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[For the Borne Courier.
The Unjust Steward.
And it came to pass that one Rufns, who
was Governor of Georgia, was accused of
wasting the goods of the State, and the
people said he should be no longer stew
ard.
And Rufus greatly feared, and he said
to himself, what shall I do ? I. cannot dig,
and to beg I am ashamed. I am resolved
what to do, that when I am put oat of the
Stewardship, they may receive me into
their houses. And he called all the State's
debtors who were freedmen, and to thefirst
he said, what owest thou, sud why art thou
shut up in prison ? And- he answered, 1
have slain a man without cause, and my
life is forfeited; and Rufus said unto him.
take thy bill, and write three years in the
Penitentiary. And to the see ind he said,
how much owest thou, and he answered,
three year's service in the Penitentiary.—
Takw thy bill and write one year. To a the
third, how orach owest th-u, and he said
odo year’s service. Take thy bill and write
paid, in full, and moreover, I will give you
a magistrate's commissioner for the city of
Savannah.
Thus did Rufus continually, a d verily
he will havehis reward. Briefly.
Turuer Cleared.
Id our telegraphic column says the At-
iiots Constitution of the 22nd will be found
j special dispatch from Macon, stating that
Turuer, contrary to expectation, has been
acquitted and turned loose.
The result is certainly a wrong. Subdu-
j C g a ll prejudice against the unfortunate
culprit, and viewing the testimony as*
lawyer, we unhesitatingly say that Turner
should have been committed. It must be
borne in mind that the same amount of ter
timony is not required for committal to
.trial as for conviction. When there is a
.reasonable possibility of gnilt shown on tho
-preliminary examination, it is the duty of
;the investigating officer ta bind ov
er.
After the first examination, and before
ihe reopcaiag of the hearing, the Commis
sioner would have committed Turner. We
think that while it was hardly technically
Segal to reopen the ease, yet, under the cir
cumstances, it was right.
The truth is, as we are informed, and we
believe it, that Mr. Morrill has acted under
instructions from Washington in releasing
Turner. And we also have intelligence
from a good source, that Tamer's rule as
Post-Master is over. He will no more
trouble our Macon neighbors with his post
al jinks
This whole Turner episode makes a foul
stain upon the Federal Administration.
Turner’s character was fully exposed before
bis appointment was final. A known scamp
was thus forced in a high position upon
* targe moral, and intelligent people for the
brutal purpose of crgAiiying them into
Soodbehavior. The rascality of the appointee
has beensuuned and the shameful specta
cle is seen of the government at Washing.
toagagging justice in Georgia, whioh State
it seeks to punish because it alleges it won
do justice, to shield the government from
the result of its wanton trifling with
right.
The administration thus ignominiousy
crawfishes out of its dilemma. It would be
a bitter pill to remove Turner, the criminal.
It can more gracefully withdraw him ao-
quitted.
Let it lake the lesson. Ignorance and
vice, may typically represent the ruling par
ity, but they only pntit in trouble and breed
for it shame and failure.
If we are to be punished, it had hotter
do it with good and not had instuments,
which may hurt us badly, bat will damage
our erucifiers also.
Fires lu Marietta.
On Friday, the l6th, the fine new dwoiling
ofD. M Foung, Esq. was burned, and Satur
day night following, a wooden building, oc
cupied as a store, by S. A. Dupre—-prop
erty of Mrs. Harris; two brick stores, own
ed by Mr. A Cook, and one by j D. Smith.
R. H. McCuteheon & Bro., lost heavily in
goods.
Borne Market
No material changes in prices since our
last quotations. Good red wheat ig still
worth $1 25al 30, and cotton 30 cents.
Destructive Drouth.
It has been over three weeks since there
has been anything like an adequate rain
for the crops in this section. The corn
crop, especially, has been greatly injured,
all the late corn being almost entirely ruin
ed, while tho earlier crop has been materi
ally diminished.
The JLost Man Found.
The man who mysteriously disappeared
from Cave Spring, some, ten days since, nas
turned npjot Cross Plains, but refuses, aa
we are told, to giye feis name,
The Turuer Case.
The Macon papeisof Wednesday tell ns
hat the Turner case was reopencth Tues
day morning on motion of Turner’s court
sel. ,
Emily Pope, colored, swore Tomer was
ir agent; she had put in his hands $400
first in February, and then a few days after
a $100 bill her husband had given her two.
years ago. Turner told her I hat Nutting’s
Rank di 1 not like the bill, bat others said
it was good. R. Hutchins, of Jones, loan
ed her the $400. - Turner kept the $100
and has paid her sixty of it.
Marion Harris, colored swore : She had
known Tamer three years, he had aever
given her money. She gave Tamer a $50
bill to hay her a ticket—he did* so, and
gave her the change— she had not told Par-
cell, the detective, that Tamer had given
her money, she did not tell Mr. Neil she
had got the money f-om a Washington min
ister; she told Mnrphy she fonod the money
in the street, because she did not know
what else to tell; she never mentioned
Tamer’s name to Murphy; she wished -he
could tell what Purcell .tone to her; she
■got the bad money from Shuman, cr Sher
man—$1,560 in all—at Tamer’s honse in
Philadelphia; arid she was to give him $60
for every $100; it was her own business
whether she was intimate with Shuman.
