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The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph.
the telegraph.
MAOON, FRIDAY, JUNE 1J, I860.
To tbe Virginia (Springs.
Maj. W. J. Walker, General Agent of the At.
lantic Coast Line of Railroads, called on ns yes-
day. He is oat Sonth for the purpose of
arranging through travel to the various springs
in Western Virginia. Through tickets to these
various points will be for sale at our depot be
fore many days. The route is by way of Au
gusta, Kingsville, Wilmington, Weldon and
Richmond, and thence to Covington, on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad—205 miles from
Richmond. By the 1st of July the road will be
in running order to White Sulphur Springs, in
Greenbrier county, Va. There ar^io midnight
changes or transfers on this route. A morning
and evening train passes all points, and parties
can lie over if they desire without a detention
of more than twelve hours. Bollman & Co.,
contractors, will, before many weeks, finish a
splendid iron bridge over the Cape Fear river, at
Wilmington, which will do away with the old
ferry boat at that point. The springs in West
ern Virginia are within easy stages of the
various depots on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road. The connections by this route are com
plete and continuous. Ample deeping accom
modations, unsurpassed eating houses and ample
time given for meals. Persons traveling North-
Negro (Social and Kellglons Equality.
We have reprinted on our fourth page, a dis
cussion at a meeting of Northern Baptists in
Richmond, of negro equality in its religious as
pects. We find the report in the Richmond
Dispatch, and as the discussion is pretty full if
not very clear and both sides are presented, it
may amuse and interest the reader. One
of the speakers calls this question a bomb
shell, but we don't think it will hurt the public
if it should blow up that concern.
Periodicals.
Deitz’s Experimental Farm Journal, Cham-
bersburg, Pa. A pamphlet in royal octavo form
of about forty pages. $1 50 per annum.
Scott’s Monthly Magazine for June—The
Mystery of Cedar Bay continued. The Pedlar
Man at Torch HOL A panorama of celebrated
women. Tea and its disciples. Laurel Grove
Cemetery. A Familiar Talk with our Girls.
Mrs. Hall’s Ghost Story, and numerous selected
articles. §4,00 a year. The book may be had
at Havens & Brown's.
The Insult to the Dead.—It seems from the
Herald’s account, which we copy elsewhere,
that this work of insulting the dead Confeder
ates at Arlington, was confined altogether to
the U. S. troops, marines, on guard duty.
But are we to understand from this account
that these marines were stationed in the ceme
tery, by the Grand Army of the Republic, to
prevent the people from throwing flowers on
the Confederate graves ? If so, it was inexpres
sible mean!
Sumter County.—A planter tells the Sumter
Republican that the continuous dry weather is af
fording an excellent opportunity for cleaning
the grass out of cotton fields. Many plants up
on gray soil died during the recent unfavorable
weather, leaving an exceedingly poor stand;
otherwise the cotton crop of Sumter is prosper
ing well under the unclouded genial summer-
sunshine of the these warm days. Vegetables
are slightly scorched by the half-drought now
prevailing. No shower for a week.
Atlanta University.—The negroes in Atlan
ta, laid on Monday the Corner Stone of the At
lanta University. John M. Langstone, of Ohio,
a negro of talents and education delivered a
speech on the occasion. The Constitution says
the grounds consist of about eighty acres, lying
on Mitchell street near the suburbs and were
given by a negro in Macon for the purpose of
erecting a University.
The Catholics are building a new church in At
lanta.
The London Quarterly Review, for April,
Scott’s Reprint, came yesterday. Its articles
are Rossam's Abysinia, Modem English Po
ets, Geological Climates, and the Origin of the
Species, Cost of Party Government, Dante Al-
eghieri, Female Education, Lands in Greece,
The Religious Wars in France, Arms of Modem
Medicine, Irish Church Bill.
New Georgia Wheat rs Ohio.—We see from
the Toledo Blade of the 28th, that they had a
sample of new wheat from Georgia there. The
Blade says:
Southern Wheat.—We have been handed a
sample of new Southern wheat, which was
brought from Forsyth, Monroe county, Georgia,
by Mr. Aaron Roff. The wheat was cut on the
24th instant. It is of the Amber variety, the
kernels large and plump. The sample was ex
hibited on v Chango to-day.
We learn that this sample was from the plan
tation of Dr. J. S. Lawton, of Monroe county.
It is a law of Connecticut, says the Savannah
Republican, that a man who neglects or refuses
to provide for his own children, can be forced
to work under the compulsory rules of the alms
house, and the fruits of big labor bo applied to
wards their support. If a Southern State were
to pass such a law with regard to negroes, we
should doubtless hear a howl over the “restora
tion of slavery."
Those “Spots.”—Our friends of the Macon
Telegraph are too sensitive by half. The sub
stitution of Telegraph for telescope by tbe print
er was evident, but then we thought they cer
tainly had good temper enough so stand a little
pleasantry over the mistake. Perhaps that
“pied form" had something to do with it. We
promise them, however, to bo more cautions
with our liberties in future.
We fear it is our Republican cotemporary
who cannot stand a joke.
We are indebted to Senator Sprague, of
Rhode Island, for a full series of his speeches
in the Senate, delivered in March and April
last ’
A Fair Cotton Stalk.—Mr. Wrigley sends us
from Mr. Knott’s place, near the city, a stalk of
cotton two feet high. It is of the Peeler varie
ty, and certainly well advanced for the season
and this latitude.
Subbing News Fsom Cuba.—The Dispatches
from Havana continue to indicate great trouble
and agitation there. The “loyal" are evidently
frightened. Gen. Jordan has struck them heavi
ly with his filibusters.
Tax on Insurance Companies,—The Athens
Watchman calls attention tothafact that the
Tax Act of the last Legislature provides that all
insurance companies, both foreign and domes
tic, are required to pay one per cent on all
premiums, and that domestic companies are
subjected to an additional annual tax of one-
half of one per cent, on their incomes!
Babnesyuxe Postmaster.—The Gazette says
John R. Shockley has been appointed Postmas
ter of Bamesville, and not Alfred Snider, ne
gro, as reported some days since.
A Healthy Increase.—The Bamesville Ga
zette says:
Mr. Wade Holmes has shown us a bunch of
wheat, from his farm, of 54 large heads, the
product of one grain of wheat Is not thig hard
to beat ?
