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Tlie Greoigia, "W^eeJ^zlv Teleg’ra/ofa a.n(fL JoxixiiaJ- ]VTesseng0P» Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, OCTOBER 24 1871. The Great Nontbern Fires. In noticing a remark by Rev. Henry Ward Beccber thnt too contributions for the relief of the Chicago sufferers camo from the North alone, the Wilmington Journal justly remarks that destructive fires and devastations of unex ampled extent and the result of no accident, have placed it out of tho power of the Southorn States to contribute very materially to the relief of these unfortunate people. Tho pecuniary losses of the South, needlessly inflicted upon us by tho Northern people, even in subjugating the country, are not fifty nor a hundred of millions, but scaroely less than six thousand millions. And, sicco the close of the war, although there have been a few exceptional cases to the con trary, ninety-nine in the hundred of our people have been simply struggling for a subsistence, and, in a majority of cases, with but indifferent success. Still, wo are glad to say that many communities in the South have contributed a mite out of their scanty stores to help the Chi cago sufferers. The Journal, in tho course of its remarks, revives the following record of some of the great Southern fires: In his “Great March to the Sea,” Major Nicholl8, Aid-dc-Camp to General Sherman, says, on page 37: ** November 13—Behind us wo leave a track of smoke and flame. Half of Marietta was burned up; for tbo command is, that proper details shall be made to destroy all property which can ever be of use to the rebel armies. * * * * * * Dwelling houses are leveled to tho ground. * * * Yesterday, as some of our men were march ing toward Chattahoochee River, they saw in the distance pillars of smoke rising along its banks. Tho bridges were is flames. Said one, bitching his musket on his shoulder, in a free and easy way, ‘ I say, Charley, I believe Sher man has set the river on fire.' ” On page 33, “ Atlanta is entirely deserted by human beings, excepting a few soldiers hero and there. The houses are vacant; there i3 no trade or trafie of aDy kind; the streets are empty. Beanlifnl roses bloom in the gardens of fine houses, but a terrible stillness and soli- ludo covers all, depressing the hearts even of those who are glad to destroy it. In the peace ful homes of the North there can be no concep tion how these people have suffered for their crimes.” “Atlanta, Night of the 15th November. “A grand and awful spectacle is presented to the beholder in this beautiful city, now in flames. By order, the Chief Engineer has de stroyed by powder and fire all the store houses, depot buildings and machine shops. The heav en is one expanse of lurid fire, the air is filled with flying, burning cinders; buildings covering two hundicd acres are in iuins or in flames. Every instant there is the sharp detonation or the smothered booming sound of exploding shells and powder, concealed in tho buildings; and then (he sparks and flames shoot away up into the black and red roof, scattering cinders far and wide.” We may add that for two hundred miles be yond Atlanta to Savannah, Sherman’s track through Georgia is still marked by houseless chimneys and general desolation. That for thirty miles eastward of Savannah, a friend who followed Sherman’s trail says he conld have walked all the way into the city on the carcasses of dead stock ot all kinds—the slaughtered plunder of the march. And then from Savan nah to North Carolina, tho trail of fire and des olation was still more horrible. The Senatorial Question.—Southwest Goor- g^t brings forward the name of Hon. John T. Clarke for Senator in Congress. We do not propose to meddle with the contest, but may say, without fear of successful contradiction, that among the young men of Georgia, John T. Clarke hold3 an exalted position in every particular. His reputation is of the best. Ho is a man of high moral and religions principle. Beyond this he is a fine scholar—a laborious student—an eloquent speaker—a sound lawyer —a clear headed, cool, cautious and improving man, and ono who will be found fully up to the demands of any situation in which he may be placed. Wo printed yesterday a communication from a very prominent Democrat, recommending General A. B. Wright, of the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, for the position of Senator. General Wright’s character and publio services in Georgia are familiar as household words, and his claims aro presented and enforced in very many of the Democratic papers. Besides these Dr. Miller, Gen. Young, Gen. Gordon, Mr. Nor wood, ex-Senator C. B. Wooten and Judge Worrell, all have earnest advocates. Honor.—Tho full text of Butler’s Philadel phia speech against the late indemnity treaty, explains bi3 concern about honor. He says that, under that treaty, the bloody Britons will bring up a long bill of offsetting damages which will overbalance the spoliation claims by millions, and thus the United States will not only have to whistle over their own losses, but pay a round snm of money besides. Now, wo understand the General’s concern about the loss of national honor in this treaty. One Butler says in Hudi- bras, that honor is lodged in the breeches, but (he other Butler is more circumstantial, and in dicates tho precise part of that garment which holds tho precious commodity—to-wit: the pocket. The honor lost is tho money lost; and in this view of tho case wo believe the latter Butler is absolutely sincero in his grief. The treaty went after wool and come3 home shorn. This involvcssome loss of reputation for shrewd ness as well as of tho golden honor for which Butler is so much grieved. "New Books.—Lee, Shephard & Dillingham, New York, send us, through J. W. Burke & Co., of this city, “Fire in the Woods,” by Prof. Jas. do Millo, and tho “Spark of Genius,” by Eli jah Kellogg—both capital books for young folks especially, but full of interest for grown people as welL This firm aro publishing, just now, some of tbo most admirably instructive and entertaining works that we know of any where. - Messrs. J. W. Burke & Co. also hand us from Claxton, Romsen & Haffelfinger, Philadelphia, the “History of the Working and Burgher Classes,” by M. Adolphe Granier Cassagnac, a distinguished author and journalist of Paris, translated from the French, by Ben E. Green, of Dalton, in this State. This work was writ ten in 1838, but has never been translated be fore. It shows profound erudition, and will be read with much interest by the thinking men of the country. Mr. Green appears to have done his part as translator with faithfulness and ac curacy. The San Domingo Speculation.