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Newspaper Page TextTelegraph and Messenger. MACON. SEPTEMBER 12 1871. ; News Item Pompano in New Yoke.—The Herald, of Sat urday, says tho Pompano, the famous game fish of the Golf of Mexico, has made its appear ance in the waters of New York and is now caught often enough to be marketable. Within a short time the Spanish mackerel has also ap peared oil that coast and, before the Pompano, was tho highest prioed fish in the market. We never heard before of a Pompano being caught North of the Gulf, but the Herald attributes their appearance to the fact that the great Gulf Stream has cbangod its oourse and now sweeps much nearer the Northern coast than formerly. It is said that the stream now impinges the land at Capo Hatteras. The Pompano is a very beautiful and symmetrical fish—bream shaped with a white, firm flesh as oily as the mackerel. Its scales are exceedingly minute and so firmly attached to the skin that a patient cook is needed to clean the fish. It weighs from two to six pounds. The Great Tidal Wave.—The Picayune calls upon the people near the seaboard to get ready for the great tidal wave predicted by Agassiz on tho night of the 5th or morning of the 6th of October. -It will be fifty feet or more in height and come with no measured tread, but in a hurry. Evidently, it will sweep twenty miles towards the interior of Georgia, and if we had a profile of the Central or M. & B. Railroads wo might tell just about how far it would tear up those tracks. This calamity is to be due to lunar attraction in conjunction with the joint influence of several planets in a mischievous mood, and the rotary motion of the earth, all operating in some way to us inconceivable, but perfectly plain to tho scientific understanding of the great naturalist. All we in Middle Geor gia have got to do is to wait for the news; but tho men on the seaboard should bo looking out for high perches. Let the brethren in Savannah eaoh be looking out for a high tree, and if they can’t find one, plant a good strong pole firmly in the earth and shindy up it with alacrity when the wave comes. Texas Finances.—A number of leading men In Texas, Democrats and Conservative Repub licans, have called a convention of the people, to meet at Austin, on the 22d September, to take into consideration the financial condition of the State, and take steps to prevent her finan cial ruin. From the report of Mr. Bledsoe, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, we learn that in I860 the rate of State taxation was twelve and a half cents on one hundred dollars; in 18C7 it was fifteen cents on one hundred dollars; in 1871, under ultra-Radical rule, it is two dol lars and twenty-five conts on the hundred dollars. Wax Gbant Cannot be Re-elected.—Hon. R. Brinkerhoff furnishes the Cincinnati Commer cial a column of reasons why Grant cannot be re-elected, that is, provided the Democrats do not make fools of themselves sgain, which he says it won’t do to count on. He says Blaine, Stunner, Wilson, Curtis, Greeley, Garfield, Lo gan or Trumbull could concentrate the party, but Grant will lose Republican votes in every township, and as against Chase, John Quincy Adams, Gratz Brown or Groesbeck would be whipped. The Wisconsin Radicals are in a blue way. Washburne, Grant’s candidate for Governor, was so plainly crammed down tho Convention, in opposition to the popular will, that the minority bolted and say they will not support him. The Democracy, in consequence, hope to carry Wis consin for their own candidate. The election takes place on the 7th of next November. Gbant Syndicates.— A World Washington correspondent says Grant has organized all the office-holders of that city, male and female, into State political associations or syndicates, to se cure his ronomination for the Presidency. The members of these associations have abundant leave to go homo and agitate for Grant at the publio expense. Some of the Radicals of the old line are deeply disgusted at these proceed ings, and swear about them as the army did in Flanders—but it is of no use and they know it. “Weabing or the Gbeen.”—Fierce fighting was reported all Monday night in Dublin, and tho mob seems to have mauled the police terri bly. One-half of the latter were wounded. Excitement great and increasing. In Pabis they were getting ready for another Communist emeute. Cotton rose a quarter of a cent yesterday in New York. The reports from the Arkansas crop, which have heretofore been favorable, are now very gloomy. Great damage is accru ing from drouth. The Visible Supply op Cotton footed up by the New York Commercial and Financial Chronicle, of last Friday, 1,704,964 bales against 1,360,741 at the same time last year, showing an inorease of 344,223 bales. The New York mar ket closed firm on that day at 19$ for middling uplands. The sales for delivery during the week were 9,441 bales. The sham sales amount ed to 90,900 bales, running up to 19 cents for low middlings in January. The Chronicle says: Rumors that the crop has been greatly dam aged of late in many ways have been current, and have found believers both here and at Liv erpool. A short supply is, therefore, counted upon, and, with the present consumption, the upward movement in prices was only a legiti mate and ncoessary consequence. Liverpool had advanced during the week about £d. for middling uplands, with the week’s sales for con sumption at 82,000 bales, and for export 11,- 000 bales. It is claimed, however, by many, that foreign spinners are accumulating unusu ally large stocks, and that they must soon with draw from the market- This idea is based upon the current estimates of consumption (58,000 bales weekly) as given by the leading Liverpool circulars. If those figures aro correct the Man chester spinners now hold 267,000 bales stock; but if their consumption is in excess of the above weekly total, as we have claimed, then the stock is less to just the same amount. So long, therefore, as the sales for consumption and export at Liverpool remain at the present large figure, there will be a belief in an enlarg ed consumption and a short supply. Butleb made his fourth speech for the Mas sachusetts Governorship at Leominster, in that State, last Friday. A shout of “spoons’ 1 greeted the candidate upon his appearance on the plat form. His speech was racy, personal, egotisti cal, and impudent as usual, but made no new points, unless it was the intimation that ho should fight the campaign through, whether he reoeived the regular Radical nomination or not. The 'Wilkesbarre coal mines sunes sunk 200 feet fever au area of six miles. The anti-Tammany corruptionists have started out substantially to organize a Protestant party againstTammanyanditsIrishsupporters. They make their appeal in circulars which take up two columns of Sunday’s Herald, to the Protes tant clergy of tho State of New York, and to the members of the Protestant churches, which they say embrace 500,000 votes, or more five-ninths of all the votes in the State, “in the confidant expectation that from this mass of God-fearing and philanthropic men, enough con be detached from other relations and obliga tions unfriendly to this movement, to at least hold the balancing power between the rival po litical parties.” If the brethren want an illus tration of what these vaunted “God and mor ality” parties can do in the way of establishing pure and honest administrations let them cope down this side of the Potomao river and tyhMd the universal triumph of rampant fraud and cor ruption, established in the South through their direct agency. Croquet.