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MACON ; TUESDAY, JULY 18. 1871.
Volume LXY—No. 3
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IN MEMOKLAM.
HON. BOBEBT T. HABDEJIAN.
The death of. this eminent citizen has been
1 00 i announced as having occurred at his residence
in Jones county on the 19 th of May last. The
. M l writer desires to offer on the altar of friend-
Tt« * nn | ahip, this brief and imperfect tribute to his
S* x m ?v? YVFekiv Teiegraph and Messen- j chara v ctor ; ^acquaintance with judge Hardo-
UdBunoth weewy ““r 1 man has been of forty years’ standing, and his
IfX, 56 columns, i year o uu | re i at j on3 toward him and his.family have been
gixmoatna.—.—"-"-""""""""--""" ; B uch as to give these lines one merit at least—
P,pbU always In advance, and paper stuped that of ta |f alljess . He waa a brother of0oL
when the money runs out, ume^^ renewed, j j? ran fc Hardeman, of Athens, and of that excel-
CLrnHSO AnB ^°“L IJC , TI0X8 ’ ‘ & | lent Christian gentleman, OoL Thomas Harde-
I l man, Sr., formerly of Macon. Nearly the whole
| Duly Telegraph & Mes e ge a d Far ^ m I 0 f his ac ti V e life was spent in Jones county—
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cnnthcm Christian Advocate with Weekly 5 Oo
Bntke's Weekly. — 4 °°
Own Week A«*».
I. hAra von atood, and a week has gone;
"■Srt'fa deeper tinge in the hyacinths pink,-.
Ths crass ie greener upon the lavra,
yourevea are smiling, and yet I thrnk—
0 woman Ueart-that they see but ril
U T?o»not where my ventoiona hope was darn:
1 y“ rvdce h fBr d itecilmf low tone that day,
Hat Kept mo from feeling overmuch
The eting of the words yon had to say.
to your eyes there gathered a tender mist,
Oa your lips the pity was half divme;
ft never a beautiful hope was kissed
To its death so sweetly as this of mine.
Blame ? Nay. if a blossomless tree could mistake
A flower, wind-blown from some garden afar,
{tails own wliito beauty, and grow for its sake,
p«nd and happy as crowned ones are—
Conld it chide the flower for its own fond cheat.
When the alien withered and drooped and f eU ?
So I barv my dead hope hero at our feet,
With only a blessing: Sweetheart, farewell.
I Sanitary Effects or Wooden Pave
ments.
Tie California papers are raising an alarm
about the sanitary effects of wooden street pave-
| meats. They charge the alarming prevalence
of small pox to the malaria raised by the decay
jug wooden blocks. The San Francisco Chroni
cle speaks thus of an experiment by Dr. Rosen-
Ihal, at a consultation of the ablest physicians
upon the subject:
At a consultation of our ablest physicians last
night, Dr. Rosenthal had one of the decaying
blocks of wooden pavement from Vallejo street.
He proceeded to show the noxious effect of it
on tie atmosphere when the sun comes ont after
rain. For this purpose ho placed the wooden
| block in a basin of boiling water. The air in the
room became suddenly heavy and the distem
pered malaria sosn forced Dr. Lyle, who was
taken with a fit of vomiting, to raise the window
and told his head out We expect to be able to
publish the result of their scientific labors in a
few days. They meet again this evening. We
do not wish to alarm our citizens, nor do wo see
any cause as yet for alarm. But the fact is be
fore us that all tho small pox cases are confined
to those streets where wooden pavement has
been laid and is beginning to decay.
Sorely it is not at all wonderf nl that six inches
depth of rotting timber in so large an area should
breed a poisonous malaria anywhere. Wooden
pavements are, in respect to travel, the best
known; but in the absence of some process of
rendering them impervious to decay, they can
not be durable and must necessarily bo un
healthy. „
The State .Medical Convention.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: .
In your paper of the 6th iast., I noticed
some remarks made by yon in relation to tho
proceedings of the late Medical Convention,
which assembled in yonr city. I am prond
that there ia one paper in the State of Geor
gia that has independance enong hto battle for
tmth against error, and open its colnmns to
the investigation of those great principles which
underlie all of oar institntions.
I am not a member of any of the Medical
societies of the State, and of course not con
trolled by any principle of personal considera
tion, yet there are involved in this medical
controversy fact3 which most be sustained
in order to secure the reputation of the profes
sion, as well as the perpetuity of all of its in
stitutions. And X am proudthatyou have taken
just so high a position, and that yon are not
only sustaining medical ethics, but the honor
and dignity of a profession in which the entire
people are interested. While I am congratula
ting you upon the high grounds which you as
sumed, I cannot omit to notice the Macon and
country, three miles from Clinton, and his
office in the town. He had a passion for fann
ing, in whioh he displayed good judgment, and
was quite successful. He governed his serv
ants with great firmness, while he treated them
with the utmost humanity.
Few men wata mn— versed in the
doSouuo or law, and fewer still have practiced
’ the profession with greater success. He was
noted for hi3 close attention to business, and
for his fidelity to the interests of his clionts.
His mind possessed the power of concentration
and condensation in an eminent degree. He
never wearied the Court and jury with long har
angues. His speeches, even on important cases,
were invariabljashort. His premises were care
fully laid, and then came his sledge-hammer
arguments, (he dealt hat little in illustration)
welding his speech together in such a manner
as almost invariably to produce the desired
effect. Hisknowledgoof haman nature seemed
to be intuitive, which, of course, gave him
great advantage before the jury, if not before
the Court.
His generous nature prompted him greatly to
prefer the defence to the prosecution.in crimi
nal cases. He has often told the writer that he
had a natural repugnance to taking s ides against
those accused of crimes. It was frequently the
case, he said, that public opinion condemned
them before they were put on trial, and jnries
were often unconsciously controlled' by public
opinion. He insisted it was always better to
err on the side of mercy. “Better,” he would
say, “for a hundred guilty to escape than for
one innocent man to suffer.” On meeting him
once, he said to me, with feeling, “Well, Mr.
