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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1874)
OLD SERIES—VOL. LXXXI NEW SERIES VOL. XXXVIII THUMB. IHK DAILY CHRONICLE It SENTINEL, thi> old«t ne»«i*per In the South, ia publi»heil <kily, si rs,, t Monday. Terms: iVr year, slo' six mouths, $5 : three month*, $2 50. THE TRI WEEKLY C'URO nIC'LE Ik SENTINEL is ptibltnhwl every Tin- lay, Thursday, and Satur day. Terms : One year, *5 ; six rn nth*, *2 50. THE WEEKLY CHKONICLE k SENTINEL i» pub lished every Wednesday. Term* : One year, (2; Mix mouth#, fl. SUBSCRIPTIONS in all case* hi advance, and no pap r c mtiuued aft; r the expiration of the time paid for. BATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII trau aieut adverUaements will he charged at the rate of * 1 per square for each Insertion for the first j w et. Ad ertisementa in the Tri-Weekly, tw thirds of the rates in the. Daily ; and in the I Weekly, one half the Dally rates. Marriage and i Funeral N dices, fl each. Special Notices, fl per j square for the first publication. Slierial rate- , will lie made for advertisements running for a I month or longer. REMITTANCES should lie made by Post Office . Money Order* or Express. If this cannot b j done, protection against lo«ww by mall may be j secured by forwarding a draft payable to the , Pr prietor* of the Chbouiole **» Bk-Mtinki, or ! by sending the money in a registered letter. Address WALSH k WRIGHT, Chrosk t.s A SrsriNKi, Augusta, Oa. ! <Ci)romclc anti jsrntfnd. Wednesday ~i. .apkil is, ihtl. MINOR TOPICS. Virginia ban made choice of Hon. Win. A. Graham, of North Carolina, an her arbitrator to unite with Hon. Jere Black, of Pennsyl vania. on the part of Maryland, to settlo the boundary line between the two States. The concurrence) of two such men ought to settle any quest! m that might arise in the course of human events. ••I.a Damo am (.'amelias," tlic story which Eave the younger Dumas his earliest fame i stahliabe l Ins reputation, indeed—he wrote in his twenty-fourth year in thirteen days, while staying at a provincial town near Paris. Ho lias done nothing since that all raided one tenth of the attention: and yet no work of liis has been produced with so little labor. Good Friday lias been decided by Attorney- General iJimmick to be a legal holiday in Penn sylvania. This is the lirst instance in which the dav ha- been oflictally reeogn zed in any of the Northern Slates. The tendency is in favor of increasing the nil i.ber of holidays ; but it is hardly probable that ill .States where the Pu ritan influence Htill survives Good Friday will be distinguished from the other Fridays of the year. v At the recent representation of “Seraira mido at the Drury Lane Theatre in London, tlio Prince and Princess of Wales, and tlie Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, having en tered the royal box after the national anthem had been sung and tlie overture bad been played, expressed a desire to hear the pre lude, and it. >vas therefore played a second time before the beginning of the second act. The struggle before Bilbao has developed nothing new, except that a radical revolt has taken place in that town, and that the new crop of insurgents, under General Sautes, are to march upon Madrid to cut Serrano's commu nications. We can soar-ely regard Huh as a very alarming development, for the Spaniards can carry on any number of civil wars at a time, and vet nobody ever seems to bo very seriously injured. Bayard Taylor says Europe is a bad place for an American to learn foreign languages hi. The guides, porters, and otjior folks have dis covered that the English tongue is in the mouth of the Yenkee pocket and assail the American traveler in Ins own language, charg ing him double prices for everything on ac count of this little linguistic luxury. The cheapest and most comfortable sido of Europe for American visitors is t-ho outsido. The New Orleans I‘iratjmu- is much encour aged as to the future state of the rice crop in Louisiana. Last year it reached 1110,000 bar rels. The Pintyuw looks upon this industry much more hopefully than upon tlio sugar cut- \ tore in that State, and says that tlio rice plant- j ing this Spring will be the most extensive on I record. Another year, it is said, will put j Louisiana ahead of tlio Carolinas as rice pro ducer, and tlio crop will reach enormous pro portions in the next decade. The Raleigh A Vies thinks the earthquake on Bald Mountain has been pro bono publico. It says : t! lias caused fifty-five conversions to religion, broken up twenty-seven illicit whisky distilleries, drove from the country two sub revenue ollieials, ri<l tlio mountains of a sorry prea dier, and furnished us several columns of reading matter. On tlio other hand,tlio damage is slight, for had it broken up all the crockery in tlio mountains, tlie cost would not have been st(). while Mrs. Nannie's chimney tumbled with the first strong wind. The managers of the drawit gs in Louisville ••for tho benefit of tlio Public Library of Ken tucky'' admit that for their fourth drawing, which took place in that city last Tuesday, they stiid •IS.Otli) tickets at fifty dollars a ticket.— Tlieir receipts, therefore, wore $2,250,000. —■ Oiio-halt this large sum they claim to pay out in prizes. Tho other half. $1,125,000 remains in tlieir hands. Deducting for their expenses m coirlinissions to agents, etc.. $350,000,we may fairly assume that the net protit of this fourth drawing will amount to .*750,000. It is now the fashion in Paris for the native population to dislike Americans. Tho literary men follow tho fashion and misrepresent Brother Jonathan in tho most absurd manner. A well-known feuilletonist says : "An Amer ican is mi acute-minded savage who eats with liis knife and carries his revolver iuto the j drawing-room to defend ids social rights.'' When will Frenchmen learn anything about j other nations than tlieir own ? J lie Germans j taught thorn something, and yet they aro not) grateful even to the Germans. The Wilmington (N. I'.) Journal, of tho Ist ! inst.. reports a bold robbery of the United ! Stales mails at the I'niou Depot, in that city. The robber? was effected while tho mails were > being transferred. Several bags wore carried off. all containing matter bound South. Tho mad bags wore found on Monday, in the woods near the city. They wore cut open and their contents scattered upon tho ground, all the letters having been opened. The letters were gathered up to be returned to tlieir writers. It is thought that the robbers did not get much money, and they did not take any of the crafts or money orders. Tiio robbers have not yet been found out. Helen Crager, an attractive young school teacher, was kissed against her will by a con- j ductor on the Chicago and Northwestern llail- ; road. She can ed him to bo arrested on a charge of assault and battery, and he was fined and discharged from his (rotation. She then wont for the railroad company, and has just ; recovered SI,OOO damages, the Circuit Court of , Saitk county. Wisconsin, ruling as a matter cf i law that the company was liable to the plaintiff for actual damage occasioned by the wrongful act of the conductor. New let railroad com vames take warning and omplov no conductor ! of vehement oscillatory propensities. Then'S is intense excitement in Ottawa. Lonis Kiel, tin* “ex-rresident" of the Red River Re public. who vanished, taking his republic with him. on the approach of Sir Gam at Wolseloy. aud who was subsequently indicted for mur der. is now a member elect of the Canadian Parliament, lie is to be arrested if he appear? at Ottawa to take his sea:, an 1 consequently his friends and his enemies are so greatly ex cited that in the event of his ap;>eanng in Parliament a riot may ensue. They are rather more excitable in Canada than wo are here, but still the Government has the Eng lish habit of maintaining law and order at any cost. * Henry Wykoff. so well kuowu in the days of , the elder Bennett as the "Chevalier" Wykoff. aud who. as the Grammout of his age. has lis tened to the secrets of all the Courts of the civilized world, is about to publish a book. It is to be in three or four volumes, the first of which is now ready. Tire eutire work is to be , a history of the last thirty or forty years: but. in order to make contemporary history perfectly intelligible. Mr. Wykoff considers it accessary to review all previous history, and therefore j his first volume is a rapid but extremely lucid j view of the general course of the world's affairs down to the early part cf the presort century. It is confidently expected that the i '‘Chevalier” Wykoff will figure hereafter as the great social philosopher of the age. iThe passage by the House of Representa tives at Washington of the McCrary bill “ to regulate commerce by railroad between the States ” is an assertion of National control over inter State lines, and goes a long step far ther than any antecedent declaration of the right to legislate in such matters. The very