—The latest name given to croquet is 'Presbyterian billiards.” In a Desperate Strait. Grant’s determination to declare martial law in South Carolina—or certain portions thereof— is one of the most encouraging signs of the times to all who expect 'o aid next year in driv ing Bim and his from power. It shows to what desperate straits the Radical party has been re duced, and especially how uncertain that party considers its chances for success in the great States of Ohio and Pennsylvania in the elections next month. Senator Scott, of the latter State, has been taking notes, and finds that the Penn sylvania Democracy aro pushing his crowd to the wall. Something must be done or the-plun derers will be swept from power. The old-rime passions and bitterness muBt be re-aroused- the fears of those who have been taught that there Is another “Southern rebellion” brewing must be revived—the lying catalogue of Ku-klux horrors must be endorsed by some official ac tion, and so Scott hies to Washington and howls for martial law in Sonth Carolina. This is the explanation of Grant’s forthcom ing proclamation. It tells the whole story of Jacobin trepidation, and Jacobin nnscrnpnlons- ness. It matters not what results to the general peace and prosperity of the country at large, and especially to the people of South Carolina, will follow the establishment of martial law, the infamous, plunder gorged conspira tors who have ruled and rioted for ten long years are enabled to retain tbeir hold upon the offices. Such consideration would be entirely unwortby tho men who have supplemented the blood, and debt, and nameless horrors of a wicked war by a systematic plundering of tbe pnblio treasury, and a series of shameful assaults upon the publio liberty suoh a3 never before disgraced the annals of any nation calling itself civilized. In Grant thev have an apt and wil ling tool; and he who has sworn to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, and guard and maintain the liberties of the people, is swift to thrust himself forward to violate and nnllify tho one, and trample upon the other. If his masters do not retain him to do their evil bidding so long as they can hold on to pow* er, they will commit the grandest blander, and show more ingratitude than any similar band ever perpetrated. Bat, to prove wbat little foundation exists for this martial law deviltry, we need only refer to the colnmn3 of the Radical organs of Sonth Ca rolina themselves. We read most of them, every issue, and if tho outrages that Scott re- oites to Grant have been committed they cer tainly have had no news thereof. The Radical daily at Charleston is not wont to be either re ticent or scrnpnlons in the recital of such news, and yet its columns for more than a month past, in fact, for tho very time in which Scott charges these outrages to have been committed have been barren of all such horrors. We do not recollect a single instance of alleged Ku-klux outrage being published in that paper for more than a month. What few oountry papers of the same politics there are published in that State, are, so far as wo know, equally silent There is no proof—absolutely none—of these outrages except tbe lying letters and despatches to Scott of a lot of white and black wretches whose names are not given, and who possibly give no names at all. For aught wo know, Scott may have manufactured them himself. There is nothing that we know of either in his antece dents or party associations to forbid such a pre sumption. Bnt assuming that he has such information, what a spectacle is here represented. The Pre sident of the United States, in a time of pro found peace, and in a State which his friends control by a majority of thirty or forty thou sand, setting np the rnle of the bayonet upon tho ex parte testimony of men whose names even are not allowed to be made public, and whoso identity most likely is hidden nnder the cowardly mask of an anonym! And for what ? That a crime-stained faction may carry one or two State elections and thus postpone, as it fondly hopes, its final overthrow and tho. consequent full revelation of tho number and magnitude of its offences against the rights, the interests and the pockets of the people! How long, oh! Nemesis, how long! Tbe Woods and tbeir Climatic Effects There is a very interesting article on this sub ject in the last number of the Southern Review from tho pen of F. Ebener, Ph. D. Wo have but little space to allude to some of its positions Rnd do thi3 simply because they aro so sugges tive of evident climatic changes in the South since the war. The forests perform most im portant offices both in tempering the atmos phere and in fertilizing, watering and protect ing the soil. They shield more or less of its bosom from tbe action of tho sun and protect, under their umbrageous shades, deposits of leaves and heavy growths of mosses which pos sess tho absorbent properties of sponge—retain the falling water or allow it to sink slowly into the earth, where the excess, caught by the un derlying clay,is conducted by subterranean chan nels to points where it flnd3 outlets in fertiliz ing springs. Bat while performing this function the forests also do another moreImportant office in oooling the atmospntS^bgflg^ rapid evapora tion. Much of the rainfauTsubmitted to the action of tho sun through the roots by the leaves is returned to heated air above in tho form of vapor, cooling the temperature and saturatingthe air with water which it speedily overloads and returns to the earth again in the shape of rain. Thus tho trees are the great agents in the pro- oess of hydraulic circulation. It was found by experiment that a common-sized peach tree evaporated eighteen pounds of water under twelve hours sunshine. Now, when a country is dennded of trees it is ordinarily consigned to more or less dronth and consequent poverty of soil. The rains be come infrequent, and when they fall are apt to be violent, creating freBhes and washes which carry off the soil and render tho rivers thirsty beds and roaring torrents by rotation. The springs dry np and the lakes become very low or disappear. In the impenetrable forests on the Orinoco, in South America, it runs almost every day; but la our Western deserts where there are no trees there are scarcely any rates. Numerous instances are given where countries suddenly denuded of trees have been consigned to drought—where springs, water-courses and lakeshave been dried np by the same process, and where, in time, the old order has been restored, by permitting the forests to grow again. We in the Sonth aro getting more rain than we used to do Bimply because a third or more of the open land is returning gradually to bush and forest The country is undergoing im portant changes in this particular, which will affect its agricultural eoonomy very materially. A Good Nomination.