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THE TELEGRAPH
MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1869.
be nr-imnea •—Special intelligence from
the West Indies, to the New YorkHerlad,of the
29th nit, has filled that paper with alarm.—
British and French fleets are concentrating like
flies at Nassau. Rams and iron-clads were
gathering thick and fast Drams, bugles and
trumpets—horse-marines—regiments of artillery
and infantry—immense guns and so on, were
rapidly concentrating there to strike “at the vi
tal littoral centres of Charleston, Wilmington
and Key West!” Never mind, Mr. Herald,
don’t be frightened. Where are the loyal ne
groes— where’s Pillsbnry—where’s Holden
where’s Pompey Squash? Wait till Pompey
Squash git on ho boot and fedder- Pompey
Squash will show ’em de law. Pompey Squash
will give us a new version of the old song:
1 ‘There stood John Bull in^martial pomp,
Bat here stood old Africa! ’
Let the Herald calm his fears. The valor of the
niggers during the war leaves no room to doubt
that if the French and British come here with
their iron-clads and horse marines they will get
the worst thrashing that can be imagined.
From Monroe County*
The Monroe Advertiser says Mr. T. W. King
lias been appointed Postmaster at that point.
Wheat 1b in tho milk just ripening. Com and
cotton were improving under the genial influ
ence of the sun.
The Advertiser learns that the venerable Dr.
3. L. Dagg of that place, known as the author
of “Dagg’s Moral Science,” is preparing for the
.press a volume on the Evidence of Christianity.
This volume will be as thoroughly exhaustive of
the subject as a long life-time of study and ex
perience can make it, and will be valuable as a
hand-book for ministers. We hope soon to an
nounce its publication.
Ceorgla Masonic Mutual Life Insur
ance Company.
This company was organized in April, 1867.
In two years fifty-seven of its members have
died. Nearly $200,000 have been paid to their
widows and orphans. Class A now numbers
44:15. Many members have withdrawn and
been dropped by default
The Japanese Coming.—The Herald of the
29th has dispatches from San Francisco an
nouncing the beginning of a heavy Japanese
immigration to California. One hundred and
twenty-one Japanese families are coming, bring
ing their mulberry trees, tea and bamboo plants
to begin a cultivation of silks and other pro
ducts of Japan. They are driven from Japan
by the troubles of civil war. The chances are
we shall have to go back to the term “ negroes,”
instead of “ coloredpeople,” before long, when
we wish to classify population in the United
States.
Taxation
We shall not assume that taxation in Georgia
is more burdensome than in most other States.
Indeed, we suppose it to be lighter than inmost
of them. It is varied, as to the aggregate, by
the special demands of corporations and coun
ties- bnt in its lightest aspect, it is hard and
grievous to be borne.
The unhappy citizen is never out of sight of
the tax assessor and the tax gatherer. So soon
as ono set dismisses him, another takes him np
and puts him through another course of sprouts.
He is never done with them. It is what Man-
talinisaidof the mangle—one “demnition, hor
rid grind from year’s end to year’s end.” Gross
sales once a month, and gross sales every three
month; tax for license to sell, and tax on profits
of sale; income tax and property tax to the
United States, and property tax and license tax
and poll tax to State, county and city.
Assessors warn yon by mail and on every lamp
post and comer. Look out, or death and destruc
tion are at hand. Bring in your returns. Get
blanks—read carefully—study into the law. Ig
norance excuses no man. Study diligently what
you have to pay. Keep a sett of books against
yourself for the benefit of the government Ex
amine your conscience and look sharp for pains
and penalties. Only a few days more left to
avoid a double tax.
And then comes the squad of tax-gatherers,
with their still more difficult demands, and they
all take you raking. It is a perfect running of
the gauntlet. What ono spares another clutches,
and when they have got the bottom dollar they
shake the dreadful tax execution in yonr face.
The money yon had laid by for flour, meat,
schooling, the doctor’s bill, or for house rent—
where is it? Some of the tax-gatherers have
got it, and the remainder are hard after yon for
more which yon haven’t got and hardly know
where to look for.
Surely, in all the history of the human race
never was there such a time for tax-payers.
They are like the last old buck in a swamp—
everybody’s dogs are after them and they get no
time to blow from January to December. We
believe it to be true of the great mass of the
American people that the tax money has come
to be blood money—that it is drawn out of earn
ings indispensable to comfortable subsistence.
That the people are wasting under it That the
national strength is yearly enfeebling, and that
The French Atlantic Cable.—The French
Atlantic Cable, it is announced, will be com
pleted by the first of June, only one hundred
and seventy miles of the line having to be made.
The Great Eastern, with the cable aboard, and
wfftfc the tenders, will leave Sheemess, near the
mouth oi the Thames, on Jane 20th, and after
coaling .t& Portland, will proceed to Brest.—
From Brest 2be Great Eastern will immediately
start for St Pierre, off Newfoundland, while
two other ships wiHsiil for St Pierre direct, to
lay the portion of the line between St Pierre
and Duxbnry, Massachusetts. The land line
from Duxbnry to New York is already in course
pf construction.
"Something New.—The Atlanta Constitution
Speaks of a lint room and cotton press on ex
hibition in that city, which takes the cotton
from the mouth-of the gin, packs it evenly and
without matting the lint, and with a lateral
screw ‘presses the bale to the proper size, all
wi th'-fhe same power that runs the gin. It saves
tiahton and a great deal of work, compared with
the old style of packing cotton. The savings
off of one good cotton crop will pay for the lint
room and press.
The Chableston Phosphates in Europe.—The
Cornier of Monday says the demand for the
Charleston Phosphates is rapidly extending it
self, and ^hat the British bark Maria, which ar
rived there on Saturday, consigned to Messrs.
John & Theod. Getty, will take in a full cargo
for a port in Great Britain, being the first entire
ship load sent to a European port.
Ido lathy op Money.—The Cincinnati Com
mercial, a Republican papar, says the idolatry
of money that marked the first acts of this ad
ministration now pervades all the departments
of it. Don Piatt, a Radical, writing to a Radi
cal paper, the Commercial, gives his experience
of a late visit to Washington, thus: “The more
broadcloth you have on, and the larger the dia
mond in yonr shirt front, the better will bo your
treatment. The same is true of every depart
ment.”
Gen. Tebby.—The Atlanta press announces
-that Gen. Terry, accompanied by his mother
and two sisters, arrived in Atlanta on the morn
ing of the Slst.ult The Atlanta New Era says
he is an efficient officer and an educated and ac
complished gentleman and unmarried. If he
is a just man that is all we want.
