Georgia Historic Newspapers

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Telegraph and Messenger,
MACON, AUGUST 29,1871.
News Items.
New Rice.—The first sale of new Carolina
rioe (twelve and a quarter tierces) was made in
Charleston last Saturday at 11 cents.
Chicago to he Moved.—Sixteen miles south
of Chicago a better harbor and better Bite for a
dty has been found, and a new town is to be
started.
The Lowest Outlaws, in Robeson county,
were still uncaught by last aooounte. Fifty
North Carolina volunteers and fifty United
States infantry were anxiously seeking an in
terview, but unable to obtain it. Bill Lowery is
Three-fingered-Jack redevous.
Federal Coubt-Houhe m Columbia.—The
Columbia Phoenix says work is soon to be com
menced on a Federal Court-house in that city,
whioh will include in one building, the Court
room and all offices for the Federal officials and
a post-office.
The South Carolina Cotton Chop.—The
Courier correspondence reports the ootton crop
of that State inferior to last year, and much
damaged by drouth. The corn crop is about
the same, but more corn was planted. Both
crops in Carolina last year were short.
The Jersey Railboads.—Enraged at the lease
of the United States Canal and Railroad Com
panies to the Pennsylvania Central, the Jersey
papers are agitating the seizure of these works
by the State, by right of “eminent domain.”
Their cost was eighteen and o half millions and
the income from them, after paying six per
cent, to the owners, would nett twelve hundred
thousand dollars to the State.
Negbo Ku-klux.—They certainly have very
lively times in the old Palmetto btats. In
Union county the house of James H. Gossett,
a very inoffensive man, was surrounded at
night last week by five negroes, who fired re
peated vollies upon it. Fortunately no other
damage than a riddled house and shattered fur
niture resulted; but isn’t this “lawfuFKu-klux
of the United States” a remarkable lively in
stitution?
The Bbeaes in the Atlantic Cables, which
have been at last repaired, were mainly the re
sult of blunders. When the first cable gave
out lost summer, tho tests falsely located the
break in mid-ocean. The steamer sent to mend
it, grappled the wrong cable and broke that,
too. When, at length, after the lapse of six
months or more of immense labor, the two ends
of the last cable were found, it was ascertained
that tho break in the first ono was near the
Newfoundland coast, where it might have
been repaired in a few hours.
The Chableston Steamees.—A correspond
ent of the Sumter Watchman, on board of the
South Carolina at sea, speaking of that craft,
says a Georgia passenger declared she was equal
to “seventeen pumpkins on one vine,” and in
sisted she ought to be called “The Georgia.”
But “The Georgia” of the same line is, we be
lieve, a newer and finer ship than the South
Carolina. However, we Ieam that both will
soon bo eclipsed by a new and crack ship, now
building for that line, to be called “The Crrr
of Macon,” which will be the finest coastwise
steamship in North America, combining in the
highest degree all the modem improvements
and all tho requisites for “speed, comfort and
safety.”
The Gbeat Storm of Last Fmdav and Sat-
tbdav was exceedingly severe along the entire
Southern Atlantio coast, and it should be noted
was predicted with great accuracy by the tele
grams from the Signal Bureau. Hereafter, when
our readers see a similar prediction, let them
get ready for what is coming.
We have copied reports at length of the
storm in Savannah. From Jacksonville wo have
reports to 5 o’clock on Friday night, when the
barometer was still falling. The wind had been
blowing strongly from the northeast since Tues
day, and by Thursday night was howling furi
ously and doing much damage. At 5:15 Friday
morning the barometer began to rise slowly,but
about 9 it fell suddenly, the gale chopped
round to the southeast and blew more furiousiy
than ever. A great part of tho town was flood
ed. Shade trees innumerable and several valu
able buildings were prostrated, and others were
unroofed. The steamers left their wharves to
avoid destruction. On Friday evening the wind
veered to the southwest and tho barometer was
still falling. At that time tho town was cut off
from the outside world by every avenue. The
damage to buildings, goods and shipping was
believed to be very great.
Tho storm reached Charleston Friday fore
noon from tho southeast, and during the day
it changed to tho northeast and began to blow
and rain with great violence. The gale, with
slight variations, remained at that point until
midnight on Saturday. Business was stopped,
streets and cellars flooded, and several of the
streets were washed into gullies. Trees were
blown down or snapped off. Forewarned by
tho weather reports in the city papers, the
shipping made the best preparations for safety
and the Courier reports no damage.
Who Dragooned the Louisiana Radical
Convention.—Since some of the anti-Grant
Radical papers have been making a bit of a fuss
over Grant’s Bayonet Convention in New Or.
eans. Great efforts are being made to hide the
negro under the woodpile. But a dispatch from
Gen. Herron to the New York Tribune says:
On tho evening of the 7th inst, Marshal
Packard stated to Gen. Campbell, Judge Dibble
and Mr. Fish of the Republican, that he had
the highest authority in the land for using the
Custom-house and troops, and has since stated
that Gen. Grant authorized it.
The sam o Packard is on North now to show
that the troops were used without Grant’s au
thority.
Fire at Union Springs.—A heavy fire occurred
at Union Springs last Saturday morning, which
destroyed four stores.
A Stable Govebnment.—The Hartford Times
says there is no doubt that Grant has at last es
tablished a “stable government”—horse stable.
Cotton bat.t.ttd yesterday in Liverpool and
New York in consequence, as we suppose, of
unfavorable reports from tho growing crop in
America.
Dbouth in East Tennessee.—Tho Jonesboro
Flag reports that in npper East Tennessee every
thing is parched up by drouth except tho rocks.
Com on uplands will not yield a peck to the
acre. Along the river bottoms, of course, it is
better.
The Gale at Sihthyit.le.—We see from the
'Wilmington Journal that tho great storm reached
Smithville. at the mouth of Cape Fear River,
at 11 o’clock-on Saturday morning, and all day
Sunday and up to Monday morning, it was
very severe—sinking several vessels—tearing
np trees and rocking the houses on shore.
Ten Millions Couniebfeit.—The New York
papers estimate that there are ten millions of
counterfeit national bank bills in circulation,
ana within the past few weeks large numbers of
twenties have been put upon the generous pub
lic, so well executed as to bear the strongest
light; If they oannot be detected they will
pass.
