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Newspaper Page TextSeas ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN .REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson. VOLUME XX. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25,1868. NUMBER 47 ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, November 25, 1868. A New Work for Coagren. The Cincinnati Commercial recommends that Coogreae shall “ adopt the most stringent mea sures " in case the Southern Slates do not im mediately take steps to do away with what it calls “ petty social persecutions,” and which it regards as the most unmistakable evidence of rebellion, treason, and a few other felonies. If we are not mistaken, the Commercial means by this that Congress shall “ adopt the most stringent measures” if the Southern people do not receive into their families and treat as lriends and neighbors the va rious enterprising individuals who have recently come into the South in search of Senatorships, seats in Congress, in the Stqto Legislatures, on the bench, &c., and who have thought that the best and surest way to gain tht object of their ambition was to denounce all the white people as rebels, traitors, and perjurers, and to assure the negroes that they are tbe only loyal race and alone capable of intelligent and sate government of the country. As a.furtber recommendation to social favor at the handB ot the Southern people, these individuals have sed ulously endeavored to excite the negroes to acts of insult and violence against the white race, have promised to seize the property of the whites and divide it among tbe foyal blacks, and have never let an opportunity pass to misrepresent, belie, and in jure the people admission to whose society they desire to obtain by act of Congress. As a general thing tbe tribe generally known as “carpet-baggers” are so clearly entitled to tbe social recognition of decent people that any re fusal to admit their claims should be speedily punished by fine and imprisonment. They are so honest, so refined, so benevolent, so truthful, so virtuous, none but a criminal would refuse them the highest place at his table, the cosiest corner by the fire. It Is by uo means a “potty” social persecution, but a very heinous offense in the citizens of Savannah not to do all honor to Mr. Clilt and Senator Bradley. It is the un pardonable sin in the citizens of Augusta that they do not open their doors and their arms to Prince. It is criminal in the last degree that the people do not hug the agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau and worship the officials of Internal Re venue, aud then what is to be said of the man, or set of men or population, which hesitates to admit that an oily buck nigger or a night bloom ing cereus of a nigger wench, is a desirable and congenial compassion for his wife and children. By all means let us have au “ act cutitled au act for tbo regulation of society in the rebel States.” Let tbe preamble set forth all the vir tues and high qualities of carpet-baggery, and the refined social charms of niggerdom, and let com missioners, assistant commissioners, and deputy assistant commissioners, be appointed at good salaries, whose duty it shall be that every citizen shall daily entertain a carpetbagger and keep, as a permanent fixture, a couple of niggers as con stant companions of his leisu"\ Every dAoi and every heart shmtid be open to the carpet bagger and the nigger. Nothing short of this is trooly loilty. Nothing less than this will come up to the requirements of Radical civilization. Bat the Cincinnati Commercial is right. Con gress will have to adopt “stringent measures” on the subject, because if it does not, the carpet bagger aud tbo nigger will never be aole “ to get into society.” They are decidedly unpopu* Ur in a social point of view. They are obliged to herd exclusively with each other, and with out striugcut measures, and very stringent meas ures, too, they will fail to secure admission to auy other society. And then can there be anything which is more clearly a legitimate subject for Congress ional action, than the company a citizen thinks proper to select ? How straDge it is that the Commercial should have been the first to recom mend “stringeDt measures 1” What punishment, for instance can be too severe for the citizen ol Florida who refuses to admit to his social circle the distinguished gentleman from Iowa whom his own friends accuse of lying, stealing, and bribery? We would suggest perpetual exclu sion from New England as the mildest penalty consistent with justice which should be inflicted lor such an offense. “Petty social persecutions” forsooth 1 Flagrant felony say we, which can only be remedied by the adoption of the most stringent measures. One more suggestion, and we are done. But ler is the very man to draw the act for the regu lation of society in the Southern States. Unless it passes, we lear he will be compelled for life to remain North oi the Potomac, for we do not kaow s decent man, white or black, who would allow him to lodge even in his hog-pen. For the Madison Auditor. To ike People of Georgia— Farmer*’ Con ventlon, at Hacon, December 9tk, 1861. Appoint Delegatee Tue undersigned were appointed a committee at a meeting of Agriculturalists held in the city of Eatonton, Ga., at the late Agricultural Fair iu Putnam county, to address you on the subject of Immigration, and to ask your co-operation, was agreed to hold a meetinc in the city of Ma con, at the City Hall, at 10 o’clock a. m. on Wednesday, the 9th day of December, ensuing composed of one delegate, at least, from each county in the State, to devise and set on foot tbe best plan for all the different sections of Georgia to promote immigration from the Northern Stat«>s and Europe, as will furnish the best labor on tbe best terms, for the improvement and de velopment of all the varied interests of Georgia and Georgians. Touching the immediate sub ject of immigration, the committee deem it best not to propose any plan of action in this address, but to leave the whole question to the Conven tion—and we simply urge a full attendance at the Convention. This, people of Georgia, is no small work, nor is it a Utopian idea. And now is tbe time for the work to begin. It has already been delayed tbo long, and it deferred still will only end in greater injury. Farmers ol Georgia! the burden rests mainly on your shoulders. Others are to be benefitted in a corresponding ratio—but it devolves mainly upon you to “put the ball in motion.” Co-ope ration is what we need. This is to be effected by full and free discussion of the whole question. This can he had at Macon at the time specified. We cordially invite you, therefore, farmers ol every county in Georgia, to appoint one or more delegates to represenCyonr interests in the Con vention at Macon, and to aid