fact of the railroads obtaining their charters frera different States, and being under State command in certain respects as the proper tri bunals, show the opinion of the former gen eration of statesmen. Centralization is now the order of the day, and if this bill of Mr. McCrary should become law, one of the wild est doors will be open to official bribery and corruption that Washington has yet been cursed with. A paternal government will have its favorite children, and one part of the country will be fostered at the expense of other parts. j CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE. All communications announcing ean j diilatoH for office from County Con- I stable to Member of Congress —will be charged for at the rate of twenty cents per line. All announcements must be paid for in advance. FIUTHTIXG LOCALS. After awhile we hope people will learn : to let Local Editors alone. It is a fact not generally known, , but as a class they are the most dangerous men in the world. We have published several ac counts recently of “rash, intruding fools” being done to death by their sanguinary hands. Wo have now to chronicle an other tragic occurrence of a similar na ture. Mr. Jko. W. Lavish, Local Edi tor of a Vicksburg paper, having pub lished an article on one Mr. Tom Tul kivs, which the latter considered offen- I Hive, ho sought tho offending scribe, 5 and stated bis objections in a gentle- 1 manly and at the same time forcible ! manner by puncturing his throat with a jack-knife. The Local promptly drew the handy revolver from the rear pocket of his trousers and shot the super-sen sitive individual through the diaphragm. Os course Mr. Tulkins has vacated his seat at the family hoard, and has gone to that country where Locals do not i come and stabbing is unknown. When I will people learn that it is dangerous to attack City Editors, and cease to sport and dally with certain death ? Does not disease fill the cemeteries rapidly enough that men should force crema tion upon us by a reckless patronage of the reportorial revolver ? When an ar ticle appears in the local columns which for any reason may be unpalatable in tone or statement to gentlemen of the Tom Tulkins’ persuasion, let them say nothing unless they feel like thanking Heaven that it is no worse. But if im patient of the evils which they have they determine to rush on others that they know not of, let them make all necessary testamentary arrangements and bid an affectionate adieu to their family, for they shall surely die ! THE GRANGERS AND DIRECT TRADE. Our Atlanta letter announces the or ganization of a Direct Trade Union by the Georgia Grangers, with General A. H. Colquitt as President. But lie 'goes on to state that it is the opinion of a good many merchants that the whole thing is a humbug, and that the organi zation will be converted into a political machine. We do not see why the mer chants—or rather why some merchants —should censure the whole scheme in such an ill-natured and sweeping man ner. There lias been no evidence what ever of the truth of the charges so flip pantly made. It is natural, perhaps, that the merchants should not feel pleased at finding the farmers more dis posed to manage tlieir own affairs than they have been in the past, but that is no reason why some of their number should wage ,such an unfair warfare against tho movement. The Georgia Grangers believe that tlieir cotton will command adiigher price in foreign than in domestic markets, and that to ship it by means of an, organization of their own will be cheaper than to seud it through’the customary channels. They desire to ascertain the correctness or in correctness of their views by actual ex periment, and have perfected an organi zation for this purpose. Surely they have a right to do this, or to take any other legitimate step which they think will prove beneficial to their order. We have seen no indication of a desire to convert the Union into a political ma chine, and have no idea that any one contemplates such a silly programme. We do not see how direct trade could be made a political issue, as there would bo some difficulty in getting any one to espouse the negative side of the ques tion. We shall take the liberty of be lieving that the leaders of the Grange movement in Georgia and elsewhere are honest and conscientious men, who are laboring earnestly and zealously to pro mote the prosperity and advance the in terests of the planters, and, to the ex tent of our ability and influence, shall gladly aid them in tho accomplishment of these great objects. THE PRESIDENT AND THE CUR RENCY. Some of the anti-inflation journals— notably tho J»ew York Herald —are call ing lustily upon the President to veto the financial bill which it is now con sidered certain Congress will pass.— Others—notably the Graphic —aro con fident that the President will veto any bill for increasing the currency. We 'think those who are working to bring about a veto are losing a good deal of valuable time, aud that those who count so confidently upon the action of the Executive ar.e but little acquainted with the policy which he has so obstinately and systematically pursued since March 4th,- 18(59. No matter how objection able he may consider the proposed leg islation, nor how pernicious its effects upon the commerce of the country, he cannot, consistently with his past course, defeat it by a veto. His first announcement as President was that the will of two hundred and one Congress men, in a body of four hundred, was the highest law of the land, and that the President had no right to oppose any legislation which the majority chose to enact. He also stated that the best way j to do away with a bad law was to rigidly ; enforce its provisions. Consequently ! he has vetoed uo public law, and has strictly carried out some very objection able statutes. He was a warm advocate of the enforcement acts, but bis apolo-1 gists in the South have persistently asserted, in palliation of his harsh and- brutal treatment of the people of the Carolinas, that ho was only attempting to make the law odious. We have not been able to find anything very objectionable in the attempt the Congressional majority is making to re lieve the financial stringency which pre vails in the South and West to the great damage of the agriculture and com merce of those two sections. But the people of New England and the Middle regard it as a most monstrous measure—one calculated—and herein lies the monstrosity—to endanger, if not entirely destroy, the commercial vassalage in which they have hitherto held the other sections of the Union. They therefore urge a Presidential veto, knowing that it can not be overcome by a two-thirds majority. But if a bare majority declares for inflation how can General Grant interfere ? Ac cording to his own words, that majority embodies the wishes of the whole nation, aud the function lof his office is not to legislate but to execute. The Graphic says that | contractiouist Senators, despairing of defeating the bill, hope to kill it by giv : iug the inflationists full swing and allow ing them to insert objection able enough to force a veto. But how can they expect such a scheme to sne | ceed when General Grant has said that obnoxious laws must be strictly en j forced. The more objectionable the | bill the more reason will he have for giving it his approval. He has volun tarily placed himself in such a position that he can not use the veto power, no matter how necessary he may deem its exercise. IMMIGRATION FOR SOUTH CARO LINA. South Carolina’s only hope of redemp tion from misrule is in immigration from the North and from Europe. The mongrel majority of twenty odd thous and cannot be overcome by Congression al interference. Any help from that quarter—aud we look for"none—can be but temporary at best. So long as tbe j negro wields the ballot so long will he go with the negro politicians of South Carolina. This is perfectly natural. It is now a question of color and not of party in our sister State. Just so long !as the negroes hold the numerical strength, so long will they hold the j balance of power. The white citizens j of that State can overcome this negro majority in one way only. A large por tion of the State is admirably adapted | for white labor. In all the upper tier of j counties white men can work in the j field to more advantage than the ne groes. But white immigrants have a prejudice against the Sonth, aud will not remain as hired laborers. How, then, are they to be induced t > settle in South Carolina ? Give them farms oj their own. Every State ia the West has done this to induce immigration, and this is the only certain way in which the Southern States can turn the tide. South Carolina is in the unfortunate condition where it would be better for the people to give away their land rather than have the whole of it con fiscated by the rascally government under which they live. The system of taxation in operation in that State for the past four years has been one of spoliation aud legalized robbery. There is no im mediate prospect of relief except from immigration. The laud owners of Soutli Carolina would do well to give away al ternate sections of fifty acres to all ac tual settlers from Europe or from other States. We see it stated that Col. J. B. Moore, of Statesburg, has donated three thousand acres of land to be given to immig ants in alternate sections of fifty acres. This is the only certain way for the people to regain control of the State. All the land owners in South Carolina should follow the example of Colonel Moore. Let the people organize an Immigration Bureau in Charleston; let them donate land and subscribe money; send proper agents to Europe and bring the immi , rants direct to Charleston.