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The Grcoriria W'eekly Teleyra-pli and. Journal & Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, JULY 25, 1871. Georclii Practical Business College. This instiir tioD, which is located in our city with B. B. Easton, Esq., a? President, enjoys deserved and increasing favor thronghont the State. As a business school for'young men pre paring to enter npon the practical duties of life, it is inval cable. Here, too, the regnlar graduate, after leaving oollege, will derive incalculable benefit by familiarizing himself with the science of accounts and book-keeping, and thus acquire method and system in all the after concerns of life. From Mr. Easton we learn that Atlanta, trno to her gobbling instincts, through a rival institu tion, claiming falsely to be a branch of a Commercial College of note in Poughkeepsie, has sought to entice away his students, “through private notes endorsed in a fictitious style to avoid detection.” Happily, the fraud was ex posed, however, by Mr. Eastman, the President of. the college referred to, as his.published state ment mest fully shows. These underhanded efforts must recoil npon their anthors. Our Macon college is emphatically Southern in its inoeption and management, and does not seek to borrow fame from Yankeeland. Each department is presided over by a competent head, and as there are no vacations, students can enter at any time. No better institution of the kind can be fonnd at the South. “A Ku-Hlnx Lawyer.” Wo notice in the Richmond Dispatch and the Savannah News, of late dates, and under the above head, a highly colored account of the re- cent diffionlty in a United States Court Room in Mississippi, wherein Colonel L. Q. C. Lamar, formerly of this State, was a prominent actor. The account in question is, we understand, taken from a dirty scallawag sheet published at Holly Springs, and characteristically, and as a mutter of course, does Colonel L. great injus tice-representing him as acting entirely at va riance with all his instincts and antecedents, both as a gentleman and a lawyer. It seems to os that Southern newspapers should exercise more caution in making even news selections from the things called Southern Republican journals, especially when they are, as in this case, palpably intended, to slander snch a man as Colonel Lamar. Maboh op urn Cnor.niu.—The cholera is moving from the Orient towards western civili zation, much as it did thirty years ago. To-day, it is reported as raging terribly in Persia, while it has also appeared in Poland. Thirty years ago it swept through the east end then advanced npon Russia, attended with fearful mortality. It reached the American continent in 1882 and spread all over the country, the emissary of terror and death. The frosts of winter do not stay it, Iiko other epidemics. It is to be fr.nght mainly by the removal of all causes of disease— by rigid porsonal and public cleanliness, and a good, healthy and nutritious diet for the poor. Filth and scanty food aro its potent adjuncts. We believe the cholera has never prevailed to any extent in the pure regions of the Southern States. A Knotty Question.—Ono of the oldest ques tions ever submitted to lawyers is now puzzling those of Hartford, Conn. It seems that a man who recently died there left a widow, childless, but expecting shortly to become a mother. By his will he provided that if the oxpected child should prove to bo a boy two-thirds of the pro perty should go to him, and one-third to the widowed mother. If, however,’the child proved to be a girl only one-third of the estate was to go toherand two-thirds to the mother. The result, of course, was awaited with an interest even greater than that usually bestowed npon such events. The result is—the widow has become the mother of t^iiis—a boy and a girl. Concert at Reynolds, Taylor County.—We are asked to say that the ladies of the Metho dist churob, at Reynolds, will give a concert for the benefit of the church next Thursday night, and to add a good word for it. Well, we say it is “a new departure,’’ in an eminently worthy direction, and that every man, woman and child in the neighborhood ought to do one of two things: Either attend in person, or send their money. People never are too poor, in reality, to help the cause of religion, and we hope the nett profits of tho concert will show that the Lord loves lots of people down there. Affecting.—-The other day an Irish gar dener at Mopnt Vernon, observed a transcen dental lady from tho Hob weeping bitterly and audibly with her handkerchief to her eyes. With true Hibernian politeness he accosted her and asked the cau& of her violent grief. “Ah,” said she, “how can any patriotic American wo man look upon tho tomb of the Father of her country, and not pour out her soul in an ag ony of sorrow?” “Faith, Madame,”eaid he, “that’s not the tomb—it’s but the family ice Louse yo see.” - : • Liverpool Cotton Figures.—Friday’’q report for the week came to hand yesterday noon. The market had fully recovered the decline of the week and advanoed an eighth over the previous Friday’s quotations, which were 9d for uplands and 9Jd for Orleans. The sales of the morning were 20,000 bales, of which ten thousand were taken on speculation. Sales of the week 09,000 bales.—Stock 000,000—precisely the same as last week. No report of cotton afloat. Stock ol American cotton in Liverpool 385,000 bales. A Terrible Falliko Off.—It is authorita tively announced that in England a majority of the clergy of the Established Church give their adhesion to the doctrines of modern geologists who boldly assert that the world was not made out of nothing in six days. This is a terrible falling off from the good old days of theology, when heretical scientists were very properly and conservatively oxodized at the stake. Deadly Assault on Mormon Faith.—The World says the Chicago Common Council arc going in a body to spend the month of August at Salt Lake. It is understood that their pur pose is to strike a decisive blow at polygamy, by distributing Chicago divorces among tho Mor mons. At the usual fee of 50 cents apiece they expect to pay their travelling expenses and real ize a handsome profit. Louis Blano, replying to some taunts of sym pathy with the Communists, said: “The Com munists wero the most infamous scoundrels ever yomited’npon the earth from the basement story of helL” White will get out of that, by-and-by, by saying that he don’t believe in any snob place and therefore meant nothing by the declaration. Accident at Forsyth.—We learn that a man from Atlanta whose name our informant conld not give us, while repairing the gable endof the newMftho&st Church, at Forsyth, yesterday fell from tho scaffolding to the ground, and was, it is feared, fatally injured. A Hot Puce.