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t The Georgia Weekly Telegraph and. Journal <fc Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, AUGUST 22, 1871. Sews Items. The wheat crop of the Western States is ex cellent, and larger than has been reaped for many years. The Alabama and Chattanooga Railboad.— Blanton Tentillates his controversy with Gover- cor Lindsay, of Alabama, at an expense of four columns of the Tribune of last Tuesday. The Scorn Ceop.—The Picayune reports the sugar crop of Louisiana in splendid condition, and likely to produce 225,000 hogsheads. The rice crop has been injured by the heavy rains. Tallahassee to Thojiastille—The TaUa- hasseeans last week organized a company to build a railroad from Tallahassee to Thomas- ville, under the title of the “Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad and Steam Transportation Company.” The distance is thirty-five miles. A Chance fob Musquitoes.—The New Or leans Picayune, of the IGth, says: It is asserted that some wealthy and enter prising capitalist has bought a large quantity of swamp land in the vicinity of tho Rigolets—some thousand acres or so—with a view of converting it into a large rice plantation. A Pboi*osition.—The New York Sun prints this proposition in staring italics in a separate paragraph: “ When a President snrround3 political con vention3 with soldiers in order to exclude from them those citizens who are opposed to his re nomination, the liberties of the people are in danger.” Bettes.—The Presidents sore-tailed colt is officially announced to be “better” Now we feel reliSved. In the construction of the new Executive stable in Washington the recurrence cf this misfortune has been provided against. The colt's stall is to be cf black walnut, careful ly oiled and polished. WnTNOTBEFOEE?—We see at the meeting of the corporators of various inchoate and embiyo railroads held at the Kimball House last Wednesday, they “agread to oppose any farther efforts to obtain State aid.” We should think so. But opposition must ante-date that or Georgia is a ruined community. The Hall Aectxc Expedition. - Capt. HalJ, with lus exploring steamship Polaris, arrived at Holsteinberg, Greenland, July 21st, and was awaiting the arrival of the Congress with her supplies. Holsteinberg is about fifty miles in side tho Arctic circle, but the bold explorers are yet nearly a thousand miles from the Polar cir cle. Cotton Ceop in Middle Flobida.—The first bale was brought to Tallahassee on the 8th, by R. C. Parkhill and weighed C7G pounds. The Floridian reports the crop in good condition and opening rapidly. There was some rust and some genuine caterpillars. In East Florida the Ocala Banner reports the crop as excellent, and says corn will be shipped in large quantities. “Oub Cobean Elephant.”—Under this head the Tribune mourns andlaments overthe Corean situation. It wa3 a glorious fight and dog cheap —the best modern rifled guns against old honey combed twelves, and bad powder—breechloaders against matchlocks. The Coreans were badly whipped—run off in the interior and refused to “treat.” What is to be done ? To follow them demands an army, and implies a war. Not to follow them, leaves matters ten times worse than before. What is to be done ? Sabbath Obseeyance.—Lively doings under this head are noted in London. For years a se ries of prosecutions have been carried on against small traders for violations of the Sunday act cf Charles II. A bill to stop these prosecutions Las been before Parliament with small progress for a long time; until the repealers, getting in censed, have commenced prosecutions under tho act against the coachmen, morketmen and other Sunday servitors of Marquis of Lome, Prince Teck and other sprigs of royalty. This proceeding excites much “honest indignation.” The Polygamy Case in Utah.—Mrs. Harriet Hawkins is the complaining Mormoness in Salt Lake City, who wants her husband punished for taking more wiveB than good taste, sonnd morals or the customs of the Gentiles permits. She charges that she was married in England in 1 &50, and has had six children. That six years ago her husband took another wife, and three years thereafter a third one, and since that time has deserted, beaten and abased her. Where fore sho sues for divorce, and makes affidavit charging her husband with adultery. The Last Eabthquaee. — Another fearful earthquake and volcanio eruption has been no ted by the telegrams. It occurred on the little island of Tagolada, in the Malay Archipelago. Several oraters, besides the main one of the volcano Ruwang, opened near it with immense explosions and shook the earth for great dis tances and destroyed all human habitations. At the same moment a great wave from the sea, forty feet in height and travelling with incredi ble rapidity, swept over the island and engnlfed and carried away every living sonL Not a sin. gle living thing was left on the island. Four hundred and sixteen persons perished. Discontent in Fbance—Tho World's Pari3 correspondence of tho 28th July, gives a lively picture of the general discontent with the Thiers administration existing in France at that time. In the National Assembly his persistent coquetry with Gambetta and the minorities— his egregious egotism and perpetuaWussiness and jealons monopoly of all responsibility and power, had created almost universal disgust among the great body of conservatives. The army was incensed by new regulations imposing incessant hours of drill and constant isolation from the people; while the* people themselves were greatly dissatisfied by tho requirements of the new army bill. Tho situation at that time was pronounced by this correspondent as extremely criticaL Eubopeand Blanton Duncan.—Tho World of Tuesday says that Col. Duncan, who had just returned from Europe and who has held inti mate Bocial relations with tho French Imperial family was interviewed by a reporter of that paper. He says that Napoleon believes in his early restoration, that the government of M. Thiers is regarded as a mere makeshift, and that his death at this time would bo followed by another civil war. Gambetta is looked upon as an ambitious, intriguing, able man. Bazaino waits for history to justify him. Lebcent is a “wretched creature." The Empress is well, and intends to send tho Prince Imperial on a lour through tho United States whenever he 'is old enough to appreciate this big country. Col onel Duncan believes that England is threatened with serious revolutionary troubles. Afpatbs at the New Capital.