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% ■j**B3Ut!K*r***’ ~ 3 aSTT'»i "VS*”' 9W*« The Georgia, ~W r eekly Telegraphand lj & Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON SEPTEMBER 26 1871. New* Items. Motitt.t- Ci.BBiGE3.-Tho Register boasts of a dozen Mobile cabbage heads which weighed 294 pounds and a single head twenty-eight pounds. The Yellow Fetes at Cedab Keys, Flobida. The Mobile Register of Sunday has the follow ing: The population of Cedar Keys Is about two hundred—of which number two-thirds are ne groes. The plaoe is, topographically, sjnaU— only a few hundred yards in circmt. Between it and the main landthere are extensive marshes intersected by lagoons, The prevalent winds for the last four or five weeks have been from the northeast, passing over these marshes, and scattering the abundant malaria generated in them over the town, and daring this period an- Iarial fevers have been quite numerous among nil classes of the population. Towards the end of last week, the fever seemed to have changed its typo, or to have grown far moro malignant, and on Saturday and Snuday there were five or six deaths. Among them, we have heard the following mentioned by name: Col. McCormick, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Richardson. The malig nant obaracter of the fever, and the large num ber of deaths, caused such a panic that almost tho entire white population of the place has left in dismay. Tho symptoms of the fever are thus detailed: The patient is taken with a chill, and with great pain in the back and head, and particularly in the back of the head. This chill is followed by a fever of high grade, lasting two or three days:, the eyes and skin become intensely yellow; the fever passes off and is followed by extreme prostration, suppression of urine and delirium, and death supervenes in from two or three to eight to ten days. Slack vomit seems not to have been generally observed, but is reported as present in one or two cases. Mb. GboesbeckYI Speech.—Wo copy upon oar first page so much of this famous speech to the Ohio Democracy a3 relates to the Constitutional Amendments. That, wo imagine, in point of fact, will be the position upon which the Dem ocratic nominee for the Presidency will be placed. The Weatheb.—Showery and damp weather still reigns supreme, and the moon promises a month of it. Green bolls in the field are tak ing the rot, and the question, if things don’i mend, will not be half a crop so much as any crop at all—that is to say, in this region. The prospect makes ns nnhappy. The Cincinnati Exposition.—The Editor of the New Orleans Times says the Cincinnati Ex position is the grandest affair of the kind that has ever occurred on this continent. Pages of this paper would not suffice for a dry catalogue Of the products of human genius from all parts of tho civilized world there exhibited; and one large space is given entirely to the illustration of the floriculture of the country, and through its cool walks yon may stroll for hours, and never tire of the infinite variety of rare and beautiful plants, flowers and shrubbery, set off by artificial cascades and mountains, and kept ever fresh and dewy by a constant spray from mimio fountains and jets. Among the wonders is that haok fare to tho Exposition is only ten cents. Cotton fell an eighth in Liverpool yesterday in anticipation of heavy receipts from the new crop. The Visible Supply op Cotton last Friday night was 1,G83,133 bales against 1,301,503 at same date last year—showing an excess of 381,- G30 bales. Chicago.—Col. Forsyth, of the Mobile Regis ter, writes his paper from Chicago that the city of divorce and strong minded women is taking on a ponderous growth. Lots are advancing at a prodigious rate, and solid stone blocks going up in all directions. A lot in the woods five miles from tho southern border of the city, which was bought two years ago for $18,000 was sold a few days ago for- $75,000. Chicago is laying out three parks and any number of “boulevards.” Also building two mammoth hotels, one of which, the Pacific, is the largest in tho world and covers an entire square.. The people will weep when they learn from the dispatches that the Kn-klnx Committee in Washington “is crippled by having spent all their money.” Cursed be the man who gives them a penny or a crutch. Let them hobble along on their own expenses. Cholera.—Two cases of cholera are said to have occurred at Perth Amboy—the victims be ing two German emigrants jast landed. Bale op Railways.—The so-called delinquent railways in Tennessee were to bo offered for sale in Nashville, yesterday. Sunshine.—There was a broad streak of son- shine yesterday after S o’clock p. m. It was a strange sight. The dogs stood still in the street and looked at it. Numbers of white people, yea and negroes too, took a sitting under it to see how it felt. The sensation was novel, but some of the older people recollect abont seeing the same thing before. Rain.—Torrents of rain fell all Tuesday night without cessation till daylight Wednesday morn ing. We have not yet heard of the extent of the flood, but believe it was pretty general.— Before it came we heard of cotton fields under water. Now let them be picked with oyster tongs. Balance op Trade.—The report concerning the commerce of the country for the past fiscal year, shows that the balance of trade in goods and coin Is against the United States to the large amount of $153,000,000. Last year this balance of trade against the United Slates was $75,000,000. This is a fact at once astonishing and lamentable. Sekatob Carl Schubz was received at Nash ville by a very brilliant crowd of Democrats last Monday afternoon, and was welcomed in a speech by Hon. Neill S. Brown. Hejwas to speak there in the course of a few days. Street Cars were running in Macon yester day—a thing which happei I for the first time. Good Counsel.—Oar amiable and talented friend, Col. Herbert Fielder, has been printing some valuable articles in the Telegraph and Messengeb for the last week or two. His series of contributions to South Georgia planters onght to be put in more permanent form than in the columns of a-newspaper. But they have gained a very wide circulation in the different editions of this paper, and we have no donbt have been carefully read by many thousands of the partic ular class to whom they are addressed. The closing number of the series will appear to morrow. A creditor of the Alabama and Chattanooga road, who seems to know what ho is talking about, estimates the liabilities of the road at $17,925,7G0. This does not include the stock, which is variously put at from $2,500,000 to $11,000,000. Op the delegates to the Massachusetts Repub lican State Convention ^hns far chosen General Butler has 42; Rice,J7; Loring, 17; Jewell, 1; Washburn, 20, and nine are uncommitted, but anti-Butler, The towns understood to be most strongly for General Bntler havefelready chosen delegates, and they aresnclnded in the 42. Columbus and Rome Railroad.