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Ordinary's. —Citations tor letters
ot ed ntnistration, guardianship, <hc. #3 00
Homestead notice 2 00
Application tor dism’u from adm’n.. 500
Application for dUm'n ofguard’n.... 350
Application for leave to sell Land.... 500
Notioeto Debtors and Creditors..... 300
Sales of band, per square of It* lines 500
Sale of personal per sq., ten days.... 150
Sher&Fs-f-U ach levy often line*,.... 250
Morteajre sales of ten lines or less. . 5 00
TatSnllebtor's sales, (2 months.... 500
Ctt****—Fereclosaxe of mortgage and
other mohthly’s, per square 1 00
Estray notices,thirty days •- 300
Sales es Dand, by Administrators, E»ecn
tors or Guardians, are required, by law to
be*hnld on the first Tuesday in the raoith,
between the hours of ten tin the forenoon
and three in the afternoon, at the Court
house in the county in which the property
8 situated.
Notice of these sales must be published 40
days previous to the day of sale.
Notice far the sale of personal property
must oe published 10 days previous to sale
to debtors and creditors, 40 day
Notlee that application will be made of
the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land,
4'weeks.
Citations for letters of Administration,
Guardianship, &<*., must be published 301
Jays—for dismiss; Oa from Administration,
nonthly six months, for dismission irom guar
iiinsbip, 40 days.’
Kates fop foreclosure of Mortgages must
be published monthly for font months— for
isluhlllhing 1 — n~r — I/" the full, spate of
teei givenny TBe aswatfßl .TneTtal) spaCfe'
of three months.
ApplicaUoft.ffrtr Homestead to published,
twice in the space of ten consecutive days.
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titming tlip offer of his professional services to
patrons and friends.
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Louisville June 20,1871. 8 ts.
Lpttinville, Jefferson County, Qa., Friday, August 25, 1871.
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We are permitted *> *uWi*Mh«.
foltowvmr lettep #m Gel, JuhniW
by Maj-TX N. Speer, pik
Col. J. is a son of Hon. H. V. John
son, attci a member eleei.teihe pm
ent Legislature from Jefferson co«n
iy. In iWLimm. we lyidflf* -the.
views of Mr. Johnson: bottoe imp
not agree with hlmia the views thp-t
•Southern DpmocraU'steto&l remain
gre/in Jayor of J*e
Son there DemeCraey elauatog ajil
ihe righu that hWcmg to it gsaa in
tegral part of NawooftLDemoCj
the proper ptatformfor ttaeotttest pf
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Major D. N. Speer, LaGrangt, Gap
St?*NiSolM
New York, canre duly tp k a #--r-
You asked me to give you lhepoh(i
eat news lp Georgia. It is a dra
cult task to give the true <%idiuot(
of political affairs in this Btpm
The Democ witter# Menw.tp he
divided into two
ly patriotic arid honest, and sfcekinjg
to accomplish the sarne. tljp
overthrow of Radical power and the
restoration of tlys f government
to Constitutional principles. J’w
schism in our ranis ’ Willi I Jfeaj,
prove disastrous in its consequences.
The party, weak before, is wettkir
now. United, there was little hope
of victory; divided there « nonf.
It is of the highest importance that
we should present 1q tns enemy sin
unbroken front. Our column<thou|d
be marshaled in 6olkl phalanx and
hurled, with a determination to suc
ceed, upon those who rrilef -Let ps
first gain the victoyy aup then we
can dictate; tewps, looking toward
the recognition of every right. It is
unnecessary to disclose our plans to
the enemy or capitulate before the
battle. It is sufficient to know that
those in power have trampled uridpr
foot the Constitution of our
and denied to us the right of self
government. It is the duty of every
man who loves liberty, to unite ijp
the overthrow of this common en-
. fac
tions mUeorgia, and intact tbrougl -
noble end—the subjugation of Rat -
Ablest of statesmen, proposes in
stand by the. issues set forth in tl e
Democratic r
ted r
and which have been subverted bf
the and XY amend
ments to the Constitution. It is tru ,
therefore null and voi I.
