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TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 17,1870
the shortest and most practi
cable ROUTE TO CONNECT PORT
ROYAL WITH KNOXVILLE VIA THE
BLUE RID6E RAILROAD.
In view of the active enterprise shown
bv other cities of onr Slate, and in conse
quence of the effort of various rival rail
way companies—in operation or in era
bryo-to secure the rich harvest of trade
and freights that must come from the West
on the shortest and best lines communi
cating with tide-water —our citizens neces
sarily feel a deep interest in the building
of a route to connect with the Blue Ridge
Road. The necessity and advantage of
such a connection have been brought more
prominently before our people by the now
assured consummation of two railway en
terprises that were, but a few years since,
deemed idle fancies, viz: the Air Line and
Port Royal Roads. The completion of the
former, if only to the State line, will draw
to Atlanta a large trade now enjoyed by
Augusta, unless checkmated by a road
crossing it at right angles. The Port
Royal Road shortens the distance to tide
water fully twenty-five miles, affording
also the great advantage of the best harbor
on the Atlantic coast. This important
point of lessening the distance between
Augusta and tide-water, added to the gain
of a road directly connecting with the Blue
Ridge route, would give the shortest possible
line obtainable from the West to the sea
board.
To accomplish this connection with the
Blue Ridge Road, two routes, urged by dif
ferent parties, have lately engaged public
attention. The first and most practicable,
but not most direct, is the extension of the
Athens branch of the Georgia Road to
Clayton, a distance of eighty miles. The
second is a direct road from Augusta to
Clayton, a distance of about 160 miles, to
be called the Augusta and Hartwell Rail
way.
These routes, however, are conSlderedi
somewhat in antagonism. The buildiDg oi
a road from Augusta to Clayton would,/t
is supposed by many, work damage to *ie
Georgia Road; while the extension of the
Athens branch to Clayton would make the
direct road from Augusta to Clayton an
impossibility or a financial failure.
The resolution passed by the stockhold
ers of the Georgia Road at their late con
vention : “ That their road be extended
“ from Athens to Clayton, the work to be
“commenced at the discretion of their Di
“ rectors,” has most probably put a quietus,
for the present at least, on the Augusta
and Hartwell enterpise. If such be the
fact, and those interested in the Port Royal
road still desire a more direct connection
with the Blue Ridge than through the
Georgia Road, in fact a virtual extension
of the great line they now are pushing
forward, the purpose can be accomplished
by a much shorter and more practicable
route than the proposed Augusta and
Hartwell scheme. Beside, the plan we are
about to suggest, in addition to the other
advantages enumerated above, can be con
summated at probably half the cost and in
one-half the time it would require to build
from this point to Clayton. At the same
time, an equal benefit would accrue to Au
gusta. We reset to the Savannah River
VaUey Route, for which a charter was grant
ed by the State of South Carolina several
years previous to the war, and which, at
the time proposed, received the hearty en
dorsement of a large majority of our citi
zens. A public meeting passed resolutions
authorizing Council to subscribe $500,000
to the stock on certain conditions. But
the “ rivalry ” between Hamburg and Au
gusta for the location of the depot, com
bined with other causes, defeated the enter
prise.
We append the report of Engineer Arms
who surveyed the route and estimated the
cost of construction; also, the result ol an
interview between a committee appointed
by our City Council to confer with those
having the enterprise in charge.
It will be seen by the Engineer’s report
that the distance to Anderson, S. C., is
about 92 miles, through a'favorable loca
tion, and at only 9>£ per cent, loss over an
air line. A glance at the map will demon
strate that the route via Anderson to
Knoxville is |more direct than the road
from Augusta to Clayton.
We trust these suggestious may cause
all concerned in the subject to give it
prompt attention, and, it needs be, full
ventilation.
[From the Constitutionalist, April 22d, IBM.
SAVANNAH VALLEY RAILROAD.
We have been shown the report of Mr.
Arms, Chief Engineer, to the President, Mr.
Hatchinson, of the results of the experi
mental surveys of the above road, from
which we cull the following interesting
faCtS: . Mites.
The length of the expertrpental line .
from Anderson to Hamburg
This can be brought down to 92
An increas of over an air line of only 8
miles or 9% per cent.
Per Cent.
This compares favorably with the
following length over a straight
line of the road from Charleston
to Columbia.. *'-• 25
Columbia to Greenville 47
Columbia to Anderson 28
Augusta to Atlanta 25
Savannah to Macon 27
A comparison of distances show not less
favorably.
Connecting with the Rabun Gap Road
at Anderson it will afford a route from
Knoxville, Tennessee, to Charleston, South
Carolina, 28 miles shorter than via Green
ville and Columbia Roads.
Miles.
From Knoxville via Dalton and Atlan
ta to Augusta, is 377
Via Anderson 286
Difference 91
Miles
Knoxvillg to Savannah via Atlanta... 498
Via Anderson and Augusta 416
Difference lo favor of Valley Route. 82
The estimated cost of the road,
grading, bridging, masonry,
&c... $799,070 00
. Superstructure 757,000 00
Equipment.... .... .... ....«... 185,200 00
Engineering, &c 70,000 00
$1,811,270 00
No estimate is hazarded of the business
and profits to be expected from this de
servable connecting link of the Southern
Atlantic .with the Western States, of the
great valley ; but they must be immense.
The road will make Andefsan an important
depot for produce and distributing point,
similar to Atlanta in Georgia. Jt must
also greatly increase the trade and property
of Hamburg and Augusta. It will enhance
the value of property upon the whole line
and famish most important facilities to
the planters nean#vhora It may pass.
The following resolutions were passed at
a meeting of the stockholders on the 20th
Inst:
On motion of Mr. Meriwether.
JUsohed, That the thanks of this com
pany are due, and hereby respectfully ten
dered, to Maj. F. C. Arms, Chief Engineer,
for the ability and despatch with which he
has accomplished the survey of the line of
read, the results of which he communicat
ed in the clear and satisfactory report
made by him this day.
[From the Constitution list, August Mh, 1866.
SAVANNAH VALLEY RAILROAD CONVEN-
TION OF STOCKHOLDERS.
We learn that a meeting of the stock
holders of this road was held at “ Free
land’s,” in Edgefield district, S. C-, on the
2d inst.
The President, Col. John A Calhoun,
opened the meeting by a forcible and perti
nent address, stating the object of the con
vention, and urging upon the stockholders
the importance of doing something in the
way of providing additional means for the
construction of their road.
# * * *
After the appointment of a committee to
verify proxies, etc., a committee from the
Council and citizens of Augusta, viz; His
Honor Wm. E. Dearing, Mayor, James M.
Dye, Wm. M. members of Council,
A. J. Miller and S. T. Coombs, on invita
tion, took their seats, and presented a pro
position to subscribe $500,000 to the stock
of the company, and to furnish a graded
l oad bed along the Augusta Canal to Bull
Sluice, on condition that the line of road
should cross the Savannah river at or
above Bull Sluice, and that there should
be no connection with the South Carolina
Railroad at any point without the limits of
Augusta, etc.
The committee to-which this proposition
was referred reported adversely to its ac
ceptance through their organ, C. W. Styles,
of Hamburg, who took occasion to say
that he considered the proposition “ illibe
ral, unjust,” &c., &c.
