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The Greorgia, Weekly Telegraph and. Journal Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACOF, NOVEMBER 7, 1871 lions Items. The South Carolina Ku-Klux.—The hew York Herald has sent ont a commissioner to in quire into affairs in Sonib Carolina, and his first letter will bo found in onr edition to-day. Wo take leave to commend it to the particular attention of the reader. It is the statement of a party, who if prejudiced at all, is bo against and not in favor of the peopleof South Carolina. Well may he claim, that his revelations will excite surprise. New Political Move is Poston.—The Bos ton Advertiser comes out in an editorial mani festo, which is charged by the Herald to'Bave been prepared under the supervision of Senator Sumner and Secretary Boutwell, proposing to prevent a schism in the Radical parly by re moving all pretext for it. The plan is to fall back on the original idea of the Constitution— and nominate trusty men as electoral candi dates, unpledged to any particular presidential candidate—leaving them at full liberty to fol low their own discretion in casting their votes in the electoral colleges. The Herald says the Advertiser is striking out in the right direction, and will be sustained by “an awakening public sentiment.” Senatob Sumner recently addressed a letter to a convention of negroes in Columbia, S. O., in which he conjures them, by every consideration of respect for their own race, to insist on a common occupancy of all public conveyances and accommodations with the whites. He says as good will not meot the case, because that recognizes the damnable distinction on account of color. They must occupy the samo hotels, tables, steamboat cabins, railway cars, and the same seats in churches, public halls and thea tres. and tho same accommodations at the pub lic baths, etc. They must, show, in a word, that the negro i3 just the samo as the white ' man, only a little improved, and this must bo the grand Kadical platform in 1872.^ Governor Bullock on m3 Travels.—A Washington dispatch of the 3Cth nit., in the New York Sun, soys: Before preceding to New York, Governor Bullock tarried in this city long enough to intimate to a distinguished Pennsylvania Senator that ho was about to wash his hands of Georgia forever. In the course of this conversation Bullock said he had re signed tho Governorship of Georgia and placed tho same in the hands of tho President of the State Senate. According to very recent Geor gia advices, the Governor has not taken this step unadvisedly. The Legislature there is already preparing to impeach him, and the Attorney General has been instructed to insti tute criminal prosecutions against both Bollock and Kimball for coining large amounts of State bonds without authority of law. The connec tion of this ofiicial with tho late sale of the State railroad was also being made the subject of investigation. In consideration of this state of affairs, it is said the ex Governor is but exercising a necessary cantion in peremptorily resigning his high office. Loyalty in Trade Makes.—Some enterpris ing boot and shoemakers in Boston have been refused a patent for a trade mark, consisting cf likenesses of Goneral Lee and Stonewall Jack- son impressed npon the leather. The govern ment was of opinion that these leather likenesses “tended to encourage disloyalty in the South 1” It most bo confessed that in this, as in most Other matters, the Northern brethren display great practical sagacity. They make “South ern disloyalty” the grand political hobby npon which they ride into office and portion ont the United States Treasury, and then, on the other hand, they work “Southern disloyalty'’ in the interests of Southern trade. They make V. pay both ways. And as to thes’o loather portraits, they were only one cf a thousand dodges of the same kind—from n cotton pocket handkerchief emblazoned with the Confederate flag, to a Bob Lee regalia—a Stonewall hat or a Dixie churn. The Boston shoemakers surely failed to '■'come down” with something required of them, or the Commissioner of Patents would never have made the first discovery of “disloyal trade marks” in their case. Their predecessors were a legion. Scott vs. Gbant.—The Cincinnati Enquirer nominates tho great Pennsj lvanip. Bailway King, Thomas A. Scott, against Gen. Grant for the Presidency in 1872. The controversy, it seems, is to turn on the question of financial ability— the art of money-getting. The Enquirer thinks Scott ahead of Grant in that particular; but we are not so well assured of that fact. Scott con trols several hnndred millions and pays divi dends ; but it is whispered that ho borrows money to do it, while, on the other hand, Gen. Grant, on a salary of $25,000 a year, has saved up (so it is said) half a million dollars in two or three years. In the way of solid profits wo be lieve Grant is ahead, and it would never do to put the Democratic parly on that issue alone. Boss Tweed might possibly show as rapid accu mulations as Grant, bnt then they charge the Boss with downright stealing, and plain steal ing implies no great financial ability. On the whole, we can’t be clear abont Scott till we road throngh the Pennsylvania Central ltailroad reports. The Epidemic op Fraud Down South.—It seems (says the New York Herald, of Taesday,) as if the whole country were being swept by a oyclone of official frand and corruption. Be sides the astounding developments in this city, we find that startling frauds have been discov ered in relation to tho Tennessee bounty claims, and that oven one of tho usually high-toned and honorable communities in Kentucky has been similarly afflicted, resnlting in the arrest of the Mayor and many officials. When we take into consideration the enormous railroad swin dles in Georgia and Alabama, and the notori ously corrupt practices of the Louisiana Legis lature, we may well ask what is becoming of ns as a civilized nation. There is no mere “cyclone” of frand in the South. It has been a steady and uninterrupted tempest for six years—a chronic simoon, bleating everything it has touched. Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana are certainly in no wors6 case than the Carolina?, Florida, Mis sissippi and Texas. The whole has been one dead wasto of extortion and robbery under loyal pretences. The Washington Chronicle publishes an as tounding bit of news. It says the Kn-klnx Committee feel confident that they will be able to show that tho enormous debts which have been saddled on the reconstructed States, amounting to some $227,000,000 have not been created by the carpet-baggers, bnt are the re sult of tho depreciation of Confederate bonds. The explanation to bo made is this, that the now governments have been obliged to replace moneys belonging to the sinking, nniversity and school funds, which had beon lost throngh investments in rebel securities.' As tho New York Snn remarks, this is abont tho weakest effort to whitewash frand that has yet been attempted. In the expressive language of Shakespeare, it is “too thin.” Cuban advices report that their little revolu tion is crawling up again. The Democratic papers charge that Bontweil stole his financial policy from a poor English man named Garvin. If chat is so Boutwell shonld sue the owner for damages. The great Boosevelt Hospital,the gift of James H. Boosvelt to New York City, which cost in its construction more than a million dollars, was turned over to the city last Wednesday. Thebe is a heavy law suit pending, which in volves the entire University property at Chapel Hill, res 1 and personal. So says the Raleigh Carolinian. Why Don’t the Administration Apol ogize ? Tho telegrams yesterday informed ns that, in the haste to declare martial law against the poor South Carolinians, a careless clerk pnt “Marion county” instead of “Union county” into the official proclamation, and nobody ever read the proclamation over to see it was’as near right as such a thing conld be. After the doenment had rnn ten days or a fortnight, tho blander was discovered, and another proclamation was issued lifting the military heel off of Marion county and transferring it to Union, with never a word of apology for the blunder. The Marion men are left to pocket the loss and console them selves a9 best they can. Now this conduct is worse than of the drunken sheriff who baDged the wrong man by mistake. He sent his best apologies to the widow and children of the unfortunate defunct, saying he.was drank when he did it, and meant nothing of the bind. Although, as a measure of redress, this was far from satisfactory, yet, it showed at least a disposition to be jast and kindly. Why did not Grant send 7tis regrets to the men of Marion county whom be had falsely stigmatized to the world as in a state of insur rection, and unworthy the protection of ftvil law, and the rights and privileges of freemen ? Why did he not do it? If he was drank, or ab sent when the proclamation was issued, ordid not care enough abont the white people of South Carolina, to be certain whom ho hit with his military club, he might at least have salved over the matter with some cheap expression of re gret for so serious an injustice. The Northern prints, however, charge at the facts in this case, that Grant was absent when both proclamations were issued. He wa3 away when the first one came out, giving tho people fee dags to bring in their arms; which was in the nature of an offal sacrifice to the malig nant demon of the Ku-klnx law. This prelimi nary tender of mercy was like reading the riot act to a mob, before the order to fire npon them, and was extended in the precise spirit of a bloody minded functionary who shonld pronounce the last word of the act and the com mand "fre” in the same breath. Grant gave fine days' warning, all of which had expired before half of the people he addressed could possibly have seen his proclamation. Then, while he was still away, came out the second proclama tion based on the allegation that the people had not heeded the first one, when they conld not have seen it or he possibly have known whether it had been heeded or not. Both of these bear his signature, and the presumption raised by the Northern prints is, that ho signed both at the same time before ho left tho capi tal on his trip to New England. This is what some of them charge, and, if trae, it is of a piece with the whole bnsiness. Still “Hazy.” The Washington Republican is still in donbt abont the Bnllock trick, and says no one ap pears to know what it means—that is, no one of its stupid sort For the Now York Post (Rad.), a paper with its eyes open, appears to understand all abont it, and the Republican prints what the Post says, thus contradicting itself. Says the Post: “The telegraph reports that Governor B. B. Bnllock, of Georgia, has resigned. It ad is that h : s resignation has been anticipated for some rime. This is not, however, probable; for only a fe w days ago Governor Bollock declared that he was not fearful of the result of the impeachment, which was threatened by the new Legislature. It is likely that, as the day for the session ap proached, the evidence against him accumulated so rapidly that he suddenly conclnded to avoid the issue with the Legislature by resigning. Somebody is responsible for a vast amount of extravagance and corruption in Georgia, and this act will not weaken the charges made for many months against tho Governor and his friends.” And by the way : From the sneering way in which the Republican speaks of the great ab- squatlator—actually calling him “Bnllock” without any prefix—we judge that he is not very much considered about Washington, just now, among the trewly loyl, and that the Present Taker has dropped him as an orange no longer capable of being squeezed. Grant has no more use for a man who can’t give him something, than a cat has for water. When Bnllock was splurging at Willard’s, a winter or two ago, and Blodgett at the National, keeping open house with free whisky, champagne, and Partagas, and paying Forney and the Republican man 40 cents a line for editorials urging re-reconstruc tion for Georgia and a seat in the Senate for Blodgett, it was his “Excellency, Gov. Bnllock, of Georgia,” and tho “Hon. Foster Blodgett, Senator elect from Georgia.” Now, be jabers, it is plain Bnllock and Blodgett—the latter of whom this same Republican said, a few weeks since, wonld bo entirely ont of place in the Senate, intimating that the peni tentiary was possibly his proper sphere.— It all reminds ns of the story of Mr. Dixon, a colored brother of the barber persuasion, some where np in Connecticut—New Haven, perhaps —who said that the first year ho joined the church he gave $10 as his annual contribution, and all the brethren greeted him very warmly as “brother Dixon.” The next year he gave only $5, and they dropped the brother and called him “Mr. Dixon.” The next year he only gave $2 60, and then he was “Dixon,” and the next year when he gave nothing they cut him dead, and spoke of him as that “old nigger Dixon.” Hon. Clifford Anderson for Governor Below vra publish a communication signed Many Citizens,” urging the claims of this favorite son of Macon, as a suitable candidate to fill the nnexpired portion of Gov. Bnllook’s term of office. Mr. Anderson stands in the front rank among the legal minds of Georgia, and is eminently qualified for any office in the gift of the people. Quite a number of names are mentioned in con nection with the gubernatorial office. We trust a fair showing will be allowed them oil in tho Convention, and then let the word be “close ranks and double quick” in solid column against tho enemy. Georgia cannot—must not, divide at this im portant juncture. Since the war we have been enabled to make headway even against Federal bayonets, a corrupt Executive, a Radical Judi ciary, and tho edicts of a usurping President and Congress. Union and concert of action, have preserved ns from the fato of the Carolinas and Louisiana. Let the same spirit animate every Georgian in the approaching conflict, and we shall retain the prond prestige of being the freest of all tho lata Confederate States: Macon, November 4tb, 1871. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: If there shonld be an election for Governor for the nn expired term of Governor Bnllock, wo beg to suggest as a candidate Hon. Clifford Anderson. It is unnecessary to tell tho people or Georgia who Mr. Anderson is. His past services, as every citizen will attest, prove him to be not only a man of capacity, bnt one of the great est integrity. Respectfully, Many Citizens. The Atlanta New Era has discovered a fatal bar to a special election to fill Bnllock’s vacan cy, in the Constitutional provision in regard to tho regular election, that the votes for Gov ernor shall bo counted on the day after the Legislature is organized. We are glad to see he can find nothing stronger than that, for his own good senso will tell him it amonnts to nothing. The cloar grant of power to provide for a special election carries with it necessarily every power needfnl to give effect to the elec tion. Editorial Correspondence. Atlanta, November 3, 1871. Nothing of importance transpired in either branch of the General Assembly yesterday. Onr telegraphic summary last night embraced every thing. The Dunlap Scott resolutions were fally considered in a joint caucus of both houses after adjournment, and the minority report of the committee to whom they had been referred was adopted by an overwhelming vote. This acknowledges Conley as possessed of Executive authority de facto or ad interim, and announces the General Assembly organized, and ready to proceed with the usual routine of business. The astounding canard of Bnllock will meet with an effectual checkmate by this temperate action of the Legislature. No bloody Kn-klnx telegrams will confirm the atrocious falsehoods of the guilty fugitive from justice. The air, however, is thick with rnmors of Federal inter ference in Georgia affairs. It is asserted that martial law will be proclaimed and the writ of habeas corpus suspended. Nothing can be too despotio and high-handed for Grant and his minions; bnt this diablerie would out Herod Herod in the catalogue of his usurpations. Fortunately, wise and moderate counsels have prevailed and onr Dictator will have not oven the semblance of an excuse for inflicting his bayonets upon ns. "Nous verrons,” as Father RUchie would say. Among the officers elected was the veteran Jesse Oslin, to his ancient post as Messenger of the Honse. His nimble step and smiling face carry ns back to good old nnte-bellnra times, when majorities ruled and the country was free. The action of the caucus looks to tho speedy passage of a bill ordering a special election to fill the nnexpired portion of Governor Bul lock’s term. It is even mooted to make the Democratic nomination in jote* .-encus of the two houses. We do not believe, however, thsi proposition finds much favor with the members, as it wonld be a violation of the people’s prerogative, to select their own standard bearer from delegates chosen from their midst in primary assembly. In these railroad times a notioe of even fifteen days wonld suffice to bring together a large and representative Convention. This is the only course which wonld ensure harmony and prevent bolting on the part of the several aspirants whose names are men tioned in connection with this high office. Of conrso even thirty or forty days’ notice is the least which wonld be allowed for so important an.eleotion. As will be seen in their proceedings, the Legislature is again tinkering at the interest question. How long will it be before sound maxims of political economy are allowed to obtain on this subject? .Money, like any other commodity, derives its value from snpply and demand, and is worth what it will command freely in the markets. The impossibility also of enforcing usury laws render them praotically of no effect. Whether the General Assembly will adjourn after the passage of the election bill, and await the installation of a new Governor before pro ceeding to general legislation, remains to be seen. We hope they will do so. II. H. J. “Ratlier Hazy.” The Tribune draws it mild on the absquatu lating Bollock's explanation of bis flight in the above phrase. If old man Greeley is as honest as his friends claim, and as he doubtless believes himself to be, he will hasten to lift that affidavit jast so soon as all the evidence is paraded on the subject. So far from there being anything “hazy,” then, about it, there will be rather a loss for words to express the exceeding luminos ity of the affair. We hope to hear from the Tri bune, then. The Times’ comments were admirably in keeping with the character, or rather the lack of it, of that enr-dog, thick and thin sheet. It was eminently proper that Bullock’s first de fender shonld be found in a paper that to-day enjoys the proud notoriety of being, if anything, a little more disgustingly trewly loyl than oven Forney’s Press. Clews pretty much runs the Times, and of conrso it shonld speak ont for Clews’ bond-gorged friend, Bnllock. Wait till Republican papers like the Springfield Republi can, the New York Sud, and Cincinnati Com- mercial tackle Bnllock, and see if they find any thing “hazy” in his character or conduct as il lustrated in his superbly mendacious and inso lent address to the people of Georgia. “Hazy,” indeed! •. ■ The Course of the Legislature Thus far, has been characterized by groat dignity, prudence and self-possession. The ac tion of the Goneral Assembly is evidently con trolled by men who understand what they are abont, and will pnt no weapons in the hands of the enemies of Georgia. New perils unques tionably await the State; and if Mr. Conley and his Radical backers assume and inaistupon the absurd position that the Legislature cannot provide by special election to fill Governor Bnllock’s vacancy, a conflict of jurisdiction is likely to arise. Bnt even in such event, the greater need of coolness and address—of using no ill-considered word and of takirig no step which will hare to bo retraced. We believe the Legislature will prove itself a wise, calm and safe body. Usury Laws.—The publio drift is pretty clearly indicated in the general attack npon the usury laws in the Legislature. Laws fixing the price of money are. always evaded, as a matter of oonrse; bnt as the evasion is more or less dangerous, it impairs security and the damage must bo compensated by increased rates of in terest. Usury laws, therefore, only make money dearer. It is a grotesque commentary on the statute limiting interest in Georgia to eight per cent, that everybody knows that eighteen to thirty per cent, is the current rate all over Georgia. The law is a dead letter, and a dead letter statute is the most dangerons kind of a corpse. A law declaring that where rates of interest are not specified seven per cent, shall he the rule is all that is necessary. The Ku-klux Committee Report.