in the work. We must not wait. There is too much danger in delay. Too mueh sacrifice in postponement. Send the best men you can get, and Jet the good work commence. It will take months to accomplish the first step in the enterprise. It is all-important to begin right. One false step may be productive incalculable mischief. Our present labor, from the signs of the times, will, in a few year- more, be almost worthless. It is not ihe sort of labor we need now. It is inadequate, unskilled and unreliable, and becoming more so every year. Maryland is awake I Virginia is arousing! Missouri, Texas and Arkansas are all moving! Georgians! we, too, must begin, if we would save our good old State, ourselves and our chil dren from abject poverty. Our iuvitation is earnest-the crisis is near; the results certain aud glorious, if we begin right—begin in lime, and act throughout with wisdom. Let us have representatives from every county at Macon. xVnd let us then and there inaugurate a system ot labor which shall regain our lost prosperity. It, and it aloue, will be our salvation. The redemption ot Georgia from poverty, now upou her, the improvement of her lauds, the development of all her great aud varied re sources, is the work to be accomplished. It can he done. This work must have a beginning.— This is the object of the Convention at Macon here is not labor enough iu the State to ac ptoper management. Iu addition to all the labor we now have, we need hundreds ot thou sands ol skilled laborers from abroad tor this great work. And, in conjunction with this labor we shall need capital aud capitalists. Let us iuvite them, too, from the North aud from Europe, if the Convention deems it best to do Be not lukewarm upon this subject, for this is the golden opportunity to make a beginning. No work can be half so important tor us or our children. B. T. Harris, of Hancock, H. D. Capers, oi Putnam. B. H. True, of Morgan, Committee. Sparta, Ga., Nov. 10, 1868. Special Dispatch to the Louisville Courier-Journal. XashvlIle-BrowDlow Refuse* a Certificate to a Democratic Ceutrettmen. Nashville, Nov. 10,1868. The anticipations in regard to cheating Sheafe, Congressmen elect iu the Fourth District, out of his certificate, are fully realized. In its first place, as has been definitely ascertained, there were about 175 men in that district who were fully entitled to certificates by reason of their loyalty during the war, who were refused them by the registration commissioner. Even with that and the registration of a heavy Democratic county annulled by Brownlow, it was found, after the election had taken place that Sheafe was elected by over 500 majority, an J now without even, as it is positively alleged a single pretext for the villainy, alter the radical candidate has acknowledged his defeat through his own paper, a sufficient number of votes have been thrown out to declare Tillman elected by a few votes. Of course the latter will get the certificate, and there is absolutely no redress in Tennessee against any decision Brownlow may make in such cases. The stockholders of the Nashville and De catur Railroad had a meeting to-day, and con firmed the action of the President of the road in contracting for the immediate completion of the road to Montgomery, Ala. The work will be pushed forward. .Special Telegraphic Correspondence cf the Louisville Courier-Journal. From Washington. COURTNEY AND MURRAY. Washington, Nov. 18.—Alter the Cabinet meeting to-day there was a protracted interview between the President, Secretary McCulloch, and Mr. Evarts iu reference to the case of Courtney and Murray. Briefly the decision of the Presi dent is that the proofs adduced while casting suspicion on those officials are not sufficient to warrant their suspension. He, however, author izes Judge Fullerton to proceed with the investi gation, and, if possible, accumulate further evi deuce, and, until then, holds the case iu abey ance. MORE EVIDENCE FORTHCOMING. Fullerton left for New York to-night to bring forward his heavy artillery, and declares he will produce prools that will be good in a crimiual court, if not before the Executive. THE WHISKY RING. The attempt ot the whisky ring, through a subsidized press anil its other corrupt agents, to blacken the character of Fullerton, stimulates him to renewed efforts to establish charges against Courtney, and possibly he may yet be reached. To-night the friends of the whisky ring are jubilaut, and assert that the prosecution has signally failed. Such is said to be opinion of Attorney General Evarts, Mr. Courtney him self being responsible lor said statement. change of base. It is noted as a curious fact that several pro minent persons, who ten days ago were violent in denunciation of these officials, have suddenly changed, and now profess to believe the accusa tions talse. ATTORNEY GENERAL EVARTS, complish a tithe of what may be done, with a t on<2 time manifested great interest in the Couvemlon. TO PLANTERS, MANUFACTURERS AND ME CHANICS. The old Cotton Planters’ Convention con vened, after tbe war, in Macon on the 6th of September, 1886, met again, in Milledgeville, in November, 1860, aud changed its name to “Ag ricultural and Manufacturing Association of the State of Georgia.” with a view’ of enlarging its operations, and inviting the co-operation of ev ery industrial iuterest of the State. By resolution, this new association was to have met at Milledgeville, simultaneously with the legislature, in November, 1867. Owing to the jKilitical changes in the State, and excitement of the public nuud, it was deemed advisable to postpone said contemplated Convention ti.l a time more opportune lor useful deliberation. Deeming that period to have arrived, I hereby call a convention ot that association to meet in the city of Macon, at 10 o clock, a. m., on the 10th day of December proximo. Planters, farmers, manufacturers in cotton, wool, iron, wood and mechanics, and every indus trial interest ol the State, are earnestly invited to send to that Convention intelligent represent- ntives to deliberate for the advancement and development ol the industrial interests of the State. The Committee recently appointed, in the city of Macon, to make provisions tor holding an Agricultural and Industrial Fair in that city, at a future day, are respectfully requested to pro vide a hall lor the Convention. The newspaper press of the State, I feel assured, will manifest its characteristic liberality, in behalf of the material interests of the State, by publishing this call, and keeping it before the people till day of meeiiug. Bln. C. Yancey, President Agricultural and Manufacturing -Asso ciation ot the State Ot Georgia. Athens, Ga., November IS, 1868. •m m All the Radical editors are busy making a Cabinet lor General Grant, and there are hun dreds of Warwicks who expect to have the re ward of their