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Telegraph and Messenger.
IflcOK. SEPTEMBEB C,
“Cot W. J. l»ww» *«*• Congr««*.
My attention has been called to a oommnni-
cation signed “Putnam County,” suggesting
CoL W J. Lawton, of Bibb, as a suitable per
son to represent the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict of Georgia, in the Congress of the United
States. The movement is a right one in the
right direction. He is the man. His eUgibili-
ty is unquestioned, the disabilities under which
he labored, having been removed by an act of
Congress, without his solicitation. We want in
these times no professional politician; but a
representative man, freshfromthepeople. While
he seeks no position In politics, he certainly
could not refuse thenseof his name and his
services, if they were demanded by the people.
He possesses ripened experience attained In
legislative halls. Is identified largely with the
planting and mercantile interests of the coun
try, having pursued the avocation of an agri
culturist, successfully for the past thirty years.
Gifted as he is with a fine mind, highly culti
vated, with indomitable will and energy, with
a knowledge of mankind unsurpassed, and with
that good common sense so characteristic of the
man, he would make a most acceptable repre
sentative. Should Col. Welbume Joseph Law-
ton be placed in nomination by the district con
vention, and elected by the people, he would
illustrate upon the floors of Congress, that Ugh
toned, honorable bearing and capable efficiency
that was the pride of Georgia before the “late
unpleasantness."
What say8 Bibb ? let her speak. A residence
of more than thirty years among her people,
enables mo to say that he is the choice of
Monboe.
Change In the Military Situation.
Evidently a change has taken place in the
French military situation. The Crown Prince
stops his onward march on Paris and hastens
back with his choicest troops to the Belgian
frontier, to encounter McMahon, who has evi
dently achieved some successes over the Prus
sian forces left to hold him in check. The
Crown Prince’s army has been moved with such
haste and precipitation that it has been to a
considerable extent, disabled. Many of the men
had to he transported in wagons and others left
on the road. This indicates the pressure of an
emergency, and we shall probably get to-night
in our late dispatches some decisive news, as a
great battle was pending, and indeed partial en
gagements are reported, in which the French
were successful. The situation is evidently crit
ical, in the estimation of the Prussians. Should
they meet with a general disaster, so far in their
rear, the whole aspect of the war will be sud
denly changed, and it will be sauce quipeut
with the whole invading army. Well, such
things have happened, and though we wish the
Prussians no harm personally, it is dear to our
mind, that it is better for the world that they
Bhonld leave France by the shortest road. We
will suspend further discourse to add a post
script when the latest dispatches are received.
At this writing—10 v. m.—we have no con
firmation of the change for the better in the
situation of McMahon’s army referred to above.
Indeed, a dispatch from Buzanoy, a French
town 25 miles Southeast of Mezieres, reports a
disastrous defeat of the French, which lacks,
in our judgment, all the elements of credibil
ity, however, and we place very little reliance
upon u. The same old fog seems as thick as
ever, and until it lifts, we are no wiser than we
were a week ago.
Pntnam County Fair.
The Third Annual Fair of Putnam county
takes place in Eatonton, October 12th, 13th and
14th. Very ample arrangements have been
made for an interesting and instinctive exhibi
tion. The two proceeding Fairs were attended
with marked snooess, but this is the first one
held under the auspices of a joint Stock Com
pany with ample capital, and for which long
and systematic preparation has been made.
We hope Macon, and indeed, all the Agricultur
al and Manufacturing resources of Middle Geor
gia, will be well represented at this Fair. Mer
chants, Mechanics, Manufacturers, Planters,
Gardeners and Fruit-growers should all seek a
representation at this exhibition. As for the
attendance—that is bound to be large, for the
Putnam county people are models in the way
of graceful and elegant hospitality, and the
Putnam county womenare as attractive as mag
net.
Alaska.—Where on this globe can we go be
yond the omnipresent Yankee? Landing at
Sitka, we had walked but a short distance into
the town when we reached the northern depot
of Dr. Ayer’s medicines in fall display among
the huts, shanties and courts of these boreal
tribes. There the familiar, homelike names of
his Cherry Pectoral, Pills, etc., salute ns from
the exterior and interior of a store which shows
more business than its neighbors, and proves
that these simple but sure remedies are even
more necessary to savage life than to ourselves
where they visit every fireside.—Corresponden-
dent Alexandria Journal.
the City of Macsn
In our last number Macon closed up her cot
ton business for the year, and showed receipts
amounting to 80,129 bales—shipments 77,785
bales, not including stock on hand 1st of last
September—certainly a large business for an in
terior point, to which cotton comes merely for
transfer and sale, and^nott&r shipment. But
the central position of Macon_and her advan
tages as one of the most important railroad osa-
tres of the South from whieh six long railways
radiate In all directions,'_fairlyr:entitle her not
only to this, bnt even to a much larger traffic.
We in a abort time she is destined to be
come the most important interior ootton mark
et in the country; and here will naturally cen
tre a strong competition between buyers and
shippers—for here, under normal and healthy
conditions of trade, should be presented the
choice between numerous great routes to the sea
board—the North and Europe; while a fair
and proper competition among carriers for re
turn freights, Bhonld make this place one of the
grandest and most active points for the distri
bution of goods known in the Southern coun
try.
These natural results may be temporarily
frustrated and delayed by combinations which
the business men of the city may succumb to,
under the idea that they are powerless against
them; bnt in the nature of things such con
flicts against the principles and laws of trade
must be temporary.
Under existing circumstanoes, Macon is ma-*
king a fair and healthy, thoughnot a rapid pro
gress. We please ourselves with the idea that
in no town in the South, or anywhere else, is
trade generally more healthy or uniformly sue'
cessfuL Our business firms all show indioa
tions of increasing strength and prosperity, and
they are among the most liberal men in the
State. No newspaper in Georgia, (we may say
it not in vanity, but in the way of a deserved
tribute to the enterprise and liberality of the
Macon merchants), carries on its face such evi
dence of an active trade asdoes the Macon Tel
egraph Amo Messenger, to-day. Between ten
and eleven years ago, when the first number of
the Macon Daily Telegraph was issued, the con
ception of the uses of advertising in business
was small; and we can well remember the as
tonishment of some of our original daily adver
tisers, at the comparative rapidity and impetus
it imparted to their operations.
