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ttNHR The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph and. Journal <&£ IVIessen-ger. Telegraph and Messenger MACON, AUGUST 20 1871. News Items. CASsnJiLnw.—A Jamaica correspondent of the Sun tells of a negro murder of a child five years old, in which the murderer Busked the blood of his little victim, and, indeed, seems to have.kiUed him for that purpose. Csops in Alabama.—The Monroe Common wealth reports from the prairie belt of Alabama that com will not average above eight bushels to the aore, and cotton will not prodace more than half of last year’s yield. The Common wealth says in respect to Perry county that the crops are next to a complete failure. Cotton is smaller and more unpromising thsn it ba3 ever been since the war. Pbogbame foe Next Tebm.—Senator Morion is now on “a tour of expatiation" for Grant in the Wost In hi3 speech at St. Louis he laid down the programme for the next four years, no general amnesty, tariff and civil service reform, redaction of taxes and enforcement of the Ku- Kluxlaw. The Hay Teade.—Ex-Gov. Brown 6tated in a speech before the State Agricultural Convention at Borne that 33,000 bales of hay been import ed from the West over the Western and Atlan tic Knilroad, alone, within the last six months. Chops rn Flobida.—The Floridian says gene rally the crop3 of all kinds in Florida will prove good. Cotton, though in somo sections retarded by rain, a3 yet baa not suffered except in a sin gle locality from the caterpiller. Picking has already commenced, and it is now so late that in any event two-thirds is safe. Com has been planted more extensively, and a fair crop is promised. Too much rain will shorten it in the lower counties, but the increased area will make up for this loss. Sweet potatoes, peas and smaller crops are doing welL Cane is well ad vanced and promises to bo extra, and the plant ing has been more extensive than ever before. Oranges are all right, and in the lower counties the tropical fruits are in excellent condition. Grapes are everywhere good. Peaches now grow well, are excellent in quality and large in quan- tity. On the whole, we think that when our planters balance their books for 1871 the figures will show better than in any year since the war. Koad Steamee.—The Troy Messenger says: Wo learn from Jndgs Yelverton that the citizens of Elba have raised the necessary stock to pur chase and put into operation one of Thomp son’s celebrated road steamers, to ran from Troy to the Four Milo Landing, near Geneva, whero it will connect with river steamers to Pensacola and New Orleans. Quick.—The telegrams report that the City of Bristol, which arrived yesterday in New York, mado her trip in eight days and thirteen hours. Fiees.—Tho morning dispatches yesterday reported four large fires with an aggregate loss of over $8,000,000. New Cotton.—The Montgomery Advertiser says four bales of cotton of the new crop were brought in yesterday, and sold to tho first of ferers at nominal prices. Tlie Senatorial Election. A Monroe county correspondent suggests George W. Adams as a candidate for tho Sena torial vacancy in this district. It is qnite need less to say that Mr. Adams is a gentleman of in telligence, energy, sagacity, discretion and in tegrity. Wo ore quite certain be would share in, or tolerate, no kind of corruption or dis honesty. Bat it seems to ns, in order that an agreement may be arrived at, there should bo a convention of tho Democrats of the district— either at Forsyth or any other point which may be preferred, and it ought to meet soon. The election being on the 13th of September, there are only about twenty days to prepare for It; and the convention should be held as early as Saturday, the 2nd day of September. Savannah Still Stands. At the great storm in Savannah last Friday and Saturday, the unprecedented rain fall of fourteen incites and eight-tenths was shown by the rain-guage. This is such a waterfall as is not seen in a life time, and no wonder some damage was done. Bat Savannah, though wet and dripping, still stands, and in evidence of it wo point to onr cards of leading houses in the Forest City, all ready for business from the in terior. There are none of higher character than Messrs. W. H. Stark k Co., Jno. W. Ander son's Sons, Duncan & Johnston, F. W. Sims & Co., Tison & Gordon, L. J. Guilmariin k Co., and Colquitt k Boggs. Frightened to Deaths * Since the Westfield Boiler Explosion onr New York Brithring seem to have been indus triously working themselves into a state of alarm which, at last acoonnts, was verging into phrenzy, and is certainly unhappy and dan gerous. Every ferry-boat has become * l a mad dog.” People who must cross the river, crowd in terror to both extremities of the craft, till they get to fighting among themselves for the post most remote from danger. Every steam boiler has suddenly become “rotten and honey combed,” and a hiss from the scape valve makes a crowd jump like the report of a Paixhangun. Every man who can write a letter of alarm to a newspaper seems to be doing it now, after this sort: Editors of the Daily Frighiener.—To my certain knowledge the boilers in the old ferry boat Blowemup were twenty-six years old last April, and have never been repaired. When tho pnblio learns that these boilers, bad as they are, are much the be3t on that line, people can see what they have to expect from the heartless and bloodthirsty corporation which controls that ferry. Look out for a still more murderous Explosion. Editors of Daily Horror.—I am this day noti fied by probably the most skilled engineer in the United States Navy that not one steam boiler of the thousand in daily nse in and around this city can be trusted for a day. Think of the hun dreds of steamboilers under onr pavements, as well as on the death dealing common carriers by water and land aronnd New York, and judge what i3 to be the fate of onr unhappy people. Walking or riding we stand alike on the verge of a doom too horrible to think of. Sodden Death. This caps the climax!—This destroys all hope and sinks the people down into .the imbecility ot despair. The gronad beneath them is honey combed with young volcanoes all waiting to “blow up” in the most unexpected and distress ing manner possible. “Few people,” says tho Commercial Advertiser, “know what constant danger they are in.” Besides the thonsands of steamboilers under the streets nsed to drive ma chinery, every store and warehouse have their steamboilers for heating and driving the dum mies. Every hotel has its steam-heating and hoisting apparatus, all under the feet of street pedestrians, andasif that were notenough, there oris the magazines of fire-works, gun-powder gun cotton, nitroglycerine and the thousand and one explosive chemicals, to say nothing of naptha, kerosene, camphene, alcohol, spirits turpentine, benzine and all the zines. Death larks aronnd, above and below ns, like a coiled rattlesnake. The wonder is (one would think) that they live a moment, and the probabilities are that, at the next, these nnmerons explosives may go off all together, and their fnrions bnt antagonistic forces shoot the remains of tho wretched vic tims back and forth like the fiery serpent of the pyrotochnio. We beg to suggest to the Daily Horror, that something is due to the nerves of tho people. It was terrible that so many people shonld bs crashed and scalded to death by the Westfield, bnt it will be no better if a3 many more fall victims to an epidemic fright. THE GEORGIA PRESS. Attempt to Assassinate a U'oinnn at Americas. Amebtccs, August 18, 1871. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: An at tempt was made hero last night about 11 o’clock to assassinate a Miss Gntts, of this place, by some one as yet unknown. Tho weapon nsed was a pistol. The assassin fired three shots through an open window, two of which took effect in the back. One or two parties are sus pected of having committed this diabolical deed, but as yet no arrests have been made. The town is quiet and dusty. D. D. E. Dnr Weatheb in Nobthebn Geoeoia.— Mr. J. II. Estill, proprietor of tho Savannah News,and Mr. J. O. Harris,associate editor of tho same paper, were in onr office on their return from the up-country to tho seaboard yesterday. Mr. Estill informed ns that in Borne, when be left, they had had no rain for nine weeks. Tho country was parched np—the roads a bed of impalpable red powder, and the air full of it almost to suffocation. The condition is bnt very little better from a point twenty miles east of Atlanta to Borne and beyond. Crops, of course, are cut off. v The ultimatum of A. H. Stephens, of Geor gia, (says the New York Herald, of Tuesday,) on the “new departure” is simply this, that if the National Democratic party in their platform of 1872 rapports this new departure in tho ac ceptance of what he calls tho fraudulent Four teenth and Fifteenth Amendments,he will him self take a “new departure” in the search of a new party. Very good. The more the merrier. We shall probably have three or four parties in the Hold in 1872, which will make things lively, though not very doubtful, bnt we shall have, most likely, a regular old-fashioned scrub race in 1876, “with all the modern improvements,” which will mako things very lively and tho re- sult exceedingly donbtfnL .Religions revivals aro now progressing in the second Baptist church at Augusta and the Meth odist church at Elberfon—the latter of which, the Gazette says, was “badly needed in onr community.” A Bainbridge student at Oxford college who wore his hair too long, was Ku-klnxed one night last week as he was returning from interviewing the “light of his eyes,” and brutally sheared, without tho least regard to the prevailing mode of hair cutting. Henry Kimbrough, of Talbotton, while play ing base-ball last Saturday, fell and broke his arm. The Standard says it was “adjusted,” however, and he is doing well. Mr. John McCoy, an old and much esteemed citizen of Talbot county, died last Tuesday, aged G5 years. Of crops in Talbot connty the Standard says: The Ceops, since the rains, have manifested some improvement. We have had an excellent time for saving fodder, which our planters have made good use of. Plenty of com will be mode. The cotton prospect doeB not indicate so large a crop a3 the past year. There will be a falling off of a third to a half. The boll worm has made its appearance in this connty. Tho Early Connty News says that many of the finest Spring Creek farms in that connty aro now “the picture of decay.” Under the head, “A Just Bebnke,” the Gath- bert Appeal shows the levelness of its head. It says: A Home letter writter relates that on tho night of the 10th the members of the Agricul tural Convention were serenaded at the various hotels. Gen. P. M. B. Young, Congressman from the 7th District, and tho irrepressible Col. Styles, of the Albany News, were stopping at the Choice House, and made speeches. Col. S. appeared first, and xjent to sponting about the “new departure." and prosecuting that foolish war between Democrats, which we fear will be the cause of the party’s defeat in the next campaign. Gen. Yonng, then being called for, remarked that he would “not detain the crowd by a polit ical speech. This was simply a meeting of the prominent agriculturalists of Georgia, and farm ing and politics shonld not be blended on this occasion. He would be heard from the proper time and places daring the approaching cam paign.” Whether so intended or not, it was a keen re buke to the many imprudent politicians who, instead of keeping their gnns pointed towards tho Badical lines, are sponting and gassing abont “departures,” and thus firing round after ronnd into the very ranks of the party they .claim to love so well. We have had enough of this useless bombast and child’s play. For the country’s sake let this wild goose chaBing within onr own lines be stopped; and let every muzzle point directly towards Ibe already weak and di vided lines of .Radicalism. A Caiifobnia cock has two legs growing on of its back. They do not differ in formation from the under ones, and, unlike extra limbs, aro nnder the command of the owner, and may be used by him. When he becomes tired stand ing in his natural position, he gives a flap-flap and walks off npsido down. He sometimes tarns a number of summersaults in succession out of pure love for it. After taking a drink he im mediately turns over to as to swallow it more readily. He has proved a terrible fighter, looking like a revolving wheel as he kicks in all directions. Ten Fence Feb Found.—Under date of August 16th, “ Willoughby ” writes as follows to the Augasla Constitutionalist: Cotton is in something of a flurry. Some of rim “bears” estimate the next crop as high as 3,750,000 bales, and there is no doubt a large stock of cotton goods on hand, for which tho demand is for the moment small. But no mat- R or °P even half a million bales less than last year, Europe will pay ten pence per pound for her share of it, and planters may govern themselves accordingly. We are down to export figures, and onr Btock is being rapidly shipped to Liverpool. Daring the storm of Friday and Saturday, at Savannah, fourteen and eight-tenths inches of water fell. N. M. Kirby, of Lowndes connty, charged with passing counterfeit money, and J. S. Nor man, of Oolqnitt county, charged with.raising or altering one dollar bills to tens, and tens to twenties, were -held to bail in $5,000 at Savannah, on Satnrdny, to appear at the next term of the United States District Court. The schooner Shiloh, which left Kennebec Biver, Maine, on the 20 th of July, with a cargo of ice, reached Savannah Saturday, the 19th inst. Seventy-five tons of ice melted daring the voyage, Cnthbnrt, with only three dissenting votes, agreed, last Saturday, to subscribe $5,000 to the High School. Americas remonstrates against the “social oyil’’ with bird shot, bnt don’t - shoot either straight or strong enough to make the remon strance effecutaL The Americas Republican, of Friday, says: No Mail Route Agents will aooompany the trains of the S. W. Road, hereafter, on Sundays, consequently no mails will be distributed along the route. Letters for and above Haoon v/iU be sent off and received as heretofore. The Columbus Son hears that two more cot ton factories are soon to be established in that city. Bays the Columbus Son, of Sunday: GoodNkwbfboh the Nobth & Sooth Rail- boad.