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Tlie Georgia ‘Weekly Telegraph and. Journal & Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger MACON SEPTEMBER 12 1871 Democratic Candidate for «enutor-22d Mddd. THOS. J- SIMMONS, OP BIBB COUNTY. Election Wednesday, 13th September. News Items. The Hurricane at St. Thomas.—The late storm swept over the Danish Island of St. Thomas on the 21st nit., about twenty-three hours before it struck the Florida coast a little below the mouth of St. Johns River. At St. Thomas it raged with such fary that not a house •was left standing on the whole island, and 130 persons wero killed or seriously injured. bL Thomas is about seventeen miles long by four and one-half broad, with an area of about 45 square miles, and a population of 14,000 souls. St. Kitts, a British island not far from St Thomas, of a little larger area and population, ia said to have met with a similar fate, in the same storm. The Health or Queen Victobia is said to be very precarious. Hor nervous system is much shattered, and she left London for Balmoral in pursuance of orders from tho Comrt Physicians. Overland Cotton.—The Montgomery Adver tiser says the first car-load of now cotton shipped North this season was sent through to Boston on tho “South and North through freight line” by those enterprising gentlemen, Messrs. Shular & Hartwell, on Friday last. It will go Straight through to Norfolk without breakage of bulk. The same paper says the cotton bulls and bears are having a high old time. The bulls believe cotton will bring a dollar a pound, and tho bears insist that all above a cent is thrown away. A Strange, strange sight if is to see the New York journals now teeming with whole pages of atrocious murders and other crimes, charging upon the poor South as a land of violence and blood. The Tribune cotton estimate is three quarters of a million less than last year, and rather more if frost holds off a month. This year the Bhorts will all go up the spout. Nobth Carolina Cabs.—The Wilmington Journal eay3 of two passenger coaches just turned out for the Brunswick & Albany Road at WilmingtoD, Delaware, that a similar car from the shops of the Weldon & Wilmington Road stood beside them and beat them in workman ship and price. Business in New Ogleans.—The Picayune of 1st September cotains its usual annual state ment of tho business of tho year. New Orleans received lastyear 1,546,971 bales cotton, valued at $101,000,000, an increase of 338,538 bales over tho previous season. Eeceipts of sugar exhibit a very handsome increase, and the to bacco trade, though not as large as at one timo hoped, shows somo improvement; while tho trado in Western produce has not fallen off. The total value of tho products of tho interior re ceived during tho year is $169,000,000, against $200,820,000 last year. Tho average value of Cotton in Now Orleans last year was 144 cents per pound. New Orleans Cotton Exchange Report.— Tho Now Orleans Exchange issued its report for September on the 1st insti They say of Mis sissippi that the reports average a falling off of one-half to three-quarters of last years’ crop with a favorable season and a Iato fall. Cotton picking is two to three weeks later. Boll worm has caused serious injury in many of the coun ties and the caterpillar is reported in eleven, with no serious damage as yet. Louisiana.— Excessive rains in the Southern, Southeastern and Eastern parishes and dronth in the North- western. Condition of the crop fair. Picking two to threo weeks later. Decrease in acreage 18 to 20 per cent. Estimate of yield per acre one-half to three-quarters as compared with last year, with a favorable picking season and no allowance of damage from worms. Cater pillar in fifteen parishes. Arkansas.—Condi tion of crop generally good. Weather as good as last year except in White, Chicot, Woodruff, Drew, Ashley, Desha and Arkansas counties, which have suffered from too mnch rain. Picking generally ten to fifteen days later than lastyear. Falling off in cotton acreage twen ty to twenty-five per cent. Estimated yield per aero from three quarters to seven-eights of last year’s crop- Alabama.—Condition of crop not good. Picking two to four weeks later— except where maturity has been precipitated by drought Decrease in acreage 21 per oent. The yield per acre, with a favorable fall, will bo 70 per cent as compared with last year. Geor gia.—Picking from ono to two weeks later. De crease in acreage 18 per cent, and yield, as compared with last year, 75 per cent Texas.— Long and continued dronth over nearly the whole State. Crops greatly injured. Picking, owing to drouth, earlier than last year. De crease in acroago 30 per cent Yiold, with fa vorable season, one-half to five-eighths of last year. Tennessee.—Reports meager, but favor able in every respect Tho receipts of new crop cotton to August 31st, compared with previous years, are as fol lows: 1871, 22 bales; 1870, 109 bales; 1869, 432 bales; 1868, 476 bales. Wreck of the Steamship Mississippi.—Tho Ficaynne, of tho 1st, contains a fall report of tho wreck of the steamship Mississippi on the Florida coast. She left New York on Saturday evening, tho 19th alimot, and had pleasant weather till Tuesday morning, when Bhe en countered the storm. But not till Thursday noon did she cnconntor tho hurricane in all its strength, and by night it blew with such fury as to stavo in all the cabin windows and pat ont tho lights. Flanks nailed on wero instantly blown in. Tho pilot-house was blown away, the engineers and firemen wero forced from their posts, and, in this situation, tho ship struck at 8 o’clock in tho evening. Then fol lowed a night of extraordinary terror—tho ship thumping violently and thrown upon her beam ends. By morning the gale abated, and tho ship was found to be in a cable’s length of the Hillsborough Inlet about forty-throe miles south of Jupiter. Tho passengers wero put ashore by what is called a boatswain’s chair traversing a cable which had been stretched to land. Tents wore pitched and they passed tho night, and were taken off next day by the steamship Cortes, Captain 'Whitman, bound for New Orleans, with the loss of all their baggage, bnt of not a singlolife. The N. A. O. C. L A. W., otherwise tho Grand Panjandrum of tho American Communists, as the antidote to tho “deadly poison of tho sub sidized American press,” will send to all appli cants “tho complete vindication of the Paris Oommuno, as issued by the General Council of the L A. W.” Tho brethren are exhorted to ap ply for tho pamphlet, and learn what a delight ful thing it is to murder and bum. Butler, in his Springfield speech, gives a very vivid idea .of his utter want of manliness and principle in tho following: My enemies tell yon that at tho Charleston Convention I voted fifty-Beven times for Jeff Davis for President. I did—to preserve the £“«• They teU yon that every time, but they don t to.l you that the boat I came away from