About Georgia weekly telegraph and Georgia journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1869-1880 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1870)
The Greoraqa "Weeikly Telesrra/Dli and. Journal & Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, MAT SI !870. -r.> A CARD Ths undersigned begs to inform his friends in different parts of the State, who sre mem bers of the State Agricultural Society, that self- respect requires a withdrawal of his name as a candidate for the office of Secretary of that So ciety. O. W. Howabd. Information Wanted. A correspondent at Marehallville sends the following, which will interest many parties here: Mysteriously disappeared, on the night of the 17th inst., ono Joseph Weber, a German, about fifty-three years of age, and abont five feet two inches high. Will weigh abont 120 pounds. He has been four years in tho United States. A tailor by trade. He has followed the occupa tion of gardening since he has been in this country. Speaks but very little English. Head bald. Wears heavy moustache. He was in the employ of Mr. A. H. Afflick, of Marshallville, Macon county, Ga., when he disappeared. Mr. Afflick will feel grateful for any information concerning him. The atten tion of Mr. Weber's friends in Macon are espe cially called to this notice. Agricultural Arithmetic. Mr. R. B. Clayton brought ns, yesterday, a cluster of Bye stalks, the product of one grain, procured from a field belonging to Mr. Brewer, in Vineville. The cluster measures seven feet four incheB in height The heads will average a little less than Beven inches in length—there are 107 of them, and the average of grains to the ear is 89 or thereabouts; so that wo have here 9,500 grains as the multiplication of single seed grain. If this be the product of a single grain, (and those who have examined it Bay it is;) it exceeds anything we ever read of, and it is a solemn sermon to those who talk about Georgia’s not being a good grain coun try, and it is better to bring onr breadstuff's from the West. Gentlemen, hold your peace. If God will reward the producer at the rate of nine thousand for one, and he thereupon goes to Missouri to buy bread, is it not flying into the face of Providence ? A Deluge of Public Waste. The New York Herald, of Saturday, pro claims that both political parties are gone up, and the conntry is abont to enter upon an era of unparalleled waste, plander and profligacy, which will astonish’ mankind. There is no • ’«this line in the power of the -‘•-"•sh anybody, achievement u» — ... Badical party which can There is nothing in the way of waste, proflig&r cy, corruption and tyranny, of which they have not been guilty. And as for the dissolution of parties, lay not that flattering unction to your soula! The Democratic party of America has a grand and holy mission before It, and is mov ing onward to its accomplishment That mis sion is to restore the supremacy of the Consti tution and the equipoise of the American polit ical system. For this grand and patriotic work, it is gathering new strength every hour, and it will never rest until it is accomplished. Illinois ox unit Railroads.—The new Illinois Constitution goes for the speculative managers of her railroads after thi3 fashion: “Every company chartered by the State must make all transfers of stock and keep its books at an office within the State. All rolling stock and movable property are made liable to execution and sale. Consolidation with a parallel or com peting lino is forbidden. The majority of the directors of a company chartered by the State, must be citizens and residents of the State. All the railways in the State are declared to be public highways, and the Legislature is to fix the maximum rates for the carrying of pas- Bengera and freights. No company shall issue stock or bonds except for money or value ac tually received and applied to its corporate purposes; all stock dividends and other fictitious increase of capital stock or indebtedness shall be void; and no increase of capital stock shall be valid unless after sixty days public notice.” Mew Books, From tho publisher, Carleton, New York, throngh Havens & Brown, we have three very promising looking novels, respectively en titled “Honor Bright,*' by tho author of Mal- brook; “Bobert Greathouse,” an American novel, by John Franklin Swift; and “Gently or Not Gently,” anonymous. We have barely had time to run a very busy eye over tho pages of each, and therefore cannot speak positively of their merits. We do know, however, that Gadeton does not usually put trash on the mar ket, and we therefore are fully prepared to hear a most favorable verdict as to each. No Need Fob Ice.—If we could get to read such paragraphs as the.following from Forney’s Press, of Friday, all through the summer, we hardly think Ells would get much of our money for ice. For oool they beat that commodity out of sight Just think of Forney with poor Bol lock’s hard earnings bulging out his pocket al most to the point of bursting, talking about any body’s being “venal!” We should be very, slow to intimate that there was anyting “venal” in Mr. Ferry’s violent pet tifogging in.behalf of. bis rebel clients. He spoke, however, in a way which might have led a hearer to suppose that he expeoted to be paid for Mg services in Confederate enrrenoy when his clients, Jefferson Davis, Breckenridge, et ah, shonld be readmitted to seats in tho Senate, Miss Mitfobd, writing of a certain authoress, says: “She is ugly, of course; all literary la dies are so. ' I never met one in my life (exoepl Miss Jane Porter, and she is rather passee,j that might not have served for a scarecrow to keep the birds from the cherries. It’s a prodigiously strange and disagreeable peculiarity.” Fob the present term of the Circuit Court for Richland Parish, of South Carolina, there are eleven negroes and seven whitemen on the jury, and 21 negroes and ten whites drawn as petit jurors. We hope none of on r white friends over there have any business in that court, this term. “I • - ■ Woman Suffrage.—The whole State of Ver mont has been canvassed, as to the women, on the question of female suffrage. The Burling ton Free Press statea as the result, that “nine- tenths of the women are opposed to it." The Commercial Advertiser (Radical) is down on the Evening Post (Radical) for vffiifying General Grant, comparing him to a scheming horse-jockey, and charging that he is heavily interested in the “San Domingo job. w The brethren shonld restrain themselves. Macos Journal.