“Speed* Malise, Speed!”—The Atlanta Ns...
Era says the Telegraph of Thursday got there
Friday afternoon. That is reasonable speed
for a slow place like Atlanta.
Union and Disunion.
There is to be no foreign war, and specula
tions in relation to it and its consequences are
idle. How much, or how little the Southern
people, influenced by natural and jnst resent
ments for the past, or by the smart of present
wrongs and injuries might be indifferent, or
lukewarm, or hostile, are practically idle ques
tions, although we might be disposed to differ
with correspondents on that subject
The Southern people, we believe, are too wise
to take counsel in these matters from mere re
sentment They have never yet done so and
they never wilL History is full of appalling po
litical lessons upon the danger of taking counsel
of our passions and our resentments upon such
subjects. Let us look at one illustration:
For six centuries the Scotch and the English
preyed upon each other, before those intelli
gent people could learn the simple lesson that
there ought not to be two governments on that
iciand For twenty generations their best and
bravest sank to bloody graves in this cruel and
unwarrantable strife. Their borders were scenes
of continual strife and desolation. Their coun
tries were swept every few years with fire and
sword. The wail of the widow and orphan—
the famished — the shouts of battle and the
groans of the wounded uprose almost every
year with the 6ongs of the spring birds. Their
best energies — their richest treasures—their
hardest labors were lost in this mutual strife,
and there is no reason to believe that their hot
permitted them to accept a wXunta j^union. 1 *'"™
Providence interposed in 1603 and gave them
a common monarch in the person of James YT,
but it was more than a hundred years after the
two nations had enjoyed a common government,
before the English succeeded in consummating
a legal union by an act of parliament, in 1707—
and no donbt, even then, a majority of the
Scotch were opposed to it What every body
else could see at a glance as an indispensable
condition to the happiness of the people, they
were seven hundred years in seeing, because
they looked through their passions and resent
ments.
Now, the Sonth never doubted that one com
mon government was far better for America than
two or more, provided it were a reasonably just
government Everybody can see that two gov
ernments would be more expensive than one—
would involve increased liability to strife and
war—increased outlay and military service for
mutual defence—increased difficulty in com
munication—increased obstacles to trade—in
creased fuss and trouble to every citizen. No
body whose opinion is worth anything, ever de
sired two governments instead of one, as an
abstract proposition.
The South sought a separate government
merely as a choice of great evils. The old gov
ernment had declared war on her social organi
zation and was in the hands of men bent on its
destruction. The question presented to think
ing men was, whether they had better attempt
sectional independence, or submit to the im
mense property loss involved in a social revolu
tion. They elected (as it turned out, unwisely,)
to seek a sectional independence.
With the failure to achieve (hat, they have
irrecoverably lost the property they were at
tempting to defend. The stakes of the contro
versy are gone. The great original material
reason for seeking a separate national establish
ment is forever lost What now remains or ex
ists to prompt or keep alive a desire 'or politi
cal separation may be classed under the head of
resentments and grievances.
Of the former, it may truly be said separation
would be merely adding fuel to the fire. If sepa
ration were possible, these resentments would
in all probability break out in new conflicts
which would only increase and perpetuate them.
Our vast border like that of the Scotch and Eng
lish, would be the theatre of interminable con
flict and blood. The two countries would waste
their best energies and lives in the attempt to
defend themselves against each other, and con
stant mutual strife and injury would perpetuate
an eternal hatred and repugnance.
Of the grievances, we have space merely to
remark that, in the nature of things, they will,
in time, cease at least to be peculiar to the
South, and will abate with the gradual molifica-
tion of sectional animosity. We must leave them
to the redress of time and reason. The remedy
is slow but certain.
Let these considerations console the people.
Let them help to reconcile the minds of think
ing men to their political disappointments and
mortifications. We are unwise if we delude
ourselvesjwith false hopes’of deliverance by for
eign interference. The foreign enemy of the
United States who would use us for temporary
purposes, would abandon ns so soon as it be
came his interest to do so. We should take
nothing but unmingled disaster from foreign in
terference. It would make onr soil the battle
ground—it would divide onr people—it would
make us again the prey of all the horrors, deso
lation and cruelty of war.
War, in our case, is a remedy for nothing. It
is the devil’s work and will bring only corres
ponding results. Peace, quiet, forbearance, in
dustry—these are the paths to restoration and
happiness.
Changes are rapid in this generation. A few
years will work wonders in the entire political
and social condition. The vexations of to-day
will hardly be remembered. The animosities
of the war will disappear. New questions will
agitate the people, and new party combinations
control the Government. Let ns be patient.
Georgia Editors on tbe Fence.
We have been particularly requested to call
the attention of the Georgia Press to the matter
of some legal provision to dispense with farm
fencing »nd to mV an expression of views upon
the subject. Many highly intelligent farmers
consider the proposition one of the most impor
tant now before the people, and they believe
the more it is thought upon and talked about,
tbe greater will be the interest and unanimity
of opinion upon the subject—so that probably
the very next Legislature of Georgia may feel
authorized to initiate the reform—at least in
many of the counties of the State.
Why, then, should we not reverse the existing
policy, and fence in stock instead of fencing it
out? Does the value of the wild grazing to the
small amount of generally inferior stock in Mid
dle Georgia, for illustration, justify the enor.
mous ftuuTial outlay in keeping np the almost
countless mile* of fencing which now inclose
the cultivated fields of Middle Georgia? Will
it not be far better for every planter to inclose
pasture land for his little flocks or herds, instead
of inclosing his large area of land in cultivation ?
If land could be cultivated without fencing, how
much better would be the system of rotation and
resting! By dispensing with fences the farmer
would be enabled to select his glebes from any
part of the plantation at will, and pick out here
and there the best spots for his cotton and grain.
Now, his fencing often compels him to cultivate
land which he would gladly suffer to rest, but
he has no time to remove old fences or erect
. .... , —. cost him more than his
fertilizers and manures—more man
Writers say that Georgia expends annually mil
lions of dollars on fence inclosnres. Is it not
better to provide by law that no stock shall be
suffered to go at large ?
