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Weekly Telearaph and. Journal &p Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JUNE 20, 1871.
. cotton Figures, etc.
i'fco receipts from all sources footed up, last
Tuesday night, 3,821,180 bales, against 2,792,-
379, at tho fcorresponding period last year—
showing a gain of 1,128,301 bales. The receipts
are falling of: rapidly now, though far ahead of
last year, when 302,567 bales came to band after
tho 9th of Jane. Add that amount to tho in
coming crop, and on the 1st September nest it
would foot up 4,183,747 bales. Add 25 per
cent., which we are disposed to anticipate, and
the crop would foot up 4,273,764 bales. Call
lho crop of 18T0-1 four and a quarter millions
of bales and there will be no occasion for a
material alteration of the figures.
The weather reports of the telegram, winch
are made np at tho office of the New York Com
mercial and Financial Chronicle, are correct,
although that paper suspects exaggeration.
Middle Georgia has hadles3 rain than any other
part of the cotton section we know about, and
js able to endure wet weather better. Our light
sandy soils absorb the water rapidly, and our
hilly surface discharges the excess with still
greater rapidity. Nevertheless, in Middle Geor
gia the cotton crop has suffered severely.—
Much of it is reported sickly—poor stands are
complained of and, above all, the constant daily
rains basing made it impossible to work the
und or kill the grass to any important extent,
lho crop is in bad condition as to tilth, and a
considerable portion will be abandoned.
In Southwestern Georgia, whoro the ! rains
have been a good deal heavier, and the landp
less capacitated to sustain or to shed them, the
damage is greater; while on those low and
level lands of tho west, ordinarily the most pro
ductive of the whole cotton region, the situation
U still moro unfortunate. Water has, probably,
been standing in the furrows of the best cotton
bottomlands most of the time for the past fif
teen days.
The telegram says, if these weather reports
from the South are true “it wopld be impos
sible to expect anything but a total failure of
the cotton crop.” The cotton crop never has
totally failed and never will. Cotton is, in the
main, a very hardy plant, and the vast area
devoted to its cultivation comprises a wonder
ful diversity of soil and climate. A total
failure of the cotton orop is, therefore, impos
sible ; but there have been great fluctuations in
the product. Thus, for example, the cotton
crop produced in 1860 was 3,656,086 bales,
while that of 1859 was 4,669,770—a falling off
of 1,013,684 bales. 4 # .
In viow of all the premises, to-wit: a cotton
area diminished from that of last year by at
least 15 per cent—the greatly diminished use
of fertilizers—tho extraordinary backwardness
and bad condition of the crop, and the very
unfavorable character of all the meteorological*
CGudiiidhs, we-think it will bo entirely reasona
ble to count on a falling off from the crop pro
duced in 1870 of one-third. Compute that
crop at 4,250,000, and this would give us,
la 3S71, a crop of 2,833,000 bales; end tb
about that amount our conjectures lead.
Ttt&GEbRGIA PRESS.*
Scott’s Narrow Escape.
That public spirited citizen of Ohio, E. K.
beett, who is kind enough to serve South Caro
lina ns Governor, has lately made a very nar
row escape. *
It seems he is not exactly in full feather wity
ais negro allies, so they are on the watch td
catch him unprepared. He lately wont home,
and the negroes, lead by Kansier, the mulatto
Lieutenant-Governor, determined to make a
bold push to oust him. The plot was for Kan-
•sier, as acting Governor, to call an extra session,
cf the Legislature on short notice—which was
easily done, as most of the members are always
loafing around Columbia—and as soon as it had
nssc-mbled to present, and have passed, articles
ol Impeachment against Scott. The plot was
within twenty-four hoars of development when
Chamberlain, the Attorney-General, and Scott’s
fast friend, heard of it, and he instanter set to
work to Mil it Being a man of brains and ex-
c etaingly smoothtongued, withal, he succeeded,
by hard work, an3 maMng many promises for
Scott’s good behavior in future, in so disorgan
izing Qie conspirators that the plot fell through.
It was a close shave, though, and admonishes
Scott of the great danger of taking holiday.
Ho will go home no more until it can be done*
with safety. The choice between him and Ban-
si er is probably that between the devil apd a
witch, but, donbtles?, the people of South Car
olina prefer Scott on the same principle that
tho conductor of tho railroad up in Tennessee
urged his own retention in office when threat
ened with a successor in the person of an en
tirely new man.
Ueobo Commune at Washington.— 1 The Gov
ernment organ at Washington, last Wednesday,
held up both hands in despair and annonneed
that “The lawless classes have complete mas
tery of the city, and lawB and statutes are pow
erless against them.” The “lawless classes” in
this case were not the “Southern Rejrel Ku-
klus,” but some five or ten thousand cf the
sooty “nation’s wards” who were rampagipg
around Washington, Georgetown and Alexan
dria, assaulting every peaoeable negro who
would not insist -with them on two dollars a day
lor eight hours’ work. A3 the telegrams in
formed us they scared Governor Cooke, tho new
Badical Executive of ^Vashington, out of his
senses and foroed him to suspend the public
works and discharge peaceful laborers for fear
of a battle royal in the National Capital. Mean
time the Executive Guardian of these interest
ing “wards” took to Long Branch, Champagne
and Segars, never for once proclaiming the
Capital in a state of insurrection ana seige. The
banner of triumphant Congo still float*, and
what Beauregard failed to accomplish ha^beeh
done by tho negroes.
“H. G.”—Mr. Greeley leached New York last
Y.VInesday and was forthwith interviewed by a
committee of the regular Republican organiza
tion and agreed to receive an ovation last night.
There is a growing disposition among the
Northern Radicals to pit Greeley against Grant
oh a candidate for the Presidential nomination.
They are getting sick of Grant’s selfish and
scandalous intrigues for a second term and are
tirod of his intense egotism. The^ say he has
not a thought outside of self and family, and
tho only expansive and generons feature in the
administration is that the President includes all
his family connections—even fourth cousins by
marriage. In short, the elements of a lively
contest are gradually accumulating.
Fuom Savannah to Vicesbcrg.—In one of
his letters the Senior mistated the distance from
Savannah to Vicksburg, and as the error was
material we correct it. The exact distance is
as follows:
From Savannah to Macon.... miles 191
“ Macon to Montgomery “ 196
“ . Montgomery to Selma “ * 44
“ Selma to.Meridian... “
“ Meridian to Vicksburg “
Total distance.^... «
This is believed to be the shortest practicable
route from the Atlantic to the Mississippi,
through a region of country capable of sus-
aining a railway line in effective condition.
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Governor Bullock bas gone to New York, to
be absent two weeks. •
Richmond Superior Court convened yesterday
morning, and'tho lawyers are happy. A thou
sand subpoenas have been is mod, and 450 cases
stand for trial on the civil dooket. The crimi
nal docket is also unusually large, • including
two murder cases.
