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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, AUGUST 15,1871.
t* Cotton Dead Flat!**
Sncb, we see, was the encouraging memoran
dum of the market situation by onr city reporter
yesterday—the last quotation being sixteen cents
for middling, established a decline from 1st of
July up to 8 th August of three and a half cents.
But on the 10th there were no purchasers. No
body wanted cotton at sixteen cents & pound,
and that makes the deadness of the flat. Cotton
was not only flat on its back, but it had not life
enough left to kick.
Some weeks ago wo ventured tho conjecture
that cotton would gradually settle and fluctuate
downward to a very low figure—perhaps twelve
cents—before a reaction took place; and we are
afraid that guess will become truth. That would
tnokrt about eight cents margin from the highest
point of last summer. Well, in May, 1870, cot
ton was in tho neighborhood of twenty-one
cents, and last winter it got down to twelve, and
below. Eight cents profit on a pound of cot
ton to middle men is one of the most consoling
things in the world. A friend told us the other
day ho knew a gentleman of high standing in
Georgia and elsewhere, who made $400,000 by
his operations in this behalf on last year’s crop.
Tho law of down in the winter and up in the
summer ha3 got to bo so well settled a “move
ment” of the crop, that it is anticipated almost
as a matter of course. Nobody would, in fact,
object to the thing, in moderation, but the jump
ing is too high or tho tumbling too low, pat it
whichever way you will. If Mr. Farmer were
only out of debt he could quietly store his cot
ton away, turn the key upon it and let it jump
or tumble as it might till he was ready to, sell.
But so long as he is in debt hero and there for
corn, bacon, mules, forage, and guano, he must
sustain his credit at whatever price. He can
far better afford to lose tho money than lose his
character. The moral of tho whole matter is:
Strive to get and keep out of debt. Long and
struggle for tho day when tho time for market
ing your crops canbe dictated by your judgment
and not by your necessities.
The Rome Convention.
On Wednesday the discussion upon home
made vs. commercial fertilizers, was continued
with much interest. During the debate Judge
Schley, of Chatham, made a speech which ex
cited great interest, and he was requested to
furnish a report for publication. Some amend
ments to the constitution woro discussed, Rm-
iting delegations to one member from each sub
ordinate Eoeiety. No vote was taken upon
them. The Convention attended tho Floyd
County Fair in a body and enjoyed a fine col
lation on the grounds. In the afternoon, re
suming tho discussion of the fertilizer question.
Col. D. E. Butler stated in bis speech that there
were nsed in Georgia, in 1870, nearly 100,000
ton3 of commercial fertilizers—value $8,000,000,
which is about one-fourth of tho valuo of tho
eotton crop of Georgia last year.
Tho Committee of tho Georgia Universily
and a delegation from Hilledgeville, consisting
of the Mayor and ten citizens, desired to be
heard on tho question of establishing an agri
cultural school at Athens or at Milledgeville,
and the hearing was appointed for Thursday
morning at nine o’clock. In the evening Gen.
Gordon addressed the Convention on the sub
ject of Education in the South.
Domestic Exports.—It appears from the offi
cial returns of commerce to tho Treasury De
partment that the value of domestic exports at
tho ten principal ports of the United States,
during the fiscal year 1870, was as followa:
1. New York $209,972,491
2. Now Orleans 107,058,042
3. San Francisco 82,186,021
4. Savannah 29,739,058
5. Mobile 22,422,031
6. Philadelphia. 10,003,072
7. Galveston 14,859,001
8. Baltimore 14,330,248
9. Boston 12,251,207
10. Charleston 10,872,071
A total of §471,122,512. Dcducttho tho value
of Southern products from this sum total and
tho comparatively small remainder would be
principally Cabfomio gold and silver and petro
leum.
Crops in Barbour County.—The Bluff City
Times says the reports of farmers about crops
are distressing. Com, they say, was ruined by
the superabundance of rain in tho latter part of
the Bpring and early summer, and the cotton by
the drought that succeeded the rains. Com is
estimated to average five or six bushels to the
acre, and cotton one bale to from six to ten
acres. This is truly discouraging. Caterpillars
and boll-worms aro said to bave appeared in
some localities. Wo hope tbo refreshing rains
that fell in this city on Saturday and Sunday
last were general all over the country, for the
cotton at least sorely needed watering"
A Fibst class civil war can be contrived in
Philadelphia any day in the year by setting back
the State-house clock an hour. Punctually at 12
tho Philadelphia artisan will look at his stomach
and compare it with the dock. In five minutes
"ho will be transformed into a raging cannibal.
At a quarter past twelve ho will assemble at tbo
Mayor’s office and demand an explanation. At
twenty minutes past twelve be will march on
the market-houses and Produce Exchange. By
12:30 p. xl the horses will bo stopped on the
railways, and tbs smoke of the barbecued cattle
will rise to the skies, while foraging reconnois*
sauces will bo made into Jersey.
Among spurious Hibsmicisms, ni ffier for
neither (neether) may be placed—a mispronun
ciation rejected by Mr. Elli3 and by the distin
guished Loudon elocutionists, Prof. Melville
Belle. This ni-iher had been attributed to Hi
bernian pot-house writers, who had probably
been told that their legitimate and historic
form, nay-tJur, must not be used in England,
when they blundered upon, nigh-lher, and sent
it up into “good society.”—Prof. Haldeman.
The Courier-Journal says the editor of the
Sheibyvillo American Rescue “prevaricates like
a dog, and if we were not a lobby member of
the Young Men’s Christian Association, and
bound by solemn obligations to keep tho peace
at all hazards, wo would employ a man to go
down to Shelbyville on the next train, and thrash
enough of that animal ont of him to make a full
pack of hounds."
Liverpool Cotton Market. —According to
figures telegraphed yesterday, tho stock In Liv
erpool was only 043,000 bales, of which 340,000
wore American. The receipts of tho week were
but 19,000 bales, of which 5,000 were American,
while the amount afloat was not reported.
Pete oleum in Tennessee.—The Nashville
Union and American, of the 9 th, says:
While Colonel A. E. Alley, who lives near
Wartrace, had some hands at work on a road near
his residence a few days ago, it became neces
sary to remove a largo rock on a hill side about
twenty feet above the general level. In doing
so tho hands broke off a pieoe weighing about
one hundred and fifty pounds, which upon ex
amination, was found to contain a number of
holes, all filled with oil. Colonel Alley’s son,
who was with the party, obtained from this rock
upwards of a quart of oiL Tho rock when
broken appears perfectly solid, with a dry blu
ish cast, but Immediately oil oozes out, and
changes its color, and soon begins to drip. Ool.
