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Th.e Greoraia "Weekly Telegraph. andL Journal &; Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MAOON, JUNE 27. 1871
Editorial Correspondence.
Cuthbebt, Ga., June 19, 1871
Ocr weekly bulletin from this region must
represent the cotton prospect, still, to the last
degree, unpromising and unsatisfactory. The
growth of the weed has been almost inapprecia
ble for the past fortnight, and the struggle with
grass and weeds continues. We repeat the re*
marls of Iasi week, that squares are scarcer than
l,l<c 7»s should be, at this advanced stage of the sea-
ton. The crop in Southwest Georgia will not aver
age over six inches in height, while much of it is
infested with lioe, and still eaten up by grass.
C *m on the whole looks well, though generally
tr.ssolling too low for a very heavy yield.. On
liio sandy lands signs of firing are apparent also,
u. , the result of excessive wet. An intelligent
farmer just returned from Texas, says, from the
.Mississippi River to this point the cotton stands
fcro poor, and much of the valley land is literally
v. ndex water. It is now too late to hope for
more than n half crop under the most favorable
ch-enmstanoes.
The inhabitants of this pleasant and thriving
little city, are now all agog with the approach
ing commencements of their twe Female insti-
1 ut ions. That of Andrew College, presided over
by Dr. Hamilton, begins on Friday next. The
commencement sermon will be preached on the
ensuing Sabbath by Rev. Mr. Johnson, of your
city, and during the week the collegiate exami
nations will como off. exhibitions in physical
training, commencement exercises, literary ed
dies?, probably by Hon. B. H. Hill, and grand
concert on Thursday night. The commencement
exercises of the Baptist College, under the di
rection of President Seals, will also take place
in the latter portion of the same week, to be
concluded with an address by Rev. Dr. Tucker,
of Macon, and a musical oratorio on Friday night
n the Baptist church. Many amateurs will take
part in the latter and a great treat is expected.
Ouhbert now boasts of a silver cornet band
composed of her first young men, which will
make its dtlut commencement week.
Efforts will be madoto secure an accommoda
tion train from your city to ijo and return for
cue fare; and those who have never visited this
beautiful and healthy town, which, perched like
an eyrie upon its hills, is almost inaccessible to
-fellcads, it is hoped, wiii be- permitted to at
tend the commencement, and behold this
amous oasis, amid the reputed swamps, quag
mires and malarial horrors of Southwest Geor
gia. A hearty welcome will be extended to every
visiter. H. H. J.
’Xus Cotton Stoce in Ltyeedool, counting
Colton of all sorts atloat fer that port, last Fri
day night, was 1,548,935 bales, against 1,098,-
*• h bales at same time last year—showing an
rsr ess of 450,509 bales. Tho excess of the
American cotton crop of 1870 over that of 1869.
footed up on Friday night 1,014.603 kales. The
excess of American exports to Liverpool, on
Friday night, was 980,908 bales. These figures
show a heavy gain on cotton consumption, and
t-’uiuld go far to relieve the fears of capitalists
about the great financial strain of carrying an
mmense cotton surplus through the present
Summer. The prospect seem.- to be that the
glowing cotton crop, when it reaches the mar
ket. will find no extraordinary surplus stock on
band. Tho gain in the consumption of Ameri
can cotton has already reached about half the
r-vductive excess of last year.
itPEBD or the Mississippi Steamtoats.—We
a.-* o that the Natchez, which stopped at Vicksburg
on ue upward trip while the writer was there,
-made tho whole distance from New Orleans to
St- Louis, 1,260 miles, in three day3 and twenty.
■ bree hours. On tho way'she stopped at 22
landings, and was delayed by a furious storm
Had by fog. The same boat xaado tho timo in
June, 1870, in three days twenty-one hours and
fifty-eight minutes. The champion time, so
iar, was made by the R. E. Lee, last year, in
fnree days eighteen hours and thirty minutes,
which wa3 fourteen miles an hour, including
.stoppages, and reckoning the current she ran
..gainst and the delay in stopping, she must
havo made an average of nearly twenty miles
an uour while in motion.
A Discovery.—The Tribune editorially dis
covers and discloses in one column, tho secret
cf the Eu-klnx organization in Georgia—and
what do you think it is ? He says the organiza
tion is made up of poor white ‘•crackers,” as
he. calls them, “low down people who hate to
see the negroes do the labor and take the wages
from them. It is a fight for work, and this is
the first time we ever heard of a “cracker”
fighting for work. If the Tribune will establish
a case of that kind, it will go far to redeem the
reputation of the “crackers” so-called. They
all fight on tho other side. They will -fight
egainsi work, but never for it.
The Cotton Speculators, (almost wholly
Northern and European; have made such a ten
strike this Spring, that speculation is all the
rage in Liverpool just now. Eighteen thousand
bales were bought on speculation Monday mom-
ng—a heavy start for the week. But the great
margin for profits is gone. The men who made
six cents a pound on three million bales may
sow pocket the profits and laugh at people who
bavo not the nerve to buy on a sick market and
when nobody wants it. The rise on the cotton
crop since it was a drug in the market repre
sents not far from eighty millions of dollars.
The Champion Squash.—The local of tho
Montgomery Advertiser is not an acquaintance
ot ours, but we hope he will not take it amiss
it wo suggest that be is risking his repntatiou
for veracity or accuracy of vision, or both, by
running round the country looking up and re
porting monster vegetables. He was after
the squash family at last accounts, and down
at Evergreen he collided with onesto feet tiro
metes in length, and weighing one hundred'
nnd ten pounds. As the Italians say, tho story
non t zero, i Len trozato. We hope he may
run against a 200 pounder yet.
The Great East River Bbidge.—Tho great
stone pier on the Brooklyn aide of theEastRiver
nas now reached a height of about twenty feet
above the foundations. It is about one hund
red and fifty feet in length by thirty in breadth,
and is laid of stone of dimensions six feet by
.wo.
Another Royal Marriage.—Prince Alfred,
of England, it is authoritatively announced, has
formally pledged his troth with another royal
Dane, tho Princess Tbyra, youngest daughter
of Christian IX., King of Denmark, and sister
to the Princess Alexandra, wife of Albert,
Prince of Wales.
Another “Hew Departare.”
An Atlanta correspondent of the New York
Tribune of last Friday, warns ns to look out
speedily for another new and important political
departure in Georgia. Ho begins his story by
! saying that tho existing “Republican” party
in Georgia is composed of ninety thousand ne
groes and six to ten thousand whites—tho latter
without sufficient power or influence to hold
the blacks in organization against the intelli
gent white masses—a scurvy set of foreign-ad
venturers, without character or honesty, who
have plundered the State to the extent of ten or
twelve millions of dollars, if not more.
But this state of things will not long continue.
