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Newspaper Page TextWISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION." volume XXIII ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1869. NEW SERIES-NO 51. fttpm ^biday. BATES OF WEEKLY. -it ADVEBTI8EMEKTO. Adffi^istrators, Electors or sja of Lanl1 ^„,red by law to be held on »eemonth, between the .he ard Tuesday'a ■ e orenoon and three in the joari of •«» S e ‘court House in tho county in I ,oernoon, al situated. . , 1 ,'hiel the proP^ ie , m „ 3 t bo given m a pub- O^KSSnd property must "•£■* tt» ^nUrough ia public gaz- I ^fl"dsyi^”™’ n a Creditors of an estate, oudbe published4° wi u be made to the for leave to sell laud must bo 1 ‘.ubHshed ^'“^““‘orAdministration, Guar- Ciutions f»r le>' p U blishod 3b days—for Jiansbip do-, "’.'. tn : nis t r atiou, three months— lisnussioai trou A Gttarc ]i a nsbip, 40 days, for dtsiflus'oa rc „f Mortgages must Rales f° r tlie ^... for f„nr months—for cs- e publishedruoutby f • full space of threo •hlislii"! lost titles trom Executors or ^th^foroompellosutkst^ ^ by Administrators, where of thrcc months hedeeeared, for the tut P conl jnued accord- SSs^fiBEar"" T«ettersVfldministration 3 00 Citations for letters di>nship ... s 0 0 Sotr’ofappSieu for dismissmu from e ## 4 00 Guardianship,- 6 00 —v,'S jgg8Eger« iXTUKDAYlBOaSISG, Aug. go on Blodgett’s Bond ! The following letter is dipt from the Atlanta. Constitution of the 11th inst. We think our friend Bnrpett would find him- self rerv much mistaken in his idea that he could obtain in Floyd and Chattooga The Agricultural Fair—Meeting of Di rectors. At a meeting of the Directors of the Fair Association, for the Cherokee country, held last Thursday, a contract was closed with J. J. CoUen, leasing some 25 acres of land on the King place, for five years, for Fair purposes, in consideration of an annu al payment of one hundred dollars. The Secretary was instructed to collect immediately thestock already subscribed. About 82,000 has been taken. C. W. Sproull, J. A. Stewart and G. S. Black were appointed a building committee with instructions to have the grounds en closed with close palings, seven feet high, at the earliest practical date. More stock most be taken before the pre mium list can be made as liberal as the Di. rectors would like to have it. Will not all onr citizens takea part in this matter—B T. .Jones, See’y., has the hooks. “We opposed the first Constitutional Un ion movement at Philadelphia, led by Rey- mond, of New York, and feebly advocated by the editor of the Courier. It proved a failure, as we predicted. Secondly, we opposed a like movement, of a sectional char acter, inaugurated at Macon, which was advocated by the -Courier”—Commercial of the llfft. “Sectional Party.” BgA,The Commercial devotes nearly a col umn in an effort to mako it appear that the Courier favors the formation of sectional parties, and that onr publication of an ex tract, with comments, shows a lack of man liness. That is rich!!! ha! ha! ha!!! The above we clip from the Courier of Tuesday morning. How lost to all feel ings of truth must the editor of the Courier be to pen the above.—Commercial of 13th. We have neither time nor disposition to bandy blackguarding epithets with the ed itor ot the Commercial. The first extract above fully demonstrates the justness of our remarks and the last shows who it is that is “lost to all feelings of truth.” piack Tongue. We learn that this fatal tjis 'ase is pre vailing among the cattle tc an a'armlng ex tent in Chnlio District, in this county. It is not confined to domestic animals, for one man fonnd four dead deer on his place that conntiessolvent securities to the amount of had died of it. double what the law requires for Blodgett’s °There are only a very small number of white radicals iu these counties, and most of the eery feu of these whose names would give any strength to the bond, are entire ly too sharp to think of backing such a man as Biodget in money matters. But docs any intelligent man doubt but tht the boud Bullock has accepted, is in adequate and uulawlul, and that his ac ceptance of it is good and sufficient ground for impeachment. But to the letter: Home. Ga., August 9,1869. Mr. Editor—Inasmuch as the bond of the lion. Foster Blodgett has beeu so closely serutiuized and commented upon, I, as au “honorable man and a clever gentle man,” uncalled, take the liberty to say, if the bond is not satisfactory to his Excel lency, the Governor, or such other author ities, whose duty it is to pass upon the same, let the bond be cancelled at once, and a blank bond placed in my hands for sol vent securities, and I will guarantee a bond undisputed, to be given by citizens of Floyd and Chattooga counties, for double the amount required by law. I am respectfully, Geo. P. Bcrneti’. Jacksonville Male Uigll School. We learn that Col. Simpson Fouche, of this eoanty, is about moving to Jackson ville, Ala., where he will take charge of the Male High School. Col. Fonche is, un doubtedly, one of the best educators in the ■whole country, and, as a diciplinarian, we do not know his equal. We congratulate the citizens of Jacksonville on securing his services as teacher. Rosswell Factory Stock for Sale. M. J. Bayard offers four shares of. the above named valuable stock for sale-—See adv. ■ Agent lor Chinese Immigrants. We are informed by Mr. J. J. Cohen, of this city, that Jlr. J. J. Josephs, spoken of ia au extract in our last issue, as agent to furnish Chinese laborers, is a relative of his,and is expected soon to visit Rome. If auy of our citizens wish to have an inter view with Mr. Josephs upon the snbject of coolie labor, they can do so by expressing this desire, to Mr. Cohen. Mr. Josephs stay-in our city will be hut short. Rome Female College. The exercises of this Institution will be resumed on the lGth inst. The Board of instruction is one of rare ability, aDd effi- t'cucy, and the school, in every way worthy of a liberal patronage.