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AJNTD G-EORGIA JOTJRNAL & MESSENGER. CLISBY, JONES & REESE, Proprietors. The Family Journal.—News—Politics—L itebatube—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING Established 1826. MACON ; TUESDAY, JULY 18. 1871. Volume LXY—No. 3 (7eor'’ ia Tclcgrapti Building, Bacon , ^months. -,one year.......$10 00 : 5 00 i -.Weekly Telegraph and Messenger, 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— I ! “ 09tof tt? 111110¥ving Ma - eaia6noa in - tha I v.rm and Home . ••••••_• A 00 JnUWeekly Telegraph and Messenger and Farm and Home 5 00 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.
