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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1871)
Obgroiuclf & Sentinel WEDNESDAY MOBSISG, APRIL 19. “SHOOTI9G DOWS 01R BRETHRF.S.” This ia the atartling caption—at oocc of fending every feeling of hnmaniiy and wounding every sentiment of Christian civilization —which appears to direct the current of Northern Public Mind in one of the most influential of the sectarian jour nals of the North—the New York Exam itur and Chronicle. The influence of the Examiner is as extended a« the area which comprises that division of Protestant faith which is denominated Baptist. The en dorsement of the Examiner extends far beyond mere sectarian influence, and its columns have been used as a political en gine at “the National Capital’’ to wo;k wrong and injury not alone upon this lo cality, but upon the whole South, and up on all of iu inhabitants of every faith, and of every shade of political and religious teaching. A decent re«pect for the opinions of mankind constrains the refu tations of the charge which this phrase contains, and a truthful history'of its origin and its real author. We purpose no more than a plain statement of facts to destroy the political use of this infamous charge, and will make no statement which can not be substantiated by witnesses un impeachable. The charge had its origin in the follow ing communication to the New York Ex aminer and Chronicle, which we copy, verbatim tl literatim: SHOOTING DOWN OUR BRETHREN- To the S tin dart!-bearers of Christ in the South : Bv this designation, we mean : First. Ministers of the Gospel. Second. Christians of influence, male and female. Reports come to us, from different parts of the South, that there is serious opposi tion expressed by Catholics, by infidels, and by numbers of ignorant people, against the education of the colored race. The spirit of Christ is not in this. He who commanded men to “search the Scrip ture*,” of course implied that mon should learn to read; in other words, that they should seek to be so far educated as to enable them to obey the command. As water is necessary to baptism, so is a knowledge of letters necessary to the searching of tbe Scriptures. We know that the best people in the South favor the education and elevation of the African race, and to them wo appeal to lift up their voices, and bring to bear all the influence they possess against such oc currences as the following. One of our missionary teachers writes . “Things have reached such a crisis here that I consider both the live» and property of Northern people unsafe! Perhaps we and oar school property are among the safest. No doubt of it. Hat wo all no tice, frequently, the hard looks and sig nificant nods, and other motions of low squads of people, who gather opposite us, and the boys sometimes halloa across. Os coarse we take no notice of this. But talks and threats are going about of burn ing, shooting, dec . There is a terrible state of things, which, like a mine of pow der, only needs igniting to make serious work! “A reign of terror exists in the oountry. Colored men are being shot down every day. A denoted member of my school teas nhnt down you Ur day. He was an excel lent, inoffensive colored brother. He fell v/itli three halls in him. His backbone was broken, and he was shot in the bow els and in the head ! We are all deeply saddened. He was a dear, devoted, inof fensive man, and gave much promise of usefulness. The murderer is at large. “Our colored preachers are getting afraid to go to their country appointments. The pcor colored people around the coun try are suffering multiplied outrages, and murders are of daily occurrence. If the Government does not soon interfere, their condition will be far worse than slavery. There is a serious state of things here. Somebody is responsible! “I keep out of all political affairs and difficulties ; but we are all denounced and cursed as ‘Yankees.’ Men who cordially shook hands with me a week ago, will not speak in passing.” The above is from the pen of amissiona ry of Northern birth. The following is from another of our missionaries, whose education, ordination and ministerial labors have been all at tho South. He says : “I have boon, in many places, the butt of ridicule, and have even been stoned upon tho highway, on account of my efforts with ami fui tlio uuluiod people.’’ We are persuaded that all tho standard bearers of Christ in tho South will reso lutely lift their voices and use all their in fluence to rectify this deplorable stato of things. 3. B. 8. This communication, published by the Ex aminer, was written by Dr. J. B. Simmons, 000 of the Secretaries of tho American Homo Baptist Mission Society. It is predi cated in part noon tho written statements of “ono our ot missionary teachers of Northern birth.” That “Missionary” was W. D. Siegfried, a Northern man, then residing in Augusta, Georgia, and engaged in establishing a school of .theology lor “colored brethren.” This letter was written by W. D. Sieghied immediately after our last cleotion —an cleotion in which he had tnado himself prominent by electioneer ing daring tho contest, and especially prominent nt the polls, canvassing every oolored brother as he came to de posit his ballot, and dealing out Republi can tickots to every negro who presented himself as an olocfor. Ha was an active “Republioao” canvasser, who worked as siduously as a pavtizan, but without moles tation or hindrance during the whole election, to carry the election for tho party he represented, and not for the American Home Baptist Mission Society. Ho was, in fact, just what we term at the South a Radical caroct-baggcr, who scrupled at nothing, assuming every disguise of the charlatan, whether it be that ol a Chris tian missionary or that of a political emissary, to secure politioal power. Siegfried’s letter was a privato letter, not written for publication, but for politi cal cads, and so only was to be usod by the correspondent who heads bis communication with the diabolical head line, “They are Murdering our Brethren." Just along side ol the slanderous, cruelly slanderous, state ment, which bore the devilish head line, “They are Murdering our Brethren,” is another communication from the pious po litioal embassador of peaoe and good will with Radical power, under the proper initials of this Pharisee, which rep resents all coleur de rose —his college as flourishing as if watered by the dews of Heriaon. And again, during the self-same wee l " iu which he wrote his private political letter to his oredulous, eensative correspondent, he stated to a Life Member of the American Baptist Home Mission Society that matters in Augusta were so quiet and peaceful and prosperous that he had written and ad vised two Northern gentlemen to come to this city and invest in property. This much for the inspiration of our Radioal missionary. This diabolical private letter, meeting the eve of some distinguished and respect ed citizens, who are leading members of the Raptist Church in this city, evoked investi ga on. Tho investigation proved that Siegfried—one not at all heretofore suspect ed, who had been tAkea by the hand by his Christiau brethren, and for whom a well known divine had time and again avouch ed as a "good man”—was the author of the letter—of both letters—the private oue and the public one—the publio one telling that the college was going on prospering and to prosper,and the private one telling of “shooting down our brethren.’’ When asked who had been threatened, he could not name one. He knew of no one. When asked who of his sc hoc’ had been shot down—terribly shot to pieces—be could name no one ; bnt he did indicate one Radeliff, other "alias.” This Radcliff. according to the statements of the colored clergyman of Springfield Baptist Church, in this city—a man as far above Siegfried in Christian virtues as the greatest height is above the lowest depth in every element of a true man—had provoked a row in the village of Washington, Georgia, and had been slightly wounded in the hip, bnt is now alive, and, we are informed, is or has lately been, a willing witness of Ru ts, lux terrors in Radical hands at Wash ington City. This statement, X»f his Pri vate letter, upon which is predicated the fiendish charge of “shooting down our brethren,” Siegfried acknowledged to be untrue—false—to a life member of tbe association, which supported him and sent him South as a Christian Evangelist. Tte atatement about colored preachers beiDg afraid to meet tneir appointments, in fact the whole letter, was handed to tbe Rev. H. Watts (colored), pastor of the Spring field Baptiat Church, who pronounced it j “a double lie.” Again: when this dou ble-faced, unscrupulous, political emissary, who essayed to play tne roll of a lying par j tiean, under oover of being an ambassador of peace, in the garb of a Christian mit- j sionary, was asked by a life member of j tbe American Baptist Home Mission So- : ciety for hie authority for the statement that “tbe poor oolored people around the country are suffering multiplied outrages, and murders are of daily occurrence” he openly, before witnesses, confessed that it was not true — that it was false, although he himself, a professed Christian, a mis sionary laboring for the cause of Cbi is dan truth, had, with cool deliberation, made the statement in writing to tbe Secretary of the Society he represented —marking it private, with the sole end of provoking Government interference. So much for Siegfried, whoso art essayed to serve at once the cause of Christianity as a repre sentative of the Baptist American Home Mission Society, and the cauße of the Rad ical party. This first statement of Siegfried, meeting the eye of distinguished Baptists of this city, in the Richmond Religious Herald, called for the following letter : “SHOOTING DOWN OUR BRKrHKEN.” Messrs. Editors -In your issue of the sth inst. you copy an article from the New York Examiner and Chrom'dj, over the signature of “J. B. S.” and headed “Shooting down our brethren.” We state (on his admission) that the author of this slanderous piece is Rev. W. 1). Siegfried, Principal of the Theological Seminary for colored ministers in this city. It is the substance of a private letter writ ten to J. B. SimmoDs, Secretary of the “American Baptist Home Mission Socie ty,” and was not intended for publication. It was published, however ; and it serves to show how such stories ard manufactur ed to our injury. We are pained and mortified that a re ligious paper, of the character and influ ence of the Examiner, should lend its columns for the promulgation of such an article, which, we think, might have been seen at a glance, was designed solely ror political effect.