About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1869)
s\ I 'CT..‘ AMMMPl ■ ■ at H ,^|i-Tf;’ah>JsaBrn:«SEtu ;rM| ■ NMMMI RR9MMM4K.5BIN • U-V»..fc .- +«-v The Greorgia "W"eekly THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1809. Blowing Hot and Cold. We have noticed the existence of a suit brought in the Court of Queen’s Bench, London, by the United States, against Sir Peter Tait, an army clothier. Sir Peter had received from the agents of the Confederate Government a large amount of doth, to be made into dothing for the Confederate army; but before the contract could be completed, the surrender occurred, and the Confederate Government expired. The United States now brings suit as the suc cessor of the Confederate Government, for the value of this property in the hands of Sir Peter, and by the interesting process of bills and inter rogatories, is put through a terrible conrso of sprouts. In a word, she is made to plead in this Chancery suit for forty thousand pounds sterling, in reference to the position arid char acter of the Confederate States as lawful bel ligerents, precisely as she don’t plead while combatting for damages from the depredations of tho Alabama. We regret to say that the loyal John Bulls seem to take a malicious pleasure in compelling Jonathan to tread on his own toes in every sen tence of his pleadings. They don’t seem to be so hot after justice as after malicious fun at the expense of “the old flag.” The factis, all the finely drawn points of Mr. Sumner on the Alabama claims controversy are likely to be officially ignored, abandoned and negatived by the admissions of the United States through her attorney, as party to a suit for the value of second-hand clothing. The tailor’s needle has let out the gas of Sumner’s rhetoric and America may yet be saved from blood and destruction, as Rome once was—by a goose, although in this case it is the goose of a tailor. The London Times and the London lawyers are making merry over the dilemma in which they have placed the grand republic, and the admin istration. “The Hon. Alexander Stone.” In reference to this “expelled colored member of the Georgia Legislature,” whom Belcher re ported as murdered by the Jefferson county reb els, the Chronicle and Sentinel gives a good ac count. That paper says that in the early part of the present year Stone returned to his old mistress, a widow lady living in Jefferson conn ty, to whom he belonged before emancipation- and had begged her to let bim remain and work upon her place, saying that he was tired and disgusted with Radicalism and politics of all kinds, and if eho would permit him to remain with her, he would never be fool enough to at tempt being a politician again. His mistress consented, and he has ever since been conduct, ing himself in the most humble, discreet and exemplary manner. Five days after Belcher’s letter was written, giving an account of his urn timely “taking off” by the horrid Ku-Klux, Al- ick was quietly at work on his old mistress’s plantation, in the upper part of Je fferson county. Hacon and Brnnswlcfa Railroad. Wo learn says the Chronicle and Sentinel that there are over two thousand hands now em ployed in the construction of this important Road, and that rapid progress is being made on the work. That portion of the line between Brunswick and tho Gulf road is nearly completed—only a gap of ten miles remaining to be finished.— Passengers aro now taken from Savannah to Brunswick in twelve hours over this route— the ton miles of unfinished road being accom plished in comfortable hacks. There remain to be completed only about forty miles of the line between Macon and the Gulf road. Large working parties are engaged on both ends of this section in pushing the con struction rapidly forward, and it is believed that the latter line will be opened in time to meet the foil trade. Harder in Brooks County. The Quitman Banner of Friday says, tjiat Coroner L. S. Moore of that county, having been sent out to investigate an alleged murder, reports substantially as follows: On arriving at a small creek about seven miles from Quit- man, he found the body of a negro man lying in the water. On examination, the body iwas found to be literally riddled with buckshot; eleven of which had struck the unfortunate man in the body and arms. Captain Moore states that the man must have been dead some hours, and that he seems to have been killed while “striking” for fish. . No clue has been yet found to the perpetra tors of thin base assassination. We hope that they will soon be found, and the majesty qf on outraged law will be speedly vindicated. From llacon County. A letter to the Telegraph from Marshalville, 28th, says the last few days of warm weather ’ have made crops look much better, and they are now in a growing condition. Every thing qniet, and we ore having peace and a plenty of other vegetables. We note in Marshalville a very fine, yonng vineyard, belonging to M. E. Sperry. Although just beginning to bear, there are as many as twenty bunches to the vine. Colorado Jewett had an interview with the President on Monday “to do justice to England and promo to the cause of peace.” He says the President told him that “ Minister Motley had received instructions of which the public knew nothing.” That must have been very satisfac tory to Mr. Jewett. There bn been a great “slump’' in Michigan. A piece of ground about seventy feet in diame ter sunk to the depth of about eighty feet, leav ing an opening in the centre through which a sound comes up os of the rushing of mighty waters, at least such is tho story told by a local paper. ' Reduction of Tariff on the Cable.—On and after June 1st, the tariff from any point in Geor gia to any point in Great Britain and Ireland, via the Atlantic Cable, will be $11 SO for the first fen words, counting address, date, and sig nature, and $1 15 for each word over ten, inva riably in gold. lx is stated as a fact that speculators in 'Wis consin have sold over and over again, during the last twenty years, five sections of land whose location is in Lake Winnebago, under at least twenty feet of water, and is still in the market. The price paid on some occasions has been as high as $10,000. £ Sudden Death.—Judge Jeremiah Inman died very suddenly at his residence in Burke county, on Saturday morning last, of disease of the heart. Affairs in Lowndes.—The Valdosta Times of the 26 says: Crops etc.—We have heard some rumors of caterpillar making its appeance not far from this locality. But we have no definite informa tion upon which to yely. We are inclined to think that the worm that has made its appear ance is not the real cotton caterpillar. Com crops are promising. Not so much can be said of cotton. We have had much cold ; after every rain we have cold. On Snnday and Monday morning last it was comfortable to sit by the five, which was in demand. Attempted Express Robert.