to hold onr cotton.
The worms we saw were from the field of Sir.
A. C****, ten miles West of this place. Mr. Q
is an old planter and a reliable man, and" he
states that these were the genuine caterpillar
which has been playing havoc with ns for the
past few years. He says that they have already
begun their work on the young cotton, and he
can distinguish the stalks which have them at
some distance.
We are also in receipt of a note from one Mr.
S. 'A**** (who is to-day at his plantation, J stating
that the caterpillar have made their appearance
on his place. Wo hear of others where they
are just appearing. These are no bogus worms
but the genuine cotton worm, according to the
opinion of our oldest planters. Now their ap.
pearance this early is unprecedented. We
thought them very early when they appeared in
the latter part of June of last year, and see
what they did for us. Should the* worm become
general, we cannot reckon upon the consequen
ces. Instead of making half a crop, we wil
make none at all. We write this thinking yon
should know the facts, and yon may rely upon
what we say, for we have seen it with our on
eyes. ., - a
Business and Expenses of tiie Georgia
Railroad.
From a tabular statement of the GeorgiaRail-
road showing the business and expenses fromiti
opening to April 1st, 1869, we gather the follow
ing facts:
Receipts—passengers, 1869, $321,789, which,
as compared with those of 1SG8, shows a gain of
$33,424; bnt as compared with those of 1861,
a loss of $22,071, and of 1S60 $90,518; shov
ing a marked recovery of its ante-bellum pros
perity. -
The receipts from freights, etc., to April 1st,
3869, were $782,732, which, as compared with
1868, shows a gain of $67,374; as compared with
1861, a gain of $182,732; as compared with
1860, a gain of $35,852.
The expenses for 1869, were $575,458, which
Lee had borrowed a gun, and that perhaps it , as compared with 186S, is an increase of $63,-
■.. — T.2 — ... A —— — J —v A A — L.' jv c\ a _ a *»V i a r\ i * V e
was his intention to attack Mm. Capt. F. re
marked that he did not think there was much
danger, passed on to the place where he was
finishing a bridge across the Nochaway creek,
and, with his hands, was returning home in the
evening, when the foul deed was penetrated.
This man Lee went home, told a young man he
had employed that he had revenge—he had
shot the fellow, but did not know whether or
not he had killed him—that he heard him fall
from his horse, and that he mu6t leave the
county, and wanted to borrow all the money he
had. He left on foot, in the night, about fif
teen minutes before a posse of men arrived at
bis house for the purpose of arresting him. He
was closely pursued and arrested in Randolph
county, and brought to this place.
On being arrested, the party arresting him
remarked “that he had killed a very fine citi
zen. ” His reply was, “ Yes, and I would do it
again under the same circumstances.”
It is proper to add that politics had nothing to
do with this unfortunate affair.—Date son Jour.
A Hundred Bushels Oats to the Acre.
We copy the following from the Columbus
Enquirer :*
Mr C. A. Peabody has left in our office a'clus
ter of whnt he calls “another of Ms humbugs.”
It is a specimen of a new description of oats,
the seed of wMch he procured from Vermont,
and wMch is said to have been introduced into
this country from Sweden—one grain having
been found in a package of peas procured by
the Agricultural Bureau. There are in tins
cluster fourteen or fifteen stalks, about five feet
in height, and of stems enormously large, and
all from a single grain! The heads have not
yet made their appearance, the stalk being in
the stage called “the boot.” It is therefore rea
sonable to suppose that the stalks have as yet
attained not much exceeding half their height!
The color is remarkably good, and the growth
evidently vigorous. Mr. Peabody has a field of
ten acres sown broadcast, besides some patches
in the drill and hills. He used 200 lbs. of Paci
fic Guano to the acre, and sowed about the 20th
February. He counts on a yield of one hun
dred bushels of seed oats per acre, if no disaster
overtakes the crop 1 It it said that these oats
have produced even much more per acre at the
North. The blades are from half an inch to a
full inch in breadth, and over a foot in length.
The variety is certainly a wonderful one, and
promises to be very valuable.
Macon and Augusta Railroad,
In the annual report of the Georgia Railroad
we find the following statement of the Macon
and Augusta Railroad, now being operated by
the Georgia Railroad, with which it connects at
Warrenton:
EARNINGS.
From freight $29,302 02
From passengers 15,82150
$45,123 52
EXPENSES.
Ordinary $39,S63 85
News depots. 7,418 62
$47,282 47
By reference to the Superintendent’s report,
Col. Cole, (the only one we have read), it will he
seen that he looks for increased receipts upon
completion, and intimates the extension,
rather completion, of the road from MUledge-
villo to Macon will largely increase its income.
[ Chronicle and Sentinel.
Another Negro Murder.—A gentleman who
passed up the Gulf road on Monday informs us
that a negro, whose name he did not learn, shot
and killed another negro at No. 6 on Sunday
night. On Monday morning our friend found
an excited crowd of negroes at the station, a
portion of whom, accompanied by the sheriff of
Wayne county, took the cars for No. 7, where
he found the murderer, a large, desperate look
ing negro, and proceeded to arrest him. The
negro, who was armed with an army revolver, at
first offered resistance, but on being notified by
Ms pursuers that they were resolved to take him
dead, or alive, surrendered, and was taken
charge of by tho negroes, who threatened to
lynch him, but finally promised the sheriff to
deliver him to the civil authorities at Thomas
ville. Our friend oonld learn very little of the
particulars of the murder, which was repre
sented to be a savage and cold-blooded aft'air.
