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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, PREPAY, JUNE 18, 1869.
The Gt^orgia 'Weekly Telegraph.,
Macon PostoIHce.
It will be seen from the press telegrams that
Tomer has been daly qualified as Postmaster in
Macon.' We cannot doubt that the President
gave Judge Cole the most ample assurances that
the appointment should be revoked, buthas been
overruled by his Cabinet. He is a weak brother.
From Lowndes County.
The Valdosta Times, to ■which we are indebted
for the subjoined information, announces the
accession to the editorial force of that pa
per, of Mr. L. W. Andrews, who addresses
the public in the Times, of the 3th, in a well-
conceived salutatory.
The Atlanta and Gulf Railroad commenced j ®
running an accommodation train between Sav
annah and No. C, the point of divergence to
Brunswick, on the 7th instant The roads were
expected to connect on the 4th of July.
The weather in Lowndes was hot and dry. Cot
ton was begining to bloom, and the crop clean
and in good order. The oat harvest had been
unsurpassed, and the crop had been secured in
good order. Showers were needed to set the
sweet potato crop and fill the corn.
From Talbot County.
The West Georgia Gazette, of the 10th, learns
that the grain crops in the valley were never in
better condition. The yield of wheat will be
very large. No disease having attacked it, the
grains are fuller and heavier than for many
years past The com and cotton crops are in
good condition, and bid fair to keep up the
.reputation of the Valley as the best fanning
section in the State.
A protracted meeting was in progress in Tal-
botton under the direction of Revs. T. T. Chris
tian and R. J. Corluy, assisted by Mr. Evans, of
Columbus. An Odd Fellows Lodge was to be
started. The Talbot Schools, Lo Vert College,
Collingsworth Institute and Providence High
School, were in highly prosperous condition.
The Gazette has the following upon the fence
question:
Many papers in Georgia are agitating the
plan of fencing in stock, instead of fencing in
the crops. Do away with fences around the
com and cotton, and fence in pastures. This
would undoubtedly be a saving of millions ev.
try year to the farmers, as the expenses of their
enclosures are now enormous. It is probable
some legislative action wiU be had on the sub
ject at the next meeting of the General Assem
bly. It is worthy their consideration. Some
interesting suggestions concerning this plan,
from the Macon Telegraph, will be found on
our first page.
Blackberry Trade—A T,ttht:<t. Offer.—Col.
R. J. Moses, in the Columbus Enquirer of
Thursday morning, makes the following very
liberal offer:
“I will pay fifty cents a bushel for blackber
ries and famish the blackberries, if delivered
at my farm, etc."
We never knew more liberal trading than this,
and only one case at all equal to it. That was
ihe case of the man in the fur trade who bought
•the same beaver skin forty-seven times in one
day.; but in that case the skin was stolen forty-
six times—the buyer was imposed upon and did
not suspect fraud until his attention was aroused
by the apparent great number of beaver skins
in morkot and their wonderful similarity. In
this case, however, the Colonel goes into the
blackberry market on principle and with a defi
nite understanding. We have no doubt the of
ferings on this schedule will be heavy.
Sad Aerate.—We are informed, says the
Montgommj- Mail, of a very sad affair, the par
ti criUrs ^f which, so far as our informant could
^eam them, are as follows:
About two weeks since a Mr. Strickland, re
cently from Grantville, Georgia, married a lady
near Tallasee, or Cowles’ Station on the Mont
gomery and West Point Railroad. Returning
to Grantville on his bridal tour, he met a man
the other day, between whom and himself an old
feud existed. An altercation ensued in which
Strickland was killed. The widowed bride,
with the corpse,came to Cowles’ Station on Mon
day evening’s train.
Persian Clover.—A gentleman of this city
brought us yesterday a stalk of Persian Clover,
(seed from Bokhara) which was eight feet high.
The stem was half an inch at the base. This
clover was in bloom, and, when 3 feet 5 inches
high, grew at the rate of 4 inches a day. The seed
when dry is as fragrant as the Vanilla bean.
The original seed was brought from the Paris
Exposition and sowed in 1867. It is a peren
nial grass of the tallest kind, certainly.
Not Tumbling Down.—The Atlanta New Era
says the Opera House is not tumbling down,
and is, on the contrary, one of the strongest
buildings in Georgia. The question is will they
be able to say as much when their heads are
smashed under the tumbling bricks ?
tw.ti Dogs in Montgomery.—The Montgom
ery Advertiser reports the presence of mad
dogs in that city. We have never heard of any
well authenticated case of canine madness so
far South? and there are too many dogs about
for safety if there is any danger of rabies
among them.
Pleasant Agricultural Meeting.—The East
Alabama Agricultural Society met at the model
farm of C. A Peabody, Esq., on Tuesday last,
and held an interesting and desultory talk, and
were entertained with a fine dinner by Mrs. P.
during the day. The transactions are reported
by the Sun and Enquirer.
Going a Fishing.—Everybody in Columbus
is going a fishing. It is a quiet, contemplative
business—adapted to the times. The grown
people fish and the boys shoot pop-guns and
hunt “ worrums” for bait.
It is reported in Columbus that ex-Provisional
Governor James Johnson, late Collector of the
port of Savannah, is to be appointed Judge of
the Columbus Circuit Ho is to take the place
of that eminent and incorruptible Jurist, Judge
WorrilL
Hon. A. H. Stephens.—The Greensboro Her
ald says Mr. Stephens is improving and can now
sit up and attend to business most of the day.
Public Schools in Columbus. — The Sun
says there are four hundred pupils in the three
public schools in Columbus.
A letter from Burke county says the blind
staggers have been playing sad havoc with the
horses and mules in that county during the past
month. A large number have died.
Hon. D. W. Lewis, Secretary of the State
Agricultural Society, addressed the Riohmond
County Farmers’ Club at the Summerville Gar
den yesterday.
The New Crisis
Nearly a year ago we took occasion to remark
upon the great contest between Asiatic and Eu
ropean civilization, reb’gion and politics, of
which the North American continent must inev
itably become the theatre, at no distant date.
