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GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BBILIHNG
MACON. TUESDAY, MARCH I, 1870.
TOE. IXIY.-HO. 31
] For the Telegraph and Messenger.
“ITiiqnita.”
.. re»ai»S her recent poem, “Glorious Things
jr'a Spoken of Thee, O, City of God."
E t oeeu» »• ooEMAJt.
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‘•fliiaoita.’’ Wr enchantress of a land
<rh»t chi® 3 thee as her own sweet child of song,
T o ‘* lon beauty at thy fond command,
Mbileionndlheo her thought-idyls willing throng.
*gboni shapes flit through thy gladsome
Java;
£o shadow of a grief that diod in tears,
Tfetnrb* the suushine of thy happy days,
Or gloats upon tho pathway of thy years.
IL
Soft lead us where the Jewish maidens wept, _
ffliea they remembered Zion, mount of God;
*hen they by tho distant waters slept,
Did they forget their Zion’s Baered sod.
Asnong tho orient bills the brightest crown,
0 Zion, thon 1 Perched in thine ancient eito,
Itoa etand'st to all thy wandering ones a throne,
gigirt with Mercy and Truth’s radiant light.
IH.
fog lead us hy Siloam’a sparkling flood,
Vhcro maidens’ eyes have looked in their own
hue,
An! on whoso banks the bards of Salem stood,
To catch tho first wild wind notes as they blew.
Eren now, 0, Zion, softly as of yore,
Blows ever tho breath of morning o’er thy hills,
And through thy monntain gorges ever pour
Continuous streams their wierd and lonely thrills.
IV.
Kot "lone and desolate” aro tby strong walls.
••Much loretb God tby gates," and “glorious
things
Arc ipoken of thee,” when thy inner halls
Arc opened, and tho new hosanna rings.
0 Zion1 Truth and Mercy on theo wait r
Tby paths are holy, and lead np to God;
flhile Faith and Hope aro guarding every gate,
Xbat ushers pilgrims on tby holy sod.
TiSotton, da., February 16Ih, 1870.
The Dead Confederacy.
Pile, stark and cold, eho lies in utter silence.
So pore to rise np from that deathly Bwoon,
To weeping States that whisper in great anguish,
“Dead, dead so soon."
Ah! mourn for her with tender love and pitv,
To men that strove to lengthen out her years!
A little child, grown old and gray with sorrow,
Demands your tears.
A little child, with blood npon her ringlets,
A Wed banner wrapping her tired arms,
Braised feet, that faltered in tho sweet revealing
Of Freedom’s charms.
Hashed into mute and reverent emotion,
Tho people pass beneath the heavy skies,
Knowing, to-day nor yet npon to-morrow,
Will sho arise. -
Anse, to spread her banner in rejoicing,
To beckon honor from tho waiting years!
Who hints of faults with every stain upon her
Washed Out in tears ?
LETTER 1 HlHI WASHINGTON, j individual thus addressed threw himself back
A Yankee Girl on Whito Slavery in Stnssa- ; m an highly indignant and pompons manner,
chusetis-Feniando Wood after Grant’s J aha. simply ejaculated: “Hah! sab!” The
Military Household—lildridgc (Spreads Bohemian saw his mistake, and I presume went
Himself for the Fenians—A Radical Even,
lng Par ty—The Negro Guests Mistaken for
Walters—A Bit of Scandal—Bard not yet
for the cold turkey himself, or.secured the ser
vices of another negro who was not a guest.
Truly, we have fallen on evil times when the
Confirmed—Hill and Miller to be Admit* j President of the United States consorts with
ted to Their Seats. negroes, and when a man who professes to be a
gentleman invites them to his private residence.
Of the guests who sacrificed their self-respect
by remaining in sneh company, and who ate and
drank with negroes, I have nothing to say.
There are interesting developments at Howard
University. A “highly respectable” colored
hiohlv mnrRi inwi . L iuii_ a v .. female student finds herself in that condition
mghly moral and purely philanthropic State. wMch saia to ba highly desired by married
let but for tlio advent of Miss Jeannie Collins i females who lovo their* lords. A “highly re-
"Washington, February 19th, 1870.
It is something of a novelty, to say tho least,
for a Yankee factory girl to travel all tho way
from Massachusetts to "Washington to lecture on
the wroDgs of tho whito laboring classes in that
amoDg ns, we never should have known how de- spoctable” male 6tndent is the happy man Who
plorable is tho condition of tho largo class of hn °
operatives in New England cotton ™ui<», of
which sho i3 a representative. "We have novor
beard from Mr. Sumner, or Mr. "Wilson, who
has placed the female referred tc in this highly
interesting condition. The female student is
now temporarily indisposed.
If any of the people of Georgia have informa
tion relative to the traffic in cadetships, by whioh
represent Massachusetts in the Senate, anything tho Southern States haye been defrauded of the
bMpl««»(orltopoot,
freeamen. They have had no time to attend Gen. Henry M. Slocum, Washington. The In
vestigation. now going on promises to rid the
The Unity idol of a faulty people,
Wbo loved her better that her faults wero theirs,
Who eee her deaf, blind, dead to all perfection,
The future bears.
As detd is those who sought to be her armor,
Who held their hearts as shields ’twixt her and
death.
And died to cherish into fuller being *>
Tho infant breath.
Strong hearts, tli&t in tho rush and roar of battle,
ronred out their noble blood like holy wino.
Waning its wealth and richness on a broken
And blasted shrine.
A Matted shrine, yet oven in its blighting
Crowned with the homage of a million hearts.
Whose burning tears poured out the last libation
That lovo imparts,
A faded hope, yet fairer in its fading
Than Victory's temples reared above tho dead.
And sweeter blasftedt faded, broken, than rich in-
eerse, 1
For conquests shed. *
•We.palerhe lies; tho autumn comethgently,
And clasps its crimeon fingers round her feet,
And throws a golden spell npon tho Tores t,
As is most meet-
his most meet, that one "who died in childhood,
Who sailed upon us from tho purple West,
Should take amid tho crimeon and tho golden
Iler final rest.
n* ^ 6 ' le lies; tho Spirit of tho Winter
flashes the careless river at her sido;
Tw well, wo think, that thus should sleep in si
lence
A people’s pride.
jj*th still; we dare not sing her requiem;
Western star has faded out of sight,
“ks her who was tho idol of our worship,
Leaving us night.
