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J. JT. HANhOK. Bsnsirr,
Macon, Georgia.
im TELEGRAPH AND ME-SSEKSEi
FRIDAY, APRIL 28.
dog baa bis day, and Tilden’sSt.
came In for the first prize.
Tam people of Georgia area little tired
oTC* gubernatorial whine and the mar-
lfar having heard from the fish, we han-
31* the fliatinjj fishing yarns for the pres
to* v*>7 gingerly.
trie Mid that Mi hone’s hate for Geor-
qpa grew oat of the fact that the Second
Cmwifin Battalion used to milk hia cow, oft
as the stilly night.
'XmtNsvr York Oloue, edited by colored
■m, eppoacs the introduction oi Chinese
t»te> this country. Tills maybe regarded
mall* perfection of check.
WaaacfOTOx society sighs, bnt sighs in
rata, for Captain Ilowgate’s “darling’
3tS» yacht parties down the Potomac. The
i and the yncht are not.
treeetTililen *200.000 to support Bayes
* four year*. It cost the government
to bury Garfield. Presidents are
expensive for republics and individ-
Tn Chinese element sought to be intro-
Joed halo this country is noth’ngmore nor
Cm than mere brnte force which oertam
oapitalists desire to apply becanso it is
Xsi laost prominent candidate for vin-
Jfcauuu appears to be Butcher Bliss. It
any he well to remark that as long as Gar-
flttd continues dor.J, Bliss cannot be viadi-
fifarsucB Dauala, Bernhardt’s coaju-
jyj trunk agent, has begun bis labors. Sa
die left Italy a few du/s since with two enr
leak of Saratogas. Her last order con
tacted Dam with the luggage.
Buck Billy Chandler was appointed ad-
aw&tmtor upon f he United States navy,
tbsvohr.vebeon nmried changes. The dis-
pcsitian seems to be to marshal the assets
a* near tho north pole as is practical.
fa Washington Republican cherishes
Ska koye that North Carolina will bloom
into a Republican State this year
Gorham has been interviewing Col.
lack Brown, the great unassisted Southern
am.tap'ulaior.
Dtauso the late tornado a Wilkinson
rtamijf man tied Ids wife to a stump with a
sop* to keen her from being blown away.
The wind died out and she came near be-
tmg drowned by the rain before he could
esaoileet where l:e had tied her.
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Tw» attention of Mr. Glessner of the
Gridin Nines is exiled to tho fact that a
Stacaylvania man his invented a car
oospltr. We nrention this merely to show
rts* toe apparent infringements npou
SrilKn’s rights are not confined to Macon.
Souk Texas reporter i has been attempt
we to pass the elephant pea for Georgia
“Spsbers ’ on Carey Styles, the editor of the
talneston Xeics. The Colonel at onco de-
teaad the fraud. Eo had lived on goobers
ttroogh an entire sesrion of the Georgia
tafirituturo and remembered tho tone of
staple.
A Paris correspondent is having a spe-
ssss of literary jimjams over fhe discovery
ttei the French accent ia disappearing
Jtosa France. This is the same man who
weptosied last year that the day would
some when Western Congressmen would
Vak the Engi-Vn language. We disliko
toexpose a man publicly bat he has drawn
Gets himself.
The Slater Girt.
Some few days since we bad occasion
to mention tlie gilt by Mr. John F. Slater
to the Sonthern uegrocs for educational
purposes of tho i tun of S1|000,000. The
Instrument creating this fnnd Is long and
written by a man who is evidently a deep
thinker and genuine philanthropist. It is
couched in tho languago of an eminently
wise and Christian man, and is remarka
ble for its breadth and liberality of senti
ment. The donor Is a wealthy cotton
manniactnrcr of Norwich, Connecticut;
and has been with his family for many
years Identified with the history of that
industry in tho United States. The in
strument is addressed to Messrs. Ruther
ford B. Hayes, ot Ohio; Morrison
Waite, oi the District of Columbia; Wil
liam E. Dodge, of Now York; Phillips
Brooks, of Massachusetts; Daniel G. Gil
man, of Maryland; John A. Stewart, of
Now York; Alfred H. Colquitt, of Geor
gia; Morris K. Jesap, of Now York;
James P. Boyce, of Kentucky, and Wil
liam A. Slater, of Connecticut.
After reciting the fact that Providence
has prospered him In business and
placed it In his power to apply a consider
able anm to charitablo pulses, he ex
presses the need of counsel,names tho
gentlemen referred to as those selected.
He places tho sum to bo appropriated to
a charitable purpose at $1,000,000, and
advises the board to procure a charter
which will exempt from taxation the
fund created, and promises to pay It over
os soon as an organization is bad. After
reciting that the fund shall tie used for
the uplifting of the lately emancipated
populations of the Southern States, ho ex
presses bis wishes and Ideas as follows
But It is not only for their own sake, bnt also
for the safety of our common country, fn which
they have been invested with equal political
rights, that I am desirous to aid in providing
them with tho means of such education os
shall tend to make them good men and good
citizens—education in which tho instruction
of tho mind in tho common branches of secu
lar leorningshaU be associated with training
In Just notions of duty toward God and man in
the light oi the Uoly Scriptures. The means
to be used in tho prosecution of the general ob
ject above described I leav# to the discretion of
the corporation, only indicating, as lines of op
cration adapted to tho present condition of
things, tho training of teachers from among the
people requiring to be taught if, in the opinion
of tiie corporation, by such limited selection
the purposes of the trust can be best accom
plished, an<l the cucourarement of such Insti
tutions as are most effectually useful In pro
moting tho training of teachers. I am well
aware that the work herein proposed Is noth,
lng new or untried. And it is no small part of
my satisfaction in talcing this share in it that I
hereby associate myself with some of the
noblest enterprises of charity and humanity,
and may hope to encourage the prayers and
tolls of fslthfal men and women who have la
bored and are still laboring In this cause.
I wish tlie corporation which you are Invited
to constitute to consist at no time of more than
twclvo members nor less than nine for a longer
time than may be required for the convenient
filling of vacancies, which I desire to be filled
by the corporation, and, when found practi
cable, at its next meeting after the vacancy
may occur. I designate as tho tint president
of the corporation the lion. Buthcriord B.
