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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
(Chronicle & sentinel.
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«Ki).\K»i»Al MDK.MMi, MAY 26.
A Dividend. —The Treasurer of the
Charlotte & South Carolina Railroad Com
pany ad verlHes a dividend cf twenty-five
per cent, on the stock of that Company,
payable in stock of the Columbia & Au
gusta Railroad Company (being share for
share).
Another Railroad Project.— The
Columbia Phwnix is informed, upon good
authority, that arrangements are being
made to survey a railroad route from Frog
Revel to some point on the Columbia &
Augusta Road, near Louisville.
Tiie Fitch-Stone Imbroglio.—A few
days since we published an account of the
sudden appearance of Hon. H. S. Fitch in
the United States Court at Savannah, and
the spicy dialogue which eusued between
himself and a carpet-bag lawyer’ by the
name of Stone,, on thsft occasion. On last
Saturday the affair was again revived. ]
Previous to the adjournment of the Court, i
Judge Krskine called up the matter refer- |
red to a few days since between Col. Fiteh
and Mr. Stone, when Col. Fitch stated j
to the Court that he deeply regretted hav- j
ing made use of language in the presence
of the Court which should hive only been
said outside of the limits of the Court,
and in a very handsome manner expressed
his regret that such language ghoul 1 have
escaped him in a moment of passion. His
Honor stated that thu provocation was
certainly very groat. Col. Milledge then
exculpated Mr. Stone from any personal
motives in drawing the order which gave
rise to the personalties, assuming the
tlamc himself, an i disclaiming a 1 design
of wrong in the premises. His Honor said
that, under the statement of Col. Milledge
he thought it was due to Mr. Stone that
Col. Fitch should retract the offending
language, as his explanation to the Court
had purged him of the contempt, but Col.
Fiteh fi.lt compelled, as he stated, to de
elino making any retraction to Mr. Stone,
and there the matter ended, so far as the
Court is concerned.
Tii e R emAims op Col. Talcott. Many
of our older citizens, doubtless, well re
member that eighteen or twenty years ago
the United State* Arsenal, situated on the
Sand Hills, near this city, was under the
command of Col. Talcott, of the Artillery
service, a gentleman whoec many good
qualities had greatly endearoi him to a
large circle of friends and acquaintances.
In the Summer of 1853 —nearly sixteen
years ago--Col. Talcott's health beginning
to fail, he went to thu Indian Springs in
the hope that the water there would re
store it; but died while away. Ilis body
was buried in the Arsenal Cemetery, where
it remained until yesterday, when it was
taken up in order that it might be sent to
New York, whore a brother of the de
ceased resides, for interment- The re
mains, though originally placed in a mctalic
case, had mouldered away to such a degree
that it was impossible to distinguish a
single feature. Col. Talcott’s wile was,
wo believe, a Miss Stoddard, of South
Carolina.
Resignation or Rev. Dr. Cutiibert.
—As tho readers of the Chronicle &
Sentinel will recollect, on tlm Bth of May
we announced that this eminent and excel
lent divine had call from the
Thirteenth Street of Wash
ington, I>. 0. Wo leanrfhat on receiving
this call Dr. Cuthbcrt tendored hisresigna
tion to the First Baptist Church of this
city. At a Church meeting, convonod ex
pressly for the purposo, resolutions were
passed by the congregation lull of affec
tion and esteem, and sincerely and cordial
ly expressing the wish that tho beloved
pastor of this Church would continue to
occupy the relationship which gave so
much pleasure and satisfaction, and fulfill
thu duties of a position which had been
blessed by so much good, if not in con
flict with auy conscientious demands of
duty.
We regret to learn by tho subjoined res
olutions, passed by the Church on tho 15th
inst., that this pious Christian minister
and worthy citizen has not scon lit, as com
porting with bis views of duty, to
the request:
resolutions passed by tiie congrega
tion (>!■' THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH,
AUGUSTA, GA,, ON SATURDAY, 1 ST!!
INSTANT.
Having heard read the letter of Rev.
James 11. Cuthbcrt, D D., in response to
the preamble and resolution unanimously
adopted by the Church on the Bth iuat.,
requesting the withdrawal of his resigna
tion as as our pastor :
Resoldtl, That it is with emotions of
sincere regret and sadness our beloved
l’astor could not feel it to be consistent
with his duty to recall bis resignation and
remain with us.
Resolved, That whilo to him the indica
tions of Providence, and his convictions of
duty as a Minister of Christ, shall separate
us as pastor and flock, we shall ever cherish
for him feelings of the highest regard and
sincere affection; and a rememberance of
his devotion, seal and faithfulness as our
spiritual teacher and pastor will ever re
main precious with us. Our earnest
p- ay or shall bo that the Great Head of the
Church may crown his labors with abun
dant success in winning souls to Christ,
and that he and his family may be the re
cipients cf the choicest temporal and
spiritual blessings. .
The Savannah Firemen on the,
Rampage. —From the Savannah Adver
tiser we learn there is tho most intense
excitement among the tiremen of that city,
about the ordinance proposed by the City
Council, to regulate tho Department- A
meeting of the Department was held a
their hail on last Saturday evening, pres
ent at which were the Chief Engineer, and
all the other officers. The Chief stated the
object of the meeting to be to take into
considerat ion the action of Council at its
last regular meeting, in regard to an ordi
nance providing for the more efficient
working and preservation- of the steam tire
apparatus of the city. The ordinance
makes it incumbent upon the engineer o*
each company to keep a daily record of the
operations of their respective engines t
together with tho number of hours the
eugiue is in actual sen-ice-, the amount of
fuel, tallow, oil and waste consumed, the
amount of injury that may occur to en
gine, Ac , the cause of the same and cost
of repairs, the amount of steam carried,
and. if above tho regular amount fixed
by Council, by what authority such extra
pressure was used.
The manor elicited remarks from va
rious memo rs of the Hoard condemnato
ry of the action of Council. Mr. Van
Horn sMteu that the various Steam Fire
Compani •- r.-e v>i si » l)0 r turn'll from
Council, which was ; »■ i to their engineers,
and that a month was alsoaiiowcd for
horse hire, and that the other expenses re
quited in the working of the engines were
paid by the various companies out of their
owu funds, lie stated however that Council
had a perfect right to offer the ordinance;
that probably they were about to assume
all the little expenses which had hereto
fore been paid by the various companies;
but as to the ordinance he was strongly
opposed to it. as it was none of the busi
ness of the City Council what they paid for
tallow, rotten stone, oil or anything else.
Mr. Maddox stated that Council had no
right to legislate for the Fire Department;
that Council had a worthy representative
in Chief Gordon, who would report to
them everything pertaining to the Fire
Department that it was requisite lor them
to know.
After some other discussion upon the
subject, it was moved and carried that a
committee of three bo appointed to draw
up a memorial to Council, signed by the
members oi the Board, protast'ng against
the passage of said ordinance.
WIH lie Come Back ?
It is no doubt very pleasaut “to run’
a Government by subordinates —to have
i Governor’s headquarters at the Fifth
I Avenue—to jaunt to Albion, “Sweet Al
! bion—dearest of the name,’’ and to attend
I Railroad Conventions in Cincinnati, and
I to take a ride on the Pacific Railroad
jas far as Omaha or Salt Lake City, and
I perhaps to San Francis*). Kimball can
attend to the Opera House, and Davis,
j private Secretary to the Executive, and
! B. B. De Graffenreid, Secretary to the
Executive Department, can attend to the
claim business and the pardon business,
while his Krpresselencylplays “Big Injun’’
Governor on railroads and at conventions
—feasts on turtle soup and clam chowders,
I and performs the duties of Treasurer of
1 the State of Georgia for the State of New
York. But the question is, will Bullock
| come back ?