—At Denver City, in Colorado last Saturday, the mercury stood at noon in the shade 110, and in tho evening 105. We do not believe they have had hotter weather than that in Atlanta.. «• Monro* Female College begins its next an nual session Monday, August 7th. Forsyth is so breezy and blowsy they pay no attention ’to dog days in that looalily. We need not say tho College is a first class institution. A Crisis in North Carolina.. On Tuesday, the 1st day of August, North Carolina holds an elect ion to determine whether or no a Govention of the people shall be held to amend the Constitution in certain particulars specified in the act providing for the election. The existing Constitution, which was the work of carpet-bag and negro politicians, provides that such a Convention can only be called by vote of two-thirds' of each House of tho Legis lature. At the last session of the North Caro lina General Assembly the Democrats, -though in heavy majority, did not hold two-thirds of either House. They, therefore, in order to ef fect certain constitutional amendments which they deemed indispensable to the safety and welfare of the State, determined to resort to the primary source of all political power, and obtain from the people themselves by an election,under statute enacted for that purpose, a call for a constitutional convention. We apprehend there can .be no reasonable question of their right to do it. The constitu tion itself, is, at best, but the creatnre of the people, and a solemn affirmation by a majority of the people, under the sanctions of the law, that they desired to amend-or to make anew one, would be conclusive against the conflicting provisions of the old constitution. The people cannot bind themselves, as against themselves merely—no more than one Legislature can bind another where the lights of no third parties ore involved. The tax-payers of North Carolina felt im pelled to this movement in order to save them selves from impending ruin. Under this con stitution and its carpet-bag administrators, the State debt has been increased from fourteen millions to nearly forty millions of doliara—for which there is literally nothing to show—not even the ill-constructed and non-paying rail ways which are to be found in some of the other “ reconstructed States.” The money has been simply stolen. The civil list of the State for ordinary expenses has been swollen four hundred per centum on ante-bellum cost, and taxation must be levied, if the provisions of this constitution are carried out, so os to raise a yearly revenue of four to five millions of dollars. Now, on the other hand, the carpet-bag Lieut. Governor of the State, backed by all his party, declares the movement for a convention revo lutionary, and having exhausted all means to de feat it at the polls, will appeal to the Federal Government. What the course of the Federal Government is likely to b@, under the adminis tration of Grant, has been foreshadowed by Attorney General Akerman; in his speech on the 16th. Bad as the case of the North Carolinians now is—(and it is simply naked robbery of the prop erty holders through the instrumentality of vagabond negroes and whites controlled by Northern adventurers,) it is not impossible that it may be made mnch worse by this un timely movement. It is akin to the Georgia movement-disfranchising the negroes. Noth ing is gained by making battle where ultimate defeat is certain. The impeachment of the in famous Holden, though due to justice, it seems to us was another misstep. Nothing was gained by it. It devolved the Governorship on Cald well, who i3 no better than Holden, and it has been made a now pretext for harrying tho State with still greater venom. The Southern tax payers should never forget that they are in the hands of their enemies, who seek only occa sions and excuses to do them harm. The only hope of tho Southern people is to wait with pa tience tho revival of better feelings and sounder opinions in the dominant States. Until then, the effort to redress themselves only hinders reaction, and increases their miseries. They cannot well move with too great circumspec tion. They cannot be too caref nl to keep with in the clear and indisputable boundaries of law and civil and political order. They cannot be too cautions to give their enemies no occa sion against them. Rev. Jabez L. 91. Curry, LL. D. The successor elect of Dr. Tucker, the distinguished and popular President of Mercer University, is a gentleman of commanding elo quence and high literary attainments. Even as a student in Franklin College, where tho writer was intimately associated with him for three and a half years, hi3 early career gave grent promise of fnture eminence and usefulness. 'Possessing a fine imagination and ready flow of language, he was regarded as a leader in the Phi Kappa Society, at a period when oratorical distinction was more eagerly sought after than litorary honors. Graceful in delivery, and ele gant in diction, Mr. Carry’s speeches always commanded attention, and sometimes were splendid specimens of eloquence. His gradu ating address, based npon this melting conplet of the poet,— • •* “No moie, no more, eh never more on mo, The-fresliness of the heart can fall, like flow,” by its touching pathos, fervor, and beauty of conception, hushed into breathless silence the immense auditory which thronged the College chapeL It was said to have been a da'guerotype of the speaker’s own emotions and experience, viewed from the stand point of an escapade in love. " . In after years onr young hero quite recovered from this eclipse pf the soul, rose rapidly at the bar, and, entering the political arena became at once the favorite of the people of his seotion. Soon be was elected to the Federal Congress, where his eloquence andgenins commanded the admiration of the nation. At a period just pro ceeding the war, he'was justly considered the leader of his party in the House of Represents- lives. The records of Congress glow with his brilliant and patriotic appeals in behalf of Southern rights and institutions. Afterwards, Mr. Curry again represented Ala bama in the Confederate Congress, and daring the entire rebellion was a warm and consistent supporter of the South. When the war ended, disgusted with public life and its empty honors, he devoted himself to the serrioe of God, and was ordained a minis ter in the Baptist Church. His course aa a di vine, and subsequent election to the presidency of the colloge at Richmond, are well known to our readers. Every lover of education in Geor gia will unite in the wish, that Dr. Curry would respond favorably to the invitation of the Trus tees of Mercer University. Hisnamewonld be a tower of strength to the Institution, and his presence here exert a benignant influence upon our community.. Massacre ortho Indians In Arizona. A Washington correspondent of the World says that according to an official report from Lientenant Whiting, the Indian camp which was lately tho scene of wholesale massacre had been from last February under the protection of the United States military. Jt had been desig nated by the latter as a place of refuge for In dians desiring to live to peace with the United States, and about 