—Tho New York papers report things very slack-twisted at Long Branch—wives flirting—babies neglected —nurses intriguing—husbands concussing, office hunting, drinking, swearing and horso racing— daughters rouging, flashing and dashing—Pres ident Grant lolling round with his hat on the back of his head—a big cigar in his mouth and his heels cocked up on tho driver’s Beat—the very picture of a man who has got a good situ ation and means to hold it by all means against all comers. Ablase, rowdy, dirty, vulgar, drink ing, swearing and licentious place is Long Branch, although it is tho “headquarters of the nation and of the high morality party.” Sand, champagne, bad morals, and corrupt poli tics prevail. What would old Washington, Jef ferson, Madison and Hickory Jackson say to the Republican Conri of the New Era ? Evidently, “Scat, you bitch!” Tlie Noble Women or Georgia, The exploits of the gallant sons of the South, and their hereto devotion to the lost cause, will live in song and stand forth foreTer upon the pages of history. Bat it is meet also that the unobtrusive worth, the exalted, virtue, the hu- miliating sacrifices, the invincible energy of the afflicted daughters of the ponfederacy should be properly cherished and remembered. Daring those fearful times, when every mes senger and telegram brought the sad tidings of stricken fields, and the groans of the wounded and dying thrilled the heart of the nation, these angel3 of jnercy were ever to be seen, either ministering to the wants of th& suffering, or knitting socks, scraping lint, weaving cloth for the garments of our soldiers, or compounding jellies and delicacies for the hospital. Glorious and lovely indeed did they thus ap pear, in the eyes of their admiring country men. But the purpose of this article is to ex hibit them in an aspect still more beautiful and exalted. We wish to hold up to view the pres ent occupation, and heavenly mission, of many of our noble women who were nursedin the lap of luxury, and are descended from a long line of illustrious sires. Heart-broken by the loss of lovers and brothers, and left penniless by the sad results of the war, death might have been a welcome messenger bat for the urgent claims of the living. Mutilated kinsmen, aged parents, or the help les3 orphans of the loved ones who had died for their country, still appealed beseechingly for help and sustenance. What has been the re sponse? Did these gently nurtured and high born ladies suceumb^wnder sore bereavement and the utter loss of worldly possessions ? No, by the rood! With Spartan constancy, and heroism morally sublime, they have laid aside the costly vestments of other days, and patiently and without a murmur, embraced a life of al most menial toil, in behalf of the helpless ones they love so well. The writer could point to the children and grandchildren of ono of Washington’s favorite Generals; and to the descendants of some of the noblest and most illustrioos men who once adorn ed the battlefield, and conncils of the nation, as illustrations of his subject. These ladies shine with more lustre, and are far more attrac tive iu their present sphere in the eyes of the virtuous and honorable, than when they were the habitues of the luxurious drawing room, and surrounded with all the pomp and pageant ry of rank and wealth. Yea, we confess to a feeling foT them akin to the highest veneration, Reverently do we - uncover in their presence, and render a heartfelt homage which crowned heads and the magnates of earth conld not ex tort. All honor to our glorious women, who are peerless alike in the palace, the cottage, the schoolroom and by the couches of the sick and dying. Akerman for Vice-President. The “ring” organ at Atlanta flies Akerman’s name as its chosen candidate for Vice-President along with Grant, the American Dyonisius, as its first choice for President But the organ seems to be alone in its advocacy of little Amos’ claims. The idea of making a Vice-President out of such timber, seems not to be entertained anywhere else. There may be “a movement’ to bring Amos forward for the position, but so far as we can learn it is confined to the organ aforesaid, and Amos himself. Grant might like the association well enough, for the men are a good deal alike. Both are narrow minded, intolerant, ungrateful and vindictive in the ex treme, but we hardly think the Radical leaders will. A man whose State is dead against him by 30,000 majority, is not the man for their money. When they given quo they want a quid, and Amos can’t respond. From the West there is heard a guffaw of rid icule at the very idea. The Washington corres pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial (Radical) writes that Creswell, Post Master General, and Amos are both pipe-laying for the nomination. Of Akerman, his chances and claims, the corres pondent writes as follows: A few obscure papers in the South, edited by United States Attorneys or United States Mar shals, have raised his name for this office, and the little creature is beside himself. Tho mere intimation eets the fellow wild. Yet a year ago this man was happy in being the Attorney for his District Ho never had any aspirations higher than member of the Legislature when Grant took him by the nape-of his neck and forced him to the front as Attorney General. The little fellow was scared to death. He didn’t know what bad befallen him. He began to look over his accounts to see if there was any mis take. Flanked by Joshua Hill, he presented himself to the President The grandeur of Washington oppressed him, the majesty of the public build ings appalled him. With an air of simple modesty, blushing with embarrassment, and trembling with anxiety, he was admitted to the royal presence of Ulysses. The President liked his bashfniness and hesitancy. It was some thing even for Grant to live for. The idea of a man sensitive and self-depreciating, yet running oyer with nobleness of heart shrinking from him in his high office, tickled his vanity and gratified him immeasurably. If there was ever a smaller man occupied the high office of Attorney General, I hope I may never hear his name. The people love humility. It was this that first attached Grant to the pub lic, and I have no doubt that in time Akorman would have become popular, but he has thrown his humility to the dogs, and has entered the list with all the confidence of an old politician. He stands as good a chance of being nominated for Vice-President as Ben. Eggleston does for being the next Emperor of France. ms CLAIMS. And what do you suppose his claims are? Why, the little creature imagines that bis loca tion is going to do the bnsiness for him. In the simpleness of his feeble natnre, he ttiinkg he is the only man iu the South of any prominence in the Republican party, and that tho South must certainly be represented on the ticket. Some United States Marshal or attorney has told him that the Republicans cannot carry the South for President, unless the candidate for vice- Fresident is from that section, and Akerman be lieves it. And he believes (Akerman is very crednIon3 and the marshals and attorneys have found it ont) that if be is put on the ticket with Grant, that he will carry, with one or two exceptions, the Sonthom States. All he has to do now is to mako other people believe it. He thinks it would be unjust to the people in that large section of country to disregard their claims, and he is sure that if he were nom inated, it would show the South that the Repub licans desired to deal with them fairly, and even generously. He also believes that his service in the rebel army as an officer would bring him additional strength, which undoubtedly wonld in his section. It wonld be a beautiful example of