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MACON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1871.
\ ;V 'i\ U ; Volume IaXV—No. 7
Abo a Ben Butler.
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j-V k4 . r ead Sutter; ‘ Well. I gum
j*Q56. Baler catered. “>a eo;”
SSfZr’ur— l! there's err dooie, shrewd elf,
cct who coir seme HaseR.”
-r-^a sad vasHbed. Thentnrich!
~Lt7 • -«-ri!*=fiusa sulphurous Usht
i^Vfrki tiri: acts wbo served Old Nteh the
,.,7? v~ ruber'i r.tc; led all the rest!
— IGerptieh
Governor IJndwy at Cbattasooga.
<5ot. Lindsay, of Alabama, haring arsred in
Chsitzuocga on Wednesday naming, was net.
erecrdmg to ippohtnL ty s large number of
creditors, employees, endleading citizens of
place, to whom fce made faxnL his Tiers of the
railroad situation. As reported if the Tices,
be thta explained the liabilities of the Com
pany to the State of Alabama:
“The State of 'Alabama Lad endorsed the
bonds of this company to the amount of §4,.
330,000 and had loaned her orm direct bonds
to the znouniof $2,OOOt,OX> core. She has a
prior lias, both by statue and deed, to the
unseat of the endorsement. On the 1st day of
January the read was in default for the interest
cn both the endorsed and loaned bonds. After
some delay far the necessary le rial*lion, the
State paid this interest, and has since paid the
interest os both classes of bonds which fell dee
in July, tncuntirg in an to nearly §0,000,000.
His chief object throughout had been to protect
the paramount interest of ttt— by letting
the company go cn and complete the enterprise.
He had ignored the character of the Stantons,
The Cotton Prospect.
jv• — »m Worth 1 — ^
”, iir - it is ISO there was great excitement their ultimate deigns, end their fconestv or
~>7vc* iilmM fcvsn advance in I Sdelitv.
- ttewttei tsS**> attendedTby an advance in fidelity.
- - - J » —-■ —* The Governor stated, at cnm» lengh, the rea-
I..4 l-A l: Z « a-A?_ _ rw,
" ~V* i~i certs per pound. A greet part of
&*’»*nnee then and all of the excitement were
TE .t .v a reports of reduced planting and in-
£r to the crop by protracted bed weather.
point unfavorable to fntnre enp^y from
6e it» of 1871 wss grossly exaggerated Spec-
-piniocs and rash statements of indi-
r=r^ w«e dcnblr fortified and supported by
ovarnnted and absurd statements from the
igricnimial Bureau at Washington, which to
England were ignorantly supposed to have some
0*e month of warm, drv, favorable weather
i*s"passed, and behold, what a change! “Cot-
v^s no friends. - is the expressive phrase to
e riet. Prices hare fallen about two cents,
v ; rt reririrg faith; the decline has rath-
a isette^ the tendency to further depres-
d-n." It* crop story from every qnarter
eosss bea« and better, as if the writers,
Lemm: of folly, would cause its expression
to te forgotten. Low estimates of the crop
irpsii no core, and the making of estimate
Us .-cased, as if everybody at last had
sms to mc that they serve no other purpose
t"to exhibit the famity of their makers. Tet
then are some apposite facts of the past and
pn*c; tist may be csefclly considered. The
kccc crop of 1630 was very large, unexpectedly
x u the extent of 500,000 to 700,000 bales, be*
CK!> tithe mpmfaBea «^V5CTL TLfi
f.*?it-rion of other countries was np to its
zrX tverage. Tte great and sudden excess in
srrt y depressed the market valae of cotton to
i the'spring to range only aboct 8 per cent,
tris: in cold than the avenge price at the
ah: period to the three years preceeding the
sir. iZ : :her articles of trade and znancfac*
ist srtept wool, a kindred article; bore values
:: per cent higher than to 1S58-60. Cot-
Utiid fallen too low. It was fairly entitled to
c live re of !» i, or 3 cents' to gold, to place
!: x;cx a level with other commodities, irre-
qerdve of tny reduction of supply or any
firdi: increase of consumption, as compared
rid. tie quantities of 1670-1. About one-half
he idvtnce in Mi.y and June was then Iegiti-
sm:e only too e&riy and too rapid.; even with
s Js.-:nt;'e report of the growing crop.
sons that had led tin to lose in the Stan
tons, and said that, having become satisfied that
they “were making an effort, and would be suc
cessful in completing a sale under the second
mortgage, ignoring the <Mf of all other par
ties,” he concluded that “unless prompt action
was taken the State and all other creditors would
be left out-* Hence, he had directed General
Clanton to take charge of the road. He said
further:
“He did not desire to ride rough shod over
the creditors. The State claimed the right to
take the road but it did not propose to do so by
force. He proposed to let creditors here to
Chattanooga appoint their own custodians to
take charge of the property, ana let it be used
cn the road, or he would appoint a receiver to
take the property, and give bond for it He
thought the road to this way would ultimately
pay the debt He thought he could sell out to
morrow to a responsible- party who would pro
tect the State and pay the emplovees, and the
greater pert of the floating debt if it was nec
essary to call the Legislators together, fce would
do su, but not unless there was something to be
done which he coaid not do. He thought he
had all necessary power.”
Dr. Curt Declines Going to Georgia.
Frca the Richmond Dispatch.]
His numerous friends in Virginia will be
pleased to learn that Dr. Curry hzs declined
the othce of President of Mercer University,
as he had previously done the presidency of
the University of Alabama and of Georgetown
College, Ky. At our request we have been
furnished with a copy of the letter to the au
thorities of Mercer Urriveisifv, which we pub
lish below:
Eicnsrosm, Vjl, August 1,1?7L
Bet. S. Lar.drvm, 2>. D., Savannah, Go. :
Dear Brother: I received to due time your
official notification of my unanimous election
by the Board of Trustees to the presidency of
Mercer University, and your private letter re
questing my acceptance of the responsible posi
tion. 1 have since received letters from every
, member of the faculty, from several members
ncs-aad tis had one reuof remarkablygo«l of tt e board, and from various prominent dti-
•Us’.ness m tl tranches of her cotton trade. It zens—manv not of my denomination of Chris-
h&3 'men r»i esoxgh to start new spindles for tiaus—expressing cm rid cation at my election,
the ensuing yesr. England does not set up new grid nrem^ me to to mv native State
aid in the work of higher education. ~~
spms-M, except to replace osd ones, in years or
unprofitable and “disastrous” businesslike that
ri“:b marked the years of 1864 to 1869, and
thee are no: well informed who talk end write
of the great increase to British cotton spindles
Is those bad years. Now it is changed. The
impetus cf profit is given as to 1857 to 1661, and
the increase for the work of 1671-2 may well be
Urge. On the continent tte restraint of war is
sndii Spindles lately idle are to motion
again, and new ones are building, under the
pcTsriul incentive of profits, which, good when
extea was worth 12dL, have became very good
rith cotton at Sd.; and the reduction to price
cf ertten, shared in the reduced price of cotton
?»is. Las enlarged the market demand for
the n goods.
