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Tli© Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph..
THE TELEGRAPH
MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1809.
monthly Payment* from the State
Road.
Communications for the Telegraph upon this
important subject, from the Chairman of the
House Committee and Mr. State Treasurer An
gler, will be found npon the first page of this
edition. We are obliged to these gentlemen for
calling pnblic attention to this important mat
ter. It is a proper subject of investigation and
we trust will receive it.
Bnt, in so saying, we do not mean to prejudge
the management of the Road. That may be
very wise, sagacious and honest We think
Colonel Hulbert is a first-rate business man and
can, if he chooses, do as well with that road as
any other person. He may be right in restrict
ing the payments to the State from the net in
come to twenty-five thousand dollars a month.
It never been claimed that this snm em
braced the wholeo f the net income,but it maybe
as much as can be spared consistently with a
proper reserve fund for extraordinary expenses.
We have, for example, heard it stated that
nearly evety bridge on the road reconstructed
by the Federal Government must be renewed
this summer. They were all hastily and badly
built of inferior lumber, and not one of them
will be safe much longer.
Again, the track was relaid under the same
auspices, in a very temporary and careless man
ner, and as all the way station houses and fix
tures were burned during the war, it may be
there is still considerable demand for extraordi
nary expenditure in refitting them and relaying
the track.
It may be, therefore, that a reserve fund, out
of the monthly balance of receipts over current
expenditures, is a measure of proper business
economy, plainly dictated by the situation of
the road, and a proceeding which every body
would approve, instead of condemn, when he
came to understand the whole situation. We
express no opinion upon this point, either one
way or the other, and the reader will under
stand from a bare statement of the case the
propriety of suspending judgment until all the
facts are known.
In relation to the future management of the
State Road, the suggestions of our correspond
ent are worthy of consideration. Trade and
business carried on by government must almost
incessantly get mixed up with the irrelevant
matter of politics. Certainly, we never yet saw
or heard of a business enterprise of any kind
carried on through a State government, which
was not made a party party-packhorse, and
never expect to see it, whether it be managed
by the Governor or by the Legislature. Gen
erally speaking, wo think Legislative manage
ment the most corrupt and injudicious of all.
The suggestion to lease the work we think is
preferable on the score of economy.
Snmter Connty, Georgia.
Editors Telegraph: I have recently made a
great and good discovery, which I wish to give
the pnblic free of charge.
The discovery is greatly beneficial to those
who are hard np for money and in debt. Here
it is: Just enclose §3,00 for the mammoth
Weekly Telegraph one year, and when you see
a man approaching with intent of asking for
that little debt, take up the Telegraph and com
mence reading him the news, and nine times out
of ten ho will be so interested he will forget what
he came for.
A man came to dun me yesterday, who hadn’t
heard of the Cuba rebellion ortho completion
of the Union Pacific Railroad. I read him this
startling news, together with scores of other dis
patches, etc., and he left without saying money
one time.
I have played this game more than once, with
perfect success. If a man tries it and it don’t
work well, I say he is not a good reader, that's
aJL Tours, etc., Experiment.
Texas Ilorses.
A citizen of Washington county, Texas, was
in our office yesterday, who, in the course of
conversation, informed us that the best speci
mens of saddle and harness horses sold in that
State for §50 per head. A few days before
leaving home ho sold a splendid animal for §45.
They conld bo had in the greatest profusion
from §5 to $50.
Wo make a note of this for the purpose of
arresting the attention of drovers, and suggest
ing that they inquire into the matter. A good
buggy horse cannot be pnrehosed here short of
from §200 to §400. Harness horses in pairs are
worth from $S0O to §4000. If they are as cheap
in Texas as is represented, there is a fine
field open for speculation.
The Triple Alliance.
The Albion, the English organ in New York,
states that so far as England is concerned there
is not a word of truth in the rumored Triple Al
liance. Per contra, the Courrier de3 Etats Unis,
the mouthpiece of French officials in this coun
try, intimates that an understanding in regard to
a policy to bo pursued towards the United States
has, no doubt, been arrived at by England,
France and Spain, but doubts the conclusion of
any treaty..
The Brunswick End or the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad.—A corrrespondent of the
Valdosta Times, writing from the junction, says
five hundred hands are at work on the Bruns
wick end of the Macon and Brunswick railroad,
and that it will be completed to the Gulf road
by the middle of June. The same writer thinks
the whole line will be completed'in November
next.
The President of the Road, in a conversation
with one of our merchants, a few days since,
said the work was progressing faster than he
had anticipated, and he had no doubt the road
-would be open from Brunswick to Macon by the
1st of November next.
Chief Justice Chase.—The Constitutionalist
learns Chief Justice Chase lias arrived in Aikin,
8, 6., on yesterday, in company with Senator
Sprague, and will remain here a short time, be
fore departing for Charleston, where he holds
Court next week. Senator Sprague went imme
diately on to attend the Commercial Convention
at Memphis.
Bovs in Blue.—On Friday morning last, a
Company of soldiers passed down on the Atlanta
train, on their way to Warren connty, we learn,
to assist the civil authorities iriinvestigating the
killing of Atkins. We leam that they are peace
ably quartered in Warrenton. No further de
velopments the facts connected with the mur
der that we have yet heard. At last accounts
no arrests had been made.—Greensboro Herald,
20th.
Rife Wheat.—The Chronicle and Sentinel
baa seen the first ripe wheat of the Tellow
Lampus variety from Washington county—a
dozen heads—not bushels. He says, however,
the crop is now ready for harvesting, and will
be shipped to New York by J, 0. Matthewson,
of Augusta.
Families traveling may secure elegant suites
of rooms, by telegraph, at the American House,
Boston, with every convenience for comfort or
luxury. Messrs. Rice have won an enviable rep
utation as landlords.
Hatt.——Tho Rome Commercial says that
fell in that vicinity, on last Wednesday, one and
a half inches in diameter.
The Methodist Reunion,
One of the noticeable signs of the times is the
movement in the Northern and Southern church
es looking to a reconstruction of the old union
which existed between them about a quarter of
a century ago. The disruption of the churches
whieh then took place was pronounced by Web
ster, Calhoun and Clay, the harbinger of polit
ical disunion, and they mourned over it as an
evil omen portentous of strife and calamity.
