Georgia weekly telegraph and Georgia journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1869-1880, August 01, 1871, Image 6
lllM—liMBIM Ml The Greorgia, 'W'eehlv Telegraph and. - MM &c IVfessen^er. Telegraph and Messenger. The MACON AUGUST, 1, 1871. Carrying Concealed Weapon's. The papers State that Governor Senter, of Tennessee, has deolared ho will not pardon any person convicted of carrying or using concealed weapons. This determination, we think, is justified by the ait- nation. Since the termination of the war, the practice of carrying a concealed armory of deadly weapons about the person has been quite too general, and has been fruitful of misohief. Among the negroes, particularly, it has been very mischievous. The ambition to own and “tote” pistols, has been almost universal, and, as a consequence, quarrels very often take the shape of murderous affrays. And the statute is so inadequately enforced that we dare say many of the colored race are ignorant of the fact that carrying arms seoretly is an indictable offence. It is time now to tom over a new leaf,- and juries, courts and executive officers should make offenders smart, whenever they can find a chance. As Albany paper says: “A North Adams man named Hawley, who was a school-teacher in Mississippi, has just returned home, and tell3 a fearful story of persecution at the hand of tho Ku-klnx. He says that, notwithstanding the fact that he was lying low with fever, he was. called np at night and ordered to leave the State instantly. He was not even permitted to take his trunk with him.” That’s always the way with them. "Whenever a carpet-bagger acci dently learns that the tracks around the hen roost lit his, and that the Constable i3 in search of him, he hurries away to the North and reports that the Ku-klnx had ordered him to leave the State at once, not even permitting him to lake his trank with him. - Ten chances to one tho North Adams man, like the rest of them, had no trunk to take with him.—Courier-Journal. The Broad and Nabbow Guage.—A writer in tho World says the dead weight to the passen ger on the New York Central amountedlast year to a ton and a half. It was 306,250,000 pourfis- to 200,000,000 passengers. The old stage coach carried one-third of a ton of dead weight to every ton of passengers. Tho weight of a com mon passenger car on a 4 feet 8J inch gauge road is 82,000 pounds. On freight "traffic the dead weight averages abont 50 per cent. On tho London and Northwestern Boad investiga tion established the fact that it took forty mil lion tons of engines and cars to banl ten mil lion tons of merchandise—making the propor tion of non-paying freight os one to four. On the narrow gauge Mr. Fairlie estimates that three tons of merchandise can be carried by one ton of car weight. A New Fertilizer.—The Newark Advorliser tells of a Jerseyman who has leased two miles of beach, and, in the months of May and Jnne, captnros millions of the horse-shoe crab—a worthless creature which comes ashore by myri ads in those months to inenbate, and is, no donbt, familliar, at least in respect to its empty shell of horse-shoe shape, with a long, sharp, horny tail, to most of our readers. These crabs are stacked np to die, and lose four-fifths of their weight in drying. They are then ground to a flour, and sell readily at 830 per ton. The sub stance is called cancerine, and is a valuable fer tilizer. Bowen and thenegroRepresentativeDeLarge have, it is said, arranged their difficulties. It is reported that DeLarge will withdraw from Congress and yield the contest to Bowen, tho pardoned ox-membor. This is supposed to be from the knowledge that tho proof of frand on the part of bis friends in tho election is incon- testible. DeLarge, it is said, will accept the position of Fostmaster or Collector of the port, if the President will appoint him. The accounts from Persia are horrible. Fam ine, cholera, iyphus fever and plague are raging, and foreigners have fled the country. The grave yards are guarded to prevent the survi vors from satiating the pangs of hunger on the bodies of the freshly dead. Surely, such misery is unexampled. Bat famine is the parent of all physical ills—it is almost sure to bring pesti lence in its train, and war, as the originator of famime generally, (though not in this case) leads the speotral triad. The "Viaduct Bait-way.—Tho first report of survey was made last Monday. It proposes two routes from the City Hall to Harlem, with four tracks each—two for fast through trains stop ping only every two miles, and making the dis tance in twenty minutes, and two for slower trains stepping every half mile. Branch roads will also be bailt to the battery. It is estimated that each branch from the City Hall to Harlem will cost 822,500,000, and the aggregate income be 89,500,000. Fbeioht which left New York per steamer San Salvador on Sunday morning, July 23, for Macon, and whieh came via Savannah and Cen tral Railroad, was delivered to consignees in Macon on the morning of Thursday Jnly 27, in four days, being one day faster than the ship ment from Baltimore to Macon via Charleston, noted in a late issue of the Telegraph and Messenger. Macon and Knoxville Connec tion. We print on the outside of this issue, an arti cle from the Knoxville Press and Herald, of Thursday, which will be of interest to our read ers, generally, as showing the spirit of the peo ple of that city and section, and their deep interest in the proposed connection between Macon and Knoxville by means of the Oemulgee and North Georgia Bailroad. We also, on yesterday, had a call from Col. Jerry Cowles, of this city, the projector and un tiring worker for the proposed road, who has just returned from Knoxville,. and was kind enough to communicate some interesting infor mation with regard to the prospects of the road. While nothing definite as to its construction has been yet settled, still there are well grounded reasons for believing that the project.ia-very favorably regarded by parties with ample means to put the whole line through. These parties (Canadians) who have their headquarters at Chi cago, and who are now building the North Pacifio Bail way, have recently sent out two eminent engineers for the purpose of surveying tbs pro posed route of the road, and upon their report a decision will be made. The 12 ih of August is the day named for the decision, so that, with in two weeks, we shall know what the road’s prospects for bnilding are, so far, at Iea3t, as the Chicago capitalists are concerned. CoL Cowles, who passed over the route from Covington to the Ducktown Copper Mines with these engineers, says they were, in the main, perfectly satisfied with the survey heretofore made to Lawrenceville, and that they were also most favorably impressed with the character and quantity of the resources of the country through which the road will pass. It is reason able to believo that their report will be highly favorable, and