Mr. J. W. Call retires from the local depart
ment of the Constitutionalist, and is succeeded
by Mr. J. L. Maxwell, a young lawyer of Au
gusta. ' “
We dip tho following items from the Consti
tutionalist, of Sfcnday:
Augusta and Hartwell Railhoad.—We learn
from good authority that the contract between
this company and the English contractors has
been signed, and the building of the road will
commence at once.
Tael Oats.—Mr. D. S. Page, of Beech Island,
showed na yesterday a sample of oatq grown on
his place, that measured seven feet. There
wore thirty-seven stalks from one seed. He has
fifty acres in oats known as the “yellow” that
will average six feet in height.
The Chroniole and Sentinel, of Sunday, says
it has rained at Augusta nearly every day for
three weeks, and promises fine snipe and alli
gator shooting on Broad street if it don’t stop
soon.
Tho Lumpkin Telegraph echoes the rain
chorus, and says some farmers talk of turning
their cotton fields out and making pastures of
them, the grass is so much better than the
cotton: “We heard one say that he oonld not
get his hands into his fields because the grass
was so high they were afraid of snakes; another
says a grasshopper would have to get on his
knees to bito his, even if he coul# find it, and
that when he plows it he lias to stake off. the
rows to know whero the cotton is.”
The first case of sun-stroke at Savannah was
reported Saturday. . It was a venerable and
much esteemed—mule.
' A. T. Wylly, driver for Mr. John Ryan, of
Savannah, was arrested, Saturday, for embez
zling $1000.
Says the Savannah Republican, of Snnday:
An Absconding Book-keeper.—A young man,
book-keeper for a prominent cotton merchant,
has tamed up missing withtwenty-five’hundred
dollars of his employer’s money unaccounted
for. The fact was discovered yesterday, and
on investigating the books tho above deficit was
found. Tho yonng man in question has of late
been rather fast, and wo have been informed
addicted to ‘.‘fighting the tiger” to a considera
ble extent. This fact doubtless explains the
oause of his sndden taking off..
The mules about Columbia, despairing of
getting tho cotton crop ont of the grass, have
gone briskly into the business of dying. Twenty
have died within thei last ten days.
On the authority of a gentleman who arrived
in Colnmbus, Saturday, from Newnan, the En
quirer reports the kiiling' there that day of a
young white man by a conple of negroes—one
holding while the other ent his throat. The
youth was not dead when the train passed, bat
his death was considered certain. The negroes
wore lodged in jail. No particulars.
The Southern Mutual Insurance .Company of
Atband held tveanty ihircl annual convention
last week, and declared a dividend of. 40 per
C6nt. to its policy holders on the last year’s
business. 4
The Columbus Sun says 36 miles of fishbar
rail have been laid on tho railroad from Mont
gomery to Colnmbu 3 , and that from' eight to
ten freight trains are expected to corn© to Co
lumbus over it every day next winter.
Miller county is ripe.for a bigj frolic. Sue
only owes $300. ’
A steamship line has been established be
tween Brunswick and New York. The first
steamer was expected to sail from New Yorkj^i.
Saturday. *
Augusta is to have a fire ihsurance company
of her own, to be called the “Commercial In
surance Company of Augusta,” with a capital
stock of $250,000, and tho privilege of increas
ing to a million. Seven hundred shares were
subscribed for on Saturday.
Dr. A. T. Henry, late of Newton county, died
a few day3 since at Henderson, Texas.
Mr. Washington Nobles, of Early county,
comes to the front with the first cotton boll of
the season, in that section. . j'
A benzined printer named Dell shot, and
painfullywounded, Judge J. B. Jones, Ordinary
of Early county, lost Monday.
Mr. Levi Peacock killed a big black bear last
Friday morning, within a mile of Coleman’s de
pot, on the Southwestern Railroad.
Messrs. J. B. Buchanan and H. B. Elder, of
Cuthbert, have each lost a child from scarlet
fever, within the past week.
The Randolph county trooly loll of the colored
persuasion have commenced drawing meat ra
tions from each other’s fingers. They bite clean
and sharp as a surgeon’s knife.
- Tho Cuthbert Appeal says:
CBors.—Tho general report for lho past week
is that the cotton crop in this section is" about
“gone np.” The continued wet' weather has
given the grass such a start that in many instan
ces, it is hopelessly lost Many planters were
plowing up cotton and planting corn it its stead;
bntthe past, two weeks have been too wet for
that.. Some farmers tell us that when they find
the cotton down nnder the grass that it is covered
with lice. The corn continues to grow rapidly;
the early planting is silking, and an unprece
dented com crop, for this section is promised.
The Covington Enterprise reports the pros
pect for a f f^r wheat crop in that section mnch
better than was expected a few weeks ago.
The Sparta Times reports tremendons rains
and magnificent grass crops. The Agricultural
Committee of Hancock county (Dr. Pendleton
Chanman) reports “tho acreage of the cotton
crop at 10 per cent, less than last year. Aver
age condition, compared with former y^arft, 5
per cent. less. Since the report was made, this
average has fallen considerably in consequence
of the continued rains.”
S. D. Dickson, cnee a fat and happy trooly
loll pap-sucker in the Savannah Custom-house,
bnt now, alas! only a lean and shrunken like
ness of himself, is writing to the Savannah
News, exposing “somedings” he don’t like to
see. He says Robb, the Collector, won’t ap
point citizens to office. He prefers gentlemen
from the North who will “harmonioualv co-ope
rate,” which Dickson explains as follows*
h*»inoss with him, and when he is in
trouble in W«*hington, such men can be taxed,
as was the case laJanuary last, twenty dollars
eaoh, to send on Hiliy«{ jmd professional lob
byists to “save him, as cte* 0 f the faithful told
me, “I had to sign twenty dollar-when Hiilyer
went on." This is “harmonious CG-eoeratioru’
There were three Inspectors whom I know wore
not called on; two of them have &ince been
missed; they were not “the right men in the
right place.” Last year an Inspector was or
dered to deliver two tons English coal to a cer
tain party (name can be given) and not to tally
it. He refused to comply and tallied it. He
considered his oath to his return sacred. He
did not “harmonize,” and was soon after dis
charged.
There has been repeate.d seizures of small lota
of cigars and other articles, which have been
sent to the Custom House, and that is the last
that was heard of them. These poor men don’t
dare to demand their rights. There was one
exception in the case of the British ship “Ivan-
hoe, whero a large quantity of goods were
seized in October, 1869, by four night watch
men. ' The Captain was fined over $2,000, and
the goods sold. The informers were entitled to
one-fourth. After waiting over a year, one of
the party interested urged his claim, and finally
Robb was ready, showing him a statement that
he (the watchman) was entitled to $1170. He
demurred, and refused to receive it, and was
told “that or nothing.” I heard the facts, and
posted him to make his claim in Washington,
Which he did, which caused another statement,
showing $107 75 to be due to him, but this
could not be paid; his necessities compelled
Mm to sell his claim for $75. The purchaser
has since reoeived $100 on account This
who pressed his claim did not “harmonize.”