510 occupied it, living on tbe most friendly terms with the garrison of the neighboring fort. ' " ^ On the morning of the 30th of April a band of citizens, from Tuscon, Arizona, without warning or provocation of ary kind, surprised the peaceful and unarmed camp, and began in discriminate butchery. Of 125 killed or miss-- ing, only eight were men. Many were wounded and the camp was entirely burned. Lieutenant Whitman had succeeded in getting some of the bands in again, and was again trying to protect them. General Crook has taken the field .in Ari zona against the Apaches. General Crook com mands in person, and will act in conjunction with the Mexioan troops in the State of Sonora. Tbe Antecedents of Km. Wbar ton, tbe Al iened Baltimore Borfia-Her Passion for ■ Dress—-Sbe Announces Her Intention to Murry One Kan and Bans Away Wlib Another—A Romantic Story. ' ‘,V_ The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, of a late date, haca long account of the antecedents and early life, in that city, of Mrs. Wharton, the alleged Baltimore poisoner, from which' we make the following synopsis: Her maiden name was Ellen Nugent, and she was born in Philadelphia about forty-five years ago, her father being a prominent and wealthy importer of that eity. She was educa ted at Bishop Deane’s Seminary at Burlington, New Jerey, and after graduating from that in stitution, soon became one of the belles of Philadelphia society. Her personal charms must have been very great at that period, as we are told, she was of slender and graceful, yet queenly bearing, with magnificent jet-black hair of unusual length, dark eyes, and fair complex ion. But those who knew her well say that that was the least of her attractions. It was her engaging manner, her winning ways, her dashing, inspiring disposition that bound cap tive at the chariot-wheel of Cnpid so many of her male acquaintances. One of her most noted characteristics that abont this time first began to attract attention, was an inordinate passion for dress which, as her father was well able to afford it, was grati fied to her utmost desire. He allowed her the pin money of a dutchess, bnt even thi3 did not suffice, and very soon he was called npon to pay bills amounting to thousands, which Bhe had contracted. Investigation showed that she had not spent the money npon herself, but that it had been laid ont in presents of lace, jewelry, eta, for her young friends. Nugent, pere, paid them of course, and equally, of course, forgave his beautiful idol. We come now to the most remarkable event of her early life. Ope day she announced to her father and friends that Bhe was soon to be married to a Mr. Williamson, who had, hereto fore, been regarded only in the light of a casual acquaintance. Their surprise was great, but no opposition was made, and on the appointed night a brilliant company assembled to witness the ceremony. The hour came, but no bride- groom. Midnight came, and he still tarried, and finally the guests dispersed.without seeing what they came to see. Her father of course immediately waited npon Mr. W. for an explan ation, and was told that he (Mr. W.) had not contracted the marriage, and knew Nothing whatever of it. Tins astounded Mr. Nugent, bnt subsequent investigation proved its correct ness, and after pondering the whole matter he conoluded that his daughter was insane and re solved to place her in an asylum. The night before she was to have been carried there, how ever, she eloped with Lt. Harry W. Wharton, and going to Philadelphia was there married to him. The Telegraph article concludes as follows: Tho runaway couple had not been long from home until they received assurance of for giveness, and returned to the house at Gulf Mills. They also, for a time, lived at Norris town, and in Philadelphia again. It wasn’t long after marriage until Mrs. Wharton was in financial difficulties again, which were again settled by her indulgent father. After this her husband, who was captain now, was stationed at Fort Kearney for some five or S9ven years. Mrs. Wharton accompanied him, as indeed she didin all Ms wanderings, even going down into Texas with him- on one occasion. While out upon tho plains tho eyesight of the captain had become defective, and he and his wife returned to Philadelphia again. At the breaking out of the war tho captain got a commission in a Delaware regiment, and eventually was appointed general disbursing agent, having his headquarters in Eutaw street, Baltimore, tight near-liio bouse in "Hamilton Place.” With the exception of a short time they lived in Washington, this was his home np to his mysterious death in 18G7. Card From Colonel Hardeman. Macon, Ga., July 21,1871. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: — I was surprised to see in your telegrams from Wash ington—as published in your issue of this date —that the Democratic members of the Con gressional Investigating. Committee were com plaining at the tardiness of some of the wit nesses from Georgia—myself ampng the num ber. I was summoned to appear on tho 7th of July, and requested to reply by telegram, which I did, stating sickness would detain me a day or two, bnt would report at any time thereafter. Four days thereafter 1 telegraphed the Sear- gent-at-Arms, from whom my summons came, I was ready to report, and from him received the following reply: OOFT. “Washington, July 12. “T. Hardeman, Jr.: Need not come—Com mittee have not time for more witnesses.” [Signed] Jno. R. French, 8g’t.-at-Arms, U. S. 8. I expected to^havo gone the next day, bnt this telegram, of oourse, prevented. I write this simply to says :I was ready and willing to report, and would have done so but for this tel egram, wMoh came, as I supposed, from the Committee, with tho knowledge of the Demo cratio members. I would infer from the tele gram this morning that they were ignorant of the same. Respectfully, T. Hardeman, Jr. P. S.—Since this card was handed us, Col. Hardeman has received another telegram from the Sergeant-at-Arms summoning him to'Wash- ington immediately, and he leaves for that city tMs afternoon at 5 o’clock. The Cotton Crop of 1870. The Fic&ynne of the 19tb, speaking of the crop grown in 1870, says it will be safo to count upon 4,000,000bales received at the ports. The overland shipments, too, have been uncommon ly large—100,000 bales having passed through Nashville on one road alone. The Picayune estimates the total at 320,000 bales. The Southern mills have also largely increased their consumption, which last year amounted to 79,- 843 bales. Upon these facts, the Ficaytme founds the following estimate of the crop Reoeipts at the ports ...4,000,000 Overland direct shipments.;...—. 