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The Fasiilt Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Dohestio Affairs.
GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDINGS
Established 1826.
MACON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1876.
Volume LXX—No. 11
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Democratic Ontleolt—Uevl vine Trade
—business Prospects—Tribute to
Early and Lost Friends.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Sicca
my last there has been no material
change in political prospects in this
State. The canvass is progressing very
satisfactorily to the Democracy, and the
Rads seem to have surrendered the State,
ns they are making very little effort.
Packard will not command all the white
vot ■ of his party. Several of these, and
United Stales officials, will not vote for
him.
Louisiana is pnt down in the calcula
tions of foinc or our friends abroad as a
doul.tfui” Slate No one eo consid
ers her here. This city is overwhelm
ingly Democratic. The majority here
will he about tho maj rity of the State—
nay 10,000. Though eomo of our more
sanguine fri n lam? 'hec;untry parishes
will give almost up iqnal majority. In
thecily tee Ri licila -*iil not putaticket
in tho field. 'I hey are stiuggling to pro
duce a.-plit in tin- Democracy in ihecity
by promising to throw their entire
strength upon .n independent ticket.
This ticket is already made up, but, is
withheld from the pul,It t to await tho
action of tho meeting or the Radical
party to night. 1 h .ve no doubt that its
action wiii )>e msn-tain tho independent
ticket; and this will cause a split upon
tho local ticket, bat will scarcely affect
the national ticket, as the independent
proposition is that no Radical ticket for
local offices ho nominated, and that no
Radical shall ho placed on tho inde.
pendent ticket.
It is understood that every nominee on
this ticket is an openly pledged support
er of Titden and Hendricks, end the
ticket is formed of more than two-thirds
of tho regular ticket nominated by the
Democracy. Its object is to be rid of
some five or six persons on this ticket who
are obnoxtous.ro the better classes here,
and who are snpiiosed to represent a cer-
tain element not very reputable with the
commercial and business circles, and this
I think they will effect. So much for
politics.
Everything is looking up here; bust
ness is very active, and the levees begin
to assume the old time appearance. Cot
ton is coming it rapidly—far in advance
of any previous season since the war.
It is truly cheering to meet smiling faces
which have been so long unused to a
smile as to make them the chronic pre
sentation of a fixed and desponding
gloom. Cofon is sold as soon as it ar
rives.
The great Robert E Lee came in only
a day or fo since with nearly five thou
sand bales, and with other cargo suffi
cient to make her freight equal to eight
thousand bales
Already the October elections have in
spired a confidence in business men, and
trade has an activity it has not bad fur
many years. As soon as our State Gov
ernment is in the bands of the property
holders, and tho taxes are to be appropri
ated by those who pay them, relief will
come to tho property bolder, and confi
dence to the capitalist. The means will
not bo wanting to complete the railroads
into Texas. And then the immense trade
of that great State will all find its way to
New Orleans for a market. The carpet
bag g07<-rnm< nt has been the incnbns of
Louisiana, and especially New Orleans,
during all the long years since tho war.
She has not been able to affoid one dol
lar to the improvements necessary to in
crease and facilitate her commerce. Tax
ation and stealing have consumed every
thing. Her merchants and property own
ers have boon so robbed that there was
not a dollar to spare, after paying the
assessed taxes.
Think of it; Texas, in 1875, made
650,000 bales of cotton. Not 30,000
reached this city because of the want
of tho facilities for transportation. All
this cotton has been grown from 250 to
450 miles of New Orleans, and yet it
goes to St. Louis, CCO miles away, for a
market, simply boiause that city has
built railroads to every part of Texas,
even down to Galveston. An outlay of
$2,000,000 any time within tho last six
years would have completed our roads
pointing to Northern and Southern Tor
us, and over those would have come the
entire commerce of that State. The
profits upon this, in one year, would
have been double that amount. It will
take j ears to return this trade to New
Orleans, but it will come, and sho is yet
to bo the groat exporting city of the
Southwest. Should the jetties prove a
success, as they promieo to be, and ships
drawing 25 feet of water find easy and
safe access to New Orleans, Bho will com
mand the grain trade, os well as tho cot
ton trade, of tho valley of the Mississippi.
To day tho telegraph brings to mo the
sad news of the death of Judge Jamo3
Taliafferro, one of tho associate judges of
the Supreme Court of this State. He
had been a confidential friend for fifty
years. Within the month I have been
called to mourn the loss of threo of the
nearest friends of my early life: Thomas
Stoeke, Washington Foe, and H. S. Smith,
the last the nearest, dearest, best beloved
friend of oil my life. If nature ever cre
ated a'.noble'man sho did the work when
creating Hampton S. Smith. Wo two
constituted a class at school for two years,
IS10 and 1811, at Old Turzy, in Putnam
county. Ho was my senior 18 days, and
was in the seventeenth year of his age.
Ho was born in Edgefield county. South
Carolina, whence his father moved to
T-itnam county, where H. S. Smith was
reared. Our friendship commenced with
our childhood, and endured uninterrupt
edly until his death. Our height and
weight were tho same, and always so
continued. I introduced him to both his
wives, stood up with him when he was
married, and now I live to mourn him.
I havo taxed my memoiy for all I have
known, and they haro been legion, and I
havo found in all her vast stores none
more worthy, moro noble or more to bo
lamented than Talliaferro, Stocks, Poe,
and dear, dear Smith. In Georgia, in
Louisiana, and in Mississippi tho known
of my youth and early life are very
nearly all gone, and I am astonished at
the health and vigor yet remaining to
me, and ask why is my summer so Tonn-
delayed ? Tho death of Smith has sadly
crushed mo. Toere are only left to me
two as near my heart as her, my vencra-
able and venerated 6ister and my loved
brother. I shall never see them again,
as I never expect to visit Georgia again
savo when I come in my coffin; and yet
how deeply I am attached to tho dear old
State. There are somo there I would
like to seo again—one connected with my
early [memories still loved. One other
—but I must desist. My feelings over
come me when thinking of my chilhood’s
home—my nearest and dearest beloved
companions in and about the grave.
You may take the bright shell
From its own native lea.
And wherever it goes
It will sms of the sea.
So will the true heart,
To the homo of its birtb,
Return, in affection,
From the ends of the earth.
