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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, AUGUST .1, 1871.
Mercer University.
We invite particular attention, especially of
city readers, to the address of the President of
the Board of Trustees of Mercer University, to
be found in another part of the paper. The
final establishment of Mercer University in this
city is an event of great local magnitude, as
affecting the [material standing and future of
the place. H will bring considerable accessions
to our population and consequently to our trade;
and these accessions will be of a highly desir
able character—tending to elevate the social,
intellectual and moral tone of the city. What
the Universities of Edinboro’, Glasgow,
Dublin, Harvard, Tale, etc., have! done for their
sites and surroundings, Marcer University, in a
humbler degree, will do for Macon, in con
tributing to her wealth, character and reputa-
tion. •
The denominational support to Meroer Uni
versity will nlone make it a very prominent, re
spectable and. wealthy scholastic institution.
That they have not done asmuoh as they should
have dono for it, heretofore, was due simply to
tho obscurity of its sylvan retreat, which kept it
comnaralivoly out of sight and so out of mind.
In the prominence of its new central position,
it cannot fail to enlist the warmest sympathies
of the numerous and powerful denomination
which controls it, and when these are backed by
a liberal outside support, wo may confidently
expect a rapid growth and development from
year to year.
The public spirit of Macon cannot take' a
wiser or more effective direction than in pro
moting all tho ends of this University. Let it
be aided in constructing its College edifices—
in laying out its grounds—in preparing cheap
accommodations for students and providing it
with all material applianoea of a substantial and
imposing character. The people will scarcely
realize that tho University is hero until they see
the visible homes of science, philosophy, litera
ture and religion, in solid brick and stoue and
mortar.
Oar people will see the substantial fruits of a
benefioent spirit in aid of this college not alone
in tho progress of tho city—but in the refining
and improving influences which it will throw
around ns. It will promote a taste for educa
tion, and provide the means to gratify it. Our
youth will be inspired with a noble emulation
for study and self-improvement, and with the
opportunity to educate and provide for them at
home the way to a liberal $duoation will be open
to the children of the poor.
Prom Washington UOunfy.
Sandebbville, Ga., July 27, 1871.
Editors Tdegraph and Messenger: In your
editorial comments in yesterdays’ issue on the
forcible liberation of Oxford from the Milledge-
ville jail, you unwarrantably assume that it was
the work of a lawless gang from Washington
county.
Lawlessness is no more countenanced by the
people of "Washington county than it is by tho
people of Macon; and as an evidence of this
fact, the summary trial and conviction of both
the Oxfords, soon after they were brought here,
peaks for itself.
While the citizens of Washington county, in
common with all good citizens, deplore the
prevalence of lawlessness in the land, they
should not be held accountable for acta perpe
trated by persons, whoso names nor local hab
itation are unknown. Washingtonian.
We should certainly have made no appeal to
the people of Washington county in this case
had we not been satisfied that they are patriotio
and law-abiding, and hate disorder as mnch as
we do. Our assumption that the gang in ques
tion was from Washington county was based on
the fact that Oxford was convicted in Washing
ton county, and we inferred that his frionds
lived there, and bis personal friends made np
the gang. Bnt we are informed that Oxford
J ~T_ ,I —d in Burke and Hancock, and this
has "lately flVe ; » the matte r._EniTOBS.
puts a different aspect-*.tu .
Medical Controversy.
We have received a communication from the
ttlanta side of the medical embroglio, which is
emperate and courteous in its terms, and bears
he impress of a candid and impartial mind.
Having rejected several of a like character
rom the opposition, because unwilling to make
ho Telegraph and Messenger the medium of
in angry controversy, which wonld doubtless
>e spun out to tho length of the- Atlantic cable,
o the sore disgust of its readers, we are com-
>elled respectfully to decline the article re-
erred to. . -
Sheathe your scalpels, gentlemen, and make
iommon cause against “jailor jandiers,” “fever
,nd ager,” and all the other ills which afflict
our race. It is in these that the people have a
loumfnl interest, and not in the wars of the
dll boxes, which bids fair to be as sanguinary
s those of the roses of York and Lancaster.
We struck the Convention in the ontset, not
rom a partisan point, but to rebuke the viola-
ion of parliamentary usage and the amenities
ud proprieties of life. In that respect let the
lajority “go in peaoe and sin no more.”
Sold Them to their Contracts
l. citizen informs us that in on* day daring
present week, he had not less than twelve
ilications for employment by freedmen from
country. Without exception, they told him
y bad come into town to work on tho Fair
>nnds, preferring a dollar a day and rations,
ruch wages as they were getting, or any pros-
itive share in the crop of their employers.
Fe trust neither our worthy Mayor or any
vato oitizen will hire one of these runaways,
leas he produces dean papers with respect to
it obligations. The laws enforcing contracts
mot be too stringently executed, if we would
: serve anything like organized field labor in
5 country. Let these loafers be arrested
der the vagrant act, and remanded back to
sir employers..
.‘Captain” Taliaferro, late of the t>
BU A.—Another Radical Witness
Shown Up.
On the 16 th of July the following dispatch
was famished the Associated Press as an ex
tract from the proceedings of the En-klox Com
mittee, and was published all over the oountry
the next morning:
testimony on the KU-KLUX.
Captain Taliaferro, a native of Virginia, a
Captain in the Confederate servioe, and now-a_
planter near Maoon, Miss., testified before the
Ku-klnx Committeo on Saturday, that within
the past year in that county fifteen colored men
were killed and a number whipped. There is
an organized band of Ku-klnx in that county.
He had attended three or four meetings of it,
although he had never taken the required oath,
the supposition of those present being that he
was a member of the Klan, and that he had
been initiated by the Captain of the band, who
i'»n swear in members. His friends and neigh
bors all belonged to the band. The witness
gave the Committee the details of the organiza
tion, the signs, grips, etc. On one occasion he
went on a raid with the band, and was pres
ent at the whipping of several colored men,
bnt after that he did not go with them any
more. Their object was to obtain entire con
trol of the negroes, and make them vote as
their leaders required. .No prosecution has
boon or oould be instituted in that county. No-
body dare prosecute.. He was a witness before
the Grand Jury at Oxford, and on his testi
mony several members of the Ku-klux were in-
dioted.
The Baltimore Gazette, unfortunately for this
swift witness, knows a good deal of him and is
cruel enough to publish it. Synopsized it
amounts to this: That he never was a “captain”
at all, being only a private in Col. Herbert’s 1st
Maryland regiment"(0. S. A.) the first year of
the war, and was noted as the most dissipated,
worthless chap in the command. At the end of
a year’s service he was discharged, and after
wards loafed around Richmond, dodging the
conscript law by claiming Maryland as bis
home. After playing out in Richmond he loafed
down into Georgia, and one of his exploits, or
one at least of which he has boasted in Balti
more sinoe the war, was, with others, having
taken three Union prisoners from the jail at
Madison, carried them to the woods, tied them
to trees and shot them to death.