fraternal reconciliation to have a Union and a rebel officer associated together as candidates for the two highest offices in the gift of the people. But Akerman should not be held re sponsible for his conrse. He is a feeble-minded, little man, unskilled in worldly affairs, and flattery, that deadly foe to judicious ambition, has 'forced from him the little sense he had, and left in its place a modicum of wind. Who Shall Name (he Candidate? We suppose the Democracy of the three counties composing this Senatorial District- Bibb, Monroe and Pike—will soon begin to move in the matter of putting forth a candi date for Senator to be voted for at tho election on the 13th of September. As wo understand tho rotation question, it is Monroe’s time to name the candidate—Pike having had that honor at the last election, and Bibb at tho one previous. This, from what wo hear, is generally conceded, so let Monroe put her best foot foremost We shall heartily support whoever is nominated, of conrse, bnt if Col. A. D. Hammond, of Forsyth, is the fortunate man, we shall be spe cially pleased to help him reach the winning post A young Alabama lady being told that her lover had been suddenly killed, cried: “Oh, that splendid gold watch of his! Give me some thing to remember him by.” News Items. Cholxbjl.—Two fatal cases of cholera were reported in Paris on the loth. Spbague’s Canal—Work on Senator Sprague’s canal in Columbia was resumed last week and is to be pushed on to completion. New Rice.—A car load of new rice was re ceived in Charleston last Thursday, from the plantation of John W. Lewis, on the Ashepoo. Head DowKWAsns.—The Charleston Courier says the corpse of a backsliding negro woman in Sumter county, was slid into the grave head downards, by the direction of her negro pastor, who said she was bound for the bad place any how, and that was the way she ought to be buried. The New Yobs Peach Tbade.—The World, of Wednesday, says six hundred thousand bas kets and crates of Delaware peaches were sold in the New York market during the past week, and we have hardly yet opened upon tho New Jersey orchards. The peach crop this year is enormous, and the fruit was never better in size and flavor. The Ohio Butfebbabgeb poisoning case premises to be one of extraordinary interest. The World, of Wednesday, in a London (Ohio) dispatch of the 15tb, says that the defence will bring forward most startling testimony, show ing a conspiracy to destroy Mrs. Colburn, which will cause a sensation of horror and raise a cry for vengeance all over the country. The Deyelopees in Indiana.—Tho last Leg islature of Indiana passed a bill chartering a company to drain the wet lands bordering the Kankakee River, with authority to assess tho lauds per cost of drainage. It is needless to say that it was a scheme delightful to Wall street and her “capitalists” so-called, that is to say the noble army of hammers whose capital lies in kites and impudence, took hold of it and have already assessed the lands to the amount of OTer four millions of dollars. The hoosiers are as mad as hornets, and want to fight some body. Tlie Cotton Crop. The universal impression among planters in Middle and Southwestern Georgia is, that the cotton crop will be far below the lowest esti mates of buyers. The fact that the weed is now generally blossoming on the top and making its final effort at fruiting for the season, is conclu sive against any hope of a large late product like those which unexpectedly swelled the crops of the two last years. Besides the generally unpromising condition of the plant, and the di minished area in acreage, must also be consid ered the great imperfection of the stand, which in the opinion of many good judges, is equal to twenty per cent It must be a very favorable fall which will develop a crop equal to two- thirds of that of last year, or say a crop of a little upwards of three million bales; and this, according to our ideas, is above “an average crop.” On the other hand, the lowest figure of South ern buyers is probably about 3,500,000 bales, and the Northern bulls ere clear way up above that. They call an “average crop” the crop of last year—say forty-three to forty-five hun dred thousand bales. We produced that once, and therefore it is the demonstrated ‘‘capacity” of the Sonth. What has been done can be done again. There is a “perpetual tendency to underestimates”—that is to say, the product has overran estimates for the last twoycais, be cause the last two years have been exceptional Now, if a fair average crop should, in truth, tuinout to be nothing more than the average product since the war, instead of last year’s crop, and if the crop should only bo a little short of an average crop, there will be some heavy movements in cotton this year. An Ex-Treasury Detective on Radi cal Frauds and Corruption in that Department—lie Proposes to * En fold a Tale.” Ex-Treasury detective Wood, a Radical of the straitest sect, announces by a card in the New York Sun, that he has abandoned bis intention of exposing the fraud and corruption at Wash ing in a book, but will do eo in a series of arti cles, to appear in that journal. He says: My papers will open with the establishment and proof, beyond successful controversy, of the gigantic fraud on the public and govern ment in the article of United States bonds, re lating to the redemption, exchange and interest thereon. I shall endeavor to give this subject (so little understood) such an expose that the humblest mind shall not fail to comprehend the corruption and fraud by which the people or tho government are swindled to the extent of mill ions of dollars annually. During the progress of these epistles to tho people I shall c-xpose the peculations and mis management of the Printing Department of the Treasury, as also the glaring frauds and favor itism in the paper contracts of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the specialty of what is known as the fibre paper, and promise in advance rich developments in that particular. Among the many matters I shall expose I intend to givo the history of the steamer Golden Rule, which vessel was wrecked, premeditatedly, on the Roncader Reefs, in the Carribean Sea, and about threo millions of Government treasure was stolen from the Government safe on board. Knowing as I do the parties who committed the theft, I will show how one of these parties be came intimate with President Grant, (probably through Parisian outfits for ladies,) and that ultimately this man’s name was actually sent to tho United States Senate for confirmation as a high official representative of onr Government at Paris. I will show how and why said nomi nation was rejected, and what high dignitaries have drunk abundantly of the French wines presented to them and purchased with tho funds of the proceeds of the robbery of the nation’s treasure on board the Golden Rule. I shall continue these papers for the benefit of all concerned, believing it is to the interest of the public to understand the characters of those who rob and rule them in Washington. Cotton Crop Estimates. The National Bureau reports the returns to the 