The hurricane of disunion and civil war, with
all its horrid losses and devastations, has since
that time swept over ns and left us a wreck,
combination of the Northern States to save them
selves from the material misfortunes threatened
by a dissolution of the Confederacy, has re
duced us to beggary and political slavery.
Bnt so impatient were they of opposition to
their interests in this particular, that even when
all physical and material opposition had been
withdrawn, they brought the whole power of the
Government npon us to break down everything
likemoral opposition—opposition of opinion and
feeling.
This moral war has followed upon the heels
of the physical war, and has been prosecuted
with the same temper and energy. It has en
countered all opposition with the spirit of Tor-
quemada. Test-oaths—disfranchisements—the
forfeiture of all civil rights—suspension of ha
beas corpus—military governments—the aboli
tion of law and Constitution—the degradation
of the white race under the negro—all have fol
lowed so fast on the heels of each other that we
have hardly had breathing time, and all as pun
ishments for moral rebellion and intended to
show ns that tho North don’t mean to tolerate
either thought or act in opposition to that all-
engrossing idea of maintaining, on this conti
nent, one grand integer of power, capital and
commerce.
And this idea we at last accepted, bnt too late
to save us and to save the country from the gross
folly and vexation of negro suffrage and domina
tion, which was the chief instrument of intimid
ation andtorture. We cannot conceal from our
selves the fact that this moral war has been
prosecuted so successfully that States now find
it to their interest to accept negro suffrage and
political equality, to escape the w worse fate of
a legalized negro mastery, which these sections
stood ready and eager next to impose as the pen
alty for obduracy.
So far the political situation; and precisely
the same ideas control the Northern mind in the
religious situation. They demand unity, as the
grand indispensable condition, and if they don’t
get it willingly they will worry the South into it
They demand the sweep of the continent. They
claim the entire country as their rightful juris
diction, and never will they be quiet or content
without it.
Now it is no part of our business to tell the
Cool Weathk*.—We were in hope cool
weather had been dismissed for this season, yes
terday morning; but the wind hauled round to
the North oast, and at night it was oool «g»in
Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians what
they ought to do in the premises, a3 a matter of
religions duty—but we think we can tell them
that the conditions of denominational peace
with them are precisely the same which the
North has extended to us in politics. The
Methodists, in particular, will never get any
peace till they come into measures. They will
be perpetually harried by a nasty, intriguing,
circumventing opposition in every town, village,
and hamlet in the Southern country. They will
have to fight for their own churches and then
for their own people. In a word, they will have
to waste in fighting the Northern Methodists the
moral and physical force which ought to be em
ployed in storming the intrenchments of Satan
in his plain uniform of hoof and horns.
And we are not sure that the Baptists and
Presbyterians will fare better. They, too, will
find in time that, if they don’t consent to a re
storation of denominational integrity, their
strength will be seriously impaired and their
tempers tried by difficulties with their Northern
co-religionists.
Hence, we say that in no great time the polit
ical solution will be the religious solution of disu-
ion in all probability; and therefore, as one of the
great events current, we publish to-day the
beginning of negotiations on this subject be
tween the two branches of the Methodist Church.
It may be, as the division of these churches
did so much to widen the breach between the
sections, their re-union may contribute power
fully to restore good feeling, and reestablish
sectional comity.
More oftlie Harmonious.
All political meetings are laid in the shade by
the doings of the assembled black and white
Radicals of Davidson connty, in County Conven
tion at Nashville last Thursday. The proceed
ings fill three colums of the Banner, bnt a sin
gle paragraph will serve our turn :
It seemed that pandemonium had now brok
en loose with a flourish of trumpets and demo
niacal yells. Order was out of the question.
Such cries as “G—4 A—n my heart, we are go
ing to have justice or have blood,” we regret to
have to report, arose from the colored delegates
high above the roar of belligerent whoops and
howls. George Sumner and another delegate
got into a fight. Tho police who were on duty
now went into the surging crowd. George Sum
ner was taken out. This added fury to the rage
that had been enkindled, and every delegate
searched for his weapon. At this juncture the
police seemed to have been surrounded, and
pistol shots were expected every second. The
danger became so imminent that a crowd of
over two hundred spectators rushed indiscrimi
nately down stairs, a tier of seats wore broken
down in the rear of the hall, and every one
seemed to be on the quivive. Tfcs reporters
and secretaries rose up with one accord, and
were about to abandon toe table for a securer
place behind toe fixings of toe stage, to avoid
anticipated bullets. Another seat now came
tumbling down, and indescribable confusion
ensued. It was only by toe vigorous and
watchful efforts of toe police that a bloody riot
was prevented.
The Tumble of Greenbacks.
New York dispatches to the Western prints
attribute toe rise in gold to uneasiness produced
by foreign advices. We copy the subjoined:
New York, May 19.—Wall Street has been
greatly excited all day under a bullish specula
tion, and higher prices in all departments. This
occasioned more activity in the money market,
bnt the demand was nromptly met at C@7 per
cent.—the former rate for Government bonds.
Discounts easy at 7@0 per cent. Sterling ex
change quiet at I09@109j. Gold excited, active
and buoyant on account of the rumors of dis
sensions in the Cabinet and toe intended recog.
nition of toe insurgents in Cuba; these reports
had some effect early in toe day, but toe feeling
had quieted when toe mails by toe Australasian
came to hand. The general tone of toe English
press relative to American securities again
started the upward movement, and toe wildest
excitement was witnessed. A financial article
in toe London Times was particularly comment
ed on and accepted as semi-official, which in
substance says that the Bank of England Direc
tors are determined to check speculation and in
flation in American securities, even if toe bank
has to put up toe rate of interest to 10 per cent.
Rumors were current of lower quotations for
bonds at London. Gold opened at 142, fell to
141J, advanced to 144}, and closed at 143$, toe
excitement having subsided somewhat.
Wet or Dry Forage.-The Country Gentleman
says:
Old dry-stemmed grass, when made into bay,
is doubtless best to be cut up and wetted to as
sist toe digestion; and meal which has rather a
souring tendency, may help to carry off humors
which would otherwise be engendered. But
wbeu good, wholesome, nutritious hay and oafs
are fed, the horse should eat dry, for the alira
is the natural moisture to go into the stomach
with toe food, and it is sure to be much better
masticated in that state. A little good chaff
mixed with oats will, if not wetted, cause
horses to grind the oats closer, so that few will
pass through whole.
