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The Greorgia, "Weekly Telegraph,
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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON FRIDAY, JULY 2, 18C9.
Death of IU«Uor P. €. Pendleton.
A few days ago we mentioned that Major
Stamp Coleman Pendleton, of the Valdosta
(fjamiiea Co.,) Times,had been thrown from his
\>*ggj by a frightened horse, and in falling, his
head struck a stump on the roadside, inflicting
■Moae serious cerebral injury. We are pained
•toEsam from the Times of the 23d, that Major
Pendleton died last Saturday! having never re-
dW—d consciousness.
The Times pays an eloquent tribute to his
•nuanory. He was bom in Putnam county, in
1SZ2, and soon after he arrived at majority,
He was a member of
Jotting!* on the Road.
JONES, JASPER, WILKINSON, BALDWIN AND
PUTNAM COUNTIES *
Fine rains have, within a few days past, fallen
in Jones, Jasper, Wilkinson, Baldwin, and Pat*
nam counties. Crops of com present a fine ap
pearance—stalks are large and strong, every
thing about it looks dark and green. With
few more seasonable rains the land in com will
produce from two to three hundred per cent
more than last year.
The cotton plant looks very healthy—has
grown much in the last three weeks—is well ad
vanced for the season, though some consider it
small. A great contest is now going on between
the farm laborers and the grass, but we have
confidence in the success of the laborers.—
Fertilizers have made a difference of one hun
dred per cent, in the growth. Crops of several
'practiced law in Macon.
-Jhe Macon Volnnteers in tlic-irFlorida campaign
carter General Scott, and on his return com-' tundredacres mPntnam^ we think, wifi average
naosecod the publication in Macon of a weekly
.jfyfi] 1 called the News Carrier, which subse-
-qnoDtly changed its name to the Southern Post.
Tfe paper was superseded in 1840, by the
■Southern Ladies, Book—a monthly magazine,
-uioebMr. Pendleton established in connection
Eev. Geo. F. (now Bishop) Pierce. The
•gasQiem Ladies’ Book was afterwards removed
Savannah, and appeared for a year as the
Magnolia, and from thence was removed to
Charleston, where the services of Wm. Gilmore
ffwmn were secured as associate editor. In 1855,
Major Pendleton purchased the Sandersville
Central Georgian, and published it for four
.years. Just before the war be removed to
Sjoihcm Georgia, and during the war Major
-Ssndleton served In the Virginia Campaigns as
Major of the 50th Georgia Regiment, where he
. distinguished himself as a faithful and valiant
asEdier. He established the Times in 1867.—
Vhxf. paper says:
Aa regards Maj. Pendleton’s private charac-
•icc, we can only refer those who knew him to
every day walk. Those who have read his
etper cannot help remembering the air of piety
.^rwf patriotism that pervaded it. Modesty and
charity were his leading traits, and governed
life. In early life he was baptised into tho
Christian church but afterward joined the Me
thodist, of which he was a member when he
died. A short time before the sad accident which
took away his life, he expressed a desire to live
wtffy long enough to correct the errors of his na-
<Sore. His was the patriotism that looked to the
best good of the people, conservative, moderate
.sad forbearing. Need we enumerate the many
hoBorable trusts reposed in him by his conntry-
.wn? But here we stop, and leave the rest to
memory of his friends and the hearts of those
raho loved him.
Brunswick Railroad.
"Wia understand comparatively little of the grad-
ling now remains to be done on this side of the
•Obenulgce. All tho difficnltpart is accomplished,
sad, contrary to the common impression, there
is s good deal of heavy grading both above and
>3*Iaw the river. Wo are told there are some
tEuxbarikments and excavations which will re-
□rind the observer of the State Boad. About
-tbs hundred and ten miles of track are now laid
and. seventy-five miles remain to be laid. It is
eaxfldently stated by the best authority that the
vtbfflolmo will bo open to Brunswick as soon as
. Quslst o?"November next.
(Tfoe great hindrance to progress is found in
-’firof'ht.'t that whenever the hands are paid
>. atT, , whibu by some contractors is once a
month, ranAbyvathers twice, tho bands must al-
. t*ys have, & holiday and go home. This cuts
■town the force at. work to a very small number
aetiithe. frolic-is .over,.which generally occu-
p£sK from three days to a week. But good pro-
fpeesik-made notwithstanding, and the public
anticipations in reference to the completion of
;fee work will be fulfilled.
what is termed half leg high; or say, 10 to 12
inches. To use a vulgarism of the colored peo
ple, it is now “performing” finely. A great
many small rich plats of ground have cotton
from knee to thigh high.
White Labob.—We were told a few days ago
that two sons, about grown, of F. H. Dawson,
of Putnam county, in 1867, raised from their
own labor sixteen bales of cotton. A young
man in the same county, Mr. Calhoun Parham,
last year raised from his own labor nine bales
of cotton. Many white men are working farms
now, formerly worked by large bodies of col
ored people, and prospects are bright.
An Ibish Potato Stoby.—A friend in Putnam
county, (who at his request shall be nameless,)
presented us with some splendid specimens of
Irish potatoes. He informed us that he had
been using from the bed for his family, com.
posed of ten or more persons, from May 1st to
June 15th, when he dug them and saved thirty
bushels. The bed was about one-thirteenth of
an acre. This shows a production at the rate of
four hundred bushels of Irish potatoes to the
Manufacture oe Draining Pipes.—At No. 1,
Milledgeville and Gordon Railroad, more com
monly known as Stevens’ Mills, we saw the other
daypersonsengagedinthe manufacture from the
clay of that section, inexhaustible quantities of
which are to be found there, piping suited for
drainage of buildings, sewerage and tinder drain
age of lands. Mr. Henry Stevens, who is one of
the most enterprising men we have, has com-
mencedthis manufacture. It is ander the direc
tion of a gentleman who came from New Jersey
for the purpose. They are now preparing about
700 feet per day of eight or nine inch pipe. The
furnace for burning it is nearly completed.
When it is finished Mr. Stevens will estimate
the cost and fix a price upon it. He is confident
he will be able to sell it at a cheaper rate than
it can be imported. We are glad to see this
manufacture introduced in Georgia, and hope it
will be encouraged by the people.
'Xrops in Crawford and Monroe.
