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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AKD MESSENGER. FRIDAY, APRIL 25,18S4. THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. Dally nnd Weekly. ThkTelegraph anu Mer»rngkr is publish* ed every day except Monday, and weekly ev ery Friday. The Daily Is delivered by carriers In the cltyor mailed nostage free to subscribers at $1 pet month, $2.00 for three months,, $T' for six months or $10 a yenr. Tin Weekly Is mailed to subscribers, i tage free, at $1.80ayear and75c. forslxmont.._. To flubs of five $1.25 per year, and to clubs of ten $1 per year, and an extra copy to getter up of club of five or ten. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Daily at $1 per square of tcu lines, or less, me i'aii.i ni ft |K-r squiirc wi veu nues, vs ium, for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion; and for the Weekly at $1 per t-qua re for each insertion. Liberal rates to contractors. Rejected communications will not be re turned. Correspondence containing Important news, and discussions of living topics, is solicited, but must be brief and written upon but one side of the paper to have attention. Remittances should be made by Express, Money Order or Registered Letter. . Agents wanted in every community in the BUte, to whom liberal commissions will be paid. |Postmasters are especially requested to write for terms. All communications should be addressed to The Wines We Drink. It is just as well for tlio people to re alize at once, that in tho interests of money-getting, a determined assault is being made on tho American stomach from every quarter. Tho Western hog comes to us with trichinosis; we spread our adulterated flour bread with oleo margarine butter, and sweeten ourcof- fco with glucose. Doctored milk clings to our glosses, and black dust lies concealed in our pepper. What neat? This: A Philadelphia wine merchant has been enlightening a Timet reporter upon tlio character and quality of the majority of wines now imported and sold to American consumers. Beginning witli champagne, the ex' pert says, that under the old process champagne by fermentation used to bet witnesses have been examined under oath, and the law lias been expounded by the court, it is tho exclusive pro vince of the jury to find tlio verdict, and public journals should be careful to say nothing that can possibly affect the result. No roan can have a fair trial where the local newspaper takes part for or against him. Tho Bottle or Shiloh. We extract the following statement from the Memphis Avalanche of the 20th inst.: A conversation with (leu. Hardee In 1RG6 in reference to the battle ol Shiloh is reported by a correspondent of the New York Tribune, Gen. Ifttrdco tvas In comuianit* of one of the great divisions of the Confederate army Shiloh, and he said that In his opinion the op portunity of the South was lost with that bat tle. Had the first day's attack upon Gen. Grant's army been kept up. it would have been come wholesome, the wine first ferment- successful. Grant must hnvo been crushed ing in casks and then in bottles, the | and captured or driven into the Tennessee corks of the latter being drawn after a PREMIUMS TO ACENTS. We will give a premium ol twenty- fh^dollnrs to the local agent who sends in tho largest number of new subscrib ers to the Weekly Telegraiui and Messenger up to July 1st; a premium of ten dollars to the one who sends next to the largest list, nnd a premium of five dollars to the one who sends in the third list in size up to that time. CLUB RATES. Agents may receive subscriptions at tho following rates: & copies at |1.25 each year. 10 " 1.00 “ “ “ Names can be sent in as secured. Additions mny be made to clubs at any time. These premiums will be given only for now subscriliers—not for those whose names are now on onr books. Agents should go to work at once. The Weekly Telegraph and Mes senger will contain able discussions of the issues which will come up in the State and national elections this year, and a summary of tlio important nows of the world. It will contain nothing unsuitable for ladies and children to read. Every one who is not familliar with it should give it a trial this year. wtf Some of the "truck” dealers, last year, were cu-cumberers of the ground. The earthquake in England was almost ns big a thing as a Northwestern cyclone. Judge Miosiion Is frequently mentioned as a candidate for Congress in the first district. The time has arrived when the Judge should deny the allegation or shuck the judicial ermine. Tm:v say now that when Mrs. Hayes held high carnival at the White House t the country cousins who flocked thither were compelled to sleep three iu a bed after the Ohio fashion. Tuosa journals of the North which are on horrified that Georgians do not purchase tho home of Mr. Btephens in Crawfordvilie, will do well to remember that Daniel Web- stor's home at Marshfield, Massachusetts. Is now advertised to be Sold. Patkiui that are in tbc habit of altering dates and falsifying the facts of history nro poor authority in or out of the courts of justice. Kecretabt or War Lincoln has raised lilmscif immensely In popular estimation by the prompt style in wbicli he has demanded a court-martial to break