Charleston on hid on bo&td & fn^itive sIayo, Always a mean, sneaking rascal. The WnmmousE and Cheney Controversy. —A Chicago dispatch of Friday 6»ys there will be no confirmation in Christ Church till Bishop Whitehouse requests Mr. Cheney to present the candidates, which he will probably not do. It should be understood that the action of Mr. Cheney from the first has had the cordial sup port of his wardens and vestrymen. At the meeting of the vestry last night, Mr. Cheney offered his resignation for the fifth time, but it Was unanimously rejected. The Tribune ia ont with campaign paper propositions, and is going to secure a rousing Radical triumph this Fall on the strength of Tammany Frauds. Colton Figures and the Hew Crop. The reports up to Friday show gross receipts closing the ootton year, of 4,009,502 bales, against 2,907,909 at the same time lastyear. Now the crop produced in 1869, according to Hunt’s yoar book, was 3,154,946 bales—from which deduct 2,907,909, the current report at the end of that year, and we have a balance of 247,034 bales, which was added to it. Now, from the general talk among cotton men, we should infer that there would ba an excess over this amount tho present year of about 75 per cent But let us add fifty per cent—say 123,- 578=370,615 bales to tho 4,009,502, and we should make tho crop of '1870, 4,330,117 bales. Probably it will not much overgo that amount. This would show an excess over the crop of 1869 amounting to 1,225,171 bales; but the ac tual increase in visible supply, as shown last week, was only 289,000 bales—showing that nearly a million bales have been disposed of in the way of increased consumption or in ac cumulated stocks of manufacturers—no doubt in both. The stocks as reported last Friday compare with last yoar as follows: Stock at all ports.. Afloat—American cotton 1871 1870 .. 90,040 . 10,726 64,355 14,628 ..561,000 494,000 . G7,000 26,000 .647,972 493,448 1,376,738 1,092,431 Showing a general stock excess this year of 284,307 bales, against an increase of 1,225,171 boles in the American crop. And now, concerning the incoming crop of 1871, we invito attention to the New Orleans Exchange Report, dated September 1st, and which may be found in fall in tho Picayune of that date. We have given somo of the figures from this report elsewhere. They contain esti mates from the six main cotton States, which, consolidated, would show this result, allowing that we have a good picking season and tho crop is not damaged by worms: Nett diminu tion in cotton acreage from last year, 18* per cent. Nett falling off in product per acre—a little over 28 per cent,—say in both 46 per cent, inevitable falling off from last year in tho six principal cotton States, with a propitious fall season, and with no damage to the crop from insects. The cotton crops proper of the Caro lines and Florida will not amount to 400,000 bales, or say one-eleventh of the total yield of last year, and the nett decrease on tho whole crop shown by these estimates of the New Or leans Board would be about 42 per cent, or say, in round numbers, 1,800,000 bales, which would show a crop of 2,500,000 to 2,600,000 for 1871. Our ideas run that way, too; bnt wo shall see what we shall behold. THE GEORGIA PRESS. . Hucksters were charging ono dollar a peck for peaches in the Columbus market last Satur day, and it was not a good day for charging, eith er. The Sun says many Florida and Southwest Goorgia merchants have engaged stores iu Co lumbus, for tho comiDg season. An operative in the Eagle and Phenix factory at Columbus named Thompson lost an arm, Friday, by having it caught in a band. Wo aro glad to soe that Mr. Stephens, in the Atlanta Sun, denies that he is tho author of tho “Lost Cause” circular, and that ho repudiates its doctrines and denounces it as a Badical trick Dahlonega bases its claims to tho Agricultural College upon a peach weighing half a pound and measuring ten inches in circumference. For a couple of bushels of tho samo, we’ll organize a syndicate and take her claims into consideration. Randall, our ex-brother of tho Augusta Con stitutionalist, isbomo from tho Virginia Springs, a gainer by 20 pounds, and drawing well on to 190 pounds. Such an avoirdupois as that won’t do either for a poet or a life insurance agent. William Taylor, of Randolph county, ia in deep distress, owing to a decided failure ho mode in attempting to join tho noble army of carpet-baggers. Ho was caught with tho c. b. and contents in his hand, andnowrocks himself to sleep in the Culhbert jail. Tho Athens Banner is telling talcs out of school. It says: On Wads.—The LaGrange Reporter calls the “new departure” Democrats u slaek wads.” Wo saw tho editor onco when he was a very tight wad! Tho Savannah matrimonial market is dull and declining. Only 13 whites and 28 negroes doubled themselves last month. Tho Atlanta Era says tho trial of the pious but thrifty Hotchkiss, on tho charge of cheating and swindling the State, has been postponed to October 6th. There aro eight counties in tho indictment. Probably ho will wish ho had stuck to preaching before he gets through his troubles. Mr. Thomas Crawford, a well known mer chant of Athens, died la3t Wednesday, of con sumption. Tho Ordinary of Muscogee county has or dered tm assessment of 75 per cent, upon the State tax for county purposes, which is a de cided reduction upon last year’s assessment. Wo clip tho following items from tho last Sa vannah News: Effects of the Late Storm.—The effects of tho recent cyclone are still being felt on the rail roads running throngh the lower part of the State. Among the disasters not previously re ported are two extensive washes on the Bruns wick and Albany Railroad, between Brunswick and Tebeauville. Large bodies of laborers are engaged on tho breaks day and night, and the utmost energy is displayed, but the disasters are of such a nature that the road will not prob ably bo in ranning order before Tuesday—if then. There is still a serious wash on the Gnlf Road at Suwaneo river bridge. Tho river is fifty- seven feet deep under the bridge—being thirty- seven feet above low-water mark, and BtUl rising. Superintendent Haines, with a large construction gang, is at this point, and pile-driving machines have been ordered to the scene of the trouble. Considerable trestle-work will have to be built, and, as the water is still rising it is impossible to say when the repairs will bo finally com pleted. Several days will probably elapse, how ever, before tho road is restored to the condition in which the storm found it. Tho telegraph linesthroughont Georgia and Florida are in good working order. The Atlantic and Gnlf Railroad is carrying passengers throngh by making trans fers at tho “washes.” Yellow Feyeb at Beaufort.