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COLUMBUS:
PBIUAT nOHHIIIO, SEPT. 13.
How Much Money Cotton Beings
—What Figures Report.— Last year
Columbus received 75,007 bales. This
realized, averaging it at 13c per pound,
$4,875,452. In 1871-2 we will most
probably receive 55,000 bales. The in
dications are it will average 18c. and
may go beyond it. Many speak of 25c.
as the average,and it may bo reached if
the United States crop is not underesti
mated. We take a figure which is cer
tain, 18c. per pound or $96 per bale.
Cur 55,000 bales will realize $4,950,000
or about SBO,OOO more than last year
though the crop be 20,000 bales less. If
we get 20c. per pound, or SIOO a bale,
the total realized the present cotton
year will be $5,550,000; and if we
should reach 25c. $6,875,000 will be the
amount to be distributed, or nearly two
million dollars more than last year.
With this amount, trade will flourish
and a change for the better come over
every branch of business.
The South received very little money
comparatively for her tremendous crop
of last year. The yield was 4,347,000
bales, and the planters received for it
(13c. per pound) $271,000,000. In
1809-70, 1,200,000 bales less were pro
duced. The crop was 3,114,000 bales,
which realized to the planters $299,000,-
000, $20,000,000 more than the succeed
ing year, notwithstanding the enor
mous increase in yield. This should
teach farmers a lesson by which money
can be made. A large crop yields less
money than a small one, and you can’t
fool your neighbor easily. If you plant
largely; so will he. If every farmer
would raise his own provisions and then
plant the remainder of his land in cot
ton, the South would be in a few years
the most prosperous country on the
globe.
An Injunction and What of It.—
Judge Johnson, in Chambers, yester
day morning, heard argument and
granted an injunction against the
North and South Road’s runnning
over the land of Mr. J. C. Cook.—
The question arose upon Mr. Cook’s
asking a much heavier price for
the right of way than the road was
willing to pay. The Judge also decid
ed that the road must summon a jury
of three freeholders to assess damages
when the right of way is refused, and
not the owner. The road, through its
counsel, gavo a supercedeas bond and
appealed to the Supreme Court. The
hearing may not be had for months.—
The road is being pushed on through
Mr. Cook’s land, and since the bond has
been given the work cannot bo stopped.
Bofore the Supreme Court decides the
question, the road will be through the
disputed territory. The question of
damages can be assessed at any time.
The road will be at Pine Mountain by
January Ist, in spite of injunctions.
They do not stop work as the law pro
tects the rights of railroads and public
enterprises, as well as the property of
individuals. Blandford & Crawford
and C. H. Williams for the road; Smith
& Alexander for Cook.
Cotton in Habbis. —A gentleman
who brought 1G bales in to hold for 25c.
next Spring, estimates that Harris coun
ty last year produced 20,000 bales of
cotton. This season she -will produce
perhaps five-eighths of that amount or
12,500. No top crop will be made;
the middlo crop is shedding badly; the
bottom crop is pretty good. Owing to
the large area planted in corn, enough
has been made to support tho people
and hayo something to sell. Farmers
will be in no hurry to sell their cotton.
They are not heavily pressed for
money, having been unable to borrow
or obtain advances to any great extent,
owe but little, because their credit
would not sustain it and they are in a
most excellent position. Trade in the
towns may open slow, but it promises
to be Bteady and conducted largely on
the cash basis.
Latest fbom New Yokk. The
New York store, where S. Waxelbaum
& Cos. are showing all how to sell
choice articles at cheap rates and mako
money, is receiving one of the largest
and most complete stocks of dry goods
ever received at Columbus. They were
lucky in buying before cotton advanced,
and they allow their customers this
great advantage. This firm believes in
selling large quantities of fabrics at
very small profits, and they can be un
dersold by no one. We advise country
merchants to call at this store. They
can procure articles for less money
than in New York, and on better
terms. It is needless to remind the
public that all in the store take great
pleasure in showing the stock, which
embraces all the staple and fancy goods,
as well as the novelties and latest sen
sations.
Patrick Francis Brannon, Esq.,
of Tbxas.— Quite a lengthened corres
pondence has recently taken place be
tween this gentleman, who will bo ro
membered as an eleve of our bar, and
Alexander H. Stephens, and published
in the Atlanta Sun. Mr. 8., the son of
our late fellow citizen, Mr. A. Brannon,
is a rising young lawyer and connected
with the editorial department of the
Chronicle, published in Cleburne, Tex
as. He heartily endorses tho true Dem
ocratic doctrine against any “new de
partures.”
Mr. Brannon came to the bar under
the legal tutorship of the late and la
mented James N. Ramsey, Esq.
A Small Farmer. —Yesterday as wo
were passing through Crawford street,
near Front, we saw an Alabama neigh
bor get nearly a two horse wagon load
of excellent manure from a cow stable
which had been emptied in the street.
That man will have something to sell
next year.
The Memphis Appeal learns “from a
private dispatch from the best legal au
thority of New York, that the Drakes
of Middle Tennessee have proved their
heirness of the estate of Sir Francis
Drake, consisting of one hundred and
twenty millions of dollars in cash, of
which John B. Drake, “one of the old
folks" of Memphis, is the first claimant.
Pretty Fair Yield.— The Eufaula
News says Mr. W. J. Collins of Henry
county has gathered 55 bushels ot com
from 65 yards square in one of his fields.
—This is 675 square yards less than an
acre. We hope there are many such
fields in the good old county of Henry.
The Montgomery Advertiser says
there were many gloomy planters in
that city Wednesday, from all sections.
A Butler county farmer, who planted
for 200 bales, remarked that he will be
content if his crop yields him 26 bales.
The Troy Messenger says cotton is
coming into that market in large
quantities, giving evidence of a good
trade to the merchants, who buy nearly
all that comes in.
The Selma Times reports the work
on the Cotton Factory building going
up in that city, progressing finely.
The brick work has reached the tuird
story.
PARDONING POWER.
Pardon Before Conviction.
A pure and learned judiciary is the
greatest blessing, and an ignorant and
corrupt one is the greatest curse that
can be inflicted on a people. The policy
and principles that occupy the minds
of statesmen are slow in their conse
quences—the seed not bringing forth
fruit after its kind, sometimes for cen
turies. It is different with legal ques
tions and judicial decisions—they come
home to the bosoms of individuals and
effect each one personally, in life, lib
erty, character and property.
Before the advent of Radicalism, the
judicial ermine was seldom stained
with impurity, and consequently the
Judges met with the approbation and
confidence both of the Press and people.
The decisions, whether right or wrong
in the abstract, were accepted by all,
without a murmur, as the conclusions
of reason undefiled and separate from
bribery and an ignorant, prurient am
bition. Such then was the respect of
law and its administrators that all were
willing to reverence and obey, while
few questioned their justice and integ
rity. At present a very different state
of affairs exist. Now and then a judg
ment is given that arrests not only the
attention of the lawyer, but should
startle a whole community.
The cases of Dominick vs. Bowden,
and R. B. Bullock, Governor, vs. Han
cock et al. are cases of vast general
importance. The main question decid
ed was the power of the Governor un
der the Constitution of .1868, to grant
pardons before convictions.
The language of the Constitution of
1868 is in these words : “He shall have
power to grant reprieves and pardons,
to commute penalties, and to remit any
part of a sentence for offences against
the State, except in case of impeach
ment.” Lochrane, C. J., (McCay, J.
concurring) delivered the opinion of the
Court. In order that our readers may
see the precise tenure by which they
hold life, liberty and property, and
that we may not misrepresent the Chief
Justice, we quote his language as pub
lished and reported in the Atlanta Con
stitution, of the 13th instant. He says:
“To give a different construction to
the words used in our Btate Constitu
tion, would be to overrule the authority
of the courts of Great Britain and that
of the Supreme Court of the United
States. For no reason exists, or can
be said to exist, which would authorize
a different construction as to the power
of the Governor of a State, from that of
a president, or king, over the matters
expressly delegated to him by the Con
stitution of the State, indeed, our for
mal adoption of the common law, makes
it more applicable to our condition than
it does to the President.”