The Detroit free Press says :
“Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, anticipating
that the Governor business is .‘not for Jo
seph,’ has gone back to the State of New
York looking for a chance to return to his
old occupation ot express agent, as soon as
the sun shall go down on his political
greatness.’’
Bullock, before taking anew office,
should come back. His accounts as Treas
urer of the State of Georgia for the State
of New York are to be closed up. It is
true he has communicated to the General
Assembly that no “reports will be made
to the General Assembly concerning the
financial condition of the State’’ until
“the Treasurer abandons his present mis
taken position, and places himself in prop
er official relation with the Executive ”
But, Bullock as accountant,stood upon his
dignity with tho General Assembly. Dig
nity in accounts is his forte, where iovesti
Ration is demanded. Harmonious rela
tions between himself and his subordinates
muit first be established before reports
upon financial conditions can be rendered.
He knows tho value of dignity as well as
a Turkish Bashaw of three tails and is as
fully impressed as any King of Siam, or
chief of the Tonquins with the paramount
importance of satisfying every demand of
dignity whenever that demand covers a
report upon finances confided to his admin
istration.
Bullock stands upon his dignity with tho
Southern Porcelain Company, as President,
in much the same manner as he stood upon
his dignity with the General Assembly of
the State of Georgia. Bullock, probably,
bad no very great respect for his Legisla
tive “reconstructs”—his own creatures.
But this plea cannot and will not avail
with the Kaolin Company. The stock
holders of this company are to meet on the
23d. Will he meet them? or are we to
have another “dignity” case?
Grant’s Tattles.
Notwithstanding Chief Justice Chase
has decided that Virgiuia was never out
of the Uuion, Virginia, or at least a part
of that venerable old commonwealth, is to
be reconstructed. It has been decided, in
conformity with tho Rump Congress, that
the Constitution framed by the ltadical-
Scalawag-Carpet-Baggers and deluded ne
groos, shall bo voted upon, and Gen. Can
by has fixed upon the 6th day of July for
the ballot. Under the provisions of the
act, the President exercises the right of
submitting, according to his discretion,
such several parts of the Constitution for
ratification, requiring separate ballotings
as he may select. These selections, as the
telegraph of tho 15th instant informs
us, are article third of the Constitution,
which is tho disqualifying clause, and
the seventh section of the same arti
cle, which is the test oath-clause. As
we understand it, if the vote against these
clauses are a majority of the votes
cast these clauses are stricken out.
If, at tho same time, tho majority
shoulu be in favor of the Constitution,
this constitution, deprived of these
olauses, will be declared adopted. This is
the alteration submitted. The conserva
tive Republicans and weak-kneed Demo
crats must form a coalition and carry the
constitution with the obnoxious fea
tures expunged or the State must continue
under military rule or be subject to
negroes, carpet-baggers and scalawags.
The two clausos submitted, separately, by
the President; one enforcing the test-oath,
and the other the Underwood disfran
chisement, would, if sustained, prohibit
from voting from ninety to ninety-five
per cent, of tho legal white voters of the
State.
A year ago tho choice was under the
infamous Underwood Constitution and
the continuanoe of piilitary government.
The people wisely ohoso the latter, pre
ferring infinitely United States army offi
cers %id military rule to the thieving,
plundering domination of Radical carpet
baggers.
It is quite probable that the Constitu
tion, with these clauses, will be carried by
this coalition, although wo see it stated
that Colonel Withers, who was to have
been the Democratic candidate, considers
the contest doubtful as between Walker,
the Conservative Republican candidate,
and Welles, the Radical candidate. But
whatever may be the result in Virginia it
is quite evident from the President’s proc
lamation that he is endeavoring to form
a coalition between moderate llepub
icans and the Democrats in the
South. Nordoes this system of tactics pre
vail only in Virginia. We have other
evidences of this being the objective point
of the President. Queerly mixed up in his
appointments in the postoffice inJ revenue
departments, are inefficient and incompe
tent negroes and moderate Republicans,
the negroes, we believe, in every instance
representing the Radical wing of South
ern Republicans. In a very short time the
Government will find that something more
than mere subserviency to party dictates as
to color, or party prejudices as to rebels,
will be necessary for the proper adn'inis
tration of affairs, and these appointments
will give way to requirement.
We take it. then, that President Grant
has a policy, and this act of his with re
gard to Virginia is the key to it.
So long as Bullock carpet-baggers of
the South dictated the policy toward the
South, and the measures for Southern
government, we felt aud knew that
nothing short of continued and increased
military power could maintain the Repub
lican party in our own State. But the
changes of front demands anew move
ment. General Grant, however, will find
that this is not the way to carry the Radi
cal camp ; and that he, like Andy John
son, will butt upon both Sylla and Charyb
dis.
Annual Address at University of
Georgia. —The annual addres- before the
two societies, the Pin Kappa and the Be
mosthenian, i- to be delivered by Colonel
Richard M. Johnston, of Baltimore.
The Tniv.Nt-Bichabdsok Murder.—
Our readers no donbt recollect that during
the session of the so-called Georgia Consti
tutional Convention, which met in Atlanta
during the Fall of 15*67, that the carpet
bagger incendiary, C. C. Richardson, who
satin the Convention as a delegate from
Richmond county, became in some way
engaged in a quarrel with Captain E.
Mcßarron Titnooey, an officer in the
Coiled States army, then in Atlanta,
which was effectually terminated by the
latter shooting and killing the former with
a revolver in the dining-room of the
United States hotel. Timoney vrss ar
rested soon after the murder was commit
ted, but was released on bail shortly after
ward. On last week he was tried tor the
crime in the Superior Court of Fulton
county, and alter an investigation which
lasted several days, was finally acquitted-
Is ft Whiskey In the Senate?
Don Piatt, in one of his letters to the
I Cincinnati Commercial , says:
“When a Senator gets drunk, the State
he represents is disgraced. It is the State
j that is intoxicated.”
i The Cleaveland PUnndealer forecasts
i the condition of Michigan anJ Illinois as a
| deduction as follows :
“If this be true Michigan and Illinois
may soon be expected to have an attack of
| ddiriam tremens.”
The Detriot Free Press, however,
| pursues the diagnosis of the Plaindealer
and reaches the conclusion that:
I “There is no immediate danger of this,
however, for Senators, like other men,
must abstain for a few hours before they
, become subject to that terrible disorder.”
Byron, long since, wrote that “ man, j
; being reasonable, must get drunk.” These j
i Senators, therefore, should be reasonable
men. But the sort of legislation which
has illustrated the annals of the Senate for
: the past three or four years, does not look
I “drunk reasonable,” and has made the
whole country or “nation” reel and stag
ger. The question, therefore, arises what
Ido Senators drink? It is quite evident
| that Senate’s liquoris not of the same kind
as that which prompted Byron’s strain.
What is it, then ?
This Tear’s Southern Crops.
The North is calculating upon a decrease
of corn and an increase in cotton grown in
the South. This is exactly as their ne
cessity demands and their interests
prompts. Hence the calculation—with a
decrease in the corn crop, the South would
become the purchaser of the surplus crops
of the West and the West be content.
With an increase in the cotton crop,
Eastern manufacturers would be able to
reduce its market price, and perhaps con
trol the market. The South, without green
backs to buy Western corn, will be de
pendent upon the New York market for
currency, to realize on their cotton, where
with to make the purchases of Western
produce, and New York would control
the exchanges and thrive, and the West
be content with anew market to sustain
drooping prices, and the South suffer from
low price of cotton and high-priced grain
and bacon. This is the plain English (if
our farmers can see it), of the following
article which we clip from the New York
Express.
Says the Express:
“There will be increased crops of cotton,
rice and sugar, but less corn at the South.