From that time to the present advertising has
held a high and increasing practical valne among
the Macon business men, and they do far more
of it in this paper and elsewhere, to their num
ber, than any other town in Georgia. Every
stranger who takes up this paper is struck at
once with the picture of busy and adventurous
traffic it presents, and this point is a subject of
frequent remark among our correspondents
abroad.
On the other hand, we believe the activity of
onr advertising department adds an increased
value to the paper, and makes it an instrument,
not only of vast service to the town, bnt also of
convenience to the people. We believe onr
various editions are read by sixty to a hundred
thousand people, and we know that these adver
tisements attract orders in many cases from re
gions surprisingly distant—Texas, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Mississippi, and even in the Western
States—for there is scarcely a State of the
Union in which we do not have subscribers and
readers. Bnt our home circulation through all
the region trading more naturally with Macon
is all-pevrading; and among these there is no
want for which this paper does not advertise a
supply, and generally the prioe of it, so that the
trade of Macon in orders through the mail is a
vast and growing business.
The complaint is common that Macon lacks
enterprise—and perhaps she does lack enter
prise outside of her legitimate trade. It is a
population not given to fnss. It is hard to get
a man away from his badness—to divert his
capital, time and energy in other channels.
This is trae. Bnt no one can look at onr ware
houses and shops without seeing that, in the
way of attending to business at home, Maoon
lacks nothing, whatever may be said of her in
the way of looking after business abroad. Prob
ably we need a little stirring up—a considera
ble enlargement of onr views—more public
spirit—more out door energy—more concentra
tion of thought and purpose as a oommnnity—
more local pride. In these matters, let ns im
prove, and set in on a new trade year with in
creased spirit and energy.
Eiohtx-Fxvx Millions.—The Agency, on
Tuesday, added only 25,000,000 dollars to the
public liabilities, which made the work of two
days foot up eighty-five million dollars. Good!
Assets in the Treasury foot up 0, which will be
found in the bottom of an old pair of saddle
bags with the buckles gone and straps broken.
Besides this, in the left hand corner of the vault
there are a few empty ink bottles kept to make
• jingle. We understand the enterprising firm
of J. H. Zeilin & Go. have contracted for these
forthcoming bonds at one cent in the thousand
dollars, and will use them to print advertise
ments upon of Simmons’ Liver Begnlator.
The eminent North Carolina Republican,
some time sinoe published by a New York firm
as owing for a gold watch ordered by him in the
name of the last Legislature for presentation to
the Speaker of the House—Governor Holden’s
abn, by the by—is out in a card to the firm, say
ing:
Your statement is false, and you know it
Yon lie, and I can prove it. I ordered a watch
of yon in my own name. It was not ordered
for any one. Three gentlemen were to have
paid for it besides myself. One of them only
paid bis share, and it was immediately for
warded to yon, and I have your receipt I am
responsible for the balance, and will pay it
I shall, however, first pay that sum in publish
ing you as liara and dirty Jews, that yon are,
whose hooked noses I will pull when I meet
yon.
.The eminent Republican here Bays that the
"watch which “was not ordered for any one”
Was ordered for three persons, only one of whom,
and that one not himBelf, has paid anything up
on it. Evidently the firm are right and the em
inent North Carolina Republican wrong, since
aU the material facta as by them charged are
by him admitted, to-wit, that he ordered a
watch of them and has not paid tor it. Per
haps he thought he was Grant, and imagined
it a gift— World.
We learn from the Selma Times, that on
Faraday night last, the splendid and valuable
flouring min belonging to Maj. Walker Rey
nolds, situated on Talladega Creek, about ten
miles below the town of Talladega, Ala., was
completely destroyed by fire. Seven hundred
bushels of wheat, besides a large quantity of
ether grain and flour, waa also burned. The
— is estimated at #40,000.
How Mach Corn to Plant.
One of onr correspondents, two or three num
bers back, took us to task as bolding and main
taining the doctrine that planters should equal
ize their areas in com and cotton. The writer
feels certain he has never undertaken to say
what proportion of land any planter Bhonld pat
in corn. Bat he oaght, in oar judgment, to
raise com and food supplies to cany on his
farming operations upon his own plan, whatever
that plan may be. Almost everybody will agree
to this proposition, so long as ootton ranges
from fifteen to twenty cents; bnt perhaps com
paratively few will assent to this farther propo
sition: That a good fanner ought to sustain
and enrich bis lands as well as its tenants,
upon its own products mainly. We do not
mean to say that a planter should neither buy
nor use commercial fertilizers; bnt we do mean
to say that independently of these, his lands
ought to be increasing in fertility and productive
ness from their own resources, from year to
year.
In order to accomplish such a result as this
a diversified agriculture is needed. The plan
ter must raise stock as well as crops. His bam
and stock yards must be well filled and he must
produce roots, grain and forage, and draw from
these by means of his stock, large supplies of
fertilizing material. Green crops, too, of grain
and peas, applied to his fallow lands, will soon
bring them up to far beyond their original fer
tility.
In this light, com and grain growing in our
estimation, is not more a question of mere es
cape from the beggary of subsisting on foreign
food, which we are satisfied will bankrupt Geor
gia, than part of* a healthy system of agricul
ture which will make the soil richer the longer
“it is tilled, instead of leaving it, in the lapse of
years, a great barren, gullied and nnsigbtly
waste.
The purchase and use of commercial fertilizers
in the ordinary way, will never permanently en
rich the soil. They will stimulate a crop So long
as It feels their effects; but even this stimulus, in
many cases, we suspect, is not felt to much ad
vantage during the whole of even one season.
The lateral roots of the cotton Boon extend be
yond the infiaenoe of the little sprinkling of
phosphate or guano in the furrow, and are then
remitted to the resources of the soil alone. Un*
der these cirenmstanoes the growth which was
at first so rapid, is checked, and perhaps the
Buffering from the poverty of the noil is aggra-.
yated by the comparative laxary of the earlier
sustenance. We shall not be surprised if the
common idea that the use of fertilizers pro
duces nut has its foundation just here. Rost,
like moat other dtseaees, ie thought to be the
result of poverty—a want of healthy susten
ance to keep up the vigor of the plant.
