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ATLANTA, GEOEOIA,
Wednesday, Fabrutry 6, 186«.
'I llr Labor Qaeitton Again.
In a late number of the Columbus /Sun we find
itie following extract from a letter addressed to
the New York Timet by an Augusta correspon
dent of that paper. Referring to the question
of labor in our State, and the drain made upon
it bv parties engaged in the business of enticing
avray from it the ireedmen “ to the manor born ”
into Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, the
writer draws the graphic picture we here present,
endorsing it as the result of our own personal
observation at the depots, car-sheds, and other
places iQ the Gate City:
The individuals engaged in thi3 charming oc
cupation are rarely the planters who need “the
help.” T iiev are generally agents impelled by
tlie commendable desire to promote agricultural
prosperity, and serve “the poor darkey,” with
their economical and benevolent tastes, slightly
stimulated by the receipt of a little friendship's
oflering, iu the shape of five or six dollars for ev
ery negro they translate to the Mississippi and
Arkansas Eden3. Theii activity and zeal are
only equalled by the exuberance of their lancy in
describing the terrestrial paradise which they
seek to develop. When they meet a benighted
African who they think will listen to the voice ol
the charmer, it is delightful to see how their face
beams, and how philanthropy and six dollars in
greenbacks make all their sensibilities come out
‘ ‘strong in blow.” Their affectionate familiarity,
their tender inquiries for the “old woman and the
children,” their compassionate sorrow when
they hear “we havu’t made much this year," and
their unalterable resolve to put “every nigger in
the way ol making his fortune,” and become a
large landed proprietor in little or no time, would
touch even the cynical heart of Miss Evans’ St.
Elmo. Their first proceeding is to establish an
alliance (offensive and delensive) with the “Bu
reau." whose local represenUttive they rarely fail
to secure ns an earnest coadjutor. The next step
is to enlist the preaching, school-teaching, savings-
bank-founding Ireedmen who have no visible
means of existence, and obtain front them the lo
cal habitations and the names of all the negroes
in the the vicinity who may, can or will be bam
boozled or swindled into leaving their homeland
employers and go with them into the cane-brakes
ami fever swamps which abound near the Father
of Waters, and tiien tiiey commence tlieir active
operations, coaxing and wheedling every negro
they can get to listen to them, or that the Bureau
cun drag "within their reach from daylight till
dark, and then sending the preaching, school-
teaching and savings-bank-founding vagabonds
to visit “the quarters” at night, and induce as
many as possible to desert their employers and
go to “Tennessee”—a geographical name of mul-
titude, which comprehends every place iu the
wide world except the spot where the victims
were born and raised, and where they have con
tracted willingly and contentedly to labor for the
coming year.
Hundreds ol these agents are now at work,
and “ the cry is still they come.” I never see one
of them that I do not think of the touts for the
Peter Funk auction rooms In New York. They
all have the same fuuctuous, glozing manners.—
They wear ponderous watch chains and cluster
diamond (?) pins. They frequently display, ac-
cidentally on purpose, plethoric pocket books of
an infinite number of compartments, with a
greenback of a large denomination bursting its
calf-skin bonds and struggling to display itself.
They all wear paper colars and bob-tail coats,
and some of the more elegant smell horribly of
patchouli and ranckl pomatum. They often
own “large plauting interests,” and are always
on terms of the closest intimacy with all the most
prominent gentlemen in the Stale from which
i hey pretend to hail, and invariably call them
Jack and Bob and Jim, and their wives and
daughters, “ the old woman and the girls.” Sun
day is their great day. It is no day of rc6t for
them. Un the contrary, it is the day on which
tlieir energies, mentally and bodily, are strained
their utmost capacity, and that philauthropy and
six dollars a head are blended harmoniously to
the widest extent.
They are evidently reaping an abundant har
vest. Every train going West is loaded with
their victims, aud success onlv seems to stimu
late them to renewed effort. They are doing a
great amount of mischief to the agricultural in-
terests of this portion of the State, and it is a re
markable evidence of the law-abiding spirit of
the people that they are allowed to pursue their
calling unmolested. Did they coufiue their ope
rations to the towns aud cities where freedmen
are abundant aud labor is neglected, and where
larceny in its various degrees is the means of ex
istence which is relied on as the most productive
though the most precarious, they would “do the
Stale some service” by inducing the objects of
tbeir anxiety to migrate. But they seem to pre
fer the p'autation negroes, and those who
have already contracted for this year are
the prizes they most covet. Planters go to
bed at night with the satisfied conviction that
they have all the hands they need, aud dream
of rich harvests and lull pockets at the end
of the year, but awake in the morning to
find tlieir quarters tenantless, to hear that all the
hands “ is done left. More day this morning,” and
to ascertain on further investigation that their
mules and wagons have been taken “to haul the
plunder to the depot,*’ or that their corn cribs
and smoke houses ltavc been put under contribu
tion to provide the inarching rations of their late
laborers. The whole neighborhood when such
things occur becomes demoralized, work is left
uudone or neglected, employers who ought to be
attending tlieir fences aud plowing, are obliged
to go out to “ hunt new hands,” and the best in
terests of the country are damaged.
To prevent this labor stealing would be a le
gitimate and beneficial duty tor Uie Bureau to
perform. When a lair contract has been made
and approved, and the fees paid on it, it ought to
be the duty of the Bureau to prevent its viola
tion. But if there be any doubt on this point
there can be uonc that it is the duly ot the Bu
reau agent, who hits confirmed a contract and
received his lees for doing so, not to be a party
to its violation, not to encourage the negro to
break his engagements, and not to tell the em
ployer, who seeks his interference and protec
tion, “My dear sir, labor like any other commod
ity i subject to the inexorable laws of supply
aud demand, aud licit" r you nor I can con
trol it.” An indignant planter to whom this
speech was made, aud who evidently had not the
tear ot the Bureau before his eyes, replied : “ I
suppose bv supply you mean the number of dol
lars 1 paid y ou for ratifying my contract, and by
demand you mean the number which the negro
thief has given you for helping him to steal my
laborers.”
Help for Uie Greek** Abroad.
Butler, Wendell Phillips. Banks, and the rest
of the fanatical crew, all valiant champions of
freedom and tree governments, have put their
shoulders to the wheel tor the good of Greece,
aud, according to one of our New York ex
changes, the contributions promise to be exquis
itely characteristic:
General Butler, lor example, blubbering at the
accounts of the cntel behavior of a Pacha in
Candia, runs up to tlie platform from which Mr.