Charles Cowlan. detective, swore he was
told by J. C. Beddington, Chief of Secret
Service, to look into t he matter; he had ar
rested Marian Harris; he confirmed her ac
count-of Shuman giving her the money,
who. he said, .was a colored messenger in
the United States Treasury Department,
and is now under bonds for stealing these
bonds.
George B. Chamberlain, swore Marion
Harris confessed without coercion.
E. B, Purceil swore that Marian Harris
told him Turner had given her the money.
Capt O. C. Neil swore he was a secret
service officer in the United States Treasu
ry Department, that the stolen money was
taken unsigned from the Treasury Depart
ment, two years ago; that Marian told him
she met Tamer at a bad honse, in Phila
delphia; that she made two statements
about the money; one that ‘she got it in
Washington, and the other that she got i
in Philadelphia; her statement was made
before her re-arresc.
T. C. Mnrphy swore the stolen bilk and
Marian’s hills agreed; that she told him
she got the money from Wyman, or Way*
man; did not search her.
Counsel argued, and the Commissioner
reserved his decision till morning.
The opinion is he will be bound, over
Marian Harris is a bright mulatto, rather
above the medium height, and sailed into
the court room, yesterday in a sky blue
dress, rather tastefully trimmed} a jannty
little picnic hat set off in blue; large jet
ear-bobs, and shoes tipped with morrocco.—
She is up to style, and about thirty-five
years of age. If she really did’nt fill Tur
ner's eye, it was not her fault.—Telegraph.
Another $25,000.— Superintendent
Halbert notifies “Governor” Bullock that
he had paid $25,000 into tho Treasury
from the earnings of the State Road for
Jane. _
*©-Tbe Governor of Florida has issued
a proclamation fixing the second day of No
vember next as the day on which a popu
lar vote shall be taken to determine the
p-oposed session of West Florida to Ala
bama.
y@_A young gentleman was escorting a
young lady homo, a mile os two and not
wishing to walk, he remarked: “Mary let’s
take a buss.” "But Mary, blushing to the
eyebrows, drew back, and with wounded
modesty, replied: “Oh George, not right
in the street!”
Superior Court.
Ibis court has been making good pro
gress during this week, and a large number
old civil cases disposed of, and all the old
ooios on criminal docket, and about half
Tk f * D ^ D " S °f‘hs present Grand Jury.—
e oriininal docket is still under consider
ation.
The following are among the interesting
ofril cases already tried: Estate of R. J.
»n vs estate of N. J. Omberg—ver
dict for defendant. Tbos. E. Williamson
y—verdict lor plaintiff,
or $2,000—motion for new trial pending;
«dJ.M. Walker, vs John Baker’ In
ts case the plea was the Belief Law and
Usury— verdict gives plaintiff $734,
reducing his claim some six hundred dol
lars.
Many old cases have been dismissed from
* 6 docket. It Is the purpqse of the court
to go on and clear the docket at a* early, a
"to as possible. We regret that Judge
irby has been suffering from severe iu-
taposition during the week. So far as we
■eve been able to ksro, his adminktration
14 giving entire satisfaction, and the ihdi-
cctaons are that he will mnlrr, a good and
Pcp-Usr judicial officer. Col. Warren
Akin, at the request of the Judge, has
consented to preside in several oases
*jto the full consent of all parties in terest-
O n account of the indisposition of Judge
hy» the court adjourned on Friday night
» Monday morning.
Sambo in Congress.—It k known to
most of onr readers, that at .the reoent
election in Virginia, a negro was elected
to the National House of Representatives
from one of the Dktricts. Grant is sud
to be satisfied with the result In Virginia.
We shall soon sea whether this col
ored puston will he more successful than his
brother Menard of Louisiana was. We are
glad that the Radical Congress will have
to face the mnsie. They, as the world
knows, do not want to see Sambo in the
Halls of Congress as their equal; but they
most swallow their own nauseous medicine,
or risk the consequences of dkturbing the
pleasant and hortherly feelings of their ne
gro brethern. Sambo cannot be fooled by
Sumner and Forney with promkes any lon
ger. He hue been told by them that his
right te a seat in Congress k as good as a
white man’s; and he will not he satisfied
with the empty honor of an election with
out a fUll enjoyment of its fruits.—feder
al Union,
jeg^We learn from the Atlaata New
Era that there k a movement ou foot to
build a railroad from that eity direct to
Station No. 13 on the Central Railroad
aking Macon) and that the Central
[road proposes to undertake the work.—
The object k to shorten the distance from
Atlanta to Savannah by ftom 25 to 40
miles, so as to afford a more direct route
from Cincinnati to the sea coast.
All the straightening that may be under
taken will not giye Cincinnati another
route to the sea, or to the West Indias so
short and direct os that running due South
from Chattanooga to the Gulf yia thjs pity
and the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Colum
bus railroad. It is possible that a straight-
eng course may be pursued that will leave
Atlanta considerably east of the route.—
Columbus Enquirer. - •
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H£!MjI-OU!Cai..=—The editor of the Peo
ple’s Defender^ at NeWPSP. 5 ? displaying
eat Hen-orgy in the science of Hen ojogy.
line ofhk hens are setting on one egg,
and some on less. One k setting on a
squash, and another in. a pot' of water, oa
the fire. The last Will be pretty apt to
hatch out fowbip-pieces.
-W j*- »■ —
Phosp -oros Poisoning.—The emana
tions Iron 1 phosphorus in match factories
can, it ia saw, be deprived of their noxious
qualities by means of essenaa of turpentine,
which is to be placed in shallow vessek and
allowed to escape freely into the atmos
phere. It k also suggested that turpentine
should be adininbtered as a remedy to chil
dren-who have poisoned themselves by eat-
ing tbe e.nfi ef Incifer matches.