— This will be expensive; but good gov ernment is priceless. Had tho people of South Carolina moved in this matter four years ago, there would be no neces sity for being outraged at home and humiliated abroad, as at Washington. In white immigration lies tho only sal vation of the people of our sister State. SOUTHERN LABOR 'IROUBLES. The Cincinnati Gazette lias learned, in some mysterious manner, that se rious troubles exist in the South be tween tho colored laborers and their employees, and it goes on to sum up the cause of this state of affairs and to propose the remedy. It says that the planters charge the laborers with idle ness and inattention to their work; that they leave their plows and hoes for every circus which comes along and run away for several days during the busiest part of the Summer to attend political barbecues; and that, where they work upon shares, they leave their employer in the lurch when the crop promises to be short. On the other hand, the Gazette says that the “freed men have been so shamefully swindled as to lose all confidence in tlieir white employers.” If they work upon shares they are charged outrageous prices for every article which they have to pur chase, and when the harvest has been gathered in they find that, in some way or other, they have realized little from tlieir labor. The Gazette thinks that uutil mutual confidence is established, the best plan to be adopted is a system of money contracts exclusively and the daily payment of wages. It instances a portion of Arkansas, where this plan lias been practiced, and where it is said to have worked admirably. The Gazette is mistaken in its state ments as to both employers aud em ployees. Asa general rule, the colored men of the South have worked faithfully aud well during the past four years, and the truth of this fact is evidenced by the size of the cottou crops produced with their labor. Asa general rule, the Southern planters have paid their hands promptly, and dealt by them justly and fairly. It is true there have been in stances of idleness and desertion on one side and of oppression and bad faith upon tho other. But these, we are hap py to know, have been exceptional cases, which are becoming rarer in their occurrence with each succeeding year. The relations between the planters and their employees are becoming much more kindly aud plea?ant, and each class is beginning to have a better understand ing of the other. The system proposed b y the Gazette would never answer. It would leave each party subject to the infliction of great wrong. No contract would be binding longer than a day. In the busiest portion of tho season a planter could be ruined by an offer from liis neighbor to his hands of higher wages. When the crop was made the laborers could be turned off to face starvation as best they might uutil tlieir services should be needed again. Tbe average Northern and Western journal ist is not a safe adviser upon matters of which he is profoundly ignorant. He had better content himself with regu lating the affairs of his own section and let Southern labor alone. THAT SPEECH. We have received a copy of the Edge field Advertiser, of the date of March sth, with an authentic report of the ; speech delivered in the Tax Payers’ Con- j vention by General M. W. Gary. It was this speech which evoked such a burst of indignation and discourtesy ; from the President wheu he was waited ! upon by a delegation of the leading citizens of South Carolina, who sought his presence for the purpose of lay ing before him a statement of the grievances under which their people groaned. The speech seemed to act upon the President like a red rag upon j a bull in the arena. Every mention of I it brought forth fresh anger and addi tional epithets. The reporter of a Re publican paper, in giving a synopsis of the speech, made General Gaby say that Grant had “ sacrificed his own wife.” The President thought, or affected to think, that this language reflected upon the purity of Mrs. Grant— a l»dy of un sullied reputation, against whose good name slander itself has not dared to ut ter a word. Below we give the exact language of the obnoxious speech : I for one am unwilling to be knocking at the door of the White House for po litical or other favors; I am willing to cjucede that Grant is a great soldier, fit to have stood by C-£sar, Napoleon, Welliam the Conqueror, or Washington, if Deeds be, aud given directions in bat tle ; but by accepting presents of great value; in violation of his oath of office, in throwing the res;ponsibilitv of his speculation with Fisk ,t Gould, whereby he made twenty-five thousand dollars, upon his wife, he has tarnished and thrown away a fame that might have perpetuated his name for all time. lam Dot sufficiently sanguine to hope fer any sympathy, much less practical aid, from Congress. The sympathy and aid will rather be extended tc> their confederates in crime. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1574. Is there anything ic this language which reflects upon the fair fame of Mrs. Grant ? Certainly not. There is a distinct charge that General Grant attempted to evade the consequences of his complicity iu the operations of Black Friday by throwing the responsibility upon his wife, and this the local Repub lican paper distorted into “sacrificing his own wife”—an expression calculated to convey a veiy injurious insinuation. But we submit that General Grant was not warranted in his violent denuncia tion of the speech when the report, which he had been shown, bore evi dence upon its face that it was a meagre synopsis made by a political opponent of the speaker. And when the delega tion assured him that no such language had been used, he was bou*d to credit the statement. Instead of doi-g this, he grew more violent after each de nial, and intimated pretty plainly that he did not care how much Carolina was robbed and plundered when one of her citizens could use such language concern ing tho Executive with impunity. Gen. Gaby is not the first man who has charged the President with throwing the blame of Black Friday upon his wife and her brother-in-law, Corbin. It was freely made North and South, on the stump and in the papers, and has been very generally Believed. Gen. Gary simply repeated what he had heard, and seen in print—nothing more. A witness examined by the committee, appointed to investigate the gold panic,- swore that Mrs. Grant was interested and that large purchases of gold were made and held for her account. The natural inference was that the President’s wife would not have ventured upon such a speculation unless she had been acting as the agent of her husband, with his knowledge and consent. And while the minority of the committee does not expressly charge that tile President was acting, through his wife, in concert with Corbin and Gould, there is no mistaking the infer ence which is to be drawn from the lan guage used in the report. If Gen. Gary has done Gen. Grant injustice so have half tho people and presses of tho United States. THE ATHENS PRESS. Dr. H. H. Carlton has become one of the editors and proprietors of the North east Georgian. Dr. Carlton represent ed Clarke county in the last Legislature and was one of the most active, intelli gent and efficient members of that body. He is reputed a graceful and vigorous writer, and will do the State good ser vice in his new vocation. The Southern Watchman lias entered upon the twenty-first years of its ex istence, and its owner and editor, Col. J. 11. Christy, has our best wishes for many additional years of prosperity.