About Georgia weekly telegraph and Georgia journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1869-1880 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1871)
t c Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, MAY 16 1871. [U? T&t San Domevooes say. that Spain is intrir going to embarrass Baez and' compel him to solicit aid from that pow6r. That is a feebla shift to revivo tho annexation project. John O. BcECEpraiDaE wag elected a delete to the Kentucky Democratic Convention, hut ho refuses, while disfranchised, to mingle in political life in any way. It is understood that Mr. Colfax is soon to retire from publio lifo and establish a foundry in South Bend, Ind., Jor tho manufacture of patent leather turkey eggs .—Boston Post. Affairs in VraaiNiA.—Gov. Walker was in Washington on the 5th, and represented affairs in the Old Dominion as very serene and pros perous—tho people busy, quiet and improving - their condition. The big Bonnet Carre crevasse was caused by a man cntling the leveo in order that ho might haul his sugar through. The loss of other folk’s sugar at last accounts was set down at 20,000 hogsheads. A colored roustabout and a white deck sweep- er on a Mississippi steamer had a small game lately. The former held “aces and,” but the letter hold a revolver and tho coroner held an inquest. A nor of Versailles deputies went out to the Bellevue batteries to encourago tho gunners. A casual shell dropped near by, and the depu ties became discouraged themselves and re turned to Versailles with remorkablo speed. Dev Goods Importations.—The imports of dry goods into tho port of New York during the ten months of the fiscal year ending SOth April last amounted to $110,509,210—a sum never exceeded before but once—in tho fiscal year 1865-6. Bbuddeb Lotteb, of Montgomery, Ala., was killed by lightning whilo spoiling tho Egyptian com cxib. Tho loyal blacks are much perplexed and piteously inquire, “ Is do Lord turned Ku. KIox ’gin do poor darkeys jis for stealm’ a little co’n?” The value of foreign dry goods received last month at New York amounts to $11,000,000 against $8,000,000 during the month of April, 1870. Ganged by Southern ability to pay for its shore of thi3 excess, the prospect for tho im porters is not very bright. A populab fashion of wearing the hair this summer at the Northern seaside watering places will be, it is announced, the coiffure a la Godi na. The costume a la Godina will probably come along next season. Something nearly like it is in vogue now, for evening parties. The Iron Age says that a comparison, which it gives in brief, of all the essential elemonts in the cost of consirnction and operation of rail roads will show that the cost per mile of the narrow guage, from 3 feet to 2 feet, is from one- half to one-third that of the standard guage of 4 feet 81 inches. The South Carolina Tax-Payers’ Convention meets to-day at Columbia to try and devise some means of choking off the white and black Rad ical thieves who aro beggaring the property owners of that unhappy jeommonwealth. Wo trust they may hit on some expedient to save the remnant of their property. The Savannah Regatta.—A circular from the Association informs us that the first grand re gatta takes place on the SOth and 31st instant and 1st day of June. The firat day will bo a contest between yachts, schooners and sloops. The second day there will be four races with row boats and a tub race. The third day will conclude the regatta with sculls and row boats. The census of last year shows some carious facts as to population movements. According to the Paul Pry of the New York Commercial Advertiser, Georgia and Arkansas show an in crease of 12 per cent, of colored population ; Texas 23, and Florida SO. Louisiana has lost heavily of its negroes, and so have Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee. The Connecticut Election.—The Democrat ic papers protest against tho recount of votes In Connecticut, as illegal, unusual and bound to lead to unfair results. The original canvas was mado in the presence of the electors, and to re open the boxes after the lapse of a month in which no adequate protection has been main tained against “stuffing,” is a farce. Weatheb Last Week.—The World says the weather has been peculiarly severe in all parts" of the country during the past week. The crops have boen injured both in the West and South. Snow fell in Maine last week to the depth of five or six inches, and the Hndson River at Albany and Troy rose so high as to submerge the lower portions of those cities, in cluding the docks of tho latter. Wives Wasted.— California sendeth greeting, to the Atlantio States and wants young girls'or attractive widows for wives. There is a doleful scarcity of the fair sex in that region, and the young men who need helpmeets are either too poor or too busy to come for them. But they offer to girls who will emigrate employment at twenty to forty dollars per month, and a fair prospect of speedy marriage. Indiana divorces have “played oat.” It now takes a bona J?<&re3idenoeof three years in that State before a divorce can be obtained for any cause. And it is iu*thermore’ enacted that, in cases of tho application \>«icg made on the ground of acts committed in another State, it must be shown that thoso acts are legal gmnatig for divorce in the State where they were com mitted. Fond hearts pining for a new deal in tho little game of matrimony will please ™nt-A • note of these facts. The Gbavb or Stephen A. Douglas to be Sold at Auction.-rThe Chicago papers an nounce that the grave of Douglas in that city is to bo sold for taxes. It appears in a com munication from the City Collector to the Coun cils that an assessment of $2,200 for improve ments had been made upon tho ground Wherein xeposod all that was mortal of the Little Giant, and that as the courts have given judgement, he shall be compelled to proceed. House flesh in New York has been increas ing in prioe for tho last twenty years more rap idly probably than any other species of property. Since 1850 it has advanced 400 per cent. In 1858 Flora Templo 6old for $8,000, which was considered enormous. But in 1862 California Damsel brought $11,000; in 1864 Bonner paid $13,500 for tho Auburn horse; in 18C6 $25,000 for young Pocahontas, and in 1867 $33,000 for Dexter.. Pabtb Affairs.