It is’Mm tAiCtbai 'MK- Vallandig
ham, andihose who are termed “ne r
t form. l J t J^ftgffie|.t r ae that a larj t
class of honest and patriotic me ft
deriounccd thAXIV and -XV
amendjpaf«M« inAhp lasA-Presidential
Mv-vailoof IwXvnAoai fAi«/anmosoo myJrl
CUlllCtn) yrwpuoo mu is
eept airaajPadaMpt to the Coostiti *
tion asvaßd whue we are conscious
of its unconstitutionaUty, and of till
fraudulent and ilfega£manner of
procurement. We cannot accept at
lie as the trnth. It is a moral impos
sibility to convert the oneinmfte
other. When we. assort UmA
XIV and XV amendments are leg|l
r““ t t?i?r±tx*2L£“’r
that which we knowto.be taise. It
we acquiesce and accept ibem M
GmistitutionaT, we acquiesce and af
cept a falsehood, urged^ky
binding and Constitutional until set-
7pmf fits
dtlTas bds&tXSp|fty2fcomm&nd to'
eororce oWiißifcVßl»when power
forsakes the despot and returns ft?
afeWfCPple, his-law binds no longer.
But the Constitutionality of the Xlw
o?vs^;ißft
3&W WSfcnßUifMi6»hby the requi
site number of slates. We kooi^
lAhisto be a fitfLas much as we know,
that ‘two afid Two make four. Shaft
wait* to pmdaim thu
which ii (elf-eWßiutwelclßOw
edge no power short of Heaven, oar
guide in morals. We will not no*
cept what we kaow to be false la
of any duty, public or
tMVMSk Those obnoxious amend
fcm*-to*: tom forced upon us
Without our consent. They are the
gtvtutjku, that persisted in will lead
ft anarchy.
What shall we do? To boldly as
circumstances
to the truth, ia honest and sincere,
polite. We are' weak. We want
assistance. We want relief from
thoge burdeniomc measures and op
pressive measures which our unre
lenting enemies have listened upon
us wtvys. It
is "namislo Uidk for relief from our
own feeble and unaided struggles.
Tha only hope is ia making common
mbeeh wiifc She fiorlhe.a Democracy
■gftfiftH the common enemy. We
w«al We mast draw back
those conservative Republicans, who
deserted ns in the last Presidential
contest fegiLtftned at ti» announce
ment of .prlaeiplej which they re
garded M sqinting towards the right
of accession and the surrender of the
« fre
quently injured by too suddenly an
nouncing ner principles. Men are
net at aU times in a state to receive
Sruth; prejudice nMiat be removdd ;
passion allayed ; ignorance dispelled,
before the mind can receive truth in
all her biasing glory. We would
ffiSßfcnSgSttSS:
reign rights. They are dear to us.
We would eheritb and preserve
thWW, pstiaatly and silently, un
til a fitting time, when they should
burst forth in the, splendor of victory
and reign supreme in Contitulioal
majesty. The time has not arrived
vindication of sovereign rights.—
Victory must first be achieved. To
accomplish we must be united'
at home and join those we least dis
trust at the North, when the decisive
battle is fought. We cannot accept
ereign right belougiog to a State.
To ennoimce an and out” State
on itHMe —ftMfllHn lo be Northern
Democrats, nor will we accept
theirs \ but we will join them in the
sacred precincts of State sovereignty.
Let the Vallandigham party meet
in conventiou-^dra?t a platform and
nominate a candidate lor the Presi
dency. We will have nothing to do
dhome ot&tih?
send delegate* to that Convention,
they will be bouad in honor to abide
WtiMfe* ov. in tW event of the
adoption of obnoxious measures, to
withdraw from H. To withdraw
them In “nccept the sHoalieD.’' Ei
ther recall would be a terrible ca
lamity.