that 'the action of tho Chicago partie3 will be correspondingly influenced by it in the right direction. Col. Cowle3 represented the feeling of tho people of the various coun ties along the line of survey as most heartily favorable to the road, and every assistance, such as fnrnisbing guides, giving information, etc., was most cordially rendered. As stated in the article from the Press and Herald, the Duck Town Copper Mining Company have offered to subscribe 8500,000 towards the road if run by that point, and there is little reason to donbt that this subscription would not bo materially increased, as the road would give them a rail, way outlet and transportation which they how have to seek at Cleveland, forty miles away. In the event that the road seeks Knoxville lb that point (Cleveland) tho mining company will transfer to tho road, free of cost, a broad, well graded dirt road, which they have, at great ex pence, dug out of the side of the mountain,- and over which all their ore is hauled to Cleveland. •This, of course, would greatly lessen the con struction of the railway between those two points. Bat time and space forbid farther comment on this subject at present. As citizens of Ma con we do now, and have always cordially fa vored the bnilding of this road, not altogether because we deemed its construction sure to prove of great benefit to Macon and Macon in terests, but because it seemed certain to prove of vast advantage to the State at large. South west Georgia buys meat, com and mules from the "West, and the more competition there is in lines of transportation between the two sections the cheaper will be freight rates, of course, and the greater the benefit to both seller and buyer. It appears, then, that in this respect the road will prove a most important one to the great plant ing interests of Southern and Southwestern Georgia. Tho incalculable advantages that it will confer upon the people of North and North eastern Georgia, so long shut out from commu nication with the outside world are too appa rent, and plead with too eloquent a voice to need any words from ns here. When it is re membered what giving them a market-will do towards developing their immense-mineral and other resources, and thus adding to the general aggregate of the taxable property of the State, it seem3, indeed, a work of supererogation to advance one single argument or make a solitary plea in favor of the road from that standpoint. We hopo to be able to announce, very soon, that the construction of the Ocmnlgee and North Georgia Bailroad is a fact, the accomplishment of which is only a matter of time and muscle. The foundations of Vanderbilt’s great Hud son Biver freight depot which occupies the site of the old St. Johns Park, are partially giving way under the immense'weight of storage and are now being renewed at a great expense.- The iron pillars which sustain the central portions are now being placed on a substructure of heavy stone carved thirteen feet below the level of the street. Fboijo or the Heavy Weights.—The New York “Heavy Men’s Association” held a grand clam-bake last week. Not a man was there who weighed less than the minimum 200, but there were no ladies. Now, tho next time the heavy weights have a pic-nio, let them send down to Georgia and they can be matched with ladies to correspond—real queenly, august 200 pounders, and not obese either. Cuba.—The New Minister of Spain yesterday resolved to pat down the Caban insurrection at any cost of life or money. There is a lively atory in the dispatches abont a force of 7,000 filibusters, Canadian and American, getting ready to sail from New York in two or three weeks. They will hardly get off on that length of previous notice. North Biter on Fire.—A brig loaded with petroleum took lire, and was sculled and sunk in North Biver on S on day night. The pretrolenm, floating on the surface of the water, took fire, and tho flames spread np and down a mile in extent, presenting, for more than twenty-four hours, the novel apeotaclo of a river on fire. ' Heligoland.—The German press says, growl W the British lion may, Germany is bound to have Heligoland. It is part of the “Faderland” and must be forthcoming, hit or miss. The New York Son charges that Gen. Grant, notwithstanding the defeat of the San Domingo treaty, has, in fait, made & second payment of $150,000 for the rent of Samana Bay. The Baltimore Gazette reports that Holdon is to be the editor and proprietor of tho now Southern Badical organ at Washington. Bzv. Dr. Ramsay, » distinguished Presby terian clergyman at Lynchburg,.died last Mon day. '***' Kimball Currency Again. A correspondent of the Cuthbert Appeal joins issue with ns, because we complain of the Kim ball money and recommend farmers not to hoard it. In this the writer is by no means singnlar, as he has heard contractors and prominent mer chants of Cuthbert quite a3 emphatic as him self in their expressions concerning it No per sonal objection is songht to be raised, either against Mr. Kimball or the Brunswick ond Al bany Boad. We sincerely trust the former will be" able to redeem the last cent of his obliga tions. Bat this is not tho question. The contractors, mechanics and laborers engaged in tha bnilding of the road, set in to work for money, real, bona fide money, which they could spend in any mar ket, or. lay. aside, if they chose, for “a rainy day.” We submit whether they can do this with the “white money” they receive, The writer in the Appeal says, “so far as J.’s suppositions go, they apply to every business that has been started by mortals. Bisk is a sure alternative; with all due deference, it sounds old- womanish to be supposing this, that or the other enterprise should fail.” We like the “go it blind” pluck of our friend, but can’t see why all the risk should bo on one side. Sorely, no one will say Mr. Kimball, with the great State of Geor gia at his back, and gold-bearing bonds to the extent of $22,000 per mile in hand, to pay for a road that will not cost half at the amount, in curs any risk? Then, why not purchase na tional currency and pay Ms employees in the lawful money of the country ? The argument “there is room enough for ali now afloat of all kinds,” (alluding to the Kim ball issue,) is best met by reference to'the price of gold, and the constant efforts of the Gov ernment to reduce tho volume of onr inflated currency. True, being “valueless abroad,” it can only affect the localities where it passes current. Bnt these localities oonstitnte the world of those who inhabit them; and are they to be denied the common blessing of a proper medium of exchange, such ns the law has pro vided for them? As to the “convenience" of these bills, they do serve admirably to drain the country of its fractional currency, if this be regarded a convenience. In conclusion, we trnst that our Cuthbert friend will banish, at once and forever, the idea that either Macon or the writer can be forced into any antagonism with his beautiful City. God grant that Bhe may become the flourishing centre, not only of a system of railroads, bnt the radiating point of intelligence, edacation and refinement in that whole region of opnntry. Cotton Stealings.