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the cuTHBEST Appeal.
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SAWTELL & JONES.
H. H. JON US, Editor.
THURSDAY, MARCH 3. 1870. "
MMu The reduction of letter postage
to one cent, is nv> -ted in Congress.
Maine has voted to abolish Cap.
ital punishment. •
The charter election'in 'Efffaula
on the 28th ult resulted hrf.tvor of the
Democrats. *
Mr. Roberts wars elected mayor.
lA. Hon. Aiwom Burlingame the
Am Hitch Japanese dignitary, who has
been showing an embassy of that curi
ous people around' the world, and en
joyed the ivv?nue and state of a prince,
died in St. Petersburg of congestion of
tha lungs on Wednesday last.
*3T Complaints of the uncertainty
and irregularity of the -mails are uni
versal in al! sectiune. We should like
to know into w«se clutches the Aitkal
folfo, which is dispatched weekly to the
'Telegraph & Messenger.
;— -
The proposed convention of the
ipeople of Georgia, to enter their pro
test against radical usurpation, we ire
gard as wor»e than useless, when a
military satrap is armed with authority
to garrison every town aud villdgo in
kthsluud.
.Again, it would be about in keeping
with the celebrated feat of the King of
France, who marched up to the top of
the hill and down again.
The corn hold aud cotton patch, are
the only places where Georgians have
any business at present
Gen. Quesatlu one of the Cuban
leuders arrived in Savannuh last week,
and went North. We trust no South,
ero youth will be gulled into f blowing
.his lortuuea. Hard knocks, vomilo,
and the garrote ceituinty await all who
are not slain by Spanish bullets. And
•why go ? Uni tono 1 The only good to
be achieved is more nigger, more re
construction, and more radical stealing
aud rascality. Stay at home we sayi
and (font bo made a cats paw of to
fight Sambos .battles, '
■J£3j£*l3y telegraph, we learn a major
ity of the Judiciary committee of Con
gress decide that Blodgetts election
was illegal, as the choice of right de
volves npon the next Legislature.
The Senatorial muddle still continues.
Bryant is working against Bullock like
a beaver, and the Provisional Boss of
Georgia will get tits from Cuukling and
others in the Senate.
We give but little credeuee to these
reports however.
Ail bolters will bo whipped into line,
and .Grant, Butler and Sumner come
out triumphant.
Radical hate has not yet been fully
Bated, and a disarmed and defenceless
people must coutinue to suffer.
7' <
Diabolkai, Aor — As the night train
«Ht the South Western Railroad was go
ing down on Wednesday of last week,
about twenty miles from Macon it en
countered a cross tie which had been
placed upon the track by some demon in
human form—The piece of timber was
taken up by the cow catcher, and so
fastened in the machinery of the loco
motive, that it became necessary to use
jack Honows before it could be extrica
ted.
About a year since, near Fort Valley,
a similar effort was made to destroy
human life by the wholesale.
Wh only wish tho miscreant could bi
ff -ttHjtiHl in the act, and turned over to
tender mercies of the passengers.
Anew “Klu Klux outrage’’ would be
the result.
The Gate City Radical Morality.—
The New E r a ca'semated and securely
entienched at Atlanta,with plenty of radi
cal provisions and pickings in store, and
begirt by a cordon of Ter. ys bayonets,
keeps up a straggling fire npon the dem
ocratic press of the State:
Forgetful of’the demijohn experience
of his affoetiimate brother and eo labor
er us the Intelligeneer, he makes the
random charge of whiskey proclivities
against Uemocratio editors generally,
and even prates about “morahti/ ’ Mor
niiijf in the atmosphere of Atlanto (!)
that Cosmopolitan City, where the
crime, bluek-gtiardism, and pick pock
utt* of the whole country are concent ra
ted —the only spot in Georgia where
tlMJtupas of radicalism can flourish—
the debatoable ground where the needle
of principle ceases to obey the load
stone, and politicians representing
tn-mes as wide asunder as the poles,
bob nob and drink with each other, and
log roll, aDd make bargain and sale of
their votes and opinions.
Morality, where stealing is reduced to
a science and men are advanced to po
sitions in the government, according to
their degrees in rascality.
Morality , where one radical official
• s<'eks to slay his guilty paramour of an
other race and coioj, and another ar
jrigiis for high misdemeanors and
crimes, the very executive of the State.
Morality, where at noonday prostitution
bolds high carnival,in her beer gardens
grid dance houses, in approved Chicago
#nd New York style.
Morality where a slander mill ever
pwirs forth its grist of iniquity, and
£ies are made to ordor, patented, and
,di.-«8< minated.
Moraiity-T-
. t)ii! w.ul some power- the giftie gie us,
s‘o fee ourseis as ilh-Ts see us!
Jiut we forbear.
Satan himself on occasion may assume
the garb of an angel of light, and so
piny h radical organ, a Bullock organ,
preach about morality and tilings they
wot not of. V ,
Siiouli Planters Continue to
Hold Their Cotton. r
Many times evesy dnyds this question
propounded torthe writer, by scores of
anxfone'farmers, who are deeply intcr
-eeteiliin its solution.
An editor is expected to be au fait on
all subjects of a political or financial
chantcter, but the cotton enigma is one
which has baffled every intellect, and
set at naught the judgment and sagaci
ty of the wisest and most experienced
operators “on change:” The merest
t>yo isijus- as liable to bejcoireet in his
vaticinations, as the veteran speculator
df a half century. In short, the move
ments of “ the staple,” are as coy and
uncertain as the heart of the coquette,
whose sole aim is to deceive.
Without claiming a particle of weight
for our opinion, many arguments -may
still he produced, in favor of a pros
pective advance in-prices.
Just'here, however, we would em
phfrticaßy say that those only have a
right to refrain from selling, who have
no obligations to mest, based upon thoir
cotton crops. If a merchant or other
creditor will be forced thereby, to vio
late’liis word, or jeopardize his com
mercial integrity, no motive of policy
will justify the proceeding. It is simply
a violation of good faith, under the tot)
common plea of expediency.