Violet Lea.
rrineeton, Ark., 1865. *
In School Days.
ET JOHN 0 KEENER AT W1UTTIEB.
Still sits tho school-honso hy tho road,
A ragged beggar snnniDg;
Around it still the sumachs grow.
And blackberry vines -aro running.
Within, the master’s desk is seen,
Deep scarred by raps official ;
The warping floor, tho battered seats,
The jack-knife's carved initial.
Long years ago, a winter sun
Khono over it at setting;
Lit up its western window panes
And low oaves’ icy fretting.
It tonched tho tangled goluen curls,
And brown eyes tall of grieving,
Aad ono who still her steps delayed,
Wher pride and Bhamo woro mingling.
fashing with rcstlees feet tho snow
To right and left, sho lingered—
A* restlessly her liny hand
The bias chocked apron fingered.
Ho saw her lift her eyes; he felt
Tho soft hand’s light carreseing,
And heard tho trembling of her voice,
As if a fault confessing;
"I’m eorry that I epelt tho word;
I hate to go above yon,
Locsuae”—tbs brown eyes lower fell—
Because, you seo, I love you!"
Still memory to a gray-haired man
That sweet child-face is showing.
Drtr girl; Tho grasses on her gravo
Havo forty years been growing!
H® lives to learn, in iifo’s hard school,
How few who pass above him,
L^nent their triumphs, and his loss,
Like her, because they love him.
f UDt Talk in tub Pulpit—Radical. Admin-
Ration Abbaigned.—Tho Crawfordsville Ro-
‘-v sa J8 that on last Sunday morning the Rev.
Godfrey, of this city, who heretofore
£n PPorted the Radical party, preached an
fi,. . ent Eerm on to a large and 'attentive andi-
la McthodUt Church in Crawfordsville.
b the course of tho services he offered up the
fol prayer, which we commend to a care-
** reading by those of onr fellow-citizens who
tinner elections have bsen induced by false
i -onuaea an g demagogical appeals to their pas-
aca prejudices to help place in power the
.... ^rrnpt and infamous administration that
p caned a nation:
—"O Lord! Thon knowest that the
•fj p". in=n °f our nation, and those oocupying
P n ^Ho positions, are thieves and
t-a a P‘ un derers and murdorers, drunkards
-t.ri i :luc ^ e es; that we have too many Harlans
(fnrf\r,? 1 “ ny Beechers, O Lord."—Lafayette
Dtyteh, February 18.
to tho wants of thoir whito constituents. All
their time and thoughts and labor have been
absorbed in legislation for tbo African. Miss
Collins has undertaken to do that which Messrs.
Wilson and Sumner have studiously left undono.
In a lecture on “Life in the Cotton Mills," de
livered this city on Thursday evening last,
Miss Collins said sho had always been a warm
opponent of slavery in any form, and 6ho held
that the men ip the North who oppressed and
ground down the laboring people and the former
slave-owner of tho South, were twin despots.—
The combination of capital in the large corpo
rations of New England operated to prevent
competition and then crushed labor. She re
viewed the operations cf some of these estab
lishments, and said the “regulations" .stuck-up
in the rooms of the factories were of a charac
ter that would hardly bear to be printed. And
this in moral New England! Can such things
be ? Miss Collins said that in tbo old times of
tbo Whigs and Democrats, the latter were the
champions of the working classes, and the girls
of that day were happy. As good ladies as there
wore in New England worked in the mills. Then
came the Kansas and Nebraska question; tho
Anthony Burns excitoment; the difficulties in
Kansas, and other kindred subjects, to occupy
the public mind, and the laboring classes were
overlooked. And then the overseers and the
stockholders set abont reducing the pay and in
creasing the work, until where the girls had had
two looms they ran seven, and on less wages.
The war broke out, and where the girls bad to
pay two dollars for bread they had to pay six.
Then tho Cotton supply failed, and the mills
stopped. There were three classos of females—
one, bred and heroic, who bravely struggled for
a subsistence; one which suffered poverty and
privation, almost too much to bear; and a
third which went down, lost to society and tho
world. Who was to blame because they went
down?
Miss Collins gave a graphic account of the
great strike of the factory girls in November
and its failure, which sbo said wa3 due to tho
fact that the wages were so low that the girls
must work every day or starve. At Libby pris-
son they had a dead line, and if our soldiers
crossed it they wero Shot. In Massachusetts
three men dared to present a petition to the
Legislature, and they were discharged. What
was that but a dead line ?
The factory girls were worked and taxed to
dress tho daughters of tho stockholders in
silks and satins to hide their deficient intellects,
while their father took them around to the dif
ferent watering places as a farmer took his
stock to the cattle shows. [Applause.]
Sho dwelt some time upon the antagonism be
tween capital and labor, and said she had seen
South of some of its carpet-bag mis-representa-
tives, and is bringing upon "such men, as a class,
richly merited disgrace.
Tho Senate was in executive session four
hours yesterday, but did not confirm Dr. Bard
as Governor of Idaho. The Dr. is much exer
cised over the recent attacks upon him in a
Memphis paper, and is busily engaged in pre
paring replies.
'The latest gossip abont the Georgia Senators,
is that Messrs. Hill & Miller will get their seats;
but that -they will be sworn in singly—Mr. Hill
first. • Dalton.
THE COUMON**SENSE OF IT.
A School Girl’s Pica for Short Dresses.
From Moore's Rural Sew Yorker.]
