Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Greorgia, Weekly Telegraph and. Journal &z Messenger,
Telegraph and Messenger
MACON. SEPTEMBER !2 1871.
Great Destruction of County Bridges,
Wo are sorry to sav that the late storm
has made wild work cf the bridges in Bibb
county. Five of them are certainly gone, and
probably more. The five which have been
swept away are these: Walnut Creek bridge,
Bailey’s Mill bridge, Johnson’s bridge over the
Tobesaufkee on the Columbus road, Parker’s
bridge over the Tobesaufkee on the Thomas-
ton road, and Searcy’s bridge over the Tobe
saufkee. From the Eoheeconnee bridges noth
ing has been hoard since the storm. There are
three or four of them. The condition of the
Perry road bridge wav reported during the
Storm. At that time the water was above the
railing, and it was thought the bridge would
surely go. At Bailey’s Mill Mr. B. says the
flood was foir inches above the highest mark
of the great Harrison fresh. At Parker’s Mill
Mr. P. says the flood was sir inches higher. The
loss of so many bridges at this time, when we
are poor and heavily strained with the new
Court-house expenses, will be severe on the
county, B3 well as a great inconvenience to the
people.
Northeast Georgia’s Choice tor Gov
ernor.
The Athens Watchman, of Wednesday, has
strong article from a correspondent urging the
claims of our townsman, Hon. Thomas Harde
man, as the Democratic candidate for Governor
next yoar, and declaring emphatically that he
is the choice of Northeast Georgia for that po
sition. The writer says the people of that sec
tion have not forgotten the services of OoL 5.
in securing for them the Air Line railway, and
that they insist npon showing their gratefnl ap
preciation of such service in the manner above
stated. We had intended publishing the article
in full, and laid the paper aside for that purpose,
but it has been taken away or misplaced. If
wo find it it will appear hereafter. We can as
sure onr countrymen of that section that they
can speak no good words of our townsman that
will not be heartily responded to down this way.
Damage to Cottou in Southwest
Georgia.
Tho Iato storm did immense damage to the
cotton crop of tho counties sonthwest of this
city, alone the line of the Southwestern Bail,
road. The prospect was gloomy enough before
the storm, but it is very much more so since,
We hear concurrent reports from all that sec
tion to this effect, and from one county (Dough
erty) wo saw a dispatch yosterday which clinched
the nail as to that immediate section. The dis
patch stated that great damage had been done,
and upon two places put down the loss at three
hundred bales! nea-ly one-sixth of what was
their estimated yield before the stoim.
A Great Temptation.
This fascinating work, if admitted into the
family circle, would indeed verify its title, by
proving a great temptation to the young and
pure.
Teeming with exciting incidents, and oft-
times indelicate and offensive in its allusions to
subjects which should be excluded from polite
literature, parents would do well to banish it
from their parlors and firesides.
The moral poison of such publications is like
the deadly upas to the young and inexperienced.
They inflame the passions, cowupt the tastes,
and destroy the souls of those too often who
have read them. For sale by Brown & Co.
Light Receipts.—The cotton receipts at this
point, since the 1st instant, are lighter than
they have been for the same time in any
year during the last twenty, if we except the
four years of the war. There are several good
reasons for this tardiness in the movement of
the staple, the strongest of which is, we think,
the general backwardness of the crop. It is
fully two weeks later than that of last year,
Though one or two bag3 were squeezed out here
and there in the extreme southern portion of
the State, as early as last year, by planters who
desired to get ahead of their neighbors, yet the
fact is patent that cotton picking this year is
late. Again, the planters know better than any
body else that the crop is short—very much so
—and, like the sensible people that they gener
ally are, they are going to hold back for the
good, round prices they will be sure to get by
so doing. But in regard to the holding back of
the crop, there are a few important points to bo
considered, which the cautions and intelligent
planter will not overlook. It is more expensive,
and certainly more dangerous to hold the crop
at home than to send it to his warehouseman or
factor for storage. When it is stored at home,
tho insurance, if any is obtained, is much higher
than when tho cotton is stored in a fire-proof
warehouse in the city, and if there is no insur
ance upon it when on the plantation, the pro
ducer, by a mere accident, may get nothing for
it, as was frequently the case last year by the
burning of gin-hosnses. Again, when the cotton
is stored in onr warehouses, the planter, if he
needs money, but does not wish to throw his
cotton on tho market to obtain it, can get ac
commodation on much easier terms, because
the staple is in sight and securely stored. But,
we have had our knuckles rapped a time or two
for presuming to advise planters os to howtboy
should hrndlo and dispose of their cotton, and,
for fear of catching it again, wo “round to”
with tho conclusion that the cotton receipts of
Macon will bo comparatively light this year.
Bibb County Bbidgfv.—The Commissioners
of Koads, with Judge Gerry, examined some of
the injured bridgos yesterday. Parker’s Bridge,
over the Tobesaufkee, they found pretty much
intact, somo distance down the stream, and will
arrange to have it restored all right for §200.
Bailoy’s Bridge can be repaired in a week for
§400, and they will order the work done at
once. Walnut Creek bridge is totally gone.
This bridge was 400 feet long, and 25 feet abovo
ordinary water height. Notwithstanding this
fact, one of the benches was found a mile or
two down stream, another in a field ten miles
below. The bridge must be bnilt at once, and
the commissioners determined not to wait for
proposals bnt to make the best bargain they
could, and to have the bridge replaced in thirty
days at farthest.
Tho party, in the course of their observations
saw strong evidence of tho tremendous height
Of the water and force of the current. At Wal
nut creek they found where a tree a foot in
diameter had been snapped off by the sash of
water npon accumulating drift which had lodged
against it. They were unable to find a single
Sill of the bridge. The bridges on the Oconee,
wo are glad to say, are all right
Butler.—Tho Nashville Banner says it is
positively asserted by the personal friends of
General Butler, who have been in New York
within the last few days, that his purpose is to
run for the Governorship of Massachusetts
whether the Bepnblican Convention nominates
him or not. In other words, he is in the field,
self-nominated, against all comers. Plurality
elects. John Qniney Adams will be the Demo
cratic candidate, and, under the circumstances,
who can doubt the result of the election ?