Horses sometimes run for cups, but
not half so often as man do.
(^.Greeley says that two-thirds of the
income returns of New York are fraudu-
lepfc .
Tlia ties that bind merchants closely
to their customers.—Adver-ties.
ASrWhat’s the difference between water
and Whiskey? Men slip on the former
when it is Dozen, and the latter when it
isn't. -
Cotton Failures-In England.
Onr Englkh papers announce several
potton failures- In Preston, Messrs. George
Smith & Son, Moor Brook Milk, had been
compelled to suspend payment, and Messrs.
Taylor, and Stead, of Liverpool, were pre
paring the necessary balance sheet and
statements Messrs, Smith & Sop ran
13,000 spindk? and abopt 45P looms, and
employed upwards of two hundred work
people. The failures have also been an
nounced of Messrs. R. (f W. Jackionjootton
spinners and manufacturers, of Lanucaster
and Preston, who ran 35,000 spindles and
900 looms, and employed three hundred op
eratives; and of Mr. Bourne,of Brindle,near
Preston, who ran 34,000 spindles and 500
looms, and employed about the same num
ber of hands. The cotton trade iff Preston
and the vicinity—indeed, throughont Lan
cashire—is in a most wretched condition
and there are rumors of other misfortunes,
impending.
The German* am} the Puritans.
The Germane, says the Chicago Times,-
who are now howling so mellifluuusly in Bos
ton over the invasions of their rights, are
being served just aa they ought to be. They
have trained in the Radical camp, have
fought the Radical battles, and h*ye help
ed Massachusetts gain a supremacy in Rad
icalism that k as intolerable as it is immov
able. They are jost now getting the bene
fits of allying themselves to the Pnritans.
Democrats have no sympathy for them. It
is to be hoped that Puritanism will contin
ue to knock in the heads of beer barrels,and
to olose up beer shops, until the German
population at the hub shall repent, in dust
and ashes, its long alliance pith the fanat
icism and pretended loyalty pf Neyr Eng
land, _
A Menagerie In a Midnight Storm,
On Monday Baily & Co's. Menagerie
and Cirons exhibited at Muscatine- The
tent was struck at 11, p. m., and the show
Started for Davenport. Before a doyen
milts had been traversed, a terrible storm
let loose its lightning, thunder and water.
The lightning was blinding in its brillian
cy, the thunder was terrific, and the nun
violently driven by the wind, came down in
sheets A panic seized the whole caval
cade —men, horses and animak seemed ter
ror-stricken. Eight of the drivers deserted
their teams, and it was not long before
wagons and horses were in inextricable con
fusion—a jammed up mass of floundering
animak and overturned vehicles.. The
darkness, save when lightning illuminated
the scene, was impenetrable.
The caged lions, tigers, leopards, wolves
and other beasts, became frightened, and
bounded from side to side of their prisons,
and rolled and. growled, and shrieked in
very terror. The lightning came nearer
and nearer, until its thunder seemed to.
break in the very midst of the caravan. The
e’ephants laid fiogp ip fb? feed and re
fused to move.' Three of the horses were
killed by lightning. It k a wonder that
no hnman lives were lost.
At daybreak the scene presented beggars
description. Imagine it from tbeabove ac
count of the night’s experience.
It was the worst adventure that ever be
fell a pjrcns in tbk portion of the West.
- The show reaohed Davenport at a late
hour in the day, men and teams well rugh
exhausted by the terrible nights work and
the hard journey which followed it.—Da
venport Gazette.
. Take tbc Paper*.
Those planters’who take a newspaper,
pay for it, and read it regularly, are the. men
who bear the highest reputation as agri-
cnltoralkts, and who are the moat valued
in their respective neighborhoods for shrewd
ness and sagacity in their business transac
tions. Many a planter, if the troth were
k R owP, saves more than ten times the price
of hk subscription in the pourse of a year,
by the information that he obtains through
the columns of his paper. It k useless to
argue the point, the man who does not read
the papers k a long ways behind the age.—
Macon Mess. _
Tor the Alabama Timra.
ilr. G. M. Drake:
Dear Sir—I send you an anecdote or
two for the good humored, fat readers, of
your paper to laugh at. If you lantern-
jawed, dry-bone fellows can’t get up a bu_-h
on reading them, just go over and look at
some of your fat neighbors, and it may be
yon will catch the infection.
. - DADDY MONK.
The Primitive Baptists, in a certain
neighborhood, Dot a thousand milss from
here, determined .to bnild themselves a
house of worship. There lived ini the com
munity a prtacher whose name was Monk.
Ho was commonly called by hk brethren
and neighbors “Daddy Monk.” Three of
the members were appointed to take up a
collection, and their success was such that
they had fifteen dollars on hand after pay
ing for the bouse. A. consultation was
held to decide what should be dole with
the balauce ou hand. It was at first de
termined to divide it out pro rata, accord
ing to the amount subccribed by each. But
they could none of them work out the sum.
Daddy Monk proposed, by way of settling
all difficulties, that the money be appropri
ated to the purchase of a keg of whkky, to
be kept at some place near the church, for
the exclusive use of the brethren on preach
ing days. This was unanimously agreed to.
So the committee purchased fifteen gallons
of good whisky andstorod it with a broth
er living near the church, and it was reg
ularly brought out on preaching days.
