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The Daily Herald.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1873.
the graphic AND ITS balloon. remarks, our mercantile, farming and manu-
We hail with pleasure the announcement| fuctnnn g interests are in too properous con-
| that the Daily Graphic Compauy, nothinK ! dHion aud on too firm a footing to bo injured
daunted ly the failure of their first balloon, i ** the ^ gambling of cliques.
THE iieuald PUBLISHING COMPANY', have already begun work on a second and a the decline in cotton.
superior one. We have not been of those
who have from the outset laughed at this
ALEX. ST. CL AIR-ABRAMS,
HENRY W. GRADY,
It. A. ALSTON,
Editors and Manager*
nz . ~ '.r— 77 . -- | On the contrary, we have watched the incep-
tub terms of the herald are «• fouowe . tion and progress of the enterprise with the
DAILY, 1 Year $10 00 | WEEKLY. 1 Year...$2 00 1 ° 1
While at this time of the year it was ration-
, . . al to expect a fall in the price of cotton, the
daring project of this truly progressive paper.
~ 1 decline m this city of two cents per pound in
On the contrary, we have watched the incep-! , . , . . * * . _
I A . , r av . . . . 1U „ . 1 ten days was not warranted by the amount of
the staple brought to the market. It was the
daily! 6 Month*.6 00 | weekly’6 Months l 00 ; deepest interest. That it has been a capital i _ . .
DAILY, * Month,... * 10 WEEKLY. • Month, 50 a( j Tertisement for the Graphic> is uoue , h c reS " U ° ““Jf
daily, l Month— 1 °e I . . * , , produced by the New York troubles. The
Advertisements inserted at moderate rat«e. Sob- less true than inevitable; but it has also been | f ,
’Tddi-ere 1Dd * dT °HEEALD*PCBLI8HING Co“ M ' : 'u bouchi and immensely important attempt
Drawer 23 Atlanta, Georgia. I m behalf of science.
niHc oc Alabama Street, near Broad. , .. ..... „ , .
- -— — Tue assertion that the Graphic men never
Me. T. 3. Buii.VEY is the only authorized I intended the ascension should be made is too
Travelling Agent of the Herald. absurd to seriously discuss. The Messrs.
*-►<— : Goodsell are hardly fools enough lo pay
Our State Exchanges. uear S20,000 for the triumph of one day
1 which would but wbet the public appetite for
tirifiia has extended the benefit of her public school ! de i iberate Jy prepared failure on the* next
system to the colored popiiiation. ^ The truth is, since the facile Parisians
After an organization of two weeks in G iffiD, the J
Southern Life Insurance Company has issued policies sent their mail bags regularly day after day
to the amount of $123,000, on which they have re
ceived marly $5,000 in premiums.
Eiberioa Las a mineral spring, also, which has be
come a place of frequent resort.
The caterpillar is making sad wotk ef the cotton in
Elbert county.
A large rattlesnake was killed in Oglethorpe county
the other day. It was four feet and four inches in
length and nine and three-quarter inches around iho
body. This has beea a remarkable year for this
species of reptile.
®The population of Columbus is put down at 15,C00
in 1870.
Columbus has the honor of instituting the first
public schools in Georgia.
Two young ladies. Misses Sarah Norris and Ell* Ball,
aged respectively 16 and 13 years, were drowned in the
Ocklockonee river on Sunday afternoon, a shortj
tance below the South Georgia and Florida Rail
bridge. A Coroner’s jury decided that the girls
to their death by drowning at the hands of unkn<
parties. . ,
George Copeland, convicted at the late term of
Greene Superior Court, has been sentenced to bo hung
on the 24th of October.
Considerate amount of sickness in Griffin, in tbo
way of chills and bilious complaints.
The fall business opens quite lively in Griffin.
The exercises of Mercer University will be returned
oa the first of October.
It is the opinion of the farmers of Talbot county
that the cotton crop has been cut off fully one-third
by the boll worm and caterpillar.
The Macon Telegraph has seen a commission which
ia age, at least, outranks all other commissions in the
State, it was issued by "Thomas Hutchinson, E:q.;
Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief, in and over
His Majesty’s Province of Massachusetts’ Bay,” to
"Thomas Aspinwall, Gent’n;” making him ‘-Captain
of a Military Company of Foot.” The document
closes as follows: "Given under ray Hand and Seal
at Arms a* Boston, the 10th day of September, in the
Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King
George the Third, Annoque Domini 1771. This makes
the commission one hundred and two years old to
day. The Thomas Aspinwall, who no doubt was msde
happy by being the possessor of it, was the grand
father of Mr. T. A. Brewer, of Yineville, (who is now
an octogenarian), and the great-grandfather of Mrs.
It. A. Benson. The commission may be seen at the
office of Mr. B- H. Wrigley.
Work has commenced at the Fair Ground at Sanders-
ville, and the buildtnga are to be enlarged and every,
thing put in the best order in time for the approach
ing Fair.
The first bale of new cotton was sold at Rocknnrt
on Wednesday last. Price lC.^c.
The Valdosta Times says that Mr. A. P. Surrency,
of Appling county, has a fine boy, about one year old,
•whom he calls Alexander Pendleton Surrency, after
the Hon. A. H. Stephens and the editor of this pa
per.
The general estimate is that the caterpillar has in
jured the cotton crop of Terrell county about one-
fifth .
Mr. William Rose, of Savannah, United States In
spect or, who has b« eu absent in Washington for sev
eral weelspa*t, acting as Chairman of the Board of
Inquiry in the Wawascr disaster., returned home on
Thursday last
The garrison at Fort Pulaski have beeu ordered to
St. Augustine, Florida.