* As it appears first in Baptist papers, and wag gotten np by Baptists, we, mem bers of the First Baptist Church of Au gusta, deem it our solemn duty to notice it in this way, and to pronounce it, in the mildest terms, a willful misrepresentation from first to last, H. H. Hickman, Z. McCord D. B. Plumb, J. U. Meyer, John Coskery, J. C. C. Black. N. B.—A copy of the above has been furnished Mr. Biegfried. Augusta, Ga., January 10, 1871. *We do not concur in this view of the matter. The article was endorsed by an officer of the A. B. H. M. Society, and published by the Examiner, irom all that appears, simply as new?. We thank him for its publication. — Eds. Herald. This letter induoed tho following letter from the Rev. Dr. James B. Simmons, Secretary of the Society: American Baptist Home Mission So., ) Room 12, No. 39 Park Row, y New York, Jaauaiy 18, 1871. J To the Deacons of the First Baptist Church, Augusta, Georgia: Dear Brethren—Do you do wisely to press matters with Brother Siegfried ? If he has made a mistake, go to him as wise and experienced brethren ; counsel him ; hear him patiently ; and meekly set. him right, if you find him at fault. Don’t make voluminous testimony nsoessary iD the newspapers. Had I wished to injure Augusta, i r Georgia, I could have easily printed those names. That school is yours. It is vastly more to you than to us. It is an institution. If successful, it will outlive all of u?. Is it well to allow anything to occur which shall blight it, or uproot it and oarry it to an other city in Georgia ? We are trying to induce a benevolent Baptist, who has willed us $50,000 or more, to let us expend it in Augusta. We sent Dr. A. P. Mason South on this very errand. A newspaper controversy might defeat the measure. Would it be wise ? You shall decide. Yours, with a desire to see your faces, and greet you in the Lord, James B. Simmons. To Dr. Simmon’s letter the following reply was given • Augusta, Ga., 24th January, 1871. Rev. J. B. Simmons, D. D. : Dear Brother— We believed it to be our boundeu duty to publish the card in the Religious Herald, to which yon doubtless refer in yours of the 18th. Our reasons for publishing it are these: Ist. The article to which we replied emanated from this city, and from a Bap tist Minister of this city. 2d. This fact was known in this neigh borhood, and the statements being false, and it being believed that they were made for political effect (we have no doubt of it aud cau prove it), we were unwilling by our silence m seem to endorse the slan ders. The card was sent to Richmond on our own responsibility, and before we received your 'otter it appeared in print. Newspaper controversy we should iegret; but if you have any testimony confirmatory of such ciiarges as those made by Mr. Siegfried, we think they ought to be made known. For our own part, we should like to know the character of your authori-y. Acts of violenoe we de plore as muoh as you possibly cau ; but we confidently affirm that where your missionaries or their political friends can find one dene by white men, we can furn ish testimony of more than one done by colored men and their political leaders. Wo do not think Mr, Siegfried was here a week before be was fully identified with tbe most incendiary of tbe political leaders of what is called the Radical party. He was not molested, and while he utterly ignored us. we treated him respectfully. He never called on any one of our church —never has sought or desired our counsel or aid, We eogjd not, therefore, thrust it upon him. We should not have ensued our lips against him had he not written what we believe he knew to be false. We duly fuel the gravity and meaning of this statement, ac 4 we deliberately declare it to be our solemn belief that Mr. S. willfully mis jCiresenfced the state of things in this neighborhood, ffe did it privately, and that only makes it, ju ,o«r estimation, worse for i J,n - His asurtuus are ?o wide of tho truth tha7 oaunot believe he would have dared to write publicly what he wrote to you privateiY- Provi dence caused his statements to be reveaiOd, much to his mortification and disappoint ment. Aud now believe us whea we aay th»t our great desire is peace and harmony, and more especially in the great and good work of building up the kingdom of our com mon Lord and Saviour. We are not ene mies--we are the friends of the work in which you are engaged. Scad us teachers who know nothing among men, save Christ and him crucified, and we wiU rejoioe with them, help them, and, if needs be, suffer with them. We reciprocate your wishes and would be glad to see you. Our pastor speaks of you in such terms as we love to hear used towards our Northern brethren who under stand us and desire o»r prosperity in all that is good, and pure, and true, Yours, fraternally. H. H. Hickman, D. B. Plumb, John Coskery, Z. McCord, J. IJ. Meyer, J. C. C. Black. And here the matter has rested, so far as the action of Dr. Simmons and the Deacons of the First Baptist Church of Augusta are concerned. Sieglrted has removed from this field of political opera tions, But the willful, malicious, lying statements, under the apparent endorse ment of s high and esteemed official of Use A. B. U. Jf. Society, are used as politi cal capital at Washington City by the Radical leaders, to induoe the passage of the “Ku.Rlus Bill,” and to demonstrate that “Government interference is neces sary to prevent Southern outrages. The statements are read with emphasis. The details of circumstance in the statement are positive. “A reign of terror exists “in the country. Colored men are “being shot down every day. It is minute as well as and affirmed as if upc» personal cognizance. “ A devoted member of my school was shot “down yeeterday. He was aa excellent, “inoffensive colored brother. He fell “ with three balls in him. His back “ bone was broken, and he was shot “in the bowels and in the head. We are ‘ 1 all deeply saddened • He was a dear, de “ voted, inoffensive mao, aod gave much “ promise of usefulness. The murderer is “at large.” The invention is minutely and skillfully designed and wrought, as with the skill ot an artist of surpassing power. It wears all the air es positive truthful ness, but it is wholly false. There was no member of the Theological School shot down either then, at the date of the letter, or before, nor since. No brother—excel lent, inoffensive, colored brother—fell with ; three balls in him, nor had his backbone broken, or was shot in the bowels, or in the head ; nor was any of the Theological School ever saddened by the loss of a dear, devoted, inoffensive man. This whole Radical “outrage” is of pure Siegfried invention, manufactured for Radical use for tbe Congressional Bourse. THE SOUTHERN INVESTIGATING COM MITTtE. Tbe appointment by Congress of a com mittee to investigate the political and so cial condition of affairs in the Sooth, to act daring the summer vacation, and to report daring the next session, cannot I prove detrimental to Southe-n interests and character. If the investigations are to be conducted with fairness, with the single design of bringing out the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and free from political prejudice, with an eye solely to benefit the country by a frank, candid exposition, we ought to congratulate ourselves that at length a fair opportunity is afforded Southerners to display the outrages—tbe enormous out rages—which have been perpetrated upon the people of the South, under and by vir tue of reconstruction and in the name of “Loyalty.” That we have some reason to expect show of fairness, we infer lrom the ap pointment of Senator Blair on this com mittee. This appointment by Mr. Colfax is a fact creditable to him, and an act least expected in the face of the “Ku- Klux” or sensational plan of political campaign whiob has been announced. Blair and Coliax are the very antipodes of each other in political theory and antagon ists in political action. But it seems that each knows how to recognize the merits and tbe abilities of the other. Senator Blair is ad mitted to be tbe bold and fearless champion of the rights of the Southern States on the floor of the Senate. His recent speeches in opposition to the reconstruction and en forcement policy have caused him to be regarded all over the country as the most conspicuous defender of the assailed and repressed rights of those States. The ap pointment of him on the committee, un der these circumstances, argues a fairness and a willingness to hear both sides that do the Vice-President credit, and for this we are frank enough to give him full credit. The appointment will at least give us an official mouth-piece, through whom our side of the outrage question, c n be heard, acd we know Frank Blair well enough to say that, Ist the blow fall wbere it will, the expose will be exhaustive. RADICAL kU-KLUX. The Utica Herald says that the absurdi ty of the charge of Democratic leaders, that the friends of the Administration are keeping up the excitement in the South or desire outrages, real or “manufactured,” is apparent when we point to the fact that the work of reconstruction was perform ed by the Republicans, and't is for their interest to have it as perfect as possible. The cause of Republicanism would be best promoted by peace and security iu the Southern States. Now this declaration, in the face of the Radical plan of campaign, deliberately put forth by President-General Grant by his messages, aud Morton, and other Radical