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Telegraph and Messenger. MACON,JULY 4, 1871 The Sonlhern Farm and Home For July was laid on onr table yesterday. Farm, work for the month contains two pages of judi cions editorial suggestions. Sumach is an edito rial upon the culture and treatment of this pro- duat now becoming an important article of- trade. Trefoil contributes an article upon oldVer seed. T. N. Russell, of Cobb, writes upon ditching botton land. Homespun discourses upon upland rice, a product which ought to re ceive a good deal more attention. Prof. Leroy Broon has a very elaborate and well considered paper on the proposed Agricultural College in Georgia. Dairy Farming, is an editorial upon caws and clover growing, in which it is stated that Mr. Reid, near Atlanta, sold §2000 worth of milk and butter from one cow ia the oourse cf eleven years- That humorous poetaster, S. L.,who wrote r.bonttheman “which he lived ih Jones,” has another ditty about Jones, showing the unhappy result cf preaching in favor of growing yonr own corn supplies. We suspect therois a great deal more truth than poetry in the conclusion: And presently says Jones : ‘-hit’s trne; That Cliaby'a head is level. Thar's one thing fanners all must do To keep thomaelves from goin’ tew Bankruptcy and the devil! “More com! More com! Must plant lees ground, And mustn't eat what’s boughten! Next year they’ll do it: reasonin’ 'a sound! And cotton will fetch ’bout a dollar a pound, (Tharfore, I'll plant all cotton!”) Mr. Barnett writes a valuable article on piantationncconnts; Mrs. White contributes her ti-ual chapter of domestic receipts, and edito rials make up the remainder of the voluminous contents—the number winding up with a con lisnation of Mary Faith Floyd’s story “The Nereid.” Speaking of clover-growing, the ed itor tells of twenty-four tons of green clover cut from one acre in the neighborhood of Grif flu, which would amount to about six tons when , tiry. Wo repeat, what we have already frequently remarked concerning the Farm and Home: that it is a first-rate magazine for the farmer, gar dener, stock-rai3er, and head of a family, any ringle number of which is worth far more than the subscription prico (§2) fora year. By arrangement with the publishers, J. W. Darke & Co., we can famish the Farm and Homo and Daily Telegraph and Manson for $11 per annum, and the Farm and Home and Weekly Telegraph and Messenger for $1 per annum. Devout Bismarck.—In a recent discussion in the North German Parliament, Prince Bismarck took occasion, in dilating upon the “truly French cruelty” of ihe Gauls ia expelling Ger man residents from Franco, and in seizing Ger man ships, to remark that the “avenging hand of Providence was viable in recent events at Fans.” It i3 singular, observes the New York Commercial Advertiser, how palpable the hand of providence is always observed in the misfor- tones of onr enemies. If. tho war had termin ated differently, had the close of it found tho French in Berlin, instead of the Germans in Paris—it Is very doubtful whether Bismarck would have been so ready to recognize tho same agency. People »can afford to be very pions when they wish. . Bismarck would seem to have taken a leaf out-of the book of his master, “Pious BiH,’.’ js tho London satirist, irrever ently call him. . ' * 7 CAMiStosf-^The HeraSrsays Simon has been the administration candidate for Vice President ever since Grant and he went a fishing together. They did not catch catfish for nothing. Came ron, of course, looks for a very enthusiastic support from Charles Sumner and his friends, rud whatever ho lacks there Morton and Butler will make up. Cameron will fly the banner of political and financial integrity—economy, re form, no trickery and cancussing in politics— no bribery in elections. He is now having these sterling principles emblazoned in red ink on bis shirt tail, showing that they are principally for tho benefit of other people. WnoBeats It?—A gentleman resident on College street, and whose public spirit and dis position to be up with the times in small as well as large things i3 well known, send3 ns tho first bunch of Catawba grapes we have seen t ris season. They are not exactly ripe, but so near it as tamale the eating and enjoying them mere question of a distinction without a dif ference. Wesleyan Female Institute, Staunton, Va. Among the list of pupils at this school who re ceived diplomas and prizes for distinguished proficiency, at the recent commencement, we find the following from Georgia: Misses Regina and Jennie Rambo, MissMillie Cobb, (of Macon) Miss Moselle De Liuney, Miss Evelyn Rooney, and Miss Lola McKay. Changes in HabvabdUniveksitt.—Tho World of Tuesday says that a “new departure” has been taken by Harvard University. Increased prominence i3 hereafter to be given to scien tific studies; in certain departments women are to be admitted to an equality with men; new buildings are to bo erected, and tuition is to be absolutely free. Commissions Catron Bound for Japan.— The Herald says it is understood that Hon. Horace Capron, Commissioner of Agriculture, has accepted an offer of $20,000 per annum to proceed to Japan for tho purposo of developing the agricultural resources of the Island of Iesso. We hope the Commissioner will never be called upon to commit bari kari. Dcuke's Magazine fob Bars and Gibls.—Wo have the July number of this excellent illustrated monthly, full of very interesting reading for the young folks. Published by J. W. Buike & Go., Macon, at $2 per annum. 'The Wixamp Cotton Gin.—Wo call attention to the advertisement in another column of the Winship cotton gin, which embraces the com parative results of a trial of speed at the iato fair in Augusta. A Strike.—The stone cutters at work on the capital at Albany demanded last Monday the 'same pay for eight hours’ labor which they had reoeived for ten. Tho capito! commissioners declined to pay it, and tho workmen struck. * The Poatofiloe Department will, next week, order an increase of salaries to abont one hun dred and fifty postmasters throughout the coun try. because of the increased business of their offloee. - A California applicant before a school board defined phlebotomy as “pertaining to the bot tom of a ilea.” Ho has retired with a dignity becoming bis proiession. Quick Trip.—The Inman line steamer City of Brooklyn, made her last trip from New York to Queenstown, Ireland, in eight days and six hours. - v ^ - V-> . 3LEU.—There is a general difference of eight to twelve degrees cooler in the temperature in New York thi* summer as oompared with the ir.St. Boons Bills.—Officials in Washington state that about ten million dollars in counterfeit National Bank bills are now In circulation. Liquors.