Phillips is setting forth the dozen albata spoons
taken by him as being pure silver lrom an obsti
nstely rebellious old lady’s cupboard in New Or
leans. General Bank, scandalized at the confis
cation ot several drums uf figs by a Turkish Ad
miral, oflers two bushels of damaged Red river
cotton aud a bottle ot Portland elixir. Ex-Col
lector Goodrich, of Boston and Berkshire, sends
& package of counterfeit currency put oil upon
him iu liquidation ot fines from a corrupt im
porter who has subsequently migrated to Austra
lia. An eminent Unil&rian clergyman, who gave
his son to his country a simple second lieutenant,
and got him back again a full major-general,
hands over to the valiant defenders of Arkadi a
set of coral children’s bells and a damaged piano
obtained iu the nursery of a malignant Carolini
an aristocrat. Wc hope that the good work may
go bravely on. And when all that can be collect
ed has been collected, we devoutly trust that Mr.
Wendell Phillips, General Butler, General Bauks,
aud Charles Sunnier may be appointed a commit
tee to take the New England contributions out to
Caudia, with instructions to remain in the East
until they shall have reconstructed not Crete
alone, but all llellas aud Asia Minor, together
with Mesopotamia .uid Syria, into the exact like
ness of the ancient and fish-like Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.
A Good One.
We notice the lollowing in a late issue of the
Augusta Constitutionalist:
Married, at Americas, Georgia, ou the 2?th in
stant, by the liev. George H. Colt, Dr. L. F. \V.
Andrews, editor of the Georgia Citizen, ol Macon,
Georgia, and Mrs. Mary E. Lamar, of the funner
place.
We may now hope for an increased number of
Georgia citizens.
The EnjdUh Preu on Impeachment. t CrukBim.
We have been pretty liberal with furnishing j The New York Courier—a live journal that
the readers of the Intelligencer with extracts j makes everything it touches interesting—has the
from the leading Radical, Republican, and Con
servative journals of this country upon the sub
ject of impeachment. A day or two ago we pub
lished an able article from the London Times,
written by one who is studying and calculating
the effect the proposition, if carried to extremes,
is to have outside the mere local politics of the
United States. But the Times, which is the great
organ of popular opinion in Great Britain, is not
the only foreign journal which is discussing the
question. .The French, and all the chief organs
of English thought, “treat the impeachment busi
ness as by far the most serious and perilous pro
cedure in our political history,” and most of them
apply to it the term revolution, as indicative of
the fact that this government is being transform
ed and rapidly losing all its more liberal and bet
ter features. The Times, the Pall Mall Gazette,
and the Saturday Review so regard the question,
and so speak of it. The Times remarks that the
“trial of the President will transform the Consti
tution,” and the following sentences give the
points of its opinion:
“ It may be, and no doubt is, galling to the
dominant party in Congress to be thwarted as
they have been by one man ; but the Constitution
gives him the power, and it is ot that they ought
to complain. It is, in truth, the Constitution,
rather than Mr. Johnson, which is now the ob
ject of assault; it is the Constitution, rather than
Mr. Johnson, which is in danger. If the articles
of his impeachment be truly dratf n, they will
make the first charge against him that he has
used all the powers of his office, and by the side
of this all his other offenses arc as nothing. Let
the impeachment be prosecuted with the deter
mination which is said to inspire its managers,
aud its results will be much more portentous
than the mere removal of Mr. Johnson from his
place. The Presidency itsell will cease to be
what it has been, and the balance which now ex
ists upon the legislative action of Parliamentary
majorities will vanish. * * * We need not,
however, dwell upon the future, it is sufficient to
note the phase through which the American
Constitution appears to be passing, the danger
that the artificial balance of powers, the checks
upon impulsive legislation, the independence of
the Executive Government contemplated by the
founders of the Republic, will be all swept
away.”
The Pall Mall Gazette points out the lack of
definition in all the accusations against President
Johnson. After a keen discusion of this point,
and after expressing a fear that the judicial view
of the case may be lost sight of in the excited
state of party feeling, it concludes by the utter
ance of a strong hope that
“ The Senate will give the world one more ex
ample of the tact which is so often overlooked
and obscured that the passionate external vio
lence of the American character and manners
overlays and conceals a solid foundation of good
sense, moderation, and regard for law which
makes itself felt in the long run and on great oc
casions.’
The Saturday Review treats the proposed im
peachment at length, and with signal ability. It
analyzes the powers of the different branches of
the government, as set forth in the Constitution,
shows the peculiar position which the President
has among the rulet’6 of State':, and tries to dis
cover his culpability as set forth in the various
charges brought against him:
“ The President,” it remarks, “ stands on
present basis of Constitutional right, while Con
gress is acting in formal defiance of the Consti
tution, and seems inclined, according to the latest
accounts, to set the Constitution aside altogether,
and to assert for itself t ie omnipotence of a
British Parliament—tlie right of altering all laws,
whether fundamental or incidental, whether part
ot the original compact of Union or mere meas
ures ol" Congressional legislation, by a simple
majority of both Houses. * * * The
charges against him, correctly estimated, amount
simply to this—that in the exercise of his execu
tive power he has set at naught the wishes of
Congress, and acted upon his own judgment;
that he has carried out his own policy, and not
the policy of a majority of the two Houses.
Aud it is plain, not only that an impeachment
on such a ground as this would be a gross abuse
ol a remedy intended for a very different pur
pose, but that it would totally alter the existing
relations between the Executive and the Legis
lature, and subvert the present Constitution of
the Federal Government. The Federal Consti
tution has explicitly made known the purpose
for whichj.be formidable weapon may be drawn.
It Was never meant to enable Congress to get rid
of a political opponent. Had it been intended
that Congress should be able to remove a Presi
dent for political reasons, a machinery less cum
brous and less cruel would have been applied.”
We agree with the New York journal to whose
columns we are indebted for the foregoing ex
tracts from the leading British organs, that there
is nothing particularly novel about the views
there expressed, and that they do not shed any
new light upon coustitutional questions. But
they indicate the drift of intelligent European
thought upon the most important matter in cur
rent American history, aud show what is here
looked upon by many only as a subject of Con
gressional finality aud partisan animosity is there
universally regarded as ot the gravest national
import.
It may not be out of place to remark here, that
a gentleman who has just returned from a trip
to New York and other Northern cities, informs
us impeachment is there considered a foregone
conclusion—the general opinion being that the
majority in Congress will press the matter to a
crisis, though it should utterly destroy the credit
of the government at home and abroad and pre
cipitate the country into a another conflict, more
bloody and fatal in all its consequences than the
ono from which. it emerged a short time ago.—
Wo hope, however, that wiser counsels will yet
prevail, and that something may occur to defeat
the schemes of Stevens, Sumner, Wade & Co.
The Fire at LaGrauge.
The Reporter ot Friday contains the following
particulars of the late fire at LaGrange :
About nine o’clock on the night of the 24th a
fire was discovered in the store of D. U. Morri
son & Co., which destroyed the nine brick store
houses ou the west side of the public square.
The following persons are the sufferers :
IV. T. Godwin’s store room was consumed.
His stock was saved, but considerably damaged.
All covered by insurance.