—See adv. Watermelon—Largest of the Season. 11 e received by Thursday’s boat, from m McGhee, oi Cherokee, Ala., a water melon that weighed 48} pounds, and meas ured two feet aad six inches in length and - feet eight inches in circumference. If •“oy ody ia th e Cherokee country can beat this one we would like to see it. Dissolution . The firm of R. 8. Nor- "> Son & Co., has been dissolved. The ^•siness will be continued by. R. Si Norton 1 ustponed.—The election on the wa- works question has been postponed to Ljip.” tu v...' - nrday, the 21st inst. agflilpSiJ Hi Heath °1 a Frominemt Tennesseean, Brumfield L. Ridley died wadded' 1 °f Apoplexy, at his residence in freesbei won the 11th inst.: in Mur- j- ... rhcea Cordial is the very thing for *1 1 les 10 be providedwith at this season of **“■ II >s worth more than all the P fi»t nostrums* the market for that disease—See adv. Handsome Compliment to a South ern Enterprise.—The press of the North, irrespective of political sympathy,are unan imous in their praise of “the xix Centu ry.” It is said that the Magazine is the peer of any journal published in America, and possesses features novel and attractive to all readers. Among others, the Phila delphia Age observes that “its literary merit is striking,” and Appleton's Jonrnal remarks that “its editorials remind one of the Nickb.iekcr 'Gossip’ in its best days.” No Southerh father or mother should be without it Copies may be had at the News Agency in the Post-Office. Land for Sale.—Mr. A. J. King, real estate Agent of Cave Spring, offers a place, of 320 acres, 6 miles south of Cave Spring on the railroad, for sale. It is rich in Iron Ore and has a Tan yard op - it. See par ticulars in advertisement. MEU.ION5 AT STAKE. The United States vs the Chattanooga and Nashville Railroad 'Company. In onr report, says the Nashville Banner of the proceedings had yesterday* at the meeting of the stockholders .of the Nash ville and Chattanooga Railroad, is given in full the formal demand made by the United States government for the delivery, to an agent appointed for that purpose, of the Nashville and Chattanooga road, its rolling stock, depots, shops, ete., to satisfy claims held by the government against that road. As the matter is likely to terminate in liti gation of mammoth proportions, we give be low a brief history of the facts of the case. The Federal Government- owes to the road 83,766,957, for its. use during the war, when they held it by military posses sion. The road owes the government $1,466,551 for engines, cars, eto., purchas ed since the war. The government ignores the claims of the road, and attempts to en force its own. Another Ogeecbee Blot—It Is Crashed in '(Hi Inclpiency. The Savannah News, of yesterday, re ports that Justice Wade, of that city, had issued warrant?, based upon the affidavit of a citizen resident in the - vicinity of the Ogheechee river, for the arrest of- a white man being charg d with inciting the ne groes to riot and assault and battery, - and the negroes, some of whom are recognized as parties to the first Oghechee rirt, with being eoeessories. For the first time since their removal from Cherokee, Ga., to the Indian Territo ry, the Cherokee Indians, the largest and tribes, hsVe had 1 'a serious conflict with the whites. The cause was the invasion of the reservation by white settlers. Tt is the origin of all the Ljdian wars of late years. s’SVILLB, d. C,=- ior, of the 6th inst., ‘ Bled in Tim- e following- says monsville, oh Wednesday, singular manner : From the ajessenger who gave the Coroner the notice, we learn that-two colored men' had’ beetrquarreling- on Wednesday, and that after night set in ier. striking lam jn ’*** killed fiiyat the^hre fiSyAt Toledo, Ohio, collections' are taken in churches by pretty girls iastgai old .antediluvian fossils. The men couia down better. ®^,Not at all, Mr. Democrat. Wo have been reliably informed that Kent McCay says Jesus Christ was a negro, and that the negro always was and i3 still better than the white man.—Col Sun. e up, his organ, the 'enriessee, has suspend- Stokes liavi: State Journi ed. A Reason. The Imperialist, of New York, which is anxious to see this “caucus government” blown to atoms and an imperial one erected upon its ruins, gives the following unique reason for desiring a large infinx of Chi nese: “ At no very distant day—too near,at all events, to admit of their education in the ways aad means of caucus management— we shall have from five to ten mUlion Ori entals among ns, to whom even the hair- bfained fanatics who have enfranchised them wBl hesitate to accord the power of the ballotjand when that day comes, the bubble of caucuss government will burst it a way that will preclude its ever being blown again upon this continent. For once, at least, a national fraud stands a fair chance of being reduced to the reductio adobsurd- um—and, for our own part, wo pray for favoring breezes in the sails of each and every Chinese immigrant ship. Long be fore the figures named above arc reached, however, other causes may 'have worked together to produce the same desirable re sult. The Flying Ship.—The San Francisco Spectator says of Mr. Marriott,the inventor of the new balloon: “He has enlisted the money and sympa thy of some of the shrewdest men of this community, and they are now preparing an Aviter of large size, by means of which a party of six gentlemen will make a trial trip to New Fork and back. This machine will be ready for trial in sixty or ninety days.” A Political Monster Dying in Infancy. 