Fbt.—The Wilmington Journal says that Fry,
of the Atlanta State Road Ring, came out to
that city as a candy maker, but soon forsook
his occupation for the sweet things of Radical
polities, and beoame Registrar of ono of the
wards in that oity until he went farther South
for better pickings. He is small fry, and we
hope they *ill put him In a frying-pan.
Can’t Inteemabbt.—In one of the miscegena
tion cases in Atlanta, brought before Judge
Erekine, of the United States District Court,
the Judge decided on Friday that the 1707th
section of the Georgia Code, forbidding whites
and negroes to Intermarry, is not repugnant to
the XIVth Artiole of the Constitution of the
United States, or the Civil Rights Bilk The
parties were therefore remanded to the custody
of the jailor of Fulton oounly.
“National Guards.”—The Washington Chron
icle says the “Republicans of the South are or
ganizing ‘an association’ in the Southern States
to resist the Ku-klux,” and to be called the
National Guards. This, we suppose, is the
lineal suooessor of the “loyal leagues,” getting
ready to revive in 1872 the performances of
18G8—the midnight drills and so on. The pre
tence of “fighting Ku-klux” is too hollow. The
organization is itself Ku-klux, and designed
mainly to dragoon the negroes into a solid vote
for Grant.
News fboh Atlanta.—An Atlanta dispatch
to tho Western papers, dated the 21st, says
From the best information that can be had
there seems to be no doubt but that the mem
bers of the Legislature are determined to im
peach Governor Bullock, and repudiate the lease
of the State Road to Messrs. Cameron, Delano,
Scott & Co., and also to repudiate the issue of
all State bonds over and above the amount au
thorized by law.
We will venture to predict that the approach
ing session of the Georgia Legislature will do
nothing rash on these or any other subjects.
“Exhobbitant.”—The Mobile Advertiser
wants to know and publish the villain’s name
who started the word “exhorbitant.” Can’t
give the information, but know that nine-tenths
of the compositors religiously believe that ex
orbitant is spelt with an haitch. We have tried
many years to convince them to the contrary,
but they will not believe it. Moreover they
would not call the man a villain, if they knew
him. They would let him off with the milder
stigma of “ villian.” Submit to the inevitable,
Mr. Advertiser, and give it up. It is no new
departure.
Agbicultubal College in Milledgeville.—
We print in another place the proceedings of
large and enthusiastic meeting of the people of
Baldwin in favor of the establishment of an
agricultural college in the old capitol. The
Senior is favorably impressed with the idea.
The buildings are there—the location is health
ful and central as to the State, and the soil and
climate admit of a culture as varied, almost, as
the productions of this great State. Indeed, the
soil of Baldwin may be said to be the represent
ative soil of the largest and most valuable re
gions of Georgia.
Alleged Yellow Feveb in Chableston.—
The Atlanta Sun of yesterday says:
We saw yesterday a private letter from Au
gusta in which it was stated that there were sev
eral cases of yellow fever in Charleston, and the
people of Augusta were somewhat apprehensive
of it extending to their city.
One of our staff heard in Savannah on Sunday
last that a dispatch had been received from
Charleston stating that there had been ten cases
and five deaths from yellow fever in Charleston,
np to last Friday, but he did not pursue the
report to ascertain its accuracy. We hope the
gallant city by the sea is exempt from that
scourge and the alarm is a false one.
An Obiginal State of Affaibs.—The sheriff
of Bastrop county, Texas, calls a meeting of the
citizens in compliance with an order from Gov.
Davis, to ascertain whether they will havo mar
tial law declared in that county. What makes
this movement still more strange is that the
grand jury of the county summoned by tho
same sheriff, declared in their presentments
“Oar county presents, so far as we aro able to
judge, as peaceful a condition' as before the
war; all seem to show a willingness to abide by
the laws, and at no time has there been a greater
desire to have the laws executed.”
Cotton Cbop in the Southwest.—The re
ports from the cotton crop in Alabama, Missis
sippi and Louisiana are generally unfavorable.
In the two latter States the catterpillar was
webbing up and would be out in destructive
force from the 10th to 15th September. The
boll worm, too, was very destructive in some
localities. The papers in Mississippi and
Louisiana were generally predicting about half a
crop. In Alabama the Selma Times says:
We have passed *our lives here, where the
staple i3 raised, and we have never known a
year as disastrous, nor have we ever known a
year, in which the damage inflicted by excessive
rain, and then by a continued dry spell is as
great as this has been. We saw on Monday
plantations which havo always yielded well, and
which have looked comparatively well up to
date, upon which the small bolls on tho stalk
are literally dried up, while the plant is m
throwing off everything that it ought to mal
and such is the condition of tho crop generally
in this seotion.
On the whole, bad as Georgia will do, we
think she will turn out a better comparative
crop than Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana or
Texas.* Arkansas, West Tennessee and Florida
are said to promise a fair but lighter yield than
last year. In the other States the deficit will
exceed a third.
The Ohio-Canvass.—The Courier-Journal of
the 22d, publishes a letter from a correspond
ent at Cincinnati, which says a rumor prevails
there that General McCook, the Democratic can
didate for Governor of Ohio, will be compelled
to withdraw from the ticket as ho has from the
canvass. It is even said he is partially de
ranged, and that his speeches at Plymouth and
Chillicotho give color to this report. It farther
says that should McCeok withdraw an effort will
be made to induce General Ewing to take his
place, but there are doubts of success.
Denomination of Gbant.—The World pitohes
heavily into the Tribune in the matter of its
opposition to Grant's renomination. That op
position is so timid and founded on such ill-
considered grounds, that it is a tacit confession
of hopelessness. Mr. Greeley opposes the re
nomination ostensibly upon the one term prin
ciple. But the one-term principle takes all its
force from a prospective operation; • It sfma,
in advanco, to prevent a President from prosti
tuting his high office by intrigues for re-eleo-
tion; but all of Grant’s term has been one loDg
intrigue for reaomination. Tho evil for which
the one-term is a remedy, has been done; and
the Tribune^ opposition to Grant must there
for be grounded on personal disqualifications,
which that paper is too timid to charge. The
opposition to Grant amounts to nothing. His
nomination is secured by the votes of States
controlled by his own appointees. The World
predicts that Grant will be renominated by ac
clamation, without a vote. \
Cassius M. Clax is out heavily for philoso
pher Greeley for Pjjpsident, and here is one of
his reasons:
Cotton Fignres,
The visible supply of ootton reported by the
New York Commercial and Financial Chronicle
last Friday night, was 1,78G,425 bales, against
1,484,027 at the same date last year—showing
an increase of 802,398 bales. The increase re
ported the previous week, was 355,700 bales.