Mr. J. W. Andersen has retired from the Covington
Enterprise, having sold Uia interest in that paper to
Messrs. W. L. Beebe and 8. M. Hawkins.
Newton Superior Court has bean in session this
week and will bo continued over to next wetk.
banks either stopped advancing on bills of
lading, or advanced with greater caution,
while cotton buyers prudently awaited the
developments of the crisis before venturing
to pay what is reaWy a fair price.
Cotton at fifteen cents per pound will pay
the plauter; but when the staple is really
worth more it ought not to sell at that price.
In this city some of our merchants who are
creditors of the plauters are acting wisely in
offering to take cotton at sixteen cents and
«. , - ...... • over per pound in paj’ment of their debts
flying over the heads ol the nstomsehd Ger- 1 1 \ P . ,,
e ,, and we advise our farmers to accept all prop-
mans, tbe reasoning men of the world have I ,. ..
. . . _ ^ ; ositions of the kind. By doing this they
seen that balloon carriage must become com- ,, , . . ,
_ i.ri r ii r * am i will sell their cotton at a fair price, settles
mon and useful. Of course the first difficul-! ■ „ ,, ,
their debts and enable the merchants to meet
Alabama News.
The Selma ScLuetzen Verein have accepted an invi
tation from the Angusta Schnetzen Club to their an
nual Schuetzenfest, given in Augusta on the 23d, 24th
and 25th mats.
“ Mr. D. T. Halliday, of Auburn, Ala., offers a reward
cf three hundred dollars for the arrest and delivery to
tbe Sheriff of RnBsell county, Ala., of the negro Sea
born Walker, who murdered his sod, A. C. Hal iday, on
the 12th of February. Tno Sheriff alao offers a reward
of one hundred dollars. The negro escaped. Ho may
be in Georgia or Alabama, and possibly may have gone
to Mississippi or Sooth Carolina. Ho ia of mulatto
color, with large black eyes, heavy eyebrowa and
lashes, long face, five feet ten or eleven inches high,
weigh about 165 pounds, is twenty-seven or twenty-
eight years of age; has marks of pistol shot through
his left leg, about half way from tho knee to the
ankle, mark raxging higer behind than in front. He
lisps a little when speaking.
Frost m Selma on the 15th instant.
The New a says Tuskfgee needs a cotton factory and
other industries to make it a thriving city, and there
is enough dormant capital there to put these enter
prises in t-uccessful operation.
The news from all parts of Cbcrokeo country is to
the effect tjat the caterpillar is playing havoc with
the cotton crops. Already has tbe cotton suffered
damage to a considerable degree from these worms
and the Advertiser is of the opinion that when a true
estimate of the actual crop is made there will be a
fall-off of 25 per cent, from tbe estimate warranted by
the prospects in the month of July. From our ex
changes we notice that a like calamity has befallen
this crop ia many other sections of the country.
It is proposed that the surviving members of the
Hth Alabama Regiment have a re-union and basket
dinner at Fredonis on the first Saturday in OateV
next.
The citizens of Opelika are A. >. in earr ‘ st in
regard to buildiug a Method:' t Church in that city. fcCttd. Ars »
Colonel W. II. lianas baa subscribed $1 ,uw, D. P. 1 Soil til to lose
Preston JM.ubO, J. I. Hurt $1,000, J. M, McNamcc j troubles in
I50 *\ a. L. Bcott $500, and so on.
Opeliklan* say they must, shall ami will L
ty that would tend to prevent this com
mon use of balloons is tbe difficulty
of guiding tbe fikle machine, and
estop it from becoming the plaything
of. tbe wanton winds. Now. there
are men of high research and high reputa
tion who announced some months ago that
there was flowing between this continent and
Europe a current of air as palpable, as power
ful and as ever-present as the Gulf Stream in
the ocean, which would, when balloons were
placed in its influence, sweep them safely and
swiftly to any destination they might seek
a&ofegits route.
This current the managers of the Daily
Graphic determined to attempt to find by ac
tual experiment, aud their first balloon was
the outgrowth of this determination.
The bursting ot tbe first balloon was due
to a mischance that the sagacious mind could
hardly have provided against, and we confi
dently await the complete success of the
second and wiser attempt.
We are pleased to see newspapers gradually
turning their attention from tbe dirty discus
sion of politics and political rognes to the
pure and pleasant questions of science and of
social advancement, and devoting their sur
plus energy to the attainment of nobler and
more usefal ends than aiding in the election
of a blatant demagogue, or scotching the
progress, of any Ciesar.
The New 1’ork Herald, taking up the unac
complished work of half a dozen English
expeditions and finding the lost Livingston
amid the sands of Africa, and the Graphic
seeking the solution of a problem that has
puzzled the scientific world for half a century,
are more pleasing pictures of journalism than
the New York Times whipping with barbar
ous savagery its political pimps into
ranks, or the New Y’ork World engineering
its doubtful schemes of Democratic warfare.
THE NEW YORK. FINANCIAL
TROUBLE.
The general tone of our dispatches, pub
lished elsewhere, indicate that the financial
crisis has practically terminated. The prompt
action of the bank Presidents in deciding to
disregard the reserve instructions, and to is
sue loan certificates, as also the closing of
the Stock Exchange, have doubtless materi
ally contributed to a termination of the
panic which has reigned in Wall street for
the past four days. These measures, backed
by the Government purchaso of ten million
of bonds, cannot fail to restore confidence,
their liabilities without difficulty.
MARCEL’S PORTION.
We did not receive the continuation of
“Marcel’s Portion” in time to publish it
this morning, but the novel will be continued
in next Sunday’s Herald. The story is draw
ing to a conciusion, and when it is finished
we shall begin the publication of another
serial, which, wo venture to say, will attract
the interest of the reader from the first chap
ter to the close.
