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Newspaper Page TextTlie Georgia, Weekly Telegraph. and Journal Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, JULY 18, 187L. Pi5ophecy.—The Parisians aro quoting from pages 521 and 523 of La Oracles Sibylline, writ ten by Mademoiselle Lcnorm&nt in 1817 a full prophelio account of tbe miseries which have be fallen them from tho Gormans and the mob in 1870. It Is a pity they neglected the study of that volume until 1871. They might have de feated the prophecy if they had heeded it; but it is of no valno except as a wonder. I meant to have told yon of that ditch, said a man to his companion who was floundering in the mud of a dark night. It’s of no consequence now, was the reply. I have found out all about it. The New Oanceb Cube introduced from Ven ezuela, through the Agricultural Bureau, is cre ating a good deal of excitemen? and discussion. The medical fraternity are generally disposed to laugh at it, but Mr. Vice President Colfax cites the case of his mother, who left 'Washing ton in April last with “an absolutely hopeless cancer, growing fearfully and angrily.” Now, although, in consequence of the scaroity of the drug (Gnndurango) she has been able to take only quarter doses, the tumor is three-fourths gone, pain almost gone and every symptom fa vorable. It cures by depurating the blood. The radical New York papers of Tuesday give Mayor Hall and Superintendent Kelso particu lar ginger for succumbing to the threats of the Hibernians so for as to order the suppression of the Orange party. We presume they felt bet ter when Gov. Hoffman’s proclamation came out. The Commercial Advertiser says, accord ing to Kelso's policy, if any body threatens your life you must be shut up until good nature returns and he consents to abandon his violent purpose. The inhabitants on the shore of Seneca Lake (New York) aro surprised by the phenomenon of millions of dead shad floating on tho lake surface. No one can account for their appear ance, though tho theory is (hat they are young shad, resulting from shad garbage containing both sexes, being thrown into the lake, tho eggs thus becoming impregnated and fish produced, which, when they get to a certain age, seek their native element, salt water, and unable to find it, die. The llacon girls aro distinguishing them selves. The Doyleston Democrat of tho 11th inst. comes to us containing a valedictory ad dress read at the commencement of Oakland Female Institute, Norristown, Pa., by Miss Ellen £. Jone3, of Macon, Ga. Almost everywhere this year tho lovely young Maconians carry off the honors. Now let the Macon lads wake up and show thomselves worthy of the lassies of of their generation. The Case Revebsed.—A trewly loyal organ at the North notices the fset that whereas the South formerly furnished- only one-fiftieth of the inventions of tho country, now it fur nishes one-third, and then adds: “Ten years ago hardly anything was invented in the Cotton States, except lies about the North.” Now the case is different. Hardly anything is invented at the North, excepting lies about the Cotton States. Cade Stanton and Susan B. Anthony have illustrated their idea of woman’s rights and fe male character by paying a visit of condolence and sympathy to Mrs. Fair—now under sen tence of death for tho unprovoked murder of her paramour, and a woman wiio has had mum liasons than she has fingers and toe3. Abandoned libertinism seems to be their ideal of female rights. Daring Deeds of a Desperate 9Ian. Mr. Thomns Francis, of Albany, New York, finds himself in the newspapers under peculiar circumstances. He is certainly one of the bravest Benedicts of whom history gives us any account. His first wife killed herself 34 years ago; nine years after, his second spouse ran away from him, and died of destitution in Illinois; six years later his third consort was drowned. In 1858 his fourth helpmate was killed, and he, having been convicted of the mnrder, was sent to prison for'life, bnt pardoned out. In another decade the fifth partner of his bosom mysteri ously disappeared; and very recently the sixth wedded idol of his sonl sought peace and obliv ion by hanging herself to a bedpost. The ac- rotation of years and experience having made Thomas a philosopher, he bears his'eon- nubial bereavements with fortitude and resig nation. In a Dilemma.—Tho New York Eadical pa pers are in a sad dilemma. After exhausting objurgation upon Superintendent Kelso, for for bidding the Ornnge procession, they are puzzled how to avoid lauding Hoffman for counter manding tho order. The most of them do avoid it, and even denounce Hoffman, too; but they aro evidently embarrassed by the awkward ness of the dilemma. The Lease Cases.—In tho Supreme Court, Friday, npon motion of counsel, No. 18 of Ma con circuit, which is the Mayor and Council of Macon el al. vs. the Central Bailroad Banking Company and the Macon and Western Bailroad Company was put with the other cases between the same parties which has already been set down for a hearing on tho 20th inst., or at the heel of the docket which may then be np. Fanct Sketch of Macon.—Tho Journal of Commerce is a very sober and truthful paper; but the reader will find in this paper a sketch of Macon taken from its columns, which, how ever flattering, he would regard with some dis trust, if he did not know it was from the Jour nal of Commerce. The “Hon. J. S. W. Eagles, colored,” is down on “Senator Abbott, of North Carolina.” Com ing in npon tho Senator, who was having a sit ting with some of his friends, on the “glorious 4th,” Eagles accosted the party very politely, and was told by Abbott, “Go oat on the back piazza and I will seo you, sir, directly.” Eagles is incensed. Fbom Sweden.—Dr. L. Knorr, .Corresponding Secretary of the Georgia Immigrant Aid Soci ety, gives notice that the fast and staunch sail ing ship Alamo, Capt. Weissenhorn, will sail from tho Swedish port of Gothenburg, direct to Savannah, towards the end of August next. Faro $35 in gold. Habfsbfob AracsT.—Brown A Co. have re ceived the August issue of thi3 magazine. It is a very good nnmber, though perhaps a trifle • ‘heavy” for this hot weather. Light reading is about all people have patience for, with mercu ry gamboling np among the nineties. Mas. D. A. Dadd, of Iowa, has had three children in fonrtoen years, exclusive of eight pairs of twins, all or which aro living. It is strange that Dadd, the daddy of these little Dadds, can see nothing seductive in suicide.— Courier-Journal. Woman’s Wbongs.