This was in December. Daddy Monk
promked to preach for them the first -Son-
day in each month. According to promise,
he preached in January, and opened the
doors of the ohnroh. Eight persons join
ed. In February fourteen joined, and in
March 21, making in all 43 new members.
On that day the liquor gave out. and Dad ly
Monk exhorted them to bny more “for,”
said be, “when we completed this house
three months ago, we were few in number,
and not mnch respected But now, by the
grace of God, and the fifteen gallons of
whkky, we are a large chnrch, having ta
ken in 43 souk, bless Goc, nearly three to
the gallon ?
Thk same Daddy Monk was sharp in
thk way, as . the following shows :
Yon know that there has never been
much cordiality bet ween the Primitive and
Missionary Baptist. The Missionary call
the Primitive Hardshelk. Daddy Monk,
while preaching one Sunday, delivered him
self in this wise :
“The Missionaries think they are mighty
smart. They call ns Hardshelk. ' 'Well,
now, if we are the hardshelk, they mqst be
Ihe softshejk. What sort of eggs is hard
shell eggs and softsheU eggs ? I’ll tell yon
Hardshell eggs k the sort what hatches out
chickens and docks and* turkeys, „and all
them sort of good things. SoftsheU eggs
k the sort what hatches out lizards and seor
plops and snakes, and all them sort of nas
ty poisonous things.” R.
A Snake Story.
The Columbus (Ohio) Statesman k re-
For sometime past an immense blaok
snake has been seen on the Chittenden
farm, on the Westerville road, about two
.miles from the city,and by reason of his
fearful proportions and defiant attitudes,
has filled the neighborhood with alarm and
terror. Not long since he was seen slowly
traversingja field, with head ereot, and
bearing in hk month a large rooster, whioh
he had captured on a foraging expedition;
and at another time an amateur sportsman
of thk city suddenly came upon him as he
was in the act of crashing a cat in hk
tightening folfia, The spake was of such
great size, and manifested so much rage,
that the young man became almost palsied
with fear, and immediately ran away from
the terrible locality, not once thinking of
hk gnn, which he might have used mest ef -
fectnallv in destroying the monster.
The foot of seeing the snake was report
ed to a number of acquaintances on hk ar
rival home of the frighted hnnter, and the
next day a number proceeded to the locality
where he was seen the day before, bat no
trace of hk snakeship could be found, and
the hunter was jeered by hk companions
as the vistiip of a baseless, imaginary fear.
The Mowing 4»y tiro boys were walking
in the same neighborhood, apd came upon
the snake, who, with erect bead apd dart
ing tongue, at once gave chase.
The boys ran furiously for nearly half a
mile, oloBelyfollowed by the reptile, before
he slaekened hk speed and gave np the
chase. This also was reported, and again
an exploring party viaited the ground and
searched carefully fortheanako but with
out success. On Tuesday morning of thk
week the same two boy; again visited the
Chittenden form, thk timebetter prepared
to encounter the foe should he put in an
. They hed not been on the grounds ~ : a
great while before they were gratified by
an appeaihnee of the montier, who was ap
proaching them with evident war-Hke in
tent. The boys took position, and so soon
as opportunity presented, made such well
directed shots as to pkee their enemy en
tirely in their power, when they soon din
ed h : m. The monster measured six
teen feet in length, and was proportiraate-
ly large. One of the most respectable oiti-
ifgps of the county, a gentleman well known
in Coiambus, bow and measured the snoko,
and assures ns that there k no mktake in
the above statement of its lengths We un
derstand that the brave slayers of the rep
tile are having hk skin properly staffed
and design exhibiting it.
.Tiie Direct Land Tax at the
South.—The Washington coneipondent
of the Ne w York Herald soys there k so me
talk of enforcing tho collection''of tho di
rect land tax in the South. The Southern
States share ofhk tax—which amounted
to twenty millions among all the State?—
was six millions; of this sum only about
three millions has been paidinto theTreasory
from the Southern States. It will be re
membered that when this amount had
been eollected President Johnson senta
message to Congress setting farth .that, in
view of the poverty produced in the South
by the war, it would, in many instances,
be ruinous to that section to enforce the
collection of the tax at that time, and rec
ommending that it be suspended for - some
time, so as to allow the industrial interests
of the South to recuperate. It is stated
that the limit of the suspension fixed by
Congress has now passed, and the law pro
viding for the levying and collection of the
tax come* into full force again. It is ar
gued by those who urge thk proceeding
that the industrious of the South have great
ly improved in the interim, that the crop s
are abundant, and that there k no longer
any excuse for delay on the score of pover
ty. Whether the Secretary of the Treas
ury will act upon the advice tendered him
in thk matter remains to be seen. ,’
THE NEW CABLE.
The Great Eastern has landed the cable
successfully on the Island of St. Pierre —
Miqnelon, French territory, where it will
connect with the American continent by a
cable belonging to the Massachusetts Tele
graph Company.
The reason why the French Government
did not, as was atfirst proposed,counect the
two continents directly by one cable from
Brest to Cape Cod, was the objection
made by the United States governmentand
the opinion given by the Attorney General
that the central government, and not that
of a State had the right to grant the privi
lege to knd a -able on American soil
There is a rumolthat the British Ocean
Telegraph Company, in order to continue
their present monopoly in ocean telegraph
communication between America and Eu
rope, have purchased a controlling interest
in the new Company. Great and little
Miquelon and St. Pierre arc a group of is
lands off the Southern coast of Newfonnd-
lacd, eighty-five square miles in extent,
with a population of 510. Tue last tele
graphic advices announce that in case the
permission to land the cable in Massachu
setts be forbidden, the managers of the
French cake propose to connect St. Pierre
and Cuba, and thus establish communica
tion with the United States.—Exchange.