11 The Imperialist, says the Memphis Ava lanche, begins to assume a seedy appear ance—that inevitable foreruaner of decay. A few months ago it started with a grand flourish of trumpets. We were te have an Empire, for the “empire is peace.” Soon unthinking journalists embraced its doc trine; why they knew not, and visions of royalty danced before them. A few who felt that the government was not what it should be, and did not pause to consider that there is still a people who rule, and that in time the once grand ship of State can be brought back to her an cient moorings, cried, “Long live tho Em pire.” Thoughtful men saw in the move ment catch penny humbuggery and turned from the Imperialist in disgust Already its glory is departed. For a time news stands were besieged by those who fancied themselves anxious to embrace an American monarchy. Orders weekly increased, and the Em pire seemed already at hand. But a sec ond sober thought demolished the imposing fabric. The foundation was fonnd to be rotten, and the pUIars which upheld the edifice were brittle as glass, A breath of reason—a gossamer of reflection^—sent it to the ground And thnt-was all. Searches for the imperialist are now few, and come at rare intervals. Copies of the neatjy pyin tpd thumb paper, ornamented by the inveried sp ttoon, repose neglected on tht. newsmen’s shelves. CIcuds of dnst set tle upon their pages, and bury them from view, evei) as the folly they advanced is be ing buried from view. Pnblio interest has departed from the broad columns, whose wishy-washy inanities for a brief period at tracted those ever ready to follow any new flag fiut)g to the breeze. They contain nothing to fix tho attention or instruct the mind. Vapid, visionary, flaccid and unoriginal, tbe leaders now ex : cite only the casual glance given puffs in medical almanacs, and similar ephemerial ventures. Nobody wants th3 Empire, and the poor sickly Imperialist grows feeble apace. Already in its throat sounds the death rattle; and soon that which cannot create even a paper sceptre for a basswood king, will haye passed away. ‘ ‘The Em pire is peace.” Poor Empire. Who’s Wife ?—About the close of the war a young woman of this city was mar ried to a man, whose name we withhold, who lived with her some time on good terms, but finally fhey bad a little domestic squab ble, and the man left for parts unknown. He had been absent a conple of years when his wife concluding he was dead was mar ried again, and has lived with her second husband a year or two very pleasantly. Yesterday No. 1 hove in sight, and” the two met iu the same room. No. 2 ■ told No. I if he ejaimafi tbe wife he would re tire. The latter replied that be did not want her. Tbe matter stands just so. The woman is very sick, and the husbands hold each other in abeyance. The matter will probably be left to her decision. What the finale will b§ wo have yet to learn.—Colum bus Sun. Nothing but Gold for Cotton. This is an idea we often see and hear n many quarters . It is a most fallacious one which the Augusta Constitutionalist, from which we make the following extract, dis poses of in asummaiy and convincing man ner : “There are plain rales of business, that paper says, “that should govern the plan ter and farmer as well as the merchant, banker, broker, lawyer, doctor, et al., and one of these rules is, that that currency which will pay what they owe is all they .require to the amount of such indebted ness. Where is the difference in demand 1 ing gold or receiving its equiualentin green backs ? If the planter receives greenbacks for his cotton, he can exchange them for gold ak the current rates; and if he receives gold he will sell a sufficient amount of it for greenbacks to pay his debts and ex penses. Gold and silver wBl not become current in tho South so long aa they com mand a premium in one and the larger sec tion of the country, and there are so many brokers and bankers to speculate in them.” An Editor, in lqieir. Colonel John M. Fleming, editor of.the Knoxville Press and Herald, was elect ed Representatives from the county of Knox. We eengf-nfulate him upon his good fortune. He is a bold and vigoroq? writer, and wBl make tho people of that county a Represen tative they will be proud to boast of having honored with a seat in the Legislature.— cc-n -..oj e American Rescue. Nine Years among the “Celestials.” Lynchburg, Va., August 4,1869. Editor of the DailyHews: Sir -The proposition to import Chine-'e laborers in tlis country to the extent of supplanting the negro in his old fields of labor, although originated but a lew months since, has already required such breadth and seriousness as to prodace the most pro'- foan J ooncern in- the minds of all who thoughtfully consider the future of the Sonth. Thai I should share such concern is not remarkable, or in any way excep tional, and it alone would furnish no occa sion for a communication to the press.— But it has been zny fortune to have lived nine years in China; to have had some sin gular and extended opportunities of obser vation in commercial interconse with her people; and what I have thns learned of the character and habits of the people whom it is proposed to make so large an el ement in onr industrial and even civil or ganization, I feel under some sort of obli gation to communicate tj the pnblio, and offer to the serious reflection of those who, like myself, have all the interests and hopes of their lives invested or employed in the Sonth. In the first place, I do not deny that the Chinese, in many respects, are useful and patient laborers—they are industrious, even painfully so. Their labor, at least when employed in their own country, is the cheap est in tho world—the average wages being two to three dollars a month, the laborer finding his own provisions and clothes, or say less than ten cents a day. Their wants are few and simple, their diet being vegeta ble (principally rice) and their scanty dress which may be completely