Hayes, of Ohio. I desire that It may hare
power to provide from the income of the fnnd,
among other things, for expenses incurred by
members in the fulfillment of this trust, and
for other expenses of such officers and agents
as It may appoint, and generally to do all such
acts as may bo necessary for carrying ontthc
purposes of this trust. I desire. If it may be,
that the corporation may have full liberty to In
vest its fnnds according to its own discretion,
without reference to or restriction by any laws
or rules, legal or equitable, of any nature, reg
ulating the mode of investment of trust funds;
only I wish that neither principal nor income
be expended in land or buildings for any oth
er purpose than that of safe and profitable in
vestment for Income, and I hereby discharge
tlie corporation and its individual members, so
far as it is in my power to do so, of all responsi
bility, except for tlie faithful administration of
this trust, according to their own honest un
derstanding acd best judgment In particular,
also, I wish to relieve (hem of any pretended
claim on the part oi any person, party, sect. In
stitution, or locality, to benefactions from this
fnnd that may be put forward <5n any ground
whatever, as I wish every expenditure to be
determined solely by tho convictions of tho
corporation itself as to the most useful disposi
tion of gifts. I desire that the doings ol the
corporation each year be printed and sent to
each of the State libraries in the United States
ar.d to the library of Congress. In case the cap
ital oi the fund sbould become impaired, I de
sire that a port of the income, not greater than
one-half, be Invested from year to year until the
capital be restored to Its original amount. I pur
posely leave to the corporation the largest lib
erty of making changes in the methods of im
plying the incoma of the land as shall seem
from time to time best adapted to accomplish the
general object herein defined. But being
warned by tho history of such endowments,
that they sometimes tend to discourage rather
than promote effort and self-reliance on the
part of the beneficiaries, or to Inure to the ad
var.ccmcnt of learning Instead of tho dissemi
nation of it, or to become a convenience to the
Txx executive committee has prepared a
K*of glowing mottoes and tribute* to hang
en the wall* during the canons of promi-
MRt negroes in (bis city. Sumner, Gar-
tdd, Arthur, Hayes, Grant and Tliad Ste- , rich Instead of abelp to those who used help”
*ex» have been remembered, bnt Jones, of "
Ketett, and Edmunds, of Vermont, im-
gtobable ns it may seem, have been entire
ly wnorecT.
is now appears that the six men who,
daring Garfield’s illness, worked the Jen-
stags refrigerator, a sort of voiceless hnnd-
4Srm» with a breath registering 10 degrees
Fahrenheit, have beos neglected by the re-
emnsmtieg committee, and Congress is
liked to pony op again. A couple of hnn-
tart thousand dollars each will probably
satisfy the hand-organ men.
fe the President preparing to place scch
(tailed States judges in Georgia as will ex-
ante upon prisoners regardless of law the
will of the administration? Are we to
have in Georgia a repetition of the judicial
•drages in South Carolina? If James
Aktas, of 8avannrb,fs established al the
header ti e Northern circuit, the people
easy wtU look to their safety.
Tin: country is threatened with all the
horrors if another Blackburn-Barb ridge
tael On Friday lest white a gallant Ken-
tertian, named Hays, was addressing the
another ga’lant Kentuckian,
steadying himself with a chair, claimed
toe attention of the assembly while he call
ed! (be speaker a liar. Not satisfied with
His eonrtly declaration, be dropped into
toe fearful undertow of tho American lan-
page and farther charged, in brief terms,
Art the gentleman under discussion was
ft* descendant of n female canine. Then
Jht meeting aJjomned temporarily until
tow gallant Kentuckian number two was ns-
efirted outside to an ambulance.
What a seenewaa that reported in onr
iitacrnmi tbl» morning. The steamer San -
*»? is banting on tho St Johns river, the
hair ashore and the stern swinging in the
Gathered on tho stem are the
ers, the flames behind them, when
Children, panic stricken, torn and rash
lock into the saloon. There are two from
that crowd who dare the flsmc3 and perish
wdu the innocent*. And honra later,
whoa two blackened forma are dragged
f-.® tlia ruin, each clasping a babe’s poor
ii mad remains, it needed not tho testi-
mc r t c f witnesses to reveal why from sr fo
ld f)«d to death. Only a mo her’*
caches from earth to heaven | is
j-jgh to smile in the face of
leatii, wlii-n the mother's hand clasp is
>t t0 ! . broken. A sadder or grander
ri t! an th’y fr tn Florida, we have not
I solemnly charge my trustees to nie their best
wisdom In preventing any inch defeat of tho
spirit of this trust, so that my gift may continue
to fatnre generations to be a blessing to the
poor. If at any time after tho lapse of thirty-
three years from the date of this foundation it
shall appear to the judgment of three-fourths
of tiio members of this cor
poration that, by reason of a change
in social conditions, or by reason of adequate
and equitable public provision for education,
or bv any other sufficient reason, there Is no
further serious need of this fund in the form In
which it is at first instituted, f authorize the
corporation to apply the capital ot the fnnd to
the establishment of foundations subsidiary to
their already existing institutions of higher
education in such wiso as to mskc the educa
tional advantages of such institutions more
freely accessible to poor students of the colored
race. It Is my wish that this trust bo adminis
tered in no partisan, sectional or sectarian
spirit, bnt in tho Interest of a generous patriot
ism and an enlightened Christian faith, and
that the corporation about to be formed may
continue to be constituted by men distinguish
ed either by honorable success in bualnoss or
by services to literstnre. education, religion or
the State.
I am encouraged to *thc execution In this
charitablo foundation of a long cherished pur
pose by tho eminent wisdom and success that
have marked the conduct of the Peabody edu
cational fund In a field of operations not re
mote from that contemplated by this trust. I
shall commit It to your bands, deeply con-
scions how Insufficient is cur best forecast to
provide (or the future that is known onlv to
(jod, but humbly hoping that the administra
tion of it may be so guided by divine wisdom
as to be in Its tarn an encouragement to phi
lanthropic enterprise on the :art of others and
an endnring means of good to onr beloved
country and to our fellow men.
I have the honir to be, gentlemen, your
friend and fellow citizen, John F. Slater.
Norwich, Conn.. March 2, U82.
Senator mil's Condition.
The latest reports have intensified the
solicitude felt by all the people of Geor
gia as to the condition of Senator Hill.
Surgical skill has been incompetent to ar
rest bis disease. His physical strength Is
giving way under aloss of appetite, and bo
is seriously threatened with inanition, tho
little nourishment he Is able to take in
tlie way of fluids being insufficient to
supply tho drain upon his system.
He has gone to the Eureka Springs In
Arkansas, to put to the test the last hope,
that the curative properties of the waters
may restore him. While the hope is
shared in common by all classes and con
ditions of our people, the fact can be no
longer compromised or disguised that bit
condition :s such as to excite the gravest
apprehensions.
A Contemporary’s Tight,
Our attention bu been attracted more
than once by a singular conflict going on
Id tho ninth district between a certain
class of people and the dally newspaper
of that section, known as the Athens
Banner- Watchman. To those whom ex
perience bu taught, the conflict is dis
tinct and appreciable even from the rear,
although, one side is completely hidden
under nom de plamea and designated
only by general references. The struggle
on the part ot the Banner-yfatehman 1}
for existence and the preservation of its
manhood and independence; the assaults
upon it are partisan, and made with aview
of choking the truth and freeing from a
strong grasp Emory Speer, the leader ot the
Independent clement, li is curious to
watch the influences brought forward in
this general assault. “The loss of patron
age,” “tho interests of tho city,” “the In
terests of the nniveially,” “the honor
H I the district,” all have been
nvoked to overwhelm and silence the
journal to which reference bu been
made. Not that these cries hjvo been
raised by those who have the best Interests
of the university, the city, the district or
the journal at heart; or even by those au
thorized to speak for any of them. Terms
only to catch the public ear, they have
been cried aloud by the friends of Mr.