—Washing ton dispatches say that Senator Scott, of Penn sylvania, is there at work preparing his report for Congress. It will be n most elaborate doe nment, the testimony alone making almost as much os tho evidence of the committee on tho conduct of the war. The snb-committee on the debts of the Southern States are not yet ready, but so far as the statements ore made np they show an increase of expenditure and taxation and debt that bid fair to overtop the most ex travagant estimates which have been made, and show an oppression of the people that wonld naturally enough provoke resistance in an unlawful shape. _ A “Collins Axe” has long been the standard of the highest quality. We are pleased to learn that the new Steel Plows made by Collins & Co., New York, are adding to the great reputation of the company for excellent steel goods. The dreadful yellow disease is raging in this country. Death stares yon in the face. Why do yon delay ? Go to the drag store and get n package of Simmons’ Liver Regulator, for one dollar, and remove the cause of thi3 fatal dis ease. Keep your Liver in proper order and there is no danger of your being afflicted. Sixty miles of streets in Chioago burned and laid waste tell the tale of that city’s desolation more fully than all the glowing comments in the world. THE GEORGIA PRESS- The pickpockets at the Augusta fair thus far have hod only iean rations—one gold watch be ing all that was reported np to Thursday night. We clip these items from the Chronicle and Sentinel of yesterday: The End of a Carolina Tragedy.—On yes terday morning the Chronicle and Sentinel published the fact that a little boy living in Edgefield county, South Carolina, abont two miles from Hamburg, had been murdered by his nurse. On yesterday we received fuller par ticulars of the affair, from which it seems that the tragedy has been snpplemertC 1 by still an other deed of blood. It appears that the mur deress was a nurse on the plantation of the gentleman whose child was killed. Being in censed for some cause or other, she deliberately took a shot gun and killed the little boy, who was only two years old. Tho woman then fled, and hot pursuit was organized. She took the road to Graniteville, and was arrested about ten o’clock in the evening. Soon after her arrest she was taken in custody by the deputy sheriff of the county. Shortly after this, while the prisoner was walking along the road between two constables, suddenly a shot was fired and the woman fell dead. No one knows who did tho killing, as the shot came from a crowd of men at a distance from tne spot. The names of the parties are not given for the present. Runaway and Accident.—On yesterday even ing a rather singular accident ocnnrred, by which a frolic. brought its own punishment. From what we <jan learn of the affair, it seems that just after the termination of the race a party named Blackwell, from Elbert county, and atvisitor in attendance on the Fair, wished to come from the grounds to Broad street. Unable to get a conveyance, he took possession of a bnggy belonging to Mr. J. B. Pournelle, and making a little negro get in with him, started np town. Mr. Pournelle discovering what had been done, started in pursuit. Blackwell drove very recklessly, and when turning a corner he and the negro were thrown from the bnggy. Eaoh of them had his left arm broken, and medical assistance was summoned. The police man who came to arrest Blackwell for taking the boggy, found him under the care of a phy sician. Savannah shipped 2,210 bales of cotton, val ued at $188,224 47, to Liverpool, on Wednesday. A very colored Othello shot and winged his saddle hued Dssdcmona, at Savannah, Wednes day night. The wound was “somewhere below the knee,” bnt she was too modest to let the M. D.’s examine it. Henry Smith, who shot and killed Lawson, the sailors’ boarding house runner, at Savan nah, on Wednesday, was arrested and bailed the next day, bnt immediately after was re- arrested, and is now in jaiL While riding in a bnggy on the Fair Ground at Augusts, on Wednesday, it was upset and Mr. and Miss Byne, of Jefferson county, thrown out, and the latter rather severely hurt. J. M. Gray’s jewelry store at Valdosta was robbed of twenty watches and a lot of other valuable jewelry, on Monday night. Jaok Fairchild, a tender blossom of loyal color, aged only 98 years, married “old Aunt Toney Clarke,” aged 75, at Columbus, the other day. ITow sweet is love’s young d-r-e-a-m 1” We clip these items from the Columbus Snn of Thnrsday: Large Yield.—Mr. Joe Deamond, beyond Wynnton, made 365§ bushels of sweet potatoes on one acre of land. Samples have beon en tered for premium at onr fair. Horse Killed.—In the afternoon of yester day a man whose name is given as Doc Harris, dashed with a horso and buggy throngh tho Fair Gronnd gates, and then commenced lashing his horse and sending him pell mell throngh tho crowd in every direction. Policemen ordered him to stop, and tried to catch his bridle, bnt all was jn vain. He dashed against a carriage. A lady inside fainted. Several children nar rowly escaped. As a last resort io save life, the gate keeper, Mr. R. A. Wood, seeking an op portunity when his shot could injure no human creature, aimed at the horse while in a gallop. The ball struck the animal in the shoulder and killed him. The man was carried to tho gnard- honse, but was released on heavy bail. We un derstand he is from Harris county. Intoxication the cause. An old man named Lee, who lives near Co- lnmbns, had one of his arms badly shattered, Taesday last, by being thrown from a wood wagon. Tho Lawrenceville colored troops are putting np their winter supplies of meat, and coinci dentally, many of the “ white trash” hogs turn ont to be of the biting variety. In jumping from a buggy one day laBt week Mr. S. G. Howell, of Gwinnett county, was kicked by his horse ond his leg badly broken. Col. Jas. P. Simmons and family have moved from Lawrenceville lo Noroross. In the conrso of a discussion in Gwinnett county between Messrs. Robinson and Mitchell, both established their points by being severely stabbed. We olip these railroad items from tho Rome Courier, of Thursday: The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad is still suspended from Chattanooga to Atalln.— Stanton wa3 arrested last week and carried to Montgomery and released on a bond of $4,000. Ho has now gone to New York. MrArpma Brakch Railboad.