O., I have lost my first criminal. True, he was
nothing but a poor negro; but life was as dear
to him as to any of us. I worked hard to save
him, but the circumstances were against him,
(it was a case of circnmstantial evidence,) and
he was hung. What grieves mo most is, that
Jie was innocent. He told me so not three min
utes before he was swung off—and I know he
would not have lied to me then. Poor fellow !
he was innocent! And so it turned out. Two
years thereafter another negro was hnng in the
same county, who confessed, on the gallows,
that he was the guilty party in the first instance.
For a series of years (the writer has forgotten
how many) ho presided as Judge of tho Ocmul-
gee Circuit, in which position he had been pre
ceded by each men as Shorter, Cone, Merri-
wether.'and others of like ability. He proved
himself the equal of any of his predecessors,
haviBg had as few of his decisions reversed by
the Supreme Court as any Circuit Judge in the
State. It was while presiding at Wilkinson
Superior Court that he was stricken down sud
denly by that disease from which ho suffered so
long, and which finally taaaiaatid Mg earthly
career.
Judge Hardeman served several sessions as a
member of the State Legislature, in which posi
tion he was faithful, laborious, and highly ef
ficient. He was cotemporary with such men as
Wm. O. Dawson, A. H. Chappell, E. A. Nisbet,
Washington Poe, Jt. H. Stephens, Robert
Toombs, and other distinguished sons of our
good old State; and in that brilliant galaxy,
Hardeman shone with no mean lustre. They
know his real worth and ever delighted to do
him honor.
But as it is a citizen that he especially deserves
commendation. Political parties were pretty
well balanced in Jones county for many years,
and oarty politics generally ran high. Even
though personally interested in tho result of
elections, as he sometimes was, still, no matter
how great the excitement, Hardeman was ever
on the side of peace and good wilL Whenever
in his power, he prevented rather than encour
aged litigation among his friends. He was an em
inently charitable and benevolent man. Several
orphans were -taken into hi3 family, brought up
as his own children, and educated at his expense.
If the poor widows and orphans of Jones county
conld be heard, they would testify that they
never appealed In vain to Judge Hiydeman for
assistance. He was emphatically the friend of
the poor. He kept an open house, and delighted
to dispense a munificent hospitality. He was
never better pleased than when his large man
sion was full of company, especially if they
were young people, and to witness their rational
enjoyment in social intercourse. No immoral
practices wore ever allowed under his roof.
Of tho prominent citizens of Jones county,
when the writer first knew it, forty years ago,
there were some as excellent men as he has ever
known anywhere—Thomas Blunt, Peter Glower,
Sivstnah, and a few of the Atlanta Physicians,
»ko arc standing like beacon lights, persistent; Thomas ~Mough°D, Horatio Bowen, Peter Nor*-
tad grand amidst the confusion and wrong I t h e n, and others, and last, though not least,
which is attempted to be done their devoted 1 Robert V. Hardeman. If their sons shall prove
calling. I themselves worthy of thoir sires, the communi-
I will not allude to the original cause of the ties in which they dwell will be honored and
difficulty, asthatorginatedbetween the Trustees | b i esse d by their presence,
and the Faculty. It will be remembered that | judge Hardeman never made a public pro
file resolution at Americas was such that no f ess ; 0 n of religion, but those informed of Ms
tian in the profession who is unbiased could i religious state have no doubt of his being a sin-
safcmit to. As you understand, the late meeting • cer o Christian, and are comforted with the ag
in yonr city was for the purpose of so arrang- : BU rance that his soul is at rest. . J. H. O.
jag matters that a favorable adjustment might j
which could not be done, ns I
<,r tiie VMm
A few months ago, a story was current in the
New York journals to tho effect that a signet
considered; which could not bo done, as 1 w «ldin* King Discovered In the Stom-
Mideretand tho facts, until tho resolution passed | A “ Codflsh In New Fonndland Men-
hence the resoln- auEllK , IsllFnm uy-ThcReward
uon offered by Dr. Arnold was simply to give 3 *
tie Association next spring, which meets in
Columbus, an expression of opinion &3 a basis
for a final settlement. And.it is to beregrotted , _ ...
tlsttho samo gentlemen who were in Americas, ! ring, beanng the monogram P. B., had e
*ndthrewa fire b rand in the Association prevent- j discovered by a fisherman in the entraus of a
mg an amicable adjustment of the difficulties, codfish caught in Trinity Bay, N. F. 1ffie fish-
were also present at tho last meeting, and fig- ! erman, John Potter, kept the prize in his pos-
ared largely in giving additional insults to tho session until the 12th inst., when he wag re-
profession, leaving but little hope for a termin-; quested in a letter from the colonial secretary
ttion of the issues involved. It is evidently i to send or briDg the ring to St John s as ho had
fine that tho faculty of the Atlanta Medical! received letters from a family nmned Burnam,
College havo dono wrohelegally and profession- in Poole, England, saying that they had reason
<% md it cannot be expected that the entire \ to feel certain that the ring °^ C0 r b . e .^£®i l iS
profession are to bo involved in the general rnin Pauline Burnam, ^teamshiD
la order that the faculty may be sustained in | hundred passengers of tho Allan steanmhip
fiat wrong; for tho hundreds of the highly ed-; Anglo-Saxon, whioh was wrecked1 off Chance
?E*ted physicians who are standing by the eth- j Cove, (N. F.) in 1861, the said Pauline Bam
being a relative of theirs.
Tho fisherman in whose possession the ring
was brought it to St, John’s and presented it at
the colonial secretary’s office. He was request
ed to take a seat and wait a while. After about
half an hour’s delay the man of fish was intro
duced to an elegantly dressed gentleman, a Mr.
Baraam, whom the colonial secretary had sent
for on the fisherman’s arrival. „
Tho ring was immediately identified by Mr.
Burnam, who called it Iris mother s wedding-
ring, which she had always.wom since her mar-
ics, and have not joined the Association, will
Eever consent to Bnbmit to such tresspasses
Epon the honor of the profession. A. B. D.
A House Thief in Coxoeess.—Henry W.
Barry, the drunken carpet-bag vagabond, who
Elfins to represent the 2d District of Mississip
pi in Congress, has repeatedly been denounced
18 * thief, a swindler, and a forger by a Gen-
r*l i_ the Federal army ard recently the wmen sne nau uiwujro.wuiu o-v» ——
atandon Republican denounced Mm as a horse ria | Q in Huddersfield, England, in the year
‘lief. That paper of Thursday says: j 1846. - .... .