Owen Thomas Will Case—Negroes Suing eor
the Estate op Their Former Master.—In the
Superior Court of Muscogee, says the Sun, the
whole of Tuesday was consumed by argument
from counsel concerned in the celebrated “Owen
Thomas Will Case. The facts are as follows :
Mr. Owen Thomas, quite an old man, died
last September. He was a bachelor. His es
tate was valued at from §160,000 to §175,000.
Only one will was found, and it was made in
1852. In it he desired that abont twenty-five of
his negroes be carried by bis Executor, after
his death, to Liberia, or some free State, as
they might elect, and there set free—they and
their posterity forever. He then desired the
residne of his property, including some sixty
other negroes, who also were his slaves, to be
reduced to money. He required that his debts,
which are small, his executors and the expenses
of transportation of the negroes to be freed,
be first paid, and then desired the remainder of
the funds to be divided among the negroes thus
set free—and divided in specified proportions,
on their arrival at their new homes.
There now remains nineteen negroes who
claim the property of deceased under this will,
which his relatives are endeavoring to break.
Last November Mr. Jas. K. Redd, the only
surviving executor of the will, presented it for
probate. Ordinary Duer refused the probate
on the ground that the act of 1859 renders null
and void any instrument conferring freedom on
slaves, and hence this will was void, and there
was no republication; that it contained condi
tions precedent, now impossible to be perform
ed ; that the changed circumstances revoked the
will, and there was nothing dono to suit the
changed relations of the parties.
On appeal, the case was taken before the Su
perior Court, and yesterday the subject was nr-
gued fully and ably by the following counsel, the
propounders having the beginning and conclu
sion: Williams & Thornton, Ramsey & Ramsey,
and CoL Mark Blanford, represent the negroes;
Ingram & Crawford, the executor; James W
Russell, Mrs. Hargroves, the only surviving sis
ter of Owen Thomas; and Gen. H. L. Benning,
and Peabody & Brannon, the heirs of Mrs. M. W.
Thweatt, deceased, another sister.
The argument was not closed until abont dark.
Judge Worrill stated he would give a written
charge.
A Lor of beautiful leaf tobacco sold in Lynch
burg, Virginia, on Tuesday last, at §S01 per hun-
- dred weight
A Warning from the Tribune to South
ern Radicals.
The New York Tribune is getting tired of car-
rying the millstone of Southern Radicalism, and
in the subjoined extract from a recent article,
specially directed to Texas, respectfully gives
notice to the brethren of the Sonth that they
must quit hanging on to the North, and begin
to take care of themselves. Says the Tribune:
“It is high time that the Southern Republi
cans should desist from hanging around the
neck of the North, and begin to take care of
themselves. We shall aid them to ratify the
fifteenth amendment, whereby full political
rights are guaranteed to every native or natur
alized citizen, regardless of race or color. We
shall take care that this amendment be obeyed
in spirit and letter. Then we shall say to our
Southern brethren, “Root, hog, or die!” It
will be far less difficult to carry Georgia, Louis
iana, or Texas, against the sham Democracy,
than New York, Pennsylvania or Indiana. We
shall.all have to work; and it is better thus than
that a part should rely on the rest to carry them.
We shall get on better and faster if all keep their
feet than if a part undertake to ride on the
backs of the rest
The style of exhortation b adapted to the
subject and the hearers. To jiuild up Southern
Radicalism, as it stands, the Radicals of the
North have sacrificed everything. They have
destroyed the Constitution—disordered the South
—confused and crippled the business of the
country—impaired its credit—wastedits revenue
and ruined their own party reputationand pros
pects. It is too late to cast off the nill-stone
hanging around their necks. It will cany them
to the bottom as sure as time rolls round. They
may pass as many constitutional amendments
as they please, but they will not be able t> re
tain the support of a single Southern State, md
the way they will be shucked out of power in
the North hereafter will be extremely cat.
tionary.
Tennessee.
Tennessee has “fallen into line,” and is keep
ing step to the music of forty thousand Kilken-’
ny cats. Tennessee, in short, has followed suit
with Georgia, and the Radicals therein are fly
ing into each other’s faces like tiger cats. It is
dreadful to read the war between Senter and
Stokes. All the Fish markets in the world are
nothing to it. It is frightful to see the Press
and Herald charging the Knoxville Whig, and
vice versa—now one and now the other by turns
gasping and spluttering under a flood of filth, a3
each relieves his surcharged stomach and tells
what he knows of the other. If almost every
decent man in Tennessee had not been disfran
chised some good might grow out of the quarrel,
but it is probable the case is hopeless.
TELEGBAPH.
What has Started Cotton?—Cotton has
gone up four-fifths of a cent a pound in a few
days, but there is unfortunately very little left
of the staple in the South. What is the cause
of the rise, we cannot pretend to say, beyond
the manifest scantiness of the last crop; but as
we have heard that the mills were going to stop
or run half time, the sudden jump is still a lit
tle surprising.
Hon. A. H. Stephens.—A gentleman in New
York has received a letter from Alexander HJ
Stephens in which he says : “I am now a little
better—am able to set np—but cannot walk
about yet. I can hobble about after a fashion
with cratches in the house. It is fourteen
weeks since I received the hurt, and I fear I
shall never be r.ble to walk as of yore.” Mr. S.
also writes that he has not resumed work on the
second volume of his history. *
Affairs in Floyd.—The Rome Commercial
of the 2d, says that the past few days have been
warm and pleasant, and the farmers have smil
ing faces. A good shower would help the cotton
and late com. The wheat is looking fine, and
we predict a pretty good crop.
The Mayor and Council of the City of Rome
have subscribed for seven hundred and fifty
shares §75,000 of Stock in the Memphis Branch
Railroad. This subscription is made on the con
dition that the Company will receive in payment
the bonds of the city, payable and redeemable
in ten years, with interest payable annually at
seven per cent.
Fire at Cochran.—The Hawkinsvillo Dis
patch of Wednesday, learns that the grist mills
of B. B. Dykes, Esq., at Cochran, on the Macon
and Brunswick Railroad, was totally consumed
by fire on Thursday last Loss three thousand.
Hie fire is said to have been caused by the
carelessness of a negro fireman, who went to
sleep, and the fire, dropping from the furnace,
caught the firewood.