—Yesterday’s edition of the above paper announced a change in its pro prietorship. Messrs Harrison and Ricks have sold their interest to H. J. Neville, their late partner, who proposes to continue its publica tion as sole owner. There is shortly to arrive in Paris a dwarf aged abont forty-five years, having a beard reaching to his feet, but with only one arm, and a completely bald head. He possesses 2,000,000 franos, which he is willing to share] with any yonng girl abont twenty years old who is pretty and good tempered. “To the parent whose son dies in infancy,” says the Louisville Journal, “there mnst be something peculiarly soothing in the thought that, no matter what may be the fate of the aViiM in the next world, he can never beoome a member of a base ball olnb in this. ” Another Fenian Expedition. The Fenians are up again—strong all along the Canada frontier. Three thousand more are moving from .war like Boston—all to liberate. Ireland by storming Canada, with which they have no quarrel. That is hard on Canada. She is suffering vicariously for tho offenoes of the mother country. The Canucks must lay down their scythes end pitchforks right in the middle of hayioc time, and take up their muskets to defend themselves and fight against the “libera tion of Ireland” four thousand miles away from the casus belli. The Canadians must be equally puzzled and vexed at the anomalies of the situ ation, and if the Finegans understand them, they are far in advance of all outsiders. We shall take it as a great kindness in the Fenian leaders, after this expedition is over, if they wil explain the political and military strategy which aims to liberate Ireland by invading Canada. We would like to comprehend the merits of it. But regarding it with the eye of an outsider, we can only hope that it will stop short of the preposterous folly of an actual invasion and battle—that none of the poor Canadians may be killed in a quarrel which is no fault of theirs —that the Fenians may live to fight where there is at least one chance in a million of success, and that none of them may be caught to be struog up by the British, or if any are captured, it will be the hair-brained, reckless leaders, who seduce well- meaning men into; such ridiculous and criminal expeditions. We may well sup pose that John Bull will' be perfectly furious over this third Fenian invasion of Canada. Jnst So. We emphatically agree with the Conner Journal that therejis entirely too much “nigger in the pit,” at present, to be either healthy or agreeable for tho conntry. Extreme Radicals want to give Sambo considerably more than a “white man’s chance,” and a very few extreme Democrats don’t want to give him the chance of a dog. Both are wrong, yet both are per sistent in attempting to keep the question in the foreground. The people, meanwhile, are sick of it. Common sense says let it rest until we see what becomes of it. Agitation does not improve either the temper of the discussion or the condition of the negro. The passions of the one party are arrayed against him by the extreme demands made by the other party in his behalf. He is well enough as he is. His civil and political rights—sufficient to protect him—are at length assured. That is enough. Now, let him go to work in peace and root for himself, jnst as his neighbors have to do. He will get on comfortably, we dare say. Bat if this agitation business goes on he never will be worth anything to himself or anybody else, and • curse to the country. : r prove in the enu - - Senatorial Consistency. The Senate Judiciary Committee, in their re port upon the corruption and bribery in the Georgia case, says: “As there is no law for punishing such at tempts, they must be left, and perhaps it is best they should be left, to the judgment of an en lightened and jnst public sentiment, which will not fail to visit with its condemnation any at tempt, by the nse of improper means, to influ ence the votes of a legislative body.” But tho body which thinks it best to leave attempts to corrupt the vote of Congress to “the judgment of an enlightened public opinion,” has recently passed the bill to enforce the 15th amendment—a bill which we may say puts the property and liberty of every white man at the mercy of any negro who sees fit to complain of an attempt at bribery or intimidation. Any ne gro tenant or laborer, who has been ejected or dismissed, no matter for what malconduct—or, in fact, any negro whatever who has conceived malice against any white man, can make com plaint and he can bring any amount of testimo ny to substantiate it, no matter what are the facts of the case; -and lodge his enemy in jail for years, and there is no help for him, if this law can be enforced, as passed by the Senate. It is a case in which it is impossible to prove a negative. And this is the way the Senate illustrates its consistency; and we might add its folly and childishness. For how any man with common sense could bring himself to vote for such a law is inconceivable. It is so supremely ridiculous, barbarous and impracticable that if the House pass it, it must evidently Become a in time mere dead letter. V jj-; T The New York Election. The New York Democrats seem to have reg ularly waliopped the Radio*la all over the State. They olaim a decided majority outside the City. Tb» negro recruits to the Radical phalanx ap pear not to have made themselves felt at all. It is beginning to be suspected—with intense dis gust—by a good many red-mouthed howlers for “ekii” rights, who had spasms of joy over the success of the Fifteenth Amendment, that the negro was a weight instead of a help in the race. They saw white men, who had heretofore fol lowed their lead like sheep, rejecting the black dose and joining the Democrats. We would not be at all astonished to see these disgusted Rads, going for Onffee some day soon, with a Tim bora of the keenest C’.ame and disappoint ment We trust, though, this stick will not break for a long time yet We want the North- em Democracy to use it many years more to punch and pommel the adversary’s bead. Some of the changes in the rural district of New York as shown in this election, are aston ishingly gratifying. In Orleans county, for ex ample, which gare Siegel, Radical, 943 majority last year, Chinch, Democrat, this year has 786 majority. In Jefferson county where the Dem-' crats for seventeen years have been regularly beaten by from 1000 to 1500 majority, the Rad icals were badly defeated this year. In other parts of the State changes no less marked have occurred. Everywhere in the Statethe Demo crats have gained. * , >^j We think all this is a.pretty good answer to negro suffrage fastened upon freemen by a mis erable swindle. If Mr. Grant is not too busy counting his presents, and devising a summer campaign of dead head cigars, juleps, horses and other pleasant trifles, perhaps even he might see in it a significance that it would pay him to study closely. New York has stamped on the fraud called the Fifteenth Amendment. Hpw do its concoctors like the weight of her foot.? Just as We Said. : ; _ : We knew it. The City Council of Atlanta, in refunding that $4 and some odd cents, city tax, to B. B. Bullock, were actuated by the com-, mendable motives of pity for the distressed, and a desire to'give' an unfortunate man every chance to make another start. We honor them for it. It is not often in this hard, selfish world, that the representatives of that soulless thing, a corporation, put themselves on record as so overflowing with the milk of human kind ness. . Lest anybody should, feel disposed to sneer or cavil at their kindly generosity, we submit its full justification, as found in this extract from R. B.’s last letter to Congress. He says: Whatever else may happen to me, I shall leave the office of Governor of Georgia with clean hands, and without having performed any act for which my children or my friends shall 4 j .