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The Greorgia W*eehly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH
MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, I860.
A Budget of Blunders.
' ’The Philadelphia Press let itself loose upon
. jjfax Georgia Supreme Court decision last Fri
In the course of a column the Press in
fw-ma its readers that “it is a well recognized
fw that Irwin’s Code has been abrogated by
this new Constitution of Georgia,” and is elo-
ijnwnt upon the atrocity of setting up an “ex-
jrhaded Code, framed in the interests of slavery,”
against the Constitution. If some kind friend
«iEl whisper to Mr. Forney’s strikers that the
dale has been remodelled since emancipation,
/nrfi is specifically adopted by the Constitutional
Convention, he may save them some trouble in
iW' future. The Press also denounces Judge
Bxrmer, the only original and steadfast TJnion
mm and opponent of the war on the bench,as“an
•dSITogy of the pro-rebel school.” "Won't some
VSmily help the Press ?
Magazines.
•S?he Galaxy fob July has a continuation of
Blende’s story, “Put Yourself in His Place.
Our Impending Chinese Problem is another
, article. John S. C. Abbott contributes No. 2 of
• tfbflr Overthrow of Louis Phillippe. Our Great
Earners—Three Chapters—A Woman’s Last
• cm.—and some half dozen other articles.
Sheldon & Co., 498 and 500 Broadway. Four
dollars per annum.
Pctkau.—The July number presents a great
-ratiety; some twenty-five articles, including the
rrsual editorial departments.
'Blackwood for June—Scott’s reprint—has
Lute for the Train. Historical Sketches of the
Eteign of George IL Part 2d of a Year and a
prey. iPaxt Sd of Sir John Lawrence. Ameri-
• -rm Bensons for Peace. Cornelius O’Dowd.
The Little Corporal, a Chicago illustrated
monthly for July came yesterday. Alfred Sewell
i:Co. One dollar a year.
The Hearth and Home for the current week
uSBeceived. This paper is destined to achieve
.«great popularity. It is conducted with much
•A£hty and enterprise, and handsomely printed
ml illustrate A The present humber has a fine
2Esstrated article upon Vassar College—the Peo-
gSe!« College of New York—without distinction
afmax.
Pnrlsions on Time—A Sad Thought.
Such says, the Washington Gazette, is the
■Jaexidiag of an advertisement that appears in a
Georgia paper published in one of the produc
tive sections of the State. It is a great induce
ment, and no doubt there are many who will
isriil themselves of the opportunity.
.What a sad thought this is! Tho richest and
-cnaSt productive country in the world absolutely
Varying its meat and bread and looking to dis
tant States to produce them! Every species of
rgtsnn grows in the greatest abundance and with
(tat little cultivation, and yet we continue to
Import them from abroad, paying transporta-
rtStssx, commissions, profits and original cost when
■£oey can be produced at homo quite as cheaply.
Whatever the slate may say about planting cot-
t ton to buy meat and bread, we never yet knew
j, $ planting community in which those whofol-
■i lowed it prospered like those who adopted a
. iifferant .plan. A great and productive State
that does not feed itself is a great disgrace.
Bainbridge Argus.
'We invite attention to the advertisement of
fhai.axcellent paper—the Bainbridge Argus, a
. leading organ of Southern Georgia in all that
aelates to the material, intellectual and moral
progress of that important section. The Bev.
Willis M. Bussell, the editor and proprietor, is
.veil and most favorably known to the people of
tikis section, and, indeed, we are induced to be
lieve that he is either an old resident or native
of this county. The frequent extracts we have
-occasion to make from the Argns, we have no
doubt given our readers a highly favorable idea
_ .of Hr. Bussell's abilities as an editor.
Cuba.
'VPift Cuban Junta in the North are denounc
ing the administration. They say the nen-
•frsfKty orders have been issued in spite, because
Ihe Cuban leaders refuse to consider the ques-
•fion of prospective annexation to the United
States, and wish to secure the independence of
Cuba from all nations.
Warm Weather.
Yesterday was a very bright and warm day.
A fine breeze relieved any sense of oppression
from the heat, but the mercury in front of the
Wr.Tnp > p*tt Bpilding indicated ninety-seven at
dour o'clock, and ninety-five and a half at six.
It was a fine day for the cotton crop.
T’.ttoi Session of the Legislature.—A friend
writing from Atlanta, expresses the opinion that
if the Governor calls an extra session of the
Legislature at all, it will not be before Novem
ber, so ob to give Congress the light of their
action upon the eligibility decision of the Sn-
preme Court.
'Immigrants Comno South.—The agents of
• the -different steam lines in New York, expect
& about 0,000 emigrants this week. • The steamer
« City of London brought 1,100 to-day. Agents
. of-the Southern Emigration Companies have
several hundred engaged to settle on lands in
■ the South. Ninety persons left last Saturday to
- form a colony in Central Virginia, and about the
same number for North Carolina.
The Yellow Fever seems to be epidemic in
-'Cuba. One vessel arrived at quarantine
ground, New Yorkyfrom Havana yesterday, with
twenty cases aboard and four deaths. And an
other at Key West with captain and crew all
down. We hope it will not cross the Gulf stream
. .and rend our Atlantic coast.
Effect of the Negro Eligibility De
cision.
The Telegraph seems to have lost sight of
the fact that the right of the negroes elect to
hold seats in the present Legislature is ret ad
judicates. Whatever may be the effect of the
decision of the Supreme Gonrt upon the right
of negroes to hold seats in any future legisla
ture, or of the right of any negro to occupy a
seat in this, whose case has not been heretofore
acted npon, there can be no question in the
mind of any one at all familiar with the practi
cal workings of our system of government, and
tho legal effect of judicial decisions, that the
judgment of the Supreme Court in the case just
decided, does not reach or affect, in the slight
est degree, the status of those negroes whose
cases had been decided—erroneously though it
may have been—against them previously to this
decision of the court.
Tho judgment of a Court is binding only upon
the parties actually before it The principles
involved in the judgment rendered are appli
cable to, and will be enforced in all similar
cases which may thereafter arise. Even the
legislative power—the law-making branch of
the Government—is expressly prohibited from
making ex post facto, or retroactive laws. Upon
what grant of power will it be claimed that a
judgment of the Supreme Court upon a legal
question can be enforced, so as to be retroact
ive in its operation, to the extent of annulling
and setting aside former judgments made in
another or Inferior Court upon the same ques
tion, but from which no appeal has been taken,
and under which rights have been acquired and
obligations enforced?—Chronicle and Sentinel,
20th.
Atlanta, June 18,18G9.