A Desert to Become an Ocean-
THE JAMES EXPEDITION IN THE COLORADO
WASTES—LANDS WHICH MAY BE MADE
WORTH $100 PER ACRE — THE
COLORADO “BORE.”
A letter from California contains the fol
lowing :
“engineers James and Purdy, who for
some months past have conducted a survey of
the Colorado Desert to tho Gulf of California,
arrived here on Sunday last. The expedition
was fitted out by capitalists, bat its real object
is now clearly understood.
“The ostensible purpose is to turn a por
tion of the Colorado desert into a great salt
lake, that the climate of the rest may be im
proved; and the land made valuable. The
real object of the enterprise is believed to be
the survey of large tracks of land in tbe so-
called desert, which tracts are to be purchased
from the Government at a low rate, and their
value increased by irrigation. The capitalists
who are behind the expedition certainly have
not been expending their money pro bono
publico. Laud is valuable ia southern Cali
fornia. Moist or irrigated land is worth from
$2o to $100 per acre.
“My own opinion, after collecting informa
tion from various sources, is that a small in
land sea is to be formed, but that a much
larger portion of the desert is to be taken pos
session of for irrigation and cultivation. The
explorers aro reticent, as it is not their desiie
to expose their plans now. Their progress
through the desert was attended with hard
ship and danger. For ten days they were
confined to bread and water, or rather flour
and water, and for three days they subsisted
entirely on pig weeds, which they prepared as
greens. The heat was torrid. One day a
bird fell panting into Mr. Purdy’s hand. That
gentleman took it to the edge of a pool, the
poor bird laved itself, was revived, aud flew
away rejoicing.
“For the first two or three days alter aban
doning the wagons at the Point of Hocks at
Hardy's, Colorado, the explorers found the
Indians friendly, but they were soon obliged
to briDg their Sharp’s rifles iijto requisition to
inspire respect. The Indians, called Coco-
pahs, are divided into two tribes—the valley
and the mountain Cocopahs. The whole
and while it is barely possible that money j desert, from New River station to the Gulf,
may continue stringent for several days, we being subject to overflow, the valley Indians
i . . ,, . j , . plant corn when the waters of the New River
do not believe that any damage whatever will j ^cede, and tbe mountain Cocopahs prey upon
accrue to the commercial interests of the them and steal their crops. It is a repetition
country. of the history of the Scottish Highlands and
The fact is that tbe crisis has been confined j * l0 t ?oS n< ^ , .......
. . . .. , , , , _ “The Cocopahs are a tall, straight race,
solely to the dealers in stocks, and the mer- j ^he women wear bark petticoats, and the men
cantile community have been scarcely affected j wear breech-clouts, and have wreaths
and not at all concerned. It is not improba
ble that at the bottom of tho whole trouble is
a clique of bears who having now reaped the
harvest they expected will aid the government
and tho banks in flooding tho market with
money, so that stock may go up and enable
them to realize handsomely.
Bat that there never was any danger to the
commercial interests is to be seen in the fact
that while railroad and other stocks were
tumbling, prices in mercantile circles were
scarcely affected. It is very true that in
sympathy with the financial convulsion cotton
declined in New York, but there was no
break in prices, the decline being compara
tively slight.
From the very start we have insisted that
there was no real danger in the New York
troubles. Outside of the moneyed rings and
swans’ down with rattles of rattlesnakes inter
twined in their hair. They live on bread
made into flour from which the mesquite bean
which grows plentifully in tbe desert, is
ground up, and also on fish which they catch
in the salt water lagoons branching from the
Gulf.
“There are some popular errors about New
river, which have crept into tbe maps. The
Colorada river at Aldegones, about sixteen
miles below Yuma, overflows its banks, and
the stream which runs from it and which
flow's into New river at New River station is
confounded with New river. One of the
most interesting natural wonders of this
section is the ‘bore’ of the Colorado. The
spring tides of tbe gulf rise to a height
of thirty feet, and this expanded volume
ofc the waters of the gulf is coincident
with tbe spring floods of tbe Colorado river.
When the two meet they form what is called a
bore. The waters of the river rushing impet
uously to the gulf basin, swell to such a vol-
umo as to overflow the high banks of tho
cliques, but few persons are likely to be af- ' stream. At the same time the spring tide
fecled. We predict now that within ten ; come3 roaring up the Colorado. M < floods
day, money will be easier .ban it was ten | torn ft, s^nda UU* nnghty
data ago, and thoso who aro hocking nr ,i; and the heavier a.\H water s udz ibt
money, under tho impression *’ it v ill it •he-niie hack ou_ itself L ti ie , the tvatei
more scarce, will find thcmsel. es voofallj dis-1 combing and ’huaiimg with n in it li' ■ Nh -
■ , 1 nenra.
anpotr.! r
In tature of things it is not ]> - fi- JIam-e in Hohaem.—Widen’ Si .it ol the
waldo community to bt of.; Times pronounced tin- following to be a Kate
U ,-eru» that over one-ba f ot 1
Mobi'e niirkit »re not rented.
the publication of t'r.eln —otore uncollect
ed wriiingit of V Daniel Hawthorne, an
nounced iu ime time ago, ha» been delayed
for a biognlar reason. It is intended to in
clude in the projected volume not only the
two chapters of tbe unfinished "DolUrer Ro
mance,” which have been printed in the At
lantic, bnt a third chapter also, which the
author left in manuscript. But up to the
present time no one has succeeded in deciph
ering this latter, and it Btill remains a puzzle.