But this is digression. What we mean to say
is, that com end grain growing in Georgia
ought to be part of a sound system of planting,
in which the effort should be not only to feed
the stock and laborers employed in growing cot
ton, but to feed the lands also, and
and increase their productive resources from
year to year.
The Georgia Press.
The Savannah News says a man named Wall,
killed his brother-in-law, whose name was Wal
dron, at Graham lille, Sooth Carolina, a few
days ago. Wall went Into a field where Wal
dron waff plowing, and without saying a word,
shot him dead and walked off.
The News tells of a negro man in that city who
is in the habit, every day,_of carrying a load of
thirty whole brick at a time, on his head, up a
ladder to the-top of a third story building.
The population of Savaxmah .is reported by
the census takers to be 28,245. The News
thinks it may be safely set down at 30,000.
The Rome Courier has the following notice
of a planter reoently patented by .CoL Penning
ton, of that place:
This is a machine for planting either com or
cotton, and combines {be labor of at least ten
hands and teams. By it the rows are marked
off—the guano distributed, the bed broken up
and thrown together, the drill opened, the seed
sown and covered—all at one and the same
time. This machine is simple, and easily kept
in order, can be drawn by two mules and hand
led by one man. Bnt aside from this, its great
labor-saving advantages—its great recommen
dation consists in the perfect manner of its
work—giving to the seed just sown the advant
age of a loose, fresh bed, and the drill so pre
cise and regular as to dispense with the first
work of chopping ont cotton.'
The Columbus Enquirer says that in a popu
lation of 3,000 on the western bank of the Chat
tahoochee, near that city, there are not more
than a dozen copies of the Columbus papers
taken.
By a runaway scrape in Columbus, Tuesday,
O. A. Redd & Co. lost a dray and a very fine
horse, worth together $500.
Gentlemen just returned from the Bnena
Vista camp-meeting report eom crops on the
route and in that vicinity as remarkably fine—
better than for many years.
The Chronicle and Sentinel does not agree
with Bullock in his estimate of the Georgia Ju
diciary. Bollock, in a late message, having de
clared that “the present Judiciary of the State
is eqoal, if not superior in ability, integrity and
moral worth to anything that has served in the
past,” the Chroniole remarks:
We venture the assertion that never, in the
history of the State, have we been cursed with
snoh an ignorant, incompetent, and, in many in
stances, corrupt Judiciary as that foisted upon
ns by the oorrupt Executive head of the State.
Out of the sixteen Judges of the Superior
Courts, there are but four or five who can, by
any honest classification, be possibly ranked
higher than third or fourth rate lawyers. With
the above exceptions, none of them were regar
ded by the members of the bar of the State as
capable of grasping or elucidating the nioe le
gal points involved in nearly all the litigated
cases which occur in the general practioe of the
profession. Sinoe their elevation to the bench,
the number of their orade, bungling and faulty
decisions have confirmed the opinions previous
ly entertained of their legal capaoity and abili
ty.
At a reoent term of the Supreme Court, one of
these abje judges of Bullock had six cases from
his circuit reviewed by the Court, and every one
save a single ease tried by consent by a lawyer
selected by the parties was reversed. From the
circuit of another of Bullock’s “able judges' 1
twenty-three eases were reviewed and twenty-
two were reversed—the only case in which the
judgment of the Superior Gout was affirmed,
being one in which oounsel had agreed upon a
lawyer to act as judge. From another circuit
six cases were taken up and all of them reversed.
So much for the '‘ability” of Bullock’s ap
pointees.
The editor of the Athens Watchman reports
crops in Jackson county better than they have
been known in years.
There Is much sickness In the county and
many deaths from “bloody flux.”
A negro doctor named Tucker, from Iowa,
is prospecting in Atlanta with a view of settling
there.
We clip the following items from the Consti
tution :
Three young ladies, clad in sable, visited the
galleries of the Senate and the House, yester
day morning, and attracted considerable atten
tion from their great beauty. They are said to
be from Maoon or Forsyth. Certain bachelor
Senators were very anxious to find ont who
they were.
Wz hear of • charge made by a lawyer in •
neighboring county against the estate of a de
ceased man of $500 for drawing np the wilL
The widow jastly refused to pay the exorbitant
charge, when the lawyer, it is reported, institu
ted suit for $1,000.
A Revival has been progressing at Payne’s
Chapel for several weeks past with most gratify
ing results. Over one hundred have been added
to the church, while many others have profess
ed conversion, and united with other churches.
The meeting increases in interest as it pro
gresses.
The policy of the Blodgett Greasers and Bol
lock Rebels is now to threaten to veto railroad
bills, unless Democrats vote for the gold bond
fraud and the new prolongation iniquity. Save
the State though all the railroad schemes should
fail.
The Atlanta Constitution says of the reports
of Messrs. Lester & Weil, Commissioners of do
mestic and foreign immigration just published ’•
They state that they have done much work,
but can report no results. Many immigrants
have oome to Georgia, bnt they cannot say
whether it was due to their labors, as no provi
rion for inquiring into the matter was made.
They have circulated much valuable informa
tion abont Georgia. Colonel Weil spent over a
year in Europe working assiduously to induce
immigration to this country. He traveled
much, invoked the power of the proas, issued
circulars and letters. He found groat miscon
ception of Southern character and life. He also
found the country full of agents from other
countries, offering free homes and free trans
portation to settlers. He could not compete
with agents offering suoh terms as these. Every
species of warfare was resorted to by these com
peting agents to kill rivalry. The absurdeet
misrepresentations and slanders were used.
Colonel Well was gone fourteen montns and
a day, received $3,000 salary, spent $1,520 for
printing, and his expenses exceeded his salary.
Colonel Lester received $2,598 64 salary, spent
A Model Family Man
The Courier-Journal prints thej^tition of
Tabitha Bowen, born Tabitha Ejrfk, who was
married ioC. C. Bowen, in January, 1860, in
Wakulla county, Florida, aria who now seeks a
divorce from u«t choeejr'ressel of South Caro
lina Radicalism. ShC'charges that Bowen has
abandoned her without cause and refuses to sup
port her, spending all his ioil cash meanwhile
upon a mistress with whom, Mrs. B. alleges, he
has Been living in “the most extravagant and
luxurious style.” The Courier-Journal states,
farther, that Bowen has recently married again
in the city of Augusta.