—The Democratic Sena torial Convention of the district composed of the counties of Pulaski, Wiloox, Dooly and Dodge, has nominated Colonel Chas. O. Kibbee, of Hawkinsville, as the candidate to fill the un expired term of the. late Senator (Traywick), who has moved out of the district We are glad to see this nomination. It is one emphatically fit to be made, and will be followed by an over whelming endorsement at the ballot-box. We have known Colonel K. for many years, and have never known anything that was not good of him. He is a square man—young, able, en- ergetio and will not only see his -duty clearly, but do it thoroughly. We hope to record his election by a sounding majority, and we feel , confident suoh will be the result The Radical Nominee for the Slate Senate. From the Monroe Advertiser, of Tuesday, we learn that the Radicals have nominated as their Cfmd'da** for the State Senate from tins district, against Cot Simmons, Mr. James Tinley, of this county; he carrying off that honor over Tillman Lowe, a mulatto living in this city. The Advertiser seems to think that Mr. T. will not consent to run as the Radical candidate, as he has heretofore acted with the Democratic party. As to that, we have no information, bnt it seems hardly probable they would have nominated him without soma understanding beforehand. The lust for office is very strong with some men and if they can’t get it from one side they some times are persuaded to reach after it with the help of the other. Be that as it may, though, the duty of the Democ racy of the district is very plain. They must beat Mr. Tinley if he is a candidate, with as little coremony and as badly as if he were the mean est Radical in the distriot. If he allows himself to be used by the Radicals to defeat the Demo cratic candidate, he is no better than a Radical, and if he is sailing nnder false colors and intends to go back on the men who put him up, he doubly deserves defeat. This is no time for straddling the branch. The times demand a square man, about whose purposes there can be no sort of question. If Mr. Tinley has been nominated without his consent and repudiates the honor (?), we shall take great pleasure in announcing the fad and giving him dne credit therefor. In any event, however, let ns to work with a will and carry onr candidate through by a rousing majority. Wo can do it and wo must do it—that’s all there is about it. He is unex ceptionable in every respect, and richly de serves it. A Question oY Majority. That the Democrats of this Senatorial Dis trict will elect Col. Simmons next Wednesday, we have not the shadow of a doubt—provided, of course, they vote their full strength, and work as they ought. But his bare election is not enough, and will not satisfy us. Neither ought it to satisfy the party. Now. is the time to redeem the District beyond possibility of lapse. Now is the occa sion to fix its statin for all time to come, so that, hereafter, it may be counted on for tbe Dem ocracy as surely as any otber in the State. This can be done by honest, hard work, and it must be done. That’s the very word for the case. Now let our friends in this, Monroe, and Pike courties make Col. S.’s majority the question. To doubt his mere election would be an insnlt to every true man in the District, but without a full poll, and an active, stirring though not necessarily noisy canvass, his majority may not be as decided as it shonld be. Let ns have a strong pull and a poll altogether, and the Dis trict is ours for good and all. A Terrible Storm. We write (Wednesday evening) in tho midst of a southeaster of great severity and a promise of still greater force. The wind has been blow ing from that quarter with torrents of rain from 12 o’clock, midnight, of Tuesday; bnt with no great force, until 1 p. si. to-day, (Wednesday,) when it began those fitful and furious gusts so characteristic of the hurricane. As day declines the gale appears to increase in force and drives the heavy rain before it, in smoky spray. Be yond a doubt, the storm is doing great damage to the exposed crops. A good deal of cotton is now laid bare to its force by reason of the pre vious drouth which has forced the bolls into premature and sickly development. The rice crop, too, is probably caught, (wbat there is left of it,) in a very critical and exposed condition. We fear the storm is very severe on tho coast; but whatever becomes of it, either there or here, must be told at a later period. It is to be noted that the weather bureau failed to anticipate this gale. They predict “easterly winds on the At lantic coast,” but they were looking for no such gale as this. National Exchequer Bank. A leading gentleman of the city hands U3 a circular of fifteen pages from Daniel N. London, of New York, developing the soheme of a Na tional Bank, and a bill for that purpose to be laid before Congress incorporating “ The Gov ernor and Managers of the Exchequer of the United States of America.” The bill provides for a bank of one hundred millions capital—to be raised in three-fourths legal tender and one- fourth coin. The bank is divided into two de partments, one for banking, including discounts and exchange business, and the other the issue department—the latter issuing notes to the banking department on the delivery of coin and United States bonds to an equal amount, until tbe issues reaoh two hundred millions; and for all issues thereafter, up to four hundred mil lions, one dollar in coin to two in bonds, till the sum reaches six hundred millions; and thereaf ter one dollar in coin for each dollar in notes issued. The bill also regulates the rate of dis count, which is not to exceed one-half of one per cent, for thirty days. We have no spaoe to speak of the extended argument in defence of the bill wbich prefaces it in the oircular. Mr. London brings a heavy indiotment against the National Banking sys tem, which he maintains, with a strong show of reason, is crippling the business and financial energies of the country to a moat disastrous ex tent, and if adhered to, will prostrate it at the feet of European capitalists, while it will enrich only the so-called National Banks. Tennessee Finances. The Nashville Banner is exultant over the improved financial condition of the State of Tennessee. The State last year proclaimed a complete divorce from all railroads, turnpikes and other internal improvement projects and determined to sell out her interest therein for bonds, coupons and State warrants. The State then owed $38,539,802.25, and her bonds were worth 45 to 50 cents in the dollar. Now they are worth 75 cents, and the railroads have re tired their indebtedness to the State in the fol lowing amounts; EastTennessee, Virginia and Ga. $4,016,761 10 Naehville and Decatur. 