—Theoflfioial report shows 40,839,- 1CG gallons of spirits in bond and tax paid against 45,039,893 last year. Tlie African at hi* Beoks. Tho board of visitors to the Atlanta Univer sity, (an institution for the instruction of ne groes) makes a very eulogiatio report on the pro gress of the pupils. They say : At every step of the examination we were im pressed with the fallacy of the popular idea (which, in common with thousands of others, a majority of the undersigned have heretofore entertained) that the members of the African race are not capable of a high grade of intellec tual culture. The rigid testa to which the classes in Algebra and Geometry, and in Latin and Greek were subjected, unequivocally demon strated that under judicious training, and with persevering study, there are many members of the African race who can attain a high grade of intellectual culture. They proved that they can master intricate problems in mathematios, and fully comprehend the construction of difficult passages in the classics. Many of the pupils exhibited a degree of mental culture which, considering the length of time their minds have been in training, would do credit to members of any race, Tho chairman of this committee was ex-Gov. Brown and Messrs. W. A. Hemphill, Wm. L. Scruggs and J. I. Whittaker were among its mc-iLoc-rs. We are wedded to no particular theory about Africanus. We would not give the value of a brass button to prove to the satisfaction of mankind that the negro is at least twenty de scents nearer that Simian origin to which Dar win eventually traces the entire human race. But this much may well be said: The Atlanta University is by no means the first attempt which has been made on this planet to indoc trinate the African in philosophy and letters. On the contrary, if we accept the Mosaic record or choose tho almost illimitable chronology of the Egyptians, that experiment has been prose cuted with more or less diligence many thou sands of years, without material result. Under these circumstances the committee should not make np their minds in too much haste, upon the result of a few quarters’ school ing in the Atlanta University. Wo desire, in deed, that onr African friends Bhould shine mentally as they do physically, when hog is plenty; bet when we look around for all the poets, philosophers, historians, artists, sculp tors, painters, critics and scientists of the Afri can race which have been produced from the instructions of the ancient leamod Egyptians down to this 19th century, wherein tho British Government and Exeter Hall have fairly laid themselves out in tho best kind of schools— and Scotch scholars from Edinborongh and St. Apdrews—andEaglish scholars from Cambridge and Oxford, and Irish scholars from Dublin, have been for more than a generation drilling the, science and letters into the yontlifnl ne groes of tho West Indies, at the cost of the Royal Treasury, we gan’t feel as certain as onr- friends Brown, Hemphill, Scruggs and Whitaker do, thatallhnman experience is going to be reversed by the Atlanta University, and the world is now to see, what it has been look ing in vain for many thousand years, a crop of accomplished negro scholars, poets, philoso phers and statesmen. We are inclined to take a verymoderate view of tho matter and to conclude that if the Atlanta University succeeds ia teaching those young darkies “the three R’s”—the practice of self- restraint, prudence, good manners and industry, they will have accomplished, on an average, the best results compatible with the conditions. The exploits in Greek, Latin, and the more recondite branches of mathematics on which Mr. Scruggs rhapsodizes editorially, will, we fear, lead to no more practical resnlts than to illustrate the dexterity of the teachers. Let us do justice to our progenitors on this globe. Let us admit that their experience ana observation were at least worth something, how ever small, and that wisdom was not bom with ns. Wc know it i3 hard for a Radical to admit so much, but it is due: and reasoning upon oven this meager concession, we cannot promise our selves with confidence s race of mental black giants and scientific and literary experts, even from the labors of the Atlanta University. For (lie North Pole. Capt. Hall sailed in his steamer Polaris from New York last Thursday. According to the newspapers, the captain does not credit the idea of an open polar sea. He expects to find the polar latitudes above the 81st parallel, a region of eternal ice and snow, over which he will travel (the distance being about six hundred miles) on dog sledges. What he i3 to do with the pole when ho finds it, is not set forth. As the pole has been there some' time, it may have rotted off, or if wood don’t decay at that temperature, perhaps he will hang the star spangled banner to it, and eat a drink of frozen brandy to the honor of thething. Then, perhaps, an application of walrus grease to the pole, may enable old mother earth to turn a little easier on her axis. If he finds the pole gone, and nothing but the hole left where it should have been, he can go down into that hole as Capt. Symmes proposed to do,-and ascertain how they keep up those in ternal fires which spont out occasionally through the cmgt in the shape of volcanoes, and give constant token of their presence in boiling springs, geysers and earthquakes, which last are but the rattling of the great mundane teakettle lid, when the fire is a little too strong. We shall doubtless get the particulars when Captain Hall returns, which he expects to do in the year of grace 1874. Until then it is best not to be too wise on polar scienco and litera ture, which is the crowning error of the New York papers the past week. The subject would be quite exhausted, and the Polaris a needless investment if their editorials were accepted as the deductions of scientific knowledge. The Southern Cultivator for July came to hand yesterday and is, as usual, full of Interest ing matter to the farmer. In one of the articles Dr. Pendleton presents three calculations of the cost of producing cotton in Hancock county. The first was $11.49 to the hundred pounds of lint—the second $10.90 and the third $12.11— the average of the whole was 117-16 per pound, at the gin-house. We see in the Cnlti vator a par agraph recommending this method of putting up green com: Shave it from the cob and pack it away in common stone jars—first a layer of com an inch thick—then salt enough too aver it, and so on till the jaris filled. A pickle will soon rise and the com must be kept beneath the surface, by a boardand weight. The jar must be covered with cloth or paper tied over the mouth. When used, the corn must first be dropped in boiling water, so aa'to render its milk insoluble. It may then besoakedjmtil sufficiently freshened. The writer says he h»g eaten green com pre served in this way for four years, which oonld not be distinguished by flavor from fresh r nrr ), How Mr*. Thornton Collected 85,000 from the State Bond—An Arithmetical Senator and-bow Ho Compute* Intere*t-How Much Fifteen per cent, on 83,000, Is. On the 2Gth day of May last, Mrs. Mary R. Thornton, of Atlanta, was so unfortunate as to lose her husband, he being