Mr. Miller, on the part of the Augusta
delegates, after having bem invited to
make a subscription, and having offered it
with suclr''conditions as they considered
important to their interests, and which
they had a right to impose, had not expect
ed that their proposition would be con
sidered as “illiberal and unjust .” Did not
consider it so in reference to the whole road,
although the plan might prejudice certain
local interests, &c. &c.
After further debate between Messrs.
Miller and Styles, the report of the commit
tee was adopted.
We fegret this result, and attribute It
entirely to the focal opposition of Hamburg,
and t£e opposition of the entire convention
to thf condition that “no other connec
tion/-should be allowed,” &c.
Our Washington Letter.
f Washington, May 12,1870.
The statement of Mrs. McFarland-Rich
ardson, published in the New York Tri
bune of yesterday, was the great topic of
interest here last evening. The paper was
in great demand. The supplies of the
newsdealers were soon exhausted, and
copies of the free-love organ passed from
hand to hand until quite worn out with fre
quent fingering and folding. A few found
the statement of this woman “splendid,”
and declared that it completely exonerated
her, Richardson, and the rest of the free
lovers. It is needless to say that these
were persons reared in the same school
as the party to the late tragedy—men and
women who sit under Henry Ward Beecher,
and find sweet consolation and guidance in
the teachings of the New York Independent
and Tribune. But the great majority of the
people in Washington who read, last eve
ning, this story of a woman’s life, as told
by the woman herself, were both shocked
and disgusted. No one pretended to de
fend McFarland or to extenuate his con
duct. He may have beefn as bad a man as
his wife declares —he mpy have been even
more. That docs notf Justify her conduct
nor sanction a publiMSjpun characterized by
bad taste and The attacks
upon cliq** e > of which the Iri
bunejamce is the nuclf us > are,fully justified
by the statement madfP u>) litf over the s .'?'
nature of Abby Sage 1«f c hafdson. A wife,
while living with ht^L,husband, receives
notes of love and a proposal of
marriage from anothevjr Her defense is
that, having made upJdsfNuiud to separate
from her husband shcO'dAsidered herself
morally divorced irom and free to ac
cept the love and prop<MWcecf others. This
is the free-love theoryJiHPtlut shell. Mrs.
McFarland may notjpive been a bad wo
man at heart. She was what associations
and teaching made her. She became per
meated through avid through with the
doubtful morality free-loving New Eng
land; she was surrounded by evil counsel
lors, and she fell. One man lost his life in
consequence, another has narrowly escaped
the gallows, and all through the pernicious
teachings of the disciples of free-love.
Hon. W. C. Sherrod, member of Congress
from Alabama, has just returned from a
brief visit to his home, occasioned by the
illness of his wife. Mr. Sherrod enjoys the
very rare distinction of being Southern
“born, raised and bred,” and of being in
reality as well as in name, a representative
of the people of his district. Being un
fortunately a Democrat as well as a South
ern man, Mr. Sherrod’s field of usefulness
has been somewhat circumscribed ; but he
has not been idle. If a bill for a Southern
Pacific Railway passes the present session
it will be largely due to Mr. Sherrod’s un
tiring exertions. It is so seldom one has
an opportunity for saying anything in
praise of the so-called Southern Senators
and Representatives in the Forty-first Con
gress that I trust I shall be excused now
for bestowing praise where praise is due.
Mr. Sherrod has positively refused the
nomination for re-election, his business re
quiring him at home. He will, however,
take an active part in tfie canvass ; and
will exert himself as heretofore to restore
his State to Democratic rule.
There is, it appears, a positive pecuniary
benefit resulting from unremitting and vio
lent personal abuse. John Russell Young
has found it so. His Standard has floated
into a paying circulation under the (s)can
dle-ons rays of Dana's Sun. J. R. Y. has
had more gratuitous advertising than any
man who ever embarked in journalism.-
And advertising always pays. One news
dealer here sells 125 copies of the Standard
daily—more than all the other New York
papers combined. At Wiljard’s Hotel it is
only led by the Herald and Sun. Mr.
Young owes his success to Mr. Dana’s abuse
and persecutions and should feel grateful ac
cordingly.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is evi
dently very much iu earnest in its investi
gations of Bullock’s operations here. They
were not altogether satisfied with Mr. D.
C. Forney’s statement (the publisher of the
Chronicle), and thought SI,BOO rather a
large sum for printing Senator Morton’s
blood and thunder Ku Klux speech. Yes
terday they had the publisher of the Na
tional Republican before them, and took his
evidence as to the rates of advertising in
Washington, etc. Bullock is to be the
next witness, and then the investigation
will close. Nothing authentic in relation
to the anticipated disclosures of the inves
tigation is obtainable at present. The
evidence is all to be printed, however, when
the committee have concluded their labors.
“ Shoo-Fly ” Cox got off two very good
things to-day during the debate on the
tariff. He criticised the spelling of a cer
tain word in the bill, and said if Webster
was correct It was mis-spelled. Maynard,
of Tennessee, who has tariff on the brain,
asked Mr. Cox if he had to go to the dic
tionary to find out how the word was
spelled. “No,” promptly replied Cox ;
“ the dictionary came to me.” The book
had been brought to him by a page. (No
pun is intended, reader.) Later, Mr. Cox
criticised Beast Butler’s pronunciation of a
word. The Beast enquired if the member
from New York considered that a fault.
Cox replied, “ My dear sir, I couldn’t begin
to enumerate your faults if I talked from
now until eternity. (General and continued
laughter.) I know the answer is not a very
proper one, but it is the way in which
the gentleman answers me. It is his style.”
(More laughter.) The Speaker now rapped
vigorously with his hammer. Butler made
a motion as if he was about to say some
thing, but finally joined in the laugh
against himself and sat down.
The Senate is discussing Wilson’s bill
for the reduction of the army -and the
House has up the tariff bill. It is Very
dull in and around the Capitol.
The House Reconstruction Committee
did not have a quorum this morning and
consequently did nothing with Georgia.
It is hardly probable now that they will
report before next week.
The members of the Bullock lobby have
not yet arrived, though daily expected.
Aho.
The Swallows. _
With rapid shoot of purple wings,
Like crescent arrow-head 6, they fly,
ADd cut the soft blue deeps as if
To them belonged the endless sky.
Now high and soaring near the dome
That spreads in azure down to earth;
Now low along the river wide
That pairror all the Summer’s mirth.
Now skimming over meadows rieh
Witt waving crowds of golden flowers;
Now stooping close, a moment’s rest,
On lichened rail in orchard bowers.
Then up and Bwift again they hunt
Through deserts of the air and light,
Where bluest space and yielding breath
Stretch wide around their utmost flight.
O who can e’er such gladness know
As that which fills the swallow’s breast,
When all the land in morning lies,
And skies above the sun hath dressed !
Or who with such a reckless dive
The sea immense ot Heaven would dare,
And rush on fearless wings to taste
The glorious freedom of the air!
[Special Correspondence of the Constitution.
Bill Arp Breaks Silence.
A RACY DESCRIPTION OF THE AUGUSTA RAIL
ROAD CONVENTION—A CHAPTER ON AXE
GRINDING. *
Augusty, May 12,1870.
Editor Constitution : I don’t see you in
this lovely city. You ought to have come.
