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The Georgia, "Weekly Tel o&xa.pli and. Journal &c Messenger,
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, OCTOBER 3 1871.
News Hems.
The week’s receipts of cotton at Selma wero
1000 bales against 2245 same week last year.
Crops of Florida.—The Floridian says if
they can have dry weather, half or perhaps two-
thirds of a cotton crop can bo picked ont; bat
the cotton has boen very mach damaged.
The Abundasoe or the Sea.—The Palatka
Herald says that in St. Angnstine, f om ten to
twelve mallet, eight to ten inches in length, sell
for five cents. Pass, shcophead, snappers and
tront, one and a half feet in length, sell for
five cents each.
Columbus Coiton IJEOEma.—One hnndred
and eighty bales were received in Columbus on
Wednesday, against 012 the corresponding day
last year. The receipts np to Wednesday night
were 1,194, Macon receipts to same date were
1,397. Business in Columbus is fair and the
health of the city and vicinity reported excel
lent.
Robbing the Dead —The papers are immor
talizing one David Blocker, of Gettysburg, who
stole a gold plate from the mouldering jaws of a
disinterred Confederate soldier and refused to
give it np. David also charged rent for the ground
occupied by the bones nutil they could be car
ried away. Ho claims no relationship to King
David.
The discovery of a rich tin mine in Utah is
reported. The New York Herald sees in this
discovery the means of nnderminiog Brigham
Young's ‘'peculiar institution.” A largo Gen.
tile population, the Herald surmises, will thus
be attracted to Utah, by whom the result which
it predicts will be accomplished.
Bad foe New Obleans.—The New Orleans
Picayune says that raking among the oyster
beds nearest that city is a poor business thus far.
Boats have now to go ont from ten to twelve
miles further than formerly, as the muddy wa
ter of tho Mississippi, flowing through the Bon
net Carro crevasse, nearly destroyed the oysters
in the best banks of the Lake.
Cool Weather.— Tho weather in Middle
Georgia is remarkably cool for tho season, and
we presume lowlands hnvo not escaped frost by
many degrees. In high localities around the
city, themercury hes been below fifty at sunrise
several mornings. Friday morning it indicated
48, Fires have been vory comfortable and
many a person has a cold from sitting in rooms
without a fire.
The gold and silver annually produced npon
the Pacific coast approximates $80,000,000—an
amount that will be greatly increased within
the next two or three years. Only a little more
than twenty years have elapsed since we
began mining for these metals, during which
time we have extracted and put into circulation
something over $1,200,000,000 of the precious
metals.
A Forlorn Hope.—Tho Floridian, of the
20th, says planters in that region will soon be
chopping—that is, their second crop, for mnch
of that blown out by the recent winds and
beaten in by the rains has sprouted and is now
six or eight inches high in many places. So
if old Jack Frost will delay his first visit, Leon
county may yet market n full crop of cotton with
the assistance famished by this second crop.
Farmers shouldn’t despair with this prospect.
Donnell, theUrsaMajor of Pearlstreet, who
thinks “two-thirds of a crop is a big thing in
Georgia,” speaks yet once more on the 25th.
He says neither ho nor the editors can influence
the cotton market enough to pay for planters’
cigars; but it is, nevertheless, quite certain
that somebody manages to influence the cotton
market so ns to pretty regularly produco a rise
of five to seven cents soon after the bnlk of the
crop has left planters’ hands. He farther re
marks that tho cotton crop is still alive and
growing, and until a killing frost, ho is justified
in hoping for a result far beyond present esti
mates. Cotton, generally, in this section, con
cluded its programme for iho year some time
ago, by putting out top forms—but for a month
there has been no weather even to advance this
final effort Daring an observation of more
than thirty years we never saw so wretched a
season for cotton growing, as this has been
from first to last; and if it does not disclose a
practically commensurate result we shall still
insist it ought to hate done it. The crop ought
to be fifteen to eighteen hundred thousand bales
short of lost year. But perhaps Donnell may
be right and get his fonr and a half million bales
yet* Wo 6hall see.
Wonders of Iowa.—Mr. Greeley, of the
Tribune, writes from Iowa that although hardly
more than twenty years old, tho State will pro
duce this year more wheat than any other, and
more corn than any other State, Illinois ex
cepted. He found near Grinnell, a man named
Wallace Clarke who has produced nine thousand
bushels of shelled com annually, for the last
fiva year-, on the sumo 100 acres. And on this
land one man with a com planter, which drops
two rows at once, and with a change of teams
had planted thirty-three acres in a single day.
One man had plowed, planted and tilled 1C5
acres on this farm, using two spans of horses al
ternately. Ho found good apples, and fair
grapes, bnt peaches are fast receding to the
Southward. Grinnell is a town of 2,500 or 3,000
people and no glass of liquor or beer has ever
been sold there. It has no bar-room or saloon, and
overy deed to a town lot covenants that nothing
intoxicating shall bo sold on the premises. The
consequence is, not a pauper, loafer, ruffian,
brawler or sot iu town, and doctors in despair.
No jails—no juries—no lawyers—no courts, and
empty jugs, or elso filled with molasses and
vinegar.
A Bhave Lass.—Tho Palatka Herald say3:
Miss Prescott, of this county, killed a large
bear on Thursday night last. ’Brain had made
an attack upon the swine, and was in the act of
carrying off a large sized shoat, when the young
miss pitched into him and killed him with a
lightwoud knot
Debts of the Southern States.—The Badical
members of tho Ku-klnx committee have re
fused to allow the evidence of Badical State of
ficers, as to financial management, to go to the
public in printed form. The startling fact
however, has been elicited that since the close
of the war tho debts of the Southern States
have been increased, by railroad and other im
provement bonds, so-called, $220,000,000, for
which expendilnre there is little or nothing to
show. A
Gbant and Butler.—'Tho Commercial Adver
tiser (a Grant Republican paper at that) is
guilty of tho following. Need wo point out
with Artemns Ward that “this is sarkasum
One of the anticipated pleasures of the Pres*
ident in visiting Boston next October will be
that of congratulating General Butler npon the
triumphant issue of his canvass. His Excel
lency remarked to a Pennsylvanian, the other
day: “It is useless for the politicians of Massa
chusetts to kick against the pricks; the people
are with Butler.” It is this sagacity which
gives the country confidence in Grant.