Speer with one object only—the paralyzing
of the force which is fast crumbling the
foundations of his public life. The strong
fight and unbending lront of onr little
contemporary bu awakened the admira
tion of tho State press. Experimenting
with a journalistic venture In a city never
before able to support a daily, they had
every temptation to sacrifice policy to
popularity. The money, the business
reputation of tho owners and editors wu
at stake, and the public trusts and politi
cal patronage generally were in the hands
of those who would use them to crush ont
any independence of opinion prejudicial to
the ring in power. Notwithstanding this the
Banner-Watchman chose to act according
to tho principles ot right and threw down
the gauge of battle. It began the struggle
with its adversaries upon principle, and
bu adhered to truth and moderation
throughout. Its challenge, publicly given
to those who condemned it, to point out
aught hut the truth in anything it
has pnblished, has called up no one
able to respond. Its advice to all classes
hu been just such u a public journal
should give, its conclusions sound and its
position impregnable. In our opinion, the
worst of the fight Is over. Tho very bold-
ness’and openness of the Banner-Watch
man has commanded the respect of tho
dffn who uphold Athens. Upon no surer
foundatloncan it stand than the respect of
its people. The friends of the University
can never allow its name and Influence to
be drawn into the impending political
contest to sustain Mr. Speer. The mo
ment it moves from its proper centre its
death warrant will be signed, and tho
men who govern it have too much wisdom
not to understand it. If the blind strug
gles of Mr. Speer to throw his arms about
the pillars Of his Alma Mater are success-
tul, the effect wilt be to involve them both
in a common ruin. The Banner-Watch
man hu nothing to fear lrom the Univer
sity.
We are not seeking merely to support
the journal. It is fully able to care for
itself. But in Us conduct we see tho true
spirit of journalism battling for existence,
and we make its battles ours. Nearly a
month since we recognized the true ring
in the Athens paper—in fact long before
tho late tragedy joined the present issue—
end wrote u fellows:
Tho Bonner Watchman Is the biggest little
daily we have CTer seen ou onr table, and pre
sents a fine appearance, editorial and incchan
leal. Athens, in letting it perish for want of
support, would step backwards over space
equivalent to five yean. Nothing helps a com'
munlty more than a good dally newspaper. It
brings events—and after all we shape ourcourse
from events—quickly before the people; pro
motes a rapid circulation of those little cduea-*
tlonal missionaries called Ideas, and enables
Its section to keep abreast with the times. Ath
ens could save money by even—as a lost resort
—supporting the daily out of the city treasury.
What wo said then we repeat now, and
more. Thepeoplo who have the Inter
ests of Athens at heart cannot afford to
remain silent in tho fight before them.
Tho Banner u edited, will never hesitate
to express public opinion; let the pubile
ustain their mouth-piece. We make
these remarks u our own motion, with
out any knowledge of the standing of tlie
paper, hut u a journal which fears no
ring, clique, influence or power in the
State or anywhere else we lend our aid
such as it is.
a clause, under which honorably dis
charged Union soldiers alone are permit
ted to police Washington City, the Nation
al capital, situated on neutral ground,
with a population without franchise, and
who comes into a strange community
does—with bis neighbors and his friends.
It is not to be expected that this conven
tion will fall to dip into politics, State
politics. The negro has been so Indus-
dependent upon the general government, iriously ecbooled by those who would use
the fight opens again. And the bitterness, him into the belief, that in his political
The Bloody Shirt at the Toro.
Very many people honestly believed
that sectionalism in American politics had
been buried iu the grave that covered
Garfield. The common sorrow which
knew no section, no class, creed or con
dition, but which possessed tho hearts of
all the people at the sudden and fearful
calamity which had come to him, did
seem to a great degree to obliterate politi
cal passions and resentments, and held
out the hope tho men of the United States
would in the future bo brethren in tho
full significance of the woid. So deep
was this Impress upon tho popular
mind, that Arthur, under its spell, in his
annual message to Congress stu
diously avoided any sectional refer
ence or discussion. And In tho ear
lier days of the present session of Congress
Arthur’s party so conducled itself as to
mould a belief almost into an assuranc:
that for all time to come tho dividing lines
of sectionalism were to ho eliminated from
paity contests. The demon was asiccp
only, not dead. All the preliminaries
having been arranged, the policy of the
administration decided upon, the disguise
is thrown off and the banner of the bloody
sblit is again ran np to the masthead.
Another national contest has to be
fought under its folds. Unwelcome as the
fact may be, wo may Just as well look it
squarely in the face. Republicanism can
not live at the North without a South to
be assaulted. So long as the appropria
tion bills and other measures not germain
to cither section were under considera
tion aud discussion, matters went quietly
and smoothly, «nd those familiar with
Congressional debates in tho past won
dered os to what had become of the arro
gant aud bitter partisans whose stock in
trade consisted alone in vituperation of
tbeSontb. They are all in their places
and heavily loaded. Just as Mr. Carl
Schurz, In his paper in the last Worth
American Betlrh on “Political Problems
and the Future of Parties,” very con
fidently expresses the opinion that the
bitter sectional controversies growing out
of slavery and the war are at an end.
Conger in the Senate, and Camp, Robe
son, Reed and others in the House rise to
give the lie to liis sanguine predictions.
Upon a simple motion to strike out
with which it opens i» but a prelude to
what may be expected to follow.
In a few days at the furthest the con
tested election cases will bo called, and
all algns point to the fact that they will
elicit one of the fiercest and most sec
tional struggles which bu ever been wit
nessed in the Honse of Representatives.
The Mabone movement in Virginia, the
attempt ot the administration to repeat It
in other Southern States, tbs action of tho
United States courts iu the election prose
cutions in South Carolina and Alabama,
the concerted movement Of prominent
colored politicians throughout the South
upon the civil rights issue, are but the
whetting stsnes usedto sharpen the blades
for this conflict.
Robeson, the real lcador of tho Honse, a
buccaneer In practice and ia brute in in
stinct, fired the signal gnu for tho conflict
on Monday last.
It Is a source of no little pride and satis
faction to know that he found the Demo
crats prepared, and that In tlio opening
rally he wu severely punished by a Geor
gia Congressman.
, Tbo Convention To-Day.
There will assemble in onr city to-day
a convention of colored men, to take
counsel together as to the best means of
securing the welfare and advancement of
their race.
As we understand, those who may at
tend will not be drawn from tho State ol
Georgia alone, but from, all tlie States
which once held property inj slaves.
They come at the call of Jefferson Long,
a representative bolored -mac, and one
who has enjoyed enlarged and unusual
opportunities of making himself acquaint
ed with the wants aud necessities of his
people. The men expected to be present
are supposed not to be the accredited rep
resentatives of political organizations, or
delegates bearing credentials from the
many societies which tho colored people
have formed.
Preachers, lawyers, school teachers,
professors and learned and unlearned
are expected to make up the personnel of
this convention. While its general ob
ject has been announced as a move
ment to inquire into the best means of ad
vancing the interests of tho negro race,
it has been further stated that a secret
session will be held, at which it may
be determined as to what coarse the col
ored voters of Georgia may elect to pur
sue in the coming campaign. In behalf
of the white people ot Macon and of
Georgia we undertake to say that they do
not regard this movement cither with
levity or alarm. On tho contrary,
they are pleased to notice It,
and they indulge the hope
that tho very best remits may follow.
Anything that pertains to tho advance
ment of the negro in intelligence aud all
of the elements which go towards the
making of good and enlightened citizen
ship interests thorn. Thoy hope that wise
and sober counsels may prevail and that
substantial good may be accomplished,
that some plan may be devised by which
the antagouisms which have boen created
aud fostered by bad men between the two
rams may be softened if not eradicated,
and that in the future they may live aud
work together in harmonious accord.