—On Monday night some one bored into the A. &, G. R. B., Warehouse, and broke open the money drawer. Fortunately, all the money of the Railroad /aid Express Companies was either locked up in the safo or elsewhere in posessionof the agents, and the rogue found nothing to steal. * Brunswick—Harbor and Road. We were gratified on Friday with an in troduction to Col. N. S. Finney, of Brunswick, of the firm of N. S. Finney & Co., General Com mission Merchants, also very heavily engaged in the manufacture and shipment of yellow-pine lumber, of which they send off many million feet in the course of the year. Their timber is towed up by steamers toBrunswick,frbm whence it can be shipped for two dollars a thousand cheaper than it could be from Darien, on ac count of the greater depth of water and conse quent convenience of lading. Furthermore, there are four months in the year when it would be impossible to ship from Darien at all, on ac count of the reputed sickliness of the port "Vessels will not go there - for freight "We are informed, indeed, that the Messrs. Epping, the the extensive timber merchants of Darien, send their largest ships to Brunswick to be loaded. Messrs. Finney & Co. aro now shipping lumber for the great suspension bridge over East River, at New York,and have already dlliverednpwards of a million of feet Thus the most wonderful bridge in the world is to be constructed of Geor gia pine. We are pleased to learn from CoL Finney, that the lost rail for the Brunswick road was discharged at that port last week. The supply is now made np. It consists of English rails weighing fifty pounds to the yard. The vessel which brought the last cargo drew scant nineteen feet of water—came in without the smallest difficulty, and discharged every rail at the wharf. CoL Finney was a Lieutenant of the United States Navy, in command of one of the vessels engaged in the hydrographic survey of Bruns wick Harbor in 1855, under Captain Trenchard. He was also of the party which some years later made thq location of the United States Na vy Yard at Brunswick—after tho most deliberate and careful examination and survey of all the Atlantic harbors below Norfolk. That selec tion was determined not only by superior depth of water, but also by every conisderation of pro tection and safety to shipping and buildings and the salubrity of the port. In all these par ticulars Brunswick had greatly the advantage. As to the actual depth of water at the outer bar, Colonel Finney found it to be eighteen and three-quarters feet at mean low water, with on average tide rise of eight feet—so that upon an ordinary high tide, vessels drawing twenty-six feet may pass it with safety, and the same ves sels, (of which there are few that ever come to Southern ports) may pass up to the railroad wharf and roll their freight into the cars, if need be, without a foot of drayage. And above this railroad wharf, ontside tho inner bar, there is space for wharfage say of a third to half a mile —ample for all the business purposes of the town. The inner bar, so called, which here forms across the river, is a mere mud bank, which, if necessary, can be removed at small expense and give twenty-five feet of water to the upper wharves of the city, which at present can be reached, at ordinary high tide, with eighteen to twenty feet of water. But as we have said, there is no necessity for passing the inner bar, as there is plenty of wharfage room below it. Colonel Finney is confident the road will be finished to Macon by the 1st of November next, and bo says there shall be no lack of the means and appliances for a cheap and expeditions through freighting business to New York. It will open with a line of first-class sailing pack ets, and a line of steamships will be established the first moment it is apparent that they can pay expenses. He has this guarantee from a leading shipping house in New York. Brunswick was waking up and full of hope. She would be in five hour’s railway communica tion with Savannah in as many weeks—she was looking forward to considerable freighting busi ness with the interior in the falL She is secure of a large lumber trade so soon as the road opens, and she was confident of presenting to the world, in a few months, the picture of an active sea port—with shipping facilities almost unequalled—absolutely exempt from malarial disease—with splendid interior communications, and in the enjoyment of every condttion of pro gress and prosperity. He promised us plenty of fish and oysteis— of the latter he said there were at least fifty miles of banks within a short distance of town. The choicest oysters, however, were found on trees, a fact which he explained by saying that numerous prostrate live oaks obstructed some of the creeks near the town, and the submerged limb3 of these ancient trees were often encrust ed with oysters of the largest size and of pecu liarly delicious flavor. Tke State Fair. The President orders the Confederate arsenal building at Macon, Ga., held by the Fxeedmen’s Bureau, transfered to the Georgia Agricultural Society. The “late so-called” partially constructed, in and near Macon, an “armory,” designed for the manufacture of small arms and a “ laboratory,” to be used for the manufacture of fixed ammu nition—but no arsenal. The Secretary of the Georgia Agricultural Society has asked the use of the latter building and grounds as a place of exhibition for the Georgia State Fair, and we presume, from the foregoing dispatch, that he has obtained it "We hope the mistake in terms is the press agent’s and not the Secretary’s or the government’s. In other words we hope it is a clear grant of the laboratory. It is a magnificent place for the purpose. The ground has an area of about 140 acres, level and abundantly watered with running streams os well as cisterns. The building is one of the handsomest in the State, and almost a3 well adapted to an exhibition of the kind contem plated as if planned for the purpose. It has a grand hall up stairs 520 feet long and beautiful ly lighted and ventillated. It has abundance of fine" rooms for every purpose of the exhibition and the entertainment and comfort of visitors. It will be reached from Macon in five minutes by half hour trains daring the whole day. The Macon & Western Railway runs directly by it and for convenience of access to articles of ex hibition and to the public, we know of no better point. We hope this property may ultimately fall into the hands of the Georgia Agricultural Society and be made permanent headquarters, and the seat of a well endowed Agricultural College and Experimental Farm. ■* - . The Revenge* of Time, t y ; As, a striktng specimen of “time’s revenges” we have lately had presented to us the colored men’s appointments to office, at home and abroad. “Think,” writes one correspondent antithetically, ' “of Toombs, instead of calling his slave roll on Bunker TUll, only calling for bis letters from the colored Postmaster at Ma con.” Think again of the son of the black Douglas holding a Government office in the same city with the son of the white Douglas, and both supporting the Administration! But there is another contrast still more remarkable fn Charleston, where, at this moment, the new Mayor is said to be a brother of Parker Pills- bury, the anti-slavery agitator, contemporane ous with Garrison. Were this relationship all, under the changed aspect of affairs, doubtless, this historic comparison would not be more “odorous,” than the others. But, according to some of the Southern papers, since Fillsbury’s inauguration, the chief municipal activity has been in a scramble for spoils. One of PiUsbu- ry’s friends used to talk of “plowing up Charles- tonand sowing it with salt”—but isn’t this last a worse infliction ?