B. A. Wise & Co.—Mr. Wise has connected
with himself in the management of the Cherry
Street House Furnishing Establishment, Messrs.
J. W. Truman and B. E. Grimes, young gen
tlemen well known in the publio as long con
nected with that business, intelligent, polite,
popular and accommodating. The Crockery
House on Mulberry Street will still be carried
on by B. A Wise.
Vertical Railways have removed a great ob
jection to huge hotels. One of the finest in the
country is that in the American House, Boston.
Messrs. Rice have left nothing undone for the
comfort of their patrons.
Quotations Reduced. — The Philadelphia
Press of Saturday says:
At Albany the price for a legislator, fair to
middling, has fallen from $500 to $100.
The Press is authority, as these are Radical
legislators.
The Air-line Railroad, from Atlanta to An
derson C. H., S. C., is now in a fair way of suc
cess. The New Era says that work upon it is
being energetically pushed forward, and the
present prospect is, that before winter sets in
the cars -will be running over the first twenty
miles of the track. The men who have hold of
it are pushing things with n will, resolved to
complete their contracts at as early a day as
possible.
Nxw Paper in the West.—Don Piatt, in con
nection with Mr. lu D. Reynolds, has com
menced the publication of a new daily paper in
Dayton, Ohio. It is to be “ reasonably Repub
lican ” in politics; and we know it will take all
Don Piatt’s sense and ability to explain and de
fend that position.
Facts jor the Ladies.—On the 7th day of
August, 1857, 1 purchased one of yonr sewing-
machines, which has been used from that day
to thin, almost incessantly. I do not recollect
any day, except Sundays, in which some work
has not been done upon it By far the greater
part of the time it has been ran from seven
o'clock in the morning until ten, eleven and o^ten
until twelve o’dock at night. It has never cost
me one oent for repairs, and is to-dsy in as
complete working order as the day I bought it
I would not exchange it for a new machine of
-•ay other kind. Harriett A Bellows.
Renee* Falla, Nov. 22, 1868. . , t
its effects will, in not many years, disclose
themselves as detrimental in the highest degree
to the public welfare.
We do not wish to be understood that the ag
gregate of national wealth is diminishing. This
is not true. But wo believe it is true that while
the aggregate wealth of the country is increas
ing, the increase is made np in the rapid accu
mulations of the rich—the “earnings of capital”
and in spite of the growing poverty and disabili
ty of labor. We believe the country is rapidly
sinking under the drains of exorbitant and par
tial taxation into the condition of the old world
—into extremes of wealth and extremes of pov
erty, and the middling comfortable class is every
year getting fewer and fewer. That labor, in
spite of all its ill-conceived and ill-pursnedreme-
dies in the way of combination, is constantly
sinking into disadvantage in its straggle against
capital, and that these tendencies will shortly
be too apparent to be questioned.
Meanwhile, in the matter of taxation which
the people can control, it behooves them to be
working earnestly in the business. The great
extravagance of federal expenditures seems to
have stimulated State, county and corporation
to a “generous rivalry.” Instead of curtailing
every cent in order to save the citizen and ena
ble him the better to sustain the demands of the
federal Government, State, counties and cor
porations seem to be emulous of the leeching
powers of Congress and determined to see if
they cannot be surpassed.
This ought not so to be, and it cannot be so
much longer without seriously crippling the
abilities of the people for revenue purposes.—
We are told that in some of the counties the
default lists are very large, and tax executions
will probably be distressing. The attention of
tho people should be early and earnestly drawn
to the matter of an abatement of domestic taxes
and they should refuse to support' any candidate
hereafter who will not pledge himself to abate
ment and rigid econemy.
The Fence Question.
Tho Southern Cultivator copies an article
upon enclosures from the Georgia Enterprize,
which will be found in this edition, signed “A
Farmer.” It is an intelligent article, and con
tains many suggestions which the Telegraph
has tried editorially to place before the public.
The same subject is eamesily engaging tho at
tention of the public in all the Southern States.
We think the State of Alabama has passed a law
upon this subject—at all events, it has been
under consideration by the Legislature. Vir
ginia is deeply moved upon it, and bad that glo
rious old State a Legislature, she would have
led off in digesting a well-considered statute.
When, if ever, the intelligence of that State is
able to resume the direction of its affairs, we
may expect to see measures promptly adopted
to dispense with tho necessity for farm fences.
We regard this, in fact, as tho great national
question of the day—a measure of deliverance
absolutely indispensable to the prosperity of the
South. Fences cost us probably more than tax
es. There is no way of getting at the expense,
bnt any reasonable calculation must make it a
large one. This writer places it at “millions
annually,” in Georgia, and we have no doubt he
is right. Do away with this needless labor and
expense and you will at once lighten the bur
dens of a people oppressed by tho tremendous
taxation of tho day—such taxation as was never
before collected except by bayonets in the way
of forced loan.
This matter was also made the subject of a
special report and resolution by the lato Mem
phis Convention, so that we may reasonably
assume that it has at length excited a general
attention in some degree commensarate with its
merits.
We beg leave to refer tne reader to the arti
cle we allude to, and to ask the earnest conside
ration of our Georgia landholders and planters
to the subject If they will, at their various
agricultural meeting and social gatherings, dis
cuss this matter—its desirableness—its practica
bility—the question of loss and gain connected
with it if there be any real loss, of which we
doubt—and the proper provisions of a statute,
much light may be thrown upon the whole mat
ter. We invite the attention of our numerous
correspondents to this subject, as one of the
most interesting and important subjects which
can engage their thoughts and pens. Let ns
hear from them.
Terrible State of Affairs Generally.
We copy the following from the Washington
dispatches to the New York Herald, of the 29th:
QUARRELING OVER THE SPOILS—HOW APPOINTMENTS
> lRB OBTAINED.
There is a story told here to-day which, if true,
is anything but creditable to Postmaster General
Creswell and Commissioner Delano. It seems
that some time ago, Mr. H. DeForrest Young,
who served as Chief of Ordnance with the Third
Army corps under Sickles and afterwards was
connected with the Freedmen's Bureau in Geor
gia, was recommended by strong influence for
the position of Assessor of the second district of
that State. His appoint munt was positively
promised, and he returned to Georgia fully ex
pecting that his commission would shortly follow
him, bnt to his surprise a man named White-
head was subseqnentlynomiiiatedand confirmed.
