Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Greoraria Weekly Telearaioh and. Journal Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger,
MACON, SEPTEMBER 5 1871.
News Items.
The Meridian Gazette says if Stanton’s pimps
go after Clanton very much he will create a ne
cessity for several “wooden overcoats.”
Chops nr lima.—The Montgomery Ad
vertiser of Thursday says farmers from Bar.
hour and Pike were in town the day before with
the same doleful tale of ruined crops.
Wisconsin.—The LaCrosae Democrat says
that the Conservative Republicans will vote for
Mr. Doolittle, the Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor, and there is' not the shadow of a doubt
that he will be elected.
A OimB Revel.—Don Carios, of the Ells’
Saloon on Mulberry street, “gin us a treat.” So,
long time ago, did Cousin Sally Dillard. Don
Carlos, despising the pomp of Royal State, to
which he is by birth entitled, hath solemnly re-
resolved to illustrate his high qualities by the
solid triumphs of the cuisine — by glorious
achievements in the sublime art of cookrey.
Professor Blot blows himself in windy lectures,
confnsing the brains of the pretty New York
housewives, who come home from his prelec
tions the images of dark despair. We have
seen them and know. The problem was out of
an empty sauce pan, with a dash of cold water
in it, simmering at a certain degree of Fahren
heit, with the sfcako of a rabbit’s tail, the crow
of a pullet, the shadow of a duck, a calf’s
bleat, three egg shells and a beef’s marrow bone
to make a rich soup, a stew, a ragout, a chick
en pie, a roast sirloin and a beef steak pudding.
The P. G. N. Y. tried it, while we looked on
and smoked, but It was “no go.”
Don Carlos trics>po such vain experiments.
He is, as becomes his birth, a profound philos
opher! He knows the old maxim—old, almost
as the world itself—“ex nihilo •nihil fit." He
gives U9 solid, fat birds reposing luxuriously on
light toast saturated with butter. Mutton chops
which gently melt away into life-supporting
chyle, with little labor of the teeth. Sand
wiches most ingeniously blended of the products
of sea and land; bread, cheese, pickles, con
serves and vegetables to match, and the whole
prefaced with a soup, which would have done
credit to Count Rumford.
Don Carlos does well to abandon the empty
pageants of royalty for such substantial and
soul-refreshing vivers. Let us drink his health
—and what will you take ? Shall it be one of
those modest sherry coblers ? or, more heroic,
will you take a whisky cobler ? or, coming down
to Democratic usage, will you venture upon
“whisky straight?" Here’s to Don Carlos, and
may the Ells restaurant “livelong and prosper!”
Delighted.—The Versailles dispatches say
the French people are delighted with the Nation
al Assembly for extending their powers and
“holding over.” They will have to tell that story
to the marines, for no true sailor will believe it.
We have had plenty of that kind of stuff in
Georgia and the Southern States, but no nigger
was ever yet brassy enough to set up that the
people delighted in it. They held over for nine
dollars a day and other plunder, and they knew
the Radicals would back them in it against the
people whom they hated and wished to see plun
dered and ruined. But, desperate as is the case
Of France, she is not in so horrible a fix as the
people of the South. She is not altogether the
sport of her enemies, and when the National
Assembly sets up that the extension of their
powers beyond reasonable limits pleases the
French, we know better.
A Macon Bcsgt.”—Messrs. Valentino &
Freeman, of Mulberry street, showed us yester
day a buggy made throughout in Macon, which
is the handsomest piece of work we have lately
seen running on four wheels. We do not be
lieve tho carriage repositories can show any
thing from New York or New Haven equal to
it. Tho wood work, painting and upholstering,
(which last is done in Russia leather) are really
artistic. The price of the buggy is only §250,
and it ought to silence all competition in the
State Fair, if they will exhibit it. We are glad
to see from an inspection of their repair work
manship that Valentino & Freeman can take
a worn and defaced carriage and put it on tho
track again, as good as new.
News Items.
Coal, at the Scranton sales in New York on
Wednesday, ranged from §4.00 to §5.CO. Sales
amounted to 140,000 tons.
Pbice of Mocking Bibds.—Under the head
of city news, the New York World says mock
ing birds vary in price according to their natur
al and acquired accomplishments. One of av
erage talents, for instance, can be had for §25,
while some dealers have birds so clever that
§1,000 would not “fetch” one of them.
Communications.—The outside of our paper
to-day contains some very interesting commu
nications—a review of the railway situation
in Chattanooga—a capital article upon deep
culture and tho laws of vegetable growth—a
slashing article upon the decision of tho Su
premo Court affirming tho constitutionality of
the relief laws.
B. A. Wise has returned from the North, and
is receiving at his store on Cherry street an ex
tensive and elegant assortment of household
famishing articles, which will include the finest
array of cutlery, domestic and pocket, ever ex
hibited to the Macon publio. Mr. Wise, having
made arrangements for the energetic direction
of his crockery establishment on Mulberry
street, will make his headquarters during the
fall and winter at the Cherry street stand, and
invites all his customers to examine his stock.
It will include the largest and best assortment
of stoves to bo found in Middle Georgia—and a
splendid array of lamps, chandeliers and gas
fixtures, and every description of household and
kitchen wares and utensils of the latest patterns
and on the most reasonable terms.
That Babn.—A representative .f tho Atlanta
Constitution has been up in Cobb county, to
find out all about that bam of Bullock’s of which
wo have heard so much. It stands on a farm of
1200 acres, for which §14,000 was paid. It is
three stories high, 100 feet long by 50 feet wide,
has 25 stalls, and iron racks and troughs. In it are
§2,500 worth of the most improved agricultural
implements. It will cost §12,000 or §15,000
when finished. The reporter was informed that
His Excellency had only sixteen acres in cotton
on his farm, and that the prospect for making
enough provisions to do the place this year, was
very slim. The reporter concludes Ms article
with the highly impertinent intimation that it
is impossible to keep people from wondering
how and when Governor Bullock fell heir to so
much wealth?
Uncommon Schools.—The Picayune gives an
elegant illustration of Conway’s common schools
in Louisiana in this paragraph:
There are in the parish of Morehouse twelve
school districts. In each of these districts there
is a rablio school; in each of these schools, as
we no informed, there are some twelve or fifteen
colored scholars, and there is a teacher to each
school. The minimum amount received by any
of those teachers is §60 per month, and thus
the Stato pays for the instruction of say 200
pupils at least §7,040 per annum, and very prob
ably muoh more.