The American House, Boston, has large and
airy family rooms, quiet and retired, although
in the centre of business and places of amuse
ment. This house has no superior in New
F.nglnn^ , j
The State Road—Its Monthly Pay
ments and what they Should be
lief ter from the Chairman of the
Finance Committee—Letter from
Treasurer Angler.
Greenville, Ga., May 18, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: The accompanying is a
true copy of a letter, in my possession, from
toe Hon. Mr. Angier, State Treasurer. It was
written, as you will see, in response to one ad
dressed to that gentleman by myself.
Soon after my arrival at home from Atlanta,
I received a number of letters from worthy
men and tax-payers, complaining at the man
agement of the “State Road.” It was said that
toe Superintendent, with double the business
that toe Road previously had, was paying
monthly into the Treasury §25,000 00 as net
earnings, whilst the Superintendent, during toe
administration of Gov. Brown, paid from the
same source and for too same time, from §40,.
000 00 to §50,000 00 as net earnings.
As I belonged to toe committee in toe House
of Representatives whose special duty it was to
look after toe financial interests of the State, I
felt that a censure was implied in these com
plaints against that committee. I knew it to be
unjust; I knew that no committee labored more
zealously, or with a more honest desire to do its
whole duty, than did toe House Committee on
Finance. The truth is, toe management of toe
road was never brought before the committee.
At toe first session, a special committee was ap
pointed to look after this property, and if there
was anything wrong or improper in its manage
ment, they did not say so. Yet, I feel there
could be no impropriety, at least, under all toe
circumstances, in my obtaining all toe informa
tion in my power. Hence my letter to the Hon.
Mr. Angier and his reply.
That toe Superintendent, for whom I enter
tain none other than toe kindest feelings, might
make a satisfactory explanation, I forwarded to
him some two weeks ago a copy of toe Treas
urer’s letter, accompanied by a letter from my
self, expressing too hope that he would consider
it due alike to himself and to toe people of Geor
gia to make a satisfactory explanation. No an
swer has been received. Comment is unneces
sary.
I am induced, however, in this connection, to
take the liberty of submitting, through your pa
per, to toe peoplo of Georgia, toe following ex
tracts from a private letter of a large tax-payer,
and who possesses at once a clear bead and a
pure heart:
“I have never (as a business man) bad bnt one
opinion in regard to it. The road should be
put under a Board of Directors, say three good,
judicious business men, elected by the Legis
lature for two, four and six years. By that
means yon at all times have two experienced
men on toe Board—every two years there would
be a director to be elected. They should bo
elected with toe view of fnrtoeringthe interests
of toe road and not of a party. The road should
be run to promote the interest of toe whole com
munity, and not that of a party or a particular
set of men who may happen to be in power.
Place it beyond toe control of Governors or any
other set of politicians who are seeking office;
not allow them to trade off places on toe State
Road for votes and influence.
“La toe event I did not do that, I would lease
out toe road to responsible parties for a term of
years, say ten or fifteen years, for so mnch
money paid into toe treasury monthly in ad
vance—toe road to bo returned with all the fix
tures in as complete a state as when received.
Some such plan should be adopted to protect
toe people. The road should and can be leased
for somo §40,000 a month. That would bo
much better than §25,000 paid in by the present
managers."
. Gentlemen, I will thank yon to publish this,
together with the accompanying copy of toe
Treasurer’s letter. Respectfully,
W. H. F. Hall.
[copy.]
Treasurer’s Office, Atlanta, Ga.,)
April 30th, I860. j‘
Dear Sir: Your favor of toe 25th instant,
making enquiries respecting toe “State'Road,”
is received. “The bitter complainings of promi
nent and influential men” of which you make
mention, are quite common. For the net earn
ings for toe month of September last, toe Su
perintendent paid into toe State Treasury,
§25,000 00. The business of toe Road was then
reported very light, as has been usual at that
season of the year. Since then, especially dar
ing toe winter months, it was reported that the
business of toe Road had greatly increased; still
the monthly payments for net earnings bore no
increase, bnt continued even at §25,000 00.
I have heard Gen. A. Austell remark several
times that be would pay monthly in advance
§40,000 00 into toe State Treasury, for toe hire
of the road for ten years, and, in connection
with heavy moneyed men, would give any re
quired bond to pay toe amount regularly month
ly in advance, and return toe road, including
rolling stock, supplies, etc., in as good condi
tion as when received. This would be Si5,000
a month more than toe State is now receiving.
I know nothing further than what may be in
ferred from these general statements, never hav
ing heard toe Superintendent make any remark
on the subject. He may be able to give a sat
isfactory explanation why toe net earnings are
no more, or why they have not increased with
the increase of business.
Respectfully yours,
N. L. Angier, Treasurer.
Hon. W. H. F. Hall, Greenville, Ga.
An Earthquake in Bnrke Connty.
A gentleman who resides in the lower portion
of toe neighboring county of Burke was in toe
city yesterday, and gave an interesting account
of an earthquake, which was felt in his neigh
borhood a few days ago. He lives some distance
from toe city, near Demorest’s Ferry on toe Sa
vannah river. He states that on last Thursday,
at about 10 o’clockin the morning, the shock of
an earthquake was felt very distinctly in that lo
cality. The shock, while it was not severe
enough to do any great damage, was sufficiently
severe to very seriously alarm toe people, who,
unaccustomed to snch visitations, as soon as it
was felt, began to dread the fate of Carracas
and the other cities of South America, which
have so fearfully suffered from too effects of
these convulsions of nature. The shock moved
from a westerly direction toward the east thus
furnishing another fact in support of toe theory
recently advanced by many distinguished savans
of toe Old World and toe New, that the earth
quakes were advancing toward the rising sun,
and were deserting toe Pacific for toe Atlantic.
The houses near Demorest’s Ferry were rocked
to and fro by toe force of toe convulsion, toe
window shades rattled as in a gale of wind, and
many panes of glass were shattered. Fortunate
ly, though so violent, it only lasted for a very
short time. The total duration of toe shock is
estimated to have been about ten seconds.—
Chronicle & Sentinel.
Mempbig and Savannah Railroad.
At an election held last Saturday in Tallapoosa
county, Alabama, by a majority of from four to
six hundred, voted a county subscription to tW
road of §200,000. Prominent citizens of Talla
dega have promised §250,000 when toe approach
is mode somewhere near toe connty boundary.
Lee connty holds an election next Saturday,
when a grand barbecue will be given at Opelika.