A diversion of at least a million of acres
from corn to cotton is predicted, and an
increased use of guano and fertilizers.
Throe million of bales,in place of 3,600,000
bales are expected,' the average before the
war. We might have more, were it not
for the fact that the negroes have in part
abandoned tho plow, while a strong force is
devoted to rice and cotton. Three million
bales of cotton will dow be raised, and
eighty thousand tierc- sos rioe, and two
hundred thousand hogsheads of sugar.
Last year, although the crops were less
than the year before the war, the aggre
gate sums realized from rice, cotton and
sugar at the South, after conversion into
gold, exceeded the returns of 1860. The
rice crop inay exceed our local wants, and
if not too high, be exported. In sugar, of
which we consume thirteen hundred mil
lion pounds, our crop will not supply a
fifth of the consumption. As for cotton,
the stocks must be nearly exhausted by
July, and this must, for the present, tend
to sustain prices, but by the Autumn may'
we not well anticipate an accession of
300,000 bales from increased growth in
India and Brazil, and half a million bales
front our Southern States? An accession
of 800,000 bales might not seriously de
press priees, except in the promised com
pletion ol the Suez Canal in October, which
will reduce tho passage to France, Spain
and England, by propellers through the
canal, in place of ships by the Cape, at
least four months. The cotton of Bombay
can take this route, and will accelerate the
delivery of India cotton four months,
which will be equivalent to adding for the
first year one-third to tho deliveries from
India, say 600,000 bales. If we are cor
rect in this, we may expect to see cotton
decline below twenty-two cents by the close
of the year, and then take at least a twelve
month to recover. ’ ’
Crops In South Carolina.
Tho Georgetown Times (13th) says we
continue to have seasonable weather, with
cool refreshing showers occasionally, which
are quite acceptable to the growing crops.
The riee planters generally complain of the
unusual number of May birds that have
arrived, clothed in the garb of Spring,
and disappear as suddenly to return at
harvest time with anew dress under the
application ofßice Birds. They are very
inimical to the rice crop, and require the
planter to arrange his planting so as to al
low the grain to mature early enough to
escape their incursions, or to ripen after
they have emigrated, as they are more de
structive) when the grain is in what is called
the “milk” stage.
The Abbeville Press, 14th inst., says :
During the past week we have had
heavy rains and soma bail, and the nights
have been 100 cool for the cotton and
wheat. Some of our planters have plow
ed up their cotton and planted in corn.
Would it not be better for a few more to
follow their example ?
The Lancaster Ledger , 13th inst, says :
We are sorry to hear most' unfavorable
reports as regards the prospects of the cot
ton crop in this country. Tho recent cold
weather, it is said, has almost annihilated
the plant in some sections. In some few
instances planters are plowing up and re
planting. It is not, however, too late to
plant corn.
The Union Times, Sthinst., says:
We had a few days, at the close of last
week, an extraordinary spell of c->!d
weather for May. Vegetation was injured
by it, and particularly cotton.
We hear from all sides gloomy accounts
of the cotton. It was so much injured by
the frosts and cool nights of last week, that
much of it has to be replanted. One
planter informed us that on his place, and
on several others in his neighborhood, two
thirds of the stand were destroyed. We
have also inquired particularly of the pro
portion of cotton planted to corn, and we
have ascertained that the proportion is
about the same as in former years.
The Louisville Herald says:
On the night of the sth instant, a great
rain fell throughout the District, accom
panied with hail, washing the lands and
doing considerable damage to cotton just
coming up and corn. These crops are very
backward, and the stand invariably com
plained of as bad. The weather remains
cool, and up to the morning of the 9th we
hear reports of slight frost, Oats and
wheat look healthy and promising, but the
surface seeded is considered comparatively
narrow.
The Winnsboro' News (15th) says :
From every portion of our District we
hear of the serious damage dofie to the
crops, especially cotton, by tbe late heavy
hail storm, and the cold wind that has fol
lowed it. Some ol our farmers tell us
that their entire cotton crop is killed out
right; others say that at least half of theirs
has been killed, while the other half is so
badly damaged that it will not be worth
anything. If tho cotton crop fails this
yearitwillbe the heaviest blow that our
farmers have felt siuce the war, as a great
many of them have spent their entire
crop of last year in commercial manures.
We sincerely hope it may not be as bad as
represented, but fear it is too true.
Hallelujah. —The following expressive
ode was sung with great gusto, at a May
Festival of the colored peopb of a well
known Southern city:
We's nearer to de Lord
Dan de white folks, and dey knows it;
See de glory gate unbarred ;
Walk up, darkeys, pass de guard;
Bet a dollar he don’t close it.
Walk up, darkeys, froo de gate;
Hark ! de colored angels holler,
Go away, white folks! vou's too late ;
We’s de wiuuin' color • wait
Till the trumpet sounds to foller.
Hallelujah! t anks an' praise;
Loug enuff we’ve borne our crosses;
Now we's de sooperior race:
We’s gwine to hebben afore be bosses!
[Charleston Courier.
Macon Cotton Statement.
Stock on hand Sept.
1, IS6S-bale? 1,326
Received te-dav 19
Received previously 57,378 —57.397
55,723
Shipped to day _ 162
Shipped previously 56,697 —56,859
Stock on hand this evening 1.5>64
[ Telegraph.
Sold forUteSJih Time.
Greeley in the New York Tribune speaks
i of Ashbnrn as a saint and Adkins as a
| pious Christian Minister. Ashburn, as
may be seen by reference to the files
of the Chonicle & Sentinel, was
j expelled long before Greeley started ont
:on his Agrarian principles, and his
irrepressible conflict career for crimi
nal conduct, and having confessed his
crime was expelled from th Baptist
Church, as the records of so respectable a
body as the Baptist denomination will
! show: and so far as Adkins is concerned,
we have seen but one man. but what was
j shocked at the idea of applying the term
| “pious Christian” to him, and that man
: we would not believe on oath in any matter
j touching his interest.
I We dislike to speak of the dead, regard
ing personal traits involving condemnation.
They have passed to a higher jurisdiction
—into the presence of the Omniscient Be
ing—the Great and final Judge of all men.
But when the death of bad men are made
the pretext for political oppression and
tyranny—used as a pretence to extend op
pression and to promote strife and discord
—heralded as the excuse for cruel exac
tions upon communities,forbearance ceases
to be a virtue.
We have forborne to speak of the Ad
kins case simply because whatever we
might say would be misconstrued. A
Radical Judge sits upon the bench and ad
ministers Radical justice. A Radical
Sheriff summons the jury and executes
Radical justice. Radical officers of the
law who notoriously, in the eyes of all good
men, hold their offices by virtue of fraud
and military dictation, surround us. With
them,rests the administration of justice and
the enforcement of the laws. To them,
whatever falls from the lips of a political
opponent or is published by opposing or
gans of political principles,is warped into a
justification for undue bias, harsh rulings
and severe judgment. We are content,
therefore—not like the Tribune to forestall
investigation—to leave the matter in Radi
cal hands.
This fact, however, appears evident.
The desperate condition of the Radical
party beclouds the eyes of the philosopher
of the white hat, whose partisan interests
leads astray his judgment, and whose
credulity is coequal with his great abilities.
A Radical Governor rules the State—legis
lates for himself without regard to law
controls the Treasury and uses it —nomi-
nates the Judicial officers of the Stfte —
directs who shall be Magistrates, by his
own test questions--appoints Notaries
Public with all the powers of Magistrates,
without regard to qualification o r
merit- grants pardons to notorious offend
ers after conviction by Courts of his own
creation, and furnishes pardons in ad
vance to pets and followers, before and
during their trials, for heinous crimi
nal offences. The whole machinery of our
State government has been lodged in the
hands of Radicals, and yet its workings
fails to satisfy the demands for partisan
purposes of the Tribune and its followers.