Pebsonal.—Rev. Dr. H. H. Tucker, late
President of Mercer University, and family,
sailed from New York for Liverpool, last
Wednesday, on the Cunard steamer Russia.
O. A. Nutting, Esq., of this city, was regis
tered at the Sherman House. Chicago, on Tues
day, tho 29th nit.
Tbe Incoming Cotton Crop.
The telegrams of yesterday informed ns that
the Charleston Courier and News agree in esti
mating the incoming crop at from tbree to
three and a quarter millions of bales. On what
premises can such an estimate be based ? The
crop grown in 1869 represented the product of
a Mghly propitious year—a protracted season
and a very liberal application of fertilizers, and
it was, in round numbers, 3,155,000 bales.' Run
over the previous crops since the war, as fol
lows: 1868, 2,439,039 bales; 1867, 2,593,993
bales: 1866,2,010,774; 1865, 2,103,987. The
aggregate of the six crops beginning with that of
1865^ and counting the crop of 1870 at four
and a half million bales, amounts to 16,901,739
bales. Divide by sir and we have an average
yield for six years of 2,816,956 per annum.
Up to last spring no one pretended to con
sider the crop grown in 1869 “an average
crop.” It was universally conceded to have
been a crop exceptionablygood. It started out
with fine stands and it encountered no misfor
tune worse than a drouth in July, which caused
some shedding, but wMoh was followed by pro
pitious rains and a new growth that realized a
very productive fruitage through a late falL
That crop showed a gain of 715,907 bales on
the short crop of the previous year. Nothing
but the unprecedented product of last year—
the joint result of extravagant fertilizing—the
infatuation of a cotton mania, and a year pro
pitious almost beyond example, could have in
duced any body to set up the crop of 1869 as
an averago crop. But last year was wholly ab
normal. It showed a product almost double that
of any previous year since the war—the heavy
crop of 1869 alone excepted. The average of
the four previous years being 2,311,698 bales,
the crop of last. year was over two millions in
excess. It was simply a spasmodic crop—the
result of an exhaustive effort of productive
energy, backed by twenty-five or thirty millions
worth of fertilizer and supplemented by the
concurrence of every natural condition for the
development of an extraordinary product.
In short, we fail to see any solid reason what
ever for making up an average crop out of tho
joint products of the last two years, and that is
precisely what every estimator is doing. Both
were exceptional years. In both the product
was stimulated by lavish applications of guano;
and both were favored with seasons unusually
propitious. Both crops had a fair start and a
glorious consummation. There is hardly a
planter in Georgia who would pretend to set up
the product of either or of both as his own over
age crop on a similar acreage.
A liberal average, it seems to ns, would be
made up out of the solid crop product of freed
labor since the war. And that this is not alone
our view, we have heretofore shown from the
cotton year book for 1871. The editor of that
intelligent publication, writing a little less than
a year ago, says:
“The season of 1869 was highly favorable;
that of 1870 has surpassed it In all the Mstory
of American cotton growing the third progress
ively favorable season has never occurred. A
planting equal in area to that of 1870, may turn
out less than 3,000,000 bales.”
Assuming, then, that a fair average crop would
be less than 3,000,000 bales, what is there in
the situation to justify the expectation of an
average crop? We see not tte first reasonable
ground to hope for it. The accounts from
every section of the cotton growing belt, Ar
kansas, Florida and Texas, excepted, all pre
dict a deficit of a third to a half. And as to
these exceptions we may remark that Texas is
now sending forward badreports, and Arkansas
has modified her anticipations very much witMn
two or three weeks. We see no chance for an
average crop, and we see no possible founda
tion for a three and a quarter million estimate
more rational than tMs: Assume that tho last
crop, of 4,500,000 bales, was “an average crop.”
Then knock off about thirty per cent, for di
minished area, bad stand, rust, worms, imper
fect and generally unpromising condition, and
yon will come down to the 3,250,000 bale esti
mate.
The Rnral Carolinian.
The September number just received com
pletes the second year of the Rural Carolinian,
and the publishers announce themselves Mghly
gratified and encouraged by the degree of suc
cess which Las crowned their efforts to establish
an agricultural magazine of the highest class.
They find themselves with a large and growing
subscription list made up from every State of
the Union and from almost every country on the
habitable globe. We have little space for com
ments on this number, wMch, amid a great va
riety, presents some articles of unusual value.
Among these is one upon the Cotton Caterpillar
—the Breeding of Domestic Animals—Stable
Stalls and Stall Fittings—Horse Talk and several
articles npon the insect foe3 of the vegetable
and flower garden. In “Experience with To
matoes,” the Editor pronounces the Trophy and
tho Dixie, the ne plus ultra of the tribe. The
Carolinian extracts from the Demopolis (Ala.)
Exponent, a wonderful story of a cotton tree
raised from a seed in that neighborhood in 1867
and protected through the frosts of two succes
sive winters, until able to bear them. In 1869
tho tree bore cotton wMch turned out a bale of
476 pounds—in 1870- it made 1,293 pounds of
lint, and this year all predict three bales from
it. If that is a hoax the man’s ears should be
boxed.
Loeillaed & Co.—We suppose that most of
our readers have heard of tMs celebrated tobacco
and snuff house of New York city. They have
never had an advertisement in our columns,
but we propose to give them one without charge.
An Atlanta tobacco merchant called at the
house a short while since to make some heavy
purchases. Before buying, however, he told
one of tho firm that he had been solicited by the
Lee Monument Association, to establish agen
cies in that city for the sale of the pictures of
Gen. Lee and asked this business man if he
would not subscribe for one. He received a
most abrupt and insulting answer after this wise.
“Sir, I would not permit the picture of suoh a
traitor and rebel to come into my house, if I
knew it, much less enoourage the building of a
monument to Ms memory by paying my money
for it. I think it an insult for you to ask me
to do such a thing.” On being asked by tho
Atlantian if he did not care for Southern trade
1m replied, “that he would not give a cent for
We trust our friends and Southern dealers,
generally, will not hereafter trouble these gen-
men with what they do not “care a cent for.”
Remember the house; Lorillard & Co., New
York city.
The Savannah Fair.