—New York Times. Why call these “revenges of time," when they are simply the revenges of Radicalism ? Time is no more responsible for them than it was for the murder of AbeL The Northern Abolition ists, having pursued the South to ruin and sub jugation, in order to enforce their notions in re lation to slavery, very naturally delight to amuse themselves with the miseries of their de fenceless victims. It is an animal interest which they share with many of the lower orders of creation, and have not learned to restrain by those benevolent im pulses and moral precepts which forbid ns to rejoice over the humiliations and sufferings of the distressed and the defenceless. Tho sense of power to inflict suffering is a temptation to use it too strongwitb, perhaps, the most of men, to be easily resisted, and hence we have seen in the legislation of Con gress and the general course of the Northern press, a manifest and constant delight in what ever they suppose will most deeply wound tho pride, and (what they consider) the prejudices of the conquered South; and, to them, the most delightful part of the business is that if they can taunt ns into retort they can answer our grassy missiles with the solid brickbats and stones of additional proscription and infliction. Well, how long will it be necessary to prose cute these so-called “revenges of time," to con ciliate the South? Through how many genera tions do the North desire to push the iron of a contemptuous, irritating and inflictive policy? Are the “revenges of time” always to be one sided, and is, the North qnito sure she can al ways wipe her shoes upon the Southern whites with impunity? Immigration. Colafabchee, May 28, 1769. Editors Telegraph: “Raleigh”has express ed, to a great extent, the will of our people up on the subject of immigration. We do not wish our country “stocked with a horde” of restless adventures. We have crime enough here now, without inviting such a cla9s in our midst. Let us invite all who are willing to cast their lot with us, and assist in throwing off the yoke of tyranny, but no others. We are not under ob ligation to the hordes who swept over our lands, deluging it in blood and laying waste over our once prosperous country; to invite them back now to degrade us more. We never want to see such characters again. Let ns, then, ex tend an invitation to those who will be one with us, to aid in throwing off the radical yoke; hut never welcome any others. This is the sound doctrine—any other is incorrect in theory, and will prove so in practice. S. Yes! throw the doors wide open to all who will come, buy land and settle down among us. Every man who identifies his interests with ours, gives security for his good behavior and substantial sympathy with the State and people. M A Xon-Seqnttur. — 1 The leading article in the Imperialist is a high tribnte to the character and talents of Robert E. Lee, and attempts to use the influ ence of his great name in aid of the empire project, because, says the Imperialist— “ That General Lee has no very high opinion of our existing institutions must be evident to all who have watched his course, nor can even the most rabid idolater of the caucus form of government blame him if he refuses to shut his eyes to the hope of better things which is held out to him by the greater national strength and industrial freedom which the empire will guar antee." I Non sequitur, that Lee is an Imperialist be cause the Northern Radicals have debased and ruined the “existing institutions” of the coun try. If a rascal defiles my honse, does that prove to me I ought to take to a tree ? The Im perialist’s adroit “if” is a slanderous insinua tion against the great Virginian. From Meriwether County. State of Society in Georgia; in Meriwether County—Crop Prospects. Meriwether COUNTY, Ga.,) May 25, 18C9. J Editors Telegraph: There is unquestionably a spirit of lawlessness throughout our State. Almost every newspaper gives an account of a homicide, a burglary, of a larceny, or of a rape committed somewhere in the State. Violations of the law are not confined to either race, or perpetrated against the persons or property of either race exclusively. Crimea, in our State, are not attributable—as many would have the world believe—mainly to political differences, but to demoralized feelings, traceable, directly or indirectly, to the war. It is the solemn duty of every good citizen to aid, to the utmost of his power, in protecting society against this evil. It can be done only by rigidly enforcing the law—if it is not done, Georgia will find herself, at no distant day, under the iron heel of a dic tator. I am rejoiced to know that here in Meri- weatber County, the people are orderly, quiet, industrious and law abiding—were never more so before the war. Persons, property, and re putation are as secure here as they are in any county, in any State in the Union. This is atr tributable in no small degree to the influence and example of our oldest and most substantial citizens. . , " • The spring has been ‘unfavorable to cotton. Mornings are still quite cool, yet the weed looks tolerably well, the stand is generally good—the high prices are stimulating our people to extra ordinary efforts to make the staple, and a larger area is planted this year than last. Still com enough is planted, which looks well, with a mod erate yield to meet the wants of the people. From Randolph County. The Cnthbert Appeal, of Thursday, has the following: The Vert Latest Crop News,—We have just returned from a survey of the cotton fields in thin vicinity, and feel constrained to announce that the prospect continues gloomy in the ex treme. - Though small in size, on the stiff clay lands the stands are tolerably fair and healthy. But even in the richest gray and sandy loams, usually good for a heavy yield, the weed is yellow, lousy, and with that hard, woody appearance in the stalk, which shows that the growth is al most stationary. The plant is still dying also, and will continue to perish, until warm nights and gentle showers take the place of the present strangely cool sea son with its blighting, blustering winds. It will require weeks of careful nursing, and the most favorable weather, to overcome the unfor tunate backset which has befallen the entire crop. The guanoed spots are the best, and the re port generally from those using fertilizers is sat isfactory. Com is universally promising, and a fair breadth of soil seems to have been devoted to the cereals. Labor is in demand to chop out and clean.the sickly stands of cotton ns quickly as possible, that air and circulation may be afforded to the drooping plants. . , .,.. , . . Last Saturday a heavy hail storm was experi- encee a few miles south of’ this, which will ac count in part for the narrow escape from frost on the succeeding two nights. . ■ Tho farmers are still hopeful and resolute, and the work of the season is fairly advanced. In New York the largest theatre receipts re ported during April were Booth's Theatre $44,- 000; Niblo's, $38,000, and Wallack’s, $35,000. Canada has doubled her population once every eighteen years since I ECO. The Dunkabds—Texir Customs—Kissing on a General Scale.