This subject seems to have attracted no great
attention at that time, but the march of events
has been so rapid, and the signs have become
so portentous, that the attention of the North
ern press generally has been drawn to it
We copy, to-day, one of a series of articles
which have appeared in the Philadelphia Press,
which, in very general terms, review the forces
and the points involved in this mighty contro
versy. In subsequent articles, the Press expa
tiates on the mighty Asiatic immigration which
will be shortly let loose upon this continent—the
imminence of the conflict and the extreme dan
ger which it threatens to our religion, and civil
ization.
Really, the Press seems to think that Chris
tianity will stand a slim chance in the struggle;
and perhaps, will found upon this conviction, a
solemn appeal to Congress to come to her aid.
Congress, we know, is supreme—Congress is
omnipotent—Congress might even reconstruct
the shattered debris of Christianity after she had
been knocked to flinders by these Asiatic Budd
hists ; but perhaps it would be better to inter
pose a Congressional intervention before the
shock.
Now we suggest that the Press abate its dis
tressing anxiety about the fate of the Christian
religion, and leave it in the bands of that Higher
Power who is pledged and able to protect it.—
The point which belongs more properly to poll
ticians is the political safety of the country.
And upon this point, let us ask in what atti
tude have the radicals put the Great Republic
in relation to this threatened deluge of the cop
per-faced Celestials ? Universal manhood suf
frage and no distinctions on account of color or
race, have been incorporated into onr constitu
tion and made the grand comer stones of Amer
ican Republicanism under radical manipulation.
It would seem, indeed, as if a judicial Provi-
deuce bad led these radicals, in order to punish
their overweening presumption, arrogance and
recklessness, into a practical and total disarma
ment at the moment it was about to expose
America to her greatest peril.
We have been busy Since the war in obliter
ating every conservative and defensive feature
of the American system. We have been de
nonneing race distinctions, (which are God’s es
pecial distinctions,) as the most pestilent, de
testable and disallowable of all distinctions,
just as our gates are opening to a mighty and
innumerable horde of an alien race, with whom
race distinctions are insurmountable as the
skies, and who will base upon them every prac
tical view of politics aqd morals.
Snch wisdom and liberality as this is akin to
that of the friendly Indians, who welcomed ex
termination with the foreign white adventurer.
Races are, in truth, the Heaven-ordained ba
sis of nationality. These distinctions are nat
ural, and, so far as we can leam the will of God
by His providential dealings—were intended to
promote the highest interests of men, by sub
serving human convenience, comfort and hap
piness—by inspiring love of country, and all the
noble virtues which are its outgrowth—by stim
ulating progress and improvement, through ri
valry and emulation.
Indeed, the natural divisions of the earth’s
surface form no snch normal and complete
segregation of the human race into great polit
ical families called nations, as do these ties of
a kindred origin. Human ingenuity surmounts
those topographical barriers without difficulty;
but to obliterate those of race is the forced and
unnatural handiwork of successive generations.
Where the distinction of race is not very mark
ed, the result, when accomplished, is not ap
parently mischievous. But where the hand of
God has traced this distinction in characters
broad and strong, degeneracy and demoraliza
tion, physical and mental, are the well known
penalty for a deliberate violation of the plain
teachings of nature.
The American Radicals have, in plain con
tempt of reason and nature, declared war
against race distinctions, even so broad and
strong as between those of whites and blacks.
Tn so doing, they have broken down the true,
legitimate wall of partition, which might have
preserved the whites in the legitimate political
control of America. They have been guilty of
treason to an illustrious ancestry, who bequeath
ed this government to their descendants and to
men of their own lineage. They have turned
the country over to whoever will come and take
it, and if these Asiatics come with sufficient
numbers, it must be theirs.
The Washington City Election.
The following facts in reference to the recent
election in Washington City are telegraphed to
the Louisville Courier-Journal:
Washington, June 8.—The returns from yes
terday's election show that nearly Jive thousand
white voters failed to vote, and were probably in
timidated from approaching the polls. The vote
as compared with the registration is that num
ber short.
The evening papers contain details of minor
riots that prevailed during the night, but to-day
has been comparatively quiet, owing to the new
corporation law, admitting negroes to all parts
of places of amusement.
It was feared that an attack would be made
on the National Theater, but the negroes conde
scendingly sent a delegation to the proprietors
and informed them that no attack would be
made.
The Republican papers generally pitch into
the negroes for the riot of yesterday, but have
not a word of condemnation for John W. For
ney, whose inflammatory appeals to the negroes
were undoubtedly one of the prime causes of
the riot.
Among the conncilmen elected to impose
taxes and prescribe municipal regulations for the
capital of the country is the head-waiter at the
National Hotel and the barber at Willard's. One
of the Seventh-ward Aldermen a year or two
since was a bootblack.
The press telegrams yesterday stated as fol
lows:
The negro Stewart whom the police carried to
the polls when he voted, was sent to Baltimore
by the authorities for safety.
This was the negro who voted a split ticket
and was subsequently pursued by the blacks with
murderous designs and deadly weapons all over
the city—was secreted and concealed by the
police, and finally the latter, finding themselves
unable to save his life, if he remained in Wash
ington, exiled him to Baltimore for safety.
Such is the penalty for voting a split ticket in
Washington, and such is the freedom of opinion
which has been established and exists in the
Federal city under shadow of the Republican
throne. From snch a place as thin come all the
fierce nvectives against Georgia, charging a
want of political toleration in this State. Here,
the Federal authorities within sound of the fran
tic yells of a negro mob which has taken violent
possession of the polls and defies officers of the
I law, of their own party, concoct their schemes
to restore quiet and order in Georgia, where
Nearly all the Paris correspondents say that the public peace is disturbed by scarcely ariffle.
Madame Patti will soon be engaged in a scanda- \ We don’t hesitate to say that no State of the
loua divorce suit, and that most of her jealous i Union, since its formation, was, at any time in
sister singers will exult over her misfortunes. • iU history, so free from crime and violence of
m } all kinds as the State of Georgia is at this day.
Gaft. R. L. Fulton, of Galveston, is a candi- g ar ely, so ridiculous a spectacle as this should
date for Congress from that District. i arrest the attention of the country, and so
* *"T 7. should the wretched results of negro suffrage,
Tennyson has a new volume of poems in press. ■ portrayed in the foregoing dispatch!