Silence antlf insclion on the part
of the SoiMh will heal the breach,
and the extreme aßeuaree oftfes
Radical ptify n
eervative ewnffflrTOffi
ranks. Should we succeed and q
lect the Democratic candidate, while
may not poaaaup to our views in
we venture so
hope that hii administration wiH be;
more moderate than Grant's has.
begin to claim our constitutional
rights. The restoration of the Gov.
eminent to t ccnHfalWiil baiis
ration will aeeaaaanly be slow in M
progress. The subversion of the
a law, like the Ku-Klux Bid, can
change, as U,Jbafo.donc, pur whole
formTW Gdrcrnimeht mtofbe meHn*
exceedingly diUtcolt to w*orwniiojt
m AMnif Mil I prin^inlMt,
SSJrM proCtfifedlS* if
eqanaly a fafepmoi the CMrenta
tion preserved. Were the revolu-
left; sail
evea hgr MM r-fenuaidT
h IjjlfjlgJaß mission of Democ
racy mrSsMO Anipii at to
its cenoUtatioual purity. -Toaccom
plish tlmt desirable end, every es-
fort consistent with honor, should be
used. The greatest effmt that we
of the South are called on to make,
in view of the surrounding circum
stances, is to remain silent and inac
tive until the day of battle; on that
day jet us join any parly that pro
poses to fight and conquer the min
ions in power who have wrested
from us the dearest rights of free
men. Yours truly,
WINDER P. JOHNSON.
A Beautiful Extract. —“ Ge
neration after generation,” says a fine
writer, “have felt as we feel now
and their lives were as active as our
own. They passed away like a
vapor while Nature wore the same
aspect of beauty as when her Crea
te! commanded her to be. The
heavens shall be as bright over our
graves as they are now around our
paths.
The world will have the same at
tractions for our offspring yet un
born, that she once had for our
selves, and that she now has for our
children. Yet a little while and all
will have happened. The throbbing
heart will be stilled, and we shall
be at rest. Our funeral will wnd its
way, and the prayers will be said,
and our friends will all return, and
we shall be left behind in silence and
darkness lor the worm. And it may
be for a short time we shall be spok
en of. but the things of life will creep
in and our names will soon be for
gotten. Days will continue to move
on, and laughter and song will be
heard in the room in which he died ;
and the eye that mourned for us will
be dried and glistened with joy;
and even our children will cease to
think of us, and will not remember
to lisp our names. Then shall we
have become, in the touching lan
guage of the psalmist, “forgotten
and gone out of mind.”
Better be understood by ten than
admired by ten thousand.
He who can suppress a moment’s
anger may prevent days of sorrow.
A young lady in Richmond com
menced crying on the 3d of last
month, and has not stopped yet;
her lather says she can howl forev
er, bin she’ll get no 60 cents out cf
him to buy a bustle.
A neighboring exchange says that
one of the fashions of this season is
to read over all the advertisements
in the paper, and see if all the stores
are keeping up with the season and
styles. If you miss any familiar
name from the list of business men,
you can know that they are not keep
ing up with the times, and are keep
ing out of sight on this account.
4 B»cr,emeqto bride has commen
ced her honeymoon with a 411*0,000
check from “the old man.”
A man in Davenport, lews, offers
through the columns of a local pa
per to give 460 to any man who will
elope with bis wife. ’
A daughter of a New York stock
broker exults over the tact that she
hot been to Europe six times and
has never seen the inside of her
mother’s kitchen.
“O, grandma !” cried a mischiev
ous little urchin, “I cheated the hens
so nicely just-now. I threw them
your gold beads, and they thought it
was corn and they eat them as fast
For one sirofrian who gets a has
"band by means of a showy dress and
owe Wj to get hus-
Vwf* hecauae of their attire and
,djpßPSitipn and taste it indicates.