The Beal Issue. ... c
We insist upon the voters of this district not
losing sight of therealis8ne involved in the
race between GoL Simmons and that hungry in
dividual, Mr. James Tinley. It is not simply a
question of Democrat or Badical, though that is,
or ought to be sufficient to rally every honest
wbite man to an active support of the former
candidate. The real issue, the live question, is
whether this district shall send, as its represent
ative to the State Senate, a man who endorses,
and will, if elected, defend the infamous cor
ruption, and waste, and plundering of the Bol
lock administration; or one who will do all he
can to expose those iniquities and bring the per
petrators to justice. The Badieals, whose can
didate Mr. Tinley is, and upon whose platform
he stands fiat-footed, deny that there has been
any rascality—deny that the Bollock gang has
been thieving and squandering the people’s
money, and consequently are bound to oppose
all measures set on foot to unearth these vil
lainies and punish the criminals. Mr. Tinley,
if he does not intend to cheat the negroes, is
bound to back np this position by voice and,
vote. He is bonnd to say and vote that there
has not been any stealing on the State Boad—
no overissue of bonds and misapplication of
their proceeds by Bollock—no squandering of
money on carpet-baggers—no waste, or worse,
in the legislative and executive departments of
the State government—no nullification of law
and outrage of justloe by turning loose hundreds
of convioted criminals to renew their ravages
npon the persons and property of peaceable cit
izens. This is the position of the Badieals, and
Mr. Tinley, if he is an honest man and don’t
mean to fool tho confiding freedmen who lis
tened to his pitoous appeals and put him on the
track, is bound to sustain it. He is pledged to
stand by the Bullock administration in its forth
coming trial, and he knows it as well a3 those
who nominated him.
CoL Simmons, on the other hand, is not alone
the Democratic candidate, bnt he represents
the protest of all the people against the profli
gacy and corruption of the past three years. He
is the candidate of all who desire to see retrench
ment in expenses, reform in all abuses, econo
my and honesty. He favors a reduction of
taxation, and relief from the burdens that now
weigh so heavily upon the shoulders of overy
white and black man in the State, who works
for a living. He is in favor of honest men in
office, small salaries, and making every office
holder toe the mark of a rigid accountability.
He will vote and work for all measures that
every honest man sees and knows to be neces
sary to save the State from financial rain, and
which every gorged Ksdical office-holder and
his “pals” in the State will oppose. He is a
square man and will so stand on the record.
Mr. Tinley just isn’t that—if he is true to the
crowd that is running h ! m—and will have to
vote exactly as the Atlanta ring of plunderers
and profligates dictates.
We ask every voter in tho district who has
the least interest in making a change from ex
travagance to economy—from rogues in office
to honest men in office—from pardoning crimi
nals to punishing crimiupls—from wrong and
deviltry of every sort to right and justice, to
take this view of the case and vote for the man
who will do all he can to effect the change. Let
Mr. James Tinley be tanght a lesson that will
cure his lust for office for good and all, and
leave him abundant leisure to meditate, among
his peach orchards, upon the wickedness as well
as the vanity of a white man trying to sell out
hi3 race and color. Men of Bibb, Monroe and
Pike!—black men—not black slaves to some
fancy city mulatto master—as well as white
men—now is yonr time to strike a home blow
for sound principles and a sound man. Now is
yonr time to choke off one more would-be raider
upon your pockets!
In New York yesterday morning the cotton
bears evidently begun to smell a mouse. The
sales were 1200 bales.
Ip it were not for railway catastrophes and
New York abortions, tho Press agency would be
out of news in these times.
“Hr. Stephens and tlie New Depart
ure."
We agree with our correspondent in repro
bating all personal attacks, from any soarce,
upon Mr. Stephens. The course of the discus
sion has shown that there is apparently no sub
stantial issue involved in this so-called new
departure wrangle. Mr. Stephens, in a late
number of the Sun, speaking of tho California
Democratic resolutions, defends his position
thus:
Our correspondent says that the California
Democrats, in their State platform, intend only
to declare the three amendments are “a settle
ment in fact of all the fanes of the war, etc.,’’
and not to aver that they bad been adopted ac
cording to law, or that they were in themselves
either just or right. On the contrary, ho says
that they have “an abiding faith in the intelli
gence of the people to pronounce thorn null
and void at some future day.”
This is onr position exactly. This we believe
to have been the position of ninety-nine out of
eveij hundred of the honest massesofthe Democ
racy in every State of tho Union. All that is
wanted for a brilliant victory in 1872, on these
principles and with this view, is for them to get
together in common council and set forth their
ptr posts and principles in language which will
clearly express their common ideas, and abont
which there can be no mistake or misunder
standing. * * *
Wo don’t think any Southern or Northern
Democrat will be disposed to go further than to
admit that tho amendments in question are de
facto "a settlement of the issues of the war." All
lexicographers will agree that the word “settle
ment” in tb : s connection means a point fixed
and established permanently between the parties
concerned—a controversy finally adjusted and
which they do not intend to reopen. A contro
versy still open is not "settled.” A controversy
suspended or adjourned to some future day,
is not “settled.” Anything left in abeyance is
not “settled.” No man has any other idea of a
settlement ’’’an that it closes up the matter in
hand finally and forever, so far as the parties to
tho settlement are conce.^ed. Webster defines
the verb to sottle—“to establish”—“to fix firm
ly”—“to fix,” and so od, and there is no proper
use of the term which admits the idea of parties
declaring a settlement, coming up afterwards-
pleading their own previous insincerity and in
sisting that the controversy must be re-opened.
It is true they may, in the words of tho Cali
fornia writer, “have an abiding faith in the in
telligence of tho people to pronounce the settle
ment and the pmendments null and void at some
future day”—bnt that is qnite a different mat
ter. This must be equ Sf Rbly done by parties
who were not implicated In declaring the settle
ment “a settlement in fact of all the issues of
the war.” But what these people of “some
future day” may do or refrain from doing is all
matter of hypothesis and conjecture. It is of
no present moment. We must leave it to them.