My Flint Night “On Guard.”
Banner of the South :
During the first raid of Banks. through
Louisiana, June, 1863,1 made my debut in
military life, joining W——’s battery of
Louisiana artillery, C. S. A. as ‘ high pri
vate”—a young, raw and unsophisticated
youth. The battery was encamped on the
banks of Bayou Teche in a beautiful coun
try, ornamented in the highest degree by
the wealthy and aristocratic planters of that
fertile section; the stream bordered with
those grand old live and water oaks, welt
known as the most magnificent trees in the
country.
After being three days in the company,
I was detailed for guard duty; and at night
stationed to watch some choice Sonthern
fruits and vegetables, brought into camp
for the sick late in the evening, and laid
out on the grass under a large live oak,
whose branches, spreading for oat, reached
nearly to the ground A guard was. re
quired to keep off quadrupeds, as well as
some bipeds pertaining to the por
cine spesies, whose cravings for snch deli
cacies might render the temptation irresis
tible.
Though the.night was starlight, my
post was dark and gloomy, owing to the
heJvy shade of the trees, and I could, with
difficulty dktingakh objects withiq a few
feet. I had no weapon, I walked my lone
ly beat, fifty yards from any hnman being,
around the d iinty goods confided to my
care. All nature was hashed in death-like
repose; eve .-, our horses being wrapped in
their slnmbeis, usually taken at thk hoar,
abont three in the morning.
Only one who has been in a similar situ
ation, can realize my feelings on thk, my
sweet and comfortable home, and' nnaccns-
tomed to military life. My thoughts natu
rally wondered back to scenes and dear
One* at honif. My good »nA Lind, fothpr.
my fond and indulgent mother, my sweet,
amiable and loving sisters ever ready to fa
vor their wayward and inconsktent brother
all now seemed dearer than ever to my lone
ly heart. * * b * Another sweet
face also arises before my eyes, w ondering
in spirit afar off to my distant' Missouri
home. I am growing happy in n.y rever
ies—by no means asleep, bat steadily pac
ing my beat Yet, great heavens, what
infernal yell was that overhead ? a most di
abolical, unearthly scream. Is it the ene-'
my from the lower regions screeching for
hk prey ? My hat, uplifted by my brist
ling hair, falls from my head; my knees
knock together; my teeth chatter; a cold
perspiration; my blood chilled; my stick
clutched with the clasp of desperation. All
thk was the shock of a moment—like a
nightmare. Then comes a repetition of
hort-tootrte-too-oooo-oo 11 ftom the comman-
der-iu-ohief of the seroeoh owk—after hk
warning blast —now sounding the assembly
for hk scattered guerrillas, and anon, the
whole forest re-echoes with the cries ofhk
dusky warriors of the night, going forth
on their predatory excursions.
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Laugh, if you will, my young sir, never
theless, [hough I pride myself somewhat on
my courage, and have “freed *be nffisio”
“over and oft,” I frankly confess that “then
and there” I experienced a single moment
of terror snob as I never had . before, and
hope never again to feel. Did yon ever
hear a screech owl in the dead oi night ?
Then try and have a companion with you
the first time, or you may never get back
your breath again. * * *
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The Franco-American Cable.—The
entire length of the cable will be about 3,050
or about 1,000 miles longertban the English
pabje. That portion taken on board the
Great Eastern was miles .long, or
400 miles more than that taken by her
when sfie left England to lay the Vajeutia
cable. It has been manufactured .in two
sections. The Longest section, running
from Brest to St. Pierre, will be 2,325
miles long; the shorter, extending from St
Pierre to the Amerioan coait.will be about
122 miles long. In “conductivity,” at least,
the cable will be sqpenop f> *he English
lines already laid. The central copper wjra
is larger weighing 400 pounds to the mile,
that at present laid weighing only 300
f ounds. Its insolation k perfectly seenre.
t k covered with Chatterton’s compound,
and,over tbat,by four layers of gutta-percha.
Outside of these ira spiral net of_ steel
wires,each- wire being surrounded with five
strands of Russian hemp saturated with a
preservative compound. Notwithstanding
its Immerse strength, the cable k as flexi
ble in the water as a hempen rope. 'Owing
to the snperior conductivity of this cable,
and tho absence of breaks at various^ sta
tions, messages can he transmitted with a
higher rapidity than has been attained by
the English line. It k hoped that twelve
words a minute may be sent, instead of
eight, as heretofore.
a ■ a
J&*The Great Eastern, which for a time
promised tobe a mere useless hulk, has
)roved,to be most valuable, and, indeed,
las contributed very much to the safe and
quick laying of ocean lines. She k now
about to depart for the Indian Ocean to
lay the cattle which k to unito Bombay and
Suez. .
X6T Prophylactic is a formidable big
word, yet Darby’s Flnid has introduced it
into hontohold use. The article deservoa
to be in everybody’s house as its praise k
in everybody’s month.
Mr. Peabody’s last donation ia $45000
to the Danvers Institute,to be expended in
a library, l c. •
Tbe New Fountain of Healtb.
