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Orouulc & ftortnul
WEIIXKNDAY KWBW, JIN* 4.
Settled.
It affords us much pleasure to state that
our Railroad difficulties are in a train of :
amicable settlement. Indeed, we may say
terms have been agreed upon between Col. j
Magrath and the Railroad Committee of
Council and the Attorney of the Columbia j
ft Augusta Railroad, and need only the '
ratification of the different corporations in
terested.
The basis of settlement is substantially
that suggested by Oen. Wright in a letter
to J udge Gould on the 22d inst.
We know that the citizens of Augusta
will be gratified that this difficult and vex
atious question is at last settled. We will
give the plan and terms agreed upon as
soon as they are authoratively acted upon
by the parties interested.
Tbe Dawn.
it gives pleasure to note that some of
our Republican contemporaries are begin
ning to have their eyes opened as to the
motives and designs of their Radical rep
resentatives in the South, particularly in
Georgia. We are glad to see that such
minions as Rullock and his corporal’s
guard of plundering carpet-baggers and
lying thieves, are beginning to be under
stood and appreciated at their just value.
Our people may rely upon it that tbe
mass of the Northern people do not sup
port these miscreants, and just so soon as
they are permitted will spurn them as
sedition-mongers, and bummers, and peace
destroyers.
The Northern independent Republican
press are beginning to be awakened as to
the true character of the Southern Radical
representatives, and to portray this scum
in its true colors, and the Northern masses
will rise in their might and sink these
miserable creatures back again into the
depths irom which they rose through po
litical convulsions.
We regret to believe that the President
is bound hand and foot by an insignificant
ring of a few loud-mouthed, b sling po
I ideal leaders, and yields unresistingly,
without even a protest ; and supinely sub
mits tbe cause and policy of the Govern
ment to the dictates of a heartless, sordid,
malignant crew. •
We do not charge that the President is,
or ever has been, of these, or in any sense
contrives with them. Rut we do charge
that, under the lash of these bold, am
bitious, bad men, he has failed to rise to
the level of his high position, and has
permitted a policy which disgraces and
degrades his own office and all
that makes government respected and
respectable ; and this, too, upon the repre
sentations of a few Radical leaders who
arc ruining the country in the destruction
of all civil rights, and arc destroying all
faith in Republican institutions, all belief
in covenanted justice.
If the President would cast himself
loose from these bold, bad, malignant men,
and throw himself upon tho people for the
right of the people—the North, the South,
the East and the West would sustain him,
and men good and true would move with
him in solid column, as men who know
how to move who have sacrificed
wealth and comfort andondurod hardship,
toil and suffering, and for principle.
Meanwhile, it is cheering to note the
change in the tone of the independent
| |.riiss of the North, and to read from a
Northern Republican print that there is
yet health in Israel, as the following article
from the Now York 'limes will show :
TIIK PRESIDENT AND GEORGIA.
Wc can readily believe that General
< 1 rant does not entirely coincide with Mr.
Butler as to the means to be employed for
the suppression of alleged outrages in the
.Southern States. The Massachussetts
member has a sovereign contempt for
whatever stands in the way of his pur
poses ; it is not surprising, therefore, that
In! proposes to achiove partisan supremacy
in the South, without stopping to consider
t lie legality or constitutionality of his ac
lion, 'flic President is fortunately a dif
ferent man. Ho will think before acting;
and very little thought is nocossary to sat
isfy him that his powers are restrained in
i manner latal to the adoption of the But
ler programme.
So far as Virginia, Texas and Missis
sippi are concerned, his authority under
the UeooDHtruotion acts is sufficient lor
any emergency. lie there exercises a con
trol which renders the enforcement of law,
by military agencies, comparatively easy;
but these are not the States to which Mr.
Cutler's proscription is intended to apply.
Ho does not venture to allege that Virginia
is less orderly, less law abiding than Essex
County, Massachusetts. What he pro
poses iB aimed at Georgia. Whenever a
murder is committed there, we are told,
lie ‘ would call on tho inhabitants of the
district for the apprehension of the per
petrator within a specified time, and, in
the event of' a non-compliance, would
take military possession of the place.”
The President, however, cannot forget
that Georgia is a reconstructed State, aud
that neither under the law nor the Con
utitution has ha the right, uninvited, to
interfere. He must act toward Goorgia
as bo would act toward New York ;
for though the validity of Georgia re
construction is impugned by Mr.
Butler, the bill he reported on tbe
subject was not acted upon by tho House.
In tho eye of the Pro ideut, then, Georgia
is the equal of Massachusetts in respeot of
constitutional rights. And these rights
obstruct the Butler plan of interference.
Assuming that outrages are committed in
the State, they involve no conflict with
Federal authority; they are simply viola
tions of tho State laws, and arc puui<l a
ble only as such. Tho President may in
deed interfere when the local executive
officially reports his inability to uphold the.
law ; but to this moment Gov. Bullock
has made no such representation. Until
he appeals for help, the President has no
more business to meddle in the matter of a
Georgia murder than to take the investiga
tion of the Rogers murder out of ibe
hands of the New York Polioe. The fact
that Gov. Bullock has not solicited
intervention proves ono of two things:
either the stories concerning crime in Geor
gia are partisan inventions, or at least par
tisan exaggerations, or the Governor, who
does the work of the extremists, is unfit
for his position. From either point of
view, he is a bad man. For the inventions
or exaggerations—if such the reports be—
indicate the same mischievous influences
which defeated the Fifteenth Amendment
iu tho Georgia Legislature—with which
influences the Governor is identified. And,
on the other hand,it crime is really rampant
—which we do not believe—the Governor
is guilty of a gross dereliction of duty ib
failing to bring the criminals to punish
ment —if need be, with the hdlp of the
Washington authorities.
What is first wanted is a trustworthy
statement of facts with regard to the na
ture. and amount of crime in Georgia-; and
wc doubt not that on this point the Presi
dent will require other testimony than Mr.
Butler’s. The Augusta dispatch published
yesterday shows that little reliance should
ire placed upon statements tracing grave
offences to political causes. A sensation
story, embracing two murders, is
now declared by its author to have
been written under misinformation.
It is quite possible that careful investiga
tion will show other and similar narratives
to be equally unreliable. The murder of
Dr. Adkins is now attributed to a disgrace
ful life rather than to politics; and the
man Foy, who tried to kill a colored mis
tress, ami succeeded in killing himself, is
another illustration of the personal worth
lessness of those who pander to the parti
san appetite of Mr. Butler and his friends,
The best thing the President can do is to
discard these suspicious sources of inform
atiou, and to ascertain by careful ard
thorough scrutiny the whole truth touch
ing Georgia and its people. The difficul
ties incident to intervention will remain,
whatever be the result of the inquiry.
But the country will at any rate be enabled
to estimate accurately the position of af
fairs in the State, and to pronounce a just
verdict as between Mr. Bader and the
people he arraigns.
British Soldiers or tub Revolution
engaged in excavating in a lot belonging
to the Central Railroad, near the depot of
the company in that city, a day or two
since exhumed four bodies, which, upon
careful examination, are thought to he
those of British soldiers buried there dur
ing the occupation of the city by the Brit
ish forces in the Revolutionary War.
Several buttons on their coats, upon being
rubbed and cleaned, were found to he those
of the English service at that date, while
the coats, which time and the elements of
decay had spared, were found to have been
red origilfclly.
Religious.—The service* that have
been held at Asbury M. E. Church in this
city for the past two weeks, continued to
increase in interest- The sovicee will con.
tiuue through the ensuing week, beginning
each evening at 8 o clock.
«ur Pant Tutors and Teachers. |
Clow over any Republican paper al
st ’u, l you are sure to find something
ab »ut I he Southern school of politics—the I
po! t e ans of the Southern school —rebel 1
and tcesh school of politicians, and like
distinctive phrases. Knowing full well
that for years before the so-called rebel- ;
lion, a majority of our educated men re
ceived their scholastic learning at Cam
bridge, New Haven, Schenectady and
Princeton, we have been at a loss to ac- j
count for tbe origin of this distinctive ap
pellation. We have called over the list of
prominent and distinguished men from tbe
days of the revolution, when the old Brick
triangular roof on Mclntosh street was the i
State house for the first rebelson theAmeri
can continent since the Genoese discovery,
and almost without exception we find that
our leading men have been educated at the j
above named institutions. There is hard
ly an exception. Now antfagain one like
| “old Tom Glasscock” rises as an ex cep ;
i tion—but it is only as a brilliant exception, I
; and then chiefly as a ‘‘self-made man.’
j Hun down the time-list of the great men in
■ Divinity, law, medicine, professors of col
! lege3, and eminent teachers, and the great
and striking preponderance of influential
men —men whose counsels have sway
-Icd tbe destinies of tbe State have
j been those who were tutored in doc
trines and drilled in principles in these
Northern institutions and coming home
with the imprimaturs of Cambridge, New
i Haven, Princeton, and Union College, i
: Schenectady, have taken the positions
which have made them at once the rulers !
; and the teachers of the people—moulding
the political destinies in public affairs, and
the salient points of character in private life.