—There seems somehow to be a “fly in the lock,” and this en terprise hangs firo. We understand that some little legislation is necessary before the work shall be actually commenced. It is hoped that satisfactory arrangements will be made, and the work begin at an early day, in good earnest. Cherokee Railroad work Still Progressing. Tho track laying on the above road is goiDg on. Tho narrow gauge track iff being laid between Taylorsville and Rock Mark and will be com- pleted to the lattor place probably next week. Cedar Town is anxiously awaiting the sound of tho whistle. The Courier, same date, also says: Arrests by United States Marshal.—We are credibly informed that under the direction of a deputy United States Marshal, the soldiers that passed through R'-me last Monday have arrested James Casey and Thomas his eon, David Lowry and Jaoob Thomas, cf Polk county; also Dnn- oan Monroe and his sota-in-law, of Haralson county. They say they expect to make other arrests in that vicinity. It is conjectured that tine bills were found against these parties in the Federal Court at Atlanta. They are prepar ing to give bail. Tho stockholders of the Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railrord have elected A. J. White, President, and W. A. Huff, of Macon, and Messrs. Boynton, Chapman and Stewart, of Griffin; Whitaker, of Fayette; Wilkinson arid Smith, of Newnan; and Gamp and Long, of Carrolton, Directors. The work will be pushed ahead. The Constitution, of yesterday, says: Old Folks at Home.—On the 1st instant, Justice William M. Butt married Rneben Don aldson, of Gwinnett county, to Mrs. Polly Bryan, of this city. The bridegroom was 70, the bride 00, and the Squire 08. The ceremony was performed in a honse that was erected be fore tho war and escaped tho torch, of Sherman. Messrs. Salmons & Alexander, wholesale hat and cap dealers, of Atlanta, have suspended. Ex-Alderman W. O. AndersoD, of Atlanta, died of paralysis, on Thursday evening. The Dalton Citizen of Thnrsday says the chestnut crop of that section is very large this season, and the price is $4 per bushel. The Citizen also says that wild pigeons are Very plentiful. Several roost3 have been dis covered in the Whito Oak Mountains. Parties from Chattanooga and Cleveland go ont near ly evory day, for the purpose of enjoying tho sport. One party from Cleveland went out last week and killed between five hnndred and a thousand. It wonld not be exaggeration to estimate the number of these birds among onr mountains and ridges at millions. The Qnitman Banner notes, as a sign of the “demoralization of tho age,” the fact that there are something less than on hundred lawyers of that section who want to succeed O'Neal, as Judge of the Alapaha Circuit—most of whom, a few months since, “damned to all eternity any man who wonld ^ccept office .from a Radical Governor.” Mrs. Jane E. Jordan, for thirty years a resi- *dent of Perry, died last week. And Dr. J. O. Harvey died at Hayneville, on Thursday,-aged 70 years. The Houston Home Journal says produce is very lively abont Hayneville, just now. Pota toes leave their patches in the night without any notice to their owners; corn gets ont of the way in some mysterious manner, under cover of darkness; and cotton fairly gets np and flies. This is all owing to the faot that General Grant has not provided all his colored brethren with an offioe, ’hence some of them must steal or work, and they are not prepared for tho latter. The Washington Gazette expresses its gratifi cation at the great success of the late'State Fair and says: It has been onr opinion, for some time, that there are too many big fairs in this State. Rival cities have entered into a sort of contest on the snbjoct, and rings and cliques have gotten np grand fairs as a pure specnlation, and with the sole object of making money. We are gratified at the failure of all sneh. There shonld be bnt one grand fair for the State, and that shonld be ob near the centre of the State as possible; we know of no more eligible site than Macon. This fair, with one in each county, is sufficient. We think, however, that the matter will soon regu late itself. The speculative concerns will soon break down and then everything will be concen trated npon one grand exhibition, and a grand exhibition it will be, too. We wonld urge upon onr County Agricultural Clnbs, to unite with the State Association, and to ignore all others. The people will soon cloy of too many fairs; many good things are spoilt by being made too common. The Savannah Advertiser, of Friday, says Hon. Solomon Cohen, of that city, was stricken with para^is, at Augusta, the day before. The latest fashionable wedding at Savannah was that of Miss Cornwell and Mr. E. B. Chip, man, at Christ Church. Tho Savannah Advertiser says officer Tom Smith, of that city, had a rough time on Friday in attempting to arrest a desperate negro named Dick Williams. The latter, after attempting to shoot Smith, severely cut a man named Heit- man in the hand, who was aiding Smith, and slit the latter’s olothes across his abdomen to the skin, finally making his escape. Another non-explosive kerosene lamp nearly burned a negro woman to death, at Savannah, on Friday night. She was only saved by the oil’s not being thoroughly non-explosive. We find the following items in the Angnsta Constitutionalist, of yesterday: Man Shot Accidentally.—Yesterday after- noon, about one o’clook, persons in and near the Central Hotel were startled by the muffled report of a pistol near the front entrance. The clerk and several other gentlemen at once rushed to the door, and fonnd that a pistol in the coat pocket of Mr. Bose Williams, of Telfair county, who has been at the hotel for a day or two, had exploded, the ball passing throngh his head and inflioting a wound from which he probably died last night, as the physicians had no hope os his recovery. At the time of the shooting Mr. Williams was sitting in a chair near the door, and as ho was slightly intoxicated, it is supposed that he had placed a cocked pistol in his pocket, and that it had struck against one of the arms of the chair, causing it to explode. A Lunatic on the Rampage.