—The Commercial Adver tiser says the cotton dealers are casting abont to find some remedy for the immense loss of weight, occasioned by pilfering from the bale by vagabonds, big and little. One plan suggested is the concentration of the cotton at a few points where it can be under surveillance ell the time. It is proposed to establish great warehouses at Commnnipaw, Bed Hook and at the Atlantic docks in Brooklyn. THE LONG BRANCH CAUCUS. The Two Alternatives—A Galvanised Ha itian or a General Amnesty and Over flowing Love. Onr readers know that some days ago there was a gathering of several of the B&dioal Saints from the South and elsewhere, at the Long Branch"villa of His Excellency, the President of the United States—certain prominent North- em engineers, among whom was the sagacious Forney, and a liberal sprinkling of Southern Fnglemen, among whom was Gov. Bollock, of Georgia. The business on hand was to compare views upon the issues and. tactics for the grand cam paign of 1872, and, of course, this interesting party did not sit with open doors. Bat it is hard to congregate even nq very large crowd without finding some leaky vessel among the number; and there was"one such leaky vessel at this con clave—a person singularly described as “a New England politician from Florida.” TMs man could not bold in, but found a vent somewhere on the road homeward and disclosed the conclu sions of the oonclave. The line of battle had been badly disarranged by the “new departure”—so-called. The plan elaborated and digested by Morton, Butler, Forney and others, had th9 merit of entire har mony with the feelings and precedents of the Badical organization. - It cost them no sacrifice of inclination or good will to pursue a system of bitter and unsparing warfare upon the whites of the South, and there was not one par ticle of doubt that it could be prosecuted with triumphant success so long as the Southern wMtes arrayed themselves against any of the so-called *fruits of the war.” Anything wMch could be tortured into a sectional opposition to that great seotional victory was, at least, a gage of moral battle—a virtual prolongation of the fight, in which Southern defeat was a foregone conclusion, and wherein all Northern supporters and sympathizers would unfailingly share the common overthrow. The misfortune of the situation was that in order to put tHs war in a line of vigorous pros ecution the strategy had to be exposed. There must be a Ku-klnx bill and Ku-klnx committees and investigations,, and a long array of violences and cruelties towards the “Southern Unionists, black and wMte, proved and printed, to show beyond controversy that the pertinacious resist ance of the South to tho constitutional amend ments had its origin, not in any abstract politi cal principles, but in rebellious and malignant purposes. - ,■ The parade of all this enginery in advance disclosed the plan of battle, and rendered strat egy impossible. Hence, after Grant bad foroed the Kn-klnx bill through Congress, he started immediately out on his Western tour with Mor ton, and boldly resolved to pin the issue of a fight against these amendments upon the Dem ocratic party. But the prompt declarations of the Northern Democrats that they would make no fight against these amendments, however corruptly obtained, disgruntled the whole ar- rangement One great object of this meeting of Southern and Northern “representative Bepnblicans,” was to hear particularly from'the former whether tho Southern whites were likely to push opposi tion to the “new departure” to the point of schism, and how heavy a Ku-klnx indictment could bo made out against the Southern white? The inforination on either hand was not very gratifying or as promising as could be desired; but still it left a fair chance of success open. It was determined, therefore, for the present, to rest on the established order of battle and proceed, might and main, to “galvanize the Ku-klux,” (that was the expression,) with all the appliances, energy and activity at the com mand of the party. Before the end of the next session of Congress it could be seen what effect these operations were likely to prodace on the Northern mind. If they were likely to reawaken and intensify the war spirit and sectional con- tempt, and hatred and distrustr-nothing better conld be desired. The campaign conld then go on according to Morton’s original draft, and wonld be a reappeal to every feeling of the North wMch was enlisted and exasperated by the bloody strifes of 1861-5. The report of the majority of the Ku-klux Committee eould be backed before the people with all the resources of pictorial art. Pictures of the hanging and whipping of negroes—of burning school houses and defenceless Northern school manna, fleeing before the intonated Ku-klux, could hardly fail to stimulate Northern exasperation almost to madness and overwhelm the Demooratio apolo gists and sympathizers with popular loathing; But, on the other hand,"it was not to bo dis guised that the loyal witnesses, so far before the Committee, were of snch a character as to de tract from the force of their testimony; and there appeared to be a growing inclination among the Northern voters to qoiet sectional animosities—let by-gones be by-gones, and re store the era of sectional good-fellowship and fraternity. If, unfortunately, this feeling should be likely to frostrate, the Morton plan of bat tle-nothing then remained but a “new depart ure more striking than any conceived by the Democrats. The demand for a restoration of fraternal feelings most be met by the Badicals with a programme of the broadest and most liberal charaoter. They most proclaim at once univer sal amnesty and the restoration of confidence and love. They mnst throw away the Kn-klux enginery and buy np and conciliate a strong wMte following in the Sonth. There wonld be ample time for the National Bepublioan Con- vcDlion to proclaim this grand revolution in the public polioy, and for the administration to fol low suit with honied words and gilded palms to the despised and down-trodden wMtes of the Southern States. Thus, without losing the ne gro following, they wonld supplement it power fully in the Sonth, and at the same lime they conld appeal to the North and say, “ having re stored Southern peace and order on the basis of universal equality, we are now abont to Eecnre Southern love and gratitnd9. We havo used the rod successfully. We now tender the olive branch.” These, in brief, were the two grand alterna tive proposed and adopted by the Presidential conclave at Long Branch, as we have good rea son-to believe. THE HEORHKA FRESH. An Old Document.