—We were in formed last evening upon very reliable authori ty, that tho yellow fever has broken ont at Beaufort, and that it has assumed an epidemic form. The report may bo exaggerated, but that the disease exists there does not seem to admit of a doubt. In this state of things, it might bo well for onr city authorities to look after a quarantine in that direction. Charleston Trains not Allowed to Enter Savannah.—Mayor Screven has notified the Sa vannah and Charleston Railroad that hereafter eo cars will be allowed to run throngh from Charleston to this city. All trains from that place for Savannah will be met by trains from hero at Yamassee station (midway,) and no per sons, cars, mails or articles of any kind will be allowed to come through. it is not known as yet whether the railroad authorities will acoept this proposition of the Mayor, but if they do not. however, all commu nication between the two cities will be cat off entirely. The impecunious man and brother, at Au gusta, has been reduced to the necessity of de veloping soda fountains for a living. He sells it as old^peial to the junk shops. The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Sunday, says: The Pennsylvania Central.—The Columbia Phoenix, of yesterday, says: We learn that the Citizens’ Savings Bank has sold the stock held by that institution in the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. It was a large lot, amounting to nearly 1,200 shares. This seems significant, as, we believe, Colonel Palmer is a Director in the railroad. Rumor has it that, with this purchase, the Pennsylvania Central— or other parties, “whom deponent knoweth not,” hold possession of nearly 10,000 shares— almost a controlling interest in the Company. A meeting of the corporators of tho Americas and Hawkinsville railway was held at Americas last Saturday, and organized by electing Mr. John H. Woodward, of Dooly county, Presi dent, and Messrs. A. S. Cutts, A. J. Lane, G. H. Hazlehnrst, Sheppard Rogers, John H. Woodward, John A. Cobb, and U. B. Harrold, as a board of directors. Mr. Fred. J. Clark, of Savannah, was killed Saturday afternoon, by his horse stumbling and throwing him into a ditch, and then falling upon him. His back was broken. We quote as follows from the Atlanta Son, of yesterday • Bloody Affair in Decatub.—About sixo’clock on Saturday evening, a man by tho name of Sizemore, a shoe-maker by trade, and another man named Thrasher, a former Sheriff of De- Kalb county, had an altercation in which Size* more wa3 stabbed so severely that his life is dispaired of. After he was ont he seized a stick and struck Thrasher a severe blow over thehead, inflicting an ugly wound. Thrasher has left, and our informant states that Sizemore’s attend ing physician says there is no hopes of his re covery. Both gentlemen were citizens of Decatur, and near neighbors, and tho wives of each witnessed tho affray. They both fainted at the bloody scene, and the excitement created was terrible fur that unusually quiet village. We learn that a man named Fawcet was run over near Stegall’s Station on tho State Road on Saturday night, and his head literally severed from his body by the cars. He was intoxicated, and two bottles of whisky were found near his person. It is supposed that he had laid down on the track and gono to sleep. Stegall’s Station is just above this city, in Cobb county. The Covingion Enterprise, of Saturday, says: Attempted Assassination.—On tho night of August 18th, as William Parker and Henry Banks wero silting with some other company in a still house, in Jasper county, where they were engaged in distilling peaches, they were shot by some one hidden' in the darkness, the principal portion of tho charge taking effect on the leg and side of Parker, and a few shot striking Banks on the head and face. Mr. William S. Floyd, son of Judge J. J. Floyd, of Covington, accidentally shot himself throngh the hand ono day last week, inflicting a severe wound. Dr. F. M. Cheney, of Covington, wa3 thrown from a baggy last Monday and had his left arm broken near the wrist. Baldwin Superior Court.—Tho case of tho State vs. John T. Snead, charged with Bigamy, was called up on Friday morning* An impor tant witness for the prosecution, Mr. Hewitt, of tho Globe Hotel, in Augusta, did not appear. The counsel for tho State wero, therefore, forced to tho election of going to trial with the benefit of tho testimony of Charles D. Cowles, (the materiality of which hereafter appears,) and without tho testimony of Hewitt, or to adjourn the case to the 1st Monday in November, when the testimony of Hewitt might be had, and that of Cowles wanting. The trial proceeded. It was proven by Cowles that, in-the city of New York, in May, 1868, tho defendant introduced to several gentlemen a lady as his wifo; and that she habitually called at his office, after tho business of the day was over, and was escorted by him out of the office and throngh tho streets of the city. It was further proven that, iu January, 1869, tho defendant addressed a letter from Boston to “Mrs. John T. Snead, Brook lyn, N. Y.,” signing tho same as “Your affec tionate Hubby.” It was also proven that the letter was in the hand-writing of the defendant, and was reoeived by another witness in New York daring the past summer from Mrs. Snead, who was in court, and identified as tho lady whom the defendant had introduced as his wife, and also os tho lady from whom t£e letter in question was received. Mr. Cowloa farther testified that, in Novem ber last, in the city of Macon, ho met with the defendant, whom he had not seen for several months, and inquired of him “how and where is Mrs. Snead now ?” Snead replied “she is very well, and is still in New York. I will see her in a few days, for I leave to-morrow.” During tho month of April last, and soon after the marriage of Snead to the lady in Milledgoville, tho defendant met the witness, Cowles, upon the street in Macon. In the course of their in terview Snead said: “Charlie, I have tho nicest young wifo in Georgia.” They soon parted, and the witness testified that the an nouncement astonished him. Upon meeting him a few days afterwards, Mr. Cowles asked him what he' meant about having ayonng wife? The defendant answered that he had reoently married a young lady in Georgia. Cowles re plied, “what has become of the wife yon intro duced me to in New York; is she dead?’ Snead, mnch agitated, replied: “We don’t do things in New York like yon do in Georgia.” An exemplification from the reoords of -Bedford county, Va., was next introduced. It appeared that in May, 1861, application was made to tho proper authority for license for the marriage of JohnT. Snead to Mrs. Annie H. Bobbins—the names of the parents of tho respective parties, their residence, condition, etc., being stated. With this evidencq the State closed. The de fendant introduced no testimony. The charge of the court was unexceptionable to the gentlemen representing the State. About ono o'clock p. m., Saturday, the jury retired, and in a few minutes, brought in a verdict of u 2fot Guilty.” Tho result startled tho whole community, as well as the court and the coun sel for the prosecution. The excuse given for the finding was, that there was a doubt as to whether the lady introduced by Snead, as above stated, into society in New York, was the same lady whom he married in 1861, in Bedford, Vir ginia. Tho State was represented by Solicitor Gen eral Jordan, Judge Joseph B. Gonder, Messrs. Sanford & Furman, Colonel L. H. Briscoe, and Colonel JohnB. Weems. The defendant by Messrs. Crawford & Williamson, and Colonel W. A. Lofton. BY TELEGRAPH. Plotting Against Grant.