king-making. But we are grossly deceived if Grant will not show that he can make his own Cabinet, and that the man who rode the horse in the circus with a moukey on his back, and held on to tbe excited cow's tail under so many difficulties, is going to be “ bis own man.” We believe because we hope so. Parts Correspondence Baltimore Gazette. The Velocipede Mania. Velocipedes are to be been everywhere. Upon the crowded boulevards, the broad avenues, the narrow streets, in the Bois aud in the Parks, the velocipedes are in motion. Velocipedes with two wheels, velocipedes with three wheels, velo cipedes with lour wheels, velocipedes with six wheels, and velocipedes even with eight wheels, are to be seen. Velocipedes to carry oue, two, three, lour, or six persons, are displaced at wenty different shops in or near the Champs Elysees. The demand is so great that oue has to wait three or four weeks after giving an order belore be can be placed in possession ot his new ma chine. But, in the meantime, one can subscribe to one ot the half dozen schools established tor instruction in the art of using the velocipede, and these schools are crowded with students from early mom till late at night. As before re marked, the inauia attacks all sorts and condi tions ol people. Princes, dukes, marquises, counts, gentlemen, blue blouses, crowd into these maneges or take part in the performances. Old gray headed men, young meu, boys and mere iulauts are alike seized with the infection, and may be seen working their legs or arms, or all together as if for a wager. Indeed, many a wager is made, lost aud won upon velocipede races, which are getting quite in vogue. But ot these, more auon. The fair sex cannot of course be left behind in this great crowning passion of the day. They too have been infected with the prevailing fever. Though the cases are not so numerous as with the sterner sex, still one may occasionally see a pretty face, with a still more pretty pair ot an kles, belonging to some rather last demoiselle, who,in a neat, becoming “velocipedean costume,” sits astride one ol the new locomotives aud ex ercises in a most becoming manner; becoming at least iu the opinion ot that sex whose ap proval they prefer—tor what man is there who would not rather look upon the pretty toot and ankle of a French woman, “gotten up” as she only knows how, than upon the loug, hanging skirt of an English horsebreaker ? We expect in a short time to see the Rotten Row ot the Bois de Boulogne quite deserted by cavaliers aud amazones, aud their places usurp ed by velocipcdeans and velocipediennes. Why not ? Destiny controls all things, and why should not the price of beef be lowered to the working people by the substitution of velocipedes for horses?- I7ve la Velocipede/ Satan Kebuklitjr Slu. To hear the Radical presses and leaders rail ing ol election frauds, cheating at elections, and terrorizing voters, is a good deal worse tliau hearing Satan rebuking sin, for though the Prince ot Darkness claims to he a gentleman, he makes no pretensions to personal pitty or goodness. He does not at least, like the Veiled Prophet of Khorazin, always wear the disguise which leads his victims to ruin, and in the end boast ot their betrayal—bin tliis Radical party begins its canvass by denting the I alloi to at least 500,000 white men in the rfomh m stales, and by cheating three whole Si*-!-* ut ..! ihe ballot altogether—each one of wiie-h was sure to sup|*ort the Democratic uounnarums—and then it prates of virtue. It b..astsof a victory in one district ot West Virginia—tire town <’i Charlestown —w here over " 500 Democratic voters were refused the registry, and which is an illustration of the injustice practiced in many others. It «eos Tennessee, .tP-soim, Alabama, Arkansas, North and S>u h Carolina, carried by the Radicals, when a large majority oi the peo ple in these 8 ; atis have very Icci.ud preferences lor conservative im n and measures. It beholds ten States governed by the sword, and recon structed States like West Virginia and Tennes see, (the latter gorer- •• i by t tie brute force ot Brownlow and his backers I and yet it talks of ch<*stine and Iran 1. Ii cotiopis tin- voters with hrih.-*, nnd yet discourse# ill V>M t<vi#iv of the puuty ot the ballot box. i. s.r.Lca l';om ihe poll books 6,000 names of citizens iu Philadelphia, and then boasts ot carrying the city ior Gran and Colfax. Partisan judges, whose name# wtii go dow n to posterity with that ot Jeffries and his confreres, contributed to these emla,_ajid were honored therelor.— : N. V. E tpress. Addison Holmes, the negro whose portrait adorns (?) the pages of the journal of civilization as introducing visitors to General Grant, was formerly the property ot Gen. Wm. M. Brown, of Athens, and was his body servant doling the WV. We see the question trequcntly asked since the election, “ What sba'l the i?jutb do ?” We would answer, let the South do nothing but mind her own business. She has plenty to do it she does iL Let her TOil.l r»ilr.n»ils, erect mills and factories, improve agriculture, encour age immigration, establish direct trade with Europe, raise stock, wear .Southern goods, and subscribe for the Intelligencer. Let her do this, and ebe will be healthier, wealthier, and wiser, prosecution, is said to have become lukewarm in the cause lately. If that gentleman thinks of contesting the place ot United States Senator from New York with Senator Morgan, who also desires a re-election, by opposition to the whisky interest, he will provoke a dangerous foe, tor it is all powerful; but it may be mere gossip and a malicious suggestion. MARINE HOSPITAL at NEW ORLEANS. Perry Fuller, collector, reports the United States Marine Hospital, now occupied by the Freedmen’s Bureau, ia a condition so dilapida ted that the Treasury Superintendent should re sume its possession to preserve tbe building from ruin. The Supervising Architect of the Treas ury indorses Lis recommendation. PROMOTED. The Secretary of the Treasury has promoted the special agent of the Revenue Department at New Orleans, who captured O’Rourke, the contrabandist, giving him a better position and a higher salary. CUSTOMS. The receipts of customs from the 5th to the 7th inst., at 'New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, was two and a half millions. SECRET CONFERENCE. At the Internal Revenue headquarters, this •afternoon, Commissioner Rollins held a con sultation with certain gentlemen, with closed doors. The lock was fastened and ingress was denied to all. The result of the pow-pow, of course, has not transpired. THE CASE OF J. S. WELLS. The Secretary of War has addressed a letter to Colonel C. D. Penuebaker, Kentucky State Agent, officially informing lnm that the Execu tive dots not consider the case of John S. Wells, alleged guerrilla, proper for Executive action. THE Fri.LIBUSTERS. Senor