— Col. Christy states thatheissued the first number of his paper without having a single subscriber. Now tlie Watchman is one of tlie leading aud most influen tial journals in Georgia, and this fact speaks volumes for the industry, the tact and the ability of its founder. All the editorials in the earlier numbers were “set up” by the hands of the editor and never committed to paper, and starting thus independently, it lias maintained its independence and has never sunk into a mere organ or become the proper ty of a clique. Its course has ever been honorable and fearless aud, as a conse quence, its opinions have always had weight and influence. We wish it a long career of usefulness and prosperity. THE SALARIES OF JUDGES. Governor Ames, the Radical Execu tive of Mississippi has done a good deed. The Legislature, influenced by false ideas of economy, passed a bill re ducing the salaries of all the judicial officers in the State, which has been promptly vetoed. It is a little singular that, in most States, when any economy is to be practiced it is usually done at the expense of the judiciary. Tho sav ing, if any is made, must necessarily be a small one, on account of the small number of the Judges, and the meagre salaries which they already receive; but this makes no difference—all the dif ferent schemes of retrenchment usually begin and end with the Beach. This is wrong. Manifestly the only way in which to secure an able and pure judi ciary is by the payment of adequate salaries to the Judges. At present they are, as a class, the hardest worked and poorest paid officials in the Union. This statement applies with peculiar force to Georgia. From the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court down to the County Judges there is not one who receives proper compensation for his labors, and it is with difficulty that they can sup port themselves and families without going iu debt. We hope the Legisla ture at its next session will look into the i matter, and do an act of justice which should have been performed long ago. The salaries of the Supreme Court and Circuit Judges should be increased at least fifty per cent, over present figures. According to the statements of the Washington correspondent of the Charleston Hews and Courier, General Butler stated in an interview with the South Carolina Tax Payers’ Committee, the other day, that “whenever he tried to do anything for the South some busy body in that part of the country would forthwith mail him a scrap of newspaper telling what somebody or other at the South had said about him. He was beginning to think that it would be a good thing for the country if three or four of the Republican editors of the South were hanged." The only trouble about the execution of this commenda ble scheme of the Dutch Gap Hero is the scarcity of material. The number of “the Republican editors of the South” is so small that if three or four of them 1 were hanged there would be none left to print the tale. The Democrats throughout the coun try—especially the Democrats of this section—will learn with regret that Mr. j Beck, of Kentucky, declines a re-elec tion to his seat in Congress. For many j years Mr. Beck has represented with j ability and fidelity the district the peo- j pie of which so often honored Henry Clay with their suffrages. From the in ception of the reconstruction infamy down to the present time, Mr. Beck has been a staunch friend of the Sonth and championed her cause when she was de nied representation. To the State of Georgia he has rendered repeated and important service, and he will ever be held in grateful remembrance by her people. A plentiful crop of candidates is springing up *&11 over the State. Each man is pui forward by his friends as the candidate peculiarly fitted to serve his country at this critical juncture. The time has come when General Colquitt and Colonel Thomas Hardeman must be selected and set apart for Governor, although the day of election is nearly three years removed. The time has come when the presence of Hon. B. H. Hill and Hon. Herbert Fielder is im -1 peratively demanded in Congress. We are also informed that the time has come for Hon. John H. James to represent the Atlanta District in Washington. Next! Auction sales are the only things which are largely attended in Columbus. THE AUGUSTA COTTON POOL. One Hundred and Seventy-Two Es timates. The Augusta Cotton Pool, inauguiated by the Augusta Exchange, closed on last Wednesday, April 1. One hundred and seventy-two estimates were given in, making the total amount in the pool eight hundred and fifty dollars. The committee of the Exchange having the matter in charge met on Monday and sealed up the estimates and money, which will be deposited in the National Exchange Bank. Charleston, Savannah, New York, Macon, Rock Hill, S. C., Mobile, Montgomery, New Orleans, Americus and other places sent forward estimates. Charleston contributed twen ty-five, Savannah thirty, Macon eight, Rock Hill seven, and tho other points each a smaller number. Augusta has the largest amount of stock in the pool. The lowest estimate made was 3,918,2053 bales, aud the highest 4,408,234, while the average of the one hundred and seventy-two is 4,178,333. The crop is to be decided by the Financial and Com mercial Chronicle, of New York, of September 4th, 1874. The following is a full list of the esti mates made: , 4,173,000 4,251,379 4,321,098 4,242,000 4,132,507 4,187,500 4,222,625 4,088,077 4,070,038 4,236,128 4,196,552 4,197,298 4,201,786 4,167,800 4,123,151 4,113,000 4,210,122 4,190,270 4,101,489 4,179,000 4,217,800 4,175,000 4,081,263 4,152,222 4,173,618 4,201,275 4,214,896 4,231,3530 4,246,301 4 267,494 4,285,550 4,291,000 4,295,783 4,312,722 4,332,327 4,361,323 4,297,497 4,169,875 4,321,567 4,111,113 4,200,000 4,250,000 4,103,000 4,198,675 3,918,203 3,941,254 3,959,481 3,978,333 4,001,744 4,019,556 4,039,489 4,358,897 4,079,837 4,101,794 4,124,490 4,143,756 4,391,250 4,309,500 4,197,333 4,197,705 4,259,704 4,209,002 4,051,019 4,303,161 4,001,109 4,151,378 4.274,861 4,089,602 4,236,978 4,346,500 4,103,007 4,408,234 4.220.104 4,144,414 4,101,8532 4,131,756 4,056,323 4,185,562 4,283,239 4,326,000 4.333.555 4,113,103 4,185,385 4,5300,000 4,192,452 4,089,464 4,139,346 4,122,784 4,227,227 4,150,000 4,150,225 4,410,997 4,133,033 4,231,547 4,032,584 4,340,000 3,992,900 3,950,000 4,317,187 4,297,000 4,136,416 4,185,5323 4,180,535 4,09:3,099 4,203,023 4,333,333 4,298,876 4,050,000 4,000,235 4,297,777 4,307,650 4,250,165 4,191,199 4,289,817 4,142,305 4,267,577 4,025,000 4,000,095 4,253,445 4,275,317 4,165,317 4,235,125 4,125,979 4,237,321 4,213,753 4,215,713 4,117,717 3,99(1,472 4,072,611 3,981,371 4,139,643 4,181,133 4,207,397 4,233,583 4,247,269 4,287,205 4.155.555 4,339,393 4,197,296 4,333,333 4,295,365 4,139,420 4,182.060 4,000,000 4,166,560 4,168,473 4,117,858 4,205,509 4,000,000 4,050,505 4.100,001 4,133/333 4,013,708 4,215,412 4,201,333 4,190,762 4,146,760 4,106,534 4,256,185 4,113,600 4,289,715 4,123,567 4,131,116 4,011,111 4.152.104 4,221,104 4,077,777 4,177,777 4,231,111 4,298,999 4,198,999 4,249,998 In a recent letter Mr. Montgomery Blair showed how the prosperity of the people of this country liad been sapped and ruined by taxation. He said: Within tlie last eight years the people have paid in money more than $3,500,- 000,0001 in taxes on an increased wealth in that time of $11,200,000,000, which was not money but property, such as improved lands, buildings, stocks, etc., of fluctuating value. Nearly one-third part, therefore, of our accumulations has been appropriated as taxes. Upon this statement tho Albany Ar gus remarks: “Probably no civilized country of the world in time of peace has ever been taxed as ours have been since 1865. It is doubtful if the farm ing of revenue and other imposts and taxes which brought about the first revo lution in France exceeded in ratio what has been submitted to here in our day, patiently, but with the constantly defer red hope of better times. But govern ments cannot forever sap the breath of a people in taxes and have them prosper ous. Our prosperity and ‘magnificent resources’ have culminated under the hand of the Federal tax gatherer, we fear. ” Confirmation of Gen. MoLaws.—The Baltimore Sun's Washington man tele graphs : When the Senate went into executive session this afternoon, a favorable re port was made from the Finance Com mittee on the nomination of General McLaws for Collector of Internal Reve nue from the First Georgia District. Some slight objection was made, but the personal influence of the President and the efforts of General Gordon car ried General McLaws through, and he was confirmed with very little delay. General McLaws is not the first Con federate Gteneral whose appointment to office has been confirmed by the Senate, but he is the first one who has been so fortunate without having previously sealed his allegiance to the dominant party. Tlio world moves. "THE LOWELL OF THE SOUTH. Augustaas Seen by a “ World” Cor respondent. A correspondent of the New York World, writing from Aiken (S. C.), speaks of Augusta and her water power as follows : The Savannah river is navi gable for steamboats from the sea up to Augusta. Near and above the city are rapids, and above the rapids is naviga tion for a considerable distance for small boats, whieh bring dorr n the cot ton from the up-river country aud re turn with merchandise and supplies. Many years ago, and before the war, a canal was constructed to bring these boats from the head of the rapids down to the city. Since the war the city of Augusta, with great sagacity and en terprise, and at an expense of some $375,000, has been enlarging this canal, for the purpose of creating a magnifi cent water