- ~tojuacm to blush, but with my private for- { ‘ * bv the heavy expenses to halve yv— _• tune greatly dimi7u«,.~.. _ l — if, which I have been subjected. There, now! Perish the man wtOW j soiw The Georgia Preoo. Ebooks Superior Court was in seosion last Mitchell Brioe, who was tried for the of Lyman Hall, on the 20th of April last, was aoqnitted after a two days’ triaL The Savannah News aays one firm in that city is now impoiting and supplying almost the entire South with coffee. During the past season, Hanoook county im ported 2,533 tons of fertilizers. The Sparta Times, which rather boasts of the fact, omits, however, to tell ns how many bushels of oom and pounds of bacon Hancock has imported. The Times reports a light shower there Fri day, mid “a pretty good rain" in other portons of the eounty. We are indebted to the Times for the follow ing items We notice that several hands have arrived on the M. and A. Railroad, and have erected tents or “shanties”, for their accommodation while employed in tilling the culverts, which work will be commenced at an early date. We are pleased to note the faot that those weak and dangerous trestles will soon be rendered seouie by sufficient embankments, y •>,: ~ Sad Accident.—We learn that a tobacconist, while camping near Mr. Garner’s, in Washing, ton county, had the misfortune' to discharge a pistol accidentally while loadidg it, the ball ^ into his body and inflicting a severe, and it Is feared; fatal wound. Mr. J. L. Gam er is gone to North Carolina for the family of the unfortunate man. The Savannah News says “Peter Shine, a sa ble representative of the colored aristocracy of South Carolina, was arrested on Saturday and committed to jail by Justice Jones, upon a charge of cheating and swindling. Peter was very indignant at sich treatment, and suggested that Such an outrage would riot be tolerated by the loyal people of South Carolina, and Intima ted the milit^p would make short work of such a aasaJ .. Peter hails from the Beaufort district, where he holds tie important position of County Sheriff.” The News conplains that the Savannah veg^ etable market is “playing out.”. No shipments for Northern markets have been made, the : de mand for home consumption taking all that is grown. - Strawberries are very abrmdant, at from 25 to 50 cents a quart. Blackberries are small and inferior, hut in good demand at 10 cents a quart. Phms 1*5 cents a quart. Cu cumbers quite scarce at 25 cents each. Squash es are selling at JO cents per dozen; yellow squashes 5 cents each. New potatoes continue unchanged at $4 per bushel. Snap beans 20 cents per quart. ■ Green peas 15 cents for two quarts; shelled pels 15 cents per qiiart. Good beef 15 tc 20 cents per pound; jerked beef 12 to 15 cents per pound. Veal 10 to 15 cents per pounf. Pork 20 to 25 cents per jpnnd. Mutton J5 to 20 cents per pound. Veh- son quite plentiful at 25 to 30 cents per pound. Pork arid beef sausages 25. cents per pound. Fresh Georgia butter very Abundant; inferior butter for cooking purposes 35 to 40 cents per pound, and good table batter 50 cents per ■ound. . " l , Under the lead “Bully for Gainesville,” Mc Donald & Son, of that burg, advertise they have in ,‘ M ' n ^unds of flour in sixty days. It I “Bully for Mc- does not swell with sympathetic admiration fox strike3 na *£«ehou!d hav* »u._ ' ,nflr Presbyterian Ke-Unlon. ; Philadelphia is now the scene of tho sessions of the first General Assembly of the re-united Presbyterian Church since its separation before the war. Two hundred and forty-ax Presbyte ries, containing nearly four thousand five hun dred congregations and ministers, almost half a million of communicants, and a membership of about two and a half millions, are represented in it. The New York Commercial Advertiser remarks as follows on it: • '! V - After their long separation, these two largo bodies will once more be brought together in harmonious, amicable relations, and a complete and cordial re-union will doubtless be estab lished. As this religions separation was ante cedent and preparatory to tho political rapture between the North and South, let us hope that it will prove most efficacious in cementing and strengthening the re-united bonds of the two sections. • . ’vrioa The following resolutions, offered on Friday by Rev. Dr. Adams, were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That a committee be appointed to confer with the General Assembly now in ses sion in Louisville, in respect to opening a cor respondence between the two bodies, and that the result of the correspondence be reported to the assembly of 1871. Resolved, That with a view of furthering this object, this assembly hereby reaffirms the con current Heelaratinna of ths two assemblies which met in New York last year, that any rule or pre cedent which does not stand approved by both bodies shall be of n« authority in the reunited bodies, except so far as such rule or precedent may affect the rights of property. Jesse Threatens ’Lisses. The Washington correspondent of the New York Democrat tells the following : Old man Grant evidently knows ’Lisaes by heart. That threat will carry the old gentleman’s point yet. Look out for brother-in-law Kramer, to get one of those ’pointments very soon. Says the cor respondent : *hu eoo rival tno nedW Mr. Kramer having married the President's younger sister, and not being adequately pro vided for, Grant pere undertook to procure his advancement to a foreign portfolio. In this he failed, arid reoonnted to a friend his indignation thereat in the following genuine vernacular : “I told ’Lisses that Kramer ought to have one of those seven, thousand five hundred-dollar ’pointments; and that the place he had wa’n’t good enough for him. 