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The Greorsia, Weekly Telegraph and Journal Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JULY 25, 1871.
Speakie* for ourself, and as an old lino Whig,
wo should have but little choice. If any, be
tween Grant on the Republican platform, and
anv other man on a Democratic platform con-
stracted of Radical planks. If the National
Democracy should accept the “new departure,'
it would be necessary to label the party in order
to distinguish it from the Radical parly. In
that event we cohld have but little choice, be
cause then the contest would narrow down to a
Struggle between the ins and the outs, in which
we should have no Interest. Thousands of old
line Whigs and old fire-proof Democrats in the
South and t he North feel the same way.
The above is an extract from a long editdrial
in the LaGrange Reporter headed “Our Posi
tion.” We have heard a good deal of such
wild talk but hardly expected it from the Re
porter, whose editor used to be, at least, a sen
sible man. The men who put themselves on
record with such brash utterances will eitlier
have to rub it out, join the Radicals, Eet up a
third party, or stand idly by and see their
brethren fight the common enemy without
their aid. Mark the prediction. And if these
men, nnder the malign counsels Of leaders
whose brains-seem to have been softened by the
poison of passion, succeed in so dividing and
distracting the opponents of the Radical party
in Georgia as to throw the State into Grant’s
arms, they will have a fearful account to settle.
That they will have strength to lose Georgia to
the National Democracy we have little fear, but
we are afraid somo of them will be reckless
enough to attempt it.
Now, will the Reporter answer these ques
tions, First: Has it no choice between a friendly
and an unfriendly administration at Washing
ton ? Second: Has it “no choice” between the
men who dovised and passed the infamous En
forcement -Act and the still more infamous Ku-
klux bill, and those who fought, are still fight
ing, and will, just as soon as they get the power,
strangle both of these monsteiB ? Third: Has
it no choice between Hoffman, Hancock, Thur
man, Pendleton, Hendricks, Voorhees, ct al.,
Morton, Cameron, Chandler, Beast Bntler,
Brownlow, Fomey et al? Fourth: Has it
no choice between an administration favor
ing universal amnesty, and the policy and
practice of conciliation and good word3 and
works towards the South, and one which bitterly
opposes amnesty, and whose most cherished
principles, so far as wo arc concerned, are rigid
repression, venom and halo—thieves and scoun
drels to rule and rob ns, and the bayonets of
hirelings to control the ballot-box and the voice
of the people as expressed through that medium?
Fifth: Has it no choice between knaves and
honest men—even though the latter will not
consent to commit political hari kari&t the bid
ding of those who have proved themselves the
unBafest of leaders and the most unpiophetic of
prophets? Sixth and last: How can a platform
constructed of Radical planks be a Democratic
platform ? That is something wo totally fail to
comprehend.
We should really like cool, candid answers
to these questions, without any spasmodic
or dramatic flights and flourishes. We want
answers that will satisfy plain, practical men
who refuse to shut their eyes to facts and
then swear they don’t exist—who have no relish
for butting their heads against a stone wall to
satisfy the egotism or spleen of those who are
insisting upon their repeating that insane per
formance. These practical people don’t say
much and write less, bnt they think a great
deal. When the time comes they will act, too,
promptly, boldly—without regard to old slogans
and played ont issues—without regard, even
—incredible as it may seem in some quarters—
to names and memories onco potent to sway
them. Somebodies will have to “atandfrom un
der," then, or we are greatly mistaken.
Moee HiT.Tmrn.-ThB New York Commer
cial Advertiser complains that, although Em
peror Wilhelm talks peace very much, he does
not act peace at all. All (he strongholds in
Germany are being improved and enlarged by
the labor of the best engineers and many thou
sands of men. The army has been largely in
creased. Krupp’s great cannon foundry is
driven night and dBy, turning out new ordi
nance and artillery by the hundreds. The great
naval depot of Wilhelmshaven swarms with
workmen building war ships. All these things
smell terribly of more saltpetre, and who doubts
that Germany and Russia are going to put Eu
rope through a lively course of instruction?
Cotton Figures.—Tho press dispatches re
port total receipts np to Friday night last 8,945,-
632, against 2,854,081—showing 1,001,751 ex
cess. Total exports for the same time 3,070,042,
against 2,147,187 up to the same time last year,
Showing 928,855 excess, or within 72,896 of the
entire crop excess. The exports of the past
week were exceedingly small—being only 7,083
against 19,623 for the corresponding week last
year. Stock at the interior towns—at all the
American ports—cotton afloat and stock in
Liverpool foot up 1,445,938 bales, against 1,291,-
432 bales at the same dale last year—showing
an excess of 153,506 bales.
A Blow.—New York took the benefit of a
natural storm on Sunday, which the dispatch
says blew a bell weighing six thousand pounds
out of a church tower. That is a pretty tough
story. But Governor Brown, of Florida, used
to tell of a tornado in Charleston which blew a
crowbar ont of the attic of one house, across
the street and through the roofing into the attic
of the house opposite. He proved it by the
Charleston Courier of that date, too. Wind Is
very windy, sometimes.
The Atlanta Sun.—We learn from yester
day’s issue of this paper that it ha3 been re-ad-'
mitted to membership In the New York Associ
ated Press, so far &3 receiving the telegraphic
dispathes thereof is concerned. So it seems
that the ‘ humbug” and “trash” of the New
York Associated Press i3 worth all the news
that can be gathered from any other source—
which is our opinion, most decidedly.
The Herald says “the extreme quiet which
prevailed in New York on Thursday, is a re
markable commentary on the stability of Amer
ican Institutions.” Down here we* call it duU
times, bnt perhaps the Herald's way of pntting
it is the best There is a great deal of this sta
bility all over the South just now—varied, in
fact, only by reports of mobs and negro Ku-klnx
which come from the North.
The administration is distinguishing itself by
getting up a new series of stamps—from §5000
down to one cent Tastes change. Time was
in American history when stamps were unpopu
lar. Now all the' people ask Is to have them
printed in bright oolors and look pretty,:and it
affords a deal of amusement to the young to
cut them out and paste them on things.
A Mobile dispatch in the Herald says Bout-
well appointed Willard Warner Collector to in
jure Grant’s popularity in Mobile. It is a great
pity to “injure Grant’s popularity in Mobile;”
If Bout well had slapped his grandmother’s face
he would not have done a meaner thing.
