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•fc. AND GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENG-ER. QJJ5BT, JONES & REESE, Proprietors. Established 1826. Thb Family Journal,-—-News—Poli-tics—L itebatubk—Agriculture—-Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING MACON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1871. \ ;V 'i\ U ; Volume IaXV—No. 7 Abo a Ben Butler. 7 * .if- ' — n -"* « . (case sm-ca-) a a bock of -ffba a— of -toe vto serve die 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.