Mrs. Hawthorne was most skilful in decipher
ing her husband's manuscript. To her pa
tient labor the world owes her conversation
of “Septimios Felon.” Since her death no
one has been found equal to the task. Mias
Una Hawthorne has undertaken the work,
but with only partial success. It is tho opin
ion of the most intelligent critics that Mr.
Hawthorne intended to suppress ‘'Septimus
Felton," and develop its main idea—the se
cret of living forever—in ‘‘The Dolliver Ro
mance.”—Literary World.
utterly impossible for the
’ bat by tho fnanoial
nays, cotton
may rule .soue .. lo-er, but tho loss will
I not bo li. ■ •: Southern pjpple. Even
mV.’,, m i , wow th* aers need not lose a cent by tho
-line. Some of onr merchants hare ex
pressed to ns their willingness to take cotton
at sixteen, aud even sixteen and a half cents,
per pound in payment of debts dae them by
the planters; so that the latter need not sac
rifice their cotton by selling for the prices
now current in onr markets.
We repeat it, that there is not the slightest
occasion for uneasiness in our midst Doubt
less, for a few days onr banks will exercise
more than usual caution in purchasing ex
change ou New York sod in discounting; bnt
they will not find it difficult to obtain the
money with which to move the cotton ciop.
Only yesterday large sums were advanced on
bills of lading in this city, and we know of
one bank that had seventy-eight thousand
dollars of currency in its vaults (above its re
serve) at the close of business.
All things considered, anything like un
easiness in the business circles is simply
' - 1 absurd. There is no possibility by which
• In , a o ery ^° rt l - me ‘i 1 ?™. Wll i, “ ot be a ! the collapse of a few Wall street bankers and
28 igle Republican journal leit id France, nor , , . . ,
one which dares to tay a word in behalf of j * >ro ^ cerB CAn iDtorler© wxtH our commerce. As
R ipoblicanism, j the Louisville Courier-Journal very sensibly
t i l' i .Uucuvc remedy ;
Whale (sperm) oil, six ounces ; oil of tar,
three ounces ; lac sulphur, two ounces—mix
thoroughly, ami apply by means of a hair
btush. Tbe akin should be thoroughly wash
ed before the remedy is applied. At the end
of tho second or third day the animal is again
to be washed and the remedy reapplied, as
it is very possible that all the or i (of tbe
mange insect) are not killed by the first dress-
in #’
Mange being a contagious disease, it is es
sential that all animals suffering from it should
be isolated, aud all objects with which they
may have come in contact purified.
Theclotbiog is to be boiled with a solution
of soap and carbolic acid; and tho harness,
saddle and grooming utensils washed with
warm water nnd soap, and dressed with n so
lution of arsenic or corrosive sublimate, in tho
proportion of ten grains to tho ounce of water.
After being so washed and dressed they are
to be kept for sevoral days exposed to dry air,
washed again with f-oap and water before
they are used, and before they are again put
on the horse they should be sprinkled on tho
side next to the horde’s skin with sulphur.
These may seem useless precautions, but ia
many cases the harness and clothing Are
lined with thick scabs, containing tbe ova of
the parasites, the vitality of which is so great
as to almost defy all efforts destroy it
The Rev. Charles Kingsley writes (o t'je
editor of the Independent: “ I expect to vlrit
you in person after ChrUtmus, whtn I hope
to spend a tew montl s seeing with my own
eyes your wonderful country and people.”
Canon Kingsley does not intend to lecture.
LAY-HOOPER.
Close of the Correspondence—Col. Lay De
nounces Hooper as a Liar—But
Expresses Himself Ready
to Fight Him.
To THE EniXOKS or THE HeBALD:
I band you herewith tho close of my correspondence
with Col. G. W. Hooper, of which he has seen lit to
publish a part.
In publishing the papers in tho Fhilllpe-Wsddell
case, I held out four letters personal to Col. Hooper
and myself for these reason*—
Firtt. I aid not conceive our personal matter would
iuterest the public.
Second. The matter between U3 was not by any
means concluded.
I give you the conclusion. The two letters borne by
Mr. Cunningham and the one by Capt. Campbell were
simply demauda that he should reply to mine of 23rd
August.
I am, gentUmen, respectfully,
Ben.i. D. Lay.
Opelika, Ala., Sept. 17, 1873—10:30 a. m.
Colonel Georg* W. Hooper :
Upon the 30th of August you sent mo a letter
through the mail, which bore date inside 20Ui of Au
gust.
This letter you claimed was io reply 11 mine to you,
of 23d of August, to which you bad neglected to re
ply. Failing to get an answer, I left Atlanta, came to
Opelika, and addressed you a note through Mr. W. W.
Cuuningham, to whom you gave a verbal reply, plead
ing, in your usual evasive manner, that you would re
ply, but had’nt time then. I then Bent you a second
note, to which you attempted an evasive answer,
which Mr. Cunningham refused to receive, saying to
you that he demanded a written reply to a written
note.
Y’ou then promised him that you would reply by 10
a. m. of tbe 30th, stating that you preferred replying
to my letter of 23d before my later ones; and, aB that
bad been sent through the mail, you asked leave of
Mr. Cunningham to send the reply the Fame way, as
suring him that, when sent, you were of opinion that
I would not ask a reply to the two last.
Mr. Cunningham referred the matter to me, and I
consented to wait.
At 10:30 ▲. m. cf the next day Mr. Cunningham
brought me your reply.
I am aorry, 3eorge W. Hooper, you should ever
have written it—because I am sorry to cease to think
you a gentleman. I had believed you one, and had
treated you with courtesy accordingly.