Judge Black.—We are pleased to see that ( F J
Judge Black, whose arm was terribly shattered New Yorkers being somewhat enthusiastic
■ome weeks ago by an aocident on the Louisville regarding excursions to China, Japan, the Holy
and Nashville Railroad, is entirely out of danger. If nd and other points, an enterprising traveler
aaaassoyiueiMiiuu.u, j - o advertises an excursion to Greenland. The
His arm is safe and there is reasonable hope of p ftrt y jg to j, e restricted to six, and a “grand
Mb having tolerable good use of it time” is promised.
Turner’s Appointment,
PRESS REPORTS OP JUDGE COLE’S INTERVIEW WITH
THE PRESIDENT.
The Herald of the 8th publishes the following
report:
Samuel F. Gove and George Edwards, mem
bers of Congress elect, but kept ont in the cold,
from Georgia, accompanied by Judge_ 0. B.
Cole, of the Superior Court of Macon, in that
State, made up another delegation that waited
upon President Grant to-day in relation to the
case of Turner, the colored man recently ap
pointed to succeed Mr. Washington as Post
master of Macon. They went to the President
to protest against Tamer’s appointment, and
Judge Cole acted as spokesman of the delega
tion.
He told the President that he expressed the
feeling of all the whito republicans of the city
of Macon, which he said, was the second in com
mercial importance in the State of Georgia,
when he declared that Tamer’s appointment
was not only distasteful to the people of that
place, but that it would actually have the effect
of raining their business. No decent white re
publican would tolerate snch a man as Tomer
in official position in Macon. “If,” said Cole,
“it he true that you, Mr. President, have ap
pointed this man Tomer to be Postmaster of
Macon as a rebuke for the outrages and disor
ders that have occurred in that State, yon have
selected the wrong place for punishment. There
has not been any outrages or disorders in that
district, and it seems extremely unjust that one
place should be punished for the sins of an
other.” Judge Cole went on to explain that
Tomer was such an offensive character that his
appointment would have the effect of driving all
decent white republicans from Macon.
President Grant heard the Jndge to the close
of his remarks with the utmost attention and
respect, and then said that since the appoint
ment had been made he had reviewed the whole
case, reflected upon the charges that had been
made against Turner, duly weighed the reasons
urged by the whito Republicans of Macon
From Houston County.
Condition of the Crops—Effect of the Fertilizers
—Dickson's Corn Culture—Cotton Tax.
Foet Valley, Jane 9, I860.
Editors Telegraph : In one of your dailii
of last week you requested the planters toco;
municate through your paper the presents
dition and prospects of crops, and espe '
what the fertilizers were doing; the contrast
appearance in size, etc. of the cotton p
when guano was and was not used, eto.
Our crops in fhig section are, at this time,
promising. Com, though now much in want of
rain, is healthy, and if we get rain in a few
days, with a continuance of favorable seasons,
will make a supply for another year.
Cotton is generally doing well, stands good
and plant healthy, thought not perhaps as large
as usual at this season. The relative size and
general appearance of cotton manured and not
manured is very different. I think, as a general
thing, the cotton plant on manured land is one,
fourth if not one-third larger than on land not
manured, and the stands in the same proportion
better; the result I suppose of the vigor impart
ed to the plant when very young and tender,
enabling it the better to resist the effects of the
cold nights and cold winds of the past month.
A great variety of fertilizers have, been used
among us. "We have used principally “Zells’
Rawbone and Ammoniated Superphosphate,
It is so far doing well.
In reference to the com crop, I fear many who
admire and have adopted Mr. Dixon’s theory
of shallow culture, regardless of quality of
land or character of seasons, will realize small
yields. Mr. Dickson’s views may be, and doubt
less are, applicable to certain kinds of soil or
against Turner s appointment, and had finally I but, Messrs. Editors, their universal ap-
come to the conclusion that a change should be I .. , ,. , , ,, .. ,. . .
made. He had already informed Postmaster j P bcatlon ^ be * sastrous to ***■* interests
General Creswell that Turner’s appointment; °f ottr country. No one system of culture can
be established as best for all varieties of land,
and on some of our lands hereabouts, if we were
to rely entirely upon the “Dickson sweep” to cul
tivate our crops, a failure would be the result.
Finally, Messrs. Editors, what of the cotton
tax. I have heard, within a day or two, that
the Tax Asssessor for this sub-district, stated
here that it would be revived after July next;
that the tax had been suspended, not repealed,
and that he had with him his “tricks” for tag
ging our cotton when made. We think this is a
mistake. We read the Telegraph and other pa
pers here, and believe the tax repealed. Who is
right ? Please give us your opinion.
W. A.M.
, Always pleased to hear from the writer. We
think he is right with regard to Dickson’s method
of com culture—don’t believe it will do on clay
soils. In the matter of the cotton tax, we pub
lished the act repealing that tax some months
ago. The repeal is absolute, and why any of
the newspapers should persist in representing to
the contrary, we cannot understand.—Editors.
ought to be revoked, and, in fact, steps had al
ready been token to notify Mr. Turner that he
need not strive any further to obtain bords, as
bis services would not be needed as Postmaster
of Macon.
The delegation on bearing this were greatly re
joiced, and, after thanMngthe President for his
consideration and timely action, left the White
House in the highest spirits. It appears that
Turner, after receiving his appointment, en
deavored in vain to obtain the requisite bonds
for the discharge of his duties as Postmaster.
Nobody in Macon would go security for him,
and he was obliged to look elsewhere, with no
better success. So poor Turner, the aspiring
gentleman of color, will have to abandon his
hunt for federal patronage in Macon and return
again to the avocation of preacher, which he
would have abandoned for a postoffice.
The New York Times has the following as its
Washington report:
The Colored Postmaster at Macon.—It is
reported to-day that the President has ordered
the removal of Rev. H. M. Turner, the recently
appointed colored Postmaster of Macon, Geor
gia. The protests against this appointment,from
Republicans in Georgia, have been very strong.
A Government officer who has just returned
from that State, says that it was more unpopu
lar among the Republicans than the Democrats,
who rather enjoyed the change, inasmuch as
Washington, who was removed to make room
for Turner, had always been obnoxious to the
rebels as a Union man. It will be remembered
that Turner was recently appointed on the
recommendation of Senator Sumner; but there
is little doubt, from all that can be learned, that
Turner, who possesses much ability in certain
respects, succeeded in deceiving Mr. Sumner,
as well as the President.
A Walk about JIacon—Russell and
Peter’s Brewry.