—Yesterday morning a little boy standing near the tent3 of Robinson’s oirens was struck on the head and seriously wounded by a man, who was after wards arrested. Shortly afterwards a dispatch was received from Columbia, S. C., stating that a lunatic had escaped from the asylum. The dispatch gave the description of the es caped lunatic, which corresponded with that of the man who had been arrested, and ho was accordingly lodged in jail to await the arrival of a keeper from the asylum. Tho Albany News Fays- that Kimball’s col lapse has thrown ont of employment abont two thousand persons, With several months’ pay dne them for labor. It also says that “Judge Sessions, of the Supreme Court, has granted an injunction against those attaching the property of the Brunswick and Albany road, and confirmed the appointment of Colonel John Screven ns re ceiver. The rolling stock has been released, and tho lumber trains are now running over the road. In a few days a daily passenger train will bo started from Brunswick to Albany. As to tho prosecution of the eonstrnction of the road beyond Albany, nothing is or can be de termined at present.” The News gives the details of the doings of one Burns, superintendent of the road, who it says sent or went “np the road and seized pro visions on their passage to Albany for Dr. Sehaub and Mr. Bine, contractors on the road, loaded other oars with the males, tools and provisions of other hands working on the road, with the avowed purpose of moving them farther up the road to work, ani vamosed to Brunswick, leaving the hands standing in the woods without provisions, shelter or transportation. Reaching Brunswick, he loaded np the furniture of the office and all the commissaries, having an nounced his intention to move his quarters to Albany or Cnthbert for the proseention of the work, and leaving hundreds of men there with out food, made off with his train to Macon. There Messrs. Hazlehnrst & Minchan, contrac tors, pounced npon him for money due, and in order to secure his plunder he settled or com promised with them for $5,000. This financial feat was scarcely accomplished when Dr. Schanb, a large contractor, seized tho supposed relieved train, and placed it in tho hands of an officer of the law." The Atlanta Snn, of yesterday, says: State Road Investigation.—Major Hillyer has introduced a resolution to have the conduct of Foster Blodgett and his associates inquired into.' This will, of conrso, be done. With a committee of the Legislature, clothed with power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of book3 and papers, and such assistance as can be rendered by others, the bottom of dishonesty can be reached. We learn that Major Hargrove and Major McCalls, who have done so mnch to ferret ont the rascal ity, are able to point ont the locality of a very large amonnt of property rightfully belonging to the State—mnch of which can be seonred and saved. « The Thomaston Herald, of yesterday, learns from reliable authority that Swift, Hamburger & Co. had on yesterday morning, the misfortune to get one of their factories burned down. It is the upper factory, known as the old Wayn- manville Factory. We have not been able to obtain tho particulars as to loss of property or means by which the burning was caused. The La Grango Reporter of Friday has the following: Cutting Scrape.—Onr town was somewhat excited on last Tuesday night by the cutting of Miles Tharpe by Reese Morgan, both colored. From the facts that we can gather, it seems that Reese Morgan was drank, and Mile3 Tharpe had been summoned by the marshal to arrest him, which they proceeded to do, when Reese Morgan drew his knife and plnnged it to the hilt in Miles Tharpe, causing his intestines to protrude about eicht inches. Our fellow towns man, Mr. John N. Cooper, was also cut by Reese during the melee, bnt only very slightly. Reese ws3 carried to jail, where ho is now awaiting the action of the authorities. Miles Tharpe is now lying in a very critical situation. He was a hard working colored man and was thought a great deal of by onr citizens. Another of Miss Aloott’s Stories.—Brown & Co. have jast received from Carlton, another of those charming little tales by Miss L. M. Alcott—the series of which began with that sprightly story, “Little Women.” Nothing in the way of juvenile literatnro, issued from the American press in twenty years, has exoited so great interest among young and old, as these attractive stories by Miss Alcott. Various Tales.—The fugitive Governor of Georgia seems to be disseminating varions and contradictory statements as he scoots along. To one he says he fled from the Kn-klnx to save his life—to another that he has left a fall state ment with Mr. Conley, and will be back to sus tain it before the courts, and to another that he washes his hands of Georgia forever. The Utahs and the Ku-klux.—The Washing ton Cabinet had a meeting last Tuesday abont the Mormons and the South Carolina Kn-klnx. It was agreed to continue the proseentions in Utah, and to turn over the ^Treated Kn-klnx to to the discretion of Akerman, whether to ad mit them to bail or not. The Honse on Bnlloch’s slanders. The following are the resolntions submitted by Mr. Jackson, of Fulton, which passed the Honse on Friday by a vote of 132 to 24. We published the list of nays yesterday: Resolved, That Rufus B. Bunllocb, late Gov ernor of the State of Georgia, who has^resigned his offioe, and left the State under circumstances creating grave suspicions that ho is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, has, in charging in a letter bearing date of 23d October, 1871, addressed to his political friends and the peo ple of Georgia, that a majority of the Honse of Representatives had pledged themsel-es to vote for articles of impeachment against him with out investigation, and that the Senate had de termined to unseat, a sufficient number of Re publican Senators to secure his conviction, with out regard to the truth and validity of the charges, defamed this General Assembly by charges which are nntrao. Resolved, That the statement in tho same letter to the effect that the people of Georgia have recently denounced or ignored the Consti tution of the United States, is false and defama tory cf the people of this State; on the contrary we assert that the people of this State do now, as they did six months ago, (when, according to the letter of RnfnsB. Bnllock, they were peace ably disposed,) acquiesce in the result of the war, and neither entertain any Hostility toward the United States, nor deny to any persiin within the State the equal protection of the laws. How Shall tlie Nomination f^>r Gov* ernor be JIalv ' » Editors Telegraph and Messenger : We have a rumor from Atlanta that a large number of the members of tbe Legislature favor making a nomination for Governor by that body. The pretext is that there is not time to call a con vention. Now, as a Democrat, and one who as sisted actively end serviceably in returning a Democratic Legislature, I concur in the views of yonr Atlanta correspondent and enter my protest, and I think I utter the sentiment of the people in saying that such a nomination will be resisted, either by a convention nomination or people’s candidate. The executive committee can meet as early as Wednesday next and order a convention in 15 days, and fifteen days’ canvass is quite long enough under existing circumstances. I have faith in the wisdom and patriotism of the Legislature in legislating, bnt not in the log-rolling and combination system of select ing candidates for office. It is easier to cor rupt or mislead one or two hnndred men than a hnndred thousand, and assuming that the mem bers of the Legislature are no better men than the average of those who sent them there, it is nnsafe to