porrer, to be used for manu facturing purposes. Recently I chanced to be one of a party of gentlemen who made an inspection of this great work. We were escorted by Mr. Charles Estes, Mayor of the city, whom I found to have been born at Cape Vincent and to have resided many years at Lockport, in your State, but to have removed to Au gusta some thirty years ago. Residents of the city are enthusiastic in praise of the industry aud energy with which he labors to promote its interests, giving ! all his time to that work. _ t We also had the kind attentions of : Mr. Olmstead, who has officiated as en ! gineer of this canal improvement in a j i manner to win the hearty endorsement i j of the city officials, and who left a few I ! days ago to accept a position in the en- ! \ gineer department of the canals of New : York, where he has formerly done good i service. The canal is seven miles in j length, and is nearly completed. It is to : : have eleven feet depth of water and by ! taking advantage of natural basins the width spreads out at several points into • ! small lakes, thus accumulating an im ; mense reserve of water. The canal is | parallel with the river and far enough distant to leave ample room for fac tory buildings between them. The fall from canal to river is some forty feet— sufficient to use the water twice. Near ly a mile of this intermediate strip of land is owned by the city—enough to prevent speculators from monopolzing it. The plan of the city is to sell factory building sites and to rent the water | power-discriminating in favor of such J j projects as will employ the most labor j and most advance the business of the j city. The annual rent named for the 1 water is $lO per horse power. ! If Augusta can succeed in utilizing j this immense water power it is sufficient to make her a second Lowell. She has other advantages, being already a hand some, thrifty city, and having "favorable railroad connections with the different ports of her own State, and with the West and Southwest, as well as the ' North ; and being in a State which has been successfully reconstructed, and has j a good government, it is reasonable to predict for her a large degree of future I prosperity. ■ ■' ■ Lieut. J. D. Simmons, of the Atlanta ' police force, has been dismissed. He was charged with—lst. Visiting a house of ill-fame. 2d. Being drunk on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of February. 3d. With visiting bar rooms for the purpose of drinking, and being drunk on the 26th of February. 4th. For being drunk and neglecting duty on the 31st of March. MIDDLE GEORGIA. | [special correspondence chronicle and SENTINEL. ] Macon, April 5, 1874. j Discharging Railroad Employees— Summer Schedule of Economy. The Central Railroad lias discharged forty or fifty of its conductors, engi neers, baggage masters, wood passers and train hands, and it is expected that more will be turned off before the lapse of many weeks. Freight and passenger traffic upon all the lines leading to Ma con d'o not justify the hope that two thirds of the men engaged last Summer will be able to retain their situations during this. The country has no money with which to buy provisions and none to pay passage from point to point ex cept in cases of actual necessity. It is one of the hardships in the life of a rail road man that he cannot find employ ment regularly—many do not average more than seven mouths out of twelve. Therefore what he makes and lays aside iu Winter he is obliged to spend’in idle ness during the Summer, waiting for commerce to revive. The deprivation and suffering with many of them and their families is often very great. Their discharges from the offices, shops and trains always comes at a time when it is impossible to get work from any other direction. Appreciating this, a few have the prudence to take good care of their money—others run upon the fatalistic? maxim “ let to-morrow take care of it self.” But in their troubles these meji look upon the matter with more sense and reason than their brethren often do at the North, in that they do not try' to get out of the railroads by “strikes” that which the roads haven’t got to give—work. A Latin Poem, by Alexander 11. Stephens. . • The manuscript of a translation into Latin of the well known hymn, “Rock of Ages Cleft for Me,” by Hon. Alexan der H. Stephens, has been given me, and it is now sent you for publication : i. t-'eclonim Rupee! propter me, Fissa latoam in te, Aqua, sanguis ex te manens, Mihi ail sit llumen sanens, Bis medendo peritujnm Salvat poena reddat purum. n. Lachtymae siTivi fiant. Nil langnoris studia seiant, Culpam liequit lioc piare, Solus tu poles salvare ; Nullum mqnua (arena, liesto cruci semper haerens. 111. Bum fruor liac brevi sorte, Oculus cum clandam morte, Novas mundos cumintrabo, Et in tlirono to spectabo. Seclorum Rupee ! propter mo Fissa lateam in te. Jack Frost in Town. We had a nipping, cold wind last night and yesterday, followed this morn ing by a light white frost in extremely low and naturally cold lauds. No dam age worthy of mention was sustained. Our gardens are now in such beautiful condition that a killing frost would amount to a calamity something in tho neighborhood of the horrible. We had the first green peas of the season in the market this morning, grown by Mr. Tindal, who has a Macon suburban resi dence. Our situation is just now so delicate that no intimacy is desired with Captain Jack Frost. The Card of Colonel Tift. The card of Colonel Nelson Tift in your paper yesterday must be accepted as a contradiction of the story told this writer that the Radical judges had offer ed the box for sale. The judges presid ing at elections in this State in those days—six or seven years ago—were such scurvy fellows that tlieir offering that or any other box or anything else they didn’nt own for sale was as common as au election. The only doubt I had aoout the truthfulness of the story at the time it was told me was the three thousand dollars they asked. If they had fixed it at two dollars and a half for each of tlie judges it would have been more plausi ble. Macon and the Lottery. So far as is now known Macon drew nothing at the late Louisville Lottery, although she had $3,000 invested in it. It certainly did not get any of the big chances, for that would have been a se cret impossible to keep, aud if anybody did get anything it must have been a small sum, too small to cry “keno” very loud over. The Courier-Journal's de scription of tlie drawing is lively reading. Marriage of Mrs. Castlen, the Au thoress. Mrs.Eppe Bowdre-Castlen, the talented autlidless, and one of the most noted ladies of Middle Georgia, was married in this city one evening during the week to Mr. Sturm, of Tennessee. It is said that she will make that State her future home. How to Serve Up Shaddocks. A friend of mine across the street the other day received a large box of lemon looking things, which l'of the life of him he couldn’t tell the name. They were too big for an orange, too small for a pumpkin, and not half sour enough for a lemon. He finally found out that they were shaddocks, and then was worse puzzled to know how they should be cooked. At last he called upon a lady who had written a book upon cookery, and who was supposed to know all about the matter. She told him to take the shaddock in the left hand, a keen knife in the right, cut off a slim slice from one end of the fruit, lay it on the plate, then spread it thick ly with powdered loaf sugar, upon that pour a wine glass full of Burgundy; then cut off another slice, lay it on top of the first, and proceed as before, until the whole shaddock was thus sugared and wined down. Let the dish stand one night in order that the wine and sugar might thoroughly strike in. On the fol lowing morning throw the dish to the first right hungry hog you see, and he may eat it to prevent stajvation. Recipe for Keeping a Cook. A head of a Walnut street family, not noted for amiability to people who steal from him, has discovered a sure remedy to keep a cook longer than one month, a secret a great many people would like to know. He had one who was a capital hand at cooking everything, and, after dinner was over, a first rate hand at ap propriating any valuable crockery or spoon ware. He set a trap for her and caught her, dead out, in possession of thirty dollars’ worth of his silver. He then got out a warrant and went with the bailiff to the cabin. The cook was in despair, but promised that if let off she’d stay with him as long as she lived and would never take anything again. He accepted these terms with the dis tinct understanding that if she left, or l if anything whatever was, ever again j missing from the house, the warrant w r as i to be fully let loose upon her. That has | been sixteen months ago, and she is still i there, although every time she is power ! fully tempted to steal she goes around and asks the bailiff “ es he dun tored up dat ting,” and muttering, as she goes back, “ wish I had it in my tees.” Ridiculing