Messrs. Editors : While taking a walk through
the suburbs of your beautiful city, I strayed into
Russell & Peter’s Brewry. 'I never once thought
of finding such a pleasant retreat. The Messrs.
Russell & Peter deserve the thanks of the peo
ple of the city of Macon, and of Central and
Southwestern Georgia,forkeepingsuch an excel-
Ientplaceof amusement for the former, (where
the tired business man can spend a pleasant
hour, and, for the time being, forget his Ledger
Thursday, June ]», 1869. an3 bis Da J 11113 wbere the lovers of the
The Supreme Court met pursuant to adjourn- j Terpscicorean Art can trip the light fantastic
ment. I toe) and for famishing such a delightful and
The crowd which had assembled to hear the healthy beverage to alL
argument in the case of White vs. Clements, . ,
from Chatham, involving the question of the ! The Germans as a race are the healthiest peo-
eligibility of negroes to office, was so great that P’° oa the continent, and you scarcely ever
Supreme Court of Georgia—Progress
of the Negro Eligibility Case.
upon the suggestion of CoL L. J. Glenn, the
Court adjourned to the Senate Chamber.
The change was made, and order restored
within a few minutes, when A W. Stone, Esq.,
for plaintiff in error, laid down and elaborated
the following propositions:
1st. That the Constitution of the State makes
colored persons citizens.
2d. That it adopts the Code known as Irwin's
Code of Georgia, as embracing the statutes of
force in Georgia.
3d. The Code provides that among the rights
of citizens is the Elective Franchise, and the
right to hold office.
4th. That all the citizens of Georgia are en
titled to exercise all their rights as such, unless'
specially prohibited by law.
5th. That colored citizens are not excepted,
mnch less specially prohibited bylaw from hold
ing office in Georgia.
Mr. Hartridge, for the defendant in error,
made some preliminary remarks, sustaining the
rulings of the court below. His argument upon
the main question involved was eloquent and
forcible. He demonstrated clearly, that the fact
of being a citizen of the United States does not
necessarily confer the right to bold office; that
the Constitution of Georgia confers on the ne
gro citizenship, bnt not the right to hold office ;
that the Constitution makes the negro an elec
tor, but does not make him eligible to office;
and that the Code does not confer upon him the
right, for in the clause specifying the rights of
sersons of color it does not mention the right to
lold office.
Mr. Hartridge in his argument cited numer
ous authorities to sustain hi3 various proposi
tions.
Mr. Akerman insisted that the disabilities of
colored men under onr old government are not
retained, that this government is a new one, not
a continuation of the old; that the government
of the United States and the people of Georgia
have declared the old government destroyed;
that in the present Constitution, there is no ex
press disqualification of colored men; that all
voters are eligible to office unless expressly made
ineligible; that colored men, having participa
ted in framing the Constitution, are to be pre
sumed legally qualified to participate in all priv
ileges under it; that when slavery fell, with it fell
the disabilities of free colored persons, and the
presumptions against them under the old gov
ernment grew out of slavery; that the adoption
of the old law in the Constitution, Article X,
Section HL, does not revive any local common
law; that the Constitution was understood by
the large majority _ of the Convention which
framed it, of the people who framed it, and by
Congress, to leave office open to men of both
races; that the right of eligibility exists by
statute if not by the Constitution.
Mr. iioyd replied. We will give a synopsis of
his speech to-morrow. Upon the conclusion of
liis argument, the Court adjourned till 10 a. m.
to-morrow.—Atlantai Here Era.
Hon A. IIi Stephens.
A Washington dispatch to the Western Press
says:
Alexander Stephens, of Georgia, in a letter,
in one of the Washington papers to-day, in reply
to some criticism on his history of the rebellion,
takes a very gloomy view of the situation, and
argues that we are drifting into consolidation
and empire. Nothing, he says, can prevent the
establishment of imperialism but a determined
effort on the part of the people to preserve free
institutions. The remedy, be says, is not in
secession. That was tried and found insuffi
cient. It mwt be at the ballot-box. He calls
upon the people of the several States to serious
ly consider whether they will maintain free in
stitutions or accept imperialism.
Good fob the Southern Cotton Planter.—
The New York Times says: Despite all the ef
forts of the English and other nations to foster
the growth of cotton in India, Egypt, etc., the
place of America has never been really filled,
and returning industry at the South will find a
plentiful demand for its productions. The
latest returns of the British Board of Trade
show that there are now 50,000 people less earn
ing their living iu cotton Manufactures than
there were before the rebellion; whereas, if the
English cotton factories had increased during
the seven years since 1861 at the same rate
they did the five years preceding, the cotton
manufacturing population of England would be
170,000 more than it is now. So enormous is
the loss which the stoppage of American cotton
inflicted upon British industry. The cost of a
new war would be something frightful to both
parties.
The Paris correspondent of the London Daily
News mentions that by way of precaution, the
guard at the Tuileries has been increased by
500 men, who sleep fully accourtered and with
their loaded Chasspots close at hand. The
troops too have been kept to their barracks.
find one of them that does not take his “lager.”
But imagine my surprise, when informed that
several of the saloons in the business part of
town were getting supplied with beer from New
York and Cincinnati. If they, or their custom
ers knew the nature of the ingredients used in
preparing the Northern and "Western beer for
shipment they would be very far from using it;
for any person who has ever been in the busi
ness knows that beer shipped from either New
York or Cincinnati will sour before it reaches
this point, this season of the year, unless they
use some of the various compounds so preva
lent in this age of fast living; among which I
will mention tartaric acid and grape sugar which
are invariably nsed by Northern brewers in all
the beer tbeysbip; otherwise it would not keep
fresh. Grape- sugar is found by digesting sugar
in a solution of sulphuric acid, saturated to the
consistency of paste, allowed to stand two weeks
end then dried by evaporation. This sugar is
used for preserving and giving a sweetish, acid-
ulbns taste to beer and wines, and a vinous taste
tc-brandy.
Dealers in flavoring extracts, in their circu
lars to the trade say: 11 Leers which are brewed
for immediate use: A small quantity of the
Grape Sugar need only be added, as the fer
mentation begins soon after and the danger of
souring is overpowered. Ales and beers brewed
for export make the use of the Grape Sugar
almost indispensable, as a much greater body
is absolutely obtained, which makes the danger
of souring so much loss. Tartaric Acid, which
is used in some kinds of beer, may be added to
the Grape Sugar at the commencement.” Why
people will drink beer made up of such “vil
lainous compounds,” in place of the article
brewed-by the Messrs-. Russell and Peter, free
as it is-from all such- noxious poisons, is more
than I can tell.