Voters will be passed free on the cars to and
from Opelika that day. The Montgomery brass
band will be in attendance and furnish music.
The people all along toe line are becoming
aroused to the importance of this route. It is
certain our city will assist largely after awhile,
but the friends of toe undertaking say it will be
bailt even if Columbus does nothing. The
State of Alabama, after certain progress is
made, gives aid to the extent of §16,000 a mile.
No route has yet been proposed which prom
ises such grand results to Columbus and the
counties of Eastern and Northern Alabama,
passing as it does through toe centre of as rich
coal and iron regions as can be found on toe
continent. All toe voters of Lee county should
turn out Satuiday and cast ballots for subscrip
tion.—Columbus Sun.
Rumors are circulating in Paris that Adelina
Patti is going to apply for a divorce from her
husband, wbo, she has found out, is an inveter
ate gambler. Nearly all toe Paris correspondents
A Protest from Georgia.
From the Neto York Commercial Advertiser, ISIh.]
We have received the following letter from
Georgia, to whieh we gladly give place:
Macon, May 13.
To the Editors of the Commercial Advertiser :
Will you allow toe writer of this, while renew
ing his subscription to your paper, to express
toe regret he is made to feel ou reading in your
columns a good many misrepresentations of the
people of Georgia and toe condition of affairs
here, and which frequently receive more or less
of your editorial endorsement.
If you knew the true state of feeling here, and
the good order that prevails, yon wonld doubt
less discerdit and ignore those exaggerated and
often entirely false stories about our “ rebellious
spirit,” “outrages,” “oppressions of thenegro,”
etc., etc., that constitute toe capital of carpet
baggers, and a few disreputable natives; they
are the extreme^ of all Radicals, who join
them to share the plunder. If these creatures
(toe North considers them toe representatives of
loyalty) wonld devote themselves to any honest
calling with the same energy they apply to work-
ing up an “outrage” for effect at Washington,
they might soon make themselves independent
and respectable, but that cannot be; itis not the
nature of such beings. Of late, not much has
been published abont Ku-Klux, and all that ever
was mown here of that terrible organization,
or myth, was derived from Northern papers. No
such thing existed in this part of toe country, if
it did anywhere in toe South.
That lawless acts are committed here as well
as in other places is a matter of course, but that
there are more of them here than in many North
ern and Western communities will hardly be as
serted by any one who is intelligent and regard
ful of truth.
It is to be regretted that instead of giving cre
dence and publication to false statements like
those of the negro, H. M. Tomer, and other
wonld-be incendiaries, whether white or colored,
or even the observations of Col. Forney, who
rode throngh the South at race-horse speed, in
little more than a week, bnt was able to discover
the “spirit of disloyalty” and “social ostracism,”
yon do not obtain information from honorable
men wbo have been among ns and tarried long
enough to be able to speak intelligently on the
subject—such men as Mr. Wm. E. Dodge, Mr.
Chas. H. Dabney, and others whom yon know.
Those named are strong enough Republicans
yon will allow, bnt they are not likely to falsify
an unfortunate people, either to further party
ends or to secure plunder for themselves.
It is true that people here, who respect them
selves, do not invite strangers into their fami
lies merely because they are from toe North—
as Mr. Forney appears to think ought to be
done—bnt if a gentleman is properly introduced,
it matters not whether ho comes from Boston or
Bangor, or from London or Moscow, or what
may be his political principles, he is equally
sure to receive such hospitalities as we are
now able to furnish. Southemerswho go North
are not invited into families there unless they
have a previous acquaintanceship, or are bear
ers of introduction from mutual friends.
It is not time now to begin to discourage, in
stead of continuing to feed, the bitterness of
feeling that so many Northern peoplo seem to
think it patriotic or profitable to cherish and
avow. The Repnblican party wonld gain, in
stead of lose, by promoting good feeling.
If our correspondentknewwith whatdiligeneo
we have sought to get at the truth of the news
from Georgia, he would hardly venture to inti
mate that we are “continuing to feed toe bitter
ness of feeling” that is cherished and avowed
by many both at the North and Sontli, and not
merely, as he hints, at toe North alone. If he
has read this paper attentively, he knows that
we have advocated agenerons and magnanimous
treatment of the South, that we have called at
tention to every point by which the South can
present itself in a favorable light, and that we
have tried to regard the outrages that really
have been committed there, as exceptional and
unfrequent. That toe accounts of them are
false, toe murder of so many Georgians disprove.
That they are outrages in toe worst possible
sense, is manifest from the fact that the victims
are prominent persons, often legislators, and
that the causes of toe crimes are so often polit
ical.
Our correspondent will concede that we have
sought many opportunities to lay before our
readers the good and temperate and friendly
words that are spoken at the South. If a South
ern paper suggests a welcome to emigrants, we
copy toe article or give it substantially. If we
hear an utterance in behalf of harmony, frater
nal love, union, we note toe fact and repeat the
word. The letters of Mr. Forney wo regard as
generally favorable to toe South, and calculated
to disable prejudice. So also, those of Mr. Me-
dill to toe Chicago Tribune, from which we
quoted freely, and onr correspondent may rest
assured that we shall hail with unspeakable joy
every sign and symptom of good feeling at the
South, and that we shi.ll take no port in efforts
to misrepresent pnblic sentiment there, though,
at this writing, we are of opinion that pnblio
sentiment is far less friendly toward toe North
than our correspondent wonld have us believe.
We shall at all events hope to have everything as
rosy as he says it is.
Negroes to toe Sandwiched between
Will te Mechanics of the North.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Gazette thus speaks of the direct efforts of
toe Radical administration to force amalgama
tion upon toe white mechanics of toe North:
The progress of onr civil revolution is rapid.
At first, the country was called upon to seenre
only the negro “equality before the law;” then
it was required that as he had shot off a bullet,
“ Argyle,” he was entitled to “ the ballot.” All
this has been accomplished. Still fools thought
that social equality and eventual amalgamation
were not really contemplated. It was reserved
for this administration to take the final leap and
boldly avow its determination to force (as far as
it could) official, industrial and social equality,
without toe absolute requirement of any law at
all. The experiment was first tried npon tho
more indigent and helpless class of white labor
ers here. They were required especially to mix
indiscriminately with toe negrohs, if employed
by the Government or corporation. If the
natnre of the work required fifty gangs in
different localities, care was taken that each
gang should be composed of blacks and whites,
and toe stronger toe contrast of color the better.