F. A. Frost—Store room burned ; loss $2,000;
no insurance. Portion o f s:->ck saved. Damage
covered by insurance.-
D. H. Morrison &-Co., lost their entire stock,
\yith the exception of one show case. Covered
by insurance.
J. N. Cooper—Loss about $1,300. No insur
ance.
Peabody & Hill—Loss not exceeding $200.
No insurance.
Dr. N. N. Smith's office and slock of medi
cines was destroyed. Loss about- $2,000. No
insurance.
James Turner—Stock saved. Damage cover
ed by insurance. -
Hall & Yancy—Principal stock saved. Dam
age covered by insurance.
Godtred Keuer owned two of the buildings
destroyed. Loss $6,000. No insurance.
B. H. Bigbam also owned two of the build
ings. Insurance, $4,000.
T. J. Tho'rntou’s rock building was destroyed.
Insurance, $4,000.
following upon the proposition of the Radicals
lo crush the President:
The Hereid is out Heroding-Herod by its fran
tic appeals to Congress to impeach and depose
the President, and is fast making the whole cru
sade ridiculous. Wendell Phillips is innocent
enough to be taken in by all this, and hails his
new ally as’“a man and a brother.” He speaks
-as kindly as though the venerable Botanic were
as black as popular belief paints the other Sa
tanic. But the Tribune and Independent, and all
the journals of the Distinctive school are a little
suspicious of the sincerity of the new convert.—
They are aware of the truth, of the old motto
that “ one renegade is as bad as ten Turks,” but
the apostacy to their peculiar wickedness is so
recent that they doubt—and the old rats watch
the lump of meal sharply and caution the young,
rats against the ciaws and teeth that may be con
cealed beneath. They rave and yelp after John
son too, but they are carelul not to echo their
neighbor, who does his raving and yelping after
his own fashion—“ warranted not to kill at forty
rods.”
This impeachment cry is growing supremely
ridiculous. There is a story going the rounds
how one of the irreverend clergy recently made
a prayer in behalf of Congress as a collection of
saints awaiting a safe translation to heaveu, and
then gave the President the benefit of his peti
tion. “ Oh Lord!” he cried, “ if thou canst
manage the President without crushing him,
spare him, otherwise crush him P And this is
the spirit displayed by the whole tribe.
Still there is a quaking of dry hopes all the
time. There is a dread lest the President may
not stand crushing. They ate pot sure that he
will submit, or that the people will submit, to a
deposition which would be manifestly illegal.—
He may resist R h.e does not, , all is right.—
“ God helps, them who helps themselves;” but
those who, strike no blow for themselves are de
serted by God and men. If he does resist—if he
calls on the army and the people to sustain him
in the exercise of his constitutional powers, there
will be a short, sharp and decisive civil war,
which will be ended by scourging back the rob
bers to their dens, if not by the extermination ot
the bean-eaters. It all depends, this crushing
process, upon the hardness and toughness of the
objept to be crushed.
It does seem to us, as it will he proved to them
in the end, that the Radicals have set a machine
in motion that if it once gets fairly going, will
do more work than they intend. Their purpose
is to destroy the Executive and Judicial depart
ments of government, or, what is the same thmg,
render them the mere registers of Congressional
decrees. They do this ou the ground that they
are representatives of the people—aud not the
mere legislative branch of a representative sys
tem. But what becomes of the Senate ? That
represents the States. Rhode Island counter
balances the great aud mighty Slate of Massa
chusetts Of course, the Senate must go next.
And next comes the conflict between interests in
the lower and then Sole House The East, with
its manufacturing, and the West, with its agri
cultural interest, meet face to face. What then ?
The old fight of conflicting interests, and the
end of all things in anarchy, and civil war.
Fortunately they have begun their extremest
measures at a time when all kinds of business
is paralysed. They are hurrying the country to
bankruptcy. “Out of this nettle danger, we
pluck the flower safety.” For all the ills that
are upon us—for the financial distress to come,
the people will rightfully hold them responsible.
No matter bow fierce a fanatic a man might be,
touch his breeches pocket, and his brain becomes
cool. There are no reasoners like men with
empty bellies—there is no logic like the cry of
a man’s children for bread. This cry—'‘crush
him I” may become general, and embrace a num
ber in its toils, as well as one. Tlie crushers
may become the crushed. The Herald is sharp
enough to sec this, and has already thrown out
an anchor or two to windward.
Tgx Great Tobacco Factory of Sfain.—
A sojourner at Seville writes :
The change from the fairy scene in and around
the Alcazar to the tobacco factory, is like nothing
on this planet. Put your hand into a pitcher ot
hot water aud quickly plunge it into another of
cold, and the change will not be a whit more
strange than to pass from the beautiful Alcazar
to the presence of five thousand ^oung girls, all
in one room, and Sevillanas, too, in the factory.
They are all old enough’ to be mischievous and
“ put on airs.” I doubt if as many black eyes
can. be seen in any one place as in this factory.
Their fingers move rapidly and their tongues a
little faster. Both consume ten thousand pounds
of tobacco a day, but you must not suppose that
they use tobacco in any shape; no, but they
must talk, and talk they do with a rapidity that
is amazing.
I have often heard that a woman’s weapon
is her tongue, and that the sex were notorious
foil using it, but, like many other unkind state
ments against heaven’s best, last giftt.o man, I
doubted it until I peeped into the Fabrico de To-
bacos of Seville. Wbat may be the weight ol
mischief manufactured each day along with the
cigars, I don’t know, hut I feel safe in stating
that it is at least equal with the tobacco. The
factory was erected in 1750; is 660 leet long by
523 wide, and is surrounded by a moat. It is
the principal factory in the kingdom, as every
one uses tobacco iu some shape iu Andalusia,
not excepting the ladies, hut it is when they are
on the shady side of forty that they puff and
cogitate. Snuff, cigars and cigarettes are all
manufactured here. The best workers among
the girls earu about forty cents per day, the
poorest about half that amount. Every night
they are searched.
President Davis.—The Springfield Repub
lican has the following sensible remarks on
Jefferson Davis’ condition :
Mr. Greeley is reported to have used his influ
ence with the President, while at Washington
last week, in connection with Charles O’Conor
and Mr. Shea, counsel of Mr. Davis, to procure
the release of the nation’s prisoner; and it is
said that there is a prospect that he will soon be
released, on bail or parole. Mr. Greeley will be
blamed by some of his friends for his persistent
efforts to obtain the release of Davis, but they
are creditable both to his head and heart. The
President, with all his obstinacy in some things,
has shown great want of courage in this. Tlie
detention of an alleged criminal without trial
tor more than a year and a half, is in violation
ot the spirit of the Constitution and the general
sense of justice, and in this case the hardship is
aggravated by the nature of the crime for which
Davis was arrested—that of complicity in the
assassination of President Lincoln. Guilty, as
he is, of conspiracy against the nation’s life, that
furnishes no excuse for holding him under ac
cusation of a more cowardly and monstrous
crime, without trial and without apparent evi
dence. If President Johnson had been both
just and brave, he would have released him on
parole long ago.