Then again there is- a great cry made through
the press about encouraging Southern enter
prise. How can people be expected to invest
their all in any branch of manufacturing busi
ness when those that are abeady established
in your midst are not patronised by the resi
dent population ? There are very many in this
city who will send North for an inferior article
to that manufactured in Macon, and pay more
for it; yet they wiH sit back in their lazy chairs,
puff their cigars and curse the d—d Yankee,
while they freely contribute to swell his already
plethorio pockets. The Messrs. Russell &
Peter have invested largely in the brewery
business, and a visit to their establishment will
convince anybody, even the most incredulous,
of the superiority of their beer over any that is
nsed in Macon. Wayfarer.
Affair* in Dalton.
The Dalton Citizen of the 10th gives the fol
lowing report of affairs in that quarter:
Crops.—Wheat is fast ripening now,' and there
being bnt little rust on the blade, it is generally
out of all danger. The crop in this section will
be very large. We would advise our country
friends not to be hasty in selling. The Western
crop may not be so good, however much specu
lators may exaggerate. Com is doing well
enough, and with good seasons Old Cherokee
Georgia will have her bams crammed.
Coal.—We understand that Captain Ring has
discovered a rich vein of coal below his first
mine, which is said to be of a superior quality.
Work has been Suspended in the coal mines till
fall.
Gardens.—The copious showers of the past
week have rejuvinated the vegetable kingdom,
and potatoes, peas, beans, cabbage, etc., look as
fresh as a Fenian bride, and fill the tables of the
thonghtful housewives.
Appointments.—Colonel R. P. Lester, of this
city, has received the appointment of Secretary
of Executive Department, from Gov. Bullock,
vice deGraffenreid, resigned.
Washington under Negro Rule.—The
World's dispatch closes its account of the Wash
ington election as follows:
Let so Northern man, be he Democrat or Re
publican, for his life or his property, set foot in
Washington with a dollar, for under the munici
pal rule now in force, neither is safe. Before
thia'riot,-capitalists have shunned this place.
Let them do so forevermore. The town is
doomed and damned.
From Virginia.
Richmond. June 11.—A duel, growing out of an
article in the Petersburg Index, denouncing Robt.
W. Hughes, a contributor to the- RichmoDd State
Journal—a Republican organ—was arranged for to
day at Chester, near this city, between Capb W. E.
Camercn, editor of the Index, and Mr. Hughes.—
The police arrested the seconds and Mr. Hughes
near the fighting ground. The fight, it is thought,
will be renewed in another State;
General News.
Albany, June 11 In the Printers’ Union meeting
a resolution censuring the Associated Press monopo
lies as preventing the establishment of newspapers
throughout the country, was finally referred to a
committee.
Halleck, of Washington, offered asories of reso
lutions that employers should not make the religious
or political views of their employes a test of em
ployment, and denouncing the action of the Con
gressional Printer for employing the negro- Doug
lass. The Association adjourned without a vote.
Key West, June 11—The Penobscott and Sarato
ga have sailed northward.
The yellow fever is raging. Many cases are dying
Albany, N. Y., Jane 12 The Convention of the
Printer’s Union have adoptedresolutione deprecat
ing religious and political tests to employment, and
censuring Clapp for employing Douglass, who is a
negro and rat*, by a vote of 47. to 37.
(“Rat” is a term, in technical jargon, applied to
all operative printers who are- not members of the
Printer’s Union.]
Albany, June 12.—The Khtional Typographical
Convention, after a prolonged secret session, Las
adjourned sine die.
Wilmington, June 12 The schooner Lou Saw
ders, from Little River, S. O:, for New York, is
reported ashore on Little River bar, eight miles
south of tliia place It is thought she will prove a
total loss.
Augusta. June 12—Hon. Alexander H. Stephens
has recovered from bis recent illness, eaused by an
accident.
. ' Foreign News.
London. June 11—-The Coal Mines in Wales ex
ploded. It is reported that one hundred and twen
ty persons were killed. \'
The ship Great Northerner has been wrecked near
Bombay on the 15th.
BELFasT, Jane 11 Nineteen members of Orange
Lodge hare been arrested for disturbances, subse
quently a collision occurred between the citizens
and the police. Several persons were seriously in
jured. .v .
Rbest, June 11.—There is a banquet aboard the
Great Eastern, in honor of the successful loading
of the French cable.
London, June 11—Fifty-six bodies have been re
covered from the Collier disaster.
Madrid, June 11.—In discussing the budget in the
Cortes, the Minister of Finance stated that no re
daction in the estimates of expenditures was pos
sible.
Paris, June 10—The Prefect of Polioe has had
placarded throughout the city a proclamation, urg
ing all good citizens to aid the authorities in the ex
ecution of law, and in the preservation of public or
der and peace.
Much agitation still exists, and large crowds lin
ger iu the streets.
Encouraging News from Cuba.
Washington, June 12—The Cabans have dis
patches reporting the following: Two expeditions
of over six hundred with arms, ammunition and
provisions have safely landed and joined the pa-,
triots. The men are tried soldiers of the late war.
Desertions from the Spaniards to the Cubans are
increasing. There are frequent collisions between
the troops and the volunteers, whose animosities
are irreconcilable.
The Cubans have organized their forces into two
army corps—Gen. Thomas Jordan commands one.
A battle between Jordan's and Lesca’s forces is
daily expected.
Jordan has over 2,000 Americans in his cotps.
Revolutionary speeches were made, and the Spanish
and American flags entwined elicited great shouts of
America and Grant. While the meeting was in ses
sion a military and civil guard interfered and-raised
a panic. / Women and children were trampled upon
and several lives lost. The crowd then barricaded
the BtpSeta, and a serious affray is threatened.
The Yer ger-Crane Cue.
Jackson, Miss., June 12—The Military Cammis-
on in the case of Yerger is progressing slowly,
er General Granger, President of the Com
mission to Bit on the case, was challenged by the
defence, on the gronnd that he had formed an
opinion as to the guilt of the prisoner. 'The de
fence argued that the rules governing juries in civil
cases should govern the Commission. The chal
lenge was sustained, and Granger withdrew. Gen.