This convention offers a grand opportuni
ty to the educated aud thinking leaden
who may be present. To come to the
point at once, it affords them occasion to
grapple with the great race problem,
that alter seventeen yean of peace, follow
ing a bloody war, has not yet begun to
approach a solution. If they can solve it,
the capacity of tho negro for self-govern
ment will be at once aud ungrudgingly
acknowledged.
As a friend of the negross and as a
representative of people who aro really
their friends, and who sincerely desire
their welfare physically, morally and in-
tel’.cclually, we take the occasion to make
a suggestion or two in a spirit of entire
frankness and kindness.
We beg them to approach their duties
iu a spirit of forgetfulness of tbo past and
to look sternly to tLe future and its possi
bilities. Nothing that has been done can
be remedied by angry discussion or de
nunciation, hut much may be accom
plished by wise and moderate counsel and
action. They should understaud their
present capacities aud surrouudlngs most
thoroughly. They should know upon what
forces they aro to rely for success before
marklug out a plan of action for the fu
ture. Our attention has been called to
the laudatory encomiums of Sumner, Lin
coln, Grant and others which are to adorn
the walls of the ball in which they are to
assemble, and from which, perhaps, In
spiration is to be drawn. It is proper and
becoming that they should thus remember
men whom they regard as their special
friends and benefactors, but thoy should
also bear iu miud that their own destinies
in the futuro must rest in other Lands
save these.
Mr. Sumner is dead, and a practical
test has exploded many, If not all, of bis
honestly entertained aud humanitarian
theories. Lincoln is also dead, and yet
the saying that will Uvo as long as his
memory, was a solemn declaration that bo
was a believer in the social and political
Inferiority of the negro race, and would
do nothing in opposition to that convic;
tlon. Greeley, who did more to bring
about emancipation than any other ono
man in the world, is dead—went to his
grave with a broken heart at what ho sup
posed tho iugratitudo of a race to which
the labors of a busy and stormy life bad
been devoted.
General Grant still lives, but with
no more power to shape the
ovents of the comiug future thau
any sluglo member of this convention.
Emancipated and clothed with civil rights
the negro must workout his own develop
ment, with such aid as his own conduct
and effort may attract from thepeoplo
amongst whom his lot is cast. There
will be no wisdom in quarreling with
Senators Jones, Windom, Edmunds and
others about their coniesaion of failure iu
the attempt to solve this great race prob
lem, These men have been convinced,
after long and faithful trial, that the
negro of the South cannot be elevated by
political methods alone. They have not
been able to seut what the white man
of the South has seon all along,
that if -the North will cease at
once and forever to agitate this
negro questiou as a political element, that
the negro would assimilate himself to bis
surroundings and soon learn to speak, to
act, to work and to vote as the white mau
power rests his persoual safety, that this
lesson cannot be uulearned in a day.
Politics is a pastime, not a duty. It would
be far hotter for most while men if they
could appreciate and act upon tills truth.
The negro cannot afford to despiso or ig
nore it. But it having been given out
that the socret. session will he devoted to
this subject, we can only hope for the
wisest counsol aud tho best results.
It will be well for the Georgia delegates
to hear iu mind that they do not and can
not bold the political control of Georgia.
They should not forget that the legisla
ture ol Georgia clothed them with the
rights of citizens in advance of the consti
tutional amendments ordered by the Fed
eral Congress, that Georgia is engaged in
edncatlng their children, that she taxes
them as she does the white man, that sho
gives them a place iu the jury box and
that she exacts and requires nothing of
them that she does not demand from the
white citizen, in fact that sho gives them
protection and only asks in return a
loyal allegiance to her interests.
Ifthcy shall deem it expedient to choose
sides in tlie coming contest, let them bo
aware of the fact that tliclr votes have al
ready been pledged by the Federal ofilce
holders to a faction which seeks to over
throw a State government from which
they havo sufiered nothing, and under
which they have lived happiiy, prospered,
and made intellectual and u&tiona! ad
vancement.
If, ailertho regular programme of pro
ceedings Is exhausted, tlino v.-ill
permit the convention might lake
notice of the iact, that at the meeting
of the Colonization Society in New
York, a fow days since, It was stated that
07cr a half million of Southern negroes
desired to emigrato to Liberia, but wore
prevented by lack of means.
And coming nearer home, this day in
the State of Kansas tbo negroes who, by
political jobbery, were induced to leave
the fertile cotton regions of Louisiana and
Mississippi, have outworn their welcome
and are assembled in convention to devise
ways and means to procure work and
food tor themselves and their families.
We assume to Indulge tho hope that
this convention iu our midst will accom
plish some good, and shall chronicle a
different result with sincere disappoint
ment.
State Executive committee Call.
Atlanta, Ga., April 25,1882.—A meeting
of tho State Democratic Executive Com
mittee is horeby called to assemble at the
breakfast room of the Kimball House, in
Atlanta, on the 18th day of May next, at
2 o’clock p. m. A full meeting is desired,
as business of importance will be before
tho committee. The following named
gentlemen aro members of tho committee
for the State at large: J. E. Shumate,
R. J. Moses, L. Mynatt and Wm. Phillips.
First District—J. J. Jones, Burke county
R. W. Grubb, McIntosh county.
Second District—Richard Hobbs, Dough
erty oonnty; W. A. Harris. Worth county.
Third District—John A. Cobb, Sumter
county; Georgs P. Wood, Pulaski county.
Fourth District—A. D. Abrahams, Troup
county; J. D. Willis, Talbot count}’.
Fifth District—W. T. Newman, Fulton
county; J. H. Mitchell, Pike county.
Sixth District—Jno. L. Wimberly,Twiggs
county; John L. Hardeman, Bibb county.
Seventh District—Arthur H. Gray, Ca
toosa county; N. J. Tnmlin, Polk county.
Eighth District—Wilberforce ^Daniel,
Richmond county; F. H. Dolly, Wilkes
county.
Ninth District—C. J. Wellborne, Union
county; T. M. Peeples, Gwinnett county.
Leak'deb N. hanau. Chairman.
We take from the leading editorial col
umn of tho Co’nmbns Times, ot Tuesday,
the following extract;
Some weeks ago the grand jury of one of the
counties In tbo judicial circuit of Judge Crisp
embodied In their report a recommendation of
that gentleman for Congress in hts district, and
we now have the grand Jury of Warren county
following in tlie tamo lino, and in their report
made a few days ago recommended Judge Pot-
tic, another presiding judge of tho Superior
Court for Congress in the eighth district It Is
perhaps welt enough to allow grand juries tho
widest liberty In their efforts to promote the
public good, bnt wo cannot exactly see tbe
propriety of their canvassing the fitness of men
for office, embodying their conclusions tn that
direction in their general presentments.
For having made a somewhat similar
commont on the action of the grand jury
in Lee county, one of the editors of the
Times, in a letter from Butler, Taylor
county, charged ns with making a “mali
cious” assault on Judge Crisp, a gentleman
for. whom we entertain a high regard, and
with whom wo are on most agreeable
terms.
Senatoh Baxabd is getting his boom on.
Ho is billed and bookod for orations on
soveral public occasions.