The Ex-Empebob.—G. W. S., writing of two
photographs of the ex-Emperor Napoleon, one
taken before the war, the other taken in Jane
last, says the former is the portrait of a man
over-burdened, over-worked, haggard with care
and anxiety and more toil than he had strength
for. In the latter, the face has grown round and
full; the cheeks are firm; the eyes have a careless
good nature; the face and figure are younger;
in tho whole attitude and expression of the man
as ho is to- day there is an appearance of ease,
of relief, of good living, and of saying, “You
think I care, but I don’t."
Sale cf Coal.—One hnndred and thirty
thousand tons of Scranton coal were sold in
New York on Monday at $4 10 to $G 00— ac
cording to size.
Wisdom—Justice—Moderation.
This singular felicitous motto of the State of
Georgia embodies tho noblest conception of
good government. It is impossible to find three
words more significant in that connection, either
in themselves or in their relative bearing. Ta
ken separately and considered in connection,
they form the most forcible, concise and origi
nal embodiment of the highest idea of the char
acter and functions of a truly beneficentgovern-
ment, and the best qualifications of public ad
ministrators. Wisdom is tho capacity to choose
the best ends and to pursue their attainment by
the best and most effectual means. Justice de
mands that all these ends shall be pursued with
entire rectitude and impartiality, and every
thing attempted and accomplisbed shall be for
the common and equal benefit of every citizen.
Than Moderation crowns tho whole. This tem
pers overy effort for the public advancement—
rebnkes violence even in a good canse—incul
cates toleration, patience and charity.
Moderation is the grand cement of the social
and political fabric. Wisdom and Justice are
the high standards to bo aimed at, bnt Modern-
ration points out the only practicable method of
pursuit in a world so fallible and full of preju
dice, passion and discordant interests and opin
ions.
The wisdom of aDy course determined by a
single mind and affecting a single fortune, can
be followed out with uncompromising energy;
but the first lesson of tho practical statesman is,
amid a multiplicity of conflicting opinions, to
approach wisdom as nearly as possible, if he
cannot attain it. And so with justice. The man
can do justice—tho citizen must often content
himself with tho nearest practicable approach
to it.
In every step of social and political life wo are
taught the absolute necessity of yielding, to
some extent, to tho views and opinions of our
fellow men. Not to do so is to wreck and min
the highest ends of society and government.
The man who will yield nothing is always
making mistrials—hanging a jury—setting so
ciety by the ears—fermenting domestic strifes,
or breeding schism and discord in tho church.
Tho wise man is often compelled to wink at a
little folly in order to prevent a greater, or to
accomplish a wise pnrposo. The jast man is
generally the first to temper justice with mercy,
chanty and toleration. Ho knows that if so
ciety were ran on mathematically straight linos,
each member carrying ont his own convictions
with inexorable logic, regardless of the others,
it would be one endless series of collisions’an
tagonisms and conflicts.
Moderation, then, is a great conservator of
political, social and religious harmony. It
teaches ns to promote onr own interests and
opinions with a dno regard to conflicting views,
end to respect the rights and opinions of others
while maintaining onr own. Tho motto of
Georgia well demands a carefnl and elaborate
exposition, but we have no time or space to at
tempt one. It is a standing and orthodox text
of instruction to the citizen—the politician and
the patriot. It sums up in three words the
highest type of either.
Affairs in Great Britain.
The Northern papers are full of portents and
prognostications of coming woe in Great Brit
ain. The Herald of Wednesday has a column
dispatch from London about Disraeli’s speech
at Hugbeuden, in which ho declared the Queen
physically and morally incapable of reigning
much longer, hinted at abdication, and expressed
regret that she hod not followed tho advice of
Lord Palmerston, years ago, and parted with a
share of her executive prerogatives so that her
death or abdication should have involved leak
change in the political condition.
It is easy to see that these apprehensions are
based not more on tho precarious tenure, of
Her Majesty’s reign, than universal distrust of
her lineal successor. No confidence is reposed
in the Prince of Wales. He is a mere dull, sod
den sensualist —without moral principle, ambi
tion, mental ability, industry or popularity—in
a word, without a single personal capacity to
confront the republican and anti-monarchical
tendencies of the day, cither in tho way of pop
ular conciliation or repression. A young, vir
tuous, ambitions and energetic prince, with
liberal idesa and sympathies, succeeding to the
throne at this time, would strengthen, instead
of weakening the monarchy: bnt a rehash of
the 4th Georgo with even greater indolence and
stupidity—known only to the people by his lazy
licentiousness and gross self-indulgence—is pe
culiarly untimely and discouraging to the con
servatives.
The Queen, according to tho World, is labor
ing under a scrofulous disease, hereditary in
the royal family, and which has developed itself
in malignant abscesses, which temporarily di
vert the malady from vital parts, bnt cannot
probably long prevent a fatal result. The Qaeen
is about 52 years old, and although this disorder
seems to be generally more fatal to women than
to men, yet George IV. lived to the 8ge of G8
in spite of habits calculated to Sggravate it We
hope, therefore, that tho Queen emerging from
a critical period of life, and always a woman of
regular habits, will prolong her ; days in spite of
these prognostications.
But if the worst comes, in spite of tho vaunts
and foiminations of the English Radicals, we
shall not look for any violent charges in the
Government of Great Britain. That pyramid
is too colossal, too solid, too firmly cemented
in all its parts, to bo overturned or shaken to
pieces of a sodden daring an interregnum. It
has been too useful and beneficent, also, to
havo forfeited the support of the controlling
intelligence and power of the people. When
the test comes, the Radical dreamers and theo
rists will find that they are altogether mistaken
in the power and extent of the revolutionary
influences at work in the United Kingdom; and
that while the masses of the people may ardent
ly desire more rapid improvement and liberali
zation, they are far from willing to commit
their destinies into the bands of a conglomerate
of visionary schoolmen and desperate Commnn-
ists, who repudiate the most elementary, polit
ical and personal rights.
News Items.
The amount of Paymaster Hodge’s defalca
tion was $435,400. GO.
‘ ‘Morally Incapacitated. Tho World thinks
that this assertion in respect to tho Queen by
Mr. Disraeli means substantially that ehe is nn-
setled in intellect. Probably that’ is what was
intended, as the Queen's rectitude of character
and habits has never been called in qne3tion.
It is an unusual application of tho term,ho wever.
A Pebsonal Reminiscence.—The Scjn brings
a personal reminiscence home to the big s&chem
of Tammany. He says one Schuyler sold a bill
of lamber to the street department, of which
Tweed is the head, in the amount of $48,500
and was compelled to assign the bill. When it
next saw the light the bill as paid called for
$463,000.