—In company with President McDougald, Secretary Chipley, Chief Engineer Winn and CoL Lane, we made a flying trip yesterday to the work of the North A South Railroad. We passed the camp of the various contractors, bnt have forgotten all their names. We can only assure our readers that the contractors and their force* are active, and working with a vim. Jeff, lane and Haynes are working the first section, while Towles k Co., Hazelhurst k Co., Vemoy k Co., Darden k Hammond occupy respective sections on the line, reaching to the tenth sec tion. The bridging, trestling and track laying has been let to Wilkins & Bros , well known bridge contractors, who with their skilled and well organized force, will shortly arrive. Be fore the first day of Jannary the road will be in such condition that trains will ran to Pine Mountain. Jas. P. Bidgelee, the Rome printer who was published by the Printer’s Union, of that place, has sued each and every member thereof for slander, laying his damages at $5,000. The Chronicle k Sentinel, of Sunday, quotes a rumor from the Columbia Phenixto the effect that the Pennsylvania Central railway is making extensive’purchases of Charlotte, Columbia-and Augusta railway stock, and adds: The same reports have been circulated in this city, and it is believed that the Pennsylvania Central has purchased a great deal of the stock here in Augusta daring the past few weeks. One report states that the Central has managed to secure here and elsewhere eight thousand shares of the stock. The Columbus San, of Sunday, says there was a destructive fire at Union Springs, Ala., tho day before, whioh bnrned four stores and caused a loss of $20,000, over and above insn- A man named Jas. Nelson was picked np near Haywood’s ice house at Savannah, Saturday night, in an insensible condition, and scarcely recognizable from a terrible beating he had re ceived in a neighboring bar-room. Richard Lazenby and Radford Perkins, of McDnffie connty, were arrested and carried to Angosta, last Saturday, on a warrant issued by Jadge Gilson, of that circuit, charged with cut ting a negro named Gibbs, on the 13th of last May. L The Waynesboro Expositor, of Friday, says A Sad Accident—Mxbteeious.—While Mr. Thomas Prescott and Mr. James Tennyson were together hunting a “destructive boar,” (which had long been a terror in its section), a gun upon the shoulder of the former was accidentally discharged, the entire load, seven buck-shot, lodging in the breast of the latter. A coroner’s jury was summoned, whioh, after investigation, rendered a verdict in accordance with the above facts. On Saturday last a young gentleman of this town, while dnok hunting, found a negro babe in the pond—evidently thrown there to drown. He ofdered a negro boy, who accompanied him, to take care of the ‘abandoned’ until his return, which the boy failed to do—and upon his return to the spot the child had disappeared. One ne gro was lodged in jail on Sunday, bnt was set at liberty on Monday, no one having appeared to make or sustain a charge against him. At the present time the affair is veiled in mystery— the which, however, wo hope will come fully to light inafewdays, and the murderersbe brought to justice. We also learn that Mr. George Broadfield, who has been in the employ of Moses P. Green, of Bnrke connty, was fonnd dead in the peach orchard at the place of his employer on last Friday. Mr. Broadfield has been complaining: for some time, had disapeared on Thursday, one was fonnd on Friday as above described. Highway Eobbxby.—Mr. Stephen Melton, a well known citizen of Macon, was approached on Poplar street, between Second and Third, about 10 o’clock on Friday night last, by an illy clad woman, as he thought, who engaged him in conversation for a moment, but long enough, it appears, for her confederates to walk np and seize Mr. Melton. The three daring villians then proceeded to rob him of abont $120. They discussed the question as to whether they would take his watch, bnt determined quickly not to do so. The three then hastily left, and in their flight dropped tho pocket-book containing tho money—leaving about $20 in it which they probably did not get hold of in the dark. Tho affair occurred almost in the heart' of the city, and for boldness equals anything of tho kind that ever transpired here. It is almost incred iblo. An Oysteb’s Age.—It is a well known fact that an oystennan can tell the age of bivalves to a nicety. This is not done, however, by looking them in the month, bnt simply by count ing the successive layers or plates overlapping each other of which an oyster shell is composed, These aro technically termed “shoots,” and each of them marks a year’s growth. Up to the time of the maturity of the oyster, these shoots aro regular and successive, bnt after that time they become irregular, and are piled one over the other, so that the shell becomes more and more thickened and bulky. Judging from the size and thickness which some shells attain, this mollnskis capable of attaining a patriarch al longevity, and an oyster with fifty or even three-score years upon it back may by chance be met with. They are in perfection when from five to seven years old, and shonld bo allowed to grow unmolested that length of time. Teoup Hill Debating Society.—A number of yonng gentlemen residing in the Southern portion of the city, have recently organized debating society, and hold their meetings every Wednesday night in Troup Hill Baptist Mission Sohool Chapel. The officers of the society are: J. D. Sullivan, President; Robt. Reynolds, Se cretary, and T. B. Sullivan, Treasurer. There was a foil attendance of the members of the So ciety on Wednesday night last, and several of the yonng speakers acquitted themselves credit ably. It is in such societies as this that the genins of oratory in the yonng finds scope for development, and it is here„that the mind of youth first begins to reason and reflect inde pendently. We hope the yonng men will pre serve their organization and prosecute with zeal the objeots and aims of the Society. Col ton Movements for tlse Week. New Yoek, August 20.