The New York market during the week had been
fairly active for the season, with a gradual
cline up to Thursday night, when an enlarged
business in Liverpool and unfavorable reports
from the growing crop in the South produoed
firmer feeling and improvement in quotations
of one-eighth on ordinary and a quarter on low
middling. The sales of fntnres during the week
amounted to 72,050 bales, at prices ranging
from 17§ to 18o. for January. The total sales
for immediate delivery were 14,684 bales.
The weather reports from the South were,
the whole, favorable. From Texas there was
news of rains, but great damage had been suf
fered from long previous drouth. Many coun
ties, it was said, would not make half a crop,
In Louisiana, the weather was still sultry agd
showery. The Chronicle attached no import
ance to the caterpillar reports from that State.
Mobile, Montgomery and Selma reported much
needed showers. At Macon it had rained two
days (referring to the showers of the 9th and
10th, since when it has been as dry as lime).
The mean temperature reports were os follows
Galveston 84, Memphis 82, Mobile and Macon
83, Columbus 85, Charleston 80. We copy the
following from the Chronicle:
Estimates of the Cotton Cbop.—We notice
that some of our friends both here and
Europe are quoting us as authority for certain cs
timates of the yield of the growing ootton crop,
This is an error, as we have at no time during
the season given an opinion as to the probable
total result. All we said was that up to the
early part of June there had been fifteen-per
cent loss this year as compared with "last year;
that is the crop this year must necessarily be
fifteen per cent less (how much smaller events
subsequent to that date must determine) than
the previous one.
Since then we have had fine weather, until
recently, in Texas and also in tho Tennessee dis
trict, whichdistrictincludesover one-fifth of the
crop, that is the whole of Tennessee, the north
era part of Alabama and Mississippi and East
ern Arkansas, <fco., and very rainy, unfavorable
weather during June over most of the balance
of the cotton field, followed by good growing
weather in July and August almost everywhere
except in lower portions of Louisana, Alabama,
Mississippi and Georgia, in which latter dis
trict the weather has been variable all the time,
though, of course, an improvement upon Jane,
Now to estimate in figures theresults of these
different conditions of the weather in these va
rious sections of the South, while the plant is in
its present condition of rapid change, would be
claiming a degree of foresight which we do not
possess. And yet it strikes us that every reader,
at least everyone who has ever seen a cotton
plant grow, must be satisfied that the aggregate
result of the surroundings of the crop since
June 1, must be a farther loss as compared
with last year, though, of course, a very much
smaller loss than was feared before the favora
ble July weather began.
The statement of our Macon correspondent,
in a letter dated August 12, expressed only what
we should expect to hear when he says that
“the plant is small and without that vigor of
growth and promise of fruitfulness which it
had last year.” We are led to make these re
marks in view of what seems to us exaggerated
estimates of the crop whioh are now frequently
heard, and which it appears to us cannot be re
alized.
Significant.
The telegraph informs U3 that Leslie’s ma
jority for Governor of Kentucky is about 86,
000, while the candidates for the other State
offices, who ran on the same ticket with him,
have 39,000 majority. The telegraph don’t give
any reason for this difference; nor do we pro
pose to furnish one. We merely call attention
to the fact that Leslie, who seem3 to be a weak
brother at best, went abont during the canvass
butting his head against the stone fence of ac
complished facts and swearing that no matter
what the National Democracy might do, he—the
great and good Leslie—would never, no, never
cease to bntt his head against the stone fence
as aforesaid; while his associates on'the ticket,
like sensible men, discussed live issues and
promised to aWfie by the decision of their
brethren in national convention assembled.
This is all we have to aa 3f on the subject, ex
cept to ask our red hot cotemporaries if they are
going to back General Toombs when he starts
to the polls next year with a Grant ticket in his
hand, instead of that of the National Democra
cy? Gentlemen: Time is called! Can't you
come out of your corners ?
Tho Senatorial Election.
We find the following card in the Monroe Ad
vertiser, of Tuesday:
Forsyth, August 21,1871.—Editor Adverti
ser : My name has several times been an
nounced in connection with the vacant Sena
torship of this District, and kind allusions made
by some of my friends of the press in refer
ence to my nomination. Thus far, to avoid
any parade of myself in the papers, I have re
mained silent, deeming it even doubtful wheth
er the Governor would order the election.
Since,- however, the proclamation has been
issued, and the Ordinaries directed to advertise
the eleolion for the 13th of September, I find
myself again alluded to in terms of kindness
by the Telegraph and Messengeb.
Longer silenoe may be construed into a desire
for the position, and it is due myself to say,
apart from my own disinclination, that I have
the honor, as I understand it, of being ineligible
under the Fourteenth amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States.
Feeling assured that the eligibility of the
candidate should be unquestioned, the party,
in my judgment, should nominate some good
and true Democrat, whose voice and influence
can be felt in behalf of a pure administration
of Government. Very respootfnlly,
• A. D. Hammond.
While wo deeply regret that Col. Hammond
labors nnder political disabilities, we cannot too
highly commend his course in refusing to be
come a candidate under the circumstances. The
nominee should be clearly and unquestionably el-
gible to the position so that there cannot be the
slightest objection made, or obstacle raised to
his faking his seat. We hope this condition
precedent will be insisted upon by the conven
tion.
The Advertiser suggests Forsyth as the place,
and Wennesday, the 30th inst., as the time for
holding the convention, which suggestion we
endorse. If this is agreed upon, would it not
be well for our friends in this county to hold a
meeting next Saturday, the 26th, to appoint
delegates to that convention?