—An anony mous Colnmbns correspondent writes ns that work has been suspended on this road, in con sequence of an injunction granted by Judge Jas. Johnson of that circuit, and refers ns to the Columbus Enquirer, of last Friday, for proof of his statement. We can’t find that pa per, so most take the statement cum grano. We only depart from our custom with regard to nameless correspondents, in this instance, in order that we may discover the truth. What are the facts, gentlemen of the Ban and Enqui- Killing Nut grass. Few persons, aware of the almost fatal bar to general cropping presented by the Nat the Coco Grass, and the rapidity with which it is spreading all over the Sonth, can avoid feeling a good deal of anxiety on the sub' ject. Some time ago we printed an adver tisement sent from Augusta promising a ceipt “to get rid of nut grass” upon the en closure to some anonymous address of a pos tage stamp and a 25 cent shinplaster. One of our readers made application in dne form and received for answer “sell your land and move away.” That advice, with the present light on the subject, is about as good as any other. To ex terminate Nat grass or Coco by the spade over any considerable area, is afeat involving enor mous expense and the labor of years. It can be managed with a good deal of steady and careful toil on small town lots, but this plan impracticable on the area of anything like farm. Bat even in small garden patches, whore it has once obtained firm hold, it i3 no light labor to exterminate the pest. One of our neighbors, after digging year after year in vain, over a spot of a quarter of an acre, found the soil an almost inexhaustible repository of the little germinal nuts, and went to the expense of having all of it riddled in a sieve to the depth of fourteen inches. This, we believe, made n case of the Coco. Where it is eradicated by the spade or sieve, great care should be taken to destroy tho ger minal principle by fire. It is cruel, as some do, to throw it into the street to spread and grow in the neighborhood. Almost a3 well scatter the small-pox abont. Salt in snclr quantities as to destroy general vegetation has been recommended as a remedy. This is expensive, and involves the sacrifice of the ground for some years to the purposes of general gardening. Bat there are some vegeta- bles which will flourish in a strongly saline soil Cabbages, asparagus and beets will do it Long and continuous shade will finally exter minate the Coco. We were told by a friend few days ago that Mr. Qnackenboss, of Gris- woldville, had successfully treated the Coco in this way principally by turnip crops. Fortu nately, there is no difficulty in Georgia in main taining land nnder dense shade at all seasons of the year. Manure the land well and begin in August or September, say, with turnips broad casted. The Coco is not an evergreen in this latitude—it will not stand our frosts. Early in the spring, the land might be again broadcasted with oats, rye or wheat, and as soon as theso were cat, broadcast again with the field pea, and then in September manure and broadcast with turnips again. By this time the germinal principle in the roots of the gras3 should have perished. As we have said, the Coco is spreading almost everywhere in Georgia. When visitors go to our Macon Fair Grounds they will see a great area of it on the race-conrso. It is quite as bad on the Fair Grounds in Augusta and all over the city. It must be a terrible pest in the gardens. As one travels west it becomes still more com mon. The whole Mississippi region is foil of it, and some of the most productive lands in that section have been abandoned on account of it This grass will grow.six inches to a foot in three weeks. The nnt of it is bitter and nn palatable, and differs from the nnt of the genu ine nnt grass which is sweet and pleasant to the taste. The Coco is less tronblesome and less difficult to manage than the nnt grass. s Its roots are stronger and do not penetrate the earth so deeply. The blade of both is very similar. Crops in Alabama. The Montgomery Advertiser, of Sunday, says the catterpillar is completing the destruc tion which the rust had begun in the cotton fields of Pike county. In Sumpter dry weather and rnst will reduce the yield of cotton one half. In the neighborhood of Tnscnmbia the crops are very nearly burned np. Devastation i3 the rule in Henry connty. In the neighbor hood of Enfanla fields are now bare which a few weeks ago promised a luxuriant yield. In North Alabama the com crop will be short, and cot ton is drooping. The Wilcox Vindicator reck ons upon but one-third of a crop of all hinds. From Marengo connty a planter writes the Advertiser controverting the figures of a man named E. J. Donnell, who has recently issued a cotton circular in the interests—apparently— of the New York bears. The planter says: If E. J. Donnell, or any other New York cot ton merchant, will take an area of ten miles square and give us one-fourth of what we made last year they can be accommodated, and we will enter into any sort of bond besides putting np a forfeit for the faithful performance of the contract. There is a planter near me who has in three thousand acres of cotton and I understand he will not make and gather one hundred bales. There is another who made on one field last year seventy-five bales and now offers the crop, being all in cotton, for four bales. There is another who is considered one of the most successful (who used to plant in Montgomery connty, and possibly bought groceries from Donnel when he kept store where Wyman’s stand now is,) that planted sufficient land for one hundred bale3 and fnlly expeoted to make it, and now offers his crop for twenty bales! Messrs. Knox & Gill, Baltimore.—The liberal propositions of this noted honse, to be found in another column, will be read with in terest by onr mercantile and farming friends. No donbt longer exists as to the shortness of the growing crop, and the planter after paying off provision liens, would do well to store his cotton for the spring market. Bat he must biro money to procure family supplies, pay medical bills, and defray current expenses. Here then Messrs. Knox & Gill propose to releive them from the rainous rates of Georgia banks, (18 per cent.) by storing and holding all consign ments of cotton, and making liberal advances npon the same at the moderate interest of seven per centum per annum. At the same time the lowest charges for handling are guaranteed. We have known this firm personally for four years, and can vouch for their integrity and high standing in financial circles. Theirrepufa- tion is not confied even to tins continent. We trust a generous public will patronize them liberally. The Weather gets no better fast. Yesterday was excellent for rottiDg cotton bolls, and we have no donbt many a pound of cotton went to pot during that twelve hours. Seriously, there has not been a more disastrous season on cot ton since 1S40—as we ere reminded by a gen tleman of Monroe connty Who says that daring that year, there were not more than ten con secutive days of sunshine from seed time to harvest. Cotton drooped, it seems, pn Monday in New York and Liverpool, but not a tithe like it dia in the fields all over the South. The bears are making a desperate effort, but they will oer- tainly get smashed in the end. Before Christ mas they will not be able to bay a pound of the staple in New York at le3S than 30 cents— if this weather continues, and many ttdny they will have to pay that, or more, anyhow. What Comes op It.