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The Georgia ATeekly Telegraph and Journal & hdessenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, AUGUST 8 1871.
Tlio Miseries of a Corn Bnjcr.
A friend in Southwest Georgia, with a view
to a lively picture of the miseries of a corn-
buying planter, narrates the imaginary experi
ence of snch an one in the Macon market, seek
ing to replenish his crib by the financial expe
dients which usually substitute a supply of
greenbacks. In so doing the unhappy corn-
buyer is made the victim of an arrogance and
greed which we are quite sore never were ex
hibited by our oorn-merchants. It is true, as
tli© scene is imaginary and fictitious names are
givon, there could be uo personal offence ; but
even for a good end it is not right to awaken
groundless prepossessions and prejudices against
a class.
Wo are glad to see onr intelligent planters
settling down into the conviction that farm sup
plies must be raised at home, instead of in Mis
souri ; and that agricultural independence is the
only road to comfort and wealth. ‘When this is
achieved a saving of twenty-five per cent, on
our cotton product, will soon make Georgia
teem with wealth and abundance.
Direct Connection with the Sea.
We printed yesterday an announcement of
the completion of tho great enterprise of the
Central Hoad, which extends its track to the Sa
vannah Biver, and enables it to receive and dis
charge freight shipboard direct with once hand'
ling and no drayage. The forwarding agent.
Mr. J. T. Waring, gives notice in onr advertis
ing columns to-day, that persons desiring to
avail thomselyea of tho saving of expenso on
occount of these facilities should have it express
ed in the bills of lading that their consign
ments are to be landed at the Central Bailroad
Wharf. By the 1st of November the erection
of a large shed will onable the company to store
heavy articles for shipment. See advertise
ment.
Cotton Figures.
Cotton was active again in Liverpool, but
without advance. The sales of the week footed
np 64,000 bales. The stock was reported at
678,000 bales, of which 362,000 were Ameri
can cotton. 485,000 bales were reported
afloat, of which only 46,000 were American.
Some idea of the relative status may be gath
ered by comparing Friday’s Liverpool returns
of the week as follows:
June 30. July 7. July 14. August 4.
Stock....713,000 715,000 660,000 673,000
Afloat. .651,000 547,000 488,000 485,000
1,364,000 1,262,000 1,148,000 1,158,000
Was in Heave; : A Disquisition Biblical and
Butional, concerning Angels, Devils and Men,
and the Creation, Fall and Redemption of the
Human Soul. By James P. Simmons, of Law-
renceville, Ga.
This work represents a new and fanciful doe-
trine peculiar to the author, and calculated, so
far as our own observation extends, to do no
manner of good, bnt rather much evil. Con
siderable ingenuity and learning are displayed
by Mr. Simmons, and we could wish that his
talents had been better directed. Thus far the
South has been singularly free of the isms, and
new fnngled doctrines of a spiritual nature. We
are sorry that an exception now presents itself.
“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness.”
“And if any man shall take away from tho
words of tho book of this prophecy, God shall
take his part out of the book of life,” etc.
Let us receive the word of God in its entirety,
and not pretend to invent theories, or overturn
doctrines which have stood the tests of thou
sands of years, and will abide through all eter
nity. For sale by J. W. Burke & Co.
Too Much Cotton in Persia.—High authority
announces as one great cause of the terrible
famine and consequent pestilence in Persia, tho
cultivation of cotton Instead of the national diet
—rice. The same horrid results six years ago
were visible in India, and from the same cause.
In one district of India two millions Hindoos
perished from hunger and the diseases conse
quent upon inanition. Inadequate and unwhole
some food is certain to produce disease. The
eastom lands, teeming with population, cannot
be dovoted to cotton-growing without famish
ing their myriad inhabitants. Great Britain,
while groaning over tho miseries of the South
ern slave, consigned millions of Hindoo labo
rers to death in order to became independent of
tho American cotton crop. So, daring the civil
war, tho Khedive of Egypt starved thousands of
his Fellah population to avail his treasury of
high cotton prices. It is grotesque to reflect
upon the pretensions to humanitanism and ex
traordinary philanthropy of people who will sell
lives, in tho way business, fora groat apiece.
Alumni Oration of Hon. B. H. Hill
Wo wish to plaoe ourselves right upon the
record, with respect to our late report of the
speech of this gentleman.
In common with much the largest portion of
his auditory, we are forced to utter a hearty
dissent to bis views upon the defnnot institution
of slavery.
It is full early for any Southron to stultify
the past and fonl his own nest, by stigmatizing
a system sanctioned by the Great Jehovah him
self, and under which onr fathers prospered so
much and were universally recognized as the
noblest type of the human race.
And although acquiescing in the arbitrament
of the sword, and fully oonvinoed that it would
be neither expedient nor practicable even if no
obstacle intervened, to re-enslave the African,
yet we are not prepared to “thank God” -with
Mr. Hill that we are “loosed”£rom the vile
thing. Nor is it true that slavery per se was the
cause of our worn lands and suicidal system of
agriculture.
In the State of New York the yield of wheat
has declined from an average of 15 bushels to
8 bushels per acre, even under the cultivation of
skilled white labor.
Did slavery do this? or was it not the result
rather of imposing upon nature, and withhold
ing those nutritive elements from a generous
soil which the successive crops had well nigh
exhausted?
But how stands the record under onr six years’
role of freedom?
By careful and industrious cultivation oven
on the old farms of Middle Georgia, five bales
of cotton per band was deemed a moderate
yield before the war, and from seven to ten
were frequently harvested in Soathwest Geor
gia. Smoke-houses then teemed with fat bacon
and those jnicy old Georgia hams so much su
perior in flavor to "Western meat. Now, it is
notorious that in every instanoe where freed-
men have full sway and are left to themselves,
though Atz?/’of what they make is theirs, the
land owner is impoverished, and the laborers
themselves poorer than at the surrender of Lee’s
army.
But it may bo urged, whence then the heavy
crop of the past year? We answer unhesitating
ly it wa3 the result of the white man's labor in
a great measure. On almost every farm the
land holder with his sons bought fertilizers, and
seizing the plowhandles realized more from the
small space cultivated by bis own hands, than
from the hundreds of acres leased to the negro,
or planted on shares with him.
Tho writer himself, the present season, bad
as it is, will do better with one white man and
his four children and tho faithful service of a
single former slave who hs3 never left him, than
the past year with eight stalwart freedmen and
their families. And it is universally admitted
that under the thriftless management of ne
groes, our farm3 must continue to deteriorate,
while the prostrate fences and decaying cribs
and bams visible on every side, tell the true
story of the effects of free labor. As to bacon,
ask Mr. Hoff’s opinion on the subject ?