enumerated' as bamboo hat, flowing cotton shirt and trow- sers, paper or wooden shoes, serving them in all circumstances. They are, moreover, docBe as laborers, not a little ingenius and managed by very moderate authority. This is about the sum of the recommen dation of the Chinamen as a laborer. But this affords only a very imperfect and nar row view of the question, and onr people seem to have, merely comparing the cost and ontward convenience of a certain kind of labor, entirely lost sight of all that vice, filth, and unnatural habits of the Aeiatio population which such such an importation of laborers would necessarily bring into and perhaps confirm in onr midst. The Chinese are the filthiest of the Asiatic races. The prostitution of their women is the common, almost universal, condition of the lowest classes. In addition to these hide ous and worse than brntal practices, they are universally gamblers. It is a curion* circumstance that young and old habitually gamble for their food, and for every at tide they bny at the stalls in the bazaar —in stead of paying the price down, throwing d'ce or using some other chance to deter mine whether they shall pay double or nothing, The almost invariable experience is that the coolies gamble away their wages, and are thns fettered by their improvidence and vices in whatever land they have been car ried as laborers or apprentices. tVhen we consider the results of such a people with their poisonous vices being fastened upon ns perhaps in hundreds of thousands, possi bly millions, we tire tdso tq reflect ftgt it is tbe very scum of this population, of the very lowest and most debased of the coolie class, that emigrants a.e persuaded, and that we must expect to recruit the ranks of Southern labor. What effect such a popu lation permantly fixed in the Southl and possibly ascending in the future to political influence, would have on onr civilisation, our morals, our atmosphere, is a question, to my mind, more serious and larger than that of any mere cheapness or convenience of labor. Richard Pollard. Seven Pines. Two hundred years ago or more a party of hunters from Jamestown enpamped among the bushes, about six miles frpm the present site of Richmond, and during the night they ware invited to a “corn dance,” where their Indian neighbors celebrated the return of harvest. In order to guard against the danger of losing their way whUe returning without their dusky guide, they searched tor landmarks. And among oth er things they selected seveq pipes which grew from the same stnmp, and ‘ flipping these trees with their hatchets, they' 'con cluded they could safely retrace their steps by the way of the “seven pines.” The spot became afterwards a camping ground for white hunters; and as they sep arated in the morning, wherever they might be, they usually arranged to meet at noon under the “seven pines.” Thns it was named, which, after the lapse of two cen- centnries, was to be known throughout the -j-’itzed world as the battlefield of Seven Pines. Over one hundred tons of frozen poulty, packed in ice during the winter, have been received and disposed of in Fanneil Hall m'arksS ' in Boston since the first of April. Eminent engineers have pronounced the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge nnsafep- Timtd tra'-elerp in cop3equence are avoiding passing over it. If you want to get a favor from a man feed him. : A man is like a horse; he can|t be managed till be lias bad u bitin his month. The Brlnly Plow—Another Patent and Another Improvement. Oar friend T. E. Brinly, who has con tributed so mnch to the prosperity of our city and the promotion of the general agri cultural prosperity of the South, appears irrepressible as an inventor. He keeps the Patent office busier than any hundred men in the nation. And he has never yetfaU- ed in any application;his articles all being of snch evident utility. We observe this morning tiiat another patent has been issued to this gentleman for improvement in plows, making tbe sec ond he has received in tbe past month. We have examined this last improvement and, from our knowledge of plows, and the clear and lucid description given us ofthi3 one, we regard it as far in advance of any thing we have ever seen. The helve or landslide of this plow is so constructed that there is scarcely any friction in it. The moveable landslide is of stepl with obiUed heels which protect it from wearing away. Any part of the plow may be duplicated at small expense. It is so constructed that it can he changed, on the shortest notice,to any kind of q pjow desired, This plow is a decided improvement on any that Mr. Bnnly nas heretofore gotten up,and is a further evidence of the progress of his inventive genius. Mr. Brinly has de zervedly received over two hundred premiums on bis plows, and scoured twice as many patents qs aw other man in the United States.— Sun. ' ■ j* - . Sgi,The tunnel of the 'Marietta (Ohio) Railroad is ent under a well of excellent water. The we|l is as good as eyep, ant} not a drop leaks through, although crowd ed trains pass directly under it. JKS-T.Q illustrate fltP prP?is}0S ?f 5 9t - r0 ';‘ omical science, it may be stated that anoth er ecjipse of the sun will take place in 18 years, TJ days, 7 hours, 43 minutes,and 3.648 seconds—that is, on the 19 th of Au gust, 1887. . It will be visible only in the Eastern Hemisphere. The next solar eclipse visible in the United States occurs on the 28th of May. £From the Constitutionalist. More Important .Decisions—Another Heavy Stroke for Belief. We present nr readers, this morning, with tho recent decision of the Supreme Court in the care uf L. N. B. Battle vs. James A, Shivers, from Warren Superior Court, promulgating that the suspension of the statute of limitations during the war did not govern the lien of judgments, but that notwithstanding