—A friend came across, the other day, an old pampHet (1858) being a design for laying out the Central Park in New York city, with a plan in lithograph, by Samuel L Gnstin, now of this city. [We will save Mr. Gostin’s modesty by saying that he knows noticing abont this notice.) TMs plan developes the Park very mhch as it now exists. Itwasrejected,because considered too extensive and costly; bnt it received the second premium, and subsequently nearly all the ideas of Mr. G. were adopted—even to the * extension wMch he planned. Mr. G. is a first-rate landscape gardener, and is extending Ms aid to beantify the Fair Grounds in Uus city, as far as means will permit. Bev. W. D. Thomas, of Greenville, 8. C., who was called to the charge of the Second Baptist Church at Atlanta, , has "deolinel to accept, as he is going to take charge of a church at Norfolk, Ya. We dip the following items from tho Colum bus Son, of Thursday: . Why Cannot Othjses jk> Likewise ?—The idea is prevalent throughout tho Gulf States, that, in order to raise Irish potatoes in onr section, the seed must be procured each year from the North or at least some cooler climate than our own. This is very erroneous, judging from what we have seen and been told. Yesterday, Mr. J&6b Burras showed ns in Ms establishment a bushel of "Irish potatoes, each as large as a man’s fist. They had been purchased of Mr. Mossman, who has a place in Bussell county, Alabama These potatoes are in turn successors to seed wMch Mr. Mossman purchased ten years ago. He preserves seed from Ms own crop each season. He places^ such. as he wishes to save, spread out in a dry cellar. He says to raise large potatoes the seed must be large; but if a hill full be desired, seed of hickory nut size is best. He has about an acre in Irish potatoes wMdh yields one hundred bnshels. These he sells at $2 00@$2 40 per bushel, thus realizing $200@$240 to the acre. This is equivalent to two and a half bales of cotton at 20oper pound. Mr. Mossman ought to exMbit specimens of Ms potatoes at our Fair next fall. Cattle Sold.—Twelve head were sold yester day on commission, by Captain J. A. Cody, for $170. They were small specimens of the beef tribe, and netted about three hundred ponnds. Two were virtually thrown in. The farmers in this immediate neighborhood are bringing more cattle to IMs market than ever before. The variety, however, resembles the lean Mne of Egypt we sometimes read of.' Money is realized and teeth are practiced. The board of referees appointed to deoide the controversy between the Tax Beceiver of Richmond county and the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Bailroad, as to the value of the real estate owned in the county by that corpo ration, have decided against the road. They deoide that the property in question should be estimated at $75,000, instead of $40,000. It is not a very healthy sign that the City Council of Augusta have passed a resolution to enlarge the cemetery down there. The Chronicle and Sentinel say s there are over one hundred youths from that vicinity now stu dents in colleges in other States, not inoluding fifteen or twenty receiving an education in Can ada. We entirely agree with that paper that “this faot points to the necessity of having a single well endowed institution, wMch will com mand the respect and compel the patronage of bur own citizens.” Mbs. Sfsaoui’s Dress.—Six and a half yards of French silk—eighteen thousand dollars. The papers make this item the text for abundant homilies on female extravagance—bnt who would not like to ste the French silk which eopt $2,768 per yard? BHi$B!yjtmust be fine and gloriously embroidere£^Mi£|tpo donbt A sawfish wag captured off Wilmington Island near Savannah, on Thursday, that measured twelve feet, with a saw four feet in length Mr. F. Douglas, of Blackahear, was before United States Commissioner Wayne, at Savan nah, on Wednesday, charged with passing coun terfeit money—two $20 notes—on a dealer in iron railing in that city. The Advertiser, from which we quote, tMnks Mr. D. will clearly es tablish his innocence. The Savannah New3 of Thursday gives (he history, now drawing to a close, of one of those “smart” individuals from the North who came South after the war to teach our people how to farm, and settled near that city. It says: The planter in question was a captain of a negro company, under that prince of raiders, Sherman, in his “march to tho sea,” and after wards became a Bureau Agent. Becoming in fatuated, as we have said, with tho idea of own ing a “big plantation,” and controlling a gang of negroes, be negotiated with a gentleman for the purchase of Ms place, at the price demand ed, viz; $28,000; one-third to be paid in cash, the balance in one and two years. These facts he communicated to his relatives North, who sent Mm $10,000 to commonco Ms fortune as a Southern planter. The bargain was closed; he proceeded to employ his hands, paying from twelve to fifteen dollars per month; planted seventy-five or one hundred aores in cotton, and went in for a big crop. Thinking the soil was not sufficiently productive to yield as fine cotton as he desired, or S3 much of it, he usod expensive fertilizers freely. Ho felt comforta ble and happy; he was now on the road to riches, munificence and importance. At the end of the first year the Maine-Georgia planter did not gather a single bale of cotton. The last installment on his purchase became dno a short time ago; he tried, unsuccessfully, to raise the amount, $500, necessary to prevent the fore closure of the mortgage, when a neighbor, a Sonthem sufferer, assumed the payment and satisfied the demands of Ms oreditor. Standing with him in the field one day last spring, Ms neighbor noticed a very fertile spot of ground lying out, overran with dewberry vines, and asked Mm the meaning of it. Ho remarked that it produced berries very finely, and he expected to sell a' great many of them in thq market. He did so, and it actually sup- sorted him during the blackberry season. Bnt bis last speculation rained Ms hopes. In con versation with his neighbor, he noticed that he had a great many watermelons, and asked why he (the neighbor) did not send them to "market. He replied that he conld not get more than ten cents a piece for them. He offered that much immediately. His offer was acoepted, and he hanled Ms melons to market, where he was last seen offering them to purchasers at eight cents apiece. We can imagine what that Yankee’s opinion of farming in Georgia with free ne groes is by this time. Ohas. Obadiah Johnson, a notorious Griffin scallawag, has sued the Atlanta Sun for $25,000 worth of defamation of character. If he gets 25 cents he will realize at least 100 per cent, on his capital stock of that description. Greene county hurrahs over two open cotton bolls—the earliest ever known in that county. Dr. MeJunkin, an old .and highly respected citizen of Greene county, died last Saturday. The Atlanta Era speaks some words of sober ness and truth to the