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Newspaper Page TextH k mi The Greorgia, "Weekly Telegraph and. Journal Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, OCTOBER 24 1871. Sews Items. Kxnr.T. bt Degrees and Beautifully Less.— We see the Agricultural Bureau has got down to three millions bales and says “if the remain- ing season should be unfavorable, this result must be accepted.” A little more experience will show that everybody will be glad to accept three million bales; but they won't get the ten der. Cotton caved in Liverpool and New York yesterday. The complaint is that it is coming in too fast. The fact is the speculators want about fourteen cents a pound profit on cotton fWia year. If they can buy it for sixteen this fall and winter, and sell it for thirty next May that will accomplish the business. Fourteen cents on this crop will yield them just about as much as seven cents did last year, The Georgia Ku-klux to be Attended to.— Under this head a Washington special in Sun day’s Herald gives the following token of com ing wrath to Georgia. If anybody ha3 been Ka-kluxing, let him run, and the rest prepare for Akerman’s guillotine with a clear conscience: It is understood that the forthcoming procla mation of martial law in South Carolina is the beginning of an important movement against the Ku-klux. Georgia will be the next State to be warned and punished. A Pocket Hap op Georgia.—'We are indebted to Mr. A. G. Butts for a new pocket map of Georgia, just published by him. It is printed and colored in excellent style and contains all his latest corrections and improvements—cor rect delineations of all the county lines, rail ways and important highways. The map also includes the Northern portion of Florida and tho head of the Gulf, down to near latitude 29. On tho cover are the last Federal census returns of the State by counties. The retail price of the map is one dollar, and it can be bad at all the bookstores. MabtialLaw.—Nine of the counties of South Carolina were proclaimed under martial law on Tuesday. Tho proclamation suspends the opera tion of civil law in relation to all military ar rests, and tho military or their agents making these arrests. It is done in the great cause of Buncombe and the re-election of Grant. The pro ceeding is, no doubt, intended to harrass and persecute prominent Democrats, and that plan is to be tried on all the other reconstructed States. As to the masses of the whites in South Carolina, Federal bayonets must be preferable to the insane and stupid antics of a negro mili tia, and drumhead courts, after all, better than a negro magistracy. Many of the United States officers are intelligent and well-meaning gentle men, and cannot be made very active and zeal- ons instruments of mere partizan tyranny, un- Ioss they are provoked by tho indiscreet con duct of the whites. Let the people everywhere, as far as possible, in their own interests, main tain a peaceable and conciliatory demeanor to wards officers and men—explain the situation to them and refute falsehood and caiamny. In this way martial law will, in general, prove Itself more frightful in name than in faot. For our part, wo believe it would have been practically far better for all the Southern States to have been kept steadily under martial law from the time of tho surrender to this hour, than to have been thieved Into hopeless bank- rnptcy and beggared by taxes as they have been, and are likely to be, by the bastard State gov ernments of negroes and capet bag thieves. The rule of a Turkish Cadi is preferable to such re publicanism as the South has had since the war. That has at least some kind of responsibility, but this none at all. Let the people be quiet— discountenance lawlessness of every kind and wait until the exigencies of Grant’s re-election have been met. When he is secure of anothor four years’ hold on the Government, unless he ’ means to hold on for life, he will be qniet and drink, smoke and enjoy himself until the 4th Maroh, 1877. Bat until he gets this security in hand tho Sonth will probably see bard times. Two New Novels.—Messrs. Brown & Co., Second street, send ns the two last novels issued from the preBS of Sheldon & Co., New York— tho publishers of the Galaxy Magazine. They are “Overland,” by J. W. DeForest, and “Lady Judith,” by Jnstin McCarthy, both of which were printed in that magazine. The first is an exceedingly clever story of the perils of an overland journey-to California, by a party con sisting of both soldiers and civilians, and whose hair breadth escapes and adventures are in tensely exciting. There is'plenty of love, and jealousy, and plotting all through it, of course, as well as a happy matrimonial finale, which is as much as any well regulated reader could ask. Altogether, “Overland” is considerably above tho average of American novelst. “Lady Judith” we have not read in detail and to the end, and therefore cannot speak so cer tainly as to its claims for popular appreciation. Still it has high critical endorsement, and the author has done remarkably well in the same line heretofore. We believe, from glimpses we had of “Lady Judith” and her friends while they were running through the Galaxy, that a more intimate acquaintance will prove them to be decidedly attractive persons. Chicago.—Only about two million of bushels of grain were destroyed at Chicago. Eight ele. valors were left in the city nninjured. The Commercial and Financial Chronicle estimates the real financial depletion to the country oc casioned by the Chicago fire, at sot exceeding seventy-five millions of dollars. General Sher idan says the lynching tales in Chicago during the fire were all flights of fancy. Nobody was hung and no case of incendiarism occurred that he can discover. Datoh Henricks and Barney Aaron were alive and well in Broadway, New York, last Friday. Tho most painfnl catastro phes of the fire resulted from the savage greed of hacks and draymen who left many sick to perish, refusing to carry them ontof danger ex cept at prices the sufferers were unable to pay. A New Deal In Georgia. We printed yesterday from the Conrier-Jour- nal a Washington dispatch to tho effect that the cabinet, enraged at the bad luck attending the elections in tho “ Deconstructed States,” was nbont to turn over a new leaf in Georgia and the South generally. They were about to kick front and rear. Martial law was to bo tried on the leading Democrats under the Ku-klux bill, on tho one hand, and on the other all the lead ing Radicals who had compromised the party by their thefts were to bo pitched neck and heels out of tho party windows. This is a lively pro gramme if true, and there is collateral evidence to show that something of the kind is on foot. Dispatches to Forney's Press hint at it, and the Savannah Morning News, of Monday, has Wash ington news to the same purpose. That paper sots forth at length how the