But wo propose to show, by reference to the
instance of Liberty county, in our own State,
that our lands were not necessarily exhausted
because tilled by slaves. In that county, with
a population of 8000, but 2000 were whites.
And yet we appeal to the editors of the South
ern Cultivator to say, if the lands of that region
when the war opened, were not in better heart
and far more productive than twenty years pre
viously. The constant application of manure,
which was manufactured on tho largest scale,
tho rotation of crops, and judicious rest, will
fully explain the cause. How fares it now in
that africanized territory ? Again, we shall
take tho stand and speak from personal experi
ence:
On a single plantation now stocked to over
flowing with a population of freedmen, who re
ceive two-thirds of all they can produce, and
are never visited by a white supervisor, the
share of tho proprietor the past year did not ex
ceed two hundred dollars.
And yet, in slavery days, 100 bales of Sea
Island cotton and from 1,000 to 3,000 bushels of
rice wore not deemed' an unusual crop, besides
com and tho lesser products of tho farm. These
are facts, and wo appeal also to the personal
observation and experience of the editors of the
Southern Cultivator, who are good authority on
the subject and formerly resided in the same
region, to substantiate our assertions.
Let not Mr. Hill, then, charge upon slavery
alone these results which sprang from our own
folly and want of foresight. Even now the most
"abused plantation in upper Georgia, if we had
laborers who could bo constantly employed in
the manufacture of manure, and a proper rota
tion of crops and sowing of small grain, and
hill-side ditching were observed, might be made
to bloom and blossom like the rose. Bnt tho
The Choleea.—There is considerable excite
ment and apprehension in Great Britain and
continental Europe abont the cholera. It has
passed tho Asiatic boundaries and has appeared
in European Bussia and tho German ports of
the Baltic. From thence some sporadic cases
have appeared in Hall, England, in the persons
of German emigrants bound to America. France
is feorfnl of the disease on account of tho sani
tary disorders resulting from the late war. It
is sold to be making alarming ravagos in the
neighborhoods of Cronstadt and St. Petersburg
in Bnssia. Tho probabilities aro decided that
it will sweep over the western nations as it did
a generation ago, and, being forewarned of its
dread approach, it should not find tho western
world unprepared. Every sanitary preparation
shonld be mado, and tho medical science of the
world should be directedto its cause, diagnosis
and cure.
Gwinnett Atlas.—We see from tho Gwinnett
Atlas, of the 2d, that it ha3 been transferred,
stock, lock and barrel, to Tyler M. Peeples,
Esq., Mr. Boully retaining bis connection with
the ofllco as foreman, until ho starts out, like
another editorial Daniel Boone, to- seek a new
settlement and a new placo of publication.
Brothers Boully and Elam Christian aro the
grand pioneeis of the Georgia press. They
pervade the Ssate. We welcome Mr. Peeples
to tho fraternity on the basis of his excellent
salutatory. Brother Boully, who has printed
papers in all the fonr quarters of the globe—
even to an essay to initiate the natives of Booth
Africa into the art of conducting a newspaper,
promised to give us a succinct narrative of his
travels and adventures. Why is it not forth
coming ?•
The Steam
Cotton Prospects and Necessities.
The reader will, find somewhere in this edi
tion a" very interesting editorial on *?The Cotton
Prospect,” taken from the New York World, of
the 2d instant The World seonts at short crop
stories, and looks for a crop of 3,700,000 to
4,300,600 bales as this summer’s growth. He is
willing to admit that half a million to-seven
hundred thousand bales of the crop of 1870
were due to the extraordinary length, of the ma
turing season, and his anticipations are evidently
based upon the possible substraction of that
amount from the growing crop.
But even with a yield of a little short of fonr
million bales, the increase of consumption re
sulting, from enlarged manufacturing facilities
in Europe will probably result in the reduction
of the surplus shown at the end of this year, by
1,100,000 bales at the end of next year; and
the World then very suggestively demands how
much that would leave to go into the next year?
We commend the whole article to the olose
attention of the reader; as it probably reflects
a good deal-of current intelligent opinion in
New York on this interesting subject. It ap
pears under the general editorial head of that
paper, and is not to be confounded with the
current speculations of market reporters.
The World errs in pronouncing the alarms of
last spring and early summer “grossly exagger
atedV’ A season so nnpropitions and attended
by suoh difficulties and obstacles in getting
start for a crop, we have never seen before
and although he doubts it, it will tell when pick
ing time comes' in the irregularity and insuffi
ciency of the stand and the length of tho pick
ing season, which it abridged two or three
weeks.
Again, the World greatly errs in the present
status of the crop. It does not promise any
such crop as he anticipates, and can’t produce
it. To show that we are not alone in this idea
we will quote from the last circular of the New
Orleans cotton exchange, dated Augnst 1st, and
founded on letters from the cotton region dated
from 10th to 20th July. The reports are from
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Geor
gia and Alabama. Let ns take them in that or
der : In Mississippi tho estimates average from
one-half to two-thirds of a'crop. In Louisiana
from one-half "to‘ five-eighths with an* ordinary
picking season, and three-quarters of a crop
with a favorable one. In Arkansas and Texas
the prospects are fair, and with favorable
weather an average yield is expected.' In Geor
gia the average estimates show a falling off of
from twenty-five to thirty-three per cent, in
Alabama the estimate is from one-half to two-
thirds of a crop. Surely, these reports lend no
sanction to the idea of a crop of 3,700,000 or
4,300,000 bales; and since they were made, an
extensive drouth has impaired tho situation.
Lastly, the World errs in its idea of the real
productive capacity of the South—in what is the
extent of an average crop. Its anticipations are
based on last year, when, with a lavish applica
tion of costly fertilizers, unusually propitious
seasons and very late frosta, the crop produced
was, say, four and a half millions of bales. Now,
with no increase of productive power, the
Southern States will have, in the* last six years
since tho war, grown and marketed up to Sep
tember 1,1871, about a hundred thousand bales
short of seventeen million bodes of cotton. Wc
say that makes an average cotton crop of about
2,850,000 bales, andnot 3,750,000 nor 4,300,000;
and the men who are predicating their average-
on the 3,200,000 bales of 1869 and the 4,500,000
bales of 1870 are in error. If they could point
out any hidden and large increase of productive
labor since the 2,593,993 crop of 1868, their cal
culations might seem reasonablebut when no
man in the Southern country or elsewhere can
lay his hand on any material increase of labor
added to the production of cotton, and when, on
the contrary, most people insist-that the volume
of labor has diminished and become impaired,
it appeals to us unreasonable to make out an
average crop by adding together the two last
large crops of exceptionably favorable years and
conditions. But we shall see.
free negro only works for present results. Hence
many of the rich plantations of tho seaboard lie
waste, because he cannot be prevailed upon
even to open the old ditches and drain the soil
because it don’t pay to-day.