“The South” contains more than a third of
our population. Aside from Alaska, she owns
the larger portion of the lands of the Republic •
she has the better climate and soil, and the
world-wide used products—cotton, sugar, rice
and tobacco; she has as fine a race of men as
exists. I appeal to the calm judgment of all
Americans, can we afford to make an Ireland, a
Poland, or a Hungary of these people ? A Sooth-
em man, standing by the blacks, as I have done
all my life, I say, for their sakes as well as my
own, give ns a candidate of our party, like Hor
ace Greeley, who comes to us with the olive
branch, rather than him who, refusing amnesty,
hares the sword for the eternal subjoction of a
Saxon people.
Gen. Gbant in Illinois.—The Chicago Re
publican (Radical) says that “ it is reported, on
very good authority, that General Grant has
written to ex-Govemor Oglesby requesting him
to run for Congressman-at-Large, and promis
ing him, In the event of his doing so, the con
s’" of Federal patronage throughout the
state. Trumbull and Logan have no influence
with the present administration, and Grant
wants a friend from the great State of Illinois.”
Eight Hundbed From One.—The Wilmington
(N. O.) Journal thinks North Carolina soil will
beat the world in potato-growing, and tells the
following story of how p Mr. Sailing, of Mason-
boro, North Carolina, grew 800 potatoes from
one potato. The Journal says:
“The original potato was bedded last March
15th. On the 20th of April it had twelve sprouts
Which were clipped and set oat the same day,
making twenty-two hills of sprouts. On July
5th, twelve vines were cut from the first-twelve
sprouts; and on the 28th of July, from the last
ten sprouts. These vines were divided up and
set out in hills, whioh, to all, amounted to two
hundred. They all matured well, yielding four
large potatoes to the hill, besides a half bushel
of slips for bedding the next year, and a quan
tity for hog feed. Who can beat this ?*’
Lippincott’s Magazine for September came
yesterday. It opens with chapters one and two
of a series of sketches under the head of
Scrambles Among.the Alps. No. six of that
excellent series “Wild Ireland,” is given, and
part second of “Not Pretty, but Precious.”
Among the other papers are the City of Monu
ments ; At Sea in a Sail-boat; Insect Locomo
tion and Shall we Throw Physto to the Dogs ?
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Savannah News of Monday has the fol
lowing details of damages resulting from the
storm of last Friday and Saturday: *
Martin’s Industry Light Ship Adrift and
Gone from Hka Moobesgs. —The steamship
Liberty, on her arrival, reported the Martin’s
Industry Light Ship not to sight yeasterday, as
she approached our bar. On the airival of the
Livingston at 9 p. si., her captain reports that
at 2 p. ir. he passed the buoys and all other sig
nals, but did not see the Light Ship, although he
examined the whole portion of the bar and vicin-
ity for it. The supposition is that the ship was
cast loose from her moorings and gone adrift.
There are about ten or twelve men aboard the
Light Ship, and she is commanded by Captain
Masson, an able and experienced seaman.
The Savannah, Seaboard and Sxidawax
Railboad.—The damage done on the Savannah,
Seaboard and Skidaway Railroad by the recent
storm will be sufficiently repaired for the trains
to pass over to-day. They will leave on sched
ule time. The damage was very serious, seve
ral washes occurring between the city and Sand
Fly Station, and the switch at Sand Fly Station
being also washed out. By unremitting labor,
and the greatest effort, the road is now to run
ning order again;
The Atlantic and Gulf Railboad.—Several
washes occurred on the Atlantic and Gulf Road
during the storm of Friday and Saturday. A
very slight one, about five miles-from the city,
was soon repaired, and trains passedover others
between stations C and 8, in the vicinity of the
Satilla river. Trains leaving the city go no fur
ther westward than Jessup. It is supposed,
however, that the washes will be sufficiently
repaired to allow trains to pass over safely by
to-night
Serious Damage to the Rice Crop.—The
whole back country, from Screven’s Ferry to
Bellinger’s Hill, is flooded, and the rice crop
badly damaged. Serious injury was sustained
by the very salt atmosphere on Friday, which
almost totally destroyed the young rioe. Since
then the storm has increased the damage, and
planters who expected their crops to average
from forty to fifty bushels to the acre do not
now expect to realize fifteen.
The famiture of tho Screven House, at Sa
vannah, is advertised to be sold, and the house,
itself, is offered for lease or rent, by the own
ers, the Messrs. John & T. F. Screven.
As a proof of the severity of the late storm
at Savannah, the News says large pine trees
two feet or more in diameter, were twisted from
their roots like switches.
Fry, the vamosing State Road developer of
Atlanta, sends word that he will shortly return
to that city. Bathe doesn’t add that he will
bring the “swag” back with him.
The bond of the Tax Collector of Fulton
county, has been fixed at $60,000.
The Atlanta papers'say that the investigation
of the Slate Road frauds will be resumed in a
few days.
The Atlanta Sun says Bullock has telegraphed
from New York, ordering all the State Road
books and vouchers to be turned over to tho
Board of Commissioners appointed by the last
Legislature to investigate and audit claims
against the road. The board consists of Ben
jamin Conley, Radical State Senator; Dawson A.
\7alker, of Dalton, Radical; andMaj. Geo. Hill-
yer, of Atlanta, Democratic Senator elect from
that district.
Dr. L., of Atlanta, called Dr. P., of same
place, a liar, last Monday, on Peachtree street,
Thereupon Dr. P.—with his fist—persuaded
Dr. L. to lie down.
A fire at Atlanta, yesterday morning, burned
the houses of Messrs. W. J. Mallard and T. A.
Chastain, on Calhoun street. Los3 on both
about $6,000.
Mrs. Newton Reid committed suicide near
Carrolton, last week, by jumping into a well.
The Griffin Middle Georgian, of yesterday,
says:
On Saturday evening just before sundown, a
street duel took place in our town near Mc
Kee’s harness shop, on Hill street, between Dr.
Geo. B. Beecher, and Mr. Wm. M. Johnson.
Several shots were exchanged, but fortunately,
and almost miracuously, no one was hurt. We
have since learned that the cause of the difficulty
has been amicably settled, and the parties are
again on friendly terms. We are glad to hear
it, as they are both gentlemen for whom we
entertain great respect.