—The cotton move ment is small in receipts but large in exports.' Receipts at all the ports 7,630 bales, against 9,454 last week, 10,472 the previous week and 10,900 three weeks since'. The total receipts since September are 3,995,054 bales, against 2,894,223 the corresponding period of the pre vious year, sho wing an increaseof1,100,831bales. Exports from all the ports 17,647 bales, against 5,762 the same week last year. Total exports for the expired portion of the cotton year are 3,136,G07 bales, against 2,1G4,330 the same time last year. Stock at all the ports 114,421 bales, against 86,762 for the same date last year. Stock at interior towns 13,312. bales, against 18,892 last year. Stock in Liverpool 696,000 bales, against 568,000 last year. American cotton afloat for Great Britain 57,000 bales, against 35,000 last year. Indian cotton afloat for Europe 686,390 bales, against 515,922 last year. The Pmhtebb’ Festival.—A severe headache prevented ns from attending the printers’ fes rival on Thursday night at tho Armory Building, and hence we are not prepared to speak of it as an eye-witness, bnt if the half we hear of it be true, it was one of the most pleasant and en joyable reunions the disciples of Fanst in Macon ever participated in. It was understood to bo a watermelon party, bnt it proved to be a splen did banquet, attended by a host of pretty girls and many invited guests, who joined the prin ters in a merry dance during the evening and contributed much hilarity and fnn for the oc casion. We much regret that it was hardly pos sible for ns to attend, much less than to enjoy ourself. Stbeet Raxlboad.—We understand that the work on this important city improvement will oommence next week. The cross-rie3 are now being sawed out, and will be famished as fast as the road is graded. The whole line, so far as is at present proposed, will be oompleted, it is thought, by the 20th of October. Tho portion of the line which will be completed first,- will ran to the Fair Grounds, and we are glad to know that raoh is the fact, for it will bo a great convenience to hundreds of citizens vjho would like to visit the grounds every .afternoon if they hod an easy and cheap conveyance. Fash the work, gentlemen, with all possible speed. Sudden Death.—A well known and popular yonng man of this city was. taken with a con gestive chill on Thursday night last, and died abont 2 p. H. yesterday. He was to have been married on next Thursday night. His sister is lying dangerously ill in a neighboring State, and we are specially requested not to call his name, for fear the terrible shock might prove fatal to her. Up to yesterday the contract for opening Second street to an intersection with the Hous ton road had not been awarded. Five or six has been made upon the work, and we presume the Ordinary will be able to make a selection, from the lot The weather at the South during the week has generally been favorable, and much needed rains have come at last. New Yobk, August 20.—The domestio pro duce markets were more active in the leading staples, although prices have been very much unsettled and the fluctuations frequent. At the produce exchange there has been an advance in flours from spring wheat, while winter wheat flour has simply been firm. In wheat there has been considerable movement for export, and some large sales have been made to arrive. The market has been generally firm, although there were a few intervals of weakness. A large por tion of the export purchases were for the con tinent of Europe. Other grains flnetnated bnt little, and the movements were not important. The hank statement is very unfavorable, and an analysis of the figures show that the banks have made a net loss of $4,238,427, and that they now hold only $11,031,050 above the 25 por cent, required by law. New Yoek, August 20.—Partial investigation was made yesterday by Coroner Young and Dr. Marsh into the case of Mary Kelly, who died, it is supposed, of Asiatic cholera. From the evidence the coroner became satisfied that it was not a case of cholera at all, as the woman had been drinking to excess, and had also eaten a quantity of unripe peaches and a greater part of a water melon. The symptoms described by the attending physician were not at all like those of cholera. The Board of Health deny that any person has died of cholera in this city this season. Savannah, August 20.—On Friday and Satur day we had a terrific gale. Onr railroads are washed up, and the mailshave to be brought by polo cars. We have communication south of No. 7, Atlantic and Gulf - Railroad, and on the Central Railroad there are two washes—one near the city and the other six miles out. No regular trains have arrived since Friday night. Many buildings have been damaged, and great damage has been done to the rice crop. Washington, August 20.—The Attorney Gen eral has received nnmerons requests for his opinion as to the effect of the Fourteenth Consti tutional Amendment upon the eligibility of per sons to office. Not being able to reply officially to these requests he has issued a circular stating that it is not hi3 duty to give an official opinion except at the request of the President or heads of departments. He appends a copy of the Fourteenth Amendment. Memphis, August 20.—The city voted $200,' 000 in aid of the Mississippi Railroad. Louisville, August 20.—Complete returns from all except six counties show Leslie’s ma jority to be 36,000. The other Democratic can didates have 39,000 majority. St. Louis, August 20.—A. S. Merritt, prominent hotel keeper, was fonnd dead in his bed. New Yoek, August 20.—Arrived, steamships Supply, City of Brooklyn, North America. Savannah, August 20.—Arrived steamship Liberty from Baltimore for New Orleans with rudder aud stook broken. No other damages. The steamship Virgo arrived this morning. Her captain reports having experienced a terrible gale from Frying Pan shoals. He passed the steamer Rapidan 20 mites south of Frying Pan shoals all tight. On Friday at 12 u. it cleared off. Arrived Saturday: Steamship Magnolia from New York; Catharine Whiting, from New York; Tonawanda from Philadelphia; brig Jno. Welch, Jr., Doboy. London, August 20.—Garibaldi is convales cent. Paeis, August 20.—There were 828 deaths daring the week, including one from cholera. New Yoek, August 21.—A family of six per- sons were poisoned by eating fish caught near a wreck. It is supposed tho fish were impregna ted by the copper sheathing of the wreck. The symptoms were similar to poisoning from strych nine. Ward Hospital, in Centre street Newark, is burned. Loss $80,000. The owner, captain and engineer of the ex ploded tng Starbnck have disappeared. Her boiler contains fifteen large patches and a seven inch crack on the inside. Wabsaw, Ind., August 21.—Thirteen build ings including the Baptist church, have been burned by spontaneous combustion—loss $50. 000. J Yibginia Citt, Nevada, August 21.—Fifty buildings have been burned—loss $100,000— fire cansed by an incendiary. New Yobk, August 21.—The Fenians will join the proposed Italian procession, if other nationalities are allowed to participate. San Feancisco, August 21.—A sergeant-major and a private of the 3d cavalry were killed by tho Apaches near Camp Verdi, Arizona, and their bodies horribly mutilated. St. Louis, August-21.