So much for Mr. Hill’s argument. Aside from
Ms slavery positions, his address was replete
with sound advice, and the concluding portions
magnificently eloquent. We have no disposi
tion to do injustice to a distinguished class
mate.
Tbaction Engine.—Secretary
Lewis undertakes to tell U3 what he tMnks of
tho “Traction Engine,” imported by Mr. Wad-
ley ; but as the distance is long he only gets to
tho point of narrative to-day. Mr. C. would
have gladly gone with tho Secretary, but at the
time of receiving Mr. Wadley’s dispatch, he
was the solo representative of the staff editorial
then in Macon. The rest had gone to see their
mother—Mrs. Alma, y
A gallant young man—ono Henry Ellington,
beat a young lady of Indianapolis to death last
Sunday with a brick-bat, becauso she refused to
marry him. To infer the character of tho young
hoosier from this illustration could be unjust,
but it would be the kind of justice meted out
to the Southern people by the Ku-klur Com
mittee.
The Advertiser and Mail at Montgomery,
boasted a thermometer down to 84 on Wednes
day, but they bad put it in ice.
The Charleston Election.
Tho Charleston papers of the 3d, in anticipa
tion of tho defeat of Fillsbnry and his phalanx
of negro bnllies and tMeves, are ecstatic. The
telegrams of yesterday confirm the triumph.
Tho count of votes showed the election of the
Citizens’ or Conservative ticket by nearly 800
majority. At the State election last fall the
Eeformers carried Charleston by over 400 ma
jority, and thi3 fact induced tho gang of public
thieves wMch calls itself the South Carolina
Legislature to change the municipal election
day in Charleston from November to August, in
order to have it on a time when moat of the
white voters were away.
But the Charlestonians had been robbed to
that extent that they had to stay at homo or
come home to vote, and the intelligent and vir
tuous classes among the negroes—those few
who held taxable property and therefore suffered
with the whites in the triumphs of knavery and
rowdyism, came np manfully to the support of
the common cause. We rejoioe with Charleston
on her deliverance from the reign of frand and
negro bullies.
The new birth was achieved in much agony.
Tho city papers are full of the violence of the
Fillsbnry black bullies, who maintained the
most menacing attitude daring tho day, attempt
ing to harry and murder such of their own color
as voted against the carpet-bagger Pillsbury. A
dispatch to the Savannah Advertiser says:
“ But for the prompt and intrepid conduct of
a few United States regulars who were stationed
with fixed bayonets at every poll, general riot
ing and serious bloodshed wonld have probably
occurred. As it is, the only serious ‘incident
was the shooting in the eighth ward of a colored
butcher named Grant. Ho is not expected to
live. * -
This victory will do more to restore the cour
age, faith, energy and prosperity of Charleston
than anything which has happened since the
war. A community or State ruled in defiance
of and opposition to the tax-payers can move iit
but ono way, and that is down the road to ruin.
Goon Thie.—The Montgomery Advertiser
says the trains from West Point to Atlanta now
go through in three hours. The distance is 87
miles. The fastest time of any road in the
Sonth. This is fair time-7-twenty-nine miles an
hour, stoppages included.
A Chapter on Whistle-blowing.
The article in our local columns yesterday, com
plaining of frequent and great untimely noises
from locomotive whistles, brought ns the favor of
a personal call from two railroad Presidents, hav
ing general charge of that matter in most of
this corporation, to-wit: Messrs. W. W- Wadley
and A. J. WMte. Both of them said that they
sympathized heartily with the complaints of the
writer, and wished sinoerely that they could
safely stop theblowingof engine wMsiles within
tho corporate Iimit3 altogether. The -situation,
however, was extremely embarrassing. A stat
ute of the commonwealth required that the
whistles should commence blowing when within
400 yards of every crossing of a -public Mgh-
way, and continue the blast uninterruptedly un
til tho engine bad passed the crossing.
On the other hand, a city ordinance of Macon
proMbited whistling within the city limits and
required the engine bells to be rung. Gomply-
ng with this ordinance the Macon and Western
Bailroad had been sued for not blowing its
whistles; and afterwards blowing its whistles a
suit was now imminent for horses scared, and
consequent damage inflicted by the blast. Do
either, they were liable to penalties. In the
very locality which gave rise to the complaint,
they were blowing their whistles in compliance
with an urgent request of citizens who were
compelled to cross the road in passing to and
from their residences. A curve and excavation
rendered the noise of the whistle necessary
warning in the judgment of these citizens; The
best the companies, could do in the premises
was to make as little noise as possible and still,
comply with the law. They wonld, therefore,
direct their engineers to “blow softly” and avoid
all needless annoyanee.
Bnt, meantime, they wished us to call atten
tion to the conflict of law, and induoe the Leg
islature to amend the statute which required so
much whistle blowing, and required it univer
sally in town and county. The noise was dan
gerous as well as disagreeable,, and they wonld
be glad to stop it in town altogether.
, Radical Disturbances in Abkansas.—The
Little Bock correspondent of the MempMs Ap
peal says:
Some time ago, Senator - Mason, (colored),
was appointed Probate Judge in Ohioot county.
Afterward, Mason not being considered a good
friend of Clayton, Major Iiagland (white) was
appointed in Ms stead, bnt Mason refused to
give np the office. The County Court met, the
Sheriff refused to obey Mason’s order, when the
latter had Mm put in jail, raised a company* of
militia and ran Bagland and Barbonr, a negro,
and a newly imported assessor, out of the coun
ty. Sinoe then, several efforts have been made
to compromise with Mason, but to no effeot.
On the 17th the County Court met at Lake
Village. Bagland again made Ms appearance,
when Mason brought into town four hundred
armed negroes, andwent for the whole crew.
Ragland and party withdrew, leaving Mason
again master of the situation.
The friends of Bagland are now here in con
ference with the Governor regarding local puli-
tics.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Fulton county returns 2,679 polls and taxable
property, amounting to $17,365,895—being an
increase of $3,003,616 upon last year.