Hero, it will be observed, that accor
ding to the construction of the Consti
tution of 18G8, by the C. J. of the
Supreme Court of, Georgia, that the
Governor has the same power of a
“ king .” He canpardon every criminal,
or supposed criminal, before trial or
conviction by jury. We care not
whether the interpretation of the O. J.
be correct and warranted by the Con
stitution & of 1868, or otherwise; the
legislation which would authorize such
a decision is a libel on free govern
ments; a temptation to official favor,
itism and corruption; a vital stab at the
independence of the judiciary and
that bulwark of liberty—Trial by Jury;
an open usurpation of prerogative on
privilege and a disgrace upon the civi
lization of the age. It may do for the
law of Great Britain and Ireland, but
not for the United States, as construed
by learned and independent Judges.
We would be glad if the C. J. had
pointed out tho power “expressly dele
gated" by tho State Constitution. No
wonder, under such laws and construc
tions of laws, that Ku-Klux should
spring up from every bush, fierce as
Furies and terrible as hell.
Judge Warner, the able and incor
ruptible jurist, the honest man and
stern patriot, as usual, dissents. He
gives utterance to that voice which
should be the harmony of the world,
and vindicates that which in
practice, should be ever exercised to
protect the weak and innocent and
punish the strong and criminal. Wo
have room only for the conclusion of
his opinion, as follows :
“Construing the section of the Con
stitution which confers the power on
the Governor to grant pardons for ofl'eu
ses against the State, in connection
with the 31st section of the Ist article
thereof, it is quite clear to my mind
that it never was intended that the
Governor should exercise the pardon
ing power before trial and conviction
by the Judicial Department of the
Government. As has been already
shown, there must be an offense against
the State to be pardoned, and under our
Constitution that fact cannot be legally
ascertained except by a trial according
to law by the Judicial Department of
the Government, and whenever the
Executive undertakes to assume or hear
evidence as to the fact that an offense
against the State has been committed
before trial and conviction, it is an in
vasion of the functions of the Judicial
Department, which alone can furnish
the only legal and competent evidence
of that fact, under our Constitution.
This, in my judgment, is a fair and
proper construction of the Constitution
of this State, so as to prevent the abuse
of the pardoning power by the Gov
ernor, to the great detriment of public
justice. I am, therefore, of the opinion,
that the judgment of the court below
in both cases should be affirmed on the
ground that the Governor under the
Constitution of this State, had no power
to grant a pardon for either of the
offenses charged, before a trial and con
viction therefor, in tho courts of the
State, as provided by that Constitution
and the laws in pursuance thereof.”
The Lexington Gazette gives an ac
count of an Alderney heifer, in good
flow of milk and an old cow, a stripper;
their cream, when worked together, did
not make butter enough for the bulk of
cream. The buttermilk also looked
rich, and seemed to collect a cream
upon it. The buttermilk was put back
in the churn and churned for a few
minutes, when there was found from
two to three pounds more butter in the
churn, showing that the heifer’s cream
had madebutter first, and that the cream
of the old cow needed more churning.
This experiment may be turned to profit
in our dairies.
Narrow Gauge Railroad from
Midway to Ozark.— A meeting of the
citizens of Midway, Alabama, and vi
cinity, was convened in that place on
Saturday last, 9th instant, to consider
and respond to communications receiv
ed from Ozark, Dale county, on the sub
ject of a narrow gauge road, connecting
the two places. Resolutions were
adopted strongly favoring the enter
prise, and suggesting a convention at
an early day, at Clayton, represented
by delegates in the interest of Midway,
Clayton, Louisville and Ozark.
Kc-Klux Scare.— The Selma Times
says a few nights ago the denizens of a
little country town about fifteen miles
from Selma, were aroused by the cry of
Ku-Klux. Men, women and children
fled panic stricken to the woods, the
Ku-Klux being something they had
never before known except in vague
reports. After spending the night in
trembling, one of the boldest ventured
out to reconnoiter, when, to his sur
prise, he found it to be a stray sheep,
an article very scarce in those parts
since the war.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The Marietta Journal mentions the
death of Mrs Brumby, wife of Mr.
John G. Brumby, of that place, a most
estimable Christian lady.
Cotton at Macon. —Receipts of the
week ending Thursday 205 againßt -1,
929 the corresponding week last year;
total net receipts 285; stock 1821.
Col. Matt. K. Marks, formerly of Mer
iwether county, but now of Florida,
has been elected President of Board o!
Directors of anew railroad from Mell
onville to Tampa.
The Rome Commercial says Major
Burns and Col. Pennington, are on the
line of the survey of the North and
South Road, and are pushing things
with all possible dispatch.
The Atlanta Constitution says four
teen of the inmates of the Orphans’
Home, in that city, have been convert
ed through the instrumentality of morn
ing prayer meetings and family worship
at the Home.
The editor of the Athens Watchman
has been presented with a basket of
pears by Capt. Henry Beusse, of that
vicinity, one of which weighed one
pound and nine ounces. Can this be
beat by any of our fruit raisers 7 What
say the Moses’, Walkers, Peabody’s
Flewellen’s, &c.
O’Neal Committed. —The prelimi
nary examination of Isham B. O’Neal,
for the killing of Little with a Bowie
Knife, in Atlanta, occupied Monday
and Tuesday. O’Neal was committed
for a hearing before the Superior Court.
The evidonce tends very strong in favor
of the killing being a case of murder in
the first degree.
The family residence of Gen. Eben
Swift, on what is known as the old
Carter place, seven miles from Vicks
burg, Mississippi, was burned last week.
The building was a handsome and cost
ly one and well furnished, and its con
tents went with it. The General’s
family were absent at the North. No
insurance.
James Ivey, son of Mr. Dorsey Ivey,
a prominent citizen of Baker county,
Ga., was shot and killed on Friday last,
by a negro named Sam Long. Two
shots were fired at him with a double
barrel gun. The second shot took ef
fect about the region of the heart, pro
ducing death in a short time. The ne
gro made good his escape.
We learn from our JSastern Georgia
exchanges, that the Beaton Grantland,
mentioned as having been killed in the
unfortunate difficulty with his father-in
law, Dr. Carr, in Washington county,
was Beaton Grantland Dußignon, son
of Dußignon, once a citizen of Talbot
county, and grandson of the late Seaton
Grantland, of Milledgeville.
The majority for Col. Simmons,
Democrat, In the Senatorial district,
composed of Bibb, Pike and Monroe
counties, is 3,035. This is not very
complimentary to the two-faced Demo
crat, Tinley, who threw himself into
tne arms of Radicalism for she filthy
lucre, called office. Since the Radicals
wouldn’t take him, it is doubtful wheth
er the devil would have him. Tinley
can retire.
Col. Cutts, on his return to Americus,
from his canvass over the line of the
proposed road from Americus to New
nan, writes a letter to the Americus
Republican, in which he gives an en
couraging account of the enthusiasm
of the people on the line of the road,
for the enterprise. He says $300,000
have been subscribed on the line of
tho road, and that Atlanta proposes to
give $200,000 to assist in building it.
Col. Hinton, of Buena Vista, writes to
the same paper that $60,000 have been
subscribed in Marion county to the road.
Making Things Secure. —A gentle
man just returned from Douglas coun
ty, says the Gwinnett Atlas, states that
they have made a “new departure” in
jurisprudence in that garden spot of the
Empire State of the South. A certain
man sued out and obtained an attach
ment against the property of one of his
neighbors on the highly satisfactory
ground that he believed the latter in
tended to make use of the benefits of
the homestead act. He succeeded in
getting him placed under bond to insure
that tho property would be forthcoming
should it be needed.