'Lisses said that the papers had been maMn’ a powerful fuss over 'pointing so many of the family, and the thing couldn’t be did without raisin’ a row. I was mighty put out, and-I jist told’Lisses that I had salted down $25,000, -and that if he didn’t ’point Kramer I’d be darned if I left a cent of this money to him in my will 1” pnurMTB Tbits.—A New York paper says that the great Southern mail route have just arranged for the issue of excursion tickets during the summer months sor all points of interest in the South, including the battle fields of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and the White Bulphnr Springs of the latter State. A oonpon ticket also admits a visit to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. The exact f Ae for the several routes has not yet been definitely fixed, bnt the prices are to be reduced considerable less than one half the regular fares. North Carolina farmers are sending their surplus corn over into Sonth Carolina where cot ton maniacs gobble it np greedily at $1.60 a bushel. this illustrious self-sacrificer, and those who have been so prompt to recognize his noble forgetful ness of self. We pity those who can read the abovo with dry eyes. NothiDg more meltingly pathetic can be imagined. Shall not a subscrip tion at once be started for this beggared patriot? He has spent his'private fortune for us—Bhall we not at least make an effort to replace it ? We call on all the charitably disposed to send ns their names and subscription. Without any disposition to be officious, and with all due mod esty, we head the list with $1,000 in Confede rate enrrenoy. For repairing R. B’s “private" losses, -we know nothing more nearly approxi mating the valuation of that which it is intended to replace. ' ■ _ _ ft r - .;.y d: Medical.—Case of Texas Fercr Cared. A Bibb County correspondent sends us the following: * : “I drop you the following recipe for the Texas Fever. I started for Texas with about twenty iii the company, on the 12th day of January bound for Jefferson Comity, which we reached on the 22d of the same month. Onr first stopping place was at the camps of the Yankee soldiers, and these looked like old war times revived. Our next was upon aa poor a tract of land as you ever saw. Then we pulled. np stakes and moved on to Davis County, seven teen miles from . Jefferson, where we were to find a land flowing with milk and honey and every thing cheap. Cheap it was—corn $2.75 per bnshel, and bacon 20 to 25 cents a pound. Land from $5.00 to $15.00 per acre, owing to improvements. As for society, I would as 6oon live in a den of thieves. . . ■ I sojourned in Texas about three months, and saw “right i smart” of it The morel looked the less I was pleated. ; I talked with men from all parts of Texas, and found that all the induce ments held out to me were so many falsehoods. In short,the Texas Fever was completely cured, and I advise any man afflicted with that disor der to try the same remedy. Among my othor misfortunes, I was impressed by the Yankees, and compelled to work a solid week, under mil itary orders, digging np trees, stumps and rocks. ',' - tut,-hi m* t { ., On the 27th of April, I got back to Macon, to meet the jeers of every one of the “I told you ■03”and the ‘ ‘Didn’t-i tell-you-before-you went?" “Hallo, Old Texas, are you oured of that Texas Fever.” I acknowledge the com. I am like the boy the calf ran.over. ! i; . Yours, eto., • - - A - .T..“ABick Max Cubed.” Enforcing the Fiiteentb. Amendment OF the last outrage perpetrated by the Radi cal conspirators at Washington—the bill to en force the Fifteenth Amendment—a Washington Special of Mot 2Jot, to the Herald, Bays:, ( , . The bill which passed tho Senate early this morning, after an all night session, for the en forcement of the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment, is said to be very acceptable to the extreme Radicals. -It differs materially from the 'measure which was originally reported from the Judiciary Committee, and with its assistance the Radicals say they can carry every. State at tho Fall elections, including New York. The Conservatives certainly made nothing by re maining all night in session, as, according to Zach. Chandler, “Every hour the Senate sat, the bill became stronger and mare radical in its provisions.” The Jndiciary Committee was, of; oonrse, utterly routed, all their propositions be ing voted dowft. It is the opinion of Mr. Trum bull that tho bill will do the Republican, party more harm than good. Men like Sumner, How ard and Chandler say they are willing to risk the consequences. The Baltimore New Eclectic, fob June,, opens with Wallis' Memorial Disooursrion George Peabody. Its other original papers are Metem psychosis. Evening among the Mountains, a chorus from Agamennon, by Frof. Gildersleeve. The Early Majority of Thomas Watts. An apology for wealth, by E. A. Pollard. The se lected articles are numerous, and among them are chapters 4th to 9th, of Dickens’ new novel The mystery of Edwin Drood. Four dollars per annum. Turnbull & Murdock, 54 Lexing ton street. We are sorry the Fenians have so little confi dence in the justice of their oause, and the sharpness of their swords, as to subsidize the torch of the incendiary as a weapon of honora ble warfare. Burning houses indiscriminately over the heads of women and children as they seem to be doing in Canada, is a very poor way to win ontside sympathy and support Ireland will never be freed by such means as this. Tub Brooklyn Tournament. —At the Brook lyn tournament last Saturday, nine of the fif teen knights haled from the Sonth, and Andy Dawson made the speech of welcome. Donald & Son.” There U certainly “bully” for Gainseville in the fact The Gainesville Eagle says the weather is fine, but very dry; hard on oats, but favorable for wheat, which is quite promising. Captain J. H. Cheshire and Chas. Godfrey, citizens of Atlsnty, have recently died. The provision store of Mr. Jeff Word and the drag store of Dr. L Sewell at West End near Atlanta, were burned Sanday night—loss 2,500 dollars, mostly covered by insurance. The Era reports a severe hail storm, Monday, at Chattannodga. The Era also learns that rain fell generally in tho Nothern portiog of the State, Monday. ■ ; , The thermometer marked 92 degrees Monday ixr Atlanta, and a slight shower felL The Sun says: Passengers on the West Point Road, last evening, state that Mr. Win. H. MoLarren, a prominent citizen of Fairbum, yesterday com mitted suicide by shooting himself with a pistol at his mills near that place. No particulars were ascentained. . .