The Fair of the Industrial Association of
Georgia, to be held on the 21st of November
next and subsequent days, is evidently designed
to lay everytMng else of the kind in the shade,
and show the up country what the seaboard can
do. The list of premiums cover sixty printed
pages and aggregate a very large amount of
money and values, and the range of exMbits is
well-nigh universal. In addition to the regular
premiums, Messrs. Saunders, Goodwin & Miller-
offer a plate of the value of §100 for the best
five boles of cotton consigned to them, and
another of the value of §25 for the second best
five bales. ' f .1
News fbom a Fobmeb Macon Man.—In the
New York Sun, of Tuesday, under the head of
“Personal Intelligence,” we find a paragraph
stating that Mr. John U. Shorter has been ad
mitted to membership in the law firnq of Howe
& Hummel, and will attend to the civil business.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Columbus Sun entered upon its 17th vol
ume last Thursday. May it shine for many
years to come.
The editor of the Kewnan Defender was in
deuce of a fix last Monday. He narrowly .es
caped being run over by a bull, a wagon and
woman, and also a bite from a bull dog. Tha*
man’s been doing something naughty, sure.
Messrs. J. G. & J. P. Damall, of Kentucky,
were registered at the Marshall House, Savan
nah, on Wednesday. We hope they are not
wicked as their names!
Captain M. Hapenny, of the brig Selma,
lying at Savannah, died of bilious fever on
Wednesday. He leaves a wife and two children
at Charlestown, Mass.
We clip the following items from the Savan.
nah News, of Thursday:
A Hastx Flight fbom Town.—Not long since
allusion was made in these columns to the ar
rest of a young man of previous good standing,
bnt whose fast ways had led Mm to appropriate
the sum of three thousand dollars belonging to
Ms employers, who were engaged in the drayage
business. The prisoner entered into bonds at
the time, and since then, in company with an-
other young gentleman, started a business enter
prise of his own. On Sunday night, this hero
of one defalcation, with a conscience quite un
touched, gathered together the available funds
of the institution and vanished, leaving a letter
addressed to Ms partner, in which he stated
that it was impossible for him to live in Savan
nab, where Ms prospects were forever blighted,
and that he was driven to the necessity of seek
ing some other point, where he could again gain
a foothold. He failed to explain why he appro
priated the money of his partner, or why he left
his bondsmen in the lurch.
The Bbeak on the Atlantic and Gulf Rail-
boad.—We regret to Jeam that the repairs on
the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad are not yet com
plete, and that transfers had to be made last
night as heretofore. The worst wash, that at
Satilia bridge, has been repaired, and the other-
wonld have been had it not been for an acci
dent to the pile driver, wMch caused a slight
delay. The road will undoubtedly be put in
good order to-day, and through communication
established on regular schedule time.
A Gipsy Band.—A fully equipped band of
Gipsies arrived at this port yesterday by the
steamship Magnolia from New York. The party
consists of four men, four women, fifteen small
children and babies. Their outfit consists of
five horses, two wagons, two colts, two goats and
two dogs. As soon as the vessel was moored to
the wharf the teams were hitched up and the
party disappeared. It is said that they are en>
route for Florida, where they will campaign
duriDg the fall and winter.
The Savannah Advertiser, of Thursday, learns
from a private letter that the Satilia River rice
fields are under water, and that it would be im
possible for any craft to find the navigable
channel to any of the streams or landings.
The Cartersville Standard, of Thursday, says
Mubdee, Jealousy.—Allen Young, colored,
on the night of the 23d instant, discharged the
contents of a shot gun in tbe direction of Ms
former wife, and her (at that time) sweetheart,
killing the woman and badly wounding the
youth. TMs occurred in the woods near Dr.
Young’s plantation. We can learn of no cause
for the rash act except jealousy. Allen is of
opinion that the devil was around.
Mrs. M. A. Frederick, a lady noted for her
many deeds of charity, died at Augusta, Wednes
day.
The Augusta city fathers have issued an or
der banishing the hog family from that city.
The order does not say, specifically, whether
the four or two legged variety are meant. We
presu"- ? the former.
The Chronicle and Sentinel of Thuisday says
The Quabantine.—Dr. M. J. Jones has been
appointed quarantine inspector, under the regu
lations adopted by the Board of Health and the
City Council, to prevent the introduction of
yellow fever into this city from Charleston. Dr.
Jones, we believe, commenced the performance
of Ms duties yesterday morning. Both the
trains from Charleston were met at Aiken, and
the baggage of the passengers and the cars
thoroughly ventilated. Medical gentlemen seem
to think that tMs regulation and the others
adopted by the Board last Monday, if strictly
enforced, will do a great deal towards keeping
a way yellow fever.
The Baptist and Methodist churches at Grif
fin, are enjoying revivals.
Dr. Thos. H. Butler, late of Griffin, died at
Shermantown, Texas, on the 7th of August.
Mr. Willis Bentley, late of Spaldmg county,
died in Nacogdoches county, Texas, recently.
Boully is about to plume his wings for another
lofty newspaper flight. TMs time he favors
West Point We knew he’d do it soon.
Tho Griffin Star says:
William Brown, son of Flem Brown, of Pike
county, killed a negro man near Flat Shoals, on
Sunday evening. The ciroumstances, as we
have them, are that Brown met the negro in the
road, incompany withothernegroes, and ordered
the deceased to pull off his coat, wMch ho re
fused to do, whoreupon Brown shot him through
the breast, producing death at once. Brown
made his escape.
If the facta are as stated by the Star, the
sooner Brown is hung the better.
Says the Constitution, of yesterday:
The Attempt at Rape.—Upon investigation
yesterday, we learned that the negro man who
attempted to outrage the person of a white girl
about twelve or thirteen years of age, near
Oglethorpe Park, Wednesday morning, was a
man about twenty-eight or thirty years of age,
weighing 175 or 180 pounds, with one finger off,
and said to have worked for B. H. Broomhead.
Tho girl had been to the school-house, and was
returning to her father’s to get something.to
ease the pain of a tooth which was acMng, when
she was attacked by the ruffian. Several school
girls passing by, alarmed him and he fled. He
was pursuod and arrested by a Mr. Cook and
another gentleman, hut succeeded in escaping
from them. His captors claim that, while they
had Henry in the buggy bringing him to the
city, the father of the white girl stopped them,
declaring that he intended to slay Henry then
and there. One descended from the buggy and
the other wheeled the buggy around, when
Henry fled.
Tho gods evidently do not love that branch
of the Jones family who live up in Northeast
Georgia. John Jones, aged 87, is a sprightly
hand in a shingle mill on the Air Lins Railway,
near Gainesville, and Ms mother, who lives in
Habersham, connta 114 summers.