!n a late issue of onr paper we charged the The ring was accordingly gavenn^ ?■
®fipet.bag Cangrcssman from the Columbus Burnam, who rewarded the fisnerman with bank
District, H. w. Barry, with having tried to note3 amounting to XoO sterling,
steal a noted “yallar pony” from Hon. Frank j — "* 1
bynch, of Texas, and asked the Pilot to add this i Staunton’s Eaileoad Bttlii in a Muddle.—
^charges, toils Th Montgomery Advertiser of Sunday, says:
ffifthe Tvof ht! The Meridian Mercury of the 1st says the
Wends, has dispuS toe^chSgo and^Mr. | strike of the employes there seems to be firmly
Lynchis wwin thfa Mace wl iefiew it and ! established. A train wMch came through on
the carpet-bag scoundrel to dispute it. Sunday afternoon v&a notJ^owedto
“ay, at some future time, give our readera Captain Early, recently appointed AssMtant
•few more items in d» Msfnrf nf iMa VnnirAfl ! Superintendent, has exerted his influenoe to
dissolve the stnke, giving the
a few more items in the history of this Yankee ! Superintendent, has
who was kicked out of the Federal army get the men to disso.
as a brother offioer expressed it, the assurances of his confidence ,J ® J
1 o^ eat scoundrel nnhung. One of Ms speeu- off will be here by Saturday, Dnl J
Wtionn in Texas vas hiring his negro’ regiment! effect. He does not pnrpos® to n J8®_
Et to pick ootton on. shares for the people In j any farther, nor to seek the aid of th®
|J>* neighborhood of his quarters, while they That last he will leave Mr. Btaunton to do him-
J®«b«™8fed at the expense of the Govern- self. A train this way, wHek ^®“ r '
2w nt ' , n ® received over fifty bales from one rived by this fame, is said to have been stopped
Wdowladyas’-'- * - - - t -
° ll »er parties.
EWow lady as Ms"'share,^and^a great deaHrom at*Yor£ Rumored that Selma trains wilf also
ties. be stoDE
be stopped, j
The Lights far Ont at Sea.
The sunset gates were opened wide,
Far in the crimson west,
And through them passed the crimson day
In ruddy clouds to rest.
Now In the gloaming and the hush
All Nature seems to dream, — ■'
And silently and one by one,
The soft lights flit and gleam;
I sit and watch them from the shore,
Half lost in reverie,
Till darkness hides the waves between
The lights far out at eoa.
They glimmer in the far-off davs, • ,
That came loDg years ago, •'
All joyous with the light of love
I would not see or know.
Oh 1 happy days, half-dimmed by years,
Long years that stretch between
The old Bweet love of long ago,
The life that might havo been. -
So far 1 yet through the dark’ning past
Their .brightness gleams to me,
As o’er the dark and silent waves
The lights far out at sea.
Foreign Notes.
(PEEPAEEn vast THE TTfry/rgilCT l*rr\ xmjjnfpm I
The Republican journals in France regard the
victory of their party in tho late elections as
one calculated to establish, permanently, the
Republi c We hope that the French may have
succeeded in setting up a lasting Republican
government which will conduct them, at last,
to freedom; but to judge-from past experience
and the fickleness of tho people, we are unable
to put great faith in the stability of liberal in
stitutions in France.- Though there is little
prospect for the monarchists at present, the
country districts having returned a large Re
publican majority, the temper of the French is
too fickle to draw from this faot any conclu
sions for the future.
The Bonapartists, though utterly defeated in
the elections are very active. The Count of
Ghambord, on the other hand, has issaed a
proclamation announcing that he will leave
France for the present to prevent agitations;
he however most graciously promises to come
back whenever the country will call Mm to the
throne by “Right Divine,” and to win tho hearts
of the nation wMch will bend all its energies to
reconquer the lost provinoes,- he praises the
army and declares his unfaltering adheranco to
the “white flag of Henri IV and Joan of Arc,
wMch conquered Alsace and Lorraine.” The
Government, with some necessary modifications
is re-organizing the army after the German
system, and General Faidherbe proposes to in
troduce compulsory service for the term of two
years. Count Waldersee, the German charge
d’aflairs, has complained of the bitter language
of the French press towards Germany. The
“Coche Provencale” f. L in an article says
“We shall not forget onr disasters until tho
grass grows high over the graves of the slain and
that bird of ill omen, the Prussian eagle, ceases
to have power over the east of France. We have
discovered the secret to victory—revenge. Let
the Germans cease to tender the hand of friend
ship. When we stretch onr arms towards Ger
many let her tremble, because it will be to
strike those who taught us fate.” In view of
the faot that the conquerors aro still in the land,
this language is certainly ill-becoming and the
Journal Offioial, seeming to exercise a better
judgement, advises the press to forbear. But
the French, without Mgh words and bitter
tirades would cease to be French; and even
Monsieur Thiers, instead of quietly setting to
work to restore order and prosperity, cannot
forego the pleasure of parading be .'ore Europe
“an army of one hundred thousand strong,
valorousand ably commanded,” at Long Champs.
The Parisians, having already forgotten that this
same army has been defeated in twenty battles,
are convinced that the eyes of the world are
resting on it with envy, jnst as daring the siego
every National Guard considered himself a hero,
upon whom all Europe looked with admiration.
The insnrroctionin Algiers is not yet suppressed.
The prisoners of the Commune are tried in
squads. Many thousands have been liberated
within a few days. That the “Internationals”
have not resigned their plan of establisMng the
socialistic republic is evident from the following
extract of the Zuerich Tagwaoht (Switzerland),
the organ of the Swiss “Internationals :”
“ The present form of the revolution, the
Comuftme, fall3 like a martyr; but the bour
geois will not be ablo to kill the revolutionary
idea—the dying form of the Commune can in
spire only the ignorant with fear and terror.
The spirit of the revolution cannot be killed;
it mocks the rage of tyrants, and if now a de
generate army triumphs over the oorpses of the
Republicans and the smoking ruins of Paris, in
order to procure for a decrepit and terrified sys
tem of society a little rest, oppression, injust
ice and Immorality have only gained a short re
prieve, and what now has happened ia only a
tierald of the storms which the future Mdes in
its breast. The revolutionary idea is immortal.”