—The Cour ier des Efats Unis asserts that vigorous move- ments are going on in Washington to revive the grand San Domingo operation. There has been a general gathering of the speculators in Wash ington—among them Dr. Fisher and W. W. Ames, U. S. Consul at San Domingo. Gantler, prime minister of Baez, has had an interview with Grant and gone home full of confidence. In consequence of these movements there has been heavy operations in San Domingo lots at advanced prices. , An exchange tells that, “while engaged in playing ‘tie up sheep,’ some Delaware county (N. Y.) children succeeded in hanging ono of their comrades.” Has it never occurred to the 'friends of justice at Washington that this play of “tie up sheep” might be extensively intro- dtzeed among the office-holders there with ef- News. Items. The Open Polab Sea Entered.—According to a Gotha dispatch in our yesterday’s edition, the German Polar expedition had actnally dis covered, and entered, the great Polar Sea, and found it free from ice and swarming with whales. The world will await with intense cari osity, a full narrative of this expedition and a description of this great Polar Sea. Dr. Kane’s expedition reports having viewed that great, silent and unknown ocean from the tall ice- cliffs on its southern boundary. These wero the first mortal eyes that ever gazed upon that great, silent waste of waters. Bat the Germans it seems, have won tha honor of first agitating its waters with their ship prows, and telling the world how to get there. The Hall expedition is superseded, and probably Hall himself will have to come back and get the nows. Grant’s Eastern Toub.—The New York Commercial Advertiser says tho President’s Eastern tonr wa3 a continued ovation. His “plain, unpretending stylo took the honest yeo manry by storm.” To see him without the trap pings of war and coming and talking to them familiarly, says Jenkins “ah it was a beautiful sight; a most touching spectacle.” It is gener ally a touching spectacle when a great deal of handshaking Ls to be done, and candidates al most invariably make spectacles of themselves in this way. The yeomanry of both Erst and West, will account for this condescension and simplicity in the nsnal way, particularly as the first exhibition of it is so seasonable. We ob serve by the dispatches on Friday that the President’s popular addresses are as simple as his manners among the sovereigns. Harmed.—We see the following in the New Orleans Times, of last Thursday, and wi»h the wedded pair much happiness: Yesterday was made memorable and blissful by an event which occurred at the Jesuit Church in this city. The distinguished author of that most readable of modern publications, “Recol lections of Fifty Years,” Col. W. H. Sparks, be gan a new chapter of the romantic history of his life, by leading to the altar the young, beauti ful and accomplished Miss Came A. House- nann, of this city, Father Dufour conducting the services and bestowing tho blessings of the church upon the happy twain. Our most cordial felicitations are tendered to the eloquent and graphic author and his lovely bride. It is announced with no little satisfaction by a Radical paper that “The President took three premiums for eolts at the St. Louis fair, last week.” Grant always had a taking way with him.—New Orleans Times. Health of New Orleans.—Tho Picayune says the average of deaths per week in New Or-, leans, duriDg the four hot months, was 115. The population of tho city is about 240,000. Dastardly.—The New Orleans Picaynne com plains that tho manufacture of counterfeit nick els is on the increase, and very serious frauds on the community are practiced by means of them. Is it possible that any human being can be so base as to counterfeit those brummagem five cent pieces ? We can scarcely believe it. Let all good men insist that that they shall re main the unmolested and unimitated and inim itable testimonials to the pewter age of the Re public. Proved. — Our sable brothers in Darfour, without knowing it, have nearabont demonstra ted the Darwinian theory. When they wish to capture a troop of monkeys, they set a kind of intoxicating beer (a species of African whisky) out under the trees, and the Simians take to it so ardently as to get drunk and helpless, and then are easily done for. That is more human than monkeys are ordinarily thought to bo. When the monkeys get sober, we have no donbt they are as earnest advocates of “prohibition” as Ben Butler himself. Back from Texas Wo saw yesterday Dr. T. E. Blount, jast re turned from Texas, whither he went last De cember. Tho Doctor ranged about tho Red River country near the northern bonndary cf the State, principally in the vicinity of Sher man. The country is very rich in black prairie land and chills and fevers. The land, with favorable seasons, will produce cotton and corn enough, but there are no facilities for transpor tation, and on account of the impassable condi tion of the roads in winter, hauling must be done in the summer time. Dronth and insects render cropping an uncertain business, and both are perhaps eqnally fatal to the prospects of tho farmer. Immense swarms of grasshoppers will somet. nos lay waste great fields in a day, and aro alik. destructive to corn and cotton. Tho cotton crop is also mneb more snbject to the caterpillar and army worm than in Georgia. Malarious disorders in connection with the chill ing northers and tho bad water are tho great drawbacks of tho country, and sap tho energies and comfort of the people. The Doctor saw very few emigrants from Georgia who would not be glad to be back in the old State again; bnt it is not as easy to get back from Texas as it is to go there. Ho re turned, however, in company with several Geor gia farmers who had become dissatisfied with Texas. They said that, taking one year with another, they could produce more cotton and com in Southwestern Georgia than they conld in Texas, and enjoy better health and much greater social advantages. The Doctor says the cotton crop of the prairie region of Texas will not bo more than one- quarter of what it was last year. Cotton was so low last spring, and the demand for corn so great, that only about half the area was seeded to cotton, and this has been seriously injured by the long dronth, which renders tho ground hard as a stone, and cracks it so that yon may bury a fence rail end-foremost in tho fissnres, and some of them are wide enough to be dan gerous to tho pedestrian. Until railroads shall have permeated that conntry and made travel and transportation easier, it can offer no adequate inducements to the emigrant from Georgia. When theso shall have brought an improved population and made lumber, fuel and other supplies less costly, and furnished a cheaper outlet for farm pro ducts, it may possibly pay a young man to emi grate to the prairies of Texas; but to the man of middlo age and a largo family, emigration now involves sacrifices which he will regret as long as he lives. Tire mysteries of “ Spiritual ” Slate Writing Explained. The Louisville Commercial, of a late date, has a long and qnite interesting article on the myteries of epiritnalism, and the many start lingly inexplicable exhibitions it has been mak ing all over the country, of late. That of writing on a common slate, where the slate itself is held jointly by tho