Titles—Thick as Colonels in America. Your paper and others ridicule, and very properly, the almost universal habit in this country of prefixing a title •to any famous or infamous man. It is | laughable to read “Gen. J. Iscariot,” ■ “Col. Barabas,” “Maj. Hainan,” “Capt. i Cain” and other titles to other noted i rascals of Holy Writ. This practice of j t “Honoring” and “Coloneling” people in ! this division of the longitudes is a great 1 bore, especially to those who have to ; bear the infliction. It means nothing, it j is false colors in almost every instance, | for no one has a right to an army name j except when actually holding a commis sion. When mustered out of service his title is mustered out too, and it is a pity that it cannot be mustered out of -the months of civilians. I should like to know where Christian people get : their authority for calling preach j ers “Reverend." That word is not Ito be found in all the Bible, and I there is nothing in the original tongues from which it was translated to justify I any such appellation. But that is not so objectionable, not objectionable at all at least to me, as the calling of almost ! every jack ass we meet on the, street | Governor, Judge, Squire, and every military name known to the service. Since the war the nigger appropriated “Hon.” and it is now rarely ever used except by that honorable race of dis tinguished citizens, scholars and philan thropists. A Man Sees His Own Skeleton. Col. Teel, of Twiggs county, came up to Macon, found one bale of cotton with his factor which he thought he had sold three months ago and spent the money, had it turned into cash and felt so happy that he got ou a drunk. Indeed, he got so drunk that he had to be carried to a friend's room, and was so drunk that it took a good many friends to take him there. When the doctor who had oc cupied that room last year moved out he left a complete human skeleton standing in one corner, wired together, and full length. When Col. Teel was laid on his side on the bed the skeleton was laid alongside and facing him. Af ter sleeping three hours he opened his eyes and saw the grinning teeth, the socketless eye-holes, the bald head, the breast and arm bones and ribs of the horrid looking figure! “What! am I dead ! Is this my spirit in the coffin looking at its old tenement ! Must I move ! must I stir ? Is there no one to tell me wha£ to do ? I will fiyif it kills ! But lam dead now ! But I can’t be any worse off'!” And with that ho leaped upon the floor and out the window, for tunately landing upon the balcony, where he met two or three of liis friends aud stood treat for all most will ingly. . Jean Lamorne. Ireland In Macon—The Hibernians— Judge Lochrane. Macon, April 7, 1874. The Hibernian Society of Macon did not celebrate St. Patrick’s birth until yesterday. The natives of Ireland who are citizens of this city being small in number, tho procession did not number more than a score. What it lacked in numbers it made up in respectability, for the Irish in Macon constitute a high ly respectable body of men indeed. There are a very few of the lower order of society of that country here. Asa rule they are either merchants, artisans, or belong to tbe learned professions. But the Masonic Hall, large as it was—the largest in Middle Georgia—was not suf ficient to hold the audience which went there to hear the eloquent Lochrane re peat the story of Ireland’s wrongs for tho past five hundred years. And it is doubtful if there was auv person in the whole house who did not wish it within his power to free it from the remorseless and cruel Briton. The history, the atory and the music of his native land were all as familiar with the speaker as if they had been written, told aud sung that morning. For two hours the au dience was told of tho thrilling inci dents, the deeds of heroism, the atroci ties of the mortal enemy of tho Green Isle—that islancl whose land is the rich est and most beautiful in all this world, but whose inhabitants are the poorest and most squalid known to civilization. In the address were some of the choicest gems of Moore, the electric passages of Phillips, ofEinmett, of Meagher, O’Con nell, and of O’Brien, winding up with the peroration— “ Shall I ever forget the day I landed an exile in Macon ? Shall I over forget the right hand of cordial welcome ex tended to me aud always extended to my countrymen by the city of Poe, of Nis bet, of Hardeman, of Holt, and a hun dred others whose names have been stamped upon its history ? It may be that I will bo in other climes aud in other lands when this Society will again celebrate this (lay. Standing almost alone among its original members, with feelings like one who treads alone some banquet hall deserted, may I not hope that “When other lips and other hearts Their tales of love shall tell In language whose excess imparts Tho power they feel so well, Perhaps there may in Huch a scene Some recollection be Os days that have as happy been, And then you’ll remember me." At the conclusion of the oration the, members of the Society, with thei&jnr vited guests, preceded by Colored Band, playing “Wearijjg-of the Green,” went to another hWPatJtfl par took of dinner. Distinct twfhe billows but one as the sea may be applied bp the Irish character. Tl>dii#eason tlqjfc * qre oppressed, the reasbifThev-are not free to-day, is they united, fit ha tred of Great lovo ot liberty, reverence of ob7qrtry,f,hey are “one as tlie sea.” Jjut iq plans' of •gafmng freedom they are “at jiUStmctdis iSfe billows.” As LoclijAlJe stilld yesjfgfday, they cling with rtffirfljjtej&city ttf a principle, to a conjHetiflHY than any people on earth. AiK? yet4Hpy are nevel* united in coun cil, uild itjkn army was organized of sufficieiit Sfipngth to defeat the oppres sor, it woiiiareontain so many discordant elements tlaK£hey would be fighting one another befdSie a march of twenty miles could be accomplished. Tlie Irishman will fight bravely finder auv flag, and America, with one voice, wishes he cobid successfully rally under liis own stan dard. They do not deserve this cruel fate. Poland lost her freedom and in vited disintegration by internal discord. And it is this want of harmony to which Ireland is indebted for all its woes. Tlie Yankee would to-day play the English-, man towards the South did he not know that the principles for which we fought are not dead, but simply inurned, and that such oppression would quickly mould them into balls flying from the mouths of Southern cannon. Wm, E. Bodge in Town—Dodge Coun ty Court House. The Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, accompanied by his wife and three or four members of his family and by several citizens of Eastman, came to town this afternoon from thatJatter place. When the Macon and Brunswick Rail road was located through that portion of Georgia where the town of Eastman now stands a New York company, of which Mr. Dodge and W. G. Eastman were the most prominent members, went there and purchased 4U0,000 acres of land, nearly all of which had a vigorous growth of yellow pine upon it. Mr. Eastman becoming the resident agent of the com pany, laid out the town which bears his name, and in time the Legislature form ed anew county around it out of the tfer ritoiy of Pulaski, Telfair and Mont gomery and gave it the name of Dodge. For the honor thus bestowed upon him Mr. D. had a fine Court House constructed, and on last Satur day he formally presented it to the coun ty in the presence of the greater por tion of its citzens. In its architecture it is wholly modern, with main and ante rooms for the holding of Courts, the ac commodation of its juries and county officers, and a fireproof vault for the re ception of the records. The only reser vations in the deed of gift were that the county should continue to bear his name, and that the building should be kept in repair and under ample insurance. Mr. Dodge in the course of his speech de parted from the main topic, and speak ing of the undeveloped wealth of Geor gia, thought strange that foreign immi gration was not more attracted here, es pecially to the seaboard. “When the im migrant reaches the rich lands of the Northwest, he is three thousand miles from a market for his products, but here only a few hundred ora few hours.” Con trasting this climate and that of New Eng land, the weather is so cold that the North ern farmer can work only six months of the twelve, but in Georgia almost every day in the year will admit of tilling the soil. Alluding to many special articles which can be produced here of the finest varieties, he particularly mentioned our matchless sweet potatoe, which some times, though rarely, found its way into the markets of Northern cities, and was never exposed for sale without finding a ready purchaser. Mr. Dodge and his ‘ friends are at the Brown House and will remain in Macon to-night and to-morrow. On to-morrow night they will go to Aug’sta and ar rive there Thursday morning, and from | thence proceed North by way of Rich mond. Laying