At the same time the paper states that at a
moeling of the Internationals at Zurich the
Sunday before, it was unanimously and enthu
siastically resolved that the Commune of Paris
had fought a just battle; that it was in harmony
with all ideas of a better future, and that every
reflecting man must fight for it. “The bour
geoisie is indulging in mad orgies in conse
quence of the momentary fall of the Commune,
but the thunderbolt of a new and more powerful
revolution shall strike it into eternal night.”
The form of the Imperial German eagle has
been determined by the Federal GounciL It is
to be the heraldic eagle with the head turned to
the right, above wMoh the imperial crown will
appear to hover. The sMeld on the eagle’s
breast will display the heraldic Prussian eagle,
each wing containing fix broad and fhre narrow
feathers; the claws will be without the insignia
they usually seem to grasp, and the tail in her
aldic delineation.
€enor Moret stated In the Spanish Cortes that
he would be able to reduce the expenditure for
the coming fiscal year 2,400,000,000 reals. The
Chamber has decided to prosecute the trial of
Deputy Barcia as arr accomplice in the plot for
the assassination of General Prim. Senor Ho-
cedal having de&ounoedin bitter language King
Victor Emanuel’s occupation of Rome, Senor
Olozaga ros to protest against the expression of
any opinion on the subject by the Cortes. Senor
Moret will probably resign after the presenta
tion of the report of the committee upon the
tobacco monopoly. A vote of censure of the
government was rejeoted 119 to 61. A proposi
tion for a general amnesty in Spun and her
colonies is under consideration of the Deputies.
wing Viotor Emanuel has entered the Eternal
Citv, whioh is henceforth the capital of the
Kingdom of Italy. At a. grand review of the
regular troops and National Guards he was en
thusiastically oheered by the soldiers and spec
tators. All the Italian Ministers have arrived.
The Ambassadors from Portugal, Greece, Bra
zil and Switzerland have removed their resi
dence from Florence to Rome, and the repre
sentatives of the other powers were soon ex
pected. As the Pope has declared that he would
receive no ambassador who was at the same
time accredited at the Italian Court, Belgium
will send two representatives to Rome—one to
the Italian, the other to the Papal Court. This
example will probably be followed by many
Governments.
Married life in Russia is bnt too often a state
of chronic warfare between both parties who
have vowed to love and cherish each other. To
stay proceedings so unbecoming to the dignity
of the Russian nation, an imperial ukase or
ders that every husband who i& oonvioted of
having badly beaten Ms wife dull be subjected
to the severest penalty prescribed by the law;
if the delinquent belongs to the Christian faith,
he shall also suffer , the ecclesiastical punish
ments, wMoh his spiritual authority will pro
nounce against him. But that, on the other
hand, the stronger sex may also be protected,
the Czar, in Ms parental solicitude for his faith
ful subjects, threatens the wives with the sanflt
severe punishments, if, taking advantage of a
superior bodily power, theyphould ill-treat their
husbands. Conjugal differences resulting In’
death, insanity, Toss of a member, deafness and
blindness, will be treated as criminal, and pros
ecuted by the crown. In all other cases a pros
ecution can only take place in consequence of
a denunciation of either the injured party or
the parents thereof. Jabno
The Cotton Crop of 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger ; Allow me
to make a few remarks in reference to the oot
ton crop of 1870. The figures have been put
down at 4,250,000 bales, and even higher.. This
is at least 500,000 bales more than the orop will
amount to. Of course some will say at once,‘ it
is over 3,750,000 bales at this date, with nearly
two months to go on. I deny It.- The whole
of the crop of cotton produced in the Southern
States in 1870, will not reach 3,800,000 bales.
The receipts for the year may reach 4,000,000
and a little over, but the cotton was not pro
duced in 1870. There will be counted with the
receipts of tMa year, at least 250,000 bales of
cotton produced in 1868 and 1869. Of course
I cannot prove this in any other way than by
reference to the stook in different towns at this
date, compared with the same date Iast season.
In 18C9 cotton opened in Macon at 31 cents—
declined in two months to 24 cents, and con
tinued to decline until June or July, 1870, when
many who had “stored for 30’’ sold out at 16
cents. Bo the receipts last year, fax Mvand
i«uYu er °^ e . aI j/. a °? bl l?Uhink the total
receipts during tho remainder of the cotton
year, will amount to 100,000 bales, wMch will
make the grand total less than 4,000,000 hales.
The crop of 1870' will be in excess of the pre
ceding crop about 500,000 bales, instead of over
1,000,000, as some have it. How is tEis? The
answer I make is as follows: Of the cotton pro
duced in 1869 and held by the planter, either in
warehouse or at home, and that of the same
held by speculators and capitalists, at least
250,000 bales have been counted with'tho crop
reoeipts of 1870. This being the case we will
add to tho reoeipts for 18C9 and 1870—wMoh
by some counts word 3,198,250 bales—tho 2o0,-
000 bales carried over twelve months, and we
will have 3,448,250 for the orop produced in
I860. On the other hand, dedriot from the re
ceipts of 1870 and 1871 the samo amount, and
wo will have, up to date, 3,641,’018, bales. Add
to tMs probable receipts for nnexpired time
100,000 bales, and we have the total cotton pro
duced in 1870—3,741,018 bales, in excess of
production for 1869, onIy292,768 bales. These
are much nearer correct figures than many may
fMnk ; for 1869 was a very good cotton year—
nearly equal to 1870, so far as seasons were
concerned. The average of bales in 1870 was
about 25 pounds over that of 1869—wMch would
make a difference of 1'48,0G8 bales. Add excess
to that already accounted for, and we have, as
I said in the outset, 440,836 bales as the excess
of cotton productlen for 1870 over that of 18C9.
This is not quite 500,000 bales, but we may call
the excess 500,000—wMch I consider a very
great increase from one year to another, with
nearly equal seasons. Fertihzersdid the work.