Alabama Immigration Convention.—An im
migration Convention of the State of Alabama,
largely attended, commenced its session last
Tuesday, Alabama is more faithless than Geor
gia abont the labor future of the colored popu
lation, and is displaying much anxiety for a sub
stitute.
Across the Continent.
Dan CasteHo’s circus and menagerie is about
these times moving across the Continent on the
Pacific Railway to exhibit in California. This
is the Pioneer circus on that route.
Blackwood for May.—Leonard Scott Com
pany’s reprint was received yesterday.
Peterson’s Ladies National Magazine for Jnly
is here a good deal ahead of the music. It may
be fonnd at Havens and Brown’s.
Georgia.—The dispatches to the Louisville
Courier-Jonmal say that the administration has
decided as to what it will do with the alleged
disturbed condition of things in Georgia. The
commanding officer of the department in which
that State is situated is to be instructed to do all
in his power to aid in the punishing of crime.
More Sweating of Witnesses.
Jefferson, Texas, June 2.—In a military trial
to-day, Richard Figures, who had turned States-evi-
dence, and was the prosecution’s strongest witness,
was placed on the stand. Ee at first stated that he
did not wish to give evident, as Gen. Buel expected
more of L?m than he could, tell, and had this morn
ing threatened him with prosecution and punish
ment for perjury if he did not tell all ho had stated
privately. Also, that hosvofid be tried for toe crimes
with the balance. He oay recognized a few of the
prisoners. Figures shedtears. The scene created
much feeling. His tesfmony was not concluded.
One or two more freednen have been examined,
and swore every way. ’ The trial will last three
months. I
Genenl News.
Cincinnati, June 3.-The City Council Commit
tees on the Southern I^ilroad met last night in se
cret session. The halot showed a tie between
Knoxville and Chattanoga for the Southern termi
nus. Afterwards iwrfavoring Knoxville changed
to Chattanooga. Ancher ballot was not taken—
The question will be fccided this afternoon.
Concord, June S.-Govemor Steams’ inaugural
recommends tbe tpeoy ratification of tho fifteenth
amendment. i
Rochester, Jqne 3—Two brothers were drowned
to-day. I
New York, Jibe 3—The District Attorney con
sents to take boids hr Quaker City at her appraised
value. !
New York, dine 3.—Among fourteen hundred
steerage passages landed yesterday from the
Steamer Hanhaltar were S00 English and Welsh.
They were all slilla workmen of different trades.
[r he influx of Ntwegians continues enormous.
It is stated that at bast 200,000 will arrive within
the next 18 month!. Their destination is invariably
Northwest.
From Waihington.
Washington, June 3.—Tb* President has appoint
ed S. E. Deibrreet, Coliector of Customs at Feman-
dina, Florita. '
WAsmNCjroN, June 3.—The! Indian Bureau has
received ni notification of repfrted Indian outrages
in Kansas/
The folbwing is from a reliable source: An ex
pedition lift the Southern coaBt on the 29th ult.,
numberir:475 men. These mcn were a part of
Gen. Jor an’s command—all of them ex-Federal
and Confjderate soldiers. Horn reliable informa
tion receded by interested parties here, the men
and mirations of war have safely landed, and have
joined fee Cuban forces. The expedition was in
charge of Col. TeRussy, of the Confederate army,
from Jbuisiana. t
Rev/nue to-day 81,750,000.
21. j. Brittain, a Minister of the Methodist Epis-
copaipnurch, (Baltimore Conference,) has been ap
pointed Chaplain of the Navy.
So/citor Smith, of the Internal Revenue, has re-
Id from a consultation with New York capital-
istsregarding the taxation of bankers and brokers.
The Presidential party left for the Annapolis ball
to-day at 5 f. m., on the Tallapoosa.
The President saw no visitors to-day, being en
gaged with Boutwell and Delano regarding revenue
appointments.
Boutwell received a San Francisco letter dated
May 28th, from tho Assistant Treasurer, reporting
86,000,000 in coin subject to order. Time, six days.
From Virginia.
Richmond, June 3 The Committee appointed by
the colored State Convention, waited on General
Canby to-day, with a petition that he should issue
an order giving colored people equal rights in cars
and steamboats. Canby declined to interfere in
the matter, and referred them to the courts as the
proper place for the redress of any greivances that
may exist.
Rust has appeared in wheat in this vicinity, and
the crop about here will be shortened one-half.
General Lee has expressed himself in favor of
the adoption of the expurgated Constitution, and
the election of Walker, the candidate of the Conser
vative Republicans for Governor.
Highly Interesting from Cuba.
Washington, June 3 Letters from Cnba.received
here this morning, state that tho force under Gen.
Jordan had succeeded in joining the Cuban forces
after several fights, in all of which tho Spaniards
were repulseiwith serious loss. Gen. Jordan’s loss
was slight, no over forty-five in killed and wound
ed. He savedhis artillery, arms, and ammunition.
He had with bin seventeen hundred rifles, new, and
of the most approved pattern.
Havana, Jum 2.—'The agitation in the city Las
partially abated Dulce resigned this morning, and
Don Espinasi is acting Captain General until the ar
rival of DeRodi
The city is t-anqnil, but disorder threatens to
break ont any miment, as tho volunteers are great
ly incensed against Gen. Pelenz, who has disappear
ed. His whereabouts is unknown. Great anxiety
prevails. The Yascongade volunteers arrived in
port to-day.
Fsreign News.
Madrid, Jfene (.—The Cortes has adopted the
Constitution.
Topite informed the Cortes that six hundred Ca
ban prisoners sent to Fernando Po, would soon bo
transferred to the Canaries. *
A motion to reduce the standing army to 26,000
was lost. Gen. O’Donnell, while speaking against
the motion, wa3 seized with apoplexy and died •in
tho chamber, j
Figures annmneed, amid much enthusiasm, that
though oppose! to monarchy the Republicans would
support and follow the Constitution.
London, Jum 3.—The Alabama diplomatic cor
respondence his been published; commenting on
which the Timm say: “When wo compare the ex
acting and critical spirit ol’America with tho conced
ing temper of England and consider that all that
was yielded was insufficient to prevent the rejection
of the treaty, we despair of the success of any ne
gotiation in which England maintains due regard
for her own rights and honor*
London, June 3.—A riot occurred at Mold, a small
town in Wales, where tho people attempted to res
cue some prisoners from the Sheriff. The military
fired on the people, killing four and wounding
many.