the Corner Stone of the Catho lic University- Military Companies from Augusta ana Savannah Coming. On Sunday, the 3d day of May next, the corner stone of the great Catholic University of Georgia will be laid with grand and imposing ceremonies. The most active preparations are now being made by the friends of the institution to that end. A great many invitations have been sent throughout the United States and Canada. Extra trains will be rnn upon all the railways leading to the city and excursion tickets issued for one fare for the round trip. A military com pany and one thousand people are ex pected from Augusta, and two com panies from Savannah. Upon the recep tion of the companies here they will per form the ceremony of presenting arms at Military Mass. As they will arrive at an early hour in the morning a breakfast will be tendered either at the depot or in some convenient building. In other respects the peop'e of Macon, regard less of religious opinions, will endeavor to make the occasion imposing and agreeable to all who may see it. John Wilkinson, of Macon, has been ap pointed Chief Marshal, and will bo as sisted by a staff of aids selected from the Augusta and Savannah companies. It is intended to make the laying of the corner stone an event in tho history of the Catholic Church and congregation of Georgia to bo remembered scores of years. Many of the most elo quent and distinguished bishops and, priests will be present, and aid in formally inaugurating the career of an institution of learning which will doubtless go sounding down to all future ages. Georgia’s inland city of palaces has opened its arms anil its heart to it, and extends a cordial in vitation to all to come and spend Suu day, the 3d day of May, and give us an opportunity ot expressing the hope that the University will be like ono who is tho benefactor of mankind, aud Whose footfalls will echo, Through the corridors of time. A Thunder Storm. a week of clear weather our city was visit'ed this morning with quite a little storm of wind aud rain, thunder and electricity, dealt out in red bolts from the clouds. In general, wo didn’t need any rain, but garden truck, like a drunkard and a child, never can get .piite enough. And this afternoon all nature laughs as the happy boy when turned loose from the stern parental roof or from the still more dreaded school room, and so dreaded aro some fathers and school masters that the injured child will sometimes turn to the faithful hon e dog for consolation. But this is a di gression. The rain seemed to be gen eral, from the appearance of tho clouds, throughout the centre of the State. It will all the more rapidly cause planted seed to come forth from the ground and greatly help the young pflint to grow in strength and hurry forward to the tables of this hungry people. We are all hard at work and will fill the barns and store rooms after a while. I even saw a fel low the other day who married rich, and was therefore a rich man on his wife’s side, hoeing out a row of cabbages and he was doing it first-rate. Another who had worked half an hour in his garden thought ho got so filthy that ho must take a bath, something he was never known to do before. When he got out of the tub his feet were so tender that he has not been able to walk since. Letter from a Chicago Swine Marine. G. W. Phillips, of the Chicago swine marines, lias issued a long document upon the present strength of the legs of Western hogs. After boiling down we find the following grease: “We are to day with far more stock on hand than ever before at this time of the year, with a probability of a dragging trade tho balance of the year.” Should’nt wonder. We Lave commenced on gophers. When they give out blackberries will bo ripe When they ran out persimmons will come in, and after that goubers, upon which every true Georgian gets seal fat. Phillips had better not pester us after that crop is boused unless he wants the answer of the North Carolina boy. A stranger during tlio Spring of the year, and when ’simroons were green, was ridiug along a road in that State and saw a poor, scrawny, toe-beaded boy sitting on the bank. “Boy, how far is it to Statesville?” Boy rising and bow ing very politely: “Just four miles and a quarter, sir, and I hope you a pleasant journey. I will thank yon for a chaw of tobacco.” Six months later, and when ’simmons were fully ripe and a big crop had been raised, he was going along tho same road again and came ncross the same boy, but now as fat and as slick as a coon in the Fall. “H«lk>, <u»y young friend, how do you come nut' “Go- sti hell, i don’t know you aiiffidon’t wriWt to.” j J-Ua. Jean JjA»ior\u. 1 ajfTREOT TTKAUItMCji * “Liv«i#l6laßavaniiall and GreaDWdßi -ernNMfansportatioiWLiEe.’W £ T V Circular to the Presidents of ll'nlrorrdA and other Transportation ponipajjiim Mayors of Cities, and President of) Boards of Trade aiM Chambers of Com merce in the Southern and WesterfiL States. ~ v Dear Sir —As one of the “consulting and co-operative committee,” consisting of the Governor of the State, presidents of railroads and other transportation companies, mayors of cities, and presi dents of boards of trade and chambers of commerce, to aid in the establish ment of the “Liverpool, Savannah and Great Western Transportation Line,” you are especially and earnest ly request ed te meet the committee in contention, in the Hall of the Ilonse of Representa tives, in Atlanta, Ga., on the first Tues day in May next, at JT o’clock, a. m. The Transportation ’ Line has been formed, by an ngjMWWfiit of railroads, from Savannah tojH^^Urpiunts ou and beyond the and in cludes a MississippiiMwrbetween St. Louis and Vicksburg. The agent appointed by the railroad committee to establish this line —Nelson Tift, of Georgia—will leave for Europe about the last of May, to se cure the necessary steamships to com plete the line, and it is expected to be in full operation in time for the growing crops, on the first of October next. The object of this meeting of, the committee is for general consultation aud final determination on all the im portant subjects connected with tho en terprise. Among them, the questions to be determined by tbe railroad interests will be tho characters of the ships to be employed; the terms of their employ ment or union with the line; the ap pointment of au executive committe and prescribing their duties; tho manner of oppointing agents for tho lino on both sides of the Atlantic, their duties and compensation; tho facilities required for handling and shipping Western pro duce, grain, etc., at the port of Savan nah, etc. Other important objects are to bring together such local aud general infor mation as can be obtained regarding the amount and character of tho busi ness which would be done over this line when established—exports, imports and passengers; the probable demand for im migrant passengers; tho opportunity for favorable investment of foreign capital in tlie various industries of this country, etc. All important fucts bearing upon any of these subjects will bn useful aud are solicited. The effort in which we are engaged to establish direct trade with foreign coun tries by a regular line of steamships from a Southern Atlantic port, iR worthy of our best energies and of such sacrifi ces of time and money as may be neces sary to success. In consideration of the importance of the meeting to which you are invited, we respectfully request that railroad companies wili pass you free to and from the meeting, on the certificate of the body over which you preside. Very respectfully, James M. Smith, Governor. Joseph E. Brown, Pres’t. W. & A. li. R. Cos. S. B. Spencer, Mayor of Atlanta. Benj. E. Crane, President Chamber of Commerce, Committee. Nelson Tift, Agent. Distribution of the Crop. —lt may be a matter of interest to some of our readers to estimate the requirements of our Northern spinners for the balance of the season. There has been some in crease of spindles during the year, but the stoppings at the time of the panic and reduced work since will bring the total probably a little under last year. Their takings thus far (that is to last Friday, March 27), may be indicated as follows: Stock on hand at the ports Sept, i, 1873 bales. 90,989 Receipts to March 27 3,342,021 Movement overland thus far 135,000 Total supply to March 27... 3,563,010 Exports to foreign ports to March 27 2,118,121 Stock on hand March 27... . 661.280—2.782.410 Taking up to this date, March 27 785.6 i0 Leaving for remainder of season, say. 314,410 Total takings of Northern spinners for year 1,100,000 With the takings as above, the stocks held by the Northern mills would be September 1 the same as last year, when they were reported to be large. In case, therefore, the prospect of supply re mains good through the Summer, their takings would most likely be less than stated above. It is possible also that they have received more overland than we have allowed, though we think not.