Y. M. C.
LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA
The Exhibition—Maryland and Del-
w*re Day— Fire Works—Grand Sue
chs-TVoihro’s Pavilion—Never trill
be Surpassed.
Correspondence of Telegraph and Messenger.
Pait.Aosi.pmA, Pa., Atlas Hotel,
October 22, 187C.
After spending a day and night in your
busy, active city, at the Brown House, we
started on our journey by tho Atlantic
Coast Lino to tho exhibition. It is need-
levs to speak further in praise of the
splendid management of Macon’s boast
and pride, the Brown Houee, or tho
Messrs. E. E. Brown & Son or Herbert
Lane, who are ever ready to extend tho
hospitaliticsof their house to the travolin;
public, or commend the management of
tho great Coast Line which is not sur
passed for accommodation, or the rapid
movement of it3 pa33enger3 by one of
the most attractive and ogrccable routes
North. Col. A. Pope, General Ticket
Agent, Captiia White and Mr. Divine,
the gentlemanly agents in New York and
Macon, are most admirable officers and
will give all information desired by tbe
tourist. We would certainly adviso cv
cry body who desires a delightful trip by
rail and water, on the magnificent Nor
folk and Baltimore steamers, to take the
Atlantic Coast Lino. When wo reached
Baltimore we found trains leaving every
few minutes crowded with passengers
for tho Centenn'al.
Since ire arrived hero the attendance
has been immense—over 100,003 each
day. Indeed tho grounds and every
building are ere wded with the most eager
and anxious spectators from all parts of
the continent. The Exhibition is the
grandest success of art, skilled labor and
diversified industry the world will prob
ably witness in the next hundred years.
We will not go into detail, since your
numorous correspondents here previously,
including tho original and inimitable
Col. K. H. J., have sent you so many
letters for publication wo aro apprehen
sive the country is becoming tired of tbe
endless accounts to be given of this great
world’s fair.
It was indeed gratifying to a Booth-
erncr to witness the display on the day
set apart for Maryland and Delaware, the
attendance reaching 130,000 visitors—
the next best to Pennsylvania day. Tho
display of the Baltimore troops, aresssd
in Confederate gray, and fireworks at
night in honor of tho celebration, was
grand beyond description.
We havo been here three days, and we
have gone through all tho buildings—
over two hundred acres of ground, and I
can tell you what I saw; but I can’t
write it—my account would fill several
editions of the Daily Tcleokap/i. So
your realers may congratulate tnem-
Belves I havo concluded not to publish
my Centennial observations.
Oh 1 how we did long to find one per
son whom we knew, had seen, or even
heard of—when we met Mrs. Barnes and
her charming daughters In the machinery
hall—from Opelika, Ala.
We went three times to see the butter
woman, and saw all but her. This curi
ous specimen, or figure model of a beau
tiful woman is made entirely of butter,
and exhibited in the Woman’s Depart
ment. The features and hair, as it waves
back on a fiir brow, falling upon a fault
less bosom, excites the most pleasing
emotions in the press and jam one is sub
jected to, in catching a glimpse, passing
in an aisle guarded by a policeman.
There came very near being a death or
funeral there yesterday of a little woman
who was literally pressed and almost
hugged to death. "Bound to seo tho
bntter woman” is tho last desperate re
solve every man and woman makes before
leaving the grounds.
The rich, embroidered quilt of d lady
in Troy. Ala., in this building, has been
awarded a premium, for which she asked
one thousand dollars. It required two
years’ incessant labor to complete this
beautiful work.
But wo declared wo were not going
iBto this Centennial correspondence busi
ness, and must conclude by regretting
our State failed to bo represented here.
It is enough to mortify a Georgian to
look through the exhibitions of Arkansas,
Nevada and Kuneas when his own State
might have made as good or better an
exhitit. It will do those States immense
good and send many a thousand laborer
and dollar to develop their boundless
fields of corn, cotton, coal and iron.
Canada has exhibited specimens of
whito pine lumber, etc , inclnding a
block off a tree 305 feet high and 80 feet
in diameter. Arkansas has tho best
quality of corn, rye, barley, oats, flour,
apples, wood, etc., while Maryland makes
a fine display in her special building of
tbe oyster and fish business so exten
sively carried on. A very interesting
sight is the whole process seen in glass
cases of tho spawn in its different stages
of incubatioD, from the speck which be
comes impregnated to the little fish as
it eegins to struggle for life.
The press has been well provided for
by the appointment of a well directed
bureau of information and a most gentle ■
manly and efficient agent in the person of
Captain Walsh, to whom wo must express
our grateful acknowledgments for numer
ous courtesies extended.
We return homo feeling had wo missed
tbe Centennial wo would regret it all the
days of our life. J- B. G.
Out of sixty-nine German papers pnb-
mned in Wisconsin sixty-four support
Tilden ana Hendricks.
Sheep and Wool.
Wo copy an interesting articlo on
sheep husbandry, compiled by 1 he Atlanta
Constitution from facts obtained at tho
State Department of Agriculture. We
believe that sheep and wool growing is
the key to agricultural prosperity in
Georgia. Cotton planting, in tho old
method, has had its day, and if persisted
in will only add to the poverty and de
pression of the State. With sheep, and
proper crops to sustain them, such as
grass, clover, turnip?, carrots and small
grain, our lands would be restored and
kept in heart without expense, so that our
cotton patches would produco one and
two bales to the acre, and the farmer
would packet tho results of oue lino crop
in the spring and another ia tho fall,
whilo the land would teem with tho moat
succulent and nutritious of animal food.
The question, therefore, is how best and
most speedily to introduce and extend
sheep culture in Georgia.
Hampton in Charleston. — Wade
Hampton is expected in Charleston next
Monday and is to be recevied by an im-
menso concourso of people. Wherever
he has been in the State his audiences
have gathered from an area of thirty to
forty miles, and have rivalled in magni
tude tho great Democratic meetings in
Indiana, except the very largest of them.
From foar to aix thousand have been a
oo mm on auditory.
WADE HAMPTON AT AIKEN.
Spcecli of Last Saturday.