—The New York papers say there was a file of sixty women at the Essex Market court' Tuesday morning—each with a complaint against her mate, for desertion, as sault, beating the children,or some such outrage. What has become of the days of. chivalry? The Cotton Crop. Dryasdust lathered our correspondent and ourselves for saying there will be a short cotton crop. He’s traveled and knows better. He is as wise as any man who has been to Milledge ville, and crowns his wisdom by volunteering advice to planters to hold on to their cotton 1:11 they can got twenty-five cents for it! We should hate tobo held responsible for such counsel. Boots, in to-day’s paper, shows some proba bility that the cotton product of 1870 may reach somewhere between four and a quarter and four and a half millions, and he gives that of 1869 at 3,114,592 bales. We have usually put it at 3,154,946, and these are tbe figures in the Year Book. The crop of 1369 was generally con sidered above an average, except in Texas where it was short. Let us look at the figures since the war, and, in doing so, we class the crop from the year of its production and not from the ends of two years in which it reaohed the market: Crop of 1865...2.193,987 I Crop of 1868.. .3,439,039 Crop of 1866...2,019,774 Crop of 1869.. .3,154,916 Crop of 1867.. .2,693,993 | Crop of 1870.. .4,250,000 Hero are 10,051,729 bales produced in six years, or an average of 2,675,288 bales a year. The figures show no very wide variation until we come to 1SC9. Up to that time there is such a general current of increase as we should an ticipate from the gradual subsidence of the dis orders and disturbing effeots of the civil war, modified by the ordinary fluctuations in the character of the seasons. Now-it is an unquestioned fact that during all this time there has been no very material change in the voiumo of negro cotton-prodno- ing labor. It has not increased, and all believe that it has fallen off considerably. We think the loss has been more than supplied by white labor, bnt that is a mere opinion and the in crease would be Immaterial in any event. To what, then, are we to attribute the sudden and extraordinary increase in the volume of thelast two cottoncrop3? We see it was, in 1869,550,- 933 bales, and in 1870, 1,657,000 bales more than in 1867 the highest previous year ? We are driven, under the facts, to look for it in the sadden and abundant introduction of fer tilizers and the concurrent effects oi unusually propitious seasons; and this hypothesis agrees with known facts. It seems to ns, in view of all the premises, an average crop now could not very much exceed the average of the whole six years. Tho Year Book says the area cultivated in 1870 may torn ont less (ban three million bales, and we have asserted that the crop of 1870 was fifteen to twenty per cent above average, which we. think is a moderate calculation. We do not look for an average cotton crop this year, and although cotton may not go up to twenty-five cents, we suppose it will be high enough seriously to cripple planters by stimulating a cotton mania —over produotion and the abandonment of food crops. ■» Cotton Crops of I860 and 1870. ‘ Editors Telegraph and Messenger •. For the benefit of certain parties who write the cotton “Crop,” I would state that tho crop of 18C9 and 1870 is given as follows, by the Cotton Brokers’ Association of New York: . . hales. Tho receipts at the ports for the year end ing September 1, 1870 2,888,500 Cotton shipped direct to Northern mills. 140,827 Sonthem consumption 79,843 Burned at ports 5,422 Crop of 1869 and *70 total.... 3,114,592 Itoccipta at tbe ports einco 1st Sept. 1870 3,910,692 Becel ved at ports last year from 14th July to 1st September 43,200 Suppose that tho Northern mills receive direct, the same amount as last year,, and Sonthem consumption and burned is same as last year - . 226,092 Making. .;. 4,184,984 The receipts for the' two-weeks past aro folly 80 per cent, over last year. And as tlmreoeipta at all ports are in excess of last year over a million bales, is it not seasonable to calculate something like a corresponding increase of re ceipts direct to the Northern mills? And if the increase is in same ratio, and receipts at ports oontinne at the same rate of .per cent, over last year for the balance of the year, why not say the crop of 1870_and 1871 is "nearer 4,500,000 bales ? In the face of a large crop one of your writers- says that 250,000 bales were held over from the crop o'f 1869 and 1870. How much will now be held back in the face of a small “cotton crop” for 1871? Boots. A keriian, Gbant, the Washington Chronicle and the North Carolina Ku-klux negroes seem to be about the only mortals who are trying to kick np a row on that subject at this time, in these United States. Akerman has appointed one Lusk as “a special Assistant District Attor ney,” to go down to North Carolina; probably to blood hound the track of the Bobeson county people who have started after the negro outlaws that have so long terrorized over that county and killed four of the sheriff’s posse a few days ago. Does any man credit Akerman with the slightest disposition to conserve public order and morals with his Ku-klux enginery ? Could ho get any honest or candid Badical to say that ho was even suspected of such a motive ? These men, wo believe, would bless any negro violence which should only provoke a corresponding vio lence from the whites. Peace is not what they want—bnt tronhle and disorder, to bo used in the interests of Badical electioneering, politicians are foaming at the month over “plat forms” and “new departures;” bnt to get rid of these traders in public mischief is platform enough for any sensible Sonthem man. Lewis Bice for more than a generation has £&iered to the public, (a most exacting critic,) as proprietor of the American House, Boston. To-day, as ever daring that long test, the house of which ho is the head, stands at the head of the New England hotels. ' The New York papers say O’Donovan Eossa was so badly hissed and knocked aboat at a Hi bernian meeting, for counseling order and peace, that the tears streamed down his cheeks as he took his seat. - . In Chicago personals are made np in-this touching vein: “T. J. Falls was his name, And I shall not deny, with regard to the same, -That he came from Shanghai, And hepnt np last night at the Sherman, Considerably olose to the skv." Cotton appeared to stagnate yesterday in liveipool and New York, under tbe Agricultural Bureau estimate. That cCed not scare them. ' Cotton Figures. The Liverpool accounts yesterday morning seem to have toned the New York market. Cot ton was firm at 21 cents for middling uplands and sales of-1,600 bales are reported. The Liv erpool dispatch reports stock 660,000, of which 392,000 aro American.. Beceipts of the week 250,000. Afloat for Liverpool 488,000. The figures for the last three Fridays compare as follows: Jane 30. July 7. July 14. Stock in Liverpool.713,000 715,000 CCO.OOO Afl0atforLiverpooL651,C00 647,000 488,000 1,864,000 1,202,0001,148,000 From-Indian Spring. July 18. 1871. Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—Hero in this rural retreat under the oare of mine host of the Collier House, are a goodly crowd and every thing pleasant. We have a fine rink—an ex cellent band—pretty women—courteous gentle men—pleasant^ rooms—no musqnifoes—lots of fan—a fino table and everything (ho most fas- tidious could desire. GG --. ‘ .' .,' To-morrow a meeting of. the stockholders of the Griffin and Madison' Railroad is to be held here, and a large attendance i.