The United States CourtBin the District of
Columbia have derided that negroes have the
same rights in restaurants and hotels as people
of other colors, and there must be no distinc
tion. This will be well for the hotels.
Cotton gave way handsomely in New York
and Liverpoolyesterday.
Got. Bollock and Use Ko-KInx
Committees.
Tho Atlanta New Era of Sunday contains a
broadside from Gov. Ballock. It is in response
to certain inquiries from the Congressional Ku-
klox Committee, addressed to the Governors of
al! the Southern State?, in pursuance of a res
olution submitted in committee by Senator
Blair, wanting to know all about the debts, and
taxation and election laws in these so-called re
constructed States; to which the Governor re
sponds in four columns. Tho Governor tells
them .(with some .polite circumlocution), that
he knows of no right of Congress to be inquir
ing into these matters. That they belong to
the Slates, and the last time Georgia was re
constructed he understood her to be finished
out and ont, as a complete State, and entitled
to keep her.own books and papers just as much
as New York; and he wants to know what New
York or Massachusetts would have to answer to
such questions addressed as a matter of right to
them by a Congressional Committee ? He then
plumps the committee with & heavy missile
from Thomas Jefferson, in rebuke of their im
pudence, and in support of the oeoesaity of
maintaining “the State Governments in all
their rights as the most competent administra
tors of our domestic concerns,” eto., which last
sentence the Governor thunders at the Com
mittee in capitals.
Now, on this particular point, Gov. Bullock
has not struck a lick amiss; but then we are
curious to know how he came to masquerade in
that snit. It is like Satan reproving sifi; It is
like the devil quoting Scripture. We don’t
know the Governor in the character of an ad
vocate of State rights and local self-govern
ment. The last time we saw him he had put a
hook through the nose of the State of Georgia,
and he and Blodgett, at the head of a pack of ne
groes, were dragging the dead corpse through the
gore and filth of tho Washington parly slums to
be kicked by every dirty politician who had
Btolen a pair of-boots fox the purpose. That
wasagIoriou3 frolic, no doubt, but no State
rights amusement.
And - -then, too, we are stiff {more puzzled by
the language with which the Governor winds
up this column of rebnke. fie ssys he has ven
tured to say that much, lest his compliance
with the committee’s request should be held as
as a precedent, and in order that tho. *‘Union
Republican party” might not be held as endors
ing the “extreme construction.” which is sought
to bo given to the late amendments of the Con
stitution. Now wo know that nobody was so
peremptory and sweeping in his demands of
Congress in respect to Georgia as the Governor,
and we know that now nobody is for pushing
the amendments, and the acts to enforce them,
so far as Grant, and these facts puzzle us. in
connection with this declaration. •
Finally, the Governor proceeds to give the in
formation asked. He says the debt of tho State
reported by the Comptroller- General, 20th De
cember, I860, was §3,688,750. At the close of
the war, October 16, 1845, it was §3,645,230.
Daring Governor Jenkins’ administration, the
debt was augmented to §6,544,500, and that was
the amonnt January, 1,1871. The contingent
liabilities, under the Stato aid acts, are: for the
Macon and Brunswick, §2,550,000;-Alabama
and Chattanooga, §194,400; South Georgia and
Florida, §584,000; Brunswick and Albany, §3,,-
630,000; Cherokee, §587,800—which are the
only roads which have, so far, placed themselves
in condition to be entitled to indorsement—to
tal contingent liabilities, §7,545,900. Other
roads entitled to indorsement' made different
arrangements. - -
The Governor bouts of the superior econ
omy of his administration, and says that the
whole of tho expenses under Governor Jenkins,
for twenty-two months, were §2,960,509 41;
the expenditures under him from August 11,
1868, to January 1,1871, were §3,758,804 77.
He also says the return for taxes in I860 ex
ceeded that of 1868 by over thirteen millions—
and that of 1870 had increased twenty-one mil
lions. The tax return in 1860 was §672,292,447—
including §302,694,855 value of slaves. That
of 1870 was for §226,119,529.
EDITORIAL, correspondence;.
News from Southwest Georgia. .
Ccthbebt, July 16, 1871.
The prospects of tho farmer have materially
improved within the past week throughout this
portion of the State. Rains have been general,
and the cotton weed though small, and showing
very little fruit, looks green and vigorous, and
is growing off finely. Heavy inroads have been
made upon the grass also and the crops are in
fair condition. ■ :
Some spots, as is the case with this city and
its immediate surroundings, are still afflicted
with drought, and gardens are ruined and the
com greatly damaged. Still, on the whole, the
agricultural situation is more cheerf al, and we
trust another year there will be “bread and to
spare" throughout this region. The com orop
may now be considered out of danger, and on
the red lands will produoe most bountifully.
KEGBO kuklux. *
On Sabbath afternoon we encountered a
strapping 15th Amendment bearing an enor
mous watermelon in his arms tn route for the
Court-house. Upon examining his burden it
proved to be perforated on the under side .and
heavily charged with strychnine.
It seems that a colored brother named Jack-
son had quarreled with him, and resolved on
revenge, visited the patch of tho complainant
and poisoned his finest melon, so as to make a
sure case of his antagonist ' ' .
How will this do “for high” with our Wash
ington Eu-klux examiners Qary: Is that the
sort of information they are in quest of ?
ns. HAMILTON AND ANUBXW OOLLXGZT
Tho reported resignation of this gentleman
turns ont to be true. His re-election by the
Trustees was qualified with the condition that
he would strictly adhere to the constitution and
by-laws of . the institution. This the Doctor
considered would interfere with his non-sec
tarian programme, and hence his resignation.
Few men have laboredharder and more effectu
ally in behalf of any enterprise. No sooner
foot-loose.than the astute Kimball resolved to'
secure our cidevant president in the railroad
interest, hence the irrepressible Doctor is now
actively engaged in traversing the country
between Cuthbert and Columbus, to arouse the
sleeping Rip Van Winkles-from their lethargy
and imbue them with the spirit of the times.
No Peter-the Hermit ever preached a crusade
with more miction and determination. Under
his auspices, and backed by his superior, the
Great Mogul (H. L), a grand railroad barbacue
will bo prepared and discussed at Lumpkin on
Wednesday of the present week, and, we pre
dict, nnder such engineering, the good people of
Stewart, will go home with full stomachs and
light pockets.