Not long since,_ being tbo happy recipient
of that “blessing in disguise”—a new dress—
the feminine portion of our household was
doomed to tho trying ordeal essential to tho
making thereof; and it was that trial which
hashed me to this expedient with the san
guine hope that the wave of reform may re
ceive an added impulse by my vehement- pro
test. Such peering into magazines, and “in
terviewing” dressmakers, and such unbear
able measurings and tiyings-on, would havfe
been the death of us had wo not been early
taught the art of submission; but' thanks to
that, we lived. -
Lived until, at an hour when my long tried
forbearance was just ready to fail entirely, an
officious neighbor (Mrs. Grundy like) called;
after inspecting every identical part, from the
braid on the skirt to the band at the throat,
sho informed us that it was “very well done,
but shockingly short,” and then added the
baneful inquiry—“Why in the world didn’t
you allow it to trail a very little?”
Trails be condemned 1 That last feather
broke tho camel’s back; and my subsequent
lecture upon the glories of short dresses, the
follies, ana vanities of corsets and trails, and
the wickedness in general of a meddler, ef
fectually silenced the poor lady and put an
end to her advice. The dear creature has
never said “trail” to me since.
Alack and alas! however, that such things
are allowed to exist. Why. cannot a good
thing in f&shion be retained—made a standing
institution, which we may or may not follow
for the ensuing year, as it may suit our indi
vidual fancy? Not but what short skirts
have their discrepancies; they may some
times be ungraceful, inappropriate, and un
lady-like; hut think of their superiority in
ever so many situations—will it not overbal
ance the
The Fertilizer Question Again—Re
joinder of “"Planter mad Coni*
mission Merchant.”
Editors Telegraph and Messenger t in your
issue of the 20th inak, ‘‘ Planter and Merchant”
replies to an or tide published by you a few days
previous, over tho signature “Planter and Com
mission Merchant ” ‘ 1 Planter” of the first part
says “Planter” of the second part “ attempts
to criticise tho Fertilizer Inspection Law, which
ho very mnch misapprehends, if, indeed, he
ever read at alL” .
It appears to mo, in h is “ effor^to criticise"
said communication, he “very mnch misappre
hends it, if, indeed, he read it alL” At least,
Planter of tho second part entirely endorses
the gist and conclusion of my article; for
while I say, “do not repeal the present law
—impracticable, and so eisily and frequently
violated as it is—unless something more defi
nite, more practicable and - more truly protec
tive to the planter’s interest is substituted”—he
says, “ the present law is a step in the right di
rection ; the law can be unproved npon, and
doubtless will be,” and asks “ what additional
legislation is necessary?” That was the only
object of my article, and I proposed certain
additional legislation,” and invited objections
to it, or a better plan.
Then since we are both after the same 'good
end, 2 have nothing more to say than in my
first article. I have not a doubt Dr. Means
would corroborate every position taken by me.
That the law provides for inspection and brand
ing, and a fee of 50 cents per ton for the same,
and yet is so imperfect and impracticable that
not one shipment in ten ia submitted to him fox
analysis, and that be does not receive one fee
in every ten tons that come South, and that he
has, as stated by me before, no adequate an*
thority to enforce the law or. his rights. The
idea is absnrd, that a cargo of 1000 tons of
Mnpes, Rhodes, or that new but excellent can
didate for popular favor, tbo Ashepoo Ammo-
mated soluble Phosphate should be detained on
the wharves at Savannah, or at heavy expense
drayed to and from "Ware house after a month
or two storage, until in their conrse and turn,
(as by “mill rqje, first come, first served.”) Dr.
Means can famish an analysis and brand the
packages before shipping to their destination.
The Expenses would be increased several dol
lars per ton. Impracticable, theoretic, useless
laws, are in their natnre, nail and void.
But let me conclude by assuring Planter No.
I, that I have sold and delivered all my consign
ments, and paid Dr. Means’ inspection fee3 on
thorn thirty days before he finished his analy
sis of them.
Flaxtkb No. 1, Commission Mebchant.
Imagine the inability of a young lady, re-
wealthy ladies wrangle with a consumptive sew- j turning from school on a rainy day, carrying
ing woman over twenty-five cents to save five [ books and basket, and it may be with a ie-
dollars to put with her name to a charity list. ; fractory veil to keep in check—imagine, I say,
She dipped into politics, favoring the taxation the inability of such a beleaguered person to
of bonds, and opposed the Chinese immigration, {manage all these and hold up the ample dra-
the effect of which would be to degrade labor, pm-y which used to be indispensable 1 Think
to degrade the brothers, sisters and orphans of 1 £ { - the majesty of promenading the Broadway
ot £. dea °. i of our little town on a fine afternoon with an
off aha ' ample cloud of dust following one at an un-
soon to come off in JMew xlampsnire. wnere sno « * , j. . _ 1 .1 * ° • . .
felt sanguine of the success of the labor reform P^ ei ? an * ; distance, and then having to come to
ticket. an ttorapt stand still to disengage one s trail
Such is the picture drawn by a Massachusetts | from dry goods boxes, sidewalk spikes, etc.,
factory girl of the condition of tho whito labor-; every few yards. Imagine the fun of hunting
■ — - - - hens’ nests in the old bam at grandma’s—
climbing that queer ladder, and jumping from
the big beam in a long dress! _ Think of
reaching the grapes on that wild vine in the
pasture, from the topmost rail of the high
fence, and of running up stairain a hurry and
both arms full, with a dozen yards of alpaca
cliDging to your flying feet! Shades of
Bloomer! Why, it destroys half the fun of
ing classes in New England. Her description
of New England charity is no doubt drawn from
tbo life also. Wo havo no reason to doubt its
accuracy.
Daring a recent debate on the appropriatioh
bill in tho Honse, Mr. Wood, of New York, of
fered the following proviso, to come in at tho
end of tho paragraph then under discussion:
Frotided, That no officer of the Army or
private secretary or clerk or for other civil ser
vice at the Execntive Mansion.”