This seems marvellous; nevertheless it is
true, and it seems the more marvellous
! the most practical as well as the most
astounding anti climax—that the result
should be the prevalence of political doc-
trines and their bold maintenance in tbe
field amid suffering and hardship, and
under conquest, with humiliating exactions
ami sharp military rule—culminating in -
the reproach and contumely of unsuccess
ful rebellion. With such a class of lead
ers, with such a class of instructors it seems
s: range, passing strange, that such things
should have come to pass. Nevertheless
it is tr ie, ’tis a pity ’tis true, as we all can
te tiiy in the flesh.
Such a fact, that the chief men and lead
ers of public opinion, and the tutors of our
youth, many, very many of them, most of
tb ;m Noithern born, andaHof themspend
ing the impressible period of youth in the
; society and among the men of the North,
i thoroughly imbued with Northern tenets
i an i Noithern sentiment, so far as it could
| In. attained in Northern seats of virtue,
j Intelligence and learning—could so far fail
| to achieve what, logically, should have
been their mission—presents an anomaly
which defies analysis. With such an army
of missionaries—and scan the roll as you
wid, from the days of Lyman Hall, Brit
ton ( winnett and George Walton, down to
the present day, with the utmost scrutiny,
and the fact that this class of men are
tho,; that put their impress upon our
youth and guided our public opinion,
will be amply verified—who could have
predicted aught but homogeniety in
thought,tone and sentiment. Least of all
why should the grand climax be antago
nism and rebellion “so-called.” Prima
facie , the first practical thought in our
present situation is,that it would have been
far better to have had our youth rely upon
our resources, trusting to the development
of our own schools and colleges, which, in
tho meanwhile have languished so much as
to havo provoked the taunts in comparison
of our benefactors. But this is only a
practical deduction, and furnishes no key
to the solution of the question. Happily
our eccentric friend (himself a Northorn
man) of the Katouton Gazette rakes
|a il ing tho dead ashes of the
| past, and exhumes a Rosetta Stone. Ho
gives us the key. The Sewards are sent
South advertised as youtfg gentlemen of
“good moral character and distinguished
industry and literary attaiments,” to take
charge of our common schools and acade
mies. This, we think, all sufficient. We
need go no further. This furnishes full ex
planation for the metaphysical riddle. To
fortify ourselves in the adoption of this
theory, as woll as invoke investigation
through reminiscence. We quote our
Northern born friend, but true Southerner,
in extenso , as follows :
Wji. H. Seward a Georgia School
Master —-Original Advertisement.—
The following original advertisement of
(ho Union Academy, of Putnam county,
over which Wm. H. Seward then presided
as rector, was handed us a few days since,
by a friend. It fist appeared in the
Georgia Journal, of Milledgeville, in 1819,
and is inserted in the Press as a reminis
cence, likely to interest many of our older
inhabitants, some of whom were students
in tho Academy under his administration.
To them, this advertisement, setting forth
the good moral character of the “head
and heart” of the Radical party, will be
interesting. How have the mighty fallen!
The Union Academy.—The friends of
science are respccfully informed that a
private academy has lately been establish
ed in the neighborhood of Major Wm.
Alexander, Mr. Wm. Walker and Col. Wm.
K. Adams, in Putnam county, on a site
obtained from Francis Ward, esq., not far
from Garner’s ferry, and will go into op
eration the 19th of April. The academy
edifice, which will be ready for the recep
tion of students by that day, will be spa
eious aud commodious, adapted to the ac
commodation of 80 to 100 scholars, in two
schools. Tho rector Mr. William H. Sew
ard, is late from the Union College, New
York, from which institution he comes
; h'ghly recommended as a young gentleman
ot good moral character and distinguished
industry and literary acquirements. He will
ti ajh toe Latin and Greek language, theo
retically, practical Mathematics, Logie,
Rhetoric, Natural and Moral Philosophy,
Chemistry, Geography, English Grammar
and such other branches as are usually
laught in Northern Colleges. The com
mon branches of education, spelling, read
ing, writing, etc., will of course be taught
in this institution. The price of instruc
tion will bo from SJS, $22, or S3O, accord
ing to the branches taught. Board may
be had in respectable families, at a sum
not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five
dollars. From the respectability and
acknowledged healthiness of the neighbor
hood, the cheapness of board and tuition,
and the qualifications of the rector the
trustees feel warranted in recom
mending the infant establishment to
the attention of the public. Persons dis
posed to send their children, will enter
without delay with the treasurer, Major
William Alexander, designating the
studies they wish them to pursue, in order
that the requisite aid may be procured
for Mr. Seward—it being understood, also,
that if any studonts sre excluded for the
want of room they must be from among
those last entered. Communications di
rected through the medium-of the post
office, in Eatonton, to Wm. H. ..Seward,
rector of Union Academy, or to William
Turner, Secretary, or to William Alexan
der, treasurer of the board of the trustees
ot Union Academy, the postage being
duly paid, will receive prompt attention.
By order of the Trustees.
William Turner, Sec ry.
Finances op South Carolina--—The
Treasurer of the State of South Carolina
has turnished the following statement,and
Governor Scott has stated by letter that
the money for payment of the next interest
due is already on hand in the State Treas
ury:
FUNDED DEBT.
Pricipai. Interest.
■ per et. State Stocks.s3S,S36 tin J 1.4,55 37
per et. lire Loan 314,433 89 it 554 04
6 per et-U lids 484,444 51 66,922 00
0 per cent. Bonds and
Stocks funded 1,282,971 27 96 334 97
6 per cent New State
House Bonds 2,256,600 00 171,595 00
6 per ct. Blue Ridge
Railroad Bonds... 1,000,000 00 75,000 00
6 per ct. Redeeming
Notes of Back of
the State 1,033,900 00
Total debt and inter
est $6,875,997 79
ASSETS.
Shares Northeastern Railroad $120,000
do. Spartanburg Railroad 250,000
do. Pendleton Railroad 42,500
do. Greenville and Columbia ’
Railroad 4,333,966 I
do. Blue Ridge Railroad -1,310,U00 !
do. Columbia * Augusta Rail
road 42,200 j
da Cheraw A Coalfields Rail
road 200,000
do. Laurens Railroad 50,0u0
do. South Carolina Railroad 24,000
do. Charleston and Savannah
Railroad 270,000
do. Southwestern Railroad B'k 6,000
do. Keowee aud Tuckasugee j
Turnpike 6,000 1
Total ! $6,654,666 j
A Minnesota gentleman is in Rome to j
buy land. * I
A lard.
A word in reply to the Constitutionalist’s
article of Saturday morning.
That paper seeks t ) prove the truth of
its charge that “the South Carolina Rail
road Company had made an offer to • the
City Council last week which compromised
the whole litigation by the payment of
SIOO,OOO in Columbia & Augusta Railroad
bonds at par to the South Carolina Rail
road,” by asserting that the.CHROMCLE &
Sentinel had the same item in its local
column on the2lstinst. According to it3
own confession it appropriated the sub
stance of an article in that paper and used
it in its own columns as an item of news
’ five days after it appeared in the Chroni
j cle, and without giving that paper the
proper credit for its acknowledged superior
enterprise and industry.
I The paragraph taken from the Cj roni
: cle & Sentinel was written by the local
reporter for that paper f.om information
! furnished by officials of the South Carolina
Railroad Company, and was published
during my absence at Burke Court, which
absence was well known to one, at least,
of the writers for the Constitutionalist.
Further: »Col. Magrath’s letter to Maj.
.Jackson shows on its face that.it was not
an offer made by his Company to the City
Council for a compromise, and that is a full
and complete answer to this quibble of the
' Constitutionalist.
Os the three other errors of fact which I
showed were contained in the article of the
Constitutionalist, it virtually admits two ,
and seeks to avoid the third, by taking
refuge under the third proposition submit
ted by Col. Gould and Mr. Hull, attor
neys for the South Carolina Railroad. I
said :
“it is not true that ‘a direct and” off
hand offer’ has been made by the South
Carolina Railroad, by which the latter
‘binds itself not to interfere with the Co
‘lumbia& Augusta Railroad’s crossing the
‘river into Augusta.’ ”
The Constitutionalist says the South
Cafolina Railroad Company did make that
offer, and quotes from Judge Gould’s letter
as follows:
“Third." The South Carolina Railroad
to raise no question in any Court in Geor
gia of the right of the Columbia & Au
gusta Railroad to cross the Savannah
river.”
I submit to an intelligent public whether
the Constitutionalist's proof sustains its
allegations.
The Constitutionalist has seen fit to in
dulge in what it doubtless thought a very
witty sarcasm by alluding to me as the
“Editor-in-Chief” of tho Chronicle &
Sentinel, City Attorney, and Attorney
for the Columbia A Augusta Railroad,
and thinks it “not surprising that I should
fail to preserve a nicely adjusted consisten
cy” under the combined labor of all these
responsible positions. To put that paper
entirely at ease upon this question I beg to
inform it, that 1 am not only Attorney for the
two respectable and influential corporations
j which it names, but that I have several
; scores of other clients all of whom are
i entirely satisfied, so far as I am inform
ed, with my services, while at the
same time as “Editor-in-Chief” of the
Chronicle & Sentinel its subscription
list has, during the time I have been
connected with it increased more than
ten fold, and now is from ten to forty times
as large as that of the Constitutionalist in
that portion of the State in which both
papers have their general circulation.