The Southebn Magazine for October is a
sprightly number. Among tho several artioles
are The Spider’s Web papers, by Colonel John
S. Holt, caostio exposures of Federal malversa
tion in the South, Lord Kilgobbin, and Bnn to
Death. Of the others, tho Nearest Peril of Eng
land, the Lost Canse, a New Heresy, a Streak
of Luck, and Sovereignty in the United States,
are all sprightly and original. Murdock, Browne
& Hill, Baltimore.
The Southebn Fabm and Home for October
is out and has for a frontispiece a view of the Cin
cinnati Exposition building. This number
cams too late for an extended notice. Wo will
speak of it in onr next.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Thirty-six hogsheads of damaged tobacco were
sold at Savannah, on Wednesday, at from $30,
to $140 per hogshead.
Dawson proposes to organize a syndicate and
bnild a hotel. Five thousand dollars have al
ready been subscribed.
Dawson merchants, as a special favor to H.
I. K., take his money for goods at fifty cents in
the dollar.
The negro who murdered young Mr. Ivey, of
Baker county, a few weeks ago, and made his
escape, has returned and given himself np to the
authorities.
Americas rummaged ont its winter clothing
on Tuesday evening, and toasted its shins over
the firat fire of the season.
The revival in tbe Baptist church at Americas
still continues, and many persons have been
converted.
Thomas ccnnty will porno down from 10,000
bales of coiton last year, to 6,000, this.
The Newnan Defender has the following par
agraph:
There is in Cowetacouniy animmense amount
of the finest hay, mnch of which is suffered an
nually to rot npon the ground, while onr cattle
daring the winter snffer or die for want of sus
tenance. The qneBtion a3 to whether clover
and other pot grasses will flourish here is of no
importance, since wo have a gross peculiar to
our marshy places that yields more abundantly,
and is equally as nutritive sto stock as clover,
herds grass, blue grass, timothy or any other of
the cultivated grasses of the West. We know
now of several gentlemen who are anxious that
some person should go into their bottom lands
and save this hay for a pittance.
The Colnmbas Baptist Association adjourned
last Tuesday. Thirty-fivo churches in Talbot,
Muscogee, Chattahoochee, Stowart and Herri-
wether counties were represented. The collec
tions amounted to $3,343.9G, of which $2000 in
good bonds and $200 in money were for Mer
cer University, and $250 for the Greenville (S.
C.) Theological Seminary.
We find the following items in ihe Columbus
Son, of Thursday:
Unfobtunate and Fatal Accident.—We
learn that on Wednesday morning, of last week,
Mr. Samnel Senn was almost instantly kfiled in
the following manner: He was omployed to
out saw-logs for tho mill of Mr. L. F. McLaugh
lin, on Pine Knott Creek in Marion county, Ga.
Early Wednesday morniDg he proceeded as
usual to his work in the woods, and while cut
ting down a large pino a limb fell, striking
him on the side of tho head and on ono shoul
der. He lived near two hours in an insensible
condition. He leaves a wife and six small chil
dren—tho two youngest twins and infants—in
quite destitute circumstances. He came to
Georgia near twelve months ago, from South
Carolina, (onr informant thinks, from Edgefield
county.)
Death op a Weathy Man.—Dr. J. Rnrnph,
of Union Springs, Alabama, died in that place
Tuesday night. Ho was quite wealthy for this
section, and it is said had $GO,000 on deposit in
this city. Dr. R. was a highly esteemed citi
zen, and had never married. He was above
sixty years of age.
Mr. John Eve and Capt. A. Grant Childs,
late chief engineer of the Augusta and Hartwell
Railroad, left Augusta, on Wednesday, for Pa
nama, to take positions on a new railroad about
to be built across tho Isthmus by Northern cap
italists.
The stockholders’convention of tho Macon
and Augusta Railroad will meet at Augusta, on
Monday afternoon, October 2, at 3 o’elock.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Thursday,
says:
New Telegraph Lines.—The Western Union
Telegraph Company seem to be engaged in pre
paring for an active campaign and a large busi
ness daring the coming winter. The company
is now engaged in erecting several new lines of
wires, and will soon have them in operation.
One of the lines runs from Augusta to Savan
nah, another from Augusta to Columbia, with
one branch running to Charleston, and a second
to Wilmington, N. O.
Hon. Wm. M. Reese wants to bo President
of onr next State Senate.—Atlanta Era.
We notice the above simply to say that we
know that Judge Beese’s position is misrepre
sented. He does not “ want” to be President
of the Senate, bnt prefers to retain his seat on
the floor; but if the members of the Senate
think it advisable toplacehim in the President's
chair, he will endeavor to serve the State as
faithfully in that position as ho would otherwise
as a mere member of the Senate.
Judge Reese’s “friends” will urge his claims
for tho position named, and independent of
his inclinations in the matter.—Chronicle and
Sentinel, 28i/i.
In a difficulty between Asbury Sewell and F.
M. Summerlin, of Carroll county—brothers-in-
law—last week, the latter wa3 instantly killed.
McLaughlin, the defaulting postoffice olerk,
was found guilty of embezzling $5,038 of Uncle
Sam’s money in the United States District
Court at Atlanta, on Thursday.
We clip as follows from the Atlanta Consti
tution, of yesterday:
A Pebtinent Question.—A negro lad was
arraigned before DeKalb Superior Court, a few
days ago for an assault upon his lady love. He
narrated his troubles to thoOonrt, how his Jane
loved Bill Hams better than himself, and
how his dog discovered Bill and Jane billing
and cooing and how he became vexed and
slapped her j aws for goiDg back on him. When
he closed his tale, Jadge Hopkins asked him,
“and what became of tho dog.” “He wagged
his tail, sir.” It took the Solicitor General
three hoars and forty minutes to got through
his laugh.
Accidents.—A few days ago Mr. Jerry Hix,
of DeKalb county, while cleaning ont the motes
from Mr. Kilgere’s cotton gin, while in motion,
had his right arm terribly lacerated from tho el
bow to the fingers on tbe inside of the arm.
His head was drawn so close to the gin as to re
ceive several slight cats. A short while after,
Mr. T. G. Wallace, not far from him, while en
gaged in cleaning the motes from his gin in mo
tion, bad his left arm lacerated and twisted. Dr.
John L. Hamilton is attending on them, and
hopes are entertained that through his skill and
attention their arms will be restored.
Death of Colonel J. B. Lowe.—We regret
to learn of tho death of Colonel J. B. Lowo, of
Social Circle, on tho 26th, of meningetis. Col
onel Lowe was a brother of Colonel Thomas F.
Lowe, cf this city, a leading citizen, a bright
Mason and an upright, unswerving gentleman.
He was over fifty years of ago.