To 4be-cotton holders, who are free
from debt, and nutrammeled in their ac
tion, We would offer a few reasons to
re assure their waning confidence in the
future of cotton, and then present the
other side of the picture.
Ist The decline has been inconsitfo
entitle i,n the English markets—the latest
advices reporting the demand steady,,
and Orleans at Hid, with the sale of
10,000 bags.
2d. The partial failure of the crop in
India and the Barbary States-will neu
tralize, in a great degr-ee, -the excess in
American receipts.
•3d. The short supply on hand for Eu
ropean looms, notwithstanding few mills
have been running on full ‘time.
4th. The heavy sales of the past few
weeks, caused first by the rise in cotton,
and afterwards from the pauic which
resulted from the sudden and rapid de
cline.
slh. The extraordinary increase in
the consumption of the raw material in
in all parts of the world, and the vast
ma’tiplication of spindles everywhere.
In the United States, we learn from the
report of the Secretary of the Interior,
one half the crop of 1868 was retained
at home, for the supply of our own
manufactories-
6th. The alarming decrease in tho
labor supply, and consequent reduction
in the breadth of land devoted to the
cultivation of cotton.
7th, Because appearances strongly
indicate that the rmg ot Northern spec
ulators, are seeking to force the holders
of cotton in first hands to realize, in or
der that .they may control future prices.
We eannot elaborate in the limits of a
single aificle, the a"bove
and must, therefore, content ourselves
with a bare »urvunciation of each, and
leave our readers to form their owe con.
cl mtio ns-
Let us new .consider the opposite view
of the .question which n'eo possesses
many salient features. These however
may be briefly summed tip mi the follow
ing three arguments:
Ist. The constant decline in gold.
2d. The refusal of Congress to en
large the volume of currency.
3d. The increased receipts of cotton,
indicating a much larger crop than was
expected.
Let us briefly examine each of these
positions.
The fall in gold, unless arrested, it
would appear must continue to affect
the price of cotton, in the same ratio
tha' the value of currency increases.—
Still, this postalale, however sound in
theory, is met by the paradox that si
multaneous with the sudden depreciation
in specie, comes an advance\o bacon and
provisions. Yet, ceteris parihit, the pro
position must hold good, and if gold and
bullion continue to tend downward, all
ci mmodities must cheapen in value
Booner or later, when paid for in an ap
preciating currency.
The second proposition, that cotton
will decline unless the government makes
new issues of paper, possesses great
strength and plausibility. Every day
witnesses a further contraction of the
currency, by mutilation and the purchase
of bonded securities, and the continued
expansion of commerce.
As money, therefore, becomes scarcer,
so will a little go further in the purchase
of cotton and other commodities.
As stated in a previous article, it is a
great mistake to suppose that we have
an inflated currency at the preseDt time.
Such is very far from the case, as the
aggregate of greenbacks falls much
short of the bank notes in circulation
prior to the war. This argument will
lose its iorce, however, if Congress re
considers, and passes the defeated bil]
for an increase of the currency. Indeed
it is the only hope of relief to the coun
try, unless gold could be multiplied in
definitely.
Lastly, The increase in cotton re
ceipts, it is contended, must continue to
depress prices. It is now conceded that
the present crop will reach 3 000,000 of
bales, and speculators assert that the
prospective falling off in production, for
lack of field labor, will be more than
counterbalanced by the liberal use of
fertilizers. The latter proposition re
mains to be seen. That the argument
will be used, however, and the changes
rung upon the planter l»y interested
buyers, despite the long continued scar,
city of the raw material, none can de
ny.
Experience has demonstrated also,
that organized rings of capitalists are
too powerful for the ignorant multitude,
who have no means of concerted ae~
tion.
in conclusion we are constrained to
admit, that at least for months to
come, the prospect is very gfootrry for
any advance in the price of cotton.
Holders however, nvust use their own
judgment in the premises.
We have {presented the arguments
pro and eon, aud repeat that all are pro
fouHdlyugnorant on the subject. No
game rtf chance was ever more uncer
tain. Individuals must, therefoise, be
guided by their own circumstances and
obligations.
Let us hope that prompt sales will be
made, at least to the extent ot all juslt
aud honorable demands.
National Repudiation-
The Atlanta New Era.is pleased ‘to
sneer at our “morality,” because we
stated io a late article that the repudia
tion of the national war debt, was one
of tho methods by which our financial
difficulties might be-reraoved. •
If our record was known 'to"tbis jour
nalistic-vampire, who draws his susten
atice and life blood from the public
treasury, he would be informed that
repudiation per se, we loathe and de
spise, even though it takes the shape
of a honeyed douceur , under the high
sounding phraseology of “relief,” and
home-stead exemptions.
-But this war debt, which, in its -vil
lainous details was a fraud even upon
the North itself, is in no sense a Soothe
ern obligation. ,
The confederate deist, of two billions
due do oor own people, was wiped out
by the conqueror, which in accordance
with the fortunes of war was to be -ex
pected. But in addition to‘this, with a
refinement of hate.and cruelty for which
history furnishes no parallel, each -State
after it had submitted, was required to
annul its own private contracts with her
immediate citizens, which was nothing
mono-nor lees than wholesale robbery
and spoliation, on the part of the Feder
al government.
Besides this, the-entire personal prop
erty of the South in slaves was destroy
ed, amounting to a fabulous sum.; a
special tax upon cotton imposed and
collected ; our people bled and depleted
at every pore by all the devices that
ingenuity could suggest; enormous
levied, even to erect upon our
own soil costly mausoleums in honor of
the slayers of our sons and brothers,
whose boues were refused sepulture)
aacl their graves even insulted at ‘the
capital by Federal officials:; standing
armies quartered upon us in a time of
profound peace, and drum head court
rnartials established; State govern
ments over thrown and foreign merce
naries placed over us at the point of
the bayonet; a locust cloud of bureau
officers,tax gatherers, school marins aud
missionaries, fastened like leeches upon
our vitals; insults, shame, an I ignominy,
heaped upon a defenceless people with
out stint; all these are the arguments
convincing, conclusive, and all power,
ful, which will induce the South when,
the opportunity is afforded at tie bal
lot box, to sunder the anaconda folds
of that monster debt, which is crushing
into atoms the body politic.