Mr Editor: Do not let the idea get abroad
among the people that the late decision of the
Supreme Court will have an effect of restoring
the negroe?, who were held to be ineligible by
the Senate'and House of the General Assembly,
to their seats. It can have no such effect. That
question was settled by tho only court having
jurisdiction over it—each House for itself. A
decision by tho Senate conld have no effect
upon the House, and rice versa; and so with the
Supreme Court. Nor can the Houses ever re
verse their decision in this case. It was a judi
cial decision, and became final when made and
finally rendered. The Senate and House can
now no more take up this case and reverse their
former decision than the Supreme Court itself
could take up and reverse one of their own de
cisions of the case, on any previous term. All
they could do if their opinion of the law under
went change would be to decide differently on
the next similar case that might arise.
The foregoing comprehend the exceptions
taken in a long editorial by the Chronicle and
Sentinel, and a letter from a distinguished source
quoted by him, to theposition of the Telegraph
and others, that the Legislature should respect
the ruling of the Supreme Court in relation to
the eligibility of negroes as members of that
body. We are sorry to disagree with the Chron
icle—sorry that there is occasion for difference
upon such a point. It shocks our common sense
that legislative duties should be imposed upon a
people as unfit for them as children, and who
are bound to damage themselves and everybody
else by the attempt to discharge such duties.
But this much of practical consolation exists
for tho Chronicle, ourselves, the Legislature and
everybody in Georgia npon this question—that
whatever we think, or say or do, will not make
a hair's difference npon the main question. It
is a fact, as certain as the sun shines, that the
negroes have got to go back—peaceably, if we
will, or violently if we will not An intelligent
friend who has just returned from Washington
writes ns, that the question is simply whether
the Legislature will reseat these negroes, or wheth
er Congress shall reseat them with ihe applica
tion of such tests to the remaining white members
as will unseat almost everybody else.
But we are used to high dealing from Con-
i-b
• Survey of the Bainbridge, Cdtheert and
• Columbus Bailroad. — The Bainbridge Sun
, says, the survey has commenced, the first stake
vhae-beea stack. Captain Tomlin, one of the
■srxmen, was hitched in a “brier patch" when last
heard from.
Wheat in Wilkes County.—The Washington
Gazette, of Friday, says the crop is turning out
•well everywhere, and the market tends down
ward. The Borne papers report sales at one
dollar and thirty cents. The opening price
hereabouts will probably be one dollar and sev-
.enty-five cents for white.
'For the Brunswick Bailroad.—The Savan-
• nah News, of Saturday, says the steamer Two
Boys left that city on Friday with a cargo of
• .bars of iron for the Macon and Brunswick Bail-
,sotd.
’Crops in South Georgia.—A letter from Bain,
bridge, dated Saturday the 18tb, says: We are
having fine seasons, fine crops and no caterpil
lar in this section.
Virginia.—The phrophets say that Virginia
has been so badly gerrymandered that the Wells
Badicals will probably cany the Legislature, but
ithe whites expect to defeat the test oath and dis-
:'fran0hisement clauses in the Constitution, and
ito elect Walker.
There is a man living in Northampton, Mass,
within three miles ’of the railroad, thirty-eight
years of age, who has been in but four different
towns in bis life, has never been inside of t
railroad car, and has never slept in any house!
. except the one in which he was bom, has never
been courting, and never kissed a girl.
The largest hotel safe in the country is in
the American House, Boston. The American is
. la the centre of business, and supplied with
’•Ovary modem improvement.
gress and should care no more for it than our
contemporaries, conld we feel that the Legisla
ture would be doetrinally right in disregarding
the action of the Supreme Court.
Upon this point tiro more we consider it, the
more certain we feel that our contemporary,the
Chronicle & Sentinel and those who agree with
him, are in error. Let ns not suffer our preju
dices or prepossessions to blindonr reason. Sup
pose the negroes in Georgia had got possession
of the Legislature by a majority and bad, by
some violent interpretation of the reconstruc
tion acts, ruled the whites out. Suppose, mean
while, the Supreme Court of tho State had de
cided their action illegal and unconstitutional and
the white members elect entitled to seats—would
any respectable paper or authority thonbe found
in Georgia to set np this doctrine of Legislative
courts and res adjudisata ?
On the contrary, would not the eloquent pen
of our contemporary be foremost in branding
legislative contempt or disregard of such a de
cision, as a high handed outrage upon the rights
of the citizen, and that the Legislature ought to
be purged of such contumelious and usurping
members at all hazards and in a most summary
manner? Who can donbt that there would be
almost entire unanimity in Georgia on this
point?
And this brings us to consider briefly onr con
temporary’s logic. It is all, like that of the
Constitutionalist, based on the false assumption
that the Legislature is a court of ultimate arbit
rament npon any of the rights of the citizen un
der the Constitution. It is no court at all. The
Constitution restricts the judicial power to the
courts, as strictly as it does the legislative pow
er to the General Assembly. The ^General As
sembly can no more make the Constitutional
rights of the citizen res adjudicata, than the
courts can enact a statute. The citizen holds
his Constitutional rights by an authority para
mount to that of the Legislature, and the Con
stitution reposes the exposition and defence of
these rights npon a distinct department of tho
Government whose authority, within its sphere,
is binding equally npon the Executive, the Leg
islature and the citizen.
Unless we grant a proposition so plain and
self-evident as this, the defence of the citizen,
and of the Executive and Legislative depart
ments are incomplete—the system itself is
without balance or harmony—the door is 16ft
open for perpetual and irreconcilable conflicts
—the grossest usurpations and injustice may be
perpetuated, without remedy or redress, oxcept
in the overthrow of the system itself.
Consequently, when the Constitution empow
ers each House to judge of the qualification of
its members, this grant of power must be con
strued in harmony with the principles and
terms of the Constitution itself, and of a sound,
well-balanced system of government It was
intended to give the Legislature power to can
vass returns, redress wrongs npon the ballot,
etc., and to protect itself and the people against
fraudulent representation; and it never could
have been intended to give the Legislature the
power of a Court of ultimate resort, under
which, if it chose, that body could declare in
eligible to membership the representatives of
whole counties, districts or peoples, in defiance
of the plain provisions of the Constitution, or a
duly authorized and legal exposition of the same
An assertion to the contrary must involve con
tingencies of the most disorganizing and dan
gerous character.