A narrow guage railroad engine for Ghehaw
passed through Atlanta on Thursday. Guage,
three feet—weight, ten tons—cylinder, two by
twelve—driving wheels, three feet in diameter
—speed, fifteen miles tn hour.
The Son says Thursday was the hottest : day
of the summer. The Georgian heard of a case
of sunstroke. No figures given. Ice has been
cheapened in Atlanta to 1^ and 1J cents per
pound.
Gen. Gblanitt publishes, in *the Atlanta pa
pers, a letter to him from Gen. Gordon, in
wMch the latter says he is not, and shall not be,
a candidate for Governor, and the publication
of Ms name, as such, by the True Georgian
without authority* If nominated, his engage
ments would compel him to decline.
The Supreme Court on Thursday had reached
the last case on the Southwestern circuit. The
next was the Pataula—42 cases.
What Ex-Govebnob Bbown Knows About
Fabiung.—The Angnst number of- the Bural
Southerner has the following:
Governor Brown has illustrated the value of
Mgh culture on an acre lot adjoining his real
dence. The forage produced on this single acre
feeds several horses and the most of the year.
The Governor estimates a clean gain of $250
from the present season’s crop. It was sown in
com, which grew to the height of ten feet, when
it presented more the appearance of a bottom
cane-brake than a com patoh. "When fully
grown, the com was cut and cured, and is now,
after going through a cutter, fed to tho stock.
Tobnado in Gbiffin.—They had a small" tor
nado in Griffin last Tuesday. The Middle
Georgian says: *
The African Methodist Ohurch, a building
thirty-six by" sixty feet, was blown from its
foundation, and left a complete wreck. Large
oak trees were twisted off, and branches from
other shade trees wrenched off and sent flying
through the air. Several other small dwellings
were blown down, and repairs to fence have
been the order of the day since the storm. On
Wednesday we again had a fine run, with some
wind. The tornado of Tuesday was restricted
to a very narrow scope, and wo have no dam
age to report from the country.
Pike, Mebiweiheb and Coweta.—The Griffin
Star says: ‘ ‘
We passed through a portion of Pike, Meri
wether; Coweta, and tMs county, tho first"of the
week, and found the crops suffering much more
than we expected. There seems to be a streak
running from Line Creek through the lower
portion of Coweta and Meriwether, and extend
ing into Pike, where they have not had a season
in nearly seven weeks. In many places the fod
der is literally burned up, and the stalks and
ears of com look as if they were dead. The
cotton looks withered, and we heard that in
some instances it was dying. To the above
there were "rare exceptions, where the oorn was
as fine as the gronnd could produoe and tho cot
ton looked healthy and vigorous. How far tMs
dronth extends we could not learn. .The farm
ers generally have “laid by” their crops, but
seem discouraged. —
Seizure of the Alabama and Chattanooga
Kailboad.—Gov. Bullock gives notice by pro
clamation, that he has taken possession of that
part of the road wMch runs through the terri
tory of Georgia. v s
Mr. Gonld, near Gainesville, has offered
magnificent water-power on the Chattahoochie
and five acres of land to any company that will
start a cotton factory witMn the next year on
tho site.
State Lunatic Asylum. —The Carteisville
Standard is pleased to leom from the Milledge-
ville Union that the contractors for the con
struction of the extensive - additions to the
State Lunatio Asylum, Messrs. Evans &McEl-
fresh, are progressing rapidly with the work.
They commenced to lay brick 25 days ago, and
have now about 1,500,000 brick laid, nearly
half the amount required. They are laying
now an average of 35,000 briok per day. They
have 135 hands at work on the building and at
the brick-yard. They will soon have all the
brick made to complete the work. This looks
like business.
Mr. Eaves is of the firm of Eaves & McGinty,
of Cartersville, who have the contract for the
brick work. This is a go-ahead firm, and be
longs to Cartersville.
. Slate;—The Standard notioed on last Tues
day morning a car load of slate brought over
the Cherokee Bailroad. This is the first we
have heard of being brought over this road,
bnt when the road is oompleted, slate will bo
one of the chief articles for transportation.
Affaibs in Augusta—From the Chronicle and
Sentinel Of Thursday we take tho following:
Kepahung-Uamages.—"We leam that work is.
rapidly progressing upon the dams of the Lang
ley Faotory and the Bath Paper Mills. The in
dications now are that both dams will soon be
repaired'and work recommenced in both of the
manufactories. We leam that the creek leading
from the pond at. Langley to the pond at the
paper mills is being straightened. A canal is
jeing made, which will cut off a heavy curve in
tho stream,
Gbanite fbom the Canal.—A fow days ago
we announced the discovery of a fine quarry of
granite a short distance above the'looks of the
Augusta Canal. We have since learned that a
quarry was operated in that vicinity twenty
years ago, ancf-a good deal of the same brought
to and used in this city. The “ Granite Mills,”
owned by Messrs. Geo. T. Jackson & Go., are
built of stone from the quarry on Stallings'
Island. Every judge says that granite of good
quality can easily be procured a short distance
above the locks. We earnestly hope that meas
ures will bo" taken to utilize tMs valuable stone.
Let it at least be used for pavements in the city.
A Dby Goods Palace.—We see from the
Chronicle that Jame3 A. Gray & Co. are build
ing a dry goods palace in that city.
Eably county tax digest, condensed from the
Early County News:
Polls—White 419
Blacks 558—Total 977
No. acres of land 206,809
Valnoof land 462,505
Value of town property 50,132
Money and solvent debts. 174,509
Merchandise 35,190
StockB and bonds 37,000
Invested in cotton manufactories 20,000
Aggregate value of property :...$99S,274
Accident in Atlanta.—The Constitution
learns that abont Bunset Friday night, an em
bankment, near the State shop, caved in on
negro laborers, killing one instantly and break
ing the arm' and internally -injuring another,
who it is feared will not .survive; The slide
struck the side of a freight car and caved that in.
A Fine Cafe, two billiard halls, elevator,
telegraph office, and, in foot, all modem con
veniences, entice the traveler to tho Ambbican
Houj-e, Boston. Once there, he would not wil
lingly change his quarters.
Taylob County.—The Mirror announces the
arrival at Reynolds of additional macMnery for
the Potter Manufactory, near that place, con
sisting of water wheels, looms, spindles, etc.
It says the establishment will soon be in a flour-
isMng condition.