One hnndred and nioety-five acres of land
near Rome were sold last week for $7,500.
Hon. Britton Sims, member of the Legisla
ture from Heard county, died on the lGth in
stant.
The San, of yesterday, says tho Atlanta street
railway is an established success, and is paying
current expenses already.
We qncta the following from the Sun, same
date:
The Tennessee Cab Company.—This mythical
company would seem to have been gotten up
for tho express pnrpose of improperly making
a big pile ont of the State Road. As before re
marked, it is a bogus concern, no such company
having any locality or actual existence, so far
as any one can learn. A contractwas, it seems,
entered into by the Western and Atlantio Rail
road, with this bogu3 company, to furnish a
large amount of cars for the Road. This con
tract was signed, on part of the Company by E.
N. Kimball as its “manager.” In fulfillment
of a parebase of cars from this “Company,”
Foster Blodgett, as Superintendent of the West
ern and Atlantio Railroad, gave his note or
notes, payable in bank. These notes were in
dorsed by E. N. Kimball and H. L Kimball, and
thereupon wero discounted by the bank—
When they were dne, they were paid by
Capt. Blodgett on a passed biU of the Western
and Atlantic railroad. The whole was deliber
ately done—the giving of the note or notes, and
the payment of the money. Blodgett was invi
ted before the committee to explain this, and
was unable to give any satisfactory answer. He
conld not tell who composed the Company, nor
where or when the csrs were made or delivered,
nor whether delivered to the road or not. Ho
said, of course, he knew they were delivered,
bnt he conld not refer to any evidence of that
faet—bad no bills for the same—no reports or
certificates of subordinate officers that the cars
were on the road, or had ever been put on it—
only he simply knew they must' have been re
ceived beoanse they were.
Coming Evens, etc.—Judge Robert H. Brown,
the uncle of Governor Bollock, and who has
been his compagnon du voyage to Utah, Califor
nia—and the Lord only knows where else—re
turned to the city yesterday. Whether His Ex
cellency returned with him or not conld not be
ascertained. Perhaps the Judge is making a
reconnoisanee just to see how the land lies, you
know.
The up night freight train on the Macon and
Western railroad, ran off the track near Griffin,
last Tuesday night. One car was demolished,
and considerable damage done.
Mr. John Ellis, son of Dr. J. T. Ellis, of
Griffin, died last Sunday night.
Mr. R. Crawford, of Henry county, has shown
the editor of the Griffin Sun eight ears of corn
wjjich weighed ten pounds, after being thorough'
ly dried. Mr. 0. has twenty acre3 of tho same
kind.
The first installment of returning mosquitoes
came down from Atlanta last night. They
looked thin, and very much like they had been
ploughing in deep soil. They leavo this morn
ing for Enfaula under charge of John Blaok of
the News.
The general nominating committee of the
Democratic party of Savannah, met on Thurs
day night to select candidates for Mayor and
Aldermen. Mayor Screven was renominated j
almost unanimously, and the following tioket
for Aldermen:
First District—J. O. Ferrill, F. J. Rnckext and
Andrew Flatley.
Second District—W. H. McLeod, Christopher
White and George Cornwall.
Third District—W. Hunter, W. S. Bassinger
and M. Hamilton.
Fourth Disiriot—R. H. Footman, M. Lavin
and John Schwariz.
It was cool enough at Columbus Friday morn
ing, “to take a big drink of whisky before
breakfast.” It’s that cool all tho year round in
some places.
Captain Jacob H. Pooser, late of the Perry
House, Columbus, died at Mariana, Fla., on the
18th nit, aged seventy-one years.
In a fight at Hamilton, Harris county, on
Wednesday night, Mark McGebee, tho town
marshal, was killed by a man named Sim Hnr-
phy.
Gainesville comes to tho front with the first
well organized Georgia frost—“Air-Liner,” of
coarse.
Jackson Burt, a trewly loyl youth of tender
years, improved his shining hours at Augusta,
last Thursday, by stealing $45 from Mrs. Mary
Hammond.
Augusta is bragging on weather cool enough
to warrant fires, thick clothing, and interview
ing “ Schneider.”
A white woman named Emma do Forrest was
fonnd dead in her bed, a day or two since, at a
house a few miles from Augusta.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Friday, pub
lishes the following gratifying exhibit of the
condition of the pnblio schools of Savannah:
Public School Repobt.—Tho sixth annual
report of the public schools of Savannah for the
scholastic year ending in July last, has just
been issued. A comparison of the years 1867
and 1871, shows the progress tho schools have
made, and that while tho numbers of pnpils
have constantly increased, the cost per scholar
is less. In 1867 there wero 705 pnpils, and the
cost per scholar a year was 23; in 1871 there
wero 2438 pupils, and the cost $16.25. The
city appropriated $35,000 and the county $10,-
000 toward the support of the schools for the
year, there being a balance in the treasury of
$1870. The disbursements for all purposes
the past year amounted to $46,293 95 —
$37,492.40 of which was for teachers’ sal
aries. The schools ran from primary to
high, ore thoroughly graded and patronised by
all classes. As an evidence of tbe estimation in
which the scholars are held abroad, the Super
intendent, Professor W. H. Baker, remarks that
frequent and most earnest applications from
peisons residing in distant portions of onr
State, and sometimes from residents of other
States, have been made to secure places for
their children in onr schools.”
The boiler of a rice mill at the Oriza rice
plantation, on the Ogeephee river, exploded a
few days since, and killed two negroes.
The Savannah Advertiser says that there is
no possibility of more than half a crop of rice
from tho Satilla river plantations.
Of- the catton prospect in that section, the
Cnthbert Appeal, of Friday, says:
Cotton—Cotton comes in very slowly. Up
to going to press only 115 bales had been re
ceived. At this time lost year three times this
amount had been received. Tho fair weather
of the past few days has caused it to open very
rapidly, and our farmers are busily engaged
picking.
On Tuesday we took a little jaunt to the
country, but wero only confirmed in our previ
ously expressed opinion of the exceedingly short
yield in this section. The caterpillar has re
cently attacked the plant on some plantations
wo passed through, and we were told that very
large fields of cotton, now looking as if they bad
felt the effects of two or three heavy frosts,
were robbed of their verdure by the worms in a
very few (lays. In some places acres might bo
traversed without Siding a single cotton stalk
with a green leaf on it. Tho worm, however,
has made its appearance too late to accomplish
much harm, as most of the cotton attacked has
already done nearly all that is expected of it.