Then toe department were, with a singular in
genuity of diabolism, sandwiched, with all
colors and sexes. Still, as (in toe estimation of
the radical paty,) day laborers were of little ac
count, and positions in the Departments re
garded as merely “political,” the object of the
Government was not made sufficiently plain—
mechancis and artiSts must be made to succumb
to social and industrial commingling with toe in
ferior race. A negro (a son of toe notorious
Fred Douglas) is therefore thrust into the Pub
lic Printing Office, as an entering wedge to an
admixture of “colors” and “races” in the pub
lic workshops throughout toe country. That
this is toe avowed object of Grant’s administra
tion, I annex a short extract from the Star, of
Saturday, which is well posted in Government
designs. Speaking of toe opposition of the
printers here to the employment of toe negro
compositor, it proceeds:
“It is said, however, that Mr. Clapp is firm
in his decision that Douglas shall retain hie
position in the office, and in this respect will
carry out toe policy of toe Government in recog
nizing the claims of colored men.”
Here a general “policy” is declared. The
government “calculation” is that there is but
a step from tho dirt bank, the mechanics’ work
bench, toe printer’s case, or the clerk’s desk, to
toe social fireside, and bnt half a step from
that to toe altar—or something worse.
Mr. Clapp, it is understood here, was sonnded
npon his willingness to aid toe government in
degrading his profession before he secured the
removal of Mr. Defrees, who, I am informed,
utterly refused to be used in this way. You will
receive an account of the action of toe printers
here last night in toe paper I enclose. Let
every trader association in toe land take imme
diate action in this, to them, a matter of toe
most momentous consequences in every respect
in which it can be viewed. The design of toe
government, if it Bhall he accomplished, (and it
will be, nnless immediate action is token to
thwart it.) will work a thorough overthrow of
the existing principles of labor, and degrade it
beyond remedy. In a very few days orders will
be issued to submit the mechanics employed in
navy yards to toe degradation of being classed
as upon a par with a race which nature has
branded as inferior, and with which the common
judgment of the civilized wprld has assigned
personal and family disgrace as the penalty of
association npon terms of social equality.
New York Dry Goods Market.
New York, May 19.—Dry Goods—The weather
has been rather stormy and toe market
therefore been very quiet and continues de
pressed. Sherbroke 36-inch brown sheetings
are reduced in price to llic ? and Live Oak to
llic. The 8alem ticks are also reduced in price
Letter from Talbot.
Fine Prospect for a Crop—Cotton—Corn—Oats
—Wheat, Eye and Barley—Visit to the Val
ley—Sunday-school Celebration — Chalybeate
Springs—Fine Rain, etc.
Talbotton, May 13, 1869.
Editors Telegraph : Our prospect for a crop,
this year, is more encouraging than any year
subsequent to the war. The com will soon be
knee high, and looks splendidly. The several
weeks of dry weather have enabled farmers to
run around their cotton, and chopping now is
the rage. Hands, for this purpose, get one dol
lar per day, and scarce! Guano has been used
considerably. Grass is getting thick in its vicin
ity. Onr stands of cotton are excellent, and
were never better. We employ abont toe same
labor and productive capital in this comity
last year. If anything, labor is not so abun
dant. The negroes are working well—work best
in families, with lands to themselves. The small
grain all looks flourishing, promising an abnn.
dant harvest.
A recent visit to Talbot Valley, everywhere
disclosed toe fact of great energy and activity
in the beautiful farms of this section.
We stood within the shadow of Oak Mountain,
at a grand exhibition of seven Sunday-schools.
The singing was excellent—the speeches by
Maj. Maxon and Rev. Mr. Christian, were chaste
and beautiful. After the exercises were over
we attended another exhibition. This took
place around many talbes, everybody participa
ting and enjoying the bountiful blessings of
Heaven and woman’s hands. These two ideas
are inseparable—Heaven and woman. The
ladies were all pretty; bnt I saw many ugly
men. The old men and women spoke of fanning
but we young boys and girls talked abont some
thing else—I cannot tell you, for it was an inex
haustible subject. It was arrayed in all the
poetry and romance of life—productive of beau
tiful thoughts, and full of Elysian dreams. The
girls were attractive—“ad and traho”—like on
throne, seated in buggies or carriages, drew the
boys to them. I was easily drawn—a subject
to their beautiful tyranny. Long! long may
toe day live of sweetest memory, cool shadows
and bright sunshine in that lovely grove.
Many of your good citizens will remember,
with pleasure, happy days passed at Chalybeate
Springs. The beauty of this favorite resort is
enhanced by an entire renovation and many
new improvements. Board has been reduced
to §40 per month, stage fare, etc., offering in
ducements that must insure snccess. Desirous
of having more intimate commercial relations
with Macon, believing her star to be in the as
cendant, nothing wonld gratify us more thou to
have her citizens visit this portion of our State,
that we may become better acquainted with
each other.
We are having a fine shower of rain to-day,
that will reinvigorate the crops. We were just
needing such a shower. “ Occasional.”
United States Internal Revenue.
DUTIES OF TAX-PAYERS.
Written for the Jelegraph.
A careful examination of the provisions of toe
Revenue law will enable any one intelligently to
fulfill its requirements.
1st. If engaged in any business, trade oroccu
pation, he ascertains whether he comes within
any definition of an occupation requiring a spe
cial tax, and he is liable at once for failing to
give proper notice to toe Assistant Assessor of
the division where he resides.
2d. If he is engaged in any business requir
ing a monthly tax on sales (as a wholesale deal
er, etc.,) he makes careful monthly returns of
such sales, on or before the 10th day of each
month npon toe proper blank.
3d. At toe time of toe annual assessment he
procures from too Assistant a blank for a fall
return of his income, and of toe articles he owns
or possesses in Schedule A, and makes a clear
and ingenuous statement of too same, returning
toe same to toe Assistant within too required
time.
4th. If a manufacturer of any article or thing
subjeetto a specific or advnlorem tax, he diligent
ly ascertains the rate of tax to which he is sub
ject, or if the article or thing manufactured by
him is, under any stage of circumstances, ex
empt from tax, it will be grateful to Inm to so
discover and save toe burden of taxation to the
fullest extent. If be is liable to tax he will keep
careful accounts of the sales made by him, and
return toe statement, duly sworn to, at toe prop
er time.