We clip the following from the Columbus
Sun, of Thursday:
Steam Cotton Mills Maohineby Sold.—On
Tuesday the machinery of the Steam Cotton
Mills, on Oglethorpe street, was sold by order
-of the United States Marshal, in front of the
Court-house. Dr. N. J. Bussey, of- the Eagle
and Phoenix Manufactory, bid it off at $12,100
for a banker. The macMnery is new, and cost,
including freight and charges of putting up,
$22,000. The house and fixtures, which were
not sold, cost $15,000 more. Tho millbasbeen
ereoted several years, but has run only six
months, and that in 18G9. The best of thread,
yams, rope, etc., were manufactured under the
superintendenoy of Mr. D. Keith. What will
be done now oannot be told, and can hardly be
before a month has elapsed. ,v !
The Chalybeate Spbings.—There are at
present 250 guests on the grounds. Twenty-
eight arrived Tuesday night. - Others went up
yesterday. Tho young people are having a
merry time in. the skating rink, and at the
nightly balls.
Hay Saving.—As much of the land planted
this year, for reason of its excessive .wetness
from the continuous rains, has been given up
and permitted to go to grass, particularly th*e
rich bottoms, it is important that the hay from
it should be saved. To make hay valuable it
should be cut at the proper time. That time is
immediately after the tassel goes out of bloom.
If. delayed longer, the seed, when the hay is
dry, wifi shatter out. Besides this, the blades,
from age, become fired and lose their nutritious
substance. Another important part of. the
treatment is not to let it lay too long in the snn,
and to be careful to shock it up in tho evening
to protect it from the dew. If the foregoing
directions be complied with, a far,-superior arti
cle of hay will be secured than"is ev6r brought
to this seotiou from the East,or West. Two
days sunning will be sufficient to put in condi
tion for stacking or housing. The latter will
keep it in the best condition.
A Pbeoious Stone.—The Constitution relates
that a son of E. B. Whitman, found at Stone
Mountain a few days sinoe, a precious stone,
wMch, upon examination by competent-judges,
turns out to be a garnet
Mb. Fbanx Jackson Killed. — Mr. Frank
Jackson, a young man some tMrty-one years of
age, was found dead Tuesday at 4 f. m. near
Marsh’s mills, a mile below Hatchaohubbee, on
the Mobile and Girard Bailroad. He had gone
from the house only a few minutes before with
Ms pistol, saying he was going to shoot a hog
that was proving very trouble by reason of the
frequency with wMch it managed to get in the
"cornfield. Mr. J. succeeded in getting it out,
and followed it into the woods. Shortly after
of
No
several reports from a pistol was heard,
particular attenion to this was paid at the time,
bnt Mr. J. not returning, a gentleman went in
search of Mm, when he was found dead, a pis
tol ball having entered his mouth, and shattered
his head. _
Barbecue.—We have only time to mention
that one is to take place on the 15th, in the in
terest of the Columbus and Albany Bailroad, at
Cusseta. Many of the most distinguished gen
tlemen and a large delegation from Columbus
will attend. Columbus is determined to build
this road.
Fbom Chatham County.—A boat with seven
men capsized in the Savannah Biver on Wed
nesday, and one of the party, a sailor from Bal
timore, was drowned.
The" Bepublioan has the following:
The Dabien Negboes.—Negro supremacy in
and about Darien has rendered the race in that
locality peculiarly audacious. .Under the lead-
ersMp of the black villain,' Campbell, who rep
resents the District in the State Senate, and *
ready for any outrage against the' whites, _
large body of the colored people have taken np
the idea that their own will is the supreme law.
As all the officers of the county are negroes—
and we are free to say some of them well-mean
ing, bnt under bad influences—there is no hope
for protection from that source. It is the duty
of the United States to protect its own mails at
least, and we hope the Postmaster at Savannah
will call upon the commandant of the post for
detachments of troops to accompany the mail
steamers on their regular trips until the colored,
people of Darien shall have come to their senses."
It is not right.that the law-abiding. citizens of.
the place should' be deprived of the mails and'
facilities of travel oh account of. negro lawless
ness in their midst.
The Albany News says that the colored con
vention of Dougherty county, held, on the 22d
ultimo, 'nominated all sound Demoorats for
county officers, and there is not a Badical in the
field. What do you say to that, Mr. Greeley?
Was it the work of the Ku-kluz?
The Fair Gbounds.—The reporter of the
Savannah News paid-a visit yesterday to the
Fair Grounds of the “Industrial Association of
Georgia,” and found that the work of erecting
the fences has been commenced, that is, labor
ers are digging the holes* for the " poets. The
old race track, wMch had been under partial
cultivation, is being ploughed up preparatory
to1 placing the course.in racing condition. It
will require great energy, however,-on the port
of the directors, sub-committees and contract
ors to get things in a suitable condition for the
exMbition in November.
Fifty-eight negroes confined in Chatham
county'jail for refusing to do road duly, made
an effort to get out under a writ of habeas cor
pus, but Judge Chisholm decided that the Boad
Commissioners had fall jurisdiction in the mat
ter.-
The Advertiser has the following: - *.
The New Mabket.—A large number of me
chanics are busily at work in perfecting the
ground-work mpsonry for the reception of the
flooring.- The roof is all completed, and is now
re ceiving its covering Of tin.
Affaibs in Tebbell County.—The Dawson
Journal, of Thursday, has the following:
Crop reports are anytMng bnt favorable, and
although the prospect during the entire spring,
as well as the first summer month, was as flat
tering as the farmers could have desired, the
want of rain daring the past month has cut the
com crop short, and it is feared a less quantity
will be made than Was last year. Cotton is also
greatly injured—first on account ol extreme
wet west tier, and now xm occuuut of ckCicmu
dry weather. This locality was favored with a
good shower yesterday.
Two very handsome passenger cars passed
down the Southwestern Boad the other day,
designed for the use of the Vicksburg and
Brunswick Boad. - - - - -
There is an old negro living a short distance
from town who claims to be 108 years of age,
and says, “by de help ob God he’ll live 108
more.”
"We have heard of as many as fonr and five
bolls of cotton open on one stalk, but this does
not xejoice tho farmers, for, say they, the
weather is so dry and the sun so hot as to cause
immature bolls to open.
Chop News.—Messrs. Saulsbnry, Bespess &
Co, in their Commercial and Agricultural
Bulletin of the 2d, print a great deal of orop
correspondence from neighboring counties of
Georgia—dates not given. From Dooly they
report a falling off in cotton twenty per cent.