Tiie War not Over.—The Washington cor
respondent of the Charleston Courier writes:
It is reported that Secretary Stanton lately de
clared u>Mr. John Covode.of Pennsylvania, that
the country, after all its tremendous efforts and
sacrifices for self-preservation, was, in his judg
ment, now shadowed with a darker gloom than
at any crisis of the late war. It is in the sense
of this remark, probably, that the President said
to a Senator lately that Mr. Stanton did not be
lieve the war to be over.
The same writer adds in another part of his
letter:
The hotels of this city and the lobbies of the
capitol are again thronged with strangers. Men
from the South and West in great numbers are
now brought here by the call of their business
interests." They find that Radical legislation,
however flatteriug to their passions and sectional
prejudices, is destructive to the means whereby
they live. Capital and labor are both idle, and
await the adjustment of tlie political and finan-
cial concerns of the country upon a stable basis.
Wise & Douglass saved the greater portion of! The people now invading the Federal capital are
their stock—loss not vet ascertained. They ! interested in commerce, external and internal, in
were insured for $15,000. * i banking, in manufactures, iu wool growing, in
It has been impossible, as vet, to ascertain the 1 mechanical arts, in navigation, &a, and they
losses sustained by the respective sufferers—sup- J represent that all values are unsettled, and in-
posed not to execeed $35,000.
The fire was undoubtedly the work of au in
cendiary.
dustrial enterprises paralyzed by the reconstruc
tion and impeachment projects, and non-action
upon financial and practical subjects.
Florida Items.—The Ocala Banner contains
the following:
Within the past ten days several shooting af-
Intenitlac Comsponiwie*,
To our fellow citizens of Atlaata, anil to the
very numerous friends of one of its late citizens,.
Geo. G. Hull, Esq., the following correspond
ence will be found interesting:
OFFICE ATLANTA Ss WEST POINT R. S. (
Atlanta, Ga. January, 1367. )
George G. HuB, Esq., City cf Neve York:
Dear Sir—The undersigned, officers and em
ployees of tlie Atlanta & West Point Railroad,
with which you were officially connected during
the days ot its construction; and over which you
presided as Superintendent for many years
until recently; beg leave to express their earnest
regrets at that necessity which dissolved rela
tions so agreeable to them by your recent with
drawal from that important and responsible po
sition. Official relations ot so long standing,
have deeply impressed the undersigned with
your professional ability, as they did with your
uniform justice, impartiality, aud courtesy to
each and every one of them in the discharge of
their several duties. Those agreeable relations
being now dissolved, it is the desire of the offi
cers and employees of the Atlanta & West Point
Railroad, to manifest their high appreciation of
your professional ability, moral worth, and earn
est friendship, in the form of a memento which
shall remain in your possession as ever present
testimony ot their high respect and most cordial
esteem. They, therefore, beg leave to request
your acceptance of the “ Parlor Silver Service,”
which is herewith transmitted to your address,
aud to assure you, Sir, that though distance and
pursuits now separate you and them, they will
ever retain the most lively and grateful remem
brance of past official and social relations:
With kind regards and earnest wishes for your
future health and prosperity, the undersigned are,
Very respectfully, yg>nr obedient servants,
J. H. Porter,
W. J. Houston,
-Wm. Rushton,
W. J. Bai.lard,
Committee.
MR. HULL’S REPLY.
New York, Jau. 22,186G.
Gentlemen—Your kind letter of the 17th in
stant, accompanying a beautiful service of silver,
presented to me, through you, by the officers and
employees of the Atlanta aud West Point Rail
road, is received. To say that I am gratified-, at,
this manifestation of good will, would convey
but a feeble idea of my sensations on this, occa
sion. But handsome and costly as is the gift,, its
chief value to me is iu the motive which prompt
ed it.
My associations upon the road were all pleas
ant, and I am proud to think that I left it with
the esteem and regrets of my friends, among
whom I number every one of those who were
connected with me in its management, and to
whose co-operation and assistance is due the
credit of whatever success was attained. Do not
doubt, gentlemen, that I,.shall treasure this me
mo: ial while I live, and it shall be an heir-loom
to my children. Please convey to the officers
and employees of the Atlanta & West Point
Railroad my earnest gratitude, and accept for
yourselves,personally, the assurance of my warm
est regard.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
George G. Hull.
To Messrs. J. H. Porter, W. J. Houston, Wm.
Rushton, W. J. Ballard, Committee.
This tribute of respect and esteem on the part
of gentlemen so long officially connected with
Mr. Hull, was indeed well-timed as it is also
well-merited by that gentleman. We are pleased
to make a record of it in the columns of the In
telligencer, as for many long years our person
al relations with the recipient of the handsome
compliment have been of the most intimate and-
friendly character, and as we feel it will gratify
the citizens of this place to become cognizant of
it, for we venture the assertion no one ever en
joyed more of their respect and confidence than
did that gentleman during his long residence
here. It will please our readers to lqarn, too,
that Mr. Hull is now connected with the busi
ness house of M. K. Jessup & Co., General Rail
way and Commission Merchants, No. 84, Broad
way, New York—a house engaged in the busi
ness of furnishing railroad iron, locomotive en
gines, cars, and in short, every description of rail
road material, and having superior facilities for
these purposes. Mr. Hull’s long familiarity and
practical experience with everything counected
with railroads aud railroad service, constitutes
him a valuable member of that extensive house,
and his extensive acquaintance in the South will
doubtless secure to it many au order that might
be otherwise directed. It is hardly necessary to
say that we wish our old friend success iu his
new home.
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Tlie Disturbance on tbe Plantations,
The Savannah News & Herald, of the 31st, has
these additional particulars of the renewal of the
disturbances on the Delta plantations:
The community were startled yesterday morn
ing with a sensational report that the disturbances
at the Delta plantation had been renewed, and
that there had been a battle between the Federal
soldiers stationed there and the negroes. It ap
pears that a boat containing a couple of gentle
men with a detail of soldiers, had attempted to
land on Tuesday night and were compelled by
the negroes to return to Savannah. At an early
hour they reported at the headquarters of Col.
Sibley, and asked for a detachment of soldiers.
The Colonel with fifty men proceeded on the
steamer O. F. Potter, about half-past one o’clock,
and from what we could learn from gentlemen
who accompanied the boat, they met but very
few negroes on the place. There were several
small boats, all of which were taken in charge by
the officers, aud alter removing the oars they
were placed under a guard.
It was found that Lieut Lemon, late of the
Freedmen’s Bureau, had been dragged out of
his quarters yesterday morning aud severely
beaten with a musket by one of tlie freedmen,
who afterwards fired at the prostrate officer, the
ball taking effect in the shoulder. Lieut. Lemon,
getting possession of his pistol fired two shots at
his assailants, the last of which took effect, kill
ing the negro.