the collection of judg ments was absolutely suspended, the limi tation of their lien was not affected, and that they most become imperative, unless levied within the seven years prescribed for judgments to retain their vitality. We ap pend the remarks and explanation of the Atlanta Constitution as to the important effect of this novel decision in the practi cal annulling of millions of dollars of claims which have heretofore been regarded as perfectly solvent. Judge Warner, in dis senting to this seven-league stride of his political associates of the Conrt, in his pe- culiar scathing manner, the faithlessness of the conclusions of his colleagues. Of the effect of the decision, tho Constitution apt ly says_: - “All judgments seven years old, that have no entry on them to keep them alive, ore dormant, and loose their lien, and most be sued like accounts ot notes, or anything else unsued. They are simply snbject mat ter and rights to sue. “It is impossible to estimnte the amount of debts that will thereby be killed. It will run almost, if not quite to millions. Hun dreds upon hundreds of claims, now nest ling cosUy and safely in coffers and pocket books and desks, and believed to be as sound as gold, and as certain of recovery as the bondholders deem their fat gold in interest, are as defhnct as door nails. Hun dreds of robustrious executions, with broad acres of rich lands legally bonnd for their payment, have, by this decision, lost their clutch upon solvency, and now lie as flabby as worthless rags, and as lifeless as dead men’s bones. And in numberless cases the very State government, whose judiciary thns administers the deadly blade to honest claims, forbade by its legislative authority the collection of these claims, and is, there fore, responsible that they are to-day de- funct. ‘And when it is considered that in connt less cases, men, innocently trusting the in tegrity of solemn law—that law the benefi cent creation of their own cherishing gov ernment for her children, have not levied, because they were mercifnl to debtors, w irse than pnnie faith of this matter is patent “Little recked they that political phy lacteries, while they might invade the bench with polluting contagion, could yet venture so far as to debauch, not simply the integ rity of law, but defile the veiy faith of the government to her cohfiding and helpless chUdreu. Bold as have been the innova tions of radioalism upon the soundest and most time-honored principles of enlightened jurisprudence, this seems to ns the most audacious aggression yet made upon onr es tablished system of law. “From this forward we shall consider nothing sure, ho sever stably grounded, in legal phBosophy and fortified by indisputa ble legal theory. ‘llYe will notice bnt one more resnlt of this legal decision, and then we will cease. “While thousands of judgments will be destroyed that were deemed unconditional ly solvent, thousands of yonngerjudgments that were regarded worthless, will gain new vitality from the removal of older conflict ing liens.” — [From the Federal Union. Cut this Out and Keep It, Franklin Dyre, a highly respectable and intelligent farmer of Galena, Kent county, Maryland, gives the following as a sure core for the bite of a mad dog. As wili be seen, he has tested it with the most gratifyjqg results Elecampane is a plant well known to most persons, and is to be fonnd in many of onr gardens. Immediately ‘after being bitten, take one and a half ounces of the root of the plant—tin green root is perhaps pre ferable, but the dried wBl answer, and may be ionnd in our drag stores, and was used by me—slice or braise, pot into a pint of fresh milk, boil down to n half pint, strain, and wlien cold drink it, fiistingat least six hours afterward. The next morning re peat the dose fasting, using two ounces of the root. On the third morning take an other dose, prepared as the last, and this will ftp sufficient. It is rqpamqtqnded that after each (lose nothing be eaten for at least six hours. I I have a son who was bitten by a maid dog eighteen years ago, and four other children in the neighborhood were also bitten; they took the above dose, and are alive ppd W e “ to this day. And I have known a num ber of others who were bitten and applied the same remedy. If is supposed that the root contains a principle which, being taken np by tbe blood in its circnlation, counter acts or neutralizes the deadly effects of the virus of hydrophobia. I feel so muoh confidence in this simple remedy that I am willing yon should give my name in connec tion with the statement. A gentleman in Milledgeville being anx- ions to know if the statements contained in the above were true, wrote to Mr, Pyre, and : —eSiv.n.tt-L: 1_. - _ Galena, Kent county, Md.,) July 28,1869. } Dear Sir—Your letter of the 21st is at band. In returning the slip of paper to take care of, I can say that every word is true. Numbers of instances have I known where man and beast have been bitten, who took the doee and never went mad; some died a natural death, and same arc Jjvjng now. I knew an instance 40 years ago.-=- Mv son was bitten nineteen years ago next fail, and is alive and well-at this writing. Truly yours, Franklin Dyre. — *» —- Breaking them Vp, Within tbe last few days tbe city police have arrested two of a gang of negro ban dit/organized In this city about three years ago, for the sole purpose of conducting a general robbing, thieTing and plunder" business in this and neighboring States.^ Fire of the gang has been arrested within the last few months. . Their names are Bob Wagnon,Levi Shepherd, Willis Brown Burwell Rhodes and Henry Conley, alias Sjiep Hjjdgins. They We hpen nearly all over the States of'Georgia and Sonth Car olina, and have perpetrated same of the blackest and must damnable crimes known tq the criminal code.