After the war he returned to Baltimore, and
obtained employment as salesman in one of the
largest business houses of that city. While so
employed he was caught obtaining goods in the
name of the firm, and appropriating them "to.
his own use. A part of- the goods were found
in a house of ill fame, and, of ooureo, he was
kicked ont. After he was discharged was
discovered that he had, while on a Southern col
lecting tour for the same house, received money
due the firm, put it in his pocket, and never ac
counted for it. Another Baltimore firm, in
whose employ he was for a short lime, testify
pretty much to the same effect as to Ms peculiar
ideas about other people’s money, and add that
he was so notoriously and consistenly untruth
ful that they would not believe him ou oath.
P. S.—Since the above was written we have
beard something else of “.Captain" Taliaferro.
After Sherman’s army passed through Putnam
county, “Captain” Taliaferro came along at
the head of a band of marauders, claiming to
be Confederate sconts, and near Eatonton came
np with and captured two stragglers from the
Federal army whom they ddiberatdy murdered,
and whose bones were afterwards oarriedtothe
Federal Cemetery at Marietta. This fact can
be attested by citizens now living in that vic
inity. . . _
All of which,'we submit, entitles Taliaferro
to first-class rank and pay as a model trewly
loyal witness before the Radical Ku-klnx in
quisition at "Washington.
Making a River Ran Up Stream.
This proverbially impossible feat has been
accomplished by Chicago—great in all material
undertakings, as well as in divorces. Chicago
was fonnded not upon a rock, bnt upon some
thing little better than a morass—finding a
The Columbus Enquirer says com in that
section is made, and the crop is large. Cotton
'has improved greatly, of late, bnt the opinion is
that the crop will be short at least.a fourth.
The Enquirer says:
NOeth and South Railboad—Work at Last
—Something Dtyi.su>. and Certain.—Messrs.
Hammond and Davis will arrive here from
Enfanla on Sunday's boat, with their foroe, and
will oommenoe work at once on the North and
South Road. Mr. F. Hazlehurst, a brother of
CoL George Hazlehurst, will reach here with his
force on the 29th inst, so there is no longer any
doubt abont this great enterprise being under
way by the first of August. We will hear the
whistle of the locomotive on the North and
South before November next.
Oho Central Railroad has subscribed $5,000
to the capital stock of the Savannah Industrial
Association, and will, it is believed, increase its
subscription to $10,000, if the City Council
will subscribe that sum. *
It strikes us that there ought to be more
harmony between the size of the chimneys and
that of the chimney sweeps down at Savannah.
The way they have there of pulling out the big
sweeps who get stuck in small chimneys by a
rope tied to one of the sweep’s hind legs, is
rather rough on that class of our fellow-citizens.
A sailor fell from the second story of a house
at Savannah, Wednesday morning, hut being
full of whisky, his carom on the bricks below
had no serious results.
A suffrage-slinger named Israel Cohen, is in
trouble at Augusta for showing too great par
tiality for a lot of fine brandy, Boap and per
fumery belonging to Dr. W. H. Tutt, of. that
city. Israel’s tastes are certainly commendable,
whatever may be his moral instincts.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Wednesday,
says the dam at the Langley Faotoiy will be
rebuilt, and the factory commence work again
within thirty days.
The Cartersville Standard has this centre
shot:
Murder—Bigamy.— 1 To have rendered val
uable services to the cause of the Union during
the late war, or in support of the reconstruction
acts of Congress sinoe, either of which is val
uable service to the Union in Radical parlance,
is sufficient to authorize the happy individual
thus circumstanced to murder or marry to his
heart’s content Governor Bnllock, when he
pardoned John A. Long for the cold-blooded
murder of Mr. Echols of Gordon county, among
other things, said as reasons moving his Excel
lency to executive clemency,- that the said John
A. Long had rendered valuable services to the
Union cause. Radical morals may recognize
the fact of being a scalawag ns a sufficient
atonement for the murder of innocent and un
offending citizens ? If so, be it that way. GeD.
Grant, in his pardon of Bowen, tho numerously
wived ihumauai, remieo « XC^ons moving the
compassion of his Excellenoy that he has ren
dered valuable service to the Union. "We have
always believed that to be a soalawag was pun
ishment enough for ordinary offences, hut _wa
did not know till assured by high authority,
that it was an atonement for muder and bigamy.
A correspondent of the Valdosta Times tells
a pathetic story of a little child, three and a
half years of age, who wandered from its home
near Homers ville, one day last week, and was
lost for three days and nights, during which
time there was a severe wind and rain Btorm.
The correspondent says:
The alarm was made and the settlement com
menced gathering to the place, continuing to
hnnt all Saturday night. By Sunday morning
about fifty persons had gathered and searched
diligently all day, bnt found no sign. They
scattered abont and lay ont all night, but could
hear nothing. Monday morning the search was
oontinned, persons still coming in to assist.
About one or two o’clock on Monday the first
sign was found—where we supposed it lay on
Saturday night abont one and a half miles from
the place it left. It had Iain all night in the
mnd and water. This revived our hope, and all
hands startedwith renewed vigor, expecting and
hoping to find the child every minute. Late in
the evening more sign wa3 found, where it had
crossed a thick branch some fifteen or twenty
inches deep in water, and gone into a field and
round an old vacant house. By this time dark
had come. Mr. Smith had provisions sent in the
woods and all lay in the wood? agaIh.'~(5n"Taes-
day morning all jfarrtad ont again and abont one
Chicago river, which afforded the only tJStTet
for the drainage of-4fe8*Suy ifitjtSe lake, and
The Monroe County Fair.
We have complimentary tickets to the Mon
roe County Fair next Saturday, and would be
represented there, bnt as two of our number
must attend the Alumni Meeting at Athens, the
other one must stay at home and keep the mill
going. We are requested to print the follow
ing tetter:
President’s Office ")
. Maoon and "Western Railboad, >
Maoon, Ga., July 2G, 1871. >
3. D. Mobley, Geo. A. Cabaniss, Jno. H.
Dimly, Committee:
Gentlemen,—I have given the [agents at
Bamesville, Griffin and Macon instructions to
issue tickets to your Fair, on the 29th inst., at
one Care, and this privilege will only be allowed
persons from these places, and Conductor
Vivan has such instructions.