—Col. Downing has been elected chief of the Cherokee nation by 200 majority. Williamspobt, Pa., August 21.—The Wavorley House and thirty buildings have been burned— loss $8,000,000. New Yobk, August 21.—Arrived, City of Brus sels, MinneBSota. Arrived out, Virginia, Colum bia, Parthia, Tripoli City. Baltimore, City of Brussels, making her trip in eight days and thirteen honrs. London, Sept. 21.—It is reported that the potato blight is almost destioying the Irish po tato crop. John Bright is mnoh better. Queen Yiotoria fs ill at Balmoral. The Russian fleet, with the Grand Dnke Alexis aboard, left Cronstadt yesterday for New York. Parliament was prorogued to November 7th, by royal commission. The relations with for eign powers are friendly. The hope is expressed for continued tranquility. The speech is mostly devoted to local affairs, and dwells with satis faction upon tho treaty at Washington. Washington, D. O., August 21.—Thomas W. Conway, signing himself Superintendent of Pnblio Education in Louisiana, publishes a long letter to the President; wherein, after allnding lengthily to his services to the Republican party, as an excase for his boldness, prooeeds to narrate that on his way from New Orleans, the bearer of dispatches from Casey, Faokard and others, to the President, read the dispatches to the passengers. Conway im peaches the truthfulness of Casey, Packard, Lowell and the rest Conway conclndos: No act of your administration will give more satis faction to the men who voted for yon and made you President, than wonld the removal of the officials who have perpetrated the outrage in question, and that nothing short of their dis placement will save the Republican party from defeat in the coming campaign. Sherman departs for the North for five weeks. The steamers Delaware and Albany have been turned over to the health commissioners at New York for quarantine use. They will bo anchored in tho lower bay for the reception of the peo ple coming from the cholera infected regions. New Yoek,. August 21.—A special from Long Brance says that abont nine this morning, Dr. H. T. Helmbold attempted suicide. He bor rowed a double-barrel shot gun and hired a car riage with a colored driver, and started out on Ocean Avenne, towards Sea Bright, to shoot meadow larks below the the Arlington House. He got ont of the carriage, placed the gnu nn der bis chin and fired. Being a small man the effort to pnll the trigger caused his hand to move, and his face only was injured. In des peration he repeated the experiment with the same resnlt. The driver, who, in the mean time rushed to him, caught him fainting and bleed ing in his arms and brought him to the Arcade Hotel, from whence he was taken home. New Yoek, August 21.—About fifty suits havo been oommenoed against the Staten Island Ferry Company for damages on aocount of the Westfield explosion. Helmbold telegraphs that while ont hunting this morning his gun aocidently went off. He was not injured. A. T. Stewart is recovering from his danger ous illness. Arrived, Concordia, Siberia; Rapidan and Gen. Meade somewhat injured in a gale, and Si lesia. Sabatoga, August 21.—The races to-day were postponed, owing to the threatening weather. White Bulphub Spbikos, West Yraoisu August 21.—Among the late arrivals here are Generals Fitz-Hugh Lee, M. D. Gone, Hon. John Goode; of Virginia; Generals W. W. Gary, James Conner, of South Carolina; and Gov ernor Jacobs, of Weet Virginia. Foetbess Moneoe, August 21.—A large three masted schooner was reported ashore at Body Island on Saturday night The sea was too rough to oommnnioate with her. Name not known. Assistance will be sent from Norfolk. Versailles, August 21.—A dispatch from Algeria announces tho arrival of a large number of French troops. New Yobk, August 21.—Wm. A. Burtis, Pres ident of the Empire City Fire Insurance Com panies has been arreBted on a charge of having in possession with guilty knowledge, s stolen bond with altered endorsement He has been bailed. Helmbold denies an attempt at suioide. He was blowing out one barrel when the the other was accidentally discharged, wounding him in the face slightly. Paeis, August 21.—In the Assembly to-day a strong discussion was aroused by irreligious expressions nsed by some deputies in their speeches. "At the distribution of prizes in the school at Lyons, M. Jules Simon, who was pre sent, made a speech in which he declared he. should ever uphold the principles of morality. Munich, August 21.—A new ministry has been formed with Hequemanberg as President Berlin, August 21.—The carpenters of this oity have struck for an increase of twenty-five per cent, in wages, and a redaction of the day’s labor to nine and a half hoars. 22tl Senatorial District. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : An elec tion to fiU the vacancy iu this district has been ordered on the — day, of September. Who shall be the Democratic candidate? If onr friends will let ns suggest the name, we will pro pose a gentleman worthy of the place and com petent to discharge its duties with credit to him self and his constituents. One whose extensive experience in important positions, whose intel ligence, energy and personal worth wonld make him a valuable member of any declarative body. He has been a successful and prosperous me chanic, filling with mnoh credit high places in that profession. He has been entrusted with the dntie3 of an important office of the munici pal interests of the city of Maoon, and dis charged those duties with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of alL Other plaoes he has also filled with like honor and credit, and he 1b now and has been for several years, an industri ous, successful and highly intelligent farmer. We refer to Col. Geo. W. Adams, of Monroe, and ask the candid consideration of the people, on the foregoing suggestions. Monroe county will not claim the candidate, bnt if Col. Adams bo the man,' she will feel that she has furnished a Senator who will bo an ornament to her Citizens. The Cotton Outlook. -> The New Orleans Picayune of Friday in an extended review of the cotton outlook, says the average price of cotton, in the home mar ket was, for the crop of 3868-9, 24fc; for the crop of 18C9-70, 23J; for the.crop of 1870-71, it it has been 14 1-6, and show a decline of abont 32 per cent.,' while the increase of the crop was 89 per cent. Tho Picaynne says: With regard to the extent of the American crop now maturing, it is too early to speak with exactness, bnt the prospects are good for 3,250,- 000 bales, and the amount may be exceeded with an extended picking season, and favorable weather from this time forward. Allowing, however, that the crop may exceed the above figures, it seems likely that by the time that receipts assume liberal proportions, priceB will be materially higher. The average price of cotton in this market at present is about 15^0. per pound. This is bnt a shade above the price one year ago. In fact the grades of cotton above Good Ordinary are now quoted just the same as they were on the 17th of August, 1870; bnt the lower grades are worth more. The prospect at present is certainly better for the seller of cotton than it was at this time last year. Instead of warfare and destruction, we now have peace. Instead of a prospective laTge increase in the supply? there will be a falling off in America, and probably a still heavier de crease in India. Hon. Alex. Delsiae on Southebn Chabac tee.