Mr. Wood explained that tho proposition was
simply to carry oat the existing law; and that
it was designed to kcop officers of the army
If _ we must needs. don ; with our woman
hood, a bushel of dignity with an acre of cloth,
let us bunch it up in soma way or other, and
do away with the misery of a trail. Kind
where they belong, in tho positions to which j fashion, have pity 1 Let our garments be
they were appointed—officers of tbo army, and measured by the rule of common sense, and
not clerks or secretaries or attendants upon tbo | may Justice hold the tape and Mercy the
President. Mr. Ward said, further, that if the : scissors, when long skirts are once more put
President desired additional clerks or secreta- ; -upon us 1 1*3. A. D.
ries, give him all ho may require; but ho would ' c 1 — ■
not vote to permit him keep the service of five . A Boy’s First Boots.
Brigadier Generals, who receive over fonr "thon-; Tho.boot period is tho dividing lino betwoen
sand dollars each in salaries. and perquisites, . babyhood and boyhood. Before the boots one
and some of whom aro special agents of tho • j 8 tramped npon by comrades, and stack with
post-office department—besides being officers of j pins, and we walk with an air of apology for the
tho army. Mr. Wood was choked off, howover, j f ac t that we wero bom at all. Robnst school*
by parliamentary juggling; although his pro- 1 fellows strike ns across tho cheek, and when we
position wonld havo resulted in:a saving of . tom to them they ory “who aro you looking at?”
$25,000 per annnm. Yet these are the days of j G r what is worse than any possible insult, have
retrenchment and poonomy, we aro told; and ; somebody chnck ns under tho chin and calls ns
President Grant promised in his messago that “Bub”
tbero should bo rigid adherence to the laws, Before the crisis of boots, tho country boy
and a duo regard to economy. Bat the govern- carries a handkerchief. This keeps him in a
mont evidently does not believe that economy, state of constant humiliation. Whatever crisis
like charity, begins at home.. may come in a boy’s history—no handkerchief.
In a speech tho olhor day in the House, on a ; This is the very unpopular period of snuffles.—
resolution calling upon the President to inform ' But at last the period of boots dawns npon a
Congress concerning tho Fenian prisoners, Mr. J boy. Look out how you call him “Bub.” Ho
Eldridge said: j parts his hair on the aide, has the end of his
‘‘Hit be the last word I speak and the last, ■white handkerchief sticking out of the top of
vote I Bhall ever give in the American Congress his side pocket as if it were recently arranged
it sball bo in favor of this resolution, so that EO| has a dignified and manly mode of expecto-
tho humblest citizen, native or naturalized, may . fation, and walks v down the road with long
know that to bo an American citizen is to bo strides, as much as to say, “Clear the track
honored and respeclc-d at home and protected for my boots!” • ,
npon every sea, in every land where the flag of ; We have seen imposing men, but none
onr oonntry waves under the sky of heaven.” • havo so impressed ns as the shoemakor who,
This is all very well; but why should so much with wavy hand, delivered into our possession
eloquence be wasted on Fenians alone ? What of ' 0 nr first pedal adornments. As he put the awl
American citizens murdered year after yearin ' through the leather, and then inserted tho
Mexico, and somo recently in Cuba ? Cannot bristles, and drew them through it, and then,
Congress expend some of its superfluous elo- ! bending over the lap-stone,' grasped the threads
qnenco on them? That American citizens abroad | with a jerk that made the shop shape, we said
need better protection than they have hitherto to ourself: “Here is gracefulness for you, and
enjoyed, is.evident enough. In this respect power.” *' • r *
their government is, and always has been, far , it was the Sabbath day when we broke them
behind tho British government. The blood of in. Oh! the rapture of that moment when we
the men recently murdered in Havana would lay hold of the straps at one end, and, with onr
hardly have had time to have dried on the big brother pushing at tho other, tho boot went
pavement, had thoy been British subjects, ere 0 n! We fear that we got bat littlo advantage
a British fleet would have demanded and en- that day from the services. All the pnlpit ad-
forced reparation. Secretary Fish, however, * monitions about worldliness and pride, struck
simply amuses himself reading and receiving the-too of our boots and fell book. We tram-
lengtlay ciblo dispatches of a milk-and-water pled under onr feet all good counsel. We have
order; and everyday we hear of fresh mar- to repent that, whil$ some trust In horses and
deri and fresh outrages on American citizens gome in ohariots, we put too much stress npon
in the ever faithful isle. Next time Mr. Eldridge leather. Though our purchase was so tight in
makes a Fenian speech, let him recollect that the instep that as soon as ws got to the woods,
there are other American oilizens who need pro-’ we went limping on onr , way—what boots it?
tection also. 1 We felt that ia such a cause it was noble to
A few evenings ago a prominent Radical of suffer.
Washington issued invitations for an evening \ For some reason, boots are not what they
entertainment at his private residence. Your used to be. Yon pay a big price, and yon might
correspondent wan the recipient of an invite- walk all day without hearing from them; but
tion, bat business engagements did not permit original pair which I tell spake ont for them-
him to attend. This he did not regret on learn- 83 i T6 a. No one doubted whether you had been
ing the following day that among the guests to church after von had once walked np the aisle
were a number of negroes, and U. B. Grant, company with leather. It was pure eloquence
Tho presence of the “oolored gentlemen” led of df skiis.—Hearth and Home.
"Bat Ir.h«L Tb.1 b 1« m»ttaimwor
bring me some cold turkey!” The offended monoy#
LETTER FROM TENNESSEE-WEST.
A Georgian Gives a Lncld Description of
His New Home In the nog and Hominy
Country—Its Staple Productions—Its Pro
ductiveness — Price of Land— Premium
Girls, etc., etc.
Dies County, Tenn., February 17, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Perhaps a
letter from the section in the forks of the
Forked Deer river wonld bo acceptable to yon,
coming, as it does, from a native Georgian.
Therefore, I beg to trespass on your space. In
the vicinity of tho county site, Dyersbnrg, the
land is very productive, and brings wheat, corn,
potatoes, oats, rye, peas, clever, blue grass and
cocklc-burs in abundance, and only tolerable
cotton. Of the latter, some land brings from
one to one and one half bales |o the acre, bat
the generality will average abont ono half bale
per acre. The timber on the river bottoms is
very large, particularly poplar, oak, gam and
hickory, with a dense undergrowth that is try
ing to the hearts and strength of the pioneers
who clear the land.