Col T. J. Simmons, who has been sojourning
a while.in /die upper part of Crawford, and the
adjoining-region of Monroe, gives a very flater-
iag report of the crops. Corn is in as good a
v aHoditioc, -and as promising as it could be; and,
\. ■lOi'Kifl continuance of showery weather, will
praoduce such a crop as has not been seen in
that section for a long time. Cotton is equally
^promising, and, in its most advanced stages,
Tkaeo-high, or a little upwards, giving every in-
•£Jcation of abundant fruit. The Colonel speak
aC one of his brother’s fields, planted with
Dickson’s improved seed, and manured with
Ayres & G us tin’s Super-phosphate, which ex
ceeds in promise any thing ho ever saw. It is
throwing out clusters of forms as low as within
throe or four inches of the earth, and fifty or
dBBore forms to the stalk are common. Tho dif-
■feoence between manured and unmanured crops
sc tveiy great, and Colonel S. thinks it will
ataarant to at least thirty days in the whole
cropping season. Looking at the crop under
those two conditions, in the same field, the eye
detects at once where fertilizers were not em
ployed. In one field, where only the poorer
^portions were manured, the fertilized cotton is
; twice as.large as the other.
A Hellish Pot Uncovered.—The New Era
- publishes a letter from Frank Joseph, a North-
. . ten Methodist preacher, who, in his profession-
_ travels in Georgia, found darkies who said
ffwy were acting under instructions to procure
.ffw negroes to kick up a row with the whites,
i. -mH get the State out of the Union. They were
*. to have acres and mules for doing it.
Folsom
■ Gordon 'Hotel.—CoL J. M. Folsom still
, presides over this establishment, where will be
•. found an excellent supper awaiting passengers
-on the evening down train on tho Central Rail
road. The Colonel hopes to see, at the future
pic-nics, on his pond, more of the Macon people
4h*n heretofore. He promises a pleasant time
i to all who come. We will vouch for his com
pliance.
'The National Intelligencer, for two genera
tions a text book to a great many American poli-
fieia&f/has suspended. We publish on our first
tMgesqme interesting information in relation
ito tho.paper.
TEwnc Florida.—The Floridian of the 22d
•Announces the death of the Hon. John B. Gal
braith.
A Tax Bill has been passed by the Legisla
tors which imposes a total tax of seventy cents
tm. the hundred dollars.
- The Floridian’s account of the crops is nn-
'fayorable.
The Griffin Stab heads one of his columns
■ of items “Paregoric.” That’s the sleepy column
—-to be read after dinner—the remainder are
.lively enough.
The Confederate Dead at Sharpsbnrg'
Macon, June 23, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: Please give such notice
of the accompanying pamphlet as you may
think the importance of the snbject upon which
it treats demands.
Our Maryland friends, particularly those in
the immediate vicinity of our dead, are anx
ious to aid us in the erection of a cemetery,and
wonder why we have so long neglected this pa
triotic duty. You will notice, by reference to
the Governor’s pamphlet, that a very liberal ap
propriation was made by the State of Maryland
towards having the Confederate dead interred
in the grand National cemetery which has been
erected at Sharpsbnrg; and after the money had
been received and used with that understanding
the Northern trustees refused admittance to the
bodies of our dead.
The speeches of Northern Radicals upon the
occasion of the dedication of the cemetery,
were amongst the vilest of their miserable at
tempts to heap disgrace upon the Southern peo
ple; andshould have long since aroused us to take
some active measures for a separate enclosure
for our noble dead. It should sadden the heart
of every true Southron to think of the neglect
ed, exposed and abused condition of the graves
of the brave men who, “ always in the front,”
fell among**, strangers. As I traversed the
ground upon which they sleep, I fancied I could
almost hear them say, “ Have you, whom I so
oved, forgotten me t
Our friends in and around Sharpsbnrg and
Hagerstown think that §5000 would cover the
expense of a cemetery and the removal of all
the bodies except those in the cemetery at Fred
erick, which are well preserved and conld be
improved where they are. Shame upon the
Southern people if a few thousand dollars can
not be collected for an object so dear to our
hearts. Let each individual who was a sufferer
in the battles in Maryland, begin at once to col
lect something for this noble work. Could our
people look on the outside of the National Ceme
tery, at the scattered remains of our loved ones,
the flowers of another April would perfume the
graves of our dead in Maryland!
Copies of the “Descriptive List of the re
mains of our dead in Maryland,” can be had free
of charge on application to Thomas A Bonllt,
Hagerstown, Maryland. Doubtless, Mr. B.,
who feels great interest in the matter, would re
ceive subscriptions of money from our people.
He could at least be consulted upon the subject.
Hon. James H. Grove, of Hagerstown, or Jacob
C. Grove, of Sharpsbnrg, would give any infor
mation respecting the purchase of grounds, etc.,
the former having been the most active member
of the last -Legislature, might be able to say
whether the State of Maryland would make an
other appropriation in behalf of the Confederate
dead.
Pardon me, Messrs. Editors, for this lengthy
note. “ Out of the heart the mouth .speaketh.”
Very respectfully,
Mbs. C. Helen Plane.
The pamphlet alluded to, besides setting forth
the facts embodied in Mrs. Plane’s eloquent
letter, gives a list of the Confederate deadbnried
around Sharpsbnrg, with the condition of the
gsaves which, wo regret to say, is in some cases
so deplorable that portions of the remains are
exposed. The pamphlet on the concluding page,
summarizes the list as follows: Louisiana 69,
Mississippi 61, Virginia 106, Georgia 210, North
Carolina 119, South Carolina 71, Arkansas 10,
Texas 9, Tennessee 6, Alabama 54, Florida 10,
Maryland 2, Identified by name 23, by batteries
5, P. S. S. 3, unknown 2,481—total 3,239!—
Surely the South will not permit this army of
her dead and heroic sons to lie scattered around
in fence corners and fields, in every condition
of neglect and exposure to desecration, and the
perishable marks of identity which are attached
to the graves fast disappearing with the lapse
of time. Let ns no longer suffer ourselves to
be taunted by our enemies with so criminal a
neglect
“Preserving.”—Now, and for a few subse
quent weeks, come the busy times with good
housewives in preserving. With the modern
TIktoktant Discovery—that of the late rebo j improvements of self-sealing jars, this is a
general, General Breckinridge, inaa excursion matter of great economy. The old-fashioned
•to W a? tnn niVta* uinnaoAla A a tTia " m _ _
sweet meats, preserved in their own weight of
'the other day out in Minnesota. As the
flag of the Union was unfurled, he exclaimed,
"That is the old flag, after all—thank God for
it! Pity he didn’t make this discovery abont
fta year 1861. It would have saved him a
world of trouble; but “better late than never.”
And while the lamp holds out to hum
The vilest sinner may return.
sugar, are to a great extent superseded, and all
manner of froits for pies, tarts, and of vege
tables and sauces for winter use upon the table,
are put up with little expense and no work, by
! observing directions, which will be supplied by
That story is told by the New York Herald cf : seller of the jars. These jars can be had at
•tm.* Wednesday. j many of the stores in Macon, as well as the
' I other cities of our bailiwick.