—Fort Xssy was captured by tho Versaillisfs yesterday. The National As sembly troops have now uncovered all the ram parts on tho western side'of Paris, and it seems probable that they will soon bo able to carry tho latter by storm. However, if the Com munists make an obstinate defence behind bar ricades, as they threaten, the work will be, by no means, done when tho ramparts aro sur mounted. The city, in that case, will be pretty thoroughly wrecked before the fight is over. Db. Livingstone is again alive. This African traveler is an enigma. He has been dead sev eral times, according to report, and os often has e comoto Ufe. Yet we hear nothing definite as s !jf,v in8 ; ° e rtainly nntil he is “stone dead he will be a Livingstone. He is a hard case at best in our opinion. He is a traveling philanthropist, and wo have very little faith in that order of travelers. Most of them were tt' sitaated » for world, in lonalio asy- Monopoly of Cotton production. The World estimates the last cotton crop of the Sonth at 4,185,000 bales, which at the New York price of 15 eerie- war, worth two hundred and fifty-ono melons of dollars; and this, he says was a forger sum than was ever received by tho planters for a single orop. Ho is mi3ta jj C . r . in the figqres. For, if tho price: of last year’s crop was 25 cents, as he states it, then tho S,154,946 bales produced in 1869 must have been sold for considerably the rise of three hun dred millions. _■ 4^*-' ■. Tho World argues to the length of more than a column on the impolicy of curtailing produc tion. Production should he kept up to the highest limit, so as to break down foreign ri valry. Three or four years, that paper thinks, would break down competition effectually; but to diminish tho crop in order to raise the price is to offer a bounty to pur cotton-producing ri vals. The Sontbem States have ample capacity to supply the .whole world with this important staple, of a bettor quality and at lower prices than any other part of the globe. Mr. Commis sioner Wells, in a recent letter, estimates that not more than three per cent, of the Southern lands adapted to cotton have ever been at any one time, under cultivation. The importance of this product cannot be overrated—it is our chief article of export and the foundation of our foreign commerce. But for our absurd tariff, which increases the cost of production and hampers trade, wo should clothe tho world. Cotton is the cheapest ma terial for clothing tho human race. Its con sumption is vast, permanent and .<increasing, and it would be a fatal mistake' in Southern planters to give np their land3 to cereals, and diminish tho cotton product Western grain and pork wonld then loso their market. The true way is to convert thorn into cotton, (so to speak) on Southern plantations. Tho European indebtedness of tho American people, inoluding Federal, State, Municipal, Railroad and other bonds and individual in debtedness, cannot be less than fifteen hundred millions, with an accruing interest of ninety millions a year; and there is no way to meet this but by cotton exports. Our large imports lions during tho suspension of cotton exports wero paid by exportation of bonds—that is to say, by funding the balances against the coun try ; but what the country now requires is large exportations and a monopoly of the cotton trade, This summary gives the drift and main points in tho World’s argument, which is not for the first time presented by that paper to the South ern planter. There is a mjlxtnro of truth and error in it. In its general bearing upon the domestic and foreign trade of the country at large, probably it wonld be better to produce heavy crop3 at low prices, than smaller crops at living ones. Bnt in this business we of the Sonth wonld realize tho fate of the dwarf who fought os an ally of the giant—tho giant took the glory and the spoil, while tho poor dwarf took the blows and wounds. The country nuutua monopoly or cotton pro ducing, and so do wo. The other sections of the country say we can bring about this result all the sooner, if we will import all our supplies from them, and devote all onr energies to the single end of crowding the foreign markets with vast supplies of cheap cotton. Perhaps that is true; but bow can wo afford to carry on that operation at onr own sole expense ? We must certainly lose a great deal of money in growing cheap cotton on Western and Northern supplies. But as all the other sections have a common in terest with ns in this great enterprise of put ting down foreign grown cotton, why will they not divide losses ? Will they do it ? Not they. They will sell us their com, meat, mules, hay, guanoes and all other supplies for just os high prices as they can get, and they will buy onr cotton with tho last mill off. Wo know, furthermore,, that when they fur nish ns money for this very course, which they insist we ought to pursue, and which it is so Thus the Richmond Dispatch, and we have a lively oonviotion that it ia UUdng much for their interest we should adopt, they do it with great reluctance and at very high rates of interest. Manifestly, therefore, we have got to carry on this cheap cotton war at our costs and charges, and we should certainly break down at it, because we have no surplus of past accumulations to'moet the losses. The true way, therefore, for ns to follow is? to protect ourselves while endeavoring to mo nopolize cotton production. We must adopt a policy which will reduce the cost of production to ourselves, oven should the operation of cheap ening cotton to the outside world be somewhat retarded by it. It is a point now settled beyond all question that wo cannot afford to buy West ern and Northern supplies with cotton at thir teen cents a pound. The policy of raising our own food, therefore, has assumed the simple and sharp form of self-preservation. It may ha wise for the West and for the North, and worse for the great national trade interests; but we must protect ourselves or sink into bank ruptcy. Seeing, therefore, that tho other sec tions will not divide risk or expense with us, and we cannot carry out their suggestions at onr own cost altogether, the only effective com petition with foreign cotton wo can possibly offer must bo one consistent with our own sol vency as produoers. To attempt to carry on any other would be to surrender the field. Frost In May. A planter near AhdersonviUe informed the writer on the cars yesterday, that a sharp frost occurred tho day previous at that point, killing cotton dead in spots where it was attracted by f traan, bifa of bark, etc. \ - Wo hear oi .light frosts at Cnthbert and other points, also; bnt no immediate damage has resulted to tho crops. The injury to young cotton will be more perceptible in a few flays, when the plant will change its color, and become diseased end lonsy, and perhaps die out right on sandy lands. Atrocious Onfragc. We lcam that tho infant of one of tho most respectable citizens residing near Cotton Hill, waB, last week, cruelly beaten and bruised by an incarnate vixen in the shape of a colored nurse. The little innocent—a sprightly boy about eighteen months oio—was whipped mercilessly, and its little body snowed painful evidences of the blows and injuries inflicted. Yet this wonld not weigh a straw in the opposite scales of Washington Ku-klux committees. Countx Faibs.