A firo in Griffin Saturday night burned a house
belonging to Captain Dow, formerly ns«a oa a
negro hotel, and greatly endangered the adjoin
ing residences of Messrs. J. H. Logan, Shack
leford, and Mrs. Thompson.
Of crop prospects in that section, the Griffin
Star of yesterday says:
Crops.—This month, thus far, has proved
most propitious for cotton growth. The un
promising fields that got cleaned out in July
have grown wonderfully, and taken on fruit be
yond expectation, in the last three weeks.
Farmers in this section have had a pretty good
time to save their upland fodder. Late planted
bottoms have come out wonderfully this month,
but all crops in this section are now needing
rain more or less, though perhaps too much
rain would be more injurious than none at all.
The heavy dews at this season of the year are
a great help to all growing crops. Cotton is
beginning to open, and most of our thrifty
farmers are ready and anxious to get it out.
We clip tho following from tho Monro o Ad
vertiser, of Tuesday: .
Deplorable Accident.—While on the way to
Tabernacle Church, yesterday morning, Mrs.
Cynthia Hill, of Cox’s district, was thrown from
her buggy and dragged some distance, before
the horse could bo stopped. Her shoulder was
broken, and other severe injuries sustained.
The horse was frightened by the shaft coming
loose and falling against his heels. Late last
evening the lady was suffering intensely.
Rev. Geo. W. Sparks, a gifted young clergy,
man, of Washington county, died last week.
The Sandersville Georgian reports the com
prospect as not very flattering to that county,
but hopes enough will be made for home con
sumption. Cotton promises two-thirds of i
crop. Health of tho county never better at this
season of the year.
Eatonton is suffering from a scarcity of tho
circulating medium. Everybody soems “dead
broke.” Whole families, elsewhere, are down
with the same complaint.
The Putnam county farmers are complain
ing of their cotton throwing off its young
bolls.
Gaulden’s saw mill, in Liberty county, was
damaged $5000 by the storm last Friday
flight.
The people of Augaita will voto in October
on the quostion of enlarging the canal. If tho
measure is carried, tho Augusta Faotory will
build a new mill.
The Gsrtcrsville Express says there is a young
lady in Cherokee- county who frequently takes
evening rides upon horseback with a large buck
nigger for a gallant! That young lady is the
daughter of Governor Bullock’s superintendent,
who runs the splendid farm of his Excellency
in the county aforesaid.
The Ohroniole and Sentinel, of Tuesday, re
ports the robbery of a house in Columbia of
$1,200 in greenbacks and $100 in gold. The
thief was a negro named Hilton Johnson, who
mado his escape and came to Augusta, and then
left for Savannah.
Tony Robinson, negro, known as the “cham
pion chicken lifter of the State,” is in hockelety
at Augusta for lifting seventeen chickens, six
ducks' and one goose, last Monday morning,
j ust before day-dawn. He now smacks his lips
over joys that are fled, in jail, in default of
$2,000 bail.
Henry Pepper, the smartest horse thief who
votes the Grant ticket in the 5th Congressional
district, is boarding in the Waynesboro jail at
present. Pepper is the darkey who stole the
best horse belonging to . a party of men who
were stealing upon him in one of his haunts,
not long since.
Two boys were fined $10 each, at Augusta, on
jUonday, for shooting birds in the cemetery
with that invention of Satan known os an “Ala- j
bama sling.” Good.
Within the last three weeks, as we learn from
the Columbus Enquirer, of Tuesday, over 100
persons have joined the Baptist ohurch at
Gerard.
T^o bales of Sea Island ootton were received
in Savannah, Monday, from Darien.
We quote the foliowingfrom the Inquirer of
Tuesday:
Death of Another Excellent Lade.'—We
regret to learn that Mrs. O. S. Shorter, wife of
Capt. Charles S. Shorter, of Russell county,
Alabama, and daughter of Col. Edward T.
Shepherd, died at the residence of her. father*,
in Wynn ton, on Saturday night last
Counterfeit Baptism and Counterfeit
Monet.—A well known Baptist minister, who
recently preached a sermon not a thousand
miles from Columbus, in speaking of baptism
as practiced by Baptists and Methodists, com
pared the former to genuine and the latter to
spurious notes. A few days afterward a mem
ber of said Chnroh was soliciting contributions
for Church objects, and unwittingly fell among
a crowd of Methodists, who replied to his ap
peal that if their baptism was counterfeit, they
reckoned their money was too, and, as the law
prohibited the circulation of that species of cur
rency, they respectfully declined to subscribe.
The Brunswick Appeal of Tuesdays:
Accident on the Brunswick and Albany
Railboad.—We regret to leara that a serious
accident occurred on the Brunswick and Albany
Railroad on Friday last, near Mil wood. The
engine encountering a wash, turned a complete
somersault, crushing the leg of the conductor,
Mr. Stockin, and seriously injuring a fireman,
whose name we have not heard.
The Columbus Sun of Tuesday reports the
presence of tho genuine caterpillar on the rich
plantations in Oswichee Bend.
The Savannah Republican of Tuesday says
Perilous Situation, of a Boating Party.—
Among tho incidents of hair-breadth ’scapes
during the recent heavy storm, we have been
furnished by one of the party with the following
particulars of the perilous situation of a party
of gentlemen who were eaught out in the fear
ful gale of Friday and Saturday last:
The party in question, composed of T. W-
McNisfc, Major O. A. Withers, J. A. Abrams,
Esq., and a negro named William Dens, started
on Thursday on a fishing excursion. They made
Green Island, where they stopped awhile Thurs
day, and started thence for Big Warsaw, but
encountering the gale and heavy seas, had to
make for Little Buzzard Island, which they
reached, and encamped Thursday night On
Friday morning they started for Big Buzzard
Island, hoping to get there a pilot who would
take them through to the White Bluff Railroad.