run over by an en gine on the State Road and instantly kiQecL Naturally enough, Mrs. T. began a suit for damages against the road, she being dearly of the opinion that his death was the result of criminal carelessness on the part of the road's representatives, and the calamity, besides, leav ing her unprotected and alone in the world to get along as best she might Well, the suit was commenced, and shortly thereafter she received a message from State Senator Brock, one of the trooiy loil members of that body, who told her he thought he could have the case settled without its costing her anything in the shape of lawyer’s fees. This was kind, very^and Mrs. T.’s opinion of tho honorable gentleman’s benevolence immediately rose several hundred per cent But Brock went on to ask what she would give him to collect the claim, and IDs. T. calling her son into the conn' oil, they decided -that 10 per cent would be about tho figure. Brock rather thought this was not enough, and so they moved np a peg and offered him 15 per cent Brock then asked young Thornton what 13 per cent, on the $3,000 wouid amount to, and that ingenuous, but sadly unarithmetical youth, with that prompt inaccu racy which characterizes some folks when deal ing with figures, replied that 15 per cent was $1,500, of course. Brock’s tuneful voice re sponded cor-rect, and the bargain was struck. A few days afterwards Mrs. T. and son signed a paper and reoeived from Brock $1000 in mo. ney and two notes signed by Blodgeltas Super, intendent, eaoh for $1250—Brock stating that he had received his 15 per cent on the $3000 claimed, which any schoolboy knows amounted to jnst $1500. Mrs. T. set about realizing on the notes, bnt before she fingered the cosh she had to pay her attorney (Mr. Mynatt) $250 for collecting them, besides having to submit to a bank shavo of $100 on one, and $250 on the other. When Mrs. T. got through the business she sat down and did some figuring on her own account, and the result stood as follows: She had signed a receipt to Blodgett for $5000, bnt Brock's 15 per cent. ($1500) on that amount, and the $G00 paid to Mynatt and tho banks had made a $2100 hole in that plnmp sum, and she discovered that she had landed only $2900 nett. This was not at all to her liking, and so sho concluded to give tho public the benefit of her discoveries, and the Constitution prints them. That paper, to which we are indebted for these facta, concludes an article on tho subject as follows The remarkable feature in this case, however, is that Senator Brock was the Chairman of the Railroad Investigating Legislative Committee that was appointed to examine into Blodgett’s State Road management, and ho reported that that management was all right. Mr. Brock's access to the Superintendent and his opportu. nities for settling railroad cases are a very fit ting adjnnot to that fifteen per cent, matter. The conjunction of the two is highly signifi cant. Of Brock’s qualifications as a legislator we are not informed, bnt there certainly can bo no question as to his eminent ability as a computer of interest. If any banker or broker is in want of a “lightning calculator” just now, wo do not seo bow they conld do better than to engage Brock’s services. Store Railroad Strategy- -Sale of tlie Montgomery and Eofanla Railroad. We find tho following in the Montgomery Advertiser, of Thursday: Montgomery and EufaulaRoad.—At the an- m«1 meeting of tho stockholders of tho above named road, held at noon yesterday in this city, the stock owned by Eafaula, Union Springs and Montgomery was represented respectively by the Mayors of the cities named and other gen tlemen, -whose names we have not on hand. The rest of the stock was largely represented by delegates from the country all along the lino of the road. The chief business of the meeting was to consider and act npon the contract lately entered into in New York hy Col. Lewis Owen for the company, and Messrs. Opdyko & Hazel- hurst for themselves and other capitalists of New York, tho terms of which wore substan tially as follows: 1. The Company assigns to Messrs. Opdyko & Co., parties of the second part, all the assets and a majority of the stock of tho road (abont $530,000 worth) without reserve. 2. Messrs. Opdyke & Co. agreo to furnish $680,000 in cash, which sum it is thought will bo amply sufficient to pay off all outstanding liabilities and complete the road to Eufania. On motion of Captain Fowler, ably seconded and supported hy J. W. L. Daniel, and one of the Directors, this contract wa3 unanimously ratified : Although not stated in so many words in the above article, it is understood that the sale is virtually to the Macon and Brunswick Railroad —Mr. Opdyke being one of tho largest New York stockholders in that road, and Mr. Hazle- hnrst its President. If we are not mistaken, tho road from Montgomery to Enfanla is well on tho way to completion, there being only nine teen miles to finish. With a western connec tion via Montgomery and the North and Sonth Road, direct to Louisville, much of the South western Georgia provision business now done over the Western and Atlantic and Macon and Western Roads, will very possibly be diverted to the former-route—provided, of course, the Macon and Brunswick Road secures a connec tion from Eufania with some point on that road. A friend at onr elbow suggests Hawkiusville, as there was a charter—with State aid—granted at the last session of the Legislature for a road from Hawkinsville to Enfanla. Chancellor Lipscomb’s Letter To the Alumni of the University, which ^e print this morning, will prove a most potent re inforcement to the policy of Alumni organiza tion, whioh is now being inaugurated through out the State. It is an earnest, eloquent appeal from a man whose opportunities for knowing the immense advantages to result to the Uni versity and the cause of education in the State, from such organization, are supplemented by a zeal, and energy, and ardent desire to do good in these directions, only bounded by physical ability to sustain him in the noble work. We need do no more than simply call attention to it. It commends itself by the resistless foroe of fact and argament, illuminated by a graoe of diction and eloquence of expression, all the writer’s own. Hard Licks at West Point. A World correspondent narrates the sorrows of Cadet Wilson—an inoffensive youth—the son of a revolutionary officer—who fell a victim to the superior muscle of Cadet Smith, of Afrioan scent. This Bhows the importance of a new system of training for the military academy. To carry it out the academy should be moved down to the Mississippi canebrake country and the cadets permitted to acquire brawn and mus cle by the judicious use of. the hoe in the cotton or cane fields. With four years of constant prac tice, the whites may be able to stand their hands with the negro cadets, so as not to be knocked down so often and ignominionsly. So long as we are running on the principle of mix ing