_ . . B. A. Wise sup-
Desthucttve TTatl Storm near Albany.—On .. . . ... , , , „
Tuesday afternoon a terrible hail storm passed ! P Ues 016 besfc P atterns to ^ers, as well as
round east of Albany, damaging crops seriously, householders, with all the needful information
in some places destroying them. Mrs. Ran how to use them.
' Towns had about 125 acres of cotton destroyed.
Mr. .Walker suffered to the same extent in cot- 1 From Dal toil,
ton and a like number of acres of com. The The Citizen of yesterday has the following:
Willinghams, Mrs. Baker and many others were [ Railroad Bridge. The
“ The Status of the Expelled Negro
Members of the Legislature.”
We note in the Chronicle and Sentinel, of
Thursday, a long and able article under this
head reviewing, the Telegraph upon the ques
tion and restating its own position as follows:
_ Several months since the Chronicle and Sen
tinel urged that a case should be made and
taken tothe Supreme Court in order to teat this
right claimed by the Scalawags for the negroes
to hold office under our laws. We then said,
and we now repeat it, “that it would become
the duty of all good citizens to yield cheerful
obedience to such decision when made, and we
doubt not that all portions of our people will
accept such a decision as the law of the land.”
We have seen no reason why we should now
change that opinion. We still thinkj in future
—or, more properly speaking—in all cases
which have not been already authoritatively de
cided the painciples involved in the late decis
ion should be enforced.
We go farther and say that we believe that it
would be the duty of tho present Legislature to
carry out those principles in all cases which may
hereafter come before it What we meanis this:
If the vacancy created in the Senate by the death
of Adkins should be filled by the return of a ne
gro and if a negro should also be returned to the
House in the place of -4yer, that snch negroes
shonld be admitted to their seats. These cases
have not been decided. But if Alex. Stone, ne
gro member from Jefferson county, shonld pre
sent himself and demand the seat from which he
had been ejected, that such demand would be
untenable—his case has been decided. The Su
preme Court has no power to oveirule a decis
ion made by the Legislature upon the qualifica
tion of its individual members. The Legisla
ture has no right to decide that negroes are in
eligible to office. Each department is supreme
t^d independent in its own proper sphere of the
interference of tho other. The Supreme Court
decides principles, the Legislature decides the
special qualifications of its own members.
_ If a negro shonld hereafter be elected a Jus
tice of the Peace or Ordinary, or to any other
civil office in the State and ms commission be
withheld or the Courts refuse to recognize his
right to the office, he has his remedy before the
Supreme Court, and its decision must be
obeyed. But if a negro shonld be elected to
the Legislature there is no power in the Supreme
Court which can compel them to admit the ne
gro to his seat. The Legislature is a co-ordi
nate branch of the Government and within its
own sphere entirely independent of the judicia
ry. As we have already said we believe such a
refusal would be wrong, but we do not admit
that that body can be compelled by the judicial
branch of the Government to do right.
We would copy the entire article of the Chron
icle and Sentinel, but space is scarce, and really
it seems to us we have presented every phase of
the question. We suggest to our friend of the
Chronicle, who is one of the most distinguished
lawyers of Georgia, that his position may possi
bly illustrate the difference between law and
equity. I
From Talbot County.
The West Georgia Gazette says that wheat
has been offered for sale in the Pleasant Hill
District at § 1.50 per bushel. That paper says
The wheat crop throughout the country is
larger than ever before made. In All the wheat
growing States the people have been favored
with an abundant yield. From all points in
Georgia comes the most cheering accounts of a
heavy crop, and we may expect a speedy decline
in the price of flour.
In respect to the growing crops, the Gazette
remarks:
A heavy and general rain fell in this county
on Tuesday evening. Cotton and com have
jrown very rapidly during the last two weeks,
ant now we hear some of our farmers complain
ing of too much rain. The crops are good, but
in some localities the grass is making rapid
headway.
The Gazette has a long communication from
Georgia upon the policy of fencing in stock.—
“Georgia,” is opposed to it as legislation in fa
vor of the rich to the injury of the poor.
Noticing our remark about its failure to give
the price of wheat, the Gazette adds:
However, as we can’t tell the Telegraph the
price of wheat in this section, we will tell our
readers that the Macon Telegraph, Daily and
Weekly, is one of the best papers in the thirty-
seven States and score or so of territories. The
weekly is unrivaled in the quantity and quality
of itR matter—being a large quarto sheet of fif
ty-six columns, filled with news, miscellany,
market reports, and able and judicious editorials
upon the prominent events of the day. The
Telegraph has probably a larger circulation,
and exercises more influence upon public senti
ment than any other paper in Georgia. The
mammoth Weekly is furnished at §3 per annum;
Daily §10. ,
We are much obliged to our friend of the Ga
zette and will take the liberty of adding that our
Semi-Weekly edition at §4.00 a yen is. in our
individual opinion the best of the triad of Tele
graph editions.
From Greene County.
The Greensboro’ Herald of Thursday, saysr
We have received, at this office, specimens of
fine cotton from J. B. Hart and George C. Da
vis. Mr. Davis sends us a bloom which was
taken from a stalk on the 19tb. This is early
for this section. Mr. Hart presents us with a
stalk which measures twenty-nine inches above
the roots and states that he has sixty acres of
the kind. This, we feel no hesitancy in saying,
is the best in the county. We do not pretend
to say that this is a fair specimen of the crop
of this county, for as a general thing it has been
represented to us as being poor.
From the Fork.—We were pleased yester
day to receive a call from our friend and coun
tryman, W. S. Bishop, from the Fork, who re
presents the crops between tho rivers as being
good, both com and cotton; the wheat crop is
also good, better than for the past ten years.—
Mr. Bishop speaks very encouragingly of the
negroes in his section; says that they are at
tending to their business and working well;
this we are glad to learn, for of the many large
farms in the Fork, they are almost entirely cul
tivated by negro labor. This is an evidence
sufficient to show that they are peaceably dis
posed, and attentive to their business when let
alone. Mr. Bishop has spent nearly seventy
years of his life in Greene county, and says to
day hewonld not exchange it for any country
nnder the sun, andsays that energy and industry
is all that is necessary for our people to grow
rich. We are glad to know that he, as well as
many of our farmers, are making preparations
to grow clover and the different grasses, for it
can but prove a success. Our exchanges from
all parts of the State give glowing accounts of
the success of those who have tried it. We
have seen Kentucky and Tennessee hay de
livered at this depot for consumption in this
county; instead of this, our planters should ship
from this to other markets. Mr. Bishop in
forms ns that he intends planting largely of it
this fall.
