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Telegraph and Messenger
Another War with China.
His Celestial Highness Tonng Chi, Emperor
of China, has issued his ukase or solemn do
eree to all the embassadors representing the in
ferior powers of earth, forbidding the educa
tion of females in every clime and nation.
The document, is elaborately spread forth
upon the most magnificent Pongee silk ten yards
square, the cabalistio characters being curiously
and beautifully colored and variegated. As yet
the Pekin dispatch gives only the outlines of
this terirfic fulmination, and all petticoat
Christendom awaits, with bated breath, the full
denouement.
Doubtless, this movement will draw upon the
Celestials, the concentrated fire of all the virago
leaders of the strong-minded feminines, and
for a time the crusade against Benedicts, Batch
elors, and tho devoted race generally who sport
whiskers and moustaches, will be abandoned.
Well, surely the children of the Sun ought to be
able to stand fire, though they will find it in this
instance woise than the flames of Tartarus.
Wo shall expect to hear of gigantic American
expeditions fitting out with all dispatch for tho
East, and perhaps tho redoubtable Burnsides,
or Maj. Gen. John Pope, of saddle memory, as
approaching nearest to their own gender, may
be invested with the supremo command.
Our female seminaries also are in imminent
danger of collapse, as it is feared the volunteer
mania will enter into those cl&ssie retreats, and
metamorphose into companies of stem bloom
ers, our lovely daughters and sisters. In this ex
tremity, before resorting to the arbitrament of
broomsticks, and remorselessly assaulting tho
vulnerable queue of the children of Confucius,
why not essay the virtue of diplomacy ?
Let a special commission, chaperoned by
General Butler, and composed of Abby Kelly,
Anna Dickinson, Susan Anthony, and Harriet
Beecher Stowe, be sent in the Tennessee to the
metropolis of His Serene Highness, that they
may bring him to his senses, and avert a war of
terrifio screams and shedding of hair.
Our word for it, this august delegation which
could talk down the tomtoms and cymbals of
the Imperial army, would achieve its mission
triumphantly, and return laden with honors and
spoons.
War at best is a terrible evil, but ye Gods,
deliver us from the din and wrath of that pan
demonium, which the arrogance of Toung Chi
would inaugurate.
Crops iu Early Comity.
An esteemed correspondent writing from Blake
ly, says: “Com crops are promising and in good
condition, but cotton is sick! and basa neg
lected appearance. The staple is too cheap to
excite the admiration of its old votaries, and it
must become, to a great extent, a prey to the
attacks ot grass.
The following from Dongherty we give entire:
* Albany, Ga., May 10, 1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I see yon
have given my paper a marginal significance,
“out,” which means, I suppose, that my money
is “perfectly exhausted.” Well, make out the
bill from expiration of my subscription and send
down, and yon shall have your advance money,
but don’t stop the paper a single day, as I bad
just as soon do without my cooking stove, or
have a “cross-eyed baby” in tho house as to be
without your valuable paper. Send bill for six
months, and when that expires send bill again,
but never stop the paper. As yonr senior remarks
on the subject of journalism: I run a cash con
cern myself. Subscriber known on yonr books
as Capt. W.
Furnishing Ammunition to the Enemy.—Be-
ferring to tbe erratic and ill-timed course of
certain extra Southern journals, the Washington
Patriot very justly remarks: There are a few
newspapers at the South which have thought
lessly supplied Radical agitators and organs
with all their staple of misrepresentation against
the Democracy, and have done serious harm by
extravagant declarations. While we advocate
tbe largest range of discussion and tbe freest
expression of thought from every shade of opin
ion, it seems hardly fair that a whole party
Bhould bo held responsible for the utterances of
a few individuals who have neither claim nor
right to speak by its authority. It is difficult
to understand the motive of conduct which is
only calculated to give countenance to the
calumnies of m unscrupulous adversary. If
notoriety alone be tho object, it has been
attained, by extended publicity among those
who seize upon every ill-considered word as a
means of embittering sectional prejudice, and
of still farther augmenting the pains of oppres
sion in the South.
The Jackson (Tenn.) Democbat Scobes One.
The employes of the McKay Iron and Locomo
tive Works at Jersey City being on a strike to
reoovor back pay, this paper makes the circum
stance the text for a pithy little retaliatory ser
mon to those holier-than-thou patriots up North,
who are always looking for motes in their South
ern neighbor’s eye, while there are beams
enough in their own to manufacture wooden
hams for the world. Tho Democrat says: “We
are very sorry for tho McKay concern—just as
sorry as they for the Southern planter who
cannot regulate his lav»or. Whenever tho North
ern people hear of tho mm \rith a thousand
acres of cotton complaining that i» cannot pro
cure a sufficiency of reliable hands, they wi the
planter to take oil his coat and go to work. Wo
tell the McKay concern to do likewise. Take oil
yonr coats, gentlemen, and build a few locomo
tives. It is just as easy as it is for one man to
cultivate a big plantation.
Letter trom Angnsta.
Augusta, 11th May.—I got hero yesterday to
attend a meeting of tho Georgia Press Associa
tion. Twenty-two papers were represented;
and some changes have been made in the offi
cial organization. CoL Christy, of tho Athens
Southern Watchman, wes elected President
Col. Stylos and Mr. Estill, Tice Presidents
Mr. Whidby, of the Atlanta Constitution, Re
cording Secretary—all excellent selections.
Outsido of these official changes nothing im
portant has, so far, been done. Tho Associa
tion this morning-goes in a special train to visit
the Bath paper mills and a cotton mill, some
seven or eight miles out on the South Carolina
Road.
The city is full of visitors in attendance on
the Bailroad Conventions. Some seven or eight
thousand are reported present, and I have been
much impressed with the appearance of the
people—especially of tho fair sex. On the whole,
there is a higher average of personal beauty
than I have ever seen in the same number of
women. Commonly, attractive forms and faces
are exceptional, but here they appear to bo tho
rule. The Georgians of tho Black Belt are un
doubtedly among tho highest type of the Anglo-
Saxon race; and though some people prognosti
cate degeneracy as the result of onr enforced
social revolution, I believe, on the contrary,
that they will improve and advance under tho
spur of sharper necessities. Ease, abundance
and luxury are not the best conditions for the
development of the human race; and therefore
a higher degree of moral, mental and physical
activity will be the outgrowth of our social and
industrial disorders. The day of bright men
and fascinating women in Georgia is not declin
ing.