firemen, in connection with Judge Lochrane’s recent decision. It says: Get a bill drafted, and sb soon as the next Legislature assembles, have it presented. Make it briof and general; enacting that all Iona fide firemen on active duly shall have certain privi leges and immunities, among them exemption from jnry duty. This will be passed without a murmur, and the question set at rest. Mrs. Sarah Maxwell, of Griffin, died last Wednesday. We find the following items in the Griffin Georgian, of yesterday: It has became onr unpleasant dnty to record an instance of barbarous cruelty that wonld shock the nerves of a Hottentot. The author of this cruelty, is one Pink Dupree, of Piko county, and the victims of Ms brutality are his two children, one eight years of age and the other ten. He commenced his work of devilment by first taking these cMldreh from their grand-parent, in Mississippi, (to whose special care they had been given by a dying mother to raise and educate) with the under standing that he would carry them to a town near by. and make them some presents, and return with them. But instead of returning with them he brought them to Georgia, where they have been the special recipients of Ms cruelty. These two boys were brought into our offloe. We examined them. The tips of. their thumbs and fingers had the appearance of being mashed. They were blue from bruises, and the nails of several had come off. The boys on befog asked the cause of these mashed flngors, replied that their father had split a pole and put their fin gers in the split, and pulled out the wedge, saving them in the clamp. One of them had a peculiar mark on his nose that had the appear ance of having been in a place Similar to that in which the fingers were clamped, and the little boy did not hesitate to assert that his father had placed his nose in the clamp. The other one added that he had placed his tongue in the clamp, and showed it to the crowd A piece had been cut out. The scar of the clamp could be readily seen. Besides these marks of'bru tality, two great, gaping soars on the breast of one, and a back, black from'bruises, was shown us. together with scars and knots on the head The man Dupree was arrested on a writ of habeas corpus by the grand-father of the chil dren, who desired to carry them to opened up to onr friends in that county. CoL iZ T.Doyal has leased one body of eight hun dred acres, and proposes at an early day to com mence work. Bust in Cotton.—We are reliably informed that rust has made its appearance on several plantations in Butts oounty, and is likely to re sult disastrously to the growing cotton crop. On one plantation, particularly, this side of Jack- son, on which is said to be the best eotton in the county, rust is playing havoo the weed. The Star, same date, saya: . From Charlie Wright, Esq , who has been on a visit to McDonough this week, we learn that George Lemons and wife, colored, went to ohnrch on last Sunday night, leaving four chil dren in the house. While gone, the bouse from some cause caught on fire, and three of the ohildren were burned to death. A . Columbus, np to Thursday night, had receiv ed 76,204 bales of cotton—shipped 74,177, and had 2,027 bales on hand. Appling County Milch Cows.—The Enquirer heard the reliable gentleman say that be lately saw in Appling county a lot of one hundred and fourteen cows milked, and that one gourd held the.entire yield! Appling has abandoned the idea of going into the dairy business. The Enquirer gives the proceedings of a rail road meeting on Wednesday at “Buffalo Wal low,” where the party doubtless had a wet time of it. Business in Columbus.—The Sun saya suffi cient city returns of the last quarterly sales have come in to show that they are 18 percent, less than the same time last year. Some deal ers, however, report a greater amount than dur ing the quarter in 1870. This shows, however, that much more goods have been disposed of— about 7 per cent, more—because prices are at least 25 per cent, less than they were last year. Tho decrease is especially marked in corn and bacon. From the same paper we dip the following: A bedstead was levied on for money owed by a negro woman. Twelve other colored ladies claim it as" their property. ~ Matter has been brought before a justice and the “levyer” sus tained. Crop Reports.—Tho cropi in Muscogee and Stewart counties are reported as doing well. In Stewart about half a corn crop will be made and a three-qnarter one of cotton. The cotton looks well, but the stand is poor. In the adjoining Alabama counties rain is needed. Com there is very good, cotton abont the same as in the Georgia ooontieB. ■/. At Buffalo Wallow, says the Sun, a young merchant was conversing with a charming young lady when she said: “You gentlemen from Co lumbus mnst think of nothing else but business, you are always poking your cards into one’s face.” He must have been cultivating mammon as well as Cupid, The total interments in Savannah for the week ending July 22d, 1871, Is 21. Of these 10 are wMtes and 11 negroes. Last year the number was 20. The-Newuah Herald, of Friday, says the First National Bank of Newnan, Georgia, has been organized with a paid np capital of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, and will commence a general banking business on the 1st of September. The Borne Commercial says: Serious Accident.—On last Saturday as Mr. Weston was riding with Miss Martha Smith, on the Alabama road, abont a mile below Cave Spring, Jais horse took fright and ran away. Both were thrown from'the bnggy, and Mr. W. was seriously and it is feared fatally injured, and Miss Smith badly hart. The annual meeting of tho stockholders of the Atlanta and West Point Bailroad, was held at Atlanta, Tuesday. Tha repoit of the Presi dent, Hon. John P. King," showed the gross revenue of the road for the past year to have been $453,715 39, the gross expenses $355,704. Total decrease in passenger receipts $10,057 47; in freight ditto, $4,183 77. Daring the year 67,478 bales of looal, and 2,500 of through cotton were transported over the road. A pro test signed by a few of the stockholders against the endorsement by the road of the bond of the State road lessees was received and filed. The old President and Board of Directors were re-elected, as were also L. P. Grant, as Superintendent, and W. F. Orme, Secretary and Treasurer. r j The Politicians. The HerakLof Tuesday has a page of inter viewing. A. K. McClure—a leading Badical of Pennsylvania—says the new departure means misohief—especially if the Bepnblicans renom inate Grant. He thinks Grant will be nomina ted, bnt Ms re-election will, be quite another question. It is donbtfnl whether he oan carry Pennsylvania, and if re-elected it-will be only through the unpardonable stupidity of the Dem ocrats. McClure says the Democrats would cany Philadelphia this fall, if they could only get a fair oonnt, bnt the election machinery is in the hands of the