The Dawson Journal's Platform.
This paper lays down the following admirable
platform upon the Supreme Court decision:
It is a hard task to undertake to account for
the acts anddoings of such men as Joe Brown
and Kent McCay ; it is, we think, enough for
us to know the decision is made and then go to
work to remedy the evil done.
The good book says, “a tree is known by its
fruit," and it is sometimes the case that one
may know the fruit by lookiug at the tree. So
in this decision. We expected no better fruit
from those political trees, therefore, was not
surprised. Believing there is no remedy at the
law, we concluded the best plan to treat the
matter is to give it the go-by, for the present,
and when a negro offers for an office in fu
ture. just beat him out, and save the honorable
gentlemen the trouble of again riving their rea
sons for saying a negro is eligible to office.
A little judicious management on the part of
employers and press, and tho work is done. No
use to be alarmed, or have any fears for South
west Georgia. We are not ashamed to teU the
black man how to vote for his own interest, and
we do it, and heretofore have had good success.
We think the wind will be taken out of the
sails of these law-givers, and before a twelve
months roll around, Joseph will be for eating
bis words a pain
From' Texas. .
Too much Rain—Crips Looking Well—Corn
made—Cotton promising—Blooms as early as
as 21st May—Sugaf Crop Small but Promis
ing—Plantations in Pine Condition—Freed-
men doing well—Potties dead—Loyal Leagues
doicn on the Con'titution—An Omnipotent
Negro—Half a MU ion gone—Health of the
State.
BUT TELEGRAPH.
Correspondence of the ifacon Dai]]/ Telegraph.]
Bchmond, June 21, 1869.
In consequence (J indisposition, I am again
compelled to throw,myself on your indulgence;
but you and your waders have not lost anything
by my protracted (ilenee, for it has been an un
usually dull time, is devoid of interesting items
as Shakespeare pronounced a duck’s nest to be
of eggs in March.
We have had nore rain during this summer
than was needfulor beneficial. Still, crops are
looking well, and a good corn crop is an assured
fact, for it is nor beyond the reach of contin
gencies. Cotton iromises well too. Almost every
plantation had penty of blooms the first of this
month, and aoni few had blooms ten days be
fore the end of he last. Sugar cane looks well,
and holds ont ndications that those who “take
sugar in them” will not be driven to the neces
sity of taking it straight or “ ’alf and ’alf.
But the breadtj of land devoted to sugar in this
country is rathir insignificant when its adapta
bility to cane ii considered. The great fear of
the planter fron this out is, that the excessive
rains will prodtpe the caterpillar.
Plantations are in better repair and present a
better appearance of thrift, than they have at
the same period any time since emancipation.
Freedmen hav« worked better this year, and
their general conduct has been better than at
any time since the close of the war. These
hopeful features are entirely owing to the ab
sence of the villainous Bureau and its pestif
erous agents.
Politics are as dead as a pickled herring. If
a man were to introduce political matters as a
subject of conversation in a mixed or promis-
cnons assembly, he would be regarded as an
antiquated fossil of a by-gone era. No steps
have yet been token for theregistrationof voters
on the ratification or rejection of the Consti
tution, which induces the belief that the elec
tion will not come off at an early day. When
the election comes off, it is not improbable that
the Constitution will be rejected, as Ruby, f.
m. c., President of the Loyal Leagues, is op
posed to its ratification. Ruby is a bright
mulato, and is said to be possessed of consider
able shrewdness and unbounded ambition. His
influence with the Leagues is well nigh omnipo
tent. A large number of influential Conserva
tives will, also, throw the weight of their in
fluence against its ratification. Thus a work,
that has cost Texas over a half million of dol
lars, will probably never benefit the State the
worth of the parchment on which it was written.
It is certainly strange that extremes in politics
should meet so soon after a terrible war. My
own opinion is that the Constitution, with all
its serious objections, is the best that the peo
ple will have offered to them in the next quarter
of a century.
The general health of the country was never
better at the same season of the year.
Par Fois.
New York Times on the Georgia Deci
sion.
The New York Times of the 21st instant, com
menting upon the views of tho Constitutionalist
and others in favor of disregarding the Supreme
Court decision of tho Georgia Supreme Court,
in the case of the ejected negro Legislators,
say:
We trust that these foolish suggestions
will be disregarded by these to whom they
are addressed. They are pregnant with mis
chief to the State, because* incompatible with
tnat pacific settlement of outstanding causes of
controversy in the accomplishment of which all
classes are deeply interested.
The only pretext for the exclusion of negroes
from the Legislature and from local office has
been an alleged difference of interpretation of
the State Constitution and Code. The reasona
bleness of an interpretation which saw barriers
to office-holding, while admitting that none ex
isted to the exercise of the suffrege, was never
apparent. But at least it was presented with a
profession of good faith. The Supreme Court
was the proper tribunal for disposing of the
question; and by its dictum all men not intent
upon fomenting discord will abide. The Legis
lature may indeed fall back upon its exclusive
authority over the qualifications of its members,
and may pass a law making color a ground of in
eligibility to office. These steps are of course
possible. But their injustice and inexpediency
are so apparent that only demagogues will
venture to recommend them. For instead of
allowing the judgment of the Court to heal
irritating sores and re-establish harmony be
tween the action of the State and the purposes
of the National Government, they will, by the
proposed procedure, multiply the causes of con
tention and strengthen the hands of those who
urge a renewal of Congressional interference. It
was bad enough that 'members were expelled
under a pretended regard for law. To persist
in the wrong after it has been judicially shown
that the law warrants- no such interpretation,
and, still more, to enact a law in order that a
proscription now lacking in the statute book
maybe supplied, would be something worse
than an error of policy. It would be an act of
defiance which would go far toward justifying
fresh exercise of Federal authority.
The opportunity for closing an ugly contro
versy is one which Georgia should not lose. It
may now honorably recede from a position which
the apologists of harsh measures have used to
some effect, and avert further difficulty without
trouble or delay. We hope that moderate and
just counsels wiH. prevail in a matter fraught
with consequences so seriously affecting the fu
ture of the State.
more or less injured.—News, 25th.
railroad, on Cnyler street, is being built rap-
•idly. -
Crops.—The wheat is being harvested, and is
very good. It is worth about $1 50. Com is
looking fine, but somewhat in the grass. The
The Crops in the West.—A Chicago paper
„ publishes crop dispatches from twenty-four
bridge across the points in Illinois, eleven in Iowa and five in
The Cholera anti Yellow Fever lit
Cuba.