A BIDE WITH THE PENITENTIARY CONVICTS.
At Ward’s Btation, Messrs. Grant and Alex
ander’s State prison auxiliaries, numbering one
hundred, with their implements, baggage, carts,
teams, etc., filling fourteen boxes, were added
to our train. Among the live stock were a num
ber of hogs, also. Upon inquiry, we learned
that they were the property of the convicts who
had, the day previous, sold 91 head. The swine
fed around the camps whan the hands were in
the field, and marched with them from plaoe to
place. They were perfectly tame, and added
no liiUe to the pocket money and table comforts
of their luckless owners. Wbetherthis is in keep
ing with prison discipline and the ends intended
to be subserved by confinement in the Beniten-
itary, is o very pertinent question. ,
We are free to oonfess that if punishment
and reformation are the objects sought, then
the restraint of prison walls, interdiction of
speech with each other, and solitary confinement
in cells at night after the old plan, would prove
far more salutary than the present system. The
poor creatures were chained together, some
times a negro with a white man,-and shot np
in crowded stock cert were very little better off,
and far more miserable than the dumb beasts
who similarly situated, accompanied them.
Messrs. Grant & Alexander pay ten dollars
per annum for each oonvict and feed and sup
port them, and experience shows that the State
is a gainer by the oontraot. These gentlemen
readily hire them to sub-contractors, however,
at Si 50 per day, and certainly do a thriving
business with the public slaves. We were
pleased to learn that the convicts sre well fed
and humanely treated when they behave them-
selves.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Outhbert Appeal reports cotton rapidly
improving and growing off finely in that and
adjoining counties.
The price of watermelons in Cuthbert is one
cent per pound. .
Dr. Skinner, pastor of the Colnmbns Baptist
Church, will resign that charge, at the end of
this month. ...
In a personal affray at'McLain’s mill. Miller
.county, last week, Mr. Stephen Spooner-disem
bowelled Dr. Guest, who, it is thought, will
die. Dr. Clifton, who interfered to stop the
fight, was terribly cut in the wrist.
Bacon is so cheap in Bainbridge that the ed
itor of the Son can afford to grease his mustaches
three times a day.
For the-reformation of the ElbertonGood
Templars, a town pump will soon be put up in
the public square. * f r '
. The Columbus Sun, of Sunday, says':
. The Total Subscription.—The N. and S. B.
R. has thus far obtained in good and reliable
subscription §523,000. This includes the §200,
000 of the city of Columbus, $100,000 of Rome
and §25,000 of LaGrange bonds. All the
counties have not yet been canvassed, neither
has Columbus. Three hundred thousand dol
lars additional oan be easily be raised.'
Preferred a Whitping.—Mr. John Barber,
employe of Cob Barden caught a negro Thurs
day night endeavoring to steal'the backdoor
key of the store. He was lodged in the cala
boose. Yesterday morning he begged that he
might bo given a whipping instead of being
prosecuted; said if they would whip him he
would go to Alabama and not return. His
urgent request was complied with.
The Darkies Ovbb the Riy.ee.—The Radical
darkies' over the river, in Alabama, are in some
quarters holdiDg political meetings, at which
“no white man is Allowed to attend.” They say
they intend to have their own way this year,
and that the “carpet-bagger or scallawag who
interrupts them will go ’way with a flea in his
ear." •
General Montgomery Gardner, who com
manded the 8th Georgia at the first battle of
Manassas, and was terribly wounded, has bought
a farm and settled in Floyd county. A banquet
was given him by the Romans, a few nights
since. -
Of the Custom House troubles at Savannah,
the Republican, of Sunday, says; ..
Rumors are rife of early and important
changes in the official corps of onr custom-house.
It is said that Collector Robb’s head ha3 been
marked for the block, and that a resident of
Atlanta—one Adkins, late Revenue Collector, is
to take his place. Wellman, of course, goes by
the board, and it is hinted that Mr. Bowles, the
present Surveyor of the port, is to be inaugu
rated as deputy under tho new administration.
We have these rumors from pretty good author
ity, and think they will not be found far wrong
in the end.
_ While on this SuMact. it may not be amiss to
mention that ex-Federal ~ Governor, James
Johnson, formerly Collector of the port and now
Judge of the Muscogee Circuit, was in the city
yesterday and in close confab with the custom
house authorities. Collector Robb’s intimation,
and that matters otherwise were not left just os
they should have been, may have something to
do with the ex-Govemor.
A Washington special to the Advertisor, same
date, says the candidates for Collector are CoL
T. P. Saffold, Adkins, and CoL A. N. Wilson, of
Savannah, with chances in favor of Wilson;
' Mr. Du Paro, wharf clerk for Messrs. J. W.
Anderson’s Sons & Co., at Savannah, who was
sun struck several days ago, died Saturday
afternoon. - '
The'Bepublican, of Sunday, says:
The Traction Engine.—The road steamer or
traction engine, of which we gave a description
a few days ago, having been pnt together, was
tried yesterday, on River street, and worked to
the entire satisaetion of those who witnessed
its performance. Qaite a erowd were present,
and expresed themselves highly pleased with the
ease of movement and facility with which its
motion is controlled by the engineer. It turn
ed in a space not greater than its own length,
and made good time in the heavy sand near
Cohen’s wharf.-
We clip the following from the Advertiser:
Forest Crrx Mutual Loan Association.—At
a meeting of the Forest City Mutual Loan As
sociation, held at the hall of the Metropolitan
Fire Company last evening, §5,000 was disposed
of at from 391 to 41i per cent, premium.
James Kalugan Head.—James Haliigan, who
was so seriously injured by jumping from a
second story window at the Hospital on Monday
night last to the railings’surrounding the build
ing, died Thursday-night from the effect of the
injuries received.
Overcome bx the Heat.—Policeman Hanlon,
while on duty at the market yesterday, was,
overcome by the heat and had to be taken home,
bnt will probably reoovor.
Bays the News of Saturday:.