We clip the following items from the Haw-
kinsville Dispatch, of yesterday:
The Tobnado Last Feidax—In toby to Ceops
and otheb Feopeety.—On Friday evening last
a most violent hurricane spent its fury in the
neighborhood of Mr. Jas. L. Lampkin and the
Harrell settlement. We have been unable to
obtain full particulars of the damage done, but
so far as heard from Messrs. Lampkin and Levi
Harrell have sustained tbe greatest injury. The
former gentleman had four cotton houses blown
dowD, six stacks of fodder blown completely
away, a field of com scattered in every direction.
The fury of the tempest was so great as to de
prive a portion of the com of the sbuck,whichlay
scattered in adjoining fields. Mr. Harrell had a
crib blown over, one cow killed, and all his
fowls killed or carried off.
The tornado appears to have risen near the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, and taken a
westward course. Its width was from three
hundred to one thousand yards, which was grad
ually contracted till reaching the river, where
its fmy ceased. Its route is marked by the
great amount of fallen timber, the largest
of pines being blown up by the roots and car
ried some distance. Large red oaks, four and
five feet in diameter, were wrested from their
foundations like so many sapplings.
Ceops and Health in Dooly County.—We
had a visit one day last week from Simon L.
Taylor, Esq., an old citizen of Dooly county,
from whom we learn that the crop prospects of
his county are not good—cotton is sorry, and
com ditto. But Mr. Taylor reports good health
for Ms neighborhood. He lives about five
miles from Vienna, and says that during a resi
dence of aventeen years in the county he has
had but four cases of chills and fever in Ms
family, including sickness among Ms slaves, the
number of whom was sixteen prior to the war.
Cotton and Cobn Ceops.—“Both of these
crops”—as an old farmer says—“have about
done their do for this year.” It will require a
late season to mature the blooms wMoK here
after oome upon the cotton stalk, even where
rust has not visited tho crop. The oldest and
best farmers do not expeot more than half of
last year’s production in this portion of Geor
gia. The crop may . bo better in other StatoB.
We are able only to speak for this section.—
Some few planters have made good crops of com
but a large majority are far behind their expec
tations.
The Savannah News, of yesterday, has the
following:
Tt.t.tom of Genebat, Wade Hampton.—It
with sincere sorrow that wo learn from a friend
in our city that the noble gentleman, patriot
and soldier, Gem Wade Hampton, is confined
to his bed by a serious sickness, said to be the
result of extreme nervous prostration. Any
thing he suffers will touch the hearts of thou
sands. We are also pained to add that his wife,
the worthy and only representative of the illus
trious statesman and orator, Gem MoDnffie, is
also suffering from a violent attack, said to in
dicate paralysis.
Georgia tenders her condolenoe to her afflicted
sister, Sonth Carolina.
Mr. William Howard died at Gainesville, Hall
county, last Sunday, aged 91 years. That county
seems to have the age on most others.
The Golumbns Sun, of Friday, says Robert
Clopton, aged fifteen, and son of Hon. David
Clopton, of Montgomery, died vory suddenly
a congestive chill at Robinson Springs, last
Wednesday. He was sick only two hours.
A crazy negro was run over and killed by
train on tho Atlantio and Gulf Railroad, at sta
tion 17, on Tuesday night. He was lying on
the track asleep.
The Savannah News, of Friday, says:
Steamer Lost off Floeida.—We learn from
a telegram reeeived here last evening that the
steamer Junatia was lost off the coast of Florida,
a day or two since. There was one passenger,
a Mr. Millington, rescued by the U. S. ship
Severn. As to the fate of the balance of the
passengers or crew we could learn nothing.
Fort Valley, Marshallville, Butler, Knoxville,
and Ferry will have a grand fair at the former
place in October. Six thousand dollars have
been raised to erect buildings and put the
grounds in order.
A lad named Meyer, aged fourteen years,
dropped dead in an Augusta bar-room where he
wa3 employed, Thursday night.
Columbus has a cotton seed oil factory which
will soon be in full blast. Six hydraulio presses
and a cotton seed huller are among the ma
chinery.
The annual cotton statement of August shows
the following figures : Receipts for September
1, 1870, to August 31, 1871, inclusive, 188,705
bales. Receipts from same date, 1869, to same
date, 1870, 122,779 bales—difference in favor
of year just closed, 63,926 bales.
We clip the following from the Chronicle and
Sentinel of Friday:
Aekested in Macon.—We learn that several
days ago there v. ns a young man from New York
in this city, named Dubai. He had formerly
been connected with a well known mercantile
firm in New York, and represented that he still
retained the connection. By means of these
representations he succeeded in getting one of
our merchants, Mr. J. A. Apel, to cash a draft
on the firm for seventy-five dollars. Tho draft
was immediately sent to New York and payment
refused, the firm stating that the drawer was no
longer in their employment, and was not author
ized to draw upon them.- On yesterday, learn
ing that Dnbal was in Macon, Mr. Apel tele
graphed to Macon and had him arrested by the
police of that city. He is expected here this
evening.
We find these items in the Savannah Repub
lican, of Friday:
Bbeak on the Atlantio and Gulf Bail-
boad.—The report reaches us that the bridge
over the Suwannee River pn tbe branch of the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, between Lawton
Station and Live Oak, was washed away on
Wednesday night. The passenger train coming
in, barely escaped—tho train having obeyec.
the signal to put down breaks within a few
yards of the fearful chasm, made by the rush
of water on the Suwannee. Tho break, we are
informed, will be speedily repaired, and in time
for the train leaving yesterday.
A Bbctal Assault. — Yesterday afternoon
about 1 o’clock, as a white man, who was under
tho influence of liqaor, was passing along the
corner of York and Price streets, a negro said
something to him, when the wMte man replied
to the negro’s remark.. The latter then ran into
Flaherty’s grocery and seized a stick of wood,
with which ho dealt the intoxicated man a blow
that knocked Mm insensible in tbe street, tho
negro escaping arrest by flight. The injured
party was taken off by a policeman.
A Lady Badly Huet by a Stone Thbown by
Negro Boy.—Wednesday afternoon, while
Mrs. James LaBoche, in company with another
lady, was returning from Laurel Grove Cem
etery, she was struck a very severe blow on the
left temple by a reck thrown by a negro boy,
wMch cut her very seriously. The rascal, see
ing the damage he had done, made Ms escape,
a3 there was no policeman near the scene of
tho mishap. The lady thus injured wa3 taken
to a physioian and the wound dressed. The
stone whieh struck her was a sharp flint rock
weighing probably half a pound.
The city authorities of Savannah are using a
mixture of carbolic acid and water, to water the
streets.