This change is said to have been effected in the
following way: Creswell has a cousin named
Dr. Strohecker, in Macon, Ga., who desired to
control the patronage of the Assessor’s office,
and therefore used his influence with Creswell
to have Mr. Whitehead appointed, with the un
derstanding that Whitehead should appoint a
relative of Creswell to a position under him,
and permit Strohecker to manipulate the pat
ronage.
At the same time Delano had a friend who
was working to obtain the postal agency for one
of the new districts out West. The story goes
that thereupon Creswell and Delano struck a
bargain, the former agreeing to give Delano’s
friend the postal agency on the condition that
Whitehead—Creswell’s man—should be appoint
ed to the Georgia assessorship. This bargain
was literally carried out. Now it seems White-
head has refused to allow Creswell’s consin to
enjoy the patronage of the assessorship accord
ing to promise, though he appointed Mr. Scott,
a relative of Creswell, to a clerkship under him.
The consequence is that there is a grand rum
pus. Strohecker has let the cat ont of the bag,
and Young has come here armed with affidavits
to prove that Whitehead was not only a rebel,
bnt everything else that might be deemed
disreputable. It is a very pretty quarrel as it
stands.
THE NEGRO POSTMASTER AT MACON, GEORGIA—A
NOVEL moi B TO THE httivt. ELEMENT.
The appointment of the negro Turner as Post
master of Macon was made at the request of
Senator Sumner and General Butler, and with
the full concurrence of the Cabinet, a rebuke to
the disloyal element of Georgia for the late
murders and outrages alleged to have been per-
petrated there. Butler is said to have told the
President that the step was absolutely necessa
ry, and that unless it was taken be (Bntler)
would make the omission the cause of pitching
into the administration with all his ability on
the reassembling of Congress. A deputation
of Georgians waited upon the President on
Thursday, to protest against the continuance of
Turner in the office. They stated that Turner
was entirely unfit for the position, and made
himself odious to all parties by his impndence
and ignorance; that Mr. Washington, who had
been removed to moke way for Tnraer, was a
truly loyal Republican, and* had given tho high
est satisfaction during the administration of the
office. The President informed the deputation
that he had nothing whatever against Mr. Wash
ington. His removal had been made through a
conviction that it was necessary to administer
some sort of a rebuke to the rebel element there
who had countenanced the late outrages, and he
(the President) thought Turner would give them
a most unpleasant dose. It was too late now to
protest against the appointment. It has been
made and most stand, no matter bow unpalata
ble it might be to the people of that section,
loyal or disloyal.
A gentleman writing from Macon about the
appointment of Turner, uses the following
words :
It will do more to damn Grant’s administra
tion than anything he ever did. Even the ne
groes are dissatisfied with the appointment; the
white radicals are of course, down on it, for
they wanted it themselves. Turner, the ap
pointee, is a stuck-np darky, who has been
spoiled by his political associations with mean
white men. I cannot understand what General
Grant could have meant by making such an ap
pointment. It is outrageous and withent ex
cuse. My word for it, General Grant will be
sorry that he allowed such an outrage to be
committed on innocent people who vainly look
ed to him for peace. They asked for bread and
he gave stones, for fish and he sent a serpent.
With Pomp.—According to the Atlanta pa
pers, General Terry, our new military boss,
most have been received with great pomp-
The Constitution of Sunday says:
The committee appointed to welcome General
Terry will leave on a special car at 8 a. m. fhfa
morning. Those appointed by the Governor
are : Col. E. Halbert, Col. H. P. Farrow, Wm.
Markham, Col. G. N. Lester, H. L Kimball,
Gen. Austell, Judge Whittaker, Jndge J. D.
Pope, John Rice, Esq., H. O. Hoyt, A L. Har
ris, E. B. Pond, Capt. J. A Boras.
Those appointed by the Mayor are: J. A
Hayden, D. G. Jones, V. A. Gaskill, J. Nor-
cross, W. A. Hemphill, A B. Watson.
The Tripple Alliance Story.
The London correspondent of tho Tribune,
writing May 13th, explains and defends that re
port which was set on foot by liimself, as fol-
ows :
The fact which at this moment dwarfs all
other facts is the beginning of negotiations for
an alliance, offensive and defensive, between
England, France and Spain, against the United
States. This I telegraphed yon a few days ago.
It is still a secret in London. I shall say noth
ing of the sources of my information, nor can I
add much to the original statement. I do not
know who set this project on foot—whether it
was started in England or France; whether con
ceived in the brain of a usurper responsible al
ready for so many mischiefs, or by some British
tool of bis who fancies he has inherited the man
tle of Palmerston, and can add another link to
tho many the old Premier forged in the chain
which kinds England to Napoleon. Bnt it seems
to have sprang np suddenly. It was hatched in
the heat of English passion, glowing red-hot
against America these last fourteen days. Of
course it grew out of the Alabama. It matters
little whether an English Minister, alarmed by
the sadden fear of meeting just demands, has
turned for refuge to the old enemy of England;
or whether Napoleon, in his alert way, volun
teered the suggestionsjof a new alliance. It is
the fashion just now in European circles to re
sent what is called the diplomatic arrogance of
America. Napoleon nurses his anger over the
expulsion from Mexico. Spain trembles for
Cnba. England sees her future darkened by
the shadow that has hung over her and paralyzed
her ever since the American war ended. Lulled
to sleep by Mr. Reverdy Johnson, she has been
rudely awakened by Mr. Sumner.
She dreads to lose Canada and her West In
dia possessions. More than one public man has
expressed his regret that England rejected the
offer of Napoleon to recognize the Confederacy.
They think it still possible to retrieve, at least
partly, that mistake. France has possessions
also in danger if Canada falls to the Republic.
There is St. Pierre, hardly ten miles from the
British coast, a nursery of French seamen, a
pet colony, for ono instance. So many consid
erations agree in recommending such an alii*
ance that I need not show why the theory is pro
bable, I have only to say that the account of
the negotiations camo to me in a way which
seemed so credible that I was not at libery to
keep silence. I cannot tell how far they have
gone, still less whether they will ever result in a
secret treaty. But I believe they are in pro
gress, and that if the Alabama claims were to
take the shape of a demand or a menace, the
resistance of England, which has become cer
tain, is likely to be supported by France.—
Whether a crisis would be precipitated by inter
vention in Cnba may be a more doubtfnl point.
It is known here that the Spanish Government
feel themselves strong enough to repel aggres
sion in that quarter. They have one, or it may
be two iron-clads, bnt in England, eqnal to the
best ships afloat in European waters, and able
to sink a fleet of monitors, with their shingled
sides of soft iron and their rickety turrets.—
Probably onr officers know well enough what
the fact is.