Hon. L. N. Tbamueld, chairman, has
called a meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committeo at Ati inta on (he
18th day of May. Every member of the
committee should make it a point to bo
present on the occasion, prepared to in
augurate a campaign which must result in
in tho succoss of the harmonized and
united Democracy.
In a Mississippi commercial trial recent
ly, when asked why •entcnco of death
should not bo pronounced upon him, a ne
gro replied that he had not had justice;
that he did not have witnesses in oourt
who would prove bis innocence.” The
untatored black man did cot seem to un
derstand that all conoictions fcraw out of
tho latter fact.
The Brunswick Advertiser and Appeal,
in an article commenting ou 'ho late dis
cussion on Georgia harbor improvements
before the committee on commerce at
Washington, has this to say of our fellow
citizen Mayor Bacon, who was present and
took part in tho disoussion.
“All movements calculated to odd to tho
material prosperity of the people, to develop
tho wonderful resources ot the State, find In
him a faithful and earnest advocate. Could
wo do better than to place him in tho Govern
or’s office, where as Governor of our State, ho
would have ample scope for the broad and
progressive Ideas, tempered by true conserva
tism, which he has demonstrated, by hl« acts
In the past, are possessed by him?”
A New Obwcans dispatch says: “The
sensation of tho day hero is tbe seizure of
tho Mascotte, a weekly illustrated paper,
like Puck. The JIaseolU has,been lighting
into the city government very strongly
lately, and greatly worrjing tho mayor
and administration. In 8atnrdoy’s num
ber was a caricature representing the ad
ministration in a ridiculous light, and ns
owned and controlled by Mr. Van Bcnthuy-
eod, president of the Carrollton railroad.
Van Bonthuysen caused tho arrest of the
editors for criminal libel- Mayor Shaks-
pere, to-day, nnder an old statute, ordered
the chief of police to seize and destroy the
paper. Much feeling is displayed over this
order,tvhioh the fiiends of tho Mascotte de
clare is a violation of the freedom of the
press.” If Louisiana has a statute nutlior-
izieg the suppression of the press, she can
not repeal it too-uddeuly.
TJIOMA S VXXJjJS,
Tbe Fronts of Wine Growing.
Special Correspondence Telegraph and Mes
senger.
Thomasville, Ga., April 22.—The season
whichisnowdrawiDgto a close has been
a prosperous ono for the hotels and beard
ing bouses here. Sixty rooms were added
to the Mitchell Houss last summer, giving
it about one hundred and tenia all, acd
yet it and the othor hotels, together with
a number of private hoarding houses,
were filled all the timo with Northern seek
ers after health and pleasure. Tho popu
larity of this place os a winter resort is
increasing rapidly. Everyone who comes
h6re is charmed with local accommoda
tions and the result is a yearly increase in
tho crowds. In the noar fatnre the only
difficulty in the way o’, tho unbounded pop
ularity of this place with Northern health
and pleasure seekers will be the scarcity of
hotel accommodations. AU the people
who can be comfortably housed wiU come
hero.
The influence of those Northern visitors
on both North and South will be good.
Whatever prejudices they may bring with
them against tho South will disappear
when they seo it as it is and the urauy
splendid openings hero for profitable
investments will not escape their atten
tion. Many of them will become c tizens of
this section, thereby giving it tbe benefit of
both their industry and thsir shekels.
Those who return North spread the praises
of the people, soil and climate, and iu turn
will send others to swell the tide of pros
perity aud liberality of opinion.
A young mac from Boston, who has been
here somo time, has gotten up a very suc
cessful toko-off on the Oscar Wilde lunacy.
He went around torn with his beaver sot
back on bis head, a rose fastened on his
forehead aud a pickled honing pinned to
tho lappel of his coat.
I obtained- from Mr. John Stark, on in
telligent and reliable men of this place,
some information in reference to the pro
duction of wine, from wnich parties who
wish to take hold of tho business can form
some estimate of the results they may ex
pect to obtain.
Mr. Stark bos made the wine business
a success, and boUevcs it can and will be
one of the most profitable lines ot business
in this section in fatnre, bnt at tbe same
lime would not adviso any ono to go into
it unless they have a particular fancy for
it and thorough information upon tho de
tails of its management. He has throe
acres in Delawares, three acres in Con
cords, and one and a half in soappernongs,
Warrens, Ives’ seedlings, otc. Ono thou
sand and fifty vines aro pat to the acre,
which reach their prime in about foar
years, when thoy can be relied upon to
prodneo grapes enough to make an average
of at least five hundred gallons of wine t >
tho acre a year, rhe expense of looking
offer on acre of grapes is no more than
that required for an aero of cotton. About
onc-fcurth of a pound of sugar is required
to the gallon of wine when made from
Concord, scuppemong or Warren grates,
in order to giro it sufficient body to moke
it keep in this climate. When
it is made from . Delawares
no sugar at all is required.
1 ho wino is worth at whoiosale from seven
ty-live cents to one dollar and a quarter
per gallon, according to quality, ago, etc.
That is, tho wino produced from the grapes
grown on one acre in one year, at no great
er expense than would bo required to cul
tivate and gather on acre of cotton, is
worth five hundred dollars. From this
showing it would appear that no business
can bo so profitable aa wine-growing, bnt
there aro some difficulties in the way of re
alizing these figures which should net be
overlooked. Orange groves and saw-mills
aro famous for figuringout much better on
paper than they will in practice, and wine
growing will doubtless, in the opinion of
those who do not follow Mr. Stark’s advice,
given above, have to be added to this list.
Oto of the greatest difficulties in the
way of making actual and theoretical prof
its tho same is to find a market for tho
wine. Most people in this country who
have been in tbo habit of drinking wine
regularly, havo acquired a taste for the arti
ficial and highly flavored compounds with
which tho country has been flooded by the
whoiosale trade, which can be produced at
about thirty-five cents per gallon—hence it
in difficult to sell pure and natural wine to
tbe retailers. The consumer’s taste for
pure wines and information iu reference
to it most prod the retailer into becoming
a customer to the producer of this class of
goods before the business will realize its
possibilities. Very satisfactory progress
has been mode in this respect daring tho
past five years all over the United States,
on acconnt of the greatly increased atten
tion which has been given to tbe produc
tion of wines, and in tho end those pure
natural wines will take the place of artifi
cial compounds and also to a large
extent of whisky, with the result
of making wino-growing one of onr
greste.it industries. With the introduction
of pure and cheao wines will come the in
evitable decreaso in drunkenness which
marks tho exchange of whisky for wino the
world over.
This place is making very substantial
progress in every direction, cud ia withcat
doubt one of the most prosperous places
in Georgia. A stock company is putting
up a cotion seed oil mill here, which will
be ready to cotmuouce operations in Au.
gust It will ha'O several gins attached
and wi:l prove a great convenience to the
farmers, as well os profitable to its owners.
It will be under tho management of Mr.
E. W. Thompson.
Thomasvillo boa fine educational faciti,
ties. The South Georgia Agricultural Col
lege is located here. It is a branch of tho
State University, tuition is free and it is in
a very prosperous condition. It now has
about ICO students, and all departments
from the primary to the oollegiate. It has
the following faculty: O. D. Scott, presi
dent; E. S. McSwain, professor of Greek;
J. IL Alexander, professor of Latin; J. F.
Parker, professor of mathematics, and J.