We must allow posterity to look out for itse'f
in tb ; s particular.
The material point is that Mr. Stephens goes
as far as any Southern Democrat or (to the ex
tent of onr knowledge) any Northern Democrat,
in accepting the three amendments as “a settle
ment in fact of all the issues of the war.” As
to their justice and, particularly as to tho ques
tion whether they wero legally enacted, or en
acted according to a’ 1 tho equities of the Consti
tution, we think there cannot be two candid
and intelligent opinions on the continent. The
best that can be plead for them is tho hollow
form of constitutional enactment, belying the
true intent and spirit of that instrument. We
hold, then, that the controversy about the so-
called “now departure has been reduoed to a
question about nothing at all; or, bi old Benton
used to call it, “a question of goat’s wool.”
Heavy Damage.—We heard au intelligent
and we 1 ’ posted gentleman assert yesterday,
that the damage of the late freshet, to. crops,
railroads, country roads, bridges, etc.,'in cen
tral Georgia, would amount to §500,000. , /.►'
The Martial Law Dilemma.
That sanctimonious Aminadab Sleek, of the
Northern Gatvanislio persuasion, Senator John
Scott, of the state of Pennsylvania Central B. B.
has been as effectually treed as was the famous
ooon by Captain Martin Scott. After returning
from bis unholy mission to South Carolina,
where he made good use of his time and oppor
tunities to stir up the negroes against the
whites, and incite them to all manner of “loyal’
deviltry, he hastened to the dominion of the
railroad aforesaid to see how the Badical cause
was faring. He found it in bad case, indeed,
with certain-defeat awaiting it at the October
poll. Without some decided measures it was
good as d. <L and d. before the vote had been
cast. So Scott scudded to Washington to lay
Ins loyal head on the Administration’s sympa
thetic (and receptive) breast, and ask for help.
He averred that only one thing could save the
faithful in his State. The war fever must be
raised somehow, or every thing'was gone to dem
nition smash. The salt of the Ku-klux Com
mittee report had lost its savor, probably be
cause the people had been gorged with it They
refused any longer to breakfast, dine and sup
on it, as was the pious intention of those who
set it before them. They refused any longer to
relish the nnctuous horrors of negroes roasted
negroes boiled, negroes stewed, negroes fried,
negroes skinned alive and eaten without salt
account of their loyalty by the South Carolina
cannibals. In short, they had spewed out the
thing with great loathing.
But, quoth Scott, if the administration will
only give it the fresh sanoe of offiaial endorse
ment by declaring martial law down there, the
people will resume it as an article of daily diet
—they will breakfast, dine and sup on it again,
and be so filled with loyalty by election day, as
to go to the polls and elect the Badical ticket.
For Grant to hear was to sympathise, and to
sympathise was to act, and straightway his mar
tial law proclamation was announced as forth-
coming.
Bnt, ad interim, up comes from the rebellious
distriot a declaration that ought to upset Scott'
calculations, and which squarely nails his false
hoods to the oounter. Tho country and the ad
ministration is informed through a manifesto
addressed to him, that, since his return from
the district over which he asks the setting np of
handcuff and the bayonet rule, there has not
been a single case of violence or outrage, and to
this solemn declaration certain Ioyl persons
whoso veracity, of conrso, is above question,
append their names! Scott’s own friends over
their sign manuals tell him in plain words either
that he is a falsifier, or that he has consented
to endorse the statements of tho anonymous
liais upon whoso representations he calls for
martial law, and tho inflicting of untold horrors
npon thousands of his countrymen.
This is the whole story in brief, and now let
ns see what Scott and his sympathetic friend at
Long Branch are going to do about it. Martial
law in South Carolina seems necessary to carry
the State of Pennsylvania Central Bailroad in
October, but martial law founded npon allega
tions, tbe mendacity of which have been so
riddled by indignant and invulnerable truth,
may cost Scott’s friend the Presidency of the
United States in November, 1872.
We are curious to see how the Badical cat
will be made to jump so as to catch both rats.
Hour Long lias Mr. Tinley Been a “lie
publican?”
We would like very much to know how long
Mr. Tinley, the Bepnblican candidate for Sen
ator from this district, has been a member of
that parly ? And we would like an answer from
those who put him on the track. Bnt before
they tell us, we want to tell them “somedings,
as our Teutonio friends say, in the shape of a
series of interrogatories. Do they know that
Mr. Tinley was an active, eager candidate, last
fall, for nomination for the Legislature by the
Democrats? Do they know that ho worked hard
for it, carrying around Tinley tickets in a box,
and endeavoring to persuade everybody to take
one ? Do they know that he brought his friends
to tho meeting to work for him, and that they
did work for him so zealously that he only
failed of the nomination by a few votes? Now
what has changed Mr. Tinley’s views ? We put
it to those who nominated him. Don’t they all
know that if there had not been an office to fill
they would never have hoard of Mr. T.’s Repub-
licanism ? Can’t they see that this cr.'o of con
version is too sudden to excite anything but
suspicion?
When did, and for what has Mr. Tinley joined
the Bepnblican party? Was there, can there be
any other reason for this change than a desire
to got offico ? We have made diligent enquiry
and can find nobody who ever suspected Mr.
Tinley of being anything bnt an anti-Badical,
until there wa3 an election ordered for Senator,
and more particularly until the Bepnblican Con
vention was about to meet at Forsyth.
Now, let those who are supporting him as a
Badical or Bepnblican, give us any other reason
for their faith in him. If this sort of lightning
conversion is allowed to stnke a man, what be
comes of the good old doctrine of probation?
The leader of the party—in this county at least
—is a staunch Methodist, we hear. How does
ho get his consent to repudiate this good old
rale ? If this sort of thing goes on what is to
become cf the veterans—those who have been
servingin the ranks from the start, without money
and without prioe, if an eleventh hour recruit
is to step in when an office is to be given out,
and coolly bear off the prize ? Beally, we should
like to hear what they think about it.