—The Savannah Advertiser, of Friday, prints the following high ly sensational special from Washington. It is dated Thursday, 81st nit.: Senators Sumner and Fenton, John A. Logan, Governor Garey, Governor Bullock and others, met at Auburn, New York, last night, for the purpose of considering a plan of opposition to the renomination of Grant. It is reported that parties have been in correspondence with ex- Secretary Seward, and propose to support him as their candidate in 1872. It is said that Seward will accept Considering the strength some of these par ties—Bullock for instance—can give to snch a combination, Grant most certainly be shaking in his shoes at the prospect Captured Cow and Calf.—Offlocr L, H. Gar field, of the city polioe, captured a cow and calf yesterday from a oouplo of negroes, which, it is believed, they stole from some one in Monroe county. Tho negroes were endeavoring to sell the cow, bnt as they told two or three different taleB as to how they got possession of her, they were both lodged in jail and tho cow and calf are held for the identification of the owner.— The cow is rather old, with red and wh$b spots, and has a light red head and neck. The owner can get them by proving property and paying charges—this notice included. Cotton Movements of the Week. New York, September 3.—Reoeipts atj ports for the week, were 7679 bales; against 7834 last week, 7630 the previous week and 9454 three weeks since. Total receipts since September, 4,009,502 bales; against 2,907,909 the corresponding period of the previous year— showing an inorease of 1,101,593 bales in faYor of this season. Exports from all ports for the week were 12,853 bides, against 8402 the same week Iaat year. Total exports for the ootton year 3,164,765 bales, against 2,278,917 the same time last year. Stock at all the ports 99,040 bales, against 64,355 for the same date lastyear. Stocks at interior towns 10,726 bales, against 14,628 last year. Stock in Liverpool 561,000 bales, against 494,000 last year. American cot ton afloat for Great Britain 67,000 bales, against 26,000 last year. Indian ootton afloat for Eu rope 647,972 bales, against 493,448 last year. The weather reports from the South during the week show that less rain has fallen, and in many sections it has been dry. Less c is made of caterpillars. Picking is progressing actively, especially in the far South. It is diffi- cut to state the exact condition of the crop at the present time, as aco'ounts from the South are conflicting. In some sections the reports ore favorable, and in others tho reverse. Cot ton was generally strong daring the week, with a gradual and steady advance iu prices. The sales for the week reached 90,500 bales, of which 81,000 bales were for future delivery, and 9500 bales on the spot and to arrive. Of the spot ootton exporters took 4125 bales, spin ners 3475 and speculators 425. New York, September 3.—The leaders of the movement known as the “City Counoil of Polit ical Reform,’’are workingto secure the co-oper ation of all the clergymen in the State in the work. It is found that five-ninths of tho voters of the State aro in Protestant churches. The movement originated with this class, and its management has been principally choBen from it. Little Rock, September 3.—The Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad has been completed to within five miles of Fort Gibson. Tho ootton worm has appeared on Red River. Two hundred Kansans have squatted in the In dian Territory to incense the Indians. San Fbanoisoo, September 3.—Tho brig Hat tie Jackson, from the Arctio Ocean, bring3 seven men who were wrecked on the British bark Ja pan. Nine men were lost. New Yore, September 3.—Sallie O. Clolland, a procuress, has been arrested for enticing nine girls to leave on steamer City of Galveston. Two of the girls jumped overboard after the steamer got under way. Washington, September 3.—The Light Honso board is taking prompt measures to repair tho light houses damaged by the cyclone. Mobile, September 3.—Dispatches published os coming from Mobile, stating that several vessels have been quarantined with yellow fever aboard, are false. There is no yellow fever here, nor has there been this season. No such message orginated here. Santa Fee, September 3.—The Post yester day had tho following correspondence from Lamsilla: “The election excitement in this vil lage culminated to-day in tho worst affray ever witnessed here. It is no exaggeration to say that tho Plaza has been literally drenohed with human blood. At tho present writing (Sunday evening, 27th) it is known that seven persons have been killed, whilo its estimates of the wounded will reach as high as thirty, of whom seven or eight are fatally. From 5 o’clock this afternoon until 6 the Flaza resounded with pis tol shots and groans. For 15 minutes the firing was incessant and continued during the rest of the hour. Tho Republican and Democratic parties had each selected to-day as the most suitable timo for tho grand demonstration of the campaign, and at an early hour this morn- iDg both parties commenced their preparations. Tho leaders were evidently desirous of averting disturbances. Tho respective parties formed in procession and passed each other’s place of meet ing withont an outbreak, and nothing happened till the meetings had adjourned. At 5 p. m. both parties met in the Flaza and exchanging differ ent views a pistol shot wa3 fired, when a general fight occurred. Men, women and children hur ried to their houses, but the fight was kept up from windows and housetops, tho dead and wounded falling on all sides. Hon. John Lemon, the Republican candidate for judge, v/as tho first killed. Tho balance of the killed and wounded aro mostly Mexicans. Another fight took place at Antoncbico, near Los Vegas, in which two persons wore killed and six or seven wounded. Tho people aro evidently excited here, but everything is being done to preserve peace and good order.” Versailles, September 3.—The court martial sentences Ferro and Lnllian to death; Urban and Trinquet to confinement for life at hard labor; Assy, Grousset, Verdure, and Ferret to deportation and confinement in a Fortress; Jourdeand and Nastene to simple deportation. Paris, September 3.—Thiers has written a letter to Lorey asking him to withdraw his res ignation. Tho decree prolonging Thiers’ powers pro vides for a Vioa President of tho Council of Ministers to occupy the chair in the absence of Thiers. In consequence of the changes made in the constitution by the decree members of the Ministry resigned, but resumed their portfolios at tho request of Thiers. The publication of the Verite newspaper has been suspended. San Francisco, September 4.