colors, the mixture should be equal—“’alf and ’all”—according to cookney rule. The ex aminations should be a general mill—Africa against America—whioh should limited to fist and sknlL (However, we are not so confident on the skull question). But of one thing we are certain: they ought to stop so much lying. The white boys themselves say since the niggers were introduced they have all got snoh a habit of lying that it sprains their tongues to speak the truth. This should be discontinued. But the hoe business, so long as we ran the United States military academy with plantation negroes, should be the main feature of the system, and then, with good overseers, the institution would be self-supporting. “If there is any one thing we glory in,” says the gushing blookhead of the Buffalo Express, in an attach upon Kentuckians, “it is the title of American citizen, the highest honor that mortal man can data on this earth." Ibis cer tainly a proud thing to be an American citizen, and especially an American citizen of Afrioan descent; but for onr single Belves, if we can live to see our names enrolled as members of the Bare-Legged and Double-Breasted Base Ball Club, we shall than feel that we have the entire Udder of fame under ns.—Courier-Journal. The Herald, of Wednesday, asserts that Frank Blair endorses the “new departure.” Columbus educates G50 children every year, at a cost of $11 each. The Columbus District-Conference met at Bntler, last Thursday. Ninety delegates were present. Talbotton was chosen as the location for the distriot parsonage. The Conference was very emphatic on the subject of the use and sale of liquor by church members, and the neglect of family worship. .*-y If lied Head don’t put on his war paint and go for the Brunswick Appeal man, we will lose all out faith in hair sign. Says the Appeal: Several huge turtle were brought to ono of our city wharves on TaeBday last. They were of the specimens known as loggerheads. Some mischievous boys hod daubed the head of ono with a composition of brick dust and water; npon inquiry being made as to tho cause of this rubicund caput tho urchins replied that it was the local of tho Savannah Morning News. If lineally descended tho News men seem stu diously to endeavor to obliterate all traoes of thoconneclions, as we learn they profess agroat aversion for water. The instincts of boys, how ever, are frequently unerring. There mnst be a scarcity of cotton in Colum bus. Wo seo the Eagle and Phenix factory is working up fingers. The Talbotton Standard says: The Cnors.—Com is sappy and spindling on grey land and low grounds. Wo aro afraid Uie crop is gone. The weeds and grass are choking out the stands. The red lands have a magnifi cent crop on them. Rain continues. Cotton prospects gloomy. Tho editor of the Dawson Journal is open to propositions from sporting parties to show them fine snake hunting grounds. Wo thought Weston was a Good Templar. .. The Columbus police have organized a raid on tho “ soiled doves” of that city, without re spect to race or "color. Eighteen were arrested Sunday and Mondaf night. Rev. E. P. Brown, reotor of the Episcopal Church at Thomasville, has been appointed postmaster of that place. His predecessor— Brown, loo—levanted on acoonnt of the E. Ks —that is, he so represented at Washington. Savannah “calls” Atlanta in the housebuild ing game. Her hand shows 200, of various kinds, now in course of construction. Seventy-five of the principal business houses of Oolnmbu3 have agreed to close their doors at 6 p. si, from July 1st to September 1st, The Chronicle and Sentinel says strong efforts are being made to have C. C. Reese, who mur dered a man named Edwards, at Crawfordsviile last year, and who wa3 convioted and sentenced to bo hung, at the last term of Hancock Supe rior Court, pardoned. It is said nearly all the jury who found him guilty have signed the pe tition 1 Goat stealing is the latest triumph of the Butlerian system, at Savannah. Peter Williams'and Frank JacksoD, very col ored troops,Are under a legal cloud,-down at Savannah, for chopping and stabbing their re spective Dulcineas. Thomas county is to meet and talk over the subject of white labor, on tho 13th of July. The negroes of the county have become so ut terly worthless that no reliance can be plaeed upon them as laborers. This is the county where white Democrats went npon the bonds of negro Radicals elected to county offices. Cause and effect. Says the Chroniolo and Sentinel, of Thurs day: Another New Departure.—An intelligent negro man, whom wo have long known and re spected, a citizen of Sonth Carolina, said to ns a day or two since, that he was “getting np a memorial to Congress, to be signed only by colored men, asking that Congress would admit free of duty all machinory for manufacturing cotton that may be imported for actual use into the State of South Carolina during tho next two years.” To our questions: why do you wish this done ? of what benefit will cheap cotton machinery by to you? he replied: “Some of ns believe that the best method of elevating our race is by educating onr females as artisans, withdrawing them from the cotton field and the menial duties of life. We can furnish cheaper labor than the whito labor of Massachusetts, and yon Georgia people have shown us that manu facturing cotton pays better than anything else. We aro told that English machinery, imported duty free, costs less than one-half the price of that made in this country, and are promised that if we can get the machinery duty free, ample capital will be loaned us off mortgage to. bnild and equip onr mills at a rate of interest not ex ceeding ten per cent per annum; and this -will leave ns a dividend of ten dollars on every hnn- dred of capital, besides wages.” Wo find the following in the Atlanta Era, of yesterday: “ The Era in Macon.— A business letter, dated Macon, 28th inst., and addressed to this office, says: “Canyou not arrange so as that your Maoon subscribers can get the daily Era at least three times per week? The postoffice officials at this place seem determined not to deliver tho Atlanta dailies to subscribers until the news is several days or even weeks old ! Wo consider ourselves fortunate if we can get the Era threo times per week. Wake up the postoffice officials, else you may as well keep your paper at home, We all want the Era—we watch its columns with great interest; but then we want it duly, not : in tri-weekly installments 1 ” ' We commend the above to the careful atten tion of tho proper authorities. There is evi dently something rotten between this and Ma oon, or else at Macon. The Macon Telegraph, for instance, reaches this office upon an average of about three times a week only. Where is the trouble? The copies of the Telegraph and Messenger for Atlanta aro sent to the postoffio9 here every day—of that we are certain. Why they don’t got to their proper destination is more than we can say. If a guess was in order, possibly we might stumble on