Swift is now President. The defence has entered
a plea to the jurisdiction of the Commission, on the
ground of Yerger being a citizen, and has never
been in the army or navy of the United States.
The offence is againBt the laws of Mississippi, and
insists that, under the Constitution of the United
States, he cannot be tried, except on an indictment
of a Grand Jury, and that the Commission has not
the right to try Mm, except on such indictment.
- Willis P. Harris argued for the defence, and Col.
Layton for the Commission. The plea of the de
fence was over-ruled; the charges and specifica
tions were read, and the prisoner plead not guilty
to all the charges of murder.
The Pilot, a Radical organ, freely admits that the
difficulty of Yerger and Crane was entirely of a per
sonal character. •
The examination of witnesses commences on
Monday. Great interest is manifested in the case.
Foreign News.
London, Jane 12.—The Times has an editorial on
the state of affairs in Paris. It says of the crowd
wMch demolished Kiosques and sung the Marseilles
at midnight: ‘ ‘It is not their political power wMch
is to be feared; but we must remember that it is a
long time since a crowd has disturbed the peace of
Paris—a phenomenon worthy of attention—coming
as it does after an election wMch gave nearly half
the votes of the country to the opposition.”
The Daily New3 has an article on the subject,
saying Europe must look to an independent and in
creasing minority, in the corps legislatin', for
cessation of armed peace in France, which wiU he
hardly less disastrous to the interests of civilization
than a prolonged war.
Paris, June 12.—Tumults in the streets continue.
The cavalry paraded all night, but met with no
resistance. Arrests continue. The streets have
become more tranquil After midnight strong de
tachments of military are posted in the streets to
prevent outbreaks.
London, June 12—The House of Commons post
poned the debate on the Alabama claims to the 10th
of July. The Lords debated the disestablishment
bill. No action was taken.
Paris, June 12—The Emperor and Empress, in
an open carriage with only the usual attendants,
drove through the Montmatre District at noon and
in the evening of yesterday. Crowds cheered them
enthusiastically.
Three editors of the Seide and several members
of the Rochefort Editorial Committee have been
arrested.
II BOOK WITHOUT PI6TUiiE&
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theVoceedings, and protested against a monarchy. twenty-second evening.
> “I saw a little girl weep,” said the Moon-
she wept over the wickedness of the world!
She had been presented with the most mao
nificent doll. Oh, that was a doll, so fine and
delicate! it was not created for the suffering
of this world. Bnt the brothers of the little
girl—the great naughty boys—had set the doll
high upon a tall tree in the garden and run
away. The little girl could not reach the doll •
could not help her to descend, and, therefore’
she wept To be sure the doll wept too • she
stretched down her arms between the gre en
branches and looked quite unhappy. Yes, these
are the sufferings of the world of which Mama
has spoken so often. Alas! poor doll! it was
already growing dusk, and if now the night
should fully set! Should she sit quiet, “all
alone, the whole night on the tree ont of
doors ?” 1
No! The little girl conld not bring herself to
that. “I will remain with thee,” said she-
though at that she felt by no means comfortl
able. She imagined that she saw, quite dis!
tinctly, the little goblins with their Mgh point"
ed caps conch in the bushes, and farther ba<(-
in the dusky walks danced tMl spectres. Thev
came near and nearer; they extended thei-
hands towards the tree where the doll was sit.
ting; they laughed mockingly, pointing at it
with their fingers. °
Alas! how frightened the little girl was. “B n <
if we have committed no sin,” thoughtshe, “the
wicked cannot harm us. Did I commit a sin ?"
and she mused. “Oh, yes! I laughed at the
poor duck with the red rag on its leg; it hobbled
so ludicrously that I could not help laughing-
but it is a sin to laugh at the animals.And
she looked up to the dolL “Didst thou laugh
at the animals too,” asked she, and it looked as
though the doll shook her head.
TWESrrX-TIJiHD EVENING.
“I looked down upon Tyrol,” said the Moore •
I let the dark pine-trees cast strong shadows
upon the rocks. I contemplated St. Christopher
carrying the infant Jesus on his shoulders, as
they are painted there upon the walls of the
houses, in collossal size from the ground to the
roof. St. Florian poured water over the bum-
ing house and Christ hung bleeding from the
large cross on the road.
For the new generation these are all old pic
tures, but I saw how they were erected—how one
followed another. On the sloping hill high
above there hangs, like a swallow’s nest, a soli-
taiy convent; two sisters stood tolling above in
the steeple; they were both young; therefore
their glance flew across the monntains into the
world. A traveling coach passed below; the
post-hom resounded, the poor nuns fixed with
kindred thoughts their glance upon the coach;
in the eye of the younger there glistened a tear.
And the hom resounded fainter and fainter—the
bells of the cloister drowned its dying tones.
TWENTY-FOURTH EVENING.
Hear, what the Moon narrated several years
ago—it was here in Copenhagen—I looked
through the windows of a scanty room.' The
father and mother slept, bnt the little son did
not sleep. I saw the bed-curtains of flowered
calico move and the cMld peep forth. At first
I thought he looked at the large house clock,
wMch was too beautifully painted, red and'
green; on the top there sat a cuckoo, below
there hung the heavy leaden weights and the
pendulum with the brass disk brightly polished,
went to and fro, tick-tack; bat not the clock did
Jie look at—no, it was' the spinning wheel of his
mother, that stood just beneath the clock. That
was the boy’s dearest piece of all; he was not
allowed to touch it or his fingers were knocked.
■Whole hours through, when the mother was
spinning, he conld sit quietly by it, and, con
templating the rattling spool and the turning
wheel, he had peculiar thoughts.