The Cuban patriots, we are told, have been
doubly blessed this summer. They prayed for
the appearance of yellow fever to thin the Span
ish ranks, and have not only received that, but
the cholera in addition. A correspondent of the
New York Times says : “The cholera has bro
ken out with incredible force among the troops
at Nuevitas and other points on the coast, and is
already marching with fearful strides toward the
interior. The Havana journals keep this fact
secret. At a meeting of the Board of Health
yesterday (June 13th) it was resolved to allow
the steamers Trionfo and Pejaro to land their
passengers and freight, without subjecting them
to quarantine or even to fumigation; but it was
resolved to fumigate all vessels arriving after
date. .; ■ ,
To give you an idea of the strength of the
cholera, I merely cite two instances: .Seven
Cabans captured a Spanish lieutenant and three
men, who had gone on a hunting expedition
near Nnevitas, and were leading them toward
an insurgent encampment. They rested during
the night near Altmisal. In the morning only
one Spanish soraier was alive, the other three
having died during the night: The second case
Is that of the family of a Spanish officer in
Neuvitas; his wife, two children and servant,
died within three hours. The Cubans were not
wrong when they relied on the yellow fever to
thin the ranks of the Spaniards,but they did not
calculate that cholera would also moke its ap
pearance. The Spaniards lose fearfully, but it
is equally certain that the mortality among the
Cubans is very great, although it is impossible
to obtain reliable figures.”
From Clay County.
The Fort Gaines Mirror says, during the past
•wiifik the weather has been warm and dry. "We
, that, during the middle of the day, gar- seasons are very fine,
dm vegetables wilt under the parching rays of , Whitfield CouHrr.-Treasnrer Buchanan in-
" * ,, . forms ns that the financial matters of the coun-
ijfef win A jjoou shower now, would be quite ty are in a flourishing condition. ' Plenty of
I money, tod no paupeia to taka core of.
A Suspicious Political Element.—A Wash
ington dispatch tells us: ‘‘The subject of Chinese
immigration to the Facifio slope will be brought
before Congress at its next session. Several
prominent representatives are now on a visit to
California for the express purpose of studying
the whole question,and another gentlemanleaves
here in a few days for San Francisco with simi
lar intentions. It is apprehended that the num
ber of Chinese who will arrive here within .ten
years will be estimated by millions; and the
Wisconsin. They report the prospect for wheat theory of some newspapers and politicians, that
fins, and some places will double the last year’s they come merely for the purpose of working,
crop. Com is generally backward, owing to
the cold and wet. Some com is being replanted,
and the crop will not be as large as usual. Oats
and barley look well Potatoes are promising,
except a few places where bugs have appeared.
The wheat harvest has commenced. In South
without any. intention or desire to participate in
our politics, is regarded by many as an assump
tion not altogether warranted’by fact, history
or experience.”
($2 From Washington.
Washington, June 25.—Gould, has been commis
sioned Revenue Collector for the First Georgia Dia-
trict.
The Cubans have late favorable advices. The Cu
ban forces have been successful in two recent con
flicts,and are comparatively healthy and confident of
success, and their organization is improving. The
cholera, yellow fever,and dysentery among the Span
ish troops are decimating and demoralizing them.
Borie has resigned, Geo. H. Robeson, of New Jer
sey, succeeds him.
The National Intelligencer has suspended, only
temporarily though it is hoped.
There was a full Cabinet to-day, including Robe
son, Secretary of War.
Revenue to-day $800,000.
Admiral Hoff has been instructed to resist seiz
ures of American vessels not actually engaged in
landing troops or munitions on the Cuban coast.
General Howard has appointed Rev. James Lynch
Superintendent of Education for Mississippi
Delano decides that lotteiy proprietors, managers
and agents must pay five per cent, on gross receipts,
whether tickets, certificates or polities, or any de
vice representing lotteiy tickets without deduction
for prizes, commissions or other expenses.
TURNER DEPARTS FOR MACON.
Turner, negro postmaster at Macon, Ga., depart
ed yesterday with lii3 commission.
Lernus, the Cuban representative, had an inter
view with Grant and the Secretary of War to-night.
Washington, June 26.—Revenue to-day $767,000.
Supervisor Noah, of Tennessee, was allowed to
resign. His successor is unknown. The change is
attributed to the influence of the Stokes parly.
The President has appointed Wm. M. Wood Chief
of the Nayy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Creswell was present at the interview between
Grant and Lemus. The interview was unofficial It
is stated on tolerable authority that Grant never
asked Hoar’s opinion regarding the political status
of Georgia. Hoar has certainly taken no steps to
wards the preparing of such au opinion.
From Virginia.
Richmond, June 25.—The Commencement Exer
cises of the Washington College, in Lexington,
commenced on Thursday. Rev. B. A. Holland, of
Baltimore, addressed the literary societies, and
General Lee distributed the medals and diplomas.
Mr. C. W. McCormick, of Chicago, a member of the
Board of Trustees, who was unavoidably absent,
sent a check for five thousand dollars, as a substi
tute for his personal presence. Many distinguished
persons from other States were present at the Al
umni dinner. At night speeches were made by Com
modore Maury, General Smith, and others.
The college prize oration was delivered by McGar-
reU, of Texas; the law class oration by John T.
Pendleton, of Kentucky: the Cincinnatus oration
by J. P. Strader, of West Virginia.
The registration just closed has greatly increased
the white majority in the State. The Conservatives
claim that their vote has been increased twenty
thousand.
Richmond, June 26.—Joseph Kelly, who was shot
on Thursday evening at the Registration Office, by
the Police Captain, Callahan, died this morning.
His death creates much feeling in the city, ho hav
ing been held by three policemen, while Callahan,
who had a personal fend with him, shot him. Kel
ly was Vice President of the Seymour and Blair
Club during the campaign. Callahan was an ex-
Confederate officer, who had charge of a Confed
erate prison during the war, and has since joined
the Republican party. Callahan was bailed, bntwas
to-day rearrested.
Edward Fontaine, proprietor of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, died to-day, aged sixty-nine
years.
General Canby orders that Callahan, who killed
Kelly, be tried by a military commission.
John Chinaman Asserting his Eights.
San Francisco, June 26.—Senators Wade and
Conkling, with the Committee of Ways and Means of
the House, met a number of leading business men
and representatives of six Chinese companies.
These Chinese representatives made a speech, ex
pressing the hope tliatthegovemment would double
the subsidy to the China line of steamships, enabling
it to run semi-monthly, and suggested Congress
ional assurance of a just protection to the Chinese
capitalists who invest their money here; and com
plained of the mischieviousness of tho California
laws preventing Chinese testimony in the courts,
and specially taxing Chinese immigrants and miners.
From Cuba.