The taxes under which we groan for
the benefit of the bonj holders, and the
host of Northern army contractors who
fattened upon the carnage of the late
civil war, are submitted to, for the same
reason, that the defenceless traveller
delivers his purse at the demand of the
highwayman. When an outraged
North shall inaugurate reform, with the
ballot, our people of every race and
color will march in serried ranks to the
hustings, and announce their verdict.
Thus will a righteous retribution be
meted out to those who had no pity in
the day es our calamity and weakness.
Ye universal suffrage and 15th
Amendment men, behold the living
stone which your owa hands hare cut
from the rock, for your destruction.
Already the hand writing is upon the
wall.
ser in a recent trip to Macon, we
were impressed with the dullness which
seemed to pervade all branches of busi
hess-
This may be induced in part by the
stagnation existing in the cotton mar
ket, but we believe the pditieal condi
lion of affairs has much also to do with
this state of things.
A feeling of distrust and uncertainty)
-growing out of the control of the State
government by the Radicals, and the
reckless legislation which is apprehend
ed, seems to clip the wings of enter
prise and estop all progress. Even uj -
on real estate the effect is apparent, in
the marked decline in the price of town
property and farms in the country.
Our labor relations are greatly die
turbed likewise from the same cause.—
Planters are backward, and despond
ent in view of the future, and loth to
clear new fields and make permanent
improvements, when it impossible to
say they will be able to i’uii their farms
another year.
Truly we are enjoying the fruits of
radical rule, and the lesson should r.ot
be lost at tha next general elections.—
Cost what it will, this corrupt party
must be defeated, and our fair laud re
deemed from the worse than Egyptian
bondage, under which it now groans.
To effect this, alt good men and true
patriots must band together, and scorn
and scout the Southron who would sell
his country for a mess of pottage, and
is content to affiliate with Bullock and
his minionß, merely for the gratification
of personal ends.
Os all the poor creatures on’earth, a
Georgia Radical, to the manor born, is
the moat contemptible.
The papers of Pennsylvania are
attempting to discover which State has
the worst Legislature—Georgia or
Pennsylvania.— JY. Y. Democrat.
We enter Alabama, and “bet our bot
tom dollar” on her. —Mobile Register.
We take the wagetv Constitution:
°
If the sale of a cadetship entails
expulsion from Congress, \Vhy should
not the sale of Cabinet offices insure ex
pulsion from the Presidency.—xV. Y.
Democrat. .
Manner on Sumner-
Ti-onr the Savannah New*,]
Oc Saturday last the Hon. W. Mun
gen of Ohio, addressed the liouae of
Representatives bfi the question of Cti
ban belligerency, but before concluding
his speech asked and obtained leave to
publish his views in foil in the Globe.—
The speech accordingly appeared in
-the Globe of the 20t.h io»t. In ad
vocating the right-of belligerent rights
‘•to the struggling patriots of G«ba,”
Mr. Mungen incidentally'“pitched into”
Senator Sumi.e; 1 of Massachi setts, and
by the severity of bis criticism .has evok
ed- a resolution of ceusure. To gratify
the curiosity of the public we copy from
the pub ifehed report of the Globe those
parts of Mr. Mimgen’s “speech” which
have produced the Congressional seasa
tion :
“Mr. Mungo n in the outs«t of his
pbilipic against Mr. Sumner, charges
him with ‘‘manufacturing a story as an
excuse or apology for his infamous
course against the Cubans ’’ Further
on, aiter recurring to the history of the
Hung trial) struggle with Austria, he as
sents that the Senator was the untiring
eujog st and apologist of Russian policy
and the insidion-ly industrious opponent
of the Hungarian cause. * '* It is
natural that-the apolgist of Russian and
Austian despotism -should be the defen
der of Spanish cruelty and tyranny!”—
Next comes the main count in the in
dictment, which we copy entire••
When we find persons destitute of
physical and moral manhood, wbat can
we expect of them.? Some of the worst
tyrants in history, despots, deadeis of
factions, and religious zealots remorse
lessly crushed ?p,d bloodily_persecuted
their opponents, who, wtali^PfJportunity
offered, often retaliated in "dud. Yet, in
the midst ot their excesses, deeels of dar
ing and gleams of magnanimity and
mercy threw occasional light on the
sombre and sanguinary picture Some
unknown baud, it is recorded, even
strewed fl wers npon Nero's grave. —
But the rule of unsexed men in the de
clining periods of the Roman and By
zantine empires, through effete Princes,
led 4o a more profound demoralization
than was ever before known “The in
fluence of these beings,*’ says a French
writer, “was more fatal than that of the
most fanatical or ascetic monks.” To
the latter, indeed, were by their vows
■denied ttic joys of matrimony and the
feelings of paternity. Yet the instinct
ive aspiration was in their breasts, and
precluded from lavishing itself on the in
dividual family it sometimes touchingly
expanded so as to comprise in its be
nevolence the wide family of the human
kind, aud to produce a Las Lasas or a
Fenelon. In their worst phase of char
acter-the misguided aud atrocious zeal
which led them to doom others to the
stake induced these persecutors when
persecuted in turn fearlessly folate it. —
The eunuch not only had 110 experience
of those feelings, but he even had no
conception. A sad moostrosity of man's
creatior, he could not rise to the level
of human sympathies. He was'inspired
only by tbe most groveling passions
and envious of all virility, physical and
moral, worked out his insidious policy
by intrigue and craft. Not his the eve'
direct, plain road, hut the toi ti.r ms, sli
my path, the devious ways of deceit and
pefijy. Not bh the tiger-like spring of
brute lone, the violence of .massacres
and osten ati >us executions. Frigidly
vindictive he crawled perseveringly hut
surely to his end, the life-long g-ratifie.i
--tion of envy and niisanthopre spite.—
His wai tbe ingeijtjus calumny, the
private denunciation, the poisoned cup,
the se. ret strangulation, the noiseless
immurement in the dungeon’s depths
and the frightful torturings which so
laced Ins malignity -and*'Bfs>rg.iving
spirit. His policy, more cruel snd more
fatal than that of the in
flicted bleeding gashes, sometimes to be
cicatrized, upon a generation, emascula
ted nations after his own image, leaving
them and their posterity hopelessly de
graded and to become the prey of the
barbarian Worse still, during centu
ries ar.d down to our own time, this
spirit and this unsexed policy has found
imitators. It was a policy congenial to
all cowardly despotisms.