2,702,997 10 Mobile and Ohio 1,734,702 00 Memphis and Ohio 2,4GS,3S0 00 Edgefield and Kentucky 225,000 00 McMinnville and Manchester... 75,000 00 Winchester and Alabama THE GEORGIA PRESS. Messrs. N. B. Brown & B. L. Hackett—the latter of whom is well known in this city—have bought tho furniture and effects of tho Sreven House, at Savannah, and will openit on the 1st of October on a lease for a term of years. The baby, sweet potatoe, and senppemong orops of Decatur county are unusually flush this year. •• y • ’ A negro woman in Decatur county gave birth to three boy children last Monday week. Two of the children died the next day, and the mother the day after. Shooking bad hats are a feature in Bainbridge society, just now—the result of carrying heavy articles, bricks for instanoe, in them, we judge. The colored ladies of Decatur oouuty disdain saddles, and only “ride sideways in town.” An escaped negro convict was arrested in At lanta, on Sunday, at a baptizing, where he was officiating in tho capacity of chief minister, He will resume his labors on the Air Line rail way. 75,000 00 $11,297,840 20 A Very Encouraging Sign. The New York Commercial Advertiser thinks that the growth of a religious sentiment among the negroes of New Orleans is one of the most encouraging signs at the South. Fiona men from New England have been among them exhorting them to set an example to their white brethren of the wioked Crescent City. These laborers have borne precious fruit, al though we find evidences here and there that the belief of many is as yet in a very ornde state. Take for instanoe the following, which is the opening line of one of their favorite hymns: “O, Fm gwine to Heaven in a ham bas-ket,” (Strong accent on the “bas-ket.”) This idea of going to Heaven and taking your proyMo: with yon is not a new one. Many as though such a thing were posaiblj case of the negroes, however, we prefer tribute it to the exuberance of religious and donbt not through the blessed agency of those good men from New England, they will yet see things in a dearer light, andgiye np all such-frivolous notions as going to Heaven in a ham-basket. A stable and two valuable mules, owned by John H. George, of Griffin, were burned last Friday night. The breaking of a sill in the Baptist church, at Griffin, caused a huge stampede last Sunday night, but fortunately no one was injured. A chap named 'Williams, who had been work ing for Mr. Glass, a tailor at Griffin, is enjoying an uncommonly sore bead at present. He forged letters from Miss Glass saying she would marry him, and told divers and sundry other lies about her, and her father remonstrated with him with a hickory stiok. If every scoundrol who persecutes and slanders women was served this way, there would be some aching beads in this burg. We scissors these items from tbe Monroa Ad vertiser of Tuesday: Negro Camp Meeting.—Since our last the colored population of Monroe and the region round about have been enjoying a high old time at tbe camp meeting heretofore announced. The crowd in attendance on Saturday and Sunday last was immense, and the exercises were of the most decided character. Preaching, eto., was kept np uninterruptedly from Satnrday morn ing until Monday morning, and among tho cler gy was H. M. Turner, of Macon, who officiated on Satnrday, and seemed to be mad with every body and everything. A faithful reporter sends a report of ono of Turner’s addresses during the meeting, which wilt serve to illustrate the style of oratory usod at these gatherings. The specimen is one of the best of tho occasion. Turner, “Presiding Elder,” followed Read, and said in substance: “Well Brother Read has preached a very good sermon, bnt I am going to preach a better one. In tbe first place I will tell yon I am mad. Why did you not make some preparation for this meeting? It has been twelve months since we had a meeting here, and yon have had six months notice of this meet ing, in which to prepare a suitable arbor, and tents, and greatest of sll provisions for ns min isters. But look at the state of the case. When I reached this place, I was met at the depot, not by a delegation of brethren, bnt by only one person, and that a brother preacher. I was carried to this brother’s house, weary and hun gry, bnt got nothing to eat, not even a fried chicken. Now if I had fasted all day to-day, as is generally customary for me to do, just before a meeting, (thank God 1 didn’t) what sort of a fix would I have been in ? I was forced to the necessity of sending off and buying a loaf of baker’s bread, which wo call fodder. And you never made any prepation for us to sleep. Why, if yon had prepared ns some straw in this old field, out here, it would have been better than you have done. “Yon have no arbor—a few old pine poles stuck upright, and a few brush over tho preach er’s head. Yon have had brash offered to yon, and if you had no mules to haul them, why did you not put them on your shoulders, bring them here, and make a decent aibor? You may think I am not in earnest, bnt I tell yon I am not only in earnest, but I am mad; and if you don’t have a better arbor, and places for us ministers to sleep, and a supply of chickens and poTk, I will dismiss this meeting at once, as I am Presiding Elder, and carry the preachers home, and let the meeting be carried on by Brothers Glower and Reid. If I don’t do it, so help me God.” Negbo Sensational Pow-Wow.