Very truly,
A. J. White, President.
To Whom It May Concebn.—We havo re
ceived two communications signed, respectively,
“Citizen” and “Visitor,” bnt which are not ao-
oompanied by the real names of the. writers.
Our rule on this point cannot be relaxed, and
the parties who sent the communications most
decide themselves what shall be done with them.
M to A tunes. -—The Rural Carolinian for Aug
ust is at hand to-day—an excellent agricultural
journal from which we often quote.
Burke’s Magazine for Boys and Girls,
August number, was issued yesterday—an ex
cellent number, which will be a treat to the
ittlsfottfc
the only channel of approach to the city by
shipping.
After the city had been well built, it was
found that its site was too low to admit of
healthful drainage, and accordingly the whole
city was raised block by block six feet. In this
extraordinary feat the possibility of raising
great blocks of brick and stone bnildings by
means of jackscrews, and then of building base
ment stories under them, .was for the first time
demonstrated. Miles of snch buildings were
thus raised without disturbing "inmates or con
tents.
But, after all this was done, and a new and
sufficient grade for drainage established, the
evil was not effectually cured. The bayon
called Chicago River, received all the drainage
matter, but having no sufficient current to car
ry it off into the Lake, became little better than
a cess-pool, poisoning all the contiguous waters
and filling the atmorphere with foul odors. The
water from near the lake shore which supplied
the city hydrants became -offensive, and then
Chicago built an immense aqnaduct leading
her water supplies from a great distance beyond
the lake shore, and out of the influence of the
poisonous discharges of the" river. Yet, still
there was the turbid and sluggish river with all
its filthy contents festering nnder the hot sun
and-poisoning the atmosphere—a perpetual
menace to the pubKc health.
Among the internal improvements of Chicago,
however, she had constructed a canal leading
from the head of this bayou or river to naviga
ble waters in the Illinois ri^er, which seeks its
outlet through tho Mississippi into the Golf of
Mexico. This canal was twenty-five miles in
length, and the Chicagoans conceived the idea
of so deepening it as to change the. current of
the Chicago River np stream, and through this
canal make Lake .Michigan an affluent of the
Mississippi and the Golf, instead of the SL
Lawrence and the Atlantic. Accordingly, they
obtained legislative authority for the project,
and a week ago last Saturday the work was all
completed. In the presence of an immense
concourse of people the waters of the filthyyiver
were let into the deepened canal, and the people
held their noses and looked on in admiration.
It took a long time to substitute the dear bine
water of the lake for the filthy fluid of the" river,
but eventually the last dark streak of filthy
water disappeared, and a current of two miles
an hour was established np the Chicago River,
which it is believed will keep everything fresh
and pure.
partial drainage by means of a bayou or outlet
into Lake Michigan, dignified with the title o^jp.Ue frCmThelastTsign founa° and~about three
- * * - — J il, a enlif t ■ s * l .ir 11 — m Q oVinnf AHA
and a half miles from Mr. Smith’s, about one
hour by sun, Mr. Thomas F. Morgan found the
child, several yards in a thick bay, hung fast by
the clothes in bamboo briers, abont half thigh
deep in water where it had stayed all night, it
was very weak and scratched np with brierc.
The Gbeat Railboad Lease.—It will be seen
from the following telegram, that the Supreme
Court sustains the action of the Central Rail
road and Banking Company in leasing the Maoon
and Western road, and the. question may now
be considered as settled:
Atlanta, Ga., July 2{, 1871.
To T. G. Holt, Sr.
.The Bnpreme Court decided fully in favor of
the lease, to-day. A. J. White.
The writer has never thought this lease would
effect the interests of Macon otherwise than
favorably. It identifies the interests of Maoon
with those of the Central Railroad Company,
in that the Company will now have no object
in building a new road from arty point on the
Central road to Atlanta. This may be an error
of judgment on the writer’e part, bnt he is
willing that time should prove it to be so, if
indeed, it be such- *
We find the following indictments in the last
Griffin Georgian- It certainly seems to de
mand an investigation by those having authority
in.the premises:
An Offices -who Does Not Attend to his
Business.—The revenue law requires that per
sons "distilling frnit should, give bond lo the
amount of $500, conditioned that the distiller
will “faithfully comply with all the provisions
of law and regulations in relation to the duties
and business of distillers, "and shall pay all pen
alties incurred or fines imposed on him for a
violation df any of the provisions,” etc. We
learn that the penalty on failure to give bond
before beginning' tho bnsiness of a distiller is
oiv Tn/mfTia’ vmnnannmpnt And A fine not GX-
six months’ imprisonment and a fine not ex
ceeding $5,000. N. Sellers Hill, the Assistant
Asscsor of this District, who resides at Macon,
has made no provision whereby those of this
section who may desire to give bond and obtain
license can do so. His objects in not making
any provision for the obtaining of such license
we presame is his desire to reap all the emolu
ments without being at the expense of hiring a
a man to attend to the duties in this section.
The consequence is that bnt few are able to
give bond and procure license "; and some are
prevented from distilling by the penalty which
is held as a terror over their heads. The way
the affair stands, so far as this section is con
cerned, the .law amounts to a positive abolish
ment of the right to distill fruit, as the fruit
season will soon be over. We are not particu
larly an advocate for the business of distilling,
yet wo are not aware of the passage of a law
preventing people from going into that business.
As it no w stands the law is prohibitory in several
cases. If Mr. N. Sellers Hill cannot and will not
afford those who may wish an opportunity to
procure a license, it seems somewhat oppressive,
to say the least. Mr. N. Sellers H. is the man
of raiding notoriety, and delights in burning
and tearing up still houses. We presume ho
belonged to .Sherman’s army and has never been
able to check the propensity for burning, con-
conlracted while on Its maroh through Georgia.
Washington. July 27.—The Grand Duke
Alexis leaves Oronstadt for America, August 30,
in the largest ship that ever sailed from Eu
ropean waters. The Evangelical Alliance Com
mission will have "an interview with the Czar
next week. ■ j"," ' , - ,
New Yobk, July 27.—A fore-and-aft schooner
loaded with pine lumber, and the first part of
her name “Isaac,” when twenty miles southeast
of Barnegat, oapsized. Her broadside is still
out of water, and six of her crew are dinging to
it Rough weather has so far prevented a res
cue ; bnt the weather will soon be calmer, and
it is hoped some passing vessel will rescue
them.
Cincinnati, July 27.—The suit Bgainst the
Western Union Telegraph Company, pending
since I860, for $G,000 loss by error in a cypher
message, has been decided in favor of the tele
graph company." The decision absolves the com
pany from all liabilities on aoooont of alleged
London, July 27.—The Pope disclaims the
inherent right of the Papacy to dispossess
monarchs,. bnt, in ancient times, Christian
nations revered the Pope as the arbiter between
the people and the sovereign.