-- expected. Cnisr. Tbe Bureau Cotton Statnqent The night dispatches, on Friday, brought the first official Bureau estimate of the growing cotton crop. .! North Carolina.. Georgia... Texas. Arkansas... Tennessee., a with last year 'in July. statement .thus-. F July, 1870: July, 1871. 94 99 96 100 ........101 r 82 ,7.:..... 98 ' — 88 ...102 81 95 • 80 101 75 97 93 101 90 85 98 970 886 THE GEORGIA PRESS. Yisitobs Fbom the Low Countbt.—We an pleased to learn that at this time there are sev- Mr John King, the Columbus banker, broke era! families from the low country in town, anc* . , • ,, , that many others are expected at an early day This shows a condition of the growing crop on an average of States eight and four-tenths per cent, below that of Jaly 1870. It is to be noted, however, ihe per eentage for 1871, is lowest in the heaviest cotton States—for exam, pie: In Georgia it is nineteen per cent, below last year—in Alabama twenty-one per oent.; in Mississippi fifteen; in Louisiana twenty-six in Arkansas eleven—an average of over eigh teen per cent in the five heaviest cotton States. Looking at the aggregate cotton crop as repre sented by all the States, according to their pro ductive ratio, this table would make out the con dition as a whole to be somewhere about fifteen percent more unpromising than last year. This table re fors alone to the condition of tbe crop and not to the acreage,' or area in cultiva tion—for tho Bureau has already reported that to be about ten per cent less than last year. The two bases of calculations, taken together, would therefore represent the crop as it ap pears in this month of July, about twenty-five percent below lost year; and this the reader Will see would foreshadow a crop of aboat 3,189,500 bales. .,M The report, however, talks about nineteen per cent relatively lower condition, leading to about the same conclusion, (say 8,200,000 bates;) bnt we cannot see' where the nineteen per cent comes from, unless made np of the above aver age condition as to Stales and the ten per cent, -falling off*in acreage. But it is manifest that it is the condition of the crop in the great cot ton States and not the smaller ones, which is chiefly to determine the volume of production. An average reduction vastly modified by five per cent, improvement in North Carolina, fonr per cent in South Carolina, and thirteen per cent, improvement in Tennessee, would give a totally false idea of the aggregate crop, the great bulk of which must como from Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. And then, too, We fail to seo how nine teen per cent off from the crop of 1870 would result in 3,200,000 bales.-.- If would be some where about 3,450,000 bales. This, of course, is all loose figuring from very uncertain data. The Agricultural Department, however, prudently puts a wide range on ils es timates—from 2,900,000 to 3,500,000 bales, and so insists on a falling off of 750,000 bales from list year, outside of all contingencies. New York Riot—Terrible Scenes. Tho Orange procession proved to be a very small affair—numbering scarcely 200. It or ganized at their headquarters, corner of Twen ty-eighth street and Eighth Avenue, and moved down the street between two lines composed of soldiers and one thousand policemen, extended for the length of eight blocks. Immense crowds lined the avenue all tho way dowD, and bad coll lected at ovory point of observation. It was assailed with missiles and shots three times on the ronto, bnt there .wo3 nothing liko a deter mined onslaught in force;. The military return ed tne lire at Twenty-sixth Twonly-fifth and Twenty-fourth streets, in each case with very fatal effect, and in none of them with distinct orders from the officer in command of the firieg regiment. The temper of the rioters was ex ceedingly violent. One dispatch illustrates it by this anecdote, showing, how a boy and the wo man and child were killed : A Newark lad, while riding on the top of an omnibus, displayed an Orange handkerchief. A shot from a pistol struck him and he fell from tho stage dead.. The following is tho correct account of tho killing of a woman and little girl, supposed to have been Mrs. York and her daughter, as given by an eye witness: I was standing looking at the procession and the crowd, and there was a great deal of excitement.' Directly I saw a wo man waving a handkerchief to the Orangemen and I thought she was very imprudent, or had more courage than women generally have. Just at that moment, while she was in the act of waving her handkerchief, a burly ruffian stepped np to her,-and, placing the muzzle of his pistol to her ear fired, and she fell dead. He then turned around and, deliberately cook ing his pistol, fired a bullet into a little girl, and she fell. I think the little girl must have been twelve or thirteen years of age. The spectacles after the fnsiilades by the military, and the scenes of grief and misery following were horrible. A dispatch says: The soene after the soldiers fired on the cor ner of 8th avenue and 24th street was enough to make the stoutest heart quail and turn sick. The dead and dying lay thickly strewn'npon the bloody pavements, and the very gutters ran with gore. 'Within twenty feet of the muzzles of the musket, with upturned countenance, over which the gray color of death was stealing, lay a well dressed man, with blood pouring from his breast. Jnst beyond him lay another, dead. In front of a liquor store, whence shots were fired at the soldiers, lay half a score of disfigured bodies. - One man with his face all shot away was rolling from side to side in speechless, dying agony. Near him were two others'with their brains protruding from shot holes in their heads. Not far away a confused heap of female apparel marked a woman shot throngh the head and body. She bad partly fallen upon two men who lay near Her. his leg, by t a misstep, at his residence, near that city, Wednesday night. Mr. Josiah Flournoy, who was superintendent for Wilkins & Bro., in the construction of the Macon and Augusta Bailroad bridge over the Ocmulgee River, at this place, has been chosen constructing engineer for the Columbus and Borne Bailroad. We quote as follows from the Columbus En quirer, of Thursday: “Look Oct fob the Engine.”