"Webster will make not more than half of what
it made last year. Jones three-fourths of a crop:
Jasper 15 per cent, less; Butts 18 per cent
Schley probably two-thirds. Houston, the poor
est crop ever seen—don’t think there will be
half a crop. Worth two Hurds of a orop. Macon
one-tMrd les3 .planted. Bandolph from two-
thirds to three-fourths of a.crop. Terrell three-
fourths. Twiggs, cotton doing very-well. Mon
roe, same report Crawford, sorry—twenty-five
per cent less. Taylor, crop3 poor—two-thirds
to three-fourths of a orop. Baldwin two-thirds.
Bibb, deorease from twenty to tMrty per cent
Palaski one-half to two-thirds.
Affaibs in West Georgia.—Columbus is pro-;
foundly agitated by a controversy among the
colored barbers upon Sunday shaving. All the
shops bnt one want to close on" that sacred day.
Death fbom Laudanum.—Mr. Wm. Pride,
aged 23 or 24 years, committed suicide in that
city on Thursday, by taking an ounce of lauda
num. f ‘ . . '
The Weatheb and the Cbops.—It is terribly
dry in those regions. The Enqairer says many
of the saplings in the woods are dying, and it is
no exaggeration to say that half the fodder on
the uplands in tMs section have been lost. It
dried on the stalk before the com was mature
enough to admit of pulling. A good deal more
of the com was cut down, stalk and all, to make
fodder, when it was found that it would make
no ears. - - - , , ' -
The Sun has the following on the same sub
ject:
Cbofs.—If we have the "very best of seasons
in this section, we do not believe we can raise
two-thirds of an average cotton orop. - Nor are
the repbrts from other sections any better.
Montgomery, Ala., had a big sensation the other
day over a stalk of cotton 54 feet Mgh and con
taining numberless bolls. Only one was exhib
ited, but it depressed the market badly. On
August 10, last, year, three new bales were re
ceived in Columbus.
In Barbour and adjoining'oounties In Ala
bama there has been no rain for three to five
weeks. Corn, cotton and all other crops are se
riously injured. The same is reported of
Lowndes and other rich, black land counties in
Alabama. .
Ono hundred and twenty-fiyemore hands have
been placed on the North and South Bailroad,
and it is going ahead like a steamboat—a con
siderable stretch being allready for cross-ties
and iron. !
The Enquirer gives the latest labor contract
as follows: ' . -
A lusty negfo applied to a merchant for
work. The merchant, after cogitating a little,
asked, “Aroyonagood handatflsMng?” “Oh,
yes, boss.” “Well, if you will furnish your own
hooks, linos, bait, and board yourself, I will let
you fish down there in the river, on condition
that you give Me- half you eatoh.” “Good; boss
—it’s a.bargain.” The negro got Ms angling
apparatus,, and went at it. He fished all Wednes
day afternoon, and up to noon yesterday, in the
broiling sun, having caught but three small
cats. After trying for an hour or two to sell
them, he came back to his generous employer,
and remarked, “Look here, boss, I don’t think
I’ll make much at this business; now, don’t
you think you ought to bar half de spenses ?”
Brunswick.—The Seaport Appeal is pressing
tho completion of the Altamaha Canal, wMch,
at acostof $100,000, wonld transfer an immense
lumber trade to Brunswick. We see by that
of
paper that the Templetons are still starring
Brunswick.
Fbom Savannah.—We leam by the News that
General B. H. Anderson and Mrs. Geo. W. An
derson were considerably, though not danger-
onsly, hurt by a runaway horse; being thrown
very violently from the buggy.
The News records the death of Hon. John G.
Morel, of Effingham oounty, who died
Wednesday, the 2d instant, of oongestive fever,
at his residenoe in that county, near Sister’s
Ferry, on the Savannah Biver.
The News and Bepnblican both complain
the groundless report that yellow fever is in Sa
vannah. The city is very healthy. The ne
groes seem to have a strange passion for the
razor as an offensive weapon. One negress
Savannah razored another almost to death
Thursday.
Fbom Houston County.—The Houston Home
Journal has the following:
A Liberal Community.—The people living
the neighborhood of Wellbom’s Mill have \
cently performed an act of liberality worthy
the greatest praise. On the night of July 20th,
W. H. Opryhad his house burned, losing every
thing in it, Ms family not even saving a change
of clotMng, The neighbors sympathizing with
Mm in Ms misfortunes, set to work with a good
will, and in about a week they had bnilt him
new, comfortable framed hon«<?. Who would
not live in snch a community ?
The proposed nnion of the Marshalville and
Fort Talley Agricultural Ciubs, in a Fair to be
held at Fort Talley next October, is all the talk
on the streets to-day. _
Crops in this neighborhood are suffering
want of rain. The people are so dry that they
amuse themselves by knooking each other ir
the back to see the dost fly out of their mouths.
Fibst Cotton.—John H. Hose has sent
the first open ootton we have seen. He says
all the rest of Ms crop is burnt up.
Fbom Dougs^bts.—Wo clip the following
from the Albany News:
Fcbe—Last Monday morning abont 3 o’clock
a. m. , our citizens were aroused from their slum
bers by the alarm of fire, which was soon dis
covered to be in the Westbrook wooden build.
Inga bn Broad street Our ever-faithful and
vigilant companies were soon on the spot, and
every available means was used to save the
property, but the flames had made such head
way that their efforts were of litle avail.
The" two wooden stores were entirely destroy
ed, and the owner, Mr. B. N. Westbrook, sus
tained a very serious loss. They were valued
at $6,690, and insured in the Liverpool, Lon
don and Globe Insurance Company for $4,000.
Gov.. Bullock has suspended the execution of
Albert, the negro who was to have been hung
to-day, till Ootober next.
Fbom Thomasville.—The Enterprise, of
Wednesday notices important improvements
in that city.
The Enterprise says: We hear considerable
complaint of intermittent and remitted fevers,
bilious attacks, etc., from some of the adjoining
counties and from portions of Florida, bnt in
this immediate section we have been blessed.
Thus far, notwithstanding the excessive rains
and sudden changes of weather, Thomas county
has maintained her reputation as one of the
healtMest in Georgia.
A citizen of Thomasville, who has just taken
a trip through the country from that point to
Miccosuki, Fla., reports the crops, along tMs
route are promising. The late corn i3 not so
good, bnt the early crop proves a fair yield,
wMle the cotton is rapidly improving. He re
ports intermittent fever as abounding beyond
the line, but very few cases tMs side.
From Texas.
Columbus, Texas, July 28,1871.