—Yesterday was the time appointed to nominate a Radical candidate for Senator from this Distriot, and as Forsyth had been selected as tho place of meet ing, quite a number of the rank and file of that party were on hand. Bibb county was fully represented, as was also Monroe; Pike turned out a slim delegation. The delegates wero of all shades and colors—Monroo furnishing the single white specimen, in the person of her Or dinary. The meeting wa3 held in the Grand Jury room. The convention, we are informed, first nom inated Paul Austin, a pure Ethiopian specimen of Monroe. Paul is a good blacksmith, and is ambitious. But neither Paul nor tbe Monroe wireworkers wanted this honor. They charged that it was a trick of the city negroes to force the short term upon Monroe, and they were not willing to be cheated. “Onr colored troops fought nobly,” and Paul stoutly declared he would not ran the race. Bibb was compelled to take the nomination, if a candidate was to be pnt in the field. After the deolination of Paul the contest was between Tillman Lowe, colored, and Mr. James Tinley, both of Bibb, and to the latter was confided the doubtful honor of bear ing the black flag of Radicalism through tho campaign. Mr. Tinley has always acted promi nently with the Democracy, and we have no idea he will permit his name to be used in any way that might tend to oreate dissatisfaction in the Democratic ranks. A Thoughtful and Bbave Boy.—A little son of J. J. Singleton, of this plaoe, removed a piece of wood from the traek of the Macon and Western Railroad, a few days -since, when an engine at full speed had approached within a few feet of the dangerous obstruction. The wood had been placed on the track by a negro girl, who afterwards admitted having done so. The Grand Juby and Obdinaby Potts,— During the last few days the publio mind has been agitated in regard to reports as to tho ac tion of the Grand Jury in their investigation of county affairs, and many different rumors are obtaining circulation. That the official action of Ordinary Potts has been scrutinized and con demned, there is no doubt, but the oharacter of the charges preferred against him by tbe grand inquest of the county is known with certainty only by tbe court and tbe jurors. The present ment is in the hands of the Solicitor General, and will probably be placed on file to-day. That the charges made are of a vory serious charac ter, there is no question, and it is generally un derstood that an investigation will take place during the present term of the court. A “well-known citizen” of Atlanta is going bare-headed and patronizing arnica plasters, at present, owing to a mistake he made the other night in attempting to force an entrance into a private house while under the spell of the “rosy.” The Atlanta Constitution, of yesterday, says: Is It Tbue ?—Current rumor on the streets reports that Col. H. P. Farrow, Attorney Gene ral of the State of Georgia, not only draws his regular salary as such, bnt also an additional salary as attorney for .the State Road. It is like wise rumored that CoL Farrow became vexed with Major Charles F. McCalla, general book keeper of the Western and Atlantia Railroad, because the latter refused to pay him (F) bal ance of salary out of the Conscience Fund. The Attorney-General owes it to the people of Georgia as well as to himself to inform the pnblio whether there is any truth in these ru mors, and if he has been drawing double pay, tbe character of service performed as attorney for the State Road. The Treasurer of the road, (L P. Hams,) testified that he found the duties quite light since the lease. The Grand Jury of Baldwin county found a true bill for murder against John R. Strother, at its late session. Strother, it will be remem bered, mnrderedJCaptain Lewis H. Kenan, and has never arrested. He is supposed to have leftodFstate. The Sheriff of the county About 5,400 persons registered, of whom the Republican thinks twothirds were whites. Lewis Mack, the negro who attempted to kill Mr. Roberts, of Jefferson county, some time since, was nabbed at Augusta, Sunday night. The Ghroniole and Sentinel, of Tuesday, says Machinery fob Cotton Mills.—-There was landing in Charleston, on Satnrday, on Brown & Co.’s wharf, from the schooner W. L. Brad ley, from Boston, about two hundred and.twenty large boxes, containing machinery for the Lang ley ootton null, near Aiken, and the Augusta cotton mill, Augusta, The machinery was from the Lowell Machine Works, Lowell, Mass. We dip the following items from the Colum- bus Sun, of Tuesday: Lost His Intended.—A negro man brought a woman to the oity Sunday to marry her. He deposited her in a church for safe keeping while he hunted for a license. On his return she had been so mixed in the black clould around that he could not find the dark maiden He was in a peok of trouble—$1 60 out, and no wife, The North and South Road.—President Mc- Dongaldhas returned from Rome. He reports the survey as having oommenced from that quar ter and that the contract for twenty miles will be awarded by the first of October. Col. Pen nington, of Rome, bos charge of the surveying party. At this end of the line the work is still being pushed forward with vigor. The grading on the second ten miles (the first ten being well nigh completed) will be oommenced in a few days. The Eetonton Press and Messenger learns that the sheriff of Wilkinson' county and his negro mistress were taken from the house of the former, last Friday night, and drowned in a neighboring creek. We received an anony mous communication a day or two since to the same effect, bnt, as is onr custom, paid no at tention to it. Mr. D. S. E. Habersham, one of the most prominent citizens of Pntnam oonnty, died last Tuesday night. We find the following in the Eetonton Press and Messenger, of Tuesday: Accidents.—We learn that Mrs. Dnke Sey mour, of this county, was thrown from a buggy and killed, while on her way home from Madi son, last Satnrday. We also hear it reported that a negro man was thrown from a horse and killed on Sunday last, in the upper portion of this oonnty. Mr. J. R. Bagley, a J. P. of thiB county, shot and killed a negro man near Dennis Station yes terday. The negro was under arrest, and try ing to escape, was shot and instantly killed. The Rome Commercial, of Tuesday, says: The Rome Iron Manufacturing Company, - J. and S. Bones & Go., Agents, made the following shipments of their splendid nails daring the month of August, past: To Macon, 135 kegs; to Golutnbns, 148 kegs; to Athens, 150 kegs; to Atlanta, 548 kegs; to Augusta, 600 ; miscellaneous shipments, 85; total, 1,666. Cothran & Maguire, Agents for Cornwall Iron Works, also shipped during the month of August, 72 tons of the finest pig iron in the country, to the celebrated Tredegar Iron Works, of Richmond. The Roark corner, 110 feet on Whitehall and 35 feet on Mitchell street, Atlanta, was sold for $18,200, cash, on Tuesday. The Era, of yesterday, says: Fbacas at West End.