To further allay the fears of the Consti
tutionalist, as to my ability to be Attorney
for two corporations, and, at the same time
act as "Editor-in-Chief” of the Chroni
cle & Sentinel, I beg to refer it to the
following certificates,taken at random from
i a large number of like character,now in my
.
; possession:
Elberton, Ga., Nov. 16, 1868.
I Iu answer to your interrogations as to
which of the Augusta papers has the
; largest number of subscribers at this office,
i L will say that the Daily Chronicle &
| Sentinel is the only Daily taken here,
[ except a few copies of the National Re-
I publican, and I think most of them are
I sent gratis. There are more Daily
j Chronicle & Sentinels taken here than
any other Daily from Augusta or any
where else. There are by far, more copies
of tho Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel
delivered to subscribers from this office
than any other Weekly published in Au
gusta or anywhereelse.
Yours, very respectfully,
Henry A. Roebuck,
Asst P. M., Elberton, Ga.,
Newnan, December 27.
The Chronicle & Sentinel has tbe
largest circulation here; no other Augusta
papers received save Rational Republican
three copies.
Very respectfully,
D. Whelan, Acting P. M.
Greensboro, Dec. 30, 1868.
Gentlemen —Yours of the 3d, making
inquiry which paper has the’largest circu
lation from this office, is before me. The
Chronicle 1 & Sentinel has more than
two'to one of any other paper except the
Greensboro Herald.
I remain yours, very respccfully,
. Jas. W. Godkin, P. M.
Postoffice,Sandersville, Ga., )
November 19, 1868. }
Below I give you a list of Augusta pa
pers taken at this office :
Cll lion iu le & Sen tin el( Daily) 13 copies.
“ “ (Weekly) 22 “
Constitutionalist (Daily) 1 “
“ (Weekly) 0 “
Respectfully,
E. S. Sullivan, P.M.
Appling, Ga., Nov. 24th, 1868.1 i
Yours of the 3rd mst., is before me ask
ing tho largost number of subscribers at
my office, and I will say in reply the num
ber of Daily Chronicle & Sentinel sub
scribed for at this office is ten, number of
Constitutionalist Daily is one, number of
Weekly Chronicles is nine, number of
Weekly Constitutionalist site.
Yours respectfully,
W. C. Shields, P. M.
Union Point, Ga., Nov., 18th, 1868.
The following is a correct list of Augusta
papers :
Daily Chronicle & Sf.ntinei 9
Weekly “ “ “ 10
Daily Constitutionalist none
Weekly “ none
Tom Murrah, P. M.
Watkinsnville, Ga., Nov. 24,1868.
The Chronicle & Sentinel Daily and
Weekly, is the. only Augusta paper which
is subscribed for at this office.
Wm. F. White, P. M.
Midville, Burke Cos., 9J C. R. R., 1
Georgia, November 6, 1808. j
I received your letter asking which of
the Augusta papers I received the most of
at this offiee. I receive more of the Daily"
Chronicle & Sentinel and Weekly-
Chronicle & Sentinel. In fact we do
not receive but very few other papers at
this office. Respectfully,
S. Goodwin, P. M.
Crayvfordviij.e, Ga., Nov. 24, 1868.
Sickness has prevented my answering
your inquiries sooner. The “Chronicle
& Sentinel.” both Daily and Weekly,
takes precedence in this county of any-other
paper. Your subscription list far out
numbers any other paper.
Respectfully,
C. C. Mitchell,
Ass’t Postmaster.
Tennille, Washington Cos., Ga.,)
November 16, 1868. J
There comes to this office no papers from
Augusta except the Chronicle & Senti
nel. W. E. Davis,
Acting P. M.
The Constitutioiuilist will perceive that
these letters bear date several months
since. And it affords me much pleasure to
be able to say that since the date of these
certificates tho circulation of the Curon-
ICLE& SejFtinel has increased in a greater
ratio than at any other period of its ex
istence.
The position of “Editor in Chief' of the
Croniclk & Sentinel has been, it
would seem, so well filled, notwith- j
standing the generous fears of the
Constitutionalist on account of my be- 1
ing “ Attorney for two corporations,” I
that the paper has become so popular as
to win and receive the official county ad- j
vertising for seven large counties, while
the Constitutionalist gets the Scalawag
patronage of Bullock's Richmond county
pets, and hangs by its “eye lids” to little j
Glasscock county, which latter is about to
leave it for the more largely, circulated
Chronicle & Sentinel.
A. R. Wright.
The last Spanish loan of $50,000,000 j
has been contracted for at a discount that 1
will give the Treasury only $15,000,000.
The famous yacht Maria is to become a
fruit trader between New York and tbe ’
West Indies.
LSTYKR FKGM PHILADELPHIA. I
_=
Carpet-Baggers, Scalawags, and alt other j
Dishonest, Evil-designing Persons, with j
white Skins, now extant throughout all
the late "so-called" Slice States—Who
are Th*i, and What do They mean ?
Messrs. Editors of the Augusta Chronicle
dr Sentinel, Augusta, Ga. :
Gents: I wrote you sometime back,
not for your paper, but to endorse your
course in reference to the abomination of
negro rule in the United States; bnt as
you complimented me by printing it in
your two papers, and at your solicitation,
I drop you a few lines more, on a subject
alluded to in that letter.
Our Lord said : “Think not that I am
come to destroy the law or the prophets;
I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.”
If this was the object of the carpet-bag
gers now extant in all tho Southern States,
it would be like the mission of the Son of
God to this world. But. unfortunately’
they have a far different object in view.
The Son of God came to fulfill and
strengthen the law; but carpet-baggers
arg among you to "destroy the law.
Christ came to do all the people good,
by example, precept, and injunction ;
carpet-baggers are among you to oppress
the people, to overthrow, not only your
political institutions, but your entire social
system; and disorganize all society, whether
the religious or the social circle; and even
the fami y circles are objects of their bitter
bate, no matter how sacred. Why is this
so? What i; the cause ofsuch bitter malice
and malignant hatred? I think the reasons
are transparent enough for all candid,
thinking persons to realize with clearness.
It is to appropriate to themselves all the
good things that belong to your people:
To sweep into their own coffers all that
you have treasured up for more than
eighty years. They have been sent down
there by the absolute monarchist or impe
rialist, who now hold absolute power over
the States by treason and usurpation. The
carpet-baggers are the tools of these ty
rants, who have placed a standing army
over the people of the South, to protect
the carpet-baggers in their nefarious busi
ness. of plundering aud robbing your
people of their homes, happiness and
money, which is to be their pay for such
dirty work, under their masters at the
Federal Capital, who protect them in
these abominations to try to demoral
ize your people that they may appear
unfit to take care of themselves; that there
may be some show of a justification when
their time comes to declare all unfit for self
government; and to place us all under an
absolute monarch, who will hold us as ab
solute slaves. After this time all will
be born slaves, alikeof all colors, except rich
loyalists. All who have read the history of
the rise and fall of all Republics, from the
overthrow of the Jewish Democracy, sixty
years B. C. to the overthrow of the young
French Republic some twenty years ago,
recognize these steps shall dislodge
those who now hold the power in our
Federal compact and true Democ
racy be restored or we shall sink to the
level of Spain; it is only a question of
time, then, at which we shall he reduced
from sovereigns to subjects. But who are
the (“so-called”) carpet-baggers now
among you? It is said that they are a set
of ignorant, uneducated wretches from the
North. Doubtless this is so to a limited
extent; but a vast majority of them are
well educated men and women, who have
received their education through the com
mon schools of the North, and some of
them doubtless graduates of the high
schools. But after graduation, they are
turned out without a penny upon their
own resources, aud they have a good
book education only, their knowledge
of books having, in their opinion, raised
them far above labor. Many of them hav
ing been forestalled by the vast numbers
preceding them from said common
schools, in all professional livelihoods, and
manual labor, in their estimation, is so de
grading to such literary classes, that they
spurn the very thought; though in all
probability their parents were sweepers or
pavers of streets, waiters at hotels, host
lers or wagon drivers,or some such menial
laborers. Their proud offspring is careful
to let no one know of the source from
which he or she was dug. So he or she
leave home as adventurers, resolved on
anything fir a livelihood bat daily labor
or becoming an employee oven in any hon
orable business,fearing lest their educational
| lights could not be made to shine. Conse-
J quently our country, our towns, and cities
I are filled wish gangs of blacklegs, piek-
J pockets, thieves, pimps, and robbers of
every description, as wed as of prostitutes.
This is one of the evils of our common
school system. Children are taught to be
lieve that education elevates, and labor de
grades', and therefore education is above
labor, and would be lowered by it; and
•therefore the above named results. These
i are the kind of people who were main
|ly the tools used by old-England
|to originate the late war in our
| glorious family of States, in ordeT
to destroy our power aod ODward progress;
that our glorious Federative system might
be overthrown, and that our liberty,
peace, happiness and prosperity might be
crushed into a mass of ruins. New Eng
land, through her free school system, has
turned out more thousands of this kind of
common-school graduates than fifties were
wanted of both sexes. Even in this city we
are taxed to death to run the same kiud of
a machine. Our streets, after night
fall, tells this terrible story. There is no
embarrassment to families here greater
; than that of obtaining female help, be
cause so many of the American born com
mon school graduates cannot bear the idea
of stooping to such employment, and per
haps do that that is a thousand times more
lowering; even if it is no worse, than going
South to teach negro schools, and become
associates of the parents, brothers, sisters,
uncles and aunts of their pupils.