—These cheap papers got np with “patent insides,” or outsides, are crammed with selections from Yankee maga zines, the prominent features of which are characters who (we quote from one of them) “have tasted all the horrors and sufferings that a wounded Union soldier oonld feel starving in Libby prison.” Do onr country friends, asks the Mobile Register, reflect on what they are doing, in delegating to Yankees the selection of choice Reading for Southern firesides? But it is a shrewd “invention of the enemy;” very. “Is the Union Restored?” We notice in the St. Louis Republican an in quiry nnder this head elicited by Sensekeeper Morton's vaunts that the credit of restoring the Union belongs to the Radioal party. The Re publican claims that the declaration of martial law—suspension of habeas corpus—quartering troops among the people—political conventions and elections overawed by mitrailenses and bayonets—civil process set aside—military ar rests and trials, eta, are no evidence that the Union is folly restored. The fact is, the vaunt of Morton in its last analysis is simply that mil itary force has substituted the old Union of the States, and the whole effort of Morton and Grant before the people is to justify the substi tution as a matter of necessity—growing out of the fact that tho Union, aB it onoe stood, has not been restored, and is not practicable on ac- connt of the disloyalty of the Southern States. Well, we have this to say abont the present in its relations to the future. Admitting that Mor ton and Grant are able to carry out their Kn klnx programme carefully in 1872, it will be the last performance of that kind possible by the Radicals, and their organization, in all prob ability, will go to pieces soon after the second inauguration. A second re-election being im practicable, Grant will probably mitigate bis violence against the South, and the quarrel for reapportionment of the spoils of the last term will be violent and destructive to all the party except Grant himself, who will then take cooly. The political future after that time, not before, will brighten to the South, and in few years she will probably reacqnire a fair share of influence in the public administration —enough; afcjeast, to rescue herself from the position of the butt and the victim of the other States. The Union will then be restored suffi ciently for the general purposes of fair and equitable government, and npon this condition the people of the Sonth will rest. A If AFRICAN FIBE KING. A Maryland Darkey Stamps the Doctors— He Eats Melted Lead—Handles Bed Hot Iron, and Does Divers Other Stunning Tricks. A fire proof negro at Easton, Hd., is the latest wonder. He don’t mind fire any more than Beast Bntler does having the truth told of him, and seems bound to establish his claims as a veritable rival to Shadrao, Meshao and Abednego. Numerous tests have been applied to ascertain the genuineness of his alleged in sensibility to the effects of aotnal fire, and all with the same result. A late exhibition of his wonderful powers was given a few days since, in the presence of several physicians, which was witnessed by a correspondent of the New York Herald, who writes of it as follows: A brisk fire of anthracite coal was homing in a common coal stove, and an iron shovel was placed in the stove and heated to a white heat. When all was ready tho negro pulled off his boots and placed the hot shovel upon the soles of his feet, and kept it there until the shovel became black. His feet were then examined by the physician, but no burns could be found, and all declared that no evidence of a heated snbstance having come in contact with them was visible. The shovel was again heated red-hot, taken from the stove and handed to him. He ran ont his tongue as far as he could, and laid the heated shovel npon it, licking the iron until it became cooled. The physician examined the tongne, bnt found nothing to indicate that he had suffered in the least from the heated iron. A large handful of common squirrel shot pro cured from a store near Dr. Stack’s office office, was next placed in an iron receptacle and heated nntil melted. The negro then took the dish, poured the heated lead into the palm of his hand, and then put into his month, allowing it to run all around his teeth and gams. He re- peated the operation several times, each time keeping the melted lead in his month until solidified. After each operation the physicians examined him carefully, bnt oonld find nothing npon hi3 flesh to indicate that he had been in the least affected by the heated snbstance he had been handling. Alter the performances with the lead he deliberately pat his hand into the stove, in which was a very hot fire, took there from a handful of hot coals and passed thorn abont the room to the gentlemen present, keep ing them in his hand some time, not the slight est evidence of a burn was visible npon his hand after he threw the coals back into the stove. After he had concluded his performances in Dr. Stack’s office, I sought an opportunity to converse with him. .1 found him very ignorant, not able to read or write, and in all respects an unadulterated negro. His name is Nathan Coker, and he is about 58 years of age, He was born in the town of Hillsborough, Caroline county, Maryland, and was the slave of Henry L Sellers, of that place, by whom he was sold to Bishop Emary. In relation to his ability to handle fire, and how he first became aware of it, ho said: ‘‘Boss, when I was abont 13 years old, old Massa Emary hired me ont to a lawyer whose name was PnmelL He treated me badly, and did not give me enough to eat. I shied aronnd the kitchen one day, and when the cook left I shot in, dipped my hand into the dinner pot and polled ont a red hot dnmpling. The boiling water did not bum, and I oonld eat the hot dnmpling without winking; so after dat I often got my dinner that way. I has often got the hot fat off the boiling water and drank it. I drink my coffee when it is boiling, and it does not give me half so mnch pain as it does to drink a glass of cold water. I always likes it lost as hot as I can get it” I then interorgaied lim as to the effect heated snbstanceahad npon his flesh, and asked him when he handled them with his hands if he did not snffer more than when he took them inwardly, to whioh he re plied : “No, boss. I often take my Iron ont of the forge with my hand when red hot, bnt it don’t bnrn. Since I was a little boy I have never been afraid to handle fire.” The Tidal Wave Alarm.