Carolina3have been secured to the Radicals forever under this Ku- klux policy, and how the cabinet confidently an ticipates that the Georgia Democracy will soon be brought to grief under this heroio treatment. Akerman is the grand engineer in this bnsi- ness and is to start the ball in Georgia, as soon as he has set the Ku-klnx guillotine in motion in Sonth Carolina, whither he has jnst gonefor that purpose. When he gets back to Georgia, the for will begin to fly. Prominent Demo crats are to bo arrested and locked up. Bul lock, Blodgett, Kryzanowski, Robb, and all the lesser lights of Radicalism are to be extin guished and publicly repudiated and denounced. Tho State Road lease is to be denounced. Blodgett is to be morally tarred and feathered, and finally Akerman is to run for Governor and bear aloft the standard of a redeemed and re generated Radicalism emblazoned in white let ters on sable folds. Suoh a party will necessary bo composed of the negroos and Akerman. The President’s proclamation is tho herald of this startling programme, and the Georgia whites will stand aghast with chattering teeth and white lips at tho terrors of Akerman and an enraged cabinet. Cotton Facts and Figures. Visible Subply op Cotton.—The following table, says the Commercial and Financial Chron icle, of the 14th, shows the quantity of cotton in sight at this date of each of the two past seasons: 1871. Stock in Liverpool bales 471,000 Stock in London 96,501 Stock in Glasgow 100 Stock in Havre 69,390 Stock in Marseilles 19,876 Stock in Bremen 40,720 Stock rest of Continent 95,000 Afloat for Great Britain (American) 33,000 Afloat for Franco (American and Brazil) 17,512 AfioatforBremen(American) 1,440 Total Indian Cotton afloat for Europe 623,379 Stock in United States ports 145,466 Stock in inland towns 27,940 1870. 565,000 29,782 500 152,040 12,050 12,709 20,000 30,000 3,524 310,015 181,185 27,557 Most Melancholy.—From far off Wyoming, that Arcadia of territories where women vote and hold office, and men nnrse the babies, cook and milk the cows, comes the saddest stoiy of domestio infelicity we have heard for many days: Mrs. Esther Morris is a Justice of Peace, and in the nnimpartial exercise of her official duties, Mrs. Morris has been compelled to send her beloved husband to jail as a common drunk ard. What the emotions of Mr. Morris were under these fearfully revolutionary circum stances, we are not informed, bnt the reader will imagine that the wife wa3 prostrated with grief, while the Justice of tho Peace remained inexorable. There has not been anything like it since the palmy days of Rome. Harper's Magazine.—Brown & Co., on Sec ond street, have the November issue of Har per, which is splendidly illustrated as usual, and with its accustomed variety of matter of all sorts, offers attractions to all classes and tastes. Brown A Co. have also received the Galaxy and Scnbncr’a Monthly for November. Their shelves are rapidly filling up with aU kinds of reading matter, as well as articles of every de scription for old and young, suitable for holi day presents. Lippinoott for November came to hand yes terday. The contents include chapter 5 of Scrambles Among the Alps, the serial supple ment of Books tone, and many other Ing shorter papers. Total 1,641,344 1,344,362 These figures indicate an increase in the cot ton in sight to-night of 296,982 bales compared with the same date of 1870. The same paper reporis favorable weather for the past week, and says the reports of killing frosts in the South were a mistake. The aver age of the thermometer was, at Galveston 73, Selma 71, Monteomery 69, Mobile 66, Colum bus 68, Macon 71, Savannah 75, Charleston 71, and Memphis 61. The New York market for the week had been compelled to contend against adverse influences, The advance of bank rates in England produced an eighth of a penny decline in Liverpool the same day. The Chicago firo embarrassed the market with apprehended financial- derange ments, and on the top of all there wa3 a large increase of receipts at the Sonthem cotton ports. The effect of these, however, were off daring the week, and tho market closed weak at an advance of an eighth. Sales of the week 16,859 bales. Sham sales 75,050. In a paragraph compiled from an official re port of the Inspectors of Factories in Great Britain, it appears* that the spinning power of tho United Kingdom in 1871 was 34,995,221 spindles against 32,049,743 running spindles in 1870. _ A Great CodfisU War. While Butler is hammering away at the late treaty as “a digracefal surrender to the British Lion,” the Gloucester fishermen are precipita ting war for codfish. Honor and codfish are tho two main points in the game—bnt chiefly codfish. Bntler affects to be very sensitive about both, and we reckon he cares as much about honor as he does about codfish, and about codfish as ho does about honor. The fishermen may not be so sensitive abont honor, bnt they are very sorions abont the codfish. The case of the schooner Horton, we sup pose, is an illustration. The Horton was prob ably seized by the Nova Scotia authorities for fishing within interdicted limits, and like sev eral other smacks, guilty of a similar trespass, was held for condemnation and sale. There upon her Gloucester owners send a party of men who slyly board the schooner at dead of night and make sail for home. The Gloucester men say the blueuoses, as soon as they discov ered the fact, overflowed with wrath, and dis patched another schooner and a British gnnboat in pnrsnit, and that the British schooner is now erasing ffff Gape Ann to make capture of the fugitive in American waters when she appears. What audacity! And to punish it an American gnnboat has been sent after the saucy schooner. All this is awful, if true; and if it is not trae, it at least shows what murderous issues may spring from the codfish question. Trae, the Gloncester fishermen have no more right to trespass'on, British waters, than the kluenoses have to trespass on “American waters.” But that is a point which Bntler and the fishermen can’t see. Are the two governments to be plnnged into a bloody war on the codfish ques tion? Is there notood liver oil enough to soothe this unhappy and dangerous irritation ? If not, how would Simmons’ Liver Begulator do? Try it, my boys. Ah Sin in Louisiana.—We are sorry to read from the Planters’ Banner, in Lonisiana, a shocking'account of the bad behavior of Mr. John Chinaman, on Amos B. Merrill's plants, tion near Gretna, on the Mississippi River.