Swaim, ono of the offensive legacies of tbc Garfield administration. certain time to remove impurities and to allow the nitrogen to escape. Under tills process a long time was required to perfect tho wine. Under the now, only ono fermentation is permitted, and the wine is thrown upon the market in two months, full of nitrogen, hence the headache of tho champagne drinker. The expert asserts that the manipu lation of wines is general m France and Germany. Ho pronounces the manu facturers there tho most skillful in the world. Not one man in ten thousand knows enough about wine to detect fraud. An interesting fact is found in the statement that despite the failure of the French grape crop, owing to the ravages of the phylloxera, for six con secutive years, the French wine supply bus not diminished, and the United States exported to France last year 0,500,000 gallons of white and red wines. France admits wine intended for ex portation again, free of duty, and tho American wines cost the manipulators from forty to seventy cents per gallon. The wine goes across in sailing vessels at five cents per gallon. When it comes back, we pay all charges that have accrued since the first sale, and a profit besides. We are not more fortunate in sherry. It is pronounced the most harmful wine in tlio world, being made of spirits, water, glycerine, sugar and oil of bitter almond, the latter containing prussic acid. Port as commonly sold is raw- claret flavored with raspberries and mixed witli spirits, suf^ir, fuclisineand anaiyne dyes. So on through tile list. While we shall perhaps continue to suffer from the use of adulterated food until legislation lias perfected plans to prevent it, there is no reason why we should suffer in the matter of wines Tho wines made here in Georgia, sweet and dry, arc absolutely pure, and highly palatabie. Under the impulse of a liberal public patronage, in a short timo the manufacturers will-bo enabled to produce wines that will compare favorably with any of the samo charac ter made in Europe. Nay more, we believe that under an abolition of the Internal revenue system these light Georgia wines will do more for the causo oi temperance in this Stato than all tlio lecturers combined. Drunken ness is not a feature of the countries where cheap wine is produced river, Anvil's army could have lieen beaten in detail and the Southern army marched to Dike Erie, separating the East and West, thus conquering a peace. Hardee said that after the death of Johnston the command devolved upon Beauregard, who suspended the attack, and thus substantially ended tbc battle. Why Beauregard failed to follow up Johnston’! success, no mnn could answer. Tho Confed erate troops were In condition to attack and Grant’s amy was demoralized and shattered. Buell’s forces had not then appeared, and one of the greatest errors of the war was commit ted hy this failure to attack the Federals. a proof of the ability ot tho Confederate army to achieve this success on the first day, Hardee spoke of the great contest of the second day, and the great difficulty Grant had In driving back the Confederates after he had been reinforced by Buell's entire army and the fresh corps of Lew W’allaee, which had not arrived ou the field on .the first day. What, he said would have been tho result if those great reinforcements had not arrived' To tile suggestion that the position of Grant army near the end of the first day, behind a ine nnd ridge, with powerful artillery, most formidable and that the fire of the gun boats was also of great assistance, Hardee lin ed that these obstacles had been exag gerated and would have been overcome by a spirited attack, such as tile Southern troops ouM then surelylmvo made it It had beeiy "Cak Blaine tie'scooped ?"’ asks tile Sa vannah Timet. It depends, we suppoee, on the size of the scoop and the skill of the Bcoopcr. A Democratic Inveetigstlon coni- roittce can’t do the work, as was shown by the utter fsilare ot the Mulligan move ment. New JfitsEY it one ot tho foremoet man ufacturing States ot the country and the price of her farm land, per acre, la more than fifteen times greater Ihan the price, per acre, of farm lands in Gejrgis, accord- to official returns from the Department ot Agriculture at Washington. Doesn't this prove that the Georgia farmer* have a personal interest in establishing and fos tering manufacturing industries in their State? It unquestionably does, unless even demonstration is to be denied. TncsE isn't a tingle product oi the farm that fails to bring a high price In Georgia. If the formers loaeall thesilvan tagetgruw- Ing out of this state of affaire by being in the market at buyers, instead of as tellers, they have only themselves to blame. To lay the blame for their necessitous condi tion at the doors of the tariff system in stead of at that of their own thriftless end improvident methods, i> the result either of unpardonable Ignorance or of unprin cipled attempt* at deception. It lea plain case to all except those “who, having eyes, nee not” The flippancy with which some South ern Democratic papers refer to Congrevs- man Randall as "a good man for the Re publicans to nominate" does them little credit. Mr. Randall has never voted the Republican ticket ; and his manly and un