Editors Macon Telegraph and Messenger'.
have received tMs year multiplied scores of let
ters from Georgia—especially since I last wrote
you—full of inquiries about Texas, and where fo
settle. Tho best information relative to this
vast empire of a State is contained in a pam
phlet written by W. Brady,'Houston, Texas,
styled “Xho Glimpses of Texas,” and costing, I
believe, 35 cents. As to where best to settle,
parties must determine for themselves, and I
will, so far as my judgment rules; give them
the facts upon wMch Ihave acted. East Texas,
lying between the Sabine and Trinity, is in soil,
forest growth and water mnohlike tho country
east of the Mississippi Biver. Its advantages over
that section is freshness of soil. It 13 a finely
timbered region. Northern Texas is like, all
West Texas, Doing mostly a prairie country,
more so than the country between the Brazos
and Guadalonpe rivers. I believe it is conceded
that the prairie sections on by far the healthiest
and most fertile in soil. It is also the best
stock region, and when I state thathorses, cows
and sheep are raised by the hundreds of thou
sands, and are never fed either winter or sum
mer, a better country for stock-raising cannot
be desired. The are owned here from 1000 to
50,000. There advantage of the prairie over the
timbered parts of the State, in addition to
greater fertility of soil and healtbfnlnes3 of cli
mate, is the privilege of combining stock-raising
with farming, thus realizing the profits of both
pursuits at the same time. It is tMs that ena
bles the poor man so soon in Texas to rise in
the world. But the actual point to consider in
home in Texas is to find the latitude and lon
gitude least subject to extremes of weather, and
to settle where any year there is enough rain
fall to make crops—because we have wet and
dry periods in its seasons. Some years crops
can be made anywhere in Texas. TheD,
again, there are ports where it does not
rain but once in a year, and the case
is often so for seven and ten years. I
would prefer to be in the belt of too much
rain to one where there is too little, as the wet
years seldom exceed three. The best guide is
the distance from the Gulf and the Sabine
Biver, sinoe the rain fall" isjess and less to no
rain as you leavo tho coast and go west. Be
yond the Guadalonpe and San Antonio crops only
occasionally can be raised, it is so remote
above the mountains. I have been in Texas
twenty years, have traveled over it again and
again both in wet and dry periods, and have
settled in Colorado, although I consider Wash
ington, Fayette, Austin and Lavacca fully as
good for certain farming operations. I have
bought here sinoe the war. I know in these
counties if the land is deeply -worked, (and here
you cannot workjtoo deep, for the soil is from
three to twenty-five feet) and a crop .is early
planted and well worked, 40 and 50 bushels of
com can be raised to the acre, and a bale of
ootton. 'TMs year has been very dry, and yet
more corn, is raised than can be consumed, and
as much cotton as will be or can be picked.
There is no doubt it requires less work and less
expense to make crops in Texas than in any
portion of the United States, and I do not know
where' the people of the South oouid better
oome to better their condition than Texaa I
have been pretty much over the world, even to
Brazil, but prefer Texas. It has a .bright and
near future, has every element of material
wealth, is rapidly filling with the best people of
the South and the world, and hasn more pros
pects for capital, enterprise and laUor than any
part of the world. Dr. U. A. ltiee, late from
Georgia, and who came here upon the very
facta I have given, wonld take pleasure, I have
no doubt, in corresponding with the people of
his native State. He is a gentleman of oulture,
and can be fully and implicitly relied on.
“Yours, etc., ‘ Colorado.
ter.
“Oub Hebo” and His Wives.—The public are
well aware that Mrs. Petigru-King Bowen used
ail her best endeavors to have him released; bnt
has only recently come to light that Ms second
wife, Mr&.Park-Bowen, had. a.hand in the mat>*
Bat the following speaks for itself: -
Louisville, Ky., June 19*-1871.
To His Excellency U. 8. Grant, President of the
United States:
The undersigned is the. second wife of Con
gressman O. C. Bowen, convicted of bigamy.
While'I feel myself 'greatly injured by my.forr
mer husband, C. C. Bowen, I. forgive him. I
know he has" been unjustly aooused of greater
crimes than he is guilty of. He is not a mur
derer, as has been charged. He is a kind-
hearted, generous, man, of many goodimpnlses.
He was tempted, and has fallen. I desire to ask
clemency and mercy for him at your hands. I
pray you will not suffer him to be imprisoned,
but will pardon Mm. He was a kind husband ;
his worst fault was in loving women. I pray
you will not suffer Mm to enter the State prison,
but pardon him for our sakes. No woman knows
him better than myself. He is generous, he is
noble. Pardon Mm for numbers two and three."
Mrs. Tabitha Pabk-Bowen.
This last appeal no doubt (says the Baltimore
Sun) melted the President’s heart.
Knoxville, on Thursday, voted to subscribe
$75,000 to buiid a bridge over the Holston at
the town. ™
A Trip to See the Traction Engt^
Office Ga. State Agricultural So t *
Macon, August 4th, 1871. ' f
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I
just reached the city on the morning traioM
the Central Bailroad without sleep—both tL
sleeping cars from Augusta and Savannah U
ing full, (which had not happened before in *
months, said the conductor,) aud hasten w
fore utter exhaustion to give you outlines at
ride to 9, Central Baiiroad, and over to tb
Wadley mills yesterday to witness the perform
ance of the Thomson Boad steamer. *
On Wednesday, otir friend Gen. Holt 1,
formed me that Mr. Wadley had telegraDh*
him that there would be an exhibition and tea
at the mills Friday, and requesting himself aw
Mr. Clisby tobe present. Uponintimationtoli.
General, that the deep interest I felt that tb
great department of industry which my
was endeavoring to serve, had in the exneiL
ment, made me wish to witness the trial b
promptly gave me suoh a card as induced Cant
Beckett to pass me, pleasantly remarking as
parted at the cars, where he hoped hoped
find Mr. Clisby on Ms way, and failing b
hoped I would do what I could to apologize foi
and represent two delinquent gentlemen.
All arranged, the smooth rolling, easy swine,
ing passenger coaoh of the Central rolled ti
down by appointed stages to No. 9. Here I was
politely handed over byCapt. Beckett to lb
Cnbbedge, one of Mr. Wadley’s valuable asais!
ants, I judged, in some department of his vast
field of labor, and- very soon I was broncht b
contact with Mr. Wadley,whom I found some tm
hundred yard from the train wMch was to
ns over to the scene of the test-withont the a
shelter of .tree or roof, bareheaded and withont \
coat or vest, and utterly unconscious of anv laS {
of comfort of cloth. He welcomed me ple^
antly, ana after receiving his mails or packages
from some one specially bearing them, Md
after a few words of appropriate ana deserved
ohastisement of our delinquent friends, he
turned and invited me to follow him to the trtus
for the mills in Emanuel, over a railroad some
six or seven miles long, I believe, and bnilt by
the means and notable energy of two younger
brothers of Mr. W.—Moses and Dole (a mater,
nal ancestral name) Wadley. We passed oyer
the bridge, and then near or quite a mile
through one of the foMest cypress swamps con
ceivable. One wonld unconsciously ask, who
would have thought of undertaking such a task?