Goni, Spanish Minister, confiding in the representations ot Secretary Seward, advised bis Government that the idea of American filii- busters making a descent on Cuba was improba ble; but in such an event, this Government would promptly suppress it. MINISTER JOHNSON’S ACTION. Those wbo are dissatisfied with Reverdy Johnson’s action with retereuce to the questions in dispute between this country and Great Brit ain, say that he is acting under instructions given him prior to departing for England by President Johnson. It is said that Secretary Seward, during an interview with prominent gentlemen of this city yesterday, plainly intima ted to them that Minister Johnson must have been authorized to pursue his present course by the President or he would have requested in structions from the State Department before as suming such, as he termed it, extraordinary au thority in conceding such vital poiuts to the British Ministry. Some fear that the action of Reverdy Johnson will produce a rupture be tween the President and Secretary Seward, as the Secretary is but human alter all and can’t bear the idea ol these questions being settled without playing a prominent part in the busi ness. general grant will spend a day or two at West Point, and on his return will speud a day or two in Phila delphia. The trip is made merely to see his son who is at West Point, and has no political significance. Get Sleet Enough.—A young man in busi ness mast acknowledge one mathematical tact. He knows by experience about how many hours’ sleep he needs to be as fresh one day as on the previous day. He must acknowledge the fact that he cannot sit up late and rise early, aud get this amount ot sleep. There is a right mathe matical obstacle to the accomplishment of such a teat. If he needs seven hours’ sleep—many young men do—or eight hoars, as more young men do—he cannot get them between 1 o'clock and 7 o’clock in tbe morning. If he insists on late hours, he must neglect either his sleep at night or his business in the morning. Nearly all young men have sufficient acuteness at 7, a. m , to appreciate the impossibility ol taking one from seven and leaving eight. The queston is, whether or not he appreciates this impossibility in the evening, when he is called upon to de cide between a ‘jolly good time” and his bed. One very frequent mistake is that the lost sleep can be made up. In the first place, whatever a young man may intend to do, he very seldom actually tries to make up for lost sleep. If he needs eight hours sleep, and gets but five, he usually makes up the lost three by sleeping about one hour Linger than usual the Lest ingot. Or perhaps he depends on Sunday on balancing the M u*tie week, and by three hours’ extra sleep makes up for tea hours lost. Iu the second place, one hour of regular sleep is worth, tor purposes of recuperation, at Jtasi two hocs of “m -lie up” slumber. There is practically no such thing as making up lost sleep. gciciPE,—Yesterday evening, says the Macon Telegraph, as the Columbus passenger traiirwas coming in, and when pacing near Thompson’s Factory, about a half mile from the passenger ^hed, a man by the name of Deboarder (as we heard it.) who was a watchman at the factory, t fiber iu a fit ot insanity, or with the deliberate intention of committing suicide, stepped upon the track a few rods ahead of the rapidly ap proaching train, and walked along towards it until caught up and thrown violently from the track by the cow-catcher. He was'killed in stantly. The venerable Jacob Baiker was the first voter at one of the polls in New Orleans, mak ing iris appearance there at 6:30 in the morning. Be voted for Seymour and Blair. Piety, Spinsters,'WaA IVtaeecenntlon Everybody who knows anything, knows that Theodore Tilton, editflYof the New York Inde pendent, is regarded by himself, Horace Greeley, and a nnmber of others, as an essentially pious man. His paper is rated as a “religious paper.” He himself is a sort of cross between Howanlji Curtis, of Harper's Weekly, and Henry Ward Beecher, of Plymouth Church, and among the ladies, married and single, who devote them- se’ves exclusively to the manufacture of flannel undershirts for the lit£e infants of the Wagogo, he is universally declared to be “a remarkably good young man.” He is the representative ol a certain order of piety which prevails at the North, which does fot teach its disciples to bear all things, endure all things, and suffer all things, but to make ev'-ry one else bear, endure and suffer to au unlimited extent Miss Anna Dickinsou is a spinster of consid erable notoriety, wbo has been in public life for many years. 8he has^ctured on eveiy con ceivable subject, social, political, religious, eco nomical, moral, scta^cICVc, and literary, and though equally ignorant and es pecially deficient in such. Jcmentary knowledge as syntax and orthography, she is always ready to tackle anything that crimes uppermost, and is particularly famous tor her admiring advocacy of “negro rights,” and tor her bold assertion of “women’s rights” even to the extent of insist ing that ladies should ride on horseback “after the manner of men.” Miss Anna is not old. No lady ever is, but she has certainly passed that interesting time of life described by Wackfhrd Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby as that “Jge when all the sensibilities is a coming out strong in blow.” Miss Anna’s sensebilities have all blown long ago. She has travelled in every dkection. She has climbed the highest peaks of the Rocky mountains with George Francis Train. She founded a lyceum or two at Omaha. She has penetrated the depths ol Utah, hast lectured to Brigham Young and the Saints, and is still a spinster. Her last and greatest effort has been a book quite recently published under the rather con- nundrumical title of “What Answer?” in which she proves to demonstration that miscegenation is the sum of all human blessings, and that heaven on earth is only attainable by the union of the Anglo-Saxon aud, the Anglo-Africau in true and lawful marriage; Prejudiced critics of limited capacity, have denounced the book as an abomination, and have even gone so far as to denounce Miss Anna a most abominable person.” And hereupon the pious Tilton comes to her rescue. The “re markably good young man” rushes impetuously against the critics, aud maintains with all the fire and energy ot his nature that Miss Anna’s book on miscegenation is the noblest, the best, the -purest, the most virtuous, the most pious, and the bravest book that was ever written since the invention of letters, and that of all spinsters living or dead, Miss Anna is the noblest, purest, &c., through all the superlative adjectives applied to “What Answer.” We have not read the book, and we do not 1 think it at all likely that we ever shall read it. But from all we can gainer from extracts, we