—The contract for building the first twenty miles from Colum bus of the North and South Railroad was yes ierdayletto A. J. Lane & Co. and John T. Grant A Co., two of the wealthiest and most go-ahe'ad firms in tho Sonth; The work to be done embraces road-bed and entire superstruc ture necessary for the running of trains. Work will be commenced in twe*nty days, and the road in running condition in less than twelve months. Atleast five hundred hands are to be employed. The three foot gauge was adopted; which, in the estimation of great railroad men, will result in the completion of tho entire line to Chattanooga in two years, and insnro a pay ing investment. The subscriptions of Harris, Tronp, Heard and Romo having completed the capital stock, required by the charter for organ ization, a meeting of stockholders will bo called within the next thirty days for permanent or ganization. As soon as the necessary profiles can bp furnished by the Chief Engineer, another twenty miles, extending sonthward from Rome, will be put under contract. Thus, the road has been pressed to its present favorable condition by the corporators, who, under the charter, are clothed with the powers of directors,, until the regular organization can to effected. Tho first ten miles have been located, and as tho other ten will depend upon the corporative subscrip tions of the Hamilton and Whitesville lines, onr Harris county friends should be up and do ing with all possible dispatch. Two ice' cream merchants of the off color, down at Savannah, had an argument on the law pf partnership, last Wednesday, which wasfinally decided by one of them being scientifically sliced with a razor by the other. The Constitutionalist, of Thursday, furnishes us the following items: Desteuctive Fiee.—Tho dwelling of Mr. Hezekiah Williams, on tho Waynesboro’ road, seventeen miles below Augusta', was entirely consumed, together with its contents, by fire last Tuesday momiDg, about 1 o’clock. Mr. Wil liams was awakened by a roaring noise, and glancing around, discovered that tho honso was in flames. So far had the devouring element progressed that the family barely had time to escape, minus everything bnt the night clothing they had on. Everything was completely de stroyed, and Mr. Williams left without homo, furniture or clothing. It was a most terrible calamity to Mr. Williams^ who is an industrious man, and one of the most esteemed citizens of Richmond county. The origin of the firo is a3 yet unknown. Sad Occubkence—A Noble Bov.—A very sad accident ocourred in tho village of Granitcville yesterday. A little girl, the daughter of Mr. JohnL. Atkinson, while attempting to cross the trestle of the Charlotte, Columbia and Au gusta Railroad over the Graniteville Canal, fell in. A small boy, only ten or twelve years of age, named Dempsey Gilliland, saw tho child when she fell and immediately leaped into tho canal to her rescue. The gallant little hero, though ho was only a few yoara tho senior of the girl, and of a very delicate organization, succeeded in swimming with her nearly to the bank, when her struggles and convulsive grasp caused him to sink with her, and they wore both drowned. A Chaftee of Accidents.—Tbo'Cartersville Express says T~*~~ Mr. Attaway of thi3 place was, a few evenings ago, very badly burned by a lamp explosion at his house. 8. H. Smith, ono of the editors of this paper, eame near having his house sot on firo on Tues day night last from the same cause (tho lamp falling and breaking.) His son Popo was slight ly burned on the logs. We further learn that in the neighborhood of Cassville, the house of Mr. Barrett was destroyed last woek from tho same cause, and that from injuries received daring tho fire an estimable lady, tho wire of one of our best citizens, came near losing her life. We see also stated that from another coal oil explosion at Chattanooga, Miss Lon King, of that city, lost her life—and yet tho oil sells. The stockholders of tho Augusta Savings Bank have reconsidered thoir intention to con vert that institution into a National Bank. The Chronicle and Sentinel gives the following rea son for the reconsideration Some misunderstanding with regard to the price to bo paid for the United States bonds, which the law reqniros to be deposited with the Treasurer, is said to have caused tho reconsid eration. It was generally believed that sub scriptions to tho new four per cent, government loan would be received at par, but jt turns ont that subscriptions are. received at par in gold onlv, or in other words, at a premium of twelve or thirteen cents on tho dollar. A free fight between some white men who were returning from a funeral at Savannah, on Wednesday, is the latest sensation down there. This shows how hot it is in that latitude. Major Thompson, of the Savannah News, though generally set down as hypercritical in the matter of his victuals and sleeping accom modations, is moved to speak these enthusias tic words about the Kimball House It is a very imposing structure, and it is bnt jnst to say that its internal arrangement, furni ture, fixtures and general fitting up are in per fect keeping with its external pretensiohs. It is, without doubt, in overy respect one of the most elegant and admirably arranged hotels in tho Union. It is also well kept by tho present lessee, and is a justly popular resort both of tho traveling public and pleasure seekers. As we viewed its spacious saloons, its elegantly fur nished parlors and chambers, its splendid mir rors and rioli carpets, tho luxury and elegance of its entire ontfit, wo thought how much, it must havo cost tho State to build and furnish such a princely establishment. Per private contract, wo advertise Bed Head as follows. But really he must do better, or we shall plead failure of contract and draw ont. Keep ice constantly on your, poll, Pinky, and nevor sav die: The Fastest Hobse.—At the Saratoga Kaces last Friday, the dispatch says Longfellow made the first mile inX40—tho best time ever made in this country. This must be a mistake, a cor respondent of the Commercial Advertiser says: “Longfellow lookB like an elongated Chatham square hack horse. His head ir homely iffid clumsily put in. He is not 17 hands high, as reported, but measures 16£. Color dark browD, stallion, aged fonr, sired by Leamington, dam Natnr&h by Brouner’s Eclipse. He starts off like “ a camel charged with electricity, but, by-and- ™ "by, when the electricity is gone, he settles into a steady, rolling gait. Then his strides become monstrous, and withon t apparent effort he shoots by everything on tho track. Longfellow has run six races, all of which he has worn Though, when he was a three-year-old, ho was beaten when sick by Enquirer. He .ran in Lexington, beating Pilgrim—time 1.37. From thero he went to Nashville, beating Morgan. Scout with out effort, and ran in Memphis, healing Mor gan Soout and John Morrissey’s Defender. He also ran in Cincinnati. At the Branch ho has just easily beaten Helmbold, Regards and Breakneck. Longfellow did 1.44 by Harper’s old silver watch this morning.” Longfellqw belongs to John Harper, a Ken tucky farmer and an octogenarian, who said to the correspondent that if Longfellow beat the race he should value tho Horse at $100,000. Ho hed been offered $60,000 qt Long Branch, and declined it. . ,1 r ‘ City Honey.—-Wo find tho following para graph in tho Americas Republican of Friday: Macon “Oily Council Money” is refused by the railroad agent at this place, and the city brokers only accept it at a discount. 