—-Xt is equally impossible to describe the great multitude and variety of the kisses of charity which take place on the occa sion, for with the meeting kieses, and parting kisses, and the kisses that transpire during the various religious services, it is hardly extrava gant to say that the woods-and fields are vocal- with the notes of osculation—some so faint as hardly to be perceived, some a.little more ex pressive, and some demonstrative and prolonged. This ceremony is strictly confined to the sexes to which the participants belong, men kissing men and women kissing women.—Richmond BY TELEGBAPH. I From Washington. Washington, May 29.—No political or govern ment business to-day on account of the decoration of the soldiers’graves. - ■ ■ ‘ It is understood that the directors of the Chesa peake and Ohio Railroad have arranged with North ern capitalists for the completion of the road to the Ohio. , The Government has notified Gov. Bowie that the artillery.for the Maryland National Guard is subject to his orders. This is interesting in connection with the past Congressional and personal hostility to the Maryland militia organizations. The Central Pacific Railroad has deposited four million dollars as security for bringing the Road to first class. Lake Sibley advices state that the Indians at tacked & Scandinavian colony near that place, killing five. Several settlers were killed on Repub lican river. London, May 29.—A heavy storm is raging at Queenstown. Motley has arrived out. Peabody has departed for America From Atlanta. DAVIS’ THEATRE BURNED. Atlanta, May 29.—Miss Penelope Adams, daugh ter of the late Senator Adkins, publishes an appeal for justice, in which, spealing of the reports rela tive to her father, she eaje: “ I hurl back the in famous charges they allege against my deceased father. The charges comist altogether of vague rumors. If they have proof of dissolute conduct against him, sufficient to justify murder for person al causes, let it be produced. They are well aware that no private injury to his assassin caused his murder. They know and feel in their hearts that he was killed on account of Ms politics alone, solely because lie was a Republican. The murderers are well known and can be named; yet no steps have been taken to bring them to justice. I have no re course hut to appeal to the people of Georgia, and of the nation, for retribution upon them and their secret clan of assassins. Such an appeal I hereby solemnly make.” Davis’ theatre was destroyed by fire last night. Loss $75,000. No insurance. Atlanta, May 28 Judge Bingham, Mr. Laugh- ridge and Mr. Eldridge, of the Judiciary Committee of Congress, en route to Montgomery, arrived this morning and were entertained to-day by Gov. Bol lock. They spend this evening with Judge Erekine of the United States District Court, and leave in the morning for their destination. From Texas. New Orleans, May 29.—A dispatch from Jeffer son, Texas, says tho proceedings of the military commission engaged in a trial of citizens charged with tho murder of George W. Smith, 60 far, have been confined to an examination of Major Curtis, who was in command of tho post at the timo of the killing, Lieut. Dubois, and tho two freedmen who escaped. The evidence of the officers and the freed- men conflict badly. The officers both swear that all the parties engaged were disguised. The ne groes swear exactly tho opposite. ' The testimony of the two negroes conflicts with each other. A large crowd is in attendance, and great interest is manl* fested. Over one hundred witnesses are summoned for June 7th. From Bichmond, Richmond, May 29.—Albert Tyler, colored, was executed at noon to-day, for poisoning Pauline Hub bard, also colored, whose cMld Tyler had attempted to outrage, and who had threatened to have Mm ar rested. Tyler, who seemed little better than a brute in intelligence, confessed the crime on the scaffold. A large crowd were present. Tyler died instantly. The decorating of the Union soldiers’ graves took place to-day. A large crowd of wMte and colored visitors were at the National Cemetery. The 17th Infantry wero marched to the cemetery and partici pated in the proceedings. Be-Union of the Northern Presbyterians. New York, May 23.—The Old and New School Presbyterians have adopted a plan of union pro posed by their committees—New School unanimous ly ; Oid School seven dissenting. The plan of re union involves the acceptance of the Church stan dards pure and simple. The Rev. Dr. Howard (New Sehool)opposing haste, hoped a judicious delay would secure a union with the Southern Preeb’ ’ ’rian Church. This action of the .semblies requires an endorse ment by the Presbyteries before its consummation. From Cuba. Havana, May 29.—Dulce telegraphs to be re lieved. 1 Havana, via Key Vest, May 28.—Captain Gene ral Dulce is sick, and his death is daily expected. The garrison of Fort Cubanas rioted during tho debarkation for Spain of tho Galvasso prisoners. The volunteers tried to stop tho debarkation. Da ring tho melee loud cries were heard of “death to Dulce!” The rioters yielded to tho supplications of the Governor of the Fort. The prisoners wero al lowed to embark. A Spanish steamer in the bay of Nipe fired by mistake on the Spanish troops, killing forty. General News. New York, May 28.—A number of influential gen tlemen of this city have organized themselves into a Southern Land Company, under a Charter from the North Carolina Legislature, with a capital of a quarter of a million. Louisville, May 28.