Ha was discharged. The other three, who were
loyal, are retained.
T* T"7 t f ! * j 1 I . Jr.
The Methodist parsohSge at Elberton, was
burned last week.
The Rome Commercial is reSToBBio.t f t TiSS
following: '."*■* X .
A Word Afit>UT:FExioHTs.—Sir. Camp bought
a buggy in th4 city which he wanted to ship to
Dalton. The distance is forty miles, and the
buggy weighed 340 pounds. The Agent of the
Selma, Rome, and Dalton Railroad Informed
Mr. Camp that the charges on the buggy would
be $8. Mr. Camp was astounded and refused to
pay it. He went to. the Express.office and had
it shipped for three dollars and twenty-five cents
—less than half what the Selma Road charged.
So now the road will have to take a buggy as
express at less than what it charged for the
same buggy as freight. It strikes us that ex
press charges are always about thirty per cent,
higher than .freight, bnt the Selma Road will
teach ns that freights are twice higher than ex
press. . "
editorial correspondence.
News in Southwest Georgia.
The writer regrets that tbe lapso of another
week, has in no degree improved tho situation
of affairs in this fertile, region of the State;
Rain, abounding, merciless rain still continues
to pour down in-torrents every day, and the
fields have a sodden, saturated appearance, re
sembling the mud flats of the coast wlnoh have
beenbaredby the receding tide. "Where the sur-
fnco is level,-and in low spots,’ the water stands
in pools in the plow furrow, and it is only on
the hillsides or upon elevated plateaus^ that
mule or horse oan walk without “miring down.”
We saw whole fields.of cotton, wMch had ev
idently been abandoned to the rank growth of
grass and weeds, which had taken possession of
the soil. Last week in the Cuthbert Appeal,
mention was made of a cotton bloom; but this
must have been a sporadic case—tbe mere ex
ception to tho universal fact of Lilliputian, pu
ny crops. The plants will not average six Inches
in height, and forms or squares, are scaroer than
blossoms shonld.be at this stage of the season.
That outside help also, usually so abundant
to nlanters from the crowds of freedmen who
refuse to contract, and infest the towns and vil
lages, has all been absorbed by the myriads of
railroad contractors, who pounce down upon
everything able to wield hoe or shovel.
Corn crops continue to look well, and have
had an unusual degree of attention bestowed
upon them. Unless the rains cease, many fields
however, will be deprived of tho last or “lay
by” plowing.
A railroad mania seems to have seized upon
this wholo region of country. Stimulated by the
plethora of those enchanting looking “promises
to pay” issued by Mr. H. I. Kimball, old mer
chants, veteran hotel keepers, and Methodist
clas3 leaders, incontinently break loose from
present occupations, and rush to tho line of sur
vey of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad.
There, encamped upon the field, they impa
tiently wait for tho location of each successive’
mile, and no sooner is a contract signed, than
presto! a swarm of laborers pick and shovel in.
hand, level hillocks, fill np ravines, dig ont
stamps, and grade tho whole concern nearly a3
soon as Aladdin, with his wondeifnllamp, could
eh an go the scene.
The ides of November, and a Democratic Leg
islature some, are spitqful enough to say, furnish
the trna cause of this marvelous celerity. Be
this as it may, the Brunswick and Albany Rail
road will soon be “tin fait accompli," and the
sequel will show cui hono. 'Whether they pay
stockholders or not, railroads aro immonso de
velopers of wealth and civilization, and in this
instance, too, an-array of worthy and impecu
nious citizens will derive great present relief
from the spondulics they will finger. As to the
poor tax payer’s prospeots in future,when $22,-
000 in gold per mile comes to be met, this de
ponent hath nothing whatever to say.
Cuthbert grows apace, and real estnte is ad
vancing. AmoDg'the substantial improvements
on foot may bo mentioned the now storo of Mr.
Mack K. Gunn, to be built of brick with a
handsome stone front. Tho structure is 175
feet in length, and 33 feet wide. Still it will
barely hold the immense stock this enterprising
merchant has now on hand. This Gunn, of
heavier caliber than tho Potomac peace-maker,
is even superior to the celebrated piece on Do
ver heights, of which it was said:
“Sponge me well and keep mo clean,
And I’ll throw a ball to Calais Green.”
When he opens fire in the Fall, (hen tbe
the world must stand from under. And “yet”
Gunn “Is not happy.” H. H. J.
The Press and ex-President Mavis.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: It is not
surprising that the editors of Northern news
papers should assail ex-Fresident Davis for Ms
recent manly and honest expressions of opinion
in his speeches at Augasta and Atlanta. Mis
representation, perversion of facts, scurrilous
abuse of everybody and every tMng which we of
th8 South reverence and hold dear, are the con
stant objeots of these publications, so mnch so
that their abuse of prominent Southern men
has become an equivalent to praise. What
Southern man, who possesses and deserves
pnblio respect and esteem, wonld desire the
good word and commendation of JohnW.
Forney, or men of his stripe ? Is not their
ribald invectivo in itself an assurance that they
against whom it is directed are in every way
worthy of all honor, confidence and affection ?
Bnt I must confess to feeling intense disgust
and mortification when I see Southern editors,
who have Mtherto kept onr flag flying and have
nobly refused to surrender theii principles or
abandon their faith, join tbe Northern pack
and swell the ,ihowl of Northern abuse,of Mr.
Davis.. They may consider themselves wiser,
and possessed of more far-seeing statesmanship
than the Confederate Chief,’ and flatter them
selves that they would have made mnoh better
and more judicious speeches. They have a
right to cherish any hallucination they please;
bnt while they claim to be Southern men, ex
ponents of Southern opinions and defenders of
Southern rights, tliey have no right to degrade
themselves, outrage publio opinion, and do
violence to the feelings of thousands of onr
people by denouncing in unseemly phrase and
by insulting epithets, the illustrious man whom
the South delights to honor and to love.
. Mr. Davis declared tbe acts .of the dominant
political party at tho North to be violent usur
pations nnder tbe form of law. Wbat true
Southern man will dare to say that this is not
the fact? Mr. Davis distinctly recommended
peaceable submission to tbe reign of oppression
and wrong, bnt he refused to “accept the situa
tion” as one wMchlaw, practice, honor or truth
could sanction or approve. Had he spoken
otherwise, had he advised acceptance of the
14th and 15th amendments, the whole string of
reconstruction and tho Ku-klnx bills as laws
which Ms conscience approved os in conformity
with the Constitution of the United States and
the theory of onr government, then indeed, we
might sorrowfully in onr thoughts believe that
he had become a “babbler" and a “dotard;”
but even then, to utter such words in reference
to Jeffe*jon Davis, ought to blister the recreant
tongue that pronounced them.