—Macon Tel. Organization or County Agricultural Socie ties. LETTER FROM SECRETARY LEWIS. ’ \ Macon, Ga, August 1869. Deqr Sir : In reply to your inquiries of the 27th ult.—This : In order to bo known as anxilliaryof the State -Agricul tural Society most organize with a written constitution, and send the names of your officers and members to fhis; your Society wiU then be entitled to'send t-n delegates to two annual cenventions to the State Ag ricultural Society, for one fare on the rail roads, and to a copy of the transactions of these conventions. It is contemplated, and will donbtless be so determine by the Executive, to have annually two conven tions of the Society, one in Febuary and the otherat the annual Fair. These con ventions will be composed of members of the Society, who become so by paying two dollars, and of delegates appointed as above. In tbe last convention there were ten dele gates from each Society. To become individual members yon pay two dollars annually. This entitles yon to a card or certificate of membership, which certificate entities the holder to exhibit at the Annual Fair any number of articles and animals without charge; to gointo and ont oi the grounds and building at all times, without hindrance or expense; to encamp on the grounds, and to attend and partici pate in the meeting held during the Fair. The members of the Society first, and next the members of Connty Agricultural So cieties, will he entitled to the public docu ments and other books, and seeds now in this office for distribution. Tbe immense gathering of strangers here at the Fair, from all sections of the Union, who most depend npon the hotels of the city and the neighboring towns and cities for accommodation, make it incumbent npon Georgians, especially npon the farmers and planters to come with tents and camp equipage and supplies, and locate on the gronntl3. Fuel wUl be supplied at cost. The advantages of this arrangement in giv ing the planteis superior facilities and op portunities in inspecting every department of the exhibition and social intercourse and interchange of views with those of his own occupation, will folly compensate him for all inconvenience. I send yon copies of Premium Inst and hope yon will return to this office the names of yonr Society, with list of officers and members, and that they will appear on the ground in good time, armed and equipped as the law directs. A premium of a ten dollar cop will be awarded the club which shall appear on the ground with the best tent and equipage and supplies produced at home. This cap is to be awarded by the County Club to the most deserving exhibi tor at the Annual Connty Fair. I suggest to planters to come prepared to purchase agricultural implements. The exhibition in this department promises to be without parallel. Mr Brinley, of the Kentucky Plow, has given me notice that he will give a set of his plows as a premium to the exhibition of the best bag of cotton. If yon have that bag down in Laurens yon had as well bring it along with yon. Yery Respectfully, p, W. Liwis, See’y. Messrs. Jno. M. Stubbs, and others, of Com mittee of Lanrens Co. Ag. Society. C^.Pa >ers of the State please copy. An Illinois wonurn had her husband ar. rested a few days ago for whipping her. He was find $3, and the woman claimed half of the fine for informing on her bus banfi. A Georgia Editor among thp Fashionables -•One of Grautis Bali ’ Boom Receptions. Our plain-sailing friend, the editor of the Federal Union, recently made a visit to Long Branoh, where the President and the worshipers, and the shoddy family general ly have been in high carnival for a week or two past. He stopped at the Stetson Honse, which he says is a “shoddy concern," and the Stetsons are toadies and flnnkiep of (he first water- They ^ C U> to think it is glory enong'h for them to have General .Grant and suite for their guests, and that then- other customers may think themselves well off if they are permitted to stay nnder the same roof with him. They have probably taken the hint from Gen. Grant, and effect to be veiy reticent and exclusive. Their clerks at the bar can give noinfofipotiep on any snbject, anfi any one seeking knowl edge hete does it undor great difficulties. The heartlessness with which General Grant goes through with the formality of a reception is illustrated in the following par agraph : When a |arge crowd had assembled in the {laqeing saloon, and awful beauty had arrayed herself in all her terrors, General Grant and his wife appeared in the midst} They were soon surrounded by their a4- mirers. The dancing coop oeased. Gen. Grant sa| |n a convenient place, and hold ing ont us hand, suffered the admiring crowd, as they passed, to touch his finger?. In this way hundreds of men, women and children passed befbro him qnfi touched his fingers- They called it shaking hands with the President; bnt (I stood where I could see all that passed) the President was en tirely passive; the crowd came by in a con- tinned stream, and touching his fingers, bowed and worshipped. The President never spoke to any one or even smiled. I stood within ten fppt of him anjl pould pot pgrpeive his penutcuauce change in the least. Fine ladies, bright maidens and sweet looking children all lassed by unnoticed so far as I could see or -tear; the object of this idolatry all the while remaining passive. I could not help thinkiog of the Popes'in olden times per mitting the people to kiss their great toe- This process of touching the fingers of the President continued for a long time, hotels' apd from the country to ‘ enjoy the privilege of looking upon the President and touching the finger of power. During the whole time the countenance ef the Presi dent was as unchangeable as a block of wood, or side of sole leather wbioh he had “One by one they bass Away."