According to the Air Line Eagle, the
newly dkcovered springs in Lumpkin coun
ty, called the Cedar Mountain Springs, or
Fosters springs, are creating a great excite
ment in that region, by reason of their ex
traordinary restorative properties. He says:
In our recent travek in the-, counties
above this, we heard a great deal abont the
medicinal and curative qualities of these
waters, and of the cures which have been
already effected by them, some of which
were almost increditable.
The excitement throughout the country
among the afflicted is very great and con
stantly increasing. If the half that is said
oftheai be true, they will doubtless prove a
blessing to hundreds of the afflicted, in
giving health and vigor for emaciation and
disease.
There are many challybeate and also
some sulphur springs to be found in onr
country; bat in these waters are combined
iron, snlphnr and other minerals, which
—.vethem medicinal properties different
om those of any others in the South. The
-exhilarating effects are felt soon after the
water is drank, which, in the case of deli
cate females, sometimes amounts almost to
intoxication.
There have been some twelve or fifteen
houses or cabins erected at tbe springs dur-
the past spring, and the probability k that'
the only restriction in the number uf vki-
tors will be the want of proper accommo
dations. We advise those who intend test
ing the virtues of these waters, to go in
wagons, provided with tents, and prepared
to camp out.
The Financial View of Bolltek’a Pardons.
The Bainbridge Argus presents the fi
nancial phase of his Expresselency’s Execu-
tiv - clemency. A negio was recently con
victed “ of enticing and decoying a ser
vant from an employer,” and for thk offence
was tried, found guilty and sentenced to
pay a fine of ten dollars. Hk Expresselen-
ey, .“Governor of Georgia and commander
in-chief of the Army and Navy and the mi
litia thereof,” furnished by the United
States Government of the Radical party,
issues an Executive proclamation “seven
squares” in length, and publishes it in hk
thirteen official ‘organs,” Tbe cost of each
publication k twenty-one dolkra, ar.d the
aggregate cost two hundred and seventy-
three dollars. This cost, of coarse, k paid
for ont of hkExpresselency’s general fond,
the people’s money. This is bis Express-
elency’s wise and liberal economy. Who
discounts thk claim on the Treasury.
The Crop* in South Catalina.
The long continued drouth in the middle
and upper sections of the State says the
Charleston News, k causing deepjanxiety
to the farmers, and all onr advices agree in
reporting that the crop will be largely re
duced in both quantity and quality. We
are informed that along the line of railroad
between Kingville and Wilmington, North
Carolina, a distance of one -hundred and
seventy miles, there is not an acre of corn
which k not seriously injured. Bat the
weather which k unfavorable to corn will
e the quality of upland cotton, and
e us an earl'
xny"as
low country the rice k suffering for
want of rain. The small streams . are so
salty the fields cannot be flooded, bat long
continued showers wUl enable the plan
ters to make an average crop. From the
sea klands tho cotton reports are highly fa
vorable, and ther’e k every reason io expect
a better crop of long cotton than we have
had for many years. The catterpillar
now can do no harm. Onr great foe is pow
erless.
Farmers and pknters often look at tne
bine side, but making all proper allowances
for low spirits and popular exaggeration, it
may be said that the drought has already
done mnch harm, and will if it lasts much
longer, largely curtail the fair propor
tions of the corn and upland cotton crops of
the State.
Garibaldi.—A correspondent of a Par
is journal who has been admitted to an in
terview with General Garibaldi, gives a
most dktressingacconnt ofhk appearance
in tbe following:
The General’s features appeared con
tracted, his body emaciated, and be was ly
ing on a sofa suffering horribly from an at
tack of chronic rheumatism- Tbe ex-die-
tator, bent like the tower of Pisa, is but a
shadow of the past, and with difficulty one
reoognizes in the trembling and delicate
old man the fierce Republican of former
days.
A few days ago it was announced that
Garibaldi’s health was so far restored that
he was able to take part in the . work of hk
fans*
New Cotton in Savannah—We re
ceived on Saturday, says the News, from
Messra. A. M. Sloan & Co„ of tbk city,two
bolk of the new crop, grown in Leon coun
ty, Florida. We think thk is the first
cotton “of the season," and hope the en
terprising factors who received it will
soon have many bales from the same sec*
tion. ' •
Ye Colored Melish.-t-A company of
home-made colored militia, numbering
some twenty or thirty, arrived in the city
this afternoon. Upon inquiry, we found
that tbe company was collected to search
for, and arrest, If possible, a negro man
named Antonia Brown, who had a difficul
ty with hk wife some two months ago, and
ent of her hand. We understand “the col
ored troops fought nobly” on “jumping the
aforesaid Brown near foam's Mill, bat be
made hk escape.—'Americus Courier,
m
*®“The announcement k made that tbo
style no longer requires the most fashiona
ble lady to change her toilet more than
twice a day at the most gay and arktoorat-
rcsorfs.
Sunday School Convention for Ooatananla
Circuit.
This Convention met at Floyd Springs,
June 26th, and was organized by calling
M-Lowery to the Chair, and requesting
Rev. A. P. Black to act ns Secretary. The
following delegates were present.
Floyd Springs, N. B. Hall, E. L. W.
Griffetb. A B Moore, 3 G Rhudy.
Rush's Chapel, A J Watters.
Oostanaula, H P Pope, M I, Troutman-
New nope, A J Stewart.