'What’s tho matter? - Henby.Wasd Beechkb preached-the other Sunday from the text: “My soul cleaveth unto tho dust.” It certainly docs; and-Y-twenty- thousand-dollar salary is a pilo of, dust well werth cleaving to, too.—Courier~-JoumaL - Ailt.—A Philadelphia belle lately appeared at ,a ; Cjipe -'Icy ball in a dress all of whito lace made in Brussels, at aoostof $7,000. Shropshire wants to smoke tho calumet of peace with us, and instruct us in the scientific game of soven-np. This looks liko business. Beese, of the Macon Teleobaph, has this : ‘Tho Rev. C. W. Thomas, late of St. Phillip’s Church, Atlanta, is recubanssub tegmintpatulae fagion his farm, near Griffin.” Thero must be some mistake here. We don’t believe any preacher has come to that. He is not only re ported recubans, but also patulae fagi. Impos sible. ' It cannot be. Tho ambitions thermometers of Brunswick mounted to one hundred and two last Sunday. This is pretty tight papers on n village that is aspiring for the foreign shingle trade. Bamesville is bnilding a $10,000 Methodist Church. Dennis M. Myers died at Atlanta, Thursday afternoon, after an illness of only ono hour's du ration. - Good rod wheat is selling in Eomo at from $170 to $175 por bushel. New clover hay, not thoroughly cured, at $1 per hundred. Captain John Towns, for 22 years a citizen of Murray county, died IsiA week, aged 87 years. Says the Dalton Citizen, of yesterday: Tho cattle in Catoosa county are dying with murrain. Quito a nnmber . have died in and around Dalton, since onr last issue, with the same disease. Tho sweet potatoe crop in this county is very largo, and promises an abundant yield. The corn crop, generally, is looking very well. The oats crop has turned out a much belter , yield than was anticipated. Wo clip as follows from the Griffin Georgian, of yesterday: The Chops.—Notwithstanding the excessive wet weather in the early part of tho season, and the need of rain now in some localities, corn continues to look green and prosperous, and bids fair to turn out a handsome yield. A few more timely nhowers will result in tho largest com crop made in this section since the war. While cotton has been kept ba;k in con- seqnenco of the large amount of rain, and the almost impossibility of keeping it dean, the very favorable weather for the last ten or fifteen days haerproduoed a wonderful chango in the weed,’and the prospects are now that a much better crop will be made than was at first antic ipated. Amongst those who are here, are Major Davis and family, Dr. Macon and family, Mrs. Gilbert and others from Albany. Also CoL Bates and family, Mrs. McDonald and family, Captain David Clark, Capt. Farley, and probably some others from Savannah. The Constitution, of yesterday, stands cred ited with these items: Negbo Suffocated.—A colored well-digger was suffooated by the foul gas in a well on the premises of Mr. Hays, some five or six miles from the city, in the Holbrook settlement, on Wednesday. His remains had not been taken out of the well yesterday. Homicide.—Wo learn that on Wednesday night the son of Mr. Henry Irby, at Buck-Head, was shot in the head and instantly killed by carpenter engaged in erecting a house for Mr. Irby. Young Irby who was killed, was about 21 or 22 years of age. We Lave not ascertained the origin of the difficulty. Coup de Bolikl.—A negro man engaged in working on a new honso going up for CoL J. 1 Robinson, died yesterday from the effects of sun stroke on Saturday. A white man whose name we could not loam, also died yesterday from tbe effects of a sun stroke on Wednesday. That last paragraph shows what a cool plaoe Atlanta is. A few more oases of sunstroke, and in ro put at ion ns “a snmmc-r resort” will be fully established. Mi3s Mary Cargill, a very popular young lady of Oolnmbns, died last Thursday. On Monday last the town of Madison voted, by 106 to 2, to subscribe §20,000 to the Griffin and Madison Railway. A “traction road engine,” tho first ever brought to this sootion, arrived at Bavannah last Tuesday. It was built at Paterson, N. J. at a cost of §5000, for the Central Bailroad, and will bo used for hauling logs for milling pur poses at No. 9 on that road. -.It is eight horse power, weighs five tons, and will haul fifteen tons with ease. It has fixtures for eight plow shares, and can plow, thresh rice, cut wood, or do any kind of work that can be done by the plication of steam power. Tho noted desperado, William Oxford, was taken from Augusta to Washington county, for trial, on Thursday. The Savannah News, of Friday, quotes the following Western Press dispatch relative to the defalcation in the Savannah Custom House Custom House Defalcations. — For some time past tho Treasury Department has had reason to suspect that the affaire of the Savan nah, Georgia, Custom House were not being conducted altogether satisfactory, andconelud eel to set a watch upon proceedings. Reports received here charge that a defalcation has been discovered amounting to §27,000, §8,000 of which are covered by faWe vouchers, and the balance by extra charges for lights, fuel and other matters not authorized By law. The Col lector’s bondsmen are understood to. be Govern or lteed, of Florida; Governor Bullock, of Georgia; Ephraim Tweedy, of Augusta, .Geor gia, and General Littlefield, of North Carolina, and ono other party of Ohio, whose name is not known. It. is understood that a prominent party of Savannah is now on North for the pur pose of raising funds to cover the default > Apropos to tho above, tho Washington Re publican says: The case of Wellman, charged with a defal cation of $11,000 in tho Savannah custom honso, will be taken up by Secretary Boutwell on his return. Tho Department exonerates Collector Robb of dishonesty, and believes that the abstraction was done entirely by Deputy Collector Wellman, though Collector Robb, it is asserted, was very lax in allowing Wellman entire control of business with only nominal suporvbion. Tho friends of Wellman aro en deavoring to raise money to make his defalca tion good.