There is ample reason to suppose that to the
tonge of twelve months from the 1st of Octo
ber next there will !>e three and one-half to four
—■'•'cm more spindles to running order than in
tie twelve months preceeding. The question
v- arise, Will trade and consumption take off
eT tie production of the spinning power so
Ringed? And most men, looking at the abun*
icar and cheapness of money and the ever e-x-
terhag areas of trade, will answer, Tee, if not
frirented by enhanced prices.
If s: much be true, then the world wants for
ta« next year four hundred thousand to five
itubed thousand bales of cotton more than
vt.= required for the current year.
iffituc* is it to ccme? Should the rest of the
^t:ld keep its supply up to that of 1870-71, our
st? would need to be not only 4,500,000 bales
but as much more as the increase to coc-
Ruptiou, or eke the surplus at the end of next
.JHr must be reduced by whatever our crop
-rils cf that increase. We hazard no estimates
~ grcwmg crops, bat we remember that the
tonoidinary yield from the large planting of
i:7? was, to the extent of half a million bales
fl least, due to such a season as may not be re
peated for many years. We know that the early
stiri of this crop was under conditions which,
tiixgh grossly exaggerated, were yet unfavora
ble. It is for every one to discount from last
fttr’s production so much as to him seems
in arriving at a probability for this year.
«tk* crop falls off COO,000 bales—that is, if it
out to be 3,700,000 bales—and the con-
*atpuon in the world shall be 500,000 bales
core th»n this year's, then it follows surely that
surplus at the end of this year will be re-
ty 1,100,000 bales at the end of next year,
uov much would that leave to go into the next
Tat. How much would that leave to go info the
year with ?
W course, any statistical problem of this sort
ji sobiect to the perturbations of prices of eot-
and of goods, stimulating or restraining sc-
wn, and therefore the end must be indefinite,
“it to merchants and mannfacturerers there is
Jiitltt worth thinfciTsg of in the important facts
^we present and the suggestions that they
Somewhat Interesting.
The Bamesrille Gazette says that “on
"Maesday, 26th nit, the chief corner stone of
|~= li E. Church wss laid by the Masonic fra-
•touty. Bishop George F. Pierce was present,
J-ATave U3 an interesting talk on the subject
?)rr kjing of the thief corner stones of public
; and particularly stated that the spirit
J* wriQiag new churches since the late war
“gh, generally throughout the South. He
**» Pteud to see such a spirit prevailing. He
the attention of the membership of the
Chnrch, particularly tg the fact that
ysihodists were too much inclined to leave the
marks of Method ism, and to ape the
--y customs of the world, and other denomina-
5?* That the Methodist Church, in many
introduced choirs and organs to do
n 5 Tiklic worship fet their assemblies, instead
„ 1 tu Joining in singing the praise of God with
tfT ted nnderiitandicg, and ‘not one in
"■*gi and that they oft'times become so
tiey could not even repeat the last
•o lines of the last stanza of each hymn."
tu 9 further says:
, Bishop condemns the custom of using and
Pews in ihe Methodist Church, and the
growing so rapidly into custom of
' : - end females occupying the same seats.
woman juror ixrangement does not work
Wyoming. EecenUy six married ladies
a , man 7 gentlemen were impanneled upon
Q urdej. case, and U became neoessary to lock
ell night. Three of the husbands
raved at the Judge, and a half
•n children made the court-house ring with
bud «i " n ?~ was inflexible, however,
la °T rebellion have been mnrifwrf
- oheyenne ever since.
These
numerous and flittering appeals have caused me
to weigh the question of acceptance with prayer
ful earnestness.
At times, the argument to favor of acceding
to the request of the board seemed to prepond
erate. Tim ties which bind one to the land of
his nativity, and the obligations to labor for her
welfare, are very strong, and I could spend my
years hopefully and happily to advancing her
material, moral and inteilectcal prosperity.
Sincerely do I wish the “Empire State of the
South ” success in all the elements and agencies
that contribute to a wise and stable civUizstion.
Potent as are these affirmative considerations,
them are, on the other hand, reasons far re
maining in Virginia that ere to my mind and
conscience insuperable.
The people of this State have received me
with such cordiality as not to permit me to feel
as a stranger. My vacations, which have been
mainly spent to efforts to awaken increased in
terns t'in behalf of popular and coHegiate educa
tion, have enabled me to become widely ac
quainted, and my efforts thus to earn my citi
zenship have been so rewarded with success
that the appeals to remain have been as earnest
and numerous as toe appeals to leave.
Richmond College, with which I am so pleas
antly connected, is surely winning its way to
prominence arid popularity. The standard of
scholarship, recognized in toe course of instruc
tion and scrupulously adhered to, is so high as
to command the confidence and approbation of
all who value superior mental discipline and
culture. ]Hy association with the Faculty, stu
dents, and trustees has been all that I could de
sire. Warmly attached to the college and the
people cf Virginia, I cannot see it as my duty
to abandon a work to which Providence seems
totmeflUne.
Profoundly grateful to the Board of Trustees,
the Faculty, the press, and the many friends
soliciting my return to Georgia, and praying toe
richest blessings upon Mercer University, I re
main, truly and fraternally, J. H M. Ccsst.