Charleston News and Courier.J
Abont 10 o’clock the moanted clubs
from different parts of the county having
come in, the line wa3 formed, and con
tained by a moderate approximation, over
one thousand horsemen. Two fine brass
bands from Augusta and Granitevillo
supplied tho music for the day. At the
stand there were over four thousand per
sons altogether ; tho colored Democrats,
numbering nearly a hundred, had tables
ia sight of tho stand at which they
served dinners and meats which they had
barbecued, and it i3 worthy of note that
towards the close of tfao day they sent
whole cmmal3 to the gentlemen who
were arrested and confined, and also to
tho ** Old Folks’ Home,” a charitable in
stitution. Tho meeting wa3 called to
order by Jame3 Aldrich, Esq., who moved
the appointment of G. W. Croft ub chair
man, and J. G. Porter, J. Si. Julien Yates,
and Oakley and C. J. Wessels as secreta
ries After a prayer, the Hampton hymn
(wLich wa3 printed in your paper somo
time since), was sung by a largo choir of
ladies and children to tho accompani
ment of a parlor organ, the chorus being
joined in by several hundred voices. The
effect was very impressive. Oue of tho
little ones, during tho speaking, became
very tired, and said if he could only be
permitted to hurrah for Hampton he
would feel rested. It is needless to add
that bo was gratified. This incident
showed how thoroughly enthused was tho
concourso, even to the youngest children.
Mr. Croft introduced in a few earnest
words Gen. Wade Hampton, a3 our
great peerless and beloved leader.
SPEECH OP OENERAL HAMPTON.
General Hampton, after tho cheering
by which his name was greeted had sub
sided, came forward and said:
Mr. Chairman and my Friends of Aiken:
It is with mingled feelings of sorrow, jcy
and prido that I have come to take coun
sel with you to-day. With Eorrow, be
cause your gallant people havo been
called on to endure sufferings unwarrant
ed by any actions of yours, wrought by
gross contravention of your constitutional
rights. With joy, that in spite of your
sufferings, in spite of the oppression laid
upon you, and in spite of the armed force
diced in yosr midst, yonr spirit is as un-
irokcn, and tho fires of patriotism burn
a3 brightly in yonr hearts as they ever
did before this. I come to-day to consult
with you, and I bring you the news of the
great battle waging throughout the State,
of a battle already won. We can lose the
fruits of it only by a mistake on our own
part. I come to tell you what you must
do, to ask you not to commit mistakes
which our enemies wish us to make. And,
first, I will tell you why the fight is won.
The banner upon which, you know, is in
scribed Refcrm and Home Rule has-been
homo by u3 through tho State, from
where the sun dips over tho moun
tains to where the ocean laves
its shores, and wherever tt has
waved brave men and fa ! r «»«n have
rallied uno-.-r us folds and uttered their
catb3 to Heaven that South Carolina
belongs to us by right; that the title-
deeds are ours from tho Almighty, and
by the help of tho Almighty we intend
to keep it. Our enemies have seen the
handwriting on the wall. They know
that tho doom of Radicalism in this
State, as through tho whole country, is
scaled, and they know that our ticket
will be elected by an overwhelming ma
jority if we are allowed a fair election.
They see our people united to fight for
their very existence. Wherever we have
met tho colored men and appealed to
them they have come to our support by
hundreds and by thousands. I tell you
wliat I know when I tell you that we
already havo colored men in our Demo
cratic club3 sufficient to carry tho election
alone. Our enemies have seen this, and
they have only tho hopes of desperate
gamblers, and havo concocted, as a last
resort, as hellish a conspiracy as conld be.
Their only hope is a collision between
onr people and tho United States troops.
Wherever they havo meetings they send
only those engaged in the national con
test, so that if wo should break up tho
meetings or any riot should occur they
can appeal to tho United States bay
onets, and then they can put tho
State under martial law. This is one
soinfc of their conspiring against the
lonor of South Carolina. From Maine
to Louisiana, all over the country, I havo
received kind words from men of both
parties saying that if the R-publicana
tiad been in our place they would notbavo
stood as much as we have done. Ho then
read a letter which ho had just received
expressing tho opinion that Chamberlain
was looking to get some overt act which
would enable him to put the State under
martial law, and urging him to counsel
the people to bear patiently for only
three weeks longer anything rather than
giro Republicans tbe plank they need to
save them. This, ho taid, I want to make
my text for to-day. Tho Republicans
have no hopo bat in a collision between
us and the troops. These men who met
us in war, when we laid down onr arms
and recognized tho supremacy of the old
flag and tho perpetuity of the Union,
were no longer our enemies, but aro tho
best friends we have North. Treat them
kindly. They do not come willingly.
You conld not impose a more disagreeable
duty upon them than sending them here.
I am glad they have come, for they will
recognize and sympathize with our ef
forts in behalf of republican freedom.'
If, by tho inexorable law of military au
thority, they are even ordered to fire upon
you, say to th*-m: “Wo have no war
against the United States government;
wo recogni-e tho flag which wavP3 from
tho Golden Gate of California to the
granite hillsofN* w Hampshire. Itisours.
If you fire on us*, we know that in our
deaths American tiheity -aid live.” I see
beside me to-du> u»a who offered their
lives on many a battle field. I M<y to
them, offer ihs-m again; you could not
die in a nobler cau-o. S or the people
that you ore fighting for something
highertb.au party—fieh-ing for aa hou-
est gevornm-nt —for • - <-h white and
black S'o v th-m lb.at y-n nre w.-.rkin
for what any Ninth* ru S ate would de
mand and have I?, in ti.i, election, the
bayonet tutweigna the law, and the
bullet supersedes the ballot, even then, if
we work well, we will redeem our State.
Let me entreat yon, men of Aiken, the
baby county, you wi.o have borne so
math and whose pati* n e is «lmo=t sub
lime, to go on in the sum-- cause. Let no
act of yours imperil tbe cinre fer which
we aie'working Go on quietly. Submit
to th» law?, however wrong they may be,
looking for eonstitnti--n«l remedied; and
Chamberlain will be defeated in Novem
ber by so larg" a major!*? that if I told
you of it you would believe me to be
crazy. The Duke of ‘Wellington’s motto
was, "Obey every law whether it i« just
or unjust." Act on his diction. _ If the
law is oppressive, you have a right to
havo it changed, hut do not resort to
revolutionary measures savo in the last
extremity. You must go to the courts
for redress. I tell you, give up every
thing, even life itself, (and it is only what
I, myself, would do,) rather than hazzard
our success in this great cause.