But, Col. Geo- W. HoorEn, from the time you wrote
that letter you were no longer a gentleman—because,
sir, you had wilfully, deliberately, and with premedi
tation, lied—lied, sir, not once, but many times; for,
Mr. Hooper, your heart tells you that no such conver
sation as you report ever passed between us; there
fore you had no such memory. Oh, sir! sir ! how
could you degrade yourself so shamefully?
When I had read your letter, I at oncp sent you a
reply by Captain Campbell, stating what you know
well to be true—that business of greater importance
prevented my replyijg then, aud th-»t I would reply,
at my convenience. You know what that business
was, foryou had brought me Mr. Holland the day be
fore and witnessed our interview. Yon were aware, I
am sure, too, of the telegram he sent after his return
home, requesting me to come to Columbus. Hence,
you fully understand what was meant by business of
a more imperative nature.
This note, Sir, was sent to you by the hands of Cap
tain Campbell at once, and he found that you had left
the city immediately upon mailing your insult to me.
Captain Campbell went to your office to deliver my
cote, found that ycu had left, and endorsed the fact
upon tbe back of the note, and stated to me that he
would hunt you until he found you. There wore ac
credited to you besides Capt: John C. Campbell, also
Major J. F. Shecnt and Capt. Wallace. These gentle
men found yon at Columbus when they went to de
liver my reply to Mr. -James T. Holland, at Gen. Een-
niug’s office.
Capt. Campbell, as the immediate consideration of
the note, asked to see you alone, as there were others
present. You took him to a private room; as ho en
tered, you drew and cocked a pistol, which you held
behind you, and retreated backward behind a large
table. Captain C. is a small man, unarmed. You re
fused tbe note with the pistol in your hand; but
Campbell told you that you must receive it, and you
took it. It required no answor yet you wrote one,
stating that as the correspondent had been com
menced by mail you proposed to continue it that way.
Upon entering that room, you shut the door in tin
face of Capt Wallace and Mr. Shecut, and stood alone
with Capt. Campbell, and drew your pistol. Ob, Sir!
are you not ashamed as you remember tzis scene ?
Well, sir, so soon as the Phlllips-Waddell matter
was finished, I, as I had promised, left Atlanta for this
point, alone and unarmed. It was my intention, if I
met you on tbe street, to lay to you personally aud
privately that you had lied, and dismiss the matter. I
run around here all day yesterday for that purpose,
and no other. I saw you but once—that was as I re
turned from the “ telegraph office.” Your were stand
ing on the porch of your office. An elderly gentleman
was sitting on your porch reading. Mr. Fred Phillips
was with me. I said to Mr. Phillips, at once, to leave
me, and not approach nearer to me than twenty paces.
He did so, aud I walked alone to the front of your of
fice.
As yon saw me comiug, and while I was yet thirty
or forty yards away, you turned suddenly and went
into your office; the old gentleman, too, looked at me,
rose aud left tbe porch. (I have been told that so
soon as you got inside yon seized a double-barreled
shot gun, and watched for my coming through the
door.)
Of course I never contemplated going icto your
" office." I paused for a second in front, then walked
slowly on to the "postoffice;” waited there some three
minutes, then sauntered slowly oyer to the hotel.
Since that time I have been three times past your
"office,” but save that timo have never eeen you.
Everyone in this city has been a witness to the man
ner in which a party of your friends attempted to
bully and intimidate mo yesterday, by parading the
streets heavily armed ami poatmg themselves near
the door of the h (<•! where l. was stopping. I have
been told that you were with that parly. If so. you
remained inside some of the doors, for I did not see
you, though 1 law tho otheis as I passed through
Now, Col. Hooper failmg to see you, 1 mail
you this reply to your extraordinary letter, end :oae
oil comspondeccj with you fri. . There is only
ot way I ab*U ever notice you again—that it
if yo i Fi.Gidd aoud u friend to mo with a polite
u te, requesting me to meet you on mutual ground,
your friend shall bo received, and I promise to grant
year wish, and restore you to the gentility you have
forfeited.
I remain hero until 12 to-night, when I go to Co
lumbus. 1 shall stay there twenty-four hours, and then
return to Atlanta.
I am, sir, entirely at your service,
BnJtf. D. Lay, M.D.
I certify that I copied this letter for Col. B. D. Lay
and saw him mail it to Col. G. W. Hooper, in this city.
Wm. T. Tiujtttm.
I have compared this with the original and find this
a true copy. F. Watkikh.
Poitical Notes.
MACON DEPARTMENT.
The New York World s.»_va truly that in the ; j. . RTFVtllltftii piTv iiHTno
whole South, from iho Potomac and Ohm j STmuSON • CITY HHTOB.
i rivers to the Gulf of Mexico, there is no Re- iIACOV RA SATnRn AV ss-PT on ia- t
publican party ut all except among the ne- UA., aATL RDA1, SEPT. 20. 18id
groes, carpet-baggers, and Federal officers. -— — . _
j There is no Southern State of which the Re- ° ur Offlee.
j publicans could keep control after the next , ‘
■ election if Washington influences were with- R rajlc b Office of the Herald is on
; drawn. ; Cherry street, over Helfrich’s confectionery
The colored men of Ohio are highly indig- store. Parties desiring to subscribe for or
nant at the treatment they receive from the < T / ... , _ ,
Republican party of that State. They asked d t * the il,wuvs fini1
for representation, and the result was that a some one tho office to attend to
colored man was nominated for renresenta- wants *
tive in the Columbus District, where the par
ty is always about 2,000 votes behind. This
is what the Yankees call a cute trick.
l ily Circulation of tUe Herald.