tho reason. Tho Constitution of the same date prints this card:. . - ■ THE MAOON POSTMASTER. Macon, Ga., June 28, 1871. Editors Constitution: Can you arrange it with the Fostoffice Department so that your pa per can be delivered to subscribers in Macon i;wo or three times a week? It seoms that the carpet-bagger officials in the Macon postofiice arrogate to themselves,the right to road all newspapers before delivering the same to sub scribers. Wo desire that would-be Radical postmasters to pay for the papers they read. • J. Fitzpatrick. The Atlanta San says it is “freely charged in that city that tho lessees of the State Road are trying to manipulate the Georgia Western Road in their interest, and to prevent its being built.” Col. Avery, of the Atlanta Constitution, haB gone to recuperate his health. The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, says the direc tors of tho Atlanta and Savannah Railroad have been in session there for two days, and that tho feeling is the road must bo built. The house of Mayor Tucker, of Marietta, was robbed of $500 and a suit of clothes, last Wednesday night. A ground rattlesnake bit a young Daltonian of the feminine persuasion last week, but she declined to die. Mr. Robert McCamy, one of the first settlers of Murray county and universally respected, died very suddenly, Friday night of last week. The house of Judge D. B. Barrett, in Gordon county, was burned last .Tuesday night with all its contents. 8ome of the family barely escaped with their lives. The Rome papers say that city will take $100,- 000 worth of stock in tho Rome and Columbus Railroad. The vote in Griffin, Thursday, on the ques tion of a city subscription to the Griffin and Madison Railroad, was nearly unanimous in the affirmative. The Star, of yesterday, says : A Shocking Outrage.—On Monday last, Mr. James Moffett of Meriwether county, was as saulted by a negro man and woman, whom he had In his employe. He was shot by the negro man; the ball passed directly through the abdo men. The physicians think there is not much chance for him to recover. The negro woman is now in jail; the negro man has not been caught The Griffin Middle Georgian says: GxobgiaHat.—Notwithstanding the fact that grass won't growin Georgia, Mr. T. J. Threlk- eld, within one mile and a half of the Court house in Spalding county, 1b at this writing, cutting a field of fonr acres of timothy and herd grass, fred top) which averages nearly five feet in height Part of the field is on a creek, and the land too wet to grow any other crop than red top grass. Clover for three years past, •has been a success with Mr. Threlkeld, and he now has acres of clover fonr feet high, and equal in appearance to that of Kentucky, (so said by those who know.) Mr. H. McNeal, of Pennsylvania, has bought the Bartow, Iron Works, situated on the State Road, a few miles below Oartersville, and will commence work as soon as possible. Henry W. Champion, a worthy citizen of Greene county, died very suddenly of heart dis ease, last Sunday. The Greensboro Herald, of Friday, says : Fine Clover and Grass.—Dr. T. P. Janes has left at this office, a fine sample of his clo ver and grass crop the present year. He has been growing clover and grass for the last fonr or five years, each year to an increased advan tage, yielding Upon an average of about one hundred dollars per acre. He has an area of thirty acres planted, including three kinds of grass, which will, at the lowest calculation, pay from $75 to $100 per acre. The Augusta Factory, and the Graniteville Company’s drills are now quoted in the Augus ta market at 13 cents. The Rev. Maurice Treichenberg has been unanimously elected pastor of the Hebrew church, at Augusta. Richmond county reoeived its share—$2,000 —of the Peabody School Fund, on Thursday. In bis charge to the grand jury of Richmond county, on Thursday, Judge Gibson reoom- mended_ the building of a new Court-house and jail. Waterman, of the Houston Home Journal after playing Bonlly at ah agricultural dinner down there, last week, exclaims: “If this be agriculture, make ns a farmer.” F. S.—’We hear that the young lady who sent him the peaches doesn’t live in town. Says tho Home-Journal: A Curiosity.—CoL S. D. Killen has shown ns a double ear of corn, growing in one shuok,' which he raised. It was planted about March 20, and came np abont April 1st. On this stem aro two ears, large, distinct and well developed, having thirty rows of grains averaging forty grains each, making 1,200 in all. Col. K. thinks be has a good deal more of the same sort. Henry Evans took a pop at Berry Smith, at Columbus, Friday night, with a pistol, bnt it wasn’t a sure pop and there was no funeral. Tho City Counoil of Columbus have just bor rowed $15,000 from the Chattahoochee National Bank, of that city, at ten per cent, per annum. The editor of the Savannah Repnblioan speaks for two in the following paragraph: Very Well as far as rr Goes.—It is a grati fying evidence of Christian love for the ministry to see the churches of several citios of Georgia providing their pastors with horses and vehicles, for their personal comfort, and to enable them to perform their outdoor religious dutieB with far les3 labor and inconvenience. These are worthy tokens, and the example cannot bo too gonerally followed. Bnt we would suggest to our friends of the church who make these dona tions, that their liberality requires that they should not be made in a manner to entail ex pense on the donees. They should be sure that the pastor is able to feed Lis horse—no small item in a city—before one ia given to him, or else the provender should invariably go along with the horse. It is not yet too late for the adoption of this suggestion in all cases where ministers are allowed moderate salaries. Those chnrch members who contribute nothing to bay the horse, should be called on for a purse to feed him. Mr. Charles Worner, of Savannah, is out in a card in the Savannah Republican offering a reward of one thousand dollars to anybody who will prove that he was ever married to a Mrs. Martha Sobleicher. We know a place ■Whoxfi, for half tnat amount that, or anything else will be proven—if hard swearing will do it —so xnick it will make his head swim. Ad dress K. K. Com., Washington, D. C. Savannah cotton recoipts last season foot np 710,977 bales, an inorease of 235,135 bales over the receipts of ’69 and ’70: She now stands next to New Orleans. The Savannah Republican V6ry justly and forcibly condemns the practice of petitioning for pardons for criminals who have been fairly and legally convicted of crime. It scores Bul lock for his shameful abuse of the pardoning power, and then goes on to say : But Bollock is not alone responsible. Tho people have their share of guilt in this unthink ing war upon society. Men generally have a weakness on the subject of petitions for par don. They allow the promptings of meroy to overrule the stern demands of justice, and sign all that are presented