These is a young man in Contra Costa county,
who may be regarded as the champion squirrel
kOTer. He is said to have killed no less than ten
thousand to a stogie season. He gathers his
squirrel crop as a matter of business. He sells
the skins of toe squirrels for fifteen cents each
to the agents of foreign kid glove manufactu
rers, and the county pars him a bounty of ten
cents a head for every squirrel killed.
The Cape Ann Granite Company, with a
blast of seven kegs of powder, suited a block
of granite in their quarry at Bay Hew one
hundred and twenty-two feet to height, forty-
five feet wide, and thirty feet deep, containing
aboct one hundred thousand cubic feet, and
weighing over fourteen thousand tons, supposed
to be the largest block ever quarried to this or
any other country. -
What Kew Tose is Wobth.—The fixed val
uation of the city makes toe splendid aggre
gate of §1,075,000,000, and the amount raised
this year by taxation is §23,300,000 (equal to
the entire expenses of the general Government
only a few yearn ago,) of which about §6,000,-
000 is for interest, §2,500,000 for education,
§3,000,000 for police, §1,000,000 for public
charities, and another million for the Fire De
partment. Including the internal revenue col
lections, New York City pays taxes amounting
to 50,000,000 per annum.
Twncr who think toe oil wells of Pennsylva
nia have played out, may be surprised to learn
that the production of petroleum to this coun
try is steadily on the increase. In I860 we ex
ported but one and a half millions of gallons;
in 1868 it had reached ninety-nine millions, and
last year it wss one hundred and forty-one mil
lions. The increase to the flow of oil in Penn
sylvania, since 18C7, has been nearly fifty per
cent.
Thz Cape Am Granite Company, with a blast
of seven kegs of powder, started a block of
granite in their quarry at Bay View 172 feet in
height, 43 feet wide, and 35 feet deep, contain
ing about 100,000 cubic feet, and weighing over
14,000 tons—supposed to be the largest block
ever quarried in this or any other oountxy.
lx ancient Borne the nearest friend of a dying
person received by a kisa, his soul, as it escaped
through toe lips at the last expiration; bat we
have changed all that nowadays, and many a
young lady bear witness that you needn’t
wait for a friend to die to receive all of his
Spirit” that you care to receive by a kiss.
The shores of a pond in WhittosviUe, Mass.,
are oovered with dead frogs, supposed to have
been killed by carbonic arid gas, generated by
toe decay of vegetable matter at the bottom of
the pond.
Next little betting books are now manufac
tured for ladies’ use. There is no “Du” side.
Letter From BUkimsaa County,
XiswETC'Ox, Gj-» August 7, 1871.
Ediicti Tdegrapi and 2ltnens£ri It having
best , some time since I wrote, i wffl necssssT
Ely either include matter that is somewhat
ermnit it, while it might beef interest to some
readers of your paper.
About the middle of June last, an enterpris
ing trader, who does a good business to cur
county, after having disposed of many bases,
tanks and bogs, brought a drove of very fine
Tennessee milch cows here for sale. He had
succeeded to selling but a few, before they sud-
denlr began to die; and within a Terr few
weeks’ time all were dead, out of a 1st of'four-
teeUjbct four or fire are left. The certain cause of
their death is unknown. Some suppose it to be
the effect of having eaten “coffee weed,” while
others seem to think tost because of their re
moval from their native rlirnia and rich pas
tures, they sickened and died. Lard, Oil, Whis
ky, and, in short, all remedies that could be
conceived were tried, bat without effect, yrtn
a resort was had to large doses of quinine,
when the rick cnee were relieved. Those of
them yet living are now doing well. The prices
of the cows ranged from sixty-five to one hum
died and twenty-five dollars.
A band of Ku-klux numbering, it i3 supposed
by seme, one hundred and fifty, by others dif
ferent numbers up to three cr fotur hundred,
disturbed the quietude tbst reigned in our btfte
town, about 1 or 2 o'clock on the same Saturday
night that Oxford was taken from toe Mtlledge-
viUe jail: but molested nothing save a little
drinking
A homoride, which, however, was not “a Ku-
klux outrage,” took place six miles from town
about sundown last Friday. The parties were
both of the Badieal persuasion—one an impu
dent black man named Green Porter, and toe
other a white rn»n named Tfiiwna^ McRae, who
shot the negro dead. Oar Coroner has inform
ed me that the verdict of his jury is “Wilful
murder." It seems the! McRae had employed
the negro’s services for the year: but that
about two months ago he refused to work longer,
when McRae then and since then, endeavored
to drive him from his premises. He, with his
family, remained, however, until his death.
It is presumed that this was the cause of toe
affray.
The young men end professionals of our town
have organized a Base Ball Club; fcsTe played
several games, and now entertain bright hopes
of soon being able to compete with Clubs
whose fcrmiant successes have Von them honor
and distinction.
Our Agricultural Society is still thriving, and
its last meeting, on Saturday, was attended by
a large audience of ladies and gentlemen. A
good number of worthy names were added to
the list of members. A large portion of toe
day was consumed preparing reports etc., for
State Convention: making arrangement for our
county exhibition, etc., etc.
Crops are indeed very poor, but as good,
doubtless, as those of adjoining counties. The
most of our county has been suffering from a
hot dry drouth for many week, which, together
with previous evils, has greatly damaged our
corn, peas, and potatoes. Cotton on uplands
is some better than had been expected, and as
a general thing, not very good at that Many
farmers entertain serious apprehensions of even
harder times than now, if their existence be
possible. Terr respectfctty,
CoEEESrOSDEXr.
From Houston County.
Neas Bxeos, August 6,1871.
Editors Telegraph, and Messenger : I will give
you and the readers of your valuable paper a
correct account of the crops to this section of
toe country. Com to this neighborhood is
good; every planter will make a plenty to an
swer his purposes. TTe have not purchased any
Western com this year, or very little; the
quantity purchased is so small that we do not
oril ft any. Next year we will not purchase
any at alL The writer of this article has not
purchased a bushel, and don’t expect to. If we
had a heavy com bill to settle wo would be
completely smashed up. Cotton is almost a
failure even where it has been cultivated. It
is very poor, and now the little sickly plant is
withering and parching np under a burning
drouth. I will make a lively little bet that this
section of the country don’t make more than
half the crop that it did last year. I do not be
lieve that Georgia will make half it did last year.