* The Intelligenoer says, Chap Norris, Terry’s bribe-taking sheriff of Warren county, was ar rested' Monday on three bench warrants from Warren county, charging him with false im prisonment. • b'wB . From the Monroe Advertiser we get the fol- ,, vij; 11., - '~r- -i 4- - >. tuk uaem eists lowing crop items : Crops in Monboe : In some portions of the oounty corn and cottoh are dying out from the effeot of the hot, dry weather, i. Other districts have had -rains within three weeks and orops are not suffering to any great extent. Oats are said to be materially damaged. . Wheat is being injured by the drouth, but we learn that rice-bird3 are provim? ft greater source of annoyance to farmers in some sections of the county than the weather. They are at tacking wheat fields in large numbers and play- iDg havoc with the crop. Cbops in Upson.—The condition of crops in Upson county is said to be very unfavorable.— The drouth there, as elsewhere in Middle Geor gia, is proving very damaging and farmers are gloomy enough, ■ Oom has a sickly appearance, and is mnch stunted in growth. Cotton is up, but the want of rain has kept it from growing. Wheat is seriously injured, and oats are said to be a complete failure. Butts.—The latest information from Butts is to the effect that previous to the drouth, crop prospects were very flattering. The dry weath er and cool nights, .however, have materially changed the aspect of affairs, and only an early rain and propitious seasons thereafter can in sure anything like average orops. The fruit crop Is more promising than was anticipated. Tho yield will probably be about one-third of a crop. Mr. Isaac W. Ensign, has been appointed census taker for Monroe county. . ST .». ; 7, The Thomaston Herald gives the following list and enumerations of the Upson- county,. In-.; venters and their inventions : . • “Mr. John Bland invented and receiv®! loi ters patent a few dayH ago, for an improved dashboard. Ho has invented an additional im provement, and applied for letters patent for the same. ’ ■ O' ■■■ 7 ' ; 1 r ' “Mr. Williams invented and reoieved letters patent for a pea aud guano dropper. “Mr. Zimmerman has invented and applied for a patent, for an improvement on an ordi nary sitting ohair. “Dr. N. Bryant has invented and applied for letters patent for a solar camera, which is said to be a valuable instrument. “Messrs. James VY. Brown and Jacob S. King have invented an applied for letters pa tent for a cotton chopper. This is undoubtedly the greatest machine of the age, as it does the work of five hands. “Mr. Garnett Smith has invented, and we learn will apply for letters patent, for an im provement on the pea and guano dropper. It can be made at a cost of seventy-five cents, any plantation mechanic can make one.” An employee of tho Macon and Western rail road was run over by a crank ear on Friday at Crawford station and had his shoulder and sev eral ribs broken. -V I .ST - :--7) frstirsMtq An adjourned term of Sumter Superior Court will bo held at Americas next week, commenc ing on Monday. Rain fell in various parts of Sumter county, Sunday afternoon. — The Albany News reports the weather very hot and dry, aud tho measles having a lively time among the women and children of that section. 1 M" ml Mrs. W. H. C. Cooper, of Albany, while standing on the seat of a buggy, Sunday, and reaching to gather some moss from' a tree on the roadside, lost her balanoe and fell over the wheel, seriously injuring herself. The Eatonton Press and Messenger says the thermometer stood at 96 degrees, Sunday, at gKHfHlill r '1“ «U U> xyv; We get the following local items from the Press and Messenger. Accidentally Shot.—A lad by the name of Wm: E. Dennis, living near Oapt. John A. Bout's, in this eounty, was accidentally shot and severely wounded in tho shoulder, on Saturday, the 18 th inst. He, with other boys, went fish ing, and took their-gu* along, which was by some means accidentally discharged, putting the whole load of shot in his shonlder. Medical aid was immediately called in, and the shot, some ninety in number, extracted. The little fellow is suffering considerably, bnt it is thought, will soon recover. Negbo Shot.t—On Sanday last a negro man was shot and killed on the plantation of Mr. Gatewood, in this county. We have not learned the full particulars. There are two versions to the story about the affair. One is, that two brothers fell out about some clothing, when one of them drew a pistol and shot the other; the other version is that the killing was accidental. Cotton.—We arc informed that cotton is dy ing out rapidly in some sections of the county, especially on the red lands, for the want of rain. We hope the crop will not be seriously injured from this cause. -01 We understand the Sabbath Schools of Eatonton have - decided on having a Pic-Nic on Friday evening, the 3d of June. Sickly.—We have had considerable sickness in this vicinity recently; principally diseases incident to this season of the year—nothing very serious. Fxbe.—We learn from onr yonng, friond, Robert Rosser, that he had a considerable striDg of fence and an out house burned a few days ago, at his father’s place, in this conntty. The fire was accidental. The Federal Union of Tuesday says: “no rain yet—crops beginning to suffer, and gar dens nearly ruined.” Air. Nathan Hawkins, an old citizen of Baid- win county, died Sanday morning, aged sixty years. He had been Mayor of Milledgeville, and member of the Legislature from that county. 1 The Colnmbns Enquirer . learns that three storos, one a drag store, were burned Sunday- night, at West Point. A good shower fell ten or twelve miles east of Columbus, Sanday afternoon. We quote as follows from the Enquirer: A negro man named Louis Pride shot Henry. Arnold,-the butcher,, in the arm Saturday night. Louis was placed in the lock up, anckwill prob ably be dealt with by the Superior Court, now In ■Mori! 1 ' 11 . .' ’ i A negro man shot another at Woolfolk’s Bend Sunday, with what effect we could not learn.— From what we hear it was an attempt to settle and old difficulty between the parties. Charlie Carhart, from Macon, a colored bar ber at Henes’, attempted to cut the throat of our respected colored eatrng house keeper, Bar ney Hawkins, yesterday. Charles was taken to Morphy’a inn. Origin of .the Affair, bad whis- k y_ I TO nB IS ,MD< A dead infant was found in a privy down Broad street yesterday. Julia Coleman, colored, confessed to having thrown it there at birth abont a week ago. Julia was arrested and placed in the Guard House. Coran or Wood held an inquest on the body last afternoon, and we sup pose the juries’verdict was in accordance with the above facts. The baby is said to have been nearly white. ■ . A horse belonging to .Dr, Word ran away with tte buggy Sunday, precipitated the colored driver to the ground without injury, and after running some fifty yards, was brought to a halt by the reins becoming firmly entangled in the wheel. No damage done. - The new female academy for the Columbus Public Schools is progressing finely. The lower ’orv has been thoroughly reconstructed, and n _ ‘ * are now putting on the second the ’ '. n .' story.' ' i::- i-.L.