—We are informed from the coast that many of the people are se riously alarmed abont the great tidal wave pre diction, and are getting ready to retire into the interior. The Wilmington Star, of Tuesday, says the excitement in North Carolina from the same cause is considerable. That paper has the following: Some excited individuals, we learn, are pro posing to send their families to the mountains, while the attics in all the three and four story buildings are at a premium. A gentleman from one of the Sounds informs ns that a frightened, market man from that locality returned home late Friday night from this oity, where he heard of the big wave, and went around among his neighbors, oronsing them from their slnmbers and retailing the terrible news of the expeoted billow, although it was past 12 o’clock. We beg all such to calm their fears, for we have the best reasons for believing that the tho tidal wave is a delusion and a snare—in other words, as Prof. Forshey has it, a cruel hoax—started by some mischievous wag to frighten people ont of their seven senses while he lays back and enjoys the joke. Agassiz, the learned naturalist, never made any such prediction. If he did, we should not believe it. The Newbem Times also has the following on the sume subject: We are informed that tho people living along the banks and at Beufort, and the entire sea coast, are, in view of the visit of the tidal wave, holding prayer meetings night and day, in which ; prayers are made to avert the supposed impend ing calamity. Many persons are joining the church, and a general religious feeling prevails. As no snch wave has ever been seen in the world since the flood, except in case of great volcanic shocks, and then coming only in very small areas, it will be safe to assume that no snch wave will oome this year, no matter who predicts it. . It is now going the rounds of the press that a New Orleans man, while sitting over a charcoal fire frying some fish, was overcome by the fames, fell with his face in the pan, and v/as dead when found. This fearful judgment should be a warning. That man might have broiled the fish instead of spoiling It, and at the same time loring his own life. If this para graph shall reach people who wilfully persist in frying beefsteaks, and shall turn them from the error of their ways, the death of the New Or leans man will not have been in vain.—It. 7. Leader. THE GEORGIA PRESS. The Talbotton American says the corn crop of that seotion will be short, and that not a half crop of cotton can be made, now. A telegraph office aa3 been opened at Flem ing (Station No. 2,) on the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad. A martial hero of the colored persuasion named Andrew Jackson disturbed the serenity of Savannah, on Sunday, by assaulting two other colored troops with a razor, riding at Gilpin pace through the streets, and firing off a trewly loyal pistol as he went. He enthusias tically favors the renomination of the illustri ous Grant. The chairman of the Beaufort (S. 0.) Board of Health writes to the Savannah News, nnder date of the 13th inst, that the yellow fever has entirely disappeared from that place. Bainbridge shipped 3000 bales of cotton last year to Savannah and other points. We find the following items in the Bainbridge Son of Saturday: From all sections of onr oonnty come gloomy reports abont the condition of the crops since the late storm and rain. All the low lands have been submerged, and the crops thereon almost totally destroyed. It is very unfortunate for the prosperity of onr section that snch is the case, bnt there is no getting aronnd it—the damages to a great extent are irreparable. Greenbacks are scarcer in Bainbridgo than they have been for several years past. Every body seem3 to be pressed to the wall financially and if a handsome price is not realized for the meagre crop of cotton mode in the country this season, the resnlt we fear can be summed np in four letters, R-u-i n ! We hope for the best, however. Owing to the unprecedented bad weather we are having now, and have had continually all the season, the health of onr section is not im proving in the least, bnt on the contrary we be lieve siokness is increasing. The Fbeshet.—Flint river, to-day, (Tuesday) is higher than it has been since 1868, and is still rising, having risen two feet since yester day evening, and is still rising rapidly. The A. & G. R. R. wharf is afloat and a portion of it washed away. The railroad embankment is also imperrilled. The water is within a few feet of the top of the Arnett bridge, and we would not be at all surprised if, before we go press, that structure should start on trip to the Bay. MoLaughlin’s mill is now standing alone in its glory on a little island, and we under stand that Mr. Mo. says that if .the water rises a foot higher the river will be booming right through his furnace. The crops in the rich Iand3 along the river are all doubtlessly des troyed, yet we cannot tell the extent of the destruction. “Fatty” Harris has slipped the law’s meshes, his trial, Monday, at Atlanta, on the charge of cheating the State, resulting in his disoharge. A car for the Macon Btreet railway passed through Atlanta, on Monday. Batter and eggs are going ont of faBhion np at Griffin. Three dozen of one, and five pounds of the other have supplied the entire demand for the past two weeks. We clip the following items from the Monroe Advertiser, of Tuesday: The “Wole” at the Door.—Mr. Presley Williams, aged one hundred and two years, was sent to the county poor house Wednesday after noon. Rain.—The murky clouds this morning indi cate another fall of rain. The cotton bolls are rotting rapidly, and the crop will be almost en tirely destroyed if the wet weather continues. Death op Hardy Perkins.—This gentleman, well known to many of onr citizens, died sud denly at his father’s residence near Oolaparchee, last Tuesday night. Mr. Perkins had, only a few days prior to his death, and daring a revival at Mount Zion, enrolled his name as a member of the Methodist Chnrch. Sudden Death.—Mrs. Jno. McCord, of this connty, died very suddenly at Indian Spring on Friday. It seems that after visiting the Spring, Mr. M. went np to the village, leaving his wife in the waiting room at the bath honse, appa rently as well as nsual, and returning after short absence found ber a corpse. Rate op Taxation.—Monroe connty tax-pay ers will have to contribute very liberally to meet the indebtedness of the current year. The Or dinary has not yet fixed the rate of taxation, bnt he says there is no donbt sbont the redemp tion of much of his scrip in this way. At pres ent, there is no “ sinking” fund. The Atlanta Era, of yesterday, has the fol lowing: A Sad Coincidence.—Mr. L. H. Hope, an es timable gentleman, who bos for years been one of the salesmen in the house of Menko Bros., on Whitehall street, died rather suddenly at bis residence on Sunday evening at eight o’clock. Mr. Hope was engaged to be married to a lady of Gainesville on the day and at the precise hour in which he died. Truly it was a remark able and sad coincidence. Painful Accident.