The Surgeon of the 16th United States infan
try was sent over to attend to the wounds of
Lieut. Lemon, and we learn that, although they
are very severe and painful, they are not con
sidered dangerous.
An inquest was held on the body of the negro,
and a verdict rendered that he died from the ef
fect of a gun shot wound at the hands of Lieut.
Lemon, said wounds being inflicted in self-de
fense.
A few arrests were made, and after placing
guards at different places the military returned
to the city at an early hour.
[ron iu isTxixjBXKCiR. 1
Tbe Value of tbe Soul.
NUMBER TWO.
“Say, knowest thou what it la, or what thoa art ?
Kaow'st thou the importance of a tool immortal ?
Behold this midnight glory; worlds on worlds!
Airuuing pomp; redouble tbU amaze t
Tea thousand add; add twice ten thousand more!
Then weigh the whole; one soul outweighs them all.
And calls the astonishing magnificence
Of unintelligent creation poor.' 7
Language, thought, imagination, all fail; all
things united fail in the attempt to scale the
bight or fathom the depth of this momentous
subject. Arithmeticians may estimate the value
of crow us, thrones, and empires, and give you
the sum total of their worth ; but the value of
one soul no numbers can estimate, no finite be
ing comprehend. In our endeavors to estimate
tbe value of the soul we must contemplate its
amazing powers; its vast capacity for happiness.
It is chiefly in reference to the soul that man is
said to be made in the “image of God.” In his
understanding, his imagination, and in his range
of thought we discover at least an apparent ap
proximation to the omnipotence and omnipres
ence of Jehovah! The soul cannot create a
grain of sand or a blade of grass, yet it is fruitful
in the invention of new applications of things
already made.
The true value of the soul further appears in
the concern which the All-wise Jehovah manifest
ed in its welfare in the revelation He made ol
His purposes of grace in relation to it, in the
laws appointed for its government. Tbe ama
zing provisions of the gospel all have reference
to the soul of man. “ God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten son, that whoso
believeth might not perish,, but have everlasting
life.” It became absolutely necessary that the
precious blood ot Christ should be shed, for
“ without the shedding of blood there could be
no redemption,” and “ it was not possible that
the blood of bulls and of goats should takeaway
sins.’*' And, says au inspired man of God: “ Ye
are not redeemed with corruptible things, such
things as silver and gold, from your vain conver
sation, but with the precious blood of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.” Thus* the greatest
sum that could be paid was paid !
Heaven's inexhaustible exhausted fund
Poured forth its price—all price beyond—
Archangels fail to count the mighty sum !
Suclt is Heaven’s estimate ot the value of the
human soul. Reader, what is thine f
The soul thus redeemed is capable of glorify
ing its Redeemer, by a life of zeal and devotion,
studiously conformable to the example and pre
cepts of his Divine Lord and Master. In the
sublime language of the apostle, he can say,
“ I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and
the life whicli I live in the flesh is by the faith of
the Son of God, who loveth me and gave him
self for me.” Such a soul says, to me to live is
Christ, and to die is gain! Even now, in the
exercise of thought and imagination, the soul
ascends to the Heaven of Heavens, to the Holy
of Holies, and joins iu sweet anticipation and
seraphic, devotion, the blood washed throng
before,the throne.
If tbe soul is not of infinite value, then the
sacrifice of the blessed Son of God was a lavish
and needless expenditure! But who can be so
awtully presumptuous as to impugn for one
moment the wisdom of the All-wise and Eternal
God, who in infinite love gave his dearly beloved
Son to redeem and save our souls from eternal
perdition.
The views herein advanced are included in that
momentous question propounded by himself:
“What shall it profit a man, if he should gain the
whole world and lose his own soul ? Or what
shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?” Alas!
Alas! The gain of the whole world, would be
poor compensation for the loss of his soul! To
suppose, what we know is impossible, that a man
could gain and possess the whole world, and that
he could retain possession fora thousand genera
tions, how soon would they all pass away; and
in the end Jehovah’s awful voice is heard: “Thou
tool, this night shall thy soul be required of thee,
then whose shall those things be which thou hast
provided.” Jn his efforts to gain the world the
foolish man ignored God, and his soul, and "eter
nity. He incurred the everlasting displeasure
and the abiding wrath of the Almighty. Now
he finds every avenue to the mercy of God
blocked up. He tered his soul for the tempo
rary enjoyment of the world, and now he has
nothing to “give in exchange for his soul!” His
unavailing cry will ever he, Lost! Lost! Lost
wilfully, irreparably, and eternally lost !
Wm. R.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 7,1887.
Tennessee.—John Forney’s Press contains
the following paragraph. A portion of it will be
news to some people in East Tennessee:
Governor Brownlow is at Knoxville in reason
ably good health, but as full of spirit and deter
mination as ever. He will be easily re-nomina
ted for Governor on the 22d of February. The
changes in East Tennessee are something remark
able. Couuties heretofore highly conservative
are now extremely radical. The recent murder
of State Senator Case, who was greatly beloved
in this region, has produced a great revolution,
and the extremest measures are taken to arrest
and punish his assassins. Everywhere the Union
men are calling upon Congress to follow out the
recommendations of Andrew Johnson, before aud
after he became President, that the properly of
the rebels should be confiscated. There seems to
be no doubt that the radicals will sweep the State
with negro suffrage inscribed upon their banners
in the coming elections.
Mr. Forney has an important mistake in the
above, and we make the correction: Counties in
Spring Wheat from Russia for Distribu- t
tion.—The Commissioner of Agriculture is in ,
receipts of a large quantity of the celebrated j
Amamaka (spring) wheat from Odessa, Russia, i frays have oecured in this and the adjoining
imported bv the department for distribution 1 counl >" of Alachua. This would seem to pre-
* , * . , . . . . , : sase a bad state ot society, but we hope such
among the agriculturists of such sections ot tbe | j s t j ie reverse, and that these are only aggravated
country as successfully cultivate spriug wheat.— cases.
The weight of this grain is about sixty-five: In the neighborhood oi Wacahootee, one Mr. i East Tennessee heretofore highly radical are now
pounds, and its superiority, it is slated, has been 1 Snowden was seriously wounded, some days , eminently conservative.
^ 1 * ’ , ’ . , siuee, by a man known m that section as Yankee ’ -
tested during the past season on the experimental ; Lee _ Homicide at Sei^I ^W^tind the following
lartn of the department- It will be distributed ! At Micanopy, one night last week, Mr. Albert . , n , „ . r — . * ®
with the assurance that its general introduction • Duuton was way-laid and shot by a negro, while paragraph in the Columbus Enquirer of Friday:
will prove of great benefit to the w heat-growing ! S oin S from lbe stable t0 ** hoQse ; ^ "
interests of the United States.