17th July. The average acreage has been reduced 14 per cent. With the present relative ly low condition, with a season as long as that of 1870, a crop of 3,500,000 bales is predicted. A season of average length will give 3,200,000 bales, “an early frost and a very favorable sea son for picking,” 2,700,000. “Insects and other unpropitious circumstances would probably re duce the crop to 2,500,000 bales.” We have here a scale graduated according to accident, but there are elements of calculation which none but a cotton planter can correctly estimate. The same acreage will not always produce the same crop in an equally favorable season, because the lands are wearing ont and washing away in most of the older cotton States; a smaller acreage has more choice land than a larger one. An acreage 14 per cent, less in extent is cultivated better, and picked more carefully than a larger one. A less acreogo with more oereals will enable the team to do better work. The reports from the ootton region show that the laborers are more industrious and work to more advantage than heretofore. The advance in the price of cotton stimulates the planter and laborer. It also im proves their credit for supplies. The Bureau publishes reports from fifty-five out of more than five hundred counties engaged in the cul ture of cotton, and the inference from these statements are, we think, premature. The re ports coincide with and generally support those published by our ootton exchange.—N. O. Price Current No Dhtebence.—We see the New Era says there is no difference between a New Departure Democrat and a Radical, and therefore pro poses that the two should units and support the same ticket for President. We trust the New Era is sincere in this opinion, and we know of nothing to prevent him from proving his sin cerity by corresponding works. The nominee of the Democratic National Convention will, we have no manner of doubt, be placed on a so- called new departure platform, and let the New Era therefore go and vote for him like « man of his word. THE GEORGIA PRESS. Two of Bollock’s Notaries Public down at Savannah are in trouble. They are King Solo mon Thomas, a negro, who has been indicted for extortion, and Alfred E. Jones, white, who is charged with an attempt at rape upon % dusky Venus. The Savannah Advertiser, of Thursday, says the Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Company has extended its line to that city, and will open an office for the transaction of business, within 8 The Columbus Sun estimates the loss from the smash up on the Southwestern Railroad at Baker’s Creek bridge, last Tuesday night, at $5000—which strikes us as rather exaggerated. The Rome Commercial says: Col. Yancey made a very fine point in tho Convention Friday. Joseph E. Brown was urging planters to raise clover. Yancey said he raised a large lot of clover on his plantation in Alabama, and shipped it to Athens. He found that the freight cost him one dollar and fifty cents a hundred. He conld buy Western hay for one dollar and seventy-five cents in Athens. So that high freights forbade his raising clover to sell iu this section, in fact transferring it from Alabama to Athens cost so much that he could scarcely afford to use it himself. So that he must quit it, unless he could move his farm ont West, and thus cheapen bi3 freights to Athens. The Advertiser say s apaperraceboat43ft.Iong and 2G inches beam, made by Waters, Batch & Co., Troy, New York, reached Savannah, Tues day, and was immediately forwarded to Macon “to be manned by oarsmen constituting a part of the clerical force of the Central Railroad.” The bodies of 32 Confederate soldiers re moved from tho Gettysburg battle field will ar rive in Savannah, Monday, from Baltimore, and will bo interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. The Savannah Advertiser learns that the rice- crop in the Satilla River country is larger and better than at any time since the war. The corn crop is poor, having been greatly damaged by rain. We clip the following from the Savannah News, of Thursday: Tho Atlanta Son says it is rumored that Kim ball has sold all interest whatever in the great hotel which he has built in that city. Nobody need be surprised if this should turn out to be true. There has been a heavy amount of wood work going on of late to sustain this modem house that Jack built, and a3 there is likely to be some investigation of the malt that is in it —the money of the State road invested in its construction—it is highly proper that the parties interested in tho division should bring matters to a close before the meeting of the next Legis lature. Dawson is to have a new jail at a cost of $5, 300, and by way of getting funds in hand to pay for it, bas sold the old jail, jailor’s house, and other outbuildings thereunto belonging, for $1G0. J. G. Chapman, of Terrell county, sent, on Wednesday, the first bale of new cotton received at Dawson this season. It classed ordinary, and brought 20 cents per pound. The Savannah Republican says a portion of the property stolen from St. Episcopal church in that city, Tuesday night, has been recovered, and the thieves will soon be arrested. Capt. Nick King, of Savannah, was robbed last Tuesday night, of over $300, and by three o’clock, Wednesday, the thief, a gentle gazelle of Radical politics named Bill Grant, was nailed, and $233 of the money recovered. It all came of William's being so unfortunate as to leave his hat in the house where the robbery was committed. The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Thursday, says tho contract for building the Augusta and Hartwell railroad has been ratified by the direc tors, and that work will be at once commenced —the contractors, whose names, by the way, are not given—binding themselves to complete the entire line from Augusta to Clayton by Jan uary 1st, 1874, and to finish ten miles within sixty days. Chas. Seymour was elected chief engineer, vice A. Grant Childs. We notice also that Chapman, the developer, whom the Chron icle was after with such a Sharp stick not long since, was unanimously elected a director to fil a vacancy. How about that, gentlemen? The Hotchkiss ease at Atlanta, resulted in that trewly loyl person’s being held to bail in the sum of $2,000, for trial in Fulton Superior Court. After his release he was arrested on another and similar charge, and gave bail in the same sum. Ho is out in a card requesting, as is usual with gentlemen of his stripo, “ pension of public opinion.” A negro member of the State convict gang at Atlanta, was killed Wednesday by Jas. Alexan der, nephew of Mr. Alexander, of the firm of Grant, Alexander & Co. Alexander will be tried to-day. The negroes, law-abiding usual, talked of lynching him. It has not rained at Rome for fifty-nine days, and the papers say the drouth is producing some sickness. Col. Doyal and Dr. Mitchell, of Griffin, who have recently been prostrated by paralysis are recovering. Little Alice, daughter of Judge Alex. M. Speer, of Griffin, is dead. We clip the following items from tho Calhoun Times, of Thursday: Hon. John P. King, of Augusta, has donated a lot in the town of Calhoun, and a considerable amount of money, we have been informed, for the purpose of building an Episcopal church. Noah"McGinnis, in Sugar Valley, was riinover by a log cart last week and was seriously, proba bly fatally, injured. Some recent rains have done good bnt tho csrn crop will be a short one. Tho Rome Courier, of yesterday, says: Sad.