— Mr. Merrill is an enlightened Bostonian, which makes it worse that these things shonld be done unto him than to an “unrighteous rebel.” Suf fice it to say, that Merrill at an expense of $12,- 000 in gold brought 140 Chinamen, from Cali fornia to make sugar—that he did equity by them, and, nevertheless, that they whipped out Cum Wing, the contractor who brought them— run off White, the overseer, with knives and sticks, and made themselves troublesome, dangerons-and worthless generally. Out of 140 only twenty remain, and the manager says he will pay them $5 apieoo to runaway too. Furth ermore, the Chinamen on sundry other places have done no better, and to make a long story short, Chinee is played out totally in the sugar- making business. His character is rated very low. He is pronounced quarrelsome, unmanage able and lazy—a consummate rascal—eager for nothing but his pay, and ingenious in every possible device to get it withont work. A foreign born citizen of Rhode Island must own 8124 worth of real estate before ho <«n cast his ballot, which is rather hard on the ’race, color or previous oondition" amendment. Experiments in the army bakerv at Washing ton have shown that 802 one-pound loaves of bread can be made from a barrel of flour. Forney’s Last-The Georgia Kn-klnx and tbelr Terrible Doings. Under date of October 13th, the Washington correspondent of Forney’s Press sends the fol lowing choice collection of lies to that paper: Prominent Republicans now here from Geor gia give a hopeful account of the party reorgan ization now going on in that State. Under it they have foil confidence of their ability to get rid of objectionable elements,-and to inspire 1 nil confidence in the people. They state, however, that the Kn-klnx are more systematically organ ized than ever, and that there will be abundant evidence to prove that they are led and ad vised by men of high position. It is believed that one of the Democratic Representatives is the chief in Georgia. There are sections in which a perfect reign of terror exists. A recent ontrage, details of which were sent some days since, of a negro being taken from jail and hung by Kn-klnx, proves to have been more fla grant than was at first reported. The charge against the negro was that of an attempt at rape. The only witness against him was a boy ten years old, who swore point blank to his identity. He described the clothes worn by the man who assaulted his sister, but it was sworn to by sev eral witnesses that the negro charged had never worn such garments, and farther, that he wa3 seen three miles distant from the place where the assault was committed. The magistrate, however, committed him for trial, ag much'for his own protection as because he believed him liable of conviction. The party by whom the unfortunate man was hanged were quite numer ous, well mounted, armed, and apparently un der strict discipline. They were evidently drill ed men, veterans, as one who witnessed their movements declared, and uniformly equipped with cavalry carbines and revolvers. A short time before, in another part of the State, a Kn-klnx, convicted of murder, was taken from jail and released by his comrades. The rescue party numbered 500, and was made up of details from surrounding counties, who were seen moving on the road and assembling at a given point near tho jaiL The same order, discipline, and uniformity of arms were visible in this party. The facts in regard to this con spiracy show a dangerous state of affairs in Georgia. Considering how handsomely Forney is paid to famish this sort of stuff, we think Grant is not getting the worth of his money, by any means. Forney can do a great deal better than this, and we submit he is not earning his wages. Why not have had one thousand, instead of one negro raper lynched, and one hundred Ku- kluxers released from jail, instead of one? Grant might then have had some excuse for in stantly proclaiming Georgia under hand-cuff law as he has done to all those counties in tiouth Carolina which give Democratic majorities. Possibly, however, this will do for a beginning. Tho object of this fresh eruption of falsehood is, of course, very plain. It is to cow the whites and rouse fresh devils of passion and violence in the negroes in order that the State may be carried for tho Present Taker next year. Radi cal robbery and rascality having failed to break tho spirit of the people of Georgia by stealing their substance and reducing them to poverty, and harrassing them almost to the point of des pair by reconstruction and its supplemental deviltry of enforcement acts, Kn-klnx bills, etc., the medicine of bayonets, band-cuffs and filthy dungeons is to be tried. Well, let it come. We cannot resist, bnt we can and will spew it out, jnst as often and when ever the polls are opened for any sort of an elec tion. We can, to day, give a clean Democratic majority of 40,000 in Georgia and not half try. Three months of martial law will send that ma jority high up among the sixties. If the Pres idential vote of Georgia was at all doubtful, Grant could not more certainly fix it for the Democratic candidate than by a proclama tion similar to the one ho has hurled at the peo ple of upper South Carolina. We know, posi tively, whereof we affirm, and he and his are welcome to the imformation. And we know something else, too, which the Commune at Washington may rely npon. It is this: That there is but one way in which the vote of Geor- gia can bo secured for its leader next year. If he can devise any means whereby the tongues of the white people of the State can be stilled, and their bodies kept from the polls on election day, he may get a verdiot from the negroes. If the Democrats are allowed to talk, and only half of them are permitted to vote, they will record their unconqnerable, undying detesta tion of him and his party every time. If his Fartaga were a pipe, we would advise him to pnt this therein and smoke it Meanwhile, we pray the virtuous Forney, to give U3 something real hot and strong, and thus show that he has a disposition, at least, to earn his money. TDD GEORGIA PBESS. Time ana Strength. The Atlanta papers declare their Fair a great success, and assert that it is more crowded than it was last year. The Sun of yesterday was ont in a flaming notice from the managers that “daring the balance of the week, horses will ran and trot against each other; and that fast horses from Connecticut, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia have been entered.” Bonner, to tho contrary, notwithstanding, we conceive tho moral question is not materially affected by this change. The immorality of horso racing must necessarily be in its asnal concomitants of betting, and not in itself. There can be nothing wrong in testing the relative speed of horses more than their relative strength; and it matters not whether this be tested by direct competition between the animals, or by the intervention of a time watch. Betting is as practicable in the one case as in the other. We have less fancy for fast horses or horse racing than perhaps any other man in the crea tion, and are quite willing to concede the gen erally demoralizing influences of the race track as it commonly exists in the world. Bat never theless those demoralizing practices are no es sential part of a horse race, and