to them, little thinking what a wound they aTe inflioting npon the com munity in which they live, and whose safety and good order should be the objeots of their high est consideration. Even juries, after condemn ing a man to death as his jnst desert, mot unfro- quently come forward and affix their names to petitions to turn loose again the blood-thirsty victims of the law upon the publio. This is all wrong, and we must stop it or consent to set aside all law, or make every man the avenger of his own wrongs. Govington is developing its internal resources with TOIoteon peaohes at one dollar a. bushel. But as the editor of the Examiner, from whioh paper we learn this fact, says he hasn’t seen a quarter in circulation for a week, we are forced to conclude that the man who raises them isn’t realizing much cash in his business. Colonel P. W. Alexander, of Columbus, who has been extremely ill for several weeks, has recovered sufficiently to appear upon the streets again. . • - ■ ; . * Chas. Hughes, a well known boot maker of Atlanta, formely of Athens, died very suddenly of cholera morbus, Friday night. J udgo Lochrane gave an elegant dinner at tho Kimball House, Atlanta, on Friday, in honor of Jaugo "Woods, of tho United States Court—so tho Atlanta papers of yesterday, inform us. The Atlanta Era turned up misBing, again, yesterday. . Three young ladies of La Grange took.a “new departure,” at a concert, in that plaoe, last week, “by skillfully performing on the violin.’ Atlanta says she is worth $12,730,000 in real estate. The expenses of running the municipal machine for the quarter jnst ended was jnst $8,639 87. The Warrenton Clipper says nineteen cents is rapidly knocking the grass out of the cotton fields in that section. A NICE RECORD. . All Abont Samnel Hunt, the Lately Ap pointed Bevenne Collector for the 2d (Mncon) District of Georgia. Wo dip the following from a Washington letter published in the Baltimore Gazette, of Wednesday: Borne time ago J. S. Bigby, member of Con gress from Georgia, had one Samnel Hunt ap pointed Collector of the Second Georgia Rev enue District. From information subsequently received at the Revenue Bureau, it was suspect ed Hunt was not all right, and npon investiga tion it turns ont that 1m was indicted some time ago, in Tennessee, for illicit distilling. Inquiry was made of Senator Brownlow, who replied that Hunt was MsfBrownlow’s) nephew, “but,” said the Senator, “I have no oonfldence in him. He was, to all intents and purposes, gnilty of the charges preferred against him in this State, and I was greatly surprised at learning of Ms appointment as Oolleotor.” The correspondent adds, that Hunt has not yet filed his bond and will not be appointed. The question now oomea np: What moved Big by to go outside of Georgia to make snob on appointment? Was there no material better than this in the district ? And if not, what fast does it illustrate? We maintain, though, that it will be hard lines for Hunt to miaa bis ap pointment on such trivial grounds as those al leged. Up where he lives, the loil don’t do much else but manufacture illicit whisky and whip Southern Methodist preachers. ALCXBI CLUBS. We invite particular attention to the follow ing address to the Alumni of the Georgia Uni' versity, the manuscript of whioh came to hand last Friday night: University of Geoboia, Jane 25, 1871. To the Alumni of the University of Georgia. Gentlemen—I beg to call your attention to the importance of forming local clubs of ihe Alumni of this University. The main objeet of this organization is to unite onr Alumni as oo-werkera-in behalf of the interests of the University. Wherever a few of tbeAlnmni, residents of the same city or neighborhood, can combine together in the for mation of a club, it is earnestly desired that they fraternize in an organic shape, holding meetings at stated seasons, interchanging views as to the best methods of promoting the wel fare of the University, and adopting the most effective measures to create, snstain and em body an earnest publio sentiment in support of the University. Such an organization has a genuine feeling for its basis. It has a sphere to fill and a work to do; for onr Alumni owe it to themselves to cling together, and they owe it to the University to cling to her. Educated ruen lose many of the benefits of early cnltnre by neglecting just such fellowship of intellect and heart as these clubs will supply. What is equally unfortunate, their personal attachment to Alma Mater loses much of its intensity, and most of its utility, simply for the reason that it has no means of organic action. If, then, these local clubs can be the centres of association and sympathy, both as it respects the relatione of individual members and a common relation to the University, they should certainly commend themselves to onr thoughtful regard. It is believed, moreover, that these local clubs can be brought into an auxiliary, relation to the Alumni Association of the University, and thereby prove an efficient agency in carrying ont its prospective plans. If the Alumni Asso ciation expand in the direction oontemplatednt its last session, August 1, 1870, it will find these clubs most serviceable adjuncts to its power. It can accomplish throngh them what it cannot accomplish without them. Not only will it have an organization by means of which it can operate, bnt the University itself will have at every leading point in the State, a channel through which it can reaoh the public mind. What your Alma Mater most needs, is to perpet uate a vital connexion with .her sons, so that she can call them at any critical period to her side, anddean npon them for generous sympa thy and manly support. The hour of gradua tion has too often been the hour of separation, of practical alienation, and of forgotten obligations. If the protest of her wounded heart can reaoh you, this shall be her misfortune and her sorrow no longer. Nor is this all. What yon most need as cultivated men, is to perpetuate yonr connexion with yonr Alma Mater. The best and safest proof that a man can give of his education, is the active interest he takes in the well-being of the University that inspired him with high aims, protected Mm against evil by her vigilant power, and held him clceely to her heart during the years when she worked for him, bnt when he could not work for her. Qn each side, thon, great benefits will accrue from the organization proposed. The return of yonr hearts to the sanctity of a neglected duty, will inspire yon with the fervor of a deeper life, and renew that youth of the affections which too frequently grows prematurely old just because the obligations and associations of onr earlier days are allowed to lapse into an unnatural ob livion. On the other hand, your Alma Mater will enhance her own sense of responsibility and do a far broader work for Georgia, if Bhe will follow yon as she ought to follow yon to the homes yon build, to the private and public spheres yon