You don’t know what you have missed. I
love Augusty ; 1 love her beautiful streets ;
her venerable buildings and the time-hon
ored names that overhang their doors ; I
love her evergreens and flowers; I love her
Planters’ Hotel and Mr. Goldstein; I love
her Fair Grounds and fair sex; her matrons
and her maidens, (that last love is an ex
tract from Mr. Howard’s speech, yon can
keep it out of the copy yon send to my
house); I love her street cars at 10 cents a
ride; her noble firemen ; her beautiful Fire
Engines and Big Steve. I love everything
in Augusty, and especially her many Con
ventions to which everybody and his wife
goes free. But, Mr. Editor, 1 deem it my
duty to tell Atlanty her impending danger.
You have’nt got any May Convention.—
Youv’e got no long railroad with 1,800
stockholders. I tell you it’s a whale.
Think of a corporation 175 miles long
(besides three or four branches), and with
1,300 stockholders, all born in Augusty.—
The power of that convention is tremen
dous. There sat eld John P., looking like
a King. There was Athens, Madison and
Covington and Washington. There was
all the Baptist Colleges and Methodist So-'
cieties with their stock in their pockets.—
There was delegates from cross-roads and
mountain gaps and river landings and slate
quarries, all come to build up and sustain
Augusty.- Everybody for the Georgia Rail
road, and all.wanted to put their shoulders
to the wheel and “do something.” I never
saw such an undyin affection for any one
town.
The King had hardly got upon his thrown
before a time-honored and familiar voice
said, “Mr. President. I am a friend to Au
gusty. I have always been a friend to this
beautiful city. lam a friend to the Georgy
Road. I take delight in her prosperity,
and to ensure this prosperity and put it
beyond all peradventure, I will state that
we are building a railroad from Carters
ville to Van Wert, and with your friendly
aid we propose to go on, and on, and on
until we tap the Mississippi river and bring
her last catfish to the city of Augusty.—
Since the human mind cannot foresee the
benefits that the speedy extension of this
road will bring to the Georgy Road and
the city of Augusty. “Many more pertinent
remarks were made. About this time I
heard a Rabun Gap man inquire “ where
bouts is this place they call Van Dirt?”
The next address was delivered by a
Griffin gentleman, full of fire and feelin for
Gri— no—Augusty. If, said he, the Georgy
Road would only build a road across from
Griffin to Covington, her prosperity and
progress would be greatly enhanced. Only
37 miles would cut off the triangle. Griffin
was in love with Augusty. She had no
love for Macon or Savannah. It was over
40 miles out of the way to go round by At
lanty ; and there was the rich county of
Henry, that was now covered up and hem
med in by two great lines ol'railroads. The
citizens of Henry did not know whether to
trade with Griffin or Atlanta, or Covington,
but if this railroad was built they would
all go to Augusty.
A distinguished gentleman from Coving
ton next arose, and only wanted to add
a word in behalf of this great enterprise.
He said: “ Mr. President, born, sir, in a
land of Augusty, with every pulse iu my
right arm throbbing to her success, I hope,
sir, that this road will be built.” He said
several more similar words.
About this time arose a member from
Gunter’s Landing, one of Carlisle’s earnest
men who says he Is 5 feet 6 and a half
inches high, with great emphasis on the
half. I don’t mean that he said this in his
speech; but he did say that, in his judge
ment, it would greatly conduce to the in
terest of the Georgy Road and Augusty, if
they would help his people build a road
from Guntersville to Gadsden, and then
from Gadsden to Atlanty. But it was to
be understood that the Guntersville end
was to be built first, and the other end
could float around loose for a while.
The next proposition came from Clark
county or thereabounts, 1n which the dis
tinguished speaker said that 40 or 400 years
ago (I dident distinctly understand which)
it was decided that the true line of the
Georgy Road was through Athens and Ra
bun Gap to the Mississippi. Time had
strengthened and developed the truth of
this route. It ought to be done now. It
was for the interest of the road and Augus
ty to do it. It is ruinous to delay. Look
at Atlanty with her Air Line. She is going
to sap the very foundations of North East
Georgy. There is but one ridge in all that
country that a railroad can he built on.
That is Chattahoochee ridge. We must
git that ridge first and hold it. Atlanty is
making for it. Let ns get ahead of her and
then her Line will dry up. Mr. Chris
ty says the Air Line is going to Charlotte,
and that Charlotte has nothing to trutfo on
but Chinkapines, and Atlanty hasn’t got
nothin of its own, but Chinkapines and he
neyer knew anything made a swappin
Chinkapines. snt, sir, I tell y°n, Mr. Pres
ident, Mr. Christy js mistaken; that Air
Line is going to ran to Atb—no 4-Ugusty.
A gentleman from Wilkes rose forward
twice and said, “ that if they wanted a road
to Rabun Gap, the true line was to extend
the Washington Branch, and he would sug
gest the taking up’ the road from Union
Point to Athens and lap it on tp thp Wash
ill ton Branch, and it would mighty nigh
reach the Gap. He said his people would
help; that he knew several men who had
laid up a littlp surplus money that they was
gbin to put into Gewannp next year, and
he would advise ’em to put jt in the rail
road ; he knew one man who had S3OO.
The next project proposed was a branch
rpad from the city to Rutledge to Big
Shanty, which would shorten the line from
Augusty to Ohattapooga 24 miles, and get
all the cotton yarns from Roswell Factory.
I felt like I should have been better off
if I had stgid at home, for yog sec, Mr. Ed
itor, I had an ax to grind myself, and the
grindstone was wore opt before my turn
come. Nevertheless, I made a highppthe
ujise toward the King, and sea l “ Mr,
King, this Road has got a heap of children
--some of ’em legitimate, and some of ’em
under bond, but I fear you have forgotten
a step-child of yoqrg qp about Rome, that’s
been workin’ hard for its step-dadtjy these
20 odd years. I’ll say this much for the
poor cast off thing. It’s only 20 miles long,
but it’s made 4 times as much money for
yon as the Athens branch of 40 miles, or
auv other branch. I think if you uriU run
it out to Wills Valley, (about 44 miles
further), that it will do more than Rabun
Gap, or any other gap. Resides this, Mr.
King, sur, I desire you to understand that
I think the extension of the Rome Road
will help Rome.” Mr. King bowed gra
ciously to me, and I think he will do suin
thin’.
The whole was wound up by Mr. Wy
man, who rose and ged : “ Mr. King.Mr.
King, I say, Mr. King—l am a poor man,
and very humble man, and haint got no
stock in the road, and wasu’t-born in Au
gnsty; but I’ve invented a balloon that will
save the trouble of building all the roads,
and I think will help Augusty.’ 1
Whereupon Mr. Cohen politely informed
the gentleman that he had better go out to
the Fair Ground with balloon... He
begged pardon and retired.
Mr. Peters didn’t say a word ont loud—
your Mr. Peters, I mean—but I set just be
hind him, and I heard him soliloquise:
“ Tell me, ye winged winds, do ye not kijow
some spot,
Whefe ogr Atlanta is, and Augusta is not ?’’
About this time Mr. Foster, of Madli on,
was going around trying to sell his sti ck.