—We learn that quite a lively little fight occurred at West End on Mon day night between Mr. John Archer (late Oity Marshal) and a Mr. Clark. It appears that owing to some political disputation between the par ties, Mr. Clark knocked Mr. Archer down with a chair, whereupon Mr. Archer threw a heavy weight at Mr. Clark, striking him on the shoulder and head. No serious damage to either party was done. Tho G. T.’s are soooping in the noble Roman soakers by the wholesale. - They captured ten, Monday night. Dick Horton, trewly loyl, who raped a white woman in upper Georgia, some time since, and for whom Bullock offered $1,000 reward, was captured in Blount county, Tennessee, -a few days sinoo. Bartow county benzine organized a syndicate for the inauguration of the fall fights at Carters- ville, last Saturday, and business was very brisk most of the day. The Cartersville Express says: It is currently reported here that Green Spencer, who shot and killed Mr. R. F. Smith, of this place, in the fall of 18G9, and who made his escape, has been arrested, and is now en route for Cartersville, to stand his trial. Wo did not learn the particulars. Another one of the prisoners, a negro, who broke jail not long since in this place, has been re-captured. Only two of the seven who escaped, are now at large. Cotton Growing in California. The San Francisco Examiner chronicles the progress of cotton growing in California as fol lows : This, with probably one exception, the driest year California has witnessed sinee 1849, a field of one hundred acres of cotton has been grown by CoL J. M. Strong, of Merced, without irriga- tiqn; which so far exceeds the expectations of the most sanguine friends of the enterprise, that it is regarded a wonder, and is visited by many from a distance whofeel an interestin the plant from association or from ouriosity to see the re markable success of the experiment. This is not Col. Strong’s first effort in California. For two years past he ha3 cultivated small patohea of ootton with the greatest buocsss, and has closely observed it in all stages of its growth, Being an experienced ootton planter he is oapa ble of noting tbe advantages shown here over many of the cotton States; which are, first, that it is entirely free from ravages of all insects, boll worms, caterpillars and rusts; second, al though the plant assnmes folly the average size, the joints are closer, and there are more bolls to each plant than in the Southern States; third, the growth is more rapid in this climate, and all of the bolls fully mature before frost; last and most important, tbe staple is long and fine, which is not injured or stained by summer and fall rains that prevail in the Southern States. Samples of cotton grown in Merced have been classed strict middlings by cotton factors of Memphis, New Orleans and Liverpool, which commands the highest market price. So rapid is the growth of cotton here, that in seven .weeks from planting blossoms appear, and in ten weeks the plant is loaded with bolls; there being frequently several hnndred to a single plant. Experienced cotton planters who have visited Col. Strong’s plantation, on tbe Merced river, have estimated the yield at 400 pounds lint cotton per acre, worth at tho lowest calcula tion $100; which will be produced at an entire coBt of Ies3 than $25, which is 100 per cent more than the cost will be another year. Colonel Strong is satisfied that he can pro dace ootton in California at a cost of eight cents per pound.; four cents less than it can, at pres ent, be produced in the Mississippi river bottom. This is owing almost entirely to our climate, there being no summer runs, crab grass, etc., that interfere with the growth of the young plant. Samples of cotton from Colonel Strong’s plantation are now on exhibition at the Mechanics’ Institute Fair, in San Francisco, and will be viewed with interest by persons from all parts of the world, and with pride by all true Californians. .win Superior Court adjourned until Tues- !y, November 7th. A large number of oases the docket were not reached. Susie H. Young, danghter-in-law of Mr* EL Young, of Columbus, died of conges tive chill, Monday morning. The sail ship, “Screamer,” arrived at Savan nah, Monday afternoon, haring made the ran from New York in five days. Registration at Savannah, dosed on Monday. News Items. Federal Soldiers in Alabama.—The Mont gomery Advertiser says there are thirty Fed eral soldiers in that Congressional District, who behave very well, but oan’t imagine why they are there. The Alabama North and South Road will be completed to Birmingham on the Alabama and Chattanooga Road next week. From Birming ham to the end of the 20 miles of the road al ready bnilt from Deoatnr, is about seventy miles. The Cotton Crop.—The Selma Times, speak ing of the incoming crop, says: “Wo have onr own opinion based upon what we have seen of the crops in the States of Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama, and what information we have been able to glean from onr exchanges of the cotton States. We do not believe that the present orop will reach two and a half mil lions of bales. The crop in this State is poorer than it has been for years; and the combina tion of disasters is being daily added to. These disasters are general throughout the South, and where the cotton is to come from in order to give as the aggregate three and a half, or even three millions of bales, for the ootton orop of 1871, we do not know. The Cotton Receipts of Selma for the year ending August 31st, were 85,927 bales. On hand, Friday evening, September 1, 562 bales. The Times says of the fortunes of that lively city: Signs of improvement in Selma are visible in every direction, and on every street. New houses are going up, old ones are being renova ted, and mechanics have as mack as they can do. Starting New Pafebs.—Mr. Erastus Brooks, of the New York Exptesa, says his paper is not among the oldest of the living journals of New York oity, bnt since its establishment, in 1836, more than sixty daily papers have been started and have died there, after losing at loast twenty millions of dollars. Texas Beef in Philadelphia.—Pic Bays the steamship Firefly took from Rockport, Texas, to Philadelphia 170,000 pounds of fresh beef, the prodnot of 220 fine steers, killed August 1st and at onoe placed into the hold of the vessel, which had been made into a vast refrigerator. Nine days afterwards the citizens of Philadel phia, fifteen hnndred miles off, ate the beef as fresh and sweet as the day it Btarted. The Ocean Wave Explosion.—The Govern ment has ordered a strict investigation into the Ocean Wave explosion near Mobile. Boiler In spector J. A. Moffet, of the New Orleans Dis triot, will preside over the Board of Investiga tion. * Cheap transportation la not always the con trolling consideration in oommeroe. When the Paoifio railway was completed we predioted that a large East India trade would pass over it, but that idea was considered chimerical. Last Sat urday, the steamer Alaska brought to San Fran cisco 54,665 packages of tea—the largest cargo ever brought to an American port. She is also followed by a British steamer with 1200 tons of tea, and several other vessels, all chartered at Shanghai for the same destination—indicating that tha oourse of the tea trade is likely to meet with an entire change. The Darien Negroes.