Thefollowingpropositions, therefore, embody
the common sense of the matter as we under
stand it:
First, as to the fact—tho refusal by the Legis
lature to re-seat the negroes will only result in
their being re-seated by Congress, with addi-
, tional pains and penalties to the whites. It will
then be charged by the Badicals—“You invoked
the judgment of the Supreme Court upon negro
eligibility, and you repudiate that judgment so
soon as given against yon. Yon will not abide
the decision of your own constitutional expon
ent of the law. You did not mean to do justice
in any event,'and we will therefore compel you
to.do it with cost You say negroes shall not
hold office—we will show yon they shall hold
it more abundant 1 # /'
Second, as to the law. It is not in the legal
power of the Legislature to adjudge finally the
rights of any citizen or class of citizens under
the Constitution. Both hold their political
rights by the same warrant and both are equally
subordinate to the Constitution. The Supreme
Court is the Constitutional interpreter of law
and its decisions are just as binding npon the
Legislature as npon the people. The Legisla
ture is no Court, for any purpose whatever;
but the Constitution has reposed judicial inter
pretation solely in the judiciary department of
the government. Therefore to set np that a
Legislative infraction of the constitutional
rights of a citizen, is res adjudicata and incapable
of redress by the Legislature is mere staff.
The Great Labor of the Administra
tion..
The Press dispatches have been much occu
pied, of late, with the squabbles of the Printer's
Union, (National, in Albany, and local in the
District of Columbia,) over the attempt of the
government to force an application of its meas
ures with negro compositors. The public will
feel little interest in the controversy except a
part and parcel of what seems to be the great la
bor of the administration—a war against “all
distinction on account of color, so far as negroes
are concerned.” The "Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Gazette says:
The muddle among the printers here in re
spect to the negro Douglass, which was thought
by some to have been settled at Albany, has but
served to expose the mode of operation com-
templated by the administration npon a large
scale. Yesterday evening a man refusing to sub
scribe to the doctrine of companionship and
perfect social equality between the races was, I
learn, summarily dismissed from the public
printing office, and the remaining workmen of
the cadaverous “conquered race” forced to leave
their work, and endorse, in office hours, at a
public meeting, the monstrous requirements of
the superintendent! This is a public “procla
mation,” excluding from work in this institution
(which employs probably more than a thousand
men) all printers whose self-respect revolts at
out-and-out equality with the negro race. The
same means will be nsed in all the workshops of
every description under control of the govern
ment throughout the country. The policy is in
fall force at the Navy Yard here, and in all
other works under governmental control.
I am told that the government, seeing
the general supineness of the people, “calcu
late” upon success as necessarily following the
means it intends to use in seducing this portion
of our citizens. It will pay them high prices,
and require less hours of labor than in private
offices! Such tactics might probably succeed
better with any other class of people than onr
mechanics. They undoubtedly regard yith as
strict punctilio the honor of their families as
any other—certainly with more consideration
than a majority of the high officials appointed
by this administration!
“Lumpkin Masonic Female College.”
Editors Telegraph : This College is now in a
flourishing condition under the management of
President D. S. T. Douglass.
The commencement exercises came off this
week and were nnsually interesting.
On Sunday, the 13th, the commencement ser
mon was preached by one of Macon's able
divines, Bev. David Wills, D. D.
The M. E. Church was filled to overflowing
by an attentive and appreciative audience, who
listened with almost breathless silence to a most
excellent literary treat as well as a deep and
practical sermon.
Dr. Wills also preached in the Presbyterian
Church on Sunday night, sustaining his well de
served reputation.
Just before his departure on Monday he re
ceived a card of thanks, and a present in money
from the citizens.
Monday and Tuesday were devoted to the ex
amination of the classes.
The young ladies acquitted themselves very
handsomely, showing to the andience that they
had not been wasting their time in idleness.
Tuesday night passed very pleasantly off,
with music and the reading of compositions by
the classes.
The graduating exercises on Wednesday were
truly interesting. The beautiful and elegant
composition of Miss Harris, on the “Sunny
South,” and the scientific and beautiful one of
Miss Warren, on “Mystery,” were able pro
ductions, which were read with great fluency by
the fair writers.
CoL Fielder, of Cuthbert, addressed the au
dience in an able and eloquent address. He
was followed by CoL Chas. Goode, of Ameri
cas, in a spirited and interesting speech that
highly pleased the andience, and deeply inter
ested the young ladies of the school. The ex
ercises were concluded on Wednesday night by
the presentation of the “Gipsey Opera,” to the
beauty and elite of Lumpkin, in the well-filled
College Chapel. Everything passed off very
pleasantly, and the exercises of the school were
closed, to be resumed on the First Monday in
September. “Eusnc.”
Jordnn in Cuba.
from the Augusta Chronicle end Sentinel.]
We have at last beard something definite of
the movements of General Jordan in Cuba.
The day after his landing on the southern shore
of the Bay of Nipe, a considerable body of
Spaniards, reinforced subsequently by a body
of men from the garrison of Mayari, moved
upon his defences. He made believe that he
had abandoned the position, and awaited the
attack as in a citadel, secreted in an inner work,
raking that which he had left as a bait for the
Dons. The Spaniards, having felt their way
with caution, concluded the place was undefend
ed, and rushed upon it gallantly, at the point of
the bayonet. They occupied it in a victory
without blood. Some pieces of dismounted ar
tillery were there, and a small quantity of ma
terial and small arms—all left as a decoy.
Elated with their success, they thronged into
the place, and thrown together thus in a disor
dered mass, were opened on by two guns pre
viously masked, and by one of those deadly fu-
silades, 6o close as to have cut down trees at
Spotsylvania! They were literally slaughtered.
The remnant flew in terror, until reinforced by
a detachment from the garrison at Mayari.
Jordan had brought with him, besides six field
pieces, with their carriages, two heavy guns for
permanent defences. He had expected to have
been joined by a part of the command of Que-
sada; but having arrived somewhat earlier than
the time agreed on for the junction, he conclud
ed it unsafe to await in the first position until
the Spaniards conld have made the concentra
tion that would certainly be ordered for his
destruction. He is said to have abandoned,
therefore, his two siege guns—which he never
should have encumbered himself with, and per
haps for want of transportation (which is very
scarce in the region that has been so long the
seat of the depredations of both sides) was
obliged to leave behind him one or two of his
field pieces. His movement from the scene of
his first victory was decided on promptly, an4
was executed with rapidity. Tho Spaniards ap
pear to have mistaken this fact for a disastrous
retreat, and pressed upon him from a distance;
but after the lesson on the shore of Nipe did not
come to close quarters. Whether the abandon
ment of his one or two pieces may have been
deliberated before leaving his works, or may
have followed as a subsequent necessity of rapid
movement, does not appear positively, but in
neither case can it be set down as a ground of
Spanish gratolation.