The Planters’' Bank Case.—A deoree was
made in the Superior Court yesterday, in the
case of Messrs, George W. Anderson and Hugh
W. Mercer, assignees of the Planters’Bank, vs.
T. J. McNish and others, creditors, tho sub
stance of whioh is, that after the payment of tho
assignees, the attorney’s fees and the cost of
suit, those creditors who have not yet received
anything, and who present their claims, are to he
paid twenty per cent, to place them on an
equality with others who have received this
amonnt. After that there is to be a prorata
distribution of the assets to all who present
their claims within twelve months, after which
time those who fail to present are barred, and
tho balance equitably distributed to those who
have.- • .
Bob Green, a brunette Grant voter down at
Augusta, had a fit in another man’s watermelon
patch Saturday night, and has been very strange
ly affected ever since. He can’t sit down at alL
He thinks he was “witched” with something less
than a pound of bird shot
"William Oxford was tried last Friday for mur
der, in Washington county, and the verdict was
involuntary manslaughter in the commission of
an'unlawful act Three years in the peniten
tiary.. - .. ■ \ .
The members of the Beoond Baptist Church,
at Atlanta, have chosen Rev. Wm. D. Thomas,
of Greeneville, 8. C., successor to Dr. Brantley,
who goes to Baltimore the 1st of September.
The chaps hailing from Jacksonville, who
were fined $100 at SavAnnah, a faw days sinoe,
for shooting into' the window^of a private resi
dence, were not Floridians, as reported, bnt
genuine c. b.’s from Boston and New York.
Glad to hear it. .
It’s very hot down at Augusta but they tnil
have their rations of excitement On Saturday
afternoon a little matter between Mr. Hewitt, of
the Globe Hotel, and a drunken guest named
Otis Cook, was settled by both drawing revolv
ers, and Hewitt gettinng one shot but no game.
A young lady of Savannah was severely
bnmed, last Thursday night, by the flame of a
kerosene lamp flaring np and setting fire to the
netting on a bed.
The Savannah Advertiser has a long article
explaining “how mosquitoes bite” in the ab
stract In the eonorete, Savannah mosquitoes
bite like the—well, they nip awfuL
G. M. Hood, Charles Evans and a third party
who is averse to newspaper fame—all of Augusta
—received $5,000 per express from Bullock, on
Saturday, as their reward for capturing^ Henry
Oxford. • - .
We get the following from the Covington
Enterprise, of Saturday:
Ocmulgxk and North Georgia Railroad.—
We learn that CoL Jere Cowles has just re
turned from the North, where he has succeeded
in perfecting arrangements by which he is con
fident that the speedy construction of this road
is secured. He is satisfied that it will be in
operation in time to carry off the crop of 1872.
He thinks the engineers employed by the
Northern Company to determine the location of
the route, will reach Covington to-morrow,
(Saturday,) the lothinst. The plan contem
plated at the present is to build a Narrow
Gauge Road, which can be constructed and
equipped fox about one-third the cost of ordi
nary railroads. The efforts of OqL. Cowles
have resulted in securing the. requisite capital
to build the road, and the purpose is to press it
to completion without delay. - .
Mr. 57. W. Fleming has bought a half inter
est in the Early County News. The News
says : -
Crops.—One of our planters have recently
traveled through much of Miller, Baker and
Dougherty counties, and from his report, crops
are much better in Early than in any of tho
others. He puts down Miller as next to Early
in superiority of both corn and cotton crops.
It is not to be inferred from this that be means
crops are good in Early, but that they are
wretchedly poor in these other counties.
The Athens Banner, of Friday, has this hard
hit at the Atlanta ink slingers :
vi’AU.TiAL Residence.—Hon. Jania.i Hilly or,'
father:of our prominent fellow-citizen, Col.
Hillyer, is having built at Decatur, one of the
handsomest residences-in the State.—Atlanta
Constitution, 0th inst.
The old Democratic friends and admirers of
Judge Hillyer should not feel concerned about
the above paragraph, nor believe that ho really
contemplates retiring to a palace. It is only a
way the Atlanta editors have of saying things.
They see objects in and about that village
through double magnifying glasses. In that
wonderful burg there are no houses, but “villas”
and “palatial residences ;” and'we presume the
Jenkins who wrote the paragraph only intended
to say that the Judge was putting up a com
fortable dwelling house in Decatur. In the
lofty dialect of Atlanta, a calico frock Is called
a trosseau, and a junk-shop is an Emporium.
A wOrn-out, cast-away freight car,'propped np
on the side of the railroad track, is called a sa
loon, and the fellow who retails benzine in it at
a nickle a drink, never ranks.below Colonel.
Nevertheless, we, in common with all our cit
izens, regret the loss of so good a man from onr
midst, and wish the Judge and his family many
years of happiness in their new home, be it a
palace or a cottage.
A Model Railroad Train.—A passenger train
will leave the general depot this morning on
the Macon and Western Railroad which will be
a model in its way. M. J. A. Knight, master
carbnilder of the Macon and Western railroad
shops, has just turned ont two new passenger,
cars of supassing beauty and elegance, made
out and out in this city, and which cost §7,500
each. They are far superior to any we have "yet
seen from the North on a Southern railroad, and
we are sure will prove to be much more dura
ble. They were built for the regular day pas
senger trains on the Macon and Western road,
and will be taken to Atlanta to-day. But this is
not alL This train will be drawn by a Macon
made engine in charge of a Macon made man—
Mr. Pope Freeman, one of the best engineers
in Georgia. It is literally a Macon railroad turn
out, creditable alike to the city, State, and the
enterprising company in whose interest it will
run. It will leave tide morning at 7:35, and all
who would like to visit the ambitious little town
at tho other end of the road will find this an op
portunity to do so in splendid style.
BY TELEGRAPH
An Erie Canal Steamboat.—Last Sunday the
New York State Commission went np the Hud
son for the purpose of testing steamers adapted
to navigate the Erie Canal, without creating
swell enough to impair the banks. The premium
offered is §50,000, and §50,000 mere if in 1873
il shall have proved of practical value. Strange
to say, that man of various opportunities, Andy
H. H. Dawson, of Georgia, is thero with an in-
vention which he says will revolutionize oanal
navigation. He has stuck a propeller in the bows
of his boat and claims that it will run 148 miles
a day, while the horse boats will only make 36,
and it will do for five dollars what it now costs
eighty-six to do with horses. Andy says it will
revolutionize canal navigation and transport pro
visions to New York from the west 50 per cent,
cheaper than now. Whoever expected to see
in Andy the Palinurus of an improved steam
canal navigation, abdicating his throne as king
of parts of speech.