I would make a few remarks in regard to the
future of cotton, bnt perhaps I have said
enough. I will say notMng discouraging to the
planter, hut caution Mm not to be too sanguine
about Mgh prices for cotton, while it is for his
real interest to produce it cheap. If my figures
are correot the world will not feel the Bndden
loss to the trade of nearly a million bales of cot
ton by the falling off of this year’s production
as many think, but only 500,000! Tho with
drawal of - this amount in the face of a contin
ually increasing demand, with the prospect of
a falling off of at least 500,000 bales in the
growing crop, will cause this growing crop to
average at least 25oents per pound. Perhnps
if the crop for 1872 is likely to be below an av
erage, cotton will rise to 30 cents in July and
ATjfait, of 1372. This will be to the Injury of
the farmer if he should neglect the culture of
com and the raising of meat. ^ The Iast season
cotton declined far below a profitable price;
and, in fact, much lower than it would have
done if the receipts had been graduated. The
Franco-Prussian war had some influence on
prices, too, by increasing the stock in Liver
pool beyond au ordinary stock. Cotton accu
mulated at Liverpool during the war, but it is
now being rapidly distributed. By the first of
September it will not be muon in
what it waa last year, same dale. A word to
the farmer, and I have done: Let us all pro
duce first sufficient home supplies, mid then
make cotton. ’When your cotton is made it will
then bo yours. Now gin it, saok it and store
it at home safely. Carry one-twelfth of your
crop to market every month. By doing this
you wM always be able to get a good price for
your cotton, and have as complete control of
your orop of cotton and its prices as you do of
your crop of pigs or chickens. By rushing it all
on the market at once somebody who has mon-
ey has to buy it and hold it until the consumer
needs it. Consult the cotton market as you
would the market for any other commodity,
and then regulate the supply by the demand.
- Respectfully, etc.,
J. S. YtaBisH.
Macon, Ga., July 12,1871.
Letter from Twiggs County.
Fuat Woods, July 4,1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I notice
in your columns a solicitation, that your patrons
in their various localities should inform you of
the prospects and progress of orops in their va
rious localities.' I think tMs is proper. The
Government has its offioial agents scattered all
over the land making investigations and report
ing on the same periodically; consequently the
Agricultural Bureau js better informed concern
ing agricultural progress in the various snb-
districts than the citizens are, of whose interest
the report iB made. This ought not so to be,
and would not so be if the citizens would circu
late their own news in their own neighborhoods,
for their own benefit.
I have waited fo see if no one from the flat
woods of Twiggs county felt enough interest in
their social affairs to make a report of our de
pressed and dejeoted condition, but seeing no
such exposure in such case I send yon the fol
lowing :
It is unnecessary to state that such an
amount of lain has never fallen in our locality,
within the memory of the oldest inhabitants, as
has fallen during the past six months. And
what is still more remarkable, the more and
heavier rains have fallen as the summer has ad
vanced. The consequenoes of this inverse
ratio has produced immense injury to the
planter. We have not been able to plow on
an average more than three or three and & half
days in the week, since the first of April, whioh
embraoes the crop-malting season, and during
this time we have not had more than ten grass
killing days. The wet weather has drowned the
orops on old sandy bonds, all bottom landshav
ing been rendered unavailable, by being con
stantly covered with water or sobbed at a tem
porary and partial drjiog. Fresh lands and old
sedge fields have done better, and where such
have been kept clear of grass and weeds the
crops lookwelL . .. ■ , „
Stands of com were generally bad in the
spring, and the constant ravages of the bud
worm kepi the re-plant from filling up the miss
ing places on hard levels. This locality was
moreinfested by these pests than any other.
The washes upon the hillsides, and settling of
water upon the lower level land and on flats, haB
made the stand continue bad; add to tins the
quantity and quality of work put upon the corn,
and the sum total is almost an entire failure oh
at least one-half of the crop planted. There
is no guess work abont this oonelnsion, for when
the tassel on a corn stalk is fully developed, no
shoot nor silk having appeared, and the stalk
sound and fired from 12 to 20 inches from the
ground, we know that whatever of such corn is
to be already is, and that the static is the crop.
Nearly half the corn in our vicinity is in this
condition, with an occasional greener stalk with
a small shoot scaroely visible sticking abqve the
boot of the blade, to vary the monotony. Add
to this grass and weeds that could not be killed,
and you may form some idea of our standing
in corn. But an excess of acreage above last
year from one-fourth to one-third will help the
matter some, and we have some hopes yet of
not having much com to buy next year, if we
can sow plenty of oats in the fall, and they will
make good crops next summer.
As' to ?the cotton crop, I could but reiterate
what I have seen that others have said in other
localities, exoept that our land is poor, level
many more favored spots where onr staple is pro
duced. Our stands are bad, grass prevails,
rains abound, labor scarce for the season, and
all things oonsire to make the ootton bag of
next crop bring its full value. Shakspeare says
all things are well that end welL This short
crop will prove of advantage to the one in the
future at least; and hope it may to others in
their turn, that is, for the planter. Cotton Is
full twenty days later than last season.
Crops of oats were poor, but few planters
making the seed they planted; but, neverthe
less, grass is abundant, and mayin a measure
supply the deficiency, With proper management
No rye waa sown, nor a patch of wheat; these
crops are so on certain that planters avoid the
the issue. One of my neighbors planted a
patoh of wheat last year, the only patch in all
onr country. At the usual time the famous
wheatbird came to look for his spring supplies,
and finding this solitary morsel, took all, regard
less of unearthly sounds, _ shots, death, etc.
This neighbor, who had raised his own wheat
for the past fifty-five years, says he will not
arbors
he cannot afford to raise wheat foraU theyrheat-
birds.
Oar land is too poor, as well as too hot in
summer,, to attempt to ruse barley, clover or
any of the grasses. Sorghum and sugar cane
have played ont, because the grinding and man
ufacturing is too nasty a business for freedmen
to undertake. Twice the amount of the gross
profits of this business would not pay them to
nasty their hands with it. WMte folks are too
proud. Q
Even the fruit of wild growth, such as grapes,
berries, eto., are all blasted ; vines are running
at random, withont ballast to make them even
respected. The bashes of this genus deserve
to be cat down as cumberers of the ground;
even the trees of the forest have aborted their
frnit, and are valued as Bhade trees or timber;
but through the lanes and the forests the cattle
go not lowing, but rather bellowing, making
proud their gala-day of free grasses, plenty of
their own, not desiring to cross the bounds of
poor fenoing, which they occasionally see.
The apple orop is almost a failure, many trees
not even blooming in the spring, others casting
their fruit untimely, yet others bearing pariial
crops, but stunted in size and deficient in fla
vor.