Augusta is a very handsome town, and has a
brave future before her, as tbe commercial
centre of so fine a population. Its trade is a
solid steady-going trader—showing substantial
results in the accumulation of commercial cap
ital. True, its ordinary aspect, like that of
Macon, is quiet, but a noisy stream is not
always or often the deepest. A correspondent
of one of the Atlanta papers passing through
Macon the other day, said that, contrasted with
onr sister city, its wide and quiet streets, re
minded him of nothing so much as a grave
yard; but, if all the outward trains of Augusta
or of Macon were made up in Broad street or in
Third street, both places would be noisy enough,
without adding one cent to the substantial trade
of either. Augusta, with a cotton exchange
alone amounting to eight or ten millions, and
Macon with two or three millions less, must
necessarily do a large amount of trade, although
they make little fuss about it.
The weather yesterday was execrable, and to
day is little better. A raw easterly wind set in
about 12m., and blew a gale np to sundown,
when it subsided into a thunderstorm and rained
heavily all night. This morning it is still cloudy
and showery. All this was bad for the fair and
the sports of tno race tracK.
The fair grounds and track were, however,
very populous yesterday, after dinner, and there
was some clever trotting witnessed under circum
stances of personal discomfort. Tho Horticul
tural Exhibition was about over and some of the
show had been removed. Prominent in tbe
centre of the hall was a rustic fountain, beauti
fully arranged by Berckmanns. Tho display of
flowering plants was quite attractive. In fruits
there were magnificent .strawberries and cher
ries, as large and fine as I ever saw in the North
—of half a dozen of the best varieties. There
were also currants, plums of improved varieties
and apples. In vegetables there wero numer
ous samples of tho Irish potatoes, including the
Early Bose, which would have weighed, perhaps,
half a ponnd or more. The show of cabbage
was inferior. Sugar beets were on exhibition
fonr inches in diameter and fourteen in length,
and there were also large •nions, parsnips, tur
nips, etc.
The Fair Grounds, in Augusta, are exceed
ingly well adapted to such exhibitions, and the
sports of the tnrf. These grounds are perfectly
level, and very tastefully laid out with walks
and shade trees. A half mile track handsomely
inclosed—some six or eight large woodens true
tares for exhibition halls and from which to
view the races, all substantially built and well
painted—an occasional fountain, or adornment
in statuary—a well-kept sward—gay flags and
streamers floating from the stands and towers—
a well-dressed and lively throng of people—hun
dreds of handsome equipages moving about the
grounds—all together formed an attractive tout
ensemble.
At night the rain torrents were as gushing
and copious as the eloquence of Mr. Toombs.
Hearing one, I was forced to forego tho latter.
To-day street gossip says there is to be a lively
straggle in the Georgia Bailroad Convention,
over the road’s endorsement of the State Bead
lease, in which Messrs. Toombs and Ben Hill will
be pitted against each other. Outsiders say tho
stockholders will repudiate the endorsement.
The Sonth Carolina Boad is here will; a pro
ject to run tho Macon and Augusta Boad, but
tho Georgia Boad will not permit it.
In haste, yours, J. C.
We tender thanks to onr correspondent “Ran
dolph” for his excellent communication pub
lished in yesterday’s issue.
Contributions from intelligent gentlemen, re
lating to the condition of the country and crops,
and containing the current news of tho day, ue
always acceptable.
Wa wish the Telegraph and Messenger to
bo the exponent and vehicle of information for
every portion of the State. Short articles,
plainly written on one side of the sheet, and
containing news itejn3 of interest, are gladly
received.
Bueee’s Magazine fob Boys and Girls.—We
have the May number of this admirable serial
It is the best and only publication of the kind
issued at the Sonth, and especially suitable for
Southern young folks. It deserves an immenso
circulation all over the South. If half the good
words spoken by the Southern press for trum
pery Northern publications of this class were
given to Burke’s Magazine, it would have the
largest circle of readers in tho South. The
subscription price is only $2 per annum, and J.
W. Burke & Co., Macon, are the publishers.
Thebe Is an energy in the keeping of board
ing-houses in Arkansas quite unknown else
where. The proprietor of a private hostelry in
a town of that State, having hoard frequent
complaints from his boarders about the regular
recurrence of hash, prepared himself to crush
the rebellions spirit. At the next morning meal
he placed two revolvers beside his plato and re
marked, “Whoever says he doesn’t like hash
USB.” He then began distributing hash, and no
man declined it.
Almond trees flourish in California, and one
near Santa Barbara yielded $40 worth of nuts
spring a farmer has set out
50,000 trees. The olive crop will bp large thin
Then anil Now.
The following anecdote of John C. Galhoun
is told by Mr. Wm. Sc-honler, of Boston, in a
recent contribution to the Journal of that city,
and on the authority of the late Abbot Law
rence :
“Sometime before 1840, Mr. Calhoun wrote
1 o Mr. Lawzence that he had been adding to his
lanuod estates, and would like to obtain a loan
of $10,Oik, 815,000 in Boston,-where money
was more plenty than in {South Carolina, and
the rate of interest not so high, for the payment
of whioh he wonld give his notes and a mortgage
upon Ms estate, winch would be ample security.
Mr. Lawrence said ho consulted Mr. Nathan
Appleton and one or two other wealthy citizens
of Boston upon the subject, and it was agreed
to raise thapnoney for Mm, and tako no securi
ty for the repayment but Ms own note. Mr.
Lawrence informed Mr. Calhoun of the arrange
ment which he had made, and expressed Ms
gratification that it was in the power of Mmself
•nd a few of his friends to do a kindness to one
so distinguished, whoso life had been devoted
to the stryico of Ms country. Mr. Calhoun im
mediately wrote back, declining tho offer, and
withdrawing m»_ orignal request. He said it
did not agree with sense of propriety to ac
cept a loan upon such j that in the dis
charge of his public duties Wo did not wish to
be embarrassed by a sense of ou;<j a ti ori to any
'ue.”
How this reminiscenoe illustrates tho aiffer-
enco between the golden past and the rotten
present of American political history! Fancy
tho Mortons, or Chandlers, or Conklings, or
Camerons, or Wilsons, of the present Senate, to
say notMDg of tho creatures who assume to
represent Mr. Calhoun’s native State in that
body, being guilty of such an action! Fancy—
if the feat is not beyond the reach of hnman
imagination—the brilliant head of tho grand
gift enterprise at Washington writing back such
an answer! The very suggestion exhausts the
ordinary stock of that quality kept on hand by
most men.