Provincialisms.—Many years ugo the celebra
ted Andrew Broaddus, of Caroline, was at the
Merry Oaks, a noted tavern in Hanover county.
Mr. Lipscomb, tbe host, brought out some cider,
then a favorite beverage in Virginia, for Mr.
Broaddus to try. After drinking it he remarked:
“ It tastes beautiful, as the Yankee said at my
house a short time since.” Looking aronnd, he
saw a stranger in the room, of rather quizzical
appearance, with a broad smile on his face. Mr.
Broaddus, who was the pink of politeness, said
instantly, “ I mean no reproach; we have onr
Yirginianisms as the Yankees have their Yan-
keeisms.” The stranger, encouraged by there-
mark, said, “ I was, not long ago, in the city of
Charleston, S. C., and a negro was riding along
the street on a small, lean, raw-boned, long
haired mule. Another negro coming up to him,
remarked, “ Lor, your jack ace looks mighty
sorry; he ’pears like he kin scarce budge to
toto yon.” Broaddus enjoyed the retort, and
confessed that he was beaten.
“Shoddy” Vulgarity.—The New York Ex
press says that the royal family of Saxony have
become so disgusted with the excesses of many
American women residing in Dresden, they have
been obliged to exclude all our countrywomen
from court in order to avoid invidious distinc
tions.
A Maine contemporary says the prospect for
a good hay crop this season is first rate. The
grass is starting up nicely. There is no com
plaint of winter MUing.
In Illinois recently, a farmer set fire to tho
grass on his prairie* land, and burnt up bis two
children, who were out at play.
Attorney-General Hoar has published an
opinion adverse to merging national banks into
State banking associations under the laws of
New York,
For the first time in the history of France, a
sailing vessel—a little fore-and-aft schooner—is
moored in the Seine, by the Tufileries.
The names of twenty-five thousand pickpock
ets and petty thieves are constantly .on the books
of the Paris police.
Chicken cholera is very prevalent in Anne
Arundel county, McL, and some farmers have
lost nearly their entire stock of fowls.
The grasshoppers are devastating Platt Coun
ty, Mo., and the farmers pray for somebody to
invent a grasshopper trap. ' \
The Herald on the Macon Fostofflee,
'Ete.
At the request of Dr. Strohecker, we repub
lish the annexed article, with a note appended
by him:
Dr. Strohecker tells ns the pretended revela
tions of the Herald Washington correspondent
of tho 29 th are all stuff and nonsense. He was
in Washington upon a strictly business errand,
having no politics in it, about March last, and
called on P. M. General Creswell, who is not
a relation, but an old acquaintance and slightly
connected by marriage. Mr. Creswell was glad
to see him and, in course of conversation, asked
the Doctor, how he would like to resume his old
position of Postmaster at Macon ? To which
the Doctor replied that he was a democrat and
besides that, he conld not take the test oath.
Some weeks ago Dr. Strohecker wa3 induced
to go to Washington in the interest of Mr.
Washington the present Postmaster. He had an
interview with the Postmaster General_ on the
subject, and learned that much opposition was
made to the reappointment of Mr. Washington,
on the ground that he was or had been a demo
crat. This point the Doctor cleared up as best
he could; but subsequently meeting very un
expectedly with Mr. Whitehead, he asked the
latter to go with him to see Mr. Creswell and
state the facts as he knew them. Mr. White-
head did so, and Mr. Creswell appeared satis
fied and promised that Mr. Washington should
not be removed; but, as the event showed, was
overruled in the matter.
Subsequently Mr. Whitehead told the Doctor
his errand in Washington—that he was an ap
plicant for the appointment of Collector of In
ternal Revenue for the Macon 'District, and
asked the Doctor if he could do so, to 'secure
for him the support of Mr. Creswell. As_ White-
head had cheerfully assisted in supporting Mr.
Washington, Dr. S. thought it no more than
fair to return the favor, (as between those who
were applicants) and he accordingly interceded
for the support of Mr. Creswell to M. White-
head’s appointment. This is the whole story,
and all that the correspondent says about bar
gains for other appointments or sub-appoint
ments under Mr. Whitehead, or an attempt or
desire on the part of Dr. Strohecker, to control
the patronage of the Assessor’s office, is pure in
vention.
The above article is true, so far as it goes.
I would further add that Mr. Madison Jones,
on the eve of my departure for Washington,
asked me' to secure a position for him if I
could. Dr. Whitehead did promise to appoint
as sub-assessors at this point whoever I sug
gested. The attempt to control his appoint
ments, alleged in the New York Herald, goes no
further than the above. It is proper to say
that the understandings between Dr. W. and
myself were strictly private, and, for reasons
patent to all, were designedly kept from the
knowledge of Mr. Creswell.
E. L. Strohecker.
Cliief Justice Cbase on Pence.
Judge Chase, in response to an invitation to
be present at the decoration of the graves of the
Federal soldiers in Charleston, on Saturday
last, said:
The nation cannot too tenderly cherish the
memory of her dead heroes, or too watchfully
guard the well-being of those who survive.
And may we not indulge the hope-,that ere long
we who adhered to the national cause will be
prompt also to join in commemorating the he
roism of our countrymen who fell on the other
side, and that those who now specially mourn
their loss, consenting to the arbitrament of
arms, and resuming all their old love for their
country and our country, one and indivisible,
will join with us in like commemoration of the
fallen braves of the army of the Union?
The dead are not dead. They have only gone
before, and now see eye to eye. Why may not
we all borrow from their sacred graves oblivion
of past differences, and henceforth unite in no
ble and generous endeavor to assure the honor
and welfare of our whole country, of all her
States, and of all her citizens ?
Weather and Crops.—Since Monday last,
the weather has been summer-like indeed, de
cidedly the wannest of the season, and very
dry. No rain for more than two weeks. Gar
dens are looking as if they had seen an August
sun. Farmers complain heavily for want of
rain, and bad stands of cotton. Crops in good
condition.—Dawson Journal.
To Lawyers and Parties in Law.—The At
lanta Constitution has made arrangements with
Col. N. J. Hammond, Supreme Court Reporter,
to furnish that paper exclusively with the deci
sions of the Court, and the progress of business
each day, for the benefit of its readers.