Havana, June 26.—Marines are now guarding the
forts Miro and Cabaniss. The volunteers are disa
vowing any intention to resist, de Rodas having re
tired. Eight hundred Spaniards were defeated and
lost their convoy near Los Tunes. The Spaniards-
at Cineo Villas and Los Tcnos are calling for rein
forcements. Gen. Puello says five thousand arat
required in the Cineo Villas district.
.The Haytians.
Havana^ June 26.—Heavy fighting is again re
ported at Aux Cayes. Solnave is defeated with
heavy loss. It is reported Superon has landed at
Puerto Plata, San Domingo, and demands its sur
render. The port of Maracaibo, in Venezuela, is
closed.
Foreign News.
Paris, June 25.—Fremont has arrived.
Madrid, Jane 25.—The Cortes rejected tie bill
taxing rents fifteen per cent.
Brest, June 25.—Tho Great Eastern is three hun
dred and seventy-seven miles out. Tho- signals
continue perfect.
San Francisco, June 25.—The volcano of Cloima,
Mexico, erupted on tho 12th. The whole crown of
tho mountain fell in. This is the first eruption
since 1800.
La Grange Reporter on tbe Decision.
The La Grange Reporter takes this view of
the Supreme Court decision, and it cannot be
successfully assailed:
As the interpreter of the Constitution, as well
as the laws, the Supreme Court, having decided
negroes eligible to hold office, also decided that
the action of the Legislature in expelling them
therefrom violated the Constitution, and thus
deprived them of rights which belonged to them
under the Constitution as interpreted by the
Court. Hence, if the negroes were illegally de
prived of this right by expulsion, then the de
cision simply reinstates them in the possession
of those rights.
Again, the two branches of the Legislature are
clothed with the power to pass upon the eligi
bility of members to seats in each, and if the
Constitution makes them eligible, it is simply
the duty of the Legislature to see that its mem
bers are eligible in the purview of the Consti
tution, and not by any law they may prescribe.
It is the duty of each branch to see to it that its
Tbe Jlu With Fifteen Wives.
Brigham Young on the Polygamy Question—He
says he has a Dozen or Fifteen Women, 'Per
haps a Few More”—He Civeth the Bachelors
a Little Advice.
At a meeting held recently in the Tabernacle
in Salt Lake City, Brigham Young delivered
himself to the following effect:
I have thought a gttet many times I would
like to ask the sisters a question upon another
subject entirely—that subject they are always
thinking about—namely, plurality of wives. I
have thought a thousand times I would ask the
female portion of our community whether, if it
were left to their opinion, they would retain the
practice of thisprindple in our midst, or whether
they would have it obliterated. I want to tell
them a little about it—namely, it is a principle
that always has existed and that always will
LOOK AT NEW YORE.
An argument used by men and women against
plurality of wives is, that there are about as
many men as there are women. Suppose that
to be so. Acknowledge that proposition to be
true, and say that there are no more women
than men, and that every man should have a
wife. What of it ? Men will not be righteous,
and women are left to desolation and destruc
tion. Read the statistics of such matters in our
Eastern cities. In New York, for instance,
from eleven to fourteen thousand young wo
men, from sixteen to twenty-one years of age,
perish annually in the gutters, on the side
walks, on door-steps, or in the hovels around.
This is no worse than it is in other places
where prostitution prevails. Many would like
to prostitute the women of Utah, but I pray
they may never be able to do it. So far as the
mere number of wives is concerned, I do not
care whether I have one, a dozen, or forty.
HE THINKS HE HAS A DOZEN OR FIFTEEN WIVES.
A great many ask me how many wives I have
but to tell the honest trnth I never thought
enough about it to stop and think. But I will
get up the facts of the case and tell everybody
so that they may stop asking me these questions.
I suppose that I have a dozen or fifteen that I
am taking care of; perhaps a few more—I do
not know, and I care nothing about it I try to
do good, and try to save the people, and I say
do not let a lady come to destruction. It is griev
ous to me to think that, right in this city, there
should be any necessity for ladies to marry
wicked men, which they would not do if the
“ Mormon” elders would do their duty. It looks
as though our young men are indolent and sloth
ful and do not understand the principles of life.
As an excuse, however, they will say, “My dear
friend and Brother Brigham, I cannot get mar
ried ; why, if I get a wife she wants a carriage
to ride in, a hired girl to wait npon her, and a
piano in the parlor to thump upon when Bhe
pleases, and I cannot sustain it.” I amsorry to
say there is too much truth in this. Now, you
young women, tell the young men you will
work and help them to live; tell them so that
they may marry you.
SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE.
There are a great many single men in our
midst who ought to have wives, and a great
many young women who ought to have hus
bands. There is a radical wrong somewhere.
Young, man go and get you a partner; get
you a little house, then plant out your shade
trees and fruit trees. Land is plenty here, you
can get it “without money and without price.”
You have the privilege now, if you are a citizen
of the United States, of taking up one hundred
and sixty acres, and it will only cost you ten or
fifteen dollars. Can yon not get a home? Yes,
you can, right here in the midst of the saints.
Then go and do it, and do not neglect the first
commandment given to Adam and Eve—to re
plenish, subdue and beautify the earth.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE?
Now, sisters, what shall we do ? Shall we
take more wives than one, or shall we cot ? If
we donot it will not help the case with those who
do not take any; they will not get any because
we have only one, and we should see hundreds
and thousands of our females with no home,
nobody to protect them, nobody that they can
call husband and they would wander off. Shall
we do this or not ? If the men will be righteous,
all will be right
A CHALLENGE TO THE YANKEES.
They have said a great deal in Washington
with, regard to our having more wives than one.
I have said in publio, and have written, that
if they will cease their wickedness,and each one
get a wife, and be true to her, and strictly vir
tuous, and then will cause the nation to take the
same course, we will submit to their wishes,
and; will have but one wife. Here is a bargain
—if you will have no more than one woman, we
will not. But the thing is here—they want wo
men, but no wives. We take many women, but
we niake wives and mothers of them, and they
are not cast off, and their children have the
privilege of bearing the names of their fathera,
; hstead of being cast off.
I say God will damn the man and the nation
that wull act so; God will damn the nation in
which women, with no arm to shield and protect
them, are seduced, and left to mourn over their
lost, fallen and degraded condition. God bless
you. Amen.
Tlfee Census Ceaunlttse.