A edWfed man Vi* arraigned &e
--ftre one of the Camden courts a
abort time since charged with the
of seme wood* Wb*» qaU'
ado« to plead to the indictment, he
U»itW “I bought the wood, aad dal
iknaW ldid ; but to Save my sou)
leom the-gallis, cannot tell the man
Iboughl it of, kase I bojightit in the
Jfe Irishman having jumped safe
the water to save a man drowning,
upon receiving a quarter from the
peison as a reward for the service,
fohked first at the money and then
SlMeHhas resided in Paris with his
dsaglitar, the wire of a rich banker of
tbutaky. Last pm ha aftsfl with the
Mnihferfcfe ofctai amiable, accomplished
aid efegaut arise, whose faatfenaaa, de
aCtfeß SMtkeaife lova had bees the so
&» of hfe -fee* m 4 erafefW careart
Mis fisaiilr asnsisted, at the tkta of his
death, of two daughters, aad a son en.
gaged iwhastMM fe «fc emmlfT.—
aaafeUslnw naaefi IwagAa ks. f aka
*e -F SS WO* fa* WwO JT g*—
wfe. M r.' SU*»*l msntgad la fefefe a
Uw in Mliiltf hr this Maria
A |ts -“/ —aw *w-W arvaref
aftahwipMiift mil rarest hit to
■ B*appy Breoklya AaUteflld tveo'.y
aaw cases of smallpox la*t WOefc, and
within twelve months has' bad sixteen
hundred cases.
Wild Lands.
Suspension of Executions—lmportant
Correspondence.
As there has been much inquiry and
anxiety concerning the disposition that
will be made of the wild lands in this
State, on which taxes have not been
paid, we are permitted to lay the follow
ing correspondence before the publie :
Comptroller Gen’l., Office. )
Atlanta, July 20, 1871. >
To His Excellency Rufus B. Bullock,
Governor, ist., Atlanta, Ga :
Sir : Notwithstanding I have twice
recommended to the General Assembly
the repeal of the law known as the
“Wild Land Act,” and have once re
commended your Excellency to suspeud
the enforcement of it until the last day
of July, inst., I feel it still to be a duty
which I owe to the citizens of the State,
again, respectfully, to recommend your
Excellency to suspend the issuiug of ex
ecutions against the wild lands on
which taxes remain due and unpaid, un
til the meeting of the General Assem
bly.
For some of the reasons which prompt
me to make this recommendation, I ask
your consideration of the following sug
gestions.
1. Many of these lands belong to
widows and orphans who are ignorant
of their rights and duties under this
law.
2. Many honest; upright citizens who
have all their lives been accustomed to
return their lands by giving the aggre
gate number of acres without regard to
number, district or section now rest in
conscious security, feeling that they have
done all they should be required to do.
Not knowing the requirements of law,
they feel indignant that their lands are
returned as in default, when they have
paid the taxes due on them.
3. Many persons own one or more
lots of land, and nothing else, and be
cause S2OO worth of property is exempt
to oach tax payer, except non-residents
and defalters, they conclude that they
are not required to returu, nor pay taxes
upon their lands.
4. The title papers of many persons
have been lost or destroyed, and they
have forgotten the Duuibers, districts and
sections of their lands, and cannot give
these designations, but ihey have iti
many instauces given in aud paid on
the lands,
5. If the sales were made as requir
ed by the act, owners have the right to
redeem them in two years, by paying
the purchase money with costs, or by
producing the satisfactory evideoce ot
title to the Comptroller General. This
would make the Comptroller General’s
office a tribunal in which to determine
titles to land.
The inevitable consequence would be
great trouble and confusiou, since it is
not uofrequently the caso that two, three,
and in some cases four persons, pay tax
upon and claim title to the same lot of
land ; moreover, in my opinion, the
courts alone should have the right to
decide upon the genuineness of land ti
tles.
6. If these lands were brought to sale,
land speculators would form rings and
cliques to purohase them, and these lands
would pass from the hands of the inno
eent aud unwary to the possession of
speculators for merely nominal sums, in
adequate, perhaps, to pay the taxes;
and thus tue safe of these lands would
inure to the benefit of real estate deal
ers; without benefiting the State or ma
terially increasing her revenues.