—The steamer Albion, from Australia, is a week over due. The Indian troubles in South California are over, the hostile Chiefs having agreed with the Commissoner to submit the questions to a vote of the tribe. New York, September 4.—A fire oocurred In Rahway, New Jersey, this morning. Los3$140,- 000. A body was found in the ruins. \Vheelino, September 4.—The iron and nail company’s mill was burned this morning. Loss $300,000. Threo hundred men are turned ont of employment. Charleston, September 3.—The weather is fine, and the general opinion is that the fever is dying out. Tho Board of Health reports threo deaths for tho two days ending at noon to-day. New York, September 4.—It is reported that the President bos determined to remove Post master Jones. Two stabbing affrays yesterday. A Ribbon man attempted to poison an Orangeman with Paris greon. An inquest was held over a dead body at Madame Van Buskirk’s house. A man with two bullet holes behind hi3 left ear was found in the North River. Rev. George C. Trail, of Victor Emanuel Church, has adopted a new prayer book, and withdrawn from Bishop Potter’s diooese. Officer Paul Wilde, of Newark, was fatally in jured by a gang of rowdies. London, September 4.—Smyth, member of Parliament, presided at the Phcenix Park meet ing. In the fight which followed tho participants in the meeting were attacking the police. Fifty of the police were injured. The police were re inforced and many arrests made. Tho Times has a Versailles dispatch saying there will be no adjournment of the Assembly until the Germans evacuate tho four depart ments surrounding Paris. Fatal cases of cholera aro reported at Dantzio, Elbing, Coblentz, Altona, Leipsig and Vienna. ’ A bark capsized near the English coast and all wero lost. A brig capsized off Shield and all wero lost. Dublin, September 3.—The Amnesty Dem onstration took monstrous proportions. Tho prooeBSion included one hundred thousand peo ple. At the mooting in the Phcenix Park, Smyth, Bntt and Nolan spoke. Resolutions demanding tho release of tho Fenians were adopted. Seve ral collisions took place as the people were retiring. The police drew their staves and the people used slicks and stones. Eventually the mob dispersed. Many arrests were made. Charleston, September’3.—Arrived, schooner M. E. Vendif, Rockport; schooner Mary Stow, Philadelphia. New York, September 4.—Arrived, Georgia, Gen. Barnes, Batavia and Atlantic. Washington, September 4.—The President has pardoned Alfred Foster, of Brooklyn, con victed of selling unstamped cigars. The Sec retary of the Interior has issued an order forbid ding whites to settle in the Cherokee oonntry. The Grand Duke Alexis sailed hitherward on Saturday. Ten of the Warmonth delegation, from Louis iana, departed to-night. They will meet the balance of the delegation at New York, and at ten o’clock to-morrow will proceed to Long Branch to meet the President by appointment. Letters from Vinoent Collier indicate that his mission to the Apachesof Arizona failed. Coohiz would not como to the council. Judge John M. McKinney, of the Southern District of Florida, who has been North daring the hot weather, returns to adjudicate claims in tho recent wrecks. The United States Marshal reports the health of Key West good. New York, September 4.—J. D. Rymert, a lawyer, and President of the Hercules Life In surance Company, D. 8. Darkle, Mrs. Georgean aK IE K. Darkle and J. S. Taimadge, were arrested on Saturday, by the U. 8. Deputy Marshal,charged with making false representations respecting the property of oertain bondsmen in a suit or ted States against Darkle, to recover forfeiture for running an illicit distillery. To day Commissioner Davenport held Byment in $15,000, Taimadge in $10,000 and Mr. and Mrs. Darkle in $10,000 bail, each. The Mayor of Savannah telegraphs that there has been no yellow fever there this season. Savannah, September 4.—A statement in the New York Herald of to-day, to the effect that yellow fever exists in this city, has called forth the following from Mayor Soreven : “Hearn that the New York Herald of this morning asserts the existence of yellow fever in Savannah. This statement is wholly without foundation. There is not now, nor has been, any yellow fever in Savannah the present year, and the city is freer of disease of any kind and healthier than in any previous year. A retrac tion of the statement of the Herald, so far as Savannah is concerned, is requested. [Signed] John Soreven, Mayor.' Mobile, September 4.—The general crop ac counts, received here by responsible merchants, say the ootton prospects in Alabama and Mis- sissipi are very discouraging. There has been drouth in some localities, and too much rain in others. Cotton is also suffering from worms. Planters are holding back their cotton for high er prices. Providence, September 4.—James Legg& Cos’, woolen mill has been burned; loss $100, 000. A watchman perished in the flames. Charleston, September 4.—Arrived, steamers Virginia, from Philadelphia; Sea Gall, from New York; schooners N. B. Smith, New York; Albion, Bahamas; Franois Satteriey, New York; brig W. H. Parks, Baltimoie. Four deaths from yellow fever during the twenty.four hours ending at noon to-day. All the cases so far have been unacclimated per sons. Dublin, September 4.—It appears that only six police were hurt. Forty-nine rioters have been arrested. Disorderly persons were in the street all night, singing seditions songs. London, September 4.—Queen Victoria is confined to her house. A general strike of tho ooal miners of North umberiand for higher wages is imminent. A fishing sohooner was foundered in the Pent- land Frith. Five lives were lost. By a railroad accident in northern France ten were killed, and an immense number wounded. New York, September 4.—The Tribune says: Alsace, with which the French paid up the whole of the indemnity due on or before May 1, 1872, is explained by our Berlin correspondent. It appears that the negotiations for the evacuation of France by the Germans were complicated by the question of admitting German manufactures to France, free of duty, after September 1st, at whioh date the agreed arrangement for passing suoh goods, duty free, expired. The French were offered a speedier withdrawal of troops, if these privileges to Germans were continued, but they now are in a condition to demand the evacuation as a right under the treaty of Frank fort. London, September 4.