Thus you have the root of carpet-bag
| gerSj whether male or female. A scalawag
|is somewhat different. They are of the
j original citizens of the Southern States,
■ who were, to a greater or less extent, se
cessionists ; such as Hamilton, of
Texas, Hunnicutt, of Virginia, and Orr,
of South Carolina, who were among the
most rampant Secessionists of their re
spective States, but after yielding to a
vastly superior numerical force, they turned
against their own household and joined
themselves to the traitors of the North to
! overthrow tho Constitution, and in that to
destroy the Union of States and obliterate
all our republican institutions, and even
agree that they are no better than negroes;
aud lock arms with carpet-baggers and
bade them welcome to their social circles.
If possible, this is even worse than carpet
baggers. Carpet baggers have had the
doctrine instilled intotheir minds from the
cradle to manhood, that there was no moral j
wrong in murdering slaveholders, that the
crime of negro slavery excelled all crimes
known to the law, either moral, Federal or
State. They have been taught this from
the pulpit, in Sabbath and day schools. |
Their imaginations have boon so inflated
on the imaginary .rimes of slaveholding
that many of them have been impressed,
and some really believed that slave-owners
had horns and claws, and tails with stings
in the ends of them. And, they have been
taught that nothing gave Southerners so |
much pleasure as that of whipping negroes j
to death and that one of the great and
most profitable schemes of business l
was that of cohabiting with their female j
slaves, and teaching their sons to do the \
same devilish work, to produce children !
for sale, at auction or otherwise. These
slanders have been promulgated by so- j
called ministers of the Gospel. I have j
heard them tell such stories myself, and j
was driven from the Methodist bookstore 1
of this city by the proprietors, an oid j
Methodist preacher and his son, a mere
boy, in 1862, for contradicting a local |
preacher, who was there detailing the
above base slanders, to old and young, in
the store. I had labored frotn the time j
the old gentleman retired from the itine- j
rancy, and took charge of said book busi
ness to encourage him in his new liveli
hood at every opportunity, as he had op- j
position. In no place in the city was I
always more cordially received than in that ,
bookstore,! until that fatal day. I was at j
tbe moment in an agreeable conversation
with an old ministerial brother from the
New Jersey Conference. The Philadel
phia Conference was in session at the
time, not one hundred feet from us. I ;
had just before told the local brother to
stop the foul and vulgar slander on a supe
rior people in every sense of the word ;
and commenced conv:rsation with an
esteemed friend, as above. Just at
this moment the junior partner was
sent from the other end of the
store by his father to order me out.
He came forward and ordered me to leave
in the most insulting manner. Supposing it
to be a joke, I talked on until he repeated
it three or four times, and I saw an earnest
ness in the young hero’s manner that be
tokened sincerity and determination. I
asked, do you mean what you say? Ido,
sjiid he, and repeated the orders more
peremptorily than before. I of course start
ed. but on reflection remembered that j
there were some strangers present, and
that I had better tell them who I was,
and commenced by saymg I am not a
common loafer, nor never had been ; that I
had been a member of the M. E. Church
for more than .thirty-three years, and
throughout that time in good standing :
that I had been a class leader, trustee and
pre-ident of the board, and steward from
about 1836 to that date in 1962, without
one single black mark having ever been
made against me to my knowledge. But
this old friend of mine, a preacher whom I
had always held in the highest veneration
from my first knowledge of him until that :
day, in the most peremptory manner j
hurried me out, by drowning my voice !
with his repeated orders, go out, go out. 1
All of this was for protesting against
the deep dyed diabolical slanders
so frequently deal* out there by
such pretended Christians as the one 1
had contradicted a few minutes before.
This fact, I state, to show you what the
true friends of the Government and truth
here had to bear. This is not an isolated
case even with me, for I -was threatened
with every kind of terrible destruction.
Though I fared bad, mine was not the
worse case; my person was never touched,
while old gray-headed men were knocked
down in our streets, and some killed lor
stinding up for the truth. These reflec
tions arouse greater indignation in our
minds against those natives of the South
who lead in secession; but on submission
to vastly superior numbers, became scala
wags, and entered copartnership with
carpet-baggers aud negroes to oppress the
true people of the South who had been
the foundation of our great glory and pros
! perity as a Republic and a people. Every
candid, unprejudiced, intelligent man
knows, and will acknowledge, that the vast
wealth of New England had its founda
j tion in Southern industry and their institu
i tions.
I don’t wish to be understood to be op
j posed to public schools- lam not. lam
! in favor of all white children being taught
! to read, and write, and arithmetic. But I
am opposed to passing a l through high
j schools indiscriminately, and taxing- the
j people to _ oppression to do so—for
i the country cannot support, so maDy
would-be classics--classical scholars, edu
cated above labor, according to their no
tions of respectable livelihoods, and especi
ally when there is no demand for the fifth
part of such people. All the troubles of
this country are the results of this surplus
of high school graduates, not more than
one-tenth of which are needed, nor not
more than that number have parents or
guardians who can sustain them in a" re
spectable waiting until something suitable
to their notions of respectable cm nloyment
shall come along. The plow, the jack
plane, the file, and anvil are all out the
question with them. In this way the free
school system, the best of all temporal insti
tutions if properly conducted, have been
made by fanatics the means of the over
throw of the liberties, peace, happiness
and the prosperity of this once happy laud,
but now under the iron heel of tyrants far
worse, if possible, than Bloody Mary.
Doubtless, this o inion will startle many
and bring the writer’s name under the
kaekle of denunciation. Yet it is my
opinion; and if 1 had time and means of
communication I would sustain myself
satisfactorily to all unprejudiced minds.
I close by saying that I have run this
beyond any hope of its publication, and,
therefore, shall not be disappointed if it
goes to the waste basket. I have not time
to re-write it, to shorten it.
Your friend in the great cause of truth,
J. B. R.
Philadelphia, May 22, 1869.
The Wall Street Failures.
From the New York Oimmonw:aUh. May 13th.
Two heavy failures were reported yes
terday in the Commonwealth, and to
them, as we stated, was due the flurry in
gold and stocks. Five years ago two such
events in one day would have shaken
Wall street machinery to its foundation.
Now, however, everything seems to be
changed. Instead of twenty or thirty of
the houses being in trouble in con
sequence of these two failures, no more
than four firms were even talked about,
and if wc are not misinformed two of these
are all right this morning.
The most important of these two fail
ures is that of Messrs. Sehrepeler & Cos.,
of Fixchange Place, merchant brokers, en
gaged in the export of petroleum and
other domestic produce, and heavy dealers
in gold and foreign exchange. Os the
large capital of this firm we have no pos
itive information. The partners are
Russians, and they had an extensive cor
respondence in England and Continental
Europe. They have been speculating
heavily for a fall in gold, and their out
standing contracts amount to six or eight
millions at prices from three to five per
cent, below the present market. Besides
this, they have, it is reported, a consid
erable amount of foreign bills amounting
to about a half a million of dollars uncov
ered and unexcepted.
J tis, of course, premature to offer any
opinion as to the prospects for final adjust
ment. Tho second failure is, of a more
serious character. It is that cf Messrs.
Davis & Akin, of 48 Broad street. This
firm appears to have been perfectly sol
vent up to Saturday evening, wheu Akin,
the moneyed partner of the concern, sud
denly disappeared, and almost all of the
available assets of the firm were missing.
The apparent alleged defalcation is
$114,025; but the National City Bauk,
which certified the checks, loses only about
$14,000, asthe balance is secured by the
deposits of Davis & Akin, and this fact
reduces the net profit of Akin, on the
transaction, to about $69,000. The man
ner in which the alleged fraud was com
mitted is stated to be that the firm of
Davis & Akiu bought the enumerated
stocks through Akin, and for which he
gave the checks of the firm for the
amounts of their values. Before the
holders of these cheeks, however, could get
to the batik, thev had been preceded by
Akin, who had already obtained the certi
fied checks for $59,125, who had over
drawn the account of the firm, and tue
bank, of'course, refused to honor any more
of the checks of Davis & Akin. The net
result was that several brokers in the street
(whose names are not necessary to be
given) were defrauded in tho sum of from
SIO,OOO to $20,000 each, and the bank lost
$14,000.
No clue whatever to the whereabouts of
Akin has yet been obtained; and although
the opinion is general in financial circles
that Akin has absconded for a fraudulent
purpose, there are some who consider that
his absence has beon as yet too brief to
warrant a charge of such serious character,
and that he may yet rc-appear to show his
innocence, and that he was the victim of
some untoward accident. The last news
from him, however, was obtained through
the detectives, who ascertained that Sat- j
urday afternoon ho purchased five-twenty
bonds to a large amount of. Jay Cooke &
Cos., and other,houses. This conversion of
of the firm is not known to have
been necessary for any regular business
transaction of Saturday, and has added to
the anxiety his absence has occasioned.
Virginia Radicals.
Richmond Correspondence N. Y. World.