When they were abont a mile from shore the
gale struck them with full force and fury, up
setting the boat, a clinker-built shad boat The
occupants of the boat saved themselves by
clinging to the bottom of their little craft, and
for four hours they drifted at the sport of
the winds and waves, thinking every minute
that their minutes were numbered. Their
provisions, clothing, lines and everything
else were lost. The boat fortunately driftec;
up to the mouth of Bear River, Vrhere the negro
carried the line ashore to a salt marsh bank,
upon which the boat was hauled ashore and
bailed out, Captain MoNish having previously
swam totheboatandont loose the t acklin g, which
caused her to right. Here they stayed all Fri
day night, having had nothing to dat for twenty-
four hours. At 8 o’clock Saturday morning the
party started across the sound for Big Warsaw,
upon which island they landed at 3 F. m. Satur
day. Here they were fed by a good Samaritan
in the shape of a negro named Amos, and got
off, reaching White Bluff at II o’clock Satur
day night, rather the worse for wear but fortu
nately alive.
It was indeed a perilous venture, and under
the circumstances the crew may congratulate
themselves upon their escape from a watery
grave,
We clip the following handsome and well
merited tribute to the University of Georgia
from the Atlanta Era, of yesterday, excepting
only to the “liberal appropriation” part thereof.
We hardly think that is in accordance with the
facts of the case. Another adjective would
come much nearer the mark. Says tho Era:
I The University of Georgia—Importance of
Supporting a State Institution.—The present
flourishing condition of this venerable institu
tion of learning is donbly gratifying to its
friends, because of the promise itholds out for
the future. The sons of Franklin College are
scattered throughont the length and breadth of
the land. Among them are numbered our most
eminent men, and the people of Georgia owe
their State University a debt of gratitude that
can never be repaid. It is to this institution
that we are indebted for our most distinguished
lawyers, statiwmen and divinss. For mure than
seventy years she has pursued the unbroken
tenor of her conquering way. Not even civil
war oofltd long retard her onward course, and
she now stands in the formost rank of Southern
Universities.
These results are, of oourse, due in a great
measure to the liberal appropriations made by
the State, but they are due in a still greater
degree to the antiring efforts of perhaps the
best faculty in the entire South. The names of
Lipscomb, Mel), Waddell, and Mitchell are
household words in Southern homes, and the
educated youth of Georgia will rise cn masse,
a living testimony to their ability. It is the
duty of their people to extend a liberal support
to snoh an institution. There are peculiar
reasons why this should be done. It is a first-
class college, and it is, moreover, a State insti
tution. There is nothing sectarian abont it.
The professors belong to various religious de
nominations, and there is no danger of their
warping the mind of the youth committed to
their care.
Condition of tbe Crops and Weather. I The Cholera.-^-In order to quiet the
The crop promise to Georgia has certainly of a great many who are. now dreading the f
not improved within the pad ten days. On the vent of cholera, we would state that it has et
coast, sea island ootton has been cut off more yet been known to prevail in a country Z !l
than one-half by the late terrific gale, which pine is the chief timber—and hence,
whipped off the fruit and prostrated the plants. Georgians need suffer no extra anxiety.’ And *i
The weed will now put forth a multitude of suck- have a firm conviction that this invaluable *
era to the sore injury of the remaining bolls- is a disinfectant in more ways than that— n *
Those rice fields upon which the. harvest flow especially in keeping away chills, fevers
had been admitted, will fare very well, as the. I malarious diseases generally to a more cr
stalks of grain were upheld and kept from extent Now, some wheezy old doctor *a
falling by the superincumbent water. Where smile at this, but he can’t prove ’taint so! qC
this flow had been drawn off, however, prepara-1 doctors’ idea that malaria is generated'
tory to cutting, the earth is oovered with a 1 swamps, by decaying vegetable matter ay
tangled mass of rice, one-half of whioh osn j stagnant pools, is an assumption, and, like oe,
never be secured. pine tree theory, it has never been proven, if.
On the Gulf Road, and in Screven, Borke, j call for the proof. Let them take about haf
Jefferson and other middle oounties, the rust i3 acres of such atmosphere and analyze it,
rapidly beooming general and very fatal. The | we’ll bet a hat they don’t find a mare’s nest,
maleria either, whatever that is.
rapidly beooming general and very
crop in this seotion is still decidedly better than
in Southwest Georgia, so far as the observation
of the writer extends. Com and sugar oane j PsE Fostoflice Department has leased (v.
will yield abundantly, as the former was ma- I room in the Court-house to which it will short;:
tured before the drought set in. remove for a period of ten years. The pfa,
Yesterday (Tuesday) another fierce gale from j b6 ten thousand dollars for the whoU
the east was raging below, with floods of rain, time, or one thousand dollars a year. Wen-,
extending much farther into the interior than derstand that the salary of the postmaster hy
the previous storm. been fixed at $4,000 a year, with a liberal ah I
AH along the Central Railroad the fall of water lowanco for cIerk The Government pa ? -
was very heavy, and the wind at times came in I rent and ordinary expenses, and will re j
puffs, blowing great guns. Open ootton and C0ive mone y P a * d for box rent. Then
late fodder must prove a total loss. j b ® about 700 boxes, the rent of each $6 pa
At Millen the telegraph operator informed us j annnm - Macon is put down at Washington u
that Savannah was visited with another flood. a flrst * cIass office -
It is seldom that two such storms sucoeed each — —
.. ,,, , , . ... . , The Prosperity of Macon.—As an evide;-;
other so rapidly, and planters of the seaboard J ... .. .,, ...
.7“’7’ “ ; no 3 of the prosperity of Macon, we notice that it«
are indeed to be pitied. On Sunday and Mon- ^ th0 tflst can be '
day, m Savannah the wind blew fresh from the fffl . bn8in09g or for tbo usQ of
northwest, and fair weather was confidently . . .. .... r
* larly the latter. This may in part be accounts
10 . e ' . . .. . . for by the disposition of housekeepers to lear=
To-day (Wednesday) the rainand storm appear baain anc ^ et the hills overlooking i
to be general throughout the State. No one can blame them.
city. No one can blame them. Eventually g,
present heart of the city will be given nptc
business and residences will go upon the
points around the city, of which there are it
present multitudes unoccupied. Let us bn2d
An Editor in Danger.
Our sage contemporary of the Savannah Re
publican was a passenger from New York, on
the steamship Virgo, during the late hurricane.