—CoL W. O. Breckenridgo de livered an oration at Battle Grove Cemetery, Cyn- thiana, Kv., on an occasion of tho unveiling of tho monument erected to tho Confederate dead. From Wilkinson County. Messrs. Editors:—I notice in the columns of your celebrated daily, various accounts relative to the agricultural and financial status of tho dif ferent counties, and I think that Wilkinson can compare favorably with tho best in this line. Especially when wo take a retrospective view of the past, and remember the heavy debts that have hung over her for many years wMch her in solvency allowed to grow with time. She now stands free of these heavy burdens, and com mands in the treasury much over $5000. Owing to the many sudden freaks of weather during this Spring, onr farmers have hitherto had but little promise in the growing of cotton, bnt at present the chilling blasts have ceased, and prospects bid fair in this section for a good cotton crop. All seem to be confident that good crops of com will bo made. Messrs. Ward & Co. are making rapid pro gress in erecting a Court-house of brick, which will be an ornament to, and advance the inter ests of the county. -1 The citizens of the flourishing little village of Irwinton, in order to preserve decorum, and maintain the high position which she holds among other villages of the State, avail them selves of the advantages granted by an act of the Legislatnre incorporating the same. Judge James C. Bower, Thomas O. Beall, Alexander Baum, J. D. Jones and F. Chambers, were elected as the Board of Officers in charge. Captain George Bishop was elected by the Board as Marshal, with our young friend, John Metli- vin, as Treasurer and Clerk. "With these firm, responsible men at the head of affairs, all are confident that the peace, pros perity and good order of the town will bo main tained with dignity. Subscriber. Wonderful Spectacle in Connecticut. Ten thousand calcium lights could not have made surrounding objects as distinct. Looking ont into the street, it was as if thousands of tons of gunpowder had exploded in some building; following it closely came a loud rumbling sound from the South, as of some mighty wave break ing on the beach. The people in the vicinity Of the plain say that a trembling of the earth was at this time perceptible. Many were of the opinion that an earthquake was about to visit us. No pen can describe the magnificence of this brilliant phenomenon. Nothing similar to it has been seen that we have a record of for centuries. Monstrous meteors have flashed aoross the heavens frequently and other terial phenomena have been visible at times, but nothing has been seen so peculiar in shape, so beautiful in its effect as this. To the astrono mer the cause will be easily manifest; to the superstitious it will be the premonitor of some disaster, a war or pestilence to the nation; to all it will tell of the omniptence, the wonderful ways of the Ruler of the heavens, the earth and the sea. A correspondent at Meriden writeB: The meteor seemed to strike somewhere in this,cityfollowed by a lew. rambling zquML [For the Macon Daily Telegraph.] Thorns. . „ BT E. B. C. “And thorns must grow as well as roses.” Far out upon a lonely, hoary rock. ’Midst tangled, matted weeds, there bloomed and smiled, And looked up to the glad, bright, shining sun, A lovely, blushing, tender flower wild. And gently through the Btrong, rough weeds it crept, And found its sweet way to the open day; There, basking, smiling, thanking that kind orb That gave it nursing with Ms glorious ray. I—leaning o’er that tender orphan rose, Caressing with my hand its blushing face— Sighed, as I thought, ere many suns should set, It, too, would be an emblem of life's race. The bee which woo’d you, flower, but yesternoon, To-morrow comes to find your sweetness gone; Your pink and scented bosom wMte with age. Then come!—Ah, rose! you’ve, too, a cruel thorn. I’ve heard that hearts the soonest ’wake to flowers Are ever first to feel the cruel thorn; But, littlo stranger, in my happier hours, I’ve said “and of tho thorns are roses bom.” Indeed an emblem! modest little flower As Md among your ehining, sheltering leaves, (Whose odorous breath floats on the summer gale,) Is found a thorn for Mm who yet believes. He, in His wisdom, has affixed some sting To ail that sweet and fair upon us dawns; I know that in Fate’s Lexicon there stands ’Gainst suffering woman’s name “thorns, cruel thorns.” ' Macon, Mag 25,1868. Cnba—TheRebels Rising. The New York Tribune of Thursday eaya: Private and credible news reaches us from Cuba, corroborating the late reports said to have been officially received from Cespedes. Our informant was an eye-witness of the four engagements fought by the Cabans under Que- sada between Nuevitas and Puerto-Principe, and avouches that their victories were not sup posititious or trifling. In these hot contests the Cubans were generally tho winners. Lesca was defeated at Las Tunas, and at Sabana Nueva the Spaniards were routed. We have another pri vate report, that of the eight hundred men un der Lesca, when attacked in front and rear on the road from San Miguel de Nuevitas by the Cuban gueriUeros, half were lost. The leader of the gueriUeros was Agramonte, a younger brother of one of the Cabinet of President Cespedes, and some time ago the subject of lamentation and eulogy in the Spanish press. Such battles, though smaU, attain a respectable size when counted as victories. These facts ascertained, a turning point of success has come to the Cuban cause. The pa triots still wont more arms, but, thanks to their friends in the United States, are being sup plied. The atrocious order of Valmaseda has only had the effect of uniting the patriots more intensely, and Cespedes and Quesada are work ing manfully together. There ought to be no inseparable difficulty in supplying them with men and arms. The Cuban coast is admirably adapted to purposes of clandestine aid and com fort. Spite of the Spanish navy and its accus tomed vigilance, we should think experienced seamen and old blockade runners might readily pierce the coast and land their cargoes. The chief danger encountered by them has been in the Bahamas, and the principal aid received for the Spaniards has come from the British au thorities in that quarter. We refer, of course, to such captures as that of the brig Mary Lo- welL ‘ Macon andBrusswickRailroad.— 1 The steam er Charles S. Hardee, Captam Isaac Henry, brought down on her last trip and landed at Lumber City a locomotive and two platform corn- cars and on the .previous trip brought the same plement for the opposite end of the Road, now in running order from I. Cook’s Landing to Doctortown. The locomotives were the George Walker and Governor Crawford, both of which have performed more service in the extension and building of railroads in the South than al most any engines now in use. The services of the Walker have been employed in the build ing and extension of over five thousand miles of track. No definite time can be named as to when the road will be completed, but some time within two months is the estimate of the con tractors, who were busily employed on the va] rious sections and are rapidly pushing the work forward. The work is being prosecuted from six different points, as follows: One gang aro at work from Hawkinsville to Lumber City, one from Lumber City to Hawk-, insvilie, one from I. Cook’s Landing towards the Gulf road, one from the Gulf road towards I. Cook’s Landing, and two gangs working from the Gulf road towards and from Brunswick. In order that there shall be no lack of force on ei ther section of the road, the Hardee will take up from this city on her next trip, in addition to working material, a large number of bands who have been engaged for the purpose of working tho road.—Sav. Ado. 26th. A Compliment to the Chinese.