Knights Tfmplar.—Wo understand that
delegation of Knights Templar is being made
up in this city, to attend the Triennial Conolave
of the Grand Encampment of the United States,
which convenes on the 19!h instant in the city
of Baltimore. Arrangements have been made
with the railroads north of Atlanta, by which
each Sir Knight from Macon may attend this
conclave at a cost of only $33 CO for the round
trip, going and returning. Tickets of invitation
to join the excursion have been placed at the
discretion of the Sir Knights, and we learn that
several ladies and citizens will go with tbe party
from this city. The excursion will leave Atlanta
on the morning of the 16tb, for Louisville, from
whence a special train of splendid day, smoking,
Pallman palace, and drawing room cars will
leave on the 16th, via the Louisville and Indian
apolis through line, via Indianapolis, Columbus,
Pittsburg, and Harrisburg, arriving at Balti-
more on the morning of the 18 th, without change
of cars. It will be a delightrul trip, and we
doubt not, all tho Sir Knights who have the
time to spare from business, will go along.
A Baltimore paper thus alludes to tho con
clave :
The approaching grand convocation of Knights
Templar and the General Grand Chapter of the
Boyal Arch Masons, which commences in Balti
more on the 19th of September, will be one of
the most numerous and imposing affairs of its
kind ever held in this country. The procession,
which will form one of the grand features inci
dent to the convocation, will be large in its pro
portions and gorgeous in its paraphernalia. The
Baltimore Committee of Arrangements is active
ly at work preparing for the proper entertain
ment of the visiting Knights, and more than
thirty Oommanderies have signified their deter
mination to be present in force. c
The numismatic experts are considerably ex
cited over a coin lately picked np in a Boston
gutter. A boy brought it in to hm employer as
a queer looking button, when, upon cleaning it
with acids, it was discovered to be a genuine
New England sixpence of 1652. The words
“New England” and Massachusetts (spelt Mas-
licbuselts) and the date, are very distinct. The
mystery is how it got into the gutter.
News Items.
The Cotton Business or Eufaula. — The
Bluff City Times of Thursday learns from the
Cotton Circular cf Messrs. Solomon & Bowden,
that the number of bales of ootton received in
Enfanla np to the first of September, including
387 bales on baud 1st of hurt September, is 37,-
365 balestotal receipts far 1869 and 1870,
were 33,695, making the exoess over last year
3,770 bales. Tbe stock on hand 1st September,
1871, 144 bales.
The Coen Chop.—Two-fifths of the com pro
duct of tbe United States is raised in Illinois,
Missouri and Iowa. The bushels last year
were: In Illinois, 121,500,000; in Missouri,
80,500,000; in Iowa, 73,500,000. But as Hli-
nois was then the fourth, Missouri the fifth, and
Iowa the twelfth State in population, the num
ber of bushels to each inhabitant were: Illinois,
35; Missouri, 57; Iowa, G3. So Iowa is thus
proved to be the com State of the Union.
Memphis received last year 511,432 bales of
cotton, against 290,737 the year before, and
112,296 the first year after the war. Her ship
ments during 1870-71 were as follows:
SHIPMENTS.
North per river 221,119
“ “ Louisville B. B 162,443
Memphis and Charleston B. B.
via Chattanooga 68,004
South, per river 54,836
•* “ Miss, and T. B. It. 4,903—513,530
THE GEOBGIA PRESS.
Memphis stock Sept. 1,177L 2,176
It will be seen that the shipments to New Or
leans per river were only 54,836 bales, or barely
more than ten per cent, of tbe receipts. Her
shipments direct North were 453,797, or more
by 250 per cent, than the previous year.
When to this amount is added tbe receipts at
Cairo, St. Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati by
river, we have a total of 600,000 bales, or one-
fourth tbe crop of the Valley of the Mississippi,
that has gone overland to the North or the
Eastern seaboard.
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Baxl-
boad.—According to the President’s Report,
the gross receipts of this road for the year end
ing 30th June last, was §1,287,323.62. Ordin
ary expenses §625,645.67. Extraordinary ex
penses §279.300. Nett earnings §282,377.95.
Bonded debt §3,581,400. Capital stock §1,969,
646. Length of Boad 270 miles, with 22 mileB
of sidings.
Knoxville Pboduoe Markets.—The Press
and Herald of the 7tb, quotes com sacked and
on board cars, C5@70 cents. Wheat 1.10@L85,
Oats sacked 40 to 424. Prime lard in cans
10@11 cents. Butter 15 to 25. Eggs 8@10
cents. Chickens 124 to 15 cents. Hay baled
§15 to §18 per ton. Beef cattle 2J to 3J cents
gross. .«
After Stanton.—The Chattanooga Times of
tho 7th says:
J. O. Stanton stopped at Pittsburg, Pa., yes
terday morning, on his way to Tennessee. We
understand that ho will not come to Chatta
nooga, but will stop at Cleveland. In consider
ation of the fact, we advise the several tavern-
keepers of that city to hold themselves in read
iness to entertain a whole brigade of Chatta-
noogians, for there are some people in this city
who would travel further to see Stanton than
an Arab would to seo the tomb of Mohammed.
Vebx Affecting.—There was a marriage in
Chattanooga high life on the Gtb, and the happy
couple left at once for a tour in the Eastern
cities. Tho bard of the Times drank inspire
tion or whisky at the wedding, and perpetrated
the following:
“On her lover’s arm she lent,
And round her waist she felt it fold;
And far across the hills they went,
In that new world which is the old.
Across tho hills and far away,
Beyond their utmost purple vine;
And deep into tbo dying day,
The happy princess followed him.”
Albany and Gulf Raileoad.—A telegram
from tho Albany division of this road announces
that it is all right and doing business as usuaL
The Stobm in Jones County.—We are sorry
to learn from a Jones county friend that tbe
lato storm was destructive in that county. So
far as beard from three bridges had been carried
away. A mill and workshop in course of con
struction on Cedar creek, by Messrs. Pound &
Marshall, was swept away, together with all the
accumulated lumber and materials, and even
the carpenters’ tools. A good deal of fencing
was blown down and floated off. A great deal
of com was lost and injured—particularly com
which was heavily fruited. The violence of the
wind prostrated it in the submerged and wet
fields and the bottom land crops were in good
port overflown. The water was higher in the
creek3 than ever known before, and the nplands
have been badly washed and gullied.