In our ardent ^ai ta behalf of a political par
ty struggling for p««*r, patronage and pelf,
even though we expect telief from pressing
'wrongs by the success of that party, let us re
member what we owe to ourselyc*, ftn d, above
all things, let ua remember that the name and
fame of the leaders of the “lost eaose” Should
always be the object of our reverence, to be
guarded forever as a priceless treasure—the em
bodiment of the virtues and the glories of our
people.
If Democratic success isr only to be achieved
by a base desertion of those whose publio ser
vices have illuminated onr history, then, in tbe
name of onr manhood and of truth, let us
spurn a success which can only be purchased by
disgraoe. Confederate.
Drop in at the New York Grooery Store and
try one of those genuine imported Havana ci
gars for only 10 cents.
Indiana youth who give hints to the fathers
at the end of a bowie-knife, are properly locked
up for twenty years to study thepotat.
The Indian Chief who was presented, In
Washington, with a suit of clothes, viewed the
empty pockets with disgust; he expected a
lining of greenbacks.
I Cotton Movements for the Week.
New York, June 11.—Tho cotton movement,
shows a continued decrease, especially in re
ceipts, .which are the'smallest of any week since
the heighth of ‘the season. Exports are a little
below those of last week, but nearly double
the corresponding week of last year. The re
ceipts at all the ports are 28,136 hales, against.
36,402 last week, 40,178 the previous week, and
45,067 three weeks since. The total receipts
Bince September are 3,831,180 bales, against
2,792,879'the corresponding period the previous
year, shotting an increase' of 1,028,301 bgles in
favor of the present season. The exports from
all ports are '42,323‘bales, against 29,620 balys
last year. The total exports for the Expired
portion of the cotton year are 2,982,841 bales,
against 1,982,341 the same time last year. The
stock at all ports is 235,508 bales, against 263,-
8S6 the same time last year. Stocks at interior
towns 21,511 bale's, against 48,824 last year.
Stock in Liverpool. 914,000 bales, against 603,-
000 last year. American cotton afloat for Gre'at
Britain 206,000 bales, against 155,000 last year.
Indian cotton afloat : for Europe 415,147 bales,
against 328,180 last year. The weather South
has been rainy in some sections. Severe storms
have visited portions of Louisiana, Mississippi,
Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and South
Carolina. These have done much damage to
tho growing plant, and undoubtedly decreased
tho yield of cotton. The Southern planters have
had nothing bnt reverses and draw backs since
the gift wing crop was planted, and it wonld
seem from weekly reports of the weather that
rain enough had fallen.in the Southern 'States
to deluge the. Wjiole country. These reports
must bo exaggerated to some extent, because if
true, in detail, then ifwould-be impossible to
expect anything but a total faihira.of the cotton
crop. ’ I
Washington, June 11.—The New York Ex
press says -the sales of cotton for the week
reached 100,000 bales, of which 78,000 were for
future delivery, and 22.000 were on the spot
and to arrivor Of the spot cotton exporters
took about 1,450 bales, spinners 9,650, and
speculators 2,440. The Cotton Exchange elec
tion daring the week resulted in the choice of
a hoard of managers satisfactory to the entire
trade. The new board is composed of seven
commission merchants, four exporters and four
brokers,'all of wfTom are eminent-for respecta
bility and high.standing:in their respective
branches of the cotton, trade. There is every
reason to believe that the new board of man
agers will appoint a committee on quotations
that will so arrange the quotations for the
monthly settlements as to expedite an entire ab
sence of anything like the “Heathen Chinee,”
who made his appearance so conspicuously in
the settlements of last March. j ' ;
New Yore, June 12.—Seward and party ar
rived at Suez the 19th of May.
James A. Wilson, President Newark Typo-
grapMcal Union, died in that city yesterday.
A writ of error, onwMoh motion for a new
trial will be argued, was granted yesterday in
the case of Dr. Lookup Evans, the notorious
abortionist, whom Judge Bedford lately? sen
tenced to three years in Sing Sing.
St. Louis, Jnno II.—A meeting of railroad
men held here yesterday, with reference to
building the Grand Union Passenger Depot,
decided upon a plan and organization, and
adopted articles of association. The capital is
to be $3,500,000. Stock was subscribed by the
various railroad companies represented.
Baltimore, June 11.—The steamer Weems
was partially burned at the wharf. 1 The George
Law took fire, bnt hauled off, and was little
damaged.
San Francisco, June 11.—Mrs. Fair’s, death
warrant, bas been signed, and is in the .hands of
the sheriff. . *
Tho aelivity in the wool market .continues.
The low grades aro almost exhansted.
Immense deposits of canncl coal have been
discovered in Alaska.
Paris, Jane 11.—The press expect that a
strong effort will bo made by the Bonapartists
fomthe success of their party in the coming sup
plemental elections. Tho journals of Paris say
the Prince Imperial and not the Prince IJapo-'
leon will bo put forward as a candidate for the
Assembly, and think the result of the election
the cities will check the tendency .to monarchy.
The restoration of pnblio buildings has com
menced.
Don&y has issued an order that all civilians
found with arms in their possession after a cer
tain date shall bo tried by conrt-martial. Picard
has resigned the Governorship of tho Bank of
France) i
■ The Orleans Princes are still at Versailles.
Beclnry and Theisis, who acted by authority of
the Commune, as delegate superintendents of
the Bank of France and the postal department
respectively,.have been released from prison at
the intercession of the bank authorities and
furnished with a safe conduct to leave France.
All tho sacred vessels and valuable ornaments
taken from tho churches by the Communists
have, with few exceptions, been discovered in
the mint or other places. The French prisoners
are rapidly returning from Germany. *
Alexander Dumas writes to the Paris Prcsse
denouncing the blind clasMng of private ambi
tion at Versailles. He praises Thiers and ad-
voAtes a continuanoe of the Republic to wMch
he says France always instinctively reverts.
The'steamer International, which is to lay the
telegraph cable? between Marseilles and Algiers
has arrived at Marseilles.
Tho trains over the Lyons and Mcditerahean
Railway via the Mont Genis tunnel, have com
menced running again. .
New Yore, June 11.—Arrived, Antwerp, Gen
eral Bame3, City of Washington, and Ben Da
's. I
Charleston, Jnno 11.—Arrived, steamer Fal
con, Baltimore; schooners O. H. Eaton, Balti
more ; Ghas. Carry, Baltimore. Off the port—
bark Fanny, from Matanzas. Sailed, brigs Li
za Bell, Boston; W. H. Parks. New York.
Savannah, June 11,—Arrived, steamsMp H.
Livingston, New York; Echooners Syne, New
York; Mary E. Graham, Gardiner, Me.; Mol-
lie Mim, Mafanzas; Royal Aroh, New Orleans -
brig H. L. Gilliott, Cardenas. Cleared, schoon;
er General Ranks, Camden.