The Persian reports are not exaggerated.
Famine, cholera, typhus fever and plague rage
furiously. The cemeteries are guarded to pre
vent the disinterment of the- dead for food.
The diplomatic and tdegraph corps have fled
from the country.
Washington, July 27.—Fish, Belknap and
Creswell are here. The President has reoog^
nized Waldemar Bodisco, Russian Consol
New Yorlu. . , . .
General,Gordon was examined to day,
testimony, generally, is corroborative of/other
Conservative witnesses. He knows of-'no Ku-
klux as described in the papers. He/iad been
invited by the people to, join an organization,
the object of whioh was purely self-proteotive.
There were no disguises. Und$f the lead of
bad whites a rising of the negA>es was appre
hended, which, without some ^organization oh
the part of the whites, might be disastrous.
The organization alluded to'was Dot political,
and was never used for political purposes. The
negroes did not essentially sympathize with the
Republican party; they had equal interest with
tho whites in good government. Alienation on
the part of the people of the South against the
Government had been increased since the war
by Radical measures, which they regarded as
great wrongs, as well as by military arrests
without warrant or charges, and trial and im
prisonment of innocent men. He did not feel
that he or any of the Southern people had com
mitted treason..
New Orleans, July 27.—The first bale of
new cotton from Texas, received per steamer
Austin to-day, weighs nearly 500 pounds,
raised on Guadeloupe river, shipped by A.
Goldman, Victoria, Texas, consigned to Franks
£ Daniel, tins city classed middling, sold at
27 cents. 1
Recorder Dumont, recently removed by the
City Council, has been appointed Deputy tj. S.
Marshal.
Darnel C. Osborne, First Flour Inspector,
appointed by Gov. Roman, is dead, aged 64.
Rain storms daily; weather oool and pleasant.
Nashville, July 20.—The State Railroad
Commissioners have resolved to sell on the 20 th
September, tho Knoxvilie and Charleston, Bog-
ersville and Jefferson, and Knoxville and Ken
tucky railroads at auction. Also, tho Nashville
and Northwestern Railroad, unless within thirty
days the latter pays the debt due the State.
New Yobk, July 27.—The Alabama and Chat
tanooga Railroad bonds, endorsed by Alabama,
have been placed on tho regular list of the
stock exchange.
Judge Blatchfoxd refused the injunction re
straining the Erie Rord from issuing 30,000
additional shares of stock.
Oartis F. Wilbert, for some years connected
with the Tribune, is dead. •
St. Louis, July 27.—Conductor Gibbes and
engineer Babcock, who caused a railroad collis
ion by disobedience to orders, have fled.
New Yobk, jiuly 27.—Arrived, Bremen, Cal
edonia. Arrived ont, Italy.
San Fbanoiscjo, July 21.—The Buckeye shaft
of the Amadore mine, was set on fire by the
men of the miner’s league, and extensive dam
age is anticipated. The Keystone mine at Sut
ter creek has suspended work for want of water.
The strikers are threatening vougoanoe on - the
mino owners and officers, and more trouble is
Salt Lcef. City, July 27.—The small pox
prevails hero. Every precaution has been taken
to prevent the spread of the contagion.
The 24th of July, the anniversary of the en
try- bf~the pioneers into this valley, was cele
brated throughout the territory.
Cleveland, O., July 27.—The stockholders
of the Lake Shore Railroad to-day voted 258,-
1494 to 86£ for the issue of $15,000,000 in new
stock, whioh raises the share capital to $50,-
000,000. , .
New Yobk, July 27.—The druggists of this
oily have held an indignation meeting, and pro
test against the appointment of a hoard of ex
aminers.
New Yobk, July 27.—The shipments of grain
to Europe ia sailing vessels from January to
July were 14,000,000 bushels. . ’ . -
Pabis, July 27.—It is rumored that tho re
ported adjournment of the court-martial for the
trial of Communists is made for the pnipose of
paving the way for a general amnesty. The
Assembly has postponed till the 4th of August,
the question of distributing among all depart
ments of France the loss of property and mate
rial occasioned by German invasion. The De
bats censures the government for siding with
the minority of the Assembly, and demands
changes in the ministry. It is reported that
Thiers has induced bis colleague in the govern
ment to remain in office.
London, July 27.—For the Goodwood Cup
Shannon waB the first, Fanores second, Morti
mer third. The odds against Shannon' were
heavy. ' . . \.
Rome, July 27.—The Maeranite and Malachite
Patriarchs, the Malchito Arohbishops.of Aleppo,
and thirteen Hungarian Arohbishops, have for
warded to Rome their subndissioa to the Dogma
of Infalibility.
From down to nightfall, at the window sitting,
She waits, while drift the heavy boors away;
And like the swallows all her thoughts go flitting
To that’sweet South wherein they fain would stay.
Bat onoe to feel, unchecked, his fond caressing!
OUe wild, sweet hour close" to bis heart to press;
There her thought stops; what else of bliss or bless
ing w-ietiy-
The great world holds she does not cue to guess.
A Mr. Hargisa, of Kingston, was robbed of
$1,000 a few nights since. ~
Mr. H. I. Couch, of Kingston, is putting up
a fine hotel at that place, and will call it the H.
I. Couch House.
The tax returns of Bartow oounty for 1871
show taxable property to Ilia amount of $3,429,-
804—an inorease of $105,000 over last year.
On last Friday Mr. Joseph Pittman, of Madi
son county, while out hunting, was shot and
killed by the accidental discharge of his gun.
Platforms.—The Savannah Morning News
says with some force and justice:
The story that Attorney-General Akerman has
gone to address Lowery’s band of Ku-klnx ne
groes oh tbs state of the country, is denied.
The day of political platforms is passed. Res
olutions of political conventions are no longer
regardod as embodying the principles of politi
cal parties, but as cunning devices to deceive
and betray the people. 'Sinoe the Radical party
at its last national convention solemnly declared
that the suffrage question was one. belonging to
the States alone, and immediately after enacted
laws taking the control of the matter from the
8tates and giving -it to Congress, no one will
pnt faith in Presidential platforms.
In the coming Presidential election the ques
tion of the peTpetnity of our form of Republi
can government will be submitted to the peo
ple—the issue will be Democracy, the constitu
tion and State rights, or Radicalism, centrali
zation and despotism. The decision rests with
the people, and will not be influenced by the
platforms of intriguing, shuffling politicians.
A string of resolutions a mile long could not
broaden the issues between the two parties in
the next Presidential election.