The country is very densely settled. The
people all seem to make a plentiful living, have
generally good houses, barns, cribs, stables and
fences, and barring tho awful muddy and miry
roads in wet weather, aro about as well provided
as any class of Southern farmers.
There is an abandonee of frnit raised hero.
Sheep husbandry does not receive the attention
I anticipated. The hog crop is generally abun
dant when it escapes cholera, as there is plenty
of mast in the bottoms, and oh tbo hilly land
hickory and beech nuts and acorns in abun
dance. Tho range for cattle is good,"and much
excellent beef cattle finds its way from this sec
tion to the Memphis market. Hogs and sheep
are also largely shipped to samo point.
The Forked Deer is navigable from this place
to the Mississippi river for a light character of
boats, which make weekly trips to Memphis,
and oftener to Halo’s Point. Wo commenced
plowing with February, but will not plant com
for six weeks yet. Tho spring-like weather of
a few days past has caused the peach trees to
commence budding, and I fear we shall be de
prived of a largo part of the fruit wo expected
in 1870.
We put our cotton in about the 20 th of April,
tho ground being well prepared by plowing
beforehand. Wo need none of your guano
orbone-dost, to make tho staple; only yonr
climate. We grow on an average, 40 bushels
com to the acre. Tho peoplo of this county aro
going for a connection with the M. & O., and
M. & O. Railroads, and tho able editor, CcL Tom
Neal, of the State Gszetto, deserves much
praise for the efficient msnnor in which ho has
acquitted himself in his aid and encouragement
towards the popular enterprise. Improved
lands are in demand at $20 to $35 per acre, and
will be higher still, as the railroad will bring
more emigrants.
There are an abandonee of excellent saw,
grist and flooring mills, and-good schools, and
churches of almost eveyy denomination, scatter-
edthronghonrsection,andfor good-looking girls,
CoL Reese, we always take the premium. The
boys, though tanned, browned, and sometimes
unprepossessing in ontward appearance, are
healthy, muscular, temperate, indnstrions and
affectionate, and seem to pass their livc3 in fall
realization of Goldsmith’s couplet;
‘•How blest are they who crown like theso
A youth of labor with an ago of ease.”
The people of this section generally condemn
the Radical poiicy as unwise, nnjust and uncall
ed for, and are far from desiring an agency of
the kind yon in Georgia boast.
The appearance of the Telegraph is a weekly
source of pleasure to onr cirolo, and we all ad
mire the manliness of yonr arguments, and the
keen satire pervading the editorial matter.
Very sincerely, yours,
A. B. J.
It is said that the FrenchEmperor, while con
versing with an ambassador, snddenly touched
on the topic of the Antenil tragedy, and stated
that he fully expected that Prince Pierre wonld
be acquitted, as there was evidence to show that
be had been struck.
THE MONARCH.
An English Wap Ship-Description or her
. . 1 Armament. ''
A writer in the Boston Journal describes
the Monarch at great length. We copy what
he says of her armament: -
The armament of the Monarch consists of
nine guns, or perhaps more properly, seven
guns, as two of them are 12-pounder deck
.howitzer*, of the Armstrong breech-loading
pattern, stationed at tho stern, on the upper
deck. The bow battery consists of two 115-
pounder rifled “chasers,” as they are called.
This part of the upper deck is well protected,
andbtnie port holes tor theSe ghnsare recessed,
so as to allow them to fire at an angle or
straight ahead; and they can even be fired at
an angle of three degrees across the bow line.
With their muzzles protruding they give the
Monarch’s bow a terribly savage look, and
drie .oanmtt help thinking what terrible execu
tion thoy Wonld 'do were the Monarch. to -run
down an enemy. These guns have an eleva
tion of lfi degroc3 knd a range of 4,000 yards.
. The bow gun is a six and one-half ton gun:
calibre, seven inches. It works on a slide and
has a range of 15 degrees from the line of the
ship’s keel. It is a heavy piece of ordnance,
hut wonld be a poor competitor for a pumitor
pegging away at dose range.
But lot the curtain drop on these pigmies
while we describe the monstrous occupants of
the Monarch’s turrets, which have no peers
on land or sea. Four guns, nominally weigh
ing twenty-five tons, are mounted there?—two
in each, turret _ At the breech they are- four
and a half feet in diameter. After the guns
were mounted they were found to be too even
ly balanced, ahd^ a ring of iron about a foot
wide, and weighing nearly a ton, was after
ward slid over the muzzle of each one and
serewed up to the breech enlargement to act
as a counterbalance weight. The size of the
bore is twelve inches, with a three-sixteenth
inch rifling.
The shot used are conical chilled Bhot,
weighing ax hundred pounds, two hundred
] sounds heavier than those thrown by the
lifteen-inchgunson our monitors. Shells of
the same size as the. solid shot, and contain
ing thirty-three pounds of powder, can also
be used, and a quantity is provided. The
range of these guns is tremendous, and far
exceeds that of any other ordnance now in use.