Commenting npon tho late letter of “Titus,”
in theAtlanta Sun, which declares, among other
things, that the question of eligibility should
not be regarded by the Legislature in selecting
a United States Senator, tho Angnsta Constitu
tionalist, of Friday, says:
As to tho polioy of tho two rules laid down by
“Titus,” in casting his votes in the Legislature,
we deprecate the policy of electing a man to
the office of United States Senator simply npon
the test of his abilities as a statesman. Of what
avail would those abilities be if he is not allowed
to take the seat in the Senate to which ho is
elected? Tho polioy should be to elect the best
man for Ihe position who will bo allowed to oc
cupy the position, and who, at the samo time,
is a representative man of the opinions of the
people of Georgia, even though his abilities
might be inferior to the highest type of states
manship. To elect a man as Senator whom the
members voting for him know full well when
they vote for him wonld not be allowed to take
his seat, wonld be a puerile abuse of trust, es
pecially when tho State of Georgia has a num
ber of ci‘izens well qualified to make able and
nsefnl Senators, and who are resting under no
political disability.
In reply to tho claim made by “Titus” that
the people of Georgia generally endorse Mr.
Stephens’ political programme, the Constitu
tionalist says:
It i3 onr deliberate opinion that while the
people of Georgia are not disposed to surrender
any of their constitutional rights, they are very
far from being united upon Mr. Stephens’ pro
gramme. That programme has divided and
embarrassed the people of Georgia, instead of
nniting them. But the embarrassment fails to
be formidable, because only a comparatively
small fraction of the people of Georgia agree
with Mr. Stephens in tbe polioy he advooates.
The grogramme of insisting npon all onr con
stitutional rights is understood to bo to revive *
the contest of 18C8 on tbe platform of the Na
tional Democratic Convention, that the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to the Consti
tution are revolutionary, null and void, and that
the President eleoted by the peoplein 1872 should
treat them as such. As to this programme, if there'
is a union of sentiment among the people of
Georgia, it is in opposition to it. The great
mass of tho people of Georgia recognize the
faot that these amendments cannot be treated
as nullities, and that there is no possible chance
of electing to the office of President any znan
who refuses to pledge himself to recognize them
as defacto parts of the Constitution, and to en
force them as such as long as they stand ante-
pealed. They are opposed to making or en
countering any such issue, knowing fall well
that inevitable defeat wonld await them upon
it. They are doubly opposed to the agitation,
even, of such a programme at this time, when
no possible good to the strength or harmony of
tbe Democratio party, our only hope of rescue
from Radicalism and oppression can arise from
it. It is an agitation which accomplishes no
good in Georgia, and it does an immense deal
of harm to the Democratio party in the North
ern States.
A negro was run over and killed, on the State
Road, on Friday night.
An up freight train on the State Road ran off
near Calhoun, Thursday night. Several freight
cars were smashed and the track tom np.
Bartow county will only make a third of a
cotton crop this year.
After the conclusion of the testimony in the
Farrow case in Atlanta, Friday morning, a per
sonal collision took place between Farrow and
UcCalla, whom Farrow had charged with swear
ing to a lie. McCalla strnck Fanow a heavy
blow with a stick on the hand, drawing blood,
and Farrow drew his pistol bnt did not fire.
We clip the following items from tho Atlanta
Constitution, of yesterday:
Important Decision.—We learn that at the
last Magistrate’s election in Clark county, Gen.
Frierson, tho Democratic candidate for Justice
of the Peace, although receiving the highest
number of votes, was declared ineligible, and a
commission issued to John BartoD, the Radical
candidate. Barton has exercised the functions
of the office np to the present. A few days
since he was arraigned before Judge O. D.
Davis, on a charge of malpractice in office.
Judge Davis decided that Barton was not a Jns
tice of tho Peace, that he was never elected to
the office, ana that Gen. Frierson was tho legal
Justice of the Peace.
Fibe.—Last night between nine and ten
o’clock, tho brick score at the comer of Peach
tree and James streets, running back to Forsyth,
with its contents, were destroyed by fire. The
fire originated in the rear part of the store, and
is supposed to havo been caused by tho explo
sion of a lamp. It is known as the H. H. Witt
& Co. comer, and was occupied by G. O. Deno,
as a grocery store. He had a fall stock valued
at some $5,000. We learn that he was partially
insured. The building was owned by C. B,
Welborn, and valued at $4,000 and supposed to
be covered by insurance. The contents of tho
store and a fine horse, in the cellar, were do
stroyed. The walls are of briok.
Rencontbe.—A personal’recontre took place
yesterday between policeman O’Shield and G.
H. EddlemaD, growing ont of a card pubitshed
yesterday morning by the latter. O’Shidlds ac-
cpsted Eddleman about the card, when the latter
drow a pistol. O’Shields knocked Eddleman.
down with his pistol and beat him up pretty
badly.
Jadge Stephens for the Senate^
The Washington Gazette in an article on the
election of a Unitod States Senator, after sug
gesting the name of Hon. Linton Stephens as
its first choice, says:
We call upon onr Legislature to seleot a man
for this high position, who will worthily repre
sent tho State of Georgia.
As Judge Stephens is ineligible to this or any
other federal State office by virtue of the 3d
section of the 14th Amendment, and therefore
conld not take his seat in the Senate, if elected,
wo fail to understand how he could, either
worthily, or in any other way, “represent the
State of Georgia” in that body. To hold the
commission of Senator and not be able to cast
one vote or nttor ono word for Georgia’s inter
ests, is certainly not the common idea of prac
tical representation, at least. Unless a Senator
can vote and speak where both connt against
Radicalism and its deviltry, of what avail are
his talents, or even the legality—from the stand
point of, say, a united pnblio sentiment—of his
election ?
If Judge Stephens could represent Georgia
in tho Senate no man’s vote or voice, in or ont
of tho Legislatnre, wonld be more gladly placed
at his service to seenre such a consummation
than that of tho writer of this article. We ac
knowledge and dre prond of his splendid abili
ties. We honor his devotion to what he con
ceives to be tho truth. We know that, to the
core of his heart, he is true to what he deems
Georgia’s rights and welfare, bnt we none the
less deprecate any attempt to send him or any
other ineligible man to Washington to cool hi3
heels in the anti-chamber of tho Senate, and
keep the Hon Zebulon Yanoe company in his
fruitless endeavors to get inside. We have had
quite enough, aye, too much, of that sort of
folly already. •
A Naive Confession from the Virtuous
Forney.
We find the following refreshing confession
as to how the Radical party at the Sonth is or
ganized and kept together, in Forney’s Press,
It acknowledges jnst what • Democrats have
charged time and again, bnt which has always
been denied by Forney’s crowd, viz: That the
negroes of the Sonth wero compelled by their
Radical masters to vote just as they dictated,
and that they were the veriest political slaves
ever known. And this handcuffed negro suf
frage is what knavish Radical stampers and
scribblers call “free” suffrage.