We are pained to learn that Mr. W. S. Hickey,
an estimable citizen of Cuthbert, died on Tues
day, after a violent and distressing illness. Mr.
Hickey was a splendid specimen of physical de
velopment, and Ms untimely end shows that
the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to
tbe Btong. He dies lamented by a large circle
of friends, and leaving a young and interesting
family.
Some one advises young ladies to beware of
marrying a man tho initial of whose name is the
same as their own, since there is an old saying
which tells us that—
“To change the name and not the letter,
Is to change for tho worse and not for the better.”
A. New Revelation.
A late issue of the Montgomery Mail has an
article in reference to what really transpired at
the Hampton Beads Conference, wMch has not
fonnd a place in the official account of that
affair, and, pertinent thereto* makes the follow
ing statement:
We have onr information front a gentleman
of the highest respectability, who had it from
ono of the Confederate Commissioners in per
son, that tho single word “union” was written
by Mr. Lincoln at tho head of a blank sheet of
paper, and that tho Confederate Commissioners
were told to write beneath that word their own
term?, and that those terms wonld be accepted!
Mr. Stephens and- Mr. John A. Campbell fa
vored tho acceptance of tho terms tho3 offered,
but having been hedged in by instructions that
they wero not at liberty to transgress, the last
hope of the Sonth withered with the destruction
of that comparatively insignificant scrap of pa
per.
We do not recollect having seen, heretofore,
this statement or any similar one, but we feel,
confident that there is no foundation for it. It
could not have been kept secret tMs long if
founded on fact. In some way it would have
leaked out. In Ms account of that conference
which is very full, and obliged to bo received as
entirely accurate, Mr. Stephens makes no men
tion of any such incident
But in the very nature of tMngs it.was im
possible for any such proposition to have been
made by Mr. Lincoln. Strong as he was with
his party, and still stronger with the prestige
of Ms recent re-election a3 President by such a
tremendous majority, he would not have dared
to go that far. The North had determined on
the destruction of slavery at all hazards, and no
man* or men conld have stood np against that
determination. Wo seriously doubt whether
it would have even consented to emancipation
to bo consummated in five years/or less, as a
recompense for the surrender, then, of the Con
federate armies. It might have beon willing to
have spared the State governments and allowed
the States, themselves, speedy restoration to
their places in the Union, but nothing more.
Of course the Confederate Commissioners—if
such a proposition as the Mail says was made
by Mr. Lincoln had really been presented to
them—would have asked a great deal more than
that, or been singularly false to the purposes of
their mission and the interests of those they
represented, and then there would have been at
once an end of farther negotiations. Mr. Lin
coln knew—no man better—just what he could,
and could not guarantee, and even the most
moderate terms possible to have been demanded
by the Confederate Commissioners as he knew,
and Seward knew, could not have been made
acceptable to the North. Very possibly Mr. Lin
coln, Mmself, was willing to end the war on the
“union” terms, brft he knew the North was not,
and of course he did not court political anMMla-
tion.
Sisco writing the above we are reminded of
the fact that the passage, by Congress, of the
Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery in
the United States, bad taken that question out
of Mr. Lincoln’s bands, and that he conld not
have mado any pledge in reference thereto. If
he had had the disposition to promise gradual
emancipation, it was then out of Ms power to
make it good. It seems to us everything is
against the correctness of the Mail’s information.
From Tliomas Comity.
Thomasyille, May 9,1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger :—I chroni
ele for yonr columns the state of tho weather
down in Thomas. This morning, tho Gth inst.,
frost was seen on the pine-straw lying in the horse
lots, and on low damp plaees near creeks and
ponds. I, nevertheless, pluoked a perfectly
ripe fig grown in an outer lot fully exposed, as
delicious to the palate as was over served in the
dreams of a turbanedTutkbyan Honri from
the gardens of Paradise. Figs and frost! The
seasons seem to have some logic in their steps
as they certainly advance, in pari passu, or po
etically and practically, “winter lingers in tho
.lap of Hay." TMs, if not an annus mirabilis
of Dryden, so far comforts herself with strange
eccentricities. We have had the warmest
March, tho wettest April and the coldest May,
known since the first ploughshare npheaved the
virgin soil of this wire-grass, but productive
section. With all. this the crops both of com
and cotton, look well wherein they have been
thorougMy cultivated. Such is the cis natures,
the life-propalling force and power of nature!
In Upper Georgia it sometimes happens that
these untimely frosts prove destructive to vege
tation, and leave the fields as black as the Valley
of tho Shenandoah in the track of Sheridan’s myr
midons. Here, it is never so. Whenever the
old gent, Mr. January, excited by the ravishing
beauties of May, attempts such unlicensed vie
Icnce and throws himself upon tho throbbing
bosom of the beanteous maid, hi3 chilled form
relaxes, melts and disappears at the touch of her
celestial heat, and though guilty in intent, baf
fled in purpose, ho leaves her indignant, flashed
with a richer carnation, and ten thousand times
more radiantly beautiful, gemmed and diadem
ed in tho robes and garniture of earth’s sweet
est, lovliest season, from tho straggle and the
triumph. Bat pardon me, Messrs. Editors, I do
not utterly condemn, but somewhat sympathise
with the old gent.
“We uns,” I believe, have crossed, perhaps
taken several steps beyond tho meridian, but
are all aglow at tho rustle of silk, and straighten
up like the old war horse at the tap of the drum,
whenever breatMng, tliobbing beauty warms,
brightens and revivifies onr old hearts by its
toncli! Tut, tut, KingBavid’s physicians wero
a wise faculty in their day and generation, but
a little too late, (think you not?) with their pre
scription. What say you to onr gardens? Peas,
Irish potatoes, marble head cabbage (17 pound
ers) beets, eto., etc., in nnstinted abundance
from the 10th of March, and melons of all va
rieties ripen by the 25th of June, and vagrant
Africa, the spawn of Radicalism, swarming in
and adding a still blacker hue to the blackberry
patches, those wholesome appeasers of the fam
ished EtMope, and for the nonce conservators
of our cribs and smoke houses. Look at the
map and see our caprice in Thomas, bnt by no
means a political caprice. Politically, the ele
ments down here are not so pare.* Factions
prevail and scalywagism holds sway. Tell it
not In Gath that Democrats go on negro and
carpet-bae bonds, and that some there are so
ravenous for tbe “llesli pots” that they oat off
the same platter with Radical negro office-hold
ers. There are various pros and cons in expla
nation, palliation and vindication of this policy.