—We believe it is now generally conceded that the work on the California end of the Pacific railroad has been conducted with far more regularity and good order, if not dispatch, than on the Union Pacific. The feat of laying down ten miles of rail in one day, last week astonished the Union Pacific managers, It is also a fact that the la borers on IMs end have been much better be haved and disciplined than on the other end of the road. We do not now call to mind a single death by wanton violence on the line of the Cen tral Pacific during the past year, wMle hardly a day has passed on the other end of the road, without some act of murder or other atrocity.— We think a great deal of this good order and absence of violence is fairly attributable to the natural docility of the Chinse race, who have composed a great part of the force on the Cen tral Pacific. Doubtless, much of it is due to the rulo which excluded ardent spirits; but not all. They have honestly won a compliment for good order, sobriety and good work which ought to shame those white ruffians who are in the ha bit of traducing their morals at the same time they are murdering each other.—Sacramento Union. Mobile and New Orleans.—We are permit- ed to make the following extract from a private letters ‘The Road from Mobile to New Orleans will be completed by the early spring. Mobile has waked up, and will build from Mobile to Selma a grand trunk one hundred and fifty miles, in eighteen months. Mobile city gives $500,000— counties $500,000, and the State indorses $2,- 400,000, in all $4,900,000. Twenty miles to be bnilt in four months, and the balance rnshed through faster than ever done before. The woods are on fire, and Alabama will, in a few years, Lave 2,500 miles of Railroad finished, and be on tho high road to prosperity." Tho above connections will be very beneficial to Romo, and will be tho nearest all rail route between this place and New Orleans.—Rome Commercial Of tho children bom in Paris one-fourth aro illegitimate, and one-third die before attaining tho age of five years. Two deaths occur among tho illegitimate infants to one among the legit imate. The native population of the city dimin ishes by two-fifths in each generation, so that, but for replenishment from without, the city would be depopulated in less than three genera tions. . A male infant was recently found in a wood in the vicinity of Paris by two men, one of whom made a declaration to the Mayor that ho would adopt it. When all the arrangements were made, what was the man’s astonishment at find ing 20,000 francs,, in bank notes, attached to its chemise, with a note that other presents would follow until the child attained the age of twenty. In Pittsburg, on Sunday last, a boy of thirteen was stabbed and fatally injured by a child of nine years, whose feelings he had in some way outraged three days before, and who planned the murder as calmly and successfully as could any . older villain. A young lady in Jefferson, Ohio, mistook a bottle of violet ink for perfumery, in the dark ness the other evening, and put some upon her handkerchief which she used to wipe her face, and, hastening to church immediately after, she created an immense sensation.. A man in Newport, Mass., has ten acre’s of- land in onions. The ten aores gives eighty miles of onions, and in planting, hoing, weed ing and gathering require a thousand miles' travel. '■ ' •■;r-KvVj ; " The crevasse below New Orleans is increas ing, and a new channel is said to Be forming from the river to the lake. The levees above the city are also reported to be in a t precarious condition. 1 ' PICTURE-BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES, BX HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. Translated from the German for the. Macon Daily Telegraph. [continued.] FIFTH EVENING. “Yesterday,” the Moon began, “I looked down upon busy Paris ; my eye penetrated into the chambers of the Louvre. An old grand mother, poorly clad—she belonged to the lower classes—followed one of the subordinate lackeys into the large, empty throne room; this it was, which, she would, she must see; it had cost her many a little sacrifice, many words, before she could be admitted there. She clasped her her thin hands and looked devoutly around, as if she were in a house of God. ‘ “ Here it was,” said she, “here,” approach ing the throne from which the red velvet trim med with golden fringes was hanging down. “.There,” she exclaimed, “there,” kneeling down and kissing the crimson velvet—I think she wept. “It was, however, not this velvet," said the lackey, while a smile played around his month. “ Yet it was here,” repliedthe woman, “it looked just so.” “So, and yet not so," he answered; “the windows were burst open, the doors unhinged, there was blood flowing on the floor! You can say at least: ‘My grandson died on the throne of fame.’” “Dieid!” repeated the old woman. I do not think that anything more was spoken, both leaving the hall very soon after. The twilight faded away, and my light streamed doubly bright on the rich velvet on the throne of France. For whom doest thou take the old woman ? I will tell thee a tale. It happened in the July revolution, on the even ing of the most brilliant day of victory, when every house was a fortress, every window a re doubt ; the people were storming the Tuilleries. Even.women and children were among the com batants ; they entered the rooms and halls of the Castle. A poor half-grown boy, in tatters, fought courageously among the older warriors; deadly wounded by Beveral thrusts of bayonets he sank to the ground. This happened in the throne-room; they laid the bleeding boy on the throne of France and dressed Ian wounds with the velvet, while his blood wrb streaming on the royal purple. That was a picture! The mag nificent hall; the fighting groups! A broken standard was lying on the floor, the tri-colored flag was waving above the bayonets, and on the throne the poor boy, with the pale, serene face, his eyes turned heavenwards, wMlehis limbs shook in the agony of death; his naked breast, his scanty dress, half covered by the rich velvet embroidered with silver-lilies. It was prophesied at the boy’s cradle: “ On the throne of France he will die!” The maternal heart dreamed of a second Napoleon. My beams have kissed the garland of evergreens on his grave, my beams have kissed the forehead of the old grandmother this night, while she beheld in her dreams the pic ture that thou canst draw here: “The poor boy on the throne of France.” SIXTH EVENING. “ I have been to Upsala,” said the Moon. “I looked down upon the large plain with the scan ty grass and the barren fields. I mirrored my self in the Fyris river, while the steamboat drove the fishes into the reeds. Beneath me careered the clouds, casting long shades across the re puted graves of Odin, Thor and Freya. There are names traced in the scanty turf, that covered the hills. There is no monumental stone here, in wMch the traveler could have his name cut, no shelves of rock on which he could have it painted, therefore the visitor causes the turf to be dug out. The naked ground stares in large letters and names; they form a net over the large hills; an immortality which a fresh growth of turf soon destroys! High on the hill there stood a man, a bard; he emptied a horn with a broadsilver brim,filled withmead,lispinga name; ho begged the winds not to betray it; bnt I heard the name—I knewit—a count’s coronet sparkling above it; he did not name it aloud. 