In referring to the conspiracy against
us, I need not tell yon that all these dif
ficulties aro cunningly contrived by onr
enemies. It was only yesterday, in Edge
field, after a quiet meeting, that a few
citizens were ambushed while ridin:
home peaceably, and one shot down am
killed," by a party of negroes in the
woods, and it was only Gens. Butler and
Gary who prevented vengeance from be
ing sought. I say to you, trust to tbo
law. Remember you are told "Ven
geance is mine, saith the Lord, I will re
pay.” They will do as Ames did in Mis
sissippi, who said: “Bring about col
lisions, oven if colored men are killed. It
is necessary to lire tho Northern
heart." The enemy want uo to fight in
tho way they wish. But wo won’t; wo
will fight them in our own way, and will
capture every one of them. You must all
help U3. Your executive committee in
Columbia are better informed of thepjiole
State than any one else. Listen to them,
and, believe me, that if we go on aa we
havo begun, you will see, on the Sth of
November, our old flag waving over our
freed and'disenthralled State. We must
appeal to our colored friends in South
Carolina to drop the shackles of party and
work with us for Homo Rule and low tax
ation. If wo tell them their only hopo is
in an alliance with the white men of the
State—if we tell them we aro pledged in
the sight of God and man to regard’ them
as tho equals of tho white man in every
right, wo shall ho able, by thc-ir hejp. to
rescue our State.
This is tho first tirno in my whole can
vass that tbe day has been uopropjticus.
Tho very heavens seem weeping for tie
sorrows and sufferings of our people. I
only came to encourage you; to tell you
that all is going well, and that if you will
goon in the same course as heretofore,
submitting to tho laws and not letting
your enemies have any grounds to accuse
us of disloyalty, wo will succeed in our
efforts. I sympathise with you. I know
how hard it is to snpprc33 tho feelings
that well up in the hearts of freemen. I
know it, for I know how hard it is for mo
to give you this advice. When I see so
many faces of women and children
around me, I can’t help saying, How long,
Oh God, aro we to bear all these things 1
But not once, nor twice, in England’s story,
Has the path of duty been the path ol glory t
Let us steadily follow this path of duty,
and I feel sure that success will crown
your efforts, and, in the words of the lit
tle song I have heard to-day, “May God
save our State.”
The Governor, &3 he has been called
everywhere to-day, was frequently inter
rupted by cheering, and at the close
was greeted with an outburst of applause
that bore testimony to tho magic influ
ence ho exerted over his audience, and
the wonderful effect of his words.
RAISING ELECTION FUNDS.
Tbe Republicans Levying Upon Reg
ular Army officers.
Special Correspondence of tho World.]
Washington, October 20.—Tho cry for
more money come3 over from the Bepub
lioan National Committee, and orders
were issued to-day to plunder tho already
overtaxed department officials here at tho
rate of an additional 2 per cent, on their
salaries. For the first timo in the history
of these raids an assessment has been
made on tho non-commissioned officers
and soldiers of the regular army, who
havo been detailed in the War Depart
ment for clerical duty. The regular army
is, therefore, not only to be made to do
its work in the field, bnt to contribute
out of tho pay of its file for election pur
poses of tho Republican party. Accom
panying this assessment is a circular re
quiring those who havo not fully paid
their former assessments to make up the
deficiency and respond to tbo last de
mand. This new raid is only ono of tho
many illustrations of the utter despera
tion of the Republican leaders hero.
Cl rand Democratic Kally.
Montezuma, October 21,1876.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Ac
cording to tho published programme,
there was a grand Democratic rally hero
to-day. A great«concourse of people
gathered to hoar the'distinguished gen
tlemou bir.ua u> speak.
Tho day, ia point of weather, was ns
auspicious as ono could hope for. Though
the gifted Norwood, the noble old Roman
Hardeman, and honest Phil Cook conld
not be with ns, yet we had tho talented
Dupree and the able Weems.
The Americas brass band was here to
discourse music for us.
The exercises opened by tho introduc
tion of Hon. James M. Dupree, elector
for the Third Congressional District.
The young and gifted orator aroGO
amid cheers ani spoke for two hours.
Every sentence was freighted with re
search and learning. The history of
both parties, Democratic end Radical,
was at his tongue’s end. Every phraso
was gemmed with eloquence, and every
utterance was bedecked with truth and
argument. Ho has left no word unut
tered or no exertion with him has fagged
that insures any good to his district or
hi3 country.
Though tho youngest elector on the
ticket, yet he has proven to his party
that his' constituents were well aware
whom they chose as their standard bear
er in tho present campaign. Ha was fre
quently and heartily cheered a3 he por
trayed tho honest and systematic beauty
of the Democratic party, and the dishon
esty and corruption of tho Radical party,
and closed amid applause, having added
new laurels to his already well filled
6tore of honors.
Next was introduced tho handsome,
talented, generous and noble Colonel
Weems. The very announcement of his
name seemed to electrify the immense
crowd. Having been filled to the brim
by the speech of Mr. Dupree, at tho very
mention of thenamo of Walter H Weems
they ran over with enthusiasm, and re
ceived him with immense applause. A
thrill of joy and pride ran through every
heart to be honored as one of his listeners.
I wish I could giTe you his speech in
full; for any attempt at giving especial
points would bo such a desecration of eo
happy an effort that it would be almost _a
sacrilege for me to deface it by giving it
only in toto just as it came from tho lips
of the gifted speaker. Few can equal,
none can surpass it hut Weems. It was
a manly, noble effort, chaste, refined
and conclusive. As tbo eloquent truths
rolled from his lips, while proclaiming
the glorious principle* of Democracy, I
noticed tears trickle from the eyes of
many whose brown faces told of honesty,
and whoso frosted locks proved that they
had seen tho better days of this Govern
ment while basking in prosperity in tho
days of yore, with Democrats at the helm.
Clay nor Hill, Webster nor Calhoun never
have moro fully enlisted the profound
attention of their audiences than Col.