5th. If be is a distiller, brewer, manufacturer
of tobacco, snuff and cigars, or otherwise en
gaged in a business that requires a bond before
it is commenced or continued, he sees to it that
a good bond is executed and duly filed with his
notice of intention to carry on toe business. He
will farther make it certain that his agent or
other employers keep exact account of the busi
ness, and furnish Inspectors, Assistant Asses
sors, Collectors and Assessors and all other offi
cers duly authorized in toe premises with all re
turns and statements. Unwavering ingenuous
ness and honesty is the better policy in dealing
with the Government.
6to. If he is a banker, broker, or officer of an
incorporated bank, he will see to it that all his
returns to toe government officials are made
with the same exactness and promptitude as in
his dealings with his customers. A man should
no sooner defraud toe government of a cent,
than cheat his customers or defraud his neigh
bors.
7th. If he is on auctioneer, secretary or treas
urer of an insurance company, lottery ticket
dealer, proprietor of a theatre, circus, opera
hoaso or maseam, or other person paying taxes
monthly or otherwise upon gross receipts, or
accountable officer of a railroad, steamboat,ship,
canal, or otherwise, his accounts will be kept in
such a manner that too officer of the govern
ment, as well as the stockholder, may at any
time, and with facility, examine them; and that
toe due returns are punctually made and re
turned to the Assistant Assessor.
8th. If he is entitled to a legacy by will, or to
a distributive share of an intestate estate, or if
he is toe successor of an interest subject to tax,
or has received by voluntary conveyance any
real estate from father or mother, or othor an
cestor or grantor, he will punctually, as soon as
he comes into possession, give notice to the
Assistant Assessor and make his sworn return,
or if he is nnable to fix and estimate his inter
est and ascertain the tax due, he will seek pro
per information from those who are supposed
to be able to assist him, or directly apply to the
Commissioner.
9th. In fine, toe tax-payer has no reasonable
excuse if he neglects to render to the Assistant
Assessor all returns required by toe law. Blanks
adapted to toe nature of his returns are easily
to be had upon application. The plea of ignor
ance now cannot avail, and “gross careless
ness,” now as ever, is reasonably deemed equi
valent to frand. Penalties will be impartially
enforced, and prosecutions will in all proper
cases Jje rigorously pursued.
toeserumoHL* 11 ^ Belgian papers mention to We. AtiantioA brown sheetings are lower,
and are. now j
at 15c.
Heavy Stealing Somewhere on the
Ronte.
The amount of the item “stealling” on cotton
shipped from this city to Northern ports is now
so great as to enter into the calculations of buy
ers abont to invest in toe staple. “We are relia
bly informed that a lot of 106 bales lost 750lbs.
between this city and Savannah. Another lot
of 198 lost so much in weight between Columbus
and New York as to amount to §350. The cot
ton was carefully weighed at the warehouses
here jnst before shipment. Both toe lots were
sent forward by toe Southwestern and Central
Railroads, and the loss must have occurred be
fore the cotton was shipped at Savannah, be
cause there could have been no way of conceal
ing stealings so great on an ocean steamer.
We bear of another lot that lost seven pounds
per bale on toe route, and of still another sent
from this city, which, arriving in New York, was
sold at a profit per pound, but toe stealing was so
great as to counterbalance toe profit. The New
York broker wrote that cotton shipped from a
Southern seaport to New York generally gained
in weight from toe dampness of toe passage,
but that the loss by the inland transportation to
toe Southern seaport could not be so easily ac
counted for.
That a strict investigation should be made of
this kind of plunder, and toe guilty parties and
their exact locality discovered, is dne to all who
are interested in the production, sale or move
ment of cotton.— Columbus Enquirer.
Pushing Them Down.—By the operation of
natural causes, the nigger was gradually pushed
out from State after State of toe Eastern and
Middle States, years ago. The movement was
, stayed when he was abont half pushed out of
1 Maryland and his hold a little weakened on
Virginia. Then came the abolition and pro
slavery excitement, which strengthened his hold
on toe border States. Now, slavery being out
of the way, and toe commercial interest in toe
nigger gone, natural causes operate again, and
he is disappearing from Virginia. Small farms
and white labor are sure to aooomplisb the re
generation of that grand old State!—Herald.
Putnam and the Galaxy for Jane were receiv
ed yesterday.
Correspondence between the Bishops
of the M. E. Church and the Bishops
of the M. E. Church, South.
Front the St. Louie Chrietian Advocate.]
413 Locust street, St. Louis,
May, 13, 1869.
To the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South:
Reverend and Dear Brethren—We have been
deputed to convey to you a communication from
toe Board of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
We are ready to wait upon you at such time
and place as may suit your convenience.
With assurances of Christian regard,
Your truly, E. 8. Janes,
M. Simpson.
St. Loot3, May 7, 1869.
To Bishops Janes and Simpson :
Reverend and Dear Brethren—Your note of
this date to toe Collegeof Bishops of the Metho
dist Episoopal Church, South, informing them
that you have been deputed to convey to them a
communication from toe Board of Bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and of their readi
ness to wait upon them for this purpose, has
been received.
I have been instructed to reply that they will
be pleased to receive you to-morrow, at 10
o’clock a. m. at their room, 1406 Locust Place,
Very respectfully and truly yours,
H. N. McTyeibe, Secretary.
Accordingly, at 10 o’clock a. m., Bishops
Janes and Simpson, having been announced,
were introduced to the Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, and, after some gener
al conversation, made the following communica
tions:
Meadville, Pa., April 23, 1869.
Dear Brethren.—It seems to us that as toe
division'of those Churches cf our country which
are of like faith and order has been productive
of evil, so toe reunion of them wonld be pro
ductive of gopd.
As the main cause of toe separation has been
removed, so has the chief obstacle to the restor-
ation. . • .
It is fitting that the Methodist Church, which
began the disunion, should not be toe last to
achieve the reunion; and it would be a reproach
to the chief pastors of toe separated bodies if
they waited until their flocks prompted them to
the union, which both the love of country and
of religion invoke, and which, the Providence of
God seems to render inevitable at no distant
day.
We are. aware that there are difficulties in the
way, growing out of the controversies of the
past and the tempers of toe present.