Alley is elated with the prospect of oil, and ex
pects very soon to make a thorough investiga
tion of tho matter. We have received a speci
men of the discovery, and it certainly has the
right sort of flavor.
AN ILLINOIS WEDDING.
Dow tliev Tic tlie Connnlilal Knot ©nt
Tliere—Konsli Jokes nud a Farions Bride-
groom.
The Peoria (El) Republican of July 24 has a
lively description of a rural wedding at Forest
City, a village not a great distance from that
city, which is funny reading. The bridegroom
was 40, and the bride a blushing damsel of 20.
No parson could be found, so they bad to fall
back upon a young chap who had just been
elected a squire. He was as nervous as a hen
on a hot griddle, of course, and had brought
along with him two law books, from one of
which he expected to get the form for the cere
mony. It was not there, though, and the crowd
getting impatient he ordered the parties to hold
up their right hands and proceeded to orate as
follows:
“ You and each of you do solemnly swear that
in the cause now upon hearing you will tell the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth, end that you will love, honor, cherish,
and obey each other during the term of your
natural lives, so help you God.”
Both answered solemnly “I will,” and tho
squire collected a dollar a piece from them, and
pronounced them man and wife. Then a jug
of whisky was produced, a punch was brewed,
all hands took a drink, and a dance without music
commenced. They were soon tired of this, and
concluded to put the young couple to bed. *The
bride said she was willing because she was tired
and her shoes hurt her feet. The groom’s
friends then proposed to disrobe him and put
him to bed, but he swore they shouldn’t, and a
big scuffle ensued. Ho got mad, and after
blacking one fellow’s cyo and tearing another’s
coat off his back, tho whole crowd got out of
the room and tumbled down stairs, landing in
the bar-room below, where all took a drink and
made friends. He still demurred to being dis
robed, and bis friends got a rope, and tying- it
over liis head, attempted to drag him up stairs,
which operation only resulted in nearly, choking
him to doatb, and somebody cut tho rope. Then
they tied the ropo to his leg, and tried to drag
him up that way, but only succeeded in demol
ishing a lounge and tearing down tho hand rail
and banisters. They then gave np tho idea of
getting him np stairs, and finding a ladder, they
entered tho bridal chamber through the window
and nailed up the door hard and fast. They then
hid tho ladder and went off. Ho tried to kick
open the door, bnt tho landlord said ho musn’t
damage his famiture in that style. Then he
searched for the ladder, bnt in vain, and it was
only at 4.30 the next morning, and by aid of a
ladder bo walked a mile to borrow, that ho suc
ceeded in getting into his room. Tho next day
the party returned home, declaring they had
had the jolliest wedding ever known in that sec
tion.
A. “Forged Dispatch.”
There is a telegram from Washington among
the dispatches to-day which says “some friends
of Grant claim that his absurd dispatch to Earl
Dalkeith must bo a forgery.” Wo were at loss
to imagine what this “absurd dispatch” might
be, until we found, by inquiry, that it had been
omitted by the printers, in respect to pressure
on our columns of Friday. The “absurd de
spatch” read as follows:
Long Bbanch, August 10.—To the Right Hon
orable, the Earl of Dalkeith, Edinburg, Scot
land: Owing to absence from home I did not
receive your congratulations and expressions of
friendship for tho American people, in time to
send a reply to bo read at the Continental cele
bration of that eminent scholar and historian
whose date you commemorate. The American
seoplo who have been instructed and edified by
sir Walter Scotts’ works of history, poetry and
fiction, will highly appreciate your cordial ex
pressions of friendship, and reciprocate them
in all sincerity.
[Signed.] U. S. Geant.
Now it must bo malico or want of candor to
set up such a plea for tho “absurd dispatch.”
Bat does the absurdity rest on Gwmt’s plea of
“absence from Rome," i. e. Long Branch, or
in the phrase “celebration of that eminent
scholar and historian whose date you commemo
rate?” It is a little awkward and unusual, but
right, according to Webster—see third significa
tion of celebration—“Praise, renown, honor or
distinction bestowed, whether by songs, eulo
gies, or rites and ceremonies.” In short, we
see nothing absurd in the dispatch, though tho
whole of it is exceedingly awkward; but liter
ary awkwardness in tho most venial of Grant’s
sin3.
Narrow Gauge Railroads.
The Railroad Gazette reviews at length the
subject of narrow gauge railroads and their im
mense economic pretensions, and comes to the-
following conclusion:
We do not wish to be understood as asserting
that a 3 feet gauge road may not be operated
cheaply and do a fair business. What we as
sert, is, that the advantages of the narrow gauge
have been immensely overstated, and that most
of what is claimed for it is attributable to en
tirely different causes, which aro just a3 availa
ble on an ordinary 4 feet 8J inch road as on a
3feet or narrow gauge; and, moreover, that
but very little positive knowledge exists in this
country in relation to the construction or opera
tion of such roads, and that thus far the advan
tages obtained are only hypothetical or, at best,
experimental. That some very slight reduction
in tbo cost of building and equipping roads
would result from narrowing the gauge is true,
but it so very small, and the disadvantages re
sulting therefrom eo very great, that the latter
very much overbalance the saving in cost. Roads
to do a light traffic at Blow speed can be built,
equipped and operated at very nearly the same
cost without tho inconvenience of a break of
gange, will give greater stability to the rolling
stock, and have the enormou3 advantage in their
favor that when the business which is developed
shall reqnire it, the capacity of the road can be
gradually Increased by laying heavier iron to re
place that which is worn out, and building larger
cars and engines which will have greater carry
ing capacity.
That strikes us as about tbo truth in the case.