The old line whigs belong naturally to the Rad
ical party, and finding that the Northern Dem
ocrats under Vallandigham’s “now departure”
are taking ground identical with the Radicals
on the Constitutional amendments, they will go
over to the Republicans. It will take some little
time for them to forget the bitter proscription
of the Southern whites by thp Radical party,
but the process is going on and events will cul
minate sooner than most people believe. They
will soon lead tho negroes to victory. Then
there is a great division among the Democrats
about this ,l neio departure,” and he quotes a
leading Democrat “of great influence and na
tional reputation” who has never made a mis
take in prognosticating the result of a Presi
dential election in the last twenty years, who
says the “new departure” is a mere trick to gain
success, which the party would every where de
tect, and which must result in the total ront of
tho Democracy. This distinguished Democrat
asserts that the National Democracy must con-
liiB- to fight tho Foartcontn and Fifteenth
Amendments, and put their candidate on tho
Blair platform and policy. If elected he must
treat these amendments as nullities, and, as the
Democracy would be strong enough in Congress
to prevent impeachment, the battle would be
won.
Lastly the writer says ho interviewed Hon. B.
H. Hill on the 8tb, and here is what he got from
Mr. Hill:
“I would sooner have cut my head off than
have supported the Reconstruction measures,
but now that it is evident that they are finalities
which cannot be disturbed, it is folly to spend
any more time opposing them. The best thing
for us to do is to accept the results of tho war
and go to work to make tho best of the now or
der of things. People are very stupid who
think a great war changes nothing and has no
results. Jeff. Davis says no great question can
be determined by arms; but history shows us
that the greatest questions that ever interested
the human race have been settled by the sword.
Our four years’ contest settled certain questions
and produced certain changes, and it is time we
acknowledged it
Until lately I deplored these changes, and be
lieved that they were injurious to tho South;
but now I see clearly that they will work for
our great advantage in the future. For tho
time being they seemed to bo hurtful to us, and
we despaired of" the future, thinking wo were
ruined. When a man goes from a bad climate
to a'good one he feels ill at first[from the change.
All great changes are hurtful. The South has
passed through a great revolution, socially, po-
lilioftlly, and indnstriolljr, ar»3 it was nAAAcsarily
accompanied with much suffering.
Bat that is all over now, and wo are fairly on
the road to prosperity. The improvements that
are going on in Georgia are remarkable. We
are recuperating from the losses of the war
with wonderful rapidity, and in five years the
State will be wealthier than it was in 1860,
counting the value of slave properly then. I
can see now that it will bo for our good that the
war ended as it did, and that slavery was abol
ished : and I believe it was ordered by Provi
dence.
What we want now is peace—peace between
the sections and peace between the States.
Oar people want to drop the political questions
that have kept alive hostile feelings between
the North and the Sonth, and attend to develop
ing their indnstrial interests with tho aid of
Northern capital and emigration. I am de
nounced for tbeso opinions by snch men as
Toombs, who promised to drink all tho blood
that would be shed on account of secession;
and-I am satisfied that a majority of the people
are with me.”
The New York Herald of Thursday has along
report of another interviewer wlio pursued Gen.
Tocmbs from Wilkes county on the 7tb, and
finally cornered him in Hancock, and professes
to havo extracted about a column and a half of
discourse from Mr. T. much like that which was
reported by the Tribune interviewer, only more
so. According to the Herald interviewer, Mr.
T. was as belligerent a3 a game-cock—almost
spoiling for another fight.
Something has happened to inspire the whole
tribe of Radicals with a new and extraordinary in-
erestin Georgia politics and politicians. Perhaps
they see that Georgia is tho Key Stone of tho
Southern Arch, and a solid Democratic majority
in the Sonth is too much weight for the Radical
nsg to carry on Northern Turf. But whatever
they may say about “Vallandigham’s new de
parture,” their scheme to enlist any large and
respectable class of the Southern whites in po
litical copartnership with the negroes, in behalf
of Federal consolidation, protective tariff rob
bery, tbo annihilation of State rights and the
final subversion of tho Constitution, contem
plates a departure from every principle and pre
dilection of the Southern heart, too total and
abhorent for possibility or supposition.
TKBB GEORGIA PRESS.
The Bio Indian.—Tammany tried toelect a
Grand Sachem last Thursday to succeed Tweed,
but there were three candidates and neither
would come down. There was no election, and
Tweed still remains Big Indian.
^The World denies the truth of tho story that
Mr. Greeley, in his late agricultural speech in
Texas, advised the fanners not to permit their
buttor-milk and sweet- milk cows to run togeth»r'
in the same herd.
Not Fighting Enough Yet.—The Washing-
dispatches express some fears that civil war
will again break ©nt in Paris. Certainly they
have uncommon appetites.
How one of tlie “Fire Trletl” Came
to Grief—A Warning to tbe South
ern Trooly Loll.
Mr. Jonas P. Levy is one of that numerous
and exceedingly interesting class of Southern
ers, so-called, who just now are hanging around
the door of the Treasury at Washington, wait
ing to grab their pockets fall under the head of
“damages by the war.” Mr. Levy, daring the
war, honored Wilmington, North Carolina, by
being one of its citizens, bnt his loyal goal was
pure and steadfast, even in that hot bed of
“treason” and headquarters of blockade run
ning. He “stood by the Union” from first to
last—ho kept one copy of the “old flag" in his
bed-chamber before which each night and morn
ing he was wont to prostrate himself in rapt
adoration and love, to say nothing of another
that he wore wrapped around his loyal body and
next his loyal heart. He was time and again
entreated to join the “rebel” navy, and take
command of one of it3 ships, and was oven
more earnestly besonght to throw the weight of
bis great talents into the business of blockade
running on joint account with the “rebel” gov
ernment. But he never faltered. He only in
creased the frequency and fervor of his genu
flexions and orisons, and wrapped the “old flag”
still closer around his body. This moving tale
did Levy tell before the claims commission at
Washington one day last week, and they say
there was not a dry eye in tho house when it
had come to an end. Having been, and done,
and suffered all these things for the sake of the
B. G., Levy wound up by asking for the small
sum of seven thousand and odd dollars for cer
tain naval stores taken for military purposes by
Gens. Schofield and Cox, jnst before the close
of the war.
Bat alas! for Levy, there was an enemy , ly
ing in wait for him in the shape of certain old
letters captured at Richmond among the Con
federate archives, and now in possession of the
Federal Secretary of War. These letters are
red hot with “treason,” and aid and comfort to
the rebellion—they speak of it as “the holy
cause”—offer a swift steamer just about to ran
the blockade under his own command to bring
back supplies for the Confederacy as a return
cargo—and in every line show a devotion and
zeal to the Sooth which, if they had been hon
estly felt, would have been, In the highest de
gree, creditable to Levy. Levy was not looking
for such a broadside, and, of course, was utter
ly demoralized. We call tbe attention of other
gentlemen in the same line of swearing to Levy’s
fate.
Ex-Senator Miller will deliver the prize med
als at the next University Commencement,
Savannah still maintains her prond pre-em
inence as a victim to the arts of the light-fin
gered gentry. Three ladies, while marketing,
Saturday, had their pockets pioked as clean as
a developer ever swept a State treasury.
The track of the Central Railroad between
Savannah and Whitesville will soon be changed
to a straight line, and will shorten the distance
between the two points five miles. Three sta
tions will be left out in the cold, by the change.