fill, and to the solemn relationships which grow upon yon with your growing years. The approaching session of the Alumni Asso ciation, July 31st, will be nn occasion of much interest. Tf you cannot all attend, see to it that your local club is represented in the delibera tions of the Association. I beg to remain, Very respectfully yours, Andrew A. Ihtscomb. The Chiselhurst Exiles. From the London Court JonrnaL] The Emperor Napoleon’s life at Chiselhurst is ttns aescriDeG ny ono who Has the privilege of becoming acquainted with the social doings there : “During the forenoon all is silent in the mansion. The Empress, after prayers, break fasts with the Prince Imperial, who then walks ont in the park for a short time, the rule of re suming his e’ulies in the morning being broken throngh during tho indisposition of tho Em- poror, to whom the society of his son is the chief solace of his exilo. The Prince remains with his father daring the whole process of the toilet, then assists at his late breakfast, which, contrary to the custom of the Tuileries, is taken alone. Daring this time the conversation be tween father and son is maintained with inter est and affection. The boy has cheered and soothed the bodily pain and mental agony of the Emperor, who is sometimes seen to smile.as the former recounts his experiences of England and the English, and - offers judgment according to his lights concerning the habits of Frenoh boys as compared with those of England. "When the Emperor leaves his own apartment, the Prince Imperial repairs to his stnies. Bnt His Majesty declares that already the glory of the day i3 over, although he feels the necessity of the separation for awhile. The morning’s report of the state of Paris is still furnished by Piotri, but is never once alluded to. Even the Empress herself never dares to venture an opinion on tho subject. She has her own re porters, and is always prepared for the event before it happens. What has struck the friends of the Imperial family most of all is the com parative solitude in wMch each of its members seeks to live. There is something touching in the solitary walk taken by the Emperor np and down the avenue leaning on his cane, and stop ping every now and then to remove the pebbles from his path, according to tho habit of all men engaged in deep thought. His Majesty has frown much fatter since his arrival atGhiseN 1 inrst. But be walks with far more ease than on his first arrival in England, and now only requires the arm of a friend to help Mmnp the steps of the hall door of the mansion.” A charming anecdote, worthy of tho ancient days of chivalry, is being whispered about among the higher circles in London. It seems that one of our young Catholic heroes of high life, always a gTeat admirer of the Empress Eugenie, paid a visit to Chiselhurst, last week, revious to his departure for Paris. “What can bring your Majesty from Babylon ?’’—the name by whioh the doomed city is always desig nated now by the Ultramontane party—said tho young nobleman, as he bent low over Her Ma jesty’s fair hand. “Nothing,” replied the Em press, sadly; then suddenly correcting her speech, said, quietly. “Yes, there is one thing 1 should love. Bring me*a rose from the gar den of the Tuileries! ” The young man pro mised to execute this apparently easy commis sion, and departed in sadness. On Friday he reappeared at Chiselhurst with ft case of purple morocco in his hand, which he reverently pre sented on bended knee to the Empress. It was the Golden Rose, gift of the Pope of Her Ma jesty, that he had brought “from the Tuileries." How he had obtained it, or through what long course of adventure he had traced it to the par ty willing to part with it, will never be known, nor yet at what sacrifice it was obtained. But great was the Joy of the Ulootriooa lady on be holding it, and pardonable the feeling whioh in duces her to hope that it will bring a blessing to last to her house and stay the wrath of heav en. It had always formed part of the altar de corations of the chapel of the Tuileries. Alarming Condition of the Cotton Crop. — The Herald’s Washington specials, of the 27th nit., have the following: Recent reports from several sections of Geor gia oonfirm the previous reports of the diaoour- aging condition of the ootton crops. The long continued rains have rendered the ootton so grassy that it will be almost impossible to rescue it. To increase the discomfiture of the plan ters, most of them are short of hands, many of the colored'people having gone off to gather blackberries. The alarming oondition of the cotton crops has caused the com to be neg- leoted. A gimilmr state of things is represented to exist in all the Gulf States that have lately been visited by heavy rains. During the week just passed there have been three or fonr good hot, grass-killing days, and we believe there has been a general and mate rial improvement in the oondition of the grow ing ootton crop of Georgia. Adipose.—When Judge Nixon opeoed the session of the United States District Court at Trenton, N. J., last week, the twenty-four grand jurors confronted Mm, weighing 6,491 pounds, or an average of 270 pounds. The lightest was 160 and the heaviest 425 pounds. Llffe’s Pity. I thiii the pity of this Mo is love: he [ gl ° 17 won ; “*> ?j\ en , mto her very heart he sighs. Behold 1 she puts away her life—and dies. I think the pity of this fife ia love; B ®“ us ®. but little joy has come, Or all that most I hoped would nuke life’s e-nn • For though the perfumed seasons come and » ’ The spring birds warble, e’en the rivers flow “ ’ f om ® lo ve that to their own doth run My bud of love huh bloomed for other eves And I am left—to eorrow and to sighs. ■ I think the pity of this life ia love: For from onr fore we gsthor all lire’s pain, waf-oS-U 00 *s£^5 °$ r hearts on earthly shrines ^ kneel —hut where, alwl we fall Beneath * shadow ever past recall; miYj? a ??„ /or 8013 wh en ’tie but dross that shines Then if we may not turn our hearts abovo I know the pity of this fife is love. Overland Monthly for Jifne, THE NORTHERN Kr-HLtX. Two Illinois Maid* Bewitched-They: Tarn Acrobats, Eat Flics, and Talk in an Un known Tongue-Wholesale Murder and * Witchcraft!" M,ssonrl -‘ A Case or _ Chicago, June 27.