We quote, as follows, from the Albany News,
of Friday:
The Cotton Crop a Failure.—We are now
in possession of reliable data from the whole of
South and Southwestern Georgia, relative to the
condition of the cotton crop, and it is our pain
ful duty to report a disastrous failure. TMs is
no sensational announcement, and is not based
upon doubtful information. The best sections
of this portion of the State cannot possibly
reach two-thirds of an average crop, while the
poorer sections will scarcely exceed one-third.
The acreage of the latter being much tho largest,
the plain deduction is that a half crop will not
be realized. Before the recent storms and con
tinued rains, the better lands promised a good
yield, but not a full crop. Now the rust is
making fearful ravages, and the caterpillar is
spreading with destructive rapidity. We have
direct intelligence from nearly all the large
plantations in the Oakwood3 belt, and the con-
current testimony dicloses disaster everywhere.
Fatal Accident.—By a note received from
Messrs. Mallory & Welch, lessees of Willing
ham’s mill, in this county, we learn that on
Monday last a fatal accident occurred to Mr. F.
M. Wilkinson, one of their employees. It
seems that Mr. W. was attempting to repair
the feed belt of the mill by passing his leg
through it, and before taking bis leg out, called
to the fireman to “go ahead,” wMoh he did, and
tho belt ceught his leg, winding him around the
shaft, tearing off the leg below the knee, and
then tearing ont the thigh at the hip. He died
in about five minutes after becoming extricated.
Deceased was from Twiggs connty.
The Dawson Journal tells this story:
Tubnxnq the Scales.—An aged froedman in
our community having saved enough of Ms
eaming3 to send his boy to school until he could
spell words of three syllables, concluded that he,
the father, was not too old to go to school, and
consequently, made a teacher of Ms boy,-the
father being tbe only pupiL Having advanced
from A to AB, he was then given a lesson in
cat, rat, dog, eto. The father unaware of tbe
line of discipline his son intended to pursue,
was rather careless about perfect lessons, and
to Ms surprise, ou reciting a lesson after sup
per, being asked to spell dog, he responded
d-o-r-g! the son feathered in on him with a well
seasoned Mckory. On being interrogated as to
that manner proceeding the boy replied, “that’s
the way our teacher does us and if you go to
school to me you may expect to get flogged if
you don’t have perfect lessons.” TMs school
was closed without an examination or public
demonstration of any kind, ana we have not
heard whether or not there will be a fail session.
The La Grange Methodist church is having a
religous revival.
Mr. Thos. B, Greenwood, for forty years a
citizen of La Grange, died on the 24th nit.
A little ohild of Mr. Dan Brogan’s, of Atlan
ta, fell into a tub of water on Friday, and was
drowned.
An Atlanta shoe-maker invites custom with
this sign: “Botts and shoos mad hear—ladies
and shentelmens repaired. Kum in hear.”
The champion talker lives at Newnan. One
of Ms female friends says he can “talk tho in
sides out of a green gourd, without cutting a
hole in it.”
There was a rumor in Atlanta, Friday, that
Bullock had gone to California, to engage the
services of Ah Sin
the Stato road books.
PROCEEDINGS IS THE SUPREME COURT
In Honor of the Memory of the Into lodge |
Eugenlns A. Nisbet. -
Supreme Ooubt or Geobgi a, V
Atlanta, Ga,, August 29, 1871. j
was. He was not an enthusiast. He made no
parade of Mb religion, bnt he was not ashamed
to testify Ms belief in the Gospel of Christ.
His faith was founded on the “Bock of Ages.”
It grew brighter and stronger with each revolv
ing day, and now that he is dead, it oasts a halo
After the delivery of opinions in eases argued I of glory around Ms tomb,
last week, the Court, adjourned till 3 o’clock p, Who can duly estimate the loss of snob a
m., then to bear the report of the oommittee man? His errors, whether of head or heart,
appointed to prepare a memorial of the Honor- were like spots npon the sun. They pale into
able Eugenios A. Nisbet. t insignificance before the radiant lnstre of his
Upon the re-assembling of Court at 8 o’clock graces and virtues. In Ms home, he was not
p. m., Colonel 'Washington Foe, Chairman of only a loving and tender parent, bnt a familiar
said committee, reported as follows: friend. With his family, sweet was Ms con-
The committee appointed at the last session I verse. Respected, honored, loved—his chief
of this. Court to prepare a suitable memorial, I delight was in the the companionsMp and as-
commemorative of the death of Hon. Eugenios I sociations of home. Oh, what a loss his death
A. Nisbet, beg'leave to submit the following has inflicted on the charmed circle of wMch he
report: was the life and the joy!
Death is ever hovering around onr dwellings. I He has gone from earth, and we shall seo him
We can almost feel his icy touoh and behold Ms I here no more.
ghastly visage when onr hearts beat strong with I Resolved, That in the death of Judge Nisbet
hope, and onr cheeks wear the rosy hues of I this Coart has been deprived of a wise coun-
health. He is the faithfnl and relentless execu-1 sellor, this Bar of an honored member, and the
tioner of the deoree wMoh consigns all Adam’s I State of a noble and gifted son.
raco to the dost. His visits—always unwelcome Resolved, That this Court and Bar deeply
—are sometimes peculiarly painful. When he I sympathize with the family of deceased in their
enters onr homes and robs ns of the'cherished I irreparable loss, bnt rejoioe that in the life of
objects of our love; when he strikes down the Judge Nisbet they have a legacy of ineffable
great and the good, those of whom States and | Tclne,
communities are justly proud, then'in truth do j Resolved, That the Supreme Court bo re
lamentation and mourning follow in Ms foot- quested to have this report and resolutions en-
ateps. tered on its minutes, and a copy forwarded by
By placing His inexorable grasp on the per-1 th® Clerk to the family of deceased,
son of Judge Nisbet, He has brought sore be- Hon. Jas. Jackson then addressed tbe Court
reavement to a large afid loving family, deprived ^ follows •
this bar of an honored member, this court of a May it p j eaae yonr Honors in tbe absenoe of
£=£££2 sag sl
Fef men htaKSE?*** **" * SeC ° Cd I0SO *
TOmn^thepnUtoj^awmidGi^aww. x had J not the bonorof an intimate acqaaInt .
thnStb aJnFthZ ano ° witb Judge Nisbet nntil the last few years
ana though dead, the memoryof his virtues will of ^ Ufe> When on tbe death o{ former
blmnved 0 I beloVed brotb er, General °° bb » 1 beoamo
s’ntmfflnr ^mint sooiated with him in his praotice of the law, I was
dimmed splendor, nntli ha djaappeared to take permitted to look into the interior of the man,
. J 868 tb ® heart-beat of Ms soul; themove-
Constitution of 1790, and for a number of years
a member of the Board of Trustees of the
State University at Athens. His first inBtrno-
tion was received in the sohool of Rev. Fran
cis Camming, D. D., at Greensboro. When
quite young he entered the Freshmen class in
the college at Columbia, S. O. He was soon
transferred to the University at Athens, and
was a member of the first_ class of graduates
under t‘
bearing
Turning Ms attention to the law, he com-
of none beat a more generous heart or purer
soul than those wMch animated Ms delicate
frame.