— We are called upon this morning to an nounce the death of Mr. Thomas A. Bones, well known as the junior partner of thp firm of Messrs. john &. Thotitaa A. ftopps, hardware merchants, ' Posse-sings gener ous heart and genial disposition, Tom Bones, as he was familiarly called, was es teemed by those wh° knew him for hi; many good qualities of head and hear.—Chrou. <t- Sen. of 11th. Interesting to Owners of Poultry—Novel Thief Trap. A citizen of Carrollton, La.,who noticed that his chickens disappeared rather more rapidly than hawks and rats could account for, hit npon the idea of building his chick en house just above a well, and constructed over the top of the well a trap-door, which was so arranged that a party entering the honse would inevitable tumble in. For several mornings he i spectcd his trap but fonnd nothing At length, however, he repaired as usual to the well, and lo! there at the bottom—there was' only about a foot or two water—sat in lamentable plight of African “scent,” one of the nation’s wards, indeed whose love for chickens no amount of freedom will, it seems, overcome-: Ho was duly fished np and lodged iu jail. A few mornings afterwards another sable qhicken fancier was canght -in the same ingenious trap, and we learn that both the guilty, parties are now in durance vile awaiting triaL They regard the trap as a horrible invention, calculated to inflict im mense damage to theirfellow craftsmen,and utterly unfair, and consequently unjustifi able. It would not be surprising if these parties should sue ont injunctions against the white citizens at large, restraining them from erect chicken houses over wells or of doing anything to endanger the life-and liberty of colored chicken fanciers. The trap shonld be patented, as it will donbtless work a revolution in the method of constructing fowl residences. tii» * lUi. Turner to be Removed.—If our dis patches from Washington are to be relied on, it wonld szem that the recent showing np of Turner in the counterfeit money case is. likely to Result in good to the people of Macon. It is stated on the anthority of W. P- Edwards, member of Congress from this State, that Tamer, the negro postmas ter at MacoD, is to be removed, and that Mr. Washington, the former postmaster in that oity, is to be inaugurated in his stead.—Aug. Const Georgia Premiums Now at the ClncianatU Textile Fabric Exposition. Macon Manufacturing Company, for best bale of 36 inch medium brown cottons. 850. Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing Compa ny, of Columbus. Ga, for best pair Cotton Blankets. $25. Eagle Mills Company, best Cotton Warp Tweed. 825. The Steam Cotton Mills, of Coiambus, were praised for Cordage. t^The Radical negro majority of An tioch Colored Church, Culpeper connty, Va, expelled every member of the church who voted the Walker ticket in the late election. There have been many assaults by Radical negroes npon the Conservatives of their color, in various parts of the Sonth, on account of their votes. But this in stance of church proscription is more sig nificant than other demonstration ins show ing that the ballot has been committed to a class utterly unfit to exercise ‘it.—Col. Sun. Parrots LlY*; to a Wonderful Age .—A gentleman of New York city has a parrot whioh has been in his possession for upwards of forty-five years. This bird, which is of the cockatoo kind, is still very livcly, getting off “at uncertain intervals, the little speeches learned by him in his youth, bnt not acquiring any new phras- Mr. Stephens’ general health is good. Ho is slowly recevering from his accident, and works steadily on the second volume of his great work MUledgeviUe Record- Another Negro State. A dispatch from Long Branch says: I learn that Secretary Robeson admits that Senator Cole has gone to San Domingo on a special mission. "The Secretary de clared that inside of one year San Domin go will be admitted to tho Union. Whop the American Union was origin ally formed the parties to the compact wonld not have admitted a negro State in the confederation. Now, to maintain their political ascendency, the Radical party wonld annex Africa' itself. The time wifi pefhajs come when the white men of the North will see the fruits of this unnatural and degrading policy.-^.Vncon Tel Effect of Example.—Major Kessler, on Butler’s staff daring the war, has reoent- locamped with $25,000 belonging to the t of which he was chief clerk, and of which he has proved the bottle-washer. So mnch for bad example. The CANY493 iif T*xas.-^Jq addition to the other issues in Texas the division of the State is an important feature in the can vass. Hamilton and Baker, the Conserva. tive candidates for Governor and Lieuten ant Governor, oppose division. Davis and Flannagan, the ultra Radical candidates, advocate the division of the States, thereby securing six pr pight Senators instead of two. , 1 ’ .. . . • ; V Tennessee accounts indicate that Bailey Peyton is to ho sent to the United States Senate. The Conservatives think the time has not yet areived to pnt forward Andrew Johnson with safety. Guy Fawkes Bedivivus.—Somebody has frightened the English Parliament, by exploding a tin canister .of powder .in the bnilding. The Herald says, onr American politicians are more sensible. The “blow up” with whisky. aa.AU the hotel keepers al the water, ipg plaoes are inviting Grant to visit them, |n order to draw all the spendthrifts, gam blers and diunkards to their houses. So says the Day Bo ok. Montana Election.—A Helena (Montana) dispatch says that Hon. J. M. Cavanaugh, Democratic, is re-elected dele gate to Congress from that Territory by two thousand majority. Wedding.