Weems did. Many were tho expressions
of praise that greeted him when he de
scended from tho speaker's stand. Some
called him the second Clay—others said
ho wa3 tho peer of Calhoun. All were
nihueiastie in giving him his honest
dues. He held his nndience spell
bound for at 1-a-t t<vu hours—they
laughed a3 he tau^hel, they wept as
he wept, nr.h as he cheered them on to
victory ia tbe next election they wildly
and enthusiastically cheered him on in
hia most glorious speech. And some
times when ho seein'-d to bo failing in
strength from his recent sickness many
voices from his audience would cry out
in their enthusiasm, "go on,” "go on.”
We never saw an audience more res
pectful to speakers than Messrs. Dupree
and Weems on this occasion. The
colored people present, were exceedingly
attentive, and, we hope and believe,
ben- filed. We never believed that euch
eloquent adJiv»ses could be made in as
plain, practical words 03 Col. W. H.
Weems made when ho turned to address
the colored people in his audience—and
cf these there were many. Col. Weems
has endeared himself to. our town, onr
county and our people. We would that
we could always have him with U3.
To-night wo have a big torchlight
procession, which will go from here to
Oglethorpe. More anon R. O. E.
“Susan,” said a girl, looking out of tho
upper story of a grocery store, addressing
another girl who was tryingto enter at the
front door, "we have all been to prayer
meeting and been converted; so when
' on want lager on Sunday you will have
to come in at the back door."
TIio Centennial Queen.
Baltimore Sun.]
A full account of tho Centennial tour
nament, in which tho Maryland-knights
figured with so much credit, has already
been published, but the Philadelphia pa
pers famish some additional interesting
particulars descriptive of the crowning
of the queen of lovo and beauty and her
maids of honor by the victorious knights,
Thi3 ceremony took place at Judges’
Hall in tho evening, end was witnessed
by a large number of invited guests.
Tho speaker’s desk was removed to tho
southern side of the hall; before it was a
low platform, covered with a crimson car
pet ; upon this, and immediately in front
of the speaker’s desk, was a smaller plat
form, covered with a wine-colored car
pet. Tho throne—a largo chair of carv
ed oak, beautifully upholstered with em
broidery—was placed upon this. Over
the platform and the speaker’s desk were
festooned tho national colors in profusion.
The gas fixtures were bronze knights in
armor, in keeping with the occasion.
The guests occupied seats in the corri
dors or galleries on the three sideB of tho
hall, or were seated in a triple row of
chairs around tho main hall. Among
them were the gentlemen of tho Centen
nial Commission, tho foreign commis
sions, distinguished citizens and their
ladies.
Tho exercises commenced at 8:45 r. m.
by the entrance of tho judges of the
tournament and tho chief marshal, Col.
Suit, who took seats in front of the plat
form, Gen. A T. A. Torberfc and Mr. J.
J. Stewart taking seats on each side of
the throne. The knights were then an
nounced, and marched to places on the
GOLDEN FOOTED SHEEP. ; THE SHEEP IN SUMMER.
— • TVhothersheep-raising bo made a factor
The Rumble Hero that Is to Work ! or mixed husbandry, or a specialty, the
Georgia’s Regeneration-A Halt herdsman should remember that "change
million Sheep—Setter than a Gold is more important than range.” In tho
Mine—Ten million’Acres Going to j extensive sheeps-walks of tho extreme
Waste. I north or wirogra33 region of South Geor-
From the Atlanta Constitution. I I S*®, tno flocks find tho necessary change
a i hEr h ° ! ^ 6r “i 3 regcn6r * ! kepWithin^enclosures'they should have
that is to save the State. secure
Droppinginto tho Dspartmentof Ag- f
ricuUnro yesterday, we gleansd some facts - 8t!iZei % n one hundred acres, they will
concerning the goIdea footed fellow, that. thrive Letter if itis divided into two fifty
will bo ot f-prev interest just now. - i acre fieldsand the flocks alternate monthly
bsat8 a gold inns. ; between them than if allowed constantly
Tho average anon*! profit on tha oapi- to run in tho wholo arca . Bcsidea hav J .
t*l invested in sheep in Georgia is 63 per in fresh shading d durin the d
tt e uT „ P fr V ely t T cd -T’ i “d fresh beds at night, they ufe certain
SS* **« P ISU8 “ R ' Pungent plants which seem necessary to
~Thn nnnnal - s health of sheep and which becomes
JSi.° f : exterminated on permanent sheep walks,
keeping sh.-ep is only 54 cents The av- j TEN UILLI0N acres going TO WASTE,
era go co*t of raising a pound of wool in ]
. , - - , .. There are abont 10.000.000 acres of
whfohn“»^h^w^n.*oi^\?i r, ^ r Poetically unoccupied lands in Georgia,
nearly all of which could be profitably
utilized as sheep walks. A vast region
of Southeastern and Southwestern Geor
gia, extending from Savannah to tho
Chattahoochee, is a natural pasture, on
which a million of sheep could bo raised
at a trifling expense on tho native wire
gras?, which grows up luxuriantly, af
fording excellent pasturage in summer
ei cv rri,„ , , „„ and a subsistence on the underneath
P ^ (Which remains green) in tho winter,
avomrm r*ri«n rf m„tfnr, <o *-s ' flle most valuable spontaneous grass,
uer head S P * however, is the Bermuda, which is pecu-
Ninety per cent, of tho correspondents ' *****
report dogs the principal, and generally
tho only, obstacle* to sheep husbandry. !
100,000 SHEEP KiLLERs (the best bluo grasspasture oj^Kentucky
From tho agricultural bureau we learn
that there aro in Georgia 99,415 dogs, r° . f . P^^ 3 when ptrfagUy
and that between April L1875, and Auril ? roecte . d hy the P mo ‘fees, under which
” ’ u - ' to remain green the entire winter, and is
which unwashed wool is sold is 33i cents,
or 27$ cents net.
An average of 74 lambs are raised for
every 100 owes, notwithstanding the rav
ages of the dog?.
The averago yield of unwashed wool to
the sheep is 3 34 poun-l?, which, a» 27J net,
gives an average clear income of 94 cents
from each sheen. The average price of
lambs sold to the butcher in Genrsia is
1, 1876. they killed 28 625 sheep.