—Wo regret to learn of a sad affair in Oxford, Alabama, last Sabbatb, resulting in the death of Jas. P. Harris, who was shot by Mr. Samuel Morgan. We have not been able to learn tho particulars. Mr. Harris was a brother of our fellow citizen Mr. B. N. Harris, and was a young man of worth and business capacity, and had been for several years connected with a mercantile firm in New York. The negroes of Newton county are practicing phlebotomy extensively, just now. Two of them were dangerously cut in Covington, last Snnday night, at the Baptist chnrch. The Atlanta Plantation says: Col. Lockett has in Southwestern Georgia, planted in cotton this year, six thousand five hundred acres, and in corn and small grain three thousand five hundred acres, making in all ten., thousand acres. It is estimated that his cotton crop will bo worth S180,000. This is probably tho largest cotton crop made by any one person in tho cotton region. He employs threo hun dred and sixty hands, all blacks. Boll worm and rust are damaging cotton in Lowndes and adjacent counties, to a considera ble extent. Mr. M. Rosenfeld, a Thomasville merchant, died very suddenly while on his way to New York, from that place, last Monday. We clip the following items from the Thom asville Enterprise, of Wednesday: The Boll Wobm.—From many portions of the county, and from beyond the Florida line, comes the report that the boll worm is making its appearance in the cotton-fields. Some re port the damages already great, and it is feared that its ravages will bo general. The rust is also doing considerable in jary. Bat for these the prospect in this section wonld be good, the most of the cotton being well fruited. Fine Cotton.—Dr. T. 8. Hopkins has left at our office a stalk of Dickson cotton which con tains one hundred and three matured bolls, be sides a few blossoms and forms. It was grown on his place near the farm of Rev. M. C. Smith, and shows what good culture and stable manure will do. The Doctor has thirty acres thus tended, which ho reports excellent. The engineers are now at work locating the line for a railway from Perry to Fort Valleyi and have reached a point midway the two places. The Home Jonrnal says Honston county, from present appearances, will not make more than half a crop of cotton, on acconnt of rust. The com crop of the county, if equally divided, wonld probably supply home demand. When a negro wants to get out of the Wash ington jail, be says to the jailor, when tho latter brings him his dinner: “Lor! boss, look bolts through the door. The jailor then sits down and snatches himself bald beaded to the tune of “Mess that nigger.” Mr. Jas. Spratlin, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Wilkes county, died very suddenly last Monday. Says the Washington Gazette: Runaway Hatch—Washington a Gbetna Gbeen.—On last Sunday the morning nap W. J. Callaway, Esq., our worthy and efficient J. P., was disturbed by the arrival of a romantic couple from Oglethorpe county, who desired L be united in tho bonds of matrimony immedi ately. Mr. Callaway responded forthwith and spliced the anxious, trembling, blooming Miss Carter to the sturdy and brave Mr. Kirkpatrick in true, legal, Georgia Justice style, which will defy all the divorce courts of Yankeedoodledom. Mr. Kirkpatrick stole his blushing brido the night before. He laid ont in the bushes and she came to him about midnight. The gallant groom stated that when he asked the old man for his daughter, the old fellow refused. The heroio and love-smitten swain said he would have her anyhow. The cruel parient replied that he’d bet him a hundred dollars he’d see him when he got her. The undaunted lover replied that he’d take that bet. He says he thinks he has tcon. Referring to the State Road corruptions the Constitutionalist says, and we heartily endorse the suggestion: It is to be hoped that among the first meas ures the Legislature will adopt, at its meeting in November, will be the appointment of a special committee, with power to send for per sons and papers, to investigate the management of the road from the day Bullock removed Maj. Campbell Wallace to the day that Foster Blodgett was or will be relieved from the position of Su perintendent. Especial investigation ahonld be made in regard to the authority and necessity of continuing to pay the officers of the road their regular salaries after the road had passed ont of the hands of the State. The committee should be instructed to prosecute, on the crimi nal side of the court, every person found to bo connected with the frauds and robbing; that, if proven guilty, the State may get a small return for the money stolen, by their labors in the penitentiary, or in breaking stone at Stono Mountain. The Colnmbns Enquirer of Friday says: Death of Mbs. Wir. H. Crambos.—It Is with deep sorrow that we reoord the death of this amiable lady, which occurred at the family res idence in Russell county, Ala., on Wednesday evening, from the effects of a congestive chill. Although Mrs. Chambers had been indisposed for some day3 previously, yet her doath was sudden and unexpected to all. She was the daughter of the late Dr. A. H. Fiewellen, and sister of A. G. Fiewellen, Esq., of this city. She was a devoted Christian, and indeed a true and noble lady in every walk op life. What renders the sad dispensation more painful still is the fact that her husband was absent from home at the time, and consequently not permit ted to receive and administer consolation in the expiring hour. Columbus received her first bale of new cot ton, Thursday, from Stewart county. It classed low middling, and sold for 17 cents per pound. Dr. Edward Johnson, son of Hon. James Johnson, of Columbus, died last Tuesday. The trial of old Tunis Campbell and the other negro Ku-kluxers from Darien, before the United States Commissioner at Savannah, re sulted in their discharge. The News says the trial was “a farce.” The Albany News says Mrs. Joiner, of Dooly county, whose son by a former husband (Deve- reaux) killed her last husband in that county, a few days since, has been bailed as accessory to the homicide, in the sum of $2,500. Deve- roaux, it will be remembered, made his escape the day of the murder, and has not been heard of since. We quote the following from the Albany News, of Friday: Condition of the Cbop3.