medium and the per son whoseeks communication with the “spirits,” and the pencil is apparently so short as to pre clude the possibility of* its being grasped with sufficient firmness to enable the bolder to make even a legible mark with it, is ono that is excit ing a great deal of attention. We have recently conversed with a gentleman cf this city who interviewed a medium while on a visit to New York not long since, and whose recital of the results of the seance was certainly as marvel ous as it was interesting. Ho witnessed this puzzle of the spiritual writing on the slate, and from his description of the position of the slate —one nnd held by himself and the other by the medium under a table, its beiDg pressed mean while close up against the table, and a pencil too short almost to be picked np lying on the slate midway his and tbe medium’s hand—we do not exactly see how deception was possible. But of course there must be an entirely satis factory solution of the mystery, and the Com mercial gives it. It lies in the now well estab lished fact that there are certain individuals in whom are developed, partly by natural evolution, and partly by persistent practice, the power of elongating, at will, someone of their fingers, and possibly of the entire hand or arm. How tho medium it will be remembered, being able as is attested by incontestable proof, to elongate his whole body some eighteen inches. These discoveries were made dnrmg ihe past summer simultaneously in France and Spain, and offer a full yet simple explanation of this Slato writing, and are, we think, of sufficient interest to publish. And now wo quote as fol lows from the Commercial: The most scientific notice which has been given to tho world of this remarkable physiolo gical phenomenon (of voluntary elongation) is contained in tbe leading article in tho June number of El Embustera de Modioino y Cerugia,- published at Madrid, and is from the pen of Professor Engano. Tho whole article is too long to quote at length. Tho subject upon ob serration of whom the article is based, was a muleteer from one of the Basque provinces, named Garcia Dolores Agado. When the power which he possessed of elongating ot will the second finger cf his right hand was first ob served by Agado himself, tho extent to which elongation could be effected was bo slight as scarcely to be perceptible. Gradually with use and the active exercise of the will power over it, the extent of elongation increased until in May, of tho present year, then under the observation of Prof. Engano, it had reached the almost increditable extent of thir teen and eleven-twelfth inches, Including the projection of the end of tho nail, and was stead ily increasing at a fixed rate, which rate we re gret to say the profesor omitted to give. This power of elongation and contraction can be exerted by Agado at will, and can bo so quickly executed that threq-elevenths of a second of time only is required for its completion. The very ingenious instrument, invented by Professor Engano for the measurement of this minute division of time, is worthy of a more ex tended notice than the limits of this article will warrant Strange as all this rvy seem, the most as tounding and bewi 1 * ring aspect of the phe nomenon remains j be noticed. The finger thus elongated to nearly fourteen inches be yond its ordinary length, maintained its ordina ry circnmferenca and bulk throughout its en tire elongation, and yet seemingly drew none of this additional substance from the flesh, blood or bones of tbe body of Agado. In other words the entire weight of the subject was increased just in proportion to the elongation of tbe fin ger, and again diminished upon its retraction. Given a medium with this faculty, and the mystery of “spiritual” state writing Joses all its deliciously blood curdling fascination, and at once descends to the tame level of a common place fact. The medium makes his finger and nail grow long enough to reach the pencil lying in tho middle of the slato and fixing it firmly— skill in which may be readily attained by practice —under the lengthened nail,he readily writes the spiritual messages without losing his grasp from his end of the slate. How to account for the “hits” theso messages sometimes make is another branch of the snbject, and one which we will not now undertake to disenss. THE GEORGIA PRESS. The Foreign Fruit Trade of New York City. Alato number of the New York Commercial Ad vertiser gives some interesting statistics con cerning this trade. Of bananas that city im ports, annually, from 75 to 90 cargoes from Boracoa and Jamaica. Each cargo averages abont 3,500 bushels, and each is ballasted with from 5,000 to 7,000 cocoanuts. Of West Indio oranges—the importation of which commences October 20th and ends March 20th—tho Adver tiser does not give the exact figures. The duty on this fruit is 20 per cent, on tho gold value of tho cargo, while tho duty on other foreign frnit is only ten pdf cent The wholesale price of oranges on tho dock is from $7 to $15 per bar rel. Of pineapples about 75 cargoes, averaging 4,400 to each cargo, arrive annually. The wholesale price is from $7 to $12 ’per 100. Of cocoanuts about 100 cargoes are annually im ported, averaging 45,000 to each cargo. The price ranges from $35 to $C5 per 1000. The cost of chartering a vessel to bring frnit from the West India Islands is abont $15,000, and the total capital employed in the trade at that port exceeds $1,000,000. Loss of Life in Chicago.—A Chicago corres pondent of the New York Sun says that upwards of 500 bodies had been taken from tbe rains, fects greatly beneficial to the country ?—Qou-1 np tg the 16th instant. We hope that is a good ritV'Tonmal. • deal^bove the real number. Cotton is Steadily Sinking, day by day, under the pressure of heavy receipts which ap pear to indicate a large excess over boll esti mates- Some writer, in an article published last week, remarked that nothing was so fatal to a stalk of wheat as another stalk. We may say that nothing is so fatal to a bale of cotton in the market as another bale. But we are qnite unshaken in the impression that the crop of 1871 will show a large deficit. It cannot be otherwise, if there is truth in hnman talk and observation. It is easy to understand how a little crop may come in for a time abont as plentifnlly as a large one. A man can poor as large a stream out of a two as a four gallon can; and the only difference is it will stop the sooner. Tho necessity of pushing ihe crop forward is the same this October as it was the last, although we hope not qnite so extensive or urgent. But there is a large amount of accommodation paper whioh falls due 1st to 4th November and it must be met, whether the crop be largo or small. Tho actual tinth will be apparent from what is left behind. Hence, cotton is coming in pretty freely into Macon, on a falling market, and the figores so far show, perhaps, more tho relative amonnts of indebtedness to be met than tho actual crop. Up to and inclading 21st