tiring defense of the South in Congress, all through the cruel and passionate days of the reconstruction period, certainly enti tles him to fairer treatment at the hands of the South. His opposition to free trade no more makes him a Republican than Beecher's advocacy of it makes him Democrat. Our Congressman and the Tariff. Mr. Blount, as a member of the com mittee of ways ami means, had to attempt to sustain the Morrison hori zontal bill. He found it a job beyond hiscomprc- fcension and capacity, and was afraid to tnst himself away from his printed slips. In «late Washington letter Mr. Ban dail, who was preient, writes; Mr. Blount read his speech Ira m printed stipe, aad hotly resented the I—** tnierraptkm. The tariff Is s new problem for bins, end be has not beta able tosueter It, Me. tlr.g Hon. William Eaton this morning. Isold: "What question Hid you wish to ask Mr. Blount when he wes rending his speech yeeterdayend refused tobe Interrupted?" !!e answered: “I desired lo ascertain from Mm If he knew how loiffBaglend bed throe to pro tection. I I.ipeet that he did not koowlhal It wee lor 700 yean.’* Newspaper Treatment of Crime. Surprise is sometimes expressed by well-meaning persons, that the Tele- graph and Messenger docs not accom pany its record of startling crimes by some expression of opinion aa to tlio guilt or innocence of tlio defendant. It is tlie custom of many nowspapers we are aware, to give their opinions upon all questions that arise, including that of the guilt of the accused. In this way public opinion is sometimes unduly affected ami an impartriai trial defeated. Even the verdicts of juries are more or less influenced, to the dis credit of justico as administered by the courts. It was only a few years ago that the people of Georgia were startled hy a homicide committed in the capitol of tho State, and still more by the course pursued by a lending journal in the dis cussion ot tho merits of the case. The people ot the vicinage were greatly excited thereby, and a verdict of guilty was the result. The case was carried to the Supremo Court and there affirmed, Tlio groat chief justice dissented from a majority of tho court, however, in words that startled all thinking men as if they hod been aroused by the peals of a fire bell et night. "Without ex pressing any opinion," ho raid, "os to the guilt or innoaeoce of the defendant, and not believing that ho has had a fair and impartial trial under the con stitution and laws of his country, there is no power on earth that can extort from me an opinion affirming the juilg- mentof the court below." We do not consider it a part of the duty of the press to express any opin ion as to tlie guilt of persons accused of crime. It is the business of tlie courts to administer tho law and to try crim inals. The newspaper may very prop erly print nil the facts and circum stances attending tlie commission of offenses, hut beyond this it tag no right to go. All men, however guilty, are entitled under tbc law to a perfectly just and impartial trial. This is perhaps what the criminal does not always desire, but it is wltat all reasonable men should insist upon according to him. Indeed, Georgia—great and powerful and magnanimous as she is—docs not desire, and cannot afford, to have even pennittefi by Beauregard, Tlie letter of the Tribune’s corres pondent did not attract our attention, and we should not know what credit to attach to his statements. We feel very sure that General Hardee is in correctly reported. It is agreed on all hands that General Beauregard made a fatal mistake in not driving Grant into the Tennessee river, or capturing him nnd his army Sunday afternoon, as a prompt nnd vigorous pursuit would have enabled him to do. This fact was as patent to the actors the next day os it is to commentators now. But we arc informed by the corres pondent that Gen. Hardee stated in 1806, lour years niter tho battle, that the formidable character ol Grant’s position "behind n ravine and ridge," and “the fire oI the gun boats,” had been exaggerated, “and would have been overcome by a spir ited attack such as the Southern troops would then surely hnvo made, if it had been permitted by Beauregard.” This may all ho true, and yet we do not believe General Hardee is cor rectly reported. Tlie writer was present nt General Beauregard's headquarters on the field about fio’cock p. m., talking with him about tho linttlc. In a few minutes, Generals Hardee, Bragg and other officers dashed up, flushed with victory, and reported verbally to tlio General in command. There was universal ex cltcraent and rejoicing, in the midst of which General Beauregard made in quiry about tlie advisability of pursu ing the enemy. General Hardee re plied that Grant'a forces were crouched under tlio bluff and ridges near the river, and were protected by tho gun boats, and that the Confederates could not advance. Tills view was supported by General Bragg and others. General Hardee was riding a fine young blooded animal, ami he remarked to the writer that so great was her alarm at (lie fire of tlie gunboats, lie could not force hot forward. That General Hardee, soon after the battle, came to believe that tlie obsta cles referred to"had been exaggerated,’ is probable cnougit, though nt