H. Merrill, primary. Tlie ncademio classes
are divided among the members of tho
faculty.
Young Female College is also located
here and is under the management of Pro
fessor John E. Baker, with o fino corps of
assistants. It i: doing woll also.
H. C* H*
< Enongli to Duns.
GrxJJln Sun.
Voter, hare you noticed with what unanim
ity the Itaillcal prom pat* the disguised Georgia
Republican*, called liberals, on the back? It
hu* the endorsement and rapport of Arthur,
and every prominent Northern Radical sheet
wo havo noticed endorses the movement.
These tiro facte alone aro enough to damn any
political movement so far as Georgians are con
cerned. _
A Specimen.
Washington Kepublican.
Five negro Republican witnesses swore that
they know the defendant well, that they saw
him vote at Millet, that in order to seo wheth
er he would veto again they followed him ou
the train, paying their tares, to Bcdlock, where
he voted, then to Allendale, where ho repeated
the operation, and finally back to Millet, where
he cast hts fourth ballot. On the other hand
fifteen witnesses, of all colorsand politics, tes
tified that the defendant was chairman ot tho
l)oard of election manager* at Millet, and there
remained all day In the discharge of bis duties.
Instead of dismtainR this case aud arresting
their witness tor perjurr. the several prosecut
ing officers, while not having the audacity to
argue the matter, sent the indictment to the
Jury in the hope of a conviction. Hod they
succeeded It would havo been a veritable tri
umph, authorizing congratulatory dispatches
not onlv to Philadelphia, but St. Petersburg
aud other co-operating centres. However,
even the elasticity of tho consciences of that
packed Jury had a limit, so that they declined
o accept tbe lies of tbe prcxxutlon’s witnesses
for sober truths.
The Kilbouru Verdict.
Baltimore Sun Correspondence.
There appears to be almost an entire lack ot
undemanding as to the meaning and effect of
the verdict in the Ktlboum false Imprisonment
case. After the decision of the Supreme Court
remanding tho case for a new trial no Jury
couhl havo been expected to do otherwise (Iran
award damage*. The 8upremc Court did not
declare absolutely that no power existed in tho
House of Representative* to compel witnesses
to testify, but it was very positive In affirming
that no power existed to compel a witness to
divulge hi* private attain. Mr. Kilbourn was
imprisoned by order of the llouso for refusing
to do this very thing, and according to tho de
cision of tho Supreme Court he was il.’cgully
imprlsoned and entitled, therefore, to redress.
Mr. John G. Thompson, the scrgeant-at-arms
of the House, who executed the order, and
against whom tbo suit was brought, said
publiclv in advance that ho anticipated
a verdict asatnst him, but he dia hot
expect that the jury would find for such
a large amour.!'. A motion has been mndo
for a new trial, bnt It is generally supposed
that Judge UacArthar will set azide the verdict
os excessive. The judge, with the concurrence
of the plaintiff, can then assess the damages,
and it 1* reported that if the amount isnot fixed
at a sum exceeding > 25.100 it will bo satisfac
tory to tho defendant. Whatever damages may
finally ltc determined upon Mr. Thompson win
pay. and will then appeal to tbo House of Rep
resentatives to Indemnify him. Some of the
members of that body have declared that they
will never vote any money for tills purpose,
but the general belief is that Mr. Thompson
will not be permitted to suffer for an act which
he was compelled as an officer of tho House to
erform. iJistrict Attorney Corkhlll was cm-
toyed bv Mr. Thompson to defend the esse In
its private capacity as a lawyer, and os Mr.
Thompson was sued as a private individual,
tho government was not brought luto the case
one way or the other.
SPECIAL COBRE8POXDEXCE
From Buena Vista, Akbsvllle, Hlclt-
ory OroYfi Ktc.
Buena Vista,April 24. -The row between
the negroes and whites culminated this af
ternoon. A mob of nearoea crowded tbo
slreots, intent upon creating a disturbance
Tho mob woo met by three young white
men and compelled to back. It is hoped
that tho ond of this unfortunate affair has
been reached. „
Col. Mark Blanford, Solicitor General
Grimes r-ud Uol. Russell, all of Columbus,
are bora ia ationdanoo upon the Stipenor
Court. ’ K. O. I.
Thomabton, Ga., April 23.—A suspicious
looking character was brought to town yes
terday (Sunday) by Mr. Henry Birdsong
and lodged in jail under tho chargo of va
grancy. He calls himself Ferry Cooley
and claims to hail from Anderson, S. C.
He is nearly white, about twenty-five years
of age and weighs about 170 pounds. He
ia it strong, fine looking fellow, well able to
make his living by honest toil. He is sus
pected of several petty offeusee that oc
curred in tho neighborhood. Tramps are
so unusual in this part of the moral vine
yard that we simple-hearted folk can’t help
thinking that he was guilty of some crime
on his native heath. Hence the dosorip-
t lolls
It is lumoredlhnt a marriage in high life
will be consummated In a few days. The
Telegraph and Messenger will be notified
in doe course of time.
With no bad luck old Upson will reap
the largest oat and wheat crop since the
war. Oats are tho finest I have ever seen.
There is n slight complaint of rust in
wheat but it is not general. W.
Talbotton. April 24. —Dr. T. B. Turner,
an old and highly respected citizen, di id
at bis homo, a few miles from town, yes
terday morning, after a protracted illness.
Rumors say we are to nave a marriage in
town in a few days.
The lady’s aid society will give a “festi
val,” May first. The Sunday-schools will
of course have celebrations in May.
Col. W. A. Daniel Is named for Legisla
tive honors from this county. J.W. H.
Millvdoeyille, April 24.—Our commu
nity was honored Friday morning by the
arrival of Senator Joseph E. Brown, ac
companied by his wife and son. Their
visit is one of pleasure only, their object i
being to see the place again where old
friends and associates reside. It was
hero, in days gono by, that Gov, Brown
achieved much of his distinction os a
statesman, fought some of h’s hotestond
most successful political battles, and made
both fame and fortune. Somo of his truest
admirers and warmest personal friends are
found among our citizens. 4nd naturally
he comes here now, while seeking recre
ation, from over zealous official occupa
tion, to chat with his friends of former
days, where he i* not apt to be beset with
the claims of office and bounty seekers.
The Macon boys ought to practice a lit
tle more before coming over again to play
baseball with the college nine. They were
literally denned up Saturday in the match
game. The score stood 23 to 7 in favor
of our nine at tho endof the game.
The fantral of Mrs. Wm. McKiulcy i^0k
place yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock,
from her rerideuce. Sho was one of our
moat honored and beloved citizens, and
her death, while not unexpected, casts a
gloom over the entire community.
Baldt.
Indian Sprino, April 24.—Indian Spring
is no longer a dormant watering plaoe,but
1 is thoroughly aroused from her lethargy.
The hotels are donning the summer suits
for the reception of the large expected
crow I during the ensuing season. The
track of the Macon extension is complete
to a point within two miles of tho mecca
of the South. The Telsobaph and Ues-
bknoee receives at all hands many compli-
mtnts for its improvement under the new
management. G.