—We oall attention to the com munication of Mr. Secretary Lewis on the sub ject of County Agricultural Fairs, and to the interesting report of a County Fait , lately held at Marahallville, which seems to have been an occasion of unusual interest* and enjoyment. We agreo with the State Agricinttnral authorities that nothing can bo better calculated to enthuse the publio in tho great cause of agricultural improvement, and, in fact, to promote social harmony and enjoyment than these unpreten tious gatherings. We are glad to See that Bibb county will hold her first monthly fair on tho 29th instant. r -\ * Chops in Bakes and Mxlleb.—From a friend' jost returned from his plantation in that region, we learn immense crops , of corn have been planted, and tho prospect is more flattering than for years past for an abundant yield of this val uable cercaL Our informant had reduced his cotton area 100 acres, and added that amount to the com crop. Planters havo been seriously retarded in tho plowing and chopping of the young cotton, owing to continuous rains, though the stands are generally good. The cat crop ia large and very luxuriant. The Laborer Is Worthy ol his Hire. Dr. De Will Talmadgo quaintly but truthful ly remarks, that tho too frequent absence of force and fire in the pulpit, is the laek of beef steak to the poor minister. - * The salaries of seven-eights of tho clergy of all denominations, are utterly inadequate to the decent support of their families. What moro effective tamer of the’energies of maD, than hnnger_and-the pinohings of poverty? And in a majority of instances,'tho servant of God from his first experience in tho meager commons or cheap boarding house of the semi nary, is subjected through life to a hard and scantily regimeD, little better than prison fare. With a salary of four or five hundred dollars, eked out by the odds and ends ol surprise par ties, andofttimes paid in kind instead of cash, after the shoddy wardrobe, fuel, medicines, and other expenses of tho family have boon procured, what remains to purchase fresh meats, good tea and coffee, and the other necessaries of-lifo? Hence, we have known faithfol ministers to go days without tastiDg meat, and frequently see them toiling in tho garden or field, to raise pulse andlentils to supplement their daily meals. And yet these men of God are expected to lead in all objects of charity, and present a decent appear ance in society, despite the paucity, of their means. • . Now aside .from Christian obligation, and considered purely in tho light of a business transaction, this. is all wrong, and smacks strongly of in justice to a most worthy and useful class of the community. That congregation which expects moral and mental pabnlmn, and “beaten oil” in the sanc tuary, must be willing to pay for it. Is any man fitted for intellectual labor, when L’is thoughts aro a prey to worldly cares and anxie ties, and the wants of the body are ever press ing upon. Ms attention? But how can it be otherwise in the case of the over-worked and poorly paid pastor. Tho writer can cite a certain church in South west Georgia, whioh gave $150 for a melodcon and raised but fifty for its starving minister, Is not tMs a burlesque upon pMlanthropy ? The secular press, and all honest men, are equally bound to co-operate in upholding tho claims of our faifMul clergy, to at least a mod erate support, for their manifold labors in the pulpit, at the death bed, amid tho ravages of the pestilence, and wherever else suffering hu manity calls for their presence. A reform in tMs respect, will bo one of tho surest indications of political and. religious pro gress in the country. Let the self-denying min ister of the most High God be released from all eartMy cares. The Florida Counterfeiters. The Jacksonville Union says Oliver H. Sex ton, the alleged counterfeiter, wa3 tried be fore United States Commissioner Robinson, at that place, last Thursday, and in default of $15,000 bail was committed to Nassau county jail. A deputy marshal was sent to Lake City the day before to look after other parties, but, they had received warning and fled. Ho got possession, however, of about $400 bogus gold five dollar pieces wMch Sexton and Ms confed erates had passed on people at that place. Sex ton will bo remembered by our citizens as a workman formerly in tho employ of Messrs. E. J. Johnston & Go., jewellers, of this city, and afterwards a3 in business for Mmself on Cot ton avenue, where he was understood to be do ing well manufacturing college badges, pins, eto. Noblo practised dentistry here for a time, and was noted for his mechanical ingenuity. The following extract from a report made to tho Treasury Department by Kryzanowski United States Supervisor of Revenue, shows how the case was worked up: Upon my arrival here, on April 28,1 received information from a reliable sourco that one R. Noble and O. M. Sexton had been making counterfeit United States coin, at Lake City; that the parties had removed their machinery to Fernandinn,. bnt that a man near Lake City had some of tMs counterfeit coin. Having full confidence in the statement I concluded to act even if it was out of my line of duty, knowing that tho interests of the Government justified me in so doing, and I instructed Detective Beach to go to Lake City and work up the case, He left on the 30th of April, and on the first of May ho went to the house of the man, after the counterfeit coin, wMch ho found. On Ms return to Lake City ho met Louis Delomo, United States detective, who told Mm ho was there to work tho ease np. Beach, having pur chased some of tho counterfeit coin, they had the bey to the job. They then decided to work together, and they traced Noble, Sexton and one Swett to Femandina, and from the railroad books they convinced themselves that the ma chinery was sMpped there. Delomo went to Fernandina to watch the parties and Beach came to Jacksonville to watch a suspected party. Tho counterfeiters precipitated matters by chartering a steamer for Black Point, Ga., and loading the machinery. Delomo requested J Deputy U. S. Marshal Hazen to assist him and they made the arrest and captured the ma chinery. Sexton was arrested by Deputy U. S. Marshal Mooney. Sexton engraved the dies, Noble assisted in the manufacture, and Swett was a “shover.” At Lake City they had a shop, ostensibly for jewelry and dentistry business. Tlie News. The Paris Radicals seem almost at their rope’s end. Issy ia now held by the Yersaillists, and they are entrenching up to the very walls of the city. We gather from the noon telegrams that an assault on the city was to have been made yesterday, and probably our night dis- patohes will contain some information as to the result. Mont Valerien was to bombard the city, we suppose as a preliminary to the assault. Gen. Rossil, commander of the Commune forces, seems to have despaired of success, and resigns his command. The South Carolina Tax Payers’ Convention, wMch met yesterday at Columbia, was an im posing body, and its deliberations promise most beneficial results. We are glad to see that calm ness and moderation are likely to mark its de liberations, and that tho presence of some well known Radicals relieve it from the charge of partisansMp in ito purposes. Tho dispatch puts the total bonded debt of tbo State at $70,000,- 000, wMch must be a mistake. The English Church won a great victory ovor the English Radicals yesterday, on tho motion of the latter for its disestablishment—tho ma jority being 28.