The advantage is manifest of subscribing to
this Journal, to get this important legal intelli
gence fresh, and in advance of all other papers.
Killed by a Train of Cars.—We learn, by
private letter, that M. C. Weston, son of J. L.
Weston, Esq., of this place, was killed on the
17th of May last. We know nothing of the par
ticulars, only that a train of cars, on the South
ern Railroad, in Jlississippi, passed over him,
killing him instantly. “In the midst of life we
are in death.”—Dawson Journal.
It has been told us by a gentleman of our
city, that he has received unmistakable informa
tion that an unknown crab-apple named Boswell
will be our Postmaster. We are astonished at
this appointment of the administration, if it be
an appointment; because there once lived a
man named Boswell who was the friend of a
cotemporaneous individual known as Johnson.
Americus Republican.
English Operatives Coming to America.—
The London correspondent of the Financial
Chronicle, writing under date of the 15th nit,
says:
It is stated that nearly one hundred spinners
and wrinders, with their wives and families have
left Preston for the United States since the
strike commenced, and that eight more families
will leave next week. In Blackburn similar
measures are being taken with the same object
Subscriptions are being largely collected among
tho power loom weavers, and preparations are
now making to send off as many of them as
possible, upwards of one thousand having al
ready expressed their desire to leave tins coun
try. About twenty of these operatives will
leave Blackburn during the present month.
The spinners in that town have voted £500 from
the funds of their Union, and tho ordinary
weekly levy per member has been doubled, for
the sole purpose of augmenting the emigration
fund. The levy will take place immediately af
ter the Whitsuntide holidays. Arrangements
have been made for sending upwards of sixty
members of the society, and more will be dis
patched as the funds come in. Some families
left for the United States a short time ago, and
on Tuesday last another batch took their de
parture. In Darwen there are 13,C55 looms,
and it has been agreed to raise an emigration
fund by a levy of Id. per loom per week, to re
alize £56 8s. 9d., which would be sufficient to
send five persons off per week, “giving them ten
pounds each to start them across the Atlantic.”
At the delegate meeting of weavers held in Pres
ton, on Sunday, several representatives of dis
tricts in East Lancashire gave it as their opin
ion, and the general opinion of their constitu
ents, that the only solution of tho present diffi
culties in the cotton trade was emigration, as
tending to diminish the present Ripply of labor.
The Crop Prospect.—Dr. Andrews returned
home yesterday, from an extensive tour through
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana—reports
the crop prospect as generally very gloomy and
discouraging. The com is small, and the cot
ton very unpromising. The April rains pre
vented planters from getting their crops season
ably in the ground, and the cold winds which
prevailed early in May stinted the growth of
both plants. The warm weather of the last
week will improve matters materially, provided
genial showers occur, to soften the hard ground
and permit of active culture.
The wheat crop in Tallapoosa county, Ala.,
and other sections, is very promising, and the
farmers will commence harvesting next week.
The Doctor says that some of the wheat fields
remind him of Eastern Pennsylvania, in the
golden aspect and heavy fraitage presented to
the eye of the observing traveler.—Sumter
Republican. - : •
In Italy, ont of a population of 24,000,000,
18,000,0000 were so totally uneducated as to be
unable to read or write.
John Brougham's two benefits in New York,
last week netted him §6,000. He is one of the
most popular and accomplished American ao-
tajB. ■
Failure to pay a hotel bill is decided to be a
penitentiary offence in New York.
The Pope received §4,000,000 worth of pres
ents on his anniversary.
Lamartine’s tomb .is decorated daily with
numerous elegant bouquets sent from all parts
of France. , ,
, ' • [For the Telegraph.
“All is not Gold that Glitters.”
A city gent’s first introduction to the skunk is
thus related by himself: *
“On a beautiful morning, not long since,
being ont on a visit in the country, I was walk
ing through the woods, already blooming in
beauty, as spring had considerably advanoed,
ruminating upon the changes which the face.of
nature undergoes, as the seasons come and de
part, and on the beanty of the scene stretched
ont before me. The swelling buds had pushed
off the dry, dead leaves from the branches, and
had developed themselves into something simi
lar to the otheTS in shape, but far more brilliant
in color and delightful in scent. I had been
walking thns, lazily pondering, perhaps half an
hour, when my attention was suddenly attracted
to a little animal that stole cautiously across
the path a fow paces in front of me, and silent
ly entered a hole in the ground, which he, no
donbt, had prepared expressly for his reception.
As I had never before seen anything like it, I
was filled with curiosity to inspect and desire to
possess the little animal which appeared so shy
and pretty—consequently I sharpened a stick
and set in heartily, in earnest, to obtain the
coveted prize. .
I dug away, and at length, by dint of diligent
ly pushing and prizing with my stick, and re
moving the dirt with my hands, in abont an
hour, I was rewarded by a close view of the lit
tle fellow. Previous to entirely unearthing
him, I hesitated a moment, carried away with
admiration at the sight. There were streaks of
brown coursing their way over a surface of soft
yellow fur—so soft seemingly, that the beaver’s
coat were harsh-in comparison; delicate little
ears that looked as if they might have been
made especially to play with—and I thought
thus to myself: ‘T will catch this little creature
and carry him home for a pet—for, no doubt,
he will be easily tamed, as he is apparently en
tirely harmless.” Having indulged this pleas
ing reverie, I proceeded to further reveal his
delicate proportions to my enraptured gaze,
caught hold of his tail, timidly, I confess, pre
pared at the least demonstration on his part of
a propensity to defend himself, to drop him
immediately, “if not sooner.” But he was too
quick for me, for he gave himself a sudden
twist, when—perfumers avaunt! hide your dis
honored heads! What a scent! Not quite so
delightful to the olfactory nerves as your
preparations ’tis true, but ever so much more
lasting. ■-
Overcome so completely by the effect the
scent produced upon me, I immediately dropped
the offensive little rascal, not even thinking of
being revenged upon him for the ugly triefc he
had played so successively upon me, he having
well sprinkled my wardrobe with the mask, in
destructible. As soon as I turned him loose he
waddled away, occasionally casting back on
either side, as I thought, a mischievous glance,
to observe the effect his “coup de main” had
produced upon me, and to see if I would have
the audacity to pursue him further; but on that
score he need have had no anxiety, as I had
had enough to do with what I had, until within
the last few months, thought a perfectly nice
and harmless little creatrue, but in which I now
recognized from accounts I had heard concern
ing his wonderful perfuming capacity, an animal
that is generally known in the country by the
name of the “Pole-cat”
From Crawford County.