—Hon. Alex. Delmar, editor of the New York National Intelligencer, concludes a letter to CoL DnP.ro, of the Memphis Appeal, on the subject of “The New Departure,” as follows: I am no truckler to Southern sentiment or any other sentiment. I desire no office; I ask no favors; and I would not cross the door of my study for all the votes in tho country; but I admire intellect and reverence truth and vir- ture; and a careful and comprehensive glance at the whole political field since 1861, compels me to say that neither truth, virturo nor brains have developed themselves in American politics since that fatal day, when, to the great joy of all the little mind3, and the profit of all tho little men in the country, tho delegation of Southern representatives left the Congress of the United States. Some days ago we asked Mr. Stephens, the Celebrated Paragraphist of the Atlanta Son, the question: “Suppose you were shut up all night in a tower with a small baby, what wonld yon do?”and Mr. Stephens replies that he would “read it a selection from the Courier-Journal as a bypnotio.” This, of conrso, is what any well-regulated mind wonld do under such cir- enmstanoes, and it relieves our anxiety to hear him say it. We asked him the question because we feared that if he shonld be thus shut up all right with a baby, ho might unthoughtedly bore it to death by reading it ono of bis paragraphs.— Courier-Journal. Choy Awah, a young Chinese Snnday-school scholar in Washington has made the following translation from the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew: “ The kingdom like ten girls; never marry? they bring come lanterns; come ont till some-new married man come that way. Have got five wise and five foolish. Five hold lan terns with no oil. Smart five all have oil inside. Tho new married man come late; they sleep. By and by they say, ‘New married man—come. All go out to him.* Five makey nice lanterns. Five foolish say, ‘Y'ou give my oil; lamp no oil, yon give my some.” The smart say, ‘ I no ive yon; I not enough; you go market buy.’ 'ootish go market to buy. The new married man come. All come to dinner. Shut the door. By and by tho foolish come and say, “Boss, boss, open door.’ He say, ‘ I no likey you; you no my. ’ Must be smart, no understand the day." At Heidelberg, in Germany, there is not a language, ancient or modem, without its com petent professor to teach it to all comers. A Japanese student, unable to speak a word of German, found there on his arrival a teacher able to converse with him and give him lessons through tho medium of his own language. List or Money Oedeb Postoiotces in Geor gia.—Albany, Americas, Athens, Atlanta, Au gusta, Bainbridge, Brunswick, GarteraviUe, Cave Spring, Columbus, Cuthbert, Dalton, Grif fin, Lexington, Macon, Madison, Marietta, Mil- Iedgeville, Ringgold, Rome, Savannah, Social Circle, Washington, West Point. How Much More or the Same Kind ?—Plato Durham, of Shelby, N. 0., publishes a card de nouncing the published synopsis of his testimo ny, as given before the Kn-klax Committee, “a lying, garbled and perverted misstatement from beginningto end.” : Yv-Z. f j v A gentlemen said to an old lady who had brought up a family of children near the Mem- mac river, “I should think yon would have lived in constant fear that some of them would have ?ot drowned.” “Ob, no,” responded the old „ady, “we only lost three or four that way.” The State debt of Vermont is now $412,000. In six years from the close of the rebellion it has been reduced to less than half a million, and there is now a hundred thousand dollars in the treasury for current expenses. Western journals report that twenty-three persons in the State of Iowa alone have suf fered an involuntary amputation of their limbs this season by using reaping machines. A young lady at Saratoga keeps, the records of her conqaests in charms on her bracelets, in tho same way that an Indian hangs scab* around his belt. A Lynchburg colored woman fell thirty feet ont of a third story, striking the' ground head foremost. They are fillling np the hole. She wasn’t hurt any. Some of the farmers of Tennessee are success ful in their attempts to raise opium from the poppy. The yield is seventy-five pounds to tho acre. The Cuban telegraph cable has developed a new foe. Turtles are said to gnaw it, thus sev eral times interrupting communication. THE STOB91 OF FRIDAY ABO SATl'B- MAT. Particulars of Loum-Damage to Crops. In onr edition of yesterday we briefly allnded to the storru, whioh was prevailing at the time of going to press. It was found impossible to give any particulars as to the damage done to property, in this oity and vicinity, owing to-the fierceness with whioh the storm prevailed, ren dering it impossible for even an enterprising lqeal to breast the same without serious danger to life and limb. The whole night long the winds howled and the rain descended as though the foundations of the great deep above and be low had broken up. Upon the subsidence of the wind and rain yesterday morning, we set ont in seaich for items of interest in connection with this the most fearful gale that Savannah has experienced for many years, and which in its results has proved more disastrous to property than the celebrated storm of September 8, 1854. As stated, the wind commenced blowing a gale from the northeast abont 1 o’clock p. m., Friday, accompanied by deluges of rain falling in torrents without intermission. The gale in creased in fury, and the rain descended in floods until between 11 and 12 o’clock p. sr., at which time it reached its height. The most substan tial residences facing the north, were flooded. The streets looked like one sea, and the wind howled and howled again, tearing away every thing exposed to their fury, doing an immense amount of damage. the damage sustained by the pnblio works in and abont the city will probably not fall short of $100,000. The main sewer on EaBt Broad street, which is being built under contract with O. Casey, was very seriously damaged and torn np for about two hundred and fifty feet, necessitating a very large amount of work 'and labor in removing the debris and in excavating again that portion of the work which has been damaged. The caned, between Lawton’s place, or planta tion, and tho bridge on the Thunderbolt shell road, upon which toe labor of the contractor with a large number of hands has been expend ed for the past two months, has been rained and toe whole work will have to be recom menced. Other sewers in process of construc tion have been more