There is not only one instance in his
tory, sacred or profane, wln-te an un
sexod person was a Christian ; that is
the fellow wno went down in the water
with Philip. Again, ti e malignity of
these unsexed creatures Is historic.
* * During the late war the people
had tyrants both in the North and
South. If it should be our misfortune
i ver to have tyrants again let them be
manly tyrants oi brute force, not those
who took their inspirations from the
eunuchs of be Byzantme empire, which
Russia, of whose policy the Senator is
the chief eulogist, represents, and which
policy combines ti e briU-e tyranny of
England over. Ireland with the condi
tions of tLc contemptible Byzantine em
pire-
* * This pretentions Senator, “the
apostle of great moral ideas,” imposing
on the unwary by attitudinizing superi
or virtue, elevated aspirations, and fo
rensic dignity, is in fact only a political
mixture of the characters of Pecksniff
and Turveydrop, of the cant of one and
the deportment of the other.
* * Os course all of these eunuchs
were men of “high moral ideas,” and
bad an active and insidious finger in the
sectarian disputes of Arians and Atlian
asians ; and were successful instigators
of the sanguinary' persecutions to which
these disputes gave rise.”
A Fighting Editor. —An exchange
says : A fighting man has been employ
ed on this paper. He weighs eight hun
died pounds. His wrists are the very
tools of death : his eyes are black ; his
boots are No, 12. 0, he is a monster,
this fighting man of ours! He goes for
men like an ant for green dseese. lie
wag never thrashed. 0, he its a whale !
lie ate seven cans of oysters at our of
fice the other night, and called for more.
He's the heaviest instrument of total
and eternal punishment eti record. —
Come at us, ye lean and lank, overgrown
specimens of humanity • spit on our
boots if you dare; slide down our cellar
door if you can, and if our Wa’lapns
don’t everlastingly go for yon, then size
and health have nothing in them,
Alexander H. Stephens. —On yee*
day we had the pleasure of meeting a
gentleman who had just paid a visit to
uravfordville, and the home of Alexan
der 11. Stephens. While there he saw
and conversed with Mr. Stephens, and
conveys the gratifying intelligence that
this honored Georgian is in much better
health than lie has been tor some time
past. Besides being much improved in
health he represents Mr. Stepiiens to be
in very good Spirits, Mr. Stephens
states that the second volumn of his
great work, “A Constitutional View of
the War Between the States/’ is now in
press, and that m a few weeks’ time it
will he given to the public. —Augusta
Chronicle. • '
The Newman Heiald ably and
conclusively proves the utter illegality
of Builock s claim to hold overJiis term.
Mr. James M. Dodds is dead. West
{.'Point Grdet Caldwell dismissed.
Hon. K- H- Wiiiteley.
Ttiat sturdy defender, of the truth,
the veteran editor of the Bainbritfge-
Argus, thus ventiSites the pretention!
of the radical member elect,, to the IT.
S. - Senate, Maj. R. H. Whiteley: - /
We are surprised ter leorti that any
one ran rugard this gentleman as in the
least conservative in bis political -senti
ments, or possessed of talents 'rating
him for a ueat in the TJ. S. Senate!
Since his abandonment of the Demo
cratic party in 4866, he has, cn all occa-.
s ,ms, stud everywhere proven that he is
as alira a Radical, and as subservient a
tool of Sumner and B. F. Butlet, as can
be found either South or North. We
consider him as a fanatic of the first wa
ter, regarding the political and social
equality of tho negro as decreed by
Providence, through the agency of the
Republican party, and that to disap
prove df Radicalism is to array one's
self against the .plainly .indicated pur
pose of the Deity.
As to Maj. Whiteley’B fitness for the
place, he would fill, jis a Senator from
the once great cominonweatth-of Geor
gia, it is simply ridiculous and absurd.
Still he is a man of-talenb; and the fact
of his humble origin, and the few oppor
tunity offered by an apprenticeship in
a cotton factory, (where he learnt his
trade;) for the acquisition of a known
edg of lieoks, proves, conclusively, that
lie could not occupy the .position of a
third rate lawyer, which .he now un
doubtedly does, did he not possess t;-
ients. But even if he were u Daniel
Webster in native ability, his intxper
ence as a law-makes, or attorney at law,
proves fiis unfitness for a
branch of the U. S. own
party deemed him, a year ago, only
competent for the position of Solicitor
General, of this Judicial Circuit, which
place he now fills.
Muj Whiteley was a member es the
Ret Obstruction Coavention, which fram
ed tho present constitution of Georgia,
which is the only position he ever -held,
except that <Jf Solicitor General. He
is about 3b years of age: was admitted
to the bar a Jew years before the late
war.
Adventures of a Bale of Cotton
We have had related to us the “adven
tures'’ of a stolen bale of cotton which
are not only interesting but which should
serve as a warning to all against tho
purchase of this staple from irresponsi
ble hands. ©nee or twice have losses
been sustained in this way by .purties in
this city.