Hereafter and until tLe night train is again ruuninc
The New York Herald favors the appoint- u P°n the Macon and Western roid \be Herald will
meut Of cither Mr. Groesbeck, Mr. Charles 1 arrive at three o'clock io tho afternoon and bo at
O Conor or Jtidt/e Daly to tho vacant Chief . . .
Justiceship of the Supreme Court. ° Dce ' eut Ly clrr1 '" 3Dd new * bo - Vi ' “ heretofore
The New York Sun thinks tbe call for a throughout the city. It is hoped that in a few days
Liberal Republican State Convention in New the tchedule will be so changed a* to allow the paper
I York only adds another to the steadily neen- . ..
I muhtting indication* that both of tho old ,0! “ >**« »t o^en ° C.ock in the morn,n g .
■ parties are destined to be broken up through
j tho intervention of independent organizi- __
! lions of various kinds We see this in the sought afUrThl.'mornmgVand m^*c u "nt7nU
ireadmess r .h whtch the ant, monopoiy g ord to the univvraa. crash ,h,o oeraned inn,
The City.
The daily editions of ail the papers were esgerlv
in re-
inevitabb-
yesterday, most ctgcrly devoured. Fisk -v Hatch, like
oubccw wuitu ivucuucu 113 mai tuunht Miiu t. a >
the Republican and Democratic parties. We , . ' y er y ’ were up t0 *® 4ter "
see it in tbe formidable farmers’ movement in da y ***** ^vulnerable; but, when it wo- an-
nounced that this theoretic Gibraltar had su cumlxd,
movement was started in California, and the
success which attended its first contest with
every one said a universal
; of the United States cot at
>h all over that portion
ly and solely agricnlfo.
Mac >n Market.
Many of cur merchants who have purchased heavily
in New York, have r, ad to da.}’* smashing, crashing,
slashiug dispatches, aud were afterwards seen to blow
iera movement in
| the Northwestern States. We see it in the
j Democratic Convention of Allen county,
! Ohio, followed by a State Convention aud
j the nomination of a State ticket composed ot raI was iDevit »hi
j bolters from both parties. We see it in the j Tll<5 noon reports <hst a better feeling prevailed—
j conflict between tho Federal officeholders and tl,&t a direct off >rt on the part of the Government
j the magnates of the Republican party of and those banks and houses not yet crushed by the
Massachusetts, in which Grant’s servitors crisis, bad been made to stop the panic—was received
j were crowded to the wall. with incredulity. But all parties are agreed that wv
The New York Nation, one ot the ablest have no stocks, bends, gold or silver—but Cotton
| political papers in this country, and a sup- , That the world is bound to have; that England, not
j porter Of Grant in the last election, referring Jay Cooke, governs; and that we have this year * crop
to the canvass in Massachusetts, says that an- on hand; it ia little mortgaged; but no matter what
| other thing in that canvass that is surprising comes of all this trouble among our Northern broth-
| many people outside tho State is the tact that | cr8 ((iod bk ., 8 thcmwo „„ obli8ea lo h „„ , hc ^
Masenchusetts Republican should be so very ! ^ for it> or e ; M , gentlemen, we be* to b. ex-
indignant last now over Federal interference ... ... ’ . .
! in their State election. There is nothing novel I ^v!T'“ “T“ .
! or unforeseen about this. The President and , _. uh«sk ° e * ttr n produce, ax a
his advisers are only doing in Massachn- jbacon .,de. U>. In round lota:
setts what they have long been doing in ' 4 r . h Rher e,s ,h *“ a “•*- Shoulder. 10',.
other States with the connivance or approval i Wln * e con * '* boujautoui advanced; 95 w„ aakedond
of Massachusetts. The meddling support of; obtaiDei1 - Yellow end mixed 90. Tbe advance in
Butler is a perfectly natural sequence of the j We8t ' rn freight., more than any ebange of marteta,
support of Casey aud Packard. Butler is in 1113 produced the result o»ta 65. Hay $1 so to
some respects, doubtless, a more objoctiona- J F,oUr better. Supers fo so to $8. Family
ble man than Casey, but he is also more use- i $8 so to to. Fancies $io 50 to $11 so to $12. Extra
ful, and we do not see in principle any differ- c sugar 12 to 12>£. Standard brands of bagging ad-
euce between the control of Louisiana by ! vanced. We quote 2 1 ^ 17 1 *: 2 16»'. Iron ties 9«*.
Long Branch and Washington politicians and I Celebrated sugar cured hams 16 to 17, according to
that ot Massachusetts. It is sad, doubtless, 1 reputation. Lard steady. In fcega 12. Barrels 11.
that Federal patronage in Massachusetts j Meal 93. The new crop of rice is just beginning to
should be in the hands of such worth- arrive. Its teadily commands 10 cents, though not
less busybodies as are now trying to elect considered firm at that figure. R:o coff.-e 25 to 27
Butler ; but then, are they not as re- ' j.v. a;
spectable advisers ns our own Murphy, and
Bliss, and Davenport? The fact is J
that our Massachusetts brethren must give up j
regarding themselves ns a peculiar people who
can afford to make light of their neighbors’ * . A ,
calamity, nnd must learn the great lesson ' tUeir nese * most r r “ d, e'°u«T, not to a»y profoamUy.
that what they wink at in other parts of the Uat “ “ Ur 8 e P«cen.ax 0 of tboir pureharea have been
country, mav any day have to be encountered uiade upon ‘'tick," and that lick ticking for thirty
within their own borders. They must learn, , days at tbe shortest, by that time they will certainly
too, that men like Butler are living organisms. know to wb »t extent one Jay Cook was running this
and grow in all directions—on their bad side little western division cf Adam and Eve’s children-
just as well as on their usetul side. They j At least, they are not obliged to attend any special fu-
cannot be dismissed at the convenience ot neral now on hand into which Jay Cooke, Fisk. Hatch
their employers, alter having done all the k Co. seem to enter hugely.
dirty work of the establishment, but have to u . PlUtT , le „ rit of Hab , a , co.put.
be provided for to avoid public scindal and Some of the UBUtioul jQ . Jrull , ba , a op f „ locaI
mt. n ,, , . , .. items have announced two or vhree time* that L. B.