We have, therefore, deputed our colleagues,
Morris and Janes, to confer with you alike as to
the propriety, practicability and methods of re
union, hoping that they, having been elected to
their high office by toe church before its sever
ance and endeared to all its parts by their apos
tolic labors, may live to see toe severed parts
nnited upon a foundation honorable to all, stable
as truth, and harmonious with the fundamental
law of onr religion.
In behalf of toe Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Respectfully yours. &c.,
T. A. Morris, President.
D. W. Clark, Secretary.
To the Reverends, the Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South,
P. S. Bishop Morris having stated that it was
doubtful whether ho would be able to fulfill the
duties of the commission, it was resolved that
Bishop Simpson be added to toe delegation
above described. T. A. Morris.
To the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, convened in St. Louis, Mo:
Reverend and Dear Brethren—At a meeting
of toe Board of Bishops at the Methodist Epis
copal Church, held in Erie, Pa., in Jane, 1865,
we made and published the following declara
tion:
That toe great cause which led to toe sepa
ration from us of both the Wesleyan Methodists
of this country, and of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, has passed away, and we trust
the day is not far distant when there shall be
but one organization, which shall embrace toe
whole Methodist family in tho United States.”
This declaration was made in good faith, and
shows what were then onr sentiments and feel
ings, and were deemed by us as toe utmost we
were authorized to say or do on the subject at
that time.
Although our late General Conference did not
directly authorize us to take further specific ac
tion in toe matter, yet we judge that some of its
acts justify advanced steps on onr part
In onr quadrennial address to toe General
Conference we referred to the declaration above
quoted, and no exception was taken to it by that
body.
The General Conference, to promote the union
of Metoodistic Churches, appointed a commis
sion, consisting of eight members of that body
and toe bishops of toe Church, who were “ em
powered to treat with a similar commission from
any other Methodist Church” that may desire a
union with ns.
We have understood that there wore in toe
minds of many of the members and ministers
of the Methodist Episcopal Church Sonth rea
sons why they consider it unsuitable for them
to initiate measures to effect a reunion of the
two Churches.
Believing, as we do, that if they ware one in
both spirit and organization, much more could
be accomplished for the interests of humanity
and for the glory of God, we are desirous of
doing all we consistently can to promote a re
union on terms alike honorable to both Churches
and in the spirit of onr divine Lord.
We therefore ask your attention to toe com
mission above referred to, and we express to
you too opinion that should your approaching
General Conference see proper to appoint a
similar commission, they will be promptly met
by our commission, who, we doubt not, will be
happy to treat with them and to report toe re
sult to our next General Conference.
Praying that Infinite Wisdom may guide
both you and us in this important matter, so
that our Redeemer's kingdom may be advanced
and His name bo glorified, we are yours, in toe
bonds of the gospel of Christ,
E. S. Janes,
M. Simpson.
In behalf of toe Bishops of the Methodist Epis
copal Church.
St. Louis, Mo., May 8, 18G9.
To the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church:
Reverend and Dear Brethren—It has afforded
us pleasure to receive in person your respected
colleagues, Bishops Janes and Simpson, deputed
by yon to confer with us; and we cannot forbear
to express our regret that one of the delegation
appointed by you to us (toe venerable Bishop
Morris) was not able to be present. We desired
to see him again face to face, to enjoy his
society, and to renew to him the assurances of
onr affection and regard. Onr senior superin
tendent, Bishop Andrew, though in toe city, was
hindered by toe feebleness and infirmities in
cident to age from being present at toe recep
tion of your colleagues and enjoying with us
toe interview.
Your communication, together with that laid
before us by your commission, has been consid
ered, and we entirely agree in your estimate of
toe responsibility in toe premises resting on the
chief pastors of toe separated bodies of Meth
odism.
We wonld approach, dear brethren, toe mat
ter of your communication with the utmost can
dor and love, and so meet toe advanced steps on
your part that nothing shall be wanting on oars
to bring about a better state of things, becoming
and beneficial to ns both. We deplore toe un
fortunate controversies and tempers that have
prevailed, and that still prevail, and our earnest
desire and prayer to God is, that they may give
place, and that speedily, to peace. In evidence,
of this, we are ready not only to respond to, bnt
to go further than, your communication, and
from onr point of view to suggest what may help
to remove the difficulties and obstacles that are
in the way.
Permit us, then, to say, in regard to “re
union,” that in our opinion there is another sub
ject to be considered before that can be enter
tained, and necessarily in order to' it—we mean
toe establishment of fraternal feelings and re
lations between the two churches. They must
be one in spurit before they can be one in or
ganization. xloncord must be. achieved before
any real union—heart divisions must be cured
before corporate divisions can be healed.
You will not consider it as unfriendly to the
freest flow of Christian sympathy, evoked by
your overture,'if we remind you that we initiated
the measure to effect fraternal relations some
years ago; and, as was declared then, and as
we do now declare, in good faith, and with most
Christian purpoMs. Our General Conference
sent one of its most honored elders to your Gen
eral Conference, to convey their Christian salu
tations, and through him to “offer to yon the
establishment of fraternal relations and inter
course.” It pains us to refer to the fact, but it
a matter or history that he was not received.
The dosing words of Dr. Pierce to your Gen-
“You will, therefore, regard this oommunica
tion as final on the part of the Methodist Epig.
copal Church South. She can never renew the
offer of fraternal relations between the two area 1
bodies of Wesleyan 'Methodists in the United
States. But the proposition can be renewed at
any tone,-either now or hereafter, by toe Me
thodist Episoopal Church; and if ever made un-
on the basis of the Plan of Separation as adopt
ed by the General Conference of 1844 the
Church South will coidially entertain the proDo-
sition.” **
His language to our General Conference in
submitting his report was:
“Thus ended the well-intended commission
your body. Upon this noble effort I ve-
the smile of divine approbation will
i rest when the heavenly bodies themselves will
have ceased to shine. We did affectionately
endeavor to make and preserve peace, but our
offer was rejected, as of no deserving.”
The evils which have followed this rejection
we suffer in common with you; we lament them
in common with you; and notwithstanding all
toat has since occurred, we are ready, on terms
honorable to all, to join hand and heart with
you to stay, and as far as practicable to remedy
them. .But you could not expect ua to say less
than this—that the words of onr rejected dele
gates have been ever since, and still are, our
words.