*; Gladstone and Disraeli both opposing the motion. -~i- • . ■ ■ ■ ■ t ll/ JS. . Crops in Twigs* County, j A farmer residing in this county .gives a gloomy picture of the cotton prospect. Wet and cold combined have damaged the stands badly, and the plant is feebte and looks dis eased. Yery litQe chopping or thinning out has been done, and so rapidly has tho grass been forced forward by the rains, that many farmers despairing of subduing it, are plowing up their cotton and planting oyer an«w. A larger area than u-ual has been devoted to corn, and this crop is qnito promising.'' Unlike cotton, com rejoices incloudy weather and a cool atmosphere, when not accompanied with drought. “Onr Northern Friends.” If there is one tMEg for which “our Northern friends” stand pre-eminently distinguished, it is their self-sacrificing liberality—their unselfish desire to develop the resources of the Sonth. TMs has become a passion with them, manifest ing itself on all occasions and in every possible connection. They are constantly giving us tho most disinterested advice as to how to manage our ora business, and tliongh we do not often accept their counsel with the gratitude, due such single-hc-arted. affection, they love ns too well to be discouraged in the least—they still insist on helping ns to develop onr resources, and showing ns how to do it. We suppose tho New York World may bo con sidered as the principal organ of “onr Northern friends.” It certainly is the most persistent onr counsellors, ss well as the most earnest in reiterated assurances of its sympathy and.good will,. When wo complain of the dominant party at the North, and disapprove of tho reconstruc tion acts, the Ku-klux bill, and similar evi dences of Congressional justice and good will we are advised that tho best thing we can is to acquiesce, to “accept the inevitable.” Our “Northern friends” are willing to submit these.aots for tho sake of-peace, and why should not we be oqually so? They aro content to sub mit to four or five thousand free negroes voting and being eligible to office among a voting pop ulation of seven or eight millions, and why should we mnrmnr. even at five .millions slaves being made the rulers of our government and the arbiters of onr destiny ? Uncomplain ing acquiescence on*onr part is essential to tho success of “our Northern friends” in getting possession of the government; therefore let acquiesce and no grumbling. Their success, on this line, will not remove - a particle of the burden of iniquitous legislation under which we are now crushed; but as it will perhaps pro tect ns against any additions being made to the •load; we must stagger on as well as we can and not even wMmper, lest “onr Northern friends’ may be embarrassed in the execution of their plans. How can we be so hard-heaited, so un grateful as to besitato for a moment to shout with ono accord, “We acquiesce, we accept the inev itable. Whether constitutional or not, we swallow reconstruction, disfranchisement and all, and we trill never grumble again.” Well, this may good policy, and it may be the best that we can do. We do not say that it is not; bnt wo do say that wa are utterly unable to see wherein wo, Southern men, have any special cause for grati tude to onr “Northern friends." Tho oracular advice of the World, and to which we referred in our issue of yesterday, in regard to the “monopoly of cotton production” is another proof of this same disinterested solicitude onthe part of “onr Northern friends.” Tho World satisfied that we have it in our power to recover forever the monopoly of cotton production and crush out all foreign rivals if we keep on planting all cotton and no corn,.selling onr cot ton to “onr Northern friends” several cents be low the cost of prodnotion, buying all our pro visions, clothes, eto., from tho same frionds tho Mghest possible prices, and if we have not got tbo cash borrow it from our friends at 2 per cent, a month. NotMog can be plainer in the world. Onr “Northern friends” want all the cotton we con raise and at the lowest price, and which rings and speculators can depress in order that they may destroy foreign importa tion, pay foreign indebtedness, stimulate North era trade and manufacturers and get rich, im mensely rich, out of the sweat of Southern brows. And why should wo refuse to acquiesce in this requirement also ? Wo should not hesi tate to do that wMch will promote tho “nation al” trade in the Mghest degree, however ruinous it may be to ourselves Since 1865 we have been straining every nerve, spending all our money and exhausting our credit to raise big crops of cotton. We have at last succeeded in raising 4,250,000 bales. It cost ns from 14 to 15 cents per pound to raise it and wo have re ceived 12 cents—a dead loss of two or three cents a pound. While we have been striving after this pleas ing consummation wo havo bought all our pro visions and clothes at the North, and the result is that it is hardly possible to imagine a people more nearly bankrupt than the peoplo of the Sonth to-day. Bnt what does that matter? “Our Northern friends” have got onr big cotton crop. They got it at their own price. They made gigantio profits on tho guanoes, the meat, the hay, and the com, oto., etc., which they sold us, and they have raked in usury upon usury for every dime they have lent ns. To diminish the prodnotion of cotton, to raise onr own pro visions, ito become independent of money lend ers, to be in a position to control onr own cot ton market, and fix the price of onr own pro Auction, would hurt our “Northern friends' very much, would pinch them like tho misohief, “therefore,” quoth the World, “it is impolitic to curtail production. Plant every foot of land in cotton. Let provisions slide, you can get plenty, if yon have tho money, from the North and West, and thus our trado and commerce will flourish—we will getrioh hand over hand, and you can continue