Cuba.—The Spanish Cortes passed a resolu
tion yesterday that they would hold Cuba at any
cost and to the lost extremity. It is clear Spain
is becoming sensible of tbo difficulties of tbe
situtationi. Spain has, for generations, wrung
a revenue of some ten or fifteen millions dol
lars out of about half a million of tax payers in
Cuba, and gave them nothing in return for it
bnt one of the most corrupt and venal satrapies
which ever afflicted mankind. The Cubans
themselves would cheerfully engage to pax
Spain a hundred millions for their own freedom
and for the right of devoting their own reve
nues to improving their own condition; bnt we
see Spanish obstinacy will not listen to reason.
A country anable to govern herself, insists in
dominating over an island three thousand miles
off. The case of the Cabans is a hard one.
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad.—The
Chattanooga Times, of Saturday, learns from
reliable sonrees that a very bad state of feeling
exists on the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
below Tuscaloosa, not only among the employes,
but also among those who have furnished ties
and other supplies. It is said that if they are
not paid within 30 or 60 days they will bum the
bridges, tear up and destroy the track a la Sher-
Sotbeme Court ox Georgia.—Atlanta, July
15,1871.—Morning Session.—Argument of No.
18, Albany Circuit, was concluded.
No. 16, which had been passed, was argued.
It is James B. Walker v3. Wm. -H.'Whitehead.
Nonsuit, under act of 1870, from Baker.
Hines &. Hobbs for plaintiff in error.
Lyon, deGraffenreid & Irvin, W. A. Haw
kins, for plaintiff in error.
No. 19 was arguod. It is Jefferson Nesbitt
and George-Johnson va. the State. Murder
from Baker. . ' .
T. R. Lyon, Capers King, R. F. Lyon, for
the plaintiffs in error.
B. H. Whitely, Solicitor General, by R. Sims,
for the State.
The continued case whioh had been passed
over was next taken np. It is tbe Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad Company vs. Thomas Mann.
Case from Decatur.
Flemming & Rutherford, L. J. Glenn & Son,
for plaintiff in error.
Sims & Crawford, Clark & Spence, for defend
ant.
The hour of adjournment arrived pending the
argument in this case. -
Two other oases, which reached the Clerk’s
office less than twenty days before the term,
were to-day allowed to be entered.upon the
docket of the Albany Circuit!
Court adjourned till Tuesday next at 10 o’olook
a. m. Monday is consultation day as usual.—
Constitution, 16th. - ~ ^ • : s.J..
L O. O. F.—By a notioe from R. \\. Grand
Scribe, John G. Deitz, it will be seen that the
annual meeting of the & W. Grand Encamp
ment of the Independent order of Odd Fellows
will be held in Augusta, on Tuesday, the
1st day of August, and the annual meeting of
the R. W. Grand Lodge on Wednesday, the 2d.
Those attending these meetings will be passed
over the different railroads by paying one fare
going.
Cotton Movements for the Weeh.
New Yore, July 16.—Cotton movements
for the week, very light. Receipts at sll
the ports for the week am 15,381, against 18,-
460 last week, 18,197 the -previous week, and
-22,664 three weeks Bince. The total receipts
siooo September 1, 1870, are 3,945,832 bales,
against 2,854,081 -the corresponding period of
the previous year. Exports froth all the ports
for the week were 7,063 bales, against 19,628
the same week last year. Total exports for the
expired portion of the cotton year were 3,076,-
042 bales, against 2,147,187 the same time last
year. Stock at all the ports, 176,199 ■ bales,
against 176,746 the same time last year.' Stocks
at interior towns, 17,107 bales, against 30,686
last year. Stock at Uverpool, 661,000 bales,
against 593,000-last year. Cotton afloat for
Great Britain, 53,000, against 70,000. last year!
Indian ootton afloat for Europe, 538,632, against
422,000 last year. The weather at the South
during the week was favorable for the growing
plant, being very dry and hot.
Washington, July 16.—The July relums of
the statistical division of the Department of
Agriculture show a marked increase in the acre
age of corn, amounting to fully 3,000,000 of
acres, of whioh.2,000,000 are due to the deter
mination of the Cotton States to supply them
selves with bread and meat. It is assumed
that the area in com equals forty-two millions
of acres, or more than half of the total acreage
of all tilled crops. The only States failing to
increase their area in com are New York, the
New England States and the Paciflo States.
The percentage of increase in other States is
as follows: New Jersey, 2; Pennsylvania, 1;
Delaware, 3 ; Maryland, I; Virginia, 5; North
Carolina, 9- South. Carolina, -12; Georgia, ,10;
Florida, 7; Alabama, 11; Mississippi, 14;
.Louisiana, 151 Texas, 15Arkansas, 14; Ten
nessee, 7; West Virginia, 5; Kentucky, 3;
Missouri, 10; Illinois, 6; Indiana, 4 ; Ohio, 3;
Michigan, 3; Wisconsin, 7; Minnesota, 11;
Iowa, 15; Kansas, 50; Nebraska, 30. The
condition of winter wheat on the ldFof July
was somewhat above an average. The spring
variety presented a worse appearance than has
been reported for- several years at the Bame
date. The ripening of winter wheat has been
fully a week earlier than usual, and a large pro
portion had been cut at the date of the retains.
Never wa3 there a better promise ip early
spring, and the comparative prevalence of in
sects and local injuries from drought have been
the principal drawbacks. The States showing
comparatively low condition, are as follows:
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Con
necticut, Virginia, and all the more Southern
States, except Texas, while Kentucky presents
an average of 35 per cent, deterioration, Indiana
7 per cent, and California 17 per cent.. Among
the States showing high averages are Ohio 4
per cent., above—Michigan 8, Illinois 7,
Missouri 3, Kansas and Nebraska 10, Oregon 1
per cent. The winter wheat of Iowa and
Wisconsin is in high condition but insignifioant
in area. The section having the largest area of
winter wheat is the one in which its condition
is highest, though a majority of the Winter
Wheat States report comparatively poor con
dition. The only States from whioh favorable
reports of spring wheat are received are Maine,
New Hampshire, Connecticut and Oregon. The
percentages below an average are as follows:'
Missouri 36, Illinois 30, ‘ Indiana 2, Ohio 7,
Michigan 4, Wisconsin 20, Minnesota 30, Iowa
18, Kansas 15, Nebraska 1L The chinch bog
has been very destructive to spring wheat.