Ine Baltimore Sun does not regard the .. . . . ,
orderof the Patrons of Husbandry as a po- ! f *, 6 , S< f Be * r w T ° a ‘ d
litical organization; bnt that it is rather ^brought before Judge HU1 or some other Judge Or
social reunion of those engaged in agricul- s, l uire * u P° n a wrlt cf btbe * 8 cor
taral pursuits for purposes of personal and ■c r * cd the 8how or uial
friendly conference in regard to their corn- i or ^^ro^hon or whatever else these dead
mon business interests. Such, in its neep- he,<J "•‘P 0 *** 8 demanded. They finally agreed th* t
tion, it has been lately and authoritive 1 • the *Lv*>r would come off to-day, not dreaming tha^
Stated, was the object of the order of Patroue eith -r *idc had received a single tent or monkey. They
Of Husbandry at the West, whose granges positively informed that no trial ol Pike will take
now count their members by thousands, aud place until the next term of the B:bb County Superior
whose aggregate membership is *aid to exceed | Court.
six hundred thousand. So far from attempt- The Fawn and the Fairie.
ing to influence the individual action of its a beautiful fawn accompanied a young of this
members in matters Of politics, tbe constltu- City upon the city this afternoon, each attracting the
tion of the order, we are told, expressly for- i admiration of all. The wild deer and the domestic
bids the introduction or discussion in the ! ga/.die seemed to love each other and nono looked
granges of auy political or religious questions but to admire them.
The Sun says it was started as a purely v Doc(or „„ cratches
social organization among men of kindred Some m „„ mt ie rascal slipped into the drug atcre
tastes, pursuits and interests in life, having 1 . „ „ „ T> TI . .. . . . . . . , ..
i ° ; and office of Dr. I*. H. w right yesterday, and stole hie
the same general purpose as in other Indus- ; , . .. , ? ' _ ... . ...
trial and business occupations is sought to be casc of matrumenu. The Dr. would to-J»,hke
effected by the formation of trades societies, :«rymuchto ' pr.ct.ce epon tarn. Butahouldte
business exchanges, aud periodical conven- ^ realised consultation iu the purchase of that case,
tions held iu different parts of the country. he ootihes all doater* iv, and nurchasers of medical
All this is not only strictly natural and laud- j Instruments, to notice % certain marginal note which
able, but calculated to be eminently useful, | reads, however dimly, but reals still—" Dr. P. H
and it is only surprising that something of i Wright.”
the sort has not been thought of and accom- A Kwttlesnake Around tlae Herald Office,
plished before. It is but an extension and This afternoon a boy tud the audacity to visit the
amplification Of the useful objects sought to premises of the Herald Macon 3ureau contrary te
be accomplished through the instrumentality the by-lawa and constitution thereof. He waa prooapt-
of agricultural societies and farmers’ clubs,
and the public fairs aud exhibitions he Id un
der their auspices. Such associations, con
sidered only as a means of diffusing better in
formation and promoting an interchange ol
views, as well as cementing bonds of personal
sympathy among those engaged in agricul
ture, have become more than ever necessary,
and have bad their sphere of usefulness greatly
enlarged since farming has been elevated to a
place amoDg the learned professions, borrow
ing improved methods from science, and in
volving tho application of the latest discover
ies of chemistry and the arts.
ly bitten by a rattlesnake. But how the snake got
there, and where he came from, and where he went
after he guarded (?) the Bureau, are questions re
ferred respectively to a special committee.
That Team at Raffle.
That splendid phaeton to be raffled off in connection
with Mr. Clay's four horses, has arrived, and appeared
upon the streets this afternoon, drawn by the beauti
ful iron and white greys.
Personal I»i
Onr young friend, Mr. John Mel s
returned from Tennessee, where Lc L
lng a few days.. His mission was one o
and pleasure, and he ia greatly refrci
on* d.
Mr. Massey, t n* of the proprietors of tbe W
Journal, wa* iu the <*i V*- . a xlyinj
H reports M
;a ape
1 and i
visit.
Mr
Fulton County Agrlcultutatl Society.
We sb-'-’ * mtiooed that this Society held a
- -.it.i; v • instant, at East Point, but the
op** h'.adYv .*nUy became misplaced and we make the
am .. V by stating the fact at this late day, and in con-
n ^. *vc uitl -ho state that there waa to have
been an old faxhiouct. basket dinner and a general
rooo. time - ith the i‘u ubcTs and friends ; and it was
*h understood that sreechea would be delivered on
M \. i- u u> col. Thos. C. Howaad, and probably,
oiuers, but by 6om9 unexplained rc taon there was a
misunderstanding as to the day appointed, and the
failed to put in an appearance, likewise many
he genial a
oi ‘Lo Bockmart Register, aval
Along with other good qualities
We are under many obligati
Saesecn, the traveling agent for Guilford, Wood A* Co , j of 1K , W liic deb proceeded to discos# the
for divers favors. He is a good man, and represents 1 acar.go question, aud as there were none present who
ono of tho best houses iu the city. May be have tho j ooula throw ary light upon tho subjectas to the prime
success that his Industry merits and that the excelteu- ; oV j r> q ol lhlg modern order, the substance of the de
ni dashing local editor others of the membership and invited friends,
in tbe city yesterday. : quorum being present, however, tho President, Rev.
lorn is a “pbst boy.” (has. Dowmau, called the meeting to order, the min-
ms to Mr. George S. were reed and approved, and after the admission
bate, os nee;
* thus:
Says farm<
collects, was about
range
DASHES HERE AND THERE.