unhesitatingly agiW^terfh the critics in pro*) nouncing it “an abomination” and the fair writer “ an abominable person ” unfit for the society of decent people and only fit to as sociate with John Allen, his corps de' ballet, and the pious Tilton. We hazard tbe answer without examining the question, on the general ground that nobody who is not utterly abandoned, or hopelessly and disgustingly crazy, would dare to outrage public opinions and public morals by recommending miscegenation—the foulest and most revolting abomination which anybody can imagine. When a woman—an unmarried woman—so far forgets her modesty, and the decent reserve which becomes her sex, as to publish so beastly a book, she deserves, not merely the castigation of the critics, but corporeal castigation at the cart’s tail. She becomes absolutely loathsome— an unclean monster, wi'.h whom contact is con tamination. Cordially do we wish that Tilton and Miss Anna would emigrate immediately to the lake regions of Central Africa, and there for the term of their natural lives unite the Anglo Saxon and the African blood in true and lawful marriage. We will subscribe handsomely towards the ex penses of their trip and contribute liberally to the purchase of Miss Anna’s trousseau when she finds the African who will be unfortunate enough to espouse her. everything is in Us place, and a book is kept of the j men who heard him say it will swear to it. He daily work on the plantation, showing the u ttered publicly at Blairsville and Morgauton Editorial Correspondence of tlie Atlanta Intelligencer. A Trip to Wilkes County—A Visit to the Plantation of Samuel Barnett, Esq. — Improved Agriculture — Its Profitable Results. Athens, Ga., November 16,1868. During a short visit to tbe delightful town of Washington, Wilkes county, during Court week, I had tbe good fortune to visit the plantation of Samuel Barnett, Esq., who is so well and favor ably known to the citizens of Georgia as an emi nent lawyer, an accomplished financier, an able scholar, and a good, benevolent and useful citizen. Since the state of Mr. Barnett’s health has com pelled him to abandon the active practice ot his profession, and to some extent has deprived him of the enjoyment of books; be has devoted himself to agriculture; and, applying himself to that pursuit with the same areidr and systematic per severance which he has brought to everything he has undertaken, he has succeeded admirably; and if be continues in the way on which he has entered with such good promise, Mr. David Dicksoo, ot Hancock county, will have to look out for his laurels as the Napoleon of cotton pro ducers. By thorough preparation of the soil and careful and timely culture, with comparatively little manure, Mr. Barnett has raised. a heavy bale of cotton to the acre on a considerable part ot the land planted, and on his whole crop wil gather at the rate ot 80 to 85 bags to every 120 acres planted. The land is good upland, but of the same quality as the generality of the lands in Wilkes county, and with the old method of plowing and after culture would produce at the outside about 50Q or 600 lbs. of seed cotton. He used seed carefully selected by himself, which from the smallness of the limbs and the number of bolls which grow close round the stalk, I ca!l the “cluster cotton,” equal in quality and length ot fibre lo the best “Dickson” cotton, and superior, in my judgment, to any cotton I have ever seen in the quantity it yields to the stalk. Planted with the rows from 3j to 4 feet apart and from six to eight inches apart in the row, it will yield certainly on good land in an ordinary year from 1,000 to 1,200 lbs. of seed cotton to the acre, and with an application of 200 to 250 lbs. of “Dickson’s Mixture” (Peru vian Guano, dissolved bones, salt and land plaster) it will yield a good bag per acre beyond a doubt, provided the land is thoroughly plowed, subsoiled and cultivated. I was much struck by the perfect system with which Mr. Barnet manages his plantation. Ev ery field in cultivation is carefully surveyed and a map made of it for reference and guidance in tbe operations of tbe farm. The fences and gates are in perfect repair. The buildings are in good order. There is a place for everything and proper mode of culture for each crop with notes of the latest improvements in implements, way of using them, time, etc. Mr. Barnett contemplates raakiug some expe riments with different sorts ot manure in various quantities and in different relative values, which will be a very valuable contribution to agricul ture when the result is made known, as he never guesses at anything, or leaves others to guess lor him. . « \ I regret that I did not see his plantation ear lier in the season before “ chill November’s surly bloat made fields and forests bare.” but I saw enough to warrant my making particular notice of what I saw, for the benefit ot others that they may follow his example and improve their mode of agriculture. His seed is certainly from one-third to one-half better than the or dinary seed of the country, an^ would recom mend farmers, it they can, to procure some of them for the future. 1 don't know whether Hr. B- win sell may ot thom this year, but if be does, those who are fortunate enough to get them will find it much to their advantage; but they aanat make up their minds to do more than scratch their land with a “ scooter,” and then tear the young plant with a “shovel,” aed be sure to do all their deep pi -j wing before they sow their seed. 1 know of nothing by which newspaper wri ters can benefitthe public more now than by ob taining and imparting reliable information on matters relating to the material interests ot the people. To make two bolls of cotton, or two stalks of corn, grow where one grew before, is a subject ol far more vital interest at present than anything connected with general politics. That we can reclaim our waste places and restore our fallen fortunes, it wewill only go to work, and cultivate our lands intelligently, and on the prin ciples upon which suecess depends in every other business, is evident to every one wbo will visit the plantations of Mr. Dickson or Mr. Barnett, and ot several other intelligent planters, and who will read what has been done by tbe Athens Wheat Club on the v old, worn-out, red hills round Athens. If we will insist on planting twice and three times the number ot acres we can prepare, ma nure, and cultivate, we must not blame any one but ourselves if we find that planting does not pay. But if we will only plant as much laud as we can prepare thoroughly, manure abundantly, and cultivate perfectly and at the proper time, we can make a bag of cotton to the acre, with one-third ot the labor it w&uld require to scratch over three acres which together might produce 1,000 lbs. ot cotton “in a good year.” It is nothing but “vanity and vexation