Alas, if he were only allowed to tom- the
spinning-wheel. The father and mother slept,
he looked at them, he looked at the spinning-
wheel ; and soon after a little miked foot peeped
out of the bed, and then sttll another, and then
two little legs. There he stood. He looked
once more behind, to see if father and mother
were still sleeping; yes, they slept, and now he
stole softly, quite softly, in his little short shirt
to the spinning-wheel and began to spin. The
line flew off the wheel, the wheel ran quicker
still. I kissed his fair hair and his blue eyes;
it was a lovely picture. At this moment the
mother awoke, the curtain moved, she looked
forth and thought she saw a goblin or another
little spectre. In the name of Jesus! she ex
claimed. pushing her husband in the side. He
opened his eyes, rubbed them with his hands
and glanced at the little brisk fellow. “To be
sure, that is Bertel!” he exclaimed. And my
eye left the scantjtroom, fori must see so much
In the same moment I looked into the halls of
the Vatican, where the marble gods are stand
ing. I streamed upon the Laocoon group; the
stone seemed to sigh; I pressed a silent kiss
upon the breasts of the Noses, it looked to me
as if they heaved. But my beams dwelt the
longest on the group of the Nile, on the Colossal
God. Leaning against the Sphinx he-lies there,
thoughtful and dreaming, as thongh he thought
of the' fleeting centuries; the little enpids are
playing with the crocodiles.
In the comu-copia there sat with crossed arms
a qniet little cupid, contemplating the huge,
earnest river-god, a faithful image of the little
boy at the spinning-wheel. The features were
quite the same. Lifelike and charming stood
here the little marble statue, and yet the wheel
of the year has turned round more than a thou
sand times since it was shaped out of the stone.
As often as the boy in the scanty room has turn
ed the spinning-wheel7the large wheel lias rat
tled, before the age ’conld ; produce once more
marble gods like these.
“Since then years have passed," continued
the Moon. “Yesterday I looked down upon a
creek ou the eastern shore of Zealand; there
are magnificent, forests and high hills; there is
an old knight's manor, with red walls ; in the
ditches swim fishes ; behind them, between or
chards, a little town with a church is to be seen.
Many boats, all with .torches, are gliding across
the calm surface ; not. for, the eel-fishing were
the fires lighted—no, eveiything was festival.
The music resounded: a song was sung; in
one of the boats stood upright he, to whom they
rendered homage; a tall, powerful man.
wrapped in a cloak; he had blue eyes, and
long, white hair; I recognized him, and thought
of the Vatican with the group of the Nile, and
all marble gods. I thought of the scanty room
where" little Bertel, with his short shirt, sat at
the spinning-wheeL The wheel of the time
has turned; new gods have risen from the
stone
“From the boats there bnrst a ‘Hoch'—‘Bertel
Thorvaldsen, Hoch!’" Jabko.
[to BB CONTINUED.]
How the Port Royal Road is to be
Built.
The Chronicle and Sentinel revises its state
ments made on "Wednesday in reference to the
parties who are to build the Port Royal Boad.
and states the agreement thus:
That the road should be built for cash, and
Georgia Status—Macon Postmaster.
Washington, June 11 Attorney General Hoar’s
opinion regarding the Status of Georgia is not ex
pected under two weeks.
The Government loses but thirty-three thousand
dollars by the Santa Fe depository robbery.
It is reported that Turner, the negro Postmaster
for Macon, has secured and filed 1ns bond. It is
stated that Tomer’s appointment was determined
upon by the Cabinet, and that the President under
the circumstances declines to withhold the commis
sion. Tomer is here.
The fine of three thousand dollars and disability
to re-enter the service, found against Commissary
Captain Marvin A. Park, has been remitted by thi
President.
A delegation of tobacco dealers are here endeav
oring to have refunded moneys for restamping to
bacco manufactured prior to July 20,1868.
Russel Jones, Minister to Belgium, departs on
the 26 th.
Secretary of War Rawlings has left for Connecticut.
Customs from the 1st to the 5th, inclusive, are
32,075,000. Revenue to-day, 3737,000.
General Q. A. Gilmore is ordered to Savannah to
repair Fort Pulaski.
The dissensions of the Spanish officials and or
ganized Volunteers are increasing. The Volunteers
havo almost the entire control of the Island. The
recent countermand of troops from Spain was made
at the instance of the Volunteers.
Washington, June 12.—It is ascertained, certain
ly, that the negro Turner, postmaster of Macon,
Ga., has not filed his bond. The details regarding
his case are withheld.
The military have been instructed to treat the
Kansas Indians, found outsido of their reservation,
as outlaws and vagrants.
Revenue to-day 3647,000.
Senator Ross wants troops to quell the Kansas
Indians.
The latest advices place Minister McMahon safe
with Lopez, about fifty miles from Asuncion.
No property seized by any internal revenue officers
will be released, by order of the commissioner, until
the officer who made the seizure, and the assessor
and collector of the district, have reported the facta
in the case with the recommendation, or had ample
opportunity to make such report and recommenda
tion.
The Treasury has issued no fractional currency
during the week.
The National Division of the Sons of Temperance
took no action regarding the admission of negroes
to subordinate divisions. The question was referred
to State and Territorial Grand Divisions.
Delano has decided adversely to the exemption
from taxation claimed by cotton brokers.
The Presidential party arrived at West Point
safely.
From Texas.
Houston, June 11.—The Republican Convention
met Monday, but did nothing important. It met
again on Tuesday evening, when J. G.- Tracy was
elected President and Messrs. Dix, Mills, Carter,
Cole and Parker were elected Vice Presidents.
Mr. Hall presented a resolution approving the
course of General Reynolds in bringing the Jeffer
son priBoneis to trial. Adopted.
E. J. Davis was nominated for Governor, and the
nomination was confirmed by acclamation.
J. W. Flannagan was nomitated for Lieutenant
Governor, Frank Carter for Comptroller of the
Treasury; KencMer, of Bexar county, for Commis
sioner of Land Office.
Mr. Batclielder made a speech condemning the
course of A. J. Hamilton and repudiating the nom
inations made by the gentlemen who met at the
Hutchins House.
In the platform tho main principles of the Re
publican party are endorsed and the adoption of the
Constitution is recommended.
A resolution recommending enfranchising the
wMtes was objected to by Ruby.
Butler moved its rejection.
Tho motion to reject was lost and tho resolution
adopted.
On Wednesday the Convention nominated Mc-
Rnter for State Treasurer. Be declined, and Price,
of Austin, was nominated in his-stead.
A State Central Executive Committee was ap
pointed; also, a committee of one from each Judi
cial District, to collect funds to- carry on the canvass.
The Convention adjourned, sine die.
Davis was serenadad in the evening, when he ad
dressed tho crowd.
From Southwestern Georgia.
Crops in Mitchell, Thomas, Zee, Dougherty,
Sumter and Macon Counties—A Fine Lain
—Splendid Crop in Lee County.