it seems to ns there ought to be a method by which people oon exhibit the relative speod and endurance of their horses withont the slightest offense to sound morals. The object 4s important to the im provement of the horses. So have been, from the times of the great Olympic games down to the present day, all those trials between human athletes, in eleva ting the standard of marly vigor in the human animal. The Grecian games were powerfully promotive of the high character for both phys ical and intellectual powers attained by that people, and no donbt the contests of strength and agility which have of late years been intro* daced among our young men in America, in all spheres of life, are improving the health and vigor of that class in a very marked degree. The trae point in these trials, like those in the race-conrse. shonld be to divest them, if possible, of demoralizing comcomitants. Com petition, physical and intellectual, is, or ought to be, as healthy an agent in these departments as it is in trade. A great element in the useful ness of oar schools is the stimulating effect of competition, and most of them seek to inorease it by positions of honor in the class, and by prizes and medals. Competition spars up the doll and laggard and elevates the whole stand ard of scholarship. So competition in pbysioal strength or agility, whether among men or brutes, seems to be essential to elevate and fix a standard of physical attainments; and we say there ought to be some way in which this end can be obtained withont offense to publio morals. Southwest Georgia Fair. Fobs Vallet, October 17,1871. Editors Telegraph & Messenger: The South west Georgia Central Fair opened this morning nnder favorable angpioea. The different depart ments are well filled. There is a splendid display of stock. Over sixty hones were entered as contestants for the premiums. The attendance is respectable. CoL Thomas Hardeman will deliver an address to-morrow. J. W. Mathews, Secretary. Tho Screven House, Savannah, was reopened, Sunday, by a grand dinner, at which many prominent citizens assisted—General Joseph E, Johnston, among others. Mr. James Walthamer, a German cigar ma ker who, for the last two years, has been in the employ of Mr. H. G. Rowe, of Savannah, disappeared very mysteriously, last Thursday, and has not been heard of since. The bad boys of Savannah organize a war like syndicate every Sunday, in Franklin Square, and fight pitched battles with disagree able bricks and stones. And the local of the News plaintively enqnireth if this thing can be stopped. The ship Reunion arrived at Savannah, on Saturday, from Havre, having made the trip in twenty-seven days. Aaron Alpeoria Bradley is organizing a raid npon the Custom House at Savannah, his first move being a petition to remove Robb, the Col lector. Two or three thousand Ogeechee field hands have already signed it. Mrs. Stillwell, an old resident of Savannah, died Sunday night, aged 92 years. The Savannah News, of Monday, prints the following items: Sudden Death on a Train.—Mr. J. J. Hines, a well known and esteemed citizen of Jefferson county, who has been, for the past twenty-fivo years, one of the most extensive lamber dealers in the State, died very snddenly on a train load of lamber which he was having conveyed to this city, on Saturday last. When near Station 7, on the Central Railroad, he was observed to fall forward, and before assistance could be ren dered by a person who was in a few feet of him, he died. • Conductor Miogledorf had the remains of the deceased sent by the up passenger train to his home, to be delivered to Ins sorrow stricken family. In Town.—Old Uncle Solon Robinson, of the New York Tribune, is in town, stopping at the Screven House. 1 he gay old soul has just got a divorce in Indiana, acd is now on his way to Jacksonville after negro scalps. When the colored citizens of Florida learn that the re doubtable cattle-gauger of the Tribune is on the war-path, they will undoubtedly “lay low.”— They say the old man hasn’t killed a negro in more than a week, and that he is thirsting for gore. Dahlonega is to have a new jail at a cost of $1,525, and is disposed to put on airs thereat. The Signal mysteriously remarks in connection with this fact, that “our county like every other need3 a jail, and Athens needs a lunatic asylum and we hope both will soon be supplied”—which is rather rough on Athens, wo thick. Where- abonts hurts you, Mr. Signal man. Some burglars up at Dahlonega have been il lustrating the infancy of the art up in that Arca dian region by using blacksmith tongs as door and window persuaders. Those fellows ought to be sent off to school, somewhere. Lnmpkin county by a vote of 321 to 159 has determined to subscribe to the Gainesvillo and Dahlonega narrow-gauge railroad. Alderman Cunningham of Griffin, has a dog named “Old Rock,” which, ho is a dog worth having. On last Friday night “Old Rock” saved a house of the Alderman’s from being bnrned up. He barked and barked until the Alderman went out to see what was the matter and thus saved his house. The Atlanta Era of yesterday says: Narrow Gauge Railroad.—A large number of the enterptising citizens of Stone Mountain and adjacent country were present at Stone Mountain on Saturday last at a meeting to con sider the building of a narrow gauge railroad from Stone Mountain to Athens. A resolution was adopted to appoint a committee, consisting of Colonel W. L. Goldsmith, J. W. McCurdy, and Judge H. P. Wooten, of DeKalb, to co operate with Hon. A. J. Veal, Judge T. M. Peeples, and Major N. E. Simmons, of Gwin nett, to establish the time for a mass meeting of the citizens of both counties, to agree npon a system of action and to call said mass meet ing as soon as possible. We clip these items from the Monroe Adver tiser, of yesterday: Disturbing Publio Worship.—There was a fearful row at the African Methodist Church Sunday night The deuce was kicked up; Wm. Napier raved like a madman; Lewis Lake swore wildly; Mary Jane Peeples fanned the flame into a white heat The ciders tried to restore qniet, but the “servioe” went on nevertheless. The “mourners” were up before Justice Aycock yesterday. The entire day was consumed in the examination of witnesses. The case will be re sumed this morning. Caught at Last.—A wild cat, three feet long and two feet high, was caught one day last week on the Lower Towaliga, by Messrs. M. T. Harper and W. L. Cbambless. This cat has been seen many times within tho last two years, and is, perhaps, the only one left of the many that once infested the canebreaks and swamps near the confluence of tho Towaliga and Oc- mnlgee rivers. Wheat.