Enclosures.
[from the Gtorvia Entcrprif l
A large portion of our country is now deficie
in timber suitable to the building and repairing
of fences; in a few years more, if its destruction
continues in the present ratio, many fanners
will be complied to move or make a different
kind of fence, either ditches or hedges. They
will never do either, as long as there is a rail on
the farm. Many otherwise good plantations are
now considered almost worthless, simply for the
want of timber. One of the first questions of
importance now, in the purchase of a farm, is
how much woodland is there? Every farmer
knows that a fence made of new rails, (and it is
quite an undertaking now, under our present
system of labor, to make one,) will last but a
few years; then, every time it p repaired, more
new rails, and more hard, unnecessary work
must be done, so that teams and hands, both of
which coat money, must be in requisition al-
most the entire winter in these needless repairs.
The timber in many localities is at a great dis
tance from the fence to be repaired, and must
be hauled rrtr almost impassable gullies, and
over steep kills. The worms have, in many lo
calities, lolled the timber in the woods, so that
there i3 not enough left to fence it when it is
cleared.
To come right to the point. It is absolutely
necessary for our well-being, and for the good
of all, that a law be passed as soon as possible
by the Legislature requiring every man to keep
all his stock within his own enclosures. If he
chooses |to fence in all his farm for that pur
pose, nopne will deny him that great privilege.
By far tie greater number of farmers, sensible
ones, at least, will enclose suitable pastnres of
waste land, now utterly worthless to them, in
which they will put the stock which it will pay
to keep,‘and by taking away the rails which
now ornlose their fields, with which to make
the pasture, it would not be necessary to split a
rail in.years to come. Bnt the true policy
would be sow clover and grass pastures, after
making them rich, which would enable farmers
always to keep a bountiful supply of nutritions
food, and by feeding it to such cows as it
would pay to keep, a few would be worth more
than whole herds of the poor, half-starved
creatures we now have seeking a precarious liv
ing among the broomsedge and briars in the
day, and standing in mud almost knee deep all
night. A few hogs of improved breed, kept on
suitable lots, would be worth a whole drove of
such “shouts” as are seen rooting in the woods
for a living. By keeping np all the stock all
the manure might be saved, and by feeding
them on the proper food the manure made
would be valuable. By • doing away with the
fences a great deal of time would be allowed to
make manure and other improvements on the
farm. It now costs millions of dollars annnally
to keep up the fences in Georgia. Suppose
that money was spent in the preparation of the
land, in the purchase of fertilizers, in improved
stock and in improved houses and shelters for
their comfort, it would be a permanent invest
ment ; whereas all that is invested in rail fences
is worse than thrown away, became it lessens,
annually, the worth of our farms.
Onr present system allows no time to rest;
work all the time from Christmas to Christmas.
A white man, for the sake of gain, may stand it
awhile ; bnt the poor black man fails to see the
necessity or the philosophy of it. On the first
of January, if the weather is fine, the ploughs
must be running; the fence comers must be
cleaned out; ditches most be opened; if too wet
to plough, rails must be split, and the poor
males that need rest must be hauling rails: the
hands most go to making fence; this is repeated
until the crops are planted, then all the hands
are down on tho grass. The crops cre laid by
after months of hard work; then the fodder
must be pulled; before that is over the cotton is
opening; that most now be picked and prepared
for market, wheat and oats must also be sown
and the com gathered. But when too wet for
anything else, more fence is to be made or re
paired until Christmas day. This is tho life of
the farmer under onr present system. Do away
with fences, and if he must work incessantly,
let it be for that which is profitable.
Some object to keeping stock np, because they
cannot pasture their fields. Stock does the land
more harm by treading it and taking off that
which should be left in the fields to rot than the
small pittiance they get, benefits them. Others
say, if we keep our cows up we shall get no
milk! That they cannot afford to feed them,
when their neighbor’s swamp3 afford sufficient
age ? There cannot be one sufficient rea
son in the present fences, but every reason to
do away witb.them. Land would advance twen
ty-five per cent., especially that destitute of
timber. It would take a heavy burden off the
farmer.
It is hoped, that this vital subject to all may
be properly considered, examined and thorough
ly investigated. Let farmers speak out whether
in favor or opposed. Let tho subject be agita
ted, let the sense of the people be ascertained,
and let onr Legislators carry ont their will. If
all the counties in the State are not prepared to
do away with fences or have a stock law, let
each county have a special law on this subject.
The writer of this has plenty of wood land to
keep good fences even for his great grand chil
dren, and does not write from interested motives
bnt for the good of all; and as he does not wish
notoriety he signs himself A Farmer.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Judge Brady, of New York, has decided that
a gas company has no right to threaten the re
moval of a meter, or to cut off the gas supply of
a house in order to enforce the payment of a
pi.im, disputed by the consumer, and that money
paid under snch a threat can be recovered in
the court*.
Religions Ideas of Seaboard Blacks.
Rev. Dr. Girardeau, of Charleston, speaking
in defence of his report before the Mobile Gen
eral Assembly upon the evangelization of the
blacks, says:
As regards their interests, we cannot let them
go without sending them to the vast sea of rain.
I live upon the coast, among vast numbers of
them, whose numbers are being increased by
those retreating before immigration in the up
land country. I could reveal facts to astonish
the Assembly concerning their tendencies. The
father of the Rev. Dr. Palmer has told me of
theii oi^ies. They fill a table with candles,
and dance around it, saying they are the angels
of God around his throne, and one of their
number, who preaches to them, tells the Gos
pel of Julius. He cannot even correctly pro-
nounce the name of Jesus. In some of their
meetings they are adopting the Romish system
of penance. In one instance they broke bricks
into fragments and compelled the penitents to
walk over these on their bare knees. Shall we
turn them off, alienate them from ns, and in
crease the antipathy between the races?
When I retained from a Northern prison
some of the blacks asked me to preach to them.
I agreed to meet a few of their leading men,
bnt found a whole congregation gathered to
meet me. I asked them what had brought them
thus together? Nothing bnt the love of Jesus.
They wept, and I wept with them. Let ns cul
tivate that bond, the bond of the love of Jesus,
and some of the roughnesses and asperities
may be healed.
Be* Wade Interviewed.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commer
cial lias recently “interviewed” bluff Ben Wade
“to hum,” in Jefferson, Ohio. He found the
retired sage, “ with his accomplished wife, set
tled down in morning gown and slippers to a
study of favorite authors.” The illustrious in
terviewed quietly and composedly dispatched
the affairs of all the world and the rest of man
kind.