The Radical party in Virginia have a
precious set of scoundrels at their head.
Witness the following true statement;
Even poor Underwood is believed to he
worse than a fool, and the charges of bribe
ry made against him by a no less distin
guished personage than John Minor Botts
were only suppressed at the earnest entrea
ty of the Judge with the Grand Jury of
his own Court. Governor Welles, who is a
candidate for re-election, during his incum
bency of the executive office has been un
der arrest for tampering with the mails,
and, though his case was dismissed, the
charge that he dishonorably opened and
read aletter addressed to another has never
been refuted. There is no end of the com
plaints made of official corruption on the
P*rt of Bond, the Register in Bankruptcy,
who furnishes the brains to the party, and
aspires to the United States Senatorship.
Burgess, the Chairman of the State Cen
tral Committee, upon whom the party is
heaping honors, has just been indicted for
perjury iu taking the iron-clad oath, and
members of the Grand Jury assett that
there is no doubt whatever of his convic
tion. Porter, the candidate for Congress
from this district, is a notorious rascal, and
Major Wardell, once of Butler’s staff, and
now enjoying the fat office of Superintend
ent of the Penitentiary, is now on trial be
fore the military for malfeasance in office,
with overwhelming evidence against him.
All these men, and others of the same
sort, have fastened themselves like leeches
upon the old commonwealth, are growing
rich by their rascality, and still with un
blushing impudence ask Virginians to re
turn them in office.
It seems to be a sure thing that wc are
to have a negro member of Congress from
Virgitffa. Already three gentlemen of
color have presented tbemse.ves for our
suffrages, and at least two of them stand a
chance of election. “Doctor” Tnomas
Bayne opposes himself to the regular car
pet-bag nominee in the Norfolk district.
He is as black a negro as the Almighty
ever made, and bears ail the characteristics
of the genuine African. His eyes are large,
with a superfluity of White. His nose is
as flat as a pancike. His lips present the
appearance of a very large tomato mashed
in two by a cartwheel, and his teeth, in
contrast with his very black complexion,
arejwhite as the purest ivory. He wears a
milk-white choker and neckerchief, which
once led somebody to describe him as “a
tar-baby peeping out of a cream pot.”
buch is Bayne —only a little more so.
Withal, he is entirely uneducated, uses
“dis” and “dat,” “dar” and “t’other,”
with all the fluency of a cornfield hand,
but at the same time is remarkable for his
originality of expression and large store of
anecdotes. What a sensation ho would
make as the “gentleman from Virginia”
in the House of Representatives! Here
would be a real teat of the willingness of
the Radicals to admit the negro to all the
privileges of the white race. And Bayne,
who is himself a violent Radical, says he 1
means to run for Congress just to put the
professions of his political brethren to this
severe trial. Norton, who also calls him- i
self “Doetor,” is the regular candidate in !
the Yorktown district, despite the efforts
of the Central Committee to buy him off.
He knows his letters, and, indeed, can read
and write and cipher, but is a most re
markable embodiment of ignoranoe and
conceit. He is a freckle-faced mulatto,
wearing glasses and sporting a gold-headed ,
cane Rev Fields Cook wishes to repre- i
sent the Richmond or Metropolitan Dis
trict He is a preaeher, pretty wtill educat
ed, and, truth to say, is a muoh better
man than the carpet-baggers from New ;
York, whom he opposes in the canvass.
| Augusta Bible Society—Supplemental
Report.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
I Since matins our annual report, I Lave
j received the following from the Depository
! Committee. It will be seen that it greatly
j increases the number of Bibles, Testaments
and Gospels distributed during the year,
j I regret that this report was net in my
j hands at the time the annual report was
| made. Please be kind enough to give this
: an insertion in your paper, and oblige,
I Yours, truly,
Arminius Wright.
SALES.
| At the Depository, IJ4 8ib1e5,445 Testa
; meats.
By Colporteurs and Agents, 23 Bibles.
I Total amount of sales 137 Bibles, 445
j Testaments— $256 85.
DONATED.
j At Depository 14S Bibies, 808 Testa
ments. 60 Gospels.
By Colpor.teursand Agents, 222 Bibles,
514 Testaments, 219 Gospels—s4o2 75.
RECAPITULATION.
i Sold and donated during the year 507
Bibles, 1,827 Testaments, R 279 Gospels
—aggregate cost, $659 60.
Whole cumber of volumes sold and do
nated during the year 2,613.
better from Warrenton.
Waurenton, Ga , May 26,1869.
Editors Chronicle A Sentinel:
I give you a few lines in reference to
matters in our county. The cold has in
jured the cotton very much; the stands
being generally very bad. I think there
is nearly or q uite as much Corn planted as
last year. The Wheat crops are good and
nearly ready to cut. I learn that some
in Glasscock are cutting. The hands in
this county are working finely and many
planters say that they have never seen
hands so attentive to business as they are
this year. I saw a man to-day that lives
near 11. C. Kobades (Rhodes) who is said
to have been Ku-kluxed. Said R. C.,
says that ‘‘them dau blaimed papers North
has published a positive falsehood; that
he is not dead nor never has been.” Mr.
Rhodes is very indignant at the idea of
having been Ku-kluxed, killed and pub
lished before ho knew anything of it. We
have one hundred and fifty or seventy-five
Federal soldiers stationed here. Their
conduct is such that none can complain. I
have made the acquaintance of Major
Van Vost, Captain Hull and others.
They have nude a'very favorable impres
sion upon our citizens. It is reported on
the streets, and I learn correct, that Mrs.
Adkins has. been to Major Voti Vost in
reference to the killing of' A. Joseph, but
could give no clue to any one that could
have done the deed. I was proud to see
in to-day’s paper that Frank Holden was
t.o longer a member of the Legislature ;
hope the thing will continue to purge
itself. Another word in reference to
the military—heretofore when the mili
tary would come here the ireedmen would
gather by hundreds; but, up to this time,
I hear of but very, few so doing and they
have received just such counsel, as any
good man would give th.em. Any force
which has such a commander as Major
Van Vost need be proud of it. All things
are working along quietly and peaceably
as any people could wish.
Respectfully,
Subscriber.
Cincinnati and Charleston.
THE ADVANTAGES OF THE KNOXVILLE
ROUTE.
AN INTERESTING AND CONCLUSIVE STATE
MENT.
The following letter,first published iu the
Cincinnati Chronicle, of Thursday, con
tains an interesting and, it would seem,
conclusive statement of the advantages of
Knoxville as one of the termini of the
Southern Railroad to be built by the city
of Cincinnati :
To the Editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle'
Much has already been written in regard
to the different routes proposed for our
Southern railroad, and wa propose to bring
before your readers a condensed statement
of the distances to be overcome by the
rival routes, and their comparative cost, as
shown by their own statements. To this
we propose to add some remarks as to the
character of the country through which
thdSe rival routes pass, and shall examine
into the advantages wa may expect to 'de
rive from the connections made at their re
spective termini. As to the proposed air
line from Cincinnati to Lexington, since it
shortens both lines, and does not material
ly atfoct the relative distances, we may •
leave it out of the discussion, and count
the distances by the roads already built to
the diverging points.
DISTANCE FROM CINCINNATI TO KNOX
■ VILLE.
Miles.
Cincinnati to Paris, road completed 80
Paris t) Winchester 16
Winchester to Richmond - 20
Richmond to London 48
London to State line, via Williamsburg 40
State lice to K. & K. R. R , via Elk
Gap 19
K. & K. R. R. to Coal Creek, grading
finished 15
Coal Creek to Knoxville, road compi’d 31
r i otal 274
Os this total of 274 miles 111 are com
pleted and iu actual operation, 15 more are
graded and ready for the iron, leaving only
148 miles of road to be buiit.
Cl YC INN ATI VIA CHITWOOD TO CHATTA
NOOGA.
Miles.
Cincinnati to'Nieholasville,roadcomp’d.l 12
Nieholasville to Kentucky River, road
graded 10
Kentucky River to South Danville 18
South Danville to Cumberland River,
via Somerset. 48
Cumberland River to State line, near
Chitwood 37
Chitwood to Emory Gap, near Kingston 59
Emory Gap to Chattanooga 74
j Total 358
j Or which total of 358 miles, 112 arc com
[ pleted and in actual operation ; 10 more
j are graded ar.J ready for Bio iron, leaving
I 23f> miles of road to hoik.
| The distanco from Knoxville to Ohatta
; nooga, by toe East Tennessee and Georgia
Railroad, which is in acu t! operation, is
112 miles, making a total distance from
I Cincinnati to Oha'ttno •g-i, via Knoxville,
' of 380 miles, or 23 m:Ls farther than by
the Chitwood route. The city of Louis
ville, by roads in actual operation, is but
336 miles from Cbattmo >g3, or 22 miles
no • rer to that point, than Cincinnati would
be by the Chitwood or so called air line.
It. therefore, appears that Louisville, by
the L misville and Nashville Railroad,with
its connections, must control the entire
region West of Chattanooga. .The only
r igion, therefore, left open to Cincinnat?
from Chat anoega is that lying to the
. South, with which Chattanooga connects
by way of Dalton, Ga , and the Western
j and Atlantic Railroad.