—Among the many samples on exhi bition at the fair last week, our friend W. B. Week, Esq., exhibited a lot averaging 68 pounds per bnshel. This was fair weight for this year’s crop. The planting season is again at hand, and wheat sown now on ground thoroughly prepared and well enriched will bring a better yield than if planted in November or December. We hope that every farmer in Monroe will plant as largely of this excellent cereal as circumstances will allow. Take an average of five or six years, and wo are satisfied that wheat, acre for acre, will be fonnd to pay better than cotton. On next Saturday the citizens of Forsyth will vote on the proposition of a town subscription of 819,000, to the Hilliard Male Institute, and Monroe Female College of that place. Atlanta suspends business to-day in order to torn ont and have a good time at her Fair. Sich headaches as there will be to-morrow. The Atlanta Georgian of Monday evening, says: Under Arrest.—A large lot of prisoners ar rived this morniog nnder arrest and in charge of Federal troops. They are charged, we learn, as being Kn-klnx. This however, is bare rumor, as we had no means by which we conld ascer tain the cause of their arrest. Among other cariosities to be exhibited at Savannah Fair in November will be a gennine Cannibal. His name is John Cannigan and his last meal was a nose belonging to ono James Henry Harney. A letter for L C. Plant & Son, Macon, was bold for postage in the Savannah office on Monday. Messrs. McDonald, -end J. 0. Clements, citi zens of Dooly county, were hunting $2,500 worth of bail, at Savannah, on Monday, pend ing a trial for illicit distilling in the United States District Conrt, at the November term. If Joe Mitchell, a loyal colored troop of Sa vannah has any kinsfolk or friends in this sec tion they will be interested to learn that be is in jail on a charge of attempting to murder another e. t. named Alfred Cuyler. The Spanish bark America, was sold at Sa vannah on Monday, to Octavos Cohen & Co., for 89,600. We dip as follows from the Savannah Repub lican, of Tuesday: If the Democratic party desire victory in the coming contest, let them fling aloft the banner of Mexican Annexation, leaving Grant to fight out his miserable negro San Domingo war as best he can. With each a grand scheme of na tional progress—the absorption of one of the most magnificent countries on the globe and the extension of free government over its dis tracted people—we say with suoh a war cry the Democracy would be invinceble. We have some reason to believe that the movement meets the approved of Hancock, and there is certainly no one more competent to press it forward to a successful issue. Collision.—Tho up freight train from Sa vannah for Macon was oollided with by the Charleston freight train, from Charleston for Savannah,'at about 8 o’clock yesterday morn ing, which reunited in the serious injury of the lecomotive Montgomery and some six freight cars, as also the slight injary of the locomotive Presoott and some three ears belonging to the Savannah and Charleston Railroad. From in formation obtained at the office of the Charles ton Railroad Company we learn that the Mont- I gomery, with a train for Macon, left on sched- ’ nle time,- 7:30, A. m. Abont two and a half miles from the city, and jnst below the junction of the Charleston with the Central Railroad, the collision took plaoe, destroying almost the loco motive Montgomery and six baggage cars of tho Central, and seriously injuring the locomotive Prescott and three cars of the Charleston Rail road. The Central being on time the fault of the collision is attributed to the Charleston train, who, knowing the schedule, shonld have laid off. No loss of human life or limb was the resalt, bnt several males on the Charleston train were severely hurt, one of them finding a resting place, with injured limbs, on the tender of the Montgomery. On Dit.—That a change will soon be made in tie official head of onr Custom House. It is said, and believed, that Colonel Robb has sent forward bis resignation, to take effect on the 1st of January, and that a revenue .official now re siding in Atlanta will succeed him. Last Saturday and Sunday were pretty good days for man-killing at Colnmbos. On Saturday night Reuben Pride, negro, shot John Brown, another negro, to each an extent that Brown’s soul is confidently expected to keep “marching onand on Sunday afternoon, Henry Hyde, white, shot and instantly killed John GreeD, ditto. The Rev. S. S. Harris, Rector of the Episco pal Church at Colombns, has accepted a call to Trinity Church, New Orleans. The latter is ono of the largest in tho South, and pays its pastor $5,000, besides famishing a residence for him. The boiler at the steam mill of 5Vm. F. Hicks, Johnson county, exploded one day last week, and killed a negro. Gen. Samnel Robison and Mr. Jesse Knight, old and greatly esteemed citizens of Washing ton connty, died last week. The former was 80 years of age. We quote the following extract from the pre sentments of the grand jury of Washington connty, at the late term of the Superior Court for that connty: Wo would most earnestly and respectfully ask the Legislature of onr Stato, when it convenes, to nse every honorable means to remove the capitol of onr State from Atlanta to some other point nearer onr geographical and commercial centre. Macon we look upon as the most de sirable place, being easy of access, and possess ing conveniences whioh recommend it strongly to public favor. The Federal Union says an extra train will be ran over the Macon and Angusta railway be tween Macon and Milledgeville, during the Fair. It will leave the latter plaoe at 6.45 a. m , and return at 8.40 r. si, leaving Macon at 7 p. si. Fall fare one way and return free. We find these items in the Sonthern Re corder, of Tuesday: Murder.—A negro man, known as Adam Waller, was murdered in this county, on the 9 th inst. Several parties, who were arrested on suspicion, were discharged by Justice Fair. The pepetrator of the act. supposed to be a white man, Taylor Brown, has succeeded in effecting his esoape. Almost a Fire.—We learn that a fire, caused by friction, occurred at the Cotton Factory in this city on last Wednesday. The flames were promptly suppressed with the loss of two or three spindles. Fine.—We saw on the streets last week, a noblo trout weighing ten pounds, captured in the mill-pond of Mr. Edwards of this connty. Miss Mary Moyer, of Talbot county, died last Friday, from the effects of an over-dose of chloroform. It costs just sixteen dollars at Augnsta, for a' negro to beat his wife within a couple of inches of her life, and afterwards drag her off a pair of high steps and break her arm. A particularly hard brick came to great grief at Augnsta on Tuesday, as the result of a geo logical experiment on the part of a colored sa van named Robert Beall. He tested its quality on Frank Thomas’ head, and while that wasn’i hurt at all, the brick split in half. So that ques tion is settled again. Tho Chronicle and Sentinel of Tuesday, has the following: Maoon and Augusta Railroad.