Quesada was to have covored the landing of
Jordan. He moved for that purpose with the
elite of the Cuban forces from the line of the
railway between Nuovitas and Puerto Principe.
He had with him about twenty thousand men.
Whether in the bad faith of jealously or in a
misunderstanding n.s to the time, he was three
days behind. Jordan appears, however, to have
moved to a junction with him at some point
southwest of his first field, with the view, ap
parently, of keeping Mayari cut off, and, after
its capture, of a combined movement for clean
ing out all the Spaniards from the eastern end
of the Island, including Valmaseda at Bayamo.
The junction of Jordan and Quesada is reported,
but does not come in very positive manner.—
One thing, however, is certain. Jordan has
passed into the interior with but trifling losses
in men or material, and is now ont of immedi
ate danger of attack and in perfect communica
tion with a force of patriots—Quesada’s im
mediate command among them—sufficient to
overwhelm all the Spaniards in that part of the
Island.
B-S" TELEGRAPH
From Washington.
Washington, June 21.—After June 30th, Secre
tary Boutwell will purchase one million of bonds
and sell one million gold on alternate weeks, until
further notice.
Judge Fisher has ordered the Marshal of the Crim
inal court to summon negroes to fill vacancies in
the grand and petit juries. Nine negroes were
placed on the lists.
Three government compositors have resigned in
consequence of the presence of Douglas.
Revenue today over $1,000,000.
The Bast eed Impeachment Committee have ad
journed to December.
Bone has returned. Boutwell comes Wednesday.
Grant has returned.
The New York Herald has a column editorial
captioned “The Opportunity and Failure of the
Government,” denunciatory of the administration
on the Cuban policy.
The Bevenue officers seized one hundred and fifty
thousand cigars, and ten thousand dollars worth of
machinery at New Haven, belonging to the National
Cigar and Tobacco Manufacturing Association.
Washington, June 20.—At a meeting of tho Print
ers’ Union a majority committee reported in favor
of tho admission of ten. including the negro Dong-
lass. A minority reported in favor of admitting all
except Douglass. Tho report of the minority was
tabled, and tho Union proceeded with the voting on
tho applications, but before reaching Douglass a mo
tion to adjourn was made, but ruled out of order.
On appeal the ruling was sustained but the motion
to adjourn was renewed and the session dissolved
in confusion.
The Japanese Government have paid in full for
tho Stonewall
From Mississippi.
Jackson, Juno 21.—In the case of Yerger before
a military commission, the defence commenced the
examination of the witnesses to-day. It is shown that
the piano seized was not the property of Yerger.
Crane knew the fact hut ordered tho officer to seize
it notwithstanding. It is further shown, by corres
pondence, that Verger had offered to settle the
claim of the city if the city would settle the claim
he held against the city for damages to property
caused by the negligence of tho city government.
The order of the restitution which had been issued
by Judge Peyton of the high court, and served
on Crane previous to the difficulty, bad not been
obeyed.
The Conservative Republican Convention meets
in this city on Wednesday, 23d of June. The Rad
ical Republican Convention meets Thursday, 1st of
July. ^
From Cuba.
Havana, June 21.—General Espiner reviewed the
volunteers on Saturday.
The schooner Lahava has been taken to Kings
ton, where her officers are to be tried before an
English Court.
The Milan tumult assemblies have been dispersed
by tbe militaiy without resistance. The Prefect
of Police threatens severe measures if the tumults
are renewed.
New York, June 21.—The school ship Saratoga
from Havana, is quarantined below with twenty
cases of yellow fever aboard, and four deaths.
The Sweedenborgian Conference elected Stendy
Burke, of New Orleans, a member of the Executive
Committee, vice Hershel V. Johnson, of Georgia, to
whom objection was made on account of his partici
pation in tho rebellion.
San Francisco, Juno 21.—The steamship, Great
Republic, baa arrived bringing twelve hundred Chi
nese.
The ram, Stonewall, drove off two, and destroyed
one rebel vessel in the Japanese waters.
Key West, June 21.—The bark, Lucy A. Nichols,
from Havana, for New York, has arrived here. Cap
tain Saxe and his crew are down with yellow fever.
St. Louis, June 21.—Fifty prominent business
firms of this city have guaranteed tho Grain Asso
ciation against loss in bringing an ocean steamer
from New York, and loading her with grain at this
port.
The Indians attacked a Surveying party near
Sheridan, Kansas. The Surveyors killed four and
wounded several, when the Indians fled.
Monroe, La,, June 2i.—Several buildings were
consumed by fire last night. Loss $50,000.
Charleston, June 20.—The first execution in
South Carolina, under the Re constructed State Gov
ernment, took place on Friday afternoon, at Dar
lington Court House, where a negro named Cyrus
Coachman, was hung for the murder of Robert P.
Suggs, (white,) in January last. The hanging passed
off quietly, the Sheriff and ministers who officiated,
as well as most of the spectators and guard, being
all negroes. Coachman confessed his guilt.
Raleigh, June 20.—Chief Justice Chase will leave
Raleigh to-morrow morning for Richmond. Virginia,
where he will spend a few days.
Foreign News.
Madrid, June 21.—The President of the Cadiz
Republican Club has been arrested for speaking
against Serrano, the regent,andcausing excitement.
Prim said to the Cortez that the Government must
be inflexible and even cruel in repressing disorder.
Paris, June 21 Tho city is tranquil.
The Legislatiff has organized—President Schnei
der; Vice Presidents, Lereux, Demral, and Davids.
Marine News.
Savannah, June SO.—Cleared brig Lena Thuriow,
Buenos Ayres. Arrived schooner Anna and Su
san, Boston. Ship Vestalerden. from Matmoras, for
Falmouth, England, arrived off Tybee yesterday in
distress. • The Captain and one seaman died on Sat-
1 several of the cr
urday, and i
5 crew are sick.
Death of Henry J. Raymond.
The New York Evening Post gives tho follow
ing particulars of the death of the editor and
proprietor of the New York Daily Times :
Mr. Raymond, accompanied by his daughter,
went to Greenwood Cemetery yesterday after-
for the purpose of selecting a family lot. He
intended to have the body of one of his children,
who died a few weeks ago, removed from the
vault and reinterred. He returned to the Times
office about five o'clock, and remarked to the
associate editors that he never felt better in his
life, except a sad feeling of fatigue, consequent
upon his long walk through the cemetery. He
left the office abont six o’clock and proceeded to
his residence in West Ninth street, where he
remained about until nine to recover from the
fatigue of the walk of the evening.