We hope Mrs. B. may get a divorce. This
chap, Bowen, .is oneef the most infamous of all
the gang of Southern scalawags. He was con
victed of having murdered Ids superior officer
while serving in the Confederate army, and
was only saved from the gallows by the advent
of Federal troops into Charleston, and now he
turns np as a first-class bigamist and shameless
lecher. The Charleston negroes sent him to
represent them in Congress two years ago on
the strength of the murder above referred to,
and his -Incontestable superiority over all his
competitors in active and unadulterated rascal
ity, and now he is seeking a re-election at their
frauds. Some of them have become disgusted
with his tricks, and are running a negro named
De Large against him; but we guess Bowen, be
ing able to give De Large three in the game
and beat him at all manner of miscellaneous
deviltry, will run throagh. If Bowen can have
his wife’s petition and charges, and the fact
that he is a full fledged bigamist circulated
among his constituents, we will back him to beat
any other knave' in the district. The Cuffs
and Pomps who rule the roost over in that sec
tion of New Africa delight, above all things, to
honor a white man who has shown himself more
degraded than the meanest and most degraded
member of their own race. Between a white
scamp and a black one, the choice of the intel
ligent, upright and refined American citizens of
Afrioan descent seems naturally to gravitate to
wards, and centre upon, the former. Theyfeel
sore that the blaok scamp, try as bard as he
may, can never reach the deep the white one
easily sounds. Onr experience since the war
leads to the conclusion that they are not mis
taken.
ADDRESS OF HON. WASHINGTON POE.
The War Situation.
The dispatches tell a doleful story for France
today. McMahon, heavily reinforced, and with
probably an army of two hundred thousand
men, was marching to the relief of Metz and
Bazaine. He crossed the Meoso without serious
opposition, and had reached Beaumont, a little
town two miles south of Clermont in the De
partment of Fay-de-Dome, and perhaps not
more than ten to fifteen miles distant from
Metz, when he encountered the grand combined
movement of the Prussians, in immense forces,
embracing certainly the armies of the Crown
Prince, Prince Frederick Charles and Crown
Prince of Saxony, numbering probably, in all,
at least three hundred thousand men.
After a series of desperate battles, running
through Tuesday and Wednesday, McMahon was
forced back to Sedan and a part of his army over
into Belgian territory—a distance, in all, say, of
hardly less than 25 or 3o miles. Both bel
ligerents suffered immense slaughter, and one
Frostian army is reported to have captured ten
thousand Frenoh prisoners. This is probably
the most terrible battle of modem times, and we
shall not be surprized to learn that the killed,
wounded and missing, on all sides, foot up in
the neighborhood of a hundred thousand men.
It is, we fear, an irrecoverable blow to Mc
Mahon. The destruction of so large a part of
his army, with the less of his stores, camp
equipage, etc., at suck a distance from his base
of supplies, in connection with the increased
difficulties he must experience in keeping his
communications with Paris open, is a terrible
blow, which may very possibly eventuate in the
capitulation of that meritorious offioer, as well
as of Bazaine, whom he vainly attempted to
relieve. It seems quite possible that the Prus
sians will now endeavor to make an end of these
armies in their rear, before they again push
their advance, in all earnestness, on Paris.
A Hew Telegraphic System.
The New York Herald publishes a communi
cation from Mr. D. H. Craig, formerly general
agent of the New York Associated Press, re
porting the progress made within the last six or
eight months in the development of the “Lit
tle system of fast telegraphy.” He states that
the line between New York and Washington
“ has been completed and is now in perfect or
der, bnt has not yet been opened to the public.”
From teats reoently made, he says, it is ascer
tained that 24,000 words per hour can be trans
mitted over a single wire from Washington to
New York, which is equal to the average work
ing of more lthan thirty-six wires by the Morse
system of telegraphy. Mr. Craig adds:
The Western Union Company transmits dai
ly to and from New York to the whole of the
Associated Press abont an average of fifteen
thousand words—say, seven thousand West, five
thousand East, and three thousand Sonth—and
receives for this services about $800,000, or,
say three cents per word. With our new sys
tem of automatic telegraphy in successful oper
ation, the press of the whole country will be
able to receive daily reports, regardless of the
number of words, at less than half the present
expense for short and unsatisfactory news re
ports, and in less than onofouth the time now
employed by the Morse lines. A superior class
of oompound telegraph lines will be immediate
ly constructed to all parts of the country, and
a complete revolution in telegraphy and the
postal Dual maw ot the conn try must inevitably
follow. .
What Yoh Moltxe Told Gen. McClellan,
Delivered on the Occasion of Laying
the Corner Stone of the Bibb Conn*
ty Court House, September 1,1S70.
Macon, Ga., September 1, 1870.
Hon. Washington Poe:
Dear Sib : I am requested .by the Commis
sioners of Bibboounty to return yon their thanks
for the appropriate and chaste address delivered
by yon to-day, at the Cornerstone Celebration,
and request that you will furnish a copy for
publication^
Very respectfully, yours, etc.,
J. M. Boabdman,
Chairman Board of Commissioners.
Maoon, September 1, 1870.
Jas. M. Boardman, Esq., Chairman Board of
• Commissioners:
Dear Sib: Your polite note, of this date, re
questing a copy of my address on the occasion
of laying the Comer Stone of the new Court
house, is at hand, and I send a copy as you de
sire.
With my thanks for yours and yonr fellow-
Commissioners’ approval,
I am, very truly, yours,
Washington Poe.
$500 forprtating,aud his expenses have Been _ The Army Navy Journal says:
n6 ~ T ? salary. _ _ - Two years ago a distinguished American sol
dier, [Gen. McClellan?] called upon Gen. Von
Colonel Lester has resigned as Domestic Com
missioner.
The Dawson Journal says all is quiet on
Kinchafooriee creek, the scene of the .late negro
riot. Nearly all the negroes, including their
leader, were from Lee county.
The revival meetings in Dawson closed Sun-
day with thirty additions* to the Methodist, and
thirty to the Baptist Church.
Colton bolls in Terrell county are opening
prematurely. The prospect is that the first of
October will find three-fourths of the cotton
open.