October last year Ma con received 22,950 bales, and for the same time thi3 year, allowing 600 bales for Saturday, the receipts will be 13,310. Columbus, np to Fri day, had received 5,712 bales, against 12.593 the year before. The falling off in Colnmbus is, no donbt, heavier than any mere crop deficit would call for. Bnt as long as cotton comes in freely there is amplo ground for the bears to go npon, and the pecuniary interest they have at stake is a vast one. If it should turn out next spring that there will certainly be a crop deficit of fourteen or fifteen hundred thousand bales, in the face of a generally sound and active trade condition, there is a clear ten cents margin npon every poned sold before Christmas, and ten cents a pound on a crop of two and a half to three mil lion bales is worth fighting for. It wonld be worth somewhere abont $125,000,000. When cotton is pouring into tho Sonthein ports, however, the fears of buyers are easily excited. It is a marvel how faint-hearted a commodity cotton is in the market, and how, by common oonsent, so many dealers reverse all the conditions of trade and buy on rising and sell on falling markets. Faith is lost and re gained without reason. The tales of cotton commission merchants, in proof of this fact, are amusing. Cotton drop3 and all, by one consent, let go—don’t want to tonch it at any price. Without a reason cotton reacts, and they pass to opposite conclusions and courses with the speed of a kite. The course of the planter is plain. If he will not come in with the crowd and sell his crop, when everybody else is forced to sell, and therefore on a falling market, he mnst get and keep out of debt. Farm and Home.—This excellent periodical is oat, and as a frontispiece presents a beauti ful view of the Grand ^ Central Bark Entrance. The table of contents ^occupies a whole page, and is, of course,exceedingly varied. We heartily commend toe Farm and Home to the public—especially to^tbat large portion of oar people who will be most interested in the Grand Agricultural Exhibition which takes place to-morrow-— ’ M The trewly loyl loafers of tho colored persua sion living on the Louisville road, near Savan nah, liivc organized a Bntlerian syndicate and levy contributions on all travelers going to tho city over that road. But as the travelers aie while, of course there is no harm done. Thero were 39 life, and 44 fire insurance com panies belonging to other States dbing business in Georgia last year. The number of Georgia fire insurance companies daring the same period was three, and of lifo insurance companies, one. The number of foreign insurance was ten, making 97 companies in all. The Methodists of Americas are having a re* vivah There is an unprecedented amount of sick ness in Miller county, this season, caused by an overflow of a large area of tbe connty daring the heavy rains of September. The Rev. Thomas Boone, son of tho late Bishop of China, will assume charge of the Episcopal Church, at Americas, on the 1st of November. The Columbus Sun learns from Mr. Gorman, of the Talbotton Standard, that he will again issue that paper next week, he having just se cured new press rid type from New York. Mr. William Madden, who amused himself by disturbing tho negro Methodist congregation of Columbus, last Sunday, has been made to give a $150 bond to explain that little circumstance before the next Superior Court. David Smith, of Clinch connty, was bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake, last week, bnt being drenched with a pint of turpentine, and two qoarts of whifcky, astonished his friends by re covering. They say his stomach is still a little disordered, though. A constitutionally tired colored troop, named Henry Mitchell, who borrowed ahorse last week near Camilla, has waked np from his fond dream of never riding “Shank’s mare” any more, and now boards with the Thomasville jailor. The Terrell county farmers say they will finish picking cotton in two or three weeks. Dawson is rather disposed to crow over a man who hasn’t shaved in ten years, and sports a beard 294 inches long. Gen. Toombs will deliver the annual address at the Thomasville Fair, on Wednesday, Novem ber 1st. The Dawson car works have recently shipped a number of narrow-gauge cars io be used on a North Georgia railway. The cane crop of Decatur connty is very largo this year, and tho lips of the Bainbridge girls are in a state of chronic sweetness. The S. G. in G., if not tho P. G. in G., has “the largest .aggregate circulation” in that section, just now. We clip the following from tho Dawson Jour nal, of Thursday: Work on tha Brunswick and Albany, and Bainbridge, Cnthbert and Colnmbus Railroads ha3 been suspended. On tho former from the Notchaway Creek, west, and on the latter from Cnthbert, north. Rumor has it that the mana gers and contractors have completed so much of these roads as they had received indorsed State bonds for, and that they were doing tbe work just suspended on borrowed Northern capital. A financial crisis in the North has in duced tbe capitalists there to offer the sugges tion of suspending for the present. The Valdosta Times announces the death, in that place, on the Uth instant, of Col. W. R. Manning, late President of the Lowndes County Agricultural Society, and during the late civil war commander of the 50th Georgia regiment np to the battle of Boonsboro, when he was badly wounded and compelled to leave the ser- We find the following card in the Columbus Sud, of Thursday. It would give us the heartiest satif faction to chronicle Col. L.’s election: Columbus, Ga., October 18, 1871. To ihe Democratic Senators and Representatives of the Georgia Legislature : My namo will bo presented to a caucus of the Democratic members of the Legislature as a candidate for the office of State Printer, and I shall be grateful for any support at your hands. If elected I shall be fully prepared to execute all work in prompt and workmanlike style, and to give ample security for the faithful discharge of all the duties appertaining to toe office. Respectfully, A. R. Lamar. Col. Hardeman, of this city, delivered the an nual address before the Atlanta Fair Association, on Thursday, whioh is highly complimented by the papers of that city. We quote, as follows, from the Atlanta Con stitntion, of yesterday: Athens Items.—Tho annual meeting of the Northeastern Railroad was held in Athens on tho 18th. The old Board was re-elected except J. J. Turnbull, of Banks county. George W. Center, of Athens, was elected in his place. R. L. Bloomfield was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors. About 1,300 shares wero repre sented. Saturday week the Direotora meet to decide which route to locate the road. It is ex pected that dirt will be broken by the middle of November. On the 17th Tom Ware, (colored) and Jonas Cochran, (colored) had an altercation near Moon’s shop, in Jackson county, concerning a dog, in which Cochran received a pistol shot in tho abdomen, resulting in his death in seven hours. Ware was arrested in Athens on the 17th and lodged in jail, aid on the 18th sent to Jefferson for commitment. The Synod of Georgia met in Athens on the evening of the 18th. There was bnt a small attendance. The Western fever has again broken out in Dalton and vicinity. The Atlanta Era, of yesterday, has tho follow ing items: Another Fatal Railroad Accident.