Abodt the Ist of December last Clarke
& Chisel!, Lombard street, sold a bale
of cotton which had been consigned to
them from the vicinity of Rocky Mount,
N. C., to Messrs Both & Sons, which
was sold by the lutter to Messrs. Row
lett, Tannor & Cos. The cotton was or
dinary, and the, price paid by Messrs.
Rowlett, Tannor &. C->. was 21 cents.—
In due course of time the bale was oent
to New York and thence shipped to
Liverpool. A few days after the ship
ment Messrs. Rowlett, Tannor -tfe Cos.
were notified that this bale of cotton
was the .property of Mn Battle, near
Rocky Mount, N. C., from whom it had
recently been stolen It had been pur
chased there by one Hammett, ac.olored
man,, who was acting in the capacity of
agent for the firm of Clarke & Chiscll,
and had-been sent by him to them.
At the expense of some eighteen dol
lars, Messrs. Rowlett, Tannor & Cos. tele
graphed by cable t« Liverpool for t'e
return of the bale in question. The tele
gram was received in good time, and
the cotton was shipped back to New
York and thence to Petersburg. It was
fully identified as Mr. Batfle’s .property,
and has been-delivered to‘him at Rocky
.Mount, whence in tho £r»t instance it
was stolen and started *>n its long jour
ney. The cost of the cotton, together
with the expense attending its shipment
to Europe and its recovery, is about one
hundred and sixty-six dollars,
The negro who stole it and sold it to
the agent is under arrest in North Caro
lina, and awaiting trial. .Messrs. Row.
lelt & Cos and Messrs. Booth & Sons
lose nothing, Clarke & Chisel! having
made Fail pecuniary reparation. The
last named firm must look to their agent
for the amount involved, and the agent
to the thief now in custody.— Petersburg
{Vaj Index.
Decrease of thf. Negroes In Ken
tucky.--It appears from a recent report
of the State Auditor, that the blacks es
Kentucky, who in 1860 numbered 236,
107 are now reduced to 140,455 —a loss
of two-fifths in nine years. At this rate
the negro element will disappear from
Kentucky within the next fifteen years.
But this rata of loss will not be kept up.
Unquestionably throughout the South
there has been greater mortality since
the beginning of the war among the
blacks than there was before the war.—
r l his increased mortality has resulted
from emancipation, which, is casting the
blacks (who were slaves, cared fur by
their masters)upon their own resources,
cast them forth to idleness, hunger, ex
posure, disease and death. Under their
white masters these Southern blacks
from the new-born pickaninny to the
poorest field hand, represented each so
much money, and it was the master’s in
terest to take care of his capital. Some
thing line order, however, is superseding
the fatal confusion which emancipation
brought upon the poor blacks concern
ed, and they are learning to take care
of themselves, and hence the mortality
among them is diminishing.— JY. Y. a. er
ald.
Party Asperity. —The Louisville
Journal commends “the magnanimity’, of
the four Republican members of the
Kentucky Legislature in votiog lor Gen
eral George B. Crittenden ftrr, the'olfiee
of State Librarian. It interprets their
votes as indicating a desire to “show
themselves above the littleness of pro.
scribing a gallant Kentuckian w’ho
fought against them.” The- Journal
says: “In the name of a liberal, tolerant
and peaceful, spirit, we extend them the
cordial acknowledgements of a people
who are sensitive to obhgttions of this
nature, aud who know how to appreei
ate them from whatever quarter they
may come.”
Why Gold hAS Fallen.— The de‘
cline in gold, and the equalization of
the selling price of government bonds
to par with coin, naturally excites the
Radical organs to a great pitch of en
thusiasm. But the decline in gold has
been brought about not through, but in
spite Os the Radicals. It is almost en
tirely owing to the $300,000,000 South
ern cotton crop, which serves as a basis
of foreign exchange. If it were dot for
the cotton crop, there would be no coin
balances in the New York banks or in
the Federal Treasury. It would all be
at the other side of the Atlantic.—AT. F
Democrxt.
The Cincinnati Cronic’e displays
its fahniliarity with the Bible, by com
ing to the defense of a suspected mer
cantile firm of that city* with the states
ment that ‘it is as far above reproach
: as Potipbar’s wife.’
- Dk-bsons of Gikluood.—The follow- S
'fog is a bit of "Fanny Fern’s experience : j
1 Used 1o believe in school friendship. ;
Thitt delusion ended when A rubella 1
Triplet told mutual friends tbdl 1
years and years her senior, knowing
what tv'dreadful fib she tdld.
I used to suffer pangs of b -
cause of woetr or beggars. Since that I
have seen one unstrap hjs wooden leg
in an area, and run off gaily oh two
legs bis own. Another threw a loaf
of bread in a gutter, and I saw a third,
who had all been yelling, “Please assist
the blind,’’ carefully examining his col
lection of ten-ceut stamps by the light
of a friendly apple-woman’s candle.
i used to put tltfe greatest faith in lov
ers’ vows. Now, Ido net believe a man
means anything lie says to a woman,
unless it is something disagreeable.
I used to believe in faithful servants.
Since then I have hired girfsTtom intel
ligence offices, and lost all my handker
chiefs but one.
I Used to believe in beauty. Since
then I have seen a bewitiching belle
takeoff half of her hair, all her teeth, the
best of her complexion, two pounds of
cotton batting and a corset.
The only reappointment of any
of the Government officers appointed l»y
Mr. Johnson, by Grant, that we remem
bered to have heard of, is Jesse R.
Grant, the Presidents papa, to-be a
post-master. Grant has swept them all
out but this one.
■New Advertisements.
PowelFs Mall^
MONDAY, MARCH 4th7 1870.
The Famous aud Original
La Rue’s Minstrels!
Brass Band and Burlesque Opera Troupe.
rp HE most stupendous organization extant, uum*
l bering eighteen distinguished Artists. The
Heroe* of a lleumphere aud Prime Ministers of
Momus, Terpsichoie, Wit. Sentiment and Opera
Buuti'e. Monarch* ot the Profession.
The best Negro Delineators and Comedians.