Camilla, April 24,1882.—The Methodist
District Conference for Thomas ville dis
trict, closed its session at this place last]
night. Every tossion was pleasant, profit-
Lble aud deeply spiritual. The reports
showed tho district to be in a most flour
ishing condition. Revivals aro common
end scriptural holiness is the watchword
nil around, Rev. L. B. Payae received for
tho Orphans’ Homo $315. Tho agent of
Emory. Rev. Lovcjoy, lifted a good collec
tion. Her. L. B. Bochellc. T. C Mitchell,
John P. Dickinson and L A. Bush were
elected delegates to the next Annual con
ference. Religious services will be con
tinued through the week. The pastor will
be assisted by Rev. John B. Culpepper.
The meeting at the Methodist church, pro
tracted from the district conference, con
tinues with wonderful interest. Seven ac
cessions to the church were made last
night. Tho church was filled and many
could not fii.d room. The weather is de-
ItightfuL - C.
HAmericcs, April 25.—Our city fathers
have resolved to sink an artesian well.
Work will be begun as soon as the neces
sary machinery can be obtained. R.T.
Byrd & Co. will ship to-day to St. Louts
six bushels ot new wheat. It is well ma
tured, ot tbe Raiuey variety, and was raised
by Mr. Leonard Porker of our oonnty.
Bison, April 25.—Mr. \v. H. Calhoun,
■l old and respected citizen of this coun
ty, died at his home noar this place Inst
Sunday and was buried at Shilooh church
yesterday. Old agotakos the old gentle
man away no doubt, ho being Uo^-ears old.
HmoRab, April 24.—The regular term of
Telfair Superior Court convened Tuesday
morning, the loth inat., Judge Pate presid
ing, with Solicitor-General Tom Eason in
chargo ot the State's affairs, and a pretty
full attendance of the bar The juries were
scon impaneled, and, after a strict and
plain chargo to tho grand jury, the regular
business of the oourt was proceeded with.
iMrs. McDcarmid.an aged and highly es
teemed lady, died at her residence in this
place last rridty*
We venture tbe assertion that McRae has
one of the most flourishing Sunday-schools
of any town to its size on the Macon and
Brunswick railroad. Mr. S. McLean, our
ivoimlar postmaster, is superintendent.
Hon. John D. McLeod, onr present rep
resentative in the Legislature, wo learn,
will be in the field for re-election. A.
Haweixsvzllz, April 24.—On Saturday
might there was a terrific rain-storm here,
doing much injury. Tho cellars of Messrs.
John F. Lewis & Co. and Messrs. P. O.
Clegg & Co. were filled, doing considerable
damage to tho goods therein stored. It is
universally conceded to be tho heaviest
rainfall over known hero. . Sioux.
Buena Vista, April 25.—Much to tho dis
appointment of our citizens, who woro ex
pecting a week’s excitement, the Superior
Court adjourned to-day. Col. E. M. Butt,
who is interested in nearly every case be
fore this term of tho court, has a very sick
wife and has not been able to be present at
tho oonrt’a sittings. Judge Willis, with his
usual consideration and kindness, contin-i
nod all of Col. Butt’s cases, and appointed!
<m adjourned term for Jnly. So the legal
gentlemen havo oil folded their tents and
havo sought green fields and postures new,
lor words to that effect.
| Your Mr. Crosby Smith, who has been
hero representing the “old-young lady,”
lias won golden opinions for the Teleoeapii
and Messenger, and has also won ft more
than full list ot subscribers.
A very unfortunate difficulty oocmreJ
on our streets this afternoon. A man by
the name of Pony Newsome was riding
n mule about tho streets trying to interfere
with the drill of the High School Cadets.
Mr. Lon Mathis, a gentleman who lives
near here, interfered and attempted to get
Newsome off the street. Some hot words
passed and thirty or forty minutes after
wards Mr. Mathis was stubbed, m
Mr. Sam Crawford’s store, in the
left shoulder and left breast by New-
some. Mr. Mathis knocked Newsome
down, rolled him out ou tbe sidewalk axd
gave him a terr.ble beating. Your re
porter, who arrived upon the scene toward
the close of the fight, thought that New-
some was a dead man, but Newsome, in the
course of a few minutes, was able to walk
oi Y'our reporter doe3 not know what
Newsome’s present condition is. Mr.
Mathis is painfully, but, it is hoped, not
dangerously cut.
A negro, n witness in one of the oriminal
cases tried by the court yesterday, was way
laid'and shot just at dark to-day. It ia
supposed that the defendant in the cn.-e, a
negro, wau the party that did the shooting.
Your reporter haa not been able to learu
the particulars, aa the shooting ooeurred
some distance in the country. K. O. I.
Thomahton, April 2ti.—A young colored
man by the came of Coup Gilbert was
drowned iu Potato creek, just abore Rog
ers’ old factory place. It happened about
2 o’clock yesterday. It seeme that he was
plowing in a bottom near the creek, and
seeing some duoks near the opposite shorn
he succeeded in shooting one and swam
across to where the duck was floating, aild
was making his way back with tho duck
when ho suddenly cried out for help, bnt
before Mr. Mathews, hia employer, could
come to his assistance ho sank, and was
seen no more. Wo went to the scene of
his death, cud a largo company were eu-
gsged in dragging the creek for tho body,
but up to this writing they aro not sne-
Large crowd in town fo W’tuesa the deco,
ration exercises. Rev. Sir. Fackl^r w(ll de.
liver the adtlrwa this efteruooa. W.
Hickory Gbovk, Ga., April 24.—Tho
farmers are not doing as well as they ex
pected to do, since the prevailing storm
on Saturday night last, which proved to bo
a land-washer and a fcncs-sweeper. Tho
rain was terrible, tbe bail hoary and the
lightning exciting to behold. Many fences
and water-gates woro completely swept
away and lands materially damaged. A
good many bad finished planting their
bottom lauds in corn, and consequently
will hare to do the same work over again.
Some few are done planting cotton, while
others have yet to get ready. Wo notice
that Mr. Howell Adams has a beautiful
stand of tho fleecy white staple up, and tho
prospeots are quite flattering. Ue has
cotton with from five to six leaves, and
also ha* a fine prospect ot wheat and oats.
Prof. T: ns3all bad the misfortune to have
a very fine mule killed by lightning Satur
day night. -• t#. A. II.
Americus, April 20.—Mr. !£. S Boll, son
of Hon. A. C. Bell, our postmaster, diod
yesterday, after a lingering iliuvss of fifty
days. His fatal malady was typhoid fover,
coupled with pneumonia. Ha was nine
teen yeais old, and was possessed of a
warm heart and genorous disposition. Ho
will be buried this afternoon by tbo Wide
awake Fire Company, of which bo was a
member. The bereaved parents bare tho
sympathy of onr community. W.
Smith ville, April 2d,—Mr. Marion Sima,
of Americus, was married at 2 p. m. to
day to the boautifal and accomplished,
M‘83 Bessie G. Leonard, of oar town. She
is a sister of Mrs. Alma McUla n, who
went to Chma as tho wife of the Rev. K.
McClain in 1880, and had to return on ac
count ot ment*l prostration, erased by
overwork. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. J.W. Bnrke, of Maooa, at the
house of the bride’s mother, in the pres
ence of a tew select friends. They left on
the three o’clock train for Americus, their
future home. Wo tender them our con
gratulations. E. M. K.