— Financial Chronicle. There is a colored troop near Griffin who neglects his work to sit and dig small shot out of his legs with the point of his knife. He is the man who was seen the other night taking a close ob servation of a neighbor’s hen coop, with a view of making one like it. To get a good look of the interior, he had been obliged to deplete it of its hens. The shots are nearly all out now, but he shows no disposition to lay the founda tion stone of his new hen coop. NUMBER 15. EDITORIAL EXPERIENCES WITH COMPOSING STICKS. [N. 0, Republican, March 26.] The late typographical unpleasantness found the Republican prepared for any emergency. The gentlemen of the Union had put the office in the most serlpu lously neat condition before they said “farewell, and if forever’’ to the Repub lican. So that when certain of our editorial stalF determined to “keep the pot bil’ ” they had not.hiug to do except to takeoff' their coats and assume the composing stick. We felt a just pride in this. They were Americans pre pared for any need. They could write editorial and stick it, or, like the late Mr. Greeley, could stick it out of their own heads, without writing it at all. It was a splendid sight, these gen tlemen under the flaming gas, picking among the lower case and small-enps. It was early and informally agreed that each editor should get up his own mat ter. Our local led off in a stick and a half, in which he apologized for th brevity of his work by the effect of the lake air, said to' make reporters drowsy. Our river reporter made a sensation by announcing that “the Orescent City, from New Orleans, blew l<> atoms Mon tezuma Island yesterday, and six barges burned !” This explosion of an island and of the preceding day, it was sup posed, would bo copied extensively.— Still the work did not go on as rapidly as was Jenijjoide, and the sugpVstion was made that it would ho better to put on a few more hands, if to be had. At this juncture there came a friend connected with the country press, who, knowing tho importance to the Republican cause of the unintermitted publication of its central organ, came to an nounce that he had secured the ser vices of a swift nud sure compositor. Every amateur straightened himself as this old typo was announced, nud wished he bended a squad of the same sort. The new comer was received with all the honors. Our distinguished chief of stuff, who had been bothered with the nicks, and who selected his type with the utmost deliberation, promptly laid down his composing stick to welcome this outlaw of the Union. We do not think we have seen more impressment of manner than when our chief grasped the hand of the now printer, and actual ly gave up to him his own composing stick. The now printer was introduced as a gentleman fiom Acadia. Ho was a dark and shadowy typo of the Gallic race, and, having taken off his coat, ad vanced to one of the several cases which were vacated with alacrity by the gentle men editors, and offered hiin with dem-’ onstrations of uncommon politeness. Our chief, who regarded the Aqadiau gentleman as his special “sub,’l pointed out all the facilities of the office, and went so far as to present him .with the editorial copy then in his own hand,«for composition. He even read over three times this editorial paragraph to the gentleman ficgn Acadia. As ultimately corrected aud published it reed as fol lows : 4 “orn MAGNANIMITY. “We shall magnanimously forbear to assail our pugnacious antagonist, flio Pie. , while it is down and unable for the moment, to resist. When, however, like its great original, it shall have got its wind again, we will fight “an hourly Shrewsbury clock.” Till then wo re press our martial ardor, but hope our fractions contemporary may soon be in fighting trim again.” •As it came to the galley, after tho manipulations of him of Acadia, it ap jKJip-cd thus: “OTTR MOGUAMUI.Y. “Wo shall magnanimously forbear to assail our pograine and a groat the Pie. while it is down i»od unable for the mo ment to noist. WJ*eu honorable its great, original it shoiilcr have got its wind again, we will protest an hour by the shreaubery locle. Well then wo repren Jpur war bal and or, but heartily hope »ur pwjctism colr.tn for any may torn he fighting trim alure.” Tho'cohntebanee of our chief ns ho Hjiwwly perused tliiß astonishing perver sion attracted the attention of all. He cojnmenoed whistling in a loxv tone a fragment of one of Dr. Watts’ best hymns, intended for tho prevention of profanity. Turning to his first assistant foreman ho remarked : “This fellow has been snaked in on us by tho Union;” and turning, remarked to his expectant, sub :. “Cut.” That was all he said, but the gentleman from Acadia either sus pected his rates would bo cut still lower, or had been so much in the habit of be ing turned out of printing offices that, without a word of explanation, or a de mand that his work should be measured from the hook, he put on his long and flowing robes and departed. Our chief resumed his inspection of type without another word, and there was no more hilarity in that office. Each man felt that Ins hour had come, and bent him silently to the task. Ere the cock had crowed thrice the Daily Republican was in the hands of the pressman, and in a short time thereafter the fancy composi tors were awakened to breakfast. We proudly cite tho two numbers us a speci men of independent journalism, which was ranch relieved by the adjustment of all difficulties between proprietors and printers. Future Receipts and Total Crop. In a recentissue, tho New York Finan cial Chronicle stated that it, had re ceived “positive information that there is more cotton in the interior than there was a year ago.” This statement has caused a great deal of comment in cot ton circles, and has resulted in a contro versy between tho Now Orleans press and tho Chronicle, the former taking the ground that tho information is in correct, and is entirely at variance with the intelligence received by the cotton factors. The Chronicle, of tho 28th, no ticing this, replies as follows . But ns to the real point at issue, whether our information is correct or not, all wo can say is that our informants in the South believe it is, and we have entire confidence in the honesty of that belief. Besides, it has proved many times very reliable, and our opinion is it will also prove so this time, the falling off in receipts tho past few weeks being anticipated by us when we wrote the item in question, and tho floods since, with the very high rivers at some points, have made the free marketing of the crop impossible. But to let our friends of the Times know just what fountains we draw from when we want informa tion would not be just to ourselves or to our correspondents. We can, however, give some little distinguishing marks by which they may perhaps be discovered. 1. In the first place they are men who desire to know the truth with regard to the crop. Keeping this idea in mind will narrow down the inquiry considera bly, for there is a portion of the cotton trade that would rather die any day than to know that a crop was going to be or was a large one. They think they are serving themselves and the South best by insisting that the supply is short, and prices will go up; lienee much of the continued poverty in the South, in spite of the wealth they are pouring upon the world. 2. Another distinguishing mark ii that just now, we venture to say, there are none of them speculating in cotton on either side; they are too shrewd to like to deal in tlio uuceitaiuties which hang around the present market. Be sides, speculation is not their forte. 3. Then, again, most of them are making money. Ono of them wrote us not long since that ho wus thirty thou sand dollars better off than he would have been without tho facts published in the Chronicle. We do not understand what he meant precisely, whether it was money saved or money earned. It is enough to know that lie was on the up grade because he was not afraid of read ing the truth. Very likely, with these few hints,our informants may be discov ered. A Pboud Compliment. —The course of the Southern press touching the ap pointment of General McLaws to a lucrative Federal office involves the highest compliment that could be paid to a citizen. A Southern man and a pronounced Democrat, ho has been ap pointed to and has accepted office under a Republican administration, and yet not a word of dissent for either the giver or the receiver of the trust! Not a breath of suspicion of wrong has been uttered. In the eyes of all, McLaws is still regarded as true to the South, to principal and to his personal honor. There has been no compromise of Jus character as a patriot, a soldier, or as a man. Everybody seems glad the office was offered to him, and everybody grati fied that he has accepted it. No stronger evidence could be given of the popular coufidJTce in a man’s integrity. And we do him but justice to say be de serves it all. —Atlanta Herald.. London, April B.—The sovereignty of Figi Islands has been formally tendered to Great Britain,