Savannah has sworn to have a fair next De
cember, and, as an earnest thereof, has bought
162 acres of land two miles from tbe city at a
cost of $10,000, and contracted for 250,000 feet
of lumber to be delivered in two weeks.
Mr. A. 0. Canuet, of Savannah, formerly So
liciting Agent for tbe lEtna Life Insnranoe
Company, was arrested at Quitman, last Friday
night, on a charge of forging the name of Dr.
J. M. Madden of Brunswick, to a receipt for
$40. He was bailed in the sum of $2,000.
The Bainbridge Argus makes a gloomy show
ing for crops. It says cotton on lowlands has
been destroyed, and that on uplands seriously
injured by tho heavy rains. Com has also been
injured. A fine oat crop has been made, except
where commercial seed were used. Fruit fine
as are also sugar-cane and potatoes, and health
of the country good—which means, we suppose,
except “a few scattering chills,” of course.
The Rome Commercial reports wheat harvest
ing going on rapidly, and a two-thirds yield the
result. Oats, com, clover, all very promising.
The Savannah Republican can stand a good
many things, but “funeral obsequies” is rather
too steep. It wants “Savannah Typographical
Union No. 38, at its very next regular meeting,
to solemnly resolve that, let who will write it,
no printer shall hereafter be guilty of the crime
of setting up in type in correction the words
“Funeral Obsequies,” under the penalty of im
mediate expulsion from tho craft, without ben
efit of clergy, and ever thereafter to wear the
brand of “Rat” distinctly impressed on his fore
head in printers’ ink.”
The Commercial Insurance Company—the
new company—of Augusta, has elected James
W. Davies, President, and W. T. Wheless, Vice-
President
The Oglethorpe Manufacturing Company of
Augusta, has received nearly $300,000 in sub
scriptions.
A white lad named James Mills—an orphan—
wa3 drowned in the Augusta Canal, Saturday
afternoon.
Look out Chicago! Augusta comes to the
front and centre with ten couples howling to be
unyoked at the present term of Richmond Su
perior Court.
The Grand Jury of Muscogee county have
found two true bills against Ordinary Duer—
ono for having made way with the receipts,
vouchers and contracts for money paid into the
Treasury for the last seven months of 1870, and
the other for receiving money as an officer, and
diverting it to his own use.
tlo o.inmtn.SnD, »r esaturday, has this par
agraph on railroad matters:
It is alleged that Cook & Co., ot Atlanta, are
acting in the interest of the Pennsylvania Cen
tral Railroad Company, which is extending its
branches Southward; and that after they have
built the road to Columbus, they will extend it
to Albany. Then Kimball will be President of
a long route from Atlanta via Colnmbns and
Albany to Brunswick. It is now considered
among the knowing ones that a sale of the Mo
bile and Girard Railroad will be preferred to a
lease to the Central, unless that corporation
will agree to pay a reasonable percentage. If
for sale, these same agents of the Pennsylvania
Central may buy it and extend it to Mobile, and
thus have a grand trunk line to New Orleans.
Others say Kimball is trying, by a concentration
of railroad interests, to make himself tho next
Governor of Georgia.
W. D. Atkinson, Jr., of Newton county, wag
badly injured, last Friday, near Conyers, by
the bursting of his gun.
The Constitution, vt SunUay, under tbo hood
of “The State Road and its Dangers,” says:
We yesterday took occasion to allude to the
dangers that threaten the State Road. Tho
great interest the peoplo bavo in this road ne
cessitates a public disenssion of tbe matters that
will benefit it. We stated that it was matter of
common report that the lessees are discouraged.
It is also known that many of the Dobbins-
Blodgett company have withdrawn from that
organization, because they found upon enquiry
that the prospects of the road would not war
rant the rental they offered. Many consider
their escape a lucky one.
Ono thing is very certain, and that is that the
lessees must stir up. They must make up their
railroad combinations, or the bosines3 of the
road will not pay tho rental. It wonld indeed
be a strange matter if tbe next Legislatnre
should be engaged in a battle to make the les
sees retain the road as the undeniably best con
tract for the State, instead of having a fierce
contest to overthrow the lease. The lessees are
spending much money on the road, and are
compelled to spend more to put it in running
order. Of conrse to drop the leaso wonld ne
cessitate calling on the Legislatnre to refund
tho amount spent. This wonld make a very
curions complication.
Tho Savannah Advertiser, of Saturday, has
fall details of a horrible tragedy enacted in that
city, Friday afternoon, of which an attempted
mnrder and an accomplished snicido were the
component parts. The parties were Amos
Nickerson, a restaurant keeper on Bryan street,
and his wifo, El zabeth. From the Advertiser’s
report wo copy as follows:
Determined to get at tho true stato of affairs as
nearly as possible, we visited the house, and
learned from a white domestic that Mrs. Nick
erson had accompanied her yesterday afternoon
on a visit to her house in the eastern part of the
city, where, at Mrs. Nickerson’s request, they
sent out for tho beer, and were drinking it when
she heard the neighborhood aroused by the re
port that a man was attempting to gain forcible
entry into the house. The domestio says she at
onco informed Mrs. Nickerson that it must be
her husband, when they both started home. On
reaching the house, by way of the gate on Bay
lane, the domestic proceeded ahead Into tbe
house. Mrs. Nickerson being met by Nickerson,
who had also come up Bay lano from the direc
tion of Barnard street. On confronting each
other in the door, both entering the kitchen,
Nickerson, so a colored servant says, seemed to
smile and say, “So you have come home, have
yon?” She replied, “Yes, and what of it ?”
Nickerson then immediately grasped her and
threw her npon the floor of the kitchen, and
drawing a sheath knife attemped to kill her.
The blade, which was about six inches in length,
did not seem to perform its work quiok enough,
so it was quickly thrown to tbe floor, the blade
breaking in two. Nickerson then seized a hatchet
and struck her six blows in the head, crushing
tho shall. He took hold of the finger of his
wife that had her wedding ring on, and at
tempted to sever it from tho hand. In her strug-.
gles, the blow did not come with its intended
foroe, bnt sufficiently so as to leave the finger
dangling from the hand. The screams of- Mrs.
Nicherson soon attracted the.-attention of a
potiaaman, Nickerson, in the meantime, drag
gingJ 1 ** from the kitchen to the lane. Nicher
son flea in the direction of thg Exchange, and
passing down th« hill, staggered towards the
dock, from whence h« was seen to. jump on board
tho schooner Margaret Ann, pull off his coat
and plunge into the riYer, giving his throat a
desperate out with some instrument as he was
falling.
The body was immediately searched tor by
those who had witnessed the act, and in half an
hour after it was brought to the surface by
Thomas Y. Williams, a fisherman, with a hook.
Upon examination of the throat it was found
that though there were two severe gashes, tho
jugular vain had not been severed, and that his
death had been caused from drowning, the jury
rendering a verdict to that effeot. Upon the
forehead and head of Niokerson was fonnd an
indentation, as if produced with a blunt instru
ment, which we afterwards learned from the
oolored domestio, was caused by chopping him
self with the axe after it had flown off from the
handle. Had not the axe become disengaged,
the colored girl says Niokerson .would have
killed his wife before he flecL
The Savannah papers, of Sunday, report Mrs.