I axed him what was the matter, an< he
said if they was-going to build roads f om
Nova Skoshy to Van Dirt and every lfttle
sea port qa. the Tennessee river, there would
be assessments instead of dividends, and he
was going to sell out, or poll out, or kick
out, or renig. He said Augusty had too
many friends for a Madison man.
Yonrs, in haste;
Bill Ar r.
P. B—Tell Mr. Peters and Mr. Hillyer to
hurry up the Air Line—make for the Chat
tahoochee Ridge early, but see to it that
Georgy dont go by Athens. He was bom
there, and they voted for him, and human
nature is mity weak. B. A.
State Rems.
Cucumbers were sold in Savannah on
Saturday at twenty-five cents each.
The Pulaski House, in Savannah, is to
be rebuilt in magnificent style, at a cost of
$310,000.
Mr. Edward Padelford, of Savannah, has
added $3,000 to his original gift of $4,000
to the Episcopal Church Home of Savan
nah.
Parties have recently visited Fort Val
ley in the interest of Northern capitalists,
with a view to establishing a large cotton
factory at that place.
The grocery and liquor store of. Mr.
Samuel Lesser, in Gainesville, was totally
destroyed by fire last Tuesday night. Loss,
over SI,OOO. No insurance.
In the Randolph Superior Cotrtt, H.
Whaley, charged with murder, was acquit
ted. David Ward, charged with the mur
der of Col. C. B. Harkie, was declarsd not
guilty.
The LaGrange Reporter says: From per
sons from various parts of the county we
learn that the wheat crop, as a general
thing, promises well, though needing rain
for a fuller development of the grain,.
In Columbus, on Thursday last, Howard,
a son of Mr. David Avcrett, aged ten or
twelve years, died from lockjaw, produced
from a splinter run in his foot the day pre
vious.
Corn in Southwest Georgia is from seven
to twelve inches high.— Exchange.
Worse than that; it is one hundred and
seventy-five cents high, and still rising.—
Cotton at fifteen cents, next Winter, will
be greatly below par. —Columbus Enquirer.
Mr. Willie Donaldson, son of Judge Don
aldson, of Canton, Ga., while assisting his
father in building a bridge near Carters
ville, fell into the river on some timber on
Thursday iast, and was so badly bruised
that he died on Wednesday.
The Baiubridge Sun says: Farmers tell
us that the dry weather and recent cold
nights make cotton look very sickly. Corn
and oats are looking remarkably well con
sidering the late Spring. Gardens are quite
backward, very few vegetables having
made their appearance in our market. The
peach crop is almost a complete failure in
this section. '
The dwelling house, kitchen and smoke
house, together with the furniture, clothing
and provisionsxif Mr. S. E. Hart, of Schley
county, were totally destroyed by fire ou
Wednesday night last. The family were
asleep when the fire was discovered, and
the children narrowly escaped with life.—
Fire supposed to have been incendiary.—
Loss, $5,000 or $6,000.
A Prominent Citizen of Macon Shot.—
The Macon Telegraph, of Sunday, publishes
the following account of a shooting affair
on Saturday:
Yesterday afternoon, between three and
four o’clock, as Mr. John Broughton, pre
scriptionist in thedrugstore of L. W. Hunt
& Cos., was walking from dinner ilong on
First street, between Oak and Arch
streets, he was hailed from the opposite
fiide of the stfeet by Henry G. Rostand he
stopped to ascertain what Mr. Ribs want
ed. The latter gentleman walked across
the street to where Broughton wis stand
ing, and asked him a question in regard to
some family difficulty which had existed
between them for some time jJ&st, and
while Mr. Broughton was replying, Mr.
Ross drew his pistol and shot him, the ball
entering near the centre of the breast bone
and ranging diagonally through the body
and lung passed out near the centre of the
right shoulder blade, inflicting what his
physicians say is an exceedingly dangerous
but not necessarily mortal wound. When
shot,Mr. Broughton staggered back against
the lence and fell, and his would be mur
derer turned, and, walking hastily to the
corner of First and Arch streets, started
off in a brisk run and effected his escape.
The affair produced quite a sensation
throughout the city, as both men are well
known, the assailant having been raised
here, and the assailed having lived(here since
the close of the war. He is a native, we
believe, of Norfolk, Va., and is known as a
worthy and estimable gentleman.
At 10 o’clock Saturday night, the physi
cians attending the wounded man were
hopeful of his recovery.
The Southern Express Company.—
We clip the following special telegram
from the Baltimore Sun, of the 13th inst.:
Washington, May 12.—The Senate Com
mittee on Commerce to-day agreed to re
pot t favorably on the bill to incorporate
the Southern Express Company. The bill
names as corporators Henry B. Plant, Ru
fus B. Bullock, Wm. B. Dinsmore, Samuel
M. Shoemaker, M. J. O’Brien, Cyrus S.
Plank, Joseph F. Gibson, Hugh Dempsey
and James Shuter, who are created a body
corporate, to be known as the Southern
Express Company, who are empowered to
extend business from Washington City, D.
C., through and in the States of Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Ar
kansas and the Indian Territory. The
capital stock of the company is to consist
of ten thousand shares, qf one hundred dol
lars each.
The Ordinary of Jones —We learm
from the Hon. Roland T. Ross, late Ordi
nary of Jones county, removed by the
Governor to make room for Jdmes A.
Deveanx, colored, that he interviewed Gov.
Bullock upon the matter day before yester
day. The Governor assured Mr. Ross that
he was not removed on account of any com
plaint or dissatisfaction, but because the
change was demanded by the Hon. Sake
Hutchins, the negro Representative of
Jones county, and by Senator Griffin, of
that District. —Macon Telegraph.
New Line of Steamers.— From New
Zealand papers banded us by Mr. Parsons,
we learn that anew line of ocean postal
steamers has been established between New
South Wales and California, stopping at
Auckland, New Zealand.
This line brings a letter from New Zea
land to Atlanta in a little over a month
As the distance is over ten thousand miles,
the advantage is apparent.
[Atlanta Constitution.
Three Thousand Hoqs Burned. — Cin
cinnati, May 11.—The hog pens attached to
J. W. Goff & Co.’s distillery were burned
this morning at 3 o’clock. About 3,000
hogs were destroyed. The spectacle was
shocking. The cries of the animals were
heard one and a half rajles. The pens were
valued at $15,000; no insurance. The hogs
were the property of Saddler & Cos. Loss
about $50,000; insured in home company
for $15,000. It is supposed to be the work
of an incendiary.
A terribly destructive fire at Fincastle,
Virginia, on the 9th inst., destroyed be
tween 40 and 50 houses, and caused a loss
of $400,000, of Which there was an insur
ance ol not more than $15,000.
Beautiful Pictures.—Mr. J. C. Derby,
of the Southern Publishing Agency, has
our thanks for two exquisite engravings
called respectively Happy Hours and Good
Morning. We are glad to learn that Mr.
D. has had great success in his literary
projects here and trust the same prosperity
may attend his enterprise i,n ether parts of
the State.
BY TELEGRAPH.
[ Associated Press Dispatches. '
WASHINGTON.
Washington, May 15.— General Meigs
has issued au order to officers in charge of
national cemeteries, instructing them to
make all necessary arrangements and af
ford the proper facilities for the decoration
of the Union soldiers’ graves on the 30th of
May. He has famished a Gopy of this or
der to the Grand Army of the Republic,
thus officially recognizing for the first time
the existence of that organization.