of spirit ’’—certainly the latter—to attempt to carry on the old large plantation system in the old way. We muBt sell off the old mules aud buy half tbe number of good “peert” animals. We must set aside the old stumpy “scooters” which break laud about H inches deep on au average, and buy Brinly plows. We must give up plant ing our old exhausted lands without applying manure, and only plant as much as we cam afford to manure liberally, and if we do this and attend to our own business, not trusting eveiy thing to an overseer, even with freedmen, planting will pay, and pay well. fur tub intelligE' ceb. A Card from II. P. Bell in Reply io II. P. Farrow. The card of H. P. Farrow in relation to some correspondence I had with him recently at Ellijay, which appeared in the Daily Intelligencer of October 26th, abounds in the grossest and most unblushing falsehoods He saya: “ I stated that I had not anywhere said I had invited Mr. Bell to meet me in discus sion.” He made no such statement in his speech at Ellijay. And he knew when he was writing the sentence that it was not true. If he had made the statement which he says he made, he knows it would have been false. The Hon. E. W. Chastain and T. R. Trammell, Esq., both as sert that he stated in MorgantOD, “ that he invi ted me to a discussion with him at Cumming and that I refused, and went out of town on that day.” Fifty other men at Morganton heard the same thing, and will swear to it. He made the same charge in substance at Blairsville, as I was informed by a number ot citizens who heard it. S. C. Johnson, Esq., made the same statement iu substanee publicly at Dawsonville, upon the au thority of Farrow. It will be borne in mind that I had canvassed the npper counties ot the district, and was engaged in meeting my ap pointments in the lower end of the district, when this vaporing, worthy, and valiant knight of the negro, the modern Don Quixote, whose shield must be emblazoned with the image of some adorable “ colored Dinah ” was challeng ing to intellectual combat, all absent adversaries in the mountainous counties, and endeavoriug to deceive honest men by these falsehoods, think ing, no doubt, that no one could correct his mis representations before the election. I had, how ever, an opportunity to denounce, before tbe people he attempted to deceive, these falsehoods, which I did in appropriate terms. He says in his card that the reason why he expected to meet me at Cumming, “was as fol lows : ” “That I or my friends, with my know ledge and consent had written to the Demo cratic Committee, In this city to send General Gordon to Cumming to meet me, and that the committee answered the letter saying Gen. Gordon could not be there, and that he (air. Bell) must meet me. I then turned to Mr.-Bell and asked him upon his honor as a gentleman, to state whether or not such a correspondence took place, and he acknowledged it." This statement is false. I acknowledged no such thing. I did state that I wrote to the committee, requesting that Gen. Gordon or some one should be sent to meet him. But I stated expressly and explicitly, that tbe committee had not replied, that I re ceived from the committee no communication, verbal or written, upon the subject whatever. Again. He says, “ 1 then turned to the audi ence and said that by Mr. Bell’s own acknowl edgment, he had been invited and requested by his own committee to meet me, and he bad not done it.” This statement is false. He stated, instead ot the above, that I bad written to the committee, but he did not state, as alleged in bis card, “that I had been invited and requested by the com mittee to meet him,” lor I had just sta*ed that I had never received auy communication from them upon that subject. He says, "With reference to Tbomaa R. Trammell and E. W. Chastain, who seem to bt his authority, I have only to eay, that if they mean to represent me as saying that I had any communication whatever with Mr. Bell, verbally or in writing, personally or through third par ties, inviting him to meet me at Cumming, the} simply he, that’s alL” Now Messrs. Chastain and Trammell mean to represent him as saying precisely wbat be did say, and what they informed me in their note he said,to wit: “that he invited me to a dis cussion with him at Cumming and that 1 re fused and got on my horse and rode out of town.’ 1 No body can misunderstand what they mean. Farrow denies saying it. These two gentlemen laser! he said it and fifty other goo4 this falsehood, when he knew it was false—when he knew no one was present who could con tradict it, and when attacked about it denied it, and wheu I challenged luni to a public dts CUSsIod, ingloriously “backed down.” And jet thi9 free-negro champion, Potash hero, and Boat of Salt Peter, talks ot “honorable bearing in politics." The intelligent men of the mountains can understand the difference between truth and falsehood—between braggadocio and cour age. The late vote iu these counties show how they appreciate this self-constituted oracle ol negro equality. Intelligent Republicans were disgusted with his puerility. He gives in bit- card a false reason for refusing to discuss with me at Ellijay. He knows the reason why he refused it, and he knows the reason assigned is not the true one. Perhaps the next time this Knight cCAfrique sets out upon an adventure be wlU be more discreet in the general and indis criminate challenges he reports himself as hav ing given io absent antagonists. JEL.P. Bell. Extraordinary Revision. In the case ol Moses George, colored, on trial for arson before the Superior Court of Randolph county, on Monday last, the jury, after delibera ting lor several hours, returned a verdict ot guilty, and were dismissed by his Honor, Judge Harreii, who then vacated his seat. Subsequently, learning that the punishment of the crime was death, the juiy re-assembled and pe itioned the Judge that they might be allowed to retire and reconsider their former verdict Judge Harreii decided that they might do so, and suggested that they possessed the right to a recommendation ot mercy to the court, which could then commute the prisoner’s sentence into imprisonment for life. The jury was then reorganized, and after a brief absence reversed the previous decision, and brought in a verdict of absolute acquittal. This, contrary to usage and precedent, the Judge received in the absence of all the counsel for the State, and immediately after the prisoner who, under the laws ot the land, had been duly convicted of the heinous crime ot arson, was turned loose upon the community in the dark ness of the night. The following morning Col. Fielder, Counsel lor the State, demanded the execution ot the first and only lawful finding of the jury, and the re-arrest of the prisoner. This the Judge refused to permit, and as in such cases the State has no appeal, justice has been cheated of its dues, aud the attempted de struction ot our city does not receive even a passing rebuke. We forbear comment, being content with a simple statement of the facts of the case, as vouched for by many of the most prominent and upright citizens of the community. Indeed they are beyond ail doubt or question.