Mr. Raymond left his house about nine, re
marking to the members of bis family that he
had an appointment to attend a political meet
ing. He was seen shortly after walking up
Broadway, and one or two friends who stood in
Wallack’s Theatre, noticed his elastic step and
general appearance of robust health. After at
tending the meeting he returned to his residence
abont 11 o’clock, and as soon ns he had closed
the door after him, he fell heavily npon the floor.
None of the inmates of the house heard the fall,
however, having retired for the night.
Abont three o'clock this morning one of his
children became restless, and, on becoming
fully amused, remarked that she heard some
person breathing heavily. The persons in the
house were awakened, and, on descending to
the hall-way, Mr. Raymond was found extended
on the floor, entirely unconscious, breathing
heavily, and apparently with great difficulty.
Ho was carried to bis room, and placed on abed.
The physicians sent for arrived soon after.
all medical aid. They also declared the case to
be appoplexy. Mr. Raymond lingered in an
unconscious state till five o’clock this morning,
when he died, surrounded by his family. He
passed away apparently with but little pain.
A Southern gentleman of much experience,
who is now in mis city, thinks that tho liberation
of Cuba would be the making of Louisiana and
some of the other Southern States. Liberation
from Spanish rule would be followed by emanci
pation of the blacks. Well, the climate of onr
Southern States is not exactly tropical Niggers
cannot live there by lying on the ground and
gorging themselves on the succulent fruits that
crop out of it close to their lazy mouths.—
And yet onr niggers, now that they have been
enfranchised, can hardly be got to work. In
tropical, indolent Cnba, as sure as the negroes
are set free, not a stroke of work will they ever
do again. They will lie on the ground and let
the yams grow in their mouths. Then Cuban
cotton and sugar will go to the “bow wows; and
so the plantations of Louisiana and down South
generally will flourish exceedingly. If the nig
gers won’t work, other laborers can be fonnd
who will, and all will be lovely and serene.—
This is the argument of onr Southern, friend,
and it looks as if it would hold water.—iVfiJ
York Werld. ’ ' '
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PICTURE-BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES,
BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
Translated from the German for the Telegraph.
(concluded. )
THIRTIETH EVENING.
“Close on the high-way,” said the Moon,
“there is an inn opposite a large coach-house,
the thatched roof of which was juBt being re
paired."
I looked through the spars and the open roof,
loft into the desolate room below. The turkey
slept on the beam, the saddle was put to rest in
the empty crib. In the middle of the bam
stood a traveling coach; the gentle folks inside
slept quite soundly, while the horses were being
watered. The coachman stretched himself,
though, as I know best, he had slept excellent
ly half the way.
The door leading into the servants' room was
open, the bed looked as if it were tamed upside
down, the light standing on the floor was burn
ing low in the candlestick. The wind blew cold
through the bam; it was nearer day-break than
midnight. In the stand upon the ground slept
a strolling family of musicians; the mother and
the father were certainly dreaming of the burn
ing liquid still left in the bottle; the little pale
girl was dreaming of the burning liquid of her
eyes; the harp was lying at their heads, the
dog at their feet
THIRTY-FIRST EVENING.
“It happenedin a little provincial town,” said
the Moon; it is true, it happened last year, but
that is all the same, I saw it very distinctly; to
night I have read about it in the newspapers,
but there they have not represented it so dis
tinctly. In the parlor of a public house sat the
master of a bear eating lus supper; the bear
stood outside, fastened behind a woodpile; poor
Bruin, who harmed nobody, though he looked
grimly enough. Above in the garret there were
three little children playing in my beams, the
oldest might bo six years old, the* youngest no
more than two. “Clap! Clap!” ascended some
thing np the stair-ease; who could it be ? The
door was bust open,—it was Bruin, the huge,
shaggy bear!
“Having wanted a pastime below in the yard,
he had found his way to the stair-case ; I saw
all," said the Moon. “Tho children .were much
frightened at the huge, shaggy animal; each
crept in its comer, but he discovered them all
three, and snuffed at them—without, however,
doing them any injury.
“ ‘To be sure that is a large dog,’ they
thought, stroking him. He laid down upon the
floor; the smallest boy climbed npon him, and
played hide and seek with his little head of
golden curls in the thick, black fur. Now the
oldest boy took his drum, and made a tremen
dous noise; the bear lifted himself on his hind
legs, and began to dance; it was very charming
to behold. Each boy took now his gun; the
bear was obliged to have one too, and he
grasped it right firmly; It was a magnificent
comrade they had found; and then they
marched: one, two, one, two. There moved
somebody toward the door; it opened; it was
the mother of the children. Thou shoulds't
have seen her ; her dumb terror; her face as
white as chalk; her half-opened month; her
staring eyes. But the youngest boy nodded de
lightedly, exclaiming quite loud, in his lan
guage: ‘We are only playing soldiers!’ And
then came the master of the bear!
THIRTY-SECOND EVENING.
The wind blew cold and fiercely, the clouds
careered onward; only at intervals the Moon
was occasionally visible. “From tho still atmos
phere, I looked down upon the flying clouds,”
said she; “ I saw the strong shadows career
over tho earth. I looked upon a prison. A
closed carriage was waiting before the door; a
prisoner was to be called for. My beams pene
trated through the grated window toward the
wall; the prisoner scratched, as a parting, some
a lines it, out it was no words he wrote—it was a
melody, the effusion of his heart. The door was
opened, ho was led |forth, fixing his eyes upon
my round disk; clouds moved between us, as it
was not allowed that he should see my face, or
I his. He stepped into the carriage, the door
was closed, the whip cracked, the horses hasten
ed away into the dense forest, where my beams
were unable to follow him; but I looked through
the grated window—my beams glided over the
melody scratched into the wall, his last farewell
Where tho words are wanting, there the tones
will speak. Only a few notes conld my beams
illuminate; the greatest part will forever re
main in darkness to me. Was it the death
hymn which he wrote? Was it joy’s tunes of
exultation? Did he drive towards’death or to
the embrace of his beloved ? The beams of the
Moon do not read everything the mortals write.
THIBTY-THIRD EVENING.
“I love children,” said the Moon, “particu
larly the quite little ones are so droll. Some
times I look between the curtain and the board
of the window sill into the room when they do
not think of me. It affords me pleasure to
look at them, if they are obliged to undress
themselves alone. At first the little, naked
round shoulder creeps forth from under the
dress, then the arm, or I see how the stocking
is pulled off and a neat, white and hard little
leg makes its appearance and a little foot worth
kissing, and I kiss it! But what I was going to
narrate: To-night I looked through a window,
before which no curtain was drawn, for nobody
lives opposite. I saw a whole troop of little
ones—all brothers and sisters—among them was
a very little sister; she is only four years old,
but she can pray the Lord’s Prayer as well as
anybody. Tho mother will sit every evening at
her bed hearing her pray: then she gets a kiss
and the mother remains sitting nntil the little
one falls asleep, and this happens as quickly as
the little eyes can close.”