I hear from portions of Alabama, and toe cotton
crop is almost a failure. The people in the
cities everywhere are over-estimating toe crop.
Nothing but time will convince them. Macon
will not receive half the crop that it did last
year; neither will Savannah.
~Pt try Fitms.
Decrease in Internal Revenue Re
ceipts in Georgia.
A Washington correspondent of the Atlanta
Sun sends that paper some interesting figures,
showing the amount of internal revenue re
ceipts to the four collection districts of tote
State for the years 1870 and 1871. We quote
as follows:
1670. 187L
1st Dish....§260,456 61 1st Dist.§13S,077 19
2d Dist. 330,115 95 2dDist... 155,277 11
3d Dist 227,960 08 3d Dtet.... 154,762 68
4thDish.... -325,708 74 4toDist... 258,80704
35,300
900
* §1,144,241 38 §736,944 02
A falling off in each district amounting in the
aggregate to §407,297 36, or about thirty-six
percent.
The following statement exhibits toe falling
off on spirits, tobacco, etc.:
1st 2d 3d 4th.
Dist. Dist. Dist. Dist.
Spirits, § 5,600 § 9,500 § 7,000
Tobacco,' 28,400 §36,900
Gross Receipts, 14,700 30,000
Special Taxes, 18,800 22,900
Income, ’ 72,400 69,COO
Miscellaneous, 3,000 19,000
Sales, 22,400 10,700
Aggregate, 122,400 174,800 73,200 36,900
A Mexhoiust Conference in Iowa decided,
toe other day, “that the movement now being
made to enfranchise women, is both wise and
just, the genius of our Government, toe rights
of woman, the good of society, alike re
quiring it.”
Ret. Hrsnx Wmaox, a successful preacher to
Illinois, is to jail for being too much married.
Seven of his wives have been discovered, and a
few more are believed to be extant.
Lxpeost is spreading rapidly in the Sand
wich Islands, and threatens to become epidemic
there, the law for the isolation of the
lepers is rigidly enforced.
Tut state of Michigan contains 5,111 inland
laVon, oovering an area of 1,114 miles, besides
a water-front on the great lakes of more than
1,800 miles.
Dceixo a game of base ball at Tama City,
Iowa, the batter, in throwing back bte dub for a
telling stroke, hit the catcher to the temple,
Wiling hjm instantly.
Yictob F.vivm. has been to low spirits ever
since the decree of ex-communication. The
papal bull seems to have given his majesty a
considerable hoist.
Akttvt-r Wabd says he knew a men without
a tooth in bis head who could play toe bass drum
splendidly.
Ni3i-tesths of all the school teachers in Mas
sachusetts are women.
Foseigx Seeds.—We are indebted to Mr.
jus. Milne for the folio wing foreign seeds:
Green Top Scotch Yellow Turnip, Devonshire
Grey Slone Turnip, Pomeranian White Globe,
Bronze Top Bweede, Bed Globe Mangel. These
and otbe" 1 can be found on sale at Mr. Beggs’
grocery store. ...
Souzbzbx show their devotion to the
cause of education by stealing the school fund.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
. A homed snake, five feet long was seen by
all the Atlanta locals last Friday. Go slow, boys,
or even chloral wont save you.
The Mayor's Court at Atlanta is a paying in
stitution. It netted §1,003 50 daring the
month of July.
From the Bainbridgg Argus, of Saturday, we
clip the following items:
New com meal is becoming plentiful to the
city. Sweet potatoes of this year’s production
are also being brought in.
Oar farmers have succeeded to saving their
fodder pretty generally; without a drop of min
falling during the time. Fodder will U. good,
abundant and cheap.
Bust.—'The rust hss made its appearance on
the cotton in portions of this county. A field
near this place has shed its leaves, and all the
forms and young bolls are dead. All the ma
tured bolls are open.
Tee caterpillar fly is believed to have made
its dehut, and apprehensions of much injury to
the cotton crop from this insect is being in
dulged by many of toe farmers in this section.
Jrsr so, CiPTiis.—A red faced, yaxkee look
ing chap, apparently eighteen or nineteen years
of age, who called himself Captain Jchn Bent,
was perambulating the vicinity of Attapnlgus
toe first part of tote week, insuring the lives of
all the darkies he could dupe, for the very mod
erate sum of §2 50 per annum.
CuEiosxrES.—A Mr. Beiley, of tote county,
wss in town Wednesday last, exhibiting what
we thought were three curiosities, having never
seen anything that rivaled then in their special
line. The first was a pea-hull measuring one
yard two and a half inches to length, and con
taining only seven peas, which were folly ma
tured: the second was s cucumber, ia the shape
of a greafl glass bottle, toe cucumber having
been put into the bottle when quite young: and
the third curiosity was the man himself, who,
it is said by able judges, is the ugliest man in
The Stonewall Fire Company, at Bainbridge,
fcgc one more officer than other companies. At
least toe Argus speaks cf the “ncuzleman” of
that company. ^
There were six cases of miscegenaSon tried
in the various Magistrate's Courts of Atlanta,
last week, as we I cum from the Rutledge Re
porter.
The trewly loyal black vote at Chatham
county is steadily decreasing by reason of the
trewly loyal aforesaid continuing to Ku-Hnx one
R«m Beggs lulled George Thurston,
Saturday night, and Cyrus Middleton dittoed
Joe Barney the Wednesday previous.
Walter Blake, Esq., a well known South
Carolina planter, died at Savannah on Sunday,
of cancer, aged eixty-eight.
The Savannah News, of Monday, quotes a
statement from the Chattanooga Times to toe
effect, “that the engineers and brakemen on the
Western and Atlantic Railroad have signed an
agreement made between themselves and the
managers of the road which provides that if an
*ugin««iror brakesman gets killed by accident,
negligence, or from any other cause on the
Western n'c.d Atlantic Railroad, he cannot re-
CUYei iXUj iSaia»5uo /*om aai5 voai*'
The colored aristocracy of Atlanta are induced
to patronize “sworees” by a stentorian crier who
bawls: “Only twenty-five cente, gemmen, and
fourteen wateimiliious to divide among toe
awgenee!
Dr. D. C- O’Keefe, of Atlanta, is dangerously
ill at Gainesville, and little hope is entertained
of hte recovery.