—There was a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Macon and Angusta Railroad held in this city yesterday, in the office of the Georgia Railroad Companyl The attendance was fell, and tho meeting lively to an unusual degree. It will be remembered that at the meeting of the stockholders of tho road, held a short time since, Jndge King made a severe attack on the contraotor who finished the road—M. K. Jessup & Co., of New York— declared that tho work was inferior, had not been done according to contract, that the road was not completed, and that fonr thousand shares of stock had been issued to Mr. Jessup illegally, and that it conld not be voted. After a long debate the whole matter was referred to the Board of Direotors, with power to act. At the meetiDg on yesterday Jndge King returned again to the charge. The matter was warmly discussed for several hours, and at last oil was poured npon the troubled waters by a motion to refer the question to a committee of two from tho Directory of the Macon and Augusta Rail road, two from the Directory of the Georgia Railroad, and two from Jessup & Co. This motion was carried, and here, for the present, the affair rests. Shooting Affray.—A difficulty occurred in the neighboring town of Hamburg, Sonth Caro lina, on last Sunday, which resulted in one of the parties receiving what is considered a mortal wound. The parties concerned in the affray were Messrs. William Flint and Pleasant Sharp- ton, both well known citizens of the town in whioh they live. From what wo can learn of the affray, it seems that the quarrel was the result of an old feud between the combatants. Some time ago there was a quarrel, and they had not been on very good terms since. On last Sunday morning, abont eleven o’clock, they happened to meet at a place in the street, and high words followed the meeting. Sharpton cursed Flint, and the latter drew his pistol and fired two shots at him. The first ball did not take effeot The last penetrated the back of the neck, inflioting a very dangerous wound. These are about the only particulars of the fight whioh have transpired. Fears were entertained yesterday that Mr. Sharpton conld not recover. The Fair at Atlanta seems to make things very lively up there, jadging from the local column of the Constitution of yesterday. The following items are the liveliest we conld find in that column: Rapid Sewing.—Yesterday a sewing machine at tho Fair Ground whioh was ran by steam at tracted a large share of publio attention. Convicts.—A car load of conviots passed through this city en route for Gainesville yes terday, to work on the Air-Line railroad. Baby Show.—We learn that an Atlanta lady will enter for the special premium, her baby, 24 months old, weighing 17J pounds. We be lieve this is Judge Hayden’s department. Peace Warrant.—Mrs. Gann and daughter were bound over yesterday by Justice Bntt, in the sum of two hundred dollars each, to keep the peace towards Mrs. Nancy Mink. Wm. Bender, of Atlanta, invites the convivial sonls of that village to go on a free bender at bis place to-night, per advertisement in the Georgian of yesterday. Bender most be run ning for alderman. , Hard on the Tbewly Loyl.—The Tribune, of Saturday, prints a letter from Little Rock and seasons it with the appended editorial com ment. Massa Greeley seems to know the tribe just abont as well as we, down here, do. Hear him: We print herewith a letter from Little Rock, exposing the villainies which have distracted the Republican party in that State. Thongh long, it will be found deeply interesting as well as instructive. It will serve to explain the week- ness and demoralization of the Republican, party, not only In Arkansas bnt in several other Sonthern States, wherein selfish, unprincipled, rapacious scoundrels have been enabled to clutch the reins of authority, and ride recklessly over publio interest and private right to the achievement of their sordid and shameful ends. “Bapaoious scoundrels” is very good. We submit that it deserves both a bravo and an en core. • Louisville boys have, attained great skill with the sling. They can hit an average-sized nose or ear at a distanoe of 100 feet, nine times ont of ten. Grant’s Proclamation. Special to the Savannah Morning Fews.] Washington, October 14.1871. The following is issued this evening by the President of the United States: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by an act of Congress entitled an act to enforce the provisions of the 14th amend ment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes, approved the twentieth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, power is given the President of the United States, when, in his judgment, the public safety shall require it, to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in any State or part of any State, when combinations and conspiracies exist in snoh State or part of such State, for the purpose of depriving any portion or class of the people of such State of the lights, privileges, immunities and protec tion named in the Constitution of the United States, and seonred by the act of Congress afore said, and whenever such combinations and con spiracies do so obstrnot or hinder the execution of the laws of any such State of the United States, as to deprive the people aforesaid of the rights, privileges, immunities and protection aforesaid, and do oppose and obstrnot the laws of the United States and their due execution, and impede and obstruct the due course of jus tice under the same, and whenever suoh combi nations shall be organized and armed, and so poweifal as to be able, by violence, either to overthrow or set at defiance the constituted authorities of said State or of the United States, within said State, and whenever, by reason of said causes, conviction of snch offenders and the preservation of the publio peace shall be come in snch State, or part of a State, impracti cable; and whereas, snch unlawful combinations and conspiracies for the purposes aforesaid, are declared by the aot of Congress aforesaid to be rebellions against the Government of the United States; and whereas, by said aot of Congress it is provided that before the President shall sus pend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, he shall first have made a proclamation com manding such insurgents to disperse; and, whereas, on the 12th day of the present month of October, the President of the United States did issue his proclamation, reoiting therein, among other things, that such combinations and conspiracies did then exist in the counties of. Spartanburg, York, Marion, Chester, Lau rens, Newbetry, Lancaster and Chesterfield, in the State of Sonth Carolina, and commanding thereby all persons comprising snch unlawful combinations and conspiracies to disperse and retire peacefully to their homes within five days from the date thereof, acd to deliver either to the Marshal of tho United States for tho District of Sonth Carolina or any of his depu