We congratulate his beauteous earn sposa up- j street railroads out to them, and population v;
on the Bate return of her liege lord, and the I finickly follow,
press of Georgia, that one of its brightest or
naments is not an inhabitant of the coral grot
toes beneath the azure deep, infinitely more at
tractive to the poet than the poor cast-away. A
Democratic Meeting.—There will be a mei
ing of the Demodraoy of Bibb county at
Oity Hall on Saturday morning next, at <
o’clock, for the purpose of appointing delegate
fellow passenger informBUs that owing to the tQ the Sena torial Convention to nominate,
drifting of a light-ship from her moorings on cana j da t Q to fill tho vacancy occasioned by lb
the coast, the steamer lost her reckoning, and I e8ignation of «|» j. Speer. The meeting;
struck heavily twice on the sands, while the caUed by authority of Hon. Thos. Hardens
breakers lifted their angry crests all around. 1
It was a moment of imminent peril, .bat a
merciful God delivered the staunch ship and
her precious burden from a watery grave, and
she reaohed her port in safety.
The Laboratory Property.—'The heirs of ex-
Govemor Charles S. Macdonald have com
menced regular suit in the Superior Court,
against the purchasers of the Laboratory proper
ty and grounds for its possession. As most
people know, it is the place where the first great
State Fair was held, and includes all the exten
sive improvements placed thereon by the Con
federate government and the company which
afterwards bought it from the United States.
Jr., Chairman of the Bibb County Democrat!!
Club. /
March Weather in August.—What strang*
strange weather, we are having in this monil
of August. The wind did not blow so furious;;
or in such fitful gusts yesterday, but it raised is
sufferable clouds of dust, indicating that 62
Nick was abroad in the elements. If they au
the equinoxial gales they are just a month tc;
soon. We all heartily wish a raip would fal
and settle the weather.
Burglary.—The store of the Southern Prii:
Package Company, on Cherry street, was bar
gloriously entered on Taesday night, and robbd
Tho property was condemned as spoils of war of about $40, which the thief or thieves ei-
by the United States and sold as Bueh, but un-1 tracted from the prize boxes of candy. Th:
der regular legal protest filed by the attorney I candy was strewn all over the floor. The thief
of the heirs. The United States sold only a evidently expected to win one of tho large prizes,
quiet claim deed to the company and realized I but as luck would have it, he failed to get ho'.i
$24,000 by the sale, so no recourse can be had, I of the right box.
to case the Bait now pending goes against the! _ , r _ ,
* s B Illness of Matos Huit.—Our worthy and
company. j spirited Mayor returned from Atlanta quiteua-
The Macdonald hens base their case upon .. . . . . . ,
.. . .. well on Monday last, but nevertheless, endeavor-
the fact that the land was sold by the Admims- ... .. - 7 . . ^ .. .
, . ..... ... . .. I ed during the day to look after the work go:::
trators against then united protest and author- j _ SwU* iJLmii Z
ity, and we understand that they (the adminis 1
trators) acknowledge this to be fact. Able
counsel have been retained, and we presume
the matter will be of long duration in the
courts.
We regret the “hocklety” into which this
magnificent property has fallen, for we had
hoped that now that it had been abandoned as
Fair Grounds it would be speedily tinned into
one of the finest cotton factories in the South.
We hope yet the matter can be amicably adjust
ed and left to take that course. We suggest
that all parties come together, talk the matter
over to a friendly spirit and settle it without
goiug into interminable law Ruits about it.
The Weather Retorts.—The weather reports
sent out from Washington aro remarkably cor
rect. They are attracting universal attention,
and we presume in time must be regarded of
the utmost importance. When they first com
menced ooming nobody attached any credit to
them, but they have got to be looked upon with
the deepest interest. They told us yesterday
that he was taken very sick, late in the after
noon, and has been confined to his bed since
We hope to see him up and out again in a day ]
or two.
Fancy Moll was fined $25 and ordered to the.
guard-house for thirty days, by the Mayor, pn t
tem., yesterday. On hearing the decision o! ‘
the Court, she became furious and full of fight, |
and had. to be..o.verpowered by the physictll
strength of several policemen. She is one tf|
the infamous and impertinent wretches that 1
should be foroed to leave the oity.
Personal.—We are glad to see again in the I
city CoL Wm. H. Sparks, and to note that, {
although verging upon three score and ten yean j
of age, he is still in the enjoyment of excelled j
health, and is as active and lively in his move- j
ments as a cricket. He has been sojourning j
for the last five or six months in New Orleans {
and Louisiana generally.
Revival.—An interesting revival has bees
morning that we would have stormy weather I progressing during the present week in the
during the day, and sure enough we had it. Tho FirstStreet Methodist church under the eloquent
Georgia Ladies at Montgomery White Sul
phur Springs.—The Richmond papers report
a grand dress ball at this popular resort on the
17th instant. Among the Georgians present
were Miss Pope, who was dressed in a beautiful
rose-oolored silk, with a rich point lace over
dress. Mrs. Lee Jordan, white silk eroani, with
white grenadine overdress,trimmed with lace and
black velvet This lady wears the most costly
and beautifal diamonds I ever saw—none like
them in the mountains this season. Miss Ayers,
was tastefully attired to pure white. She
looked beautifally.
Although there are yet men in arms against
the royal authority in Cuba, the Spanish gov
ernment has decreed an act of universal amnes
ty. In the United States, though not a gun has
been fired against tho Federal authority for six
years, there is no general pardon yet. Repub
lican mercy is harder than Spanish hate.—
World.
The Comptroller General’s Report.—We
have a pamphlet copy pf the Comptroller Gen
eral’s - report submitted to the Governor,
April 1,1871, of receipts and disbursements for
tho year ending 31st December, 1870, showing
receipts $1,164,303.79-payments $1,444,876.73.
It is a pamphlet of 143 pages, whioh we will ex
amine at leisure.
streets of the city were flooded about 3 o’olock
in the afternoon,' the cloud being accompanied
with a furious wind. We are glad the science
of storms isbeginning to bo so well understood,
and hope in time that it will be reduced to ab
solute certainity.