—While the train on the Georgia Road from Madison was approaching Kirkwood Station, a few miles from this city, yesterday morning, the locomo tive ran over and killed Mr. A. B. Reagan, a brother of Major Reagan, who was working on the track. The Engineer did all in his pow er to avoid the sad accident, bat in vain. The body of tho nnfortnnate man was taken to his home, a short distance from the plaoe of tho accident. U. S. District Court.—The Grand Jury re turned on yesterday twenty-six bills, which in addition to the five previously returned, make thirty-one against persons charged with being gnilty of Ku-Klux outrages. Judge Erskine, npon discharging tbe jnry, recommended them for their fidelity. Judge E. leaves to-day to bold court at Savannah, having adjoarned the Conrt for the Northern District until tbe 22d day of December, at which time he will expect to hold conrt again in Atlanta. The Son, of same date, says: Treasurer Angieb Sued.—At the instance of Major Williams, Governor Bullock’s warrant clerk, and by Bullock’s prompting, Dr. Angier has been cited to appear before Judge Hopkins, on Saturday, the 28th insfc., to answer for his conduct in refusing to pay Exeoutive warrants, drawn while it was known that the Governor was beyond the limits of the State. Samuel Blakely, one of the oldest citizens of Spalding connty, died 1 at Griffin, on Tuesday, aged seventy-six years. John Smith is not dead at alL He only broke his arm by falling from a cotton sc :ew in Spald ing connty, last Wednesday. Miss Fannie Davis, aged 28 years, and of highly respectable character, committed suicide near old Bethany Church, Green county, last Sunday, by shooting herself twice through the head, and onoe in the side. She left two notes for her mother, bnt neither of them assigned any zeason for the aot. Times are lively with the Randolph county jailor. He has nineteen boarders—thirteen blacks and six whites. We clip these items from the Cnthbert Appeal, of Friday: Removed to Macon.—Colonel H. H. Jones, formerly editor of this paper, and now one of the editors and proprietors of the Macon Tele graph and Messenger, left with bis family on Wednesday morning for their new home. Col. Jones is a citizen whom onr city can ill afford to part with. Be was always alive to the ms^ terial welfare of the community, and was always found in tbe lead ir publio enterprises. He loaves a vacancy in business, social and church circles which will be felt for a long time; and tho good wishes and fervent prayers of many an honest heart go with him, his amiable wife and courteous, lovely children, to their new field. We congratulate Macon npon this valuable ac quisition to her citizenship, and heartily wish for tho Colonel a full fruition of his brightest hopes in all the relations of life. Leaving.—The large force of Messrs. Lyons & McLendon which has been engaged on the Bainbridge, Cnthbert and Columbus Railroad for sometime, passed through the city on Mon day. They go to work on the Griffin and Madi son Railroad. We learn that tbe force of Col. Griffin, recently on the Brunswick and Albany Road, will also proceed at once to Griffin to work on the Griffin and Madison Road. The gin houso of Mr. W. D. Lynch, who lives in Muscogee connty, on the Southwestern Rail road, was burned Wednesday might, together with about eight bales of seed cotton, a cotton press and the seed of thirty bales previously ginned. Loss $3,000. Columbus is to have a fire alarm bell weigh ing 4,000 pounds, with the names of the officers of the Fire department engraved npon it. Mr. Cranson Williams fell forty feet into a well, at Gainesville last Tuesday, and instead of finding Truth, he came out with a couple of sprained ankles. Which he got off light, in our jadg-ment. Ono hundred convicts and forty mnlos and carts passed through Gainesville, last Wednes day, going to work on the Air Line road. They wero part of Grant, Alexander & Co.’s force, and have been working on tho Cartersville and Van Wert road. We find the following* items in the Indian Springs Mirror, of Friday : Serious Accident.—On Monday last a little daughter of Joseph Wise, of Factory Hill, in this county, fell from a tree while gathering chestnuts, and was severely injured. She fell aoout thirty feet upon a fence, and was carried homo with a broken thigh, an arm broken abont tho wrist, a fractured jaw, teeth knocked out, and generally braised from head to feet. Fire.—We regret to learn of the destruction, by fire, of the store house, with its contents, at Hodge’s mill, in this connty. The storo room had undoubtedly been broken into and plan dered. Of this several evidences wore manifest, when the fire was first discovered, at daylight on Monday last. Nothing in the building was saved. Tbe loss i3 estimated at $3,000—a small portion of which falls npon the Messrs. Morgan, manufacturers, who had a furniture wareroom in the buildiDg. No insurance. Elberton connty does not need an emigration society. Aladynp there gave birth to three girls, one day last week, each weighing seven pounds. The Powder Mills property at Augusta was sold on Thursday, the city beiDg the purchaser. There wero 131 acres of land and two buildings, one of them very large and costly. The price paid was $10,300. Under the head “To Run Around Columbus,” the Colnmbus Enquirer of Friday calls the at tention of tbe citizens of that city to the follow ing paragraph from the Opelika (Ala.) Locomo tive. and says if such a scheme is really on foot the building of the North and South, and At lanta Air-Lino Railroads “is a vital necessity.” Says the Locomativo: The report of President Hazlehurst to the stockholders of the Macon and Augusta Rail road leaves no room for doubt as to the exten sion of that road to Opelika, crossing the Chat tahoochee at the mouth of Mulberry Creek. The proposed line passes through a fine farm ing country, possessing many advantages over the route from Macon to Columbus. The Presi dent is confident it will bo built. It is hardly probable that Opelika will be permitted to own any interest in this road. The stockholders know they have a good thing and will prefer to keep it to themselves. Other roads are con structing to which Opelika may desire to come in when the door is shut. Tho Savannah Advertiser, of Friday, takes nearly a column to tell how a “nice young man” fell in Jove with his “young and handsome” landlady—how they billed and cooed to such an extent that landlady’s spouse “out up” awful rough, and thirsted for nice young man’s gore —how a “jewel” was only averted by the inter ference of friends—how, at last, hnsband and wife quarrelled so bitterly that the household was broken up and the house closed—and how tho “nice young man” has gone to Baltimore, whither the young and handsome femme afore, said also betook horself a fow days since. What has become of tho hnsband wo are not informed, but if he should turn up in Baltimore, too, we shonld think thero was good ground for expect ing a fat job for the coroner. The sub Ku-klax Committee for Georgia ar rived at Atlanta Friday morning andcommenced work at once, holding a session that day and examining many witnesses, of whom st least forty were from Floyd county. The committee consists of Senator Bayard, (Dem.) of Dela ware, Hon. D. W. Voorhees, (Dem.) of Indiana, and'Messrs. G. Schofield, of Pennsylvania, W. Lansing, New York, and Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, all Radicals of the most relentless sort. On Friday night some of the Atlanta Demo crats welcomed and wined Messrs. Bayard and Voorhees at the Kimball House, and some im- promtu speeches wero made. The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, says: Putting on Airs.