The peach crop earlier in the season promised
an abundant yield of small frnit, bnt as the wet
season continued, these have cast a vast amount
of inferior production, and as the aeOsonadvan-
ces for maturity the rat supplies the delinquency
of all past spoilers; and aided by the worm of
the tree and worm of the frnit, seems disposed
to give the last sad blow to the hopes of all
lovers of this super-excellent frnit. Plums have
also melted before the blight of the wet season,
not many having the hardihood to face the des
truction of the two lips.
Irish potatoes have overdone thomselves—
everybody having made more and larger ones
than any of Ms neighbors, and all good, mealy
and well tasted. Bat it is not so with sweet
potatoes; they have been drowned and grassed
ont, until their combined vinous and rooted
strength has seemed to fati. Yet through a long
season until frost, they may so recuperate as to
make seed to give hope for next year. O.
The State University.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—Among
the muoh published in behalf of this time-
honored institution of learning, I offer some
suggestions wMch, if practicable, will tend more
than everything else to swell the number of
students there. And I know of no body of men
better calculated to accomplish the desired
changes than the Alumni, soon to assemble.
It is patent to everybody interested that prices
are so exorbitant as to be an absolute embargo
on learning, exoept to the favored few. The
great consideration is to bring expenses witMn
tue means oi ormueypcople. The three prin
ciple items are railrofa*--f; „ nd hoard.
If the Alumni s can induce the railroad com
panies to make a reasonable redaction in favor
of University students, and the students them
selves to accept a plain, cheap Btyle of dress,
and the people of Athens to reduce the price of
board somewhere within the bounds of reason,
there will be a thousand students at the Univer
sity in less than one year. It may be impracti
cable to get any favors from the railroads, al
though the arrangement would increase their
profits; bnt the other two modes of rednoing
expenses and the most important are reasonable
andperoeivahle. Two-thirds of the clothing bills,
without the sacrifice of decenoy or good taste
can be cut off, and half the board bills taken
off withont impoverishing any keeper of a
boarding house in Athens, in faot securing them
fair profits.
Take a table of ten boys at $25 eaoh; $250 a
month, $2 a day or $60 a month will more than
buy all they eat; $40 a month will more than
oover all other expense they put the family to,
innlnding room rent, fuel and extra hire of ser
vants—making expenses $100. Here is a clear
profit of $15 a month on the boy, or $150 on
ten boys, to the landlord. The $1,500 for ten
months enables Mm to live in Athens and sup
port Ms own family, pay tuition, eto., all at the
expense of ten boys at a distance. These ex
orbitant prioes charged these ton keep away
a hundred equally meritorious, who have not
the means to pay them. Can’t the Alnmni get
this clotMng question before the students, and
this board question before the noble people of
Athens ? It is the crying evil at all our colleges
now, that a few people who live at them are ex
cluding from their benefits thousands of the
rising young men and women who are not able
to pay such charges. Amicus.
Honobto Whom Honcb is Due.—Immedi
ately after the morning services of Sunday, the
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church
find citizens, met in the new church on Wind
sor Hill, to take into consideration the propti
ety of naming the chnreb.
The meeting was organized by calling Rev.
B. A. Cain to the chair.
The object of the meeting was explained. A
committee of seven, to select a name, was ap
pointed composed of Rev H. J. Harvey, J. C.
O. Burnett, B.-F. Wilder, Jesse Walker, A. P.
Simmons, Mrs. N. T. Simmons, Mrs. N. T.
Ried and Mrs. O. W. Smith.
After a Bhort consultation, the oommittee
unanimously agreed to the following report:
Whereas, Rev. Jas. Jones, labored with us
with great zeal and earnestness for three years,
never deviating from the path of divine recti
tude and Christian duty, be it
Resolved, That the new Methodist church on
Windsor Hill, Macon Misson, erected under the
auspices of Rev. Jas. (Uncle Jimmie) Jones,
the former pastor, and being completed by
Rev. R. A. Caine, the present muoh loved pas
tor, shall be known as “Jones OhapeL”
Resolved, That the Telegraph and Messenger
and Southern Christian Advocate be requested
to publish these proceedings one time.
H. J. Haetev, Seo’y.
Cause and Effect.—That last cargo-of Cin
cinnati whisky received in Louisville must have
been a pretty good brafid. The Courier-Journal,
of Saturday, gets off the following:
Last Thursday Attorney General Akerman
was the only member of the Administration left
in Washington. Thera perhaps never to *
finer illustration of the little end of n(^Mng
whittled down to a point
It is said that “Bowenia having^ aaaytuae
in jail, where he Is allowed
of Ms . wives.” One of hi* It to. bad
enough to put a gentlem** 1*^ J® 1 . 01 ® itmo-
oe&t amusement of W8*ajtyi but, it ia a con
founded sight wore* to exclude from the prison
all bis wives baton*.
rrjrj ggygnaah News has a notioe addressed
“To Our Subscribers in Southern Georgia and
Florida.” If the two fellow® thus referred to
bare confined their reading to the columns of
the News, it is very remarkable thatthey should
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
For the lack of better material for this col
umn, at present writing—11 a. m., July 11th—
we are compelled to commence its preparation
with some of Red Head’s lays. Poor fellow!
the calorio from his hair is evidently striking
in, and soon Dr. Green (of Milledgeville) will
be called upon to diagnose another case. How
sad 1 Here are the lays:
Anight-blooming oereus unfolded itself in
Macon the other night to the delightsome tink-
lings of a seven-octave music-box. The scene
was very gay. • • ^ y-
It is said that Shropshire, of the Macon.Tel
egraph, plays the fiercest and most unrelenting
»ame of seven-up known to Mstory. The hands
le holds are simply fearful. . ' _
Rough Rica’s Beads Repobteb has Resumed
publication. Rioe is a Bed-hot old Rooster.
TMs weather is fetoMng the grease from the
Middle Georgia poets. One ; of them has come
to tMs:
My love is a sweet little lassie,
WithclusterinVourls ffia! fiaunf me,
Like a dissolving sunset at ee*;
Her voice is as sweet as a stringed harp,
Swept by an autumnal gale,
And Pm ravished with Dassie’s beauty
Which is fairer than a Circassian vale.