-116 town of Frankfort Perry county, Ills., is greatly excited over what the citizens regard as a clear case of witchcraft recently developed in that vicinity. Two young ladies, daughters of James Williams, are the victims. It has been thought by the neighbors fear some time past that something was wrong with the girls, and a few days since a physician was called to visit them. He failed to discover the difficulty. Since that time immense crowds have Tisited the girls, averaging from fifty to one hundred eaoh night They are perfectly sane daring the day, but at the approach of night they become frenzied and uncontrollable, performing feats that would put the first-class of acrobats to Shame. Scaling the house, they will dance and gy rate on the comb of the roof with perfect ease and impunity, uttering at the same time the most Mdeous and frenzied screams. Very frequently while performing suehfeats, they fall perfectly rigid with spasms, bnt they never fall off, how ever near the eaves they may be. Daring the day, at which time they are perfectly sane, they seem modest and reserved. The spell comes upon both near the same time, generally during twilight, when they both.break into a ran, al ways north in the direction of the house cf a lady who they say has bewitched them. These spells are put on them, they say, on account of their telling something she forbid them, and she and a cat are with them in their house-top dance. Their conversation when laboring un der these spells is in on unknown tongue. They catch and eat alllhe flies they can get hold of until nausea is produced, when they both vomit at the same time. What one. does the other does at the same time. They seem to be moved by one controlling power. a door girl ku-eluxed to death. St. Louis, Jnne 27.—The examination of Mrs. Gertrude Engle, oharged with administer ing medicine with a view to producing abortion in Emily Robinson, the girl whom Logan D. Cameron is alleged to have seflnced, began to day in the Court of Criminal Correction. The court room was densely crowded, many women being present. Doctors Johnson and Pallen testified to the condition of Hiss Robinson and the cause of her death. Mrs. Dr. Roberts, of St. Luke’s hospital, testified to the condition of Miss Robinson when she came to tho hospital, and gave some of the dying confession of tho girl, wMch was rnled out. The examination will be continued to-morrow. two desperadoes ktt.t.tt) Aim their murderer LYNCHED 1 A party of desperadoes got into a quarrel at Hardin, Ray county, in this State, Saturday last, and one of them named Price, killed two others, one named Reeves, with a huge knife. Price was arrested and locked np, but during the night was taken ont by a party of citizens and hanged to a tree. GSISSIA'G AND BEARING IT. Sontbern Self-Control Mnst Solve the Po litical Problem of the Fntnre-Another Practical, Comaon Sense Letter from John (Iniaty Adam*. The A ignsta (Arkansas) Bulletin of the 2fth inst.,- publishes a letter from John Quincy Adams to the editor of that paper, in which he says: I feel shy of speaking to you or any citizen of the “snbject States.” I dislike to earn the re tort—‘ ‘Ob, it is very easy to preach; bnt, suffer as we have, and then tell ns how yon feel and we will listen.” I do try to take it home to my self ; and I do not doubt that, in similar cir cumstance, I should be to-day an “unrepentant rebel”—sore, angry, beaten and defiant. And, with mei, It would doubtless have been as it has been with you, that “the tender mercies of re construction had been harder to bear than all the horrors of invasive war.” I should have been galled by misgovemment, robbed by im ported knavery of the pittance which the war lad spared; exasperated by willful and persis tent misrepresentation, and cruelly condemned to hopeless impotence for the imputed guilt of cowardly crimes I abhorred. I should have been oondenmed, too,to hold my personal liberty at the nod of a mercenary carpet-bagger or the whim of a military satrap. I say that I fear I Bhould have been an “irreconcilable.” In such a case, I think I should bo sulky; bnt I know I should be silly if I yielded (o the feeling. For, whence mnst my relief -come, if my last estate is not to become worse than the first ? Is there a man outside an asylum who thinks that by such a course the “ lost cause” can be re gained? By whom, then? If by the North, believe me that the experiment of secession has satis fied all that ho oanse is worth a civil war. That war has confirmed, beyond a shadow of a turn ing, the destiny which decreed that there shall be bnt one confederated people of the North American Union. No. Rebellions I might be; but weak enough to await the resurrection I do not think I conld bo. You and I and your friends and neighbors and mine are of one blood; we were once “fellow citizens,” and the old time kindness must linger yet, in spots. Our fathers were “brethren,” and that must count for something. The whole political problem of the future turns upon the an swer to the question—“shall we live to gether a3 friends or enemies?” Now, the whole internal polioy of the present admin istration 9ays war. Reconstruction weani war, and tho Ku-klnx bill declared war. This Union is now held together by foroe. Certainly, if this is .to be permanent, it would have been bet ter to have parted at first If the straggle to oast ont slavery overthrew the Constitution,'what chance is there for a “free” government if the North is to rule tho South ? South Carolina is to-day the most shameless parody on republican institutions since republican Rome bestrode aU the nations of the ancient world, put the sword to their throats, stripped th*m bare, and then looked words to laud the loveliness of liberty. You cannot be subject, and we be long free. The untrammelled exercise of local self-govern ment by the people of the States is the salt which preserves our whole system. Take that away and onr frame of polity will rapidly rot into des potism. Therefore, it Is that, not as a partisan, mt wholly as a fellow-citizen, I trust that ail the good citizens of the seceded States will frankly accept the revolutionary changes whioh have be en forced upon the Constitution, and with them cheerfully adopt the new relations of amity and political and civil equality toward Uie eman cipated class whioh these changes involve.-— And, therefore, I am glad when I see the noble spirit of your letter pervading the Southern people as it does, despite the_ malignity of a partisan press; while the sterling sense of Mr. Vallandigham ba* reformed the Northern Dem ocracy. And it matters not what man may k® chosen to lead ns, so long as Ms heart is large enough to hold his whole country; his soul brave enough to embraoe a Confederate as a brother, and his platform wide enough for every American citizen to stand npon. To compass thin end something of sacrifioe is required of ns all; much of self-control is demanded of the South- Yon and all I hear assure me that the attempt will be made; and if made honesUy and in earnest, it cannot fail. Hon. Jas. Jackson.—We printed a commu nication from Griffin yesterday, giving an ac count of the recent Commencement exercises of the Griffin Female College, In which a merited compliment was paid to the address delivered on the ftocairion by “Judge Henry R. Jackson. It should have read Judge James Jackson, ol this city, mid was so oorrected in the manu script: bn* the printer who set it up thought he know better than weJj^Rnud so reiterated the mistake of oar oo l*ut. A living near Hamilton, Ohio, dan gerously shot himself, last Friday, while en deavoring to show some bystanders bow Mr. Vallandigham oamc to his death.