The Cabinet on Friday decided against
allowing the Big Horn mining expedition
to start until after conference with the
hostile chiefs now on the way here. Gen.
Augnr, commanding the Department of
the Platte, has been instructed to. carry
out this determination.
Washington, May 16—Noon.—In the
Senate, the bill granting public lands in
Alabama to the Decatur and Alabama
Railroad passed.
In the House, bills were introduced
granting lands to the New York and Nor
folk Railroad ; for the improvement of the
Tombigbee river; not to exclude women
from the census marshal ships; construct
ing a bridge across the Ohio river at Me
tropolis, Illinois; and granting lands for a
railroad from the Mississippi to the Arkan
sas river along the 35th parallel.
The House refused to order the Recon
struction Committee to report a bill for
general amnesty by a vote of 41 to 78.
The committees did nothing.
Congressman Perce, from the Fifth Mis
sissippi District, has nominated a negro to
West Point.
WAsniNwroN, May 16—P. M.—Revenue
to-day, $1,250,000.
Jjfche new Ban Domingo treaty was not
to the Senate to-day.
Timre was a special meeting of the Cabi
net tfite afternoon. The object has not
transpired.
It is stated that the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs favor subsidizing the Cali
fornia and China cable a half million per
year for twenty years.
The President nominated Philip Jacob
son, Attorney for the Southern District of
Mississippi; P. B. Hawkins, Postmaster
at Bowling Green, Kentucky.
The Secretary of State requests the Gov
ernor of Michigan to- prevent any armed
expedition from passing Santt St. Marie
Canal toward the Red River country, with
out express permission from Washington.
The Freedmen’s-Bnreau-Howard corrup
ruption investigation is still in progress.
Nothing tangible has transpired.
Anew internal revenue bill was reported
to-rlav. It takes taxes off of nearly every
thing except fermented liquors, distilled
spirits, tobacco, cigars, stamps and- in
comes; the tax on sales, except on liquor
dealers, Is abolished; also, the tax on
legacies and successions; gross receipts
from railroads, corporations, etc., though
the tax on receipts of theatres and lot
teries is retained. The income tax is fixed
at five per cent., with an exemption of
$1,500, but all inquisitorial features of the
tax are abolished. The tax on gas, pianos,
carriages, watches, &c-., is done away with.
A tax of three per cent, per annum is
levied on all public moneys deposited in
banks. The amount reduced is about
$33,000,000.
The report of the Commissioner of Agri
culture considers the season, so far, favor
able to a large crop of Winter wheat.
The Grand Army of the Republic have
designated their officers to superintend the
decoration of the Union graves at Ander
sonville, May 30th.
The Senate confirmed John F. Appleton,
vice Watrous, for District Texas Judge.
The House proceedings to day were the
postponement of the tariff bill until after
the passage of all appropriation bills, which
is equivalent to indefinite postponement.
A report from the Ways and Means Com
mittee of a partial internal revenue bill, re
pealing most of the special taxes, taxes on
gross sales, except as to liquor and tobac
co manufacturers and dealers, and contract
and receipt stamps, and continuing the in
come tax at 5 per cent., the exemption be
ing raised to $1,500, and the passage of a
bill reported from the Judiciary Commit
tee to protect the colored population
in the exercise of suffrage, providing
pains and penalties against any State
officers or individual citizens who attempt
to prevent the exercise of that right. The
usual large number of bills were reported
and referred.
The internal tax bill will come up for
action early next week; it reduces taxation
by $33,000,000:
The bill to repeal all laws authorizing
transportation and exportation of goods,
wares and merchandise in bond to Mexico
overland, was reported from the committee
without amendment.
The bill to enforce the Fifteenth A nend
gnent was considered.
An amendment was proposed to enforce
proceedings by the United States District
Attorneys who are ineligible under the
Fourteenth Amendment, imposing, upon
conviction, fine and imprisonment, and dis
qualification for office thereafter ; also re
enacting the civil rights act.
Discussion ensued, Ferry expressing the
opinion that all political disabilities of the
Southern people would be removed in the
course of two years. Morton declared the
policy a failure, and hoping the Senate bill
to repeal the test oath might lie defeated in
the House.
The Congressional coucus did nothing be
yond making arrangements for appointing
a Congressional Committee.
Brevet Major Generals E. O. C. Ord and
P. St. George Cooke have been ordered to
duty by the President, according to their
brevet rank. \/
Various stories are afloat concerning the
reasons for the special Cabinet meeting of
to-day. One report is that St. Domingo
was under consideration. Another makes
it that our Ifldian policy' was discussed,
while others assign the discussions to the
New York and New Orleans Custom
Houses. The authority of a prominent
official is had for asserting that no question
was discussed which should agitate Unduly
the public mind. »
Gen. Smith left here to-night to meet Red
Cloud at Fort Fetterman, where he arriv
ed os Sunday. The party is expected here
in about a week. Red Leaf, who accom
panies Red Cloqd, is not tfle sanguinary
chief of the Brule Sioux, as has been re
ported, but belongs to the Ogallalas ; the
other is dead.
The President, Gen. Sherman and several
Cabinet officers, Baron Gerolt, and Sena
tors and Representatives, attended a cele
bration here to-day, for laying the corner
stone of the Steuben Monument, which was
done with Masonic honors.
Sehurz and Degener, of Texas, made
speeches.
The special agent list of the Treasury
Department has been reorganized in ac
cordance with the law just approved by
the President. Anew district is to be es
tablished on the Rio Grande and the De
partment is confident of preventing further
infractions of laws in that locality.
Several important seizures were reported
to Commissioner Delano to-day of estab
lishments violating the revenue laws
Among them a rectifying house and dis
tillery at Charlotte, N. C., and a match
factory at San Francisco.
The Senate Military Committee have
agreed to report a bill paying the company
of Tennessee scouts attached to the Armv
of the Cumberland fifty thousand dollars.
FOREIGN.
London, May 15—At the annual
Press Fund dinner last night Wm. Henry
Smith presided and Lord Houghton orated
London May 10.—Fifty persons from
Bingham by rail, armed with revolvers and
with plenty of money, have been arrested
as Fenians.
The race between the Sappho and Cambria
oa Saturday was fair, notwithstanding
rumors to the contrary.
Motley and Clarendon have signed the
naturalization treaty.
It is supposed that the Fenians arrested
here will be remanded. The evidence is un
satisfactory.
Rev. Thomas Dale, of the Canon of St
Paul’s, is dead, aged 73.
The English pilots speak highly of the
sailing qualities of the Sappho. They say
she shipped no. water and made sixty miles
on one reach.
Paris, May 15—The Corps Legislate
has re-asssembled. There are no develop
ments regarding the new Cabinet.
Rancel, the well known Radical Denutv
is hopelessly sick. y '
Paris, May 16—A decree has been pub
fished announcing the Duke De Grammont
Minister of Foreign Affairs; James Phil
lippi Meges Minister of Public Instruc
tion; and Charles Ignace Phiechon Minis
ter of Public Works.
The Emperor’s health is excellent. He
attended the races yesterday, and walked
a long time among the people. He was
heartily cheered.