Where is this sort of Government to
end ? Is the spirit of the Mendoza to pre
scribe justice or a Robespierre to rule
by edict? Are we never to have peace?
Is the law of the Tribune to be the law of
the State ? Have the people no rights ?
For five years the Radical press and Radi
cal party leaders have subjected the South
ern people to a fitful rule, cruel oppressions
and tyrannies. Hundreds of thousands of
Northern citizens have traversed Southern
territory and not a single hair of the head
of any single one of them has ever been
hurt. Thousands have settled amongst us,
and thousands more are now in our midst
seeking homes ; and from not one of these
has there ever arisen a murmur or com
plaint of harsh treatment, much less of
violence. Still the cry of Radical specula
tors, re-echoed by Radical philosophers,
of danger and death to Union men, con
tinues.
It is high time that this Radical farce
for plunder should be ended.
Grant In the Hands of Politicians.
It cannot be denied that upon the acces
sion of General Grant to tho Presidential
chair there was a strong desire upon
the part of the people of the South to
support him. It is useless to deny that
had Grant and Lee been offered to the
people of the South, without any platform,
as a peace offering, upon simple trust,
founded upon the characteristics of the
two men, the ticket would have swept the
Sonth, and, we believe, the Union. Sixty
nine would then indeed have been a year
of jubilee. War-worn veterans would
have shaken hands—incidents of valor
would have been recounted —respect and
esteem each for tbe other, and acknowledg
ments of mutual errors would have ce
mented the friendship of two million of men,
who had braved the dangers of the battle
field and the hardships of the bivouac, ard
the Union cemented so strongly as to defy the
combined forces of the world. No tripar
tite alliance of England, France and Spain
could have ruffled the temper of the
American people. No Alabama claims
could have interposed to have defeated
the onward march of the prosperity of the
great Republic. Exact justice would have
been demanded, and exact justice would
have been given. But in an unfortunate
hour General Grant lent himself to those
marplots of American prosperity—Ameri
can Radicals. In an unfortunate hour his
cool courage and his chivalrous mag
nanimity deserted him. He accepted an
alliance with the dominant Radical leaders
of the Republican party. This acceptance
still retained something of tbe soldier.
It prescribed terms.
It left to truckling politicians to define
the meaning of these terms, couched in al
luring generalities but are accompanied by
those magic words which touched the
great heart of the people, “Let us have
Peace. ’ ’ These noble words throbbed the
people’s great heart. They expressed
the great desire of the North, Ea«t, South
and West. They carried the popular will;
but, in the South,, coup'ed with the deg
radation and humiliation, the spoil and
plunder, thhving and robbery and espion
age and black mail and the extreme of
tyranny and the sacrifice of all that was
good and true in principle—whatever
might be the popular yearnings, there was
no division except that division which mili
tary rale had defined and exacted.
In the outset of his administration Gen.
Grant still retained something of this
feeling. The universal desire was—let us
wait and see. Let us see if some of that
magnanimity which displayed itself under
the Appomattox apple tree will manifest
itself in the Executive mansion.
In the outset of his administration it
could not be expected that the President
should assert his true character. Ignor
ance of duties begets timidity in action.
The situation was new and untried. Graft
in words from politicians afforded a blind
for true objects and beguiled the popular
sense. Fictitious clamor through the pub
lic press, and false clamor from office
seekers divided popular atttention from
the great point—Peace and the restored
Union —a union in heart—a union in senti
ment —a union complete and perfect for
the same purpose —the maintenance of Re
publican institutions and the restoration of
Constitutional Liberty.
But sufficient time has elapsed since the
President was inaugurated to enable him
to possess the reins cf power—to disclose
his policy in action. What has been
done? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
A timid time-serving policy is indicated.
A sort of deference to extremists is ex
hibited (with a single exception) toward
Radical demands outside the Constitution
to satisfy Radical thirst for plunder and
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY 3IORNING, MAY 26, 1869.
power. We have the promise of a sort of
mulatto government. We have mulattocs
in the Postoffice department, we have mu
lattoes in the Revenue department,we have
mulatto printers, and we have the nomina
tion of mulattoes as Ministers of State to
ins'gnificant mongrel governments. There
is nothing of the boldness of Vicksburg.
TheVe is nothing of the indomitable
courage of Petersburg. There is nothing
of the frankness and magnamity of the
crowning scene in \ irginia. A miserable
set of trickstering politicians control the
Cabinet and dictate a faltering, halting
policy, and it is executed. It matters not
that a million of trusty and tried men of i
the North, comrades in the battle-field and
participants of his renown, stand ready !
to back him. It matters not that half
a million of men who, amid hardships
and suffering, the trials of the march
and the perils of the battle-field—whose
cheeks never blanched, whose nerves never
quailed, amid whistling bullets and burst
ing shells—whose pripciples never yielded
to desperate odds, nor bleeding feet, nor to
want and suffering—it matters not that
these men —men that could be won by a
single display of magnanimity, by a single
act of covenanted justice, wuid be added
at a bugle’s call to his own. legions of war
worn veterans, to strengthen his power and
to maintain his own righteous resolves and
rightful interests. The General as Presi
dent truckles to truckling politicians, and
gives to the South a mulatto government
—to the North a government full of dis
trust—and to the while country one weak,
vacillating, and as uncertain as the wind.
If the President would maintain un
tarnished the glories of the General, let
him maintain the plighted faith of the
people—the Constitutios —the magna
charter of the people’s rights, and make
the time-serving truckling politicians which
surround him bend to his will as the
great exponent of the rights of those
whose fathers formed atd whose own
right arms have preserved the liberties
and the inviolability of the American
Union, and discard peremptorily and per
petually the miserable mallato compro
misers, who n°w give tone and character
to his administration, aid dictate his
policy.
The Grain Trade or the Great West.
Chicago has been recently much trou
bled about a threatened diverion of a part
of her great grain trade, by way of the
Mississippi river to New Orleans ; aDd
Chicago, to meet this menace, proposes
that New York shall make a ship
canal of the New York Erie Canal, so as
to dispense with New York as the en
trepot for exports and imports.
New York refuses to surrender her nat
ural rights, as well as the rights acquired
by her own capital and enterprise applied
to her great Canal, and refuses to permit
one-horse canal boats aDd grain barges to
be dispensed With, at least at her cost.
Chicago accuses New York of jealousy.
New York stands firm, saying nay—no
Ship Canal—no reduction in tolls.
In the meanwhile, New Orleans con
structs grain elevators, lessens port dues
and carries off the trade. The New Orleans
Times gives' the following as the cargo of
the tow-boat lowa, with six barges from
Lansing, lowa, consisting of
43,105 bushels of wheat in bulk.
11,300 “ corn “ ,
7,436 “ oats
9,166 sacks of oats,
6,348 “of corn,
9,2B6’barrels of flour,
217 hogsheads of tobacco.
Os course the Times is jubilant, and to
show the enormous superiority of our river
transportation over that of the Lakes,
Canals and Railroads of the West and
North, asks an estimate “of the num
ber of canal boats and railroad cars, which
would be necessary to transport this pro
duce fifteen hundred miles.”
We would ask how long will it take the
tow-boat lowa to effect the transportation,
and if railroad cars could not have effected
this transportation in the same time or less
without estimating the number required to
transport it in buik at single trips?
We ask because we of this section are
looking to a share of this trade in this
direction upon the completion of certain
railroad connections.
The Rectification or State Lines—The
Annexation of a Tart of West Florida
to Alabama.