—Gladstone, in aspeeeh delivered at Whitley, on Saturday, expressed joy that Englishmen can now look upon Amer icans as friends, and said we may now indulge the hope that all controversies between the two peoples are settled. A mass meeting of engineers was held at New Castle, on the Tyne, on Saturday. It was at tended’by fully 8,000 persons, at which it was determined to insist upon the arrangement of tho term of labor at nine hours per day, for six days in the week, or fifty-four hours in all. A special dispatch to the Standard from Spain says the progress of King Amadeus from Alba- cete to Valencia was one continued ovation. The Herald’s special correspondent at Alba- ceto, Spain, telegraphs: By invitation, I ac company the King on a threo weeks journey through the Provinces. We started on Saturday morning, reaohing Albacete at night. Wo stopped at thirty-six stations, and the King was received with tremendous enthusiasm. The King’s speaking was of the poorest. He is re ceiving petitions and winning the hearts of everybody. In a personal conversation, the King assured me, that he desired Spain to be well understood in the United States, and that friendship would exist between the two countries, Wo go to Volencia to-morrow. An English student has fallen a victim to the foolhardy attempt to climb the Alps without a guide. Havana, September 4.—Advices from Arec- ibo report a fearful hurricane on the 22d nit., in the Bahamas. The American vessels O. O. Ruloe, C. V. Williams and Carolina, and the English vessels Lady Bird and Nellie Mows, were wrecked. All hands saved. Hong Kong,’ September 4.—A disastrous ty phoon visited this vicinity yesterday. Twelve vessels were driven ashore, and muchdamage was done on land. Bebin, September 4.—Bismarck Bohler has been relieved from the government of Alsace and Lorraine, and promoted to the rank of general. Vienna, September 4.—It is officially stated that the Ministers Von Beust, Ardrassy and Horhenwarl, will assist at the conference of Emperors at Salzburg. The Emperor of Aus tria leaves for that city to-morrow. Cotton Receipts.—There were reoeived by the various warehouses in Macon daring the last cotton year, 99,446 bales, against 80,129 for the proceeding year, showing an increase of receipts for the cotton year just closed of 19,- 317 bales. On the first of September, 1870, there had been received 73 bales of the new crop. On the first instant only 12 bales of the new crop had been received, thus showing the lateness of the season, or an indisposition on the part of planters to rush their cotton to mar ket as they did laet year. In this connection we might Btate that the cow cotton year opens with much more favora ble prospects for the planter than the old. On the first of September, 1870, nearly every plan ter was heavily indebted to his faotor or mer chant, and this market was literally flooded with his warehouse acceptances, or other paper. For tunately, however, there was a large crop com- ing forward to redeem the paper, and right no bly and promptly was it done, be it said to the planter’s credit. Now, however, the obligations of the planter, as a general thing, are light, and he will have no trouble in meeting his bills. It is true he will enter the market with a shor, crop, but he will find better prices for his staple, and provisions, should he need any, at less than one-half of what they were one year ago. Then bacon was strong at 19*; now it is doll at 9 cents. Then oom was worth $1 S5@$l 40; now it can be bought at $1 00 per bushel. Then bagging was worth 35@37* cents per yard; now it can be bought by the roll at 24 cents. Taking all these things, therefore, into consideration, he most, or ought to feel, that he has made a long Btride forward during the cotton year which closed on the 31st nit., notwithstanding the fact that at the close of his year's labor, he finds a short crop on hand. The difference in the prioe he will receive for it, and the enor mous difference inthe prioe of provisions, eto., will net him more dear cash, than if he had made a crop of 5,000,000 instead of 3,000,000 bales. In the summer of 1862 a merry party from New Bedford, including two gentlemen who aro now distinguished residents of New York, met at Fotomska, nine miles below that place. 'While dipping water from the spring, one of them dropped a valuable diamond from his shirt ruffle in running water about three feet deep, bat made no effort for its recovery, deeming it irre trievably lost. In the succeeding summer, July 4, 1863, a party of nearly the same persons met at the same place, and as a matter of joko stirred np tho sands of the spring, when, lo! tho missing jewel appeared, to the delight of the aBtonished owner. There is a story of an English tourist who entered a restaurant and by a few scraps of Fieneh was able to order a dinner. He wished seme mushrooms—very delicious and large. Not knowing the name, he demanded a sheet of pa per and pencil and sketched one. The waiter understood him in a second, disappeared for ten minutes, and returned with a splendid—um brella! IN driving a London underground railroad tunnel, we are told that in one part of the line the cuttings were mado throngh a mass of afcnila and bones, sixteen feet in the ground. In another plaoe a forgotten secret passage, twenty feet wide, was discovered, supposing to date from the fourteenth century. Mbs. A. T. Stewart, in answer to a friend who asked her why she dressed so plainly, re plied, “ I can afford to do bo.” From Ilona ton County. Houston County, Ga., August 30, 1871 Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I see in this morning's issue, addressed to “Mr. Local, a pieoe from “Bed Cloud,” giving the planters advice. I am a planter, and have been for sev eral years, have worked slaves, free negroes and white men, and am satisfied that I cannot make money planting cotton. I am going to quit the business after this year—intend tolook out “for greener fields and pastures new. " I agree with “Bed Cloud,” in what he says about the New York and Liverpool “Bing,” and about the Agricultural Bureau. But his advice to farmers is unnecessary. Any free negro who is farming knows there will not be 3,000,000 bales of ootton made this year. The calcula tions of speculators, bureaus, etc., notwith standing—they are all combined against the farmer. They are for making their per cent, out of the crop, and will do it. "We cannot help it in onr present stand point. Our crop was sold last spring to the warehousemen and bank ers. We have no “balance” to hold till next spring to get the promised twenty-five cents. “Bed Olond" says, “sell enough cotton to meet all and every commercial obligation, and hold the balanoe for 25 oents per ponnd.” I am sure, Messrs. Editors, that “Red Clond” is no farmer, or is not posted on the financial stand ing of the fanner, or he would not be talking about the “balanoe.” We have no “balance.” We would be more than happy to have a “bal- lanee"in order that we might “balance” all, and with everyone. Nine-tenths of the ootton plan ters are running their farms on borrowed capi tal. Bj the first day of January next n majority of the present crop must be turned over to the warehousemen, bankers, etc. As I before stated, onr crops