The Jotirnal says:
Killed—We learn that a Mr. Belcher in the
employ of Mr. Duncan, of Calhoun county, had
a difficulty with one of the negroes on the plan
tation which resulted in his, B’s., death. The
weapon used was s plow home. Particulars not
known.
We also learn that two negroes employed at
the steam saw mil of Mr. Wm. Thompson, had
a quarrel over some trivial matter, when one
tapped the other on the aide of the head with a
hand stick, fracturing the skull, which produced
death in a few hoars.
The white Radical leaders in Alabama having
instructed the negroes to bring their guns and
ammunition with them to public meetings, the
Livingstone Journal gets out of patience, and
lets out as follows:
For throe or four years our people have been
subjected to oonstent harrassment and peril
through the action of a few devilish spirits
who have no regard for the interests and lives of
whites or blacks, as long as they can advance
their own ends. Forberanoe has been met by
renewed aggravations, and been tor
oowardioe. Patience ha* been exhausted. The
time has oome for determining whether peaoe,
order, and security shall reign, or the commu
nity be left at the mercy or incendiaries and
their ignorant bnt obedient dupes.
Keep oool, Mr. Journal. The day of snoh
incendiarism draweth to s close.
The mercury in Montgomery last Friday In
dicated 95, and the town was pronouneed warm.
Moltke at tbs War Office in Berlin, where he
found the groat Prussian strategist poring over
his maps of the Rhine frontier. “If yon will
permit me, General Von Moltke,” said our
friend, “I should like to ask an impertinent ques
tion, which yon must answer or not as yon
think best.” “Certainly,” replied the General;
“ask it” Laying his hand apon the open map
with asignificant gesture, he inquired, “Are yon
ready?” “Yes,”was the answer; “only we
cannot in ease of a war with France hope for
such good fortune as attended ns in the cam
paign against Austria. The great difficulty is
that our King cannot bo persuaded to declare
war, and thus give ns the benefit of the initia
tive.”
Nothing Mobe to Steal.—We quote the fol,
lowing from a late issue of the Charleston or
gan of the South Carolina Radical raiders, in
general, and the freebooters of the Scott
“ Ring,” in particular:
The fact, too, that office cannot, in the fu
ture, be so profitable in this State as it has been
for the two years just past, ought to diminish
the fierce greed for place. Nothing but a new
civil war will ever put the State again in a po
sition to afford such opportunities, (to steal ?—
Eds. TeL and Mess.) No such Legislature will
ever be again oorivened in Sonth Carolina &b the
reoent General Assembly.
This carpet-bagger, in his anxiety to choke
off the negroes, who are all in hot pursuit of
offioes in South Carolina, lets the oat out of the
bag. His crowd having developed nearly all
the resources of that State, don’t like the idea
of the darkies stepping in to get even the
crumbs. We hardly think the darkies will
choke off worth a cent They are going to
have their innings, anyhow. There is some
comfort in the thought that they will Gntnh the
job, and thus force the oaipet-baggers to emi
grate or go to nock.
The occasion upon which we have assembled
to-day, Fellow-Citizens, is one of general inter
est, including all classes and conditions of so
ciety.
When we contemplate the magnificent struc
ture about to be erected on these imposing foun
dations, we are induced, instinctively to ask, if
it is not intended for the habitation of some
citizen more highly favored by fortune than
others, and are notits spacious and commodious
halls to be the abode of bis privileged family
and in which music and painting shall vie with
each otLor for the mastery, and where pleasure
and felioity shall reign supreme; and in which
the feet of the dancers shall move harmonious
ly with the viol and the harp ?
We answer no! but we have been called to
gether to witness the imposing ceremony of
laying the Comer-Stone of a Temple of Justice,
a house dedicated to the cause of virtue, reason
and truth, in which the laws of the land are to
be administered, onr rights secured and onr
wroDgs redressed.
It is true that tins material stractnre with &U
its completeness and skillful arrangements
is not entitled to the consideration we this day
manifest; and were it not for the purpose to
which this building is to be devoted, our cere
monies wonld savour more of heathen idolatry
than an intelligent Christian observance. But
when we consider that it is to be dedicated to the
noble and sacred cause of dispensing justice to
all classes and conditions of men; to the rich
and poor, the learned and ignorant, the high
and low, and that by men sworn to “administer
justice without respect to persons, and do equal
rights to the poor and the rich," we are in
duced to confer on the very building itself an
importance and dignity surpassing that of any
other structure not dedicated to the worship of
Jehovah.
The Areopagus of Greece, held its session in
the open air, on Mar’s hill, at Athens, in pres
ence of the assembled citizens. The Romans
administered justice in the Foram, in the pres
ence of the whole people, and also under the
open canopy of heaven. But we, more civil
ized, erect suitable houses in which to adminis
ter the law, bnt whose doors are ever open to
all classes of citizens; on the principle that it
is fit and proper that the people should be ac
quainted not only with the results, but also with
tiie manner in which their laws are administer
ed. In this view of the subject, the occasion
which has called us together, is one of no ordi
nary character, and calculated to excite onr
highest and onr profoundest respect The bus
iness that lies before ns, is nothing less than to
dedicate this building, now in a course of erec
tion, to the noble and sublime purpose of the
administration of the law.
We are all, ashnman, intelligent, accountable
beings, amenable to law. The great Creator
himself, on account of the perfection of his
nature, can do no wrong, and, consequently,
cannot violate any law of right Bnt man, by
reason of the trangrossion, has corrupted his
nature, and Ms understanding is foil of ignor
ance and error; and our merciful Creator, in
aid of this imperfection, has been pleased to
reveal his Divine Law. Bnt this is not the law
with wMch we are concerned to-day, and which
is intended to be administered in this House;
bnt law enacted by human legislators intended
to regulate onr eonduot as citizens, by command
ing what is right and proMbiting what is wrong.