320,000 Consumption of Southern mill3 «....100,000 Burnt, etc 10,000 Negro to the Rear. The Tribune calls upon the Southern negroeB to send the carpet-baggers to the rear. Tell them, says he, “Go back, you Thieves." But Greeley preaches in vain. The negroes won’t do it. Their faith fails them. They can’t re sist the cheek of the carpet-baggers. Here is an illustration of the fact given by the New Orleans Picayune, of last Wednesday. War- month had his foot hurt on the cars, if we re member rightly. Whisky too much, perhaps. He had gone to Pass Christian to give his foot the benefit of salt air. Dunn, the negro Lieu tenant Governor, saw it was a good chance to step into the executive office, and get eternally rid of Warmouth. He did so. He bursted the bolts of the exeoutive office and went in. He flung himself into the executive chair. He put his heels on the executive table. He took whisky toddy and a regalia from the executive lockup. He installed the Honorable Jimuel Dogfishskto, his private .Secretary, plumply in a chair beride himself, and the two 8tartod ont on the business of Governing Louisiana.;' But did he hold out ? Candor compels us to say he didn’t. His ignominious flight is thus chroni cled by the Picayune: The soene in the Governor’s office yesterday morning, on the sudden arrival of Got. War- month, is described by eye witnesses as having boen extremely comical. Aoting Governor Dunn had evidently no more thought of the ap pearance of Warmouth than he had of a visit from the man in the moon, and consequently when the door was flung open and the Governor stood revealed, leaning npon his crutches, with an arch smile playing around the corners of his tuiruiL, a., oauntenanca Dorm, aa ha' rose from his seat, was a study. To say that he was confused hardly expresses the fact, and this confusion wa3 doubtless heightened by the rapid exit through the rear door of the colored Secretary pro tem., who had hastily snatched a pile of papers that were lying on his dssk. The entrance of a mouser into a barn in which the mice were holding high revel conld scarcely have created greater consternation, and certainly no mouse ever exhibited greater agil ity even in the moment of supreme peril tb” did the little colored Secretary when he bol through that rear door, with Ms hands full of valuable documents. .... • Now here was acting Governor Dunn and his secretary actually running from the playful smile sardonio of a lame carpet-bagger on cratches. Why didn’t acting Governor Dunn straighten himself up—waive .his hand magis terially,and say in the language of the venerated Horace: “Go back, ye thief! Go back to the rear.” One reason might be that ho had not received this nnmber of the Tribune. At any rate, by slinking, away as he used to do in old times, when the overseer caught Mm baking potatoes in the field of a morning, or stealing cMckens, instead of attending to Ms work, a powerful melo-dramatio soene was lost to Ma lory. 1 *‘Go Back, You Thieves.” The venerable Horace Greeley, LL. D., in the New York Tribune of the 19 th, is ont in a very heavy pronuneiamento under the head of 11 The Thieving Carpet-Baggers." We have room only for his improvement of the subject in his concluding paragraph, in which he prao- tically calls npon the Southern Radical negroes to throw their white compatriots overboard. Will they do it? Will they come up to the front and make pure negro nominations throughout, and “send these villains to the rear.” That is the question: Will they respond— “We are coming, Father Greeley, Five hundred thousand etroug ?” Or are they going to permit these miserable wMto intriguants, to euchre them out of the offices again. That is the question. Horum, scarum divo question. Here is the Tribune’s solemnnposhophe: ' wJ - » ’ Republicans of tho South 1 you have a des perate struggle just ahead, and you cannot win unless you send these villains to tho rear. You cannot rely on their modesty or their senso of decency; they will push themselves forward into the most conspicuous posts, no matter at what peril and miscMef to your cause, unless you sternly say, “Go back, tMeves!” You cannot afford to be delioate with men who do not know what delicacy means. Unless you show by your acts that you detest peculators and scorn to be led by them, yon willbe beaten, and will deserve to be. You can put these fel lows where they belong if you try; and you must try. Their effrontery will desert them whenever they see that you not only loathe ras cality but do nolhesitate to show your IoatMng. As you hope to be respected, confided in, tri umphant, vindicate your, own integrity by branding the thieves who would make mer chandise of your party’s good name! Total crop 4,430,000 The only crop larger than tMs in nnmber of bales was teat of 1859-C0, whioh was 4,675,770. The average weight of a bale of cottoif that year was 457 pounds, which wouldimake that' crop 2,136,725,890 pounds. This season the average weight of bales has been considerably in excess of the foregoing. A statement was published not long since setting it down at 404,011 pounds. This we think a little too low. The average at New Orleans jus- titles 470' pounds to the bale for the whole crop. This average weight per bale would bring the crop to 2,082,100,000 pounds. There is, there fore, only a difference of 54,625,890 pounds, or less than four per oent, in favor of the crop of 1859-60, and the total may possibly tarn out as largo. Tilton believes in playing billiards for exer cise.—Ex. Can’t Tilton, Beecher, Frothingham, Wendell Phillips, and a few others, get up an apostles’ creed of the new evangel? Tilton believes to billiards, Beecher believes in novels, Frothtog- ham believes in adultery, PMlIips believes in murder; and plenty more conld be fonnd to fur nish the remaining articles of the eymboL What a precious compound of frivolity and di abolism it would be \—Mobile Regtster. Exports of British Railroad Iron.—The Parliamentary'statement of the exports of rails for Great Britain, shows that for the six months ending June 30, 1871, the United Slates receiv ed 244,784 tons;-for the month of June alone, the quantity was 44,919 ton?, against 26,714 tons, and 46,065 tons for the. corresponding months in 1869 and 1870. j A Massachusetts Radical Organ on til© “Thieving Carpet-Baggers.” The Springfield Republican is one of the oldest and ablest papers in Massachusetts, and though of the intense trewly loyal stripe, seems to have occasional spasms of virtue and verac ity. In a late issue it has a few words to say of “the thieving carpet-baggers,” as Massa Greeley calls them. We print them below with a glow of serenest satisfaction, and with the sincere hope that every one of tho tribe within tho range of onr' circulation may read them. Says the Republican: r Mr. Greeley never spoke a truer or more timely word in Ms life than when he denounced the carpet-baggers to the people of New York city. They are doing more harm to the coun try to-day than tbe locust or caterpillar, or any other kindred pest. They are teaching the less intelligent and discriminating Southerners to despise and hate the Northern people more heartily than ever; they are debauching tho freedmen; they ate bringing disgrace upon the great Republican party and upon the National Government. That their rapacity