—We regret to learn that onr esteemed Solicitor General, Captain E. P. Howell, and family, met with a painful acoident late on Saturday evening, while driving ont in the country in his bnggy. The horse became frightened, capsized the bnggy, and threw the parties ont npon the road. Captain Howell es* caped with a slight brnise, bnt Mrs. Howell broke an arm, and the ohild was badly braised. We are glad to hear that Mrs. H. and the child are doing as well as can be expected. Letters for E. M. Brown, Americas; J. M. Walden, Fort Valley; J. M. Walden, Albany; W. Elliott, Onthbert, and D. M. Gugel and Virgil Powers, Macon, are held for postage at Savannah. It costs a Savannah policeman $25 and a month's suspension from duty, to Bleep on his post. Miss Charlotte Tatnali, eldest daughter of the late Commodore Tatnali, died at Portland, Maine, on the 8th inst. Twenty-five hundred sacks of coffee, direct importation from Rio Janeiro, arrived at Sa vannah, on Monday. W. S. Ryan, a printer well known in Savan nah and Augusta, died of ohills and fever and dissipation, Iaat Monday, at the latter place. The editor of the Colnmbns Sun reports the result of observations made daring a recent trip into the country a3 follows: A late trip into the country revealed to ns the fact that the cotton weed has no top crop, and very little of the middle. Also that very little of the bottom crop is open where the weed is tall. From the effects of the continuous wet weather, many of the bolls near the ground, are rotting and will never open. The open cotton is principally on the rusted spots where the leaves have fallen off. Suoh ootton has bnt few bolls, and they are of a dwarfish character. The weed that has not rested, has taken a second growth, which has filled the top with abundance of forms, and some blooms. These will all be nipped by frost and come to nanght. This sec ond growth is a great injury to the bolls now on the weed, tending to dwarf their growth and check their opening. An election for tax collector of Baldwin connty will be beld to-morrow. S. N. Callaway and John Arnold are the candidates. We clip as follows, from the Sandersville Georgian of yesterday: Mrs. Brown, wife of JohnD. Brown, Esq, of this connty, died on Friday night laBt. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Seaton Grantland died, after a few hoar’s sojourn in this life, on Tuesday last. Fob two days past we have had no rain. The continued wet weather has been disastrous to crops. In many instances corn ha3 spronted in the fields, the cotton ceased to open, pease rotted, eto. The prospect is now good for fair weather and better times. In onr travels round last week we past a number of large and onus- nally thrifty plantations. Not a bale of ootton to bo seen abont the screws and presses and gin houses looked as if bnt little used. The people of the connty will donbtleBS be surprised to learn that the relatives of Mr. Sea* ton Grantland have eommeneed a prosecution against Dr. Carr. A preliminary trial will be heard to-day, "Wednesday, before Judge Twiggs. A duel was fought at Grantville, Id. C., on Sunday morning, between Captain Wm. D’An- tignao, of Augusta, and Mr. John Dell, of St. Louis, Missouri, who has been living at Augusta for somer months past. It was the resnlt of a quarrel, Friday night, whioh ended in D’Antig- nao’s striking Dell, who thereupon sent his as sailant a peremptory challenge. The weapons used were Colt’s navy pistols, and the distance fifteen paoes. Two shots were exchanged, the second of which resulted in Dell’s being shot through both legs just above the knee. His wound is considered a serious one. Both parties returned to Augusta the same day, The Colnmbns thieves having developed all the ohickens of that oity have turned their at tention to stealing “greens. The Rome "Water "Works are being rapidly pushed ahead, and in a few days the main pipes will all be laid down: The Rome Courier says the oom crop of Floyd,and adjoining counties, is very short. At a barbecue at Coosavilie, last Saturday, Ed Allen, a fisherman, was severely stabbed by Jas. Prescott. Allen was the aggressor. We clip as follows, from the Atlanta Consti tution, of yesterday: Mysterious Disappearance.—We learn that Joseph Fry, the clerk of E. F. Blodgett, pur chasing agent of the Western and Atlantio Rail road, disappeared on Sunday last, and has not been heard of since. It is said that he took a train bound northward Sunday evening. Vari ous rumors are afloat. One is that he is a ma terial witness against the Superintendent and other State Road officials. Another is that it could be proven by him that McGalla offered for $20,000 to bnrn np the State Road books and leave tho State. Where is Fry ? Who shoved him off? The MoCalla Case.—The preliminary exam ination of C. P. MoCalla before Justice W. M. Butt was set down for 8 o’dook yesterday morn ing at the Oity Hall. Hon. B. H. Hill appeared on the part of the prosecution, by direotion of Governor Bollock. He is directed to appear for the prosecution in all eases of frand on the State. Counsel consulted for some two hours and agreed to an indefinite postponement of the case. Mr. McGalla admits receiving the money, bnt claims that he can make a fall showing that he has never appropriated anf of it to his own use. Committed.—John Coppedge had a prelimi nary examination before Jnstice Smith yester day on the charge of shooting at another, and in default of $500 bond was committed to jail. From tho evidence, it appears that on Monday evening Coppedge and a man named Smith were quarreling. Smith had a rook in his hand, and Coppedge was trying to shoot Smith. Po liceman John O'Shields, as he neared them, called npon them to stop, when Coppedge turned and commenced firing at O’Shields, running as he did so. Coppedge fired three times. O’Shields fired twice. No one hurt. The Era, same date, says: United States District Court.—The United States Distriot Coart, Judge Erskine, presiding, was again engaged all day yesterday with the case of United States vs. Simms, charged with embezzlement of Postoffioe funds. The wit nesses thus fax examined are judge Donning, J. S. Nall, and John Lynoh. The prosecution yesterday closed for the present. The Govern ment by its testimony proposes to show that de fendant, when the office was taken charge of by the present inonmbent, failed to account to the Government in the sum of $23.000.' The de fense proposes to prove that defendant was not in arrears to the Postoffioe Department, and that defendant personally and through oounsel, has repeatedly endeavored to come to a final set tlement with the Department, bnt without suc cess. A number of witnesses are yet to be ex amined, and it is believed that the case will oc cupy the remainder of this week. Everywhere the Same.