That Negbo’s Head’s Level. —Al
bert, an old Fifteenth Amendment, was
discoursing in Lawrenceville, Ga., last
week, upon the subject of negroes. The
Atlas thus reports him. He “rose to
splain himself as follows: “Ides tell
you, niggers is agitten too big anyhow
—da thinks demselves good as white
folks; dars my wife—she’s done had
four pair of high-up gaiter shoes dis
year, and now wants another pair. Its
quare that bein’ sot free will make nig
gers such fools. Da used to think tha
was a doin’ mighty well if they got a
pair of shoes by Christmas. I wish the
last one of them was put back in slavery
for about five years to learn ’em some
sense; I’d be willin’ to go back awhile
myself, jes to see some of these bigeted
niggers took down.”
Tho Atlanta Constitution learns that
the citizens of Lawrenceville have offer
ed a reward of one thousand dollars for
the arrest, with proof to convict, of the
party or parties who fired the Court
House in that place last week. It has
been ascertained since the burning, that
witnesses summoned to attend the Su
perior Court the present week, in crim
inal prosecutions, were threatened,
through letters, warning them against
appearing at the Court. Really, this
looks very much like some of the peo
ple of Gwinnett county needs recon
structing. For the good of society, it
is to be hoped the guilty parties will be
overtaken. This is a case that calls for
one of Bullock’s $5,000 rewards.
The Gwinnett Atlas, noticing the
burning of tho Court House in that
county, on Sunday night last, says it is
believed the building was fired in the
stairway, and consequently the flames
reached the Clerk’s office of the Supe
rior Court first, and all the records, pa
pers of file, and books were destroyed.
In the Ordinary's office, a portion of the
records and papers were saved through
the extraordinary exertions of Mr. R.
M. Cole, who deserves the thanks of
the people for his daring.
The Ordinary has offered five hun
dred dollars reward, for the apprehen
sion and proof to convict the perpetra
tors of this infamous crime.
The Superior Court convened its reg
ular term, Monday morning after the
burning, Judge Dayis presiding. Little
business was done, however, in conse
quence of the loss of the Court House
and records, and the Court adjourned
to Tuesday after the second Monday in
December.
The Savannah Republican of Wednes
day, says:
From our exchanges in the interior,
we see that there have been heavy
rains, and much damage to the crops,
especially those on river and creek bot
toms. Bridges have been washed away.
Besides the rain, the storms of wind
have done great damage by blowing
down corn and damaging cotton. The
damage actually done crops, bridges,
railroads, &c., will not fall far short of
$1,000,000, as the rains were immense
and destructive.
A L. Habris Arrested. —We learn
from the Atlanta Sun, that on Wednes
day, the interest and excitement about
the State lirad stealages, which had
well nigh subsided, was revived by the
arrest of A. L. Harris, Bullock’s great
man iu the organization of the Legis
lature. The Sun says :
On Saturday last Col. G. W. Lee
made oatn buiore Judge Butt that said
Harris was a “common cueatand swin
dler.” The specifications amounted in
substance to these:
That said Lee had sold to said Harris
a certain railroad “switch”—the prop
erty of said Lee at the time, and that
said Harris had paid him for the switch,
one lathe ot the value of SSOO, and a
considerable amount of iron and other
articles of the value of $300; that Baid
switch was sold to Harris on his own
individual account and thalthe articles
thus paid for them was the property of
the Btate, or of the Western and At
lantic Railroad, by which means the
Btate was defrauded, etc.
The arrest was made Wednesday about
o’clock, by officer D. P. Kendrick.
It was done quietly. Mr. Harris was
expecting the arrest, we understand,
for he had been informed that a warrant
was issued. He promptly came with
Mr. Kendrick and appeared before
Judge Butt. Examination was waived
till Saturday, Mr. Harris in the mean
time being left in the custody of the
officers of court. We learn that he is
very angry with Col. Lee, expressing
himself in terms not very complimenta
ry and threatening prosecution, and the
penitentipry as the result. We are
told that his wrath was warm, running
up almost to a rage.
Presiding Officers of the Next
Legislature.— The Milledgeville Un
ion, in an article on the work to be done
by the next Legislature, makes the fol
lowing allusion to itß organization. It
says:
The first work of the Legislature will
be the election of its officers; and it is
very important that they elect the right
men. In electing a President of a Sen
ate, care should be taken to select a
man who will make a good Governor,
should that office become vacant; and
looking forward to that contingency,
we suggest the name of Judge Reese, of
Wilkes county, to fill that responsible
office. There are other Senators who
are entirely competent, but certainly
none more so than Judge Reese. For
Speaker of the House, Smith, of Musco
gee, will be an excellent selection, and
we hope he will be chosen.
With such presiding officers and a
majority of honest and talented men in
both branches, we may hope much may
be done towards extricating Georgia
from many of her present difficulties.
A meeting of the corporators of tho
Eufaula, Abbeville and Gulf Railroad,
was held in Eufaula, on Monday last.
At this meeting R. A. Solomon, G. A.
Roberts, and W. J. Bray, were appoint
ed a Committee to solicit subscriptions
for money sufficient to pay for an im
mediate preliminary survey of the route
of the proposed road from Eufaula to
the Florida line, and also for a road to
branch from this, at Abbeville or some
other intermediate point, to Ozark, in
Dale county.
The meeting also resolved to open
books for subscriptions to the road, at
some seven or eight offices and commis
sion houses, in Eufaula. Delegates
were also appointed to a Railroad Meet
ing in Ozark, to be held during the en
suing Circuit Court of Dale county.
Our neighbors of Eufaula, are evidently
alive to the work, and move in it as
though they mean business.
We clip the following sensible view
of an outrageous practice, which we
have heard complained of outside of that
county, from the report of the Grand
Jury of Macon county:
That while but a few crimes of a
heinous and aggravated nature have
occurred since the session of tho last
Grand Jury, there has been, we regret
to say, a great many minor violations of
the law, both against property and pub
lic morals. The most numerous of these
offenses is petty larceny, consisting
principally of the killing of stock and
confined almost, if not entirely, to the
colored population, and we believe has
to a great extent, been fostered and
promoted by persons compromising
with the guilty parties and receiving a
small compensation in the way of dam
ages and hush money. This we con
ceive to be a great evil and a crime,
within itself, punishable by law, as it
shields the guilty from just punishment
and tends to increase this great evil in
our midst; and we now take occasion to
enter our earnest protest against it.
The Cotton Seed Oil Business. —
The New Orleans Picayune says the
oil factories in that city, with one ex
ception, were forced to suspend for
want of seed a month ago. The re
duction in tho price of seed to sl2 per
ton against, sls last year, and increased
price of freights, reduced tho importa
tion to 460,953 sacks, against 1,112,036
last year. The Picayune urges tho
increase of shipments because the forty
gallons of oil which each ton of seed
contains is of no value for fertilizing
purposes, and the cake after the oil is
extracted is worth moro to planters than
the seed. Is it true, that the oil has no
manurial virtues ? Some chemists say
so, but we don’t believe it.
• Killing Cotton Worms.— F. H. G.
Taylor, of Galveston Bay, writes the
New Orleans Times that he treats
the cotton caterpillar to a solution of
arsenic at the rate of two pounds of ar
senic to three pork barrels of water,
frequently stirred, and the solution ap
plied with a common watering pot.
Three barrels will water an acre, and it
kills the worm at once. Care must be
taken not to make the solution too
strong, as it kills the cotton. The per
son applying the arsenic should be pro
tected by a thick apron. The drug cost
him ten cents a pound.