The list of the Fathers Opposed to infal
libility now number over one hundred.
Madame Ollivier, wife of the Minister,
received the decoration of the Noble Ladies
of Spain.
Rome, May 15. —The Ecumenical Conng
cil has closed discussion on the catechism.
The debate on the primacy aDd infalli
bility questions commenced to-day. The
Ultramontane party have great confi
dence in the result, and believe all will be
finished within a month.
About one hundred members have given
notice that they will oppose, more or less
radically, the proposed definition' of infal
libility.
Madrid, May 16.—1n the Cortes, Satur
day, a Republican Deputy made a speech
wherein he spoke of insurrection as still
existing in Cuba, notwithstanding reported
statements on the part of the Government
that it had been terminated. Senor Monet,
Minister for Colonies, replied at some length
persisting in the declaration that the insur
rection is really ended. Predatory bands
of insurgents are still in Cuba, and some
skirmishes have lately occurred, but that
entire order would soon be restored.
The official news from Captain General
De Rodas gives universal satisfaction.
In the Cortes, Minister Moret promised
the early introduction of a bill abolishing
slavery in the colonies.
NEW YORK.
New YoAc, May 15. — An expedition of
three hundred men, all Cabans, except five
American captains, left here early Saturday
morning as passengers on a steamer bound
to San Domingo. They carried 7,000 rifles,
six large guns, uniforms, equipments, pow
der, &c.
New York, May 16. — Governor Hoffman
vetoes the Arcade Railroad bill, which
proposes to run under Broadway.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis, May 14.—The fourth resolu
tion proposed by the committee to whom
was referred the proposal for union, says it
is the judgment of this Conference that
the true interests of the Church of Christ
require and demand the maintenance of a
separate and distinct organization. The
resolutions were adopted.
WISCONSIN.
LaCrosse, May 16. — A boy dropped a
lantern near a leaking barrel of kerosene
ou the steamer War Eagle. The vessel, the
Milaukie and St. Paul railway depot, and
the elevator, with the contents, were con
sumed. The passengers of the War Eagle
escaped by jumping into the river. Two
lives were lost.
NEBRASKA.
Ithica, May 15. — A war party killed the
wife and little sou and captured the daugh
ter, aged 13, of a settler on Nebraska river,
one hundred and twenty miles north of
Sioux City. The husband escaped. There
is intense excitement, aud loud calls for
Sheridan and Baker.
ILLINOIS.
Chicago, May 15. — Advices from At
lanta, Wyoming Territory, report a fight
with the Indians ; two killed and several
wounded. The Indians were pursued, when
they renewed the fight, and five more In
dians were killed. During the fight, Lieu
tenant Stanbach was killed and Sergeant
Brown seriously wounded. .
MISSOURI.
St. Louis, May 10.—The Indians attack
ed a working party on the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, between Kit Karson and Willow
Springs. Ten men belonging to the grad
ing party were killed.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, May 15.— Henry Clay’s son
Theodore, for fifty years an Inmate of the
lunatic asylnm, is dead.
CANADA.
Toronto, May 16.—The troops continue
to leave for Red River. The gunboat
Kescue leaves for St. Marie river—pre
cautionary against the Fenians.
— m • m*
MARINE NEWS.
New York, May 16.—Arrived: South
Carolina and Idaho, from Liverpool, and
Cortes.
Queenstown, May 16.—Arrived : The
Etna and Nebraska ; steamer Amazon,
from New Orleans arrived here in distress,
having lost propellor.
Southampton, May 16.—Arrived : The
Steamer Ohio, from Baltimore
MARKETS.
London, May 16—Noon —Consols, 94,%.
Bonds, 89%. Sugar firmer, both spot and
afloat
London, May 16 — Evening. — Consols,
94%. Bonds, 91%. Sugar quiet and
steady on spot and firm afloat.
Liverpool, May 16—Noon.—Cotton
steady ; uplands, 11%; Orleans, 11%@11%;
sales 10,000 bales.
Later —Cotton steady; Bombay ship
ments since last report to 13th instant have
been 56,000 bales. Pork firm. Lard firm.
Liverpool, May 16— Evening.—Cotton
closed quiet; uplands, H%; Orleans, 11%
@ll% ; sales, 10,000; speculation and ex
port, 2,000. Corn, 295. 9d.
Paris, May 16.—Bourse opened dull—
Rentes, 74f. 92c.
New York, May 16.—Noon.—Flour
dull and declining. Wheat dull and a
shade lower. Corn dull and declining.
Mess Pork dull at $29 75. karcl dull at
16%@16%. Cotton dull; sales, 9,000 bales
at 23%@23%. Turpentine quiet at 41@42.
Rosin dull at $2 07%@2 10 for strained.
Freights dull.
New York, May 16—Noon—Money,
5@6. Gold, 114%. Exchange, long, 9% ;
short, 10%. Stocks dull. Bonds, 12%;
Tennessee 6’s, ex coupon, 60% ; new, 56%;
Virginias, ex coupon, 69; new, 71 asked;
Louisiana 6’s, old, 75%; Levee 6’s, 73;
B’s, 91%; Alabama B’s, 101; Georgia 7’s,
95; North Carolina 7’s, old, 41; new, 24%;
South Carolina 7’s, old, 93%; new, 82%.
New York, May 16—P. M—Money, 3@5.
Sterling, 9%@9%. Gold, 114%@114%
Governments closed strong. Southerns
steady.
New York, May 16—P. M.—The week
opens with an increased ease in Money;
the supply offering is unusually large;
banks and capitalists find difficulty in
employing their money; call loans range
3@5; prime discounts, 6@7. Exchange
opened quiet and firm at 9%@9% ; during
the afternoon it was firmer with in
creased demand, closing 9%@9%. Gold
opened firm at 114%, but was pressed down
to 114% by heavy sales based on tele-
grams from Washington; market advanced
to 114%@114%; during the afternoon it
was strong at 114%, closing at U4%@
114%. Goverments opened strong notwith
standing the fall in gold; offerings were
light and closed strong at highest quota
tions of the day; 6’s, ’Bl, coupon, 17%;
’62’s, 12%; ’64’s, 11%; new, 14%; ’67’s,
14%; ’6B’s, 14%; 10-40’s, 8. Southern Se
curities opened firmer in South Carolinas
and steady in others, and during the after
noon became dull and firm, closing firmer
in Carolinas and steady in balance; Ten
nessees, 60%; new, 56%; Virginias, 69 ;
new, 69; Louisifinas, 75% ; new, 72%; Le
vee 6’s, 73; Levee B’s, 91%; Alabama B’s,
101; Georgia 6’s, 85; Georgia 7’s, 95;
North Carolinas, 49; new, 24%; South
Carolinas, 93 ; new, 88%.
New York, May 16— P. M.— Cotton
heavy; sales, 1,500 bales; middling up
lands, 28%; Orleans, 23%. Flour s@loc.
lower; State and Western, $4 80@5 80;
Southern heavy at s6@9 95. Wheat l@2c.
lower; Winter red and amber Western,
$1 31@1 32. Corn declining; new mixed
Western, $1 Oo@l 12. Beef steady. Pork
firmer at $29 90@80. Lard dull and heavy;
kettle, 16%@17. Whisky steady at $1 10@
1 10%. Rice firm at 6%@7%. Sugar in
moderate demand and firm. Cofltee firm
and quiet.'; Molasses dull. Navals Stores
quiet. Tallow steady at 9%@9%. Freights
dull and heavy.