To pass from boyhood to the grave—to move
in tM3 world of struggle and of sin for sixty-
seven years—to be engaged in struggles for
Legislative and Congressional honors, and to
win them all and wear them all without doing
this Benok, and I can recall the sweet hi,
and oourtesy wMoh marked Ms intercom^
those who then stood as advocates beiv,*'
Forum. I can recall him after he left this nli
in the court room where I have often
sooiated with him, and can bear testimorm®'
patience of his research and the close
nation of the legal principles involved,
various eases with wfaiohhe was entrusted
can recall the method and symmetry of al >
gnment before the court, and his earnest f
ble and eloquent appeals before the jury ,
did not dash as the mountain torrent, rousi
impetuous, in the ejaculation of .sentence J
the stream ot his thoughts flowed cal ml?
translucently, reflecting upon its breast *
Jay upon its banks. He was no orator *
; Brutus’ is, ” in the Vehementroatpourings of u
sion, and needing tragedy to give effect to?
utterances; but he was an orator whose pa
of diction, ornate expression and statesmans,
of sentiment bore Mm onward and forward!
upward to the Mghest regions of thought, >
no matter how long or how complicated-
question, proposition grew ont of propositi,
and argument was unfolded by argument
harmoniously linked with the whole subject si
it became one piece of unwoven thought
almost persuaded conviction and carried wity
the attestation of its own truth. His sbl e ,
oratory was persuasive, and led captive i
hearers by the silver tone and gentle demet
with wMch it was delivered. Few men in t
terior had more of the accomplishments of *
polished rhetorician than he, and few wieM
them with more masterly abilty.
There was no bitterness or acrimony in i
sentiments or speeches. He seldom resorted!
the utterance of satire, and his quiver coats!
ed no poisoned arrow with which to wound a
sensibilities of others, even in the ardor of 4
bate. To the profession of which he was ,
ornament he stands a model for emulation -
the closing of a career in wMch he was hones
with the highest places without ever having^
vited an ungenerous sentiment to himself,
indulging it to others. His Christain gra ;
rendered him alike an ornament to society
Jidge Nisbet’s publio career is well known to I oTrethw the motive Dower^of theTnner to the chnrch > and whiI ® ™ffi<mding in all
the people of Georgia. He was a native of religious oonviotions, he was no stickler
this State, having been bom in Greene county £ 86e n bv |he world, and 2* that Kr forms ’ ^ had ^ ear J ; aa ,°P ea in **■
S? ““ ** !»““ J™'. 1803 -1 B» Aimfchtv *£ X e „“J ■SEysSt?* hTsSKS
honor were instructive, and he scarcely
found it necessary to reason Mmself info |i
path of fluty. He did right by impulse, foiy
do right was the discipline of Ms life. T 0 ]*
friends he was genial and confiding, and er»
ready to aid by his counsel those who eos;
him for assistance. In Ms home he was anif-
for in Ms sweet companionship the grandee!
Ms affections shone out with increased In
and every wish and feeling of Ms family ts
like tendrils around him. It is not the t
sion to pay eulogies Upon our deceased frifj
and brother, hat as a member of this court»
may say with pride that Ms learning and t.
ability to be found in the volumes of its repor.j
are monuments that will bear his name doV
the stream of time to distant generations, a"
attest the fidelity with wMch he discharged I
important trust reposed in him by the peopl.
Several of Ms decisions, withont enumeraiia
have exhausted the sources of the common In
from which the great principles cf right as;
rule of duty have been dedueed, and lei
notMng to add by his successors who will f
in them a rule founded npon principle that u.
be as lasting as the memory of their author.
It was his privilege to preside over the fh|
councils of tMs Court, to have sat at the sai
council table with the great and good Jed.
Lumpkin,and with Judge Warner, the vcnera&i
survivor of that august organization, to had
carried this Court in its early struggles again!
the prejudices and dissatisfaction of thepeopk!
to have planted it deep in the public confidence]
and to have left it in the pride of Ms reput&tkl
with the memory of his name and the inspb
tion of his genius to go down to the futnu
No judioial officer who filled so conspicuous apj
eminent a place, ever left it with more of tit'
confidence and ;applause of the people. Th
ermine wMch he took off and bequeathed to hi-
successors was as pure as the unsoiled saow c:
Diana's lap.
We gather around his memory to-day to pa;
the last tribute which is afforded ns by placing
on record our appreciation of one who whenii
life stood first in the ranks of Ms profession
In discharging tMs sacred duty, we are admen
ished of the uncertainty of human life and ho*
unsubstantial are all the honors in the gift of this
world to bestow; how crowns and sceptres,
principalities and powers, all crumble and got:
nothing at the touch of death. How the scroll
of life, no matter how dotted with the brilliant:
of acMevement, rolls up and withers with ti!
touch of time! There are no distinctions i:
the graves that lie before us. Soon other face;
will fill this hall; onr seats will become vacant;
one by one, we all must loave for that bourca
from whence no traveler returns. Let me invole
the memory of Mm whose death is the opports-
nity of these proceedings—to impress upon all
to so act their part in life as to be like him pre
pared to wear a deathless crown of immortalit;.
Let the noble profession, of which we are
members, in its syren sentiments of ambition,
not lead ns into temptation, for the honors of
earth in that hour when the night cometb, are
as unsubstantial as the spirit of a dream walk
ing the chambers of sleep. The honor wbici
this hour admonishes us all to seek, is that
wMch does not pale even amid the resplendent
lustres of the Jaspers and Crysolites of the ne?
Jerusalem. TMs was the honor, tMs the death
less crown for which our lamented brother strove
through life, and wMch was prepared for hie
when he mounted to the height of earthly emi
nence, and looked up and was no more seen.