The first matter disposed of was the delicate
one of General Grant declining to appoint. Mr.
Wade Secretary of the Interior, to which post
he had been recommended by the Ohio delega
tion, headed by Senator Morton. Mr. Wade
never knew General Grant’s reasons for not
giving him the office. “I told them I didn’t
want it, bnt perhaps I should have taken it,
though tho pay is inadequate. I think he was
a little opposed to me on account of my views
about West Point. I’m down on that little nris-
tocracy, and I told Grant so, and I think he
don’t like it.”
As to the Alabama claims, the ex-Senator is
for our Government paying all damages, and
then give England notice of onr intention to fol
low her precedent on the first opportunity.
Thinks Grant is in favor of a more vigorous pol
icy even than that. Regards “the logio of Sum
ner’s speech irresistible.” To the question,
“could we fairly hold England to what is called
in law the remote damages?” he replied, “we
ought to put it in as a pretty strong make
weight." Thinks we ought to have declared
war at the time England recognized the bellig
erency of the Confederacy. With marvelous
consistency, while denouncing England for re
cognizing the belligerency of an organized gov
ernment with 200,000 men in the field, he is
strongly for recognizing tho Caban rebels, who
have neither army nor government!
To a question *s to the Virginia eleetion, Mr.
coirl nrmARTPf
Wade smd, “the chief embarrassment appeared
to be tho fact of two parties in tho contest, both
claiming to be Republican; bnthe thought there
ought to be no difficulty in determining where
to go when it was apparent which of the par
ties received the rebel support”
We respectfully submit, says the Richmond
Whig, that this is worse that General Grant’s
“horse-talk.” It puts ns between tho devil and
the deep sea. If we don’t vote we are contn*
maoious, if we vote we are getting up another
rebellion, and the man we vote for is the head
of it "What would the philosophic statesman
have ns do?
Loss In Cotton Weights.
The Columbus papers still complain of loss in
ootton weights from that city. The Sun and
Times of Sunday says :
One of the most prominent commission mer
chants in Columbus, yesterday read us a letter
from a cotton factor in New York, which showed
that seventeen bales of cotton between Colum
bus andNew York had lost470 pounds in weight,
an average of 27.65 pounds per bale. One bole
lost 80 pounds, another sixty and so on. The
writer added that the cotton was sold at an ad
vance of Sjo; yet, on account of the loss in
weight, the sale brought him in loser $93 20, not
considering commissions and interest.
The same merchant shipped a lot of 103
bales to Savannah. On arrival at that point the
difference in the weight of the lot was 700
pounds, worth, at the price paid, $200, which is
lost to somebody.
It is evident there is some stealing going on.
Another thing is plain, ano all ought to know it,
for it has been impressed upon them often
enough—that it will pay fanners to completely
cover their bales with strong bagging, and that
it is to the benefit of shipper, to have the sample
holes sewed np. It is very easy to take ont
handfuls of the staple from these holes.
Superintendent Kennedy, of New York, says
that as
hence
and cut throats.
i things go now in that city, thirty years
it will be uninhabitable, save by thieves
From Washington.
Washington, June L—Wm. A Pale has been
appointed Governor of New Mexico. This disposes
of Confederate Colonel Corrie,of Alabama, appoint
ed and confirmed to that post, bnt subsequently
found disqualified.
Revenue yesterday was nearly three million dol
lars arising mainly from inoomes.
Revenue to-day $744,000.
Borie has returned again.
The Tallapoosa takes Grant and party to the na
val ball on Thursday.
The President has appointed It. H. Cuny Register
of the Land Office at New Orleans.
The debt statement is not ready. The decrease
will not reach ten millions, bnt will show heavy coin
and currency balances.
Basset, the colored Minister to Haytl, Is made to
say: “ The President was veiy emphatic, and at the
same time very cantions, in expressing himself
about the polity of annexation. He said his own
views were in favor of such a policy, but that he
thought, in all cases, the people of a country to be
annexed should first show themselves anxious for a
union with the United States, and that then it would
be a subject for the consideration of our govern
ment.”
The Department i3 still without advices regarding
Minister McMahon.
Washington, June 2.—Charles Wheeler has been
appointed Postmaster at Eofaula.
Second Lieutenant William McGehee, of the 20th
infantry, for riotona and disorderly conduct, lias
been sentenced to dismisal and five years confine
ment in the Louisiana penitentiary.
Pennsylvania claims that cigars manufactured by
convicts should be exempt from taxation. The
claim will be regulated on the ground, that con
victs might make whisky.
Several New York bankers claim that the balk of
their capital is used for carrying stocks and bonds,
thus acting as brokers, and should be exempt.-
The claim is unfavorably received, but as yet un
decided.
Revenue to-day $897,000.
The Evening Star says: The Secretaiy of War has
communicated to tho President of the New Orleans
Chamber of Commerce, the perfect harmony of the
Government with the wishes of the Commercial
Convention, respecting the improvement oftheMis-
sissppi river.
From Atlanta-
Atlanta, June X The comer-Stone of the At
lanta University, an institution on the plan of the
Oberlin and Howard Universities, was laid to-day.
The attendance was large and included Gen. Teny
and staff, Gov. Bullock, Judge Erskino, Judge Mo-
Cay and many others. The institution is being
established under the auspices of the Freedmen’B
Bureau and the Educational Ad Societies. Re
marks were made by Gov. Bnllock, Jndge McCay
and others, and a lengthy address delivered by John
M. Langston. The arrangements were superin
tended by CoL J. It Lewis.
From Cuba.
Havana. Jane 1.—The Spanish troops are in ac
tive pursuit of the SUibusters who landed in Nipe,
and have captured three of their cannon and killed
Manuel Guerez, commander of the riflemen. A
heavy engagement has taken place at Puerto Padre
—the Insurgents massing in the vicinity of Los Ta
nas. Skirmishing is reported near Ceinfuegos be
tween the Regulars and Insurgents.
Dnlce’s order sending a number of political prison
ers to Spain has been revoked.
The British brig James Crow, with molasses from
Ceinfuegos for New York, was lost on the 23d, her
crew has arrived at Batalano.
Havana, June I—Thos. A Nelson, American
Minister to Mexico, arrived yesterday.
The United States steamer Contocoek, has re
turned to this port.
Sugar dull, sales at 8%@8%.