^MppBBl Tho Nows, in another paragraph, states that Bobb, the present collector, says the defalca tion occurred daring Ex-P. G. Jas. Johnson’s administration, and that it then amounted to $17,-000. The News also says the rumor is that there, will aq ASAiixxi ulltmgw iu Hwvffl" cials of that institution. Tho steamship General Barnes, that sailed from Savannah to New York, on Thursday, car ried 10,342 watermelons as part of her cargo. There were three sadden deaths at Savannah, Thursday—Messrs Thos. Shea, a well known painter, John Sherlock, formerly a dry goods merchant, and Wm. A. Baker, bar keeper. Smith, the negro leader of the black Ku-klnx who attacked the house of Angus Bed, on Beach Island, Sonth Carolina, killing a whito man named Low and wounding two white women, a week or two sinoe, was delivered up to the South Carolina authorities by the Augusta po-. lice, Thursday evening. Three more prisoners esoaped from Houston county jail, last Friday morning jnst before daylight—Phil Lampkin, and Dan Miller and wife. The people down there speak of shutting np prisoners in a ten aore lot with a six rail fence, for safe keeping, hereafter. Dawson “bets her pile” on a poplar tree nineteen feet in ciroumferonce, and .a ’aimmon sapling two foet in diameter. Squire Aiken and Jerry Dixon, two suffrage slingers of the charcoal strata, retired in good order from the Americas jail, last Tuesday night. Bonllv, of tho Lawrencoville Atlas, has seen a rattlesnake 54 feet long minns its head, and measuring ,13 inches round, whioh was killed by Mrs. John B. Robinson, of that connty, with ahoo, a few days since. But the Quitman Banner tramps Bonlly’s trick with a snake six feet long, and B. is now hunting for a seven footer. The stand of 15th Amendments-, down in Brook3 connty is being thinned ont. Andrew Jackson persuaded Boss Johnson into a coffin with a dirk, and another darkey named White did likewise to a fellow loylist, with a gun, one day last week. Tho editor of the-Qoitman Banner don’t know the. difference between, the bnd from a Catalpa bush and a cotton.bol), and the planters around there are having dead loads of fan ont of him. The hog crop of • Brooks connty is being de stroyed by cholera. <v V ' _ . ' - During a heavy storm, at Greensboro, last Thursday, the Episcopal church and several other bnilding were struck by lightning. Tho Washington Gazette thinks Wilkes coun ty will make two-thirds of a cotton crop, and with one more season so much corn, that fann ers “will pnv to have the surplus hauled off out of their way.” Tho Atlanta street railway is progressing 'MqpUDjyr £ ‘ > — A ' V i ‘ \ The dwelling house of Mr. Parker, on Hun ter street, Atlanta, was, with its oontents, burned yesterday morning. Tho Era nays tho Episcopal congregation of Atlanta, will soon call Rev. Robert Elliott— son cf the lato Bishop—to tho rectorship of thel’r.chureh.- : ~ Jr r*... ...- . ' JiU.t Tho Era makes this mention of a new Epis copal church edifice which it is proposed to build in (hat city: - Anolhor ornament to the city will be the new Episcopal Church, drawingsfor which have been made by the same gentlemen. The present plan carried out will bo novel in design and prove a magnificent edifico. Whether it will successfully rival the Roman Catholic Church la a question iihich wo presume can cnly be decided by the congregation. If the proposed plans are oarried out, wo. think it will be a model church in the land. It is proposed to seat from 800 to 1,000 people, according as galleries are added or omit ted. Tho style will probably jie the perpendicular gothic, which is at once substantia), light and or namental. Tho church Is cruciform in- shape. On the left, looking towards the altar, will be tho pastor's vestry. On tbe left, in the oppoaite space, tho organ and choir. The committee, so far, who have examined the plans, approve of them, and we.hope they will be adopted. It is proposed to erect this church on the lot oppo site tho City Hall. The estimated coet wul be from $50,000 to §60,000. It is proposed to floor with marble. In fact, if the plans are car ried out it will be a beautiful church, and a credit to the congregation. Dec to Ions of the Supreme Coart of —' ■ .-—Georgia. DELIVEBED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JULY Tl, 1871 From the Atlanta Constitution] W. A. Smith and J. W. Looper, vs. Wm. L. Byers et al. Hlegolity, from Dawson. MoOay, J.—1. A judgment in Equity direct ing the removal of trustees for mal-admilustra tion, and that they pay a certain amount into the hands of a receiver, that it may go into the hands of a new trustee to be managed according to the terms of the trust, is not such a debt as the plaintiffs in the bill, the beneficiaries, are bound to pay taxes upon. 2. A judgment of a court of competent juris diction, is conclusive, between the same parties, as to all matters at issne, and when executors are removed, under a judgment, from their trust, for waste and mismanagement, they can not, under the Relief Aet of 1870, deny that they have, mismanaged their trust Judgment affirmed, with damages. H. L. Smith, J. N. Dorsey, Wier Boyd, for plaintiffs in error. H. E. Bell, Geo. D. Rico, for defendants. Thomas A. Parsons vs. The State. Larceny, from Lanrens. McCay, J.—The rule that a conviction cannot bo had on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice alone, only applies to cases of felo nies. In misdemeanors, the complicity of the witness goes to his credit, and the jury me to judge of his credibility from all the facts and circumstances as in the case of other witnesses. 2. Under tho whole facts of t LL case we affirm the judgment refusing anew trial. Judgment affirmed. Rollin A. Stanley, Jno. T. Shnmate, Hansell & Hansell, tor plaintiff in error. W. B. Bennett, Solicitor General, for the State. 1 . . z- Nicholas Gruger vs. O. M. Clarke. Motion for new trial, from Dougherty. McCay, J.—When a question of fact, has been folly submitted to a jury, who haye found a verdict, and the judge below refuses a new trial, this oonrt will not reverse. the judgment unless there be a very strong case against the verdict. ' ... - Judgment affirmed. Smith & Jones, Hines & Hobbs, for plaintiff. D. H. Pope, for defendant John F. Cargile, administrator, vs. Abner P. Belcher, administrator. Motion for new trial, from Dougherty. McGay, J.—When a promissory note was given during the late war for §4,500, due one year after date, upon which $2,800 was paid at maturity, in Confederate money, leaving due $700, and the jury, on suit brought for the balance, found for the plaintiff §38 22, and the Judge granted a new trial on the gronnd that the jury had not found according to the equities between the parties, under the facts of the case: Held, That this was no abnse of the discre tion vested, by law, in the Judge, and this Court will not reverse the judgment. Judgment affirmed. Vason & Davis, for plaintiff in error. •- ' Wm. E. Smith, for defendant. Lester & Lester vs. John M. Fowler et al. Certiorari from Forsyth. Waknes, J.