Atlanta organized a Hoard cf Trade, llondav
night, with Major B. £. Crane as President, and
six Vice P.’s.
dimes Lovelace, an Atlanta bailiff, was acci
dentally shot Monday, and is supposed to be
mortally wounded.
A German, named Aleck Bernhardt, was
drowned in a pond, at the Brewery, naar Atlan
ta, on Sunday, by falling from a horse he was
watering in the pend.
Tte Rev. Robert Elliott, son of the late Bish
op, bas accepted a call to Si. Phillip’s Church,
Atlanta, mA vriHooter upon hte duties in Oe-
tobex.
Tlc- Griffin Star, cf yesterday, reports fine
rains last week in that county, and also to Mer
iwether and Pike counties, with partial seasons
in Fayette and Henry. Butts county complains
of crougth.
The surveyors on the Griffin and Madison
Railroad reached Jackson, Butts county, last
Friday night, where the citizens gave them a
big supper.
We clip the foOowtog team the Atlanta Era
of yesterday :
Tee Atulxta Papees cr Macox—What is
tee Matte*?—Editor New Era, Atlanta, Go.
Please publish the following: The undersigned
is a subscriber for the three Atlanta dailies.
Kin»A the change to toe Macon poetoffice,
have not been able to get the Atlanta dailies
seven times to a month. This is to notify the
Era, Constitution, and Sun that, if I cannot
get their papers I don’t intend to pay for them
any longer. Gentlemen, if you can’t compel
toe powers is Atlanta or Macon to deliver pa
pers to subscribers, keep them at homo. I will
not payor promise to pay for what I don’t get.
On the first of last month I had to pay 30 cents
a piece for your papers, but I can’t get toe pa
pers. If yon send the papers, I want them; if
yon don’t send them, I don’t want them. Who
is to blame, yon in Atlanta, or would-be’s to
Macon? Heretofore in toe Macon postoffice
we had no complaints. Our old post-master
was all right. Some folks said he wasn’t a
Bad. Is this for the better? that’s the ques
tion. James Fttzpatrice.
Macon, Ga., August 6, 1871.
Commenting upon toe above, the Era says,
editorially:
We do not know what is the matter with the
Macon postoffice. The Era te mailed regularly
to our subscribers to that city, and we have
good reason to believe they are properly dis
tributed and sent off from toe Atlanta postoffice.
The derangement must either be on the line or
in the Macon office. We get the ill cos Tele-
gbath on an average of not oftener than three
times a week. It very rarely reaches tote office
regularly any three consecutive days. It meet
usually misses one day and we get two mails
the next day!
Begixxisg School is September.—A corres
pondent complains that the City Schools of
Macon, “unlike all other titles,” begin their
fall sessions in September when many people
are away, and which te the most sickly month
of the year. He says experience shows that all
our schools number a third more pupils by the
first of October than they did at the opening of
the term in September. He asks that we shall
give the matter a place and recomnjend a
change of terms—let them begin and end later
in the season. We give place to his suggestion,
which seems to be a reasonable one, and yet we.
suppose toe practice of opening school in Sep*
tember has not become established ^without
some substantial considerations favoring it.
Ferelsa Setts.
(aa*MPfob tuxxexegbaxh im jbsssgul)
The Internationals axe still the nightmare of
the French Government, which dieting to Vnr>
that the much dreaded society had taken active
measures to reduce several large cities to ashes.
Owing to sinister rumors stating that toe Inter
nationals intended also to fire the flourishing
port Rouen, all vessels laden with petroleum are
forbidden to ascend the Seine to that city. A bill
suppressing the Society is shortly to be sub
mitted to the National Assembly. A movement
is set on foot to prolong the powers of Thiers
for three yeans, and to change his title from
CIUSI xs£ tco PwAAnfiva to «t P»a«vU»4 «t
the Republic. Count do Bemnsafca distinguished
writer, has succeeded Jules Fame as Minister
of Foreign Affairs. Pouyer Quertier, having
completed the payment of another inrfaiim«nr
of 500,000,000 francs of the war-indemnity, toe
German army of occupation has been reduced
to 150,000 men. There is moth ill feeling be
tween toe French in toe occupied departments
ana ihe German soldiers, often resulting in as
sassination of the hated foreigners, and open
collision between both parties. The govern
ment trill, therefore, strain all its energies to
hasten toe payment of the whole war-indemnity
Goon News vboji Pcham Coustt.—The
election held on Monday, the 7th tost., resulted
in the choice of Dr. J. A. Etheridge, a sound
and reliable Democrat Fall particulars to our
next
drain upon the public exchequer are very un
favorably received. The Government is really
ingenious to dteeoveringneweourdes of revenue,
and it is rumored that cats and caged birds shall
be taxed, the first at the rate of five francs, the
latter one franc apiece. This tax seems par
ticularly obnoxious, because it opens the home
circle to the official gaze of the collector, and
the fair, old and young, are pouring a flood of
execrations over the Tenuities Assembly. Foe-'
tage will also be raised, a letter to America f. L
costing one franc and sixty cents instead of
eighty cents. We doubt whether this measure
will prove a success, ample experience haring
established the fa:i that the redaction of postage
has always been followed by an extraordinary
increase of comespondence.
The difficulties between landlords and tenants
are great, and two special courts are sitting in
some 'quarters to decide such eases. A well-
known auction house to the rue Drouot te
crowded with furniture offered for sale, as they
have commenced to sell at public auction the
moveables of the poor tenants, who, being un
able to pay the rent due, have been turned out
into toe street. The misery of toe lower classes
te great, net withstanding the brilliant success of
toe recent loan. The insurrection in Algiers
still continues, though the latest advices declare
that many Arab chieftains had submitted to toe
authority of the French government.
Politics are at a standstill to Germany. The
triumphal marches of the victorious armies
through the German capitals have taken place
amid the enthusiasm of toe nation, and princes
and statesmen have gone to the watering places
to recruit their health. When toe Crown Prince
of Saxony was created a Field Marshal of the
German Empire, he was at a loss for a baton,
there being no chance to have one made in time
for the triumphal entry of the army into Dres
den. Professor Dr. Hettner, toe Director of
the Historical irno-onni, hxrrrara, conquered 013
difficulty by hunting among tba treasures en
trusted to ms care the baton which John Sobi-
esky, of Poland, carried when, together with
George the Third, Elector of Saxony, he raised
the siege of Vienna, by the Turks, in 1663.