—Hon. Jack Hamil ton, exGovemor of Texas, is abont as well quali fied to pronounce an opinion npon the character of the Texas trewly loyl as any man we know. He used to be “In” with them. "Well, here is what he says abont the creatures who make np the majority of the so-called Legislature of that State: “I never saw a man give one of them a dol lar for his vote, nor did I ever see them steal anything. But when we see a poor, miserable cuss, who never had $150 in his life, come to Austin, borrow money to pay his expenses, and presently find him losing a thousand dollars in a night at faro, driving aronnd in a fancy team, making liquor bills, wine bills, and all sorts of bills, and baying a bnggy and fine horses to go home in, we know he is a thief as well as if we had seen him steal.” Why this cap fits some folks that were loaf ing abont Atlanta last winter, just as if it had been made for them. It is really wonderful, wonderful! Georgia State Agricultural Society,) Office, Macon, September 19,1871. ) The annexed resolutions were ordered to be published by the Rome Convention for objects obvious in the terzn3 of the same. The Secre tary requests the publication in the Macon dai lies and in the weekly press of the State: By Mr. Stubbs, of Laurens: Whereas, The matter of the proposed distri button of the funds arising from the land scrip has been referred to a committee to report to the next meeting of this body, and as the Leg islature will meet before the next annual meet ing in FebinaTy, 1872, therefore, be it Resolved, 1st, That when this Convention ad- jonrn, it adjonrn to meet at the Oity Hall in Macon, on Tuesday, the 24th day of October next, at 7 o’clock p. m. Resolved, 2nd, That citizens or institutions desiring the benefit of the fond be requested to submit their propositions in writing to the said committee that they may be investigated and reported to the Convention. Deft BY HERBERT FIELDER. Negro Execution and Theology. Three negroes were hung last Saturday j I have reserved, as most important, to the I parish of St. James, Louisiana, for miude t conclusion of this series, the consideration of arson. They robbed a store—murdered ? the pressing necessity for some regular system clerk, and then fired the premises. "When** of controlling labor, as the best security for the death warrant was read two of them main* * stability of agriculture, both as it affeots the an air of stolid indifference, bnt William, proprietors ol the soil, and the laboring classes. ring i eader exclaimed: “Thank God But before entering upon it, I desire to present 1° ’ a - >t my views as to the resources of our seotion for °° me at last * Heavea 1)6 P*® ise<J for population and labor, abont which so much has me commit the orime, for without that, I,, been written and spoken among onr people. not have known there was a God.” We sustain complicated relations of interest ^jg was a negro execution thronehc-i with the colored people of this seotion, which, . feoc “ii while they may, by wise and prudent concert of* 1 *' e^-h'bited some strange features. On* aotion, be improved to the benefit of all, we these was the bringing ont of one Randall oonld not summarily throw off if we would, man, charged with killing another nee, without great material damage to the country, witneS3 the example. The prisoners and detriment to both races. We have to deal . __ * . . 18 with the situation as it is; and cannot hope to [ marc hed four miles through mnd knee _ escape all the perils that environ ns, and reach encompassed by an immense crowd of daj] a state of affairs free from trouble and care to the place of execution. Tho Time** throagh schemes and plans that are nnsnbstan- witnessed the performance, says: tial and visionary, and which do not legitimately J arise ont of-the facts of the case. And while! Owing to the narrowness of the levee a[ the situation has been thrust upon ns by force scene of the murder, a spot was chosen re* and wrongs, whose stings of resentment may ed about five hundred yards distant The. not be extracted for many years to come, in a lows consisted of two npright posts, twelves material point of view, onr business is with the higb, topped by a beam of the same W. present and future; and our true mission is to Midway from the top was laid a platM parry the blows of evil and misfortune as best which rested loosely on two posts below, tat we may, by turning all onr resouroes and real lower extremity of one of which was attach; advantages to the best account. rops*. Ten feet behind the gallows and tor Tins State is a wide field of invitation to the river was a deep grave, intended for skilled mechanics and for capital to be invested reception of the three victims, in well directed agriculture, internal improve- Between the grave and the instrument ments, and especially in manufactories to be death there rose to the height of twenty fee" propelled by water and steam. We have the slender pole, at the end of which a black raw material for valuable fabrics; timber and with a ball of white in the centre, lazily flu, ore in exhanstless quantities; and every geo- ed in the breeze. Directly in front of the ., logical formation that art requires in any of its lows were placed the open coffins, while bcsJ departments. And I hope tho day is not far them sat Randall Coleman, the man who' distant when millions of money now owned been brought ont to feel the force of exat abroad, and thousands of skilled operatives his countenance expressing a terrible a from other parts of the world, maybe employed nnder this fearful ordeal, within onr borders. But as to the main body of At 10:15 the three mounted the scaffold onr population, I regard them the best the. took their seats npon small sqnare boxes world affords. The white race is made of the beneath a noose which dangled from the’ best Christians, the best friends, the best neigh- above. bors, and the beat citizens. The colored race, The sheriff now informed them that even with the evils of which we complain, and would be permitted to address the peo-0 which evils time itself and prudent management whereupon one after the other indulged in so^ 1 will gradually correot, are onr best allies and what hysterioal expressions, the substance dependents; the most harmless and faithf aland all of which was a statement that they wore v best adapted laborers for our people, onr cli- ling to die, as they felt satisfied they hadt* mate and onr productions, which the world I forgiven by God, and would be taken hoc* conld afford ns. And as a patriot and a phi- Jesus. lanthropist, I do not desire to see either dis- At half past ten o’clock Sheriff Oliver, placed. There is no race or people, anywhere, “caps down,” when the blackrobed execati who, even when imported here, would take and (a colored man) sprang from his curious vel maintain the place of dependents, common ser- and mounting the gallows, performed the h: vants, and laborers, with whom we conld glide ness of pinioning, adjusting the nooses, along so smoothly and easily as onr former drawing the caps over the heads of the slaves. There is no race or people anywhere to demned. While this was being done, be found, who thu3 intermixed with ns, would an unheard of fbocedube long have or deserve