All snbtile and evasive. No affiliation, no
trading, no compromises! Touch not, taste not,
handle not the unclean thing. There is both
moral and political pollution in it; it is defiled
and loathsome. Political leprosy is increasing
in the land with startling significance. Know
ye not, .poor fools, timed-serving sycophants,
that the hour of deliverance is at hand, and by
this fatal step ye go where ye cannot rejoice
with ns when the day of rejoicing comes!
This, however, applios only to those “cancers
on the body politic,” as Mr. Jefferson terms
them, tho towns and cities. The country is al
together free from it. I have yet to find the
firnv farmer who draws Ms subsistence from that
unfailij.p, bank—our mother earth—whose drafts,
when propwiy. drawn, are never dishonored,
who does not eifartain and express sonnd views
on the political issuw 0 f the day. Having no
ambition to gratify—pruning to labor with
their own hands rather than steal, never linger
ing about the vestibules of the grent, nor asking
favor and protection for the product* 0 f agri
cultural industry, sucking the paps and exhaust
ing the sources of tho State wMch should be re
served for its own healthfalness and support—
they carry within their snnbnrnt bosoms a love
for country whjoh even Radical persecution can
not extinguish, a courago which no power can
intimidate, and a devotion to the true princi
ples of government characteristic of the best
days of the repnblic.
That the friends of my youth and early man
hood may know that “I still live," I sabsoribe
myself, Tours, respectfully,
S. M. Strong.
How Sad !—It is related that at the grand Ma
sonic demonstration in honor of the Earl de
Grey in jyasMngton, the Hon. B. F. Butler had
to eat his terrapin with a two-pronged fork.
The caterer was not a Mason, and had feelings
abont spoons. He caused all valuables of that
description to be cleared from a certain portion
of the table. It was very melanoholy.
A dog fight for $100, and lostingono hour and
seventeen minutes, was tho “appetizer,” Au
gusta took Tuesday to prepare herself for the
festivities of the following day.
The Constitutionalist says that Messrs. Miller
& Randall—tho latter an ex-editor of that paper
—in thirty working days in Charleston, lately,
took 69 policies of insurance in the Southern
Life, amounting to $460,000 in risks, and upon
wMch the premiums wero $20,000. Bravo!
Randall May you take 138 applications within
the next. 80 days. .
The Savannah butchers of the off color, wont
tonrnamenting Tuesday, and Sunday Small,
their leader, carried off tho prize—$100. Now
it’s time to stop, white folks.
The Columbus mule trade was not so good
the past season as last year, only 1,200 haviDg
been sold tMs, against 2,500 la3t season.
Says tho Republican, of Wednesday :
A Large Freight Train.—Yesterdaycondue-
tor J. S. Kneller brought over tho Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad the longest freight train that ever
entered the city of Savannah. The train was
composed of fifty-seven freight cars, thirty-
seven of which wero from Florida, and the re
maining twenty from tho Macon and Brunswick
Railroad, and was three-eights of a mile in
length. The engine wMch did the pulling was
the “FultoD,” and tho name of the engineer is
Mr. Henry Mitchell. *
We clip tho - following from the Columbus En
quirer, Of Wednesday:
A Puzzle fob Mathematicians.—Daring the
session of the Teachers’ Convention last week,
a professor worked out the following: Two
campers, A .and B, had 8 Ioave3 of bread, of
which A owned 3 and B 5. A traveler eame along
and ate supper with the campers. The three
demolished the eight loaves, each eating an
equal portion. Tho traveler agreed to pay 40
cents for Ms supper. How much of the money
was due to A, and how much to B ?
Pshaw! Give ns a hard snm. That’s too easy.
Frank Beek, a resident of Portland, Maine,
fell into the hold of the sMp George Skolfield,
at Savannah, Tuesday, and was severely in
jured internally.
A cotton form of this year’s growth, is report
ed from Liberty county.
Bullock county has had no mail-bag opened
in her borders since the war, bnt receives all
letters and papers through a Savannah firm.
Of crops in Muscogee and adjoining counties,
the Columbus Sun says:
Cotton has been greatly injured in this and
adjoining counties by tho recent heavy rains
and cold weather. Tho plant looks yellow and
dead, and much looks as if it would have to be
replanted. In Harris county it is reported that
frost did it much damage.
We find the following items in the Sun, of
Wednesday:
The Mobile and Girard Bailroad.—We hear
it stated that it is very probable the Mobile and
Girard Railroad will be leased to the Central
If there is any money to be made, that road is
to divide it proportionately among the stock
holders. Another proposition is for the Central
company to run it and assume all its liabilities
in point of interest. The Central really has
charge of it now. Tho road, though twentv-five
miles longer than tho previous fiscal year,* does
not, we are authoritatively informed, show a
dollar’s increase in receipts. Competition has
caused it to lose $40,000. Perhaps if it was en
tirely in the hands of the Central company, a
’cheaper rate might bo established between here
and Savannah, wMch would wonderfully revive
the business of the M. & G. B. R.
Settled.—The Owen Thomas will case, whioh
has been going on for three years, has, wo are
authoritatively informed, been settled. We un
derstand the claim of Mrs. Hargrave, the sister,
was compromised by the payment of $1200;
and the Messrs. Tkweatt got $2,500 with wMch
to pay their lawyers’ fees. The remaimng, ex
cepting some legacies and the fees of the exec
utor’s attorneys, goes to the parties to whom it
was left by tho will They are some sixteen
negroes. They agreed, in the beginning, to
give their lawyers, Messrs. Ramsey, Blandford
and Tlioznton, half the amount they recovered.