or les3 damaged, involving a heavy expense in placing them in status quo. _ SPRINGFIELD PLANTATION. upon which so much time, money and skill has been spent, is completely under water, its en tire length and breadth, and has toe appearance of a vast inland sea. Houses situated upon it have been submerged, toe waters rushing over it with the velocity of a mill-race, scarcely leaving time for the inhabitant’s, mostly ne groes, to escape. lamae’s field and toe adjacent lowlands, in toe eastern part of the city, present a similar spectacle. Thi crops are all nnder water, and toe Bilbo canal is overflowed its entire length from the shell road to the river. YVhat damage was done to private property in the shape of injury to crops planted, we have not been able yet to ascertain jbnt it must reach thousands of dollars. THE CENTBAL RAILROAD. At 4 o’clock yesterday morning it was discoy. ered ;liat the large ten-foot culvert over Mus- grove creek had given way, carrying with it tho embankment for a distance of about one hun dred and fifty feet, toe water rushing through at a velocity of abont six miles per honr. The break rapidly increased, and at 12 o’clock on 'Yesterday nearly the whole culvert had sae' combed to the action of the fnriou3 waters, The immediate cause of this break was toe breaking of toe bank of the Ogeecheo canal into the timber basin ahove toe culvert, the dam of which giving way, caused the whole flood of waters to rash to the culvert, which, unable to stand the pressure gave way, as also did toe bridge on the Louisville road across toe samo creek. A large force from the Central railroad went speedily to the spot, and were put to work building a temporary foot bridge on tha south ern side of the road bed, with the view of cut ting away the remaining portion of toe culvert and relieving tho embankment from the pres sure of water against it The loss at this point is estimated at from ten to fifteen thousand dol lars. The break of conrse cat off communication by train with toe depot, and necessitated the transfer of passengers and mails at this point, the arriving trains being toe departing ones. BRICK YARDS. The brick yard of Hamlet k Bailey, situated on toe canal, tnd also that of Swayne & Roberts, suffered considerably, the loss of brick in the former being estimated at about fifteen hundred dollars. The saw mill of Bntler & Hardwick, situated at toe foot of toe Central Railroad bridge, was considerably damaged. A portion of toe mill house was carried away, the engine was com pletely snbmf-. r J, and twenty cords ot sawed wood end twenty-five of stick wood swept away by the flood. The damage done here is esli mated at $400. ATLANTIC AND GULF RAILROAD. Although no damage has been done to the property of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad in toe immediate vicinity of toe city, the non- arrival of the train suggested something wroDg. It was fonnd that a serious break had occurred at tho culvert at toe five-mile post, sweeping away the embankment rapidly for a considera ble distance. Another break was reported some distance above, and at a late honr yesterday afternoon no tidings of toe down train had been received, too telegraph being prosprated and no means of communicating beyond tho first break. A large force of hands wa3 dispatched to toe enlvert, and at 3 o’clock p. m. it was rendered passable, the men working with an energy and vim highly commendable. Whether there are any other serious breaks beyond remains to be seen. THF. SAVANNAH, SKIDAWAY AND SEABOARD RAIL- The damage done to this road has also been serious, entirely stopping the running of the trains for several days, it is supposed. The damage is from washing away of embankments, etc., though the exact extent of the injury can not at present be ascertained. THE STREETS, SQUARES, ETC. The debris of fallen trees, limbs, etc., scat tered all over the city, gives evidence of the force of toe winds. Many trees have been blown down and others seriously injured. CROPS- The injury to the crops has been immense, as we stated. Those planted on Springfield plantation and Lamar’s, Lawton’s and other farms in the low gTonnds east, have been rain ed, and are now entirely nnder water. The damage to the rice crop along the river, on toe Ogeechee, eto., cannot yet be ascertain ed, although we have seen a note from the overseer to toe planter of an extensive planta tion on toe Savannah river, giving a disastrous aocount of the action of the flood on the planta tion—settlements nnder water, provisions and supplies destroyed, etc. Wo. trust that the growingcrop of rioe will not be serionslyinjnred. PRIVATE PROPERTY. It is impossible to enumerate the injury sus tained to private property in toe city from toe unroofing of houses, blowing down of chimneys and fences, the overflowing of cellars, oto. The large cotton warehouse of Dr. Clark, on the comer of West Broad and Broughton streets, sixty by ninety feet, and jnst completed, is se riously damaged, the water in toe cellar (which is the entire area of the bntiding) being even with the flooring. Dr. Clark estimates his dam age at from $10,000 to 12,000. Altogether, this has been the most rainous storm know ninths history of Savannah for many years. Fortunately no loss of life has occurred, as far aB we have been able to learn, although several nanow escapes have come to our knowl edge, which we give elsewhere.—Savannah Re publican, 20 th. ANDREW FEMALE C0L®| CUTHBERT, GA. T HE Exercises of this Institution will bo ed on WEDNESDAY, tlia 20th of SEFTvv HER next, and close on Thuredav before tlin , B&bbath in Jane. 8 'x The Scholastic Year will be divided into n- terme, beginning 20th September, 1st January j? REGULAR OOUBSE . IF-a TERM I-£H 45^ Pnm&ry Department $12 00........$ 35 Preparatory Department.. 15 00 "45 a Collegiate Department . . 20 00 60S DipIomafee,(paidongrad- J nating) $5 00 Incidentals 1 CO Board, Washing, Fuel and Lights ' iso » Regular Tuition of daughters of Clergymen"' ingby the Ministry—no charge. Each hoarding pupil should bo fon.iehrd xi'j Bible, trunk, one pair of sheets, one pair of '' cases, one pair blankets, four hand towels, shoes and umbrella. EXTRA COURSE: Greek and French, each - ;q‘.v j Tuition in Muaio GO u j Drawing and Pastel..... S3 oq I Instruction in Oil Painting IQ -■ j Calisthenics, conducted by a competent 'I lady 5 ool Singing in Classes No &y Extra oonrae pursued at toe option of and guardians. Payments must be made in October, January 1 April. Each pupil should be present at the opening ( A Martyr to Ice Cream.—A Chicago dis patch, fonnd in toe Western papers and dated the loth inst; says: The Rev. Elkin Herzman, pastor of the Fifth Avenne Synagogue, having failed to comply with the regulations requiring all Israelites to during thi fast striotly one day during the pest week, by eating ioe cream, toe congregation here deter mined to remove him. This morning another HP morning Rabbi ocoupied his desk, and an affray ensued during which one of the leading officers of the church seized Mr. Herzman, divesting him of his sacerdotal robes, and conducted him to the door with instructions to leave, threatening to kick him out if he returned. Herzman com plained at police headquarters, but was inform ed that they could do nothing. He threatens to prosecute for one year’s salary and assault. Thx Oldest Yet.