A Cincinnati heathen wrote this touching in
scription in. the blank leaf of a Bible in room
73, of the Hi Kimball House: “This worn was
occupied May 20th by a commercial traveler,
who has this muoh to say about the Humbug
Infernal Eat House. It is a d—m fraud and
swindle from basement to attic:”
The weather seems to be telling on the folks
down at Savannah. A Custom House pap-suok-
er has been fined $50 for indecent exposure of
his person, and two Floridians, quartered at
the MftTfihall House, improvised an original
entertainment on Sunday, whioh is thus de
scribed by the News. -
Yestebdat afternoon abont two o’clock, the
family of a gentleman on State street, near
Drayton, were alarmed by repeated reports of
a pistol, and on investigation it was found that
three pistol shots had been fired through one of
the back bed-room windows, on the third floor,
the bails going through the partition between
the two apartments, and lodging in the wall in
the front room. After looking into the matter
the gentlemen, in the house discovered that the
shooting came from the Marshall House, and a
messenger was sent tothe Barracks for a police
man. Before the officer arrived, however, an
other policeman was called upon, and proceeded
to room No. 29, where the offenders were dis
covered^ the persons of two men from Florida.
When the officer entered they were entirely
nude, and the windows of the room wide open.
A table was spread with edibles, and upon it
lay two pistols. The parties were told to put
on their clothes, and were then taken to the
Barracks. The rooms into wMch the balls were
fired were occupied by a young married couple,
who narrowly escaped being shot. It seems that
a canary which was hanging in its cage in the
window was the objeot which drew the attention
of these Florida sportsmen.
The Atlanta Sun says the prospect now is to
build a road directly through from Atlanta to
Savannah, and tb*t » oommiuoo' or the 'board
of directors has gone to New York to confirm
“certain financialpropositions.”
Among the exports, Saturday, fromSaivannah
were 128,126 feet of lumber, valued at $2,818.-
77,- and 20 bushels of com to the Canary Is
lands, and 24,000 wMte oak staves, valued at
$2000, to Barcelona.
Mr. Stephens evidently intends to write the
Atlanta Son up or down, as the case may be.
In its issue of yesterday, there are five mortal
- —* -.*»»—- ruKinJf at flat—pud iff
“According to our understanding of things,”
Pike furnished the Democratic candidate the
last time. Some folks down here think it’s
Bibb’s or Monroe’s deal, next time. > - w
Adjourned terms of the Superior Courts of
Burke and Washington counties, commenced
Monday. It is probable that the Oxford broth
ers, the desperadoes now in jail at Augusta,
will betaken to the latter county for trial, this
session.
The Augusta ghost has bean captured. It
was.a crazy negro woman-wrapped in a sheet.
Another heavy rain storm at Augusta, Tues
day. . ' . o * -T ‘"
Thfe Chronicle and Sentinel, of Wednesday,
publishes the following:
Mabeied.—In tMs county, on the 9th instant,
by Judge John L. Ells, Charles F. Keener, and
Elizabeth Stevens, all of fhfi county.
Funxbal Notice.—The friends and acquain
tances of Charles F. Keener are res poo tfally re
quested to attend his funeral THIS (Tuesday)
MORNING at 9 o’clock, from his late residence
iXkM^Knco —I.. ' -
' ^ hive been able to flftdttelrwaytosuehadl*-
lowand 'flat, and perhaps in worse case than * lance from home.
July, too.
The thermometer marked 95 in the shade at
Atlanta, on Monday. That’s & nice, healthy
temperature for “summer resort,” eh?
Hon. B. EL Hill will soon remove to Atlanta.
He will board at the Kimball IJouse, and also
have a law office therein. .
We find the following items in the Atlanta
Constitution, of yesterday:
Tiff. Steeet Eaxlboad.—Some twenty-five
hands were at work on Whitehall street yester
day, in digging trenches and laying down ties
and stringers for the Street Road. The initial
mint for the present is in front of Redwine &
Toe’s. To-morrow some of the rails will be
laid. The work is progressing rapidly under
the supervision of R. Peters, Jr.
Taking our the Kinks.—Two elderly mer
chants, in a town not over forty miles from At
lanta, ordered from one of onr merchants one
dozen f asMonable hats. When they opened the
box and saw the hate (Gypsies) they concluded
that they had been mashed in transit, and im
mediately went to work with warm water and
Sad-iron and straightened ont the kinks or
mashed places. They were pleased with the
hate, if they had not come.mashed up.
Attempt at Suicide.—A printer’s “cub,”
named Salter, attempted to commit snidde on
Sunday by taking a heavy dose of laudanum.
The use of a stomach pump saved him from a
“sleep that knows no waking.” No cause as
signed for the rash act.
Rain.—Atlanta was refreshed yesterday by a
shower of rain. We learn from passengers on
the Georgia Railroad that the rain extended
some distance below here. The rain was needed.-
A trewly loyl sovereign of the off color,
named John Williams, was knocked down and
captured while “developing” the reBouroes o a
gentleman’s sleeping room in Atlanta Sunday
night.
The'Bev. O. W. Thomas, late of St Phillip’s
Ohurcb, Atlanta, is recubanssub tegminepatulae
fagi on Ms farm, near Griffin.
An anatomioal lecture, illustrated by practi
cal experiments at Griffin, Saturday night, re
sulted in Mr. Cord’s being badly sliced with a
knife, by Mr. Parish.
A wMte man named Fletoher Medaris, was
found dead in Kewnan, last Sunday morning.
It is supposed he was murdered by some ne
gross with whom he had been gambling, and
two of the party are under arrest.
A negro woman named Julia Holloway, living
at Atlanta, was fatally burned by the explosion
of a can of non-explosive oil, on Sunday night
Commend tu to that fluid for never missing fire.
We get the following from the Griffin Stov
of yeeterday: ' *
JudgeDismuke, Ordinary of thter^Y’
to or three
return, wMch she failed or
refused to 11116 gaa^eroan in question sued
ontawriM” habeas corpus, whioh the Jndge,
If,.- wearing argument sustained, and ordered
th* child returned to carry ont the contract
A posxomoE has been established at Sunny
Side.oniheMaoon.and Western Railroad, the
postmaster qualified, and they are now ready
for tho rafting-
Yacaot Senatobshuv-We learn from reliable
authority, that an election will soon be ordered
to fill the -vacancy In the Twenty-second Senato
rial Dlstriot occasioned by promotion to Con-
eress of the Hon. Thos. J. Speer. According
to our understanding of things, Pike county is
entitled to fill ont the nnexpired term. Pike
has some most exoelent men. We have heard
the following names mentioned as suitable men
for the poeition: Dr. J. A. Williams, Rev. A.