to toil and sweat as onr overseers, breaking down foreign competition, and the greater yonr success the less shall be your remuneration.” It is impolitio to express hope that one day' wo may bo relieved from the pressure of unconstitutional tyranny, and it is equally impolitio to curtail the prodnotion of cotton and save ourselves from financial ruin. Tho impolicy in both cases consists in the inter ference with the schemes of “onr Northern friends. So far from stimulating the production, wo hopo that tho orop of 1871 will not reaoh 2,000,000 bales, and that not a man sonth of tho Potomao and OMo rivers,.will buy twenty- five cents worth of Northern or Western pro visions. Wo do not underrate either the disposition or the strength of onr “Northern friends” to hotter our-future political condition, but wo aro fretted sometimes at their patronizing tone and the cool way they ignore considerations that, trades to them, are of the Mghest moment to us. We know that if the Sonth ever stands upright on her feet again, it must bo by tho aid of our “Northern friends,” and we expect to second all their efforts with all our might. Bat that is no reason they should treat ns merely as a bob to their Mte, or assume the attitude and speak the language of superiors to inferiors. Cheiamen’b Taub.—Wo noticed jesteiday fire or six Chinamen in a high-toned barber’s shop on J street, haggling with the proprietor about something. We stopped to investigate, and ascertained that the Chinamen wejre nego tiating for the sale of their caudal appendages. A bargain was finally struck at three dollars each. They did then their tails unfold, the barber cut them off, and paid the respective owners three dollars apiece. What will the barber do with the tails? Why, he will build them into “switches” for fair American dam sels, and get at least six dollars apiece for them. —Sacramento Reporter. A studious writer classifies blondes as fol lows : The Gotbio-Irish, the Saxon-English, the little ridiculous blonde, the cephalic gold blonde and the lymphatio blonde. Of these the cephaiio gold individuals are most dangerous to mascu line peace of mind. New York Newspaper Gossip. The New York correspondent of 'the. Boston Post writes the following gossip about the news paper business, present and prospective: of that city: i-; ’ | We learn from the country papers that Com- modore Vanderbilt is preparing to ’establish a daily in this city, with a capital of nearly a mil-' lion dollars. As Vanderbilt is a pretty shrewd old gentleman, and very careful'of .his;money, people here do not believe that he.has any snob intention. There isno heed of Jt new’daily ip New York, and oortainly the Commodore is in no need of an-organ. The new, ono-cent' morn- - ing paper, the Ray, -wMch a conple of adventu rous journalists projected some weeks ago, has made his appearance. As tho Evening News, at the same price, has become one of the best paying cheap papers in-New York) there is a chance for the Bay to get on. At any rate, I hope it will. Tilton’s Golden Age continues to make inroads on the Independent, and is said to bo prospering finely. Certainly it is a great deal more readable than Bowen’s great blanket sheet, and in every reaped a more attractive paper, though muoh less gigantio and ponder ous. Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, the younger, has retired from the editorsMp of the Christian at Work, having found the duties of the position too onerous. Clergymen generally make ratheir poor editors, thongh some of them think they are the only men who know how to run a paper. All the dailies except the Times are prospering finely. *- THE GEORGIA PRESS. George Skerrett, a negro sailor who attempt ed to commit murder on board tho British ship Colorado, while on her last voyage from Liver pool to Savannah, was put on board that sMp at the latter port on Saturday, and will be sent to England for trial. ..' — There is weeping and wailing, and a bine fog of blasphemy in certain too confiding circles at Savannah, just now. M. M. Mooro, a lamb of tho trooly toil flock, employed in tho Savannah Custom-house, has-flitted to other fields, leavrog an'agonized washerwoman, landlord, tailor and bootmaker to remember Mm in their prayers. Look out for Moore at WasMngton before long, howling “ Ku-klux.” The Dahlonega Signal says Hon. W. P. Price has so arranged Ms “private affairs” that he will be able, hereafter, to give all Ms time as Congrossmarf^to attending to the affairs of his constituents. We are glad to hear it. The Northern Methodists abont Atlanta dedi- ’ catod a new church in that city, last Sunday. The sermon was preached Jsy a Chicago parson imported expressly for the oocasion, and over $5,000 were subscribed to pay off the debt. The Kimballs were the principal contributors. The corner-stone of the Confederate “Memo rial Monument'’ was laid last Friday, at Athens, with appropriate ceremonies. The monument will consist of a marble shaft twenty-five feet high, resting on three blocks of granite three and one-half feet high. After laying tho cor ner-stone, the. procession was reformed and marched to iho cemetery, where the soldiera’ grave’s were decorated and an address delivered by A. L. Mitohell, Esq., a one-armed Confeder ate soldier. Athens is on the pic nic and strawberry fea tivql-rampage, and yet some folks up there “are not happy.” Tho Athens Banner reports the wheat crop in that section as likely to be seriously injured by rust. . .* - . Mr. Wm. Bailey, an operative in tbo Athens factory, mysteriously disappeared last Wednes day night, and has been missing over since. The Griffin Star, of Monday, says : . - • Savannah, Griffin and Nobih Alabama Railbod.—A meeting of the Directors of tMs Road was held in this city yesterday, at wMch Judge Boynton, onr Mayor, was elected a director to fill a vacancyjrecently created. The meeting of the Board was qaite fall and enthusiastic. Among other business, a resolution was passed, anthorizing the President to pnt nnder contract immediately the construction from Newnan to the west bank of the Chattahoochee River. Wo clip the following from the Griffin Middle Georgian, of yesterday: Important Decision —The Goyeenob has no Right to PabdonBefobe Conviction.— James W. Hancock, of the connty of Upson, was indicted for an assault with intent to mur der. He gave bail and absconded, and the court permitted a forfeiture ni si of his bond, Beforo the next term of the court, wMch was hold lost week, Governor Bollock issued to Hancock a pardon, and the secnritie3 pleaded the pardon in bar of the right of the State to a forfeiture absolute. Judge Green being inter ested did not preside. Tho State demurred to tho plea on these grounds : 1st Because the Governor has no anthority to pardon a criminal before conviction. 