To-night, the two eldest children were some
what naughty: the one hopped on one leg in
its long, white, little night-shirt; the other
stood npon a chair, surrounded by the dresses
of all the other children, saying it was tableaux
vivants. The third and the fourth put the
washing very carefully into the little box, for
that must be done too; but the mother sat at the
bed of the youngest and bado them all to keep
silent, as the youngest sister was going to pray
the Lord's Prayer.
I looked over the lamp, away into the bed of
tho little one, where she lay on tho fine white
cover, her little hands folded and her little face
quite serious and devoted; she prayed aloud
the Lord’s Prayer.
“ But what is that,” the mother interrupted
her in the midst of the prayer, “ when thou
hast prayed : * Give ns our daily bread,’ thou
addest still something I cannot understand;
thou must tell me what it is ?’’
The little one kept silent, looking embarrassed
at the mother.
• What dost thou say besides ‘ Give us our
daily bread?’ ”
“ Pray be not angry, dear mother! I prayed,
and a great deal of butter upou it!’’ Jabno.
Tho Canvass in Virginia.
Tbe Richmond Enquirer gives an animated
account of the canvass in that State. It says:
We feel that there is life in the old land yet,
when we witness the progress of this magnifi
cent canvass. As if touched by some enchant
er's wand, the white people of this State have
sprung to their feet Banner after banner
waves from every hill-top, and far and near the
wind of the bugle betokens the stir that pre
cedes the battle. In every county the apathy
seems to have been dispelled; at every pre
cinct, or many of them, a recruiting office is
opened. All the talent of both the old parties—
and there was many a heavy battle-axe in each
—seems to be on the stump, Whig and Demo
crat vieing with each other in rallying the peo
ple to resist and beat back the black billows
that threaten to poor in npon us. It is a brave
spectacle to witness the unterrified oldchieftain,
Governor Smith, entering into the canvass
with the same fire and spirit with which
he drew his sword in his old age. The
venerable Conrad also sounds a blast from the
Lower Valley. Flournoy, like a true knight, as
he is, in the saddle in the South. Beverly
Douglas and Marye have been scouring the
whole field, and uttering words of encouragment.
W. W. Walker has entered the lists like the Un
known Knight at Ashby-do-la-Zoucke, and chal
lenges the admiration and the sympathy of the
spectators; and Aylett, and Oold, and Daniel,
and Johnson, and Guy, and Shookelford, and
Humes,and Campbell, and Herndon, and Goode,
and Blow, and Kelley, and Cameron, and Wal
ton, and Kindred, and Staples, and Whitehead,
and Stringfellow, and Winston, and a hundred
others have already reached the front; while
Johnson, Barbour, Baldwin, Stuart, Leake, Ed
munds, Bocock, Garland, Echols, Tredway, Gil
mer, Wingfield, and. many more have their foot
in the stirrup. .
Supreme Court.
Saturday, Jane 19, 18C9.
The Court heard argument in the case of Tug
gle and wife Mary, it. ol., vs. McMath and Teal,
ten-anti. Ejectment from Sumter.
Judge Richard Clarke and S. H. Hawkins for
plaintiff in error, and W. A. Hawkins, for de
fendant in error.
Repairing Sidewalks.—We are glad to see one
or two piles of hard burnt bricks being deposited in
front of the stores on Cheny street immediately be
low this office, with a view to repairing the side
walks in front of them, if not to relay entire new
pavements. This is a matter that should have been
attended to long since; but we are assured by
Hertz, the clothier, and Freeman, the family gro
cer, that they have been selling goods at such a
small advance on original cost that they have been
a whole year in laying by enough clear profits to re
lay their sidewalks; and if such is the case, they
are excusable. But what can we say of those other
“fellers” about town, who have been realizing large
profits behind sidewalks that are so rough potato
■patches would be smooth as ice in comparison with
them? We hope every business man in town who
•lays a smooth, nice pavement in front of his store,
will have such a rush of customers as will induce all
to follow suit or fail.
A man in business in a large, flourishing city like
Macon, has no right to expect that people will
“stump” all their toe-nails off in trying to get to his
store, to trade with him. NotatalL If you would
have an active, well-paying business, keep the ac
cess to your places of business smooth, clean and
unobstructed, and our word for it, you will make a
fortune before you know it.
United.—Justice J. G. G. Burnett united, at his of
fice on Cotton Avenue yesterday, in the holy estate
of matrimony, Mr. Thos. Jones, a one-legged Con
federate soldier, and Miss Elizabeth Smith, all of
Macon. For three or four months Mr. J. has been
an inmate of the City Hospital, and at the time of
his marriage was almost helpless. He was a brave
and good soldier, we are informed, and though bad
ly mutilated by the mishaps of war, it left him
enough body to hold a soul full of the “tender emo
tion.” Quite a crowd gathered around to witness
the ceremony, and we are informed that the happy
couple seemed not to care a bit about the novelty
of their position or the curiosity and interest of
the bystanders. At the conclusion of the ceremony,
and as they passed out of the grocery store in winch
they were married, each “took sugar in them” by
helping themselves to a lump from a bavrel of
sweetnin’ sitting by the counter, and went their
way rejoicing. Mty happiness attend them, and
any number of little Jones’s, one day, hang like
labels about their happy pappy’s neck.
Burnett Last Night—We have rarely attended
a more pleasing, humorous, and enjoyable enter
tainment than that given last night at Ralston’s
Hall, by Mr. Alf. Burnett, Miss Helen Nash, and
the great concertiniat, Mr. J. W. Sharplev. Of
Burnett, as a mimic and face-maker, we have only
to say he is indescribable. He must be seen to be
appreciated. The Almighty, for some wise pur
pose, made Burnett a funny man. If to laugh is to
grow fat, then we defy any man to attend one of
Burnett’s entertainments and not pick np a pound
or two in flesh; for he is the most laughter pro
voking man in the world.
Miss Nash is a young lady of highly cultivated in
tellect. of most pleasing and agreeable manners,
and her recitations are of a most interesting and
attractive character. She forms what we might
term a beautiful and graceful link in the evening’s
entertainment, between Burnett’s drollery and fun
and Sharpley’a matchless performances on the con
certina, which are most exquisitely sweet. To
night is Burnett’s last entertainment, and we are
sure the Hall will be filled.
What Can beDoaeia Georgia.