leaders, upon the occasion of the renom ination of Grant and Oolfax (outside of the Republican party), furnishes a fair ex ponent of Radical subterfuge. If the Rad ical does not favor “keeping up excite ment in the South, and desires outrages, real and apparent,” why, we ask, was a convocation of Uadioal Governors held in Washington and the Winchester Rifle proclaimed the best law ? And immediate ly after this convocation, did Holden begin his war in North Carolina, and Scott arm his negro militia in South Carolinia, and Clayton eall out his troops in Arkansas, and Bullock plead on the floors of Con gress for more reconstruction fur Georgia ? We do not know that these worthies are accredited “friends of the Administration,” but if not friends of the Administration, they are tools of the Radical parly, and do the bidding of their master’. And, with shameless effrontery, it is confessed that “ the woik of reconstruction was per formed by the Republicans.” What was that work ? Was it stealing rail roads and school funds in North Caro lina ? Is it stealing railroads and lands aod State funds in South Carolina and in arming the blacks against the whites ? Is it ftealiug the public funds in Arkansas and Louisiana ? and the State credit and the school fund in Georgia ? Is it in par doning criminals before trial, as well ao after conviction, enabling villiaos to go to trial with a pardon in their pockets, and turning loose convicted felons, after con viction, to repeat crime and law lessness ? If theft and robbery, under color of legal enactment, is the character istic of the work of Reconstruction, we can very well see what sort of peace the Radicals desire. It is that peace which will permit the enjoyment of their plun der. But if investigation is proposed or restriction made possible—then there is no peace in the Sopth—and nothing but a cry of outrages, outrages, outrages. another “Siegfried.” Under the date of 28th of March, the Sentinel of Freedom, published in Newark, New Jersey, gives the following ‘ Sieg iriedism “Toe Ku-Klux and]a Clergyman.— Rev. W. D. Siegfried, formerly of this cily, has recently been compelled to leave his appointment in Georgia on account of his Northern sentiments. Mr. Siegfried, owing to ill health, left Newark and ac cepted an appointment as a missionary to the fregduopn at Augusta, Ga. While there several eases of Sogthern outrages upon Union men came under his observa tion and he wrote of them io private leb ters to his friends North. Tnese letters being (Jp emo< l of general interest, were given to tho p**L!ip in this paper, and the Baptist Examiner, and were copied into a Richmond gaper and circulated »n Geor gia. Tbe result was that Mr. Siegfried was compelled to give up his charge and leave the State to prevent personal vio lence. He removed North and has just acoepted a call tp Jpatontcwn, in Monmouth county.’* The reverend scalawag is again at his old tricks. This time his game is profitable sympathy seeking a profitable heroism. We have already exposed this fellow Sieg fried, and we send a copy of the expose to the editors e* the Sentinel of Freedom. Will the editors of the Sentinel re-pub lisb it? Straws.— “ Straws show which way the wind blows,” so it is said. This is illus trated recently in indicating the forces at work in our country, and particularly in New York city. Harper <fc Brothers,some time since published, in their illustrated weekly, a set of rather severe caricatures of the Pope. Their readers laughed, and the Harpers were happy. There were those in the community, however, who said “this thing will do them mischief. And it has turned out that these publica tions were found to have been a business mistake, and brought them great loss. For, when time enough had passed to al low the offended Catholics to make the ne eessarv comb and Tammany Hall centralized its influence upon the point of influence, lo! the City Board of Education are moved to exclude the entire set of Harper's school books from the public schools. That publishing house now esti mates its loss at $30,000. The dwelling be os ® 011 the McDonald plantation, near Quitman, together with its entire contents, was destroyed by lire one night last week. It was the property of F. Agramonte, Esq., and was occupied at the lima by the family of his son-in-law. A negro woman living in Marietta had three children at one birth, a few days 1 ago. 1 Hon. Absolom Harris Chappell. BY C. PEOPLES, POLITICAL EDITOR ATLAN TA DAILY SUN. Os the leading representative men of Georgia’s interest for the last thirty or forty years, as a lawyer, statesman and business man —few, if any, in Georgia, deserve so much at the hands of the peo* pie of the State as the distinguished citi zen whose name heads this article. _Of grave, thoughtful and methodical habits, laborious aud pains-taking, honest and truthful in purpose —bis career has not only been ao instructive one,but eminently useful to his day and generation. Beginning the world forty or fifty years ago, with but moderate means and an un finished education, a success in the busi ness of life has been gratifying to himself and useful to his countrymen. He was born >n the county of Hancock, and re ceived what education he obtained at Mt. Zion, in the school of Rev. N. 8. S. Be mac, in a class with Judge W.T.Colquitt; read law with Judge A. 8. Clayton, at Athens, and soon after located in Sanders ville; remained there but a short time, and removed to Forsyth, Monroe county, in 1826. Ha early became a prominent member of the bar of the Flint Circuit. His competitors in Monroe county were Judge Angus, M. D King, Hon. John A. Cuthbert, formerly a member of Congress and a lawyer of decided ability. After moving to Forsyth. M-. Chappeil was, for many years, a very hard student, and was one of the few lawyers of that day who thoroughly studied the science of the law and mastered it3 profound distinctions. Coke upo| Littleton, and the old masters of the iaw, were his favorites. He was the recognized leader of the Troupe party in this county, and in 1828 was elected to the Representative Branch of the General Assembly.by the largest vote ever received by a candidate in that county for the Leg islature, and was afterwards elected to the Senate cn a hard and close contest with Judge A. M. D. King. When the contest arose between the Nullification and Union parties of the State, he was rnn on the general State Rights Ticket, for Congress. The Union party prevailing, his election was defeated. About this time, if our memory is correct, he was elected a Trustee of the State University, and has always been since one of the best Trustees of that distinguished body. About 1835 he moved to Macon. And in the spring of 1836 was sent as a dele gate to tbe celebrated Knoxville Conven tion, which assembled for the purpose of devising ways and means to plan a great system of Railway Communication be tween the tide-water of the Atlantic and the city of Cincinnati and the West. The labors of the Convention, though not in tended for such a purpose, resulted in the setting on foot for Georgia its magnificent system of railway enterprise, which has been the parent of so many blessings, and had justly, before the war, gave it the proud title of “The Empire fetate of the South.” That movement, intended for a different purpose, gave the impetus and laid the foundation for our after acquired success in railway enterprise. The net work of railroads radiating trom Atlanta to all quarters of the South and West had their beginning in Knoxville in 1836. Mr. Chappell met there the brilliant orator of Charleston, the Hon. Robt. Y, Hayne, and Hoc. A. S. Clayton, aud Col. We. Bearing, of Athens—then the great railroad leaders of Georgia—the lat ter of whom at that early day knew mote about railways than any man perhans in the Southern States, if not in the Union. Gov. Metcalf, of Kentucky, and many other distinguished gentlemen of the South and West, who took an active part in these early movements, were in that Convention, deeply impressed with the importance of the movement to develope these great sections. Georgia was not in vited to that Convention, and therefore its representatives were not members. It wag invited in the interest of a great road from Charleston through South and North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, to Cincinnati, and was emphatically a South Carolina and Northwestern movement ; and as the great claims of Col. Chappell for a solid and enduring name in history, will rest in a great measure upon the part which he took then aud afterwards in pushing forward the progress and develop ment of the great business interest of tho country, it will not be deemed amiss to supply a few details connected with the beginning of the scheme which aiterwards resulted so successfully in establishing his character as a fat-seeing business states man. The Stato of Georgia took au active interest in the movement, much discussion followed through tho newspapers and in private circles. In these, Cos). Chappell, Judge Clayton, Charles P. Gordon, of Putnam, and Cos). Wu*. Bearing, amongst others, took an activo and prominent part. The Georgians be ing denied admission into the Convention, organized themselves apart and held daily sessions for consultation, in me Presbyte rian Church at Knoxville. It was invest ed and to some extent admitted, that the road should be brought through Georgia, by Augusta, Athens, Tallulah Falls, through Rabun Gap. This proposition was uot relished by the authors of the main project. Judge CLytoD, Mr. Dear iog, and others, favored the Rabun Gap route. Seme of the delegates, from Geor gia, had no decided preference for the line, except that it should go through Georgia. Cob Chappell, and his friends, however, had strong convictions that a great com mon line or stem should be projected from some central point in the State, northwestward, towards Ross’ Landing in Tennessoe, in order to connect Georgia’s seaboard and the great Western rivers. With a view to ascertain the practicaoi’.ity of these connections Northwestward, Judge Ciaytoo and Mr. Bearing