The Magnetic Wells or Michigan. '
A correspondent of tho Chicago Times, writ
ing from St. Joseph, describes two of these
wells as follows: ■
The first well I visited was that of Capt Cnr-
tis Bonghton. It is 82 feet deep and three feet
in diameter. After tho diggers had gone 74 feet,
just below the blue clay and througb a small
strata of hard pan, gas escaped with a roaring
noise. The workmen fonnd it stifling, and were
compelled to leave. For two or three days every
candle put into the well went out, but suddenly
and unexpectedly the gas was discovered to have
evaporated, and the workmen completed the
well without interruption. Now, in advance of
every storm, a similar roaring, followed by an
ebulition of gas has been observed, and this has
induced Captain Bonghton to put a fog-horn
into the well, which can be heard about half a
mile as soon as a storm is approaching, and
therefore this well bears rightly its name, Baro
metric well.
The second and strongest well of all is that
of Tand F. Few. A little over two years ago
the Messrs. Pew sunk a well near their saw-mill
for the purpose of supplying their workmen
with water, but this having a bad taste, they
abandoned it in a short time. The wonderful
cures performed by mineral water in other
places induced them to look to the cause of the
peculiar taste which the water had, and to their
surprised discovered that they had ono of the
most powerful magnetio mineral wells in the
State, if not in the country. On trying this
well with a magnetic compass, I found that it
diverts the needle right above the pump fully
180 degrees from west to east, and 12 feet
from the pump still 15 degs. It contains the
largest amount of iron yet discovered in solu
tion, which is held by carbonic acid, also mag
nesia, soda, sulphuric and hydrochloric acid,
lime and brome, and possesses therefore strong
tonic and other medicinal properties.
All About Bunting.—The Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Commercial who
has been examining the museum of captured
flags, says 380 Confederate flags were captured
by the Federal troops during the war, and 250
Federal flags were taken by the Confederates.
Last Tear’s Cotton Figures.
. Our market reports for August 13, 1870,
showed a quiet and dull market at 16$ cents for
middling. This was a little Bhort of a cent bet
ter than now. The New York market was quiet
at 19$. The Macon receipts up to the 13th of
August last were 80,034 bales and the stock was
3325. Future deliveries in New York ranged
from 10$ to 17 oents up to November. We find
mention of the first open boll in Monroe by the
Advertiser of the 11th. The general complaint
at this date was too muoh rain and rust in con
sequence. For the satisfaction of “ Boots,” (as
we are looking at the files) we will state that on
the 13th August last we wrote, “The cotton
crop of Middle Georgia will in all probability
be a light one. The weed on the average is di
minutive—it has not fruited well, and is now
shedding forms and bolls-under the influence of
wet weather. Moreover, the rust has att&oked
it extensively from the same cause* But as we
look upon planting this year as a simple ques
tion of bread, we are rejoiced to hear univer-
sally favorable accounts from the com crop.”
We think that is tho sum of our August predic
tions and estimates last year, and they were
justified by the situation at that time. Tho big
crop of last year was made by the remarkably
long season, and when the writer returned from
New York'"in November, ho was astonished to
find, what he had never seen before in thirty
years of observation of tho cotton crop, and
and never expects to see again—that every
planter had made about 25 per cent, more cot
ton than he counted upon making. It was this,
and this alone, which pnt the fonrth million on
the cotton crop; find when it happens again
“ Boots” will probably be gray as to Ms beard
and hair.
The first bale of New cotton was received in-
Augusta last year on the 16th of August. Six
bales of new cotton were received in Savannah
on tho 17th—four from Georgia and two from
Florida. One was received in Oolumbus on the
18th. On the 22d Adams & Bazemore received
the first bale from W. Brunson, in Houston
county, and it was sold to Ellis & Brother for
104 cents. __
Rome Agricultural Convention
Tho third day’s meetings were devoted to
hearing the advocates of the rival claims of
Athens, Milledgeville and Dahlonega to tho lo
cation of the proposed agricultural school. The
Convention met at 8 o’clock and ex-Gov. Brown
opened the ball in behalf of Athens with a long
and able speech, in which ho enforced the im
portance of sustaining the University of Geor
gia, and placing it on tho same broad and libe
ral footing of similar institutions in America
and Europe. He said Georgia was behind all the
other Southern States in this particular. Virginia
gives her University thrico tho amount that our
University has, Alabama six times as much, and
Mississippi endows her University with $500,-
000. He contended that the money value of the
land donation, which he estimated at $202,000,
was wholly insufficient to establish suitable pro
fessorships at Milledgeville or Dahlonega, while
only two additional wonld be required at Athens,
Col. McKinley replied on behalf of Milledge-
villo, offering both tho old capital, the buildings
of Ogletborpo College and fifty acres of land to
tho object. He hoped Georgia would not allow
the University to be mixed up with agriculture,
He hoped the Agricultural College would be
under the control of the State Agricultural So
ciety.
Massachusetts educates her agricultural stu
dents at a cost of about $100 per annum, but
each agricultural society in the State pays the
tuition of one pupil and each of the fonrteen
civil districts of the State pays tho tuition of
ono pupil. Georgia should adopt tho Kentucky
plan, whose agricultural collego compels each
student to work a certain time each day in the
fields in order to pay off part of the cost of his
tuition. Milledgeville is not so selfish as others,
and is willing to give a share of the value of
this landscript to her sister of the mountains,
Dahlonega, which had already for tho purposes
of such a college the valuable buildings of
tho United States branch mint, donated to it by
Congress, and worth $100,000.
Cols. Capers and B. C. Yancey also addressed
the convention on the subject, and finally a res
olution, introduced by Gen. 'William Phillips,
was adopted, which refers the whole question
of the landscript donation to the Executive Com
mittee of the State Agricultural Society, with
instructions for them to report, at the next reg
ular meeting of the Society, a scheme for the
proper disposal of the land.
In the evening Rev. O. W. Howard addressed
the convention on the resources, condition and
prospects of Georgia, and was requested to fur
nish a copy of his speech for publication. Some
rather excited discussion followed tMs speech
on a proposition to amend the laws in reference
to labor contracts, and it was referred to a com
mittee with instructions to report to-morrow.