The distance from Chattanooga to Dalton
| is 38 miles, making the total distance to
! that point from Cincinnati 396 miles.
! Knoxvido has also direct communication
with Dalton by a road in actual operation,
i 110 miles in length, which makes the total
distance from Cincinnati to Dalton via
Elk Gap and Knoxville, 384 miles, or 12
miles less than by way of Chitwood and
Chattanooea.
It therefore appears that Cincinnati can
reach Dalton, Georgia, the common point
on both lines, by way of Knoxville with a
saving of eighty-eight miles of railroad
construction, which, taking the average
cost of railroads, will amount to at least
$3,000,000, and with an actual saving in
distance of 12 miles.
Now, no one pretends to deny that Dal
ton, Georgia, is the key, by roads in actual
operation, not only to the whole of Georgia
but also through the Selma. Rome and
Dalton Railroad to Central Alabama and
the rich cotton region of which Selma rs
the centre, as well as the important ports
of Mobile and Pensacola.
An inspection of the military maps,
which are certainly free from all bias, as
they were compiled from actual surveys by j
the ablest engineers in the United States i
service for Government purposes during
the war, proves that Knoxville is but
thirty-five miles to the east of a line drawn :
duo south from Cincinnati. It also proves I
that Knoxville is geographically the centre |
of the great valley of East Tennessee, and j
that it must always control the immense
trade which will arise from the develop- :
msnt of the unsurpassed mineral and
agricultural resources of that region. The I
value of East Tennessee iron has been so
well established that, it is unnecessary to
oomment upon it, and we have a sufficient
evidence of the value of their coal in the
fact that the Knoxville and Kentucky
Railroad has been constantly shipping it
to points from which their mines are near
ly one hundred miles further than those
of Chattanooga.
We will now enumerate some of the ad
vantages offered by the railroads centreing
at Knoxville, from which we would be en
tirely excluded if we were to adopt the
Chattanooga terminus. Through the
entire length of the Talley of East Ten
nessee from the State line of Virginia to
Dalton,- Ga., with a branch from Cleave
land, Tenn., to Chattanooga, extends the
great line of East Tennessee Railroads,
with 272 miles of track in actual operation,
controlled by the capitalists of Knoxville,
who offer to contract with Cincinnati to
pro rate over their roads for all Cinciouatti j
freight, thus practically giving Cincinnati 1
the central of those roads for its carrying
trade. At the State Line of Virginia,
these roads connect with the Virginia
Railroads, and will give Cincinnati a
shorter communication than any nowavail
ab e with the western and central portions
of that State, and a competing.line to the
port of Norfolk, until the completion of
the Chesapeake & Ohio Road.
-At Morristown, Tcnn., 42 miles east of
I k-noxville, od ti*e Kast Tennessee and Vir-
I Railroad, the Oioctnaati, Cumber
j land Gap and Charleston Railroad diverges
j to the South, following the Valley of the
! French Broad to the State line of North
| Carolina Paint Rock, a distance of 45
I miles, of which 43 are in actual operation.
| The State of North Carolina is pushing its
j Western North Carolina Railroad to a
| connection with the above road at Paint
: Rock, and that road in actual operation to
] Morgantown, within 107 miles of Paint
Rock. In addition to this they have com
pleted their grade 25 miles further to
Marion, and have the iron at Morgantown
to complete this section, thus practically
leaving a gap of but 82 miles between the
railroads of East Tennessee and North
Carolina. To all this gap in the connec
tion the State of North Carina has ap
propriated $3,000,000 in Stlfe bonds, an
amount which is estimated to be amply
sufficient to complete the work, as over
one-half that distance is in the Valley of
the French Broad. The completion of i
this link will oounect Knoxville with the
railroad system of North Carolina, travers
ing the entire length ami breadth of that
State, and terminating in the ports of
Newberr. Beaufort and Wilmington.
From Knoxville the Blue Ridge Rail
road is in Actual operation for sixteen
miles, to Maryville, and from Anderson,
South Carolina, its southern terminus is
also completed and in t peratioa for 33
miles, to Walhalla, being one hundred and
forty-six miles between its rails, upon
which gap there wore expended, prior to
aB6l, $1,500,000 in gold. Tnts amount
was expended in nushing forward the
heaviest work, which was so far advanced
that the entire line cm be completed with
in two years. To close this gap, the States
ot South C lr.rlitn and Tennessee have I
pledged their credit to the extent of $4,- ]
370,000. an amount which insures the
completion of the road within the time!
specified.
At the point where the Bluo Ridge i
Railroad emerges from the mountains on
its way southward, lies the town of
Clayton, Georgia. The stockholders of the
Georgia Railroad Company, a wealthy
corporation now paying large dividends, at
a recent meeting adopted a resolution, in
structing their officers to extend their
Athens branch to a connection with the
Blue Ridge Railroad at Clayton, and this
will be a true air line to Central Georgia,
throwing out the circuitous route by way
of Dalton.
At Anderson, the southern terminus of
the Bluo Ridge Railroad, it connects with
roads in actual oooration traversing the
whole interior of South Carolina, terminat
ing at the port of Charleston, and also con
necting with the city of Augusta and port
of Savannah. The city of Augusta is a
large cotton market, and is the centre of
trade for a very large and wealthy region.
It appears, wc believe, that if Knoxville
is designed as our southern terminus, all
these important connections will be com
pleted within two years; that our connec
tion with Knoxvillecan be completed with
in the same time ; that Cincinnati can im
mediately recover the trade of an immense
region, which will afford an inexhaustible
market for our manufactures and the sur
plus products of the West, and that at the
same time we secure a po. t which will give
us the shortest, cheapest, and best route by
which we can compete with the Eastern
cities in direct trade, not only with Europe
but also with the West Incites and South
America.
In conclusion, we compare the advan
tages' from the localities through the rival
routes in Kentucky. All the counties of
Kentucky lying east and north of the
Kentucky River are geographically tribu
tary to Cincinnati. Those lying southwest
of the Kentucky River are geographically
tributary to Louisville, which city, by its
Lebanon branch, ha already reached them.
It is useless for Cincinnati to expend her
means in trying to reach these counties,
because the linos to Louisville now Ln ope
ration are shorter than any which Cincin
nati can possibly cons root. The only
region in Kentucky naturally tributary to
the trade of this city is the rich counties on
and to the eastward of the is. noxville route,
and the citizens of these counties have
offered to contribute largely to the build
ing of the road. W.
Clerk’s Office, ]
Supreme Court of Georgia, >
Atlanta, May 22, 1868. j
The following is the order in which the
Circuits have been entered upon the docket
for the ensuing Juno Term of the Supreme
Court, with number of cases from each
county:
Pat audit Circuit.
Early 10
Miller , 1
Randolph 5
Terrell 3
Webster 2
Southwestern Circuit.
Baker 2
Dougherty 8
Lee 4
Mitchell 1
Sumter 16
Middle. Circuit.
Burke ]
Richmond 3
Washington 2
Eastern Circuit.
Bryan ]
Chatham 2
Brunswick Circuit.
No case from this Circuit.
Southern Circuit.
No earn from this Circuit.
Chcroke,e Circuit.
Bartow 4
Catoosa 4
Dade 1
Murray 1
Whitfield 3
Blue Ridge Circuit.
Fanniu 1
Tallapoosa Circuit.
Troup 5
Carroll 4
Atlanta Circuit.
DeKalb 2
Fulton 4
Flint Circuit.
Henry 1
Monroe - 4
Newton 1
Spalding 3
Northern Circuit.
Elbert 2
Hu.rt ]
Oglethorpe (continued) 2
Warren (continued)'. 1
Wilkes 2
Western Circuit.
No case from this Circuit.
Chattahoochee. Circuit.
I Cha'tahoochee 3
Harris 2
| Marion 1
j Muscogee ...5
j Sshley 1
Macon Circuit.
j Bibb 4
l Houston 1
I Macon 1
: Twiggs 1
Ocmulgee Circuit.
Baldwin 1
; -Jasper '. I
I Jones 1
Rome. Circuit.-
Chattooga 1
Floyd i 2
Polk 1
A petition has been received by the
members of the Court from the members
of the Southwestern bar asking that the
Southwestern and Pataula Circ lit bo
transferred, and not taken up until after
the adjournment of the Superior Courts of
those Circuits I learn that it is more
than probable that an order will be passed
on the hr6t day of the torn, transferring
both of said Courts to the heel of the en
tire docket. This would have been done
on the application aforesaid, but the Judges
did not consider that they had the power
to pass the order except in term time.
The bar from the Middle Circuit will do
well to note this, as the cases from that
Circuit will be first called, if the order
transferring the Southwestern and Pataula
Circuits should be passed.
The bar is respectfully referred to the
14th, 30th and 33d rules of the Supreme
Court, which are strictly enforced, and
which require that Bills ol Exceptions
shall distinctly specify the points of error
in the judgment of the Court below, that
each Judge and the Reporter shall be
furnished by Counsel for plaintiff in error,
with a copy of the Bill of-Exceptions, and
that Counsel for both plaintiff and defend
ant shall furnish each Judge and the Re
porter with a statement of the points to be
made, together with a list of the authori
ties upon which they rely.