Abbeville, April 25.—I see from the slip
on the copy coming to Dr. B. H. Walker,
which was a mistake of my name, but pre
sumed to bo for me, that my time expires
the 29th iust„ and ns change bills aro
scarce and a postal order, office not nearer
than Hawkinsville. I herein enclose yon n
dollar so as not to miS3 a single number,
and to keep tbe thing going nn'il 1 can
meet np with another opportunity for for
warding my annual subscript on. By ref
erence to yonr books you will find my name
among your regular subscribers for tho but
twelve years and occasionally prior to that,
and my father, of the eamo name, of Har
ris county, for forty or more years. Your
recent acquisition of tbe versatile, pungent,
pon of Col. Lamar brings to memory the
pleasant reading of tho old Columbus En-
quirer when everything was mea-ured anil
weighed by tho ethics of the Colonel’s
writings, May long life, plea-mat sccnos
and fruitful labors and rich pasturage
crown the old war-horse. Truly, with re
spects, Virgil B. Walker, M. D.
Albany, April 25.—Albany » certainly
to be classed in the near futuro as a town
of artesian wells. Tbo city has contracted
for another, the county for one, and also
the Central railroad, which will make four
in the <ity, besides numerous others antici
pated by private parties. Mr. John Sr-en-
osr, a civil engineer, who originnlly resid
ed m Albany, but since tbe war has been
engaged in the West, has taken » contract
to boro ono for the little town of Lsary, on
the Albany and Blakely road, upon a new
process from the one adopted by Mr. Jack-
son, the contractor for the wells here. He
will use a solid steel drill attached to a
solid wire rope, using weight) to giro tho
drill for A instead of pressing. A sand
pump instead of a water pump, which, in
our opinion, will be quite an improvement,
as water ia the main draw back to tho old
process. If Mr. Speneer is successful, wo
expect to see every substantial planter in
this country with his artosisn well
and fish pond, which will make
his homo a little country para
dise. In noticing your article of yes-
teiday iu legard to tho cyclone missing
your city, calls to memory that wo can
chronicle the same fact. For several years
this section has been visited with these cy
clones, and they have always passed
through Terrell and Worth couutiea to tbe
left and right of Albany, dividing about
ten or twelve miles below. Tho tracks can
be seen between here and Smithville and
between here and Camilla. This ia a re
markable coincidence, but nevertheless
trae.
Tbe ladies are preparing for the memo
rial services this af ernoon. Mr. J.S. Da
vis is the orator ortho occasicu, and will
be introduced by Neil Willingham, the
gifted orator and editor of the Woes and
Advertiser. He has been dreorod up for
the occasion since 4 o'clock, r. m. J-4^k
out for something good aud flowery.
Crops were nevor more pcontata
when we say it wo mean it. Oats as_
gaut It is useless to undertake t j cusn’t
ate; everything is boomingand ouryLo..
aro smiling aud bragging largely. T
quite a plea3antLcaU from joblHP 1
son last week, aft wo believe he lef * wlrt 5 - '
favorable opinion of Albany, at ie** mc -
reporter done his best to mako « th*:.
pression by a fow statemenU a .been
Worth ooanty oourt in session
Baker,next. Judge Warren still
to preside. Judge Simmons
6 resided here for him last
_ elieve won tbe admiration
jury. Yours,'
Valdosta, April 2o.—Marrit.
25th lost., by Rev. Dr. Kerr, si
deuce of the bride's father, A.
Esq., Mr. Henry Briggs to Mi
Smith. The attendants were Miss Laura
Baker and D. U. Ashley, Esq , Miss Carrie
Howell, and Mr. J. M. Wilkinson. Mr.
Briggs is a merchant and a young irmn of
vim and integrity. The bride is tho
daughter of A. Uamp. Smith, a young lady
of sp'endid attainments ana noble quali
ties. Wo oongratulate both, and eay to
them good-bye, with good wishes for a
prosperous and happy joarnty through
life W.
Sbavimr the Face.
Mete Turk Journal qf Commerce.
Thirty years ago a lew personaof foreign birth
appeared in the streets wi ih hair on tho upper
np. and wen objects of public ridicule. In
1*50 some of the yonnic nu lls of the metropolis
began to wear m ustaeuc*. but for some time no
clerk would venture to imitate them. In one
cases merchant on Pine street, who had en
gaged a cleric for twelve months, or during
rood behavior, discharged him for wearing a
lull beard, claiming that the adoption of the
fashion hud the clerx open to dismissal under
thcEooJ-K-haviiircIttuM.’of lUeooucracL About
the same time a number of leading merchants
gave notice that they would employ nobody
who wore hair ou tho up;>cr lip. As late
as 1S51, the senior proprietor of this paper
mado his cashier shave off v.t Incipient
mustache, and soon after brought hts own son
under the razor. In the church of Dr. Rcthnne,
ot Brooklyn Heights; an elder who was suffer
ing Item ■ lame wrist altowcdhis ' card to crow
rather Ilian submlttoa barber. The habit, bc-
uinnhig in necessity, conthiu-.'d on accountof
the increase of comfort which It afforded, and
the elder Haunted his beard before the congrc-
catlon constantly. The result was 'laughable.
Many ot tlie brethren calk-1 upon the pastor to
insist upon doing away with such a scandal as
a full-bearded elder. HeJodYtum to his libra
ry and showed them hmv somt ot the curly fa-
liurs had pleadedagaluit cutting...1'tl,o beard (
"He turned to 1-acutnlius, Theodore, b't. Au
gustine and St. Cyprian, who had iIibmI, con
tended for the growth of the whole beard. Ho
quoted from Clement of Alexander tlie assertion:
'.Nature adorned men, like a lion, with a beard"
os a mark ot strength acd power. When one
ot the visitors asked him how he would like It
If tho clergy assumed the mustache. Dr. Both-
uue referred him to a decision ot tho fourth
council ot Carthagj (A. D. A';J, can. 44) in
which it was positively enacted that a cleric
shall not shave his beard, ami lo a >(al. ment
made by Luther in discussing tbe snbisel that
‘all the Protestant martyrs were b * ■
full beards.’ " Thi> did no;
for consequently tlie ladies ot tin
pat in their protest. But inn
venturesome lawyer let his bea
the manner ot the elder. Rad tu
smooth shaven fai vs were no iu
but were the excepiton.
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ned in their
the matter,
ougrcgaUon
" months a
.grow after
lutle while
;er the rule
Quick HleiMJrokn A to Uaml
San Trancuco Letter In Vie Leum itle Commer
cial.
Rosci bloom in Sacramento at Christmas In
March, ninety-six mtbs from Sacramento and
7,WO feet above it, messengers on snow-shoes
carry the mall across Summit Valley over tho
tops of the telegraph poles, and in two Btorv
bouses the windows are shut tight bv snow and
they burn lights up staini and down night and
day for two weeks. When this great kodv nf
»nowr melts ao<1 the snort rivers, varying from
70to 700 miles, are overfilled, there «re £S5
[rente:Ls. Net perhaps 100 miles the other wav
a drought will be prevailing. jTSSSLSSo
the thermometer stauds in July at US degree?
‘“. 6 f n I r ? ucUe Pt P ral!e3 taay, ladies wTuto
out In their sealskins, and the fuchsias and
ixuwlun dowers and cameltas will ,„i
teraahiua wind that s££*T 22?^
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