Wanted,
In tMs community, a “Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Animals.” We see”every day,
cases of outrage upon dumb animals that should
be dealt with as they are in New York, viz: By
the prompt arrest and imprisonment of the of
fenders. No man has a right to inflict cruel
usage upon the lowest brnte in the animal king
dom. He has no right to brutalize himself by
torturing dumb creatures who cannot resist Mm,
and whose appeals he can safely ignore. If he
will not restrain hi3 wicked propensities in this
direction, Voluntarily, the Law should step in
and make him do it. And when we speak of cru
elty to animals we do not alone mean unmerci
fully beating and maiming mules, and horses,
and other beasts of burden, but such fasMon-
able pastime as tying tin boxes to dogs tails
ct id omne genus. Some people oall this fun,
bnt the right'name for it, from our standpoint
is shame. Looking from ourwindow, yesterday,
wo saw a poor little dog flying across the street
who had been so treated, and yelping most
piteously. In his flight he ran nnder tho Mud
wheel of a wagon heavily loaded with wood,
which passed over Ms body, and by some chance
the uheel almost ceased to revolve just as the
whole weight of the wagon rested on the poor
creature. It was a pitiable right, and if the
man or boy who caused it saw it as we did we
do not envy Ms feelings—if he has any. Why
should not punishment follow such an act as
that as righteously as if the victim were a horse
or mule writMng and reeling nnder the pound
ing of a brute with two legs? Wo see no dif
ference, or if any, it is in favor of the handling
of the dog torturer.
Mr. Bergh is sadly needed in Macon in behalf
of freedmen’s horses and mules employed in
draying, hauling wood and starving and dying
in equal parts. We pledge our hearty co-opera
tion to any and all efforts to organize a society
of thi3 kind. _
The Suez Canal i3 unpromising property. M.
do Lesseps at a recent meeting of the share
holders reported that the expenses of tho canal
fox 1869 were 55,729,815 francs, and the re
ceipts 28,786,770 francs. The outlay for 1870
was 30,174,552 francs and the receipts abont
0,000,000 francs less. For 1871 it was estimat
ed there were wonld be a deficit of 8,500,000
francs. TMs condition of affairs would neces
sitate a loan, but not exceeding 20,000,000
francs ($4,000,000).
Cholxba in Germany.—The telegrams report
that out of twenty-three oases of cholera at
tacked on Friday last in Konigsberg, Prussia,
thirteen were dead on Saturday. KonigsbeTg
was the old capital of Prussia, and is a town of
about 80,000 inhabitants, situated on the river
Pregel. The German authorities, local and
national, were doing their best to control tho
disorder.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Fort Valley Agricultural ana Industrial
Exhibition.
Fobt Valley, August 11,1871.
in fertility of soil and the extent and value
of its productions, Houston has long claimed
to be the framer oounty of Georgia—nor has
the exMbition of to-day impaired her right to
that prond designation. At an early hour the
population of the oounty came pouring in, many
of them bringing their contributions to the
Fair. Soon the grounds about the old Metho
dist churoh, wMch had been converted into an
Industrial Hall for the occasion, presented an
animated appearance, and the bnilding itself
rapidly filled with visitors.
We were glad to note a goodly representation
present of the merchants, capitalists, ware
house men, and mechanics of Macon.
The exMbition, (the first of tho kind ever at
tempted in this county,) was MgMy creditable
to all concerned. The display of fruits, veget
ables, smeetmeats, pickles, jellies, paintings,
seeds, fancy-work, and implements of husband
ry far exceeded our expectations. As the award
of tho judges will not be made known until the
close of the day, we must be content with a
bare allusion to some of the articles on exMbi
tion.
fruits.
Mrs. Samuel Hall showed magnificent speci
mens of the genuine Bartlett pear, of unusual
size, ripe, juioy and delicious. Wo have never
seen them surpassed even in the restaurants of
Broadway, New York. Of peaches, too, some of
the Tinley variety, presented by Mrs. Vinson,
were the largest and most inviting we have ever
seen. Apples, grapes, melons, and luscious
looking blue figs, also tempted the appetite of
the visitors.
vegetables.
These were restricted to tomatoes, egg plants,
beets, cabbages, Irish and sweet potatoes, beans,
and winter squashes. Some of Mrs. Hall’s cab
bages, for size and solidity, would rival those of
any market. We saw one egg plant or guinea
squash, wMch measured nearly two feet in cir
cumference, and must have weighed eight or
ten pounds. Very fine specimens of new sweet
potatoes also were to be seen.
needle wobe.
Beautifully embroidered garments of various
patterns, quilts of elegant patchwork, and a va
riety of other articles rendered tMs department
very attractive in appearance. Ono raised quilt
by Mrs. Branbarc, was greatly admired for the
brilliancy of its colors, and the unique charac
ter of tho patches, learn must have been con
sumed in its fabrication.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
sweetmeats and pickles.
Of these there was a very largo and tempting
display, embracing every kind of jelly, marme-
lede, preserves, catsup, etc. We noticed partic
ularly a watermelon preserved whole and flanked
by carved specimens of tho same fruit, artisti
cally arrayed. This wa3 the handiwork of Miss
Florence Brown.
HOME MANUFACTURES.
Under this head we are constrained to men
tion a very fine and tastily woven piece of
striped jeans, from the loom of Mrs. Maddox,
wMch in quality and texture could not be ex
celled by any of tho mills of New England. The
color was decided and chaste, and the fabrio
such as would better become a “true blue”
Southern bridegroom, than tho finest broad
cloth of Parisian importation. One pair of cot
ton socks, knitted with cotton which had been
separated by band from the seed, and fashioned
by an old lady aged seventy-five years, claimed
much attention from their superior uniformity
and smoothness. We must not forgot to men
tion that a tempting tray containing plates of
light biscuit, cake, fried chicken, and applo
jelly, all prepared in the nicest manner, was
shown as the exclusive work of Ida Wiggin3, a
cMId but eight years old. Wliat a jewel of a
wife and house keeper will tMs pretty maid
make to eo some fortunate swain hereafter!
DOMESTIC WINES.
Of these there were several varieties, all pure
and delicious, including blackberry, scupper-
nong, catawba and apple. The latter wo had
never seen before, and can testify that the taste
and boquet of this new beverage are indeed de
lightful. It was prepared by Miss Hollingshead
ODD ARTICLES.
Time will not allow us to dwell upon the
beautiful paintings, and specimens of fancy
work, (including an exquisite flower stand of
gotMc design, also fasMoned by the fair fingers
of Miss Hollingshead) wMch wero arranged on
every side. We saw also gigantic stalks of corn
having eight ears, luxuriant bunohes of growing
tobacco, specimens of indigenous and foreign
varieties of grapes raised in this region, samples
of seed wheat, oats, and rye, and quite a variety
of improved plows, wheelbarrows, and other
implements of industry, all apparently of the
best description.