trust so small a body with tho impor tant matter of selecting a Governor at this cri sis. The people want a convention, and a con vention they will have, or they will rnn a candi date of their own. One of the People. Does a Bight of Common Exist in Georgia ? The editor of the Gainesville Eagle, who at tended the Superior Court of Union county last week, makes mention cf a case that was tried which raises a point that is new to ns, at least. He says: At Blairsvillo an action for tresspass was tried that elided nnnsnal interest, among bath the bar and citizens, and which, in the questions involved, we believe is a new one to the judi ciary of Georgia. This was an action brought by James Gurley against Charles Davis, et. al., in which it appeared that the defendants had built a fence five or six miles in length, along tho summit of the mountains, thus excluding tho plaintiff’s catllo and horses from range, in which the plaintiff claimed by prescrip tion, or custom, tho right of “common of pas ture," and this action was brought to recover damages for an interference with this right by building tho fence. The defendant demurred to the declaration on the gronnd that no right of common existed in this State. The court over ruled tho demurrer, and the case was submitted to the jury on its merits, who returned a ver dict for the plaintiff. The defendant made a motion for a new trial, and the case will proba bly be carried to the Supreme Court, for final adjudication. The “Tweed Flag Nailed to the Mast.”— The New York papers generally that are work ing against the ring frauds in that city are cha- grinned that Boss Tweed continues to hold his office, as chief of the department of public works, and maintains his candidacy for State Senator. The candidate pnt np against him is O’Donovan r...;sa, one of the Irish exiles, bnt this is baldly thought to be serions or hopefnl opposition. The New York Star, the Tammany organ, thus proclaims: As chief of • tho department of publio works Mr. Tweed remaios at his post, the busiest pub lic officer in the city, and from morning till night discharging his duties to the utmost of his abil ity. He remains in the field also as Senatorial candidate, and will do so until sundown on the day of the election, when the polls will close showing a majority in his favor of not less than 15,000 votes.” Meanwhile the “Boss* is surrounded by the sharpest New York press “interviewers,” but though very approachable and polite they can get nothing ont of him. He simply says “no,’’ and refers them to his counsel. French Immigration to Geopp'' Secretary Lewis, of the Georgia Agri<J*’ I Society, sends ns the following letter ft , ® H. H. Tucker, now in Paris. It seeC? the information and suggestions it co !° 5 -, should indnee further inqniry at once • J Paris, October 1g Hon. 1). W. Lewi*, Secretary, etc: ’ L A High Price foe One Radical Rascal.— Judge Noah Davis, United States District At torney of New York, has stated to the commit tee of seventy that he has ample proof that State Senator Bowen, a Republican in the last session of the Legislature, received ten thou sand dollars for voting for the tax levy bill, ten thousand for voting for all the ring bills, five thousand for voting for the Erie bill and five thousand for voting for the city charter bill. And what’s more, Bowen has been nominated for re-election, and will be successful. Talk abont Tammany corruption, when such cattle arc re-endorsed by the Radical party. That’s the sublimity of cheek. Washington County FAiB.-»The editors of the Telegraph acknowledge a card of invita tion to the Washington Coonty Fair, which is to be held at Sandersville from the 9th to the 11th inBtant, inclusive. The premium list, which we have examined, is a very liberal one and well calculated to develop home industry; and we see that W. A. Hardee’s Sons, of Savan nah, offer a special premium of $50 for the best bale of cotton. There is also to be a tournament under the supervision of that gallant Knight of the Qnill, Sir J. M. G. Mediock, whom we hope will never be unhorsed. We wish the Washing tonians the most perfect snccess. Laurens County.—The Herald Commissioned reports in regard to Laurens county that there has never been a negro killed by a white man in that county since the war, except in one elec tion riot, in which a band of negro militia fired npon the whites, killed two or three of them and were subsequently dispersed by the people. On the other hand, he shows several instances of barbarous murders of whites by blacks, for mere purposes of plnnder. There has been no vio lence in that county, on the part of the whites, except such as was most naturally excited by reckless and unpunished brutality and lawless ness on the part of some villainous black politi cians. ___ Sam Slick.—Wo had almost forgotten this famous personage until yesterday, when we re ceived from Hurd & Honghton, New York, throngh J. W. Barks & Co., of this city, a copy of his sayings and doings, most elegantly gotten up in gTeen and gold, with illustrations by Bar ley. Typographically and pictorially, Sam was never in snoh high feather before. We shall revive onr memories of Sam’s inimitable take off of the “Bine Noses" with great delight. In its sphere this book is unapproachable, r.nd those who have not read it have fan in store. Government, in^l he assured me that if proper steps were a large tide of French immigration cou’d hT,*M ed to the State of Georgia. The class of grants, too, are the very kind that we nios^l —cultivators of the soil—men who are 1^1 tomed to work and who expect to work. ^1 Knowing the importance, to onr State of I The Negro School Gouge in Louisiana.— In Louisiana, one of the deepest Radical gouges is the negro eohool bnsiness. Thus in Morehonse parish there are twelve negro schools, each hav- from twelve to fifteen pupils; each school em ploys a teacher at $60 a month, or $720 a year, and the 180 negro pupils attending 12 schools cost the State at leaat $8,640 a year. of suggesting that it might be well f ot L .. call the attention of that body to the state I above made, and also to correspond with 2j| sienr Farrenc, who will readily gi Te ‘ *“*l information yon may require. J a **5| Of course you have been astonished u J the rest of the world has been, at the inV ‘‘I amount of snrplna capital in France, wlii-t 54 ! cent events have brought to light. ’ I formed by French citizens of high that proper invitation and inducements 1? I secure the use of some of this capital for 1 ness enterprises of any kind in the Sts', J Georgia. — v r — ~ ll As I do not propose to negotiate in bua*. I transactions myself, and as 1 desire no I ment of any kind, either from the State otht I any of its citizens, yon will perceive that? I hints I have dropped are entirely disinUrea^ | I have written to my friend A. O. Bacon I? I of Macao, in almost the same words aa’tSI used in