—A suit was brought in a Justice’s Court on a note for twenty dollars made by the defendants, payable to the plaintiffs, and on the trial the Justice allowed the defendants to prove that the conditions of tho contract were “that the plaintiffs were to clear the de fendants of the charge for which they were in dicted, or they were to have nothing,” which evidence was objected to by the plaintiffs on the ground that it contradicted the note, which was the best evidence of the contract between the parties. The case having been carried up to the Superior Court by writ of certiorari, the court affirmed the ruling of the Justice, and dismissed the same: Held, That the admission of the parol evi dence by tho Justice to contradict tho note, and prove conditions not expressed therein, was error, and that the court below erred in not sus taining the plaintiffs’ certiorari and ordering a new trial in the Justice’s Court. Judgment reversed. H. B. Bell, for plaintiffs in error. H. L. Patterson, for defendants. Dougherty. ^ ns ™ L Trorer, .. J - —This wm an action brouc the plaintiff agamet the defendant, as » housenun, to reeover the value of fifL bales of ootton, which the plaintiff aiW add and converted by the defendant, ion to hi* instructions, and without Ms authi The evidence on tbi* point in the ease wm , flicting. The jury found a verdietforffiej fendant, and the plaintiff made a motions new trial on several gronndu, which was J“7 the court, and the defendant exoetv HM, That taking the whole charge of Court to.the jury as to the defendant’s li»t ty, under the law applicable to the facta of case, as disclosed by the record, there ra- error m that charge: Held, further That although there mav h* been a preponderance of evidence on the « of the plaintiff; still, it was a question f 0 72 jury to determine as to the credibility weight, which they would give to the evldeS of **“® respective witnesses sworn in the ea* and there being sufficient evidence to snSS the verdict, this Court will not disturbit! This is a Court alone for the correction of errors, and* will not usurp the function? the juries of the country, in deciding upon t wdght and credit, to which the testimony* witnesses sworn on the trial are entitled ton. ceive, m determining questions of fact, no rule of law has been violated, and this * have earnestly endeavored to impress on tb minds of parties, and their -counsel, by the peated rulings of tho Court. ^ Judgment affirmed! Wm. E. Smith, H. Morgan, for plaintiff i- error. u “ Vason & Pavia, R. F. Lyon, for defendant. Sa « Punishment for Crime, Editors Telegraph and Messenger •—A\i 0 » me space to call tho attention of the public ac ; especially of the members of the next Legiak ture,_to (hat part of our State Cousiitutioa pro. hibiting whipping as a punishment for crits* The pernicious effect of that short sentence a.* becoming more and more apparent. The pec pie know the oiroumstanoes under which i- crept into that instrument. The sentimetl Which prompted it was imported, but it hi been cultivated in Georgia tiH it has well ah' ruined the prosperity of the State. People S actually unwilling to see crime punished, be cause it shocks the community, when, indeed, a shock is just what the commnnity needs. It' like thunder in the atmosphere—tending to rify and keep it healthy. Are the sensibilities of the people so delicti that they cannot bear the infliction of corpoi punishment on violators of the law ? Let tiu learn a lesson from the bible and from the natnkj law of creation. If h man persists in.violating the rules of. health, if he swallows poison/or opens an artery he dies. He may be a good and great man but this will not save him, and the| knowledge that this broken law is merciless and inexorable is what keeps the people in check! “The soul that sinneth shall die.” The modenl Equity Stephen Cantrell vs. Ja3, M. Cobb, from Dawson. . P TVAitNEiij' J.—A~biIT was Hied to set aside an award of the arbitrators on the gronnd of a “legal accident,” without stating in what par ticular that legal accident occurred, and pray ing for an injunction to restrain the collection of thepureba-e money due for a tract of land sold by the defendant to the complainant, of which the latter was in possession under a war ranty deed of title made by the defendant, on the gronnd that the complainant has good rea son, and does verily fear, that the titles and warranty to at least a portion of the land will fail, because a suit has been instituted on the equity side of the oonrt against the defendant and other parties in relation to the division of the land, and that the defendant is a non-resi dent of the State. Thera was a demurrer to the bill for want of eqnity and a motion to dissolve the injunction on the filing of the defendant’s answer, both of which were overruled by the court below, and the defendant excepted. Held, That the allegation in complainant’s bill that the award complained of, which had been made the judgment of the Supreme Court, was a “legal accident,” without more, was not sufficient in law to set aside the award. Held further, That a court of equity will not enjoin the vendor of a tract of land from the collection of the purchase money dae therefor by the vendee when the latter is in possession of the land, on the ground of a bare fear of a failure of the vendor’s title, the complainant mu3t allege such facts in his bill as will affirm atively show such a prior incumbrance, or out standing titles as will defeat the vendor’s title under whioh the vendee holds possession of the land, and that the court below erred in not sus taining the demurer, to the complainant’s bill and in refusing to dissolve the injunction. Judgment reversed. H. P. Bell, for plaintiff in error. Weir Boyd, M. L. Smith, for defendant. J. Wallers vs.'B. R. Croasdale. Complaint, from Dougherty: - . •. • Wasneb, J.—This was an action brought by the plaintiff on a promissory note for $244 83 against the defendant, who plead in defense thereof, that the note was given for a commer cial fertilizer, known in..the market as “Croas- dale’s Superphosphate of Lime,” and that the article purchased was of no value as a fertilizer, and that the consideration for which , the note given had failed. There was evidence on both sides as to the value of f this fertilizer by those who had used it on their land, the defendant swearing that it was of no valne to him. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. The de fendant made a motion for a new trial, on gene ral grounds, as set forth in the record, which was overruled by the Court, and the defendant excepted: :• Held, That the plaintiff warranted the article sold to be a merchantable, article, and reason ably suited to the use intended, and that there is sufficient evidenoe in the record to sustain the verdiot of the jury on that point in the case. There was no error in the Court in ruling out the copy letter of Adelbery A Ramond to Stone, Parmalee A Co., nnder the statement of the facts contained in the record, or in admitting the evidenoe of Gann A Knott and Zeilin, or in overruling the motion for a new trial. Judgment affirmed. Wm. E. Smith for plaintiff in error. Hines A Hobbs for defendant Nelson Tift vs. D. P. Still, Administrator. Equity, from Dougherty. ' Washes, J.