Fine Tomatoes.—"We are in reoeipt of three
fine tomatoes—exemplary fellows—from Mr. E.
C. Greer’s plaoe in Griswoldville. The Trophy
variety. " ^ """
The Skeleton in the Closet. »-
According to the Sun royal families are, after
all, not always models of domestio harmony.
That paper says:
The marriage of the Princess Louise with the
Marqnis of Lome was not, according, to late
English gossip,- by any means the love match it
has been popularly supposed to be, and the
wedded pair are now far from happy together.
The story is, that the Princess inheritsher moth
er’s quick and imperious temper, and the two
women had snch frequent quarrels that the
peace of the royal domestio circle was quite
destroyed. The marriage of the Princess and
her residence elsewhere being the only resource
in the emergency, a certain number of young
noblemen were selected and invited to "Windsor
Castle, and the Princess required to choose a
husband from among them. She obeyed, and
her choice fell on tho young Marquis, bnt there
was no more love between them than usually
attends snch bosinens-like arrangements. The
result has been, that the Prinoess’s temper is as
bad as ever, only it is exercised on a new object.
The exolnsion of the Marqnis from the royal
circle, and (he consequent separation of him
from his wife on state occasions, is said to be
owing to these oonjugal differences, and not’to
any law of etiquette. It is even reported that
not long ago the Queen was sent for, and went
down to Claremont, the residence of the young
couple, to prevent a complete rupture. All this
aocords so well with what is known of the rela
tions between Viotoria and Albert that it is
probably true.
Gen. Shxbman and the Next Pbesxdxntial
Election.—Gen. Sherman’s idea of the next
Presidential race and its result is set forth by
anTfiterviewer from the Commercial Advertiser,
as follows:
Reporter—“Do you think it policy to elect
Grant again ?
GenerabSherman—Of course I do. "Why not?
He knows the ropes now—he has become ac
quainted with the duties—acquainted with thou
sands of public men, and ten thousand good-for-
nothing White House bummers who would do
nothing but harass a new President for the first
year. He has just got where he can tell a good
man at sight. Humbug men always get the
best credentials ; every Congressman signs their
recommendation at sight, and many of them
deceive a new President These party frauds
are now pretty mnch played out, and Grant is
enabled to deal squarely with true men. Ex
perience and acquaintance is the stock in trade
of a good President • * r
“Who will win in’72?” ''-l.f
“There is no question in my mind," said the
General, enthusiastically. ‘‘I’ll bet on Grant
against the field—two to one.”
- “Who will run against him?"
“There won’t anybody run;' but, not being "a
politician, I can’t gueea for a moment who will
be nominated.”
BX NELLY MACE AY HUTCHINSON."
Up from the street there comes the lazy laughter
Of girls who Unger by the fountain's fall;
She heeds them not—her gaze stiU follows after
The clouds that roU beyond the dty wall.
She vaguely beam her mother’s fretful (hiding,
Her idle wheel grows dusty at her aide;
Listless she wonders where her Love is biding,
Where’er he.be there must her heart abide.
All the day long she listens for his coming,
All the long cay she dreams of one dear face;
She hoars hie whisper in the bees’ low humming,
She feels his kisses in the wind’s embrace.
Lonely she dreams while the warm sunshine lingers
Upon the carven angels of her choir—
Alone sits sobbing, while with silver fingers
The moonbeams thread her soft unbraided hair.
A heavy heart! so passionate its yearning,
She needs must know that all her peaoe is o’er;
That eager pain ’neath her white bosom burning
Tells her ’tis gone, to enter there no more.
Still at her window, dreaming, longing, weeping,
While to their mates the gray dqvea coo and call,
She leans and watches the slow clouds go creeping
Far down the blue, beyond the cifvwaU.
[From the Galaxy August.
To the Friends or Edncatlo n i n
Great pleasure is taken in the announcement
I now make—that Mercer University was estab
lished in your .city on the first day of July, 1871.
The location was chosen by the "commission
ers on removal in August of last year, but to
complete the" removal, an amendment to the
charter was necessary. For this, an applica
tion by the Board of Trustees,, under the laws
of the State, was made in December last, to the
Superior Court of Bibb oounty. There was a
caveat filed against us, and the case was heard
on the 4th day of last January. After very able
arguments had on both sides, the Hon. C. B.
Cole granted the amendment sought The par
ties to the caveat excepted to" tike decree, and
carried ns to the Supreme Court The case stood
for trial this month. In the meantime, terms
were agreed upon looking" to a settlement And
on the 17th day of June last, as President with
Rev. S. Landrum, D. D., Seoretary of the
Board of Trustees, I signed the contract of set
tlement, in the terms directed by the Baptist
Convention of the State of Georgia, at its ses
sion in Cartorsville last April, which aot of
mine and the Secretary was ratified by the
Board on the 4th day of this July, 1871.
Since the execution of that agreement, to-wit:
on the — day of this July, an order was grant
ed by the Supreme Court dismissing the appeal,
(the case being settled) and a demitter sent
to the Superior Court of Bibb connty. So that
the order granted ontho 4 th day of January,,
1871, is now final.
All litigation has ceased—all parties are re
conciled, and it is believed that all the friends
will co-operate in the support of our University
in your beautif al - and central-city.
For the present we must oooupy the best
buildings we can rent. So soon as they are ob
tained, our library and those belonging to the
Phi Delta and Oioeronian Societies, together
with the chemical and philosophical apparatus,
cabinet of minerals, and all the college furniture,
will be brought home.
On the first Wednesday in October next, the
session for the current year will begin.
We educate, free of tuition, twelve students
at tho time, to be nominated by the authorities
of Macon, Bnbjeot to the rales of the oollege
always in force, and also the sons of all the
evangelical pastors and preaohera resident in
the city. " . .
The future we must build. It is expected
that the houses shall be in .the best style of
architecture, an ornament to the city and a
lasting monument to the spirit of your people,
and others who have, and may give generously
to this great work. ■
To increase our endowment, add largely to
the number of Professors and teachers, that we
may build without debt, and reduce the price of
tuition to tho ability of the poor, will require
time, perseverance, and a mu, nnder the good
Providence of God, that must know no snch
word as fail
Our slow progress must be made rapid, by no
standing still or steps backward taken. That
whioh we attempt to do must be well considered
and pursued with unremitting diligence.
As soon as we shall be able, and all the
schools in all the departments of science" are
opened, innlading law, medioine, agrionlture,
bnsiness, and the like, we expect to plaoe Maoon
in the great work of education, where she is
now geographically, the Central City of the
State.
Some of our honored faculty have been in our
service nearly thirty years. Others from ten to
twenty-five, and J: J. Brantly since 1866.