this letter, and wonld suggest, th^a I yon feel disposed, it might be well to I with him ia regard to the matter in hand ■ I am, sir, very respectf ally and truly ycim R H. Tccso, Wlio Is IV. A. Huff? Near Bieon, U, November 1, igj| Editors Telegraph and Messenger; I j { j,| that W. A. Hnffl has been spoken of as a &\'l didate for Governor. Wonld to God he m| ho nominated and elected. He would male r I excellent Chief Magistrate; one that wcr’-l look to tho interest of onr people. “ j Many will'ask who is W. A. Huff? Ipropcsel to tell them who he is. He wa3 raised inf'll county, Ga., about ten miles fromllaeotu-l the Traveler’s Rest road. He worked onti'l farm until he was twenty one years of age, e:I cept what little time he was going to school 1 Although he was weak and slender, he vogl do as much work as any of the hands on fel farm; he wonld pick as mnch cotton, or pi,I as mnch as the best of them. At the aged j twenty-one he left home and went up to llijjl and got a situation there as a clerk in aisjl establishment, only getting eighteen dollars p» I month. Ont of this small snm he paid iil board and saved some moriey. While enp^l in this little store as-a clerk he purchased hi I hnndred bushels of corn on a credit of sir I days, and before the money was due, conus: I np, and he made one hnndred and fifty deli I clear profit on that specnlation. 1 He then left the store and went to schoolil Macon as long as his money lasted, and tk| was fortunate enough to get employment r.l the Macon and Western road as conductor. Eil continued in that bnsiness for five years, El I when he had left the road he had savedabosl eighteen hnndred dollars. He was unfortmj in one of his specnlation?, as he lest the tel five hnndred dollars he made on the road. I After leaving the railroad he comment!:! bnsiness on his own account and has contirceil it successfully ever since. W. A. Huff is noil abont thirty seven years of age, and is to intents and purposes, a very remarkable mini His intellect is of the finest order. He tel the rare faculty of thinking rapidly, and thin&l correctly, quick to arrive at conclusions; nil yet, his opinions hastily formed, are generallj I correct—hitting the nail on the .head almost e» I ry lick. - ’ j His mind works with the rapidity of lighter. I and with mathematical precision; while me: I of dnll minds would be embarrassed and co:-J fused by tbe difficulties that environed then-1 Huff wonld snrmonntthe same difficulty withori I pansing to think. He has had his full chare AI enemies. The shafts of envy having been Mri I at him thick and swift, bnt they have all KI harmless at his feet, and he kicked th.-mocl of the way as ho did other rubbish and contimrf | to attend to his business, regardless of all !k I was said or done against him. Yes, his enemies have often attempted I slander him, bnt his straight forward coursele I enabled him to step easily over all the steel-1 ling blocks thrown in his way. It really seem I that there is magio in his touch, for everythin I prospers with him, that he takes hold of. E; I is not apparently troubled mnch by stndyingad I thinking, bnt gracp3 everything, it seems, * I tuitively. I Messrs. Editors—Let ns down with the whcl: I litter of sore backed politicians and male f I plain, energetic, sensible, practical man, life I W. A. Huff, Governor. Plain Fashes. General Jolra B. Gordon. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In csss the Legislature should order an election la Governor by the people, in our present emer gency there is no man in Georgia to whom re can point with more pride and confidence, a being the man to fill tho responsible office c! Governor at this juncture of onr financial af fairs, than General John B. Gordon. He con- bines all the qualities of the head and bed which pre-eminently fit him for the office, ss being the right man in the right placeand; placed in nomination he will sweep the Stately an overwhelming majority. Unless the tidec. rampant, wholesale plnnder by onr publio fine- tionaries bo speedily checked, we shall be hope lessly doomed to want and penury. Financial?- Georgia is to-day the most thoroughly rotbe- State in the South, with the exception of So-- Carolina. With General Gordon at the helm c- State, the Augean stable of carpet-bag filth an: plunder would be cleansed instanter, and people would once more breathe freely at- sleep quietly under tho conec-ictcsmcss of barm an honest, faithful and able Governor to teot the rights and promote the interests of cm people. Bibb- Titles to Property. To start with, there has been an absolute if strnctron of alt legal evidences of titles to p erty in Oook county. The annoyance, calae:? and actual distress that will arise from thisn- fortune are not yet properly appreciated. ® suggestions that have been made as to thei^' edy are not, thus far, adequate to the ems-- gency. It is not merely that something m> be done, bnt that this something must be to the necessities of the case and most be quickly. ;Ij Chicago must draw its fnnds fiomdjj*" with which to restore its bnsineEB blocks. 1-;-': funds cannot be procured, unless in indiri> and exceptional cases of personal without a means for legally fixing tbe oondjb* of titles. Thisi3 ene of the obstacles for the preservation of Chicago interests, mm- be quickly displaced. Another is found abundance and obstinacy of “ squatter?, have already begun their operations. A of a certain piece of property in the burst; district was made a few days ago, an fv^ the lessee proposed to clear away the debris order to commence, a permanent building) ‘ fonnd that a shanty had already been ton together on the gronnd. The “eqaatter - possession claimed that he had a lease ‘nf a man in Omaha,” and refused, point Hj* badge an inch. Of oonrse, this appea 13 ridiculous in one sense,' and very outrage®* 1 another sense, but. the fact remains that ta ” is no way, under the law, for the real own e ” show his title and to secure the immediate- moval of tho “ squatter ” in possession. , The ingenuity of lawyers is proverbial, these, and manifold other annoyances ? na ^ rages must be overcome. Their ingenuity B 1 - be utilized now if ever.—Chicago Times. The Courier-Journal is a scandalously tinent paper, and for “odorous” compa rl90CJ , ia rather ahead of any we are acquainted” Just read: . ^ The Boston Journal, which doesn’t admbo ^ politics of the Courier-Journal much, to annihilate ns by .turning loose np on ° Atlanta Snn. “What are yon going to ® ^ that little weepon you’ve got there ? ' (f - Calif - - nian, with a brace of na7y in his belt, of a Bostonian who had one oij & Wesson’s packet pistols. .‘‘Why, the Yankee, “I’m going to defend m I se 'L > it; if anybody insults me I’ll shoot D . ^j “Well,” said the Californian, “I’d not to do it, for if anybody were to so®*' 0 „t with that there thing and I was to nca damfl didn’t kick his head off."
