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' s* . ' V 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 ”