A paragraph in the Press, to the effect that
the mass of the negroes of the South have never
heard thenamoof Jadge Chase pronounced,
has considerably worried the newspapers which
have been asserting that the Chief Justice would
get the colored vote solidly. The statement
was made on facts, and not from any desire to
iDjnre Mr. Chase before the Democratio con
vention. As for the statement that the colored
people of tho Sonth aro familiar with “Old
Greenbacks” because his face adorns the. dollar
notes, that may be true as regards his'physiog-
nomy, but not his antecedents or his present
8tatns. Any ono who knows anything at all about
the organization of the Republican party at the
Sonth, its oath-bound leagues, eto., knows that
no Democratio candidate conld get at thousand
black votes in all the Sonth except through in
timidation and the Ku-klnx Kfan. Republican
ism is the religion cf the ex-slave population of
the South; it is preached from the pnlpits of
every log church, instilled in every sermon.
Sir. Hill's Letter
To tho members elect of the Legislature will be
found in this edition of the Telegraph. He
insists that he has saved the State from another
reconstruction since the election last December,
and he suggests a course of general moderation
—practical respect for the constitutional amend
ments, and, also, non-interferenee with the lease
of the Western and Atlantio Railroad. The
views of the Telegraph in this general connec
tion are too well known to need repetition.
Georgia, although a so-called State of the Union,
is still practically in the hands of her enemies,
and this faot should inspire her pnblio men with
cantion even in the matter of redressing her own
injuries. She should give her foes no apology
for violence, by any thing which can be plausi
bly charged as violence in her own canse. We
take it for granted that the new Legislature will
be careful to illustrate the sagacity of their an
cestry embodied in the State motto—“Wisdom
—Justice—Modebation.”
Eight Good Days.—i ester day was the eighth
consecutive day of sunshine this seotion has en
joyed since September set .in. It has been a
god-send to planters, of course, and has given
cotton a chance to do the best for itself that is
possible at this late day. We presume, from
the receipts, that it has been taken advantage
of, and 03 the indications are for a continuance
of good weather, we suppose picking will be
lively. But nothing short of a miracle can
push the present crop within sight of that of
1870. Concurrent estimates still plaoe it at half
of what was made last year, though some set it
down as high as three-fifths. That is the out
side calculation even of the optimists, who can
afford to be impartial. The bears have made,
and are still making a bully fight, but Waterloo
is waiting for them. If they continue to foroe
the fighting they’ll be knocked ont of time long
before Christmas.
A stoby is told of a young couple in Hartford
who wanted to hear Dickens read. They could
hardly afford it, but sorewed np their extrava
gance to the necessary pitch. As they hadcon-
cluded to invest, they bethought themselves of
a poorer family near by who. were suffering
from lack of work. So they gave up Dickens,
and paid the price of two tiokets to their im
poverished neighbors. The poer people took
the money, bought'tiokets with it and attended
the readings.
Editorial Correspondence.
Gband Central Hotel, )
New Yobk, September 26, 1871. j
This grand focal ppint of American trade was
reached at an early hour on the 2lst instant,
heavy frost covering the earth and the north
wind sweeping down the Hudson like the icy
breath of winter.
a passenger killed.
At Elizabeth, a few miles from tho city, on
unfortunate passenger, attempting to get off
the train while it was in motion, fell before the
wheels of tho coach we occupied; and had both
legs severed from his body just below the knee,
One boot, with the foot remaining in it, was
projected several faet from tho quivering trank,
and the lower limb3 of the wretched man were
ground literally to atonic. It was a heart rend
ing, sickening s peotacle, not soon to be forgot
ten. Of course the poor creature died almost
immediately.
BBOADWAY
Is more densely crowded with its eternal pro
cession of human life, moving at break-neck
speed in opposite currents, than we ever ra
member to have seen. Trade is brisk, and tbe
city crowded with merchants and visitors from
every quarter of the Union. Strange to say,
almost every product of the country aggregates
here, and sells even cheaper than in the-home
maikot. Nowhtro else is tkr p-«—cr cf concen
trated capital so folly demonstrated.
THE COTTON FEELING.
Accompanied by a friend from your city, we
paid a visit to tho Cotton Exchange on Friday,
and fonnd the bears rampant and savage. Bul
letins npon ihe walls gave prices, amounts of
receipts, stocks in store or afloat, and fall par
ticulars relating to the great staple from every
quarter of the globe. Telegrams by cable and
otherwise were also constantly arriving, and the
furore created by them can only be compared
to the excitoment of the gaming tablo. Despite
the gloomy weather reports from all sections of
the South, tho bears had it all their own way,
and a farther decline waa clamored for and ob
tained. Tho reports of a short crop they affect
to believe apocryphal, and charge upon the
planters an attempt to practice a similar decep
tion every season. Ihe real canse, however,
for the present depression may be traced to the
buyers who aro short, or future delivery men.
One obese, big-whiskered, shaggy-looking man,
the very picture of brain himself, has sold
25,000 bales payable this winter, and he cate
chised the writer in true lawyer’s stylo as to tho
condition of the growing crop.
A proposition was actually made to one of
onr largest Macon cotton merchants to form a
combination with the New York ring, for the
purpose of keeping.down tho price of cotton
for several months, until tho farmers had been
forced to sell. jThen, it is universally conceded
the wants of spinners will induce a very heavy
advance, and the speculator will reap hisharvest,
GOOD ADVICE BEFEATED.
Let farmers then, deliver only, so mnch of
their cotton as will settle maturing obligations,
and retain the remainder at home. The con
stant pressing forward of the crop, thus giving
the appearance of an average jield in the early
part of the season, is highly detrimental to
their interests, and gives color to tho assertions
of the bears.
POLITICAL MATTERS.
The Radicals aro jubilant over the recently
exposed frauds in tho disbursement of the city
finances. But they ignore the fact that the Dem
ocrats aro themselves busily engaged in ferret
ing them ont, and will apply the proper remedy.
Nothing else is talked about onjhe streets and
in the parlors of hotels and other plaSes of pnb
lio assemblage. The denouement is a real God
send to the party who hitherto have been tho
chief plunderers of the people’s money. Hence,
they ling the changes npon it, and roll np their
eyes and express an amount of virtuous indig-
fit ennh ^infomnno nonnlon./vn/1n«
nation at such “infamous peculations” wonder
ful to witness. It is feared the complications
growing out of these defalcations will divide and
seriously injure the prospects of the Democrats
in the next election. Federal politics are very
quiet at present, and the friends of the Sonth
only ask that onr people would shun ultra and
useless issues, which only tend to strengthen
onr common enemy and prolong the period of
their own humiliation. What is right is by no
means always expedient, and prudence and good
sense are the qualities most to be desired at this
juncture. H. H. J.