—Since onr return, a few days ago, we have made earnest inquiry about the crops in this and adjacent connties and the resnlt is far more cheering than wo hail hoped. In the oakwoods of this county, Lee and Baker the cotton crop is very good, and promises an extraordinary yield. The pine lands on the east of the Flint are doing badly. Thousands of acres will not yield enough to pay for the seed planted, while very few planters can count on even half a crop. The rust has set in on the thin lands, and is now doing great dam age, and we learn the boll worm has also made its appearance and is doing its work of destruc tion. The pine lands of all adjacent connties may bo classed with those of Dougherty, with the saving remark that rolling lands and well cultivated fields are not so bad as the flat lands and neglected acres. It is believed by the closest observers and best informed men with whom we have conversed, that if the boll worm, cater pillar and rest do not devastate the crop, full five-eights, and possibly three-fourths of an average yield may be relied on. What wo say of the condition of cotton is ap plicable to the corn crop. Capt. T. H. JohnsoD, who has been engaged in surveying tho right-of- way for the Southwestern Railroad extension, has just returned from a rambling trip through tho southwestern part of this county and Cal houn county, and he reports for Calhoun splen did corn crops and fair average cotton crops. He thinks she will make enough corn to do her own citizens and supply the deficiency in Dough erty. He says in every instance whore the crops • have been cultivated they are good. There has been no drought to hurt anything, and tho present prospect in that region is highly promising. Planters are in good spirits and are hopeful of profitable harvests. Worth, Mitchell and Baker counties will probably make corn enough to supply themselves, but their cotton crops are poor and not more than half a j ield is counted on. Gbasshoppees in Uppee Geoegia.—Last week we saw, in Catoosa, myriads of these destructive insects—or rather varmints, for they are quite formidable enough in a corn field to be so des ignated. They were eating the corn blades, and we observed that they would literally eat up the fodder of a whole field iu a day. Large fields that wo passed through on Friday, when they had not appeared, was stripped on Sunday. If they should attack the corn, the crop in upper Georgia, already cut short by the drought, will be a total faflore, as was the wheat crop in that section. The Chronicle says ground will be broken on thp Augusta and Hartwell railroad on the first day of September. One of the Smith family, Christian name Hardy, is in trouble at Newman on account of a couple of horses that would follow him out of their owner’s stable. Mrs. Francis Carmichael, cf Coweta county, is 87 years old, has 230 living descendants, and after losing her sight for ten years, has had it so restored that she can read coarse print. The Newnan Herald, of Friday, says work on the Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railway, from that place towards Carrolton, was resumed, under contract, last Tuesday. Thompson’s mill-pond, on the line of Pike and Upson connties, was drained last-week, and 400 pounds of fish caught. - Major D. N. Pittman, one of the bestoitizens of DeKalb county, died on Friday, aged 78 years. We quote these additional items from the same paper: The recent investigations have clearly devel oped perhaps the leading modus operandi by which the State Road Treasury has been de pleted. It is known, we believe, as loading a bill. That is, where goods have been purchas ed, the bill for tho same has been increased fif ty or one hundred per cent, and when paid the overplus was divided among the ring. In this way the books and accounts would appear en tirely regular upon their face. Another mode was by accounts altogether fraudulent, and still another by two payments.for the -same bilL Thus thousands of dollars were stolen, and doubtless at least half a million of dollars went in these various ways, for beyond all question the profits of the Western and Atlantio Railroad for the years I860 and 1870 amounted to that much. • A Good Citizen.—Jim Harris, a oolored man, was in the business office of The Constitution office yesterday morning. Jim stated that ho was ninety-fonr years old, that he has had eight wives, and knows that he is the father of sixty- four oliildren. - - < A negro named Hackett Ku-kluxed Mr. Har rison; of Hall county, one day last week, by knocking him down and beating him with a at dat snake dsr.” The jailor looks and Cuff gun until he was left for dead. Decisions of tbe Supreme Court of Georgia. DEXXVXBZD AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1871 From the Atlanta New Era.] Eliza Weaver vs. Brinkley Chaney, Equity. McOay, J.—Where A. had advanced money to B. to enable B. to comply with her bid at sher iff’s sale; and A., to secure himself, took sheriff's deed to the land to himself, agreeing that on payment of the money lent to-wit, $40, with liberal interest, he would make a title to B., and B. therefore tendered the money bor rowed with $20 interest, and A. then claimed that the land was his own; and on bill filed by A. for a specific performance of the agreement the jury decreed that A. should make the deed toB. onB.’apayment tohimof $116: Held, that the verdict was illegal sinoe $40 with legal interest was all A. was entitled to. Fleming & Rutherford for plantiff. Herbert Fielder for defendant. Jones & Jeter vs. S. & C. Blocker. Hiring the servant of another. Wabneb J.—It is said by Blackstone that the retaining of another person’s servant daring the time he has agreed to serve his present master, as it is anungentlemanly, so it is also an illegal act; for every master has by hi3 contract pur chased for a valuable consideration the service of his employe for a limited time. The in veigling or hiring his servant, which induces a breach of this contract, is therefore an injury to the master, and for that injury the law has given him a remedy by a special action on the case. 3 Bl&ektsone, 142. The same principle is applicable where one man employs a laborer to work on his farm, and any man knowing of such contract of employment, who entices, hires or persuades the laborer to leave the service of his first employer during the time for which he wsb so employed, is liable to damages: Held, That it was error in the court below in sustaining tbe demurrers to the plaintiff’s de' claratien, and dismissing the same. R. H. Powell & H. Fielder, for plaintiffs. Hood & Kiddoo for defendants. TT. M. Jenkins, vs. J. C. Grimes, et ah In junction. Wabneb, J.—Pending an action for a divorce by Mrs. Grimes against her husband, she filed a bill against him praying that certain property therein mentioned should be placed in the hands of a receiver, to be appointed by the Court, which was done. Jenkins, a note cred itor of the husband, filed his bill against Mrs. Grimes, praying an injunction against the re ceiver, to restrain him from disposing of the property, and that his note might be paid out of it. The Court refused the injunction. A motion was then made to make Jenkins, the note creditor, a party to the bill filed by Mrs. Grimes, which motion was overruled by the Court, and Jenkins excepted: Held, That there wa3 no error in the Conrt in refusing the injunction prayed for, nor in refusing that Jenkins be made a party to the bill field by Mrs. Grimes. Worrell & Wimberly for plaintiff. Beale & Gillis for defendants. W. C. Sawyer vs. A. J. Pace. Complaint on Open Account. Wabneb, J.