Of the President elect, Dr. Curry, it needs
only to be said that his name and character are
familiar to all the inhabitants of our oountry,
aud he is a tower of strength in learning and
religion wherever residing.
Our agent, Rev. H. C. Horoady of LaGrange,
Ga., has discretionary powers and instructions
ample to reoeive all manner of donations from
all men, everywhere, in aid of this enterprise,
now so closely identified with yon, the city Of
Mbcod, and onr friends throughout the State.
Give ns, as we prove ourselves deserving,
yonr assistance, oonntenanoe and cheerful re
cognition. Give homes, at fair rates, to our sous
—treat them as the eons of your friends—own
them as temporary citizens—protect them as far
as possible from vice and corruption—and pnn-
ish'all offenders against good order and the. laws
of the State. D. E. Butler, .
President B. T. M. U.
July 26, 1871. "
AH the Way from Pike.
Editors Tdegraph and Messenger :—This will
assure you that Pike is alive, and in the line of
progress and enterprise. Onr crops look well
considering the disadvantages they have been
subjected to in the shape of rain and grass. The
farmers are generally rid of the grass, and cot
ton seems to be doing as well now as it eata.
The corn in this section is needing rain, and
should it visit us this week there will be an
abundance of the cereal made. Clover culture
is becoming a subject of earnest consideration
with onr farmers ; many aro raising it success
fully, and many more will commence it an
other season. The writer cut- a fine crop of hay
from some sown fhe 22d of February last on his
wheat, and the after-moth bids fair for another
good cutting before winter.
I suppose that sometime during next month
an election will be ordered to fill the unexpired
Senatorial term of the 22d District.' Pike will
claim the nominee upon the ground of its being
a vaoonoy daring the term of whioh she had the
regular nominee. I hope Bibb and Monroe will
readily grant it, because it is right The time
has come when diasention should not enter the
Democratic ranks, bnt unanimity and harmony
direct them in all their actions. By all means
let us have good, honest and sober men" to leg
islate for ns in. the future. And I am one of
those, Messrs. Editors, who believe that thor
ough reform in our looal, State and federal
governments, most be accomplished mainly by
the farmer; they have the power and the right;
and Mr. Gapron, in his monthly agricultural re
port for April, gave the signal for the revolu
tion. -*ȣ- -Vft J p
Zabulon, Ga., July 20, 1871.
Courfshlp and ltarrl*ce ln Holland.
From London Society.]
.Is it possible that ever the young of these
sober-minded people fall in love ? Young peo
ple do fall in love in tho customary manner, and
the swain makes his offer without any interme
diary assistance.. A marriage of convenience
is an unheard of thing. Consent of parents,
however, is necessary, for without it the marri
age of persons, even up to the age of thirty, may
be declared absolutely null and void; bnt any
one who is more than twenty-one has a legal
means of bringing a recalcitrant parent to reason.
When all that delightful private arrangement
has been made and consent of parents obtained
the engagement soon gets abroad, and the
young couple have to go in company to make
calls upon his friends and her friends. Tlfb
proverbial slip ’twixt the cap and lip is not un
known in Holland as elsewhere ; nevertheless,
this system of making formal engaged calls oer-
tainly does tend to prevent a rupture upon
slight grounds ; for it is a matter of no small
embarrassment to call upon the same people
a second time, and ceremoniously introduce
sweetheart number two I It is held to
be part of a lover’s duties to accompany his
mistress to parties and balls, and also his right
and pleasure to take her to theatres and con
certs unaccompanied by a chaperone; bnt he
is seldom asked to pay a visit in the came house
with her for more than the" day. Lovers al
ways choose the house and bny the furniture
together during the courtship. When the
time comes the two go together to the Town
Hall for the “aanteakening,” or betrothal.
This ia merely a public notice of the intention
to marry, and is given in writing. The no
tice is then pnt into a kind of box, pro
tected by a brass wire, and placed for
some time in a conspicuous part of the
hall. Banna are also published in church,
A runaway matoh is held to be thoroughly
disgraceful, is accomplished with difficulty,
and seldom attempted. Friends now, in
place of wedding cards, receive by post
a lithographed document announcing the
aanteekening. On the first Sunday after
noon snbseqaent to this, the braid and brnid-
groom, who are thus called in the interval
between the aanteekening and the wedding
day, hold a grand reception in the drawing-room
of the father of the braid. A sofa, sometimes
gaily decorated with flowers and evergreens,
being occupied by the two, the braid’s relations
range themselves at her right hand, the braidi-
Rom’s at his. The braid wears her wedding
dress, veil and orange wreath on this occasion,
and the company generally are in gala costume.
Visitors then, when announced, march np be
tween the two opposite lines of relations and
make pretty speeches to the happy pair; and,
after having intrusted themselves for a short
time to the care of the bruidsmeisjes, who,
dressed for the occasion, show the presents
placed upon a table at the other end of the room,
and offer hippocras and sweets called “braids-
suikers,” ai^l cake, make a rapid departure,
and are succeeded by others. The wedding
commonly takes place on the Thursday week
after reception Sunday, and daring the inter
val balls and parties are given in honor of
the young conpla. On the appointed day
~~ ding party, braid and braidgom
going aloffe in the first carriage, make first
for the Town Hall. The Burgomaster mArries
them, makes a little speech, aud receives their
signatures; to all this there must be four wit
nesses. Then to chnrch in the same order. The
party having assembled in a sort of vestry, the
braidgom gives his right arm to the braid and
lqpds the way to the chancel (reserved nowadays
for marriages only) or in the body of the church
m front of the pulpit. Here the pair set them
selves upon a central sofa, and relations range
themselves as at the aanteekening reception.
The ceremony .is simple, the couple being al
ready’married. After a hymn has been sung,
they merely have to acknowledge the fact of
marriage in answer to the clergyman, and, hav
ing advanced to 'two kneeling chairs ready
placed a few steps in front, receive a blessing
from him and a short exhertation. No ring is
used, but one is sometimes worn subsequently.
The new husband then gives his left arm to his
wife and leads the way home again. The wed
ding breakfast is a small affair, attended by the
very near relations.
How tho Khedive or Egypt Failed to
Establish His “Corps Uegislatif.”