With what a personal interest, therefore, do
these ceremonies commend themselves to us
all; for it is hero, in this edifice, that onr lives,
onr liberty, onr characters and property, if
assailed, are to be vindioated and upheld, and
our wrongs redressed. It is here that fraud is
to be traced through all its sinuous windings
and the perpetrator exposed to the condemning
and withering gaze of Justice. It is here that
the lonely, poor, despised and slandered female
may oome, in poverty and in rags, and obtain
the vindication of herebaraoter and the con
dign punishment of her defamer. It is here
that the widow and the orphan may seek and
obtain redress from the avaricious and dishonest
representative of their buried husband and
father. And it is here that the person falsely
and maliciously accused of crime, by a oorrupt
and designing proseoutor, may, however humble
and despised, without fee or reward, have his
character vindicated and Ms false accuser pun
ished.
And may it not be permitted, in tins connec
tion, to refer to those who minister in the Tem
ple of Justice ? The character of the lawyer is
often the subject of the jest of the hnmorist’s
and the satirist’s censure; and it is to be re
gretted that the eonduot of so many has given
authority for suoh indulgence. But when we
survey the long line of worthies, members of
tins noble and honorable profession, who have
reflected lustre on the human character; who
have distinguished themselves, and made their
names immortal by acts of patriotism and de
votion to onr oountry in the hour of her great
est need; who have given their time and their
talents to the advancement of the cause of phi
lanthropy and benevolence, and their substance
to plans of beneficence and charity—in short,
who have taken the lead in Ml enterprises col
lated to elevate their country in the scale of na
tions, to advance the progress of civilization,
and widen the oirole of refinement and culture
in every community—-to be a worthy member
of this honorable profession, becomes a source
of as unalloyed gratulation as waa felt .by the
ancient inhabitant of Rome, when he exulting*
ly proclaimed, “Tam a Homan citizen!"
My friends of the legal profession, allow me
to exhort yon to renewed efforts in answering
the demands made upon you by the exigenoy of
the circumstances with which we are surround
ed. The times are emphatically out of joint,
and although the tocsin of war has oeased to be
sounded, yet our country is filled with alarms,
and disorder and confusion ran riot through the
land. Fraud and corruption are found in our
high places, and virtue and integrity are heard
to proclaim,
“ When vice prevails and impious men bear sway,
The post of honor is a private station.”
If ever there was a period in the Mstory of
our country when the most urgent appeal for
a firm and faithful administration of the law,
thatpaladium of liberty, was required, this is
that time. I implore you, therefore, as mem
bers of the legal profession, to discharge yonr
whole duty; be faithful to those sacred prinoi-
oles which constitute the foundation of the law.
.bet no considerations of personal advantage
divert you from your duty; let your motto be,
“Fiatjusticia, ruat codum." Be careful to sus
tain and uphold Mm who has been appointed to
preride over our courts in the faithful and in
telligent administration of the law. Our noble
household should not be divided, for our mis
sion is one and the same—the advancement of
justice and the overthrow of wrong.
And, fellow-citizens, we call upon you for
;ronr co-operation in this important enterprise,
for yon are directly concerned in the faithful
administration of the laws and obedience to its
requirements.
Our.politioal Bystem proceeds upon the ad
mission that man is oapable of self-government,
the troth of which depends apon the consent
of the citizen to obey the law. It is upon this
proposition that the success of our experiment
of free government depends; for unless the
laws are obeyed, anarobyand oonfuaion must
ensue, and our experiment of free government
prove a total failure. I invoke you, therefore,
to-day, in connection with these oeremo&ies,
deeply and serioudy to reflect upon the vital
importance of obedience to law. Conform to
its requirements, and our system of govern
ment will move on aa harmoniously and noise
lessly as the earth on its axis. Disobey and
violate the laws of the land, and oonfuaion and
disorder must prevail, society be disrupted, and
misrule and licentiousness abound.
And to that portion of oar people who have
reoently receiveS-the boon of freedom, I
would emphatically addras^nysdf, and urge
upon them the groat importance of this subject.
Yon have just emerged from a condition which
renders yon necessarily poor and ignorant,,
and consequently individually uninfluential.
Yonr entire dependence for support and pro*
taction is upon the faithful and impartial ad
ministration of the law. If that is secured,
your rights will be protected and your wrongs
redressed. Your relation to the law is very sim
ilar to that of orphan children, to whom it as
sumes the position of their deceased parents)
and this creates an unqualified obligation of re
spect and obedience, and a compliance with
which, like the cheerful performance of every
other duty, secures a corresponding reward.
Formerly yon were under the control of guar
dians, whose duty and interest prompted them
to guide you in the right way in order that you
might avoid physical and moral injury; but
now you are under your own . control, and de
pendent on yonr own unaided will. With what
emphasis, then, d-ies the exhortation to make
the law yonr guide addroesitaelf in view of your
condition ? It is your imperious duty, as it is
your Mghest interest, faithfully to obey the
law.
True freedom includes obedience to law.
There can be no lasting liberty without law.
Away with the erroneous idea that liberty con
sists in doing as yon please. Bnt on the con
trary let it be remembered that real, substantial
liberty rests upon a faithful observance of the
law. With this principle established as the rule
of your conduct, you will become useful and
happy citizens, adding strength and perma
nence to onr institutions; otherwise yon will
only be subjected to the vindicatory part of the
law, which entails punishment on its violators.
Let ns, then, one and all, in the act of laying
the corner-stone of this Temple of Justice, re
new onr obligations of fidelity to the laws of onr
country, and resolve to forego all private advan
tages for the pnblio good. Let these principles
be adopted by our whole people, and our gov
ernment will become the pride of nations, the
joy of the whole earth.
From Laurens County.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
The cotton crop in onr county I do not think
can possibly go beyond an average one, owing
to the ravages of the rust, which commenced
early in the month. Oar people have used
large quantities of fertilizers of almost every
brand, nearly all of which promised success,
until the rust came, patting a stop to the
growth of the cotton and banishing ail hope of
a large yield. I think, however, that the
fertilizers have paid the investment and all
trouble of hauling and patting oat, with a
small margin for profits. They have paid
much better on corn, 50 pounds to the acre
having increased the yield from 50 to 100 per
cent The com crop is now made and 1 think
with economy will, in most localities, be ample
for man and beast, and by riving a little at
tention to the growth of small grain there can
be no lack of bread with ns.
The pork crop will be exceedingly slim, as
there has been no effort made by the whites
only to raise for their own use, and the blacks
can’t writ for their pigs to grow to bogs, and
consequently the most of the “warehouse
liens” have to be footed up by them. Onr
labor is, I suppose, as reliable as that of any
’other section of the State.