Reception of the Waemouth Delegation.—
Tho World reports that the Warmouthers were
received very coolly at Long Branch. The
President flatly denied some of their statements,
and stamped his foot and brought his fist down
heavily on the piano at others. Tbe Warmouth
brithering were half white and half blaok—ten
of each.
The National Democratic Executive Resident
Committee at Washington have published a let
ter in which they denounce an anonymous
pamphlet, entitled “Concession, or How tbe
Lost Cause May be Regained,” and declare
their belief that it was concocted by Badieals
to serve a base Radical election purpose.
Political Prospects in Pennsylvania.—The
advices received by tbe National Committee at
Washington as to the Democratic prospects in
Pennsylvania were of the most flattering char
acter. The Radicals of that State were repre
sented to be in a most helplessly- demoralized
condition, with their leaders fighting each other
for a division of the spoils.
The Cotton Chop.—The best information
from the South in relation to the cotton crop,
(says a Washington dispatch cf the 6th, to the
Courier Journal,) is that the yield this year will
fall far short of that of 1870, owing, in the first
place and mainly, to the decreased acreage
planted in cotton, and, in the second, to the un
favorable season. The cotton factors of Au
gusta, Ga., have estimated that the present crop
will not exceed 3,000,000 bales. This estimate
was not made hurriedly, but after careful inves
tigation, and represents the concurrent ppinion
of thirty-two gentlemen engaged in the cotton
business.
Loyal Ku-Kluxing.—Beally, our Northern
fellow-citizens seem determined to illustrate
murder in every shade and variety of the art.
Their papers teem with bloody horrors—and the
reddest one of all, perhaps, is the murder of
three children by their mother, in Indiana, be
cause sbe wanted to be rid of them. She dashed
her baby’s brains out against a stone, taking her
by the heels for that purpose, and she cut the
throat of the others with a butcher knife. What
bas got into these people? There is little else Journal, of Thursday
but murder in their papers.
Ten oar loads of iron for the -Savannah - and
Memphis railway passed through Columbus, on
Wednesday.
The Snn says the brick building and machine
ry of the Steam Cotton Mill Company whioh has
been reoently Bold for $16,250, originally cost
$80,000.
The Sun announces the death, in. New Or
leans, a short time sinoe, of Col. You Zinken,
who commanded the post of Columbus during
the last year of the war.
We clip the following items from the Sun, of
Wednesday
A Mattes of General Interest.—The city
of Maoon has out some $180,000 of change bills,
many of which find their way in this direction.
When in large amounts of twenty-five dollars
or more they are discounted heavily by our
banks, and thus become sources of annoyances
and los3. A wealthy and enterprising city like
Macon ought to have redeemed them long since.
The Uchee Plantations.—A gentleman re
ports he passed over six large plantatiors In
this good section in Alabama. He saw some
passably good cotton that would yield 600
pounds to the acre, and some miserably poor.
The latter predominated. Farmers as a rule
are the bluest looking of down-hearted people.
Railroad Hands and Cotton, Fields.—We
are told some two hundred hands, in lots of one
hundred each, were offered to the contractors
of the North and South Bailroad. They de
clined them as they already have some six hun
dred on the line, this number being amply snffi
oient to complete their engagements for the
first twenty miles. They are under heavy bonds
to have the track ready in time to run a train to
Pine Mountain by January 1st We also under
stood that a prominent gentleman has proffered
to take these hands and employ them iu the
next three weeks on the Columbus and Albany,
or tho Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Columbus
Boad, whichever the Council and the people of
our city shall resolve to support This number
of hands seeking employment shows the short
ness of tbe cotton orop. Planters will have to
hire no hands this year to piok it out For this
purpose their present forco will more than
suffice.
Meriwether camp meeting was in full blast
last Sunday with au attendance of between
3,000 and 4,000 persons. Another item of Meri
wether oonnty news is that $80,000 has been
raised at Greenville for the Columbus and Air-
Line railway.
The Columbus Enquirer proffers tbe follow
ing crumbs of comfort to its readers:
The low price at which bacon is ruling is cer
tainly an encouraging symptom in these days of
complaint of short crops, scarcity of money,
etc. Nothing has drawn more heavily npon the
purses of planters and mechanics during the
past few years than the article of meat. Prior
to the present year bacon, since the late war,
has ranged from 18 to 30 cents, whioh, in view
of the frequent unremunerative prices of cot
ton, has greatly embarrassed, financially, the
massea. There seems to be little prospect of
any immediate advance in tbe artiole, as the
present supply is excellent and the hog prospect
in tbo west reported good. As an increasing at
tention has been given to raising hogs in the
South, the demand for western meat will not be
so largo as that of previous years, and hence
tbe outlook is favorable for au abundant and
cheap supply of the irrepressible hog during the
coming year. Although onr cottou crop may be
reduced to two-thirds or one-half, there is little
danger of starvation so long as bacon remains
at 10 to 12jc. If tbe unfavorable cotton reports
whioh reach us from all sections are well founded
the staple will be apt to range from 16 to 20c.,
thus holding the hog in abeyance. There is
some hope for our seotion when cotton is on top
of the hog, but when the position is reversed
“look out for squalls.” The hog crop in Colum
bus was never better, as we heard a gentleman
say the other day it i3 almost impossible to drive
up Broad street without running over a score
or more of them.
The cars commenced running on the Atlanta
street railway, Thursday.
A religious revival has been in progress at
McLemore Cave, Walker county, for the past
three weeks. One hundred and eighty persons
have professed religion, among them 15 or 20
Universalists.
M. A. Ellison, charged with killing Thomas
Coulter, in Walker county, last May, has been
found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and
sentenced to fifteen years in tho penitentiary.
The Cartersville Standard says:
Joseph Humphreys, the murderer who broke
jail some days since, was recaptured near King
ston on Wednesday night of last week, by a
gentleman living in that neighborhood. He
says his objeot was to kill his wife, father-in-law
and mother-in-law, and then he was willing to
die.