After allowing for the increase for acre and
the large*yield of winter wheat in good wheat
districts, the loss in the spring variety must re
duce the aggregate yield somewhat below an
average. The hay crop will be a comparatively
small one. Potatoes promise an average jield,
if they escape drought' and rot in the futnre.
Notwithstanding the prevalence of the colored
bng, continual vigilance has partially averted
loss.
Washington, July 16.—Commissioner Pleas
anton will send to the President for his approval
an order consolidating the Internal Revenue
Distiiots in Virginia and Alabama.
Henry Howard has been appointed by the
British Government agent to receive claims
against the United States under the treaty, and
gives official notice that such claims must be
sent to him here. The United States Govern
ment has not yet appointed'an agent
The corrected deaths from the riot are 44.
The income tax of the city of Brooklyn com
plete, shows §466,000 against §1,500,000 last
year. . -
There was one murder in New York, and one
Brooklyn last night from disputes over the
riot.
New York, July 16.—Arrived, Frankfort,
Humboldt, Western Metropolis, Barnes and
Cortes.
New York, July 16.—Cotton opened strong
but afterwards declined slightly under increased
pressure to sell. The sales for the week reached
80,000 bales, of whioh 72,000 .bales were for
future delivery and 14,000 bales on the spot and
to arrive. Of the spot cotton exporters - took
about 1,850 bales, spinners 3,700 bales and
speculators 525 bales.
San Francisco, July 16.—Gold plains as rich
as Calfornia or Australia in Sonora, Mexico, are
attracting thousands.
The America, from. Hong Kong, has arrived
with a large cargo of teas and China goods. She
had fine weather during the entire trip.
Fond du Lao, July 1G.—The Lake House and
twenty others were burned. Several firemen
were hurt and a child burned to death.
Ch arleston, Jnlyl 6.—Arrived, steamer Geor
gia, New York; schooner A. G. Gaskill, Phil
adelphia. Sailed, steamer Manhattan, New
York; bark American, Lloyd’s Port, in Great
Britain; bark Rhea-Sylvia, London; brig
Georgie, Baltimore; schooner L. M. Collins,
Baltimore; schooner J. L. Morrell, Philadel
phia. Off the port is the steamship Huntsville,
from Savannah for New York, with a broken
cylinder.
Bath, Me., July 16.—John Shaw, for forty
years cashier of the Linoolh Bank, is dead, aged
seventy-four.
Paris, July 16.—ProoCedings have been com
menced for malfeasance against the purchasers
of arms in America. -
Washington, July 17.—The Spanish Cortes
has passed a resolve to hold Cuba at any cost.
It is rumored that, as a consequence of the war
discussion in the Cortes, the Spanish Cabinet
mil dissolve and. a radical minority be formed.
The Corians claim that after the ship General
Sherman was wrecked, her crew committed
murder and piraoy and were executed under the
forma of law. The America brings no details
of the last fight with the Corians. The Ameri
ca’s cargo was valued at two and a half millions
—a freight unprecedented * at any American
port
Butler has announced himself a candidate for
Governor of Massachusetts.
Yesterday’s storm in New York blew a six
thousand pound bell from a hundred and thirty
feet tower. A falling tree crushed a carriage
in Fifth Avenue. A yacht capsized in the bay,
and one man was drowned- A brig was struck
by lightning. The streets were flooded—chim
neys blown down. A three year old child was
drowned from a capsized boat. '' "
New York, July 17.—It has transpired that
two Orangemen were wounded in the line of
procession. Among the important documents
bearing upon the causes of the action first taken
by the city authorities, there is published a let
ter written by John J. Bond, the Orange leader,
to Superintendent Kelso, two days before the
riot, in which be implored that functionary to
stop the Orange demonstration and spare the ef-
sion of blood.
A dispatch from Saratoga says Longfellow will
not run to-morrow.
London,' July 17.—The police of London dis
persed a meeting in Hyde Park, the object of
which was the promotion of emigration from
the United Kingdom. This action was rendered
necessary by the noise and confusion incident
to the proceedings.
The Chief of Police of Dublin died yesterday
from wounds received a few days sinoe at the
bands of a supposed Fenian. The murderer
has been arrested.
Ship Nahmon, from Bombay, bound for
Penang, foundered in the Indian' Ocean, and
30 lives were lost.
It is officially annonneed that Asiatic cholera
has appeared in several places in Poland.
The United States Mexican Commission de
cides favorable on claims for property taken by
the Bepublio; but unfavorable for property
taken by Maximlllian. The Commission also
decided favorably on contracts made with the
Republic; There has been uo decision yet re
garding Mexican bonds held by Amerieans.
Paeis, July 16.—A Great fire was occasioned
at Rheims to-day by the explosion of a quantity
of pretroleum. Fifty persons were killed and
wounded by the explosions, and many buildings
in the business portion of the oity were burned.
Pares, July 17.—The Official Journal states
that the explosion in the works of St. Marne
was accidental, and there were six persons kill
ed and thirty wounded.
New York, July 17.—Arrived, - Idaho. Ar
rived out, Germania, Oity of Brussels, Ooeanio,
Nevada.
VmsAnHjB, July 17.-The court martial for
the. trial of the Communists commenced to-day
The Avenir says that M. Thiers has written
Use Pope a vague letter promising a diplomatic
support if other powers join France.
UBESTT COPSTT, OB ST. 7SHT8 PAR
ISH.
Its Past History and Present Condition.
This ancient portion of the sea coast of Geor
gia was settled by a colony of English who
moved in mass, first from Dorchester, England,
to Dorchester,. Massachusetts, ihenoe to Dor
chester, . South Carolina, and finally, in 1750,
to Midway, Georgia, then known as SL John’s
Parish.
Religious prosecution -drove this devoted
people from the land of their fathers, and, like’
the children of Israel, they gathered together
their substanoe and wives and little ones,, and,
led by their beloved pastor, sought a refuge
in the wilds of America. No band of emi
grants ever excelled them in piety, intelligence
and public spirit. Of this colony it may truly
be said, also, that, they preserved and retained
their distinct institutions, habits and individu
ality of character to a most remarkable extent.