Tho estate is variably estimated from $30,000
to $60,000. The case has beon fonght hard
for tho past three years, and once, porliaps
twice, carried to the Supreme Court
Of the prospects of the Augusta and Hartwell
Railroad, Mr. Underwood, tho financial agent of
the company, made the following statement at
the stockholder’s convention at Augusta, on
Tuesday:
Mr. Underwood stated that he had been ac
quainted with Mr. George D. Chapman but a
few months; that whea that gentleman first ap
proached him with reference to the Augusta and
Hartwell Railroad, he asked him if he had any
guaranteed State > aid, and on ascertaining that
he had, and being satisfied that the road was a
feasible project, he consented to tako tho mat
ter in hand. Tho time was unfavorable, owing
to the European war, bnt he found an English
house, entirely reliable, that consented to nego
tiate with him. Subsequently, owing to tho
failure of Alabama to pay the coupons on her
railroad bonds, this same house (wMoh had in
vested in these bonds) unable to discriminate
(not being posted a3 to tho peculiarities
of our independent State governments),
had done netMng; that he had, however,
not allowed the time to bo lost, bat bad
furnished money for the purpose of proseeut-
,ing the survey, and congratulated tho stock
holders present upon the able report of the
Chief Engineer, Major CMlds. Recently the
Alabama coupons referred to had been paid by
the State, and confidence had been re-establish
ed,and arrangements had been effeoted whereby
the work of building the Augusta and Harts-
ville Railroad would be vigorously pushed. He
farther stated that he had purchased the iron
for the road.
The following is the list of tho jurors drawn
for the November term of the UMted States
Cirouit Court at Savannah:
are thinking of planting again in order to get
rid of the grass and secure a better stand.
Com on the hill sloDes has been washed badly,
and in the lowlands‘it is also injured to some
extent
Tho Atlanta Sun is responsible for the fol
lowing:
A Ku klux—The Judge and a Scared Niggeb.
—We heard a pretty good joke yesterday upon
one of Georgia's Superior Court Judges, wMch
we do not believe has ever been in print. The
Judge in question, is not as handsome a3 an
Adonais, indeed he is regarded as rather home
ly, in fact, by incompetent judges, he has beon
put down a3 the ugliest man in the State. These
facts indues us to withhold Ms name. Bnt to
tho joke, wMoh we tell as it was told to U3:
It seems that a man was indicted, and put
upon trial before the Judge, upon the charge of
playing Ku-klux. One of the principal witnesses
was a negro man. In the course of the exami
nation a question was asked which this witness
declined to answer. . The Judge was appealed
to to compel an answer. The day was a pretty
cold one, and the Judge wa3 well muffled up in
his shawl, and had escaped the eye of the Cush
ite. In leaning forward to order tho witness to
answer the question, the negro caught sight of
him, and no sooner had he done so than he ex
claimed, “By golly, dere’s a Klu-klux now!”
and at ono bound ho cleared the bar, and in a
moment more ho was out of tho court-house,
and running as if all the Ku-klux klan wero at
Ms heels. The negro is still of the opinion that
a member of tho klan was on the bench that
day.
A. W. Carmichael, Richmond county; Mat
thew L- Bryan, Houston; J. L. Boyt, Dough
erty ; J. P. Hutchings, Jones; Albert Ayres,
Bibb; DavidG.McGlann, Chateahoochee; Jo
seph Gray, Monroe; Elijah McRae, Montgom-
ery;»W. O. Jessup, Richmond; Amos P.PGrry,
Burke; Jno. W. Simmons, Crawford; A. L.
Perkins, Monroe; H. Scarborough, Schley; R.
L. Story, Wilkinson; Thos. L. Carter, Chatham;
P. B. Jones, Early; Henry Blount, Decatur;
Isaao Harden, Dooly; Addison Way, Thomas;
J. P. Rowland, Chatham; E. F. Happold, Chat
ham ; Simon Miranlt, Chatham; D. O’Neal,
Quitman; A. B. McAfee, Randolph; Jesse Cam
ming, Appling; Wm. H. Swayno, Marion; J.
G. MeMrtens, Chatham; Freeman Mathews,
Taylor; Columbus Tootle, Tattnall; O. A. Platt,
Richmond; G. W. Lease, Bullock; John Rob
erts, Jones; D. O. Alexander, Calhoun; H. P.
Townsend, Mitchell; August Dorr, Riohmond;
James G. Mobley, Montgomery; R. T. Burch,
Chatham; PMletos Doster, Wilcox; Thomas J.
Fuller, Pierce; J. M. D. Webb, Baldwin; O. M.
Lester, Houston; Lindsey O. Warren, Jefforson;
Wm. J. Howell, Hancock; John A. Powers,
Chatham; H. J. Lamar, Bibb; Abram E. Smith,
Dongherty; A. S. Cole, Early; Joseph Carthage,
Muscogee.
There was a slight fall of snow in Atlanta,
Wednesday, and the folks np there are running
aronnd bragging “that Atlanta is ahead as
usual.’’
By the middle of next week passenger trains
will ran through from Atlanta to Gainesville.
Tho case of Dr. Westmoreland, charged with
assault with intent to murder Dr. Redwine, of
Atlanta, is being tried in Fulton Superior Court
this week.
There was frost at Athens last Sunday and
Monday mornings.
The Watchman, of Wednesday, says ^
University of Georgia.—The eleotions held
Friday night resulted as follows:
Society Medal—G. G. Bandell, Acworth.
Senior Orators—Messrs. R. L. Gamble, Au
gusta, G. W. Warren, Augusta.
Junior Medals—Howell Glenn, Atlanta, and
Samuel Adams, Savannah.
Sophomore Medal—Arthur Niles, Griffin.
Jesse Robinson, formerly of Atlanta, was
killed at Jefferson, Texas, recently, by a man
named W. E. Rose. Robinson was a graduate of
the penitentiary at Milledgeville, and an uncom
monly hard case.
The HawMnsville Dispatch says: *
Crop News.—From all accounts the cotton
prospect is poor indeed in this part of the State.
There Is a very poor stand, and the cool weath
er has dwarfed and turned the plant yellow,
while the grass has grown astonishingly. 'Some
WAIL STREET.
The Gamblers In Gold and Stocks—Hull
Vanderbilt and Bear Drew- ,
(George Alfred Towneend in the Chicago Tribune. J
The Gold Boom in Wall street transacts very
little business in these days, and it is diffloult
to make a panic in reputable stooks. The last
large haul was said to be in Union Pacific stock,
the Pennsylvania railroad operators buying low
after Oakes Ames’ calamity, and then bnlling up
the stock by assuming control of the road, when
they immediately sold out. Still, as long as
stocks promise such speedy possibilities, and
men are bold to take chances, Wall street bro
kers will find an avocation. Take tho broker’s
office of Van Sebaick & Co., (pronounced Van
Shoick) on Broad street, nearly opposite the
Stock Exchange. It is on the first, or street,
floor—a large room, twenty-five by fifty feet in
dimensions, with chairs and writing tables be
neath the street, and an antomatio telegraph in
strument on one side, close by a reading board,
where are placarded all the quotations of the
day. Mr. Van Schaick .sits at a desk in this
reading part, with a window at Ms elbow ena
bling him to wheel in Ms pivot-chair and look
through tho banking department, which is par
titioned off beMnd him. At the tables in front
congregate tho betting principals, to whom their
broker, a stout, red-faoed, agreeable man, with
a quick voice and a ready joke, addresses snob
remarks as:
“Fine day for the race.”