Ban Francisco, Jane 12.-«The press de
nounce a verdict of “Death from causes un
known,” given by a coroner’s jury over a
Chinaman whom tho boys killed. ,
Both candidates for Governor are pledged
sgaiast local subsidies to railroads.
Arrived—Constitution from Panama. ■
Worcester, Mass., June 12.—A tornado
passed through Baxter, Holden and West Bos
ton, tearing np everything in its pa'th. Trees
with a ton of earth attached to their roots, wero
carried thirty rods. Houses, barns and stone
fences wore prostrated.
New Haven, June 12.—Hon. J. S. O. Knowl-
ton, editor of the Palladium, is dead.
Seven members of the Typographical Union
have been arrested for a conspiracy against the
newspaper printereffand 'bailed. The ^parties
are determined to take the matter to the highest
court.
Rochester, June 12.—Edward Harris, of
Mobile, Ala., drowned himself in the Genesee
River. His body has not been found.
Chicago, Jane 12.—Hon. Freeman Keys, of
Vermont, died here. <
Boston, Juno 12.—The hark Heroine, for
Wilmington, N. O., returned, having lost her
bowsprit and started her cut water by contact
with an unknown bark.
Lisbon, June 22.—The Emperol and Empress
of Brazil have arrived here.
London, June 12.—The starving ;people of
Teheran in Persia, have eaten fifty children.
A dispatch from Bombay says a vessel was foun
dered neaT Lockport and eighty pereons were
lost.
<flt is reported that Thiers has resigned. The
Duke d’Aumale has deolined a banquet tendered
by tbe partisans of the House of Orleans. Paris
is crowded with returning oitizens and stran
gers. MacMahQn declines a candidacy for the
Assembly. -Work at the Gobeline faotory has
been resumed. The English tones are organi
zing fqg a yjgorons opposition to the Washing
ton treaty in Parliament. ,
Washington, June 12.—Belknap has retamed.
The new one hundred dollar gold notes were
plaoed in Circulation to-day. The Comptroller
of currency directs the banks throughout the
country to report their condition on Jane 10th.
Washington, June 12.—The Commissioners
have appointed the following persons to take
testimony in the South, in’such oases as can
not be brought to Washington for hearing:
Theodore W. Parmlee, Columbia, S. O.; Jas.
O. Firm, Memphis; Wm. Grant, New Orleans:
Chas. W. Hills, Shreveport, La.; O. H. Brew
ster, Monroe, la.; L. P. Jowbren, Yioksburg;
Harry C. Blackman, Holly Springs, Miss.; O.
Cadle, Jr., Selma, Ala.; M. B. Fignen, Hunts
ville, Ala.; F. A. Wright, Little Rook, Ark.; J.
L. Conley, Atlanta; CalvinL. Robinson, Jack
sonville, Fla.
There are other appointments to be made,but
they have been put off temporarily. These
Special Commissioners are to receive three dol
lars per day for attendance, and 20 cents per
honored words for taking, recording and certi
fying to the testimony.- The Commissioners
have also decided that their jurisdiction does
Agolaat th« “Heathen Chinee.’
The Penn Yus Chronicle oontains the following
’pretest from a Prussianized Yankee is that town
who don’t indorse Ah Bin, the “Heathen Cfcinee,”
and tfiis is fhe.^wbf of it
Yieh I vos going for to say,
» • Und I spreehen it blain-» . •
Det dose nonsense dot durns up
All der peeble’s brain
'Bont dat dricky Shon Shinyman’s notions,
Mikes me dake up mine pen to komplane.
Vet’s der good of dose dings?
If Shon Siiineyman peats
Mvuheer Nye at der kard blay,
because he oan eheats
like der duyfel and all of his imbs,
fih»li we shnicker und chumps off our seats ?
Netnl I now della you somedings,
Yieh you all order see;
Don yoo blay at dose kard-boarde,
• Tor four dimes in dree
Der pesht hand is held by an odder—
Yieh I found yob ehooet so mit me. .
not extend to olaitdB for rent, or tho occupation
of buildings and grounds for mllitarypurpoees,
and that they are not empowered" to report to
Congress on the merits of eny snob'Claims.
New Orleans, June 12.—The, sidewalks on
Canal street are clehr of water to Morea street'
The water at Galvez street on the canal has
fallen 26 inohes. Most of the inhabited portion
overflowed, for a quarter of a mile, will be clear
of water by- Thursday evening. There was a
heavy, wind and rain on Friday night, destruc
tive to plantations along the river, and damaging
to oropa, etc. A hurricane visited Gh&tawa, on
the Jackson Railroad, uprooting trees and dam
aging houses and fences. The orchards were
badly damaged.'
, San Francisco, June 12.—The steamer Chioa
has arrived. She brings fifteen Japanese stu
dents, pioked up from a jfunk driven off the
Japanese ooasi Five were rescued and eleven
Bfftrvediy ^' # . _ . .
Ktt.ma, June 12.—The Superintendent of
Publio Instruction of Alabama invites the
Alumni of the University of Alabama to meet
on June 21st, at Tuscaloosa.
Versailles, June 12'.—The idea of the re-
establisnment of the Government in Paris is
gaining ground. Duke D’Aumale leaves to-day
for England.. The court martial for tbe trial
of insurgents meets next week. The Minister
of Fihances proposes to levy the following taxes
Sixty mil linns upon registration agreements;
90,000,000 upon liquors; 50,000,000 uponsugar
and coffee; 200,000,000 upon textile goods and
colonial goods, and 50,000,000 upon various
other articles.
London, June 12.—Thomas Hughes, in an
address to the.workingmen of London, delivered,
on Sunday evening, eulogized the liquoi laws
and various other institutions of tne United
States. He praised the people and Govern
ment of that country, and urged emigration to
America upon all those vainly seeking work at
homo.
Beanos Axebs } May 16, via Lisbon, June 12.—
Deaths from yellow fever are diminisMng at
the rate of. twenty per day, and business is re-
rosuming its wonted course.
The manager of the San Paula Railway is
nnder trial for murder .in connection with the
reoent accident on that road. !
New York,. June 12.—Arrived ont—Ptolemy,
Nova Scotia; Ocienlo, with tho ‘Pittsburg
Knights Templar; Keean Prince, disabled;
YyimM.Reed.
• Charleston, June 12.—Arrived,schooner Hat
tie Combs, New York. Off the Port, bark
American Loyds, "West Indies.
London, Jane 12.—In the House of Commons
to-day, Gladstone, replying to a question, said:
The sixth article of the treaty of Washington
prohibits the use of neutral ports fpr renewal
of, or augmentation of, arms and supplies to
belligerents, only when exported in the' ordinary
course of .commerce., This, he said, was the
understanding on the pait of President Grant
and Minister Schenck. It was understood, how
ever, that pn the presentation of the role for ac
ceptance by other powers, that the statement on
this point should be clear.