The most Pleasing Quintette of Yoca'ists.
The most Distinguished Instrumentalists and
Dancers
The lame attached to this Company has led them
on in triumph, and rendered them a copy for all
others.
THE GREAT RICARDO, only Male Artist living
with a pure Soprano voice.
A. J TALBOTT, he best end man in the world.
BILLY REeVEB, tbe best Plantation Darkey in
the universe.
STEVIE ROGERS, best Clog Dancer living.
HUGH HAM * LL, champion Bailad Singer.
N. C. DEMAILLE, Solo Tenor.
laßtie's Original Sensation.
SHOO FLY. 1 TA'LBOTT I SHOO FL"V .
SHOO FLY. J HDd ROGERS. \ SHOO FLY.
Before it Opera Bonffe hides its diminished head
It carries the audience to the seventh airial regions
of delight. Tbe blind can hear it. Tbe deal see it
15gT Reserved Seats-for sale at Powell's Drug
Store.
Admission ¥1 00-—Children half price.
Begins at 8. - FIIAT BOY,”
m u-3 2t Agent.
M -8. MEY’EK. J. HARRIS.
M. S. MEYER & CO,
Wholesale Dealers in
Bouts, Shoes, Hats and Trunks,
85 Cherry St, MACON, GA.
Wholesale Department on the 2d Floor.
Merchants supplied at the New York Market
Prices mar3-Bin
Trustee’s Sale.
UNDER AS'i BY VIRTUE OP A MORT
GAGE or DEED OP TRUST, executed to
me, by James T. Flewetlen, on thi llih dry of
March, IS»*7, to secure payment of the indebted
ness therein mentioned, and wljieb was duly -e
--cotded oh the l.Vih dm of M.ircb, 1867, in the office
ol tbu Cie 1c nl the Superior C< u t, of Quitman
co mly, Georgia, in Deed Book No. 1, on pages 39n
and33l,91, and also id pursuance of u -judicial order,
issued at Chambers on the Ist dry nl Match, 1870,
by the Hon. David B. Hurt-ill, Judge of Patau la
Circuit, I will se'l at public ou'ery, before the
Court House door, in the said county of Quitman,
to the highest bidder, for cash on the
Ist Tuesday in April next,
The following Tracts or Lots of Land, situated 4u
the Bth -District of said county of Quitman, bat
oriainatlv Lee county, to-wit.
Lots Dtimbeied—
Three hundred and thirty—33b;
Three hundred and thiity one -33) 5
Three hundred «ud f m ty-m e— 34t;
Three hundred and forty-two—342;
Three hundred aed forty three—343 j
Three bundled and sixty —3th);
Three hundred and sixty-one—3d] (
Three h-nudfed and sixty two— 382,
and Taree hundred and sixty-three—363.’
And fractional Lots numbered
Three hundred and seventy-two—372 ,
Three hundred aud seventy-three—373 ;
Three bandied a id seventy four—374 ;
Tlitee hundred and seventy-five—37s ;
Three hundred aud seventy-six—37ii,
and Three hundred and seveuty-seven—377.
All of said Tracts of Land containing, in the
aggregate, twenty-eight hundred acre-, more or
less, and comprising the plantation on the Chatta
hsochee river, whereon the said James T. Flewel
len no v resides, and which wi I, tor the interest of
all concerned, be sold in od« body.
JNO. GILL SHORTER, Trustee.
Quitman county', Ga., March Ist, 1870.
matS-lm
RANDOLPH SHERIFF SALES.
WILL be solon the fi-st Tuesday in April
next, before the Curt Hout-e door, in the city of
Cuthbfcrt, between the legal hours of sale, the fol
lowing property, t.o-« it:
Lots of Land, No. 210, 206, 179, and 178, in the
9th District of sard county Levied on by virtue
ot iSuperior C urt fi la, issued in tiivor of James
M. Jones, Esq., of Jas. A. Beall, deed., vs. John
Hoe, principal, and S. A. Grier, security, of Ran
dolph, and John V. I’rice, security of Lumpkin.
Levied on as the property of Sam’l A. Grier
Property ta#en from Tax Digest. Tenants notified.
A a >, same tithe and place, one Bale of Cotton
weighing 400 pounds, more or less, to satisfy La
b>r and Lien fi fa,lssued Irom Justice Court,9s4th
D attic G, M , in favor ol Albert Alexander (Ire.d
uian), ve. Zariili M. Moteland, and other Labor
an 1 L'"J> sis 8 in my hands. Levied on as the
property of Z. M Moteland. Property pointed out
y Plaint ff’s Attorney.
Also, samtf time and place, two Bales of Cotton,
marked B. T. S., N«3. 3 and 4, weighing 1000 lbs.,
more or less, to satisfy Labor and Lien fi fa, issued
from Justice Court, 7 \ Bth District G. M., io favor
of Bunsam Hawk vs. B. T. Snow. Levied on as
the property of B. T. Snow, Properly pointed ont
by PlaiatiH.
Also, same tim» and place, 110 httshels of Cofn,
to satisfy Distress Warrant in favor of David B. ;
CJtambes vs. 8. W. Bu oey and J. L. Burney.—
Levied on ss the property of J. L. Bu-ney.
mar3td JAS. BUCHANAN, Sheriff.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons indeb ed to the estate of Elizabeth
Porter, deceased, are hereby notified to call
and make settlemeut at once And all persons hav
ing claims against said estate are requested to pre
sent them duly authenticated, within the time pre
scribed by law. EDWARD FAGAN,
mrr3-40d Administrator.
GEORGIA. KaxdolpH Couxty —J. H. Dan
iel aj p'ies (or L<-tters of Administration cn
t.e estate o; Mrs Enlmi Danie’, late o' ta : d county
deceased. Ail peisous interested are notified to fife
their objections, if auv they have, on or before the
next April Term <f the Court of Ordinary for
said county. Given under my hand oTcihllv, this
26th ol February, 1870. M. GORMLEY,
marS-lm Ordinary.