The cotton is now opening rapidly and I
think will be gathered and sent to market
much earlier than usual.
Yours, etc., Rocky Cbekk.
Prussia Against the World.
The Berlin Gazettes give the world a touch
of Frussia on the 31st, on the subject of inter
vention. They tell the world substantially to
hold off from this quarrel, or Prussia is ready
for the whole of them. That no power on earth
shall stop Prussia in her “war of self preserva
tion!" That cat is destined to have the long
est tail ever yet seen in Europe.
The Tribune says they have been overhaul
ing the weather xeoords for the past ninety-two
years at Yale College, and it is inproof that the
past summer was the hottest in that period.—
From’July 10 to August15,1870, the mean dai
ly temperature was, at New Haven, 85 degrees;
and no season, at least since 1778, has shown
so many consecutive hot days. Our highest
temperature this summer was (July 17) noted at
98 degrees, and this has been exceeded enly
four' times during the period above indicated, at
New-Haven, the thermometer rising to 100 de
grees one day each year in 1784,1800 and 1845.
In 1869 it reached ML-
How the Emperor Received Gen. Ckangas-
nier.—The Paris journals give a theatrical ac
count of the reception which Gen. Changarnier
met with from the Emperor at Metz; how an
old man in shabby clothes presented himself at
headquarters, and was snubbed by ushers and
orderly officers, till at last the Emperor ordered
that General Changarnier should be at once ad
mitted to the presence; and how, after a two-
hours’ audience, the Emperor cried out, “Get
the General some dinner,” and even lent him a
clean shirt, of wMch he stood in orach need-
General Changarnier had never spoken to the
Emperor for nineteen years.
The knowledge of the French districts shown
by the staff of the German army is wonderful
Not only do they know where every village lies,
bnt they can tell at cnce the amount of stabling
to be found in it, whether there is a large church
or school-room in which men or horses can be
quartered. They are well informed as to the
accommodation to be got in France, and the
staff can say at once hew many horses can be
be stabled in every village from the frontier 1o
Paris. ‘
The Tribune's special correspondent at
Frankfor^on Thursday, writes that private intel
ligence confirms the statement in the semi-offi
cial Journal thatBismarck will insist on the res
titution by France of all the territory forcibly
abstracted from German,bnt that neither Alsace
nor Lorraine will be annexed to Prussia. The
large part will go to Baden and the rest to Bava
ria. Russia is already protesting.
A destructive fire ooourred at the town of
Monroe, La., last Thursday night. It com
menced in a ten-pin alley, opposite the Court-
house, and burned the entire block, except the
Telegraph printing office. The large old peccan
tree, wMch had been the pet of the town for
over sixty years, was destroyed by the fire. The
destruction of the old time tree is said to be the
great regret of the entire town.
The Neutbalot Proclamation. —A Wash
ington dispatch in the New York Sun complains
that the long Neutrality Proclamation issned on
the 22d, and signed by Fish and Grant, was
signed by neither, for Gen. Grant was at Long
Brandi, and Mr, Fish was at his country seat
on the Hudson. It makes no difference—seeing
they are understood to endorse it.
AgricuMaral Meeting ft* Jn*nt..; —
Oetten Seed uVood
Maoon, August 30th, is-n
Editors Telegraph and Messenger ■ v
pleasure In responding to the request . 9
Local, in Baturday’s>per, hTw *?
meeting of theBibb County
ety, held at Judge Wm. Lnnday’g plan
Feeling that one of yonr corps could have
a first rate artide by being present on th.*
c&sion, I shall hold yon chargeable for wh ^
omit for not haying a reporter there. *
To begin, it was a good meeting Qni».
number of the farmers from adjoining^S 1
boos, and a few from the lower edge
county, had already arrived whetTtwT**
and near Macon got there. Thev all
to the grove near the dwelling, when t , o 00rn( * 1
ing wal called to order.
members were admitted.
The subject for discussion was, “Cotton a ,
as Food for Stock." This subject was
by.Capt T. G. Holt. Jr. atameZsS^
During the discussion, Mr. S. L Gnatin
some very interesting, and, I may sav “iS?
ishing facts in regard to cotton seed-Jv ^
great value as food for cattle, hogs, ho rs I7. I
mnlso orv/4 fof - too x ?.« *S6S ^
mules, and that, too, from scientifio
menwho have praotically tested the
tMs artide of food for animals, so
prized in the North and West, and in
and yet used with such profligacy S|nd,
try, where it is grown and whTre iUs^
needed. In the West, where corn and mi?.*
plentiful and cheap, cotton seed cakeiad
ton seed meal are sought after ana rtust
their advantages as a fat-producing
food. OnefactreadbyMr.GustmffiL 0 !
impressed me as favorable to this cotton
S“Hnt.” or we 811 haTO °° ttonoii ^C;
Now if we can use the seed with such
results, what a revolution is before usm i
a doable source of income we may have, s
what an out go we may save! “A p ent i^ a
who fed eight quarts of com per dayt?i?
horses, per head, fed after some experia.?!
four quarts d oom with three pintsT/S
seed meal. The horses continued atthesZ*
work and not only maintained their good
tion but gained in flesh daily. Thus shS
that three pints of cotton seed meal were vouf
more as food for horses than eight ninu m
corn. * 01
Does any one doubt this—if so let them test
it It costs so little and is so easy, and vrhei
this becomes generally known, may we bo* ei
pect to see cotton seed mills spring np alt over
the cotton growing country—see better stock
on every plantation and save millions of money
now expended for com from the West! 1
Many interesting statements were madeinM.
gard to cotton seed for bullocks and milch com
and especially for hogs. Dr. Lee Holt « T .
Ms testimony wMch was backed up by the state
ment “and I think I have the btet hogs in ft,
neighborhood—and feed daily on cotton seed.”
He afterwards qualified Ms remarks by mbs
that one of his neighbors had a few hogs bettq
than Ms, bnt not so many of them, and thatkis
neighbor boiled or steamed Ms seed before
feeding. While he fed Ms own fermented is
mud-holes and ponds.