- aome Sickness has been more pfSfalgnt iux From Monroe County—Clover. Oolapabcheb, Ga., May 22, 1870. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Your allmion to last Friday’s issue to clover on tho “clay lands of Monroe" suggests this article. There can exist scarce a doubt that the tion of your proposition is true. Allow me to give you some little personal experience and observation, which, as far aa they go, tend to warrant the conclusion of the adaptability of Mon roe lands (whether red or gray, for they all have clay subsoil,) to the growth of red clover. I have a few acres of this clover, and blue and orchard grasses, seeded down with oats March 3d. The clover is now two and three inches high, and pronounced by a Tennesseean whe saw it, to be as fine as he has ever seen grow in Tennessee for this length of time. The grasses do net seem to be growing off so rapid ly. I shall not ent the oats, nor pasture this field at all this year. I have seen red clover this year twelve inches high, and of luxuriant growth—right in the midBt of broomsedge on poor gray land I I'm aware of the probability that many will be found skeptical enough to shake their heads at the assertion that clo ver will succeed ini this climate. But the day is not far distant when (D. 'Y.) luxuriant clover fields shall be seen in Monroe county. However, as ‘‘hallooing before one gets out of the woods” sometimes brings mortification and Chagrin, I shall drop the clover sensation, with the assurance, if it does succeed well, that there will be joy around one fireside, as the demon stration will presage the dawning of a new era in Monroe county agriculture. We are not obnox ious to the charge of all newspaperdom of planting “all cotton—no com.” This county, I venture the assertion, has planted one-half in com and 200 per cent more oats than has.been sown in either of the last six years. We must plant cotton—it is our pet crop, and will ever continne to be the leading crop of this section; otherwise, we out loose from our- moorings of commercial importance.: Yet a change must “come o’er the spirit of our dreams.” We must have other and cheaper food crops than com, and a plenty of them, which can recuperate worn-out 1 soils, give us meat for the - laborer, and sustain the animal that speeds the cotton '•'* v.•• r-i' ■■■*-.- -ttiO fina-WF-ilrld* £ With barley sown September 1st, and rye or other grain sown October 1st, and then our clover fields,-a succession of green pasturage may be had for the six or eight most trying months of the year. Alas, though, for a ma jority of planters, your newspaper rhetoric and preaohing will avail nought. They will neve* awake till the iron fingers of poverty and want shall clutch their ichabod throats! Talk to farmers about “concert of .action”iii regard to labor questions—labor-saving systems and im provements 1 As well talk to Balaam’s ass 1 But this strikes a key ever attuned to jeremi ads. 80 more anon. • . 5Ki ‘ ‘ Hoping and laborihg for the “good time com' ing,” Ac., &a, . Clover. Tire Field of Manassas. A correspondent of the Charleston News, af ter sketching the appearance of this great little field during the war, has the following upon its present condition: From this terrible waste and rain let us turn to a fairer sight—the Manassas of to-day. It is ft pretty village of over a hundred houses, grouped about the depot, with broad streets in good Condition, lined with residences, stores, smithies, and. all the offices of a considerable population. Many of these bouses are neat and tasty, some are even elegant, and the hotel is a pleasant spacious one indeed—while queenly religion has. built her temple on a grassy lawn at the end of a fine street. The inhabitants are mostly from the North, a sturdy, hard-working yeomanry, bringing down those habits of in dustry and sobriety which have made a garden- land of even oold and rocky New England. Their . .. - - " are also of the North, but this does days, owing to the intense hot and dry iYSStaer. \ crinciDK- Virginians who have set- We heard of two deaths rn Girard Sunday. ■ . I™" 1 ITT. . . .... 1 'V*. Judge Johnson decided, Monday inMusoogee Superior Court, that parties could legally marry in Georgia without licenses and without witness es. The only requirements are ability to con tract, and actually contracting. The Son gays: The LaGranqe Railroad Meeting : It was held Saturday in L&Grange, and was large and enthusiastic. Judge Bingham was President and CoL Huntly, Secretary. The Columbus delegates were Mr. H. S. Estes and Alderman Ghipley. There was a delegation from Harris eounty, headed by CoL Mobley. The direct road between Rome and Colnmbns will pass within three miles of Hamilton. An old char ter was found, not expired by reason of time, which gives to the proposed road all the privi leges, except banking, enjoyed by the Central railroad. A committee of seven from each of the counties of Troup, Harris ana Muscogee, were appointed to meet the corporators in Go- lumbns, next Thursday, to decide upon imme diate organization. The Mnsoogee committee is composed of Gen. Benniag, W. L. Salisbury, H. H. Epping, W. D. Chipley, A. H. Chappell, J. Rhodes Browne and H. S. Estes. Full par ticulars are expected to-day. The Drouth Continues.—We have enjoyed the sixth week of drouth unprecedented for its heat at this season of the year. A few drops of rain one day last week, caused onr local to go off into a spasm abont a “glorious shower.” Crops, gardens,' men and beast are suffering. A new Masonic Lodge and Town Hall is to be built at Washington, Wilkes County, and the contractors are calling lustily for 350,000 bricks therefor. The new bridge,(which is being built across the Savannah river, at Augusta, for the Char lotte, Columbia and Augusta, and the Sonth Carolina Railroad, will soon be finished. The Chronicle says: An accident occurred on the South Carolina Railroad last Saturday night or Sanday morning which resulted in the smashing up of four freight cars loaded with molasses. It appears that the cars were attached to the fast express freight train whioh left Charleston at six o’clock Saturday'afternoon. At a point on the railroad, distant fifty-three miles from that city, the train ran off the track and four of the cars, with their contents, wrecked. Charlton H. Way has been elected President, and-N. B. Brown Superintendent, Secretary and Treasurer of the Savannah, Seaboard and Skid- away railroad., ^ riO— rir(> wjrt Capt. A. P. Wetter has been elected Aider- man, of Savannah, vice D. T. Scranton, de- feffflUflfls •’ ^ ^ Mr. j. V. Nungezer, an old citizen of