The Coroner’s jury in the case of the
recent explosion of the Ocean Wave, at
Point Clair, concluded their investiga
tions on the 13th instant. Their report
is published in tho Mobile Register. In
the conclusion of their report, they say,
“From the testimony submitted to us,
we find that said explosion occurred
through the carelessness, negligence,
and incompetency of the United States
Inspector and the officers and owners
of the said steamboat; and we recom
mend that the said Inspector, officers
and owners of said boat be held to a
strict accountability for the deaths and
homicides ol the persons aforesaid.”
The True Union is the title of anew
paper just started in Opelika, the first
number of which has reached us. It is
published by W. B. Thomas & Cos. Its
political editor is Col. Wm. F. Bam
ford, whose salutatory is written with
vigor, and has the ring of the true met
al. Col. 8. is a well informed man and
a vigorous writer. The paper is issued
»emi-weekly, and is a neat get up for
the material. It has our best wishes
for an abundant harvest. Opelika has
now three papers.
An Atlanta Man Commits Sui
cide in California. —The Washing
ton Chronicle of the 13th contains the
following: “Joseph W. Alexander, de
puty recorder of Sacramento, commit
ted suicide on Monday by taking poi
son. The cause of the rash act was the
opposition of the parents of his affianced
to the marriage. He was twenty.nine
years of age, and a native of Atlanta,
Ga.”
The Troy Messenger says the late
cold, damp spell of weather, caused
much sickness and several deaths in that
vicinity.
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 16.
Sweet Potatoes. —They were sold
in considerable quantities yesterday at
one dollar per bushel.
Right of Way Given Through
Harris. —We are authoritatively in
formed that the right of way has been
given, free of charge, to the North and
South Road along its entire length
through Harris. This is showing en
couragement by works.
Manufacture of Wine.— Several
Italians near here are engaged in the
manufacture of wine from different va
rieties of European grapes. One tells
us he expects to get one hundred and
forty barrels from his vineyard;another
two hundred and fifty. This is not so
large an amount, but is good for a be
ginning. Any quantity of scuppernong
wine is being made.
Right of Way. —A jury of five free
holders of the county, viz : C. B. Talia
ferro, A. G. Redd, W. G. Woolfolk, O.
A. Klinkand John H. Hamilton, assem
bled in the Superior Court room on the
petition of Mr. Nance, who lives about
six miles from the city, to assess dama
ges against the North and South Rail
road Company for right of way through
his land. Quite a Bucuber of witnesses
were examined. The testimony con
flicting as to amount of damage, if any,
the jury took a recess until Tuesday
morning at 10 o’clock. Meanwhile they
will personally inspect the premises.
For Mr. Nance appeared Ingram &
Crawford. For the Road, Blandford &
Crawford and Charles H. Williams,
Esqs. A large number of spectators
were present.
On the tax books the laud is reported
at $1,500. This much the owner wants
for the right of way. llow the people
encourage railroads.
It is hardly necessary to add that
such claims do not stop work iu the
least. All goes on as before.
The citizens ofDadevilloare petition
ing the officers of the Savannah and
Memphis railroad, for a change of the
passenger schedule on that road. The
complaint is, the present schedule
makes them rise too early and go to
bed too late. We say to our friends
over in Dadeville, that is nothing when
they get used to it. They certainly
can submit to the inconvenience a few
weeks longer in view of the fact that
the cars will be running to their town
in a couple of months hence. The
schedule suits tha LaFayetteroad. Be
sides, we feel sure the change they
suggest, would very much disjoint the
running arrangements of the train on
the Western Road now running in con
nection with their trains, to this city.
The change proposed, is to leave the
Western terminus at 8 or 8j in the
morning, and returning, arrive at 4 to
4j in the evening.
The call of a Convention in North
Carolina to amend or remodel her Con
stitution, having failed, it has been sug
gested, and the proposition is being
discussed, of holding meetings in all
the counties in the State, in which both
political parties shall be invited to par
ticipate, and after full and free discus
sions of the faults of the present Con
stitution, pass resolutions, or rather
memorialize the Legislature to pass a
bill making tho necessary amendments
to the Constitution and submit the same
to a vote of the people for ratification or
rejection. If the proper spirit of har
mony should prevail in this last effort
of her wise men, the good old State of
North Carolina may yet be saved from
a total wreck. All good men will pray
that the effort be a success.
We are pleased to learn that work on
the extension of the Eas 1 ! Alabama
and Cincinnati Railroad, beyond Buf
falo Wallow, is about being re
sumed. The Lafayette Reporter of
yesterday, (Friday) says: “A few
days since we noticed fifty two carts
pass through town for Buffalo Wallow,
the present terminus of the E. A. and C.
Railroad. We learn that shanties are
being erected and that in a few days
there will be three hundred hands at
work on the next five miles . A large
number of hands are also at work at the
other end of the Road, and we hope that
not many years will elapse before
through trains will be running on this
Road.”
Be Cabeful, Ye Divkbs. —A batch
of youngsters went bathing in the
Tennessee river, near Chattanooga, a
few days ago. One of the party,
named Jennings, dived too far below
the surface of the water, and striking
his head against the corner of a rock,
inflicted a very deep and serious cut.
His companions, with difficulty,rescued
him from the river, and took him to a
house near by, where he died in a few
hours after. The Times says that a short
time after he received the injury, his
whole body, from his neck down, be
came paraiized, and remained in that
condition until death ended his suffer
ings. Jennings belonged to Decatur,
Alabama.
Holden’s Pluck. —The New York
Commercial Advertiser says:
“Ex-Governor Holden, of North Car
olina, is to take editorial charge of the
Washington Chronicle. He will look
after Alexander Stephens with especial
affection, and devote himself to reflect
ing the loyal sentiment of tho South.
The ex-Governor has brains, pluck and
enterprise, and if [Stephens don’t mend
his paces we may look out for an early
eclipse of the Atlanta Sun.”
Holden ought certainly to have some
pluck, seeing he has plucked the North
Carolinians so badly. —Macon Tel.
Yes, and the North Carolinians re
turned the plucking by sending the
plucker, a naked vagabond from the
State he plucked and plundered. Ed.
Columbus Sun, not scared.
Health of Dr. Mell. — Wo are
pleased to learn from tho Athens Watch
man of the 13th,.that the health of Rev.
Dr. Mell, Vice Chancellor of the Uni
versity of Georgia, who has been very
ill for some time at the house of a friend
in the country, is fast improving, and
that he will probably be able to return
to his home in Athens in a few days.
This will be gratifying intelligence to
his many friends in this section.
Religious News.— A revival meet
ing at the Baptist church in Union
Springs, closed on Sunday night, after
a protraction of two weeks. Nine con
verts were made and added to the
church. A revival meeting of the same
church, closed at Sardis, Bulloch coun
ty, on the same evening, resulting in
seven converts and accessions to the
church.
Stabbing Affray.—An altercation
occurred on last Thursday, in our city,
between D. B. Parks and Thomas Lee
man, both white, which resulted in
Leeman being stabbed in the left side of
his breast, a severe cut in the throat, a
gash on the head, and a piece of one of
his ears cut off. Parks was arrested and
lodged in jail. Leeman is lying in a
very critical condition. —Marietta Jour
nal, Sept. loth.
“Mr. Stephens,” says the Montgom
ery Advertiser, “has endorsed the Cal
fornia platform.” This ia what we call
putting Screws on the truth.— Saavn
nah Mews,
Colnmbns Enquirer snd Mr. Steph
ens.