the timo both officers and men had a dread of those novel engines o( war. But we arc not prepared to admit tho accuracy ot the correspondent's statement. Gen eral llardeo could hardly have con demned General Beauregard in 1806 (or not doing what lie had advised him in 1862 was impracticable. Grant and his army were thoroughly demoralized; there was hut little danger in tho gun boats, and pursuit was practicable, just as it was at Manassas, and General Beauregard should have disregarded the report ol General Hardee and others and advanced. This is ail plain enough now, as it doubtless was in 1800, but Ilanlec was too just and chivalrous an officer to condemn his old commander (or listening to his own suggestions. resourceful man, capable of cloaking resentments, if he indeed bears them, and will make a speech, powerful and interesting, even if not convincing. He cannot save tlie hill, but Mr. Car lisle may save iiis party.. The time lias come when a partisan and personal struggle between factions of the party must cease, or the integ rity of the party will be destroyed. Its organization must speedily follow. It is plain to every one not entirely blinded by prejudice that tlie bill can not pass in its present shape. There is not the slightest hope for it save in tlie closest and severest emasculation. The party must begin to prepare for the l’resldcn.tial campaign. If it can not enter tho contest witli an united front, it were best that it do not tender fight nt all. That reason is beginning to resume her sway, is evident in tlie declaration upon tlie part ol Mr. Wuttcraon that lie will supportjitandall or Payne, upon tlie Ohio or Pennsylvania platform. There is no recognized leader ol that wing of tho party upon the floor of the House which supported Mr. Carlisle and elevated him to his present posi tion. It is not within the range of probabilities that Mr. Uandall nnd Mr. Morrison can make a truce to which their excited followers would grace fully agree. But M r . Carlisle can com mand the peace. He can suggest n compromise, and all great political measures are tlio resultof compromises, that will weld together again the dis cordant elements. It would be interesting to see Mr. Carlisle address himself to a task aban doned by others. Intellectual courage commands the same respect accorded physical bravery and prowess, but in the contention which would assuredly follow, tlie Democratic party alone would furnish the list of killed and wounded. At a crisis like this sophistries as to free tradejand tariff reform, while they might add to the admiration that Mr. Carlisle’s friends have for his discip lined mind and crafty methods, would fait to meet tho requirements of tlie occasion. He has been an honored and trusted Democratic leader. That some of the ablest and best of tho party have re fused to follow him further, should give him pause. IVe repeat that the Morrison bill is beyond tho touch of political surgery, hut tlie throbbing artery of a dissev ered party awaits tho bold and skilful hands, that can apply the ligature and staunch what appears to be a mortal wound. Britannia ana the Earthquake. these thing,, wc contend that these two t-at- Tho severe shock of carthquako ex perienced in England has sent a thrill throughout all Christendom. Exlrav- ngant as it may seem, tho ono thought —suppose the British Isles should sink beneath tlie waves—intrudes itself upon the mind. And yet not extravagant is the as sumed possibility of such n catastrophe. There is no certainty, nor is there prob ability of absolute fixedness about any portions of the earth’s surface. History is full of the records ties are aa Important aa Paul Revore'a solitary cantor, and yet tho achool book in uao In Pennsylvania schools does not lay a word about these fights. Tho samo hook aaya slaves tvoro held In Pennsylvania. Tbc writer forgot that staves were held In New England, and what la of more Importance, ho forgot that the abolition movement started in Pennsylvania. Ho tells about the one witch that was tried here, but does not Olid that sire was found not guilty. But /orBenjamin toy and tho Pennsylvania Quakers and the earliest attempt to suppress slavery In America, he has not a word. From another school book iu common uso In Philadelphia schools—a geography, pub- ; fished In Now York, the children learn that of disastrous changes in tho fuco and puiladclpiila ts the second manufacturing oily Mr. Carlisle to tho Rescue. Tlie New York Times is authority for the assertion that Mr. Speaker Carlisle will shortly leave the chair and take the floor in advocacy ol the Morrison horizontal tariff bill. There is nothing unparliamentary in this, for the Speaker is still a repre sentative from the Stato of Kentucky, and is privileged to be heard in debate. It is not often that a Speaker avails himself of this privilege. It may be truthfully said that occasions are rare that demand this from tlie presiding officer ol the House. In this case the necessity which (orccs Mr. Carlisie to this last resort is not complimentary to Messrs. Morri son, Mills and Blount, who Cordon's Position, General Gordon’s mission in tho Soudan nnd its attendant events, con stitute ono of tlio most singular ovents of history. Asido from tho reckless daring