—This is a bill filed by the admin istrator of Davis to set aside a Sheriff’s sale of eity lot in the city of Albany, on the ground that the consideration of the debt on whioh the adgment was rendered, was a slave or slaves. I [t does not appear on the face of the judgment, or the execution, that the original considera tion of the debt on which the judgment was rendered* was for slaves. The judgment was obtained on the 24th of November, 1864. The lot was sold by the Sheriff on the 5th day of January, 1869, and purchased by. the defend ant, Tift, for the sum of $250 00. The prayer of the bill is, that the Sheriff’ sale be set aside and the purchaser’s title to the lot be declared void. The defendants demurred to the bill for want of equity, which was overruled by the oonrt, and the defendants excepted: Held, That the sale made by the sheriff under judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, and an execution regular upon its face at the time, and the same not being a void judgment, the purchaser at the sheriff’s sale who paid his money for the lot, acquired a valid title thereto under that sale, as against tbe defendant in that judgment and his legal representatives, and that the oonrt below arrad in overruling the de murrer to the oomplainant’s bilL Judgment reversed. Hinee A Hobbs, for plaintiff in error. Vaaon A Davis, for defendant. philanthropist would say that this law was tod rigorous and would recoil from its execution ^ but God, who is wiser than man, knows that! nothing bnt a strict law and its strict enforce.; meat will restrain the evil propensities of oml nature, and he does not withhold the penalty c: account of sympathy for those on whom it is about to fall. Public opiniofl has practically abolished' capital punishment, and the result may be seen in the freqnent crimes that are committed all over the world. Ifthehangin: law was enforoed, socioty would now and then lose a desperate character who could well be spared, and for every one of them it would save ten who now die by the hands of violence, anj many of whom are good citizens. Andres Johnston never spoke more truly than when he said: “Mercy to individuals is death to States." If the law is right and the guilt unquestioned and deliberate, there should be no mercy. Tho more appalling and certain the oonsequenees oi gnilt, the better for ns all. Punishment was not designed to be either pleasant, or honorable. Taka away the disgrace and the smart of the law’s sanction and you emasculate it. Since the lash has been abolished there is no satiable punishment for a majority of criminals, and tho judges feel it at every Bession of their | courts. Our jails aro filled with offenders, and the trial of these consumes the time of the court to the exclusion of civil business. They are generally without pride and without charac ter—unable to pay a fine and to whom impris onment would bo only a means of living in idle ness at the expense of tho honest and law-abid ing portion of our community. Such characters are the pests of society. They care nothing for imprisonment, and their families and the public treasury are the only sufferers by it. The an noyance, delay and expense of a trial prevent a large majority of cases from being prosecuted. Nobody thinksofpros8cntingtheroguewhosteal3 his peaches, watermelons or green com. The county cannot afford to punish such and, con sequently, there iff no security for this kind of property. Many other misdemeanors go un punished for the same reason. This is a serious matter to a people who cannot, like the writer, pnt all they have nnder lock and key. The Leg islature have tried to core the evil by a multi plication of courts for the trial of petty offences; bnt each of them in its turn has proved a fail ure. And so it will ever be, until power is given to the oourts to infliot some penalty which can be felt. If a man is not too good to steal he is not too good to be whipped. * Let the next Legislature pass an act amend ing the Constitution so as to allow whipping when necessary. A subsequent legislature and a ratification by the people can complete the change. This is a slow prooes3, bnt perhaps it is better than to oall a convention. The neces sities of the times demand this change. Then, if a petty offender should be deteoted in violat ing the law, the'injured party could allow him to ohoose between a moderate chastisement and a porse cation. This might be done under the present law, since no one can complain of an injury inflicted by his own consent on himself, bnt the people are not willing to risk it nnder the constitution as it now stands. This practice would afford cheap and speedy justice to many whose families cannot afford for them to lie in jail, and I have known offenders to beg for it, rather than submit to a trial. The party in flicting the punishment should of course be held strictly accountable for any abuse of his power. In practice there would bo no difficulty on this point,' as the parties oould agree beforehand on the kind and degree of the punishment. If the guilty one should refuse to submit to corporal punishment, then be would be tried, and upon conviction, if unable to pay a fine, whipped. The Legislature could extend this penalty to sucb crimes only as involve moral turpitude, and the jndge should have some discretion about it It should be inflicted only on that hardened class who aro insensible to any' other punish ment. All colors should be alike subject to it. A good judge could always determine in what cases it would be proper, and there is no danger of an abuse of the power. No good citizen will be whipped. Popular opinion will always direct the Court in such matters, and a jury of twelve men, in addition to the pardoning power, will be between the judge and the accused. The community can well afford to risk this much in the hands of a judge for the benefit which would result from it. Obdeb. he Crops In FlorlUa. From the Floridian of Wednesday we quote the following orop report for that State: The Chops.—we can say very little good oi the growing crops. On some plantations cotton is looking fair, while on others it is grassy and udpromising. The rains have been so heavy and continuous as to demand a heavy struggle with grass. • We heard a gentleman remark last week that ha had rarely seen so little fruit on cotton as now. This is particularly true as to late cotton, bnt tbe earlier gives more promise. There is no doubt as compared with last year that the depreciation is at least 25 per cent, if not more. On the flat lands everywhere in the State, the weed is well nigh drowned out. Nor is the com orop promising. On the higher lands, where it has been well worked, there.wil- be folly an average yield; but where there has been a failure to work it, very little will be made. A farmer from Miceosukie informs ns that on the line of the road from that neighbor hood to Thomasville there are hundreds of acres which will not yield half a bushel tl the a ere. Grass is to be seen everywhere, tbe stalks spindling and burned to the very tassel. There is a great deal of “come out” in cotton, but none for com after this time of year. What is not made now is beyond recovery. Came eon prints a manifesto iu a - Harrisburg paper saying he is no candidate for \ ice Presi dent. The great point is to re-elect that “hon est, capable, straightforward, inflexible, and brave chieftain,” Grant. •• <--7 Pas&enokes bound Northward will please note the advertised schedule of the Macon and Au- gista Road. - The victims of the New York riot, up to Fri day noon, numbered 58. What a foolish waste of human life! 1