Colonel Jas. M. Morgan, formerly of South
Carolina, but now an officer in the service of
the Khedive of Egypt, arrived reoently at New
York, and was straightway tackled by a "World
interviewer who reports results in a late issue
of that paper.- The reporter asked the Colonel
how the laws of that oountry axe made, and the
Colonel answers the question by tolling the fol
lowing story:
Well, when the Viceroy returned from France
he called his prime ministers together and said:
“In order to have a Rreal country we must have
a legislating body,” and he made known bis
plans. Delegates were selected from various
districts, and informed they must be divided in
opinion; that every measure should be debated,
and the minister vbo called them together said:
“Now, all who favor tho government will stay
on the right, those who oppose it will cross to
the left, and those undecided will remain in the
centre.” No sooner was the" division called
than all the delegates made ~a rash for the
right. ■ There was no opposition or no medium
parly. “This won’t do, said the minister “there
must be an opposition,” and he called to him
an old she>k named Ibrahim, and said: “You
must lead the opposition.” “What is it?”
said Ibrahim “Well, when the Govern
ment introduces a law yon must protest
and argue against it." “Hum,” said the sheik,
“then if the Khedive says he wants so and so,
I am to say no, you -shan’t have it.” “Yes,”
said the minister. A jovial smile lighted np the
tanned leather face of old Ibrahim ; he shook
his head and said: “None for Sheik Ibrahim;
too muoh bastinado.” After a time, by liberal
bribery, an opposition was established. One
day when the minister, Hasam Bey, was absent
one of the opposition violently opposed a meas
ure of the Khedive’s. A Government member
fromPanta jumped-up and moved that the op
position member b6 bastinadoed for treasonable
conduct. The motion was carried, and the re
cusant Egyptian was knocked down and basti
nadoed on the floor of the house. That was the
last session of the Egyptian Corps Legislatiff.
That sort of government would suit Grant
and his party exactly. We understand now why
suoha representative man as Beast Butler’s
nephew was sent to Egypt.
Decisions of the Supreme Court or
Georgia.
DELIYEBED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1871.
From the Atlanta Constitution. ]
H. Crutchfield, Administrator, vs. George
Patton et al. Equity, from Mitchel.
Lochsake, C. 3. The plaintiff in error in this
case fited his answer, in which he set up, by
way of cross bill, that a certain sum of money
found to be due by the Auditor "to parties there
in named, as daughters of the decedent, was
correct as to the facts set out in such report and
admitted the trust and the rights of the parties,
but alleged that such amount ought not to be
paid upon the ground that their husband’s
marital rights attached thereto, and they had,
by waste and mismanagement of the estate,
rendered themselves liable for a large£ amount
to the estate, and the oourt below dismissed the
cross bill upon motion:
Held, That the right at any time before a
final decree distributing the assets to file a bill
setting up power of equity agaiuBt the payment
of certain debts is recognized by this comt; and
if the subject matter has been previously liti
gated or adjudicated before the Auditor upon
the facts, and bv the court upon exceptions co
his report, relative to the law, and the interloc
utory judgment of the court has confirmed the
report, such facts must arise upon piea to the
cross bill, and it was error in the court to dis
miss the same upon motion.
Judgment reversed.
Lyon-, DeGraffenreid & Irvin, Vason & Davis,
for plaintiff inJL fa.
James L. 8eward, Wright £ Warren, A. D.
Hammond, John Rutherford, for defendants.
John Neal vs. George Patten et al. Bill to
marshal assets, from Dougherty.
MoCay, J.—Where a bill had been filed to
marshal the assets of an estate, and nnder an
interlocutory decree the assets bad been re-
dneed to money, and were in the hands of a re
ceiver :
Held, ThU it was error in the court to dis
miss from the litigation such judgment credit
ors, fonnded on debts contracted before June
1, 1863, on the ground that said judgment cred
itors had not filed the affidavit that all legal
judgment creditors had been paid, as provided
by the aot of October 18, 1870.
Judgment reversed.
Lyon & deGraffenried, Vason A Davis, for
plaintiff in error.
Wright £ Warren, J. L. Seward, A. D. Ham
mond, J. Rutherford, for defendants.
Moses P. Hollis vs. John Williams. Injunc
tion from Calhoun.
Wabneb, J.—A bill was filed by the complain
ant against the defendant, alleging that he pur
chased certain property, inolnding a steam mill
and a turnpike, which the defendant represented
himself to be the owner, and having good title
thereto, when, in fact, the defendant did hot
have such title, bnt that there was an incum
brance on the Steam mill, and that the defendant
at the time of the sale, did not have a good title
to the turnpike (which was one of the main in
ducements to mako the purchase) and that the
complainant had been deprived of the posses
sion of the turnpike by a paramount title exist
ing in the county of Dougherty, nnder a con
tract made with the defendant prior to his con
tract of sale to the complainant, the complain
ant relying solely upon the representations of
the defendant as to the soundness, and validity
of his title to the steam mill and turnpike. The
prayer of the bill is that the defendant may be
enjoined from transferdag certain notes given
for the purchase of the property, and to enjoin
the collection of oertain other notes due by other
parties to the defendant, alleging that the
defendant is insolvent The oourt granted tbs
injunction, and a motion was made to dissolve
it on the filing of the defendant’s answer, on
the ground that there was no equity in com
plainant’s bill, and it there was, it bad been
denied by the answer. There were various affi-
tien by both parties, whioh ware conflicting j,
to the equity stated in the complainant's bill
The court refused to dissolve the tojancticn
and the defendant excepted"; -
Held, That the question of retaining or dij.
solving an injunction rests in the sound disci*
tion of the oourt, and in cases where the efi.
denee is conflicting, and especially where fray
is charged, this court will not oontrol the di 5 .
cretion of the court below in retaining the ia.
junction until the final hearing of the caso
though this oourt would have been better sati>
fied if the injunction had been confined to the
notes given for the property in the hands of the
defendant, bnt inasmuch as the court below ha
the discretion to modify tho injunction at an?
time, or continue in its discretion,_we will net
interfere with that discretion.
Judgment affirmed.
L. D. Muuroe, W. A. Hawkins, for plaintiff
in error.
James E. Walker vs. Wm. H. Whitehead
Relief Act of 1871, from Baker.
Loohbane, C. J.—Where the court below dis
missed a cose under the provisions of the act
of I3th October, 1870, for failure to file the affl
davit required that the party had paid all lead
taxes due- and chargeable thereon : 6
Held, That the provision of tho aot of Octo.
ber, 1870, is constitutional, and the Legislator*
of the State had the power under the constilo'
tion, to pass such laws as was deemed essential
to the public welfare and is the proper arbiter
of the. policy of snch laws, and courts have no
right to restrain by construction, the power del-
egated by the people in convention, to the Deo-
pie s representatives.
Held, again, That the duty to pay legal iax&
due and chargable upon property is one of the
highest duties imposed by government upon iti
citizens, and it is not an impairment of the ob
ligation of contracts.for the State to require
payment of snch taxes due thereon and prescribe
the mode by which such payment shall appear^
before her courts with their process aud power*
may be used to enforce such contracts.