And yet these men toiled at it summer ani
winter, moved by the prospect of the harvest in f
the beautiful pine fields beyond. Judge Jones’ ao-1
count to mo of these men and their work is more
interesting than I can here make. All shoal!
rejoice that they have reached the harvest field
and are reaping as diligently as man-power and
steam-power can apparently possibly control
On entering' the cars for Emanuel I found
aboard my friend and school-fellow, Judge J.
B. Jones, of Burke—a thrifty farmer; Mr.
Perkins, of Lawton, farmer and lumberman;
Mr. Hines, of Washington, ship lumberman-
Mr. Stockton, of the Constitutionalist; Mr.
Williams, farmer, of Tatnall; Mr. Long, of the
LaGrange Beporter; Mr. Cunningham, mer.
chant, Savannah; Mr. Preston, Mr. Miller, Mr.
William Wadley, jr., and others in the form oi
four beautiful, bright-eyed, quiet little cMIdren
of Mr. Moses Wadley, who was sick and could
not be present.
On the ride over the river an ice elaret punch 2
very much refreshed the company. The most
observable tMng in the face of .nature was the
rich green coat of grass all over the Emanuel
side, contrasted with the parched, stinted,
stubble and weed of the Burke side. Anotherre-
markable fact is that the best crop of corn I saw
from here to the mill was on the land of Ml :
Lane, near the first mill, managed by Mr.
Moses Wadley.
We paused awhile at tMs to unship a cargo,
and the order was given while that was being
done, “Have dinner, Cato,” an order very soon
and remarkably well extended. The roast fowl,
the ham, the corned beef, the beans, .the pota
toes, the cabbage, the rice, the pickles, were of
a quality and preparation most unexceptionable.
Daring tMs performance—and I never wish to :]
see the animals enjoy anything more than they
did this—another order was heard, “Crack some
ice, Toney,” and very soon another order was
given, to crack sometMng else, of wMch it is
not neoessary now to speak more particularly.
Altogether, one of the best dinners you ever
saw passed off, without the folly of pie and
cake, bnt with what was so much better, a
plenty of sensible, humorous and cheerful con
versation. “Hand jtrar cigars, Toney,” and
“Heave forward, Mr, Middledorff,” (the engi
neer), were the last orders here, and in a few
minutes we were at the Doll Wadley Mill, add I
saw the road steamer. Will you allow me to
rest, and conclude to-morrow?
D. W. L.
Letter from General Gordon.
Washington City, July 28, 1871.
Gen. A. H. Colquitt—iffy Dear General:
On the eve of my departure from Atlanta to an
swer the summons of the Congressional Inves
tigating Committee, you handed me a letter,
dated, I think, at Flat Shoals, Ga., and written,
as the letter stated, at the instance of many of
my political and personal friends. I havo mis.
laid it, and forgotten the signature or signatures
attached to it.
I desire to answer it, and if you cannot re
call the name of the writer, you are authorized
to publish this as an answer to that and similar
inquiries made by my friends elsewhere.
The writer inquires whether my name appears
in the True Georgian as a candidate for. Gov
ernor on tho political platform of that paper 5y
my authority.
In reply, I have to say that the editor of the
True Georgian will doubtless be quite willing to
state the fact, that my name was placed in his
columns without my authority, without any con
sultation with me, and without any intention on
Ms part of committing me to any particular line
of policy.
Suffioe to say on tbia subject, that I am not a
candidate for the nomination, have not been,
and shall not be; bnt I have not-thought it nec
essary to take any public notice of the few re
ferences in the papers to my name in that con
nection.
I appreciate most sensibly the compliment
paid me; but my plans for the future are so ar
ranged that I could not consent to be diverted
from them; and while I feel the deepest inter
est in the resalts of the next campaign in Geor
gia, I should be compelled to decline the nom
ination if tendered me.
Permit me, in concluding, to express the deep
oonviction I feel, that any event is to be re-
regarded as a calamity which divides our people.
Amidst all the evils which have befallen us it
has been a source of prime comfort to us that
Vfe have been united
This may be regarded, to some extent, as the
legitimate resnlt of the war, but the policy pur
sued toward the South by the party in power
since the war has, more than all tMngs else,
contributed to this end. It has brooght togeth
er those who aided onr cause and those who,
prior to and daring the war, were consistent
and persistent Union men, and united all in
sentiment as the heart of one man. I trust that
nothing may occur wMoh will deprive us of this
partial compensation for the wrongs we have
suffered.
"With assurances of my best efforts in behalf
'.Democratic nominees, both State and Fed
eral, T am, very respectfully,
’ 4 Yotfr obedient servant,
J. B. Gordon.
The Nathan Mubdebeb.—The New York
Times, on the third instant, published an inter
eating account of the pursuit of Forrester, the
Nathan murderer, by detective Pinkerton.
When Police. Superintendent Kelso’s proclama
tion was issued offering a reward for the arrest
the murderer, tho latter was in CMcago. He
subsequently fled to Galveston, Texas, Ireland,
and thence to Scotland, where his parents re
side. Pinkerton followedMm to Scotland. His
efforts to seonre the fugitive's arrest were un
successful, but he ascertained beyond doubt
that .Forrester was witMn the limits of Great
Britain, and Ms escape is next to impossible.
The British police are on tho alert, and Pink
erton considers the murderer's capture almost
certain, though sometime may elapse before it
effected. .
The Louisiana Negbo Factionists.—The P ;c -
of Thursday, evidently tMnks the Dunn
ayuhe
aud Wannouth negroes in Louisiana will have a
grand
0 fight' at their State Convention next
Thursday. Tie New Orleans Times, of Satur
day morning, in an article which was though!
sufficiently important to telegraph, gives a glow
ing pioture of the temper of these darkies—
r very angry they are and how much they
neglecting the publio business and squan
dering the publio money- It is terrible, and it be-
>8 a very nioe question, if they should all kill
, other next Thursday, what smount of pity
tears would be due to their manes.
comes
each
and
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