But the sound of the car whistle admonishes
me to cut short incontinently, these hurried
notes.
The Fair was eminently a success, and re
flects great credit upon our Houston friends.
In closing permit me to say that the mantle
of their father ha3 certainly fallen upon the
shoulders of the sons and tho elder Byington,
who have charge of the hotel at tMs place.
EverytMng that a reasonable guest can desire is
furnished to Mm, and tho cuisine and attend
ance are unexceptionable. Long may they live
to cater to an appreciating public. J.
Personal—This side of the Telegraph and
Messenger had a visit yesterday from Messrs.
J. H. Estill, proprietor, and J. G. Harris, asso
ciate editor, of the Savannah News. It is a
matter of regret with us that we find we have
done the latter great injustice as to his hair.
Wo have represented it as of an ordinary red in
color. We retract. Scarlet comes nearer the
mark. In fact; we are sure, now, that Har-ktr
must be a lineal descendant of the man whoso
head the little boy in church—sitting behind
him—made believe was a blazing fire in the
blacksmith’s forge, and into whose burning
depths he thrust first one finger and then an
other, and after polling them quickly out, with
his knee for an anvil, hammered into shape
after the most approved blacksmith fasMon—
all of wMch threw the preacher off his gravity,
and broke up the “meetin.” But Harris’ head
don’t blaze for naught, as the sparkling “Affairs
in Georgia” oolnmn of tho News daily attests.
He talked of going up to Atlanta, and we hope
the newspaper chaps np there won’t forget
their manners and stare at him when he “just
drops in’ 1 on ’em. Of course they will, but we
must do our duty. _
Thebe is a great variety of newspaper bores.
Tho most fiendish and relentless of his class,
however, is tho superannuated Auger who picks
up a paper somewhere and find3 a “devilish
good thing that I haven’t seen in your paper,
and which perhaps you’ve overlooked; its some
thing you onght- to have.” Since the days of
the first of these Augers, no one of them has
ever found anything fit to be printed in any
paper, and certainly nothing that ought to have
a place in your paper. What he officiously
offers has invariably been passed (as it should
have been pas3ed) by a scissors man who has
grown baldand gray In the business of getting
together interesting reading. Poor old Soissors
grows balder and grayer whenever the finger
marks of the Selecting Auger are made visible
in Ms good work, and if Soissors steps out in
the hall a bit to ease his burdened soul with a
quiet “swear," it is reasonable to suppose that
a “tear from the Recording Angel will," etc
A meeting of the citizens of Columbus favor-
ame o buildin railroad from that city to
Albany was hex Wednesday night, and a report
recommending a subscription thereto of §200,-
000 by the city, unanimously adopted.
The Columbus paper; report a heavy run
storm in that oity, Wednesday, daring which
three or four houses were struck by lightning,
and several persons shocked. One case is thus
noticed by the Sun:
The residence of Mr. D. E. Williams, comer
of Jackson and Thomas streets, was damaged
greatly. The lightning struck a large oak tree
in the yard, tearing it badly, and descending,
struck the corner of the building, tearing weath
erboarding off, and went into the room where
Mr. Williams and his wife were redining on the
bed. The bolt tore the four posts of the bed
to pieces, and the bed fell to the floor. Mr. W.
was asleep at the time. Providential to relate,
neither he nor Ms wife were injured, bnt badly
stunned. Their escape from instant death in
laid to the faot that the bed was covered with a
wire canopy—the wires being sunk into the
posts, and they acted as conductors. A young
son of Mr. Williams’, asleep at the time in Ms
crib, was not awakened. Planks from off the
house were hurled with tremendous force into
the middle of the street, and one pieoe three
feet long, drove into the wall of the room where
Mr. W. and family wero sleeping. The mus-
quito net was scorched but did not take Are,
and the sheets were split in several places. The
bark of the' tree and splinters from the house
were thrown into the yard of the house adjoin
ing. After leaving the bed, the track of the bolt
cculd be traced along the floor, under the child’s
crib, and to where it went through the floor and
into tho ground beneath the house. Mrs. W.
was awake and reading at the time.
O’Neal, the scalawag Judge, is not dead, as
we leam from the Valdosta Times, He has only
had another nip and tuck race with Darwin’s
pets.
The Times reports prospects favorable for
two thirds cotton crop in that section, though
rust has appeared. Enough com for homo con
sumption will be made.
Augusta breathes easier. The dog fight, in
terest in which has rocked that quiet burg from
centre to oironmference for several weeks past,
has been “fit,” at last.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Thursday,
only oopies eleven items from the “Georgia
Press” column in Wednesday’s Telegraph and
Messenger, without credit. Tho Chronicle evi
dently has a soul above doing a petty retail bus
iness.
The Savannah Advertiser is mistaken. Our
correspondent wrote from Alleghany, not White
Sulphur Springs. So you ought to have said,
correspondent of tho Telegraph and Messen
ger writing from Alleghany Springs” instead
•of “a correspondent writing” eto.
Miscegenation has broken out at Savannah,
so Atlanta is not without a rival in that line-
A sample of the new rice crop has been shown
the Savannah Republican foiks, and is classed
as a very fair article.
The case of Martin Kirby, at Savannah
charged with “shoving the queer” has been
postponed to the 15tb, to await tbo testimony of
important witnesses for the defence.
Tho U. S. Revenue cutter “Nansemond” ran
into the Boston and Savannah steamer, “Ori
ental,” at Savannah, Wednesday afternoon,
Damage slight.
Rev. D. H. Porter, pastor of tho First Pres
byterian Church, Savannah, has gone to “Tom’s
River,” New Jersey, till October first, to recruit
Ms health.
Bobby Bums’ benzine brewery on Battle Row,
Savannah, was damaged §200 worth by fire,
Thursday morning, and Bobby has raised tho
tariff on fancy mixtures to make up tho defi
ciency.
John McDonald, of Rome, was bitten by a
snake a few days since, but as he had blood, in
stead of benzine in Ms veins, the snake still
lives, and Me., Mmself, is not expected tore-
cover as rapidly as did tho editor of the Wash
ington Gazette under similar circumstances.
Mrs. Wm. Flynn, wife of Rev. Wm. Flynn,
of New Orleans, died-atthe Chalybeate Springs,
Va., on the 8 th inst. She was a daughter of the
late R. M. Orme, of Milledgeville, and her re
mains will be taken there for interment.