—We learn that Gov. Bul lock, since his return, has not only caused a suit to be commenced against Dr. Angier, be cause the Doctor refused to pay illegal warrants, but that he declines to draw any warrants on tho Treasury for any purpose. Persons to whom money is justly due, and to whom the money could as well be paid as not, cannot pre vail on tho Governor to draw his warrant for tbo same. We have heard that ho says he wants the question tested, as to whether he or Angier is Governor. He has, we are told, refused to issue warrants in favor of the it sane and the Deaf and Dumb Asylums—both of whioh are entitled to the money, and ought to be paid. We clip the following from the LaGrange Re porter, of Friday: Judge W. M. Reese, of Washington, State Sen ator elect from tbo 29th District, has been suggested as a fit and proper person to preside over the deliberations of the Seqate ; and Col. 3. M. Smith, of Columbus, as a suitable person to be made Speaker of the House. Capb Dun lap Scott, of Rome has also been suggested for the latter position. No better selection could be made than of Judge Reese. He is a repre sentative man of the intelligence and patriotism of the State. Firm and discreet, moderate and conservative, yet always adhering to principle and to the right, he will, it is to be hoped, be unanimously supported by the Democratic Senators for that position. We hope and trust no opposition will be offered, that the honor may be conferred aB a just tribute to uncring- ing adhesion to prinoiple and to the highest political and judicial integrity. Judge Clarke for United States Sena tor. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In com mon with many citizens of this section of the State, I think it is time that Southwestern Geor gia should be allowed to sharein the honors dis tributed by the Legislature. We ought to have the next United-States Senator. We can present a man every way qualified, and who is known as eminently trustworthy and deserving. I allude to the Hon. John T. Clarke, of Cnthbert, Ga., who filled the Judgship of the Fatanla Circuit with marked ability and integri ty for five or six years, and was finally removed from office by special order of Gen. Meade, be cause his manly and upright nature refused to use the functions of an office conferred by the people for the enforoenf&nt of oppressive and unconstitutional military orders. Judge Clarke has, since the war, taken a lead ing part in advancing the Democratic ciU3e, especially in Southwestern Georgia, and tho Democracy of the State recognized his ability and service by placing his name, with that of Gen. Gordon, on the eleotoral ticket for the State at large in 1868, and by giving him the position which he now fills as a member of the Executive Committee of too party. Judge Clarke is comparatively a young man, bnt is old enough to be in the full exercise of all his gifts, and to have displayed on many oc casions that political knowledge and those pow ers of eloquence, wLich cnHMe h’ra to rank among the first men of the State. We claim that he has few, if any, superiors, even amoDg those whom age and opportunity have made more celebrated. The material from which the Senator must be chosen is limited, for I take it for granted that the Legislature will not commit the folly of electing an ineligible man. Wo all regret the necessity of losing for a time the services of many of our statesmen of tried character and commanding repntation, but while we will never ceaso to honor them for what they have done, we will be obliged in tho future to look more for actnal service to the rising young men with whom the State is blessed. Give them positions where their light can shine, and ere long all will acknowledge their fitness to do those labors and bear those burdens of pnblic life from whioh unjust legislation has disabled so man of the older men. Judge Clarke is free from all legal disability. Having never held of fice beforo tho war, his name stands happily dis connected from those violent ante-war political issues which led to sectional strife and animos ity, and he might obtain a more favorable hear ing for this State in the Senate on that afcconnt. Were he in the United States Senate neither hope nor fear wonld drivo him from the post and path of duty. Ho wonld prove a discreet and prudent counsellor, yet an able and gallant de fender of truth and right, and all his publio conduct would bo regulated by exalted senti ments of personal honor and disinterested pa triotism. We know that oursuggestion is warmly approved by many, both in and out of tho Leg islature, in various parts of tho State, as we wonld not write this until wo had written to and consulted witn several members of the Legisla ture in different parts of tho State. Whether Judge Clarke would be disposed to turn aside from bis professional career to enter upon snch an office we are not authorized to say. But Georgia and Georgia Democrats can do no bet ter than to elect him. And we may say unhesitatingly, wero Judge Clarke in the United States Senate fonr years, that both parties would acknowledge his marked ability as a statesman, and toe Democratic party be prond of their Senator. Democrat. Sonthwest Georgia, October 17, 1871. Female Slanderers. Editors [Telegraph and Messenger • y could read the just and able remarks’*? 0 *1 peared in the Telegraph & Messenger * 13th, on tl e male slanderer of woman • * fully appr mating and endorsing them’ female sei wonld be ungrateful, indefY^* thank the generous mind tvho so ^ * fend3 it. But when we try to esaai 'l man’s exc illenoe, we find that the worm J is eating i nd destroying it is really ij! , V sex itself, pot the male, and so we will av show ns the man who has a truly itiau mother, or a I Tlie High Honor to a Macon Boy.