the measure of real sym- was instigated by Sheriff Oliver, who appi pathy and friendship which a very large major- ing Coleman, the poor negro charged, but* ity of onr people bear to the freedmen among not yet even tried for mnrder, and address ns. Viewing it a question of labor and material him in a load voice, saying: prosperity, and of domestic peace, sowandfor I “Do you see these murderers? Ihavehrcu^ the future, when we consider it in all the rela- you ont here to see the terrible fate in store fc tions of life—combining menial services and yon. Yon murdered a man, and yon may& field operations, we have more to hope for from pend npon being pnt to death jnst as these a the oolored race than from any other that oonld before yon. I have done something in brings be provided in lien of them. you here, which has never been done ia ti What is to be the destiny of that race now State, and I want yon to look at these men *eL| that we are no longer prompted by interest to for that is the way yon will die.” take care of them as property, is a matter in the By this time toe executioner had done b hand of Providence which I do not propose to work, and, descending, he grasped the io> discuss here. It is enough for ns at present referred to as being attached to one of the s::- that toe negro is here, is acclimated, is well ports of toe platform, and at toe cry of “tic* known to ns and we to him. He knows onr sen- j by toe sheriff, and while toe white spei timents and tempers; we know his foibles and were singing a hymn, the man in black tii__ real worth. He know onr generosity and how | suddenly and fiercely, the prop gave way, bl to profit by it. He knows onr resentment and j platform came tumbling down, and with a qiil how to avoid it. He knows onr modes of life, “thud” there dangled between heaven and eaq and shows Ins love of them by a constant and | the murderers of Frank Menteath. praiseworthy effort, with toe means ha has, to imitate them. He is thoroughly acquainted with every species of onr farm work. He is now and will continue to be toe best laborer for Southern fields. And we are prompted, by not only a true nobility, in view of his' dependence and past fidelity, bnt by a substantial interest by no means inconsiderable, to bear much with his faults and shortcoming, take care of his race and protect him in his proper sphere, in toe From Houston County. Near Byron, September 19,1871. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I sup' pose that yon would like to have reports from every section of the cotton growing country. The report that I shall make will be a gloomy one indeed. Rain, rain all the time; torrents of rain. We have had rain almost continually for toe last four weeks. The cotton cannot grow a3 we have no sunshine. The bolls are rotting by thousands, and if this weather shonld con tinue much longer the cotton crop will be a failure. Iho clouds now at this time look heavy and threatening. I think in ten days more fnlly one half of the cotton crop will be rotten and consequently totally lost. We have lost all hopes—don’t expect to save mnch of this crop. We worked hard to make it Seems to us very hard indeed to lose it. Everybody gloomy and disappointed. Respectfully, Plain Farmer. The Fever at Charleston.—The Charleston Courier, of Monday, has toe following compara tive statement of toe deaths from yellow fever in toe years 1854, 1858, and toe present year: In toe epidemic of 1854, the fever began to show itself abont the middle of August, and np to the 19th there were 4 deaths; to 26th 20 deaths; to September 2d, 26 deaths; to 9tb, 70 deaths; to 16th, 127 deaths. In the epidemio of 1858 there was bnt 1 death from fever np to tho 7th August; to the 14th, 6 deaths; to 21st, 28 deaths; to 28to, 89 deaths; to September 4to, 73 deaths; to 13th, 103 deaths. This year, up to the 15th September, to which an approximation of dates has been made above the deaths have been 55. These figures sink into insignificance when compared with the two epidemio years, and show toe folly of character izing toe fever as an epidemio. Sunshine Again.—After a very hard rain Tuesday night, and a murky, chilly forenoon, yesterday, the sun showed his welcome face abont 2 p. m., and made a brave rally the rest of toe day. It was good for everybody, and everything, and especially for cotton. We hope to see more of it to-day, and for the next two weeks. If the bears of Liverpool and New York who are pushing cotton down, conld b^ made to walk through some of the drowned out; cotton fields of this section they would change their taotics. We have great faith that they Will catch it hot within the next sixty days. Somebody sends U3 a printed copy of a letter addressed to Horaoe Greeley by “Lieutenant Governor” Dnnn, of Louisiana, on the subject of the recent troubles between toe two wings of the J acobin party of that State. As onr tone is folly occupied with matters of muoh more mo ment, we are forced to the reluct ant—almost tearful—confession that we have not, and shall not, read this puffed np darkey’s screed, and that therefore we do not feel nnder any special obligations to the unknown sender thereof. Onr devout prayer is that both Dnnn and Warmonth, and their tag-rag-and-bobtail following, may devour each other as Bpeedily as possible. Liberal Arrangements for Exliibli-1 or* and "Visitors to the GeorjisJ State Fair* We have been banded the following letta| and take pleasnre in making it public: Office of the A. & G. Freight Line, 229 Broadway, cor. Barclay Street, -, New York. Sept. 15, enjoyment of all his rights, and to provide for To tJie Eon ^ A% Euff Mayor of ihe OTj J his permanent identity In interest with ns. ] Macon Ga • 8 Foreign laborers, so mnoh talked of, with DearSir: Your favor of the 6th inst, tffi reference to their supposed fidelity and snpe- hand per maiI of Cth> j telegraphed yon in n| nonty over the negro, have more prejudice p]y as follows: “Yours of 1st received, and.® against the negro than we have; and more £ onask {ortbe Pair sba]1 be done _Z_.” h ' against ns, our climate and modes of life, than oonS eqnenoe of one of onr steamship agents h they have against the climate, people and ing abaent from the city> j had £ w K ait nrL modes oflife in the Northern and Western yesterday before completing the arrangemer. States and Territories. Difficulties are nn- Pa£S e E gers to and from MiSon will bo carm morons, in the way of inducing; themito come at $ 32 75, from the 15th of October, to to here, and will be greater in getting those who 15th of November. Freights consigned to tb come to remain. I have but little hope of any Secre tary of theFairwillbe carriedat onepricl to ^ ° f P°P alatlon out as per tariff, and return free. Shipped from that source. Many of ns have an^^erro. roll be careful to mark on the package the namij neons conception of the comparative valne of of the lin6 on whioh th ar6 so a3i: such kborers if we had them. r6tnm b thQ same cba 4 el ac ^ ar ^ fnlak ; When farst brought across the ocean, they to consi ^ to the Secretary 0 | the Georgia Stall Ml 1 1 0 ™* °J r Fair. The tickets will b£ made good via. tel fore in more or less awe of everything, and are | trn] Railed nr AtWin «nif U»l of coarse dependent. In that state, it is na- tan! for them to be subordinate and faitMuL 1 and in r6t nming will be good via anvsteamsl The same would be true of onr most tnfling from Savannah to New York. ^ JS TZ I write by mail to Boston, Philadelphia aai| BiItimore > and tIie agents of the steamship: lation generally over the country, ’ ™L D ’nf f &^w , «A^r 0 ?