A VISIT TO DR. JANES’ FARM.
The Greensboro, (Ga.,) Herald, of the 17,1,
says:
Last week we visited the farm of our enf*
pnsing friend, Dr. Thomas P. Janes,
lies on Fishing Creek, some seven or ei^
miles north of Greensboro, to see, for ours?w
what can be done by trying, on our old lands hi
Middle Georgia. We had previouslyheiM
much said of Dr. Janes’ success in trrowi^lU
different kinds of grass, and expeJtedto 8 ^
something more than, is usual in cur coWT
but was totally unprepared to see red
herds grass, blue grass and timothy, grown
such perfection in Greene county, is notfc t
BUTDBSsed bv the best, fame u. irt. .. be
Mayor’s Court.—Seven cases were docketed in
this court yesterday morning and tho attendance, as
is usually the case on Monday, was rather large.
The first case called was against Eliza Roberts
and Reuben King, poor colored creatures, badly af
flicted with a radical disease, known among the aris
tocracy of that party as kleptomacy, but to honest
people generally, as roguery. His Honor prescribed
ten day’s board at the city hotel for Eliza and charged
Reuben $10 for tho prescription, or for stealing with
the privilege of construing it either wayao he paid it.
A little fight cost Dennis somebody $5 or ten days
on the streets.
Two cases of drunkenness were then called. Tho
one was fined $5 and the other dismissed on the
condition that guardhouse fees would be paid.
Amos Bone and Jno. Cook, colored, were up on a
charge of stealing, but it could not be clearly proved
upon them and they were discharged, and hero the
docket closed and the court made a break fora
bucket of ice-water.
Peaches and Watermelons.—For several days
past we have noticed ripe peaches in market, and
they sell very high. We noticed also that they are
being boxed for shipment North. A fine lot came
up from Marshallville on Saturday last marked for
New York. They retail from baskets at 50 cents
per dozen.
Watermelons have been in market for a week cr
two. but not nntil yesterday were they to be found
in tho grocery stores. We noticed a fine lot at Free
man’s. They sell at from fifty cents up two dollars
apiece.
Dr. Porter.—We forgot to mention in our last
that this eminent and most skillful physician had
returned to Macon for a short season, and had
taken rooms at Byington’s Hotel. He will remain
in the city until July l’2th next, and during his stay
will treat all kinds of diseases in his peculiar man
ner, and which has been attended with such won
derful success throughout the country. Wo urge
the afflicted and suffering among the people of this
community to give Dr. Porter a trial during liis
present visit, as it may be a long while—perhaps
never—before he will again visit us. Don’t detay
longer, hut come up and be bealed.
We learn that the burnt district between E. J.
Johnston’s jewelry store and Wood's furniture store,
on Mulberry street, is to be built up in a short
while. We are not informed as to who will do the
building, bnt are assured that the work will be com
menced at no distant day.
Cotton CoiiiREssER.—Where are all those gen
tlemen who were talking so much last Fall about
erecting a cotton compresaer in Macon ? There is
one at the cotton warehouse of Jonathan Collins
& Son for sale cheap, and in good order.
Bibb Suferiob Court.—The case of Miles Sweeny
vs. John and Mary Malloy, for debt, occupied the
time of this Court yesterday. The case was one of
considerable importance, in which a large number
of counsel were engaged on both sides. The snit
was for $5,700; but after hearing the evidence ou
both sides a verdict was agreed on for $500—$250
against each defendant. Bacon & Simmons and La
nier & Anderson for plaintiffs: Whittle & Guatin,
Washington Poe, Jno. B. Weems and J. U. Shorter,
Esqs., for defendants.
H. N. Erxs.—There are but few of the good
things in this life, at this, or any other season of
the year, that cannot be had by calling on H. N
Ells, Mulberry street, opposite the Lanier House.
He enumerates a few articles in an advertisement,
in this paper, hut it would take more spate than we
cau spare any one man to mention a fourth of the
things to be found at Ells’. If you want anything
in hiB line call on him. If, as he says, “you want a
good race, call on Jones county boys." There are
some people in this world who are aware of that.
Just Received.—Messrs. Havens & Brown have
just received at their News Depot, 46 Second street,
the following late periodicals:
Harper’s Weekly, Leslie’s Zeitung._ New York
Mercury, Scottish American, Imperialist, Leslie’s
Boys' and Girls’ Weekly, 4th July Pictorial, London
Illustrated News, Sporting Times and Day’s
Doings.
MAGAZINES.
Every Saturday, Catholic World, Leslie’s, Godey’s.
Peterson’s, Eclectic. Galaxy, Demorest’s, Atlantic,
Onward. Lippincott’s, People’s. Sunday Magazine,
Art Journal. Riverside Magazine, La Beau Monde,
Our Young Folks, Chimney Comer, Ladies' Friend,
Putnam’s Magazine, World of Fashion, Phrenologi
cal.
Yesterday was one of ’em—in or out of the sun;
and but for tbe lively breeze which partially cooled
tho burning heat, we verily believe things would
have been melted down into a conglomerated mass
of matter, like that which rolls away from the vol
cano’s crater, when things are not going right in
tho “bowels of the yearth."
The English papers are making fun of “Bull
Bun” Bussell’s letters, descriptive of the Prince
of Wales’ tour in Egypt. In one of tnem he
says: “As there were no other asses to be
found, the Duke of Sutherland, Colonel Trues-
dale, Colonel Marshall and myself, were
obliged to trudge on foot.’’
A firm of English coach-makers advertise that
Pending argument of Gen. G. J. Wright in ! it has imported wheels from America, and is
the next ease, the Court adjourned till 10 A. 11. now prepared to build light carriages on onr
of Tuesday next.—Intelligencer. ; . . . models.
aoubted by some of our farmers in mSs? 1
Georgia, who have not developed the
worth of their lands; nevertheless it is tme
Onr first visit was to a field of Bed Clover fi
acres in extent, abont half of which has
cut. The • average height of that standine*!,
from four feet to four feet five inohea Tv
field has been under cultivation for the lTi
thirty years or more, and the crop which
planted without manure of any kind, has riM
ed an average of two and a half tons to the' W"
Mr. Ben j E. Spencer, who was raised on a fat
in Connecticut, on visiting this clover field ^
the other grass fields of Dr. Janes’ farm,
that they are not to be surpassed by the W
grass crops that grow in the Northern State,
We next visited a field of twelve or fifteen
of the same crop on which the Doctor kri
turned his stock every night during the seasor
thereby saving two-thirds feed of com and M
der. We visited other fields of Timothy Herf,
grass and Blue grass, and found all growins t«
as great perfection as can be found in anvT-
of the North or West. 7 m
The Bev. Dr. Tucker, President of Mercer
University, at Penfield, as well as Professors
Sanford and Woodfin, who also visited this fa
agreed with ns in opinion. We had not the
E leasure of meeting with these gentlemen, bat
ave seen letters written by them, in which thev
speak-of Dr. Janes’ succes*s in growing clover
and grass. Professor Woodfin, if we mistake
not, is a Northern man; Dr. Tucker has trap
eled over both sections of the country, North
and South, and is a man whose good judgment
can be relied on, and whose integrity isindis.
pntable.