In our few comments on the misrep
resentation of Mr. Stephens by the Co
lumbus Enquirer, we had no idea our
neighbor would be troubled to fill nearly
two columns with old editorials, not to
prove that Mr. Stephens had indorsed
the California platform, but that he and
Mr. Stephens both have opposed the
new departure. Now the California
platform accepts the new departure,
and how our neighbor can accept and
reject the same thing at the same time
is a mystery too deep for our compre
hension. Mr. Stephens explained, be
fore the misrepresentation of the En
quirer, his “apparent inconsistency”
without even waiting to hear from the
Savannah News. The News simply
quoted from the California platform as
follows: “We regard the three several
amendments to the Constitution re
cently adopted as a settlement in fact of
all the issues of the war, and that the
same are no longer Issues before the
country.” To which the Enquirer adds:
“Nosv, the Hon. A. H. Stephens, no
ticing this identical declaration of the
California Democratic platform, a few
days since, said ‘this is our position ex
actly.’ ”
This may be, for all we know, the
“position exactly" of the Enquirer, but
we deny that it is, or ever was, the
“position exactly ” of Mr. Stephens. If
the amendments “are no longer issues
before the country,” why, in the quota
tion made by the Enquirer, does Mr. S.
declare that his “position exactly ” is,
that the people of California would
“pronounce them null and void at some
future day?” Mr. Stephens had, before
the misrepresentation of the Enquirer,
written as follows:
It is not true, in point of fact, that wc
“virtually indorsed” the California
platform—in the parts quoted from us.
On the contrary, we expressly stated
that we had not seen it; and, moreover,
we stated to our correspondent that
while we considered him and all others
holding like sentiments— true to the
Constitution, with whom we could cor
dially co operate, yet we feared, from
his statement of the California platform,
that the Democrats there would lose
the State under it. Does it not clearly
show that we did not approve the Cali
fornia platform, even as represented to
us, and that we greatly apprehended
that the true and gallant, honest masses
of the Demociacy of California, like our
correspondent, would he beaten with
the new departure feature iu it? And
has not the result shown that our appro
hensions were well founded?
We leave it to our readers to say who
has “blundered into a wrong box,” we,
or the editor of the Columbus Enquirer.
'CUE UK EAT IIKAI, WAV K,
This sensation, to which we made
reference last week, and the original
article which started it, we copied from
the New Orleans Picayune, on our
fourth page yesterday, appears to be
creating quite a sensation in the cities
and points on the coast. We have been
disposed to treat the sensation as a joke.
The article on our fourth page yester
day, appeared in the Picayune on tho
sth inst., we believe, and is the founda
tion of the sensation. According to
the Savannah press, however, many of
the people of that city are disposed to
treat the matter seriously. The News
says it was rumored on the streets of
Savannah, Tuesday, that a special tele
gram had been received from Prof.
Agassiz, stating that the great tidal
wave would be there a few days earlier
than was at first supposed, in conse
quence of which, many people of the
city were going wild on the subject of
high places. That paper says:
“We have heard of a geat many who
have been moving up stairs, while eve
ry one argues that it will be expedient
to -dwell upon the house-tops for a few
days. Another preparation we see be
ing made for the memorable event is
the pinning and brancing of the Ex
change portico to keep it, as the Clerk
of Council informs us, from washing
away.
“Here is a grand speculation for
somebody. If some enterprising genius
like old man Noah would come into
our midst, he could make a good thing
out of this—you bet. By the way, we
understand that all the spare rooms of
the Exchange have been roserved for
tho use of his Honor the Mayor and the
Board of Aldermen.”
Our opinion is, “boat preparation,”
after old Father Noah’3 style, would be
decidedly the safest for our neighbors of
Savannah and on the coast generally.
Some have suggested that possibly the
Professor is not responsible for tho pre
diction—that he did not make it; and if
he did, and was in earnest, he should
have given longer notice. This point
we cannot undertake to settle. He is
too far away now—and off the telegraph
line, too—-to be consulted. Those who
believe the prediction had better, as
suggested above, abandon the move up
stairs, and adopt the boat expedient.
Those who do not, of course will do as
unbelievers didin Noah’s day—takothe
chances and go under, should what they
no w,view as a sensation, prove a reality.
For our part, we feel that we are safe
from harm, being out of the reach of the
predicted “Wave.”
AsHault Upoa Oen. Gantou.
The Huntßville Democrat, of the 10th,
after stating from the Chattanooga
Timos, of the preceeding day, the
points of Chacellor Key’s decission in
the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad
matter, says:
Chancellor Key has evinced in hia
decision, a wise juflgemeut an a proper
regard tor public interests, independent
of the legal principles governing the
case. It seems to have been received
in bad spirit by Wood, [described as
“a vulgar Chattanooga lawyer” repre
senting the holders of tho second mort
gage bonds]; for, as we learn from pri
vate sources, he assembled a crowd of
men, of the baser sort, in front of tho
Burns House, on Friday night after the
delivery of Chancellor Key’s decree,
and made a speech in which ho indulg
ed in grosa and vulgar abuse of the State
of Alabama, and made a sweeping
charge of dishonesty against her people.
General Clanton who was a guest in
the Burns house, could not brook such
language applied to his State and people,
but went out, and, confronting Wood,
denounced him in the most unqualified
terms. Wood bore Gen. Clanton’s de
nunciation submissively, but it caused
a row among his plug ugly adherents;
who threatned Gen. Clentoo, who re
ceived their threats with defiant denun
ciations of them, as a set ot cowardly
scoundrels. The police interfered and
ordered Clanton to give up his arms.
He declined, but afterwards consented
to lay them aside in his room,and did so.
Subsequently, he went to a lager beer
saloon, where he eneduntered a set of
Chattanooga roughs who attacked him
with brass knucks and bludgeons, but
though badly bruised, he succeeded
finaly in routing them. These are all
the particulars thus far received.
Cotton Beeelpt*.
The receipts of cotton at Montgomery
the past week, were 474 bales. The re
ceipts for the corresponding week last
year, were 1424. Receipts of the two
first weeks of this cotton year, Sept.
14th, foot up 765 bales. Receipts of
corresponding weeks last year, 2,468.
Receipts of Selma, for the weekend
ing 15th, 543 bales. Receipts corres
ponding week last year, 1,059. Total
receipts since September 1,814 bales.
Receipts of cotton at Macon, Friday,
67 bales—since first September, 389.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial professes to have found
six of Grant’s relatives in West Vir
ginia who are not in office.
SUNDAY MORNING, SEPT. 17.
_ MOKETIKAVY FltEianTS.— The freight
bills on bulk wheat, received by the
Palace mills in the last few days via
the Western Railroad, amounted to
$1,50°. __
A Vain Hunt. —We hunted in vain
yesterday for a man who believed in
the cotton figures of the Agricultural
Bureau. It was universally pronounced
a fraud at guessing.
Superior Court. —Talbot Superior
Court meets to morrow. • Few lawyers
will go to Talbotton from this city.
The Chattahoochee Court convenes on
the following Monday. We understand
the health of Judge Johnson is not
good, but that he will probably be able
to attend the different Courts of the
Circuit.
Sale of Gins.—We understand that
twenty-six gins have been carried to
river plantations, per steamers, within
the past sow monthß. Some 5000 bales
of cotton are expected by the river this
season against 7495 last year. Strange
to tell, the stream has been navigable
all of this year. This is indeed excep
tional, and demonstrates that an unu
sually largo quantity of rain has fallen.
During the summer months the river
ordinarily is too low for easy passage of
boats.
Georgia Terra Cotta Work.—
Those who would see something hand
some should go to Ilolstead & Co.’s
and see the specimens of the above
named works, manufactured by an es
tablishment in Atlanta. The material
used is a grayish clay which can be
beautifully moulded and ornamented.
The articles consist of large urns, chim
ney tops and pipes lor draining. The
Atlantesc have made them iu elegant
style and shape. The specimens arc to
be exhibited at our Fair.
Important Meeting Tuesday
Night, —By reference to the published
card it will be seen that a large number
of citizens propose to meet iu Concert
Hall, Tuesday evening, for tho purpose
of organizing a Society to establish a
reading and lecture room and public
library. Addresses may be expected
from prominent gentlemen. This is a
movement which will promote the. mor
al, intellectual and religious culture of
the city. Ali should bo interested and
unite in the cause. Tho attendance at
the meeting should be large. Let all
classes be preseui and select represent
ative men to put the suggestions into
practical shape.