There is a fraction of the State of Flori
da west of the Apalachicola River, cover
ing a portion of the area watered by the
Chattahoochee just before it changes its
name, which juts between Alabama and
the Gulf of Mexico. This territory has
been for some two years past the subject
of negotiation—Florida to cede and Ala
bama to acquire —between Commissioners
of the two States interested. We learn
from the Montgomery Advertis . r that the
Commissioners have at length arrived at,
an agreement. That portion of Florida
west of the Apalachicola is to be sold to
the State of Alabama for the sum ol one
million of dollars, payable in the bonds of
that State; the bonds to be delivered when
the acts of the Commissioners are
ratified. This ratification depends,
first according to the terms of the
treaty, upon the Legislatures of Florida
and Alabama. Second, upon the vote ol
the people of West Florida, and last, upon
the approval ot the Congress of the United
States. These are the main features of
the treaty. If this treaty is ratified ac
cording to the terms prescribed, the
boundary lino of the State of Alabama will
follow the course of the Chattahoocheo
and Apalachicola to the Gulf of Mexico.
Tha‘ it will be ratified by all parties in
interest we have no doubt. It is to the
interest of both States, it is in the interest
of the people of West Florida, whose
isolated position deserves it from the re
mainder of the State of Florida, and whose
individual interests are homogenous, and
identified with the people of Alabama.
That Congress will interpose no ob
jections, if they have the right, is hardly
possible, as the ratification will insure the
development of railroad lines, which leads
to the most important fortress of the Fed
eral government on the Gulf of Mexico.
Book Notices.
New York Medical Journal.—We
acknowledge the receipt of a copy of
this medical monthly, containing among its
table of contents an article by Dr. Nathan
Bozeman, late of New Orleans, now of
New York. The New York Herald says
of this article, in a resume of the character
of the several articles: of superior interest
to all the papers, as well as by far the long
est, “is the concluding one, by Dr. Nathan
Bozeman of this city. This paper treats
of vesico vaginal fistula and operations in
connection with this disease, which, while
vastly more prevalent than is generally
supposed, has, until his late successful
operations through the medium of a sup
porting and confining apparatus of pecu
liarly marked, ingenious and scientific con
struction, in conjunction with his self-re
taining speculum, baffled the skill of our
most celebrated and accomplished surgeons.
He cites the case of a lady, of fourteen
years’ standing, upon whom five opera
tions had been performed by the most dis
tinguished surgeons of our city with no
beneficial results, when she was admitted,
so his institution, and after a single opera
tion upon his new mode of treatment he dis
charged her in a few days perfectly cured.
As an example of progressive skill in sur
gery the compiled records of our medical
journals present no case of surpassing in
terest alike to tbe general, as well as
scientific and professional reader. It shows
a step in advance iu the treatment of this
peculiarly painful disease that reveals an
epoch in surgical operations, and in achiev
ing the success we have DOtsd Dr. Boze
man has added greatly to his deservedly
high reputation both in this country and in
Europe.”
Doctor Bozeman is a native of our sister
State, Alabama ; residing many years at
Montgomery. From Montgomery Dr. B.
moved to New Orleans, where he estab
lished an Infirmary for the treatment of
the diseases of suffering woman. During
a visit to Europe ho performed operations
in the presence of distinguished surgeons
to show the excellenSe of some of his
discoveries, receiving therefor unqualified
praise ; while many of the French and
German medical journals were loud in
praise of the young American for his suc
cesses.
During the war Dr. B. rendered effi
cient service in the Confederate army,
going after the war to New York, where
he has established himself, taking first
rank among tho physicians and surgeons
of the Metropolis. We have no hesita
tion in saying that the HerabTs tribute is
just and well merited.
Putnam’s Magazine.—We have re
ceived from the publishers the last (June)
number of this widely known and popular
periodical. The present number is hand
somely illustrated with three finely exe
cuted steel engravings descriptive of Farra
gut’s recent cruise in foreign waters, and
Eugenie’s reception at Cherbourg. The
table of contouts is unusually brilliant, even
for this magazine, and consists of the fol
lowing attractive articles :
“Ferdinand de Lesseps ana the Suez
Canal,” by Edward de Leon; “Upon tho
Beach,” by Rev. S. W.. Duffield; “A
Stranded Ship,” by L. Clarke Davis;
“Summer Pictures,” by C. P. Craneb;
“My Brass Valise.” by F. R. Stockton;
“The Euroclydon,” by Francis Copoutt;
“Summer Snows,” by A. Augustus Adee;
“A Sybiliiue Trio,” by Mary B. Kinney;
“To-Day,” by J. B. Kimball; “Four
American Birds,” by Chas. A. Munger;
“The Scarlet Hibiscus,” by F. Milton
Mackie; “Some Things in London and
Paris —1836-’69,” by G. P. Putnam;
“Monthly Chronicle of Current Events,”
by F. B. Perkins; “Fine Arts,” by S. S.
Conants; “Literature, Art and Science
Abroad,” by Bayard Taylor; “Literature
at Home,” by E. C. Steadman; “Table
Talk,” by Clarence Cook.
Putnam's Magazine is published by G.
P. Putnam & Son, No. 661 Broadway,
New York. Subscription $4 per annum.
Anew volume commences next month.
The “New York Citizen.”—We have
received the last number of this sterling
weekly. It is a well conducted and inter
esting paper, containing a large amount of
both original and selected reading matter,
well written editorials on a variety of en
tertaining topics and art and theatrical
gossip. As is well known to our readers,
the Citizen, up to a year ago, was edited
by that versatile and aceorni lished Irish
man, Gen. Charles G. Ilalpine. Since his
death the great popularity of the paper
has diminished none in the hands of his
successor;
“The Statesman.”— The last number
of the Statesman is decidedly one of the
best which has been issued since the com
mencement of that journal. Besides the
usual amount of foreign and domestic
news and editorials, it contains a continua
tion of Friedrich Spielliagen’s brilliant
German novel, “Hammerand Anvil;” an
interesting little sketch entitled “My Dif
ficulty;” “The Romance of an Outlaw;”
the continuation of a series of essays on
“American Art;” Book Reviews, Agri
cultural Miscellany, etc.
American Year Book for IB6o.—We
have reoeived from the publishers, Messrs.
O. D. Case & Cos., Hartford, Conn., a
copy of the American Year Book and
National Register for 1869, edited by
David N. Camp. In this work, of 824
pages, is condensed a large amount of
vauable information respecting the United
States and other countries.
Besides very full and complete calen
dar tables, it includes all the important
celestial phenomena for 1869 ; tables of
Latitude and Longitude, and difference of
time for 375 of the most important places
on the globe; a list of Presidents, Vice-
Presidents, Members of the Cabinet,
Judges, &c., since 1789, and of the Gov
ernors of the States and Territories from
their organization.
There is an account of each department
of the General Government, with its
Bureaus and chief officers and their duties.
In the State Department, under the head
of Intercourse with Foreign Nations, there
is a full list of Ministers, Diplomatic
Agents and Consular officers, with their
official residences, embracing all the places
at which bur Government is represented;
and of the Foreign Legations in the United
States with the Consuls of foreign countries,
and their places of business, including, in
all, more than fourteen hundred names.
The full account of the Treasury De
partment, Coast Survey and Light House
Districts; the Army and Navy, the milita
ry and naval academics, with lists of army
and naval officers; the operations of the
Postoffice Department; the Patent Office
and the Land Bureau; the Departments of
Agriculture and Education; the list of col
leges, collegiate institutions, medical, law
and normal schools, will be of interest to
many who have not access to a large
number of public documents, and who
could gain the information only by long and
laborious investigation.
There is a condensed account of the pro
ceedings of Congress, including the Im
peachment Trial, Reconstruction in the
Southern States, and other important mat
ters; the national debt at different periods;
receipts and expenditures of the Govern
ment; sales of merchand : ze; National
Banks, and Abstracts of the Public Laws.