ties, or to any militaiy officer of the United States within said counties, all arms, ammnnition, uniforms, disguises and other means osed and kept, possessed or controlled by them for carrying ont their unlawful pur poses, for whichthe said combinations and con spiracies are organized; and whereas, the in surgents engaged in snch unlawful combina tions and conspiracies, within the counties aforesaid, have not dispersed and retired peaoo- ably to their respective homes, and have not delivered to the Marshal of the United States or to any of his deputies, or to any military officer of the United States in said counties, all arms and ammnnition, uniforms, disguises and other means used and kept, possessed o.r con trolled by them for carrying ont the unlawful purposes for whioh their combination and con spiracies are organized, as commanded by said proclamation, bnt do still persist in the unlaw ful combination and conspiracies aforesaid: Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, Presi dent of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitu tion of the United States and the act of Con gress-aforesaid, do hereby declare that, in my judgment, the publio safety especially requires that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus be snspended, to the end that snch rebellion may be overthrown, and Ho hereby suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus within the counties of Spartanburg, York, Marion, Chester, Lanrens, Newberry, Fairfield, Lancaster, and Chesterfield, in said State of Sonth Carolina, in respect to all persons arrested by tho Marshal of the United States for the said District of Sonth Carolina, or by any of his deputies, or by any military officer of tlm United States, or by any soldier or citizen acting nnder the orders of said Marshal, deputy, or snch military officer, within any one of said counties, charged with any violation of tho acts of Congress aforesaid, daring the continuance of snch rebellion. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this seven teenth day of October, in the year of onr Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven ty-one, and of the Independence of tne United States of America the ninety-sixth. (Signed) U. S. Grant. • The Grandest Railway Project of the Age. • The Boston Post says it is proposed to con struct, or to perfect by a union of railroad lines already constructed, a continnons route of travel-from London to Bombay, by whichthe journey may be made, withont change of cars, in five days, sixteen hours and forty-six min utes—a very nice calculation, surely, when the distance is considered, which Is 6,339 miles; bnt the variation of a minnte or (wo in the time, either way, will constitute no serlons ground of complaint or objection to the scheme. The contemplated route is by way of Dover Straits, 28 miles, and through France by existing lines and the Mount CenisTunnel, to Trieste, whence the line is to be completed through Austria, European and Asiatic Turkey, Persia; Beloo- christan, to Kurrachee, and so on to Bombay. A tunnel is to be built under the channel to com plete an unbroken line of rail; bnt until that is done the Straits will be crossed by a powerful steamer with a degree of certainty which, unless in extreme weather, will not, it is apprehended, affect the qnestion of timo more than a minnte or so. The plan has been laid before Mr. Glad stone, with the expectation that his influence may secure the needed aid from the British Government Two hundred millions of dollars in gold are required to complete this line; and England setting a strong example, it is proposed that the different eonntries through which the line passes shonld bear each its dne eh are of the cost of the grand enterprise. The idea iB neith er chimerical nor impracticable, nor does it ex ceed in magnitude and grandeur the Pacifio Bailroad, which our young country has con structed withont extraneons aid. FINANCIAL AND Weekly Review of the Bark^ OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND MESSFAVb,. October 17—Evening, i^A 1 Ootton.—Receipts to-day 620 bales; sale.. shipped 327. ** Receipts for the week ending this evenirgv. bales; sales 2835; shipments 2321. We quote the market nominal at 17% f or > pool middlings. MACON OOTTON STATEMENT. Stock on hand Sept. 1,1871—bales.. . , w Received to-day- 520 *" Received previously Shipped to-day '. 827 Shipped previously 5,952—6^ Stock on hand this evening Tho provision market is generally bare and-, firmer. We quote a small advance in leading BACON—Clear lib Sides (smoked) 9% 0? „ Shoulders 0 @ t Sugar-cured hams i GRAIN AND JtlAY. CORN—White. @1,. MEAL 1 05 ©1 OBITS 1 25 ©{J; OATS...... 70 @ 5 WHEAT—Per bushel 1 90 © 0 2 FIELD PEAS HAY—Northern :... 2 CO ©28 TenneBse Timothy 2 CO @2* BAGGING AND IRON TIES. BAGGING—Bengal.. Lyon Borneo Gunny Dundee Patched TIES—Gooche. Arrow Eureka The Hand that Saved Us.—Two painters were employed to fresco the walls of a cathedral. Both stood on the rude scaffold constructed for their purpose, some forty feet from the floor. One of them was so intent npon his work that he became wholly absorbed, and in admi ration stood off from the picture, gazing at it with intense delight. Forgetting where he was, he moved back slowly, surveying leisurely tho work of his pencil, until he had neared the edge of the plank npon whioh he stood. At this oritical moment his companion turned snddenly, and, almost paralyzed with horror beheld his imminent peril; another instant, and the en thusiast would be preoipitated upon the pave ment beneath. If he spoke to him, it was cer tain death: if he held his peace death was equally sure. Suddenly he regained his presence of mind, and seizing a wet brash, flung it against the wall, spattering the picture with unsightly blotches of coloring. The painter flaw forward and turned upon his friend with fierce upbraidings bnt starting at his ghastly face, he listened to his recital of danger, looked shndderingly over the space below, and with tears of gratitude blessed the hand that saved him. Jnst so we sometimes get absorbed in the pictures of the world; and in contemplating them, step backward, unconscious of onr peril; when the Almighty in His mercy dashes onr beantifnl images, and draws ns at the timo we are complaining of his dealings, into His out stretched arms of compassion and love. The 'Washington Republican says: “Teh years ago precisely, Wm. M. Tweed was a bank rupt. To-day, he boasts that he is worth twen ty millions of dollars. In other words, he has made two millions of dollar per annum withont a cent of capitaL” Ten years ago precisely, Ulysses S. Grant was a bankrupt To-day, he can boast that he is worth a million of dollars. In other words, he has made a hundred thou sand dollars per annum withont a oent of capi tal. Down with Tweed, Bully for Grant— Courier-Journal. ■ 2 0 21 (i 21 4 g. r 1! . 