“What race ?”
“The human race.”
Meantime, the telegraph instrument is count
ing off, on long, printed rolls, the state of trans
actions just across the street, where Mr. Van
Schaiok’s partner is buying and gelling at bis
desk among tho screaming multitude of privil
eged ones, whoso roar can almost be heard
across tho broad, wood-paved avenue. The
price of membership in the Stock Exchange,
nominally ten thousand dollars, is now reduced
to four thousand dollars, and the character of
the Exchange has so deteriorated that it per
mits its own rules to bo broken with impunity,
Erie being still allowed to be bartered in there,
although a scoret issue of three million dollars
of stock was lately made, contrary to tho express
provision of the board.
To Mr. Van Schaick enters, perhaps, a person
who says:
“I wish you to purchase for me, Van, five
thousand shares of Lake Shore.”
“How much margin are yon going to allow
me ?”
“Ten per cent.”
“I want 40 per cent before I touch it,” says
Mr. Van Schaick. And the wonld-be gambler
goes away sorrowfully, for ho has small posses
sions. He belongs to one of tho five following
classes, probably the last:
“street” classification.
A “bull” is a broker or principal who is al
ways pushing up securities and stocks, and in
dulging in the pleasures of hope. Vanderbilt is
tho first bull in tho world. His abundant capi
tal—now alleged to bo nearer $70,000,000 than
$50,000,000—his strong, good judgment, and
calm, powerful •confidence, are felt in that su
perstitious street like a lighthouse on a treacher
ous coast. Bat, although a “bull,” he is without
heart; Ms faith is purely speculative, and he
will let the family of his engineer, who perished
driving through the fire, suffer and starve with
out remorse. The “boar” ia Wall street is he
who deals in insecurity and fear, and wagers
against the hopes of capital. A frequent bear
is Daniel Drew—an ignorant man of marvelous
duplicity, who is bold and worldly, and works
by cunning and money. Any posture between
getting on Ms knees or belly and standing on a
church-steeple is tho same to Dan. Drew, so he
can make profit Yet this man rejoices that ho
is a Methodist, and compounds for his sins with
that long-suffering church.
A “green gosling” on Wall street is a verdant
character, who comes into the street with
money and avarice, and accepts as valid the
points given him by misohievoas advisers and
designing brokers. When he looses he becomes
a “lame duck;” and if, afterward, he returns to
his broker, and wishes to have stook purchased
for Mmself without patting up margins, craving
it on the plea of Ms bad luck and the previous
f ains Ms broker has made upon his misfortune,
e is said to bo “an elephant.”
Mr. Van. Schaick say3 that his cheeks for
transactions ran from one million to one million
and a half of dollars a day. Multiply tMs by
the dozens of brokers at the foot of Sub-Treas
ury Mil and you have an inkling of the extent
of stock transactions.
CHIEF OPERATORS.
Among tho leading street operators at present
in New York are Dr. T. B. Shelton, T. 0. Du
rant, W. S. Woodward, Jay Gould (who is re
ported to have lost heavily for a considerable
leriod past), H. M. Smith, of the former firm of
imitb, Gould & Martin, Frank Work—once a
dry goods merchant and started in Wall street
by Vanderbilt with $100,000 and advice—John
M. Tobia, Liohard Schell, of Rhmebeck, N. Y.,
and finally, James H. Banker, Vice President
and Manager of the Bank of New York, tho old.
est in the State, and Treasurer of tho Lake
Shore Railroad Company. He is said to be the
primo mover in all the current cliques and con
trivances to move the street, and tho biggest
man known aronnd the brokers’ offices since the
days of Jacob Little, who died in 1865. He is not
above 45 years of age, bold, desperate and reti
cent, and Ms friends are as unlimited as the
treasuries of Ms banker, of the United States
Trust Company, of the Farmers’ Trust Compa
ny, and other concerns he controls. He deals
through a multitude of small brokers, so as to
cover up Ms tracks. Banker is said to have put
sometimes 50,000 shares of stook in the pool
Other names, now prominent as operators, are
the two sons-in-Iavfr of Commodore Vanderbilt,
viz: Horace F. Clark and George S. Osgood;
B. F. Ciytver, formerly Cashier of the Marine
Bank of Chicago, and John B. Trevor, of the
firm of Colgate & Trevor.
Selling tbe Doctors.
The doctors out at Louisiana, Missouri, are
just now endeavoring to beat Horace Gfeeley
on his own platform of miscellaneous and em
phatic profanity. It seems that a man in that
place was sick with rheumatism or somelMng,
and a fellow went aronnd to the dootors and
professors and things, and told them that it was
the queerest old case on record. He said the
man had no feeling. You conld stick pins in
his body all over, and he paid no attention to
them at all He was perfectly numb. So the
doctors got together and called on the sick roan
to experiment. All arrived with pins and nee
dles and bodkins. The man was asleep, and
they got aronnd Mm and each one stack Ms pin
in the patient. The sick man rolled over and
looked at the crowd, and thought they had
come'to dissect Mm, so he took a chair jn one
hand and a bed post in the other, and drove the
crowd thence. They are running aronnd with
their heads tied up, looking for the man who said
that sick man had no feeling.
Smith Whittier has brought suit against'the
CMoago Times, laying his damages at $25,000,
for defamation of character. That paper has
had a rich harvest of libel suits recently. It
says that when business is dull with Chicagoans,
and they can find nothing else to do, lifer sue
the Times. This, we suppose, may be
ered good moral exorcise.
Tbe Franco-Prnsslan Treaty—Tbe Gener
ous Blsmarcb.
Berlin, May 10.—Prince Bismarck has me't
tho requests of the Versailles Government in a
very liberal spirit. By the treaty of peace just
signed he has agreed to a reduction of the war
indemnity by a half milliard of francs. Conse
quently tho Germans receive immediately the
French bond for four and a half milliards of
francs, payable witMn one year, and endorsed
by French and German bankers. Tho bond is
convertible into stocks or consols, whichever
Germany may prefer. Two milliards of. francs
have already been taken by Baron RothscMId
and Baron Eclenger, the French bankers, and
by Herr Hahn, the German banker. Immedi
ately on the ratification of the treaty, amajority
of the German forces leave France, the forts
east and North of Paris will be surrendered to
the Versailles Government immediately, and all
prisoners in Germany will be returned to France
as rapidly as the railroads can transport them.