Nickerson’s wounds not so serious as first re
ported, and think she will reoovor.
New York Figures.
Mayor Hall, of New York, shut on Monday
last to the Common Council foil reports of the
financial condition of the city, which it is sup
posed will content the reasonable and pHzzle
the race of politicians who make a business of
denouncing the. corporation as thieves. The
trnth is, the government of New York is admin
istered with remarkable Vigor and a fair, degree
of economy.
According to thi3 Ebowing tbo total levy on
New York for State, city and county purposes,
in 1870, was $23,566,240 10 on an assessment
of $1,047,388,449. Ihe city debt, on 80th of
April last, was $49,714),000—less $18,215,000
sinking fund, and the Gomptxoller’a teports cal
culates that the entire debt will be extinguished
BY TELEGRAPH
■Washington, June 18.—Dispatches are anx
iously awaited, as it is thought hostile opera
tions will be renewed in Paris. The Bepublican
journals have united in a manifesto to meet the
electoral programme put forth by the monarch-
ial press. They declare that the Republic is
the only rational and legitimate expression ot
the national sovereignty. Monarchy implies
abdication. They will give their support to
i those candidates who are pledged to maintain
tho statu quo. The French loan will be issued
on the 26th, if the Assembly passes a bill au
thorizing it before then.
La Verite says.the state of siege wfllbe raised
on the 26th.' The Dnke of. Cnartres is a candi
date for the Assembly in La Vendee. The
Journal of Paris reports that the Central Com
mittee has been reorganized under the name of
the Central Committee of Federal National
Uon of a fine display of fruits and .
from parties in Bibb oounty, vta> irfiMta
hill, W. H. Walker, Wm. X’]£Li, % fF
senbnrg, Barron Carter, J. A. WhiLxss r **-
Johnston, Mrs. Thos. Hardeman E
gins, Thoa. Bagby, and also to lira. &
of Gnswoldville, and Samuel F n GtlE *.
Twiggs county. Mrs. Grier’s sweet" r 6 “
last years growth were in a perfect st
serration. Mr. Gove’s collection 01 Pte
ries — v 1
in forty years—leaving a surplus of over $27,- Gnnra>
000,000 in the sinking tuna. The city holds Domicrow is President, and Reynolds-Tlcard
property five times the value of its debt. The
Mayor’s message gives many generally inter
esting facts from which we quote the fojlowing:
New York Island has an area of twenty-two
square miles and twenty-nine miles of water
front, about three-fonrth3 of which stretches
along the Hudson and East Rivers and the re
maining one-fourth upon the Harlem River and
Spuyten Duyvil Creek. The streets, roads and
avenues measure four hundred and sixty miles.
Two hundred and ninety-one miles of these are
paved; one hundred and sixty-nine miles are
unpaved. Nineteen thousand gas lights are
harned every night at tho publio expense
to light this area, water front, and
extent of streefs. Beneath the surface
of the city there are three hundred and
forty miles of Croton water pipes and two
hundred and seventy-five mile3 of sewers. If
we accept tho last Federal census, the number
of our constituents is nine hundred and forty-
two thousand two hundred and fifty-two. One
thousand horso railway cars, two hundred and
sixty-seven omnibusses, about twelve thousand
licensed vehicles, and quite as many more pri
vate vehicles continually traverse the thorough
fares, and subject them to increasing wear. It
is claimed that forty thousand horses afe con
stantly stabled or used within the city limits.
On the 26th day of May last, relieving officers
of tho ordinance squad, stationed on Broadway,
opposite the City Hall, were instructed to re
report the number of vehicles that from, seven
o'clock a. ai. until seven o’clock p. u. passed
and repassed; and they reported 16,246 exclu
sive of omnibusses. Tnese specimen statistics
imply how great a city wo have to care for, beep
in repair, sustain by taxation, protect by police
men, firemen, or sanitary regulations, and make
provision for in respect to its more important
future.
Greeley on tlxe Carpet-Baggers
Mr. Greeley was in high feather at his grand
reception Monday night. After belaboring the
stupid Southern aristocracy who slight the
Northern schoolmarms and whaling the Ku-klux
with a crowbar, ho fell might and main on tbo
carpet-baggers, first in the way of heavy male
diction, and then assailing them with ridicule
and buffoonery. Greeley is developing high
dramatic powors. Says he:
Somo of these thieves affect to be honest
men. They go about with long faces, and with
their eye3 rolled np and their hands clasped over
their stomachs—rgreat laughter]—and profess
to be greatly concerned for the education of the
blacks, and still more concerned for the salva-
tiorx of tHcir souls.
Here Mr. Greeley imitated th» hypocritical
carpet-bagger, clasping his band over his atnio
men, rolling np his eyes, and whining out with
nasal twang. “Let ns pray.” [Great laughter
and cheers.] Yes, said Mr. Greeley, theso men
are heavy on praying, bnt they spell pray with
an E, and in that sense they fulfill the apostoli
cal injunction to pray without ceasing.
The Ku-Kltjx Uniform. — Tho Tribune’i
Georgia correspondent—the same one whoso
accounts of interviews with Messrs. Toombs
and Stephens we have published—has been
peering around in Bollock’s office at Atlanta to
seo what ho could see. “When the cat’s away
thexnice will play,” says the old saw, and Bullock
being absent in New York, we “guess” that
Bob Atkinson and Marshall deGraffenricd con
cluded to have somo fan at the Tribune chap’s
expense, and so showed him the suits they wore
at the last masquerade as veritable specimens
of tbo real “original Jacobs” Ku-klux. What
manner of raiment the correspondent saw, he
describes as follows:
The Governor has in his office a number of
Ku-klux uniforms captured recently in Chat
tooga county. The costume consists of red
flannel trowsers, black blonse, trimmed with
red and gathered at the waist, and a black cowl
covering the face and falling down to the breast,
with a cape behind. The hole3 cat for the eyes
are bordered with white, and from the month
protrudes a piece of red flannel representing a
long tongue. For a head piece real horns are
sometimes worn, and often a common felt hat
or some uncouth device of paper.
The Sermons—Holding God Kcspon
slble For Horrors;
Yesterday was so warm that the churches
were anything but full. Nature, which Mr.
Beecher is so fond of praising, and which Mr.
Frotbingham’s mind is so fall of that it cannot
spare a little room for a thought of Christian
ity—nature’, as seen at tho several summer re
sorts within easy distance of the city, fonnd nu
merous worshippers, who thronged tho excur
sion boats. The time, however, has not yet ar
rived when wo shall announce, in mournful
language, that “nobody is in town,’’.meaning
thereby that George Washington Jones and
Napoleon Lafayette Smith and their families
had gone to Saratoga or Long Branch, followed
by their devoted pastors. As a consequence
the churches were not altogether empty yester
day. Fashion was well represented at all cf
them; sinners, well dressed and ill-dressed,
prayed and perspired; reverends and priests
preached and perspired.