Another matter that gave interest to the meet
ing. Mr. E.OroCket,of Macon, carried one of ha
“horse powers” up with him, set it up and ex
plained its simplicity, usefulness and chete.
ness, both as regards power and price. Ho cot
ton was convenient for testing it to a gin, bit
it is being tested this day at Capt. S. 8. Dsn-
lap’s plantation east ride of the river a&dnec
the city. We hope to hear from it again.
The Society adjourned at about 2 o'clock to
meet the 4th Saturday in September, at Lob
Academy, 10 o’clock A. st, when a still lugs
meeting is expected. The subject for disensaoo
is, “do commercial fertilizers, properly applied, j
have a tendency to produce rust in cotton r \f»
expect to have some very interesting stttemecta
on this subject
I have often been asked, “what good do that
societies do ? how will I be benedtted by bo-
coming a member?” and many other questions
of like character. Let me answer formpeH
At the recent meeting alone I feel that I gained
information that doubly pays me for a year's
membership, if I learn nothing moreiaijou
to come. I heard from men and farmers ol io-
telligence, their practioal experience in regud
to ootton. seed as a food for animals. And vbilt
I have for years known that cotton seed vu
good food for cattle, and that they would kill
hogs fed raw and fatten them when thrown i■
bogs, I confess I felt myself much enlightened,
and to use the language of our benevolent lock
ing speaker, it was a “sort of lore feast,” when
all could freely tell their experience.
Just after the adjournment Jndge Lnsdq
and members of Ms family began to arm mar
bers off into another part of the house. Pretty
soon a majority of the party were stored roj
in this room, completely at the mercy of tte
Judge and Ms lady. On entering myself Iso- j
ticed about the first thing that every men vs
corned, and very soon the Judge begin lmb- |
ing the nearest man to him, while his lady,«
the other ride of' the room, ducked those ner
eat to her. Everybody submitted with graea,
and such a corning, lamb-ing and dsek-ing*
that party got no Maoonite has experience I
lo, these many days. Not a word of complrial I
was uttered except from Gostia, who cried I
“pi:e it on, Judge, I. believe in deep cultm I
But we -retreated from that room when anop f
portunity was offered, in good order, fel
stitches and buttons on our well-wom summ I
clothiog reminding us that we could not bw I
stood that treatment repeated. Talk tb*|
yonr wild dock,' fat lamb and mutton-c® I
they don’t compare with the county-tine «a I
Iamb and duck 'we had last Saturday, is l
bumble writer feels paid, thrioe paid, fa® I
attendance at this agricultural meeting, «• i
think everybody left there wishing that Idf I
Lunday and lady might live a thousand JW |
and that their flocks might feed onis®9|
hills. Now, sirs, we call on you aa publiojo® j
nalists, to tell the people what happened e “® I
meeting, and what will happen at tee nab 1 * I
what ought to happen to every macros |
and cMld that has a field, garden, or bo* I
plants—a cow, a horse, or a hog. Ye »® I
this call with oonfidenoe from your I
this morning’s paper. You wanted to j
thing that you had not told; may be® J[
this. No matter if it want; tell this I
away in behalf of these agricultural j
till every county in the State shall p*** f
society, with not less than 300 .members** I
It will do your paper good; it will do pa I
It will pay better than expensive
from France or Prussia. Yoars,
JIBS
Montgomery, on Tuesday, entertained gal
lantly a long train load of visitors from Union
Springs and Troy. The hotels were opened,
and feasting and dancing were the order of the
day. The Mail says 233 young ladies had an
opportunity to settle their destinies. We hope
they settled up fairly and found a balance in
hand.
Cotton in West Ata»h»—Tb^ Livingston
Journal says: “Cotton is opening very rapidly,
and picking has commenced. We hear numer
ous and loud complaints of rust, and that the
plants are shedding badly. Altogether the oot
ton prospect is unpromising, and the yield will
fall short of the estimates of a few weeks ago.
No worms reported yet.”
A Sulxt Dahxt.—The Son reports William
Smith, tiie colored oadet at West Point, sulky.
He refused to do police duty—broke a dipper
over the head of young Wilson sad gashed Ms
face with the handle, and is now under arrest,
•ss bad Bigger.
Psrtlcwlsrs or the United SUM* ®' j
press Robbery in SUssesrL
St. Louis, August 27.—The folloffiofl*!*
particulars of the robbing of thfl I
Express Company, on the Missouri I
yesterday morning. hr I
Shortly after the train left Scott ^ j
rough looking men hastily entered*^ ^ I
the rear platform who were l * re96 v„ sl rit|
clothes and their faoes covered by 1:411 I
The messenger, in a moment, ^ > j
the design, rose to resist them
manded tha keys of the safe in ^ j
ey was deposited, and seized bir®- f —abi*|
gled with them desperately but they !
down on the floor. He was bY® 6 iTfari I
on the head and face, one blow- >- I
fracturing the bridge of the nose. . ^1
Having disabled him from any to . ^ & I
ance, they bound Mm to a heawy ® ^ |
aged Ms pockets until the key 01 th* j
found, and . then proceeded to
selves of the money. Having row*? ^1
as they thought pretty thoroughly. ,.i ^ I
locked it again and threw the key)* , !il|
boxes in the oar, where it ij.fW'l
stated that one package containing
greenbacks was left behind, having
dently overlooked. Trains are n jKjftl
run at a fast rate by Scott’s
son City, and the robbers, having ® , $|
the robbery, succeeded in jumping
without much difficulty.
Echoes From Pre»t»«*
Sinoe the adjournment of Cong*!®* ^tjl
Grant has played the glass of tohioh ^1
mold of form at a half a dozen din
and watering places. Be
the moat chffaaive gay ana festive
broken oat this season. ^ -
Ex-Gov. Orr, of South Carotin*
waiting five years for aa
himself into soalawaggery. Know pt®|
bleto obtain hi* own price, » e
termined to accept anyMriy ewe »■ n g**
A major in Holden's militia
ed the service “for oonductnubeo<-
cer and a gentle man.” Of wba*I^
he was guilty we do not know, th^ ^*1
ly that be plundered but one b* n ‘, *
might have plundered two- jl
A Fins Flaetamoe res.
Campbell, of Atlanta, offers forsw. (
finest plantations in Houston
ing 1215 acres eligibly loctod-