The Internationals are also stirring in Ger
many. At a meeting of Social Democrats in
May ence, a resolution was unanimously adopted
declaring the adhesion of the Assembly to the
principles, tendencies and decisions of the Paris
Commune. A second resolution was adopted to
the effect that toe Socialists of Mayence, to an
address to toe International, protest against the
middle class which have calumniated the late
Commune of Parte.
According to the “Cologne Gazette, toe Em
peror sojourning at Ema has granted Count Eu-
lenburg, the home Minister, an audience in
which the position of the State to reference to
the dogma of Papal infallibility was discussed.
When recently the Bishop of Ermeland reques
ted toe Minister of public worship to dismiss a
public teacher because he refused to give to his
adhesion to Papal infallibility, his petition was
peremptorily rejected, the minister stating hte
reasons for this decision. Some further meas
ures are now contemplated, some of which will
probably be of a legislative character. The
“Speneische Zeitung” from a trustworthy
source famishes toe following information on
this point: “Dr.vonMuehler’s tetter,” the paper
says, “makes a very sharp and perfectly just
distinction between toe Roman Catholic. Church
before toe ISto of July, 1870, and after that
date. It te evident that the Prussian govern
ment cannot propose to maintain existing legal
arrangements only for that part of the OathbLic
Chnrch which refuses to assent to the dogma
of Papal infallibility, and to exclude other Cath
olics from the benefits of legislation. The meas-
ure proposed can only refer to a legislative re
vision of toe existing relations ol Church and
State, as toe Catholie Church to which the con
stitution granted important guamntees of in
dependence has ceased to exist.”.
Pere Hyacinths, to a letter dated Borne, 7th
of July, has expressed his unreserved adhesion
to the recent declaration of Professor Doellin-
ger and hte friends. The Italian antagonists of
Papal infallibillity are about to hold a great
meeting in Florence, to which Professors Huber
and Friedrick, of Munich, have also been in
vited. The Preparatory Committee of the Gen
eral Old-Catholic Congress, which trill take
place in Munich in September, te to meet at
Hedelbexg to toe beginning of August. The
recent troubles in toe mines of Koenigshuetle
seem to be partly of a religious character; for
toe complainants, to a memoir addressed to the
Minister of Coek«b», not only denounced an
increase of wages and a diminution of imposts,
but they also Insist that, one-half, at least, of
toe officials shall be Catholics, and farther, that
no municipal functionaries be henceforth ap
pointed, unless to^y are not only Catholics but
recognized as such by their fellow-citizens.
The Spanish Government, authorized by the
Cortes, has granted a general amnesty for po
litical offenses. However many enemies the
dynasty may have, toe conduct of toe royal
family thus far has been bo irreproachable as
to forbid any personal attacks, so cdmxnon to
Spain. Only recently the Queen succeeded in
winning the sympathies of the Madrid popula
tion by founding at her own expense an asylum
for invalid washerwomen and their rf»Mr/>n.
Sella, the Italian Minister of Finance, has
approved of apian proposed by Garibaldi for
the colonization of the Island of Raidinta.
This plan promises to open a better field far the
liberator of Italy than the political arena.
Jabko.
“The Other Ye&aVc. Baa^yA Class
Day Biahare. v
Oh, mother. Ere had a gorgscus^nBe !J was there
front eleven till tec. *
-Soto glorious feta, each a beautiful place—and,
mother, such splendid meo:
Ob, I wah I was a student! And, mother, I saw
Cousin Fed!
He has crown to be •‘perfectly lovelr,” and he had
a still lovelier spread.
For only think, mother, as Fan and I got cut of
that horrid car,
Cousin Ned came up with another young man; so
we didn't need dear papa.
But we gave him our shawls and TirahrWiiu, to
and Ed he went off with Fan;
But he introduced me—mother, why do you frown?—
■ to his comrade, the other young man.
Ho was ‘per:ecuy sptenena:- -ire .on t«
d;nTT^\: ind, mother dear, wasn’t it fan ?
I recognized lots of fellows there before the oration
was done.
And, mother, what are “Peelers?” I thought it a
- regular sin
For the whole Freshman class to cry “Feelers!’*
arid make such a noise er.m ing in.
He carried me round to the spreads, mother; it
was just like a matinee ball:
And then he and I had a tete-a-tete in romantic old
Hovrorthy Hall.
He made me smoke, mother, a wee cigarette; I
drank my first glass cf champagne -.
And I fibbed when he spilled ice cream on ray
drees—for I told him it wouldn't stale.
in order to get rid of toe unwelcome guests.
Though taxes are hardly ever popular, some of
levied now to meet the extoordtoar 3 ^T m g^g^-^ > ^^^° : such
Then I went to the dance round the tree, mother:
it was really a beautiful scene—
Though the RopheniAffta pp phad the ^
around; I thought it was terribly
fervent affection and vim,
That; mother. I really felt jealous, when I saw all
his friends hugging Atm.
When he got through that horrible hugging, we
went to a lot of nice “teas,”
And then we adjourned from the rooms, mother,
to a quiet spot under the troee.
He was splendid! he said X was lovely. Do yon
think that-was quite the right thing?
And, mother, he gave me a keepsake; see, here it
i»—only a ring.
I spoke to him by his first name, mother; yon really
don't think that he'd care?
He called ms by mine, and I didn't. I gave him a
lock ef my hair,
"Which he kissed, and then put in hia watch, moth
er ; and a watch, you know, lies next the heart.
Papa cruelly came at that moment, and I, alas 1 had
to depart.
He said he would walk to the station; now, mother
dear, waen t that land?
Ned and Fan made remarks about “spooning." and
giggled, tike children, behind.
Bat, mother dear, while we were walking—how nice
it was 1—down to the car.
He arid something “perfectly splendid.’’ I'll tell
you to-morrow, mamma.
Harvard Advocate,
Axxegeaex Sejohgs, Ya., August 5,1S71.