aro already sold. Bankers must get their per cent, speculators must come in for their share, eto. All aro directly interested in the crop. Speculators, bankers, warehousemen, etc., get one-third—give one-third for labor, and the poor farmer gets the remainder one-third for his services, rent of land, use of stock, wear and tear of plantation tools, eto. It is ridiou- Ious, it i3 shameful, it is hellish in its principle; bnt the poor farmer must stand it, he is work ing to support the “world and the balance of mankind.” If “Red Cloud” has a “balance” he is a lucky man, and will have plenty of money uextspring, ife I will seo his hand on twenty-five cents be fore next Juno and go him one hundred better. Cotton is bound to soil for twenty-fivo or thirty cents next spring; that is as plain as the nose on a man’s face, but we will be forced to sell for fifteen or twenty cents this fall. I will back my judgment with one thousand acres of laud that there will not be three millions of bales of cotton made, and that it will sell for twenty-five cents before the first day of May next. Bat before I close, Me3srs. Editors, I will say a few words about the “new departure." When ever yon depart from tho truo principles of the Democratic party of 1870 and lug in the Four teenth and Fifteenth Amendments as a compro mise, we who “fought the good fight” and still keep the faith, depart from you. Gray Cloud. Letter from Taylor Connty. Taylor County, Ga., September 1. Editors Telegraph and Messenger ; As this county is seldom heard from, and beiug “moved by the spirit” only on thi3 occasion, since I wrote you a sketch over seven years ago, at 3 6 years old, from Houston—to exhibit my vanity once more to tho august trio of the Telegraph and Messenger, by inditing a few notes on tho “ situation” here. Crops here are only mid dling—“strictly middling.” Corn will bo more abundant than last year—there being a larger area in cultivation than last year. Cotton, so far as I have observed, will probably yield five- eighths of an average crop, or one-half of a good crop. There will not be gathered, at most, over five-eighths of a commonly good crop in this connty, at least so far as I have heard and seen. Its deadliest foes, viz: black and red rust and the boll worm, have played sad havoo with both plant and fruit within the past three weeks. My crop, with advantages of lot litter and 150 pounds of guano per acre, will not yield more than 110 pounds'lint to tho acre on bottom land. We calculated to get a bale to two acres. So it can be seen again (at least by interesteipartieB) “that the best plans of men and mice often fail.” There is a patch of six acres in view of where I am writing that looks as naked as if a November frost had fell upon it— eat up by the rust. We see accounts in your well conduoted jour nal of various county fairs. Why Is it O, re nowned and irrepressible Taylor, that you don’t shake off the manacles of your lethargic stupor and indifference to the demands of the age in which yon live, and rise in your yet latent might and majesty and make one grand and determined effort to catch up with your sister counties in their onward march for the goal of a higher civ ilization and progress in agriculture and the arts by which we can and should live independent of the world? M. O. High, Low, Jack—-Whohas the Game? Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Some of your readers were not a little nonplussed to sea either the good sense or sound policy of the Macon and Western Railroad lease by the Cen tral ; and somo ventured to predict that it would certainly lead to the building of the At' lanta and Savannah Air Line. However, a majority of stock and the courts decided to tho contrary, and now what is the demonstra tion? Just a3 predicted by the minority. (This is by no means the .first time a minority has been right) Wa are informed, credibly, that the Atlanta and Savannah Railroad has made a fusion with certain Northern capitalists, (this minority may be tbese capitalists) and that con tracts have been signed, sealed and delivered, for the building of the Atlanta and Savannah Railroad from Atlanta to Monticello, thence to Macon direct; and of course the Macon and Brunswick Railroad stands again well np in the piotnres, bnt where is the Macon and Western gone to? Now, sirs, this line is sixteen miles shorter than tho Macon and 'Western, and is bound to divide, if not to destroy, its business. The course pursued by the majority, against the protest r.f this city and the minority of the stockholders of the Maoon ana Western Rail road, has brought its fruits near maturity soon er than we expected, that’s all. Who has tho game ? Minority. Wtaat Senator Thnrman Did Say. It having been reported by telegraph that in a late speech this gentleman had planted himself on tho “Bourbon” platform with respect to the position the National Democratic party should occupy towards what are known as the 14th and 15th amendments to the Federal Constitution, he has famished the editor of the Golambns (O.) Statesman with a revised copy of his speech, showing exactly what he did say, and here it is: Now, my friends, it has been common for the Republican parly of this country to say that the Democrats have taken a now departure, and that new departure, they allege, comists iu say ing that we have been wrong and the Republi cans have been right. I say there has never been any such confession as that. We aro as mnch opposed to what has done as when wo gave our votes againat it. Why, if I should see a man strike another in an unlawful and brutal manner, in the street, throttle him and knock him down, and trespass upon hi3 rights, and I should see his wounds and bruises, and see him bleeding, I should be compelled to say that he was down and bleeding, bnt who would call that a confession that the villain who had outraged him had done what was proper ? [Laughter.] So when these men throttled the Constitution and mined thepeaoe of tho country—when they made the South almost as rainons as in the midst of war—wo remonstrated and opposed them; and now, because we cannot deny that they have done it, because we cannot deny that the thing has been accomplished, because we are compelled to admit tho fact that the recon struction laws have been executed aud that the amendments to the Constitution have been fas tened upon us, we are told, forsooth, that we admit that the Radicals were right and we were wrong. That’s logio for yon. If we understand the red hot theory it is, that these amendments have not been fastened upon ns, and that all wo have to do to get rid of them is to Bhrag'our shoulders a few times and off they will roll; or if that fails, to just make affidavit that they are not, and have never been there at all I An enormous woman, one Carolina Heenan*, Is now on exhibition in London. Her age is said to be tweenty-two years, and weight 560 rounds. She measures seven feet around the x>dy twenty-six