—The Herald groans over the pra'tks of Tonis G. Campbell and the rampant Darien negroes, and calls upon Fish and the administration to pat them down. The British Consol at Savannah has addressed the Government upon the subject. Florida Obaxpi Crop.—The Agricultural Ba teau is advised that the Florida orange crop re ceived immense damage from the late storm. More than three-fourths of the crop is on the ground, and much damage has been done to tbe groves. Enjoining the Corporation of New York. Yesterday, application was made before Judge Barnard, of tbe Supreme Court of New York,' for an injunction to restrain them from admin istering the government or alienating any of their real property. This will bring np thorough sifting of the fraud allegations. Narrow Gauge. The Montgomery Advertiser of Sunday says a letter to one of the leading wholesale merchants of that city from Mr. E. M. Grant, of Macon, Ga., submits tho following sound and sensible views on the subject of narrow gauge railroads. The writer says: These roads should be built from the principal cities, radiating like the spokes of a wheel and penetrating all the rich valleys, or prairies in every direction not already traversed by the main “ trank lines.” Montgomery is provided already with all the necessary “ trunk lines.” She has outlets, North, Sonth, East and West, bnt these main lines all ran to rival cities, and hence the accruing trade is divided between the two termini. Now these narrow gauge roads should penetrate all tho desirable sections and have Montgomery for one terminus and the country for another; then. Montgomery would have a monopoly of the trade that is now per haps carried on by wagons with Wetumpka, Greenville, Union Springs, Troy, eto., the ten dency of trade being to concentrate in the large commercial centres, people entertaining the idea that the larger the place the better facili ties for trading advantageously. As a general thing the richer the soil the more impassible the wagon roads become in the sea son when cotton hauling is carried 'oft—hence planters are compelled to haul their cotton early in the autumn before tho'roads beoome bad, and either sell it at the low prices wfilStf generally rule then or pay heavy chargea-for storage if they retain it unsold. Hence these narrow gauge roads will be of groat advantage to the planter in disposing of his crops ai as in giving him ready communication \7ifh the' outside world. If people would only step and think the mat- ter over a little there should be no diffici seeing where there true interests lie. How to Flank An Ugly Day, days than yesterday, but if so, tl preme and unparalleled ugliness recollection entirely from our ujemory, early morn till dewy eve—and deed—rain fell in torrents, and the^ind seemed as if endeavoring to rival it in violonco'-Going' to dinner was absolutely au absurdity even in contemplation, so we made a descent upon Don Carlos at the Ells old stand on Mulberry street. To say that there we defied the elements and laughed cold water Jove to scorn, bnt faintly expresses the unction of the oomforts the Don set forth for onr siomachio consolation. And, confidentially, his wine is as good as his “wit- ties,” and both have few equals, and no supe riors in this latitude, at least. We entered that restaurant as mad as Tuner was at that Mon roe camp meeting where the fried chicken was non est. We quitted it with a sigh of regret that it was not always after dinner, and as pla cid as Tamer was when the hat had been passed around, and the money divided. When Don Carlos runs for office set ns down as a repeater. Another Picture.—Gen. Thos. Ewing, of Ohio, said of Gen. Grant, in his recent speech at Columbus: “He is both ignorant and careless of the da- ties and obligations of his high office; has probably never read the Constitution, for it is not published in the Army Regulations or the Stud Book; is bold, unscrupulous, ambitious, selfish, and as oold as a bayonet. If he don’t use that law next year with that purpose and effect, it will be because the Northern people show a returning sense of the value of constitu tional liberty, or because the Ku-klux and car pet-baggers combined can’t oonooot sufficiently plausible pretexts, or be causa Horace Greeley beats him for the nomination. Let us hope, for the honor of the country, that all these contingencies will happen.” Berio Comio.—Wo are tempted to relate the following anecdote whioh is too good to keep: A few years since during a revival of religion in one of ou interior churches, the pastor’s son, a rollieksome giddy youth, was standing in the vestibule of the sanctuary during the time that many anxious inquirers were crowding around the altar within. It happened that a large ball was on the tapis for the ensuing night, and one of the gay companions of ou young hero asked him if he did not expect to attend. Drawing himself up with a great deal of dig nity, he replied: “No, sir. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.” It gives ns pleasue to mention that the young scape graoe has sown his wild oats, married, and bids fair to make a useful citizen. District Courts.—A majority of the Bn preme Court—Messrs. MoCay and Lochrana— decided on Tuesday, in the case of Mlohael Gormly vs. J. H. Taylor, from Randolph, that these institutions had been established aooord- JBaaemore were honored with a very liberal ing to law, and were therefore constitutional. Yonage last year, and the addition of Mr. b Judge Warner dissented. We will publish a synopsis of the decision to-morrow or next day. If we know anything of the views and intentions of the next General Assembly of Georgia, it will sorely sustain the position of the dissenting-Judge FINANCIAL AND OOMMEBCIatS Weekly Review of the Market. OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND ME8SE'iG*» ■ September 6—Evening,’ lSTi’tl Ootton.—Beeefpte to-day 14 bales; sale, if shipped The market continues firm on tho operation, the woek, at 18 cents for Liverpool middling,. * Receipts forthe week ending this evening 80bi\ sales 81; shipments 93. The receipts for the &TS week in September of last year were 541 balee; 818—prices ruling at about the same figures. Futures closed New 7ork as follows: 8eptea-1 19%; October 18%; November and December i;vf MACON COTTON STATEMENT. Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1871—bales.. j^j Received to-day 14 Received previously 65— Shipped to-day _ Shipped previously..........;...... 