of flic innn there is nothing pleasant in it. Gordon undertook to pacify tlie Soudan, not to conquer it, Belying upon his prestige as its former “good governor,” ho went with but one man ‘to tlie largest city of the region and began his work of pacification with money nnd tlio abolishment of oppres sive tax laws. He rallied around him the native forces of Khsrtoum and seemed at ono time about to succeed in h!s mission. Rebellion, however, had readied a point where more than tho mere effects of bad government slept at tho base of it. Religious frcnsy, under the skill ful efforts of certain ambitious lead ers, spread throughout tho Moham medan tribes, and despite wise conces sions from tlie new governor, brought into open warfare against him neuriy the entire population of the surround ing country. To-day he is hemmed up iu the city named, with only a small force of defenders and provisions for a few months, relying upon tlie annual rise in tlie Nile nnd the assistance of British troops for safety. But tho singular feature of the mis sion is tho fact that tho British govern ment lias abandoned to his fate tho man who, at its instigation nnd as its aecrediteil agent, took his life in his hands and mode an attempt to extricate that government from its trying posi tion and avert an impending war. Gordon went to Khartoum represent ing England and using England’s money, to effect tho object of his mission. To-day British troops are encamped along tlie Mediterranean, and British papers are calmly discussing Gordon’s chances ot escaping by a journey up the Nile and a flight through Equato rial Africa. Gordon himself is in ig norance of the intentions of his govern ment. Such dispatches as have been recently sent through the enemy’s lines by him show that he believes liim*,l.’ about to be rescued by an English army. Buell an instance is, we believe, without parallel in tlio history of civi lized nations. It is in sharp contrast to the action of the American govern ment in rescuing tlio bodies of De Long's followers from the Arctic re gions, and the present efforts to rescue Grecly, undertaken without regard to cost. It is in thorough accord with the selfish policy of England. Gordon’s death, and nt present it seems almost certain, should damn England for all time. The very men tion »f hia name should suffice to bring the blush of shame to every British check. features of the earth in every quarter. Probably if the records could have sur vived, it would have been found that none remain as in tlie beginning. IVbat lies hidden beneath the wave we know not, except as relates to modern his tory. Beyond Herodotus,- the ages sleep, and whether limited to tlie few thousand years of tlie Christian system of construction, or expanded into tlie millions of tlio scientists, they guard their secrets. But modern his tory shows that even such a disaster as tho destruction of Great Britain by a sudden convul sion of nature is possible. We do not mean by mere earthquakes, fer however damaging such convulsions may be, they do not annihilate. A severe earth quake might tumble into ruins a dozen cities, crashing a quarter of a million of people, as in Antioch, eighteen hun dred years ago; but by some mighty change in the topography of that por tion of the globe where rests the British Isles the sea may roll unbroken History is not devoid of such instances. Only a few months since an entire island with lofty mountains sankotitof sight in the far Pacific, carrying with it a hun dred thousand people. A somewhat sim ilar disaster less than six months since destroyed an immense amount of life ami property at Ischia, in the Mediter ranean. In 1822 100,000 square miles of territory in South America, between the Andes nnd the coast, was elevated permanently from two to seven feet. Tliis tract is four-fifths the size of the British Isles. In 1692 a thousand acres upon which stood tlie capital city of Jamaica went down witli its inhabitants beneath the waves. In 1772 an area fifteen miles long anil six broad, on which stood a lofty mountain nnd for ty villages, in Java, sank from sight. In Lisbon in 1755, during the earth quake which destroyed GO,000 people, all who had taken refuge upon the gfeat quay were suddenly engulfed with it. Where once it stood the water is now six hundred feet deep, and of uii that went down, ships and human bodies, not a fragment ever returned. Simultane ously with tills tragedy of nature was a shock in the British Isles, and tho sudden fall of waters iu tlie Scottish lakes. A thoisand instances might he quoted. But England itself hears evidence of prehistoric convulsions of nature. In her "old red sandstone,” Hugh Mil- len found every evidence of a territory lifted from tho sea; shells, fish and fossil remains—a handwriting the most ignorant could understand. Why mny not the sea reclnim what it onco gave up? This evidence of a former exis tence under water is common to nearly all sections of the globe, ft is found upon and imbedded in tlio highest peak* of tlie Rocky mountains; it is exhnmed from tlie foundations of tho fnr plains. In tlie face of it, no man can deny the possi bility of sudden disaster to any nation, nor affirm that tho hills of any country are eternal. A change in nature that would