Special Telegraph to the Prett.I
Washington, June 21, isgg
It Is evident from the tone of the press gang-
ally, as well as from private conversation that
the public does not fully appreciate th* taco*
tacee of the labor of the Census Committee'
which has just adjourned. To fully appreeiafa!
it, it should be remembered that the census i»
taken primarily for the purpose of establishing
a basis of representation in Congress, and wm?
ondarily, for the collection of interesting
tics regarding the progress and resources of th.
country. The Committee has concluded, tjDon
careful examination of the provisions of the four
teenth amendment to the Constitution, that k
will be necessary to take an accurate enumers.
tion of all male citizens of the United States
21 years of age, who are denied by their resrw’
tive States the right to vote. * wc '
They think this necessary to obtain a consti
tutional basis for the apportionment of Re Dr .’
sentatives. The committee are of the opinion
that the effect of this will be in those States
where, from any cause, the right of male citizen,
to vote is in any way abridged, whether thevh*
white or blaok, except by disqualification on aT
count of participation in the rebellion, to redace
he number of Congressmen. Pennsylvania W
York, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Maryland,\n,i
other States will be compelled to make the fr&n
chise universal and place all voters on an impaniJ
platform; or suffer a material reduction efttw
strength of each State in its Congressional delZ
gatiou. .
Thursday, June 24, ig$
The Court/ heard argument to-day in the fo»
lowing cases:
No. 19, Southwestern Circuit, Huff vs. Wricb
motion to set aside a judgment from Sumter-1
S. H. Hawkins. Esq., for plaintiff in error arid
Messrs. S. O. Elam and W. A. Hawkins, for de
fendant in error.
No. 20, Southwestern Circuity Thomas, ten-
ant, vs. Malcolm & Hanks, motion for new trial'
from Sumter—McCay, J., not presiding;
R. H. Lyon, for plaintiff in error, and V.
Hawkins, Esq., for defendant in error.
No. 21, Southwestern Circuit, Baldwin vs. Me-
Crea, motion for a new trial, from Snmter -1
Held by the Court that tbe questions involved
in this case had already been adjudicated br
this Court—Intettige>\fer.
From Calhonn and Terrell,
The Dawson Journal of Thursday says:
We have just such weather as the’fanners
need, and the crops are growing lnxnriantlv.
The com is generally “laid by,” and the whole
force is battling for “King Cotton,” with good
prospects for success.
We hear very favorable reports from Calhoun
county, as ta crops and health. A friend who
has seen a good portion of the county, reports
the crop of com laid by in first rate order, .and
the cotton crop in healthy condition and clear
of grass.
We learn that quite a wind, accompanied with
rain, passed over the central portion of the coun
ty on last Tuesday. No damage heard of, ex
cept the falling of timber.,
Confession of the JInrderer oi Sir. Ad
kins D. Lewis.
A friend at Waynesboro sent us by yesterday’s
mail the confession of Ben. Godby, the negro
charged with the murder of Mr. Adkins D. Lew
is, near that place. The preliminary examina
tion of the prisoner takes place to-day at Wayns-
boro. The confession is as follows:— Constitu
tionalist.
“The woman Hariah struck by Lewis was not
my wife, I just took up with her; my wife is
named Clara; Clara was cook for Mr. Lewis;
went home at night; Mariah showed me a rock;
said Mr. Lewis struck her with it; Enoch told
me if ’twas his wife he’d not rest until he killed
Lewis; told me to wait till he (Lewis) came into
the field in the morning. and out him all to
pieces; Enoch and me were plowing side by
side; Mr. Lewis came meeting us two cotton
rows from me; he stopped me and talked abont
Mariah; Enoch kept on plowing; had no hard
words with Lewis; he made no threats; he was
standing with his side to me when I cut him
first; Enoch told me to kill Lewis, to go to
Augusta, and the headman there would do some
thing about Lewis knocking my wife; Enoch
did not tell me I would be protected by any
body for killing Lewis; I never told the man in
Augusta that I was afraid of a mob of white
men in Burke county; he told me I done right
to come to Augusta; that I would be mobbed
I hadn’t; I am not afraid now of being
mobbed; I stopped at Mr. Johnson’s at Double
Branches; he asked me what made the blood
on my wife’s clothing; told him a white man
done it; told him I was going to Augusta to see
the head man; he said "Waynesboro was the
place to get justice; I am not afraid of being
mobbed; I believe I will get justice.”
Politics and Journalism.—Reviewing the re
markable career of the late Henry J. Raymond,
the Springfield, (Mass.) Republican thus alludes
to his attempt to make politics and journalism
a successful combination:
Independence and candor have come to be
the essential requisites of a first class journalist,
but they cannot be freely indulged in by a sue
members are eleoted in accordance with the pro-! c t S8 ^ politician. While they are the strength
visions of the Constitution. Hence, if the Con-! of a popular journal, they are the weakness of a
stitution does confer the right upon negroes to j P^y man What is gopd journalism is often
hold office, as decided by the Supreme Court,
then the negroes have been deprived of that
right by the action of the Legislature, and the
decision of the Court, the interpreter of the
Constitution, simply reinstates them in the ex
ercise of their Constitutional rights.
Supreme Court of Georgia—June
Term, 1869.
REPORTED FOR THE ERA, BY Z. D. HARRISON, ESQ.
Atlanta, Friday, June 25,18C9.—The follow
ing cases were argued to-day:
No. 22. Southwestern Circuit-^Crawford, et
aL, vs. Ross & Ross—Equity, from Lee. S. H.
Hawkins, Esq., for plaintiffs in error, and W.
A. Hawkins for defendant in error.
No. 23. Southwestern Circuit—Parker vs.
Brown, cf al,—Ejectment, from Sumter. W.
A. Hawkins, Esq., for . plaintiff in error, and
Messrs. N. A. Smith and B. Hill for defendant.
No. 24. Southwestern Circuit—Cook vs. Smith
& .Smith—Equity, from Baker. Judge Lyon
representing Col.’ Strozier for plaintiff in error,
and Judge D. A. Yason for defendants.
No. 25. Southwestern Circuit—Moody &
Moody vs. Ronaldson, administration—warrant
for possession, from Sumter. W. A. Hawkins
for plaintiff in error, and N. A. Smith for de
fendant.
No. 26. Southwestern Circuit—-Wardlaw vs.
Wardlaw—Divorce, from Sumter. W. A. Haw
kins for plaintiff .in error, and N. A. Smith for
defendant.
The Newark. Cornier thinks that to criticise
era Illinois the yield averr.gee twenty-five bush- a newspaper is an easy task, but to print one to
els per acre, * please everybody is a difficult undertaking. . 1
The vegetarians oi Germany recently held
their first Convention at Werdshausen. They
very bad politics; and Mr. Raymond's constitu
tional incapacity for a successful party man was
one of the chief elements of his success as a
newspaper director. And what was worst and
weakest in his paper grew out of his double po
sition.