If, infict, the fervor of the congregations
was as intense as the heat, we should entertain
no fears of Dr. Ewer’s predictions being realized.
That clergyman in his leoturo yesterday took a
most gloomy view of the civil and religious as
pect of affairs. He pointed to Paris as an evi
dence of Divine retribution. Unfortunate Paris
i8now pointing a moral in every sermon in
Christendom. Not long ago we took occasion
to condemn this absurd practice of imputing to
God every calamity which befalls humanity.
Is there a railroad slaughter, Providence is held
responsible; i3 there a coalmine horror, Godi3
charged with it; is a city burned down and half
its inhabitants destroyed, tho fcntire Trinity,
the twelve Apostles and all the saints are charg
ed with the diabolical deed. We protest against
this, because it is not Christian doctrine. Pro
testant and Gatholio preachers are alike attrib
uting the misfortunes of Paris to Divine wrath.
If this be so, it must be admitted that Ho select
ed as instruments a frightful set of wretches.
But will these expounders of the doctrine of Di
vine interposition in all tbe calamities of life ex
plain how Paris waspunihsed for her sins by the
mnrder of the pious and venerable Archbishop
Darboy and numerous priets and nuns? Is
it possible that in a city of two millions
of inhabitants there were not ten righteous
men, the nnmber which, according to the Scrip
tures, were enough to save it? Our preach
ers appear to forget that if we must recog
nize tho hand of God in great misfortunes we
must reoognize it in small ones also. This is a
logical conclusion. If the Communists were
agents of-tho Almighty in half destroying Paris
then Foster was a divine agent in killing Put
nam, and so on down to the most trivial of
crimes. And the moment we- believe any snch
dootrine that moment we destroy all belief in in
dividual responsibility and make man the slave
of a supernatural power for good or evil. This
is not the doctrine of Christ; it is sheer phan
tasy. The most we can say, with any degree of
reason, is that God abandoned Paris to her fate
beo i use of her wickedness, and we most find an
explanation of His abandonment of the Arch-
bishop and other good men to their fates in the
declaration that he works in mysterious ways.—
dflr* A* £a€TQ\(Io .
There is only ono stimulant that never fails,
and yet never intoxicates—duty. Duty puts a
bine sky over every man—np in his heart, mav
be—into which the sky-lark, happiness, alwajn
goes singing.
A Fhzloso?HSB hath said: He who is passion
ate and hasty is generally honest. It is your
cold, dissembling hypocrite yon should beware
of. There’s no -deception in a bnll-dog. It is
only the cur that sneaks ap and bites yon when
your baok is turned.
A young lady recently tried to do np her
back hair with a honey oomb, to make it look
sweetly.
is Vice President. Count Bonrgiving has been
appointed Minister to the Hague. A” number
of natives of Switzerland, who were taken prls--
oners during the lost days of the insurrection,
have been discharged.
It is rumored that Clnseret is alive and has
been arrested. Masses will be said in all the
churches Tuesday for the souls of tho victims of
the civil war. Crowds of visitors arrive by
every train, and business is improving. The
city is healthy. The German troops have
evacuated Chantilly. The Official Journal has
a strong article abasing a portion of the English
pris3 for hostility to France. It stigmatizes
their misrepresentations as cold blooded and
cowardly, and charges that some of the writers
were bribed during and since the war.
London, Juno 18.—The? Observer announces
that Professor Montague Bernard will enter the
privy council. It is untrue that Disraeli will
be deposed from the leadership of the opposi
tion.
Dublin, Juno 18.—A gang of supposed Fe
nians broke into tho office of the armory at Mar
low, on Saturday night, and seized 120 rifles.
All escaped, but four were arrested this morn
ing on suspicion.
Hong Kong, Jane 18, via London.—Foreign
ers hero are greatly excited over the news of a
fight betwen the American expedition and the
Coreans.
Florence, Juno 18.—The result of tho first
levy for the Italian army in the Roman prov
inces is satisfactory. The King and Queen of
Belgium congratulate the Pope on the 25th an
niversary of his pontificate.
Cotton Movements for the Week
New Yore, Jane 18.—The cotton movement
shows a continued falling off. The totals are
the smallest for any week sinoe the retrograde
movement set in. Exports are about one-half
of the corresponding week last year. The re
ceipts at all the ports are 24,04G bales against
28.136 last week, 36,402 tbe previous week, 40,
178 three weeks since. The receipts since Sep
tember are 3,845,176 bales against 2,800,478 the
corresponding period of the previous year.—
Exports from all the ports 20,970 bales against
40,332 last year. Exports for tho expired por
tion of tho year, 3,003,732 bales against 2,022,
824 lost year. Stock at all the ports 224,851
bales against 229,277 the same time last year.
Stocks at interior towns 18,244 bales against
46,506 last year. Stock in Liverpool 945,000
bales against 628,060 last year. American cot
ton afloat for Groat Britain 132,000 against 115,-
000 last year. Indian cotton afloat for Europe
471,955 against 355,44G last year.
Cotton has been active daring tho week and
prices have steadily advanced, closing 4 to
cent per pound higher than this day a week ago,
Future contracts have advanced to 19 J for June,
201 for July and 205 for August. The sales for
the week reached 96,000 bales, of which 75,000
bales were for future delivery and 21,000 bales
on the spot and to arrive. Of the spot cotton
exporters took about 8,000 bales, spinners 9,800
bales and speculators 3,200 bales. The weather
aeconnts from the South report continued heavy
rains in the Golf States, and also high up the
Mississippi River, but towards the close of the
week tho rains abated somewhat and the weather
was rather more favojable.
■Washington, June 18.—Governor Lindsay
has gone to New York for the purpose of so-
caring tho interest of Alabama in the $6,500,
000 in the Alabama and Chattanooga Road,
and providing for the semi-annual interest
dno January I. The Governor is considering
special propositions, all protecting the debt to
the State, but he desires to adopt a policy which
will also protect private creditors, especially
laborers.
New York, June 18.—Commodore Ashbury’s
new yacht, tbe Livonia, leaves for this port tbe
first week in September and as tbs representa
tive of the Royal Hafcrich Clnb, to race thexep-
resentative yacht.of tne New York Clnb for tbe
Queen s cup, th^Iatter waiving the conditions
requiring six months’ notice of contest for the
cup,
New Yonn, June 18.—The trial of Dr. Lan
clot Hope Everett, charged with the murder of
Henry. Sevitzer on the 3d of April last, was con
eluded to-day. The jury, after an absence of
an hour, relumed a verdict of not guilty.
St. Louis, June 18.—A meeting of the South
ern and Western Tnrf Congress opened at Ab
bey Track yesterday. The weather was fine
and the attendance large. The principal race
was for the great post-stake of $2,500—each
association represented in the congress naming
a horse—summary: Barney Williams 2—1;
Matthew Jones first district; Virgil third dis
trict ; Leinster 4 withdrawn.
Charleston, Juno 18.—Arrived, schooner S.