The wound,! We have verbal reports of a lamentable affair
j we learn, was not a serious one. The negro was 1 at Selma, Alabama. A voung man named Mil-
ffiseoyered, arrested, and safely confined in Ala- j ton «,iorie, formerly of this vicinity, i3 reported
Radical Mr. Bingham, ot Ohio, says r To sub- ° On^Friday night last, at the residence of Mr. 113 haring killed a Federal officer at Selma, in a
We trust that the “hope” of our worthy' Au
gusta cotemporarv will be realized, and that the
days of our friend the Doctor and his accorn- j 1 deluded Suues and then lo dcm - Uleir or _ i cuiTy occurred between the Messrs. Dupree’s and U P lo . - . . .
phshed Bride may be ieng in the land that has I m llw 100 dUUes lne Utn - 1 £ k <_'oli»uel S H. Owens, in which the 'bonnes, but be was a! ter wards ueuiaund by
gantzed and “sovereign existence. ,s au mens- Du g wcre l(4>lil WO unded-one in the abdo- *m»e military * ’ s, ‘
mil a constitutional amendment for ratification " Zeigler, some ten miles above this place, a diffi- difficulty between them, \oung Malone gave
.- • ■ ^ Ar V\ * * himsell up to, or was arrested bv, the civil au-
been so depicted of imputation.
Private intelligence lately received from New
York represents the money maket there as much
more stringent than might be inferred, from news
paper accounts.
officers aud given up to the mili-
meu,
au'd the other in the lace just Lelow the tar > power It is said, however, that the ablest
j counsel at Montgomery would make an effort to
have the case, and tlie custody of the prisoner,
„ idelphian is disgusted with Rome . remanded to the civil authority'. We have heard
is concerned, they are also States as against the 1 because “it’s so plaguy full of rains there’s noth- nothing of the circumstances connected with
lerriorializiug programme of Mr. Stevens. 1 ing else to see.” { the killing.
sistcucy not easily explained. They can ratify
only as States; and if they are States when the ! right eye.
ratification of an amendment to the consiiluiion ^ Philadelphian is disgusted with Rome ! remanded to the civil authority. We have heard
Bistort as Lady Macbetb.
Au “Injianny” countryman went to Cincinnati
to see Ristori. Tlie play was Macbeth. He
subsequently gave his views of the play and the
acting as follows:
The play was Shakespeer’s tragedy of Michiel
M. Beth, or McBeth, as it is kalled in" the slang
of the stage. The bill of fair says it was “adapted
expressly for Madame Ristori.” I tell ye, Mr.
Edditur, actin out any grate human pasliun is
adapted to Mrs. Ristore, sure’s you live, tho she
didn’t speke awl her words plane. There wos
sevral I didn’t quite ketch, and there wos more
that I’ve bunted Nore Webster’s Dickshunnary
threw for aud coodn’tfindem—but when it kums
to actin she’s on it, that’s all I’yc got to say,
Mr. Grau ought to speke to awl of his acters
bout talkin their words plane. I lost a good eel
of the cents of the play by an undistineshun in
the pronunciashun. I don’t want to be super
(humanly) krittikal, but I wood sugjest that we
kootl all understand it better if the man that
plaze Michiel Beth would say—“Is this a dagger
that I see befour me, the handle tord me hand ?
Come, let me klutchthe!” rather than—“Bisah,
corn-dogger ero, that I see beforo t Karma-rouse !
let me Julius (Jease-e-rorr /” Tastes differ, how
ever.
Everybody that nose anything about Shake-
spier is up in Mc’Beth. Mac is a Scotch High
lander, from Highland county, born of Fenian
parinks. Crossin a lonely hetli late at nite,
kumtnin home from a huskin, he meets three
furlin’ tellers, each of them was the sevnth darter
ot the seventeeth grandarter. One calls him
“Thane of Clam Chowder.!” and another sa
lutes him “King of the Kannabul Hands!”
This excites his ambition, and egged on by
Mrs. Mc’Beth (Ristori) he determines to
garote the good King Dnnkan and seze his
thrown, which “commends the pizen’d calico to
his own lips,” as Shakespier very butifully ex
pressed it when he firet saw the play. There is
pizen in “calico” irekently. He stabs Duukan
with two dagers, and lays it on a couple ot ser
vants who got drunk that nite on Robinson
county whisky. In this way he suckseeds to
the thrown. His karecr hens4th is one of
blud, ably sported by Ristori. I don’t know
wliat he wood have dun if he hadn’t been spor
ted by Ristori, or any ot the rest oa urn, for
that matter. Wish I kood prewale npon her
to sport me. She’s got stuff, you bet. You
know how the play ends. Mc’Beth and his
wicked wife do a gen’ral slawterin biznes thre-
wout theyr rain, and at length Mc’Beth is killed
in a bar-room fight with one Mike Duff. Mrs.
Mc’Beth fled to Chicago, where she superintend
ed a concert saloon with sneksess for a number
of yeres.
The Territorializing ScuEME.-The leading
paper at Washington says that it never had any
more belief in the success of the destructive ele
ment in Congress with their territorial scheme
lor summarily and utterly plundering and sub
jugating the people of tlie South, than it had
that there was a “ ghost of a chance ” for the
success of that most remarkable suggestion of
profligacy and folly, the impeachment of the
President. There is a limit to the tyrannic sway
of such cruel and revengeful leaders asThaddeus
Stevens, with all his ability and art, and the peo
ple stand behind all, who, “upon the sober
second thought,” have been said to be “ never
wrong and alwaj'9 efficient.”
Colorado.—A Washington paper presumes
that, after the late news from Colorado, no
further steps will be taken by Congress in rela
tion to so inhuman, diabolical, anti-Republican
a Legislature as would dare to exclude negroes
and mulattoes from jury service over a gover-
ner’s veto. True, it is Congressional to override
vetoes, but not to override negroes. A branch
of the Freedmen’s Bureau should forthwith be
established in this Territory, and we do not
know but that it should be visited by a Congres
sional committee.
Breitttu. .
Thad. Stevens’ reconstruction bill was sent
to the Star Chamber Committee of fifteen on
Monday by a vote of 88 to 65. " The vote for re
ferring would, probably have been stronger, but
that members disliked to go npon the record
against Mr. Stevens. There is a great diversity
of opinion as to the meaning of the vote. An an
alysis of the vote shows that all who voted
against referring are Republicans, aud that of
the affirmative vote was made up of forty Dem
ocrats and Conservatives and forty-eight Repub
licans.
The Fenians recently sentenced are to be
hanged on the 5th of ilarch. They heard their
sentence without apparent emotion. The names
of the condemned were Patrick Norton, H.
Maxwell, Patrick Oneal, James Buch, Daniel
Quinn, P. Ledwich, John O’Connor, John Ra
gan, Owen Kennedy and John Gallagher.