60— Stock on band this evening j-. Money has hardened a little dating the *^1 under review, bat good paper finds little trouble accommodation at the banks. Rates of exchangii and discount unchanged. Th6re is no changes! ever to note in tho prices of stocks and bonds, market ii extremely dull. There has been a fair retail and jobbing tnV during tbe week dosing this evening, but theb: ward state of the cotton market is being felt in cc; mercial circles. We repeat quotations for a few r the leading articles in groceries and provisions: BACON—Clear Sides (smoked) 9% @10 Clear Rib Sides (amoked) 9 Shoulders 7% Hams (sugar-cured) 15 GRAIN AND HAY. CORN—White 1 CO MEAT. 1 10 GRITS 1 25 OATS .70 WHEAT—Per bushel 1 60 FIELD PEAS HAY—Northern 1 80 ® 1 jj TennesseTimothy...... .. 1 80 @ 1 9 @ @ *; @ 13 @ 119 @115 @ 1 SO @ so @160 ire BAGGING AND IRON TIES. Kentucky per yard 2i (3 2! Gunny per yard 22 @ 5; Borneo per yard 24 @25 a Double Anchor per yard 2t @25 Bengal per yard 24 @ 25 S Eagle peryard 21 @ 25 I Arrow Ties single ton, per pound £V| Arrow Ties, retail, per pound. 7 j Bagging Twine, per bale, per lb 22 Q 231 Bagging Twine, retail 25 I [Note There ia a liberal discount on theabml prices for iron ties to large purchasers.] Homing Jlarket Beporc. New York. September 6.—Cotton strong; s6« 800; uplands 20%. Turpentine very firm at 51@52. Rosin firm it 31) @3 20 for strained. Freights vory firm. Stocks strong and active. Governments etreej and steady. States strong and steady. Gold 13,-. Exchange, long 8%; short 9%. Flour 5@10 better. Wheat a shade firmer. Cor a trifle higher. Pork steady at 13 S0@13 62%. Ii.-; steady. London, September 6, noon.—Consols 93,Y- Bonds 93%. Paris, September 6 —Bentes 57f 20c. Frankfort, September 6.—Bonds 95%igDo%. Liverpool, September 6, noon.—Cotton open- strong; uplands 9%; Orleans 9%. Later.—Ootton active; sales 20,000; speculitis and export 7COO. Com 80s. Hornets—Evening Heport. New York, September G.—Cotton strorig; eCe* 3200; uplands 20%; Orleans 21. Flour, Southern closed firmer; common to its extra 5 7'(®G 65; good to choice 6 G5(S9 00.- Whisky 92%@93. Wheat 1@2 better; active oat winter red weeteml 42(3146. Com dull at 67(86754 Bice firm at 8%@9% Pork 13 75. Beef dull. In! steady. . Turpentine 51@52. Rosin firm. Tallow quiet.; Freights firmer. Gold 13%@13%; Sterling rather firmer at Ik States closed rather heavy; Tennessees 73%; new It Virginias 60%; new 70. Louisian as G5; new 60. Levees 71: 8s 82. Alabamas 100%: 5s 68. Georgia 82; 7s 90%. North Carolinas 40%; new 25. Sea Carotin as 75; now 58. Midnight.—Freights per steam, wheat 11@UH-: Coffee firm; rio 14%@17%. Sugar firm; fair to good refine 9%@9%; 200 hhds sold at 9@9%; Cub: 10@11. Porto Rico molasses dull. Governments, 81s 19; 62s 15; 64s, coupons 15; 6k 15- new 14; 67a 14%; 68s 14%; 10-40a 11%, 1 Baltimore, September 6.—Cotton firm; rxJ- filings 19%; net receipts 15; gross 28; exports U to Great Britain —; coastwise 25; sales 148; stock 810. iSFiour nominally unchanged and scarce. Whet! active. Corn ecarce and firm. Provisions unchangel Whisky 93. >LouisviLLE, September 6—Flour in good demand ‘ im quiet. Provisions firm and unchanged, emfi ess. WbUky90. Louis, September 6.—Flour dull and to- anged. Com quiet. Whisky 88%@89. Bagging Whanged. Pork 12 75. Bacon, shoulders ecarce d firm. Cincinnati, September 6.—Flour steady. Con „ fiet. Pork, 12 50 asked. Bacon in good demand ~~ V—{-at full prices; Bhoulders 6%; sides 7@7%. Whialj We may have experienced more dmagiqeaSte^ -3 New Orleans, September 6. — Cotton_ closed rong; middlings 18%@i8%; net recoiptsl71; gross j l: exports to Great Britain ; coastwise- cslOO; stock 25,481. "’Ionr market closed dull at 4 62% for superfine; t ible 5 62i&-4r«bte'C 0Cr~Com-firmer; mixed 7i J ' iw77; white 72. Oats quiet at 54. Hay, prime I I; choice 30 00. Bran l 17- Pork dull and lower j eea 13 75@13 87%r"Saconr-Bhoulde'rs 7%@7f clear sides 8%; sugar cured hams 15%. Lai tierces 10%; kegs ft%-__Snga»r'hothing doing.- f Molasses 12%@18 for common. Whisky, western | rectified’ 90@1 00. Coffee, nothing doing. Sterling 23. Sight % premium.,.-Gold 12% . I Wilmington, September 6,—Cotton firm; mid- j filings 18; net receipts 15;/exports coastwise sales—; stock 619. Augusta, September 6.—Cotton firm; middlings j 15%; sales 60; net receipts 50. * • I Savannah. September 6—Cotton in good denial j middlings 18%(318%; net receipts TJ^exporte coi:t- wise 146; sales—; stock 3038.^^ , Charleston, September 6.—^cotton market closed firm; middlings 18@18%; net receiots 16S; expork coastwise —; sales 100; stock 3756% Mobile. September 6.—Cotton market dosed firm; middlings 18%; net receipts'39; exports to Great Britain ; ooaetwise ; sales 75; stocs 1 6803. , , Galveston, September 6 Cotton market dosw strong; good ordinary 17%; net receipts 313; exports to Groat Britain—; coastwise 425; sales 400; stocs 11,442. Boston, September 6.—Cotton quiet and strong; middlings 20@20%; net receipts 5110;- gross llK exports to Great Britain—; coastwise—-s eries so- stock 8000. ; ., Norfolk, September 6.—Cotton steady; low bb- | dlings 18; net receipts 69; .exportsNcoaitwise ■ sales 10; stock 288 V ' v.u Memphis, September 7 —Cotton cjoaed nomuns J middlings 19. Philadelphia, Septembers.—Cotton, prices n—9 ;| middlings 20%. L J __ I Selma, September 6.—Cotton—demand—etroiu- fg prices firm: operations restricted by the very bs- . offerings; middlings 18%(j>18%; low middlings l<tv London, September 6, evening.—Consol3 93Y- j Bonds 93%. ' Turpentine 35a 6d. .. , . Liverpool, September 6.—Cotton closed sd" ■ uplands 9%; Orleans 9%. A Strange Freak of Nature- A correspondent of the Missouri Republics^ writing from Rockingham county, '\irgin : *> writes that paper as follows: On the 28th of July a tornado, acoompi , by rain and hail, swept through a portion 01 | oonnty, tearing up trees and destroying efew thing in its way. Many fields of com were e-- j tirely destroyed. The hail in many places 1 and drifted from five to seven feet deep, "r ville creek was so banked up with hail that fish became frozen and were pioked up aioss | the banks in great quantities; bnt the strange-* i of all is that apple trees in orchards wen stripped of all their fruit and leave?, and n have a new foliage heavier than before,*" the trees are peifectly white with bloom. , large apple tree was only partially slnppdj 1 and now it is full of bloom, intermixed large and nearly ripe fruit, and trees that w" not borne at all, neither had bloomed, are » | full of bloom. ianied Planters' W arehoube—Messrs. Adams, B* 16- more & Ware, of the Planters’ Warehose, Be * 1 j the General Passenger Depot, tender their ** j vioes to the planting oommunity as w&reho j and commission merchants, and will at>e strictly to the storage and sale of ootton, J® to the filling of orders for bagging, ties pifm^Unn supplies. The old firm of Adan* t Tb«J Ware will inorease it the present season- have a large, new, fire proof house for star®* ootton, and a long personal acquaintance each member of the firm justifies us in P ising mil who fsvor them with patron the fullest satisfaction. See their card*