The statistics collected by the tax re
ceiver seem to corroborate the reports of
tho correspondents of this department-,
since thero aro 31 dogs to every 100
sheep, or nearly one to three, and since
theso dogs are allowed to destroy in one
year 28.625 sheep, worth $73,825, or nine
per cent, of the value of all the sheep in
Georgia. Notwithstanding this loss the
annual profit is 63 per cent. Remove
the cause of the loss and the profits will
be 72 per cent, on the capital at present
invested in sheep, and the amount so in-
relished by all kinds of stock.
A sod of Bermuda on lands unprofit
able for cultivation will support fivo
sheep to the aero for nine months in the
year. There aro other natural grasses
which afford good pasturago during the
summer months. Ss much for spontane
ous pastures which will keep sheep in a
thriving condition for nine months in the
year, and will, in the eouthern portions
of the State subsist for the other three*
PASTURAGE TOR THE WINTER.
From the summer pasturage they are
turned on tho peafields, from which Ihe
than the total receipts of the State treas
ury for the year 1875, and more than one-
fourth the public debt.
THE SHEEP AS A FERTILIZER,
The number of sheep now in Georgia
will fertilize annually 25.544 acres. We
knights, who took places at the left of
tho throne.
The ladies were then announced, and
ns they marched down the hall with the
marshals they were loudly applauded,
The queen. Miss Parko P. Perkins, of
Buckingham county, Virginia, came first,
attired in a magnificent white satin dress
with a long train, which was carried by
two pages dressed in garnet velvet, slashed
with blue and with silver spangles. The
queen was a beautiful blonde, with dark
brown hair and easy self-possession,
which well befitted tho part. Following
her came Miss Ida Griffin, of Prince
George’s county, Maryland, dressed in a
white silk; next came Mis3 Bessie Hol
land, of Tallahassee, Florida, attired inn
corn colored silk, followed by Miss Ida
Taylor, of Baltimore, a light blonde of
“sweet sixteen,” dressed in white silk,
and lastly Miss Mary Bladen, of Phila
delphia, a yonng miss of abont twelve
summers, also dressed in white silk.
Aa they were passing down the hall
lights of various delicate tints were
turned upon them, and also during all
tho time they remained upon the plat
form. Tho Queen was escorted to the
throne by Colonel Gilmor, and tho maids
of honor ranged themselves cn the plat
form opposite the sir knights.
Mr. J. J. Stewart, of Baltimore, was
then introduced and made a speech, which
has already been published. At the con
clusion of his remarks a page brought a
golden crown on a silver salver and pre
sented it to Sir Eight Eane, the victor,
who placed it on the head of the queen.
This ceremony completed, the Jubilee
Singers, (a colored glee club from the
South) who sing daily in Machinery Hall,
stationed in tho corridor at the rear of
the platform, sang an appropriate glee.
Four more golden crowns were brought
to Sir Knights Charles White, Jr., Wil
liam P. Bryan, Nelson J&rboe and R. W.
Hereford, who placed them upon the
heads of the maids of honor before
named. The queen then held a recep
tion, Col. Gilmor first presenting the
judges and afterwards prominent citizens.
Col. Thomas A. Scott presented Wa-
Yung-Ding, one of tho Chinese commis
sion, a Mandarin of the Red Button, who
was attired in his official robes.
At tho conclusion of the reception
there was a short promenade and the
dancing commenced, tho victorious
knights and their beauteous ladies occu
pying the head of the room. The danc
ing was kept up till a late hour, and the
entertainment was as successful os it wa3
novol to a majority of the guests.
Bayonet Outrage Reacting Through?
cut the North — A Strong Feeling
or Popular Indignation.
Washington Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Two days fer reflection ha3 given rise
to the very general impression that
Grant has made a great mistake in the
policy adopted by him toward South Car
olina. He is advised by strong personal
friends who have no political ambition to
subserve, that tho result will be a de
cided advantage to the Democratic rather
than the Republican party. He has re
ceived quite a number of postals from
influential business men in New York,
complaining that the bayonet policy dis
turbs the business of the metropolis, and
that if itis to become general throughout
the South the Democrats will certainly
got as many as 30,003 Republican votes
from tho commercial classes. Judge Taft
is loudly denounced for the manner in
which ho drafted the proclamation, and
its assumptions are hmd to bo false on
thoir face. The proclamation states that
tho Legislature can’t bo convened, when
tho fact is that no endeavor was made to
convene it, and had there been, it could
have been brought together sooner than
troops could be moved to Columbia.
Senator Bruce haa declared himself
for Tilden and Reform. Ho has a pow
erful inflnence with his race in the river
counties. Senator Revels joins the Re
form movement; he can’t stand the
bloody shirt party. We hear Jim Hill
bottom is ont of the Republican party.-
Molly Springs Reporter.
-»»% «*s*s sssssssgassvs
over-feeding.
On these they will grow fat and ready
either for the butcher or tho entrance
into the winter. From the peafield they
gs to the cotton patch, which wa3 sown
will suppose this area to be planted in 1“^°, " Thte*
‘*3 *i.„* land is now green ana succulent. This,
cotton, and that without the sheep ma-, ith theaido f tll - e turn ; p crop which
nureit would produce one-half bale of ! i ” ' . * .
cotton to tho acre. Tho increase on that | ... . . . -UnnA.S. ^.Ln twf
area would bo 12,772 bales of cotton, «tofiS?SfJSSJS2
in G?n- « ** desired 10 rc y ap P a h°ar«st from
giafa^Xro wonKiftr^eriv pro- i^ ‘ho turnips can bo re-
rffifiSr ft 0 jocfeased production from tho °thp.h P ttePe/on^-f^xnM'ted
Se would bo "worth ’ SioOO.GCO; per j JA.e*pected
annum, or one-half of the amount of tho
State debt.
GEORGIA AGAINST TENNSTLVANIA.
Mr. David Ayors, of Camilla, Mitchell
county, in Southwestern Georgia, where
snow never falls and the ground seldom
freezes, and where the original pine
forests aro carpeted with native grass,
says his sheep—3,500 in number—costs
him annually 14 cents per head. Clip
three pounds of unwashed wool, which
sells at 30 cents per pound, giving a clear
profit of ninety per cent, on tho money
and labor invested in sheep. Lands
suited to sheep raising can be purchased
in this section from $1 50 to $10peracre,
according -.to the locality. Mr. Ayers
does not feed his sheep at any time du
ring the year, neither has introduced tho
improved breeds, using only what is
known as the native sheep.