is insatiable and that they steal every penny they can lay their hands on, are comparatively trivial counts in the indictment against them. Yet this con stant plundering is a very serious matter to the communities which are plundered. It means increased indebtedness'and heavier taxation. One specimen job has just come to onr notice. The Mississippi public schools were lately sup plied with 7,000 desks at $7 per desk. Market price $3 50; carpet-baggers’ profit, $24,500, This is a very small affair, tobe sure, when com pared with the wholesale stealings in Sonth Car olina, but it illustrates how the ttong is done. It is just such rascality that is making the name of Republican a stench in the Southern Slates, and bringing suspicion and enmity npon honest immigrants. And matters will not mend mnoh so long as needy and greedy adventurers are ap pointed to responsible Federal offices, and fel low-shipped by Northern Republicans on the floor of Congress. For tho Telegraph and Messenger.] ; • • Report or Committee to tbe Macon County Agricultural Club. You Committee appointed for the purpose of ascertaining as far as practicable, the amount of coin and cotton planted this year as com pared with last year, through this and the con- tinguous portion of Houston , county—its pres ent condition and probable result, reports, that so far as their observation extends, a larger amonnt of corn has been planted, and though injured by rain and want of proper culture, yet with a few days more of propitious seasons ah average crop will be made. -They have-estimated the status of the cotton crop as compared with the same period of last year at 35 per cent, less promising and recog nize these causes as producing such results; 1st. Diminution of acreage, 10 per oent. 2d. By abandonment of commercial manure, 10 per sent 3d. Imperfect stand and improper culture, rains, grass, eta, 13 per oent. Tbe fraiting of the cotton is three weeks later, than last year. The crop within the above de scribed area is for the greater part dwarfish and sickly. It is proper to state that on red lands, which have received proper culture, the plant is vigorous and healthy, but without the average fruitage. Should the fnture seasons be propit ious in every respeot, (a tMng hardly probable,) your committee believe three-fourths of a crop might yet be made. Jas. D. Frederick,') M. Hatcher, >- Committee. J. Murphy. ) July7th, 187L - . THE GEORGIA PRESS. For refusing to obey a writ of habeas corpus, Judge Schley, of the Savannah circuit, hag jailed W. VI. Mitchell and Simon Lee, a negro, of Bulloch county.*. Twenty-four hours with the Savannah mosquitoes will doubtless put them in a proper frame of mind. The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Thursday, re ports the damage done by the late storm at the Bath Paper Mill and tbe Langley Factory, greater than first stated. Both will have to sus pend work for several months. Not only the dam, but also the over-fall of the paper mill was destroyed, which will greatly increase the labor and expense of rebuilding. : The Tax Receiver of Richmond county, and *the Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta Railroad are at loggerheads. The railroad returns its new bridge at Augusta at only $25,000, and its freight depot and lot at .$20,000, while the Re ceiver insists that, as the former coat nearly $100,000 and the latter $30,000, its a sinful game to put ’em down so low. A board of ar- bitration "will decide between them. — ’* An Atlanta correspondent of the Chronicle and Sentinel, under date of the 18th instant, writes that “Bullock is on one of- Ms extrava gant sprees again,” and specifies a few of Ms freaks as follows: On the 6th instant a warrant waspaidin favor of E. C. Murphy and W. W. Rasbnry for $6,- 000 “for services rendered under Executive or der.” This amount was paid them for their services in the Fish murder case in Macon county. That murder has been a. most expen sive one to the State, the various sums paid out already amounting to nearly $10,000, viz: .To Colonel W. A. Hawkins and General Phillip Cook, $1,000 each for legal services; other at torneys, $500; Murphy and Rasbnry, $6,000, besides the expenses of the Attorney GeneraL Bnt Bullock’s latest and best drawls a $5,000 warrant drawn in favor of G. M. Hood for simply arresting Jamef Oxford, charged with the crime of murder in Hancock oounty. The circum stances are about as follows: Some time in 1867 or 1863 Oxford committed murder, was arrested and confined in tho Hancock county jail. In October, I860, a party of Oxford’s friends went to the jail, overpowered the jailor, and released him. Bullock, on the 31st of January, 1870, offered (by proclamation) a reward of $5,000 for the arrest of, “with evidence to convict," said Oxford. Time passed on, and on the 23d of last March, Bullock, by special order, revoked his proclamation of 31st January, 1870, and on the same day (23d March, 1871) issued another proclamation, offering a reward of $5,000 sim ply for the arrest of said Oxford, leaving ont the words' “with evidence sufficient to convict." When this last named proclamation was sent from' the Executive office to the Secretary of State’s office to be reoorded, I fonnd, npon an examination of said record, the followingnote, which was Bullock’s instructions regarding said proclamation: * 'Mr. Flesh (who is one of Bul lock’s private clerks) says it is the Governor's order that the above (referring to said proclama tion) be recorded, but not published in the news papers, until further order, of which time the Governor win notify the Department of State, and that Judge Gibson be furnished with a cer tified copy.” Said proclamation has never been published. Judge Gibson was in Atlanta on the 22d anti 23d of March last, and left on the 24th. Judge Gibson, was' furnished a certified copy of said proclamation. The most peculiar thing in connection with these large rewards is that the warrants are sel dom presented at the Treasurer’s counter by the parties named therein, bat by some one of Bullock’s particular favorites. Don’t you tMnk tMs rather queer ? Now, who Mr. G. M. Hood is, I don’t know (maybe Jndge Gibson does), but the warrant for $5,000, drawn in his name, wasnotpresontedbyMm, bufbya Mr. McCalla, the present proprietor and keeper of. the re cords of the late management of the State Road. Bullock has paid, by executive warrants, to one Allen /. Bell, .Mother of the Comptroller General, $5,000 for making a list of returned wild lands in the State, when he has been receiv ing regularly for more than two years a salary of $1,800 per annum as Wild Land Clerk in the Comptroller General’s offioe. " Mr. Jf. Hertei, or Brunswick, has been ap pointed Master Machinist of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad. “The Floyd Boat Club,” of Brunswick, bad their boat, the “Brick Pomeroy,” so badly shat tered by a stroke of lightning last Snnday, that it will be impossible to repair it The Radical majority in Thomas county is steadily diminisMng. Aaron Wyche, a hand on the Albany and Gnlf Railroad, was drowned in the Oeklockonee river, last Saturday. We dip as follows, from the Thomasville En terprise of Wednesday: A Forgery Case.