2d. Because the Governor has no right to interfere with tho powers confided to the Judi ciary. 3d. Because the securities had no right to plead the pardon, as that right wa3 a personal privilege. After an elaborate and thorough argument by Hon. J. H. Smith and Solicitor-General Ander son for tho State, and CoL L. T. Doyal and John I. Hall for the securities, the Judge sus tained tho demurrer to tho plea, and tho case goes to-the Supreme Court. The peoplo of Gainesville and Dahlonega, and tho intermediate country, are moving the matter of a narrow-gnage railway between the two places. Officers have been elected, books opened and a survey contracted for. William Hood is th9 idlest man in Gaines ville at present. He is in jail there on a charge of mistaking other folks’ horses for Ms own. The Gainesville Eagle maketh this brag: Who Can Beat This?—At the examination of school teachers before the Connty Board of Education last Tuesday, Roderick McGuire, an old citizen of this county, registered his appli cation for a teacher’s certificate, and obtained certificate for one year—his general average being 88. Ho registered a3 72 years of age, with an experience of 40 years in teaching; We venture to say, that Uncle Roderiok is the oldest teacher in tho State. What is further remarka ble about the old gentleman is, that he reads fine print without the aid of spectacles. E. N. Kimball, of Atlanta, has resigned as Superinlendant of the Pullman, Ramsay & Kim ball sleeping car line, and E. H. Paine, of Louisville, succeeds Mm. The' annual convention of the stockholders of the Georgia Railroad assembled, yesterday, at Augusta. A lively time is expected, as the question of that road’s participation in tho State Road lease will likely come np. Mr. Joseph Miller, jeweler, of Milledgeville, died very suddenly, last Thursday, of heart dis- easei I * V, . A little Japhet was “in search of his father” in Justice Elsinger’s court, at Savannah, Mon day, to the great delectation of the local editors of that city. Rev. W. A.. Pkrks, General Agent of the American Bible Society for this State and Flor ida, states that Georgia has given $6,818 to that sooiety the paBfc fiscal year. A negro helped Mmsolf to a bolt of cassimere worth $10, in broad daylight, Monday morn ing, from J. Greenwood’s store at Golumbns, and bolted successfully with it. He works no moro this summer, if the blackberry orop is a good ono. L ' rir - ?• Tho Columbus Enquirer says there was a very perceptible f all of She:snow at Genova, last Sunday. lv II . 5 u,-; > - 7 Feom Emanuel County.—The editor of the Sondersville Georgian, who has just returned from this connty, reports the status as follows: Daring onr stay we met with planters from every part of the connty. Like others, bnt few, if any, made money on cotton last year. But fortunately tho provision crop was a good one, and supplies are ample for home consumption In short, the connty is in good condition. A reasonable cotton crop will bo cultivated this year. And a limited amount of commercial ma nures applied. Farm work is rather backward, owing to the repeated heavy rains and conse quent overflow, of low lands. The health of the county is distressingly good, so tho Doctors re port. Guessit’s true; the people look that way. The greatest wants of the peoplo are sohool houses, churches and moil facilities. j ' Of matters and things in Washington county, the Georgian says: Col. Wm. A. Irwin, a prominent and influ ential citizen of this connty, died at Ms resi dence at Irwin’s Cross Roads Tuesday morning. Mrs. Clarke, a very nged lady, died at the xesidenoe of Mr. Youngblood, her son-in-law, on Sunday night last a V iVvr—< Quite a severe storm passed over a portion of this county on Wednesday last. Crop reports are not as favorable, in this county, as oould desire. Tho continued heavy rains and repeated heavy blows have retarded plantation 'Work, and dampened the ardor of many. The young cotton looks poor and glass is growing “with a vengeanoe.” Already some crying out “this is going to bo a poor prop year." The report from the wheat crop for the past few days is very unfavorable. Rust and the fly are hard at work, it seems to out off the supply of bread. ■ ■ "p 5 «*• The congregation of the Second African Bap tist Church at Savannah, now “raise their Ebe- uezer” to the notes of a new organ just received,, and whioh cost $1,000. *"'■ . John Graham, a big, black, shiny wharf rat, drew a very “sassy” tongue and two brickbats on Mr. R. M. Cohen, wharf'clerical Savannah, Monday, and was dosed with a bine pill from Smith & Wesson pistol wMch made a sizeable hole In his left thigh. The Savannah Advertiser of Tuesday, says : Jefferson County Ku-klux.— Another de tachment of darkeys from Jefferson county, made their appeaTanoo at the “Bnro” offioe in the Custom House yesterday to relate their re cent experience with abont two hundred ahd fifty thousand *‘Ku-kluxers. ” The entire party had evidently been soverely whiskied, no doubt the better to horrify their imaginations. -The Constitntionalisf, of Tuesday, says ■ Yesterday morning ths following gentlemen, Messrs. John f. King," Edward Thomas, Thos. G. Barrett, Charles J. Jenkins, J. J. Cohen, W. H. Goodrich, M. O’Dowd, Henry Moore and J. J. Gregg, met at the office of the Augusta Fac- Let our planters then themselves with renewed vigorTaQ 1 . tion to the work of rendering the'* 0 ®* - ! really independent, by raiaing^wV^I plies of food for both man and beasf ^ ‘v| Thus situated, with even ahalf cron and enhanced prices, the silver v - c cloud will again cheer their vision of their present tribulation bo Letter from Ii^r olds Reynolds, G» Pdilors Telegraph and Messenger; tory Company and organized a body of corpora- nication from these “ lowm™. 7,, ’ 1 tors, to apply for a charter for a new cotton t - on £ela pr . np ,„ 0Unds of Proses. I manufacturing company, with a capital stock of j -PP • your valnsy. I $1,250,000, in $10 V 0 shares. After a full discus- and inasmuch as you hhve solicited sion of the subject, on motion of Mr. Cohen, lions and aro in constant corresnona tho Chairman appointed Messrs. J. J. Gregg, T. other sections of onr , ecee »i!il G. Barrett and W. E. Jackson a committee to I 5 .. , monwealth ? | u l open books and solicit subscriptions to the 1 ^ ® ? r *° a 3dress you brieg- : | capital stock of the company. Also, to adver-1 ° a ]; y\ rmi ?S operations have hr r S I lisa that, in conformity to law, a charter would retarded by the protracted wet weath. be applied for at the June toim of the Superior tho P ast month. The young com on 5? Court of Richmond county. that has received its first working tool,. 9 The Atlanta Georgian has the following: or>Mmt?nfnTifit r0C t ly * * Tbelowl! Masonic.