1 smiled, for a poet’s crown adorns his! The noble name of Eleanora d’ Este is linked to Tasso’s name. I know also, where the beauty’s rose is blooming! ” So spoke the Moon, and there came a cloud be tween us. May no clouds separate the poet from the rose. SEVENTH EVENING. Along the beach there extends a forest of firs and beeches, so fresh, so fragrant. Hundreds of nightingales visit it every spring. Close by is the sea, and between them there runs the broad highway. On? carriage after another rolls over it; Idid not follow them; my eye likes most to dwell on one point. There is a giant's grave. Brambles and white-thorns grow luxuriantly between the stones. Here is poesy in nature. How dost thou think, that people can appreciate tMs? I will tell thee what I heard there last evening and in the night. At first two rich landed proprietors drove np. “These are magnificent trees,” said the one. “Each of them will give ten loads of fire-wood,” replied the other. ‘Winter will be very severe; last year we got fourteen thalers for the load"— and off they were. “The road is miserable here,” said another driver. “It is the fault of these d—d trees,” replied his neighbor, “there is no circulation of the air here, for the wind can only come here from the sea side”—and they rolled away. Also tho stage coach passed by. All the passengers were sleeping at this beautiful point; the postillion blew Ms horn, while he was thinking: “I blow it capitally ; it re-echoes right prettily here; I wonder if*they like it inside ?”—and off was the stage coach. Then two young fellows on horse back came galloping. There is youth and champagne circulating in their blood, thought I; they looked smiling towards the moss-grown hill and the dense green thicket. “Here I should like to take a little walk with the miller’s Christina,” said the one—and gone they were. The flowers sent forth a strong fragrance; every breath of air was slumbering; it was as though the sea was part of the sky that stretched across the valley. A carriage passed by; there were six people sitting inside; four were sleep ing, the fifth was thinking of his new summer coat that ought to be very becoming to him, the sixth turned to the coachman, asking whether there was anything remarkable in connection with the pile of stones. “No,” answered the coachman, “it is only a pile of stones, but the trees are remarkable.” “How so?” “Well, that I will tell you, they are very re markable.” Do you see, when in winter the snow is lying very deep, when everything is covered with snow and no way to be seen, these trees serve me as marks. I am gnided by them not to drive into the sea, do yon see, therefore he trees are remarkable. • Now there came a painter; his eye sparkling; he said no word, but whistled; the nightingales sang louder than before. “Hold your tongue,” he cried, and noted down quite minutely all col ors and tints: blue, lilac, dark-brown. It may prove a fine painting. He caught it as a mirror does a picture, whistling all the while a march of Rossini’s. At last there came a poor girl; she rested on the giant’s grave, laying down her load; the fair, pale face bent listening towards the forest; her eyes sparkled; she looked across the sea and the sky, her hands clasped each oth er. I think she was praying the Lord’s Prayer. She did not understand herself the feeling that thrilled her, bat I know that still after years tMs minute and the nature around will linger in her remembrance far more beautifully, aye, far more faithfully, than the painter fixed them on the paper. My be ams followed her nntil the red of morning kissed her forehead. EIGHTH EVENING. There were heavy clouds hovering in the skj^ the moon did not make her appearance at ail. I was standing doubly alone in my little room and looked forth into the air where she ought to have appeared. My thoughts flew far away, above to my great friend, who told me such pretty tales every evening. Yes, what has she not seen ? She glided over the deluge, smiled just as she looked down upon me,on Noah’s ark bringing comfort and tiding from a new world, that would bloom forth again. ’When the peo ple of Israel stood weeping on Babylon’s river, she looked sadly towards willow trees on which the harps were hanging. "When Romeo climbed np the balcony and Love’s sacred kiss rose to heaven like a cherub, the round Moon hovered in the transparent sky, half concealed between dark cypresses. She has beheld the hero on St. Helena, when he looked from the lonely rock across the main sea, while great thoughts were storming in Ms breast. Yes, what can the Moon not relate ? The life of the world is a fairy tales for her. TMs evening I do not see thee again, my old friend! TMs evening I can draw no picture in remembrance of thy visit! And as I looked dreamily towards the clouds, light shone forth it was a imam of the moon, bnt it .disappeared again; dark clouds passed by, yet it. was a greeting, a friendly evening-greeting wMch the moon offered to me. Jakno. [to be continued.] Senator Si and the Iprague on the Cotton Condition of the Country. On Wednesday 19th Senator Sprague delivered an address the to Memphis Commercial Con-ren! tion, from wMeh we take the following extinct ■ “ I stated in my place in Congress, wheatK," tax was on cotton, that if it waa not taken off it would drive Sea Island cotton out of the mark* entirely in a couple of years. I tell yon JZ Southern friends, that if yon don’t come to tho rescue soon, cotton will cease to be a profitabu rrtide of produce. England is doubling her product of cotton in her Indian possessions and with France, is co-operating with the Kimjrf Egypt to raise a large supply of cotton in that country, wMch is said to be a better staple than the best ever sold in the New Orleans mark* In Brazil they occupy the same position; so that we are to have many competitors in the raiaim, of cotton. We must, therefore, increase th» produce of our lands so as to successfully caa pete with these countries. 