Badioals, and they can connt the votes or not, just as they please; and they won’t please. The galliant Forney says Giant will be renom inated, and re-elected, too. He predicted that in 1867 and of course it is bound to happen. Forney sajB the new departure will hurt the Democracy by breeding discord. Cameron says the new departure don’t amount to anytMng. It might have done harm two years ago, bnt it is now too late. Grant will be renominated and re-eleoted. Governor Geary thinks the result in Pennsyl vania is.donbtfol. It depends upon how the Bepnblicans conduct themselves. It is a good sign to see the Democrats accepting the situa tion. The coming contest pats him in mind of the canvass of 1852, when there was little to choose between parties. Ex-Senator Hendricks had- been bo busy with Ms law practice that he had not kept the ran of politics. He wonld make no effort to get a nomination, bnt would run if nominated. He thought the new departure wonld be generally accepted. It is folly to be always going back to dead issues. We mnst take things as we find them. It was not to be expected -thait a movement of this character would meet with universal approbation, bnt all will come right in time. The Badicals would ran Gnrat be cause they had no other available man, but he wlil not be so good a candidate as in 1868. The Herald also interviews Morton at home, bat his position as central wire-puller and sense- keeper to General Grant will be easily antici pated. ■ TUB RICHEST WIDOW 1ST A31 ERICA. Tbe Splendid g200,000 House of Worship for tbe Workmen oaths Colt EiUte-Tke Fashionable Al<» of she City of issu ance— Myriad* of Gold and Silver Fish. From the Brooklyn Union.] Her income for the year 1870 amounted to the dignified figures of $440,000. She lives in the bright and" bustling city of Hartford, Ob, and she Is familiarly bnt always respectfully known to the majority of the dwellers in that neat of flourishing insurance companies as the Widow Oolt. She is the handsome and well-preserved relict of Samuel Oolt, the man who, if he did not in- vent the revolving firearm, was shrewd enough to reap the principal profit that aocured from the discoveiy of that eminently American institu tion. Having, with true Yankee tact, availed him self of the fruit of another man’s brains, Colt progressively improved upon all the world’s preconceived idea of facility in the popping off onr fellow-men, and at the same time heaped np a remarkably handsome fortnne for himself. Departing seme ten years ago, he left a mag nificent property, including a nice little estate valued at $5,000,000 to Ms wife. This estate, situated bnt a trifling distanoe from the very business heart of the city, com prises a vast stretch of beantiful hill and meadow land, so oomplete in all of its appoint ments aa to rank with the best of the Old World baronial properties. Mr. Colt had Mmself pur chased the grounds, superintended the major portion of their laying out, erected several fine buildings, including the family mansion and the Dawn aid Ikadowo. nr mum w. carpenter. The rain is drifting down again: It sweeps across the rose-pink lawn It trembles on the window pane. And round the bills its veil is drawn. Oh, cold and long the day will be! No light, no warmth, it brings tame ; For you, my love 1 my love I to-day Wait in the sweet South far away. How wait yon? In some grassy place Beneath aa arch of bowery trees, A smile upon your upturned face, Your hands clasped idly on your knees ? My love! my love! the day ti dark: The rain is cull and cold; and, hark! The wind is np: I hear the sea That separates yon, dear, from me. What happy sun shines in vour eyea ? What flowers of France about you bloom’ What i are, sequestered beauty lies Far in the low hills’ purplish gloom ? The garden leaves about me fall, The vines hang loosely on the wall; And, hush! across the stenn comes, faint The iing-dove’s mumming, low complaint Mrs. Sprague is quite as able tqSJyMh snclr a aad rdtQer to** 1 oasq of cruelty should di-os-. L n , : be ventilated, seUterfiL *_—■ dress as for a calico, bat stiff, we suppose the Cop^ „ Butts jBountp,—Copper ore in example is a bad ops. ,, ' "J-great quantities is §aid tb hate been discovered The Northern potato crop, it is Paid, will be a j ^ A sojrasTEMaiiemia is reported in the Empire I We^SraSfine^p^SeS! la?g, \e one. Apples are short. of Hayti. This is fearful news. " no doubt that a new source- of wealth has been “Rejected Communications.” The New York Tribune, of Tuesday, has an editorial on the subject of “Rejected Comma* nications,” from wMch we quote the following: “A great majority of all people who know how to "read and write, besides many who certainly do not know how to write—are possessed at some period of their lives, with a morbid impulse to contribute to the newspapers. They are persuaded that any man oan write a leader if be chooses, and that the faculty of saying what the people want to hear in a style suited both totiie subject" and the audience comes by na ture to all graduates of a district schooL It is an amiable 'hallucination whioh repeated fail* urea and rebuffs are rarely able to dispeL The young persons who believe they have a mission to write verses, the women who want to sup port themselves by selling “compositions” to the newspapers, and the seores of people with bees in their bonnets who visit editors’ offices with ponderous essays on incomprehensible sub jects, are still more serious afflictions than the mere amateur publicists. Now, more than ninety per cent, of the articles offered for ac ceptance at a newspaper office come from these different classes of people. They write for their own benefit, not for Lhe.edi tor’s. Their contributions are not wanted; cm th® contrary, they are a nuisance. We cannot sea upon what ground an editor is expected to expend timet and trouble taking bare of rabbish that is left on his premises against Ms wishes.” - - • principal manufactories, and, as can be judged from the value of the place at bis death, had oreated one of the handsomest of estates. But the work acMeved by the enterprising husband has been so improved npon by the widow, that even the original valne and beauty of the place have been vastly increased. Among the singular attractions of the estate is one "of the most artistically designed and most completely appointed church edifices in the country. It has been reserved for & New England wife to give a tangible proof of her esteem and vene ration for her dead husband by building a meeting-house to his memory. And a right noble mausoleum it is, too. In point of arcM teotural elegance she has succeeded in giving to the oo an try a religions straotnre that is simply unequalled. To be sure, she expended in the erection of the affair a comfortable $200,000, but that is a mere bagatelle to a wealthy widow who set out to show the world, in stone and mortar, how much she respects the worth of her departed