New Orleans, May 16.—Flour firmer ;
superfine, $4 62%@4 75; double, $5 37%
@5 50; treble, $6. Corn—white scarce
and firmer at $1 40; mixed, $1 2501 85.
Oats, 70. Bran, $1 40. Hay, $26. Pork,
$31031 50. Bacou, 13%, 13%, 17% and
18%; hams higher; sugar cured, 20021.
Lard—kettle rendered, tterces, 16%@17;
refined scarce; tierce, 17%; keg, 19%.
Sugar quiet; prime, 11%. Molasses—prime
reboiled, 75. Whisky—Western rectified,
$1 05©1 15. Coffee—fair, 16%@16% ;
prime, 17%018%. Sterling, 25%. New
York Bi'ght, % premium. Gold, 114%.
Cincinnati, -May 14.—Corn easier at $1
@1 05. Whisky unsettled; old process,
$1070108; patent, $lO6. Mess Pork firmer
at $30030 25. Bran—good demand.—
Bacon—shoulders, 13; sides, 16%@17%.
Lard held at 16%.
Cincinnati, May 16.—Corn dull at 98.
Pork held firmly at SBO. Lard, 16%. Ba
con in fair demand, particularly for shoul
ders; shoulders, 13; clear rib sides, 16%;
clear, 16.
Louisville, May 16.—Corn quiet at
$1 2001 22. Provisions firm. Pork, S3O.
Lard, 17. Whisky, $1 0701 08.
St. Louis, May 14.—Corn firmer; mixed
and yellow, 97051; fancies range to $1 10.
Whisky firm' at $1 08. Provisions quiet.
Mess Pork, $29 50030. Bacon—clear sides,
17%. Lard qniet.
Savannah, May 16.—Cotton dull; mid
dling, 21%; sales, 100 bales; receipts, 1,744
bales; exports—to Cronstadt, 2.000 bales;
coastwise, 2,108 bales; stock, 37,504.
Charleston, May 16.— Cotton flat and
nominal; middling, 22%; sales, 50 bales;
receipts, 64 bales; exports coastwise, 1,488
bales; stock, 6,834 bales.
Norfolk, May 16.—Cotton quiet; low
middling, 21%; receipts, 418 bales; ex
ports coastwise, 260 bales; stock, 3,360
bales.
Baltimore, May 16.— Cotton dull and
declined 1% ; middling, 23 ; sales, 100 ; net
receipts, 100; coastwise, 22; total, 122;
stock, 2,260 bales.
Boston, May 16. — Cotton dull and nomi
nal ; middling, 23% ; sales, 200 ; net re
ceipts, 248; coastwise, 117; total, 365;
stock, 5,000 bales.
Mobile, May 16.— Cotton dull and low
er; middling, 22; sales, 150; receipts, 1,176;
exports to New Orleans, 69; stock, 43,982
bales.
Galveston, May 16. — Cotton dull and
nominal; good ordinary, 19 ; sales, 150;
receipts, 1,698 ; stock, 29,172 bales.
New Orleans, May 16.— Cotton dull
and nominal; middling, 22%@22%; sales,
2,700 ; net receipts, 5,277 ; coastwise, 211 —
total, 548; exports—to Liverpool, 7,444;
to Havre, 1,871 ; to New York, 970; stock,
126,041; exports to Havre, Saturday, 3,539
bales.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
Monday, May 16—P. VI. \
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Baying at 113 and selling at 115.
SlLVEß—Buying at 110 and selling at 112.
BONDS-City Bonds, 80@83.
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 104@105%. Sav
ings Bank of Augusta, 102%; Augusta Facto
ry, 156@160.
COTTON—We have a very quiet market to
report to-day, opening with a limited demaud
at 21% cents for middling aud continuing so
throughout the day, closing dull at the open
ing figures. Sales, 71 bales. Receipts, 63 bales.
Our quotations are based on wholesale trans
actions, broken packages a shade higher.
BACON—Fair demand. We quote C. Sides,
19; C. R. Bides, 18%; B. B. Sides, 17@17%;
Shoulders, 14%@14%; Hams, 18(3122; Dry
Salt Shoulders, 13%@14 ;. Dry Suite. K. Sides,
17; D. S. Clear Sides, 17@17%.
CORN—lu good demaud, aud prime white
is selliug at $1 60@1 65 from depot; at retail,
$1 70, and mixed at $1 55 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote'choice white, $1 55;
amber, $1 ss; red, $1 45.
FLOUR—City Mills, $6 25<<p 00; at retail,
; $1 13 barrel higher. Country, s6<®9, accord
ing to quality.
CORN MEAL—SI 55 at wholesale; fl 65 at
retail.
OATS—*I. •
PEAS—Market very bare and will sell foi
|3@3 50 per
CoWesponftnce.
The subjoined correspondence explains
itself:
Augusta, Ga., May 5,1870.
H. 7. Peake, Esq., General Superintendent
S. C- R R , Charleston, 8 6.:
Dear Sir : The undersigned, delegates
from the “ Cotton States Mechanics’ and
Agricultural Fair Association,” of Augus
ta, Ga., to the Agricultural, Mechanical
and Immigration Convention, lately held
in your city, beg to thank you for placing
at their disposal your very luxurious
“ special car.” This unexpected contribu
tion to their comfort will be gratefully re
membered by each and all of us.
We have learned with genuine regret
that you are about to retire from the posi
tion you have filled for so many years
with rare ability, and that you have deter
mined to remain in retirement. Permit us
to hope that you will reconsider this, and
consent to entertain any call to a position
in which your administrative talent and
progressive policy will be manifested in a*
wide field of usefulness.
With sincere good wishes for your future
health and prosperity, we are,
Verv respectfully,
Rob’t Y. Harris, John M. Clark,
John Osley, Jr., W. Stevenson,
W. A. Beall, P. J. Berckmans,
Wm. Craig, E. H. Gray,
Thos. 8. Morgan, J. M. Turpin,
J. W. Meredith, Geo. A. Whitehead,
J. J. Cohen, J. R. Randall,
T. D. Caswell, DeS. Ford, M. D.
General Superintendent’s Office,!
South Carolina Railroad, £
Charleston, S. C., May 14,1870. )
Messrs. Robert 7. Harris, John Osley, Jr., J.
W. Meredith, John M. Clark, Wellington
Stevenson, and others:
Gentlemen ; I have received with sin
cere pleasure your highly esteemed favor
of May sth, and beg to apologize for not
having replied to it sooner. Believe me,
that I highly appreciate the complimenta
ry tone of your letter, and will ever hold in
grateful remembrance the friendly spirit
that prompted the good wishes it con
tains.
With reference to my retiring from rail
road management, I would simply say that
if I do not again put at your disposal the
“ special car ” of that road over whose inter
est I have watched for fifteen years, I sin
cerely hope it will not be long before I
have an opportunity of offering you the use
of one equally good upon some other road.