crossed the mountains on horseback from Athens to Knoxville, by Rabun Gap. Col. Chap pell, believing that McDonough, in Henry county, would be a good initial poiDt for the commencement of this great work, traveled there in his sulky, and from that point on horseback, commenced a recon noisance of the country by his eye, to as certain its fitDess for tbe proposed road. His route was by Whitehall, iu the county of DeKalb, or near it, across the Chattahoochee river near the place where the railroad bridge now stands, by the then new settlements at or near Marietta, across the Hightower river at Sallie Hughes’ old about three hun dred yards below where the railroad bridge crosses, thence by Cassville and to the place near where Dalton now stands, then turning to the right, he followed his line of observation along or near where the railroad has since been built to Knoxville. This route lay for the most part through an uninhabited country, or one having a thinly settled population of hardy back woodsmen, and Cherokee Indians. At Knoxville, Mr. Dearing and Judge Clay ton gave it as their opinion that the Rabun Gap route was impracticable. Mr. Dear ing strongly favored the route indicated by Colonel Chappell to Dalton, and then through to Ross’ Landing. In conversing some years ago with Col. Chappell, it was mentioned that hp-deserved all the credit of first suggesting this admirable line fop a great railway basis, to which he replied, that in this matter Mr. Dearing had never received lull justice; for that being the best railroad man of the Georgians pre sent, Mr. Dearing at once saw the advan yantag.es of the route; and that it was through his strong and earnest sugges tions that Georgia was put upon this line. It was determined at Knoxville to inaugu rate the movement in form, beginning at a point at or near McDonough, or some | where near the Chattahoochee river, at or near a place called Whitehall, in DeKalb county, thence to Ross’ Landing, now Chattanooga, in the State of Tennessee, so that Georgia’s other lines of railway, then in their infancy, could easily connect with it at its initial point, and then form a great system of Georgia railway connections j through the South and West. The Monroe Railroad (now Maccn and Western), peibaps, ut that s|te had reached Forsyth, and the Georgia was probably completed to Grawfordyiue. or in that neighborhood. It was resolved by the Georgians, at Knoxville, to call a con vention to meet in the city of Macon, in October, 1836, for the purpose of falling upon some scheme to inaugurate a system of railways for the State. That conven tion jtd bad amongst its member ship a great deai of the business talent of Georgia. We havn’t it 3 records before us, and do not pretend to speak of men and dates with precise accuracy. Our recol lection is, that Judge Clayton was the President of the meeting; that Judge Berrien, W- W. Gordon, of Savannah, Col. Cbarpdl, and many others of Geor gia’s truest and Best, were there. An able and lengthy report was made, sug gesting the necessity and arguing the practicability of proceeding at once to the great work. This report was writ ten by Jadge Berrien, and adopted after much earnest discussion with great unanimity. A sub-committee of ten was afterwards appointed, of which, as we r«- coilect, Mr. Chappell was chairman, to prepare a memorial in the interest of the projected work, and present it to the Leg islature, then to assemble in a few_ days. Mr. Chappell prepared this memorial, and did it well. The other members of the committee unanimously adopted ft. A hill was prepared, and submitted to the Legis lature asking for a charter for the road, and that the State proceeded at cnee to build it, and pay for the same out of the public treasury, and with the eredit of the State. This, of course, provoked earnest and determined opposition from many quarters; and it was some time before the fata of the charter could be ascertained, as the people of Georgia were at that time exceedingly jealous of the use of pub lic money, except in matters strictly per taining to the civil service. The fortunes of the bill depended in part, no doubt, upon the sagacity of a gentleman no# in this city, and to the eloquent advocacy of W. W. Gordon, and of the Hon. A. H. Stephens, who, thee, for the first time, became prominent before the people of Georgia. The bill was referred to the Committee on Agriculture aod Internal Improvements, with a view to a more careful preparation, and to avoid, if possi ble. all just grounds of complaint. The duty of drawing out the bill was devolve 1, under instructions, upon Mr. Lewis, then a youne and active member Irom the county ol Troupe—and who, be ing a bachelor, went off to a party of yoaug folks,aod staid so late that the other members of the committee could not see him. On his return, he passed the re mainder of the night iD carefully studying the provisions of the bill, so that, if possi ble. to avoid all opposition. The original name of the road was the Union Railroad, but as party spirit run high at the time between the old Union and State Rights parties, it occurred to Mr. Lewis that the name Lad better be changed, and so he took the l'berty of calling it the Western and Atlantic Rail road. Mr. Lewis, though like Col. Chappell — somewhat older now —is still living, and a resident of this city. Tbe bill was duely reported, aod the championship of its dbcussioo was led by Col. Gordon and by Mr. Stephens, .who expended the native eloquence of his soul in demonstrating the necessity and advan tages of this great work, and in meeting all attacks upon it. The bill passed. Tne rest is a history common to the State and people ; in which, however, and the for tunes of the road, Mr.Chappell wss called on from year to year, to play an earnest aod prominent part. Tbe road struggled for many years from a very feeble infancy from point to point, under great disadvan tages sometimes embarrassed by the most furious opposition, and with predic tions.iof a disgraceful aud ultimate failure, to its completion some teD years after. In all this struggle, Col. Chappell was its friend, and from the first pronounced it a success, as from the nature of its sur roundings, if the present generation did not complete it, posterity would. To the statemmship and business tact which ioaugunted this movement, the road, the city *f Atlanta, and the exten ded lines ot railway radiating thence, date their origin. The city of Atlanta was th 'n in the w*ods —a place in the far-off aid obscure hills cf the aark corner of DeKalb county, in the back settlements, over next to Fayette, and the Cherokee Nation. What is it now? The centre of energy, buiiness, progress, culture and intelligence which, with its beginning as “Marthasville,” started into activity the prophetic niud of the great South Caro lina statesnan, Mr. Calhoun, and put him upon calcuating the chances, and making the predicion for the coming hither, and that befort the middle aged should die of old years, that from fifty to one hundred thousand people would be within the sound of is city bells. Os couise it is not pretended that Mr. Chappell leserves all, but only a good share of tie credit of those beginnings. There wai W. W. Gordon, Charles aud Robert Diugherty, Charles P. Gordon, Dawson, AcDonald, Colquitt, Harralson, and many others, who took an active part with then, and no doubt there may be many others whose names and services do not occur to us now, all of whom deserve honorable nentiou. In persin, Mr. Chappell is quite tall, and in mamer dignified and stately, which has occasicned some to think him austere. Nothing ii further from the fact. His feelings aid instincts are as gentle as a lady’s—geiial, sociable and friendly, he is a most pbasant boon companion in the innocent frolics of conversation; unsus pecting, thru Hi rigid and exacting upon all questions of right; yet the finer charac teristics of our nature meet and blend in him in very ample measure. His literary tastes have been cultivated with care ; his law learning is varied, ex tensive ana profound. In rank as a obastc and classics! orator, some of his ardent friends have advanced his claims to a posi tion beside the gifted and accomplished Berrieo, the impetuous, warm-hearted and ornate Chief Justice Lumpkin. In these matters more is claimed for Mr. Chappell than his greatest ambition would allow. He is not th* equal of either ; for in our judgment neither of these gentlemen, within our day, have had rival—except in the other. Like most of our people, Cob Chappell lost the accumulations of a careful and laborous life by the war. Before that time he had a handsome estate and had retired from the bar, to eujoy the quiet and rest of home on his plantation in Alabama. But he has again entered the profession and goes to work wkh hearty good humor. In his business habits he has always been prompt, boneßt, fair-dealing and active. No one has ever impeached his integrity or questioned his word. We trust there are many days of usefulness yet in store for him. Mr, Chappell was several years in the Congress ot the United States, and for one or two sessions, President of the Georgia Senate. The duties of tbe tinvprn! stations of life and position have been dis charged by him with unflinching nerve and religious adherence to principle. In 1844, Col. C. joined the Democratic party, because he believed that the control ling element of the Whig party, to-wit: the Northern wing, would jeopardize the rights of the States by their latitudinarian ideas of construction. The result is be f'o e the country. Mr. Chappell married the sister of Judge L. Q. C. Lamar, President of Texas, and we believe now lives in the city of Columbus, Ga., which, we trust, he will long live to honor and adorn- “The Clayton Extension.’’ Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: In your editorial on the subjeot of the Blue Ridge Railroad, in Tuesday’s paper, you say that “popular opinion seems to have settled down to the belief that no encouragement will be given by the Geor gia Railroad and Banking Company to the project for extending its Athens Branch to Clayton.” The action of the President and Direc tors of the Georgia Railroad in this mat ter, or their non-action rather, would cer tainly warrant popular opinion m coming to this conclusion, but the aetiou of the stockholders in convention would seem to indicate a different sentiment. Nobody will deny that at the last An nual Convention the views of the stock holders were overwhelmingly, and almost unanimoucly, favorable to the proposed extension. They passed certain resolutions—which I regret I have not before me—in which they, first, instiuctcd the President and Board of Directors to locate the route from Athens to Clayton ; and, secondly, empowered them to begin the work of building the road whenever they were as sured that the work on the Blue Ridge Road was progressing. If the peremptory instructions contained in the first resolution have ever been com plied with, do one has been informed of it. If t, single step has been taken in this direction, it has not been made public. And it the gentlemen to whom this duty was entrusted have satisfaotoiy reasons for not performing it, they have not yet disclosed them. Iu the meantime, railroad enterprises that are to a more or less extent antago nistic and inimical to tbe interests of the Georgia Railroad, are steadily approach ing successful consummation, and others are fast taking practical form and shape. A few years ago, the idea that the Air Line Railroad would ever be built was con sidered a good joke. Indeed, it is said that those who have the management of tne Georgia Railroad Company indulged the fond delusion that this great enterprise, that constituted at) important connection in a great line that stretched across the eDtire country, and in which it may be said the whole country was interested, woulj be effectually suppressed by refu sing to allow them to run their ears over the Georgia Railroad from Atlanta to Stone Monntait. —a distance of sixteen miles. The Atlanta papers tell us that this road, even now, in its unfinished state, is a paying road; that many of the mer chants of North Georgia are receiving their goods over it from New York ; and j J Inow it to be a fact that a large propor tion of the produce of that section, that ; formerly sought a market over the Geor ; gia Road, now goes over the Air Line to l Atlanta. I Messrs. Editors, it is said that we may close our eyes and refuse to look upon the ; sun and ssy that it has ceased to shine— j but that it shines nevertheless. So we i may sneer at and deride, as visionary and impracticable, movements apd enterprises that will after a while—and in this fast age very soon—stare us in the face ac complished facts. Will yon have the kindness to republish the resolutions of the May Convention to which I have referred. E. Athens, Ga., 13 th April, 1871. Kr-Kxrx Oct rag* in Radical lowa. The following -paragraph is from the tjhellspurgh (Iowa) Observer. The case demands immediate Congressional investi gation i The people of Shellsbnrgh have taken the law into their own hands. Last Mon day they waited npon Dr. Dennis, who has been stopping here for some time past, .dragged him from the house, took him to the creek, there stripped him of every stitch of clothing, and gave him a com plete ducking, after which they notified him to leave the town forthwith, giving him but a few minutes in which to prepare for departure. He left accordingly for parts unknown. Young Men in History. WHEN THE MOST ORIGINAL BRAIN-WORK IS DONR. From the New York Tribune. George M. Beard, M.D., read a paper before tbe Long Island Historical Society, at Hamilton Building, Brooklyn, recently, on "Young Men in History,” the aim of which was to show at what period of life most of the original brain-work of the world was done. He claimed that the Physiology of History—a science treating of the relations between human physiolo gy and human achievement—justified the assertion that the period of' life during which man does his best and most effective work is that between the ages of forty and sixty. In past ages, fame was posthumous in great measure; and in our own time, even in America, the paradise of young men,fame is rarely acquired prior to the age of fifty. But the most effective movement of cerebral action —the period at which, on the average, youth ends and old ago be gins, with an implied absorption of nerve force and a deterioration of brain fiber, is under the age of 40. Basing his deduc tions upon facts derived from the lives of eight hundreu statesmen, authors, men of science and representatives of every de partment of human effort, the lecturer di vided life into five decades of mental ac tivity—the golden decade being between thirty and forty, the silver between forty and fifty, the brazen between twenty and thirty, the iron between fifty and sixty, and the tin between sixty and seventy. Before forty-five at least TO per cent, of the original cerebral work of the world has been done, and before fifty more than 80 per eent. Tbe golden moment of life, when the enthusiam of life is at its maxi mum, and the experience of life tenus to support and systemize effort without man ifesting a tendency to retard it, is between the years thirty-eight and thirty-nine. The lecturer applied the views advanced to legislation, reform, and professional and business life. Statesmanship is intrusted too much to age, to the exclusion of youth, and, as a natural consequence, the science of Government, which should be in ad vance of all sciences, is in reality behind them all. A law requiring officials to re sign office upon reaahing the age of 65 would be quite as wise as the law that re quires tbe attainment of a certain age iu order to hold office. The history of civili zation is the history of the triumph of young radicals over old conservatives, and if it were not for death at a certain period, if life were not limited in duration to three or four score of years, society would retrograde, owing to the antagon ism and opposition of the old men. In military history the greatest Generals have averaged 35 years, and in the late civil war the North were defeated in 1861, when our Generals averaged 50, and was victorious in 1865 when our leaders were all under 40. In journalism four-fifths of the reading matter of the religous, scientific, and secular press is contributed by men between 15 and 40, and to this fact the profession owes its great influ ence. With reference to the management of colleges and educational institutions, the policy of putting them under the con trol of men over 60 years of age, is fatal to the true interest of the progressive na tion. The president and members of the corporation should ho young men, and gray-haired schoolars it academic chairs should be subordinate to youth and the prime of life. At 60, every college presi dent should retire under pension, and in every department of human effort the question of age should be asked in the same breath as that of ability and capacity. With regard to the comparative longevity of brain-workers and muscle-workers, the former live to a greater age, the average age of 500 of the greatest brain men in history being 64. With reference to the comparative achievements of the sexes the proportion was 50 to 1 in favor of man. No woman has founded a system of philosophy or religion, achieved a great invention, or composed music. The great fields of woman’s efforts in history have been polite literature and government. Comfort Tor the Poor. THE SORROWS AND THE SUICIDES OF THE RICH. The penalties of great wealth are so fearful as should reconcile men to poverty. Macauley, of the Rochester Chronicle , says that John Jacob Astor was haunted by fears of poverty during the latter part of his life to a painful degree. A few years ago, one of the founders of the banking house of Prime, Ward & King committed suicide at his country seat at Astoria. He was a retired man of large wealth, and had every means of making life desirable. lie had made a great fortune in the leather business, and lived up town in sumptuous style, possessing one of the finest picture galleries in the city. Yet this man finished his course with suicide, while in the fullness of man hood, and possessed of ability which should have given him a distinction higher than that of mere wealth. Previous to this, one of the heaviest business men in Ex change Place suddenly arrested the course of a lucrative business by a similar use of his razor. Another capitalist threw him self beneath the wheels of a locomotive, while Van Auken, the butter merchant, and David Rea, both used the razar. Scarcely has the latter been buried, when a similar instance occurs in the suburbs of Brooklyn. Here an opulent market gar dener and land speculator named Ditmars Duryea, has just committed suicide by taking laudanum, leaving an estate worth $170,000. Os course he had a reason for doing this. His wife had died some time previously and had bequeathed her estate, whose value was $7,000, to other parties than himself. Being thus neglected, he had no resoat but death, in which he buried his troubles. In fine, a widespread disposition toward suicide exists among rich men, for where one commits the fatal act there must be mary who are tempted but refrain. ’ It is well known that many of this class carry poison in their pockets and are ready at any moment, when the temptation becomes triumphant, to swal low the fatal dose: Several successful business men have given such threatening signs of conduct that their friends were obliged to watch them lor fear they may end in just such a tragedy. Losses of the German Army. From the German Correspondent. The losses suffered by the German army in the present war show how bloody the contest has been, and how dearly victory has been purchased. The regi ments of the Prussian Guard and the Third Army Corps have suffered most severely ; indeed, such losses ip victorious troops are, perhaps, unprecedented in the history of war. Most of the regiments of the Guard lost more than a third of their men, and it must be remembered that by the greater number of these fell