Tho Germans will hold only Belfort, Langwy
and Nancy as hostages till tho fulfillment of tho
conditions.
There was brisk fighting at Neuilly last
night. Tho Versailles troop3 have turned elec
tric lights toward Paris.
Rossil’s resignation has been accepted, and
Gen. Placed is under arrest. Deleschuze ha3
been appointed to the position vacated by Ros-
sil Dombrowski has beon offered the com
mand of tho army, but refuses, unless it is
made supremo. Creila will probably resign.
Durassier, the commander of tho Insurgent
garrison in Vanvxes, was wounded to-day. Tho
forces of the Versailles Government are in the
Bois do Boulogne in large numbers. The col
umn in the Place Vendome was partially de
stroyed to-day. Cluseret is under examination
at the Hotel de Ville. He was removed from
the Masas prison this morning.
. Sevres, May 10.—The grand attack on Paris
is imminent. A thousand yards of trenches
have been completed, and the assaulting col
umns are wjthin five hundred yards of the ram
parts of Paris. All is ready for the order to
advance to the assault During the past twenty-
four hours the Government batteries have been
firing an average of eighty shells per minute.
This unprecedented bombardlnent is having a
terrible effect upon the Insurgents.
Versailles, May 9.—The great assault upon
the fortifications of Paris will be made to-night
Port da Jour has been knocked-to pieces by tho
fire from a battery at Montbretout.
Versailles, May 11.—Tho cannonade con
tinues and the effect i3 described as tremen
dous. Fort Yanvres still resists. The govern
ment troops have carried the barricades of
Boung (?) la Beine.
San Francisco, May 11th.—Clouds of grass
hoppers are destroying the crops in Los Angelo3
county. The citizens of Arizon killed eighty-
five Indians and captured twenty-five cMIdren.
These Indians had been protected at Fort Grant,
but in return stole property and murdered citi
zens.
Washington, May 11th.—Nothing from the
Mace-Oobnm fight, bnt nothing is reported as
likely to interrupt it.
Buffalo, May 11th.—A Canadian gunboat
passed np the lake, it is supposed for the scene
of the Mace-Cobum fight.
Washington, May 11.—Robeson ha3 returned.
The Russian Prince has postponed Ms visit till
fall General Babcock succeeds General Mich-
Ier as Superintendent of Public Buildings and
Grounds. Tho Foreign Relations Committee
was in session four hours, and is still not ready
to report to the Senate.
Charleston, May 11.—The feature of to
day’s doings at Columbia was the formal inter
view of a committee of eleven from the Tax
payers’ Convention with Governor Scott. The
committee said they had come, not as partisans,
bnt as citizens of the State, to consult and co
operate with the Governor in arranging a better
condition of affairs in South Carolina. The
Governor received them most cordially, assur
ing them of the assistance and co-operation of
not only himself, bnt of all the State officials in
satisfying the publio mind that the reports of
financial irregularities were without foundation.
A long and full discussion abont taxation en
sued, the Governor promising to extend the
time for .the collection of the next November
tax until the following March ia ell cases where
difficulty was found in making earlier payment.
The committee, on behalf of the convention,
pledged its influence for the maintenance of
peace and good order, and the Governor prom
ised to appoint none but good men to office.
The interview lasted fonr hours, and was of the
most pleasant and satisfactory character on
both sides.
In the Convention to-day, the most impor
tant business was introduced. One of the reso
lutions was, that tho Convention is opposed to
any form pf repudiation of tho legal debts of
the State; that the organization of the Conven
tion be maintained, and that the President and
Executive Committee have the power to con
vene the same at any time, and that the Execu
tive Committee be made permanent and that it
shall assist tho Governor, if desired, in securing
the services of good citizens to fill offices, thus
furnishing a guarantee for a wiso administra
tion. The resolutions wMch were severally re
ferred wore favorably received and will, doubt
less, be adopted. The Convention is in session
to-night.
New York, May 11.—The inauguration of the
telegraphers’ statue to Prof. Morse, in the Cen
tral Park, is finally fixed for the 10th of June,
at 4 p. xr. It was found impossible to complete
it by the 24th inst.
Nkw York, May 11.—Horace Greeley leaves
to-day fox tho South. After delivering the an
nual address before the State Agricultural Society
of Texas, he will explore the proposed line of
the Texas and Facifio Railroad. He will be ab
sent several weeks, making a short tarry in each
of tho principal cities en route.
Hartford, Gonn., May 11.—Both honses
passed a resolution declaring Jewell elected. Ho
will be inaugurated on Tuosday, to wMch day
tho Legislature adjourned.
Port Dover, May 11.—The anticipated
fight between Coburn and Mace was prevented
by tbe Canadian authorities. The men in splen
did condition entered the ring Bhortly after
noon. During the first round and before a
blow was struck, -the sheriff and county judge
backed by a number of soldiers from Simooe,
dispersed the crowd, who fled in every direction,
The fight was postponed indefinitely.
New York, May 11.—Greeley will reach
Cincinnati on Friday and New Orleans on Sun
day, and will spend Monday in New Orleans.
He goes thence to Galveston, and will deliver
an address at Houston on the 2 2d.
Charleston, May 11.—Arrived, schooner Cy
nosure, from the Bahamas.
- Paris, May 11.—General Bassilwas arrested
yesterday, and placed in the custody of M. Ger-
andin. At five o’clock yesterday both of them
disappeared, and have not yet been recaptured.
The principal attack of the Vorsaillists is ex
pected at Antenil and Pont da Jour. Both
sides are moving troops, and a great battle Is
expected. Delescheuze has been appointed
Minister of War to the Commune'. The official
reports to the Commune deny that the Yer-
saillists have gained any victories.
Washington, May 1L—The Tribune publish
es the text of the treaty. The Alabama claims
are referred to five arbitrators—the Executives
of England, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, and the
United States, each naming one—to sit in Ge- alive and well.
If, instead of making theaw i "
the arbitrators only establish rule., * H
juatment, a board of asaeasors-n„„ lt3 &
by the Queen, one by the President ,
chosen by the two-will meat "at w ^
and finish the work. Special rule,
obligation are laid down: 01 ^
First. It sfyill bo the duty of a nent
to use due diligence to prevent th. I*****
and'fiiting out or escape of any vessel •^
to make war upon another nation
is at peace.