—It appears that Mr. Geo. Colvin, a citizen of this county, acting under a power of attorney from one James Bradley, of Gwinnett oounty, Ga., recently sold lot of land No. 353 in the 18th district of Thomas^ to Mr. P. D. Arnold, master of the section of rail road between this point and the Ocklookonee river. Subsequently doubt arose as to the gen uineness of this title, and npon an examination of tho power of attorney, it was discoverd that the chirograpsof the writer and signer, James Bradley, the witness, Prince Williams, and Jesse Murphy, N. P., were identical. This led to an investigation of the matter, and Mr. J. T. Kottman, at the instance of Mr. Arnold, ad dressed a letter to the Ordinary of Gwinnett, inquiring after the above mentioned parties. The Ordinary responded to the effect that there were no such persons as Bradley and Williams known in that connty, but that Jesse Murphy was a Notary Pnblio there. This latter gentle man, being made acquainted with the facts, made affidavit that he knewnosnch parties and had never signed the aforesaid.power of attor ney. Upon this evidence a warrant was issued by Justice MoLean on Monday and Mr. Colvin arrested. He, however, compromised the mat ter with Mr. Arnold by making Mm titles to other lands, and the ease was not tried. Mr. Colvin now pleads that he knewnotMng of tbe parties, bnt believed them, np to this time, all right, wMleHr. Arnold , recollects that he (Col vin) professed intimate acquaintance with them at the time of making the sale. The local-of the Columbus Sun, who dotes on sweet potatoes, is gnasMng Ms- teeth be cause he can’t buy a peck of the new crop for less than $1. As some consolation, however, he boasts that the Macon Gas Company has to go to Colnmbns to have its retorts manufactured. The Columbus papers inform ns that.“Skew- ball” “has again arrived in that city and has been put to work shoveling coaL” But who the. is Skewball ? The Sun,-of Thursday, says: A Little Boy Killed.—A. son of Mr. James B. Collier, now a druggist in Montgomery, was killed Monday in Opelika, by a fall from a porch. The child’s age was some six years. He had been playing with a top. 'It rolled off the porch. He attempted to get to the ground by means of looseninghis hold on a pillar, when he fell, struck his head on a rook and died two hours After. He Wasboriedfa our oemetery Tuesday. What made it more sad was that the father had parted with Mm bnt a little while be fore, taken the train, and had nearly reached Montgomery, when be was recalled by a tele gram. He returned to find the bright little fel low of a few hours before, a corpse. Mr. Col lier is well known in Columbus where, he was engaged in busness several years, and his many friends extend Mm and Ms wife their, tenderest sympathies. The Hawkinsville Dispatch says: What Shall we Do ?—Apprehensions for the future have forced us to make the following confession: Oar friends must either kill a couple of woodpeckers that are now destroying our corn crop, or permit us to raise the sub scription of onr paper. In behalf of Mr. Willis, we will state that Ms crop is also in a dilemma, though somewhat in less danger than ours. Ask us a hard question. Send down to Ba- vannah for R. XL, and when he comes mount him on the fence. If the woodpeckers don’t recognize him as an intruder of their kind and go for him instead of the oorn, we’ll treat. The Dispatch has the following : Macon Money.—We see a paragraph in the Sumter Republican, stating that Macon City Council money is not current in Americas, and that brokers discount it. Such is not the case in Hawkinsville. It is on a par with green backs, and in some instanoes we prefer it. Our people have unplioit confidence in Maoon’s ability to pay all her indebtedness. Col. George H. Hazlehurst, President of the Macon and Bronswiok, was in town one day last week and by appointment was met here with private conveyance by Hon. John W. Woodward, of Dooly, and the two gentle men proceeded on their way to look ont the best and most feasible route for a road, (toward Eufaula, we presume, though the editor don’t say so.) * The Griffin Cultivator says lead, iron and popper ore, have been fpund recently near that place, and that a Mr. Matthews an English miner, thinks he h astound-a leadjnme in Butts oounty. Brunswick, like Mrs. Dombey was urged to do, is going to “make an effort,” the result of which it is hoped will be a savings bank. Two bears have turned up near Dalton, and all'the little boys are Baying their prayers and promising not to say “baldhead” any more. Col. David Dobbs, Sr., one of the first settlers to'Marietta, is dead; aged 80 years. A man named Skinner dropped dead from Ms horse, near Marietta, last Thursday. . Sy the premature explosion of a blast in a rock’quarry, near Marietta, last Saturday, a man named Singleton, had both Ms eye3' put out, both arms broken, and one side of his face hor ribly gashed. Arthur T. Sullivan, of Rome, died very sud denly last. Tuesday night. Says the Rome Courier of yesterday: . Important Case Decided.—Judge .Cox sold some mill property, hear Floyd Springs to John L. Williamson, in the fall of 1802 for $7,000. Three thousand dollars was paid about the 1st of January ,1863, and the balance Was due Jan uary 1st, 1864. About the first of February, 1864 Williamson tendered the amount due in Confederate money; Cox refused to receive it, ana since the war sued on the note. On Tues day last he got a verdict for $540, but the cost of the suit was charged to Mm, the plaintiff. Mr. Lawrenoe Manning, a Northern bona fide settler in Greene county, died in that county last Saturday. Feaoe to his ashes! The Greensboro Herald reports a Most timely rain in that section last Tuesday, which, it says, was “worth tens of thousands of dollars to the farmers of Middle Georgia.” The Griffin Georgian reports a 'violent rain and hail storm in that section last Monday night, wMch did considerable damage in some localities. The bail stone? were so large end came down so thickly as to knock ears of com from the stalk. A tiger and Ms two keepers wa3 captured at Atlanta 'Thursday night, and the latter pnt under $5,000 bonds each. Some other tiger got jealogs on account of small rations, we suppose, and “peached.” Miss Amy Low, daughter of Andrew Low, Esq., of Savannah, was married at St. James’ Chnrch, London, on June 223, to Lieut. Harry Tremeriheere Grenfell, of the British Navy. Mr. John Clarke, of Beech Island, near Au gusta, while riding to that city Thursday morn ing, was Ku-kluxed out of his pocket-book and contents by a Grant voter, who stepped ont of the bushes on the roadside, and presented a pis tol at Mr. C.’s head. Jas. Oxford, who killed a negro in Washing ton county about a year ago, was tried and con victed therefor in the Superior Court of the county last Wednesday, and sentenced to be hung on Friday, September 1st He is now in the penitentiary at Milledgeville, for safe keep ing. The Chronicle and Sentinel of Friday tells a heavy joke on some gentlemen of Burke connty who were out hunting a notorious horse tMef named Samuel Holmes. They traced Mm to Ms haunt, and, dismounting, tied their horses and set out on foot But-Holmes was gone, and when they came back to their horses one of them was gone too. While they were stealing on Holmes he stole the best horse in the party. How is it Holmes has kept out of office under Bullock, we should liko to know ? The Chronicle, same date says: Daring Attempt to Rob the Mail.