in the single bloody day of St. Privat, while the still heavier losses of the Third Army Corps belong almost exclusively to the two cattles of Spiohern and Mars la Tour. The Forty-eighth regiment suf fered most severely. It nominal strength consists 0f,64 officers, and 8,000 men, but its actual numbers are seldom, if ever, so great. Os these 57 officers, 3 ensigns and 1,497 men have been either killed or wounded, while only 1 ensign and 46 men aro reported as missing. As the ensigns usually do the duty of officers, it follows that the regiment has lost all its officers with the exception of 3, in the most fa vorable case, and more than half its men. The Fiftj-.second regiment has beeu al most as severely exposed. Ir, lost‘sß offi cers, 7 ensigns and 1,431 men in killed and wounded. These numbers can only explained by supposing that several officers, after having been wounded at Spichern or Mars la Tour, had been re turned to their regiments, and were again wounded at Orleans or I«3 Man". The Thirty-fifth regiment, which General Chatzy mentioned in Lis report on the battle of Li Mans as the most dangerous of his enemies, lost 4(1 officers, 2 ensigns, and 1,261 meg. The Josses of almost all the regiments of the Prussian Guard and the Tturd Army Corps amount to from 40 to 50 officers, aod from 1,000 to 1,100 men. The losses of the cavalry were, as a rule, much smaller, the proportion being about 1 to 12 ; yet some regiments suf fered severely. Thus, the First Guards lost more than the half of its officers, and betweep a {jug»ter gnd a third of its men. When it is remembered that in former wars the loss of one-tenth or one-sixth was considered severe, it will be seen how desperate has been the late contest be tween France and Geimany. Effingham Protests Against the District Court.— We, the grand jurors, chosen and sworn for the spring term of the Superior Cogrt of Effingham county, avail ourselves of this opportunity to en ter this our protest to the attempted ef fort to impose upon us the so-called District Court. Ist. We deny the necessity of said court, knowing the court facilities to be ample in all instances and for all emer gencies without said District Pourt, ami that our people are eutirely too poor al ready under heavy taxation to convenient ly bear the additional tax that will be re quired to maintain this District Court. 2d. We believe the present attempt to organize and hold said District Court to be contrary both to the letter and spin of the law, and therefore, cannot censure our county officers for ignoring said cour , but think they were perfectly justifiable in sc doing in the recent attempt (as we are informed) by certain parties claiming W oe officers of raid District Court to hold said court in this county. Savannah is having bold robberies- lire Massacre In the Place Vetidome. FIRST BLOODSHED OF THE PARIS REVOLU TION. Paris (March 22) Correspondence of the Pall Mall Gazette. I was breakfasting in the Rue St. Honore when there was a rush down the street, and a cry that fighting had com menced in the Place Vendome ; repairing to the scene of action, I was just in time to witness the end of what must be termed a massacre. An unarmed demonstration similar to that of yesterday had been or ganised at the new < pera ; it was proceed ing down the Rue ds la Paix when it met two insurgents, who were disarmed ; these men rushed back to their comrades ; the ‘‘manifestation” continued its march, an officer of the line carrying a Danner in froDt of the oolumn. Cries ot ‘‘Vive Ordre!” ‘‘Vive I’Assemble !” were raised, and hats were waved. The trades men in the Rue de la Paix had again to close their shutters, but the windows and baloonies were crowded. The insurgents threw a line of troops across the entrance to the Place VeDdoine in the hope of stopping the procession, which, however, marched straight on, and drove thi9 line back upon the main body. It was at this moment that a couple of shots were fired into the air, occasioning a partial retreat, but the offioer with tbe flag stood firm, and the unarmed column pushed on, wishing to resch the centre if the Place and parley with the leaders. However, there was a fresh discharge of musketiy, filed this time not into the air but into the thick of unarmed citizens, and this discha-ge of course sent the procesi-ion to the right about. The distance to cover was fortunately not far, aud Rue de la Paix was quiokly deserted by all but a few plucky fellows, who foolishly wished to stand their ground, but the insurgents kept up a drop; ing fire, and soon there was notbiog to be seen in front of their muskets but the dead bodies of those who had fallen, and the wounded, who were too severely hurt to get out of tho way. By the side of one corpse there was a dog lying dead. A tall man in black made his appearance, holding aloft a white pocket-hankcrchief. A National Guard took a deliberate shot at him, and the bullet struck the wall closo to *he tall man’ head. He retreated, and the dead and dying were loft in the street for nearly an hour. By degrees the inhabi tants of tbe Rue de la Paix took courage, and began to open their doors and peep out; and, as all was quiet, humane per sons ventured forth aud took the wounded into their houses, and shortly afterwards the dead bodies were also removed, and few traces remained of the struggle be yond a few blood stains on tho pavement and some broken window.'. Several bul lets entered the premises of Mr. Blount, our ex-Consal, but fortunately didj little damage. As far as I can learn, there were about ten people killed and twenty wounded. Half a dozen fell close to me in the Rue Neuve des Petits Champs, but most of them were uninjured, aud soon recovered the uso of their legs. Admiral Siisset, one of tbo Deputies of Paris and Oommander-iu-Chief of the the National Guard, was in the front rank of the pro cession, and escaped.un wounded ; ho after wards endeavored to form a sufficient force to attack the insurgents, but did not suc ceed. Several txplosivo bullets were fired, and one may be seen in tho shop of the tailor Dusautoy. Tho firing was hardly over whej I went into a tobacconist’s for postage stamps ; the shop door alone was open ; a small boy about seven years of age entered, and placing a oouple of francs on tho counter, asked for two packs of cards and snuff fir a sou. Great indigna tion is manifested at the massacre which had just taken place, and able-bodied men are everywhere gesticulating and declar ing that this state of things must finish. However, no one seems inclined to bell tho cat, and the National Guards of the First Arrondissement allow tho scum of Belleville and MoDtmartre to invade and hold their quarter of the town. It was with astonishment that I beheld isolated soldiers and National Guards returning home from the Rue de la Paix, and pass ing through the streets unmolested by the crowd- A man of the line, as he passed where I was standing, was quietly insert ing his finger in the muzzle of his Chasse pot by way of cleaning it. The people ask: Where is the Government, and aro they to bo_ massacred? One citizen felt much aggrieved that the insurgents had not summoned the prooession to disperse in the usual manner—three rolls of the drum, and a minute between each roll. Grand Jury Presentments* APRIL TERM WARREN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT. We, the Grand Jury, chosen and sworn for the April Term of the Superior Court of Warren county, beg leave to make the following General Presentments • Through appropriate committees we have examined the Books of the Clerk of the Superior Court, and find them correct ly kept; the same may be said of the Books of the Ordinary. We have also examined the County Treasurer’s Books, and find that he has received one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-six cents (1,939 26) and disbursed tbe same, for which he shows proper vouchers. We have also examined the Court House and enclosure, and while we will not here undertake to specify the various repairs needed, we would state that they are of such a character as to claim attention at once, or they will rapidly grow larger, and we would recommend the Ordinary of the coumy to borrow money (the amount not to exceed one thousand dol lars), at a reasonable interest, for the pur pose of repairing the Court House and en closure. We have also examined the Jail, and find it in a safe condition, some repairs be ing needed about tbe stair-way and inside lock. We have also carefully examined the Tax Digest of 1870, and find that tho amount of taxable property returned, (nett) is $785,425, amount of State Tax, $3,141 70. the amount of County Tax, $2,811 84, of which $2,000 has been paid into the Treasury, leaving a balanoe duo the county, sBll 84. The amount of the Poor School Fund is $1,363 12, of whioh S9OO has been paid, tho balance due the county, $463 12, showing that the total amount now due, and unpaid by the Collector, including the County Tax and Poor School Fund, the sum of $1,274 96, We would recommend that the Or dinary of the county require the Collector to proceed to colleot the amount no v due on his books, so that be may discharge his indebtedness to the county at once, and also to require the Collector to be properly bonded, acoording to law. We would also recommend the Tax Receiver to scrutinize closely parties giving in their taxes—as we are satisfied that some have Dot done their whole duty in respect to the amount of taxable properly given in, We would recommend the Ordinary to levy a tax of J§o per cent, on ths State Tax, for county purposes, and a tax of 25 per cent, on the same, for a Pauper Fund. Having had the subject of Education UDder consideration, we would recommend the School Commi-sioners, the Board of Education, and the Trustees in the several Militia Districts of the county, to take such steps as will enable their districts to receive their pro rata shttre of anv appro priations that has hoe a, of may hereafter be made tor Educational purposes. We find the Public Roadi in the county in bad order, with somo few exceptions, and we