G. Peden, Laden Goodrich, Esq., and some
others. There must be a “grand rally” and a
progressive Demooratie victory! That good
district baa been mts-representod long enough!
Of the North Eastern Railroad to run from
Athens towards Knoxville, the Constitutionalist,
of Wednesday, says:
The people of Athens and Northeast Georgia,
weary of waiting and siok of hope deferred,
have lately organized a company for building
the proposed road, and this company is looking
for and seeking aid from the Central Road.—
Having lost heart as to being aided in their en
terprise by the Georgia Road, they now turn
to their only remaining hope, the Central Road.
Their effort, as we learn, will be to induoe tho
Central to extend its Eatonton branch to Madi
son, 21miles, and thence to Athens, 28 miles,
making a total of only 49 miles from Eatonton
to Athens; then, with an interest in the pro
posed road from Athens to Clayton, make it a
main through line from Olay ton to Savannah,
which might effectually kill off the Athens
branch of the Georgia Road, and consequently
flank Augusta as to the trade from that section.
All the alleged WasMngton county Ku-klux
who have been on trial at Savannah tMs week,
were discharged Tuesday.. What was or will ba
done with the lying, vagabond negroes who bad
them arrested is not stated, bnt we have a very
clear notion what ought to be done with them. -
Those'festive young Floridians, Messrs. E. P.
Sheaver and J. G. Brooks, who amused them
selves by shooting into the Windows of a private
residence at Savannah, on Sunday, got off with
$100 fine and costs. They were Iuoky.
In the case of the Tax Receiver of Riehmond
county vs. the Augusta Factory, Judge Gibson
has decided that the capital stock must be re
turned at its par value, but the real estate,
money and solvent debts are to be returned and
taxed separately.
Mrs. Geo. R. Jessup, of Madison, was robbed
one day last week of a satchel containing $560,
and $800 or $900 worth of diamonds and jewel
ry. The thief got into the house through a
second story window.
Sunday and Tuesday were very suggestive
days to tne Savannah sinners. The thermome
ter, on Sunday, at 2 o’clock p. m., in our friend
Sneed’s office, marked 99 degrees, and the ioe
in the retail shops gave out.
Mr. J.Howard, of Columbus, has been elected
Superintendent of the Savannah, Seaboard and
Skidaway Railroad.
Henry Doffis, a brioklayer, died suddenly at
Savannah, on Tuesday, from the effects of tha
extreme heat
Mr. Frederiok Schuster, formerly the Prus
sian Consul at Savannah, has vamosed from
that city leaving a mourning uncle or creditor*!
who lament hi3 departure just $20,000 worth.
H. W. Johnson, who was convicted of forg
ing the name of Purse & Thomas, of Savannah,
at the present term of the Chatham Superior
Court and sent to the penitentiary for seven
years, has been pardoned by Bullock—as wa
learn from (he Savannah Republican.
Mrs. Mary Doolittle and Rev'. James W. Cos-
ton, both of WasMngton county, died last week
Putnam county farmers have abont wMpped
the fight with “Gen. Grass.”
Major Brookins, Ordinary of Washington
county, received painful injuries by a fall last
Sunday night.
The Sandersville Georgian of Wednesday
makes the following crop report for last week:
Chop Repoet.—The prospect has brightened
somewhat since the rains, yet is by no means
flattering, bnt rather the'reverse. We have
seen and oonversed, within the past few days,
with planters—;farmers—and they speak ae-
spondingly. One, a gentleman of fine judg
ment and one of the best planters in the State,
says he planted for six thousand bushels of corn,
manured MgMy and cultivated well. Thinks
now he will do well to get three thousand. His
cotton will probably yield half a orop. Three
others, living remote from each other and In
different parts of the county,-make similar re
ports of their crops. We have no better fann
ers th*" these four. They tell us farther, that
sopie, excited by the rise in cotton, have neg
lected their com to push the cotton. Henoe
many com crops, we fear, are sadly behind
those from which we take our report.
- John Farley, son of William Farley, machinist
at the State Road shops, Atlanta, was run over
by a train at Yining’s Station, on Monday, and
one of Ms ihigha fearfully mutilated.
We dip as follows, from the last Southern Re
corder:
Wx were told by a gentleman, that the Fourth
of July celebration by the negroes was to all in
tents and purposes, nothing bnt a rejoicing over
the death of CapfaL. H. Kenan, who had msda
himBflif obnoxous to them by shooting *omn
time since at Mr. Strother.
The new wings to the Asylui“ at Midway,
ployed all the wb* w __
Atlanta ho-* a > Tuesday, over 4,000 water
melons b-'afiM t0 ° u y over tha Georgia
wtm. Puller, mother of Messrs. W. A. and
James A. Fuller, well known railroad conduc
tors of this State, died in Clayton county, last
Monday; aged 65 years.
. The local of the Constitution, has seen a dia
mond necklace and pin in an Atlanta jewelry
store, just ordered by “a party In Southwest
Georgia,” at a oost of $5,000.
We credit the Monroe Advertiser, of Tues
day, with the following items:
The rflerchantile establishment of Merritt &
Tamer, owing to the stringency of the times,
dosed doors about two weeks tdnos. ;The
stock on hand was bought by B. Pye, and was
being removed yesterday.
Burrs Public School.—Mr. E. B. Pound,
Secretary of the Board of Education, has given
notioe that the publio schools provided for by
the last school law will open Monday next, the
17th inst. Teachers will be paid according to
the grade of certificate held by applicant, from
$150 to $2 CO per scholar j»er month.
» Ibon Deposits.—We learn from Butte eountv,
that a couple of Northern gentlemen have made
a geological survey of the county, and report
imSimm iron deposits. The early competition
of the Griffin ana Madison Railroad will render
these iron fields aooeaaibl*.
A MSB chant remarked to na yesterday, that
“just at present everybody who owes anybody
else money is gone to the Springs,” which means
that creditors are lamenting.