Occupying almost the whole of what is now
known as the 15th district of Liberty county,
and worshipping together every Sabbath in sun
shine or storm, at old Midway, in the faith of
their ancestors, seldom did one of their num
ber stray from the fold to seek his fortunes in
the outer world. Indeed, even to .this day it is
proverbial that almost every family is related
by blood or marriage.
Bice and com were the staple produots of the
colony until the introduction of sea island cot
ton, whioh became a great souroe of revenue.
When the troubles with the mother country
arose, these hardy sons of freedom who had
braved the tomahawk and wilderness in qnest of
religious liberty, without waiting for co-opera
tion in Georgia, boldly joined the rebellion and
sent one of their number, Lyman Hall, to the
Continental Congress. Mr. Hall’s name appears
among tho signers of the declaration of inde
pendence. During that patriotic struggle, her
sons gave freely of their blood and treasure to
the sacred cause, and born themselves heroic
ally in the contest. True to their pious antece
dents, - they still frequented the sanctuary,
Armed and ready for tho deadly conflict. Tra
dition states that even their pastor, Rev. Moses
Allen, carried his musket with him into the
pulpit.* This gallant servant of God also gave
his life for his country, being drowned in
Charlesionharbor, while a prisoner and attempt
ing to escape from a prison hulk by swimming
to the shore. ; * . .
Gen. James Screven, after whom Soreven
county is named, also a partisan officer from
this community, was ambuscaded and fired upon
within three miles of the old Church, receiving
eleven balls in .his body. He lived, a whole
week afterwards.
Daring the Revolution this first house of wor
ship was burnt by the British, the melted glass
and charred cinders attesting the fact even at
the present time. The edifice now standing,
which was built about 90 years since, is still
one of the most commodious and handsome
oountry churches in.the State. Congregational
in government; it-yet retains its ancient organ
ization, bnt is the mother of three Presby terian
churches, and has sent forth from her bosom
more than fifty ministers of the gospel, many
of them not unknown to fame.
For seventy years previous to tho late war,
St. John’s Parish, which had received the name
of Liberty county from her noble - stand in the
war of the revolution, enjoyed a degree of pros
perity vouchsafed to bnt few localities. ‘With
no overgrown fortunes, there was yet a more
general diffusion of wealth than in any com
munity we have ever known. "With but rare
exceptions all enjoyed the blessings of a com
petency, and tbe education of the young wa3
most carefully regarded. As an evidence of
this, at one ^esiod during the writer’s connec
tion with the University of Georgia, one-fifth
of the undergraduates were from Liberty
county. »>■
She has also furnished Jive, professors to that
seat of learning, two of whom, including the
Vice Chancellor, belong now to the faculty of
the University. • Other literary, and several
medical colleges likewise, are presided over in
part by her sons, and a multitude of. teachers
illustrate their old home in the various schools
of the State. '
For more than twenty years not a licensed
liquor shop could be found within her limits.
It was while thus basking in the sunshine of
prosperity, and regarded everywhere as the
genial abode of intelligence, -refinement, and
hospitality,,that the thunder cloud of the re
bellion burst upon this peaceful community.
True to his instincts and traditions, a host of
armed warriors rushed to the field, and watered
the soil of the Confederacy with their precious
blood.
An inoident which occurred in 18G2 will serve
to show the temper of her people : A Yankee
gunboat entered the month of New Port River
and steamed np into the heart of the country,
shelling every building and plantation within
reach of its guns. Soon the alarm was sounded
and old men and boys, once more attended by
Rev. D.L. Buttolph, their faithful pastor, flocked
to tho river banks armed with rifles and shot
guns, and poured a galling fire upon the decks
of this invader. Several were seen to fall, and
the enemy, startled by this warm reception, put
about andmade good his retreat with all possi
ble speed.
Years elapsed, and the dread finale of onr
unhappy but gallant struggle drew near. Eighty
thousand infdriated soldiers transformed into
demons by famine and the dangers of a pro
tracted march, led by the remorseless house-
burner—Sherman, rushed like an avalanche o’er
the fertile plains of this devoted people, and no
cyolone or tornado ever brought greater havoc
and desolation.
Drunk with success and exoitmnent at meet
ing their comrades of the navy, after the fall of
Fort McAllister, all discipline was suspended,-
and the foe spread over the country like the
hordes of Attila, plundering, ravaging and de
straying at wilL Midway, that venerable tab
eroaole of the Lord, was made the headquarters
of Killpatrick’s devils, and its sacred aisles pol
luted with the-vandal tread and horrid oaths of
an insensate soldiery. The corner-stone of the
monument, whioh was laid on the centennial
oelebration of the settlement of the conntry, to
the original founders of the colony, was uproot
ed. Hecatombs of cattle wero slaughtered at
the very doors of the sanctuary, and their bones
still bleaoh where they felL The sacred repos
itory of the dead was converted into a mam
moth stable, and the graves of the departed de
filed. But not with content with this, the dwel
lings of unoffending women and aged citizens
were forcibly entered, their inmates robbed and
brutally treated, and in some instances left to
starve.
Gattle, sheep, horses, hogs and poultry were
shot and left in their blood; fences were burned,
bridges destroyed, female helplessness insulted,
and a smiling territory converted into a howling
waste. From that day to this, the sceptre has
departed from this gallant people, and they
straggle in vain for the bare necessaries of life.
Almost the entire negro population accompa
nied Sherman’s army as oamp followers to Sa
vannah, whence, after becoming hopelessly de
moralized, they returned, to lord it over their
former owners.
This Is now the condition of Liberty county.
The negroes, for the most part, ocoupy and cul
tivate the farms of the land holders, and allow
their old masters one-third of what they —.
duce; or they work two days for the land hok
ere, and four days for themselves, and ia
end steal the major part of what fails toil,,
share of-the fanner.
The old family seats are deserted, and rapyj,
falling into the hands of Dutch oystermon
adventurers, who plunder the’negroes in tun
and get’rich on their ill-gotten gains. Ichaboj
is written upon everything.