blot out tlie British isles,while only remote ly ]K>ssible, is suggested by tlio late physical phenomenon described in tlie dispatches. They hare been singularly lreo from such dem onstrations. Tlie chemical processes of the earth’s interior are eternal and past all comprehension. It may be that tlie shock felt in England is tlie opening up of another mighty depart ment in nature’s great underground laboratory, anil that as beneath tlie tropical, so in the temperate zone will the conflict of water, gas, vapor, firo and acids lie carried on, whose action shall at times be signaled to the upper crust, by angry rumblings anil terrific shocks, to end as did Verne's "myste rious island,” by the inrusliing ocean meeting with inextinguishable fires, and the destruction of all confines in ono gigantic explosion. Scarcely less interesting are tho geo graphical anil political speculations set in motion by the results as suggested. Russia would be mistress of tho East, France would seize upon Egypt, and independent colonies would struggle for existence throughout the world, should Britannia, who “needs no bul warks,” for lack of proper foundations sink below the wave. Tlie tendency is dangerous b*vn expression, nnd it seems to grow r -V than diminish. Buch tv.,- I mfluenco produced by tlio into iulmirrt*| tration in Georgia, that though^ chtol officer wasknown to becorrupt, no a. I in the last. Legislature dared to move ,!l uncover his malfeasance. In tlie Union. Wo nro Inkles Infinite ptlns to tench our i-hfidreu wlial Mr. Lorln Uloilget has taken tho trouble to tUapruvo. Again, tho Press protean that thin la a matter concerning which Philadelphia children should he taught facts. It appears to us that the complaint is well founded, and could bo joined in most justly, by journals representing many other States beyond Pennsylva nia. The trick of tlio Now England historian to put tho onus of slavery upon Pennsylvania alone was almost as provoking as the attempt to depre ciate the manufacturing importanoo of Philadelphia. Reduced down, it amounts to about this: New England has written these school-books for tHis country, anil that they are partisan and unreliable, ami should be discarded. Tlie Tress is -eminently right in its protest against the children of Pennsylvania being taught out of books of the class to which it alludes. Tlio Press concludes with a very frank confession when it says: “We smile at the mingled enthusiasm and absurdities of tlio school histories in use in the South. But wo take, accept and tcacii our children tlie more artful absurdities contained in the New Eng land school hooks.” Woof the South have been using these same New Eng land books, no doubt, and others that arc quite as bad and some worse, no doubt. As to the laughing part, wo can join tho Press, but not for the reasoits ad duced. Wc can stand the enthusiasm, if we ever find it in Southern school histories, and may excuse tlio ab surdities, which may tie plentiful. Sucli Southern school histories | have had time to examine are sketchy, inaccurate, and devote too much attention to the political motives which controlled events. The whole subject is interesting and important, and we refer to it again to impress its importance upon parents, guardians nnd those who propose to take charge of our educational in terests. Call Me Pot Names, Lore, Courier-Journal. Tlie Atlanta Constitution airs- _ "J t wilt be reiueuiben-d thatHenrrlv.. I torso", of tho Courier Journal, winr ^I Washington City aa the paid loblViiUrm I whisky ring; that ho went ou the fi£' tb, ,| tho House because lie could go tu ,!? 1 1 reason ol the fact that the ibatnc-t were tolerant enough ol ill,f,,I et him go for a very short ""expired Kl o Congress; that he was driven out b v .u I tentmn hrn-g called to the feet that heJt I there lobbying fur tlio hill then under 2? I siilorntion." ‘ to u* I This is a wanton, wicked nnd shamolf,. I falshood. It is made out of a whotfffiB I and inspired by a malignant and mo, a-? Clous spirit. A newspaper which coul I surt to such an invention puts itself 0 uL 1 side the pale of recognition and rcspomL billly and proclaims itself not onlv ,V mh. he robber, buta common liar. ' 1 u:i I CROSSED IN 6 DAV8 IQ 1.2 HOURS. The Oregon Cuts n Big Slice on «, Transatlantic Record. New York Sun. It was reported to the ship news office last evening that the Guion steamer Ore. gon had been sighted off Firo Island at Mj o'clock and at 0:42 o'clock, six days anJ ten and a half hours from Queenstown had grounded ill Gcdney’s Channel, ouL side of Sandy Hook. This was at low tide The sea wes smooth and the wind light from tho east at 11, anil she was exon-rat to com ! off at high tide ot 2:30 o'clocYtMt morning. Tlie Cunardcr Anranla, whu-b sailed three and a bait hours later than tho Oregon, was not signalled last nighL A* soon as tlio report of the groundine of tlie steamship reached the city, tinner- intendent Ewer, of the Guion pier, started for the Oregon on the tug Cheney with Copt. Barrett. About raiilnlglitadispatch was received stating that tlie steamship Nevada of the satuo lino passed Sandy Hook, Inward bound, at 10:42 p. m. :jCh reported tliut tlio Oregon was riding safety unit not aground. 