Of course the cross of the Spanish me
rino on hia stock would give better re
sults, both as to the quality and quantity
of the wool. These sheep receive but
little care except to be gathered up once
a year to be sheared and marked. Mr.
John McDowell, of Washington county,
Pennsylvania, keeps 650 highly, improved
sheep, which annually costs him $1.54
per head to keep them. Ho aim3 to
make his wool clear, which averago four
pounds of brook washed wool per sheep,
and sold this year at 56 cents per pound,
or $2.24 for each sheep sheared, bnt tho
last crop, on accont of a severe winter,
fifteen cents a pound, which makes his
net income per sheep $160. His ehedp
aro worth $3.50 per head and his net
profits are 46 per cent, on tho capital in
vested in them.
The land on which Mr. McDowell pas
tures hia sheep is worth $50 per acre, or
fully ten times as much as that on which
Mr. Ayors’ flocks feed.
In other words, Mr. McDowell, in the
fine farming regions of Pennsylvania,
most invest, supposing he keeps two
sheep to the acre, and Mr. Ayers one, five
times as much in land as Mr. Ayers to
make one-half tho profit on tho money
invested in sheep.
It will thus appear that when sheep
husbandry ta made a specialty Southwest
Georgia has a decided advantage.
WHAT IS THE BEST SHEEP.
Mr. Peters has tested the Spanish me
rino, Frenoh merino, Scnth down, Ox
fordshire-down, Leicester, Asiatic, Broad
tail or Tunisian, improved Kentucky
Cotswold, and native sheep.
Of these the Spanish merino and na
tives prove most profitable, tbe other
pure breeds proving unhealthy with him.
He has tested the crosses between tho
South-down and Ootswold, South-down
and native and Spanish merino and tho
native and tbe Ootswold, and the native
have proved most profitable. Of tha two
By the employing of moveable fence
; panels, several kinds of whioh aro in suc
cessful operation, the flaok can be herded
on jnst sufficient an area of turnips to
last twenty-four hours, and this continued
until the wholo orop is exhanUed. While
oonsnming the turnips they wilt heavily
fertilize the soil.
Our climate has this advantage over
thoso more severe winters
The facts given are derived from tho
experience and observation cf practical
men, who aro surrounded by tho same
circumstances and difficulties as those
who are advised to go and do likewise.
The facts that have been presented re
move all doubt as to tho profit of shoep-
husbandry in Georgia, and present a re
markable contrast between cotton and
wool growing in the State—tho one sell
ing at less than the cost of its produc
tion, and tbe other at 27£ cents profit per
pound.
Decisions cr the Supreme Court cf
Georgia.
DELIVERED OCTOBER 17, 1876.
Abridsed from tho Constitution by N. E. Harris,
Esq. ot the Macon Bar.
Harrison ot al. vs. Rutherford. Motion,
from Quitman.
Warner, C.J.—l. In this State, courts
of law have concurrent jurisdiction with
courts of equity to refuse to relieve a'
party by granting him a motion to rein
state his caso upon the docket, when
from lapso of timo it would bo inequita
ble to do so.
2. Where a verdict wa3 rendered in
the Inferior Court, whioh, together with
the judgment thereon, was void db initio,
and "ten ycar3 after the rendering of the
same the plaintiff’s transferees petitioned
the Superior Court ot the county to re
investigate the cases on the dooket—tha
business of the Inferior Court having
been transferred to that court under the
Constitution of 1868—and the defend
ant demurred to this petition, and the
court sustained the demurrer: Held,
that there was no error in sustaining tha
demurrer.
Judgment affirmed.
Dozier et al. vs. Williams. Debt, from
Harris.
Warner, C. J.—Plaintiffs in error on
the call of thia case moved to withdraw
the record, to which- motion defendant
objected, claiming damages for delay.
On examining the record the court found
> jdgment signed for plaintiff on tho
xdict, and refused to award damages.
Judgment affirmed.
Gorman vs. Fleming. Complaint from
Harris.
Warner, C. J.—1. The indorsor on a
crosses, he in common with nearly every ; promissory note without any negotiable
Georgian, gives the decided preference to words, it may maintain an action thereon
the cress with tho Spanish morino and na
tive.
BUCKS.
One buck in vigorous condition will
in his own name.
2. A plea which alleged that tho note
sued on was given upon certain agreed
terms and conditions, not expressed in
serve fifty ewes if allowed to run with j the note, and in contradiction thereby, is
them, moro if kept up, and*the ewes demurrable.
turned out as scon as they have been
served once. To avoid undue excite
ment and worry from running from ewe
to ewe, and by fighting, each buck
should, if possible, he placed in a sepa
rate enclosure with the ewes intended
Judgment affirmed.
Kaufman vs. Austin & Co. Assumpsit,
from Muscogee.
Warner, C. J.—1. Where one party
, purchased goods of another at a certain
for him. If an expensivo buck i3 used i agreed price to bo paid on delivery of
and it is desired that he e£iall serve a ! the goods, and when the bill w pre-
nutnber of ewe?, ho may be kept in a i sented it appeared that there was an
pen into which fifteen to twonty ewes are ! overcharge in it:
turned at a time. Tho briBket of a buck ; Held, That the purchaser isnotbound
may be rubbed with Venetian red and j to point out the overcharge to tho seller,
lard, or lamp-black and lard. Have an | bat may refuse to take tho goods on tkiB
active shepherd constantly present, who account.
the Superior Court—the one by the judge
in open court at tbe close of each term
thereof, the other by the Ordinary, t#»y
pettier with tho commissioners and the
clerk of the county.
2. There is no law which authorizes
the judge at an illegal term of the Su
perior Court to draw a grand jury to
serve at the ensuing regular term. And'
an indictment for murder, found by a
jury so drawn, should be quashed, -oft:
the motion of the defendant setting up
such facta by plea. '
8. In tho administration of criminal 1
law, judicial discretion should not be hoi- ’
erated. Tho law, as it is prescribed by.
the supreme power of the State, should
bo the rulo of conduct for tho courts, $8-.
well as for the citizen.