On occount of their immenie size, the vent is
placed for convenience on the ride of the
breech instead of on the top, as is customary
with other ordnance. Both guns can be fired
at once by means of a cord and spring at
tached to the cartridges. The full charge of
powder is seventy pounds, but the guns are
usually fired with sixty or iess. None of the
four have been fired more than forty or fifty
times. A curious fact, which may be stated
in this connection, is that the firing of both
guns in a turret at once does not produce a
greater jar or concussion than is caused when
only one is fired. The recoil arrangement in
the gnn carriage is essentially the same as in
our turrets; bnt the recoil is akillfiilly regu
lated by means of a compressor applied to the
lateral surfaces of teak bars running beneath
the carriage, and can be entirely prevented if
necessary.. The machinery for running out
the guns is admirable. Cranks are applied
to spindles on the outer edge of the base of
the turret, and are worked to great advantage
by the men upon the lower deck. Nine men
is the quota for each gun, but, by means of
connections, the strength of twice that num
ber can bo employed if necessary. The guns
have an elevation of sixteen degrees, and a
depression of seven degrees; butHby means of
a novel arrangement in the carriage, a greatly
increased depression is gained by raising or
lowering the breech of the gun some twenty-
two inches. This i3 done by two spar wheels
and pinions in tho frame of the carriage, as
sisted by a couple of hydraulic presses. It
was originally intended that the guns should
be ’■aised by the screws alone, but they were
found to be incompetent, and therefore the
hydraulic presses were put in. By the old
principle, the whole carnage was lifted in or
der to elevate the gun. The trunnion blocks
were originally of brass, but one of them col
lapsed on the occasion of the firing of tho gun
a large number of times for practice, and iron
was substituted therefor. On the return voy
age tho guns will be fired twenty times each,
for the purpose of testing the two metals and
ascertaining which is best adapted to the pur
pose. The facilities for loading are the best
imaginable, and the time between firing one
shot and the next is two minutes and fifteen
seconds. Besides tho ordinary apparatus for
moving the shot, a new patent carriage is be
ing tested, and appears to be excellently
adapted to the purpose.
The range of the turrets is greatly dimin
ished by the incumbrances on deck. The guns
of tho forward turret cannot fire at a less
angle than ten degrees forward, on account of
tho forecastle, ana the same angle aft on ac
count of the other turret. The guns of the
after turret can fire at an angle of ten degrees
forward and six degrees.aft. The height of
the turrets from.tho water, joined to this in
ability to use the guns directly in a line with
the ship’s centre, would place the Monarch at
a considerable disadvantage with an enemy
like one of our low monitors close upon her,
cither underneath her stern or at the how.
An Exciting Race.
Tho passengers on the morning train leaving
this city for Cherokee on the Iowa Falls anc;
Sionx City railroad were not only spectators,
but partioipators in one of the most exciting
races that has come within tho range of onr ex
perience. On last Sunday morning, when be
tween Lcmara and Cherokee, tho train, in round
ing the carve, thundered down on a drove of
elk, which, were quietly browsing on the open
prairie, about fifty yards west of the trade.
Startled thus suddenly from their quietude,they
immediately started off oh a fall ran, no doubt
expecting to distanoe the frightful and fiery
monster that bad so snddenly broken in - upon
thorn while thoy wore eatirig their morning
meal. Forward daahcd tho elk, while closely
following in their wake oame the fiery locomo
tive and attendant cars. Every person on
board the train’immediately rushed to the win
dows and the platforms and became excited
participants in tho race. At first the elk gained
on the train, but engineer Prescott, not wishing
to let mnsole distance steam, let on a little more
of the latter, and the engine again commenced
to gain.
Occasionally the elk would sheer toward the
track with the seeming intention of crossing it,
bnt a “toot” from the locomotive’s whistle
wonld deter them from their purpose. The
race continued forabout six miles over the level
prairie. Tho train coming to a down grade,
gained rapidly on the affrighted elk. Becom
ing satisfied that farther attempts to distance
the never-tiring pursuer would he useless, they
sheered off. into the open prairie, after having
kept tho lead for upward of 6ix miles.—Sioux
City Tim es.
Nobtk Carolina has the champion old man.
Ho has reached 143 years by dint of living on a
purely vegetable diet and drinking spring water,
and is likely to live as much longer from ail
appearances. He has survived seven wives,
ana as the last one died sixty yean ago he is
beginning to feel lonesome and talks about go
ing courting again.
Conflict Between Juarcxand the Rev
olutionists—Two Battles, Fonght—
J a are a Dictator-Influence o t Sew
ard’s Visit- * : *•:•? ■'.'•’.•-.•tverij'v-.a j on*
New York, February 14—A Vera Cruz
correspondent gives a summary of events ift
Mexico till the beginning- of Februaiy. Ths.
insurrection against Juarez is making rapid
progress, The strength of the revolutionists
is very far ahead of the republic’s. The Lib-
erals, Conservatives, and Imperialists are uni-
ted, and make a common cause against Jua
rez. The Insurgents have complete possession
of the States of San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas,
Aquias, Calicates, aud Jalisco, and they are
gaining ground in Quaretaro, Durango, Sina-
oa. and Tamaulipas.
An extensive conspiracy against the Gov
ernment has been discovered w Puebla, and
there are symptoms ofrevolu’ion even in Vera
-Cruz. Tho city of San Luis de Potosi is the
head of the rebellion. Gen. Negrete Is in the
sierras preparing to sweep down on the na
tional capita], and has registered an oath to
shoot Juarez, Romeo, and Mejia on right.
Two battles have been fought in .the neigh
borhood of San Luis. The result of the first
was doubtful. In the second the Government
troops were badly beaten. Gen. Escobedo
now commands the national army, and Gen.
Oguirre is generalissimo of the revolutionists.
_ .The Mexican Congress before adjourning
invested Juarez with ample powers, thus mak
ing him virtual dictator. The unpopularity
of Juarez has been, augmented by his extrava
gant outlay in entertaining Mr. Seward, and by
the suspicion that there were some real estate
transactions involved in their .meeting. It is
believed in Vera Cruz that Juarez will not be
able to retain power longer than four months.
Official Robbery.
Under this heading, a correspondent of the
Sun from Washington exposes some of-the
acts of the late Secretary Harlan, who scem-
to have used his office as a means of feathers
ing the nice little nest at his house. First a
bill for a carpet, $281 83, is given. The car-
jet is alleged to be for “use of Secretary’s of 1
1 ice.” but it went to his private parlors. Two
bills, aggregating about $235, are for cards,
envelopes, printing and engraving cards for
family use. These were paidfor from the De
partment funds. Servants also were on the
family roll, but went once a month to the De
partment to be paid. A span of horses and a
carriage were taken from the Aqueduct, and
they were boarded at $50 a month by Wm. A.