recommend the Ordinary to rigid ly enforce the law in reference to work ing the roads. We recommend our members elected to the next Legislature, to secure the pas sage of a law that will Effectually pre vent the violation of the Sabbath by hunt ing, fishing, &c. As peace and order reigns throughout our county and the bast feeling prevails between the rgcea, we feel that we are able to take oare of ourselves, without the aid of the General Government, through Ku- Klux Commissioners, or by any and all other means, or agencies that may be forced upon us; the secret motive of which (as we believe) is to build up the sinking for.unes of a politic*’, putty 'that has well nigh Jpankrqpted tKe country and destroying the liberties of the people. In taking leave to his Honor Judge Gibsor, we gladly embrace the opportunity to express our thanks for his kindness and courtesy to this body. We beg leave to say further that we apprejiite and ap prove the able atu patriotic charge de livered to this bedjr at the opening of the present fcesfiioo. We also tender to CaL E- H. Pottle, Solicitor pro. tern , oqr thinks lor the faithful discharge of his duties, as well as for wise counsel and advice given during the present service, We request that the foregoing present ments be published in the Georgia Clip per and the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel, Wm. H. Pilcher, Foreman; John TANARUS, Baker, Warren Q, Hun to;, Richard K. MoGintv, Aaron J. Adkins, Daniel D. fcjwint, 'ftlman N. Pool, Waiter F. Lewis, BillmaD Pate, William A- Ricketsqn, Perry J. Burnley, William 8, Heath, Lewis Jones, Jesse Purvis, Alfred M. Long, John H, Cason, James S. Embry, Donry W. Rogers, Eli B. Black, Thomas J. Barksdale, Nicholas Harbuck, Richard A. Heath. A trne extract from the minutes of sai<J Court, April Bth, 1871. R- M. Wilder, Clerk. Mr. Finch, of Greene county, has pre sented the editor of the FLeral s with * specimen of wheat ©ensuring thirty-six inches, Telegraphic Summary Paris, April 13.—Dombrowski reports to the Communal Committee that his troops arc doing excellent sorvioe, already bolding three-lourths of the town of Neuilly.and he bopos to possess the bridge across the SeiDe to-night. Cri du People says that the Versailles truops has been driven from Neuilly, and are flying towards Courbervoie. The Orleans Railway has been out by tbe Versailles troops. Fort Valeiieu is firing heavily this morning. The members of the Commune are persoLally on the field to encourage tbe troops. The British Consul ip Paris warns Eng lishmen to leave (he city. Versailles, April 13.—1 t is officially announced that the alleged Communist viotory was unfounded. No engagement to-day. All roads to Paris are occupied by Versailles troops. Versailles, April 13.— Thiers, in a oircular bearing date wf the evening of the 12th, describes tho situation as in the main unchanged, and says : “The Govern ment will aot at tho proper time. The Commune’s acoounts of a viotory at Paris are false, as they are unprincipled. Our victory will oome bloodless. Tbe Paris delegates have arrived, and were received, uot beeause they are Communists, but be cause they are Republicans. My answer to them was, that no one menaoes the Re public but assassins. The lives of tho in surgents will be sparod, but tho workmen temporarily subsidised in Paris must re turn to their labor, and secession be sup pressed.” A dispatch from Marsailles says the oity is quiet and that the poliee foroe is being reorganized. Delegates from tho party of conciliation have returned to Paris. Conditions of peace proposed to them by Thiers were that Paris shall first lay dowu her arms and then the municipal franohiso will be granted to tho city. Brussels, April 13.—The German fi nancial delegates who are to assist in the Peace Conference, arrived here to-day. Bbrlin, April 13.—The amount of the credit to be asked of the German Parlia ment is one hundred ana twenty million thalers. Gen. nerwarth Von Bittenfeld has been promoted to the rank of Field Marshal. Havana, April 13. —Advioes to the 2d inst. have boon received from Porto Rieo. General Baldack has again assumed the Captain-Generalship. Romero, the newly appointed Secretary, will not take posses sion of the offioe fo.' the preeent. The list of Deputies- to the Cortes, soon to be voted for, has been published. Tho Con servative party is making strenuous efforts to organize for gn efficient campaign. Hamburg, April 13.—1 t is reported that France has undertaken to restore to the owners all German ships taken by French cruisers not oonderaned as prizes of war. Washington, April 13.—The Senate continued tbe Ku-Klux debate, and will meet to-night for talk only. The bill will be disposed of to-morrow. The House is on deficiency appropria tions. The Senate amendment, repealing the law fixing the time for the meeting of Congress on Maroh fourth, was concurred in—vote, 99 to 98. In the course of disoussion on that amendment, Davis said he believed this session had been a mistake, and that there would bo more to repent than to boast of. Ho alluded to the wrangling in the House, and to the doapor wounds in the Senate, which bled intornally. It anything in i duoed the people to forgive them, it would be that moderate measures had prevailed in the past few dayp. Beck, in advocating oonourrenoe, said that the Dext Congress will be Democratic, and their Speaker would theD be in the same embarrassing position as tho present Speaker was now plaoed, in regard to the appointment of committees, bclore ho be came acquainted with the members. Be sides, they would have a Democratic Pres ident, and there would bo no danger of his violating tho provisions of the Constitu tion. The Southern Claims Commission rule that in every case possible, testimony of loyalty of tbe claimant, and the faot of the case, must be given before them orally. In casoß where circumstances prevent witnesses c imiDg to Washington, applica tion must be made for permission to take testimony in some other manner, the names of witnesses to material faots to be proved by their testimony, and the re spective causes of their inability to be ex amined in Washington set forth. Exparte affidavits will not be reoeived as evidence. The President to-day nominated the Territorial Counoil for this territory, in cluding three colored, one of which is Fred Douglas. The Southern Claim Commission to-day took np the case of the two sons of ex Adjutant General Thomas, who claim damages for the seizure of a brick kiln at Arlington. St. Louis, April 13. —The Times claims St. Louis as the proper place for Imbiing the .Democratic National Convention. Versailles, April 13. —The Paris and Orleans Railway has not been cut. Paris, April 13, noon.—The delegates of the party of conciliation have returned from Versailles, and are silent as to the details of negotiations with the Thiers Government. Nothing will be made known until the full report of the mission is completed. Plate seized in the Bureau of Foreign Affairs is being converted into specie. The Commune are considering the column in Place Vendome a barbarous movement; a symbol of brute force and false glory, and the negation of the frater nity have decreed its demolition. Mot D'Ordre claims that the Nationals now occupy the whole of Neuilly, and expects a general attack to-night by the army of Versailles. Paris, April 13, p. m.—Asnieres still holds out against Ihe Versailists, whose every attack is repulsed. Engagements are in progress at Neuilly. Sheila from Valarienare lalliDg in Champs Elysees. Cannonading was heard south of tho city. Paris, April 13, evening.—Tho objeot of the Versailles commander to-day, was apparently to reach Asnieres, and thereby relieve tbe detachment surrounded by the Communists on the inland of Grande Jattd. The Versailles batteries oannonaded the villages of Lavailois, Champeret and Neuilly. There was infantry fighting at all approaches to the villages. The Com munists gave way at one o’clock, Dom broski asked for reinforcements. They were sent forward, and it is announoed by ts-niglit’s Communists journal, that the Versailles forces were finally repulsed. Delegates from the party of conciliation report that Theirs, while unwilling to dis cuss a treaty, yet is willing to guarantee the Republic, and accord certain munioi pal privileges to Paris upon a plan tq be elaborated by the Assembly. I{e positive ly deolines belligerent rights to the Com munists or to grant an armistioc, Maillot gate is a wreck, Versailles, April 14, — I The ineffectual cannonade from Asniorss and Olarmonte continues. The insurgents have not cap tured Neuilly. Paris, April 14.—Thursday night the artillery firing south and west ceased. Several battalions of National Guards have been disarmed. Qausc j Hostility to the Commune, London, April 14, 4 p- m.—The Ver sailles forces have been repulsed every where around Paris. Marsailles, April 14. —The fighting for the past two days resulted in advan tages to the Commune. Their troops oc cupy Asnieres, Vitly, Moudiosaquet, Yil liguif, Hautsbruyeres. and part of Chatells and Neuilly. Wey have erected new harrioadcs before Porte Maillot, The Versailles army is parted this side of Chers'y Le Rue , at ObeSftMy and L’Pays, Gen. McMahon says he will remain on the defensive until his army is greatly rein foreed- Ultimate triumph over the Com mune is regarded here as probable. Wasiunqton, April 14.