—Yesterday evening, Profes sor W. Henry Waddell, of Athens, was United in marriage to Mrs. Mary Brumby Tew, at the residence of her father, on Peachtree street, by Rev. Dr. Waddell, of Mississippi. The happy conple left yes terday evening, on a bridal tour to Europe. A pleasant trip and a safe return to them.:— Af. Cy(ist.oflltk, $9*A Hungarian woman of 115 years has tried to poison her family because it was growing so large. •VKilling a cat is cruelty to animals in Montreal, and costs $10, •^-Grasshoppers are at last utilised. „Iowa is teaming with grasshoppers.” says paper of that State A relie speculator offers the stnmp e fa’ segar smoked by Grant for $15. Snow fell on Mount Washington on Fri day, and ice formed daring thenighkSnow .3 o fell near Montreal. Married—On the morniog of the 12th at inst.; 8J o’clock, by the Rev. Dr. Samu el R. Wilson, Mr. W. F. Ombero to Miss Chbistie .S. Stokes, at the residence of the bride’s fatbec—all of Louisville, Ky. We are informed by a friend, (R. M. J.) who was with Billy daring his “last moments” of single misery, that he passed the trying ordeal like a brave man, as he is —that the bride is a lady of great beauty and rare accomplishments, and that they launch their boat npon the matrimonial sea under favorable auspices. May their voyage be a long and happy one. Married—In Livingston, at the resi dence of the bride's father, on the 10th inst., by the Rev.J. B. E. Lewis, Mr. Wm. F. Montgomery to Miss Sallie M. Er win. ' * Too Mach Iron ami Ragging on Cotton. Liverpool, Aug. 11.—The Chamber of Commerce resolved to send a circnlar to American Chambers pointing ont a system of using aa unnecessary amount of covering and too heavy bands of inn on bales of cotton, and suggesting the adoption at tho American ports of tho system of allowance of tare, which prevails in England. From Montgomery. Montgomern, Ala., August 11.—A pe tition from some of the Republicans of Mo bile, was presented yesterday to Governor Smith, asking him to place that city under martial law. But a delegation from the citizens of that place arrived here to-day, and had ah interview with the Governor, which was entirely satisfactory, and result ed in his declining to place that city under military rale. OHIO. ' Columbus, Ohio, August 11.—The Democratic Central Committee nominated Geo. H. Pendledon for Governor. He ac cents the nomination. Montgomery, Ala.,‘ August 12.—Tho first bale of new cotton was received yes-' terday afternoon. Macon, Ga., August 11.—Tho first bale of the new cotton crop, was received here to-day. It was raised by P. W. Jones, of Bake.' county, and classes as middlings in New York, and will be shipped to Bos ton. Announcement- Extraordinary. ■ Boston, Aug. 7.r—Last night the accom plished daughter of Professor A. Molyneanx Heath, of Harvard University, was led to the altar by Fred, Douglass, Jr., son of the colored orator. A grand reception came off in the evening.—-Telegramin Philadelphia Telegraph. Markets. New York, August 12.—Money. 6a7. Sterling. 71. -Gold 1 34}. Flour heavy. Wheat, winter, firm ; springdull .Corn quiet Pork qniet at 33 20. Lard firm. Cotton quiet at'33}. Liverpool, August 12, noon.—Cotton steady ; uplands 13d; Orleans 12}al3}d.; sales 10,000 hqles. . Breadstufis firm _ colored'woman of the. town was crowned as the Goddess of Liberty at a Radical , barbecue in Alabama last week. Now, sir,” asked a police magistrate of a vagrant Irishman, “what motive brought yon to London?” A locomotive, sir.” The warm nights induced a man in New York to sleep on the roof of his honse; his dreams induced him to roll off, and his fall superinduced his funeral. LSyAta late printer’s festival the fol- owing toast was presented: “The master of all trades: he beats tbe farmer with the Hoe,-the carpenter with his rales, and the mason with his setting np tall columns, he surpasses the lawyer and tho doctor in at tending to his cases, and he beats the par son . in the management of the devil.— B3&.IQ Pittsburg tho price of coal is less than two dollars a ton. The coal shipped to the West from that point sells at Cincin nati at two dollars and twenty-five cents a ton; at New Orleans at four dollars; at St. Louis at three dollars and fifty cents to four dollars aud fifty cents- Thcro is this difference between happi. ness aud wisdom—he who thinks himself the happiest man really is so; bnt he who thinks himself the wisest is geneaally the greatest fool. At Lyndon, Vermont, a few days since, a time dove flew into the Congregational Church during prayer time, and perched upon the parson’s head. The Legislature of Kentucky wifi, be made np as follows: Lower Honse,ninety- two Democrats and eight Republicans; Senate, thirty-six Democrats and two Re publicans. Elizabethtown, Kentucky, about forty miles south of Louisville, was set fire by an incendiary on Saturday last. Tho whole business part of the town was destroyed. The loss is estimated at 8125,000, a small amount of which is insured. jtaif - A gentlemen of Rochester saw an ad vertisement that the receipe for the euro of dispepeia might be had by sending a postage stamp to tho advertiser. He sent his stamp, and the reply was, “Dig in yonr garden, aud lot whisky alone!” Mr. Flannegan, of the North, has con tracted for $2,500,000 to build the Port Royal Railroad. Work to begin at once, and finish January, 1871.—Barnescille Journal. l^_Tbc vote in the recent election in Virginia fell below tbe number of register ed voters 44,000—26,000 whites and 18,- 000 blacks! t&'X crazy Indianian, evinces his in sanity by baying coffins for all his friends and sending them on with his compli ments, The difference between dress and address is quite considerable. One draws heavily on the pnfse—the other lightly on man ners. It is a good sign to see a woman dressed with taste aud neatness—bad to see hus band sued for finery. It is" a good sign to see a man do an act of charity —a bad sign to hear him boast of it.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, August 20, 1869, Image 1