'L. D. Harrison,
Deputy Clerk Supreme Court. ,
Gold.— ln three weeks there has been
imported at the port of New York foreign j
goods to the amount of twenty-four mil- i
lions, gold. In the same time there was
exported from that port domestic produce
to the value of e'ght millions, currency. !
Trade is reported dull and business gener- j
aliy unprofitable ; yet in the face of dull
times, a high tariff, and 40 per cent, pre
mium on gold, foreign goods are flooding
the country. We are paying for two
thirds of these goods in United States I
bonds at equal to 83 cents on the dollar in i
gold. This explains the advance in gold. I
AGRICULTURAL.
Contributions on practical farming are
sc licited from our friends throughout the
oo untry.
Cu ItlTatton or Broom Corn In the South.
Interesting to Farmers.
The following letter, addressed to a
well-known citizen of Petersburg, contains
some valuable suggestions to farmers rela
tive to the cultivation of broom corn :
Branch, Petersburg, Va. —
De ar Sir— Feeling interested in the pros
pci ity of the South—our recent homes
antl having exerted ourselves to encourage
tilt culture ot broom corn iu southwest and
no’ thwest Virginia and North Carolina,
wo write this, hoping you may induco the
far rners of your section to give it some at
ten tioD.
I t is a most profitable crop, easily culti
vat ed, and commands cash on delivery, and
often before it reaches market. The farm
ers of Illinois and Ohio have grown rich
from its culture, ancl there is no reason
why V irginia and North Carolina should
not find it equally profitable.
.’it is safe to calculate on S2OO to S3OO
pet ton of 2,000 lbs. next fall. Western
rivt r bottom lands produce 10,000 to 15,000
pounds per acre, and it will grow as well
in Virginia and North Carolina, on lands
of same strength, as in the West and near
er .to market.
It is cultivated about same as our “sor
guuu cane” in the South, only G>at it
statids thicker in the drills—one to two
indies apart—and if the land is quite
strong it will bear touching in Jrii.s 3i feet
apart.
It should be cut in September, and before
rit>e, while yet green, with some six inches
ot stack to the brush, the seed cleaned off
at once, arid the brush corn dried, aired
in th e shade, which renders it green when
cured. It cured in the sun, it turns red,
and is not worth so much as the green
corn.
It is baled similar to hay or co'ton with
wire or rope, only that the brush part is
kept inside and the stalk end turned out.
Au a ere should yield some 40 or 50 bushels
seed, which for stock are as good as oats,
and < command about same price in Eastern
and .Northern markets—6o to 80 cents.
Suppose each farmer in your county
planted but one acre, and it yielded him
only 800 pounds clear brush corn at $250
per ton—l2A lbs.—sloo: and the 40 bush
els seed, which at 50 cents a bush,el would
hioi'i) than pay freight to market on the
.800 pounds broom corn, and the labor of
growing and handling, leaving SIOO profit
to the acre, which would more than pur
chase his supply of sugar and coffee, and
cnat 1; him to pay the cash for it.. Would
not this add to the prosperity of your sec
tion by increasing its currency ? We ex
pect to manufacture, use up, 40 to 50 tons
per annum, and a thousand (1,000) tons
of broom corn would find sale in our mar
ket at good remunerative prices; it is also
an article of export.
Hoping that many of our farmers will
try it, and promising them a market, we
are
Yours, very respectfully, &e.
Bridger, Herring & Cos.,
JMi, nufacturers and vV holsale Dealers in
4V ooden Ware, Broom Corn, Brooms,
&c.
Crops in South Carolina.
Newberry District.— . The Newberry
Herald, of the 26th instant, says :
The weather continues coo!, fires are
constantly necessary, and there have been
but few days this Spring (?) warm enough
without the aid of fire. The effect such
remarkable weather is having upon cotton
and corn is most serious. The very heavy
washing rains also have done no little in
jury of late. Both adverse circumstances
have in many cases almost destroyed the
prospect tor cotton at loa3t, and we hear
of many farmers who are plowing up their
cotton fields for the purpose of putting in
corn, not only in this district but iu others,
and we trust that wherever replanting has
to bo done, that corn and peas have the
preference.
Spartanburg District.— The Carolina
Spartan, of the 27th instant, says :
W c learn that a destructive starm passed
through the Western part of this district,
several days ago, demolishing fences, blow
ing down trees and several out-houses, and
washing the lands, greatly to the damage
of the growing crops. The storm, in
width, covered a belt of about a quarter of
a mile, which is distinctly traced by the
fallec timbers, nearly all of which then
staeding in its track now lie on the ground.
Darlington District.— The Darling
ton Democrat, of the 26th inst., says:
The weather is still cool and unfavorable
—cotton is much injured, and cannot long
survive such a season. On last Saturday
we had a heavy wind which almost amount
ed to a tornado. The weather looks dark,
and planters look bine.
Clarendon District.— The Clarendon
duress, of the 24th instant, says:
(lorn and the provision crops generally,
as far as we are able to ascertain, arelook
ing finely, and if our farmers had only
acted a little more cautiously and planted
more largely in this respect, our hopes
would have been buoyant with prospects
of a bountiful supply of provisions the
coming year, but unfortunately, they have
over-burdened the laud with cotton, and
the result is seemingly a failure., for,owing
to the cool weather, it has been so much
injured that the planters in many places
have been compelled to plow it up, and are
now preparing for the second sowing.
Sumter District. The Sumter
Watchman of the 26th inst. says:
The cool weather continued almost with
out change until the present; has seriously
injured the young cotton plant, and the
prospect, just uow, is anything but prom
ising. Corn, though small for the season,
shows itseb in much better prospects.
Edgefield District.—The Edgefield
Advertiser, of the 20th instant, says;
Great gloom has prevailed over the en
tire District for (wo or three weeks past,
because of the signally cold and unpropi
tious weather, unprecedented in the mem
ories of our oldest inhabitants. From all
sections come the dolorous news that the
cotton plant has the sore-shin, is yellow
and sickly, has been and still is, dying out
rapidly. Many have plowed and hoed
jndefatigally to keep the plant alive, but
the cold wind of Sunday night hut gave a
quietus to many a promising stalk. Had
it net been for the fertilizers the entire
plant would have probably died out. Blow
ly the weather is becoming warmer, and
we hope the shriveled leaves may yet re
vive under the influence of a genial sun.
• Many of our farmers are swearing
against the weather, but we have heard of
one—and the world does not call him a
good man —who summoned his freedmeti
on Sunday afternoon-last, bade them cease
singing psalms, and exhorted them to go
immediately to hard-down praying for
warm weather. And it will not be forgot
ten that Monday, the following day, was
the warmest and sunniest wo have had tbis
season.
licet Hoot Sugar.
The Scientific American thinks that be
fore long all tii : sugar needed for home
consumption wid be manufactured from
the sugar be t (the White Sillesian )
Beet sugar is iden-ical with cane sugar. In
American grown beet3 there is from 11
to 13 per cent, of sugar, which is highly
satisfactory. The production in this coun
try per acre ranges from 13 to 49i tons, av
erage 24.28 tons per acre; the average cost
is $2.42 per ton, and $59.24 per ace,
The American people pay for foreign su
gar $80,900,000 per annum. The supply
comes chiefly from Cuba. The impending
abolition ot slavery there, which cannot be
postponed, will cut oft our supply from
Jamaica. The sooner our people get I
ready to supply .he impending deficiency, j
the better for the country.
It is a fact demonstrated in France,
where nearly all the sugar consumed is
made from beets, that sugar so made !
competes successfully with cane sugar, j
The sugar beet is represented to be a high- I
iy remunerative crop in Europe, where j
this branch of industry is rapidly increas- j
ing. Appearances indicate that the time !
is not distant when the great bulk of the :
sugar consumed in the world will be made
from beets. In this country the manulac- |
ture of beet sugar has been commenced in
Illinois, Kentucky and California, and wc j
hope will soon be commenced in Minne- j
sota. Our soil and climate —our Summers
being so hot—are, we think, adapted to
the culture of the sugar beet. — Minnesota,
Monthly.
The Time to Cut llaj.
Wood view, Jefferson Cos., Ky., )
April 8th,'1869. /
Lavjrem.ce. Young, Esq:
Dear Sir—ln the March number of
your paper you give an interesting article
on the question so much in dispute among
farmers, “The time to cut hay," upon
which l beg to offer a few suggestions.
You state that on a certain meadow in our
county a portion of a good uniform crop of
timothy was cut last Summer during the
last week in June, the grass not quite in
full-bloom; a portion of five or six weeks
later, the hay injured from over maturity;
and portion during the intermediate space,
the work being comrnenced on this last one
week later than on the portion not in full
bloom, lou say further that at the time
of writing (probably February) the port.on
of the meadow mown in Juno “has scarce
ly a living plant upon the whole space;”
that iri the intermediate cutting “the stand
upon those parts first cut is very much in
jured by the dying outof the plant*;” and
tlfdt “the only parr of the whole meadow
which now promises a future crop as good
as that ol 1868 is the part cut after the
plants wefe dead ripe.” You infer from
this that the immature cutting of the two
first eat portions of the meadow caused the
destruction in one case, and the injury in
the other, of the plants subjected to this '
treatment, while the matu.c cottfr - 7.'r tbo
dead npa portion was probably it.. ~ JUcU
of its exemption from damage.