In connection with the foregoing we might
appropriately stale, that the storm of yesterday
afternoon was quite severe at the Park. One
of the large trees on the river bank, near the
race track, was uprooted, and a portion of one
of the frame buildings in course of erection was
blown down. It was no fault of the timber or
workmanship that it gave way before the storm,
as it was just about in that condition when a
strong wind would be apt to injure it The
damage will soon be repaired.
The Chinese Labor Experiments.—Scrib
ner’s Monthly, reviewing the results of the I and confirmed.
and powerful ministry of Rev. Dr. Hicks, the
pastor. The church is densely crowded eveij
| night, and scores of penitents are flocking
around the altar nightly.
New Cotton.—The first bale of new cotton from
Macon county was received yesterday by Messrs.
Campbell & Jones from Mr. Joseph Eitchbanm,
of Montezuma. We did not learn the pro*
dueer’s name. It classed fall middling and was
not sold.
Proceedings of Council.
Regular Meeting, \
Council Chamber, August 21,1871)
Present—Hon. W. A. Huff, Mayor; Aider-
men Clay, Tinsley, Roberts, Waggenstein,:
Woodliff, Daly^Wilburn, and Smith. ;
Absent—Aldermen Ellis, Strong, Fitzgerali |
and RusseiL
The minutes of the last meeting were red j
China labor experiments on the Atlantio coast,
says this mnoh abont Sampson’s experiment I
with them in North Adams, Mass, and 150 |
Chinamen employed at Belleville, New Jersey,
as substitutes for so many female laundresses:
Briefly stated, the results of ono year at the I
North Adams shoo faotory are as follows: Chi
nese shoemakers, learning the trade within the
space of three months, produced goods at tho
end of that period at a cost of $2 less per case
Ethiopian Hymnolooy.—A New Orleans cor
respondent of the. Ban Franoiaoo Bulletin says a
favorite hymn in the negro churches in the
Crescent City, begins with this line:
“I’m gwino to Heaven in a h«n basket.”
That is suggestive of provisions on the road,
any way.
“Rubbish in Romances.”—Au oxohange so
head3 its review of the current issue of novels
from the American press. Quite right. Never
was such an amount of weary trash poured out
on an unrosisting and inoffensive world as is
now disgorged from the press, in the shape of
so-called “fight literature.”
Blessed Ram.—A boisterous wind was blow
ing all day yesterday from tho east and lifting-'
clouds of chokiDg dust from the dry streets.
About four o’clock, however, a. smack sprinkle
came down—just enough to settle the dust and
it was a vast improvement.
Withdrawal of McCook.—The withdrawal
of MoCook from the Democratic candidacy for
Governor of Ohio is due to the failure of his
health. ___
Montgomery Affaibs.—The Advertiser says
five bales of new crop cotton were received on
Saturday and classed as striot low middling.
1 Chills and fever were prevalent in tho dty.
The Clerk of Market reported market fees j
$44 00.
The report of the City Physician and Sur
geon of Hospital was read and filed.
BILLS PASSED.
J. W. Burke, $,80 75; Guornsev, B. & S-,
$52 90; W. & E. P. Taylor. $32 50; D. J. Baer
$2 50; Clisby,' Jones "& Reese, $7 00; James
Dannelly, $69; Anderson & Ballard, $52; Abra
ham Jones $2.
„„„ 9 w | VUOk . lcoa „ The Committee on Street Encroachments re-
than the Trade Union men had done, and at the ?° rt drably on the petition of Dengal Fe»
end of twelve months this saving in production f ? r encroaohment ^, front of bis lot on BJJ
had increased to $7 per case. Seventy-five street > Pro y? ded the balance of the property
Chinamen made 120 oases of shoes per week,! ,°. wner£ ‘ < » th ® bIock Y 111 co “ a 03
while the same number of Trade Union men mo ^° Q the report was adopted,
had never produced more than 110 cases in the Committee mi Street Encroachments
same time. The saving in the oost of produc- favorably on the petition of Mrs. V.
tion on a week’s work was, therefore, $840-or ® a6V6 ®> for « eawoachment of hJ
[lot. On motion the report was adopted.
The petition of R. H. Flanders, W. E: Flan
ders, and J. P. Flanders, for the privilege pi
much for one experiment In shoemaking. Turn- iffsfi-nl
lug to the laundry statistics, we find that the b ,° c h ~ 0 ’ °? V 10 ®°™ er Walnut and Sew
company of one hundred and fifty Chinamen, atreets > a “ d having the consent otJWPOTj
at Belleville, reduced the cost of labor at tS owaer ^ "f 8 moU .° ( n0f ^ derm “lS
rate of $10 per week for each person employed, re * 0rrcd to ^ Committee on Fire Department
jgSgS W Onm!t e ion 0 of a Ald6imanRoberts:
S Resolved, That the City Treasurer be m-
women s work to th-t of Chinese men. | structed t0 retir0 tho city currency for tho n«-
, „ .. _ .... thirty days on tire following terms: One pet
We understand that the Central Railroad will cen t. interest per month will be paid oa a-J
discharge its cotton at the foot of Poplar street) I amounts of city currency presented to ana
and that a platform wUl be built there for that up by tic City Treasurer, each paefog
warehouses.' The arrangements for the dis- n ot to be broken exoept by City Treasure-
charge »nd reception of freight by that com- j Passed-
pany now in operation and contemplation are ( _ On motion, Counoil adjourned to meet
many times better than of yore. It is remark
able that they were not made when our roads
were first built.'
day. two weeks, at 8 p. m.
J. A. McManus, Clerk-
‘is
The New England Medical Gazette says
, old lady followed up an Episcopal Bishop, a®
NeibIi Tubouoh.—The heavy job of con- r traveled through hiadiooese, and was confim^
neoting the Central and Sonthweatem depots by. several times before she was detected. SW
rail,'whioh has been going on for the last twelve’ wiai4d tha ordinanoe repeated because she bw
or eighteen months, Is now nearly finished- ‘understood it was good for the rheu^tism-
° . . . 1 . . _ .. A New Mexico attorney, m addressing
the workmen being engaged in putting up the j nr y j threatened to blow out the brains of au?
last piece of trestle work across the ravine in [ m»n w ho should intimate that his client w* 3
the oentrqof lower Poplar street. ] guilty.