5 <3 “ , § ^ B K@ % Horning market Report New York. October 13.—Cotton unsettled- & lands 19%: Orleans 20%; sales 1000. ' ” Sales of cotton futures last evening Uu bales; October 19%-319 8-16@19%@l9 5-16'aiv November 19 1-I6@i9.%f319%(ffil9 5-lG@19 jS December 19 8-16@19%@19 6-16@19 l-10ffiifv Januiry 19%@19%@19%(5>19 7-16; February i|2 19%; March 19%; April 20. 15 Turpentine firm 69@70. Rosin fiim4 20@15j;, strained- Freights firm. Floor dull and heavy. Wheat quiet ami droop. Corn favors buyers. Fork steady at 13 30315* Lard quiet. Stocks firm and not very active. Gold heavyatffi @18%. Governments dull and steady. States t and weak. Money firm at 7- Sterling, long fv ehort 9%. * London, October 18, noon.—Consols 92%. Eci 90%. Frankfort, October 18.—Bonds 95%. Liverpool, October 18, noon—Cotton openU dull; uplands 9%; Orleans 10. Later.—Cotton flat and irregnlar; sales 10,(1 speculation and export 2000 Com 33s. Tallow He. Fork 43s 6d. Lar<115sll msarkets—Evening Report New Yore, October 18.—Cotton irregular £ nominal; salt a 1490* uplands 19%; Orleans 20%. Cotton sales for future delivery to-day ia bales; October 191-16@19%; November 19%®l9l-7 @19%; December 19>£©19 3-16@19%@19 5-lie 191-16: January 19%; February 19%; March l.< @10%; April 20. Flour, southern heavy; common to fairer trail @8 00; good to choice 7 85@9 00. Whisky 95(S95> Wheat dosed steady; winter red western 155(215: Corn moderately active and a shade lower at 76341 77 Rice steady at 8%@9. Fork steady. Boefqca Lard quiet; kettle 1* %. Navala firm. Tallowqss Freights firm. Money stringent at 7 for currency to gold, ri commission, for turning stooks, closing eisie demands for discounts pressing; commercial pipe only current at high rates; the outflow of curram continues. Sterling weak at 8@8%. Gold 13® IS;. Governments heavy and feverish; 62s 14%. Sev ern securities dosed very dull and heavy as foltoit Tenneesees 63%; new 63. Virginias 58; new Ei Louisi&nas 65; new £8. Levees 64; Ss 71- Alabamas 96; 6s 65. Georgias SO; 7s 90. b'or: O&rolinaa S8; new 18. Sonth Carolines 72; in 44%. Governments closed as follows: 81s 15%; C2s 1I-; 61s 13; 65a 13%; new 12%; 67s 12%; C3s Uft 10-40s 9%. Baltimore, October 18.—Cotton has a downvc; tendency; middlings 19%; netreceipteS3; gross IS exports to Great Britain '—; coastwise 118; etc 855: stock 163 \ Flour qniet, firm and scarce; western family IS @8 50. Wheat dnll. Corn firm; white 80@S2; low 77@78. Pro visions and whisky quiet and sto.’’ Sr. Louis, OctoberJlS.—Flour, low grades tai superfine 5 25. Corn dosed dnll at 90. Bigp 18@’18%. Pork 13 00@1350. Bacon weak. US nominal at 9@9%. New Orleans, October 18.—Cotton market clati steady; middlings 19%; net receipts 1302; pa exports to Great Britain 2646; coaBtwise ; ria 23ixj. stock 41 772. Flour scarce; superfine 6 25; double 7 00(S7125 double 7 S5@7 70. Com Scarce; mixed SJ%$* Oats 54(255. Bran 1-50. Hay, prime 35 00; drift 36 00. Fork dull and lower; mess 13 87%. Bm» scarce; shouldeis 8%; clear rib sideB 8%; dec eidos 9%; choice sugar cured hams 18%(s 12- Lard firm; tierce 10%; keg 12%. Sugar, new gnj clarified 10%; centrifugal 12. Molasses, fair 6.‘(s6fc prime at 73@75. Whisky 95S105. Coffeo scans faff 17%@18. Bank Sterling 22. Sight, par. Gold 13%. Wilmington, October 13.—Cotton quiet; Ei:- filings 18%; net receipts 243; exports coastwise—; sales 41; stock 3971. Spirits of turpentine firm at 64. Rosin firm at _ SO for strained; 3 25 for NO. 1; 7 75 for extra pat 7 flo -for pale; and 3 60 for No. 2. Crude to- Dentine steady at S 40 for hard; 5 00 for yellow d? i 10 for virgin. Tar Steady at 2 60. Augusta, October 18.—Gotten market doaeddsi middlings 17%; receipts 585; sales 445. Savannab, October 18—Cotton dosed irreptA' buyers and sellers apart; sales at inside quotation middlings 18%@18%; net receipts 2345; eipop to the continent —; experts coastwise 1430; •* 1200; stock 22,531. Charleston. October 18.—Cotton dosed do- middlings 1S%; net receipts 3399; exports coat wise —; exports to Great Britalrr—; sales » stock 17 955 Mobile, October 18 —Cotton closed dull; ni!; dlings 18%; net receipts 1775; exports to Grei- Britain —; coastwise 1395; sales 100; stock 167j- Galveston, October 18—Cotton weak; goodc- dinary 15%; net receipts 925; exports coastwise» sales 1000; stock 25,110. Boston, October 18.—Cotton dull and lower; dlings 20; net receipts 75; grosB 2C34; exports® GrcatBritain —; coastwise —j sales 300; stock (XU- Norfolk, Ostober 18.—Cotton dull; low dlings 13%; net receipts 1321; exports coa^.w-- 1523; sales 100; stock 6063 . SIejiteis, October 18.—Cotton inactive; 1®°“ drooping; middlings 18%; receipts 2100. .» Philadelphia, October 18—^Cotton market middlings 19%. . „ , mu- London, October 18, evening—Consols Jw Bonds 90%. Tallow 48s. Paris, October 18 —Rentes 67f 15c. . Liverpool, October 18, evening—Cotton " flit and irregular; uplands 9%; OrleanB 10. Cumberland cut 36s 6d. - Highly Complimentary.—We have r pleasure in printing the following delicate none the lesa decided compliment to a verj^ - tinguished member of the Radical party of State. It ia from the Washington Republic*- a sort of back-door organ of the administratis atWasington. It says: “Foster Blodgett has got into trouble ag^ He has been arrested on a series of charge whioh, if trae, ought to send him to tne pe- tentiary, a place for whioh he seems to ba e- tirely qualified. It is fortunate that thel^ States Senate has been saved the scandal . digrace of admitting him to its membersc'-p Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I to observe that General A. B. Wright, ct * gusta,’haa been proposed as a candidate £ United States Senator. He is not only ebg* • ’ bnt such an honor conld not be conferred ^ worthier or more capable man. He ted” Georgia nobly daring the war, » n “ shown himself to be a trae and able «ie of her rights since the return of peace. ” his course has been conservative, it nM ^ open and decided, and I venture to assert if eleoted to the Senate he will make his in that body. I know of no man free fro® , stitntional disability who oould so trw ably represent Georgia in the National. gress. Lst the Legislatnre elect him ana will do honor to themselves and iecel !® T plaudits of the people. A Democba- Startllsg Revelations In tlie Poisoning Case. , St. Louis, Ootober 15.—Lathe MedliooW Pf, Boning ease at Garnett, Kansas, ts burglar, named Johnson, who was connn^ the same oell with Medlioott, in the L» jail, testified that Medlioott talked ,n gpi calling on Ruth and his wife to lie q alfl ’ vjj Medlioott confessed his guilt to him, he (Johnson) was released os bail, eE ?vVt» him to procure burglar’s tools with effect his escape; that he earned lettew ^ Medlioott to lbs. Ruth, and that Medhoo«], him Mrs. Ruth was concerned in her bua^y death, and if she did not keep feu* would confess all and hang her. Thi* created a profound sensation, and exhibited mnoh smdety.— Western Tr patch.