Editors Tdegraph and Messenger :
I have delayed writing you, day after day.
until I find myself taking leave of the host of
pleasant people at tote popular resort and my
promise unfulfilled. A letter from here may
be interesting to some of your readers who are
nursing thermometers away up in the nineties,
though, wo can scarcely credit your reports of
heat and dust in Macon, the weather te so de
lightful here. The cry for more blankets te
frequently heard, and I have, seen fires in the
pallors more than one morning since I came,
but It is now growing warmer. The large num
ber of visitors at the “Alleghany” this setson
attest its increasing popularity, every cottage
room and tent being filled, and letters and tel
egrams from nearly a hundred persons asking
for accommodation, are lying in the office.
The extension to the already large hotel was
completed last week, and a luge force of work
men are now engaged in building additional
cotUges.
The Springs are approached from Alleghany
station, on the Yirginia and East Tennessee
Railroad, by a road winding between the moun
tains, crossing and recrossing the headwaters
of toe Boanoke river, np a gradual ascent tor
three miles and a half, when the dust covered
traveller comes in sight of the long line of
white cottages, and the Strains of music from a
splendid brass band echoing among toe ■ high
bills, tell him he has reached hte journey’s end.
As the stage enters toe grounds he te struck
-with toe enchanting beauty of toe place—for
toe bank-ground to toe picture is the range of
mountains, at toe base of which stand toe
main hotel, and stretching out from it toward
the south and east, are toe two rows of cot
tages, designated respectively “Paradise” and
“Purgatory, ' the latter being the most pleasant
division in this instance. I don’t know why it
is so called, without it is because it te “down
hill.”
The lawn in front is large and artistically
planned, and shaded with most handsome trees,
through which curve the most delightful of
graveled walks, most of them leading to toe
spring, which te in the centre of the grounds,
and, in appearance, similar to the Congress
Springs, at Saratoga. The high wall of moun
tains shuts ns .in entirely from toe outside
world,—even the gap through which we came
being lost to view after we reach the springs;
and the soenery, no matter which way toe eye
tarns, te as grand and beautiful as can be found
in Virginia.
It recalls toe times when
••We climbed toe bias Virginia hills,
With Jackson and with Lee,”
and if, for a moment, we forgot it toe presence
here of so many of our old leaders, Generals
Hardee, Early, Lawton, Toombs, Gilmer, Her
bert, Major Morrow, of Lee’s staff, that
“free lance” of the old Confederate days,
Harry Gilmer, and others whose names we all
remember, would remind ns of them.
Seats just large enough for two, are scattered
about at convenient distance, and in toe evening
when the lamps that dot the lawn are lighted,
the whole place te invested with sufficient ro
mance and loveliness to influence even my se
date and invalid fellow-traveller. But our de
sire to see toe fair company of ladies in all the
bewildering beauty of Use ball-room wooes us to
follow the distant notes of music, and we soon
find ourselves cm the floor enjoying the right as
well as the dance. In looking around the room
we are' convinced that Georgia has certainly
done her share, in the contribution of loveli
ness she has made to toe Alleghany Springs in
the last four weeks.
The Hisses Lawton and Miss Gilmer, of Sa
vannah, Mrs. CoL Crawford, Miss Russell and
Miss Baker, from Augusta, and Miss Toombs,
Aprienep Female Crileye.
In our&^rerot §;e Stit Inst, we announced
the election*)? Rev. John B. HcGeefcee to the
Presidency, and J. F. Serif, of Dawson, as one
of the Professors of that Seminary.
By request, we publish the following min
ute of the Board of Trustees In reference to
their choice, and also the resolution adopted
concerning toe retirement of Dr. Hamilton;
It is indeed a source of gratification to the
many friends and Board of Trustees, that in
««H«e about for a President and Faculty we
find around ns toe gifted and accomplished
alumni of our own Colleges. Wo hare gather
ed from the fruit matured by the heroic devo
tion of Emory, the Wesleyan and other no
ble msuiuoatta to me cause or csoutnem educa
tion, and thank God for giving ns institutions
of learning that are filling the land with gentle
men and ladies, whose minds and hearts are
cultivated to meet the educational iImmbAi of
the age- We hail yon, noble educators, in oar
advance, ascending the hill of ■ science; we
greet you with paternal affection and delight in
doing you honor. You hare infused into us
your spirit. We cannot occupy a subordinate
position in toe great educational arena; wears
coming, look out, extend a paternal band For
toe accomplishment of this our prayers will
arise, and our energies will be untiring.
We are happy to present to the numerous
friends and patrons of the college a President
and faculty of aooomplished gentlemen and la
dies; graduates of our own institutions, worthy
of your confidence, worthy of your most liberal
patronage. Sustain them, and your children,
ike them, will be able to meet the educational
demands of their age. To build up our own
institutions te to bnild up ourselves. Bev. Wil
lis M. Bussell, of Bainbridge; Bev. J. R. Owes
and Mr. J.K. Gunn were elected to fill vacancies
in Board of Trustees.
By direction of the Board,
B. J. Baiswtx, -
. Sec'y Board of Trustees.
Cutfcberfc Ga., August 7th, 1571.
Dawson Journal, Americns Republican, Al
bany News, Bainbridge Argus, Thomasviiie En
terprise, Savannah News, Columbus Sun, Hous
ton Journal, Qoinev ,FIa.' Journal, please copy
and other papers friends of the cause.
CcTHBEsr, Ga., August 4th, 1571.
Resolved, That in taking leave of Dr. A L.
Hamilton, as President of Andrew Female Col
lege, we tender him our thanks for hte untiring
exertion in behalf of toe College, and for hte
success in building it up; and assure him of
our warmest sympathy and best wishes for Ms
future success^
Resolved, That a copy of the above resolu
tion be presented to Dr" A L. Hamilton.
Passed unanimously.- __
Sahuel Axteost, Pres’t. B. T.
B. J. Baxdwis, Sect’y.
Charleston Items.
The Charleston Courier, of Tuesday, says
the Democratic victory last week has had toe
effect of greatly improving the price of city
stocks and real estate. A piece of property
which was offered at §6000 a few days before
the election cannot now be pxuxbaeed at an ad
vance Of §1000.