Dalton has mad dogs, which must bo a very
unwholesome article to deal in this sort of
weather.
Brown & Brother’s saw-mill, at Tilton, was
burned last Saturday. Loss not stated.
The Dalton Citizen is responsible for the fol
lowing :
A Remale able Case.—We leam that a lady—
name not recollected—residing at or near Til
ton, in this county, fell into a trance one day
last week, and remained in a perfectly uncon
scious state for three days and nights. When
she awoko, which was on the morning of the
fourth day, she arose and went abont her ac
customed duties as usual, seemingly unaware
of the length of time she had slept or remained
unconscious to all sublunary things. She soon
after remarked to her family that there would be
an unusual amount of sickness in the country
this year, and that half the people in Georgia
would die, and shortly thereafter died herself.
Previous to this sleep or trance, she was appa
rently in excellent health. Tlii3 is certainly a
very remarkable case, If true.
Drury Freeman, aged SO years, and who for
44 years has resided near Griffin, died last Sun
day, universally respected.
The Dalton Citizen reports revivals in the
Methodist and Baptist churches of that place,
and also in several country churches m the
neighborhood.
John G. Scott, an old and highly respected
oitizen of Forsyth county, died last Wednesday.
The Middle Georgian says that place and vi
cinity is infested by a regularly organized band
of thieves. A few nights since, wMle the pas
sengers on the up train were at supper, a satchel
worth $50 was developed from ono of the cars.
Rev. Tho3. L. Hoyle, an old citizen of Daw
son, died last week, aged 09 years.
Mrs. Mary Acee Smith, wife of H. S. Smith,
Jr., of New Orleans—formerly of Columbus—
and sister-in-law of Mrs. Wm. H. Ross, of tMs
place, died in Talbot county, on the 2d inst. of
congestivo fever.
A rattlesnake five and one-half feet long, with
double fangs an inch long and seventeen rat
tles, was killed near Bainbrfdgo, last week.
Calling a Talbotton “Good Templar” a “coon”
is a fighting matter, and causes no end of head-
smashing. '
The Columbus Enquirer doesn’t seem to have
a great deal of faitii in the speedy construction
of the Columbus and Air-Line Railroad. It
savs:
Information Wanted.—Will Bill Fogle and
his confidential friend indulge the extreme con
descension to inform ns what'has become of
Mose Plunkitt and his eight hundred men,
whom they so assiduously endeavored to gull us
into the belief had arrived to commence work
on the Columbus and Air-Line! Perhaps the
phalanx is one of those airy[spiritual hosts wMch
requires the eyesight of a seventh son to dis
cern. Being only the second in the order of
lineal descent, we have not been able to find
them.
The Savannah Republican cf Friday says:
A Bloody Tragedy in Bulloch County.—We
leam from parties who arrived in the city yes
terday, from Bullooh oounty, the following par
ticulars of a very mysterious tragedy, which oc
curred at the residence of Mr. Joseph Davis, in
that county: About 3 o’clock Wednesday morn
ing the inmates of Mr. Davis’ house were alarm
ed by the loud screams of his wife (Mrs. Davis).
Her sister ran to the room, and found Mrs.
Davis sitting on the bed. Ab soon as she enter
ed the room Mrs. Davis said, “I am bleeding to
death; run out and call some of the neighbors,”
after which she sank down on the bed a lifeless
corpse. On examination it was found that
some one had cut her throat, and from the na
ture of the wound, it is thought that it was
inflicted with a pocket-knife, which was after
wards fonnd in a tab of water in the yard.' At
the time the wound was inflioted Mrs. Davis
W03 sleeping in bed with her two little children.
Her husband was off from home on a fishing
frolic, and the sad news of this tragedy was as
startling as it was unexpected. No one can ac
count for the diabolioal outrage, nor can it be
even surmised who was the cowardly perpetra
tor of this damnable crime. We leam that steps
have been taken to ferret out the murderer.
A Jefferson county correspondent of the Sa
vannah News, of Friday, writes as follows:
On Tuesday evening last, Mr. J. L. Coleman
went to the plantation of Mr. G. W. Brinson to
arrest a f reedman by the name of Bugg Pierce,
who was concealed in a house. Coleman de
manded admittance, which was refused. He
then forced the door open and entered, when he
was shot by the negro and instantly killed.
Anthony Jenkins, 15tb, who was to have been
hung for murder at Thomasville, last Friday,
has been respited by Bullock until October 27ch
The Thomasville Enterprise reports caterpil
lar fly on some plantations near that place, and
the worm, in small quantities, on others.
We dip the following from the Houston Home
Journal, of Friday:
Methodist Meeting.—There has been a pro
tracted meeting going on in the Methodist
dmrch since Sunday. Several ladies have gone
to the altar as seekers of religion, but the men
have not moved. They are evidently in no dan
ger and don’t need salvation.
Rains.—Perry and the neighboring country
have been visited with refreshing rains, ia the
past few days, and we hope much good has
been done. We are just now in the condition of
the Texas preacher who prayed for rain and
ooncluded by saying, “Now, Lord, don’t send
us one or two good showers and then stop, but
give us a regular old drizzle-drozzlo for about
three weeks.”
The Constitutionalist, of Friday, says:
The Macon and Augusta Railroad—A meet
ing of the Board of Directors of tMs railroad
was called in tMs city last Tuesday, bnt a quo
rum not being present, no business was trans
acted. The object of tho meeting was to de
cide something definite in regard to the future
control of the road. We understand that a fast
night train will be placed on the line on or
about the 1st of next September. The road is
doing a fine business nnder the management
of Superintendent S. K. Johnson, and could
not possibly be in better hands.
The Albany News, of Friday, has the follow
ing crop paragraph:
During the long dry spell preeeeding the re
cent rains, planters had a fine season for gather
ing fodder, and rescuing their cotton from the
grass. The silent appeals of the cotton for de
liverance caused a large proportion of the fod
der to dry upon the stalks; but the cotton was
proportionally benefited, yet the weed is small,
and rust—that most ravenous destroyer of the
staple—has made its appearance in this and
surrounding counties, and we are reliably in
formed by old practical farmers that one-fourth
crop is as good as can be expected in this sec
tion.