The National Intelligences.—A Washing
ton letter of the 19th inst, says:
“ A meeting of several wealthy gentlemen,
including J. C. McGuire and Jonah Hoover,
of this city, and Hon. J. Y. L. Pruyn, of New
York, was held at Wormley's last evening to
consider the propriety of putting the old “ Na
tional Intelligencer,” on a new footing, by sup
plying the necessary funds for its publication,
and thoroughly reorganizing its management.
The purpose is to make it the central organ of
the national Democracy, and supply sufficient
capital to insure its pecuniary success. A num-
of prominent gentlemen were named in connec
tion with the editorial department. But noth
ing definite was agreed on. Another meeting
is to be held.”
Two citizens of Jackson, Mississippi, having
gone on a fishing expedition on Pearl River,
found themselves, at the end of the second day,
at. Madisonville without money. Inquiring for
the sheriff of the county, they told him that they
had escaped from the penitentiary at Jackson;
that they had nothing to eat and had come to
him to give themselves up. The Sheriff, think
ing that he would be rewarded, took them
back to Jackson and went to the keeper of the
prison and told bow he came by his pri-
...... be-lm*
soners. His scorn and indignation may 1
publish a vegetarian journal, which is taken by agined at finding himself the victim of a prac-
more than a thousand subscribers. ~ ~ - * '
tieai joke.
“Baksheesh.”—Our brilliant Howadji re.
turned from his celebrated tour in Egypt aad
tbe East, deeply impressed with the importance
of Baksheesh, but little dreaming that the coarse
of that institution was westward like that of civ-
iiization itself.
General Grant has received Baksheesh fron ]
Mr. Washburne, Mr. Borie, Mr, Stewart, Gene-
ral Butterfield, and many others. General Sher-
man receives Baksheesh from his admiring fel I
low-countrymen. Admiral Porter receives Bak-
sheesh from the Annapolitans. And nowire
hear of General Dix receiving Baksheesh fron
the Emperor Napoleon ITT. If some Easter |
traveler were to come to America and join tie |
fashionable circles at the Presidential mansic:
and visit the Government offioes, and glance e: I
the houses, horses, saddles, Sevres vases, and [
the other Baksheesh lavished upon Americc J
functionaries, he would no donbt feel inclined
to exclaim to our traveled compatriot: “0 fas
cinating Giaour 1 thy country eclipseth mine i:
Baksheesh as in everything else, and the pres
ents bestowed upon thy Sultan and thy Grind
Admirals and Plenipotentiaries are like the tf<xxl
of the ocean to pebbles of the shore as compared
with all that the East can exhibit. In making
Baksheesh the burden of thy book, 0 literary
Giaour, ihou hast proved thyself to he not only I
a great writer, but also a great national prophet! ’ •
[New Fork Sun.
Foreign Immigration.—A New York letter I
says: “The immense number of emigrants f
now daily arriving at this port surpasses any
thing ever heretofore known in the history of I
the city. It far surpasses, in number, the grea: J
rush to this country from abroad during th: |
first discovery in California. They come i: I
immense cargoes day by day, and more, still I
more are coming. In fact, it is said by an ag=:: |
of one of the leading Europenn steamship line; I
that hot enough ships are offering on the other I
side to take all those anxious to emigrate ce: I
the Atlantic. The class emigrating hitherxa:. I
appear to be also of better calibre, with more I
money and less greenish looking than those wi; I
used to come years ago. The Germans are b I
far in the majority of the new arrivals, wl& I
there is a decided falling off in the number d|
Irish emigrants.”
At the Varieties Theatre, in St. Louis,
nights ago, white the “Can-Can” was beinii
danced, a number of boqnets were thrown or :fc|
stage to tho female performers. When M--I
Canchita Ronzati came forward to the footligb f
near die private box on the left side of the tiel
atre, a young man who was in the box threw M
a boquet. She stopped dancing in a secoul
bounded into the box, seized the boquet-thro^l
by the hair of the head, and administered : |
him. several slaps on' the jaws. Leaping b:sl
to the stage, she picked up the boqnet, will
was still lying there, and dashed it in his fs’B
tho audience cheering vociferously all the ticl
She then resumed the dance.
A neobo Senator in Louisiana approach
Gov. 'Warmouth with a long petition for the'
moral of obnoxious white officials; butt:-
happened to be Yarmouth's friends, _eni^
checkmated the dart Senator by sternly inqt
ing whether the petition had been recordwH
the office of the Recorder of Mortgages. *'' H
Gov’nor, I don't know ’zacktlv,” was the rto
“Then I cannot consider it,' responded v -|
mouth.
The English sparrows which have been i
dneed into New York have already done 2 ■
velous work of cleansing. In the upper pM
the city in Jersey City, in Hoboken, and t'P'
ally in Brooklyn, which hitherto has bees ^
very paradise and elysian fields of worms-
pest of former years is hardly noticeable.
The Railroad carriage factory in FraM*-" 1 !
recently received orders to supply sixty
wooden seats, each provided with four »
cords, and thus to be suspended from “* *,
of the freight cars. It is quite evident L
are intended to facilitate the hasty tit&P 0 ]
large bodies of troqps.
A Peruvian newspaper speaks of mi e
dinary phenomenon discovered in the “
Locumba, which appears to have been ^
by the late earthquakes. Every hes ! .
reaches a certain spot immediately faU i.
This has so often taken place that inmM 11 *
bars of carcasses are heaped on the spot-
A New York lady recently ordered » ^
at Stewart's for her daughter’s doll, ww
ceived a complete outfit in under c ‘ ot r'; J ’s
and lace. One of the articles ordered .
India shawl, minature size, at $S0.
handerchief was valued at $12. (
The Chinese Empire contains 500)
pies, containing 8,000,000 idols. The
are valued at § 1,000,000,000.
Recently, in New York, first-class ve o<
have been sold at anotion for from J
Ceylon is chiefly devoted to coff® 6 ®^^ ,
and has 130,000 acres of coffee plants*- 1 J
An English nobleman drives a P ul ?J;
from London to Windsor, just for the * 1
SMprem.
A Slanderous young man in
horse-whipped by a bevy of sweet ^
A Colored preacher in Georgia,
two miles, when he gets warmed up *° ■
The Second Adventists propose to J
world again on the 10th of July. ^1
The prairies of Northern Texas havel
erally covered with strawberries this .1
Seven miles of violin strings vibrtf |
Boston Jubilee.
Champagne is now manufactured 1
for nineteeb cents a bottle.
A Man in London follows the ,
‘professional introducer,” and
by it.. *
Ovxa. 4,006 tone, or SQ,000_ b«fP>
seed have been consumed during “ ^.
son, in Cincinnati, in the mannfaeq”.
The Newark Courier think’ <h
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