Judgment reversed. Jackson, J., dis
senting. - :
Killen vs. Crawford. Ejectment, from.
Terrell.
Blxcklxt, J.—A motion by defendant
to dismiss the action beaause the matter of
tho declaration had been adjudioated in a
former suit between the same parties, is
net available unless the former adjudica
tion appears on the face of the declara
tion. A defence which is appropriate
alono to a plea cannot bo presented by
a mere motion.
Judgment affirmed.
Booher vs. Worrill. Claim, from Mus
cogee.
Bleckley, J.—Transactions between
husband and wife, to tho prejudice of hia
creditors, nro to bo scanned closely, and
their bona fidcs must be clearly estab
lished.
2. A conveyance by husband fowife,
made pending suit against him, and only
a few days before the rendition of judg
ment, and leaving him nothing ont of
which payment of the judgment oan be
coerced, is, primafacie, fraudulent.
3. When such conveyance purports to
be for value, and the consideration set np
is a debt from him to her, the actual ex
istence of the debt must ho shown; and
this is not done by proving that she
owned certain real estate, and that at the
time of executing tho conveyance there
was an accounting for rents, she olaimlng
and he admitting that the rents of her
property had been colleoted by him and
net paid over, bnt the actual trnth of *
such claim and admission not being in
any way proven on the trial.
4. The charge need not be scrutinised
if the verdict is clearly right.
5. Mistake of a witness is immaterial
where its correction onght to make-so'’-
difference in the result.
Judgment affirmed.
The Eagle and Phenix Company **.-
Bradford, trustee. Motion, from Muzcb-- '
gee.
Bleckley, J.—1. When original plead
ings, process, verdict and judgment ars
lost, a copy may be established, instant- *
er, on motion.
2. That they were not recorded, or that
tbe record cannot bo fonnd, is no reason
for not establishing tho copy.
3. Tho copy of an official transcript
tents, etc.
4. With such high evidence as a check
upon fraud or mistake, the motion may
bo granted without notice to any one;
and notice given to a claimant who is re
sisting a pending levy, made to satisfy
the judgment, is neither aid nor obstacle
to tho mstion.
Judgment affirmed.
may, with as little excitement aa possi
ble, remove the ewes aa fast as the buck
marks them with the coloring matter o!
his brisket.
By this means a back may serve a
hundred ewes with but little injury to
himself, and with as much certainty as
to xeaults as he will fifty when allowed
to run with the flocks.
Bucks Bhould be fed on oita during
the period of their service*, under any
circumstances.
Yearling bucks should not be allowed Muscogee.
2. It the plaintiffs had made the over
charge in the bill by mistake, and had so
stated to the defondants when it was pre
sented for payment, and had offered to
rectify the mistake, and had demanded
payment for only the amount that was
justly due under the contract, it would
have presented an entirely different
question.
Judgment affirmed.
Finnegan vs. The State. Murder, from
has come to the Democratic raids. The to serve more than thirty ewes. At two . Warnes, C. J.—!• The statute reoog-
jears old they may be allowed to full nixes but two modes of drawing Grand
service. Jurors to serve at the regular terms of
Porramore vs. Persons. Equity, from
Mus.cogee.
B’lecklet, J.—1. Title to land, origi
nating in parol purchase, payment of the
purchase money and delivery of posses
sion, long prior to tho rendition of
judgment, against the vendor, the poss
ession being adverse and continuous ever
since it commenced, will prevent the
sheriff from turning ont the claimant of
such title and pntting in a purchaser at
sheriff’s sale under the judgment, even
though tho deed taken by the claimant
bears date after the judgment was
rendered.
2 Generally an injunction against ad
mitting the purchaser at sheriff’s sale
into possession, will not be granted,
where tho act of dispossessing the com
plainant would he a naked trespass.
3. The marshal of the United States
ha3 only the powers of a sheriff, in the
matter of perfecting a sale of land by
giving possession to the purchaser, and,
a?, on the facts in the present bill, the
marshal conld not have turned out the
complainants nor the defendant have
entered, without committing a trespass,
there was no occasion for enjoining the
defendant, who is not alleged to bo in
solvent, from entering under the mar
shal, and therefore there Is no equity in
tho bill.
Judgment reversed.
Tarner vs. The St Ate. Assault with in
tent to murder, from Randolph.
Jackson, J.—One or the grand jury
named in the bill of indlotment. or spe
cial presentment, oannot impeach his own
finding: ,
2. While all the charges in the bill of
indictment,constitnting all the Ingredients
of the crime must he proven to the satis
faction of tbe jury, yot the evidence may
be circumstantil as well as direoty thore-
fo:o tho charge that the ss?ault was made
by a knife as tho weapon likely to pro
duce death, was sufficiently proven by
showing tbe wound, aud how it was made,
and the sensation of the person cnt.
Judgment affirmod.
Douglas & Douglas vs. Elbin Claim,
from Randolph.
JACK80H, J.—A bona fide purchaser,
without notice of a judgment when he
buys from the defendant In fi fa, is pro
tected by four years’ possession of the
land, though it be levied ou after his
purchase, tho lovy remaining inactive
until his four years' possession was com
plete ; the land is discharged in euch caso,
from the lien of the judgment.
Judgment affirmod.
Bagly vs. Robinson. Illegality, from
Chattahoochee.
Jackson, J.—1. In an action of trover
against aa administrator, who c inverted
the property since the death of his intes
tate, tho verdict and judgment against
the defendant are correct, and the execu
tion describing him as administrator,
following tho declaration in that partic
ular, follows tho judgment, tbe words
administrator, etc., being merely deserip-
tio personas a description of tbe defendant,
51 Go., 4S2.
r 2. An administrator who fraudulently
converts property of another after the
deith of intestate, is personally liable for
the tort. 15 Ga., 189.
Judgment affirmed.
Death er Dr. HcKcyhotds.
;Dr. Wright received a letter ;.?-terday
informing him of the d*-ath of the well
known former oitizen of Macon. Dr. J. C.
Me Reynolds, which occurr.d at Madison-
Title, Eaat Tennnessee, ou Tuesday, Oo-
tober 17th. He had an attack of paraly
sis on Sunday, which produced death as
abore stated. The doctor was between
65 r 70 years of age. His mother, who
survives him, is pest 97-
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