It is a difficult matter to impress upon
the Receivers of tax returns the impor
tance of making complete and accurate
returns of the nnreturned wild lands in
their respective counties. Henoe if
sales were made now they would em
brace only those lands which have been
advertised, which lie ia some forty coun
ties, while the unreturned lands in the
ether eounties would remsin unsold,
giving the owners of them advantages
over others only- because Receivers have
not made returns of the lands not given
in, in their respeettive counties.
These, together with the reasons which
I have heretofore made known to your
RXoellency, and which still exist in all
weir former force, are some of the con
siderations which, in my judgment,
should cause the issuing of executions
to be suspended.
Respectfully,
Madison Bell.
Executive Dbp’t, State of Georgia, )
Atlanta. Ga., August 3,1871. J
la consideration of tlie recommenda
lion of the Honorable the Comptroller
General, and by virtue of the authori
ty vetted In me by section 70 of the re
vised code of Georgia.it js hereby
; . Ordered, That the Comptroller Gen
eral desist from the issuing of execu
tionß against unreturned wild lands Until
the next meeting of the General As
sembly.
RtTFUS B. BULLOCK.
By the Governor:
R. H. Atkinson, Sec’y Ex. Dept.
Crops in the Middle Lountitt. —-A friend
says the Macon Telegraph, who has
pissed over a good deal of country writes
ad at Prattsburg, Talbot county, in a very
despondent vein. He says : “The crops
sire comparatively a failure. The ex
cess of rain in the spring, followed by
the drouth of mid-summer, have left the
cotton plant in a very feeble condition,
and much of it is. diseased. It ie a great
relief to see a more promising state of
things in Talbot. Talbot would do pret
ty well but for tb« irregular stand. Ev
ery where else, whether on new or old
land, valleys or blHstdes, great barren
spots are visible in the field*.” He re
port* the planter! greatly discouraged.
Terrible Tragedy in Macon County-
We leant from a private letter receiv
ed by a gentleman in Griffin, that a hor
rible murder was committed in Macon
county last Thursday, on the person of a
Mr. Joiner, in that county, under the
following circumstances:
The widow of a Mr. Devereux mar
rid a Mr. Lester, and after his death mar
ried a Mr. Joiner. By the first bus
band, she had a sou Devereux, who du
ring her first and second widowhood,
attended to busiues for her. After her
marriage to Joiner, be attended to her
business. Several notes had been pre
sented to him signed by Devereux,
which were paid ; but on a recent occa
sion Mr. Joiuer had declined to pay a
note of considerable amouut, when bis
wife told him that he must pay it or
leave the plantation quickly, and threat
ened to leave herself if it was not done.
Mr. Joinor replied that he was in no
way responsible for the note, and would
neither pay it or leave the place, aud
intended to gather it.
The next day young Devereux came
and on the return of Mr. Joiner from tho
field, asked for a private conversation,
which was granted. Mr. Joiner repeat
ed his determination not to pay the note
when Mr. D. rose up and fired at him
The shot missed, when Mr. Joiner
caught him and threw him out of the
piazza. Mr. Joiner weut to his room
to get his pistol from under the head of
of his bed, but it bad boon removed.
Young Devereux followed him and fir
ed the second shot, which struck Mr.
Joiner, and then the third, which killed
him.
Mrs. Joiuer then gathered up wbat
money she had, gave it to her son, who
fled, and is still at large. It is suppos
ed that she will be arrested as accessory
to the killing.