—The Hillsborough (N.-C.) Reoorder of the 9to instant, says: “Mrs, Lydia Shanklin, probably the oldest person in this State, died at her residence in this connty on Friday last. She was about 112 years old. Was a grown woman daring the ! Revolutionary war. This good old lady attend ed the organization of Orange Presbytery at Hawfield church, September, 1770, and was very anxious to attend its centenial meeting in 1870; bnt the gay girl of 1770 found herself bowed down with age in 1870, and was unable to attend the meeting.” The undersigned having boon elected Pi of Andrew Female College, an old and populu etitntion, sends fraternal greetings to toe Colk of tho Sonth, makes his bow to the public, and. licits sympathy- and a liberal share of patronrgf Sammoned to a high and holy work—that of p, paring the minds and hearts of the young for g business and pleasures, joys and eorrowo of life, he will call to .his assistance the best educators - toe country, and address Lima elf to the task trl all toe zeal'and industry that he can cocuat; Should time, whose verdict wo woo, Uemoaitrs; that he cannot preside with dignity and eccceg. that he is incapable of imparting instruction- he is not in the proper place—that Androw Fi College does not return a substantial equivaies; , its patrons—the President will abandon the en;»f 1 prise and refund all damages religiously assess i Parents and guardians wishing to educate should not forget our healthful locality, refincc»z“ ciety, commodious and well ventilated bnilditi ■ beautiful grounds, magnificent grove and reascj 1 bio rates. JOHN B. McGEHEE, President Andrew Femalo College Cuthbert, Ga., August 15,1871. aug22 dltJcwtill20aept STOLEN. ^^Nthomghtofthe 14thof August, at Freda KJ Church in Monroe county, five miles frJi Bameevillo, was stolen from mo a black Mare, rj bridle and saddle—mare badly sunburned, e ~ worn off about middle way and standing alaiv. scar on one hip; nine or ten yeais old. Any returning the Mare to mo will be paid twenty-: dollars; thief and Mare, fifty dollars. ALBERT M BUSH, ang!7d4tw2t Near BamesviUe, 61 $100 EEWARD. gTOIEN, from my residence, on theMflle road, nine miles from Macon, on Wc night, 3d inst., a fine looking deep bay He: about fifteen bands high, heavy built, at.d in order; has white bind feet, a very small spit forehead, and right fore-knee unnaturally te ' has unusually large tail bone. When last her i from, the thief was making his way towards 3k ison, Ga. 1 will give $50 for tho return of a Is Horse, and $50 for the arrest of toe thief. auglOtf * WM. ROBERTS G A BOOK FOR THE MILLION. MARRIAGE GUIDE. Iat*K ■ on thepL. leal myiterioa and reveiationa of the physical A private C selorto the 1 riedorthosei to marry, withe st discor ’ tem, how to preserve the complexion, etc.. This is an interesting work cf 224 rr.rr-% w eroue engraving, and contains valuable lnforaiSd for those who aro married or contemplate msfriin still it is a book that .ought to be under lock and to and net laid carelessly about thehonse. Sent to any one (freo of postage) for 50 cents. Address Dr. Butt’s Dispensary. No. 12 N. ” street, St. Louis, Mo. 4®- NOTICE TO THE AFFLICTED AND 1 FORTUNATE. _ Before applying to the notorious Qusek3 wlotil vertise in public papers or using any Qnatk Rq \ edies, peruso Dr. Butts’ work, no matter what j,: difeoso is or bow deplorable your condition. Dr. Butt3 can be consulted, personally or by on the diseases mentioned in his works. Office, h':. N. Eighth street, bet. Market and Chesnut, St. k Ho. LOOK TO YOUfi CHILDREN. THE GREAT SOOTHING REMEBI MBS. WHITCOMB’S SYRUP. MRS. WHITCOMB’S SYRUP MRS.' WHITCOMB’S SYRUP. Cures Colie and Grip ing in the Bowels, and faeilititales the process of Teething. Subdues Convulsions and ovor oomesatl diseases in cident to infants and Children. Cures Di- Rjrhea, Dysentery and CENTS Summer Complaint in . children of all ages. It is the Great Infant’s and Children’s Scotia Remedy in all disorders brought on by tcethingc any other cause.- Prepared by tho GRAFTON MEDICINE CO. S Louie. Mo. Sold by Druggists and Dealers in Medtrineevri where. augl7-d*vl' COTTON GINS THIJ3 X). PRATT Shops Established in 1833 TWENTY THOUSAND SOU THE BROWN. BROWN, THE ORIGINAL MANUFACTURES 0 THE TAYLOR GIN. fJ^HE8E Gins are SIMON PUIffi, not HYRBIK Of 135 sold by our Senior in 1S69 and lSTO.-'-f ONE was taken back; but SIX compta'moJ o'. • to but ONE was a workman sent. The Drown 0: , WE offer is of different model to others of bit 0 sale, and.is a perfect machine. These Gma are WARRANTED to give stoat* tion, and all we ask dr parties wishing to buy is s look at them before buying elsewhere. If you 9^ not call, send for circulars, by addressing JOHNSON A DUNLAP. Agents, 72 Third street, Macon, Gt- jun28 2&wA16w Application for Leave to Sell Heal Estta EOBG1A, BIBB COUNTY.—Notice is h®; \ VX given to alt parties having interest, thi: have made application to the Ordinary of af county for loave to sell, in accordance with law- 1 - 1 of the real estate of George W. Fort, deceM^f lying and being in the connty of Baldwin and *; State. Should no objection be filed, an order 5 - be granted by said Court granting tho leave to on the first Monday in October next. JNO. P. FORT, Executor of thei Estate of Geo. W. Port, decs- aug23dltwtd J. B. BRES, Cotton Factor & General Com. MercM'j No. 196 Gravier street, New Orleans. un20 dfimwstm F. J. RAGLAND, AgestJ MERCER UNIVERSITY MACON, GA. T HE next Term WILL OPEN in Macoa-j ^ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1871; collegiate year will extend to the First WedaseJ. in July, 1872, with a vacation of ono Wj! Christmas. Plans for a suite of elegant bnilDv are now preparing, and they will be pushed f early completion. Very valuable additions been recently made to toe chemical and philosoF cal apparatus. Tuition for the dading lodging, families, ranges from $25 to $28 per month. < For further information apply to Professor WnxxT, Penfleld, Ga., until October 1st; all times, to Rev. H. O. Hobxady, General Ac'-' - La Grange, Ga. ■ WFACULTY: bev. j: l. m. cubby, ll. d., President (elect) and Professor of Systeo*- Theology, Intellectual and Moral Philosophy- SHELTON P. SANFORD, A M-,. „ Professor of Math—Mfisa, Civil Engineering ** Astronomy, JOSEPH K. WILLET, A- M-, M..D-, •ivAUkra A. a. JZA-, UL. Professor ot Natural Philosophy, ChomiaW olotrr and Botany. WILLLAMG. WOODFIN, a. M-, Professor of Ancient Languages. BEY. JOHN J. BRANTLY, D. D- Professor of Theology, Belles Letiree and 1 S. Land atm, Seo’y Board Trustee* Languages. D. E. BUTLEB, President Board Trus^ft,