—Mr. D. B. Thompson, of this city, has a contract for oarrying the mail between Augusta and Cal houn’s Mills, in South Carolina, a good many milt3 distant On Wednesday morning the mail-rider, a young man named Rich, left Cal houn’s Mills, on one of Ms regular trips. About one o'clock in the afternoon hareached Rocky Pond, twenty miles from here. While riding up a hill in a part of the road remote from any house, two man sprang from the bushes and commanded Mm to halt one of them at the same time, firing at Mm with a pistol. The ball fortunately missed Its aim, and before.they conld shoot again, Mr. Rich drew his pistol and fired at them several times. Astonished at meeting with such a warm reception where they'expected to find an easy eonquest and a rich booty, the cowardly Mghwaymen betook themselves to flight, and ran into tho woods. Mr. Rich then continued his journey unmolest ed, and readied the city in safety. One of the party who attacked Mm was a white man, the other a negro. It was evident that their inten tion was to murder the mail-rider, and then carry the mail into the woods and rifle the pouches at their leisure. The Eagle and Phenix Factory, at Columbus, will soon commence, the manufacture of cassi- meres and cloths. It was so hot.in Atlanta, last Sunday, that, at night, the calorio was climbing lightning rods, trees, etc., in order to get higher. An ink- slinger—we call no names—lost five pounds of dirt. The Columbus people who sMpped peaches North this season lost money, so the Sun says. The Columbus Enquirer “joins" tho ring of onriosity mongers, by telling of a wbito par tridge captured a few days since in Russell oounty, Alabama. We.clip the following from the Enquirer: . Relics of the Past.—We have before us two rather ancient cotton bills. The first is dated Columbus, Ga., April 17, 1839, and was given by King & Hooper, per F. MoMorray, to Wm. O. Amour, for five square bales cotton at 14o per pound. The second dated December 21, 1842, was given by J. L. Ridgeway, per Wm. H. Mitchell, to the same party, for four bales cot ton at 4^ and 41 cents per pound. The gentle men to whom these bills were given still lives, and brought in cotton daring the present week to the Alabama warebose. - . - - -. The Houston Home Journal says the railroad agent at Fort Valley refuses to 'receive Macon city ..money for freights, and wants to know what’s the matter. There was an exceptionally heavy rain last Tuesday night in and around. Perry, and the Home Journal says farms were badly washed. Ed. Felder, Jr., of Perry, fell down last Fri day and broke the bone in the stump of his amputated arm. CoL Ben. Lockett, of Albany, has only 5,000 acres in cotton this year. , Mike Flynn, an Irishman was drowned last Satuiday evening while bathing in the Fiint river near Albany. Mr. B. A. Brown, one of the most estimable Oltizens of Albany, died last week. We clip the following from the Albany News: A Glorious Bain.—On Monday evening last about dark an immense thundercloud lowered upon this locality from the northern point of the compass, and after a tremendous demonstra tion of lightning, thtinder and wind, poured oat its torrents and refreehing sweetness. The elond covered a vast extent of territory, and the sea son was evidently ample for many miles around. The blow here was almost a hurricane, and we doubt not some damage resulted where the storm spent its greatest strength. This lain makes the oorn crop in this locality, and we have reason to hope that the yield will be abundant Cotton is also greatly benefitted, and planters are hopeful of fair resalts when the picking time comes. Tuesday night the storm was repeated with -increased fury and wider range. Wednesday was a day iff showers, and in some places heavy rains. Yesterday was ' partially clear and cloudy,” but pretty hot. Toe B. & A. R. K—Somebody has informed the Txlegeaph and Messenger that toe track laying will reach this oityby toe 10th of August. The truth is the work is progressing shamefully slow, and cannot reach here- before the 10th of < September, if there be not some Improvement. I We find the following items to the Sun: * An Ex-Editor Mabbies.—Mr. John P r Spence, at one time editor and publisher of tl» Greensboro’ Herald, to this State, writes us thS he has got religion, married a wife and moved to the oountry, where, by strict attention to to, household duties and a reasonable amount d work, he hopes to lay the foundation for a Ion? and useful life. John married Miss Kiltie Don can, a Pickens county (Alabama) lady, on the 13th of July. Honobababy Degrees—The Board of Trns. tees of the Oglethorpe University, at its recent meeting, conferred the degree of D. D., upon Rev. Donald McQueen, of Snmter, South Caro iina; and also upon Rev. B. O. Molnnis, of Or fora, Mississippi; also the degree of L. L. D upon the Hon. John A. Inglis, of Baltimore' Md.; and also upon Rev. George Horne, D. D? of the Theological Seminary at Columbia, Strati! Carolina. ’ The last Cartersville Standard makes the fol lowing good hits' . ’ . Wanted. A rioh min to report weekly through the columns of the Standard. Onr brethren of the Express having taken entire charge of owe olever neighbor, Col, Tnmiin, in that way, we cannot even get to report the building of a new chicken coop on Ms planta tion. We are forced, therefore, in order to keep up with the enterprize of our West Main street friends, to get a man of our own, and when we do, we’il bet on keeping even to the way of reporting all that transpires on his place We propose to give his bill of fare for dinner every other day. Apply early, for we are to a hurry. . The great lease case was taken up in the Su preme Court at Atlanta, on Friday, and argued for plaintiff to error by Hon. B. H. TTiii, pend ing whose argument the Court adjourned till yesterday. The decision will hardly be an- nounced before next Tuesday week. The Covington Enterprise, of Friday, says: OcUULGSE AND NORTH GEORGIA RAILROAD.