Crawford County, June 1st, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: Although I have noticed,
quite recently, in the Telegraph, several repre
sentations of the state of affairs in this county,
I will, notwithstanding, venture a few remarks
in reference to the crop prospects, labor, etc.
For several days past we have been having
the nicest weather almost imaginable on crops,
being warm, night and day, without cool morn
ings, and, as a consequence, both com and cot
ton are looking up—especially the latter, which
has had it all to do, in the way of growing,
during the last week, as it grew scarcely any
before. During the time the cool weather con
tinued, so much of the cotton died ont, that,
generally, the farmers have poor stands. Those
of them that bought the “Dickson’sImproved”
seed, and in order to have them plant as much
land as possible, rolled them and dropped them
in hills, (thinly, no donbt,)—are not very likely,
I fear, to get their money back, as not many
have near half a stand.
Some of that class of farmers, denominated
grumblers,” are complaining now of a want of
rain, yet they are forced to acknowledge the
fact that their com and cotton have grown more
the last week than during any two weeks previ
ous to this time. And then, besides, it is such
nice weather for killing grass, (where the ground
is not too hard,) and as we have plenty of it
here, though the freedmen work well to keep it
in subjection, I think a week or two of dry
weather, so far from being an injury, (except
to oats and garden products,) would be an ac
tual advantage. Besides, we want jnst that
much more fair weather in order to save onr
wheat well. The traveling thrashers will com
mence their circuits this week; so we.can soon
tell with certainty the value of the wheat crop—
whether or not it is a good one.
I have no agitating “dots” to communicate.
Tue negroes having quit that way they had of
killing each other, have settled into the more
profitable pursuit of chopping cotton, which
farmers, generally, are not quite through with
yet. Rustic.
The Grass Crop and the Cotton Crop.—The
Athens Banner says:
A gentleman of this place mentioned to ns an
instructive fact a few days ago. Last summer
ho spent a few days on a farm in a Northern
State in the midst of the haying season. He
saw hay hauled to tho bam which had grown on
land sown in 1 SCO, and had been cut by a mow
ing machine, scattered by another machine, and
gathered up with a horse-rake—the only human
labor employed upon it being the loading of the
wagons with pitch-forks. It yielded two tons
to the acre and was selling at the meadow at
§20 per ton, or §40 per acre. 'While our cot
ton here, jvMch requires looking after from the
1st of January to the 31st of December, yields,
on an average, a bale to three acres—at 25 cents
per pound, the three acres would bring §100 or
§33.33$per acre!
“lord” Chandler.
HIS ARMS, LIVERY, AND ESCUTCHEON.
Senator Chandler left here with his family
and servants, on Saturday night, for New York,
where he will remain a few days preparatory to
sailing to Europe. His wife and daughter each
take with them a colored female servant, and
he takes two black male servants. These ser
vants are to be fitted ont, while in New York,
with a very showy livery. The coats of the
men servants are to be a lavender color, with
white buttons, upon which is the Michigan coat
of arms, except that the stags support the letter
O, which is of red enamel with gold edge. The
female servants wear large belt bnckles bearing
the same design as that upon the bnttons. The
hats of the men are black, with a wide purple
band and a large silver cockade, in the center of
which is one of the bnttons aforesaid.
The dogs in the Cleveland, Ohio, pound were
recently kept without food so long that the
larger ones devoured the smaller.
The bill providing for the annexation of Dor
chester to Boston, has passed the Massachusetts
Legislature.
The Arizona cotton factory established in
Claiborne Parish, La., since the war, is now
paying a net profit of 24 per. cent per annum
A landlord in Utica is trying to eject a dis
agreeable tenant by bringing numerous organ-
grinders to play about his door.
The manufacture of shoes has been carried on
at Lynn for two hundred years.
The Advance in Cotton should have been
stated at four-fifths of a cent, instead of four to
five|cents. It is to-day fully a cent.
[For the Macon Dailg Telegraph
The Second GermanPolkr Expedite
The reorganization of the body politic is - 0
ing the latent energies of the German nation?
seek fame on a field it has never yet explored”
Though the establishment of nearly f ot ,
princely courts, perpetuating the dismenfl*
ment of the empire has prevented the nati
from exercising a decisive influence on the a° 6
tinies of the Old World, it haa had a benefit!
effect on the cultivation ef arts and science
The genius of the peoples was bound and ‘ ^
tered, impeded in a thousand ways; and bein'
unable to shine in parliamentary debate o-*
carry the German tricolor across the seastofc°
eign lands, it devoted all its energies to the
suit of knowledge. German enthusiasm son?
vent in music and art ; poetry flourished- Si
though many of the princelings deserve to bf
held up to eternal execration, the nation
ever gratefully remember Prince Carl August/!
Weimar, who gave Schiller and Goethe a* .5
lum.
The war of 1866 has broken the spell- w*
Germans, castiig longing eyes towards di’sta?
climes, are preparing to compete with the &
faring nations in the marts of the world. i?
the Chancellor of the Confederation, appredT.
ing the importance of the movement, gives
every countenance, by developing the cai-l
power and concluding commercial treaties »'•’
distant foreign nations. !ti
The second German polar expedition vn
leave Bremen on the 7th of June, to penetr-1“
sailing along the eastern coast of GreenC-’
into the Arctic central regions. The expehth?
commanded by Captain Karl Koldeweyfcons?
of two steamers, “Germania” and “Hansa ■
143 tons each, of which the first was eipr t J
built for the Arctic seas. They will take
provisions for two years, as they will not rets?
until the summer of 1871. As for the pectus
wants of a ship destined for the Arctic regie?
the experiences of other nations were adooM
These prove that small ships, especially tip,
that do not draw above ten feet of water sjj
the best, as, steaming northward, thev haw
very often to keep along the coast. A zoology
and geologist will accompany the expedition *
The enterprise, the costs of which are dt
frayed by voluntary contributions of the natio-"
was initiated by Dr. A. Petermann, in Gotha
the most eminent German geographer now fir
ing. A storm of applause arose, when he de-
dared in the session of the committee on the
11th of May, in Bremen, “that now the Gar.
mans ought to exhibit also something of the
pluck and tbe enterprising spirit of th- : -
Anglo-Saxon and Trans-Atlantio brethren.”