A Nashville letter to the Cincinnati Times says:
“Some uneasiness is felt as to what will be the
decision of the Supreme Court of tills State in
relation to the franchise law. Should they de
cide it unconstitutional it will knock the bottom'
out of things generally. One can hardly predict
these days what a court may decide.”
Geo. C. Glass & Co., bankers of Cincinuati,
made an assignment on the 28th instant. Their
liabilities are said to be large, and involve a
great many depositors. Another report says the
failure is a surprise, for their operations were
limited and the firm in good standing. Keyes &
Bro., stock brokers, suspended the same day-
It is said that a bill has been framed for in
troduction iu Congress providingfor theapjfoint-
ment of General Grant to be acting President in
case of the impeachment of President Johnson.
Gen. Meigs wants the autographs and photo
graphs of all the officers who served in the quar
termaster’s department during the war. The
Chicago Postdunno what he wants with them
unless he thinks the safety of the country de
mands that they shall be handed over to the
Bureau of Police, to grace the rogue’s gallery.—
We advise the quartermasters not to be too hasty
about complying with so suspicious a request.
Mr. Lee who drew the Crosby Opera House
has been in Chicago. He looked at his property,
sold it for two hundred thousand, cash in hand
put it in his pocket with philosophic calmness,
and like a sensible man quietly retired to his
home in Prairie du Roche. .
James Billings, a half-brother of Josh, was
arrested in a gambling den in New York a few
nights ago, and locked up in the Toombs to med
itate upon the solemnities of the future.
The rumor in the Western papers that Theo
dore Tilton and Miss Anna Dickinson were about
to make a matrimonial conjunction, is not true,
Theodore having a wife already, an estimable la
dy, who, ot course, objects to any such arrange
ment. Those Western papers ought to quit ly
ing, except when they have occasion to speak of
tho South.
A large number of Western preachers who
had invested their “filthy lucre” in certificates in
the Crosby Opera lottery and drew blanks, are
now vigorously denouncing the whole scheme as
desperately immoral. It is also said that several
newspapers whicli had invested their accounts
for advertising and editorially promoting the
scheme, have now discovered that it was not only
immoral, but illegal. Such is life.
Nathaniel W. Morse, of Norridgewall,
Maine, has recovered one cent damages from
thirteen citizens of the town of Skowhegan, who
forced him to cheer the American flag alter he
said he was glad of the assassination of President
Lincoln.
They had snow in Nashville dn Wednesday
morning to the depth of four inches.
The Richmond Dispatch Bays: A Yankee
“schoolmarm” was seen walking down Broad
street yesterday afternoon, in broad daylight,
arm-in-arm with a black buck negro. The Bu
reau was notified of the danger ot its ward.
The, negroes of Chattanooga, when they,
heard of the passage pf the amendment to the
Tennessee franchise law which confers upon
them the right to vote, celebrated the event by a
torchlight procession and loud huzzas for Brown-
low.
It is reported on ’Change in New York that
John Morrisey has failed for a million Pf dollars.
The amount is questionable, but it is believed
that he has lost very largely during the past few
days.
A few days since a farmer in Newark, New
jersey, was Waited upon by a respectable look
ing gentleman, who said he had come to pay for
a basket of apples which he had taken from the
orchard when a boy, sixteen years previously.—
The unfortunate man is supposed to be iusane.
X. P. G. Holden, of North Carolina, has writ
ten a letter to the Albany Evening Journal, in
which he deprecates the passage of the resolu
tion of Mr. Spalding, offering the Southern States
admission ou the adoption of the Howard amend
ment. One reason assigned by him for opposing
it is that the rebels would, he fears, elect some
two or three negroes to Congress in preference to
such men as he is!
The Union men and loyal leaguers of North
Carolina threaten to go back on Congress unless
they are paid for their immense losses during the
war. Why call on Congress ? Why not do like
their brethren in East Tennessee—sue recon
structed rebels who may happen to have a little
property left, for damages ?
TnE Nashville Press <fe Times, happily inspired,
says : “The Legislature is going forward glori
ously, heroically and nobly in the grand work of
Christian reform. Its high soul is fired not with
unholy passion, but with manly purpose. Iu
the course of a few days it will give the right of
suffrage to our loyal colored citizens.”
A marriage took place in Dyer county, Ten
nessee, List week, In which the bridegroom was
sixty-three years old, aud the bride one hundred
and eight years. Natural strength certainly can
not abate"very rapidly in that favored section.
A Toronto special says: The report of tbe
Canadian Minister of Customs recommends that
American vessels be refused the privilege of pass
ing through the Welland caual for a few m mths.
By doing this, he said, “we will bring the Ameri
cans to reason.”
It is proposed to tunnel the river at Detroit
for railroad purposes. The river is three-fourths
of a mile wide, with a good clay bottom. The
tunnel with the necessary grades to attain the
level of sixty feet below the surface of the water,
would be about a mile and half long.
Three young men from Minneapolis, Minn.,
went up into the Chippewa country a few months
since to purchase furs and trade with the Indi-
dians. They succeeded beyond their most san
guine expectations, receiving any quantity of
furs, but upon their return home they were
robbed by tbe same Indians and lost all.
A practical test of the honesty of the Sena
torial advocates of female suffrage will soon be
made from an unexpected quarter. It will be
remembered that Mr. Sumner and others tacitly
agreed to the proposition that women should be
allowed to vote and hold office whenever they
asked for it. A huge political joke is pending on
this point
The quantity of coal transported on twelve
railroads, and canals, in Pennsylvania, last year,
was 12,285,963.17 tons, against 9,518,685.03 in
1865. At an average price of $5 50 per ton, the
total value of the coal for 1866, at tide water,
would aamount to $67,396,800.
A Washington correspondent of the Pall
Mall Gazette says that “ Mr. Banks, oi Massachu
setts, has gained a reputation for 'profundity by
looking wise and never saying anything, even
when he makes a speech.”
The ship Ne Plus Ultra was cleared at Savan
nah for Liverpool Wednesday, by Messrs. Brig
ham Holst & Co., with a cargo ot 4,190 bales
Upland and 108 Sea Island, valued at $655,-
I 992 14
Mata Item.
The Columbus Sun says: We heard upon
the streets ytsterdav, and the report seemed
well authenticated, that negroes in considerable
numbers were coining back on foot from Missis
sippi to their former homes. It was mentioned
that one hundred and sixty were seen in one lot,
and that various parties were observed along tlie
roads. The West did not prove the “Promised
Land of Caunau.” While we would dislike to
see Mississippians lose anything, we hope these
reports are true. The number of negroes in this
section has. been greatly decreased within the
last few months. We have not heard ot a single
large farmer who has sufficient laborers. The
current flowing to the West has been formida
ble.
The proprietors of Trion Factory, Chattooga
county, have recently put up an engine of 260
horse power, and have 4500 spindles and 100
looms id operation. Further improvements are
contemplated during the year.