Havana, June 2—Mexican advices to 26th of May
state that many of the States nulify the act of Con
gress suppressing party demonstrations. Kidnap
pers are prosecuted with unusual vigor throughout
the country. Col. Mayer is still iu power. The
telegraph from the Pacific to tho Atlantic, through
Mexico is complete. 1
The property confiscated between the f9th of
April and 1st June has produced seventy thousand
dollars.
The city has been terribly excited since yesterday.
Volunteers are arriving. Serious riots are expected.
A heavy engagement has taken place between the
bays of Nipe and Banos.
The official report announces that the four can
non and all the other munitions of war, brought by
tho filibusters, have been captured.
The Times understands that no new demands
have been addressed to England, and Motley enters
upon his duties without any prospect of controver
sy ; bnt at the same time it says the English Gov
ernment shall examine any new proposals and see
if they promise a just and equitable solution. If
the neutrality proclamation is made a subject of
grievance, we are bound to listen to argument ad
duced, though, it is impossible that any good pur
pose would be received by raising such a discussion.
The Pall-Mall Gazette has a very snappish article
on the subject, boasting that America has backed
down before British pluck, and that under these cir
cumstances the arrival of the new Minister is of
small importance, and the beat results are anticipa
ted from it. Motley’s mission is such that his du
ties will afford him sufficient leisure to prosecute his
historical studies.
Berlin, Jane 2.—Parliament has passed a bill
taxing malt, sugar and bills of exchange.
Florence. June 2—The Parliamentary rejection
of Digny’s financial plans will probably lead to his
withdrawal, and other ministerial changes.
From Alabama,
Montgomery, June 1—Tho State Immigration
Convention convened to-day, and is well attended
from different parts of the State. Much interest
has been manifested, and a plan for providing homes
and securing emigrants is in a fair way of being
adopted.
Montgomery, June 2.—The Immigration Conven
tion adjourned to-day.
An able address, by Mr, De Leon, a chairman, to
the people of the North and Europe was adopted.
An organization was perfected which will go to
work at once. A President and Board of Directors,
from among the best business men of the State,
will be selected. The plan of Colonel Crandall, of
New Orleans, was the one agreed upon, that of a
stock company of money and land.
Many interesting speeches, by gentlemen of na
tive and foreign birth, were made.
General News.
Philadelphia, June 1—Mrs. Charles J. XYIslar
was thrown from her carriage and killed to day.
New York, June 1.—The waiters of nearly all
the hotels have struck for higher wages.
Pobtlaed, Maine, June 2.—Lawson Parker's wife
fatally shot a milliner—cause jealousy. O! Mrs.
Parker, how could you do it ?
St. Louis, June 2.—The Indians are committing
depredations in Western Kansas—twenty men, wo
men and children have been killed within a week
and many carried off.
Lewistown, (Me.,) June 2.—A boat with nin*
men, was carried over the falls to-day. Four were
drowned.
From Virginia.
Richmond, June 2.—The graves of the Confed
erate soldiers at the HoUywoed Cemetery were dec
orated to-day. JAbout ten thousand persons visited
the Cemetery, and business houses closed and a
general holiday was observed.
Statement of the Public Debt.
Washington, June 2—The total debt of the Gov
ernment-principal and interest—$2,633,670,65310;
amount in Treasury—coin belonging to the Govern
ment, $31,839,469 49; coin for which certificates of
deposit are outstanding, $23,340,720 00; currency,
$19,934,555 07; sinking fond, in bonds hearing coin
interest and accrued interest thereoD, $3,098,295 42;
total, $128,258,039 98. Decrease of public debt
during the past month, $13,384,777 97; decrease
since March 1st, 1869, $20,050,646 89.
From the West.
Chicago, June 2.—A Fort Smith special to the
Tribune stales that a party of 250 Cheyennes at
tacked an unprotected settlement, 160 miles from
Topeka, Sunday morning last. They came on Sat
urday evening, under pretence of friendship, and
massacred tliirteenmen, women and children. The
women were ravished, and their bodies mutilated*
Foreign News.
London. June 1.—Mr. Motley, in replying to
the address of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce,
is very pacific. He deprecated hostilities between
the two countries as adverse to the happiness of the
world, the progress of civilization and the best hopes
of humanity. Mr. Motley made a strong point of
the blood alliance between the United States and
England. [Very private. Our Minister to Libe
ria could mike tho same point as Motley.] His
most streneous efforts shall be devoted to farther
a good understanding on the basis of enduring
friendship and kindly relations, in accordance with
the great principles of justice and honor which are
the immutable and only safe and nnerring guides in
the conduct of rations.
London, June 1—Tho Irish Church bill passed a
third reading by 361 to 237. There were uproarious
cheers from the Ministerial benches.
Nearly all the journals have articles to-day on the
presentation of addresses to Motley, and discuss
the probable future relations between Great Britain
and the United States.
Tho Times, contrasting Sumner's speech in the
Senate with Motley’s language, hopes that the
peaceful tendency of the latter is not a tribnte to
appearances, but a practical indication of the in
tention of his Government. Setting aside all con
troversies with Great Britain, the Times offers Mot
ley a hearty welcome. The Times is assured that
both Government and people of the nation will re
ciprocate his friendly expressions.
St. Petersburg, June 1.—The Czar has signified
his intention to send an envoy extraordinary to
Washington to congratulate General Grant and ex
press tho Czar’s appreciation of the value of main
taining amicable relations between America and
Russia.
Madrid, June 1.—It is reported that Republican
members will not oppose a final vote in Cortes on
the question of the future form of Government for
Spain, bnt will unanimously refuse to subscribe to
oaths prescribed by the new Constitution.
Liverpool, June 1.—The duty on imported bread-
stuffs (one shilling per quarter on grain and four
and half pence on flour,) is abolished. Hereafter
foreign grains and flour will enter the British ports
free of duty.
Londo-y, June 2—In the proceedings of th
House of Commons in regard to Canada, and other
British provinces in North America, Vemey inquired
what the policy of the Government would be toward
the American colonies. Mursell replied that, while
he declined to enter on the colonial policy of the
Government, he would intimate that the Govern
ment policy was to throw the costs of self-defence
on each colony, and that measures to that end
had been partially taken, and would be extended
until next year. He had no donht that the arrange
ment for the cession of the Hudson Bay Compa
ny’s territory would receive the ratification of the
Canadian Government. The question was not one
of purchase only, bnt also of developement of colo
nization and civilization, which hitherto had been
virtually closed. If the scheme is successful, the
dominion would be able to extend from the Atlant
ic to the Pacific. He believed that all interests of
British Colombia lay in connection with Canada,
and every facility would be given to forward them.