: Gladstone stated that ho had received the as
sent of the United States Government to the
proposal to submit these principles of the treaty
to European powers for their acceptance. He
believed the prospective advantage to England
would be.immenso. He concluded by praising
the tone of America throughout the negotiations.
In the House of Lords, Russell, in moving an
address to the Crown against the ratification of
the treaty of Washington, unless the arbitra
tors were bound only by international and Brit
ish laws existing at the time of the American
war, argued otherwise, England might apply
one rule and America another, and the arbitra
tors still an’other. ■ -
A treaty will be demanded to secure peace,
bnt it was a dangerous precedent and an un
wise neglect of duty of Great Britain to her
American colonies, whose fishery interests
were sacrificed, for the treaty was one-sided.
Even about tbe fisheries, be asserted, Great
Britain bad observed all the obligations of
neutrality during the war. He quoted from the
blue book to prove bis assertion, and scouted
the idea of negligence on the part of the Gov-
ehmment. In conclusion he said the treaty
sacrificed English preBtige. It sacrificed all
for peace.
- Granville said he accepted the discussion but
not Russell’s motion. He explained the circum
stances attending the negotiation of the treaty
and deolaredits terms honorable and advanta
geous for Canada. While he regretted the ex
clusion of Canadian claims growing out of Fe
nian invasion, he could not help seeing that the
international gain was incalculable. -
Earl Derby hoped Russell would withdraw his
motion for the rejection of the treaty, which
America would take as a direct Insult. He did
not begrudge an apology,but regrettedretrospec-
tion of the rule, because it put England on
trial, after her admission of regret for. those
events, under the laws passed ten years
after the events occurred. Personally, he ac
cepted the treaty as an accomplished fact, taking
the evil with the good.
Earl de Gray .and Rinon defended the treaty
and condnct of the negotiations, and scouted the
imputation of the lamb-like meekness of the
British commissioners before tbe shearers. It
was tone they desired to conciliate the Ameri
cans, but nothing mOre: Several of the pro
posals made by the Amerioans had been pre-
sistently declined, although tfiey were .not pre
posterous. The apology for the escape of the
Alabama made the conclusion of the treaty
possible. The settlement of the' neutrality
question was a vast gain, as neutrality was
England’s future polioy. The omission of any
provision for,reciprocity was unimportant, in
view of the progress free trade was making in
America. He defended the articles concerning
fisheries on the ground that Canada was really
benefitted by them. The Earl of Kimberly
said Canada wasexoited in favor for the treaty.
Lord Cairn3 deprecated Russell's motion.
The treaty was as binding now as if it had be$n
ratified, although it was badly drawn and
obliged England to submit to principles Mther-
to’uuknown to the ccnntzy.
The Lord Chancellor sustained the treaty.
The Marquis of Salisbury declared the treaty
sacrificed the rights of neutrals to American
usceptibility.
The Duke of Argylesaid England gained an
acknowledgment of certain great roles of inter
national law, without making any sacrifices.
Earl Russell then withdrew Ms motion and
the debate was brought to a close.
. London, June 12.—Schneider, a noted French
actress, is married to a nobleman. ‘ ”
Rio Janeiro, May 23, via Lisbon, June 12.—
The Regent of Brazil i$ invested with fnll pow
ers during tbe absence of tbe Emperor. Sena
tor Jacquari has received' the appointmsnt of
Brazilian Minister of War. The Brazilian Gov
ernment presented to Chambers a bill for the
emancipation of all slaves belonging to the
Crown. . •
‘London, Jnno 12. —The Communists of
Clerkenwell, London, have resolved to hold a
meeting on Monday night,in Hyde Bark, to pro
test against extradition. The harvest prospects
of France and Prussia are discouraging. Much
seed has perished in the more eastern- portions
of Europe. However, the crops promise an
abundant yield. i
Macon Conniy Agricultural: Clnb.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : The “Ma
con County Agricultural Club,” at its regular
monthly meeting on the first Saturday in this
month, postponed its monthly fair until the first
Friday in July next, at wMob time it will cer
tainly come off. We wonld be glad to see Col.
D. W. Lewis, J. M. Brown and yonr noble -x. _rti • . , — T - —-
selves, at ourtext monthly fair, and if you wilh ff* _°?** ma 1 ka 8°° d « r0 Pf- *» j
come down we promise you something nioe.N ^ ere 80 little^planted I hardly think it
We have h'ad no rain to-day, for the first in
many. Corn in this and Houston oounly is
looking well, bnt cotton is small and in the
grass. For several weeks bnt little opportunity
haf been found to work the grass out, and it is
quite probable mnoh of the land planted in cot
ton will have to be tamed ent to grass. Onr
Agricultural Olutfhas a committee appointed to
report the condition of the orops at our next
monthly meeting, of wMch yon will be advised.
. ^ - F.
Great Telegraphic Feat.—In New York to
day the statute of Prof. Hone is to be inaugu
rated in Central Park with grand and imposing
ceremony, after wMoh a splendid banquet will
be’ given. At this banquet Prof. Morse will
perform the grandest telegrapMo feat, if we ex-
oeptthat of spanning the Atlantio ocean, ever
accomplished. At 9 o’clock p. u. the lines ex
tending from New Foundland to the Paoifio
ooast, and from the extreme North to the far
thest point South, will be so oonnected that the
Professor will be enabled to send a message
from the banquetting board, at the same In
stant, to every offioe in the United States.
Think of it! A man site at a convivial board
In New York and speaks with the tbngneof
lightning to thousands of his fellow-men, at
the same time, who are soattered all over the
faoe of a mighty and expansive nation 1 r
auueunuj.
with the Fren^ e tadUttSa% Ci l| r ^^lod 6ti
manner: 240,000,000 thalem are ti> v
priated to the military pension fund in
ance with the pensions?—■ -
The Lease—Card from President
White.
President’s Office, )
Macon and Western Railroad Comp ant, ■-
Macon, Ga.) Jane 12,1871. )
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In yonr
issue qf yesterday appears a notioe to the stock
holders of the. M&coa and Western Railroad
Company, with an explanatory note froin GoL
Tj. N. Whittle. In Colonel WMttle’s note,
find the following sentence:
I was not notified of the proposed meeting of
the Board as the other Directors were; on acci
dentally ascertaining there was to be a meeting,
and that the other Directors had been notified,
white I had not been, I enquired of one of the
Board what was the object of the raeeting, and
whether anything of importance was to be done;
he replied there was bnsiness of importance to
bo acted on, but that he had promised Captain
White, the President, not to inform me—so that
while I only knew in an irregular way that there
was to be a meeting on the 25th of May, I did
not know the object of that meeting, or what
was proposed to be done at it.