IkeGuthican, the liveat drummer iu Atlanta, made
a line business Initiatory trip last week. His sales In
Southwest Georgia alone were flrat rate, for dull
time*. His House (Guthman ft Haas) will be closed
to-morrow, that being the Jewish new year,
Ex-Governor Conley received a letter yesterday
from Mr. Scruggs, Uuited States Minister to South
America. He had arrived safely, aud waa well pleased
with the country. M». Scruggs' health was fine.
We noticed yesterday at Kendrick k Sons’ Carpet
Store two patterns of carpets which they were manu
facturing. One waa an Engliah Velvet—something
nnusual in this maiket—which was being mad* for
Martin Dooly. It is a real gem and will work a revo
lution In this Hue of business. There was another,
a fine Brussels, foj a young gentleman who marries
in the next two or three days, which was a perfect
beauty.
Lewis H. Clarko expects in tho next few days to
have the finest lot of bat< ever brought to the city.
Tlio Recorder's Court yeaterd ty was short, bnt not
barren of results.
Father Burke does not expect to revisit
America for at least two yonrs.
II- Lei's bavt
Oh, no! says farmer I>—
Auythinp, just for a change.
Ejaculated good brother C—
'Taint what wo want, says farmer TV
Tint * what tho matter with Hannah,
It secures our rights, says the other C—
And brings down the price of Guauo.
That last waa a settler and forthwith it waa uoouC
of their goods deserve.
Wo were pleased to meet jesterday evening
cellent young legal friend, Col. Jesse S. Thrasher j
who has juat returned from Thomaaville, Ga., whither |
he went some two weeks ago to attend to some im- ;
portiint business. He was well pleased with Thom- j
ssvilic, her business prospects, etc. A* Jess© is s
marriageable man, we rather expect he think* the P )
G. in (i. lives about Tbomasvi'le,
■The following, among others, were registered at tha 1
popular National Hotel last night: W P Compton,
MraMJockaon, Mr* M P Houston, South Pocolott; j
Min. M Ho in ton, W A Cain, E Richmond, Lonialana: 1 Aoiusly repaired, that wa invito Cok B. A. Alotoo. ol
John Anthony, OoloavlUe. }i C; J L Colcman.Mla- the- Atlanta Haoxui, todcHvw uaan addreaaupon tL,
alppi; W W XaWilHotM, Sh-lt>yvnu, Kv: Jaa Bung- 'Irena* qovation, at tho Oraa Honda, Mar Mount
man, Jcflforeon connty, Kj; W M BrlatoU and wife,; Oflcad Camp (iroun.l. on the third 8atartar in octo-
Alfton Minn, D H Van puren, An«uata; t X Molater, j bar. with a view to orsanlaing a Orengt.
Dalton; M M Wolfe, Charlotte, SC; Pr W 1 RoevM. I Meeting adjourned.
Calhoun; J W Marshall, do; A D Clark, Macon; A W j ^ Ho * K ._ A . n .7abrtat trip to EootariUa
Earle and with, Macon: Dr 3 M Weatinorcland, Tblla I, ... , hn h „
dolphin; Hon E W Beck and «ife, Gridin; CH C * 0 ' , Cincinnati, Mr. John StepbaM boa returnod
Willingham, EaGrange; T A Nlcoll, Montgomery ; w ' heme, and ooaumed his ilutiaa a» nonlor ol the arm ot
NToler, It Y; J M Anileroon. AdatmvUle; J 8 1‘iuolo,, 1 Stephens A Flynn. W« ore glad to loam that this
Angusta; R K Park. Macon*. J P Moore, Marietta; V \ . . , , . .. ilh
H S Sweet. 8 and M It B; John W Treloar. 8t. I.onta; ! flrn > luoU < or, re r ' 1 <° ,hf “•» bnolneon year with eon-
CS Barrett. Bt Eonie; Mre JL Bam bo. A M Hnmbo, J hdenoe In a largely tncreaaad trade. There la no houre
Miss 8 M Fort, Montgomery: S V Drenham, Coelog- in the olty which a'ande higher tor aolidtty. btuineee
tan; B WPetty, s aud M B It; Geo O MwMPfrV*! | eqpMjiy and Integrity; and tho doqqreegty high repo
Co, H C Ste- ' iatlou it haa won has bean the fruita ot the bar— ■
Green county; John Beaver, P P I
Th k Jewish New T»ae.—Tc-morrow the atoiea of
our Jewish friooda will be closed in oousequeocc of
the usual New Y>ar*a celeb. aMon. Tbe Jewish year
begins on 'he fist of September, and their New Year
is always appropriately celebrated. Iu the beginning
of their next year we take occasion to wtah them one
and all, the succeaa and pleasure they so eminently
merit bv reason of their exrclleut business habits and
irreproachable conduct.
and sterling character of the two men who c
We had tbe pleasure yesterday of meeting Mr. D.
M. Richardson, traveling agent for Kefctyr Brother,
proprietors of the Laclede and Pacific (Muring mi te
of 8t. Louis. He is well known ail through this sec
tion, and haa »o)d large quantities o( flour to our
jobbers. Ho ia one of the most agreeable gentleiueu
it haa ever been our luck to run a foul of. The aam-
her of mounths be feeds is only exceeded by the Boat
of fr e ids he h&a made.