Allow me to state same facts which have
come under my observation, and coi Hot
somewhat with your facts, and make the
deduction which I think is warranted.!™ a
consideration ot them all. y
The first fact I have to communicate is
tills : 4 cut my timothy last year iu -
about the time that, the first of ,he inter'
mediate cutting referred to by you v •
done-commencing (according to my far.a
records) about the sth of July, and finish
,DKby tae , loth > H yet the meadow
which has been examined to-day, does no'
appear to have been injured at ail ' v
other fact is this . For a few years’ aft, r
the loss ot my negroes I was compelled to
cut my timothy riper than I liked, as well
cis to violate other maxims ot" good hu - -
bandry, and very soon the portion of th
field which is always mown 1.-t began tj
show a disappearance of the timothy an 1
a substitution of blue-gras- and weed
lhe conflict between these two classes of
facts can be reconciled by a tY rv
is I think Ikidydeducibicn
fact. The drougut oi last Sum ■ though
it continued for only one nronti., ,) u )v w i
characterized by such intense 1,..,: of the
sun as to be almost sufficient to de-trov
corn growing iu good land. The great-.t
intensity m the sun’s heat occurred about
the middle of the month, just in time to
tell upon the plants which had already ex
perienced the vital shock given iu mowing
and wDen the recupcrat.ve power residin.i
in the newly-formed buds in the bulb of
the plants was insufficient for such a trii.i,
and the plants succumbed tho •
which had been cut first, and thereto: •
had been longer exposed to the effects of
the drought, entirely; those which had
been exposed for a shorter time altar cut
ting, in part; while iu the case of the
dead ripe c ttiug in August, the drought
was over before the responsibility of sus
taining the life .of the plant was thrown
upon the buds iu tho bulbs, and after their
powers were better developed This
greater development of the buds in the
bulbs, however, did not seam sufficient to
save the plants in my dead ripe cuttin
for many of them died 'where it:
lived which had been cut eailier. Ido not
remember what sort of weather followed
my dead-ripe cutting, but if it va-. exec
sivcly dry, then the drought would be i::-m
disastrous in its effects upon the least 100-m
and fertile portions of the field, and this is
the portion of my meadow which, in spit t
ot the dead ripe cutting, has suffered
most. One discrepancy alone now remain ;
to bo accounted for. r i he blossom cutting
in the operations you rest r to suffered im
jury where my blossom-cutting of tho same
year escaped. You did Dot describe the
soil and condition as to ability to withstand
drought of the meadow you speak of.
J his should be known in ordei to make .a
fair comparison. My meadow is on tho
Beargrass land, in toicra: ly good crmdi
lion. Can you make the necessary ex
planation?
In addition to what has b on said from
my own experience, I would say that hay
is a large article of export from the North
and East, and is therefore a speciality with
their farmers. Those farmers arc more
free to communicate their opinions and de
tail their experience through tijp papers
tnan ours; and it they li.-.ve found early
cutting destructive toiueadowsit is strange
that they are so silent about it, and that
with almost one consent they recommend
early cutting. 'J'. j>
fc>ALT with Nuts. —Many persons suffer
acute pain after eating freely of nuts,
especially those that cmtain most oil. All
nuts are difficult to digest, and much dis
tress dyspeptics when they are eaten, a-;
they often are, late at night. It is said
they may be made digestible, and the flavor
improved at the same time by sprinkling
saltan them, orby touching the tips into salt
as we do radishes. Dr- Aberoethy records
a case of death that occurred in England
from eating freely of nuts, which ho said
would have have been prevented if the per
son had eaten salt with'tho tints, or had
taken freely of it after disiross hud-oc
curred from eating them.
Stewed Chicken.—Prepahi and cut up
the fowls in proper pieces for the table;
put into the stc.v pan or kettle, with plen
ty of salt and pepper to season; add what
butter you wish, and a sir'all quantity of
saleratus (not enough to discolor) to assist
in making it tender, and prevent its rising
on the stomach; add only water enough to
cook it, cover close, and stew moderately,
lurn occasionally, that it may cook and
season evenly; when nearly done remove
the cover, that the w iter may moistly
evaporate. If you choose, dredge aud
boil in some flour. Turn on s one sweet
oream, b >il up aud serve. Squirrels are
good cooked like the above, omitting the
cream.
French Toast.—Boat three eggs very
light; stir with them one pint of milk;'slice
some breadj dip into the egg and milk:
fry a nice brown; sprinkle powdered sugar
aud cinnamon on top.
Georgia Items.
The Monroe Advertiser srys that crops
will be better than has been thought. Corn
and wheat are tine. No complamts about
cotton.
The prospect of a large*yield of wheat in
N orthcast Georgia is encouraging. (Had
to hear That soma of the farmers have had
forethought enough to raise grain.— Dah
lonega Signal.
lhe Eibeiton Gazette says that the times
are dull; business at a stand still; few per
s ins in town, and tie building fever died
out. The crop prospects are not flatter
ing.
Suicide. —A soldier, who w-is undrr ar
rest at the military camp in Montgomery,
committed suicide Thursday afternoon.
He shot himself in the heed with his
■ousket, pfod'ueing instant and ; li. — Colum
bus paper.
The Savannah people are b -inning to
flock North for Summer.
Mr. John Tcrhune, of Floyd c iunty,had
his house burned on the 14. h, 10.-.s $5,000.
Incendiary work.
Stocks at Auction.—At the auction
sales of D. P. &R. Ellis yesterday, the
following prices wore realized :
Five sharcsof S. VY. R. R. stock (SIOO
shares were withdrawn) at $95 per share.
Fifty-one shares of M. ,fc G. K. it. stock,
SIOO share- (consolidated stock) were of
fered—s shares brought S4O per share 1(1
$39, 36, S3B per share.
Five City Columbus Bonds w«r<: put tip
—each of slooo—issued 1860, due 1832.
bearing 7 per cent, inter? t—on- Brought
92c. on the dollar, and four 91c. the
dollar.
A SIOOO M. If. It. (now K. W. R. R.)
'issued 1862. bearing 7 percent, interest,
brought [)>m tho ‘lollar; another of
same amount, issued it, i.sGG bearing 8
per cent, intern- 1, brou-.. I.t 9)1:. on the
dollar.
Centra! It. la. sticx was off red, out ob- *
tamed no bids, and was wi.udrawn. Co
lumbus Sun. 'Mill.
The Crops.—Our reports from the
county represent the wheat aa making fine
promise of a large yield There is rust in
some places but not suffi : ent to do much
damage. Corn is backward, sod cotton
rather unhealthy—and dying in sonic lo
calities owing to the <-■ 1 i and r .iu ol* the
past two weeks.— Maoiton Examiner.
Crops ia Lee and iS iruter c aunties are
good.
. Ck =ps in Jasper.—V.’ . n.cd at Mon
ticelio, last week, that th- ; respects for
good crops in Jasper c; luty were never
more promising. Nearly all the farm
ers were through planting, corn and
cotton are generally up, a -V the stand is
good. The farmers had tueir land thor
oughly prepared and in ixeellent order
before planting, many ot tuem, notwith
standing their distance from the railroad,
using guano-— MiUej.lgeville Union.
\ Wearo reliably informed by those who
| cannot be mistakun, that the genuine Oat
i ton caterpillar ha:, made its appearance in
; both Baker and Mitchell counties. We
: understand they are already numerous iu.
1 the oottou on one plantation, some twenty
| miles below this place, on the r.vw.—
| Albany News.
Wheat and oats are extra fine iu ad this
, region of country, especially on red land.
[ Cotton looks puny hereabouts, ands am
fields look 'as though tho Ivttlo plants had
I concluded to go back under ground, orn
| though small and backward, generally
1 looks healthy and trying to do its best
i Fruit prospects arc tolerable, though the
; yield will not be heavy. L-; s h potatoes
wherever planted, are doing unusually
well tbis season.— Gi if/in Star.
The season at Indian Spring is about
opening, ana protin..-. to be uuur a-soy gay.
—Forsyth Adstrli* r.
Ihe cold snap has increased the panic
among cotton planters, aud many regard it.
as ratal to their prospects. Others, par
ticularly those planting on red lauds, art
6till hopeful, and are confident that a few
days will dissipate the gloom.
Still Cool.— The nights and morning...
are still cool, and arc doing some damagt
to the cotton crop in this section by caus
ing it to die out, and it is feared many will
not have a good stand when it docs turn
warm.— Fatenton Messenger.
G. T. Wilburn, formerly editor of thjt '
Georgia Educational Journal, has tai.Eit
charge of the American Journal.
We do not recollect of having seen eoi
ton look worse at" this season of the year
than it does dow. The stand is not only a
bad one —but we learn that much of it is
dying.— Elberton Gazette .
Confederate States Money Wan rti\
—Confederate fooDey is n«t altogether
v lueiess after all. We notice an adv r
tisement in some of our North Car lima
exchanges, over the’uamo of W. (J. T iu i'
of Fayetteville, offering ten cents on the
dollar for $32,000 Confederate nfoney, of
•late of July 11,4862, and lift, a n , ; ei,ts\,u
the dollar for $67,000 r,f date Seplemln >■
19, 1864. — Sat. News.