May a lucky star guide the vessels safe’.;
again to the shores of the Fatherland! 1
Jaexo.
European Labor for the South.
I From the Cuthbert Appeal.
The experience of the past three years, de.
monstrates the futility of any attempt to snpp^
ment or supersede negro labor, by importation
from the peasantry of the old countries.
.Reared in enlightened communities andtx
insensible to ambition, they no sooner reach the
eldorado of their hopes, the shores of Ameria,
than new and enlarged ideas obtrude themselws
No longer confined to the narrow limits of i>
Irish potato patch, or chilled by the dmq
moors of Scotland, or forced, as in Holland, t«
contend with the sea for the diminutive spot cl
solid earth they once inhabited, the broad acres
and unbroken forests of the new world presen
the strongest attractions.
At the dose of the first year of then serrice,
they are not slow to perceive, that even with the
paltry savings of that brief period, with the p»
neer’s axe they may enter the wilderness, aid
carve ont a home and glorious independent
for themselves. The Southern planter afters!
his pains and outlay therefore, to secure foreip
white labor, finds himself defeated at the ver
threshhold of his enterprise, and continued ex
periment in the same field will but repeat fe
experience of the past.
He simply becomes a successful immigrac
agent, and the advantage to be reaped is remoti
and merely incidental.
But our ruined fences, and the rapid increase
of brambles and broom sedge iu the fields ok
smiling with plenty, admonish ns that somethin
must be done to restore onr waste places.
"Will the present African labor suffice ? ¥(
answer no. Even now every year witnesses i
material subtraction from tbe supply which c&s
be made available.
Infanticide, whisky and disease, sky their
thousands; toe jails and penitentiaries of tbe
country contain not a few; the field is becom
ing more and more distasteful to female labor
ers *hur railroads absorb hosts of the very pick
of the plantation force; the love of novelty and
sight-seeing induce crowds to throng and hang
about every town and village, where many even
perish from want; the ambition to set up for
themselves rapidly transforms into tenants o:
freeholders toe most prosperous of the black
operatives—all these causes when combmed-
are swiftly and surely exhausting toe supply of
African labor.
How then can the South continue to prodiH
toe great staples, and exist as an agricnltunl
people ?
The only solution to this problem, is to h
found in the importation of indentured Asiatics.
Those people who subsist almost wholly upc!
vegetables are docile and tractable, and far a-
perior to toe negro in skill and intelligence.
They can be contracted for at very low rate
for a term of years, and coming from the ja> I
gles of toe East are already acclimated. In Lo' I
isiana toe experiment has already been mad! I
with complete success. True, these heathens I
still retain toe manners, customs, and traditions I
of their fathers, but this was equally the caal
with too African, who, even after an intervals I
near two centuries, is but half civilized, aril
rapidly relapsing into his pristine state of »l
perstiuon and barbarism. . j
Bat toe descendant of Shem as before state! I
is vastly superior .in all respects to the children I
of Ham, and it will he hard indeed if a natice I
of Protestant Christiana cannot overthrow UI
Budhism, and errors of a scattered few wh I
as decreed of old, are “hewers of wood, ®|
drawers of water for Japhet. ”
Some even propose to induce negroes agj® I
not bought with- money, or captured with w 5 1
and spear, but as emigrants and citizens of tf I
“Great Republic.” .1
Of the propriety of this project we are c* I
prepared at present to express an opinion. |
It will be difficult, however, tor
spirits, white, black and grey, “to stultify I
own pet theory of freedom to such an extent 1 1
to exclude from their midst toe untutored I
or Foulah, who seeks the benefit and proie®® I
of toe “best government the world ever sa^ |
But we have said enough for the present, w
on this question, soon to bo one of absorbing-
terest to toe South.
"Whether from Europe, Asia, or Africs, a
supply of labor must be introduced for I
pi cal region, and the subject will ere l 01 ?.. |
same a practical significance, which cannot* |
be avoided nor ignored.
An Immense Tombstone ! — Our I
friends in their enthusiastic moments, son*-1
times commit most ridiculous blunders, and I
most ridiculous of all are those that are conn ',
ed with serious subjects. .For instance,
monument recently inaugurated to the |
Federal - dead at Arlington contains the ft
ing inscription: ...
“Beneath this stone repose toe bodies o I
thousand one hundred and eleven unknown^ i
diers, gathered after the war from the ne'® ‘ I
Bull Run and on the route to the Eapp 4 ®*' |
nock.”
GulfMackcrel. Etc.
Some of our merchants have this season, • I
the Columbus Sun, been dealing in a uew T ZI
ty of salt fish called Spanish Mackerel, p 53 * I
on the Gulf coast in Florida; also in I
put up like Mackerel. We have tried these .
and find them to be fully as good a8 the * L
era Mackerel; indeed toe “Spanish" s ee !f. a. |
be a more delicate fish than toe Northern I
erel, is less gross, and has a cleaner I
The Pompano are also as fine as any Aon* ,1
salt fish. There is no necessity for going M. ^ I
our Southern waters for fish as fine as tw ^ I
can furnish, and we are glad to learn tw j I
trade in these Southern fish is already IMS” g I
increasing. They are well appreciated v) , I
who give them a trial, and we believe that ■ |
are cheaper than the Northern fish.
The word “rink” is a Russian word, I
“a body of ice.” Hence toe taxm “skafinS.^I
is proper; and for the same reason “velooj^ I
rink’’ is improper. So says a Kansas co I
porary, and we suppose it is right.
In Jasper county, Iowa, toe grasahopp** 4
so thick that there is not standing room -
of them. . t-j.
On an opening night at ah opera housei m^ f
vada an enthusiastic admirer of an actress
an eighty dollar silver brick at her. ^ ,
Wheat harvestiiighM -commencediu ,
counties in Texas. The crop ia fine, y“*
very slight touch of rust-
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