Reports, representing the condition of
the different Sunday Schools in the circuir,
were made.^whicl were followed by inter
esting remarks from J. P. >P Dowell, of
Rome.
The following preamble and resolutions
offered by H. P. Pope, were adopted :
Whereas, It is our hounden duty as
Christians, as plainly taught by our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ, to cooperate with
him for the advancement of his cause, and
the coming of his Kingdom on earth, and
Whereas, The support of Missionaries in
foreign lands, whose labors are devo'ed to
the dissemination of the Gospel amongst
the Heathen, is a most efficient means to
this end. Therefore,
Resolved, That we recommend that the
Superintendents of Sunday Schools in thk
circuit, collect not less than ten cents per
annum from each member, for the support
of our China Mission.
Resolved 2d, That thednty of giving be
taught the young, as essential to the com
pleteness of Christian character.
Resolved 3d, That this Convention elect
a Secretary of the Society thus formed,
who shall also receive the fond so collected,
and forward it to Dr. E. H. Sfyers, Macon.
Go., and report at the next meeting of this
body.
After a short recess, the Convention was
reassembled, and was opened by'singing
and prayer.
Oh motion ofM L Troutman, tbe follow
ing committee were appointed: —
On tbe best plan of opening, closing and
conducting Sunday Sunday Schook, H P
Pope, A P Black, S G Rhudy.
Ontbe best text books, A J Watters, N.
B Haii, E L W Griffetb, W H Hickey.
On address to parents, touching their
duty in regard .to Sunday Schools, M L
Troutman, A J Stewart, W C Brandon, J
M Lowery.
By H-PPope, unanimously adopted :
“Whereas, It is the object of thk Con
vention to advance the cause of Sunday
Schook, by instructing children in the
truths of the Holy Bible, without reference
to any particular creed. Therefore,
Resolved, That we cordially invite offi
cers and teachers of all Sunday Schook .in
thk circuit, to join in the deliberations of
[Special Correspondence Leaiivill*
Washington Note*.
Washington, ,
The Mayor of this eity transmitted his
annual message to the Couneik this evsn-
iog, in which he recommends that the col
ored schools be incorperated with the white
public schools and placed under the same
system, and share impartially in all respects
tbe advantages as enjoyed by tbe white
schools. He says the distinction of color
is no longer recognized here, in the charter,
at the ballot box, iu the courts, lecture
rooms, public halls of amusement, nor in
the City Councils, and should be eliminated
as speedily as possible from the pnblio
school system. The Mayor also sent to the
Councils to-night fifty-five nominations for
corporation officers, about thirteen of whom
are colored, the principal one being Geo.
B.Vashon, colored trustee for white school*
NEW YORK.
New York, July 20—The Herald says
Colonel Whittlesey and a number of Vir
ginia Radical* are in Washington, getting
up document* to prove that the election in
Virginia was carried by fraud. Affidavits
are being prepared and will be pkeed be
fore the Reconstruction Committee at the
meeting of Congress. It is placed before
Reconstruction Committee at tbe meet
ing of Congress. It is hoped by this to have
the election set aside,or eke have an inves
tigation held, and thus delay the admission
of the State.
The forty-six persons who arrived on the
United States frigate Gnerrier, yesterday,
from Rio Janeiro, are a portion of the colo
ny of Southerners and Tebel sympathizers
who went to Brazil to establish a Southern
colony. They are thoroughly disgusted
and in a very impeennions condition. Char
itable persons will pay their passages to
their homes. Others who still remain be
hind will come home as soon as they can
Richmond, July 21.—At the White
Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, the corn
crop will be considerably shortened by the
drought in that section. James Carter,
colored, was arrested to day for robbing the
mail intended for thk watering place.
There are from fifty to one hundred arti-
vak here, daily. Thermometer, tbk after
noon,. 56.
The official. returns show that the vote
for Walker fell 26,000 short of the white
registration, and that for Welk, 18,000
short of.the colored registration. The ob
jectionable clauses in the Constitution
were defeated by forty thousand ma
jority.
There seems to have been entirely a new
deal in politics, as only six members of
the Legklatnre have ever been there be
fore.
Thomas R. Bowden. State Attorney
General, resigned to-day.
A resolution of A. J. -Stewart, recom-
mendincr the organization of the colored
people into Sunday Schook, was passed.
Resolution by A J. Watters, recom
mending teacher’s meetings, to he held
quarterly, for the purpose of interchanging
views as to the best practical means of pro-
mo tingjthe interest of their respective schook
was adopted.
It was determinod to hold a Sunday
School Celebration, embracing . all the
schook in the circuit, at Rush’s Chapel,
August 18th. J. M. Lowery Chairman,
and P. C-, was requested to confer with
preachers in charge of Circuits and Sta
tions of Rome Dktrict,as to the most suita
ble time and place for holding a District
Sunday School Convention.
H. P. Pope was elected Secretary and
Treasurer of Sunday School Missionary
Societies.
Interesting and edifying remarks were
made by B. F. Jones, Superintendent S.
S. Presbyterian Church, Rome.
J. P. McDowell, former Sup’t Presby
terian Church, Rome. , -7 -
• W.L. Wadsworth, Rome.
By 51. L. Troutman, resolved that the
thanks of thk Convention he tendered the
brethren and friends of Floyd Springs, for
their courtesy and hospitality.
On motion, the Secretary was requested
to send proceedings to the Rome papers,
with request to publish.