±r5 l A O leara ^ | a large number of toe different manufacfureal to d ? ub, . I ^ P°P*i- ( 0 f -which I have no donbt) I will embody it ir9 v*/Sf" circular from this office. I intend sending o-H learn me j A 1nw»A nnr.itmv rt# 4Via nnnfcH stable and satisfactory state of society than we now have. Bat suppose thev do not become depraved and proffligate. Suppose they are industrious and frugal, and cease to remain poor and de pendant, as a question of welfare of races in C. D. Owens, General Agent. A Valuable Invention. The atmospheric brake, which is now bsir: I tried with great success at various poitb I which we have so vital an interest, what bene-1 throughout toe country, ia described as fol - j fit can resnlt to ns from being displaced by them lows: [ —what benefit to onr desoendants from sinking On the right hand side of toe locomotfc> I beneath, and becoming servants to them; or fastened to the running board, and nnder th I falling baok to a level with them; or from the inspection of the engineer, is an npright direct I contests that would flow from an effort to keep j air pump, whioh is operated by steam supple-1 them subordinate and maintain onr supremacy ? from the boiler, and pomp air into a reserve!: I They_ will, if frugal, become land owners, hanging nnder toe cap of the locomotive. Tth I If we yield to onr prevailing mania for selling pump is entirely self-acting, and whenever then I out, we shall gradually become landless. If we is ever a deficiency of the pressure in the •!’ I indulge toe propensity for ease, we shall soon j reservoir, it commences to work nntil the eqni-1 spend toe money, and shift places with a race I librium is restored. Under each oar of the train I imported for servants. j is a cylinder, firmly bolted in such a position tint I This is a great problem for this generation to its piston aots directly on the lever used for tie I solve, and it cannot be done by devising vision- 1 ordinary hand-brake, but does not at all interim I ary schemes of wealth and prosperity without with its use by banJ, The pressure of the air^ I industry and frugality. The time has come to I conducted to these cylinders from the reserve-1 make onr own race self-sustaining and indepen- nnder the locomotive, by aline of gaspipe, three-1 dent. If we do that we shall have discharged quarters of an inch in diameter, running the en-1 an imperative obligation to our posterity, and lire length of toe train, and toe connection with I to them it will have mattered bnt little whether | each cylinder is made from toe main line with w j negroes died ont or foreigners came in; for elbow, one-fourth of an inch in diameter. Frocj they will then be healthy, peaceful and happy, each endof the car toe pipes are extended bjtlN f I The time has come when this is a practical ply rubber hose, whioh are connected when tl ; j thought. The theory is not only a necessity cars are conpled together. Shonld a car becosi I but emlnentlypracticaL The propriety of throw- detached, toe valves of the coupling immediale-1 ing off habits of idleness and often of proffligacy ly close, the brake continues applied, and * suggest it; the pecuniary condition of a large car is prevented from running back on a grs& I number requires it; toe preservation of the An air guage placed immediately above It* vigor and true manhood and womanhood of our steam guage indioates to the engineer the qom- raoe demands it, and it is almost gratifying evi- tity of pressure in the reservoir, and the ku- j aenco of returning prosperity, that the clonds I agementof toe train i3 placed in the engines* j are breaking, and light dawning; that all over hands by means of a three-way cock. At a ra the land, thousands of onr best people, toe cent trial of this brake on the Missouri F*>«a c young, toe middle aged and even toe old, are Railroad, a train three hundred feetloDg, tot- [ adopting and nobly putting it in praotioe. And eling at a speed of thirty-four miles an hoffi he shonld be regarded toe bestpatriot and phil- was stopped in twenty seconds, and at a &H antoropist who lends in such a noble reforma- tance of 1,000 feet from the point where the tion> brake was applied. The train traveling at W-h. mgton Republican of Monday says: I were required, and the cars continued in ^ I The contest for the Republican gubernatorial I tiou for 1,750 feet, nomination in Massachusetts goes on with nna- bated vigor, and shakos the old Commonwealth to its very foundation. Notwithstanding all toe abuse that has been heaped on General Bntler, his prospeots are said to be better now than those of any other candidate. The Boston cor-1 Sudden Death of an Entire Family.— 1 F* | Wilmington (N. O.) Journal, of Saturday, saj 3: From a gentleman who arrived here yesterdsj we learn that an entire family in Faison's To^‘ respondent of the Now York World says that his I shi P’ Dn P I i i a °° na ‘y> d ! ed 70T f T6ce ^l , supporters turn up in alarming numbers and in P 601 * 1 ^ circumstances tha the most unexpected places. Tho Boston cor- a ® 1 8 ld50rs suspected foul P la F» an A tf! respondent, of the Tribune says his success I £ erefor ®, “ ea f“ 63 rl to ^ ave “alarms his opponents, and stirs them to toe oftt* most aetiye exertions.” His supporters are, it 2*%?^ uken ^ddSlv ve^ iu iiffi W* appears, most numerous m the manufacturing . ml v; vaa wsen sunaemy very in wim towns, and they are intensely in earnest in their On the^* determination to make him Governor. He him- a ?J* 40 & THATvenemous liW^Twag JB& thumb, Amos Akerman, has gone to Raleigh above oonple, and aged 4 years, also died. . to proseonte the so-called Knklnx prisoners on There were natur2 grounds for suspicion, trial there this week. Two batteries of artillery stomachs of toe two children were taken« »«■*>*» *• ££«&* protect his sacred person. How proud Carters- of ™.iri° e an analysis of their cont®^ villa most be of suoh a citizen! Mr. Exam was an old and highly r3 fP a !!! < - «» • I citizen of Dnplin county, and the sudden e*. The editors of toe Telegeaph and Messenger cease of himself and family has oast > thank Mr. S. R. Weston, Secretary of toe “Ter- U loo “ over toe surronndffig seodom The ^ . _ . . . . . . ., „ . ^ rbors, in general, believe that the entire rel Industrial Association, for a complimentary j we ^ poised, ^ d there are strong suspicion* ticket of admission to the “First Fair” thereof, we understand, of those who oommitted 12 to be held on November 7th, 8th and 9th. * horrible deed. •fit ^