— Misled by the information received last week we reported the construction of this road as a fixed future event Having been informed more definitely, by the agent of tbe Northern company, the state of the oase seems to be that Col. Cowles has induced the company to inves- tigate the project, and they hav6 ample means to speedily build the road, if satisfied that it will be profitable- The gauge will also be de termined by them after the review of the route by their representative, Col. C. O. Cluto, who passed through Covington going northward on the route, last Saturday. The result of his ex amination will-be announced in a few weeks. The editor of the Nownan Herald “rises to explain,” as follows: Eplaxned.—Boolly, of the Gwinnett Atlas, left home to search of health-restoring atmos phere, reoently, and wMle he was absent a man of good fighting weight came to Lawrencevilla to see Boolly—for what, the reader may guess. Boully’s temporary ili health, and the anger of the fighting man, may be easily explained: the week before the Atlas contained several veises of poetry on “Calomel,” wMch were bad enough to make sick a weakly man like the edi tor, and stir np the bile,'and render hostile the healthiest man on earth. A few more doses of the same sort will do the job for the Atlas, and the whole of Gwinnett, and seriously effect the vitality of Boully’s exchanges. What Shall we Eat, .and How Di gest It ?—9fo. 1. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : ' Some time since, I read an editorial to your paper wMch discussed the following query: “What shall we eat, and how cook it?” As a sequel to the forgoing inquiry, and wMch is of paramount. importance in its bearing upon physical health, is the .query, what shall we eat, and how digest it ? A correct knowledge and proper appreciation of the nature of differ ent kinds of food, and an observance of the simple laws of hygiene and dietetics, will often prevent much physical suffering, in warding off many diseases arising from functional disorder of the digestive organs,-wMoh may ultimately lead to permanent organic disease, as well as predispose the system to attacks of disease ar- rising from malarial poison. For the proper understanding of our subject we will spend a few thoughts npon the chemical qualities of different kinds of food. All kinds of nutritious food may be divided into two great classes: the albuminoids, or flesh and blood-producing, and hydrocarbons, or heat and fat-producing. In the former class may be enumerated flesh, blood, bones, curd, gelatine, animal membranes and various cereal grains and vegetable substances; in the latter aro gum, sugar, starch, oily and fatty matters, and wax The flesh-producing substances, com posted cMefly of fibrine, albumen and caseine. are called by Liebig compounds of protein, be cause they hold the first rank to affording ma terial for the support of the organic tissues, Animal fibrine is found almost in a state of pu rity in dried muscular fibre, and is converted almost without change into materials for direct transformation into flesh and blood; albumen is found almost pure to the wMte of egg; and casein, largely present in milk, in addition to its tissue-making properties, shows the presence of phosphate of lime for the bony tissue of tlis young and growing animal. It ’has been maintained that the value of food depends mainly upon the per centage of flesh-producing elements that it contains. But experiments go'to prove that -an .animal confined exclusively upon a diet of wMte of egg, pure albumen, will not only not thrive, bnt will perish from inanition. So an exclusive diet of oily and fatty matters, su^tr or starch, will b§ attended with similar results. The union of these two classes of organic compounds with certain earthy and mineral substances, as the phosphate of lime, sulphur and iron, form the basis of food that supplies ail tho wants of the animal economy. Accoholio stimulants possess no truly tonic or nutritive qualities, for they are incapable of being transformed into the organic tissues, and act directly upon the nervous tissue, temporarily increasing nervous energy. Prep arations of iron enter into the composition of the blood, increasing its red corpuscles, and thereby impart tonicity to the m oscular system, and general physical vigor. Tea and coffee are not only pleasant beverages, bnt they have the elements of nutrition in their composition wMoh entitle them to rank among the flesh-producing substances. The hydro-carbons, gum, sugar, starch and oily and fatty matters, are employed in famishing materials for the elaboration of heat, sustaining the respiration, and -when ia excess, for laying up accumulations of fat. They are'more difficult of digestion than the albumin oids or flesh-produoing substances, and are more slowly converted into tbe different tissues, In the use of food its quality must depend upon the age of the individual and the employ ment in which he is engaged. A young animal, in addition to the maintenance of the ordinary tisanes of the body, demands a supply of min eral matter for the development of its bones and teeth. In human foetal life, the blood of the mother is sometimes so severely drained of its phosphate of lime to supply the wants of her foetus in the development of its bone as to cause the rapid and almost entire destruction of her own teeth. The hard laboring man, as well ai tbe student engaged in intense or prolonged mental exercise, requires a supply of strong al buminous food to supply the waste of muscle and brain matter that is rapidly consumed in the pursuit of their respective avocations. There is a rapid process of combustion going on in (he- animal machinery, the resnlt of oert&to chem ical changes induced by the action of the ele ments of-the blood upon the matter no longer needed in the system. Exeroise greatly increases the process of the disintegration of the tissues. The increase in the number of respirations of the individual subjected to hard labor is the source of the sup ply of fuel necessary to burn up the effete and waste matter. If, therefore, he is not supplied with food that is easily and rapidly digested, and fully freighted with nutritious matter, he rapidly loses flesh and strength. Any excess of nutritive materials that has been properly di gested and assimilated is laid np in tho form of fat for • future use. In an emergency, this fat is absorbed and supplies the fuel for the evolu- tion of animal boat, and for sustaining rospira- tion to cases of prolonged starvation or volun tary abstinence from food. As a familiar illus tration of tMs fact, we note the habits of hyber- nating animals that lie dormant in winter. Daring the autumnal months they layup a store of fuel in the form of fat, to kerne them warm daring their long winter’s nap. Nature, to ac commodate thefuucfional powers of their vital organs to their altered circumstances, almost suspends their operations.. The number of res pirations is much diminished, the circulation of the blood is correspondingly slow, and the sup ply of fat iff wonderfully economized by the gradual absorption of its globules just in suffi cient quantity to generate the heat necessary to support life. In our next nnmber we will notice some of the principles involved to tbe prooess of nutri tion. - ■ J. P. 8. Newton, July 17,1871.