After selecting Rash’s Chapel for the
place, and April as the time for ntxt meet
ing, Convention adjourned with benedic
tion. ’ 7 - : iv-
Jno. M. Lo .very, Ch’n.
A. J. Black, Sec’y.
Richmond, July 20.—The official ma- jg
jority of Walker is 10,202. fry-
Gen. R. E. Lee is at Rock Bridge, Alum -;!
Springs. s-T-
Baltimore.
Baltimore, July 20.—A bark left here
recently with twenty-four thousand stand
ofarms, and one hundred and seventy
thousand rounds of amnnition, for Cuba.
She get off without trouble, professing to
be loaded with hay, and reached her des
tination successfully. It k understood that
another vessel k likely to sail for the same
port with a similar load of freight.
. old former in Ohio having read
that the . State cleared over $7,000 by the
labor of the conviets, suddenly exekimed,
“I think we had better turn onr Legisla
ture into a Penitentiary, by jingo.”
The Lonkville Courier-Journal aayB that
sixteen hundred ladies have promised their
sons as pnpik for General Kirby Smith’s
military academy.
— -• •
(^“Father,” asked a little thiee-year
old the other day at dinner, of hk papa,
“what u it that makes the lightning?
“You can’t understand it now,” was the an
swer, “I’ll tell yon when you get a little
older,” and the father went to hk duly
avocation. In the evening he returned^nd
the young hopefnl,climbing upon hk knee,
sud to him, “Papa,I know now what makes
the lightning. It is God scratching match
es against the sky!”
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM GREAT
BRITAIN. V . :
Conflict Between tbe Hone of Lords and
Common* on the Irish Church Bill.
London, July 23.—After a prolonged
debate, nearly every Lord explaining him
self, the Lords divided on the preamble to
the Church bill, as it came from the House
The government was defeated by a veto df
78 to 173. The issue k finally joined be
tween the Lords and the country. The po
litical excitement in consequence is intense.
The Cabinet has been in session all thk
afternoon.
Gladstone, Bright,. Lowe and all stron
ger members, insist upon the immediate
withdrawal of the bill, on the ground that
the obstinate resistance of the peen ren
ders a conflict between the two house* in
evitable.
Some members, including the Earl of
Clarendon, advocate more moderate
proceedings, such as letting the bill take
its coarse, and only abandoning it at the
last moment; bat the insulting language
used by the Marquk of Salisbury towards
Gladstone and the large voto against the
preamble, show that all attempt at compro
mise Js useless. There is little doubt that
Gladstone will carry his point by withdraw
ing the bill, to be immediately followed by
speedy adjournment to August, by which
time the creation of a new batch of peen
will give a ministerial majority ia the
Placards appear on the walk to-day,
headed, -‘Shall the people of Lords rale r"
and calling a mass meeting at Arnndale
Hall to-morrow, followed by monster 0
air demonstrations.
It is ruaaered that the Duke of Cam
bridge expreaset, openly, indignation at
Radicalism, and hopes that the Queen and
Ministry will refuse to sanction the coer
cion of the peen.
St’i!
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LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, July 21.—The first case
and death from yellow fever this season oc
curred yesterday. The victim was 2 young
Frenchman who had just arrived from
France, stopping a few hours in Havana
and quarrantiuedeightdayshere.
fl®-The Wills Valley Railroad k com
pleted to Valley Head, (Wm. O. Win
ston’s). Passenger trains run to that place
daily.
Havana, July 22.—Manzanillo merch- q
ants have been arrested for dealing with
the rebek. ngf
Loyal Cubans of Santa Espiritu have is-
sued an address, urging their rebel broth- ShRII
ren to return to their allegiance. j,%t
.The insurgents, eight hundred strong
have been defeated with heavy lost. Gen. jjjjg
Jourdan was wounded. f
Jackson, July 22.—The trial of E. M.
Yerger, before the military commission,
was concluded to-day. The verdict k not
known. After the trial was concluded
Yerger was brought before Judge Hill, ot
the United States Circuit Court, on a writ
of habeas corpus. Judge William Yerger,
in behalf of the prisoner, submitted a plea,
to which the Judge Advocate, Col. Thoa.
F. Barr, submitted a return, and Yerger
was remanded to military custody. The point#
involved have, heretofore been passed npon
by Judge Hill, with the same result,
the case will next be heard from in the Su
preme Court
The Dent movement is supported by the
Press-of ihe State, and he will receive the
support of the Conservatives of ail par
ties.
Alexandria, Va., July 22.—Commo
dore S. S. Lee, brother of Gen. R. E-
Lee, died at bis home in Stafford county,to-
day. j
New York, Jnly 22.—Frank Ballard, ;
Secretary of the Security Insurance Com- !
paoy,is a defaulter for sixty three thousand
dollars.
Markets.
New York, July 22.—Stocks steady i
and doll. Money steady at 7. Sterling 1
9* Gold 358.
Flour 5slOc better. Wheat la2c better I
Corn 5a7o better, and excited. Pork 23 |
75. Lard doll. Cotton doll at 34.
Liverpool, July 22, noon—Cotton a
shade firmer ; Uplands 12} ; Orleans 13; ’
■alee 10,000 bales.
fl^The phrase “A bad egg” will have;
to be disnsed now. Darby’s Flnid k kil
ling off all snch slang expression*. Bad \
odor* cant stand before it.
jq_ti.. Chattanooga Republican soe-j
rowfully announces that by the 5th of Au
gust there will not be five thousand mb r m
the State without certificate# ot —=—
tion.