Tiie Covington Enterprise learns that the
store house of Dr. T. N. Pitts, of Newborn
Newtou Co., was burned on the night of the
30th ult., with its contents, including $4,000 in
money. Although there is said to have been
some iusurance, probably the Doctor's loss is
very heavy. It is not known whether the fire
originated from a kerosene lamp left burning or
was the work of an incendiary.
The IViJtcAmrta says that John White, Esq.,
has been elected President of the National Bank
of Athens, and J. A Carlton, Esq., Book
keeper. F. W. Adams, Esq., is still Cashier
and Teller, and one of the best to be found any
where—promp t, courteous, and thoroughly post
ed in all the details of his business.
The Savannah News dr Herald of the 1st
says: The incendiary negro, who ha3 been
creating all the trouble a^pong the freedmen
lately, and who, is said to have given advice to
the men on the Delta plantation to shoot any
one who attempted to eject them, was yesterday
morning arrested at the corner of Congress and.
Bull streets by a corporal of the 16th U. S. In
fantry and conveyed to the Barracks, where he-
is at present confined. He is in military custody,,
where he will await further proceedings. It ii*
to be hoped such steps will be taken as. will pre
vent a repetition of his mischievous ioterined
ling with the freedmen, by which he litis giveui
much trouble both to the military authorities.,
the Freedmen’s Bureau and the negroes ttieo*-
selves.
The Republican of the 1st says : We have
nothing in the shape of additional news to re
port from the plantations where the freedmen
had created trouble. Mr. Lemen was safely re
moved to this city yesterday morning from the
“Rice Hope” Plantation.
The Cuthburt Appeal says: We admire the
spirit and vigor with which onr farmers are pie-.
preparing for tlie next crop. Tlie young amt-
old seem alike determined to overcome tlie tKS’r
culties which surrounded them iast yetur. Wt:
admire this spirit, and when we see-a, young;
man from the country, with pants itx boot-tops,,
purchasing his supplies, for the purpose of start*
ing his "crop, and proudly saying “I’ll man <u
plow, a hoe, an axe, a giu, etc., this year, aud sru:
what virtues there are iu my exertions,” we cam
but exclaim; “There’s life in the old fluid yet,’,”
and feel that old Randolph will show her sister,-
counties that her rich and fertile fields are nott
to be neglected merely for want; of “Bureau!”
labor.
The Cherokee Georgia.$ of Friday says:: Castt
week we published the returns of. Uie elpotiom
for Judge in this Circuit, which showed, libit
Col. Johnson was elected by three votes. We
have since learned that Gov. Jenkiuslias thrown
out tho vote from Oatoosa, for some informality
which leaves Jtf&ge Milner 27 votes ahead. Wc,
understand Col, Johnson will contest the elec--
tion.
High Old Times in Alabama.—The IVnslV,-
ville Independent has the following :
It appears, and otir Information corner pretty-
direct—that a courtship had been g&tfig, otV.ini
Courtland, in the usual way, wc suppose—sighs^
vows, pledges &c., and one day last, week jt devel
oped by the leading to tlie liyr^pneaflaltac,. m a
magistrate’s office, of a blugbiug f f»t; grettsy,
dark-hued bride, by a friendiiinj Aether (while)
of the morality party whkjvjwtt a branch some
where in that locality. ^Ij, well enough so fat ,
but the “pleasant affair that came off” waa not,;
at all approved by tlie.good people of the village,
who seized the happy bridegroom, tore bifojroui.
the gentle arms and tender bosom of his dark
Alabama bride, and treated his venerable person
to a souze in dirty pond water, afterwards apply-,
ing some gentle touches of rawhide to his rear.
The Miscegenator was then put on the train,
and sent off without Madam M,
The Bubble Bu rated.—The papers from the
oil regions contain affecting accounts of the
collapse of the.oil speculations. Large numbers,
of the wells are abandoned, and the sheriff and
his deputies are now most largely engaged in
the business. The Cleveland Herald says :
The story of disappointed hopes connected
with the history of the petroleum mania is not
a new one. The experience of those who sunk
their fortunes in the “dry holes” of Pennsylva
nia and Virginia is but a repetition of the unfor
tunate soeculators in “copper,” and the purcha
sers of shares in gold and silver “leads.” Min
ing of all kinds is a lottery, in which the prizes
hear a ridiculously small proportion to tlie
blanks. A few get rich by a lucky dive into the
earth; more amass a fortune by a skilful dive
into the pockets ot the gullible public; whilst
nine hundred aud ninety-nine out ot a thousand
who expect to get suddenly rich by investments
in mining or oii-boring, learn by costly experi
ence that “hope told a flattering tale,” which
events lailed to realize.
A Handsome Profit.—The following is an^
exact statement of Mr. Crosby’s balance sheeit
U. H. Crosby, creditor by two hundred and t£n
thousand tickets at $5, $1,050,000; del^fg to
thirty thousand tickets not sold, $15^000; to,
advertising, $150,000 ; to paintings, $75,000; to,
engravings, $100,000; to commissions!, $45,000;
to printing and traveling, $30,0$) ; paid Sir.
Lee, $200,000. Total debt, $750,000; profit,
$300,000. Value of Opera House, $350,00Qi.—,
Total profit on the undertaking, $650,000,
The Negro in Texas.—The Sa# Antonio
Ledger says the courts of that city are largely oc
cupied in trials of negroes, but conviction rarely
takes place. It adds;
“Now to any close observing spectator it may
be seen that in some of these cases, had the de
fendant been a white man, he would have been
convicted. This we call justice tempered with
mercy. Our jurors know that the freedmen are
not yet aware of their duties in society, and they
therefore give them more latitude than would be
given to others. These tacts will never go North,
through the medium of Radical journals, never.
But in the end they will prove like the leaven
put in the meal.
The Great Reformer.—The following is a
sample of Mr. Bright’s milder style—it appears
in a letter to a Mr. Garth, a member of the Eug-
lish Parliament and a gentleman of high repute :
On a review of j’our speech and your letter, I
come to this conclusion—that you wished to get
into Parliament, and were not particular as to
the path which might lead to it. You threw
dirt during your canvass, doubtless knowing that,
if needful, you could eat it afterwards. Theie
are many men who go “through dirt to dignities,”
and I suspect you have no objection to be one of
them. I am, with whatever respect is due to
you, yours, &c., John Bright.
The Southwest Pacific Road.—The Mis
souri Patriot says: “We understand from the
Hon. S. H. Boyd that the gross receipt of the
Southwest Pacific Railroad from Franklin to
Rolla are now averaging about $12,500 per
month, and the business constantly increasing.
Up to about three months ago the receipts of the
road averaged but about $4,000 per month. As
the road advances its business will greatly in
crease.”
Major Richmond Hayward, for thirty years
a highly esteemed citizen of Tallahassee, died a
few days ago.
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