—Cuthbert Appeal. Special Telegraphic Correspondence of the Loalenlle Courier- Journal. From Washing ion. RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES. Washington, Nov. 15.—Information received from New York leaves no doubt that the revenue squabble will be renewed belore the close ot the work. It is now stated that Judge Fullerton has much stronger proofs of official corruption thin were laid oefoie the President. His pii- marv purpose was to secure tbe removal ot New York officials, and be therefore presented only those cases which bore down on them alone.— Now it is 6aid lie will strike without mercy, and expose all who are implicated ia frauds, directij or indirectly. This is ■'aid to include Courtney. Rollins, Harland, and a number or officials, as well as certain prominent persons who are thought to be the very head and tront ot in- whisky ring, including even the astute Thnrloe Weed, the right bower of 8eward. If Fullerton makes his word good, and as McCulloch is pledged to stand off. and Evarts’ opposition of & negative character, the Executive has another chance to clean out the Augean stable. THE NEW TREASURY SECRETARY. It is now understood that Grant’s trip to New York was to hold a conference with prominent business men lor selection of a Secretary of the Treasury. He is most favorably disposed to ward John J. Cisco lor that place. To the Associated Press. HYMENEAL. Washington, November 15.—The wedding of Speaker Colfax and Miss Wade takes place at Andover, Ohio, on Wednesday next. financial. Tbe amount of coin in the Treasury at this date is about $87,000,000, ol which $22,000,000 are represented by gold certificates. NOBODY NEED APPLY. Many persons have arrived here fiom various States, seeking Government employment. Instead of increasing, the departments are diminishing their forces, and therefore there is no prospect ot success. Cotton—Important Letterfrom Rollins. —We publish for the benefit of our mercantile community the following letter from Commis sioner Rollins, relative to taxable and untaxable property: Treasury Dep t. Optics Internal R&venue, I Wabh-nston, October 6.1SCS. f To J. F. Bailey, Esq., Collector Eleventh District, New York : Sib—In reply to yours of the 17th ultimo, concerning your duty with respect to cotton ar rived in New Y’ork, I have to say that tbe atten tion of the Committees of Ways and Means and Finance was called, the contusion that would result it new cotton exempt lrom tax were thrown upon the market together, and they were urged to recommend such legislation as would enable the proper discrimination lo be made. This they failed to do, and in the present state of the law, I cannot advise you to interfere with any cotton coining into your district, unless you have reason to believe iu the particular case that the cotton is subject to the tax, and that tbe tax has not been paid. Before the present crop found its way in the market, every bale ol cotton was subject to the lax, and therefore, it was not unreasonable that tbe nolder ot any bale should be required to show that the tax hud been paid. Now, when much cottoQ is upon the market which is not subject to the fax, I do not think we are justified m calling tor the proof, unless there is Borne rea sonable presumption of fraud. Very respect fully, Thomas Harland, Acting Commissioner. A Pillar of Fire.—A gentleman of Louis- viile informs the Courier that a few nights since, between 11 and 12 o’clock, he saw one of the most brilliant meteors that ever astonished the dwellers on this mundane spbere. At tbe time the moon was shining brightly, snd a great bank of light white mist had settled over tbe sleeping city, giving tbe atmosphere a peculiar mellow ness and softness. And he was walking rapidly along with his head down, he was suddenly startled by a bright flash of light directly before him, which in another instant was thrown along a portion of the whole street, rendering objects for some distance as clear to his vision as it be had been walking m the brightness of a summer day. Looking up, he beli"'d a blazing glooe ol tire io the noithwest r.i sky, to the naked eye, equai in size to a large drum, having the appear ance oi molten iron. Liar.. iy had be looked ere the great white ball seemed parteu as il by an explosion, and showers ot beautiful colored sparks toil like a rain ot blazing jewels, anc were lost In the night. The nucleus ot the bright ody remained for an instant, sod then, as it darted swiltly earthward, another explosion seemed to occur, and a second time the meteor threw eff its glittering showers, then disappear ed altogether. The financial condition at the North does not fulfil the promise so trequeutly made an to tae prosperous state of affairs which would instant ly follow the election ot General Grant. A money panic, a rapid decline in Government se curities, universal distrust, the utter ruin oi thousands, and commercial fail area in every di rection are not a happy augury, unless we pre dict that “ a bad beginning makes a good end ing.” Well, we wish we were at the good part. From the Savannah Rtpnbl-'can. Judge Schley’s Recislou ou the Re.lot Act. We take pleasure in correcting what appeals to have been a misapprehension of ihe d. cisi.in rendered in the case ot Byrd vs. Reeve* none, u :>y us in our issue of the 15tu instmL \V >h n understood that the decision suetaiueu ihe .-»« in all its parts. We now understand the decision to have be. n made mainly upon the point raised, unoer the first section of that ac>, which allows “ihe con sideration of the contract, the subject ol ti.e suit the amount knd value ot the property owned by deponent at the time tto contract was entered into, to show upon the teith ot what'property credit wes gi*qa to him and wlSit tdndcfe oi payments were inade to the plaintiff, and the non-payment ot the debt was owing to the re fusal ot the creditor to receive the money offered ” eta, etc. ’ The plaintiff’a counsel objected to any such testimony being admitted, as it was in direct conflict w ith the first article and tenth section of the Constitution of the United Stales—“whieli prohibits the passage of any ex post facto law, or impairing the obligation ot contracts.” Whereupon, alter argument had, the Court ruled that said act of 1868, and the ordinance of 1865 commonly known as the Scaling Act, were based upon the same principle—both relating to enlarging the rules of evidence—the only differ ence being that the act ot 1868 enlarged the rules so as to admit more facta to go before the jury than the ordinance