It may help to the more speedy and certain
attainment of the ends we both desire, to keep
distinctly in mind onr mutual positions, and to
hold the facts involved in onr common historv
in a clear light. - }
You say “that the great cause which led to
the separation from us of both the Wesleyan
Methodists of this country and of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South has passed away.” if
we understand your reference, we so far differ
from you in this opinion that it may help any
negotiations hereafter taking place to restate
our position. Slavery was not, in any proper
sense, toe cause, but the occasion only, of that
separation, the necessity of which we regretted
as much as you. But certain principles were
developed in relation to the political aspects of
that question involving toe right of ecclesiasti
cal bodies to handle and determine matters
lying outside of their proper jurisdiction which
we could not accept; and, in a case arising,
certain constructions of the constitutional
powers and prerogatives of toe General Confer
ence were assumed and acted on which we con
sidered oppressive and destructive of toe rights
of toe numerical minority represented in that
highest judicatory of the church. That which
you are pleased to call, no doubt sincerely think,
ing it so, “the great cause” of separation exist-
ed in toe chnrch from its organization, and yet
for sixty years there was no separation. But
when those theories incidentally evolved in con
nection with it began to' be put into practice,
then the separation came.
We cannot think you mean to offend us when
you speak of our. having separated from you,
and put ns in toe same category with a small
body of schismatics who were always an ac
knowledged secession. Allow us, in all kind
ness, brethren, to remind yon, and to keep the
important fact of history prominent; that we sep
arated from yon in no sense in which you did
not separate from us. The separation was by
compact, and mutual; and nearer approaches
to each other can be conducted with hope of a
successful issue only on this basis.
Itis onr opinion that the controversies and
tempers which so disturb toe Churches, and are
so hurtful to the souls of those for whom Christ
died, are due in a large measure to irritating
causes which are not entirely beyond the control
of toe chief pastors of the separated bodies. To
this end we invite your concurrence and co-op
eration.
And we take this occasion frankly to say that
toe conduct of some of your msssionaries and
agents who have been sent into that portion of
our common country occupied by ns, and their
avowed purpose to disintegrate and absorb our
societies that otherwise dwell quietly, have been
very prejudicial to toat charity which we desire
our people to cultivate toward all Christians,
and especially those who are called by toe en
deared name of Methodists; and their course in
taking possession of some of our houses of wor
ship has inflicted both grief and loss npon us,
and bears toe appearance, to disinterested men
of the world, of being not only a breach of char
ity but an invasion of toe plainest rights of prop
erty. Thus the adversary has had occasion to
speak reproachfully, and toe cause of our Master
has been wounded by its professed friends.
Brethren, these things ought npt so to be. and
we propose, until some action more formal and
authoritative, and advanced in this direction,
can be taken by our highest judicatories, to
unite with you in preventing them. We do not
say that our own people have been in every in
stance of these unhappy controversies and tem
pers without blame as towards you. But this we
say, if any offences against the law of love com
mitted by those under our appointment—any
aggressions npon your just privileges and rights
—are properly represented to us, toe represen
tation will be respectfully considered, and we
shall stand ready, by all the authority and influ
ence we have, to restrain and correct them.
These are our views; and we are sure that we
represent the sentiments of our ministers and
people. We have no authority to determine
anything as to the “ propriety, practicability,
and methods ” of reunion of the Churches re
presented by you'and ourselves.
With sentiments of Christian regard, we are,
dear brethren, very truly, yours,
R. Paine, Chairman.
H. N. McTyeire, Secretary.
St. Louis, Mo., May ll, 1869.
Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Rail
road.—A meeting of the stockholders of the
Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad was
held at the Exchange Long Room yesterday.
At toe election of directors to control the affairs
of tiie road for the ensuing year, there were 863
shares of stock represented out of 1,176 stock
holders. The gentlemen who were elected as
directors are Joseph S. Claghom, George W.
Wylly, Octavus Cohen and J.' W. Lathrop,
(members of the old board,) Henry Brigham,
C. H. Way, A. J. Brady, A. M. Sloan and Thos.
M. Norwood. CoL W. R. Symons declined a
re-election as director.
The report of the present energetic President,
together with those of toe Treasurer and Engi
neer, were read. The reports show toe road to
be in a highly flourishing condition, with every
prospect of its completion to the Isle of Hope by
toe first of July or thereabout. The ten gentle
men who recently subscribed §5;000 each to
wards the construction of the road have paid
§25,000 for iron chairs and spikes sufficient to
complete the work to. the Isle of Hope, and a
sufficiency of passenger coaches have already
been ordered, which will be in readiness by the
time the road is finished to that point.
\Savannah Advertiser.
The Grant Hysterics.
The New York Herald of .Wednesday is appa
rently nervous about toe administration, and by
way of showing how a man in that condition
stands affected, starts ont on a long editorial as
follows :
The clouds are. rising. The heavens are be
coming black. The rumbling of distant thun
der is beginning to be heard. Evidently a stonn
is brewing. It is toe storm of popular sentiment
in regard to General Grant The press of the
country is the barometer of pnblic opinion, ft
indicates whether the political atmosphere is
fair or foul, genial or tempestuous. That pm®
is now either silently murmuring discontent or
is flashing in fury. . The radical press is typical
of the one, the democratic press of toe other.
While the former either preserves a studied si
lence or utters unfriendly words in regard to
the President of its choice, the latter does not
attempt to conoeal its hostility to Grant and his
administration, and is using every effort in its
power to make both unpopular. What is the
meaning of alLthis? Does it mean that the af
fections of the people of the United States are
becoming alienated from toe man who bnt a
few months since was their idol ?—that they at*
becoming estranged from the hero, who, as the
leader of their armies, saved this country from
political annihilation ? Unpalatable as the truth
may be, we are obliged to confess that this does
actually seem to be the case.
The Herald wants Grant to “do somethin
strikin' " at once, to show that he is none of
your common, steady “going sort,” but a real
live general—a . veritable hero. Well, down
here, we think Grant is doing something out of
the common run; and when our enlightened
fellow-citizen, Jumbo Jim, from the planta
tions, secures the appointment of Postmaster of
New York, the Herald will think so too.
Wheat.—The Marietta Journal of the 21st
says the prospect for wheat never was more flut
tering.
Facts fob the Ladies.—I earned over f* 0 ®
in a year, with one needle, on a Wlteeler A W"
eral Conference, upon being notified of the fail- j Boa S*®ta<f-Maokfe»e. , .
ure of his mtati': u, and in-your possession: * HewwYork. Pu0 *'
earn