1 "The Oregon,” said Mr. William H. Onion, Jr., last evening, “has made the fastest time of any ship across the \L lantic. Six days and eleven hours. Just think of Hint. It heats the Alaska's fa mous record of six days and twenty-one hours. The Oregon did not race with the Cunardcr Aurania or any oilier vessel. Her average speed was nearly 450 miles a day. Slio is not aground. She could not cross tlio liar to-nfglit on eecounl ot low tide, but she wifi rido over at hieh water at 2 a. in. to-morrow, and wifi be at tier dock, foot of King street, at 7. The Alaska's best timo going to Liverpool Is r. days, 18 hours and 37 minutes, but the Or egon lias beaten even that by seven hours" The Oregon lett Queenstown last Sunday at noon. Her time from “bar to bar" was II days, 10JS hours. Sbo Is tlie first steamer to leave Queenstown on Sunday anil reach Sandy Hook on Saturday. Tlie City of Rome, of the Anchor blue, ones made tlie passage Irom Fantnet Light to Fire Island til 6 days, 20 hours and 51 minutes. The clipper ship Dreadnnught, under tlie command of Capt. Samuels, once crossed from Handy Hook to Liverpool la a little over nine days, tbc fastest time on record for sailing ships. Journalistic Independence. Tlio following letter from a subscrib er lias been received at this office : Farm Omcs, April 19,18SI.- Editors Tn.i:- orai-ii and Mrmzxiier.—I notified jour asent, II. C. Fryer, it Blakeley, that I would settle my subscription April Sth. And suro enough at that time your paper stopped. I now re new my auWriplIoh, when, ft the paper bad continued to come, I would havo settled for good and quit, but as It It I don't feel like I could do without,it. Independence is not only ttrcllfoof the newspaper busfucss, but of every other. This way that somo editors hare of continu ing a paper after tho subscriber says stop ft, ts very unjust, and has a tcudency to ilcgrlule and Injure tho'whole newspaper and edito rial business. I know of some of my neigh bors that wilt not subscribe for a paper for these reasons. I wilt now renew my subscrip tion, and glory In your spunk and Independ ence. You can publish this If you see fit. As ever, B, L. Woir. We print Mr.Wolf’s letter, not mere ly became ho gives ns permission to do so, but to assure him and others tfint it is our endeavor to conduct tlio Tele- graph anu Messenger on business principles. We feel obliged to subscri bers nnd advertisers for their patronnge and we hope to merit their good will by giving them full value for all we re ceive. At tlie same time, wo desire to preserve our own self-respect ns journ alists, ss well as their esteem, and to do tills we must observe those rules of business which obtain in all well regu lated establishments. We have no wish to impose our selves upon unwilling subscribers. We feel that wc print a bright, honest and independent paper, and that good and honest men and women cannot spend their rnonoy more profitably than by subscribing for it. If, however, any of them think differently or grow tired of it, they have only to notify us of tlie (act. We shall have a good word, for good men and good measures, snd a lash for evil-doers and men of un clean and dishonest methods; and we shall endeavor to bestow the one with the same judicial fairness that we ap ply the other. Asa superb hair dressing anil renovator Ayres’ lfelr Vigor is universally rum- tnended. ft eradicates scurf ami daml- raff, cures sll eruptions anil Itching* of the scalp, promotes the renewed growth of tlie hair, and scalp, and surely prevent* its fading or turning gray. X Cener.it Crnnt. J. G. Blaine. The fame of General Grant was full. He had entered the serrice with no factious advantage, and hit promotion from the first to the last hail been based on merit alone—without the ahl of political inllu- ence, without tlie Interposition nt personal frienda. Criticism of military rklll ts but ’ Idle chatter In the face ot an unbroken ca reer of victory. General Graiit’e czm- puigna are varied In their requirement*, and but for the fertility of bl* resources and Ida unbending will, might often have ended In disaster. Courage Is as eon- tagioua aa fear, and General Grant pos sessed In the highest degree that fac ulty which it essential to align at comma- dera—tho faculty of Imparting through out tlie rank and file of ms army tbe same ili-temilnatlon to win with which he wot himself Inspired. One peculiarity ol Gen eral Grant’s military rarer was his con. slant readlnes* to fight He wished tor no long period, of preparation, lust no opportunity which promptness could turn to advantage, lb-always accepted, with out cavil or question, tlie position 11 which he might be assigned. Ho never troubled the war department with requests or com plaints. and when injustice was Inflicted upon him hi submitted quietly, nnd did a soldier’s duty. have essayed anil failed support the first great movement the retl-hamled murderer executed ex- towards free trade, upon the floor. The cept in pursuance of the law. "It is better that ninety and nina guilty men should escape, than that one just per son should suffer." The duty of the press ends with a dis passionate recital ol the facts and cir cumstances of the crime. When tbe friends of the bill admit tbs’: it has been fearfully worsted in tlie debate and is in a precarious