Second. It shall be the duty 0 f
to permit such vessels to enter any of , "
for repairs, munitions or supply, ‘: po *
entered, not to permit their depart*™ ^
TMrd. It shall be the duty of a ,
due diligence to prevent the violation 1, 3 *
these obligations in any of its cor** ytJ
The differences regarding the
be adjusted by the commission to sit inn!" 1
Tho fisheries, except river and shell „
alike to Abe citizens of either count™”!?
free transit of goods in bond is allows *
the border. The treaty lasts ten yea™ **
London, May ll.-It is thought th. M ,
Balton and Park, two of the mer
a woman personation affair of
will fail at the present tenn, as jT®"’
Court will expire at midnight on Sata? 1
there are yet scores of witnesses to bo^
ined. The proceedings will hn to bo
menced, probablyde novo, some months w!‘
In tho House of Commons this evening jr
sell, Postmaster General, expressed ha to
ify to explain why tho Canard Bteatoo pi’
pany declines to bringthe Americamaik ^
army regulation bill was debated sit w
the House of Lords. In reply to a JL?
from the opposition, Granville declin^T
state whether the English claims on the Cay
States would bo adjudicated in England
The treaty of peace has just been eoneKj
at Frankfort It abrogates the comnaa
treaty between France and Germany ana^
to Prussia control of railways in ceded teafe
in consideration of deduction from war
nityof three hundred and twenty-sir id&g
of francs. One clause of the treaty prorids,
for tho acqnistion by Prussia of therallnyfr®
TMonville to Luxemburg. PonegerQ-attoj
gone to Mayence and Cologne to mate bmjj.
meats for speedy return of French prisoners to
Versailles.
Paris, May 10, evening.—The evening p-1
pers all condemn the Commune and the ceatnl I
committee for thwarting Gen. Dossil ia Ha
plans, and recommend the conferring of didi-
torial powers upon Rossil, who is yet in cam. I
mand of the army. It is stated to fe I
sailles forces, after occupying Fort Issy, tamjj |
the guns against the ramparts.
Versailles, May 11.—Important nets tv I
ceived from Algeria, where the condition of a!- J
fairs Is decidedly improved, says the Anbfel
surgents were defeated in an engagement i:|
wMch their leader wa3 killed.
From Dooly County.
Gum Creek, Ga., May 10,1S7L
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Whyml
you newspaper men forever down on the tail
of us poor farmers, telling us it is folly, etc, k I
plant so much cotton, when you see tco,tk|
we do not heed yonr admonitions? Is:::::!
decidedly cheaper for us to raise coltoaihJ
cents, at the rate of four million bales per vs. I
and buy our bacon at 15 cents, and eoms::J
from our Western friends, than to make an
two million bale3, (which wonld nett 25 erit 1
and raise our oom and bacon on the fans? Til
some of us it is a clear case; bacon niadhajl
cost the Mgh and exorbitant price of Stoll
cents per pound. We could make const li
cost of 75 cents; bnt you see we are so ban-1
lent we want our friends in the West tofeedcif
Besides, how do we know but that thep
supply may by “Ku-kluxed” or homed, aril
bo able to realize 20 cents for thepresenta
after all? Then, let ns alone gentlemen,!
ing bnt time will show ns tho true Elite of af-|
fairs—the result of this ruinous coarse. Girs|
as plenty of rope and we'll soon hang!
be too late then, to wish we had takenyourfil
vice, bnt onr sad fate, the one we arc sjprail
ing, will furnish beacons to guide the bad: -I
the coming farmer. |
The crop of 1871 is now under foil headny-l
cotton chopping is the prevailing fashion. r :|
have suffered greatly from the recent toy |
rains. Cotton is dying out very fast Ifc'l
farmers have signally failed to get stands. Bl
cool weather wo have been having plays to::I
with cotton. I
A sufficient area has been planted in caahl
insure enough for home consumption
is looking well, and where manure wnsspph« 11 |
is telling greatly in favor of the planter.
TMs is indeed a secluded spot—twenty 1
from any railroad communication with tte«^|
er great world. We have a mail reg;:brijto«l
a week, and quite a roll of your valuable pr; I
finds its way to our country postofito. J-'l
Telegraph and Messengee are householdI
even in Dooly. _■ 1
Pardon me for thus trespassing on y® “'I
uable time and taxing your patience.
‘Respectfully, etc,
Bow tlie Hay tien Minister GateGrsa! j
the Dry Grins.
The Louis villa Ledger’s Washington ns-|
poudent is responsible for the folloirios:.,
An amusing slory ia told hero in
with ono of tho last State dinners
Grant, which is worth reproducing, ^
how hard it is for the Radicals to slW " -v,
theories which they are engaged ia
ting. The Hay tien Minister, whoiaasw®^
the ace of spades, is hardly ever .
diplomatic occasions, and even thenta J
in such a formal manner that his sen
forbids Mm from accepting. On tno p*
occasion the Haytien Minister bciEi, .
New York-Grant considered it a gootw,,
tunity to gain some capital by lnnm; j
the dinner, hoping that 110 Tint tbesabl
convenient to returaasrequested. ^
representative from the W es ^. ar ti«
Ms baggage, and taking the fin* an j psi
hero on the very night of the ’ g e vij
seated himself at the White House. 1
received very cooly by f , treated 50 S 1
snubbed by all the a&es.an^eate^ | (
by Grant himself, that he soon w
venient to reUw.
More of the Georgia
continue the list of Georgia 0 for j
little bills against the United Si
aS Seasant A. and Starling
Wade Samuel Jones, and V Nsy ....
villa; G. W. PMMps.
O. Welch, McDonough; Johnb.£ ftB jcf
Ringgold Thos. G.W.CrusseH W^, -
and James Hill, Atlanta; K°? ert
Andrew N. • Wrinkle, mid .Wm- f{
Charles L. Bowken, Covington, !-
Mitchell Bryan countyRebecca ,
Anna Dickerson, and Charity Hanto-
ham county; Wm. H. Boyon, SnapP ,
Young W. Allen, Carrollton; >>nn
Savannah; Margarett J. McJIniray, T , re j ; .r'“
Thomas L. Stone, Bartow conntjv^
Trawick Linton, Silas Bell, Carters
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