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liiiiii &m- mm CLISBY, JOKES & REESE, Proprietors. 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- U