—This was an action upon an open account. The parties entered into a writen contract to cultivate a plantation in Early county, for the year 18G8, on the terms therein expressed. The plaintiff claims that he did not get his share of the crops, after deducting ex penses, etc. After hearing the evidence on both sides, the jury found a verdict for plaintiff for $65. Defendant made a motion for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the law and evidence, and weight of the evidence. The court overruled the motion for a new trial, anu the defendant excepted: Held, That the jury were the proper judges of the evidence, and the credit of the witnesses examined on the trial, and this conrt will not interfere to control the discretion of the conrt below in refusing tho motion, on the statement of facts contained in the record. John T. Clarke for plaintiff. Hoed & Kiddoo for defendant W. A. Rawson vs. W. B. Thornton. In equity. Homestead. Wabneb, J.—This was a bill filed by plaintiff against defendant, to revive a dormant judg ment, end have a tract of land covered by a homestead made snbject thereto, for the pay ment of (ho purchase money thereto. On the trial motion was made to dismiss tbe bill on the ground that there was no equity in it which would give to a Court of Equity jurisdiction thereof, but on the contrary the remedy at law was ample and complete, and there was no er- ror in dismissi”!’ (he bill at the trial term for want of jurisdiction. Beale &, Tucker for plaintiff. Wimberly, Gillis and Pielder, for defendant John. M. K. Gunn vs. N. H. Miller. Home stead. Wabneb, J.—The main question presented by the record is, whether MUler was entitled to a homestead against the plaintiff's judgment which was obtained against Eliza Hall, who was the owner of the land at the time of the rendi tion thereof. The judgment against Eliza Hall is dated May 1,18G6, to the 3d of June, 1868. Miller purchased the land from E. K. Hall and Eliza R. Young, the heirs at law of EJjza Hall, the defendant in judgment who died after tho rendition hereof. On the 10th of April, I860, Miller applied for and obtained from the Ordi nary of Randolph county, a homestead on the land in question, and tho court below decided that Miller was entitled to the homestead, as against the plaintiff’s judgment, to which decis ion tho plaintiff excepted. Htld, that the court below erred in holding and deciding that Miller was entitled to a home stead in the land as against the plaintiff’s judg ment, and the statement of facts contained in the record. Glarko Hood for defendant, and Kiddoo for plaintiff. given in for taxes, and the taxes paid. , 4th section of the act declares shail be i, tion precedent to a recovery on the same ° act makes no exceptions as to the solve!* the debts, but embraces all suits founded any debt made or contracted before the l •June, 18G5, or in renewal thereof. The plaintiff in this case, like other! tax payers in this State did not regular! year give in and pay taxes on this debt, L he did not honestly believe it was a solvent^ when he gave in his taxable property, act requires him to make an affidavit thato debt has been regularly given in for taxes! the taxes paid on it, as a condition prec * to his right to maintain a suit on it in the < of this State. Because, as an honest, com,, tious tax payer, he could not swear it was t vent debt when ho gave in his taxes for 1 18C8 and 18S9, he has not regularly given in] for taxes, and regularly paid tho taxes en ;!1 and, inasmuch as he cannot make the affihJ that he has done fo, tho act outlaws him I * 1 the courts of the State, as was most c!ea intention of the Legislature to do in ret that class of debts specified in the act. If this, in my judgment, was a valid tv/w - tutional act, I would confirm the judgment# the Court below, but as I believe it to lie nno * stitutional and void, I concur in tho jud"a t - of this Court, reversing the judgment of SI Conrt below. Locheane, C. J., and McCay, J., n/wuM—J on the ground that the act was constitntioci'l and the plaintiff had complied with its reqnr msnts as to the payment of taxes and filins t affidavit prescribed. ° THE AMERICAS GISI. An Ohio Man Secs dux, aud Goes Fir,I Bettor-Pot Toarsclf in His Place. Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.! Washington, August 3,1871. I have always bad a high opinion of Ohio. ][ always knew she excelled in everything. Bat]I don’t want to live there. I’m a poor man aaji can’t afford it. Clothes and schooling cost tccl much. It must be very pleasant for those wM like it, and can afford it, bnt not any Ohio fa I me. I shall not go near the state if I can help it I It has taken me a good while to get to tie I point but you will see exactly where the lac;;I comes in by examining carefully the tnbjoiceil table. It is a schedule of a family living in Lit I erty township, Wood county, Ohio, postoffie<| address, Grand Rapids. The schedule was take; I by A. Rowland, census marshal for that distric* | on July 1, 1870, and upon his honor he certifal it to be correct. I can swear that it is a oorret: I copy of the original return in the census office I I am thus particular in order to allay the nates; I suspicion that may arise of the authenticity ci I the record. TAELE SHOWING THE FEBTILITT OF OHIO. as = o agfc» _► e, S2S.J00 Ohio. I Ordinary for use of E. H. Worrell vs. H. & | Adams. Relief act of 1870. Affidavit that taxes were paid. Wabneb, J.—This" was an action brought by plaintiff upon administrator’s bond, dated Sth January, 1865, to recover the amount of a debt reduced to judgment against the intestate Sam uel Adams, alleging that the administrators of Adams had wasted the estate. The original debt on which the judgment was contracted was da ted in 1858, and was renewed several times. The amount duo on it at the time it was reduced to judgment in 1867 was about $2600. The plaintiff filed his affidavit under the provision of the act of 1870, in which he stated that he had paid all legal taxes chargeable by law on the dobt np to tho year 1865, which year no tax was assessed thereon. That,in 1866 and 1867 he gave in said debt at what he believed to be its market value, to-wit: $1000, and paid the taxes there on. That since 1867 he did not give in and pay tax on the debt because it was no longer a sol vent debt and ceased to have any market value whatever. On motion of defendant’s counsel the oonrt dismissed the plaintiff’s action on the gronnd that the affidavit of the plaintiff was not a com pliance with the act of 1877. Whereupon the plaintiff excepted. If I believed the act of 13th October, 1870, be a valid constitutional act, I should hold that losses on all debts contracted prior to June 1, 1865, or on contracts iu renewal thereof should be regularly given in and paid on all such debts, whether solvent or not, as a condi tion precedent to entitle the plaintiff to recover on the same in the Courts. That such was the clear and manifest intention of the Legislature, there can be no doubt. It ia entitled “An act extend the lien of set-off and reooupment, against