Let these resolutions be entered on the min
utes of the Court, and these proceedings bi
published upon the pages of ita reports.
TMs Court will stand adjourned until to
morrow morning at 10 o’clock.
Crops in Mitchell County.
Camilla, Ga., August 29th, 1871.
Editors 2 degraph and Messenger : Thinking
_ a short letter from Mitchell would not bo unin-
quaintance with Ms case. To the demands"of I «dormdntkm ofthrcVurt“ at ^^"ran- tate * Ung to J° u and 1310 readers of the ®B*
u large ? nd increasing practice he devoted him-1 not be S fnllv anmeciated now. L gbaph and Messengeb, I have concluded to say
a few words m regard to the crops in this conn-
7u “w l -i , 01 , one single act of wMoh cMlfl or friend need be
? tbe Presidency of Dr. Moses Waddel, asbamed — nay mo re, may it please your Hon-
ing off the honors of his class. ors, withont havmg the least of suspicion or
lining his attention to the law, be com -1 slsmder cast upon his honor or honesty or purity,
menced his studies under Judge Clayton, and p Ub lio or private, constitutes the highest praise,
subsequently became a student in the taw nob j eBt en j ium wll j cb can b0 nounced
school of the celebrated Judge Gould, atLitoh- npon man . -whoever heard a wMsper against
field, Conn. Having finished his professional the integrity and virtue of this illustrious man?
cou.se, he returned to Georgia, and at the ear- As Representative in the General Assembly, as
ly age of twenty he was admitted to the bar by Representative in Congress, as Judge on tMs
authority of a special act of the General As- Be £ c h in the formative period of our judioial
sembly He opened an office at Madison, and history, as member of Provisional Congress of
began the practire of his profession in partner- Confederate States, he was, without fear
ship with John W. Campbell Esq. It was not and without reprach, a man among men.
long before his fine intellect and well-stored q remembe r well the frequent inquiry made
mind, combined with a remarkable grace and of m9 by one of yonr honors, by him who so
beauty of manner and expression, attracted long sat with him on the primitive^ bench of this
public attention He made rapid repntation as cor 5 t dnring his last long sickness. I remember
a lawyer and gathered around him a host of ad- yourHonor’sanxietyabontMshealtb.yourpraise
mirers and friends who, when he had scarcely J ot his integrity, your admiration of Ms cour-
attamed hls ma l«‘ty, held up before Mm the age hi3 vi^his conservatism, your recogni-
Mlanngprospeotofpohtioal distinction and in- tionof the value of Ms learned and laborious
•» represent the county of Morgan as8ia tance in moulding the scattered and loose
islature. This was in the fall of ma terial of Georgia taw and practice into con-
A “ ontbs P«°F to Uh entrance in- sisteil0y and E h ap e; and I remember how your
liO r!•;or!^fila Amonflf Honor’s messages of kindness were received on
b ®“ a J n ® d B l ttle » Of .^ n0 °-S that wMch proved to be Ms death bed, and how
?? , wbo presided with cordially all that kindness and respect were re-
queenly dignity over his home, and was his c j prooa ted by Mm.
°°“P a “°rr rmtu her death \ few yea ^ fa6 fore his death his Alma Mater,
to to? month of May, 186o. . _ the University of Georeia, conferred upon him
^ l re “ ark ® d tbat Jn d S® Nisbet the Mghest honor in her gift-the degree of
™ °°i a P r l e “i onal P oll £ lcia °- As much as Doctor of Laws-the only graduate of the col-
d ® s - DI8edtbe I lege upon whom she ever conferred that de-
Tbo sla “ d ' gree, thus placing Mm Mghest on that long roll
TO f wb i ob b ^ a ? £ 0lded of all the noble sons she has given to Georgia
in private life was not lowered on the hustings and the South. B
nor in the halls of legislation. In every walk Judge Nisbet died as he had lived—calmly,
2L1&JEL? 1 “ a r°i h,8 ^ t0n | d - ca “ dld j resolutely, fearlessly, beautifully-as one about
conscientious man, who loved and defended | to cross a river into a more beautiful land. Just
truth for its own sake, and who would have suf
fered the loss of all things rather than have
done what was mean or dishonorable. He was
a party man, but was never in vinculis. He
wa3 too ardent a lover cf freedom to allow Ms
as quietly he crossed the river of death. I have
no donbt his dying eyes were blessed with a
vision of that glory land, and that now he enjoys
its full fruition.
Yonr honors can commend to the yonth of
conscience to be bound by fetters. The right nonora can commend to me youtn or
of private judgment he prized and preserved^ I ?? T Passion no nobler example of talents
a priceless heritage. As a consequence, bin ffi” 0P 1 8b,y cultivated, character preserved
course on all public questions always secured b3a ““ 3 r ! 5 9 » reb 8 1 ? n 6 ^ em P bd ® d ^P? 80 ^? 00 and
respect. He served several successive sessions ^ 0nr
alternately in the Senate and House, taking an l °“' blUia 0ol ! e ?? u ® “ d P redeaaa -
active part in debate and a leading position in ^a bfmch ’ exblb ‘
both bodies. In 1832 he became a member of lte , din hl f bf ® and 1118 deatb * .
the convention wMch assembled to consider the i, bl3 °» 8 rao °
expediency of reducing the number of Senators we may mamfes. his outward life of honor
and Representatives, and greatly distinguished pnuty, pass as he did the ordeal of death,
Mmself by a speech of marked ability and elo- an r en l°y 88 be doa3 tbe bfe everlasting,
quence. He continued to represent Morgan \ second the resolutions,
county in the Legislature until 1837, when he | J a “g® Warner spoke to the resolution as fol-
removed to Maoon and there opened an office lows:
for the practice of Ms profession. He was My first acquaintance with Judge Nisbet was
tlnn’P nbbo 80r ‘ in 1828, when we met as members of the House
vice, having been elected in the following year of Representatives at Milledgeville, both young
ayarge to the men, buoyant with hope, and.ardent7youthfM
i lie*. re_ expectations for the future. Time has since
dectad inl840’J>nton aoconnt of the oottitttofa rolled on, and he has performed his allotted
his private affairs and a growing distate for task; Ms work is done, arid well done, Ms reo-
P°l U o ?. al I,f8 » be resigned Ms seat m that body 0 rd is made up, and that record will ever re
,r£l ’ -u . . .. _ . main the most enduring monument of his pri-
nfiRf t j^ 0 !of >k i?F° D ^ es f ^?, sa P. r0 D“- vate virtues as a Christian gentleman, and of
J? P Mvate . bf . e mtb his inestimable worth as a publio officer. When
,- a e 8 v,- an i e S7 I#b ' e re P n $®- this court was organized in 1845, it was my
no r, btl0al be was by g° od fortune to have been associated with Judge
fn TOhlpS h ‘ s .P r ,° f0S8 ‘. 011 —snoeess Nisbet and the late Chief Justice Lumpkin.