An observer informs ns that he saw last
Monday, a field of some thirty acres on Lock
ett’s inrnpiko place, from wMch he thinks a
bale might have been picked at that time. Cot
ton is opening rapidly in other fields in the same
section. Generally, tho com crops in this sec
tion are not good. *
We quote these items from the Constitution,
of yesterday:
Special Revenue Assessor.—General Kryz-
nowski, Supervisor of Internal Revenue, has
appointed Adolph Bimbaum as Special or Assist
ant Assessor of Internal Revenue in Atlanta.
Counterfeits.—Postmaster Dunning inform
ed U3 a fow days ago that counterfeit $20 bills
of National currency were coming to tMs post-
office from points between here and Chatta
nooga. Look out for them.
Tho NewnanHerald, of Friday, says:
Dead.—We regret to announce the death of
Dr.. Charles A. McKinley, formerly of this
place, who died in Mauiy county, Tennessee, on
the 2d inst.
A Narrow Escape' from Death.—Monday
evening, Mr. A. T. Walker went ont to shoot
bats on tho wing, and ns his gun had been load
ed several days previous, determined to dis
charge and re-load both barrels. In carrying
out this intention the left barrel bnrsted and a
piece thereof struck hi3 left fore finger, dislo
cated it at the last joint, tore the flesh to the
bone for an ineb or more, passed on six or eight
feet farther and buried itself in the ground.
The Rev. O. A. Stanley, of La Grange, has
accepted the call of the Church of the Messiah,
at Pulaski, Term., and will leave for his new
field of labor in October next.
Es-Govemor Brown stated in a speech before
the State Agricultural Convention at Rome, on
Thursday, that 33,000 bales of hay had been im
ported from tho West, over tho Western and At
lantic Railroad, alone, within the last six
months.
A meeting of the stockholders of the Romo
and Columbus Railroad was held at Romo on
Friday, and the following officers elected: W.
McDougal, of Columbus, President; W. D.
Chipley, of Columbus, Secretary and Treasurer;
CoL A. J. Lane, CMef Engineer. The Direc
tors are McDougal, Redd and Cherry, of Colum
bus ; Bigham, of LaGrange; Bunn, of Polk
oounty; and Griffith and Bums, of Rome.
Warren county shows $951,304 worth of tax
able property for 1871, against $785,425 for
1870, with §128,95S cut off since 1870, and
thrown into the new county of McDuffie.
EIGESIES ESTIMATE OF TB«Cft
Sbe Defends Herself in a Private Ui
a Friend—Tbe General’s Dnplictt*
Revolution of tire 4th of Septcmb*
Htroys Foreign Intervention-.-!?
False to the Republic as Well a*
Empire.
The Herald, of Monday, prints the folio,
private letter of tho ex-Empress Engeni ( ,
friend in regard to General Trochu’s atta<$
her in the National Assembly wMch will ^
with considerable interest by all who
watched the course of events in France j-
the past twelve months:
Chiselhubst, June 27, ]r
My Dear A : I Have just read tb
courses with which Gen. Trochu has flefl
himself in the Assembly; and I assure jo-
have awakened in me rather a painful
than the mere astonishment that might™
natural.
It was especially painful to me to see »
eral—and a French General—in order to
the faults he had committed cndeavir to is
the responsibility on a woman.
I do not say that there were not crave
on our side, and in these I accept mv g
bnt what I oannot suffer is that any one ?
accuse me of having acted at a moment t
the country was so unhappy only to
dynasty. From the Cth of August to the l
September, laying aside, ns was mv dns
personal thoughts, I had but one preoccui*
one only—that of saving onr poor “count
General Trochu recites inaccurately
patch received on the night of August 17
wMch contained these words.- “The Ga
returns, and the Emperor will follow him."
was he, and he alone, who askea that I sL
suppress the name of the Emperor; ab
pretext for this was a proclamation that £
already made in advance. He appears t 0
now that, yielding to a sentiment of pen
ambition, I could have sacrificed the Sot&
to the Regency.
You know the affection that I have ahrta
and that I have still at the bottom of mv
for the Emperor. It only increases now
see him so calmly and so resignedly i
everytMng—even to the most infamous
nies.
General Trochu has gone round and „
the defence of Paris, as ho went round fu
illeries—without ever entering. He has
Mmself that at the end of September his
ion was that any successful resistance el
possible. ’Why, then, push the sublime fol
continuing the defence anyhow ?
He put on a good face toward the iJl
which he has betrayed, disdaining his eLs
menta made elsewhere. I will never (
with what an air of assumed sincerity be,
me I could count on his faith a3 a Catholic
a Breton. He does not know, then, that a(
olio never Res and that a Breton has neve:
the sword received from his sovereign ei
that sovereign Mmself.
He knows well that the revolution of Usi
of September broke the engagement for
vention to wMch certain Powers had pi
themselves.
General Trochu will not wash away
discourses the ineffaceable stain of havirj
to the republic, as he had Red to the empa
I would write you of all this at greater'le
my dear A , if I were not pressed fox
I am obRged to send this letter, by a sa
son, who leaves immediately.
I'think of you often and embrace yes.
yours. Your affectionate aunt, Euges
I send you a new photograph of my son.
; ct
Bigamous Bowen Among his African
Constituents.
The ConstitutionaRst, of Friday, says:
A grand negro meeting took place on Edisto
Island, S. O., last Saturday night. The Hon.(?)
Bigamous Bowen did the honors of the occasion,
and was made a kind of Vondon idol by 1ns
dusky adorers. He made them understand that
he intended to go on the war path as a candi
date for Governor of the State of South Caroli
na, which news was received with shouts of
“Bowen for Gnbner!” “O let my people go!”
and ether senseless cries. At last a rush was
made for the new apostle, who was hustled off
the platform and marched between two Rnes of
the Africans, who were anxious to shake hands
with him. Then ensued a scene fit for Pande
monium. Old blind men, tootMess and totter
ing, came and put their hands upon him, be
cause they wanted to see “dis man Bowen ;”
women jostled ont of the line, pluoked the hem
of Bowen’s garments and Shonted with rapture,
“I touched um, I touched nmj" and mothers
brought rags and handkercMefs, hud them up
against their new found Moses, and took them
away to place on their sick babies.
Bowen wiU beat DeLarge out of Ms boots the
next race, now that the negroes have fonnd out
his Rttle weakness in the matter of wives.