North cote thought that the Canadians were bet
ter able to decide for themselves than to act on the
advice of the government. He believed the ques
tion would soon be satisfactorily settled.
Berry regarded Canada as the future highway to
the Indies and East. He ridiculed the idea of an
nexation to America, and said by snch a course we
had everything to loose and nothing to gain.
Adderlay regarded the arrangement as eminently
satisfactory cn the principle that he generally dis
approved of ihe system of government guarantees,
and for that reason he would vote in favor of these
measures.
London, June 2.—The Irish Church bill has been
read the first time in the House of Lords. The
second reading takes place on the 16th instant.
The New York Races.
New York, June 2—Union Course.—The Amer
ican Girl won the $2,500 purse, heating Lucy and
Goldsmith Maid. Lady Then was lame and didn't
trot. Time—2.*22^; 2:23; 2:25.
At the Jerome Park, to-day, the first race was
won by Passaic; the second race was won by Cam
eron’s bay ffiley; tho third race by Glensly-
A{Taira in Brooks County.
A correspondent of the Republican, writing
on the 29th nit, says:
Great complaint about the scarcity of money,
bard times and cool nights and mornings, bnt
the planters have not cried ont caterpillar. Cora
in this section is very promising: cotton looks
a little sick, and owing to the cool weather is
smaller than usnal, bnt hopes are entertained
that it will come ont all right
• No idle negroes are tobe seen upon the streets
of Quitman, for they have quit “Lott Leagues"
and all other carpet-bag Radical rascality and
meaness, turned Democrats and gone to work,
and consequently not only the work upon farms,
bnt all manner of labor, goes on smoothly and
satisfactorily.
This little town is like all others at present
as to business, but in many respect far in ad
vance. Here the Rev. O. L. Smith, formerly
President of the Wesleyan Female College at
Macon, and who has been called the “eloquent,
golden-mouthed preacher,” is acting principal
of a flourishing school of over one hundred
pupils, and minister in charge of the Methodist
Church. Here the Presbyterians and Baptists
each have handsome country churches, and both
are justly proud of their pastors, Mr. Alexander
and Mr. McBride. With such agreeable, cour-
teovs, intelligent ministers to preach the Word
of God, and otherwise to counsel and advise by
their Godly walk and conversation, the people
are orderly, sober, and quiet, and hence they
have bnt little nse for the marshal and the usual
regulations for the government of unruly chaps.
The boys and young men are quiet, well-be
haved, and polite to all visitors and strangers,
unless they belong to that class of political em
issaries known as the carpet-bag fraternity, and
then they are very apt to honor the party with a
serenade composed of many different and loud-
sounding instruments.
A Spoiled Child.
Said a mother the other day in onr henriim
when apologizing to a lady for the rodena*?)
a ten-year old boy : **
“I really can’t tell where he got such h,.,
manners." "wt
Of you, good woman. No one else ig ^
blame for his rndeness—germ of loeferism ins
wickedness. One day in passing we heard jm,
tell him to perform a little act—he said, a
a rough, brutal way, “I won’t” You did a,!
chide or correct him. Yon allowed that author
ity given yon by a wise Providence to be traam!
Jed upon and insulted. Yon admitted your
ability to govern when you allowed him to on
unrebuked and unpunished ; first for loafetiah
ness and secondly for wilful disobedience.
Sometimes yon scold and pound, and pummel
as if the devil was in yon. The next hour ran
are all bread-and-sugar, confectionery and phr
things. One day you are mad, and, when ont
of temper, yon snap and snarl at your children
as if they were hogs and you a dog. 611
You punish one day for an accident—the nen
day overlooked wilful disobedience. One <jv£
you box ears, thump on the head with a stick"
thimble, knife handle, book, or anything that L?
handy, for the most trivial offense, and the nea
day permit you children to sauce, you tell lfeT
and openly defy yon. This is much yonr swi
of government: J e
“Come in this house here, this minute!"
“Shut np yonr head, or I’ll lick you!"
“Stop your confounded noise!”*
“John Henry, let that alone, or I’ll skin vor
alive!" * 5
“Harriet Jane, yon little huzzy, come a*ar
from there, or I’ll break your head! •
“Shut up, this minute—don’t you hear!"
“Sit down, and don’t you stir for a week'"
“ Come along—don’t be all day, or I’ll warm
yon!”
“Don’t you dare tell me that, or I'll whin in
to death!" w
“ If you don’t behave, I’ll- tell your father'”
“ Yon great, nasty heap, you never'll be aiv.
thing!” ~
“Go to bed, or I’ll spank you to death!"
“Shut np, or I’ll put you in the dark!”
“Hold yonr tongue, and don’t jaw back to
me!”
And this you call government I As if yonr
children were wild beasts to be yetwi ^
terrified into obedience. The child realizes your
incompetency to govern, and soon learns to de.
spise yonr weakness; to trample under foot
yonr authority; to tell falsehoods to screen him',
self from yonr ungovernable anger, and look
upon you as a fit subject to wheedle and deceive.
Your child is spoiled—no one bnt yourself is to
blame. There are more balky drivers than
balky horses. More spoiled mothers than spoiled
children—at least, spoiled mothers with slip,
shod, spasmodic, streaky, unreliable tempers,
and no self-government, are sure to have spoiled
children to the annoyance of themselves an!
their neighbors.
A little common sense, qniet dignity as occa.
Sion requires, and a realization of responsibili
ties will make the best children of the wont
ones. We know a child whose eyes wonld fill
with tears at the thought of disobeying her
parents, because she loves them and respect
them. She is treated like a human being should
be treated—a growing soul.
The rales for child government are simple.—
Never lose your temper. Be careful; an ounce
of love is better than a ton of fear. Do not sup
and snarl, and scold, and speak cross. Your
children will love yon the less for so doing. Do
not scold and fret, nor pnnish for mere acci
dents. Do not punish for a little offence, aod
let a great one go unnoticed. Insist upon
strict, willing, ready, cheerful obedience from
yonr children. Never let them rouse you or de
fy your authority. Let them play and be happy.
Take an interest in their studies and amuse
ments. Appeal to their pride at times; com-
pliment them for doing well, for good behaviour,
and set them good examples. Do not gossip o:
slander, and he abont yonr neighbors, for they
will despise those who do. Remember that to
God and to your children are you accountable
for their life, acts, and principles. Speak kindly
more than you do, and more uniformly.