Savan- •niih. formerly of th* Planter's Bank, died Monday, rev awu egtei vtsv a Jon tmi ,es t The Columbus Sun calls attention to this sharp dodge by “Fatty” Harris. “We invite the attention of onr Atlanta ootemporaries to a nice dodge, that Harris isfplaying on the Committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the State Road. - • r ^ All f e.l. We have received information from a reliable source that a number of supernumerary em ployees have been granted furloughs pending the investigation, so that Harris may swear that such men are not at present employed on the road. They are all togo hack so soon as the white-washing is completed. One .of these “supes” is said to be loafing about this place at present. A severe cross examination on this particular point will do no harm. It will cer tainly elicit some facts or produce some very tall swearing. eft toing 1. Davis’ and Van Winkle’s laundry at Atlanta, was burned, Tuesday morning; Loss, $7000; insurance, $3,800. -isad* vd aatiiasiT The first train over the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad passed through to Dalton Mon- day ’ ; ft -roe; The Rome Daily tells of a bushel of wheat, weighing 60 pounds, that turned out 49 3-5 pounds of extra flour. The Daily says, a severe hail storm passed over Rome Monday, follbwed by a heavy rain. A fine rain fell Saturday afternoon a few miles east and South east of Americas. * The Amerious Courier says a difficulty occur red on Friday last, between Neidam Cox and Joseph Webb, while on a fishing excursion to Flint River, in the vicinity of Oglethorpe, which resulted in the probably fatal wounding of Mr. Cox. '' •' We have not heard the full particulars, but our informant says several shots were exchang ed, Mr. Cox making the first attack. Db. Will’s oration will be found a very fin ished, eloquent and interesting performance. The Virginia papers report the promise of an abundant wheat crop. hot tr0C hl s the gov- - are not making a po tted among them, - 1 ~~ nn the V 1 ** 18 litical colony; they camo - OWu v — of -the Sonny South to make homes ICT fneffi- selves, not to beoome office-holders. So the fields, ns far as the eye c«n reach, are under cul tivation, the young wheat is breaking through the ground, and all the bnsy activities ofYSe Farm are in cheerfnl progress. Yonng trees are slowly growing np, to mitigate and soften the present bald aspect of the place—the germs of future girdens brighten here and there in spots of floral brilliance and beanty—new houses are rising on newly acquired estates for the homes of future generations of thrifty Virginians, and a smart little local paper dispenses the tidings of the day, and indulges in occasional strains of prophetic enthusiasm, which would be worthy of Duluth or Omaha. , - . ■— . r : Resigned. In the World’s Washington speoials of Fri day, we find the following letter. The d&patch says that Bard will return to Georgia to take up the cudgels against that poor persecuted man, Bullock : Washington, D. C., May 20, IS70. To hi3 Excellency the President ; Srs: The political condition of Georgia is BtiU unsettled and unsatisfactory. I hoped and expected ere this it would have been otherwise. As it is not, I deem it a duty which I owe to the people of Georgia to resume my profession as a journalist, in the city of Atlanta. I have the honor, therefore, to hand your Excellency this my resignation as Governor of the Territory Of Idaho, to take effect from the 5th day of Jane, 1870. . With great respect, I am, Mr. President, your friend and fellow-citizen, Samuel Bard. A Heavy Rain. Rain has come at last. To-day (25. h,) abont 2 p. M , 11 thunder shower came, and the rain poured down furiously for the space of about two hours—then subsiding into a gentle show er, continues to this time 6 o’clock in the even ing, with evey appearance of a very general rain. We trust the blessing has been as exten sive as it is welcome. ' s3 w psfc Li : ■ •-Hiv*aMion fe A Revelation About Chewing Gum.—The following, clipped from an exchange, will be of interest to many who cannot find sufficient em ployment for their masticators at the table: “Chewing gum is made at Poduck, Massachu setts, of gum-arabic, rosin and coarse fat. Any kind of fat, even that of dead dogs, is used in the manufacture, and when all the ingredients are placed in boiling kettles, a small quantity of the most nauseous liquid foam is put in to whi ten the gum.” When this fact is known, girls hove a perfect right to chew gum if they want W(;Y irv si fr.ih .uoi.iHii; .. amCwsuc *!•« Kniptat. _ bvatioB. The most imposing and brilli^ stme number of men ever mj. ^ was witnessed in this city, yeat-J® at the hour of eleven o’clock. The rw ' a initiation, in Macon, of the order of Knights Templar in the State ^ T ‘ 0? W and to which the various subordinate o f C ies of the State were ordered to ap peir C ^V-< form* 211 full | At 10 o’clock, a.*., the Grand rv, m _ 1 the Knights Templar for the State ^ ^ « sembled in the Asylum of .fit. Omer rZ" 8 '*' *• No. 2, in Masonic Hall, on the corner street and Cotton Avenue, the following 0^^ mg present, in full regalia- goai =erji t Bight Eminent Sir Thomas. W. Chandl, nmmdn/lAP ^* UI Commander. . Very Eminent Sir George S. Obear Commander. Gtnj] D wy(^ Eminent Sir Allen S. Scott, acting Grande, iseimo. Eminent Sir Geo. General. VEfjjl. T. Anderson. Graiu1 Ciphj Eminent Sir Bev. David Wills D T> - I •fee-s' htorioa atonr ’ ’ ^ *11 ^Eminent Sir Wm. J. Poliard. Grand 8e aior , Eminent Sir Samuel P. Hamilton r.n.4 Warden. ’ M Jo ^t! Eminent Sir Jos. E. Wells, Grand Treason, if Eminent Sir Cbas. B. Amatrong, Grand R Eminent Sir John G. Bciiz, acting GrandX aid Bearer. Eminent Sir Calvin Fay, Grand Sword iw ^Eminent Sir Wm. H. Fuller, Acting Grand ** i I Thb Atlanta Sun says. “He who tries to appro priate what is not his in this community is pret ty generally unsuccessfuL" Which is cerlaiuly contrwy to the generally received opinion in the State. A good many people can give chapter and verse to contradict this statement. Why man, alive, Atlanta is the very identical place of all in Georgia where appropriators of other people’s property thrive most, and hold their beads highest. Sir Chas. H. Freeman, Gnmd Captain of Six out of the seven subordinate Comm,./*' in the State were represented in line. Slam' 3 '* 1 No. 3, of Columbus, being the only 0 na sented. The following are the names of ^ represented: ' ' Georgia Commandeiy, .Np._J, of Aumst». Omer Commandery, No. 2, of Macon- Cm,', 1 Lion, No. 4,.of Atlanta; De Molay, No. 5 of A™ ■ ens; Wm. Tracy Gould, No. 0, of Forsyth- tine, No. 7, of Savannah, and several visittee s, Knights from the Eufaula Commandery, with V. Eminent Commander, J. W. Young. ’ At the hour of 11 A. jl, as