NOTICE.— Mrs. Louisa Redden applies lor ex
emption of persona ty and valuation of home
»tead, and I will pass upon the same at 10 o’clock,
A. M., pn the 12th day of March. 1870, at my of
fice. Given under my hand officially.
mar3 2t M. GORMLEY, Ordinary.
Railroad fleeting.
THE CITIZENS OF MUSCOGEE and adjoin
ing counties are inviied to meet at
Box Ancle, March 12th, 1870,
To raise means for th ex'eusion of tie Bainbridge,
Cut'ibe't and C’oiumbus Railroad by ihalToute to
Col unbus.
A Id i may be expected, and it is hoped that
the ette'-dance trill be large.
febliiH B, F. BRUTON, President.
"N w Advertisements.
-INSTANT RELIEF
AND
Permanent Outre for Asthma.,!
important Testimonial:
AYashixgtov, D. C. 1869. '
MESSRS. W. H. FRANKIIaM A Co.-Ideem
it my duty to certify to y#u the elTects of,Tour
valuable A-ithma Remedy.
1 am ffflictcd with Chronic Spism-dic Asth
ma;' begiuniog in early fchitdhood, baffling
Foma of the best medict! talent in 'Atnerici add
Euglaod—Binding the three schools ot Allorathv,
Homoepaihy,-and Hydropathy, and sing • lariv re
turning alter an intermission of filled yeeas.—
Your Kemedv. forced upon my see, tical attention
by an intelligent friend, has given to me complete
und wonderful relief cannot say that the dis
ease is cured, but it is reduced to Symptoms. I
may add, what I do not no. ice in ymir statement—
that the remedy produce-i no ordmarr medicumi
effects—no, nausea—no counter ifritution : the par
oxysm simpiy cease’.
Since relieved by it, I have brought, it to the at
ten tion of several Asuialic guff rets Among those
I may note Judge 01 in of ihe Supreme Court o'
District of C luotbu, a id ex Sac eiarv Stagton
With Judge O.in the disease was slight, aifd, the
lelitf has been comple'e anil apparently
—with Secretary Stanton the disease was
seated aud severe, and the remedy has b en less
effectiye-as a permanent cure, but equally complete
in giving-to linn upon each application, entire re
lief. CHAS. 0, NOTT,
■Judge U S. Court of Claims.
■For sale by T. S. P.)WELL, Trustee,
uiai3-ct Druggist, llook,el:er A Stationer.
"T^f OT.ICE.— William B. Haislru has applied lor
J. i exemption of personalty, and I will pass up
on the same at 10 o’clock, A. ML, on Ihe l“2th day
of March, rSTO, at tnj ( Ifico
mnrfidjt ’M. GORMLEY, Ordinary.
■lfave Meccivcd,
Gold fens.
Initial Note Paper,
Moor’s Patent Blollers,
Patent Glass Cuuers,
‘Chemical Olive Snap,
Satin Gloss Starch,
Mirrors, Picture Frames,
SPERM and I.ARD OIL,
Walker’s Vinegir Bitters,
lxellev’s VYatrht)il,
Powell’s Sewing Machine Oil,
Bay -Rum, ;
Turner’s Neuralgia Pills.
MILITARY SHAVING SOAR,
U PHAM’S PILE ELECTUARY’,
Brown Windsor Soap,
Lubin's Handkerchief Extracts,
‘Camphor Ice.
Sandford’s Liver Invigorator,
Dailey’s Uoise Salve,
tfacob’s Cordial,
ALLCOCK’S PLASTERS,
Hooper’s Cachons.
T S. POWELL, T.u-tee,
fehSict Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer,
Especially designed for the use of the
Medical Profession and the Family,
POSHE.SSING-thqse intiinsic Medicinal Proper
ties which'belong to an .
Old and Pure Gin.
Good for Kidney Complaints. A delicious Tonic.
For sale by T S POWELL, Trustee.
ieb24ct ‘Druggist, MnnksglW a fl Stal inner.
I AM OPENING
A FINE STOCK OF
WAiiij jpixptan, .
Window Shades, Borderiflgs, Etc.,
i T. 8. POWELL, Trustee,
N frb?4ct Druggist. Bookseller art Stationer.
Notice.
AT A MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS and
Stock Holders of the Cntbbert Man a tact tit ing
Company, held February Ist,, istO, it was unani
monsly
Re-o'ved, That all Stock Holders pav, bv the Ist
day of May next, IDO per cent, on the amount sub
scribed bv them o'iedmlf to be paid bv the 15th
day of March next, and 'be balance by the Ist day
of May next, ft was also unanitnqu ly
Revived, That those who fad lift pay the TOO per
cant, on their Stock by the Ist ot Mav next, forfeit
their en'ite Slock. E. McDONALD,
tebS lm President.
ua. §*■ g; io ss
Painted and Repaired.
Bj W. B. McIIAN,
Rnpth end of J. W. Bragati’s Shoe Shop.
febl7-3m* K
Just Received and For Sale by
10,000 lbs" Hulk clear Sides;
10,000 “ “ Shoulders;
10,000 “ “ Hams ;
50© bids, choice Flour, va Sb o ands^
Sugar, Coffee, Meal, and Dry Goodsj|
febie iim Lowest V ask Prices !
18 7 0 1
owenTsealy,
DEALERS IN
Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, Clothing, Groceries, Hardware* etc. 1
Outlubert, Georgia.
WE ARB NOW RECEIVING L\RGE AND NEW SUPPIES OF GOOB3 OF EVERT IIND
usually kept by us, We would call your attention to our
Dry Goods,
Just coming id—splendid lot of new Pri-i*.., Ticking of every quality. Sheeting—brown and bleached*
Ojr.aburgs, Stripes of every kind, a few pieces of Linsey and Opera Flannel, to finish up the wtnt.r
trade. Our Etosiery department is now complete. We are receiving almost an en'.ire
New Stock of Boots and Shoes,
Splendid Water-proof Hoots, Farmers apd Difcher’a Boots. Bovs Bnots. splendid lot of Sewed
Pegged Calf Shoes lor ladies. Also a nice aupply of Children*** Shoes iusfc opened.