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
most obedient servant,
H. T. Peake.
The Macon and Augusta Railroad.—
The Sparta Times notes favorable indica
tions for the early completion of the Ma
con and Augusta Railroad. A delegation,
with Col. Printup, of the Georgia Railroad,
at the head, passed over to Milledgeville,
on Monday, the Bth, and took diagrams for
the crossings of the Eatonton branch at
Milledgeville, and we doubt not the cast
ings will be ready at an early date. A con
struction train loaded with iron, passed
over on Tuesday, and, we learn, will re
main on the new road until finished. It is
hoped to have the road completed to Macon
by October.
Dry Weather. —Farms and gardens
generally in this section are suffering for
rain, and vegetation presents a decided dis
couraging appearance. With a few timely
showers the backwardness of the season
would be rapidly overcome by the progress
pf vegetation under the otherwise favora
ble weather, and the prognostications of
short crops and blasted gardens would sub
side—except among constitutional grum
blers, who never have a good prospect and
conldn’t make weather to suit themselves
if they were permitted to undertake the
manufacture-
A Colored Man Robbed of $lO9. —
Martin Smith, a colored man In the employ
of Mr. Porter Fleming,ln Summerville, had
bis trank broken open several days ago,
and $lO9 taken therefrom, which he
been carefully nursing for the purpose of
buying a horse or a farm. All efforts to
recover the money have so far Called, bat
suspicion rested so strongly on Aaron
Wright (col.), who had knowledge of the
whereabouts of the money and had made
frequent unsuccessful efforts to negotiate! &
loan with Smith, that he was arrested yes
terday on a warrant issued by Justice
Elis, and committed for examination this
morning. Others are thought to be im
plicated, and the money is thought to have
been partially expended in a sort of black
and-tan chuck-a-luck establishment located
in Battle Row, which i» represented as
driving a very lively trade in frill accord
with the spiyit and letter of the fifteenth
amendment.
We invite TnE attention of our read
ers to the advertisement of “The Na
tional Life Insurance Company of the
United States,” chartered by special act of
Congress, which is in the hands of first
class financial gentlemen, warranting con
fidence of unlimited success in their busi
ness. The affairs of the company, it will
be seen by reference to advertisement, are
conducted strictly on the cash system, at
low rates of premium. The paid ih capi
tal (not assets) is $1,000,000, secured by
deposits in the United States Treasury.
Ten thousand policies were issued in twen
ty months, on $25,000,000 risks, while ever
$2,000,000 of risks were rejected. We com
mend this company to the consideration of
all who desire securing an insurance on
life.
New Street Lambs. —Twelve new street
lamps, of an improved pattern, emitting
almost double the light distributed by those
of the old style, have been put upon Broad
street. It is the purpose of Mayor Allen to
push the erection of these Tamps as rapidly
as possible throughout Broad street. They
are certainly an improvement on the old
style, and will doubtless be so appreciated
by those of the citizens whose business or
inclinations lead tHern on the streets at
night.
Summer Uniform for the Police. —The
exalted temperature of the weather for the
past two or three days has rendered the
heavy closely-buttoned uniform coats ot
the city police particularly oppressive and
suggestive of the comfort of a lighter fabric.
We understand that it is in contemplation
by his Honor Mayor Allen and the Police
Committee to provide gray blouses, of
some light texture material, for the entire
force during the Summer.
Strike on the State Road.— The Chat
tanooga Times states that on the 11th Inst,
the colored laborers employed at the De
pot of the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
in that city, struck for higher wages.
They have been receiving SSO per month.
The strikers were allowed to depart, and a
force from Georgia took their place.
The Chops in Wilkes.— The Washing
ton Gazette says crops in that section are
represented as extremely fine. The wheat
is very forward. The corn has received
its first working, aud the planters now ap
pear to be devoting all their attention to
his royal majesty, the cotton plant.
Water Wheel.— Attention is directed
to the advertisement of S. C. Bodflsh, agent
for the sale of the American Turbine Wa
ter Wheel. Full particulars may be ob
tained by addressing the gentleman named
at Langley, S. C.
Carleton, the publisher, had over a mil
lion sheets of printed books destroyed and
damaged at the great fire last week in
Centre street; and has already eleven
presses, running* day and night, to replace
his losses.
■*■■■■■■■■■ The symptoms oi live
nimiAlTni complaint are uneasiness
vlllllllYv and. pain in the Bide.—
11l (I 111 I ill Sometimes the pain is in
•oai.iAXfs.v/iiu the shoulder, and is mis
taken for rheumatism.—
The stomach is atteeted with loss of appetite
and sickness, bowels in general costive, some
times alternating with lax. The head is trou
bled with pain, and null, heavy seusntion, con
m siderahle loss ot memory,
I 1171111 k accompanied with painful
I ill/ Fill sensation of having left
lit I liJl.ll undone something which
ought to have been done.
mmmammmmmtm Often complaining oi
weakness, debility aud low spirits. Sometimes
some ot the above symptoms attend the dis
ease, and at other times very few ot them; bnt
the Liver la generally the organ most involved.
Cure the Liver with
DR. SIMMOMS’
Liver Regulator,
A preparation ot roots and herbs, warranted to
be strictly vegetable, and can do no injury to
any one.
It has been used by hundreds, and known for
the last thirty-five years as one of the mobt re
liable, efficacious and harmless preparations
ever offered to the si}ffcring. if taken regularly
and persistently it is sure to cure.
ff""®Dyspepsia, headache,
I ...» . jauudice, eostiveuessgjick
I hFPIII STllll headache, chronic diar-
I IUjU Mill lull. rbcea, affections ot the
bladder, camp dysentery,
affections of the kidneys,
fever, nervousness, chill*, diseases of the skin,
impurity of the blood, melancholy or depres
sion of spirits, heartburn, colic, or pains in tbe
bowels, pain in the head, fever aud ague, drop
sy, boils, pain in the back and limbs, asthma,
erysipelas, female affections, and billons dis
eases generally.
Prepared only by
J. H. ZKILIN A CO.,
Drnggists, Macon, Ga.
Price, fl; by mail, f 1 25, and for sale by W.
H. Barhktt and W. 11. Tutt & Land, Au
gusta. nov34-dlaw*cly
jjooley’s
powDe^
This Teast Powder is convenient, economical and
wholesome. Try it, if you wish to prove its su
periority not only over other Baking Powders, bnt
to the common methods of raising dough, for mak
ing light, sweet and nutritioue Biscuit, Rolls,
Corn Bread, Buckwheat, and other griddle cakes,
and Cakes and Pastry or every variety. Put tip in
tins, net weight, as represented.
For sale by Grocers throughout the United States.
Manufactured by -j
DOOLEY & BROTHER, Proprietors,
69 New Street. New Tort.
ap2B-luthsa7w
Secretary’s Office*
Georgia Agricultural Society,
Js LOCATED IN ATLANTA, and will be
open from 9, a. m., till 4, p. m., each day, ex
cept Sabbath. All unpaid winners Os Pre
miums at the late Macon Fair are requested to
present their claims, in person or by written
order. Punctual attention, as well as to cor
respondence, Is pledged.
The office of Chief Secretary is vacated by
the resignation oi Mr. D. W. Lewis, but until
bis place is filled, which will be at an early
day, address
THOMAS C. HOWARD,
Assistant Secretary,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Atlanta, April 5, 1870. aplO^awliq