Steam Cultivation in England.
Trials of steam cultivating machinery have
recently been hold in England, at two different
placc>, occupying each two weeks’ time. The
machines entered have been thoroughly tested
with very satisfactory resnlts. It is estimated
that there are now about 1,000,000 horses used
in agriculture in Great Britain; and as one
horse consumes the produce of as much land as
eight men, if, by adopting steam cultivation,
half of the work-horses can be dispensed with’
there is a gain of the produce of land adequate
to support 4,100,000 human beings. The cost
of cultivation is also reduced by steam power.
Inasmuch as sinew is less datable than iron, and
corn, the source of Bteam power, thin must in
fallibly be the case when the motive is applied
to suitable mechanism. Considerable advance
ment seems to have been made in England to
wards the attainment of a desirable steam pow
er, as will be seen from the report of the trac
tion-engines and cultivators recently tried there.
In speaking of these trials, the Graphic says:
“Two 20 horse engines and Messrs. Fowler’s
13-tined cultivator reached the field from the
depot, a quarter of a mile distant, in 6 min
utes. At a rate of 7 miles per hour the cultivator
tore its way through the soil at a depth of 7i in
ches, and finished a field of three acres in 41
minutes, at a gross rato of 54 acres per day of
12 hours, or 4.1 acres per hour. Another set,
with two 13-horse' engines, did 3£ aores per
hour. A single 12-horse engine, with clip dram,
did If acre an hour, and a fourth set with one
8-horse power engine did If acre an hour.
Both firms of Howard and Fowler made beau
tiful work with four and five farrow plows, the
farrows being laid with geometrical precision
at the exact angle required, and both made ex
traordinary deep plowing, cutting our stony
land full 16 to 18 inches deep, and throwing np
huge bowlders as though they were pebbles.
Some of these masses of sandstone weighed over
hundred weight, and could not have been
moved by any other implement.
The locomotive capabilities of the traotion
engines now adopted showed equally remarka
ble resnlts. Aveling and Porter’s 6 horse en
gine ran over the fields, If mile in 22 minutes.
Hr. Burrell’s S-horse engine completed the same
course in 28 minntes, and Messrs. Ransom,
Sims & Head, with their 8-horse engine, with
India rubber tires, accomplished the distance in
24f minntes.
Traction engines traveling over arable land
at If mile in 22 minutes, for nearly 5 miles per
hour; 54 acres of land, plowed, stirred, or
digged in 12 hoars; hide boand land trenched
18 inches deep, and stones 1 cwt. in weight
thrown to the surface—an act startling to record
—are instanoes explicitly indicative of tho
truth of the assertion, that steam cultivation is
really un fait accompli—Ihe best, most economi
cal, and most efficient mode of conducting the
operation of arable culture on a large soalo.”
nnEAnm. HOMICIDE.
«en. James H. Clauton Killed by r
David H. Nelson. 01
otiJ
The Fire in Talboiton.—We have received
the subjoined letter from the editor of the Tat
botton Standard, and tender him onr wannest
sympathies in his misfortune:
Talbotton, Ga., September 28th; 1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: We regret
to state a fire broke out in a negro honse, in the
rear of Dennis’ Hotel this morning, about two
o’clock, destroying the entire.block—loss about
$85,000. We lost the Standard offioe and build
ing—worth $4,000, without a dollar’s insurance.
In a few days we intend to issne onr paper again,
and hope our large exchange list will not be di
minished on account of onr misfortune. The
loss of the printing office will not interfere
with onr other business.
Very truly, J. B. Gorman.
Twelve human skeletons have been found
under a pile of stones near Wheeling, Va., and
many are the conjectures as to how they came
there.—[.Kr.] Human skeletons, with flesh and
hair adhering, are quite frequently fonnd in
this city, surmounted with piles of oobblestones,
and they provoke bnt little remark. The dis
coverer commonly exolaims “Damchinaman 1”
San. Fran. AUa.
Hall’s Arctic Expedition.—A letter reoently
received in New York from an offioer of the
Arotio expedition, states that Oapt. Hall hopes
to carry the Polaris to 80 degrees north latitude.
The season was very favorable, and the sea very
clear of ice. God willing, he says, we may ac
complish the object of the expedition so as to
return home again next fall.
From the KooxYiile Herald, 28th.
One of the most deplorable affrays that
took place in Knoxville, happened i..»- '-tl
Gen. James H. Clanton, one of the
yers, and most popular men of Alabama *'
shot and instantly killed by Col. D xr
of Cleveland, Tenn. "‘S
Gen. Clanton was attending upon than • ,
States Court to guard the interest of
in the A. & 0. Railroad case, and hadnev^H
Col. Nelson, who was interested in a att
pending in the Supreme Court, until
ntes before the affray occured. **41
After the fatal shot had been fired tb 8
of Gen. Clanton was taken into tho 'bacKs ! l
of the Confectionery store under the L,
House, where every effort was made bvcnl® 1 '
tent surgeons to restore life, but in vahi ^
As soon as life was ascertained to be fit;
the body was removed to the reading room ^
the Lamar House, and Esq J. P. yj-
Coroner, summoned the following iurv- uS
McBath, E. W. Adkins, A. C. E. Cullen
BrefeeWlf' H ' Kensl >aw. Joo- Crowley, ana3.\\
After tho jury were sworn, Tomlinson i
Esq., berng sworn, stated to the jury that »t„.“’
ten or fifteen minntes before 6 o’clock *
he was standing at tbe corner of Gay ana (W
berland streets, having just come out of E^
Saloon. u ®«
Ho had just met Col. D. M. Ne’sm and*. '
walking arm 'in arm with him, being an I
friend, when he saw Gen. Clanton with a dM
whiskered gentleman (CoL A. S. Prosser") on ) v
other side of the street They crossed over
met them and he introduced Gen. Clanton i
Nelson with the remark that Nelson had fow!
“ns,” (Fort was in the Confederate armyT<‘
Clanton also) bnt had been very liberal m
honorable towards his late enemies. Col. N?
son or Gen. Clanton proposed to go and takel
drink. Col. Fort thinks Col. Nelson mado th
proposition. As they walked along the talk
turned in some way on amusements, and (Vi
Nelson remarked that ho could show Clantcs
something good if he was not afraid.