I know Col. WMtUe too well to entertain tho
idea that he wonld make an intentional misrep
resentation, and I am sure I esteem him too
MgMy to allow Mm or the pnblio to rest under
the impression that I wonld treat him with dis
courtesy, either personally or as a Director of
this oompany.
The facts tonohing notice to the Directors are
as follows:.
I was engaged myself in giving rotiee to the
Directors of the proposed meeting of the Board
to take place on the 25th of May, accompanied
with fnll explanations of the reasons for the
action contemplated at that meeting. Each
Direotar, as the explanations were given, ap
proved cordially of the meeting, and of the pro
posed action of the meeting. Two of the Di'
reotors (I think Judge Holt and Mr. Solomon)
offered themselves to notify CoL Whittle. I
said no. I preferred to see CoL W. myself, and
in person explain to Mm fully the reasons for the
meeting. Thereuwas no desire oh my part that
CoL Whittle should not he informed, but I de
sired to give Mm the notice and the informa
tion myself as I did the other Directors. Ac
cordingly, on that very day when I was notify
ing the others, I was going to CoL WMttle’s
officeito notify him and was informed he. was
absent from the city, perhaps at Rome. Before
his return I was compelled to leave the city.
Several days before the 25th—nearly a week I
think—learning that Cbl. W. was in the city
and proposed leaving again with an excursion
party, I determined to see him and nrge him
to attend the meeting of the Board. I was pro
ceeding to his office with Col. W. B. Johnston
for this purpose, when we saw CoL Whittle ap
proaching from the direction of the Lanier
House. He hailed me and said, “What is this
meeting of the Board for on the 25th ? Is there
anything special or important;?’’ adding that he
desired to lfeave the city with an excursion
party. I replied, “There may be bnsiness of
very great importance and 1 hope yon will re
main.” CoL Whittle then engaged in conver
sation with other parties, and not coming for
ward to go to his office, and believing my an
swer wonld certainly secure Ms attendance at
the meeting of the Board on tho 25th, when
the whole business wonld be laid fully before
him, I was satisfied.
If, therefore, CoL W. did not get the notice
given to tbe other Directors it was because he
was absent from the city at the time I was giv
ing that notice, and certainly from no desire on
my p4rt to conceal anything from him. The
notice he finally received did secure his atten
dance as I supposed. As he was not present on
the first coming together of the Directors on the
l?5tb,' j sen t my buggy for himj. but he came
before my bugry peached his office, and found
the other Dir:uors waiting for him. This shows
we dtsi/ed his presence. If another Direolor
deolined to give Mm the information it was
only because I desired to give him that informa
tion in person accompanied with a fall explana
tion of the object of the meeting, and I deeply
regret that his absence from the city prevented
me from doing as I desired. , .
The legality of tMs lease is a question for the
courts, and has been carried before them. The
policy of the lease is a question for the stock
holders, and they will soon assemble to pass
upon it.
The effect of (he lease I am fully persuaded,
will advance very greatly the interest of the
stockholders of the Macon and Western Rail
road Company, and. of the city and citizens of
Macon, These interests I have endeavored
steadily and faithfully to keep in view, and in
doing so I am satisfied the Board of Directors
have acted legally,and I know I have endeavored
to'discharge, my duties with all courtesy to my
associates, and with fidelity to my stockholders.
When all the facts are fully known I am con
fident tMs conclusion will be concurred in by
all Very respectfully,
* - - A. J. White.
I desire te say that the statements made in
the foregoing communication tonohing the noti
fication given CoL Whittle in my presence are
striotiy trne. * Wm. B. Johnston.
--j lana , i&aAT,
. «- JM lawjustpassed
ment. The next 40,000,000 are to W? 4 * 1 *
treasure out of wMch to cover preS a »»
penses m the event of future ex-
vantages of having the money ready aa^. 6
war is declared nrovn/i n* . Scon i-
From Webster County.
Preston, Webster Oountt, Ga.,>
June 11, 1871. j
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: As yon so
licit correspondence relative to crop prospects
another local nows in the various counties of
Gecagia, and I see none from this county, I. will
give you a few dots from this locality.
I am traly sorry to inform yon that onr crops
are all of four weeks behind time. We usually
have cotton blooms in tMs section by this date,
bnt do not look fur any now nnta about the 4th
of July. - Corn, too, is small for this date, hut
is doing better than cotton. We -have had so
much rain, (and now at this time we are so wet
tre cannot plow,) that the most of onr farms are'
In a deplorable condition for want of the nec
essary culture. There are many planters that
will have to abandon a portion of their ootton
crops to save the remainder. It is generally
conceded by planters that there is about 25 per
cent, more oom planted this than last year, and
about the same deduction from the cotton crop.
There is a great oomplaint of a poor stand of
cotton, and by the time the present crop of
grass is gotten through with ‘the stand will be
still poorer, as tbe freedmen are not very nice
about stands when the grass is in their way.
There is an unusual breadth of oats sown this
year, but, unfortunately for the planters, the
rust has destroyed the greater portion of them.
Those that had the good fortnne to sow the
large yellow, or, as some call them, the anti-
As to wheat
■ nec
essary to place it in the catalogue of crops, as
tMs portion of Southwestern Georgia has very
nearly abandoned its cnltoxe.
There is one crop that we can universally
boast on, that is onr garden vegetables. I have
never seen before such profusion of vegetables
of all kinds, and if it were not for the hard
work and the bines we have to oontend with in
conquering the grass, we would all got fat,
sure. . '
Onr laborers move on about as they did last
year—no improvement that is peroeptible, bnt
mnoh complaint among them abont shoos and
other clothing, the most of them fell behind
with their employers last year by their extrava
gance, all expeoting to realize 20 oenta for cot
ton, and as all, both employers and employees,
oame ont behind last year, they have been very
sparing in their purchases np to this date—a
good idea, yon bet.
There seems to be peace and harmony gener
ally among the white and colored people. Onr
District Court, np to this time, has had only
two frivolous eases before them in onr oonnty,
which a justice of the peeoe oonld have disposed
of in twenty minutes. The third case will come
before them next Monday, and as it is some
thing unusual, I most tell yon abont it. There
was a white woman of doubtful morals plaoed in
jail last fall, and a few days before the fall oourt
a man of the same stripe married her in jail to
stop a prosecution, and one day last ^eek they
took a hand at fisticuffs, and now be is in jail
and can’t give bafl; and thia brings to mind the
Bible truth, tbit the way of the transgramomia l
hard. Very respectfully, J.
ox specie to tbe commerce of the ( «■
of interest to the exchequer, and the«S ^
tage of placing so mnoh money under
lute control of 1 tile crown, are not al «-
more consideration. The same obi^™
taches to the next Item, provides «-
the current expenses of the w£n*ftii
lery. In the fourth place the
tured vessels and oargoes will be eo™ Ca P-
according to rales specially Uja
Council. * tie
cannonade,^ta^from^lchOT^to 1 ^ 11
non are likewise to receive Mm 1040 Cte ’
vices rendered- by the oSt * —
Lotharingians to the German arn't'* 4l5 * 10 '
suoh as provisions delivered,
impressed, etc. The nextitemi«
and enlargement of the fortress** » T , epair
Lotharingia, which are to be mtde
pregnable. A snm of 7,000,000 fZ!
allotted to the assistance of exnelM^k 611
—compensation it cannot ba cslW) T®® 3
losses are far, heavier. A considersw/° r ^
will remain over, the sum
comprising not only the five milliard,'
terest on three-fifths of that sum the1W m *
tribution of200,000,000 francs, idall&*
and contributions levied in France ar?
propriated to military purposes. The hS
were originally to have been includeaM?
safes uSSsiS!;
the German States, eaoh State receiving
proportion of the number of men and ffi
supplied to the common army.