The Calhoun Times relates the following:
Honesty.—We have been shown a remarkable
letter addressed “ Mr. James Beeves (The One
armed Man), Calhoun, Ga.,” postmarked At
lanta. It contained 30 cents U. S. fractional cur
rency, accompanied with the following words
“ I stole a feed of corn from you during the late
war.” We will add, for the satisfaction of the
unknown sender, that it got into Mr. Beeves,
the one-armed man’s hands.
We clip these items from the Atlanta Sun, of
yesterday
Homicide at Barnett.—A negro bojr was
killed yesterday at Barnett, the junction of the
Washington branch of the Georgia Railroad.
A wagon, having in it several boys or young
men—somo whites and some negroes—had come
from the country and was standing near the
depot. One of the white boys and one of the
negroes got into a quarrel for some cause, and
became very angry with each other. The white
boy armed himself with a pistol, and fired at the
negro with whom he was quarrelling. The ball
missed him, but struok another negro in the
head, killing him instantly. The wh : te boy
immediately took to the woods, and escaped for
i| time being. When the up train on the
jrgia Bailroad passed Barnett, a number were
making preparations for a vigorous pursuit, and
the fellow will no doubt be caught, if it has not
already been done.
Illness of Dr. Mell.—We learn that Dr.
P. H. Mell, Vice-Chancellor of the University
of Georgia, is quite ilL He is at the house
of a friend near Woodville Station, on the
Athens branch of the Georgia Boad. He had
“Jfr. Stephens—New DepartuAl
Editors Telegraph and Messenger-. j t j ’
source of muoh regret to the many
I friends of Mr. Stephens that he has placed
been attending a religions revival daily, and
preaching at a church near the station, coming
from his home and returning to Athens every
day. A few days ago he was quite severely at
tacked and unable to retnrn, and is still there
very sick. What renders tbe matter more dis
tressing is that his wife is confined with severe
sickness at Athens, and neither is able to see the
other.
P. S.—As we have had no papers from either
Savannah or Augusta since Wednesday, our
readers are at liberty to imagine what has been
going on down at those villages since onr last
report.
Our bibulous friend of the Alapaha Circuit,
Mr. Justice O'Neal, is really going to resign and
move up the country, “on acoount of his health,
as we learn from the Valdosta Times. Elberton
Good Templars please take notioe.
We clip as follows from the Houston Home
The Difficulty Between Soldiers and Ne
groes in South Carolina.—Speaking of the
feud betwen the soldiers and negroes in Ches
ter, South Carolina, the Reporter says:
“The war has been carried into Africa. The
feud begun between the soldiers and the negroes
two weeks ago, has grown and become embit
tered, until, on Tuesday night, a detachment of
tbe garrison turned out with their base ball clubs
to have satisfaction for all the indignities,
either real or fancied, that they have received.
On Monday night, a small party of the soldiers
were at the depot, when they were insulted
and bullied by a crowd of negroes. Being
too few to fight successfully, they chose
tbe wiser course of beating a retreat. The
negroes were exnltant over this; and indulged
in a great deal of braggadocio, one being heard
to say that they made the soldiers run just like
they did the white folks last March. This,
doubtless, was at the bottom of the disturbance
on Tuesday night. The negroes have nothing
now to brag over. Several of them were severe
ly beaten; one (Ned Cain) is said to be danger
ously hurt. None of. the soldiers were hurt.—
The solntion of all the bad blood between the'
two parlies is the faot that the soldiers attend
tho balls and parties cf negroes, and supplant
them, in tbe affections of the belles of their
own race. This is more than African nature
can bear.
Weather.—Tuesday night a rain Commenced.
It increased towards morning, and yesterday we
had a very hard wind and rain, apparently with
out a minute’s cessation. Big Indian creek has
risen higher than ever was known before, and
the bridge has washed away. All the little
branches have become swimming creeks. We
are cut off, to a great extent, from the surround-
country, and cannot tell the extent of the storm,
bnt it is feared that all the mill dams in this vi
cinity are washed away. The streets of Perry
are fall of gullies, and we have heard of nine
chimneys in town that have fallen, AU the
open cotton that the storm touched must cer
tainly have been ruined. This morning the
rain has ceased and there is a good prospect of
fair weather.
Deaths.—Mrs. Knight died last Sunday at-the
Poor House, at the advanced age of 106 yean.
She left a son 84 years old, and a great-great-
grandson about five years old.
Mrs. Pierce, known by her neighbors as
“Aunt Patsy,” died near Houston Factory last
Friday, aged about 75 years.
A little son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Rainey,
died Tuesday morning, aged seven months. .
There is a man in Perry who is “down on
agriculture, because when he was a boy bis
mother used to make him sweep the yard.
The llawson building (brick) at Albany, broke
into two pieces last Wednesday under the per
suasive power of the wind and rain storm of j
that day.
The Albany News, of .Friday, says:
Tbe rains of Tuesday and Wednesday sen-
ously damaged the railroads, especially the At-1 self i n seeming antagonism to tbe orZT
lantio and Golf. The up train did not come in nf P at S
at all on Wednesday, and the down train left on ty °* the Democratic part y Sonth > in ref e ,<,
schedule time, and came back iu about two and *° is called the “New Departure.” •»
a half hours, the road being covered with water people of the North fully understand that j
just below Hardaway station, and we also un- the South are a unit in opposition to the * •
deratand there was a break three miles this side . .. t. ,, P*tti
of Thomasvilie. We hope these hindrances ple 0 tbe F °nrteenth and Fifteenth Am«
will soon be remedied* J men ts, and the manner of their incorporaj-
Tiaok-I.ying on t!» AI.-H.. Btfhv
commence again next week, beginning at opinion for future assertion, bv refusing to?*
Gainesville. any active or controlling part in shaping 1
The Gainesville Eagle learns that some Ohio °*. tbe Democratic party for the*
capitalists have reoently bought valuable prap- BjRff qSm of policy in partv man, I
erty on the Chestatee river, on the line of Hall me nt, let it be controlled by those whe«H
county, and will change the current of the river severer issues are to be m9t and decisive vi
so as to work out tbe gold, of which its bed f ‘ u ‘*' '
fn |i" , . „ . . _ .. | by the strength of a united public senfiaZ
Tbe Columbus Enquirer, of Friday, says: and the tried conservatism of I people W *
Clearing Up.—The last of the Georgia and patiently suffering under a sense of State,
Florida cyclones passed over this city yesterday national oppression. 1
morning, after a continuous rain and blow of The people of the South should permit
nearly 36 hours. 'This is the third and longest questions of mere party success to dimit'
touch of the equinoctial storm which has visited their respect for the counsels of her publio r
us this season. None of them, however, have —those who, in tbe cabinet and forum i?