A brief historical notice is given of each
State and territory, with a list of the Ex
ecutive and Judicial officers ; the number
and term of service of members of the
Legislatures; an account of the finances,
State debt, educational, charitable and
penal institutions; and the population,
wealth and industry of each. There is also
a summary of all the foreign governments,
with the rulers, expenditures, revenue,
army and navy, and other important facts
regarding each country.
The statistics of the religions of the
world give not only the general classification
of different nations, but a detailed account
of the number connected with each denom
ination in each State, and in other por
tions of the civilized world.
There are miscellaneous essays upon Agri
culture; Currency and Finance; Mining;
Literature, and the Literary Influences of
the day; and full tables of Presidential
j election returns with the vote in each coun
!ty for Electors since 1836. More than 30
pages occupied with the record of import
ant events in IS6B, and the obituaries in
: elude notices of 140 of the most eminent
1 persons deceased 1868.
Impeachment. —The Columbus Sun
' takes ground against an attempt to im
: peach Governor Bullock, because it is im-
I practicable, and an unsuccessful effort
would greatly please him ; and success
would not help us, as Ben. Conley would
I succeed him.
i We believe impeachment would succeed
I and we prefer fanatical (but honest in
' money matters) to plundering Bullock.
Both are Northern men, but one is honest
* and the other—well let the records show.
Another Bailroad Injunction. —The
: Rome Courier says, that the Rome Rail
road Company have served a notice on the
; Van Wert Railroad Company that they
: meant to file a bill of injunction against it.
Another Settler.— A gentleman from
New Jersey, purchased last week the
Wilson farm, situate on the line of the
Southwestern Plank Road for $6,000, not
hat ing the fear of John W. Forney be
fore his eyes, nor the Ku-klux tales of
Horace Greeley’s Tribune in his ears. It
is needless to say that this bold adventurer,
according to Forney and Greeley, is quietly
domiciled with his family in his new homo.
The fact is, that the best cias3 of Northern
men—those not involved by political affil
iations—are determined not to pay For
ney’s land office commissions nor to be
frightened by credulous Greeley’s horrid
tales.
Miscegenation.—One of the most re
volting cases of miscegenation that wo have
heard of since this infamous doctrine was
preached by Horace Greeley and Harriet
Beecher Stowe, was brought to light by
the Police in this city Tuesday morning.
It seems that about one week ago a young
girl (whose name we suppress on account
of her family), left her home in Barnwell
county, South Carolina, and came to this
city with a negro man named Alexander
Boyd, with whom she has ever since'bocn
living. On Monday night her father and
brother arrived in this city in pursuit of
the wretched girl. They immediately went
to the police office, related to the officers
the circumstances of tho case and asked
their assistance in recovering the wanderer.
This was promptly given and early yester
day morning the girl was discovered in a
little shanty on Bay street, where she had
been boarding with Boyd since her arrival
in this city, and restored to her relatives.
The girl’s story is that she got into the
power of Boyd about a year ago, and that
on last week he induced her to elope with
him and come to Augusta. The girl is
just fourteen years of age and very fine
looking. She declared to the police that
she loved Boyd and that she would em
brace the first opportunity offered to run
away again so as to rejoin him. She left
for home yesterday in a private conveyance,
the father apprehensive that Boyd, on the
way to Barnwell, would attempt a rescue.
Homicide in Newnan.—From the At
lanta Era of Tuesday we learn that a most
lamentable homicide occurred in tho town
of Newnan on Sunday last; one which has
greatly shocked the whole community, by
whom were known and respected the two
actors in tho tragedy. From the best in
formation that we can get, it seems that
there had been a game of Base Ball played,
in which the Umpire was Hinton Wright,
son of the Hon. W. F. Wright, and Ed.
Robinson was one of the principal players.
In rendering tho decision, Robinson com
plained that Wright had decided against
him unjustly. This led to an altercation
upon the ground, without any serious re
sult. The youug men parted and did not
meet any more until Sunday, when both
attended the Baptist Church at Newnan.
After service was over tho young men
were the first to leave the Church. As
soon as they were outside, an altercation
arose between tuem, in which Ilobinson
was shot dead by Wright. Our informa
tion is that four shots were fired, all of
which took effect in or near the heart of
tho unfortunate young man. Wright was
immediately taken in charge by the Mar
shal of Newnan and taken to the hotel; but
he managed to make his escape, and was
still at large yesterday morning. Tho im
pression was that he would give himself
up as soon as he shall have communicated
with his father, who w«3 on his plantation
at the time of the ho nicide. Both of
these young men belonged to highly rc
speatable families. Both families were on
tho most intimate terms, and both are
deeply afflicted by the great misfortune
which has come over their houses. The
father of young Wright, Hon. Wm. F.
Wright, is a gentleman well known in
Georgia. He is a lawyer, has represented
his county in the Genetal Assembly, and
was a candidate for Congress in opposition
to Gen. Gartrell before the war. The
young men were each about twenty years
of age.
The Dispatches to the “Tribune.”—
The following special dispatches from At
lanta, appear in the New York Tribune of
the 13th of this month. The marks of
Eugene Davis, “Private Seerectary to the
Governor,” are easily recognized :
Atlanta, May 12.—James Adkins, Re
publican Senator from the Nineteenth Dis
trict, was assassinated in Warren county,
in this State, on Monday. He had been
frequently warned not to enter the enun y,
though it wa3 bis birthplace and home.
Paying no attention to these threats, he
started for Iv me a few days ago. On ar
riving at Hearing Station, eight miles from
his residence, his carriage met him, and in
it he proceeded homeward. When within
two miles of his house a man emerged
from the woods close by, and was saluted
by Mr. Adkins, who recognized him. The
salat ition was instantly returned, accom
panied by the drawing and presenting of a
pistol. The fellow took aim, and shot tie
Senator through the heart, killing him- in
stantly-
Atlanta , Mai/ 12.—A large number of
Republicans, from all parts of the State,
are now in this city, believing death cer
tain if they go home. Among them are
many members of the Legislature. A
desperate attempt was made at Waynes
boro, Burke county, on Sunday last, to
murder llcv J. S. Pilman, a Presiding
Elder of the Methodist Episcipal Church.
He had preached there, and had induced
a number of colored people to renounce
allegiance to the Methodist Church South
and join another Church. A gang of Ku
klux planned his death, and picketed the
road from his hotel t) the depot, but a
colored man guided him across the fields,
and a voluntary guard of colored men ac
companied him to the depot. Upon bis
arrival there, pistols were pointed at his
head, and death seemed cm tain, but the
fir n stand taken by the colored people
saved hi) life. The only charge against
him was that he was a “Radical.”
A New Discovery.—The New York
Sun says : Mr. James A. Spurlock, of
Versailles, a member of the bar of Mis
souri, has made an important scientific
discovery of another kind. His revela
tions are perhaps best set forth in his own
language, as follows:
“I claim the honor of discovering the
centrifugal powers of nature that sustain
and spread out the starry heavens, and
cause them to revolve around the sun and
other fixed planets or suns. I will publish
a book this coming Spring entitled ‘A
Philosophy of Heaven , Earth , and the
Millennium ,’ inwhicb|l will demonstrate in
a scientific way that the heavens are built
by a master architect, and so set in work
ing order that symmetry, harmony, firm
ness, and eternity are the results. That
n o calamity or collision ever did or can oc
cur among the heavenly bodies. Take any
planet —this earth for instance—hundreds
ot millions of miles away from its present
position in its orbit,' and it wiil instantly
return Gather the whole of our solar
system into a group, and they wi.l resume
their present position. Bring, if possible,
the whole created heavens together, and
when released they will spread out and
stand and revolve in systematic order, as
now. I will show what causes the moon
to go aroun i primary planets, and why
collisions cannot occur. I refer skeptics
to the professors of the Smithsonian In
stitute. I made my discovery by reading
the Bible in a philosophical view, and I
consider it fully demonstrates Christ s di
vinity, and proves the r.surjection of the
dead to every intelligent thinker.