Slate Agricultural College— During
the lute session of the State Agricultur
al Society, at Rome, several points in
the State entered the lists to secure the
location of the Agricultural College. To
aid in building up such an institution,
Congress has made a very liberal land
grant. Athens, Dahloncga aud Mil
ledgeville w re all aspirants, and had
able champions before the Convention,
Dr. J. S. Lawton, who has just returned
from Rome, assures us that a majority of
the planters present were in tavor of
Milledgeville, and we are glud to learn
that all the delegates from Middle Geor
gia were on that side. The Monroe
delegates took strong grouud in favor of
Milledgeville. It was claimed, by them
that tbe old capitol, with the public
lands in the vicinity, coaid be used ad
vantageously, aud this was so appareut,
that, had a vote been taken, there is
but little doubt as to tbe result. The
buildings that would suit admirably, and
which are now doing the State no good
whatever, could not be built for less
than $200,000. There could be no bet
ter disposition made of them than is
proposed, for while tbe State Agricul
tural Society would be lastingly bene
fit ted. without any outlay on the part of
the State, a large amount of valuable
public property could be made service
able, which cannot otherwise be put to
any practical public use. The question
wa6 finally laid over to the next meet
ing of the Convention, in October, when
we trust Milledgeville will be selected.
Monroe Advertiser.
Corruption at Washington.
The Radical party is in bad luck late
iy. Not long ago it blew its own tram
pet in a special blast, annonneing to an
appreciative public that it was the party
of intelligence, morality and honesty.
It had scarcely done so before a New
York Tribune correspondent blurted out
that it had placed tbe government of
Sontb Carolina in the hands of serai
baibarians, Mr. Greeley denounced its
Southern carpet-baggers as a gang of
thieves; and its President for political
reasons pardoned a convicted bigamist.
Its claim to honesty seems to be shar
ing the fate of the rest of Rs pretensions.
In the midst of the clamor it is making
about tha millions alleged to have been
stolen by the local Democratic offioials
in the city of New York, its Secretary
of the Treasury is accused of conniving
at an exorbitant contract for stamp pa
per, so little fitted for the parpen that
it has facilitated frauds upon ike revenue
to the amount of lour ot five millions
annually.
Corruption in tbe city of New York is
at the worst, a matter affecting only the
million es people who km there. Were
all the charges against its local govern
ment fnlly established, they would only
show that the voters of a single oity
did not know how to provide themselves
with an honest administration. The
other thirty-eight millions of people in
the Union ere neither responsible for
thalecal government of that city nor
able to reform it. But they, and the
million in Hew York also, are interested
m the honest and economical adminis
tration et the Treasury Department at
Washington, and when the fountain
head is poisoned, the whole stream of
national administration running from it
is tainted.
It is significant also that while the
personal difference between Mr. Bout
well and Gen. Pleasonton arose out of
the contract for stamp paper, the main
reason semi officially given for tbe re
moval of the latter irons sloe ie that in
interpreting doubtful clauses of tbe
revenue laws, be decided against a pie
tboris treasury and in favor of the over
burdened tax -payer. A Radical official
may do many things; but twdf seem to
be forbidden him—stopping stealing
from the Treasury by coutraot***, or
stopping official robbery et tax-payers
to raise the money for contractors to
>m. ■ Ti -
The average sea-side belle spends
seven hours n day in constructing her
toilet. '
No. 17>
GENERAL NEWS.
Red silk parasols will be the hobby
thing for ladies next season.
Mrs. Mary Ann Cleveland, of Maquo
kefa, lowa, has sued ten saloon keepers
in that city for ss,ooo|damages done her
by furnishing liquor to her husband.
The number of horses in Russia is
greater in proportion to the population
than it is in our greatest horse region—
Kentucky. Russia has one horse to
every three persons ; Kentucky lias one
horse to about four and a half of its pop
ulation.
P. T. Barnum and General Schofield
and brother are reported in Western
papers to have purchased 30,000 acres of
laud od tbe Hueford river, Colorado Ter
ritory, including eleven miles on each
side of the river, for the sum of 810,-
000. Their plan is to stock it with a
thousand head of fine blooded cattle
and young stock, and, if these prove
profitable, to follow with larger invest
ments.
The negroes of Hale county, Alabama,
arc bolding meetiugs to arrange for em
igration to Kansas.