Harriware :
In this line we are well supplied. Corn®, Farmers, and supply yourselves with plenty of fT*od
Axes, Hoes, Shovels, Spades, Forks, Traces, Hames, Garden Rakes, etc.
Also, a good lot of 611 ;gr H tmess, iust arrived, C >mt», buy yottsome nr* Harness, and tb*a yea m
go to church in safety. Your old Harness is (bt>fj?rous,
* O Jtr o o Xsl ojr y s
In this line our assortment will be very complete in a few davs. Tn fan--. wiTare going io ke.pl--
Good Supply of"Cverythtng usualty kept in a First-Class Store.
Remember oar co-partne ship is fr> ! -five years and pB-’hab'i fer life. We see NOT.i’FRTODI "'AL i*
our operations, but CONTI' U' 1 US, instant in season and «»' <*l -ei«i, A Iw-jvs ready to serve rem
Home now, a »<1 sirp.dv yon selves tad be c vufpnihie, What you are deal, you do not k-.-w who
will spend rim- money, whether a w ise man or a tool. , •
BgSuWe are ujso Agents fur the celebrated GROVER & BAKER Hewing.
Machines. " jan2*tf
Advertisemets.
YofflSSi
IS CORDtVLLY INVITE!) TO - fI E
“ Henderson County, Kentucky Land Sale ”
rand Sch( m&.
Prizes, $314,320
Capital Prize, $150,000 !
Smallest Prices SBOI
Alsd. f20,1)00 in GHEEN Backs rent mnnW
which will be di fobuled to the the firat
nwDou„»
Each •of which entitles the bolder to an eowal
ssrawsia?
b.r. MS
tew, vz - N- Haiderman, Ldtifsville Courifer
/ouroal; S. I SI Major, Frankfiwt YVimen ;
V- ?■ N“We, I aducab Herald; B G. Thomas, Lex
hrgton Observer and Reporter ; Editor* Nashrine,
Venn Republican Banner: Editors Evcmnlle
or Courier; Gov. Steveng Hon T
M jli r ot r r U ', S ' S , cmtor '• Ho °- J- T. Bunch’,
t Sp ea K%ot Ky. Legisla ure, Hon. R, T. Glass of
Henae'fVn, Ky., lion. O T Cox. Slate Geologist
for any prominent official or business man
in following cities, where tbe Enter*
prise is viz: Louisville, Frankfort,
1 “ a ’’W derson , K y.,-or Evansville Ind.
NO SCHEME«ver presented such attractions as
,b| 8- 88 eT ery dollar invested by ticket holders, is
held in trust by ?he commissioners appointed, for
thatdmrpuse by until tbe drawing
take*.place and the are delivered.
In iw-eer to have ynu\tickeis propely registered,
, AT ,J tfCK of your neaKyst club agent or remit
by Express.(piepaid,) Draft P. 0. Money order, or
legistered letter, to either dKlha following financial
agents wLolyill f\ lrn i«h full descriptive circulars;
L. H. L-V NL, Cash’r Farmer* Bank, Henderson,
v - v ; ..- -ALEXANDER.TUommerciaI Bank,
Louisville, ky.; JOHN C. LATHAM, Pres. Bank
Hopkineville, -ky ■ JAMES L ffIA’LLAW, Com
meicia! Bank, Puducah, Ky.; BAG. THOMAS,
r? “ ad KepLV LexingtonAKy.: W. B.
i \ LER, Uashier-Be osit Bit., Owensboro. Ky.
‘"^ r ” Club Agents wanted everywhere.
mar«3*~td •T
ForSaleT
A myov™^! o ’BTSHELS of SeWeT
SEED, delivered lit my
per bushel - Hacked andV.de
■sJtS. he Rll,ro » d »1 25. All orders
dossed to mo rt
DentaJ Tools, Artificial Teeth,'
gold foil,
And cverylhingin this line always on hand at Matt
’ifacturer 8 Prices, at the Drug Store of
tr,arll - 1 y J. j. McDonald.
Dr. M. A. SIMMONS’ ’
GENUINE LIVER MEDICINEj
DRAKE’S Plantation Bitters,
Hosteite ’8 Stomach Bitters,
Dromfgmole’s English Female Bißer*,
Ward’s Eureka Bitters,
Bradv’s Bitters,
Hurley 3 and Yan Dense;T* Worm Confeclicns,
Rosadalis,
KeroseneDil. Etc,,
Just received and for sale at the Druo- Htore of
sepd'ct J. McDonald.
7- 1 —■ I *
m^um
IMPORTATION!
RIBBONS
Millinery and Straw Goods.
ARMSTRI)\(j, CATOR & CO.,
‘ impi rtbrs akb jobbers or
BONNET TRIMMING & VELVET RIBBONS,
Bonnet Silk?., Satina & Velvets,
Ulonds. Crapes, lluclies. Flowers. FeeUkers, Ornaments
Straw Bonnets and Ladies' Hats,
(Trimmed and Untrimmed,)
S3aalx.or H00d.3, Etc.,
237 and 239 Baltimore Street,
BAI/TIMOUE, MD.
Offer the largesgfitock to be 'ound in this
Country, and unequalled io choice variety aud
cheapness, Comprising tbe latest Parisian novel tit ft,
Orders aobeiied, aud protect attention given,
i febll'-lm*
Taka Notice P aitori.
I HEREBY NOTIFY the Planters, and publitf
generally, that I contracted with a freedm <l. br
the u me of JERRY, (firmer slave of Jacob Ozie-,
lor the present year, and be has abandoned his
contract without any cause. I hope no one will
givn him emp'oyment, as I will hold any one re.
spmsible belore the law for so doing.
febS-tm* GEOR IE ORAPPS.