berore ot ^ ^ . Omer Commandery, No. 2, of Macon, emerged^ the Masonio Hall in double file, and took their nr j sitiori in line on Cotton Avenue. Then followed fle other subordinate 'Commandries, and lastly, ^ Grand Commandery, all under command of'tie i brilliant military chieftain and gentleman, Ga Geo. T. Andeison, Grand Captain General. The line being formed, it presented really a ret magnificent sight to the large concoarse of "citiraa, I both old and yonng, male and female, that had«. I sembled on tho sidewalks and in the doors ad L windows to witness. The uniforms consisted of*| black cloth coate with brass buttons, bha-l pants, black chapeau with a white ostrich feithe i bouldrioks of white. watered Bilk, threo iid« j wide and ends lapped and secured at the lefttg ' with a small bnt bountiful ornament, red Us. rocco sword belt and straight sword, and guatlee on the cuffs of which were small jewelled cross- the whole presenting an exceedingly handsome ad elegant uniform. The uniforms of the Grand efr cere were something more brilliant and costly,i that the badges, swords and trimmings were of get I while that of the Sir Knights was of white mat The Grand Prelate appeared in a ; long white rot*, I with % stole around bis neck and mitre on his had. We counted in line one hundred and seven white feathers, bnt there were in line altogether ibod one hundred and fifteen uniforms. This wu 1 | large proportion of the Knights Templar of the state, as there are only about 175 in Georgia if column faced to the left and ter fnfmtimf' _ ^'-urch to the moarot ] marched to the PresfeytSflan v,— ” - ruh tho Macon colored brass band, where uio . opened and the Grand Commandery passed thmsgh into tha Chinch. The'public exercises of theoritf of Knights Templar were then held, and wereci 1 most impressive,- beautiful and imposing chincts. After which Bev-D. Wills, D. D., Grand Prelate, delivered an oration upon the subject of "Chiistiii) Chivalry,’.’ a fall and accurate report of which q- pcars on the first side of this paper. We commai its perusal to every reader of the Tellgeath Messenger, as a mos able, learned and irwan;® discourse. At : its conclusion, other mioS were held, when the’Sir Knighte again formes ci returned to the Asylum of Et. Omer. There was no public parade in the afternoon, u | proposed, on account of the heavy and eteidy na j which fell, bnt the Order held a business meetict j and appointed committees for tbe labors of to-dif j At night, the Grand Commandeiy and enteii I nato Commanderies repaired to Ayer's Hall, whea I a magnificent banquet had been prepared, in Si j Chas. Freeman’s best style, and to which the fot I nate reporters for the city press were kindly us J cordially invited, by those two most worthy F Knighte, J. V. Grier and Thoe. Hardeman, Jr., the part of St. Omer Commandery, No. 2. Iti a feast ip every way commcneurate with the t liant and grand display that had been mad® dniitjl the forenoon, and jnst such a one as should his| concluded the exercisee of tho day. During the evening numerous toasts were J»1 posed, and we heard several very happy respoaHJ before we left the hall—among others, those oftkj Bt. Fm’t' Grand Commander, Sir Tomas W. Cbs-I dler; Very Ein’t Sir Geo. S. Obear; Sir Euight&I Blacheheax, and others. J The Grand Commandery asembles again 2*1 morning in the Asylum of St. Omer for private t*l iness and the election of officers, whose name* *1 shall probably be able to furnish in to-morrc , '| Is the Georgia Democraov a myth?—New iax^oV-aSi - If you can possess your noble soul in patience until the next election, yon will have the ques tion answered in ia way that will make short work of the Badical party, and your profits. The New Era will be much nearer “a myth” then, than anything else we can thjnk of, just now. A Western coroner’s jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death from ex- poaure. “What do you mean by that 1” asked a relative of the dead man, “there are two bul let holea in his skull” “Just so,” replied the ooroaer, “he died from exposure to bullets.” A Mississippi paper says the legislators of that State are making a good thing of it. Be sides drawing eight dollars a day, one follows the tonsorial profession, while another, more intellectually gifted, plays the fiddle for dancing parties. Ill the case of a negro who sued a confection er to New Orleans, last week, for $5000 dam ages for not entertaining him as if he were a white man, the jnry failed to agree and were discharged. They stood six to six—five negroes and one white man for the plaintiff, and six white men for the defendant Struck by U^litninp. The residence of Charles T. Ward, OrdiMiJ ^J this county, in Vineville, was struck by iigti yesterday evening, during .the thunderstorm, > fortunately only the bnilding and furniture ’*1 seriously injured. The house was well P rc:ec ^| by conductors, except a rear portion of it, was only one story high, and used msiuij IM I ing room. Here the lightning rod had been d*®" I nected. The chimney of this part of the was shattered down to the centre, aud the roofing was knocked to pieces and down into tho room in a great mass of debris, I the furniture and dining table all arrayed bel“ was a perfect wreck. Happily no or.e vt« “ room. Mrs. Ward bad just left it, and was two inside the next apartment, while a wr “ jl the opposite door had her hand upon the s* 1 the act of entering. Both were eevcid? et I with electricity and startled at the and both describe everything around them I bright blaze. Tbis, however, was tho eitea | injury done. _ W* suspect Hatcher, of the CourisrJ oia, | of throwing the following hard “bricks- I The white people of Mississippi kave reason to hate and despise the adve:atai^ 1 but even among the most cruel and^ v ‘ of them, there is not one who wotnd p —I iDgly spare him the calamity of ksviug Butler for a father-in-law. To Charles Sumner the dearest thing ^ ^.1 is the negro. He ought to have ro,arn “^1 gro. His wife, they say, is very sorry I Several of the Radical editors of phia are as bitterly opposed to the co ^s of the whipping-post in Delaware were going toUve in that State themself Tee New York Tribune expresses the 0^ j that a month hence a majority of the o-^ Representatives of Congress will b® f<* u sat amnesty. It says that the rnsjof 1 '? J It has been reduoed in three wont twenty to two. — . Over 100,000 bottles of Dr. Tutt’s S&rs^ j Queens Delight was sold last yew- be sure to read the advertisemec-, Work 0/ the Age," in this paper. *3“ STUDY YOUB INTERESTS »n J ■ vertisement “Greatest Work of the ^ S P*P® r - r . ^ Watchxs and jewelry repaired- 4 styles elegantly executed at L-’ R- " nd street. T r fl. tfifte Speciality in solid silver-ware at Second street.