inches around the arm, and throe feet six inches across the shoulders. It is added that, unlike most fat people, the large lady is able to sustain great physical exertion, is “handsome and pleasing” and “highly intelli gent," hot in tho least “drowsy,” nor is her ;face “fat and greasy.” The First Monument to the Co» erate Dead. Fort Gaines, Ga., Sept. 3 Editors Telegraph and Messenger : t, my good fortune to be present on the 1-1 August,, at the erection of the first mo^ to the Confederate dead. Where ? X m, asked. “No newspaper gave notice of event. We have heard of no gifted omw ing called upon for such an occasion-, could it have been?” Trne, to the people who have thus honored their dead’ 1 heroes are unknown. They live almost £ Bounty. But they are descendants of , parentage—the sons and daughters of that? band who, for “the love of Jesus,” with the wildest storms of persecution the wotlj : ever beheld They are the children of thei covenanters," and that pure Scotch blood 1 courses through their veins. I would not- 1 my back upon the history of that grand v Kirk o’ Scotland,” that glorious “charter oa Christendom,” for all the new fangled w) the nineteenth century combined. I am ek er to know that my forefathers took parting struggle for religious liberty, than to] known that they were kings. In August j, tho “Ladies’ Memorial Association of X\'l oounty,” Florida, was organized as an anrs to the State Association, whose object erect a monument in Tallahassee. Soon > ever, the parent asssooiation collapsed an] funded to the county auxiliaries the cc they had forwarded to its officers. True to their Scottish nature, the lyy County Association determined to have a e- ment of their own. But what obstacles toe oome—what difficulties to surmount! was not a connty in the State poorer thant, Lying afthe enemy’s meroy for two or u years, raid after raid made havoc with a]]| people had. They were poor indeed, anh do I remember that on the day the assoc:!; was organized many of the ladies present! dressed in homespun—the finest dresses l' calico. Entertainments of various kinds 1 gotten np—week after week they toiled, butv slow was the growth of their “money bar" Four years have rolled around and they > one thousand dollars only. That was a s. amount, to be sure, but they decided to b such a monument as they could with it- did so, and on tho 17th of August it wase in front of Euchee Valley Church. TbeJ house of worship ever erected in the oocdj Near by is the old burial ground wheras]' the fathers and mothers of many whose t_ were inscribed upon that tablet of marble.; monnmont is of beautiful material spot or blemish,” about three feet square a] base, aud about eleven feet high. On the 5 side is inscribed: “In memory of the Confederate dead of! ton county. Erected by the Ladies’ Mei Association.” And jost beneath, the ' lines: - ‘When tho spirit freo deserts the body as it What matter where tho lifeless form diaeolws again to duet? Twere sweet indeed to close our eyes with cherish near, And wafted upward by their eiglia soar to calmer sphere; But whether on the scaffold high or in the battled The fittest place where man can die is whereby for man.” On either side are the names of those gave their lives for the “lost cause'’—a bj long list. I saw there sisters standing torn reading the names upon the stone—amoag i three of their brothers who sleep amid theh grass plains of Kentucky. A mother ay looking at the names of two sons (pr: they were, too) whose graves aro in the tains of Tennessee and Alabama. Another er reading over the names of two of her boys, ono of whom we had loved to hono!i« whose death brought tears from hard ~ soldiers whoso eyes had been dry for yean was, indeed, a day long to be remembered, exercises were opened with prayer by Eer. P. Harrison, after which addresses were by W. O. McLean, Esq., and Mr. John L Kinnon, Jr. Just in front of the speakers' was an old Confederate flag at half zSS —draped in mourning. Both the addr-a,; were couched in beautiful language, ad' nnfrequently the unbidden tear would down tho cheek as they alluded to the ones they had met to honor. The exi wero closed with prayer by Mr. Scudder, all were invited to partake of a smn dinner that had been prepared. There present about one thousand people, and they had all been filled there could have gathered of tho fragments more than baskets full. After the dinner was ended i crowd began to disperse, and scon all werep away feeling proud of their county, espec tho ladies of the connty. Thus by patience perseverance has been accomplished what seemed almost an impossibility. The Wi Connty Association, I am informed, is the one in the State which has even so much as tained an organization, and yet tho conniv but eleven votea for secession, aud so pi were her delegates to the Secession Conn in their opposition to the action of tho com that tho oounty was sneeringly called Li instead of Walton. They saw no reason for policy in secession, and they fought against but once out they were as true to tho Conk’ ate as they had been to the United States eminent. And now isn’t this a lesson to Southern people generally? Will you li leave your sons unhonored ? Will you erect monument to their memory ? But the prim' part of the lesson is this: These poor resorted to no lotteries nor distribution erect their monument. They did it with the bor of their hands. Isn't it shameful to & lottery connected with a monumental assy tion ? Georgia, can’t you erect a monumeu year heroes’ memory without resorting to 1c- and other gambling, schemes ? Don’t, for! sake of your departed ones, so disgrace j« self. ^ W. 0. a TOTAL COTTON CROPS Of the United States for the Years ISM' 1870-71. Pear. Bdi 1820- 21 43M 1821- 22 45M 1822- 23 495,4 1823- 24. - 509.* 1S24-25 1825- 26 72M 1826- 27 97o£ 1827- 2S - 1823-29 * SIP 1829- 30...... 976,9 1830- 31 1$$ 1S31-32 - 987>t 1832- 33. lfim 1833- 34 lgM 1835-36 -1)9^3 1S36-37 - - 1837-33.- VfflS 1S3S-39 ...- 1S39-40— 1840- 41 1841- 42 1842- 43— - 1S43-44 1844- 45 1845- 46— 1S46-47 1847- 48 1848- 49— 1S49-50 1850- 51 1851- 52- JgS 1859- 60 $20 1860- 61 ^ 1861- 02 (estimate) 1862- 63 (estimate) 1863- 64 (estimate) J 1864- 65 (estimate) 01 , 1865- 66 1866- 67. 1S67-6S 1S6S-69 1870-71 (estimate) *>"' ' "* [Hunt's ' f PRICE OF COTTON AT LIVERPO^I In connection with the statement ted States crop since 1822, tiie foll oW “*Ji showing average price of middling u P‘f: Jj Liverpool for a series of years betore t - will be of much, interest. , , 1822..8J- 1823-81- Y824..S} 1825-11$ •' 1828-6* 1829-5* 1830- 6* -.5 I 1535.. 5* 1834-8if 183-5-10* j- , J 1838-71 1839-71 1840- 6| jgl 1543.. 4! 184..4J 1S45- ft 1848.. 4J 1849-5* 1850- 1853-51 1854-61 185i>- of 1857*7f 1858-6* 1859-6* 1660- 6). ; With these figures before ua we can • •, effect oflarge crops, or, in other wot -1 over supply. ,.2,177,4 -1,6343 ..1,683a .2,378* •2,39*1 .2,100* -1,77$ .2,367,| .2,78-4 .2,096,1 .2,3551 .3,01*3