< ? bj . eot .? f bl ? ambition. The arduous and responsible duty of organizing
dl80nm . inatui g stodent, and the court and putting the judicial macMnery
a i ua f^ er 3be a \ a ?, a S0len ce. His forensic thereof in practical working order, wa3 neces-
y feIl 'citous, sarily devolved on the newly appointed judges.
and evinced great research and a thorough ao-1 The difficulties incident to a successful practi
... „ : ■ i not be fully appreciated now, and never will be
lie life, nntil t£ sLpreaeoS.,'"!^™ fiSS V. En.rjf.nn.fi, bn.il, sagged Jot BOX
LoWww '♦riihpn Oourw He sat on the Bench full B hare of the responsibility in the united
and War * effort to Make the supreme tribunal of the
nf ‘ i N °wl 0 *fP* eaenta - State acceptable to the people. It has donbt-
thftm a <s^.M°nf 0 oFifrt e ^ 10 -? * Tbe S ale ow ^® Iess been noticed by the profession that there
few dissenting opinions in those
P ralS6 which nses days, and the reason is, that each Judge felt
not from reluctant hearts, and to which succcs- himself bound strictlv to adhere to the fnrulft-
iS r-nSV give wiUing utterance.- £££? princfpfes of the fifS the same had
Slrs^ fourteen volnmpf e “ bodled 111 existed from the time of Magna Charta, and
T0lame8 . Of th® Georgia Re- embraced in the written constitutions of tMs
<TOpftOT.iT, .. . . 'f justice_ as well j free people may generally be traced to the first
and impartial in his judgmente. 8 ' No one eve? P rino . 5 P les .°|
SfedinVaSSSk St 5 ? 6 ®* W8S ""to aath<> rityto administer^d^Morceffiem,
^ , He . wore I Judge Nisbet was uncommonly sound and
it wither t sDot^of bter^fsh ^ re , SIglled practical, in regard to all questions in which the
it yitnout spot or blemish. In 18o3 he returned fundamental laws of the land were involved
j dt ‘to toterrup- and his opinion in the case of Wilder vs. Lu^ro-
tion, to devote Mmself to the duties of his pro- I kin, reported in the 4th Georgia Report, wM
S^SSSSSaS of iMS co^ndTe m r^e=
assess:::::
SS’rsSsFF swaaJMSste-ti-.
wSISSS** aSffiSSSSf®
which master minds had scattered over the 8 fleld continu^n^of 1 mV*health Bro 7 iden8 ® |' or
tWfoSASSJgf toe- admonition m ^ e o1V n dis 8 re3£ ; fit
the finest productions of the great and good, Sir bnma ^. , 6 . vent . 8 > tbat I too
and down to Ms latest mn8 t 8 ®°d follow my distinguished predeces-
pleasures whieh they afforded. His contribu^ n^traviterre? 1101110 bourne fr ?^ Y henc ®
tions to the current literature of the day were I 0 ™ 68 * deaire f and
characterized by a classio elegance of style and 5SSf^.MSr“ * ime for departure
• Saw# 3S&S g zp&a
also of the State University, at Athens, which Ghie * Justice Lochrane then responded as
latter institution conferred on him, in the year j follows ■
1868, the honory degree of L.L.D. Gentlemen of the Bar : The mournful duty is
This sketch would be incomplete, did we not devolved upon me. as the presiding officer of
™® to the most lovely trait in his charaoter, this court, to respond to the resolutions whieh
to-wit, his piety. For more than forty years he have just been read, paying tribnte to the memo-
and suitable for this business and a large sup
ply will be gathered. Com is also doing well,
and more planted in this immediate vicinity
than was' the last year; I have no doubt but
seventy-five cents per bushel, will bny an;
amount daring the coming winter. In fact this
is the opinion of our best planters. The cot
ton prospects is only common, but a larger yield
will be made than was anticipated a few weeks
past Cane, potatoes and peas are doing
splendidly well, and an average crop snre.
Sedsa.
The Fever at Charleston.
The Charleston News, of Wednesday, in an
article on this all-absorbing topic, says :
The yellow fever continues to excite the com
munity, though the disease, as yet, exMbits n3
especial feature of activity in its spread or cl
malignity in its type. Several new cases am
reported, and during the twenty-four bonrs,
ending at noon yesterday, there were six dealt*
resulting from the fever. The hegira of unac
climated residents during the past two days.ha*
been very extensive, and will continue to- day-
All the trains go out well filled. In the event oi
the fever assuming the proportions of an epi
demic, the fewer subjects that remain within
ita reach the better. Major Willis, the superin
tendent of the work of draining off the watrt
from the city, reported last evening that the
work was done, there being no further use fw
engines, except in one or two cellars where the
water is again springing.
On the confines of the city, near Potter’s field,
may be witnessed every morning a picturesque,
if not a very pleasant scene. The scavenge'
carts of the city here deposit the offal, and 5*
each load of reeking filth is dumped upon the
ground the disgusting heap is attaoked by *
crowd of colored women and cMldren, number
ing from thirty to forty. The piles are isi £a
over, and every sorap of rag is taken up » B “
placed in their bags by the black chiffonier-
Plasters and poultices are all grist in this mut
and yesterday a gentleman saw several of t“ e
former, apparently of the kind used upon yello?
fever patients, picked out and carried off.-'
These pickings are brought back to the city, to
the amount of three or four cart loads daily, & E “
sold to the junk shops for exportation.
las Wobm in Babboub.—The Enfaula New*>
of yesterday, says:
“Not the worm of the still,” but one as tetf’
ble in its effects, is harrowing the feeli®^ *
of onr planters. Fields wMch promised a ft*
weeks ago the brightest prospects are
bare as though the deadly blasts of winter b*j
passed over them. The worm is rampant
the crops are ravaged.
Mrs. Bass, a daughter of Gov. Rabun—om*
of Georgia’s old time cMef magistrates—diW
at Atlanta, on Friday, aged eighty years.
The Atlanta Era puts down the papulation
that place at 32,900—the usual number of neigh
boring railroad towns included, of course.