Wukkk’s Youu Tubes Million? —
In the list few days the reports are
general and come from reliable men,
that tho continuous wet weather is
causing immature bolls to rot in the
fields aud matured cotton is sprouting.
From the neighborhood of Macon and
in Southwestern Georgia, this report
also comes. The Agricultural Bureau
is a good guesser. With favorable sea
sons, the wißeacres of the Bureau say,
the crop can’t exceed 3,250,000 bales;
with less favor, may be 2,400,000. Any
body can guess with a margin of 800,-
000 bales allowed. We can do that.
Wonder if the Bureau would call a mis
take of a million, close calculation.
Small Houses.— A manufacturing
town like Columbus needs them badly.
Dwellings that rent for a small sum
never want tenants. Structures cost
ing $3,000 and $4,000 each, are beyond
the moans of a majority of laboring
men. They do not desire that all their
spare earnings should go for rents.—
Thoy wish to accumulate funds by which
in a reasonable time thoy may bo oblo
to buy homes of their own. The desire
of such men, and they make the best
citizens, is to obtain neat, cheap cot
tages—with some ornamentation, not
expensive, to give them a nobby air—a
home that one can feel a pride in. We
are glad to learn that monied men are
contemplating tho idea of putting up
many such residences on the lots bor
dering the commons and other locali
ties—not boxes as has been heretofore
the style, but handsome littlo cottages
that cost little money and can be rented
at a paying but light rate. They be
lieve by so doing, they can increase the
property of the city ond add largely to
its population. Our first class machine
shops and public schools are drawing
many within the city boundaries. We
believe it would pay every real estate
owner to improve his property in the
manner suggested.
Agbicultubal Implements fob the
Faib. —The Fair of the Columbus In
dustrial Association commences on
Tuesday, October 31st, and continues
five days. As we have stated, SIO,OOO
in premiums, have already been offered.
This amount by private premiums and
citizens purses, has been increased to
$15,000. There will be a splendid dis
play. Especially will this be in the
department of labor saviug machines.
Holstoad & Cos. have already ordered a
number which will prove novelties in
the agricultural line. Farmers will
have an opportunity of seeing them in
operation. Others have ordered and
manufacturers will send samples. Ar
rangements have been perfected to
make this department very (Complete.
Other branches will also receive the
same attention. Our own manufacto
ries furnish the motive power. Our
Fair, following those of Romo, Atlanta,
and Macon, will receive contributions
from each. There will be something to
nterest every one,aud if the weather be
pleasant, Columbus will be crowded.
Good Men for Office. —The Lou
isville Ledger thinks the election of
Newton Booth, the Republican candi
date for Governor of California, is prob
ably owing more to his personal worth
as a man, than to his politics. The edi
tor says “wo knew Booth, something
like a quarter of a century ago, and if
the promise of his boyhood has been
kept, it would bo exceedingly difficult
for any admirer of true manhood to
resist the inclination to vote for him,
no matter what his politics. At the
time we knew him, Booth was uu open
handed, open-minded, truthful boy,
with a lofty scorn of everything moan,
mingled with a tolerant charity for the
weakness of others.” This was douot
less a strong point iu the contest, espe
cially when his opponent rested under
suspicion of being connected with
frauds on the State. It shows how
careful we should be ia the selection of
men to fill important trusts, to see that
they have a clean record.
A Long Way Home. —The Dalton
Citizen says an ex-Confederate soldier,
lame, footsore and weary, passed thro’
that place from Charlotte, N. C., on his
way home, in Texas, last Friday. lie
han been shot all to pieces and was in
hospital until May last, since which
time he had been hobbling towards
Texas on crutches. He had been four
months making his way to Dalton,
where a purse was raised for him- His
name is Johnson, and he belonged to
the Texas Rangers.
Trains on the Montgomery and Eu
faula Railroad, are now running to
within seven miles of Eufaula. The
Eufaulians will have a great day over
its completion, sometime in October.
happiness and CONTENTMENT.
Agur was wise whon he prayed "Give
me neither poverty nor riches.” AH
external conditions of life have their
peculiar temptations, pleasures and at
flictions, but without a proper subjec
tion of the animal to the diviner f»cul
ties of the intellect, no happiness or
contentment can be experienced. As
little as we may appreciate the truth in
our eager pursuit after the wisdom,
honors, and wealth of the world, a
sound mind, well regulated passions
and health of body aro the only real
treasures and blessings ot life. Who
has not seen the wisdom of the wise
when touched by disease, changed into
foolishness; the honors of the renowned
perish in an hour; aud wealth take
wings and fly away in a moment.' 1 O!
man, whoever or whatever may bo your
position or condition, lay not y bur hopes
of happiness and contentment on the
external, rotten foundations of time and
earth. Solomon was wise, and honored,
and rich, and yet, tho conviction was
forced on his mind that it was “allvan
ity." Job, bereft of houses, lands and
cattle, and afllicttd in body and wound
ed in his affections, rises like a hero
superior to calamities and fixes his
calm and sad eyes on a tribunal where
human wrongs shall bo righted, and the
seeming unjust and cruel allotments
and mysteries of earth, will be revealed
and rectified.
It is in ourselves that we are thus, or
thus; and with our instincts, emotions
and reasons in harmony with our con
victions of right and wrong, of truth
and duty, we can defiantly doff the
world aside and bid it pass. VVe can
then fully realize the length and depth
and import of that sentiment of “never
feeling less alone, than when alone." In
this the soul’s calm sunshine, the heart
will recognize a joy that bailies the sub
tlest wisdom and the mightiest human
power, and which can never bo pur
chased by all the geuis and pearls and
barbaric gold of tho East. It is this
secret invisible strength that will place
the names of thousands, unknown and
unrecorded on earth, above the fame ot
Kings and Princes, and side by side
with the martyrs who died, aud the he
rocs who fought, perhaps humbly and
unsuccessfully, for right aud the truth-
Tho Montgomery Advertiser of Fri
day, copied from the Enquirer of this
city, its article about tho Savannah
News and Mr. Stephens, and prefaced
it with the following compliment:
The veteran aud accomplished editor
of the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer makes
too good a point on the tlavanuah Morn
ing News, to be lost. We, therefore,
shake hands on an air line with our
friend, John H. Martin, and congratu
late him on the successful style in which
he has brought down his quarry.
After copying what tho Enquirer said,
the Advertiser adds:
Tho Savannah Morning News is one
of the most faithful followers of the ban
ner of the “Sago.”
To this the Enquirer of Saturday,
smilingly responds:
We thank the Montgomery Adver
tiser for its highly complimentary no
tice of our hit at the Savannah News.
What hilling and cooing. Strangers
might conclude they both took soup
with the same spopn. Seriously, it
looks wonderfully like a fellow feeling
exists on the. results of tho “new depart
ure” question. The Advertiser heartily
endorses the ninth resolution of the
Pennsylvania platform, and abuses ev
ery Democratic press that does not.
That resolution reads as follows:
Jlesolved, That wo recognize the bind
ing obligations of all tho provisions of
the Constitution of the United States,
as thoy now exist, and we deprecate
tho diucuaeion of which h®vc
been settled in the manner, and by the
authority constitutionally appointed.
Ha that is not for us, is against us, is
a long-ago settled point. Does the En
quirer stand with the Advertiser in tho
position above stated, or does it stand
with Mr. Stephens and others of the
Democratic party, in opposition to such
acceptance of Ihe Radical iniquity? To
this, we want a plain answer, not made
up ofextracts from non committal edi
torials.