oi 1865 did; and,as the cou- stitutionality ol that ordinance has been sustain ed by the Supreme Coart, there was, the of judgment of the Coun, in this act of 1868, no conflict with the first article and tenth section in the Constitution of the United States, the con tract not being abrogated or impaired, but sim ply that the said act of 1868 allowed the jury to have all the facts surrounding each transaction, and after hearing all the testimony, make such a verdict between the parties as to them mislit seem just and equitable. b .k IT t,v that Grant and his friend, the Illinois Washburne, have had a serious tull- fgg °“ t - ft is true, it may result in a special ffenefit to the country. We hope it is, and the special dispatch to the New Orleans Times is not a canard. Until Washburne undertook to manipulate the General he was regarded as a Democrat, and many of the Democratic party saw much in the latter to admire, and wished to make him the Democratic candidate. It was only after the Illinois maneuverer got hold of him that the frankness ot his former character seemed to depart, and serious apprehensions began to be entertained that he wouldn’t do. To break with Washburne now is indicative of Conservatism, or psrhaps the would-be keeper of conscience of the President elect went a little too far in suggesting whom he should, and should not, have in his Cabinet. We shall see anon, and can afford to wait for the coming day. which we should think auspiciously began iu the dismissal of Washburne lrom Gen. Grant’s councils. Wall Street Gossip.—Mr. McCulloch con tinues to “catch it” all around for his alleged manipulation of the Treasury Department in the interest of Wall street speculators. The Herald is especially severe. It says : “Although no more Treasury stockjobbing dispatches have been received lrom Washington within the lust three days, the public indigna tion which they excited has by no means sub sided. It is generally known that until within very short time past Mr. McCulloch looked torward to retaining his present office under General Grant, bat hopes of this no longer exist, and the Secretary, as a dernier resort, is said to he intent on making a million ot dollars, more or less, before he leaves the department. The semi-official press dispatches of Friday, Satur day, and Monday last, were, theretore, there is good reason to believe, part ot the stockj.»oblng soueme in which the Treasury ring is rngagtd, with Mr. McCulloch at its head. This is not only a scandal to the department, but a cli#gracu to tne Government, and its repetition ougm to oe punished by the President by the susp«-n>-i<<u of his stockjobbing Secretary oi the Treasury.” Dby Goods.—A revival of activity was very generally looked for in dry goods alter the elec tion ; and no doubt the anticipations ot the com munity in this respect will be .uifilled. But no intelligent merchant expected that the revival would commence the very next day auer the election, though some commercial reporters tor the daily and weekly press Beem to have put that construction upon the prediction. The transactions ot the past week have been on a limited scale, but prices have undergone no change which demands special notice. The ter rible stringency ol the money market, w hich had been growing in force for a fortnight, continued with unabated rigidness all through the week up to Saturday morning. Very serious consequences might have been anticipated to the dry goods dealers, and a marked decline in the prices of staple fabrics. But none such occurred; and the steadiness ot the market, under a pressure that forced down the prices of government bonds three per cent., and sent gold down to 132£, must be construed as indicating a healthy condition. The condition of the market as respects do mestic fabrics, both cotton and woolen, apply to foreign goods, which are more immediately af fected by the fluctuations in the gold market. The retail trade of the city is very good, but the auction sales of the week have been unimpor tant. Importations have considerably fallen off, and our importers evince a disposition to carry over as small a stock ot goods for next year as may be possible.—N. Y. Independent. Grant ahead of the Nigger.—Grant beat negro suffrage amendment twenty thousand votes in Iowa. The distinguished Senator from Massachu setts, Charles Sumner, has declared that “ it is sweet to die for one’s country,” a less novel than patriotic utterance, but one which everybody will applaud, if he could only be induced to taste tbe sweetness of which he speaks. It would be sweet tor him, but oh I how inexpressi bly sweet for the country! The National Democratic Chairman.— Mr. Belmont did not take tbe trouble to vote for the Democratic ticket at tbe last election, nor did he trouble himself, apparently, at all about the election during the campaign. Tbe Norwich (Ct) Advertiser says “ the impression has got abroad that Mr. Belmont and some of his com mittee were not well pleased about something, and took no particular interest in the election. It is certain they managed the campaign badly, and if the absence of Mr. Belmont is any indica tion of his zeal, it is high time be resigned his place. He may be a very clever little man, but tbe Democratic party was not organized for bis especial benefit, and will hardly consent to con fine itself to the gratification ot his whims.” An Old Ladt.—Mrs. Joannah Langston, of Gilmer county, has arrived at the age of 105 years, and said to porsess remarkable health, is quite cheerful, and very interesting. She has lived to see her posterity, “even unto the thifd and fourth generations.” She now has living, in this State, two hundred and fifty-eight libeal descendants, and one hundred and twenty in other States; in all, three hundred and seventy- eight. A good old age.—North Georgia Citizen. Congressmen Dickey and Hon. E. McPher son are engaged in winding up the affairs ot the late Tbaddeus Stevens. They find only about enough personal property to pay his debts, and his real estate consists ot a house in Lancaster, estimated at $15,000, and his iron furnace prop erty estimated at from $50,000 to $60,000. Coroner's Inquest.—Yesterday a Coroner’s inquest was he!d upon the body of Andrew Malcolm, an old citizen, who has been residing about five miles from the city for some years. Dr. Roach was called in, ana gave as his opinion that death was caused by the excessive use of ardent spirits. The verdict of the jury was ren dered in accordance therewith. The deceased was about seventy years ot age, and unmarried. An Illinois shop-keeper ingeniously fixed a pistol in his money drawer to guard against thieves, and the first man shot was himself

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Weekly Atlanta intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1865-18??, November 25, 1868, Image 1