The Badieal negroes were on the rampage
amiTi last Saturday night, parading toe streets
in gangs of fifty to one hundred. ..“They in
dulged in insulting language, brandished sticks,
fired pistols and declared war against the Ger
mans generally. At the comer of King and
Tredd streets they appeared fifty in number,
made a rush for Loggerm arm’s grocery to get
hold of two colored men therein, whom they in
tended to kill for voting toe Conservative ticket.
They were so violent that a message had to be
dispatched to the guard house fora force of po
licemen to disperse them. The colored men
inside of the store whom they were waiting to
kill, had to be relieved of their perilous situa
tion by toe policemen who escorted them to a
plaee'of safety.”
On Monday morning, says toe Courier, “Wm.
W. Mitchell, a white boy thirteen years of age,
whose parents live at the comer of Market and
Meeting streets, was sitting on Market wharf,
when three colored boys came along. Onecf
toe three, Ashley, said to him, as he took
hold of his foot, “Ive a good mind to cut it off.”
William Grant; another of the number, stepped
up and said “I will cut it,” at the same moment
taking a knife which was handed to hint by the
third boy, and with it giving the white boy a
slash on toe ankle just above the instep, which
saverd toe sinews and flesh to the bone, making
cut several inches long. The blaok fiends
then ran away laughing.”
The Psorns or Legtslatisg rx South Cabo-
lxxa.—The collapse of toe negro thieves ia
Charleston has resulted in quarrels and disetos-
One “Bev. H. H. Hunter'’ charges Pre
siding Elder Cain, editor of the “Missionary
Record,” and a State Senator from Charleston,
with persistent efforts to bribe him to vote for a
street railroad hill. Hunter says Cain taunted
him with his folly in refusing bribes and told
him, in 16CS. that although he came to Charles
ton without money enough to pay freight on his
baggage, yet np to that time he had put away
§20,000 over and above all the real estate ha
had bought in toe city. Gain told him “to get
money—you will be accused of getting it.- .1
believe in the game myself. I always take toe
money.” We don’t know to what part of the
American domestic mission service, “Baddy
Cain” is attached—but in a financial aspect he
is a veritable black diamond.
The Dahlonega Signal reports a terrible
drought in that county. Prom one neighbor
hood every live thing te fleeing, and even toe
rabbits are compelled to pack three days’rations
of sun-burned broom-sage to get to r«w feeding
grounds.
The Borne Commercial, o-' yesterday, says:
Almost a Case or Pqisobxsg—Five Chtt.uben
Vmv Tr.r. I'soit xhe J5WECTS.—-The family of
Hr Weaver, iivtetf on Oostanaula street, con-
sisting of him^ff) wife and six children were
singularly effected from drinking butter milk
l»st Safety night. The milk was purchased
fror* A&* Reese, and drank at supper by toe
ha 11 Ti, c :tL
. family. At about 11 o'clock Dr. Smith was
of Washington, who has saddened the hearts pe called in to see them. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver
GcxsaxdIboh Platixo.—Tee British gov
ernment has lately launched toe “Devastation, ”
a monster iron-clad, with an armor plating 12
Inches thick in her most exposed parts. She is
2S5 feet long—weighs 9,090 tons—draws twenty-
six feet and makes eleven miles an boar. In
cluded in-her armament are two Frazer-rifled
guns, each weighing thirty-five tons. Now, a
Frazer gun weighing only twenty-five tons shot
a bolt through a target faced with fourteen inches
of iron upon a foot of teak wood. Are not these
two guns floating upon the Devastation tangible
demonstrations of the impossibility of making
shot-proof war ships. A single shot from either
one of them might sink the “Devastation.”
Nkwfobx and Nahant are compelled to ac
knowledge the successful rivalship of Martha’s
Vineyard this year as a resort for toe wealthy
families of New England, who seek a seaside
residence during the heated term of toe Sum-
mar months.
many by leaving for Greenbrier, have all
much admired.
As regards “creature comforts.” we have
them alL An immense loe-hona^ filled during
the winter, supplies us in lavish quantity with
Ice; our “julep builder” *as attained the high
est perfection in his art; spring chickens “gtow
spontaneous” all through toe mountains. Our
landlord and hte assistants do aU in their power
to make their guests comfortable; cooks and
servants understands their duties, and if an in
valid, under ail these circumstances, together
yitn the wonderful curative powers of the wa
ters, cannot find health, he ought, at any rate,
“see Venice and die.” The Montgomery White
Sulphur Springs are distant ten miles; toe Yel
low Sulphur thirteen, and the visitors are quite
neighborly—excursion parties coming and go
ing from one Springs to the other almost daily.
We Macon people get the Telegraph ahd
Hesses osb regularly every morning, and I need
not tell you how much we appreciate it.
I must tell you of another notoriety we have
had here, in the person of the bon. t j. speer,
of Georgia. When he first came he was placed
at the same table with General Toombs, who
did not seem to relish it much, and mildly sug
gested that if there was no other place for him,
to “send him io'toe kitchen, as;tU of his asso
ciations were there!” He was not much sought
after while here, and, after spending a solitary
kind of life for a few days, he left B. L. C.
Picnic parties near Paris are apt to break np
in disorder by treading on stray shells.
and two of the children were but slightly af
fected; the other four children were taken
with exoesaive vomiting and purging, with burn
ing in the throat and great thirst for water.
About 1 or 3 o’clock the children were relieved
and all fears of a fatal termination dispelled.
Two of the children are still confined to bed.
Enlargement of the Augusta Canal.
The Mayor of Augusta submitted the report
of Engineer C. A Oimstead to the City Coun
cil last Monday. The plan embraces 36,665
feet of canal at an estimated total cost of
§371,610 56. This will produce a mechanical
force equal to 10,560 horse power on thirty feet
fall, which at ten doliareper horse power yearly
rentage would be worth §105,600 per annum.
The actual rentage to be paid by the Augusta
and Oglethorpe factories will amount to $28,-
000, which would pay interest on §400,000.
The Dunn Warmouto Convention met in
New Orleans yesterday. Doable delegates
claimed seats from almost every part of the
State. Dunn leads toe negro and administra
tion forces. Warmouto heads the carpet-bag
gers and scalawags. A general row was antici
pated. ■ : f y,
Next winter several fashionable New York
belles are to take the veil.