[jSarannaA Hews.
Have we Mormons living among us ? is that
latest sensation. Since the announcement that
there are one hundred and fifty men in New
York, having from nine to twelve wives each,
every one seems to have been on the qui vice,
and the fact comes to light that there is a good
ly number of Mormons in our own city. One
individual residing on Fourteenth street is
pointed out as the possessor of four wives, and
the most satisfactory part of the matter to the
man, perhaps, is that they all have situations in
Government offices. It is estimated by those
who pretend to know, that we have more than a
dozen Mormon families in our midst, and that
they are increasing in number rapidly in large
cities.— Washington Cor. Augusta Press. ?■
624; as compared with 1861, is a decrease of
$128,293; as compared with 18C0, a decrease
of 55,686.
The nnmber of bales of cotton transported in
1869 was 104,373; in 1868,-112,707; in 1861,
155,709; in 1860, 544,363.
The number of bushels of grain carried in
1869, was 1,407,326; in 1868, 665,GG2; 1861, I
209,497; in I860, 353,241.
The number of barrels of flour transported in
186S, was 12,530: in 1860, 353,24L
The number of barrels of flour transported in
1869, was 12,530; in 1808, 14,059; in 1861,
9,967; in 1860, 43,989.—Augusta Chronicle i&
Sentinel, May 12.
In reference to the subjoined, we are com
pelled to say that instances of lost inclosnres
have lately occurred in connection with the bus
iness of the Telegraph office. We know noth
ing more about the matter than this:
Americus, May 12, 1869.
Editors Telegraph : 1 wish space for a line or
two to call attention to the fact that there is a
thief at large between this point and Atlanta,
and he is iu the postal service of the Govern
ment ; and as he operates between this and Co
lumbus, as well as Atlanta, it is natural to sop-
pose that he is on the Southwestern Railroad
Indeed, it is almost narrowed down to a certain
ty that the defect is between this and Fort Val
ley, as letters going toward Columbus are
robbed, as well as those going to Atlanta and
Eufaula. Hence there is work for a postoffiw
detective on this road, because the evil has be
come annoying. Mr. Woodward and the De
partment at Washington have both been written
to, but without effect. It is impossible almost
to send a letter with even ten cents in it, vi’h
out its being stolen. Please call attention »
this outrage, and use the influence of your c»
trams to stop it.
The Last op the Napoleonic Bkidi&-1
French paper says that the widow of Philips
Jacques Wilhelm, late of the eighty-eighth rest-
ment of the line and shoemaker, has just
at Strasbourg, at the ripe old age of eighty-fa?-1
When Napoleon I married the Archduchess ifr I
ria Louisa, he issued a decree, in his ovtoek- I
itaiy and absolute fasMon, that 6000 solh« 3 J
who had earned half-pay should be marriec s> I
girls in their respective communes, and he nr«
the dowry of the young ladies at 1200 francs a I
Paris, and 600 francs elsewhere. At Strasboc?-1
ten of these marriages took place; all the a? j
thorities of the town were present, the ne*|
married couples were invited to the theatre,^ I
gloves, bonquets and carriages were furnish-1
by the municipality. In the evening there ** I
a banquet, at which the Emperor and his V I
Austrian wife were toasted. Of the ten p® I
married on April 23, 1810, widow lVilhelm
the last survivor, Napoleon had a ronai^
taste for marriages, and at one time he
ceived the idea of taking every heiress
country for his most distinguished
which would have been an economical«. “ |
recompensing gallantry.
Queen Emma at Home.—A
the San Francisco Bulletin writes from
lulu concerning Queen Emma, whose vis*
the United States will be remembered:
“I saw and recognized the once beautify 15
still fine looking Queen of KamehamehsJU-
saw ber first at ner summer residence in huu
Valley. She reclined upon mats and pillow
the Oriental style. A broad verandah m 4 [
most refresMng shade, and as she offered *
dish of edible bark (a little like slippery -*£ i
but very tender,) or some fruits, hor grew :
dignity were singularly pleasing. She
some pastoral goddess, born to rule her spet
with love and gentleness, andindeedshe is-
Her only coronet was of wild flowers, whicn .
very generally worn here by both seie f’ JJ j|
most becomingly so. Chains of flowers ^ I
berries hnng about her neck also, giving, 0 ®'^. |
agreeable odor. There was no formalin^,
served, even by her workmen, whotm she ^ I
overseeing in person. Her gardener
her call, and, sitting on the steps of th 0 T * . |
dah, laughed and argued with her as free
possible ; yet no one could feel inclined toP' j
sumo upon such modest dignity.”
The Sale of the Wilmington and j
tee Railroad.—The sale of the Y7ihningw a ■
Manchester Railroad is to take place oo
23d of June next. The stock in this rose
been for some time past selling for five n
on the dollar. This road is now under le*® j,
the bondholders for ninety-nine years- .,
understood that the sale is merely to
new organization, and to perfect titles,
bondholders'now own a large majority * j,
stock. The cMef owners of the bonus,
said, are Messrs. Garrett, J. Edgar
Hiakley, and others, who now control tw> ^
mingtoQ and Weldon, and connecting h®**;
Baltimore and Philadelphia. The
and PhiladelpMa.
will come into full poesessioi
to make the road first data in every Ms I
We look for its extension to Augusta » ns I
tout day.—Chronicle anp SeniineL
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