B. Franklin.
The Catholics of Charleston celebrated the
Papal anniversary last evening by a procession
and mass meeting, with speeches, mnsio, illu
minations, fireworks and a saluto of twenty-
five guns.
New Yobk, Jane 18.—The game of base ball
yesterday at Boston, between the Red Stockings
of that city and the Mutuals of New York, re
sulted Mutuals, 40001002 2—9; Red Stock
ings, 20000000 1—3. Governor Wright
appeared for the first timo since his recent inju-
jy, playing first base.
Savannah, June 18.—Cleared, 17th, steamers
Montgomery and San Salvador, for New York;
Wyoming, for Philadelphia; ship Eufemia, for
Barcelona; schooner Northern Light, for New-
burg, S. C.
New York, June 18.—Sailed the bark Luget,
Liverpool; brig Queen of the South, Jackson
ville ; schooner M. A. Holt, New York.
Arrived, Herman Livingston.
Toronto, Juno 19.—A railroad accident has
occurred on the Grand Trunk. Fonateen were
injured, including Mr. Dally, of Richmond, se
riously.
Albany, N. Y., June 19.—Three white men
and six negroes who were gambling and drink
ing finally got into a fight. The negroeB were
armed with knives and razors, and stabbed Jas.
Donnelly, (white) ten times ih the'abdomen and
shoulders. He cannot recover. Another white
man has a cut sixteen inches long across his
abdomen, while all three have innumerable
flesh wounds. The police authorities are after
the blaSks.
Versailles, June 19.—Thiers, replying to the
appeals of tho father and mother of General
Rossil for mercy, says tho law must take Its
conTse. The press continue to attack the Bona-
; par lists. Figaro praises Count Chamliord. The
iliecle urges a union of the Republicans agalntH
tho Prussians and Thiers—their zeal enemies
forever cursed.
New Yore, Juno 19.—An earthquake took
place at five minutes past 10 o'clock this morn
ing in this vicinity. Reports indicate that tbe
wave center was probably east—somewhere in
New England.
Havana, Jane 19.—The insurgent General
Mormot’s offer to surrender was refused because
he failed to'bring the required number of fol
lowers. He will probably be shot.
Cincinnati, June 19.—A Bharp contest is
progressing between the partisans of ex-Sena^
tor B. F. Wade and those of Noyes for the Re
publican nomination for. Governor of Ohio.
The State Convention meets on Wednesday.
St. Louis, June 19.—The Chief of Polioe
having sqnelched the keno establishments, noti
fies faro dealers to stop within a certain Unw,
or they will be hurt.
New York, June 19.—Dr. James Connelly,
while suffering under an attack of znania-a-
jotu, killed his two daughters and himself,
deleaves a wife. He had formerly been in the
inebriate asylum.
London, June 19.—The Prussians have evac
uated Rowen. Eight thousand are left in St.
Denis.
Madrid, Jane 19.—Minister Murrell has re
signed. Slight disturbances occurred over, the
celebration of the Papal jnbilee.
Brussels, June. 19.—A riot oocurred here
daring the celebration of tbe Papal jubilee,
which was suppressed by'the bayonet. The
leaders of the outbreak are said to be mem
bers of the International Society.
Washington, Jane 19.—Baron Gerolt sails
from Baltimore on Wednesday.
Committee five hours. He fully corroborates
Governor Lindsay’s evidence regarding Ala-
abama. The Claims Commission have ap
pointed the following commissioners: John
Minor, Fayetteville; J. M. Foote, Plymouth;
James Dixon, Newborn; Dr. Pritchard, Char
lotte, in North Carolina, and Jeremiah G. Fra
zier, Nashville. * * *
Boston, June 19.—There was no earthquake
in this vicinity.
Mhwaukie, June 19. —Tbe lightning burned
Cutier’d saw mill and tnb factor Loss $35,000.
Chicago, June 19.—A pickpocket shot a po
liceman and bystander. The pickpocket was
shot after discharging five barrels. The police
man will probably recover. The others will die.
New York, June 19.—Two houses were pros
trated at Union Hill, New Jersey, by the storm.
Two' ladies were seriously injured.
„ The World’s special from Paris says tbe indi
cations of a renewal of the insurrection multi-
ply. Workmen openly insult soldiers. At
tempts at assassination and incendiarism con
tinue. The international candidates will be re
turned. Twenty-fire Commune officers have
been arrested sinoe Friday, mostly foreigners.
Cincinnati, June 19.—At a citizens’ meeting
to consider Valandigham’s death, Dr. J. £
Vattier presided. W. S. Groesbeck delivered ooz^Wckens^ilrs.M.M.HaH, 2 ^
a eulogy. The resolutions were highly lauda-
A'committee was appointed to complete
tory.
the funeral arrangements.
Raleigh, Jane 19.—In the ease of Anthony
H. Swazy vs. the North Carolina Railroad,
Judge Bond delivered the opinion that the act
of 1849, creates a lien npon the stock and divi
dends in favor cf bondholders, and no subse
quent acts of the Legislature could impair this
lien. The Court apppointed S. F. Phillips re
ceiver in a bond of $100,000.
Mobile, Jane 19.—Senator Spencer, the new
ly appointed Postmaster, vice G. L. Putnam,
was arzested'on a finding of the Grand Jury for
perjury.
Judge McKinstry, President of the Repub
lican Central Council, telegraphed Secretary
Boutwell to-day, that the resolutions presented
him, purporting to come from the Central Coun
cil, condemning Spencer’s appointments, are a
forgery, and never Dassed the Council. The
Republicans of Mobile sustain Spencer.
New Yore, June 19. —Aarrived, City of
Paris. Arrived out, Mairfax, Minnessota.
Savannah, June 19.—Arrived, steamer Bapi-
dan, New York; schooner Robert Caldwell,
Philadelphia; brig Trial, Philadelphia. Cleared,
brig Eva N. Johnson, New Haven.
Charleston, June 19.—Arrived, steamer Vir
ginia, Philadelphia.
London, Jane 19.—The Pope’s jubilee was
celebrated throughout Ireland. Two ships have
reached English ports with yellow fever aboard.
Pams, June 19, evening.—LaLibertie asserts
that Felix Pyatt has been arrested.
Twenty-fiye thousand women inoendiariesare
sentenced to transportation to New Caledonia.
Gambetta soon returns to Franco.
The Imperial Guard are being xeorganizd un
der the name of the Republican Guard.
Versailles, June 19.—The Assembly passed
a bill giving the natives of Alsace and Lorraine
franehi96 and eligibility to the Assembly.
Favro informed the Assembly that 180,000
French prisoners yet remain in Germay, but are
returning at the rate of 3,500 daily.
Washington, June 19.—General James H.