debt, contracted before the 1st day of June, 1865, and to deny to such debts the aid of the Courts until the taxes thereon have been paid.” The third section of the act declares that “In suits npon such contracts, in every case, the burden of proof showing that the taxes have been duly paid, shall be upon the party plaintiff, without plea by the defendant.” The fourth section declares that “In every trial, upon a suit founded upon any such debt or con tract as described in this act; Provided, That said debt has been regularly given in for taxes, and the taxes paid, shall bo a condition prece dent to recovery on the same, and in every such oase, if the tribunal trying is not clearly satis fied that said taxes have been duly given in and paid, it shall so find; and said suit shall be dis missed.” In view of the condition of the people of the State, and the status of this particular class of debts at the time of the passage of this act, it cannot be reasonably supposed that any mem ber of the Legislature was so stupid as to have intended that it ahould be an act to increase the revenue of the State. The object and intention of the aot, as is patent upon its face, wa3 to hinder, obstruct and prevent the collection of all debts contracted prior to the 1st of June, 1865, and those in renewal thereof, and for the accomplishment of that purpose the aid of tbe courts of the State is denied to the holders and owners of such debts, unless they shall make an affidavit that said debts have been regularly Merc r, Daniel ..43 m Mercer, Lucy Ann._41 f h’sekeeper. N.V| Mercer, Margaret. 22 f sch’l t’ch’r. Ohio Mercer, Alascos. 20 a. Mercer, Nelson _50 m Mercer,Aplinda -10 f Mercer, Akin.—16 f Mercer, Serelzia 15 f Mercee, Aleina —15 f Mercer. Filet....—.15 m Mercer, Eugene 15 a Mercer. Mase ......13 m Mercer. lienrr —11 in Mercer, Ruth — 9 m Mercer, Fyrenieas— 7 m Mercer. Rebecca.... 7 m Mercer. Felaria— 5 f Mercer, Florence 5 f Mercer, Landice....... 3 m Mercer, Robert lm m a eecapixulatiox. The reader may have seen all there is to be seen in the above table, yet I cannot help point ing to the fact that Mr. Daniel Mercer is only forty-three years of age, and that Lucy Ann, his wife, ia but forty-one; that their oldest child is twenty-two years of age; that Daniel is a farmer, and an Ohio boy; farther, that Daniel is the father, and Lucy Ann the mother of eighteen living children, theyoungestbeing one month old; that, notwithstanding these eighteen vicissitudes, and the old man’s youth, he is yet possessed of this world’s good3 in the figures of twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Hea cknowledges to jthis amount, and I have no doubt be tells the truth, for how can a man with such a future tell a lie? twins no. 1. It was a little severe on Daniel and Lucy Ann that two years after the birth of their first child, and when they were jost beginning life, they should be sent twins to feed and clothe; a year after, Aplinda comes forth; two years after, Almira appears; the year following, the hasty Serelzia is born; a year after her (Ob, Cae3ar 1) twins again. The next year Eugene begins his earthly career, and a year afterward Mase gladdens the eyes of his mother; bnt, Lord! I should think she would want a rest. Think of it! Five chil dren jn three years! Ginxis nowhere. lean imagine that at this state of the game young Mr. Daniel Mercer began to swear, after the manner of Ginx, and plead with and threatened Lucy Ann. Might he not have promised her, unless she mended her ways, that he would drown her and her future offspring from the Cincinnati bridge, which I have no doubt is as good as Yauxhall bridge? I don’t know what Daniel did, but 1 know what I would have done under the circumstances. However, two years elapsed before Henry ap peared ; then two more years before Ruth came- forth; then two years after (poor Mr. Daniel Ginx!) . ' MOBE TWINS. At this point I imagine Mercer became a philosopher. Thera was no use for him to quarrel with providence, and he no doubt begin to look at the matter as a hugs joke. I can al most hear the boys in Grand Rapids (the name is rather appropriate) hailing each other on the way to school with: “Say, Johnny, have yon heard from Mercer’s? They’ve got another pair of twins there! Golly, don’t it take a pile of grab for that family?’’ Well, Syrenicus and Rebecca had scarcely reached the tender age of two before twins so. 4. Were brought upon the stage. Now I submit, in all seriousness, whether any man is bound to stand such conduct r.s those ? Where is the thing to end ? Honestly I begin to think Dan iel is a fooL If not, why not ? Two years later Landice was born, and the last, so far as heard from, is Robert aged in the summer of 1870, one month. < Let the reader remember that these eighteen children, the product of about twenty-two years of married life, are all living, and yet the father is worth nearly thirty thousand dollars. How many children of tho Mercer family have died, the Lord only knows. The census marshal had not timo to ascertain. OCCUPATION. I will be noticed from the table that Marga ret is a school teacher, and that the occupation of tho rest of the children is not given. As ad ditional column of the table, not given above, shows that thirteen of tho children go to school. I pity the schoolteacher, whether it bo Hagaret or someby else. What an awful mix up there must be. Think of thirteen children of one family attending the same school at the same time. What a dinner-basket they would have to carry 1 The Radicals Against Grant, but Must Take 111 in. Dans, the editor of the New York Sun, in tbe issue of that paper of Tuesday’s date, writes as follows: An extensive journey through the Northwes tern States has brought us into contact with many Republicans, both of those who count as leaders in the party, and those who have long been proud to follow its flag and vote for its candidates. We have been astonished at the unanimity ot sentiment whioh prevails respecting the nomi nation of Useless S. Grant as a candidate foi the Presidency in 1872. All deprecate it as tb( worst calamity that conld possibly befall tb< Republican cause. But very many if not most of those Republicans fear that the power o! Grant’s officeholders may force him upon tin party, notwithstanding the certainty of his de feat in the eleotion. We regret to be obliged t< add that outside of the great and gallant State of Illinois, the number of those who propose to make an open and decisive resistance to tho base design of the officeholders is but smalL The Princess of Wales no longer walks with the very peroeptible limp whioh was so fash ionable daring one or two seasons, and, as a matter of course, the “Alexandra limp” is dis appearing from fashionable circles. An ox passed through a crockery store in Portsmouth, N. H., the other day. He entered the rear door, passed out at the front, and didn’t break a dish, though his sides grazed whole piles of crockery in his transit. The custom of wearing cadet buttons has been given np by the indignant belles at West Point since, Cadet Smith presented some of his to a lady of color.