—The President has abandoned his California trip till fall. The reference of questions from the High Commission and the enforcement ojf the Ku-Klux bill keeps him here. Nominations—R R. Cowan, Assistant Interior,; R. H. Manning, Collector Fourth fe^as. Both Houses meet to-morrow at eleven o’clock. The Senate passed the Ko-Klux bil} with the amendments proposed by the Judiciary Committee, which amendments strikes out the repeal ot the test oath for United States jurors, leaving the law as at present, and another by Sherman, as ioljowe,: “That if any house, tenement, cabin, shop, building, barn or grainery, shall be unlaw fully or feloniously demolished, pulled dawn, burned or destroyed, wholly or in part, by any persons riotously and tumultuously assembled together, or if any person shall unlawfully and with force and violence, be whipped, scouried, wounded or killed, by any per sons riotously and tumultuously assembled together, and if such offense vjas commit - ted to deprive any person ofany right con ferred upon him by the Constitution and laws of the United States, or deter him from, or pimish him for, exeroising any such right, or by reason of his race, color, or previous eondjtion of servitude, in eve ry such oase the inhabitants of the county, eity or parish, in whioh any of tho said of fenses shall be committed, shall U liable to pay full compensation to the person or persons damnified by suoh offense, if liv ing, of to the algal representative if dead, and sdoh compensation may be recovered by siich person on his representation by a suit in any Court of the United States of competent jurisdiction in the district in which the offense was committed, to be ’n name of tho person injured or his legal representative, and against said county, city or parish, and exeoutioo may be issued on a judgment rendered in such suit, cr may be levied upon any property, real or personal, of any persou in said county, city or parish, and the said county, oity or parish, whioh may have satisfied said judgment, or the person out of whose property said judg ment shall bave been satisfied, as the oaso may be, may recover the'full amount of said judgment, oosts and interest, from any person or persons encaged as princi pal or aooessory in suoh riot, in an aotion in any Court of competent jurisdiction, and the person out of whose property such judgment shall bave been satisfied shall in suoh case have contribution, as at common law, and tho Circuit Court of tbe United States for tho proper district shall nave jurisdiction of suoh aotion.” Tho bill passed—4s to 19. Hill, Robertson, Soburz,Tipton, and Trumbull voting nay. House. —A resolution was offered to expunge the speech from the Globe and repremand Representative Garrett for quoting in his speech, (which Garrett had leave to print) from tho Vicksburg llerald , to tho effeot that Senator Ames was a “shoulder-strap puppy ami poltroco, a most consummate liar and fool.” With out disposing of tbe matter the deficiency bill was taken up. An amendment was adiptod giving $20,000 to rebuild tho orphan asylum ot the Sisters of Lady of Mirjy at Charleston; also, requiring National Banks to pay the oxpenees of printing their notes. Without disposing of tho bill the House adjourned. The House has adopted an amendment to the deficiency appropriation bill, re pealing a portion of that proviso of the legislative appropriation bill of last year which deprived the holders of Presiden tial pardons of all standing in the Courts. The action now taken by the House, with out a dissentient voice, provides for ful filling the promise ol the amuest.y procla mation of December, 1863, and applies only to pardons granted under said procla mation of President Liucoln, with a viow to induce persons to abandon the rebellion, and where they did aotually alandon it, and thereafter kept their obligations in good faith. The Dcmooratio Senators and Represent atives held a caucus to-night, when Sena tor Bayard, ohairman of the oommittoo to prepare an address to tho people, stated that, in view ol tbe pending legislation on the Ku-Klux bill, the committee was not ready to report, but would report on Mon day night, at an adjourned mooting of tho oaueus. The oauous earnestly advise* all Domocratio member'- aow absent to return to Washington to voto upon amendments. Chicago, April 14.—A passenger train at high spoed oaught tho long dress of tho wife of Edward Marstou, newly marriod, while passing. Her husband attempted to savo her, when both were drawn undor the wheels and killed. _ Paris, April 14. —There is a compara tive lull- The Nationals are anxious to attack. Cluscret insists upon dofensivo operations. Three gunboats shelled Sevres and St. Cloud to-day. A National Guaid was shot to-day for killing his captain. He eoniossed to tho killing of five officers. Petroleum shells arc preparod to throw into Valarier. The Cburoh St. Roohe has boon seized. A woman falsely denounced a oitizeu dressed in plain clothes as a priest. Thu woman was terribly boston by the orowd. This is tho first reaction in favor ot tho priests. London, April 15.—The bill giving the municipal assembly the concentration of loyal troopsat Versailles continues. Thiers’ circular says the fighting ot the last two days has been comparatively unimportant. The Government troops were well estab lished iu position. Insurgent sorties aro ineffectual. Washington, April 15.— The Parlia ment of tho-Dominion of Canada was pro rogued by the Governor His speech was hopeful of good rosults from the High Commission. Tho Ku-lilux bill was taken up. Tho S mate amendment, extending tho right of the President to suspend the writ of ha beas corpus to the end of the next regular session of Congress, was rejectod—B6 to 93. The amendment requiring tho iron-olad oath from Federal jurors was rejeoted without division. Tho amendment, known as Sherman’s amendment (telegraphed in full last night), was rejeoted—ayos, 45; nays, 131. This is the amendment assess ing dam iges upon localities. The other amendments, most of them immaterial, were eoneurred iu, and a oommittoo of conference ordered. Shollabargor, Soho field and Kerr were appointed on the part of the House. SUNDAY NIGHT DISPATCHES. FOREIGN. London, April 16. — There was a terrible cannonade all last night. The attack on the Government troops is everywhere re pulsed. The cannouade and fusilade was resumed this afternoon. It is said that Fort Issy is damaged; otherwise, re suits are trifling. The Cloche deplores the Communes in flexibility. The Gtuveruujeui troupe havo made no serious attack. The Temps summons tbo Communo to state its demand. Tho fall of water in the Seine prevents the Communists guuboatg from moving. Tbe Central Committee is still at vari ance with the Commune. A Herald oable of Paris, 15th, says; “Yesterday shells fell iu Avenue Wagram, also many rifle bullet?. Tradesmen iu Avenue des Tcnnes were wounded. The exodus has oommenoed from that quarter of the oity. Crowds are demanding pass ports to leave Paris, and hundreds nro disappointed. The streets leading from Porte Maillot are in ruins. Issy and Vandres are firing small bombs, whioh splinter and are terribly destructive. ” The Socialist Republicans are making gieat efforts to secure the return of thoir candidates. Delegates toVorsaillos have returned with Thiers’ conditions, whioh have ren - dered the insurgents very violent. Roche fort demands that Vinoy, Gallijet, Favre, Picardes and McMahon should bo brought chained in couples to the Champs Elyti ses, where tho relatives of the Nationals killed should be allowed to do, what thoy please with them. It has been decided not to demolish the column in Place Vendomo, but to displace the statue on it. Havana, April 16,—The Bishop of Ha vana left by the steamship Missouri for New York this afternoon. Crowds of priests, but no oitizens, were on boavd to bid him farewell. Paris, April 16.—The Cominnnists re port that Fort Issy repulsed successive as saults of the Versaillists on Friday and Saturday, with severe losses to assailants. Gen. Dombrowski attacked tbe Govern ment foroes at Neuilly yesterday, and it is claimed took four hundred prisoners. The engagement continued through tho night. The batteries on tho hill of Trooadero have oponod firo on Fort Valarien, which replies, with vigor. Gen. Dombrowski enforces strict dis cipline amoDg the National Guards, and is doing much to render all branches cl* the military service mors effioient. London, April 16, evoning.—Dis patohes from Vwsaillos deny that the in sugents took four hundred prisoners yes terday, and declare that no important military events have taken place. They say the insurgents in the forts waste their ammunition by firing at night tq ao pur pose. On Saturday night, though they kept up a continual cannouade, only ono Versaiist. was wounded. COTTON MOVEMENT. 1 New York, April I«.—The cotton L.ovcment for the week shows a continued falling off in reecipts and exports compared with many weeks past. Exports, however. ».ro largely in excess of corresponding week of last year. Exports from all porta for the week. 83,987; stock at interior towns, 69,526; stock in Livorpool, 813,- 000; amount (Yruerioan cotton afloat for Great Britain, 320,000- \V eather South has been very wot, and rams have be»* unusually heavv. This has interforred with work in field. In somo sections the weather has been fine, and planting is progressing. In the far South the plant is up. The cotton supply question is beiDg acAvelv discussed both hero and at tho Bputh. In general estimates of the present oroo, there is a. strong leaning towards 4,200,000 as the total production of the season. Young Men of the South -Preparing for active, successful life, or wanting as sistance in getting into business, aro patronizing to a largo ex'em Prof. Esst man’s famous Praotieal School at Pough keepsie, New York. It has done more to train our boys for useful mon and for mak - ing a living for themsolvqs, than aDy other Institution in the qpwntry. A catalogue of 3,000 graduates in business, just pub lished for distribution, is proof that there is no bcttqr investment for our sons thaa a. ,k’rm at JKastmaa (Jollege, Poughkeepsie. New York. The Georgia SENAtoiwnir. The Washington correspondent of the Now York World, wrhing last Monday, says: The debate in the Saviato to-day on the question of'lho admission of Foster Blod gett, r.H Senator tVom Georgia, indicated very clearly that he will be rejected. It is quite probable, however, that rather than ineqt tho issue the Republicans will post pone a final vote till next session, and en deavor to inolude the Denaooratie Senator elected in the same result. An lowa farmer inculcated early rising in a little orphan bound boy by setting him on a hot stove for getting up late. Columbus is still harping on her water works.