Clanton, of Alabama, was examined by the Con
gressional Kn-klux Committee to-day for five
hours. He testified that he had lived in that
State thirty-seven years, and in Montgomery
twenty-one years. Of that time he was a Union
whig before the late war and the Bell Presiden
tial elector, in 1860. He raised sixty-four com
panies for the Confederate army, and has been
the only Chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee of that Htate since the war. He did
not believe any regular Ku-klnx organization
ever existed in Alabama. He had heard of out
rages in a few localities by disguised bands, bnt
Alabama was as peaceable and quiet as before
the war. No more violations had occurred
there since the war than in any of the Northern
States. The greater part of the crimes in Ala
bama had been committed by members of the
Radical party. The Democratic party in that
State were in favor of tho education of tho ne
gro. He had advocated it five years ago in a
speech in reply to Wilson, of Massachusetts,
and was already advertised to deliver a speech
on the 19 th of Jnly next, at a State Educational
Convention in favor of edneating the colore d race.
The only intimidation he knew of at the last
election, was by the Radical colored voters
against those of their own color who wanted to
voto the Democratic tiedet The cause of all
the troubles was not the brava men who fought
one another in tho late war, bnt tbe politicians,
sutlers and horse holders, who followed the two
armies. The true men of each army respected
one another, and were willing to meet, forgive
and forget. li.o leaders of the Radical party
in Alabama, with a few exceptions, were desti
tute of moral character;-were regular spoils
men: Most of the negroes had behaved well.
A generous policy on the part of tho Govern
ment wonld best subserve the interests of both
raoes in the South, and soonest restore the fra
ternal feeling and affection which once existed
for tho Union. The Sonth loved our form of
government, bnt abhorred its maladministra
tion.
He had always counselled submission to law
and order, and believed it conld and would be
preserved in his State without outside influence.
New Yoek, Jane 19.—In the game of bill&rds
betweenlCyrelle Dion and Melville Foster, for
a diamond cue and $1,000, fonr ball carom,
counting three, fifteen hundred points, stands
on the thirteenth inning: Foster, 348 ; Dion
798.
Bibb County Agricultural Fair.
In Sunday’s issue we had the time and space
to report only the articles entered and the pre
miums awarded in the departments of Field
Crops and Farm Implements. We now resume
our report beginning where we left off, with the
department of
HORTICULTURE.
Entries.—Wm. A. Ried 13 varieties of veget
ables; Mrs. A. G. Butts, one peck Irish pota
toes; Barron Carter, large collection of veget
ables eznbraoing many varieties; Patrick Long,
magnificent display ot vegetables, 13 varieties;
Thomas Bagly, fine display of apples; D. Milne,
fine cabbage, peck of Irish potatoes, one-half
dozen beets, qnart strawberries, one-bnlf dozen
poaches, ono-half dozen apples; O. O'Connell,
5 varietes of vegetables; F. L. Henry,
1 extraordinary bean stalk; Beggs & Milne,
beets Tand potatoes; H. P. Westcott, one-
half dozen ears corn; E. J. Johnson, Irish
potatoes; Mrs. T. Hardeman, strawberries,
cabbage and potatoes; R. E. Besson
fine plums; Dr. H. O. Milton, 1 quart
New Orleans plums, fine display of poaches; S.
I. Gustin, display of fruit and vegetables; Mrs.
W.A. Davis, one-half dozen plums; E. L D. Big
gins, display of vegetables, 4 varietes, 1 dozen
peaches, 1 box Mogul plums; E. R. Anthony,
magnificent assbrtment of fruits, embracing i7
varieties of apples, 15 varieties pears, 5 do
teaches, 8 do plums, 2 do apricots, 2 do grapes;
It. W. J. Toole, one-half dozen Hale’s early
peaches, one-half dozen Tillotson peaches;
Thomas Stubbs, l watermelon, one-half dozen
nutmeg melons; James Tinley, 2 varieties of
plnm3; Samuel F. Gove, of Twiggs county, 2
varieties peaches and 4 do strawberries; David
Blount, 1 peck Irish potatoes; O. J. Harris, 1
bunch (3) beets; J. A. Whitesides, one-half
dozen beets, one-half dozen ears corn, one-half
dozen onions, 1 peck Irish potatoes, 1 qnart
strawberries, 3£ dozen peaches; Mrs. W. B.
Parker, ertraordinaiy stalk of celery; B.M. Pol-
hill, cabbage and beets; J. T. Ryder, extra fine
apples and plains; M. L. Bryan, of Honston
county, 1 peck Irish potatoes; Jordan Parks,
one-half dozen plums; T. L. Massenbnrg, fruit
and vegetables, comprising peaches, tomatoes
and cantaloupes; Mrs. Sarah West, display of
vegetables, Mrs. Bailey, 1 stalk corn; James
D. HoP, bunch onions; Simon Myers, speci
men turning beans; O. O. Collins, 1 quart
strawberries; W. H. Walker, fine display of
vegetableBand fru’t; Mrs. B. H. Wrigley, one-
half dozen pears, fine; Mrs. O. B. Bond, 2 va
rieties plums; Mrs. E. O. Grier, Jones county,
fine display of vegetables.
On the foregoing superb display ot fruits and
vegetables, among which the reporter begs leave
to say, he found not one inferior or even medi
um article, the Judges through their chairman,
Mr. Samuel L Gustin, made the following award
of premiums: Best collection of vegetables,
P. Long—premium; best half dozen beets, P.
Long; best half dozen ears of green corn, F.
Long; best half dozen tomatoes, P. Long; best
eabbage, P. Long; best half dozen squashes,
O. O’Connell; best half dozen encumbers, O.
O’Connell; best half bushel Irish potatoes, Mrs.
A. G. Butts; best watermelon, W. A. Walker;
best cantaloupes, Thos.Stnbbs; best assortment
of fruits—49 varieties, E. E. Anthony; best half
dozen peaches, beet plums, beat half dozen ap-
fiee, best strawberries, E. R. Anthony; best
lalf dozen pears, Mrs. B. H. Wrigley. The com
mittee of Judges adit - “Mesons: Harris and
Gustin had a most creditable display of fruits
and vegetables, bnt being judges,.they declined
_ . i i j. to exhibit them In competition with others. The
General Clanton was before tbo Ku-kkxx 1 committee also deetreto make honorable men-
were very fine. The display of itlsn -
andjother vegetables was so large
excellent quality, that it was fiifficnB ? 0 „ r **
instances to decide which was best-’'
• DOMESTIC DETARIKHST
Entries.—Mrs. A. Melrose, l bom. „
berry wine, 1 loaf of bread, and l cni?
jelly; Mrs. T. H. Harris, i bota e E &*
wine; Mrs. E. McCall, l stand of
•JohnstoD, 1 bottle blackberry £ £
Mrs. George B. Barker, l bottk i/iF 0 :
wine cf 1865; E. L. D.’ BfcgJ
chickens, 1 bucket of bntter i j.,
boney. l jar honey oomb; JameVT^' 3
quart blackberry wine, 2 quarts 1
different kinds; Mrs. Grentiv, 6 w p0 .^i
dozen chickens; Y~ " ” “ °
Mrs. J. B. Artope, _
K*UIe and Florine Daalan'Taif V™ 10 ’ ^
chickens; Mrs. S. D. Ey£’ 6 £ [ t C i;, as PV
berry wine; J. T. Ryder^I n, bot «eblacil
Mrs. E. A. Whiteside^ briS,® ° f toae ^
B. Parker, 1 bottle grap<, wi afl ‘tV
Davis, 2 lbs. bntter and lboltWf Z 1, J - 0.