No more “holding with the hare and
running with the hounds,” neighbor.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, in a
recent article headed “Stand Firm or
Fall Back,” makes a desperate effort to
manufacture a false position for the op
posers of “new departuroism,” in and
out of Kentucky. It charges that the
party in Kentucky intend, in their next
State Convention at Frankfort, to pass
a resolution declaring “that the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments, be
ing conceived in corruption and execut
ed in fraud, are null and void; and an
other resolution instructing tho Ken
tucky delegation in tho National Dem
ocratic Convention to secure the Incor
poration of this resolution in the Na
tional platform.” This it calls “the
To'omb3 Stephens platform, upon which
the Bourbon leaders are seeking to hur
dlo the Kentucky Democracy.” Really
this Courier-Journal man takes his de
feat in tho recent Kentucky election
very hard. This is natural, however,
for one who was weak enough to enter
tain the idea that his paper was tho con
trolling power of the Democracy of
Kentucky. We advise the editor of
hat once influential paper to cool down;
take a littlo time for reflection, and we
think he will conclude these “Bour
bons,” as he terms the “anti-new de
parture” men, are not such bad men
after all. Take time to coo), at any
rate, and see what effect it will have on
your nervous system, which has evi
dently been badly racked by the over
whelming triumph of anti now depart
ureism in glorious old Kentucky.
Cotton Crop Estimate.— The last
Selma Times, whose editor is a largo
planter on the Alabama river, aud is
well posted on the condition of the
cotton plant, and tho effect of the sea
son on its yielding qualities, has a
lengthy article in review of the aitua
tion, from which we make the follow
ing extract:
The cotton crop has now advanced
to that state ol* maturity that the amount
to be gathered cannot bo affected, ex
cept by the damage that may be done
by continuous rains, which will discolor
the lint and prevent its classing as high
iD tho market as it would, should the
weather continue clear. Tho aggregate
of the crop can now be safely estimated,
as nothing, so far as the gross amount
made is concerned, hangs any longeron
contingences. The caterpillar may do
his best, but the crop is fixed and can
not be reduced by any damage from the
worm. The question now arises what
will be the aggregate of the cotton crop
of 1871-2 ? We believe that we give
outside figures when we say that it may
possibly reach two and a quarter mil
lions of bales.
Wild Lands in Bibb.— The Report
of the Comptroller General of the State
says Bibb county possesses a greater
number of acres of wild lands than any
other county in the State, being 095,130
acres. In the value of improved lands,
Bibb ranks third best in the State—
slo 53 per acre.
The State and County tax in Florida,
is $3 on the hundred dollars of
property. This is the result of the
working of carpet bag and negro rule
in that State.
WEEKLY REVIEW OF MARKET I .
Columbus, Q a So ,
Financial.— Gold: buying n„ lib
Silvor: buying 104; selling lm .felling ~
exchange on Now York, lnivim/
% premium. Currency loins 8 s Hli ‘
cent, per month. ans 1 “•
Crop Prospects,
3,000,000 to 2,4oo,ooo—wide in'i. • v Mv „
ports continue gloomy. Tho ,u U tri| l' I
heavy rains of last wick am , a ,! ,la w V
Tho whole of the cotton bolt has - y «- con #rtt
showers of the present week h “ "“"Ww. {
ferod with gathering tho etan'la Sf 0 ® 11 ! tam
for It will not do to pick wot S n tkt i: :
The situation in this section nL , ’
summed up. T ho top crop is J* brk-r.
the middle one has and is shoibim
that hardly an avorago will ho Sl > rap,:'
tom crop is very good. No « o £ ic - Tb‘
after this date. The yield will L m ai .
per cent, below that ot last year , I Hr t
lands tho stand is poor, and in ti,;,, n , 'he,,
crop is regarded as a failure u' lowl aioi.'
from sources additional to'thiwepf o ’
and hence estimate tho Column,.. lasl '
05,000 bales; though receipts ~i !!£ fweipt.
August 31st, against 1,679 last VC.,.; Ial "
do not point to those figures -n, ■•We g,.
of the cotton thus far warehouse,! .. , ma brn ,
belongs to the old crop. There is 1 s *“•
the country to bring in, as no i J ll '““ft
open. Present prices would temnt ,i‘ aaill '
they had any on hand. FarmerstJliiV anter
figures, and it will ho difficult 10
to tho contrary. In fact, they can,,!, ' l ‘ t!
unless they get better prices than th
vogue. Twenty cents may turn s,m s
It may be said that thesamorepro e , l'- 1 '
made last year. True; but how Z
produced without trees, or cotton uin rut
Augusta, Macon, Montgomery Xoh aV 1 ‘
and Memphis show as had (it not «o
nations in receipts as Columbus t i 1 ,! »~
the story, if reports do not, und'thev “n u:
convince all that a short crop is mmh> i •'
or two ahead will demonstrate the , 1
aro not enough cotton stalks in tCi 11)11
produce three million bales. 10 uull! '
Rots are being made that for thn „
month Columbus will not receive l in Tl
- 5,705 last year. Macon tho W.. il "
reports 205 receipts, against 1w, 1 "•>
so with otlior interior towns. ' These i?‘ r :
ceipts toll a far different amt more rdln' :
port than tho one the Agricultural it,,,.,,'
telegraphed.
The Weathkb.— Bright Saturday
winds that night and all Sunday LiT
cloudy and warm, Wednesday, little re
morning; steady one commcncod at 6 n ~,
continued several hours. Thursday iirii,i ‘
early morning, moderate showers after
Friday showery aud warm. Heavy
Thermomotcr has averaged 790. p aj .
showers—tell on five days ot tho corn-all B .'
week in 1870. 1,M “«
The Markets. —On Saturday last
pool closed quiet; Uplands 9%d; Ur lentil
Now York, quiet; Uplands au&; firloai J -i'
Gold 113%. Columbus, Middlings Ist c V
dors firm; sales 20 bales. J '’
Monday, Liverpool dull; Uplands tiff;
Orleans 9%d; New York quiet. Gel,i , '
Columbus, quiet; sales 10 bales.
Tuesday, Liverpool steady at Saturday
prices; New York weak; Uplands «Ic; Orlear
21%c. Gold 114%. Columbus, good' douian''
sales 53 bales.
Wednesday, Liverpool firm; New Turk it-
Uplands 21%c; Orleans 21Ue, Gold Ilf 1'
umbus, Middlings ls% oflorcd, which
decline; sales 25 bales.
Thursday, Liverpool firm; Now York find.
Gold 113%. Columbus, tair demand; ih
tilings lBc; sales 40 bales.
Friday, Liverpool steady; Upland! in,, ~
leans oy;; New York quiet ami firm; I'i.L,'
21%, Orleans 21%. Gold 1140114^.
On the Week—Liverpool has reutairi,'.;
same; New Y'ork has advanced fie.; Culuii.y.
%c.
Future Deliveries.—They aro quoUd.
New York, basis Low Middlings, us lullin'
September, 20%e. ; October, lu 5 lbo,; Nuvuui l
VS%p.\ December, 10%c.; January, |
ruary and Marcli 20c.
To-day, Friday, our market showed a ,
demand* 68 bales sold. To secure lots ..| m
size in lines higher prices by must
paid than the billowing:
Ordinary 15|4@M!4
Good Ordinary 17%@
Low Middlings lS'/JiJ
Middlings 10— lijl
Sales of the week 221 bales— o on Euroiu:
orders, 118 on Northern account, o for North’-
spinners, 103 Tor home consumption.
Week’s receipts 2211 bales, against ;; :i,
previous one, and 1,104 the corresponding »«i
last season—7 by S W B B, 77 by It ill:
K, 27 by Opelika R R, 7 by river, ill by ns.
ons. Shipments 230 bales, 127 by S W UK,h
lor home consumption.
WEEKLY STATEMENT.
Stock Aug. 31st, 1871 U 1
Received past week 229
Received previously W- /
1,17
Shipped past weok 230
•• previously 17S- 0
Stock September 15, 1871 I t
On tlie week tho stock has decreased 1.