—On tho 24th instant there will be ““i? 11to ™ nder ‘“Monel a grand Masonic encampment in this city. The £ . Li’™ 1 ? aWe ’. ^ose coBiimLf?' Masons of Atlanta, with their visiting brethren, !LJ ot r umndated by th* will go into camp for three days. The religions I yesterday afternoon and night whisj^ serviced connected with the order will beheld ^ in the Second Baptist Church, on the 24th inst., | P“? ted to middle of Hon. Thomas Hardeman having been selected I ?*YL a T _?? a d exceedingly unpromisi I£ T;$ as orator of tho day. 'On the night of the day b ybakkg mD ^ mentioned, there will bo a grand banquet given *“ at an “crastation of the by the Coeur de Lion Commanding of this city „ „„ tbo tender plant to their visiting brethren. - . On the next night a tb °^ rst Ranting ] 113 £ Jj* splendid baU will be given. A large attendance tbe writer is infoneci .77 of Sir Knights from various parts of the State, tlu3 community are iJaVTq 7 and a number of visiting brethren from other 0 .Mb® 33 ?? 0 Ppporimn as last rear-ivi Bates «• «P-tod <» «w as®S William Bonneli, Jailor of Fulton county, and planters gain wisdom eodS? J. D. Garrison, Atlanta policeman, interviewed ence. That they would devote the!- each other with pistols, Tuesday afternoon, more to tho production of the cereal's ujfSf! Result: Bonneli shot iu the little finger of Ms | v ^°°, cl ^ r . cultivation of thera&t left hand, and Garrison shot in Ms right Mp. The Forsyth merchants will hereafter close their stores at 6 p. m. There has been a “colored May party” up at Forsyth, and the wMte folks are wailing over 5 and stock growing—which would* caDse'S*! homes to teem with plenty, and thrirfcJSl to reverberate WithmirthiaSKSS S0 . n S» 13 “a consummation devoutly^ wished.” Yet, mrabile dictu, with all th 6 l. i of their suicidal foil. the loss of numerous fat porkers, in conse- j they still havo “cotton on therbndm ffV 2sT?l quence thereof. I ibis infatuation suggests an anaSoevhl We dip the following items from the Monroe ni °^am m "borprodnringamote^J .. . m , -I Iho Reynolds and Butler Sabfcqi I Advertiser of Tuesday: held their annual celebration U {MS? 1 County Finances.—Tax Payees in Council, day. The morning was very inawririmn f —At 3, moptiner nf tliA tllY ufiVPffl of Montnfl l onnli or* c?nn +V»n y * iv® I® COUnty, <.» ——, — J J—» I W'lnin, miu uccasiOIRU EtOWn f»!t 2d day of May, called to take into consideration ing. Before noon, however, sanshina the financial condition of the connty, Judge B. shadow were chasing each other, andthsafo? H. Zellner, was called to the chair, andR. G. noon was beautifully brightand pleasant Atm Andersen requested to act as Secretary. [ 9 o’clock in the forenoon, our dashing and cr.C • The following resolution, offered by CoL Geo. ited young townsman, P. M. Adams, Esq. ml W. Adams, was read and adopted: J ter of ceremonies and marshal of the day cm. Resolved, That a committee of five be ap-1 vened at the Methodist Church, an nssemW* pointed to confer with the Ordinary, for the j wMch filled it to overflowing. The scene of a purpose of ascertaining the financial condition many little cMIdren, with bright faces, in»s of the county, and that they publish their re- ated with happiness and joy, awakened nsiw port in the Monroe Advertiser. . memories of days of “lang syne” with The chair appointed Geoige W. Adams, W. I ter, and caused him involuntarily to drt oj L. Lampkin, Monroo Clower, L. A. Ponder and I pathetic old ballad, “Oh! Would I weseabor W. J. Dumas under the foregoing resolution. again.” The exercises w.ere opened with mm Col. G. G. Flint offered the following: _ by tho Rev. Mr. Littlejohn, of Butler, tad tha Resolved, That it is the sense of tMs meeting reception address to the Bufer school delived that the tax payers of this connty should resist by Mr. W. T. Christopher, the enterpiisia by all legal means tho paymet of taxes until tho I young editor of tho “Business Mirror,” iats Ordinary requires of the Treasurer and Collec- usual felicitous style. TMs was acknowletej tor valid and legal bonds—that is, bonds with in a chasto and appropriate response, bj ti* seeurities worth double the amount of said | Rev. Mr. Griffith of the Butler schooi-ayaj bonds over and above homestead exemptions, fine young gentleman, who has bnt recently* Resolved further, That in the event of said I sumed his clerical ermine, bonds being given, that this meeting approve Next introduced was Master Robert Taoke,tl of Messrs. C. A. King and M. G. Turner acting t the Reynolds school—the puerile Demosihaa as aids to the Treasurer and Collector respect- of the day—whose well declaimed Iittb speech ively, and that a committee of five be appointed ! was received with great applause. to examine and report when said bonds have boen strengthened, as contemplated by the above resolntion. The resolutions were adopted,* and the follow ing gentlemen appointed said committee: G. G. Flint, M. T. Harper, Edmond Dumas, G. A. Cabanis3 and W. H. Head. Fatal Accident.—John Goodrnm, a youth of thirteen years, was killed Saturday afternoon on the plantation of Ms father about four miles from town, by the accidental discharge of his gnn while out hunting. He set M3 gun against Then followed young Littlejohn, of the Bails I school, who acquitted himself most creffitabir. | After this, the Rev. Mr. Littlejohn delires'l I (by request) a most forcible, well-timed aniis- ] pressive address to the Sabbath School I Daring the intervals between the speeches^: I children “discoursed” some of their sweetest I sacred song3. At tho’close of tho address Is I mentioned, Marshal Adam3 announced an ad-1 jonrament of two hours for dinner and reerts-1 tion. Tables were arranged in the grovea«| the church, and a most sumptuous repast spreii I ‘‘W.’ a tree, and in taking it up again the hammer I —combining substantiate and delicacies—c!| wasraiHodby coming in contact with a twig; ( which all partook “sans ceremonie.” Dmrsl tho whole charge taking effect in the right tern-1 over, tho young people amused themselves hi pie. He died almost"instantly. I innocent games, and promenadiag. At fs.'l Air._ John Wooten sold fifty bales of cotton to J o’clock, the crowd reassembled at the church I Captain Lampkin on Saturday at 124 cants.