On its Last Legs.
We don’t know that it la exactly propeiio ns e
the word legs even in connection with- fo au.
nonnoement that the humbug called vc--
suffrage is abont to collapse, but still no c
tion that occurs to ns now so well expresses that
desirable consummation as the one above. Be!
Sides, that very decoras and proper sheet ft!
Journal of Commerce, speaks of it that way
therein we find onr justification, if anyisneeded.
That paper, under the above heading, ssj3;
The imposition of a trifling admission fee cn
visitors to the Woman Suffrage Convention at
Boston settled the fate of that speculation, it
was a dead failnre. Outside of a few dozen
women in Boston—the very centre of tho cause
—nobody thinks enough of female caSn^ /j
spend a dime or two on it. The mosey 0 vas
wisely saved. There is probably nothing on
wMch • it could be laid out—not eiceptinf-
peanuts and confectionery—where it would not
be better spent than in hearing the stale speech
es to which the Tremont Temple gave backs
sepulchral echo from its tenantless spaces. The
speeches had been prepared op the theory (hi
there would be a desperate rush for secured
seats at the box office. They contained allu
sions to “woman suffrage growihg.insiretgth,”
“each annual convention excelling its preieces-
sor,” oto., and the orators did not deemit neces
sary to |>rane down these luxuriances of state-
meats, in consideration of the beggarly aoii-
ence before them. Like many other speeches
made in the world, they were meant for the
consumption of gullible people outside of the
Tremont Temple, who, bnt for the canid reve
lations Of the reporters, would never have krora
Wbat an important fizzle this Convention wi3,
Toe Railroad Pic-Nio. —It was our good
fortune (we desired to say so in Sunday’s issue)
to attend the Basket Pic-Nio at Pace’s Station,
on Saturday last, giveniiy the employeesof tho
different railroads. diverging from this point
About 8 o’clock a. m. an excursion train of five
elegant passenger coaches and one baggage car
left tbe depot for tbe pio-nic grounds. On tho
train were abont three bnndtefi Ve-Siee and
gentlemen—as gay and lively a company as
ever left Macon for a day’s recreation and a-
joyment, and an abundance of good things for
tbe inner man, snugly stored away in the tag.
gage car. All were in charge of that most
genial and excellent conductor, Mr. YY. 4.
Jarvis, and that careful and intelligent engi
neer, Mr. Albert Matthews. After a brisk mi!
of about ono hour, the train reached Paces
Station on the Maoon and Brunswick Uailrtad,
where there had already assembled a bevy of
pretty girls from Longstreet, in Pulaski county,
and from the surrounding country. IheBiwk-
insville Brass Band was also there, having corns
np on the morning^ train, and while the party
from Macon was ^disembarking, the hand was
discoursing some very fine music. This hand
is under Professor Jacoby, of Hawkinsvi!!?, an
excellent musician and a fine performer on the
cornet-a-piston. The band numbers fourteen
members, all of whom we found to be genial
and intelligent gentlemen, of Hawkinsrihe,
and engaged in various pursuits in that tem
To the music of this band “onr crowd” wended
its way to an arbor that had been prepared on a
gentle elevation about 100 yards from the rail
road, and where the amusements of the day
immediately opened with a dance, to the eve."
sweet and enlivening strains of Professor hea
ler’s String Band. The floor prepared for t-e
dancers was scarcely large enough to
modate all who deared to go into the fes:«
and fascinating amusement at once, but we aw
sure that, in view of the warm weather, w
present had an opportunity to dance as mica
as they desired daring the day.
■While the danco was going on unde: tne ar
bor, others who did not indulge in the gr a ®f*
and polite art, were strolling through the grov >
or, having fonnd some cool and seqnesie
spot) were engaged in. social converse,
jokes and yarning—a thing tee never ao.
About'toe o’clock dinner was announcea?»“4
as to the good things spread upon the ge
tables it were useless to say a word
saw Everything good—both to eat tni cx
and an abundance of it • But th«*Y*:
heads of families who had taken v^Lj
a»sSs«iggSSSSgig
Chapman, all of wnom naa ca»v
same cloth tbe contents of their baskets. Tt
combined, the form got n P **S5? 0 tbe beat
point of variety and elegance, cioxddnpt
Why, dear reader, wita a.prettygtrlatonra
andsuoh a dinner as that spreadb*to»®>rj
carwTof life andthe dull tontine of effl^ues
vanished like spfectres at the returnof daf- ht
we forgot, for the nonce, aUelse,^^^
only of the bliss of our position ana tne b
things before as. -cleas*
Bat, indeed, the whole affair
ant and enjoyable. There' were a p KS .
ty girls, both from the city and comtUt K t .
ent, and we say it with peouliar pna . ^
isfaotion, and for the exclusive beneac
crimson pink, of the Savannah hews, tea
was not a red head among them—ta® 1 '
happiness. Amiiab'y
The pio-nio was largely attended, aa» ^
conducted, and terminated most haPP*2«ti*
rowdyism or misbehavior of any aese e ^
marred the pleasnres of the day, ana » oerer
general remark of the ladies that
met with a more polite, intelligent /SrJweea
body of gentlemen than tho railroad em?.
of Maoon. May they all live |o E £®f^to/
porous, and may many suoh reunions w
Saturday, be realized to them in future r ^
The excursion train returned to 1 ^
abont sunset, and all aboard conscious
had never spent a more pleasant day w w*
tty. ' m ' _ t
Bibb Sufemob Court.—Judge ^
brief session of tMs oourt yesterday ^ ^
purpose of hearing motions, eto. * Charged
the State vs. Granger and OonwaL , ^
with oonspirlng to rob the express o
point, was called, but contoned-Coo* j
tag discharged on Ms own racognixan^ ^
amounts to a dismissal of the Car0 Uu»
get being turned over to the
authorities to answer a otorg* *fall
ter wMch oosuri adjourned till tiw
Tern.