'Die position is alana" mg, but if I shall succeed in urging you to tak* some steps in this important matter, I will U repaid for my coming to Memphis. The conn try at the present time is like Spain before falL It had been a powerful nation, and had complete power of all the West Indiess; where is she now ? Let those who read historv answer the question. TMs may also become the condition of the United States, if you do not exercise more self-dependence. Yon imagin* that by your own strength of arm yon mayand can maintain the situation and avert all this- but I tell you there is a pAwer you cannot con! trol unless you bring a power of sufficient W and strength against it, and that is the money capital which is working night and day. It ^ this that has made England and France power. fuL Before England controlled tMs vast capj*. tal power, she was torn nearly asunder by dii sensions. Disturbances were frequent, andshe was always in a state of revolution. The mo nopoly was broken np, and the money is EOw used for the furtherance of industrial objects. Through this means England has been en. abled to control one-third of the trade of the globe. In England anarchy is bnt a name, and file House of Lords, although hereditary, is also but a name, and tbe same may be said of the nobility of the country. The people, from the time I have referred to, have prospered anti the want of it gave ns our civil war. If Toa had had the power I have alluded to, you could hold slavery, but the money power would have been in the masses. They would have been found mutually aiding each other, while the black man would have been held in proper subl ordination. What, however, has been the consequence I need not tell you—you all know. We took our law from the fatherlands, bnt in doing so we turned the money leaf down. Those of you who have read history know that I am telling you what is now a portion of history. I did not intend to make a speech to you when I arose. It was only my intention to thank you for the very cordial reception you have given me, and to express the hope that -the greatest harmony would characterize all your delibera tions. I will again say that the money capital ought to be used for promoting the best inter ests of the country; for carrying on the trade. and building np the country, instead of keeping it concentrated and centralized. There is dan- gone. That night Jack knew of it, and as he read the nice little note that bade Mm “coma over and stay nntil mother comes home, and what a splendid time we will have,” he smiled, knock ed the ashes off Ms cigar, and resolved of course he would. Jack went over, but there is no eartMy use in our attempting to describe'the delectable things he enjoyed; it was a sugar season at that plan- tation, sure. Just before dusk, while Jack was ranting overfull of the occasion, in rushes Laura’s wait ing woman with, “Lor bres8 me, cMl’n, ef yer ain’t missis at degate.” “My God! Dinah, what shall we do with Jack?” “Pop Mm in de closet, Miss Laura,' ana Jack was popped in the closet in a twinkling. In stalked the old lady, who, sharply scrutin izing the disconcerted and blushing countenance of Laura, felt sure that Jack had been there. “Game here, Laura. Now yon can’t deceive me. That abominable Plaine has been here, and yon and he have fixed upon a runaway match, to come off to-night; I know, you see.” Laura was silent, and the old lady eonfinned. “But you’ll find that your mother is no fool, I and too sharp for you my lady. Sooner than you should marry that miserable Jack Plaine. I d see you laid in your grave. He is not going | to squander my money I assure you.” The old lady rose, and going to a clothes press returned with several comforters and a phlox. Then walking up to the closet where Jack was concealed, threw them in and said to Laura. “Now march in here Miss, step along; H look out that you don’t see that low bom me chanic this night.” Laura protested that she didn’t want to, & daring that her mother might be sorry for» some day. But, without paying any attention, her meti er gave her a push, shut the door and locked A put the key in her pocket and went to bed. Early in the morning the old lady arose, s without waiting to dress took the key from to pocket, and opened the doset door to bid M-’ 3 pnrwn f/ivHi nro 7cd wnldltr on incfflTlf. filld come forth, gazed wildly for an instant and i tered a most piercing scream. Recovering very rapidly, she started from the door and called faintly to Laura: “Laura, dear, go into the kitchen and * about breakfast.” Then presently: “Jack, I say Jack.” . . Jack came forth with a son-in-law looking a- and answered: “Well, madame, what is it ?” raM “Do you know anything about a farm-' » she. “Nothing to brag of, ma’am,” said Jack t® 1 ’ bly. r . “Well, at any rate, Jack, I think that breakfast you and Laura may as well g? j’’'- to the city and get married, ’ for I am tired - watching yon, that’s a fact.” Horace Greeley’s Advice to the cals of West Virginia. New York Tamcsf - New York, November 18, l ttN _ My Rear Sir—I have yours of the , leading positions have long been nndersto 0 * 1 appreciated in this quarter. Now hear mt'- Every year one thousand of your rebel 5 ^ and one thousand (or more) of their sons beco of age. You can't disfranchise them. \ have now five thousand majority. Si* furthest will convert this into a rebel m*l '' of one thousand. Then the rebels will francMsed in spite of you, and the blacks ' be left under foot—and you under esam* these at two thousand. . ,v; Go your own way, and see if the rebels have yon under foot in less than six years. I speak from a wide experience when j, I you that your honse is bnilt on the sana. i cannot stand. Every year wifi see the P as * ^ | of the war cool and the demand fet I strengthened. Now you can amnesty the w - I Soon the question will be, shall they I you ? Look at Kentucky and Mary* anfl ’ | read vour certain fate in theirs. Yours, Horace Gbb2L»i- To the Editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer. he The Peace Jubilee Chorus, over three thous and in number, had a rehearsal in Boston on Wedaf-'d-’T oveniag. which was pronounced a t—- *-».“**• Joe Adkins was killed, not because J Radical, but because he had insulted » | able young lady by making the most bp ^ I infamous proposals to .her. (The ongin* 1 ^ ter containing these vile propositions rw ^ o be given to the public) The same ^ have befell any person in the city «• der the same circumstances, minded, father and brother us»fid “ aT * * nounoed it right— Wairenton; Clipper- ■ NrabLy four thousand! persons ate said* 5 j starved to in London lest year. ger to onr financial institutions from tMs source, and it is well known to me that those capitalists who control the money are anxious to. get a stronger Government than they imagine tke present one to be, as they wish to protect them- selves and their ill-gotten gains from the people whom they have crushed. We have even now in New York a paper called the Imperial- ist, established for the purpose of openly argn- ing in favor of an empire. They wish to strengthen their ill-gotten power and control, as they are now doing, business, society and the Government,whom they have as completely under subjection as ever a domestic negro wasin a wMte family previous to the war. An Awkward Predicament. Out in Missouri lives a Mrs. Hempdale, who has or had a daughter named Laura, who loved a man named Jack. This man Jack she didn't like, bnt she was informed by a neighbor that Jack and Laura had arranged a plan of elope ment. Her mind was quickly made np. She an nounced to Laura the next morning that she was going to Bellville on a visit, to be gone three days, and that die must be a good girl, and not tear the honse down while she was