Mr. Spurlock requests the editors of the
public journals to call attention to his dis
covery, and we have done it accordingly.
He says that he would not ask this favor
if he had money. We reply that this fact
makes no difference to us. We had rather
disseminate such news without price than
not.
Fine Strawberries.— The Editor re
turns his thanks to Mr. W. K. Nelson for
a present of some very fine \Y ilson s Al
bany Strawberries. They were the largest
Specimens of the fruit seen this season.
One of the Philadelphia suburbs is de
clared to be “as green and beautiful as a
Fenian bride.”
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 21
Absconding op an Associated Press
Agent.—We learn that Thomas Gibbes,
for several years a resident of Augusta, but
residing for the last two years in Savannah,
where he has been employed as an Agent
of the New Y r ork Associated Press and of
tho Commercial News Department of the
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
absconded last week from that city—a de
faulter to the amount of several thousand
dollars. Os this amount several hundred
dollars were in gold, the proceeds of mes
sages sent across the Atlantic cable. Up
to the time of his departure Gibbes had
borne a very good character, and it is im
possible to conjecture what caused the de
falcation. It is believed that *he took
passage from Savannah to Europe.
The Cuban Insurrection.—From the
New York World of Saturday we learn
that letters have been received in that city
from rebel sources, giving accounts of an
other battle between the Spanish troops
and tho insurgents. It took place on the
3d inst., at Las Mims. The Spanish num
bered 1,200, and were under the command
of General Lesoa. The revolutionary
forces were commanded by General
Quesada ij person. One report says, be
fore the fight commenced Quesada posted
tho native Cubans in front, protected by
eutrenchments, and placed a force of 400
Dominieanand American volunteers in their
rear, with orders to fire upon them if they
ran. Thus placed between two fires, the
Cubans fought with desperation. The
Spaniards attacked tho entrenchments
three times with tho bayonet. The two
first assaults were repulsed by the Cubans;
the third was very determined and severe,
and the Cubans began to waver, when
Quesada ordered the rear guard to the
front. They advanced, driving the Cubans
into the front ranks of the enemy. A
hand-to-hand combat ensued, in which the
butchery was horrible. The Spaniards
finally gave way and retreated, but in good
order. Their loss is estimated at 160
killed and 300 wounded; that of the
Cubans at 200 killed, and a proportionate
number of wounded. The forces of Que
sada, after the fight, marched to San
Miguel and burned the town in sight of
the retreating Spaniards. It is generally
believed that the revolutionary leaders
have changed their policy in the field, and
in future will fight instead of retreating to
the mountains on the appearance of any
considerable force of government troops.
In the battle of Allagraeia, which took
place on the Ist instant, the Cuban loss
was 200, and the Spanish 180 killed and
wounded. The Spaniards here regard the
result of these actions as fatal to the cause
of the rebellion, but the Cubans are jubi
lant over them as the first successes of the
war for independence.
It is rumored that Couut Valmaseda
had an engagement with the rebels under
Gen. Cesoedos, Nothing definite is known
of the affair. More plantations have been
burned by the rebels around Santiago de
Cuba. It is estimated that the plantations
which have been destroyed in that juris
diction produced annually 18,000 hogs
heads of sugar.
More Gold.—The Air Line Eagle says:
“While at Cleveland last week we
had the pleasure of meeting Capt. Samuel
N. Boswortb, oP the Naeoochee Mines,
and were shown by him another nugget of
gold out of one of his mines a few days
previous, weighing 137 i dwts. It was ob
long and eono shaped, and one of tho
handsomest slugs of the precious metal we
ever beheld. A few days before we saw
the Captain, four of his hands washed out
in one day, over 400 dwts. The Captain is
using hydraulic pipes for washing.”
Letter front Warrenton—ll. 8. Troops.
Warrenton, May 17, 1869.
Dear General l see in to-day’s paper
that you notice a “rumor” that troops had
been sont to our town. It is true. Two
companies under the command of Major
Van Vott, arrived here on Friday last,
and are now encamped. The indications
seem that they have come to stay some
time. You may well inquire, why is this?
The purpose of their visit has not been
developed, possibly to protect “the last
one of the Republican Sheriffs” (see
Bullock’s letter). As yet they have had
nothing to do, and wo don’t think they
will, unless they travel outside of the pale
of duty. So far they have conducted
themselves with great, propriety, and we
antiepate no trouble with them, as every
thing is quiet and peaceable. We hope
soon to be able to return them to Mr,
De Graffenreid in good order, and well
conditioaed. It is supposed that they
were sent here at the special instance and
request of Senator Adkins, but he will
hardly need their services now.
The commanding officer is a West
Point gentleman, and, wo are satisfied,
entertains no hostility to our people. The
soldiers are the best behaved and best gov
erned that we have seen since tho war.
Their presence here will improve trade and
benefit the merchants, so that they may be
a positive benefit at last.
Yours, truly, 11.
Note by the Editor.—We are glad to
learn from our esteemed correspondent
that the Warrenton people are so well
pleased with De Graffenreid’s present.
Outside of a few political influences on
special occasions, we have found that
United States officers of the regular army
are courteously just, and that the soldiers
partake of the character of the officers.
We have no doubt that the good people of
Warrenton will find that the evil which
De Graffenreid, Governor pro tern , sought
to inflict will prove a blessing in disguise
during this dull season of the year ; and
that a little intercourse with Uncle Sam’s
boys will prove no detriment, although
sent contrary to all rights of citizens in the
United States.
[communicated.]
The Macon Railroad.
Messrs. Editors : The fact has become
perfectly obvious, from recent develop
ment-’, that the Macon & Augusta Rail
road is not in a fair way feir competition at
an early day. Its completion to Macon is
now more desirable than ever. To effect
this object all interests must harmonize and
the necessary steps be taken to consummate
the object. We must get up no bad feel
ings among its friends, but go to work in a
sensible and business-like way to complete
the task before us. It'is for this purpose
that we offer some practical suggestions.
In the first place the Road must have
not only a loyal Board of Directors but it
must have a Board which will command
the confidence of the stockholders. This
Board ought to be something more than
men of integrity. They ought to have
business-talent and energy, men who will
go to their duties heartily and discharge
them faithfully. They must know the
exact condition of the Road, its finances,
its necessities, the capacity of its agents,
Ac., &c. In short, they must be practical,
working men, who will employ such as
agents and no other.
In the next place, if sufficient stock lias
not been subscribed to build the lload. wc
think that it ought to be dune, jf pme t ca
ble, without delay. Judge King is not
only consistent but he is right in his op
position to the building of railroads on the
credit system. They always cost more than
they ought and stockholders, as a conse
quence, become dissatisfied and lose con
fidence in their Directors.
The City Council of Augusta should
take the lead in all this matter, it being
the largest stockholder. It ought, in a
friendly spirit, to induce the present
Board to resign. And with this under
standing it ought, at once, to call a meet
ing of the Stockholders to elect anew
Board. It ought to take the necessary
stops to furnish the meeting of the Com
pany with all the information concerning
its former management that may be of
value to it. If well managed, it will in
spire confidence; if not wc ought to know
it, and go to work to repair damages as
fast as possible. Under existing circum
stances, some of the warmest friends of
the Board will never pay another dollar of
stock, unless compelled. This compulsion,
to say the least, is doubtful. We must
either build the Road to Macon or sell it on
the best terms that we can to a party who
w jH A Stockholder.
OS THE wise.