—Master Wes ton Patterson, son of Dr. Fatterson, of this city, and at present a member of the Sophomore class of the University of Georgia, has been chosen one of the participants in the pnblio debate that will come off at Athens some time next month. We hear six members of the Senior class are among the number selected for thiB dis tinguished honor, bnt onr young friend is the only “Soph” that has been this year, or ever was thus honored. He is fonr years the junior in age of any of his companions, but in the mat ter of. brains we predict that he will prove his right, at least, to equality with the most gifted among the number. - A New English Coalition.—The World’s London correspondent says that & coalition has been formed between leading members of the House of Lords and the representative men of trades unions and working classes upon the oonoesaion by the power of certain demands of tho latter, embraced in sev6n distinct- stipula tions. One of the Lords, in the' course of tho negotiations, exclaimed: “Yon say we may be actuated by selfish impulses. We confess it; if we don’t make friends with you, yon and yours may take all we have; bnt if we make friends with you, you maybe willing to leave us half.” Story of a Remarkable Ken* tucky Family. We find the following article in the Courier. Journal of Thursday: Abont one mile from Jamestown, Russell county, there lives one of Iho most remarkable families in all this commonwealth, and probably in tho United States. Mr. James Jeffries, who i3 now in this city serving npon the petit jnry in the United States Coart, tells his own story, and says that he was married before ho was seventeen years old, his wife being only five days younger than himself. They lived together seven years without children, when his wife gave birth to twins, a buy and a girl. In the fifteen years which followed, nineteen children were born to the happy couple, each of the first three births being twins and each subsequent birth alternating between twins and single births un til the fifteen years were accomplished and nine teen children composed the family circle, seven pair of twins being bom daring the time. Mr. Jeffries is only 45 years old and is still youthful in appearance and very stout. His wife never had better health in all her life than at present, bnt sh9 will not weigh a hundred pounds. Her greatest weight at anytime was 110 peunds. The boy of the first twins now weighs 165 ponnds, and ihe girl 125 pounds. All the boys who are grown have made large men; the girls are of good size and all the children hoalthy, But five out of the nineteen have died. Mr. Jeffries has ten brothers, all of whom are large men, and within the families of these eleven brothers there are thirty-seven pairs of twins, making seventy-four twin children, to say noth ing of the host of single births. Five of Mr. Jeffries’ children are married, and, added to all these singular facts, notwithstanding the absence of silvery lock#on his head, he is the grandfather of five children. The Jeffries family is certainly a remarkable one, or the member thereof whose Christian name is James, a most remaikable liar. And if tho latter, he is a relishable one, and no mistake. The Kn-klux Committee at Knox ville. The snb-committee appointed by Congress to investigate the condition of affairs in the States of Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, met in thi3 city to-day to organize for their work. Hon. Horace Maynard is chairman of the committee, and for this reason Knoxville wa3 chosen as the place for organizing. Tho committee, in addition to Mr. Maynard, is com posed as follows: Hon. Glennie W. Scofield, of Pennsylvania; Hon. Wm. E. Lansing, of New York; Hon. Thomas J. Bayard, Senator from Delaware; and Hon. Dan W. Voorhees, Representative from Indiana. The last two named, representing the Democratic party on the committee. The com mittee will be accompanied by W. Blair Lord, Esq., and an assistant as stenographers. Dar ing their stay in Knoxville the gentlemen named will bo entertained by onr citizens. The com mittee will probably leave on Thursday for At lanta, Georgia, to begin their investigations. The gentlemen composing this committee are all of a national reputation, and will donbtless bring to the discharge of their duties an earnest determination to do right. Senator Bayard and Mr. Voorhees, the Democratic members, are able lawyers and distinguished leaders in their party.—Chronicle, 17th. The Late Tenessee Road Sales.—The Balti more Snn, of Wednesday, says: The East Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia Railroad Company has purchased the Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charleston Railroad fox the snm of $300,000 in Tennessee State bonds. The Knoxville and Kentucky road was sold by the commissioners to an association of gentlemen composed of Wm. B. Johnson and A. L. Maxwell, of Macon; ex-Governor J. E. Brown, of Atlanta; O. M. McGhee, of Knox ville ; Columbus Delano, of Ohio; Simon and Don Cameron, of Fennsylvania; Thomas Scott, of Pennsylvania Central Railroad; Moses Tay lor, of New York, and B. Severe, of Boston, for $350,000 in bonds. The Nashville and Northwestern road was sold to the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Com pany for the amonnt of $1,700,000, State bonds. It is the intention of the purchasers to place the road in first-class order at as early a date as possible. Work has already began, inclading the construction of an iron bridge over the Tennessee liver at Johnsonville, to be about 1,200 feet in length. “To be Taken Gradually.”—The St. Loots Democrat, a Radical paper, prints the following dispatch from Chicaeo: There are all sorts of stories afloat from time to time concerning the arrest and' shooting or hanging of incendiaries. Among the moat sen sational is one that last night an inoendiary was arrested near the Catholic Church, who, learn ing he wonld be hanged, confessed that he came here with a hundred ex-rebels from St. Louis to burn the oity, and now that it was done, he was ready to die—and he died. Although some respectable people vcnch for this story, it must be taken gradually. We are glad they swallowed that story “grad- ualiy”—otherwise it might have hurt them. vo ed chri itiau mother, or a true-h tuous wife, one “whose price is abow* . whose chiJ Iren rise up and call herblemJi whose bus land also praiseth her,” eho» ^ a man whe was ever known to traduce ,3 Did Washi ngton or John Q. Adams B t? ° r J- E - B Stuart, ever slander woman'j * John Net ton, (whose saintly mothr , soared to the Beautiful City) andlvl twenty yeairs rushed recklessly on to until reoia ined by the recollection ofTl sons early taught him by his angel nun?! in the wu l hurricane exclaimed ■ ‘inr mother’s C od, save me, help me,” did i, became as a shining light, and afterwariLl many to tl e foot of the Cross, slander tmT* And the s era old patriot, Andrew whose mot ner was left a widow with tW* when two >f them fell in their country vice, noblj gave np her life attending t** poor prise ners—did he traduce woman’ who honoi ed his mother and adored 1 more than Napoleon the First, and wet-^ member 1 is famous injunction to thece’rf -J Madame