We next visited Ms wheat of which he has
planted largely, and like all the wheat in this
country, we found it good. The Doctor has
provided himself with a reaper of the most ac.
proved patent, and is well fixed for saving his
wheat, oats, etc. His com and cotton bothlooi
well, and, though backward, are yet much im
proved by the recent warm weather.
Many persons will no doubt be surprised to
hear that these crops have been produced cc
old land, without one pound of guano or fertih-
zers of any kind. Other parties have used fer.
tilizers freely, while Dr. James wished first to
test the capacity of hi3 land without them, an:
then compare Ms crops with those of Ms neigh,
bors. He says in order to develop onr lands
and to realize their real worth,our fannera must
change their system of culture, plant a Bmallet
area of land and cultivate it more thoroughly.
With the present system of labor, he says the
Southern planters will be compelled to abandon
their mode of culture, and adopt that of the
Northern States—enriching with clover and
deep plowing. He showed us the receipts of ids
overseers for successive yearn before the war.
and his average cotton crop to the hand wee
from eight to ten bales, and since the war not
more than half as much, this is an evidence of
the imperfection of onr present system of labor.
The Doctor owns, we think, near five thousand
acres of land lying on both sides of Fishing
Creek, for a distance of five miles. His resi
dence, wMch is beautifully situated on the AYest
side of the Creek, is within three miles of Mer
cer University, and abont four miles to the
nearest point on the Railroad. . Abont one third
of this land is heavily wooded with oak, poplsr
and hickory, wMch itself might be a source cf
immense wealth. So crazy were our people in
ante bellum days about cotton, that a man via
would have proposed to them to grow clover
and other grasses as a profitable business inthli
part of Georgia, would nave been denounced a
a fit subject for the Lunatic Asylum.
The truth is now just beginning to appear,
that aside from cotton, the counties in Middle
Georgia only need their producing capacity to
be properly tested, to show their superiority
over the lands of the West, or those further
South. With such a soil, a pare and salubrious
atmosphere, pure, cold freestone water, cheap
lands in connection with our facilities for trans-
portation to market, onr State must soon be
come densely populated with emigrants from
abroad.
• " * Br
Supreme Court of Georgia —June
Term, 1869.
Friday, June IS. 1609.
The following cases from the Southwestern
Circuit, were tins day argued:
Charlotte Scott vs! the The State—Adultery
and farnication from Dougherty—General Hen
ry Morgan for plaintiff in error, and B. H.
Whiteley, Solicitor General Southwestern Cir
cuit, for the defendant in error.
Can negroes and wMtes intermarry? is the
question involved in tMs case.
No. 11. Smith vs. Lawton—Garnishment froo
Dougherty—Colonel P. J. Strozier and Judge D. |
A. Yason for plaintiff in error; General G. f-
Wright and B, K. Hines, Esq., for plaintiff in
error, i
No.‘12. Collier vs. the State—Assault wii
attempt to murder from Dougherty— Genersi
Henry Morgan for plaintiff in error, and R E
Whiteley, Esq., for defendant in error.
No. 13. Tiller vs. Spradley, Agent for Jords
—Complaint from Lee—Col C. B. Wootten, tj
Col W. A. Hawkins and Judge D. A. Vase:
for plaintiff in error, and George Kimbroog:
Esq., by Gen. G. J. Wright, for defendant c
error.
Pending argument in No. 14. the Court so
journed till 10 a. m., to day.—Intelligencer.
The Slaeon Postmaster.
We get notMng more about onr colored Po*
master. Among the Washington specials in to
Louisville Courier-Journal of Saturday is to
following:
Turner, the colored postmaster at Macon, or-
whom the wMteRepublicans of Georgia are
ingsucha fuss,has not enteredonhisdunes-ss--
has been unable to file Ms bonds. He _ded4K»
that he will not have any white men on h* 5
and has failed to secure black men worth s»- J
cient property to be Ms bondsmen. Th®
people of Macon hope to secure tho fin“
cation of Torner s appointment when the rt?-' |
dent returns.
OBITUARY. . |
Died in Twiggs county, Ga., on the 25th W
March. 1SG9, Dr. R. A. Nash. Ho was born Leh-'
ary 3,1801, being sixty-eight years, one won:-1-
twenty-two days of age. He commenced tbep^
tice of physic in 1826, and continued the
until 1854. Daring that period of tiffiSi 10 _ I
perhaps, ever did more charitable p**" ^ I
he; living the greater portion of the time to 4 I
tion of country where there were a greatI
people, he was ever ready to relieve their * - 1
and soothe their sorrows. , .j 1
He was married to Miss Mary Hart in I
they lived peaceably and happily together nna- |
death. -
Dr. Nash joined the Baptist Church in « ^ I
lived an upright, orderly life, ever using ha ^ r
ence to advance Christ’B Kingdom upon the e*-^ 1
He was quiet aud unassuming in his manse^ ^ I
disposition kind and amiable. Amid all °* I
dieting misfortunes and disappointments ®r^j
life, he bore up with Christian fortitude. I
muring, but having the full assurance that ■ I
would work together for good to those vh° I
God. For twelve or eighteen months he ^ I
death, he was severely hurt by a fall, being I
infirm, which forced him to remain at bom®
all tho time, comparatively shut out from the ^
yet his time was spent in reading the ®
making preparation for the hour of death.
felt was rapidly approaching. The writer
him during his last sickness, and hesrd
that he desired to depart and be at rest,
had lived to be old and helpless; his child 1 * 11
all grown and able to take care of themse tea
the war had stripped him of almost ever?
consequently, he felt that this world bad no
for him; that, if R was the will of God to u
he was ready and willing to go. He left
tionatewife; a large number of children:
number of grand-children, and a large no»
friends, to mourn his loss.
By his death, the country has lost a ?<***
his family an affectionate husband and f*t““^|
community a good neighbor; the Church »
zealous member.
“Mark the perfect man, and behold tw ^
forth* end of that man sa peace.”
Christian Index please copy.
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