They “know how it is themselves.” If he can
only convince them that he has actually stolen
a hog, or cleaned out a cMcken coop, he can
count certainly upon being their next “Gnbner,
or Congressman, or anytMng else he likes. And
of such is the “higher civilization” of Radical-
ism. ’
What Grant Whispered to General
Dee at Appomattox.
The Chicago Times says that “when Leo and
Grant met at the house of Mr. McLean, near
Appomattox Conrt-honse, to arrange for the ca
pitulation of the Army of Northern Virginia, an
incident occurred which has remained unex
plained for over six years. The terms of the
proposed surrender were discussed freely and
openly before the members of the two staffs,
until, suddenly drawing his chair up to that of
the Confederate chieftain, Grant wMspered a
few earnest words into the ear of Lee. A
haughty shake of U)e head from the latter, and
a brief answer in undertone, evidently of a per
emptorily negative order, was noticed by those
in attendance. The import of that bit of mys
terious by-play has just been furnished for the
first time. In the August number of Old and
New, Edward A. Pollard, the historian of the
Confederacy, reveals the secret. The whispered
confab was nothing less than a proposition from
Grant that Lee’s soldiers should, then and there,
subscribe to the oath of allegiance, in which
event the Federal satrap guaranteed that they
should be restored, on the spot, to aU the
rights, privileges, and immunities of American
oitizens.”
If Pollard is the only authority for this story,
itshould betaken with, not one, bnt many grains.
That Bo-eaUed historian has been so conspicu
ously inexact in so many of his “historical
facts," that the average Southern reader has
long since ceased to give the least attention or
credence to anything he may write that is on-
supported by other testimony.
Rome State Convention.
The Georgia Agricultural Convention at L
elected the following officers on Weducsds;
President, Gen. A. H. Colquitt; Vice
dents, first district, William Schley; •
district, D. A. Vason; third distriot, R.E.I
ding; fourth district, L. P. Livingston;t
distriot, Samuel Barnett; sixth district, E
Moore; seventh District, C. W. Howard.
executive committee.
First distriot, H. D. Capers; second disti
H. K. Bamum; third district, J. H. Tan
fonrth district, J. S. Lawton; fifth district
J. Smith;sixth district, R. D. Wynne; sen
district, General W. Philfip3.
The Convention, as has been telegraph::
very large and enthusiastic. President Col
in a forcible opening speech, urged the ii
tance of more system in farming. There
safer occupation than agriculture; but it:
be pursued in a les3 speculative spirit—lessri
a view to sudden and rapid Requisition,
farmer’s plans must be more extensive asi
reaching, and cover every interest of tho
and society. They must rest on ample prora
for all the necessaries and comforts of life:
a permanent improvement of the homestei
Col. Barnett read his report as Commissi:
to the various county agricultural societies
Georgia. He gave a very encouraging re
of the condition of crops in general, and sti
that a widening interest in the system oil
proved agriculture was visible throughoi! ■
State. Ho advocated tho formation of as
ous farmers’ clubs, and felt sure that that-:
ficial influence of the State Agricultural Sa
was being daily felt and appreciated bj;
farmers and people of the State.
On motion, the thanks of the Corneas
were tendered to Col. Garnett for Ms eSrj
and faithful services, and the Yalne of the s
pRment was increased by a rising and unania
vote of tbe Convention.
A poem was then read, laudatory of sgs
ture, by B. H. True, Esq. |
A general discussion on the merits cf ‘i>
made fertiRzers” was then opened by Mr. J
Newman, of Hancock, and which was partis
ted in by several gentlemen, among their!
Mark A. Cooper, who entertained the Ccn
tion with humorous and practical argument;
The discussion fully endorsed tho great.nil
of home-made manure and its superiority
every respect to the imported manufacture-^ 1
tilizers.
Laura Fair iu Her Prison Cell—® i
She was Dressed, and How &
Looks.
A Herald reporter has lately interviewedH'
Fair,' now lying under sentence of death k-
San Francisco jaiL From Ms letter, publish:
in that paper of the 7th inst, we extract
lows:
She was lying on a narrow bedstead of Ff:
ed wood, and was habited in a cross barred U*;
and gray silk dress, only visible at the
and fastened at the neck with a broochia?
and gold. Over this was a loose tartan
wrapper, and over tbe skirt of this was
a black waterproof cloak, wMch concealed J
feet. Her right hand was nnder her l*
which rested on the snow-white pillow, c
wMch her thin curling sunset auburn h
somewhat tossed. They were parted in the ®
tre and unbraided, and ever and anon as
strayed over her broad, high forehead, ta
were poshed gently back by a dolicate, su>
thin hand. You could not say she was be*;
ful. Her figure, as well as it could be sees -
der her heavy wrapper, was rather
SLENDER, THOUGH PERHAT3 WELL SEATS'-
The neck was long and round, and as shew*
herself for a moment showed that it snPP®
a well balanced head and sloped gracefully.;
the Rnes of her shoulders. Then the {J
What was ther6 of the murderess in that?
your gaze met
A FAIR OF COLD, STEADY EYES
of clear dark blue. A trifle hard the loo*
dwelt in them even while a smile was on the
that seemed to be fond of dropping at the
ners into something between a sneer and a 1
The nose was gently aquiUne and sensitive^
war horse at the nostrils; the jaws were w-
ed, bnt not fleshy, and, in fine, from there
ed chin to the forehead there was I*
pression more of well-Mdden, all-watches
trigue and ruse and latent boldness than«
itive aggressive badness, and nothing ct
It is vnlgarily supposed
A MURDERESS SHOULD APPEAR.
Yet as our interview progressed there P_ £ .'
out from time to time such an occa*>
shadow of mental thunder cloud as sliowe- 1
lightnings not to be far on.
thought J
A Paris Paper Says :—“When Patti i
MUe. Nilsson feU into reverie and
marrying. She did not care for aristocrat-;
she wanted beauty and wealth. Her cbo««
an apprentice financier, whose moneyed
equaled his physical advantage. When ,
out for America she confided a large suxu
money to her betrothed, asking him to pU‘ J
the best account. He added it to all tu*
fortune, and said: ‘Ishall triple the niou .^
two months, and she shall be led to the «
a milRonaire.’ There wm no end to the <
in the air he built, until a panio on ba
Bwept away all his money and aU the moneri
songstress had confided to him. Will BW -
give the deed for the wiU’s sake ? H* r
say she will prove pitiless.”