C ampan, how to train up the girls unde * her eare. A good nother’s influence is never although t may seem to pass away ora tor years, md through the loDg vista of^ hood’s fea s, and hopes and ambition dren prese :ve unsullied the gems ensWi the caskei of childhood and yonth "and’T with all iti winds of passioD, “its eymeesd its asphodi h,” conld never shut ont the t ^ of their mt ther’s face; even as to the a on the batt le-field and the sailor, rudely t on the raf ing sea, will always come fa] memory of their mother. We all remem^ j story of t te Eastern Monarch (and sot J come to th > worm at the root of the U who, when his prime minister approached for justice, for any of his subjects, invaral asked, “Where and who is the womamthd caused this wrong?” and always traced if] woman’s influence. One of onr writers! said that “slander and gossip are the dead weapons man ever forged for hia brofa hurt.” Great crimes work great wrongs,! the deeper tragedies of human life sprin’fc its greater passions, bnt the “nncatalogneda edies” tha< issue from slander and gosi-j, most woef il and melanoholy; aud moated ful is the s lipwreck so often made of noils J tures and lively lives by the bitter winds 3 “dead sea waters of slander. One of c or most gifted and well beloved; isters here preached one of tho finest m ' ever deliv red from a pnlpit, on tho text 1 shalt not go up and down as a tale-h. among my people’'—ably showing thate worse tha: i the originator of the slander w was the oi e who carried it from house toH adding to it, of course, as it went. And*i| know that it is woman who goes from boa] house, in the very bosom of each family, J dneing other women—instigated by envy, ;J 0U3y and petty malice—dissolving frieikl once firm, as granite, and evaporating liiel morning : nist love that was once as stable] truth itsel! and had promised a future as 1 during as leaven.” And it is the vile, ste ons tongt cs of snch women that make 1 give placuto despair, and faith to doutt J suspicion, and will even make charity, | greatest o the Christian graces, wear the!* tures of “ black malevolencefor with t little aton of trath that makes it all thee diabolical they insinuate things so hard toil prove, an 1 throw on the innocent all the tcif and stain >f demonstrating their innocence,!] cause the; cannot destroy the sting of whatti| do not s >e, or deny the slander they do: hear. Hi w fearful to think of the lives £ blighted! Foor, feeble women, toiling tog an honest livelihood for themselves and b helpless t nes—widows, and those deserted! their hnsl ands (too often from this my emu straggling on in their loneliness for their dc| bread—ai d suddenly they awake to the! that frien Is fall off, and cold looks and fa smiles gr set them from some they belief 'most true, when an accidental word is dag] which uni avels the mystery: they have tel basely “s abbed in the dark” by ono ofbl sneaking t usybodies circulating false repcre.J them, or b inting baso insinuations, mean-::d| and more < lowardly, to try to take away all lh| was left 1 o them—their fair unsnllied i more preo: ons than the costliest gems. Even th i poor snffering invalid, pro;!: on a bed of agony, or shut np in afflict!;] chamber, i 3 not saved from these femaleghos for her very sufferings are, by them, attrifc-J to imagine tion, hypochondria, or worse 4f the inline! ce of morphia and stimulants, r slanderous vipers take refuge behind thefe* to slander and malign poor, feeble women, tha ing they c innot be called to account for all ltd mean, ions baokbiting tongues assert c;J sinuate tr^m house to house of absent pecpl When a man defames or rains a woman u] made to account for it, or even shot down * impunity, and tho whole world is against h bnt when a woman, through jealousy, envyr malice, in a base, cowardly manner insinar these falsehoods and perpetrates these slanJ she thinks her sex protects and shields if’jj How many snch cases occur daily, and weg - "' to say our fair city has the reputation of 1 peculiarly fdieted in this way, and event journals of sister cities have remarked this vejry faot, x for some have been forced to s] peal to the journals for redress and justice, r deed, there are few (if even one isolated r be found) here who have not been slung i backbitten by these slanderous tongues, «■* can bnt feel rejoiced that our Legislature:® wisely taken it in hand and made Blander] criminal offense; for what can a woman J thus persecuted by others far beneath her is’ that makes true worth and excellence, foratre. noble woman will never degrade herself tolw to, repeat, or believe,such baso insinuatios:: her fellow-women. J There never was a truer sentiment than of the old Scotch nurse, “a dog that will f*- a bone will carry one,” and should he distrusted and watched, for they rob us of tr^ ure far moire precious than gold and silver—^ unsnllied name. We know their iniquity" find them ont; and even as they mete will ir- measured to them. Aye, even more fujtyij sowing the wind they will reap the whii‘ r * But alas! many noble and good will ofteni- fer to leave a community and die among s**. ers, rather than endure the daily heart-acMR bitter wrong with which they wonld be tort® in “living down” the slander and defio^, of these backbiters. It is bard and experience that feeling of being wrongei^ we might beoome disappointed, hard-bs^ cynics did we not ding to the great ancb-T; Truth, and, treating the hissing serpent “ the silent scorn it deserves, bide G°^ a 5 time, knowing that he who never slumbers > said, “Vengence is mine—I will repay,' *®-' patience await the reward promised to the p^- maker and the pare in heart. A Firat-class Notice of Little man. We are indebted to the Ohio Statesmen - the following highly appreciative notice of Fouquier Tinville of tbe 'WashingtonComm® But Akerman was only a wagon-ma8ter> Statesman: , OoL Akerman, late Commissary on ft 0 t of Gen. Robert Toombs, in the rebel a-m.V, compariied his patron, Gen. Grant, on Jj} 3 to the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, on - — - - ecbm 1 ; last The Colonel made a glowing spee—.^ disabled veterans, bnt wisely refrained staff and in the ranks of the rebel Ho®*? I tne reDei hk*"-. ; ^ of Georgia. He is now Attorney administration of General Grant, n! j, ; 5 honnd in chief to the oppressors of tha ®° people. ’ A purchased traitor to his own secJ<w> J as bitter on the South as he was on his | North daring toe war, when it was tow eet of his pocket and his precious hum into the rebel commissary department u Akerman is one of the few Northern ^ birth and ednoation who took service ^ rebel army, bnt the veterans at Dayton ^ consolation of knowing that he wasnev^ ^ enough to the front to be responsible • of their injuries. The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Deutsoh P* I shocked at the nnds small boy on the D* I Fountain: “Der Bhmall Poy stand* on der Fountain, Und he don’t get cn any dose, . Und dem young girls dey all plash, •» •Vat he means by snob < act as do»«-