Gen. Clanton sa:d, “Do you think I’m afraid-
Col. Nelson said, “I don’t know whetherV-
aro or not.” , *'*
Tho samo remarks were repeated sct--:
times, Nelson apparently becoming excited, t«
Gen. Clanton was cool. Fort put his hand o:
Nelson’s shoulder, who was under the inflnec«
of liquor, and said, “Keep cool, Davo. Tc-
are in the wroDg. Thera is no use in figtiirr"
At length as Nelson repeated, “I don’t fare
whether you are afraid or not,” Gen. Clani™
said:
Well, if yon think I’m afraid jest trjn?
Name your friend, time, place and distance
any time or any place.”
Col. Nelson said this was as good a time ari
place as any.
Gen. Clanton, then said, “Fort, step off th
ground for your friend.”
CoL Fort refused to do so, as both wea
friends and there was no canso for a quarrel
While he was talking with Gen. Clanton, Col
Nelson had gone into Eifier’s saloon, andaste
was urging Clanton to go off as Nelson vas
drunk, Fort heard the door of the St. Nicholas
open. . He looked and saw CoL Nelson with t
double-barrelled gun coming out. He though
that Nelson fired the first shot, and as he fired,
Clanton levelled his pistol cocked it and firei
Nelson at once fired again, and after the shot
Gen. Clanton fell forward, doubling himself rp
on his hands and face.
He did not know what became of Nelson after
the fatal shot was fired.
Colonel Fort stated that during all the con
versation Gen. Clanton held bis hands on his
coat collar, while Nelson kept his hards in his
pocket.
Judge O. F. Trigg being sworn, stated that he
had jus t laid down in his room, No. 10, in the la-
mar Honse, and heard.loud talk on Cumberland
street, and got up and looked ont of the windov
and saw Clanton and Fort standing in the street
Clanton said to Fort, he told me to take my po
sition. Very soon Nelson came ont of Eifier’s
with a donblo-barrel gun in his hands, and rested
the gun against the right hand side of a post
and fired at Clanton, who had no weapon in his
hands, at the time. Soon after Clanton drew a
a pistol and fired. Nelson then fired again at
Clanton, who stood quartering to Nelson.
Doctors W. F. Green, of Greeneville, and J.
B. Tadlock, of this city, stated-to the jury on
oath, after makiDg an examination of the body,
that fifteen or eighteen shot or small balls had
entered the chest near the right shoulder, frac
turing the shoulder joint, severing several arte-
tries and veins which are essential to life. They
thought that a portion of the. shot had entered
the lnngs. Two shot or slugs were taken out on
the back side of the shoulder by them.
The jnry consulted a few minntes and ad
journed to meet this morning at 9 o’clock, when
they will render their verdict.
It is bnt justice to Mr. Eifler to state that the
weapon was not obtained from bis house, bnt
from some of tho houses on Gay street, to
whose back doors access can be had from his
back door.
We learn that CoL Nelson, immediately after
the fatal shot, procured a horse and fled across
the oountry. The last heaTd from him, was at
11 o’clock, last night. He was. reported to hav
ing passed the toll gate near Judge Temple’s
honse on the Kingston pike, three miles ahead
of Sheriff Gossett.
The father of CoL Nelson, Hon. T. A. B.
Nelson, one of the Judges of tbe Supreme Conti
of this State, sent ont two of his other sons,
in company with the Sheriff, to bring him back
if they conld find him.
We have elsewhere Btated who Gen. Clanton,
the deceased, was.
Nearly every one in East Tennessee knows
CoL Nelson, but for the information of those at
a distance, it is proper that we shonld state that
he is the second son of Hon. T. A. R. Nelson,
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of this
State, a jurist and statesman of national reputa
tion. He was a Captain in the East Tennessee
Regiment in the federal army, during the late
war, and was on Gen. Gillem’s staff. Toward
the close of the war be was brevetted Lieuten
ant Colonel. He is a yonng man of warm, gen
erous and impulsive nature, and has hosts of
friends who will deplore so untoward an event
in his career.
the remains
Tho remains of Gen. Clanton, dad in a new
suit of grey oassimero, with a bouquet of ever
greens and flowers on the breast, from tho hand
of Mrs. J. A. Rhea, of Montgomery, pf ter remain
ing in the Reading Room of the Lamar House-
where they were visited by numbers of our cit
izens, till ten and a half o’elock, were placed in
a mahogany enamelled casket. Accompanied
by a number of frimida they were conveyed to
the depot and left tar Montgomery on the twelve
o’clock train in charge of Col. J. H. Gindrat, of
Alabama.
Rents in Montgomery.—The Montgomery
Advertiser says:
Some idea of ihe immense value of real es
tate in the bnsiness portion of the city of Mont
gomery may be had from the fact that one
bnilding on Conrt Square, rents for $10,450 p«
annum! It measures about fifty feet front
sixty feet deep, and therefore rents at about th:
rate of three dollars for every square foot of
surface of soil on which it stands.
The following “notice” was stuck up in va
rious places in a certain diatrict of Grayson
county, Kentucky, a short time since: “Notice
to all their will be a Big barbecue on Saturday
September the 9th 1871 in tho territory gray son
County and the fair will be 25 Cents a meal ana
there will be one of the New kinds of Swing!
their on the grown and one of the finest Ban
ger pickers you ever heard gows with the swing
free and you all Shall Ride twenty Rounds for
ten Cents Come one Gome all and hear tec
Banger.”
Col. Laura Curtis Bullard writes of the
Baroness Burdelt Coutts: “Miss Coutts isn°
longer yonng, but she has a fancy the j avenue
bonnets become her—which, it is scarcely neces
sary to say, is a mistake on her part. In short,
neither in person nor in dress is she the attrac
tive woman she wonld be, if nobility of soul
largeness of heart, and parity of character re
vealed themselves in physical beauty or were
accompanied by an instinctive knowledge of tn e
sources of good taste, which unfortunately 13
not often the casa.”
Two ladies riding up in one of the Fifth Av
enue stages, entertained their fellow-passenger*
by quite an animated discussion upon the per
sonal charms of a mutual gentleman frierw-
We infer from the following remark, made W
one of them, that he must have been a ebon
man, and that it took considerable leather to
snoe him: .
“Oh yes,” said the fair critio, with that vw**'
ity of speech and manner in which the beau set
indulge when picking a friend to pieces;
yea; Henry would be very presentable if
Lord hadn’t turned up so much of his lege 10
make his feet”—N. 7. Com. Advertiser.