condition. Mr. Carlisle recognize* the danger, not PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS. We will send the Weekly Tki.e- OBAi-ii and Messenger for one year, free, to any one who will get np a club of five subscriber* for it at one dollar and twenty-five cent* each per year; or to any one who will get up a club of ten subscribers to it at one dollar each per year. Tliis is an easy way to se* only to the bill, bnt to his political | CU re without cost the best Weekly pa future, and will no doobtsrr.akea stren- per published in Georgia. Give it a nous effort to save it. He ia a cool,' trial. A Blast Asalnst New England School- Book Publisher*. Tlie Philadelphia Prnt protests most energetically against the New England histories used in the public schools of that city. As we have had occasion to urge a similar complaint, we* reproduce the laxly of the complaint of the Prttt as follows: Wc do not even object to the fact that the Vew England writer of the school history In question should have retold the atory of Paul Revere fn hit own pleasant style. tie did It for tbe benefit of New England pupil*, not for the edification of Fenmylvmula scholars. If Pennsylvania school board*, cebool anperin- n-ndcuu and teacher* cbnoie to u*e tbe New England veraUmot American hlatory, that It their lookouL Rut in tho nameof the scholar* of Penuylranla, we pnitnt that the bottle* of Genr-tntown ami Brandywine, when taken to gether, eooaf J-.-ring the number of killed and woande.1, ami the poialbUlty that If the Americana had won the - (fight on the the Brandywine, Philadelphia might never have been occupied by the British, and the •lory of Valley Forge might never bar* boos rang In song or told In itory, remembering Cur* for Hendncho. Mora rase* arises from disordered stom ach than any other enuse. Use Norman's Neutralizing Cordial to correct your stom ach and you will nut lie troubled with tlda E infill malady which has become the ne of our exutenc*. Try tL Senatorial. Barnrtvfile Gazette. The Senatorial aeptrantz now roaming at large in Monro* county era said to be quite numerous. Only about n half dozen names are prominent however. Monroe should put a good man in tlie field If she expect, l'ike anil Bibb to support him cheerfully* As there seems to be ro many aspirant* and tom* of the issue* to he uuuU capobk of stirring np the eedtaMBi la tta notifies] pot, we would suggest that Pike or Ilibh prise. , of whom will be acceptable. We .-hail watch the fight with some interest, even to the result of tbe nominating convention. Presidential Heredity. Tlio prominence given just now to Robert Lincoln a* a probable candidate for tlio Vice-Presidency, provokes the Lockport Journal to say that the time will sorely arrive when "the Garfield boys will come in, like Robert Lincoln, (or a share of the nation’s sympathetic gratitude in tlie way of being named for office.” This is not new. As Grant’s second term gravitated towards empire, the succession of his son Fred w as gravely discussed. If the Democratic party shall in the future display no more wisdom than has marked its course during the post decade or more, it may be that tbe Republican party will become io strongly entrenched, and so debauched with power, that it may attempt to carry out the idea foreshadowed by the Lockpoit Journal. The pros pect is not pleasing to centemplate. Only think of Presidential terms under Fred and Buck Grant, the two Gar- fields, a couple of cubs of Hayea and One Hundred Cents. Messrs. Zimmerman it Johns giats of Westminster, 8. C.. in tli order purchased onlv the dollc Norman's Neutralizing Cordial. Those- who try the 23 cents »ize always buy the large size next time, thus iu use advettUes its merit*. Agknts should offer of premiums i sue. net fail to ilsewhere tco our i this ia* a A Lady's Lite lfaj depend upon the medical tratment >he receipt»for tb« remorel of ho*e trouble* pecu liar to her a*x. That thc*e ntj. .ti..n* .tn I,* cured la deerljr deronotratrd bjr fho of teeUmonUlt on r.to at the of Dn. J»ek •on A BuiuettaV. K. corner Keep nnd Smih •tretrtt. Cincinnati, Ohio. Onr advice to our lady re*»li n fitocorn*- pood with them. They ere v -nllfiil and l*era«d tja m*-ct with Min t io their nu-Uee. I a. Bmk ^ r ihowithe efficacy of thdr treatment: Mertimnrllle, I d.. June 19. Dra. Jackson A Burnett,Cor. Race mid '. Cincinnati, Ohio*; Dear Bin: I hare been an ittt jean. Your M.O. I*muuce v to met to me by a phy»IcUu. Wb<n I com e their u*e, I baa been uusb e to w*.lk f-r m two yean without the nee nuar r Hi lloetrumeut one box of the fttatiHeJ uMe. never a aia to take It u|P-_ JUI. ■ ■oothi wai ei t;« |y cured ot Retroversion and . ro’afMCtofui? tern*, litre also been me! of Le-ucvrrh'Fa. From my Preiapauaofut of Leucvrrboea. „„ end that of eume belt dozen oth*n th*i u»« d ih-m. I roatldtr the Piutillee the nmi luMkh medlefne ever three to tta mar Arthur s dudiah acton. Kldlculoua ae mBhrlug women, ae they hove never felled in all thin may teem now to the avenge | ^mMaiSvcs-.AtSmtf'Sttft reader, it i« bnt the outgrowth of the (x-raoual politics which ha* controlled Yxazs nspzctfa'lv. the general government ami many of i Dra J. * B. .how thriM.i-i. the State* for year* past. I bj xrarapUbo r I2c swap*. n>p*z hi raj