liege. MAGNIFICENCE UNSURPASSED. The straotnre, whioh is known as the Ghnroh of the Good Shepherd, is built in the pure Gothic, of Portland stone, faced with the trim mings of white Ohio stone. Without drifting into the dreary details of an arcMteot’s specifi cations, it may be stated that the straotnre is ornately embellished with everything that cor rect taste, backed np by an always open pocket- book, could furnish. The stained glass windows, the elaborately carved columns, the superb organ, the leptem fairly emblazoned with jewels, the carved em blems of a numerous family of saints, costly woods,'and richly designed altar pieces—all bear testimony to the lavish hand that brought them so happily together. The memorial window contains a candid scrip tural admission, in the words: “And God blessed him and made all that he did to prosper.” Mrs. Oolt erected tMs bnilding as a place of worsMp for the village of workmen and their families, who are employed in the vast shops upon the estate. A portion of these employees are engaged in the manufacture of willowware in a oommodions bnilding pnt np for the pur pose by Mr. Colt. An interesting fact is Mnged upon this. THE 8T0RY OF THE WILLOWS. "When Mr. Colt procured his present property, wMch stretches np from'the broad meadow that forms the western bank of the Connecticut river, he found that its value was much impaired by certain little irregularities on the part of that stream. Regularly every spring the well cov ered hills and valleys of Massachusetts and "Ver mont empty their melting snows into the waters of the Connecticut, and a very decided freshet is the invariable result. A general flooding of meadow lands always ensues. Mr. Colt discovered that this annual exuber ance on tho part of the river converted his broad grounds into extensive, but altogether useless, ponds and lakes, and so, like Horace Greeley, at the appearance of any new dilemma, he com menced a systematic course of damming. He at once bnilt an enormons dyke, that in length and uniform solidity wonld have delight ed a Hollander. Then, to prevent the waters from washing out and gradually undermining his work, he proceeded to plant the sides of the embankment with the" famous-Swiss willow, the intertwining roots of which are so close and compact as to defy the angriest action of the floods. To combine active business with- completed business was the mainspring of energetic Mr. Colt’s life. The willows, wMch in the import ation and setting ont had cost him a deal of money, must be made to return him a handsome revenue. To this end he coaxed over a large number of Swiss makers of willow ware, bnilt them a dozen or more beautiful little chatelets and set them to work at their trade at double wages they had been receiving in their own tight ljttle republic. THE SWISS FROM THE OOUNTY KERRY. A wide carriage road flanked by pleasant foot paths extends over the dike at present, the wil lows, whioh in root and branch are doing such excellent service, forming a pleasant fringe of verdure along its .entire length. The chatelets are still occupied by Swiss, moat of them, how ever, from County Kerry and the land of the blarney atone. Mrs. Colt has oontinued to wear at least half mourning ever since her husband!? death. TMs most not by-any means indicate that she is a woman who revels in a chronic state of gloom. To the contrary, Bhe is a brilliant lady who re ceives and entertains her friends in a maimer bo pleasant as to render it a particular favor to be ranked among her acquaintances. Her Wednes day evening outdoor coteries are to be rated as the most elegant and enjoyable of the Amer ican summer social season. - As stated, the beantiful memorial church was created by her as a place of worship for. the op eratives in her shops, and other families. The form of service is the Episoopal, and the rector is salaried at Mrs. Colt’s expense. . So, too, is the organist The singing is furnished by the well-trained voices of the Sunday-school chil dren. THE INVASION OF FASHION. So fine, however, was the church and its ap pointments that it straightway became the most fashionable plaoe of worship in the city. The faot that it is situated a long distanoe from their homes made not the least differenoo with these sons and daughters of Dives. So persistent did they become in their devotions at the shrine of the dead pistol-maker that Lazarus and Ms family were overawed from farther attendance. Thujas not at all what the owner of the plaoe had intended, -and so she baa since set apart special hoars each Sunday in wMch her humble employees may worship unabashed by the pres ence of grander visitors. Among the more enviable features of Mrs. Colt’s perquisites are that her ground? contain great ponds fairly alive with enormous gold and silver fish; that the lands are adorned with ex quisite statuary, including a small but other wise surprisingly close copy of the “Amazon that such enviable delicacies as fresh figs, oranges, peaches, etc., are obtainable from her mammoth hot-housos the whole year around; that her huge conservatories contain a collec tion of rare exotics unsurpassed in this coun try ; and that, in faet, Bhe has within her grasp all that an. enormons fortnne handled with an appreciative lavishness and culture can prooore. Dear leva! when in some still noonday Your rapt, high glanco you northward tan. I I catch its light here, far away, 'I Fanned with the air of sweet Auvergne * Your face comes in my sleep—a star ’ To guide me through my dreams afar; I feel a kiss on cheek and hair, And then, oh, then, the day dawns fair. Through Sommer hours our love was bom: The water shone about our feet, The fields were green with growing com. And Jane laughed low in lane and Btreet O love! my love! in days like these, When we two watched the birds and bees Flash through the flowers about our door, We asked the world for nothing more. Whit if the ship which beers you home Goes Bailing by the sunlit strand. While weeping, here I watch and ream In memory’s tender, twilight land? O lore 1 my love 1 I watch and wait: The land with nun is deeolalo, And all tho blue tosa of tho sea lies now betwixt the night and me. So, on and on my thoughts are led: I hide my tears against tbe wall, And, dreaming time, I hoar the tread Of unknown feet along the ball. I dare not look! Ah, heaven! if he Should oome this rainy day to me, Then all these r&in-drope, shining cold, Would turn to bits of burning gold! {Lippincott'a for August, j Mrs. Wharton—Strong; Corroborative Tes timony as to Her Gallt. "Washington, July 24.