Do not fly from sweet to sour like a weaver’s
shuttle. Talk with your children more. Tel
them which of your neighbors’ children are
good, and wherein: which are not good, sal
why. More love and less whip. More appeal
to brain than to bottom. More dignity and less
spasms of authority. Tell your child what you
wish done, or ask to have it done, and thea see
that the child is tanght the same obedience to
yon that yon have to yourself. When yon are
compelled to pnnish, do it earnestly, but not
brutally. Do not pound or clnb heads. Never
punish a child in anger—then yon are more de
serving punishment than the child, for yon are
gratifying anger more than honoring reasor.
Many people keep children ont of parlors when
company is present. This is wrong. Have
good company, and early teach your children
how to act in society of elders or superiors. Do
not allow them to nse bad language—to qnaml
and grow np selfish. Teach them neatness ani
order. Teach them to put clothing, boob,
playthings, etc., in place. Have patience—nse
judgment—feel proud of yonr children, wd
they will soon feel proud of yon, and none but
yonr neighbors will have spoiled children.
[iYew York Democrat.
Crushed by a Railroad Cab.—By the Mont
gomery train, says the Columbus Sun of the
29th, we heard of a distressing accident which
occurred at Opelika, Ala., yesterday morning.
As told ns, jt seems that the trains were about
separating when a young gentleman discovered
he was on the wrong route, and hurriedly
snatched np his shawl and endeavored to jump
on board another car that was moving. He
missed his hold and was thrown upon the track.
If he had thus remained he wonld have escaped
without any serious injury. The front wheels
had passed. He was endeavoring to quickly
crawl ont, and had partly succeeded, when the
the rear wheels passed over a little below the
middle of his body, crashing him badly and
almost catting him in two. When the train left
it was thought he would live only a few moments.
The name of the young man is Alex. Gilfillan,
and he was traveling for a house in Charleston.
P. S.—By the Opelika train we learn that Mr.
G. was taken to the Opelika House, and after
lingering for an hour and a half, death relieved
him of his sufferings. He was connected with
the honse of Lengneck & Sell, dealers in fancy
goods, at Charleston. His remains will be car
ried to that city, where he has relatives, for
interment.
A Negro Judge.—The telegraph gave notice,
some days ago, of the appointment of Colonel
J. W. Mason, a negro, of Chiqnot county, Ar
kansas, as Jndge of the Sierra Leone or Cape
town Court of Arbitration, provided for under
the treaty for the suppression of the slave trade-
A Washington correspondent gives the following
history of the favored individual: “Colonel Ma
son is a colored man, born a slave in Arkansas,
made free by his father, and educated at Ober
lin, where he graduated. He afterwards entered
the University of Paris, whence he graduated
with honor, and entered the French army, in
whioh he served with distinction, coming ont of
the Crimean war, it is understood, with the rank
of Colonel.—Savannah Republican.
Clover nr Clarke County.—Much has been
written for years about the adaptation of clover
to this latitude. A view of the numerous clover
patches abont Athens wonld convince the most
skeptical. Mr. Bloomfield has just ont abont
two tons to the acre, and the yield of several
other lots will be abont equally as large. By
August a second crop will yield probably half as
mnch more, or if plowed under, will afford a
richer dressing *b«m any other means of fertil
izing wonld secure. The small expense attend
ing the growth of hay, and the certainty of rich
re tarns, wonld seem a sufficient inducement to
a more general cultivation of the grasses. And
yet we notice even many gardens about town
planted in ootton. Nothing seems to destroy
the abject allegiance of the people to the fasci
nating old king.—Banner.
The Public Debt.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: There wss
never such a fraud as the publio debt of th
United States. Nominally amounting to 5-V
600,000,000, it never cost its holders over half I
this amount in coin. In the meantime they
have realized in interest and in exemption from
taxation a sum mnch greater than that which
was originally loaned. We never promised to I
; jay it in gold. The Committee of Ways and I
deans, in the House of Representatives, more |
than once voted down the proposition. The in
terest was agreed to be given in gold, bnt th; |
principle was not expected. The ten-forties,
one-tenth of the whole bonds, were promised it
coin, and were admitted as the only bonds ths:
were payable in that currency. Hard as were
our financial resources, none supposed that for
the money we borrowed we were to give iw j
dollars or two dollars and a half for one.
In their interest the English consols andt-e
French and German securities are two ana J
half or three per cent., hardly half of that whia
is given by the American States.
Bnt this is not all. Not one-half of j
amount given by the bondholders, small as ::
was, was ever realized by the Government-^*
Full one-half of that amount was stolen in f -j*
situ by the contractors, who, to a large eM--
were the purchasers and the holders of t* e
bonds.
If the bonds are repudiated and never
if the holders never get a cent of the princip^*
they will still havcrrealized far more than ta-\
ever gave or deserved.
Century Plant.—The New Orleans Htf
thus knocks in the head, the pleasant ft* 1
about the century plant:
Rochester, New York, is terribly excited
a blossoming Agave Americana, or cenmu
plant, under the belief that its fabulous proP'"’
ty of blooming only once in a century, is “v
They call it “the wonder of the age,” and?-*
lish daily bulletins in regard to its growta-
though it were a royal baby. By way of oB r
to this enthusiasm, we can. assure them n p°V,
ing the victim of “travelers' stories. -,
plant is a common one in onr latitude,
grows in the open air, and blooms at
periods every few years. One in the gem*®
the Washington Hotel, at the lake shore, ^
the Mobile boats land, has been in riowe-
least twice within the last twelve years, to
certain knowledge.
Lariating a Locomotive.—The Sacr*® e5t:
(CaL) Reporter tells the following: ,
“It is currently reported that a new th-
Indians have been discovered near
dence, on the line of the Central Pacro*^
wonld not seem as well posted in regard ^ ^
h»vfcf
plains. The other day a locomotive^^ t .
passed, to their bewilderment, they res
lie in wait, or puisne and lariate the room^l
Accordingly they made a very strong 1*JJ*Jp I
by twenty or thirty of the wonld b®.
The engine came thundering along, “j 6 ^ I
was struck below the head-light, and >> ^,1
the Indiana exhibited greater feats teas
ever seen in a first-class circus. . ,
The San Domingo Movement.—Says
ington special of the 16th: ^
There is a decided movement on f «|
annexation of St. Domingo. Coutt*®b^
recently been entered into for a line
era running from New York to
An effort is being made to ran a railroad
the richest put of the island, and it Yj*^
that daring the year there will be °°,
immigration. Bees, it Is said, rather ** V*
project He is a mulatto, educated
and is desirous of more intimate t
with whites. His great ambition la to v
Washington as United States Senator P®**
* State of Domingo.
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