Last year tbe United States exported
one hundred and fifty-one million gallons
of petroleum.
The Democratic majority in Kentnckv
is estimated at from 40,000 to 50,000.
The Republicans have about twenty
members in the lower House.
Capt. John C. Braine, late of the
navy, is lecturing in Texas towns, telling
particularly what he knows about the
seizure of the Chesapeake.
Holden, ex Governor of North Caroli
na, intends to s.art a newspaper in
Washington. He’s Iloldeu-ough to
know better.
Advices from Tuczon, Arizona, states
that Gen. Crook's campaign against the
Apaches is proceeding rigorously. He
is confident ot reducing the savages to
submission, if not interfered with by the
Peace Commission.
From the New York World, we learn
that in walking about the docks and
piers of that city, you can sen ship af
ter ship rotting at her wharf, or hope
lessly awaiting a charter. Such is the
testimony to tbe ruinous Radical mara
time policy ot tbe government.
Tho negro vote of California is esti
mated at 2,000, and wili be cast solid for
tile Republican's, giving that party a
very strong probability of carrrying the
State.
Ex Senator Richard Yates has ac
cepted an offer of the American Litera
ry Bureau, of New York, for fifty lec
tures, at 810.000, to be delivered by him
luring the full aud winter.
A Boston lot reoently sold for 81,150
per square foot, enough to cover it with
gold.
Tbe Lynchburg Virginian reports an
important discovery of plumbago. The
deposit is about four hundred yards
from the James River Canal, and a few
miles below Lynchbnrg. Though only
a partial aud very superficial examina
tion has yet been made, the mine is
found to extend over an area of one
mile in length, and a quarter of a mile
in breadth.
The Springfield (Ills.) Register says:
To travel over tbe State at this season, a
stranger would come to the conclusion
that Illinois is one immense cornfield.
There is as much again breadth of oorn
planted this year as usual, tbe crop looks
fine, and, if nothing unusual happens,
tbe biggest oorn erop ever raised any
where will ripen on tbe prairies of Illi
nois the coming fall.
Cbolcba in Gkumany. —Tbe tele
grams report that oat of twenty-three re
ses of cholera attacked on Frida.yjast.in
Konigsberg, Prussia, thirteen were dd&d
on Saturday. Konigsberg was thsr did
capital of Prussia, hod is a town of
about 80,000 inhabitants, situated on
the river Pregsl. The German authori
ties, local and national, were doing their
best to control the disorder.
Western Texas is pretty well t>«nt
up by the drought. Water disappeared,
grass dried up and cattle are ‘lowftig
tesjrfally. In Liberty, Calvert,- and
Houston counties, the boll-worm has
made its appearance and to be
destructive. The latest reports.from the
whole cropping section of Texai are ve
ry mixed.
When a man gets mad and stops his
paper, be always borrows the next one of
of his neighbor, to see if tbe withdfnw
al of his name has uot killed the unfor
tunate editor.
Postmaster Dunning informs the Con
stitutiou that counterfeit #2O biffs of
National currency were eomitfg 'to tbe-
Atlanta Postoffiee from points between
thore and Chattanooga. Look Oat for
them.
315,555 Union soldiers are buried in
different puts of the couutry, 143,446 of
them have never been identified.
Mrs. Samuel Ooft, the widoW of the
late Mr. Colt, of roTdlver fame,' reports
an income for 1850 of four hundred
thousand dollars. . .
In Wyoming, the bride furmfeheshbe
ring and the license, and the blushing
bridegroom falls into hysterics.. ■_
Capt. Fillebrowne, the
officer in charge of tbe eurvej ''of the
Gdosa river; Was drowned at OolamSi
ana, Ala., on tbd 124 b, as we leara.fram
tbe Route Commercial. -! mei) .
Miss Laura Bbanks eommlUwLeuidde
?af e\tS/
set.
Dan Rice is (Tying to predict Greeley
I into tbe White House, •