Held, again, That if the failure to pay lcg,_
taxes due the State or make affidavit that the"
have been paid, after six months have bee:
granted by the Legislature for that purpose
works a failure of the remedy by law to enforc
contracts, Buch failure of the remedy is the ]<
gitimate result of the failure of the party to pai
his legal tax, or oomply with the laws of t!i
Stat6, and such failure of the remedy, so is
voked by the party himself, is not an impair
ment of his obligation of contraot.
Judgment affirmed.
McCat, concurring.—1. The act of Oetol
13th, 1870, requiring all legal taxes then due
be paid upon debts contracted prior to June ]■
1865, before any-jodgment shall be had, or ar
levy or sale made to recover the sum and:
quiring the dismissal of any pending suit upc
such debts, if the plaintiff, within six moct!
after the passage of the act, fail to file an a£
davit that snch legal taxes have been paid, i;
poses no duty upon.the.plaintiff inconsiste
with that claoso of the Constitution of ti
United States prohibiting any State from pi
ing any law impairing the obligation of
traols.
2. The act of October 13th, 1870, only
quires the performance of a legal duty imp
by the laws of this State, at the date of the
tract, which legal duty if not performed at
time agreed by law, may, nnder section 8Gt>
the Code, be performed at any time thereafii
and it is clearly within the power of the Lei
lature to impose upon the suitors in its coi
the present performance of said duty as a <
dition precedent to the use of the powers
principles of the court for the collection of
debt, upon which the duty arises. Suchp
alty is not for the past failure to pay, bat fi
the refusal to perform a present and contini
duty.
Wabneb, J., dissenting.—This was an actii
brought by the plaintiff against the defend:
on a promissory note, dated 28th Maxob, l&Cj
on whioh there is due the snmof $4,663,
besides interest. When the case was called
the docket in the court below, the defeni
oounsel mode a motion to dismiss it, on a
ground that the plaintiff had not filed an d
davit that all legal taxes chargable by lawn
been duly paid on said debt, in accordance r
the provisions of an act of the General
sembly passed on the 13th of October, li
denying to plaintiffs the aid of the court*
collect debts contracted before tho 1st of
1865, until the taxes thereon havo been pt,
The court sustained tho motion, and dismii
the case, and the plaintiff excepted. My opii
in regard to this class of legislative enactme:
has been repeatedly expressed, and this act
quite as obnoxious to the fundamental lav
tile land, as any of the others; it imposes c:
ditions on the legal rights of the plantiff, wla
did not exist at tho time the contract was mai:
is sx post facto in its character, inasmuch a:
assumes that a particular class of the citizen 1
the State are guilty of a criminal offense,
outlaws them from the enforcement of 11
legal rights in the coarts, invades the lei
rights of the plaintiff under contract all
time it was made, and impairs the legal cl
gation thereof within the $rae intent nnu UK
ing of the prohibition contained in the te
section of tne first article of the Constitutio:
the United States, and is therefore void.
Hines £ Hobbs,'for plaintiff in error.
Lyon, DeGraffenreid £ Irwin, W. A
kins, for defendant.
An Extraordinary Bale of t ottof
We find the following in the Herald of j
22d, Mention has already been made of:
bale of cotton in onr telegraphic column, j
the paragraph from tho Herald will be foj
quite interesting:
A sample of the finest bale of cotton ever jj
duced, was exhibited at the New York Cca
Exchange yesterday. The weight of the "a
was 443 pounds, which, in the aggregate,!)
ized the respeotable sum of $3,312 20—an i]
age of $7 48 per pound. The cotton was tin
by W. B. McShaw, Lee connty, Mississippi,]
picked by himself, wife and daughter in A
parlor, and took the first premium of $5C61
the best bale of Rhort staple cotton offerecl
the SL Louis Fair last October. Agairi, it A
the sweepstakes prize of $1,000 offered f«l
best bale of either long or short staple. Lf
which Mr. McShaw donated the cotton to]
Southern Educational Society, which offers]
on the St. Louis Corn Exchange, and sol'
to Mr. D. G. Tutt, of that city,
thirty cents per ponnd. Mr. Tutt, in turn, j
sented it to the same society, when itwastil
sold at twenty-five cents per pound. ig i '|
was. presented to the society, when it reij
thirty-eight cents per ponnd, the buyer ij.l
case presenting it as formerly. After tLj
was not offered for sale by the socioly, hatf
raffled for $1,000, and afterwards sold gjl
sold, to be finally purchased by Messrs. Sbyi
£ Rowland, of St. Louis, who shipped j
Messrs. Norton, Slaughter £ Co., of thisfl
for the purpose of getting it so far away *1
prevent it being entered for the $1,000 prea-f
to be offered at the fair in October next, ss]
as to test the appreciation of Northern ltd
and manufacturers of the industry of Mrs-*
Shaw and daughter, whose fair hands hav« j
pared for exhibition, beyond doubt, the ‘
bale of cotton ever grown in any cos:
Messrs. Norton, Slaughter £ Co. report
of this ootton at fifty ceHts per ponr.il, ttrfl
Messrs. S. Mann, 8on£ Co., cotton brokfj
Mr. Johnathan Earl, Treasurer of Norfouj
New Brunswick Hosiery Company, of
Brunswick, N. J. „ c ,.j
At the request of Mr. Earl, Mr. T. J. Si» j
tor will write Mrs. McShaw for measure it e q
herself and daughter, who will be pre^l
with full undersuits manufactured from |
remarkable cotton.
The Grand Central, which is, pa* 1
nance, the Southern hotel of New York, M
spoken off by c correspondent of the Co
Journal: _ ^
On the ensuing evening, the quiet: S* jj
in the largest of tho suite of parlors in tae J
Central, I heard a sacred concert, and l* 1 '
there is no feature of this magnificent
more impressive to a stranger (and espeoJ
a Southern stranger) than the home- -
ering of the ladies and gentleman to e B l°r.
close of a Sabbath together. I am no
critic, but I shall have to live until the EH
my head waxen after the similitude
beard of Methuselah before I forget that
of Ages” in quartette.
I find many of onr best Southern peep 1
and really it feels Hke a home circle, y*
Forrest and several other Southern raur
fleiais have been gathered here for some
Feuet Jabs.-—Qnr enterprising friend,
Wise,,with no view to producing fwmtt]
bnt with the sole purpose of jarring C<j
Georgia with fimit jam, has laid in a W
of all Mads of jam for preserving
can suit anybody in the aixe, quality
of fruit jam, and invites everybody to
his Mulberry street crockery establiwn^
examine (he stock.
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