S. A. O. Everett, half dozen
Mrs. E. B. Anderson, 21bs! bu&? Metej
Lloyd, half dozen spring clucked l 4 ®
of blackberry wine; Jf. L. Hen^o
blackberry wine; Mrs. T. B Elfe’ l
as-?—Jsisz
The committee of judges for this tw.* .j
made the following award of prenum^wj
2 lbs. butter, Mrs. E. McCall;
spring chickens, David E. Blount HonS
mention is also made of a coop of halt
Shanghais exhibited hr the
half dozen white Shanghais bv s A nr
rett; 1 bottle grape wine by E. B. ArtW
honorable mention; beet simple of £
T. Ryder; best bottle grape wine, Mis. ilii
Tinley; best blackberry wine, Mrs. T A
er; best loaf light bread, Mrs. A. Melrot
apple jelly, Mrs. A. Melrose. ’
TLORICULTUBE and fine arts.
. ^»eA-Miss Mary B. Burke, 2 oil P? = c ,
mgs; Miss Mollie HoweB, 2 oil paiHea-in
Leila A. Ross, 1 oil painting and «^
sketches; D. Milne, display of flowers, S
a hunch of roses and verbenas, display of to
ias—superb—one boquet; Miss Fannie Jok
ton, floral design — beautiful; Miss Lei
Payne, 3 oil paintings; Miss Minn™ Greshi
1 basket of flowers—skillfully and ingenion-
arranged; Mrs. Chas. Collins, 1 floral dess
and boqnet—both exquisitely beautiful- Hiss
Conner and Ayers, a floral design, ereeedinc
handsome and attracted general altentii
and admiration; S. D. Rainey, 2 oil pnintint
Mrs. J. H. Woolf oik, 1 oil painting; Hiss Cla
deGfaffenreid, display of flowers—vety beaut
ful; Mrs. W. H. Walker, 2 oil printings; Mr
B. B. Lewis, display of fiowers-beautifuL
The display of hot-honse plants and flow
was superb, and embraced many varieties-si
passing anything heretofore witnessed in U
con. The paintings and crayon sketchings ve
also fine. Without drawing invidious compai
son, or in disparagement to others, we must s
that two crayon sketches exhibited by II
Leila Ross, were among the best we ema
from the pencil of a yonng lady. But, indee
all the paintings and drawing on exhibit!
were good and highly creditable to tie arfe
The committee of Judges for this deputae
made the following award of premiums-. Bi
display of flowers, Miss Clare deGitffenriei
best bunch of roses, D. Milne; best bunch
dahlias, D. Milne; best bnnch verbesss, i
Milne; best floral design, Miss Minnie Gresk
best crayon sketch, Miss Leila Ross; bestboqt
Mrs. Chas. Collins; next best boquet to Mi
Georgia Conner; best oil painting, Miss h
Payne. The Judges add: “We lecommi
that a special premium bo awarded to I
Mollie Howes for meritorious paintings, end
gret that tbe list doe3 not authorize us to i
it. And we beg leave to make honorable n
tionof the beautiful contributions of oilpei
ings by Miss Mary E. Burko; the floral desi
by Miss Fannie Johnston and Miss F. Ayres:
paintings by S. D. Rainey, Mrs. J. H. Woolf
Mrs. W. H. Walker, and the very handsome
play of flowers by Mrs. B. B. Lewis. All 11
are well entitled to premiums, if the list ads
ted. In conclusion, we emphatically declare
exhibition in onr department to be recherche
large.”
MISCELLANEOUS.
The committee appointed to examine ail
. port npon articles not mentioned in the pn
nm list, “especially mention the medicine p
arations and perfumery of Bibb county mi
facture, as shown by J. EL Zeilin & Co.,
also the fine specimen of “press” and
bricks exhibited by Messrs Sparks & Em;
Their symetry and finish, we-have never ~
excelled by brick of any foreign mannfat
—showing tho fine quality of the claynesr
city, and the enterprise of our townz-
Messrs. Sparks & Knight.” These brick,
reporter wonld state, were burned by Mr.
Monlthrop, the most skillful kiln burner, |
haps, in tho whole South, now in the emploj
Messrs. Sparks & Knight
The last report of judges read by Pres®
Holt, at the close of the Fair, was the follow
Faib Grounds, Jane 17, ISrt
To B. H. Wrigley, Secretary of Gw
Agricultural Society : Sib—We wish to
honorable mention of two hen eggs a»
A. S. O. Everett, they weighing in the
gate more than six ounces. Respectfufly,
John P.
W. S. Beast
0. M. Won-
In closiDg his report of the Fair ^
race3, the reporter must be allowed to t
President Holt and Secretary Wrigley, ot
Bibb County Agricultural Society,
ness and courtesy with whioh they
and in giving him access to the entry booB
reports of committees. Also to the te
Jadges of the boat races, particu-arly an.
H. Ross, for kind assistance rendered, i
S. R. Jacques, of the Boff Boat Club, M • •
Ross, Mr. J. P. Greer, and several other e
tlemen connected with the_ races ana co
is the reporter also greatly indebted.
The National Stoiuch.—Oar versa^*
temporary, tho Tllegsate asd masses
been busying its brains with a f£e. ,
of matters lately. Nothing escape^
from cow peas to dyspepsia. ,
her it takes the public stomach totaBS,
poses a reform in gastronomy so'gran ‘ „
are overwhelmed. We knucMe r 6°^
Clisby is veryspiyon “craps
an editor. But wo drdn t know that t
Reeso had graduated OT» the stomach a-
lie of that.”
The above from our cotemporary the
Constitution, escaped the notice of the
when it appeared on the 13th inst,
tens to assure that journal that neithe -
nior, who it is pleased to dab a pvo-A^=
or, or “brother Reese” are in the least r P
bio for the authorshipof the articlei m 6
The concluding paragraph of h- ..
with its incoherent jumble of wer “ ^
perate attempts at wit, may be
npon either of the following hyP 0 .
brother Avery, just returned
by the sea, Savannah, had not. b _ “ ,
covered from the effects of real t
crabs to write intelligibly upon 7
connected with digestion. Seoon »
raised upon “hog and hominy' «
region from whioh he came, he
np the cudgel for bacon, grease an S ,
don’t like to hear them disparaged- g,
fear some of the spirits of the E liJ1 (-
imbibed too freely, may have stole “ t
and converted him for tbe time = s
drummer and eulogist of that no,
lanta, under the present regi^t, 13
demoralizing city. Confess the
brother, and sin no more.
Mr. Local: The diver pnze of - „ ^«
to the winning tub at the “Tub ' ^
urday last, has been presented 0 ^
Orphan Home Society by u -
who had the honor of propelling « t e
with white colors end red tettem
ful voyage from rope to barrel? 3
P. S.—I would suggest to the n^,
the next “Tub Race that the voJ*F ^
from barrel to to rope M •
of the age.