— and after singing an hour, an invitationvas a-1 The cotton was stored in Cabaniss’ warehouse I tended to tho schools by the courteous o&is I moro than a year ago, at which time he refused I of the special train, to take a pleasure nisi 30 cents for it. across tho river. In this exoureion yonr canes-1 The farmers of Monroe are now paying la- pondent was hot a participant, bnt “parted I borers from $12 to $12.50 per month. company” at this juncture, with the gsy and I George W. Collier, who was shot at High happy throng. I Falls on the 29th nit., has so far recovered as to j The Superior Court of tMs Circuit coaveafi I resume active duties. | at Butler on next Monday. Judge Johnson, its I presiding officer, is extremely popular with ttf I A More. Clieerfal Outlook to the I people of tMs county in his judicial capacity. | Planters. To acquaint your, readers more fully with the I Tho terrible experience of the past two years, extent of Ms popularity and the estimittoniJ I ( whioh ha ia held, I make the following enns [ maugre nil predictions to tae contrary, is bo- from the neral p ressn t mei ,ts of the grad ginning to work out the pecuniary salvation Of jury for the - October term, 1870: “Inteiteg I the Southern agriculturists. j leave of His Honor, Judge James Johnson, vs I From an interview, yesterday, with one of the I would fain hope to express the sentimsatof re* J largest provision dealers in the city and perhaps s P® cl and esteem wMch we “tertian forks, . ?. / .. .. , . - , / | were we equal to the undertaking, weprofomt in the South, tho pleasing intelligence was de- ly aamir e his dignified bearing, his impute rived, that up to this period in the current year administration of the laws and unswerving ti- not more than one-half of the bacon, and one- herence to Ms oonvictions of right. Hisfafn- fifth oi the com had been shipped to the interior ai ?, ac °. men ? h L ch expeditea business. togeto J J * • 77 ,7 with Ms exalted sense of justice, which ignores j as compared with the consumption of the pre- any invidiona distinctions and recqgniw * j vious season. I ‘Tycoons’ among the advocates at this bar, an! Upon inquiry, we learn, also, that the books we bespeak for him when Ms rulings are ro of the Central Railroad show a fulling off G f Monger heard an immortality which wW ,, ...... . . his name m the Temple of Farce, with moss» near three-fourths in the guano trade of Middle his iu ustr i 0tig predecessors Phillips, Cota and Southwestem Georgia. Grattan, Webster, Choate and Berrien.” From this we argue, that our husbandmen I The Telegbaph and Messenger enjoys an rt - finding out how dangerous it’ is to toy with cot- tensive circulation, and shapes . ,®. . ... .. . all matters of public policy to a very large" ton, that most uncertain of coquettes, aro be- {ent in this pa f t of the country. It standssnn - ginning to turn their attention to the produc- Vailed here by any of its cotemporsries. tion of grain, stock, fruits, and other com- [Messrs. Editors, is not prompted by any fo- c - - forts and luxuries of the farm. The lesson, if {i “ disparage the merits of any^ ,, • . , . . . ’ but simply a conscientious desire to _ really acquired, was taught not a moment too to - Crc3 £rth & things that are Osar’s.” soon. not, however, attempt any dissertation And now that the planting season is over, and merits here—it speaks for itself, ana there is no longer danger of further increase to the cotton crop, through the greed of thought-I ° 1 Yours truly, less parties, wo propose to show that tho farmer has a fair prospect for an improvement in the price of the great staple, at the opening of the Fall market. Our reasons for this opinion may bo briefly summed up as follows: . i iV I a- pnvaio .ww - a--— ^ 1st. The acreage laid down in colton.tMs year | bnr g to a friend in Chicago, w i ^ wiU bo onc-fifih less than in 1870. TMs is cans- found its. way into ^ de by tt e ed in part, by tho abstraction of thousands of gives an account o a v Davi3 to the pli able laborers, who now swarm upon the numer- writer in company wn • ^ D ^ onsrailroads, and other public works In progress I tstion cultivated before * wri!£I of construction, and the unprecedented rains and b* 3 brother, Goneral Josep freshets of the past fow weeks. In the West, j sa y 3 '• r -.. mn R. E oc6 ° f on the margin of rivers, in the region desolated on “flnest^teamMfindlanded'attheHmrtC®^ by the dreaded crevasse, and in Southwest plantation about daylight tho ne^ ^ Georgia, Florida and Alabama, where thousands | This plantation and another known 031;*^ £ of acres of. the best lands are stiff under water, [were oc “P! ed ^?/°;° p^ent Davis- ^ orop come forward too late for a good yield. them both, to his favorite freedman, q{ , eB 2d. The "unfavorable spring has greatly re- f gomeiy, for $300, tarded field operations, and much cotton will be years, (1st January, 187C)m ^ j 3 very eaten up by grass before it can bo chopped and buf thoroughly educated before the** cleaned out. One of the best planters In Ran- met us and gave us a breakfast, dolph actually plowed up a good stand of cotton table himself, but not offering to ‘ cT e: last week, as he oould only destroy the grass by -Yfter breakfast we had a carnage an ^ a yz te.tm.thoa, wo, withog t. »a„go «» chances of a late crop, in preference to the labor | Montgomery made last ye^.r of cultivating that which was already unmanage-1 ton and a large quantity of corn. ^\r u ‘je#*- able. To this may be added the fact, that pres- j Blairfield, the former residence of - e w ent low prices do not offer any inducement to ^ wil^oW^ the farmer to neglect Ms corn prospect, ana, as to learn that former slaves of ^ r - “ ^ is most proper, this.branch of agrioullure Is I greeted him with .all- the warmth ceivlng far more attention than nsual. I that they were capable of expressis*- if 3d. The pacification of Europe will enable its °°^ !y Mte/dte^r, at wl war-weary inhabitants to turn their attention weald!y tost again waited on us - f“ ^ onoe more to the production of food, and the f style, we passed on to a very large act j^b recuperation of their exhausted resources, and plantation which hai^been pnz . „ ata ;e, 8^ era another season opens, the hum of business wiU again begin to enlivon the blood-stained ^ooo bales more, making 3,500 m a 11 : “ streets of the half deserted cities of the conti- j good crop year.” nent, and the demand for cotton resume its •" Kited* 8 normal proportions. j “Atom,” of t ^®^ arTar< ^ T - ! l ^^tjperisB eJ , : Lastly, As has been announced in a former y°“ like t0 ^ issue, carefully preserved reoords of past sea- sons indicate that three successive years favors- j He for the development of the eotton plant, attended also with late frosts, are unknown in I the history of the country. A heavy crop, therefore, the present year, is not within the j range of probabilities. EX'Presldent Davis Visits Hi* . i Home—Negro Farming on » b. rfiJ Scale. • ricks- A private letter from a gentleman m * i Young lady—Sir, wouldn’t you | some tickets in a punch-bowl. ._v Atom-No, thank you; 1 J3 . Young Jady;:(insmuatingly)— I like to buy some cigars, then ? jjjai* f Atom (with a very grave face)-* 0 ’ you; I never smoke. , rd ofW Young lady (losing [ you some soap if I thought you eve