resulted in much damage to our section. On given her a name in the history of •nations'*
the contrary, the fine rains have given a won- their wise statesmanship and transcendent
derful impetus to potatoes, peas, coltards and ity, or those who have illustrated her love
turnips, and the like, and probably have not in-1 liberty and sense of honor gloriously on n!
jured cotton much, as there is comparatively field of strife.
little open. ^ We regret to notice an article in the hV
The Sun, of same date, bloweth ye horn of jf lbe 2a inst -j on “Mr. Stephet
. as a political counsellor and prophet,” 2
brag as follows. though sympathizing with the general views s
The Largest Manufacturing City in Geob- the World as to the line of policy to be adop'i
gia.—Columbus bears off the palm bylongodds. to insure the success of the Democratic path-
The Comptroller-General reports the capital in- the next Presidential race, yet we cannot
vested in cotton manufactories in Georgia at I mit mere party adhesion to involve u3 in
$2,975,498, of which $1,407,800 is from Colum- attacks upon our trusted publio men. 1\2
bus._ Next comes Augusta with a capital of should be a large margin allowed at the Sot"
§225,250. Macon has only §72,000. In iron I for differences on national politics, and
foundries §658,026 of capital is reported in the I triumph of the Democratio party should sigei
State. Of this amount Columbus reports §73,- ize a restoration of constitutional governmett
300. In this line she is behind Atlanta, where we can safely promise Ibe hearty co-operatic;
$147,600 is invested, Clarke connty with §83,- of our leading publio men in unriveting g,
300 and Rome with §79,350. There is a large shackles upon us, and their firm and energy
amount and a greater variety of cotton goods support of all rightful authority,
manufactured in the Sontb. The Eagle and Wo have noticed with increasing interest fr
Phoenix establishment is the only one in the career of Mr. Stephens since his first election?
United States where cotton blankets are made. Congress; and though differing with him wt?
Our manufactories run about 30,000 spindles, I he was one of the acknowledged leaders of t?
and consumed last year, 5,127 bales. One or ] old Whig party, yet suoh has always been cpi
two new ones are now being talked of. The I respect for the purity and elevation of his ch?j
river dam at the lowest stage of water will ran j acter, onr admiration of the brilliancy of
180,000 spindles, and in a distance of three genius and confidence in bis wisdom anil r^.
miles tbe fall of tbe river is over 130 feet. Ua- triotism, that we never hesitated to say *-
limited quantities of granite famish the material should support him for any public position i
for building purposes. j And even now, though differing with him oa th I
The biggest fool negro lives in Washington, j question of “new departure,” we have the cc;. j
A negro broke jail last Wednesday, and the first “ 8 Jl to ffi
information the jailor had of it was from this greatest toleration and deference,
fool darkoy who was also a prisoner. He came We see no necessity or propriety in any hea'.ei
up to the jailor’s house and told him all about I difference upon national politics at this time
it and then went back to his cell. “ th . e of Northern elections this fall ni
The Washington Gazette heads a three quar- necessitate another deparimTfn So maliS
ter colnmn paragraph as follows: of partjism, to secure success in the next Fret
“Kadical Hule and Grant Again, in Prefer- I idential election. But above all, let us toil
ence to the Success of the Now Departure.” I sanction any attacks from the Northern Ftn
mat a strain that young man compells his of p ? blic f eD > *
t t> . f have served us ra.the past with an honor tri
shirt to stand! But it will certainly tear, one fidelity that they cann £ qU estion, and whiei
of these days. assures us will never fail us when the hour off
The last Fairbura Sentinel tells about a re- necessity comes, what ever may be ee
markable woman now living in that (Campbell) |
oonnty: —
She is now sixty-five years old and never had a I the honor and sentiment of tho people, ari
spell of sickness, never took any medicine, never though a planter for more than twenty yens,
wore a hoop-skirt, never put on a lace jacket or I who has never sought or received any political
modernized corset, never wore spectacles and j office, we could not, on reading this morning
can see to thread a needle as well as at six-1 the article of the New York World, resist the
teen; can do a day’s washing with equal facility [ impulse of writing this feeble vindication of ons
as at tbe above mentioned age. She has given I of the greatest men whioh Georgia has ever prj.
birth to eighteen children—fourteen of whom I duced. Respectfully yours,
are now living. I “A Georgia Planter.”
Isaac Whitaker, dark brunette, killed his half dextEB VANQUISHED,
brother, Jack Favor, of the same color, last I Remarkable Performance by Goldsmith
Tuesday, near Newnan, and was considerably Maid—She Trots a Mile in tbe Unprece-
hashed himself before he carried his point dentea Time of 2:17.
The Savannah News of Thursday-our latest „ M^WAura^ September C.—The race at Cold
........ I Springs this afternoon, between Goldsmith Maid
date from that city-says: and Lnoy> waa one of the most remarkab!o *
Damage to Bridges.—The effects of the late irotting annals, Goldsmith Maid making the
rains and storms have been severely felt by tho j fastest single, and also the best three heats on
farmers in the adjacent counties. Nearly every J record. The crowd present were fairly carried
bridge over the many rivers and creeks that in- j away with excitement. The horses were brought
tersect this section, have been either swept away j upon the track atS:30 p. m. After scoring inel-
or so badly damaged, and the roads overflowed, I factually three times the horses got the word
as to prevent wagona from coming to the city. I and started off neck and neck. This position
It will take some time to got the highways again j they maintained for the first quarter, then the
in passable condition. I Maid gradually drew ahead, and at tbe half mile
The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, gives the fol- pole obtained a lead of a length, which she re
lowing details of a bloody affray in that city on h?“l dt ° tho oIose ’ passing under the wire in
Friday: f - 0 *-
views or differences on national politics.