Amid this Cimmerian gloom, it affords uj
pleasure to chronicle that, through a letter re.
cently received from an old friend and comrad;
in arms, dated WalthonmOe, a straggling ra,
of light illumines the dark prospect we ha^
painted. At this village, repeopled by the re.
turn of its scattered inhabitants, a promiabj
school is in operation, taught by Mr. Mon«*
Molver, a gifted native of the old country. La
us hail this ciroumstanoe as an omen for good
and devoutly hope and pray that this noble oli
home of an Eliott, a Outhbert, a Law and,
Screven, and a host of other worthies, win
shone and flourished in better days, may yK
emerge from its dreary eciipse, and reflect ft
former glories in all their splendor.
An Interesting Incident.—The other day-1
Ah, that phrase the other day / What tendql
recollections it brings up ! The other day J
were a happy, careless boy! The other day ml
played beneath the home-roof of joyous child !
hood.’ The other day a fond mothers smile c&J
a halo around the fleeting hours. The other 0a:I
loves s young dream—but to our inoident: Tiil
other day a splendid-looking, elegantly-dressc;
stranger—that word stranger always excites oc
sensibilities. "Who is he ? Whence comes he ]
Perhaps he is the centre of a fond home circle <
Does he meet in onr city that courtesy so i
ful to the wanderer, and which betokens re
ment and good breeding? How much do •
value kind attention, when far from home!
well-dresaed stranger was evidently a man i
wealth—what a comfort it is to be wealthy! jl
be able to travel and behold all the famous s
wonderful places of earth! To be able to gratifj
every reasonable whim, to pour balm into i
a wounded spirit, to scatter blessings i
around, iqjnnoke your zeal Havana and
your wife a new bonnet whenever ahem
one! Ah, we wish we were rioh. Well,
wealthy stranger, perambulating our street,
we fear he thought the streets dusty.
know he.must have deemed our officials,;
in making repairs; we guess be was struck ?
thd irregularities of our pavements, and \
reckon he wondered why Southerners takas
little trouble to provide shade trees. Sudde
bo came in frontof Brown’s Nows Depot,
struck by the attractiveness of the tastef;!
arranged windows,-he paused. ’TiS well to pad
occasionally in life, for we all too eagerly pu
the babble of the world, pleasure, fame, hosi
ease, money. How we race and struggle
the almighty dollar—what a magio sound! Id
tingling through the fibres of the brain, it
mates all to - tbe highest pitch of endeavor a
leaves no thought for the sweet amenities of 1
After a short pause the strangei’s face was liij
by a smile—what charming things are i
They betoken kindliness of nature andelegi
culture- Some smiles are like the flush
spreads over the face of nature when the sun rid
above the horizon on abalmy May morning. Sd
was this stranger’s smile. It warmed ourhei
towards him. He entered the store and '
greeted with one- of Brown’s Chesterfield;
bows—Brown has a gracious suavity of :
that has made him many friends. His borc|
speaking of botes reminds ns of the two
on our river that run their bows into each <
lately and spilt several young gentlemen i
the water, by the shock—Brown’s bows and fi
creating smile and gracefully waving
when he greets strangers, are very lakh|
especially the hand, it a purchase is made i
the stlmps tendered, rf*
“Won’t you walk in, sir?” Baid Brown, ij
white teeth glistening with pleasing politesei
“Thank yon. I am struck with yourelej
store, so tastefully arranged. Its shelves s
decked with the choioest food for the souL
you sell many hooks ?”
“Yes, sir, a'great many; bnt our trac;|
mostly a novel one.”
•‘A novel one? Do I understand you toi
mark that the book trade is a newthia'l
Macon?”
“Oh, no—no—no! I merely meant tha;|
sell many novels.”
“ Ah, yes. I beg pardon. - How dull I >
And the stranger sauntered towards the
ter and pieked up one of the papers. '.
What a blessing papers are ! Take aw|
papers and a pall of mental darkness would!
tie down over the land 1 And what a wond^
a well-conducted, daily paper, like tho
graph and Mrssenoeb, which reminds o»|
of-Fink-top Harris’s head, because.it’s a!«f
read. ' V ,
From the number of papers on your c
fer—"': ' - . --
Yes,. Brown keeps a great number
great variety, and sells them as cheap as he a
“ I should think yon had lively times!
and the stranger picked np Harper's Wed
“We had quite a oereus time a few
since 1” replied the urbane Brown, polish I
tending his hand to receive the Week!)']
wrapping.
( ‘A serious time! Fray tell me what
ed.’’ - . yV . "v
“Wehad'acereus bloomiDg.”
“Ah ? and what constituted its sericusEtSl
“It was a flower, sir, the night blooming j
reus.” . - - i
“Ha! half I take, toy dear sir. Thst1
good. Excuse my seriousness. I hope youd
make the occasion a serious one.”
“Oh no. I made light of it. I had s( fl
brilliant reflectors.”
How few of us, in these days of hunj^
scurry, are reflectors! Men, in general, <
little; and the consequence is many afa&!
in life. Did we reflect more we’d better {
against the ills we often meet.
“And whet beoame of the night bio
oereus ?” queried the gentle stranger.
“Pugh took it.”
“Did it belong to him, or did he sU*JJ
“Bless you, dear sir, he took it photogr*
cally. Here is the picture.” .
A polite bow and graceful move of tbs ■
ensued.
“I teka. Permit me!” and the
looking stranger handed over a ten cent f
and received Harper’s Weekly, in exco
There was beauty and elegance in the r»
sive bow of our friend Brown; the stress#]
evidently strack by it. » ,
“Surely,” said he in a tone of dulcet
as he bowed himself gracefully backwartj
the street, “this man is the pink of pout^
I must call in again some time, and “ r ‘
other dime.” , T .
“How rich, how noble, how generous! i]
he’d trade often.” Thus mused Brown,
careful he gently smoothed those <
looks of. parted in the middle so J
Suddenly the stranger re-entered and'
gracefully. Brown he bowed gracerfuily-,
stranger smiled superbly. Brown he a®#
quisitely. Brown Is an exquisite, yon
“I return to enquire, sir, if the Macon j
will be worth visiting.”
Brown’s bow was a sight to bmiold.
Maoon fain, sir, are unsurpassed and
passable. Strangers who visit them ate-j
enchanted.”
“When will it take place?
“Oh! yon are speaking of the Stale
ral Fair! It takes place in October, and ^
tain to be a grand at-fair."
“Has it good grounds ?” .
“The best in the world, air. So gopA j
that suooess is certain. In fact 1
grounds on which to base a failure.
The stranger stared and then slowly i
muttering: “Upon my soul 1 ”