Oglethorpe, Ga., June 15, 1869.
Editors Telegraph:—Crops in Thomas and
Mitchell, except the upper part of the last
named county,, look well. A few more light
showers of ram will make the com crop sure.
Oats are fine.
The upper portion of Mitchell, Dougherty,
Lee and Sumter counties have suffered for rain
for seven weeks. Crops, however, look well,
and have stood the drought well.
I have never seen crops improve so fast as
they have, on gray, sandy land, since the re
cent hot weather: I traveled on yesterday for
ty-five miles. It commenced raining at a.
m., and rained till nine o’clock. The rain ap
peared to be general, and was mucb needed;
Crops in Macon county look well. Old Ogle
thorpe is improving. Hon. J. L. Parker, Or
dinary, believes hr good roads and bridges; and
is having the Court-house repaired.
The finest crop-1 have seen is one belonging
to Col James Gardner and Mr. John Railey,
twenty miles south of Americas, in Lee county.
They have seven hundred acres of cotton—the
finest I have ever seen at this season. They
expect it to make five hundred bales. Four
hundred acres of com, higher than a man on
horseback can reach, just tasseling. Mr. Railey
thinks one more rain will make on one hundred
and sixty acres of this com forty bushels to the
acre. Teayelue.
Financial.
The financial- operations of the Savannah
Postoffice, for Wednesday, are thus reported by
the Republican. We must say that Postoffice
is a liberal place in making change:
Financier Seeley Happy.—Seeley’s heart was
gladdened, and his tongue rendered speechless
yesterday, by the unexpected return of the little
excess of two hundred dollars, paid to a mer
chant. ..
The Financier. Again in Trouble.—Wo leam
that the illustrious financier of the Savannah
Postoffice had hardly got through balancing ac
counts yesterday, after "the return of the two
hundred, when matters were again thrown into
hocklety by the payment of ten dollars too much
on another Postoffice draft! These seeurities
were in great demand on onr streets yesterday,
and readily commanded a premium. Seeley is
doing wonders in bringing Uncle Sam’s credit
out of the slough of despond. It. is said that
Secretary Boutwell, hearing of bis exploits, tel
egraphed him yesterday to come on to Wash
ington and take charge of the Treasury Depart
ment! Go, Seeley, we beseeoh thee.•
How to Make Change. —A citizen applied
yesterday to that paragon of financiers, Deputy
Postmaster Seeley, fora postoffice draft forfonr
dollars and eighty cents, banding in a five dol
lar bill. Seeley added ten cents to the draft,
making four-ninety, and—handed the customer
back Jive dollars and ten cents as Ins change!
The New York Citizen very pertinently asks,
“How is it that Anna Dickinson, who, a few
years' ago; inveigljed in' unmeasured terms j
against women who decked themselves in fine : that for every ten miles finished the Georgia
raiment, now appears on the lecture platform ; railroad would subscribe thirty thousand dollars
in the meet gorgeous toilette, with diamonds to the stock of the Company at par, until three
flashing from neck and fingers.” How is this, | hundred thousand dollars had been subscribed.
Anna? We dont expect women to be consist-j Then when the ( entire road is constructed, and
ent, bnt we should like to bear Anna’s explana-! the docks and a grain elevator built at Port
tion. ■ • | Royal, that the Georgia road would subscribe
l an additional hundred thousand dollars—making
Harvesting. j hundred thousand dollars. Messrs.
As the season for gathering the golden crop j Fiannigan & Browne accepted this proposition
of our section is at hand, we give some very im-1 signed it, subject to the approval of the» r
portant information and suggestions relative to : associates in New York. It was also signed by
matters connected with the all-absorbing event, j the Georgia ttaiimml Committee and may
and bring as undoubted authority to sustain bur i be regarded as a finality, for no objection is »n-
views, the Maryland Farmer. Every farmer' ticipated from the other parties yet to be con*
should procure an adequate force of hands to ' suited. Messrs. Browne and Fiannigan left for
rush through harvesting as early as possible, j Mew York last night and, obtaining the approvA 1
thereby avoiding the contingencies of rain, of j Q f their associates, will return within thirty
shattering grain, from over ripeness, of the . la- i days to commence operations,
bor of nndoing wet sheaves and exposing them j ’rhe road will first be graded and tie track
to the air, thus losing in quality and quantity.! laid immediately from the depot of the Georgia
Owing to the soarcity of hands in many neigh- j Road to Sand Bar Ferry, where the bridge wuj
borhoods, machinery should be brought into , be built across the Savannah. This is to be
use, and where farmers are unable to purchase,; done in order rock and other material nwj
by a system of co-operation, the ooet to each : be brought down the Georgia Read and earned
would be small, and the uncertainty and high j through to the river so that the bridge may be
E rices of hands remedied. The machine should j constructed before the waters are swollen by the
e of the best kind, as bad tools make not only ne xt autumnal rains. The contractors agree to
bad but slow work. The best time for cutting have the road finished from Augusta to Port
grain, as exhibited from experiments, is when: Royal by August of next year, when this ass
the grain has passed from a milky state, and | been accomplished two lines of steamships wui
takes under the pressure of the thumb and finger | be immediately established, one running to N®*
the consistency of tough' dough. Out at this j y 0 rk, the other *0 Liverpool. These are
time the grain will be plumper and heavier, the ! full particulars of a scheme which promises w
flour whiter, and the tendency to shatter obvia- a<ld so greatly to the prosperity of Augusts,
ted. An Englishman gives his experience. He We earnestly hope that the contract may meet
divided a piece of grain in five parts, catting th e approval of the other parties in New Ywk—
one, two, three, four weeks before ripe, ana ^*5 are assured that it will—and wow »
when quite ripe. The yield of flomr from one O nco be commenced on the railroad.
hundred pounds of wheat was that cut two j — ■
weeks before fully ripe made 80 pourida of flour, | Ttra Pope recently urged a monastic life up?"
5 of middlings, and 13 of bran; that fully ripe ; bis grand-mace, but theiady, who ia over thiru-
made 72 pounds of flour, 11 of middlings, 15 of 1 read his holiness a le«aon in faith by expressing
bran, thus giving a difference of 6| pounds for ber conviction that a kind Providence would ye
> that cot two weeks before. find her a suitable husband,