We feel that the lives and characters of cu
[ trusted public men are the beBt exponents o!
About two o’clock yesterday afternoon, a
most bloody andseriousstabbingaffair occurred
at tho corner of Marietta and Broad streets, in
which James Little was fatally stabbed by one
Benton O'Neal. The weapon used was a large
In the second heat the horses got a fine start
upon the first attempt, and passed under the
wire head and head.
The mare immediately began to draw away
from Luoy, and soon had obtained a lead of
several lengths. In going around the first tun
bowie knife, the blade of which measured eight I she made a slight break, by which she lost three
inches in length. The cut literally disembow- lengths; however, this soon brought her flora
elled Little, who fell after walking a few steps, j to her work, and, with the exception of a slight
O’Neal was arrested and carried before Justice skip at the last turn, which was scarcely pet-
Johnson, who committed him to jail. A pro-1 ceptibie to the spectators, she trotted the re-
liminary trial will be had before him this morn- mainder of the heat in magnificent style, coming
iug at 10 o clock. It appears^ that these two I home half a dozen lengths ahead of Lucy, in
men were formerly partners in the painting j the unprecedented time, as announced by the
business, but had dissolved the copartnership, judges, of 2:17, whioh is a quarter of a second
In settling up their old business there was some j faster than tbe best time ever made by Dexter,
disagreement, whichresulted in a lawsuit. Yes- The actual time of this heat was 2:16?: bnt
terflay they met at the above named corner, the watches of the judges did not agree, one
when an altercation ooourred with this sad re- making 2:164, another 2:16? and the third 2:17.
suit. Both are comparatively young men, and The last was adopted in order to dispel any
have families. Little has a wife and three little doubts which might result from the complica-
childreD, and O’Neal has only a wife. At dark I tion.
last night Little was alive, bnt no hopes were In the third heat the horses got off on the
entertained of Ms life. _ I second start, passing the judges’ stand abreast.
Latest.—Lituo died at -0 minutes past 12 J Lucy held the Maid closely throughout, coming
* no fMng. I in at the close half a length behind. Time 2:20}.
Tho Atlanta Era, of yesterday, has a long ao- J The news of the remarkable performance of
count of one of the most scoundrelly affairs | Goldsmith Maid spread throughout the city like
we have heard of in a long time. It seems that | fire, and Bndd Doble, the driver, is a lion
a man named Robert Banzy, about three months | °* magnitude for the time being,
ago, made his appearance at Flat Shoals, Geor
gia, sixteen miles from Griffin, and succeeded
in making the acqnaintanoe of a most estimable
widow lady, Mrs. Beeves, who has three chil
dren by her first husband, aged respectively,
New Orleans Cotton Crop News.
The Fioayune, of Wednesday, has the fol
lowing :
—i
torfonn nliefl I man Y of the finest cotton districts of Louisiana
mameik and Mississippi the caterpillar is doing muck
Riant damage, and spreading rapidly. It is now ba-
stant, in due fonn, at Flat Shoals. He plied the yond doubt that this pest will largely rednea
ionsofwpntth «nf hTm'nmiiTi T 18 * the orop. It is idle to say that thev have yet
ions of wealth and happiness, and, among other dono 0 £ ly a £light in j nry , and are confined to a
locates. E They Save p£sed through their
flrst robbing, and the “secondcrop,”as it is
oafied, are sweeping overytMng before them.
h ®Wall that is known of this insect, no expe-
P J lien06d P lant0tan S wtel0 on the bottom lands
ssssi* L ™ wonid prononnce
arriving here at 2 o’clock p m., and putting up 1{ust f bolI ^ dronth have done almost
in the waiting room of the Union passenger de- a8 much damag0 to tbe crop j n Texas, Arkansas,
P. a P, dj the P ? r8 ,l an ? otlier val na- p i aat to eariy maturity, bnt there is no fruit on
» 5 ' ut ‘
t™ a in r n?n,iTn ed i a iA B ly - V xKfflrteS, taken in connection with tbe
Iriffl 8 ami 0 *RA P t t, «- aV1I!S ^ S damage from exoessive rains early in the sea-
isthe last she sTwofhTm or the baggage and 0an * under *** CiKm '
poor woman became conscious of the loss of J two and a half millions of bales can be secuied.
her faithless husband, end with a distress of I The Picayune’s reports from Louisiana, in de*
frantio efforts to find a trace of her natural, or oafc n P tho cro P b y the 15th, and are making
rather unnatural protector. The sobs and sighs I more rapid work than was ever known before.
and gusMng tears of the forsaken woman and —«*—
three innocent children soon attracted a crowd The Russian journals have statements that at
around her to whom she explained, in broken I a dinner given the New French Ambassador)
words, the.nature of her distress. Gen. Leflo, shortly after his arrival at St. Pe-
A detective offioer took the matter in tersburg, by the Czar, the Grand Duke said:
baggage and arrest Banzy, but he got off, though I Sebastapol you conquered us still more by
the baggage was saved. The forsaken wife and I the generosity of your proceedings than by the
her children were kindly cared for, and next f° rco of y oar anna. I shall never forget yoa
t. . . .. _» I bore your suocess nobly, but that was an easy
morning were sent to her father, a gentleman tesk} ^ yon were not gg parV enu6S of victory.
named Polk, and one of the first citizens of the I The Prussian Ambassador, who was present, re*
county. I ported this to his government.
The vaatness of Bostonian architecture may I True Genius.—Alexander Hamilton on<*
belonging to the Somerset Club acci-[ just in this: when I have a Bubject i
dently discovered 1,572 bottles of maderia in I study it profoundly. Day and night It is be
an old comer of the oellar where they had been fore me. I explore It in all its bearings. My
deposited nearly, half, a century ago and lost I mind becomes pervaded with it. Then tho e*-
sightof ever sinoe. The wine is said to have been J fort which I make, the people are pleased to
very expensive in the beginning and made-dearer call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor
still-by lapse of time. | and thought.”