Harlan, a boy of a dozen years, who also had
a pony from the Aqueduct Bills for. hack
hire amounting to about three hundred and
fifty dollars are also on file. For three weeks
of January, 1856, there was an expenditure <.f
$164 for Hack hire, and for ten days in Feb
ruary, $164 75, or at the rate of $328 75 per
month. Two of the bills are as follows:
Washington, D. C., January 1,1866.
The Interior Department to Kneesai & Nor
fleet, Dr.:
For one pair liorse covers ... .$50 00
For ono pair gum covers... Jf. 40 00
For one whip 8 00
Total $93 00
Approved: E. Kiu.patbick. Chief Clerk.
Received payment, (Signed) Kneessi A Nokfleet."
A few months later the books show the fol
lowing, all on account of those blessed horses:
Washington, ft. O., August 1, 1806.
Tho Interior Department to Kneeesi & Nor-
* . fleet, Dr.:
Jan. 20—Whip cracker, 25c.; repairing collar,
50c $ 0 75
Jan. 20—One pair clasps, $2 75; one water
brush, $2 4 75
Jan. 20—One mane brush, $2; one horse
brush. $4 -. 6 00
Fab, 6—One bar soap, $1; one can coal oil,
$1257 .• 7
Feb. 6—One can neats foot oil, $175; one
can harness oil, $1 25
July 3—One chamois, $1; leather yoke, $X 50.
July 8—Repairing strap, 25c.; repairing hal
ter, 50c : 7&
July 3—Sponge, $1; collar pads, $150 2 50
July 9—Sponge, $1 100
Total $29 50
Approved: James Haul an, Secretary.
Received payment, (Signed) Ksebssi A Nobeleet.
These facts are brought out in an investiga
tion into contingent expenses by a committee
of the House of Representatives. It appears
that the Seoretary of the Interior made agood
thing out of the Government in having his
private expenses paid. Mr. Harlan, in a fit
of pious indignation, discharged Walt Whit
man for having written “Leaves of Grass.”
Had Walt been times a Congressman he
could not have lowered himself to acts like
these, that mark so frequently the administra
tion of tho ex-Secretary.—JN. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
What the Gold Committee Did Kot
Investigate..
There was an animated discussion in the
Committee about the propriety of summoning
Gen. Grant, Mrs. Grant, Gen. Dent and Mrs.
Corbin. The names of theso parties were
frequently dragged in hy the witnesses in their
evidence, and some of the members of the
committee thought it due to them that they
should be allowed to explain and clear up
whatever had been said about them.
Mr. Cox. at first offered a resolution re-
spectfully requesting the President to appear
before the committee and give any exjfianation
he had. This was rejected, only two Repub
licans voting with the two Democrats on the
committee in favor of it. A motion was
made that those parts of th3 testimony
wherein Mrs. Grant’s name was mentioned,
be read to her, and that her deposition with
reference to them.be taken, not-before tb»
committee, but at the White House. This
was also defeated.
Motions to summon Mrs. Corbin and Gen.
Dent met with a similar fate. Gen. Horace
Porter, the President’s Private Secretary, was
summoned at his own request, it is said to
give him an opportuniav to deny the allega
tions made by some of the witnesses, about
his being interested in gold speculations. He
testifies further that the celebrated Liter sent
by Corbin to tho President while the latter
was sojourning at Washington, Pa., had been
destroyed, and that no copy of it was on file.
He did not appear to know anything about its
contents.
It came out that the correspondence which
is said to have passed between Mrs. Grant and
Mrs. Corbin during the gold panic, had also
been destroyed. On tho subject of these let
ters the comraittco are comparatively ignor
ant—Herald.
2 75
3 00
2 50
Is the English Parliament on Monday, oor.
respondents was called for with Canada and
other colonies, in relation to the removal of
troops. Canada was commended for her con
sistent conservatism. New Zealand, it was „ 0
thought, was about to enter on a sew and pros- in a letter from the West Coast of Africa, sod
peroos career. dated January 9th, 1870,
Da. David Livingstone.—The foreign mails
bring an examination hy Sir Roderick 1. Murch
ison into the story that Livingstone had been
killed and burned by the natives on the lakes at
the head of Congo river, ninety days’ jonmey
from the month. On comparing datefi, it ap
pears that Livingstone on May 30th, 1809,wrote
from Ujiji to Zanzibar, requesting to be sup
plied from that point with boatmen and goods,
to enable him to proceed to the North of Tan
ganyika, so as to conneot the aonroes he had
discovered with the Nile of Speke and Baker.
On October 2d, 1809, Dr. Kirk, British Consul
at Zanzibar, in his dispatch to Lord Clarendon,
stated that he wonld lose no time in sending the
men and supplies to Livingstone. Sir Roderick
Murchison argues that Ltvingatone had not
sufficient time, even if he had proceeded with
out waiting for supplies, to proceed to Tangan
yika and then round to the head of the Congo
river by the date required to verify tho rumor
of his death. The story, said to hairo hoen
brought by a Portuguese trader, was oentained
The Bal Jflwqne. ..
“Ames’’ JENXIS8.
A grand affair of a ball—tho PioneCrs’-^-oame
off at the Occidental some time ago. The fol
lowing notes of the costumes woro by the bailee
of the occasion may not be uninteresting to tho
general reader, and Jenkins may getan idea
therefrom: ' —
Mrs. W. M. was attired ih an elegantjsoio de
foie gras, made expressly for her,.and woo
greatly admired.
Miss 8. had her hair doss np. She was the
centre of attraction for tho gentlemen and the
envy of all the ladies.
Miss G. W. was tastefully dressed In E tout
ensemble, and was greeted with- deafening ap
plause wherever she went. ' ,
Mrs. C. N. was superbly arrayed ia white kid
gloves. Her modest and engaging manner ac
corded well with the unpretending simplicity of
her costume, and caused her to be regarded
with absorbing interest by every one. ’
The charming Miss M. M. B. appeared in a
thrilling waterfall, whose exceeding grace aad
volume compelled the homage of pionoers and
emigrants alike. How beautiful she was! •
The queenly Mrs. L. R. was attractively at
tired in her new and beautiful false teeth, and
the bon jour effect they naturally produced was
heightened by her enchantment and wail sus
tained smile. The manner of tho lady is oharm-
ingly pensive and melancholy, and her troops
of admirers desired no greater happiness-
to get on the scent of her sozodont-aweetened
sighs, and track her through hor sinuous course
among the gay and restless multitude.