—One of onr citizens has received a letter from Mrs. J. G. Wharton, sister-in-law of Mrs. E. G. Wharton, now in jail in Baltimore on the oharge of poisoning General Ketchnm, and attempting to poison Eugene Van Ness, in wMch she says,’“‘My dear husband and child died. I did not know what wae the reason of their death, bnt after my child's funeral, only a week, I believe, I was taken suddenly ill, and at one time was thought to be dying. I told the doctor I was poisoned the day I was taken sick, and I then suspected she had poisoned my husband and child. I told brother and ail my husband's family also, when it occurred, nearly four years ago,' I was brought from her house, and have never had but one opinion that she poisoned them, and I barely escaped with my life!' Mrs. Wharton owed my husband $2,500, which we with difficulty got after Ms death.” After a careful canvas a, Demooratio papers in Pennsylvania assart that a full Democratic vote in October wiUTnshre the election of Coop er and McCandless by a large majority. OUB SOU THEBS CONNECTIONS. Tbe Proposed Macon and Knoxville So; For several days past onr oity has been vii by a number of prominent Southern and W< era railroad men, who are looking after most feasible route to build a railroad from con, Georgia, to tMs city. Col. Jerry Cowl of Georgia, is the projector of the proi road, and by bis energy and untiring zeal succeeded in obtaining from tbe Georgia Legs lalure a charter for the Macon and Kuo: Boad. He has also obtained aid from the Si of Georgia to the amount of $15,000 per as well as secured additional aid from Easl capitalists, enough to accomplish the buildii of the-road. CoL Wm. K. deGraffenreid, t! President of the road, made, daring the " season, a survey of the route for 117 north of Maoon, and, with some other inter* parties, passed over the proposed route of road to Ddcktown. Tenn., thence to tbe I Tennessee, Virginia" and Georgia Railroad Athens. A second proposed ronte is by way of Ral Gap, connecting with the Knoxville and Chart ton Bailroad when completed to that point. Col. Cowles, Major deGraffenreid and 0, C. date, of a Chicago firm of railroad bail ers, have been in the city several days, ti over the snbjeot of the two routes with our cil zens, and yesterday, on invitation of Msj: Thos. O’Conner, President of the Knoxville Charleston Bailroad, accompanied by a numl of onr prominent merchants and business mi took a trip over the Knoxville and Charles: Bailroad, as far as Maryville, Major O'Cocni had provided a special car for the occasion, daring the trip the subject of the proposed was earnestly canvassed. The route by way of Babun Gap would brin the main road into Knoxville oyer the Knot ville and Charleston line, from that point, l;: the uncertainty existing as to when the Kno; ville and Charleston Boad wiff'be completed t* that point, prevents any very definite concfc sion in regard to that rente, from being arrive) at. If the route by way of Ducktown should b determined npon, the Dncktown Copper Minis Company have promised to take a half millio: dollars of stock in the road, and arrangement wonld then have to be made for running on tb! track of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor gia Railroad. ?• Besides the above mentioned, there are etil other matters connected with the bnilding of tbt road to be considered; so that it will readily bt seen that wMle the main part of the bnilding of the road is assured, the ronte by wMch it wil approach Knoxville is a matter of umertainii On arriving "at Maryville, a nnmber of tb! gentlemen oomposing the party walked abci the town for a time and at 5 o’clock all ag&i boirded the cars for the return trip. Upon the arrival of the train at the depot this oity, Mr. P. Dickenson called Mayor Yc Gilder to the chair, and after aneat little speed proposed the following resolutions: Resolved, That we, representing the citizetf of Knoxville, "hereby tender onr earnest sym pathies t > the gentlemen who have come to tl city, with a view of opening a more direct ail quicker line of communication between tbi city and Macon, Georgia, and, •Resolved, That we will do all in our power t; aid them in their undertaking. Resolved, That the thanks of the party» hereby tendered Major O'Connor, President cf the Knoxville and Charleston Railroad, for ti courtesy on this occasion in fnrnisMng us witi a special car for the- trip. The above resolutions were unanimoor adopted. Major deGraffenried replied in behalf of him self and friends, stating that it was their pur pose to more closely cement the city of Kaos ville with the State of Georgia ; that the v»s resources of East Tennessee were required ii the former State; that the oitizens cf this sec tion were thriving and enterprising people aai were seeking farther developments by Inviting capital and labor, and assured those preset that a corps of engineers wonld complete tti survey of the routes and be in our city by tbe first of next October, a statement which was re ceived with applause by Ms listeners. After partaking of the hospitalities of Mbj’W O’Conner, the party then separated, high!; pleased with their trip, not only duly impressed with the importance, but entirely oonvincedoi the feasibility of the proposed connection. ' [KnozviUe Press and Herald, 27th The Witness Taliaferro.—CoL Saffold, t-1 the Selma Times, speaking of tMs infamoS j fellow, says: We helped to bury, one Sabbath afteruoot j in the fall of 1864, at our old home in Madison, | Ga., five Yankee prisoners, whom Oapt. Talir J ferro and two other assassins like him c elf b> £ I foully murdered. Well do we remember W j telling us of how four of the men had plesdec 1 for their lives, telling him that they were bii I prisoners, that they were soldiers, that theybM I their wives and little ones at homes, and that they ought not to be killed for doing nothin I else than defending their fiau; then we remeir-1 ber how one brave spirit told him to kill, that I he was an infamous hound, destitute of ^ j heart and soul, cf courage and manhood, I that he conld kill whenever he got ready, that»! man had but one time to die, and that the u« I prisoner without any chance for Ms life won» 1 show him how a m»n conld die. The infamort j Taliaferro plaoed a pistol to the heart of the j brave fellow and fired; not satisfied with bw* I ing the prisoner, he mutilated him by fluaf I three or four shots into his head and ^ aee j | Taliaferro told ns tins Mmself before we wee* I to where the prisoners were dead; and the j of the killing sustained his statement of twl butchery. Where a Man Went after a Spring Waoos i According to Ex-Senator Howell, a witness b«- j fore the Southern Claims Commission gave tti j following testimony: - “The spring wagon was taken by General ■enlrlin T aaw {m Klo twtMMMinn * I Franklin. I saw it in Ms possession about i month after. When I saw it, it was still in u* j by General Franklin. I asked Mm for a reoeiK 1 and he told me to go to helL I went there, tsfi j demanded the wagon.” The Union Pacufm Boa®.—An official stat* - j ment by the Union Pacific Bailroad shows: From Jan. 1 to Juno 39,1870, earnings.,33,707^.. Expenses 2,733,°^ j Net esategs... ;...068,0^1 The net aaariagnta 1871 shews*teenage ~J onr IHOJnt Jmarafuii Five months previous • I And for six mouths 6o5 s W“i