Shipments thus far 408—248 by S W It I:
100 for home consumption. Last year thoy
1,571—1,532 by S W K R, 39 for homo consul;
tion. Sales thus far 376, aglanst 1,780 last yn:
MODES OF RECEIPTS.
1870 1871
Southwestern Railroad 20
Mobilo and Girard Railroad.. 401
Western Railroad 61
River 5 ;
Wagons IJO2
Total 1,579 K
STATEMENT PRECEDING YEARS.
1867-8 1868-9 1809-70; KO-:
stock, Aug. 31, 358 280 125 US
Roc’d to Sept,l6 . 681 1334 3328 P
stock Sept. 16... 012 1614 1076 !>'
Year’s receipts.. 85686 48600 67274
U. s. Crop 2430893 2260567 3298000 «»«'
At this dato last yoar at Liverpool UplaK
were 9)4d, Orleans 9%d. In Columbus Mb
dlings were 170., in New. York IVKc. 10;
IXWI4.
Freights.—Per 100 Us cotton: To New Yuri
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, $1 lu: ■
Savannah 75c., Savannah to Now York 74u.
Through Cotton.—By Mobilo and Girar
K. R., l; by Western R. K., 215.
The U. S. Ports.—For tho week cmllngt
night, tho receipts hnvo been 13,791 bale
against 8,810 tlie previous one, and 17,Ms tl
corresponding week of last year. The tutsl
movement is as follows:
1870. 1871.
Stock Aug. 31 75,949 118,96:
Weeks receipts 17,648 is,III
R’pts slnco Aug. 31 36,149 I UM
Stock in in'ior towns 13,268 B,l#
Weok’s exp’ts G’t B’n 3,044 I*>J
Total exp’ts CVt 8’t."".’.13,327 27,a
“ •• Con’t 1,494
Total exported 14,821 27,a*
Stock 05,889 N,N'
The Principal Pouts.—Tho {following aru
tho receipts thus liir:
1870. 1871.
Savannah 11,601 **
Charleston 7,270 2351
Mobilo •. 2,628 1W
Now Orleans 6,873 w_'"
Galveston 1.134 ■
New York 2,620
Other ports 3,223 2*
Total 36,149 22601
New York has a stock of 26,000 bales, again 1
9,565 last year. Manchester bus a slue l '
210,000 against 70,000.
Tho visible supply last Saturday showed m
lncroaso of 275,404 balos over last year, and
India shipments 001,000 bales, against n
last year. For tho past six weeks (treat lln
lias averaged 33,695 of Amoricau cott"n
sumed, against 33,573 bales last year.
From Liverpool tho following. Is tolcgra]: 1
for tho week:
1870 18'1.
Stock 490,000
“ American luo,ooo
“ Afloat 386,000 Ml. 1 "'
“ “ American 17,00>
Week’s licco’pts 47,»W f''
“ “ American 15,tw0 »
Sales of tho week 77,000, of which eil wr
took 9,000 aud speculators 14, 000.
General Remarks.—Business u 1* 1
tioned to tho receipts id' cotton. It preno-'
lio largo and sale this winter. On the a "
bagging aud corn liavo declined.
WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.
Bacon—Clear Sides $1 If 10c; clear f
Sides v'/ic; Shoulders BJ£c; Sugar-Cured Hn
18c: Plain Hams 16c. .......
Bagging—lndia yard 23c; Scotcli Flux -
Kentucky 25c; Borneo 23c: Piece 19c.
Butter —Goshen (I 6,50 e; Country 3ac.
Brooms—%i doz j a 25@3 60.
Candy—Stick %'l ft 20c. , .
Canned Goods—Sardines case ul M
*25; Oysters, 1 it cans %< doz, *1 00
' Cheese—knglish Dairy $t it., 18c; W.m
14e; N. Y. State 14c.
Candles—Star Hft it. 14c; Sperm 45c
Cigars—Domestic M 418050; J ia\aiic.
@IBO. _
CoFFEE-Rio V #> Jlva *;,„ BV
Corn—Yellow Mixed $1 bus—, White 9,«
Hay—«l cwtsoc@*l. . j
Flour—Fine |t bbl -; Supernnc 4, " ■
tra *8; Doublo Extra 4909 50: 1 aucy *ll '
Hardware—Wide Iron ». 8c; Kehuol - ,
Sad Irons 8c; Bar Lead 14c; J ading ,
Plow Steel U'Ai cast Steel 30c; Bugg'i ; I ’ ;.
22c; Horse an.l Mulu Shoes V 1,1 ’'
Shoo Nuils 33*j@38c; Nails W keg*9, A*
doz >j.ls@lß.
Iron Ties—fl ft 6c.
| Lard—Prime Leal fl ft 11X®- ~ ...
Leather—White Oak Solo f» »•
lock Sole 33c; French Calf Skins J2&l’
eandos2@3 50; Upper Leather fMDw.
ness do 50c; Dry Hides 11c; Green and» » v
Mackerel—No Isl bbl *2B@!W; ;
3 410012; No lft (4 bbl fill; No2*9oW, •
*7; No 1 ft kit $3 75.
Meal—fl bus 95e. . vb.rida ’
Molasses—N. O. ft gall 75c@-i > 1
@—; Cuba 46@50c; Golden Syrup ;
Oil—Kerosene ft gall 36c; Linseed,™* <
do boiled fl 25; Lard fl 60; Train 4*
I Pickles—Case pints ft doz t- *>< 1
f3 60.
Potash—fl case f6 00. • u-
Powder—Kentucky Rifle ft keg f •
f3 50; !4 keg f2 25. aiachlu*
Rope—Manilla ft ft 28c; Cotton 40C, JD
Made lie.
! Rice—ft ft lie.
Salt—fl sack f2.
Shot—fl sack f3.
Soda—keg 7c fl ft; box 9e. cltr .i
Sugar—Cuba ft ft 13013)6; A 1”: >
C 14)6; u 13; N. O. yellow clarified « *
white 15c.
S’r aim H—fl ft DC.
Tea—Green and Black fl ft fl !0 ;’ - ~r u
Tobacco—Common ft ft scc; Medium
70c; Fine 75c; Extra fl: Navy 60@8ac; m-
Snulf 85c.
Vinegar—ft ft gall 00c.
White Lead—ft ft 13c. curbon* 1
Whisky—Rectified ft gall fl®-; D ,lUr
Dry Goods—7-8 Brown Domestics 10o: t..,
12)6o; 10-4 ilo 36042UC; 4-4 Sea Island K""
1 Be; 3-4 Bleached Domestics Sc; de
12%@18c; American Prints 7@ll<*i , -
Prints 12U020C; American Dolalm ;
Black Alpacas 40c@*l; Ticking * lO §L, 1.
ton Flannels, bleached 20@40e; do brum
35c; PlaM Linseys 12K@30c; Corset.«- (| ,
@lß%c; Colored Cambrics 12J4c; Kuii „ 1
Crash Toweling 10@12)4c; Red i bmnet.
20048 c; White do 26060 c; Opera u« : ;
Wool Blankets, colored $2; do !M| w iiito T-J
--do 10-4 43 6005; do 11-4 f4 6007; K■ 4 ..’]!"-'
16046 c; Ladies' Hose per doz fl@6 f"’ *
L. C. Handkorchiefs per doz 76o((tf > I°’ j,, z
62J4c@f3 75; Coats’ Spool Thread 900 l'<r
City Mills’ Prioes.—Wholesale flb J ’ l A u
Flour, Af4 50; 844 25; Of3 75. » r * ’ , r
Rich Shorts 42. Corn Mcai and Grits v
bushel. ,
OFFICE DAILY SUN AND TIM 1 !®!, J
Columbus, Ga., September 16, >»
Cotton. Moderate demand,no utter a
middling 19c; low middling 18', c.
Sales 15 bales.