Miss B. P., with that repugnance to ostenta
tion in dress which is so peculiar to-her, waa
attired in a simple white laoe collar,' listened
with a neat pearl bntton solitaire: The fltee
contrast between the sparkling vivacity of her
natural optio, and the- steadfast attentiveness of
her placid glass eye; was the subject of general
and enthusiastic remark.
The radiant and sylph-like Mm. T: won
hoops. She showed to good advantage, and
created a sensation wherever she appeared.
Sho was the gayest of the gay.
Miss C. L. B. had her flno nose--elegantly
enameled, and the easy grace with;which sho
blew it from time to time, ma ked her aa a cul
tivated and accomplished woman of 'the world ;.
its exquisitely modulated tone excited'the ad
miration of all who had the happiness to hear ih
Being offended with Miss X., and our ac
quaintance having ceased permanently, I will
take this bpportun i ty of observing to her that
it is no uge for her to be sloping off to every
bail that takes place, and flourishing around
with a brass oyster-knife skewered through her.
waterfall, and smiling her sickly smile, with her
dismal pug nose in tho air. There is no use in
it—she don’t fool anybody. Everybody knows
she is old; everybody knows she is repaired
(yon might almost say bnilt) with artificial-
bones and hair and muscles and things, from
the ground np—put together scrap by scrap;
and everybody knows, also, that all one would
have to do wonld be to pull ont her key-pin and
she wonld go to pieces like a Chinese puzzle.
There, now, my faded flower, take that para
graph home with you and amuse yourself with
it; and if ever you turn yonr wart of ariose up
at me again, I will sit down and write some
thing that will just make yon rise np and howL
Mann Twain.
Colossal CorporatiiaSr l
The Vanderbilt combination of railroads is
not, as generally supposed, the largest in the
country. The Pennsylvania Central is now—
if we are to believe Charles Francis Adams—
the richest and most powerful single corpora:
"tion in the world. In the beginning of last
year the Erie Railway managers endeavored
to cat off the former's connections and shut ii
up within the limits of Pennsylvania. In
this, however, it failed, aad the Pennsylvania
Central now owns, by perpetual lease, a whole
system of roads radiating to all pcontain the.
West It is safe to estimate-the number-of
miles of track embraced in this consolidation
at 2,700, and the property at $160,000.. The
New York Central or Vanderbilt combination
is at present represented by nine hundred-and
seventy-four miles of track, and: about $425,-
000,000 of paper securities. Should Commo
dore Vanderbilt, however, be able, to effeet a
perpetual lease or arrangement with the. West
ern roads, which are now working in harmony
with his interests, he will have the control of
nearly five thousand miles of track, aad> more
than $300,000, JOO of• capital. In .th&ease of
the Pennsylvania Central the consolidation is
complete, and a corporation is the centre. In
the case of the New. York Central the-combi
nation is temporary, and depends upon a tin
gle life. The Erie combination controls 1,200
miles of track, and nominally represents some
$200,000,000 of stock and indebtedaes*. Last
year the Union Pacific claimed to. represent
over $90,000,000, and the Pacific Central over
$75,000,000 of assets, while each,, says Mr.
Adams, “kept a mysterious unsubscribed
stock capital of over $90,000y000- in. the hack
ground against future contingeaoiea.*f
All these colo- sal corporations aro (ho de
velopment of a few years’ time. Thirty years
ago there was no corporation in this country
of any kind hut political;, which controlled
more than five millions of capital, while that
of the largest railroad company was reported
at $4,379,225,. and the largest gross income of
any such company, at $<el7„2S6.. Ten years
later, in 1849, the capital of no company ex
ceeded ten millions, butin lS59i the construc
tion account of one was reported at thirty-five
millions, and the period of rapid growth had
just commenced.
Were the railroad- interests ef the country
ever to unite for any specific purpose, they
would represent a-more powerful and terrible
financial force than did ever slaveocracy in its
palmiest days. Our railroads, if now brought
under a single head, or the- controlling mind
or the management of a single board, wonld
yield-all the influence that is involved in the.
control of $!£000,000,000 of property return?
ing an annual gross income of $400,000,000^
ana supporting 450,009 employees.
A Great Toads in Hooks.— 1 The Boston Com
mercial Bulletin says: “A cargo of horns waa
landed on one of onr wharves thia -week dire at
from California. Tho number received, into
Boston annually is immense, and uey vnwe
from very distant lands. Sooth Americ%ganda
the bulk of tfcam, though many come from
Texas and not a few from California. TU»n l-rt
lot received numbered 27,500. They are mostly
ox horns, and are very large. Some buffalo
horns aro received from tint in small
qualities. There is quite a specula tire busi
ness done in th ese articles, and thoy aro put to
very many uses unknown to most of onr readers.
A short distanoe from Boston it the factory were
these are all sent, and at that plaqe they under
go a chemical change, by which they aro trans
formed into many articles which are both use-
fnl and ornamental—combs, knife handles, pa
per cutters and buttons. Resides these, they
are now making a great variety of parlor orna
ments, and pilea of jewelry^ some of which ia
very elegant in its design. They have a pre
paration that changes horn into nearly every
color, and much of this jewelry, bought cheap
for pure robber, ia made from ox horns ant
oolored.
A Face PaoposrnoN.—Under this head the
New York Herald says:
Foster Blodgett declines to accept the com
mission of United States Senator from tbs State
of Georgia, until certain charges mads against
him aro ttthar cleared np we acknowledged to
be simply the offspring ol political engineer-
ing. Blodgett 1 oh! Blodgett 1 Don’t he too
particular.
Blodgett isn’t In faot, Bio jet* "Is not par.
ticnlar enough. That’s what g6t him Into thot
ittle perjury scrape.