Mat 15,1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
On the night of the 10th inst., about 11
o’clock, I arrived at Bartow, a beautiful
little village on the Central Railroad, in
Jeflerson county. I asked a man who
lived in the fine residence just above the
depot, that shone through the darkness,of
the night. He replied Parson Johnson.
Well, well, ’ says I, “have I stumbled on
my old friend Russel Johnson, whom I
knew intimately (and to love and admire)
nearly twenty years ago?” I went to the
house; knocked at the door; and, soon a
pleasant and intelligent looking little boy
opened and invited me in, witli directions
where to sleep. On the next morning I
arose, anxious to see my old friend. After
some fun with them trying to make me
out, revealed myself and realized that the
no de and generous natures of 1552 were
sti lahve. I inquired for my little friend
Allick, who I expected to find a highly
accomplished young man, brilliant in in
tellect and full of promise to the world
but was pained to learn that death (that
which “always seeks a shining mark”) had
t ansported him to the skies. I left with
the promise that I would returu and
preach in the chapel the following Sab
bath. The press and the bar were soon
aboard of a fine rockaway, drawn by two
splendid gildings, furnished by our kind
friend and brother, Marcus Evans. Ar
riving at Louisville we found the Jefferson
Court in session, Judge Gibson presiding.
As the public would doubtless like to
know the disposition made of the case of
Wilson Flournoy, oharged with the murder
of Ayer, allow me to state that Judge
Gibson appointed those able lawyers and
distinguished citizens, Col. Pottle, of War
ren, and Judge Hook, of Augusta, for the
defence of the accused. Upon his state
ment of not being able to give counsel,
after a conference with Flournoy, his coun
sel appeared before the Court, and urged
the plea, that inasmuch as the prejudices
of the community were so strong against
him he could not have a fair and impar
tial trial, that the case be continued, and
this plea was allowed and the motion
granted. A negro man convicted of bur
glary, was sentenced to the Penitentiary
for ten years. Another, charged with de
coying hands from the farm of their em
ployer, was fined thirty dollars, to be
imprisoned in the county jail until paid,
with the promise of a fine of two hundred
dollars on the repetition of such an act.
Tue Judge explained and commented to
a consid rable extent on the law to pre
vent this crime, and told of the ruin which
must necessarily result to the farming
interests of the country if it was not
pressed, and adjured all present that lie
should enforce the law to the letter in every
case that occured within his jurisdiction.
The crops in Jefferson are in good order
and in a fine growing condition. While
cotton has received most of the fertilizers
imported, cotton seed and compost has
been applied to the corn, and this is tell
ing with wonderful effect. No doubt far
heavier crops will be realized on a less
quantity 01 land than ever before. Corn
is about knee-high and looks green and
flourishing. Wheat looks very well. There
is some rust, but I think it is confined to
the blade.
The gardens are yielding an abundant
supply of .vegetables. The dinner tables
everywhere are smoking with cabbages,
peas and Irish potatoes.
No loafers or stragglers to be seeD, but
everybody, male and female, are hard
down at work, trying to build up their
broken fortunes, and restore this county,
which was sacked and completely deso
lated by forty thousand thieves and rob
bers.
Some talk about war with the powers of
Europe, but if Uncle Sam knows on which
side his bread is buttered he will let war
alone. Better submit to insult and injury
than an inglorious defeat.
The Federal Government is in no condi
tion for a foreign war, and never will be
under Radical domination.
If the powers that be would display wis
dom and magnanimity they would go to
work to harmonize the discordant ele
ments, seek the interest, honor and hap
piness of the controlling c asses in all
sections; it must make country and gov
ernment just what it must be, to require
such a sacrifice in its favor. But these are
questions for minds more experienced in
public affairs.
My sojourn in Jeflerson was pleasant
and profitable. Meeting with oldfrieuds
in days of yore, then blessed with all the
comforts that earthly fortune can bestow,
hearing them tell over the incidents, the
desolation and ruin of a heartless invasion,
and witnessing the recuperative energy
now everywhere at work, I need not say
how deeply interesting this was to me. I
am under many obligations to Rev. Russel
Johnson, Marcus Evans, W. A. llayles
and Henry Watkins, for their hospitality
and kindness, and can assure them that
whether my visit was of any profit to them
or not, it oeriainly was a great pleasure to
me. Traveller.
From the New York Times.
haw and Order in the South.
A strenouous effort was made in the
Anti-Slavery Convention, on Wednesday,
to revive expiring prejudices concerning
the condition of society in the South, with
especial reference to the rights and inter
ests of colored citizens and Northern
“loyalists.” One of the expelled Georgia
legislators was asked whether he con
sidered his life safe in that State, and he
responded that no man’s life, who stands
on the loyal side, is safe in Georgia out
side o! the large cities. The question was
pressed in other forms, and always with a
somewhat similar result; the evident aim
being to produec an impression that Ku
klux and rebels still dominate in the South,
and that the staunch Republican, white or
black, is all the time in jeopardy. Mr.
Wendell Phillips likened the white South
erner to “the bull-dog that, having ' been
taught for twenty years to spring at every
passer by, could not change his nature in a
day.” The ladies were equally ferocious ;
a c ilored Mrs. Harper declaring that
“there is no civilized country in the world
whore there has been so much murdering
as has been going on recently at the
South.” For the object of these repre
sentations we have not far to seek. A case
against Georgia and the unreconstructed
States is desired as" an excuse for harsh ac
tion, and the story of murder for political
causes is the best that can be concocted for
the purpose.
Wc are more than skeptical on this sub
ject. We do not believe these tales of
who’esale murder and oppressidh, nor do
wc give credence to the allegations that
■“loyalists” are systematically persecuted
and huLted down. There was a time, un
doubtedly, when in some localities a hostile
spirit ran high, and when the assertion, of
Republican opinion involved more or less
peril; but trustworthy evidence soems to
show that this state of things no longer ex
ists- So far as we can judge, life and prop
erty are quite as secure at the South as at
the North! Taking population into ac
count, we arc convinced that the per cour
age of crime is no greater anywhere in the
South, and certainly not in Georgia, than
in the Noith or W r est. For every murder
committed there we will undertake to find
a murder here. For every outrage
that admits of verification in Georgia
we will _ trace a parallel outrage in Indi
ana or New York. Nay, we are persuad
ed that, all things considered, there is less
crime in Virginia, in South Carolina, in
Alabama, and even in Georgia, tham in
this State or in other parts of the North.
This city could easily supply a ohapter of
horr us, of recent date, whioh, by a parity
of : asoning, Southern observers might
cue proofs of savagery and demoraliza
tion Such an application of facts would
be unwarranted, but it would be not less
legitimate than the endqavor of the Anti-
Slavery Society fanatics to arraign the
whole South for the acts of its criminal
e'a-s. ft is absurd to look for a greater
average of virtue, or greater immunity
from crime there than wc are contented
with here. What Georgia and its neigh
b“r.s may fairly plead is, that in respect of
offences against person and property, they
have nothing to fear from comparison with
Massachusetts or Michigan. And this is
all we are entitled to expect.
But, wc are to and, the South does not
welcome loud tongued loyalists as cordial
ly as they think they should be welcomed.
Mr. Forney, who has been spying out the
nakedness of tbe land in company with a
party like unto hitnself, publicly complains
that they went about without being wor
shiped. He does not allege that they
were insulted. He does not pretend that
they had any apprehension as to their
personal safety. lie does not deny that
homes await ail who seek them with a de
cent respect for the feelings and opinions
of the present population. But he objects
that the entire South did not take him
and his .'riends at their own valuation, ami
that it receives coldly those who go there
as professional politicians, or who insist,
when settling, that they shall be esteemed
as the only loyal, the only righteous,
members of the community. These objV
tions and complaints arc very foolish. L»
the fir.-t place, Strut hern citizens have a
good a right as Northern citizens to choo c